The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-05
Foreign Literary Items.

| - ne D IIsI part ol the RoXburghe Ballads, fol
| the ballad Society, is in press
| Mr. DymOnd, who has been connected with
| the morning Star from its commencement Is
about to retire from that paper, with the inten-
| ton OF settling in Canada.
Count Philip Paul de Segur is the oldest
man IN the French Academy. He was born in
i1eO, and received" in 1880. But the oldest
Academican is NJ. A. Z. Villemain, born 1890.
and received into membership in 1921.
| line Queen s autograph letter.. by which she
| minated her intention to present to the Roval
academy her bust, the work of her daughter,
the Princess Louise, has, by her Maiestv's per,
| mission, been deposited in the archives of the
Academy. The bust will be placed, we believe,
| IN the chief exhibition room.
| -Mr. william Michael Rossett is editing a
cheap series OF the later British poets for Nessrs
Mo9XSon, with compendious biographico-critical
notices. Six volumes will be ready in October,
| Mr.. Rossettis new Life of Shelley is also in
press and will be published, with his edition of
| the poets works, in November
MI. Richard Morris will add to his re-edition
OF inc curious early Bestiary for the Early Enr-
llsh Text Society some thirteenth h-century Kent
lsh sermons translated from the French. the
Passion of our Lord" and other poems from
inc Jesus College MS. of the ''Owl and Nightin-
gale, and some versions of the Proverbs of
Alfred. VI
Mr. Wilkie Collins is alert, after long re-
pose. lie Is now engaged on a story which is
intended Tor successive numbers of CaSseWs
Mdgdzine We will suggest to Mr. Wilkie Col
Inns that if he completes his story before the
hrst number appears IN serial form his labor
VIII be materially lightened, his health spared,
and the public will be free from all possible dis
appointment.
The next book in Mr. Arber's excellent Sc
rles OF English reprints is the fifteenth century
version of Hthe 'Reuelacion of Sent Nicholas to
Monke OF Euysh9mme, A. d. 1876, from the
unique copy in the British Museum. not hereto
fore reprinted. 1t is an account of the monks
visit to Purgatory and Paradise, under the
guidance of ST. Nicholas, showing how sinners
are punished and well-doers rewarded, and in
tended for the comfort and profetyng of all
cristyn pepulle." There is, of course, much
matter in it for the illustration of the life and
opinions of the writer's time in England
-lhe NeWton-Pascal affair in Paris has come
to an end and in the way that was from the first
foreseen on the English side of the Channel At the
meeting of the Academy of Sciences on Sept.
IL, NJ. Chasles delivered q brief history of the
whole matter showing how the MSS. first came
into his hands by purchase of a few letters
then more and more followed to the number of
above 10000, all of which he also bought hay
ing no doubt of their genuineness; how that at
last his suspicious were excited and he requested
The Prelect of Police to set a watch on the
seller of manuscripts, and later recommended
that be should be arrested, which was accord
ingly done, and now the forger lies in prison
awaiting further inquiry. NJ. Chases is of
opinion that no single hand could have produced
so enormous mass of documents-so various
asupply OF letters, some even purporting to be
written by Julius Caesar, others by Charlemagne
ana lne MefoVlnglan kings, and that there
exists somewhere an association of forgers
which remains to be discovered. Hence we NAV
expect to hear of curious revelations on this
international" controversy, and on the means
by which it was brought about Every friend
of NJ. Chasles will rejoice that he has at last
spoken out, and made a clean breast of it.
The discovery of two new diamond fields
those of the Cape and of Victoria-has come in
good time to meet the demand. The East India
supply has long since declined, aud the mar
kets have of late years been dependent on Bra
lillian. On the whole the fashion for diamonds
has declined in Russia, Turkey, Spain, and Por-
tugal, though rise was created by the fashion
in Paris under the Empire and in the United
States. Diamonds used to be, in disturbed
countries, Tor the middle and higher classes,
which gold and silver furnished to the lower
classes. The improved political condition of
many countries has diminished both modes of
boarding. For small diamonds or diamond dust
for trade purposes the want has increased, and
the price sometimes reaches e600 per ounce.