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NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 49, 1855

and twenty. pipe, more or ,ess, przeworthy tales,
but thirty eight essays on the literature OF the day.
and but six on the greatest of French noveli'ts.
The prizes, about which there was 9 deal OF talk
in the rst sessions OF the Jury, have not yet been
declared. It seems almost q pity that they ever
should be. To skim of the cream of the hopes of
four hundred authors, as it were, for the sake Of
surfeitipg with whip-Ellsbub the vanity of four In
diydu,ls, is sad to think upon. As in that con-
verse case of Harris's prize fight, Mammon may
have got some hard blows, yet just his success may
have been q help to the defeat OF his competing
rivals In their consequent struggles with their pri
vate devils of Envy, Malice. Pride. Vanity, In
charitableness and the res. of the legion.
NJ Charles Louis Cbspin has recently given to
the world work on Hungary, which the world,
that seems almost to have dropped Hungary out
of memory, will not it is to be feared, receive 80
cordially as it deserves. Yet If readers would
once take up the volume they might find their
interest in Hungary, grown so cool since four
wears 500 revived by contact with the ardent
enthusiasm of the author. He is follower
with long interval indeed, but At no dis
reputable distance-of Michelet. He writes
like q partisan, but eloquently and with an
earnest, sympathetic zssl, which seems 70 nave
been az mated rather than quoted by the drudgery
of research Of which frequent foot notes give proof
The first half of the volume 10 historical essay
on The Genius and Mission of Hungarian elo-
ouent, hopeful argument from her glorious past
for her glorious future, which he appeals to pres
ent Europe to open the way for. The second half
Of the volume gives the history Of John Hur yady,
the famous Hungarian here Of the Fifteenth Cen
fury His life foil of stranger incidents than
would become q hero of fiction, and his noble
character, as presented in the recital of N. Cha
pin, possess the twofold charm of truth and TO
nance political history of the Hungarian Revo.
luton of lsi649 by the same author, is announced
TO appear next March. lie has also in preparation
for the press History of the Perpetual lnsurrec.
ton of the Hungarian Nation sgainst the House OF
Austria, 1926 to lS49
TIeine, whom every one supposed to be an inn
movable invalid at No. so Rue dAmsserdam, is
said to have gone to Vienna. strange country
for him to 90 to Victor Hugo will, it is said,
take refuge from liberal England in Madrid, which
would have seemed strangs-and stranger to mono
than TO Englishmen-two years ago. Dickens has
been in Paris, which is not strange, and had his
portrait painted by AIRY Sche0er, (they say which
IL strange to any one who knows AIRY Scheffer's
style of colo,ing and Mr. Dickens's complexion Of
face and wastcoat. Lamartine's visit to England
will perhaps end in one Of his eight vou ne his
torcal romances with the name of that country on
the title. page. The publication OF new novel by
George Said (Eremor and LeueiPPe Is soon to CON-
mence in the feuiletOn of La Pres@. wag an
nounces a new work under the title LIS FRANCHISES
peiates par EHesmemss.