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Douglass, of Edinburgh.
Rhods Broughtou's novel, "Belin-
ds," in The Continent, opens excel.
lently, and will apparently prove one
Of the most agreeable books Of that
highly diverting story teller.
Mr. Cables new novel vas, at last
accounts, nearly completed. II is
said that its leading character is q
New Orleans physician, aud that the
story comes down to the days Of
secession and war.
The English critics have fulfilled
the predictions OF the praise they were
likely to bestow on the illustrations of
Harper's Christmas. and the Eoglish
public have responded by exhausting
the edition for that country In a single
day.
Mrs. Mary Hallock FoOte, whose
novel, THE Led Horse Claim" is
now appearing in The Century, is the
author of several sherter stories in
that magazine, and Of one, entitled
In Exile" which ran through two
numbers of the Atlantic Monthly.
The present is her first extended
serial.
William Cullen Bryant, when a
young man, was the victim Of misplaced
affection. His rejection SO preyed
upon him that he wrote a poem on the
subject, which will be published in
his forthcoming biography. Mr.. God
wins entire manuscript is now in the
hands Of the printer and Messrs
Appleton expect to have the book
ready early in February.
Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons an
uounce for publication Italian
Rambles," by james Jackson Jarves,
and The Woman Question il
Europe" q series OF ESSAYS by repre-
sentative European women on the
status aud progress of woman's work
in connection with the suffrage educ4.
ton. medicine and industrial pursuits,
edited by Theodore Stanton
1t is stated that NJ. Leroy Beaulieu
the political economist, will appear
shortly 10 another field OF letters a,
the editor OF q volume containing tn,
correspondence OF a Russian M id o.
honor with the Emperor Paul aud hi,
wife. This orresponderce, which h.,
been placed 10 his hands by the Prin.
cess INA Trube ZkOy, will probabl,
throw some light on a daIk CHAPTER o
history,
MIR. Edward DowdeD, in The Acad.
envy, takes a lofty tone c~oncernin,
american literature. Lite i. moi
Opg enough" he says, "for many ex
aosi ions in folio of the Covenant O
Grace as it is dispensed to the elect
sc d, even though the eXpounder b
the reverend and much desired Mr.
John cotton, or the rhetorical MI
! Stone. or the holy, heavenly, swee
If citing and soul rsvishing minister
Mr. Thomas Shepherd
: 1t is announced at Berlin that tn
Trait Of a copyright convention has a
!, lat been agreed upon between Franc
and Germany, who have been repre-
,ented at that city by special COMM,
sioOers, though it will be some tin
before the understanding is cOmplet,
! 1t seems that one Of the Chief dificuI
ties was the question of translation
about which ffermanv was iuclined
take a more indqIgent view tha
> France.
y Authors, aud occasionally publish
ars. have been known to do singul,
J things in the way Of compiling favor,
, BILE notices of their books. One Amei
lean writer Of distinction hiss bee
made to regret the kindliness wit
which he answered requests for b
: opinions OF certain volumes On on
occasion, a private letter, in which b
had unhesitatingly condemned
book, was so cut and condensed fC
publication that it was made to ap
pear a warm encomium.
: Nudes famous circulating /
brary, in Londen, occupies eight &C
joining houses and gives employmer
7 to eighty persons. It's importance I
tho reading Englishman is shown b
o the fact that it circulated twenty-fou
! hundred copies Of Macauley's "Histor
> Of ENGLAND" two thousand of liz
ingstone's FIRST "TraveIs in Africa,
g twenty. five hundred Of "Bnoch Al
. den," and fifteen hundred of "Lt
G THAR" and that it circulates ST
thousand copies of the Edinburgh an
Quarterly Reviews.
4 DR. Oliver Wendell Holmes haviu
recently resigned his prolessorship i
Harvard University, 10 order that h
may devote himself more fully {
- literary pursuits will during the yea
1888. write exclusively for the AlIanti
Monthly, to which he has from Ii
! beginning been one of the most Cor
slant aud most highly valued contrib
utors. The first Of his contribution
:, TO the Atlantic for lS83is AN After
Breakfast Talk" 10 the Janu II
number, quite in the spirit of Ii
original "Autocrat' papers
Lord Lytton recently wrote thus
n an American friend: The iorthcou
,e ing work OF which | am now engage
is not a memoir, but a full and con
4 plete record of my fathers lite an
NJ work, written from the numerous doI
l. uments bequeathed to me as biograpl
K ical material for the completion Of i
h The book will contsin an autobioI
,e raphy, written by himself, Of his Ii
up to the age OF twenty two II wi
also CONAN several origini ! comp
,e sitions by him, never before publishe
y with cOpious selections from his pr
,e vate correspondence. notebooks. al
ID journals, and sundry illustrations.
g. The French have never been
h. fond Of foreign fiction as the Amer
l cans OF the Germ ms, but the Chi
,g series Of exotic stories, the Libra
I'd OF the Best Foreign Novels" (Pari
in Hachette), now contains about thr.
ca hundred volumes. There are thirt
tie eight volumes of Miss Braddo
twenty seven of Lord Lytron, twent
in nine ct Dickens. seven Of Mrs Ga
h kell, niOe OF Thackeray and sixteen
Wilkie Collins. The American co
id tingent Is siEteen volumes by say,
ut authors, including Hawthorne, Lon
Us fellow aud Mrs. Beecher Stowe.
The North American Review I
I'D February opens with a symposium
%, which six prominent t~heologiar
=. :: representing as many religious d