The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-06
AUTHORS AND PUBLICATIONS.

Mr.. Charles Reade while in colleg
read at least half dozen novels ever,
week.
Henri Greville's new book will be pub
lished by Peterson under the title o
"Lucy Rodey."
D. Appleton & Co. have in press new
, American novel called "Manch," of whicl
} they have great hopes.
Nude, of London, took one thousand
copies of Cannon Farrar's "St. PauP' fo
his circulating library.
DR.. Holmes review of Arnold's "Light
of Asia" in the current "InternationaP
is an able and appreciative criticism of {
truly great poem.
The MARY" who chad little lamb,
was Mary Sawyer of Sterling, Mass. The
poem was written sixty or more years age
by John Roulstone.
A new edition of Arthur Hugh
Clough's poems, with a memoir BY
Charles Eliot Norton, is in preparation
by Henry Holt & Co.
Sarah G. Woolsey, better known as
Susan Coolidge" is the editor of Mrs
Delany's autobiography" soon to be
published by Roberis Bros.
Mrs. Brassy's new book, Sunshine and
Storm in the East" is now in the hands
of her publishers. 1t is an account of a
cruise to Cyprus and the Levant.
The new editions of standard works,
published by Houghton, Osgood & Co.,
are maryels of cheapness and artistic
makeup. Their one-volume edition of
Taylor's "Faust" will meet long-felt
want.
Mr.. Julian Hawthorne's new novel is
a weird story, in which lover in a fit of
madness locks his sweetheart in secret
room, and awakens years after to sanity,
thinking she had been there but few
minutes.
The late Lady Waldegrave is said to
have kept diary in W ich almost every
event OF her life was carefully recorded.
There is a twitter about it in English
society, and, if published, it will have an
enormous sale.
Mr.. George W. Gable, who is to con-
tribute a new American novel, "The
Grandissimes," to Sclibners Monthly, is
already known through his Creole sto-
ries He is now thirty-five, and began
his literary career as reporter on the New
Orleans Plcayune.
Andrews Bazaar, the great fashion
monthly, is out for October with a sup
plement, making sixteen pages in all 1t
covers the whole range of fashion litera-
ture, and is the best publication of the
kind in the country. Price only 10 cents
per copy. Tell your news agent to send
it to you every month.
Scribner & Co. will issue in their mag
azine during the coming season extracts
from the journals Of the late Henry J.
Raymond, edited by his son, H. w. Rly-
mond. They are four in number, and
will contain new facts and impressions
concerning Webster, Clay, Lincoln and
other, with "reminiscences of the TAYLOR
campaign, the Civil War, and the Phila-
delphia Convention of 1866.
Messrs Little, Brown & Go. announce
for immediate publication "The Conquest
of Spain by the Arab Moors," by Prof.
Henry Clppee, of Lehigh University.
The work covers ground not touched
upon by Irving or other writers upon
Spanish history, and must be of unusual
interest. One of the foremost writers,
who has seen the manuscript, speaks of
the production as "a most fascinating
work" The same firm also state that
The american Law Review" heretofore
published quarterly, will, beginning with
January, appear monthly, with many
new features. The Review is an inyal-
liable publication for Aegal men, and in
its new form will merit even wider recog-
milton than that Which it now receives.
"Appletons' Journal is rapidly gain
ing ground as compendium of the very
best home and foreign productions of the
most eminent writer's The number for
October is, if anything, in advance of its
predecessors in literary merit. "Vivian
the beauty" and "rhe Saamy Side are
continued; there are plpcrs on Moliere;
"Ihe French Play in London" by Mat
thew Arnold; cart and Criticism" by
Sidney Colvin; "Conspiracies in Russia
by Karl Blind; "a Dialogue on Human
Happiness" by W. II. Mailock; "The
City of Rocks" by J. Murphy. a descrip-
ton of remarkable formation in Utah,
and poems by Frederick Locker, Howard
Glyndon and Edgar Fawcett. The ed
tor discusses "The Nude in Art" and
other interesting themes, and the book
reviews give criticisms of current litera-
ture. Published by Appleton & Co., New
York. Received att Hawley street, Bos-
ton.
'The Rougon-Macquart family; or, La
Fortune des Rougon," by Emile lola, au-
thor of "I'Assommoir," 'Helene," and
"The Abbe's Temptation" and translated
from the French by John Stirling, is pub
lished by T. B. Peterson & Brothers,
Philadelphia. Truth alone in the eyes
of Monsieur Zola is great, and real art is
truth. In "The ACKNOWLEDGMENT Fami-
ly" he is quite as.bold as Homer in his
deliDeations. He disguises nothing, and
shows the human heart in all its naked
ness, and represents broad generalities
rather than individual peculiarities. He