cessive committees of the Horticultural Society, and he eats with a relishing gulp not inferior to Dr. Johnson's. He feels and freely exercises his right of eminent domain. His is the earliest mess of green peas; his all the mulberries I had fancied mine." Here is a reminiscence of Roman social customs: "But the pewees came back at last, and one of them is now on his wonted perch, so near my window, that I can hear the click of sion, one of these days, that self-made menings of his countrymen. Nor was this all, may not be always equally skilful in the for it appeared that he had drawn the great manufacture of wisdom, may not be divinely majority, not only of his fellow-citizens, but commissioned to fabricate the higher qualities of mankind also, to his side. So strong and of opinion on all possible topics of human so persuasive is honest manliness without a interests." single quality of romance or unreal sentiment to help it!" The whole sum and substance, it seems to us, of our ill-feeling toward England is contained in the following sentence: We have already exceeded our limits, and cannot introduce our readers to the delights that await them in the essays on Chaucer, Pope, "Let them [the English] learn to treat us Thoreau, Emerson, and Library of Old Aunaturally on our merits as human beings, as thors. We have purposely selected for menthey would a German or a Frenchman, and not as if we were a kind of counterfeit Briton tion in this notice those essays which were "The crow is very comical as a lover, and whose crime appeared in every shade of dif- not purely literary, with the design of showto hear him trying to soften his croak to the ference, and before long there would come ing those moods and manners of the author proper Saint Preux standard, has something that right feeling which we naturally call a which are least familiar to the mass of readgood understanding.” his bill as he snaps a fly on the wing with the unerring precision a stately Trasteverina shows in the capture of her smaller deer." the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson." 66 The personification of the seasons in "A Good Word For Winter," is a delicious piece of work. Autumn is described as "the poet of the family” — “ a kind of Lamartine whining along the ancestral avenues he has made bare timber of, and begging a contribution of good spirits from your own savings to keep him in countenance." This essay abounds in quotations from the poets on the subject of Winter, including Emerson's famous lines about the "tumultuous privacy of storm." The morning after a snow-storm: "The earth is clothed in innocence as a garment. Every wound of the landscape is healed; whatever was stiff has been sweetly rounded as the breasts of Aphrodite; what was unsightly has been covered gently with a soft splendor, as if, Cowley would have said, Nature had cleverly let fall her handkerchief to hide it." The essay "On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners" restores the author to his normal role of—well, matador, in this case, since he assails a Bull-but, generally speaking, of deft wielder of a keen rapier, with which he punctures men and things with a grace and dexterity that almost make the smart a boon. Underlying the fine humor of this essay is a manly and serious national pride, and the shafts of its rebukes are feathered with pure patriotic feeling. It will make any American straighten himself and take a new oath of fealty to his native land, to read this essay. We cannot dwell upon it, for want of space; but we would cite as worthy of special praise his instance of the Dutch, who were once "the laughing-stock of polite Europe," and whose case seems analogous to our own. Prof. Lowell is not thoroughly satisfied with his country, after all; and once in a while his words smack of aristocratic prejudice, as in his reference to Gen. Banks, and in the following passages: The essay on Carlyle is one of the most substantial in the book: original, deliberate and weighty. The author's estimate of Carlyle is masterly in its analysis, and convincing in its general effect. The contrast between his earlier and his later writings is drawn with striking clearness, and the growth of his desperate cynicism is forcibly sketched. ers, who know him best through his poetry. We can think of no more delightful companion for a winter evening than this volume of mingled wit and wisdom. PRESCOTT AND DICKENS. [The following pleasant communication is hardly congruous in its parts; that is, its praise of our paper has no special relation to the anecdote that follows. But we are quite willing to overlook this peculiarity, and to regard the matter as divided into halves, the first of which pleases us, while the last pleases our readers. — ED. L. W.] "Mr. Carlyle seems to be in the condition of a man who uses stimulants, and must increase his dose from day to day