New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-12-06
LITERARY.

In tho Interests Of international eouSesy and
honor" wriies a corrtspC ndeni Of The London
A.leneun,, who processes 10 have published tales,
" do / call your attention TO recent instance Of
bod gouc.by fashion Of tranlla'ion-ard this in no
les 81 4sgica and doctrinary q periodical than the
Elruc dcs Dur 40Hdes. There III. forgues pro.
f,fses TO Introduce TO tiTgnge Auer.can snake
romance of Dr.. Io'mes, Elie Yeuner. Our
French readers ara hereby warned that the deed is
done IN the most arbitrary fashion Of outline II il
no, r,ly thli epsodicgl scenos such ~ some Of
the humorous ones, Which appear tedious OF this
eide VI the Atanue are Gacridced ald Coreeut.Ated
important incidents are omitted % slurged over aud
characters are thrown 10 faint aud yaporoGs dis
lance, which. in the original, stand ont essential
supports TO The principal figure. 1 viii bot instance
that OF The negresa faithful unto death TO tho fearful
and melancholy femi-human creature sle watches
over. H. these days, when invention s 90 fcarce il
lie no. fair that one o. thoroughly peculiar and riyet-
tug A. that Of the novel in question u ould he thus
tempered with IN publication OF such authority"
The three volumes Of Her1ers Correspondence,
published i've year, ago ~ lle.ders grandson, Fer
dinand Gottfiied Won Iierier and ProE Heinrich
Ddnizer of Cologne, bad not exhausted tho rch mine
Of the Htrder family records In 1859, Herdes let
ters written to lis wife during biz journey to Italy,
in 1888, were edited by Prof Duuizeri and at pres
ent the same interchangeable explorer Of the elassic
period Of German literature joined again by Ierders
aboye.named grandson, has commenced the publica-
ton Of a new episiolaIy collection, which 10 10
brace, in three volumes the rest Of the great man
correspondence. TIE work is entitled. "Von und an
Herder: Upredruckte Briofe aus Herders Naehlass,'
Nj d the first volume, which has lst appeared, con-
tains the correspondence with G!eim and Nicola,
beside literary ntroductons from the pen of Prof.
DaplLer discussing the nature Of llerders relations
~ Glenn and Nicolsi. TIE following volumes will
present us with the correspondence with Heyno Ithe
pathological, Hartknoch, Eicbhorn, August Won Elm
sedel Karl and Friedrich Won Dalberg, knebel, and
others.
in A long letter TO the editor OF the ConstitR-
tionnsi, NJ. de Lamsrine complains Of the statement
Of his i'll health and approaching death, and goes on
10 say: " have gnde rtas-n, aud Rn pursuing, for
others more than myself, a great operation, very
dear very long, and very painful, in oder TO depart
honoatly from this amablo life It is the complete
edition OF rny works. in forty volumes, pblished by
subscription. Tie success of this undertaking 10 the
property might not be sufficient. The forty
volumes are concluded, with the exception Of four
volumes OF my political memoirs and in case should
depart without noise without having finished she
Last sheet for the printer, my heirs have the means of
replacing these four volumes by six volumes of my
literary conversations, all complete, all ready, all
printed, and not compromised. Grant me, then,
Monsieur le Redacteur, q certificate Of perpetual
life, which ask Of you. You will ihns have re.
paired the involuntary injury which the false reports
Of my pretended nalady may have caused to my un-
deitakiug."
"A new work Ia announced by Mrs. Thompson,
he wife Of the late Or. Anthony Todd Thompson
on " Celebrated Frendships." This work may be
ookad for with some interest. The auhoress pur-
roses 10 introduce TO her readers the friendship Of
John Evelyn and Robert Boyle the Earl Of Surrey
md Sir Thomas Wyatt, William Cowper and Mary
Irwin. Marie Antonette and the Princess dc Lam
bale, Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele, Mag
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and Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Mrs.. Elizabeth Garter
and Mrs Vesey, the Countess Of HEREFORD and the
Countess of Ponfret, SIR Philip Sidney and Sir Falke
Grevil. Coleridge and Lamb, Lord Bolngbrokc aud
Alexander Pope Fenelon and NADINE Guyon, Gar
rjos and Mrs. Give, and many other friendships
which have become matter of history.
"A new legal textbook ;s announced from the
pen Of Professor TheoP11uS PsTsons Of Harvard