rather than an advance. APRIL 15, 1867. book like Dore's Bible would be an impossibility in America. The production of a fact. When you drop u from color you seem in some way to extract all the color and heart out of the word. If the idea is fanciful, why is it that the u is almost universally retained in Saviour, it being distincly felt that to deprive that word of even a letter would be to sacrilegiously despoil it of its sacred completeness? But every bibliopole appreciates and admits the value and significance of styles in type. Of late years there has been a rage for what is called Old Style, which, unlike many fashions, is deserving of all the favor it receives. But in employing this style the long s's should be dropped altogether, as they are a hindrance and a vexation to a majority of readers. If the object were merely to make fac-similes of antique books, then of course this peculiar s should be retained. But the type has not been revived, as some suppose, with the idea of imitating the old because it is old, but for the reason that the type is singularly pleasing to the eye, its slight irregularity and quaintness of form adding to its charms. It can be read, moreover, with more ease and at a greater distance than the ordinary formal-cut type. Now here is our deficiency greater than in binding. We have two or three binders who give us excellent workmanship, but they are utterly unequal to the demands upon them, and hence the majority of our books are unspeakably vulgar in appearance and poor in execution. Even our best binders are unable to supply themselves with elegant designs for tooling, and must either copy the foreign or content themselves with such new combinations of old forms as they can make. Certain books require elaborate and artistic ornamentation, and in Europe there are men specially educated in this branch of art who continually surprise us with unique and often exquisitely beautiful designs, which unite grace, delicacy, character, invention, harmony of proportion, and unity of effect. There is not an artist in the whole breadth of the Union of any skill or experience in this department; and consequently anything like originality or artistic beauty in designs for book-covers is not at present possible. The most important question concerning American books is, after all, their cost. There is pressing need for a class of issues which shall combine neatness with cheapness and compactness. The Messrs. Harpers supply us pretty well with the better English novels in a cheap and fairly readable form; but in the whole range of English or American clas sics one must either purchase more costly copies than he needs, or content himself with those which are vilely printed from worn-out plates. No man, says a Frenchman, whose income is less than five thousand dollars, cau afford to buy a book; because, he explains, no man buys one book-he buys a hundred or none. Cannot the publishers make some effort for the benefit of the large class which have literary taste and scant pocket-books? The true economy of book-making-the largest result from the smallest expenditure-has been rarely studied. There is too much waste in the ordinary book-too much weight in the paper, too much margin, too much cost in the binding. Thick paper and wide margins are well enough for those who can afford sumptuous editions for their grand libraries, but become wasteful luxuries for those whose means are small and needs many. Why, moreover, when one seeks to buy a Shakspeare or a Milton, must he be compelled to purchase so much extra weight of paper, thereby paying to the publisher seventy or eighty cents a pound for a material worth about twenty? A thin paper renders a book more flexible and free to the hand, and, so far, more agreeable than the heavier volume. It is only necessary that the paper should not be so thin as to be transparent. Again, why must we have wide margins and large type save when a luxurious elegance is confessedly designed? The type, of course, must not be so small as to strain the eye; but small, though perfectly clear and legible type, narrow margins, and thin paper are great economies in book-making, and all three are perfectly com patible with neatness and attractiveness. It is desirable, also, to make a radical change in the An interesting consideration in book-making is binding of books. There are, in fact, only two the style of type. There is a settled connection proper styles-one in substantial leather, morocco, between the form of the letter and the thought of or calf, which may be graced with all the appointthe author which is more easily felt than analyzed; ments of art; the other simply in paper. Mute in one style of type an author's language will seem binding, so much in vogue, has nothing to de rely