New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-03-10
FRENCH LITERATURE,

nm, ,tosr ENTERTAINING BOOK OF THE SEASON
-Nry WORK EXPECTED FROM GUIzor AN.O
THEIRS. PARIS, Feb TO-
The most entertaining book OF the IS.no- 49,
.yary season is FiNf aus dEHt Dy -H"" 80
Couini mot of the Roman BonaparVe CSiii'' % 800
sets only the first part of his name 10 'neSo
- 81 hi. % wears of exile Escaping from
attor Venice fell back to Austria and Rome 10
,L Ir,oneb-protected Pope he strayed ana stoppeu'
.Ias With strange adventures in all parts OF tAat
-t,a,,e reoio, Of which most of us really know SO
I,tlo tbe Great breeding ground Of the eyer-preg-
,art Eastern oueston-all those loose, diJomted'
s,,c,t;no countries that Tic between the ola west
Bf Europe and Russia and the ola East ne caine W
know Greece the greater ana me less, anu tOstHlI
f,none and Bucharest. Here he was 1OOJ JIaNSlei,
roIlectiug from the mouths OF peasants thelr
nnwritten lyrics in Greek; then dealer IN onions
snd small groceries, then oeggaL' h9dlng QUIZ ,o ms
ness here admitted TO the COunselS OF the hlgh aiu
mighty there exposed to street assasSlns In Italy ne
was clubleader, and prisoner WINE Marcia was was
then in Rome Joining with his friend Garlbadl, IN
the last defense Of that Republic Admitted 20
audience of Archduke Leopold and OF CayQur' Al
Bucharest a leading then a banishcd journalist. In
his Young days, Italian poet OF mark and promise
Now writing this vOlume-reminding the reader OF
ulysses and Gil Bias and Anastaslus-ln VlVaGlo9s
fgr.iiCi French. A profound PhnOlOglst as "a htIle
pamphlet helps to show that lies here on my taoIe
containing his translatIOns into Italian. Win lealbeu
notes of the third book of the Had and fragments
of the MahabaIata. Starting up from his ancient
dictionaries and comparative grammaTs. thaJ snow
the plain table of his pen IN students I0dg-
ngs in Paris to return IN talk ana IGenng
TO Greece ROumauia, Rome, Venice especially TO
Venice and Nanin. against whose OYeT1ated reputa-
ton after 20 years of silence and suffering ne no"
protests in the name OF other patrols as good more
wise fhe thinks. more suffering the knoWsh tie
blame Of whom has been made a part OF MANN
praise Surely Marc Antonio Is not IIee ron E4anI!S'
WHO ISL Whether his Judgment, adverse 10 MANN
IL sound throughout nave no competence ~ siT
uOuuCG; nor. probably has ManlnS son, Wno' WIN
more flia emotion than discretien has accused ms
fathers prisoner Of utterlng anonymous Calhhhles
m ms fsfLer Mr. Bancroft knows something of this
sort of flia and grandchildren zeal for the pleasing
truth of history. Marc Antonio IS not, does not
Erayelv set mp TO be historian. And IL would De
strange if he were not prejudced toward MANN
What is almost rs strange rs, that that personal
prejudice does not blind to certain very hgA guar
ties IN Manin, nor lead HIM to attack the IIesluent
OF the Venetian Republic in bis quality as an honor
M Cuizot besides an additional volume to his
Memoirs covering the events of 1915. and containing
his appreciauOu of them which is reserved Tor pos
fhuuUus publication. has completed and IS reading
the proufsheetS OF the fourth volume OF ms M6dtd
fioHs RCliGaSc in which he presents an hlstorlG'u
review of the doctrines of Christianity. Compile.
mCutarv of this last. If not really 1.-THE doctors oil
gossip are not agreed-are four biographical typical
Christian chiefs; st. Louis, Calvin St. Vincent de
Paul and Duplessis MOInay, all French, but Chris
tans in their several manners. These works OF hlS
old age are SAID 10 De less SUN ana Angular ~ ulN-
ing, and warmer in cOOTing than any Of his ea1hcr
writings would lead us 80 expect. But readers OF
the Memoirs of the stern old Goctrinare' viii re-
call here and there page-his life at Val Richer once
when in retirement from political turmoil, portrait
sketch of some hOuOred friend charming Tor It's
grace and suavity-an the more charming for
its rarity, proving that the great historian
and obstinate politician, and grimmlsh pOlltcO-re
lgiOuS dOCtrinaiTe mOralist might have been one
of our most fascinating authors" His old rival
Theirs having been discovered out at the JaTdin de-
Plantes one day, Is accused Of being busted with
work ON natural history, botany or theology, ant
IS also charged with plotting the publication o
various other volumes on various SUBJECTS accordln
Ebrewd coujectuTa observer happens to catch the al
most excessively active little man occupied with 10
the moment.