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largely indebted to the company; and the money | versation were preferred to intricate plots. he paid into bank to meet the bills given the pub- wrote especially for the Gymnase, where Mlle. lisher was applied by the company to discharge Jenny Vertpré was in the morning of her charms. the auctioneer's debt to it; and the company sued He married her, but their union did not last long. the publisher for the bills. The publisher em- Each was fond of being master of the house, ployed Mr. Powell, Q. C., to contend that the plaintiff and love of independence was stronger than love was not at liberty to use the funds for this purpose. of another. They quietly separated, and each reMr. Powell argued, moreover, that the plaintiff should verted to the old way of life. He fought two duels. be nonsuited, inasmuch as at the trial he had been In his first duel the adversary's ball hit the brim unable to produce a certificate of incorporation. of his hat, which made up in breadth what it lacked Mr. Powell expressed fears that this contention was in thickness, and checked the ball's further pronot of much avail, as no question on this point was gress. In his second duel the adversary's ball raised by the pleadings. buried itself in his purse, which made a needy wit of the day place his hand upon his empty pocket, and exclaim with mock despair: "Did you ever hear of such a thing? Had it happened to me, I should have been a dead man!" He was at one time manager of the Porte St. Martin Theatre, and he was the founder of the French Theatre at London, which he managed for some years. During the last few years he has lived quietly at Pierrefonds in easy circumstances of fortune, gay, despite the stone, and despite that oblivion which began to environ him before death.

BARON BRAM WELL. "You will find, Mr. Powell, the law on this head well stated in the 5th volume of Mr. Conway Robinson's Practice."

MR. POWELL. "But shall I find anything there that will help me, my Lord ?”

BARON BRAMWELL. "No; it is too well done." (Laughter.)

We have this week a legal publication which is of great interest to the historian, the statesman, and the political economist, as well as to the profession. It is the first report of the Judicature Commission appointed in 1867, and formed of Lord Charles Bataille, after surviving the loss of his Cairns, Lord Hatherley, Sir W. Erle, Lord Penzance, reason for many months, has died. He made his liteSir R. Phillimore, Sir Roundell Palmer, etc. Irary début in 1854 as a writer in the petty press, and can but note its appearance. It enters into the legal administration of England, and this is no place to analyze it.

attracted some attention by the excessive animation of his style, perhaps even then attainted with insanity. He wrote a novel, "Antoine Quérard," There is no trouble in procuring in single num- which had its admirers; a drama, “L'Usurier du bers any magazine published in England. Were Village" (with M. Amedée Rolland), which was I in America, the plan I should adopt would be to quite successful; some poems, two of which," Frédéopen an account with Messrs. Trübner & Co., 60 rique" and "Les Mondes Interlopes," were lauded. Paternoster Row, by sending them five or ten But-it is the old story-he was poor; the exigencies pounds to my credit. I should then order them of life in Paris are great, and it was necessary for to send me such a number of such a magazine or him to labor without respite. Had he been able magazines as I might want. I may add, in this to command time for study and reflection, he would, connection, that the book post now enables lite- his friends believe, have attained considerable disrary men to receive books at their door with tinction as a writer. As it was, he was obliged to astonishing speed, and convenience, and cheap-fritter bis gifts away in the newspapers, for they ness. There is no book (except the most expensive paid cash for the article, which was published at works of folio size in several volumes) published once. He expired in a private lunatic asylum. in England or on the Continent which Messrs. There were some twenty people at his funeral, Trübner & Co. could not transmit through the post which was attended by no member of his family. to the most distant country village in the United I believe he broke with them in consequence of his States. I am constantly sending books to friends entering upon a marriage which they considered in the United States, and I have never yet lost beneath him. one of them. Drafts for any amount on England may readily be obtained by return of post from Messrs. Drexel & Co., Philadelphia, or Messrs. Drexel, Winthrop & Co., New York. Literary men in the United States would find their convenience greatly increased if they considered (as we do here) books as thoroughly mailable matter.

