Literary Intelligence [pp. 358-366]

Literary Intelligence.
compiled from the best Spanish sources, by Dr. Ed. Autenreith,
of New Orleans.
Ticknor, Reed & Fields announce the " Biography of Words worth, by his nephew, Christopher Wordsworth, D. D.," to be
edited by Professor H. Reed.
Bohn has commenced an Ecclesiastical Library with Euse bius, translated by the Rev. C. F. Crus6, of this country, and
the first volume of Torrey's Neander.
We notice a late paper published by the Smithsonian Insti tution, on the vocal sounds of Laura Bridgeman, the blind mute
at Boston, compared with the elements of phonetic language.
A fund was bequeathed in Scotland in the year 1744, to be
applied at intervals of forty years to the payment of two premiums for the best treatises on the following subject: " The
evidence that there is a Being, all-powerful, wise, and good, by
whom every thing exists; and particularly to obviate difficulties
regarding the wisdom and goodness of the Deity; and this, in
the first place, from considerations independent of written Revelation; and, in the second place, from the revelation of the
Lord Jesus; and, from the whole, to point out the inferences
most necessary for, and useful to, mankind." Treatises for the
next competition must be sent free of all expense to Alexander
and John Webster, Advocates, in Aberdeen, in time to be with
them on or before the first day of January, 1854. Each treatise must be distinguished by a peculiar motto; this motto to
be written on the outside of a sealed letter containing the
author's name and address, and sent along with his manuscript.
No restriction is imposed with regard to length. The first premium will probably amount to $9000; that for the treatise
considered second best, $3000.
The historian Ranke has discovered in the National Library
at Paris a long-lost manuscript life of Richelieu.
A new History of the Waldenses has been published at Ulm,
by F. Bender. Another volume has been added to the charming Conversations of Eckermann with Goethe. These last conversations were partly with M. Soret, and are not reported so
nearly verbatim, as the previous volume. A large and valuable collection of letters to illustrate the Life of Pope has just
been discovered, and are to be used in Croker's Biography of
the Poet. Professor H. B. Hackett, we hear, is about to put forth
a philological and exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the
Apostles. " A History of Roman and Greek Classical Literature, with an introduction on each language, biographical notices, and an account of the periods in which each principal
author lived," by R. W. Browne, Professor in King's College, is in
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