The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-06
LITERARY NOTES.

at Paris.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich will have story 10
veree in the March number OF the Ahd'dtc
Monthly:
A brochure. entitled "France and Germany
Next Spring. is attracting great attention at
Paris.
third series Of sermons preached IN st.
James Chapel, by the Rev. Stafford A. Brooke,
is to be issued.
volume by the Earl Of Mayo, "Sport in
Abyssinia, or the Mari and Tackazzee," is to
be published in London.
NJ Emile de Girardin's "Rise and Fall Of
France" which has been looked for with in
terest, has just appeared.
A new story of Arctic Adventure BY Chas.
w. Hall, "Adrift in the Ice. Fields" will be
published by Lee 4 Shepard.
George Smiths important "Chaldean Ac-
count OF Genesis" is in the presses of Messrs.
Scribner, Armstrong Go.
Miss De la Rama is said to have adopted
her pseudonym of "Ouida" from her own in
fantile pronunciation OF her Christian name.
Louisa.
"The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay."
by his nephew, G. OTTO Trevlyan, M. p, wi
soon appear from the press Of Harper
Brothers.
A volume descriptive Of the various char.
table institutions of London is to be pub
lished, under the title Of "About My Fathers
Business"
The Rev. j. s. G. Abbott will add another bio.
graphy-probably one of Franklin-to COM
plete his series of american Pioneers and
Patriots" in twelve volumes.
Prof. Younge, of Queens College, Belfast,
has written q life of Marie Antoinette, Queen
of France, which will be published in two
volumes, by Messrs. Hurst K Blacke.t.
"Montford Hail." the new novel Of Mrs.
(author of "The Household of Bouverie"),
will be followed by another work by that lady,
entitled "Miriam's Memoirs"
j. B. Lippincott & Co. announce for early
publication: "Benvenuto," from the German
of F. Lewald; "Three Years, from the Ger
man of Josephine Schwerin; GA Charming
Fellow" and "a Secret Of the Sea" by T.
Speight.
Germany has now two magazines devoted
chiefly to poetry-the fortnightly 'Deu:sche
Detachable" and the monthly meme Mon
atshefte fur Dchtkunst und Kritik," edited,
the former by Ernst Eckstein, and the latter
by Oscar Blumenthal.
The Christmas number Of the London
Graptic cost $4,000 before copy was
printed. The irst edition consisted of 25O,-
600 copies. 1t has been computed shat Miss
Thompson's sketch, entitled Missed went
2, zoo, 900 times under the press.
The fifth volume Of Mr. Freeman's ellis
tory of the Norman Conquest" is nearly
ready for publication. II is said that it will
contain full examination Of Dome sday, and
will prove an invaluable addition to the early
legal literature and history Of England.
A new work on "Burmah and It's Inhabi-
tants," by Charles Gordon, is announced in
London. In this later work the ethnology,
zoology and botany Of the country will be
treated of, and many traits and pecu!iarities
Of the people Of this comparatively unknown
land are to be given. ......
The Yale Alumni propose to make full
collection Of works issued by the officers and
alumni of YALE to form part of the American
educational department at the Exposition,
and finally of the Yale library in an alumni
Above" Such publications should be sent
at once to 3. G. Northrop, New Haven.
'.Life- Histories of Animals, Including
Man." is the title of a volume containing
series of outlines of comparative embryology,
by DR.. A. S. Packard, of the Peabody Academy
of Science, at Salem, Mass, which is soon to
be published by Henry Holt & Co., OF New
York.
The Marquis of Butte has published book
on William Wallace; Lord Stratford de Red
ciiffs has written an original play, entitled
sAlfred the Great in Atheivey;" and the Earl
of Crawford has in press q metrcal tale en-
titled cargo, or the Quest of the Golden
Fleece"
A rare old law book is in the possession of
q gentleman in Toledo, Ohio. 1t is a digest
of the laws of England. published in 1881
It begins with Magma Charta and comes down
to the twenty-seventh year of the reign of
Queen Elizabeth. The first part is printed in
Latin and the remainder in Norman French
and English.
A volume of essays by Mr.. J. Z. Green,
author of a Short History of the English
People," which have appeared from time to
time in various periodicals, will be published
by Macmillan & Co. The general title of the
volume which contains papers on SUBJ
jects of social, historical and literary interest.
will be " Stray Studies in Italy and England
Macmillan & Co. are to issue series Of
illustrations to Shakespeare's plays, engraved
on steel from designs by several distinguished
OcEUIuu oItiotSs al CAPidAhSCAy IS+tSI RAeoc,
consisting of extracts selected from the
writings Of all the best critics Of Shakespeare,
has been prepared by Prof Dowden. The
work will be in one quarto volume, and there
will also be an edition in folio. containing
artists proofs of the engravings.
The late Count de Montalemberts work, en-
titled L'Espagne ct Ia Liberte, is announced
as about to appear from the press. Pere
Hyacinthe had the custody of the manuscript,
and after the Counts death he asked the in
tentons of his family and executors, who re-
piled that they would publish it among his
posthumous works. Five years having passed
without a fulillment OF the promise, Father
Hyacinthe sent the manuscript to the pub
Usher.
The German excavation at Olympia gives
immense satisfaction to European antiquarl-
ans and all lovers of art: The torso of the
figure of Jupiter, originally on the eastern