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sis. . . . The Printers' Pension, &c., Corporation At the annual meeting of the Royal Asiatic Soci- ate their annual dinner a few days since: $2755 ety, held the 31st ult., Sir Henry Rawlinson, presi- gold were collected at the table. . . . The London dent, in giving a sketch of the recent progress made Society of Compositors had, during the last twelve in oriental studies, referred particularly to the ad- months, an income of $18,345 gold; unemployed vance made by Mr. George Smith in bringing the members received $11,940. The Newsvendors' fragments of the Nineveh library into intelligible Provident and Benevolent Institution enjoyed last order. Sir Henry Rawlinson declared himself to be year an income of $2385 and spent $1995.. persuaded that there is a near connection between Messrs. Cassell, Petter & Galpin have given $500 gold the Babylonian documents now in England, and to the Printers' Almshouses. By the way, this the oldest biblical notices. He is sanguine in ex- well-known firm have become the publishers of pectations that we shall soon be able to draw from" Hanover Square," a musical magazine. . . . The original documents the whole history related in the editor of the "Jewish Record" states that whole pages book of Genesis from Abraham's day, and, more of a new novel, "Count Telek," have been taken over, that the same facts and the same descriptions from the "Jewish Record," and that the work is will be found in the Babylonian Hebrew documents full of blunders. . . . The "Bookseller" calls atand in the Hebrew Bible. Sir Henry Rawlinson tention to some inaccuracies in the article on interpromised to lay before the society, at no distant national copyright in the June number of "Macdate, a paper on the Garden of Eden, in which he millan's Magazine.” The “ Bookseller" says: "It is hopes to show the Garden of Eden was the natural not true that Hallam's Literature of Europe' is name of Babylon; the rivers bore the very same out of copyright. The book referred to is the 'View names, and the Babylonian documents give an ex- of the Middle Ages of Europe,' which any one who set geographical account of the Garden of Eden. thinks proper to reprint has the right to do preSir Henry Rawlinson laid stress, however, upon cisely as Mr. Murray is at liberty to reprint Bosthe reservation that he was speaking merely of the well's Life of Johnson,' Goldsmith's works, or geography, and not of the facts connected with it. Popés works, that is to say, there is no legal copyHe announced that the Deluge and the building of right in them, the rights granted to the authors havthe Tower of Babel would be most fully illustrated ing expired-but it is only right to add that Mr. by the Babylonian documents. John Murray's edition of Hallam is enriched by Mr. Thomas Wright, who has for many years notes of the author, which are still copyright, and been Honorary Secretary of the Ethnological Society, which cannot be touched by any one else for some has resigned. The society is in process of reor-years to come." The late Rev. Alex. Dyce has ganization and is, among other things, to be divided bequeathed his library to the South Kensington into sections, each devoted to some special subject. Museum upon condition it shall be kept together .. The library of the London Library has been in- and placed in a suitable room. . . . Dr. Constancreased during the last year by 1960 volumes and tine Tischendorf, the well-known biblical scholar, 150 pamphlets, but how many were given, and how has received from the Czar a Russian hereditary many were bought does not appear. We are, how-order of nobility. Ludwig Von Schloezer, the hisever, told 120 new members were added last year torian, received this order in 1804, and he was the to the society, making the total number of mem-last foreigner honored with it. . . . The monument bers 1043, and there has been an increase of $2715 in the year's receipts... Rev. Dr. Henry Burgess, who, for the last fourteen years, has been editor of the Clerical Journal," retired from the paper last January... The "Saturday Review" has fallen into ludicrous and unpardonable blunders about American geography: "Advices from Chicago inform us that on the 27th of last March a fox hunt took place near the town of St. Louis, in Illinois, a town which is no doubt destined to be the future Badminton or Melton Mowbray of America." The "Stationer" makes these comments on trade: "Dulness is stated to be apparent throughout the commercial world, though we do not give credence to the statement. Even the wholsale stationers, who generally experience a lull at this season of the year, have expressed themselves in less dissatisfied terms than has heretofore been their wont at this period. Manufacturing stationers are busy preparing Christmas novelties; makers of summer games are actively employed in supplying orders; fancy warehousemen are transacting a fair business; printers are moderately well engaged, and if bookbinders are dull, they are not more so than is customary during the summer months." .. Messrs. Longmans give their servants the half Saturday holiday now universal in London, and during the summer they close their establishment at six o'clock P. M. Mr. John Whittaker is now a writer on "The Echo;" he has until quite recently been a writer on the "Daily Telegraph.' It was he who, by letters over the signature "A Lancashire Lad," which appeared in "The Times," suggested the organization of the Mansion House Relief Fund. . . . Mr. Wills, Mr. Charles Dickens's assistant in the management

