New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-07-22
LITER LITERARY ITEMS


The Dedication Committee OF the Antetam
uscnal Cemetery instead Of electng poet fOrhe ded
hatlon which viii take place tho nth Of September
aexk the anniversary Of the great battle whose name the
cemetery bears have thrown open the theme rurhsheu
~ he occasion TO the poets Of the country Prodaeno
Of not less than 200 lines collected to be 10
she Chairman OF the Committee SDr J. E. SnOdgrass',
WHOSE address Is No. lS4 East broadway, hot
later than September5 The wTitcr0f the poem oeemeo
The most appropriate wen Ss mert0r1ous VIII Ve OK
peeted read il part n ths cereOses; ana te Ies
due, % their character may warrant H W proO~S
&c collected, suitable FORM as belonging " INC
history Of the occasion. .... .s-.e ... o.. a..
An important work, has just been issaed ~
rnsses by order Of the Government ofVeDezuea unue
ah,tls Holoraeiop oecaJ per Ia priBsera ce desde
Nsrs IL IA America del sur POr F. Mieheiena t'e9"
tbe volume Ito pages and Inapllts inc NcoVu"'
Of an expeditoa undertaken almost entirely ny "d'er'
ASsyeon 1855 and 1851 order of Ae'Venezuelan Gov
rpsnt TIE expedition started from the mouth Of the
a0Fluooo and went up the country by that Tiverhe Ne
a Casia,are Rio Negro 90 Gnianial and crossed Ecua-
ar and Peru on the MaEOn and the Ucaya thence down
she Rver Amazon 20 Para wfenCe they went to Rio ia
ueirO by the Atlantic Tho expedition travereed the
whole continents consisting OfVenezaea English Guiana
Now-GTanadas Brazil, EHeador. Peru ana bohva' i. -
TrGbner & CO., London, have published re-
senty avery Interesting and handsomely got mp volume
IN the city OF Lima by Manuel A. Fuentes Of Lima I'M
der the title Of Lima OF Skeches Of ne Cepat o Atc
0~0"seteHN''NN3
Trfbner & Co. have just pubhshed an import
aat work the explorer under the title
Of ABeroo Vespoe earaetere, eerits meme les
carte indonanf les routes par r. A. de NaFnhagen, Min
bstre dntE3resii an Perou Chill ct Ecuador.
We find in TribneT's Literary Record" for
JuBe Is several Interesting items Of Oriental literary in
tongence; s-ttea '
~The ancient City Of SMYRNA has always been Of great
slOgist merchant. and full account oi ~ cannon IAN
sSi date 10 iay before the public carefully prepared
work on esu9eet IN the FTene1 pa original by
CoDstmtine Ironomos learned wig Aopd
aSe first Volume on Inheritance, of the digest Of
government by Mr.. X West and Dr. 9. Buhler has a9
T6e volume M S e III 1V
Kl An appendix comprising the chapters on v nnes
taa Vlshnn and Narada g. An fntroduction-L On the
sOlrces o. the Hindu Law. III. summary Of the Law OF
bombay Presidency .Translatons of the book into
Maratn Guzerath and Canarese, authorized by Govern
Several Numbers Of the Bombay Collections of Sans
m Classes announced last yesKrs IN Ie apd s R gG
and the RaghuyamsS by Mr sanksr Pandit NJ A. IN
RsfanJpe, b. A., aud the Kadameari, by Mr.. GOvind
IN October last year Sir Bartle Freres Government
which frequently extended its enlightened patronage
g Oriental letters set apart sum Of RS SU0 TOT ts p
make tour in the southern Martha and CsnaIa eSI1
EsSapuf sayi BeiSaan' etc and other places Of the
south, and 70 buy manuscripts for the GoyeTnment
an Yedie LiteratureA complete GOpatha Brahmana,
NE Kans1ksatra or as It's full ttIe runs me
xeda Zone complete and one ineSmPete set tse hTaa
Seltaries; the Baudhayana and GTihya s6tras
Observation-Disclosures; the Bharadvaja SltTa with the IA
Dard Baasya and anewset Of ParIsshas chiefly on pho
ketes belonging TO the White Yajuryeda, and attributed
% Vyadiand Kdtyayana: y In GrammaT-The kasika- |
"a II the author iss Bsuddha and called BOdhsa1sayo
dstfas PsdamsniSrf, she HaT4ESrifas the Madhaviya
ahatnyn dhatuyrhi Zone copy dated sake l42l Nara.
Gnchis Prayoga viyeka samgraha, with commentary;
Che Prakry ahapud with the commentary Of Vithala-
shAya Shadows paFibhashas Hemachandra sabdan-
oAksha and new LkhtasmTib, the Kasyapa smriti,
s0mpiese Vasshtha IN 20 chapters, eepy OF the tak
In PhiIosophy.%T6s AyrSddlsYtitf, On tSe sanihya
shiraA the on the Maya s9tras, the
Charekaand Apeya sambitRs. 81 -
-Ths Proceedings Of the Royal Bavarian Academy
tSe ife Of 7arastra by Professor Friedrich spiegel
professor spiegel puoEs in this account to sGnnSe
ts which RFViess wndsshMan9 Ssg e sa not S seM
sretabe since the life great feforneri fun Of inter
est aud OF the utmost importance The difficulty which
with respect to his early life and though Greek hsto
Tians Herodotus, Berosus aud Ktesas, who the
SUBJECT Sey are not always to be relied UPON This
YlSs especially % Kesias whose accounts though by
atced BY historians q later period thus rendering his
authority rather doubtful Great help however, sfOund
saiaTas those Of t6e oldest Greek historians and win be
ffnd In full accordaDSs with Furda and Hama. Pro
essOr spiege in the different chapters, speaks OF lara
thHsra name, age, birthplace his preparation foP hs
pr1estship aud bis soohrn IN Baetria,
. "PrOtsof Frederick Muller, Of the Imperial University
at Vienna fayOraby known to oriental scholars BY ms
nsgrsd k e ImSea Of Science to collect
an linguistic materials brought home by DR. seherzer
from the N0vaTa expedition Professor Muller had in
deed many new details to dispose Of and could thus edit
fhis yOusne originally intended 70 give also anthrO
Dologeayiew OF all tribes and nations visited by the
Eovara. The linguistic materials collected 5y Ut;
publish them separately from the anthropolo1cal re-
searches and We should think all scholars will applaud
khs decision Nevertheless, mist not expect from
NRler,sgork 10 get view the whole linguistic system
a our globe task from which We stand stu far re-
moved Professor Muer's work intends 70 aequaint us
WitsOme pecllartes OF the di0ns spoken by peoples
Visted by the Novaraexpedton and divides therefore
las book into four principal parts-the African, the
HlndOOs the Australan, and the Ian
Euages In respect Africa, he treats only the idoms
spoken Of the Negro ands-that is the language OF
Che HOttentots, the Bantu dioms and the Hamitic Ian
Ing the Hndo0 Peninsula contains four chapters namely
che Dfavada the SanskFt languages the snghaese or
CeylOn and most remarkable and highly interesting
dissertation about the origin development and extension
81 the HindOO characters The ldOs Of the Australian
sontnent together with those In Tasmania are relatively
the poorest part Of the book but must be confessed
nesaa Languages the other hand forming the fourth
part Of the work, treated Of at great length The
rex s,n ths r occ,,,s ic nace ~
science. The explanatory text clear, distinct and de-
void Of rhetorical noursesS But to any enc who not
valuable on account OF the strict and critical elahca
ton the languages and their Dialects far Of course
- s justified ~ our knowledge OF uem." ron gED
80 H61 Qualifications. 90,