Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-13
LITERARY CBIT.CHAT.

Stewards heirs have not realized
much from his book of travels, as sales
are slow.
Mrs. Henry Wood has just issued her
twenty-seventh novel. "Will the line
stretch out till the crack of DOOM"
NJ. Ernest Renan has an interesting
article on the ''The Society of the Ber-
bers of Algeria" in the Revue deS Deus
Mondes for September.
Omda's new novel will be called
1.-Two Little Wooden Shoes" 1t will
be issued on this side by the Lippin-
colts.
The big book jointly produced by
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley War
ner, entitled "The Gilded Age" is
nearly ready.
''Transmigration' is the rather for
bidding title of new three-volume
novel by Mr.. Mortimer Collins, an
nounced for publication in London.
Books to the value of S67 ,673 were
imported into the port of New York
from July to October. The value of
newspapers imported in the same time
was 81 $40. ..-......
The fact that the old Greeks used to
laugh over the same good jokes that
we do, leads DR.. Hopkins to remark
that Irish bulls were once calves in
Greece
Gen Lew Wallace is charged with
stealing the plot Of his novel, but we
don't believe it, Wallace would have
stolen a decent plot or none at all.
Ruskin's monthly letters to the Ia
borers of England, under the whimsi-
cal title of ''Fors Clavigera," have
reached the thirty-third number, which
is chiefly about Sir Walter Scott.
Strauss great volume, 1.-The Old
Faith and the New, F." will be published
by Henry Holt & Co. 1t is, perhaps,
the most important book on the anti
Christian side issued forhalf a century
The Syriae manuscript which the
dean of Canterbury found IN the Yale
library. is a life of Alexander the Great
no copy of which exists in England.
The Washington Republican remarks
that prOof-readers have an innate hOr-
ror of a foreign language, and discOun-
tenance the use of the same by indirect
but effective measures.
Oliver Optic is still celebrating that
wonderful poor heroic boy of highmoral
character, and gifted with a marvellous
amount of pluck, who is always going
to sea and coming beautifully out of
miraculous adventures andhair- breadth
escapes.
The Memoirs Of John Quincy
Adams" edited by Charles Francis
Adams. his son, were delayed two years
in preparation by that gentleman S
Geneva work, but they are now in press
at theiLippincOtts'.
Wilkie Collins dedicates the copy
right edition Of his novels, now being
issued by Harper x Bros, to the Amer
lean people. They viii make eleven
volumes in all, and will be illustrated
by American artists.
The Autobiography of John Stuart
Mill has just been published in Lon
don, and the critics predict that none
of Mills works has produced such a
storm of discussion as that which is
sure to be awakened by this remarka-
BILE book.
Taxile Delord is writing the ''Histo-
ry of the Second Empire. The third
volume, recently issued at Paris, in
cludes the period from 1860 to 1861.
The most interesting portion Of 1t is
that relating to Mexico.
The CIereldRd PlaiRdealer objects to
a Columbus Jenkins severely because
every object seems to inspire him with
enthusiasm, so that he describes an Oys-
ter and a dish Of charlotte russo with
the same sky-rocket vehemence that
he describes the brides looks and
dress"
French and German periodicals are
still hotly discussing the merits of Oar
winism. The Recue des Deug MOndeS
for September has a long article by
Monsieur Charles LevequeOf the French
institute on The Sense of the Beauti-
full in Animals, Psychologist Darwinism
and Comparative Psychology"