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We have had the brilliant reception at the French Academy which has been looked forward to with particular interest. It was for that horizon an eclipse of the sun, which gave all the inhabitants a crick in the neck. M. Guizot received M. Prevost Paradol. The first feeling of all the audience was disappointment. M. Prevost Paradol is a passedmaster in the art of Swift and Pascal-that polished irony which conveys a poisoned meaning in the healthiest words, which says one thing and means another. We reckoned he would heap Swift's and Pascal's flowers on the government while we should enjoy the hisses and see the fangs of the serpents which lurked beneath them. Politics were scarcely. introduced except by M. Guizot, who talked sophistry upon the Pope's right to keep the eternal city in the church's mortmain; by which he reminded us of the immortal men born with a blue star on their forehead, described by Swift. One went to them for oracles of wisdom, and heard nothing but misanthropic moanings for the past. When children of men (however bright may be the star Heaven has planted on their brow) reach what M. Guizot touchingly called "the downward declivity of life's last days," reason in a measure resigns her throne, and memory alone wields the sceptre in the dome of thought which is soon to be vacated for ever. Nuit," of which at least 20,000 copies were sold. Poor Henri Murger, who was most remorselessly bled by them (I gave you, some time since, the ridiculously low prices they gave him for works which they have sold, and will sell annually for years to come, by the tens of thousands), said, on his death-bed, in his ironical way: "Well, one thing troubles my dying hour: I go out of the world conscious that I have been the ruin of MM. Levy Brothers!" An author in the possession of great reputation is not, of course, the prey of these horse leeches. The proprietors of two of our two cent daily papers have been striving to outbid each other for M. Victor Hugo's new novel, which they wished to publish in the feuilleton of their paper. One of them, the proprietor of "Le Soleil," offered M. Hugo $100,000 cash for the privilege of so publishing it. The "Revue des Deux Mondes" offered him $5,000 to publish two chapters of it. M. Hugo declined both offers. He has all his life long refused to allow his works to appear in this fragmentary form. Have you seen the dedication and preface of the "Sea's Laborers"? Here is the former: "I dedicate this book to the rock of hospitality and of liberty; to that corner of old Norman soil where the noble little tribe of the sea lives, to the severe and gentle island of Guernsey, my present asylum, my probable tomb, V. H." This is the letter: "Man's three struggles are with religion, society, and nature. These three struggles are at the same time his three wants; believe he must, hence the temple; create he must, hence the city; live he must, hence the plough and vessel. But in these three solutions are three wars. The mysterious difficulty of life arises from all three of them. Man must wrestle with the obstacle in the shape of superstition, in the shape of prejudice, in the shape of element. A triple ananke oppresses us; the ananke of dogmas, the ananke of laws, the ananke of things. In 'Notre Dame de Paris' the author denounced the first; in 'Les Miserables' pointed out the second; in this book he indicates the third. With these three fatalities which surround man there is mixed the secret fatality, the extreme anankethe human heart. VICTOR HUGO.".. I was mistaken in saying in my last letter that M. Gustave Doré had sold his illustrations of Shakspeare. He has been in negotiation with an English firm for their publication. The negotiation failed, in consequence of the advance he made of his terms; he declined $80,000; his price now is $100,000. I find I was mistaken likewise in affirming MM. Mame & Co. of Tours had covered the expenses of the illustrated Bible by the sale of the first edition. It did nearly cover the expenses incurred (which were enormous), and they reckon upon making a good deal of money by the second edition, which is now coming out in numbers-the whole work to be issued before New Year's Day next. . . . Everything is now publishing in the shape of numbers. M. Chamerot is going to give us sedate old Rollin in numbers. The MM. Didot will soon present us with Cantu's The Dramatic Authors have organized their pub- "Universal History" in the same form. M. Perrotin lishing house. On the 15th of April the publishing has begun to give us Beranger's songs in the same agency of Dramatic Authors will be opened on the sandwich; Thiers' histories, Vaulabelle's "HisBoulevard. Any author who may wish his play tory of the Restoration," dictionaries, grammars, published, will state the paper, size, and edition he old novels-in fine, all sorts of books are minced desires; he will be allowed