New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-19

--Iady Charlotte Pepys is preparing c'upe u
voluas.s Of her Sketches from Rusin. WIN LiV
On the Fields Of Norway" is the inle OF a nee "v'A
nearly ready by scion of an old Scotch family "''
Francis W,ndhafo. More "Alpine' hooks q e an-
nonpeed; one, Alpine B,ways," by a lady; nnoihcr
a translation Of Berlyscb, entitled " Tie Ape Vi
Life and Nature on the Mountains"
NJ. GAMER Pages, one Of the members 81 u.
French Provisional Government sfier the eveu'S o.
1873. has u. Published the first volaner OF nSo'!
f that famous year.
The Lectures on Natural History gwen by NJ
Flourens al the MssSEm dktfoire Nofsrri il fnls'
ar. Justly considered among tie hest oil those gwen
IN tlai esiabis rppt. S0ne Of them A'e oerh pl"'o'
in two volumes which will enable tne pnOlc d. are
10 udee of tie scienrc teaching wich Id dispense ny
tie successor of Bufon and Culver. The treatise
entitled O7ologie Na'prelte, is clear unpretend'ug,
pooulsr statement of the authors views Oh the fmons
nroleu discussed by Mr.. Darwin NJ. FlomeIs givee
irs thu definition Of physiology he then establishes
The specification of created beings, taking hi. funda-
mey'a axiom the immutabe character Of tie speci's
Tn, formation Of animals occupies him Next tie tfd
Question examined is their distribution in space; and
tle succession OF the beings through tie various
ages of the globe is IRE concluding subject. In the
course of his argumeutatious NJ. Foarens takes the
opportunity Of cIitGsing the theories maintained by
various naturslist- certain important points such IA
Cuvers famous doctrine Of successive creations snd
the still popular error which admits tie b!Po'hess Of
| spontaneous generation.
A very interesting work on the Syrian mHsSaeres
written by Mr.. j Lewis Farley, lie weli-known
author Of Two Years in Sy is announced for pub
ication IN London Mr.. Farley ia, and has long beer
"a resident ct ConsaniiDorle and from his pos ton
here cannot fil 70 be able to command good lnio'la-
ton.
William Oldys's account Of tie London Libraries
in his time, which has been long inquired for by
literary men, has AT length been discovered IN the
Library Of the Hunierian Museum al asgow, anu lie
ABOUT TO bs printed in Z" Notes and Queries
A london journal thus announces the death Of
Charlet Lever: 1.-THE inimable Harry Lorequer has
gore 10 that bourne whence no traveller reiurns
Charles Lever, the delight of young En- lisimen who
iove aiventure is dead. He bad been III II health for
some time pact His last appearance ss ar author was
in ,he columns If Az tie Year RouAd, in hich he last
year published bis serial 4 Day's Ride. LIES i -
nance. Hundreds Of private friends Will mourn lis
los Charles Lever Tad happy knacb Of limiting and
exylting The fvoies Of life which arcst approac ed
genius lie lived al active and useful life, and WAS
universally beloved by all who knew m. ThiH II III
| ,.aise, bu it is bounden duty 20 accord II 10 ts
! memory One OF or 20 emporaiief ADDS, with
large shae OF the Irish intellect, and even more than
the usual quantity Of Irish genins Charles Lever bad
full development Of the Irish for show and ex
| pense He WIS utterly reckless s5out money, and
while editing the magazine in Dublin the actual labor
being performed by Mr.. James McGlashenl. lived 80
exrayagantly that he speedily had Ia retiea Since
1915 he resided o. the Continent chiefly at floelce,
and was said that be owed large bill 1T tie Irin-
cpa hotel il most of tue great ciies OF Europe. Over
| a wear Ggo, lord PalmeIston appointed BIN British
Consal at Spezzia IN the Sandman doninoIs, with q
salary Of ESQ Il year. He he'd this Office at 'sdea'h,
hut his income, which was iarge, was almost wholly
derived from h;s pea
In notice ofBeanmon;s Biographical sketch n 81.
de Tocqoo vilo an Engsh rovi@,rer remarks Z" NJ d.
beaumont speals Of him with zach tender and delicate
affection tbs, Ne might he sure he had qualities
"a friend even if his letters did abundanily sboy
that he was one Of those characters in which friend
ship holds place not often seen in the modern world
He loved his friends from The bottom OF noble and
generous heert and amcrg bE friends, none was e.
truly bis friend es bis wife. Simple, uncstentatious
with frank and graceful manners, he WIS re oguized
both in France and England as carrying down D. tae
age the traditions Of the French gentleman III singular
perfection. he had also the quality Of honesty and s
passion for precise and guarded trnth TO degree that
| is not often found in "a FrenchIIan. He had alto a
masculine love and respect for religion AS an crater
be failed, his absence Of warmth aud his too gres
eiaboratenoss preventing his having much bold over
| a popular assembly; and as IT2ciical politician, he
made what even bis best friends acknowledge to
have been great mistakes. Bat as a philosophical
speculs.or be il deseryedly place. by the French II
the same rank as Monesquieu, whose work was mach
! OF the eame kind as those which have made TocYUe
vile famous, and whose originality ard quickeidne
influence only to be appreciated y thorough a.
| ouain,sneo with European history.