Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 22, 1872, Page 5

| Christmas Grown in Favor--Its ( *bittar-sweot memorics, and, 83 they draw near, fmu:t quernlous voice Las & ring of gladnens in it. THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER' 92, 1873 THE HOLIDAYS. Former and Present Status in Puritandom, W /8w Year's-How It Was Ohserved by the Borghers of Bicow Amsterdam, Hints es to the Entertainment of Callers. “ The Question of Presents---Articles for the Little Ones, for Gentlemen, § and for Ladies. The holidays are almost ot Land, with their even the most care-worn face brightens,—tho Esperiallyis this noticcable among the women &no meets as they frequent the shops in search of holidsy-presents, thus proving thab * Itis more blessed. to give than to receive.” Very + - aptly too, for to givo argues, to a coriain extent, 2 full purse wheaco the offerings can be mado, sxda full parse is a very comfortable thing,— Teally, one might say, a blessed thing. Of lato Fews, the habit of making presents at g cHRISTIMAS b2 grown into much greater favorthan fn tho earlier part of this century. Clristmas hag al- ways been & holday at the South, sad, in ante- surrender days, every house-servant aad planta- tion hand was ready wits his gresting of * Christ- mas-box,” eure of receiving omothing from Taster and mistress. Thoy had the ontire week for 2 holiday, in which thosowho were hirad out bad the privilege of seeking rew homes, Indeod, i was ut times ver; dificalt b get tho ordinary honse-lzbor performed, go sencrally .was this custom, accepted by all ‘paities; bus * Nous avons change tout cela.” . New York, being cosmopoliian, and, with the South, having sundry English® traditions, has always kept Ciristmas es s holiday, 2¢ least to the extent of closing hor paces of business and meking merry for the tine; but twelve years 830, in Boston, only thres hops were closed on that day. This was done fronygh the inuence of one gentleman, who, bydint of carnest per- suasion, inducod two otherzto follow Lis exam- ple; but, among the piois little maxims in- stilled into our childish ninds, were wo mok taught that— LLarge osks from 1itflescorns grow 2 And 0 now Bostonians cloe: their shops, o, as we grandiloguently call tlom, “stores,” and zofrain from turning the holest penny on that dsy, They deserves worliof commendation, for ere they not lineal descerdants of thosegood old Puritans who bravd unknown ter- Tors for liberty of comsciencs, snd proved their consistoncy by incontinently sending Roger Williams' mout his businesy 88 soon as he advancad ideas that differed from theira? Only the same old struggle of might against right, or orthodoxyis my doxy and het- erodoxy isyour dosy, whiclihas rung its changes sinco tho ‘world bsgan, Theso good people, then, who had out-protcsted the Protestarts, 2nd fiad sent tho Charch of Englind acter itg ‘mother at Rome, were no: to bo caught in snares Laid for ggT by tho Scarlet Womes, tho Daby- sir Harlot,—anti-Christ hi Thelc religion wasa pass chtantioR ILaBS crated by whitewashed walls, uncushioned pows, o fires nor ungodly fiddies, but surroundings that must have mado overy man, to say nothing of the women, pray moss fervently, *God be merciful to me, o _ginue.” When or how tho drst idea dswoed upm them thub Christians oight not be guilty of idolatry in showing some outward recognzion of the day upon vhich the Man-God ey professed o wor- ghip wes borm, we cannot say. It was, Eomever, tho non-Evangical Churches that first 2dapted the festival, and the others have - el followed, possibly upon the principle of gfl.flcmnmsts in regard totheir church rausic; t the Devil ehall not haw all the good tunas, er shall he have all tle holidays. At a events, we have Christmas as an established Kclidey, aud Christian and Pagen (have we any of the L t:er amosg us #), theorists and materdal- ists, gain the advantagd of tho cessation from Exbos, the multirious gift-eatorprises, end tho cxry good-will which the season brings. Will Ee time ever come when wo cen aford fo take 2 entire weet for Test and_recreation? Not, 7o fex, unti! the irrepressible Yankce has been meilowed byanother century: end until then, e supposa, the 26th of Decomber will see busie 553 resuwed eod csrried on with unabated zeal Enis NEW YEAR'S DAY, . This 55 the New Yoruess special holiday,—his fnheriance from the good old Dutch ectilers; z£ud, on this day, every mother's son of them dons bis best stare-clothes, and rushes forth to cell mpon every 02 ho does want to see, and a grest many that ho docs not. Immature bean nd belle-dom ars trusting to bavo long sums in addition torun tp 1t night, aggregating calls mede and receivod, —~quantity, not quality, boing fho desideratum: whilo their elders, growing conservative with age, find their visiting list snnually weedad of mcidentals, until with gray Dairs come tho few old frionds’ with whom one compares memories instead of hopes, It is & grncions oustom, however, for it brings to- gother peoplo whom uno dosa mot wish to lose Eightof altogether, and yet whose different avacstions and interests msy mako intermediate ‘ieits more a tronble than o pleasure. Vastly different, howorer, is Mamma in her velvet and Mademoisclle in her acrophane, from ood old Trau Yon Yromp, or Vou Sehaack, in £ne days when Well street bounded aristocratic Now York, or Nieaw Amsterdam, and Dutch lug- gers eailed up Broad strest, while old Petor Stuyvesant had his country-s2at out in his Bou- erle, near whera tho Bston rosd branched off. Then Bargier Von Dentcher started on New Year's day, ot the hiead of his family, and went b0 call on'his friends sad neighbors, leaving one member at home to receive any guests that might vieit him. With Frau Von Deaicher at hisside, and all his heirs and hoircsses follow- ing,—jac similes in miniatwe of their elders,— he eutered his neighbor's house. He probably did not present his cerd, nor did an Ethiopian or Hiberniau show hiin to the drawing-room. Ho went straight to the old-fashioned, low-raftered Eitchen, with fitches of bacon hungto thebeams, and 3 wide-mouthed_fire-place, whose back-log was drawn into position by horse-power. Hore, while the fire crackled snd blazed, and danced with gles, close to the embers stood the hugo earthern jug filled with potent hot stuff, the se- cret of whoe manufacture is nmong tho lost Bris; while it was balanced on the other side by » groat pan of hot crullers, the aristocratic branch of the Pretzel family. 'The kiss of peaco and good-will was solomnly. passed around, the good cheer partaken of, snd Mynheor, with his <'1au and olive-branches, went on his way to the pexi friend's house. Such was the custom until Kew York covered the vast ares south of Cham- bers street, and bogan to encroach upon the Col- lect-Men, as she _E::: in mizo, and there mas less of New terdam, and more of New York, in hor local populatiop, s tho English residents around the Battert and In s vicinity grew in influeuce, the manner of visit- iog chianged until wo have indeed arrived at s widely-difforent form of reception. Tho custom has gredually spread to other cities; but the business portion of Boston do not recognize it, end still turn the honest penuy on that day, or at least take account of stock. It obtains, how- sever, among 3 few who are_courageous enongh to iy in tho face of Paritanism, and give Satan s chance, which ho is proverbially itted to take sdvantage of when bands aro idle. That the custom of MAEING CALLS bas been abused, may have been, to s certain extent, true; but we doubt if thoroughly well- bred people 'Lave ever been victimized to any extent. Indays of volunteor fire companios, these individuals may bave called collectively Bpon somme of their political pete; but office hay 1ta obligations sy well as its emoluments, and the class of politiciana who were snbject to these raids were prolably not mortally offended g, them. In regerd Lo makiog proparations for s Year's day. ladics, of course, will uso their own judgment 28 the kind of refreshments they offer their geusts. As they will be geatlemen, Lrowever, we would suggest that the substantial portion of the offering should be snited to mas- culine tast.s. Thess do not msually crave SWeets, except as far as the kiss of peace is con- this they gomotimes partake of with 0] rel mmbflbu.nohd:mwmnnunb. ty waiter-girl of hersel, still the custom of del- egating all the Chatelaine's rights to & servant is hardly consistent with genuine hospitality. The best plau is to have the substantial portion of the feast spread in the dining-room, where servants can bo in attendance to minister to such of tho geusts as care to seek it, whiloe bis- cuit and wine, or coffec, should ba offered in the drawing-room; 60 that tho hostess can par- :ihcipa.:a with her company in a trifio of the good eer, o A fancy of late years has obtained to rovive the old Arab oustora, and eat bread and salt with one's guests. 