New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-01
FROM BOS TON.
Correspondence ofThe n. Y. Tribune.

Correspondence of The n. Y. Tribune.
BOsToN, Wednesday, May 50, 1850
Last evening come of the friends Of James Rus
sell Lowell entertained him with magnificent din
ner at the Revere House. in anticipation OF his APP
preaching departure for Europe. There were
twenty-five gentlemen present-among them Pro-
fefsors Longfellow, FELTON,, Pierce (the mathema-
tican), Agassiz and Holmes Of Harvard University.
Perhaps, en- ycrenhese, it may be well to tell your
readers beyond the Hudson that by Professor
Holmes, mean DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the
pcet, who is Professor in the medical school of
the UIkersity. There were besides Ralph Waldo
Emerson John S. Dwight, I. w. Parsons (the
poet) Edmund Quincy the author OF Wensley,
and George T. Davis, formerly member of Con-
gress from the western district of the State There
was also him whom the Ilowadji calls Mot Notelpa,
"the man of two hemispheres; :" with other men of
wit and talent whom it would be useless aud in
decorous to name to the public, inasmueh as the
public has net the honor of their acquaintance.
Men who have written books or been sent to Con-
gess are to some extent public property, far at
least as their names are concerned.
The occasion is said by those who were present
to have been highly successful one. You will
see by the names send you that some of the finest
wits and most eminent raconteHrs OF NewEngland
were present DIR. Holmes recited end sang seye-
raj very brilliant poems composed for the occa-
SIGN, and enough good stories were told to stock
the editors table" of all your magazines for
twelve. month to come.
Tie Anniversaries have stimulated our book.
sellers to bring out some new works. Little,
Brown & Co. have issued Andrews Norton's long
expected translation of the Gospels, together with
treatise which be left in manuscript on the Inter-
nsl Evidences of the Commences of the Gospels
His great work published during his lifetime was,
you viii recollect, on the External Evidences.
The Boston papers, | observe, are Selling the
opportunity offered by these publications to re-
print the chief passages Of tie obituary notice of
Mr.. Norton which appeared in THE TRIBUNE soon
after his decease. trust some thorough account
of the life and character Of this ancient writer
will before long be gwen to tie world. Mr. Nor
ton fame In his lifetime was not commensurate
with his great ability and rare attainments. 1t is
however one of the reputation that are likely to
grow stronger and larger as they grow older
Little, Brown & Co. announce as nearly ready
q revised translation of Plutarch, by Arthur Hugh
Cloueb, late Fellow Of Oriel College, Oxford
Mr.. Clouch is a poet of considerable merit and
very excellent scholar He resided a year or two
in this country chiefly at Cambridge He is now
in England employed | believe in some Govern
inert thice connected with education. The COM
mCn translation of Plutarch is poor and inaccurate,
and Dir. Coughs will undoubtedly supcrsede it
as econ as published.
work said to be Of much scientific mechan-
cal value is also announced, entitled Lowell Hy-
dTaulc Experiments, being selection from Ex-
periments on Hydraulic Motors, on the Flow Of
Water over Weirs and in Canals of Uniform Rec
tangular Section and Of Short Length, made at
Lowell, Massachusetts, BY James b. Francis
Herbe1ts Poems and Shelleys are lust ready TO
appear in the series of English Poets, published
by Little, Brown & Co. Shelley is edited by
Lowell, who has prefxed Life of the Poet
Among tie new lawbooks are the second vol
ume Of Parsons ON Contracts, By the Dane Pro-
iessor of Law in the Harvard University and
also the twenty-seventh volume of the English
Law ard Equity Reports. Little, Brown q Co.
have likewise just issued new edition of Whea.
tons celebrated Treatise on international Law
with the authors last corrections, additional
notes, and an account of bis life and diplomatic
career by William b. Lawrence, formerly Ameri.
can Charge at London. The biographical sketch
Of Dir. Wheaton is full and interesting OLIVER.