New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-04
4ssiu11ark Daily Gribalt&
LITERARY.

with Child, has been repubhshed In London in .
unique fashion. The publishers say, in PREDATORY
note that all German critics have now arrived at
the conclusion that this strange wild book is rO-
nance snd forgery. Some of the letters are prose
amplifcatons of Goethe own poens-the very rhymes
being retained in the German original"
-" Henry Hudson, the Navigator: The Original
Documents in which bis Career is Recorded CJleetet
partly Translated and Annotated, with an IntrOdnc
ton by G. NJ Asher, LII ID. - lie the title Of volume
lst iesued by the Hakluyt Society the second OF
this years publications. 1t is of the great st interest
10 American readers and TO those Of New York espe
eiay bringing together from various scattered sources
In Dutch Latin, aud English, all the narratives and
fragments that relate 20 this Gstrious navigator for
The frat time The introduction is mastery piece Of
geographical criticism, extending 10 800 pages, In
which the value of the materials collected is discussed
and the true objects and methods Of the voyages
of discovery pointed out Due praise given 10 the
New-YOrk Historical Society, from whose transactions
great assistance has been derived The volume is IL
Illustrated with two beautiful lac sim lee OF Hudsons
maps of bis East and Wett voyages.
Among the books now getting up in England for
the enupg Winter gift feason of the most elegant
and splendid is al edition of Paradise and the Peri
ouarto, esoh page illustrated in the highest style of
decorative enrichment by Owen Jones and Henry
Warren. II will be the finest specimen yet produced
of the art Of chromo-hthography, which admits the
nee of gold a1 cOors in the perfection almos. as
they are fouu IL the ancient medieval vellum illumin-
atilns. essr.. Day & Son Of London are the pub
hsbers.
The veteran traveller, Mr.. ]. G. Kohl. has given
10 the German world fTesh insalment Of his trans-
atlantic experiences in his Reisen an Canada just
issued by Gotta of Stuttgart. IL is devoted TO what
ether people would find common place journey from
New-York TO Montreal, Lower Canada, the Lake.,
Niagara &C., but the spirit of minute observation
which characterizes Mr.. Kohl, finds ample scope
within these narrow bounds aud in HE pictures Of the
French "habitans" of Lower Canada, whom he
found 10 a state, almost Arcadian Of peace, plenty,
and content there IL much TO admire, even if as many
viii suImise This amiable author was largely indebted
to his fancy for the charms of the scenes be met tn
1t is cafe 10 say that few volumes will ever
present the same claims to general favor as those pos
sessed by the Poetical Gift-Book which, under the
name of "Folk Songs" "a Book Of Golden
Poems for the Popular Heart" will shortly
be issued by C. SeIibner. AS an embellished
work, it offers sixty original designs by the most
eminent names of the artistic world including Church,
barley Kensett, Eastman JobnslD and many others,
which form perfect gallery of Characteristic graphic
gems, being each executed amore in illustration
of as many choice poems, beside fac SMILES Of the
autograph originals Of some Of the most famous fng
tive verses in the English language. The selection OF
poetry is very far from being Of the miscellaneous
nature commonly found in books Of like outward
seeming. Every piece is jewel, and the whole Is
intended 10 exemplfy the highest Of poetry 3" in
its mission TO STIR to soothe, TO elevate by bringing
into one focus the scattered rays Of light divine in
which the spirit Of Scg ss invested the nearest and
dearest relations of daily life The editorial care be-
slowed Oh the volume by DR.. j. W. Palmer has been
ably seconded by the unequaled printing OF the River
side Press Mr. Houghton indeed has worked as only
enthusiasts for their art can work, and the book clad
in the morocco investiture of Mahews-stands IN the
front rank of American publishing achievements
"A real literary curiosity has been brought TO light
in the revival Of The Book Of YagabOnds and Beg
CARS. with Vocabulary Of their Language" original
" edited by Martin Luther in 1928 in the most stormy
period Of his fe to warn bis readers against the ar
fees Of this cass of rogues among whom he probably
bad an eye to The begging Fsrs and now translated
and edited by the publisher Mr.. j. Camden Hotten, an
intelligent old bookseller Of London who at one tme
was school teacher in Alabama-like another gentle
1nsn who hes made a in scientific literature Mr.
Gosse of aquarium notoriety, wbO formerly filed the
same position in similar Southern locality. Thirty
distinct orders of yagabOnds enumerated and de-
fcribed in ths graph the most Of which are still
eytapt and fouriehng with the characteristics in
London OF New-YcIk. In pathological point of view
the vocabulary il very curious being earlier by fifty
wears than the slang dictionary OF Hartman, so well
known in Elizabethan literature.
"A new sporting novel by the author Of Handey
Cross" &C. is iust completed" Plain or Ringlets ~
The author Mr. Sartees has quite monopoly OF this
sye Of literature and though IT is not of very high
Glaze Mr. Leech beautiful drawings of young ladies
in an the wteheIes Of modern costume would give
cuTrercy 10 much heavier matter.
Mr. Salisbury Of Stan 0ber, near Chester, has
oOiltcte Welsh library Of nearly 3 600 volumes OF
printed books and being about 10 prepare catalogue
71isonue which viii serve as nearly complete Gym
rc BiboRraphy he is desirous Of receiving any in
formation that may tend to make bs work nore com
plete. 1t s 10 be hoped Welsh scholars in this
country will furuiih him with account of the Welsh
literature printed in America. Two three periodi-
cal, sre cert AMY issued in that language, and We be-
leve il las been employed in other works chiefly of
religious character The request is indorsod by the
Opeens Librarian Mr. II x. Woodward who tsstihes
10 the value Of Mr. Salisbury researches.
Novel readers Of few years standing, whose
memory can outlast the wear and tear OF constant
enccession Of plots and who may recall the pleasure
derived from the perusal Of thst pow sfully written
story. paul Ferroll," may be glad TO know that the
authoress CIV. announces new book, with the sat
isiactory title, why Paul Fe1ol killed his Wife to
be published during the present season by Aessrs'