JAN. 15. 1867. JUST PUBLISHED BY LITTLE, BROWN & CO., 110 Washington Street, Boston. A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF PARTNERSHIP. By THEOPHILUS PARSONS, LL. D., Dane Professor of Law in Harvard University at Cambridge. 8vo., 707 pp. Law Sheep. The plan of this treatise is similar to that followed by the author in his previous works, and may be briefly described in his own language: "In the text, I state the law as clearly and as succinctly as I can, enlarging upon the reasons and principles involved when I treat of questions more than usually important, difficult, or uncertain. In the notes, I give all that the complete library of this Law School could supply me with, of authorities needed to verify the law as stated, or exhibit the qualifications or modifications to which it is subject, and enable an inquirer, with a library at com. mand, to make a thorough investigation of any question. The great and still growing increase in the number of reports makes it very difficult for any individual to have a full collection of them, and leads me to believe that a work intended on the one hand to supply on its specific subjects the want of a library so far as any single work can hope to do this, and on the other, to facilitate the use of a complete library for those who have access to one, will be found useful to students and practitioners." COMMENTARIES ON EQUITY JURISPRUDENCE, as administered in England and America. By JOSEPH STORY, LL. D. Ninth Edition, carefully revised, with extensive additions, by ISAAC F. REDFIELD, LL. D. 2 vols. 8vo. Law sheep. RECONSTRUCTION. Claims of the Inhabitants of the States engaged in the Rebellion to Restoration of Political Rights and Privileges under the Constitution. By CHARLES G. LORING. 8vo., paper, 130 pages. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY; its Honorable Past, its Expedient Future. A Protest against the proposed Repeal of the Neutrality Laws, and a Plea for their Improvement and Consolidation. By GEORGE BEMIS. 8vo., paper, 211 pages. WALTON'S COMPLETE ANGLER. Major's Edition. Printed on toned paper in the best style of the University Press, and embellished with 74 wood-cuts and 12 full-page steel engravings. 16mo. Cloth gilt. WAR POEMS. By ELBRIDGE JEFFERSON CUTLER. Small quarto, cloth, 60 pp. Vol. X. of BURKE'S WORKS. RECENTLY PUBLISHED: Vol. IX. of BANCROFT'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. THE SCIENCE OF WEALTH: a Manual of Political Economy. Embracing the Laws of Trade, Currency, and Finance. By AMASA WALKER, Lecturer on Public Economy at Amherst College. BRAZIL AND THE BRAZILIANS. By Rev. J. C. FLETCHER and Rev. D. P. KIDDER. Sixth edition, illustrated. THE CHARACTER OF JESUS PORTRAYED. A BIBLICAL ESSAY. By Dr. DANIEL SCHENKEL Professor of Theology at Heidelberg. Translated from the German, with Introduction and Notes, by W. H. FURNESS, D. D. 2 vols. Number Two (Jan. 1867) of the first volume of the new legal quarterly, THE AMERICAN LAW REVIEW, is now ready. GEORGE W. CHILDS, PUBLISHER, Nos. 628 & 630 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. GEO. N. DAVIS, 119 Rua Direita, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Agent for South America. A. ROMAN, San Francisco, California, Agent for the Pacific Coast. STEPHENS & CO., 10 Calle Mercaderes, Habana, Agents for the West Indies. Subscriptions or Advertisements for the "American Literary Gazette" will be received by the above Agents, and they will forward to the Editor any Books or Publications intended for notice. OUR CONTINENTAL CORRESPONDENCE. FEB. 1. 1867. PARIS, December 7, 1866. personality. It is a satire of Paris and its more prominent people. It is very amusing, even when it outrages decency. Many of the principal personal attacks are made so transparently the victim cannot be mistaken; others are more closely veiled. A great many "keys" are in circulation to the persons designated. The author vehemently protests against all of them, declaring that where he painted an individual he hinted in no obscure terms his name, and where he mentions no name the character is made of traits gleaned from a dozen individuals. 