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    ' of Rochester , and will soon be issued by Messrs . Houghton , Mifflin - & Co ., Boston . It is said to contain minterestinletters from

    HawthorneEmerson any and Carlle g . A life of 4 Martin van , Buren / , by Edwar y d M . Shepard ,

    is to be the next volume in the ' American Statesmen' series , to be issued at once by this firm .

    Messrs . D . Appleton & Co . will publish this month a new novel , entitled ' A Virginia

    Inheri TnTifiri tance tannfi , from from the the pen nen of of Edmund Edmund Jrendle Pendle--ton , author of ' A Conventional Bohemian , ' published two years ago .

    Messrs . G . P . Putnam's Sons , New York , expect to publish this month ' The Tariff

    b History y F . W . of Taussi the United g ; also States l A Hard , from - Won 1789 Victory -1888 , , ' ' a novel nnvp . l b Viv Grace frrfloft D T ) . TjitrThfifilo Litchneld _ author a . n +, Vinr of of * Onl Onlv

    , y , y an Incident , ' ' The Knight of the Black Forest , ' & c . ; and ' Lajla , ' a romance translated from the Norwegian of Prof . J . A . Friis bIngerid

    Markhus . y 4 The Bibliographer and Reference List , ' which we announced some time since to be

    issued by Messrs . Moulton , Wenbourne & Co ., Buffalo T £ nflfia . lo _ has hast . mad rnao ' e f * its if . a flnnfiarfl . TiP . fi . It Tf , ls is ~ - ^ to , o

    appear , monthly as a guide appearance , and handy help to the authorpublisherbooksellerand librarian

    It will take , up subjects , in such , order as the . editors think will be most practical for the

    purpose of its patrons , the History of Literature ' being the subject of the first number ,

    and number two contains a list of works on the inxv ' History j ^ B-xu v \/ x v and t-v ^ . A . V'k Science r ^— 'x- 'Jt ^—' aavv of v- ^ -a . - Elocution « -- » a \ . ^\_/ i ^* , va v- j j . a and «^« a . a ^>& .

    Oratory . ' * Uncle Tom's Tenement , ' a novel of New York city lifebAlice Wellington Rollins

    will soon be published , y by the W . E . Sinythe , Co ., of Boston .

    Messrs . Ginn & Co ., of Boston , have in a new edition of Benjamin Franklin's

    autobiograp press hy , with notes and a continuation of of his Vii « life lifps b V » v D T ) . H TT . Mont lVrr > nicrr » mf » rv . The Thft work ivnrir

    y gomery embraces , first , Franklin ' s life up to the age of fiftyin his own wordsand secondFranklin ' s

    public , life , drawn from , his own writings , and the histories of the period .

    Among other features of the June number of the New York Book Buyer , published by Charles Scribner ' s Sonsis a new portrait of

    Dr . Oliver Wendell Holmes , after a photograph taken +. nlrt » ri a vojir nan in in Tinn London Hnn . The Tli « article n . r f . ir » . lA which ivViir » . Vi

    this portrait year ago accompanies gives interesting glimpses of Dr . Holmes' domestic life , and reports the following comments bthe poet on

    y his own writings : — In my own opinion " The Chambered Ofia . ml'ip'rfurl Nautilus TVsi . nf . ilnn " is is mv most most . finished finisViftH piece T ^ ifinp *

    there of work are , also and I " think The Voiceless it my is my , " favourite i ( My Aviary . But , "

    written written at fit my mxr window winrlow there thftrft . , "Thft Ihe Battle Battlo of nf Bunker Hill , " and " Dorothy Q . " written to the portrait of great-grandmother which

    you see on the wall my there . All these I have " a ¦ ' «* liking ^ AJAAA AGh J for ^ \^ JL , m and + * VJkJL * -m > when « V . AJi ^/** - I - speak * f ^ ^* r »^ w Jkj * . of w » the va » ^^ poems »^\ . / «/ jiaap ^ . I « -

    like best there are two others that ought to be Las included t Loaf — '' " The T think - Silent these Melod are amorier y" and mv " bft Thd « t .

    What is the liistory of " The Chambere d

    I Nautilus toodid " " ? The It has One none -Hoss . It Shay wrote " itself That . was So ,

    one , of those random conceptions . that gallop through the brainand that catch by the

    bridle . I caught , it and reined you it . All my r > OftTin « are fl . rft written 'WT'it . f . pm while ivTiiIa I T am n . m in in a sort skovh of r % f

    poems spasmodic mental condition that almost takes me out of my own self , and I write only when

    under under such snfih in influence ^ nP . ' rtr . Pt . It It is is for frvr this +, V » is ropiinn reason I T think , that I can never remember a poem , a ¦ short ¦¦« time after «^ w ^ / it . m . is k written / ¦ ¦ more than the

    subject — ' ... -v . a . v « s . o » aaa of "v ^ - double v ^^ . a . w . consciousness p ^» » » . a . jl . » y ^^^^ a . ^ . any «« w ^ jl w can r *_ ' n ^ recall - ^ wa . m . «^ v * . a the ^/ . m . ^ . - ^^ ideas of his other state . ' Copies of this special

    summer number can be had from Messrs > Sampson Low & Co ., Limited .

