New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-21
LITERARY ITEMS.

A sermon on 1.-THE Vatican COuncilp prea;ched
A,theR C. Church OF st. Paul the Apostle in tbs city
The nth instant ny the Rev Father Hecker will shortly
1 published by the Catholic Publication s4Eiety
Messrs. Leypoldt and Holt will publish, in a
lew days. Prof Raphael PumpelyA narrative. entitled
Across America and Asia" aiming account of his
ave years journey around che world Prof Puppeiy
was superintendent of MI in Arizona during the ear
Rer days and went from. there 10 China and Japan
The first edition of the new English perlodl-
pal The Academy, was exhausted so soon that te sup
plies ordered By American dealers could not
and only few copies consequently reached cyeS bv
A eeeoHd edition is printing ana VIII DC A'0
Few persons are aware how many ransla-
tors Of foreign works are offered publishers hessrs
IavDo,dt Holt have been issue printed form
Of refusal TO aspiring translaOrs In when tney stS
that translation out OF sntv that are pub
ever published aud not one out Va '"'"'' ~ ~ 20
kshed ever pays more th'h us 0O'''
Miss Harriet Martineau, in writing to the
American publishers Of her volume of Biographical
skeches expresses herself greatly delighted with the
tone Of American criticisms on the volume put AZ o
same time much amused by some OF the mscohceptiVhs
into which Of her critics nave ialIeh Ohe VI
mnsic m regard TO which she says: IL an ODD Soca
lion 70 invent for me- have been deaffron
have taught anything except through the plo'
curious book, entitled "Notes of a Spy"
was lately published at ST. Petersburg THESE hotes are
the memoirs OF Russian subofcer named bouah'~oli'
who according to his showing, acted as SPY lo
the Russian Government during the last fOsh nsuIec
ton. Having lived for ten years in POan9 lie hau COM
pletey mastered the language auu ~ ' S,ai tbo cnn
ks natrotic professions he managed TO obtain me con
ndence of several Of the nsurgcnt Leaders, WHOM . nc
aferward betrayed TO the Government lie gives tno
Initials OF these chiefs, all OF whom nave Deeu eitnel
hanged or banlshed ana seems 10 With much hncon
how he got the secrets OF political prisoners p pre-
IN he houses Of rich landhOlders in the
disguise Of an insurgent in order to induce tneh
70 Drea5 b he noe With preteXt for plumber and vic.
lence of every kind As might be supposed, Ihese e
have had some very narrow escapes. once, as ne was
walking in the disguise of an insurseht near to
by them so closely that he had to run and de III soe
and as the peasants were lnrashE a @ 70 he
and had not him, he expected every lnoneht 70 o
cut down with their fails ON anothtL oCSaso Upe1
h PnIee Suddenly turning round struck at him with
Such force with his unlOaded gun that ne zen 10 e
gronnd with his horse and broke his arm HIS assaah5
tn" RAISED hrs weapon for second blow, which would
probably have killed him, but luckIy eght Cossa no
rushed forward and protected him from further INJURY
The Inverness Courier, in noticing the an
,suncement of an autobiography of Flora Macdonald.
preserver Of Prince Charles, preparing for pubca
ZION by Mr. Nimmo of Edinburgh observes; THAT none
of our Scottish historians or tOpographers, VINO
40 infinitely the wanderinRs and viessltudes OF Ches
Edward, seem to have been aware Ol te ~ IN
above manuscript. FlOra-Or FOry, as she sgneu heI
m and n she recorded fully her own trials
and the OF the Highlands in the middle OF last zen
She was in her oath year when she CALAMITY rlskeu
her own freedom 10 preserve that OF Prince
Charles. BY the JacObites of that day she was
idoized. private subscription was opened TOT her
which soon amounted TO 81 800 and she sat to Allan
Ramsay her portrait still preserved in Oxford The
features are decidedly Cec-the complexion dark, con-
trastng with the ample white that decOrates the
bust Boswell and Johnson describe her in 1873 as little
woman OF genteel appearance and pleasing address
When she returned the heroine of the day to the High
lands society cOurted by all classes, and between
three and years aferward she gave her hand Il
young Kngsburgh, who was the model of Highlander
Ia cOuntenanee figure dress. and speech Affairs do not
TO have gone prosperously with them and IN 77A
Flora and her husband emlgrated TO North Carolina
when the war broke out KngsbuTgh joined the Royalis
forces taken prisoner but regained his liberty and
served with the saith in Canada They returned, aud
a. Is related that the vessel ia which Flora
and her husband sailed attacked by French prl
Vateer ana while the Celtic heroine stood Oh decB
bravely anmatiug the seanien, she was thrown down
and OF her broken she was destined however
to die home last, departing in her 6Sh year. in 1870
and her shrOud being formed of of the sheets II
which Prince Charles slept at kingsburgh Here are
materials for romantic biography The hair breadth es
capes OF the royal waidefer-the state OF the High
lands while society yet retained Of the picturesque
features of canshipthe emigrant voyage across the
Atlantic aud the subsequent American warthe perilOu
Butainand the final ten years Of peace while
all changing in the Highlands and Islands, and The
cid disappearing from the land-such are the
striking events in the life of Flora Macdonald.