The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-30
LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.

THE AHtenduT vigorously denOunces Mr.. II. A.
Pages recently published 'Lfe OF Hawthorne" as
literary imposture. "When we have said that
the book is utterly worthless we have said moth
ing. 1t is much worse than this. The task which
Mr.. Hawthorne's wife feared to attempt writer
who DISCUSSES himself under an assumed name
rushes In to undertake." The book, so far as the
memoir Is concerned, is crlbbed from the note
books of Hawthorne himself from Mr.. Fields
yesterdays with Authors" and from an old paper
by George W. Curtis. There Is not one fresh incl
dent In the book, which is padded with some
stories from 'The Old Manse." reprinted, with the
titles fraudulently changed by Mr.. Page.
Mr.. RUsKIN has at length consented to allow the
two volumes Of his "Modern Painters" which have
been long out Of print, to be reprinted.
MEssRs BLACKwooD have in press book OF
poems by owen Meredith (the Hon. Robert Lytton).
DIR. ADOLF WUTTKE's "Christian Ethics" in
two volumes, containing history of ethics and
pure ethics, has been translated by John p. La
croix, and will be issued by Nelson Phillips.
The STORY OF BEATRICE CENCI has been again
treated by the Canonico Antonio TOrrigiani In q
work entitled .Clemente VIII. IL Process0 Crimi-
male della Beatrice Cenci," intended to refute
Guerrazzi's novel, The work Is written as an
apology for the Papacy.
MR. WALTER BEsANT has in press new work on
the French humOrists
THE REV. MIR. ORwALD is to publish book on
the inexhaustible subject OF the clergy under the
title of "Bishops and Deans"
THE Spectator prints conversation with the late
Bulwer-Lytton on Spiritulism after he had
written "a Strange Story" He advised his inter-
locntor to have nothing to do with mediums or
table-turning. "There is something in It," he
said, 'but nothing, in my judgment. to benefit
mankind"
Rim Nh in oh n
hits of the alterative school OF ttle-maKers, who
are making modern literature bristle with cheap
sensations
Good Hebdomadal Alternative Series-Sayings
for Sundays, one vol. Mysteries for Mondays,
ditto. Tales for Tuesdays, ditto. Wit for Wednes-
Sonnets for Saturdays. And then all, in monthly
volume, as Medleys for the Month.
MIR. JAMES GRANTS third volume Of the bulky
"History Of the Newspaper Press" il even more
roughly handled by London journals than the first
two. 1t Is described as notable for blunders and
bad grammar.
THE sEcULARIsrs OR FREErHNKERs of England
have a literature OF their own among recent
issues OF which are the following 1.-THE Bible:
What 1t Is,n by c. Bradlaugh; "Christlan Mys-
teries: Dialogue Between q Missionary and a
Chinese Mandarin" price 3D.: "Half Hours with
Freethnkers," rs. 3D.; "Hume's Essays on Mir
acles," I'd; 'Sunday Rest" by Victor Schoelchee,
3D.; "The Scripturian's Creed" 3D.; 'MOral Phys
Ology" by Robert Dale owen, Cd; "Holy Scrip
lures Analysed" by r. Cooper, 3d.; "The Useless
ness Of Prayer" Id.
A New DIGEST OF "TELEGRAPH CASES Decided in
the Courts OF America, Great Britain and Ireland"
edited by Charles Allen, OF Massachusetts,, Is TO be
published by Hurd & Houghton.
THE PUBLICATION OF GUBERNATI's Geological
Mythology" is a symptom OF the new revival OF
letters in Italy.
SOME ADDITIONS OF IMPORTANCE will be found in
the new edition of Mr. Carlyles "Life OF Schiller"
which will appear in February or March.
ROBERT BROWNING, in his last poem, sneers at
Byron and ridicules his "There let him lay ~ in
the apostrophe to the ocean, which, OF course, Is
shocking from the Lindley Murray point Of view.
A CORRESPONDENT in the AthenGuD, calls attcn-
ton to the fact that considerable portions Of Mr..
Charles Reade's last novel are paraphrased from
Dean Swift's journal OF q Modern Lady,"
Mr.. DENIS HOLLAND, editor Of the hfs1mdn
newspaper, has just died of the age of forty-fve.
LISA CURIOUS FACT that, while Austria exports
paper largely to England, Herr Lott, who has un.
dertaken to print the Vienna Exhibition catalogue,
has to go England for the roll paper required for
the catalogue.