over Leigh Hunt's grave will be placed in the destined place in Kensal Green about the 1st of August. FRANCIS BLANDFORD.

OUR CONTINENTAL CORRESPONDENCE.

PARIS, February, 1869. ACADEMICAL Circles of society are considerably agitated by the imminent elections to fill the two seats vacated respectively by Messrs. Berryer and Viennet. The candidates are, for the former's seat, Messrs. Duvergier de Hauranne and Count d'Haussonville; for the latter's seat, Messrs. Théophile Gautier and Aug. Barbier. Both these elections will be closely contested. It is impossible to predict which of the candidates will be successful. There is, perhaps, most passion felt about the canvass for M. Berryer's seat. M. Guizot hates M. Duvergier de Hauranne with unusual acrimony, for he considers the latter the author of the Revolution of February, 1848; moreover, this candidate for years attacked M. Guizot with a wild animosity which now seems incredible. But M. Thiers supports M. Duvergier de Hauranne with all his influence, for the latter was his right-hand man in the Chamber of Deputies. Count d'Haussonville is not only supported by M. Guizot, but as he is Duke de Broglie's son-in-law, and Prince de Broglie's brother-in-law, there is a powerful family influence interested in his election. As he is in a particular manner personally disagreeable to the French Emperor, all the Bonapartists will vote against him. The Bonapartists support M. Théophile Gautier, who ought to be successful in the canvass; for he is not only greatly M. Barbier's superior as an author, but he is a writer militant, whereas M. Barbier

