The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-07
LITERARY NO7ES.

ssMabel Martin" is in town, in elegant
attire.
Hesba Stretton's new novel is g Brought
Home"
Taine has nearly completed his g History
of the French r evolution"
r. A. Proctor has a new volume in the
press, called Science By-Ways."
The stock of choice books for old and
young are rapidly arriving at Eyrich's.
Mr.. Blanchard Jerrod's authorized "Life
of Napoleon" has reached its third volume.
A second volume of "Our Poetical Favor
ties" by Prof. A. G. Kendrick, is announced.
"The Story of the Stick in All Ac es and
Lands" from the French of T. Michel, is in
the press.
A uniform library edition of Taine's works,
in twelve volumes, has just been issued by IL
Holt & Co.
st. George Mivert's new volume will be
lessons from Nature as Manifested in Mind
and M atter"
A volume on "Dickenss London - the
great city, es referred 10 in his works-is an
noanced in England
GA Christmas Novel," by Miss Yonge, is
promised by Macmillan Il Co., under the tile
Of "My Young Acides."
Finger Ring Lore: Historical and Anec-
dotal" by w. jones' F. S. A., is announced
tor early publication in England.
"Hugh Melton" by Catherine King, and
1.-THE @ leen of Connaught" are the two latest
novels in Harptrs Select Library.
new book, by the Rev. J. G. Wood, will
be on "Nature's Teachings, as applied IN the
Wonders of Art ard Maanf .cture."
"Nine Little Gosling-," by Snsan Coolidge,
is a very nice collection Of stories for young
children. aud is prettiIy illus rated.
There is to be monthly magazine in Lon
don devoted to the maintenance of the Eau
thentic pinch les Of hris ian politics.
l. is stated that Mr.. VIM Black received
c2OO for his story of The NJ .,riage of MORA
Fergus" which originally appeared in the
Cornhill Magazine.
Mr. Murray will issue this season selection
from the late Mr.. Grote's posthumous papers,
edited by Prof. Balm, under the title Of
fragments on Ethical Snhjec's."
The fifth volume Of Mills dissertations
and Discussions" now in preparation st
Henry Holt Il Co.'S, viii contain all Of his
shorter papers not previ usly collected.
work on the " free School System of the
United States is to be published in England,
from the pen of Mr. Francis Adams, Sscre-
tary of the National luc4tional League.
A treatise on '.Syii u4lism and other
Allied Causes Of Nervous arrangement. in
their Medical and Medico-legal Relations" by
Dr. VIM. A. Hammond, will be published.
The third ser es of Dean Stanley's Lee
lures on the History OF the Jewish Church
is ready for the press. II treats of the period
from the Captivity to the Destruction of Jeru-
salem.
M,jor NJ. B. Delany, of Charleston, S. c.,
is preparing history of the African race in
America, from their first importation by the
Spaniards. till the passage of the fifteenth
Amendment.
An illustrated supplementary volume of
Memorials of @ liet Life" by A. j. @.
Haw, with thirty photographs, illustrating by
portraits and views the previous volume, Is
for Incoming.
"Ths Catskill Fairie,," by Mss V. F.
Townsend, has just been issued in magnIt-
cent attire by the Harpers. The illustrations,
by Fredericks, will be found one of the great
est features of the hook.
A contribution to the now fashionable art
of house decoration is announced by Henry
I. Williams, edited by himself and Mrs. O. S.
Jones. Household Elegancies will treat
Interestingly of the aesthetic improvement OF
the home.
Mr.. Thos. Hardy author of "a Pair of
Blue Eyes," etc, will appear in a new char
ac.er in an English magazine He contri-
butes provincial poem of the West country,
called 1.-THE Fire at Tranter Sweatleys;
Wessex Ballad"
"Over the Borders of Christendom and
Eslamiah; or, Travels in the Summer of 1875
through Hungary, Siavonia Servia, Bosnia,
Herzegovina, Dalmatia and Montenegro, to
the North of Albania" by James Creagh, is
announced by Tinsley, London.
George Smiths new volume, whose title
will be 'Assyrlan Inscriptions" treats of
those describing the events of Genesis in
Guiding the Chaldaic accounts of the Crea-
ton, the Temptation and Fall, the Deluge,
the Tower of Babel, the Confusion of
Tongues, Nimrod, ete.
A new set of books to be called "The Half.
Hour Series" is announced by Dodd & Mead
from advance Engi-h sheets. They are to
be fresh in matter and profasely illustrated.
and vii cost 81 so each. " The Far West, !"