The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-03
AUTHORS AND PUBLICATIONS.

Hawthorne's quaint "House of the Seven
Gables at Salem is about to be sold.
Sir Walters Scott's niece, Miss Annie
Rutherford Scott, died on the 11th ult. at
the age of seVenty-seven.
A new edition of Macintosh's Gaelic
Proverbs" by Sheriff Nicolson, is in press,
and will shortly be published.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes is making
visit to New York-hs first for q good
while. He is the guest of Mrs. John Jacob
Astor.
D. Appleton & Co. have in press 1.-THE
Historical Poetry of the Ancient Hebrews,
Translated and Critically Examined by
NJ. Heilprin.
Miss Susan Hale contributes an original
drama, Beauty and the Beast" to Mrs.
| Lizzie w. Champney's Volume of Enter
tainnents, now nearly ready at D. Lothrop
& Co.'s
Mr.. Wendell Phillips says of Mr. Mil
more's new bust of Ralph Waldo Emerson
that it is serene, but full of force, with Just
| that suspicion of smile which always
| fingers round EmersOn's mouth, and sol
tens the vigorous whole Of Y head tit to
hold that marvellous genius.
Thoughts on the Religious Life" by
Joseph Allen, DID, LID, will be fund
suggestive and full of earnest thought upon
spiritual topics. 1t has an introduction by
William Cullen Bryant, and in an appendix
the author gives his views on Mr.. Bryants
religious character. G. p. Putnams Sons
New York
"Dournof," Russian story, by Henry
Greville, is full of entertaining character
sketches and graphic delineations of Rus
sian life 1t is equal to most of the authors
previous novels, and has been well trans
lated by Marie Stewart T. B. Peterson &
Bro, Philadelphia. For sale by Robt
Clarke q Co., and all booksellers.
"Tessa Wadsworths Discipline" by Jen-
ME NJ. Drinkwater, is an interesting story,
pervaded, like the authors previous works,
with Il high moral purpose. 1t is book
that will be read with interest, on account
of its natural delineations of character and
simple easy style. Published by Robert
Carter q Brothers, New York.
A concise account of the natural products
Of the country is given in J. Harris Patton S
Natural Resources Of the United States.
1t is intended for Use either as textbook,
questions being added for the use of pu,
pills, or for the general reader 1t is well
adapted to increase the not too extensive
stock of knowledge which most people pos
SeSs of their cOuntry's vast natural wealth.
Published by D. Appleton q Co., New
York.
"High-water Mark, by Ferris Jerome, is
a novel of Western social life, containing
some strong situations and well-conceived
studies of character 1t is written in free
sketchy vein, and depicts, with much nat.
urnlness some phases of life in small vii
lage community, which will readily be rec
ognized. There is, at times the tendency
to unduly accentuate salient individual.
ties, which few but really lrst-cass writers
are able wholly to avoid, 1t is Il novel OF
considerably more t.ian average merit
Published by j. b. Lippincott & Co., Phila
r delphia
"If | have any ambition" wrote Bayard
Taylor to an acquaintance more than
twenty years ago. lit is not to make myself
notorious, but to live as rich and ample a
, life-tO en- Joy as large store of experience
/ as this earth can furnish. The only things
| really value for their own sake, among all
my writings, are my poems, and they are
perhaps of little value to others. Great
popularity in book is as often sign Of
mediOcrity as of excellence and thus ar
authors success may sometimes huniliate
rather than exalt him, in his own mind"
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has been giving
reading with Madame Ristori i'll Rome fo
the benefit of the Gould Home. The read
ing was from Mare Stuart" Ristori tax
ing the chief part in English, with many
gestures and emphatic defamation. Al
for Mrs Howe, an enthusiastic auditor say
that she read her part OF Elizabeth "sc
]. beautifully, with such exquisite enuncia
S ton, so much Of regal hauteur and so littl,
seeming of physical effort to express til,
strong passions of the lion-hearted queen
+ that one would have thought she had tn,
soul of the fiery Tudor herself within he
slender frame"
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