1t is open to the objection— if objoction it is—of producing unappeasable thirst ; but it has beon said that the geutlemen do not usually object to it on that account. ‘Having thus offered soms limits as o the way in which guests may be entertained, we will con- sider tho subject of PRESENTS. The ballad of “ The Night Defore Christmas™ is o legend, Santa Cians a myth, and * tho stock- ings that were hung by the chimney with care ars supersodled by the Christmas-tree, The lit- tle materialist of 2 years will tell you with prac- tical atheism, if you offer to suspend hor hose near tho register, that there touldn't-nothin' tum down there ;" and, moreover, no wooden- jointed doll of docidedly Dutch extraction would sotisfy the sathetic littls women of to- day. They must bave a youug lady from Paris, dressed in the latest stylo of the dami monde ; oue that can walk and talk, and whose trosaeau may cost a thousand dollarsif you like. Probubly these young ladies’ paronts’ did not have more than ‘that & year to live on,—very possibly not as much ; but the world moves. Bome of these little creatures, at times, de- valop curious tastes,—nhich can only boaccount- ed for as inheritances from some long-defunct ancestors,—and absolutely find ploasure in play- ing at Lonsekesping. Tho toy-stores offer all the necossary sppurtepances for this incongru- ous tasto; but, unfortunately, mothers and nurses usually dislike * mussing " as thoroug] lf in their childron a8 they do an_assumption of tho practical duties of Lonsewifery thomsolves. It is Tather a pity, as othorwise, with a little caro aod interast iu the matter, theso children, with their strango tastes, might be taught some good lessons, even in the nursery, and possibly develop_a gonius for that forgotten sci- ence which we buried with our mothers. Many & good lesson is Jearned in play; and whilo the noophyte will be very apt to have her early efforts at cookery suspected and inspectod, a possible invastigatton into their contents mads with such unsuitable srticles as the tongs or poker, and, perhaps, in _the ond, the entire re- sult cleared away by nurse in a passion, still we think that, even with all thess contrelemps, play- ing at housekeoping is better for our little onca than learning the Alpha of flirtation before they aro out of the nursery, and reaching its Omega before their socond decade. For the boys, there aro toys to suit all ages, including tool-chests, from nhose study they may graduate master-me- chanics sud inventors; blocks for yonng arabi- tecta; and printing-pressos for embryo journal- ists, who may thus have the pleasure of seeing their earhest inventions in type; gumes sn puzzles of all kinds for the %‘x“““ ones, and bookts innwmerable for the studious, Theso aro but the briefest hints, for the brain_absolutely grows giddy at _the numbor sud variety of ob- Jects shown for the amusementof the littlo onos. Meantime, Iadies, both old snd young, aro thinking what they skall bestow upoa tho GENTLEMEN. Tather, brother, husband, and friend are to Dbe thonght of. Thonsands of dainty hands ara busy working unprofitable things, st which tho donces will look with inexplicable faccs, and wonder what they are to do with them. Horse- blankets aro quite the thing, or & crochet- Lisukat for Adoiphe's dog, or an jmpossiblo col- lar of embroidery and worstod-braid, which Fido cannot wear. All these aro possiblo ways of disposing of sarplus monoy sad hours. ‘A wife might ambroider her husband o travelling- Dbag, especially if ho never had business to call him away, a8 then &ho could take it and go her- solf. Elippers are a favorito gift, invariavly too emall, for which the far donor has to bear tho blamo most unjustifiably, as no maa un- der 70 was ever yet known to wear tight boots, or to tell within at least two sizes the number which would fit Lim. Tho unsuspecting damael goes to work in good farth, belioving that all sinch small vanities' aro the prerogative of her gex, to tind out t00 late thst & few of them may be placed to the credit of the masculine portion of the commaunity, A smoking-chair is usually accepted with thanks, esxgncially if the box on top is flled with genuino Havanas, pure Latakia, or a finely- carved meerschaum. This a_graceful pieoe of furniture, and hss a cushioned seat, for which you may ombroidern cover, aud box on the Top of the handsomely carved back also has aa cmbroidered cushion. The seat is just high enough for onr clogant friend fo ait astride, while the cushioned top is at the proper altitude for him to rost his elbows on while ho indulges in the Nicotian luxury. The wood work should bohandsomely carved, and the gentleman’s monogram placed in the centra of tho back. It is o very nice piece of furnitare for tho billiard- room, and here the enthusiastic amateur can sit 2t case, in that before-mentioned charming atti- tude, and watch the game, while ho makes thoso little side bots, of which lis vory properly saya nothing to you. Give the dear creatures smok- ing-coaira by ail meaus, then, and wo will guar- antee you the pleasuro of playing at Boroais in the drawing-room for a8 many evenings as you lease. Howover, no doubt many women will ave found out just the thing that their mascn- line froinds want, and often, mo doubt, whore the incomo is not counted by tens of thousands, procared it for him by denying themselvea somo little personal luxury. Theu if he is brnte cnough not to receivs it gracionsly, it is to bo hoped that he will no: live to sea another Christ- mas. 1ow much casier it is for gentlemon to give prosents to tho LADIES, - They do not labor under the orroneous impres- sion thiat their own handiwork is the most valua- ble thing tiey can bestow ; 8o they have caly to consult the length of their puraes, and purchase memontoes accordingly. With' tho wealthy, these may take the form of IEWELS. And what woman ever turned away indifforently from them? Alphonse may give his datling that splendid solitaire ; Old Bilious can give s wife the full paruse sho wants; and, if sho is_ Mrs. Bilious No. 2, ho very probably will. Diamonds aro no longer set in the stereotyped valgar cluster, but are in ovals, Maltese crosses, and various ubique forms. Exquisitely carved cameos are surrounded by diamonds, tho fine workmanship rivalling tho Instre of the procious stonos. Opas—tho stones of misfortune, goft 23 moonbeams, bat with a hid- den fire ot heatt — challenge tho non-superstitious buyer. Pearls, twistod into knots, wreaths, and fiowers, orin solitary purity, make one unconsciously break the 'Tenth Com- mandment ; while sapphires, rubies, emeralds, and amothysts arrest tho waddering 6yo. Basa. tiful in themsclves, they are rendered doubly atiractive by the joweller's skill. JAn entire sst of coral, besatifully carved, including coronot, necklacs, bracelets, brooch, and ear-rings, ia nob expensive at $500. Then como ourious designs in gold. 8o varied that oach taste