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inaugural address on " The Popular Traditions and Poetry of the North of Europe . " AVe regret to hear of the death of Mr . Graves , the well knoAvn printseller of Pall Mall . The print department of the British Museum is deeply indebted to this excellent judge of engravings . A few days ago , Professor Leopold Eauke , the well known historian ,
published the first volume of a neiv work on the history of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . A Berlin correspondent says : — " The book is AA-ritten with the usual diplomatic finesse of the author , and will be of great interest to those ivho prefer the delineation of character and portrayal of motives to the exhibition of the general features aud aspect of the time . Ranke has always been the historiographer—not of peoples , but of states ; and in his neiv book he has not
deviated from the path in which he has gained so many well deserved laurels . But the principal merit of the work is the exactness of investigation in a field which , as yet , is but so imperfectly known , and where most of the documents are like the sleeping princess , still in expectation of the fairy prince who comes to break the charmed spell . As was to be expected of an author of his tendencies , he speaks with the greatest respect of Macaulay , therein differing from some of the acknowledged
writers of history in Germany . Indeed , he himself is not less opposed to the prevailing direction AA'hich these writers take than is his English confrere . It is reported that the classic pile at Newstead , the residence of the late Bro . Col . AA'ildinau , together with the estate , exceeding S , 000 acres in extent , will shortly be brought to the hammer in one lot . The late lamented owner of Newstead purchased the estate in 1818 for £ 94 , 000 ;
and since that period very large sums of money have , been expended in improving it . It is to bo hoped thafc the future possessor may have aB much regard for the memories and associations of Newstead ivith Byron as were constantly evinced by the gallant colonel .
AVe have to note the death of Sir Thomas Tassell Grant , a most useful public servant , and a man of very high merit as a practical inventor , at the age of sixty-four . To his genius the public is indebted for the steam machinery used in the manufacture of biscuit , which affects a saving to the country amounting annually to £ 30 , 000—a new life buoy—a feathering paddle wheel—the patent fuel which bore his name—and the apparatus for distilling fresh water from the sea . The
last invention is iu all respects the most signal and most important . Though broken in health , he stuck to his duties , and literally died in harness . Few men , even among his devoted class , ever deserved better of their country than Sir Thomas Grant . The Opinione of Turin says : — " M . Passerhii has written to Baron Ricasoli , minister of the interior , to announce that he has discovered in the government archives at Florence a volume of letters of Maohiavelli
in the handAA-riting of Senator Bertoliui , and collected by liini for publication . This copy , AA-hich ivas amongst documents lately presented to the archives by the JIarquis Berfcolini Carregas , will compensate the loss of a great number of autograph documents of Maohiavelli AA'hich have been carried abroad during the last sixty years . " In the notice of the British Museum reading room catalogue , in the last number of the Athenieum , tho reading room is spoken of as containing " about sixty thousand volumes , " accessible to the frequenters
This , are since told , was inadvertently said . About sixty thousand is the number of volumes in the reading room , but of these the greater number stand on gallery shelves not free to the reader . The volumes freely at the reader ' s hand , and described in the catalogue , are about tiventy thousand . The works in the upper galleries do not consist of works of reference ; but of the largest and most miscellaneous collection of journals , magazines , revie \ A's , annuals and almanacs ever yet assembled
under one roof . Tho error ia of no importance ; bufc we correct ifc because it is an error . Mr . Thomas Alton , long connected with the London press , and during the last ten years with the Toronto Globe and tho Detroit Free Press , was found dead in his bed , at Detroit , on the 27 th ult ., at the early age of forty-five . He left some large sums of money in tivo banks , of AA'hich the local judge at the inquest took possession .
