, 1873-09-21

DO expected next month.
a Vermont school library declined sct Of
Ill Honri Iaino has informed his American
publishers that lo Ii at work on history Of tho
French Revolution.
"A book from Miss Anna +. Dickinson mag
DO expected from tho Osgoods lato in tile season,
but % yot neither subject nor title ia given.
1t IL stated that tho second volume OF La
mons Lincoln 'yll mover got into print. so dis
eouraging waa the reception Of the 1lrat.~-Nc,a
! YorE Epening Post
| MIR. Ruskias latest work is to DO eix 1oc-
swallow tho ohough. tho lark, the swan, and tho
Rea gull. 1t will mako illustrated volume,
and viii cost guinea.
| -E. Moxon, Son i Co., London, will publish
Of Uaytln's " Dictionary of Dates" roytsod aud
| greatly enlarged by Bon tainn Vincent, Assistant
Secretary of the Royal 1uRtitno OF 0leat Britain,
bringing tho work down to tho prosol,t tl1ne.
| -Ihe mutual appreciation OF poots III mani
festod in tho fact that Matthew Arnold rcfera 10
Byron a. q country gentleman, with no idcas,"
wtlilo Robert Browning calls tho author OF - Doa
Juan w. 1latfa4." Even tho Spectator s9,eaks
| cheapy executed"
Tho London Saturday Rerie,o thus sums up
tts objoctlons to Charlea noado'a lnHt produc~
novel, and not to be stuck all over with hnta
upon housekeeping, plans for killing sharks,
suggestions as to ostllcll-farming, and obsorva-
stpass t,9as upon th0 geology Of di4'non1ileroas
| George Chapman ia known to most modern
readers only by his quaint and grand Translation
Of noner. But lsis comediea aud tragedies havo
| 5nst boen reprinted by John Pearson in thrco
volumes, and will reward tho student Of carly
English literature. Chapman was born in 1865,
aud died in 1854. having produced, oithor alono
or in conjunction with other writerH, twenty
ayo dramas, many OF which nro stritiugly
original. -
Tho Mercantile Library OF Now York City
has just issuod it's iftY-Eecond annual report, ut
tho date Of whclt, April &c. it had On its shclvea
e.9lo, Of which about half wore ii. English fic-
ton. Both the receipts md membership hnye
been loss than usual this yoar, owing to tho
but 9.797. The circulation was 23o, ,5a3: This
total inoomo vas 63s,so9.l6; expenditures,
Tho London Attenet.n, takes this novel way
Of giving its opinion Of pow book: "Were w9
to say what no think of Mr. Hargrayo Jennings'
Ono OF tue Thirty published by llotten j. Co..
wo should probably have to pay cur eapenHos-
costly COS ls: action IL for ibol. Tho game ia hardly
worth the candle. SO -we will content ourselvoa
with tho remark that Mr.. Jennings' present book
"a hintory of one Of tho thlrty pieces Of silver
which Judas received for botraylng our Savior
is ~ eccentric and worthless q production aa
even his fRoBcrucinna.'
We are told that there ia a probability OF the
Madden collection of al, 600 ballads going to tho
Unitod statos. They wonla form most intor-
eating foaturo In any public library terc. and
amuso tho students Of the social history OF tho
mother country for the laat thirty or forty years.
-scribnor, Armstrong i Co. announce "a
Journey to tho Centre OF the Earth" by Julco
yerne, whose barebsained trayel-Actiona have 9
ablo and scholarly " "Commontssy "-Reyeution,
job and tho Minor Prophets '' History Of
Philosophy, from Thales to the Present Time,"
By DR.. Fsiedericla ueherwcg, late Professor IN
,{rtnt41
ume Of Dr.. Ernst Curtius' History Of Greoce,"
which comprises Books s1 and Seven "Tho
preternatural Origin Of tho Bible. Argued from
s Of Ecpss 81 Fah sy
We havo been unfortunate enough to incur
the displeasure Of Mr.. Joaquin Miller. Our
reviewer having aaid that hiB new book WAS d
dull ROMANCE, Mr.. Miller, wl!o thinks otherwise,
writes to ua thnt ho wshoB +" to toll him to his
teeth that he ia liar, corord, and q cur." Mr.
Miller statea that he Aaa written without CONSUL
tation with btu publssLor. Wo think that q gem
tleman Of tho high reputation Of his publisher
will be shocked when he hears how sadly wanting
Mr. Miller is in the courteBics Of lifo aud tho ad-
rantages Of education,-London AdtcaGuna.
lectod writings OF Nathaniel Hawthorne, an
nouaced aotna time ago, has beon delayed for
singular reason. It is into,ldod, says tho Liter-
ary Horld, to include in the projected volumo
not only tho two chapters OF tile unfinished
"Dollivor Romance which have been printed
In tho Atlantic, but third chapter also, which
tho author left in Ma. 1ut up to the, prosent
tine no ;., Gno has succeeded in oephcrng this
the work, but with Only partial success. It ia
the opinion Of tho most intelligent critics that
Mr.. Hawthorne intended to suppress "soptimua
FeIton. and develop it's 1nain tlea-tho secret Of
living forover~~iu "frhe Dolliyoe lio,nsnce'
Mr.. William Blaclr, tho talented author Of
IA Daughter Of ileth." Writes to the +lNenGnna,
ae folows: " find in tho columns of tho Scok-
tisI-Ame,ica, Jout.Has along With series Of
wild aud unoalcd-for compliments addressed to
myself, an announcement ot new story
from my pen, tho first portion Of which il placed
before tho readers of tho Journal; The new
story IN question waH wsitten when I WAS OF
tho mature age Of II and ] had fondlY hoped
tlat 1t was stone-doad md forgotten for thero
are fcw OF us rs wise at al as we then consider
w1etc}ae1 little tale should have bccn brought to
| light at MI; but tho auducity-to cnll 1t by no
othor nama-wAioh invites attention to this pre-
e!eNs production as new story is bs5ond q
In speaking Of the pamphlet OH tho collec-
!. tons of tho American tlltilaatian Society,
printed ly ith author, Mr.. Nathan Paine, for
) private distribution. the Boston Adcertiser
; valuable and arc Ill tlo handwriting of lNchard
! Mathcr. who ca.ncto AUleIca Ia lGS5 nf IEcrcasd
: Matler, and Of Cotton ard Samuel alather:
They consist OF sernous, essays, lottora, and
diaries, drafts Of clNrcA platforms, annotated
books, and specimens of !oary all klndh of
work fone by that extraordinary faulty.
. Brand pluekett Out Of Tho 1'nrning," IN acconnt
! Of Morcy short, Of which no printed copy u
known u e>lst, II Indeed it was oyer printed, ID
among tlaso manuscripts, and throws much
light gu the motives Which governed Cotton
Mathor and tho minister's Eoneta!1y d.irlng the
says. It Inns arosly lecI oopicd from the orlgi-
tiu,o bo puhliSllod.' Whom tilat time Gomez 1t
upon insufficient evidence. have held tllo muin-
ters Of M,Eton and Hulom maiuly accountable