as the senses become dulled under the spur. He began by admiring strength of character and purpose, and the manly self-denial which makes a humble fortune great by steadfast loyalty to duty. He has gone on till mere strength has become such washy weakness that there is no longer any titillation in it; and nothing I ADMIRE the style of review and criticism short of downright violence will rouse his nerves now to the needed excitement." "British criticism has been always more or less parochial; has never, indeed, quite freed itself from sectarian cant, and planted itself honestly on the aesthetic point of view. It cannot quite persuade itself that truth is of immortal essence, totally independent of all assistance from quarterly journals or the British army and navy." EDITOR OF THE LITERARY WORLD: " as presented in the number of The Literary World I have been fortunate enough to receive. I have read with pleasure the notice of "Washburn's Paraguay," and am glad that somebody can speak freely and fearlessly; Red Tape has tied us all up long enough. Your hints upon conciseness in composition are none too early. Why is it that after one has read the first half of that glorious period. The essay on Abraham Lincoln was writ-ical - Harper's Monthly — one hardly thinks ten in 1864, and it is extremely interesting, of looking through the other half? It is simnow, when the great man himself has passed ply because nobody likes to eat soup with a away, and the storm in which he was our pi- fork. Why is it that, taking into view the inlot has subsided, to read this shrewd estimate crease of population, not half as many readof his powers, this eloquent tribute to his vir- ers go through with Dickens's last works as tues, written, as it was, at a time when the his first? Why is it that some of us -oldgood President's fiery trial was at its hottest. sters who read and read, and read again his earlier works,, cannot wade through his later productions? It is because we feel that we are approaching the end of life much more rapidly than the end of the story. "People of more sensitive organizations may be shocked, but we are glad that in this free us forever from the Old World, we have our true war of independence, which is to had at the head of our affairs a man whom America made, as God made Adam, out of the very earth, unancestried, unprivileged, unknown, to show us how much truth, how much magnanimity, and how much statecraft await the call of opportunity in simple manhood when it believes in the justice of God and the worth of man." Following this essay is a paragraph, written after Lincoln's death, and from which we take these striking sentences: As Jeremy Taylor used to say in his sermons, "Let me tell you a little story." Some years ago, W. H. Prescott, author of "Ferdinand and Isabella," etc., etc., etc., (with all humility, the best friend I ever had), was taking a little trip with his family someIt chanced that Dickens where on the lakes. and his wife were on the same steamer. Prescott had taken with him a work of D.'s, just out "At present, we trust a man with making constitutions on less proof of competence than we should demand before we gave him our shoe to patch. We have nearly reached the limit of the reaction from the old notion, "On the day of his death, this simple (in which Mantalini appears), but had become which paid too much regard to birth and sta- Western attorney, who, according to one party weary of it, and laid down the book, having tion as qualifications for office, and have was a vulgar joker, and whom the doctrin- written on the fly-leaf, "Broke down at page touched the extreme point in the opposite aires among his own supporters accused of." In his state-room he was an involundirection, putting the highest of human func- wanting every element of statesmanship, was tions up at auction to be bid for by any crea- the most absolute ruler in Christendom, and tary witness of a little scene: ture capable of going upright on two legs. this solely by the hold his good-humored sa- Mrs. Dickens, taking up the book, which * We may possibly come to the conclu-gacity had laid on the hearts and understand- was lying carelessly upon the cabin table, said: "Why, Charles, here is one of your books!" Looking at the fly-leaf, they found the appalling confession of the reader"broke down "— and the name of one of the most eminent authors in America, and, alas! one of the warmest friends of Boz. Alas! As I am probably the only person alive who is cognizant of this fact in literary annals, and do not wish to be quoted, I append NO NAME. LITERARY PORTRAITS. R. J. HAIN FRISWELL has recently MR. entitles "Modern Men of Letters Honestly "Look at his photograph. Deep-browed, but not deep-lined; bald, but not gray; with a dark disappointment and little hopeful feeling on his face; with hair unkempt, heaped up in the carriage of his shoulders, and