Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 2, 1873, Page 7

TTE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY [2) o~y 1873. v L —— e e e The Lakeside, Popular Science, Scribner’s, Lippin- cott’s, Ete. Fathers of the TWew Ergland Bar— The American Bonaparies. a Hir. Darwin--His Exprossion of the Emations #*-=Fhe Law of Storms - Herhert Spencer’s ¢ Study of So- ciology ”--Cuitivaiion by Steant. The Tekuantepee Ship-Canal--The- Mar~ ‘riage Question--Eints to Literary Ien--Borrowers and Borrowing. [ Country-House Life in England--Vic- tor Hugo--Iradison’s Expe- rience in the Temper- ance Cause. LAKESIDE MONTHLY. The Zaleside Afonthly for Fobruary has a very sttractivo tello of contents. Tho range of lopics is exteneive, and their treatment bright cod intercsticg. R Nathan Shepnrd wiites of * Czuses of the Friction Between the United Etates end Eng- « An August Day on the Caleasion Prairie,” by Marie B. Williams, is s siory of adventure, misfortune, and self-eacrificing love. X THE FATHERS OF THE NCW INGLAND BAB,— Jemes Sullivan, William Prescott, Samuel Dester, Hamsison Gray Otis, Theopbilus Par- sons, Jeremiah Smith, Timothy Pickering, Tris- tam Burges, and Frank Blake,—whose wit and schievements made them the delight and power of their generation, furnish X, S. Dodge with ‘material for a collection of very entertaining an- ecdotes. General James Sullivan, once Govern- or of Masaachusotts, was noted for his caustic povwer of repariee: One of his most freqrent antagonists at the bar was tho celebrated Theophilus Parsons, afterward Olilef Justico of Maesschuswtts, Detween them often oo Ccrrred keen encounters of wit, not the less bitter bo- Cause they were fricods, Ins gbarp war of words one day over o case where they Were opposed, Paraons got the betier, and tho Judgy ordered Suliivan to sit down, Hodid go; but drawing ths broad-brimmed hst of Parsons, who was proceeding in his argument, to- vard hitn, at the same timo, wrote on i, “ This is the het of 3 damned rageal,” and, plseing it whero it could ‘e ssen by the bar, reeumed Lis note-taking. . Bome laughter ~ followed, which the Judgo rebuked, znd which cansed Parsous to turn. Appreciating the sicuation igsizatly, o siopped fn is sreu ment, turned to the Conrt, and sakd, “3May it pleaso ur ‘Hopor, 1 crave the protection of the. Court, thier Sullivan has been siealing my bat, and writiog ‘his own name on it.” Courts of justice were, in that day, more tolcrant of coarse jokes and roystering fun, at jeast in New Eng- 1and, than they ate now. In an'insurance case, where, 21 ustal, Pareons und Sallivan were opposing counsel, ibe former, graphically depicting thehorroraof s ship- wreck, described tho wind us “blowing off s Jeo shore.” Sullivan. who had made a voyree from Ire- 1und at lezat, and knew something of muutical terms, Lstened in amazement, * iilowing off a lez shory did You 63y, DBrother Parsons 2 4Yes.” *And waatkind of o wind might thacbe?” Pursons, catching at the Llunder, but not chuosiog to ackmowledgo it, retorted. 4Ic waa s Irieh hurricane, sir,” Carl Lareen translates from ¢he Danish of Haus Christian Andersen 8 story which needs 1o other recommendation than'the name of its suthor. Itsiitle is ¢ What Old Johanna® Told.” Mr. James W. Sheahan takes opportune ad- vantage of the revival of general interest in the affairs of the Bonapartes to recall Bome, facts of interest with regurd to THE AMERICAN BONAPARTES. Jerome Bonaparto came to America et a time when his brother was the central figure of Eun- rope, and when the popular £ympsthy for the fir:nch Repubiic had followed the semtlence of publicauism represonted by the grest end victorious General : After remzining in New York somo time, Jerome turmed his steps tovard the Natioual Capital and was everywhore met with profuso bLospitclity and cordial welcomes, Ia timehe reached Laltimore, where ho s the recipient of socal bospitatities of the chofcost kind. While iere he met Mits Elizabeth Patterson, then 17 rears of age, and daughter of o wealthy retir merchant, Willism Patferson. Sbe wes highly edu- cated, ord was a lady of many natural accomplish- ments. She was nmot cply landsome, but very fazcinating ; and it is eafd that in 3 conversation with zamg of har associate balles of the city, she deciared, Jeughingly, her purposo towin the galiut Frenchman whap he should arrive in Baltimore. Shortly after his amval he mnde the ncguaintance of tho Iady ; and whether ehe actually Ioid sicge to his heart or not, cer- fain it is that after 2 very Lrief acquaintance he 'pro- posed for her hand and was accepted. In a few weeks, o Christmas eve, 1803, he—thon 19 years old—was ‘married at Baltimore, 1n the R.omon Cathiolic Catbedral, “Afterward, Napoleon besought the Popo to aonul the marringe, thet he might give his brother’s hand in eome Royal matrimonial al- liznee, but in vain. Tho Pope_doclared the marringe valid in every respect. Jerome and his wife ehortly after weut to Burope {o seek recog- pition aud Imperial favor. Thoy separated at Lisbon, Jerome going to Paria to intercedo, his wife to Amsterdam to await the result : The parting at Lisbon wrea distressing cne. It was theirlast. Never ogain did thoy exchange & word, Instead of finding tho Emperor tractable, Jeromo fouad him more obdurate than ever; and when he told him that bis wife wos then on {he oceanon her way to Amsterdam, the Emperor sent peremptory or- ders to that port probibiting her lesving the ship. Jerome, willingly or unwillingly, remained in Pars. He pever, 50 far a8 1s_known, made any sttempt to Join Bis wife, Dazzlcd by tho grandenr of the Em- gi;e, sad of i3l Imperial siate sud digoitics enjoyod s family, be, like a weak creature 13 he waa, sub- mitted to the commands of Lis brother.. Bourricune, the private eccrelary of Napoleon, in bis Memoirs of tho Emperor, docs not give Jerome a very bigh character, and doca not give the imprecalon that ‘Napoleon thought very well of him. Ho writes thus of him: “In 1802 Jerome was st Drest, in the renk of Enacigne de Varssrau, He launclied ‘into cxpenses fur besond whst his fortune or his pay could maintain. He often drew upon me for sums of money which the First Consul pajd with much unwillingtiess, One of bisietters, in particnlar, excitcd Napoleon’ anger. The epistle was filled with accounts of the eatertain- ments Jerome was giving and Tec-iving, and ended by that ho sbould draw on me for 17,000 francs, To Lhis Bonsparte wrote tho following reply : “‘Thavoread your .lctter, Alonsicur I’ Enscigne de . Valeacan, and I shall be glad to hear thatyou are study- 1og, om bocrd your corvette, @ profession which you Daght to consider as your road ‘to glors. Die young, ] ahall have some consolstory reficetions; but i youlive to G without Laving served your ‘countrs 12d withont leaving behind you aay hezorable recol- ctions, you had better not havo Lived at all.! ‘Jerome never fulfilled tho wisbea of his brother, who always called him o litt'e profligate. From his sacliest vears, Lis conduct was Otten o source of: vexa- Hon to bis brother and his family. ~ Westphalia will Bt s0am forget that he was her King ; aud his subjects 4id pot ‘without reason surname him Hellogabalus in ure.’ ._Innother part of the samo work Bourrienno epesks of Jerome a3 the “most worthicss” member of the e“mnr. This last opinion was expressed whils Jerome ‘The rest of the story is & familior one. Napow leon did what tho Pope refused to do, sundered e marriage, and gave Jorome another wifo, a0d proclaimed him King of Westphalia : Daring the married life of Jerome, Madzme.Bons- Tarle made no other claim upon him thadl wis pre- Sented by her indignent eilence. She visited Europo Several times, travelling on the Contiment. Itis re- that Jerome and his wife, Frederica Oatherine, weze in the Florentine gallery on one occasion, when K¢ noticed that the ex-King was intently siaring ot 2ome person op thie otlier side of the room, and ihat be was intensely sgitated and extremely pele. Placing 867 hand upon Lis arr, she asked what was the mats fer—was he i, or what had alormed him ? She had lorepest her gquestions mora than once, when he Mswered: “That lady is ebe who was my wife, me Bonaparie, wholly unawere of his presen bad visited the gallery on the same day, and had mol :;;fi‘““‘o}“’ face Lo face. Not 1 fl\\'ord was ;;u‘ken, 0 Tecognition given ; and they pessed esch B’ oiher go girangeves L i tho fret “and only Sme they had met, since he bad lcft her on board the Erin # at Licbon, promising to meet her at Amster- in the summer of 1¢00, Jercme immediately quitFlorence. Madame Bonsparte's only child was Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, who died in Baltimorein 1870, at the age of €52 - He lef: ons son, Jerome Napoleon Bouapsrie, This gent was born in Baltimere in 1832, and in time “Afler two yearzat the Unl- entered Harvard College. tho President » cadetab Vezsily, he wag appoinied by West Polnt, wihere he was gradusted in the iass of 1332, Hs wes appointed to s Licutensncy in tho arr:y, Lut 5000 after, visiting France with iz father, Lo was tendered an aprointment in the French aruy, which Le Aceepted, finet reefgning his appointment'in the TUnited Stetes, In185-'5 Lo served in the war of the Crimea, and was prezent 1Llhbsll‘§fl of Sehastopcl. e bs ince been advanced in rank, In 1858 L= visited Lis relatives in Baliimore. Mo is considered a man of bility, but bas not s0 far made himself conspicuous by any presontation of his claims under bis grandfather’s ank. He was serving in the army, during tho war be- tween Franco and Prusets in 1870, and resizned efter the deposiiion of tho ‘Emperor, Until his father's death, be of courss wos mot the representative of his grandniothar’s claims. The expulsion of the Emperor nd bia fathe:’s deathi occured about the eame time, MHe iz now residing in B:ltimore with his wife, Since then the Benaparte dynasty has been considered over~ 1hrown forever. Tho Emperor, Louis Napoleon, hav- ing dlcd tefore the restoration of the Bonzparics, the succezeion to the throne will rest between the FPrince Imperlal, born {n 1853 Prince Napaleon, bom in 16227 and Jeromo Napoleon, born in Baltimore in 1832, and gx?:l(lszn of .