20,000 copies of the first edition were sold four days after the book appeared; the third edition has already been issued; it is larger than its predecessors, and more personal. The persons attacked reply with great vehemence, and M. Veuillot is particularly happy in his replies. One cannot but admire the magnificent publications which have issued, or are issuing, or are about to issue from the French press. Our publishers know there is little pecuniary profit from these great works; they make the adventure for honor's sake. Look at the noble collections of memoirs edited by Guizot, Petilot, Baudouin, Michaud and Poujoulat, Buchon, Panckoucke's collection of the Latin classics, Gallia Christiana, the Acta Sanctorum, M. Paris's edition of the Literary History of France, Biographical Dictionaries Ducange's and Stephens's Dictionaries, and many another work whose like we have nothing to compare with. I sometimes wonder a noble pride does not incite our wealthiest publishers to bring out some work which will not prove pecuniarily profitable, but which will give their name immortality. Why can they not bring out a great biographical dictionary in 80 or 100 volumes, or collect all the standard memoirs relating to English history, or even relating to the history of the English Revolution? These memoirs abound, but they cannot easily be collected unless one is very wealthy. I was led to these reflections by the efforts which J. Carnandet and A. Arcelin (aided by M. Techener, the publisher) are making to publish a complete collection of all Papal Bulls relating to France. Efforts have been made (and it is greatly to be regretted they have failed) to publish a complete collection of Papal Bulls, which should form for the history of the Church of Rome a collection of documentary evidence as valuable as the Statutes at Large are for English history. It is hoped the efforts of these gentlemen, directed to a narrower field, may be successful. They entertain little doubt of it. The work will appear in 15 quarto vols. There is some question of the publication of an immense encyclopædia, on the plan of that which the late M. Duveyrier was to edit; some banker is to furnish the money, and M. Laurent Pichat is to be the editor. It still seems quite vague. Gavarni is dead. Whatever superficial contemporaries may think (they are prone to underrate genius which conveys its teachings in smiles, forgetting Horace is as immortal as Homer), posterity will respect Gavarni as one of the great geniuses of the 19th century. As a writer, he is unequalled in his way, and this way is not distant from La Rochefoucauld. The legends of Gavarni's pictures are the composition of a consummate master of the pen. Here are examples: "A parchment, a sword, a bubble; the nobility of day before yesterday, of yesterday, of to-day." "You lie, child, for gluttony; you lie, young man, for love; you lie, man, for pride; you lie, graybeard, for hypocrisy-lying and stupid race! As if one could procure neither apples, women, and fame in this world nor rest in the next without deceiving one's neighbor!" Would you have authority to confirm my assertion? M. Sainte-Beuve has declared him to be an incomparable writer. Guillaume Sulpica Chevalier was born in Paris, in 1802. But Burgundy claims him for one of her children, as both his parents were of that province, and only recently established in Paris when he was born. He was educated to embrace at pleasure the profession of architecture or civil engineering. He selected the latter, and in his 20th year was appointed to a surveyor's place, in the Land Valuation Office. Tarbes was assigned him as his residence. The picturesque scenes around him, and the gaudy costumes of those frontier counties challenged his pencil during the idle hours of office. While spending the evening in a friend's house the postman brought the last magazine of the fashions which had appeared in Paris. The ladies examined it. Young Chevalier ridiculed the costumes given (the season was the eve of carnival), which the ladies thought beautiful, and the discussion ended by daring him to do better. He took a box of water colors, and in a few moments tossed off two costumes which are now everywhere celebrated: Le Debardeur and Le Titi. The ladies begged him to allow them to send the new costumes to their magazine. The return mail offered liberal compensation to the author; other periodicals and theatre managers appealed to the young surveyor to contribute to them. He threw the theodolite and chain aside, and came up to Paris. He at once became the vogue. He had signed none of his contributions. When a picture dealer, who bought his water-color drawings, insisted upon the drawing bearing the author's name, he wrote Gavarni, the name of several beautiful scenes in the neighborhood of Tarbes. The pseudonym became famous. Space would fail me were I to attempt to pursue his long career. He suddenly deserted art about 1856. As long ago as 1846 he had become fascinated by The books for Christmas and New mathematical studies. They continually took a Year's presents have begun to appear. Every larger share of his mind, and at last engrossed it to season they improve, and while there