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A memorial window has been decided by her friends as more appropriate than a tablet. An artist is engaged on the design, and the window will be as rich as the contributions of her friends will justify. It is necessary only to state this object to secure the necessary funds. A few dollars from each of her many friends and admirers will make this graceful monument to her memory. Contributions will be received in Philadelphia by Messrs J. B. Lippincott & Co. Let the responses be promptly made. When finished, a circular will be sent to the subscribers with an acknowledg ment of their contributions. BALTIMORE, MD.-The firm of Birch & Whiton has been dissolved, and the business will be carried on under the style of Clinton S. Birch & Co. CINCINNATI.-Messrs. Heath, David & Co. announce that their Spring Parcel Sale will commence on April 11. THE American Social Science Association have made arrangements with Messrs. Hurd & Houghton, by which that firm undertakes the publication of their journal and other works. MESSRS. GOULD & LINCOLN, Boston, have just ready the "Annual of Scientific Discovery" for 1871. This volume, edited by Prof. John Trowbridge, of Harvard University, contains a record of the most notable discoveries and improvements in science and art during the last year. This work, which now numbers twenty-one volumes, having been started in 1850, is almost indispensable to al students, professional or amateur, of science, and of great practical value to all classes of society. This firm will publish Peter Bayne's admirabi "Life and Letters of Hugh Miller" about April 1st. "The Bremen Lectures" and Dr. Schutze's "Of the Son of Man, and of the Logos," will follow soon. A SMALL edition-300 copies of Dr. N. B. Shurt liff's "Topographical History of Boston" will soo be issued by A. Williams & Co., Boston, who wil also publish Hon. R. C. Winthrop's fine address at the Pilgrim Celebration at Plymouth last Deten ber. A KEY of solution to Eaton's Common Arithmetic has just been published by Thompson, B ge low & Brown, Boston. Eaton's Arithmetics have long been in general use throughout New England, and their field of usefulness is being rapidly enlarged by their adoption in other sections of the country. MESSRS. JAMES R. OSGOOD & Co., Boston, have just issued Parton's "Topics of The Time," a collection of his brilliant magazine papers on subjects present and universal interest. Those which treat of Congress and of the practical operations of our government generally deserve wide and care. perusal. Another recent issue of this house A CORRESPONDENT writes: "One would have to go back many years in the history of the Boston book-trade to find an equal period which was so barren of new books as the last six weeks have been. In the month of February, only four books (excepting law, and perhaps two or three "juve-Reginald Archer," a new novel by Miss Crane, niles" of little note) were issued in that city, which author of "Emily Chester," and which is likely to claims to be the fountain-head of American litera- attract much attention. J. R. O. & Co. have nearly ture. In March, up to the 10th inst., only one vol- ready "Success and its Conditions," a new volume of ume belonging to general literature had appeared. essays by E. P. Whipple, and which contains seve It must not be inferred from this state of things ral of his recent lectures that have never been that Boston has abandoned the publishing business; published, with some papers that have long beet her publishers have a good many books in prepa-out of print; "A Woman's Poems," to be publishe ration [most of which have been named in these pages]; but the state of trade does not encourage liberal production, and new books are withheld to await better times." IMPORTANT SALE.-Mr. B. Quarritch, the widely known second-hand bookseller of London, announces the sale of a collection of extremely rare books, many of which are special editions, which seldom find their way into the auction-room. The sale takes place in London on April 12th. The catalogue includes a set of Piranesi's Works on Roman Antiquities, 23 vols. folio; "Robertson's Holy Land, Egypt, and Nubia," 6 vols. folio; "Kingsborough's Mexico," large paper copy. This is the only large paper copy of this work in existence. Two copies were struck off, but only this one could be made perfect, the other being irremediably defective. It is in 9 vols. atlas folio. "Blaine's Flora of Java," 4 vols. folio, colored plates; "Gruner's Specimens of Ornamental Arts," plates in gold and colors, atlas folio, with 8vo. text; Gruner's Fresco Decorations of Churches and Palaces in Italy;" "Humphrey's History of Painting;" "Ottley's Italian School of Design;" and many other rare books. THE MERCHANTS' AND BANKERS' ALMANAC for 1871, published at the office of the "Bankers' Magazine," New York, is now ready. MESSRS. A. L. BANCROFT & Co., San