with his figure covered with a tragic cloak, the Laureate is portrayed, gloomily peering from two ineffective and not very lustrous eyes, a man of sixty-looking more like a worn and a more feeling man of fifty. His skin is sallow; his whole physique not jovial or red, like Shakespeare and Dickens, but lachrymose and saturnine." Here we have a glimpse of Bulwer: "Walking, let us say, up the hall of the Freemasons, at a Literary Fund Dinner, there is a gentleman, rather feeble, doddering, a cousin Feenix, with tumbled hair, a face rouged, flushed, a noble forehead and high aristocratic nose, a gentleman unmistakably, a gentleman with the 'true nobleman look,' that you do not find one man in a thousand has, and of which Pope spoke. He is not very strong, this gentleman, and has a scared kind of stare that, indeed, of a stu quoted, and in the absence of special infor- MINOR BOOK NOTICES. -"Rocky Hill and Rolling Prairie," a story of life in New England and the West, opens with a very pleasant sketch of an old west," by Dr. C. H. Pearson, is a story of "The Young Pioneers of the Northemigrant life, and seems well fitted to enter tain young readers. meeting-house. The author is evidently thor- "The History of Louis XIV.," by Rev. J. S. C. Abbott, deals with one of the most Comfort's German Reader, designed to interesting periods of France, the reign of follow the author's "German Course," is the "Grand Monarque." Some of the most made up of selections, which seem to have been famous French men and women were actors made with good taste and judgment, from the in this period, and the reader is introduced to writings of the best German writers - Goethe, Cardinal Mazarin, Madame Maintenon, ColSchiller, Lessing, Uhland, Chamisso, and bert, Fouquet, and a score of hardly less ceothers. These selections have special refer-lebrity. The fine narrative powers of the ence to Germany; and the student, while ac- author are well known, and he has made this quiring the language, will also learn much of book as fascinating as a romance. [Harper the characteristics of that interesting country. & Brothers.] [Harper & Brothers.] "Phantastes," by George Macdonald, is lowly life, and describes the struggle of poor - Mr. Leland has found in the Franco Prussian war a warrant for a new series of poems by Hans Breitmann, in which that personage figures as a Uhlan. It is sufficient to say of these verses that they are of the same character-the same laughable jumble of languages, and marked by the same humor and grace of versification—which gave the earlier series of the Breitmann Ballads so wide a popularity. This new volume will send a broad smile over all the country. [T. B. Peterson & Bros.] "The Snow Man" is a novel of surpassing interest, and possesses, the elements of any of George Sand's novels which are familpopularity in a higher degree, we think, than iar to the ordinary reader. It is a novel, pure unmarked by those idiosyncrasies of the auand simple, unburdened with philosophy and thor which, while beautifying some of her books to the eye of culture, have made them caviare to the general." The action of the story moves with a grace which charms, and a rapidity which gives no respite to the readdent out in the world. In this living face, cently occupied his leisure with the prepara- characters such as novel-readers rarely meet, - Mr. E. G. Tileston, of this city, has re-er's attention; the scenes are strange, the and in photographs from it, there is a suspi- tion of a little manual, which is at once so the plot is vigorous, and worked out with cion that it is got up' to what its owner convenient and valuable, and so simple, that pleasing effect. The scene of the story is laid thinks its best; that Pelham would be younger than he is. Vain struggle with Time; what we cannot account for his not having been an- in Sweden, a century ago; Baron Olaus, desgentle wagoner can put a 'skid' on his wheel, ticipated in the work. It is the political his- potic ruler of half a province, is "the Snow when he is going down hill, or with a finger tory of the United States in petto, and is Man." He gives a great entertainment at his stay Ixion's wheel,' as Keats has it? Look called "A Hand-book of the Administrations castle, of several days' duration, and hundreds of guests are assembled. For their amuseat the hair brushed forward and manipulated, the eyebrows, whiskers and hair somewhat darkened, the moustache and imperial! The whole look of the man has just the clever artistry not insincerity, for Lord Lytton is a true man-which is the little bit of bad taste which has prevented its master from being the very first in his rank. - of the United States." To each administra tion a space of ten to twenty pages is assigned, ment he has hired Christian Waldo, a player and in this are given: the names and States of marionettes, who has made a sensation at of the