New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-09-04

cries OF "Resgn" and Abdicate'o Apropo, OF
international opinion, the French Government Is
,nakpc tariy effort to get kindly hearing from the peo
Mo ~ tbis country in selling the ellknown M0Heur du
Son, al all the railway stations and other places In this
metropolis at the same price as in Paris orts equivalent
one hapenny. People buy it for the sake Of cheap les
son In the language II is published at loss BIZ the Gov
eminent its circulation only reaching 1000, little more
than half that of the Pet JosTna which pays sga
prot very greatnumber Of English have gone to Pars
IN be present the fees there to the international eA
hibon Of fisheries at Bouogne: Todays papers give 9c
counts OF serious accident at the former, OWING 70 ne
crowded state OF the streets and an alleged eo
spiraoy by pickpockets, who got up panic LOT tnei ~
Inc lowering OF the rate of discount by the Bank OF
England TO per cent WILL Of course, be deemed OF M
poance enough 10 DO transmitted New lork through
the cable. We talk great deal about IL mere, anu CIV,
disproporonaely eated Like r Ine told
him TO put his hat In shower OF rain, they aie grow
full for small mercies - -, rIo,ho~r
There has been bad accident at Elyplacc Holo9rn,
akin TO that which forms the catastrophe OF Dickeh ~
lie Dorrt-the falling Of old house, at early morning
when most of its poor tenants were IN Ded heSu"' w
killing Of two, the injury Of several. .a..
John Bright is going to Ireland where maghncesnis
reception awaits him. the people there ioinemocl @
speech at the beginning of the session on the
OF Habeds Corpus in that unfortunate island. tA'uo,'
Eyre of Jamaica is invited dinner at Southampton
by sympathizng snobs and Tories ana puDhe noe.iIs
is also advertised by the Liberals oil the SAME ~
protest against it, The police still extremely unpopu
lar among the working of this METROPOLIS IN eonse
auence Of their brutality during the Hyde PaTk ros
to Gust the Tory government pretty cary IN tne next
session. -. ,,Aos,os
Barry Cornwars longlookedfor book about Charles
Lamb has been published week ago, and 10 before me
have read every word OF IT, not must CONFESS WITHOUT
certain amount Of disappointment one eouh not neiP
hoping if not expecting that u would contain o,e ~
we knew already Of the most delightful the uqae man o
letters of the last generation, OF whom the
was the species he wrote of some OF his dearly oyeu
books And this is hardly the case d9e ,nns5 pape
in large Queen Anne type, and illustrated WITH
five photographic portraits (of which more anon
lis a memoir of 23i pages, eharrInngy Tne
euocstic and aectI. late including few personal rei-
niscences and impressions, but that IS all OF neeny s
Rather an interpretive study OF Lamb thah e'
with no detail than is necessary for tal purposes
ing full Justice TO the beautiful heroism of bis te ms eX
auisite genius and character IT adds almost hohhg
of fact to what Taourd told US long ago furthernoe
n repeats Taifourd not always carefully or improyngy
Onois tempted TO think that Mr.. Proctor mas Delayed
writing his book too longhe tells us he Is IN ms seveh
seventh year-an impression strengthened py nlS
/ talking Of Lamb as If he comparatively I'M
known 20 the present generation, ghlch surely
| is not the case. Why, Elias very soul has passed
into litenturel We have assimated him as completely
IA we have Shakespeare bet u.s. however try TO be as
thankful as possible 10 good old Barry Cornwa-any way
for the portraits. There three OF Lamb one youth
full from sketch by Hazitt; one, elderly ana ye,y me
by Dante Cary the third the rather scholastic neao ny
Meyer ordinarily prei1ed TO modern editions oil Lamp
works one Of Mary very interesting and one OF John
Lamb father Of both brother and sister, rather IKE Gee,se
washington To my thinking, Of them afford such
fectous idea of what magine Ella to have been as the
old curious picture in Frasers Magazine representing nm
AT his midnight table, leaning forward with BOOKS before
him. two candies decanter and tumbler, ana thS ln
material" legs gathered together. but they arc Ii Nu
bleanything about Charles Lamb Is So Aesnume, We
want an entirely edition OF his life and WORKS.
nm the plan adopted by Robert Chambers TO Burns-io
after Montague there is author whose writings ee ~
identical with autobiography comprising al tis
nultitudInous details dying round loose In countless
books and memoirs about the most loYeaoio o. EhShsl
humorist3.