New-York tribune., 1875-12-11
LITERARY NOTES.

The volume of "FoOt-nOtes, or Walking as
Fine A." by Alfred Barron, TO be issued by A. VIII
hams CO., Boston, published ~ a serial some time
ago Tie writer Dthusasc pedestrian, and his
walks ard TALKS about WaingfOrd, Conn., directly
recorded The book is result 0 Thofeau; The author,
who is something OF splrituast was moved to begin
II after reading Walden and he II NOT sure but tGc
invisible comranion VI his walks" was the spirit oi
Ihoreau himself
La Vie Litteraire, the new literary journal TO
be started Paris is be edited by NJ. Colinon for
merly editor of La Rerae Nouree which had but short
run in ls64-5. Issuing from the retirement in which
wrote "LArt et Ia Vie dc steniha and "Ddero" he
has gathered abOnt him once more all his old con-
trbuOrs most of whom have either gained or increased
their literary regulations in the intervening ten years.
ani he proposes 10 resume with the same stat
the enterprise which came originally TO 80 abrupt cor
cluslOn. The first nuInhcr viii contain a hitherto uI-
published article by sanie Bouve, and one by II Tdine.
The unique holiday book which Lockwood,
Brooks 4 Co some time ago announced is just comng
from the press. "sih0uoies aud Songs Illustrative OF
the Months" as il is now called Will be cieGT remarka-
BILE for the designs themselves, which all OF children
and cut by a little girl in the Rev. Edward
Everett Hae's congregation In Boston, Nelly NJ.
Kinds, now only II years OF age. She u'ea
a back ground Is filed in with pencil and produce
marvellous results, both in figure aud grouping, The
mr Hale edits the volume wicn has original descriptive
poems by himself, Whittier, samuel lOugftow, Hiram
kcn, Mrs Stowe Mrs. 1haXtcr, Mrs Howe. Rose Terry,
Lucy Laro0m, and others, be sides poems selected by
Holmes and Lowell for the purpose The hooh IL ssue
Ong octave AT the " reform prico OF three dOilas
The present condition of literature in India,
as shown by Issues Of lts printing Presses Is hecro
geneous 10 Among recens publications.. for in
stance. "Ialismans from the Koran" the Oce Of
the immaculate Conception" Stories Of Krishna," in
the vernacuar of the PuIiaub translation of the Wes
eyan catccsm INTO KanaTcsc many trcatises m astfol
ogy, various tongues tract den0unclng Christianity
aud the 0i animal food the " Pilgrims Progress, III
Urdu; Julius Caesar" adapted Mahr.ttti :" Gil
Bias" in tie Prayers 10 the JAM Saints " Seven
Ways of Reading the Koran :" the IgtGtio CATls In
of lies lor an un
riageabe The I0roastrian Scriptures the Essay on
Man" in BeDgal exposure OF juggleIs' tricks
ia praise the Virgin May tale OF the
with the thousand hCads As TO language Bombay alone
turns books in Urdu, Persian. Arabic English Guza-
rat, sanskrit, Mabratti, kanaresc, Sndn avi Zend,
and Portuguese
The interest now felt by scholars in Oriental
subjects represented by prominent society In each OF
four leading lahguages-the Royal Asiatc society OF
Great Britain and Ireland the soeete Asaque OF Paris
the Deutscbe MogeD indsche Geseiischan of Leipzig
and the soceta Orentae itaana OF Florence All hut
the last make annual report, hut independent prin
ces II II now proposed thai the general pfogr,se Of