The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-08-16
LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.

Keene's Turks in India is pronounced "desultov
to fault" lq 4.N
new edition of Jones ON Mortgages is issued
by Houghton, Osgood g. Co.
1.-THE Memoirs of Henry Armitt Brown are pub
lished in ]. b. Lippincott Il Co.'s subscription de-
partment. ai ~ al4sEeg
"Madge Dunraven." new novel by the suthor Of
the Queen Of Connaught" il in press. It's admirers
have not done ravin the latter romance yet
The Prince Imperial. young Louis Bonaparte. 10
to be presented to the readers of st. Nicholas. in the
September number. by means of . short biography
and portrait engraved from photograph taken =
short time before his death. lIsa tal
The Leonard Scott Publishing Company have is
sued their reprint of the July number Of the Edin
burgb Repiew which. ii not rs great power as 1t
in the days OF Jeffrey Napier. Ia still digni-
fed and we'll edited publication. - ar4oasL..I
1.-THE United States Unmasked. being q search
into the of the rise and progress OF these States
and an exposure of their present material and moral
condition" Is the title of volume announced in
England from the pen Of G.. Msnigault.
Macmillan & Co. have just published . volume OF
John Bright's public addresses. So good they
pieces of composition that the Altenqum says they
may almost be called studies in oratory and that they
resemble the masterpieces OF the orators OF Greece
aud Rome. sti
.Our Autumn Holiday on French Rivers" pub
lished recently by Roberts Brothers. made quite
sensation when it first appeared in England some
years ago. The author. J. L. Molloy. is the COM
poser Of 'Clochete and other tuneful ballads. and
his companions were w. s. Gilbert. Happy Thought
Burnand and two other men better known to the
London of letters and art to-day than they them
Mr. J. w. Linton. not satisfied with the effect Of
his blast on wood engraving. blown recently through
the columns Of the Atlantic. is going to publish
iOh ha~ iraf hiatt ME With
out Mr.. Howell's editorial blue pencil to hold him
in check. The title of this volume will be Some
Practical Hints Wood Engraving for the Instruc-
ton of Reviewers and the Public" clinton the
Rampage" would be q shorter title and more to the
point. 4- ea
The N1o Yorker Handelsseitung has published in
convenient pamphlet form the tariff of duties
on imports Of the German Empire. So many
changes have been made In the bill since II rst
introduced in the Reichstag that this pamphlet.
tanning. it does every detail Of the Revenue
law rs IT Is being enforced to-day, cannot fail he
Of great value to the numerous exporters in this
country at time that American products eagerly
sought in every country of Europe.
We are pleased to learn that g. r. Putnsm's Sons
will publish in September Bayard Taylor's 'Studies
in German Literature" This work has been care
fully edited from the authors original manuscripts
by Mrs. Baysrd Taylor and Hon. George H. Boxer.
Among the other announcements of this Arm for i'm
mediate publication a volume by President John
Bascom of the University of WISCONSIN. on "Ths
Science of Ethics;" "A Lady's Life in tho Rocky
Mountains" by Isabella Bird author Of "Six Months
in the Sandwich Islands," "A Tide of Seven Hundred
Miles Through Japan" &C.. illustrated; From Attic
to Cellar" book for young housekeepers; "A
Mans Man for a. That" novel by new
writer; ''The New Plutarch: Lives of Those who
have Made the History of the World"-vol L. Abrs-
ham Lincoln. by Charles q. Leland; vol. H.. Col
igny, aud the Failure Of the French Reformation,
by Walter Besant: new and cheaper edition OF
Fothergil's Maintenance Of Health: Consumption
and How to Prevent IT," by Thomas Mays. NJ. D.;
''The Medical Students Aid seres." comprising vol.
umes on anatomy. botany tmedicaD. chemistry
(inedical therapeutics and toxicology.