‘u;x"ume ;x;:dfu:abcm Tatterson. he meantime, me Donaparte, born in 1735 or 1786, still lives. Upon the Tk et her son, fol- lowed Fo guickly by the overthrow of the Donaparte family in France, shoddid not abandon ell hope, Sho et clings to the {dua that an overrfling justice will, in ik, person of hurmudfiom{:flmn Ber name, and ot ‘mperial e that the Ty purp! yet be worn by bor No detailed and connected history of the UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO baos ever been written. This lack is supplied by J. W. Larimore, who writea of ! Chicago Univer- sity—Its Post and Present.” H POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. The Popular Scierice Monthly leads all the magazines of the day in tho freshness and valuo of its fopics, and its sympathy with tho foro- most scientific thought of the day. Itis idle for mere litterateurs and classicists to attempt to stay the modern tide. There are cycles of intel- lectual as well a3 politiesl history. Thereisn greater work for writers and thinkers, and & bet- ter pastime for readers, than can be fonud in paths that eimply lead back to & culture which, howover besutiful aud lasting it mey bo, coonot £l all the scops of our activities. Professor Huxloy may be too radical in his sweeping condemnation of poetry, but thereis in hisimpatience an cloment of just critielsm. * Certainly ho is right in demanding an oqual, if not a superior, rank for scientific literature, which conntloss invostigators and re- corders are now amassing on every side. In the time of Lord Bacom, people would write and “think of nothing but tho dreary and froitless logic and controversies of effete philosophics. He wrought a grest change by directing mental effort to ob- eervation, scientific classification, and prectical works. Ifisnot difficult to seo that men like Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall, 8pencer, and tho host of collaborators that grows apaco each dsy, are agents in a revolution not aliogother dissimilar. We are ministered to by poots, philosophars, novelists, preachers, who do but reburnish the ornaments sud heirlooms of a foregoing era. ‘What & distinguished crific Lins said of Tenny=on in troe of all; they completo an sgo. Tho others whom we have just mentioned have tho good fortune fo bogin sn age,~sn azo of untrammelled thought, active inquiry, fesr- less reform, practical resnlis,—an nage that will Dot only enrich our daily lives, and mzko hamao- ity botter by making it healthicr and moro com- fortable, -but will guicken our brains and rebabilitate oven our poetry and romances with new imagery, analogics, and suggestions. This is the schocl which will atiract the eager and {fresh allegiance of young men of ambition, and will, before long, imprint its stamp on all tho ectivitics of our society. In this work, Professor Youmans will do his share j and, under his con- trol, the Popular Scienoe Monthly will do much to widen the caliure ¢emaunded by modern life. In the number before us for February, . MEB. DABWIN ia given the place of honor. His portrait faces fi:¢ reader as he opena at the first page. It is fhat of & man of 60 odd years, with flawing, pa- triarchal beard; bushy eyebrows, giving =1 em- phassis to well-set, steady, thoughtful eyes; from Which a clearly-cut, firm, and rether aggressivo nose loada to & mouth, the lines of which aro al- most hidden by the hair about it, but which is herdand determined. The forettad is high, and full in its carves. The whole face is * like onything less - them 5 visionary or eciolist. With tho portrait, thero is s eketeh of Mr. Darwin's life. Hois now 64 fism of age. Ho inherited the love of nataral istory and the scientifio habit of mind that bave becn the charactersistics of his bent. Ifis pe- ternal gmndfnther was Dr. Erasmus Darwin, who published two works of natural science, The Botanic Garden and the * Zoonomie,” —Dboth famous in their dey. His grandfather on the other eido was Josiah Wedgewood, to whom the art of poitery owes its %grfi: in England. ' In tho boginning of 1839, Mr. Darwiu merried his cousin, Emma Wedgewood, and shortly after took up Lig residenco at Down, nser Faruborough, in Keat. For twenty-eix years, in the retirement of is bome, fr. Darwin has devoted himself o the caro of lirzo familly, snd tho quiet and close investigation of _tho ~rorks of Nature. Iiis first labors, after this date, wero editing the “ Zoology of the Vosagoof the Beagle,” giving on account of tho hubits and ranges of tbo Yarious animals thereln describod. In ald of tho pub- Meation of this and other works bearing on the same ubjoct, the Lords of the Treasury granted £1,000. In 1842, M. Darwin published his work on “Tie Struc- turc and Dictribution of Coral Reefs ;" in 1645, Geo- Togical Observations on Volcanic Islands;” and, in 164, “ Geological Observations on South America,” Continuing, without rest, hus researches, we find tho resulty of his unwesrving iudustry in two volumes Dublished in 1851 and 1854, *On “Pedunculated and Bessile Cirripedes,” and, in two cther volumes, on the fossil specics of the same class, Toward the close of 1859, Mr, Darwin published his 4 Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,” Of 1his work, four English edittons have appeared, and nine foreign editione, in French, German, Dutch, Ital- 1on, and Russian, Its popularify is shown by tks fact ‘that more than 100 reviews, pamphlets, and scparate books have been published uponit, while the earncet~ “ness with which tho question s etili discussed shows ihat theae will probably be donbled in 8 hiort time, In 1834, Mr. Darwin was elected 8 Fellow of-the Toyal Society ; in 1853, the Royal Socloty awarded him the royal medal ; and, in 1859, the Wollaston medal +wus given to him by the Goological Socicty. In 1862, 1p published s book full of curious researchi, # On tho Various Contrivances by which Orchids Are Fertil- 1zed.® Of seporato papers published by this patur~ alist, wo find the following among the moro impor- fant: *On the Connection of Certain Veleanfo Tho- nomens o Bouth America ;” “On tho Distribution of ‘Erratio Bowlders in Sonth America ;" On the Forza- nld by the Larthworm” and #On Geology of iho Falkland Jelandsy® ol ublishea in the Tyansactions of the Geo Jomical Socicty. In the Journcl of the Linncan Society, three papers have sppearcd from the pen of fr, Dacwin, “On tho Dimorphous and Trimorpuons Btates of Primuls,” and ono paper “On the Move- ments and Habits of Climbing Plants,” This last ona s sinco boen published as » Geparato work, In 1834, tho Royal Soclcty swarded to Mr, Darwin the Copley ‘medal, and o has been clected 8 member of vorious foredgn kclentifio bodies, - "The latest works of this indefatigable naturalist are «The Variation of Animals tnder Domestication,” in two volumes ; tho * Descent of 2fan, ” in” two vol- wurnes ; and his work “On'the Expression of the Ero- tlons in Man and Animals,” just published. ‘Thers is an _elaborate reviow of this ast work, in which Mr. Darwin submits his doctrines tos new Lest. He coneiders them from the point of view of evolution, zud, though many may consider that he is far from feving cstablishod bis case, it wiil be sdmitted by overy Teader that ho hos thrown much new light upon 1t, and made & most fascinzting and instructiva beok. 