FRANCIS BLandford.

We have had published a correspondence between two authors which is curious in more than one respect. It shows the eager competition which exists between them, the uncertainty of their relations, and the virulent envy with which successful authors are regarded. Messrs. Jules Claretie and Petruccelli de la Gattina together wrote a drama called "La Famille des Gueux." The scene is laid in the Netherlands during the sixteenth century. It OUR CONTINENTAL CORRESPONDENCE. was to have been brought out in October, but the PARIS, February 1, 1869. manager of the Gaîté (who had accepted the piece) DEATH has removed from among us an old au- was so much pleased with "La Madone des Roses" thor, who had his hour of reputation, and a young that he relegated the former play to the day after the author, who went mad before he achieved fame or withdrawal of "La Madone des Roses." Meantime fortune. M. Carmouche tried many professions be- it was announced that M. Victorien Sardou was fore he adopted the profession of dramatic author. writing a drama on the same subject, and the His first ambition was to be an actor. His family, manager of the Gaîté became quite naturally disalthough of an humble station, were opposed to his inclined to bring out a play which would probably adopting this profession, and apprenticed him to a be inferior to M. Sardou's. Thereupon M. Jules painter. This trade did not suit him, and he be- Claretie addressed a letter to the manager, recallcame a silversmith. Passionately fond of the stage, ing the latter's promises. In the course of it he he was a frequent attendant at the theatre and at said: "Our piece was written and completed, and you last wrote a play. It was accepted, acted, and had read it-I remember in what terms you spoke successful. He wrote others, which likewise were of it-before there was any question of M. Victorien successful, and making more money by his plays Sardou's drama at the Porte St. Martin Theatre. than by his trade, he quitted the latter and became When last March I sketched to M. Sardou the suba dramatic author. It was the day of short vaude-ject of La Famille des Gueux,' he said, 'I have villes, when sprightly couplets and brilliant con- always wished to write a piece upon that epoch.'

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Our piece was written. Two months afterwards
the newspapers announced M. Sardou's drama. I
do not pretend that everybody has not the right to
cut out five acts in the dramatic history of Flan-
ders. The Spaniards, the Dutch, les capitans and
les gueux are the property of anybody who knows,
The author of
can, or chooses to make them act.
the future piece of the Porte St. Martin has seen
this corner of the earth and of the sixteenth cen-
tury in his way; we have studied it in our manner.
But you are mistaken in thinking the public may
reproach the Gaîté for trespassing on a neighboring
theatre's property. The public will see the two
works and judge. You fear our inundation will be
anticipated; you fear the effect on which we count
so much may be used by M. Sardou in his drama.
This is impossible. I myself told him we had in
'La Famille des Gueux' a scene of the breaking
of dykes, which we thought would produce a great
effect. It is not probable he has selected this very
sort of scenic effect for his drama."

may have the same success as Victor Séjour's con-
flagration. I think M. Claretie will comprehend
that my dignity forbids my prolonging here a dis-
cussion which shall soon be decided on the stage.
This is the true field, where we should fight with
courteous arms, the public being our second. M.
Claretie, I have the honor to salute you. Fire first.
VICTORIEN SARDOU."

