New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-25


schools" This is so comprehensive, and comes from
such high authOrity-indeed We may say from head
quarteFs-that we don't know that can add
word. unless IL be the following specipen OF the ex-
cellent poetry" which distinguishes this publication
from large proportion of books now in use =
All ye who would true wisdom hnd
Must shun the base and idle
And seek instruction for the mind
From those that love the Bible.
The following interesting particulars in reference
TO the forthcoming work on the identity of Junius
are given in the Monthly Gossip of LipDaoOPs
Magazine for January
In number for August, 1863 referred to certain
private letters copies Of which had been permitted
examine, but not to print In advance OF their publication
in England, proving that sir Philip Francis was the
pers, together with other documentary matter
about to be published in England by the Hon Edward
els aud Junlus folsws Upon the publication the
fac SMILES OF the famous tegned hand OF Junius Mrs
King nee Giles OF YOnnRsbnry IN Essex. at recog
nized the handwriting Of an anonymous note which
had received In l70, at Bath with copy OF
incOsed written In different and unknown hand From
various circumstances she had always believed aud
stated that this note from Philip Francls but
attracted great attention Upon the publication OF
the LIFE 0fST Phtip Francis about two years ago. how
Quoted ina letter from Richard TisSman Of Pna
depfa Ceder brother Of the late ChiefJnstics Thigh
manner plainly Implying that Francis would
recognize them This led TO renewed examination OF
verses seds ~ fgImaLs HANDWRITING Now Tiighman,
appears from the LIE Of Frauds. while law student
years or the Junus periodwas the intimate friend OF
Francis, who was his relation, and was with him at
Bath at the time the verses delivered These facts
led 20 most careful Examination by thers experts In
London. Of the original note in which tho verses
were enyeloped and they unhesltatingy pronounce IL
10 be- beyond all doubt, written In the "feigned hand"
OF Junius IL follows that Junius the writer OF the
note. His friend Tlghman wrote the verses tno
doubt copied them for Francis): and when, three
years afterwardwc find him quoting the In let
ter 10 fr1ne the conclusion Irresistible that one OF
the two wrote the note which envelOped them. But the
writer OF the note was Junius, which fghman could
have been, because among thousand other reasons,
the Junus Letters began before his arrival In England
and continued after is return TO America. II follows.
therefore, that Francis was the writer and thus after
the secret has been kept impenetrabe mystery FOR lust
century, trivial accident has led 10 Its discovery aid
20 the absolute demonstration that Francis Junius
We add that we have ourselves compared the fac
Smiles Of the note with those OF tho fegned hand Of
Junius and that Of the verses with numerous contempt
letters Of gilman pow the possession OF his
relations in tina city. and In the opinion OF the
London experts that there cannot be doubt OF the den
tty In either case.
One Of the most curious discoveries resulting from
the recent opening of the famous archives Of Spain
was made by Gustave Bergenroth who died at Mad