Francisco, Cal., have just published "The History of San Jose, California, and Surroundings," by Frederic Hall, author of the "Life of Maximilian." anonymously, but written by Mrs. S. M. B. Pis wife of John J., the poet; and Miss E. Stuar Phelps' new novel, "The Silent Partner." Ther are preparing a new edition of Bret Harte's "Codensed Novels," which, published in The California of San Francisco, Charles H. Webb's bright but short-lived paper, first brought Mr. Harte into ne tice. "Woven of Many Threads," a novel by Mrs Hamilton, a Nova Scotian lady, is selling well. 66 MESSRS. CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER, Ph delphia, have purchased of Messrs. W. Wood & Co., New York, the plates and sheet stock of the New York Series of Readers, consisting of the Nos. 1, 2, and 3. They will shortly issue a per Primer, Speller and Expositor, and Reading Books juvenile book, from the pen of Miss Harriet B McKeever, entitled "Maud and Miriam, or the Fa Crusader." They have also several other juven in the press, and an Appendix to their edition of derland," by Richard Meade Bache, also annoanees Hymns Ancient and Modern." "American Wor by them, is a collection of Indian Fairy Legend and Tales. During July or August they will pa lish two important works, by special arrangeme with the English publishers, Messrs. Cassell, Pett & Galpin. The Transformations (or Metamorph sis) of Insects." By P. Martin Duncan, F.RS. Prof. of Geology in King's College, London. Th work forms an additional volume of the very pop lar series by Louis Figuier and others, embracing "The World before the Deluge," "Vegetable World," etc. etc. It will be elegantly and pro MAR. 15, 1871. fusely illustrated with thirty-nine full-page engravings, and over two hundred illustrations in the text. Royal 8vo., uniform with the series before mentioned. "The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable." Giving the Derivation, Source, or Origin of Common Phrases, Allusions, and Words that have a Tale to Tell. By the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL. D., of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, author of "Guide to Science," "Guide to Every-Day Knowledge," etc. etc. The business of Messrs. Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, especially the jobbing department, has been steadily increasing during the past twelve months. Recently they have admitted into the firm Mr. Edmund É. Eck-pieces, and fill up the blanks. The opening chapstine, a gentleman well known to the trade, both during his connection with the house of J. B. Lippincott & Co., and with the house in which he is now a partner. ROBERTS BROTHERS, Boston, have in press a book which was mentioned in the last number of the CIRCULAR as having been honored with a long review in the London Times-"A Visit to my Discontented Cousin." It can hardly be called a novel; it is a slight story, interwoven with brilliant conversations and brief narratives. Some of these latter-notably the story of the two doctors of Bath -are admirable. The style of the author is peculiar, but charming. The book ought to be very popular. MESSRS. J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co., Philadelphia, announce the following books: "God in History; or, The Progress of Man's Faith in the Moral Order of the World," by C. C. J. Bunsen, Ph.D., D.C.L., and D.D.; translated from the German by Susanna Wentworth, with a preface by Arthur Peurhyn Stanley, D.D. "Folle-Farine," a new novel by "Ouida." "The Hidden Life of the Soul," by the author of "Madame Louise de France," "A Dominican Artist," &c. "The Coast of Norway," scenes among its Fjords and Islands, from Christiania to Hammerfest, by Elijah Walton, F.G.S., author of "Flowers from the Upper Alps," &c.; the descriptive text by T. G. Bonney, A.M., F.G.S. "The Life of Hon. John J. Crittenden," with selections from his correspondence and speeches, edited by his daughter, Mrs. Chapman Coleman, with two portraits from steel. 2 vols. "King Arthur," by Lord Lytton. Autograph edition. "Milton." Vol. 1. Being vol. 15 of the cheap Aldine poets. "A Concordance to the Poeins and Sonnets of Shakspeare," compiled by Mrs. Horace Howard Furness. 