Literary Notices and Notes

Dr. Plumer’s “Truths for the People” are about to appear in modern Greek. His “Rock of Our Salvation” has appeared in Chinese. His “Sermons for the People” have been published in London.

The experiment of the American Bible Society in issuing a five cent edition of the New Testament, has proved a great success. In order to meet the demand, one thousand copies have to be printed daily.

The American Bible Society now publishes books at Constantinople, Beyroot, Bremen, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Foochow, Shanghai, Lodiana, Lucknow, Yokohama, Bankok, and Vienna. Some versions can be published cheaper at these points than in New York.

Littell’s Living Age, Littell and Gay, Boston, for September 7th, contains the following articles: Madame Du Deffand, Quarterly Review; A Doubting Heart, by Miss Keary; Political Adventures of Lord Beaconsfield, Fortnightly Review; Cyprus, McMillan’s Magazine; Mr. Bourdillon’s Poems, Spectator; An Hour on the Cliffs, McMillan’s Magazine. And besides this we have poetry and miscellany.

Some readers will remember the enthusiasm with which the three first volumes of Dr. Merle D’Aubigne’s “History of the Reformation” was received in 1842. After a lapse of thirty-six years the work will be completed by the issue, in a few weeks, from the press of the Carters, of the eighth volume of the “History of the Time of Calvin,” or the thirteenth volume, counting from the first of the original work. The author’s brilliant genius imparted to the work all the fascination of a romance, rendering it one of the most readable, as it is one of the most reliable works of modern times.

A Pocket Dictionary of the English Language, compiled from the Quarto and School Dictionaries of Joseph E. Worcester. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.

This little book—multum in parvo—was placed on our table by Mr. J. Wallace Ainger, the representative of the house of E. H. Pelton, Publisher, 26 Broad street, New York. It is just what its name implies, a pocket dictionary. It is just such a vade mecum as every intelligent man of business needs. Besides the dictionary proper, we have here foreign words and phrases, abbreviations, rules for spelling, and a great variety of very useful tables.

We are indebted to Hitchcock & Walden, the Cincinnati agents of the Book Concern of the M. E. Church, for the July, August and September numbers of the National Repository, ably edited by Dr. Daniel Curry. Dr. Curry has succeeded in making this one of the leading monthlies of our country. We give the table of contents of the September number, which, by the way, is a most interesting one:

Stoke Pogis, with scenes in and around the country Church-yard; Elegy; Elizabeth of Hungary, Mary A. Lathbury; Our Father; Three Eras in a Woman’s Life, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Martin; Bulgaria and its People, W. H. Larrabee; Sonnet; Fables and Fabulists, Harrington Putnam; Dickens’s Little Nell, Daniel Wise, D. D.; Harvest Hymn, Among the Thorns, Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson; Voices of Summer; Editorial Miscellany.