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To this letter M. Claretie made the following extraordinary reply: "Sir, you took Les Ganaches from Balzac and Louis Ulbach, Piccolino from M. Florian, Nos Intimes from Barriere's Faux Bonshommes and M. Gabriel's Paratonnerre, Les Pommes du Voisin from Charles de Bernard; you took the contract scene of La Famille Benoiton from Barriere; the idea of Maison Neuve from a story by Gozlan, and the dead body in it from Vidocq's Memoirs; Nos Bons Villageois from Balzac's Paysans and Italian novelliere; Les Pattes de Mouches nothing but Edgar Poe seasoned to suit Parisian tastes. You managed all these things with M. Sardou at once replied to the insinuations con- a skill and with talents I was the first to acknowHe wrote: "A year ledge, for no one has applauded you more than I tained in the foregoing letter. ago I heard through the newspapers that the Gaîté have done. I have never accused you of so much as proposed playing a drama by Messrs. Petruccelli and taking your idea from the drama which the Gaîté is M. about to play. My co-laborer and I have not so 'La Famille des Gueux.' Claretie, entitled Claretie dined with me the same day (I had some much conceit as to take out a patent for the Guerre reason to consider him my friend), and I said to him, des Gueux; the sun of Flanders shines for every'My dear Claretie, this intelligence vexes me a lit- body, and I should never have thought of being tle, for I promised, more than a year ago, the man- uneasy about your drama, if the manager of the But let ager of the Porte St. Martin Theatre a drama whose Gaîté, who is to play ours, had not seen an obstacle scenario is written, and which is laid in that same in the dreaded rivalry of a scenic splendor which Did you tell me your epoch. Let us see if your piece is going to make is said to pass the limits of admiration. us restrict the discussion. mine impossible, for in this event I shall renounce the subject, as you are more advanced in it than I drama was accepted by the Porte St. Martin when am.' I then went on to tell him the plot of my you mentioned it to me for the first time? No; piece without asking him in return to tell me his your drama could not then have been accepted by piece's plot; I do not know even now the first incident the Porte St. Martin, because the then manager of it. He at once dispelled my fears, assuring me asked me at that time to give him our piece, whose there was not the least connection between the subject he knew. My drama consequently was pieces further than the same country and the same accepted before yours; and if you have written a date, which neither he nor I had invented, and that drama during the last few months-a drama not I could work on without giving his piece a thought. yet finished-it is not because you have gotten Not more than a week ago (it was at Mallefille's your idea from us; you have merely reverted to an funeral), I took M. Claretie aside, and again said to idea certainly yours, but long abandoned by you, remark you him: You know my piece, my dear friend; if in order to take the wind out of our sails. there is, in the plot I narrated to you, anything know why you have reverted to this subject which whatsoever which vexes you by its similarity to you had allowed to sleep in quiet? something in your piece, I am ready to change it made to a common friend will explain everything. to give you pleasure.' M. Claretie replied, 'That You said: 'La Famille des Gueux? will be played! The censors will interdict it ! The is a question which has long been settled. completely at ease on that subject. The plot you censors will interdict it! Yes, sir, you made this have analyzed to me is in no way like the piece we remark; remember, you made it to a true-hearted have written. Your characters are historical; mine fellow, whose frankness I know; but allow me to give you the whole story? are not.' 'I am glad to hear that; but is there no believe the censors will not give you this little danger of our scenery clashing?' 'Have you an gratification. Shall was a French drama, a revolution inundation in your piece?' 'No.' 'Oh! if you have The first drama you intended to write was not a no inundation in your piece, you may put in it what Dutch drama, 'Yes.' ary drama. It was entitled neither Le Duc d'Albe,' you please.' 'You break the dykes?' It will be admirable. I have not a drop of water nor Le Siège de Leyde;' but 'Les Tricoteuses,'' La in my piece; but even had I, I should prefer drain- Dernière Charette,' or 'Le 9 Thermidor.' You spoke 'Thank to me about that also, dear sir (who was then my ing Harlaam Lake to disobliging you.' you! but feel no scruples. I am persuaded that friend); and what would you have said if I, who am instead of militating against each other, our pieces familiar with the Revolution, and who intend one will strengthen each other, for one will complete the of these days to write dramas on that epoch (I, 'Fare you like you, have scenarios all ready), what would other.' 'So I think.' 'Good-bye!' You you have said if the Porte St. Martin Theatre had well!' And we separated, shaking hands. may now judge whether I have a right to be sur- accepted a drama, 'Camille Desmoulins' or some I do not other, by me, while the Gaîté Theatre was rehearsprised by M. Claretie's singular attack. believe he can controvert one single particular above ing your Dernière Charette.' It was precisely this mentioned. I leave the reader to judge the value drama on the Revolution which then tempted you; of his insinuation after the amicable conversations and in truth I should have waited until your drama and the frank dealing of which I set an example. had been played to set to work on that same epoch, I have but one single desire, and I have reason to but an influential person had engaged you to abanhope it may be gratified, and this is that his piece don this subject, and you, always good-natured, be played before mine, and that his inundation quitted the striped casaquins of the sectionnaires for

