Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 9, 1873, Page 7

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBU MARCH 9 18 EFFECTUAL CALLIH B Bome TRemarks Concerning Vocation in Life. . - On a long-ago occasion the powers of our jnve- nile momory were stalled by tho Westminster ‘propoition, the ¢ Pons Asinorum " of the As- sembly’s Shorter Catechism, * What is Effectual Calling?” We stood up before the Sunday- 2chool and made a strong send-off in & tone that seemed to ourselves to come from our boot-hecls, ¢ Effectual calling is the work of God—" There we broke down. Nor conld our balked memory be induced to start again. The statement of ours was good as far as it went. We have come to think it went far enough; but it counted for a flat failure, not to bo belped by the efforts of a kindly little girl in bluo calico (wo eaw her years after, broad-bosomed deme,whose mater- nal calling had been effectual to tho extent of a pew fall of Inds ind lasses) to passtus the lost clue from her fresh lips cloar across te school- room. The Sundey outfit of the good Little boys of that remote epoch was not complete without a broad linen collar that roofed thsir shoulders like a pont-house. Ours was up to the standard, the handiwork of & kind aunt, whoee generonity {n this particular instanco came near knowing 0o bounds., In fact, our tender feclings had been once grievously disturbod by s bucolic classmate from Crow Hill, whose own garh gavo 0o token of white vestment without nor within, his wholo delicacy of sentiment keeping no even pace with his buoyancy of disposition, who asked ns whether wo did not wear all our ehirt out- side. Yet that collar waa all too small to hide -our chagrin as we sat down beneath both, in the face of the Bunday-school—* Effectual Calling™ quite too much for us. We had been cocked and primed for “The Chief End of Man,” and might have come off with credit in a scramble through the commandments, and *tho requirings and forbiddings.” These fell to other small folk,— Dot to us, alas! Neverthelees, in that epoch 8o longago we wera not more rent and torn in our young mind than have been multitudes of desp doctors of divinity, beforo and since, over this same subject of Ef- foctunl Colling. Unliko them, we conld not pound up a volumo of dust from s pulpit-cush- ion to conceal our human ignorance. Leaving thediviner aspect of the inquiry, which, afterall, every man must answer for himself, the ques- tion, in 2 more material earthly phase, is con- tinually before the community, * What is Effec- toal Calling?” Upon the snswar hang all the issues of succoss in life. The more wo think of it, the more we approach conviction that we were right in the very assertion of a fact which at the time seemed =0 shorn and lamentable, * Effac- tusl Calling is the work of God.” Pity that men B0 often mar and defeat it. > 3 The farther our own remove from tho broad * Sundsy-collar period, the larger our confidence In tho fact of effectusl calling, in the sense of & voeation in life. Every human being is brought into the world for & purpose. One of the rea- soms why we firmly beliova in eternity is becauso that duration is none too long for a large share |- of tho homan race to revolve and answer the quostion, what on earth they were born for. The really successful men ere as trnly called and thosen by their Creator, each for his own voca- tion in theworld, as are oak troes to bo oaks, and alders o be nothing else than alders. Don't borrow from the treos s reference to budding and grafting. Many & man has tried these on himself, to tind that it is root, and not branch, that makes tho man. ! The line of life of him who wins may be traced straight back to effectual calling. ~Tho rocords of human experience, with all thoir ex- ceptions, do not shake the level bearing of this rule, even though -you push resenrch into the long, sad criminal calendar. Thero is & vast amount of brain_in every well-stocked poniten- tiary. The actual averago among criminals in & demonstrated fitness for something is far abova that among the common, honest portion of thie community. Vice and crime are accomplished in the gelection and adjustment of human tools. Bharp, cutting edges, staunchness, resolutercss to & purpose, and always along a line of netural capacity ; such is the uavarping fact in thoworld's training-school of rascality. Jvory vice is some humen virtue turned wrong side up. Pray note that no rascal ever missod nor wont astray in his vocation. It cemo out of hisna- ture. Effectual calling inthe hands of the mas- ter of evil is never defeated nor mistaken. See how the knaves sort themselves. The mers clod could not be a burgler if he would. Tha bur- lar could not make' counterfeit coins. The Eme—thier, the .terror of wide counties, nover changes profeswions with the aly streot-sharper. Scamps whose . glill growa downward to the io- verted pinnacles of infamy respond to an ef- fectual ~ calling- of perverted never invade cach other's vocations. ‘We have a reverence that amounts to awe for vocations in lite. Take the manufacturer, lord of & thousand looma, or the railway king whoso lines network tho-continont, the merclant, the successfal professionsl man, the solidly pros-. perous in any walk in lifo, and you can trace his effectual calling back until you find.its germ in the boy,—the same pith and fibro in the sapling that grew into the brosd, spreading tree. Ho was effectually called, and circumstances favored the full response. The boy was the pattern of- the man, and development followed the exact curves and lines of the pattern. With this view, wo fail to give full woight to the influence oftentimes ascribed to biographies of euccessful men. “There, my boy,” says tho fond parent, ‘fske the life of Georgo Btephenson, and read it. My son, bo like him.” And this though the scion has not, ‘mechanicel genius unoufis to make 8 willow- whistle, and slways barks his finger in sharpen- ing his lead-pencil. Read the life of Benjamin West, dear little boys, by all means, but notwith the expectation of artict succoss, unless your calling is in you as it was in him. We imagine our lafter-day youth mightily bewildered among juvenile book-shelves at whother they shall take to spanning great chasms with bridge marvels like Stephenson, or painting for all the centuries. No wonder they work ont of tho puzzle by & free dash among the scampish and scampering tales of Oliver Optio and De-Mille. These foais they can do, and thoy long to be at them ; the others . are doubtful. Tho public-school_system, too, largely helps the muddle, by insisting that children