The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-07


with the Oldest inhabitanp. at their head to
decide. 1t is a question hardly interesting
enough for others to investigate"
Another volume Of Count Gurowski's diary
is before u.s. If anybody opens this book with
the expectation of finding in it record of the
workings of q doubling ana bewudered soul
in its search after truth, he will be mserably
disappointed. Whatever struggles the Count
may have gone through in the formation of his
opinions, they were either all over before the
work before us was composed, or else he has
carefully excluded all trace of them from its
pages. In the "Diary" he appears before US as
fully illumined believer, and lays the lash over
the shoulders of the people around him with all
the passion and indignation of certainty,
The present volume is prefaced by table in
three parallel columns, containing first, the
names of persons mentioned in the book with
praise, =" numbering in all 1Ol; second, of those
spoken OF "halfand-half," in all %; and last, of
those spoken of with "blame, ;" in all 40. But
we are bound to say that this digest valuable as
it may seem, does not give the reader by any
means an adequate idea of the manner in which
the author has meted out his judgments. II we
weigh the blame against the praise, as we find it
in the body of the work. we shall find that, sup
posing 10l lbs. of praise to have been distributed
amongst the Counts favorites, or lb. man, at
least 200 lbs. of blame are distributed amongst
the 40 reprobates, or lbs. man.
The popular impression on laying it down
will be, we think, that the worst crime
of which the blood-stained administration
of Mr.. Lincoln was guilty, was in not
having made the Count himself Lieuten-
ant-General Vice-Admiral, and Secretary of the
| Treasury, and Secretary of State. And if he
win allow us to offer him little advice, which
| we do with horrible sense of our own unwor-
thiness, 1t will be, not to waste so much love as
he seems to do upon the American people. For
he may depend upon it they are not worthy of
| it. Any community which fills all its high
offices with such unmitigated scoundrels as those
| whom M. Gurowsk describes, can hardly be
| very pure itself or worth much commseration.
| We therefore recommend him to be man, put
up his pocket.handkerchief, lay down his pen,
| and 'rlet the whole concern" in the expressive
| language OF Mr.. Mantalini, ''go TO the demni-
| tion bow-wows."
| The secret of the authorship of Heloise
PdrdnqIet, the dramatic success Of the present
| Parisian season, has been at last revealed and
| the Parisians who had settled so decisively in
| their own minds that this new favorite was the
work of the younger Dumas, are furious at find
| ing themselves mistaken. The author, NJ. Des-
| chanel, in the couple of lines he has addressed
| to the manager OF the Gymnase on the subject
thus explains the motive which induced him to
offer his play anonymously the three
pieces had already brought out had been unfa
vorably received I felt sure that, had 1 ap-
pended my name to Heloise Pdrdnquet, no mana
ger wopld have even deigned to read the manu-
script For this reason l deposited my new
| piece anonymously in your box, leaving it to
stand or fall on its own merits think that
| the result has shown that acted wisely in SO
| doing"
"A London journal of March II says:-"0n
Monday, the foreign booksellers were active in
every direction with Victor Hugo's new work,
| Les Travalleurs de la Mer.' Early copies were
received here on Saturday afternoon. In Paris,
the work may be seen in every booksellers win
dow; but it will be some days before anything
like a supply reaches this country. The follow
ing lines are printed on the first page:-I dedi.
cate this book TO the rock of hospitality and
liberty, to that corner of ancient Norman land
where lives that little nation Of the seal dedi-
cate it to the island of Guernsey stern, yet
sweet my present asylum, and probably my
future gravel"
"A most curious gathering of autograph let
tiers addressed to the late Lady Blessington by
artists, literary men, noblemen, and others, has
been sold recently in London. The names of
Moore Shelley, Landseer, Dickens, Macready,
Bulwer Lytton, Disraeh, and many other cee.
brities occurred. There were also some very
extraordinary relics in the shape of locks OF
hair of distinguished persons; among others,
Lucretia Borgia (given by her to Peter Bembo,
and presented to Lady Blessington by the Abbe
Bentivoglio, keeper Of the Ambrosian Library,
at Milan, May "a, 1867; the Duke of Wellington,
Lord Nelson, Countess GuiCcloi, and Mrs.
Hemans.
One of the greatest rarities in the collection
of the late Mr.. George Daniel, of Islington,
author of ''Merrie England in the Olden
Time,n "Love Labor not Lost" and other not
very readable works, was a collection of old
black-letter ballads amounting to seventy IN
all, printed between the years 1859 and 1897
which Mr.. Daniel bought at a reasonable rate
as he did most of his curiosties, but which
realized ESQ at his SALE This collection is
about to be reprinted by its purchaser, Mr.
Frederick Huth, well known collector, as his
contribution to the members Of the Philo
bblio Society, close corporation of amateurs
whose publications are very limited in i'm
preston and only for private distribution
The Emperor Napoleon's 'Life of Caesar" has
been productive of numerous brochures against
him, the latest Of which, "LHistoire du Nou