The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-04-16
LITERARY CHIC. Hat.

Mr. SUMNER has been buried only q few days and
already two lives OF him are being wrtten-one by
G. Edwards Lester and one by George Alfred
Townsend 1t is also believed In Boston that Mr..
Edward l. PIERCE, one OF Summers three literary
executors, win edit memoirs OF him.
THE Athen0urn styles Mr.. W. c. Hazlett's ssMary
and Charles Lamo" Q sllpshod production and q
model Of bad taste, very inaccurate In dates,
although containing much fresh and interesting
matter.
THE LATE ALBANY FouBLASoUz has been well
commemorated in q biography BY hts nephew. The
book aDounds IN extracts rom hts brilliant writ
ings IN the Examiner, from 1887 to 1850
THE GREAT ATLAS OF classical Geography, by DR..
William Smith, will be completed BY the publcs-
sion OF the fftn part about Christmas, 1874.
NEW "HIsroRY OF LATIN AMERICA" BY Don
Justo Zaragoza, Is in press at Madrid.
THE LAST EDITION or the London Slang DIction
ary, under the head or "Bummer,n says:-"In
California men who profess to be Journalists, and
SO obtain tree dinners and drinks, are called
literary bummers."
Mr.. SwIsBURSE's forthcoming poem VIII be en-
titled 'The Romance OF Yzeult."
JOAQUIN MILLER found Geneva full OF his country
men, and asked TO be taken to some place where
there were no Americans. The boatman looked at
him for a moment, then hopelessly up and down
the lake and away across toward Mount Blanc,
ana at last shook his head; but suddenly Q new
idea seemed to strike him, and he lifted his eyes
toward heaven.
ROBERT DALE OWEN, when a mere boy, went 70
see Jeremy Bentnam, then nearly eighty. "God
bless youl" said the venerable thinker slf there
be sucn q being; and at all events, my young
friend, take care Of yourself"
n. CHARLES WISER has published In Paris an In.
teresting essay on the Empire OF the lncas OF Peru
His information lis derived from the best sources
and thoroughly digested He shows that the
political regime OF the old Peruvlans was simply
Communism.
THE MEMOIRS Of the late Paul de Kock have
appeared IN Paris. 1t Is an amusing book and full
OF anecdote, but unfortunately, the author had
completed only tue first voume at his decease.
TaE Revue des DeuI 4Aondes is publishing Q series
OF agreeable excursions through France by N.
Aontegut, which are ull OF entertaining knowl
edge respecting both persons and places.
The Spectator says OF the French novelist Bale &C
shat mis- philosophy Ia sucn as solomon might nave
penned alter seeing the French Revolution, ruin
ing himself on the stock Exchange living in Paris.
ian cares for many years, and on the morrow OF a
nights deoaucn writing under the stimulus or o
tremendous headache.
AMONG late English publications is the Norman
People and Their Existing Descen dants In the
British Dominions and the United States Of
America"
NEW constitutional "History OF Englan d - by
Professor II. Stuobs, OF Oxford, has got az far as
the drst volume.
ONE OF CHARLES LAMBS fantastical sayings was
that the name OF Drummo nd. OF Hawthornden.
sounded sweeter than that or Milton or OF Shake
speare. Professor Masson's new life OF the poet
Drummond goes far to make modern readers in
love with this sweet poet.
FURTHER COLLECTION Of Prosper Merimees col
respondence Is about to be published. The frank
sceptlcism OF the late academician appears In them
rather more plainly than in the epstes TO the fre
connue
ROBERTS BROTHERS are to issue Mr.. f. B. Per.
klns literary novel OF "Scrape: or. the Lost Ii
brary," whose kaleidoscope pictures OF life In
New YORK, including q book auction, Gowsns
store, subscription publisher, &c, make 1t OF
personal interest.
IHE EARLY ESGLfsH TEXT SOCIETY has published
tue History Of the Holy GraiLn edited from manu-
scripts oy ?. J. FurnIvalL
NJ JULES sEaOsis new work on "Reform In Pri-
NAV Education" treats OF the future OF education
IN fraace, and the Importance OF hygiene gymnas
tics and living languages.
I IHE LArE Or. STRAUSS has left unn nished biog.
rapaies o. Beethoven aud OF the poet leasing.
At sALa OF Autographs Ia London a lovee tier
Il OF David Garricx Drought E7 l0s.; one OF Deloes
letters fl1 lis. song OF Robert Burns, fl2; q
\ page OF correspondence in the aand OF Erasmus
Ee ios. a letter OF Hogartn, gls Ios; one o.,
hosArt GAG ioA one or Goetns,s lsstsrs. AGA los,