The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-24
AUTHORS AND PUBLICATIONS.

published In book form by ID. Appleton
DR.. B. Joy Jefries' work on color
blindness is highly praised by English
critics. .I .-
The London literary journals are now
discussing Millions mother and grand
mother.
Miss C0lenso, a daughter of the Bishop
of Natal, is writing a history of the
Zulu war. .ru.
''The Bows Froissart," edited by Sid
ney Lanier, is one of the best gift-books
of the season.
Mr.. Leavitt Hunt, a brother of the
late VIM. H. Hunt, will write life Of
that distinguished artist.
Porter & Coates have second edition
of Ethel Lynn Beers "All Quiet Along
the Potomac" in press.
,Lippincott & Co. have in press vol
ume of poems by w. H. Babcock entitled
Lord Sterling's Stand"
d. Appleton & Co. have added "Viy-
ian, the Beauty" by Annie Elwardes, to
their Handy Volume Series.
Iippincott's Magazine for 1880 will
have serial called "Adam and Eve" by
the author Of dorothy Fox"
Thomas Hughes, author of "Tom
Brown at Rugby" ETC., will shortly pub
lish new book, entitled "The Manliness
of Christ"
Mr. J. w. Bouton, of New York, is is
suing 'IArt," without the large etch-
ings, at 50 80 per volume. All other IL
lustrations are retained.
"The Magazine of Art" for October has
highly eulogistic article upon w. W.,
Story in the triple character of lawyer,
author and scul ulptor.
The recent gossip in regard to Miss
Mary Sprague, author of "An Earnest
TriAer," is mostly the invention of an en-
terprising correspondent.
The Letters of Charles Dickens, to
be published by Charles Scribner's Sons
on Monday next, are said to give a new
revelation of the novelist.
Prof. Symonds' "Studies from Great
Poets," will shortly be published by Har-
per & Bros. The next play in Rolfe's
Shakespeare series will be "The Winters
Tale"
Mr.. Louis Ventura, an Italian gentle
man living in New York, has written u
novel dealing with American life, which
will appear in the Florence "Gazetta
dItalia." )"
Messrs. Lee & Shepard will soon pub
lish "Camps in the Carribees," by Fred.
A. Ober. 1t will be handsomely illus
trated. and there are many interesting
bits of description.
Camoens, the chief of Portuguese poets,
died three hundred years ago next August
1t is proposed to purchase the house in
Lisbon, where he resided, and to pre-
serve it as a national monument.
"The Light of Asia," was written by
Mr. Edwin Arnold in single twelve
month, while the author was editor-in-
chief of the London Telegraph. Five
editions have heen sold in this country
and in England.
The Academy thinks that Mr.. Ross
Neil, who has recently published vol
ume of plays in London, is "the born
ideal playwright who is to retrieve the
failures of our modern makers that
have yentured on dramatic poetry"
Roberts Bros. will soon publish "Aloha,"
book of travel in the Sandwich Islands,
by G. l.. Chanes; "Stories of the War;"
by Rev. E. E. Hale; "The Faith Of Rea-
son." by Rev. John Chadwick; and
"Causerie," culled from the columns of
the Transcript.
Witty Mrs. Thrale, whom Samuel
johnson nearly a century since sneered
at so brutally for marrying an Italian
music master named Piozzi, and who 10
effectually replied to the great sesquipe-
dalian, reappears in type through bun
die of unpublished letters, of which the
ACADEMY" prints some extracts.
Firmin, Didot & Gle. have Just pub.
lished in Paris another of M. Paul Lac
roix's invaluable works upon Gallo man
ners and customs, entitled the "Dixsep-
time Siecle." 1t has over $50 illustra-
tions, and affords picture of French So
ciety which could be obtained only by
careful study. The work will doubtless
be translated. ...a.
NJ. Ernest Renan, in his new volume
"L'Eglise Chretienne," says of the En-
peror Adrian: "He was man of equiv
ocal morality, but he was a great sover-
eign. Spiritual, intelligent, and curious,
he had greater breadth of mind than
any previous Caesar. He was the Roman
emperor who created the most. His ad-
ministrative capacity was enormous"
Messrs. Houghton, Osgood & Co. pub
lish to-day the next volume Of poems by
Mrs S. NJ. B. Piatt, entitled dramatic
Moods and Persons" and also "Her
Lovers Friend, and other Poems," by
Nora Perry, consisting of ballads, songs
and vers de societe. At the same date
will appear a new holiday edition Of
"Pilgrim's Progress" "Selections from
the Koran" and "The Princeton Book,
the latter a history of Princeton College,
uniform with "The Harvard Book"