five months after pub- fine to suit with our purses and dealt out to us.... lication to pay the printer's and paper-maker's bill, We are assured the French Emperor's "Life of and he will pay only 10 per cent. to the agency, to Cæsar" is to be expected in a very short time. It cover house rent and office expenses. It is really is alleged the only obstacle to its immediate publiincredible how dramatic authors have been bled cation is his Majesty's indecision about the form in by MM. Michel Levy Brothers. For instance, they which it ought to appear, viz., in one or two volgave M. Bouchardy $100 for the copyright of "La-umes. The cost of this portion of the work will zare le Patre," of which they sold 120,000 copies. exceed, it is said, that of the first portion; more M. Paul Feval received only $80 for "Le Fils de la than thirty proofs a page have been required for a Here is M. Alex. Dumas's last letter: "I communicated, Sunday, to the Literary Men's Society a scheme of a theatre, which was received with unanimous applause. Everybody present not only promised to give it their assistance, but promised to subscribe to it. This is my scheme: I want $400,000 to build an edifice, half theatre and half circus, capable of containing 3,000 persons, and of taking in 7,000f. receipts. The first seat would be at 5 f., the last at 50 centimes. In subscribing for a seat, the subscriber would receive two seats, namely, ten francs for five francs, one franc for 50 centimes. I double the capital and pay in pleasure. 800 subscribers would enter every night; in four years the debt would be paid; in six years the theatre would belong in fee simple to the Societies of Dramatic Authors, Literary Men, and Dramatic Artists. I would retain for myself, during my life, the right to bring out a new and an old piece there annually. The subscriptions will soon be opened. Then I shall appeal, through the public prints, to everybody's sympathy. Each subscriber may subscribe for what sum he pleases, and he will pay the day 500,000f. are subscribed." M. Alex. Dumas's last dramatic production has been d- -d most vigorously here. He has sunk lower within the last six months than he has yet reached, so outrageously has he abused public patience. His lectures have been rehashes of old novels; his articles for the newspapers made up, two-thirds of them, with scissors and paste; and his plays have been utterly absurd. He seems to have nearly exhausted himself. MAY 1, 1866. great many pages. Nevertheless, it is reckoned a caution to the keepers of the Library to watch and the sale of these volumes will put $80,000 of copy-protect Bossuet's work from "the swindling and sly right into the imperial pocket. Company of Jesus who may send emissaries to falsify I trust it may not be considered indelicate if I the original manuscript." His chief legatees were deplore here the discontinuance of the "National suspended priests, odd literary men, and old acAlmanac." It is a national loss. It rendered the quaintances, who shared his intense hatred of the United States more substantial service abroad than Unigenitus bull. This perennial vivacity of party the whole Federal diplomatic corps. It taught the passion so nearly connected with literature seemed world the vast resources, the incredible progress, to me to confer freedom of your city upon this the unprecedented energy of the people of the original figure. It is said the ambition of the country. It corrected, in a sensible measure, the late Count Alfred de Vigny was to be the tutor coarse virulence and ignorance of a portion of the of the Imperial Prince. It is said the conpublic press. If its ribaldry was read with disgust, clusion of M. Michelet's history of ante-revolu-, the statistics of schools, seats of learning, and chari- tionary France (which he intends shall be his table foundations raised hope in the breasts of well-politico-historical will and testament), which will wishers of the country. I shrink from appealing to a patriotic citizen to sacrifice to his country the vexation, and trouble, and toil this work gave him and brought in no adequate return. But I assure him, if he would make this sacrifice, he will be doing a service to his country. I have never been to the Imperial Library without seeing its volumes in somebody's hands, and I have repeatedly known men to wait for hours their turn to get it. Information was contained in it which could be found nowhere else. Herr Abelsdorff, a Berlin publisher who recently brought out the Life of the New Cæsar, and who, at the instance of the French Government, was prosecuted for libelling the French Emperor, has been sentenced to fifty thalers fine. As this is the third sentence pronounced against Herr Abelsdorff, his license as publisher has been withdrawn. It is not generally known that Mme. George Sand once wrote the "book" of an opera. She had taken a great fancy to a young German composer of the Wagner