merely because they have been in the habit of so doing, or because other publishers do it, the catalogues would not reach half their present size. I happen to know that some who have contributed to the sales now in progress, have determined to give invoices to no more sales under the present arrangements.

The object of this communication is to call attention to the subject, and to elicit expressions of opinion with regard to it, in the belief that it is quite possible to have Trade Sales which shall be useful. It is not my present purpose to propose any plan of operations. Some believe that a return to the old system, wherein each contributor put in a stated number of his books, selling that quantity and no more, is desirable; others would have semi-annual | meetings of the Trade, whereat exchanges might be made, and books sold on a regular scale of prices, without the aid of an auctioneer. Let us have the various plans presented and discussed, and adopt - some one which has more advantages than disadvantages. Perhaps it would be well to call a meeting of the Trade at some central point at which the attendance might be secured of delegations from the

trade in other cities.

TEN-PER-CENT.

Correspondence of Norton's Literary Gazette.

this power of making peculiar recognitions to dis-
tinguished authors. He desires that the right of
rewarding eminent literary services by an indefi-
nite extension of copyright, shall be vested solely in
the crown.

Government, in August last, to travel in Serbia and Wallachia, two of those famous "principalities" about which so much is said and so little comparatively is known. The artist has just arrived in Dresden upon his homeward route, having made an immense collection of sketches and paintings, which illustrate, fully, the condition of those interesting people. The fortress Silistria was the central point of his investigations, though in company with the advance guard of the Turkish-French Army he had abundant opportunities for widespread observations. He has, accordingly, a rich portfolio of drawings illustrating the different races found among the Baschi-Bozaks. Those who have seen the collection speak of it as exceedingly valuable; and the hope is confidently expressed that the French Government, with the same liberality which they have shown in respect to other scientific and artistic expeditions, will order the publication of this whole series of ethnographical sketches.

The matter, as thus presented by the royal Minister, was referred to the Judicial Committee of the Second Chambers, who, a few days since, made a long report against the proposed change. They give an able argument against taking any steps which shall make it easy to prolong indefinitely after the death of an author, the copyright in his works. They hold that such peculiar rewards should only be given in token of an appreciation of the very highest literary services, and that the National Legislative Assembly can judge as well as their sovereign when such services have been rendered. To make such a reward frequently, will be injurious to the interests of Literature, to the public, to the book-trade, and even to authors generally. The vote of the Chambers has not yet been taken; Those who are interested in geographical expebut this report will undoubtedly be adopted, and ditions must take great pleasure in learning that the law of copyright will remain as before. The there is no confirmation of the reports which were protection against unauthorized editions will extend in circulation a few weeks since in respect to the as heretofore, till thirty years after an author's death of Dr. Bartsh, the explorer in Central Africa. death, but not longer, unless by a special vote of the The latest intelligence from Tripoli is of such a Legislative Assembly. The heirs of Schiller, if character as to make it highly probable that the their petition is brought up aside from this general previous rumors were incorrect. Similar reports proposition, will probably meet also with an unfavor-were in circulation concerning the death of Dr. able report.

BERLIN, January 30, 1855. Ehrenberg when he was engaged, some years ago, An interesting discussion in respect to the perpeIt is easy to see that this decision is not unim- in his researches in Africa. Nothing had been tuity of copyright, has just arisen in the second portant in political as well as in literary connections. heard from him for a long time, so that his comchamber of the Prussian Parliament. It probably A few days since, upon the 25th of January, the panions from whom he had been separated, sent an owes its origin to the petition of the heirs of Fred-Royal Academy of Sciences, in this city, celebrated expedition in search of him. The messengers traeric von Schiller for a continuance of the protection the birth-day of Frederic the Great, by whom veled about five hundred miles, till they must which they have until the present time enjoyed their organization was reinstated after having been have come within a very short distance of where against any unauthorized reproduction of the works almost broken up. This celebration was held in the distinguished naturalist was pursuing his inof that distinguished writer. The discussion, the hall of the Academy, and was attended by most vestigations. There they received from the natives however, has not been limited to this simple case, of the eminent scientific men of the city, as well as a story of three Europeans who had recently died; but has related to general principles which are of by a large popular audience. Baron Humboldt, and, supposing that Dr. Ehrenberg must be one of very high importance. whose health and activity remain unimpaired, was them, they returned and reported his death. The among the number who were present. Prof. Tren-explorer at length returned to his companions, and delenburg, the Secretary of the Philosophical Sec- learned to his great surprise, the rumors which tion presided, and read a discourse upon Frederic were in circulation concerning his melancholy fate. the Great's Machiavelli and Anti-Machiavelli, which

