The New York herald., 1871-09-18

| when ''Seven Poor Traveliersr commenced singing
rived from 'The Old Curiosity Shop with some
"fictures rom Italy" and sketches by Boz" TO
show Little Dorrit" who was busy with the "Plck.
WICK Papers; when "Dayid Coppcrteld.N who had
been taking american Notes." entered and In.
formed the company that the .'Great Expectations"
Legacy had not been realized. and that he had
seen Boots at the Holly Tree Inn, taking "some-
a street that has ''No Thoroughfare'' opposite
siIa "bieaK Iouse,n where the Haunted Man" who
TO an "uncommercal Traveller,n was brOoding over
"Ihe Mystery OF Edwin Brood"
SECOND AND THOROUGHLY REVISED EDITION OF
! Wedgwood's Dictionary OF English Etymology" Is
to appear IN London in five parts from October to
February next. 1t has Deen greatly enlarged by
the author. with the aid OF Rev. j. G. Atkinson.
A REVISION OF the entire Buddhist Scriptures
mas been going Oh In CeylOn for four years past.
When completed this viii bring within the reach
OF scholars as perfect text OF the sacred books In
the original PalS 1t Is possible to obtain at this
! day. The work is IN charge OF a Synod (Que'e-
Syndicate y of Buddhist clergy. selected for their
learning and scholarship from the principal Ceyon
monasteries.
| "LITTLE Folks SONGS" Is the title of new vol
ume OF original poetry to appear from the press OF
Hurd Houghton. The poems are by Mrs. AleXna
b. White, wife OF Richard Grant White.
DIR. NOAH PORTER, the new President Of Yale
SOHege, III press "ElelnentS OF PM
losophy," Understood to be an abridgment Of his
! great work. "The Human Intellect" published by
| Scrbner & Co.
"FRoM SroNEl OF THE SUPERNATURAL" by Mrs.
| Richard Greenough, IS in the press Of Roberts
Brothers, Boston.
REV. C. A. BARrOI, or Boston, has a new book
In press with the somewhat paradoxcal title OF
"Radical Faith"
PETERSON BROS. Will issue shortly an Ameri-
can edit on OF Mrs. Henry Woods new book, "Dene
Hollow"
| THE "ST ANDREWS MAGAZINE" new illustrated
periodical for Scotland, Is commenced the present
month In Edinburg.
| COMPLAINT Is MADE in the London weeklies
mat Parliamentary proceedings anu DEBATES are
only half reported IN .aly press and iJ Is urged
that what England needs Is daily "Hansard's
Debates" Congress has this already the Congress
! stondt Gio6e, nut no Englishman, who depends on
his Times, can possibly know half that goes on in
| the house OF Commons or the Lords
! The ATnEN.EUM says Of Mr.. Cowdeu Clarke's
| "Riches OF Chaucer" that "or the many services
rendered to English literature oy Mr.. Clarke we
account these selections FROM earliest great poet
the roof and crown"
The CALLow STUMP ORATORS OF oar eloquent
land are to oe stll further stimulated by the issue
OF BARRIERS American Book OF Ready Made
Speeches." containing $50 speeches, suited to all
public occasions. Dick Fitzgerald Will publish It,
DR. NJ MAHANs collected WORKS, including his
Church history and miscelanies, theological and
literary, VIII soCn appear In three volumes, from
the press OF Pott & Amery, New York.
M. LANFREY's History OF Napoleon l." is in pro-
cess OF translation into English and is unqueston-
ably the best ana most impartial account OF that
markaDle man which has yet appeared.
The OLDEST DAILY NEWSPAPER IN DUBLIN Is
Saunders Ne,Cs Letter, established in l74j.
SWITZERLAND now has twentyhv public
libraries, with 920,520 volumes. Her largest cocc-
ton is the Zurich library, possessing 100000
volumes.
