Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-12-12
A!TEKtRY ITEMS.


The financial disorder have had very
depressing effect IN the book trade. and i'm
portant announcements are very few in
number. The Ilarpers announce the Auto
biography Of Dr. Guthrie, which must
prove 4 very interesting book \ Princess
OF Thule, now running in Lippiao5n's Mag
a-ine-a most readable novel; The Hugue-
nots in France, by Samuel Smiles. the
Memoirs of the late Sir Edwin Landseer ;
Hugo'S In the Year 80, translated by Frank
Lee Benedict, the clever author ofMiss Van
Kortland, and the usual quantity Of Eng
fish novels
Scribner, Armstrong d Co., announce q
translation Of Thncydides by Prof
Jowett, the translator Of Plato the me
moirs Of Il F. Choriey. the eminent must
cal c1itic the minor works of the late
George Grote, and the Early History Of In
situations, by Sir Henry Maine and new
volume by Robert Buchanan.
The publication of the heretofore uncol-
leeted writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
announced some time ago, has been delayed
ror singular reason. 1t Is intended, says
the Literary World, to include in the pro-
ected volume not only the two chapters Of
the unfinished Deliver Romance, which
have been printed IN the Atlantic, bat the
third chapter also, which the author left in
Ms But up to the present time no one has
succeeded in deciphering this latter. Miss
Una Hawthorne has undertaken the work,
but with only partial success. II Is the
opinion of the most intelligent critics that
Mr. Hawthorne intended to suppress Septi-
mius FELTON,, and develop its main idea
the secret Of living fareyer-in The DOLL
yer Romance.
Dr. kenealy, the counsel for e the Claim
ant" in the nchboIne case, has issued in
London volume Of Poems and Trarsla-
tons The learned counsel is great among
those who have amused themselves at rem
dering our nursery RHYMES into the Ian
guayes of Homer and Virgil he also luxu-
rates in German and Erse, and even wan
ders into Persian. while such triiing studies
a. Breton. Magyar, Arabic, Bengalee and
Guipuzcoau furnish hin with their stores
for home importation.
A memoir of the late Rev DR. E. S Gan
nett l. in preparation.
Robert Dale Owens, Autobiography en-
titled, Threading Ny Way, which G. W.
Carleton ! Co. have in press, will be par
iicularly rich in "reminiscences Of celehri-
ties of half century past.
James Parton has recently prepared
brief life Of the late Mrs. Parton, which
Mrs. q. W. Carleton & Co. viii shortly
publish a. memorial volume Of Fanny
Fern, with selections from her writings, IL
Illustrated by Arthur LumleY.
Mr.. A. W. Kinglake will shortly issue
the fifth. or " lnksrmann volume Of his
history Of the Crimesn War. Military men
are apt TO declare that this history Of the
CrImsan War is largely unhistorical, but
they cannot dispute the value OF the docu-
mentary evidence il contains.
OF the long talked-of work on Holland
House, the Quarterly Rerieir gives US in the
new numbers an appetizing account. Per-
haps it would be impossible TO point to 50
significant an illustration Of the change
which has come over English politics as Is
afforded by this article in the great tory re-
view. Holland House, the horror of all
good true blues, is treated as the abode Of
the gods, and the whiggish circles that
gathered here are described with all the
enthusiasm y sucking liberal. The quon-
dam - sayagery" OF the Quarterly is now
very tamely represented by occasional con-
tributions from the Marquis of Salisbury,
who casts as many darts amongst his friends
a. he does into the ranks of his opponents.
MIR. John Stuart Mills autobiography
contains the first explicit statement regard
ing his relations with Mrs. Taylor which
has yet been published. Mrs. Taylor with
out any other causes than want of Z" aft
nit" with her husband and an affection for
MIR. Mil, left her husband and lived apart
for several years. during which time she
constantly received the visits of the eminent
man with whom her sympathy was
more complete. Mr.. Mil saws that though
neither of them conceived that the ordina-
~ rules of society applied 10 their case, yet
for the sake Of the children and from the
wish to avoid giving pain to the deserted
husband, the correction. mp 10 the mar
riage, was simply Piatonie. Mr.. Taylor is
spoken of in high terms by his more forta-
nate successor, anas some who knew him in
timately declare that a more amiable per-
son never lived. When, after bearing
third child to him, his wife intimated her
intention Of leaving his house, he implored
her not to do 50, if only for the children's
sake. Though Mrs. Taylor's intimacy stop
ped short Of adultery, il was such Is gave
the ssutest pain to the father Of her child