compact, in another diffuse; in one metal garb it it. It is paltry, perishable, and at the same de will appear obtuse, and in another sharp and clear. expensive, an as every different work is bor Gren There is what might be called an aesthetic quality an independent style and of an independe libeze, not only in the form of type, but in the spelling of it is far from suitable for libraries. A row words; and the opposition to Mr. Webster's inno- in faded, many-colored muslin covers." mously vations often arises from a vague perception of the gilded, and no two volumes alike in work We can make good paper, but we seldom use it. There is a certain class of American novels which never fail to remind one of a man in a fine coat over a soiled shirt. Take up a copy of one and you will observe its gayly-gilded and highly-colored binding; open it and you are startled and disgusted by its coarse and yellow paper and its wretched printing. Better paper and better printing are often put in our daily newspapers. This class of books does more to bring into contempt American taste and culture than any other. The square, inelegant, and clumsy proportions of these books are also noticeable. Almost all American books have trimmed edges; almost all English ones, unless bound in leather, have their edges uncut. There has always been considerable discussion on this point, and in England at present there is, as we have before mentioned, a strenuous advocacy of the American plan, headed by no less a personage than Mr. Charles Dickens. It is not easy to convert a connoisseur to this opinion. A trimmed book is in his eye an abomination; and it is really the case that, apart from any considerations of convenience, there is a style and elegance in the virgin margin of a folded sheet, before the knife has touched it, which is peculiarly charming. This charm is partially injured in American books, when bound with uncut edges, by the fact that, either from inequality in the size of the paper or imperfect register of the sheet on the press, the signature rarely folds with the regularity and neatness which characterize the English books. This point is very noticeable in periodicals. There is another difference between English and American books which may be referred to here: our books in muslin are all bound with firm and tight backs; the English with free and open backs. The English book will, therefore, lie flat and open in your hand; the American, on the contrary, requires some leverage to keep it open. One method is more durable and sightly, the other more agreeable. ooks pre APRIL 15, 1867. sents a motley and distasteful confusion. We wish, therefore, that the continental plan of binding books in paper covers were more common; they are more pleasant to handle, easier to read, far cheaper, and they enable the purchaser to bind them in permanent form and uniform style at his convenience. The book-buyer would soon find no small pleasure in collecting his books in paper, covers, classifying them according to subject, and binding them in styles which should bear the mark of his taste. Every man's collection would by this means have its own individual character.-The Round Table, New York, March 30, 1867. D. APPLETON & Co. will shortly issue an interesting new work, entitled "The History of the Navy during the Rebellion." It will be complete in two elegant octavo volumes of about five hundred pages each, embellished and illustrated with some ten full-page engravings in chromo tints, and with the same number of full-page woodcuts, portraits on steel of distinguished officers, and numerous vignettes from sketches made by Commander M. B. Woolsey, U. S. Navy, and with numerous maps and charts from government surveys and official plans, furnished for this work exclusively. cation of his former book on the same subject, but which has for a number of years been preparing in THE first volume of a new Biblical Cyclopædia, the able hands of Rev. Dr. McClintock and Rev. James Strong, has just been issued by the Harpers. The first volume includes the letters A and B. There are to be five others, all thoroughly illustrated; each volume will contain one thousand pages. In the preparation of this great work Messrs. McClintock and Strong have had the assistance of a number of scholars and theologians. They aim to make it a complete manual of Biblical literature, theology, church history, religious biography, and ecclesiastical terms and usages; scholarly and thorough in its method, but not repulsive to the mere English reader by an unnecessary display of technical language. A COMPANION volume to Mr. Longfellow's translation of Dante, the first volume of which, containing the "Inferno," is announced for immediate publication, will appear before long, in the shape of a version of