New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-16

FROM Our Own Correspondent.

PARIS Aug. %, 1862
And now let me insert the lost page Of my ast
weeks letter about books-with some additions.
lie, Menotres du Chcrolier Cha-ot, by NJ. Blaze
du Bury, contain some hitherto unpublished letters
of Frederic the Great relating, among other grave
matters 10 the corps du ballet nj Berlin, OF which
that famous ballerine, Signoina Barherina, whose
capers gave 20 mnch trouble TO his Ihilosophic
Majesty and to tho Doge and "most potent, grave,
aud reverend signiors, Senators OF Venice, became
a member. The book Is rather amusing but not
worth much not even 10 much worth rs tho name
OF Chazot on the title-page, considering that al
yenturers relations 10 Ming and the Berlin world,
mi 1ht lead ono 10 expect. What teant CLEANS OF
new LIGHT il does throw on Frederic the Great are
calculated to confirm Maosuiays view rather than
CarlyloH vision OF him.
The tenth volume of Napoleon's Correspondence
gives eight hundred letters written IN 1904 and 1905
tle heyday of his glory. forgot TO mention when
,peaking OF Theirs Jew paragraphs back, that the
rst of the three books Of which bis last volume is
cJmposcd, has been Issued In separate lsmo., en-
titled Waterloo. With II csn be had separate from
the Atlas that belongs to the Mst0ire dH Consulate
II de FEmDire N map II the region between Char-
leroi, Nanur and Brussels AMI plan Of the battle
around OF Waterloo.
The fret volume Of Louis Napoleon, History OF
julius Casar is said "a be in PRINT. The proof read
ing at Nchy was interrupted by the new adventures
of Garibaldi so unmlnoful of his stops and 20 and
q's. | may have already reported that painter
Ingres last bes. representative of the classic school,
has All order for q fancy head of Julius, TO be en-
gayed and front tite-page. The volume is not to
be Published TIL other volumes are ready II Is kept
meantime open, however, TO minute corrections that
continued archaeological investigations or tie battle
field and besieging camps and other most noted
scenes Of Cesar's Gallic campaigns are constantly
furnishing.
Ills Maesys private secretary, Mocquard, who
has his little literary reputation as melodraniatic
playwright and novelist, emulous Of his master,
would rise to higher themes. As nature forbds tia,
should be per 50, he is doing it per- alum, and Is
trying bis pen, they ray, on translation of Tact
tus. Scholarly aud waggish Father Prout, referring
to this rumor in recent letter. maliciously hints
regret that Mocquard were not born an original
Tacitus, eeeng that the present empire ID go oppor
timely fit 10 tho exercise OF suca an historians
talents.
LOUIS Blanc has completed HIS Historic de la Rer-
oiut.0n Francois. De la Diplomatic Ventienm is
a volume made up from The reports OF the Embassa-
doris Of Venice resident al the European Courts OF
the sixteenth century. There were ambassadors III
those days These reports TO the Venetian Senate
relate chiefly 10 the monarchs Of that age, giving
mastorly portraits OF Francis I. and CathaIine de
Medcis Of France, Of Philip III. of Spain, OF Popes
Of Rome and Sullins Of Consantnople They are
selected, translated and learnedly edited with sut
cisnt explanatory and justihcatory notes, by NJ
Armand Boschet. We have still another and valuable
contribution 20 knowledge OF the character and
acts OF Count dc Cayour, in the Reests et SoureBrs
Of w. de Ia Rive. who enjoyed intimate per-
sonal relations with Cavour as boy man, and states
man.
Tho L>ttres sur les Flats Uais d Amertqn. were
written by Lieut.-Col Ferri Pisani aids -de-camp
aud travelling companion Of Prince Napoleon, for
the sake of giving ZONE Impressions Of their Amer-
can travel TO Col. Franconnore, brother aide-de-
camp, who remained in France. The first Of them
IL dated New-York, July 81, four days after tho
arrival Of the prlncely party in our country; the
last Boston, Sept. -, 1861. They were published
ten days ago, with preface dated Paris, June 10,
1862. The author is lively, ingenious, abundant IN
good humor and III all sOrts Of errors, with occa-
sonal correct observation OF facts and cleverncse OF
inference but makes no pretensions to higher quail
ties speak OF him, of course, as travelling author.
lie says nodestly in his preface
ave travelled moro with eyes than with
in,elgen Except lew descriptions aud few portraits
caught wing the reader must not eapeeto hnds these
anything than secondhand information summs-
ordnafy compilations such travellers [of tho rtns cass
exploit without for tho most part having the honesty to con-
OF which aveIssd the United states andeame TO know
the principal personsges OF the Republic VIII give TO s'
boob the only interest IL can have"
Note the dates already mentioned OF the letters
and the preface. Their comparison with the events
of our current American history Tor the past
eighteen months certainly does give al interest To
other pages OF the Colonels preface lie says That
when no was In our country his opinion was that
our cause was in grent peril; that neither the con-
sitution Of our Government nor tho ability OF its
administrators at ali calculated TO meet the po-
ltcal military and financial exiBencies OF the Crisis,
which threatened TO pass OIL through the regular
historic stages Of revolution, anarchy and military
d,spotsm; that his opinion was then the general
opinion AZ The North among all parties, entertained
by the diplomatic corps we'll US by the intellec
tlal and financial arstocncy OF the country; that II
he sofrened the expression of it his letters
out OF Difference to the ideas OF the Prince, who
always resisted the drift OF public sentiment in this
direction, drawing from bis iuvincible ropugnanee
to Slavery Lively sympathy for the Northern cause
and an absolute confidence in its final success