The Portland daily press., 1877-03-03
Notes.


Some of the books at the Menzies library sale
brought great prices. Browns Biblotheca
Americana four volumes, sold for $500; Auto
graph letters of the Presidents of the United
States, $105; Champlain's Voyages, Paris, 1913,
$58; Burns Poems, two volumes, Glasgow,
1852 $3.50; Audubon's Birds, first octave edi-
ton, $175; Eliot's Indian Bible, 5000; Denton's
Brief Description of New York, London, 1852,
$1O05; Irving's Washington, twelve volumes,
New York, 1856, $4,000.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, will publish
hereafter quarterly record of current litera-
tnre with the title Putnams Library Compan-
ion. 1t will be in effect a quarterly continual
ton of this firms well-known photographer
handbook, The Best Reading, and its purpose
will be in each number to give complete clas-
SIZED list of the best and most important books
in each department which have been published
during the quarter, with the authors and pub
fishers names, prices, ETC., and with brief notes
where notes are necessary.
The Library Table, a monthly periodical
founded at the beginning of 1876, for the pur-
pose of disseminating knowledge of the best
current publications of the day, has successfully
added several important features to its columns,
including that of complete index to the con-
tents of the magazines, and has met with such
degree of success as to contemplate weekly
instead of monthly issue, dating from the
April number. The Library Table in its new
form will add to its present attractions all the
leading features of the great English weekles
like the Saturday Review and the Academy.
1t will be under the editorial management Of
owl mi cd; Of
Johnson's Cyclopadia, aided by the present ed.
itorial corps. Henry L. Hinton & Co. are the
publishers, Broadway and Astor Place, New
York.
Edward Abbott and Edward 81. Hames, re-
spectively of the editorial and business depart
ments of the Congregationalist have purchased
the Literary World, founded and for nearly
seven years edited and published by Mr.. S. r.
Croker; and will hereafter conduct it under
the firm name of E. 81. Hames & Co.. Mr.
Abbott taking the editorial charge, and Mr..
Hames the business management. The issue
for April will be the first under their auspices
The Literary World is monthly journal of
twenty pages, published the first day of every
month, and occupied exclusively with critical
reviews of new publications; choice extracts
from such as are of specialIinterest; discussions
original and selected, of literary topics; and
information of various sorts about authors and
their work.
An article on The Races of the Danube, by
John Fiske, is the latest contribution to the
discussion of the Eastern question announced.
1t will appear in the April Atlantic.
Mrs. Hodgson's story. which began in the
August number of Scribner, will be succeeded
midsummer by the first instalment of Miss
Traftons new novel, Her Inheritance. The
Illustrations will be made by Reinhart
The annual report of the librarian of Con-
gress shows that during the year ending Jan.
1, 1877, rne numper or DOCKS auueu TO the 1ipra-
~ was 1880, and the number of pamphlets
5000, increasing the aggregate of the library to
3l1 ,097 Volumes of which 81, 900 are in the law
department. That the amount of publishing
throughout the conntry has not fallen off on
account of the general depression of business is
shown in the increased amount received from
copyright fees, this amounting during the past
year to 81, 80. Mr.. Spofford's new cata-
logue is now ready for the press, and will be
printed as soon as an appropriation is made to
defray the cost.
There's case of disputed authorship in Scot
land-Sarah Tytler, in recent volume on The
Songstresses of Scotland, having attributed to
religious poetess, named Jane Adam, the
song There's Nae Luck ABBOTT the House.
which w. j. Mickle, the translator of Camoens
has heretofore been credited with. But Miss
Tytler's arguments are easily oyerthrown in
the Athen@um by Charles Mickle of Guelph
Canada.
Mr.. Robert Buchanan's new poem, Balder
the Beautiful, which is now in the press, is said
to deal with the beautiful god of Northern my
thology, but from different point of view from
that assumed by any writer who has adopted
this theme from Matthew Arnold to Ghlen.
schlager.
A collection of the forcible illustrations Of
Mr.. Moody has been put into book form, and
will shortly appear under the title of Arrows
and Anecdotes.
The London Athen@um says, "Of the little
American work, Helen's Babies, no less than
six English editions have been issued or an
nounced by different publishers since Messrs.
Sampson, Low & Co. brought out theirs in De-
cember last. Messrs. Low have followed their
usual practice of giving the American author a