APRIL 15, 1867. irritabile, in the interest of the authors also. The sold ten thousand copies of the half-guinea edition royalty ought not to be paid, "The Spectator" have now issued one at six shillings; of this three thinks, unless the sale of the book exceeds a thousand copies were subscribed. Almost as large certain limit, which limit, of course, will be one a number have been sold in the United States. thing in one case and another in another, and in GERMAN COPYRIGHT.-At the end of 1867, accordall cases will be fixed by the publisher. "This is ing to a new copyright law passed some years thehalf profits' system, with one all-important since by the German Diet and agreed to by all the difference." In this country, in the case of authors separate governments, all copyright which had up not well known, there is the widest diversity in to that time been prolonged by special privileges the terms offered. A form of "The Spectator's" ceases and becomes public property. The works plan is not seldom tried, the author getting a speci- of Schiller, Goethe, Wieland, Herder, Körner, and fied percentage of the retail price after so many many other German classics that have up to the hundred copies are sold, he to pay all expenses on present year been the copyright of certain pubpresentation of the bills. The translation now in jishers, or the families of the authors, can then be the American market of a certain well-known published by any one, and already the announce foreign book is published under this agreement: ments of cheap reprints are numerous. A publisher the translator pays for stereotyping, for paper, and of Berlin advertises a series of the principal German for everything, material or labor, necessary in the authors, in very good print and on good paper, in manufacture of the book; he agrees to furnish so volumes for threepence and sixpence each, e. g., many pages of copy each day and to correct so" Bürger's Poems" for sixpence, Jean Paul's "Siemany; and he gets one-half of the price of each benkäs" for one shilling, Vos's "Luise" for threecopy sold. He stipulates that no demand for money, pence. except a certain small fraction of the whole expense, shall be made on him until so many months after the stereotyping is completed. The contracts are made in writing under seal, and though such as we have seen might well enough make an unknown author despondent, they set forth details so fully that quarrelling about their provisions would seem difficult.-The Nation. VICIOUS LITERATURE.-The London "Bookseller" publishes an article on "The Literature of Vice" -the penny and halfpenny romances of murder, robbery, seduction, and adultery-in which these ation received by the writers of these stories, we statements are made: "As to the rate of remunerunderstand that two guineas for a sheet of eight pages is considered good payment, while in some few cases men are to be found who can provide enough writing to fill eight pages of close print, each number warranted to contain at least one murder, fire, shipwreck, or seduction, for fifteen shillings! On the other hand, two or three of the writers of these sensation stories are likewise their proprietors; and considerable sums are said to have been yearly netted from their sale in penny num Ir might puzzle Mr. Friedrich Kapp to mention a nation or tribe of men which has not given its great men indiscriminate and fulsome adulation. In an article on Washington's character, which he contributes to "The Historical Magazine" for March, he charges the fault upon Americans in the case of Washington, and somewhat severely animadverts upon it. Mr. Jared Sparks specifically he denounces for "falsifying the record of Wash-bers." ington's life and of American history." It is within his personal knowledge that Mr. Sparks suppressed some passages in certain autograph letters of Washington which Mr. Kapp has seen, and tampered with other passages, in order to make the hero appear *re devoted as a Christian than he really wrta more conversant with the requirements of mole propriety. In one of the future articles promised from his pen, Mr. Kapp anay perhaps be more explicit both as regards Washington and as regards his New England biographer. The Nation. HON. Edward McPherson, Clerk of the U. S. House of Representatives, announces that he has in press a "Political Manual for 1867," which will take up our political history where his last manual ended, July 4, 1866, and carry it down to April 1 of the current year, or the end of the present session of Congress. He has compiled it from official sources, promises that it shall be accurate and fair, and believes that it will be useful to men of all parties. PRINTERS' READERS.