School, and wrote a "book" for him. Ile was not familiar with French, and had an unbounded respect for Mme. Sand; he consequently put the whole of the "book" into music. At the end of the first act a chorus of male and female peasants saluted the departure of the village lord, and the composer made them sing to a dancing air-"Exit lord centre door back"-taking care to place a prolorged trill on c-e-n-t-r-e. When Mme. Sand saw these mistakes (for the score was filled with others like that which I have mentioned), she burnt the "book," and has never again thought of writing A strange lawsuit has been tried this week. M. Parent Duchatelet, although he died so late as 1862, was a Jansenist filled to overflowing with the passions of Port Royal. He possessed only $62,000, which he distributed in part among his eleven grandchildren, but he bequeathed legacies to so many people that his grandchildren, instead of receiving some $5,000 or $6,000, did not receive more than $100 a piece. He had been very wealthy, but exaggerated charity, proselytism, unfortunate lawsuits, and expensive publications to perpetuate old quarrels, whose very ashes are cold, sensibly impaired his estate. He lived and died surrounded by portraits of all the eminent members of Port Royal, and all the manuscripts relating to the history of Jansenism he could dis one. ... form the connecting link between those seventeen volumes and the seven volumes of his "History of the Revolution," will make such a profound sensation that the police may interfere and send book and author before the courts of justice. . . . M. Tisserant, the actor, is about to give us a volume of souvenirs and dramatic advice, with a preface by M. Jules Janin. . . . Rumor declares the Marquis Bourbon del Monte to be the author of Mlle. Segeste, an anonymous novel which has attracted some attention here. I have had the pleasure to meet here J. R. Osgood, Esq., of the firm of Ticknor & Fields, of Boston. He has diligently visited our best printing-offices and other places connected with the trade, not only in Paris, but in the provinces, winning golden opinions wherever he has been. G. S. NOTES ON BOOKS AND BOOKSELLERS. SCIENCE AND RELIGION.-In a recent number we adverted to the fact that the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, had established a new professorship, the title of which is "The Relations between Science, Philosophy, and Religion." Charles W. Shields, D. D., a highly esteemed divine of this city, has been called to the chair thus established, and we have before us a copy of the introductory lecture to his course of instruction. Dr. Shields had, by several interesting monographs, shown that this subject was one quite familiar to his thoughts, and we are therefore not surprised to find that the generalizations in his introductory are so sharply defined, well considered, judicious, and suggestive. The numerous alumni and friends of this venerable and respected institution of learning will congratulate her in having, by this pioneer movement, appreciated and anticipated one of the most pervading and deeply-seated intellectual wants of the time. Other institutions will doubtless follow her leadership, and we may accordingly hope that, in the next generation of scholars, thinkers, and authors, science and faith will be found, not hostile or indifferent to each other, but heartily joining hands in united effort to impart wisdom to faith and devoutness to science. We advert to this matter because it involves the most grave and pressing interests, and deals with problems, the bungling or indiscreet treatment of which may result either in superstition or skepticism. All who have occasion, either as His will betrayed this ruling passion. He journalists or students, to closely survey the field bequeathed $1,000 to the Société de St. Augustin of modern literature, know that there is an apparent (which is always rich; it has $120,000), whose conflict going on between many of the deductions of chief organ, "L'Observateur Catholique," is ultra recent science, and certain generally received theoJansenist. It publishes articles with such rubrics logical opinions or interpretations. The whole body as these: Impious Speeches of Pius IX.; Monsig- of current literature is more or less astir with this nor Mondinet begged by the Pope; The Jesuits' Toy-rising strife. It can no longer be ignored; it must sellers. I need not say M. Parent Duchatelet loathed simply be recognized and met. When chemistry, the Jesuits, and he exhibited his detestation of geology, and astronomy, elate with their splendid them in his will. He bequeathed to the Imperial triumphs, summon our currently received exegesis Library a manuscript of Bossuet relating to one of to the tribunal of reason and fact, it will not do for Father Quesnel's books, and added to the bequest the leaders and defenders of religious thought to cover. MAY 1, 1866. Sixteen years ago