The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-12
AUTHORS AND PUBLICATIONS.

/ 1t is stated that sixteen thousand COD
les of "An Earnest Trifer" have beer
sold. f-'
| The reception of NJ. Taine at tht
French Academy will take place on the
10Th inst
| We are informed that Miss Mary
Spragpe. will not write q novel for tht
"No name" series.
| NJ. Flaubert is engaged On a philo
sophical romance, in two volumes, which
will appear in the spring.
| Miss Phelps contributes to the Febru
ary Atlantic "a Plea for Immortality,
which can not fail to be peculiarly inter
esting. .l.
4 Prof. F. Blass of Kiel, has discovered
orga sheet of Egyptian parchment {
fragment of one Of the plays o.
Euripides. ... =. D..
| Rev. W. NJ, Baker, the supposed au.
/ thor of "His Majesty, Myself" wrote
"Col. Dunwoddie, Millionaire" published
last season by Harper & Bros
+ Mr.. Eugene Schyler's papers on
''Peter the Great, will begin in the next
number Of Scribner's Magazine. They
alone will be worth the subscription
price.
Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, whose "History
of the City of New York" has taken a
high rank, will shortly issue the third
part of that work, which will ontain a
graphic description of the battle Of Long
Island. .r.
Herr Frederick Van Bodenstedt, who
has been visiting this country, will soon
publish translation of the quatrains of
Omar Khayyam, a Persian poet, who
was contemporary of Dante, and who
proceeded the mysticism Of the great Sufi
poets.
We have it on the very best authority
that the author of "A Foops Errand"
the novel of Southern life recently pub
lished by Fords, Howard & Hurlburt, of
New York, is none other than Judge AL
bion w. Tourgee, who wrote most of the
scenes in the book from personal expert
ence.
The February Atlantic Monthly will
appear as if no fire had occurred, and will
give, in addition to its full quota of read
ing, a supplement containing complete
account Of the Holmes Breakfast, includ-
ing all the speeches, poems and letters of
that memorable occasion.
Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. will shortly
have ready two new novels, Sebastian
Strome," by Julian Hawthorne, and
"Mauch," by Mary E. Byrn. To the
Handy Volume Series will be added
"Great Singers" by Mr.. Ferris, and
"Great Lights in Sculpture and Paint
ing" by s. D. Doremus. ~
VIM. Morris, the poet, and Burne
Jones, the painter, both teachers and
workers in the modern English school
of sentiment, were students together and
warm friends at Oxford. Both came
from good old families, and, oddly
enough, the parents and friends Of each
mourned bitterly over the writing and
painting inspiration to which the young
men yielded.
The Emperor of Austria has conferred
the gold medal for science and art on
Mile. Camilla Ruzieka Ostoic for a new
Turkish and German dictionary, which
this learned young lady has recently
published, with transcriptions of the
Turkish words into Roman characters.
Mile. Ostoic had already distinguished
herself in the department Of Oriental
languages at the Imperial Oriental
Academy at Vienna.
Mr.. Edmund W. Gosse, in reviewing
Mr.. E. G. Stedman's Lyrics and Idyls,"
in recent number of the Academy, says:
''In bidding Mr.. Stedman cordially wei
come to our shores, we hope that the
English public may extend to him mo
less favor than his own countrymen have
done. His poetry is fresh and buoyant,
full Of memories of great deeds and joy.
ous experiences, and seems to contain the
elements of lasting popularity"
"Nana" is a sequel to and continuation
of "I'Assommoir;;" but "Nana" in nc
way resembles IL Assommoir." It's eIab
GRATED with the same care; it is as real
as intense, and as bold as its predecessor
but it places before us totally different
world, and with all the "justice of a pho
tograph." lola gives us in "Nana' q
careful study of the manners and life Of
that class as they exist in real life, whose
principal business in real life is to bt
amused, which class ordinary romance
writers designate as "people of elegant
leisure" Part One Of "Nana" is now
ready, price so cents, for sale by Robert
Clarke & Co. and all booksellers and
news agents, or copies sent on remittina
so cents to the publishers, 7. B. Peterson
& Brothers, Philadelphia, Pa.