are, after 2ll, mercly human clothes-pins, to be turred ont by tho dozen, all alike. ~Wiiness in Chicago the ponderous and costly machinery 6f statistics and records, designed o honor tho city and re- -flect undying fame on the Board of Education by the proof, in_figures, that Mary and' Bobby, and William and AMatilds Jane, a8 the triumph of the system, come out even_on geography end writing, music and, tho science of numbers, “Effectual celling is the work of God" wo put over sgainst, the official assertion that Ho gives cellow youth to modern educators like clay- balls, “all slike, to be machine-molded. With _this view we sometimes wonder if tho village-school, with its kindly teacher, knowing each little head, and fitting tho proper “burden to each little back, may not in ite records of- highest snccess shame tho tall public-achool- houses on the factory plan,—so many looms, 80 many human spools, - so fuch staple, and the same amount of yarn to be wound on edch, When will parents and educatorsbetter under- stand this vocation in life,.snd accept of no other golution for the mystery of success ? It is the question that modern wholesale educators bave to shut their oyes upon when thoy get up* their smoothly-working universal machine mold- ing. The parent that asks *‘What shall I make of my boy?"” will do better to ask * What has God made him ?”" and 28 soon try to run aloco- motive on prairic-swards a3 8 boy off the track in lifa and for life. POSTAL CARDS. o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: 8m: Iwssreadingina daily paper, s few days ago, that, although the Engliish postal card Arangement is & very usefal ons, it has three defects, namely; thst owing to its being open to the perusal of every one that handled it, nothing of & secret nature conld be sont; that mnscru- pulous people took advantage of it to send im- Pertinent communications to those who had, or they fancied had, offended them, hoping that others would read them in their transmission; d that the writing, if done with a pencil, was = likely to be defaced. 3 -« 1.Now, what is wanted is somcthing that will remody these faults, and, at the ‘same time, be-. le, cheap, quickly clcsed and opened. | T think the following will come 25 near the qualities, and" x:nrk 88 any thing T have as yet seen or heard . The diagram represents n stiff papor, 8 inches wido Ly 8 inches long, commenciag af the middle, and ranning around closs by the edgs, is a conting of mucilage. Inside of this, an parallel with it, the paper is perforated, tho 8ame a8 between postege-stamps, On tho oppo- ;:.m side of 4, the stamp 18 impressed on the per. Theso cards can be put.up in packages, the same as envelopes, snd sold for what the stamps aro worth, eaving the exponso of paper and en- velope to those who use’ them. thzn one of them has been written upon, you have only to dampen the edge, folditataa a, tumn it over, and direct it. 'Thie party that recsives it insertd his fingor in the porforation at g, and tears it open. W.'E. HasscLL. Cnicaco, March 6, 1873, REVIEW OF AMUSEMENTS. DRAMATIC. Tho third woek of Edwin Booth’s engagement at McVicker's Thestre has witnessed a succes- sion of crowded houses, the avernge attendance boing in excess of the two proceding weeks. In an artistic senso, as well, the wook, upon the wholo, was the most successfnl of the engage~ ment thus for. Three porformances were given of Bulwer's grand historical playof ¢ Richelien,” Mr. Booth assuming the title-role, which is re- gerded 23 one of the very best among his list of impersonations. Certainly none other more an- mistakably evinces conscientions, intelligent study, and a consistent and well-defined concep- tion. Great plesstre was afforded large audiences on two occesions by Mr. Booth's dashing, brill- iant handling of the comedy role of Benedick in ¢ Much Ado About” Nothing,” in which Mr. Mo~ Vicker's appoarance as Dogberry was not the loast among tho features of unusual oxcelionce. On Fridsy and Ssturday ovenings * Macboth ™ was given. It would have boen as well for tho genoral record of the Booth scason to havé omitted theso two perfarmances, for they wera {ar below the averago. Mr. Booth's AMacbethis notone of his. most creditable achiovoments, and thero would seem to bo noimperative reason why he ehould undertake the purt at ali, for he bas not succeeded in imparting to it thet dogroo of echolarly finish which charncterizes the Iarger portion of his other representations. His rosding is monotonous from the abdonco elocutionary from first to last. The soliloquy commencing, “If it wore dome,” &c., he deliv- 8 88 if it were aset speach, which ho is private- Iy practising for somo public occasion, and not at all in the deliberato, thoughtfal, musing man- nor in which men talk to themselves whon alone. The fault of staginess is noticed almost without excoption,—an expedient, ‘tho rasort to which is apt to denote inability to #got throngh™ a part in any other way. Tho effect of theimaginary vision of the “sir-drawn dagger” was much marred by the preliminaries tothe climax— tho steslthy, careful inspection of every naok and cornér of the stage, 88 if to make sure that nobody should be eavesdropping when he got ready to ece the dagger and talk abont it. Other actors, of lesser moto than Mr. - Booth, have given this scene much better. A notable point of dramatic in- tensity and strong effect was roached in the banquet scene, in” which, with commendable taste, the bodily appearance of the much-mur- dered Banquo is omitted, and te horrid spectro, which is supposed to be seen by nobody but BMacbeth, 18 not seen at gll, save in the Intter's guilty conscience and highly-wrought imagina- tion. . Tho emotion of torrible fearand fright is expressod with wondorful distinctuess by ir. Booth in face, nction, and voice, Itwasby far ihe best feature of = rendition which, as o whole, must be set down as an extremely faulty picce of sacting. Mr. Booth's support in “Macbeth” ~ wes decidedly inferior. The Lady Macheth of Mies Crampton wza s lsbored, stilted undertsking, almost ut- terly devoid of creditable qualities, It is “unfortunate.for this lady that Chicago theatre- goers retain a vivid recollection of a Lady Afac- beth of extraordinary power. The comparison is inovitable, and the weaker effort is placed under & ten-fold disadvantago. Excepting Mr. O'Neill, 88 Macduff, upon whom the lion's share of tho spplause and admiration was bestowed, and whose summons before the curtsin was by far the heartiest of the ovening, the cast was weak throughout, and execrably o in the representa- tives of Malcolm, Duncan, and Banquo, respect- ively