TRUBNER'S American and Oriental Literary Record. A MONTHLY REGISTER RODLE Of the most important Works published in NORTH and SOUTH AMERICA, in INDIA, CHINA, and the British Colonies: with occasional Notes on German, Dutch, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian Books. Price 6d. Subscription 58. per Annum, Post Free. 117 Books for the Study of the Chinese and Japanese Languages..... PAGE 117 134 119 122 Turkish and Persian Books printed at Constantinople... 135 135 132 133 The Works of Dr. Frederick Müller 136 Messrs. TRÜBNER & Co., 60, Paternoster Row, London, have imported and supply the whole of the American and Oriental Works named in this Literary Record. N.B.-All the Books named in this and previous Numbers are described from actual examination, and every work is either in the possession or has passed through the hands of MESSRS. TRÜBNER & Co. Librarians and Scholars, therefore, who experience any difficulty in procuring the works, would do well to communicate direct with the Publishers of this RECORD. As may be readily supposed, it would be imprudent to import such works in large quantities; but where all the copies of the works specified are actually sold, they can be replaced, if a reasonable time be allowed. OUR LIBRARY Avery Glibun; or, Between Two Fires. A Romance. By Orpheus C. Kerr. Svo. pp. 301. New York: G. W. Carlton and Co. 1867. The Orpheus C. Kerr papers are among the most amusing satirical productions of the war. There is broad humour, rollicking fun, and quiet sarcasm on almost every page; while a keen perception of the ludicrous is manifest in some half a dozen novellettes parodying the style, manner, and matter of some of our famous novelists. The admirers of Mr. Newell, not unnaturally, hailed with gratification the announcement of his new work. That it will disappoint their expectations, may be safely affirmed. but, at the same time, it will confirm their conviction of his ability, and prove that he has in him the making of a first-rate novelist. "Avery Glibun" has been written in a hurry. It needs elaboration, pruning, and polish. It is, nevertheless, marked by originality of plot, liveliness of incidents, and vivid sketches of character. Our sensations while reading it are just such as we should feel in walking through a picture gallery where everything was in outline without shading, without warmth of colour, and without finish. General CHARLES DICKENS has written a short story called "A Holiday Romance," which will appear in that admirable Juvenile monthly "Our Young Folks," in four parts, commencing with the Janunry number. John Gilbert has undertaken to illustrate it. Messrs. Ticknor and Fields have secured the absolute copyright of the tale, so that it cannot be produced except with their sauction, even in England. The American Copyright Law, we believe, does not give copyright to foreigners: we fear, therefore, that the large sum which the publishers have paid for this work will not protect it against their rivals in the States. Here is another strong reason why the American publishers should unite in demanding an international copyright. The same publishers are just about issuing the fourteenth and last volume of their diamond edition of Dickens' Works, which will include the "ncommercial Traveller" papers, the annual Christmas stories not before collected, and a copious index of characters, with a synopsis of incidents expressly prepared for this edition. Messrs. Ticknor and Fields seem (P. P. 2595. TABLE. Cringer, the American Politician - Benton Stiles, who achieves a fashionable reputation by the most original of expedients-Mr. Coffin, the good-hearted poetical draper's salesman-Mrs. Terky, the thoughtless little wife of the entry clerk-Plato Wynne, the cold-blooded gambler-Hardley Church, the Atheistical Bohemian-are all characters original enough, if a little more time had been spent upon them, to have ranked with the most cherished creations of fiction The scenes in "The Five Points," the Seven Dials of New York -the meetings of the New York Literary Bohemians-the Political Visitors of General Cringer-the grand Struggles of Ebullitionists and Demolitionists are sketched vigorously, powerfully, and humorously; while the scene in the chamber of the dying Bohemian, Le Mons, where the old Atheist, unable to pray, gives vent to his agonised feelings in a feeble attempt to trill out a few lines of a hymn-possibly the last fleeting reminisence of an innocent childhood-and his fellow Bohemians, one with a dog on his lap, another with a violin in his fingers, and a third with a pack of cards half out of his pocket, humbly and solemnly joining in the strain-has for depth of feeling and grotesqueness scarce an equal in the whole range of English literature. bent upon leading the way in the preparation of really useful editions of our choicest writers. Their Farringford edition of Tennyson is quite a gem as far as taste is concerned ;their diamond editiou of the same writer is a most interesting little pocket companion; and now their diamond edition of Dickens throws all others in the shade by its portability and completeness. BRIDGING THE ATLANTIC.