The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-16

hcati0n OF the "Shakespeare Annuaf dlo not
increase their numbers. They do not, however,
despair and as they have still FIVE hundred and
seventy-three thalers in the treasury, they are
going to continue the work Tor at least another
year. ..riI
Hardly any ofense in literature is deserving
of as much contempt and reprobation as the too
frequent practice Of using false quotations from
reviews OF books to help along the sale of the
works. The beginning of one senteroe is some
times Joined to the end of another so as to alter
entirely the sense of the opinion expressed
This is so common that, except in advertisements
by the most honorable publishers, such quota
tions should be ent rely disregarded by persons
thinking of buying the book. Two very repu-
table firms in London have recently got by the
ears over question of this kind. The Quarterly
ReUie1o, in the April number, had very severe
article on "Ecce Homo, (" condemning 1t as un-
sound in faith, untrue in fact, and uncritical in
style. Messrs. Macmillan, the publishers of
"Ecce Homon thought that no advertisement
would be so good as this sweeping condemna.
ton, and accordingly reprinted this sentence
from the Q1torterly:-'The shallowest theories
and the flimsiest arguments find ready recep-
tion in an empty mind and their sole strength
is in the weakness and credulity of their dupos
Happily there is a vast bo iy OF educated men who
are better informed" Mr.. Murray, the publisher
OF the Quarterly ReUielo, complained of this cita
ton on the ground that many persons we're led
to infer that the Quarterly Rerieto had com.
mended "Ecce Homo" as an antidote against
shallow theories and "6imsy arguments" and
he published an Advertisement containing the
whole passage. Meesrs. Macmillan printed a
counter advertisement repudiating the charge
of ''garbling," to the effect that "the first SEN
tence OF The extract fully expressed the unfavor-
able opinion formed by the revie wer; and that,
in fact, had 1t not done so, the object of the
publishers in reprinting it would not have been
answered" To this statement Mr.. Murray re.
plied:-"' The first sentence of the extract
which the publishers OF 'Ecce Homo say fully
expressed the unfavorable opinion formed by
the reviewer was as tolows:--'To refute all the
errors which abound in "Ecce Homo" would be
tedious and useless. This sentence was not in
the original advertisement, and was only added
by the publishers of 'Ecce Homo after their
first extract had been a subject of comment"
Among the recent attempts at glossaries of
special periods and authors none is more de-
serving of praise than 'The Bible Word Book, ;"
by the late Rev. ]. Eastwood and Mr.. W. Adds
Wright, the Librarian of Trinity College, Cam
bridge. This is a small volume, containing
glossary of all the words in the authorized YER
sion OF the Bible and in the Book of Common
Prayer which are there used in a sense different
from that which they bear at present. The
authorized version does not represent the actual
language of 16ll; but it is a mosaic OF all the
different translations that were made, begin
ming with Tyndales New Testament, in 1926.
The illustrations of the senses of the obsolete
words used in the Bible are, therefore, scat
tered through all the literature of this period.
Many OF these illustrations, from over hun
dred authors, Mr.. Wright has here brought
together, ler Mr.. Eastwood died after forming
the plan of the book having done but little to its
execution; and the result is valuable hand
book not only for all readers of the Bible, but
for all readers of the English literature of the
sixteenth century. . a.at ... d..
M Octave Delapierre, one of the secretaries
of the French Legation at London and an active
and learned member Of the Philobiblion Society,
has just printed twenty-five copies of a curious
and interesting essay, written for that society,
in which he gives an account of all those visions
of hell and heaven which have been seen at
various times by religious enthusiasts "Le
Livre des Visions en- pEnfer ct le Ciel decrits
narrative. These are not mere descriptions of
heaven and hell, of which thousands were
written during the Middle Ages, some of them
with pretense of scientific knowledge, but
visions which the visionary believed himself
in coed faith, to have seen not in dreams or IN
Imagination, but by direct sight. They occurred
! generally while the patient was IN state of
catalepsy and seeming DEATH and when the soul
was supposed to be absent from the body.
M. Guizot has published new instament
OF his contribution to the most popular litSra-
| ture OF the day-that which concerns the origin
and history of Christianity. The volume is
| called ''Meditations on the Actual State of the
| Christian Religion" The volume which he had
promised on the origin of Christianity he has
! postponed for the present, probably to make it
] more responsive to Remains Apostles The
first part of the book presents the picture of the
Christian revival in France since the beginning
| of this century. The second offers brief
explanation and judicious and rapid apprecia
tion of the systems of philosophy, ratiopallsm,
materialism, pantheism, etc., that dispute the
| ground with religion. The book is well written,
and quite equal to the former volume of ''Medi.
tations" published last year. s 10
Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who has pub
lished nothing OF late except the admirable
article on character" in the last number of the
North American Reuielo, has been delivering a
course of lectures in Boston and elsewhere.
These lectures are announced forspeedypublica-
ton in England, under the name OF PHILOSOPHY
for the People," The titles of the lectures or
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