The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-19


himself in the last years OF his life by making
manuscript copies Of his forgeries, each one of
which was, Of course, the genuine original
Simon Pure. We believe one of these copies was
sold here when the library Of Burton the actor
came to the hammer; and we know of another
which, in addition to Ireland's own balderdash,
contains a number of poems in the autograph OF
his mother.
The expenditures of the British Museum
during the past year amounted TO over half
million of dollars viz. fl0l, ,s09 las 4d., and
the sum required for the present year is esti-
mated at larger figure. The number of per
sons, exclusive of readers, who visited its gene
raj collections during the twelve months was
800, ,967, and the number OF readers 100, ,271-a
daily average of 349 each reader consulting
twelve books daily. Valuable acquisitions have
been made TO the department OF Oriental. Bri-
tish. and medieval antiquities and ethnoeraphy,
and the Greek and Roman departments have
been enriched By number of antiquities from
the Pourtalis sale. Professor Owen reports
1G,7OO additions to zoology, 1909 to geology,
and 1923 20 mineralogy.
The report which obtained currency some
time since, that Gustave Dore was making il.
lustratons tor Tenny yson's "Idyls of the King,
guage in which it is written, turns out to be
true, we sorry to say, for if there is any one
thing which Dore cannot do, we fear it is to
illustrate Tennyson properly. Browning he
might or that portion of Bro wning which is
represented by such poems as "Childe Roland
to the Dark Tower Came" having much in
common with his dark, weird, and irregular
genius. What must be, must be, however; and
MoXon Co., Tennysons publishers, are nego-
tiating with Dore for his drawings, which are
thirty in number. They are to be engraved in
London, we cannot see by whom, unless it be
by the Dalziel Brothers, and will probably be
ready tor the next holiday season.
George Eliot will soon delight the world
with another novel, to be called "Fellx Holt,
the Radical Messrs. Blackwood are the pub
! fishers OF the book, which will be out early in
June.
Mrs. Alfred Gatty, we'll known for an ad-
mirable series OF mystic moral fables for the
young, and some other writings, has begun a
new monthly magazine for the young, to be
! published by Bell q Daddy, and called Aosnt
! Jldy's Mdgdziae
M. Remains new book on the "Apostles"
has given great otfonse TO the Liberals. In y
chapter on Freedom Under the Roman EN-.
pre-" NJ! Rcnan expresses his convection that a
sovereignty is more favorable to freedom OF
thought than a rebublic. If, under the Empire,
| philosophers were meddled with, it was, NJ.
Renan thinks, only because they had the indis-
cretien to mix themselves up with politics.
| The drift OF the chapter, as interpreted in Paris,
seems to show want of sympathy with popular
! liberties which M. Renan treats as of very little
| consequence SO long as philosophers have
the leisure and the means OF prosecuting their
! studies.
Miss Frances Power Cobbe has written to
Pal MAJ Gazette the following note:-
"Sr:-Permit me to add another and peculiarly
interesting TO those cited by Dr. Forbes WINS
low OF intellectual vlgor in advanced age The yene.
| rabie Mrs Somervllle, now her eighty-seye
! year, has just completed vast work embody ing ali
E he latest results in relation TO the uti-
mate particles OF matter. Those who have seen the
! MS are assured that when the book appears this
summer 1t will be found to surpass rather than TALL
short of the merits the Physical Geography and
! Connection Of tue Sciences which half a century
aeo gave her the first rank among Intellectual
| -Turbner will publish one of the most unique
and valuable books ever published, "a History
of Dervishes." 1t is by an American, Mr..
| Brown, who is at present the interpreter to the
American embassy at Constantlnople.
! Dean Stanley delivered at the Royal Insti-
tute profoundly entertaining lecture on
Westminster Abbey" There was a distin.
! guished company of arlstocrats, eliminating in
| the Prince of Wales Old DR.. Faraday-very
in6rm-entered, and was supported to a seat.
He was received with a round of applause.
| Amongst others present were Mrs. Governor
Sprague and Miss Chase, from the United States.
Captain Ferguson, author of many valua.
Bile pathological works, is lecturing at Carlisle
| upon his late visit to the Southern States
| Another delay has taken place in the publ
| cation of Vol. II of the French Emperor's
Life of C@sar.n The different versions were
I to have appeared in the several European capi-
\ tails on the 1st OF May; but, as they will not
I all be ready to appear at that date, the 8th of
| May has been fixed upon by the imperial
| author as the day for simultaneous publication.
| The late Count Gurow wski left behind him an
immense mass of manuscripts, consisting of cor
respondence with the notabilities of this country
and Europe, besides a great many unpublished
| memoranda OF his own, 1t is reported that this
material win be arranged and edited for the
| benefit of surviving daughter.
The BISHOP OF OPFoRD ON DULL BooKs-Tbe
| Bishop OF Oxford made some very paIn.spoken and
practical observations at the meeting OF the Society
| tor the Promotion of Christian knowledge on the
30th nit. The main and Distinguishing work of the
| society, the bishop said, was in connection with
| its literature, 1t was difficult 10 get books
matter there was a terrible danger ahead danger
/ which cOuld be escaued. a faut which Id