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Elections, war rumours, and pending political negotiations, are unpropitious times to publish in, and every one is for keeping back the books promised for early in May; it may be hoped, however, that the atmosphere will clear, and that the month of May will yet prove as productive of good books as appeared likely a few weeks back. The following summary includes the principal issues of the fortnight: In Literature, Art, and Science.-The British Annual Catalogue of Books, 21st year, comprising the full titles of every book published in the United Kingdom during 1858, with Index of Subjects, 8vo.; The Oxford Museum, by Henry W. Acland, M.D., and John Ruskin, M.A.; The British Tortoises, by S. J. Wilkinson, with plates, 1 vol. 8vo.; Stevenson's Holophotul System of Illuminating Lighthouses. In History and Biography.-Maddyn's Chiefs of Parties, Past and Present, in 2 vols. post 8vo.; 3 Third Edition of Carlyle's Frederick the Great, Vols. 1 and 2; Volume 1 of a reissue of James's Naval History, to be completed in six monthly volumes; Nil Desperandum, or an Account of Escapes from Italian Dungeons, in 1 vol.; A History of Modern Italy, by R. H. Wrightson; Col, Sir A. S. Fraser's Letters, edited by Sabine; The Mothers of Great Men, by Mrs. Ellis, in 1 vol. 8vo.; A Memoir of the Rev. E. Henderson, with his Labours in Denmark, in crown 8vo. In Divinity-Wingfield's Sermons before the University of Cambridge; Douglas' Harmony of the Gospels, in 2 vols.; the First Volume of a Greek and English New Testament, word for word, by Giles; a reprint of Henry Ward Beecher's Life Thoughts, and Notes from Plymouth Pulpit, in 1 vol. fcp.; Kurtz's Old Covenant, translated by Edersheim and Martin, Vols. I and 2; The New Apostles, or Irvingism, its History, &c., cr. 8vo. In Fiction. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn, by Henry Kingsley, Esq., a brother of the Rector of Eversley, in 3 vols.; Trust for Trust, by A. J. Barrowcliffe, Author of Amberhill; Beverley Priory, with Rescues from Lucknow, in 2 vols.; Luxima, the Prophetess, by Sydney Lady Morgan, 1 vol.; Robert Mornay, in 1 vol.; The Village Belles, by the Author of Mary Powell, the reprint of a tale published many years since; Ethel Woodville, or Woman's Ministry, in 2 vols.; the First Volume of the Author's Favourite Edition of the Waverley Novels, in 48 vols. illustrated. Foremost amongst the new books of travel to be published during the present season are three of unusual interest relating to the most picturesque mountain-regions of the Continent of Europe. I. The Pyrenees from West to East, from the pen of Mr. C. R. Weld, Secretary to the Royal Society. This work, which forms a single volume, will be embellished by eight illustrations from Mr. Weld's own drawings, engraved on wood, and printed in colours by a new process called chromo-xylography. II. The second work describes a series of tours in those parts of Switzerland and Savoy which are the most accessible to lady-tourists and invalids; it is entitled A Lady's Tour round Monte Rosa, with Visits to the Italian Valleys of Anzasca, Masta lone, Camasco, Sesia, Lys, Challant, Aosta, and Cogne, in a Series of Excursions in the Years 1850, 1856, and 1858, with four illustrations in chromo-lithography, and eight wood engravings from original sketches furnished by Mr. George Barnard, a young and rising artist of great talent. III. The third work is the first public token of the existence and activity of the association recently formed in London with great success as the ALPINE CLUB;—a sort of new travellers' club, whose bond of union is the exploration of high mountainous regions. The title is Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers, a Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club, edited by John Ball, F.L.S., President of the Alpine Club. This work consists of eighteen detached pieces, for the most part travelling sketches and snatches of mountain adventures, and will form one volume square crown octavo, and be illustrated with eight drawings in chromolithography. These works are all in an advanced stage of preparation, and are expected to be published by Messrs. Longman and Co. about the middle of May. We might have said four books above, where we said three, as The Glaciers of the Alps forms the subject of one announced by Mr. Murray; the latter would seem to promise a more scientific examination of their motion, structure, and general phenomena, the result of three years' observations and experiments by Professor Tyndall, of the Royal Institution. A Life of Dr. Wilson, the late Bishop of Calcutta, by his Son-in-law, the Rev. Josiah Bateman, in two vols., with portrait and illustrations, is announced by Mr. Murray, who will also shortly publish Mr. Leslie's Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, promised some time since. Mr. Murray's further announcements include a new work by Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species and Varieties by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life; The Bampton Lectures for 1859, by the Rev. George Rawlinson, on the