-A writer in the Circular of the Oneida Community solves what many men have thought a great difficulty, in this fashion: "A railroad from America to Europe across the Atlantic Ocean. How can it be made? By removing the unnecessary rocks and mountains of the continent to a surveyed definite locality. The combined navies of the world, or, at least, such as would otherwise be employed as belligerents, could convey materials for the road to the proper destination." The simplicity and naivete of this is charming, only equalled by the following: "1 need not be asked for the full details of the plan, for those belong to the engineer." THE WEEK-Under this title the proprietors of the New York Round Table propose to commence on the 1st of Jan., the issue of a weekly paper, similar to the English Public Opinion. The scope, however, of the New York Paper seems to be more extended than its English prototype, as the editor proposes to give extracts from the ablest and most influential Journals all over the world. A Frenchman has recently calculated the number of Journals published throughout the world at 12,500. If the editor fulfils the promise of his prospectus, the Mezzofantis of our day had better look to their laurels and the labours of Hercules will be far outdone. The price will be low; the typography and paper such as will please the most fastidious; and the range of subjects so extensive, that the latest opinion of a Mill will be found in the same sheet with the last gushing utterance of a Jenkins. - It NEW MAGAZINES-Lippincott's Magazine, announced in our last, is, we believe, likely to prove a great success. is rumoured that Mr. G. H. Boker is to be the editor.--The first number of Putnam's Monthly has just appeared, with a very fair show of contents-all original and interesting. Its editor promises quite a feast of good things-"The Dairy of Fenimore Cooper" -Papers by Motley, the historianBayard Taylor-Dale Owen-E. A. Duychinck-Stanton, ex-Secretary of War-Dr. Bushnell-G. H. Calvert-Professor Greene, etc. There is something ominous, however, in the announcement of "Leaves from a Publisher's Letter. Book," and it is rather late in the day to propose " A Defence of the New York Common Council against the aspersions of Mr. Parton." At Shelbyville, Kentucky, The Southern Journal of Education will be commenced as a monthly on the 1st of January.-From Louisville, in the same State, we have The Southern Journal of Music, a sheet of sixteen pages, half of which consists of music, the remainder being devoted to musical topics. Chicago, the greatest centre for agricultural produce in the west, promises to be equally celebrated for its appreciation of Belles Lettres and Fine Arts. To the enterprising bookselling firm of Messrs. S. C. Griggs and Co., the denizens of that locality, owe much, and if their city becomes-as it promises to bethe great art centre of the country, the name of that firm ought to be enrolled in its archives. Messrs. Griggs & Co., count their stock of books by millions!! and only recently subscribed for one-eighth of the whole edition of a popular poem published in New York. This much parenthetically, Chicago has now shamed New York and the other large cities in the States by inaugurating, with every chance of success, a monthly Art Journal, devoted wholly to American Art.-There are rumours of new Magazines to be issued by Messrs. Appleton, and Messrs. Carlton and Co., of New York. CHARLES DICKENS.-The publishers of America are determined to embrace the opportunity of Mr. Dickens' presence in their country to "make or mar" their fortunes. Messrs. Ticknor and Fields, the authorised publishers, announce three different editions of his works. Messrs. Hurd and Houghton, two. Messrs. Peterson Brothers, we believe, are proprietors of editions in some half-a-dozen different forms, and now Messrs. Appleton appear in the field with a cheap edition at 25 cents a volume, and promise to furnish the whole of Dickens' Works for five dollars. THE LETTERS OF THE HON. G. M. DALLAS during his residence in London as minister to England, 1856-60, will shortly be published under the editorial revision of his daughter, Miss Julia Dallas. GAIL HAMILTON has in hand a new volume on Woman's Wrongs. The Hon. WILLIAM