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ROMAN, San Francisco, California, Agent for the Pacific Coast. STEPHENS & CO., 10 Calle Mercaderes, Habana, Agents for the West Indies. Subscriptions or Advertisements for the “American Literary Gazette" will be received by the above Agents, and they will forward to the Editor any Books or Publications intended for notice. OUR CONTINENTAL CORRESPONDENCE. PARIS, Oct. 27, 1865. which he began a love story, and which he ended, like one of Anne Radcliffe's novels, with terrible I look upon myself as a sort of guerilla, armed episodes. The publisher gave Victor Hugo sixty with an inkhorn and a pen, sent out by you to for- dollars in his promissory notes. Victor Hugo age for our great master, the Public. I am to pro- rubbed his hands in triumph! Bug Jargal' had cure him instruction and amusement. I attempt the good luck to bring him $240. This looked to do my duty, sometimes, by telling what I have like success! Six years afterward Eugene Renduel seen, and hazarding comments upon it, or by bring- gave $40,000 for Notre Dame de Paris.' After ing into camp interesting people I may capture and 1830 Victor Hugo was, next to Chateaubriand, the making them unbosom their thoughts. I have best paid author of France. As he had a large such a prisoner to-day, and presently I shall sink family to support in respectable position, he took the correspondent into the translator. I should do good care not to lower his market quotations. Who so at once did I not think proper to introduce a blames him? In the early part of 1833, there was short preface to guard you against mistake. The played the admirable drama of 'Lucrecia Borgia,' article I translate chiefly refers to the olden time, which was extremely successful. It was, in those to the days of circulating libraries, when works days, said that an odd scene had occurred between now published in one duodecimo volume were pub- the author of the play and Harel, the talented manlished in ten octavos. In those days no private ager of the Porte St. Martin Theatre, where it was person bought books, except at auction sales. played. The latter asked Victor Hugo to state his Everybody went to the circulating library. There terms. Victor Hugo asked in the first place that the has been a considerable change since 1852 in the author's copyright should be as much as it was at book trade. Books are cheaper, and consequently the French comedy. Harel replied: 'Granted.' 'I there are more purchasers, but still the French are ask that, although the piece is in three acts, it be singularly behind you or the English in the habit considered a five-act play.' 'Granted.' 'I ask that of buying books. This is, in part, to be attributed all the seats in the theatre be at my disposal durto their absence from home. The theatre here oc- ing the first three performances.' 'Granted.' 'I cupies the place the book fills with you. The wife, ask for a premium of 1000f. for the first performwho would cry her eyes out to see money "thrown ance.' Harel had no money in his treasury; he away" in the purchase of a book, can deny her consequently hesitated a little, but at last granted husband nothing when he amiably parts with his this condition likewise. 'I ask furthermore dollar at a theatre ticket office. Therefore dramatic What! Are you not yet satisfied?' 'I ask furtherauthors (who, unless they are theatrical managers, more that you guarantee me fifty performances of make nothing with you) here make immense for- $600 receipts each.' 'Dear M. Hugo, that is impostunes, while the majority of authors (who, with sible. You asked me my coat; I gave it you. You you, are well paid when their works are successful) now want my shirt; I can't spare that. The police receive meagre compensation in this country. It would arrest me were I seen without it.' The most is not uncommon here to find men making their tenacious man about copyright was de Balzac. $30,000 by the stage. There is not a literary man Everybody knows that he took in the money himwho makes so much by his works. M. Alex. Du- self the first night 'Les Ressources de Quinola' was mas, Jr., made more by one play than by all his played at the Odéon. Whenever he entered into novels. Another reason why authors are so ill- negotiations with a publisher he said: 'Let me prepaid here is their habit of selling their copyright face all our conversation by one word. I do not for a term of years for a given amount of money. want to surprise you. So I let you know that I Thus M. Thiers sold his "History of the Revolu- have been a notary's clerk, and I intend to frame tion" for $100,000, and his "History of the Con- our contract as if I were a constable's clerk.' Alsulate and the Empire" for another $100,000. He fred de Vigny was a thorough-bred aristocrat; he would unquestionably have doubled or tripled his made contempt for money a prínciple of duty; he revenue from these works had he adopted our plan used to say: The money returned mé is nothing; of receiving a percentage. Did not Macaulay get, capital letters and play bills everything.' He was even before his death, $500,000 from his history, all paid in fame-during his lifetime. Jules Janin, incomplete as it was? Giving you these words of a spoiled child of success, has been thought to caution, I proceed to translate the promised article: love money, and nevertheless he has always dis"The newest thing just now are the 'Songs of the dained it. One evening we dined at Douix's