New-York tribune., 1876-10-02
LITERARY NOTES.

Arotber new novel by Frank Lee Benedict,
1Madauc" is just ont IN y 3ooAi MS Aol'
are always left one O0ok DeuiHu
CINCINNATI religious weekly speaks OF
" Dapie peronds' as Of the most successful "oiS
Of fiction America has ever produced
4 new work on the Phenomena OF spirit
,,s,o - ly the Rev. Asa Mahan, D. D., first President
=, ,,l,, c,liege is IN press by A. s. Barnes Co Dr
Hou undertakes TO explain and expose 70 scleh'iei'y
"Tbe corresponding secretary Of the 1heo-
,,,cal Society ia 70 print this Fan an elaborate WORK
mon the science and religion Of me ancents which i1
10 DE very DISASTROUS 10 spiGituas'S' foa'''9'7' ~
Catholics
the Afkepqum states that a weli-lmOwn
writer ON Tie Edinburgh Reca0 has in the press WORK
In which he tries to prove that the Annals q Iaeltus
was NOT written by Iactus 40 all but was forgery DIV
PoggiUs O3racciOlDl
Mr.. John Henry Parker will shortly MAKE n
valuable addition to the knowledge OF anr ent Ro.' 'J
his forthcoming work On the Coliseum " me fo'ulu
Ronauum and the via sacr9e is te last portion pU'
iished OF his "ArcheOiosy OF Rome
Tile London AtteReUm has the following
paraeraph: Air LoDgellow has been peIsisently an
moved by all kinds OF requests to write verses IN honof
Of The Centennial. He has invariably refused and iAe
report is that he Is busily engaged 10 eemponS too
The boundary disputes o. is expected 70 have l0lic'
tingo."
Mr.. David Syme, the proprietor of me h'ft-
bourne Age now In England has written work entued
this Autumn Its Objects to expose what seem 10 nm
the falacies OF the modern English school or poiic
economy and tO construct system OF docu" III PI''
OF that now existing, 10 the method matter ana lOiu Va
which the aut50Eis entirely opposed.
The new Bible Commentary to be published
by Casse, Peter d Galpn viii nave Tor It's eene'ai
editors the Bishop Of Gloucester and Bristol ana Fro
Ii,btfoot The editors have already made their arrange
reD Vith some of te abiCs and most learned sch"alr
and divines in TIE country. 10 money T. 10 De ,t.'
Sghich can e wisely spout in rendering this undertaking
which Is tu rival the Speakers Commentary, success
Messrs. Henry S. King & Co., London, are
about 70 publish narrative OF Journeys ma"e oy Col
Payfar in the steps Of the famous Abyssnsu tr'Neie
James Bruce. Peculiar interest says me Acdae"g
attaches 10 this volume because by the kindness oi Lou
md LADY Thurlow the latter the creatsraud daughter
of LANES Bruce a very large collection Oh
bis orCiua! drawings, which nave he'eI 90 80
nIadc public have been placed 40 the oiSp's%i
~ Col Plxyfair They comprise drawings of ali
the important Roman ah0 Mstii i'u, .
drawn or the most part in duplicate by Bruce. anu D!
Bauaani the Italian artist who accompanied hit on MS
tour
The work on "Medieval and Modern Saints
md Miracles" is just ready at Harper d BrJtheis
reviews in four divisions the mirac'as fr0m the
rotrsti 70 the Jesuit ago those from the foundation OF
the Society If Jesus TO the reign OF Pius iA homsn
haeiol0gy under Plus TX and marioittfy ID france sup
porting ls position with many appendices Of document s.
&c Tie writer SAYS that many s0idisqBt Catholic
I'm Catholic countries d. a Protestant without knowing H.
viii RmaUsn as anotior name for Josuitism which is
not a religion in any good seuse OF lAc "oid Ou'
pOlity.'
1t ls almost too soon by a month or more,
writes Mr. We't,ld The Book6uyer. 10 look for any
special authoritative announcements Of forthcoming
books Still rumOrs 40 give note OF some things &" 10
expected when the world" now scattered reass'O's
In It's accustomed lauuts. Some OF them may I've sci
down at random, the prossbhty Of new book from
NJ W T. H. Lecky, whose "History Of Ratonaiism IN
Europe" Is of the accredited treasures ot the SU
dent He is now said to he engaged history OF So
ciaI life I'm tie eighteenth ce1tury Mr.. Iecy s an Irish
gentleman OF fortune; hs appearances before "
public are few, ana dependent on his own tastes NJ
Norris exchanges the NirEiIan teXamctera lor return
to his early loye-NOFhcru 1eTaturc-Hud mas I'D mana
2 poem OF the great Nibeuugcu theme IL VIII potd"y
shock Wagner and hIs IeutOIc admirers TOT fiI MOTIFS
adOpts the scandinavian version as gwen ID the ilNl
Tdda and the VOsuuCa Saga, the basis OF hls WORE.
The comparative antiquity et these Two VERSIONS %N
probably always form subject Tor lNeS "thatc D.-
tween tie TWO nations of kOrteD 2ntCuulahs, QNi II
is uudeuisbe that the ola Gothic Gods loom up WED
grandeur through tho ObsCurty 0I tbe kdlSc song ta
they lose when iucuWhced in the tanner chcumsllnA@
narrative Of the later TeUtOuic Minstrel