The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-01
Foreign Literary Items.

The fourth volume of M. Lanfreys History
of the First Napoleon is just finished.
M. Garcin de Tassy has issued the opening
lecture of his course on Hindustani (Urdu and
HindD at the special Imperial School of Living
Oriental Languages.
The edition of Chaucer's Astroabe by Mr..
Skeat, announced for the Early English Text
Society this year, is to have rival in another
edition by q Mr.. Brae, of Leeds.
The French Academy will proceed on the
7th of April, to fill up the seats vacant by the
deaths of MN. de Lamartine and Sainte-Beuve.
The date for filling up those vacant by the
deaths of the Due de Broglie and NJ. de Ponger-
vile has not yet been fixed.
The first three volumes of Prof. Jowett's
translation of the Dialogues" of Plato are ex-
pected to appear in the course of the present.
year. Professor Jowett is also preparing an
edition of the text of THE Republic" with
English notes.
Hans Breitmann's Anglo-Dutch Cor Dutch
English) dialect is to be discussed before the
British Pathological Society in June, by Prof. s.
s. Haldemann, Of Columbia, in paper written
to form part of Mr.. Alexander j. Ellis History
of English Pronunciation, some of the phases of
which this modern dialect illustrates.
The ReUue Crttique praises cheap little
Lexicon of the German words taken from the
Greek, by Dr. E. Laubert, and wants Franch
philologist to do like work for France-of
course excluding the million colnages of sci
ence. Why shouldn't we have an English book
of the kind?
The indefatgable Dantophilist of Bologna,
the Cavalier Professor Luciano Scarabelli is
proceeding at a railroad speed with the printing
of the codci of the Divina Commedia, which he
has taken in hand. With the Codice Frammen-
tario he has already got as far as the Ninth
Canto of the Purgatory; and the sheets of the
'Dante del Xxx, as he calls the edition con-
tanning the readings of twenty codici, are pass
| ing at an express rate through the press; they
| have reached the Thirteenth Canto of the In
| ferno. As if these labors were not enough to
| him cuph io a Znal and activity pf the
| learned Professor that he is also bringing out
| an unedted work by the famous Boiardo, Count
| of Scandiano, which has hitherto been singu-
larly neglected. 1t is translation of the "De
| Viris ulustribus" of Cornelius Nepos. This he
| is printing along with the Latin text and the
best specimens from other translators are added
by way of contrast with the magnificent render
ing, as the Professor calls it, of the author of
| "Orlando Innamorato." The work will be dedi-
| Gated TO the Prince Thomas, whose mother, the
| Duchess of Genoa is better pleased that her son
| should receive the dedication of book than
| that he should accept the offer of a crown.
The epistolary literature of Germany has
| been enriched by valuable addition-the Cor
respondence of INLAND, the poet, with Baron
Won Lassberg the most original and enthusiastic
| lover of Old German literature. Living, formerly,
at Eppishausen in Thurgau and later Qrom 1886
to 1856 the year of his death), in his old castle
of Meersburg, on the Lake Constance, Baron
Lassberg had brought together one of the finest
collections of rare old books and manuscripts
eyerpossessed bya private man IN Germany; aho
it was his pride and pleasure to communicate hi
treasures (Which, after his decease, were pur
chased by Prince Furstenberg for his library a
Donaueschingen) to friends for their literary
purposes. His baronial hall, Meroyingiar
structure, and once theyabode of Conradin, thu
last of the HOhenstaufen, was thrown opeI
with noble hospitality to his fellow-an
tiduaries, and an extensive correspondence
with each and all of them, as well a
constant wandering to and fro of manuscript
| inf of rna xuan ON TN
Grimms, Benecke, Lachmann, Won Meusebach
Wackernagel, the late Richard Cleasby, of Ice
landic fame and others entered here as guests
but, before all Ludwig INLAND was frequeI