The laws of Prussia have for many years allowed the copyright in any book to remain in full force until thirty years after the death of the author. In particular cases, as a recognition of peculiar merit, such protection has been extended for a still longer time. Thus, for example, the copyright in the works of Jean Paul, who died in 1825, of Wieland, who died in 1813, and of Von Herder, who died in 1803, has been prolonged for a period of many years, by special legislative enactments. A similar honor has been accorded to the writings of Schiller. That distinguished author died in 1805. Before the period had expired through which the copyright in his writings would regularly extend, the Prussian Government declared a prolongation thereof of twenty-five years. Schiller's works will therefore remain protected in Prussia until 1860, and by an act of the general Diet they are protected in the other states of Germany till 1858. As these years are drawing nigh, the two remaining children of the poet, Baron Carl von Schiller, of Würtemburg, and the Baroness von Gleichem Russwurm,

gave him an opportunity to discuss the political
policy of the great king of Prussia.

A commemoration of the members of the Acad-
emy who have died during the past year, was then
read, and then followed a discourse upon the My-
thology of Animals (Thier Mährchen), by Prof.
William Grimm, the younger, one of the distin-
guished philologists.

A catalogue has just been issued of the duplicates from the Royal Library of this city which are to be sold at auction, on the fifth of March next. Many of the volumes once belonged to the collection of Baron von Meusebach, which was purchased entire by the Royal Library. Copies of such works as . were there previously possessed are now offered for sale. The catalogue is peculiarly rich in rare and important works pertaining to early German LiteraThe counters of the booksellers and the windows ture. It contains many valuable incunabula, and of the print-shops in this city are naturally filled among them copies of the second (1465), third with volumes, pamphlets, charts, and pictures, illus-|(1474), fourth (1474-73), and seventh (1477) Gertrating the progress of the war, the character of the nations which are engaged therein, the different policy of the East and West, and all other topics which are likely to hold the attention of the public. As Prussia still preserves its non-committal position, Berlin is a point where the prints and brochures of both the Allies and the Russians are found

man Bibles, many important bibliographical works and sets of literary periodicals, and a large collection of books pertaining to the time of the Reformation.

A course of public lectures quite after the American plan, is now in progress in this city, the pecuniary receipts of which are to be devoted to the which were started a few years since by the City increase of four small popular lending libraries Government of Berlin.

of Wurzburg, have petitioned the King of Prussia in the greatest numbers and in the strongest conand the general Diet at Frankfort for a still longer trasts. Many of the war publications are, of course, protection of the literary property which as heirs of a very trivial character, but some of them will prove of their father they have for half a century enjoyed. of high advantage not only to political science, but This petition, as it is above remarked, has also to other branches of human knowledge. The Prof. Müler, of Basel, has just put forth an imbrought the whole matter of copyright before the additions which have already been made to geo-portant octavo volume on the Religion of the Native Second Chambers of Prussia, for by the present graphical, ethnographical, and archæological scien-Tribes of North and South America. He presents constitution of that kingdom, privileges of the kind ces are great; and although the information has so far as possible, a complete and systematic view requested cannot be granted except by a vote of been most dearly bought, its value is not to be that legislative body. This the King of Prussia overlooked. finds an inconvenient method of procedure; he therefore has proposed, in the usual form, a law, which shall transfer from the Chambers to himself

Among the matters not yet fully communicated to the public, are the researches of the French artist, Valerio, who was commissioned by the French

of the old Indian traditions and belief. He brings to the task a vast amount of learning and research upon a subject of no ordinary interest, especially

in America.

