New-York tribune., 1867-02-08


Aeted TO the historical record than the volumnous fe
ton be- Yet the editor Of The BOtad Table picks me
ont OF the three story tellers the one PRgars ti
Voluminous Me-
think the circumstance, apparently irrelevant that
am sueing this editor for defamation, has something O
90 with this drou selection He has mind To show one
there are such things impenent liars well as i'm
penltent thieves My attorney shall give him pinch
for stale news
Lot me add that to pagarze is to borrow from homo
EeneOus, not from a heterogeneous source. When an
artist of fiction clothes with flesh aud vitality the dry
bones of State Trial this is not TO pagarize. Dramas
and Talos that are, and viii long remain, the delight and
wonder Of the world, have been so based on histories,
Biographies chronicles and other records indeed, the
more we scrunize origin Of lasting works. the more
shall incline TO say with the naturalsts, oHe ricui
"a ovO. am, sir, your faithful servant
CHARLES RELDE.
Zeigler, McCurdy, & Co., Philadelphia have in
oysss and will soon publish work entitled "Womans
M IL IN The Civil War" by DIR. l.. r Brockett and Mrs.
r, - Sssgban, prepared under the sanction Of the
Tfn,od s+ ~ Sanitary Commission, and with an Intro
euotOIy Chap viii & Contain Sketches Of % nearly two
EundTed iades and et notices OF about IO9r GU
pthoIs with just tn u SO snucI Coz the relief Of our
sftfering soldiers. ,--,,,--...- .--o
NJ DOolady announces for %1.,,
Tragedies entitled Calvary" and 'sn"-'' '0''~"s
handsome duOdceimo volume n
Sace the well-mown poetica editor Of The S"tS'i"s
Journal, are to appear in book FORM
NJ Du Challus new volume of travels, enIltleu
~ Journey TO Ashango Land and Further PeneugaoH
into Equatorial Africa with the Natural History man
pers and Of the Country and an account OF te
london with map and Illustrations
The Messrs. Macmillan are about to bring out o
new edition Of "Tom Brown" illustrated by Mr. sydney
Hall Of Pembroke College, Oxford whose clever G5ricS
in he aTle
zion, well known
Mr Cockyane announces that he has discovered
The Book Of Martyrs Of King Alfred The very exist @
ence OF such work appears to be quite modern ds
SOyery.
Mr. Mark Lemon republishes in adelightful volume )
freely illustrated his light and amusing but
accurate and valuable sketches OF some OF the eheI
memories connected with the London Streets
Some interesting official statistics Of literature
have been recently published by NJ Nato Minister Of
Public instruction Italy These which appear to have
Ssn collected with great care show that there are l64
public and 46 private libraries in Italy containing 4i9
Sato states as the result Of his investigations into pub
lie libraries that there volumes TO every 700 persons
h Austria; II in Prussia Is Russia; 264 in Bavaria
set IN Belgium, and 1875 in Italy .sssIs. e. .
N fArnartine has again ttS1ored the Parisian pub
nc With e bis pteous appeals Of literary mendicaney
His latest advetsement given by the French cores
pendent Of the publishers Circular, runs thus Before
dying NJ de LamartDe desires TO self-suryye in his
truth he offers hs Memoirs TO the public They viii
Bis age for6id him TO present the whole SUBSCRIPTION or
q volumes He viii content himself at first with offering
viii risk in entering engagements for that which he will
pot receive The price OF these 4yolumes is 4of This
price explained and justified by the exceptional nature
printing"
The acetc-acidulous Saturday Recieae has occasion
ally pthy comment American books one of which
b as follows: Mrs Akers pleasant poetess OF the
cid stamp, whom remembers in thousand Books OF
Beauty, Albums Of the Muses. and Keepsakes of the
araees an American lady apparently, she is above
Ihe conventional drawn foOnrhymng OF the old cOun
Try. II Is not necessary describe her yelseuent,
pirate fun Of pretty words aDonndingin rhyme rather
Writing poem must be task Qf rs trle sQ q QbGf rs
writing invitation TO dinef to more Vgdf and less
Ethersl beings There be reason why she should
pot have given twenty volumes just readily as one
Only is painfully puzzled To know what II all about
great many flowers in the world and much wind and
Starlight and twilight and gloom, and that tie flowers
And wind and lights in way very like human
life. But there is no precision TO speak OF There are
stanzas an Autumn Violet for instance, very
ne ana very gIaeeu D1t also eylaety meaning some
ingenuity seems likely TO fathom with ACCURACY"
fifth edition has Just APPEARED of Mr.. C1,rove,s
essay The CoffelaoD Of Physical dcveloncd
from lecture given at the london RESTITUTION fiyeand
twenty years ago. In the preface Mr. Grove recognizes
Ie haler vlews brought forward independently about
In 1T hI & SAM & th as his own, carly in 1912, by Meyer
Soule In WOhlers Annalen," and IN lsiS by ir
ne CLAIMS 10 have been "the first who introduced this
subject generalized system OF phos5ePny & ana % con
years during which It met With the o5iG,o99 Oh g b % s
anon the Correlation Of Forces there il now added Mr.
Groves Nottingham address Of 1850 on Continuity ana
this is also issued separately as an INDEPENDENT PuDuc
nOn-
A slashine reviewer in The Reader a weekly liter
.v journal in London believes that he sdemolishng
npreface OF Dr. Lathalns TO his edition Of Johnsons
Dictionary, demolishes. by mistake JolmSohs own
preface this fashion suppOsGg Qr JSasss1 70 ~ pE
Latham, the uDlucky critic WfHcs'
'He made excuses, II is true but the burden
Of what he says is this kind Of speech Of god ap-
DrOaching chaos, and with the wdve Of his hand setting
AL In order When took the first survey OF my under
sang found our speech copons without oer ana en-,
was perpexity to be dsentangled and confusion 70 he
regulated; Choice was TO De made ont OF D0ohiess
sdnteratlons 20 be detected without settled test
eye1 without the snffrages Of any writers Of classical
faputation or acknowledged authority having there,
tofe no assistance but from general grammar applied
sef 10 the per sal OF our writer's and noting Whateucr
night be Of use 10 illustrate any Tord or PhTase ScSumn-
lated in time the materials of Dictionary, Which, by DC
Erees, / reduced 70 order &e, &c"
After this quotation, the critic thus proceeds; -.
Had the sentence continued, An ignorant and care
ts scrub one Johnson preceded the colossal work
T. gantlike had undertaken with my mighty hdnu put
BeseEEved. and have alone unsided accomplished the
work myself should not have been surprised, for ~
NE Sss,d 4utRS fSs s1as rse % s SsS PTodncD fs eGd
sith the execution Of the editors work. is simply nbeaf
40 beg Messr iongnan TO cancel this Authors Preface
and substitute for IL which WIN do little more justice
vIOpe place far they Ike below his great predeces
ns tbIsla cotempcrary ionrnal remarks. at was Dr
Latham that had disappeared, and not Dr. johnson
Fhere never probably all time more dry, solid
atha@ The Paa Maa rather unklsdly looks forward to
FRe RSaderS second notice. We feel more deheaey IN
In matter II the unhappy has the Literary instinct
~ all ne win be q wreched exile board Australian
steamer by this time astrnsIea oy ms & ~
press 20 them that the dsease ne ID suing rom Is con