might be suit~ ed. Next follow ornaments of shell and jeb; and hero lot us suggest that every pieos of bong or French gilt that 18 made into a spurious imi-~ tation of fine gold is by no menns a jewel. Thia term is applicable only to precious stones, though we lave he the ~commonest cir- clet of bone, tho most vulgar set of French gilt, denominated Jjewele; and ‘most especially does this seem to be misapplied to ornaments for the ears. _Opers chains bhave their long, twistod cable links, variod by intri- cate carvings, or curiously-wronght plates of gold; whilo lockets seem to havo been made in every varied stylo tho imagination can conceive. Bracelets are very broad bands, principally of dead gold, hold by buckles or jewelled clasps. A gold cuff is also shown, fitting close at the wrist, but fluring ot the top. ~ Thess are for house- wear, over & close-titting coat-gloove. Crosses are elightly superseding lockets, or arc worn in altornation with them. They are variously de- signed, ond will be tho principal ornament duz- ing Lent,—rendering the fair religieuse's mea culpa, much raore eficacious, no doaut. Bofore wo lenva this subject of jewals, let ns remark that ~diamonds are not in good taste when worn in o public ear or omnibus. Rings should never be worn nnder gloves. "They destroy the fit of them at the fret wearing. We suppose we must except the wedding-ricg, and that other circlet without which _no engagement is now considered bind- m(i. When, however, a glove is withdrawn in & public vehicle, to display half-a-dozen glitter- ing rings, wo wonder whether it is Anonyma advertising herself, or some woman dicidedly ‘“‘not to tho manrer born.” Had ske been, ono of the firat lessons that sho wonld have loarned would havo been, that jewels, like raimont, bave their proper time and sexsons. Were her diamonds héirloowms, thay would have romained locked in-their cases unfil the cvoning dress was dounad and they could ba worn with Kmpriety, aud would bo 50 thoroughly & pact of or belongings that she would think no more of making pacade of them for the envyitg ad- mirationof plebsizn Mrs. Grandy than sho would of appearing it ber brical toilette, or somo other incongrnous maaner. Moreoyer, she wonld probevly own her carrisge, and ot ko reduced fo the strait of riding in stage or horse-car, with & virid sansa of bang in Pureatory. Sa. dear ladies, you see that, whon you air your diamonds for the' benofit of the canaille, you only prove that ihoy are accidents of the hour, and wero never worn by sny fair ancestress in noble hells, Therafore, if your holidsy presonts are dia- monds, keep them to woar on suitable occasions, and don't overload the dainty little hand with jewels, even at home. The thousand-and-ono other things that would be both eppropriato and accepteble, we have nob timo fo enumerate. Tor housekespers, thors are silver services in variety ; novel designs in asparagrus-forks, jelly-spoons, nut-picks, and the dishes that hold them; charming bisque and Parian figures ; magnificent sets of Sevrea chi- na; beautifal jardinieres, with artificial birds among the urtificial fowers, who sing an artifi- cial song most monotonously,—very pretty until one is wearied of it, and then infinitely exasper- ating. Al tastes may bo suited,—the only re- quisite soeming to_bs, */Put money in your urse;" and, if it is in.suffcient quantity, no oubt each and all of tho various shopkeapers will b very gled to sce you. —_— “FUN" AT HOOLEY'S. 7o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Sm: MNr. Hooloy, in starting his {1estre, has Qecided, either from choico or necessity, to rely simply npon his stock company, and to dispenso entirely with tho aid of *‘ stars.” Itis nnnecos- sary to go into the merits of these rival eysteme, exch of which has its advantagos. This practico of “starring” enables the lovers of the theatre to see great actors, who would otherwise be apt to remain within the confines of particular citics, but, ot tho same timo, it io- duces managers to malko the ¢ stars” tho whole attraction of their places of amusement, 2nd to make up their companies of under-paid and poor actors. It is, indeed, somotimes the case that “stara” of the second magnitude decline to play at theatres where a really good stock company is employed, fearing,—and not without reason,—lest comparison might show that they themselves wore not suoh brilliant Juminaries after sll. They want foils, not efficlent support- ors. They wish to bo the sole attraction. The actor of unquestioned eminence does not thinl thus, fecling that his own acting appears to more gomeral advantago when he is well, than ‘when he is poorly, supported. So Pmanagers, finding it is the “star” f{ust draws, porceive they can mako more money with o cheap than a good stock company, and a theatre-goer finds himself in the position of & man invited toa grand dinuer, where the venison is admirablo, but all the other dishes aro detestablo. Tho highest point of excollonce is nttained by got- ting a .good “star” and A good general company. Noxt to that, in an artistio point of view, unguestionably, comes & good stock-company without *stars,” whero, whils the entorteinmont may not be on & ‘magnificont scele, yet it is zeat, comfortable, and uniform. Of courso, howaver, in every company thoro must bo poer actora—at least in subordinate positions. They are learnmg their trado, and aro to bo dealt With yery tolerantly, except when they are in positions which thay aro utterly incompetent to fill. 3Ir. Hooley, then, has sbjured *stars,” and decided tolot his company stand on its own merits, and for that he desorves eredit. It must also bo remembered that ho began late in the year, whon most actors had already mado ongagements, and that, if his material is, per- haps, poorin soms points, it may bo owing to the fact that his opportunities of making selec- tions were limited, Tho play of *Fan,” which has amused the public a week, is one which plainly shows the crude and imperfect work of a novico. Itisa succession of entertaining acones, fashioned to- gother without skill. It might have becn tho production of several hands, oach one contribnt- ing an ast, and leaving it to some ono individual to mako 2 sort of connection betweon them. As for the dialogue, it amounts to nothing. Tho plot is briefly as follows: On the morning of 3. Banlstock’s wodding day, whilo he is driving in the Park, his horse chewsup the jockey- trimmed bonnet of some nnknown lady. Soon after his rotwrn home, Mrs, Jenkins, the lady tn question, calls ab_ his house, with her cousin, Mailland, end domands that 2fr, Banlkstock shall replace ths bonnet, 8o that its disapposrance may not_cxcito the suspicions of hor jealous busband, While theyare with Afr. Banlstock, tho bridsl party entors, snd he is forced to hide Lis visitors in separate rooms. Pleading en oagegement ata bank, ho rushes off to 2 millinery store to gat the bonnet, with- out which Mrs. Jenkinsswears she will not leave his houss, and diseovers in its pro- pristor, (lara Hopkins, su old flame. Tho 'bridal porty . finds its way into the storo, whon {ho beolkeoper, Quif, is mistaken for a Justico of Lhe Pesce, and is huntod up and down by Diggs, the father-in-law, and his pasty. Fiells, Clara inf rms the vrido- 0om that ho can find’ the bonnet Le wants at vs. Doolitile's. He goos thero, is mistaken for Signor Mario, and, accepting the _situation, cinims a3 a reward for his services tho bonnet. Tho father-in-law and his crowd follow him even there, and get hmppy on the supper which was propared for Afrs. Doolillle's guests. At last Dankslock finds out that the bonnet had been given by Afrs. Dooliltle to her niece, Afrs. Jenkins. Ignorant that this is the laly whose bonnot lie destroyed, ho calls a4 tho house, and finds Mr, Jenkins, tie jealous husband. who learns from him that his wifo is at Bankslock's honse. The wedding-party intrado hore also. At lasb, Diggs and Lis escort go to Bankstook's houee, forco their way in, and at- tempt to carry off tho wedding presents. Whilo they aro pitehing them out of tho window, a box burst open and reveals & bonnet. Bankstock, who comes up just then, ideutifics it. It is the one ho is in Gearch of, and was sent 18 2 gitk to tho bride of his uncle. ' The polico nrrest the party, and carry them off, but Banlkstoci succeeds in delivoring tho bonnct to Afrs. Jen- kins in timo to save her from her husband's sus picions, sad tho curtvin drops with probability that the lonz-delayed marrisgo will soon takie aco. PRl be seen thas tho play is inartis- tic and full of palpable and” unnecessary absurdities. Tho aathor, too, lss ro- sorted to some rathor cosrse situations fo cxcito & laugh,—euch 28 tho nppearance of sevoral of the charactersin their night-gowns; for Miss Johnson, liko Mrs, Behn, * Fairly puts ber charactors to bod.” There aro several other things of this kind which had better have been omitted ; aad the entire play should have boen rovised by somo one who is not a novice at tho business. 