The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-07
james Morris Wilton, pastor of the First
Congregational Church in Newark, N. ].

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Congregational Church in Newark, N. j.
"The Live Stock Journal Almanac"
for 1880, is published by Cassell, Petter,
Galpin & Co.; it contains variety Of
information of interest to stock fanciers,
breeders tables for each month, lists of
pedigree, etc.
Mr.. Roswell Smith told newspaper
correspondent the other day that the eedi-
tors of Scribner's Magazine have on
hand manuscripts for which $15,175 So
have been paid, and the editors of St.
Nicholas manuscripts for which 81, ,545
have been paid.
Mr.. Schliemann is about to publish a
new volume, to be entitled "1lios, tho
Country Of the Trojans," lin which the
indefatigable explorer will give an ac-
count of his latest researches In the plain
OF Troy. -Four hundred plans and Illus
tratiOns adorn the work.
We have received the February num-
Der of the american journal of Sci
ence." 1t contains technical papers by
Prof. Loomis on the United States Signal
Service; by William Hardness ON "Color
Correction of Achromatic Telescopes"
and on various scientific topics.
The author of "An Earnest Trifer" is
slight, tall, pale-complexioned, brown
haired, brown-eyed; has an interesting,
if not handsome face; is easy and natural
in manner; talks extraordinarily we'll,
and seems to be at home in any circle of
society, or under any circumstances in
which she finds herself.
Lee & Shepard publish this week the
long-looked for "Kings in Exile" The
have also in press for immediate issue
"Hal, the Story Of Clodhopper," by
W. M. F. Round; Connington's transla-
tion of Virgil in one volume; "The Prize
Speaker" and "Reading Club No. g."
edited by Geo. M. Baker; ''Six popular
Tales" second series; and "Arithmetic
for Young Children" by Horace Grant.
The atlantic" for March will contain
several notable articles. Charles Dudley
Warner will CONTRIBUTE an essay on
washington Irving" Francis Under
wood writes Of Egypt Under the
Pharaohs;" an anonymous author has a
paper on "Reminiscences Of Washington,
during the Presidency Of John Quincy
Adams" and Richard Grant white dis
courses concerning English in Eng
land"
Prof. James De Mile formed his plots
with the greatest care, and when he got
everything arranged to suit himself he
would lock himself up in his study un-
til he completed his work, hardly giving
himself time to get his meals, and en-
erge At the end Of two or three weeks a
living skeleton. He was tall and thin,
and deliberate and methodical in speech.
He was The last man in the world to be
taken for genius.
Roberts Bros. have an edition Of that
charming outdoor book, "The Game
keeper at Home" with forty very fine
by Whymper. The author
is anonymous, but has already given to
the public three works which rank him
in many minds as a second "White Of
Selborne." The same firm state that they
have already printed eight editions Of
"The Light Of Asia"
Ralph Waldo Emerson contributes to
the Unitarian Review one of his most
notable essays on "The Preacher" 1t
was given as an address to the divinity
students Of Harvard University last
May, and now sees the light for the first
time. Mr.. Emerson here shows himself
as Christian theist, and speaks with
great plainness and his usual insight
upon the religious problems Of our own
time. The view taken is widely differ
ent from that Of his first essay, which he
produced after leaving the Unitarian
ministry, the treatise on Mature" and
shows how the, mellowness of age softens
the harsh convictions of early man
hood.