President and Cabinet; brief notes of Stockholm, not only by his performances, but contemporaneous persons and events in Eng- by the mystery which surrounds him. This land; the limits of the administration; the Waldo is the leading character in the book, party which it represents; a synopsis of its and we know of none other in fiction that principal events, and extracts from the Pres- takes a stronger hold upon the reader's symidents' messages bearing on these, and em-pathies. He proves to be the lawful heir of Of Swinburne, the poet, a sort of spirit-bodying a concise history of the period. the barony, and comes to his own at the end ualized Walt Whitman, the author says that This little work is a marvel of condensation, of a series of events which the reader follows The pictures of "his chief and most high works are but mock-and as a book of reference, will be invaluable with increasing interest. to public men, editors, and politicians. Mr. Swedish life and society, and the magnificent Tileston has done his editorial work admir- descriptions of winter scenery, sleighing tourably, and his good judgment is specially ap-naments, and bear-hunts, fill up most acceptparent in the extracts from messages, which ably the interstices of the plot. We have in brief space convey a vast amount of in- never read a novel which we could more unreformation—in fact, a comprehensive view servedly commend as absorbingly interesting, of the time of which they treat. [Lee & and unexceptionally wholesome. [Roberts Shepard.] Brothers.] ings songs of the atheist that erst might have been sung in Sodom, and lascivious hymns to Adonis that might fitly have been howled in Gomorrah.” No man in a normal state of mental health could write such bitter words as we have LITERARY NEWS. We have received from the publishers (Worthington, Dustin & Co., of Hartford, We get some interesting facts about the Conn.) advance pages of Prof. C. E. Stowe's English book-trade for 1870, from the London new Family Bible, which will soon be issued Publishers' Circular. The publications of the and sold by subscription. It promises to be year numbered 5,251 books, including 169 a most important contribution to Biblical litmere re-entries for change of price, and 426 erature. The editor is one of the finest Heimported new American works. The really brew scholars of the day, and the specimens new books published in Great Britain in 1870 of his editorial work before us are evidence were 3,377, and the new editions, 1,279. The enough that he has special qualifications for number of new novels was 200; of new edi- the task he has undertaken. This Bible will tions of ditto, 162; of American imported contain a full history of the translations of ditto, 19. The number of juveniles was 486; every book, the history of each, showing of American imported juveniles, 38. Serits claims to authenticity, etc., and the hismons and theological works take the numeri- tory of the canon of Scripture; an illustrated cal lead the total issue of these for the Dictionary of the Bible, with two hundred year being 811 volumes, including 548 new fine engravings; one hundred thousand marbooks, and 55 American. Of the 568 educa-ginal readings and references; the Concortional books, 20 were imported American. dance; Psalms of David in metre, etc. The Of the 123 works on law, jurisprudence, etc., book will also contain fourteen steel engrav20 were American. Of volumes of poetry, ings, maps, etc. This will undoubtedly be the same number were American. Of books the finest edition of the Bible ever issued in of history and biography, 396 in all, 55 were American. The month most prolific of books was December, the issues therein numbering 510; the least prolific was August, with 261 issues. It is worthy of note that America sent 55 works of history and biography to England, while the latter's entire issue of books of that class was only 235, exclusive of new editions. The titles of the new books of 1870 clearly indicate the great events that through that year successively occupied the public mind. In the early months of 1870 the press teemed with pamphlets on the Land question in Ireland, and various ecclesiastical quarrels; summer witnessed a flood of biographies of Charles Dickens; with the autumn came maps of France and books about the war, and the year closed with an avalanche of holiday publications and almanacs. America. - Bret Harte's books "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "Poems"-have had remarkable success. The publishers, J. R. Osgood & Co., have sold about five thousand copies of the first, and about three thousand of the last. The "Poems " have been in the market only a few weeks. The admirers of Mr. Harte may be glad to know that he is blessed with a wife and children, as whose friend and protector he appears quite as admirable as in his literary works. He has become a regular contributor to Harpers' Weekly, in whose pages his peculiar poems may frequently be found. -"Soliph," Utica, N. Y.