The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-26

poetry, of various sizes, containing about 400
pieces fpoetry, in 10000 pages, besides about
1000 englynion or epgrammatic stanzas. There
are also in the same collection ity-three volumes
of prose, or about 1890 pages, Containing a
great many curious documents on various sub
jects. Besides these, which we're purchased of
the widow of the celebrated Owen Jones, the
editor Of the Myvyrian Archaeology, there are
a vast number of collections of Welsh manu-
scripts in London and in the libraries of the
gentry of The principallties,"
Mr.. Dixon, editor of the London AGten9ua,
will visit this country in August. ..
"A monument is about to be erected at Nice
TO the memory of Ernst, the violinist,
Mr.. Dickens receives two thousand poun ds
sterling for the series of thirty readings he is
giving in London.
Mr.. S. G. Hall is now in Paris, making
arrangements for the publication of an illus
trated catalogue of the great Paris Exhibition.
Mr.. E. P. Hollister, who has been to France
for the purpose OF obtaining naaterieL for his
Life OF Lafayette" }" returned to New York by a
late steamer .......
Hon. A. W. Thayer, United States Consul
at Trieste, is about to publish, in Berlin, the
first volume of his "Life Of Beethoven" Mr.
Thayer has been engaged on the work Tor
fifteen years. .. ...
George Elliot" the author of adam
Bede," has just finished a new novel; which
win shortly be published by the Messrs.
BlackwoOd. The title is, Felix Holt, the
Radical" and the time the stormy period of the
first Reform bill
The Bishop of Exeter entered his eighty
ninth year on the sixth OF May. having been
horn NJ Rrid d0a ata hn ciN do pfM Mo
1878. He is the oldest graduate of Oxford now
living, having taken his B. A. degree in June,
1905, when he was only seventeen years of age.
"A new paper called The american Journal
of NltnllsnaticS has been issued in New York
by Mr.. Frank II. Norton, Librarian of the Brook
lyn Mercantile Library. 1t proposes to become
the exponent of the opinions and defender of the
interests eff all who make archaeology and nu-
mismatics their study.
The Catholic World fer June, full of various
interesting papers, is out; the second number of
the Crescent Monthly, a frst-class literary maya
zine, published in New Orleans, is also out. The
Land aoe Looe is the name of another excellent
Southern magazine, devoted to literature and
politics, the first number of which has Just been
issued. 1t is published at Charlotte, N. c., and
is edited by General D. H. Hill, late of the Con-
iederate army. .. .. ..
Among the latest announcements of English
publishers is a sort OF Spurgeon Jest Book, with
the title: :-"Anecdotes and Stories of the Rev. c.
II. Spurgeon, now first collected and arranged"
The London Reuieto says of it.-"This must not
take to itself the credit OF being the earliest ceri-
cal budget of wit. There was a 'Sterne's Con-
vivial Jester, or That's Your Sort"
-Messrs. d. d J. Sadlier & Co. have prepared
new editions of the following excellent works:-
Lives of the Early Martyrs Life of St. Vim
cent de Paul;' and "The Controversy between
Pope and Maguire.n They have also issued "a
Popular Life OF st. Patrick" from the pen of a
talented and worthy priest. This work is, as it's
title indicates, intended for general circulation
among the people, and will prove a very useful
and valuable addition to Irish literature.
| 1T is believed that Napoleon's 'Life of
| Caesar" will extend to four volumes, as the
second only goes as far as the passing of the
Rubicon .......,.
The latest criticism upon "Ecce Homo" is
that Of Lord Shaftesbury, who expressed his
! opinion of that work in the following terms:-
''See how men are deluded, how they are misled
! by those who should be better guides. / con-
tess was perfectly aghast the other day when
speaking to a clergyman, and asking him his
! opinion of that most pestilential book ever
vomited, think from the Jaws of hell; l mean
'Ecce Homo When asked him what was his
! opinion of that book he deliberately told me
he being a great professor of Evangelical reli-
gion-that that book had excited his deepest
admiration, and that he did not hesitate to say
/ that it had conferred great benefit upon his own
\ soul. Why, if we are to have this miserable
and uncertain teaching, if the guides to whom
we look for light and help can approve such
works as that, how can we expect that the mass
middle classes, who are supposed 10 think for
themselves, will not be led to wander out of the
right way ?? The booksellers do not copy this
notice IN the advertisements.
In book lust published in London, called
Charles Lamb, His Friends, His Haunts, anC
His Books" Lambs personal appearance is thus
Observation-Disclosures was large but fine head or
the small, spare body, and the two immaterial
legs as Thomas Hood called them, catching
Elias own tone. About his face, apart iron
its expression, was an ancient quaintness-
being iull OF wiry lines, with deep earnestnes
about the brows, rather hooked nose, anC
decided mouth. We all knew these old-fashloneC
faces full of character-but we do not meet SC
often that touching, half-melancholy smile uDde
| which his more Observant friends saw lingering
a sense of old troubles-nor those wonderful
eyes, the lamps of the whole iace-glittering
turning,-Seu1 percans-lookng, as Mr. Proc
tor SAID, as ii they would pick up pins an(
needless