'Mr. Darwin distinguishes between physiognomy and exprossion. The former is statical, tho latter dypami- b Physiognomy sima at tho recognition of charac- fer through tho study of the permancnt form of tio featurcs. ~ Expression, on the other band, deals with of tho play of festures spd gesture in ‘animals, as conatituting the natural langusgo o the feelings. Buch L been wwritten upon the sub- Ject of Expression by men of various countries, but Ar. Darwin recoguizes that Sir Charles Bell, in “ Knatomy and Philosophy of Expresaion,” published 101606, mat only Jaid the foundations of tho subject 26 a branch of sclence, but built it up into a noble o D e Darwin 1 of e optaion that the sub- Ject bas hitherto been pursued by false method, or has een vitiated fn s {reatment by ertonoous dssump- tions. Bell, Gratiokt, Duchenne, and the_other lead- ing writers upon the guestion, havo ~dealt. with it on tho old hypothesis, that the different onimal species —came. info exisi- ence just as {hey are novw, wholly distinct from each Other butMr, Darwin maintaina that, 50 long as man and ail other animels ars viewed in this way as inde- ‘Pendent creations, the truo philosopky of the subject Dot bo roached. The simple before the comple: o Tower forma of lifc s intcrpreting the higher, an: the whole as & connected aclieme of developmenit, i8 o thio methad of biclogs, aud for this investigation RO therefore, necessary 10 study the manifestations o2 character in thelr eimplest forms. Ifr. Darwin's mothods and sims have been a,dnin' Fably summarized by 8 writer in the Safur- day Retiew, from whom the editor quotes : The tendency o draw as broadly as poseible the dise Hncticn between man ond brutesled Sir Charles Dall o “deny fto the luwer abimsla ony expression besond what might be referred more or less phainly fo acts of volidon or xecessnry in- Btincte, their foces seeming to Lim fo be chiefly Capabis of expressiug wmeroiy rage or fear. The fackil ranscles in man he thought to be a apecial provision Jor the eole object of expression, and 0 far distine- tivs of B ty. But tho simple fact that tho “anthropld apes posscss the same facial muscles ihat we do, renders it most improbable, spart any reference o teleolcgy A were endowed with thess muczloa for from :wnb that we iy onch purpose, still more, that morkess Liad epeztal zYventn them calely for tho DurLGe of €: maxs, Since distinet uees can, 5, be arsigned (o almost oll the e3ion 0a but an aic fanction, M, 1oward the doctrine of evo- of man frem lower furme, Jod L preesing our foelings by mvecular movements, innato an it bas zow bocome, 49 Daving becn in tome maanex graduolly scquirel a¢ tho frat. Sceking back Tor the origin of motemerta of tois kind, e, i the first place, w33 fed t> obcerve infants, as exhiibiting omotions with_oxtraordipary forve, os well a8 wilh a cimplicity and snabsence of couvention which eease with moro maturs years, Seoondly, tho izsane hid to o studied, baing Ylable o tho atronzest passions, and giving ticin uncontrolled yent, Dr. Duchonnes in- gealons appilestion of photcgraphy, representing the ©ffects of ‘galvanism apon tho faciz! muscles of an old man, gpve eome. asirtance toward distingulel varieties of exprecsion, Lessaid than was expacte vas found to bo derived from the study - of tho great mastors in peinting ond sculpture; besuty in works of artoxcluding thy displsy of strong facial muscles, end the etory of the composiiion. being tald by secessorien skilfully introduced. Mors importazt 1t w23 toarcertain how for the samo expressionsand gesturce provatl among all races of menkind, espec- Etiropeans, Viith thin view s list of sixteen questions was clrculatéd by Mr, Darwin within tho last dve years, o which thirty-uix answars have been reccived from missluncries, travellers, and olher obsersers of riginal tribes, whoes namea are’ appended to - Darwin's fntrodustory reiarks. The evidence thus necumulated has been supplemented by the closs 204 keen observation of the suthor himself through s wide rango of animal life. It scemed to him of pars- smount importanca to bestow all tho altention possible upon the exprassion of the soveral paesicns in various animals,—xot, of course, as dociding Low far in Taan certain oxpressions wre characteristic of certain elates of ruind, but ny affordisg tho safest bosis for gener- alization cn the causes or tho origin of the various movements of expreesisn. In obscrving aninals, wo a0 not 60 Licls o by Lizsed by our imagination; and wo may foei suro that thlr cxpressions are mot con- ventional, Any cttempt tostate the fruits of such re- senrches in & sontence must be .bare and mun- satisfactory; but it moy be_eaid that, as the result of bis inquiries, Alr. Darwin finds ia ani- mals Iower than men exprossions of grief, 103, sorrow, plessure, fear, hopo; and that ho at- tribntes them to muscular action duo to thres principles : Tho firef is that of Borviceable ase kociatad habits, which might, with equal acca- racy and greater perspicnity, bo styled simply the prisciplo of balit, Like biinking with the oyes, which is now nn automatio recoguition of the approech of danger, althongh, no doubt, a5 first the -eycs wero purposcly nnd carefally shwt for their protection. The eecond principle is thet of enlitheeis. When cortain movements or gestureg-have been acquired 23 aforczaid, and 1iave como to bo hzbitually performed in connec- tion with & certain etate of ~mind, there will then bo a strange and involuntaryten- doncy, under the oppotito state of mind, to di- rectly op;)»osieu ‘movements, whother in'any way Berviceablo or not. Honco zlone, Mr. Derwin thinks, can be explained, not only the sudden nnd extrems changes of expression in the atti- $udes of anjmaly, bat many gestures uged by sav- ages,or by the doaf and dumb. Thethird prizciple is the direct agency of tho nervons system. AL, Darwin thinks that what seem thie most strict- Iy involuntery actions—sach £3_tho bristling of tho hair in fear or anger—may have baon afibct- ed by the myetorions power of the will, “Professor Thompson B. kfaury, of the. Signal Offico, Washington, asks atteution to somo of iis déductions that may bo justly made from tho estonsive und simultencous observations on fhoweather by tho Weather Burcau. His paper, entitled *THE LAW OF 6TONMS DEVELOPED,” is illugtrated, and throws a great deal of light on the bohayior of cyclones, monsoons, occans storme, and the less momentous varistions of our everyday weather. Concerning tho size of siorms, fo says: Tt has often been acked whether ths storms of our Jetitudos attain the’immensesize formesly sttributed tothem; and muny cminent writers have denled the poasibility of Ll ning o dismeter of moro than fwoor threa buudred miies. Xr. J. K. Langhton, in his recently-publirhed “ Phyeical Geography,” would ‘have us bellove thut crelones “do not attain tho enor- mous magoitudes which bave been aesigned them.” But this opinion rests merely upon conjecture, not yet upon 3 correct physical theory. -icnown fact ta: the monssons generated al platesu north of the ya Aoun- on the can taine, and the wholo system of Asiatic wet monsoons, mey be regarded a8 an immcnsennd prolonged cy- clone ; aad cstend their * backing * influence iato the Todian Ocean, and reach far o tho south, through more then forts degrocs of Iatitudo (2 redius of 2,500 geographical milos), ind from the 60th to tho140h ik of cast longitude, far out into tho Pacii beyond tho Douin and Ladrons Islands, southieast o Jatenm, Tho wholo ezstem of Vel monsoons may 2o bo justly regarded s a grond cyclone, ¥hoso centre s atctionizy oser the Deated plaina of Contral Aeie, whoso intro-moving wiuds, bearing the ovaporaitons of the Asiatic scas and oceans, faed 1€ With aneteoris uel forsiz mouthn fa the seer, evd whote ariphery may bo regerded as embracing neazly one- D o tuo snfire Eustorn Hemisphere, Amalogy, therefos, warranis tho idea of o great cyolone. _ Biit, apare foom all thi, actusl observations' in different Ihrts of the giobo prove (ke frequency of Horma_ of encrmeus _magnitude, Thus, in {io cclebrated Guif Blream storm of 1859 unSir David Drewater long &z pofuted out, geveral Etsunch merchantmen were foundering Off {he cosat of Georgia, near_Savacnah, in tho very heart of tho {ulc, et tho enme hoar that the winds i its northwest nadrant were taking tho roofs off Louses ia New York and Boston, mozo than 600 riles distant,—clearl; rovealing a cyclono whoss formation was srmmetrica T whove dameier was meazly 1,500 miles, But, nok togo back to old data, the West Indion storm of tha 15 of August, 187, beforo ita centro had moved Dot of Florids, bad begun to draw upon the regions of high barometer in tiis Northern States, had exertod 1ta infinence 38 far north as New Loadon, Conu., azd o us thy northcestezly cyclonic winds o the Borth- st quedraut of the whirl, on tho entire Atlantlo Const.. The moto furious cylone of tho 24th of Au= e, discovered fo bo then Fouthesst of Florida, and felegraphically fore-nnnounced s likely to endanger thoo cossts ~of iho Soutbera States in loss than _foriy-cight Lours, oppoared oo the 20th in full force in Northern Florida, but not until some eight or teu hours afler it had ect the atmosphiere 51l aronsd it (a8 far uorth us Doston) in cyclonje mo- {lon, sud had caused the starm-cloud to epread i ‘ovcr the entire region of {ke United States on the cast crnslope of the Alleghenies, ord a8 far westward as Kuoxville, Tennessee, It is no uncommon thing, as Rodnld, spy. Henry, Loomis, snd others, loag ago wliowed, for ap area of depression on tho Upper Lakes fo mako itcelf slmultancously felt & far santh as the Gulf of Mezico, and s far eas 32 New Ergland. Herbert Spencor’s continuation of his “gTUDY OF SocroLoax ™ is of itsolf enough to give this number great Yaluo. This mestorly work has reached its sev- enth chaptor, sad cannot fail to alluro many por- sons to zn intolligent apprecistion of {his great- est of all the sciences, and to pave the way for the othcr works with which Mr. Spencer, itis un- derstood. inteads to follaw. L In discussing tho different distortiona of men's out of proportion, ho saya: The state of mind wo call impatience is one of these. If a man Ewears ot Romo Inanimate thing which he cannot adjust a8 Lig wishes, or if, in wintry weather, elipping down aud hurtizg himsclf, he vents Lis anger Dy damning grovitation, bis folly i manifest enough to epectators, and to Limself clso when his {rritation has dled away, Lutin the political ephero it is other- A rnan may bere, in fact if not in word, damn a law of Nature, without being himaelf aware, and with- out making othera aware of hia wbsurdity. “The state of