The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-27


The French Cable Company will soon reduce
the tariff on all messages.
The Able Murei has just published his
Contemporary Religious Art
The Paris Liberte declares the Prince lmpe-
rial to be very obstinate youth.
The Saturday ReUie,C sharply criticizes
Victor Hugo for his immoral writings
"A memorial to Leigh Hunt has been set up
in Kensal Green Cemetery London.
Napoleon delights in snuDbing the French
Radicals whenever opportunity permits.
An international flag for hospitals i'm war has
been adopted by France and the Netherlands.
"A French academician declares that the
moon has no capacity for radating heat
Able Freppel will persuade the English
Rtuasts to return to the Catholic Church.
Professor Faber is coming money by ex-
hibiting his speaking machine in Hamburg.
The water of Calcutta is said to be dirty
with an exceeding large amount oilsediment."
THE World and Primitive Man according
to the Bible is the title of a new French work
by Monsignore Meignan.
Here is a Paris eptoph:-"Hcre lie the
remains of A. H., aged years months. His
life was one of abnegatOn and sacrifice
The japanese novelist Kiong te Balin has
finished a novel which he began nearly forty
years ago; but then it is in hundred and six
volumes. The romance readers in Japan will
have mice book for the long evenings of
several long winters.
-Nr. Sydney Dobell is still unable to leave
his bed, so severe was the accident which befell
him on Minchinhampton Common several weeks
ago. He was then thrown from young mare
he was riding. The animal fell backwards on
the ground, and then rolled on to his rider Mr..
| Dobell had been previously shaken by falling
| into the tunnel ut Po2zuoli.
| BY the recent death of Sir Charles Rushout,
Bart Originally Cockerell), one of the descend
! ants of Samuel Pepyss sister has passed away.
! The baronetcy was conferred on his father, Sir
Charles COckereD, for services in India. the re-
| cord of which in history does honor to a name
which disappeared when Sir Charles married the
Hon. Harriet Rushout, daughter of Lord North
\ wick.
Mr. j. r. secley, Fellow of Chrlst's College,
| Cambridge and Professor Of Latin at University
| College, London, has been appointed to the Pro-
| fessOrship of Modern History at Cambridge, rem
| dered vacant by the resignation of Canon Kings
| leg Mr.. Seeley was Senior Chancellor's Medal
! list in 1857, and bracketed with three others at
the head of the first class in the Classical Tri-
| pos. He is the reputed author of 'Ecce Homo"
| The Mohammedan College ut Calcutta was
reduced. to the great despair of Orientalists.
| because it was said to he of no use but to teach
foreign languages, Arabic and Persian, and to
| breed up fanatics and conspirators. The number
| of Mussumans in the employment of the Ben
! gal Government has now so much fallen off us to
have led to a remonstrance, and the appointment
of q committee to inquire into the causes of the
| decay of the College.
| As q companion to the spread of female
| education in India, we may report the decrease
! of monkey worship. 1t is considered ominous
| that Jugganath is this year left like broken
| down bullock cart i'll the Grand Trunk Road
near Calcutta, for want of willing hands to move
his car: but the people IN the south are stated to
have struck against the sacred monkeys. 1t is
| rudely observed that this modern desire of the
| natives to deport monkeys from their towns and
| villages is rather severe commentary on the
anxiety of Europeans to claim origin from the
| monkey tribe AS there is more room for them
here, perhaps the monkeys may come back to
| the homes of their ancestors.
| -Trevisas fourteenth-century translation of
the great cyclopedia of the Middle Ages, Bar
| tholom@us de Glanvilla de Proprietatibus Re-
rum, us to be edited from the MSS. by Mr.. Edw.
| b. Peacock, for the Early-English Text Society.
Mr.. Peacock proposes to devote two or three
| years to the task and to follow up the quaint
notions and superstitions set down in the book
to their sources-Aristotle, Pliny, Vincent de
| Beauvais, etc The AHenRunn says:-We COM
| mend to Mr.. Peacock's notice the Ms. of Trevisa
in the Cambridge University Library which,
though far less handsome than Mr.. Corser's aud
| the other MSS. in the British Museum is in a
| rough, informal handwriting, not that of pro-
fessed scribe, and has been corrected, in part at
least, that it may turn out to be of more
worth than the other professed acribes MSS:
though the readings we noticed in a haSty
animation of this Ms. were not of special excel
lence, and had not the eS and the strong dialec-
tical forms that so pleased Mr.. Richard Norris
in the Ms. Cotton, Tiberius Dvii, Of Treyisa'S
"Higden."
Another romance of the Godfrey-of- Bull
loigne, or Knight-Of-the-Swan cycle has lately
been published by NJ. c. Hippeau, in his series
of French Poets of the Middle Ages, namely,
Ia Conquete de jerusalem" written by the
Pilgrim Richard, and recast by Graindor de
Doua in the thirteenth century. This cycle of
romances was finished by 1868, as a MS that
contains all the six members of it bears that
date, and of all Godfrey of Bulloigne is the hero
The six romances are as follows:-1. "Hehas," g"
written about the year 1892 the history of the
ancestors of Godfrey; 2 "The Enhances, )" or the
first exploits of the hero; 3. ia Chanson
dAntioche," published by NJ. Paulin, Paris; A..
'Les Chetfs," adventures of some Crusaders
taken prisoners by the Saracens; s. "I4a Con-
quote de Jerusalen' 6. The account of the bat
ties fought against the Crusaders when masters
of the Holy City by the Soudan's army. OF all
this cycle we have as yet had only one small
section printed in English, the "Chevalere
Assigne," by Mr.. Stevenson for the Roxburghe
Club, and Mr. H. II. Gibbs for the Early-Eng-
lish Text Society. Divers MSS. of the English
! ''Siege of Jerusalem" are in existence and
! they are, no doubt translations from the
French; but on this point we still desire light.
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