The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-05-16 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

LITERARY JOTTINGS.  A book of letters written home to his family by Lord liescoosfield in 1830 31 is announced for mime. ilMte is,ue by Mr. John Murray. "Hogue+ and Vagabonds.," a eerie, of studies of the waysides of life, by Mr. Gorge ft. Sims, will hi issir d by Mewrs. Ghetto and Windus immediatoly. Messrs. Cripple., Hp'iam, and Co., announce a vohime by Mr. William H. Rideing, entitlel "Thr.ckoray'e London," being a descriptive account oi the novelist's haunts and scenes of Iris books It will be prefaced by a new portrait of Tbackeray, etched by Mr. E. H. Garrett.  Meagre. Bell and Son have in preparation a '' to the Works of Robert Browning," by Mm. Sutherland Orr. Messrs. Putnam announce " Man's Birthright ; or, the Higher Law of Property," by Mr. Edward H. G. Clark. The work is described ae an attempt to roe 0Ole the natural right of eacb generation to the owner..hip if the finance of the earth and bounty of nature with the claims and proper requirements of individual ownerahip ; including a demotratration of the inadequacy of the theories of Mr. Henry George.  . Dr. Abbott has been for some time past engaged on • volume dealing with "Lord Bacon : His Life and Works." The book is just ready at tie printies. The work will be divided into two parts. Port I. will deal with Bacon's life and character, Part 11. with his works.  Mr. William Blades hag in preparation "An account of the German morality-play entotled • Deloeition Cornuti Typographic as performed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a rhythmicel translation of the German amnion of IrAS ; also n literal reprint of the unique original rengion, written in Plattd•utaoli by Paul de W Wt. and printed in 162 L" In it. own land only seven eopiee of the book are known, and to most Englidt readers and others versed in folk-lore the editor expecte the book will come as a new piece of literature.  Mean. Seolay and Co. promise in a few days book by the Rev. H. C. G. Moule, entitled ''Justifyi,.g Righteouanem; a Consideration of mme tions concerning the acceptance of the Believers before God."  In their series of medical manuals, Messrs. Cassell and Co. will issue immediately a work on "Comparist,ve Anatomy and Physiology," by Professor Jeffrey Bell • and a treatise on " Diseases of the Tongue," by "Mr. 11. T. Butlin, F.R.C.S. Messrs. Gesell and Co. will publish in • few illys "Our Colonies and India How we Got Them and Why we Keep Them," by Cyril Ransoms, M A. Chum., Protessor of Modern Literature and History in the Yorkshire College, Leeds. The whole of General Gordon's journals are in the press, and will be published intact, with the exception of one or two passages which are of interest only to the family. Mr. Eimont Hake will edit thin], with introduction, explanatory notes, and spiiendices. He has free access to all family papyri and memoranda, Sir Henry Gordon giving him every faclity. Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. are the publishers. • "  The Rev. George Edmondson has in preparation a volume entitled 'Milton and Vondel," a curiosity of literature, in which he endeavours te chew that Milton was largely indebted in the compoeition of he "Paradise Lost "to various poems of his Dutch contemporary, boost van den Vondel ; and that " Samson Agonistes" also thews marks of having been suggested by a drama by Vondel on the same subject. Mr. Oswald Crawford, author of "The World We Live In, has in the press a new novel, entitled " A Woman's Reputation," which will be shortly published by Messrs. Chapman and Hall. A very interesting and attractive exhibition of mmuscripts relating to the history of music lion jut been arranged in a series of cases in the Department of Manuscripts of the British Museum. This c nqirehensive ,ollection, of which the value from • public educational point of view cannot be overestimated, comprises early illuminations cad drawings of musical instruments; numerous specimens of the notation known as neutouta, or munics, of which the Museum possesses examples an old as the Nth century, and from almost every part of Euro; ; manuscripts illustrating the notations written with two, three, four, five, and six line,; choral books of imposing dimensions; the early ballad and instrumental music of England and several specimens of autograph music by Handel and other masters of the divine art. ---- • ' •  s. • ••••• " Warnings " is the title of a book which Mr. Hubert E. H. Jerningham has in hand. It is ah attempt to bring together facts relating to the Anglo-Russian question. In his impeachment Mr. Jerningham ha. determined to let Blue Booty tell their own tale in their own words. He would have the reader understand that the time has arrived when proper delimitations of the frontier must be made, and they must be auch as will preclude all encroachments in ill,' future.  Daniel Murray O'Hare, a surgeon, who wee son. lanced at the last Liverpool assizes to 10 years' penal servitude for attempting to extort money from a lady by threat., committed:suicide by hanging himself on Friday in Walton Gaol, where he was cuntined pending his removal to undergo his sentence. lie was quite dead when discovered.