fecling often betrayed toward Politieal Economy cxemplifics this, An impatience, sccor- ‘panyiug the vague consciousncas that certain cherish- d convictions or pet schemes are at variance with po- litico-sconomical truths, shows itself in contemptuous words applied to these truths, Knowing that this theory of government and plans for social reforma- fion ero dlsconutemanced by if, Mr. Cariyle mani- foats Dis gnnoyaaco by caliing Polifeal Ecomo- my “tho dismel eience” Aud, emong others {on his odberents, thers cre many be- retrograca snd progressive, w0 display repnguonca to this body of doctrine with which iheir fovorice theorics do mot agree. Yot o little thought might chow them that their fe-fing fa much of {ho same kind &3 would be ecorn ventr by 3 perpetual- motion achemer ngcinet {ho yrinciples of mecbadice, To geo that these gencralizations which they think of an cold and hard, aud acceptabls only by the unsyzape~ ihetic, are nothing but etatements of certain Todes of ection arising out of Laman pature {hat are no lesa beneficient than neccssary, they nee only SuppGsd 5 Inoiment that human neture had oppo- eite tendencics. T pe that, instead of preferring to b7 things st low yrices, men habitgzlly preferred to give bigh prices for taem ; aud hmagine that, converze T¥, seliora rejoiced in golting low priccs instead of Digh ones, It i3 mot covicus that production, znd diStribution, cud ¢xchenge, supposing them posribly under such conditions, would g0 om in ¥aya niterly Qifferent from thelr present ways? It “men went for cach commodity to & placo Shero it was dificolt of preductien, dnsteadof toa placo where it conld bo prodaced easily, dx=d if, instesd of transferring articles of consumption {rom one part of s lingdom to_amotheralung the sboriest routes, {hey halitualy choso Toundabout routes, so that the Gost in labor and time might bothe greatest, s it cot iear that, could indurtrial and commercial arrange- fimts of any kinds exist, they would baof natures fo uplike ~tho present’ omes gs to be incon- ceivable by us? And, if this is undenlable, is i fiot equally undenfable that tho processea of alon. asstrivetion, and exchacge, o8 thes now ‘aro procestes determined by certain fundamen- traits in kuman natuse, cnd that Political Economy. 1 nothing more than statement of tae izwa of tlicso processes, zs ipevitably resulting from such traits ? hat tho geperalizations of political economisis are Icuging toall partios, not all true, end that some, which sre true in tho main, Becd gualification, is very izely. But 10 admit this la ot in the Jeaet to adrult that iheroare no true general- izations of tola t0. be wde. Those who see, or foney they see, flaws o politicc-oconom:ical conclu- Blons, and thereapon sncer at Tolitical Economs, - ming ons of the theviogiaca who lately rcjoiced so Gver tho discuvery of an erzor in the esimation ‘una distance, and thouzlt Le occasion £o ad- cuiing mcn _of sclence. It is 03 15 find cause for_extreme ows bumen imperfection 52d in this case they wers much clated because astronomcrs discovered thal, while their delinea- ficn of tho Salar Sysmom remains cxectly right fn all its nroportions, the absolute diTensions os- Sigmed we i dctn. Inoas t, Lo miirebio a cxo for = charactesistic of thcolog: extisfzction in whatever m, Years £go, to regard the habit of ext | ally among thovo who have ssaocisted but Lttle with. judgments by which their opinions are twisted; contempt,—did not do a8 those to whor they corapared, who show contempt, not for politicai iniata only, but for Political Eccnomy itelf, - Wero they calm, these opponcafs of the political cconomists would sce that 25, out of certain physical properties of things, there inevitably arse certain modes of action, wEich, 18 generlized, constituta physical science, vo ot of the gflwm’: of men, in- tellectual 2nd erotional, there ‘inovitably arise certain 1awB of social procasaes, including, among dthers, those through which mutual 2id in eatisfying wants is mzda poseibie, They would secthat, but forthese processes, ihe laws of wlilclr PollEical Eeonomy secks to gencrals 126, men would bave continted n the lowest stago of Larbarism to tho prosent lime, They wonld see that, instead of jeering at the ecfence, and those who- pur- sme it, their coarse should be to Ahow in what respects the generalizations thus far made are untrue, and how they may be 8o cxpressed 38 {0 correspond to tho truth more nearly, Herbert Spencer is never tired of exposing the foolishness of reliance on State agency instead of personal enterprise. In theso deys of political quackery, such viewsare opportune. Hoe says: How awe of power swsys men's political beliefs will De parceived on observing how it sways tieir religlous Dbaliefs, e shall best feo this by taking an instance supplisd by peogle whoso elizioas Ideas are extremely crude, Here is an abstract of a déscription given by Captain Buxton : WA pot of ol with 8 lighted wick was placed every Dight, by tho half-bred Portugese Indians, bafore tho Painted doll, the patron-saint of the boat fa which we Bailed from Goa, - One eveningas the weather sppeared lkely to be squally, we_observed that iho nsual com- pliment was ot offered to tho_patron, =nd bad the Curlosity to inquire wby, ‘Why?' vocifersted tho tinde] (Captsin), indignantls, 44f that chap can't keep the aky ciear, he shall have neither oil nor wick from me, d—n him!? *But I should have suppozed that in the bour of danger you would have pald liim more than usual attention7’ *The fact is, Sahib, I have found out that the fellow is not worth Lifs salt; the last tim e afarna squall with him on’ Dosrd, and, if 1o does not keep this ono off, Tl just throw him over- ‘board, and taketo Santa Caterina; hang me, if I don't —the brother-in-law1’" (brother-in-law, 4 _common torm of insult). - = To us it acems scarcely {maginable that men should and demi-gods,—should pray it, and somotines castigate them, for ot answering their prayers, and then should prea- ently pray fo them oguin. Let ua pauso amoment Defore we lsugh. Though, in the sphere of religion, our conduot does not profentsuchs contradictlon, yot enterprire. Wa etruction of thl length of many tr2ding cka 43 tha Seez Camal Gpenda way 20 Asia £0 tho Tchuantepae Canal gives tha Golled Clipa aud Jepaa, mkinz the Gaif of - 22d fiving the T 2 ot the W Txir oppurtunity & Amencen coast, and ihe far e facilities will bs aordzd o Luropara comniries for commarce; bat diroct intercourse with ths Orient, aud indepeadent routes by 533 srill be the pecvliar reward of the United Statas, in the complerion of this maguif- cent undertaing, South American comraereo has bern almoat wholly abaorbed by Zarope, When the work shall ba fnisiad, to western coast of Sonth Amezica, 28 wellas the cast- ern, will bo mado tributzry o the commercial great- nes8 of this Eepublic, sad the canal, by cutting the two continents apart, wili aisa bind tliem more clozely together in Lznds of mercantils reziprosity. . The mere rolatian of our own- Atizatic and Taciic “ports sugcets the Indisponsable condition of a canal 10 make s o Lomogenzons people in all commercial uf- finlties, It is an otfair of fourteen thousand miles Row, £0 sail from New York to San Francisco ; conso- Quently but few peoplo double the Cape, and ihczs generally for tho eako of their healih, Bat with the 214 of a canal, it i3 o pleasare-trip of fiva thousand ‘miles, cll the way by water, with tko novelty of safling over a mountzin pass throvn in, giviag soa-alck pas- sengern a chinnce to walk, if they please, in the very Talddl of e o58ze i g, The next illustrated article is “In and Aronnd Baugkok,” by Goorge B. Bacon, which unveils eome of tho_ splendor and squalor of Siam,— ,—a country to which magazinists havo taken & sud- den fancy. ? TTIC SUN. # How Men Learned to Aualsze the 8un,” by James Richardson, is_n scisntific paper, pro- Tusoly illustrated witk: diograms and drawings of instruments, from Nowton's triangular prism of clear glasa to Eirchofl's comronad spaasroscapa. Nozh Brooks givesa curious scsount of tho fato of the BAN RAFAEL PIALANSTERY, o contrsdiction essentinlly similar is bet " v oA z. 8 Sontradliction essontluly simiar Is botrased b7 | g sociglist experimont 3t San Rafac), Californis, isappointment does not here cure which was sterted on the geuoral plan of Proud- ¥e of perpetuct expectation. Concelving the | homme, Fourier, aud other famous socialists. Blateagensy as though it were something more than | ¢ Lit{lo Misa Fren,” is o new story by 1 8 cluster of men (a few clover, many o and={ Trafton. 