New-York tribune., 1874-08-12
FOREIGN LITERATURE.
p,rp11C.TIoNS IN ENGLAND.

DuKF-IITERATURE OF THE BUDDHlSTs-LITHo-
GRAPHIC REPRODUCTION OF ORIGINAL FRENCH
PORTRAITS,
IFEoM TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRlBtNE'l
LONDON July 2s.-Sir Samuel Bakers friends are
waiting with some hope and some anxiety ior MS
full accOun; OF his recent raid against the African
Slave Dealers There are those among them VINO III
sist that Sir Samuel will be able TO dspel the gen
eral notion that his expedition was preordaned
failure At least they saw he will be able TO prove
that ii was genuine effort to extingush the slave
Trade and not simply and solely an enterprise lor
the annexation of some Of the Upper Nile countries
70 the Khfdive'S dOmimons. One would nave eA-
pected Sir Samuel who Is quite aware OF Tue seh-
sral feeling about the matter to get his BOOK oeioie
the world as soon as possible. But the publishing
season is past and nothing can be done TIL Octooer'
for which month Messrs. Macmillan now promise ID
under the title, Ismailia: Narrative ol the LAle
dtion to Central Africa for the Suppression ol INC
Slave Trade. orpauized by Ismail, Kh6dveo of Egypt
By Sir Samuel White Baker. Pasha, f. r. D, ~
G. 5 With maps, portraits. and upward oil % Iul
n,co illustrations. 2vols svo." Possibly this may
restore Sir Samuers reputation, and hope 1t may
Spe Of his titles and hOnOrs he is not now SO great
aman with the English public as when he was pam
Samuel Baker, and went wandering Oh n.0 '
Nile countries with that pretty Roumaniah gii' anu
his Reilly No. 10, baggng elephants d'ScoNer'nS
the Albert NYanza and writing the most uhSoln''-
ticated and most lively of books OF travel lhefo
are not many things finer than that lonely Journey
of theirs from GondOrokO to the Lake Aho'hei
book from the hero of such an adventure even
though full blown into IL Pasha and Leading an
army, is among the most attractive Vi 'no Pio
fruits of the Autumn.
In October also Mcssrs Macmillan are TO give
us "The Russian Empire" by Ashton w. Dixie, with
mans and Illustrations. This, they say, Will be III
part book Of travels, and in part survey OF the
political position Of Russia, especially IN regard 10
the relations between the Russian and subject races
The autbor is a younger brother of Sir Charles
Dixie. who has travelled in European and Asian
Russia and seen and studied more than most men
of his age or Of any age-Inore OF Russian lnateiS'
mean-and has considered political and ethnooglc'u
questions with industry and acuteneSs. lie has
been known 10 hold his own in discussion with
Prof Huxley on what suppose Mr.. Disraeh would
call the Asian and Aryan mysterious. don know
whether he can tell us anything more about the OLD
savage whom Mr.. Ker invented and reiDvented so
often He brought home with him collection OF
photographs of great interest and these VIII be used
for hi, forthcoming work. Mr.. Schuylers book on
Rus,ia is TO be published by Messrs. Sampson Low
d Co.. and will have somewhat different scope.
Messrs Sampson Low 1, Co. are the London pub
lishers of Mr.. Charles NordhOff's Northern Call-
fornia Oregon and the Sandwich Islands" when
The AcqdeE.grevews and approves as one Of the
simplest and at the time one Of the pleasantest
Of recent narratives of travel with descriptions so
agreeably and unafectedly given that atitrecommends
The book heartily 10 its readers. OF The Acdde'ny
itself may remark that il keeps the promise Of its
beginning when wrote hopefully about 1t. The
Spectator said of it some little time ago that ii had
suddenly sprung into great literary position, and
was full of instructive and interesting matter as 1t
continues TO be.
Messrs. Tribner & Co.'S announcements include
ali English translation of c. I. Ncumann's "Hoei
Scbcin" OF the discovery of America by Buddhist
monks in the fifth century, something more than a
thousand years before Columbus discovered it in
such fashion as to insure its staying discovered. The
catalogue Of this firm gives fresh of the
extent 10 which studies in philoOgy and in Oriental
literature are carried in England. Much OF the
original pathological work, ii must be admitted. Is
done in Germany. 1t is not long since eminent
English writer remarked energetically on the neces
sity to him who would keep mp with modern
thought, of knowing German" most good books
being written in that language" proposition
from which ! desire respectfully to dissent. If
limited to books of philosophical and scientific in
yestigation, il may be true in a measure, but in
measure only If we take it of general literature,
ii Is not even measurably true. However, here is
"Compendum of the Comparative Grammar of the
European Languages, far as 1t relates to the
Sanskrt, Greek, and Latin" by Augustus Schleicher,
translated from the third German edition by Her
bert BenGall We do not get 1t, you will notice, in
English till il has reached its third edition in the
original. Messrs Trbner have it in press. They have
in preparation, not translated from the German but
from the original Pah. Sutta Nipata or the Dla-
locues and DiscOuIses of GOtama Buddha - which
came TO the knowledge of a few millions of human
beings some considerable time before the Germans
began 10 make noise IN the world, say about 2,5OO
years ago. This translation into English Is by Mutu
Coomara Swamy Mudeliar. with notes and intro
ductiOn Also there Is i'll preparation, Essays on
the Languages, Literature and religion of Nepal
and Tibet; together with further papers the
Geography. Ethnology and Commerce of those
Countries bv B III. HOdgsOn, late British Minister
OF Nepal This is but reprint, with corrections aid
additions, from Illustrations of the Literature and
Religion of the Buddhists" Serampore, 1871, and
"Selections from the Records of the Government of
Bengal" No. 27 Calcutta, 1857. 1t is to be noted
that the same publishers issuing at the same
time two editions of Legges Chinese Classics. orc
in royal svo at two guineas each part the other in
DENY SvO, at half guinea volume. Which may be
another way of describing large and small paper
copies of the same book. OF the former i'll the more
expensive shape, five volumes, in eight parts. are
now ready OF the latter. volume is out (the
Life and Teachings OF Confucius" third edition Of
H. and a second volume, The Life aud Works of
Nencius" is in the press
Stafford House. the Duke of Sutherlands London
palace, boasts among its many treasures a unique
collection of original French portraits. The series
is said to be larger than can be found elsewhere
either in this country in France. and their histOr
zeal value and interest can hardly be overrated.
Lord Ronald Gswer the Duko's brother, has auto