-There is no single work extant which will afford you satisfactory information on the subject. We would recommend, however, Sir Morton Peto's book, "The Resources and Prospects of America," published, in 1866, by Strahan & Co. This gives, perhaps, the most comprehensive view of the resources of the United States that can be found in a single volume. - To many thousand readers we could hardly bring any more welcome literary intelligence than the announcement that Miss Alcott is at work on another story, and that its name will be "Jo's Boys." The sons of such a mother cannot fail to be bright young fellows, whom it will be a pleasure to know. Miss Alcott's long experience as a teacher has given her excellent opportunities for studying -We find in the London correspondence of the Manchester (Eng.) Guardian the following paragraph treating of the marriage of the Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorn. We copy it as a specimen of a popular but vicious style, tumid, and pompous. It is not too much to say that its purport might have been put into one-third the space it occupies, with a gain of elegance and force: "As the hints and intimations of disapproval said to have been volunteered cannot by possibility have found their way through official channels, the intrusive and unwarrantable attempt in intermeddling in what concerns only the royal family of England and the English people is certain to be stoutly, perhaps super-boy-nature. ciliously, denied. But this would not materially affect the fact of such foolish notions having been entertained, or the more gratifying certainty that they will be treated with dignified disregard by the illustrious personage whose judgment has been from the first appreciated and approved by the nation.” -Lee & Shepard have bought the plates of the books formerly published by the late W. V. Spencer, and will issue new editions of many of them. The list includes some notable works, such as three volumes by John Stuart Mill-Dissertations and Discussions, Examination of Hamilton's Philosophy, and The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte; James Martineau's Essays; Rev. Dr. Hedge's Reason in Religion; Rev. J. F. W. Ware's Home Life; two volumes by Frances Power Cobbe, and Bulfinch's Manual of the Evidences of Christianity. -The fourth and concluding volume of "The Standard Series of Temperance Tales " will soon be issued by H. A. Young & Co. Its title is, "The Hermit of Holcombe." This series, by Mary Dwinell Chellis, is far superior to the majority of "temperance tales," and while lacking the cheap sentiment that characterizes most of them, possesses not a little literary and artistic merit. -Among the new English books just issued or announced, are: "Gamosagemmon, or Hints on Hymen, for the use of Parties about to Connubialize"; Vols. III. and IV. of Hepworth Dixon's "Her Majesty's Tower"; "Checkmate," a novel, by Le Fanu; Rothschild's "History and Literature of the Israelites, according to the Old Testament and Apocrypha"; Gilchrist's "Life of William Blake"; Maguire's "Essays on the Platonic Ethics"; Vol. II. of "The Life and Times of Wesley," by Rev. L. Tyerman; Henry Morley's "Clement Marot"; "The Life of I. K. Brunel"; "The Truth of the Bible, Evidence from the Mosaic and other Records of Creation," by Rev. B. W. Saville; "Introduction to the Study of Inorganic Chemistry," by William Allen Miller; a new edition of Leigh Hunt's "Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla"; "White's Civil Service History of England"; "Morster's History of Wesleyan Missions in all parts of the World," 2d series; "The Seventh Vial, or the Time of Trouble Begun, as shown in the Great War, the Dethronement of the Pope, and other Collateral Events," by Rev. John Cumming, D.D.; "Essays, Theological and Literary," "Heroines in Obscurity,”. by R. H. Hutton; by Sarah Tytler. Algernon Swinburne's new volume of poems, just published in London, is entitled "Songs Before Sunrise." In "A Marching Song," he asks England if she "wilt endure forever" such annoyances as these: "These princelings with gauze winglets, These fanged meridian vermin, Shrill gnats that crowd the dusk, Blind flesh-flies hatched by dark and hampered The volume also contains an address to Walt Whitman, whom the poet describes as "a strong-winged soul with prophetic lips, hot with the blood-beats of song." "re -In this country many books are viewed" before they are seen by the reviewer; but we did not believe that such things were done in England, and in the London Athenaum, of all papers. But a recent number of that famous literary periodical contains a Review of American Literature for 1870, and in this appears the following: "We hardly know where to mention Mr. Howells's charming Suburban Sketches,' but