The Portland daily press., 1877-10-13
Notes aud Annsunceme nt..

Notes and Anneunceme nfs.
The (London) Academy, in announcing Mr..
Basard Taylor's forthcoming work on German
Literature, says: 'We have no one in England
at all comparable to Mr.. Taylor. in German,
and especially Schiller and Goethe, literature"
Titan is the subject of the first volume in
Osgood's series of Artist Biographies, pub
lished this week. 1t has been preparedl by
MIR. Sweetser, editor iof Osgood's guide-books,
and is crowded with information concerning the
great Venetian artist and his works.s
The November number of st. Nicholas is not
to fall whit behind its predecessors In interest
In its long list of attractions are included Tho
Lord Mayor of London's Show, INimble Jim
and the Magic Melon, fairy.story by Mr. ).
a. Judson, Molle's Boyhood, Homemade
Christmas Presents. The Baby's Opera, and
Chased by Wolves, story for boys.
Miss Phelps's new novel, The Story of Avis,
which Mr.. James 7. Fields praises with much
enthusiasm, will be published the 10th of this
month by j. r. Osgood & Co. 1t is considera-
bly, longer than her previous story, The Gates
Ajsr, which has had an American circulation
of nearly seventy thousand copies, and has
been translated into the leading European Ian
guages.
William Cullen Bryant, Longfellow aud Bay
ard Taylor have recently been elected honorary
members OF the Literary Academy of Athens,
which is under the special patronage of the
Queen of Greece.
In Scribners Monthly for November the Sc
ries of papers on outdoor sports will be still
further continued by paper on Canyas-Back
and Terrapin. by W. Mckay Laffan, and by
Colonel Warnings article, The Saddle-Horse:
Thoroughbreds and Arabians. Miss Trafton
continues her serial story, His Inheritance, and
Mr.. f. r. Stockton furnishes a sketch of Mas
sau. DR.. Eggleston's novel, Roxy, will replace
Nicholas Minturn, brought to an end in the
last number. Henry James, Jr., will be repre-
sented by short story, and John Burroughs
by A Bed of Boughs. A sketch by the Count
ess Potocks, and verses by Bret Harte and other
poets, are to be included in the number.
Mr.. Edmund Clarence Stedman, says the
New York Evening Post, has devoted SO much
of his time late years to critical work, that his
friends have had reason to fear that.in gaining
critic we had lost poet 1t will pleasantly
surprise some of them, therefore, to learn that
he has not abandoned creative for critical
work, but has new volume of poems In type
and ready for immediate publication at Os
goods. The book is called Hawthorne and
Other Poems, and, beginning with the poem on
Hawthorne, will include number of new mis-
csllaneous poems, which, there is every reason
to believe, will ftly represent the matured
powers of the poet
Two new English novels will appear in q
week or two. Hard to Bear, by Mrs. Mulock.
Craik, and Maud Leslie, by Lady Charles
Thyme
Charles Summers Life will be ready at Rob-
erts Brothers about the frstIof November. It
is already printed, with an additional chapter
added during the summer by Mr.. E. L. Pierce.
ID. Appleton &.Co. will soon issue The Hand
book of Winter Resorts, complete guide to all
winter resorts. 1t will be published uniform
with Handbook of Summer Resorts, and
Handbook of American Cities" The firm
will also lsoonlpublish volume of poems by
Mrs. Chambers-Ketchum, entitled iLotos Flow
ers, Gathered in Sun and Shadow.
That interesting and handsome work, Mrs
Lambs history of the city of New York "a. s.
Barnes & Co.. has reached its 18th number
and to the negro plot in the middle of the 18th
century. The famous trial of John Peter Zen
ger, newspaper publisher and editor for libel,
is described in this last part. This trial was
called ''the morning star of American liberty
Zengsr had published severe structures on per-
sons high in the government. The defen SO pu
in was that these were true, and no libel. Tho
Judge had to admit it. Andrew Hamilton, the
great Philadelphia advocate, made famous
argument, and the jury, against the Judge
charge, pronounced on the law as well as th
facts and acquitted Zenger.
Mr.. Carlyle does not like George Eliot He
says "She is neither amusing nor instructive,
but just dool. dool, doolp'
"A Book of Pottery and Porcelain" contain
ing numerous illustrations Of. every variety Of
ceramic ware from the earliest times to the
present, by Charles Wyllis Elliot, will shortly
be published by D. Appleton s. Co,
"rhe Tower of Percemont,' by George
Sand, will be the1 next issue in Appleton's
Collection of Foreign Authors.
Toward the last of the month s. @. Griggs
& Co. of Chicago will issue new work en-
titled "Echoes from Mist Land, being prose
reproduction of the famous "Nibelungen Lied.''
G. P. Putnam's Sons have started q seriest
be called the Spectacle ISeries. "The House
with Spectacles;'' Palsy" by the same author
and ''Six Sinners, by Wheaton Campbell are
the volumes thus far announced. This firm
will also issue for juvenile readers. The Wings
of Courage" by Marie Field.
The next book of the mo Name series,
''Will Denbigh, Nobleman," will appear from
the press of Roberts Brothers about the middle
of this month, and Mrs. NJ. W. Tileston's
''Sursum Corda." a collection of poems for the
sick and suffering, will be issued at the same
date. After 'Will .Denbigh", about the mid
die of November, will come in the same series,
Mirage" by the author Of ''Kismet''. Like
that, it will be novel founded upon story of
Syrian travel. Macmillan of London will pub
lish it simultaneously with its appearance here.