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the cloth doublets of Flemish citizens. Yes, I said | liant writer" whose work he "had read with the to you then: 'I do not care! Write your piece! greatest attention;" but, he added, the work was ears is written.' What in good truth did I care? rather old, and the incidents had been taken from I was persuaded both pieces would be played to- various authors; and he went on to point out the gether, or that we should be played before you. I evident plagiarisms from Dumas, Emile Augier, was under this persuasion a week ago, at Mallefille's and Victorien Sardou. M. d'Epagny sent the manfuneral (you know Mallefille, whom you called a ager the printed piece, played in 1831, when Dumas malicious author in speaking of 'Les Sceptiques'); was just beginning his career, when Augier was a and this dramatic rivalry was not displeasing school-boy, and Sardou still in the nurse's arms. to me. I considered it, and I still consider it, He had but copied this old play, and sent it to the an attraction for the public, which would judge "discriminating" manager! M. Gustave and compare the two pieces. Your piece then Flaubert (the author of "Mme. Bovary") is writing a really was perfectly indifferent to me-or, rather, I novel whose principal character will be Duke Pasingenuously wished it a real success, such as 'La De- quier. It will open with the walk he took with rote' has. But Monday, last Monday, things changed Mlle. Clairon, on the ruins of the Bastille, to see their appearance. The danger was pointed out to the inscription placed on that prison's site-" Here me. You, the redoubtable author, were contrasted is dancing" and it will end with a scene in the with our maiden piece. I was told you eagerly, and Chamber of Peers during Louis Philippe's reign, before your piece was written, pressed forward the Duke Pasquier being President. . . . Signor Dall' preparation of the scenery and costumes; that Ongaro, the Venetian poet, has just completed a among these fairy-like wonders there was an inun- drama whose subject is taken from an Italian dation (my informant was misinformed on this sub- legend. The heroine, Veronica Cibo, is a princess ject); that all these preparations were secretly who cut off the head of one of her husband's mismade; and that we could not fail to be crushed by tresses, and gave it to him as a New Year's Day the weight of all these marvels which you were present, concealed in a lace basket. This vensecretly accumulating. Then I wrote the very geance satisfied, she retired to a convent, where she moderate letter which led you to write your acidu- so edified everybody by her piety that after her death lated reply. I wished to reassure the manager of she was canonized and is known as St. Veronica. the Gaité, who is now reassured, and goes forward Mr. Robertson, the author of "Caste," is to fit it valiantly with us. I, a newspaper writer, wished for the English stage, on which it will be played to defend the rights of my co-laborer and friend, simultaneously with its appearance at Florence. M. Petruccelli de la Gattina, whom you have not the Signor Dall' Ongaro is translating Mr. Robertson's honor to know, to whom you have not analyzed "Caste," which is shortly to be brought out at your dramas, and who would have been greatly sur- Florence. G. S. prised, I suspect, to hear his drama was not played because your drama was about to be brought out. I wished, above all, to prove that if we came in second, and were defeated, at least we started first. I have the honor to salute you. JULES CLARETIE." I hope you will agree with me that, long as this correspondence is, it is so curious, and throws so much light on literary life in Paris, that it is well worth the PRESIDENT WOOLSEY'S "Essay on Divorce and Diplace it occupies. Immediately after the appear- vorce Legislation;" and Dr. Horace Bushnell's ance of M. Claretie's letter, M. Sardou sent a chal-"Women's Suffrage, the Reform against Nature," lenge to him. The following card, published in the are announced by Charles Scribner & Co. to be pubnewspapers, explains how the dispute ended: "In lished about June. The appearance of the last volconsequence of articles published in 'Le Figaro,' M. ume especially is awaited with considerable interest. Sardou requested two of his friends, Messrs. de Najac and Alfred Mayrargues, to demand explanations from M. Claretie. M. Claretie charged Messrs. Jules Amigues and H. Pessard to represent him. The four undersigned, after having examined the elements and the terms of the polemic engaged, have agreed that the articles contained nothing which was of a nature to compromise personally either of the parties, Messrs. Claretie and Sardou never having had the intention to transform a literary discussion into a personal discussion." This card was signed by the four seconds. The public are looking forward with unusual interest to M. Sardou's maiden appearance as a dramatist.

