, 1873-12-21


aaizot, who il quito vol, will publiah another
Mrs. Mary oemmor Ames il about to con-
tribute an original novel to Emery Saturday
>. Mr. Eugeno Schuyler, Of tho AnoricRl Loga-
tion At st. Petersburg, is writing d work on
Central Asla, which will appear In England il
May.
Mrs, Linn Linton, tho Saturday Rcpie,oer. ia
1i Whiting ~ new e novel, ip which womans education
AIossrs. Macmillan will issuo early iii tile
spring, Mr.. Samuel Bakor's account Of Ills rocout
expedition, IN two large volumes.
slr Arthur Helps Inns now story In prose,
which deals in Russian conspiracics mid Siberian
hyperborean cline.
T4o puttan,s will issue, early noxt year.
work on Iron Ores OF Missouri aud ,fchigan,"
tho most important two Western States III this
D. Brooks, and Adolf Schmidt, who hayo boen
connected with State surveys
john LisloH new work. OF which chapters
!11 MGre pnhlshed IN tho North american heuie,o.
l3oaton, under the titlo Of "OutliuoB Of Cosmiu
Philosophy, Based Oh tho Doctrine Of Evolution"
Ho is now abroad.
Tho following is tho curious announcement Of
London Socieiy's Christmas number: ''.rales
Of Toys, and al the fun OF tho Christmas fair
floronco Mnrryat bogs to announce that her
stall IL London Socaety's Christmas fair will ho
opened carly in December. well stocked With
lolls."
Tho memoir Of tho great Edinburgh PUBLISH
or Archibnl Constable, the publisher Of tho
Waycrloy Novels, and whose nan,o is associatoi
for all tino with tl,at Of Waltor Scott, III ono Of
the most interesting Of lato English books. It IL
written by Its sou.
~ 'IIistory Of Japan" Inns boep compiled,
chiehy from native and official sources, By Arr.
=. q. Admins, formerly Actng-A1inister Of Great
Britain at Yello. Tho first volume bringa tho
n rt,3 l. ,tn t.,
said, bo the most complete that has ~oou issued.
Miss Charlotte ii. Yonge, says Luntlou cor
respondent. must DO the most industrious OF
women, III hor fertility she almost riyalB tho
iHhcd four-rolume novel, and today there
como two hugo volumes OF some six hundred
pages each, ct memoir OF tho good missionary
Bshop. John Coolidge Patterson, who was
Alr. James r. I'iolds, in lii now lecture on
Fiction and Its Authors" saya tlat Dickens
told him TINT when lie was writing "aInrtin
Chuzzlo'Sit," Mrs. Camp kept him In auch
paro1ysms Of laughter by Whispering to him in
the most inopportuno places, sonotinles ovon in
olurct-that ho WIS compelled to fight her of
by man force when ho did not want lcr conf
paiiy, and throatcn to have nothing more to do
with Aor unless sho could behave better aud
come only when she WIS calfod
Tie discussion botwecn Mr. Richard Grant
White aud Dr.. Fitzedward Hall Is lifted out Of
its drcary pnngcncy by that wagor. II DR.. Hall
can find III twenty lending authors named by
Mr. White 1,0D0 distinct new wurdp, not na1nes
Of now things, TINT were not used By coute1npo-
rnres OF Shakespeare a1ld King James ,rann1at-
ols, then Mr. Whitc plclgos Lila publishers to
pay 81 100 to any charitable institution losig-
natcd-an asylum for punished punditA, por-
hapH.
Tho runlor to which our Boston correspondent
gayo currency that tho .4tlcAtc waA about to be-
como Methodist organ has not tho least fouu-
dation in fact, wo aro authoritatiyaly informod.
It is true tAnt ono OF tho firm Of llurl & Hough-
ton IL a Methodist, but one il MI Episcopalian
ono III q Congrogntionalist, and QUO ii u Uni
tarian. Tho fact il, that tho atlantic will not
70 tic organ Of any scot or party, eithor III
ligion, literature, or politics. .-ldr!ford Courant
Edmund About writes to tho -4tieaauna nbout
prolific French novelist named Ponson du Ter
rail, who" initiated tho defects Of Dumas and
Eugene Suo." His stories, which he would drive
IN pairs or oren four~in-hnnd. from day to dny
N tho big Journals, aud also III tho little ones,
delighted for twenty years tho losa educated por-
tiou Of the French public. Every morning lo
used to aoat h,naelf boloro O pile Of paper oithor
at home or at the office Of tho noarost journal,
swo shreo oor te dhGy 10
many different. works, He passed from tho
Middle Ages to tho present day, from the Court
to the Mabllle, from tue boudor to tue lulks,
with icrodlllo versatility, although sometimes
Of tho sixteenth century iuto u story Of tia
nineteenth.
a work On "Tho Education Of AMERICAN
Girls" edited by Mius Anna T.. Uracltott, will be
published by e. r. Putuan's Sons. II will con-
tain papers from representative women toachosH
throughout tho country, including reports upon
tho results ot wolnan's work in Antioch, Oberiin,
and FasBar Colleges, n.ld in tho University Of
MlcLlEan; and contributions aro expected also
Mary put,a'n-Jacobi (who will treat especially
Of tho subject broacl,ed in DR.. Carko's '3Sox III
Education'), and other woll-known wo,non lend
crs. The tonor Of the booli will DO to slow 4llat,
under scientific sy6tematizatior Of study, with
proper supervision (of fomulo teaclera). women
are compotent, physically and mentally to curry
on extended courseH OF study up to the masou-
limo standard.
fHEtR T.nHvssr EnfsuuN0 its