3 This play, with its many imperfections, still holds out great opportunities to & smark and lively actor.” It is unnecessary for him to know his lines, He may improvise whole scenos, pro- vided only that he furnishes something as amus- ing as his original. Thoe authoress may tear hor Lair and scream over tho way in which her pro- duction is sltersd, but, to tho public, it i8 = omafter of = perfeot uncon- com, They want to . hear the best thing that they can, and thoy do not, and shonld not, care whother tho actor or the piaywright is the suthor. Thore is mo reason why an actor should throw away s fair opportunity for a local allusion or hit, 50 thot it is not drsgged in by the esra. It is true that not all actors, like John Broughsm, can make up their parts as they go along, Jimited only by tho nscessities of the sit- ustion; but if any one of Afr. Hooley's company can, hero ia the place for him to trv himself. Tho oppomnn:l& hes beon mneglocted, however. The only local references are the ol stylo ones, to wit : Calumet, Judge Banyon, the Bridewell and the Black Maria, 20d thoy are not worked in very bappily, but look as if they wero fastened on 58 with & nail. My, John Dillon, who takes the part of Bank- stack, is the principal foaturs of this play, not merely bocsuze he has the best obaracter, but becanse ho makos the most out of his part, which, generally speaking, the other nctors fail todo. Hature did much for Mr. Dillon when she avo him, in porfection, the art of making faces. Weroho to kecp his mouth shut, the moods’ and mutations of his speaking counte- nance would make us laugh. Such anactor, with whom facial cxpression- plays 8o prominent o part, is & godsend to the denlers in opera- glasies, for all who go to .tho theatre want £o see Afr. Dillon fuily as mach as they want to Lear him. Lven so with John Wentworth. 4 Brt Mr. Dillon is good apart from his face. It is truc that he somotines tatks too rapidly, so that it is difizalt to catch what ho is saying; but his voice sud manner are genorally easy and vatural. Ile faels perfeatly at home in the paits whiols ho is in the Labit of playing. He doss not act; hotaiks. Hoisnoton o stage; he is in his own room ; he i3 not talking at the audiones, but to tho porsons with whom He i conversing. ‘It is like going oni from tho hot and stifling atmosphere of a close room into the oven air, to Jeavo ~ the declemstory, forced talk of some zolars and listan to tha'assv ratls af Mr. Dillon. The defect, u@i:‘lnut which this gentleman shonld be most on his guard, is a tendency to Iapso into something npproscting to vlgarity or buf- foonery, which excites the laughter of tho crowd, but which repels people of breeding and of difcernment. It- is unneccssary for Mr, Dillon to cater to the tastes of the mob ; he can make his reputation without it. He is not called upon to resort to sho words “devil ".or ““damnod” in order to plesse his henrers, ‘When he calls upon Mrs. Dookitle, ho is terribly at aloss what to do with his hat. He holds it now in ono band, now in the other, some- times he places it on the floor, and sometimes’ hanga it on o chair. It 18 funny, though a hittle exaggerated; but it is out of plsce. Afr. Bank- stock is not 3 country bumpkin, unused to the wayz of the work, but he is a gentleman rich enough to be ablo to keep & servant, and not ig- norant of the proper disposition of & kat. Tio play has inconsistencies encughwithout Dillon's aid. B Mr. Dillon's acting W8 oven; he was mob 00d here, and bud thoro, but was very uniform thronghout thoe play. Still he waa quito good in tho ecens where hs meets his old sweetheart, the milliner, and accedes o all her demands, a speedy marriage included. Hia d.i:glxy of affec- tion at_the cloxe is & little atagey; buf that may 5. Ho is popular ; but to preseryo that popu- arity he must be earoful to romember that & low comeédian even should bohave like a gentleman. Ar. J. W. Blaisdell is set down on the pro- grammoe as Horace Mailland—* very loud.” " He 18 the cousin of Afrs, Jenkins, and escorts her when sbe visits_Bankslock to have her bonnet replaced. . Mr. Bloisdell, boirg in many respects a0 artless child of nature, bus taken his instrac- tions to bs “very loud” as mearing that he must speak in « loud and violent tonc of voice, and this he faithfully doss. Of “loudness” in its_slang mense Mr. Blaisdoll knows nothing, and, if he did, he is essentinlly incapablo of reproducing it. I would as soon think of ordering Afrs. Haller to play a part in the Lydis Thompson troupe 28 to request this solemn gentlemen to be *loud.” = Mr. Biaisdell is alweys associated in my mind with funeral processions, mourners with orapo, dead marches, undertakers, and things of that sort. Ho is ns prosy and sobor 23 tho good boy in & Bunday School book. The boy Diilon was an arrant seapegraco ; e played truant ; ho mada faces at his teacher, and set his schoolmates Iaughing. The boy Blaisdell know by heart 500 texts and a score of hymns ; his teacher patted him on the head, end called him * dull, but industrions.”? Substantially, Blaiedell fizures in but one sceno, and that with Dillon, when {he contrast ‘makes him all the morosombre. Ho isdressed,— being “ very loud,"—in a military nig, a coat'of blue, with three rows of brass buttons in front. This is & local phg, says the programme, with local characters. Bo why could nof Blaisdel, inatend of putting on a codt which is familiar to Chicago playgoers es having been worn by & Commodore in the navy, by a Colonel of Lin- colnshiro Yeomanry, aud a Ocptein of an East Tndia Regiment of Foot, have nttired himself in the loud and local costume of tho Eisworth Zouaves? Ho could have figured 8s ono of the Mulligan Zouaves in Frin's green, or he could have donned the dress of tho membors of the company of colored soldiera. Think of the wealth of local costume he had to draw on, and yet he is eatisfied to put on this alien and inappropriate uniform. = Daring ths scene Mr. Blaisdell i8 in & E?uion, which he neatly typifies by keeping on his bat, aithough Dillon and Miss Selden, who plays Afrs. Jenkins, are present. _To dzegan the fmpression upon Dillon’s mind caused by the menscing atlitude of the hat, he folds his arms across lus broast and_strides beck and forth—the Blaisdell stride. It is essy for any one to fancy the emoHons which would be raised in his own bosom by fhe intrusion of a strauger who insisted on remaining covered and strutung up and down with his arms crossed. But, in spite of tho hat and the stride, it was still Blaisdell, and not Horace Maitland,—*'very Joud.” It was a peaceful, quict, demurs Qualker, getting out to nufiyn man; and, notwithstanding tho suppositious black side ghiakers, tho uni- form, tho hat, the walk, and the voice, it was still Old Broadbrim. It- was Simon Pure trying to pass off ss Colone Feignwell. 