New-York daily tribune., 1859-08-05

earber ritlngs Whether The political, politlco
rcncal apd historical questions With Which the
thor deals are rightly conceived in all their detas
Of less consequence than his manner Of dealing with
them. With him morality, conscience, human per-
sonsi'y are not glitteriDg genersties, good only
for rhetorical pur poses OccasOns Sunday use be
ms TO show the absolute iptmate rlstions be.
tween them ard policy. They are not abstrac-
tions, but the only real bases of practical liberty.
In late numbers OF the LiJre Rech.roie, periodi-
cal whose title, indicative of free and earnest
thought is pot beli,d by its contenfs, is essay
on The Development cf The Natural SieHcss SINE the
time Of L,ibnitz, by DR.. Louis CroyeiIbier 1t is
coudt nsed aud bret, but full OF facts and orig
inal views, containing the general elements and
leading IDEAS of comprehensive theory of
scientific progress. In the collection is
an excellent memoir on Saint SIMON, where
thst eccentric but powerful nature, stripped OF his
prophets mant e aid accdestal Weaknesses, ap-
pears in his true light as a vigorous, original
thinker. NJ. Jules barm. who has uodertaken
tbe grave labor Of traDslstng all KaDts works has
nearly ready for the press the Crniqm de Ia Raisos
Pure. / cannot end this imperfect list of proofs,
oil Of which are furnished by the press within the
past few months, that the moral aud intellectual
vitality Of FraDce is not all repressed or morbid
without adding the title at least Of the RecSe Ger
moRigae. A considerable portion Of it's pages Is
devoted to philosophical themes and high order
Of literary criticism.
The current literature since the war began has
swelled into very food of occasional poems, pamph
lets tales, biographies, and other actuaties
large part very waiery worthless, and damnabe, "a
a literary point Of yiew-ihe further issue Of which
is happily damned By the peace There are excep-
tons OF the Dumberless letters written from tho
seat of war; the best series for faithful information
and picturesque colOriDg, we're those Of Texir to
the Steele aid Of Achard to the Dfbats. The latter
alr nd 4aA and hlishtI a yol;imp
] think you had some Of them translated for The
TRIBUNE, ard have thus made their quality familiar
to your readers. OF the numerous Gamma ttHt-
oOso the NapOlfon en- Ldlia Of Merry, the Master
man Ready of occasional rersifiers is-well, l
could get through but the first two numbers, and
give you part OF the opportunity they furnished, to
Judge what it is. Here are TIVE lines in the origi-
nal:
De qui voulsi, prepdre seuI vile
Cher, Decaeu, McMabOn. Meilinei dAlolvile!
SO much as specimen Of versifed prose facts; here
are two IN transatiOn:
Frsroe has In her hands ell Africa
And every q here the is her large frontier
that for license and fiction. In the second number,
describing the departure of the troops from Paris,
be writes these lines to which translation cannot
do justice:
On voyait sn svspt pssser les c1onels
Ayec leurs yeuA oe famine ct eurs airs paternels
Et.ur lie Boulevard, devant le cafe Richie,
How much better or worse the verses became in
the succeeding numbers / never shall be able to
tell The work was to have been continued as
serial for twenty weeks, and to describe all the
deeds and gloJies of the war. Subscribers and
author were taken in and done for by the peace.
The much more poetical Geo. Sand saved the
" actuaIity" of a little t1arm-heaaed pamphlet all
about Garibaldi By publishing it on the Fourth of
July, TIE bero's birthday. With suspicious read.
inets, that NspoleoDized legitlmist got out pam
phlet on the drwiStice almost as that event
was announced; 1T was published ''as it were to-
day." but the peace came as itsyere Tomorrow,
before any one bad time to read It.
Another actualite is or was la Grande halienne,
by Amedee Renee. 1t is not history, but po-
litical pamphlet, the drift of which is to argue
against the Austrian c,im of precedence to rule 10
Italy, from Mathilda of Tuscaoy, her union with
Pope Gregory VII. in resistance to Henry w.,
Emperor Of Germany. There is nothing more note
worthy in the book, TO judge from the authors own
preface than its title, contributed by the Emperor
Napoleon (wbO coDdescen Ted 10 hear some pages OF
it Iead) as a substitute for 90 Mxthilde de TOscane"
ard bard looking portrait of the lady, engraved
from a design by Imperial Princess Mathide, whe
NJ. Renee represents as sympathetic admrer OF
ber ancient namesake-perhspe because the Great
Matbllda lived separate from her husband; where
upon hard stories were told of ber-which are not
true.
Those who are not quite wesred with Overmuch
talk about the ZUuaves, and would Ike to know
what these most effective of French soldiers really
are, will find the Information they seek 10 the SOnc
snirs dan Officer du 2ms dc ZoxartS. 1t gives the
history of the ID Regiment, from its origin IN
Algeria, through all It's campaigns IN Africa and
the CIimea auo Algeria again, up to August, 1891.
1t is q modest little book, written from soldiers
not hterateur's point Of view; in spite OF tecbn-
calities and Duurberless unintelbgibe Arab words,
q rather entertaining one. Its author, Gen. Cler,
Was killed at Magenta.
A Histoirt de STINT Just, by Ernest Hamel, is a
laborious attempt to wnten the black reputation OF
that Terrorist. 1t only proves what was known be-
fore, that Saint just was very nid and anlabe IN
hls private life, ard does not prove, as tue author
would have it, that one feathers weight should be
raised from the heavy condemnation uDder which
the me 1nory of the public man rests. MIR. Hamel
would hardly excuse the fn,tbessness and tyranny
of Charles !. of England, because be was 90 an in-
"duleent parent, tender husband" etc. The
late wretcbed king, BY Divine wrath, of the two
Siciles. was quite model OF the domestic vrtues
a very nice family man, but a scOurge to millions.
Essois sur i6 Gtaie de Padare ct sur la Poesie
lyrqae dams RaPpoJts arec FEieration morale et
Teiieituse des Peupes, from the classic pen OF VII
lemaip; DeS Bohemitas tt de ieRr Musique en- Hon
srie by an author singularly ht to his subject,
Franz Llszt: Hisoire Poitique de la Rerotution dc
Hongr,f 1si7-loi9, by Dan. lran!i and Charles
Louls Chspn: Rachel uae Historic Lombdrde de
ls4s, by Your sometime correspondent, the Pm
cess Btqiojoso; Nile. Na,iani, novel, and hve
short tales under the cole cSe title oi Rsnans Pa
ris,ens, by ArseDe Houssaye, are among the most
nctew oItby books of recent date
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