The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-14
Foreign Liternrv Utcms.

1T ls stated that Mf. Logan, the sub collector
Of Maabar, has collected about 700 ancient
sanskrit MSS. in surnt.
THE widow of Belzoni, the Egyptologist, hos
died at the age of eightyscght. She had q pen
sion of 200 per annum from Government.
The Imperial Press at Vienna has issued
Hassan's abridged Grammar of the Vulgar Arab
Language, with especial reference to the
Egyptian dialect
Sig, LOrenzi, Of the Library of St. Mark,
has published the first volume OF Monument
per eervire ALA Storia del Palazzo Ducale di
Venezia ovvero Serie di Att Pubbrci dal 1858
al 1891" The volume contains documents down
to the year 1000.
The minor poems of William Lander. play
writer, poet, ard minister of the Gospel, re-
ferring mainly TO that year of famine and
plague in Scotland 1868, are to be edited for
the Early English Text Society by Mr.. Furni-
vail, from Mr.. 5. Christie -Millers unique origi-
nails.
M. Paulin Paris has sent to press the second
part of his Romans de Ia Table Ronde mis- en-
Nouveau Language" being the Lancelot of the
Lake, in continuation of the Joseph of Ari-
mathea the Saint Graal and Merlin. The third
portion is to be the Tristan.
Count Riant has discovered in the library
at Copenhagen an unpublished account of the
taking of Constantinople by the Latins: Iii
Estoifes di Chiaus qui Con9uisent CONSTANT
noble de Robert de Clari en- Aminois, Chevalier.
The RtUue BibliOgrdphiqUe assures us that this
narrative is as important as that of Villehar-
douin.
Fragments of hitherto unknown metrical
version of "Reynard the Fox" the La Vallere
copy of an Italian "Plutarch" (the first book
printed at AQuila, A. ID. 14S2)-a Wynkyn de
Worde .(Copgrave's "Nova Legenda Angli@'),
containing the suppressed Life of Thomas n
Beckett, A. d. 1516-and the first edition of j.
de Voragine's "Legende doree." A. d. 1916 con-
tanning n any singular passages not to be found
in any subsequent edition-are to be sold during
the present month in England
AN elaborate work on the vulgar speech of
the Dorth and centre of France, by NJ. j. Baum
garten, is in course of publication in Paris. 1t
comprises also the Vulgar Tongue and latest
Coinages of Paris, the Pronunciation of the
Dialect, and Historical Notices of the Pronun-
citation of the Language of Literature, a point
hitherto little touched on by French writer's.
The Reuue des Questions Htstorigues informs
us OF the publication ut Faenza of twelve letters
of Torquato Tasso not included in the collection
of Chevaier Guasti; but one only was hitherto
imprinted. Sgnor Panizza of Trent has edited
four unpublished letters of Bernardo Tasso of
considerable length, Appended is q memoir
presented by Bernardo to the Constable Mont
morency, and dated 1868, which advocates an
attack on the kingdom of Naples.
Professor See, of Paris, recently delivered
at the Hospital de Ia Charlie lecture on to-
bacco. He pointed ont that the proportion of
nicotine varies according to the kind of tobacco.
Thus that produced in Germany and Alsace
contains from seven to three per cent. of nico-
tine, while that from Havana and Maryland has
only two per cent. In small doses nicotine aids
respiration, ana uOeb nOb aIecJ L1e DearG, DuJ
in larger quantities the Professor showed that
it produces convulsion of the respiratory mus
cles an accelerated and intermitting pulse, and
a tremulous condition Of the muscles
"A rich mine of wealth will shortly be made
available for il scarcely be said to have been
so heretofore, by the labors of the keepers of
the archives Of France in the arrangement of
the documents and the publication of catalogues
and indexes. The printing of the third volume
of the Inventory of the Seals is Just completed,
and photographers are now at work collecting
the elements of volume of plates
which is to complete the work. The
descriptive catalogue of the ''Musee dee
Archives" has been published down to the year
1850, and the cpochs of the Revolution and of
the first Empire are now in the press. The first
volume of the "Arrcts du Conseil d'Etat" is being
proceeded with as rapidly possible. The
documents are being arranged with care; the OLD
registers have been repaired, and the collection
of ancient parchments known as AccOrds, which
had been rolled or folded, have all been set in
order and made more easy for reference. This
Encouragement of the records proceeds par
pdsSu with their removal into the fine rooms o.
the new buildings recently erected in the Rue
des Quatre Fills.