B. KENNEY, formerly U.S. Minister to Sardinia, and previously editor of the Newark Advertiser, has been engaged for nearly ten years in the preparation of a History of Tuscany. Messrs. J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co., of Philadelphia, are publishing what they term a "Globe Edition" of Lord Lytton's Novels at a dollar and a half per volume. The volumes are printed in long primer type on toned paper, and form very handsome, portable and readable books. Professor G. W. GREENE is preparing an edition of the Works with a life, of his Grandfather, General Greene. Mr. G. P. PUTNAM has just prepared and published-An American Supplement to Haydn's Dictionary of Dates. Southern Society; a weekly journal of literature, society, and art, has just been commenced at Baltimore. its list of contributors we recognise the names of many of the most distinguished writers connected with the Southern States. REMARKABLE TRIALS OF ALL COUNTRIES, is the title of a book announced for speedy publication in New York. It will contain the trials of Charlotte Corday, Earl Ferrers, the Marchioness of Brinvilliers, Courvoisier for the murder of Lord William Russell, Corder for the murder of Maria Martin, Robinson for the murder of Helen Jewitt, J. C. Colt for the murder of Samuel Adams, Sawney Deane, &c., &c. It is to form an 8vo. volume of about 450 pages. WE are glad to announce the appointment of our friend, Mr. M. C. Tyler, well known in England, to the Professorship of Rhetoric and English Literature in Michigan University. MISSIONARY PERIODICALS.-The American Baptist Missionary Union publish monthly, "The Missionary Magazine," an 8vo. of about 32 pages. It commenced this year its fortyseventh volume. The United Presbyterian Church commenced in January, 1867, the publication of a monthly Magazine, called "The Missionary Trumpet," a royal 8vo. of 16 pages, devoted to both home and foreign missionary subjects. "The American Church Missionary Register" is the organ of the Episcopal Church Missionary Society. It is an 8vo. of 16 pages, and commenced its fourth volume January, 1867. Mr. E. G. Squier's Travels in Peru, largely illustrated, will be published by the Harpers in April next, in one fine octavo volume. His"Aboriginal Mouuments of Peru," in imperial quarto, is in preparation, and will appear later. It will contain several hundred plans of remains, and a great number of photographic views, reproduced by a new process, which renders the pictures permanent. The work will consist of ten parts, at £1 each: the first part to appear in June. NEW LAW Books.-Messrs. Baker, Voorhis, and Co., of New York, have in the press the following:-A Fourth Edition, with additions of Sedgwick on Damages; Slander and Libel, and the Remedies for those wrongs, by John Townshend. The Law of Negligence and the Remedies for Private Wrongs, by T. G. Shearman, and A. A. Redfield; a Digest of the Law of Corporations, by Abbott; a new Treatise on Insanity in its Medico-Legal Relations, by Dr. W. A. Hammond, and an American Edition of Wigram on Wills, with notes, by Theodore W. Dwight.-Messrs. Little, Brown, and Co., of Boston, have in preparation the following:-The Law of Life, Accident, and Guarantee Insurance, by E. H, Abbot, Jeremiah Smith, and B. T. Stevens; an eighth American edition, with Justice Story's notes, and additional annotations by Hon. J. C. Perkins, of Lord Tenterden on the Law of Merchant Ships, &c.; a new edition of Angell on the Right of Property in Tide Waters, and on the Common Law in relation to Water Courses; a second edition of Angell and Durfee on the Law of Highways; a sixth American edition of Collyer on the Law of Partnership, with additions by Hon. J. C. Perkins; Vol. II. and III. of the 12th edition of Greenleaf on the Law of Evidence; a Treatise on the Law of Insurance as applicable to Fire, Life, Accident, and other Risks not Maritime, by John W. May; a sixth edition of Story on the Law of Promissory Notes; a fifth edition of Walker's Introduction to American Law.