New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-14

81 e1rsoriinsry mind, VIII Dot vsst tha etier o'
oo,em porsry portrate-not generally done IN on'
though. on the score OF likeness be promises that ne
IN neither pant himself too white nor his neisn'
Dor too blsck."
DIR. yeron has presented to the public another OF
his volumes Of so-cAed Memories, which the Puoiie
u no, greedy 10 accept. Tia made up, like the oth
ers OF Original concei,, plattudes and promises OF
great hr 20 lever fulfilled and quotations OF Old an
ecdot.s from old newspapers and pamphlets IL also
contains few hitherto unpublished letters from dis
tpeuhed characters but hot their characteristic le'
ter. His chapter on Rachel is a. readable as any IN
the book vet il tells absolutely nothing of her history
that is not as commonplace as street talk. II Is MT
AN able editing even OF that. With his usual passion
for reflected notoreiy he takes pains to tell the reader
Of HI. intimacy with Rachel he has told him before
Of Intimate relations with illustrious art,ts AMI
stet,smen. ard mentions in proof that RaeheI once
called him low fellow (caE0slsl, which Is true
enoush-as be complscently shows US IN other pages
how TLiers treated him like serviceabie dog, nov
authors, whose works he bought, wrote hin business
letters and how Louis Napoleon, who needed hlin
then and has kicked him since, wrote him oamOooz-
hrg letter. Whist THE TRIBUNE said the other day
on occasion Of Notes "reminiscences, appues vel
enough TO Verun: /" With art,ts and literary men he
has sometimes scraped acquaintance. In every
company he is equally at home. He never loses his
- self as .urance. His opinions OF public men aud
measures Of which be has seized only glance, are
expressed with oracular -olemniiy and asinne self
" complacence.'
A little book by Edgar Qunet, warm and glowing
With the liberal opinions the generous SCI timents and
the brilliant rhetoric thar us-d TO draw about him
such enthusiastic audiences when he still lectured at
the College Of France has for its main theme the NE
and acts OF Maunx st. Aldegonde Around that
scholar, soldier, theologsn and satesmin, as prom
i1ent central figure are grouped the leading men ant
the great scenes of the Revolt of the Netherlands.
The nature Of the N, mea grand struggle to throw
off foreign oppression - and the style OF It's treat
ment would render the book welcome to numerous
American readers. II ough, to be translated for their
use and the author ought to be paid for the ransls
ton, as he will be by Engl sh publishers.
The first two volumes OF Lamsrtines History OF
Turkey il out; the remaining four will soon follow
IL sas written too rapidly. The Turks are treated,
from The present French point OF view too poetic ly
snd some What gratefully by Lamartine. The work,
lbe y other decorated histories of the author, VIII
be more rea liable than reable The Constitutional
newspaper gives the six volumes by way of reward to
any one who VIII suffer himself TO subscribe to that
journal for year. This system Of giriRg man
something of more or less value II he viii buy s)me
thr OF little or no value-the reverse OF the str-
sped pig practice from which, perhaps, the hint
was takenis extensively praeticed here the supIder
the journal the larger bonus; thus little sheet
entitled Paris used to offer to every yearly subscriber
dsguereoiyped portraits OF himself and OF two friends
subscription for Elk mont $ paid for bal Likeness
of ope friend; for three months, single portrait
BY recent decree commission is appointed. whose
office is the collection, arrangement and publication
OF the great Napoleons correspondence relitVe to
different branches OF public interest. We shall not
get complete edition from this quarter, but even a
discreet, collected edition will be an extremely well
come gilt to historical readers.
One NJ. Ncolardet, being dirty minded man, has
written book abou, all the dirty a,ts that Noltare
was ever guilty OF. II is grateful reading for those
who're little natures arc ticked with the discovery Of
here and there an occasional trait OF resemblance to
themselves in their bettcrs Some one has opuy
appreciated the merits Of ,ho work by saying that
1.-The authors nose should be rubbed in It,
NJ veullot, one of the really able editors Of the
organ Of the uliramontane bisotted Catholic party
LUnrers, and consequently a grabbed retrogradlst
has published volume on the famous and infamous
Droa de Seigneur. The result OF VI. Veuillots his
tocal research is that this abominsble RICH. never
practically existed-nothng abOminabe ever existed
before The French Re goluton. The word, the phrase
did indeed exist, but il had only sort of Picksick
ian sense-symbolizng the Seigneurs right to rulo
his people, 20 b. their father in the proyidontial
patriarrhal fgwa alive way Dr. Walker of Cam
bridge used to ask in his impressive way of those
who found the myths Of the Bible so signifcant-"f
"this 9Th is SO significant as myth. why should 1t
"be still more significant as a fact 1t is a refine
ment and such one in the case as you would hardly
think those semi-barbarOus Segneurs capable Of
this symbolizing Of their authority.
/ see the Lampagkter, which The TRIBUNE wcs
forward TO prae with discrimination, Is reprinted at
Lepsc and in course Of translation here. Scion
Robin'on's Hot Corn, which first was served,
think, in The columns OF The TRIBUNE, was trans
lated in a recent number OF the RegUe de Paris.
An extract from letter Of traveller in Italy, pub
shed in the journals here, gives melancholy vs. Of
the state of Rossinls health. He passed the summer
at the baths of Luccs to benefit. violent attack
OF disease coming upon his already weakened sys.
tem repealed only by violent remedies, and only
far 70 enable him to retarn 10 the environs Of
Florence. off" says the letter. 4" his life is pre-
served be will not recover his ciearness of mind
1.-The profoundest melancholy has spread over bis
"Once cheerful nature vail that no human hand can
remove.