The Portland daily press., 1879-09-20
Literary Notes.
Programme of the Publishers.

Programme OF the PuDliSnerS.
Charles Scribner's Sons begin the fall with
run on Mrs Burnett's new novel of Haworth's,
of which the first large edition was exhausted
by first orders. Mr.. Gladstone's Gleanings of
Past Years is completed by the issues Of the
fifth and sixth volumes, devoted to Ecclesias-
teal writings and the seventh. containing his
Miscellaneous papers. Into the last his recent
paper on The Evangelical Movement has been
inserted. There is just ready also, a new
issue of the Memoirs Of Sargent S. Prentiss,
the Mississippi orator and statesman, by his
brother, Rev. Dr. George l.. Prentiss.
Harper & Brothers will add to their cheap
editions of the historians, already numbering
Macaulay, Hume and Motley, Hildreth's His
tory of the United States, and later in the fall
Gibbons great work An elaborate work on
The Telephones Nthe Microphonc and the Pho
nograph from the French of the Count du
Moncel, fully illustrated, will be scientifically
notable. Among carly English reprints of
literary works will be Studios of the Greek
Poets, by John Addington Symonds, revised
and rearranged by him; and Peter Paynes
Lessons from my Masters: Carlyle, Tennyson
and Ruskin, whose critical interpretations of
those writers have called forth marked atten-
tion in England. In the English Men of Let
ters Milton, by Mark Pattison, will be the
next issue. But the strength of this house will
be chiefly shown in its old field of finely illus
trated books of travel. The most notable of
them will be Paul Du Chaillu's report OF his
travels in Scandinavia, which will fill two
illustrated volumes under the title OF The Land
of the Midnight Sun. This will be preceded
by Colonel George T.. Warnings illustrated
sketches of Tyrol and the Skies of the Alps.
A second holiday book will be furnished in
Mr.. Benjamins Art in America, with ITS re-
productions of representative pictures. Two
travel books for boys and general readers, will
be a story by that inveterate traveller, Colonel
Thos. w. Knox The Boy Travellers in China
and Japan, and popularization OF Mr.. Oar
wins Voyage of the Beagle, under the title OF
What Mr.. Darwin Saw on his Voyage Around
the World in the Ship Beagle both fully illus
trated. A fairy story called The Princess
Idleways will make a book. The chet-deucre
of the year will be, however, the edition de
lu1e of Thompson's famous The Land and the
Book illustrated from drawings made by ar
fists sent to Palestine for the purpose. This
will be issued in parts by subscription. Mr.
Epes Sargent's proposed collection OF poetry
will be ready the present year.
Mr. Carlyle has derived so much benefit
from his recent visit to his native Dumsries-
shire, that he is said again to contemplate the
writing of trustworthy record of his life, with
Mr.. Froude to help him. With many of the biog-
raphies that have appeared he is not at all sat
isfied. A complete autobiography by Carlyle,
one worthy of his career and of his genius,
would be, not only for his admirers but for
the world of letters at large, splendid contri-
button to the literary history of the century.
G. p. Putnam's Sons, who have profited by
the recent visit of the head of the house, Mr..
G. Haven Putnam, to Europe, announce Bay
ard Taylors 'Studies in German Literature"
edited by his wife, with an introduction by
George III. Boxer The Life of William Ewart
Gladstone, by George Barnet Smith, who has
had free run of public archives and private
papers, will be important contribution to
the history of our times. When abroad Mr..
Putnam arranged for an American edition of
The New Plutarch Series.
Two books of travel will be suited to the hol-
iday season, a book on Brazil by III. III. Smith,
illustrated by Champney, and serious and
elaborate work by Jules Verne, History of
Exploration and Adventure from the time of
Herodotus down, in three finely illustrated
volumes, the material for which has been col
lected in Verne's search for the marvellous a.
the basis of his more marvellous imaginings.
For the boys The Serpent Charmer, by Roussel
let, the author of India, book which will
match the Verne juveniles in profusion of illus
tration.
Henry Holt & Co. will publish during the
Fall-to match the series of works on Russia,
Turkey and Egypt-England, by T. II. S. Es-
colt, covering her ''people, polity and pursuit."
| A work of popular theology, on Primitive
| Manners and Customs, by James A. Farrer,
and The Magic of the Middle Ages, a study of
the curious beliefs of that time, by Vikfor Ryd-
berg, the brilliant Swedish writer, will be add
ed to line already strong on this list. That
long promised volume will also be ready in
the Amateur series, Hector Berlioz: Selections
from His Letters and IEsthetic, Humorous and
Satirical Writings, translated by William +.
Apthorp the musical critic, who also writes
biographical 81 etch. The next addition to the
Leisure Hour Series will be novel called pro-
baton. which, though publishing in Temple
new novel, Miss O'Niel and Miss Carew, by
the author of The Honorable Miss Ferrard, is
also spoken of.
d. Appleton & Co. will issue early in the
season the Report of the Russian Army and its
Campaigns in 1S77-7S, by Lieutenant +. V.
| Greene, U. S. A., who was military attache to
| our legation in Russia and The Life of Admit
| raj Farragut, by his son Loyal Farragut, will
| form large octave, including the Admirafs
| own journals and letters and will be accepted
as one of the chief records of the great war.
| An American edition of Edwin Arnolds re-
| markable poem, The Light of Asia, is in prep
ration at Roberts Brothers, Boston. The new
book by III. H. is styled Letters from Cat, and
! is published by her mistress for the benefit OF
| all cats and the amusement of little children"
| Susan Coolidge's story Is Eyebright, already
| familiar to those little folks who see ST. Nieho-
| las, and who, with many others, will be glad
| to see it in book form.
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