-In France, the printers' readers, or, as they are there called, correcteurs, are held in esteem. They form a society, and meet once a year, and at the last gathering an interesting speech was delivered by M. Ambroise Didot, in which he passed in review the names of a number of learned men whose modesty and whose occupation caused them to be almost unknown, one of whom is said to have refused the Greek chair at Cambridge, preferring to remain a corrector for Plantin's press. M. Didot confessed that much of the credit given to the learned publications issued by himself and relations was due to the readers. THE FOUNDER OF GEORGIA.-A new biography of General James Oglethorpe, described as "the founder of Georgia" (he certainly founded the cit of Savannah), is announced in London, to be written by R. Smith. He died in 1785, aged ninetyseven; and his name is familiar, out of American history, as one of the earliest and warmest friends of Dr. Samuel Johnson, having been one of the warmest admirers and patrous of his poem called CHARLES LAMB.-Admirers of Charles Lamb, says "London," published in May, 1738. Boswell makes the "Bookseller," will be glad to hear that Bell & repeated mention of General Oglethorpe in his Daldy, in republishing the “Essays of Elia," have wonderful "Life of Johnson"-one of the latest, restored many important passages which were sup-dated March 22, 1783, recording a visit by the pressed in previous editions. It is hoped they soldier to the sage-the former being in his will also add some of those charming essays which eighty-ninth, and the latter in his seventy-fourth have not hitherto appeared in his collected works, but which are well known to collectors of Eliana. This new edition, which will be the most complete "ECCE HOмo."-The demand for this book in England is still very great. The publishers having year. THE BRITISH DRAMA.-There has just appeared, in London, the first part of a "Handbook to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain from the Invention of Printing to the Re storation." The author is Mr. W. Carew Haz'itt, grandson of the Hazlitt, critic and historian, who was the lifelong friend of Coleridge and Lamb. APRIL 15, 1867. WALTER LOW, 596 Broadway, American agent for the London publishing house of Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, has received Part XIII. of Doré's Bible. The edition will be completed in about fifty-five numbers, published monthly. LORD PLUNKET.-The Life, Letters, and Speeches of Lord Plunket, for many years at the head of the Irish bar, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland for a considerable time, edited by one of his sons, is advertised as nearly ready. An Introductory Preface is supplied by Lord Brougham, who is now in his eighty-ninth year. VERDI'S NEW OPERA.-The subject of this work is "Don Carlos," gloomy and tragic enough, at all events. Its performance at the Grand Opera of Paris has not eventuated very successfully, though a critic says, "there is a scene of combination at the close of the third act which outdoes the 'Miserere' scene in Il Trovatore.' He seems to have an ineradicable love for dark and painful stories; and since he has become desirous of transforming his manner, as in 'Les Vêpres,' 'Simone Boccanegra,' 'La Forza del Destino,' so as to approach the complicated effects of German and French operas, which distinguish them from those in the elder Italian style, he has tried to give himself an appear ance of weight, thoughtfulness, and science which his works do not bear out." "THE QUARTErly Review."-It is stated that Dr. William Smith, of Dictionary reputation, has been appointed editor of the "Quarterly Review." He is well qualified to succeed Gifford, Sir John Coleridge, Lockhart, and Elwyn. He is now 53 years old, and is Classical Examiner in the University of London, and also Classical Professor in New College. His first three Dictionaries form the " Encyclopædia of Classical Literature," and his latest work, completed in 1863, is, a "Dictionary of the Bible," in three large 8vo. volumes. Among his other and numerous literary labors is a good edition of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." The salary of the editor of the "Quarterly" is said to be about $7500 per annum. In the United States this periodical is sometimes mentioned as "The London Quarterly," which is a mistake, for there is a publication so called which is the literary organ of the Wesleyan Methodists, whereas Mr. John Murray's periodical simply is "The Quarterly Review." "GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE."