New-York tribune., 1867-04-26
LITERARY ITEMS,

According to Paris correspondent Of the IRdepend
aee Beige Victor Hugos dramatic works about to be
restored to the French stage the necessary permission
from the Government and from the author having been
obtained.
The French Protestant Historical Society has pro-
posed the subjects Of the present years prize essays
parsonage episode of the French Reformation
he precise individual incident TO he hereafter nNeD
and secondly the biography OF Antoine CGulI VINO,
from the year i72O, undertook 10 restore the Prote
churches destroyed al the time Of the revocation VI INC
Ediet Of Nantes
Edward Mueller, of Cothen, has inst completed his
Etymoogca Dictionary Of the English Language. he
has used largely the works Of WedgwoOd, Max Muller
Metzner and Koch as his authorities besides hes 9
Nahns edition Of Webster Bopps GossaTy sy ncnm9e aI
DiefenBach and Diez are quoted on every page
The Rev. Or. John Campbell editor of Tie British
dard and other periodicals. and the author Of several
works chiefly Of a controversial character, has died a
the age Of 72 He minister Of tine Independent or
Congregational denomination, and d. u. Of ST. Andrews
-"i'isiou with The Saturday Reeiel and as long bac
fsS1 haa ,atIuversy With tlle Queens printers on
the Bible printing monopoly Wlch leSulleU 40 l"lso Io
nuotloh III the p1ce Oi the scriptures, -.t-+-
The Rev. William Alexander Dean of Emily, has
brought forward candidate for the vacant Char
OF Poetry at Oxford far the most formidable uva
whom SIR Francis Doyle is likely TO have Mr. Alexander
real poct-toug poet verging on the rhetorlcian
Many Of his occasional poems have attracted good deal
of attention their brilliant. II too unChascncd, ina
gnation MI Alexandcrs greatest clam. however, TO
the Chair viii rest some of his critical essay
with certain OF his poems in the press. His crit
scsm Victor Hugo published about two years ago IA
yoiume Of Dublin essays was very p0etlea ana mas
ETiy piece o. t!luc4eIu'
From statistics recently publshed,' says the uop-
son) Publishers Crc,dT "it appears that, during the
first eleven months of 1904 France exported TO the value
pfIssOGOOf D hooks epgrayngs, and autographs; that
e a72g 200 sterling In 1856 tins figure lowered cOhsd
srably and only amounted tol73I9GOOf In 1899 u rose
shghty-that IS dgnS I tGe IsI ffse and boa1bs
were purchased by foreign customers OF TINS sum- IL
S5 50if were expended books written IN Flchch II
we add twelfth Of this for the month not ncnded
tn these statistics and reckon almancs ana NOlks III
dead or foreign languages shall find that fourteen
millions worth o divers publications are exported liom
France 70 foreign countries
The newspapers record the dcoeAse in his Sd year
n England OF Benjamin Z. wifien. member of the soc
ETY. OF Friends well known for his requirements III pa
ters connected with the history Of the Refomai IN
Spain In cooperation with "A Spanish friend, also de-
ceased 3Ir w6fcn was instrumental in the reprntiug OF
como twenty OF the works of the early Spas refornc
I've Of which the TpstOla ConsOatoria" OF Juan Perez
ami the AfaeetO ChrstianO Of Juan de Vadcs, we're
edited by hH. The latter work. indeed, owed ITS OcON
ery 10 him having unknown, to bbliograheis
soT the last three centuries until brought TO light and
translated Oy him in the year 1851 MI Wren was aQ
the author Of the Life of Vades prefXed to the recent
Sransla sn Of Hundred and Ten Divine Consdera
tons OF that writer In his earlier years Mt Wfen ha M
the fugitive poetry OF that day. lie
was the brother Of the late Mr. II Wiffen the tIansa
TassO and OF Galcilasso de Ia vega ana O -hIs'
Alalic a. Watts.
The Italians, il appears, are as ingenious as the
Freuch in making strange blunders or nventng absurd
uctons, with respect TO English matters. A Florence
letter says In addition Shakespeares Richard ILL.,
we have lately favored with original illustrations
from contemporary Italian dramatists of what some OF
those gentlemen choose TO consider the most remarRa
BILE facts In the English political and literary history o
The nineteenth century. We have had GorHo Byron III
Senela,' and most remarkable production, am com
PEELED SAY il Not only have we all GlOfgos
ward exhibited on the stage but his dread critical an
tagOniS Geffr Is represented as pursuing INN from
Aud Reee the City OF the Lagunes, and there renew
IDg his yindotiye prosecutions. No wonder that poor
1GoIsO, in danger OF succumbing before the combined
nuences Scotch animOSity and Italian love, takes his
neparture for Greece, and thunders FORTH just before
artiug several grand captrap passages distinctly Tore
kl,ado, thq (tapd ipSuPFectiOu