The New York herald., 1872-11-04
LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.

The REV. NICHOLAS BJERRING, priest OF the
Greek Catholic Church, has translated the Once
for the admission and reception into the Orthodox
Eastern Church Of persons born out OF that COM
munion.
FATHER O'KEEFFE has translated from the Ger
man Of the Rev. Francis Gabrini and Thomas
O'Kane has published . volume Of "Meditations on
the Virgin Mother.n The work was printed and
stereotyped at the Catholic Protectory in West
chester.
DIR. ANDREW WOOD, already known as o transla-
tor OF the "Satires Of Horace" has Just published
in London sequel to that work. In sensible and
welwritten preface he introduces US to his fvorite
poet with pleasant sketch OF his life both at
Court and In his retired Sabine farm. He then
turns to discussion of the feasibility OF translating
Horace, subject he had already touched upon i'm
his preface to the "Satires" We agree with him
that probably no Latin author Is so dinlcuIt to
render into English verse, the charm OF the poet
being SO entirely bound up In the neat and even
turn of hts phraseology, that it must inevitably lose
by translation into foreign language. The follow.
ing is specimen of his work.
The beardless youth, released from tutoTr chains,
cS S1 ss o was Sose In Ssos So Ssns e S advice
SSw hR money sasg Sasss Of a's
That Tsa'r 70 resign as' Which he but lately loved
NJ MICHELET's second volume OF the 'History OF
the Nineteenth Century" Is exclusively devoted
to the career OF Napoleon, as the FIRST was to his
origin and promises some very interesting revela-
tions on the Consulate and Klebers expedition to
Egypt, In lieu OF Bonaparte. The long doubtful
question, treated so cautiously by NJ Lanfrey,
whether Kleber's assassination by an Egyptian
not reckoned upon by the First Consul, is more
fully calculated than 1t has heen hitherto. M.
Michelet goes SO far as to doubt Bonaparte's per-
sonal courage, and alleges as aproof his extraord-
nary conduct on the 18th Brumaire, when, in en-
tering the Assembly with his star and as q deputy
rose and seized him by the collar, the future En-
peror tainted away out Of sheer fright Whether.
as M. Micheet says, the cause OF his weakness was
fear, Is point open to discussion, but there Is
doubt that Bonaparte did faint at the mere show
Of personal violence
M. ERNEST REMAINS next book will be on the
Apocalypse Of st. John.
PROFESSOR DE M0RGAN's "Budget of Paradoxes',
recalls many curious Stories especially in regard
to squaring the circle. This strange idea Is not
connneu to any nation. In the last century
Spaniard upset all Euclid and squared the circle
on the ruins. In 1850 Sulamar, an Englishman,|
squared the circle Of the number OF the Beasts
and in France, in i7Ss. M. de Causans, Of the
Guards cut circular piece OF turf, squared it,
and deduced original sin and the Trinity In the
same work We nnd q remarkable reference to 1851
as nne year for paradoxers. A Captain Forman
wrote against the whole system Of gravitation ana
got no notice. He tried Lord Brougham Sir j..
Herschel, and Others with no better success. Thd
Admiralty, on being applied to, merely advised him
to study dynamics. On this he relieved his mind
by publishing "A Letter to the Royal Astronomical
Society, In Refutaton OF Mistaken Notions held N
common by the Society and BY all tho Newtonian
Philosophers" Another valuable work Of 1888
was "David and Goliath; or, an Attempt to Prsvs
that the Newtonian System OF Astronomy is DR
rectly Opposed to the Scrptures.u Its author, .
Mr.. Lander. u uayid; Newton v Goliath.