-It is said that the plot of "Mademoiselle Mathilde," the new serial tale by Mr. Henry Kingsley, commenced in the April number of Sylvanus Urban's old and famous magazine, will be partly laid in England and partly in Bretagne, during the eighteenth century, and that Dr. Johnson and some of his literary friends will figure in it. A NOBLE TOURIST.-The Marquis of Lorne, eldest son and heir of the Duke of Argyll, having paid a hasty visit, last year, to the West Indies and the United States, has written a book about it, called "A Trip to the Tropics, and Home through America." This young gentleman is only in his twenty-second year, and the "Athenæum," noticing his book, says: "Not, therefore, that we may depreciate the author or his book, but that we may secure charitable judgments for both of them, we would have it remembered that this record of a run to the West Indies and the American continent is the work of a young head and fresh hand." In Jamaica, he (grandson of Mrs. Stowe's Duchess of Sutherland) evidently was under the influence of the anti-negro party. The critic from whom we have quoted above says: "In other respects the volume is a light and pleasant record of travel in the western islands and in the United States. M. DU CHAILLU.-Among the arrivals from Eu- This M. GUIZOT.-"The Last Days of Louis-Philippe and the Revolution of 1848," is the title of a book just published in Paris by M. Guizot, who was Prime Minister of France early in 1848, when the folly of Louis-Philippe precipitated that second Revolution, which, like the first, thrust in a Republic as the stepping-stone to an Empire in France. volume is the conclusion of Guizot's "Memoirs of his own Times," and an English translation will immediately be published in London. The ex-Premier blames Louis-Philippe very much, but himself not at all. Yet, had he advised his royal master wisely, the wreck and ruin of the House of Orleans might probably have been avoided. Miss M. A. BRADDON.-It appears, from a controversy in the London papers concerning the republication of some of Miss Braddon's novels, with more than one noms de plume on the title-page, that Lady Caroline Lascelles" in the she wrote as "London Journal," a weekly penny journal. Mr. Maxwell, her man of business, in a letter to the "Athenæum," says: "Next, as to the nom de plume This title was sugof Lady Caroline Lascelles. gested by my late literary colleague, who was also at the time a writer in the 'Athenæum,' poor Sir C. He claimed a family F. Lascelles Wraxall, Bart. right in the names. For five weeks the nom de plume was adopted. At the end of that time it was discarded, and it was found that 'fine words butter no parsnips;' and the tale of The Black Band' was thenceforth published anonymously, and its publication, and that of the series of tales which succeeded, went on uninterruptedly for years." ROBERT BROWNING.-The Professorship of Poetry in the University of Oxford being about to be vacated by Mr. Matthew Arnold, it was proposed to put Mr. Browning in nomination as a candidate. It appears, however, that no one can be elected but a Master of Arts of Oxford, whereas Mr. Browning was educated at London University. APRIL 15, 1867. CHRISTINA ROSETTI.-This young English poetess has commenced a prose fiction, "The Waves of this Troublesome World: a Tale of Hastings Ten Years Ago," in the "Churchman's Shilling Magazine," a serious English monthly periodical. JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE.-The historian of England from the fall of Wolsey to the death of Elizabeth (A. D. 1530-1602) has published ten volumes of that work, to the year 1573; yet finds time amid his severer labors to contribute to some of the English periodicals. These papers, collected in two volumes, will immediately be published in London, under the title of "Short Studies on Great Subjects." The whole of his history, as far as yet published, has been reproduced in this country by Scribner & Co., of New York, and has a large sale. Dr. LIVINGSTONE.