The New York herald., 1876-07-03
LITERARY CHAT.

Mr. Thomas W. Hinchlin whose travels round the
world entitled Over the Sea and Far Away" just
out in London, pursued so erratc q course MS to
lcng:hen the "a 900 miles OF the earths circumference
ZOO Mr. Hinchli is President of the Alpine Club
ardent boanis and careful observer, and his book
gives many charming pictures Of South American,
Japanese and other wandcrings
Captain Mayne Reid in his latest novel, 'The Flag OF
Distress" tells a capital story Of adventure, which
may fairly claim to interest others beside schoolboys
The thirty second edition OF Simrock's Nibelungcn
lied" atests the great interest Germans feel in their
Medieval literature.
Mark Twain has q humorous contribution In Temple
Bar for June, which be calls "The Facts Concerning
the Recent Carnival of Crimo in Connecticut"
Robert Brownng's volume OF poems will be
called "Pacchiorotto and How he Worked in Distem-
per, with Other Poems"
That acute thinker and writer DR.. Garth wilkinson
will print extensive work ''On Human Sci
ence, Good aud Evil, and its Works; and on Divine
Revelation and its Works and Sciences
That curious being, Horne Tooke, is to be written
up by Mr. Paul Kegan author OF recent HE OF God.
win.
new book China, In Macmillan's press, Is the
story Of Mr.. Margary's journey from Shanghai to
Bhamo and will contain valuable essay on British
relations with China, by Sir r Alcock.
these Robert Burns Is los. John Calvin, &c 5a
Queen Elizabeth "a; David Hume, 81 lss Sir Walter
Scott, fs; Isaac Watts e. 1ss W. Wordsworth,
c. S. Empress Eugene, FL l5s.; Edmund Kean,
ElO S. Adam Smith, e.; Lord Byron, Ga los Bos-
suet e. los Napoleon l., &c l5s Sir Isaac Newton,
e. IS George Whitfield, 81 12s Queen Victoria,
e. l0s, and George Washington, Els los
Two more books by royal authors are forthcoming.
The Sultan of Zanzibar will publish diary Of his jour
ney to Europe and Prince Leopold volume of his
travels in Italy and Southern France
The London Hornet declares that there truth in
the statement that Mr.. and Mrs Maxwell Miss Brad.
DOM are 'about to leave England for America where
they intend to res,dc.'
The most en,erprsing of Yankees hardly match
the latest novelty in Scotch advertising The propre.
tors OF the Glasgow Ne,cs tory journal have rented
the OF Bullwood Dunoon which lies sopng
to the Firth Of Clyde. and which they cut
ting OF the the OF the paper in letters
seventy feet long and correspondngly wide.
The Saturday Rerieir, which does Nathaniel Haw-
thorne the credit TO say that his "Marbe Faun' re-
mains the best OF guides to Rome says Of Julian Haw
thorne that his saxon Studies" ''iust string
of impertncnces 400 pages long against the people
who with greater Kindness than wisdom, allowed tho
author to live among them for some years
DR.. A. H. Post a learned German, has written n sug-
eestve little book "Dsr Ursprung dcs Rechts" apply
ing the methods OF physics to the study of law.
A great book African problems is Dr. r. Hart
mann's ''Nisritia; An Anthropologcal and Ethnoogt
cal Monograph" which is coming Berlin in num-
bers
An interesting book IN dramatic history is Or. Walls
sacks 'Chroncle OF the Imperial Theatre at Vienna"
just out in that city.