New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-26


IN the Aosr Of peace, When Tie British "hcreee
and "Rons" are resting upon their Proelems.IS
lasrsh, yeu may bear Of Ru.sian "baro Ai'.l1.
and Muscoyite "savsges.n 1t lie not for me W NC
fend the policy 6f Russia, Dor have The least Az
elinstion to attempt Though it seems icon-n
enough to undeuate power against which INC W.
creates, empires in Europe have men 70 ILL., IL.
But it 10 quite nnjust ~ indulge the beie' 1.'
The Russisns are thorough barbarian" in toe NJ
erary sense of the word. And yet this il com
mon idea, in spite Of the efforts Of generous reIu-
gees, and in ipte of the reviews published y
the Nord. Although more TRANSACTIONS and ~
tsiiOns than original works appear In husel.,
that country already possesses literature wnicI
will from day to day become more vaiaa'ie An'
interesting.
/ have, in former letter, spoken Of the icien.
tifc aid economical Russian reviews; but VIVA.
reader of English periodicals is aware tnst
there exist also FIVE successful literary magazines
AT St. Petersburgl There is the Russian Messen-
ger, with more than ,O0O subscribers; there Is Ine
Russian Gossip, founded in 1885, and the iourin
volume Of which contains several remarksf e ara
Giles; there is the Contemporary, edited oy iomtr
Quenef Dahl and others; there is the Annals OF tne
Faiherland, ID which q recent article informs US
that the illustrious Gogol has committed the most
horrible of suicides, dying voluntarily OF munger;
last but not least, there is the Library OF Reading
in which appeared lately most excellent trans'
lation in verse of King Lear.
In books, may mention the poems of Nekrassof,
CQaref and Fet, collection Of charming move" "
N. Towriguenef a history of the Tzare'na
Sophia. the sister OF Peter the ureal,
S,ephebalski &c. The three first volumes OF
OustIialofs history Of Peter /. will be Puo'
hsbed shortly. in TRANSACTIONS, we have to re-
cord Cherbel's collection of Schiller's Poems;
6opbocles's AntieoDe, rendered faithfully and sue.
cetsfully by vodovozof; ard finally, the Odes Of
Horace, translated by Fet who does not even
know Latin, but has used other TRANSACTIONS IN
prOse for his own in verse, and, strange TO Say, DIS
work is a. correct as if be had drawn from the
original fount. Even satire and criticism are not
found wanting. Stefanof has published the first
number of an album under the title, "Our Ac-
quantances," containing witty and sarcastic carl
ca,ures. The one which attracted most notice
represents stout merchant, disguised as a cask,
holding in his hand an aDelipg-line, with brandy
bottle as bait, and exclaming, ~ Ike tue nus
"sian people, because it likes my bait. The
Russians, in fact, do not shrink from ridlculIng
their own vice., and people which has, in the
course of q single year. produced these volumes,
of which can give you but q very imperfect aud
incomplete sketch is certainly far from Deserving
the sneers which the learned and metaphysical
Ger mars, the light minded and lively French, and
the proud and self.cOnceted English accustomed
TO lavish on it. Though these specimens may be
what Virgil calls lerigm syeetands rerum-" trifes
set out to show"-they are also not Of that sort
which
"show " wha, are bad BY what they write"
A worthy follower of Gogol, NJ Stehedrine is
publishing, under the title provincial Sketches,
remarkable traits illustrating Russian manners in
the Russian Novelist, a Moscow review. de at
tacks boldly the abuses of MuscOyite administration
and corruption, and rails at the vices and rascaty
OF the officials, with a sarcasm and hearty KIND
I ess toward the oppressed worthy OF Dickens
Thncheray could not with sharper pen deneate
the authors imaginary characters and prototypes.
Russian Art (fOr in Art also the Muscoyies are
by no means thorough "barbariaDs has lost one
of its most celebrated ornaments in ii. Michael dc
GJinka, director of the musical chapel of the Gar,
of the Grand Opera and the religious choir OF the
Court He had proceeded to Berlin, in order to
complete his musical studies, and died there Few
days ego. He is the first Russian composer who
has written sn opera. Among the lyrical produc-
tons which he has given to the national stage. 10
the Life of the Gear, opera in five acts, which
still forms part of the repertory. He was comPos-
ing Russian mass, but death suddenly interrupted
his " ofk, which remains unfinished. IL is to be
hoped, however, that Glinka may soon find wOr.
tby successor, for, as true cosmopolitan, wish
.uccess to every nation in the accomplishments of
civilization.
The Journal de Constantinopie has lately published
a letter on archeOl pcal discover les made by tho
French Consul at Mosul, M. Place. There is
great interest in the lines relating to the ruins Of
The tower of Babel. Two stories only remain out
of eight, but still the fragments furnish grand
ruin, and are TO be seen for severst miles. The
base 10 formed by squsre Of nearly tive hundred
yards The tiles with which the building is con-
structed are almost white, and covered with in
scriptions. In the ncighbOrhOod lie copiOus btu
men spring. Under the ruins were discovered
quantity Of Jewels, diamonds and coins, and NJ
Place has taken several highly interesting photo
graphic views Of the scenery. i am rather late
with this piece of intelligence, but it may have
passed unnnOticed in the United States, aud a.
America 10 richer than any other country IN books
concerning the geography and ethnography Of
Scripture thought 1t my duty to mention II.
Singers and actresses form, as usual, the allen.
cros ching topic Of conversation in Germany. Thus
We learn by Hungarian newspaper that the great
Italian tragedian, Ristori has been called out BY
the enthusiastic public of Pesth l3O times during
ak representations. These are at least the numbers
given by the H8iguftar, in answer to q cOtempo-
rsry. On the other hand, Sonora Pepia, the en-.
eaglng Spanish dancer, has danced l40 times in
the Berlin thesters-exercse which brought her the
round sum of 1s 066 thaers. Sra. Pepita is, how
ever, wonderful linguist. A few days ago she
pls,e at Prague, the Picarde in French and Ger.
man. and thahIed the appaudiug public 10 the true
Bohemian dialect. Taking her mother tongue into
account, tDe spears iout ianSueBcs we venture,
however, to suggest fifth, IN which she is still
more proficient, namely, the language Of the eye.
Agnes Schebest, formerly well known ss one of
the most beautiful pertOnifcatiOns of Beni's Juliet
and az the wife of DR.. Strauss, the author of the
Life of Jesus" is living apart from her husband
at Stuttgart in poor circumstances, and publishing
her memoirs"
If Ko,zebue were still alive, he would add two
rerparkable instances to his amusing satire against
German tiile-mania in his "Kleinstaedter." A
tascbsr uho has been dismissed in consaauenca of