Hall Caine's The Deemster, has been dramatized. A translation of William Black's Sabina Sembra is announced in Paris. Palmer Cox's The Brownie's: Their Book is now in its thirteenth thousand. A translation of Renan's Abbesse de Jouarre is in the press of Mr. G. W. Dillingham. Col. Charles C. Jones, jr. has prepared a collection of Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast. Eugene Field is preparing a new work on Chicago and its artistic and literary tendencies. Of William Westall's Two Pinches of Snuff a German translation is announced in Stuttgart. Wedlock is the title of a dramatic version of Mrs. Campbell Præd's novel The Bond of Wedlock. Mr. Harris has written a story for Harper's, entitled Ananias. It will be published in the April number. The wife of Hector Malot, the celebrated French author, has just published her first novel, Folie d'Amour. The scene of W. H. Mallock's forthcoming novel will be laid in Cyprus, where the writer is staying at present. Miss Rose E. Cleveland's forthcoming book deals with home life, morals and social culture, etc. It will be sold by subscription. An Italian translation of Mrs. Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy has just been published in Florence, under the title Un Piccolo Lord. Dr. Francis Hueffer will translate into English the Correspondence between Wagner and Liszt, which was published in Germany recently. Mr. Howard Seely, the author of Lone Star Bo-Peep and Ranchman's Stories, has just completed a new novel, A Nymph of the West. An English edition of Mr. Homer Greene's The Blind Brother has been published. The work has also been translated into German. A biography of Henry Mayhew, the author of London Harbor and the London Poor, will be issued early in the fall by his son, Mr. Athol Mayhew. Mr. J. P. Johnston has nearly finished a work on the writings of Thackeray, which will contain several new portraits of the author, and of his father and mother. Prof. Richard T. Ely, of John Hopkins University, has just finished a new work, entitled Taxation in American Cities and States, to be published early in March. Miss Elise Balch, the authoress of Mustard Leaves, Zorah, etc., has written a series of sketches of Old English Homes. The first paper will appear in the March number of the English Illustrated Magazine. A collection of lyric and religious verse translations from the German has been prepared by Dr. F. H. Hedge and Mrs. A. L. Wister. It will be issued by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. before Easter. The first installment of Oliver Wendell Holmes's Over the Tea Cups, which is in a certain sense a continuatiou of The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, has been issued in the Atlantic Monthly for March. The parody fiend is on the track of G. Ebers. Some time ago Der Nilbräutigam by S. Rebeg was published, and now a new volume from the same hand is announced almost immediately after the publication of Elifên. It will be entitled: Von Elifën bis Zwolifen. Ein wüster Traum nicht von Georg Ebers, sondern von Hans Merian. (S. Rebeg.) The author is at least honest enough this time to give his real name. Miss Hapgood who is in St. Petersburg at present, has just finished the translation of a work by Col. Alexander V. Verestchagin, the brother of the well-known painter, entitled At Home and in War. In it the author gives his reminiscences of serf-life, and tells of the Turkish campaign in 1878, and of the Turkoman expedition, in both of which he took an active part. Mr. W. F. Kirby has issued the prospectus of a complete English translation of the Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. The poem consists of about 22,800 lines, arranged in 50 cantos. Mr. Kirby has translated it from the German version of Schiefner, which furnished Longfellow with the metre for Hiawatha. The work will be published by subscription only. Almost at the same time an American translation of the poem, from the hand of Dr. J. M. Crawford, of Cincinnati, is announced for early publication. Nervos is the title of a forthcoming novel by Ernst Eckstein. Gouverneur Morris, by Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, will be the next volume in the American Statesmen Series. Messrs. Phillips & Son, of London, are about to publish the Letters and Journals of Emin Pasha in Central Africa. Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. announce for early publication the Life of General Lafayette, by Mrs. Lydia Hoyt Farmer. The second volume of Mr. Stevens' Around the World on a Bicycle will be issued in April by Messrs. Chas. Scribner's Sons. Messrs. Fords, Howard and Hulbert announce for early publication a new novel from the pen of Judge Turgee, entitled Black Ice. A cheap edition of Thomas Starr King's volume of lectures, entitled Substance and Show, is announced by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The publication of the concluding volumes of the Memoirs of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha has been deferred in Germany "for political reasons." Smith, Elder & Co. of London have in preparation a new and uniform edition of the com The first volume of the historical biographies of English Statesmen, announced some time ago by Messrs, Macmillan & Co., is William the Conqueror by Mr. Freeman, to be published on March 1st. Messrs. Ward & Downey announce for early publication a translation of a life of Shelley by Mr. Felix Rabbe, who also rendered the poet's works into French, under the title of Shelley: the Man and the Poet. Mr. Rider Haggard is preparing a new edition of his Cetywayo and his White Neighbors. An exhaustive introduction dealing with the recent history of Zululand will bring the book up to date. It will be issued by Messrs. Trübner. The Son of a Star by Dr. B. W. Richardson, is announced by Messrs. Longman. The story is founded upon the life of Bar-Cohab, the leader of the Jews in their final struggle for independence in the second century of our era. The first number of a Pictorial Scrapbook has been issued on the 24th by Messrs. Macmillan. The work will contain about 3,000 pictures, including natural history, historical, biblical and general objects. It will be published monthly. Mr. E. D. Walker's forthcoming book, Incarnation, will treat of the doctrine of Metempsychosis, showing how it has been held by Eastern writers, and the arguments for and against it, which have appeared in the writings of prominent English and American authors. A Modern Brigand will be the title of the new book by the author of Miss Bayle's Romance. The scene will be laid in London and in Southern Europe, and some of the personages in the world of art and letters will be depicted. Prince Bismarck will be introduced in the story in an plete works of Robert Browning, to be publish- entirely new light. ed monthly. The Life of Burns by Prof. J. Stuart Blackie will form the March issue of the Great Writers Series. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus will be published on the same date in the Camelot Series. Messrs. Griffith and Warren, of London, will commemorate the silver wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales on the 10th of March next with an illustrated biographical volume. The next volume in the Badminton Library will be Riding and Driving. The former, which includes military and ladies' riding will be contributed by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire and Mr. R. W. Weir. Driving will be from the hand of the Duke of Beaufort, with contributions by Lord Algernon St. Maur, Col. H. S. Burley, and several others. Mr Sidney Colvin, whe edited the Life of Keats in the Morley Series, is now preparing an edition of the poet's letters to his family and friends. The work, which will contain a prefatory essay and a portrait, will be published by Messrs. Macmillan early this Spring, in a uni form edition with the other volumes of the series. The first issue of a Government Year Book is announced by Mr. Fisher Unwin, London. The book, which is edited by Mr. Lewis Sergeant, gives a concise sketch of the forms and methods of government in every country of the world, with abstracts of the written constitutions, and material for the purpose of reference and comparison, while a review is added of the chief occurrences of the past year, which bear upon and illustrate the several constitutions. MAGAZINE BRIEFS.. Harper's Magazine for April will contain an article on acting by Cocquelin. An article by Mr. Geo. W. Cable on The Negro Question in the Southern States, will appear in the March issue of the Contemporary Review. Revue du Service de l'Intendance Militaire is the name of a new bi-monthly started in Paris under the auspices of the French secretary of war. The Duke of Argyll has written a series of popular articles for Good Words on Darwinism as a Philosophy. The first article will appear in the March issue. The Chinese Evangelist is the name of a weekly which will soon be started in New York. Mr. Yan Phon Lee, a Chinese graduate of Yale, is one of the editors. The name of the Petite Revue d'Obstretique et d'Hygiene du Premier Age, the first number of which appeared in Paris on January 29th, has been changed to Revue Pratique d'Obstretique, etc. Literature is a new weekly magazine, started in this city. It's aim is "to give, weekly, a complete survey of the literary world from the standpoint of the interest of American readers of books." The untiring energy with which the literary periodicals have impressed upon the minds of their readers the fact that the first volume of Kinglake's Invasion of the Crimea was published twenty-five years ago, deserves praise. Little Folks is the title of a new monthly to be started in this city. With the exception of a fairy story each month from the hand of some prominent writer, the reading matter will be entirely contributed by young people under sixteen years of age. This will make the publication undoubtedly just as interesting for grown folks as for little ones. La Revue Internationale Scientifique et Populaire des Falsifications des Denrées Alimentaires is the title of a new monthly started in Amsterdam. Besides articles on the falsification of victuals in all its forms and in all countries, the publication will contain a monthly supplement on Hygiene. Contributions from all the leading scientists in Europe are promised, and will be written in French, German and English. The publisher proposes to issue the paper simultaneously in New York and in Amsterdam. 