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lfeeraby AND OTHER NOTES. MAum George Bell and Sons have in the prftM a new mnes of "Easaya in Finance," by Mr. Giffen, containing several essays not before published, beaidea otnore which have been published anonymously. Justin H. McCaithy is entragod on a new romanoe. It will bear the title Doom An Atlantic Episode." Kdme. Adam, it is stated,is about to wait America, ™ purpose being to write a series of papers io the NcnivtlU Itfvue, after the manner of Berlin Sooiety," on Aaaericaus and their institutions. IfiMjer the title Haphazard Personalities," Mr. Obazles Lanman is preparing1 his personal remini- scences of Henry W. Lonwfeilow, Washington Irving, r» £ Horaoe Greeley, John Howard Payne, ur. 15. McOlellan, and other noted Americans. Alnong coming books is Mr. W. S. Rockstro'a "General History of Music." It will deal with the subject from the infancy of the Greek drama to the present period. Messrs. Lonxmans hope to publish next autumn the firat volume of A History of the Great Civil War," by Mr. S. R. Gardiner. The volume will bring the nar- rative down to November 23, 1G44. the day of the Km,! a return to Oxford after the secud battle of Newbury and the relief of Dmmington Castle. A number of tho ''Queer Stories of Truth are to be republished in a series of shilling volumes. Many of them wt-Tn written by well-known authors now dead, such as Mr. E. C. Grenville Murray and Mr. Hugh Conway. The first volume, which will contain 13 stories by Mr. E. C. Grenville Murrny, will be issued eatly next month by Measrs. Sonnenschein and Co. Mr. Hubert E. H. Jerninpbam is engaged on a volume of reminiscences—" Recollections of an Attache." A year ago a great ainouncof manuscript material tn connection with the late Joseph Severn was placed in the hands of Mr. William Sharp. Besides three autobiographical narratives, win ten a.t different times, ft manuscript portion of the 4i Adomus," with m tes, manuscripts 'of general literary and artistic interest, atid fievnial volumes of diaries, there are many letters of the Keats ptrrid, including unpublished correspon- dence by Leigh Hunt, Armitage Brown, and others of the circle. Inuring his long life, and owiiig to his consular position in Rome and other circumstances, there were few eiainem men—from Keats and Scott and Wordsworth down to y..ung contemporary writers and attiets-witti whom Severn did not come in contact, and with many celebrated personages he kept up a constant correspondence. The manusci ipt material having been sifted and edited, Mr. Sharp is now engaged on these memoirs, which in due time will be issued in two volumes, with portraits, etch- ings, and other illustrative matter. The antiquity of many of the Sanskrit manuscripts is m doubt. But the Reverend B. Ha e Worthain allots that of the Satakas of Bhartrihari to either the i ^u°r secon<^ century of our era. Bhartiihari was a celebrated poet aad grammarian of his day but, dis- gusted with the world as he found it, he resigned his position and bfcame an ascetic. Mr. Wortham has made a translation of the Satakas or, Centuries of Many of the maxims in the book have a Biblical ring and beauty ot expression, as may be read in the following extract from the 103 Si oka Wha', is most profitable? Fellowship with the good.—What is the worst thing in the world ? The society of evil men.What is the greatest loss ? Failure in one's duty. Where the greatest peace? In truth and nghteousneas.-Who is the hero? The man who subdues his senses—Who is best beloved ? The faith- ful Wtfe.—What is wealth? Knowledge.— What is wt. 111 happiness ? Staying at home.— What is royalty ? Command." Messrs. Triibner and Co. are the publishers. The Prince of Wales, as president of the Health Inhibition, has presented to the British Museum the collection of 600 books in Chinese, being trans- lations of ijuropean works into that language, which was exhibited by the Chinese Government at South Kensington last year. The collection is of interest M shewing the branches of European knowledge the Chinese people are now becoming familiar. Translations of the Bibie into different dialects abound, as do also translations of general religious works, such as "The P lgrim's Progress," &c. ;but, in addition to these, the collection includes Chinese versions of many standard works on the various branches of science, history, and interna- tional law. Messrs. Burns and Oates will publish presently a!D^ Laughter," by one who standi aghast at the sight 60 gloomy-looking faces in merry Old England, and v. no aborts that to hundreds and Jbhousanas met with in the hignways and byways joy w,balaughter seem unknown powers