, 1874-04-12
LITERARY M{lIES-

The last number OF the National Quarterly
Reuiet0 Edward !. Sears, Now York; has articles
on 'Cornls, Coral Reefs and Islands" '' Alil
and Agassiz;" !" *tThe Accidents Of Sublunary
Immortality;" "Herr Strauss, and His Panthe-
istic System; Z" t'Ihe Glacial Period; Its Cause
aud Diference: F" ''The Salient characteristics
Of Washington" &C., DC.
The leading papers in the Penn Monthly for
April Penn Monthly Association, Philadelphia),
munisms Of the Old World !" and ''Dr. Krauth's
Berkeley"
Other periodicals received: Great Weste,-s
Monthly for April (Gt'eat Western Publishing
Company, Philadelphia); Gem Of tie Fest for
A1p5 H H 3 ne sr st has ce%p5ey 3GRsFay g. 66hssEe
Now York;; IY,lsons Herald Of Health (south-
ern Publishing Company, Atafanta, GAY; cur
rent numbers Of Appleton's Journal q. Apple
ton, New fork); and Egery Saturday II. Q.
-swinburne's new poem is to be called 1.-THE
Romance Of YseuEt."
Mrs. Stowe has determined not to write any
moro for several years.
Dion Boucicault. 1t is said, has written
comic diary Of his trip across the American con-
tinent.
The Communist General Cluseret has begun
in the S,oiss Times Of Geneva series Of letters
on the Paris Commune.
james Russell Lowell has sent from ItaIv, to
the Atlantic Monthly for May, o long poem On
the death OF Agassiz.
-" Coomassle and Magdnla: Story Of Two
British Campaigns" is the title OF work now in
the press by Mr. Henry II. Stanley, the CORE
spondent OF tho New York Herod during the late
war on the Gold Coast.
R. q. s:oddard, the poet, has been added to
the ScTibner staff as the writer OF the humorous
department, "Etchings."
The British census Of 1861 reports ITO ladies'
in London as living by literature, two Of them
under 20: nnd three OF them ovor Is years Of ago.
The English literary journals arc full Of ar
ticles lately about Chaucer and Shakespeare.
Five or si1 rival reprinting societies are in full
blast. giving the public the wo1ks OF all tie
earlier English poets.
-Baizac's :. Droll stories,' now translated in
to English for tho first time. and recently issued
in London, is said By y correspondent to bo
"Very Euggestiye OF Boccaccios Decanerou.
upon which it very closely borders
-'Ihe Mill-Whecl." recently-published
novel, by Miss Helen Dickens, d daughter OF the
late Charles Dickens. is pronounced by English
critics as Tar from being AL ordinary book.
Mrs. Reoccca Harding Davis has been en-
gagged by Scribner's lon!h!y for "new depart
use" in magazine stories. They are to be but
two pages long.
pr: C!srke's "sex in Education" is over
whelmingly indorsed in the report of the a1assa-
chusetts State Board of Health, in the depart
ment OF School Hygiene"
"A printing Office has recently been estab-
lished IN connection With the Pe.kins {China)
College, from which are already promised his
work on chemistry by Prof. Bil1equiu.
The London academy pronouuces Max
Muller's discourse on Christian missions, with
it's introduction by Dean Stanley, to be reform
stop in the emancipation Of Christianity from
the priesthood, ceremonies, and dognaa that
have overgro4n it.
&C. Edwards Lester again comes to tho front,
with book entitled, ''Our First Hundred
Years: The Life Of tho Republic Of tho United
States Illustrated in It4 -Four Great Periods
Colonization. Consolidation, Development, and
Achievement" The United States Publishing
Company will bring out the work.
Dr. Charles Mackay is preparing for the
press work entitled ~ Tic Gaelic EtymologY Of
tho Languages Of Western Europe, aud more
especially Of the English and Loaland Scotch,
and their Can't, Slang, and Colioqmal Dia1ects.''
It Will be dedicated, BY permission, to the Prince
Of Walea.
Tho Nuremberg Correspondent. declares that
it has reasou to doubt the correctness Of the
statement that Strauss left two unpublished
works, viz: tho Life Of Lesaing" and s'Lfc Of
Beethoven" The former manuscript is, indeed.
in existence, but nothing ID known Of tho latter-
Strauss was an enthusiastic admiror of Beet
hoven, aud has w1itten good deal upon h1s
compositions.
Somebody who has seen the advance sheets
OF Auerbach's new novel " WAlfr1ed." eaYs that