Mossra. Power, Pendleton, and Barron. An ‘agreeablo relief to tho extremo inefiiciency was the .Ross of Mr. Roscos, and Mr. Barry's humorous rendering of the drunken' porter's scene.. This week is to bo devoted to * Hamlet,” which will bo produced with especial rogard ‘for correctness and completaness in scenery, cos- tumes, and appointments. It 18 hardly necessary to eay that Mr. Booth’s Hamlet is one of his -moat famous characters. The cast includes Mr, MecVicker a8” First Gravedigger, Mr. O'Noill a8 Zaertes, Mr. Lanagan g8 Polonius, Misa Cramp- ‘ton s Qucen Gerlrude, snd Mre. Myers as Ophelia. At the Saturday matinea Mr. Booth will appear for the lust time as Don Cesar de Bazan. Next week, * Julins Cmasr,” with Alr. Booth, succes- gively, in the three leading characters, . Cassius, Brutus, and Anfony. i THOOLEY'S OPERA-HOTSE. . Somo timo ago it was stzted’in these columns that Mr. Hooley, in his determination to spare neither expense nor enterprise in his_eforts to deserve tho hearty approciation and support of the Chicago public, wss in negotiation. with va~ rious dramatic artists of high repatation and recognizod pre-eminent abilty. This wook tho promise is to bo fulfilled . by the first . appoar- ance, as rogular. members of the company, of Miss Philis Glover, a beautiful and accom- lished actress, who comes from the Union quaro Theatre, New York, and who will be re— mombered as heving played a successful - star engagement in this city something less thana year ago; Miss Bidney Cowell, otherwise known 8 Polly Fecles, than whom' & more decided fa- vorito and brilliant soubrette has never appeared uipon the Chicago stage, and who makes her first ‘bow for many months ; and Mr. J. W. Mormis and Miss Hattie Roche. These important addi- tions'fairly entitlo Hooley's Opera House to the title of “ Chicago's Fifth-Avonue Theatre.” So fine a stock company has never beon Aorg:mzmi in_ this city. ~ The superb comody, * False Shame,” will bo given for the last tima to-mor- row night, and on’ Tacsdsy evening Bartley Campbell’s fine society drama, “ Peril ; or, Love at Long Branch,” will be produced with the fol- lowing splendid cast of charactors : . Lsura Hayden.. Mies Phillis Glover Alice Plaxford. .. Mrs, Tinsell.. Marrah. ACADEXY OF MUSIC. The past week at tho Academyof Music has been occupied with & succession of benefit por- formances, the most successful of which was that in behalf of the courteons Treasurer, Mr. John Muir, who, on Friday night, had the pleas- ure of the houso crowded to overflowing with bhis friends. An attractive entertainment was rovided, and everybody was well pleased, AIr. f[\fir not the least by any means, This wock tho Academy stage is to be occupied by Oliver Doud Byron and his sensational specialty, “Across_the Continent,” which, as eatimated from the box-office standing-point, is one of the greatest successes of the Ifia s ;i Ben McCullongh,” s compenion piece, wi ven on Thgreday, Friday, snd Bsturday evenings, sndat the Baturday matinee. ~Next week the Lydia Thompson burlesque troupe appear in around of their really delight- ful entertainments. Arrangements and plans are msking for tho comploete reconstruction of the ‘Academy of Masic. ‘Tt i3 contemplated to tear out thein- terior; raise the roof, and put in a second balcony, nlarge the stage, and change the of the o trium gonarally.. AR, Gardiner’s pxgmptwu is to make lgsecund to no theatre iu tho city in’ -point-of -elegance; comfort, and atiractiveness— of light and shade. It is declamatory and.| , ehort, a strictly first-clasa place of mont for the Wost Sido, Tha proposed sieee: tion and enlargement will cost about 35,000, i anii hmns' ;:n:x.\ xmlm:.in s entire change of programme, is annot by Alz. Myars for tho Arlington, Cotton e o Llo Minstrels this weok. In tho first part there aro ballads and comic songs, with the excraciate ingly funny finalo, # Biown's Mulo;” acd the sccond part, Master Clarence Barton, tho sweot- voiced boy performer ; “ Soft and Low," by the gplondid quartatts, Tyrroll, Surridgo, Lang, snd Kayne; “ Tho Three Doves,” (1) by Arlington, Rico, and Cotton ; Mackin and Wilson's beauti fal iflustrations of the Ligh degroo of arti Berfection to which it 18 possiblo to bring their ouble songs snd_dances; ** Who Died First by Rico, Arlington, Kayno, and Burridge ; and in conclusion, the new musical burlesque, writ~ ton by Mr. E, Marble, entitled, “ Hamict, Prince of Bridgeport,” tha astonishing cast of which s horewith sppended 2 Lords, Ladies, Offica ) = a the Compsny. . GLODE THEATEE. Mr. Harry Lindon begins to-morrow night the second weelk of his engagement ot the Globe Thentre. He will anuuna 0ld Pete "in* Dion Boucicault’s powerfuf drama. _*Tho Octoroon,” with other characters, by the Globo Company. B NIXON'S AMPHITAEATRE. ‘This place of amusement is to ba roopened on Thurb:dly evoning of this week by J. W. Wilder- & Co.’s National Circus, for which a complete company of performers has boon provided: This List 18 headed by James Robinsop, tho grostest Dare-back rider in the world, and includes Frank Pastor, Katio, E and Emma Stokes ; James Cooke and Wm. E. Burke, jestors; Shappee and Whitney, athletos ; tho Laiscelles Drothers, gymnasts ; and a number of others. BTAs LECTURE COURSE. To-morrow night Prof. forso, of Harvard Colloge, appears fu this cify for the first time, in tho Star Lecture Courss; at tho Michigan Avenue Baptist Church, whero he gives Lis en- tertaining iliustrated lecture on * ¥rom Monad to Man.” His sccond and last lecture will be 'given on Tuesday nizht in the Union Park Con- éregafionfl Cliurch, when he will illustrate “ The rowth of Animals.” q * Prof. Swing, who necds neither an introduc- tion to literary circlos in this city, or a word Lo recommend him to the attention of lecture- goers, follows Prof. Morse, appearing on the Sonth Sido on Thursday night; whon he will doliver the lecture which he has e:p:c.i:\ll{ Jpre- parod for the Star Course, on *‘ Tho Novel.” * - music. Tho most notable event of our concert season, and the ono to which all lovers of music will look forwerd with the most pleasurable anticipations, will bo the concorta to ba given next week by the Thomas orchestra in combination with the Ru- binstein concert troupe—minus the two vocal- 1sts, Liobhart and Oruerry, with whose servicea concert-goers will uncomplainingly dispenso. This combination has never been effected in any other city in the United States except New York, and the managers of tho Star Lecturs Conrse, thereforo, deserve urusnal credit for allowing lovers of wmusic to have this raro treat, Hith- erto wo have oply heard Rubinstein in solo pieces, but now we shall ‘have an opportunity to bear him in his own concertos and those of the great composers which require the orcheziral accompaniment. What that accompaniment will be in the hands of such an orchestra ag Thomas' it is unnecessary to stato. Such an opportunity to hear music performed s it should be may not come but once in a lifetime. The first concert takes place March 17, at tho Michi- pgun Avenuo Baptist Church, and thosecond on the 18th, at the Union Park Congregational Church. The’ programmes bave been made up with unusual care. In addition to tho concortos, Ru- binstoin plays somo minor piccos from. the classical masters, and Wieniawsli has some admirable selections. ~Mr. Thomas has also mado the orchestral part simply admirable, ‘and in thorough keeping with the epirit of there eculiar concerts. Tkat conceri-goers may ow in advanco tho excelleace of the femstto which they are invited, we sppend the pro- grammes : ¥TDST CONCERT. 