The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-21
LITERARY CHlT-CHAT.

Mr.. J. HAMMOND TRUMBULL has printed for pr.
vate circulation monograph on the "Origin and
Early Progress of lnolan MISSIONS in New Eng
land, with list or books published in the Indian
language at Cambridge and Boston from 1858 TO
172I
Two FRENCH SCHOLARS have recently devoted
themselves to the discovery Of the site OF the
Island Of Atlantis. Unfortunately their conclu-
sions are diametrlcay opposed. M. Roisel proves
to his own satisfaction, IN work entitled lies
Atlantes," that that favored isle lies many fathoms
deep beneath the mid-Atlantic. NJ Moreau de
Jounes, on the other hand, places Atlantis beneath
the waters OF the sea OF Azof, and holds that the
Black Sea was the cradle Of the modern world.
The saturday ReUieU calls NJ. Octave Feuilet's
novel, "Julla de TrecGur," terrible story, In
credible and merely absurd.
Mr.. J. r. blanche has written an historical
work in two Volumes entitled "The Cong ueror ana
HIS Companions" 1t has good deal OF informa-
ton about the early Norman families in England,
and deserves attention as the work OF herald
and geneal0gist although rather deficient in au-
thOrities.
ONE MILLION COPIES, It IS said, Of Sunday
school music book, entitled "Pure Cole, - have been
sold In the past Jour years.
NJ. ALEXANDRA DUMAS .LAmls des Femmesn
has been a second time condemned by the censor
ship. The author is about to reprint his first vol
ume Of verses, printed IN 1S47, and called "Peches
DE Jeunesse." Only fourteen copies or the first
edition were sold.
M. DE vILLRMEssANy,s "Memoires dun Journal.
iste' are unique In literature. The history OF the
Paris Figaro and other journals. the price paid to
Henri Rochefort and others for articles and all
kinds OF literary and personal gossip figure In
them. There are to be ten volumes OF the work.
THE FORTHCOMING CORRESPONDENCE Of Proud
hos
celebrities
to publish a reprint OF the ''Noticias de Ia Nueva
California" by the Rev. Father Francisco Palou,
who was the first priest OF the MISSION at san
Francisco. The author was careful observer and
historian, and his work, which is now very rare,
contains many valuable papers, Journals onicial
documents and records OF early explorations.
THE FIFTEENTH ISSUE OF the Spenser Society con-
sists OF Tim0thie Kendals Flowers OF Epi.
grammes," reprinted from the original edition OF
1917. The contents are taken from Martial, the
Greek anthology, Sir Thomas More Robert AS
cham, Parkhurst. Bishop OF Norwich, Theodore
Beza and other writer's.
DR. RICHARDSON, whose researches on the influ-
ence OF overwork, OF alcohol, OF tobacco and OF
occupation on the physical and mental life, are
well known, has IN the press volume entitled
Diseases OF Modern Life.n
IT Is STATED that NJ. Farjeon has been especially
engaged to write story Tor Franc Leslie's Illus
trated Newspaper.
LORD HOUGHTON's ode on DR.. Livingstone, in the
London times, shows how feeble even noble bards
may get in wooing an unwilling muse. Witness
thus sample, which forms the nrst verse:-
The swarthy followers stood aiooG
Unled-lnfathered;
He lay beneath that grassy roof
Fresh gathered.
In CANADA the government has undertaken the
publication and supply OF school books much to
disgust Of the book trade. 1t Is declared that
under this system schools are worse supplied and
at higher cost than they would be il the business
were left to private enterprise.
OCTAVE FgU1LLEr was very intimate with Ma
poleon ILL.,, who made him librarian or the Palace
OF Fontainebeau. The Emperor preferred the
dreamy mysticism OF the Jeune Ho,ame Pauure to
the Intellectual strength 0! Salnte Beuve ana
Merimee. Feuillet and Napoleon used to take
long evening drives in the forest, when the vague
German sentimentality OF the Emperor's character
broke forth In quotations from Schiller and
speeches to the setting sun.
sold in Paris-the love correspondence OF the
Due de Richelteu.
"HEARTH AND HOME" the interesting weekly
hitherto published by the Orange Judd Company,
has been absorbed by the Graphic Company.
A BURNS CALENDAR and photography OF every
thing relating 10 Burns is soon to appear Ia Kill
marn0ck.