4 rdinary; Some decidedly stupid), we nacribe fo it marvellous powers-of doin, ‘multitndinous things which men oth- erwise clust are unable to do. We “petition it to [procurs for us, in somo WAy ‘which we do not doabt it can find, benedis of all others ; aud pras with unfal. tering faith to secure us from overy fresh il. Time after time our hopes are Lalked. The good i not oh- {nined, or somothing bad comes . along with its the evil is mot cored, or sowe other evil as great or greater is produced. Our jour~ als, dsily and weekly, General and local, perpetually find’failures to dilats Upon : now blaming, Tidiculing, first this department and then that, And Set, though the ratification of blunders, adminiatra- {iva and legislativs, is o mainpart of public business, Zthough the time of.tho Legisliture is chiefly ocupled fn amending, and agun smending, until after the many mischiefs implied by thesa needs for amendments, thero often comes nt last repeal ; yet, from day fo day, fncreasing pumbers of wishes are expressed for legal Tepressions and_ Btate-monngement. This emotion which i ex- cited by the forms of governmental power, and makes govarnmentel power possible, is the root. of & falth 1kt springs up afresh however often cut down, m:lT\'ATXON BY STEAM 18 one of the tonics treated of in the ‘“Miscol- lany.” Tho editor says : & At an sgricultural mecting, recently held in Scot- 1and, some interesting statcments were made réspect- ing the origin, progress, and results of cultivation by steam in Europe. In 1355 a Mr. John Fowler, of Es- sex County, Englund, his first steam-plow. Now, in Great Britain, thero ars single establishients for hanufacturing stcam-plows, e cxtensive that they furnish constant employment for not less than 1,200 men, In England, between 400 and 500 eets of soim- plows, held, somo by companics and others by in- fividaal owners, are worked for hire, snd are found to be o profitablo investment. A tract ot &0 ‘scres war Loudom, o usproductive funt it conld nok be rented for $3 per acre, was bought by an enterprising farmer, who removed tho fences, uader-draived, and, with 4 steam-plor, put the whold into grain-crope. oar: after allowing 10 per cen on the money invested in tho land, his clear profita ero 18,000, The soil he thus improved by doop gteam-plowing is o sHff clay that conld not be profit- ably worked by horse-power, Another tract of 5,000 acrey thatbad beea regarded ss worthless, was bought by fumer pho plow it with stoam-power to thedopih of threo fost,and waa rowarded by crops of cstonishing t. In Seotland, cultivation by steam is becoming esulls, oqually marvellous. oint-ctock companies are investingin lind and steam- Imschinery, and pecuring largo dividends, while indl- idual farthers have invested from $5,000 to $10,000 in Steam.machinary with very proftable results, In Germany, also, steam-power is working & revolution in egricalture, Tt was also stated that the Pasha of Egypt now em- loya on his extensive domain 400 stesm-plows, and is nilding %o bis farm 400 miles of rallway, aud, for {ranaporting ond manufacturing the raw material pro- duced, has ordered thirty locomotive-engines sad 000,10 worth of sugar-mchiners, rhaps the most successful cultivator by steam in America is 3r. E. Lswrence, of Msguolia Plantation, Parish of Flaqueraine, Louisiana, In & letter to tho ‘Agricultural Department, ho speaks of the resalta of ‘ufa tril of the steam-plow aa follows & o hundrod and twenty acres of my canc-crop, 140 acres of which wera plant-cancs, and 80 acres first: Joar rattoons, were, I belicve, as_thoroughly plowed 3nd cultivated by sfeam 85 could be desirod. The 82 Strea of firat-year rattoons, grown from tho stabbles of the steam-nlowced cane planted in a similar manner fast year, were barred off nnd woll dug in iho month of March, then subsoiled and caltivated by steam pse- isely g8 the plant-cakes. The yidld was over 2,500 pounds of sugar to the scte.” . Lawrence closen bis letter with the prophecy : “Neceasity will soon compel us o take @ * new de- parturo, The constant {ncreaso of immigration ond ulation in the grain-growing States of our country T¥ill soon demand a better cultivation and increased Production, In England, stexm-plowing has increased The yield of wheat from 16 bushels to 23 bushels to tho acre. “I do ot bellevs tke agricultural intorest of our conntry can much longer turn a deaf ear to this last and greatest nchievement of steam,—ita successful ap- Plication to the cultivation of the sofl.- It has Lroken the yoke and Lft ‘burden which, for 2ges, held smeliorating ‘thelr condition by making that which was most onerous os8y and attractive: it hos elevated labor, and digni- fied the plow.” - OTHER ABTICLES. In addition there are theae articles: “Heat and Life,"—by Ferdinand Papillon ; “Nervous Heaith and Maral Health;” Brain Worl and the kmotions;” “The Romance of Medicine,” —by Frederick Arnold; ‘‘The ‘Warming of Honses,"—by John P. Seddon; * Is Elcotricity Life," by Henry Lake; * Do Birds Improve in Nest-Building 2" * The Antipodes and Pericci,” —by Hezoldah Butterworth; * Usefal Things,” —byEdmond About ; Editor's Tabla: Tyndall's Lecture in New York—AIrs. Somervillo;" * Liter- ary Notices: Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters—Bago- hot’s Physics and Politics—Sillman’s Dedactive and Inductive Training—Spencer's Becent Dia- cussions;” “ Miscellany: Volcanic Energy— Tho Vibrations Y;odmd by Varions Explosives Tconomy of Fuel—Ammonia in Snow-Water 0zone by a New Process—The English Sparrow —The Uscs of Asbestos—Dritish Scientific Ex- edition—The Venomous Bnakos of .India—A b fdeFi.rz')' Esczpo—Nocessity of Carefulness in ge. SCRIBNER'S. Scribner's Megazing is winning & Ligh rank as A3 ILLUSTRATED TERIODICAL. _ Thomas Moran's landseapes in previous num- bers will be remembered for their great beauty. Ho continues to use his pencil in its servico. Poter Moran, the delineator” of animal life, and W. L. Sheppard, Lumown for his charcter slotches, are also at work for it These artists, together with ¢ Charap" (J. )L Cherapney), who has been for years the pupil and friend of Ldou~ ard Frere, the noted French arlist, and has hith- erto spent some portion of his summors with him ot Ecouen, near Paris, are to illusirate a senies of articles entitled *“The Great South,” which are to be written by Mr. Edward King, ono of the brightest graduatos ofthe Spring- flold Kepublican, ana described by that journal as oze of the most poctic observers among journalista. : There are several articles in the February number illnstrated with great besuty. First of these is . “ TIE TERUANTEPEC SIIP-CANAL,” by 8. 8. Trvomuley, which describes tho explora- tions and novel experiences of the Tehuantepec ond ‘Niearagus Surveying Expedition, which gailed from Washington fo Mexico, Oct. 10, 1870, to discover a route for o ship-canal. The result of their labors was, in their opinion— —proof positive that the point, and the only point, Trom which the canal can be fed ia the Upper Coatza~ coaloos or Corte River, mear its junction with tue Blanco River (see map). Hero 1,68 cubic feet of ter per sccond flow, and i the 'dryest season surface of the water i8 660 fcet ubove the occan, 72 feet bolow the gumit level of tho camal Tlrce mties tp stream the waters of the Corto sscead £ tho summit lovel, and the plan is to tum the waters of the Corta from u depressed valley below the level of the summtt into s valley of greater umuon;_;{{ Tneans of 5, dam formirg o leval, wheacs the flow Wwill be a natural ono to the distributing besin ot Tarifa pass, Numerous stresms, crossed tho te«lrir, 'cu]a: l;c uganfle to flnmm m&s e:wmmm oncd o cubio feet ute. b ‘.gfiz o foartul eomostrs to. explore, it will not bo s very dificult task to constrgct tbe feoder frem iz gource to Santa Maria, ¥or the first four miles thers 1l bo side cuttings mearly all the way. Thero s but one important stream to cross, which will add to tho cost, but presents no inscrmonntabte dificulty of con- struction. Within the next mile 2 , 2n aguednct must be constructed 1,500 feet in lengtd, con= necting two ridgeas alzo £ tunacl 4,150 feet long through & clif- This will be tho 10t axnemaive Philip Gilbert Hamerton opens up, in his trenchant style, one phaso of 2 THE MARRIAGE QUESTION which, if not new, is put with new foree. o writes in the form of o letter to a young gentlo- manof intellectnal tastes, who, without having B yet any particular lady in view, Lad express- ed,ina geuesl way, bis™ detorminztion to get married. He says All that we know abont marrizga a that it 1o based pon the most powerful of all our instincte, and {hat it shown its own justification In ita fruits, especially in the prolonged and watchfal care of caldren. But ‘marriago is very complicated in ita cffects, tud there $s one set of effucts rusulting from ft to which remark- ably littlo attention bsa been paid hitherto—I mean ita eiTe:ts upon the intellestual life,* Surely they doservo consideration by ail who value culture, 1 believe that for an intellectusl man only two courses are opon ; efther ko ought 0 marry pomo slm« ple, dutiful woman who vaill bear him children, and 820 to the Louseliold matters, zad love him in s trastial spirit, without jezlousy of his cccupatious, or else, on the other hand, ho ought to marry some highly fnielil gent lady, ablo to carry her education far Lejond Bchool expericnces, and willing to becomo his compan- fonin tho arduous paihs of lutellectusl lsber. T remember dinizg in a country inn with un English officer whose ideas were singularly unconventional. e were waitod upon by our Lost's daughter, 2 beauti- ful gir], whose mannera were remarkable for their nat- ural deflnm and _distinction. It ecemed to us boih thet no 1ady of rank conld be moro distingnished than #he was, and my companion said bs thought 5 gentlo- man might do worgo than ask that girl to marry him, and sottlo down quietly in that quic mountatn villsge, far from the cares and vanities of tho world, Thatis a sort of dream whick has vccurzed, no doubt, to many a0 honorable man, Soni men havo gone O far &s to try to meko the dream o reality, and have marriod the beoutifal —pesssnt. tho diffi- But