I mentioned in my last letter M. d'Epagny's death. I heard a few days since an anecdote of him, which is not only too good to be lost, but which shows that when a dramatic author is silent too long, and drops from the social circle in which authors move, he cannot hope to have a play brought out, however meritorious it may be. A few years since, M. d'Epagny wished to reappear on the stage. He had been manager of the Odeon, and he naturally sent to the then manager of this theatre the piece he had written. It was declined. He waited some weeks, and sent the manager another play. It likewise was declined. In the letter answering its refusal, the manager was extremely courteous to the "dear master," and to the "bril

NOTES ON BOOKS AND BOOKSELLERS. CHARLES SCRIBNER & Co., New York, expect to have ready, by the 25th of this month, "Waterloo; a Sequel to the Conscript of 1813," by ErckmannChatrian; and "Foreign Missions: their Relations and Claims," by Rev. Rufus Anderson, LL. D.

SCRIBNER, WELFORD, & Co., New York, exhibit, in our advertising columns, a list of works which, for attractiveness and variety, deserves the attention of the trade, and of the reader interested in the supply of standard literature. Among these are "The Bampton Lectures for 1866," and "Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford," both by Henry Parry Liddon, M. A. These sermons have been received with such favor that the former has reached a second, and the latter a third edition. In the "Family Library" there is scarcely a work included which has not recognized value and interest.

WILLIAM WOOD & Co., New York, present to the

trade in our advertising columns a copious list of sterling medical and scientific works. To their own very valuable list of publications they have added a heavy stock of English books in nearly every department of science.

JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE-"The Science of Rights," by this celebrated philosopher, has been translated by A. E. Kroeger, and just published by J. B. Lippincott & Co.

E. STEIGER & Co., New York, announce that they are exporting every week to the Continent of Europe American books and periodicals, which are introduced to the European market at an expense considerably less than that which has hitherto attended their introduction by way of England.

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MAY 15, 1869.

WE have received from Brotherhead & Co., 129 East Seventeenth Street, New York, a copy of their Library Catalogue. It is a fine looking pamphlet of one hundred double-column pages. Including duplicates, this library contains upwards of twentythree thousand volumes, in nearly every departIn English, German, ment of current literature. and French novels, especially, the collection is very That this institution will select and extensive. prove a success is scarcely a matter of doubt, as no expense or care seems to have been spared in making the library "worthy of the support of persons

of the most cultivated and fastidious taste."

We are

MESSRS. CLAXTON, REMSEN, AND HAFFELFINGER will shortly publish "Gems of German Lyrics," translated into English verse, by Henry D. Wireman. It will consist of selections from Rueckert, Lenau, Chamisso, Freiligråth, Prutz, Seidl, Mueller, Mund, Sallet, Traeger, Vogl, and others. The English and German will be printed side by side. assured that no care or expense will be spared to render the new volume creditable both to the publishers and the author. Inasmuch as the selections will be from authors who have rarely had the honor of an English translation, the work, if fairly executed, will be quite likely to meet with a welcome reception as well by the German as the English

reader.

