The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-20
AUTHORS AND PUBLICATIONS.


of DIR. Horace Bushnell" in about a fort
night.
The Lippincotts spent $1,000 on their
great Gazetteer" before it was issued
from the press.
The May number of Harper's Monthly
will have a paper on the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
ID. Lothrop & Co. have nearly ready
the third volume of their popular Spare
Minute Series. 1t comprises selections
from the essays and addresses of Mr..
Gladstone, and is properly entitled "The
Might of Right" ~
d. Lothrop & Co. are about to bring
out, for the benefit of their juvenile con-
stituency, History of England in
Rhyme, by Capt. Robert Adams, whose
new book "On Board the Rocket" is
rapidly passing through fresh editions
Golden Days, the new paper for boys
and girls, is fine publication, and If it
keeps up to its present standard will
prove one of the leading journal pub
lications of the country. Published by
james Elverson, Philadelphia; So per
annum.
Our Little Folks is, without exception,
the most finely illustrated paper for very
little people that we have ever seen.
Published monthly at only 80 cents per
year. Any one will receive a sample
copy free by sending his address on
postal card to S. g. Wood, Publisher, 252
Broadway, New York City.
TIE May Wide Awake will he bril-
liantly illustrated, and will contain stor-
les by Sophie May, Mrs. A. M. Diaz, B.
?. Shillaber (Mrs. Partington), the open
ing paper of the beautiful Birds Nesting
series, an article upon Jacob Abbott, also
d set of the most irresistible pictures yet
designed by Mr. Francis.
Popular Science Monthly" for May is
filled with the excellent class of articles
that are always to be found in this pub
lication ard in no other. 1t stands alone
as the work for persons who have not
the opportunity to devote all their time to
scientific pursuits yet take an interest in
popular science. D. Appleton & Co.,
New York. ......'
Many years ago the literary world
was electrified by the appearance of
remarkable novel called "Rutledge," by
an unknown American writer, and now
a new novel by the same author, entitled
Missy" will be published bv @. w.
Carleton & Co., which promises to Gre
ate as wide sensation as did the former
volume, which sold over $4,000 copies!
Mr.. William Black has written
biography of Goldsmith, which the Lon
don Examiner denounces as "uniust and
unsympathizing," and adds: "Mr. Black
is novelist, and as such he excels, but
as biographer and critic he is not SIM
ply failure, for he is more than a triAe
absurd. Let him stick to his last-that
is our advice, and keep to the daughters
of Heth and her sisters"
Mr.. Edwin Arnold has sent the fol-
lowing neat epistle to the New York
publishing houte which issued an unau-
thorized edition of his famous poem:
"You must please not understand the
note which l recently addressed to you
as authorizing any issue of my book
which would interfere with the fair in
terests of Messrs. Roberts Bros. of Bos-
ton, to whose initiative The Light of
Asia owes so much of its popularity in
America. desired merely to acknowl-
edge the compliment paid, and to beg
that my name might be correctly printed
as Edwin, not Thomas.
The Young Ladies' Journal, without
exception the finest publication of the
kind in existence, not only keeps fully
up to its high standard but advances it
with every number. 1t is in fact half
dozen publications in one. The young
lady that supplies herself with this finest
Of magazines, has at command a literary
work Of real merit and just to her taste,
fashion magazine Of the highest author
ity, and clear in the most minute details
with patterns larger and more compre-
hensive than can be found anywhere else.
Its fancy work, music, and other depart
ments are each as comprehensive as are
the magazines specially devoted to these
matters No young lady should be with
out it. Address International News Com
pany, 81 Beekman street, New York.
Newspaper Directory Of the World
II. P. Hubbard, the enterprlsing and re-
liable advertising agent OF New Haven,
Connecticut, has just issued his
Right Hand Record of the
newspapers of the world. 1t is the most
coMprelensiv work of the kind ever
published, going for its information to
the very ends Of the earth and telling
literally all that is to be told in such a
book of the worlds newspapers. 1t ap-
pears to be pretty accurate in its state
ments and we believe the publisher, who
has as good an opportunity to become
posted as any man in the country has
used his best endeavors to give advertis-
ers thoroughly reliable work. 1t is
handsomely gotten up and is in all re-
spects highly creditable to the publisher.
The Standard Series of L X. Funk &
Co., which has won such favor, is now to