Literary Intelligence [pp. 564-573]

Literary Intelligence.
and popular journalists are courted in the highest circles. The
French Littdrateurs now in London complain of and wonder
at the exclusiveness of English society. They cannot comprehend why they have not the entr6e at Almack's. Stephens,
translator of Tegners Frithiof's Saga, is now publishing at
Copenhagen three Anglo Saxou poems of the Eleventh Century, translated in the metre and all the iteration of the originals.
The price will be $3. Orders may be sent through H. W.
Ellsworth, late Swedish Charg6, now at New York, or through
Dr. S. IH. Smith.
M. De Coucha, a French bibliomaniac, has had published for
himself alone one copy of the works of La Fontaine in the most
exquisite typography, and illustrated by the first artists of the
day.
It is remarkable how prolific the French authors are. Victor
Hugo made five years ago a contract, binding himself not to
print any thing new, so that certain magnificent editions of his
work might be sold off. The term is just expiring, and he will
immediately issue 3 volumes of poetry, and 12 of romances.
The French Historian Miguet has nearly finished his life of
Mary Stuart. Lamartine has just edited a history of the Restoration of 1814-30; it is by several hands. M. Miller, Librarian to the Assembly, has discovered at Paris some lost MSS.
of Origen, making the last seven books of a heretofore incomplete work; it is a refutation of heresies by proving that the
heretics took their opinions from the ancient philosophers.
The MSS. are said to throw great light upon the opinions and
practices of the New Platonists, and the manners and customs
of antiquity. There is a report that there have been important discoveries of Greek MSS. in a cave at the foot of Mount
Athos, and among them many valuable works long thought to
be lost. The Westminster Review, though radical in opinion
as well as politics, takes Mr. Atkinson and Miss Martineau
sharply to task for the Atheistic sentiments of their book on
"Man's Nature and Development." It is indignant in the
rebuke of the sentiment that in the search for truth we should
keep ourselves indifferent, and assert the necessity of prejudice
in favour of truths before we have grasped them, and in order
to enable us to attain them. Bigelow's work on Jamaica, published by Putnam, is called by the London Examiner the most
searching analysis of the present state of Jamaica, and moreover the most sagacious prognostication of the future prospects
of that Island, that have ever been published. D. H. Moir has
published at Edinburgh "Sketches of the Poetical Literature of
the past half century," in six lectures delivered before the
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