the "Vita Nuova," by Mr. Charles E. Norton. We hear, too, that Dr. Parsons's translation of the "Inferno," the first seventeen cantos of which were published a number of years ago, is passing through the press. His last volume, "The Magnolia," a collection of original poems, is winning "golden opinions" from the best judges of poetry. THE journals and note-books of Hawthorne, extracts from which were a feature of the "Atlantic Monthly" during the past year, are about to be published complete in two volumes. If we may judge by the portions already printed, and which are exceedingly interesting from the light which and his methods of literary labor, they will be a they shed upon the genius of the delightful writer valuable addition to our scanty stock of intellectual autobiographies. THE LITERARY EDITOR of the "New York Times" notices that the taste for "private editions" is on the increase in this country. Within a short time, a gentleman of this city has caused seventy copies of Halleck's "Fanny" to be printed at his own expense, and enriched with original notes by the author; the same amateur has produced a beautiful impression of Hicks's "Eulogy of Crawford," limiting the number to one hundred. The "Bradford Club" have had eighty copies of a valuable historical monograph struck off at Munsen's press, in the most exquisite style; and they are about to prepare a private edition of the letters of Col. John Laurens. The little quarto, of which one hundred and fifty were published by subscription by Putnam, a few years since, under the title of "The Character and Portraits of Washington," now commands a high price when a stray copy finds its way into an auctioneer's catalogue-and several collectors, of Knickerbocker proclivities, are busy AN old and acrimonious controversy is reopened illustrating the "private edition of Dr. Francis's Old New York." By the handsome specimen of by the publication of a volume entitled "An Inquiry typography and binding called the "Magnolia," a privately printed Boston book, we perceive that this expensive and recherche taste is active in that city also. A lover of the somewhat coy but always emphatic and pleasant muse of Dr. Thomas William Parsons has collected and embalmed in this beautiful casket some of his late and uncollected pieces. REV. DR. GEORGE B. IDE, of Springfield, has nearly ready a volume of sermons to be published under the title of " Bible Pictures." CROSBY & AINSWORTH republish Professor Craik's "English of Shakspeare, illustrated in a Philological Commentary on his Julius Cæsar." MR. JOHN Meredith Read, Jr., of Albany, is engaged in writing a new "Life of Henry Hudson," with the aid of original documents drawn from the rarest sources in England, Holland, France, and Spain. This interesting work is to be illustrated oy Albert Bierstadt, who sails for Europe in May for the purpose of making studies for the series of drawings delineating the exciting events in the career of the renowned navigator, as well as for the great picture of "The Discovery of the North River by Henry Hudson," one of the two national pictures ordered for the Capitol at Washington by the government. Mr. Read's work will be an amplifi into the Origin of Anesthesia," written by exSenator Truman Smith, and issued in Hartford by Brown & Goss. Mr. Smith goes over the whole ground, reviews the evidence in the case, rejects the claims of Dr. Morton and Dr. Jackson, and contends that Horace Wells is entitled to the sole credit of the discovery. William Smith's "Dictionary of the Bible" has apTHE first number of the American edition by Dr. peared from the press of Hurd & Houghton. It will be published in thirty parts by subscription, and is revised and edited by Professor H. B. Hackett, with the co-operation of Mr. Ezra Abbot, Assistant Librarian of Harvard University. The illustrations are numerous and good, and the text clear. GOULD & LINCOLN announce a publication of the "Progress of Doctrine in the New Testament," by Thomas Dehany Bernard, of Exeter College, England. It is one of the series of Bampton Lectures. THE proposal that a royalty should be paid the author of a book on each copy sold by the publisher is Mr. James Spedding's contribution towards the settlement of the ancient quarrel between authors and publishers. To this "The Spectator" wants a rider added in the interest of the publishers, and, considering the vexations which the present system imposes on the genus APRIL 15, 1867. irritabile, in the interest of the authors also. The royalty ought not to be paid, "The Spectator" thinks, unless the sale of the book exceeds a certain limit, which limit, of course, will be one thing in one case and another in another, and in all cases will be fixed by the publisher. "This is the half profits' system, with