Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-02-17
Foreign Literary INTELLIGENCE.

A complete edition of Bulwe-s novels has been
issued at Stuttgart in German, in one hundred and
ten volumes. A new edition of Miss Yonges tales
is being published in German of (which the Earl of
Redclyffe" and the Trials, both translated by G.
Kolb, have have already appeared. Chas. Reade's
Hard Cash" has also been translated into Ger
man by NJ. Scott, and Miss Braddon's Henry Dun
bar and the Doctors Wife are likewise to appear
shortly in German.
Very shortly John Stuart Mill and Alfred Tenny.
son to be ballotted for as honorary members of
the Royal Society of Scotland.
Some curious old deeds and leases have been dis
covered in the Office of a firm of Birmingham solicit
tors, bearing dates between 1878 and 1862, relat-
ing to property adjoining Shakspeares house, in
Henry street Stratford- upon Avon, two of which
bear the signature of John Shakespeare, the father
of the poet and in several of which William Shak-
speare himself is mentioned as the owner of the
property. These documents, for the present, are
deposited in the museum at Stratford.
marble bust of the author of Vanity Fair will
shortly be placed close behind the efgy of Joseph
Addison in Westminster Abbey. Baron Marc
chetti, an old friend of the Thackeray family, has
undertaken the bust.
No less than one hundred and eighty thousand
copies of Dickens's Christmas number were dspos-
ed of within forty hours after publication, and
up to the Tuesday before Christmas two hundred
thousand copies in all had been handed over the
counter.
The American Joe Miller IS the title OF q work 70
be issued in London. The book, it is said, will
contain the Jokes Of President Lincoln, Major
Longbow," and Sam Slick.
The Professor ofthe College de France proceeded,
few days ago, to examination of the claims Of
the candidates for the Hebrew professorship left
can't by the dismissal of NJ Renan. Two Israelitish
gentlemen, NJ n. Munck and luxembourg, were
placed first and second on the list of asprans for
the post.
Mr. Anthony Trollope's Orley Farm has been
translated into German by A. Kretzschmar; and
Bockes History of Civilization in England has also
| been translated into German by A Ruge.
A translation of Homer's Had is announced by
Ar. W. Simcox, in hexameter verse, in which the
names of deties and heroes given in the spelling
of the original far as it has been found possible.
! Two new poems will be included in the eight
monthly parts of selections shortly to be published
| from Tennysons works. One will be entitled 1.-THE
| Captain" the other ITO Mourner."
The poet Laureate CTennyson) lately read Maud
before select and very limited audience in London
| Mr.. Tennysen's Enoch Arden has had an ex.
tensve sale in South Australia. Each leading book
seller at Melbourne, received large number OIL
| copies of the volume, and sold the whole within q
few hours after the arrival of the mail.
Sir Gardener Wilkinson an old HarroWian, hal
presented his collection of Egyptian antiquities t.
the Harrow School Library.
common title of the Nile Basin," two papers hos
tile to Captain Spekes claims as great Nilotic dis
coverer. The first paper is Captain Burton's dis
course, read at the Royal Geographical Society, il
which he essayed to prove that Tonganyika ID tn