The New York herald., 1879-07-14
LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.

LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.
Lady Hardy is coming over here to write us up.
Sir Samuel Baker is going TO give us book on
Cyprus.
other party.
"Madelon.'
Mr.. Aigner, Of Buda Pesth is preparing q grand
Pct0h album for publication.
Mrs. Woods tortured EAST Lynn has been again
the victim of the drsmatists pen.
lies Tribulations dun Chinois" is the title Of
Jules verne's forthcoming volume.
MT. Gladstone was patron Of Cas.erton School.
where Charlotte Bronta received her education.
Harper Brother publish "Fitzpatrick's Life Of
Charles Lever in the Franklin Square Library.
There will be y new volume OF the bryant and.
Gay History of the United States ready in the fall
David Roberts "Holy Land" is about to be pub
lished In monthly parts by Messrs Cassell. Pettor
Galpin.
Tho London literary papers think that the Inter
national Literary Congress "acked plan and definite
purpose"
During the present month q. W. Carleton l. Co.
will issue the hrst number of o popular American
miscellany.
The entire cost of the Burns monument to be
inaugurated at Kilmarnock on the 9th Of August Will
be about 1000
Two monuments and drinking fountain about
to be erected to tho memory Of the late Major
whyte- Melville.
''The Light Of Asia is the title of an elaborate
poem. by Edwin Arnold on the subject Of Buddha
and Buddhism.
''The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter" by tho
Rev. J. E. Carpenter. will be published in the fall by
Macmillan & Co.
The London Library wanted to raise 100000 to
scribed without any trouble
new edition of Professor Leone Lewis History
Of British Commerce" brought down to the end of
1878. will shortly bo published.
A"member Of the British aristocracy" has written
. book manners and Tone of Good Society
There is no going back on such authority.
Professor John Fiske. of Harvard. has prepared a
volume of essays bearing upon the subject of evoiu
ton. which Macmillan Co. will soon publish.
Mrs. Drassev has an unpublished journal kept by
her in the Holy Land some Of the leaves of which
will be printed in the August number of Frasers.
The current number Of the London Graphic de-
votes o supplement to the life and death OF the
Prince imperial which is fully and artiscally Illus
trated. ..
new edition of Mrs. Cowden Clarke's 'airlhood
of Shakespeare Heroines is announced to be illus
trated in photography from paintings by Herrick
and Dickseo.
A pleasant collection of reading matter for chill
dren is published by the American Book Exchange,
New York. from the pen of Miss Ellen Tracy Alden,
and entitled ''Stories and Ballads"
The Rev. w. J. Loftie who has just returned from
ride through Egypt. is going to write a book on
tho subject 1t will be very apropos he gives us
tho Egypt of to-day rather than the Egypt of the
Pharaohs.
Canon Farrar's Life and Works of st. Paul" is to
be published here by t. +. Dutton & Co. This irm
already preparing some novelties in the way OF
childrcns books with an eye to the holiday trade.
Publishers have to think of December in July.
Messrs. Eldredgc Brother. of Philadelphia, pub
lsh. the initial volume of q serics of "Manuals
for Tcachers, little book 'The Guilt vation of
the Senses" II Is SO good that IL would be sad if
teachers alone to read IT, for parents need such
a work greatly.
Miss Anna Dickinson has just finished lively
volume entitled "The Ragged Register" which
Harper Brothers will have ready In the course
of fortnight. Il consists Of extracts from letters
home relating her experiences as q lecturer, which
are curious and amusing.
A London paper advertiscs for ''graphic and
powerful writer to supply . story . week. Ne