1. Overture, Leonoro No. 8. Theo. Thomu . 2. Concerto, No. 4, D Minor .Rubinstein r.' Anfon Rubinstein and Orchestra, . S. Concerto, for Violin (First Movemont).}-ndclssokn Mr., Henri Wieniawskf and Orchestra. - 4. Symphonic Poem, * Les Preludes,” (by request), Theo, Thomas’ Orchestra, E Major. 3. Anton Iubinatein, 6., Fantasie, for Violln, “Otello."......... Mr. Henri Wicniawski. 7. Overture, “ Der Freyschuetz.”, Theo, Thomas' Ore! SECOND CONCER: 1. Orerture—* The Water-Carrier +Cherublnt T'heo. Thomas® Oreliet 2, Cancerto, Xo. 5, E flat....... .Boethoven 37, Anton Rubinsietn and Orchesira, 8. Second Part from the dramatic symphony, “Romeo et Juliotte”—a. Romeo, Seul, b, Triatesse, c. Concert cf Eal. d. Grand M. Anton Rubinatein, 9. Huldigunges Marsch......... . Theo. Thomas' Orehestra, Beats for the South Side concort aro now for sale at Carpenter & Sheldon's, 958 Wabash' ave- nue, and Buck & Rayner's, corner of State and Madison streets; for the, West Side concert at Dyche's, corner of Madison end Halsted streets, and “Bell's, corner of Madison and Sheldon streets. S - . _ OLE BULL. 2 On Monday and Tuesday evenings,” Merch 10 and 11, Ole Jull and_his troupe will give two concorts at Central Hall, corner of Wabash ave- nue and Twenty-second street. The troupe compriscs Miss_Graziells Ridgoway, vocalist, ‘who has been with Ole Bull before; Ferranti, the well-known buffo baritono; and Joseph Hart Denck, pianist. As these concorts are-mot an- nounced a8 farewell concerts, we may pre- sume that the veteran violiniet has taken a new lease of life, and is going to com- menco giving coucorts de novo, not coupting the others. In any event, wo hopo it may be s long day henco whon we shall hear thejlast sounds of this fine old arlist's violin. He is the only one left of thoso who assisted to build up zusic in Chicago in the earlydaye who has come down the years with unimpaired powers. TUE NAYMAKERS, The_well-known and favorito cantats of “The Haymakers” will be given at the Univorsi- ty Placo Baptist Church, on the 20th inst., in place of the lecture previously announced to be given on the 1Sth ingt., by G. P. Upton. The cantata will b produced nnder the suspices of Dr. George F. Root, its composer, who hasa large and select chorus and competent soloists thoroughly rehearsed for its performance. It 1ias not been given in this city for many years and the announcement of its performanco will, therefore, be pleazantly received both by those who have heard it and those who have not. Holders of course-tickets to the lecture season will also be pleased o know thst their tickets will be good for the cantata. = CHARITABLE ENTERTAINMENT. . The entertaiument given on Thursday cvening lest at Grow's Hall in aid of the Foundling's Homo was well sttended, and passed off very pleasantly, with the exception of some delay in arranging the fablesux owing to inadequate stago conveniences. A featuro of the entertain- ment much ired_was ths tableaux' from “ Midsummer Night's Dream,” in which the stage was complotely covered with natural flowers, ghrubbery, and moss, in the centre of which stood a Litilo girl as tho fairy Pack, whose grace and beanty attrscted much attention, Ar. Nor- ton as Roderick, and Miss Hall na Blanche in “The Lady of the Lake,” performed. their eto admisably, and ;gave general satisfaction, [ty George Mason, #8 Alrs. Jarley, wias partic- qularly happy, and was well received. ‘aken thronghout, the affair was a_success, every one peoming to be fuily amused sod entertained, Owing to a goneral desire, it will be repeated on the South Side. BACRED CORGELT, it Following i the programme of 5 grand gacr concert to Eu given_this aftornoon by the Gor- mania Band, at West Twolfth Street Turner Hall: formed by A7 John. 6. fa. Pollzn—* The Nightingele”, 5. Galop—* The Little Recruit ™, 7, Overtare— Lo Clieval da Bronze & Finale—* The Lichionstelner ™. 9, Quadrille—* Vis-a-Vis " ...... THE OUTLOOK.. . .23 .. 7 * *THo music season i3 rapidly coming to a close, Beyond tho concerts above nam littlo left to look for. The Apollo Cel?lb‘:iilx;i:: two more of their elegant reception-concerts be- foro”they 0 'into summer quarters, to make ready for their next season; but theso concerts. are only for the associato members of *the Club, and not for tho general publi. ~Tho Lucca Opers Troupe may passibly come here in May, bat it i‘:a onlya pquslggty, ‘u it depends largel g npon the rei ve dispositions of AMaretzek an TErrett, whioh Just now aee biens. W it the tal !::(IL 0 learn that the talented young pianist, Aiss Rosalie Magnusson, ab preanmtg l:md_ving in Turope, has arrived at great proficiency. It will be remembered by thoss interested in- musical matters, that, efter availing horself of the best sdvantages Chicago afforded, she wentto Now York and studied under 8. B. Mills, preparatory 1871, fo going to ‘Europe, whither. she went in and stadied in Vionna under the best masters of that musical capital—making every marked im- provement. Sho is now in Borlin, finishing under the tuition of Franz Bondel. 'Prof. Bere del predicts for his pupil a brilliant career, so that we may look forward with pleasurable an- | ticipation to the time when we may have the opportunity of bearing her. The Turner Hall programme for this after- noon is as follows : 1. Tarper March............ 2. Overture to * Fra Diavolo, . Potpourrl, #3usical Associatés” 4. Potpourr March... 5. Overturo to “ Oberon?... 6. Boloforcornet.. 7. Waltz, 1001 Nighta, &, Potpourrl, Bacch: 9. Overture fo “Night in}Grenada 10, Amanda Quadrille. . _ SENSIDLE TALR. “Trinculo,” in the Naw York Arcadian, offera the following very sensible remarks : It I were itted o give advico in this case, do you know what {t would bo ?