The German translation of the works of the cele

The Library of Chevalier Beazzi, in Vienna, has just been bought by a French Gentleman, for 7,000 Napoleons d'Or. It was one of the most important collections in Germany of Aldine and Classical Incunabula.

BEE-CULTURE.

N. R.

Notes and Queries.

to do, I took a copy of Webster's Unabridged,
Not long since, being pressed for something
and tried to study it. I found it rather dry,
but learned enough from it to answer an inquiry
of a late correspondent of your paper, in regard
to the date of a book of which he was the
owner. Smike's book was dated 66 Anno
cIo LocLXXV," and if he will take the trouble to
look under the letter I in the dictionary, he will
find a much better answer than I can give with-
out quoting therefrom.

PRINTERS' "MEPHISTOPHILES."
New York, Feb., 1855.

TIMUACANA, OR TIMUACA LANGUAGE. The knowledge we have of this tongue is derived from the work of a missionary, Father FRANCISCO PAREJA, printed in Mexico, in the year A correspondent in the rural districts has written 1627, with the title (or one near this) Catecismo y examen para los que comulgan en lengua Cas

us two very interesting letters upon the subject of

Namarecama, six.
Napikichama, seven.
Napikinahuma, eight.
Napekecheketama, nine.
Natumama, ten.

THE GAME OF CHESS.

Among the literary curiosities recently brought in the handwriting of Goldsmith, being a transto light in London is a poem of some 700 lines lation by the celebrated Dr. of Vida's ingenious Latin poem, entitled "the Game of Chess." The manuscript is in the possession of Mr. Bolton Corney, the editor of the volume of Goldsmith's Poems published, a few years since, with the eleven illustrations of the Etching Club.

Some speculation has been started as to the authenticity of the translation of this celebrated poem, which is attributed to Goldsmith, and is published in the edition of his poems recently issued under the supervision of Mr. Epes Sar

Bee-Culture, which he seems to regard as one of tellana y Timuquana. No copy, it is believed, gent. It seems very strange that a poem of special interest to all literary men who are not exists of the book in this country. The Indians/such length and pretension from the pen of so otherwise as busy as bees, and who have the oppor-who spoke the language appear, from old maps, tunity to give it due attention. Here in New York, we must acknowledge that we have neither room, to have inhabited a large part of the region of time, nor taste for the delightful occupation of northern Florida and the southern of Georgia as watching and training these industrious insects; late as a century and a half ago; and a remnant but we fully agree with him in thinking that in the of the nation certainly existed eighty years since country the care of bees may be a source of con- to the south of St. Augustine, at a point which is stant pleasure, quite equal to angling for trout, and still indicated by the name Tomoca. In the

distinguished a writer, should have remained for eighty years unpublished,-and yet, that it is Goldsmith's, we have the united testimony of Mr. Peter Cunningham, the editor of Murray's recent very complete collection of the Doctor's miscellaneous works; of Mr. Bolton Corney, the editor of the Etching Club's illustrated volume

far superior to the matching of fanciful overgrown | Ensayo Chronologico, for the history of Florida. of Goldsmith's Poems; and of Mr. Forster, the fowls. Our correspondent is a professional gentle- by Barcia, the name of the country occurs, La author of that very admirable work, "The Life

man, whose moments we know to be precious; but still he assures us that the personal attention he

Timuqua; but the nation Timogoa came to the bestows on his bees is amply rewarded. He conknowledge of the French much rlier, at the siders the subject from a personal, a pecuniary, an time of making their settlement on the Saint æsthetic, a literary, and a moral and religious point John's River, about the year 1562, under Ri. of view, and in each particular has many important bault. These remarks might be greatly exfacts to communicate. Under the literary head, in tended, but enough has probably been said to which our readers are supposed to be most interest-invite the curiosity of gentlemen in the South ed, he mentions the fact that great attention is now intelligent in such matters, to mark the analopaid to Bee-Culture among the professional men of gies it may present to other native languages,

Germany, where, indeed, two periodicals, as we have before stated, are devoted to its consideration.