Messrs . Griffin & Co . are preparing for publication a " Handbook of Contemporary Biography , " on the plan of stating facts , not attempting estimates or venturing on comparisons . This is the trne princi ple in dealing Avith living men , whose fame may he in contest , even though their influence may be established as a fact . If Messrs . Griffin will severely observe their own principle , they may obtain assistance fox their work , and respect for it when done . The London correspondent of the Munchcsler Exmixhm speaks of n
forthcoming history of the Crimean AA-ar , from the pen of the author of ' ' Eothen . " He says -. — " Mr . lyinglake spent some time on the scene of operations ; his poAA-ers as a writer are too well known to need praise ; and Avhat is perhaps quite as important , he is to have the use of the papers of the late Lord Eaglan . I believe that he enjoyed his lordship ' s acquaintance ; audi find it very generally anticipated—certainly in military circles—thafc the result of the Avork will go far to the vindication of
his lordship ' s character as a soldier . AA'ith the exception of an article of Mr . Haywood in the North British Review , nothing like an authoritative answer has yet been given to the attacks of the Times' correspondent , and the libels which . M . Bazaucourt compiled for his depreciation and the glory of the French army . " Some of our contemporaries announce the preparation of a new edition of " Tennyson ' s Poems , " Avith illustrations . There is a mistake in this
announcement . About a year ago Mr . Maclise executed some very beautiful and fanciful designs in illustration of " The Princess . " These illustrations will be published as a Christmas book . No other pictorial edition of Tennyson is in course of preparation . Messrs . Hurst and Blackett announce the following works iu their list of UCAV publications in preparation : — " Poems , " by the author of " John Halifax , gentleman , " with engravings by Birket Foster ; " The
Upper and LOAVCI- Amoor , a Narrative o £ Travel and Adventure , " by Mr . Atkinson , author of '' . Oriental and Western Siberia , " in two volumes , with numerous illustrations ; " The Life and Times of George Villiers , Duke of Buckingham , " by Mrs . Thompson ; " Pictures of Sporting Life and Character , " by Lord AVilliam Lennox ; "Mr . and Mrs . Asheton , " a novel , by the author of " Margaret and her Bridesmaids ; " aud new works of fiction by the Hon . Mrs . Norton , Miss Kavanagh , Mrs . Hoivitt , Mrs . S . 0 . Hall , the author of " Margaret Maitland , " & c . The next volume of Hurst and Blaekett's " Standard Library" will comprise Sam Slick ' s "Wise SaAvs and Modern Instances . "
Messrs . Saunders , Otley , and Co ., announce for publication in the present month : " Nelly Carew , " a novel by Miss Power ; " The Memoirs of a Lady-in-Waiting , " a novel , by the author of " Adventures of Mrs . Colonel Somerset in Caffraria ,- " "Irene , " a novel , in three vols . ; "Helen Lester , " a novel , by the author of " Garestone Hall ; " a translation of Balzac ' s " Ccesar Birotteau ; " " Pre-Adamite Man ; " " On the Steep Alp , " a collection of Swiss Legends ; "Echoes from the Harp of France , " by
Mrs . Carey . Mr . Skeet's announcements are : — " Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell , " by Cyrus Redding , Esq . ; " Travels in Morocco , " by the late James Richardson , edited by his AA'idow ; " My Study Chair , or Memoirs of Men and Books , " by the late D . O . Maddyu , Esq . ; "Four Years in Burmah , " by W . H . Marshall , Esq ., late editor of the Rangoon Chronicle ; " Too Much Alone , " by F . G . Trafford ; "
Stockwell House , or Keeping up Appearances , " by Cyrus Redding , Esq . ; " Before the Dawn , " by Kate Crichton ; "Rich and Poor , " by the author of "Gladys of Harlech . " The Publishers' Circular gives a feiv items of literary news from America : " Our original publications since my last letter consist ofanew volume ( vol . vii . ) of Appleton's ' American Cyclopaedia ; ' 'The Empire of Russia , ' by the Rev . John S . C . Abbott ; vols , vi ., vii ., and viii . of Richard Grant "White ' s edition of Shakspeare ; ' The Book of
the First American Chess Congress , ' by Daniel Willard Fiske ; ' Life of Alexander von Humboldt , ' hy E . H . Stoddard ; and ' Beulah , ' a novel , by Augusta J . Evans , of Mobile . ' The Headsman' forms the new volume of the Illustrated Edition of Cooper . Apropos of this edition of Cooper ' s novels , I would beg leave to express the opinion that it should receive the attention of the English trade . The illustrations are good , very good , true to American life , and Avell engraved . The letterpress
and other mechanical execution is as far superior to the ordinary run of American books as are the Chiswick to the ordinary rim of English books , and , if times have not altered , Cooper's novels are very popular , aud constantly read . We have reprinted from recent English issues , 'A Student ' s Hume , ' 1 dob , and 'Out of the Depths , ' 1 dol . The republishes of ' Out of the Depths' are doing their best to make a sensation work of it , by advertising aud puffing in the true American style .
