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LONDON, August 2, 1869.

I REGRET to record the death of Mr. William W. Winthrop, who had been for the long period of fiveand-thirty years the United States Consul at Malta. He was appointed to this office in 1834. He was, I believe, a native of Massachusetts, at all events he was appointed as a citizen of that State. A place is due him in these columns as a contributor to the periodical literature of the United States. He was for many years a contributor to the "Southern Literary Messenger," in which he wrote a long history of the Knights of Malta, of a good deal of interest; to the "Knickerbocker;" and, I think, he wrote an occasional article in the "North American Review." The subject of his contributions was Malta, its History, its Scenery, or its Life. He died at Valetta, Malta, on the 3d of July.

I, perhaps, ought not to omit recording here the death of the Bishop of Salisbury; although he never wrote anything beyond a "Letter on Cathedral Reform," some Pastoral charges, the last one of which gave great dissatisfaction to the clergy of his diocese, who remonstrated against the Tractarian doctrines it affirmed; and some sermons, one of which is memorable as having been preached in the chapel of Merton College, Oxford, on the six hundredth anniversary of the "Incorporation of the Scholares de Merton." It is somewhat surprising he should have contributed so little to literature, for he was a great reader, and was considered a profound theologian. He was not a good speaker. Walter Kerr Hamilton was born in London, in November, 1808. He was educated at Eaton (Mr. Gladstone was among his schoolfellows), from whence he went to Christ Church, Oxford; he took his B. A. degree in 1830; was shortly afterwards elected to a fellowship at Merton College, and became an M. A. in 1833. In 1837 the place of Vicar of St. Peter's in the East, Oxford, was bestowed on him, and at the same time he was made examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Salisbury; in 1854 he was made Bishop of this See, and was its ninetyfirst incumbent. He was considered "the highest churchman of all the prelates who have sat upon the Episcopal Bench in England during the present century."

Mr. Longfellow had conferred upon him a few days since the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Laws. To do him more houor, Oxford held a special convocation which was graced by the presence of many ladies.

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Sir Henry Bulwer is at work on a life of Lord Palmerston. It is said Lady Palmerston has just discovered among her late husband's papers, a diary from 1827 to 1850, and has placed them in Sir Henry Bulwer's possession. . . . The Jewish Theological Society of Germany have determined to bring out an encyclopædia of the "Talmud." As the most learned German Rabbis belong to this society, it may be hoped this work will, by facilitating, sensibly encourage the study of this curious literature, which throws great light on the Old Testament. The Universal Art Catalogue (published by the Department of Science and Art) will be printed in full, on or before the last day of next March.... Mr. William Morris will publish in November, the Tales for Autumn of "The Earthly Paradise," and the Tales for Winter (which will complete the work), will be brought out next May. The diary of the Hon. Wm. Wickham will be published in October or November. He was charged with distributing the English subsidies among the continental allies during the great wars undertaken to overthrow Napoleon. His diary is said to contain many curious passages. Early English Text Society will publish next year, a translation of Guido di Colonna's "Fall of Troy,' Mr. James T. Fields (Fields, Osgood & Co.) has The translation is a long alliterative romance by quitted England for the Continent. He is now so Mr. D. Donaldson contends Hucheowne, travelling in Switzerland. Among his travelling the author of "Pistill of Sweet Susan," "The companions is a daughter of Mr. James Russell Awntyrs of Arthur," "Gologros and Gawane," and Lowell. Mr. Fields will return to Boston early in "Morte Arthure." Mr. R. Morris, however, insists it the winter. It gratifies me to say his health has is by an Englishman, and is written in the West greatly improved by his holiday. Save the frost Midland dialect. Mr. James Croston of Winon his beard, he looks as he did twenty years ago. chester has in press a history of the Ancient Hall Lord Farnham's interesting and valuable library of Samlesbury, Lancashire, which it is said will has been dispersed by auction. These were some throw a good deal of light on the history of manors. of the prices fetched: Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, The Oxford University Press are about to pub16 vols. 8vo., $86; Dibdin's Bibliotheca Spenceri-lish 3 vols. of Wiclif's works; two of them will conana and Edes Althorpianæ, 7 vols., $71; Dibdin's tain his " Homilies," and the third, his "MiscellaneBibliographical Decameron, 3 vols., $56; Dibdin's ous English Works." Mr. Thomas Arnold is the Antiquarian Tour in France and Germany, 3 vols., editor. Messrs. Trübner & Co. have in press, $43; Dibdin's Tour in England, 2 vols., $21; "Buddhaghosha's Parables," translated from the Maria Edgeworth's Memoir, 3 vols., $25; Chronicles Burmese, by Capt. H. T. Rogers, with an introducof England, Scotland, and Ireland, 13 vols., $55; tion, containing Buddha's "Dhammapadam or Path Les Français Peints par Eux-mêmes, 8 vols., $23; of Virtue," translated from the Pali, by F. Max MülGentleman's Magazine, from the commencement to ler; Edward Edwards's Lives of the Founders, Aug1868, $160; Bibliotheca Grenvilliana, 3 vols., mentors and other Benefactors of the British Muse$30.50; Grimme's German Popular Stories, plates um (1570-1870); George Catlin's "Lifted and Subby Cruikshank, $22.50; Grote's History of Greece, sided Rocks of America," with their influences on 12 vols., $38; Hood's Comic Annual, 10 vols., $23; the oceanic, atmospheric and land currents, and the

