New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-22
Her.M de 10 varenne, a French Lepsm,.t

Ms
=, scme inc an officer in the Ssrdinian army. He
~..Is ,.rv little in defamation or conjecture, and
v.,v mueh II facts compiled from ndisputaoie doc
meats or recorded from persopsl observation-
Ia.ds committed by Austrian officials, under the
s.nrton of the Austrian Government, which f'r re-
vafipg brutality, calculated cruelty and pefhdy'
an only fod their parallel in the records OF savage
.,fs,e or the Book Of Pirates, or the " Ter
,,Se Reg;s,er." No fouier ofenses against human
tv usre ever committed n France under .he Reign
=; Terror than have been committed IN Lomohdy
v;,hin the last nine years under the reign of TIE
House of Hapsburg. II We must condemn Tue
yestLssuess OF mad Italian conspirators, We are
hound 70 consider what has made them mad. And
Il r. noteworthy that the testimony which oohges
an ,ndugent Judgment is offered by such Witnesses
=. Clsa.tope. an English Conservative, Cavour, an
Italian Constitutional Monarchist, and DE Ia Va
Ysppe French Legiti INST
The hobby for collecting N some department
or other of art hts nowadays so many rders IN
America, that t is ft 20 recommend here, a. cate
vacuum lie Trtsor dc Ia Curl0sne, by Charles
Blanc, a man peculiarly fitted by taste, acquired
knowledge, and the nature OF his occupation, 70
,omple,e this singular digest of catalogues OF auc-
ton art. sales. The subtitle being honesty ndlca-
five of the nature Of the contents OF these two
volumes give il entire as the bes. brief descrp-
tioo of the work: Pictures, Drawings, Engrav-
"Ipps Books, Caste Bionzes, Ivory Terr Gotta,
PAINTED Glass, Medals, Arms, Porcelain, turni-
"ture, Enamels, Lacquered Ware, and other
objects of art, with various historical and
biographical notes and notices, preceded by et-
"ter 10 the author, sur Ia curioSue Ct les carttib.
IL is 20 the collection of works OF art OF trnketry,
cnriosi.ies and all sorts Of old rOcOcory, what
Brunets invaluable "-Manucl" is TO the book pur-
chaser
A new edition of the "Mfmoires dc Lauzun,"
with preface and historical notes, was boob
TO be spoken of, but, after having been ex posed
for sale in the shops for month or 50 after its
publication, j, was seized two weeks sgo. What
gave value to this edition abOse the fret, published
la 1921, the sale Of which not in,eriered with
BY the Government Of that time, the restoration
Of suppressed passages, and especially Of proper
names II is, probably, the scandal caused TO some
of the present bearers Of these Names by the appear
apce Of their ancestors in Lsuzun's loose company
rather thsn any Ofense 70 public morals, that led 20
their seizure.
{" Varift(s LittfraireS' is q collection of moral
and historical essays-orignally contributed to the
Journal des D.bafS by NJ de Sary, of lts edlto-
nal cops. IL is doubtful whether the files of any
general newspaper in England America could fur
Dish the materials Of work Of equal literary merit.
In this respect at least the French press maintains
under the present regime a position winch tnat OF
free nations has not reached. Tanes critical and
historical essays, mentioned in former letter, all
first appeared in the columns of The DtDdfS. OeV-
eral of these are on the works of English authors
the works of Thackeray and Dickens, and the His
tory of Macaulay, and as judgments upon English
maDners and literature from strictly French point
Of view, thus revealing, by implication the charac-
terstics of French I.snners and literature, are Pc
culary interesting to an English or American stu
dent OF those characteristics.
"La RerMe Germaniqno" was established few
months ago, for the purpose Of making the French
od bov IN
be with the intellectual movement of Germany. 1t
is edited with great ability, and its successive num-
bers may be consulted with profit by all foreigners
desrOus of following that movement.