The New York herald., 1878-01-13
LITERARY CHIT CHAT.

Professor j. S. BIackie's ''Wiso sIcn OF Greece
gives he reader thorough tastc Of tho Crock phios
ophers.
The London Fublishers Circular offers this consola
tion 10 the depressed book trade. that "Ths best
books have the largest they always have tho most
enduring circulation"
A new translation (makIng about the twenty fifth
In Engsh) OF "Dante's lnterno,"is just printed in
London under the title of "Thc Vision OF HcII," by
c. Toinlinson.
Or. Charles Letornonce's Biology s nearly ready
from the press OF J. b. Lippncott Co.
The new book on Mont Blanc, by viollet-le-Duc
describes with scientific precision the mechanical
forces work in the formation Of the SWISS moun-
tans and does justice to the whole tribe OF Alpine
explorers
The Saturday Reriew finds IN "Chcrry Rpc!" tho
new novel Of IL popular lady novelist Miss Helen
Mathers, a great deal of that "maudlin, unhealthy
sentiment which the book itself denounccs.
The Frcnch balloonist, CASTOR Tissandier, has
printed book OF great interest and value, entitled
'Hisory Of My Ascensons the Story OF Twenty -four
Aerial Voyages" The authors personal experiences
military balloonng in the Franco -prussian
extremely interesting.
The Saturday Rereic styles Mr.. Jamcs Parton book
on .Caricature and other Comic Art" "onc Of those
prctentious specimens OF book making rathor than
authorship. which not common in the United
States as In England"
Under tho ianciul titlo OF "The Grcat Thirst
Land" Captain Parker Gilmore Cassell's London
press account oil his ride through Transvaal tho
Orange Free States and Natal, IN South Africa
careful monograph on Eastern Turkcstan. with a
fine original map OF that little known part OF Asia,
has just appeared in Petermann's MitMc,tungen.
The third and last volume Of "Stubbs Constitu-
tona History of Englaud'' will be published in Feb.
ruary by Macmillan Il Co.
The seventh volume Of the new "Encyclopcdia
Britannica has elaborate papers on 'Domonology"
by DR.. f. p. Taylor. drawing by T. G. Hamerton.
"a History of the Honorable Artillery Company"
tho most anccnt corps in England, has boon written
by Captain Rakes Itgocs back to 1887.
The fund for erecting the Burns statue at Kilmar
mock, has reached upward of So 900. and number
of competing modols Tor tho statue have been re-
ceived.
Herr Rohls is now organizing an expedition for the
exploration Of the Eastern Sahara Tripoli will be the
headquarters Of the expedition, and 1T viii explore
the mysterious OF wajunga and Kuiara, hitherto
untrodden by any European traveller.
"The Bird World, Described with Pen and Pencil -
bv W. H. Davenport Adams, Is u prettily illustrated
book on tho feathered tribes just by T. Nelson
& sons London and New York
..uriental Tales, " by tho Comts de Gobneau will be
the sixth and next novel In Appeton's collection OF
foreign authors.
The Norh american Reuieo will hereafter be pub.
lshcd every other month, six times year. instead
three times, heretoloro The removal OF the seat
of publication OF this periodical from Boston to
New YORK is only another link in tho chain OF
dence which proves that this city Is tho literary
we'll as tho commercial centre Of the country.