The same publishers will also shortly issue "Taopi and His Friends; or, The Indian's Wrongs and Rights." In this volume will be included the celebrated Report of the Indian Peace Commissioners. MR. LORING, Boston, has published "Farming by Inches, or 'With Brains, Sir,'" in a style uniform with "My Ten-Rod Farm," and like it is designed to beget a taste for agriculture, and impart knowledge in its practice.

THE "Christian Quarterly" is a new religious periodical by R. W. Carroll & Co., Cincinnati, the second number of which appeared in April. It is devoted" to the advocacy of primitive Christianity as distinguished from the religion of sects," and is edited by W. T. Moore, assisted by W. K. Pendleton, Isaac Errett, Robert Graham, Dr. S. E. ShepThe ard, Thomas Munnell, and Alexander Procter. titles of the articles of this number are, Galileo and the Church, Phases of Religion in the United States, The Glories of Mary, The Royal Priesthood, Christology, The Kingdom of God, Church Officers, together with notes of foreign and domestic publiIn its typocations, religious intelligence, etc. graphical appearance the new quarterly is not surpassed, or perhaps we should say it is not equalled, by any issues of its class, and the contents give evidence not only of erudition, but of a thorough appreciation of the current theological and ecclesiological questions of the day.

H. H. BANCROFT & Co., San Francisco, have published a complete map of the White Pine Mining District, compiled by Gen. Allen Cadwalader, together with a descriptive text giving the facts connected with the locality in question.

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MR. J. MUNSELL, Albany, has issued an additional
volume-the third-of the late Professor Dean's
It relates to Rome, the
History of Civilization."
sources of its history, its industry, religion, govern-
ment, society, philosophy, and art, and contains an
For general
index to the first three volumes.
readers, this is one of the most desirable works, in
its completeness and intelligibility, they can pro-
Mr. Munsell has also published an essay by
Frogs, their Contri-
Dr. John V. Lansing entitled
butions to Science," read before the Albany Insti-
tute. It is not only a pleasant, but a very instruc-
tive paper.

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FISHER & DENISON, New York, are publishing a "The Vocalist." It is musical series entitled collection of popular songs both of the drawingroom and glee club, of many of which the music is given. Four parts have already appeared, and they are published at the low rate of five cents each. FROM Turner Brothers & Co., Philadelphia, we have received Nos. 3 and 8 of their "Select Novels." No. 3 is "Common Sense," and No. 8 is "Only Temper," both by Mrs. C. J. Newby.

ROSY DAWN STORIES (Boston, Henry A. Young & Co.). There are six volumes in this series, printed in good type, on stout paper, with illustrations, and put up in boxes. The style is such as will please the youthful reader, and all the stories are pervaded by a highly religious sentiment.

ton."

MESSRS. JAMES CAMPBELL & Co., Boston, will shortly issue a new medical monthly, to be entitled the "Journal of the Gynecological Society of BosIt will be under the editorial management of Drs. Winslow Lewis, Horatio R. Storer, and Geo. H. Bixby. Each number is to consist of not less than 64 pages. Subscription price, $3 per year, or 35 cents per number.

THE "Hunter's Guide and Trapper's Companmation valuable to those who, as its title implies, ion" is the title of a small book filled with inforare interested in whatever relates to the hunting and trapping of wild animals, the preservation of This new edition may be their skins, &c. Many thousand copies of this book have been sold. had of A. Winch, Phila.; it is published by Hunter & Co., Hinsdale, N. H.

"LITTLE WOMEN," published by Messrs. Roberts favor. The fourteenth thousand is now printing. Bros., Boston, has been received with remarkable

BOSSANGE'S monthly "Bulletin Bibliographique," comprising a selection of the best new books issued in France, will contain in the April number a list of the principal French periodicals, arranged sysStates. This feature will be continued in subsetematically, with prices per mail to the United This Bulletin has been forty It has proved highly useful quent numbers. years in existence. to the public and the trade, and gives promise of increased efficiency. It is distributed without charge by all the correspondents in America of Gustave Bossange, Bookseller, 25 Quai Voltaire, Paris.

