EDITOR’S TABLE.
We have, in manuscript, a biographical sketch of the late Commodore Perry, from the pen of Mr. Cooper, which it was our intention to publish in December, but, it proving too long for a single number, we shall carry it over to the next year, that its parts may appear in the same volume. In this sketch Mr. Cooper has gone into the critical details concerning the battle of Lake Erie, which were not thought proper to be introduced into his great naval work, as they belong to biography rather than to history. Mr. Cooper, we learn, has delayed publishing his answer to the Lectures of Burgess, the Biography of Mackenzie, and his account of the late arbitration in New York, in order not to anticipate the appearance of the biographical sketch, which, while it is critical rather than controversial, will necessarily cover much of the same ground. We understand that the “Answers” will immediately follow the appearance of the article in our magazine.
The naval story entitled “Harry Cavendish,” will be brought to a close in our next number, and we shall not hereafter commence the publication of any article which may not be completed in two or three months.
A new edition of the works of Jonathan Edwards will be published within a few weeks, by Jonathan Leavitt and John F. Trow, of New York, in four very large octavo volumes. Edwards was the greatest metaphysician of the eighteenth century—and his name, first and highest in our literary history, can never be spoken but with pride by an American. The only copies of his writings for sale in this country for several years have been from the English press.
Mr. Cooper’s new romance, “Wing and Wing, or Le Feu Follet,” will be published about the fifteenth of this month, by Lea & Blanchard, and we are pleased to learn that it is to be sold at one third the price of his former novels—that is, for fifty cents per copy. We are confident the publishers will find in nearly all cases—international copyright or no copyright—that the greatest profits accrue from small prices and consequent large circulation.
“The Life and Adventures of John Eugene Leitensdorfer, formerly a Colonel in the Austrian Service, and Adjutant and Inspector-General in the United States’ Army under General Eaton, in the Tripolitan War,” is the title of a work soon to appear in St. Louis, where the veteran hero and biographer resides. Few persons in any period have passed through more romantic scenes than Colonel Leitensdorfer, and his memoirs cannot fail to be deeply interesting.
A new prose romance, entitled “Idomen, or the Vale of Yumuri,” by Mrs. Brooks, better known by her poetical name, Maria del Occidente, will soon be published by Colman, of New York. We have had the pleasure of reading the work in manuscript. It will sustain the reputation of the authoress as the “most passionate and most imaginative of all poetesses.”