New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-02-22
LITERARY NOTES.

A volume OF autograph letters from the
poet Soucy % his brother has lately been acquired W
the British Museum.
In Paris history of the works OF Balzac
has lust been published also illustrated edition Oh
Victor Huso's Historic dun Crime" and an unpuO-
lished work By the late Bishop or orleans 0ailou
Letters sur Education des Files
blanchard Jerrold says the International Lit
erary is preparing to present TO the Congress
OF Letters OF all Nations, winch tits proposcdsh
meet III London June well-considered scheme OF
international literary machinery, devised to protect the
rlghts OF authors All over tne "oiIu' a"N w NA'
general esprit de corps" ,
Dean Stanley lecturcd in London on " Mill
ton fortnight ago He said tha; Mitons Two "ofAs
Paradise Lost " and " Paradise Rcganed,' coVefea
tho whole OF English theology from top to pouon' ~
Was surprising, he said when one analyIeu MS o"n
thoughts about the creation. the fall OF enc angels anu
the entrance OF and death into the world how very
rucb his thoughts actions and words these subjects
v,erc drawn not from the Bible but from Milton Dean
Stanley also pointed 10 the complete absence lIo no
works OF any thing I'm the least saVOing OF Oh Tue ensu
ous- very remarkable thing when the Literature OF mat
and the scceedins reign taken into consideration
A book OF modern poetry, recently pub
lslied IN London, contains according TO me AMfHe"'
al extraordinary collection OF mistakes Mt Bryant,
who died about eight mOnns ago. is spoken OF as sui
alive and the year Of his brth il given "a 1897 instead
of 1894 Washington AllstOn is set down as younger
than Mr. Bryaut whereas he born fifteen years be
core HIM The years In which Whittier. Poe, steiInan
and Hay were born are none OF them gwen CORRECTLY
sy3np1e; tnIa' are ysn pc C Named cIarl S
"Kngley" is quoted. but thus may be the eIioFo u
printer.
Excavations near the site of Temple Bar
in London have lei TO the discovery OF many ancient
articles including large number ot tobacco pipes anu
eartben agons supposed to have found their way here
from the sugaroaf Tavern the days Of Johnson and
lea uP remarkable
VIA bottle Of wine, which had cyapOrated no more
than thumbs depth OF It's hd which stu retained
rudy color. while the glass OF the bottle, Originally
Gark-coorcd had become beautifully irdescent This
circumstance leads The Telegraph ondonj TO publish
ong editorial on the remote possibility that this bottle
Of vine Is the Identical bottle which Dr. Johns0n-lust
before Goldsmith at that memorable eculnS' hdnieu
lin tho manuscript OF mo wear od nahSnJIiiut no
iuGiciousy put a cork intO and bade poor Noil De
CUlml
When Richard Realfs first volume of verses,
Guesses at the Beautiful" published in Brighton
ErClsnd in 1892, they were edited by Charles de 10
Pryme nephew of Thackeray who in his preface SAID
the poems had won high praise from Thackeray. Buwer
Iandor Leigh Hunt and other lights OF that time. Now
that Reaps poems are soon 10 be published Tor the
benefit Of his child II is Interesting to note story 81
his early lie in England. quarter OF century ago.
relates The World Qondon), fashionable physician ot
the day delivered at Brighton lecture on phrcnolosy'
and 70 illustrate the organ OF icaly he read some verses
by poor untutorcI lad. scarce seventeen years OF
arc whose sister was domestic servant III Brighton
and who himself dborer IN the fields OF his native
Sussex" This lad was Richard Eeaf and among thoSe
who listcned his verses read by me physieai'
r"ro adv Rylou aud her daughter Ada, Miss Milford,
Miss Maftincau, Mr'. jameson. aud many other dis
tinguished ptrsOnages.
The publication of the new and sumptuOus
edition OF Macaulay's England" calls out In the
March BgyDer an Interesting statement Of the eItraor
binary sale OF That work when II was brought out In
this country thirty years ago. The fret two volumes
were issued here the Winter OF lSiS'49. In London
where they were issued large aud expensive book,
Is 600 copies had been sold IN less than three months
while large English EDITIONS al this time dis
posed Of I'm France aud Germany. Bat ia TINS country
the sale unprecedented. As early as April, ls49.
there Elk editions in the market and probably over
10000 copies had boen disposed Of the Harpers pre-
dcted IN letter to Maoaulay that iu three months time
the sale would amount to 100000 copies. Seven years
later Edward Everett wrote TO the historian lnfor
nation derived from booksellers OF the best
thory" tnat no book had had such q sale in the
limited States except the Bible and or two school
hooks OF universal use" Besides numerous English
editions on The Continent there have been six iransla
lions Of the work INTO German, and II has been pub
lsnrd in the Poish. Danish, Swedish, Italian, French
Dutcn, Spanish, iungaFi1n Iu-sian, bohemian ana
Persian languages.
Mr.. Dennis, in his "Etru1ia' points ont
that Immortality IL that country was art bestowed
the Tyre the canvas the marble tho literature and the
science OF modern Europe" Within her domains were
Dante, Petrarch, BOccaCciO, GotO, Bruncllescl
Michael Angelo, Hldcbrand. Maciayelli, Raphael and
Calico He thinks II must be due 10 natural superb
orIty ~ that while the Roman OF today retains
much OF the rudcncss u former times. while the Nea
poliian in his ~ and witness bCtrlys his Greek
origin, aud The sIcan the liwcssuc's OF his African
foreathers the Tuscan IS still "thc lively intel
lpct and Imagination, the most highly endowed with n
taste for art and literature" There IS nothing, Mr.
Dennis says which can give exalted idea OF
power ard grandeur OF this ancient people than the
walls Of their cities. Those piles OF masonry.
SO solid IA TO have withstood for 1000 years the
stroying hand OF seem destined TO endure tie
cnn of time Tho perfect arch although IL has been
proved 10 bo the discovery or Etrura known and
practi.cd her people NJ early peOi, and the Ro
mans who have long enjoyed the credit OF It's discovery.
really derived 1t from them Mr. Dennis further claims
that tho Eruscan amphtheatre OF Surl as probably
the type Of all those celebrated structures raised by I'm
perial Rome even ~ tho Colosseum Itself" while there
Is historical evidence OF eminent irustNOIthincss that
Rome derived her theatrical exhibitions from Etrura
and that the gladatorial cOmbais had an E.ruscau
origin Mr. Charles Wexford in his letter 10 the Feb
mary R0ol Iiug.r. snys hat the opinion prevalent
ouoIr scholars that the EtrusCans made their way
fom the North southward into Italy traces Uf
tLcr peculiar behind them, all The way from the
region Of trc TJ roll The most northeIy examples
marked with rud"uess ana want OF refinement that
gradually yields The ful development OF the national
style aud characteristics that found IN the archi-
tectural pulchrll monuments OF Etguria proper
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