_ Liaten, I would let Afax and Luces go, But Kellogg I would ask to stay and organ- izo an English opers' company, with Afisa Moulton and Santloy, and Cufl‘al, and Ciampbell, and Mrs, So- uin. I would then bid her sweep tho Continent that ongs to her, and gather up £250,000 that are Iying about loose, waiting for Paropa Boss or somebody with equal pluck to come and clalm them. Put Ifax Strakosch, Grau, Rubinstein, and all the rest of them in one room, and ‘'ask them what tha trick shall e for next year, and they will all soy English ‘opers if you can get Kellogg, Moulton, and Santley. And therc isn’t one of them that wouldn’t like to plank down $25,000 18 s nest-c, in the schome. Iialian opera 13 all vory well nan heavy battalion in one or two clties, but for Amerdca in ita present condition Eng- lish opera is the fiying artillery that will win the figut. MOUSICAL NOTES. Little Herseo has tho mumpa. Abrugnedo has been dropped by Maretzek, A Pennsylvenia mother baptized her first-born Pareps Nilsson Lucea Dusk. Stransa has -arranged to “concorts of all netions,” in Exposition. Mention ig made of a Miss Battlette, a demoi- ifi}!z ‘of Now York, studying for the lyric stage in an. ive what he calls ienna, during the Godtray ia said to havo obtained pormission ta visit tho United States again.with his band, and will come over about July or August. Roher, the famous hand-organ manufacturer of Paris, ia dead.: His works do not follow him, though it’s a pity thoy don’t. According to an Italian gazetts, there are now more than thirty principal vocalists .siuging on tho Ttalien stags who are not natives of Traly. Mme. Trebelli-Bettini has heen entirely un- successful at. the- Paglisao Thestre, Floren She sang in the role of Zeonora, in ** Favori and the opera was brought to s close_amid the noisiest demonstrations of disepproval. Gounod is giving concerts in London. He has personally cuperintended the rehearsals of s choir, and intonds, it is roported, to intro- duco soveral new compositions of lus own, which have not hitherto been performed in public. Have you noticed, asked a friend of Ambroisa Thomnass, the French composer, how X. seems to bave lost his pompous manner since hil last flasco? Oh! roplied Thomas, misfortunes are the_ slarpa of life: /Thoy restore us to our natural tone. < Mmo. Anna Bishop sang on Friday weck in Philadelphia, and her - admirable jormances dolighted a largo audiance. She was assisted by Mr. Louis G. Gottschelk, whose dobut in Phila~ delphia wag véry successfal. - At & meeting of the Paris Commission des Thoatres, under the Presidoncy of M. Jules Si- mon, the Minister of*Fine Arts, tho lessoeship of M. Léfort, for the Theetro Italinn, was approved. Tho now Director has already telegraphed to Itely for artists, to strengthen the troupe of M. Yerger, ex-impresario. The revival of “ Romeo et Julictte” at the Opera Comique, Paris, cost no lss than £9,000 francs to mount. It is put upon the stagein most lavieh style—for instance, in one act ten of tho characters have dresses, fho Inced sleeves alone of which, it is said, cost 80 francs each. - Herr Wagner's “ Tannhauser " is inactive prej aration st the Theatre do la Afonnaie. p’l'hpt; Belgian professors and amateurs . ara much divided in pinion as to the merits of the operas of innovation. * Lolongrin,” howaver, found favor in Brussels, and it is possiblo that tho & Tgrinbaaier " may pleasesuficiently. The Oinsha Opers-Honso has bben turnedinto’ a hotel, and nov, instead of euich gwectly warbled ‘wordsas ** Sweet &pirit, bieir-my prayer,” and “On yonder rock,” tho guests hear, * Coffce with cockroaches for two,” and * Anoiher ladle-full of hash for a sick man;” and other remarks of & culinary character,-- ' The Pall Mall Gazelléesys: * It is doubtful whethor Offeubach Las added much to his repu- tation a8 & composcr by the prodaction -of ¢ Les Braconniers,’ & piceo which is_now beingplayed at the Theafre dea Variotios. The music is gay, sparkling, and full of effects, but it is the music which we bave alréady Liad & dozen times over in. ¢ La Grande Duchesse,’ * La Bzlle Heleno,” and his other burlesques.” g A perféct fatality soems to have ‘attended the 8cala at Milan a couple of wocks ngo. On the same night, it is_said, tho clothes of & ballet- dancer caught firo, and but for tho immediate aid of the scene-shifters she would hanve been burned alive ; a modista fell down the staircase leading to the wardrobe, breaking her leg; & stago . asistant foll dead, stricken with spo-' ploxy ; snd a musician’ in the orchestra went raving mad, and was forcibly conveyed to_tho llil;mpitnL Al theso Liorrors occarred on & Sun- Y. Musical people are proverbially the most mod- est in tho world ; Lut here is a epecimon invita- tion from s lady of Bloomington, IlL., which sbows conclusively that Americans are not be- hind the rest of the world in this respect : To the Editor of the New York Herald : Smm: Mrs, Florence Smith, nee Jones, will be at tha ‘Astor_House, Room 47, until 6 p. m. this d=¥, whero your musical reporter can sce her snd her goid Bec- ihoven medal of honor, certifieates, lotters, etc., from the Musical Conservatory in Lelpsic. As a comingstur in the musical firmament you ought to lead the van, What any Jouz, The brofeisors dismissed ber, saying they could not learn her any! more. Siura, Feb, 27, 1873, Vi " New in Germany during the past year were fow and far betwoen. The journals record the production in Berlin of the “Heir of Mqusy,'" liy rrvon Holstein, and ¢‘Hermione” (““Winter's ‘ale”). by Herr Max Bruch ; this work has been sinco played in other theatres; st Hombonrg, tho * Cousin of Bremen,” by Horr Mohr, sud ¢Contarini,” by the late Dr. Pierson (an English composer) ; at Mannheim, Lisa ; or, the Lan- guage of thio Heart,” by Horr Mertko; st Brunn, he *Zingars,” by Herr Fuchs; at Munich, ‘‘The "ilhsi'{o Lawyer,” by Herr Hornstein, and ** Theo~ dore Korner,” by Herr Weissheimor ; at Linz, the “Village Musicians,” by Herr Thiele, and tha ¢ Oracle of Delphis,” by Herr Ziehrer; and at Konigsberg, “Harold ; or, the Iast Saxon King,"” by Horr Carl Dallo. .The American tour of Madame Adelina Patti 18 postponad ll the yoar 1675, the operatic offl- cials of St. Poteraburg having succoeded in pro- longing ber stay in Russis for two more scasons, They have paid s large indemnity to Herr Mau- rice Strakosch, her brother-in-1aw, for cancelling the contract of the Transatlantio’trip. Despito the popularity of Madame A. Patti and Madame Nilsson-Ronzeaud, it seems that the St. Peters- amateurs have at