New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-21
surERARY ITEMS.

nlTERARY HTEuS'
JB Lippincott & Co. have issued specimen pages
ana prospectus Of VOLUME Of stOoles ~ 'ae DOOA ~
a,,nal and Practical Remarks on the entire PsaeF by
,vm,.. 6 plnmer D. D. LII d. Author OF The Bible
- r,bovah Jlreh etc. The work viii be comprised in
.ps elegant royal syo. volume Of over ZOO pages.
The August number Of Hunts Merchants Magazine
IA connOea Rets contains several articles especially per-
uent 10 the present moments among which are paper on
hLeglatiye Lobbying" Props Of recent trial IN Brook
n, statistical account Of the Financial and Commerc'a
Coudi,ion Of Cbi;" the Army Navy and Population OF
Austria Prussia and the German Confederation analyses Of
tsroad reports and variety Of other valuable and interest,"
ing matter.
Mr. John Russell Bartlett Secretary Of state oil
Rhode Island whose Autographed account oil Tie La
sure Of the Rebellion recently noticed has III MS hp'
arnAss Of books pamphlets &C. relating TO the war Smch "
mia 10 be unrlvaed for size and interest by any slia
bon In oos he has accumulated thousands Oh e'''h
both pictorial and printed from innumeTabe journals "s
zines and ephcmeral sheets illustrating the passing
panos o. The hours While his shelves are bufdene0 WIN
ksmphles and ysgous documents, in many uin'i'A
images relating 10 the Rebellion or ITS cause - "
posSIe 70 overes,imae tie importance q snon sOi
trials for The history Of our times Inc ooccion Is o "
and valuable 10 remain in the custody O private individual
snd much 70 be desired that some one OF our gTeai puDe
tnrares should purchase ~ aud om the danger Of as
psissl or destruction.
"Catholc Publication Society has been started
anew by Row. Isaac I. Heekor Of he congregation
81 Psuss its object being TO diluse widely Catholic
truA by the publication and distribution Of tracts pamphlets
and other reading adapted TO this end" The Arch
Bishop Of HewYork ofcio President; the other Amer
can bishops Vice Presidents and the bishops honor
sy members Other persons become members by the pay
nent q Subscriptions Tie publications Of the Society are
sold price to oergymen aymen WHO may be inter
al adv
teen issned
The Spanish Papers and other Mscellanies, hith-
srto Unpublished and Unsolicited by Arlington Irving
which Hard Boughon Lave announced nearly ready for
fsbseTy Many Of TIE papes fst printed from the
original manuscripts and tie remainder aTe almost entirely
bew ~ the present generation The collection VIII FL two
souDss Tie fst contains The Legend Of Don Roderck
"Legsrd Of Count Julian and h, family Legend Of Peli
goI" AbdealnS0 he Founder Of Dynasty Of the On
hiades Spain Chronicle q FCrnan Gonzales Count Of
Esse Chronicle Of Fernando the Saint and Spanish
hopance" The second will comprise the Letters Of Jona
bsb 0dslyle Cent Biographical Sketches" and Re
tisys and Mscellanies."
The September number Of The Atlantic Monthly
CONTAINS third sonnet by Professor geow On Trans
kaiBs the Divbs Comnedia"s
nm mlae eyos and Oh tie windows blaze
Witt Tns q Saints anG loly men who died,
here martyTed and hereafter gloTifed;
AID The great Rose upon us lteyet GAplays
Chrstt Triumph, and the angelic ToundelsyS
VIII sIltndor upon sTleUdor multiphedi
And Beatrice 6gaiu nj Dantes slde,
No morc reblkes but smiles hes words OF praise
And then The organ sounds, and unseen eloirs
Sing the old Latin hymns q peace ana love
AND tcnedictlOHs OF the Holy GLosti
And tie mclodiCus bells among the spires
UeI al The bonse. tops and through heaven above
Proclaim TIE elevation Of the host
Among the Passages from HAWTHORNE Note
Books We find TIE following remarks on Thoreau;
"CoEcosp Thursday SEPT J, le42-Mr. ThoIeal dned
pith yesterday He is keen and delicate observe.
natuTe-a genuine Observer-whch, suspecf. - almost
d character as even al original Poets and Nature IN
fetuJp Tor lis love, seems 70 adopt hin as her especial Chill
bad tbows lin secrets which few others are allowed 10 wit
hess he aIa with beast fish fowl and reptile and has
stores ,e Of adventures and friendly with
hese lower brethren OF mortality. HeiD and hjwer hke-
wise wherever they whether IL garden on wiz WOOL
bre hs familiar FRIENDS. He s aso Intimate terms with
DE ee0ds aud tell the poeDts Of storms IL s etarae-
India tribes whose Wild lie would have smiled bin SO we
strange say be seldom walks over powed held with
lgt picking arIOT point scalead OF other rec OF he
I'D mar ttr spirits wild him 10 be the inheTl'of o
beI smple wealth
with all this be has more than iincsure of erature-a
Deer and true taste cT poetry especially foI the eder poets
tDd be s good wrefat least lie has written gool
BRANDING discnisition Natural Hstory ID We az pa
bhcb he ssyt chiefly made Up from journals o. h own
observations Methnks tEis article gives very Ialf ae
Derivation yet giving spirit wei IS letter Of what be
reflects its wooded oaIks showing every
bGf vet SWING the Wild beauty u the whole scene Then
ee ke articles passages o cloudy and dreamy meta
e snd sl,une themselves into spontaneous 90 they
hrfaIy NAV since there Is real poetry in them There
Ss Of GOOD and oral truth too throughout the art
Ne when reflection Of bis characters Tor be not I'M
kss 20 think and feel aud ind him healthy and wholesome
bal 70 know"
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