New-York tribune., 1872-08-07
LITERARY NOTES.

A Conversations Lexicon" is to be b1ought
cut at Beyrout, in Arabic, and in $50 parts
Dr. Andrew Wood of Edinburgh has hhlsheu
for press Metrcal Translation of the Epstes au" A'
Of Poetry OF Horace. -,
The two most celebrated club orators under
the Commune the famous Anix and baOioA' "'"'''''
now hopelessly insane. :.
French readers have found pleasure IN
Madame Ia Comtesse d'Haussonvlue's new work. la
Jeunesse de Lord Byron The ladys eoncinslUu y "
the poets youthful Ire was hOio c0VVn'.'' ' !,
Another youthful subject has been trea'eu
by NJ +. Morand. member OF the fIenCn uCnon n ~ =.
Judges namely les Jeunos Anutes de sa!ntt oeuN,' oe
IN refers 10 part of the great ortios career 'nA' "
worth the knowing.
A now Homeric Lexicon, by A. Capelle ana
and E Eherhard in course OF issue IN parts al hei
lin Prof sayous has lately put forth in Paris shoir %
and itercsii1g History Of the Hungarans ana theF
Political Literature from 1890 10 1873
NJ. Henri Martin has just published, nnder
,he title OF "Etudes dArcheOlogie Cetque Notes ne
vovages dams les Paws CeltiQues et scandnaves col
lecfioB OF papers wntCn at different times III te az
twelve years. Among them are accounts o' Jo"ue90 "
Wales and Ireland
An account of the recent explorations IN the
Peninsula OF sinai accompanied with plans, diagrams
and other Illustrations will appear in series of papers
in TIE Peoples M0g0;He commencing with the seIe9-
her number. They will be from the pen OF Capt H. 9
Palmer X T.
Under the title of a Lady of the Last
Century a work preparing for the press which will
consist Of biography and the unpublished letters OF the
once famous Mrs. Elizabeth Nontagu. The biography
Will he written ana the letters wnch We're t, ION. ~ ~ M nv
possession OF the late Mr. Bentley VIII be ed'ed ny d.
Dorau.
A lady, the last representative OF the Oldest
established bookseing firm IN Paris, Madame Mare
Nyon has Just died at the advanced age of IS years she
was descendant OF Guilaume Nyon, who set up pusl-
ness as bookseller far back as the year $780, e. IN
the reign Of Henry the Third Madame Marie Nyon car;
Tied on business on the Quai COnt WheIt tle l1,J @
resided since l6ss ts then IepresI3i i VdaEgbier OF
Denis DidOt merchant OF Paris. IL Is lhleIeslin5 ~
hsSncss as iookseller nm i7l8 aud thus became the
founder OF the renowned firm OF Ddots' uoOASc''S IA"
publishers at Paris.
A series of works is announced by Messis'
Ionemap 10 be called The School Of Shakespeare be-
ing reprints of scarce publications oi wheh snake
speare was cognizant and which may be useful IN
making us live completely in the world oil IDEAS oy
which he was surrounded. The editor of these reprints
isMr r. Simpson, already known as author OF An In
PRODUCTION 10 the Philosophy of shakespeare's s0nnets
He proposes to reprint, with lutrOductOns ana notes.
some OF the more prominent plays thaI may & oe
now nearly ready is Larum for London, the Siege
of Antwerp" which. according 10 the p0spectus' WI
contemporary writer. founded on pamphlet oy Gas
coyne aud written chiefly by MaTs'on unotI tht uite-
tOn of Shakespeare" Works OF similar KIM Such az
the Lie and Death Of Capt Stukeley,'- Mucedorus
Pan En-" HistuomasuN' and The Prodiedl
Child" are announced as meant TO De -iuued IL 'u'
ecues.
Under the title. "Eine vcrjahrte Mystifca-
ton" Th. Cre.zeuach furnishes the AHgemti"e Zetg
with very curious Illustration Of the danger OF taking
history from newspapers. In the Autumn OF 1914
Goethe paid two short visits TO his native town. ana on
the last Of these occasions according to both choh ana
Iewes solemn representation Of TassO prepared IN
his honor. His box at the theater was hung with gar
lands and he himself crowned with wreaths taken
from the buss OF Virgil and AriOsO 10 was an ovation
like that OF VOtare al the Theatre Franeas II Is now
ffaf fNIlVg Is
story on contrary Goethe visited Frankfort and SO
little honor was shown him in his own country that 10
put the town authorities TO shame, enthusiastic ad
inirer OF hIs. Prvy Councillor Wemer' invented wIote
aud sent TO the M1T0cbdH sept %, lelD clrcumstan
a account Of all that ought TO have taken place at the
theater. but did not The report was printed m good
faith and copied by other journals The MOrgenbau us
covered It's mistake and spoke OF the forgery Dec 81 as
an ingenious and successful Joke but often happens
the contradiction failed 20 reach those VINO had DeeNcu
aud helped 10 disseminate the false news.