New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-15

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lars respecting the plot circumstances oil
&C. "a may have escaped tue ravsge' oil uuo. M
tfers to tho aulbors, and valds'lo
ny o, which Mr.. Halliwsn expreeses his oblgs
-, :. r,b,i.ber Mr. John Russell Smith Is given Of
Tho of all the modern reprinted collections OF
ola Froli,h dramas and authors by witch At e'auc'
CON he seep what is accessible 10 the reader through or
| Al, ary chsppes, and where. Dir. Hall"ells crest
folio edition of Shakespeare is proceeding with as much
regularity ar uld be expected work of that mag
Nude. Volrmes / to TX are published, aud copy
occurs in Mr. Burtons library, including the right to
the remainder Of the work
Mr. Charles Reade, that pertiaao'u, denouncsr OF
all infripgemens bis rights real or fancied gives in
his Few work, "The Eighth Commandment, many
curious literary statiStcs of remuneration TO author',
and similar matters, which will very likely be qdoted
ard transferred on his authority to more up,raut
works 1t lie to be feared that most them Are OF very
untrusworihy description, if the following sentence
from note Of Mr.. Reades to the editor OF The Liter
arg Gazette printed in the number for August % is
sample Of bis qualifications for historian Of j era
uIe "John Mil on did not give away Paradise Loot.
He sold it for Go, TO show his contempt for money,
says CantiDg Camden. Because TInton ould MT
give bin any more ssy common sense and L. Sarely
Macsulay's hypothetical "SchooIboy" might have
known that PaIadi.e Lost was sold to Samuel Sim
mom 1861 for E5 down. and a prospective pay
ment Of the sane amount If the sale exceeded 800
COPIES as there is scarcely biog aphcd fc that has
been ofiener repeated.
The volume Of Essay and Reviews by Profs
Jouett Baden Powell and othe1s which has attracted
80 much attention since its recent publication in En-
gland is Iow in press and will be Issued shortly by
Mes.rs. Walker, Vie, & Co. of Boston, with the
a6dilioIa al title, Recent Inquiries in Theology by
Epgish Churchmen,' edi ed, with an Introduction, by
the Rev. F. ii. Hedge, ID. d. who Justly remarks:
"Theso Essays have value distinct from aud raas-
ceDoiDg that of the speeolatioDs conclusions they
e1b,dy. They represent new era in Anglican
theology. The topics here discussed handled with
frsDkness, breactb, and spiritual heroism long
unknown to ecclesiasticai England"
The fret attempt at a satisfactory biography of the
area, Itslsn Reform er before the Reformation" Gil
roland Savonaroa, the world-famous Prior of St.
Marco, at Florence, has been made by Prof Pssqual
yilOr whose first volume of The Story Of Savona-
role and his Times related wi the Assistance ofnsw
Documents bas just appeared at Florence, COM
ing down to 1897. Among other new facts it
brings out in striking light the intense de-
votion of SavoDsrCls to the study of the
Scriptures. Two copies Of the Bible yet extant in
the Florentine libraries, entirely filed with marginal
notes, written by the great Friars own hand in
almost microscopic characters with continual abbre-
via ons to be scarcely ineligible to the most
csrt full stuoy, aided by msgifyipg glass. This
Of commentaries made merely 10 assist him in his
sermops ard illustrate the of each important
pessage in four significsions" Spiritual moral ALE
gorics and anaeogical" So much interest has b sen
excited by the bringing forward Of tbis fact that
English gentleman resident at Florence has employed
sr Italian copy to make transcript Of the notes Of
Say, nsros in ole Of these copieabat of the Basel
Billie printed in 1891 in the Magabecchsn Library.
They I'm 753 pages in folio, and have been offered to
one of the English Universities to he published under
their sanction, either in the original Latin, in
English translation.
Mr.. L. G.. Squier 10 pursuing with charac, ristic
energy Lis plan for the publication of collection of
"RaTe and Original Documents concerning the Die
coyeIy ard Conquest Of America" a prospectus Just
isped details he intention of the SERIES and gives tho
titles Of several Of the works proposed to be printed in
II. No. l. now ready, contains description of the
ancient provinces Of Guasacapan, Izalco, Cuscatan,
and Cbiluinula, with on account Of the languages,
customs, and religion of their aboriginal inhabitants,
ard description Of the ruins Of COpsu by Don Diego
dc Paaco, addressed TO the King Of Spain, in 1876.
TIE orig al Spanhh given with translation, notes,
ard I'D illustrated map. 1t il the earliest account in
exstenoe Of the ruins Of Colan, which visited by
Pascio within forty years of the conquest, who found
them very nearly in their present condition. His OBJ
eervaiious on The Indians, their languages, manners
and customs are very full and exact. Earlyappli,a
ton lie necessary TO secure the volume as not more
than 80 copies will he printed Of any Of the series aud
the larger portion Of these already engaged for
Germany, Cuba sc. DIR. Charles b. Norton lie the
business agent.
1.-THE Archer ard the Steppe; Or, The Empires of
Scy this: History of Ruesia and Tarsry from the
earliest Ages to the Fall Of the McneO Power in Eu-
rope in the Middle of the Sixteenth Century il the
title Of work announced by Mr.. James Lakewood,
which promises TO Ell void in English libraries.
The specmen.pates of the ilustations of the tray
ep of the brothers Schlsgintwet in India and Central
AHA which have reached us are wonderfully accurate
reproductions of the original aquerrlles by Hermann
Schlaenweit. The awful and de,olae grandeur of the
icy peaks Of tie Iiualaysss presented with surprising
fidelity sno force. TIE Illustrations printed in oil
by storch and Kramer, of Berlin, who have made
Themselves name in this new aud rapidly progressing
depar ment Of printing Some of their smsller prnts
notably thoFe in M0lhausen's TageJuch eiaer REESE
rom Mississippi mach den ka,ter der Sadsee, approx
innate very closely to fine oil-paintDgs.
The Cott0'scfe Buchhandiung at Stuttgart is issu-
irg an EDITION of Scb!ler's poems, az part of the
Schiller Festival which promises surpass all previous
attempts at the adoinment of BIZ. works 1t will con-
sist of about 600 large qua'to pages Of text with six
teen fullpsge Photographic Illustrations and twenty