-Messrs. Kaye and Brother, of Philadelphia, have in the press a Digest of the Decisions of the Federal Courts from the organization of the Government to the present time, by F. C. Brightly. The Oneida Community consists of 210 members, occupying 539 acres of land in Lenox, Madison Co., N. Y. They are engaged in horticulture and the manufacture of steel traps, travelling bags, preserved fruits and vegetables, jellies, machine twist and sewing silk, etc. Their theology is a kind of perfectionism. They disclaim the title of "Free Lovers," in the popular sense of the term, calling their social system Complex Marriage, and "hold to freedom of love only within their own families, subject to free criticism and the rule of male continence, or self-control in sexual intercourse." The Wallingford Community is a branch of the Oneida Community, has 45 members, occupying 228 acres of land, and engaged mainly in horticulture and the production of a weekly paper called The Circular, edited by a Mr. Alfred Barron. The Messrs. APPLETON's gift of 200,000 school books to the Peabody Committee for schools in the South has clearly not been appreciated by certain Southern newspapers. Houston (Texas) Telegraph thus writes, and the Louisville Courier endorses the opinion: "We would rather see two hundred thousand vipers uncoil themselves and crawl over the whole face of the country than the same number of Messrs. Appleton's or the Messrs. Barnes' text-books. They are no more nor less than text lessons of the vilest and most undying malicious hatred of our people,-text lessons of the vilest and most slanderous lies that were ever fabricated to instil poisonous and erroneous ideas into the pliant mind of our coming generation." It is refreshing in these days of compromise to come in contact with such a dealer in superlatives. On LITERARY EMPLOYMENT IN AMERICA.-The editor of Forney's Weekly Press (Philadelphia) thus replies to a correspondent seeking literary employment-" You seem with many others to suppose that it is like going to service or getting a place in a manufactory or any other business. the contrary, it is a precarious calling, without rules, in which great ability is often poorly paid, and very slender talent quite as often entirely overpaid. There are very few magazines in this country that pay at all, except to a few favoured writers. Taking writing all through,' and considering the number of literary aspirants, it will be found that a journeyman stone-cutter is the more profitable occu pation. We do not offer you any encouragement. You had better try teaching, or run a sewing machine." AMERICAN The American Naturalist.-A popular Illustrated Magazine of Natural History. Salem, Essex Institute, 1867. Subscription, 18s. per annum. CONTENTS OF THE SEPTEMBER NUMBER.-I. The Geysers of California. By G. L. Goodale, M.D.II. The encampment of the Herons. By W. C. Endicott.-III. Artificial Oyster Cultivation in France. By F. W. Fellowes.-IV. The Quadrupeds of Arizona. By Dr. Elliott Coues.-V. The Home of the Bees. By A. S. Packard, jun., M.D. (with a plate).-VI. The Chignon Fungus (illustrated).-VII. Reviews.-VIII. Natural History Miscellany.-IX. Natural History Calendar. CONTENTS OF THE OCTOBER NUMBER.-I. The Quadrupeds of Arizona. By Dr. Elliott Coues.--II. The awakening of the birds. By T. Martin Trippe.-III. Agency of Insects in fertilizing plants. By W. J. Beal.-IV. The Tarantula. By G. Linecum, M.D.-V. The Land Snails of New England, illustrated. By Edward S. Morse.-VI. The Hand, as an unruly Member (with a plate). By Burt G. Wilder, M.D.-VII. The Clothes-moth (illustrated). By A. S. Packard, jun., M.D.-VIII. Reviews.-IX. Natural History Miscellany.-X. Proeeedings of Scientific Societies. CONTENTS OF THE NOVEMBER Number.-I. Modern Scientific Investigations: its methods and tendencies. By Professor J. S. Newberry-II. The Royal Families of Plants. No. 2. By C. M. Tracy.III. The Hand as an unruly Member. By Burt G. Wilder, M.D. (with a plate).-IV. Reviews.-V. Natural History Miscellany.VI. Proceedings of Scientific Societies. The American Journal of Education. (Quarterly.) Edited by HENRY BARNARD, LL.D., United States Commissioner of Education. National Series. 6s. CONTENTS OF THE SEPTEMBER NUMBER. Portrait of James A. Garfield.-II. American Journal of Education.-III. Classified Index. -IV. Education recognized as a National interest.-V. United States Educational Land policy.-VI. Suggestions on Studies, and conduct by men eminent in affairs.-VII. Constitutional provision respecting Schools and Education.-VIII. Educational Reform in Silesia, by Frederick the Great.-IX. Public Instruction in Austria.-X. Schools as they were in the United States.-XI. English Pedagogy-old and new.-XII. Educational Intelligence.-XIII. Secondary Schools.XIV. Real Schools.-XV. Public Instruction in Hungary, Croatia and Slavonia.-XVI. Statistical Tables. The American Educational Monthly, devoted to Popular Instruction and Literature. New York, 1867. Subscription, 7s. 6d. per annum. The CONTENTS OF THE NOVEMBER NUMBER.-I. Facts and Thoughts about Reform Schools. By Mrs. S. N. Rockwell.-II. Common Sense in Education. By Wendell Lamoroux. III. Chemistry of the Primeval Earth.-IV. Involuntary Influence of the Teacher over his Scholars. By B. K. Pierce.-V. Grammatical Notes, No. 4. Possessive Case of Nouns. By S. W. Whitney.-VI. John Boyd: a Story of School Life, chapter 23. By W. W. Tufts.