New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-03
LITERARY.
,,rxANpER DUMAS, JR.-RECENT FRENCH
LITERATURE.


T''~ 0'' N,poIEoNvILLE, France, July H. 1868
1,.,,,;,,r IIomel an historical writer OF consider
- ,orit lint of opposition prochvlnes, applies
Co.. rer,nission 10 examine the imperial MchlNcS
an searcb of documentary aids to the teilihg u"0
:" at AoTet's conspiracy against the first Empire
II ms Thought not prudent to yield to ms appica
ton .,..;o, Of his
In the prefaces to the collected edition Oh ni'
Dlays Alex. Dumas. jr. gives, with Other Gnu 49,.
ing matter most amusing accounts Oh inc "ui' 80.
trative Deliberations through which ne h"u - t,o
the way Of nearly all of them 10 fair stage anu ''o
III toror Tho Deai Monde for instance, was
gravelv Objected 10 by Count Waewskl' Minister "oS
poa,,1 A. Al the time on the score of It's immoral
-. Aud unmas unearths mere piece by TINS same
volow.lj which was damned at the Francois III 1910
Its title is PEcoldr Monde 1t was severely attacked
IN the night of il by TheOphle Gauher the most IN
dulpent of critics for the coaseness OF us
which he saws shocks the audience But NaleWshh
with authors vanity, would print 1t with preface
nuch 'cleveTer than the comedy, In when ne scOII
fully ridicues the prudery OF the pnDhc III SO Wei
chosen terms, that Dumas quoting PassSSTY
from it, adds If had not found this to my hanu,
would have written it for my own In another oi te
prefaces Dumas essays of the life ana haiu ni
of men of letteTs-One of his curious, acute .o
cynical ctude des GufS contemporaries; III lno coaSo
OF it he breaks into unwOnted heartneSS III sen
erous, feeling euogy OF his father ,or0 Inv D,eppe
Young Dumas is now on the ea-snOre py DIoIPO,
labOriOusly filing and fitting the dialogue auH 81
of a new comedy. SardOu has recently COM =.
ibrettO in four acts for an opera OF Wilch Dupid
:; 70 coInose tbe music 10 he produced at the grand
opera Ii is notable how NagneIs music ~ ;
westward Special correspondents itPol IL oi ILL.,
papers the gala performance az MuiiCh' u nv ~
week of his lfeistcr Singers Of AmcmOefG. Inc ~
bego,ju il TO be brought out at London, III bduoih
and perhaps at Paris. within n twelNe-hohtn
GounOd has struck work in FranceSd dd Htmh, anu
is now busted with q Requiem. Inc lhGalIe '',i
closed this week The last novelty there WIZ ad
adapted translation of the Agamcnhol atuiiPGu,o1S
10 Seneca an imitation of an imitation, very hsuu,
thin and dull. For the rest, hlii the 49,,
closed owing to the unexampled continuity OF Wai'
clear nights-audiences having disappeared ny soH-
sible peTspiratlOn = .,o.,,os+ ;r+er
estng occasionally puiied by poor Negus iuJUICiu
Twelve Years in Upper Ethlopie-A6yslnnlal' 10y
Amauld DAbbadie Consult Naperea3 ulctionat ~
or intelligent members of geographical societies lOi
Monsieur Abbadies rather exceptional Titles tOIeSpec
when he speaks to the Abysinnan question Asyet
ne gives us but the first volume OF announcements
of books almost ont of in, their way TO, ana pre-
pairing to start for the press, notable are; jules
Clareties Lbre Parole especially Tor IT'S WHY nShN
predatory letter addressed to the Minister Oh Iuolo
instruction Gt will not receive the COlpOiteuis
stamp though il would puzzle an tmgllsh or Ahell-
can conservative 10 guess why not after Pernsng us
pages UOuagcs dun CritiqHe 1rdr6S Ia We q tSS
liyTes by that indefatg able, Intelligent traNeleI
Philar6t Cbdsles who brings this volume BACK
from his iourneyings in Italian and Spanish llteia
ture and history There his bad Roman life, times
and surroundings with discOVerable aluslohS 10
Paris folks life and present times, by NJ Dsulci d
continuation of the studies AugWSte, IdlUe Ct S
su,is by the same ingenious and learned sub-satulc
historical lecturer at the College de Frances the 24th
yOlume of the Correspondence of Napoleon L., pru-
IDENTITY expurgated since the installation OF the new
Editing Commission and vol. Dist, but stu well
edited and Tich in documentary value; IHeLIIe'
which Jules Janin began TO write the day OF the
coup d 6tat and which, if for nothing but ITS title
no French bookseller for the next following years
Of seeing in print; Les Erilt is the prom
Using title Of a promised work by Charles
Hugo-Eugene Sue Pyat Ledru ROllin, Victor heho
lacher Theirs (for the short term, Col Chanas, &C.
tor Hugo, Quinet-what list of subjects for a Ighl
book that iusties such title by its contents tlha
book will no more get the cOpOrtage stamp than
George Sands Mare az DiabIe and Petite fddete pure
though they are as the Vicar of Wakeheldl Edgar
Ouinet who lies i'm exile at VeyteuX, in free SwtzeT-
land has nearly ready new work entitled La Greq-
HOH Octave Feuillet, librarian at fontaneOleau'
has read with approval of Court listeners chap
tors of bis new novel lUu will be sad to learn that
his fellOw-Academcian, MOntaembert has within
few DAYS. been suffering from q new ana rather
alarming attack of his chronic malady.