New-York tribune., 1872-02-28
LITERARY NOTES

ILL rrro,ownev Leigh Hunt, Vhe sur
miss '"u" :, ,ho roet las died az Hamners'ri',' ="
"N."e "I1 ~a ,,o,nme of ltapies ana prayers lel'
sni''t ,so ,ate DR. Rowland wihams' Will "0 p"O'
6'GSS Sa s1"i %Tfe of Charles Dickens" by Mr., 1On
Forster. is publishing az bei'" ="
by Herr f. Alth"u'' n oooond edition of Mr..
iho 80 " pefutstlon Of spirituaism Is delayed
eerleeanssr srt rodnction " many new experiments
~ IT, the Arckises Ne6rl0nddises des Sciences
.,,s ;, yaf,,reles Or. j. W. Cunning puehshes very
anape memoir on the real value OF the Rno"eoge an'
IabOrs OF laNOlsler' =. -...-.z r.
new illustrated periodical is preparing Tor
usarid 10 be named El Americana ana to adVOca'e
,n American interests, and represent spanish AeI'
ran literature and cvillzatloh
Mr. WinvoOd Reade is engaged upon a Work
called The Dark Continent IN when ne uaAeS "u ~,
,.n,n, 70 apply Mr. Darwins principles III Inon A"
eXtest to history aud religion . ,
Cbakespeare's " Measure for Measure" adapted
Cor the German stage by Herr Gsbert Won Vincke' has
mn favoraby received in Weimar and at n Lelpsir r
lere il was performed at the beginning OF the new
A volume of Essays on Social ana folitic,', fosa
subects by Prof aud Mrs. Fawcett, will be t
h,I,, Tho vo,ume will contain an introduction 10 'nd d
course Of lectures Prof Fawcett Is anT the Economc
Cambridge ION Modern Socialism "n" '"N
Programme of the International .- a., ..
A sinonlar illustration of the law regaIdlne
,he sale in England OF foreign editions OF "oIhs W
modern English authors E. be seen IN T of
1eng openly sold in London at Is 6d ana lnaV 'n0iV
is no nglish edition or the pay
Mr. Robert Browning has given leave 10
Mr. Furnival TO reprint for the Chaucer Society those
1mts of Mrs Barrett BrOwnings English foets .
wlich relate 10 Chaucer. Mrs. Browning was great
lover Of ChaucCr, and took part, with WoIGsMIih anu
others in the last mOdernzatOn OF some OF us IaeS
Pere Gratry has died at MOntreuX, after a
Ihg illness He was born at Lille, in 1905. Originally
of Poll q aftpTWarQ
orders In 1861 he became Vicar General OF the b!Sa%l
G Orleans; 1868 Professor of Moral Theology at tne
sfbonne; and in 1867 he was elected member OF the
Academy.
F. Won Hauer of the Austrian Geological
Survey communicates to the Mih der GntTOpOogSche'
8essslSchan "a Wein for December account of The
discovery OF an almost entire human skeleton in the
neghborhOOd of BruX, in Bohemia. The skeleton was
found in bed of sand OVERLAPPING bed OF tertiary coal
and a stone hammer was found near II.
Professor Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
enc OF the most eminent Of the present generation
German philosophers, died in Berlin, Jan. oath, in TIT
seventeen year of his He had been Professor
the University Berlin for nearly forty years and sec
of the Academy OF Sciences Tor twenty-five Ill
writings relate chiefly to the history Of philosophy
lAgie, and ethics.
The famous EcOle POlytechniQue of Paris
Which has hitherto been both military and civil col
5egt is about TO undergo change. IT is 10 become II
said part OF the Public Works Department, and vii
only future train pupils civil engineers and chem
lists while the in training for the army VII
be transferred 10 the EcOe de Saint Cyr; and mtar
schools connection with saint Cyrare TO be established
in of France for lnstructng gratmtOus
tle children Of officers and soldiers killed during the
Nlh Germany.