New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-24
AMONG THE BOOKSELLERS.
Anew magazine called The Matrimonial Gazette and
Adre1fiser is announced in London.

Anew magazine called The Matrimonial Gazette and
Advertiser is announced in London.
Among the passengers by the missing steamer City
of Boston were Mr. Allen Ebbs the well-known
bookseller of this city, and his family.
Mr.. Robert Buchanans long-promsed Book of
Orm is now in the press of Messrs. Strahan & Co.
Its full title is The Book Of the Visions seen by
Om the Celt" and 1t contains ten poems or visions
Bentley is about reprintiug in book form the series
of essays on :" The Poetry Of the Period which APP
peared last year in Temple Bar The author is Mr..
Alfred Austin. The essays attracted great deal OF
notice by their acuteness and independence
A Mr.. A J. Church seems, from an advertisement
Of Macmillaus, to have occupied himself in the par
tcularly useless labor of turning Tennyson into
Latin verse. The result Of his whim is to appear
under the title of "HOG IeRaySORaRG, sire Ee!oGG
IeRngSOno LGtiae redGitG.
cheap edition of Channing's works was recently
placed upon the market in England, and within a
few weeks no fewer than 1900 copies were sub
scribed for As Dr. Charming has been dead for
quarter of a century, this is remarkable evidence
of the popularity OF his sermons
Mr. Swinburne's Complaint Of Norma Lisa" was
printed from advance sheets of The Fortaiqhfy lie
rier in Erery Saturday for January 29th. The cur
rent number of the same excellent weekly contains
apicture of The Broadway SQUAD" by Mr.. a: Is.
HOughtOn. the English artist WHO is now making
sketches of American social life Tor iRe 6rdprc
Mr.. Richard b. Kimballs novel, To-day has
been reprinted by Bentley in London under the title
Of Virginia Randall, or To-Day in New-Nork." A
translation of it is announced in Amsterdam. Five
OF Mr. kmball'S previous novels have been trans
lated into Dutch and two have appeared IN German
and two in French. Nearly all are likewise repuO-
hshed IN the Tauchnitz collection and the cheap
English railway library.
Mr. Lelands fourth and concluding series of the
lode boSl she'll V
London. under the title of "Hans Brcitmann in
Church" In one of the minor pieces which accom-.
pany the epic that gives name to the volume, Mt
Leland good naturally alludes to the critics VINO de-
claTed that his humor less than small ana ne
only makct dc peoples laughen"
II was like de sayn dat Ieine
Haie no wiz IN him goot or hnd'
Boot he ouy Kept sayiR witty diuSs
To make beopies pcdeve he had.
Professor s. S. Haldeman has written an essay
the dialect of Breimann as a contribution to Mr..
Alexander j. Ellss History Of English Pronunci2-
tionr and il will be seriously discussed 10y the British
Pathological Society ut then June meeting.
CAS- the traveller in Palestine journeys down from
Jerusalem TO Jencho' writes one of the gorgeous
scholars Of The London Dailg Telegraph, by the road
where a certain man fell among thieves he sees
of arid mountains - and with many more fine words
we are told that the rising and sinking sum dyes
ef blOOd-Ted color these paTched-up lands which
are the frontiers of the famous Biblical kingdom OF
Moab" This Is an introduction TO the story OF an
important discovery made in that region by Capt.
Warren an agent of the Palestine Exploration So
cietv, namely. monumental stone covered with en-
riOus inscriptions The Arabs broke II up and hid
the pieces but all the fragments have been recovered
and tracngS Og squeezes of two portions have been
submitted To Mr.. DeutsCh Of the British Museum.
From the report of this eminent authority to the
Secretary Of the Exploration Fund, 1T seems prob
very Oldest Semitic monument OF note
which is now known. Mr.. Deutsch says:
Inc f document s2s WIN ing words r cla Th R
driven at bay by the three allied armies of Judah
Israel and Edom, sacrificed his son TO save his
country not, cannot vet determine; but there is
special reason againSt the assumption a king of
Neshas prOwess might have spoken of his dOings as
proudly as is done on this monument And. what is
of much greater weight the characterof the writing
which, in default OF q better word, We must still
call Pheuician, looks even older than that OF many
OF the ASSyTiau lNesOpOtamlan bilmgual cylinders
i'll the British Museum. the da.e Of which Is, at the
very least old the ninth century y. c. the time
of this Biblical Desha. 1t is, indeed the Photograph
icai part OF the document which at present seems
paramount. Apart from the very primitive charac-
ter of the whole alphabet II here occurs there is
one letter the Kaphl which. TO my knowledge, is
found on no other Semitic remnant IN TINS peculiar
'MOabte' shape. Next to this point ranks al
ways for the present the geographical i'm
pOrtance of this record. There start up
with absolute clearness such names Beth
Bamoth. Beth Baal- Neon. Horonam, Dibon. we'll
known Biblical cities, Ell Their situate in Moab the
names whereof were changed by the lsTaelites,' |
whence their variationsl or temporarily held by
Moab. These places among others, King Mesha on
THIS SteIe DOdSts OF having DNlII' lHQecu Inc
words / built occur SO frequently that they form
welcome landmarks 10 the decpherer. Beside these
places which occur in the Bible, find Karkha.'
which venture to identify with Kerek. the later
name of the whole country also the name of ham,
let still in existence But apart from this mention is
also made repeatedly of Israel the nva often hos
tile power. and Chemosh the national God of Moab
Let this suffice now. The historical well as the
lin gulstic purport of this find are both startlingy
obvious that nothing need be added at present |
would only beg to urge your committee the expe
dency of leaving means unried to get possession
of much Of this unique Moabte relic may sur
vive."