The Portland daily press., 1877-09-29
Notes and Anueunceme nts,

L NOses ana announcements,
A forthcoming ''No Name" volume will be
an English story, "Will Denbigh, Nobleman, -
a mpanion, it is ramored. Of ::'John Halifax
Mr. Hammertoa is already selected as the wri-
ter behind Mr. Anonymous in this case
'The History of the Ceramic Art 10 Great
Britain, from the earliest period to the Pres.
ent Day." by Llewelen Jewitt, in two volumes
with 1000 en- cravings, will shortly be published
l in London.
Dr. Joyce, author of 'Deidre," which re-
mains the only poem yet in the mo Name
Series is at work on another epic, whose theme
is the ancient days of the Isle of Man, full OF
curious history and ghostly mystery and sensa-
l tion.
Mrs. BuInetts Class O. LoWrie's" in its
dramatic form is the success of the season in
London. Everybody of critical Importance
vas at the first night
Amoug holiday books to be published by
Putnam's Sons will be volume entitled
wonder World'' containing fairy stories gath
cred from the French, German, Russian, Hun
garian, Irish, Turkish, Hindoostan, Chinese,
Swedish, Italian, Japanese and Hebrew by
Mary Pabke and Margery Deane; one entitled
"The enchanted Moccasins and Other Legends
of the American Indians" compiled from the
| originnl sources by Cornelius Matthew's; and
wings OF Courage Stories for American Boys
and Girls" adapted from the French by Marie
Field. Each will be illustrated.
A good many important works Of archaeology
are coming out this fall. Dr. Schliemann's
discoveries on ths.Site of Ancient Mycere and
T1ryus" is the foremost of these, and will be
issued by Soribner, Armstrong g. CO., in an
American copyright.edtion (Schliemann being
an American citizen; large aud handsome
volume with many hundred illustrations. 1t
Is to be published simultaneously by Murray at
London, by Brockhaus, & Co., in French at
Paris, and by Brockhaus, in German, at Leip-
zig The book has had the bepeit Of revision
by some of the best classical scholars of the
day, and Mr.. Gladstone contributes an intro
duction. new edition of George Dennis's
'Cites and Cemeteries of Eturia," enlarged by
the addition of the discoveries of the last 20
years, is TO be brought ont; and, also, new
edition of Sir Gardiner Wilkinson's "Ancient
Egyptians with additions by the late author
aud by DR.. Birch of the British museum. Gen.
di Cesnola's book on "Cyprus, its Cities, Tombs
and Temples" is another attractive new work
OF the same character as Schlemann's.
Hawthornes old home on Herbert street.
Salem. wherein he began his literary work, has
been turned into dirty and noisy tenement
house. The blurred window pane on which he
scratched his autograph has been removed and
is in theIposssssion of Mr.. Manning; one of his
his mothers relatives 1t was to Mr. Manning
that Hawthorne once said that the "House of
seven Gables was purely imaginative dwell
ing-a picture the various fgmeuss of which, il
traced far enough, would ultimately rest upon
observation, but which never belonged to apv
particular residence
Mrs. j. Fl. Ewing, the author of Jan of the
Wind Mil, has 10 the press volume of stories
which she calls A Great Emergency. and
Other Tales. IL is ''Dedicated to John. Lord
Bishop of Fredericton, and to his dear wife
Margaret in pleasant and grateful memory
of New Brunswick where she at one time
resided with her husband, who was stationed
there.
Mrs. U. w. Dennison, author of the novel
That Husband of Mine was for several wears
resident of Oswego, N. Y. Her husband. Rev.
Y. w. Dennison, was employed as Bethel chap
lain, and labored among the seamen. He is
now chaplain at the Washington Navy Yard.
A Russian archaologst, Professor Konda-
koff has lately published History of the By
zantine Art aud Iconography, drawn princi-
pally from the miniatures in the Greek manu-
scripts It is said to contain much new and
interesting ma tier.
1t is stated that Judge Black Will reply to
Mr. Stoughton and that his reply will be
printed as suppleme ent to the November num-
Der OF the North American Review.
Miss Alcott promises to find new volume
in Aunt JOS Scrap-Bag. It will be about NY
Girls.
Bessie's Six Lovers, That Girl of Mine, and
That Lover of Mine. are 10 the press of T. B.
Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia, for imme-
date publication.
Swinburne is mad because the criti-~de-
tected his alias as novelist st-rs. Horace
Manners" and called him~t|nam
Joseph Hatton's aew novel, The Qaeen of
Bohemia, ,-ul he published in October. 1t
contains.a a dedication to William Black.
Mr.. Tuckerman's Greeks of To-Day has been
published in Athens in Modem Greek. A
Greek newspaper speaks of it as ';he only true
picture of Greek character ever preseated by a
foreigner"
The report that Joaquin Miller has sold for
$5O,000 the right Of playing in the United
States his drama, The Danites, has created con-
siderable interest for his new book, The Bar
oness of New York, which is just published by
G. W. Carleton & Co.
A new Bohn series is on its way in Eng
land-the Artists library. Among valuable
nooIra ippIudod N / Cir Hharlao A
atomy and Philosophy of Expression as con-
nected with the Fine Arts; LEONARDO da Vinci's
Treatise on Painting; with all the original Illus
trations; Planche's History of British Cos
ume; and August Ds mmin's Illustrated His
ory of Arms and Armor from the Earliest
Period, translated by Black-a perfect treasure
for artists, as it contains nearly 1000 illustra.
tions, all from existing specimens.
Bostonian robs Boston of the third OF
those "wittiest Boston sayings which have
been quoted all over the country, and says that
sit appeared originally, 1 think, in a newspaper
letter Of Mrs. Mary Cemmer (Ames) describ-
ing presidents reception, and it ran thus, Il
quote from memory: Tn walking up long
room, with your enemy behind your back, there
is moral support in Paris dress which re-
Iigion fails to farnish.' Mrs. Clemmer, wheth-
er she is the author of that or not, has GER
tainly said good many brighter things.
One of Mrs. Oliphants most striking one
volume stories-showiug, says The Academy.
her faculty for combining analysis of morbid
conditions with striking incident and careful
character -study-wi!l shortly appear in serial
form.
The family of Hacklander-'tbe German
Dickens'-have arranged with Herr Bacciocco,
the Viennese novelist. to edit the literary re-
mains of the deceased author. A manuscript
Romance of My Life is known to be among
his unpublished papers.
Magazine Notices.
st. Nicholas for October fitly closes up the
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