New-York daily tribune., 1866-02-15
LITERARY ITEMS.

| A vast collection OF letters, notes, ana NloIh-
orania s,id to iii ten large chests Illustrative Of the
literary BE and abors OF Walter Savage Landor. has
been handed oyes 10 Mr. John Forster as the materials
from which 10 write the poets life.
! Mr.. Charles Knight is about to reissue, in
cheap weekly Numbers, his excellent "English Cyclic
pnda" IL il 10 commence with the vision OF Arts
and Sciences" and Will be followed Immediately By
Biography" " Geogrophy,' and Natural History
al iueieasel N yoGo by OF supplements now be-
ing prepared.
| A London publishing firm has been recently
trying TO prevail the Poet Laureate 10 permit tho
Introduction INTO England OF the American editions o.
bis works alleging a reason that they are quite az
we'll II not better printed. and that they are 80 very
much chopper than the English editions. Another
reason adduced fUr their introduction Was the desG
bnity OF circulating Mr.. Iennysons writings among
the working. classes. Notwithstanding thcsc repre-
sentations the Laureate has failed to perceive any ne
cessty lor allow ng American reprints OF bis poems 10
circulate IN England.
Seventeen highly interesting autograph letters
of Lord Byron have been recently offered for sale in
London. They are mostly addressed TO Mr. j. Hods.
on and contain numerous passages which have not yet
been published One for instance contains this rather
plain confessions IL hope yol will find me an atered
personige 40 not mean in body, but In manner Tor
begin TO find out that nothing but virtue will do in this
world. ] am toleIlbly sick OF vice. which have
tried in it, agreeable varieties, and mean, on my re-.
turn to cut of all my disSolue acquaintance leave oil
vine and earnal company, and beake myself TO politics
aud decorum.' In another letter. dated Aihehs. be
Says am living slons n the Franciscan Monastery.
with Capuchin friar. and handy-.cgged Turkish
cook. two Albanion savages Tartar ana 10 draeo'
man" Respecting his speech In the House OF Lords,
he remarks. 81 have had many marvellous euioges re
peatcd 70 snce, in person and By proxy Of tLese
shall only mention Sir /. Burdett. He says II Is
the best speech by lord since the Lord knows whenP"
Ceryanes has often been suspected of intend
in; Don QniIoe" r political satire on the Dnkc Of
Lerna and some recent discoveries made by Ar. Raw
don Brown in Venice tend TO raise the suspicion to the
rank " n literary fact Having got at the inner
meaning of this famous by of his direct
discoveries Mr. Brown has devised key to the char
sccrs BY which many obscure parts Of the satire are
brought into new light.
I The English translation of the first volume Of
the Imperial Vie do Jules Cesar" has been con-
mercial success and Messrs. Cassol & Co. have had
the graGction OF forwarding TO the agents of the En-
peror in consequence sum much beyond the amount
originally stipulated for the exclusive right Of ransa-
lion into English Tie translation OF the second vol
ume is also rapidly approaching completion. IL will be
Illustrated with 81 maps. The final proofs OF the orig
iuel have been printed and the Emperor is revising
them IL il expected that the Volume will be published
in the middle OF March.
NJ. Victor Hugo has new romance in The
press the title Of il Les 1ravailleurs Go Ia Mer"
Sir John Lawrence has sent three native
agents disguised Is merchants 20 explore Central
Asia by different roates. Each one Is independent Of
the oher. and kept in ignorance OF ther appointment
so that on their -aurn three independent narratives
may be looked s. They are instructed to tnkc note OF
all that they SEE 10 observe The temper oihe different
peoples among whom they travel, whether movements
are taking place favor Of EusSia aud to visit Box
hara Khokand and Samarcand before the! iarn back.
The Marquis Msssimo dA2egio died at Turin
ON the 18th instant He OF The earliest proec-
tors of Italian unity and his services to his country
will not soon be- forgotten He married the daughter
OF Manzoni and himself poet and novelist OF no
mean order Moreyer lie true Italian, and never
swerye from his fidelity 10 the cause OF unity, either in
bis writings in his pubic acts. The Marquis
IA zeglio also painter Of considerable ability,
great patron OF art and promoter of national under
akpgs lie was only &C yea.s OF age at the time OF his
death having been born at Piedmont In the year leOo
The italian Minister at this Court the Marquis dAzeg
lilo. Is the nephew Of the deceased statesman.
An Irish antiquary OF some celebrity has just
died in Dublin-Dr Petrie the author o, the "Eound
Towers Of Ireland" lie born In 1871 and his ori
gina profession was that Of painter bat his tastes
were more for literature and antiquarian studies and
when an opportunity afforded he abandoned the brush
! and the palette fer the pen His Essay the Round
Towers gained him the gold medal Of the Royal Irish
Academy. lie afterward gained prize from the same
critical body for his Essay tho Military Antiquities
of Ireland. Many interesting facts relative TO the
Cyclopean architecture Of Irelands earliest inhabitants
were given in this. He aitcrwsrd engaged the
historical and antiquarian sections OF the Ordnance
Survey OF Ireland. OF Irish native music which many
years since was go successfully treated OF by Mr. Hard
man in his work. DIR. Petrie is said to have lef very
valuable collection.
Mr.. Bayard Taylor is busy with the proc
sheets of his novel rapidly passing through
the press of Hurd Houghton. lie calls it "1ht
Story of Kenneth II is supposed 10 contain ever
more Of the elements Of popular novel than Hannah
Thurston' or John Godfrey" The scene is laid ii
and about the village Kennctt SQuaro--thc authori
native placesnd describes the quaint and picturesque
country lie Of Pennsylyani ut the beginning OF th
century.
| The same publishers are abont 10 issue volume o
Arctic discovery by DR.. Hayes entitled Exploration
towards the North Pole In the years ls606l."
] James Miller hss in press pew work by th,