The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-15
FORETGN LITERARY ITEMS.

witty of the attack from which Miss Braddon |
suffers.
An unenumerated source of contributions !
to Netherlands ballad poetry in the present
day consists of the broadsides and squibs of
the elections in the Cape of Good Hope pro-
vinces In these all the quaintness of the old |
country may be found.
EARLY in the August of next year an exhi- |
bition will be opened, under the auspices of
King Charles of Sweden, at Trornso, Norwe-
gian Lapland. The exhibition will consist of
raw materials found in the district and of the
industrial works produced by its inhabitants
Lord Palmerstons Diary is written in a
hand only little less firm and graceful than
Walpoles, but it is quite as legible. 1t is not
mere record of facts, but a gallery of pic
lures and sketches in all of which are clearly
to be seen the style of an accomplished mas
ter 1t is, besides, something more. A scene
between the writer and the Duke of Yelling
ton, when Mr.. Husllisson's dismissal or his
being retained was in dispute, is of the very
highest and finest style of serious comedy:
graphic, dramatic, and so life-lille that the
actors seem bodily before us.
DR.. Neil Arnott has bestowed upon the
Universities of Glasgow and st. Andrews the
same donation of $1,000 each as was given
by him to the Universities Of Aberdeen and
Edinburgh. 1t is his wish that medical stu
dents, to whom the experimental parts of
should offer themselves as competitors for the
scholarships he has endowed. DR.. Arnott has
also placed at the disposal of the Senate of
the University of London, $4,000 to found
scientific scholarship. Some time ago Mrs.
Arnott gave E2OO0 for scholarships in natural
philosophy to two ladies colleges in London.
M. Baudelaire and his ''Fleurs du Nal,
not Fle1trS de Maj, which are of quite another
pd1tcrre, have found a defender in the last
number of the Re0ue Contemporaries This
! champion of the deceased morbid bard asserts
| that his works are not immoral, but that they
are dangerous Thus, we are told that their
| immortality, previously denied, lies partly in
'the exaltation of the personal aims of men,
to the detriment of those of society,"" and
also in his giving objectivity to evil This
| singular champion adds that these dangers
are, after all, not dangerous, but that the
poets works might have pernicious inau-
ence on ill-regulated minds
| "A number of Hungarian SdUdBtS. feeling
that their country is not fully known or pro-
perly appreciated in Europe, have founded a
periodical, in the German language, called the
| Hungarian ReCiea0, the first volume of which
| is now before us. Its contents are chiefly of
a scientific cast. The geology of Hungary is
sketched by Herr Won Hantken; papers on the
| Flora and Fauna of the country follow; and
| we then have full account of its political
economy, its scientific institutions, recent
archaeological discoveries, and modern men of
! learning. Such table of contents is COM
plete enough to answer its purpose, and we
hope the German literary world, to which the
RcCteac is especially addressed, will receive it
with due consideration.
Fraud in India has now gone as far as
the manufacture of wild beasts for the pur-
pose of cheating the Government. Our
readers know that premiums are paid by the
Indian Government for Staying wild beasts;
SO tigers bears, and leopards are made to go
as far as they can. First, the skin is sent in
with a skull of wood fitted into the head;
secondly, the real skull is brought forward;
and sometimes as third resource, the real
tiger Oh bear is dispensed with, and the skull
of hog or iackal is rendered, provided with
false teeth, and covered with pigslkin, moulded
on a real tigers head. We must, therefore,
have had untrustworthy statistics of the
abundance of wild beasts in India. Some of
the monsters were beasts of straw. The
skulls are now ordered to be smashed and the
skins to be sold.
The London AHen@u0l relates the fol-
lowing:-
The correspondence about the morality of
FOTnlOSd is suspected by wicked people to be
part of the play. We, of course, do not
share in the suspicion. The letters, however,
could not have been deliberately penned to
better issue-that of increasing the attraction
| y
letter to Garrick, in 1862, written in Paris.
''Crebillon has made an invention with me
which, if he is not too lazy, will be no bad
perSifdge. AS soon as / get to Toulouse, he
has agreed to write to me an eXpostulatory
| letter on the indecorousnesS of '1ristram
| Shandy, which is to be answered by recrimi-
nations upon the liberties in his own works.
These are to be printed together, 'Crebillon
against Sterne, 'Sterne against Crebillon; the
copy to be sold, and the money equally
divided. This, says Sterne, ''is good Swiss
policy.
-Harmans ''Caveat" of 1867 A. D. being
the standard work on the rogues and beggars
! of Elizabeth's time, there has been some
hesitation about allowing that he was pre-
| ceded by John Awdeley, to whom a short
tract on the same subject was licensed in
| 15G0-Gl, and no doubt printed then Gas well
} as reprinted in 1860, though no copy of the
first edition is now known to exist, and ouI
earliest get-at-able edition is that of 1919, in
1 the Bodleian. But Harmans words, when he
A was writing in 1865 or 1866, leaves no room
g for doubt that 1.-The Fraternitye of Vaca-
4 bondes, printed (and compiled by Awdeley,
: was published years before Harman's ''Ca
: veat" The latter says:-''There was fewt
C yeares since small brefe set forth of some
zelous man to his countrey, of whom l knowt
e not, that made lytle shewe of their rogues'
{ names and vsage, and gave a glymringt
n lyghte, not sufficient to persuade of thei
Il pevishe, pelting and pickinge practyses, bu
= well worthy of prayse. But good Madame
, with no less travell than good wylle have re
y payred and rugged the shyp of knowledge,
:; etc.
b The Rev. II. f. Simmons of Daltol
: Holme, Beverley, is to edit for the Early Eng
1;oI Tayt SooietU an intepestino CLAW Folk,