New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-17

accepts the horn Of the dilemma which impeaches
bis critical ssgscy and eiterates his assurances that
lie bad no pcity in the seres of forgeres so pro-
ourced by the best udges that he has been unfortu
na,ey brought in contact with. laborei article in
tie came periodical attemptsto show that the exposure
was dictated by peronsl feeling against Mr.. Collier
entertained by the officials Of the British Museum, but
with signal want Of success The only two points esab
ht by the defense are that proved that an ammo
tsted Folio Shakespeare was in Mr.. Todds pos
session by gentleman DIR. Wellesley, which is proba-
bly, the much discussed copy purchased by Mr. Collier
and that the forged Petition of the Players In the
State Paper Office existed there before Mr. Z. began
his researches. Amy evidence tending to relieve a
man of irreproachable character from dark stigma,
will be gladly welcomed and the position of victim
is undoubtedly preferable TO that Of an accomplish.
"The Fascination of Forgery is fine theme for psy-
cholopss to explain and in the presence Of such IN
doubted evidence of its resuts-occuring 10 the most
uDsufpected places-a wholesome skeptcism is the
soundest frame Of mind to entertain, particularly as we
zee announced a new fnd' of Shakespeare docu-
ments in the Rolls Chapel the unmpe Achable authority
of which is of course guaranteed by the newspapers
The original manuscript Letter. of Junius, 80 far as
they have been preserved in the Woodan family have
recently been offered TO tho British Government by
Mr. H. ID. Woodlall for f5OO-by means an exor-
bitant price.
The authorizes of I" Adam Bede" is paying the
penalty of sudden grestness, and the respectable
portion of the munity in England are shaking their
heads in Anticipation at her new work, "The Mil on
the Floss" The scrutiny to which popular authors are
exposed has placed her name in an equyocaI connec
ton with that Of the well known, versatile writer,
Geo Henry Lewes, the bographer Of Goethe, and his
torsn of Philosophy whose late researches in Phys
iology show him to be as much at home among
"ZoUpbytes" as he formerly was with "Zeno " or
"Zenoeries." The vanity of the gentleman is said to
have given currency to the rumors on the subject now
shoat in London society
Lord Dundonsld's " Autobiography of Seaman"
IL announced for republication by Messrs Appleton
Co. Though an expensive book Ids. sterling, and
vet incomplete 5000 copies of volumes have been sold
in England
Mr.. Charles Reade author of Never Too Lsteto
Mend" &c. is nduleDg in public yagaries that moth
iro short of minor novelist estimation of his own in
poltaIce can justify. He takes up the cudgels 30
warmly for the welabused book, published in the name
Of a nephew, as to cause reasonable superstition
that this said relative is PRESERVATION like the
"Phlo Junius" of the great letter-wJiterl formed
for giving currency TO matter that the expe-
rienced author might have occasion to dsclaim.
After violent attack the presumed writer of crit
cismi in The Saturday Rerier in which the least How
ers of rhetoric are vain Ounce who is alec a snob,"
"wrers who have the i'll luck to be conceited, well
"as obscure" &c, finding that the real writer is unwi
ling to claim publicly his share in such compliments, Mr.
Reade issues an advertisement: Fire Pounds Re
rard-Mr. Charles Reade will give the above re-
ward to any one who will detect and discover to
bin the writer Of the last cowardy attack him, in
The Saturday Reviep viz: in an article on Liberty
Hall "a pleasant notion of the Liberty OF the Press,
10 be realized in a literary community.