New-York daily tribune., 1865-09-30

Ing through and other visitors ana residents IN tne
oroyinces will provide q respectable support for the
enterprise The price will be five sous and all the
London news Of the preceding evening, with the latest
American kilograms, viii be given Some ihnuentia'
members of the Paris Jockey Club intend making II
the English organ Of French sporting interests and The
largo sum Of $50 OO0 francs ia spoken OF as ALREADY SUB
scribed for the support of the project
With reference 10 the Taleyrand correspond
.nce which had been tied up and rut away for another
Quarter Of a century, owing TO the viii Of the late
nossessor il ia now said that the three large boxes
pclosng the papers have been forwarded to England
for safe keeping until the time shall arrive when they
may be published. 1t is stated that all the import
ant papers Of Messrs Guizot Theirs. De Lamartine.
DE Montalembert. and Berryer are kept in England.
The fact suggestive OF much that is not very pleasant
to think about.
The eighth volume of Varnhagen's Diary has
us appeared at Zurich It's chief interest the picture
1t draws of the subserviency of Prussia to Austria and
Russia Ia years ago.
A Florence letter has the following; In
Modena treasure has been discovered in the form OF
account book with double entries kept by that mos
chivalrous and humorous OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A'osto. The register commences with the year lO<@
and terminates with the 18th of May. 1929 ana h III
the handwriting of him who sang Of Orand" tna' noS'
conspicuous and celebrated among the people, repu'eu
to be very sensible yet gone furousy mad rom suee'
love- This tronraiNs is bound in parchment ana con
tans 10 leaves each Of which bears the ducal stamp OF
the House of Este" Some letters in the handwriting
of Arosto have recently been disposed OF in London
A. Krabbe & Co., of Stuttgart, announce an
edition of the complete works (Er:d'end'n Sehrjen)
of Edmund H0er in 10 volumes. Edmund Hoer is one
of the most successful and industrious of modern Ger
man novess This collection of his novels and tales
contains no less than $40 stories.
Continental journals announce that NJ. Talan-
der has translated Mr Sam. Sriles's "Selph Helph
The Rev. Robert Payne Smith, M. A., the
new Regius Professor of Divinity in the University Of
Oxford was educated at Pembroke College. where he
graduated in le4l taking second class in classics IN
ls43 he obtained the Pusey and EIeIton Hebrew
Scholarship In 1857 he appointed subibrarinn OF
the Bodeian Library and hampton Lecturer in 1852
In 1862 he published Authenticity and Messianic In
depreciation of Isaiah
A correspondent Of London Journal an
nounces the following literary discoveries, which ere
curious If true: Bibophiles lin Pars rejoice at the
fact that in knocking down modern villa erected on
the site of an antique Roman dwelling some precious
fragments have been discovered which fill up certain
passages wanting in the Annals Of Tacitus Further.
more few unpublished pages Of the Republic OF
Cicero have been found in the library of the old con
vent of Fucno as also fragments Of the lost books Of
Livys History. Canon Bifi is the fortunate stu
dent who has stumbled upon these valuable relies Of the
past and he has promised to pubish them as soon as
possible for the edfcaton of the learned Strange to
say. somewhat similar discovery has been made in
Mexico 1t appears that nuncio Of former days left
at his death the whole Of Pambeo Littas work. with
valuable Autograph notes. The work has been pur
chased by French military surgeon
The great work upon which Mr.. Thorpe, the
distinguished Anglo-Saxon scholar, has been long
engaged has now been conpleted 1t comprises copies
Of extracts FROM, all the most curious and valuable
early Anglo charters known TO exist with note
and historical deductions by the able editor In select
ing his materials is understood that Mr. Thorpe es
peciay to obtain copies of those charters whie
were peculiarly illustrative of the age in which the
were issued. The work forms one large. handsom
volume.
To the many valuable works on the Anglo
Saxon tongue and early English language which DIR
Boswoh and his fellow students have put forth within
the last few years. there will be shortly added Versions
ofthe Holy Gospels in Gothic A. D. BOO; Anglo Saxon
e95; Wycfe 1899; and Tyndale, 1896 in parallel col
umns. with Preface Notes, etc." Tie work will be
Jointly edited by the Rev. DR. Bosworth and g. Wnrng,
esq. 1t will extend COO pages of coseyprinted
octave and viii be published in October next.
The letters of King George III. to Lord
North, edited by Mr.. Dome the Examncr of Plays in
the Lord Chamberlain's Office, to be publishcd by
Murray will soon, as are informed be in the hands
Of the printer.
"Less than eighteen years ago." writes a
gentleman In San Froucsco "a period within the
memory of manya youth at;' ndiug the public
schools of this city there not probably 800 vol
umes Of English books within the territory com
prisng the State Of California. To-day the bound
books printed in the English language and scattered
through the limits Of the Safe caInot number less
than OOO OC0 volumes Almost every city, town and
village in the State has its public and circulating
library and the private dwellings well supplied
with books the older States Of the Ubion Among
The largest Libraries outside San Francisco the
State Library at Sacramento, with % 90 volumes; the
Sacramento City Library. with 900 volumes; the
Marysyie City Library with 5000 yolnmes; the Stock
ton City Library 5000 beside the College Libraries at
San Jose aud Oakland. oud large number Of circn
lating libraries in the smaller towns and villages In
10000 volumes; the Odd FelloNs' Library with 1000;
the Library Of the Young Mems Cbrstion Union, with
1000 volumes and smaller Libraries belonging to The
Masonic fraternity and the Pioneers Association. A
place of public called What Cheer House bas
library of 5000 volumes in continual use and the sun.
day-school ibIaries number many thousand volumes
With the exception Of antiquarian books and the more
costly scientific publications the California libraries
are quite as well supplied those in the older States
The largest bookselling firms those of Bancroft
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