Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-02-22
Foreign Literary IntelIieenee.


A complete edition of Buwe:'s novels has bean
issued at Stuttgart, in German, in one hundred aud
ten volumes. A new edition Of Miss Youge's takes
is being published in German, of which the Earl Of
Redclyfe" and the - Trsis both translated by @.
Kolb, have have already appeared. Chas. Resds's
Hard Cash " has also been translated into Ger.
msn by NJ. Scott and Miss Braddon's Henry Dun
bar and the Doctors Wife are likewise n appsr
shortly in German.
Very shortly john Stuart Min and Alfred Tsouy.
son are to b ballotted for Is honorary members Of
the Royal Society. of Scotland.
Some curious old deeds and leases have been dis
covered in the Office of firm of Birmingham sole;.
tori, bearing dates between 1878 and 1863, rslst-
ing to property adjoining Shakspsars's house., in
Henry street. Stratford- upon Avon, two Of which
bear the signature Of John Shakespeare, the fasher
OF the poet and in several Of which William Shak.
speare himself is mentioned % the owner Of the
property. These documents, for the present, sre
deposited in the museum af Stratford.
A marble bust of the suthor Of Vanity Fair will
shortly be placed close behind the efgy of Joseph
Addison in Westminster Abbey. Baron Mare
chetn, an old friend Of the Thackeiay family, has
undertaken the bust.
No less than one hundred and eighty thousand
copies Of Dickens's Christmas number were d;spus.
cd Of within forty eight hours after pubcaton, and
up to the Tuesday before Christmas two huudrsd
thousand copies in all had been handed Over the
counter.
The American Joe Miller Is tho title Of . work to
be issued in London. The book, IL Is ss;d Till
contain the jokes. of President Linesln, @Msior
Lonsbov," and Sam Slick
The Professor ofthe College de France proceeded
few days agn. to an examination Of the claims Of
the candidates for the Hebfew proiessorshp lea "
cant by the dismissal of NJ. Renan Two Isrseaitish
gentlemen n NJ Munck and Dsrembourr: vere
placed first and second the list of sspirints for
the post.
Mr.: Anthony Trollopss Orley Farm has been
translated into German by A. Kretzschmar; and
Buckles History ofCivihzation in England has also
been translated into German by A. Raga
A translation Of Homer's Had is ANNOUNCED. by
Mr. w. Simcox, in hexsmeter verse; in which the
names of deities and heroes are given in the spelling
OF the original so far it has been found possibie
Two new poems will be included in the eight
monthly parts ofselections shortly to be published
from Tsnnyson's works. One will be entitled "The
Captain" the other ITO Msurner." -
The poet Laureate (Tennyson) lately read "Msud'
before select and very limited audience in London.
Mr.: Tennyseh's !" Enoch Arden has had an ex-
tensve sale in South Australia. Each leading book
seller at Melbourne, received large number Of
copies of the volume, and sold the whole within
few hours after the arrival of the mail.
Sir Gardener Wilkinson, an old Hsrrowian, has
presented his collection Of Egyptian antiquities to
the Harrow School Library.
A London Publisher has republished. under the
common title of the " Nile Basin, two papers hos
tile tn Captain Spekes claims Is great Nilotic dis
covsrer. The frst paper is Captain Rurton's dis.
course, read Ct the Royal Geographical Society, in
which he ssssysd to prove that Tonssnyika Is The