New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-13

"a t..,..
twenty hVe years Of meditatons have not vet com.
:. p", ana which will be entitled, Essai fExpli-
sdton l nave for library the maouscripts of
victor hugo" And heintims,es that this ibys-
ry extends far beyond the works who.s t;tIs. .,s
given above. "H''o a''c' afo
The pari, pres. has been p.euli.r,, fertile Of
first Of all, Guzots Richard Croms,u rSs.a a ,'
volumes complete the third part Of his Histor, ~
the English Revolution. 1t takes no n the sctss,
sion Of Charles III. In connection with the pre-
cedpg four volumes Charles l. and Hists;ss d Ia
RfpuJiique a de CrometH, and with his Mosek and
bis Portraits Poliiques of the principal characters
who figured in the Revolution, it forms an admi
rable history Of the time-treated from NJ 0uixets
point of view. With all Guizots ability az histo-
risn and it is very great he IL Obstinately welded
to certain fayoritc doctrines; and ne considers tho
English Revolution, as he does that Of 80 in
France as unnecessary. He would make US be.
lieye, and colors his history for that purpose that
the grand reforms which England and France owe
to those Revolutions, might have been cosstitx-
tiondliy Obtsined; that England and France might
be as far advanced as they now are with Stuart
on the throne Of the one, and Bourbon on the
throne of the other NJ. Guzot's work. however,
should enter into course Of reading parallel with
Macaulay's brilliant history Another new work,
originally published as series Of articles for the
Rerue des Denr Mondes, and making q desirable
addition to course of English historical study, is
PAngleierre 0u Dir. huems Steele, ENGLAND in the
Eighteenth Century, by Charles de Remusat.
These volumes are made up Of essays and portraits
on the manners, and of the persOnages Of England,
that mark the period of its history between the
close of King William Ills reign and the iermen-
taton that accompanied the great European move
ment of the French Revolution. They begin with
Marlborough and Bolingbroke, and end with
Burke and Fox.
A long time ago, (devout readers of my letters
will remember the date, the notorious rather than
famous Dr. VerOn-Barnum- Boswell Veron-Of.
fered. through the Society of men Of letters the
sum OF O,OOO francs, to be allotted In prizes Tor
the best Essay on Balzac," the best poem on the
"Gold Hunters, =" the best essay on Letters and
Men of Letters in the Nineteenth century" the
best Tale" &c. The pieces were sent In,
iury composed of literary men OF mark sat upon
them for many weeks, and the results of their in
cubation were announced two weeks ago in solemn
session at the Conservative. Asthe whole matter
is of little interest to the literary world outside OF
Paris, although it has been the theme OF deal oil
talk here, it lie enough to say that out OF the
o5l poems on the Gold Hunters, the first and
second best are net very remarkable; that the
first prize tale is now publishing in the feulleton
Prssse and is rather readable; that the second.
written by the Countess Montalembert, is quite as
good; that the essay on Letters, a., in the
Nineteenth century, is readable, academic, ana
rather prosy; that no essaycn Balzac was thought
deserving the prize by the jury, ana that tne PtNo
was given afterward by yeron to an entertaining.
ingenious eulogy on Balzac by one NJ. Lenore;
and that like sum Of IL, 900 francs is offered by
DIR. BIB Veron for prizes to be distributed Rext
wear to the lucky authors OF the best essays in
prose and verse upon four or five proposed themes.
IL is almost certain that the results OF any such
prize fights in literature will be of secondary merit.
=. l.. Ill. NAH hail N
part of the Doctors large fortune than the spread
inc of il in paying for the publishing and pulling OF
his own books Another newborn millionaire has
furnished the funds for the establishment Of daily
literary journal In Paris. The profits, ifthere are
any. are to 20 to the treasury of the Society OF
men of Letters. This man is as generous as the
Doctor, and less absurdy vain.
We have this month new volume by COUSIN,
Madame de Cherrense, continuation of his Studies
If the Illustrious Women and of the Society Of
the Sixteenth Century in France; Q translation OF
the lesser poems and sonnets of Shakespeare.
accompanied by the English text, by M. Lafond;
an adaptation to the French stage of Shakespeares
As You Like 1t (Comme IL Vons Ptaira) by Geo.
Sand accompanied by very sensible piece OF
criticism on Shakespeare, in the form OF letter
addres sed by Madame Sand to Regnier, one OF the
actors at the Theatre Francsis; new and admi-
rable number Of Lamartine's Conrs Fsmit,srd Dc
Literature an entertaining volume, entitled VHa
Arentures des Canfairiees Cflebres Life and Adyen-
lures of Celebrated Female SiDgers), preceded by
notices of musicians under the First Empire, and
followed by the "AnecdOtic Life OF Paganlni" by
the musical brothers Marie and Lear Escudice;
very elegant edition of the Imitation de jesus
Christ remarkable for its curious limitations of tho
illustrations and border Examinations Of old MSS.
carefully copied from MSS. in the Imperial
and other libraries, Qhe first number only
has appeared 1T is o curiosity worthy the
attention of bibliOmaniacs); the 6rst volume OF ,
good translation of Edgar POe's tales; the frst
number 1--WE are to have fourteen OF them Heaven
help us y of La Revolution or an historical exami-
nation into the origin and propagation Of evil n
Europe, from the Renaissance to the present
time, by the Able Gaume, one of the ablest OF tho
hold back school, who preach that the world las
rolled backward for the last 300 years-who mia
Gle "Voltairianism, Professionalism, Rationallsm
aud the French Revolution IN one cup OF BIT
terness and condemnation; finally promise,
in literary review, of the speedy publlca-
ton, in the United States " Of the Pirate Cor
" respondenes Of John Clay, who was one Of tae
"most celebrated orators OF Congress, and the
"hones.est man in America" A friend, VINO
pointed out this last extraordinary announcement
TO me, could not refrain from loud mocking laugh
ter at tho ignorance of our country and country
men entertained BY foreigners. Not having time
at the moment to go into an argument upon the
subject showing that American Ignorance OF rance
is nearly on a par with French Ignorance OF amer
lea. pointed, in New.York paper Of large cireu-
atiOn, to the statement that the antGallican rei.
gious journal, L'Jnirers, Of Paris was the organ
of Archbishop Sibour. Now, my dear Green, to
any Frenchman who knows the b { OF the case,
this statement 10 as absurdy ridiculous as though
one should say that The TRIBUNE, OF New.fork,
is tie organ Of the Southern slave interest-or
that The N. Y Express il the organ Of freedom OF