ERNEST RENAN's new book, "The Life of Saint Paul," of which Carleton, New York, will publish, a translation this month, is said to contain a special map of the travels of Saint Paul from the date of departure on his first mission until his arrival at Rome.

The same publisher will issue, in a few days, simultaneously with the London edition," Artemus Ward's Comic Lecture," delivered in Egyptian Hall, and illustrated profusely with drawings from the of the author. famous Showman's Panorama, and a steel portrait

A NEW Story, "The Vicar of Bullhampton," by Anthony Trollope, will be begun, as a serial, simultaneously, in "Lippincott's Magazine," and "Oncea-Week," in July.

THE forthcoming "Comic History of the United States," by John D. Sherwood, with original designs, portraits, maps, &c., will be published by Fields, Osgood & Co., Boston, and is intended to be pleasingly humorous, "not on the plane of the buffoon

the mere punster or word-player-but elevated and intellectually healthful." In this it will occupy a higher place than Gilbert A. A'Beckett's "Comic History of England," which is overpoweringly filled with commonplace or far-fetched puns.

MAY 15. 1869.

BRIDGMAN & CHILDS, Northampton, Mass., have issued an improved edition of "Todd's Index Rerum."

"VULGARISMS, AND OTHER ERRORS OF SPEECH," published by Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, has gone into another edition. The reader who is fond of verbal niceties will be interested in the author's review of G. Washington Moon's "Dean's English" and "Bad English," which is appended to this edi

tion.

By the death of Mr. Henry Kempshall, the firm of Darrow & Kempshall, of Rochester, N. Y., is dissolved, and Mr. Erastus Darrow will continue the book and stationery business.

THE Globe edition of Charles Dickens', published by Hurd & Houghton, New York, is completed by the production (12mo., pp. 420 and 604 pages) of a volume containing all of the "Uncommercial Traveller," "Master Humphrey's Clock" (not ineluded in the author's own edition), and seven additional Christmas stories. There is also a general Index of Characters and their Appearances, as well as an index of fictitious places, popular sayings, &c. There are two engravings on steel, from original designs by Darley.

GUSTAVE BOSSANGE (late Hector Bossange et Fils), 25 Quai Voltaire, Paris, offers his services to the trade and the public for the purchase of books, stationery, philosophical apparatus, etc. Catalogues, price lists, and information promptly fur

nished on demand.

public is restored. I may not want the money, in which case I will buy into the funds, and make some cash by it. But I think it would be most necessary, and even improper, not to be fully prepared.

By all that I can learn, this is just such an embarrassment as may arise when pickpockets cry Fire !' in a crowd, and honest men get trampled to death. Thank God, I can clear myself of the melée, and am not afraid of the slightest injury. If the money horizon does not clear up in a month or I cannot find two, I will abridge my farming, &c. there is any real cause for this; but an imaginary one will do equal mischief. I need not say this is confidential. Yours truly, WALTER SCOTT.” "December 16, Edinburgh.—The confusion of 1814 is a joke to this. I have no debts of my own. On the contrary, 3000l. and more lying out on interest, &c. It is a little hard that, making about 7000l. a year, and working hard for it, I should have this botheration. But it arises out of the nature of the same connection which gives, and has given me a fortune, and, therefore, I am not entitled to grumble."

Ar the Annual Dinner of the Royal Literary Fund, in London, on the 6th of May, Lord Stanley was in the chair. Twelve out of the fifty-two stewards were Reverdy Johnson and the Belgian Ambassador were directly newspaper men or popular authors. Mr. stewards. The dinner ticket costs a guinea, but each steward is expected to pay ten guineas for the honor of having his name advertised in very good

company.

