The New York herald., 1879-08-11
LITERARY CHIT-cHAT.

however is just as strong though Dorcas' love
had ended in catastrophe.
LITERARY CHIT-cHAT. ,-t ,ett
Mrs. Brassey is too i'll to correct her proofs.
Charles Dudley Warner has gone to the Adiron.
dacks. ~ t.-aa .i
A new paper has appeared in the slavonic lam
guage
The "Divnia Commedia'' has been translated into
The editor of the atlantic is cooling of at Conani-
cut Island.
The Spectator compares George Eliot to La Roche
foucauld.
new volume of poems by Edmund Gosse is in
the press.
The widow of Sir Francis Goldsmith, Bart. has
written his life.
Max Muller's HILBERT Lectures" have been trans
lated into French.
Major serpa Pntos narrative of his journey
Africa will soon be published.
"Per 10 Morte dI Eugenio .Napoleonic" is the title
OF an ode by Giosue Carduoci.
Macmillan Co. publishing selections from
Addison. edited by j. r. Green.
"Mes Haines'i is the uncompromising title of NJ.
Zola's book Of literary criticism.
Nine. Modjeska. the distinguished Polish actress.
is writing an article for Scyi1ner's.
Balzac's "Comedie Humaiue'' is put into tolersble
English by Ii. II. Walker. London.
Herr Rohlfs declines to lead the expedition fitted
out by the German African Society.
All the books that have been written about Pom
peii and Naples are to be catalogued.
Dickens Pictures from Italy" being translated
into Italian. thankless task. should think.
"The Lords of Drogue" is the title of new novel
by Hon. Lewis Wngfed, author of LADY Grizel."
The memory of Henry Bone, the famous enamel
in bOOk by L.
Rogers.
The Saturday Revieo thinks that novel writer's de-
rive more advantages from badly constructed wills
than lawyers
new edition of "Old and New London" revised
both as to text and illustration. is announced by
Messrs. Cassell, Peter Il Galpin.
"Harkaways" sketches of hunting. coaching. fish,
ing. &C., which have appeared in various London pa
pers are to be printed in book FORM
The concluding portion of Mr. Willis Nevins
'History of Ireland and the Holy see will be pub
lishcd in the spring The forthcoming volume will
bring the history down to the present time.
The author of "Comin' Thro' the Rye" seems to
expend the greater part Of her originality in naming
her stories. The latest is "My Lady Green Sleeves"
| the next should be my Lord Blue Jeans"
| Mr.. Blakie's 'How to Get Strong has been made
a text book in the Chautaugue course The Saturday
Repew speaks well OF the practical nature of this
book. and at the time aments the lack of phys
ical training among the young in America.
The following is the latest addition to 'Pinafore'
| poetry
Good lady I've important information,
| Sing hey. the fine policeman that you are,
| I've took your little BOY up to the station,
Sing hey the angry slipper and the ma.
Robert Burns. grandson of the poet. has just died
in Moorhead's Hospital Dumfries. He resembled
the poet in face and figure, and, curiously enough
| .hoI,
poets Highland Mary" For many years he
taught an humble school in Dumfries. and in the
latter portion of his life the most straitened
circumstances.
Bells "(iuide to Coney Island" Is instructive to
those who think they know New Yorks bathing
place. well as to the stranger for 1t contains q
great deal Of unique information, and tells just
where to lay his finger upon every place of interest
1t is we'll illustrated with maps and pictures. and
contains the time table, with rates Of fare all the
rail and steamboat lines that move Coney Island
| wards.
NJ Cohen's book on Modern Germany" is pro-
nounced storehouse of information. The author
is Frenchman who has passed several years in Ger
many since the Of 1s7O-71 ana was keen OBJ
server Of men and things. NJ. Cohen remarks. "that
Germany. though possessed in Bismarck Of an in
comparable diplomatist. and in Moltke Of unsur-
passed general has no man of even ordinary talent
to act as Financial Minister
Mr. william Barnes, whose Dorset dialect poetry
is compared to that of Burns has just published a
new volume. The Academy reminded Of the pic
turesque points OF Walt Whitman by his poetry.
| Here are two stanzas from q poem called Evening
| in q village:"-
Now the light o. the west is a-turn d to gloom,
An the men be at hwome vrom ground;
An the bells be a-zenden all down the Coombe
From tower. their fnwoansome sound.
| An the wind is still.
An the house dogs do bark.
An the rocks be a-vled to the elems high an dark,
An the water do roar at mill
An the hckeren light drough the window -peane
Vrom the candles dull heame do shoot.
! An young Jenny the smith Is a-gone down leane.
A-playen his shrill-vaiced flute.
An the miller's man
Do zit down at his
On the seat that Is under the cluster o trees,
Wi his pipe an his cider can.
In his life OF Theophile Gautier NJ Bergerat tells
us that the French poet-novelst had the blood of
kings in his veins. Gautier q remarkably pre-
cocious youth. He wrote poetry before no was
twenty. and ut the age of twenty-five his publisher
asked him for de sensation, and they got it
In Mile. de Maupin. Like Johnson he melan-
choly and possessed by the fear of death which
sometimes haunts of great physical strength
and courage When he i'll the dread Of death
came upon him instantly. Among the modern in
yentions which he detested the custom of
reportage the industry of interviewers and of the
spies of the tattling newspapers. His splendid how
talk checked in general society by the fear
seeing his good things In the Figaro next morning
A newspaper gossip hastcned his decease. He
had long been i'll. but his relations concealed from
him the nature of his complaint. They did their
best to mystify the newspaper people who came
with their inquiries ana to keep newspapers out of
! the poets sight One uulucky morning he read in
column of twaddle that "rheophile Gautier has
heart disease" and this manner of conveying in.
! tegence really hastened his end. If Gautier like
johnson. dreaded death. like him he profoundly
superstitious. He believed in omens and warnings,
in the dangers of enterprises begun Friday, in
the pcrils that environ people who number thirteen
at diuner the mischiefs that attend the spiling
of salt. His romance OF 'Jettatura' docs not ex-
aggerate the ardor of his bellof the evil eye. He