The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-14
LITERARY GOSSIP.

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The latest book of Alphonso Karr is en-
titled "En Demande trs Tyan."
N. Langel has printed little book ON
Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell
The opening of public libraries on Sundays
is one of the rising social questions in Eng
land.
Mr. f. p Devices, q lawyer of Pennsyl-
vania, has written The History of the Molly
Maguires."
Bret Harte's California tales continue to
be highly popular IT. Paris in their French
translations.
An edition of Prince Bismarck's speeches
has been published in six volumes in the
French language.
Ex-President Woolsey, of New Haven, ex-
poets to finish his Political Philosophy"
for publication early in the spring.
Bjornstisrne Blornson has lately finished,
and proposes soon to publish, new novel
named "Magnbild," after the heroine.
The Publishers Circular, of London, gives
the total number of new books published in
Great Britain in 1876 at 4,sSS, against ,S54
in 1875.
Michaud's "Hstoire des Croisdrds" has Just
been completed in two folio volumes at the
price of $50 francs.
Eminent Jews Of the Time" is the title of
a forthcoming series of biographical sketches
by Mr.. Adolphus Rosenberg, confined to
Anglo-Jewish characters.
Mr.. Bayard Taylor is writing art criticisms
for the Tribune. Mr.. Taylor is good book
reviewer, a great traveller, clever poet, a
writer of vigorous prose and an accomplished
linguist, but he is not great art critic.
The American Bookseller for January says
there has been marked reduction in the
prices of books during the year and it thinks
this reduction in the case of new books can
not go much further, as the sales of most are
limited to small editions.
A number of very interesting old manu-
scripts, supposed to be written by some
monk of the Solovetsk monastery near
Archangel, and said to throw new light
upon the history of the religious sects of
Russia, were recently found by a Russian
antiquary in one of the bOok-stalls at st. Pc
tersburg.
Cardinal Manning will contribute to the
Nineteenth Century series of papers from
original sources, to be called 1.-The True
Story of the Vatican Council" The first pa
per will appear in the March number of the
review. 1t is also said that a monthly no
tice of Recent Science" the materials for
which will be first submitted to Prof. Hux-
ley, will appear in the same review.
The London Athenaum thinks thai the fol-
lowing sentence from a recent article by Mr.
Gladstone in the Church Quarterly Review
may be safely pronounced worthy of preser-
walton in works upon the English language
rs ahor of I'm
sions of metaphor than were ever before
crowded into the same number of lines:
His balloon, even after careering wildly in
the fields of air, always managed, when
alighting on the earth to find its way home"
According to statistics of the book trade,
just published at Leipzig the number of
new publications in Germany during 1876
was 13, 1856; that is, $40 more than in the pre-
vious year. An increase is chiefly remark
able in works referring to public instruc-
ton, jurisprudence, and politics. Theologi-
cal literature has steadily decreased of late.
During the war of 1901 literary production
had shown falling off; but Immediately af-
terward it rose rapidly again, and is now, in
spite of the troublous times, more flourish
ing than ever.
Mr.. William l.. Alden, the humorous
writer of the New York Times has surren-
dered himself at discretion, says New York
correspondent, to the book publisher. He
couldn't hold out against the wiles of the
publisher aforesaid when they took the form
of certified bank checks. And Mr.. Alden
has carefully revised and edited a volume of
the numerous articles which have contrib
uted so much to the popularity and circu-
lation of the Times for year past. He calls
the volume Domestic Explosives" proba-
bly, because he expects it to go off, and it can
hardly help having large sale. The humor
is of that intellectual and literary order that
appeals to the fancy and plays about the
edges of the sense of the ludicrous, and
pleases more by its delicacy and illusiveness
than the coarser pen which has been so much
in vogue of late. The book will be issued by
Lowell, Adams & Wesser, new publishing
firm from Canada just established in New
York.