After dinner a subscription list goes round, and from a thousand to fifteen hundred pounds are often collected in this manner.

THERE has lately been published, in London, a

TURNER BROTHERS & Co., Philadelphia, have published, in a very neat volume," Beautiful Snow" and other Poems, by J. W. Watson. With each copy is issued (we must say with due acknowledg-volume on the Byways of Literature, entitled "Handment) the account, in our last number, of the authorship and composition of the principal lyric.

THE late Charles O. Rogers, of Boston, left an estate valued at $800,000, and the "Boston Journal," worth $500,000.

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WILLIAM LAIDLAW, the friend, amanuensis, and finally "factor" (or land steward) of Sir Walter Scott, was himself a writer of verse, though not to any large extent. He is best known by his song of Lucy's Flitting," a simple and pathetic picture of a poor Ettrick maiden's feelings on leaving a service in which she had been happy; a song, Lockhart says, which "has long been, and ever must be a favorite with all who understand the delicacies of the Scottish dialect, and the manners of the district in which the scene is laid." Laidlaw survived his patron, and, it appears, carefully preserved the various

notes and letters he had received from him. Some

of these, under the title of " Abbotsford Notanda," are now publishing in the "Gentleman's Magazine," London. The following appeared in the April number; and is curious as showing how unconscious, even on the verge of ruin which soon crushed but did not destroy him, he was of the darkness of his actual situation : "December, 1825.MY DEAR WILLIAM: The money market in London is in a tremendous state, so much so that, whatever good reason I have, and I have the best, for knowing that Constable and his allies, Hurst and Robinson, are in perfect force, yet I hold it wise and necessary to prepare myself for making good my engagements, which might come back on me suddenly, or by taking up those which I hold good security for. For this purpose I have resolved to exercise my reserved faculty to burthen Abbotsford with 80001. or 10,000l. I can easily get the money, and having no other debts, and these well secured, I hold it better to put money in my purse,' and be a debtor on my land for a year or two, till the credit of the

book of Fictitious Names: being a Guide to Authors,
chiefly in the Lighter Literature of the XIXth Cen-
tury, who have written under Assumed Names; and
to Literary Forgers, Impostors, Plagiarists, and Imi-
tators." By Olphar Hamst, Esq., author of " A Notice
of the Life and Works of J. M. Quérard." It might
pay to republish it here as a companion to Mr.
William A. Wheeler's admirable "Dictionary of the
Noted Names of Fiction," which was issued in 1865
by Ticknor & Fields.

Parker & Co. promise the second part of Dr. Pusey's
MURRAY'S announcements are very few. James
Eirenicon, in Letters to the Rev. Dr. J. H. Newman,
into accentuated English verse by the Rev. Love-
a nearly literal translation of Homer's Odyssey
Messrs. Longman announce
lace Bigge-Wither.
the Subjection of Women, by John Stuart Mill;
Ecce Christus, or Jesus of Nazareth_tried by the
Ingelow, with eight illustrations. Tinsley Brothers
Tribunals of his Country; Mopsa, the Fairy, by Jean
have nearly ready Stretton, a novel, by Henry
Grant; and False Colors, by Mrs. Pender Canlip,
Kingsley; The Girl to be Married, by Capt. James
formerly Miss Annie Thomas. Macmillan & Co.
have in the press the Book of Worthies, by Miss
Yonge; and among other promised and promising
works, are True Love, by Lady Di Beauclerk; the
Life and Labors of Cæsar Malan, of Geneva, by one
of his sons; Selections from the Writings of the
late Viscount Strangford; and the Life and Corre-
spondence of Mary Russell Mitford.

THE Rev. Alexander Dyce's Shakspeare has been completed in nine volumes, including a glossary; the latter is sold separately at twelve shillings.

MR. GLADSTONE has given a pension of one hundred pounds per annum to the widow and daughters of the late William Carleton, the Irish novelist. This is one-half of the pension enjoyed since 1847 by Mr. Carleton,

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