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


supertendent OF our city Schools and Alexander J.
schem. The articles have bcen In great measure
trbuted by educators and In Great Britain many
Of whom are we'll known. Works in English comprc
bending pedagogy and systems OF instruction the
proper sense OF the term are, curously enough, un
known, this being the first book of kind that has
appeared IN our tongue. Although this cyclopnda is
designed principally instructors and school iegis
lators, 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
lopics:-rheory OF education, school economy,
The administration OF schools and school systems,
governmental policy regard thereto history OF edu
saon, biographical sketches OF prominent school men
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 so noticeable
n educators and not disagrecabc to the average
reader The systems OF belief and instruction, relig
and secular, well the noted institutions Of
learning throughout the world described, and ap
pended to the article each country and State Is
roview OF It's educational history. In many OF the
pages views expressed Indicative OF labored re-
search and close to the workings of sys
TEN IN America. These opinions will repay perusal
md will be specially studied by teachers Tho most
popular and essential OF the and sciences and
many questions in dispute, such corporal punish
ment aud the UNCONVENTIONAL system duly
Ready references DO made to particular subject
by the ard OF analytical index the end OF the
book.
Nine. Patterson. Bonaparte, the romance Of whose
lite exceeds anything in fiction, is tho subject of
sketch in the September LippincoA This remarkable
lady is still living in Baltimore at the age OF ninety
n. c,Il~c
seventy years ago, whom they fresh. There is
American who has the reputation OF
Nine. Patterson. onaparte for beauty and wilt. The
know Of her the greater contempt for her
Weakling Of husband, and VIC heartily sympathize
with her reply to his protest against accepting aid
from Napoleon while she rejected his own. II prefer
shelter beneath tho wing of the eagle" said she to
suspension from the pinon Of goose"
The advice Of the critics to Bret Harte:-"Go and
(Ah) Sin more.''
In that happy thought Of tho Atlantic Monthly, 'The
Contributors Club" every one has crack at his
neighbor without being found There is little
article In tho September number of that magazine
1Unequal Marriages in Fiction" that is worth think
ing over at any rate while what the says
Of dialect in novels is very silly Mr.. Whipple's
article ON 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 Nells, 10 Gargerys, no
more Lady Dedlocks, no moro siias Wccgs, no more
Christmas stories, with their odor Of plum puddings
and roast goose-no more that is new from Dickens
Except the old.
s.Bohn's Standard Library IL among the blessings
Of the nineteenth century. Camoens' "Lusad," with
, life OF tho poet, is among its recent additions.
.'Bohns Artist Library" is another blessing In it he
gives us Leonardo da vincis Treatise Painting"
with life OF the artist and account OF his works
by John William Brown. Before BONN came to the
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 Fancics'' Mr.. W. 1. Alden has given
his contributions TO the New York Times. There is
great deal Of quiet fun In the book which highly
appreciated in It's newspaper form. Mr.. Alden's eva
carries Of journalist deserve the dignity OF bind
ing moro than a great many newspaper articles we
'wot Of
Mrs Laura s. Webb Richards. formerly editor OF the
Western Sun and literary lady we'll known in the
South and West proposes Issuing newspaper called
the Patriot the LIST OF September. Tho Patriot
will be a woman's rights paper In the ordinary
rcptation of that term, but will be, its i'm.
plses 1.-The promulgator OF the glorious principles OF
American patriotism. 2"
Sallie Mclean, the authorcss, whose striking figure
is ono OF the most familiar frequenters of Sara
toga, was In town last week with 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 much anything else to
lessen drunkenness. Henry James, Jr., writes of
s.Three Excursions which article he finds himself
at home in descriptions of English scenery, OF which
no other writer has given better idea.
Richard Grant White contributes article
ssAmericanisms' in true Grant Whtean style. Mr.
White has just enough OF the Pharsee in his compost
ton to make feel that no is thnk,r-. Lord,
thank Thee that not ike other !" whether
he says It OF not
Lord Houghton publishes defence of the au,hcn-
tcity OF the Keats letters, published in tho World,
which has been questioned by some English period.
cals
The discovery Of tho correspondence between Goethe
and Maricnne Won wcmcr will settle tho claims OF
.sulcika" many OF the poems known by that name.
Tho volume of these letters has beon published in
Stuttgart.
Cassell Peter Il Galpan about to publish cheap
edition Of "Burnaby's Ride to Kbiva."
An autograph letter by Shelley to his publisher
directing the framing OF portrait Of Byron, was
Gently purchased In London by Dir. Sabin, of this city,
for f2 another letter by the also purchased
by Mr. sabn for ELS los. An autograph sonnet by
Keats brought IS l5s
ward, Lock Il Tyler London publishers, occupy n
column OF tho AhenGum's fine type in pitching into
Mr Habberion for objccting to have his works
prated They think that might makes right. and not
Dny believe IN appropratng authors brains but in
uaucing a war dance Of victory in his very teeth.
There is no International copyright law, so what
you going to DO about IL the burden OF thor song
Berthold Auerbach has just put the finishing touches
20 novel which is 70 describe the socialistc tcndcn
sizes OF the age 1t will first appear as seris IN the
columns OF newspaper
MI Erckmann. Chatrian have astonshcd Paris by
puolishiug letter in the Temps, in which they au.
sbor,ze any or all French papers publish their novel
VI Gaspard FIX the History OF False Conservation"
without remunerating the authors
D. Appleton Co. have just reprinted "Petcrs' Gen.
ra History OF Connecticut" with notes and additions