-It continues uncertain whether Dr. Livingstone has been murdered by African savages, as reported, but the current of belief seems flowing towards accepting the melancholy report as true. BLANCHE MARRYAT, whom we take to be a daughter of the marine novelist, is about to publish a novel entitled "Briers and Thorns." MISS SEWELL, the author of "Amy Herbert," has in the press "The Journal of a Home Life." MR. J. PAYNE COLLIER has just issued the first part of his reprint of " England's Parnassus." DEAN MILMAN will take the chair at the next Literary Fund Dinner. W. J. WIDDLETON has published a handsome library edition of Professor Conington's translation of the "Eneid." The translator is Professor of Latin in Oxford University. He has adopted Scott's ballad metre. P. O'SHEA publishes "The Life of St. Dominic, and a Sketch of the Dominican Order," with an introduction by Archbishop Alemany. LITERATI IN PARLIAMENT.-Gustav Freytag, the novelist, Professor Mommsen, the historian, and Gottfried Kinkel, poet and politician, are members of the North German Parliament. BEETHOVEN.-An Italian journal announces the discovery, at Meiningen, of the score of a comic opera, by Beethoven, until now unknown. BLANCHARD JERROLD has been engaged by Bradbury, Evans & Co., to write a guide to Paris and the Exhibition, under the title of "Paris for the English in 1867.” Dr. STRAUSS, the author of a novel described by indelicate," has brought an action against that the London "Athenæum" as "vulgar, profane, and journal for libel. QUEEN VICTORIA'S BOOK.-It is now stated that Victoria is not writing a book about her late husband. That is being done by General Grey, one of her household. She did write, privately print, and illustrate with her own engravings from original designs, a volume relating to that part of Scotland where she lives in summer. AGNES STRICKLAND.-—An abridged edition, in one volume, of Miss Strickland's "Lives of the Queens of England," is announced in London. POLITICAL SQUIB.-There has just appeared in King of the World," a sixpenny brochure, entiLondon, "dedicated to Albert Edward, the 100th tled "The History of the English Revolution of 1867, by Lord Macaulay's New Zealander, Anno Domini 3867," in which (the publisher advertises) political and social life in 1867 are "depicted to the life, in strong, humorous satire." Testament which contained the autograph of Sir THERE was recently sold in London a Greek Walter Raleigh. MR. J. S. LE FANU has written a new novel, which is to be published in "Temple Bar" simultaneously with Mrs. Edwards's "Steven Lawrence." Its title has not yet been made public. These works, when finished, are to be followed by a novel from the pen of Mr. Edmund Yates. Two of M. Victorien Sardou's dramas have just been done into English and reproduced in London with no marked success-" Nos Bons Villageois," by Mr. Gilbert a'Becket, under the name of " Diamonds and Hearts," and "Le Dégel," by Mr. T. W. Robertson, as "A Rapid Thaw." THE author, understood to be a lady, who writes under the nom de plume of Holme Lee, is about to SIR WALTER RALEIGH.-There was lately sold at publish a new novel entitled "Mr. Wyngard's a literary auction in London, a "Novum Testamentum Græcum," A. D. 1587, containing the autograph of Sir Walter Raleigh. THOMAS HOOD.-In an autobiographical work by William Jordan, founder and for thirty years editor of the "London Literary Gazette," he mentions that Hood's "Song of the Shirt" was begun and so far proceeded with under the title of "Tale of a Shirt," before the ludicrous equivoque struck the intense mind of the author! Such a title certainly might have created the reverse of a grave association. BEN JONSON.-There has just been sold, in London, the Aldine edition (A. D. 1576) of "Horatii Ars Poetica," which belonged to "rare Ben Jonson," and has his autograph and motto. LEOPOLD VON RANKE.-In February, the friends of Von Ranke, historiographer of Prussia, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his receiving his Doctor's degree, which took place when he was twenty years old. Ward." It A NEW weekly journal is on the eve of appearance in London, entitled "The Chronicle." promises, if the projectors may be trusted, to add to our knowledge of English and foreign books. Mr. JOHN RUSKIN is in such feeble health that he has been compelled to forego all his literary occupations. NEW WORDS.-A writer in the "Athenæum" suggests that as "telegram" is now recognized as a short and correct way of expressing a telegraphic dispatch, "photogram" should be used instead of "photograph" to denote a photographic picture, and that "stereogram" might be correctly substituted for "stereoscopic slide." It is probable that these new words will be adopted. MR. HENRY B. WHEATLEY is about to edit for the Early English Text Society an English Latin Grammar of about A. D. 1500, the manuscripts of which have been lent for that purpose by the Master and Fellows of Jesus College. APRIL 15, 1867. "NEW AMERICA."