New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-06
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.
ENGLISH.

A Life of William Allen, the chemist who de-
mcnstrated in conjunction with Pepys, that the dia-
mord is pure carbon nearly ready, from the pen Of
the Rev. James Sherman minister of the Dissenting
Chapel in Backfriars road London, in which the &C.
centric Rowland Hill preached for half q century.
Mr. Allen, who was the best pharmaceutical chemist
in England ard founder and President of the Phar-
maceutical Society died in lSi3 at the age of Is.
lie was one Of the Holland House clique Of authors
.taesmen and reviewers and contributed largely to
Tie Edinburgh RerteT.
AT the present political crisis, new and revised
edition of Sir John Daviss China is wel-imed for it
contains the results of many years personal observa
ton and may be relied on a. accurate.
Albert Smith, go long a. struggler and straggler in
periodical literature by which he earned moderate
but uncertain income during eighteen years has ac
tualy made fortune 10y his Overland Mail and Ascent
Of Mont Blanc entertainments, aud seems resolved to
live handsomely omit AT Fulham, close to the Bishop
Of Londons suburban residence, this fortunate Smith
has bought two or three acres Of land which Is dear
enough in that pace) and has nearly completed the
erection Of Il Strengthening villa, in which every
known order of architecture is set at defiance and
new composite STYLE whicImay be called the Comfort
ALE set up instead. This mansion is to be not only
snug but magnificent, in parts, There is a ballroom
Of great magnitude; dining-roOm Of ample dimen-
sons; library adapted for 10000 volumes, andea
barrack-room TO accommodate 80 to 100 bachelor
guests at pinch. Since the erection Of AbbotsfOrd,
never has any man Of letters gone 80 largely into
brick-ard-mortar az Albert Smith, As poor man, he
was horsh and naughty a. rich one, be s aniabe and
kind The better qualities Of his nature seem TO have
been brought by prosperity which too seldom has
this effect.
Albert Smith, who will be II in May, is almost
Cockney-having been born at Chertsey near London.
A surgeon by profession the completed his studies at
Psrsl, he compelled by want of practice to aban
don the lancet the country for the pen in London
AT the age Of % he became magaznist, aud his first
book IL The Wessail BOWL consisted OF articles
which he had contributed to the periodicals. Then he
dashed into Punch with his Experiences Of
Medical Student nnd " The Physiology Of London
Parties. In these las,named sketches (which ap-
peared il the first volume Of " Punch certain Mr..
Lcdbury was favorte character. Afterward, " The
" Adventures Of Mr.. Ledbury' ran through Bentley'
Ni,cc'faDy as an independent story, illustrated by
Loeoh. SO did that striking semi-historical novel,
&" The Marchioness of Brinvillers.' Others Of his
works were published separately as seral- these
were: " The Scattergood Family The Pott!eton
Legacy and Christopher Tadpoe," this lat being
very autotiographca Beside all this, Albert Smith
edited more than one magazine Of his own and held
tie mirror up TO nature in numerous iarccs' AL
this done in eight years. In 1919, gong to Con-
.tantinople as member of the noble Order OF Dead
heads be wrote little book Of travels which, early
in 1850 he turned into ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
songs and dialogue-csled The Overland Mail
This became so popular that he sought new materials,
and assembled Mont Blanc in October, 1851, which
he founded his Mont Blanc lecture at the Egyptian
Hall early in 1852. Every year since he has revisited
Mont Blanc so TO introduce novelties into his enter
.anment, which he has already repeated fifteen
hundred TIMES and always to large audiences. While
writer, Albert Smith also tried to get dentist,
but did not succeed, though his ski is said to be
siderable in that line. His last literary work published
1853 is The Story Of Mott Blanc" Since then be