New-York daily tribune., 1861-01-04

much larger income than bealls nlnetonths OF the
subscribers to his periodical, stronger man than
bc-stronger as man and thinker and rhet0r1can,
froudhou-qIietly writes from Brussels where he
hardly lives in exile 70 escape the Imprisonment to
which, by judicial decision on his last published
book he was condemned in France: % II is very
difficult to earn ones living by journalism in Bel
GUM. should like TO find place as proof
'reader at 200 assured francs perm0nth.' Proud
hon, of the very first masters OF French prose
style now living is a printer by trade.
Happier than these is Academcian Scribe, who is
more than millionaire. II is reported that he has
finally retired from literary and Paris lfe and his
grand house close by me here in the Rue Pigalle to
his country chateau ofSericourt. Over the entrance
TO that quite lordly seat is this inscription: lie
theatre page Get asiic ehampetre. VOus qni
"possez, merei! je rous b doS pem etre." Nothing
could be more apr0pOs. Scribe ls now seventy
years old. His guardians tried to make poor law
yer of him. Nature would have her way, and he
became not great, but the most fertilely great
of dramatsts Alone, or with cOlaborators, he has
set bis name to about three hundred and fifty farces
comedies, tragedies VERY bad, indeed these), and
opera hbrett which have not only SET all Paris and
all France, but pretty much all the theaer-gOlng
world in both hemispheres acrying and alaughing-
oftenest alaughing. Between lS2l and 1881 he fur
nished to the Gymnase Theater something like one
hundred and fifty pieces. Not that he wrote all Of
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sort of manufactory, where he employed a great
number of apprentice and !iouneymen payrlghfs,
some of whom furnished the plot others the dialogue,
Others the general idea others the details OF songs
and incidents. With a complete, i'll some sort intui-
tive, knowledge of the stage, remarkable faculty
and facility for working, and several capital asss.
tants, foremen, as we may say, who aferward
approved successfully their talents master play
rights, he was able TO supply the public with con-
staut Of OF which has 1nv
marked literary or dramatic merit but hardly any
one Of which was not amusing and successful with
the public of the pit and boxes Lattery Monsieur
Scribe has fallen to the writing OF lamcntably feeble
novels. In his lime, however, he has done better
even in that respect. His PiquiHo AH,aga is among
his best efforts in this kind. The Si6cie newspaper,
in whose fiieie,On il was first published, paid him
for it Ga, 900 francs. He is writing feuileton
romance for the Constitutional. which, like the
uncassible "Extravagant Commonplace of the
authOress of Sir Rolands Ghost is dear, one would
say, at any price, Not that, even in his " Fleu
rette" NJ Scribe utterly disregards the lundalnen-
tai laws OF literary art
Not so rich as Scribe is the barber poet, the pro-
rencai Burns, JaSmin. A new edition OF his poems
was recently published Let me make parenthet.
zeal pause to speak of il commendngly II contains
his charmingly naive P0pHoHeS Hair Papers, in
their original graceful prorencal form, with close
translation in academic French on the opposite page.
When they were sent from the press Monsieur
ST. Beuve, one of the three or four most eminent
critics in France-perhaps the most eminent purely
academical critic--thOught to do service 10 the
public and kindness to their author, in recon-
mendng them TO the purchase of the public, on the
ground Of their fine literary quality and of their
thorS pecuniary need. Thereupon Jasmln wrote q
letter 10 NJ. ST. Beuve, full of grace courtesy.
tive Wit and good humor, ia which he told his
friendly commendatory critic that he, Jasmin, was
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ter Of what NJ. de Lamartine Whningly wasiesl:
was on the contrary quite satisfactorily well OF
and, with sincere gratitude TO NJ. ST. BeUyc for his
favorable and friendly notice of his book, begged
iho: 10 one ssyuIG buy K for chariiy's sake. ~
81 .,clye received the pleasant letter in the same
spirit with which il was sent, and, with some
kindly words of preface. published it, to the com
mon qualification Of all readers in late number Of
the Journal des DtbGis.
have at hand other biOgraphicoterary gossip,
but the mail closes in half an hour from this.
Two significant articles had appeared IN the Coa'h |
tatjoHRe from the pen Of NJ Grandgillo relative TO
Austria and Nene.ia In these articles il D, coyery
inmated that Austria must consent 10 eel Nenen, on
be piepared for q new war in the Spring. II il also
asserted that France will suffer the return 10
offensive policy by Austria in Lon bardy.
The MoHfeiif publishes a report by Gen. Montau-
ban, from which ii appears there are s'ne inaoeura.
cits IN ihe dCtOul OF lht pllucllug oi me pae VI
the Emperor of China. The General state. that the
booty was divided between the Allies.
The M0AstgT contains a decree ronittine the con-
formations which have been pronounced for odenscs
no .us the laws Of the press, and nuying All prose-
r5tions oshich have been commenced.
A new on ~edition Of ., 400 men ready to start
Mr. de ISmatine paternal estate Of tI!lly had at
length hen sod.
!. ne Paris Bourse was duh and lower. Renies on
the 2lst declined l. closing at 6c.io.