the firm of S. C. Griggs & Co. was established in Chicago, and throughout all the trials and vicissitudes under which so many and various houses of all the branches of business have tottered, been shaken, or have fallen, that house has preserved its standing unfailingly, and stands to-day confessedly at the head of the business in the great West. The house is indeed one of the institutions of the city-as strong and enduring as it is useful and ornamental. From the comparatively small premises in which the firm first engaged in their business, the establishment has been compelled from time to time to remove to more spacious quarters, until eight years ago it planted itself at 39 and 41 Lake Street, occupying two of the enormous stores in the iron block, near Wabash Avenue. These stores are fifty feet on Lake Street by one hundred and seventy-five feet deep, and both stores and basements are filled with the immense stock. shrink from the high argument to which they are was, and that too within the memory of living men, challenged. The questions must be grappled with, and they too of no venerable age, when the book else our faith will be scandalized by a silence no business of Chicago hardly rivalled, either in the less ignominious than a surrender. In the settle- value of its stock, or the amount of capital invested, ment of this conflict the College of New Jersey has an ordinary apple stand of the present day. But added to her olden fame by taking the lead, and the as Chicago emerged from the condition of a frontier professor to whom she has intrusted that responsible military post to that of a sprightly trading village, and critical duty evinces by his inaugural that he the book business increased, and it has kept steady adequately comprehends both the difficulty and deli- pace with the unexampled progress of the immense cacy of his task. He informs us that, on the one region of country of which the present city is the hand, his department is not one of merely scientific metropolitan centre. Though bookselling and pubinstruction, and, on the other hand, that it is not lishing is not one of the branches of commerce that one of merely religious instruction. Excluding serve to swell the noise and din on 'Change, and thus what is purely scientific and purely theologic, its transactions are not mentioned in the daily, there remains to be formed out of these two over- monthly, or annual reports of the Board of Trade, lapping departments, another, which is, strictly it has nevertheless been no less of value to the genspeaking, philosophical in its nature, and which, ineral progress of the city; has been none the less an general language, may be termed "Philosophy as integral part of the immense commerce of Chicago, embracing both Science and Religion in their logical and none the less a means of attracting hither that relations." "I would so term it," says the Profes- general trade which finds in Chicago its most apsor, "not because Philosophy is in any sense supe-propriate and advantageous resort. rior to Religion or Science, but because in virtue of her power of abstraction, her insight into reality, her love of truth, her craving for unity, and her habit of candor, she alone can give what neither of the respective partisans can furnish, and yet both of them require a mediator or umpire to adjust their boundaries, settle their border feuds, and check their raids upon each other's territory." This is illustrated by a reference to the doctrine of creation, and then the aim and object of the teaching are summarily stated to be "to combine philosophically the scientific and religious departments of instruction, to take the materials of truth which they respectively furnish in an unrelated and fragmentary state, and organize them into a rational system; to show that all well-ascertained facts of nature and clearly-revealed truths of Scripture are not only congruous, but actually require each other to make up the whole truth; that even such theories and creeds as seem to be in conflict are passing, under fixed laws, through a process of mutual correction and reconciliation, into a similar region of established verities; that it is thus the mission of science to confirm and illustrate the truths of religion, and of religion to give rational support and consistency to the facts of science; and that sooner or later, in the history of mankind, the ultimate result must be the perfect coincidence of human and divine knowledge, together with the absolute harmony of all the great interests resulting therefrom; in a word, the key-note of these instructions will be, that Science and Religion cannot do without each other; God hath joined them together, and let no man put them asunder." It will be readily seen that the mode of treatment here proposed should command the confidence both of religionists and scientists; that it does justice to the opinions of each, and seeks to reconcile them by the application of mediating principles, which both will doubtless acknowledge. We have called attention to the establishment of this department at Princeton, because we are persuaded its intrinsic importance and its literary and educational bearings will be promptly appreciated by all Christianly instructed men, all sincere students of nature, all real patriots who would correct the skepticism latent in the minds of the educated classes, and thence infecting the body of the community, and above all by parents, who seek for their sons an education which will not divorce reason from faith, but wed them in harmonious and inseparable fellowship. THE HOUSE OF S. C. GRIGGS & Co.