The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-27
Literary News.

ION IRVING" edited by his literary executor,
PIERRE M. IRVING. The work will consist
If three duodecimo volumes. PUTNAM has
.lso in press new edition of "Salmagundi,'
edited with notes, by EvERT A. DUCK
NICK.
In its notice of the late j. X. PAULD1NG,
the New York Tribune says:
TO gentleman who visited him at the
age of seventy-fve, he stated that he had
been in the city but twice for ten years
and gave his daily routine in the following
description 81 smoke little, read little,
write little, ruminate little, grumble
little, and sleep great deal. l was once
great at pulling up weeds, to which have
mortal antipathy, especially bulls eyes, wild
carrots, and toad flax alias butter and eggs.
But my working days are almost over. |
find that carrying seventy-fve years on my
shoulders is pretty nearly equal to the same
number of pounds, and instead of laboring
myself, sit in the shade watching the labors
of others, which find quite sufficient exer-
cise"
NEwsrEAD abbey, the venerable home of
Lord BYRON, is to be sold by auction next
June, to settle the estate of Col. WILDMAN,
its last owner. The domain contains about
three thousand two hundred and twenty>six
acres, of which the park, enclosed by stone
wall, occupies about eight hundred and eigh-
ty.one acres the woods and plantati ms
within the park are about one hundred and
ninety>six acres, and without the park about
six hundred and eighteen acres and stored
with game of every description and the ex
tensive lakes, together about forty eight
acres, are well stocked with fish, and abound
with wild fowl. The advertisement of the
property says:
As it is matter of history familiar to the pub.
lie, it is needless to comment on the interest OF
Newstead, from its foundation by Henry II to
the dissolution of the abbey, when it became
by royal grant the property of the ByrOns. and
descended to the immortal poet, the friend and
schoolfellow of the late Col Thos. WiIdman,
who purchased the property in 1918.
NJ. THEIRS has just sent to his publishers
the last sheet of the seventh volume of his
History of the Consulate and the Empire.
This volume concludes with the abdication
of FoNTA1NEBLEAU. 1t is said that the
"History of the Hundred Days. will form
the subject of the eighteenth and last vol
ume.
The readers of "Adam Bede' will be glad
to hear that Miss EVANS new story, ''rhe
Mill on the Floss" is far advanced towards
publication. One Of the privileged few who
have read it pronounce the opinion that the
story is an improvement on its predecessor.
A NEW Grammar of the Chinese language
is about to appear in England.
A MANUSCRIPT history of the Gospel in
the Celtic tongue, has recently been dscov-
cred in northern Scotland.
Messrs. DERBY e. JACKSON have published,
in continuation of their series of standard
French literature, PAsHAL's Works, includ.
ing his celebrated "Provincal Letters" and
VoLTAIRE's "Charles KILL" with life of
the author and an essay on his genius and
character, by MACAULAY and CARLYLE.
From the same press comes The Concord
of Ages" by EDWARD BEECHsR, being the
sequel or rather the complement of the work
called "The Conflict of Ages" in which the
author, some time since, developed his new
theory concerning the origin of evil.
The demand of MICHELEr's La Femme, is
UtdIly CQunl W Guot VI us PlCOCSCooOl
Some eight thousand copies have been sold,
and the demand is increasing.
GERMAN novelsts, in the choice of their
subjects, take liberties all but unknown in
this country. A certain HERBERT RAU
has made MOZART the subject of an cart
novel;" which was received with acceptance
and reached second edition. But scarcely
is the illustrious HUMBOLDT cold in bis
| grave, when the same writer uses the great
savant's name as the title of a fiction, with
the high sounding addition of "Culturhistor-
isch- biographischer," "a novel of the bio
graphy and history of culture.
Hon. G. p. MARSH has consented to edit
an American edition of HENsL1GH WEDGE
WOODS celebrated work on Etymology, now
published in London. The work will be
issued by SHELDON & Co., New York.
Hon. JOHN P. KENNEDY, author of
"Horse Shoe Robinson" "Swallow Barn."
&C., is soon to appear in the "Atlantlc
Monthly" with a new romance.
IT is rumored that Mr.. THAcKERAY is
writing History of the Reign of Queen
ANNE"
The first literary journal ever published
was issued at Paris, on the Goth of May
1866 by DENNIS DE SALLo, ecclesiastical
counsellor to the Partisan Parliament. Its
title is Journal des SaUans. The work met
with a favorable reception, and was soon
initiated throughout Europe. Its author
had the qualification of seeing it translated
into several languages.
NJ. ALEXANDER DUMAS has produced the
first part of what purports to be transla.
ton of an Autobiography of HORACE, dis
covered by M. DUMAS in the Library of the
Vatican. The opening portions are de.
scriptive of HoRACE's boyhood-his first
visit to Rome, and his being placed by his
father under the care of Orbilius the Flog-
ger.
The Rome correspondent of the New
York Times, in speaking of the Philoso-
phy of the Plan Of Salvation" a work writ.
ten by Rev. j. B. WALKER, pastor of the
Congregational Church, Sandusky City
says:
"This remarkable work has produced no less
effect here than in other parts of the world, AND
is greatly valued by the religious teachers OF
the new movement in Italy, for its clear analy'
sis and powerful logic"
The work has been translated into seve
raj foreign languages, and has attained