New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-31

y rs,,;,s nv A seemingly conscientious behever
~ tho Incredible, who signs himself Allan karaec,
which TREATS of the principles of the spirIis'
:. doctrnes on the Immortality, the nature OF SPY 90
9. and their relation with man. the moral IA" q the
- nresepi and future life, and the future o. haani-
ty according ~ the teaching gwen W eeSuperior
:. Shirts with the aid Of several Med.mms" OF
moro serious worth 10 the volume of N. Alfred
Many entitled La Magic ct rAs,oyogie dams
du,;ouiV ct au Moyen Age-E. agic and Astrology
IN Anfmity and The Middle ses, or Studies of the
Pagan Snperstitions witch have been per-
petuated up to the present time. Since
have not space 20 present extracts from,
or never so imperfect analysis OF thus
curious, instructive, agreeable work, L shall pest
briefly Indicate its threefOld merits by saying OF the
author that he is an erudite arch@OlOgist, an In
gcnious but not fancifll philosopher and an elegant
writer. The third and last volume OF Louis
Fieuier's Historic du Merreiiteuz dams les temps
! Modsrnes il entirely cOnsecrated to animal mag
netsm giving the history and criticism oil its deVe-
| opments from and before the time OF Mesmer up 10
| the present day. NJ. Figuier does not regard AMI
NAL magnetism as all humbug; but what OF its phe-
nomena are not humbug, should find their explana-
ton in HypnOtism. NJ flguler, apart rom =.
frankly pronounced hostility to the supernatural IN
nature is sngularly free from prejudice. This con-
| Guiding volume contains an account OF Mesmer, MS
cOtemporaries, predecessors and followers, which,
on the historical side at least is impartial and sl-
GENTLY detailed to satisfy the curiosity OF any
rational general reader" :,
lie Cantique des Cantigues, by the distinguished
phlOlOgist and elegant critic, Ernest Keenan, pre-
ceded as was his translation of JOB, by remarka-
bic essay on the plan, age, and character OF the
poem, which was not originally Solomon's, nor
song. but a sort of DRAMA where that monarch nils
the role not of wise king and still less pious one
In the second of the two TRANSACTIONS, in this vol
ume the poem is restored to its dramatic form, with
| "stage directions "-as Mr. Renan cOnJectures IL
| NAV have been performed, simple little play IN
honor of true love- as part of the entertainments
at old Hebrew marriage feasts. severe critic IN
the last number of the Correspondent says that NJ
Renan has taken his theory, and his learned argu-
| ments in its Defense from infde German philolo-
gists. Whether the charge be well founded or not,
| It cannot be denied that Mr.. Renan, who seems to
be erich enough to steal, makes elegant use OF hls
stores of eruditiOn, however come by.
La Betise Humane is one Of the cleverest books
of the season. It's author, NJ. Jules Noriac, pro-
posed to himself two aims-frst, to amuse his read
ers for two or three hours: secondly, to satirize
some of the cOmmOnest and s0lemnest fOlles OF go
ciety. He has successfully attained both In his
lively narration of the adventures of Master Eusebe
Martini young man OF sound common sense and
right feeling, utterly ignorant and innocent OF the
ways of the world, whom singular old doubling
philosopher of father has let grow, not educated
to the age of twenty-One, and now sends into the
highly polished pOliced, artificial world of Paris
After having served for two years as foil to set OH
the foes of its conventional and statute laws, our
poor natural man grows aweary OF its fasitles, and
longs to get back and see the dog and big Caty the
bonnie, and his kind old doubling father, who sent
him out on this hopeless search after what is defni
lively real and true, and right, and good. And in
an auberge where he stops night on that rather
melancholy journey home, he finds greasy Ii tie
book in his chamber, and he sits up half the night
to read it. "Why, here is the real, and true, and
"good, that have been so wide and rough way
" in search Of these two long years" And in the
morning he pays without question twenty francs to
the astOnished hostess for this dirty copy of the
New Testament, and hastens on to tell about it to
his father.
STILL La Betise Humane ia not exactly book
for Sunday schools. There is love story in it,
and it is French.
Among the noticeable books published in Paris
since last April are: Les Paradis Artlfeiets, the
anatomy of opium and hasheesh drunkenness by
Charles Baudelaire, the admirer of De Quincy, the
sympathetic translator of Edgar Poe, and author
Of volume of singular original poems, entitled
Heurs du NAL Leitres sur les afaires d'hatie, by
i. c. Farini, volume made up of translations of
various letters of the patriot Italian statesmen,
dating from 1S49 to 1852 and originally addressed
to Mr. Gladstone and other English statesmen, and
to the editor of periodical published at Turn-an
extremely interesting and valuable contribution to
the history of the Italian question before the war.
Reeits de FHistoire Romano Y. Steele, 8yo., by
AmedGe Thierry; and the fourth volume of Napo-
Icons correspondence which includes the campaign
of Egypt.