-VII. What a good Newspaper may do.-VIII. Editorial: The Genesis of School Books.-IX. Editorial Correspondence: the effect of excessive Story Reading.-X. Educational Intelligence: New Jersey, Tennessee, Michigan, California, Great Britain, Switzerland, Austria, India, China.-XI. Current Publications: Physiology, Geography, Arithmetic.-XII. Inventions for Schools: School Medals. THE AMERICAN PULPIT is the title of a very useful paper for clergymen and lay preachers, commenced in Chicago, in March, 1867. It contains sermons, outlines of sermons, suggestive anecdotes, and advices to ministers on studying and preaching. MISS AUGUSTA J. EVANS, author of "Beulah," "Macaria," "St. Elmo," etc., has had conferred upon her the degree of Mistress of English Literature by the Baltimore Female College. DR. SPRING. We regret to learn that the Rev. Dr. Spring, well known for his numerous and valuable contributions to theological literature, has become quite blind. He is now in his 83rd year. DR. STEVENS has prepared an abridgment of his History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America, in which the narrative is brought down to 1866. It forms an 8vo. of about 600 pages, and is illustrated with eleven steel engravings. WASHINGTON IRVING's popularity, as a writer, among his countrymen, is, we believe, as great as ever. We see a new edition of his works announced to be published in 28 monthly volumes. The THE third volume of "Tschudi's Reisen durch Süd, America," has just been issued by F. A. Brockhaus, of Leipzig, and we feel sure will meet with the same favourable reception from the public as the two previous ones. author describes in this volume his travels through the provinces Espiritu Santo, Rio de Janeiro, Santo Paulo, and Santa Catharina. The well-executed woodcuts it contains add to the value of the volume. PERIODICALS. The American Journal of Arts and Science conducted by Professors B. SILLIMAN and JAMES D. DANA, in connection with Professors ASA GRAY, LOUIS AGASSIZ, WOLCOTT GIBBS, and others. (Published every two months). New Haven. 5s. CONTENTS OF THE NOVEMBER NUMBER.-I. Address of George Bentham, President, read at the anniversary meeting of the Linnæan Society, on Friday, May 24th, 1867.-II. The action of Sunlight on Glass. By Thomas Gaffield.-III. Remarks on Professor Geinitz's views respecting the Upper Paleozoic Rocks and Fossils of Southeastern Nebraska. By F. B. Meek -IV. Indian Summer. By Joseph E. Willett.-V. A method of determining the amount of Protoxyd of Iron in Silicates not soluble in the ordinary mineral acids.-By Josiah P. Cooke, junr.-VI. The Parks of Colorado.-VII. Contributions to the Mineralogy of Nova Scotia. By O. C. Marsh. No. 1: Ledererite identical with Gmelinite.-VIII. Notes on Fossils recently obtained from the Laurentian Rocks of Canada, and on objections to the organic nature of Eozoon. By J. W. Dawson and W. B. Carpenter. - XI. Reply to Mr. Gabb on the Cretaceous Rocks of California. By T. A. Conrad.-XII. Geographical Notices.-XIII. On normal and derived acids. By George F. Barker.-XIV. Crystallogenic and Crystallographic Contributions. By James D. Dana. On the Feldspar Group of Minerals and on the Chemical Formulas of the Silicates.-XV. On certain points in the theory of Atomicities. By Wolcott Gibbs.XVI. Scientific Intelligence. CONTENTS OF THE NOVEMBER NUMBER.-I. On Poisoning by Arsenic, Antimony, Bismuth, Lead, Mercury, Silver, and Tin. By Professor J. Milton Sanders, M.D., LL.D.-II. Vegetable Medicinal Preparations; some of the causes of their non-reliability, and lack of uniformity of strength. By Professor C. T. Hart, M.D.-III. Clinical Record of Cases treated at the Eclectic Medical Dispensary. By E. H. Mitlington, M.D.-IV. Practical Hints to the General Practitioner. By Orin E. Newton, M.D.-V. Periscope.-VI. Editorial.-VII. Reviews and Bibliographical Notices.-VIII. News and Miscellany. The Atlantic Monthly, devoted to Literature, Science, Art, and Politics. 1867. 1s. 6d. each number. Boston. CONTENTS OF THE DECEMBER NUMBER.-I. The Guardian Angel. No. 12. By Oliver Wendell Holmes.-II. A Mysterious Personage. By John Neal.-III. A Tour in the Dark.-IV. An Autumn Song. By Edgar Fawcett.-V. By-ways of Europe. A Visit to the Balearic Islands. No. 1. By Bayard Taylor.-VI. Minor Elizabethan Dramatists. By E. P. Whipple.- VII. Our Pacific Railroads. By J. K. Medbery.-VIII. Grandmother's Story: the Great Snow.-IX, Toujours Amour. By E. C. Stedman.-X. Among the Workers in Silver. By James Parton.-XI. What we Feel. By C. J. Sprague.-XII. Sonnet. By George H. Boker.-XIII. Literature as an Art. By T. W. Higginson.-XIV. A Young Desperado. By T. B. Aldrich.XV. Reviews and Literary Notices. |