, 1876-01-29

Catholic Church, including lay'nea aa we'll
ns c'org.men will bo cngaged 10 Efvo
70 t''t. 1erts'o =. ciaracter eqnal
or Europe. II il announced that tho Isepfe,o
'.ahaI1 not bo eontinod to tho dlscussion Of tho
illogical snbiccts, but that It shall embrace With
IL its Rcopo all subjects OF interent to otucntcl
scientific, literary, OF polisical-nRng sao latter
term in its oriRtnal md proper meaning. part-
ssn poti's Or o'itias IN tne cpular sens' of
risidjy excluded" Each number vii, contai.. III
psgoB, largo octave. In largo type. on white pa
pei. The ar.c!os in tho frat number arc: "sa~
iusstorv: Antl-Catholto protudice," Ly tho 1sov.
e. 10 csssss tss sap f.
ncation Of tho Day," bv Dta1lop Hsckor, OF Deln-
ware; "Tho Josuits, BY Tho Rev. J. A.. Corco-
fsas "Tho uabea1 q vat,sanl, by 9.", ths ey y,
jna,.op Lynch; .:A1odern Phvslcists md tie
O,igIn Of Man." by George u. Wolff: 'tT1,o
Catllosc Church IN American iilalory," BY J. q.
Shea !; Editorial, osc., etc.
ENGLISH BooK.PaopucTsoN.
Tho Ehgttsh f'uoHshers Circular EiTes ita
uBual tabulatcd summary Of tho Engllsl book
production Of the year. Tho total number To-
corded in 1875 was 6,2iR. Of which 9.57o
wero new books, ,93t now editions. Aid
| BIG American importatons. OF The months,
Auauet mud scptcmber show tho min!Eaum
aud Doceuber the maximum production tho
| figures of tho latter being 1902. There las
| bcrn a marked incroasa, Is compared With
| 1874, Of wolks on theology. fiction, history
poetry, and art, md docscaao Il, educational
books aud Juveniles. Tho ippuc Of Theological
| fiction, 892: law, 1855: econotnics. t2C; srt
! science, and illustration works. Gat; travels.
33a history aud biography, 4'G; poetry aud
DRAMA ST.; yoat-booEs and bound ser.ala. 25s
classified, ali. Tho cfrculor proiounces the
wear \" very good, in the senso OF haring been 4
very productive yeEE, md decided ltdpro1o-
ment on 1e74."
LITERARY NOTES.
A philosophical book by III. Aenan, and PTS
shumous book by Gaspsrin, aro Ia pfc6s at
Paris.
Thomas Bailey Aldrch will llayo story In
verso In tie March number OF tho AtianGc
| Monthly.
| Alisa De Ia Rama Is raid 10 have adoptcd hcr
psoudonym Of "Ouida from ,los own infanti'o
pronunciation Of hor Christian narc, Louisa
"Tho Lifo and Letters Of Lord Macaulay." by
bis nephew, q. Otto Trovel5au, N. T., wil soon
appear from the p,css Of Harper 4 Drotherd.
A sacrilegiors Philadelphia critic calls Ralph
Waldo Emorson's Atlantic MonEuy poem less q
poem than an old man's removed VOW OF loyalty
to tho HUB"
"Monsforl Hail." tho ner novel Of 3lvs
Cathatino 4. Wnrfield, OF Pewco Valley, Ky.
{a,,thor OF " THO 1Ioueclold Of Do1vcro"D. will
bo followed BY another work By that Indy, on-
titled "MiFiams Momoiss-"
Tbs Christmas number Of tho London Graphic
cost 8an00o boforo acopy wns printed; Tho
ilsst edition consisted of 250.uo0 copies. It has
beop computed TINT Miss Tho.nrBon's sketch,
entitled = Missed" went 2,7u1,oNo times unde,
| tic preea.
Tho Marquis Of Dute has published a book On
William Wallace; Lord 6tratiord dc Redclffc
has written au original pav. entitled " ALFRED
the Great In At!levey;" aud the Earl Of Cfsw
ford hns In prerH motricas ta,o entitled "Argo
or tic Quest Of tho Golden Fleece"
Lsfe-1listorics OF Animals. Including Man,
In the title OF q volume containing d sc,ies o
outlines of comparative omhryoogy, b. DE. a.
s. Packard of the Peabody Academy OF Science
a: Snton, hIasa.. which IL soon to be published
by Horny Holt Il Co., of Now York.
Macmillan & Co. arc to issuo q serses OF H.
lustratious to Shakspea1e's plays, ,oueraSed on
steel from dosignB by several distinguished
Ger1uan artis.a- An explanatory Ictter-pFess,
consisting OF extracts selected from tho writinga
of I'LL tho bost critics Of ShakspcaEo, has been
In ono qunrto volume, aud thosa wall also bo MI
edition iu folio, containing artisss proofs Of tna
enErnyings.
Tho now, complete edition OF tho works o
Walter Savage Landor, to bo published IN thi
country by j. Il. Lppnco,t d Co., in councc
t,ou with Chapman l. Hall. London, is coninct
, , TO $50 copies printed from type. aud 29Q O., o
these arc to be offered in thia country. Til
first four volumes aro to hn lssned nt once
There will bo eight in a!l.-tho arat beng th
biography, by John Forster, revised for this re
issue. They will l,ayo photographic portraits ol
o Lnndor in dlf1crcut periods or hia loog Nfc,-
: tho last aud most tnter0atinE ore having bool
( taken when tho old lion had nearly reached b.
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