LITERATURE, CONTINENTAL, IN 1873. 



and linguistic topics, such aa Mr. Alexander 

 Siilgiyi's " Lontutti Zsuzsana ; " a monograph 

 o f Magyarbzii'*, and some minor contributions 

 of the philological paper, the Nyelrir, we may 

 fairly consider the list of the original and scien- 

 tific publications of the year complete. 



Original works of fictiou are extremely few, 

 and the best among them are : " Deli liiihok 

 hose" ("The Hero of the Fata Morgana"), a 

 versified romance, to which the Kisfuludy 

 Tirawag awarded a prize, and which is in 

 many respects well worth the cariosity with 

 which it was looked forward to, and the favor 

 with which it was received by the public. If 

 the tendency visible in the novels of M. J6kai 

 were worthy of his wonderful descriptive 

 powers, he certainly would deserve to be rank- 

 ed with Dickens, or the best French novelists. 

 M. J. Vajda's versified novel, "A szerelem 

 hose " ("The Hero of Love"), likewise deserves 

 honorable mention as a good specimen of lyric 

 poetry. 



In conclusion, allow me to say a few worda 

 upon our Dramatic Literature. Our living rep- 

 resentatives in this field are, Messrs. Kol 

 Toth. A. Berezik, Eugen Riikossy, whose new- 

 est composition, " A krak6i baratok " (" The 

 Cracovian Friars "), was well received, and by 

 whom the Hungarian literature was enriched 

 last year with two volumes of dramatic works, 

 and the greatest of them all, M. Szigligcti, of 

 whose compositions "Struensee" has been 

 brought in the last year upon the stage of the 

 National Theatre as his hundredth piece. 



ITALY. In one single year we have lost 

 Manzoni and Guerrazzi, Giannone and Doll' 

 Ongaro, Lambruschini and Uianchetti, Rat- 

 tazzi and Oasati, Donati and Mariuni, Mapgi 

 and Promis, Znocagni-Orlandini, Francois Ros- 

 si, Dom. Mauro, David Chiossone, Charles A. 

 Valle. What an obituary 1 A great denl of 

 <>ur contemporary literature has this year been 

 devoted to rendering honor to the names of 

 the illustrious departed. Those who were re- 

 moved from as in the years that are passed 

 have also been much in our thoughts; the 

 Count do Oavour and Mazime d'Azeglio arc 

 the chief of these. Among the numerous 

 translations which have appeared this year of 

 French, English, Spanish, German, and Rus- 

 sian novels, I must mention as peculiarly suc- 

 OMcfnl a translation in blank verse of Chateau- 

 briand's "Martyrs," by Ferd. Santini ; also, 

 the pot-ma of Hesiod, by Lorenzo Pozzuolo, of 

 Lombardy; the "Georgics" of Virgil, by Fr. 

 Corabi, of Trieste; the " Dialogues " of Plato, 

 by M. Ferrai, professor at the University of 

 Padua. The Rev. Matte has attempted to 

 translate the "Inferno," of Dante, into Latin, 

 and has performed the difficult task well. M. 

 Charles Valenziani.of Rome, has jnst published 

 a Japanese text, with a corresponding transla- 

 tion in Itnlmn. which is much thought of by 

 Sinolay**; the name of the text in the origi- 

 nal i*, "Kan Kan-Wan Rai"("Thc Path <.f 

 Filial Piety "): it is a moral treatise of ab- 



sorbing interest M. Amari, onr celebrated 

 historian and Arabic scholar, has recently 

 published a new aeries of Arabic texts con- 

 cerning the history of the middle ages of the 

 Republic of Genoa, under the title of " JJuovi 

 Ricordi Arabici." 



For English readers who have not much 

 time to devote to the subject, and who yet may 

 desire to know something of the life and literary 

 labors of Manzoni, I would especially recom- 

 mend four excellent Studies upon Manzoni, 

 which have appeared this last year. Tin- li 

 by that celebrated poet and novelist, (litilio 

 Carcano, of Milan ; the second is by M. Victor 

 Bersezio, the distinguished critic and novelist 

 of Turin ; the third is by SignorFilice Jenosta, 

 of Milan; and the fourth is by that elegant 

 poet, Ferd. Galuuti, of Venice. M. J. Sf'orza 

 will publish next January, at Pisa, a volume 

 of Manzoni's letters, most of which have not 

 been yet in print. M. Giorgini, the son-in-law 

 of Manzoni, promises to give his personal rec- 

 ollections of his own relations with the author 

 of " I Protnessi Sposi." Of all the old literary 

 habitutt of Manzoni's house, only two (so far 

 as I am aware) reside at Milan, two illustrious 

 authors, M. C. (.'until, tin- historian ami author 

 of "Margherita Pusterla," and (iiuli<> Carcanor 

 the author of the " Angiola Maria." If two, 

 men like these were intrusted with the 'task 

 of collecting the writings and correspondence 

 of Manzoni, the world might feel satisfied that 

 no wrong would accrue to the fame and repu- 

 tation of Manzoni. 



Guerrazzi has left behind him a voluminous 

 romance, entitled " II Secolo cho Kaon ; " and 

 also a book of autobiographical memoirs. The 

 romance is at this moment in the course of 

 publication at Milan ; but as to the memoirs, 

 I think it will be some time before we see 

 anything of them. The nephew and adopted 

 son and heir of Guerrazzi has nominated a 

 committee at Leghorn, to superintend the pub- 

 lication of the whole of Gucrrazzi's unpub- 

 lished writings. The death of the Almte ljra- 

 bruschini, and that of Giannone, have scarcely 

 been noticed. I.amhnisrhini lived very retired 

 on his estate of Sancerbone, not far from Fi- 

 gline ; he was buried in his own country-house ; 

 the Professors Giuliani. Gclli. and R iputini. deliv- 

 ered orations over his grave ; since then no one 

 has said any thing about him. Nevertheless, 

 Lanibrnschini had done in his time L-IV;:' 

 vice to the cause of education. The publisher, 

 Carrara, of Milan, under the title " Delle 

 Virtu e del Vizio," has printed a moral and 

 posthumous treatise written by the Abate 

 Lambruschini ; but I regret to gay that it does 

 not add to the reputation of the eminent advo- 

 cate of education. 



Giannone died in the most complete loneli- 

 ness. I had the melancholy satisfaction of 

 being with him in his last moments. He has 

 :otliing behind unpublished which is 

 worth printing. The life of no patriot has ever 

 been more pure than that of (Jiannonc. The 



