The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-14
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

NJ. Renan is correcting the final proofs of
his fifth volume of the "0rigine du Christian
isme."
The last volume of Theodore Martins
Life of the Prince Consort'' will be ready in
March.
Prince L. L. Bonaparte is still busy writ
ing books OH linguistic science His latest is
Remarks Upon the Classification of the
DIALECTS Spoken in the Ural Mountains
Lady Barker's very entertaining Letters
from South Africa which have been pub
lished in Lippincotts Magazine. will shortly
be issued in book form by J. b. LippincOtt
q Co.
The British Almanac and Companion,
started by Charles Knight more than half
century ago, is still published by the London
stationerS company in very much the same
style as its first issue.
J. b. Lippincott & Co., of Philadelphia,
have Just purchased the stereotype plates
and copyright of the entire series of Worces-
ter's dictionaries, seven in number, and will
hereafter publish them ir improved styles.
The grammar and vocabulary of the Ian
guage of CoTea has been prepared by w. f.
Mayors an English secretary of legation at
Peking. 1t is the first work of its kind pub
lished in English, the only specimen of the
language hitherto existing in England being
volume of a novel in the British Museum.
Longfellow has received from several
ladies in Wisconsin illustrations of one of
his poems. His reply was: II can not help
feeling how far your beautiful present sur
passes any merit of my verses. You have
treated them as Hamlet tells Polonius to
treat the players. Use them after your own
honor and dignity. The less they deserve,
the more merit is in your bounty"
manuscript in the library of the British
Museum, entitled THE Particular Descrip-
ton of England, with the Portraitures of
Certaine of the Chieffest Cities and TOwnes,
1885," prepared by William Smith, is to be
published in LOnhon by subscription-250
copies only to be printed. The illustrations
will be IN fac smile from the manuscript,
and will be issued under the direction of f.
S. Ashbee.
Ofenbach's book of America has awakened
great disappointment at Paris. There is too
much about the little Mephistophelean opera
bOu6fSt himself, and too little about the great
country he hoped about in for a couple of
months. One would think, whey they read
Offenbach on America, that when he lay
lay down at night his head rested on Cape
Cod while his toes dabbled in the Pacific
ocean; and yet malicious people say that his
book was written by Albert Wolff, of the
Figaro, who has never been in America
According to the New York Tribune,
which gets its knowledge from somebody's
correspondence, Longfellow recently stated
that for his poem of 'Sandolphon" the only
compensation received was years subscrip-
ton of the newspaper in which it was pub
lished. If the good poet made this state
ment we fear his memory failed him. for we
happen to remember land the new index of
the magazine assures us) that the poem in
question was published originally in the first
volume of the Atlantic Monthly, page 744,
and this long after its author could COM
mand 500 and upwards for almost any poem
he chose to contribute to newspapers or
magazines. 1t is not generally known, by
the way. that he received s., 900 from Robert
Bonner for The Hanging of the Crane"
originally published in one number, filling
but one column, of the New York Ledger,
two or three years ago.