5 an he ass in vibe lown ki "Tho park is not much, bus, such s it was, Mr. Blaiedell failed utterly in it, in dress and in talk. There is no character in thie play which he can take. Thero isa play I saw once, in which ono of tho dramatis personc came out in sable garb ané, jagubricusiy romarked, solifoquizing : “4Behold the wretched thing that was Alfonso.” Itis my impreasion that Mr. Blaisdell wonld come in pat, just there. Mr. Padgot is David Diggs—** s florist.” Bince thers is no mention in the play of his business, Do is compelled to carry around_with kim a pot of myrtle as a sign théreof. Were Afr. Diggs a saloon-keeper, ho would, of the samo rale, carry a lager-boor mug. Ihad eeen r. Padgot play some years ago, and expected $o find that ho had improved sinco then, bat in this play, at least, ho showed nosigns of it. If there has beon any change, it has boen for the worse. Itis possi- blo, * that, like too macy_ sctors, he baz becomo satisfied with himself, Bees no meocesity for further scudy, aad intends to keop on copying bhimself. It would bo unfortunato wero this 8o, for Mr. Padget can, if it pleases him, bo s good actor. “he part of Diggs is made funuy by puiting tight ‘boota on him, of which he is ctornally complaining, and by making him drunk in ono sceno. He romms around with his oscort of wedding guests from house to house, andis constantly telling Dillon that © this match is Droken off.” He'is armed with o stick, os well us with o pot of myrtle, and_whenover Lo gots angry with his son-in-aw ho brandishes this stick after the traditional stage fachion, But Dillon, being used to if, does nob wince a bit. 'This choleric old man. aleo insists upon keoping on his hat in those places whore it should be romoved; bub then & man with o flower-pot in ons hand, and a large stick in the other, caanot perhaps be expected to poy strict attention to the proprictia. It is true that tho material Mr. Padget is given to work on does not amount to much, but he might make moro out of it than he has dons. Ho is moro of & stage fathor than of a real one. I know no paraat around Chicego who would venture to E.:ABI; to a grown-up daughter as Diggs does to Miss Emms Cline, who is Clara Hopkins, “the proprietor of tho Modison stret millinery store,” 18 pert, saucy, prebty, affected, and pro- vocative. Whon Dillor rushes into her place in scarch of & bonnet, sho recognizes him ag an old aeotheart who Lid mads many promises iz ‘months before, and had then_euddenly left hor. So, at first she 5colds him, and then finally makes up with him. She waggles Ler blonde head too much, and is too fond of looking directly at tho audionce, and -of playing at them; and sha is too much given to affectedly dashing back avd forth; but sho scolds and pouts 08 if she had practized om others than Dillon, and with succoss. Sho is not atall dignified about it ; but that is proper. She does it just sbont a8 the women she represonts is in the Labit of doing it. Her scone with Dillon is the best actod in the wholo play, and it is a pity that she is not allowed to appear olsowhore. - Bat sho must loarn tho hard task of coasing to ogle the audience, and of being a little less self-conscious. - Arnold appears as ifr. Jenkins, who is described on the pro o as “3 jealons brute of a husband,” and theso rathor vagne sailing -directions constituto tho sole guido ho has_as to how he ghall bobsve. ~Mr. Amold is first seon s tho jeslons hus- band, with lia hesd wrapped up iu a cloth, and Ris feet in bath-tub, He is evidently suf- fering from s bad cold. The girl bringsina kettlo of hot water, and much of tho humor, just here, dopends upon the pouring of this very hot watar, by tho maid and‘by Dillon, into the foot- tub. Somo of tho audience o diseatisfied, — notably 80, one young lady Bfront of me, who seemed to havo come from Thornton or Niles, sinco thero was no real water. Tho kettlo was monifestly empty, and the imperceptible fluid oured from it made & most invisible steam. s was probably owing to s desire to repressnt the sbsent-mindednoss, which wo all know is caused by jeslousy, that Mr. Amold attempted to batho his faet withont taking off Lis stack- ings, and it was, perhaps, owing to the samo alsent-mindedness that the stockings in ques- tion looked nsif they belonged to his wife. When_he had learned {from Dillon that Ars. J. was in that individual's hougo, he at onco became fally possessed of the fiond jeslousy, and, flopping down on_his kiees, romarke “r-r-r-rovenge! tr-r-r-raitoress!” That is to say, ot this point, Mr Arnold was _silly, or tried to rush into a broad burlesque, which ia uncalled for there. He spoiled that which ho conld, if ke pleased, mako a very offootive scene. Then, tao, at the ‘close, when b finds his wifo, and_dic- coverers that his suspicions aro unfounded, ho wastes his_opportunitics, and_ makes a dry and inoffective thing ons of it. I is & raconciliation according to the stage rules, however. Lo em- braces her according to rejlations, and givos her the ortholox number of slsps on tho back with the right hand. Wheisver we walk along tho strasts and obsorve a hdy wkosa drees in rather dingy betwoen tha sioulders, we always nap at tne cot.clusion that. ehe Lias been going ihroagh with a recoreiliatio, and that Ler hus: b:nd vwes in guch a harry hadid not stop to wash his Lionds. Mr. Woodfield, according to thet iovaluable programme, bus for which ona woald oftan bo 3 = ladg to tall whois who. is Audtstys Hearustula— * ono of the beau monde.” All that hohas to do is to talk s little with Mrs. Dooliltle, snd to mistake Dillon, when he enters, for Siguor Mario. This memberof the beau monds exposes himself by talking sbont * Eyotalis” and * Ma-ry-oh.” His dress s all right, bt other- ; wise ho s far from porfect. He is unsccustomed to fashionablo pariors, and has not yet lesrned what todo with hislogs. When talking with | Dillon, he doos not carry on o polite conversc- tion, but is stiff and unnatural.” He had botter | imitato tho easo of his colleagne, or watch somo | sau_ttlamun engaged in talking, and see how they | o it. 1 Miss Emms Stowo is Betly—*a chocolate- | colored chambormaid.” But she perplexed | several peoplo by disoboying her instructions, and not being chocolate-colored at all. JIn a | play like this, where tho sctors aro known by | thelr Iabols, they must bo carelul to keep them | on or groat confusion ensuss, and things gob fearfully mixed up in the minds pf tho Learers. | Sometimes she talked as stege colored chambor- maids are expected to, and sometimes she did not, which added still moro to the bowildermens ; of the andience. i Br. Ruseoll Soges is Mr. Quill, the book- kecper in_the millinery storo, who s mistaken for the Bquire, and is chased by tho wedding guests, hie rushing around with a red fiannel shirt and drawers in his haAds, which he is try- ing to got achanco o put on, This, you ses, constitutes a poculiarly comic situation, Finally, | he succeeds in struggling into his shirt, bat : sinco it is neceseary to proserve the decencies, | he puts it on over his white ono, which does not | appear to Lolp him much, since ho wanteda | angs becauso the ones he had on were sozked | with perspiration. 