Foreign Literary NotesSource: The American Art Journal (1866-1867), Vol. 5, No. 9 (Jun. 21, 1866), p. 140Published by:Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25306219 .

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140 AM1tflI AN AiT JOU 'R.YA.t.

A royal personnge once went belhind the seenes and told Cafiarelli thiat hlis wife would al low no singer to b1) capable of pleasing lher ex tept Fnrinelli. N' ow Caffarelli," said the prince, clapping him on the slioulder, " do exert

ytourself and cure the prinlctess of this prejudice." Sir," replied the nettled Caffirelli, " IIer Highi

hess shall to iilalht lhear two Farinellis in one." Garrick said of CetlMrelIi, that thioughi old (over sixty) lie has pleased me more than all the sini gers I ever heard." Cafftarelii died at Naples in

1783, in iis Beightieth yeah He lived there in great splendor in the magnificent mansion Whiit, he liad built for lhimself out of the fortune hiv lhad awassed.- His large professional gains Wro an earnest of his linting realized the expecJ tations of lils discriminat-ing preceptor.. The ftiaime thus predicted and won supplies a justifi ertion of the curious mode of instruction adopted by his instructor. Caffitrelli, for five years sang notiing but a set of scales written down on one slheet of paper. The pupil finding in the sixtlh year htis patience beginiing to give Away, inquired of hiis master as to wlhen it was likely that lhe would get beyond the rudiments of' his art. " Young man," saiid Porpora, " you are thie greatest singer in tlhe world."

FOREIGN LITERARY NOTES.

Tithe sixtlh volumlle of Biurke's writing is oult. It is made up of the letLersof the great states

mian uponi political topicst4he most importanit of ivhicli is the fourtl of his letters, " On a Regi ciVe Peace."

Mr. Dicken's " Mututal Friend" is being "done "' into Frenelh. Tlhe translator in one place converts tlle plhrase, " He puts on'lhis pea jacket," into " met V a jaquette d la purie de pois!"

Rev. S. R. Brovni, mission.ary to Japan, wlhose motlher wrote tlle hiymn, " I love to steal awhile sway, etc.," lAs translated the Gospel of Mat thevw into Japanese.

James Martineau's essays are being repro duced in this couintry. In the articles on '.'Na ture and God," Science, Ne cience, and Ftaitlh, "Mansel's Limiits of Religious ThlouLglht," "Cere bral Psyc1o10ogy," and " Revelaition," will be found a very tlhorough discussion of the plilo soplhical questions which1 hiave in the last gener ation become involved in the religiouis contro versies of thle times.

Among forthiconin)g books is a Spui-geon jest book, " Aniecdotes and Stories of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, now first collected and arranged." Thlis must niot take to itself tlle credit of being the earliest clirical budget of wit. There was i "Sterne's Conivivial Jester,. or Tlhat's Your self ;" anid a veery fatvorite volume wvith our fore fathlers wals " Ecclesiastical' Traiisactions, or a Collection of Rey( rend Jokes."

Tenniiyson sayi s America is too uniqUiet a coun try for hiin to visit. He don't like, imoreover, the way the -war closed.

An autograplh of Ta'sso Wes sold lately in Pa ris. It bears the (dnte of MarCh 2, 1570, when

the poet was twenty-six pears old, and is simply a pawvnAroker's pledge, worded as follows: "I, the undersigned, acknowledge to lia.e received fromii Abrahain Levy twenty - five livres, for

wlhiclh sawn1 I hiave pledged a sword of nq fatlher six slirts, and two silver spoons."

We lhave a new voluine of 'M. Renan's novel,

"The origin of Christianity.". It lhas all , the

clharms, and all the' imperfectionis of the first

volume, but I scarcely think it will be attacked witlh as much velhemence as the latter. One ol the best writers who replied to the latter lai been asked if he intended to take up Ills pen

ngrain. No, he replied. I look with compara tive indifference upon the attack made on the

Apostles. I am like a Russian, wlo, after seeing a scoundrel fire a pistol at the- EMperor, scarcely turns li8s head to see the same rogue tlhrow a

snow-ball at a Grand. Duike. This new volume

-and tlhis, indeed, is the fault of the wlhole

work-satisfies nobody. Clhristians detest it for its infidelity. Sceptics despise it because it does not go far enougb, anld they add-not with

out great truth-Volney said all tlhings M. Re= nan says, and( a great many more, and the for mer said them a great deal better. The truth

is, M. Renan's mind can't mlake up an opinion oni any subject. It takes Ilim six montlhs to de cide uipon clhalnge of lodgings. It would take hiim forever to make up li8s mind, consequently in these and all otlher matters of practical life

lhe affects the utmost contempt for practical life -his wife decides for hiim. Slhe selects lodg ings, the clotlhes lhe wears, the food he eats, the country village wvhere they spend the summer, in fine everytlhing coninected' witlh him. He onily thiinks and studies. His negligence of dress gives lher a great denl of trouble. He has been seen going down the street without a cravat around hiis neck, alid as for tying li8s slhoes lhe n)ever thiinks of suclh a thing. He is a very hlearty eater, and eats everytlhing set before hnim, witlhout asking- more than one question-" Is there enoughi?" for he requires a great deal, aind lhe is one' of those men wlho can set down to intellectual labor witlh their pauinclh full of food.

