The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-02-04
FOREIGN LITERARY NEWS

- rohElUN LITERARY NEWS.
The new edition of Trubner's BibLiograpkieaL
GUIDE to American Literature is at present attract
ing extended and favorable notice from the
nrst and most critical reviews in Europe. Trub-
ners Is the first foreign book store in England; and
1t is only among the greatest scholars of Germany
among its Bopps and Grimms, that we can find
phiologists Of such extraordinary acumen and
erudltion as are displayed in his researches into
the languages and antiquities of Central America
The young lady mentioned by Lowell who won a
mans heart by talking ancient Mexican to him.
might have found her match in Trubner. His work
on American Literature embraces firstly proIe
gomena, giving an account of other bibliographies
on the same subject; periodicals, catalogues and
buyers hand books; followed by a very complete
history OF literature, printing, authors pay, Hthe
9 oo3k trade, newspapers typography paper making
count OF the public libraries and a classed list OF
books, with complete index. This work is said
TO be the first attempt made to classify all in
formation extant relative to American literature
after the standard and manner of Brunei, Lowndes,
and Ebert 1t will be useful to the book seller or
auctioneer as to the scholar.
An extraordinary excitement has been caused in
certain Russian and other circles in Paris and Lon
don, by The Memoirs of Cdthdrine recently OBJ
tanned by some singular hocus pocus from the I'm
perial archives. Though the book is only very
small unbound duodecmo, published by Trubner,
at the high price of nearly two dollars, almost two
thousand copies were sold in a few days. We can
only characterize it in the words of a reviewer
"ccst IN trre terrible"
hHiou lue OI MI. Bent
ley of London, three books affordng entertain
ment OF avery racy sort. Lady Morgan at last pre-
sents us with passages from her autobiography,
and photographs for us cf all the celebrities of her
time; among others the Duchess of Devonshire
Lady Caroline Lamb, Lady Cork Humboldt Cuvier
Lafayette, &c, some of whose letters give addi-
tlonal attraction to this welcome volume Ano-
ther book of interest is diary kept during the
great French Revolution by that well known and
eXquisitely beautiful woman, Mrs. Darymple
Elliott, now first printed from the original man
uscript, written at the desire of his Majesty,
George III. This very extraordinary book is en-
6elliShed by engravings of the authoress OF her
daughter as well as of the Duke of Orleans. from
original pictures by Conway, Gainsborough &c
The other book is the last journals of Horace Wal
pole, now first published from the original MSS
Just as they were written, with the fresh details of
all the secret proceedings of the Court and with
anecdotes of all the political and literary charac-
ters of the time.
All sorts of literary and artistica publications.
we near from Germany announce the approach of
the centenary jubilee of Scher's birthday. Cot
ta the Stuttgart publisher has issued the LONG
expected critical edition of Schiller's complete
works A new life of Schiller, by Herr Emil Pal
eSke, has begun to appear, and other works on the
same subject by Johannes Scherr, and illustrated
by the first German artists, is announced. .-PRTa,
BR