The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-13

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Wings azure blue!
NV. B. ScoTr in the London Aateneuna.
LITERARY NOTES.
A memoir Of Lord Melbourne, by Mr.. Tor
rens, M. p, Is in press.
]. M. Reid, United States Ministe. to
Greece. is writing history Of that country.
"Life Of Hans Christian Andersen is
being prepared by Miss Wood, the translator
OF "The Dead Cities of the Zuyder Zse."
The Case of Mr.. Lucraft, and other Sto.
fie5, is, the title of the coming volume from
the authors of "Ready Money Mortiboy."
The new centenary" revised edition of
Mr.. Bancrofts History will be issued in six
volumes. ct 50 Is each, monthly, beginning
with February.
Col Valentine Baker will publish from his
prison his travels on the o-Turkoman
frontier. under the title Of Coming Events
in the East"
A new romance by Turgeneiff. the title of
which is not yet made public, will appear
shortly. He has been working hard upon it
this winter in Paris.
The English reviewers speak in terms of
them regarding it as by far the best of SWIM
burne's literary efforts.
Edmund About has decided to visit
America next summer, it is reported, for the
purpose of furnishing French people with
French views of our institutions.
Lockhart told Hayden that Murray had
paid Byron Hl6. 900 for his works, and that
Murray had made G100, 900 by their sale. He
made ECO, 600 on one edition.
Messrs. Lippincott & Co. announce ssThe
Domestic Life Of General T. J. (StonewalD
Jackson" by 8. N. Randolph, author of the
Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson.
Mr.. Albany de Fonblanques long looked
for novel, "A Family Tree" has Just made
its appearances in England, and will, We hope,
be speedily republished in this country.
h Emile Belmont, Of the Paris Rappd,
has Franch translation Of the dramas of
Shelley nearly finished, and he will next I'M
dertake rendering Of his lyric works.
Longfellows "EvaDgeline" has been trans
lated into Portuguese blank verse, and tie
manuscript translation has been sent to this
country, to be submitted to Mr.. Longfellow.
Mr.. Robert Buchanan's prose romance
"The Shadow of the Sword, is begun in the
January number of the Gentlenans Magazine,
with Proem," which is also q poem, and
five chapters.
Mrs. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, NJ. d.,
has written volume on "The Physica! Basis
OF Immortality" which G. P. Putnam's Sons
will publish. It takes strong scientific posi-
ton in favor of the doctrine OF immortality.
Mr.. Sidney Lanier, young Southern poet
whose contributions to some of the magazines
10 ottr fod n IL 0f mi
has been appointed to write the text of o
cantata for the opening of the centennial
festival
The younger Auerbach, Of Stuttgart, Ger
many has recently added to his list Of Ameri-
can books o translation of Franklin's auto
biography, with portrait. q preface by Ber-
thold Auerbach, and an elaborate introduction
Of nearly 100 pages by Friedrich Knapp.
Mr.. Scudamore, one Of the English sub
postmasters general now at Constantinople,
has resumed his "Sleepless Man" articles in
the Standard, and ig as amusing and incisive
q ever in his sketches of that city of holi-
days, "the very Paradise of Civil Servants"
The first specimens Of the literary treasures
brought home from abroad by Mr.. T. B.
Aldrich will be displayed in the March allan
tic. It is q long poem, filing nine pages of
the magazine, and is q version of a Roman
legend. Rumor says it is the poets best COM
position.
The forthcoming book Of Discoveries at
Ephesus." BY ]. T. Wood, will, it is said,
almost equal in interest the great work Of Dr.
Schliemann on Troy. 1t is q narrative of
eleven years excavations on the site of the
great Temple of Diana, and will have profuse
illustrations.
The London Academy thinks that the con-
frmed novelreader has . horror of second
perusals, and would rather read any trash for
the first time than ssPendennis" or "Pride
and Prejudice" for the second. Yet, accord
ing to our observation, many readers find the
second reading of such books as "Pendennis"
more enjoyable than the first.
DR.. H. g. Hoelemann has published at
Leipsic curious book, entitled "Die Reden
des Satan in der Heiiigen Schrift," that il,
"The Discourses of Satan in the Holy Scrip
ture. The speeches of Satan cited in the
Old Testament are discussed, first, exegeti.
cAlly; secondly, comparatively; thirdly. prap.
matically; fourthly, Historically.
Herman Melville writes % follows n the
New York World: "Permit me through YOUR
columns to make disavowal T. B. Peterson
h Brothers, of Philadelphia, include in late
list of their publications, The Refugee bv
Herman Melville have never written anv
work by that title. In connection with that
title Peterson 4 Brothers employ my name
without authority, and notwithstanding . re-
monstzance conveyed to them long age"
A most valuable MS has been discovered
In tina Azores. It refers to the colonization.
in the year 1900, of the Northern part of
America, BY emigrants from Oporto, Aveiro,
and the Island of Terceira. It was written
bv Francisco de Souza, in 1870. Barboza
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