1Mr. Soggs is unablo to mako | enything ont of his part bsyond what is in it, to- | wit : coarse drollery, but that does not prove that he cannot play something else well. - _Abraham Slowgo, s personated by Mr. Wilson, may or may not be a local character. Porsons dressing liko this individual may bo discovored by diligent search in the recesses of the rural towns of Cook County, but cortainly not near LONDORN. The Atlantic Cable---Cyrus Field and His ¢ Thanks- giving.” Brigand Literatures--¢ Black Besses,” ¢ Dare-Devil Dicks,” and “ Bloody Buccaneers.” Exfinetion of Famous Families— The Art of Advertising. From Our Own Correspondent. Losnox, Nov. 28, 1812, MER. CYRUS FIEZLD’S * THANKEGIVING.” Mr. Cyrus Field's heart is swoling in his bosom to-night. This is o real Thanksgiving- Day forhim. He is master of the situation. The wheel of Fortune has thrown out a golden prize, and his paths run over with fulness. On allgides aro congratulations. But, while Mr. Field is feasting Premiers and fiashing his own speeches aeross the acean, I will pluck him by tho sleevo for 8 moment, and say one or two matter-of-fact thinga. Bafore the Atlantic cable was successfully laid, there were fow London journalists who were nol familiar with the little figure, ! and tho restless festures, of Cyrus Field Ho | was poescssed with a great ides, and it seemed Chicago. This deaf old individusl, who appears | to deprive him of leisure. He wastho American once wrapped up in a cotton sheet, which an indulgent audienco consont o take for night~ govn, has very littla to do except to stump around, and tolk in & . loud voice, Vilson's investigations having shown him that all deaf people talk loudly, in order that thoy may hear themsslves. In the first scene, | 3y, Slowgo e required to laugh, which he does with that” peculiar cackle which ou actor sup- POsos is appropriaie in anold man rallying some ono abouta woman, Still, Mr. Wilson is not asbad as Dir. Blaisdeil, and it i§ necessary to sce him in some other par? to gek an idea of Wast ia really in_him, Miss Mario T.ouise, a5 Grace, has a vory sim- ple part, whore sho i3 required. to do littlo but | AT, | typo of the Wandering Jew. How many times | did he cross the Atlantic? I forget, but tho world has beon told of it very often: and, each time ho arrived, he Was a visitor at some of the | newspaper ofiices. ‘ Hero's Cyrus Field again, with his cable crotchet,” waa a frequent expres- sion. All credit to bum for his faith, and for bis good-humored tonacity. He gained his object. The press supported him warrly, and, by meana of ite aid, hs was ablo to go on with his useful i schemes. Welldo somo of ns remember- his pleadings. ““This is not sn nndertaking for mero profit. Of courne weshatl try to get slight per- contsgo on our outlay; but tho thing isto get \rriigle, and complain that a pin is sticking her in the back. The playmakes Grace a simpleton, and Miss Mario Louise does and says nothing to | dispel tho illusion. In order thet it msy bo known who she is, and that she is about to be * rapid and chesp communication between the two aountries. I care for nothing clse. I wantths ! Britich merchant to bo able, for s few shillings, married by & Justice of the Peace, she wears a | 0 hold his daily intercourso with his American bridal veil, and in all her perogridations, walk- | brethren; I want the newspapers to get daily in- ing and riding, indoors and outdoors, sho holds | telligence as though they were on the same con- o to her distinguishing mark as faithfully her father to his pot of myttle, Miss Rate Meek, as Mrs. Doolitlle, the fosh-.| fonablo I2dy, was perhaps woll enoush, thongh sho did not ‘quito talk like tho person’ she ng- sumed to represent. O her, and of Miss Sel- | don, who took the part of Mfrs, Jeakins, one may | say n the langnaze of o Polica Justice, * een. | tenco suspendod. i 3lr, Webber, a3 Abe, the servant, does better | 1 the first scene, whon talking with Belly,—the . person who ought to be chocol lle-cnlm'evfbnu is ! Dot,—than farther o, where ho tells Dillon how | Afrs. Jenkins is carrying on at bis houso. Here | he is horrible—* mero sound and fury, ignify ing nothing.” Ho should learn o tell hig tale with something approaching reality, and not to be forced axd unnatural. 2. Barney figures as Robin,—* a stupidlout,” and ho does it, unrelonfingly and unmercifally. Whother Robin gets angry since Bankstock 1 not ready to wed his cousin Grace, whether ho : as | boohoos, or whether ho tumbles down on hins koo and secs queor sizlts through o key- hole, he is essentially stapid. The play makes Robin » lout, but Mr. Baruey succeeds in gilding refined gold. The most doplorablo featurs of this play wes its motloy collection of - weading guests, who said nothing, af course, but who traipsed aronnd with Mfr. Diggs. Some of thom wero mufled up to the chin, and others paraded with bare necks and short sieeves ; but they all sgreed in wearing tho samo dojected and hapless air as that cele- brated Wedding Guest who was tackled by tho Ancient Moriner. They marched around or ran about after Diggs it oged in tho familiar game of “Follow my lesder.” I imagine that when Hooley wzats fhess poople, he sends 5 noto to Frauk Wontworth, stating that Lois Lardap Dim if ho will be g0 kind 83 to lend him halfa dozen chembermaids, promising to return them in good order in couple of hours. Mr. Went- worth, of course, politely complies. When the Sliorrian Honso opeug, it s probablo thet the guests of that hotel will be paazled by the like- ness botweon Mary and Kate, who do the cham- - bor work on their respective floors, and twa of tho ladies whe figuro in some parlor sceno at Hoolay's. How chesa deluded individnals will prattle about this “striling resemblance,” after the play is over | Would it not be well for Mr. Hooley, who had “ real art paintings ” in one ecene, to adopt o enggostion recontly made, and bLave * rea)la- dies " for wedding guestaand parlor dummies? * There is no difiiculty obout securing thom. Thero sro plonty of women in Chicago who would bo delighted at tho mero ides of appeaz- ing on tho stage, even if they had not & word to say, and they would gladly rig thameelves out in thielr bost attire. Then the stage parlor would begin to look natural, and it would be filled with persons who know how to sit, to wall, and fo look pretty. Then fancy the changed appear- ance of the programme, Which wonld read : First Weiling Guest—liss A—b C—d, of Wabash aventia. Second Wedding Guest—Miss E— G—h, a West Side bella. Third Wedc'ng Guost—>Irs. L—m N—o. Will sppour in her ueantifal wodding dress. nd 80 0, u itum. As every beau, friend, and relstive of a High School ‘graduato is present on commencement day, g0 the wholo retinue of a fashionabl young ; lady would follow her to Hooley’s, not as dead- * heads, but as profitable paying membors of so. ciety, and all Mr, Hooley would have to do would | ip) be to gather the incresse. i Jack, the Terror of London; Wild Wi Yot, with all these drawbacks, one can spend o plesssat evening by listening to “ Fun " ot Hooley's. The plossure would Do greater, how- ever, if somo other play wero given, orif tha present one wore remodeiled. ok LOVE'S TEST. When tho way 15 Tough, and the clouds ars dark In the bended sk above mo, Will the friends who gathered in other doys 8l gather around and love me 7 Will they help me on with cheery wards, As T sirivo with brave endeavor ? Will they tighten the links of Friendship’s chzin That Adversity’a hand wouid saver 2 f 0, T can welcome the gathering gloom With o shout of heartfeit deflance, 4nd thank the misfortune that makes more strong Tho bond of our blessed alliance. When Sorrow has faded my blushing cheek, And Timo left its penciled traces, Wil the lovera who plead for a smile or a ward, Still loim in my heart their places? When silver s threading my nut-brown hair, And the freshness of Youth has left me, ‘When the Autumn of Lifo has with merciless hand, Of sunshine and blossoms bereft me, Will they love me then for myself alone, For tho beanty thot never can perish 7 ‘Then welcome the death of the Summer-flowers,— ortelles alone T cherish, In the darkening wsy, once tho gathering gloom, "And th trial sharp, T glory ;- g In the paliad check, and the care-lined brow, And the sun-lit locks grown hoars,— In the speeding of riches that fook them wings,— In aorrow, and pain, and losses,— Sizco they oo but furhace-firga that try My gold from its dimming drosses. OB ! the storm may sweep Ji its wildest wrath, And thesky grow black sbove me, T can besr tho Rerceat pang that comes, If tho friends stand Arm thet Jove me. GARNET B, Frezvaxw, A Spanish View of English Manners. To the Editor of the London Daily News. Sm ; In the last issne, dated Nov. 17, of tho Eco do Ambos® Mundos, & Spanish journal of groat ability, publishiod twico &_month in Lon- on, for cireulation among the Spanish-spesking popalations of Eurons and Amorics, I sind tha ollowing paragraph, which I think it onlyright, by meaus of your pages, to introduca to & wider circle of readers: '“We are in Lon- don. A man falls to tho ground seized with an apopletic fit. Immediately ote, then anoth- er, by and by a crowd of fersons draw near and gatherround him. ‘I bot fifty guin- eas,’ snys one, *that ho doesn't live twenty mingtes.’ ‘Five that he will recover,’ nays snothor. “Six that he will not lest ten minutex,’ exclaima a third, Spectators muitiply. Bets in- crease. A doctor arrives, and wishes to apply & flask of cordials to tho moath of the sick man, *8ir,’ exclaims ono of the porsons present, *the Delp of ecience is nob admitted.” *Why?' ¢We havo several bets on.’ The sick man continned for wedding guests, and asking How it would draw! ! inent; and particularly do I want to sce the poor Irish emigrant sble to satisfy bimself of i the welfare of thosa at homo, whom he loves.” | Yes; such was tho burden of thejstrain. Now am I dreaming ?—was it whispered by & lover of satire?—or was I really told that the samo Cyrus Field, on being questioned this week abont. the exorbitant character of the charges, replisd : ¢ My dear ——, you don't supposo we started tho i Atlantic cable 23 a mattor of sentiment. All our concern in it is & money one, and what we wanted was not fine feelings, but & good per- centage. We are going to have 10 per cent per- . manently ; but, after wo have got together a ! large reserve fund, snd mada ‘snother esble or £o, if there is still s surplusage over the10 per cent, wo may apply that o a reduction of tho tar1ff.” Those. I am assured. were the words; but the quiet smile, the lock of pity npon those who thought that something else was due from 50 great 2 monopoly,—these cannot be traneferred to paper. Conmequently, the | spectacle of Cyrus Field talking of the blessings of thecable i8a little irritating. No blame to ‘him, but only let his role be understood. Don't { let him get the credit of being & sort of tele- H gmfih Peabody. There is s notion here, and | perbaps on your side of tho Atlantic, that Ar. . Field 1s the” supporter of the poj claim for ! chesper meseages. Not s bitof it. Heis ono j of the stuunchest opponents of a reduction, though this may not be spparent in his public + deliverances. ; How long will tho two countries endure this gigantic tax? The existing monopolists hold ! their ground. Directly a new _organization is above water they buy it tp. Fut something i ‘should be dons.” T the press they are indiffer- | ent. Although tte circumstances under which | newspapers are placed militato against the use of condensation by cypher, the companies make * noreduction. The journals pay 4 shillings & . word, as every one elés doos. ~ And for this we have groatly to thank Mr. Cyrus Field. Give him all ~ the reputstion he deserves for courage, tact, smd dotermination; . but it is credulous to imagino that theso wers | [ called ont by any stronger motive than that which is 8o powerful with most of us, viz.: a de- ' sira to do the beat for Number One. . TRBIGAXD LITERATURE. i At intervals, the police aro instructed to mako gravings and literature aré sold; and they have | i succeeded in all but clearing the strest in the Strand which was once devoted to such com-* ! merce. Dut a Lindred evil cscapes them, and | summarily dealt with, unless tho | cannot be | “Liberty of printing” ia restricted. Un- der tho pretence of oultivating - & i tests for art, two jourmals bring | engravings i hich the censual passions are ! panderad to by the representation of female fig- j ured in half-dress. Tiwice the conductors have ! beon prosccuted ; but they generally contrive to ; keop within the lotter of thelaw. Equally mis- chiovous is theclzss of criminal romance, Threo , firms are now engaged in publishing the larges| { proportion of this spesies of litoraturs of “tho resont time. Their names ate, *The News- ! Asents' Publishing Company;" Mr. ‘Hurrison, Salisbury Coart, Ileet street; and Mr. Henry Vickors.” I subjoin a listof the publications issued by thio News-Agents' Publishing Compa- ny. Their titles aro indicative of the naturo of their contente. Theseare: S ring-Heelod ill, or the { Pirates of the Thames; Honnslow Healh, and Its Moonlight Riders; Daro-Devil Dick, the Boy King of the Smugglors; The Poor Boy of Lon- ! don, or Driven to Crime ; Admiral Tom, King of | tho Bos-Bucesneers ; ‘The Wild Boys of London, | or the Children' of tho Night; Moon. i light Jack, or the King of the Road; Red Ralph,or the Daughterof the Night: The { Doy Detactive, or the Crimes of London ; Biack Rollo, the Purato King, or the Dark Wotman of gxo Desp; '.E'!x_u Cnn(mmé?nu of a I:l‘icket-ot— esve Man, being a sequel to Lion-Limb, the Boy-King of tho South Sea Ielands ; The Young Apprentico, or the Watchwords of 014 Lon- on. Mr. E. Harrison’s list containg: Black Bess, S Jhe Koight of the Road; Dlneskin; and The Black Highwayman. Tho Templo Publishing Cempsny, Fasex gireel, Strund, publish: Starlight Nell, the Queen of the Highwaymen, or ths Red Rovers of Hounslow Heath; Captain Macheath ; Tom Tarpin ; and Tho Boy Pirate, or Lifs on the Mr. H. Vickers issues: The Life and Career ot 8 Tondon Dirand Boy; ad Lively Adven- es of a Youn 8C: 'ohn ~Bennet! editor of the Polise Record, ~. i H. Lee, Aldino Chambers, Paternoster Row, publishes The Boy Brigand, or tho Dark King of the Mountains. There are thirty publications, in all, of the Black Bess stamp, among which it has the most important circulation. There is & great mass of literature often classified with these by different writers, but examination digcovors that its worst faults are silliness and worthlesmess,—qualities which it shares in common with much that is sold at a far higher prico, 2nd read b; “*highly Tespectable ” people. Mr. Francis, who has do- voted much labor and consideration to this sub- ject, has exploded the fallacy that the criminal class of serial novels has alargesale. Ho states that they have an average weekly circulation of 7,000 cach; and that this estimato includes the curculation of Black Bess, which is calculated to be 80,000. The total issue is, therefors, 210,000, or, 8a he estimates, 290,000 less than the weekly issue of one of our newspapers. In comparison with the better literaturs of our day, they have not much popularity, but they are nc. very ‘mischievous. EXTINCT FAMTLIES. Not many evenings ago, I Loard a distinguished American deplore the extinction of 8o many of tho old families in tho States, TLose, he 8aid, which had not died aut wers but too often Tepre- scated only in the workhonso. I could not give -him a List on the spet, but the extinction of the descerdants of the Kuglishmen who bave been most couspicnons for extraordinary intellectu.l power is eyually remarkable, It almost appears truo that, “Whon o humanazs hasgiven birth to its bright consummate flower, it soems commonly to be near ita end.” Thersis oot now living 2 out ; & aid upon the shops at which tho_ worst en- | | i single descendant, In the mala line, of Cizaucer, in convulsions, tod in geven minutes expired. ‘e speciatory unsnimoucly exclaimed, * He hag wan hia fifty aninaga ' ? halspesre, Spercer, Milton, Cowley, A Dlg?eu, Popo, Cowper, Gold:mith, Scatt, Byron, -0r.Alora » not une of Bir Philin Sydney, of Sir § mao of Limielt, is taking Walter Raleigh, of Drake, Cronwell, Hampden, Nelson, Addieon, Swift, joiuson, Bolingbroke, Walpole, Chathem, Pitt, Fox, Burke, Graitan, Canning, Bacon, Locke, Nowton, Bumo, Gibbon, Macaulay, Hogarth, Sir’ Joshus Reynolds, Gar- Ticls, John Kemblo, or Edmund Kesn. On tho other hznd, the mediocro are perpetuated. Of the 570 Peors and Pccrosses now existing, two- thisds are