The New York herald., 1877-07-08

interested In his work carried 1t ON, and foremost
among them IS the writer of this volume
There are few summer novels announced,
among which is the eighth mo Name" ''Hst,y'i
Strange Experience" by the author Of Mcrcy Phil
BRICKS Choice, and &c. T. IT," by the Rev. Edward
Everett Hale. Both of these published by Roberts
Brothers. Four more "vost Pockets will soon be
published by ossood Co., who seem to
have peculiar ideas about tho sze OF
mans wardrobe, judging by the number
OF these volumes. Carlyle's "Choico OF Books" and
"Cromwel," and Aldrich's "Rivermouth Romance"
and "Miss Mehetabel's Son" the additions.
This firm also announces a new volume Of the Rev.
Samuel Johnson's "Oriental Religious aud Their Rela.
lion TO Universal Religion" The Grst volume .'lndia"
was published some time ngo. Tho second viii be
'Chlna," and represents the work of scholarly man
for twenty years Mr.. johnson is one OF num-
bsrless unemployed Unitarian cergymen. Of those
men who have outgrown their congregations and are
preparing books for postority He is very. learned,
but wofuy hotorodox ard stupid people afraid OF
him To 20 back to novels, Lee & Shepard have by
way OF being in fashion. announced an anonymous
BOOK, "That Husband OF Mne'' The aforesaid hus-
tband is u sinful being who brings persons home to
dinner without previous notice. aud otherwise sins
against the unwrtten law "A Paper City,, by Pctro.
ieum v. Nasby, and "Danbury Short Cake. by James
Montgomery Bailey. will bo issued by the same firm.
A NEW NOVEL by AN UNKNOWN AUTHOR.
Tho long list of anonymous Boston novels is not yet
full, and week Lockwood, Brooks g. Co. will
issue yet a new one called "Nmport;'' O clever,
sauoy story, which would bring down wrath on its
authors head II he could only bo found The city Of
Nmport itsof is described such that genuine
Bosonian Will Indignantly feel that II Is portrait of
his native town. The author says that 1t is 'goodly
city, clean busy and fair to look upon; :; but before
the smirk OF self satisfaction and SELF lrrecogn,-
ton Gun fade from the Boston countenanoe
he adds--'Torn from earth and set whirl-
ing In space have not the least doubt she would
have swelled planetary size, poised herself among
counter attractions, evolved satellites, set up orbit
oi her own and squeezed herself In somewhere q
member Of the solar system" Moreover, he says that
'the rood folk OF Nimport were SUI generis; they
belong to history distinct typo. can only say in
general that people abounding In excellence, SO
wanting In defecta people of virtue lofty prnci
pie fortified intelligence keen. and activity
varied-was never known to earth" Reading such
encomiums tie Bostonan Is sure to cry ''Sone
encmy hatn dopo this 1t can't mean anybody but us,
you know; but he's made It 20 strong that the New
Workers will make fun ofusn And vorily, II the New
Yorkors do not will be the rst chance OF ndulgina
In that amusement that they have missed for many q
long day
tho last hundred pages, in which the author intro
duces Miss GUILTY, member Of the A. T. Club. A. T.
stands for "Advanced Thinkers and also apparently
for Second Radical Club, organization which
know to DO ridiculous. but about which we do not
choose that other persons should make irrevcrent
jokes.
The summer books not all out of the publishers
hands, but the printers binders hard work.
Osgood Co. about to bring out a work Ameri-
colleges with twenty -four heliotype illustrations
The history and description OF each college will be
written by Of its graduates, that whatever
Partially may be found in one essay will be neutral.
ized that In the next and nobody complain that
his favorito institution of learning Is sighted. TIE
Vest Pocket Series wllbe continued by Popes ESSAY
on Man, Dr. John Browns "Essay Thackeray,"
Caryles characterization of Crom well Macau-
laws Essay on Milton" The series Of little
books about the war will be enlarged this week
by the addition OF "Modern Greece" by George
N. Towle, and 'Bulgara and Montenegro"
by the author, will soon follow. Mr.. Howells,
who like most editors, does not really know the
meaning Of the word vacation hard at work at the
sAutobognphical Series" OF which four volumes ara
In an advanced state of preparation The introduce
tory preaces will probably be exceedingly interesting,
Mr.. Howells a biographer by nature, and even
when he tes novels mover confounds himself with
his characters but regards them cooliy wtically
from first to last
The ''English and Foreign Philosophical Library
announced by Osgood, to be very valuable SERIES
and will only supersede cheap American editions
but in a measure put end to the Importation OF
English works. "Lange's History OF Materiasm''
will be the first volume; It will be followed by "Natu-
raj Law by Edith Sincox; "Outlines Of the History
of Religion " by Professor c. P. Tiee. and '.The His
tory Of Chinese Philosophy" by Ernest J. Ectcl Ph.
D., OF Hong Kong