New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-12
LITERARY.

forth manifesto TO the press OF rather muehne pun
port IL seems TO express plenty of indignation gener
ally at the critical notices of 1t Never too Late to
Mend" and winds up with the startling iHtimation
that Mr. Reade cannot afford to throw great stones
at little BIRDS He cannot write book merely to ex
nose one heartless ass and FIVE six echoes" Able
expounders see in these Orphc uternees promise of
new edition II the book supported by proofs of its
prison revelations.
DIR. William Bell is preparing book that will not
fail to attract attention. under the title" Three Miss
ing Years in the Life of SHAKESPEARE. From external
and internal evidence he considers the fact proved that
Shakespeare spent some time in Germany, having
fed his native country to escape the vengeance of
Sir Thomas Lacy. He says: Perhaps the strongest
proof of Shakespeare residence and studies in Ger
many are subjectves ones, from his own works Hints
ofCerman manners, illusions to German usages andmy-
thology use of German words phrases and construc-
tons in a sense unusual before him. frequent, and
are throughout stumbling blocks to commentators from
the ignorance not merely of modern Germansms but
of the low dialect of the language formerly in uniyer-
sal use."
-Messrs. Griffin e. Co. of Glasgow are preparing
" Handbook of Contemporary Biography" on the
plan of stating tacts-not attempting estimates, or
will produce manual whose is evident to all
contemporary biography being generally the most diff
cult class to investigate. Memoirs of living celebrities,
however new. are admitted in Knights English Cyclic
peda of Biography the New American CycIop9dia and
IDIOTS Biographie Generate. Still, remarkable
spring up faster than they be recorded, and sup
plement is already published to vapereau's huge
drag.net of living notabilities which appeared in
Paris less than year ago.
The large sale attained by the " New American
Cyclopada" while yet in progress $4,000 copiesl, is
testimony to the puncsality and strict adherence to
business arrangements which have marked its issue.
Within years from the appearance of the first vol
ume seven volumes delivered to subscribers, every
line being original. The collection and arrange
ment of so great of matter in this limited time
would be remarkable but in this there is the ad
ditional labor involved in the fact that the aggregate
is composed of portions written by contributors from
every State in the Union and often by who are not
TO be hurried in their work, the published list Of au
thors wreadily show. BY this economy of time, hon.
ogeneous work is produced free from the usual re-
proach of Cyclopedas that from the long interval be-
tween the commencing and the end, one-half of the
work is inappcable to existing facts.
Mr., Harrison Aihsworh has written a positive
Contradiction to the statement of Dr. Shelton Macken
zie, that Dr. Maghn was the author of the we'll known
and spirited ballads introduced in the novel Of Rock
wood" Mr.. Ainsworth says: "There is not a word
of truth IN DIR. Mackenze's statement Dr. Maginn
never wrote one line Of Redwood text or ballads.
A proceeding ike the present would have filled him
with disgust and indignation. In putting forward this
unwarrantable statement, DIR. Shelton Mackenzie has
committed act of gross injustice toward the memory
of Dr. MagiDn as well toward myself, and is bound
to make every reparation in his power" The letter
appears in Notes and Queries" In the number
another correspondent speaks of the late DR.. Macken-
zie" so that, from the London standpoint, las the
Germans say Mr.. Ainsworths call for reparation is
rather unreasonable. "Can ghost apologise"l
DR. William Smith, editor of the valuable series
of Dictionaries Of Classical Biography, Antiquities,
and Geography is about concluding his labors by the
publication Of Dictionary of Biblical Antiquities,
Biography, Geography, and Natural History" 1t will
extend to two volumes one Of which is promised for
the present season by Mr. Murray. large sum was
offered for the advance sheets with the object OF in
cooperating the materials in the Encyclopaedia Of Bibli
cal, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature,' long
in preparation by Drs. McClntock and Strong 10 be
issued by Messrs. Harper but it will probably be for
sale to the American public through Messrs. Little g.
Brown of Boston, at the reduced rate at which
they supply DIR. Smiths Dictionaries already pub
lished in six youmes-about half of the London price,
Max Muller, the German scholar, and adopted of
Oxford has just brought out work of great ethno-
logical interest, History of Ancient Sanskrt Liter
AZURE 30 far it illustrates the Primitive Religion Of
the Brahmins," l8vo. In all such researches, Prof
Muller the first living authority, and the readers of
Cheyalier Bansens works will remember how he defers
10 the opinion OF his protege, who to him biz in
PRODUCTION and establishment al the English seat of
learning and orthodoxy.
"A great literary curiosity has just been brought to
notice from the most unlikely quarter possible. 1t il
in the words Of the Edinburgh Reviewer " perfect
" authentic, but hitherto unknown fragment of the
Johnsonian Collections" The Diary Of Visit to
England, by an Irish Clergyman" DIR. Thomas Camp
bell in MS, during which he lived in the society Of
the Thrales, DIR. Johnson, Burke, &C., and is men,
toned by Boswell as Irish gentleman who came to
England principally from desire TO see DR.. johnson.
The manuscript Diary sef was accidentally discovered
behind press, in the Office of the Supreme Court Of
New South Wales; and it Is printed at Sydney, edited
by VIM Raymond, an officer Of that Court. The re-
viewer supposes his copy to be the only on this
side the equator" and gives eopious extracts which
wbet ones curiosity for the remainder. In many
Dr. Campbellrepons at length the same conversations