3. Harvard Reminiscences. By Andrew P. Peabody, D. D., L L. D.-Ticknor & Co., Boston, 1.25 Ashman, John Hooker.. Bachi, Pietro..... Brigham, Alanson... Channing, Edward Tyrrell & Walter... Devens, Samuel Adams. Everett, Edward.. Felton, Cornelius Conway. Follen, Charles.. Gage, Nathaniel. Harris, Thaddeus William.. Higginson, Stephen.... Hillard, George Stillman. Hopkinson, Thomas..... Hosmer, George Washington.. Jackson, James.. Kirkland, John Thornton.. Stearns, Asahel.. Stearns, Oliver... Story, Joseph........ Surault, Francis Maria Joseph.. Ware, Henry; Henry, jun, and John.. ACTS AND ANECDOTES OF AUTHORS. By Charles M. Barrows.-The aim of the compiler has been, to give in a brief notice all information which the ordinary reader may desire about authors, their books and their publishers. Only modern English books or translations of foreign books into English are given, while the minor British authors and writers not strictly literary have been excluded. Full lists of each author's publications are given, with the dates of issue and descriptions of the most important ones.— New England Publishing Co. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING. By R. Phene Spiers, F.S.A.-Originally intended to give a few hints on the different types of architectural drawing at the present day, the work has been extended to its present form, the first part containing suggestions on preliminary training in all kinds of architectural draughtsmanship, while in the second some rules are given for the preparation of working drawings, in accordance with the custom in many London offices. The third part of the book contains all the information on out-door work which exists on the subject.-Cassell's, 5.00. THE ART OF INVESTING. By a New York Broker. A series of articles on investing, which originally appeared in different periodicals, and have been republished in book-form to make them of easy access. Besides the article on investing in all its forms, covering Mining, Railway and Bridge Bonds, Government, State and Municipal obligations, Railroad-stocks, Ranchsecurities, Mortgages, etc., the book contains a chapter on speculating, and transcripts from the books of the New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore stock exchanges, giving the securities listed by them.-Appleton's, .75. ASTRONOMY FOR AMATEURS, Edited by J. A. Westwood Oliver.-The aim of Mr. Oliver in compiling this book has been to give such hints and suggestions to amateurs, possessing only limited instruments, as will help them to direct their efforts into the channels best fitted to their equipments and qualifications. The contributions which the book contains are all from eminent specialists, while the preliminary chapter from the hand of the editor, on amateur astronomers and their services to science is interesting reading.-Longmans, Green & Co., 2.25. THE BEST BOOKS. A Guide to the choice of the best available books. By Wm. Swan Sonnenschein.-A compilation of the titles of what are generally conceded to be the best books on every department of Science, Literature and Art; only books in print are included, the dates of the first and last editions being given, with the name of the publisher and the price. The books enumerated (over 25,000 in number) are all in the English language, except in the departments for Philology and Belles-Lettres, where foreign literature was indispensable. An excellent index is added.-Swan Sonnenschein, London, 8.00. ESTHER THE GENTILE. By Mrs. Mary W. Hudson. Against the advice of her friends, Esther, the beautiful daughter of weak-minded Elias Wainwright, resolves to accompany her father, who has been persuaded by Mormon elders to sell his property and emigrate to Utah. Esther's life among the Mormons, and her struggles to be free are vividly depicted, and give a many-sided view of the abominations of the Church of the Latter Day Saints.-Geo. W. Craig & Co., Topeka, Kans., 1.00. THE FLEET, ITS RIVER. PRISONS AND MARRIAGES. By John Ashton.-With the continuous changes in the aspect of London, most of its old land-marks are gradually disappearing and forgotten. To save the Fleet and its past from oblivion, Mr. Ashton wrote this history; and woven into and indelibly connected with it, is the history of the manners,customs and morals of England of ye olden time. The author has been entirely successful in his endeavor to "Write a trustworthy history of the subject, and make it at the same time a pleasant book for the general reader.