The New Orleans bulletin., 1875-12-19
LITERARY NOTES.

LIIERARY NOTES.
The author of "Artiste" (iIiss Grant, Las
new novel in the press.
George Eliot ii is said, has been pAId tfVOVs
or $35, 900, for single novel.
Miss Braddons thirtieth novel will be called
" Joshua Haggart's Daughter.
1t is said ex-President Tbiers' " Gei1oir5
will fill lG volumes WREN completed.
..Dante and His Circle, translated by Dante
Gabriel Rossetti, has Just been issued.
The Rev. J. S c. Abbott's new biography
of Washington viii be published soon.
Mr Hepworth D.xon's White Conquest
will be honored by d French translation.
new daily paper has been foundedin in Lon
don under the title of The Daily Express.
De Balzac's correspondence Is 10 be added |
to the future English editions of his works. |
fac-simile of tha first issue OF V attohs |
"Complete Argier" Is to be published III
England. g.,
Queen Victoria has subscribed $500 to found
the CHAIR Of Celtic literature in Edlnturg uni
yerstiy.
Miss Braddoa's thirtieth @ novel is tc begin
in Belqravia this month, under the title Oh
.Joshua Heggart's Daughter"
Mr.. G. Marvilie Fem is engaged upon a
new no7el, which is TO appear simultaneously
in several provincial papers.
The subscriptions to the proposed memo
rial of the poet Byron, in London, amount 10
e200O Further help is required.
Karl Bind is about to give series OF Eng
Iish lectures, on "The Mythology OF our
Germanic Forefathers," in London.
Mr. William Morriss translation of VirgiFs
| ''Eaeid is greatly praised by the London
press. It is in iambic verse, rhymed.
Mr. Motley, the historian, has been resld-
ING in Boston lately, but he is about to return
to England III order to resume his literary
labors.
some posthumous notes, by Sainte-Beuve,
on the men OF his time, said 10 be very severe
and very indiscrae;, are shortly to be pub
lished.
The next number Of TIE Gela~r will con-
tain the first iusatment Of novel by VIM.
Back. which appears simultaneously IL --do-
nsiiJan's I'm,
The Ndion vigorously denocnces the little
| sect Of English writer's whom It calls the Neo-
Pagars, at the head of which it puts NJ. 4.
/ @. SwinhUrne.
The great History OF the Sciences in Ger
many" published by the German Historical
| Commission, is approaching completion IN
sixteen volumes.
4 short story, being sort Of legend OF the
island of Lewis. will be contributed to next
months Macmillan, by the author OF GA Pfn-
cess of Thule.
new study Of the "Tife and Philosophy
Of the Pessiuist SalopenhG1se1, on whose
philosophcai system Wagner grounds his
musical theories, is announced abroad.
The London Aheneur. finds Very little 10
praise in Steadmaus victorian Poets, but
praisino Brownings latest poem, ''Ihe lnn
Album" as the best work Browning Las Gone
of late.
The posthumous memoirs Of ihilaTette
Chasles. thu learned hUmorlat, are IN press
and are said to be tull OF satire on the n en-
bers of the French Academy, to which Le Wa
not elected.
A new edition of Schiller's Lay OF the
Bells" with forty-tvo illustrations, after de'
signs bv Moritz Relzsch, has just been Is,
, sued. This beautiful book has long been out
of the market. ~,
THE Two Destinies," by Willie Collins
"Daniel Deyopda." by Geo Eliot; I'D:
Capo," by Mss Thackery; " Mad Cap Hiolet,
eby VIM. Black; "Crpps the Carer by Il
d. BIackmore, and ''Owen Gwynne's Gree
Work. treat in store for novel readers.
An entertaining book about Russia IS Mr.
Butler Johnston's "Trip up the Noiga to tn
Fair of Vljoi-Novgorod.' Russia, he insists
is not a nation, but continent, and hef co'
} 0O0000 is likely to reach lCO,0OO,OoV oaiof
the end of the century.
MIR. Edwin Arnold has long been known t
be engaged on the rendering of the beautliu
: Sancrit pastoral of the "Lovinda and RaCha
iuto English verse. TIE work Is ready, en!
, Will appear undor the title Of 'The 1ndla
' Song of Songs" from the Sancrlt.
Two of the important volumes of the yea
are promised for early issue by Osgood 20
: Emerson's "Letters and Social Alms and tn
: second series of Lowell's Among My Books,
0 which will contain essays on Dante WORDS
worth, Spencer, and other articles.
n Mr.. Allan Alagruder, of Baltimore, vii
f contribute to the January atlantic an ac
D count of President Lincoln's interview wit
4 Judge Campbell just after the fall OF hlch
I mond. in w1ich evidence is given OF tn
o breadth and generosity of Mr.. Lincoins view
. about the restoration Of the Union.
Can't. R. F. Burton's "Two Trips to Gt
!, riIla Land and the CAtaracts of the Congo
i is not confined to a record Of his Tn travels
d but treats of geographical problems wit
Q great acumen. He confirms IN the main II
c Challu's account of the gorilla, and has man
fine descrip;ious of the native tribes an
5 their customs.
Victor Hugo has published the preface
0 the second volume of his Words an
Q Deeds" The preface makes thin pamphle
) like that to the first volume, and contain
e some interesting things; among oiherS'
:. dramatic recital of the famons collision bf
, tween the Ships Normandy and Mary, IN lh
It English Channel, five or SIX years ago.
l. Ia the Heroes of the Arctic and The
e Adventures" by Frederick Wbymper' put
d hshed by Messrs. Pott, Young Co, OF Ne
If York, the author has compiled from nor
It than 100 volumes a succinct history OF Arcti
s exploration and the exploits of its heroes
e The account is brought down to the late'
q do g, including the sailing of the Pandora.
NJ. Henri Havard has written, un 1er th
S tile of ''La Hollande Picturesque, an az
t count of the deserted cities OF the Anyde
e Zee, which is very interesting. These Date