-The people of the Northwest have for many years been familiar with the name of the long-established firm of S. C. Griggs & Co., booksellers and publishers. Time This well and most favorably known firm has just undergone a change in its organization; not a change by which it will lose any of those who have hitherto so honorably conducted its affairs, but a change which introduces into it new vigor, and will make it in all respects one of the most stable and enterprising houses of the country. The senior partner, S. C. Griggs, Esq., will take a respite from many years of arduous toil in a visit to Europe; he leaves the city in a few days with that view. During his trip he will of course visit the great publishing houses of Europe, and will establish there an agency for his house, through which he will receive directly and immediately all the valuable publications which appear there. The other member of the firm, E. L. Jansen, Esq., who has been equally devoted to business and whose efforts have been crowned with so much success as one of the managers of the concern during its past years of successful growth and rapid extension of business, will have the assistance of the new members of the firm, all of whom have a ripe experience. These new members are D. B. Cooke, Esq., Gen. A. C. McClurg, and Fred. B. Smith, Esq. D. B. Cooke has been for some time in charge of the retail department of the establishment, for which his previous long experience as a bookseller and publisher had eminently fitted him, and with whom the Chicago public had been so long and pleasantly associated. He now enters the firm as one of its members, giving to it that practical energy which is peculiar to the man, and that popularity which has always attended his business intercourse with the public. MAY 1, 1866. Gen. A. C. McClurg, who was with the house for two years previous to the rebellion, and who brings back to his chosen peaceful pursuit the same abilities and enthusiasm which gained for him a General's star in the field-a cultivated gentleman who has as enviable a reputation at home as he won for himself among his comrades in arms; and Mr. F. B. Smith, who during five years' clerkship with the firm has, by his quiet industry and accurate knowledge of books, editions, and authors, made himself widely known throughout the Northwest among careful book buyers, and gained the confidence of those who wish to make additions to their libraries, have been admitted as partners, and henceforth the firm of S. C. Griggs & Co. will include these gentlemen, as well as Messrs. S. C. Griggs and E. L. Jansen. The past success of this house, magnificent as it has been, is but the foundation for the future, and who knows but the book-house of 1880 may contrast with the present imposing establishment as the latter does with that of 1850? At all events the book-buying community of the Northwest may be assured that they will be the gainers by this rejuvenation of the partnership, and we bespeak in the future for the noble house of S. C. Griggs & Co. continued and constantly increasing prosperity.-Chicago Republican, April 10. corner of Bleeker, where his stock of books and stationery has unendurably overflowed his space. Leypoldt and Holt go to 451 Broome St. M. Doolady goes to 448 Broome Street. O. S. Felt, with his Boston agencies, goes to 455 Broome St. W. A. Townsend comes into Broome St. F. J. Huntington & Son, and Hurd & Houghton, and G. P. Putnam are already in Broome St. Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, & Co., and Dick & Fitzgerald are also going thither; so that Broome Street is becoming quite a publisher's nest-almost a Paternoster Row. Scribner goes out of Grand St., removing northward to 654 Broadway, between Bleecker and Bond. Schermerhorn & Bancroft, too, remove north one block, to the corner of Crosby and Broome Sts. The firm of Wm. White & Co., Boston, but with an agency in New York, has succeeded to that of A. J. Davis & Co., in the business of publishing and selling works on spiritualism. The firm of A. J. Davis & Co., however, still remains extant for dealing in Mr. Davis's own publications, seventeen or more in number. Mr. Charles Welford, of the firm of C. Scribuer & Co., has gone to London, to open a