Mr . Charles Reade ' s 'Good Fight' is reprinted in Harper ' s Weekly , with all the illustrations as in Once a Week . A new book by the author of 'Queechy' and 'AYide , Wide AVorld , ' is announced under the title of ' Say and Seal . ' Also a new story of considerable length , by Fanny Fern , is said to be nearly completed ; of its character , plot , and name , nothing is known . The eighth volume of Bancroft's ' History of the United States' is in the press , and nearly ready for publication . I have heard that it is Mr , Bancroft ' s intention not to extend this history
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inaugural address on " The Popular Traditions and Poetry of the North of Europe . " AVe regret to hear of the death of Mr . Graves , the well knoAvn printseller of Pall Mall . The print department of the British Museum is deeply indebted to this excellent judge of engravings . A few days ago , Professor Leopold Eauke , the well known historian ,
published the first volume of a neiv work on the history of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . A Berlin correspondent says : — " The book is AA-ritten with the usual diplomatic finesse of the author , and will be of great interest to those ivho prefer the delineation of character and portrayal of motives to the exhibition of the general features aud aspect of the time . Ranke has always been the historiographer—not of peoples , but of states ; and in his neiv book he has not
deviated from the path in which he has gained so many well deserved laurels . But the principal merit of the work is the exactness of investigation in a field which , as yet , is but so imperfectly known , and where most of the documents are like the sleeping princess , still in expectation of the fairy prince who comes to break the charmed spell . As was to be expected of an author of his tendencies , he speaks with the greatest respect of Macaulay , therein differing from some of the acknowledged
writers of history in Germany . Indeed , he himself is not less opposed to the prevailing direction AA'hich these writers take than is his English confrere . It is reported that the classic pile at Newstead , the residence of the late Bro . Col . AA'ildinau , together with the estate , exceeding S , 000 acres in extent , will shortly be brought to the hammer in one lot . The late lamented owner of Newstead purchased the estate in 1818 for £ 94 , 000 ;
and since that period very large sums of money have , been expended in improving it . It is to bo hoped thafc the future possessor may have aB much regard for the memories and associations of Newstead ivith Byron as were constantly evinced by the gallant colonel .
AVe have to note the death of Sir Thomas Tassell Grant , a most useful public servant , and a man of very high merit as a practical inventor , at the age of sixty-four . To his genius the public is indebted for the steam machinery used in the manufacture of biscuit , which affects a saving to the country amounting annually to £ 30 , 000—a new life buoy—a feathering paddle wheel—the patent fuel which bore his name—and the apparatus for distilling fresh water from the sea . The
last invention is iu all respects the most signal and most important . Though broken in health , he stuck to his duties , and literally died in harness . Few men , even among his devoted class , ever deserved better of their country than Sir Thomas Grant . The Opinione of Turin says : — " M . Passerhii has written to Baron Ricasoli , minister of the interior , to announce that he has discovered in the government archives at Florence a volume of letters of Maohiavelli
in the handAA-riting of Senator Bertoliui , and collected by liini for publication . This copy , AA-hich ivas amongst documents lately presented to the archives by the JIarquis Berfcolini Carregas , will compensate the loss of a great number of autograph documents of Maohiavelli AA'hich have been carried abroad during the last sixty years . " In the notice of the British Museum reading room catalogue , in the last number of the Athenieum , tho reading room is spoken of as containing " about sixty thousand volumes , " accessible to the frequenters
This , are since told , was inadvertently said . About sixty thousand is the number of volumes in the reading room , but of these the greater number stand on gallery shelves not free to the reader . The volumes freely at the reader ' s hand , and described in the catalogue , are about tiventy thousand . The works in the upper galleries do not consist of works of reference ; but of the largest and most miscellaneous collection of journals , magazines , revie \ A's , annuals and almanacs ever yet assembled
under one roof . Tho error ia of no importance ; bufc we correct ifc because it is an error . Mr . Thomas Alton , long connected with the London press , and during the last ten years with the Toronto Globe and tho Detroit Free Press , was found dead in his bed , at Detroit , on the 27 th ult ., at the early age of forty-five . He left some large sums of money in tivo banks , of AA'hich the local judge at the inquest took possession .