NV. X. SOMERs an Engllshman Will publish his
travels IN the Southern States under the tue OF
',rne South Since the War;"
GREAT Book on Mary, Queen OF Scots, will
soon appear from the pen OF Professor Petit, OF
BeauvOls. Ten years labor represented IN It, and
It Is SAID to be complete Justification OF the
fortunate Queen from the charges which such his
| torans as Froude have perpetuated. The book will
make two quartO Volumes In English and French.
WILLIAM ARCHER COOKE, OF Virginia, whose
unconstitutional History OF the United States'
reached Its first volume rs long ago as 1885, has in
press a ''Treatise on the Common ana Civil Law,
as Embraced In the Jurisprudence OF the United
| States"
! THE REPORT that Messrs. J. r. Osgood Il Co. will
soon start humorous paper is not true.
PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH has found It's photographer
! in the person OF Edward H. Ranch, OF Lancaster,
Pa, who Is engaged on dictionary OF words and
phrases In common use among the German and half
German inhabitants of that State.
M sGOTTsCHALKs autobiography was prepared by
him for publication to the extent OF about two thou.
sand manuscript pages
The following from the London Globe Is defence
OF Mr. LOngellOw from the crlIicism OF an English
scholar who suppOses that LOnglellow's poems are
written In the Latin ianguage:-
A gentleman who contributes q column OF dscur.
sive and miscellaneous criticism 10 a weekly con-
temporary ana who cOndescends TO instruct the
world In the sublimest mysteries OF science and
literature, ancient ana modern, mas lately fallen
foul OF the poet Longellow apropOs OF the alleged
ncorectness OF his Latinity. Transatlantic writer's,
he tells US, cannot IN the nature OF things oe
classical sen 1lars; that Is luxury oil erud-
ton reserved exclusively for Englshmen. TO
appreciate the full force Of the delicate difference
between Greek PARTICLES and Latin words 1t
is essential that one should be totally uncODnectei
Win the New World ana It's inhabitants. And then
favored with beautifully impossible picture,
Illustrating the distinction between The American
Couatry gentleman and the English. If the utter
ances TINS wonderful exponent British lie are
TO De credited there Is not squire IN the realm
Who does not walk about with an Eizcvr edition OF
Horace IN his pocket or VINO, upon the sugntest
prOvOcation, 1ais to produce the volume, ana hold
| public reading. We confess IN our experience OF
! English country gentlemen not to have come across
TINS miraculous Ideal. We trust we never may-fOr
pedantry OF every KIND Is Objectionable on principle
The Immediate cause OF the conemptuOus
indignation Of THIS cOnsumlnate classlc.sJ
as lie plainly holds himself 10 be. IS
not the classical blundcring OF transatlantic coun-
try gentleman, but OF the poet Longeliow. The
title Of one o. Longielows poems, lie observes, il-
wolves gross violation Of The laws OF Latin gram
mar. EVERY scnOOlDoyn would know better than
to have written excelsior 1t onght to he ecceisus.
As iJ ~, excelsior can only correctly mean That the
mountain IS growing higher, not that tae youth IS
going higher up the mountain. This Is the very
false gallop Of pretentous criticism. or course Mr..
LongIellow IS perfectly right. 1t is characteristic
iom OI the Latin tongue tlrt in such cases as these
an adjective agreeing with the subject Is elegantly
put ior an adverb For instance, ntedtas means
TO 90 the middle; and 1t is upon this analogy tnat
Mr. LongleiiowS construction Is deiensible and
correct.
Paris correspondent OF the Inu Man Gazette
says the Arcniepiscopal Palace at Bourges, recently
destroyed by fire, contained works Of art and manu-.
scripts OF lnestimabe price, the most remarkable
being the order for the execution OF Christ the per-
sonal property of the family DE Ia Tour d'Auvergnc.
The order runs thus:-Jesus OF Nazareth OF the
Jewish tribe OF Juda, convicted or lmpOSture and
rebellion against divine authority TlUerlS