The New Orleans Bulletin

LITERARY NOTES.

Florence Marryat's latest novel is "Fighting the Air."

Bagsters, London, have a list of Archaic Classics forthcoming.

"Kate Randall's Bargain," is the title of Mrs. Eiloart's new novel.

Hesba Stretton has written still another novel, "Friends till Death."

"Diane." is the title of Mrs. McQuoid's new novel, nearly ready for publication.

"Memoir of Charles XII." by his Majesty the King of Sweden, is forthcoming.

Another new poem by the Poet of the Opaque," Robert Browning, is in the press.

Mrs. Cashel Hoey's new novel, "No Sign." is running through the London New Quarterly.

Another novel by Mary Cecil Hay, "The Squire's Legacy," has been published in London.

A new book by Thomas Hughes, on "The Economy of Thought and Thinking," is promised.

A second volume of "Monographs, Social and Literary," by Lord Houghton, is announced.

The little city of Leipzic, in Saxony, has a University library of 250,000 volumes; also a town library of 100,000.

"My Circular Notes." is the title of a "round the world book," by J. F. Campbell with illustrations by the author.

We have an American's view of social life in England. now comes "England: Literary and Social" from a German point of view.

"Eight Months at Rome during the Vatican Council." containing a daily account of the proceedings, by Pomponio Leto, is forthcoming.

A book for lovers is forthcoming. "The Kiss; its History (!), Fiction, Poetry, and Anecdote." Mr. C. C. Bombaugh being the scribe of Cupid.

Messrs. Roberts Bros. will shortly publish "The Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, with Letters and other Family Memorials," with two steel portraits of Mrs. Fletcher, at fifteen and eighty.

"India and its Native Princes: Travels in Central India and in the Presidencies of Bombay and Bengal," by Louis Rousselet, fully illustrated, has just been published by Chapman & Hall.

Ernest Longfellow, the eldest son of the poet, is about to publish a number of etchings of remarkable American scenes, and his father contributes to the volume verses descriptive of each.

A new variorum edition of Shakespeare, edited by Prof. Leo, of Berlin, who has engaged with him a number of young men, is announced, and lest there are many notes which may escape him, contributions are desired from outside sources.

An ingenious English writer is to furnish a guide-book to the royal road to musical learning. "A Trip to Music-land" is "a fairy tale, forming an allegorical and pictorial exposition of the elements of music."

"Thrift:" Mr. Samuel Smiles's new volume will contain essays on the following topics: Industry, Habits of Thrift, Methods of Economy, Economy in Life Assurance, Savings Banks. Living above the Means, etc.

Mr. James Grant Wilson has prepared a considerable work on "The Poets and Poetry of Scotland, from the Earliest to the Present Time." It will comprise characteristic selections, with biographical and critical notices and portraits on steel.

Prof. Bain will publish in November the third edition of his treatise on "The Emotions and the Will." The work has been to a great extent rewritten. It contains a full discussion of the doctrine of evolution in its bearing upon both emotion and volition, and embraces a novel handling of various matters connected with ethics.

Prytania street is on the qui vive for a new novel, The Miller of Silcott Mill," written by a resident of that fashionable quarter. The book is very highly spoken of; the publishers think they have found a Southern "Bonanza," consequently are printing a very large edition of the work. We know who the author is, but will not whisper the name for the present.

The Rev. J. P. Lundy's important work on "Monumental Christianity" is so far advanced toward publication that it may be expected early next month. It covers 600 square octavo pages, has 300 fine illustrations, and will be sold at retail at about $7 50. There is an infinite amount of research represented in the volume, which will be made the more valuable by a bibliography of works on Christian art and symbolism.

The new edition of Jowett's "Plato" has a new feature in the thorough analytical index, occupying sixty pages. The new preface sets forth Prof. Jowett's views of the principles of translation, and is an important essay on the subject. He states that his alterations in the text are many, and that he has much amplified the introduction by introducing essays on subjects of modern philosophy having an affinity to the Platonic dialogues, viz: "Utility," "Communism," and the Kantian and Hegelian philosophies.

Mr. Grosart's promised complete edition of Wordsworth's Prose Works is scheduled by E. Moxon, Son & Co., for October. The edition is dedicated, by express permission, to her Majesty, and will contain, along with the dedication, a hitherto unpublished poem by Wordsworth, addressed to the Queen on sending a gift copy of his poems to the Royal Library, Windsor. A Centenary edition of the Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb" is announced by the same house, in six monthly volumes. It will contain Talfourd's memoir, supplemented by fresh matter, many unpublished or uncollected letters and newly identified pieces. Mr. Percy Fitzgerald is the editor.

Prof. Ernest Curtius, of Berlin, the eminent historian of Greece, has been, as is well known, appointed to superintend the explorations which the German Government has recently undertaken in Greece. The November number of The International Review will present his statement concerning the excavations just begun at Olympia; indicating the reasons for making them, and the results which may be anticipated. Prof. Curtius will also present, in future numbers of The International Review, an account of these interesting explorations at every important stage of progress. The November number of the Review will contain a personal sketch of Curtius himself, by Robert P. Keep, Ph. D, a former intimate associate of the Greek historian, at his home in Berlin.

a long detention at Holyhead by adverse winds; additions to the fragment of his autobiography; his note books and books of account; his letters of ordination; one hundred and fifty letters by him hitherto unpublished; and the first edition of 'Gulliver,' interleaved for alterations and additions by the author, and containing besides the changes, erasures and substitutions adopted in later editions, several striking passages never yet given to the world." The three volumes will contain several fac similes, besides a portrait after Jervas, etched by Rajon. The first is nearly ready at Messrs. Harper & Brothers.

John Forster, in his forthcoming "Life of Swift," has made it his especial work to picture the early years of his life before "he was governing Ireland as well as his deanery and the world was filled with the fame of Gulliver.'" He has secured in this endeavor much unpublished and original matter, among which are important poems of Swift, some of them copied in the handwriting of Stella: the original MS. of the latter portions of the "Journal to Stella," by which important omissions are supplied; an unpublished journal by Swift, written during