New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-18
LITERARY

TO the Provincial Glossary Yorkshire for the chanle'
that receives the waste water from the mR-pond."
b The Bi6liotheca Ciassico, published by Mes'rs
Bell & Daldy under the supervision OF schoiars-
mostly of the University Of Cambridge just
10 liz completed authors beautiful edition OF EurPr
des," edited, with an English Commentary ~ e. ~
paIey. Nearly twenty volumes of the series are ou',
Al. eiecsntlv printed, with English notes, &c, by the
most eminent classical scholars and in every respec' up
A. thu highest standard of modern criticism and as such
will shortly supply desderatum felt in every library
OF any pretensiOn.
Mr.. Staunton's long-expec.ed supplement to his
.. PLAYERS Hand Book is just publishing by Mr.
Robu "a the new volume of his Scientific Library for
February under the somewhat affected title OF Stsun
tons Chess Pfaxs." 1t contains all the modern i'm
provements in the openings, revised Code of Chess
Laws, and collection of Mr.. Morphys games in En-
gland and France, critically annotated.
The recent number Of the Edinburgh Review has
long commendatOry article on Professor Rogers
splendid +" Geological Survey OF the State of Pennsy-
vania" contrasting foroiby with the apathy of the
English Government, the enlightened Gberality Of the
State, which has furnished for only one of the Amer
lean coal fields larger Of scientific illustration
than the entire literature of the subject in England
produce.
The famous correspondent of The Times s. G.
o. Nhe Rev. Godolphin OSBORNE, has commenced in
s columns an onslaught the system Of general pub
LEGATION into which the societies originally instituted
for the issuing of religious tracts, &C., are gradually
entering and 80 doing booksellers work, to the in
jury Of the regular trader they bring to the compe
ttion an exchequer enriched by contributions and SUD-
scrptons intended for totally different purposes The
wrong complained Of in England is not unknown here,
and, in fact, has taken entire possession of some
branches of the publishing trade of lucrative ma
tu1e, formerly opeH to general enterprise.
The circulation Of The Saturday Rerier is now
stated (sen-oficialy) at 5000 copies weekly-sppa-
renty Ut very large number, though the booksellers
advertisements of which it has ample share, render
it highly paying property. One of the authors, who
has lately been severely rebuked by it-Mr Winwood
Reade, the author q foolish novel-hss published
reionder atributing the hostile criticism to Mr. Fitz-
James Stephens, in an advertisement marked with
great bad taste and rudeness.
The dublin University Magazine" has changed
hands an will in future be published by Mr. William
Robertson rising bookseller of Dublin. "The Eclec-
tic Review" has taken start In life, under the
care of the Rev. j. Brown Paton graduate Of the
London University, who numbers three ladies among
his array of contributors-BesSie Parkes, Mary How
lit, and Miss Manning. A new French magazine, the
Rsrue Iadendene, has just started under the editor
shin of NJ Gust4ye Mosson published by Mr.. Jefs Of
the Burlington Arcade, London.
"A separate edition is preparing at Edinburgh q
Macaulays biographical contributions to the edi-
ton Of the Encyclopedia Britannica, prefaced by Mr.
Adam Black to whose friendship with the author they
owe their origin.
"A new edition of the exhaustive work of M. Fets
on musical biography and Acknowledgements
Cnirtrsee deS Musciens ct BibLOgrapie generaLe de
Ia Musques preparing by the author for the Messrs
Ddot. II will comprise double the matter of the for
mer impression, forming ten large volumes in octave,
at the not immOderate price of eight francs per volume.
Among the signs of the times in England is the
| issue, by barristerat-law, of series Of illegal
Handy Books, price shilling each, free by post
on receipt of 10 stamps Foremost the list figures
| "The Handy Book of Marriage and Divorce" and
{" Law of Husband and Wife" What would Lord
EIdon ssy2
Authoritarian discoveries Of the highest interest
have lately been made in the Great Desert beyond the
River Jordan, by an English gentleman, C. c. Ora
ham, esq.,, who read paper on thu subject to the
Royal Asatic Society, on january Far to the east
OF the district of the auran and in region unvsited
by any European traveller, he found FIVE ancient
all perfect if the inhabitants had just left
them-the houses retaining the massive stone doors
which are characteristic of the architecture of that
region. One of the cities is remarkable for large
building like castle, built of white sone beautifully
cut. Further eastward, ether places were found
where "every stone covered with Inscriptions in
unknown character, bearing some apparent likeness
10 the Greek alphabet but probably referable lin the
opinion Of Mr.. Graham, to the ancient Hamyaritic
alphabet formerly in use in Southern Arabia. Copies
and impressions OF several inscriptions presented
aud WILL doubt, engage the attention of 0renalists
The late Mr.. Bayle St. John, writer well known
to the American public who died worn out with hters
~ labor, victim TO the and tear of body and
mil D. last August at the early age of thrtysix, has
eft family in unprovided state that fund is
being raised for their support, which should have
claim on the sympathy of all who have derived pleasure
from his writings.
MIR. Thackerays opening paper in No. Of " The
Coinhhl Magazine" Nl Nisi BoHum, has, apropos of
Washington Irving, a very complimentary reference
to Alibones Critical Dictionary of English Authors,
as "a work for the completion of which all persons
connected with literature must be impatient. Mr. Ali
bone IL, we believe, an American merchant, with a
magnificent library, who has devoted his leisure for
years to the completion of this extraordinary bograph
ical photographed and critical work, which, in
pecuDiary sense has not and never can repay him."
-MacaulayaDa of all sorts is in large supply; the
fourth number of MacMan's Magazine contains
real curiosity Of this nature" Macaulay a Boy"
described in 1.-TWO Unpublished Letters of Hannah
More"