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profession of dramatic reporter to the trade of the wood-sawyer, who, armed with a well-set saw, M. Théophile Gautier, Jr., has entered upon the transforms trees from the forest into firewood of duties of his office as superintendent of the press in size suited to Parisian homes." I read this the Ministry of the Interior, duties which he dis- anecdote of M. Cousin a few days since: "Robercharges in the grave, melancholy way which made val, the mathematician, was a passionate adversary his father jokingly jeer him with: "Clear out! I of Descartes and of Cartesianism. It seems M. shall never be able to make anything but an office- Cousin hated him for it, although some two cenholder of you!" A good deal of sympathy is turies separated them. One day, while walking felt for the miscarriage of a play, "Les Droits de through one of our public libraries, M. Cousin obCoeur," by M. Leopold Laluyé. He wrote his first served Roberval's works in a reader's hands. He piece in 1854, the year in which M. Victorien Sar- stopped, looked at the book, and exclaimed, in that dou brought out his first piece, and at the same theatrical tone he could so well assume, 'Roberval! theatre. M. Laluyé's piece was greatly applauded, He was not a worthy man! I could tell many and the most brilliant career was predicted for him; things about him!' The anecdote is characteristic. he was then 26. M. Sardou was pitied and forgot- This tone of confidence, this affectation of zeal, this Now M. Sardou is worth $300,000 or $400,000, pretension of possessing his own private information and all the managers of Paris are begging for his about the seventeenth century, completely reveal pieces. M. Laluyé brought out, in 1858, a second the irritable, sprightly, incomparable mountebank." piece, "Le Poëme de Claude;" it failed. He was You see from this last phrase we have here people very poor, and had a widowed mother to support, who hate M. Cousin. . . . M. Pascal Duprat has so he became a pattern draughtsman, and con- just published "Les Revolutions." I find in it this trived to live-not very well, but still to live. He hostile portrait of M. Sainte-Beuve: "Lysis is gave his leisure hours to the Muse; but, debarred both a grammarian and a wit, ever ready to disfrom books, literary society, and the current of con- course about writers of bygone days. He takes temporary life, the connection was rather sterile. writers, considers them in front and in profile, be"Les Droits de Coeur" was the fruit of these hours, fore and behind, and after he has in this way and its failure was chiefly owing to its lack of con- turned them in every direction, he again turns temporary life. . . . It is said M. Clement Duver- them to discover some yet unseen feature of their nois is writing a "History of the Re-establishment physiognomy. If one of them has had a mistress, of the Empire:" the French Emperor is his cola- he does not fail to turn her, too, on every side, since, borer. . . . It is stated that" Hector de Sainte Her- according to him, it is the sole manner of discovermine" and "Les Blancs et les Bleus," published, the ing the influence she exerted on her lover's mind. former in "Le Petit Moniteur," and the latter in These are Lysis's grave occupations. He has an"La Petite Presse," are almost word for word "Les other: He is occasionally seen sitting in a chamCompagnons de Jehu :" all three novels are signed ber which is charged in the name of public order Alex. Dumas. . . It is said M. Victor Hugo is with seeing that no anarchical liberty threatens to writing a drama, whose action will be laid during introduce itself into the State. In former times be the Restoration. . . . M. Louis Ratisbonne recently was the partisan and the friend of all public liberdelivered a lecture on Alfred de Vigny, in the course ties. He does not think of them now. The sole of which he related these anecdotes: "Alfred de liberty he seems to defend is that of speaking evil Vigny had married, when a young man, the daugh- of God, who does not appoint Senators, and who has ter of a wealthy Englishman, Sir Bunbury, but not power to revoke them. As for other liberties, who forgot to give his daughter anything, because he has often seen them go by him with a rope he disliked poets, and regretted his daughter had around their necks without the spectacle wrenchmarried a poet. This was true, Lamartine has ing a single word from him. Nevertheless the insaid in some of his works; and that he one day, in genuous Athenians (whom I strongly suspect to be Italy, met an Englishman, who said to him: You natives of Boeotia) amuse themselves, considering are a poet, M. de Lamartine? I have married my him as one of the representatives of the Democratic daughter to a French poet like you.' 'Ah! what is party." his name?' 'I don't remember.' And it was only when Alfred de Vigny's name escaped de Lamartine's lips the eccentric Englishman said, 'That is his name.' After the coup d'état the Prince President remembered, as he passed through Angoulême, that Alfred de Vigny lived in the neighborhood, and he sent him an invitation to dinner. At table he said to Alfred de Vigny: 'Well, I too am carving my historical novel.' Some years afterwards Alfred de Vigny was asked to write a cantata for the birth of the Imperial Prince. He refused, and fell into a sort of disgrace." I think the anecdote of "Sir Bunbury" too French to be true. A joint stock company of eighty persons, taken among M. Berryer's most intimate friends, was formed in 1866 for the purchase of his speeches, forensic arguments, and memoirs. This Society will publish his correspondence and other papers. His will positively invests them with this privilege. . . . M. Huillard Breholles has been elected a member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres in place of the late M. Vincent. . . . M. Théodore de Banville says: "To describe Sunday, the day on which he writes his dramatic feuilleton, M. Théophile Gautier calls it 'the day on which I split my wood,' assimilating, in this way, and not without some reason, the

I recently had occasion to call your attention to Prince Napoleon's disregard of truth, and to the incomplete character of Napoleon's correspondence, published by the French government. Here is another proof of the falsehood of those asseveratious. The extraordinary attempt to overthrow Napoleon made by Gen. Malet is the object of several writers' studies at present, when the popular tastes are beginning to delight in everything relating to the weakness and the shame of the first Empire. One of these authors related that Napoleon was extremely irritated with Cambacères for his conduct in the incident. Thereupon, Duke Cambacères proved the author mistaken by quoting Napoleon's letters to his father, and he added: “I should have been glad to spare you this long letter, and I thought I might content myself with engaging you to refer to Napoleon I.'s correspondence to acquaint yourself with these documents; but, to my great astonishment, and not less great regret, I have found in it neither one nor the other of these letters, although I communicated them to the committee charged with collecting and putting. in order these important materials." M. Ernest Hamel-who, by the way, has been maliciously nicknamed "Robespierre's donkey," in consequence

