The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-03
THE DAILY STAR
AUTHORS AND PUBLICATIONS.

bation," by the author OF THE First
Violin"
Tennyson will contribute two child
songs to the January number OF st. Nlch-
Olas.
Sampson, Low & Co. publish Miss AL
colts "Jenny's Cruise in the Pinafore"
in London.
Mr.. Henry Cabot Lodge has an article
on Albert Gallatiu in the tenth volume
of the new edition of the Encyclopedias
Britannica.
There is good deal of sense in the
eminent scholar who recently said that
he prefers the kind of review that tells
what book contains.
'The engagement of Miss Fletcher, au-
thor of "Kismet," to Lord Wentworth is
styled by the Independent another
feather for the cap of Abbott Academy"
D. Appleton & Co. will have ready for
the holidays "The Homes of America"
by Mrs. Martha ]. Lamb, and "Land-
scape in American Poetry" by Lucy Lar
com, both handsomely illustrated.
The December number of "Andrews'
American Queen" is splendid issue of
this excellent publication. Whoever
would get the cream of art, literature,
music and society matters should have it
regularly.
prevention and Cure of Chronic Con-
sumption," by Professor David Wark,
Published by the Authors Publishing
Company, and for sale by Peter &.
Thomson, Arcade Bookstore, and all
booksellers.
T. B. Peterson & Bros. have in press g
translation of Zoa's "Nana," "Angeles
Fortune" by Andre Theuriet; Hyde
Park Sketches" by a"Westerner;;" GLOW
She Won Him." and "The Little Coun'
tess" by Octave Feuillet
Scribner & Co. will soon issue "Port
folio of Proof Impressions" from engrav
ings which have appeared in St. Mich
olas and Scribner. Such a collection
will be representative of the best WOOD
engraving in America, and therefore Of
the world.
"St. Maur, An Earl's Wooing," is just
issued by I. B. Peterson & Bros, of Phil
adelphia. 1t is decidedly sensationa
story, with characters all very highl y
wrought, and the many mysteries really
cleared up at the close. Paper rs cents
for sale by Peter G. Thompson, and al
booksellers.
James Schouler, of the Boston bar, has
prepared History of the United States
under the Constitution" which will be
issued by Morrison, of Washington. In
the compilation of the work Mr. Schoulel
has had all the advantages of the Con
gressional Library, the libraries of Bos
ton and elsewhere, with access to tn,
public archives and fresh private mate
rails. The work is designed in some
sense as sequel to Mr.. Bancroft's his
tory.
Colonel Hirginson very aptly points
out in The Literary World that when
Mr.. Henry James draws Americans in
Europe he is at home; when he brings
Europeans across the Atlantic he never
seems quite sure of his ground, except in
Newport, which is indeed the least
American spot on this continent. 'Tht
truth is" adds the Colonel "that Mr.
James cosmopotitanism is, after all
limited; to be really cosmopolitan a mar
must be at home even in his own coun
try"
Houghton, Osgood & Co., publish to
day Darley's Compositions in Outline,
illustrating Hawthorne's "Scarlet Let
ter" a series forming superb gift-book
"The Army of Virginia" by Gen Geo
H. Gordon, detailed history of Pope
campaign, in large octave, with fiv
maps; new edition in two volumes o
the "Life and Letters of George Tick
nor;;" "Ups and Downs on Land ant
Water" by Augustus Hoppin; ant
Crossing the Atlantic" by the sam,
author, both in small folio form.
In the course of review of Mr.. Ty
ler's "History of American Liturature,
writer in the Spectator remarks tina
nothing but the persistent American
hallucination as to the significance o
small American work, by reason of tn
youth and freshness of the nationa
genius, could have induced any autho
to enter upon labor of such scrupulou
thoroughness." He adds that "Mr. Ty
ler has done service to history whethe
he has done service to a literatur
which was already too self-eonscious, ma
be open to question"
Houghton, Osgood & Co., annouuc
that can Earnest Trifer" is in its sixt
edition. Miss Sprague, the author, spen
year at school in Cleveland, and "by
species of accident" as she says, "a wir
ter in New York and summer in Nev
England" Colonel John Hay is reporte
as having said of the book: "Thcre ca
be no doubt of the remarkable merits G
the work, and, as itappears to me, equal
little doubt of its immediate success.
have rarely seen a group of parsonage
put forward with so keen and vivid
sense of reality. The style is singularl
fresh and engaging, and the only fau
about the dialogue is, perhaps, thu
everybody is a little too clever for dali
human nature"
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