AUTHORS AT WORK. A NEW novel, "The Lord's Chamber," by the author of "Signor Monaldini's Niece" is being published serially abroad, and will doubtless appear when completed in this country. MR. EDWIN P. WHIPPLE, suggests an exchange, will soon accumulate the materials for a new book, in his charming reminiscences of the distinguished men whom he has intimately known. THE preparation of the "Life of the late Dr. Livingstone," under the auspices of his family, has been entrusted to Prof. Blaikie, of Edinburgh, editor of the Catholic Presbyterian and a well-known writer. PROFESSOR J. E. FROBISHER, formerly of the College of New York, has nearly ready for the press a new volume entitled "Acting and Oratory," a comprehensive work of its kind upon which the author has been engaged for some years. 66 ARTISTS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY," by Mrs. Clement and Mr. Lawrence Hutton, has been so successful thus far in London that Messrs. Trübner, who publish it there, ask for a new and enlarged edition for the holiday trade. Upon this work the authors are already engaged. PROFESSOR MAX MÜLLER'S "Sacred Books of the East" may be expected soon. The first volume will contain a translation of the Upanishads, by the editor; the second, the Shû King, Shi King, and Hsiao King, translated by Professor Legge; the third, the Sacred Laws of the Aryas, translated by Dr. George Bühler, of Bombay. REV. D. B. FORD is about to publish a work called "Studies on Baptism," which has impressed the Watchman "with the same opinion that is expressed by the Rev. Franklin Johnson, D.D., in a note to the author: The work might be entitled "The Encylopædia of Baptism," so wide is its range of topics and so thorough are its discussions. It is the first serious and extended examination of Dale ever made by any Baptist scholar.'" BUSINESS NOTES. WEST WATERVILLE, ME.-Frank Sawtelle has sold his bookstore to J. B. Emerson. BOSTON, MASS.-A. W. 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"THROUGH the Light Continent" is to be the title of the new work on the United States in 1877-78, by Mr. William Saunders, which Cassell, Petter & Galpin have in press. THE Complete works of Buffon are to be published in Paris in a handsome edition in parts, of which there will be 300, making twelve octavos. There will be 400 illustrations, 150 of them steel engravings. PORTER & COATES have in press a work that will be of very great interest, "The Prehistoric World," translated from the French of Elie Berthet, which has already passed through many editions in France. THE International Literary Congress has been in session in London this week, commencing June 9th, but its proceedings have not been telegraphed. It is difficult to say whether there is any real strength in this association. JOHN WILEY & SONS are to publish a limited edition (100 copies) of "The Complete Angler" of old Isaak Walton and Charles Cotton, as edited by Dr. Bethune, in two royal octavo volumes at $25. A list of subscribers will be published with the work. A COLLECTION of essays from early numbers of the North American Review is announced from Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. They will consist of papers by Prescott, Motley, Bancroft, Washington Irving, Emerson, Charles Francis Adams, Lowell, and Parkman. JANENTZKY & Co., Philadelphia, have just issued "The Etcher's Guide," by Thomas Bishop. The object of the work is to guide the artist and amateur in the very interesting process of etching. It has quite a number of plates, gives full directions for the use of tools, and is a handy guide for the etcher. THE third series of Mr. Edward A. Freeman's "Historical Essays" (Macmillan) will include, papers, among other "First Impressions of Rome," "First Impressions of Athens, "The Illyrian Emperors and their Land," "Augusta Treviorum,' The Goths of Ravenna," "Race and Language," "The Byzantine Empire," and 46 Mediæval and Modern Greece." 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