The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-27
LITERARY CHIT CHAT.


Typography. it is something to be proud of.
LITERARY CHIT CHAT.
An English edition Of the American Sunday School
Times will be issued in London.
chronicles of Nolnansand' is the title of the
third series of camp notes of Mr.. +. Boyle which
will shortly be issued by Mossrs. Chapman & Hall,
London.
The Nation says " .Haworths does not amount
to much" BY the way. Canadian publisher is try
ing to sell pirated edition OF this popular story
out West.
Under the title OF Before and After the War" the
publishing firm of Brockaus at Lepsic has just is
sued another volume Russia. by the author OF
Pictures from st. Petersburg Society"
Appleton & Co. have published Christie john
stone" in their new handy volume series. By many
people this is considered Charles Reades best story
Certainly ho never wrote anything better.
The centenary Of tho Danish poet Oehenschlager's
birthday IS to be celebrated with great honors the
14th OF November at Copenhagen His actual birth
place at Fredericksburg, about twenty miles dis
tant from tho capital.
NM. Charpentier OF Paris. have just published a
volume by Masseras entitled "Un Essai d'Empire
au Mcxiquo." The part devoted to the events which
followed the evacuation of the French army is par
ticularly instructive.
'OutllneS OF Logic, ny D. H. Ulinore, A. Ms pro-
fessor Of logic. rhetoric and English in the Uni
versity of Rochester appleton Co.. is a useful
primer and fairly up to the latest notifications in
the branches Of mental science it elucidates.
lessons from the Greek Lyric Poets with an
historical introduction and explanatory notes (Gnn
Il HEATH Boston). by Henry NJ. Tyler professor Of
Greek and Latin in Smith College. Northampton.
Mass. is useful little work designed for academic
and collegiate use. The author acknowledges his
indebtedness to Professor Buchoz another proof OF
our obligations to German scholarship.
w. j. Middleton will publish O'Mearas Napoleon
! in Exile; or, Voice from st. Helena" with por-
trait Of Napoleon, after the celebrated picture Of
Dearoche. and view of st. Helena. during the pres
ent month. In November he will publish memoirs
| of the Life Exile and Conversations Of tho Empe-
ror Napoleon" by the Count de Las Casas. Both
OF these books have been long out Of print in
America.
| Bayard Taylor named after James A. Bayard.
| OF Delaware. grandfather Of the present Senator.
Mr.. Stedman authority for the statement that he
prefxed the initial 81" in signing his youthful
pieces. thinking it would look better" Griswold
| put Games Bayard" on the title page of his first
book. On his twenty-frst birthday Taylor resumed
his original signature. "Bayard." without any ~
| which he never changed.
The Aaenaum says that Messrs. Black wood will
Breviary. which Lord Butte has been ngaged for
nearly nine years. The Marquis says in preface
that his aim has been to open the English reader
the whole prayer of the Church-to reflect the ideas
| Of the Latin in the best English he command.
The Lothian OF Dsraelis novel has evidently not
| yet taken the return track to Professionalism.
"Tyrol and the Skirt OF the Alps" by George
waring, Jr. (Harper Bros.) is the title of hand
| someiy printed volume composed of o series Of
illustrations with descriptive letterpress which APP
| peared in several successive numbers of Hdrper's
Magazine this year. Those who have these finely
flushed drawings presented in the very best style of
wood engraving they originally appeared will
need no recommendation to thom in their present
shape. Those who have not. and who take any in
terest in the picturesque land they portray will find
| them of great value.
| The Aaieseum hearucssly makes light of an Eng
lish poet digit, Hyde Parker Itdoes not think this
description of young lady's back hair worth pub
lishing:-
Locks that John chgSCs inventive dreaming
| That most excrucating part of all.
Furthermore, it Is shocked to think that man
who translates Chinese poetry should think the fol-
lowing is English verse;
The matron shocked at her husbands duplicity
Carried ON for eleven years with an unrgiled brow;
And never suspected his guilt until now.
The celebrated German author and poet, Friedrich
Won Bodenstedt is expected the Herder about tho
2Sth in company with the Shakesrearean tragedian
Neville Moritz. Among great number of poetcal
and prose works of the highest order Bodenstedt IN
best known by his "Liedcr of Mira Schaffy, which
have been translated into European and Oriental
languages He was born the odd OF April, 1919. in
Hanover. At the age of twenty-one he became
tutor of the Prince OF Galizn. few years
later he visited the Orient especially Ar
menia, Caucasia. and. crossing tho Black Sea-
he traversed the Crimea. Turkey. Asia Minor
and the Ionian Islands, whence he returned to
Germany. During this period he wrote the 'One
Thousand and One Days in the ORIENT 1.-THE Intro
duction of Christianity In Armenia" and many other
works of diverse nature. In 1853 he accepted an in
vitation of the Duke of Gotha to take up his resi-
Bavaria appointed him professor of the University of
Munich where he held the department of old English
literature In 1866 he received tho call of tho Duke
of Meiningen to reorganze the Court Theatre and
succeeded admirably. Bodenstcdt is further known
as an excellent Shakespearean his German rendering
of shakespeare's dramatic works. well as also
translationor rather transfusion-of shakespeare's
osonnets" are highly priced. The poet intends to
deliver lectures and readings in conjunction with
his friend. Neville Moriz.
NEW BOOKS RECEIVED.
La Nouvole Alfalfa; GU. La File de LEsprit Legendo
prin,crie du Propagahtr Catholiouc.
Lectures the RcAsonabeness of Christianity and tho
II. Vaughan, Archbishop of sydney. John D. Pic, pub
History Of tho Rise of the Hugucnots of France By
Henry NJ. Baird. vols. Charles Scribner's Sons,