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SEPT. 1, 1869.

Mr. Mill's pamphlet, "The Subjection of Women," has an immense sale. Three editions were sold almost as soon as printed. . . . The first edition of Messrs. Magnussen, and Wm. Morris's translation of the "Gretis Saga" has been sold in six weeks! A second edition is in press. Encouraged by this success, these gentlemen are translating other Icelandic sagas.

distribution of races; R. Brough Smythe's "Gold | teacher, studied hard, entered the Normal School,
Fields and Mineral Districts of Victoria;" Geo. and in due time became a professor. He soon re-
Harris's "Theory of the Arts, or Art in relation to ceived a chair in Paris, and was for a quarter of a
nature, civilization and man, comprising an inves- century professor of history in the College Henri IV.
tigation, analytical and critical, into the origin, rise, He wrote many elementary works for the use of
province, principles, and application of each of the students, among them was a history of Rome which
arts ;" and Gerard Krefft's "Snakes of Australia," gave him a good deal of reputation. When the
an illustrated and descriptive catalogue of all the French Emperor undertook the life of Cæsar, he
known species. Messrs. Sampson Low, Son summoned M. Duruy to his assistance, and the
& Marston, announce they will hereafter publish professor made so favorable an impression, that the
on the first of every alternate month, "a thoroughly Emperor soon afterwards offered him the Ministry
good and cheap series of editions" of American of Public Instruction. M. Duruy's personal appear-
authors' works.
ance is very much in his favor. His eyes are
somewhat worn by incessant use, but he looks
young, and there is a frankness, honesty, and good-
natured expression about his face which is very
winning. Thoroughly familiar with all the ques-
tions which touch education, he gave an activity
to public education in France which it never before
possessed. He established a great many new pri-
mary schools; increased the salaries and pensions
Messrs. Bradburg & Evans declare they have of schoolmasters and school mistresses; opened and
not sold, and do not intend to sell "Punch." A stimulated adults' evening schools, until there
provincial newspaper announced "Punch" had were 800,000 persons attending them; introduced
been sold for $35,000 to Mr. Agnew, of Manchester. the elements of agriculture among the subjects
I regret to say, and I think the regret will be taught in normal schools, and in many primary
shared by all students who have been obliged to schools; introduced gymnastics; established spe-
hunt biographies of the dead - those excellent cial schools for young men destined for com-
obituary notices, which added so much value to merce and manufactures; established higher edu-
the "Gentleman's Magazine," will no longer be found cation for girls; established practical schools;
in it. The "Register" (published by Messrs. Hard-founded new chairs, etc. To do these things he
wicke) will, it is true, hereafter contain obituary had to overcome great obstacles. The Catholic
notices, and Mr. Walford (who edited them in the clergy and party were to a man against him, and
"Gentleman's Magazine") will give his attention to exerted all their influence to thwart his designs.
them in the "Register." But how many public The Liberal party did not support him, but rather
libraries will begin to take the "Register?" How reproached him for unavoidable concessions to
many students will know that after July, 1869, the Catholics, than lauded him for the measures
obituaries are no longer to be looked for in the "Gen- he executed. Moreover, in this country army and
tleman's Magazine?" These breaks in literature are navy consume so much money, little is left for pub-
extremely annoying, especially with the imper- lic instruction. The secret good done by M. Duruy
fect bibliographical instruments in our possession. can never be known. In this country the Minister
The Council of the Institution of Civil En- of Public Instruction is often appealed to by literary
gineers have given Mr. Z. Colburn a Telfold Medal men and by professors in pecuniary and moral em-
and a Telfold Premium in books, for his paper on barrassment. M. Duruy was never once appealed
"American Locomotives and Rolling Stock."
to in vain. He received all of these unfortunate
A good deal of attention was recently attracted by men with kindness, and was at pains to relieve
articles on consumption which appeared in the them. The Emperor pressed him to withdraw his
"Atlantic Monthly," and which, if I am not mis- resignation, but he thought it his duty to resign.
taken, were written by Dr. Bowditch. An import- It is not improbable that he may, at no distant day,
ant assertion of that article has been confirmed by resume the portfolio of Public Instruction. He has
the investigations of Mr. Whitaker "on the Geo- been made a Senator, a place worth $6000 a year.
logical Structure and Physical Features of the It is said he has begun to write a history, which
Southeast of England, with the Consumption Death will be in several volumes, and occupy him for ten
Rate" (read at the last meeting of the Geological years.
Society). Where the soil is wet, consumption is
most prevalent, is the teaching of the returns from
58 registration districts of Kent and Sussex. It is
generally agreed throughout England that con-
sumption is more prevalent in valleys than on hills.
Class for the medical instruction of women
will be opened next winter, in the University of
Edinburgh. You may see from the barrenness
of this letter that we are in the midst of the long
holiday, and everybody is out, or is going out of
town.
FRANCIS BLandford.