is still a the exclusion of all things else. He contemplated great deal of trash offered, there is no comparison nothing less than a radical revolution in arithmetic. between the works on sale now and those on sale He looked with contempt upon his works of art as a very few years ago. It is especially in illustrated a tribute wrung from him by poverty to the detri- works the advance has been most marked. The ment of noble labor. So absorbed was he by mathe-wood-cuts from drawings, by Messrs. Gustave Dore, matical studies he refused to leave the house to take exercise. This constant application and sedentary life wore life away. It had besides received a heavy blow by the destruction of his house and garden, which he had spent years in adorning, and to which he was ardently attached by those tender souvenirs which make life. He was buried quite privately in the graveyard of Auteuil. M. Louis Venillot has startled Paris by a book written with great power, greater coarseness, great Fragonard, Yanc. Dargent, Foulquier, etc., are almost perfection. The French are beginning to learn how to write children's books, so, instead of the miserable trash formerly seen everywhere, at the approach of the New Year, we find excellent works which adults may read with pleasure and profit. Messrs. Hachette & Co. and M. Hetzel are the chief authors of this great reform. I notice among the gift-books not only M. G. Doré's excellent edition of "La Fontaine,” but L. Simonin`s FEB. 1, 1967. "Subterranean Life, or Mines and Miners;" Michelet's "Birds;" de Sauley's "Last Days of Jerusalem;" L. Figuier's "Insects;" Maurice Sand's World of Butterflies," with a preface by his mother, George Sand; Victor Meunier's "Animals which undergo Metamorphosis;" S. H. Berthoud's "Mind of Birds," all properly illustrated. One of our book shops has in its windows the works of Alfred de Musset, 10 vols. 4to., splendidly bound, price 950f.; G. Doré's Bible, magnificently bound, 2000f.; the edition of 1799 of Virgil, with all the incomplete lives, completed by the late M. Mergord, with a manuscript and autograph preface of 8 pp. by him, price 1500f., and Beuchot's Voltaire, price 2500f., while Messrs. V. Masson & Son offer the edition of the "Imitation of Christ," published by the Imperial printing-office for the exhibition of 1855, one folio vol. of 872 pp. for only $1000 in gold; and M. Curmer has on sale Michel de Marillac's translation of the Imitation for 776f., and Queen Anne de Bretagne's "Livre d'Heures" for 1250f. his truth: he offers his Memoirs to the public. M. Victor Cousin has quitted Paris for Pau, taking with him, it is said, the proof-sheets of a general history of philosophy, which will be published in the spring. . . The "Revue Française" announces it suspends its publication for two months... Messrs. Hachette & Co. have spent $3000 on their case for the great exhibition. M. Mame's case has cost him the same amount of money; among the works the latter will exhibit, are Doré's Bible, and a volume entitled "Les Jardins;" it is still in press, and the last sheet will not be struck off until just before the exhibition opens. The most celebrated landscape artists of France, such as Anastasi, D'Aubigny, Français, Corot, etc., have drawn the most beautiful gardens in the world for this book, which will be transferred to wood by our best engravers. The book is not a speculation. It is a hobby with M. Mame, undertaken to let the world see what he can do. It is all for honor; profit has no share in the enterprise. . . The new Paris Museum, which is organizing in the hotel Carnavalet, will be formed of all the old charters and maps of old Paris; of plans in relief of razed monuments; of drawings and paintings represent-tration intus et extra, in Hygiene, Medicine, and ing streets, monuments, public festivals, etc.; of Surgery;" the third volume of Count de Montalemplans of the public works executed in Paris bert's "Monks of the West" (the fourth and fifth are arranged by centuries in chronological order; of announced as in press and will shortly appear); this moneys, medals, etc., found in excavations or in volume is very curious-it is devoted to the conthe bed of the Seine; of works of marble, iron, version of Great Britain; Capefigue's "Les Derniers bronze, etc., found in Paris; and of sketches of all Jours de Trianon, the Duchess Gabrielle de Polignac the paintings and sculpture executed in public and the Female Friends of France (Marie Antoibuildings by order of the municipal authorities. nette);" Dr. Druhen's "Du Tabac; the influence of Messrs. Théophile Gautier and Arsène Houssage tobacco on the health and on the intellectual and have been made