of anciont lineage, sud one-third owo their coronets to their own or their immediate Pprogenitors’ personal servicss, Asto the frs:, it 18 in the sasme story. On the spoils of the Saxons aross the Mma‘n Daronage; the confiscations that fol- lowed the esrly Baronial wdra gave origin to the Plantagenet Lords; and the estates lor'f‘eltell in tho conteata of the Roses euabled the Tudox Kings to establish nobility of their own. Then came mouaatic spoliation, and the seizars of tho enormous property of the Church to endow a new, and to cm'ici what_remained of the ol aristocracy. The Civii Wer ruined meny o Cavalicr; and transferred his lands to arich merchant or & successful lawyer, and then tho now proprietor was enabled possibly, in Gro course, to reach the House of Lords. The “creations” of later times have been generzily made from the country gentlemzn of landed im- ortance. The Barings were ix_en:vland-owne::! gumm Lord Ashburten got his title; and M. James Llogd, the banker, was the proprietor o grent_estates befors he gained admission to the House of Lords. By the way, 23 to Church property, tho Russclls profitr od more than any _others by the confistations. Tha late Lord Carlisle once said that the Duke of Badford might throw £200,00% a year into the Aames, and yet keop up his couz- try-seat of Wobart. : The house of Sutherland, which posseszes probably, at this time, tho largest landed estats in the Threé Kingdoms, rose to its Ducal posi- tion through the accummulation of prope:ty ac- quired by inter marringes. _ Fortunste mar- riages of almost every generation since the tims of Cnarles I. have made them what they are. HOW TO ADVERTISE A CHRISTIAS NUMEER. 1 do not for o moment insinuate that you &3 Chicago are in want of a hint as to the mathods ‘of zdvertising, but yon may like to see how your chiefs in the art aro_humbly followed at s dis- tanco here. The following, just issued as a cir- cular, and distributed far snd wide, by the pro- priotors of the Graphic, is decidedly a novelty here: 130 STRaxp, Looy, Nov. 28, 1672, Mx Dran Prowic: Pray don't think me a bore if T f7nd esplain what We aro preparing for you s atmmna. 11 it would be possibils to get you to vote who shotil write our Story this year, I believe the majority woud eay, “For a good novel, give me Charlex leade,” Act- ing on this snggestion, Mr. Reade has written a Tals entitled, * Ths Wandering Heir.” Perha think it bas acmething to do with the Tich! ‘but I assare you, upon my honor, if kas not. Fine that Mr, Reade could not finish his tory in thirty ¢oi- nmns of small type, we have decided to give an sddi tional sheefof four pages. It will bs illustrated by eleven pages of engravings by some of our most tai anted artista. Dou't let me forget the Print, Ihopa snd bellevs you will think it worthy of a frame. Xou may recollect s very beautiful picture, {n this year's ‘Royal Academy, of the children of the Princeof Wales, by Mr. Banerls, Well, attracted by this, I asked the ‘painter to paint a picture for the special purposs o2 engraving. Ho has done 60; and, when you ses “Hepe Py Christmaa Time,” slthongh it i o childish subject, don’t stick $t up in tho nursery, or throw it on one aids, because i'scheap. And, talkivg of cheapneas, the pub- Haher (who Is at my elbow) wikhes me to d you that the price of the whols number and priut is ond shilling, and 1 fancy I heard him murmut somsthing 8boRt ORDERING IT RARLY. Belleva me, yours faithfully, ‘THE MaNaoER oF THE GRAPHID, P. 8.—The following little performance on our awn trumpet msy be of juterest to our well-wishers: Tha respective sales for our Christmas numbers have been aa follows: 1869, 20,000; 1870, 120,000; 1671, 300,000; 1873——1oe ahall bs prepared 1111 Nor, whils on the topic of advertising, ahould the ingenions tradesman who sends out the sub= Joined be forgotten : LIVINGSTONE!!] ‘While all England {s ringing with his name, and his eountrymen are eager to do him honor, he is only able to continue his researches through the large-bearted Dberality of a devoted friend; Deither to the Govern. ment nor to the Geographical Soclety, but to Mr., JAMES YOUNG, the well-known inventor of PARAF. FIN OLL, belongs the honor of enabling Livingstons ta present labora, ‘undertaks his (Sols Agent for Ve Ao o o 1855), *Post Offics,” for Young's s Eew Road, me.mend‘, 8 urrey, Young’s No. 1 Paratin.. Young’s Befined Cryatal —_— SELECTIONS, BY DUFF PORTER. 3 The vold in the heart does not sccommodate itaelf to a proxy. 5 —Mausic never dles, being like love, an emae nation of Deity, and hence immortal, —The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, poyable, with interest, abont thirty years after date. —Out of unregulated will springs passion; ont of paasion gratified springs habit; ont of habit unrestrained springs necessity. ~It isthe good we have not dome, and not positive evil, that keops us from our possesaion of happinees. —Hsppiness zigniSes » gratified stats of all the faculties, With health, man can eccomplish almest ang thing he wills; but, without i, he is like g giant bound, helploes. Humanity is but man who lives perpetually &nd learns continuaily, There is the light of experience in oneself a1 others, 60 thatno man need sin. The immortality of Grecian art sprang from its truth to the highest Life of its time, and fram 1t8 ministry to that life. Brutes no moro comprehend the ways of men than man comprehends the ways of Providence. All things of the universe are interlink d doubtleés act and react upon esch other ‘3"' m::y ways that Scienco has not begun to conjecture. —Every yonng man that breaks laws in tho beforehand the treas- ures that are atored for bis old aga. —There are many who think that authority and its ally, compulsion, are tho sole agencies by which human beiogs can_be controlle —The reegons for our likes and dislikes, our attschmerts and antivathies, few of ns’ can give; but they no less exist, asd are rarely with- out 1‘vvnhrnnt. —When a man reasons for victory, and not for truth in tho other sonl, he is sure of justonc ally,—that is the Devil. —I holdit as a part of Christian duty to re- deem amusemonts from immorality sad evil ten- denc]lfs. b —Long absences extingnish all the falss lighta, tfou%? ot tho tras Gass. The lights are dead in the ahqlx!mbrumn of yesterday; but a thousand years hence, and the stars we look upon to-night will burn as brightly. —Human beznty is tho highest, only it must exprass high things, or at last one turas from it. —When ‘we really hate evil itself, and not merely the personal inconvenience 'it entail, nothing is 80 instructive to us cs compassion foi its \n‘%mx:xn. i —Wit] itoal calture as with material, itis the deep :\Ehsoiling, and not the mero sutaocs scratching, that produces results. —From consclence we derive faith, and, liko £wo blind men, they cast themselvea groping in the dark, and arrive ultimately at Got‘fx —The Japaneso thrust a gritty monld into tha shell of the oyster, which checks its growth slowly. But, when tho bioodless thing is dead. they find in the shell a pearlin the likeness o} ome of their gods. There is such a mou'd st somewhiere into the lives of us—humsa oysters—if we only Lmew how to mske usa of it. BARBAROSSA. Translated frem the German,), Prederfe Barbarosen, The Emperor of old, o bt doop-buried e, A magio spell dath hol To death ho hath not yieldad ; 8HIl is he living lhc:ye'; ¥ He, in his hiddon castle. St aleeping in s chatr, Down with him he hath Tho gloey of the an \ 4And he will bring it with him s ‘The time1s nearat band, ° . ©Of ivory carved rarel; Ts Barbarossa’s chatr § Of marbla 15 the tabls On'which he leans him thera, is beard i is not —_ - e e not flagen,: Ted,— Grown through the marb O whick i resta iy prr Ho nods as in I'ght el 3 Tiv o5, Balfe pen. it At thmes, long sitence breaking, Tio beckons'n 3 dream, And Uids the dwarf astenas “ ey th frou the castle sy ' Andsseif st Il the ravenn ' About the mouutain iy