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OUR CONTINENTAL CORRESPONDENCE.

PARIS, July 30, 1869.

I was unintentionally unjust to M. Victor Duruy when I announced here his appointment to the Ministry of Public Instruction. Let me in recording his fall, pay him tribute of respect. Victor Duray was born in the Rue Mouffetard (persons familiar with Paris will know how humble his parents must have been to have inhabited this street) in 1811. He early determined to be a

I regret to record the death of M. Louis Bouilhet. He was born at Rouen in 1826. His parents, who were poor, wished to make him a physician, and gave him a thorough education. After he graduated they made him study medicine under Dr. Flaubert, a very eminent physician of Rouen, but who is now much more widely known as the father of M. Gustave Flaubert. Dr. Flaubert was passionately fond of his profession, a hard worker and a rigid disciplinarian. He had determined to make his son a physician, and for a long time M. Louis Bouilhet and M. Gustave Flaubert were fellow-students. Such was the awe inspired by Dr. Flaubert, neither medical student, dared so much as to hint their love of letters, still less their determination to forsake medicine for literature upon the first favorable occasion. This amour and this ambition were secreted in the young men's hearts until Dr. Flaubert's death set them free. His son became master of a princely estate, and wrote "Mme. Bovary." Louis Bouilhet, being altogether without patrimony, found it necessary to give lessons in private fami

SEPT. 1, 1869.

I regret to say M. Emile Deschamps is in a most deplorable condition of health at Versailles. He has borne the operation for stone several times, and was sometimes since treated for cataract. The knife, however, failed to restore his sight, and the surgeons determined to perform a second operation. Although he had borne all the antecedent operations with stoical calmness, the last operation seemed to disorganize his whole nervous system. He shrieked madly during the whole course of it, and he has since been in continual nervous crises. It is feared his brain may become diseased. He constantly trembles and screams, "I am afraid." He is now hopelessly blind. His name has in part faded away from the public mind, but during the great Romantic battle of 1830 it was as familiar as Alexander Dumas, Victor Hugo, or Alfred de Vigny. Public favor quitted him. He, years since, retired to Versailles, where he has solaced himself with books and pen.

M. de Montherol, brother-in-law of M. de Lamartine, a poet also, and one of the oldest members of the Academy of Lyons, is dead. He was past 80.