-Mr. Hepworth Dixon's new work, thus styled, has gone into a sixth edition in London. In fact, it is "the book of the season." ." The new edition contains a new preface, in answer to the criticisms of Father Noyes; also a portrait of Miss Eliza Snow, Mormon poetess and Brigham Young's spinster-wife. JEAN INGELOW.-This author, whose poetry has obtained great popularity in America as well as in England, is contributing to the "Sunday Magazine," a London periodical, a series of sketches entitled "My Chosen Friends." PERIODICALS. Atlantic Monthly. April. surrection of Jesus Christ (Rev. J. G. Adams).— The Catacombs of Rome.-The Eternal Logos (Rev. J. D. Williamson).-Longevity of the Antediluvians (W. R. French).—General Review. Boston: N. E. Univ. Pub. House. Methodist Quarterly Review. April. India (E. Thomson, D. D.).—Fairbairn on Prophecy (H. Bannister, D. D.).-Methodism in Canada (Rev. J. A. Williams).-Educational Qualifications for the Ministry (Rev. B. H. Nadal).—Clark and Mattison on a Future State (Rev. C. T. Moss).-The Original Penalty of the Law (Rev. S. M. Merrill). -The Methodist Book Concern (Rev. J. Porter).Foreign Religious Intelligence.-Foreign Literary Intelligence.-Synopsis of the Quarterlies.-QuarNew York: Carlton & Porter. terly Book-Table. Church Monthly. March. The Guardian Angel: Part IV. (O. W. Holmes). -The Restless (H. Rich).-Pioneering (Mrs. C. H. Dall). The U. S. Sanitary Commission (Rev. E. Our Church and Civilization at the West (Rev. E. Hale).-The Haunted Window (T. W. Higgin- J. O. Scripture).-The Daughter's Mistake: conson).-Katharine Morne: Part VI. (Miss Palfrey). tinued.-Bryan Maurice; or, The Seeker: continued -Timon's Soliloquy (T. B. Read).-Considerations on University Reform (J. Fiske).-The Claudian Emissary (T. Bacon).-Travel in the United States (B. Taylor).-Chester Harding (J. R. Lowell).-A Familiar Epistle to a Friend.-Adelaide Ristori (Miss Field).-A Winter Adventure on the Prairie. -Reviews and Literary Notices. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. The Galaxy. April 15. Waiting for the Verdict: Chaps. XII., XIII., and American Presbyterian and Theological Review. (Rev. W. Mitchell). - Names of Churches and Chapels. Twenty-eight Bishops vs. House of Bishops.-The Month for February.-The Month for March.-Themes for Reflection. Boston: E. P. Dutton & Co. The American Law Review. April. The Law of Sales; Delivery.-John Marshall.— Modern Italian Poets (W. D. Howells).-British Finance in 1816.-Charles Lamb and his Biographers (Adams S. Hill).-The New Jersey Monopolies (J. K. Medberry).-The Railroad System (C. F. Adams, Jr.).-Deaf-Mute Education (F. B. Sanborn).-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (W. D. Historical Evidence as affected by Time (Rev. A. Howells).-Lessing (James Russell Lowell).—ReBarnes).-Hodgson on Time and Space (G. S. Mor-ligious Liberty (C. E. Norton).-Critical Notices. ris).-Irenæus and Infant Baptism (Rev. W. R. Powers). The Divine Names in the Hebrew Scriptures (Hon. E. Lord).-The Greetings of Paul (Rev. J. B. Bittenger).-Our Public Schools.-Notes on Recent Books.-Theological and Literary Intelligence. New York: W. Sherwood. Universalist Quarterly. April. Knowledge as an Instrument, an Ornament, and a Blessing (Rev. T. B. Thayer).-The Possibility of Universal Salvation (Rev. A. G. Gaines).-The Re Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Rebaptism (Kendall Brooks, D. D.).—Meaning of the Word кTIZIE in Romans viii. 19-23 (Prof. A. W. Arnold).-The Apostle Paul (Rev. Wm. Hurlin). -The Scriptural Anthropology (Geo. D. Boardman, D. D.). The Fundamental Law of Christian Worship (Rev. J. Colver Wightman).-Open Communion (Prof. G. D. B. Pepper). Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society. BOOK NOTICES. HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the England and this country, and deservedly placed him in the first rank of living historical writers. Terra Mariæ; or, Threads of Maryland Colonial History. By Edward D. Neill, one of the Secretaries of the President of the United States. pp. vi., In these two volumes we have the third and 260. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. fourth ones of the general history which are spe- Mr. Neill, from the historical stores of the Concially devoted to the reign of Elizabeth, the narra-gressional Library, has gathered together a number tive being brought down to the year 1573. It is of extremely interesting facts in the early history wholly supererogatory to commend Mr. Froude's of Maryland. He does not undertake to produce a labors. His research, his careful and lawyer-like analysis of facts, his independence of traditional opinions, and his vigorous style, have made a decided impression upon the reading public both of regularly constructed history, but to make known some statements which have not heretofore been prominently made public. The subjects of his chapters are-George, First Lord Baltimore; Ce APRIL 15, 1867. cilius, Second Lord Baltimore, and the Formative foundations of our faith, discussed in the general Period of the Colony; Difficulties with the Vir- order in which they are presented in the Apostles' ginians, and those arising from the Civil Wars in Creed. The opinion is expressed in the IntrodueEngland; the Advent of the Friends, and their tion "that neither the public statement from the Influence; Boundary Disputes; Revolution of 1689; pulpit of Christian truths to mixed congregations, the Established Church and Presbyterianism; So- nor the religious instruction given to our young ciety during the Eighteenth Century, and Causes people, adequately meets the requirements of the which led to a Union with other Colonies in a day." It is sought here more especially to address Declaration of Independence; Sketches of the Pro- those in whom has been awakened a desire more prietaries. We are glad to see that a full index is clearly to understand the faith they hold, and who added to the volume. are inwardly perplexed with doubts and misgivings occasioned by the bold tone of recent historical criticism and by the assumptions of modern science. The subjects discussed and the lecturers are: Faith, by Riggenbach; Nature of God, by Gess; Sin, by Stäheln; The Old Testament Dispensation and the Heathen World, by Auberlen; The Person of Christ, by Riggenbach; Christ's Atonement for Sin, by Auberlen; The Holy Spirit and the Christian Church, by Preiswerk; Justification by Faith, by Stockmeyer; and the Immortality of the Soul and Eternal Life, by Stäheln. The names of some of these lecturers are familiar to English students, and the productions of all of them are marked by a logical style, depth of penetration, and discriminating analysis, characteristic not only of the thorough theologian, but of a mind which meets rather than ignores intellectual and moral difficulties. The perusal of such well-reasoned discourses can scarcely fail to settle the unstable, and resolve those anxious until they land their perplexed possessor in callous questionings which are too often secretly harbored indifferentism or conscious despair. It is perhaps Scarcely necessary to say that as a specimen of work presents those general characteristics of exneat typography and admirable book-making the cellence which mark all the issues of Mr. Strahan's Thrilling Adventures of Daniel Ellis, the Great Union New York: Charles Scribner & Co. Messrs. Scribner & Co. are about publishing four volumes of the select works of James K. Paulding, including The Bulls and the Jonathans; Tales of the Good Woman; A Book of Vagaries; The Dutchman's Fireside. As an introduction to this series we are here furnished with a life of Mr. Paulding, by his son. It is not a general biography, but rather a sketch of the literary side of his life. He was, as the editor truly remarks, prominent among the pioneers of American letters, before literature had become a distinct profession in this country. It has been but seven years since Mr. Paulding passed from among his fellow-men, yet the date of his birth was in the midst of the Revolutionary war; and this sketch of the work of his pen has points of contact with the entire growth of our literature. RELIGIOUS. The Year of Prayer: being Family Prayers for the London and New York: Alexander Strahan. The Foundations of our Faith: Ten Papers read before a Mixed Audience of Men. By Professors Auberlen, Gess, and others. pp. 279. London and New York: Alexander Strahan. A great deal of our recent religious literature has, from a seeking after popularity and sensationmaking, become as meagre and diluted as is much of our secular literature. Here is a work, however, full of reasoning and thought, which cannot fail to gratify the mind which seeks strong meat for its aliment. It consists of ten discourses on the great iv., 160. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Bros. This is the third volume of the "Author's American Edition" issued by the Messrs. Peterson. It contains sixty-four original illustrations from designs by John McLean. The Prose Tales of Edgar Allen Poe. 2 vols. pp. Some of these stories have been before the public for a long time. We recollect having had a hearty |