Historical Evidences of Revealed Religion; a work on Metallurgy, or the Art of Extracting Metals from their Ores, and adapting them to various Purposes of Manufacture, by Dr. Percy: A Biography of Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Mr. Robertson, Author of a History of the Christian Church; A Student's History of France; and another great Dictionary, under Dr. Smith's editorship, of Biblical Antiquities, Biography, Geography, and Natural History, to which the list of contributors secures learning and ability of the very highest attainment. Mr. J. D. Harding's various well-known works on Art, Drawing, &c., will be published in future by Messrs. Kent and Co. of Fleet Street. Miss Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D., whose lectures on the subject of Female Employment are now exciting so much attention, announces a new revised edition of her Laws of Life, with especial reference to the Education of Girls. This work, the first by which the author was known to literature, is favourably noticed in the last Edinburgh Review: the author is an Englishwoman lately returned from a residence of some years in the United States. Miss Martineau has written on England and her Soldiers, to be published in a few days by Smith and Elder, in crown 8vo., with illustrative diagrams; and Mrs. Mary Howitt commences a new story in the Commonwealth, a Scottish newspaper. Mr. Cassell issues the first number of an illustrated imperial 4to. Family Bible, to be continued weekly at 1d.: it is a marvel of cheap excellence in paper, print, and illustration. Beeton's Dictionary of Universal Information is another extraordinarily cheap publication, promising, when complete, a perfect Cyclopædia, within the reach of every cottager, with maps, plans, and illustrations at every page requiring them, the whole apparently under careful editing. Mr. Westerton, of Hyde Park Corner, announces as ready for publication a Romance of India, entitled Luxima, the Prophetess, by the late Sydney Lady Morgan, by whom he states that it was thoroughly revised and remodelled from her story of The Missionary, published upwards of forty years ago, only a few days before her death; the same publisher is also about to publish a new novel by Mrs. Challice, author of The Sister of Charity; Fireside Melodies, and a Love Dream, by Sylvan; and a volume from his own pen, entitled Emily Morton, a tale, with Sketches from Life. We are requested by Messrs. Griffin and Co. to give publicity to their having just taken Nos. 10, 11, and 12 in Ave-Maria Lane, formerly Messrs. Scatchard and Letterman's premises, and more recently occupied by part of the business of Messrs. Simpkin and Co. Hitherto they have been content with little more than an office in Warwick Square, but they have increasingly felt the want of premises more adapted to their business, and worthy their position in the trade. Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.'s new building will without question be the most commanding in appearance, and commodious in arrangement, yet possessed by a bookselling firm, and is likely to stimulate some of the proprietors of "musty dusty" Paternoster Row premises to investments in space and architecture. No line of business requires more room, light, and convenience than bookselling and publishing, and few can boast less in the establishments of their chief wholesale houses than we can at present. Messrs. Bradbury and Evans made application on Thursday last to the Master of the Rolls to have the proceedings hastened for winding up the affairs of "Household Words." There being no opposition the course is now cleared for an immediate sale of the property. Meantime Mr. Dickens has a start with his new journal, "All the Year Round." The first number, which is before us, can hardly be distinguished from its precursor. except for the one line of title. Whatever it is in law, it is de facto "Household Words," conducted by Charles Dickens, under another title. An important decision on the Copyright of Titles was given in the Vice-Chancellor's Court last week. In the application for an injunction against the Penny Bell's Life, which was granted, the main point in the decision being "if it is clear, and this is not disputed, that the defendants cannot publish a paper called Bell's Life, it seems to follow that they cannot publish a Penny Bell's Life, which is nothing more than a Bell's Life for a penny." There have been some amusing remarks made in the literary gossip which newspapers appear so to seek after now, upon the recent knighthood of Mr. Justice Haliburton, some facetiously designating his honour as Sir Sam Slick. The writers have confounded two persons: one, our old friend the Clockmaker, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, some time Chief Justice of Nova Scotia, and now candidate for the honour of representing Launceston in Parliament; the other, Sir. Brenton Haliburton, the present Chief Justice of Nova Scotia. Some of our contemporaries have fallen into the error of supposing because the author of Adam Bede complains, under the signature of " George Eliot," of his work being attributed