, 1873-05-18

Alesaandre Manzoni, now in his 89th year, Is
engaged on his ''Hiatory of the French Revolu-
olive Logan has written novel, "We Met
by Chance Summer Romance" which will
soon be published. =
-. The copyright Of Keble's Christian Year.:
. will expire shortly, after having existed nearly
forty-six years, during which 157 editions have
singular title ii 5' = " o"blished viii I the
The two American poets, Long7ellow and
Bryant, have been elected honorary members Of
the Academy Of st. Petersburg.
Joaquin 1liller'a new volume, "Songs Of the
sun-Lands," is already published in London It
| contains ''rhe Isles Of tho Amazons' and many
other shorter poems. It is dedicated. ''to tho
~ "a new work from Darwin, on 1.-THE Evil
Effects Of 1nterbreeding in the Vegetable King
dom" is forthcoming.
| Sir Henry lsawlinson will shortly give to the
world a series of papers on the politics and
geography OF Central Asia, under the title Of
"England and Russia in the Eaat."
| --The principal newspaper Of Lorraine, the
| Zeifung fur Lo0t,ingen, published in Metz, has
peculiar and chameieon-fike life. In the morn
| ing it comes out as half sheet, in French; in
the evening as full sheet, in German The for
ner is entitled Premiere Edition. the latteI
Ztceita Ausgabe.
Tho I" Life and Death Of John of Barneveld,
Including the History Of the Primary Causes
and Movements Of tIhe Thirty Years War;"
by Minister Motley, is announced by Murray, OF
THE e1-Kins Of Spain is writing book said
to bear the title Of the "History Of King ANA
deo." The book is divided into four parts, trent
ing respectively Of Queen lsabellas regime, OF
the inte1regnum under Prim, OF tho Hohenzol-
lern incident, and OF the two years. reign OF tbs
Tho Medical Times, Of Philadelphia, pays
professional compliment to F" 4fiddlemarch,"
contrasting George Eliot's treatment Of medi-
blunders Of other novelists, such as Charles
1.-THE Personal Life of George Grote, the
Historian, Illustrated BY Numerous Letters
which Is nearly ready, will form (wntes mr.
the long preservation Of intellectual yigor in
women, as the autkoress, his widow, is now 50
Lies Etats Unia de rAmerique septen-
y ae .se
part, :" "Origines des Colonies" stops at the
English Revolution Of 1858; the second extends
from 1888 to tho conquest Of Canada BY Eng
land; the third, from the capitulation oi Qnebeo
history Of the Union down to our time.
The Society of Hen OF Letters has presented
to the French Government the draft Of liter
ary convention between England and France, to
British adaptera, the treaty Of November, 1851,
being poWer1ess on that point.
PROF. Francis ". Upha1n, author Of troatise
ON "The Wise Men Of the East, has pursued
Star Of Our Lord, with an Essay on the A1tro-
nom1cal Doubt as to Christianity, which isneaz- =
II ready.
The Rev. Dunbar Heath is engaged upon
tona," Of which the first part is likely TO- sppear
In month It viii contain all the known in
scriptons printed In q clear character; Mr-
Heath haying had type struck for the purpose
The design Of the work will be to popu1arize tho
study OF Phnnician; and, at the snnne time, to
show the general Semitic character Of much Old. ::
Testament theology that has hitherto been sup
posed to be purely Jewfsh-
: -"Joah Billings" who iB Mr. Rhaw, Of Pough--
keepaie, has been written up by the Poug gh-
New York Weekly; has desk there and at
Carleton's. He got 81, 500, 8 cents copy, for
his first almanac to the Weekly pub
|iahers, and 81 800, cents copy, TOR ledcating
the second. He is now worth I'll 600 clear Of
Ill debts.
James r: Osgood l. Co. announce thAt, not
the dullness Of tbs season in the
book trade, they have found large demand 1or
several Of their recent publications, such es Mls.
Btowe's 81 Palmetto Leares." which gives South
side view OF Florida life Bret Harte's sketchea
snd poems Warmers IS Backlog Studies )"
Mrs. Whitney s new story, +" The Other Girls"
which hutstrlps al othet ato1es ponlsaeo 4Atety
IN popularity; Grey's essays on "Enigznas Of
fife: Matthew Arnold's remarkable book on
't Literature and Dogma = and Bayatd Taylor's
pastoral {. Lara =
-"select German Stories n is revised and en-
arred American edition Of 4 work which has for
some time been successfully used az textbook .
IN the German classes in the Chicago public
schools It consists OF y number OF anecdotes,
hort stories, and poems, calculated to amnse
md interest the student, and acquhinting
lin, in : the easiest possible wny, WITH
he idioms and conversational expressions OF ::
he German, n,-ansHedng all the purposes Of
phrase-book, without being 30 uninteresting.
ated when they first occur, and it is left to the.
memory Of the student to know their meaning
shen he sees them again. The book covers :
vide range, and is fitted for children, aa well az r.
Tor persons Of moro advanced age- It is an
sxce1lent manual. for the use of al who desire
10 Learn German without the services OF 9 maa>
lei. H. .Endaris, Cbicago.)