The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-15
AUTHORS AND PUBLICATIONS.

Mr.. Bret Harte is attending to the
publication of his new book in Paris. 1t
is to appear simultaneously In France,
Germany, England and the United
States. ..-... ..tt
Wide Awake promises for next year a
series of out-of-door games for young
folks by G. B. Barrett, of Concord, Mass,
under the suggestive title of Concord
Picnic Days" full of "reminiscences OF
that famous town. '....t.s d ..|
"Old Friends and New" a little book
published by Houghton, Osgood & Go.
last week, is not by Miss Sarah Jewett,
the popular actress, as some of the news
papers are saying, but by Miss Sarah o.
Jewett, of South Berwick, Me. 4"
The pretty poem, "a night on the
Tete Noir," in Harper's Magazine for
November, was written by Miss jose
CHINE Harper, a daughter of ]. w. Har
per, Jr 1t was sent anonymously, ac-
cepted and paid for before her father
knew anything about it.
The plates of Evening With the Doc
trines," by Rev. N. Adams, DID,, having
been destroyed in the great Boston fire, a
revised edition has been prepared by
Rev. w. HI. Adams, and is to be issued
by Messrs. D. Lothrop & Co., in hand
some 12mo. volume at the low price
of 81.
"a FOOLS Errand," announced some
time since by Messrs. Fords, Howard &
Hurlburt, of New York, will not appear
until the 18th inst, owing to the demand
for an unusually large edition. The same
house has in preparation two new works
by R. W. Raymond, "The Merry go
round," and "Camp and Cabin"
In review of Zola's "Ventre de
Paris" the Literary World" sums up as
follows: "Here are amours, but no love;
cabaret discussion of politics, but no
patriotism; childish visions of reyolu-
ton, but no intelligent love of liberty;
one abbe, but no religion. The vice,
even, has no fascination In it; the wick
edness is without romance; it is low, sor-
did, stupid, vulgar" r
So great has been the demand for the
November number of ''Scribners
Monthly" (the agricultural number,")
containing the opening chapters of George
W. Cables new story, 'The Grandis-
simes," that the first edition of 100000
was exhausted within two weeks. A new
edition is in preparation and will be
shortly issued. The publishers will print
100000 of the December number.
Lee & Shepard have in press "The
Island of Capri" translated from the
German of Ferdinand Gregorovious by
Lillian Clarke, daughter Of Rev. James
Freeman Clarke. 1t is single chapter
from the authors "Wanderjahre in
Italien," and is occupied with the history
and legends of the island which has
played so important role in the litera-
ture. The work will be issued in Little
Classic" form.
"On Board the Rocket" is by Captain
Robert G. Adams, of Montreal, son of
the late Rev. N. Adams, DID. Captain
Adams commanded the vessel in which
DR.. Adams sailed around the world. The
account of that voyage is given in Gun
der the Mizzen Mast" and "Amy and
Marion's Voyage Around the World.'
This new book is narrative of facts con-
cerning sea life and the management of
sailors-mainly tbestory of an East India
voyage made in the bark Rocket. ..5
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes was once,
it is related, applied to by young man
for position as amanuensis, to whom he
replied: 81 have no writing to do which
am not competent to do myself with a
little occasional aid from members of my
own family. l regret not to be able to
give you encouragement as to employment
in Boston, but the truth is there is next
1 to none of the kind you mention, most of
our authors being as poor as rats them
selves and no more able to keep an aman-
uensis than they are to set up a coach
and six" .c# r'ur
We learn from Messrs. Houghton, Os-
good & Co., that the novel "An Earnest
Trifer" is having large sale, and that a
second edition is already issued. 1t is
we'll worthy of so widespread recogni.
ton. The same firm have just issued
Bayard Taylor's poems, uniform with
those of Longfellow, Whittier, etc.
''Reader's Handbook Of the Revolution, y
by Justin Winsor; prayers Of the
Ages" and a new and complete edition
of Tennyson's poems in small quarto,
known as the "Hazelmere Edition. u
Miss Piatt's new volume of poems will
not appear until the 22d inst.
Ralph Gordon Noel, Baron Wentworth,
and grandson of the poet Byron, is the
English peer to whom Miss Fletcher, the
clever and pretty young author of "Kis-
met" is to be married. He is the young
er Of the two sons Of Earl Lovelace and
his wife Ada, Byron's daughter, and is
now forty years old. The title Of Baron
comes to him from his grandmother
Lady Byron, who was Baroness Went
worth in her own right. Robert Brown
ing is cordial friend of Miss Fletcher
and admirer of her literary work, and il
was he who introduced Lord Wentworth
to her among the italian mountains las
summer. The wedding. Miss Brewster
saws, is to take place this month in Rom'