one all-important difference." In this country, in the case of authors not well known, there is the widest diversity in the terms offered. A form of "The Spectator's" plan is not seldom tried, the author getting a specified percentage of the retail price after so many hundred copies are sold, he to pay all expenses on presentation of the bills. The translation now in the American market of a certain well-known foreign book is published under this agreement: the translator pays for stereotyping, for paper, and for everything, material or labor, necessary in the manufacture of the book; he agrees to furnish so many pages of copy each day and to correct so many; and he gets one-half of the price of each copy sold. He stipulates that no demand for money, except a certain small fraction of the whole expense, shall be made on him until so many months after the stereotyping is completed. The contracts are made in writing under seal, and though such as we have seen might well enough make an unknown author despondent, they set forth details so fully that quarrelling about their provisions would seem difficult.-The Nation. sold ten thousand copies of the half-guinea edition have now issued one at six shillings; of this three thousand copies were subscribed. Almost as large a number have been sold in the United States. GERMAN COPYRIGHT.-At the end of 1867, accord. ing to a new copyright law passed some years since by the German Diet and agreed to by all the separate governments, all copyright which had up to that time been prolonged by special privileges ceases and becomes public property. The works of Schiller, Goethe, Wieland, Herder, Körner, and many other German classics that have up to the present year been the copyright of certain publishers, or the families of the authors, can then be published by any one, and already the announce ments of cheap reprints are numerous. A publisher of Berlin advertises a series of the principal German authors, in very good print and on good paper, in volumes for threepence and sixpence each, e. g., "Bürger's Poems" for sixpence, Jean Paul's "Siebenkäs" for one shilling, Vos's "Luise" for three pence. VICIOUS LITERATURE.-The London "Bookseller" publishes an article on "The Literature of Vice" -the penny and halfpenny romances of murder, statements are made: "As to the rate of remuner robbery, seduction, and adultery-in which these ation received by the writers of these stories, we understand that two guineas for a sheet of eight pages is considered good payment, while in some Ir might puzzle Mr. Friedrich Kapp to mention few cases men are to be found who can provide a nation or tribe of men which has not given its enough writing to fill eight pages of close print, great men indiscriminate and fulsome adulation. each number warranted to contain at least one In an article on Washington's character, which he murder, fire, shipwreck, or seduction, for fifteen contributes to "The Historical Magazine" for shillings! On the other hand, two or three of the March, he charges the fault upon Americans in the writers of these sensation stories are likewise their case of Washington, and somewhat severely ani- proprietors; and considerable sums are said to have madverts upon it. Mr. Jared Sparks specifically been yearly netted from their sale in penny numhe denounces for "falsifying the record of Wash-bers." ington's life and of American history." It is within his personal knowledge that Mr. Sparks suppressed some passages in certain autograph letters of Washington which Mr. Kapp has seen, and tampered with other passages, in order to make the hero appear more devoted as a Christian than he really was and more conversant with the requirements of modern propriety. In one of the future articles promised from his pen, Mr. Kapp may perhaps be more explicit both as regards Washington and as regards his New England biographer.-The Nation. HON. Edward McPherson, Clerk of the U. S. House of Representatives, announces that he has 66 in press a Political Manual for 1867," which will take up our political history where his last manual ended, July 4, 1866, and carry it down to April 1 of the current year, or the end of the present session of Congress. He has compiled it from official sources, promises that it shall be accurate and fair, and believes that it will be useful to men of all parties. PRINTERS' READERS.-In France, the printers' readers, or, as they are there called, correcteurs, are held in esteem. They form a society, and meet once a year, and at the last gathering an interesting speech was delivered by M. Ambroise Didot, in which he passed in review the names of a number of learned men whose modesty and whose occupa tion caused them to be almost unknown, one of whom is said to have refused the Greek chair at Cambridge, preferring to remain a corrector for Plantin's press. M. Didot confessed that much of the credit given to the learned publications issued by himself and relations was due to the readers. the THE FOUNDER OF GEORGIA.