Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-11-07
LITERARY ITEMS.

Tt is mentioned as fact which indicates the grow
ing demand in continental Europe for American
books, that Messrs Harper brothers recently re-
ceived very large order from Rome, Italy.
One of the Boston hotels has added to it's other
attractions library of 800 volumes. If oil the no.
tells in large cities furnished, strangers
would be able to entertain themselves without re-
sorting to theatres.
An edition of "Klosterhem," one of De Quinceys
earlier producods which he desires to suppress, is
announced by Whittemore, Niles Hall, new firm
of publishers in Boston
A new weekly newspaper in modern Greek, and
entitled "Hymera," has just appeared at Trieste.
The Chevalier Bunsen has published reli
gious philosophical work entitled "Sgns of the
Times" 1t is written in defence of freedom of con-
scnce, and specially dwells on the spirit of Chris
tan unions and the direction taken by the Church
at present
Within the last few months the following English
publications among Others have ceased to exist, and
from information obtained upon the subject it APP
pears that the loss sustained by carrying them on
amounts altogether to upward Of Ego, 900: Dioge-
ncs Watkins London Directory, Patriotic Fund
Journal Pen and Pencil, Peoples Times, Clustrated)
Labor Lost, Finsbury Chronicle, the Islington Horn
scy and Highgatc Newspaper, Marylebone Adver-
tiser, Metropolitan News, Marlebone Whipper-in,
Business and Agency Gazette, Halfpenny Newspa-
per- The Doctor, Colored News and Schoolmasters'
Gazette.
McCullock, the author of the Commerican Die
tionary, has testified before a Committee of the
BRUSH House OF COuinOlS, IlitC
lie printing and of the paper required for such print
ing reached the enormous sum of 100000 year,
nearly 81 ,OO0,O0O.
The Queen has appointed the Rev. B. Jowett,
Resns Professor of Greek for the University of Ok
ford in succession to the late DR.. Gaysford, Dean
of Christ Church
The ten daily political journals of Paris have to-
tai circulation of 16l 900, viz La Presse Al 600,
LIE Steele $4,000, LIE Constitutional $4,000 LIE Pays
10000, La Patrie Is, 900, LIE Journal dcS DebatS g.
GOO L'Univers 5000, LAssemblee Rationale 5000,
L'Union ,OOO La Gazette della Franco 5000
The travels of Prof Ampere in the United States
have been collected from the Revue de Deux Mondes
into two elegant volumes, and issued at Paris. In
some respects, his spcculationS men and things
this side of the water, quite originals. His
parallel between Bryant and Longellow-setting
forth one as Il Democratic and the other Wing
poet as the bard of the people and the other of
scholars, &C., is specimen of French criticism
amusing as it is ingenious. NJ. Ampere writes al
ways like gentlemen; he is a disciple Of De Toe
qucve, and man of thorough literary culture.
good translation of his book-Promcnade dams
FAmcriquc would probably takc.-BOston Irarel
Ter.
DEATH oE PRoF JoHNsoN.-The Durham (Eng)
Chronicle says Prof johnson was born at Paisley,
somewhere about the year 1906. From this town
he was transferred, while very young, to Manchester
where his father continued to reside for few years.
but aterward returned to Scotland, and settled at
kilmarnock. Thrown upon his own resources at
early age, the youth commenced the battle of life
with characteristic courage and resolve. He entered
the University Of Glasgow, supporting himself for
some time by private tuition In 1925, he opened
a school at Durham, and in the year 1880 married
of the daughters of the late Thomas Ridley
Esq., of Park End. Thus possessed of competent
income he resolved to crafty taste for chemistry,
which had now acquired predominating force, and
for his purpose he chose Herzelius his preceptor
ans, visited Sweden to study under that celebrated
Upon the foundation of the Durham University
in 1853 the leadership in chemistry and mineralogy
il