The New York herald., 1873-10-27
LITERARY CHIT.CHAT.

"THAT MEN AND WOMEN are mentally alike, says
Herbert Spencer In recent essay, "is as untrue as
that they alike bodily Just as certainly as they
have physical differences, which are related to the
respective parts they play in the maintenance OF
the race, SO certainly have they physical differ
ences similarly related to their respectives shares
in the rearing and protection OF offspring. To sup
pose that along with the unlikeness between their
parental activities there do not go unikenesses Of
mental faculties is to suppose that here alone in
all nature, there is adjustment OF special powers
to special functions"
Mr. MAUNsELL B. FIELD, Of this city, has book
In Harper Brothers. press entitled Memories Of
Many Men; being Personal Recollections OF En-
perors, Kings, Presidents, Statesmen, Authors and
Artists, at Home and Abroad During the Last
Thirty Years."
THOMPSON CooPER's new Biographical Diction-
ary Is o great advance on any OF the small CON-
pact one-volume dictionaries Of biography yet pub
lished.
THE WIDOW OF the French dramatist Eugene
Scribe still lives at the age OF seventy Her hus-
band left her large fortune, for he was the happy
author who has made more Frenchmen laugh in
In the last fifty years than Moiere or Corne lille,
Racine, Voltaire, or Victor Hugo.
DIR. EDWARD q. CLARKE has written, and Osgood
Co. will publish, "Sex in Education; or. q Fair
Chance for the Girls" The fair sex seem, on the
WHOLE likely to get fair chance, If being continu-
ally written up will contribute to that end.
DoN ANTONIO TRULBA has In the press volume
OF verse, entitled "El Paralso Moderno' (sThe Mod
ern Paradise'D. The Madrid wits ask to be d.
rected to this paradise, and suggest that it must
be out OF Spain.
PORTER COATS will publish sIn the Days OF
My YOUTH" by Amelia B. Edwards, and "Lord
Derby's Version Of the Had, with Biographical
Sketch Of Lordy Derby" by R. Chelton Mackenzie.
THE MEssRs. APPLETON Will collect and publish
In one volume the extremely interesting papers
on "French Home Life,n which have appeared In
Blackwood.
AMONG FORTHCOMING BOOKS in local history is
Mr. James E. Quinlan's 'History OF Sullivan
County, New York."
NEW WORK may soon be expected from the
pen OF Sir Henry Maine. 1t is called "The Early
History OF Institutions" more particularly Illus
trated by the Irish Bre hon law.
Mr. E. B. DE FoUBLANQUE is preparing memoir
of Albany Foublanque. Along with 1t will be
printed the contributions of the deceased to the
Examiner, and other writings by him.
MR. MURRAY is preparing an addition to his
wel-known Handbook, IN the shape of 'Eu-
ropean Handbook for Travellers: Condensed
Guide to the Chief Routes and Most Important
Places on the Continent 1t will be In one vol
ume.
BENTLEY promises translation, by Mr.. J. d.
Brockley, OF NJ. vilemain's "Life OF Gregory the
SEVENTH This Is the posthumous book the manu-.
script Of which so remarkably twice escaped de-
structlon at the hands Of the Commune.
THE GLASGOW NEWS is the title OF new con-
servatve daily paper which has been started un-
der the edtorship OF r. ii. Patterson, gentleman
formerly well known on the London press
IT Is ASSERTED at Berlin that Field Marshal
Count wrangel-"Papa wrangel," as he is popu-
larly called-is engaged in the task Of writing his
autobiography. The book promises to be anus
ing. Unfortunately, however, 1t is not to be pub
lished, but will be reserved for private circulation
only among the Field Marshas friends.
THE PUBLICATION is expected shortly OF NJ.
Charles de Flandre's translation OF Professor
Petits "History OF Mary Stuart, queen OF Scots"
The work was begun some twelve years ago, under
the auspices OF the Empress Eugenle, and has been
wrongly attributed to her.