New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-26

careers form the only gapH In her series OF Queeny
lives, which, when completed BY the prcscnt under.
taking, will embrace complete aud uninterrupted
body Of English history from the Conquest to the Rev
olution.
The great scientific inventions of the day often
conflict euriously with established rights and laws.
This is exempied by the change imperatively demand
ed in the law Of copyright in England. The introduce
ton Of Photographic multpicaiions Of paintings and
eneravings has rendered the existing statutes almos,
useless so far the original production of the artist
il concerned, while the vested rights of the publisher
are reduced 10 most anomalous stateit being mat
ter of doubt whether he can by law recover damages
against the piratical photographer who may issue
copies Of his productions The question il brought be-
fore tie English Government by the Society OF Arts.
"A fac-simile edition Of Tyndae's Testament ac-
curately traced and reproduced from the unique orig
ina copy in the library of the Baptist College at Bris
tol, is preparing by Mr.. Fry we-known hblio-
crapher of that city, who viii be happy to receive
subscriptions for copies to defay in part the expense
few copies will be printed on large paper, and two
on yellum Lithography will be the medium of repro
duction of the volume, whose history is well known
1t is the only perfect copy existing of the English les
mept printed at Wurms in 1926 by William Tyndale,
the Reformer and martyr, which was formerly the.
chief ornament of the Harlcian Library, and passed
through various hands, till bequeathed 10 its pres
ent position by DR.. Andrew Clifford, in 1874. No
modern research has succeeded in finding another
perfect copy.
DIR. Beke, the Abyssinian traveller, has in press to
| be published by Mr.. Madden, "The Sources of the
Nile, being general Survey of the Basin Of that River
and it's head Streams with the History of Notic Dis
covery" 1t would seem, through the explorations Of
Caps. Burton and Speke that the solution OF this ge-
ographca mystery cannot much longer be delayed but
controversy has seized it, and made party cues
ton of what should be purely scientific one. The
work will undoubtedly be valuable contribution to
the history of geographical discovery.
Lord Carlisles poeca version Of the Book of Dan
iel has been followed by similar attempt JOB by
the Earl of Winchelsea who made himself ridiculous
| when Viscount Maidstone by like indiscretons of a
less assuming character. The noble translator apollo
gizes Tor bis ignorance of the local colOing Of the
East" and without reason, as a single specimen
from the description of the Patrarchs restoration to
prosperity will show:
| And in all the land for beauty
| And wealth beyond compare,
| Soashionaby fair"
The whole Book is rendered in the same John
Gilpin meter
An elegant edition of the collected works of NJ.
Arne Houssaye is in of publication az Paris.
TIE two volumes issued include IL R0i VOltdire,
! Ma7emOiscle de Ia Valerie, and Madame de
Moatespan. They beautifully got mp, and Illus
traed with sng1ayipgs and fac-similes. lIoussayc's
spirited and graphic sketches of the last century Phi
losophers and Actresses had many readers in this
country, when translated few years since, but critics
complain that the fecundty of bis pen is out of pro-
portion to the real value of his productions