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

House of Lords by Lord Derby and Others on account
Of the financial position of the Government. Until the
result determined no works of moment will be UNDER
taken In this country, the ninth " Life of Abraham
lincoln is lust announced; and it is said that one of
the largest book manufacturing establishments has
been running its presses night and day till they have
worked off $4,000 copies of Life of Douglas, IN
readiness for the approaching campaign.
The Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macau-
law lust edited by Mr. Roberts, derive all their inter
est from the gfmpses they give Of the boyhood OF
Thomas Macaulay. His mother, Miss Mills and her
sisters, succeeded Hannah More in the management OF
her school at Bristol; 50 the connexon was naturally
intimate and his elderly friend seems TO have had
almost prophetic intmation of the youths talents
and career. In 1924, she says: lis Tom bringing out
any more wonders / wish he rich enough to be
in Parliament; he would eclipse them all" At an
other time he writes to her to announce that she Will
soon see a work of his in print: Do not be fright
ened it is only the index TO the 18th volume of The
Christian Observer, which have had the honor of
COMPOSING Still earlier she tells his father how she
bad given him the choice of any book within the limit
of two guineas but that a visit to Hatchards shop
he had been unable TO determine his choice. This is
curious fact; no doubt the indefinite potentially"
las Dr. johnson lnPhtu
too delightful for the greatest reader of his day to be
suddenly terminated
The success of Miss Winkworth's Lyra GermGnica
has led to another attempt to communicate some of the
of German sacred poetry to English readers,
under the name of Lyra Domestica. Mr. Massie has
published selection from the Psaltery and Harp of
c. j. Spitta, one Of the later German hymnologiss,
whose productions are ranked by his countrymen
Il no.
sacred Tyre. The versions full and harmonious,
and the work is beautifully printed and got up by
Messrs. Longmans, who issue it.
A copy of Shakespeare, which is pronounced TO be
UNIQUE will be sold by Messrs Patrick and Simpson, at
London in the month of June, with the library of the
late Thtmas Turner, esq, Of Gloucester 1t is Boy
ders spleI did edition, which in Its normal state forms
nine volumes folo this, in the present instance, is ex
tended by the insertion of upward OF five thousand en-
cravings, original drawings, &c, 10 fortyfve large
folio volumes full bound in morocco and is &" believed
to be the most Observation-Disclosures Shakespeare
ever formed" The late Mr. W. f. Burton was for
many years employed in the accomplishment of SINH
lar object He took the same edition for his ground
work and spared no expense in procuring illustrations
Of all kinds to enrich it, Each play with its illustra
tons fills separate portfolio and the aggregate ii
described in dimensions and value. 1t is preserved by
the family a mementO, and viii not be included in
tie sale of his library to take place in the FALL the
catalogue Of which is now preparing in style worthy
of the collection it describes
The fourth volume Of the great work of Professor
Gevinus History of the Nineteenth Century, 'isjust
completed. 1t includes the periods of the Congresses
Of Troppau, Laybach, and Verona llS20-22), aud
abounds in interesting disclosures respecting the in
tgues of the Holy Alliance, headed by Alexander of
Russia to bring all Europe within the steady and dis
cplined surveillance of the Absolutist Powers Much
light is also thrown the Italian policy Of Metternich
and Austria and the gradual growth of those compi-
cations which have recently met with violent sou-
ton in the Transalpine dominiOns oftbe Hapsburgs.
The Berlin Academy Of Sciences has published an
important essay by Dr. Buschmann apparently supple
mentary to his large work the aboriginal languages
of North America, lately mentioned. it is treatise
on "The Traces of the Aztec Languages in the North
Of Mexico and the North of American" and also An
Examination of the Nations and Languages Of North
eIn Mexico and the Western part OF North America,
from Guadaaxara to the Polar Sea" Perhaps the
most valuable extant COLLECTION of materials this
subject is found in the MS Indian vocabularies col
lected at Washington by the late Prof Turner, and
which We believe, will be included in the sale of his
rich chronological and pathological library, which
at Messrs Bangs, Merwin & Co.'s rooms on
Monday next, May q.
Dr. Stanley, the well-known bographer Of DR..
Arnold and Professor Of Ecclesiastical History at Ok
ford has come out in favor Of the progressive party,
represented by Prof Jewett Baden Powell and others.
He has just pubhshedthrough Messrs Parker two SER
MONS entitled Freedom and Labor preached before
the Uni, eIsity Of Oxford. The freedom of which
Prof Stanley is the eloquent advocate il freedom in the
Church Of England for the expression of opinions not
contradictory TO the creeds Of the Church.
The labor for which he pleads is labor in the Church
Of England for those who cultivate fields of Bibl
ra exegesis Practical latitude for Cburcbmen is the
end desired by the Professor and those who requested
he publication ofthese power1ulsermOns The current
IF Ecclesiastical patronage flows sostrongy in the oppo
tie, or Evangelical channels, that it requires some
moral courage to avow opinions that mus! blast all
present prospect of professional advancement.
Mrs Ellis who probably looks upon all mankind |
IS simply materials for the family relation has in press
Chapters on Wives; or, Sketches OF Married
Women" It IL 10 DC published by NJ. Bentley, who
.lso announces Hunting in the Hmmalayas," by
William r. W. Dunlap brother of the strong-miDded
sisters" Of tourist memory, end a selection from the
ately discovered Eden Papers" comprising private
of many of the leading statesmen and
literary men Of the last century.
AT the first announcement of Miss Stricklands |
new work, "Tbe Bachelor Kings of England" it |
seemed inexplcabe why she should select such an
and heterogeneous trio az William Rufus
Edward w. and Edward W., for biographical deIin-
eatoni but it is accounted for by the fact that their