The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-04
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young sculptor of New York. The poem in ques-
ton, entitled "In the Wilderness" commemo-
rates an incident of the battle in that dreadful
locality on the nh of May. ls6l-the story Of
wounded boy who, after lying ali night un
tented on the field, was discovered in the morn
ing creeping around and picking violets;-
$50 lost in thought, scarce conscious Of the deed,
Culling the vioets here and there be crept
Slowly-ahi slowly-for his wound would bleed;
And the sweet flowers themselves half smiled, half
To be thus gathered in
BY hands so pale and thin,
By fin gers trembling rs they neatly laid
Stem upon stem, and bound them in q braid"
The Executive Committee of the Dramatic
College have awarded the prize of one hundred
pounds, left by the late T. P. Cook the famous
actor of sailor parts for the best national drama,
to Mr.. A. r. Slous, member Of the English
Stock Exchange. The title of his DRAMA which
is soon to be produced, is True to the Core.
"A new journal has recently been started in
Paris in the interest of the Great Exhibition of
next year. One of its objects is to give pub
licty to official documents bearing on the exhi
bition. and information useful to exhibitors;
another to establish a general international
agency whereby the journal will be in constant
correspondence with commissioners, commit
tees and other bodies delegated to the exhib-
ton from foreign countries. 1t is in direct rela-
ton with the Imperial Commission, which may
be reached through its columns. One of its
features will be series of biographical sketches
of the principal manufacturers and inventors
whose works are to be in the exhibition, of
which descriptions will be given while the ox-
hibition is in progress, together with reports
of the different juries and their awards. Agents
for this paper-Le MonaelT de pEGpoSitiOn Una.
UerSeue de lS67-are about to be appointed in
principal cities.
The publication OF his translation of Homer
last year by Lord Derby caused his political
opponent, Mr.. Gladstone, TO abandon transla-
ton of the same poet, upon which he had been
engaged for years. He has since changed his
determination, we now learn, and in due time
another English Homer will appear, bearing on
its ttle-page as translator the name of the Chan
Cellor of the Exchequer.
The original manuscript of Humboldts
"Cosmos" was recently presented to the EN-
peror Napoleon by NJ. Buschmann, Royal Libra
rian and member OF the Berlin Scientific Aca-
deny, who was employed by Humboldt to write
out the work from his rough notes, which were
so often corrected and enlarged that complete
and clean copy was necessary for the printer,
each sheet being literally covered by the
old saudnt. NJ. Buschmann carefully preserved
the manuscripts, which make five large quarto
volumes. The Emperor was pleased to accept
them, we are told-so pleased, indeed, that he
gave NJ. Buschmann the medal of the Legion of
Honor.
-Messrs. Hurd & Houghton have in prepara-
ton two books which, if well done, will be valu-
able contributions to the ever-increasing library
GT1.. I,.,,o Cyl,e 4.
speare" by Nathaniel Holmes, one of the judges
f the Supreme Court of Missouri, and 'Shake-
speares Delineation of Insanity, Imbeclity, and
Suicide" by DIR. o. A. Kellogg, Assistant Phys
clan of the Utica Insane Asylum. The writer oi
the first adopts what may be called the Baconian
theory Of the Shakespeare problem. Judge
Holmes is a believer in Miss Della Bacon, who
was believer in Lord Bacon, to the extent that
it was he, and not William Shakespeare, who
wrote Shakespeare's plays.
MIR. George Jesse has in the press IRE
searches into the History of the British Dog
from Ancient Laws, Charters, and Historical
Records, with Original Anecdotes from the
PJets and Prose Writers of Medieval and
Modern Times"
-"Cuthbert Bede" (the Rev. Mr.. Bradley il
about to publish, in two volumes, 'Matins anC
Muttons."
Mr.. Andrew Halliday has a new volum,
nearly ready, the title of (which suggests
memory of the late Washington Irving, viz.
"sunnysIde Papers,"
Louis, eX-King of Bavaria, is said to be q
Nice revising the manuscript of a new volum
of poems.
King John, Of SaXony, has lately publishes
the third and last part of his translation 0
Dante's "Divina Commeda."
Miss Isa Craig, who came into notice as
poetess by taking the prize for a Burns ode 70
his one hundredth birthday is said to be tn
editor of the Argosy, which we have reason +
belive is edited by Mr.. Charles Readc.
M LacroiX, who made his mark as a put
Usher by the sum which he paid tor NJ. Hugo
"Les Miserabes," and the success which h
secured Tor it, was lately sentenced to a fine {
$500 aud years imprisonment for publishing
posthumous work of NJ. Proudhon's, whic
consisted of skeptical notes on the Evangelists
"A new periodical has recently appeared /
England, bearing the imprint of Messrs. Straha
a. Co. Its title is The Contemporary ReUiea
and its object TO present the best thought of I'll
time, particularly IN its relation to and in i
discussions of serious theological questions. /
editor is understood 70 be Dean Afford
Mr. W. II. Russell has another new novel {
the eve of publcation-"The Adventures of D
Brady; or The City and the Camp"
Alexander StTahan (London and New Yorl
has in preparation the "Lives of Indian OF
GERS" forming biographical history of the civ
and military services of India, by John '
Kaye author of ''The Life of Lord Metcalfe
'"The Prospects and Resources of America,
certained during a visit IN the Sta+es in n