caity is that sho doca not remain what she was; she ‘becomes n sort of make-belief lady, and then herig-| porance, which, in her mtural condition, vea 8 charm- ing maféette, becomss an irritating defect. If, how- ever, it wera possiblo for an intellectual man to marry somé simplo-tiearted paasant-girl, and keop Ber caro- Tully In her original condition, X seriously beliove that the yentura wouid bodcss perilons o hia culturo than an llianco with somo woman of our Phillstine Classes, equally incapablo of comprehending his pur- suits, but muck mmors likely to interfero with them. I once had s conversation on this subject with a dstin- guished artist who i3 now a widower, and who s not likely to be prejudiced g 20 by his own oxporieace, which had- boen on unusualy Tappy ono. His view wos hata men devoted toert might marry either a plln-minided woman, who would occupy horself cxclusively with ‘housohold matters and Ehfeld his peace by taking theso cared upon herself, or elso o wornan quite capzbls of eatering into Lis artistio Jife ; but ho was convinced that a marrisge which ex- peaed him to uptatelligent criticlem and nforferesco would be dyngerons ia the highest degrea, And of {he Fwo kinds of marringe which he considercd possible hy preferred the former, that with the entirely ignorant and simple person from whom no interference w=s to ‘be apprchended. He considered tho dret Madamo Ingres the tras model of aon artists wife, bo- caure sho did all in her power to guard her ‘husband’s inst tke dafly ~carsy of Jife and never herself disturbed it, acting the part of 3 break-water which protects n space of calm, and pever deatroys the peaco that it has made, This may e true for artists, whose occapaticr is ratber msthetio than intellectual, and dozs not get much help cr bena- £it from tallk; bui tas ideal warriage for a man of great litcrary caliuro wonld Eo ono permitting some eqnality of companicnehip, or, if ot equality, &t least interest. That this ideal is not & mero dream, bt may consolidate into & happy reality, several examples prove; yet thece ozampics are ndt 0 numerozs 33 1o Yelieve me from anxioty about your chaxces of finding- ‘uch compnfoaalip. ko diffcrent edication of tho $5v0 soxes separates them widsly ot {0 beginning, =ad 0 meet on any commea grouad of calture s second edricatinn 1i%3 [o bo gone turough. It rarely bappena that thera 18 resolution cnougi: for this, ‘The want of thoranghness and reslity in the educs- Hon of both sexes, but especially fn that of womcn, ‘may be attributed to a sort of pudcs. which is not very favorabls to companicasiip in marvied life. It appeara to be thonght wise to teach ‘boys things which women 30 not learn, in order to givo womea o degree of Te- spoct for men’s attainments’ which they wouid not ba 50 likely to feel if they wore prepared to eatimate them critically, whilst giris are taught arts ond langusges which un*il rocently were all but exciaded from our jpublic schools, and wo Do rank atour universitics, Zten snd women bind coneequently ecarcely any com- Tmon ground to meet upon, and the abeence of serious 1ncntal dizcipline in the training of women mado them indispescd t> submit to the irksomeness of that earpest _intellectnal labor which —might bave remediod the deflcicacy. Tue total lack of ac- curacy in their mentzl habifs was then, and is atill for the immense majority of women, tho Jeast easily eur~ mountablo jmpediment fo cuiture. Tho history of ‘many marrisges which have failad to realize intellec- taal compantouship is compriscd in a sentence which ~was actually uttercd by 020 of the most cecomplished of my friends: “ She knew mothizg when I married her; 1 tricd_to teach Ler something,—it made her angry,—and I gave it up.” _ LITEBARY MEN are talied to in a eensiblo strain in tho cditor's department. The following sentences bear lain marks of the sprightly penof Mr. Hol- and : There 12 3 great dealof cauriosity smong literary men i the otker Rouss. T i3 no durker er upon & maz by a do- Bpa, cup, “d roaders bim eery hour mere untit for P Tits diercace be- tween driziug literary work and belag ériven by it is the differcnce betwaen hesven znd kell, It is the dif- forence betwsen sworking with the will and working againat it It {3 tho diference between Leiug o master and boing s e Goud Bubit i & rellet, too, from all temptaticn Lo tho use efstimutante, Bylt 3 mews hrain may Lecoms Just as rolisble s proaucer a8 his hand, =ad the cheer- Fulness and hesltbinlzees which it will bring ta the mind will show themedlves in all the fesust of the mind. The writngs of tiosa contamporaneous geniuses, Scott and ByTon, illgatrato this peint sudle cleatly, One is zll roburat haalth, ik result of sound habit ; tho other all fover il & ty. What could Toe not have dons with 3r. icllow'a habit? Noj 1hiere s but one best way in which to do literary work, and that is the way in waich aoy other work is done— alterthe period devoted to rest, and with the regularity of the su3. < g Junius Heari Browne has mgde s 6tudy of DOROWEDS AND BOBBOWING: o It wonld scer aa ff the city hnd been distracted by borrowers, euch Gisirfct having its infeaiers, Tle leading hotels, or, rather, their patrons, are laid ander contribution by theso firancfal pests, who Lako their position at stated hottrs, snd piy, thelf trado pessever ingly from scieon to heason, These ara tue fellows who, having exhsusted the metropolitan mine, & fol Towing tho strouger lode. They are better acquataied with the azrivals jn (0¥n thau the drummers them- selves. They scen the register as anliquarians would a mouldering fnscription, :mdLE:uL with ful- some tisttery and cordicl band-shaking every provin- cialist they have ever encountered. Their sccidents are chronic; their misfortunes unvarying. They have always lost thair pocket-ook, or left it at howe; they havo beea suddenly called out of town, or have re- ceived n despatch réquiring inmediats answer. They Dave failed Lo rocelve a ceriain remiftanre; their wife 18 very 1ll, or their chitd has Just died ; they must have money or'go mad. (It may bo noted hiero that thoy 'y g0 half o mad o4 the credulous creatures do after lending them.) A nfimum:“ blessed with a good memory, and cursed with frequent approaches of petitioners for call-loan3, declares that ono of theso tricksters has been Leseaved, during the past six months, of off spring to the number of 93, 2ud has becomea widower not lss than 60 tHimes, Who can regard profoundest pily o mortal struggling under such an accamulation Of SOrTOWE, an not respond pecunizrily? Lfke rhotorical questions aro put by tho borrower, Ko x who snewers them vith ‘pocket-book may charge its contents perpetuall Profit snd Loss. 4 New York has thousends of regular borrowers, and volunteers are cntering the strategic army daily and hourly. The ranks are always full to overflowing, and masterly sdvances are constantly making on the foe, who i3 hoodwinked by tho pretaxt that ho is & friend. Tuio foe 13 any gull or generous fellow who hates to £ay 10, or gives to his perscentor the bemeflt of the doubt. The foo cxn win little glory by roslstance; his wiscat course i3 rotreat, and he is st o do so finally, \nougéxz:uz boforo his porlemonnate boars many hu- s 3 - LIPPINCOTT'S. . Poets, travellors, historins, novellsts, hava alwwaya made its country life ono of the distinet- ivefeatareaof English society. Any tendency on the part of conntry people to gather aroundcity centres has always oxcited alarm, and been chiecked bylaw. Jamea I appears to have been in 8 chronic panic on this subject, 2nd never lost &n opportanity of dilstingupoait. In one of his proclamations he refers to those swarms of’ gentry “ who, through the instigation of their wives, or to now model and fashion their daughters—who, if they were unmarried, marred their reputations, and, 1f married, lost them— did neglect their comntry hospjtality, and cumber . the city, o general nuisance to the kingdom.” ~He desired the Star Chamber “to regulate the exorbitancy of the new buildings sbout the city, which were but a shelter for those who, whken they had spent their estates in coaches, lacqueys, and fine clothes like Frenchmen, lived miserebly in their houses like Italians; but tho honor of tho English no- bility and gentry is to be hospitable among thelr tenants.” Bat thoro need bo no fear that the English will Iose their Iove for the rural scenes and hospitality which are besutified Dy all their literatura and traditions, and the love for conn- try-life is_stronger now than at eny previous poriod in hor history. Reginal Wynford, in Lip- pincotl's for February, describsd gome of tho ‘eatures of this - i COUXTRY-HOUSE LIFE I¥ EXGLAND.” Perhapa tho most chiarming idea of a conntry- house waa tlet conceived by Afr. Mathew, of Thomaston : 5 ) This gentleman, who Was an_ancestor of the ccls. ‘brated tenperanco leader, probably Lad a5 much claret drank in his houke 53 sy one in 1is country, which is s3ying & good Geal. o had oo an income which weald bs equivalent to $125,000 a year in our moncy, and for several yeara travelled abroad and spent very little. On his retarn with an amplo supply of ready mones, ke carried into ezecution a long-cherished schems of country life. ‘He arrangod his immense mansion after the fashion of aninn, The guesta arrived, wers shown fo their T00ins, and treated o8 though 'they wera in the most ‘pecfectly appointed hotel. They ordered dinner when they pleasad, dined together or alone 33 suited th ‘huated, shof, played billiards, card3, e, ot will, un Xept their own horses, There was o regular bar,whers drinks of the flx:us:‘l\umy wore always served. The host never appearcd in that charzeler; ho Was just Mke 2ny ofker gentlemen in the house. “fho only difference from o hotel lay in the cholce character of tho company,snd the fact that nots farthing might ba disbured. The sarvants were all paéd excrs, With tio strict understanding that they did .ot accepr 3 farthing, end that any dercliction from this raio would b2 punished by instant d Unliko moat Irish csiablisimente, especially at that dato (about the middle of the last century), this was managed with the greatest ordes, method,aad econ— omy. 7 Nmong the notable gucsts waa Desn Swift, whoto sstonfshment at the mzgnituds of tho place, Wit the lights in hundreds of windows at night, is mentioned by Dr. Sieridan. It 13 plessant o add in this conncction that the Connt and Countess de Jaraac worthily sustain the high character camed @ centuwy eince by Te- ‘mcrkable ancestor, who was one of the best and moat benevolont men of isdsy. . - Thereis 3 degree of pomp and ceremozny, which, ‘hovwever, is {ar Zrom being Uz t, ot digner in 3 largo country-louse, The party is frequently joined Dy tke rector aad his wife, a neighboring squire or t370, and & struy parsoD, 80 that it frequently reaches: {wenty. Of conrse in this case the plecsaniness of the prandial period depends largely upon wkom sou Laye the luck ‘o get noxtto; but there’s this advantage in tho situation ovér a simiiar one o London—that you Iave, st all cvents, a something of local topies {n com- mon, bLaviog picked upa little knowiedge of places aud ' people during your stay, or You are quite o new-comer, you cen easily set your neighbor a-going by ~questions about surround- ings; Generally there is Some scquaint- ‘anco between most of tho people staying in o house, 33 Tosts make up thelr parties with a view of accommo- dating persons wishing to meet othcrs whom they Uke. Young 'men_ will thus frequently get good-na ‘hostess to ask some_young lady whoss eoclety they espeeially effect, end thua country-houscs become pro- verbially adapted for match-making. Thers are fow bouses now-a-dsys in which the gen~ tlemen linger in tho dining-room Jong after tho ladies haveleft it. Habits of hard drinking aro now almost 4in regard to the habita of each othar. Aen who find iheir work hard, thelr health poor, and thelr Troduc- {ion elow, ars al’rays curlons concerniog tho hebits of {liose Who secomplish 3 great deal with upparent ease. Somo men do all their writing in the morniug. Some of them even rise before. (heir househiolds, and do half their day's work befors broakfast. QOthers do .not. feal like going to work until after breakfast and efter exerciso in {he open atr. Some fancy that they can only work in the ecveuing, and somo ©of these must wait for their best hours until all but themselves aro aslcep, Some caunot use thelr brains at all immediste- 1y after excrcise, Somo emoke while writing, some write on the etimulusof coffce, and S50me on that of al- cohol. Irregularity and eirange whims aro supposed to be characteristic of genius, Indeed, it ratlier tells against tho reputation of a man to be methodical In $5 habita of literary fabor, 3en of this stripo are mupposed fo bo mochamical plodders, withont wings. sul withont the necessity of an. atmospbere in which 1o spre=d them. Vo ko dein the establishment of ‘We know of no better habits of lterary lsbor then common sense. * After a good night's leep sad a_refzcsling breakfast, o man gDt th be in his best coudition for work, sad ke fa. S literary men who accompiish much and maintain ‘thelr oalth do their work in the morning, and do it Gvery morning. It is tho duily task, pecformed morn- {ng atter morning, {hronghont tho sear—carefuily, I8 seientioudly, persisteatly—tLiat tclla in great results. Bat, o ozder to perform tiis task in this way, there D e regular habita of slecp, with which Zothiog Thall ba peemitted to interfers.’ The man who eata fote euppere, cttends partics end_ clabe, or dines out very might, cannot work in the morning. Such & hanas, in fact, 0o time to work in_the wholo round of ihe hours. Lateand irrgular habits st night are g8l to literary productions a8 a rule. The exceptional G355 mre thost which hava fatal results upon o in & fow yeats, Ofe thing fs certain : 1o great thing can be dome in Iiterary production without Labit of some sort; and o bellere that all writers who maintain their health Work in the morning. The niglt-work on our dally Papers ia killing work, and ought o be followed only B seara by any man. A man whose work is that of fiterary prodiction ouzht alwsys to go o his Labor with 3 widing mind, sndhe can only do this by being so- 2 vtomed to take it up st regalar hours. Wo called Gipom a preacher the other day—ouo of (e most elo- o5t 80 able men in the American pulpit, o was O s Siudy, which was cut of his hotse ; and his wife sty Bad fo ay that fharo was no way by which ehe Swald et ¢ hie, even if she ghould wih to fee him fofself. e wes wise, Hehad his reguiar hours of Inbor, which no peraon was permitted to interrupt, In the aiternoon he could be keen ; &3 the morning, never. B fille like this is absolutely necessary to every man Ao wishea to 2ccomplish much, _1t13 astoniskinghow Taeh a man may eecowpilsh with the bebit of doing s atmeat daring three oF four hours in the morning. o can do this every day, have his =fiernoons and even- Ings to himeslf, maintain the highest health, snd live s 1ife of genesous lnpd. “The reason why rome men never fes! liko work In the morning ie, tither that they bave formed other Labits, or tkat they have erent tie e7caing improperly, They favaonly fo go to their work cvery moratng, amd do tho best they czn for a dozer mornings ia succossion, fo §nd thit tae dizpoetica and JOer (0 work wil come. It will ccst & efortof tho will, but 13- Fillpay. Then tio satiziaztion of ihe task periormed entizely confned to young men in the army and tho Tower classes. Theevenings are spent chiefly In con- ersation; sometimea s rubver of whist is made up, ar,i thefe afo 8 number of soung people, thero i3 lancing, . About 11, wino and water_and biscuits are brought into the drawing-room, and & few minutes Ixter tho jadics retire. Tho wino and water, with the additton of other stiraulants, are thea transferrod ¢o the billiard 254 smoking-rooms, to which the geutlemen adjourn %0 soon a8 they bave changed thelr black coats for Aressing-gowns or lounging suits, in_which great Latl- fiide 15 siven to tho caprics of individual fancy. ‘The sictings in these spartments are protracted gatil sny hour, ab tho servants usually go to bed when thoy Dave provided every ono With his flat candlestick—that emblem of gentility which alwass £o prominently re- éurred to the mind of Mrs, Micawber when recalling the Lappy days when she “ lived at hope with papa and mamma,” In some fast houses pretty high play takes place at guch times. 1t not unfrequently bappens thst the master of the limited share in the recreations cogrossed by the various Svocations which fall to the lo: of & country proprio— for, After breakfast in the marning ho maxs it Do bustnees to seo that each gantleman is provided With snch recreztion s he likea for the day. This Tnam will shoot, that ono will fish ; Brown will like to Pave n horse and go over to see some London {riends who sro gaying ten milos off ; Jones has heaps of let- fora which muat be written in’ the morning, but wiil ride with the ladies in thoafternoon; and when all these Errangements arecompleted the squire will drive off rith his ol confidential groom in the dog-catt with that fast-trotting bay, to attend the oantty maning 1 tho earast cathedral town, 0r dispense justice from the ench at Pottleton ; and when 8_o'clock bringa all to- gether at dinuer, an agreeablo diversity is given to Sach man's varied experiences during the day. English manners aro set in_opposite lights by some of Mr. Wynford's anecdotes : When an American went 0 stay with Lord Palmer- stom, ot Broadiands, the great Minister ordered horscs for & ride in tho delicious glades of the New Forest. Vhen they camo to the door, his guest was obliged to confets Timself Do hotseman, The Premer, with feady courtesy, said, * Ob, then well walk; i's sll tho samo to me 1" bt 1t waim't quito the s, | The incldent waa Just one of those which separate the Eng- Iishmax of a certain rank from the Americen. Haddo House, during the lifotimo of Lord Aberdeen, the Prime Minister, had the reputas tion of being— themost sileat houze in England ; snd stlence 1o fols inutance was regarded a3 quite tho reverse of goldlen. The famly searcely over spoke, and the guest, Hadin that bis eiforts bronght no response, becsmo | clarm at the echioes of his own voice, Lotd Aberdoeniand his pon, Lord Haddo—an smiable but weak zad eccen- tric mah, father of the young Larl who Cropped his tills =nd was drowned whilst working Be mate of » merchantman—did 0t get on well togother, and saw very littls of each other for eomo_yeara. At length s reconciliation was effocted, and the son waa invited to Haddo, " Anxious to he plcasant andl _concilistory, her fat:ozod out admiringly, “The viace locks nice, the irces