-A new biography of General James Oglethorpe, described as founder of Georgia" (he certainly founded the city of Savannah), is announced in London, to be written by R. Smith. He died in 1785, aged ninetyseven; and his name is familiar, out of American history, as one of the earliest and warmest friends of Dr. Samuel Johnson, having been one of the warmest admirers and patrons of his poem called CHARLES LAMB.—Admirers of Charles Lamb, says "London," published in May, 17:38. Boswell makes Bookseller," will be glad to hear that Bell & repeated mention of General Oglethorpe in his Daldy, in republishing the "Essays of Elia," have wonderful "Life of Johnson"-one of the latest, restored many important passages which were sup-dated March 22, 1783, recording a visit by the pressed in previous editions. It is hoped they soldier to the sage the former being in his will also add some of those charming essays which eighty-ninth, and the latter in his seventy-fourth have not hitherto appeared in his collected works, but which are well known to collectors of Eliana. This new edition, which will be the most complete one extant, is published by arrangement with Moxon & Co., the proprietors of the copyrights of the " Lamb's several works. "ECCE HOMO."-The demand for this book in England is still very great. The publishers having year. THE BRITISH DRAMA.-There has just appeared, in London, the first part of a "Handbook to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain from the Invention of Printing to the Restoration." The author is Mr. W. Carew Hazlitt, grandson of the Hazlitt, critic and historian, who was the lifelong friend of Coleridge and Lamb. APRIL 15, 1867. WALTER LOW, 596 Broadway, American agent for the London publishing house of Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, has received Part XIII. of Doré's Bible. The edition will be completed in about fifty-five numbers, published monthly. LORD PLUNKET.-The Life, Letters, and Speeches of Lord Plunket, for many years at the head of the Irish bar, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland for a considerable time, edited by one of his sons, is advertised as nearly ready. An Introductory Preface is supplied by Lord Brougham, who is now in his eighty-ninth year. VERDI'S NEW OPERA.-The subject of this work is "Don Carlos," gloomy and tragic enough, at all events. Its performance at the Grand Opera of Paris has not eventuated very successfully, though a eritic says, "there is a scene of combination at the close of the third act which outdoes the 'Miserere' scene in Il Trovatore.' He seems to have an ineradicable love for dark and painful stories; and since he has become desirous of transforming his manner, as in 'Les Vêpres,' 'Simone Boccanegra,' 'La Forza del Destino,' so as to approach the complicated effects of German and French operas, which distinguish them from those in the elder Italian style, he has tried to give himself an appear ance of weight, thoughtfulness, and science which his works do not bear out." "THE QUARTERLY REVIEW."-It is stated that Dr. William Smith, of Dictionary reputation, has been appointed editor of the "Quarterly Review." He is well qualified to succeed Gifford, Sir John Coleridge, Lockhart, and Elwyn. He is now 53 years old, and is Classical Examiner in the University of London, and also Classical Professor in New College. His first three Dictionaries form the " Encyclopædia of Classical Literature," and his latest work, completed in 1863, is a “Dictionary of the Bible," in three large 8vo. volumes. Among his other and numerous literary labors is a good edition of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." The salary of the editor of the "Quarterly" is said to be about $7500 per annum. In the United States this periodical is sometimes mentioned as "The London Quarterly," which is a mistake, for there is a publication so called which is the literary organ of the Wesleyan Methodists, whereas Mr. John Murray's periodical simply is "The Quarterly Review." "GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE."-It is said that the plot of "Mademoiselle Mathilde," the new serial tale by Mr. Henry Kingsley, commenced in the April number of Sylvanus Urban's old and famous magazine, will be partly laid in England and partly in Bretagne, during the eighteenth century, and that Dr. Johnson and some of his literary friends will figure in it. A NOBLE TOURIST.