New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-04
LITERARY NOTES

-. - Catalan popular e. les was
Co,CoN.' - IN PARIS and one OF popular
Tho rubl;cation of Littres G1eat dictionary
NV .o-,,,arlv The 2stn pot (sclesousCrirel is
a., and it is announced that the whole work will be
n1adame Moscheles. the widow of the emf
IT composer is at present engaged in writing the life
- her husband The work Is 20 appear possible, stimuli
taneousiy in English end German
A little Breton Almanac for 1872, " Almanak
Ize has been got up by some Of the %best Kettle
scholars in France MN. IHzel, TIL. De Pompery, DAT
lois de Juhanvile, GadOz, Louis Havet, &C. IL CON
talps beside bits of agricultural veterinary, pholog
cal political and historical lore some popular "'es'
proverbs, patriotic poems, jokes &C
new poem by Mr.. Robert Browning OF
considerable length and Importance, will shortly appear
tits i'm verse aud ia modern both in subject and render
Ing The relations between the sexes are dicusseu ~
Dialogue between husband aud wife, She quesuons' Ho
expounds.
The Rcrue des deur MOadeS February y
contains au elaborate and not unsympahetc cuq"o VI
ale Docteur Strauss" by NJ. Victor Cherbulie1 lie
points out that the first Lebea JeSu written oeloio
Strauss thirty includes all that is really was
his contribution TO theology. while his ny aoW his re-
sti exclusively that OF theologian 10 1cT vorts
searches take wider range His DogrSp , to,ed as
are commended for their literary merits DGt e@'eu ."
one sided. ~
A Theological Translation Fund" has oeen
created in London for the purpose Of procuring ransa
ton OF foreign 'lntOlOSCdl iVtANtUAO VI 'i''~
dent character. aud less biased by dogmatiGa pebos
sessions" than the works Hengsenberg Hayernlek'
Works 70 he now undertaken are those Of Hupeld F. G.
BanT Zeier. sc. in Germany, Kuenen, scholten' ana
Jowett Dean stanley Mr.. James Nartneau, MI H. J D.
smith, Mr.. II. sidgwick, and Mr. John Muir
Karl Bartsch has published lately very
useful book for students of Proyencal poetry Grun-
driss EUR Geschichte der ProyenEalischen Lteratu
handbook containing lists Of all the biographies OF
roubadours of MSS containing lyric poetry OF all the
groubadours and all their works arranged alphabetically
20 their MSS and the books in which they have been
printed NJ CASTOR Paris, one of the best living judges
rady its words OF friendship and peace from German
science 20 the workers of France"
The Ndrnberger KorespOnden: gives short
biography Of Dr. Heinrich schliemann whose enthusi-
assn for particular theory Of Trojan topography takes
the practical form OF excavations He was the son OF
small sbopkeeper. went 10 was wrecked and took
cerkshp in an Amsterdam house Of business Half his
S T FaS at TI the rate Of six weeks Apiece In
he went to Russia and gradually grew rch and III
Gent and nodern three months; he had been afraid
before. lest the interest Of the pursuit should be so
absorbing interfere with his business engagements,
from which he withdrew in 1865 10 spend wellearned
fortune in travel and the indulgence OF his arch'eooe
ieal taste.
Mr.. Alfred r. Wallace, the eminent English
naturalist OF the Darwinian school, in recent number
OF ne AcadeDy remarks: That there is on record
OF facts alleged facts ranging through every
period Of history down to the present day. and going to
prove that the socaed supernatural is not ali delusioD'
and that many Of the beliefs Of all ages cassed as super
stit1ons, have at least substratun OF reahy Anou.
,fwentyeight years ago the phenomena or lnSenslDf
20 pain IN the mesmeiic trance attracted al'enl,3I'
Experiments Of this kind were often eKhil'-
lied public. and most painful surgical opera
rgons were performed subjects WIG manifested
icaiions Of feeling The present writer well remembers
the universal shout OF Indignation at these experiments
They we're declared TO be gross mposture delusiOn
from beginning 10 end The apparent Inconsistencies
all sham, ana the medical men VINO performed inc
operations and gave detailed account Of them, were
accused of being parties 20 the mposure, and even Of
lish this fact Of useusbity TO the most excessive
stimuli aud the most intense pain produced without The
1T remains. however a fact Of which modern science
give no ineligible account, aud which 1t therefore
ignores as much as possible
The augsburg Gazette for February /, ?,
gives interesting account of the itttrieW
Of The venerable Austrian poet Grllparzer, who
died on the ooh Of January, and
buried four days later with great sOlemnity and a
funeral Grafton by Heinrich Laube. Grparzer, we are
told was watched through life and tended in death
by three domestic Graces their names are Nett Kathi
and Pcpp FrOhlch and the story Of their connection
with the poet u simple and very innocent They were
children when Franz GriIPaIzer got ms 1fst
Kind 10 the youth, and he gradually became almost
pected marry the eldest daughter when she was old
enough. hut whether was that be wished TO marry all
three some say that he preferred the second aud
did like dsappOnt the Others, or perhaps that he
thought his little idy would lose ITS bloom in vulgar
ndiTnoDy years aud ne did not propose. The
three GraCcs lessons III music ana languages, aud
the poet not well able to meet the expenses Of
household but when in course OF time Counsellor
and natural that GrparZer should take up his abode
with the orphans their "Zmmerherr." An ideas OF
marriage given up, and the middle sister kathi
renamed He6e Brdt to the end for the last twenty
two years his life he called her from habit and
property but tins il Formally, for the
sisters scarcely have separate existence.