arevery green.” “DId you expact to sea ’em blae, then 77 wes the encouragtag pateraal rejoinder, ATather surprling step, ‘which occosioncd aomse ‘house takes but a very of bis guests, belng much »pcandzlons scauation in the soclal world, d {5 some roaraagnat 3 coumtry-hocee 1o Tovo crilicto f2st youny ladies, fnding tis avening somewhst hxivy, und lamenting 3 dear: of dan.cingg men, rang the tcll, sad in dve minutes ths lady of the hewde, wito wes in another roym, 72 uzhass &t sceing them whiziing sound in their Jesmes’ arms. It was nnderstood tLailo ringicades ia this eater- prise, the danghes of 22 Lrich Earl,was Dot Exely o ba as¥od to repeat hex Tho Icllowing anccdote déservaa to.bo record- ed for the impudencs it displaFs The rilway from Londoa to Piynontis sliris thy park of Powderham, Traning €o ciose Leaids ft ibes ‘each train scnds & kexd of dsor scampering down thy velvaty glades. Oneuftesq0n botinzing young lad; who belonged foa fanity which had ately emesg fzom tho class of ycomen into that of gontry, and whosa “nznners had not tho reposo which stams the caste of Yera da Vere,” found herself in a carriage with fashionablg-attired personsof her owuser, Ast train ran by the park, oua of tkess Lztor uxclaimed 19 her compazion, * O4 lodk, there's Powderham ! _ u's you remersber that archery=Derty wo went to there Lo Jearsago?", +To be aurc,” was the reloinder. “I'm ot likely to forgat i, thcrawero romssnuch quess people. 0 vore those vulgatisns waom we fhotght so particuiarly cbjecticnzlie? remember,” *0Oh, H—z H— of P—1 the came.” Tpon thia the other carriage bounced to her fect wi ms 10 tall you, madzm, P—17 Neifher of thoze sto ntter 5 word In reply o this anno: oppecr in the least to_disconcest them. 0aa slowiy drurr outa gold double oye-lase, lelstrels surveved Allss ${—— of P—— from hesd 1o foot, and then pro ceeded to talt to her companion in Fronch. Perhaps the best part of the joke was thut 3lizs H— mado 3 Tound of visits in the course of the week, and delailed the disgusting treatment $0 wal<i £ho. Liad been gub- Jected to 3 numerous acqualsiance, Wko, it 1s neodless 10 £33, appeared during tho na~raton asindignaat 204 sympathetic as she coald have wished, but who are de- clared by some {ll-natared persons o havo been prs- cisely those who in socret chuckled over tbe fosuld with tho grestest glee, In “ Qur Monthly Gossip,” : VIOTOR 150 is atyled a miracle of vanicy - The vanity of Victor Hugn, trongh alwaya “Olym: plan,” perbaps nover mounted fo @ enblimer Leis than'in the reply bo sent to M, Catul's Mendes a Te- celving frombim the nows cf Ganticr's deatin, It eno- tained but half o dozen lines, ye¢ fonnd space to d:* clare, “Of thomen of 1830, I G Lyt. Itisnow - emeat, oor did iz my tirn,” The profound egotiam of if s reste p's s el ur e ot could not cacupe beiag vigorgusly I . Hugo's old comrades of the quill, dating L him 10130, and now so loftily jgnored. in his opistics of condolence,” they ery, © L Fresent mei of Hugo must appear fo overshalor everytling elsol” Ope Inl'cpant writer declires the poct to Le a mere walkiug personsl pronuvin. Another humorously pitiee thoss sitil extant confem- after Laving for forty y: feated thelr songa and romences and dizmiad to Iin: now learn from tho selfsame mawy which has g gulped their praiscs that thoy themsclves do not ¢ nover id exist. One Inn of genlea sily wr “Bome of ns yeterans will find oursclvas embarzes —Atichelet, G. Sind, Janin, Sandezu ct un peu To it possiblo that we dled a long timo sgo, one ofi:s the other, without knowing it 7 Was it s delusion o our part fo fancy ourselyes exixting, 0r WEs OfF cxisi- ence only s bad dream?” Lt to Victor - thezo complaints will perhaps seem tosmoke 1ke fr:: incense on thealtar of self-aduluion which this g genius keeps ever lighted. EX-PRESIDENT MADISON, many years 220, when the Tomperance move- ment ogan in Virginia, lent his influence to the cause : 3 Case-bottles and decanters disappeared from {a sldeboard at Montpelier—wine was no longer dispensed to the many visltors at that hospitablo mansion. No was this ali. Harvest began, bus tho, customary barrel of whiskey waa not i and” the song of the scythemen in the wheat fiold languished. In Leu of whiskey, thero was a beverage uioet innocuonsy uo- stimulating, end unpalatable o the army of dusky rers, ¥ The following morning, Mr. Madison called {n his head-man to make theusual inquiry, *Nelson, how comes on the crop?” # Po'ly, Mars' Joems—monsus po'ly.” “Why, what's the matter2” “ Things is seyus.” # What 05 you mean by serfous?” ¥ Wa gwinelos’ dat crop.” # Loge the crop 1 Why ahonld we lose it 1* «Cause dat_ar crap ar hesp too biga crapto ba Lasees-und-waler puves worl’ war’ made, nar 'taind gwine to.” = AIr. Madison sucenmbed ¢ the whiskey was procured, the * crap " was “ gethered,” case-botils and decac- ters reappeared, and the anctent order waa restored a3 Montpelier, never againto be disturbed. OTHER ARTICLES. ¢ Bearching for the Quinino Plant,” which has Leen . beantifally- illustrated, is ended in this issue. The only other illustrated paper is J. L. T. Phillips’ * Horace st tha Hite and Autiqutios of Athens.” We heve space only to enumerate the other articles: * Com- monplace,"—a poem by Constance Fenimore Woolson ;_*“Probationer Loonhard,"—s tale by Caroline Chesebro; *The Forest of Arden,"—a “story by Ita Anioi -qukofl; “ Jack,, tho Reg: alar,"—a by Thomas Dunn English. “ 0! servations and Adveatares in Submarino Div-" ing”—by Will Wallace Haruey; * Confiden- tinl,"—a tory: ¢ Glimpses of Jahn Chinamen, —by Prentica Mulford; ‘A Winter Raverie, a poem by Millie W. Carpenter; ‘‘Iassports, Gentlemen !"—a story by A. ¥l HORTHWESTERN REVIEV/. In the Norfurestern Review for January, thers is & diversificd serics of articlos. 'Jomes W Sheahan writes of tho Niagara Ship-Canal sud the question of Reciprocity with Canada. “The Golden Ago "—by which is meznt the discovery of gold in Celifornia—is written up by Charlos Holland. Other topics cre:. *¢Michsel Fara- day;” “*Meteors and Shooting Stars;” * Aerial Navigation;” “The Ve.locirrvnflaf Thought :* “Freo_Banking, Currency ation ;" *¢ Cur- rency Noeds 'of Commarce;” - Lake Shore & Michigan Sonthern ;* ¢ Average Yicld and Homo Price of Farm Crops;” ** Insuranca for tho Peo- plo;” *Defective Flues;” *Inflncnco of Mar- riage on Mortality;” “Suner-Heated Steam;” 4 A Radical Opinion;” “Repullic Lifo Insur- ance Comapany;" * George K. Clark, Esq;” ¢ Faccti.” . BENCH AND BAR. The Bench and Bar icago) containe arti- cles on * Legzl Rem coeeg ;" ¢ Americra Jadges ;” “ Recont Deetiions;” “ Digent of R cent Decisions ;" “ Notices of I Books; The Illinois Reports ;" “ Legal ¢ 3ayings aud Doings;" * Diverces in Different Countriea.” ered ‘thout whiskey, gathered no crap ence CHICAGO TEA The Clicago Teacher for Fobruary bes edito- rial articles on various edncational questions, and other contents o8 follows: *The Fairs Plaut;" *Thoe Chicago Teacher,” by the Hon. J. L. Pickard; *The Text-Book Curso and Blessing,” by T. M. Gregory: * Deason and Memory ;" *“Rapid Comabnations,” by 1L, H. Bel- field; * Evoning Bchools,” by B. It Catter: “ Babios—an Oral Leason ; * +* Tlio Man in &l Afoon ;" * Tilinoia State Teachers' Asscciation “The Book Agents at Spri Pec gogical Porsonsls ; " * Hiats i tendent ; ” Sayings of tho Pr. ECLECTIC. The leading article of tho Febraary Felectic ia a very able analyeis from the Edinburgh Re- view of “The Progress of Medicine and Bur- gory ;" and this is followed by * The Royal Fa- voritos of France,” translated from the Kzwus des Deux Mondes. Twovery striking papers,— * the gems of the lust Blackwood,—entitied “ Goethe,” and **Middlemarch,” are given, to- gether with the most complete reecript that has et appeared of Mr. Goorgo Smith's remarkabls - paper on_“ The Chaldsan Account of {ke D uge.” Other important ariicles are “ Dogs Whom I Have Met,” “Popo Pius IL," “Tze Tigh Brigade in the Bervico of France,” *Tal- leyrand ;" and the opening clmgtem of the new story, cntitled “ Too Soon,” by the autkor of «Palty.” Thorels, in addifion, 3 £a0 a:cel por trait of the late Wm. H. Seward : —_— LIFE. When life in summer robez 1s dres o el et o s o e gkt When flowers her excry path Lesizew, And sunshine sips esch morning's devry— "Tis then we moxials prizs her isast, And ble nt her richost feast § , a9 what life 1s worth, Or who Wonid tarry here on Earth. Buk oh ! ‘when sorrow's crown ehe weare, ‘And thoge bright days sre dimmed with fecrs § When pain and sickness meet us he: And Gven Hopo secms 1ost 1n fear, "1/3 then we mortals know Ler worth, 404, thro’ the darknesa looking forth, "o smile to catch the faintert Tays, /.And humbly ask for length of diya. 7 Could we but lears to take life's yood " And daily blessings as we skoald; To call the blossoms =t our feet, And hids the bitter In the swest,— Then we might wear ber choices: flowers, And rest beneath ber fairest bowers, Till love should call our souls away, Where darkness never clouds ths dzy, Mes, Mazr L. Haserrow, —_— —A Hartford subscriter writes that be is j1ct recovering from small-pox, and will be o in a few flxy'u torenew his subscription. ~ Vie. L be won't mind a little thing like that. Wo send the paper and vv'_mit for the money. V¢ e ain't of that avari kind of pan&da who will grab for menay a3 it T very life. We despise such things. earthl; HHJO&P mim coming on; wo wiil w - ews.