members of the Academy of St. moral faculties;" L. Jousserandot's "Modern CiviliPetersburg and commanders of the order of St. zation;" T. de Croze's "Les Guises, Les Valois, et Stanislas... Dr. Lasegne, son-in-law of the late Philippe II." (as shown by the unpublished corresM. Perrotin, de Beranger's publisher, has been pondence of the Princes of the House of Lorraine); appointed Professor of General Pathology in the A. Sayous's "Principes de Litterature," advice to a Paris Medical School in the place of Dr. Andral. mother on the literary education of her children; Molière's "Tartuffe," translated for the first time into Beaufort's Dissertation on the "Uncertainty of the Flemish, has been played at Ghent, and is now play- Five First Centuries of Roman History" (a reprint ing at Brussels. . . M. Alex. Dumas makes this of this famous and most rare work); there is a announcement in his newspaper, "Le Mousquetaire." rumor we are to have a reprint of his other work, He offers to send to all subscribers to his paper the "Roman Republic, or General Plan of the those of his novels which are given as premiums Ancient Government of Rome," which, S. de Sacy with his autograph on the title-page. He has re- says, "is perhaps the best, the clearest, the most ceived 3000 demands, and says he dispatches 300 agreeable to read, and the most substantial work volumes a day. At first he feared the post-office in existence on this subject. I know no work betwould object to this autograph on books sent through ter suited with youth to give it a just idea of the the mail. The postmaster-general replied: "Un-institutions of this famous republic." Prof. A. questionably. It is only fair genius should have the same privilege as a postage-stamp.". . Poor M. de Lamartine is likewise presenting us a sad spectacle again. Here is his last advertisement: "Before dying, M. de Lamartine desires to self-survive in Blot is the editor of the first-mentioned reprint, and contemplates bringing out the last work; Mme. Michelet's "Mémoires d'Une Enfant," the autobiography of her childhood, and Theo. Gautier's "St. Petersburg." FEB. 1, 1867. The city of Edehmiadzin, in Great Armenia, contains a magnificent library of 3000 Armenian MSS., which hitherto have been almost lost to the learned world. Few scholars knew of their existence. A catalogue of the library has just been printed. It throws immense light on the religious and political history of Central Asia. It reveals the existence of works which the fathers of the church knew nothing about, and unpublished fragments of Diodorus of Sicily and of Aristotle. The Armenian Patriarch gives notice in the preface of the catalogue that these MSS. will not only be communicated to students, but copies made and sent to all persons who will pay the scrivener's charges. . . "Le Figaro" gives its leading writers $5000 a year; they write two or three articles a week. . . A French literary man was recently dunned to death by a creditor; at last the former wrote to the latter: "Dear Sir: you overwhelm me with letters and you expect me to reply to them. It is true I owe you money, but I live by my pen. If I had written to a newspaper on any subject the letters I have written to you, and had received only 5 sous a line for them, I should have paid you three times the amount of your debt." The French Comedy has received M. Ponsard's "Galilée," a three-act drama in verse. The Prince de Ligne will contribute a great curiosity to the exhibition. It is a book which is neither manuscript nor printed; it is made of characters cut with scissors in the most delicate and adroit manner and placed in lines of mathematical exactness. In 1640 Rodolf II., Emperor of Germany, offered 11,000 ducats for it. Nothing is known of its history. . . M. Alex. Dumas, Sr., says: One day Lamartine asked me to what I attributed the immense success of his history of the Girondins. I replied: "Because you rose to the height of a novel." He reflected some time, and at last agreed with me. M. Viennet one day said at dinner, in speaking of M. de Lamartine, "He is a coxcomb who thinks himself the first political man of his epoch, and who is not even the first poet." Mme. de Girardin, who was present and at the further end of the table, exclaimed in a loud voice: "At all events he is not the last-that place is filled!". . A lady was recently asked which of the brothers de Goncourt she liked best; she replied: "When I am talking with Jules I prefer Edmond; when I am talking with Edmond I prefer Jules.". . M. A. de Pontmartin has written a touching notice of the late M. J. D'Ortigues, whose death I briefly recorded in a recent letter. I quote one paragraph from