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of his defence of this King of Terror, and has two important letters in the correspondence of Najust published a pamphlet in reply to M. Miche-poleon I.; 3. Refusal to communicate two works let's strictures upon his hero-M. Hamel is busy at the Library. M. Hamel concludes from these we with Gen. Malet's adventure, and he writes this should for the moment abandon writing this hisletter upon his connection with it: "You are quite tory. He does not see that if the government atright to question the suppression of the papers re- tains this result, its pretensions will fully be juslating to Malet's case. The file exists, and, I am tified. I have thought proper to conclude, from informed by a competent judge, it is very full and these very precautions, everything known about this very complete. The government has ever had the history should be published. I am, &c., PASCHAL ingenuousness to object to me that the honor of a GROUSSET." This letter drew forth the following, certain number of still living families was inter- which remains unanswered: "Sir: Be good ested in its being withheld from publicity, as if enough to pardon me if I am again forced to recMalet's enterprise was one of those which militated tify intelligence, by whose aid your newspapers against people's consideration. We might say to and your readers have been abused. Your newsMalet as Emilie said to Cinna: 'In such a scheme, paper published, in its Saturday's impression, an the want of good fortune imperils your life, not author's letter denouncing a pretended interdiction your honor.' Moreover, how long has it been placed by the Imperial Library on the communicasince the government was constituted guardian of tion of works relating to Malet's Conspiracy; and historical reputations? This is really too good a to prove it, M. Paschal Grousset adds: 'I have, at joke. I have not given up. Allured by Gen. the National Library, been refused communication Malet's great figure, I desired to write an exact of two works relating to Malet's Conspiracy, and account of his conspiracy. Now the secret of this catalogued under the figures L B4 562 and L B14 plot, purposely and for good reason obscured at 565. Fortunately I was able to procure them elsethe epoch of the Restoration, is in the archives. where.' You will see how your correspondent's So long as it may please the Minister of the Em- statement of facts requires to be completed before peror's household to refuse us communication of it becomes exact. The 4th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th, and the file, we shall be reduced to mere conjectures. 12th of last January, M. Paschal Grousset came to If I have temporarily abandoned the work I had the Library, and asked for thirteen works, all recommenced, it is because I do not choose in his- lating to Malet's Conspiracy, which were immetory to advance any other than exact and proved diately given him. The tickets, written in his fact, mere Bollandist as I am, if M. Michelet is to hand and signed by him, are here to attest the be believed. I have already protested against this truth of what I say. The 16th Jan. he asked for exorbitant pretension of the government to con- five other works, all relating to the same conspifiscate arbitrarily archives, established especially racy, one of which ('Les Soirées de Neuilly,' which with a view to assure the truth of history, and he did not know contained curious historical notes against its strange refusal to communicate papers about this event) was indicated to him by the from which light must come forth, to authors who deputy-librarian of service. Three of these new have no motive but scientific interest. I seize this five works were immediately given him; two new occasion to protest. Bossuet says, there is no others, whose numbers M. Paschal Grousset gave law against the law; but there is brute force. It in his letters, were not in place. But the same is mournful. I will wait." A few days afterwards deputy-librarian, who was so courteous as to give the following letter appeared: "I thank you for M. Paschal Grousset the reference above mentioned, your kind criticism of my 'General Malet's Con- carried his obliging nature so far as to tell him he spiracy. M. E. Hamel has written you on that personally owned the more important of the two subject: So long as it may please the Minister of works in question, and that the day after the morthe Emperor's household to refuse us communica- row, Monday, he would bring it from his house to tion of the file, we shall be reduced to mere conjec- the Library to lend it to him. M. Paschal Grousset ture.' I regret, as much as M. Hamel may re- returned, indeed, the following Monday, and regret, I could not obtain the file of papers of Malet's ceived the work. You see his gratitude to this trial; nevertheless conjecture' is rather exagge- deputy-librarian for pointing out an authority and rated. If this file be no longer at the disposal of lending him his own book. M. Paschal Grousset the public, all the historians of the Restoration apparently believes he is telling the truth, when he were able to consult it freely. All the narratives does not fear to have printed in your newspaper, of Malet's Conspiracy, which appeared between Fortunately I was able to procure them elsewhere.' 1815 and 1830, were written with this file in band. Elsewhere' is felicitous! Of a truth, the adverI therefore believe that, in proceeding to an atten- saries of the other Pascal could not have lighted tive comparison of this various evidence, and to criti- on a happier expression! Search was made for the cism of the declarations made in the numerous two missing works. Their trace was discovered. contemporary memoirs, we may attain something besides mere conjecture.' This is proved by my being able to collect all the papers of the trial, 'Malet's Examination' between the conspiracy and the trial alone excepted. At any event, does M. Hamel consider the military executions in the Grenelle field 'mere conjectures?' I can scarcely believe it. As for the strange pretension peculiar to the present government of France to rectify history, here are two new examples which I affirm to be true. I have, at the National Library, been refused communication of two works relating to Malet's Conspiracy, and catalogued under the figures L B11 562 and L B11 565. Fortunately I was able to procure them elsewhere. Here we therefore have, touching this one single historical point, three exemplary facts: 1. The suppression of the file of papers at the archives; 2. Suppression of

