The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-08
LITERARY CHIT CHAT.

The French Academy Of Fine Arts has awarded the
prize for architecture TO N. FRANCOIS Bottle author
OF the tomb OF General dc Lamorciero
There Is Ia be printed an Photographic Voltair-
isnne" IN oommemoratou OF the century Of the great
writer In a sumptuously illustrated quarto volume.
Tho original manuscripts Of Schiller and Gosthe's
corrsspon dence successively refused at the
prico OF 200 halers by the royal libraries at Berlin
and At Munich. They finally bought by Gotta,
the publisher, to them from being broken up
going abroad, though they have been published
before.
The latest about William Tell is a iabored historical
book by X. L. Mailer prove The reality OF tho entire
tradition OF Tell and the liberation OF the three forest
cautions Of switserland
n. G. Hippian. who has already written insiruc-
tive books on public education In the United States
and other countries, has now issued "L'Instructon
PuDlique en- Russis.n
Captain A. IL Aarkham's ssGreat Frozen Sea."
being personal narrative OF the voyage Of the Alert
during the Arctic expedition OF 1856, on the
Of issue In London.
Tho sociastic press Of Germany now numbers no
less than sevsntyAve periodicals, with 1916 900 sub
scribsrG
!. is no. little funny that wheaton's great trea-
Else, "The Elements Of International Law" has just
appeared III Chinese and has been again reprinted In
London, while there Is not copy OF this Amercan
book TO BIO bought In America.
The trial OF Charles Bradlaueh and A. Besant has
boon issued IN book form by tho Free Thought Pub
lishtng Company Of London.
The June Contemporary Rsvieso contains Rev. Cur.
ran Farrar's reply 10 the criticisms on his book.
external Hope" by the recent future pun
ishmsn NJ In that periodical
The new publication Ia English OF "Sacred Texts;
or, the Bibles OF the Worlu." will embrace In the nrst
volume the upanishads aud aphorisms OF the Hndoos.
BY Professor Max Muller Professor B1hsr.
"rhs Native Flowers aud Ferns Of the United
States" illustrated by chromos and with descriptive
text by Thomas Meohan, OF Philadelphia, is being pub
lished in parts by l. Prang " Co.
DR.. H. X. ClarKe's posthumous work on DIVISIONS
ana Second Sight," . scicn tihc explanation OF ro-
marEabio phenomena which have leu tho belief in
ghosts, will be edited by DR.. o. w. Holmes Hougn-
ton, Osgood Co.
There mas appeared at Paris the report OF tho work.
ingmen's delegation TO tho Universal Exhibition At
PhiIadsphia IN 1876 the mechanical. Inventions
thore exhibited
Gladstone has written for Macmillans shilling series
Spinner Of Homer" which Is very complete and
compact guide to the foremost OF poets.
Mr. Van Laun, whose "uisiory OF French Litsra.
ture" and rausations OF MoliAro and other writer's
have made him well known, Is preparing tho History
ot Literary Exies in England"
That most extensive and laborious work on
conchology ever published, Lowell Reeves and Sow
erby's 'Concho.ogia Iconinca" has just been com.
psted 10 twenty quarto Volumes with 2, 700 colored
plates, figuring u, 600 species OF shells.
Mr.. Peter Baynes .Chief Actors in tho Puritan
Revolution" Is an ably written book, In which Crom-
well and vaae, Laad, Stafford and Clarendon appear
A. principal characters
An interesting and curious book Is signor Berto-
lotti's "Francisco Genet and His Family. printed In
Italian At Florence, which tells afresh the tragical
story Of the Genet, with some new evidence.