New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-10

-Mefsrs. Brown, laggaId ~ Nnhse Oh DosS"n ~
about emplo,p the csSic Riverside Press OF Mr.
HouQhton in the production of an elegant library edi
ton Of "Caryles Msceanies SURPRISING In style ana
woikmanship any Englith edition. There is an In
herep, propriety in this as the collection OF these hS
saw the light at Boston more than twenty years ago,
and English edition ventared on TIL large sale
in America had justified the undertaking.
MIR. VIM Veazie ia following up bis highly success
full series from the press just spoken Of by library
edition of Soutbeys doctor" in several volumes.
Tbia will at once commend itself TO readers in prefer
ence to LonRmsn's edition, condensed in squat oe-
tayo, with fine print in double columns-a shape well
enough for dictionary but quite out Of character In
a. louDgiDg book like the Immortal Doctor"
The fret appearance Of Mr.. Ruslin in the periodi-
cal press is TO be made in No. of the "Cornb Maya
zine" He will have the company Of Mr.. Herman
Mervale Under Secretary for the CoIonies, who fur
nshes an article of interesting details respecting Lord
MacauIay and the Junius controversy, and of Miss
Adelaide Proctor who contributes new lyric, while
the editor continues "The Roundabout Papers"
-Dr.wor,ester's New English Dictionary" has met
with a careful critic in The London Literary Gazette,
who, guided by wel.understood principles, says that
Z" the conditions of a good dictionary have been COM
that be has risen from the task of examination with
feelings Of no ordinary satisfaction the result and
admiration Of the care, scholarship, philosophical
method and honest fidelity, of which this noble work
bears the impress ON every page Il is issued to the
London market by Messrs Low, Son 81 Co., at II
Ill, Cd, the same price that ii sells for here.
The anticipation hastily formed Of series OF
Macaulays Juvenile Productions, mentioned In our
last is rudely rebuffed by letter from the SOLICITORS
70 the executors and trustees of the family, to the
effect that the so called Old Album was amanu'ciP
belonoiuo TO member of his Lordships family, which
bad got, by mistake, out OF the hands OF tue nsn'
owner. who has now reclaimed it, and has no inten-
ton of publishing any of it's contents which have not
already seen u light, and will take legal steps to pre-
vents its being done by any other parties
Some fresh gleaDipgs ere to be made by Mr.. Fair
holt fl ON the famous collection Of Old English Bal
lads formed by Pepys and preserved with bis books
&c. at Sagdalen College, Cambridge. 1t has already
been drawn upon by most of the published ballad col
lectiops from The day of Percy to thepresent but prob
ably tt contains virgin matter Of interest, OF which
there is no better judge than Mr.. Fairholt.
Sir Charles Bell was prophet, and promulgatOr
of physiological truths who has found no honor in his
own country, though in France an elaborate memoir
of lis Life and Discoveries has been written BY M.
Amed6e Pichot. An English translation, by Mr. j. w.
Cole, is announced by MIR. Bentley.
Among the number of English reprints it is strange
that j. G. Kohls book" Wanderings round Lake
Superior has not met with an American publisher.
His experiences among the Red Indians were thorough
and peculiar. He first planted himself on little
iilsnd of Lake Superior ('' KitchGama y, where he
was surrounded by Ojibbeways, and then-and at a
later periodby trave its shores, he has smassed
quantity of information the Picture Writing the
Traditions, and the Religion Of the Indians, which
leaves few points of interest unelucidated. He men,
tons incidentally curious fact that there are said to
be several factories in Jersey City where Wsmpum
shells are prepared for the Western Indians principally
by German workmen" This parallels the well-known
Birmingham manufacture of Hindoo idols.
DIR. Dorans new work in continuation of the
series of Regal Biographies by Miss Strickland, Mrs.
Green &c is entitled Lives of the Princes of Wales
from Edward of Carnarvon to Albert of Windsor" so
as to include the Heir Apparent. 1t will form several
volumes.
"A literary gentleman, Mr.. Kenneth Mackenzie
announces that be is engaged upon history of the
English Hornbook," and requests the communica-
ion Of any extant specimens az their rarity is very
great. A kindred subject, the old New-England
Primer" has already engaged the attention of anti
quarians this side of the water IL questionable
whether any specimen of the more ancient Horn
book lie preserved among
The cooperation of American scholars in the new
English Dictionary of the Pathological Society" has
been less than was looked for only about 40 authors
being chosen for examination in accordance with the
plan of the Society," in the United States. The work is
nevertheless progressing its publication will proba
bly, make a commencement in about two years from
the present time.
in their congratulations on the expansion of bust
nefs by the removal of the excise tax paper the
English manufacturers at FL st overlooked the fact that
protective duty imported paper to the same amount
would be abolished with it, and that they will
quently have TO face active competition from Hol-
land and other parts of the continent particularly in
the thin writing papers in which the French makers
have always had superiority.
"A collection of old manuscripts and books on
Freemasonry, Magic, Mesmeiism, Miracles, and
occult learning generally, is announced for sale
in Paris, and will attract the notice of curious
colectors In Lone on, this branch of scence ia made
a specialize by one bookseller Mr.. George Bum
stead of Holborn, who has recently issued a cata-
logue of about $50 different works, devoted to the
various ramifeatons of the Black Art. The many
curious and interesting facts that may be developed by
the study of this obscure page of the human mind
well illustrated in the paper on "Witchcraft in New
Erglsnd," read before the NewYork Historical So
ceiy, at its lsst meeting by the Rev. j. II. Hopkins
which wss the fruit of long and careful research among
original documents and contemporary testimony.
The difficulties of establishing a new Quarterly
Review seem almost insurmountable. Only year