The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-03-26
LITERARY NOTES.

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: "A History Of My Life and Times" by thu
veteran Geo. Cruikshank is announced.
series Of "vignettes Of American His
tory" by Mary Hewitt, is to be published in
. London.
An English writer. F. Fl. Bradley, is to pub
J lish volume on "The Vulgar Notion OF Re-
sponsibility."
: Harte's tales and poems have appeared in
Il ussia in two translations
|, Mr.. H. r. Foxbourne's "Lfe of John
Locke" is promised for this spring by Henry
A. King Co., London.
!, DR.. Carl Knies, the Heidelberg professor,
has published an important work on '.Money
and Credit, in two volumes.
DR.. Brinsley Nicholson is to edit the
Doubtful Plays of Shakespeare" for Messrs.
George Bell & Sons, London.
Another volume of "Aunt Joe's Scrap
Bag" being collection of Miss Louisa NJ.
Alcott's shorter stories, is announced.
A photography of chess has been published
at Utrecht by DR.. A. Van der Linde, with
22C9 titles, besides 113 titles on checkers.
A new "Life of franklin" by Rev. j. Chap
lin. with portraits of the philosopher, his wife
and mother, will be published in Boston.
A new English story called ga Voice from
the Sea; or, the Wreck of the Byzantine" is
commended to the public by Mr.. Plimsoll
Hamerton's charming books, "Etchipgs
and Eschers' and 1.-The Sylvan Year," are
forthcoming, uniform with his " Intellectual
Life"
An Elementary Astronomy and an g Ele-
mentary Physical Geography by Richard A.
Proctor are to be published by ]. B. Lippin-
colt & Co.
Gin the Vineyard: A Plea for Christian
Work, is the name of q forthcoming volume
by the Rev. Dr. E. F. Burr, D. D.. author Of
"Ecce Celum."
The next volume in the International Scien-
tifc Series will be on fermentation" by
Prof. Schultzenberger, Director of the Chem
| ical Laboratory at the Sorbonne.
A volume from the unpublished papers of
Sydney Dobell, under the title Of Thoughts
on Art Philosophy and Religion" with notes
by Prof. John Nichol, is just ready abroad.
The works of Charles Dickens are about to
be translated into Portuguese and published
in Lisbon, with q view of "impartng
healthier tone to the light literature of Portu-
GAL"
Mr.. James Miller, the American publisher
of Mrs. Brownings poems, will publish here
Mr.. Horne's volume of letters from and to
her, and "reminiscences Of contemporary
authors
A new novel by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, en-
titled ''Sights and Insights, "a story of New
England ife,-will shortly be published. 1t
80 To ho 1aho
work.of fiction.
Mr. Farnivall has prepared paper "On
the Links between Shakespeare's Early Plays |
and the Backward and Forward Reach of his |
Late Second-Pe Comedies" for the New
Shakespeare Society.
Jules Verne's new story, "Michael Strogoff, |
the Courier of the Gar" is begun in the
March number of London Society. It will be |
Published here in book form by Scribner,
Armstrong 4 Company.
Maurice Jokai, the eminent Hungarian |
writer is about publishing novel with the
title, "God is One God," which will bring
out the early history Of the Unitarians and |
the Unitarian faith in Transylvania.
Turnbull Brothers, Of Baltimore are to
publish lives Of Gen. r. E. Lee, by his literary
executor, Col Marshall, and Of the Hon. Alex.
Stephens, by Col r. M. Johnston and VIM.
Hunt Browne, editor of the Southern Magazine.
Miss Cook, Of the Packer Institute, Brook
Ign, has compiled the poetry descriptive of
/" Mountains" for issue before summer, by
Roberts Bros, Boston, uniform with the pretty
volume called "Sea and Shore"
volume on "The Politics of the Gospels"
by Austin Bierbower; Jewish work on "The
Historical Jesus of Nazareth" by Rabbi
of Albany, and a small volume on
/" The Ultimate Generalization" will be is
sued this spring.
In connection with the memoirs of William
Goodwin, the London publishers issue series
Of essays by him never before published I'M
der the title of "The Genius Of christianity
Unvailed." This volume also is edited by
MI. G. Kegan Paul.
An edition of the doubtful plays of Shake
speare is to be collected and published in
London shortly. It will include "The Two
Noble Kinsmen and edward III" in the /.
composition of which some authorities hold
that Shakespeare took part at least.
"The Southern Side" of the story of An
Jacksonville Prison is to be presented in a pub
ication from Turnbull Bros. Baltimore,
which will contain in an appendix the names,
stc., of $4,000 Union soldiers who died there.
Inc WORK ID cOmplIo0 from Omclal 0OcumentS | i
oy DR.. r. r. Stevenson, who was chief sur
yeon Of the prison.
Fenimore Coopers novels are said to be
lutte popular in Russia. During the years
1868 and 1874 5000 copies of ''The Last of the
Mohicans" were printed; of "Wyandotte
md Of "Lionel Lincoln" $500 copies; and
: The Bravo" appeared in two translations- {
800 copies of one and 1900 Of the other hav-
ng been published.
In the new life of William Goodwin, just {
published by Roberts Brothers, it is made Z
lear that this English novelist was one of the {
irst to call attention in England to the real
,reatness of Cervantes' "Don Quixote, which :
vas not we'll translated in our language be- Z
ween 1912 and 1909, at which latter date God {
vim wrote about it.
The success Of the little series Of "Ancient
Classics for English Readers" has induced {
he English publishers to project supple
nentary series of eight or ten volumes, of the Z