The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-08-15 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

LITERARY JOTTINGS. Dr. Z. Loewe, the crimpanion of the late Sir doses Montefiore during the latter years of his life, Id engaged upon a memoir of him, which will appear shortly, with many unpublished documents and illus• trations. Mr. George Oinond, auther of "Lives of the Lord Advocates,' is arranging for publication the papers of the Family of Dundas of Arniston. This family played a very important part in English as well as in Soottish hist,ry for many years. Thus the work is likely to be interesting. Messrs.Sangster and Co. are preparing an "Annual" —"Pictorial Records of the English in Egypt; with a full and descriptive Life of General Gordon." The text will be illustrated with 120 wood engravings and a series of coloured portraits. Mr. C. H. Herford promises a volume of "Studies in the Literary Relations of England with Germany in the Sixteenth Century." _ _  Mr. Charles M. DouFitty is going over the records of his journeys in the East nine years ago, and will publish his chronicle under the title "Travels in Northern Arabia." The Cambridge University Press will pubhah the volume. Mr. Walter Herries Pollock is said to be engaged on a new biography of "David Garrick." Messrs. Chapman and Hall will shortly isms for English readers, an edition of M. Edmond About's " Handbook of Social Economy." There is a biograph cal and critical introduction. Messrs. Cassell and Co. will issue at no distant date anew anonymous novel. It is called "The BarSinister," the text being Mormonism—the bar-sinister on the escutcheon of the great American Republic. Miss Kate Greenaway's new book for the autumn publishing semen will, as usual, be a budget of pictures and words. It will bear the title "The Marigold Garden." Two new picture-books for little folks, by Mr. Harrison Weir, will be ready before long. 'Tkey bear the titles 'The Fable Book of Animals" and "The Sagacity of Animals." Messrs. Routledge and Sons are to be the publishers. Messrs. Sampson Low and Co. have just ready "A New Complete Russian-English Dictionary" compiled by Mr. A. Alexandrow. Dr. William W. Ireland, of Preston Lodge, has in the press a work entitled "The Blot upon the Brain: Studies in the History of Psychology., It treats of the hallucinations of Mehemet, Luther, Joefh of Arc, Swedenborg, the insanity of the Ciesars and of Ivan the Terrible, and the hereditary neurosis of the royal family of Spain, Ac. Messrs. Bell and Bradfute are the publishers, Mr. David Nutt will shortly publish a work in Hebrew rhymed prose by the Rev. Dr. Chotzner, of Harrow, called ' Sichronoth ; or, Reminiscences of a Student of Jewish Theology." It will be accompanied by an essay in English on "The Rise and Progress of Hebrew Poetry in post-Biblical Times." The first two volumes of the New York Shakspere Society will be published in September. One will contain Mr. R. S. Guernsey's paper on "The Eccle'Wake] Law in 'Hamlet,'" in which he maintains that the description of Ophelis'e funeral is a faithful representation of the old English law regarding the burial of suicides; the other will be "A Study in Warwickshire Dialect," by Mr. Appleton Morgan. The volumes will be bound in black and gold, with a facsimile of the first grant of arms to John Shakspere. The second volume (completing the work) of Mr. Barry O'Brien's book, "Fifty Years of Concessions to Ireland," is in the press, and will appear in September. In this volume the narrative is carried down to 1881, and it includes A history of the Land League agitation and a sketch of the Parnellite party. It also contains a history of the relation of landlord and tenant from the treaty of Limerick to the passing of the Land. Law Act. The publishers are Messrs. Sampson Low and Co. Miss Caroline Fishwick, a daughter of Lieutenant. Colonel Fishwick, the anther of the well-known "Lancashire Library," has nearly completed for the Record Society a work on the Exchequer, " Deposi• tions.taken by Commission." The materials have been collected from the reports of the Deputy Keeper of the . Public Records, and range in date from the reign of Elizabeth down to the year 1760. The short nbAracts of these Exchequer proceedings deal with every variety ' of subject which could give rise to litigation, and in their present form—so much more attractive than that of the official Blue-book—will be more likely to obtain due notice at the hands of the historical and topographical student. The documents selected relate solely to the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire. Mes•irs. Macmillan and Co. have issued &prospectus of geographical text-books. The series will be edited by Mr. Archioald Geikie, the Director-General of the Geelogical Sutvey ; and among the writers will be Mr. H. W. Bates, F.R.S. ; Mr- A. Buchan, F.R.S.E. ; Mr. J. S. Keltie, Mr. Norman Lockyer, Mr. Clements Markham, Mr. John Murtay, the Rev. H. F. Tozer, Dr. E. B. Tyler, Dr. Warta, and the Reverend J. E. C. Welldon. The volumes will deal with both elemf ntary and advarced subjects, and will include an iutreductory volume, ageography of the British isles, of British colonies, of Europe, of America, of Asia, of Alike, of the oceans and oceanic islands, of Australia and New Zealand, of British Notth America, of India, and of the United States. It is anticipated that the first two volumes of the series will be ready early in 1886.