Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-18
LITERARY NOTES.

Or Fioude's Cesar" the Tmes, OF
London, says: "Such as it is, and with
all its defects, il brings the greatest OF
Romans extraordinarily close to us.
Whether il be praise or blame to say it,
never has antiquity been made more
modern"
The first edition OF 1.-THE Life and
Epoch of Alexander Hamilton" by
Chief-Justice Shea, being all sold, new
one, revised and enlarged, will be pub
lished in a few days. The work is being
translated into French by the Margins
Tallevrand-P erigord, and will be pub
lished in that language in Paris.
BRgSTASo has received the current
numbers Of Punch, The Graphic London,
Illustrated London NeVs and the weekly
edition OF The TINS, Of London. In this
number OF The Graphic representation
is given OF the design for a secretary
which il is proposed TO make from the
timbers OF the old Arctic ship, Resolute,
for presentation by the British Govern
ment 10 the President OF the United
States.
HENRY HoLT & Co., say the first edi-
ton of Mr.. Champlin's encyclopaedia Of
Common Things" is so nearly exhausted
that a second and larger edition is al
ready in press. The book has been out
fortnight. The volume OF selections
from the letters and writings OF Hector
Berlioz, recently announced as in press,
will be ready in few days so, also,
will Rydburg's Magic of Middle Ages.
The sale of Marion Harland's cook
books has been phenomenal. At the
Trade Sale thousand copies were taken
by a single dealer but these books have
long been known for their popularity.
OF the first one, Common Sense in the
Household" over 100000 copies have
been sold, and the book has been only
eight years in print. OF the Break
fast. Luncheon and Tea" published in
1873, the sale has been between 10000
and 25,0O0. Her new work, the dim
ner Year Book" which came out year
ago, has taken a start which promises to
make il worthy Of companiOnship with
the two others.
BAYARd TAYLoR's work on German lit
erature will be ready at q. p. Putnams
Sons near the end of this week. This
house will publish at the same time a
new translation of Moliere's works by
c. III. Wall, Charles Francis Adams
Railroad Accidents" and a work by
w. +. Rae, called Columbia and Cana
da," being notes on "The Great Repub-
lie and the New Dominion" A new
novel by the author OF THE Leaven-
worth Case" is announced but the date
OF publication will be later. 1t is ex-
pected that the third volume of Moses
Colt Tvler's American Literature" will
be ready in the spring.
Mr.. T.. c. STEDMAN contributes to the
coming number of ScribHer the first part
OF his critique OF Bayard Taylor's po-
etry and literary career, involving also
the consideration Of other American
literature before the war. In connec-
ton with this article, the magazine will
have two large portraits OF Bayard Tay-
lor, printed as a double frontispiece :
One cut by Jueiling OF Cornell Memoir
ial bass-relief by O'Donovan the other
an engraving by Cole from the last pho
tograph OF Mr.. Taylor, taken in Amer
lea. and the one best liked by himself
and family. This article is the opening
one Of a series OF critical essays on
American poetry which, when COM
pleted, will make companion volume
! TO the authors "Nictorian Poets"
SOME time before Christmas Charles
Scribners' Sons will publish Miss Geor-
gina Hogarth's volume of selections
from the Correspondence of Charles
Dickens These letters will be entire
" new. Mr.. Forster, it is understood,
used none OF them in his Life OF Dick.
ems" in November the house will issue
an adoption to the minds OF boys Of
Froissarts CHRONICLES" which has
been made by Sidney Lanicr. This IA
nous work has so long been used by
story-tcllers as the basis of supplies for
their tales of knightly prowess and
heroic deeds in battle, that an edition Of
it, specially designed for boys and illus
trated with spirited pictures, is sure to
have a wide welcome,
PROFESSOR HIRAM CoRsoN, OF Cornell
University, has been engaged by the
! ChauCer Society OF London to edit the
! Glossarial Concordance 20 Chaucer' S
works, now in preparation under the
! direction OF that society. Ii the present
scheme be fully carried out, this Con-
cordance promises to be the most COM
plete work Of the kind yet prepared for
any author, not excepting Shakespeare
and the Greek aud Latin Classics. Ii
is hoped the work will be ready for the
prosS 1881 or 1882. Professor Corson
has just gnished IAN Index of Proper
Names and Subjects to Chaucer's Can
terburry Tales, based on the Elesmere
Ms. 1t will be published this Fall by
the Chaucer of London. He has also
undertaken to prepare similar index
to the minoa poems OF Chaucer. The
long promised edition OF Chaucer's poet
zeal works, which is TO complete the
| Riverside Edition OF the British Poets,
will be ready a week from to-day at
Houghton, Osgood d Co.'S. 1t has been
edited by Arthur Gilman, who contrib
utes also memoir of Chaucer. He has
embodied in the text and notes OF these
volumes not only his only his own
labors, which extend over several years,
but the fruits Of the Chaucer Society
labors, and it is believed that his edition