66 "The MARK TWAIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, just published by Messrs. Sheldon & Co., New York, is certainly the funniest production of the author, and the price at which it is published is decidedly the best joke about it. The "autobiography" occupies sixteen, of the forty-eight pages of which the pamphlet consists, and several of these are filled by an illustration. The first engraving, on page 5, we supposed to be a portrait of the founder of the house, but found on making a further examination that the illustrations had, throughout, no connection with the text, but had evidently been dropped in here and there by the printer, to serve as head and tail ters of the "Awful, Terrible, Mediæval Romance" we read with great attention. They acted as a powerful mental stomachic, and created an appetite for the fun which was to follow, which became perfectly ravenous as we proceeded; but on turning the page, we found, to our dismay, that we had reached the end. THE April number of the "Atlantic Monthly" will have a poem by Alice Cary-probably her latest composition, as it was sent to the editor from her sick-room. Mr. Fields' "Further Recollections of Hawthorne" will contain an account of the great commoner's personal impressions of Abraham Lincoln, whom he met in Washington. The death of Mrs. Hawthorne, the widow, formerly Miss Peabody, has occurred in London since our last publication. "HARPER'S WEEKLY" has republished a new poem by Robert Browning, entitled "Hervé Riel," which is of moderate length (about one hundred and fifty lines), is irregular in its metre, and its hero is a sailor, who safely pilots the French fleet into harbor, in the face of a British fleet, in May, 1692. A NEW weekly periodical, chiefly intended for female readers, and edited by A. Emilia Leonzias, has been begun in Constantinople. It is written in modern Greek, and is called “Euridki.” "THE NINETEENTH CENTURY" is the title of a new magazine, with Southern contributors, to be pub lished in Charleston. AMONG the announcements is a "Life of Alexander James Dallas," written by his son, the late G. M. Dallas, of Philadelphia. Almanac," has been lecturing in Washington, and JOSEPH M. WILSON, editor of the "Presbyterian the journals of that city speak with unqualified approval of his wit and brilliancy. MR. BRET HARTE has made up his mind to write for James R. Osgood & Co., Boston. He will coutribute to the "Atlantic Monthly," "Every Saturday," "Our Young Folks," and "North American Holcombes," a story of Virginia home-life, by Mary Tucker Magill. "The History of Florida," by G. R. Fairbanks. A Woman's Life," a novel, by Marga- MISS ALCOT, author of "Little Women," has quit-. ret Hosmer. "Sandford's First Lessons in Ana-ted Rome for England, where she will arrange for lytical Arithmetic," comprising mental and written continuing the history of the March family—par exercises, by Shelton P. Sanford, A.M. "By His ticularly the children of "Jo." Own Might;" translated from the German of Wilhelmine von Hillern. "The Holy Bible, according to the Authorized Version, A.D. 1611," with explanatory and critical notes, and a revision of the translation, by bishops and clergy of the Anglican Review." A new and revised edition of his "ConChurch. Vol. 1: The Pentateuch. "The Conserv-densed Novels" (his first book, published several ative Reformation and its Theology," as represented in the Augsburg Confession, and in the history and literature of the Evangelical Protestant Church (commonly called the Lutheran Church), by Charles P. Krauth, D.D. "The Student's Manual of Oriental History," a manual of the ancient history of the East to the commencement of the Median wars, by François Lenormant; translated from the third revised edition, by E. Chevallier, M.R.A.S. Why did he not Die? or, The Child from the Ebreu-Gang," from the German of Ad. Volckhausen, by Mrs. A. L. Wister. years ago) will contain two new ones-after the manner of Charles Reade and Benjamin Disraeli— and be issued in a few weeks. MR. MOTLEY, lately U. S. Minister at the Court of St. James (London), accepting the invitation of the Queen of Holland, has entered into the occupation of her villa, "Le petit Loo," at the Hague, and will there prosecute the researches necessary to supply materials for his intended "History of the Thirty Years' War," with which he will supplement his " History of the Rise of the Dutch Re MAR. 15, 1871. public and of the United Netherlands." "Le petit | liant humorists he ever encountered. Longfellow Loo" is the Queen's private villa, on its grounds and with access to the Royal Bosch or Wood. MR. GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, as mentioned in our last issue, brought an action for libel against Messrs. Hodder & Stroughton, the publishers of Mr. Hain Friswell's book, "Modern Men of Letters Honestly Criticized," and has recovered £500 dam ages, In summing up the case to the jury, the Lord Chief Justice said the law, as laid down by Lord Ellenborough, was that a comment on a literary production, exposing its follies and errors, and holding up the author to ridicule, would not be deemed to be a libel, provided it did not exceed the limits of fair and candid criticism, by attacking the writer's character. Although the author might suffer loss from the criticism, the law did not consider him injured, but that it was a loss he ought to sustain, inasmuch as it was only a loss of time and profits to which he was not fairly entitled. If a man sitting in judgment, or rather asking the public to sit in judgment, on any given work which the writer believed had a mischievous tendency, or if he believed