, 1881-11-12


| Ill About tl:ss sNorn never to write another
| nov el. Ills last was Il failure.
| The Harvard L1mpoon says that the cry OF
Egypt is: II want my mummy"
| Mr.. Julian lIawthnrlle's new story is te
| bear the title Of " Fortunes F0oi.r ~
! l:crtllold Auerbacl:, the novelist, has been
seriously ill ut lis home iii Germany.
| \ work Oh Monaco by DR.. Pickering, the
resident English physician. is now III the
press.
! CHM, Heath L Co. have sold II volumes
of the school and family edition Of '@Shak-
speare's plays'' prepared by Mr. Henry y.
Hudson.
4 new edition OF Mr.. Beecher's only novel.
''Sorwood; Or, Village Life i'll New En-
gland" is nearly really. 1t has been ont Of
print for solle years.
IN answer to correspondent VIC would
say that "Eape Tod Fp'ks' was written by
Miss Mclean, and is published by \. Will
i;1'l's Il Cu.r o1 Boston,
"Saral& 1rnok." the name appended to a
vol,me Called French History for English
Children il said IT, ue It p5tuGuEyAa adopted
by Il daughter Ut Sir Fl;zjatncs Stephen.
\ general register OF the United States
y
jecttti. II will be about ,lUo octave pages in
size, handsomely bound, and sold ut $iU per
copy.
BY typographical error the heading of
tile notice Ut Dr. pailiips Brooks Discuurses
il, last weeks issue WIS printed Tile Castle
Of tile Soui," instead Ut ''Tlle Candle Ut tna
Lord"
M- Howard Furness will resume this win.
ter his !abvrs, inteFrupteu by me l'lness % OF
)earc.". lie will commence his work with
the play Of 'sUthellu.'
=. \ review of Regent French Literature"
is ulle OF tile valuable features OF the last
Literary 'Furid. One OF the DoDk5 HELL
toned gives all interestin. account OF Dali
uet's methods Of authorship.
- The first edition OF !Alphonse Dautlet's new
novel, y urna lsout,lestan." numbered 4:',ooU
copies.. 1t Is sail by IN tntlluslastlc c3rie..
spontent to be full OF wit. OF clarnl, Ut
irony, Ut delicate observation"
George Barrie, OF Philadelphia, is prepar-
ing nigniy ornalnentctl editions OF the :: DEG
etchin2s by Flamens On India paper. Letter
press is Oh antique ribbed paper
Mr.. j. ". Bouton, 70G Broadway, New
York, announces that he has SECURED in Loii-
don the iew ren!atniis {eHp!es OF Il thG 9iIG afSG
House." by the Princess Marie Llecllten-
steiN.
Tie December HarpeTs will contain,
among other things, ''sam Sperry,s fel'-
sion,'' a humorous and pathetic New Eli
gland tale, by Miss Sally McLeail, the author
Of Cape Cod Folks" aud Il poem byT. s.
Alt}tich, illustrated by Abbey.
D. Appleton l. Co. will shortly publish
work OF great Interest OIL 'sSulelut, con-
frihutcd to the international Scientific
Series" by DR.. Morselli. of Turin: 1t Is Il
scientific inquiry, OH the basis ol the statls-
teal method, into the laws Ut sll1cltal
phenomena.
The current number Of the Litcrurv World
has IN amusing article, evidently from SOME
legal contributor, On the itdel SUIT asAtlist
Viss NeLean's novel, ''Cape Cod FOlits.'
1I1a Eist OF which seems to pc tiiat the plaint-
ills may get verdict 0f about SIX alld
quarter cents. :.
The North american Reutc1c. although
nnblisleu By Alessrs. o. Appleton u Co., Is
nwued and wholly controlled by its editor.
Ncssrs. Appleton j. Co., iu view OF recent
articles that have appeared Iii it. will decline
to act even as Its publishers after the close OF
the present year.
lee t. Shepard will publish, about the mid
die ri November, ''Who Wrote It?' an In
try to the authorship OF noted works in an.
cjrnt and modern literature It was begun
hv William i. Wheeler, autL0r ct the '.Dic-
rionary uf Noted Names OF Fiction and has
been Completed by Ills nephew, Charles T..
Wheeler.
anson D. F. Randolph 8, Co.. in connec-
tfnn with John Walker i Co., Of London.
viii issue immediately genuine Bunyan
memorial, In a new editlon OF the "Pu-