New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-28
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ton" will shortly DO published by Sheldon " Go. Hn
the furnished by him TO the new edition Of tbs
Encyclopaedia Brstenn,ea, in return for which tho
paoJIsne,s present. him with copy Of shat great ma
tionsl work now Just reaching completion IN is reyised
form. Messrs Sheldon & Co.'S Spring list iocludes
other announcements Of promise, as new juvenile
ssriss on American BissoTy, BY Jacob Abbott, to
FORM In twelve volumes, an outline OF evep on this
conrinsn. hom aboriginal tines to the adoption Of tbs
FEDERAL Constitution also reprints OF Caryles Life
OF Schiller" Milmsns III dn Christianity" Hagen
bacb's History OF Doctrines" edited by Prot. H. Is.
Smith and new trsnslstioa Of Eesnders Planting
end Trsining Of the Christian Church, by Prof T. G..
Robinson If Rochester theological Seminary.
"A very remarksbls fact comes out in connection
with the volume of Lord Broughams Mathematical
and Physical Tfacts," just published BY Msssr'.
Griffin Que of the papers, on the subject OF Light
and Colo,s Yves published in the Philosophical ffans-
actions for 1896. The copy sent TO the Royal Society
contained remarks on the effect Of exposing plate Of
ivory stained with nitrate Of sVer 10 the rays OF the
an. ctrum and also on the Ieeals Of submitting the
plate 10 tie rays passing through email aperture into
ds,k room. These suggestions were considered by
Sir C. Blsgden TO relate mors 10 art than TO pure
science, and were accordingly omitted from the pub
lisbed copy Had they appeared, 1t is morally certain
that they would have led 10 the immediate discovery OF
photography fsy years earlier than It's actual intro
dueton In spite Of is ab,truse nature, new edition
of the volume was required Ia week.
-Messrs Clark g. Co. of Edinburgh, whose
" FOREIGN Theological Library" has 80 large ciIcua-
tion among our theologians, are commencing tnlra
series Of that work. The Bible Exposltor' OF DE-.
LAME. distinguished German commentator, not yet
introduced 10 Eoglish readers, will form the iesdlns
feature Of thi, seres the writings OF Oshausen and
S,er have done Of the first and fecond'
The death Of Col. Murs Of Caldwell, recently an
nonnced leaves another historical torso TO be ranked
with the unfinished works Of Mscaulsy aud Prescott.
His "Cricsl History of the Language and Literature
of Ancient Greece though advanced only to the fifth
yolcme is work for which there Is No substitute In
Eppsh. certain hardness and drynsss OF treatment
may be perceptible when compared with the glowing
enthusiasm of X o. Muller and the enlarged, states
mspke views Of br Gro;s but the scale OF mia work
allowed OF more ample detail and discusi than eitoer
of theire and Homer and HerOdotus have never been
80 bly, nvestgs cd before in our language Ine
volume on Herodotus may be stuosi with advantage
IN connection with RawIihsons annotated edition Of
that author.
ANY new glimpse of Charles Lamb is always
pleasant A true hearted sdmUer OF his, DIR. y. w.
Alexander, thus describes pilgrimage to the Iadia
House in August, 1851, in his Forty Years Coz
re,pondence," Just pubiishiog by C. ssrbnsr: " IN
ou,ed Of the doorkeeper about Charles Lamb. lie
said Il have been here since sixteen years Old
but never heard Of any Mr.. Lamb. Toe docrkeePer
Of the Museum remembered him well. On, zee,
Sir he was very little an, with such small legs,
and wore kpee -breeches.' He directed to pr
ya.e stair which would take down Do the Account
ants Office went into place below like a baok,
AID was sho N to prime person, Mr.. w. 1t was
the room in which Lamb wrote Tor many years. Mr..
w. showed lie hi, wiDdOz and where his desk was.
looked out at the high blank wall, no: five fee be-
yond. and understood Lambs India Hocse.' Mr.
w. shc wed me q quarto volume of Interest Tables,
with remarks like thsie III Lambs fine round hand on
the fy.leaf: A book Of much interest.-Ed. Re-
VIEW a work in which the interest never flags.
Quar- Review We may cay Of tais volume
that the interest iBcreases from beginning TO end -
Monthly Review Mr.. w. knew Lamb well. - He
was a email man--srnaller than you-and always wore
shorts and black eaiters'" Poor Ella! what woud
ne have said if he had known that the memory OF his
combinations" alone survived to distinguish him
Com hs fellows Bat in the process of the ages tue
very India House ifef ID now shortly 10 be sold aud
will probably be replaced by railroad station. In
the general clearance of the Company is is said Is 900
hes been realized b. the SALE at 80 much per tun, TO
tie payer mills of the duplicate srchive, alone, 30 cir
cumloeutory all the processes Of business in this
prirce,y corporation. Ia tois doubtlessly was
included what Lamb emphstically called his "rue
ro1ks"
Mis- Catherine Sinclair lie oneof the writers whose
he "A in INT
least such is the opinion Of her publisher, who an
nouDces reissue OF them at H. I'D. per volume, as
"Tbe Cheap Library with reference doubt to tie
price onlyl, 10 appear once month for whole year.
Her early works, Moeem Accomplishment and
Modern Society" had large sale in this country,
but in the multitude of books American readers have
not kept up with her later writings.
Mr.. John Forster is continuing bis series of mono
er,phs on the Hhtoiy OF the Commonwealth Times,
by hi, "Auest of the Five Members by Charles l."
He draws literally for authority on Sir Symonds
DEwess bis. Parliamentary journal, to which his
Essay on the Grand Remembrance" was SO much
indebted; new separate edition of the latter work,
and alo ole of the Biographical Essays on Dsfoe,
Steele, etc. with which it was first conoinei, viii
be published by Mr. Murray.
--Messrs Nisbet viii speedily issue "Letters of
Haupah Moore, to Zachary Mscaulay, esq, contain
ing Notices OF Lord Macaolay's Youth" Now fret
published. Edited and arranged by Arthur Roberts,
NJ A., vol. cro.n $40. Some specimens Of this cor
reepondence were recently pubtSned ia Macullans
Magazine, ard make it certain that Ls work will be
one Of the highest interest.
The publication of the volume entitled Essays
and Reviews" by Mr.. j. w. Parker, is rem rkabe
incident for the historian of opinion. Though put for