The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-17
AUTHORS AND PUBLICATIONS.

Hawthorne's "Blithedale Romance" Is
not to be had in England.
You can buy the Riverside Edition of
British poets now for 800.
John Morley's "Life of Golden" is ex-
pected within few weeks.
New England is beginning to rival
Paris in the production of third-rate nov
els. ...i.-,sf... -
Celia Thaxter will contribute Spring
poem to the March number of st. Nicho-
las.
Henry Holt & Co. will issue an edition
of Austin Dobson's poems, with an intro
duction by E. @. Stedman. d'aa
Mr.. Nathan H. Dale, of Boston, is the
American correspondent of the new
French critical journal, LIE Livre.
st. Louis, Cincinnati and Pittsburg
booksellers say that people will not buy
books bound in light-eolored covers,
Mr.. Sidney Lauier will shortly publish
through Charles Scribner's Sons treat
Use upon "The Science of English Verse;
Four of the last productions of the late
Irwin Russell, each in different vein,
are announced to appear in Scribner for
March. ur
Bayard Taylor's Faust" and Bryant's
Homer have steady sale, which indi-
Gates a general appreciation of those re-
markable translations. t.U X
Chas. Scribner's Sons have in prepara-
ton volume of essays ON the antagon-
isms of scientific and religious thought,
by Prof. Asa Gray, of Harvard.
w. F. Draper, of Andover, has nearly
ready book on "The Logic of Christian
Evidences" by Rev. G. F. Wright. The
author is Darwinian evolutionist.
Some metrical correspondence which
was exchanged last summer between Aus
tin Dobson and Edmund Clarence Sted-
man, is to be printed in the March Scrib-
ner. .t....5 ........ ..,.'|
Roberts Brothers have in press "Prin-
eiples and Portraits" by DR.. 0. A. Bartol.
1t will contain essays on Charming, Bush
nell, John Weiss and William Morris
Hunt.
D. Appleton & Co. have in press one
volume edition of Geikie's "Life of
Christ" The second volume of "The
Memoirs. of Nine. de Remusat' is just
published. ,...r I8
Miss liza Duffas Hardy, who is at pres
ent travelling in this country, has written
an article for the February Kensington
called con the Cars" which is descrip-
tive of railway travelling in America,
| Army and Navy men are much inter-
ested in the forthcoming new illustrated
edition of Rear Admiral Preble's "His-
tory Of the American Flag" to be issued
by A. Williams & Co. The Count Of
Paris heads the list Of subscribers, which
embraces many officers Of distinction,
and the principal public libraries.
The London Atheneum says that Pres
ident Chadbourne, of Williams College,
is preparing a, work on "'The Wealth OF
the United States" which will cost
$50, 900, is to be elegantly illustrated,
and will be published simultaneously in
, four languages. We fear that our Eng
lish contemporary has been deceived.
Lee & Shepard are to bring out vol
ume by Francis II. Underwood, giving
the story of "The Exodus Of the Children
of Israel" as illustrated by Brugsch's
researches into the history Of Egypt,
which profess to make it clear that the
Red Sea has been mistaken in the Or
dinary narrative, fos the Sea Of Reeds.
The second installment of Eugene
lSchuyler's "Peter the Great" in the
March Scribner, is said to sustain well
the interest Of the opening chapters,
Chiefly by clear and graphic description
of the terrible riot of the Streltsi, early
in Peters reign, when the palace was
sacked and suspected traitors were hewn
to pieces by the mob OF soldiery. ..
En- Scribner's for March, the anony.
nous writer of 1.-TWO Views of Napo,
leon," reviewing the memoirs Of Nine.
de Remusat and Prince Metternich, in
support of his theory that the former OF
these books was "doctored" before ,publi-
[catiop, calls, attention to the fact that the
Eonly two persons who are not spoken Of
harshly in the memoirs are Eugene and
Hortense de Beauharnais, who alone of
the habitues Of the Palace had in their
veins the blood of that old French mo-
bility to which the Rsmusats belonged.
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leading publication of its class in the
world, continues to keep It's distance in
advance Of all similar publications. II
covers the whole field Of such q journal
as its name indicates, and in every de-
partment stands preeminently AZ first in
Importance. Its literature is excellent,
patterns and fashions correct and ele-
giant, departments Of needle work and
fancy work Of all kinds more complete
and comprehensive than was ever at
tempted by any other ladies' magazine.
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