The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-09
LIBRARY NOTES.


o Will Csrleton's poems have sold to the mum
y Der of 80, 900 copies
Castelar's Life of Byron and O.he
Sketches is just ready.
r Theodore Tilton is writing a novel, which
g he expects to finish shortly.
!, Gen. Sherman is said to have Melted $50,
,, 900 by his book of Memoirs.
Dean Howson is at work on new com
. mentary, on the book of Acts.
4 The A1nerican Naturalist Will hereafter bs
. published by Hard u Houghton.
Miss Braddon is said to be thinking of pro-
ceeding to this country on a reading tour.
Two of Mr.. Tennyson's idyls, "Elaine y
and Enid, have been translated into Span
ish.
Mr.. Thackeray's youngest daughter. Mrs
Leslie Stephen, died last month at the age OF
tnIrty-fve.
A new novel by Miss Hosmer is announced
IN Boston "On the Loggia a Story Of Art
and r ?me'
new translation of "Zendavesta into
French by VI. Hariez, is appearing from he
press of Didot.
The author OF Mrs. Jerningham's Jour
nal will make his next Appearance in Miss
Hitchcock's Wedding Dress"
Jas. r. Osgooi & Co. have Just ready q
new novel by the authors of ''Kaady- Money
Morhboy," called with Harp and Crown"
Novel readers will be glad to hear that
new story from the pen of the author of M
Little Lady Is in press. 1t is entitled
| "Ersilia."
Harper & Brothers will commence George
| Ello4 ) new novel, entitled Daniel Deronda,"
IN the February number of their Monthly
| Magazine
Messrs Osgood & Co. are about to publish
a second series OF Prof Agassiz's Geological
Sketches, collected and arranged by Mrs
Agassiz.
| book of sketches and anecdotes of Charles
Lever and his contemporaries will soon be
published in Dublin, under the title OF
"Leverana.
Charles Lamb, according to new biogra-
| pher, was one of family of more than six
| children, instead OF one of three, as gener-
ally recorded.
The Leisure Hour series is TO be extended
by two rev noves-Mrs. AIexanders: "Her
Dearest Foe" and 'Tne Hand of EtheInerta.
by Thomas Hardy.
lecture on Macbeth being one of 81
series on dramatic literature, delivered by the
late James Sheridan X aogles, has been pub
llshed i'll Eugland.
The latest car. volume" of Walter Crane
bears the clever tide of "Mrs. Mundi at
Home, r S. V. p; the Terrestrial BllL.' I
has ''hbretto by the artist
Mr.. Gladstone is bu,ily engaged on his new
book on Homer, which will be an expansion |
OF what he has already written on the subject |
in the Contemporary ReUiet1.
eff you buy what you do not intend to
read. your library is no better than Curiosity
shop. library is nothing unless the owner
De living catalogue to it. '-DWe.
The hero of Robert Bachanan's prose ro-
nance, "The Shadow OF the Sword, is ma
tive OF Brittany in the time of the first Napo.
leon, and is inspired by hatred OF war.
Frederic Mistral, the head of the "Proven-
Gale Renaissance" who is Unknown in this
country through Mss Prestons articles and
translations will soon publish collection of
lyrics.
"French Withou. a Master is quite dis
tanced by new English book, ''The CONVEX
satioa Mtnual, collection of GO useful
phrases" in English, Pashtu, Hndustani and
Persian. |,
1t is said Mr. Anthony Trollope writes his
novels at the rate OF 400 words in quarter of
an hour. Mr.. Mortimer Collins imayines he
he can do the same-very likely; but here ali
resem blance ends.
new work on the Identification of the ten
lost tribes of Israel is announced in England
under the extraordinary I'll le of "The Anglo
Israel Post-Bag Or How Arthur c .me to See
It, The Rev. Canon Titcomb is the writer.
In the forthcoming number of tie London
t0rtnightiy Reciel1, an article will appear, by
Miss Frances Power Cobbe entitled "Back-
word Ho" The paper ha, for its subject the
influence of mednvalism on modern thought
u many OF its phases.
A work on "Celtic Scotland" by Mr.. VIM, I
E. Skene, author of the -Four Ancient Books v
of Wales" Is in press in Edinburgh. The =
irst volume will be devoted to history and U
the second, to church and cul- i
ure !; the third, to the land and people. o
An Englishman was Boosting to a Yankee '
hat they had book in the British Museum t
which Was once owned by Cicero. "Oh, a
hat ain't nothing" retorted the Yankee, q
: IN the museum in Boston they've got the s.
cad pencil that Noah used to check off the d
nimals that went int the ark. L
The edition of Lambs works, by Mr. Chas. CT
\ent London barrister, will be published rs
$ Popular Centenary Edition" There a
nil be numerous fac-similes, and, for Il
ton.ispiece, the hitherto unengraved portrait e,
4 the possession of Sir Charles Dixie, for "
hitch Lamb sat to Henry Meyer about 1927. lie
One of the Christmas books for children La
nd lovers of nonsense recently published
broad is 1.-The History Of the Six Wives of 81
uebeard,' compiled from mendacious te
hronicles by Isabella Novello. Here is
lodern example of the development of myth!
he chrome Illustrations are by George Cruik- d.
1ank, Jr. m
frghtfully real book in natural history is o. 9.
II. Henry Lees "The Octopus; or, The 81
evil Fish of Fiction and of Fact" This n. a.
ut and tiabhy fish is first cousin to the paper ~,
autilus, and second cousin to the cutie fish -;
Id the squib. Mr.. Lee defends the octopus =. -,
rpok .nt1~