The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-21
LITERARY CHTT-CHAT.


press book on the late Franco German war; 1t is
to be published simultaneously in English French
and German.
"Qa nous delfpeYu des Grecs ct des Romatns3"
said o French writer, bored by the ever-recurring
inroads OF his contemporaries on Greek and Roman
ground. Could not as much be said about the
vexed question Of the authorship OF 'Junius'
Letters ?" We are now told that the Earl of
Aberdeen had the frequent and positive assurance
of Pitt that the latter knew who the author of
"Juniusn was, AID that Sir Philip Francis was not
the man. This negative assurance would be more
satisfactory If Pitt had completed 1t by conding to
Lord Aberdeen the real name OF the author AS 1t
is the controversy has scarcely any new ground to
start afresh.
THE CAMDEN SOCIETY will publish . chronicle
written by Gregory Skinner, who was Mayor of
London in the year 1882 The work which appears
to have escaped the notice OF John Stow and OF all
subsequent inquirers, contains much new and In
terestng information concerning the reigns OF
Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fourth. New
light Is cast on the rebellion OF Jack Cade, ana
novel and highly characteristic anecdotes of Mar
garet of Anjou and King Edward the Fourth are
among the points III interest.
THE FOLLOWING samples of Portuguese-E English
are proverbs taken from "Manual of the English
Tongue" designed to teach our language in its
most correct form to the Portuguese youth
So many heads SO much opinions
The necessity don't know the low.
Every one for him, and God for ALL
The stone as roll not heap up not foam.
Help thy, that God will aid thee.
Spoken OF the wolf one see the tail.
In the country OF blinds the One-eyed men are
kings.
Mr.. EDWARD HALLS book on 'The Building and
Ornamental Stones of Great Britain and Foreign
Countries" Issued by Macmillan is full OF valuable
information to architects and others The rapid
decay and disintegration OF the favorte building
stones marble, dol0mte freestOne and granite,
are discussed and the greater permanence Of some
varieties OF limestone, Of syenite, and even OF
brick, are in sisted upon. London, 1t appears, is
peeling away, INTELLECTUALLY well as the brown
stone fronts OF New York.
The SOLEMN Saturday Rerte,o declines to Join in
the eulogies Of other English journals upon DR..
Mayo's "Never Again." 1t says the author "is not
o first rate performer, and, indeed, we should be
disposed to say that he is not second rate; but
Never Again. though rather long, and much OF 1t
decidedly tiresome may be read with interest BY
any one who does not expect too much"
MR.. MACDoNELL, British Charge d'Afaires At
Buenos Ayres has written despatch to his gov
eminent which must powerfully discourage emil
grafton to Brazil. Neither sheep farming, cattle
raising, mining, agriculture, nor commerce pre-
sents openings to tempt an Englishman. No
uOuDC U great ucdl Vi MOHey HAS Ueeu Iudue III
Mexico, Brazil and the old Spanish colonies Of
South America, and no doubt there Is great deal
more to be made there; but those countries are
still enveoped in the golden haze Of their former
| reputatiOn-a reputation founded Much on fact
| and very much more on fable.
| BERLIN CLERGYMAN, the Rev. D. A. Rosenthal.
has undertaken to form q gallery of all the con-
verified OF the nineteenth century. Among the
celebrated conversions of our time the author has
missed Chateaubriand, who. having published in
London, at the end of the last century, athestic
book, wrote, at the beginning Of the present one,
| "Le Genie du Christanisme." He became the
tanism in France during the Restoration, but con-
| Guided, in his "Memoires d'Outre-tombe," pub
lished after his death, by again advocating free
| thought and democracy.
| ANEW SATIRICAL NOVEL on contemporary society,
"La Grande Dame ct Ia Normandie," has just been
published.
OUT OF THE 1886 newspapers daily, weekly, &c.)
printed in Great Britain and Ireland in 1873 Lon
don has 1885, the provinces $780, Scotland 14O Ireland
IA and Wales SO, while the Channel Islands issue
10.
| AN INTERESTING M. s., written in Italian, by the
late Emperor Napoleon ILL.,, when he was in Italy,
| Rirtsta Eurapea.
COLONEL OUvRY IL publishing an account Of the
life and lapors of Stein, the great Prussian land
former.
has amassed fortune from her writings during
the past ten years.