It is worthy of note that one of these, a monthly, entitled "Eichstadt Bienen Zeitung," has been sustained for fifteen years. In Luneburg alone, it is stated that there are over half a million of hives. Mr. Langstroth's book on this subject is one which our friend considers "of inestimable value," exceedingly interesting in style, and faultless in its suggestions. The investigations of this author, a clergyman, by the way, have led him to similar results with those attained by another minister, Rev. Mr. Dzierzon, in Silesia, whose system "has attracted the attention of crowned heads" and given a new impulse to bee culture.

Our limits forbid our enlarging upon this subject; but our readers must not be surprised if our valued correspondent should give them at some future day, an article on the Literature of Bee-Culture, or BeeCulture recommended to Professional Men. Either topic, we are sure, he could treat in an able and suggestive manner.

The Rev. Theodore Preston, M. A., Fellow of Trinity College, has been appointed Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic, in the room of the Venerable Ardeacon Robinson, who has resigned the appointment. The stipend attached is only £40 10s. per annum.

or attach it if possible to any that may still
exist, and indicate the nation that has used it,
if known to the English by another name.

and Adventures of Goldsmith." That these gentlemen should all have been imposed upon, or that they should have combined to deceive the public, is impossible; and it is equally incon

ceivable that Goldsmith, with his multifarious

occupations, should have copied a poem of this length written by another person.

We confess that our faith was a little stagger

ed, when we heard it confidently asserted by a literary gentleman of distinction, that the poem now published as Goldsmith's, was in fact written by Arthur Murphy. True it is, we find, on examination, that this clever litterateur and playwright did make a translation of the same poem;

but it is worth while to compare the two versions, if only for the sake of seeing how differently it appears in the language of a merely clever man and in that of a man of genius. We do not know that Goldsmith in any of his works more signally established his claim to the praise of Johnson, that "he touched nothing which he did not adorn," than in this very skillful and ingenious translation. Among the books mentioned in the sale catalogue of Goldsmith's effects, was an edition of Vida's Poem's; and it has been long ago stated, on the authority of Bishop Percy, that a poem of Goldsmith's was extant, of much more importance and interest than any other of his posthumous publications. These facts furnish slight corroborative evidence of the genuineness of the present work, which bears intrinsic marks of its origin, and which is certainly vouched for by men of so much experience in literature as not to be easily deceived, and of too much character to be suspected of an attempt to deceive others.-Boston Transcript.

Coleridge has generally had the whole credit as author of the Ancient Mariner, but not with entire justice, as appears from the following stateAn aspiration is hardly proverbial, or we ment made by Mr. Wordsworth to Rev. Alexanwould instance the appeal to Lorenzo:

"Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow." There is a nobleness which cannot be too fa is a contracted form of the Iroquois name Onimiliar to us, in this :

she urges, by such a man, would be a series of miracles; and had any man the power to perform the half of them, he would have become one of the most prominent men of his day, and we should have known all about him, instead of having to grope and burrow for a very few personal traits and anecdotes of his life, as we have had to do with regard to William Shakspeare. She attributes them chiefly to Lord Bacon, with a few by Sir Walter Raleigh, and others; and she has spent a great deal of time in framing an ingenious and elaborate argument in support of her theory.

Messrs. Heine and Brown, Artists of the Japan Expedition, are now getting ready for publication, with the authority of the Secretary of the Navy and Commodore Perry, a series of pictures (with scenery, costumes, &c., from drawings and daguerreotypes taken by Messrs. Heine and Brown) in the best style of lithography, in colors. The pictures will be ready for delivery about the middle of April next.

Rev. Mr. Goddard, the Baptist missionary, who recently died in China, had just completed a translation of the entire New Testament into the Chinese.

FOREIGN.

ronizing their edition of Barnum, Messrs. Ward
& Lock thereupon appear "humbly" appealing
to the trade to use all their endeavors to push
their cheap edition of the same, on the ground
of resisting a monopoly.

