The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-02
LITERARY NOTES.

Anna Fl. Drury makes her bow to the pub
lie I'm Furnished Apartments.
A Greek translation Of three Of Shake
speare's tragedies will be published at Athens
next year.
&c TIE Sabbath of the Fields" by the Rev
Hugh Macmillan, will be issued at once By
Macmillan & Co.
Bayard Taylor is said to be making elabor'
ate studies for combined biography o.
Goethe aud Schiller, which will occupy sew
eral volumes, and take several years to com
ple.e
A prose romance by Robert Buchanan. the
poet, is to run through The Gente,nen's Maya
zine for 1876 The December issue has an
article on Walt Whitman, the Poet Of Joy,
by Arthur Give.
Scribner, Armstrong & Co. have arranged
with Jules Verne to publish his story, '' The
Courier of the Car" His Mysterious
Island, although in three volumes, is having
large holiday sale.
Mrs Limber's Raffl =, or Church Fair
and its Victims" satrical and humorous,
yet vigorous onslaught against an evil which
has existed in our midst for years, has just
been published in New York.
Mr.. SERGEANT Cox, the English pshycholo.
gist, will publish, early in January, the first
volume OF q treatise on "The Mechanism Of
Man." being reproduction, rewritten and re.
arranged, or his work entitled "What am I r
for some time out of print.
Gen. Doubledays "reminiscences of Fort
Sumter will be published by Harper & Bros.
at once, and will contribute mach to the early
history of the war. Gen. Doubleday notes ia
his preface that of the eleven officers in the
garrison only four are alive.
The life of John Locke, by Mr. H. r. Fox
Bourne, is completed, and will be published
early next year. The editor has discovered
the original manuscripts of several short
treatises written by the philosopher but never
published, among them, Gan E say Concern
ing liberation" penned fourteen years before
the first Of Locke's famous "Letters on
liberation"
Dr. Strong's trip to the Holy Land. while
in one way furherinG the work on McClin-
took and Strong's great cyclopedia of religion,
had the effect also of delaying its issue con-
siderably. 1t il now expected, however, that
the sixth volume will be ready by New Years,
and thereafter volumes will be published
yearly. Four more are expected to complete
the alphabet.
All, how sad it is to witness every evening
the sun-that Joy Of the world and father Of
all life-going down into the darkness of its
waves It is the Earths every day sorrow,
and especially that OF the West. Each day
we look in vain upon this spectacle, and
acknowledge the same powerful influence,
the same effect OF melancholy. -Frcm the Sea,
by Michelet.
There is to be a third edition Of Mr.. Mac
leod's +" Theory and Practice of Banking. in
which great alterations will be made. After
the last one was published, Mr.. Macleod was
selected by the Royal Commissioners for the
Digest of the Law to prepare the Digest Of the
Law Of Bills OF Exchange, Bank Notes, etc.
The results of the authors work on the Digest
will be embodied in the new volumes.
Carlyle attained ! is eightieth birthday on
the Sd inst, and the occasion was commem-
Grated by presenting him with an address
signed by eighty persons in England and
Scotland, and accompanied by gold medal,
with Carlyle's head on the diverse and the
date and few appropriate words on the re-
verse. AS no American participated, we may
hope that the great Scotchman accepted the
friendly testimonial with good grace.
The Manchester Guardian speaks of
curious contribution as being just made to
the literature of Lancashire, VIZ, a book pub
lished in Manchester bearing the title of
"Angelic Revelations" which processes to
give dissertations on the "origin, Affirmation
and destiny of the human spirit, communi-
Gated by feminine angel, Purity, who on
earth was known by the name of Teresa
Jacoby" The frontispiece, it Is ated, is de-
signed by the spirit OF Jan Steen, the Dutch
painter.
There is Just published in London the
English translation Cf DR.. Henry Kinks vol
ume of "The Tales and Traditions of the
Eskimo; with a sketch Of their Habits, Reli-
vio MI liar
The popularity of the volume is in its illus
trations, which were drawn and engraved by
Eskimo. DR.. Rink, who himself translates
his book from the Danish with the Revision
of DR.. Robert Brown, auth r of "The Races
OF Men, y is Director Of the Royal Greenland
Board of Trade, and was formerly Royal In
spector Of South Greenland.
Mr.. T. Whitaker has in press the report Of
the Bonn Conference held on August III, and
following days, between the Old Catholics.
the Evangelical Church Of Germany, clergy
and members of the Church of England. req
resentatives of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in America, bishops, clergy, and pro-
fessors in the Oriental Churches, and repre-
sentatives OF other Christian bodies. 1t is
translated by the Rev. Professor Buel Of the
General Theological Seminary, with preface
by the Rev. h. J. Nevin, D. D., Rector Of st.
Paul's Church; Rome, Italy.
Last year the dramatic critic of La France
NJ. de Lapommeraye, developed the idea of
feuilletons parties, an institution which drew a
select company every Monday to the Confer
ences Of the Boulevard des Capucines, to lis
ten to viva voce review, lasting an hour, by
one of the principal critics Of the day, of
pieces seen the night before, or to be seen the
same evening. The literary critic of lie
Temps, NJ. Sarcey, is to introduce the idea
into literature, presenting at his conferences q
review, by word of mouth, of the notable
books of the week. This is an adoption of
Mr., Alcott's Conversations"
The essay on =" The Sensualistic Philosophy
of the Nineteenth Century. by Prof Dabney
Of Virginia, to be published by A. d. F. Ran
dolph L. Co. next month, begins historically
by reviewing the sensualistic philosophy of
previous centuries tracing it from Hobbies.