New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-10

LITERARY kTEUS
| The MINOR that the first volume Of Napoleon
"Iife of Caesar" having been finished and destroyed
again is positively confradicted. The Ms is stiibeng
set I'd in the eria library and the type stands COM
pl,,ely ready for The printing OF soon as the fat SHAH
30 forth.
An autograph mania has, in Paris, taken the
place Of the recent postagesamp fever. The puolca'
ton issued there devoted fac sns OF the handwrit-
ing q eminent people has wide circulation, and con
tans many letters Of literary value which are not sim
ply curious for the evidence ty afford Of mere penman'
ship How characteristic is this anecdoie Of Casimr
pelavigne "A poor literary man wrote TO Lin. In ls2
20 beg FOR loan Of money 1t unlueAly happened that
the dey tie letter fell into Deaygnes hands they were
empty; so lie replied stating the circumstances which
prevented him from relieving an unfortunate brother
He signed his name and proceeded to fold the Letter
when his conscience appealed him in charitys NAME
not TO turn off the sutor empty handed. lie took hi'
pen again. and added this touching ot; sr
cannot resist the painful emotion experience send
ron the only object Of value possess II is repeater
watch, which beg YOU will in any way you may
please You will not deprive Of it. for shall not
use it again. it would remind every hour Of tho day
that an unhappy man appealed 10 in vain when
still possessed the means OF being useful 70 him"
The present members Of the great publishing
firm Of Hschette & Co.. in Paris have Jus. Issued u
circular giving some particulars oftho recently deceased
founder Of their house II. Louis Chrisophe Francois
uachet.e, man of extensive literary Judgment and
business enterprise. The deceased gentleman was in
the 6sth year of his age In France aud Germany tic
custom OF Issuing Biographical circular upon the death
of an eminen; bookseller is comparatively general but
7 ta.f ia
A correspondent of London journal gives
some amusing particulars Of ~ Pier Angelo Fiorenno
tie Italian hterateur Of Paris recently deceased. il
appears that lie TO Paris in 1875 or 1875 lie quit
ted Naples with one hundred dollars in his pocket
which he had amassed by dint OF incredible effort and
reached ParS witt, twenty dollars and handsome geld
watch in his possession tho watch soon went 10 the
pawnb-okers. He took miserable garnet chamber on
the sixth floor Of house in tho Eue Rieheleu, and,
borrowing some books Of his portei5 wife, he began to
study French. lie then set 10 work to write al article
for La Prose- He gays: Il wrote It in half hour;
was twenty nights and twenty days in transating it
for had no dictionary, and obliged hunt in odd
volumes which knew almost by heart for equivalent
words and phrases that might ondeayor 20 succeed in
making myself understood in q foreign language. The
article was successful and opened tho columns Of Ia
". AlexandTo Dumas. whom be had known at Naples"
The novelist proposed to him TO become his Literary
partner; tie proposition was joyfuy accepted and
long and very rcmunoTative business relationship
the result The fortune which NJ Fiorenno had sccu-
INFLATED Is estimated at nearly 10000 while his col
lection Of trnkets and books is valued at 900 &c.
600 more. Unfortunately the namo he has left behind
him is not bright it might have been. Many stories
are in circulation relative 10 tho black mail which he
was in the habit oflevyng upon persons connected with
the stage and about ghon he occasionally wrote in his
musical criticisms md articles in the ConSufi0nreE
In 1877 allusion TO the practice made By ~
Aohard in LA,sensbHs Nq,iondle and duel was the
result in which 81 Achord was very severely wounded
by his opponents sword.
Heinrich KGnig one Of the most celebrated
Of modern German noveliSts has brought out new
historical romance at Wiosbadep, entitled, won saa-
field bis AspeIn-"
at Berlin there has just appeared curious
volume complied from documents in the oftco Of the
Direction Of tie Stage in that city from which learn
that Schiller was paid considerably less than eco each
for MARIA Stuart the "Jungfrau Orleans" and
the "Braut voa Messinn:" for "Walens.ein" and
William Tel no appears 10 have received about $50
apiece. Sohlege received $40 for trGnslang end sr-
ranging Hamlet" for tie German stage. and Goethe
slOC for his version OF Romeo and Juliet" The book
is full of insresng particulars Of manager. authors.
players. and pieces.
Professor Carl Vogt Of Giessen, who is O
Darwinist he's printed, in two volumes octayo "yor-
lcsuDgen uber den Meuschon ind seine Steung in der
Sct0pfung und in der Geschctc der Eidc Lectures
on Man and lis Position in tie Creation and in Che
History Of tie Earth, y in which y Of the cave
skulls particularly that Of Lombrve be seeks to establish
the Darwinian theory Of progression
Professor Molin, of Vienna, he's just published
his experiences and practical observations psccu
tire and fshhacLing the fruits OF long and interest
ing tour made under the auspices Of the Austrian Gov
eminent to France. Switzerland, and Western Ger
many for the purpose Of Introducing into the rivers Of
Austria fsh-cuituro a Of national prosperity
The book. which 10 perhaps the valuable yot writ
ten the subject, is entitled "Die Ratonelle Zucht
der Susswasserfsche ind GINGER in der Volswirth
schaft wiohtigen Wasscrtherc CThe Rational Breed
Ing Of Fresh.Water Fishes. and Of some Aquatic Ami
mails Of Importance in Domestic Economy 1t II
ROYAL octave volume Of so pages and is illustrated
with 40 woOd.cuts.
A new edition of the late Professor Gfrorer's
"Pabst Gregorus VII und sein Zeitaer" 4, an.
nounced as to be published in twenty monthly parts TO
form seven volumes octsyo This Life Of tie celebrated