New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-22

welcome hin,.
The two coreludine numbers of " Little DOM; sp-
peared in London the first OF Jane. 1t is said that
there are slresdy 1000 cope. Of the book volame
ordered by the trade. This likely enough, many
person. have dislike to read story by instruments
durng nineteen months.
The Loaloa AtkeEeur has been giving some severe
and apparently wellmeri,ed hits to Sir Archibald
Alison who in the sixth volume If his History Of
Europe. has freely conveyed whole passages about
events in Irdia from Mr.. Hayes work ard, not con-
ten, with freely using bis facts, has even appropriated
in a wholesale manner, Mr.. Hayes very words with
scarcely an alteration. The AtAeh@a~ prints the
parallel passage. eide by eide, and establishes the
charge.
Anew novel; which the crates have very warmly
praised has recently been published, anonymously
bot it appears that the author is Sir Arthur II. Elton
Il j. called Below the Surface Story of English
County Life.
A volume of Gossip from Household Words is
announced. Henry Morley is the author.
Mrs. Bray, the novelist dsug hter.n-lsw and bogrs-
pher Of Thoms. Sto,hard, the painter, Is writing
q Handel: his Life, Personal and Professional; with
Thoughts on Sacred Muse
In Macaulays History of England some use was
made of what he desgnstes the Diary Of Narc~sW
Iutreu in manuscript in the library of All Souls Col
from. This las jus, been published in London in six
octave volumes as Bet Historical Relation of state
Affairs from September. 1913, to April, ma IL
includes part Of the reign Of Charles H. the events Of
the Revolution, and the whole reigus OF William and
Mary, and Anne.
The death Of Mr. Coul,on, editor of The Press,
a weekly London journal, is reported he WAS for
merly editor Of Tie Brgtanai0. The articles in The
n, In. hat in az
Russia. were Cou;ons. lie wrote an able article IN
The Qaayterly to show that "Japus' was the
wicked Lord Lyttecu, and has leh q manuscript
work on Jupius, and also a novel;
Gerald Massey, the poet, has issued circular. in
which be expresses his desire to lecture before literary
societies on Pre- Raphaeism in Poetry and Painting,
| The Spasmodic School aud its Critics The Wo-
mans Cause "'The Princess and Aurora Leigh,
and Leaves from the Life OF the Poor. No doubt
| MIR. Massey will be popular aud able lecturer.
Two English lecturers arc about visiting the United
States, professionally" al renovare do!arem" TO
| renew the dollars and dimes a. Eneas said when
Dido asked him relate his adventures One OF these
i. Iri.h by birth. berg William Howard Russell, Doe
tor Of Laws by special grant from the University Of
Dublin (he actually educated at what the nssives
| call ould Trinity College, and known, Tar and
near, as Our Own Correspondent of The London
| Times during the war in the Crimea. The other 10
Samuel Carter Hail. editor of The Art Journal, tho
crack picture mag azne of London, and better known
a. husband of Mrs. S. C. Hall, the most natural most
touching and most amusing Of all Irish female writers.
Were il rot for habit Mrs. II has OF almost invar
rably and inevitably winding up her Irish Sketches
with the moral ostentatously paraded in Rdiics she
would be non.such of story teller.
Dr. Russell, who has certainly written very spirited
account. Of what was done during the War in the
| Crimea has lately commenced lecturing thereon in
London, and being taken in hand by Mr. Beale, twho
brought Julien and Company to America, and is con-
santly conducting operate and concert singers over
| all parts Of Queen Vicors's United Kingdom,l
is to have $4,000 for lecturipg, where and whes
Mr. Bealc wishes, for the space of twelve calendar
| month";. This engagement commenced last month be-
fore a London audience and though the admission 10
very hsh-sbout three dollars for single ticket 10
lecture-lhe course consisting of three-ourosty
TO eco sour Own Correspondent" and hear him tell
his own Story 6led the house and this too, though
DIR. Russell not at oil used TO public speaking, WAS
the reverse of fluent and III such charge can
| be brought against Irishmanl not little shy. The
various newspaper accounts do all but intimate that
Russell had told in his book great deal than he
puts into his lectures and told better too. The book
can be bought for dollar, and the lectures heard
for nine but then there is the pleasure OF seeing the
man who was all through the war as q literary ana
teur and used 10 write for Bis newspaper with cannon
balls flying about him. IA cooly as IL he merely
extending bis notes in a coifeehosse in London. Rus
sell cannot cross the Atlantic until next yeMsay Sep
| tember lS58-but will certainly come then, II
there be any fair chance OF The good fortune
| Of Mr. Thackeray as lecturer IN the United States
has made several Of the English lterat very anxious
to try their fortune here They do not remember that
in this lottery there are five hundred blanks TO one
prize, which Thackeray wen.
| Mr.. Hall is supposed to be the actual, veritabs
| Pecksnif Of Martin Chuzzlewit." For time, aud
by a few, It was supposed that the late Sir Rober-
Peel was the original Of that character. But the inn
preston faded off and Mr. Samuel Carter Hall is uni
yersaly confessed to be the The artist Phiz"
has even bit off, in has Pecksni strong personal
semblance to Mr. Hall-an unmistakable resemblance,
indeed. So did Dickens point him out showing him.
in hi. family, surrounded by portraits and busts Of
himself After all, though somewhat pretentious, and
aiming at passing of as great moral philosopher, Mr..
Hall has numerous good points. He writes aueLtly
ard clearly, has considerable knowledge Of modern
art and artists and Is q fair critic. Part Of the time
| that Norman Campbell edited The Ner Monthly
Mogozae Mr. Hall was the sub-editor, and succeeded
a. chef when the poet seeded. He edited The
Amulet" religious annual, for three years. and has
also edited several other picure-books, such The
Book Of Gems "The Bare NAL Halls Of England, aud
"The Book of British Ballads" In conjunction with
bis wife he produced three octave picture-books on
Ireland Eighteen years ago he started The Art
UniOn more appropriately called The Art Jonraaf,
periodical in which the writing is nothing, and the
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