length acknowledged tho ability of Frau Mallinger, of Berlin, who had the misfortune to make her debui as Adina “Elisir ' ’Amore”), one of tho pet parts of ndame Patti ;- having essayed Valentina in the “ Huguenots,” Frau fimungu bas achieved a great success, Midame Parops-Rosa, writes as_follows from Cairo. Har letier is as cheery and as bright ns the great singor alwaya is herself : London, with offers, we had the en; for Carl as conductor and gagement for Cairo came 1 thought it would do aur heaiths good a itis s, des and as I only. have o ging twice s sweek- Test fGr mie also, -: The climate ia ono that no X up to, The sun shines like {n July you may o how warm it s, Wo are very com- fortably situated, 85 wo have an entire vers well-fur- ed floor, with a nice kitchen, all to oursolvcs, and, Dhaving brdught our own servanty with us, we are quite at home. o havealso a very nice carriage, with an Arab coschman, and Arab boy running before the car- riage, dreused in white 190%0 robes, with a red cap and blsck tassel or, and 3 beantifal Indian sczrf round Lis waist, and s long stick in his hand, This stick is to beat out of the carriage's way dogs, donkeys, Arabs’ camels, 2 they do not ove out of the way at all, These I8 no society of any kiud hers; wm.mnmus the place s very slow' indood, when I you thst thero are no newspapers, and tho past comes in once s week, Weknow gome few Americans bere: Gen, and Mrv. Stane, Col. Purdy, Maj. Mason, Gen. Loring. 3Lr. Campbell, the basso, oar American friend, s hare for his halth, and we see a grest deal of him. Ho drives out with us, and we try making his time hero a3 agrecablo as possible, as an inval alone is in an unpleasant predicament,” 1 hove sung hero with great miccess {n “ Puritani,” * Norma, and “Huguenota.” I get the moat lovely flowers. every time I sing, We remain hero until March 31; 50 plesse anewer'mo to Catro, pote restant, Egypt! ‘s are Ve d to got hoxie again. We have made 10 pians for rers yesn vt EUPRROSTXE Panzri-ROSA. NATURAL SCIENCE. Its Recent Progress. 6 2 On the occasion of the celebration at Breslan of the twenty-fifth auniversary of Prof. Gocp- | pert’s Presidency of the Silesian Bociety for National Culture, Prof. Fordinand Cohn deliv-. ered an address, characterized by eloguence of the highest kind, on the above subject. As the wanderer, he 6aid, who is climbing toward a high mountain-pesk, feels from time to time tho de- sire to stand still a little, and look back on the way over which ho has passed, to enjoy the wider, outlook which he gains from his higher standpoint, 80, Lo thinks, there are moments in ‘the uninterrupted progress of scionco, when we lopg in some measure to strilko s balaace, and sea how much acquired proparty the presont puts aside as useless, how much it uses only for tem- porary purposes, and how many enduring acqui- sitions hava been made. Dr. Cohn refers, no doubt with justico and some pardonable pride, to the foremost place held by Germany, during the last quacter of & century, in tho march of scienco. At the same time Le awards due praise to other European States, and, sbove all, to England, which, dur- ing that time, and more particularly at prosent, ‘o thinks, abounds in men of tho highest emi- nence, whoso scientific achievoments stand prominently out on account of their astonishing encrgy, cloarness, dopth, and independence of thought. 8till, we canuot but admit that Dr. Cohmn is right in ssserting that Germany is free from tho dilettanteism which abounds in this conntry, snd that, as a rule, scienca in Ger- many is both far more wide-spread and far more thorough than it is among oprselves, snd that the opportunities furnished there to ail classes for scientific study at the ordinary edu- cational establishments havo, until rocently, left us almost "nowhere. Bat, happily, Gigns of the beginning of the ond of this state of things among us arc becoming rife. After Dbriefly referricg to the intellectual awakening of Germany along with the rest of Europe at the time of the Reformation, and showing how this start forward was, especially in the caso of Germany, in & great measure frus- trated by tho Thirty Years' War, Dr. Cohn pays & high and justly-merited tribute to France, and especially to Paris, on acconnt of the supreme placo she took during tho first thirty or forty years of the present century in nearly all the sciences. The glory of France in this direction has, however, he thinks, de- ported, and - Germany is becoming daily more and mors the intellectunl centre of the world. Had Dr. Cohn written his lectura now, he might have somewhat modified his lan- guago; for, within the lsst few months, the Bigns havo' been many, that in the direction of science the French are dstermined to try to hold their own with the foremost in Europe. Their professors sro -prosecuting an smount of re- scarch which puts our own to shame, whilo thoy aore at the same time forming a school of inves- tigators. Wo do not grudgo to Germany all the praise ehe well deserves, and the influence which the resuits of German research exercise on other nations is likely to urge them to such vigorous ‘and determined efforts, that, sooner or lster, scienco aud every other progressive infleence shall be * groat gainors.” Meantime, however, Germany is doubtless in the nscandant. TIn the year 1845 nppeared tho first volume, and in 1846 the second, of Humboldt's * Coe- mos.” As comprising 8,_view of tho whole cro- ated universo depicted with - tho most wonderful sympathy, the book ig as it were & canon for ing @ key to overything that was known of Na- taro at the time.” No man was then more suited for such work than was in the highest degree A. von ‘Humboldt. A ‘Divina Commeaa” of science, the * Cosmos” embraced the whole tini- verse iu its two ephores, heaven and earth. Under the leadership of the great searchora of ‘Nataro, a3 Danto once by tho hand of Virgil, we climb from tho depths of the univeree, with its farthest nobulw aud double stars, down throngh the star depths to which belongs onr solar sys- tem, to the &ir and sea euveloped earth, where form, temperaturs, and = mag- netic condition, are unveiled to us; then to tha wealth of organic life, which, stimulated -by the light, unfolds itsolf on its sarfoce. Itisan overwholming picture of Naiure, of surpassing beauty of ontline, abounding in grand perspece tive, with the most careful execution of Lhe cmallest détail. ; But we caunot conceal from ourselves that the “Cosmos,” published twenty-five ycors ngo, is in many of its parts now antiquated, not meroly bocause it is wanting in many facts which have since becn