restauStreets and the Woods.' Speaking of these poems, rant in company with Villemessant and Jouvin, which come to us from Belgium, everybody has when he said to us, laughing: L'Ane Mort has mentioned that Victor Hugo made his publisher had twelve editions, and has not brought me $240, give $8000 for the volume. What is juster? The and it is, of all my works, that I think most of.' priest lives by the altar; the general lives by his Beranger, whose works have given the publisher sword. Shall a poet forever die by his genius? Perrotin $5000 a year in government stock, that is Byron never gave Murray a single line for less than somewhere near $100,000 of capital (so Perrotin a guinea. Jacques Delille, who has, in our day, himself told me)-I say Beranger at first reserved gone so completely out of fashion, exacted a guinea to himself only an annuity of $160 a year, which for each of his lines. In each of the volumes pub- was gradually raised to $600 a year by the published by M. Lacroix there are 5,500 lines. Victor lisher, who had great difficulty to persuade BeranHugo is consequently $14,000 cheaper than his ger to accept it. George Sand does not hesitate predecessors. A word or two about M. Victor Hugo. to prove that her 75 volumes have on an average When he began to write, when he wrote, as he brought her in $10,000 a piece. This is exclusive says somewhere, a young man's literature,' that is, of her plays, which have brought her in $80,000. between 1820 and 1822, his path was not so thickly It is curious to hear Léon Gatayes tell the history of strown with gold and bank notes. You should Alphonse Karr's first novel, Under the Lindens.' hear Méry tell how a young fellow in a blue coat The manuscript of that novel, which is still popuwith brass buttons, pale, thin, and tall as a young lar, fell into the hands of a publisher who paid it girl, went with him, both blushing, to the publish- with promissory notes. The price agreed on was ers of the Palais Royal, who refused-profane $240. Great was the delight when these $240 were wretches both their poetry and their prose. At received. But these promissory notes were not last a publisher agreed to buy Han d'Islande,' only protested for non-payment when they fell due, DEC. 15, 1865. 3 but Alphonse Karr was besides obliged to pay the costs of protest, etc., which amounted to $240. Jules Sandeau tells the most curious confession about copyright: Money! Nobody thought of money in the days when I began to write. One day I received, for one of my novels, $60 in money, in five-franc pieces, and a cork clock, and $60 worth of wafers, and-judge of my ingenuousnessthought I made an excellent bargain!' Alex. Dumas, the Elder, is certainly one of the men of our, day who most loves money, and most despises it. One day, ten years ago, he told us that he had made $700,000 by his pen, and had not $12 in his pocket. Since then he has probably earned $200,000 more, but I do not believe he has a cent more in his pocket. A wonderful saying is attributed to M. Villemain, the Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy: 'Good gracious! Does a volume ever bring the author more than $100? There is an odd book in the world. It has no author's name. It is entitled The Domestic Cookery Book. It was printed for the first time in 1800. It has since then annually cleared $6,000, putting into the publisher's pocket $210,000 !'” has almost ready for publication the Holy Bible, illustrated by M. Gustave Doré; (indeed it would have been already published but for the cholera, which has paralyzed trade; none of our great booksellers will give a single order, although some of them expect to order 400 copies; trade of every sort is at a stand still; nothing is bought or sold ;) and a pamphlet by the French Emperor on the Governinent of Algeria. He is fond of printer's ink! I notice among the new publications a complete edition of the works of Massillon, by the Abbé E. A. Blampignon; the first volume has appeared; it is in 4to.; "A Translation from the German of Dr. Allioli's 'Commentaries on the Bible;'" 4 of the 8 vols. have appeared; Abbé Darras's "General History of the (Roman Catholic) Church from the Creation to the Present Time," 20 vols.; M. W. Froehner's "Description of Trajan's Column, with a Map of Ancient Dacia," etc.; M. W. Goschler's " Practical Treatise on the Repair and Management of Railways," 2 vols.; Dr. Jolly's "Hygienical and Medical Studies on Tobacco" (republished from the Bulletin of the Imperial Academy of Medicine); the 7th vol. of de Tocqueville's complete works (new correspondence entirely unpublished); Dr. L. A. Gruyer's "Principle of Organic Life;" Dr. A. Boinet's "Iodotherapie" (or the medico-surgical use of iodine and especially iodic injections and external applications); the Duchess de Brancas's "Memoirs of Louis XV. and the Duchess de Chatauroux" (very interesting), edited by M. L. Lacour; a new edition of de Lamennais's "Book of the People," with an Introduction by M. Rénan; M. Alfred de Gaston's "Fortune-Tellers ;""The Little Causes of our Diseases," by Dr. Feraud; "The Russian Igoumène Daniel's Pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1113 -1115," translated from the Russian by M. A. de Noroff; M. Henriot's "Juridical and Judicial Man I regret to record the death of M. Martin Bossange, the oldest printer and publisher of Paris, at the great age of 100 years. He retained his mind sound, and his body healthy, until he fell into the long slumber. He was