lies at Rouen to enable him to live. After his daily | another by an under-librarian, and a third by bread was secured, he turned his attention to poe- another official. try. "Melonis" was written during these laborious nights. It was published in the "Revue de Paris," and at once introduced the author into our literary circles. His new friends told him with truth, that the poet who contented himself writing mere poems could hope neither for a sufficient revenue nor for an extensive fame. The public taste was not for mere poems. They engaged him to turn his attention to the theatre. He did so reluctantly, and only because he saw the theatre was the only channel by which the poet could reach the public ear and purse. Louis Bouilhet was thirty years old when he wrote his first play-like Ponsard, he tried the stage late in life. In 1856 he brought out "Mme. de Montarcy," a drama in five acts and in verse at the Odeon. Its success lay rather in the promise it gave of future excellence than in the beauties and interest of the piece. Louis Bouilhet had no dramatic instinct. The art of grouping situations, of entangling and disentangling a plot in a manner to stimulate curiosity till the final catastrophe, was beyond his reach. This art cannot be learned; 'tis Heaven sent. I may with truth apply these remarks to all of Louis Bouilhet's plays, except his last. "Helene Peyron," a modern drama in five acts and in verse, brought out at the Odeon in 1858; "L'Oncle Million," a modern comedy in five acts and in verse, brought out at the Odeon in 1861;"Dolorés," a drama in four acts and in verse, played at the French Comedy in 1862; "Faustine," a drama in five acts and in prose, represented at the Porte St. Martin in 1864; and "La Conjuration d'Amboise," an historical drama in five acts and in verse, given at the Odeon in 1866. This last piece was a hearty success; it ran above one hundred nights, attracted full houses, and was warmly applauded. There was a vigor, a dash, and a dramatic arrangement about it far superior to those of his preceding plays. Louis Bouilhet, with Norman prudence, retired from Paris as soon as he received the returns of his first piece. This money would soon have disappeared in Paris, for life is a fever here, from whose delirium not one of us escapes. He retired to Mantes, a beautiful village about an hour's journey from Paris, in whose quiet and cheap life he could work at ease, without fear of creditors or of an empty purse. After the success of "La Conjuration d'Amboise," the place of librarian of the Rouen happened to become vacant. It was offered to him. He gratefully accepted it. The future seemed to woo him with promises of a rosy life. His place gave him enough to live upon, and he looked forward to the near day when he might abandon the stage and bid inspiration soar where it would, without thought of censor or manager or scene-painter. What child of woman may call even to-morrow his own? He had scarcely become familiar with the library when he sickened. Presently death came. M. Sainte-Beuve, in one of his articles, after recalling the gifted young men who had led exemplary lives, who had married young and early formed homes for themselves, bitterly compares their fate with wilder contemporaries, who, after draining pleasure's cup, live to be octogenarians and enjoy years of fame. He might add Louis Bouilhet to the litany. He was singularly guileless. There was not a particle of envy in his bosom. Duty never whispered in vain to him. He was ambitious, but reputation had no charms for him unless it was the guerdon won by labor and by art. He was buried at Rouen. There were some two hundred people at his funerel; nobody went down from Paris. Three speeches were delivered at the grave, one by the deputy mayor,

Count de Montalembert has become slightly better, and his physicians hope to be able to send him to his country-seat in Burgundy this week. He is still very feeble and will travel on a bed. It is said the next edition of M. Taxile Delord's "History of the Second Empire" will contain an eloquent letter from him on the part he played in the early days of the Second Empire. Miss Putnam, a daughter of respected Mr. George P. Putnam, of New York, recently passed in a brilliant manner an examination in medicine here. She has been studying her profession with great assiduity, and walking the hospitals regularly. . The French Empress has founded a prize of the value of $2000 in gold for the voyage, discovery, work, memoir, or enterprise, which may be deemed most useful to the progress or diffusion of geographical science or to the foreign commercial relations of France. The Société de Géographie is to award the prize. The Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres has given the first Gobert prize to M. Roget, Baron de Belloguet, for his "Ethnogenie Gauloise," in 3 vols.; the second Gobert prize to M. de Chantelauze for his edition of Jean Marie de la Mure's "Histoire des Ducs de Bourbon et des Comtes de Forez," 3 vols. 4to.; and the numismatics prize to M. Eugene Hucher, for his "Art Gauloise, ou les Gaulois d'apres leurs medailles," 1 vol. 4to. Florian is buried

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at Sceaux, a suburban village; his grave is near the church; the monument is plain, and bears this modest inscription: "Here reposes the body of Florian, a man of letters." He died at Sceaux, in 1794, only thirty-nine years old. Some astonishment has been expressed that Eugene Sue's grave, at Annecy, should be in the portion of the burying-ground reserved for suicides and beheaded criminals. It seems he himself selected his grave, and ordered his body to be buried among these social outlaws. De Lamennais ordered his body to be cast without prayers in the Potter's Field of Père la Chaise and no memorial placed over it. I am, however, under the impression his family subsequently had it removed and placed in a lot held by them in fee.

The public are smiling-rather at the exaggera-, tion and virulence of the attack than at its skillat an onslaught made on M. Villemain, the venerable Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy, by M. Nicolardot, who unsuccessfully canvassed the French Academy to get a prize for his "Histoire de la Table." The author attributes his failure to