The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-15
LITERARY CHIT.CHAT.

POETS ARE NO LONGER BORN, but made. There
Is hardly young lady nowadays but can raise
flowers from the seed stolen from Mr. Tennyson's
garden and pass them or for fine poetry.
THE ANNUAL CATALOGUE of Harvard College now
makes large volume of 31S pages. and Is not dis
tributed gratuitously, but sold at hfty cents
In REGENT SALE by Puttick 4 Simpson, London,
fine copy OF Captain John Smiths History OF vir-
glnia,n folio, 1927 1.-THE dedication copy to the
'Duohesse of Richmond and Lennox'D after a keen
competition was knocked known to Asher & Co.,
booksellers. for f148
The MAGAZINES now in course OF publication in
England. including the quarterly reviews, number
$50, of which 253 are Of decidedly religious char
acter, representing the Church OF England, Wes-
leyans, Methodists Baptists, Independents, Roman
Catholics and other Christian communities
AN ENTIRELY NEW series OF the Hornet, the best
cheap comic paper in England. has commenced.
There Will be several new features, notably "Mrs.
Browns Papers," by Mr. Arthur Sketchey special
notes and gossip of society. the drama. literature
music and art.
PROFESSOR SEELEY has a class OF over three hun
dred ladies for his history course on the reign Of
George III. at Brighton.
M. LOUIS WAN has been preparing new and
complete edition OF the works OF Montesquieu. At
the time when this bold writer lived the censure
best editions of his works are full of suppressons
MSS. NJ Wan Is intent on correcting these errors.
ACCORDING TO THE LONDON Newspaper Press
Directory for 1881 all England has only eighty-six
daily newspapers; Scotland, twelve; Ireland,
twenty.four, and Wales, two Yet this is large
increase over 1s63-ten years ago-when the
United Kingdom issued only seventy-two daily
journals against 1875 ten years later.
EMILE GABORIAU's novel, 1.-THE LIE Rouge Affair.""
has been translated from the French and published
by J. R. OsgoOd Il Co.
In JAPAN whole crop OF newspapers is begin
ming to spring up. The Japanese are also learning
something about the liberty OF the press as many
Of the papers have been already suspended by the
government.
THE CHICKENS DICTIONARY +" produced in America
by G. A. Pierce and w. A. Wheeler, and prohibited
in England by the holders of the novensts copy
rights, is paralleled by dickens Concordance"
by Mr.. W. F. Peacock, of Manchester, whose work,
now in the press, is said to have occupied FIVE
years in its compilation.
A REVISED, IMPROVED and much abridged edition
OF the large Sanscrit Dictionary OF ST. Petersburg
5 in course Of issue, in parts, by H. Grassmann,
under the title OF "Woerter-buch yum Rig
Vcda.n The author hopes to complete it in six
parts within the year.
THE MARQUIS OF HALIFAX. who figured in the
reign of James II. and William and Mary, was =
great favOrte with Macaulay, who thought his
writings admirable for literary merit. In his little
treatise, '.The Character Of Trimmer" Halifax
took up in pride the name thrown ut him In derls-
ion and indicated the middle way philosophically.
historically and practically. "If men are
together in boat" he said, sand
one part Of the company would weigh 1t down on
one SIDE another would make 1t lean as much to
the contrary, 1t happens there is third opinion OF
those who conceive 1t would do well II the boat
went even without endangering the passengers. -
He was free thinker IN religion he did not pro-
fess to be saint and was not hypocrite: and he
pleasantly replied to Bishop Burnetts professional
admonitions that he hoped God would not lay 1t to
his charge II he could not digest iron as an ostrich
did, or take into his belief things that would burst
| him.
| THE BEAUTIFUL Bay Of raranagua, in Brazil, Is
| the subject OF an entertaining and instructive
| book by a learned German land In German), de-
scribing the natural history and climatic charms
of region, picturesque, enchanting and adorned
| with vsrdure AID mountains"
LORD LYrroN was fond Of publishing works
anonymously but he usually avowed the author
ship after short time. 1t is said that the reason
he so strictly concealed the fact that he wrote
sThe Coming Race" is that 1t contains profession
| OF his faith, q profession he always shrank from
remembered, in Supreme Being the All Good
but hold no other dogmas and use no religious
| rites.