Messrs . Griffin & Co . are preparing for publication a " Handbook of Contemporary Biography , " on the plan of stating facts , not attempting estimates or venturing on comparisons . This is the trne princi ple in dealing Avith living men , whose fame may he in contest , even though their influence may be established as a fact . If Messrs . Griffin will severely observe their own principle , they may obtain assistance fox their work , and respect for it when done . The London correspondent of the Munchcsler Exmixhm speaks of n
forthcoming history of the Crimean AA-ar , from the pen of the author of ' ' Eothen . " He says -. — " Mr . lyinglake spent some time on the scene of operations ; his poAA-ers as a writer are too well known to need praise ; and Avhat is perhaps quite as important , he is to have the use of the papers of the late Lord Eaglan . I believe that he enjoyed his lordship ' s acquaintance ; audi find it very generally anticipated—certainly in military circles—thafc the result of the Avork will go far to the vindication of
his lordship ' s character as a soldier . AA'ith the exception of an article of Mr . Haywood in the North British Review , nothing like an authoritative answer has yet been given to the attacks of the Times' correspondent , and the libels which . M . Bazaucourt compiled for his depreciation and the glory of the French army . " Some of our contemporaries announce the preparation of a new edition of " Tennyson ' s Poems , " Avith illustrations . There is a mistake in this
announcement . About a year ago Mr . Maclise executed some very beautiful and fanciful designs in illustration of " The Princess . " These illustrations will be published as a Christmas book . No other pictorial edition of Tennyson is in course of preparation . Messrs . Hurst and Blackett announce the following works iu their list of UCAV publications in preparation : — " Poems , " by the author of " John Halifax , gentleman , " with engravings by Birket Foster ; " The
Upper and LOAVCI- Amoor , a Narrative o £ Travel and Adventure , " by Mr . Atkinson , author of '' . Oriental and Western Siberia , " in two volumes , with numerous illustrations ; " The Life and Times of George Villiers , Duke of Buckingham , " by Mrs . Thompson ; " Pictures of Sporting Life and Character , " by Lord AVilliam Lennox ; "Mr . and Mrs . Asheton , " a novel , by the author of " Margaret and her Bridesmaids ; " aud new works of fiction by the Hon . Mrs . Norton , Miss Kavanagh , Mrs . Hoivitt , Mrs . S . 0 . Hall , the author of " Margaret Maitland , " & c . The next volume of Hurst and Blaekett's " Standard Library" will comprise Sam Slick ' s "Wise SaAvs and Modern Instances . "
Messrs . Saunders , Otley , and Co ., announce for publication in the present month : " Nelly Carew , " a novel by Miss Power ; " The Memoirs of a Lady-in-Waiting , " a novel , by the author of " Adventures of Mrs . Colonel Somerset in Caffraria ,- " "Irene , " a novel , in three vols . ; "Helen Lester , " a novel , by the author of " Garestone Hall ; " a translation of Balzac ' s " Ccesar Birotteau ; " " Pre-Adamite Man ; " " On the Steep Alp , " a collection of Swiss Legends ; "Echoes from the Harp of France , " by
Mrs . Carey . Mr . Skeet's announcements are : — " Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell , " by Cyrus Redding , Esq . ; " Travels in Morocco , " by the late James Richardson , edited by his AA'idow ; " My Study Chair , or Memoirs of Men and Books , " by the late D . O . Maddyu , Esq . ; "Four Years in Burmah , " by W . H . Marshall , Esq ., late editor of the Rangoon Chronicle ; " Too Much Alone , " by F . G . Trafford ; "
Stockwell House , or Keeping up Appearances , " by Cyrus Redding , Esq . ; " Before the Dawn , " by Kate Crichton ; "Rich and Poor , " by the author of "Gladys of Harlech . " The Publishers' Circular gives a feiv items of literary news from America : " Our original publications since my last letter consist ofanew volume ( vol . vii . ) of Appleton's ' American Cyclopaedia ; ' 'The Empire of Russia , ' by the Rev . John S . C . Abbott ; vols , vi ., vii ., and viii . of Richard Grant "White ' s edition of Shakspeare ; ' The Book of
the First American Chess Congress , ' by Daniel Willard Fiske ; ' Life of Alexander von Humboldt , ' hy E . H . Stoddard ; and ' Beulah , ' a novel , by Augusta J . Evans , of Mobile . ' The Headsman' forms the new volume of the Illustrated Edition of Cooper . Apropos of this edition of Cooper ' s novels , I would beg leave to express the opinion that it should receive the attention of the English trade . The illustrations are good , very good , true to American life , and Avell engraved . The letterpress
and other mechanical execution is as far superior to the ordinary run of American books as are the Chiswick to the ordinary rim of English books , and , if times have not altered , Cooper's novels are very popular , aud constantly read . We have reprinted from recent English issues , 'A Student ' s Hume , ' 1 dob , and 'Out of the Depths , ' 1 dol . The republishes of ' Out of the Depths' are doing their best to make a sensation work of it , by advertising aud puffing in the true American style .
Mr . Charles Reade ' s 'Good Fight' is reprinted in Harper ' s Weekly , with all the illustrations as in Once a Week . A new book by the author of 'Queechy' and 'AYide , Wide AVorld , ' is announced under the title of ' Say and Seal . ' Also a new story of considerable length , by Fanny Fern , is said to be nearly completed ; of its character , plot , and name , nothing is known . The eighth volume of Bancroft's ' History of the United States' is in the press , and nearly ready for publication . I have heard that it is Mr , Bancroft ' s intention not to extend this history