in the recreation and preservation of dear self, M. Zola's novels do not at the first glance suggest elaborate workmanship but it appears that the novelist is a mo,t laborious workman. He writes his manuscript himself. From this the printers compose what are called placards"—large pages with four columns of text. These are revised and sent to the author, who begins to correct. He fills the wide margin all round with hundreds of marks and ietters; ink lines cut through the text, thin threads run cross way a attd diagonally, entwining like a 'spider's web a sentence scriblled in open apagfcl &na scarcely a line passes unaltered in some Vay. For an expression repeated in Eve or six pages a syuonym is introduced whole phrases are re- jyyleUea, sentences are condensed into two or three p words, aud even half columns are ruthlessly cutout. The story is then printed, but the process of altera- tion is still unfinished. M. Zola now perceives in his work a thousand things wuich escaped him before, and he begins anew to correct. He makes ravages in the text, refining aud touching up the periods, reconstructing whole pages and sprinkling column after column with alterations. At last comes the day when the final proof is returned for press and the tiew woik is ready. M.ZJa will never more with- draw anything from it. M Zola's last romance ;s now appearing as a feuideton. He hopes to have completed it before the month closes. When the library of the late Mr. James Crossley came to be sold in 1884, not only a considerable frag- ment of the autobiography of iioger North, author of "The Lives of the Nor hs," but a large mass of bis correspondenoe was found to have been in Mr. Crosftley s possession for many years, and the more valuable portions were purchased by the Trus- tees of the British Museum at tho sale. The auto- biography is almost a necessary appendix to the writer's Jivetf of his brothers, and the correspondence will be found to be of uiiusual interest. It covers a period of more than CO years—from 1(170 to 1703 —during which time events of supreme importance Were occurinp while at the same time they are years extiemely barreu in \vli.tt may lIe called our domestic sources of 'nioimatiou. Rher North's own letters give us a delightful picture of tim private life of a man of bin Si, abilities, and, accomplishments, who, after a ^uccfsstu! career at ti-e bar,retired rathe prime ot lite, to IUB country house in Norfolk, and deyoted hiwFelt to improving his property, whil-ihe continuad totaknaitveiyintefet-ttnaiitha-t w.-s goilig on out- aide the immediate range of his daily occupations. It is proposed to issue the autobiography, a .section of tho letters, and some Jew essays .ol1Ji:h have nevf-r yet seen the light, and to prelac* the whole by un introductory narrative. Tho wt-rk will be published by subscription in a quarto lorni. It will be i!ms- trated throughout by Miss Marianne North, herself a liiioal d'C»-ndant of Rog,l" North, and will be edited by Dr. Jessopp. Poe:, dr.iin iiis! ucvelist, historian, philosopher, and patriot thl1 spiritual sovereign of the nineteenth contlly", is the way in which ?II. Sw inburne begins the aualysis ot the chameteiistiss of Victor Hugo in his little book on t-he poet alJ'!¡:uvek.,t,whi(;h he has ju-t airi aUicn M.-asis. ChattoandWindus are about to publish. Mesats. Rout led go propose to issue a series of books at tb., low piic" til chd), in a handsome •cover derailed by Mr. Waiter Cmne, under the title of World Library Each volume will oi itio pillo,.cell royai IGino., jointed iu clear type on white Tie first volume will be Anster's trai^ltttiori of Goethe's Faust." Besides poetry sVnd the diama, bio^iaphies, records of tiftvei, works of histo vy and fi :f io:i, atil" book* «.n social science will be in.'hvifcd. The editor is Mr. H. R. Haweis. A cwtlans th.tt oiice belonged to Lord Byron has been presev, to the museum of-the-Historical and Ethnol>'gic<.i Society of Athens. Thete is an inscrip- tion on t stating th t. it w:ts givei to JDr. Petros 4itephanitzi« of 84iita Maura at Alissolonghi, on Maicii 10 "22, 1824. The editors of popular magazines are constantly in receipt ,f curious lett r<. H, re is one of them sent to the editor ol Uarpfr\ the other day. It was from a lady who wrote that sh" was dying, and that her physicians told her she would be dead before the con- ciosion of Mr. Ho welly's story "Indian Summer," then ruuning in the Monthly. She was very much Laterp»ted in it, and chd not want to die until she knew how it was going to end. and she begged the editor to let her read the advance-sheets that she might jdie happy. t

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