They have been replaced on the shelf, which they should never have quitted. They have been, for some days, communicated to everybody who desired them, and, in particular, to your sincere correspondent, in the same manner as all the other works previously delivered to him. And what demonstrates clearly the plot organized by the Library against the historians of Malet's Conspiracy, is that the two works, irregularly removed from the shelf without a declaration by a librarian violating the rules, had been lent by him-to whom? To M. Hamel! Such is the reprehensible manœuvre undertaken by the Library to make history impossible! There really are people who feel an invincible hankering to represent themselves persecuted, and who, to attain this end, are no more afraid to forget every sentiment of decorum than to persecute Truth itself. I am, &c.,J. TASCHEREAU, keeper

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G. S. of the Imperial Library." A piquant chapter of being an attempt to popularize the works of the literary history.

RECENT GERMAN PUBLICATIONS. LICENTIATE RUDOLF BAXMANN, of Bonn University, has undertaken an important work on the Popes: "Die Politik der Päpste von Gregor I. bis Gregor VII." (The Policy of the Popes from Gregory I. to Gregory VII.), published by R. L. Friderichs, of Elberfeld. The present is the first instalment, and is divided into three parts, the Introduction, In the Introduction and First and Second Books. the characters of the pre-Constantine Age are treated in outline. Then follow Constantine and his successors, after which we have The Antithesis between Ancient and Modern Rome, The Fall of the Western Roman Empire, The Schism of Acacius, The Prosperity and Fall of the East Goths, Justinian, and the Invasion of the Langobardians. The first book covers the ground between Gregory I. and Gregory II., therefore between the years 590715. This part of the work is divided into four chapters. The second book discusses The Papal Policy at the Time of the Controversy on Pictures and of the Carlovingian Dominion (A. D. 715-858). The present part of the work comes down to Benedict III. Almost every page abounds in learned notes, which the critical scholar will take more pleasure in than the general reader. There is little time or space occupied in reflections and conclusions. The author's method is to give the history We as faithfully and succinctly as possible, and then leave the reader to draw his own inferences. shall await the conclusion of the work with interest, and then probably will have something more to say of it as a whole.

The same publisher is proceeding rapidly with his "Theologisches Universal-Lexikon zum Handgebrauche für Geistliche und gebildete Nichttheologen" (Universal Theological Lexicon for the Use of Clergy and Educated Laymen). The articles are prepared with care, all of them are brief, and those of a biographical and literary character are specially commendable for the bibliography connected with their subjects.

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From the Catholic press of Herder (Freiburg in
the Breisgau) we have new editions of two element-
ary works on the study of the Hebrew language
"Rudimenta Linguæ Hebraicæ Scholis Publicis et
Domestica Disciplinæ brevissime accommodata,"
and "Kurze Auleitung zum Erlernen der hebräischen
Sprache für Gymnasien, und für das Privatstu-
dium." Both of them are by the same author, Dr.
C. H. Vosen, who evidently has made excellent use
of his experience as a teacher of the Hebrew lan-
As the titles of the two works indicate,
guage.
they are essentially the same, one being in Latin
and the other in German. The arrangement is very
simple, and, with but slight aid from an instructor,
the student can master the language from them
alone. We should be glad to see an English trans-
lation of the little German volume.