Thlis, lhowever, lwill not astonislh you whlien you

tire told lhe is a Breton. These Welclhmelen of France, like their brethren across tlle clhannel, are lpeople of thick blood !and slowv brain. A few

pounlds more or less of food to digest does not relax the slothful current of their blood. It creeps on at its old snail's pace, aind digestioni is

accomiplislhed- witbout interrupting any otlher porLtion of the organism's play. He requires a good deal of sleep. He lives in a quarterof Pa ris where this luxury of tlicik blood mnay be in dullged-and I prtay you to believe, in this day, wheni every street lhas at least one line of omni buses and is traversed by legions of lhtacks and

private carriages, quiet sleep is to be enjoyed in only a few streets, stilic as the Rue Vanneau, where he lives.

FOREIGN ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Dore is at present finishincg > series of designs for La Fontaine's Fables,- wlichl Messrs.. H&tclette will issue very shortly. Dore sDays that hle kInows very well himself lhow ruinous to hiS fanie is this extreme fertility, btt hie avers that lhe lhas no help for it. Whliile he is elabo rating, one picttmre, fifty designs suggest them selves to hlim; and it is at hAbit with hlim to pult tlheni instantly on paper, anid tle lbooksellers pers.st in buying these and publislhing them. The only Enilisli artist that Dore acknowledges he lhas benen,tted by is Jolin Martin. Holman

lunit's figure of Chr'ist occurs frequently tlhrotughi out the New Testamlient. alnd thlere is a Ger

man issue of Baron Munclhanisen whlichl con tainis most of the designs in Dore's edition* of thath work.

Tennyson is 53 years old; las a weak voico and slhtuffling gait; wears giasses most of tlhe time; generally dresses in gray clotlhes; las a Imielanclholy, ruminating voice; and wears, when

his features are in repose, an expression of clasz sieal, habitual sadness.

M. Ponsard, the aiuthlor of a new and very successful play just brought out in Paris, occuz pied an obscure seat in thle back of a private box during the first performance of the piece, and the audience was first made aware of lis pres. ence by a slhower of kisses bestowed -upon him by Iiis wife when the uproarous applause decided the success of the drama. The audlence present on the occasion was one of the miost brilliant ever assembled in Paris, including tlle Emperor, the Empress, Prince Holhenzollern', Prince Napo,' leon, Princesses Clothilde and Mathbilde, Count and Countess Walewski, General Fleutry, twenty of the most notable of tIle Jockey ('l.ub.- the entire press, the two Dumas, Jules Jnnin, Tlheoplhile Gautier, Nisard, Emile Augier, and the groatet part of Lhe Frenclh Academlly.

A Paris correspondent of thle 1iidependence Belge, speaking of the last work of Bellange1 " La GEarde meurt," n1ow seen in tLe Exlhibition1 narrates the followingr:_"That picture Was painted by tlhe artist wlhen alIost in the gasp -of deatlh. One mnorning, on awakihg after ani agitated night, he remarked to his wife nnd son', 'I have been dreaming of notlhing but Nattleg

and cavalry clharges; ot Waterloo especially.1 Tlhen surmounting hlis difflciulties, lhe lhad Iis palette prepared, and taking a canvas lhe com nmenced painting, witlhout' even first 'malking a slketcli. In a wveek tlle wvork was Anislid. OQi tlih 20th Marcli before sendinig the work-to the

Exihibition, lhe h1ad it brouglht to the side of the bed where he lay, and -which lhe was not agaiil to leave. On the '10th April he, had ceased to live."

Tlhomiias Carlyle always walks out before retiring to bed, trusting to an enormous knotted stick as -an excalibur against* tlhe. garroters. Occasionally lhe iaiiy be seep on lhorseback; and the good dhielsea folk tell lhow he grooins hlis

ownhliorse, keeping it in a stable on an odd pieco of waste ground, ainong donkeys, cows, and geese,

wlio have also their abodes there,, and from tlle crazy gateway of wllic1l he issues foitll, always unattended, sitting erect in tlle saddle like a skeleton guiardsiian. He knows but one or two personally in hiis neiglhborhood, anid the only neighbors he is ever seen to speak to are the children. The keeper of a small confectionier's shop, near the river side, tells witl.i deliglht lhow lhe will call upon lher for extravagant quantities

of clheap sweatmeats, with which he will some, times stop and load thle laps of a little group of

poor clhildren in some of the purlieus of Law rence street. He is veryv sensitive to street noises, and will tr,y on the -organi grindels first a bribe, but, if tlhat is unsticcessful, moreJforcible arg uments, to induce tlhem.to pass Onl. He coiii plained, also, of a neiglhbor's liens tlat " they would neither lhatclh in. peace, nor let him."

Tlsis is the cry of rapture wlsichl a dist.inguislied

Frenchl writer. M. Tahie, raises after conteinpla, .tion of tle young ladies of England: "'Nothsing .more simple thani the young girls; among love ly tllings there are few so lovely in tlse 'vorld;

well-shsaped, strong, sure of themselvts so tlsor ouglsl, sound and open, so exeinpt fronm quety. Inmpossible unless o-ne lhas seen it to miiagsine tlsis freshnless, thais innlocenlce. Manly jof-.thlem are flowers-lfowers just bursting into 1blo-omi_,:; only tlhe miiorniing rose witlh its pture and -dehisltful tinltS, withl itS petals studded xvtitls dew4Xops, cl1n give ani idea of it; far in advance this..of-tlse be1aiuty of thlue Sudstl0, wvitlh-its distinct, finiised, fix>ed outlinles,>^conlstitutinlg a definite -designl Iiicre all remnilds Us of thse fragility, delicacy, and

continual flow of life; eyes full of cndor, blue

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