The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-16

when applying for Office, il you are conscious
of any deficiencies (moral, intellectual, or edu-
cational, or whatever else), keep them to your
self, and let those find them out whose business
| it may be. For example, supposng the Office OF
| translator TO the State Department were to be
| rendered you; accept 1t boldly, without hlntlng
| that your acquaintance with foreign languages
may not be the most familiar. IL the unim-
portant fact be discovered afterwards, you can
be transferred to some more suitable post. The
business is 10 establish yourself somehow and
anyhow. | have had as many offceseekers
knocking at my door for three months past as II
l were prime minister, so That L nave made
good many scientific observations in respect to
them. The words that Bradamante q think it
was) read in the enchanted ball are, and ought
to be, their motto:-'Be bold, be bold and
everywhere be bold But over one door she
read Re not too bold A subtle boldness, With
a veil of modesty over it, is what is needed
The question of the rights of authors is one
OF considerable difficulty. Should a song be
allowed copyright, like dramatic piece, so
that it could not be sung without benefit to the
author? At present both IN England and the
United States, popular song is sung az all the
concerts, and brings in much to the manager
and nothing to the author except its consequent
sale. The rights OF dramatic authors are sutf-
GENTLY protected but there is as yet in England
no protection to the authors of books against
dramatists who take their plots and even their
language and use them on the stage. bill
which was lately introduced into Parliament on
this subject by Lord Lyttleton has failed. The
bill in question was introduced at the request of
Mrs. Henry Wood, who had suffered from the
production on the stage of East Lynne in an
Extensively vulgar manner, the lessee of the
theatre where 1t was brought out the same time
refusing her any share in its profits.
The dramatic authors of Paris have lately
founded publishing agency of their own. No
class of literature brings such great profits for
so small an outlay, and no authors are treated
worse by their publishers than dramatic authors.
Il is only when the dramatist'S reputation is a
fortune in itself that the publishers are willing
to pay reasonable price to the author for his
work. Messrs. Levy Freres are especially noted
for their sharp bargains with dramatic authors.
They gave to NJ. Bouchardy for instance, one
hundred dollars for the copyright of Lazdre Ie
Pdtre, and the sale ran up to 100000 copies. M.
Louis Lacour is the general agent of the con-
cern, and an Office has been opened on the
Boulevard
An interesting and valuable collection of
autographs was lately sold in London, en-
braclng the famous collection OF Sir John Fem,
the editor of ''The Pastor Letters" and portions
of the collections of Peter LIE Neve, s. Ives, I.
Martin, of Palgrave, and the antiquary Bloom
field. 1t comprised deeds and charters, royal,
noble, and conventual. from the fifteenth cen
fury, or Whereabouts, with autograph letters aud
important documents from the time of Henry
VIII to the last century. Altogether it appears
to have been an important sale, though the
prices realized therein are lot mentioned.
The author OF "Monte Cristo" having gone to
Italy to act as secretary to Garibaldi, and to
pick up materials for fresh batch of novels,
Paris ran the risk of remaining ignorant OF this
important secret. Happily for the lovers of
| rabbit and of Dumas, the receipt IN question had
| been written down by one of their number, who,
| since the sudden departure OF ''the great Alex
ander" for the scene CT war, has generously
| given it to the public. The receipt is too COM
| plex for publication.
The Round Table begins a review of Miss
| BraGdons last novel, what is the Mystery ?" in
| the following rather uncomplImentary strain:-
The mystery, as we decipher it, is, first, that
| any one could write so supremely silly book;
| second that, being written, it can find readers.
| Beyond these we can discern no mystery of
sufficient importance to justify the use of
16O pages tor its solution. The contri-
vance OF the plot ought not to have occupied
more than ten minutes; and, as to the subse
| quent progress of the work. its internal evidence
| goes 10 prove that 1t was written as rapidly as
pen could move over paper, sent to the printer
| unrevlsed, and thence to the press without the
mediation of prooireader"
MIR. Thayer, our consul at Trieste, pronounces
the collection of Beethoven's letters by DR.. Lud
wig Nohl lately translated by Lady Wallace, a
| very imperfect one:- .r
my own collecton,n he says, ''contains over
three hundred letter not in this book, whlle his
| amounting, with those in the appendix, to
| only four hundred and eleven, has about seventy
| moth mine. And OF those seventy most of them
| are unimpoItant notes, often of but three or
four lines, from the papers of the lately deceased
| Anton SCHNEIDER. Many of his numbers are buI
| short extracts from letters of which my copies
are complete; and by far the greater part have
| been collected from printed books and periodi
Gals. Moreover, Professor jain, of Bohn, has
still many known neither to Nohl nor myselfn
Miss Harriet Parr has lately published the
Lite and Death of Jeanne dare, called The
Maid,'" which shows that the heroine was no
SO much warrior as atender-hearted woman:-
Jeanne was asked which she liked best tc
carry-her standard or her sword. Il like tC
carry my standard forty times better than my
sword. And always carried my standard my
| sell when attacked he enemy, to avoid killing
any one; and, indeed, neverdid kill any one.'
"A very useful guide to the study of the
causes OF the German war, and Of the relative
political situations and exigeneies of the grea
powers OF Europe, is collection Of essays JUS
, | published by Mountstuart r. Grant Duff, NJ. P.
| entitled Studies in European Politics" The
, essays, seven in number, are all very carefully
, | written, and have appeared before In varou,
, | reviews. The subjects treated of are Spain
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