Herr Herder has also published a new edition of
Dr. Alzog's "Sancti Patris Nostri Gregorii Theologi
Vulgo Nazianzeni Oratio Apologetica de Fuga Sua."
The work is small, but we find that all the best
authors have been consulted and introduced to ad-
vantage. The great excellence of the work, how-
ever, is the choice extracts from Gregory Nazian-
zen's own works, each of which is premised by its
appropriate heading, and in some cases by a little
analysis.

Herr Carl Conradi, of Stuttgart, has completed an important publishing enterprise-the issue of a new edition of the "Evangelische Volksbibliothek." The work is the only one of its class in Germany,

leading evangelical theologians of Germany and
Switzerland covering the whole Protestant period.
It consists of five volumes, as follows: Vol. I.
Luther, Zwingli, Melanchthou; II. Johann Brenz,
Johann Mathesius, Johann Arord, Valerius Herber-
ger, Johann Valentin Andreä; III. M. Christian
Scriver, Dr. Heinrich Müller, Philipp Jakob Spener,
August Hermann Francke; IV. Gerhard Terstee-
gen, Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf und
Pottendorf, Johann Albrecht Bengel, Georg Konrad
Rieger; V. Die geistliche Dichtung von Luther bis
Klopstock. Each one of these subjects is treated
by a separate writer, who, besides giving a biogra-
phy, furnishes a judicious selection from the pub-
lished works of the subject. Dr. Klaiber is editor-
in-chief, and among his co-laborers are such men
as Dr. Sigwart, Pastor Krummacher, Court Preacher
Hoffmann, Dr. Burk, Dr. Merz, Dr. Palmer, and
Paul Pressel. The work is receiving the highest
The fifth volume is of
commendations from all shades of the German
press, and is richly deserving all the good words
that have been said of it.
special value, for it is a rich Protestant anthology,
such as would be impossible to find elsewhere. Its
title is, in English," Religious Poetry from Luther
to Klopstock," and is divided as follows: I. The
Poets of the Reformation; II. The Poets between the
Reformation and the Thirty Years' War; III. The
Poets of the Thirty Years' War; IV. The Poets be-
tween the Thirty Years' War and the Seven Years'
J. F. H.
edited by Paul Pressel, and closes with copious
War; V. Poets of the New Period. The volume is
FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, GERMANY,
indices and tables.
June 10, 1869.

OBITUARY.

MR. JAMES BARRIE, one of the principal assistants in the firm of Messrs. J. B. Lippincott & Co., of this city, died at his residence in Philadelphia on ticeship with Messrs. W. & R. Chambers, the emiMay 28, aged 33. The deceased served his apprennent Edinburgh publishing firm, and afterwards filled positions of trust in several other houses, everywhere gaining the confidence of his employers since he came to this country for the purpose of by his industry and intelligence. Some five years opening a branch establishment in New York for Messrs. Strahan & Co. of London. This was afterwards closed, when he accepted the appointment in which he remained until his death." racter which he had obtained among the English trade was amply endorsed by all who had dealings with him in America.

The cha

Died, June 18, at his residence, New York, HENRY JARVIS RAYMOND, aged 49, founder and chief editor of the "New York Times." Deceased was born on January 24, 1820, at Lima, Livingston County, New York; became a teacher in a district school at the and while studying law in New York city, taught age of 16, graduated at the University of Vermont, In 1841, he was the managing the classics in a female seminary, and contributed editor of the "New York Tribune," and in 1843 beto the newspapers. came leading editor of the "New York Courier and Enquirer," at the same time acting as "reader" for the Harpers. In 1849, he was elected to the House of Representatives of New York, and in 1850 was re-elected to the same body and chosen Speaker. Enquirer," Mr. Raymond made a tour through the Having resigned his position on the "Courier and principal countries of Europe on account of his health, and on his return established the "New York Times," the first number of that journal ap pearing on Sept. 18, 1851. In 1852 he attended

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