The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-18
LITERARY NOTES.

The London Magazines tor September run
strongly to politics. With the near approached
18th November-no other lopic has cbauee.
"Fras6r" reviews its pltless attacks on pr.
DisIaeli, with an exposition OF The Religious
Creed and Opinions OF the Caucasian Champ bn
OF the Church'-brlliant and bitter. but Rot
more bitter than its subject deserves. The
"CoInhilp discourses ON Pocket Boroughs."
The Contemporary Review has an article by
DR.. Brady on The ''Irish Establishment" and by
Mr.. F. N. Ludlow on Mr.. Hare's utopian scheme
for the representation of everybody. 'Blaek-
wood" continues Its romantic biography OF Mr..
Disraeli, whom it cannot enough admire as plain
Mr., and hands, dove TO posterty as The
Right Honorable Benja Dsraelt -
string OF preixes which posterity will
soon the Of repeating. In Macmil-
"The Candidates for next ParllamPnt"-- an atti-
Gle which is not meant to be profound, but is
full Of the sort OF information which only he can
supply who knows London and it's clubs in
London as it is often called. 1t is no doubt
true, as Mr. Dicey says, that the character of
the next Parliament is determined in advance.
Out OF 1900 or l4OO candidates already in the
field, an overwhelming majority belong to one
or another of the classes which were dominant
in the House, the representatives, OF land or of
money, who have been more plcturesQuely de-
scribed as country squires and retired soap
boilers. They are the last men In the world TO
reform or to lnnovate, and be their constituent
ces never so radical, 1t is idle to expect from
respect to property. They Will go so far as they
must not step farther.
AT late meeting of the Paris Academy of
Medicine, curious paper was read, on behalf
ofM Dubois, ofAmiens, entitled Investigations
into the death of Julius Caesar" NJ Dubois
having locked up the various passages refer
ring to this famous historic Incident to be
found in Dion Cassius, Plutarch, Suetonius,
Appian, ETC., and comparing them with one
another, has fixed the spots where the four first
wounds were inflicted; and the names Of the
conspirators who inflicted them. The first
blow, struck by one of the brothers Casca,
produced slight wound underneath the left
clavicle; the second, struck by the other Casca,
penetrated the walls of the thoraY, TO wards the
right; Cassius inflicted the third wound in the
face. Decimus Brut1s gave the fourth stab in
the region OF the groin. Contrary to the gene
raj opinion. Marcus Brutus though one OF the
conspirators, did not strike the Dictator. After
the first blows Caesar tainted, and then all the
conspirators hacked his body. He was carried
by three slaves In litter TO his house. Anstis-
thus, the physician, was called in and found
thirty five wounds, only one of which was in
his opinion fatal, that OF the second Casca.
The cheap magazines of a low class which
are prepared for the use of juveniles have often
been denounced, but never with so much rieor,
SO far as we have observed, as by writer In
Mr.. Spurgeont journal, called The Sloord and
The TToWet. There is, we are told, "dew of
indellcacy" over these publications. The
human fends' who carried on the slave traffic
in America were bad enough, but the ofenses
of these and other wicked personages enume-
rated by the writer are slight compared with
'Tbe Satanic crime of those who. reeking with
the foul sulphur stencil of the kennels of he'll,
trample conscience under loot, obtain their
degree in the highest college of Hades and set
themselves up in sin.blighted world as the
instructors and corrupters of youth" In this
| interesting magazine there is altogether great
| deal OF sword and very little tro vel.
That indefatigabe cultivator of Shakes-
peIean studies, Count Carlo Rusconi, has pub
lished the fifth part of his translation of Shakes
peare with the original text, being Julius C0psnf
| Indeed Shakespeare influences are every day
| more and more in the ascendant in the Italian
| literature and drama. One of the most interest
| ing course of lectures given during the past
| Professor DALI Ongaro on the Italian sources of
Shakes peaIe's plays; and Salvini the first &C or
| of Italy, whose '0thellon has long been so cele-
brated, is now making preparations to bring out
at the Politeama Romeo and juliet.
The Duchy of SAKE Weimar has established
press law which abolishes printers licenses,
caution money, the preliminary deposit of a
| copy with the Administration, the penalties
against alleged completely between the editor
| and the printer, ETC., and substitutes for them
| the application of the common law to journalists;
1t also imposes on the Judge the duty of render
! ing his sentence, with the reasons it rests on,
within two days after the seizure OF Journal or
| printed work.
Mgr. Luigi Filippi Bishop of Aquila, has
| published curious work on modern spiritual
| ism. His Eminence expounis the doctrine of
the Church on The subject Of good or rebellious
angels, and shows that the present facts with
! which people occupy themselves nowadays
| have their prototype in the Old Testament as
well as in the annals Of the Church.
| MIR. Van Lennep, novel writer and poet,
who had achieved celebrity, has died at Obster.
| beck in his sixty-sixth year. Some of his books
had been translated INTO foreign languages.
| The Atheneun states that Mr.. William
Michael ossettl has undertaken to prepare for
the Chaucer Society detailed comparison OF
Boccaccio's "Filostrato," with ChauceIs "Troy-