The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-05
AUTHORS AND PUBLICATIONS.

Mr.. Whittier, sad 10 say. is in falling
health. and unable to do any literary WORK.
Mrs. Cameron, who died recently in Eng
land, possessed the original Manuscripts Ni
Tennysons princess" Maud and OF
some OF his minor poems.
like Marvel" the quietest OF authors. is
now white-haired man, with genial. in
telectual face and kindly eyes, whose
country life, frightened by his family, his
books and his piie, is truly idylic.
"Quaker Cousins" by Agnes Ma-don-ll,
author Of For the Kings Dues. Martins
Vineyard and other novels, is the latest Of
the Messrs Harper's Franklin Square Ii
nrnry," also one Of the longest ones. 1t
comprises ninetytthrec pages, and is pub
lsShed al Is cents.
"The Mail Carrier" published hy Porter
h Coates, Of Philadelphia, is the latest Of
Harry Castlenon's hoy Trappcr Series,
Harry Casticmon Is, or should be, favor
ite Of the boys, who may find plenty Of
Youthful adventure in his books. "The
Mnil Carrier is illustrated by several full
page wood-cuts.
| Messrs. Littell & Gay have lust issued the
twenty fifth volume of the fifth series Of
their Living Age, which comprises the
number for the quarter January, February
and March of the current year. 1t is need
less to say that its covers contain more ex-
ccllent and entertaining matter than is to
he found in anv other eclectic magazine
for the same period
international Copyright Considered in
Some Of It's Relations 10 Ethics and Polit-
cal Economy" forms No. II OF Putnam $
"Economc Monographs" II is an address
delivered in January last before the New
York Free-Trade Club. by George Haven
Putnam. 1t Is a very thorough presenta-
ton OF the history and present position OF
this vexed question. and any one interested
in the matter may find in il a clearer expo
sition than he will be likely 10 obtain else
where.
six Little Rebels" by Kate Tannott
Woods is u charming story Of five South
ern children, brought TO quiet New Eng
land town during the civil war. If the
South has many such families. Il great fu
turc lies before it, for finer group of chill
dren il would be hard to reproduce in any
part OF the world. The characters are finely
drawn frrSi: and natural as a June morn
ing. They accommodate themselves to New
England life as if to the manor born; and
their adventures and sporting humor and
loving ways make up delightful book.
Boston: b. lothrop x Co
"A Thorough Bohemienne, by Madame
Charles Reybaui, is worthy of the env!ale
reputation gained by the author by her tie
lightful novel of "rhc COldsmitlfs Wife. '
Madame Reyhaud belongs to what we may
call the modern school of French fiction
compromising such writer's as Dandet anC
Henry Greville whose Writings embody /
natural and healthy reaction from the NOR
bid and ovcr-strained conceptions nnc
gross anmuli>m OF Dumas, lulzac, and th'
elder type OF French novelist$. This move
ment is evidently in measure inspired b,
the study OF the better class Of Nnglisi
novels, and lis effects upon French litera
ture and ultimately upon the moral tone O
society are likely 10 be far-reaching Th,
misunderstanding in "A Thorough Bohe
miennc' is excellent, and the plot, though
not elaborate, well constructed. ID. Ap
pleton & Co., New York.