-The Marquis of Lorne, eldest son and heir of the Duke of Argyll, having paid a hasty visit, last year, to the West Indies and the United States, has written a book about it, called "A Trip to the Tropics, and Home through America." This young gentleman is only in his twenty-second year, and the "Athenæum," noticing his book, says: "Not, therefore, that we may depreciate the author or his book, but that we may secure charitable judgments for both of them, we would have it remembered that this record of a run to the West Indies and the American continent is the work of a young head and fresh hand." In Jamaica, he (grandson of Mrs. Stowe's Duchess of Sutherland) evidently was under the influence of the anti-negro party. The critic from whom we have quoted above says: "In other respects the volume is a light and ple tord of travel in the western islands and in the United States. Lord Lorne saw a good deal of society, both in the South and in the North. His tone is good; without undue partisan feeling; and yet favorable to the great people with whom we have so many ties." ABD-EL-KADER.-This famous Arab chief has dictated his autobiography to Col. Churchill, of the British army, and its early publication is announced. M. DU CHAILLU.-Among the arrivals from Europe, at New York, by the Great Eastern, was M. Paul B. du Chaillu, whose " Explorations in Equatorial Africa" excited so much controversy among English and German naturalists a few years ago. He had found some strange animals in remote and unexplored countries, had observed and described their habits, and was suspected and accused of having drawn very largely upon his imagination. However, as was the case with Bruce, the explorer of Abyssinia, as time rolled on the truth of many of his statements was made clear from other evidence. M. du Chaillu has lately published “A Journey to Ashango-Land: and Further Penetration into Equatorial Africa," being an account of his second exploration in 1863-5, and a reprint in one octavo volume, with engravings and map, has just been issued by D. Appleton & Co., New York. His journey was precipitately ended by the accidental shooting of a native, from the consequences of which the whole party had to fly to the coast, barely escaping with life. Still, the book goes far to confirm many of its writer's most questioned early statements, especially those relating to the gorilla, an animal mentioned by Herodotus, and to the Fans, an African race of cannibals. | M. GUIZOT."The Last Days of Louis-Philippe and the Revolution of 1848," is the title of a book just published in Paris by M. Guizot, who was Prime Minister of France early in 1848, when the folly of Louis-Philippe precipitated that second Revolution, which, like the first, thrust in a Republic as the stepping-stone to an Empire in France. This volume is the conclusion of Guizot's "Memoirs of his own Times," and an English translation will immediately be published in London. The ex-Premier blames Louis-Philippe very much, but himself not at all. Yet, had he advised his royal master wisely, the wreck and ruin of the House of Orleans might probably have been avoided. Miss M. A. BRADDON.-It appears, from a controversy in the London papers concerning the republication of some of Miss Braddon's novels, with more than one noms de plume on the title-page, that she wrote- as "Lady Caroline Lascelles" in the "London Journal," a weekly penny journal. Mr. Maxwell, her man of business, in a letter to the "Athenæum," says: "Next, as to the nom de plume of Lady Caroline Lascelles. This title was suggested by my late literary colleague, who was also at the time a writer in the 'Athenæum,' poor Sir C. F. Lascelles Wraxall, Bart. He claimed a family right in the names. For five weeks the nom de plume was adopted. At the end of that time it was discarded, and it was found that 'fine words butter no parsnips;' and the tale of The Black Band' was thenceforth published anonymously, and its publication, and that of the series of tales which succeeded, went on uninterruptedly for years." ROBERT BROWNING.-The Professorship of Poetry in the University of Oxford being about to be vacated by Mr. Matthew Arnold, it was proposed to put Mr. Browning in nomination as a candidate. It appears, however, that no one can be elected but a Master of Arts of Oxford, whereas Mr. Browning was educated at London University. APRIL 15, 1867. CHRISTINA ROSETTI.-This young English poetess has commenced a prose fiction, "The Waves of this Troublesome World: a Tale of Hastings Ten Years Ago," in the "Churchman's Shilling Magazine," a serious English monthly periodical. JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE.