New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-22
ton Of Botanical Museum for the Northern Counties

Paul Morpby 10 atayiOg ct the Fifah-aveuus Hotel.
Some games lately contested AZ the Ns~-York Chess
Club with his old Antagonist, Mr. James Thompson, at
the odds Of lbe Knight clearly show that his remark
able chess skill has suffered dminu.on since last
year.
Eleven volumes Of q new and complete edition in
Swedish Of the works of Cooper, the novelist, have
lately appeared at Stockholm.
"A new fever, lately introduced from Europe, is
now rasir among literary d'lettatti Bibiogaph-
ers style Illustrating" single case will illustrate
the pathology of the epidemic. valuable book,
generally in qusrto or royal octave, Is purchased.
List Of all persons and places mentioned in the work Ia
carefully made Autographs and portraits Of the per-
Gems, and engraved views Of the places are then pro-
cured inserted in the proper places and the whole is
aiterwaId elegantly bound. The eDgravings, II too
email, are either "inlsid" or mounted" that is
ehsr set into pasted upon sheets of the size of the
volume. The favorite works for illustration In this
country are those relating to American history The
fifty quarto impressions, printed by Mr. Putnam OF
IIyrp's Washington were nearly all bought for this
pury ose. Upon copy, which We have seen, severd
hundred dollars have already been expended for auto
graph portras and visws and ID Is the intention ofthe
owner 10 90 enlarge with Illustrations as TO sse the
five volumes Of the works into 90 The result OF tns
nrore bas Of course been the establishment OF houses
devoted to tie sale of matter adapted TO the purposes OF
the illustrator. The only matter of regret to the
bblioptile in connection with this subject is the
frequent ruthless destruction Of old books to obtain the
eneravpgs which they contain. NothiDgis more COM
mon than for the purchaser Of some valuable and costly
work 10 find that one portraits have been cut
out undoubtedly for the benefit OF ardent illos
traitor.
DIR. C. Simonides who is engaged in the examina-
tien of the pspyriin tie Egyptian Museum at Liver
pool has discovered six letters written by Hermppus
Eumerides Of BeIytus hitherto, togstber with his
many other wIt gs alluded to by Sudss. supposed TO
have b. en- totally lot They of contemporary date
with Hermippus himself, who was born in the year
"a, and died in 1872, and are addressed TO Horus
Hepbastionides of Alexandra, in reply TO sundry
questions respecting ancient Egyptian herogyphics
and the Kings of Egypt and Ethiopia They will be
Published with as little delay as possible.
DIR. Livingstone, the African traveller, after many
entreaiies, Is to have new steamer to replace the
WORKOUT one, which he has hitherto employed in mis-
explorations The Lords of the Admiralty have just
dispatched from Woolwich, after thorough refting,
her Majesty screw.seam soop Pioneer of $50 horse
the poripg rarity. 1t is to be placed at the com
mapd of DR.. Livingstone Immediately upon its arrival
in the waiersof the Zambesi.
In the southern part of the City of Ningpo in
China occupying building standing in the center OF
beautiful garden, is the private library of the Fan
family. it con,aos according to the catalogue, 1904
works in So 799 klein thin volumes II was founded
by the Yupg family, bnt was subsequently purchased
and greatly augmented by its present possessors
When the Emperor KienbuDg, in IVA, desiring to III
crease the Imperial library, printed catalogue of its
contents and distributed copies Of il among the literary
men of China he requested all who received to send
such works as were not mentioned in it TO Pekin. The
Fan family sent copies Of 696 rare works, for which
they received in return a set of the Ku Kin tn Sha
Tsi Ching, or Reprinted Collection of Rare Works,
of which only few copies were printed comprising
more than 900 volumes and index of los volumes.
The Fan library is accessible only to members OF the
family.
Mr.. Van der Weyde, Professor of the Natural
Sciences at the Cooper Union, has drawn up and
printed new classification of the sciences differing
greatly from those of previous writers. Mr. Van der
Weyde claims to have avoided of the unsatis
factory character of all former schemes those of
such men as Bacon and Leibritz namely the placing
of each science in one division only when most sciences
may properly be clsssed in two or more divisions.
Thus geology is not only positive science but may
aso be classed among the historical sciences, being
narrative Of the formation and growth of the EARTH
Page, the artist, will take a studio in New-York
for the Winter
The printing Of books privately, or In limited edi
TONS is now carried extent in this country which
would have delighted the soul of that most ardent bib
homariac Dib6n. The Seventy-sX Club, the Bradford
Club, Mr.. j. Munsell of Albany Mr. Jauies Lenox of
this city, Mr. j. Carson Brevoort aud Mr.. H. G.. Muir
ply of Brooklyn, Mr.. Riggs of Washington aud Mr.
j. Wimberley Jones of Georgia have all printed D.
pressiGps of valuable historical documents in the
highest style of tie typographical art and confined to
small number of copies for distribution among their
friends and public institutions. Mr.. c. Richardson
now printing on large pager fifty copies of Bancrofts
history, and 100 copies of the Private Diaries of
Washington, from October, 1889, to June, 1872. A
still more important work of the game publisher is
fifty copies of an exact reprint of the Bay Psalm
Book the first work printed within the limits of the
United States. Four copies of the original edition,
printed by Stephen Daye at Cambridge, Massachu-
ctusetp, in 1910 are all that known TO exist AMI
one Of these was recently sold for 1886. Prince, the
antiquarian and chropiclcr of New England, thus
speaks of the book. "By 1886 there come over
thitber thirty learned and pous ministers, edu
Gated in the universities Of England, snd from the
exalted principles Of scripture purity in religious
worship they get themselves to translate the Psalms
and other Scripture Serge into English meter as near
as possible to the inspired original Toey committed
this work especially to the Rev. Mr.. Weld, aud the
Rev John Elliot of Roxbury, well acquainted with
the Hebrew, and the Greek also. They finished the
Psnl1ns in l6An which wore rst nrinted hx Nj Dav