-T. Fisher Unwin; London, 4.50. GENTLE BREADWINNERS. By Catherine Owen. -At the death of their father, Dorothy Fortescue and her sister Mary are left penniless. Resolved to remain independent, Dorothy, after a discouraging experience at diessmaking, discovers her natural bent for preparing cakes. Recipes for macaroons, pies and cakes of all kinds are scattered through the book, while more substantial dishes are not forgotten, Dorothy's engage ment being told between the directions for preparing stuffed lamb's heart and cooking hashed liver.-Houghton, Mifflin, 1.00. THE GREAT AMHERST MYSTERY. By Waler Hubbell.-While filling an engagement at Halifax, N. S., Mr. Hubbell, the well-known actor, heard of the spirit-manifestations at the house of Mr. Teeds, the foreman of a large shoefactory at Amhurst, and resolved to expose what he thought to be a fraud of gigantic proportions. To this end the author took board with the Teeds family, and there witnessed a series of such startling occurrences that the sworn statement which accompanies the book, is certainly not superfluous.-Brentano's, .25. HARVARD REMINISCENCES. By Andrew P. Peabody, D.D., LL.D.—A series of biographical sketches of officers in Harvard College whom the writer knew, first when he was an undergraduate and theological student, and afterward when a tutor. The aim of the book is to save from oblivion the names of many men who ought not to be forgotten, and of whose worth and services there is no record. The papers cover the period from 1776-1831, and a highly interesting chapter on life at Harvard sixty years ago is added. (See Fugitive Essays, page 382.) -Ticknor, 1.25. HASCHISCH. By Thorold King. On the night of his return from South Africa, Austin Hardy meets Philip Arnold, of Cape-town, who is suspected of having made away with the money of his ward, at the house of his mother, and declares to him his intention to bring him to justice. The next morning Austin is found murdered, and his brother's friend, Gordon Wright, is convicted of the crime on circumstantial evidence. The discovery of the real culprit with the aid of haschisch is graphically told.— Brentano's, .50; 1.00 THE INVASION OF THE CRIMEA. Vol. V. From the Morrow of Inkerman to the Fall of Canrobert. By Alexander William Kinglake.— This volume of the history of the war in the Crimea treats principally of the siege of Sebastopol by the allies and its defense by Todleben, with an exposition of the mistakes made on both sides. The death of Emperor Nicholas, the secret terms of General Niel's mission, the interposition of the French Emperor and the peace negotiations at Vienna are fully discussed. -Harper's, 2.00. A LIFE INTEREST. By Mrs. Alexander.-Mr. Acland, a highly respectable business man in London, takes his stepson, Dick Cranston, in his office, against the latter's will, but upon the urgent request of Mrs. Acland, whose first marriage is supposed to have been very unhappy, as she never refers to it. Upon a certain day Mr. Blake misses a sum of money from his safe, which Dick Cranston is suspected of taking. Against the advice of his friends, Dick then leave his step-father's house.-Holt, 1.00, .30. LIFE OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. By E. E. Brown. The biography given in this volume is brought up to the spring of 1885, the year of Mr. Lowell's return to America. His boyhood, life at Harvard, marriage and early publications are treated of, while the history of the Biglow Papers, of the Poems of the War and of Under the Willows is given in full. Through the book are scattered many selections from poems, lectures and addresses--D. Lothrop Co., 1.25. LIFE OF THOMAS HOPKINS GALLAUDET. By his son Edward Miner Gallaudet.-On the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the biography of the great philanthropist is given to the world. Beginning with his ancestry, the work relates Gallaudet's early life, his study of law at Harvard, his ill-health and religious troubles, and then gives an account of his efforts in behalf of the deaf and dumb, of the enthusiastic support he received from government and public, and of his final success.-Holt, 1.25. THE LONG EXILE, AND OTHER STORIES FOR CHILDREN. By Count Leo N. Tolstoi. Translated by N. H. Dole.-A collection of stories and fables for children, original and adapted from other languages. As the tales have been written for Russian peasant-children, their morals and style give an idea of the fancies and feelings of that class. A very interesting feature of the book are the School Scenes at Yasnaya Polyana, in which the writer explains his theories on education.-T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1.00. THE MAN BEHIND. By T. S. Dennison.— Shortly after the war, Sol Pickrell, a lumberman, lived with his family and an adopted child, Nellie Harvey, in Wahoo City, a miserable, straggling village. John Holcombe, a rather wild young man, who with his brother Dave cultivated a farm in the neighborhood, was secretly engaged to be married to Nellie Harvey. Seeing however, that the farm is insufficient to keep him and his brother, John leaves the village to read law with Judge Dayton, to whose daughter he proposes.-T. S. Dennison, Chicago, 1.50. MARVEL. By the Duchess.-Upon a dark, stormy night, Fulke, the young Earl of Wriothesley, finds a beautiful, golden-haired girl in |