The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-20
LITERARY CHIT CHAT.

Two NEW BOOKS on that prolific State, California,
are soon to issue the press OF A. L. Bancroft
Il Co. One Is by Colonel Albert s. Evans, whose
work on Mexico 1.-THE Seward tour was printed
two years ago. The other Is more local In It's
scope, and Is entitled "Men and Memories OF San
Francisco in the Spring OF 49," BY T. A. Barry and
b. A. Patten.
AND NOW THE STOVE TRADE has its Journal a
monthly magazine, published at Albany, and de-
voted exclusively to the warm advocacy Of the
burning interests Of stove manufacturers. The
first number is just out. It might have appeared
more seasonabiy in January than in June.
THE SUMNER SEASON Is full OF Summer guide
books. Appleton's Northern and Eastern Tour, y
sweetser's "New England, a Handbook for
Travellers" Dutton's atlantic Coast Guide, y
Thaxters and Jenness' "Isles OF Shoals,v DE
Costa's "Lake George" Hurd ,Houghton's
''satche Guide to Europe" Eastmans "wnite
Mountain Guide" Morl0rds .'Short Trip Guides TO
Europe and to America" Harper's Handbook for
Travellers In Europe" and other new books and
new editions for the voyager and seaside loiterer
are on the counters OF all the book stores.
THE EIGHTEENTH QUARTO volume OF Smithsonian
Contributions to knowledge is just published, and
contains elaborate tables OF the rain and fall
In the United States and adjacent countries tcrres
trial magnetism and compass deviations, as 90
San Francisco, and memoir on the secular vara-
lions OF the orbits or the eight planets.
THE LATEST WORK OF that popular scientist, Elsee
Reclus is terrestrial Phenomena ana Meteors.',
II has not yet been translated.
The EDITOR OF THE publishers Weekly the
interchangeable F. Leypoldt, OF New York, will issue
a complete collection OF publishers TRADE Lsts,n
or priced catalogues OF American publications now
in print in one volume, II sufficient subscriptions
are sent IN
AMONG NOTABLE WORKS on the local topography
OF the country IS a new county atlas OF West yir-
gina, published by M. Wood White, Grafton, W. Va.
The FOURTH VOLUME OF Maxine Du Camps
"Paris, its Institutions its Functions and its Life
in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century,"
contains notable accounts OF bepgary, public
charities hospitals, foundlings, &C., in the French
metropolis.
PUBLISHERS ARE TAKING to the lecture plat orm.
Mr.. James T. Fields has made reputation by
his yesterdays with Authorsr and Mr.. Gill, OF
the Boston firm OF Shepard Gill, will lecture
wherever wanted on Edgar A. Poe and Mark
Twain, Illustrated by readings from the works Of
each.
MRS. HELEN HUNT has gone to Colorado, accom-
panied by Mrs. Curtis Guild, whose husbands
cover the Ocean" Is the best book Of late years ON
Europe. We shall next have "Bits OF Travel ut
Homen from the sparkling pen OF "H. H.
THe ran nan Gazette rdcules the Sudden at OF
moderation and good mannersn which has come
over the radical French press since MacMahon
came to power. The journals whose normal pitch
was howl have become suddenly soft as milk.
They koo-too to the great soldier who has their
destinies In hts keeping; they exhort one another
to be calm and they might be read with edihca-
tion in pious household addicted to wholesome
though not heavy reading" t sNgHY