the founder of the firm of M. Bossange, continued in our day by M. Hector Bossange, his son, and whose transatlantic branch is managed by M. Gustave Bossange, the grandson of the deceased, in New York. He owed the original of his estate to his adventures in the days of the famous licenses, when he bought up all the old editions of French works and shipped them abroad, importing in return tea, coffee, and sugar. These books were jocularly known at that day as editions ad usum delphinorum (a glance at the edition of the classics prepared for the Dauphin), because in run-ners and Customs of Ancient Rome according to ning the blockade, which the English had then established off France, seven out of ten of the cargoes went to the fishes. In this way he cleared the shelves of French publishers of worthless stock, and, when peace returned, they were enabled to begin anew their career unembarrassed by lumber-filled shelves. the Latin Poets;" "Journal of Rosalba Carriera during her Stay in Paris in 1720-21;" E. Lombardini's "Essay on the Hydrology of the Nile;" and Dr. Bouillaud's "Speeches on Phrenological Organology in General and the Localization of the Faculty of Articulated Language in Particular Organs," (very curious). I must not fail to mention the death of Dr. Mal- M. Jules Janin has been elected a member of the gaigne, the eminent French surgeon. Joseph Fran- Caveau, which Beranger, Desaugiers, etc., have çois Malgaigne was born at Charmes-on-Moselle the made so famous; his reception will take place on 14th day of February, 1806; he graduated in 1831; the 8th of Nov. M. de Montalembert is at present published in 1834 his "Manual of Operative Med-at Madrid. M. E. Harnel is about to sue M. Laicine" based on normal pathological anatomy (it croix for refusing to bring out his History of Robeswas translated into several languages); in 1838 he pierre despite their contract. M. Lacroix has been published his valuable "Treatise of Surgical Anat- sentenced to prison for the former's "Life of Maret," omy and Experimental Surgery," and in 1840 an and had the whole edition seized by the police and annotated edition of the complete works of Am-thrown in the paper-mill vat; he is therefore afraid brose Paré. Space fails me to mention all the me- to bring out the volume in question. The "Revue moirs he has published, so numerous are they. Contemporaire" has an interesting article on Proudhon, by M. Sainte Beuve, based on entirely new information. G. S. These are the works in press: "Unpublished Letters of Dianne de Poytiers," edited by M. G. Guiffrey; "A Trap for Husbands," by Mme. U. RaNOTES ON BOOKS AND BOOKSELLERS. tazzi (Princess de Solms); "The Prima Donna," preceded by "The Happiness of Great Artists," by Messrs. Ticknor & Fields propose to add an adMéry; (M. Rénan's "Apostles" will not appear un-mirable serial publication to their list of magazines. til December; the work will be in vols. ;) M. Early in January they will issue the first number Louis Blanc's "Letters on England;" M. E. Qui- of a weekly journal, entitled “EVERY SATURDAY,” net's "Revelation;" M. L. Figuier's "Lives of Em- in which they intend to reproduce the choicest inent Scientific Men;" Eugene Sue's "Golden Fa-papers that appear in the foreign periodicals. Many mily and Silver Cross;" "The Martial Women of France," with 20 photographs; "The Present State of the French Nobility" (a sort of French "Burke's Peerage"); Prof. Desor's "Les Palafittes" (or the subaquean buildings discovered in the Lake of Neufchatel); the third volume of the Jura Band's Excursions," by Mm. de Gasparin. M. Mame 66 of the most brilliant writers of the day address the public through the pages of the magazines. The general reader cannot be supposed to have access to these innumerable publications. A careful weekly digest of whatever is entertaining and instructive in this floating literature of Europe deserves to meet with appreciation. DEC. 15, 1865, PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL SCIENCE.-The following | Peto, in his recent speech at Bristol, England, adnotice of Mr. Carey's work we copy from the "New mitted the stupendous ignorance which exists in York Tribune." It contains some facts that ought to be known to the readers of the "LITERARY GAZETTE." This is, we think, the first instance in which any American author has had his book twice translated into any other language : the minds of his countrymen regarding America and American affairs. He acknowledged how very widely his own eyes had been opened by his personal observation during his visit to this country, and advised his hearers to make themselves acquainted with the elements of government and with the natural resources which characterize and give individual distinction to the United States. The war has aroused abroad great curiosity about our republic, which many intelligent foreigners have set themselves to satisfy. Our booksellers have received recently many English and French pamphlets, devoted to the discussion of American affairs. Few of them contain any facts which would be new to our own readers, but the old truths discussed are new to the people for whom they are published, and are needed for the enlightenment of the European public. Germany is also doing her share in this species of literary labor, and the last steamer brought out copies of a very well-written Italian pamphlet on American affairs. "Mr. Henry C. Carey's 'Principles of Social Science,' a work in three volumes, is the maturest