it calculated to pervert or vitiate public taste, and to be injurious to the literature of the country, it had been held by Lord Ellenborough to be privileged. But when a critic, from a cruel and spiteful disposition, or from any sinister and unworthy motives, took the opportunity of criticizing a work in a malevolent or malignant manner, in order to pull a man down from the pedestal upon which his public reputation and fame had placed him, it was not privileged, and such a writer was liable to an action for libel. STEVENS & HAYNES, London, send us their Law Catalogue, brought down in its list of titles to December last. They style it very correctly a "Bibliotheca Legum," and it is, in fact, a general catalogue of all the modern law-books of any note, including many American ones. It is also supplied with a Table of Regnal Years, a Chronological List of Reports, and a very full list of abbreviations used in references. Altogether the Catalogue is a very complete presentation of recent legal literature. was the picture of an ancient bard, one of the most glorious old men and one of the finest types of God's creation he had ever made the acquaintance of." [Cheers.] He spoke of W. C. Bryant as at the head of the press in America, and also at length upon Sumner's speech upon the Alabama claims. These addresses were all characterized by hearty kindliness towards us as a people, and it is quite evident that the distinguished gentleman is one of our earnest friends.-Boston Journal. It is said that Madame Anna Bishop, the wellknown singer, who is now resident in New York, is writing her autobiography, and that the history of the Handel and Haydn Societies of Boston is in preparation. A PROFESSORSHIP of Political Economy has been created in Harvard University, and Mr. Charles F. Dunbar, a graduate of Harvard, a lawyer, and fer several years editor of the "Boston Daily Advertiser'' has been selected to occupy it. For the last three years he has mostly been in Europe, and is expected to return in May, with health so much renewed as to permit him to take the honorable position to which he has been called. GEORGE ELIOT [Miss Evans] sold "Adam Bede” to her publishers, Messrs. Blackwood, for $150, but such was the success it attained, that ther afterwards sent her a check for $7500. For "Felix Holt" she received $30,000. She is at present engaged upon a new novel for "Blackwood's Magazine." COUNT BISMARCK intends, it is announced, to write a "History of His Own Times," as soon as the European troubles are over. His principal ma terials will be a Diary which he has kept for the last thirty years. MR. TOM TAYLOR has written an historical play. of which Joan of Arc is the heroine. MR. HENRY BLACKBURN is advertised as editor d "London Society." Mr. Hogg, who conducted for ten years, is now editing the new rival mag zine, "English Society." It is said that James Anthony Froude, the his torian, and now editor of "Fraser's Magazine." will visit the United States, during the prese year, to deliver three lectures on "Ireland unde the Penal Laws," and will subsequently publish distinct work upon that very suggestive subject. newly-constituted London School Board, lately tod MR. MUNDELLA, member of Parliament from Sheffield, is giving his "Impressions of America" to large audiences at home. In his last address, which was received by his hearers with great applause, he paid a delicate compliment to American authors, and spoke at length on our "Ragged Schools" system, and upon our prohibition laws. He was astonished at the loving reception given here to his friend Thomas Hughes, whose "Tom Brown's School Days" had been read throughout the United States. As an illustration of English books read in America, he cited "Lothair." Within a month of its publication seven thousand were sold in England, and in the same time in America forty thousand. For Dickens our whole nation seemed in mourning, as though each one had lost a brother or a friend. He would say that "American authors were now among the best writers in the English language," speaking especially of Prescott, Motley, and others. "Among the poets were Longfellow, Holmes, Whittier, Bryant, and Lowell -five men whom no other country in the same generation could surpass, if, indeed, they could match." Never were purer or nobler men than they. He had the honor of knowing some of the greatest literary men in England, and could say that the American authors could compare with them PROFESSOR JOWETT's translation of the Dialogne every way. O. W. Holmes was the most brilliant of Plato, with Analyses and Introductions, has conversationalist it was ever his good fortune to last been published in four octavo volumes, price Lowell was one of the most witty and bril-sixty-six shillings. meet. scientific books. PROFESSOR PHILLIPS, of Oxford University, immediately publish a volume on "The Physics Geography and Geology of the Valley of the Thames." |