The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-12
LITERARY CHIT. CHAT.


bookselling firm that they edo tremendous whole
sale trade throughout the Northwest" What kind
of a trade in books is a tremendous" trade Is it
selling an "awful lot" OF poor books. and doing .
smashing business" on credits
THR Atheng,tm suggests fashionable titles for
new sensational novels the following 1.-THE wo-
man Who Said yes" ''1he Man Who Loved Her"
and 'sThe Girl He Left Behind Him."
ONE OF THE BIGGEST Books the world has seen
Is now passing through the press in Paris It Is to
contain the names OF all the inhabitants OF Alsace
and Lorraine who have declared their wish to con-
tlnue French subjects. The entire work will make
ls 1863 pages and contain $4,000 names; lbs
compositors have been at work on it it for three
months.
Tom TAYLOR biographcr, dramatist and critic.
who has retired from the English civil service with
e. 900 pension, at the age OF fftyfve, thinks that
his best work is yet to be done.
THE COAST SURVEY at Washington has issued
complete typographical map OF Newport, r. l.,
drawn to scale and showing with perfect accuracy,
the coast line attitudes, Streets roads, landed es
tates and every house on the island All this ia
sold for fifty cents, though representing very
great amount OF labor and money.
CHARLES G. JONES has written work on the
"Antiquities OF the Southern Indians" and espe.
cially of the Georgia tribes of them.
THE late Sir John Madden has made the following
singular bequest:-'1 desire that all my private
journals from the year 1919 to the year 1872, both
inclusive, volume OF letters relating to the cata
logne of Holkham Manuscripts, and several books
bound in parchmen and roam and also some bundles
or papers on various subjects, shall De sent to the
Bodleian Library, fastened up in box, within a
week after my decease, with an intimation of my
request that they be accepted for the library, sub
ject to the condition that the box be not opened
until the 1st day OF January, 1920" The gift has
been accepted.
AN IMPORTANT WORK has been commenced by
the New England Numsmatic and Archaeological
Society (Bosron) on "The Early Coins OF America"
THE POET ALEssANDRo MANzoNI completed his
eighty eighth year on the Sth OF March, having
been born in 1888 He his in good health and is en-
gagged every day his ''Hist0ry OF ttVFrench
Revolution
ONE OF THE VIBRATIONS OF having q copyright at
home and none abroad Is Illustrated in the case Of
Fosters New CyclOpedia of Prose Illustrations"
published by W. G. Palmer h Co., OF New York. and
appropriated and reprinted In England under the
title of "New Cyclopedia OF Illustrative Anecdote."
A large supply OF the latter was imported for
American sale by A. d. F. Randolph 4 Co., of New
York, who. however, finding themselves liable to
damages for selling an English book most Of the
contents of which are copyright IN this country,
advertise that they have compromised with the
publishers by paying copyright on those imported,
and will then withdraw the book from the Ameri-
can market.
DIR. BURR, whose "Pater Mundir is Just pub.
lished, shows that the frame work OF the heavens
and all the motions thereof are strictly evangelical
that the heavens declare not only the glory of God
but of orthodoxy, and that the stars in their
courses fight against modern infdeity and good
deal OF modern science.
The COMING VOLUME of the addresses and Ora
tionsr OF william Cullen Bryant will be welcome
contribution to rhetorical literature.
HENRY KINGsLEY's last land w0rsp novel, coax
shott Castle.n draws from the AttenGun, this com
ment :-"Nothing can be further from wish
than to accuse Mr. Kingsley OF insanity; but q
sober-minded reader must at least admit that all
the characters in his book are mad,n
STILL ANOTHER English translation OF the incom-
parable .Gulistan," or Rose Garden, OF Sad the
Persian poet, has been made BY J. I. Platts, and
published in London.
"THE LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS" on which Rev.
John O'Hanon, M.R.LA., Dublin, has employed over
twenty-five years in compiling, will soon appear In
that city, and 1t is to be illustrated in the best
style by several OF the local engravers. British
ecclesiastical history, in the olden times, will re-
ceve calculation from manuscript Irish records.