we suppose the book must be classified under Travel. Really it is one of the finest works upon Venetian life which we have read." Now we cannot see the propriety of classifying this book under the head of travel, - Gould & Lincoln have nearly ready the since the author's journeyings did not take new volume of "The Annual of Scientific him any farther than Nantasket Beach, or Discovery." It is edited by Prof. Trow-Dublin," an unsavory suburb of Cambridge, of Harvard University, and contains the usual amount of valuable information, embracing the latest discoveries in various departments of science. - Ralph Keeler, the author of " Vagabond Adventures," has become permanently connected with the publishing house of James R. Osgood & Co., in a literary capacity, and will write exclusively for their publications. Every Saturday will probably be his principal organ, as it is that of several other noted writers. When Phillips, Sampson & Co. became the publishers of Prescott's "Philip the Second," they guaranteed a sale of 12,000 copies during the first year. They actually sold 11,- -It is stated that the author of "Stone 200 sets, or 22,400 volumes, and paid the au- Edge," a sombre but striking novel, published thor, as copyright, for that year, on this and some time ago by the Harpers, is a sister of his other works, the handsome sum of twenty-Florence Nightingale, and the wife of an Engone thousand dollars. lish nobleman, bridge. And as for "Suburban Sketches " being a work "upon Venetian life," it has far more to say about "Greeks" than of beautiful Venice. Finally, for the information of those of our readers who have not seen the book, we will say that it is not a book of travels, not ing sketches, all about matters within five a work on Venice, but a collection of charm miles of the "Hub." Charles Scribner & Co. will publish during February and March, a new volume of Lange's Commentary Jeremiah, translated and edited by C. R. Ashbury, and Lamentations, translated and edited by Rev. Dr. Hornblower; Vol. III. of Max Muller's "Chips From a German Workshop "; a new volume of Sermons by Prof. W. G. T. Shedd; The Life of Dr. Greene, by Le Roy J. Halsey, D. D., and several volumes of the excellent Illustrated Library of Wonders. - Morris's remarkable poetical work, "The Earthly Paradise," is completed, and the concluding part has just been issued in this country by Roberts Brothers. It is a remarkable work in more senses than one: in pure poetical merit some of the best critics rank it first among the poems of the age; but one fact to be considered in an estimate of it renders it even more worthy of our wonder: that, while his contemporary bards spend years in the composition of a single poem, or a small volume, Mr. Morris, in only three years, should have produced so massive and beautiful a work as this, which appeals, through its simplicity and freshness, to every class of readers, is surely cause of marvel. And it should also be taken into account that this work has been written as a pastime. Mr. Morris is a man of affairs, and goes to his business like any merchant. It was a perilous under-gyman. taking to address the public with more than a thousand pages of poetry under a single title for few even of the most ardent lovers of verse have courage to enter upon a modern poem of such dimensions; but the event has fully justified Mr. Morris's estimate of his own powers, and given him a very high place among English poets. -The "Silent Partner" is the title of Miss E. Stuart Phelps's new novel, in the press of James R. Osgood & Co. It may be interesting to her many admirers to learn that she herself is about to become a partner not silent, let us hope, in a domestic firm, of which the other member is a young clerThe preliminaries of this proposed partnership were rather romantic; but we mustn't gossip. -Loring, who, we believe, introduced George Macdonald to American readers, has in preparation a new novel, by that admirable also in various stages of forwardness a new writer, entitled "Adela Cathcart." He has edition of Miss Alcott's "Proverb Stories,' with illustrations by Hoppin; a new novel by George Ticknor, one of America's most eminent scholars, died in this city, last week, aged nearly eighty years. His literary works belong to a past generation; his History of Spanish Literature having been among the Whittier, the poet, has been making a earliest, as it is one of the most creditable, brief visit to Boston. The meteorological products of American scholarship, in its de-effect of his presence in town, has long been partment of intellectual labor. Another important and admirable work of Mr. Ticknor's was his Life of Prescott, the historian. He was actively instrumental in procuring the foundation and liberal endowment of the Public Library, and his labors in behalf of that institution were zealous and unremitting. His house