to the wrong man, that "Mr. George Eliot" is consequently the author; it is simply the nom de plume under which he contributed his admirable series of papers in Blackwood's Magazine, known as Scenes in Clerical Life. Whilst they were in course of publication they were generally attributed, if we remember rightly, to the Rev. F. E. Paget, the author of many esteemed High Church tales. Whoever the author may be we cannot sympathise with him in his complaint; it is very natural for those who are pleased with a book to surmise as to who the author is, and if he will not give his right name he can scarcely wonder at individuals suggesting a wrong one; meantime, the author of Adam Bede has the satisfaction of knowing that his novel is the best of the day. The Illustrated London News says, "that complete public letter writer, Mr. William Russell, is on his way home from India to England; a telegraph from Printing House Square reached him at Marseilles with a request to turn his steps to Lombardy; his reply is understood to have been that for the present he preferred the Thames to the Ticino." The Literary Gazette has discontinued the amusing series of papers known as The Council of Ten, by the Editor, Mr. Shirley Brooks, who also brings to a termination his connection with that journal, but remaining on the most friendly terms with the publishers. Whilst we have been publishing 1050 new books and new editions, that is during the first three months of the year, in France, a contributor to our French contemporary (Bibliographie de France) informs us they have published 2884. The writer says "there are included in this number many works of a very slight and insignificant character, and many also of which men of taste complain that they are unworthy of literature." The bill on the subject of literary and artistic copyright prepared in Belgium by the late committee of the Congress of September has just been presented to the Chamber of Representatives: it is accompanied by a remarkable report by M. Edouard Romberg. We shall refer further to this in a future number. Messrs. Firmin and Didot, of Paris, announce the hitherto unpublished Memoirs of the Duke de Luynes, which promise some curious information respecting the court of Louis XV. There is about to be commenced, at Gand, a work entitled Nederlandsche Dichterhalle, or Choice Selections from the Poets of the Netherlands, from the most remote period to the present day, classified after the different kinds of Poetry and the order of Antiquity, by J. F. Heremans, Professor to the Athenæum of Gand, &c. The Tenth and last Volume of the great work of M. Gorresio on the Ramayâna has just issued from the Imperial Press. This volume completes the translation which the honourable member of the Academy of Turin ("now become almost our fellow-countryman," says our French authority) has given of the great Indian Epopée. The elegance and beauty of the translation of M. Gorresio have been often and justly praised. Our New York correspondent writes:-" Amongst new things there is nothing better, and that is very good, than Trumps, a new tale commenced by Harpers in their Weekly Journal. It is from the pen of G. W. Curtis-our Thackeray; and I question much, from what I have read of it, whether even your public will not estimate it far above The Virginians; nous verrons. Mrs. Stowe's Minister's Wooing continues a great favourite; indeed, the verdict of all who can appreciate art in plot and writing maintain that it evinces an advance upon Uncle Tom's Cabin. Mr. Baillière's business here will in future be carried on by his sons, under the style of Baillière Brothers. Mr. Underwood has rejoined the house of Phillips, Sampson, and Co., of Boston. Messrs. Appletons have entered into arrangements with Messrs. Chambers, of London, for a simultaneous publication with them of their new Encyclopædia; they address themselves, in their prospectus announcing this, to a class of readers whom they recognise as very large, and quite distinct from those who would buy the New American Cyclopædia, and are sanguine of working the two very successfully. The great spring trade sale has had its swing, and on the whole has given satisfaction; Messrs. Leavitt did one wise thing; following the traditions that reach us of what the trade do in the old country, they have each day fed their buyers with champagne and punch almost ad libitum. In a business point of view the sale has been successful, and prospects for bookselling generally are good." 66 A correspondent suggests caution on the part of publishers and booksellers receiving orders or offers to buy stereotypes, woodblocks, &c., from parties dating from near Manchester." They volunteer to pay cash. AUCTION SALES DURING THE NEXT FORTNIGHT :-May 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, A large and miscellaneous collection of interesting publications, by Messrs. Southgate and Barrett; May 2, 3, 4, and 5, A large collection of books, including the late Dr. Henderson's library, by Mr. Hodgson; May 2, 3, and 4, A valuable library, the property of a gentleman, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson. |