The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-20
LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.

supertendent OF our city schools, aud Alexander D..
Schem The articles have been, great measure,
trbuted by educators here and In Britain. many
OF whom we'll known. Works in English compre-
bending pedagogy and systems OF instruction in the
proper sense OF the term are. curiously enough un-
known, this being the FIRST book of the kind that has
appeared IN our tongue Although this cyclop9dia Is
designed principally for instructors and school egs
ators, with view TO the advancement OF
tho cause OF public education, other persons
Will probably take interest In the subjects
therein treated, which embrace the following
Topics: OF education, school economy,
The administration OF schools and school systems,
governmental policy in regard thereto, history OF edu
saiion biographical sketches OF prominent school
and benefactors OF educational Institutions educa
honal literature and statistics Though generally brief
tho articles comprehensive and concise essential
"details being retained All tho articles penned in
that mathematical clear and easy style noticeable
h educators and not dsaarecablo to the average
reader The systems Of belief and instruction, relig
Ious and secular, well the noted institutions Of
learning throughout the world described, and up
pended to the article each country and State Is
roview OF It's educational history. In many OF the
pages views expressed Indicative OF abored re-
search close attention to the workings of sys
TEN IN America. These opinions will repay perusal
and will be specially studied by teachers. The most
popular and essential OF the and sciences and
many questions in dispute, such corporal punish
mcnt and the UNCONVENTIONAL system Only noticed
Ready references can DO made to particular subject
by the ard OF analytical index at the end of the
book
Nine. Patterson. Bonapartc, tho romance of whose
lite exceeds anything fiction, is tho subject of
sketch in the September LppincoA This remarkable
lady is still living Baltimore at the age ninety
I've, and is az full of her wrongs to-day she was
American woman who has the reputation OF
Nine. Patterson b napnrte for beauty and w.t. The
know Of her the greater contempt for her
Wcaklng OF husband, and heartily sympathize
with her reply to bis protest against accepting aid
from Napoleon while she rejected his own. II prefer
shelter beneath tho wing OF the eagc said she 'to
suspension from the pinion OF goose
The advice Of the critics to Bret Harte: $50 and
(Ah) Sin no more"
In that happy thought of the Atlantic Monthly "The
Contributors Club" every has crack at his
neigh6or without being found out There is little
article In the September number OF that magazine
|Unequal Marriages in Fiction" that IS worth think
ing at any rate, while what the writer says
Of dialect in novels is very silly. Mr.. Whippe's
article Dickens. "Great Expectations recalls that
delightful book wildly to the reader, and makes him
realize for the thousandth time the loss he and all the
world beside have sustained in the great masters
death. No more Little Neils, more 10 Gargerys no
more Lady Dedlocks, more Silas Weegs more
Christmas stories with their odor OF plum puddings
and roast goose-no more that is new from Dickens
Except the old.
.Bohu's Standard Library'' is among the blessings
Sf the nineteenth century Camoens' "Luslad, " with
, life OF tho poet is among its recent additions.
Bohn's Artist Library" is another blessing In II he
gives us Leonardo da vinc's Treatise Painting"
with life Of the artist and account OF his works
by John William Brown. Before Bonn came to the
rescue this valuable work was beyond the means Of
any but rich men. Now the poor may buy it,
Under the title OF domestic Explosions and Other
Sixth Column Faucics'' Mr. W. l. Alden has given us
his contributions TO the New York Times There is
great deal Of quiet fun In the book, which highly
appreciated in its newspaper form. Mr. Alden's eva
garics Of Journalist deserve the dignity OF bind.
ing moro than great many newspaper articles We
wot Of
Mrs Laura 8. Webb Richards formerly editor OF the
Western Sun and a literary lady we'll known in the
South and West, proposes Issuing newspaper called
the Patriot about the LIST OF September Tho Patriot
will not be woman's rights paper In the ordinary
rcptation of that term, but will be, as its i'm
Plies promugator OF the glorious principles Of
American patriotism.
Salie Mclean, the authorcss whose striking figure
is one OF the familiar to the requenters of Sara
toga, in town last week with a bundle OF manu.
scripts under her arm.
Albert Rhodes discusses the temperance question
In the September GALAXY. He thinks that good wine
at low price will do as much anything else to
lessen drunkenness. Henry James, Jr, writes of
sThree Excursions" in which article he finds himself
homo in descriptions Of English scenery, OF which.
NO other writer has given better idea.
Richard Grant White contributes article on
"Amercanisms" in true Grant Whtean style. Mr..
White has just enough OF the Pharsee in his compost
ton to mako us feel that no is thnk,r~. Lord, I
thank Thee that not like other n!'' whether
he says It or not
Lord Houghton publishes defence of the au,hen-
ITCHY OF the Keats letters, published in tho World,
which has been questioned by English periods
Gals.
The discovery OF tho correspondence between Goethe
and Marcnne wlemer will settle tho claims OF
.sulcka" to many OF the poems known by that name.
Tho volume of these letters has beon published in
Stuttgart.
Cassell Peter Galpn are about to publish cheap
edition Of "Burnaby's Ride to Khiva."
An autograph letter by Shelley to his publisher,
directing the framing OF portrait of BY ron, was
Gently purchased in london by Mr. Sabin, OF this city,
for e. another letter by the also purchased
by Mr. Sabn for f13 15s An autograph sonnet by
Keats brought IS 15s
Ward, Lock Tyler, London publishers, occupy
column OF tho AhenDum's fine type in pitching into
SIR Habberon for objccting to have his works
prated They think that might makes right. and not
pny believe IN appropratng authors brains but in
dancing a war dance OF victory in his very teeth.
There is no International copyright law, so what
you going to do about the burden OF thor song
Berthold Auerbach has just put the finishing touches
10 novel which is describe the socialistc tcndcn
sizes OF the age 1t will first appear as serial IN the
columns OF a newspaper.
NM Erckmann. Chatrian have astonshcd Paris by
polishing letter in the Temps, In which they au-
shor,ze any all French papers TO publish their novel
VI Gaspard Fix. the History OF False Conservation,
without recommending tho authora
D. Appleton q Co havc just reprinted ''Peters' Gen.
nal History OF Connecticut" with notes and additions