LITERARY NOTES AND NEWS. KEATS is the subject of the latest volume in the "English Men of Letters" series. The writer is Mr. Sidney Colvin. VICTOR HUGO's posthumous work, "Choses Vues," is to be brought out in an English translation, by George Routledge & Sons. THE Earl of Lytton ("Owen Meredith ") has a new volume of poems ready, with the title "After Paradise, or Legends of Exile." A VOLUME of "Select Poems by Swinburne " is just published by Worthington. The selections, which include representations of both his lyric and dramatic pieces, are made by the poet himself. MR. ANDREW LANG's work on folk-lore, which has occupied much of his attention for several years, is shortly to be published. It will be in two volumes, with the title "Myth, Ritual, and Religion." TICKNOR & Co. announce: "Home Sanitation," a manual for housekeepers; "Penelope's Suitors, a novel of colony days in Massachusetts, by E. L. Bynner; "Prose Pastorals," by H. M. Sylvester; and revised editions of their "American GuideBooks" for 1887. C.W. MOULTON & Co., of Buffalo, whose projected magazine, "The Modern Muse," was announced in our last issue, request us to say that the publication will contain only poetry which has previously appeared in print,-not original poetry, as we erroneously stated. A SERIES of biographies of leading French authors, somewhat in the manner of the "English Men of Letters" series, is shortly to be begun in Paris. Eighteen volumes have already been arranged for. The first two will be given to Victor Cousin and Mad. de Sévigné; the writers being M. Jules Simon and M. Gaston Boisser. BRET HARTE's new story, "The Crusade of the Excelsior," with four illustrations, is just published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Also, "The Shaybacks in Camp," a summer book, by S. J. and I. C. Barrows; a treatise on "The Law of Divorce," by A. P. Lloyd; and a new edition, revised, of Bacon's "Dictionary of Boston." THE series of monographs on Political Economy and Public Law, edited by Professor Edmund J. James and published by the University of Pennsylvania, treats in its second number the Anti-Rent Riots in New York, 1839-46, an important but hitherto almost entirely neglected chapter in American economic history. The author is Mr. E. P. Cheyney, Instructor of History in the University of Pennsylvania. 66 A NEW book on China, by Gen. James H. Wilson, is just published by Appleton & Co. They announce also, The College and the Church," a collection of papers on educational and denominational questions, reprinted from "The Forum" magazine; "A Game of Chance," a novel by Anne S. Coombs; "A Dateless Bargain," a novel, by C. L. Pirkis; "In the Golden Days," a novel, by Edna Lyall; and a new and cheaper edition of "Arius the Libyan.” BENJAMIN & BELL, a new publishing firm in New York City, begin their career with a curious pamphlet on "The Poets and Poetry of America," believed to have been written by Edgar A. Poe. They announce for immediate issue, "Society Verse by American Writers," a new edition of "The Book-Lover's Enchiridion," a novel called "Mr. Incoul's Misadventure," by Mr. Edgar Saltus, a volume of essays on Shakespeare by Mr. Appleton Morgan, and a volume of selections from the poetry of Leigh Hunt. MR. JOHN BARTLETT, well known by his "Shakespeare Phrase-Book" and "Familiar Quotations," sends us his prospectus of "A New and Complete Concordance or Verbal Index to the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare," to contain about sixteen hundred pages. It will be a complete concordance of words, phrases, and passages to be found in the plays of Shakespeare, giving each word in its various uses. The passages are given so full and entire that in most cases it will be found unnecessary to consult the plays themselves. The adopted text is that of the Globe edition, edited by Messrs. Clark and Wright. THE report of the commission appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to investigate modern spiritualism is just published by J. B. Lippincott Co. This commission was appointed by request of the late Henry Seybert, who founded a chair of philosophy at the university; and among its members are Dr. H. H. Furness, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Dr. Wm. Pepper, and other well-known men. Their report is a very full statement of their experiences as investigators, which seem to have been somewhat unsatisfactory in results. The same publishers issue, as a companion volume to the above, "Nineteenth Century Sense, the Paradox of Spiritualism, by John Darby, author of "Odd Hours of a Physician," etc. MACMILLAN & Co. have just issued a "Victoria" edition of Shakespeare in three volumes, dedicated by special permission to the Queen. It is printed from new type, uniform with the single volume edition of Lord Tennyson's Poetical Works, and contains a new glossary specially prepared for this edition by Mr. Aldis Wright. The same publishers announce also the new edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson which the author of "Dr. Johnson, his Friends and his Critics," has been preparing for many years. Besides portraits and other illustrations, the work will contain a concordance of Johnson's sayings and a very elaborate index, this last being intended to form a key to the vast mass of literature and anecdote which has accumulated around the name of Johnson. IN connection with the paper on "Political and Economic Literature from the Universities," in this number of THE DIAL, attention may be called to the announcement of the faculty of Political Science of Columbia College, that they have in preparation a series of systematic works covering the entire field of political science proper and of the allied sciences of public law and economics, and aiming to present the latest results of institutional development and of scientific thought in Europe and America. The series will consist of the following volumes: "History of Political Theories," by Archibald Alexander; "Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics," by John W. Burgess; Comparative Constitutional Law of the American Commonwealths," by F. W. Whitridge; "Historical and Practical Political Economy," by Richmond M. Smith; "Historical and Comparative Science of Finance," by Edwin R. A. Seligman; "Comparative Administrative Law and Science," by Frank J. 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The Boston meeting was held in connection with the American Economic Association, as many of the members belong to both societies. Next year (in September) the joint meeting will be held at Columbus, Ohio. The West was further honored in the choice, by the Historical Society, of Dr. W. F. Poole, of Chicago, as its President for the ensuing year, -a compliment which THE DIAL takes special pleasure in recognizing, since most of Dr. Poole's historical papers of recent years have been written for its pages. The other newly-elected officers of the society are: Dr. Charles Kendall Adams, President of Cornell University, and Hon. John Jay, of New York, Vice-Presidents; Prof. Herbert B, Adams, of Johns Hopkins University, Secretary; C. W. Bowen, of New York, Treasurer; and Hon. Andrew D. White, Hon. George Bancroft, Hon. R. B. Hayes, Mr. Justin Winsor, Prof. John W. Burgess, Prof. Arthur M. Wheeler, and Hon. Wm. Wirt Henry, Executive Councillors. TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS. Adams, John. 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