The Portland daily press., 1865-07-14
L1rERARY GOSSIP

AGaxhAIbL NOo5AL.
The first two Of the manuscript essaysleft by
Proudhon are published in Paris. The sub
jeots are "Art end Art Criticism" and the
@Political oapdcity Of The Working o7asses.s
The Paris correspondent of the Tribune says:
"The first two sheets of Napoleon's second vol
ume of historical apology for self and J. Caesar
are reported in press.
). Mr. WingroYe Cooke has died in London, in
his fifty-third year. He was knownin thelit-
erary world by his memoirs of Lord Boiling
broke, which appeared thirty years ago, and
attracted considerable attention. His other
published books are the Conquest and Col
onization of North Africa, '"Inside Sebastopol,"
and @China and Lower Bengal and number
of legal works. SIS fas .4it sniW .sdfrSIt q
4 The publication of the English Ndssonal Re-
Uieac is discontinued. n
A "Sanskrit Text Society has been founded
in London, under the patronage of the Prince
of Wales, "for the purpose ofpublishing inn
portant Sanskrit works belonging to the an
eient and medieval literature of India
M. Ernest Renan isreported to have reached
Athens after having safely accomplished his
journey in Syria. He has been accompanied
throughout by Madame Renan, but his journey
has been attended by serious difficulties and
some perils. After resting a few days in Ath-
| ems, he went to Argohda, staying for a short
time at Corinth, and he intends to proceed
next to Salonica and Caralla, and thence by
sea to Constantinople. His stay in the last
named city VIII be only for ten days, after
which he will return to France, where he will
turn his attention to the publication of his new
work on the Apostles Y si2tss =
The June number of the Revue Ccnadisnne,
French monthly published in Canada, con-
tains an article on the sIneursion of St. Al
bans" in which that affair is spoken of as an
admirable and heroic exploit The writer
makes some new revelations with regard to the
escape of the raiders from the reach of Canadi-
an justice when liberated by Mr.. Coursol.-
Some were harbored at Cote DIES Neiges, others
at Terrebonne. All were visited and kept in
circumstances of comfort by their admirers,
who f1ocked to them in such numbers that it
soon became prudent to change their resi-
denee. a9ss. + .fs5. eg5,ss.
The city of Albany is to have a new paper,
which will be called the EUensag Post, and viii
be edited by Mr.. Griffin, formerly of the States
man.
Henry Fuller, Esq, formerly editor of the
New York Mirror, proposes to publish a news
paper in Paris to be called @77e Cosmopolitan =
giving a full resume of the news of the world,
with original reviews of current events. q
The Evening Post says: "Gail Hamilton,
Epes Sargent, Donald G. Mitchell, George Ell.
Baker, Harriet E. Prescott, sE. p. Whipple,
Miss Cummins and j.. Quincy are among
the contributors to the forthcoming number OF
the Atlantic Monthly. A story in verse, called
sCountess Laura" is to appear in the next
number, There is to be q pungent article on
negro suffrage, we understand, in the sameis-
sue.' -07-
| Mr.. Clifford Palgrave has published new
Book of Oriental travel 1T, bears for title the
name "Hayel," which belongs to- a town in
North Arabia, beyond the Syrian Desert.
| AT sale which occurred at small town in
the South of France lately, a copy Of the ssLet-
tres Juives" was sold for less than eighteen
pence, and was found to contain fifty two in
edited letters of Yoltaire, Diderot, D. Alembcrt
and their contempo An amateur d
Bayonne heard of the discovery, and gave tive
thousand francs for this promising lot Of auto
graphs. tsss4 -,1oa 1910 tas ssad8 41g
The viii Of Cardinal wiseman leaves to the
Very Rev. William Thompson, and the Very
Rev. Henry E. Manning, D. d., all his copy
| rights in works published by him and all un-
published manuscripts, correspondence, and
papers, whether public or private (not relating
to the affairs of his diocese), upon trust to sell
the same, but with power to destroy, or pub
lish, Or retain and preserve all or any part Of
MS papo4s, ss--s1 ssIAr,z.n s,,is
M j. Barthelemy st. Hilaire has published a
book, entitled @Mahomet and the Koran" in
which he aims to present detailed history and
a sound philosophical study of MahoInet and
the religion which he founded. In his intro
duction be says: Il desire TO show, and think
it viii not be very difficult to show, that Ma
homet was the most intelligent, religious and
merciful Of the Arabs of his time, and that he
owed his Empire only to his personal SUPERIOR
ty; to show that the new religion he preached
has been an immense benefit to the race that
has adoptedit, and that, far inferior as it is to
Christianity, it merits far higher estimation
than is generally accorded to it." The author
especially combats the common idea that Islam
ism is thing fast crumbling to pieces. He
thinks it religion full of vitality; and in evil
|2dence of this points to the fact that CONVEX
isions from Islam TO Christianity, or any other
faith, are very rare, and that it has held its
ground for twelve centuries almost without
modification or change
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