The late President of Magdalen College, Oxford,
who died recently, in the 100th year of his age,
has left by his will, his library, comprehending
twenty thousand volumes, to the University of
Durham.

The French Minister of Public Instruction has raised the salaries of Professors of the Faculty of Medicine from six thousand francs to seven thousand francs. He has also increased the allowance to Professors of the Faculties of Letters and Sciences present at examination from five francs to seven francs for each examination. He has, moreover, decided that the maximum of what is called the eventuel (what is received from the pupils) shall be five thousand francs for professors, two thousand five hundred francs for agrégés, and five thousand francs for secretaries.

As a result of the literary international treaty between France and Belgium, the publishers of Paris have already sent 10,000 volumes to Brussels, to be deposited in the Bibliothéque Royale of that city.

The French Academy, after a long interval, has at length chosen a bishop as one of its members, M. Dupauloup, Bishop of Orleans. In his opening address he signalizes the occasion as a "renewal of ancient alliance between the Episcopate and the Academy." His only literary merit seems to have been an almost unknown life of Madame Acarie, and an unfinished treatise on education.

We learn from the Christian Examiner that "the library of the late Dr. Gieseler, the emi nent Church historian, is now offered for sale. It is not, indeed, so large as might at first have been expected. Yet the position of the profes. sor, as librarian of the University of Gottingen, made it unnecessary for him to purchase extensive works, such as the writings of the Fathers and the Schoolmen; and other circumstances also doubtless prevented his spending more money The Paris Academy of Sciences have kept, for books, as he enjoyed in full measure the feli- since 1789, a standard offer of a prize of one city spoken of by the Psalmist (Ps. cxxvii. 4, 5), hundred thousand francs, for a prescription lacking but ten to rival the celebrated Count which would, "in an immense majority of cases," Abensberg, who, during Henry the Second's pro- cure the Cholera. At the sitting of the Acadegress through Germany, while other courtiers my, in December last, multitudes of communicabrought their treasures to the king, presented tions respecting the disease were received, but his thirty-two children to his sovereign, as the the report was "that not one of them deserved most valuable offering he had to bestow. Nev- serious attention." This prize will now be given ertheless, the collection numbers from three to for a positive, certain indication of the causes of four thousand volumes; it contains valuable the Asiatic cholera, so that, by the removal of books in the departments of Church History, them, it should disappear; or for the discovery Biography, the History of Doctrines, Dogmatics, of a prophylactic (a sure preventive), such as &c., and the deficiency of the older works in vaccination is for the small-pox. There is, liketheology is supplied by those of the very latest wise, a prize of 5,000 francs for a demonstration times. As the libraries of Neand er and Thilo of the existence, in the terrestrial atmosphere, are now in our country, it is to be hoped that of any matter or animalcule operative in the this of their abler contemporary will follow production or propagation of epidemic diseases. them. The price asked for the collection is 1,250 thalers (not quite $1,000), which cannot be thought dear, inasmuch as 1,000 thalers have been already offered by an antiquarian booksell-place at the beginning of the present century. er in Leipzig. A catalogue of the library may be obtained from Henry Linnekogel, at the “Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses," in Halle on the Saale, who can be confidently recommended as agent for the purchase and transportation of

the same.

Alexander Dumas has lately been engaged in writing a novel, L'Ingénu, which is a sort of chronique scandaleuse of the events which took

In the last exhibition of the Royal Academy of Art, in Berlin, a life-like portrait of the distinguished Alexander Von Humboldt, by an Italian lady, Emma Gaggiotti, attracted great admiration. An excellent engraving has just been made from the same, by Habelmann.

Messrs. Low, Son, and Co. having issued a cir- Baron Humboldt has just received from the cular "fearlessly" appealing to the support of King Regent of Portugal, the Great Cross of the their brethren in the trade, to enable them to Order of Christ, and from the President of the maintain the honorable position they have taken Republic of Mexico, the Great Cross of the Oras respects the right of foreign authors, by pat-der of Guadaloupe.

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