New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-02
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
NEWS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.

honor is given TO Re c. Shaws Tacels ia the Tro> Z
: Of Marco PoIo. Mr.. SHAW we told, is the irsy
l. 'ropeau sirce Magco Polo no has penetrated to
and. and returned alive from that wonderful
countrs His journey covers High Tartary, Yark-
and, and q,bgar, and his book is to upset the old
notion that TaTtary is a vast succession Of plains,
over which hordes of barbarian wander with their
! herd and tents The realty is y srent th,t the
| Government of India has entered y negotiations
with the Kaiah OF CasImcgc for -.ade with East
| Turkestan. Two other volumes, more or less prom
! sing are Lieut.. Herbert MeaCe's Ride through the
Disturbed Districts of Ney-Z,4 a. Fad a translation
| of the COmte de Beauyoirs Vryrge Round The World.
new work is announced frOI. Dan Stanley, who is
becoming OF the most r:o. &c of writer's, entitled
Chapters The EcceidstcGl Pstory Of England During
tic last TreRiy ilGrs That, ii not controversial in
form, VIII probably PROVOKE abundance of controversy
in fact. liberal churchman will scarcely be per-
mited to state his views of the Broad Church move
nent without being acTinoniously attacked. Dean
Stanley is ri this at Of the men best hated
by pretty large portion of those who profess them
selves disciples Of the doctrine to love Onc another
! The new light on Junius is again promised, but no
time fixed for il appearance 1t is rather charac
terstic of MurTay's house to announce works long
while in advance. Where, for instance Is that edition
of Pope which has been understood to be ia progress
FOR some years past aud which, once published is to
sHpcIsctt al OihtI ope1 re NeW DtpyfdDHN DIV
annca, being lives of the worthless OF Great Brtai>
ard Ireland by various writer's book which somo
of would be very glad to ere, Is still forthcon-
ing So Is Prof MaetoIers C0piOns English Grammar
in three vols. $40, which. being b. a German may
Prov TO te really scientific treatise the English
| tongue.
The new edition If he Bible long talked of, VII
! wnat is called the Speakers Commentary, is under
way, and the prospectus of it has been put forth Ii
;,,I Al. :.
an effort to counteract the kind of influence which
scientific teaching has had upon the Biblical cos
mogonv, upon some Of its historical narratives. and
II used 10 be the distinguishing claim of
Professionalism tl,.t it dared put the Bible in tho
hands Of the people without note comment Of any
kind. Now arc told the want Of plain explana-
tory commentary has long been felt, and tile greet
object of such commentary must he 10 put. the
general reader in full possession Of whatever Tfor-
nation rlay be requisite to enable ln to und, fstand
tie Word Of God; to give him, Us fer as possible tic
same advantages as the Scholar, and supply hib uia
satisfactory daspes TO objections resting Hj0a mi,eye-
sensations Of It's contents" The keynote Of the new
commentary will. imagine be found in the clause
which ha .s t2lGJjhd"o Of tho honorable and pous
Speaker of the House of Commons in 1863 In con-
junction with nusnber of the principal bishop, no
has organized the work.
b. The authorized version is 70 be reprinted NfhouV
alteration; but he notes forming tins CoiEineh-
tary will give amended TRANSACTIONS OF All pas
sages proved to BE- Incorrect in our verson we ere
further assured that the Comment wall he ehiehA
explanatory presenting, in concise and readao'e
form the results of learned investigations, carrrdo
in this and other countries during the last nan ecu
turvD ,Iuch the most celebrated investigations
carried on in this country, during the last halt cell
tury have been those of Bishop Colenso, but on turn
ING TO the list of editors for the Pentateuch do not
find Bishop Colenso among them, nor yet any OF the
German writer's on whose labOrs those of C0enso
were founded. The general editor Is the Rev canon
Cook of Exeter under a kind Of supervision
by the Archbishop of York Dr. thomson,
in consultation with the RegiIs Professors
of Divinity of Oxford and Cambridge. Inc
whols work is divided into eight sections, as
follows: l. The Pentateuch. .. The Historical
Books g. The Poetical Books. 4. The -Four Great
Prophets s. The Twelve Minor Prophets o. Tho
Gospels and Acts Z. The EDistles of 81. Paul. s.
The Catholic Epistles and Revelation To each sec
ton special editors assigned, each taking some
book or books, or portion of a book. Extreme men
seem to be shut out-that is, extremely High or ex-
tremely Low churchmen, the result of which is natu-
rally to exclude of the abest Biblical critics
The names of Dean Stanley, Jowett, Colenso and
Pusey are conspicuous by their absence, Safety
seems TO have been the ruling motive in selection,
and the most eminent men among this safe party arc
perhaps Archbishop Thomson himself, PI0f. RawliR-
son, Prof Plumptrc, Bishop Thirlwall and Dean
Mansel. The Pentateuch is announced as in tho
press, and is promised for this year.
Mr. Emerson's Society and Solitude has been repub-
lished by Sampson, Low Il Co. in what is called-I
hope tuly-a copyright series of American authors.
II is with Emerson here in America. There is in
both countries a class to whom his writings are a
sealed book. There is another who have for many
years found them source of inspiration and eneour-
agement such as few other books, old or new, afford
sent copy OF Ills last little volume in its shabby
English dress, to a friend whom thought con-
frrled unbeever i'll Emerson. He wrote me that lie
found il fresh unaffected, and curously original,
though treating Of the commonest things such .
really simple, independent habit of thinking, and
form of style" From the papers here it gets all sorts
o. treatment. There is, for example, the mere stu.
pGiy of The Telegraph, which persists in calling En-.
erson the American Carlyle whereas no two
are more unlike. There is Mr.. G. A. Simcox, in Tho
Academg a periodical which has heretofore aimed at
respectabty but it pr ed last week brief review
of Society and Solitude, witch not merely igno-
rant, but scandaously msolent and dishonest Other
journals, The Daily Ners for one are studously re-
spectfu but il - an evident effort for the "Philis-
tine Englishman 10 know what TO say Of writer
SO alien from their habits of mind.
A Blue Book for the Peopc-that is something
new in England The existence of such thing 10
due TO Mr.. G.. j. Holyoakc, whose name must be web
known in America to everybody who has interested
himself in the affairs of workngmen. Among many
friends of the working class there is think no ono
more trusted and more deservedly trusted, than Mr.