The New York herald., 1873-12-07
LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.

The REV. DIR. DAVIES who did up the preachers
OF heresy last year in a book styled "Unorthodr
London has now done up the heresy hunters vi
der the title OF "Orthodox Londonr
The SPENsER SOCIETY has issued second CO.
lection OF the works OF John TAYLOR the wat
poet. II will next print Kendalrs Flowers of
Epigrammes,n very and curious lection,
first printed IN 1877.
JESUIT FATHER, OF ST0NyHuRsT, is writing
history OF the doctrine OF free will in modern EIs-
lish philosophy
MACMfLLAN'S MAGAZINE renders Longfelow's
''Excelslorn into "pigeon Eng lsh,n which is exas-
peratingly ludcrous.
THE LEARNED BARROW, sheoogian and matne.
matcian. regarded poetry as ingenious nonsense,
wrote OF the author OF "Paradise LOST as zone
Mlton.n Sir Isaac Newton acknowledged para
disc Lostn was a fine poem; "but,' he added,
what does 1t proven
THE LECTURES for women at Cambridge. Eng
land are largely and increasingly attended.
MISS DICKINs0N's new work oi fiction has not yet
been placed IN the hands OF James r. Osgood b
Co., all reports TO the contrary Notwithstanding.
FRoTnINGHAM's s'Lile OF Theodore ParKer'' will
not be out until February.
LEwEs' "Problems OF Life and Mind" will proba-
bly, make It's appearance before Christmas
THE "MEAoIRs or MRS. soMERvnLE, VIII he
ready on ABOUT January l.
HARDLY ANY Book or late years throws so much
light on the literary society OF London as the late
Henry F. Chorley's Life and Letters"
The CENTRAL ASIAN question is to be further
elucldated by three new books-the Baron Won
Henwald's Russians ia Central Asia,, Sir Henry
Rawinson's political and Geographical Condition
OF Central Asian and T. I. Cooper's New Routes
for Commerce.
PROFESSOR GEORGE RAwLINsoN IS about com.
p!eting his great historical work by volume
entitled ''The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy,
or History of the Sassanians.n
'srHE NORMAN PEOPLE and Their Existing De-
scendants in the British Dominion and the United
States of America is the title OF forthcoming
book from the London press which ought to be-
interesting.
ROBERTS BROTHERS will publish in the United
States "Ihe Personal Reductions OF Mary Somer-
VILE"
CHARLES g. LELAND, who is lately quite pro-
life author, mas written "The Legends OF the
Birdsn which Henry Holt 4 Co. publish in an ele-
CANT quarto Illustrated with colored Autographs.
GAIL HAMILToN's new book Of social and do
mestic sketches, issued by the Harpers, has the
curious t,tle OF .sTwelre Niles from a Lemon"
WHEN THE MANUSCRIPT of Cariyles "Sart0r Re-
sartus, was put into Mr.. Mills hands he thought
slightly OF IL. lie says:'I did not, however,
deem myself competent Judge OF Carlyle. iels
Ilat ne was pOet ana LHlU WAS kHaI Ilc WdS
a man or intuition, which was not, and that as
such he not only saw many things long before me
which could only. when they were pointed out to
me, hobble after and prove, but that it was highly
probable he could see many things which were not
visible to me even after they were pointed out"
| ..THB INFERIOR SEx,' meaning men, have been
written about i'll new novel by De Thew Wright,
a witty Cincinnati lawyer. Lee & Shepard, or Bos.
ton, the publishers.
THE APPLEroNS have published political book
on South Carolina under negro rule entitled The
Prostrate State,n By James s. Pike.
NINE. RArAzzI has Kept her husbands papers, and
will follow the example OF Mrs. Grote by publishing,
when her grief shall have somewhat subsided, n
work entitled Ratazzi and His Time, by a Witness,
OF the Last Ten Years OF His Lfe.r
THE JAPAN Jfau, an English paper published in
Japan, says the sending OF Japanese youths To
America and Europe TO educate them as civil
wants is failure. They return with mere smat-
terng OF knowledge, hlga concet OF their abili-
ties, strong taste for beef and beer and proc
digious contempt for their own country.
..THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY IN EUROPEr IS
the title OF work which Robert Flint, professor a5
st. Andrews, has in elaborate preparation.
A FRENCH TRANSLATION OF Caleb CushingS
"Treaty OF Wasnington' mas been published ia
Paris