development of a system of economical philosophy, novel in being based upon the settled truths of physical science, whose necessary operation and influence in the social order it traces as the fundamental and controlling elements of a positive theory of human progress in all its phases, industrial, political, and moral. Perhaps the bulk of the work is the main reason why it is less known at home than it eminently deserves to be, though its magnitude is due very much to the fact that the author has abandoned the dry and dismal' style which has been the reproach of the European economists for one more discursive, and made entertaining by copious illustration from history, travels, and the natural sciences. However this may be, its magnitude has had no horrors for the Germans. Of the translation by Dr. Karl Adler, the publication of which was completed only some seventeen months ago, but 100 copies, we learn, now remain unsold. | "Mrs. McKean's admirable abridgment of the work, which was published in Philadelphia, last winter, has also been translated under the title of 'Lehrbuch der Social Wissenschaft,' and of this manual the publisher had received orders for more than one-half the edition (1200) before it had come from the press. This success has stimulated a Berlin bookseller to the publication of a rival trans-country.-N. Y. Evening Post. lation, and to his undertaking the publication of a translation into French of a work (Labor and Cap-unfortunate young lady who had "Nothing to MISS FLORA MCFLIMSEY, of Madison Square, that ital') by one of Mr. Carey's German disciples. It Wear," is a little singular that a system so distinctively American in its origin should be hailed with an enthusiasm in Germany which owes so little to its reception at home. But the Germans see in it the philosophy of republicanism and progress; we are content with the republicanism and progress achieved without troubling ourselves about its philosophy." We give special mention to this little work, because the author was in this country during a part of our civil disturbances, and not only heartily sympathized with the efforts of the North in its maintenance of the government, but labored most assiduously to make himself acquainted with the workings of free institutions. His work is published at Foligno, near Rome, and is entitled "Cenni Storici sugli Stat Uniti d'America, per S. Frenfanelli Cibo." It is dedicated to H. T. Tuckerman, from whom the author obtained much valuable information and assistance during his sojourn in this ical poem soon to be published in New York by Mr. ," will figure pretty extensively in a new satirCarleton, under the title of "Country Life vs. City Flirtation," containing some twenty splendid fullpage illustrations by Hoppin, in his most luxuriant style of elegant women and handsome men. So successful has Mr. Carleton's funny book on Cuba proved, that he is now preparing a larger sized illuminated quarto edition for the Christmas holidays, uniquely printed in seven colors, and we suppose characteristically entitled "Our Colored Artist in Cuba." Since the negro insurrections and massacres on the Island of Jamaica have chilled our readers with their horrors, we presume they will be glad to have their attention diverted to the more attractive picture of fact and fiction, charmingly set forth in a new book nearly ready from Mr. Carleton's press, entitled "The Prince of Kashna," by the author of "In the Tropics," with an Indroduction by Richard B. Kimball, Esq. AMERICAN ESSAYS.-In 1850, appeared a volume of essays, entitled the "Optimist," by Henry T. Tuckerman; it was so called because the subjects treated, though various, all pointed to the most available sources of rational enjoyment-the average blessings and trials of Humanity-Flowers; Walking Travel; Hands; Music; Eye-language; Love: Conversation, etc. The favor with which the volume was received induced the publisher, Mr. Geo. P. Putnam, to suggest to the author a continuance of the series on a plan somewhat modified; he accordingly wrote for "Putnam's Magazine" "Inns," "Lawyers," "Doctors," and other papers, in a like vein, which proved quite acceptable to its readers; the cessation of the Magazine did not occasion any abandonment of the project, which," from time to time, was resumed. The special interest of these Essays consists in the union of information and illustration with speculative hints and free discussion. Hurd & Houghton, of New York, announce a new collection of these Essays under the title of "The Criterion." BUNCE & HUNTINGTON, New York, will soon issue "The Fire Fiend, and Other Poems," by Mr. C. D. Gardette, of this city. The volume will contain 120 pages, printed in handsome style, and will be fit for the holiday season. AMERICA VIEWED BY A FOREIGNER.-An English artisan who has visited this country, and published Three Years among the Working Classes in the United States during the War," on his return to England admits that drunkenness is far more frequent in England than in America; that the people of the United States are universally to be commended for self-reliance, and for the benevolence which expends itself in acts of munificent generosity; and that the worst failings of the American people are less conspicuous in persons born in America than in settlers. THE LATE W. M. THACKERAY.-A monumental tablet, commemorative of Mr. Thackeray, has been EUROPEAN PUBLICATIONS ON AMERICA.-Sir Morton placed in Westminster Abbey. In a recent London |