diszovorod, but most patticularly be- cause Humboldt was ignorant of some highly- important questions whick. have' since faken their place in the foreground of scientific discus- sion, while oar schome of the universe during tho Jast ten years haa been considerably modi- fled by the -introduction of pew and intlu- ential ideas. Any one, who to-day -would attempt to recast the ‘ Coemos,” must proceed like the Italinn architect who took the pillars and blocks of the broken temples of antiquity, added new oues, and rebuilt tho whole afier a new plan. There are three discovories which, after a quarter of century, havo entirely changed tho position of natural scionco: tho mechanical equivalent of heat, spectrum analysis, and the Darwinian theories. Since, in the yoar 1842, an unknown physician in a Swabisn country town, Dr. Mayer, of Heil- broln, pointed ont that 5_bammor 424 kilo- grammes in weight, which falls from the height of & metre on an anvil, raises the heat of tho Iatter by 1 dogree centigrade; and that by this process of bringing n falling motion to a stand-still it is converted into s fixed qusn- tity of heat,—sinco thon has ecience gained & new conception of the conditiona of matter and of the powers of -Nature. 7This new doctrine appears in the mechani- ¢l theory of heat announced by Joule, Eronig, Maxwell, and Clausing, in the doctrine of tho conservation of ouergy of Helmholtz and Thom- gon, aud, by means of the brilliant writings of ‘it has become the common property of the educated world. Electricity and magnetiam, heat and light, muscalar energy and chemical attraction, motion, and mechanical work—all forces in the_universs are only different forms of one and the same power, which dwelt from the first in matter in invariable quantity, neither increased nor diminished ; not the loast triflo of it can be avnihilated or created. Only the phe~ ‘nomenal forms of power are_changeable; light can be converted into a chemical equivalent, this sgain into heat, heat into motion, and, in- deed, o fixed quantity of one force always and only into an equivalent quantity of another. In like manner also the quantity of matter bas re- mained nnchanged from‘the beginning; not the least particle or molecule can be annihilated or created out of nothing, and only in the trans- formation of perishable bodies are the molecules formed into ever-new combinations. What we ‘distinguish 3 natural forces are only move- ments of molecules, for the least particles of ‘matter ont of which bodies are composed are not inseparably unitéd to cach othor, but are loosely hekP together and i continuous whirling and undulatory motion; according to the swift~ ness and width of undolation of the moleculs will this motionof our nerves be regarded, now a3 sound, now os heat, then as !ig:flt or aa color. ‘Moreover, tho chemical union of the elements of ‘matter, tho attractive power of gravitation in all the bodies of the universe, are but varied forms-‘of this universal -motive . forco. Tho unity and permanency of-substance with its two .sttributes, matter and force, and their innumer- - sble - modifications, which go to form the bodios of the universe, were in the firat instance enun- cisted ns- aphilosophical aexii by tho et thinker Bopinoza. Now it is eatablished =a -expected trinmph, by solving, . most - highly-developed a shilosuphic fact by means of exact measure and weight. Aguin, on the inner organization of the system | 5t of the universe bas uncxampled light beon thrown by the wonderful reseerches which wore begun in 1859 by two men, united by the closest | & bonds of a friendship which bora rich fruit for sctenco. Aftor the light of tho sunbad, in the third decads of this century, been brought into the service of art by Niepce aad Daguorre, Ban- gen' and Kirchhoff compelled it 2130 to render service to chemistry and astronomy. Like those magicians of the logend who, throngli the power of their knowledge, compotled the spiriis of tl:a elements to discloso their recondite _secrets, the genius of these men compelled tho raye of -light imprisoncd in_ the spectrum sp- paratus to make revelation of . things .in the world of stars which the 'curiosity of men had - deemed forever _ imacceasiblo. Already had Kirchhoff ascertained what terres- trial elements were present in the sun's atmoe- | phero, a6d what were not ; quite recently has it been discovered that thara is even proscut in the sun o substancae (hek:im) which hithorto has been unknown on the earth. Moreover, also, the inner structure of the sun, the distribution of its incandescent, liqnid, and gascous parts, its luminous andcolored onvelope, tho nataro o its npots and protuberancos-all 1his 15mo Tonger _x,]a}ny»gmun for fantastic imagininge, but the subject of exact rescarch. Since tho, great eclipse of 1868, Lucl';iur and Janssen, Zol Huggins, and Father Socchi_bave obadrved, day after doy, storms, whirlwinds, flame-sheaves: outbursts of burning hydrogen to the height of 20,000- miles; thus has been dovelopod. s " entirely how science—tha meteor- ology of the sun. 3creover, on other obscare rogions of tho heavens, on’ the physical and chemical conditione, oven on the lawa of tho movements of tho fixed and double stars, on nebul and milky waya, on plancta and comets, on zodiucel and northern lights, has specfrum analysis thrown its colightcning rags. No less by rigorous mathematical method, throngh wiiich astronomy, even'at an earlior poriod, had been brought to s certain amount of perfection, bas she in the most recent time enjoyed an un- through the re- searches of Schiaparelli, the riddlo of fhecomets, in being able to rocognizo the identity of ' their natirs with'that of tho swarms of shooting-stars whose remarabls brilliancy longago made them univereally known. A . During the Iast quarter of a century, the his- tory of tho formation of our cavth hua pssumed a new sepoct. When the * Cosmos” appeared, tho opinion provailed that- our earth, once clobe of liquid fire, became covered with a crust of congealed scorite, on which, by-snd-by, the first animal and plant-life made’ it3_appearance. ‘After an slmost infinito leugth of timo, during which the Silurian, Devonisn, Carboniferous, snd Permian strata wero deposited, s terrible catastrophe, affecting simultancously the whols carth, 80 complotely destroyed tho first patmo- zoic life, that not a-single upecies survived the ‘nnivmn.l deu_s;elafioxx. U;rox;d the _life- css oxpenso, it was supposed, sppoared then the Secondary Fauna and Flora, cutirely unconnected _ with and - dif- feront from the extingunished one, until, after frequent repetitions ‘of the same