The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-06
LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.

AMONG THE RECENT BOOKS in foreign languages
devoted to the history OF the United States is N.
Ferout de Froutpertuis' "Etats Unis de pAmer-
ique, Septentrionale, leur Origine, leur Emanct-
patton, ct leur Progress" just out in Paris.
A LEARNED RUSSIAN named Nardeschdln has
published at 81. Petersburg treatise on 1.-THE
Rights and the Position OF Women In Chrtsten-
dom"
THE FIRST SYSTEMATIC WORK devoted to tho
genealogy Of Welsh families has just oeen. pub
lished. 1t IL entitled "Annals and Antiquities Of
the Counties and County Families OF Wales, con-
tanning record OF all ranks Of the gentry their
lineage, alliances appointments armorial ensgns,
&C." BY T. Nichols.
THE FOREIGN QUESTION that Is uppermost In
England now Is the Khiva expedition and Central
Asia. Sir F. 7. Goldsmid, who was long q British
diplomatist in Persia" has published Central
Asia and Its Question:" which contains In q few
pages more knowledge respecting Bokhara. Persia
and Afghanistan than could be CLEANED from many
books on those strange countries
FELICrrA vEsTUALI has published at Munich, un-
der the singular title OF ''Paras Athene; Memoirs
OF an Artist;n her own biography. The book Is In
German.
EMILE OLIVIER Is in Florence, writing history
OF Machiavelli.
BRUCE's AMERICAN STUD Book, after years Of
patient toll devoted to Its preparation by tho
author. IL at length issued from the press. hand
somely bound. in two large octave volumes, num-
bering In all some sixteen hundred pages. Apart
from turf sports, which render such work an In
dispensble necessity, there Is vast amount o.
wealth invested in horse stock In this country.
growing In Importance, and every day becoming
more widespread. And as the thoroughbred IL
now the recognised type whence breeders Of stock
derive their finest models for the trotting turf tho
family landau and carriage, the post chaise and the
farm, purchases are made and prices regulated in
accordance with the estimated value OF the pedi-
gree attached to the animal The science OF breed
ing Is therefore greatly indebted to correct genoa
logical information for the successful results t has
achieved In the last quarter OF century. II there
we're no reliable records to shed light upon
the problem OF breeding every attempt to improve
any particular breed might be OF error, and We
would realize In truth how uncertain are the do.
crees OF chance; but with the facts-the treasures
Of ages OF anxious thought and patient research
before us, we are not left dependent upon varying
fortune; are not lost, bewtdered in darkness, but
are enabled to draw, with degree Of certainty,
conclusions from established laws; to mould racs
at pleasure to aim at certain standard, and to
stud book is essentially work Of geneaogies, each
pedigree recorded constituting succinct history
OF an animal and OF the ancestry whence he or she
is descended. The work before us, arranged AFTER
the manner Of the English Stud Book, fulfls In an
eminent degree, the necessary requirements and
will be regarded as the more valuable from the con-
cseness OF the subject matter and the reliability Of
Its information.