The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-05
AUTHORS AND PUBLICATIONS.

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J Mr.. Henry James, Jr., has acquired ar
enviable reputation among foreign critics
as genius of style.
Mr.. G. w. Cable, the author of "Tht
Grandissimes," is cotton broker, liy
ing in New Orleans.
The Harpers will follow their popular
editions of standard historians with Glib
bon's decline and Fall"
The sale of the "Metternich Memoirs
is said to be three times as great in this
country as in England.
Mr.. Barnett Phillips says that "it takes
a woman to appreciate writer without
any mean butts or ifs"
George Sand is to have statue in the
Vallee Noire, in Berry, where many Of
her romances were planned.
Mrs. Mary. Neal Sherwood is the trans
lator of Zola's novels who assumes the
nom de plume of John Stirling"
1t is said that Mrs. Brush, the author
of "The Colonel's Opera Cloak" is to
publish another novel in the "No Name"
series during the year.
Mr.. Browning is sixty-eight, erect of
bearing, square-shouldered, with a re-
sonant voice, wearing a white moustache
and pointed beard. He is still active
and energetic.
Mr.. w. HI. Mallock, author of "Is Life
Worth Living" is sallow. dark-haired
and thirty-five. He is a recluse, devot-
ing himself to reading and study, and
bears the stamp Of the student.
Over sixteen columns are occupied in
the Publishers Weekly of March 20th
with spring announcementso new books.
The outlook is very encouraging, al
though there is a notable absence of
fiction, owing, no doubt, to the uncer-
tainty Of English reprints.
The London Examiner notes the pos
sibility of unpublished letters from
Burns in New Zealand. Robert Gilik-
son, a grandson of Richard Brown, who
was an old crony of the poet, has just
died there, having in his custody all the
letters addressed to his grandfather by
Burns.
! We have received from A. Williams &
Co., "The Diary of Bird" dainty
little volume freely translated into the
human tongue by Mr.. H. D. Minot,
author of LAND Birds and Game Birds
of New England" and who is one of our
best local writers on ornithology.
The current number of the Living
Age contains lengthy review of "The
Reign CT Queen Anne;" a paper on
''The Origin. Of Written Greek Litera-
ture," an '1ndo-Anglican Poet;" by
James Payn; short story from Fra
ser's, and somewhat ambitious poem
by Emily Pfeitfer.
Mr.. Swinburne will be torty-three
years old on the 25th of April. He is
small in stature, thin faced, with a noble
forehead. He was educated ut Oxford
and stands after Tennyson and Browning
in the front rank Of English poets, with
the possibility Of becoming greater than
either.
i Cassell, Peter, Galpin & Co., will have
ready in few days new and cheaper
edition of Fred. Barnard's famous "Char-
acter Sketches from Charles Dickens" in
!. handsome portfolio, large quarto size
and new book by W. H. Davenport Ad.
ans, author of "The Dictionary of Eng.
lish Literature" called "Woman's Work
and WORTH" with hints on self-culture
and chapters on the higher education and
employment of women.
Lee & Shepard have the thirteenth
volume of Summers Works nearly ready
, it will include his lectures on "Caste'
and the speech at the Worcester State
O Convention of 49,. They have also il
! preparation "The Eden Tableau," by tn,
, Rev. Chas Beecher, a work on the worlC
q before the fall, which is said to be "rig
9 idly orthodox" and Eastward Hol or
). Adventures in the Rangeley Lakes" b,
q Chas. H. A. Farrar. The latter volum
:. will be illustrated.
e The new "No Name" novel; "Mrs
: Beauchamp Brown" will be ready a
e Roberts Bros early in April. 1t is
G Boston story, and will undoubtedly max
stir. The same firm will reprint ISIS
ter Dora," charming biography of Dor
s. othy Pattison, beautiful and accom-
r; plished Englishwoman who consecrate
herself to charitable work in Yorkshir
n n manufacturing town. English critic
q speak very highly Of the work, and
& will undoubtedly have large sale.