branch house there for conducting the foreign book business of his firm. Mr. Welford's extensive acquaintance with books and business experience must render this an influential and useful proceeding. Mr. P. H. Cannon, heretofore with James Miller, has gone into business with Wm. McSorley & Co., publishers and booksellers in St. Louis, with good prospects, and without intending to lose any old friends while he makes new ones. The increased proportion in the New York book market of books manufactured abroad, but with a New York such books are "American publications." A numimprint, is very striking. It is a question whether ber of the handsomest of the Appletons' late publications, for instance, of "New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1866," are printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode, or some other London printer. The like is the case with sundry of Lippincott's books, of Philadelphia;* of Roberts Brothers', of Boston, etc. etc. In like manner, Leypoldt & Holt issue editions of Thacke ray's works of the Tauchnitz print, manufactured in Leipsic, but with the New York imprint. These books are of a class heretofore manufactured in this country. Our working printers and bookbinders, of course, lose all the work on these editions. The matter must, however, remain in this state unless the tariff is altered, or the new wood paper of the Manayunk mill, or some other influence, shall alter FEW AMERICAN PUBLISHERS have displayed the energy and ability which have for years characterized the business proceedings of Mr. George W. Childs, of Philadelphia. To him the literary public are indebted for the most useful literary paper in America, the AMERICAN PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR AND LITERARY GAZETTE, issued twice every month, and containing a thoroughly reliable record and occasional criticisms of the current literature of the United States. Its Paris correspondence, too, presents the best account of literary life in the French capital that we know of. The labor incidental to one journal is generally considered enough for one man in England, but Mr. Childs not long since courageously purchased and undertook the entire management of the Philadelphia "Public Ledger," a daily paper circulating largely, but by his judicious arrangements increased to such an extent as to stand now in circulation almost at the head of the American press-only, indeed, having one competitor, the New York "Herald," superior to it. daily and fortnightly paper would seem to take the utmost powers of mortal man, but the publisher in the relative cost of making books here and abroad. question has recently added the Philadelphia A petition has been presented to Congress, signed "Home Weekly" to his other ventures, and promises by seventy-three, including many of the most emito make that one of the best family newspapers is-nent living American authors, setting forth the sued in the United States. It seems almost incredible state of things above mentioned, showing that it that one man could undertake such an accumula- diminishes the value of American copyrights, and tion of labor; and, certainly, if he succeeds in asking "that the revenue laws, so far as they relate maintaining the character of these varied publica- to the manufacture and importation of books, may tions, he will richly merit an unlimited success.- be so revised and modified that American publicaTrubner's American and Oriental Literary Record tions may be relieved from the heavy burdens now (London), Feb. 28, 1866. resting upon them, and from the disadvantages under which they suffer in competition with imported books." A NOTES ON BOOKSELLING, ETC., IN NEW YORK.-On this present May 1st there is much shifting of quarters by the trade; publishers and booksellers alike It will be observed that the phrasing of this are flitting. Christern has carried his stock of prayer does not show whether the petitioners want foreign literature up to No. 863 Broadway, half a the taxes on American publications diminished or mile above where his former stand was. B. H. those on books made abroad increased. Mr. GreeTicknor goes into roomy quarters at 63 Bleecker St., ley's signature, however, which was the first of those just off Broadway, where he can do better justice to to the original paper, and which was accompanied the Boston books than in the little "cubby-house" by a specification of the way in which he wished he has been inhabiting on Broadway near Twelfth. this relief given, is entirely omitted from the printed Mohun and Ebbs take their éditions de lure and copies of the petition which have been circulated. splendidly bound standard editions a mile north, THE member of the editorial staff of "The Triup to 546 Broadway, next the old Düsseldorf Gal-bune," Mr. George Ripley, who has had charge of lery. Kirby removes half a block down, from the the literary department of this paper for many |