-The historian of England from the fall of Wolsey to the death of Elizabeth (A. D. 1530-1602) has published ten volumes of that work, to the year 1573; yet finds time amid his severer labors to contribute to some of the English periodicals. These papers, collected in two volumes, will immediately be published in London, under the title of "Short Studies on Great Subjects." The whole of his history, as far as yet published, has been reproduced in this country by Scribner & Co., of New York, and has a large sale. Dr. LIVINGSTONE.-) -It continues uncertain whether Dr. Livingstone has been murdered by African savages, as reported, but the current of belief seems flowing towards accepting the melancholy report as BLANCHE MARRYAT, whom we take to be a daughter of the marine novelist, is about to publish a novel entitled "Briers and Thorns." MISS SEWELL, the author of "Amy Herbert," has in the press "The Journal of a Home Life." MR. J. PAYNE COLLIER has just issued the first part of his reprint of " England's Parnassus." DEAN MILMAN will take the chair at the next Literary Fund Dinner. W. J. WIDDLETON has published a handsome library edition of Professor Conington's translation of the "Eneid." The translator is Professor of Latin in Oxford University. He has adopted Scott's ballad metre. P. O'SHEA publishes "The Life of St. Dominic, and a Sketch of the Dominican Order," with an introduction by Archbishop Alemany. LITERATI IN PARLIAMENT.-Gustav Freytag, the novelist, Professor Mommsen, the historian, and Gottfried Kinkel, poet and politician, are members of the North German Parliament. BEETHOVEN. An Italian journal announces the discovery, at Meiningen, of the score of a comic opera, by Beethoven, until now unknown. BLANCHARD JERROLD has been engaged by Bradbury, Evans & Co., to write a guide to Paris and the Exhibition, under the title of "Paris for the English in 1867.” the London "Athenæum" as "vulgar, profane, and Dr. STRAUSS, the author of a novel described by indelicate," has brought an action against that journal for libel. QUEEN VICTORIA'S BOOK.-It is now stated that Victoria is not writing a book about her late hus band. That is being done by General Grey, one of her household. She did write, privately print, and illustrate with her own engravings from original designs, a volume relating to that part of Scotland where she lives in summer. AGNES STRICKLAND.-An abridged edition, in one volume, of Miss Strickland's "Lives of the Queens of England," is announced in London. POLITICAL SQUIB.-There has just appeared in London, "dedicated to Albert Edward, the 100th King of the World," a sixpenny brochure, entitled "The History of the English Revolution of 1867, by Lord Macaulay's New Zealander, Anno Domini 3867," in which (the publisher advertises) political and social life in 1867 are "depicted to the life, in strong, humorous satire." Testament which contained the autograph of Sir MR. J. S. LE FANU has written a new novel, which is to be published in "Temple Bar" simultaneously with Mrs. Edwards's "Steven Lawrence." Its title has not yet been made public. These works, when finished, are to be followed by a novel from the pen of Mr. Edmund Yates. Two of M. Victorien Sardou's dramas have just been done into English and reproduced in London with no marked success-"Nos Bons Villageois," by Mr. Gilbert a'Becket, under the name of "Diamonds and Hearts," and "Le Dégel," by Mr. T. W. Robertson, as " A Rapid Thaw." THE author, understood to be a lady, who writes under the nom de plume of Holme Lee, is about to SIR WALTER RALEIGH.-There was lately sold at publish a new novel entitled "Mr. Wyngard's a literary auction in London, a Novum Testamentum Græcum," A. D. 1587, containing the autograph of Sir Walter Raleigh. 66 THOMAS HOOD. In an autobiographical work by William Jordan, founder and for thirty years editor of the "London Literary Gazette," he mentions that Hood's "Song of the Shirt" was begun and so far proceeded with under the title of "Tale of a Shirt," before the ludicrous equivoque struck the intense mind of the author! Such a title certainly might have created the reverse of a grave associa tion. Ward." A NEW weekly journal is on the eve of appearance in London, entitled "The Chronicle." It promises, if the projectors may be trusted, to add to our knowledge of English and foreign books. Mr. JOHN RUSKIN is in such feeble health that he has been compelled to forego all his literary occupations. NEW WORDS.-A writer in the "Athenæum" suggests that as "telegram" is now recognized as a short and correct way of expressing a telegraphic dispatch, "photogram" should be used instead of "photograph" to denote a photographic picture, and that "stereogram" might be correctly substi tuted for "stereoscopic slide." It is probable that these new words will be adopted. MR. HENRY B. WHEATLEY is about to edit for the Early English Text Society an English Latin Grammar of about A. D. 1500, the manuscripts of which have been lent for that purpose by the Master and Fellows of Jesus College. vlig me |