New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-16

belt The Swiss Republican Canton oil ''And offered
through is Council Of Stale, year or two ago,
handsone priLe for the beet etsyy IN that toughest
Of ali themes TaSa,iOn; n tbeTr getiug very praci-
cally tough and interesting to- aud much To be
guawed upon, by us American Repa'hcsn IN these
times. TIE prize was awarded to wademolselle CT.
A. Rover, woo in the matter "a rciitlco-ec0homloal
kuowl-dge Of good and evil. may lake rank as a
sort OF philosophical Eve alongside of Adam Smith
himself. Her essay Ia now published III two uafl-
li,h Svo's, under the tile-La TheOr.e de FImpot.
We have alsO from womano pen, an exec lent
TRANSLATION, sanctioned by the Original thor, OF
DaIwns work on Species. And yet agan a
! woman, Madame du ParGuef, took the VINE the
olber day at the French Academy for the best
bistorico-criiical essay on Fren h novel wiring
| from uonore d'Tnfe's Astrea TO Chateanbrand's
Rene How wcrtbily won you Gao Judge Tor your
alves ly reading the Essay iLse,i IN tue RtrHe deS
d ar Myndts for 18th July.
| TIE Htstotre Ga R0mUr ri de scS R0pDorfs drec
4 rHisf0re dams FAHtqUU Gr'cqne Fl L1tiH', ny
NJ CbauanY i. a setting forth erudite a. ingenious
OF the imaginative element that entered 70 Largely
into the Lietory aid geography well as die poeiry
O. Creek aud Roman literature before developing
INTO confessed fiction. VI. Chapang wok Is desi'
rabe complement Ia Dunlop's History II Fiction
TIE Orsgines L,tterarifS de la F50act, by NJ. H.
Moland tre4ts Of early French egends, romance ana
dramatic literature; Lcs ChcrniicTs PoeIes q ~ -
mogne by ~. Octave d'hsaiily, Of the oil German
ii ugh ly Minnesingers, their words and woihs IL.
| lneUpbllc l>lsulc, IN HiIduWf nc fstHht 40" g
la Miison hoyde de 81. Cyr, throws rome docuInen
ltsry light the ecrtt marriage OF cirp'd S'7Iron
shrewd I'D maid OF "A widow with the sham GTdhae
Mouarque, and the celded glory of Tie itIiu "
sinking Roi-S0fcR. The HisfOi'e dei Ist de Chyp",
by H. dc Mas Iife n ads despite lts ihtOrital DRY
ness and accuracy, ike "A romance, ior il is the history
of the i-lsnf OF Cypress while governed by hings
of the crusadiug house OF Lusilna lis strictly
historical worth Is -aucti, ned ~ The Academy OF
IasrrtDttOns II B,tS Leffres, Us Is by tne rTebch
Academy the higher worth OF tie more Termed
treafnen, of grsyrr theme, the great ,aiy struggle
between rising Cbr-tiaUiiy and decining fagahisn,
by tue Rev Edward dc PREF cure, IN his LES Mr-
fVrs Il 'cs iDolOg,sis.
Une TiHc Pr1fc,toHte, by Ma.y iafond, il the po-
mi D. r. giOUs historic monograph 0i ~" old French
Protestant Town oi MoDtanb1n. Tue long slieriug,
tie nigh spirit, the eIeciivs pluck, AID derriug-o OF
be iuhabiiuits OF that li'te town under lnd against
r. lipiuus persecution and fearful ODDS for than
a century-rOn before kichelcu up 20 TIE Great
French RevoujiOD-,re iuii 0i teaching Uy exam
ple Nothrice haI sled NssJIu village has yet gone
,lrou.h tue halt that Mon'aljan went u.olgh. No
modest Erglish CrOmwellians. no hardest De-teid
-. Scotch COyensutcTs, 10 grimes Hew-EhyiAhd run
tllns ever oct IL or Uu.su4-Fed iuf the ctn--
\ hat tiese South french hOniHubhuere dii Hnd rn'-
Tered f,r The " htAs.OH.' Monsieur May La
Fond's thin octave l. not an amutiug book; - quite
too cOuscicHIiDd-ly Dry win faithfully drawn iucr
of d,t1il, drawn from numerous Old ia i'y m,hh-
rcrpis and musty town records ana lie IKE To DC
laqlfIuI: drawn IN tiacA IN WiIte Win very il'r
attempt ~ oolorirg, tuoagh with every here d
;heru powerful 1yiag Of values Jiit ~ Tue M
. teneity OF the black Oii tie White. SugIely wei
worth an American reading Just now, al HE riine
good tome to tibby iecLi- kn-ed t1Jr,
WHO arc hall tempted scared 10 leave tie pho" Ia
mldfurrow.
Bas-setks B'cus is an historical novel by
Itiuune AragO, the iast surviving brother oi Tie
,llustfious astronomer, EmGiaUa'l a lagO; Ike Inn
an ardent, enrne-', hrcrty and tinth-oFns man.
40 Do,e il has great IG.ft; u = hisiofy col TIE
I VcuGeap Rebellion AGAINST ,ho Ftr3,l GOycraue G.,
II il real more accurate an II w. npie carlui.!
-iudied thnn Inos o the formal pretended ms.otl..
oil IA. var IA In tttnt.. LEAVING out Toe purely
aud pAt,ndy fictitious acc.dcus " tie boa As Il
novel there remains "A hH0rraily iruihiul e-scnce
more 10 be trustee in BY iaG than Ma. Ai~oD al
euuly prcJadced pages. IL, too, is a book "nosc
ssols :.re not iuaPp able 10 tie pacing phase u
!, our O~l history. IL Nas originally iupiIsLrd IA
new-tarer ieuieton 80 long a.O ~ l7'' or i0if,
bui comes nov Tor the nst ne thlnA. 10 re pub
lic ~ book form.
The iocxofa lie post-born eats oil hire my FAR
from ini- ned catalogue rai,onuc II current FIeneh