it: "D'Ortigues remained, despite everything, L'Amennais's faithful friend. during the years which lay between Les Paroles d'un Croyant and life's last hour, a mournful and touching sight to see this thin old man, dressed in black, with bowed back, bilious complexion, eyes injected with hatred, too discontented with himself to like to think or to speak, come to enjoy a few hours of unreproved refuge and innocent amusement in d'Ortigues's house, where he was greeted with respectful pity. Every care was taken to make him comfortable by this peaceful heart and at this hospitable table, and to prevent any imprudent or too sincere word from opening his wounds, and to secure for him the game of chess which protected him from the glances of the inquisitive and from the conversation of chatterboxes." God bless those good Samaritans who pour oil and bind up with It was, inen the wounds of those who are the victims of life's casualties. It is wonderful how quickly works find their way to the second hand bookboxes on the quays. I saw in them yesterday a copy of Doesticks' works! Who had thought books like flowers' pollen were blown about the world, fructifying the places where they alight! G. S. NOTES ON BOOKS AND BOOKSELLERS. THE DIAMOND DICKENS.-This enterprise has been inaugurated by Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, with the publication of the "Pickwick Papers," the first volume of the series. This was issued on the 26th of January, and has made a most favorable impression. The type is clear, and is easy reading even to eyes not comparatively strong, while the size of the volume is such as to make it convenient and portable. The edition is to be issued in two forms, illustrated and plain. The illustrations, sixteen in number, are very happy conceptions of the time-honored characters in "Pickwick." They exemplify well the originality and power of depicting character possessed by Mr. Eytinge, the artist. The "Diamond" series which Messrs. Ticknor & Fields have thus begun with Tennyson and Dickens, bids fair to be a success, as was their "Blue and Gold" series, commenced ten years since. Both series were begun by the publication of Tennyson's poems. T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS, of this city, publish, February 1, a new national edition of Charles Dickens' Works, in seven large octavo volumes, bound in cloth, for the low price of $20. This will Charles Dickens published in the world, all his probably be the cheapest edition of the works of writings being contained in seven large octavo and making nearly six thousand very large doublevolumes, with a portrait and other illustrations, columned pages. It will possess the combined advantages of comfort in reading, convenience in handling, and remarkable cheapness. MURPHY & Co., Baltimore, have in press, and will publish early in February, in a neat volume, "A Manual of the History of the Popes from St. Peter to Pius IX." LITERARY SUCCESS.-Notwithstanding the general dulness which has characterized the past few months, a few literary ventures have proved successful. "Sunnybank," by the popular authoress Marion Harland, published some six weeks since by Sheldon & Co., has already had a sale of twelve thousand copies. Commerce," who is one of the ablest editors of the W. L. STONE, Esq., of the New York "Journal of United States, delivered a lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of New York, before a large audience, upon "The Early Newspaper Press of New York and Boston," which is highly spoken of by those who heard it. The subject is an interesting one, and the lecturer is thoroughly qualified to handle it with point and vigor. So great a number of people are now connected more or less intimately with the press, and curiosity respecting it is so general among those who are not, that a sketch of its early history should afford a generally attractive as well as very gratifying evening's entertainment. Mr. Stone's lecture should prove popular wherever it is heard, and we are glad to learn that he is likely to lecture in this city on the early newspapers of Philadelphia. "LONDON SOCIETY."-This highly popular English magazine will hereafter be issued in this country by Hurd & Houghton, from duplicates of the English plates, and will be an exact copy of the original. The programme for the present year presents a body of rich and diversified contents. ARCTIC EXPLORATION.-Hurd & Houghton, New York, announce "The Open Polar Sea," by Dr. Hayes, who claims to have "succeeded in planting the American flag upon land, discovered by himself, nearer to the North Pole than any other known land on the globe, pushing his observations as far |