The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-09
Iiterary Notes,

II is said that during last year only $40
books were published in COnstantinople.
Justin Mccarthy the younger. has already
written eleven books and seven plays, although
he is only thirty years Old
T. Whitaker y Co. will publish directly
Canon Cheyne's hampton Lectures for 1880.
on the Historical Origin and Religious Ideas
If the Psaltcr."
Professor Tyndalls health is improving to
such an extent that he is preparing for the
rress volume of ESSAYS. addresses and re-
views, TO be issued under the title fragments
Of Science"
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont's stories OF
adventures in the fer West during her
husbands travels have just been issued by
ID. LothrOp Company III ayolume called The
VIII and the Way Stories"
Mr. Edmund Pendleton, author OF "A Con.
ventional Bohemian" and "A Virginia In;
heritanco," has written a new novel. entitled
'One Woman's Way" which will be published
shortly by ID. Appleton Co.
d. Appleton q Go. have in press Justice.
being part |. of Herbert Spencer's Principles
Of Morality begun some years ago with
THE Data OF Ethics" They also announce
new edition of Mr. Spencer's Essays -
Scientific, Political and Speculative" in
three volumes.
The Pail Mall Gazette remarks that il rs
mot likely that many books of importance
viii DO published before October" and that
meanwhile English publishers and American
printers are busy in preparing books tol
simultaneous issue in both countries. IL Will
be interesting, both from an economic and
from a literary point Of view. to see the effect
of American protection in the printing trade.
viii the English printers lose altogether the
business which will now 90 to America, or
will the publishers devise other work for
them 10 dor" 80,
D. Lothrop Company have just published
Here and Beyond" selected by Carrie A.
Cooke: The Will and the Way Stories by
Jessie Benton Fremont: Verses" by Celia
Thaxter: National Flowers" by Fannie A.
Deane. and The Christmas Book" by Heze-
kiah ButterwOrth They also issue new edi-
tions of George MacDonald's remarkable sue
cessful romance There and Back, y" Laura ID.
Nichols fanciful but practical Overhead y
Margaret Sidney's home story How Tom and
Dorthy Made and Kept a Christian Home.
Obsrs Silver City, and The Concord Guide
Book"
The late Calmann Levy, the Paris publisher,
was acquainted with nearly all the famous
French writers of the last half century, aud
his house enjoyed almost monopoly OF the
dramatists. He was the last Of four brothers.
who we're associated in the book trade, and
he inherited fortune Of Ss,0OO0OO from his
brother Michael, the originator of the firm.
The average annual output of Calmann Levy's
presses was |, 724,000 volumes and 2,5OO,OOO
periodicals. and he kept going fourteen paper
mills thirty printing houses, thirteen bind
cries and various other factories and ware
houses.
Hawthorne's mastery Of the preternatural
seems 10 US the most characteristic feature III
his genius. He followed no predecessor; he
left behind him no successor. He stands SO
completely alone that the ordinary methods
of comparative criticism are baffed. He
must be taken as what he is-an original
genius. Yet, independent as he is. he cannot
be called distinctiyely American novelist
He is not a novelist at all. Fancy. magma
ton. poetic vision, are his gifts. Romance il
his domain. Too intent upon penetrating
below the surface in both men and things, he
represented neither as they passed before. his
eyes. He looks through rather than at life.