on Park Street has been the resort for many years of the most distinguished men of letters and science, and his private library was in some respects, notably in Spanish literature, the finest in the country. -The Byron question is to receive another fillip. The Countess Guiccioli (Byron's mistress), whose interesting memoir of the noble poet was published by the Harpers, two or three years ago, has nearly completed another book, entitled "Lord Byron in Italy." It will contain, besides a record of his life in that country, which constituted one of the most interesting periods of his career, more than fifty of his letters which have never been published. a subject of remark among his friends. His seems to reverse the -"The Nursery " word - The London Publishers' Circular makes - During February James R. Osgood & Co. will publish the Biography of William Win- the singular blunder of calling Rev. George Z. Gray's "Children's Crusade," published ston Seaton, which has already been noticed in these columns; "Topics of the Time," a is a curious historical monograph, and is a recently by Hurd & Houghton, a novel. It collection of Parton's magazine papers, and a new and revised edition of Kate Field's" Pen" novel " only in the adjective sense of that - something "new." Photographs of Charles Dickens and his Readings." Miss Phelps's new book, "The Silent -The following sweeping sentence is from Partner," will be issued in March, and the new the Pall Mall Gazette: "At the present day, novel, by the author of "Emily Chester," in when novel-writing may be called a questionApril. able, nay, a disreputable occupation for women, it is pleasant to find a lady's novel that is neither flippant nor absolutely vicious." - A recent letter from Berlin contains the rather remarkable statement that the late Prince Albert was an ardent admirer of Theodore Parker, and owned a set of his books. It is added that the present Crown Princess of Prussia shared her father's admiration for the great radical's writings, and that the liberal opinions on religious matters of the royal family may be attributed, in a great degree, to the influence of Theodore Parker. -"Curiosities of the Law Reporters," in the press of Lee & Shepard, promises to be a delightful book. It is the work of Franklin F. Heard, a member of the Suffolk Bar, who has ransacked old volumes of law reports for "curiosities," with gratifying success. - Disraeli receives an annual revenue of about six thousand dollars from the copyrights of his books. We received recently a standing order from Georgia for one hundred copies of the Literary World; and liberal additions to our subscription-list from almost every State in the Union, during the past month. Mr. F. W. Loring has severed his connection with a Sunday paper of this city, and will devote himself to literary labor in another and more congenial connection. He has had the credit of doing some of the most intemperate literary criticism ever turned out in Boston. -The late Rev. Dr. Albert Barnes ordered in his will that if the copyrights of his books amounted to one thousand dollars per year, one hundred dollars should be paid annually for the use of some student preparing for the ministry, the student to be a graduate of some college, and the selection to be made by the Professor of the Princeton Theological Seminary, for the first five years, and after that by the Professor of the Union Theological Seminary. - We give below a verbatim copy of a letter recently received by Roberts Brothers, publishers, of this city. It is unnecessary to say that the petition it conveys in such earnest terms was promptly granted. The letter enclosed a geranium leaf. and as I have heard how kind you I thought I would ask you if you will give me a book. the name of one I should like very much is "Little Women." I have heard so much about it. and if you only new how much I want it you would send it but if you think I do in a moment I noe. wrong in writing you I hope you will excuse me but I do so hope you will send it to me. anxiously until I no if you think I had I am afraid I am doing wrong I shall wait have the book and so it is hoping your kind hart will tell you to give a book to a little girl that will love you dearly if you do I am your loving friend "P. S. Would you miss one little book and it will make me so happy." JANUARY PUBLICATIONS. LEE & SHEPARD, BOSTON. The Causation, Course and Treatment of Reflex Birth and Education. By Marie Sophie Schwartz. HURD & HOUGHTON, NEW YORK. Poems. By Lucretia Maria Davidson. With illus- W. E. HILTON, NEW YORK. The House Behind the Poplars. A novel. By Mrs. Wooed and Won; or, The True Value of Woman. JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO., BOSTON. Woven of many Threads. A novel. 1 vol. 8vo. My Study Windows. By James Russell Lowell. How to Draw. 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