    ' The Capitals of Spanish America , ' by William Eleroy Curtisprofuselillustrated

    will be published shortl , y by Messrs y . Harper & , Bros . The series of articles on practical

    housekeeping that have recently appeared in Harper's Bazaar , from the pen of Christine Herrick , * are - ^ " > ^ " * ^ about -w ** -r v ^>^ * . * to ** ^— ' be » s- ^ ^ S issued AK ^ P ^ J «^» ^^ ^^ in AXA a VV volume T >— ' A iA 14 A % bearing » V ^ ^/ 4 > V ^ . JLAAC ^ the V ^^ ^ - *

    imprint of the same firm . The interesting announcement is made that MrJames Hussell Lowell has

    collectedprin-- 4-TJLJL pall . X ^ f y UllAlVk from f -1- «' L 4 the I > JW > V / XX A _¦—* tlantic \ ^ T TT V ^ AJL J . XCV Monthly < 3 VV / llUUtVVl and * , UX the 1 XX JVorth IVnrth . A A merican m . p . rIrn .. n . Jtieview J ? . pv . i . p . in . a volume vnlnmfi of nf Political T ^ olif . ina . l

    Essays which will be published ^ soon by Messrs . Houg TTrrnorVi hton +. rvn . Miflain TVTifflin & & . Co O , n . Boston T ^ r » s 4 +. r » r » . The TVm p earliest -n .-rliPisf .

    dates back , about thirty years , , and the latest is the address recently delivered before the New

    York Reform Club . Among the books which the J . B . Lippincott Company i Philadel AXJl Jk «^ % » A hia Jt V have in / are :

    ^ An ^ - ^ ** V Elementary ^ - ^ x _ r ^^ ¦ »— ' «^ V 7 , *^^ Treatise ^ - ^ . ^ . Z . p Bs ^ - » on . * . «^ , * Human AA l ^ V V * S -M . J J- Anatomy press »—^ ^ ^ hKJ »*_• LW - * i ^^ , ' bProfJoseph Leid' A Popular History

    y . y ; of Music , ' from St . Ambrose to Mozart , by J Jarrifta ames JL E . . Matthew TVTa . hhVi « Av _ with xeihli numerous nimnftrnna illustra illnst . ra - .-

    merits men tions ts , , consisting facsimiles fafisimiltts of of of , portraits rare rft . rp > and anrl , musical early ftarlv musical mTnaical

    instru-, typography , & c . ; ' Embroidery and Lace , ' by Ernest Lefebvre , translated from the French , with about one hundred and fifty illustrations ; 'Half Hours with the Best Foreign Authors , '

    translations translations selected Rfilervtod and and arrange arrange d d bv by Charles Charles Morris , four volumes , in a plain and de luxe Best T edition 5 p « t American A , nrmri uniform ^ fl .-n Authors Auth with * Half ; : * and n . no Hours 1 c Animal Animal with Liie Life the

    of the Seashore / by Prof . Angelo Heilprin . Mr . Robert Grant has just completed a story called ' Jack in the Bush' a

    continua-, tion , to some extent , of hia 'Jack Hall , ' having the same hero .

    4 The Poets of Maine , ' compiled and edited by Mr . George B . Griffith , will at once be

    published in one octavo volume by Messrs . and Elwell containing , Pickard specimens & Co ., of of Portland the VAAX ^ verse , Maine of over ;

    CD 11 VA V / W JLM . % JlAtM . A . MM . & M £ Z & L /^ VlAAl VJM V ^ M . T ^ - ' * . ^ - ' * - ' ^ - ^ ¦• ^^ w ^ - ^ — . one hundred writers who are natives of Maine notes - or rvr ^ ona have anfAmnanu resided in the -f . Vi A the n ^ pma State of rvf . each Aar Biograp . h author J 4 . lli hical . llOT . . ' j

    accompany poems : The book is sold only by subscription . ; Belford Mr . ' s Julian Maqazine Hawthorn of American e , writing novelists in the new and

    their pecuniary gains from works published m Book form—* Five hundred dollars a

    year KSKS \ J * for \ . IV / a lJIll successful , , say DM VO s : novel JL JL V V ! How w « M * vv many * -w » -v — of . »»»•« . our ^ - —» n .-V ii » -f-. hrkJfc Y * 9 t a ^ . m $ i . lrft iwinft 41 + V ¦ . li WV n . f . ? ' TTnW i > —» TTflftTlV - ¦ ww « ; jten .

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    July 2 , 1888 The Publishers' Circular 755

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 2, 1888, page 755, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02071888/page/9/