proccss at 1onger or shortor_intervals, man- mado his ap- poarance, snd, along with him, zll existing plonts aud enin:ala. %Vith him bogins the His- torical period, whose duration has not excecded 6,000 years, Tho causes of these -world-wide revolutions geology sought in the violent reac- tion of the molten interior -against the once ex- tromely slender crust. In opposition to these views, tho opinion i culiarly associated with the name of Lyell has mado way, that no violent revolutions, returning at intervals, destroyed tho external structure of oarth, and all the lifeit sustained, but thet all changes, even in the earliest times affected ~only the ' earth’s surfaco, and that these -~ could only be ' the re- sults 6f the pame powers of Nature which are actively at work on the earth at the present time; and that, moreover, the gradusl but cver sctive powers of water, air, and of chemical change, have perhaps had a greater share .in ac- complishing ‘these transformations than- the fierco heat of subterranean masacs of lava, The explorers of the buried remeins of plants and animals show it to be-impossible that all life in those agealngical formations could hava been de- stroyed simultaneously, for many spocies are common at_soveral stages ; in particular, many oxisting animals and plauts reach far back into tho primitivo world. Man himself could be shown to have been contemporary with many extinct spocies of plants and animals, and thereforo his age on the earth must bo extended ‘ack to_=an indefinite_period, -Man was witness to that inundation which buried the plains of the old and the new world under the waves of thesea of ice. Evenin the immediately pre- ceding pariod, when-the sub-tropical elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, - disgmrtcd them- golves in tho lignite woods of Middlo Europe, Liave traces of mankiud becn found. Only in the most recent times has a foundation been laid for the prehistoric records of mankind, by means of which we may be able to obtain a Jknowledge of the state of civilization, weapons, implements, and dwellings of that primitive race. No book of recent times, Dr. Cohn thinks, has influenced to such an extent the aspects of mod- cra natural eience, -as_Charles Darwin’s work * On the Origin of Species,” the first odition of which appeared in 1659. For, even toso late a period, was the immutability of upacies belioved |, in ; .60 long wes. it accopted as indubitablo that’ 21l tho characteristics which belong to any ‘spe- cies of planta and animals wero transmitted iin- altered through all genorations, and were under no circumstances ciangeablo: so long did the appearance of pew faunz and flora remain one of t[‘:u impenetrable myaterics of science. e who too plined, well-ordered army suitably formed saod, well ermed, and which, by the strict subordina- tion of tho many wills to the contral anthority,' .is fiwn}'! ogaal to the highest achievements. biology uestions unsolved. I possil ?"d.u s t i not yet iblo to re~ the other their a;-:acgnuim_al convert absoluto heat or light 3 al- tflwgglé el e r light into life; und, al= o bridge ‘over tho gaping chasm scparated the organio- and o mattor which exclusivaly suj cess, on which alone tho c then, the boginning of life is still wrapped in obscurity. oretion (Arbeitstheilung), and the stricter subore dicazion of tho separata’ calls to the collsctive; fe of tho organism. Between the two extremed; of the living world, the yeast-fungus and many there is the ¢ame difference as there is between group of individual men who do not know how ize thoir strongth, nud a strictly-disci: istrue that theae scientific rescarches inta have left as yoi the most important life-processcs aa simple modifications of, forces of Natura, and to nscertaim. equivalents; ‘we cannot yek emistry is daily doing more and more. , which once, organic i a8 not yet. succcedod in finding out tho precisa. rts the life-pro- subsist. us, After roferring, in this connection, tothe tranemission of epidemics among plants, ani- mals,- and man, and to the microscopical labora, of Lecuweahosk, Ehrenberg, Schwann, and Kutzing, eay that the investigators of the present time, to whom Pastenr bas given & powarful. impnlso, have been the first to establish beyond donb& that without Bacteria no putrefaction, and with- out yeast-fungi no formentation tnkm:shca; thai “this decomposition is accomplis through tho sustonance and living setivity of. those microacopic calls. Gagniard-Laour, Prof. Cohn goeson ta only: AMany a mystory of life will' doubtless be un= folded to ua if our opticians during tho mexk twonty-five years ehould manags to rawse tha- pover of the microscopo in the samo proportior, 2a in the previous quarter of s century, in which it hms beon at least quadrupled. The best, microscope of Schiok and Plossl, 1 1846, did not: magnify more than 500 diamoters ; the *im- mersion-lens xv.” of Hartnack over 2,000 diame eters. Btill Dr. Cohn does not venture to hopa, that during the next twenty-five years all the questions of scienco, which are at present being ba solved. As one veil after an- sgitated, otheris lifted, we find ourselves bohind a etill. thicker one, which conceals from our longing, eyes thio mystorious goddoss of whom e are i search, - Dr. Coln, in concluding hig clogront address,, attempta to_point out tio characteristics whic distinguish the present from tho past generas tion. In tho former epoch, students confine® their resoarches to singlo and carefully-marked-, off divisions of Nature, without any regard to the neighboring and closely-allicd rogions, whiclh must necessarily lead to the one-sided vie that these divisions belong fo Nature horself.' In tho present generation, on tho otber hand, the sovoral phyaical scienices havo entered into the closest chemistry, tronomy” 'and geology, have been blended into a new_scienco—the hifl:ar{ of tho develop~- ment of the world; peheontol botany, and zoclogy, huve hoon jothod into an uxil plants and of animals Liave S universal biology ; the boun organic and inorganic aspects of ever more and more obliterated, and out of ths sevoral sciences s singlo, uniform, universal! natural scionce is being constructed. organic_ union. Physics and! along - with . mathematical aas eyateroatio science of organisms ; physiology of; coma conleaced iny between the aturo is being Buas the deeper natural science penstrates] {rom outward phenomens o universal laws, thay more she lays aside her former fear to test the Iatest fundamental coming (Sein und Wcrdmfi,! of space and timo,, of matter and forco, of i scale of the inductive mothod, and confidently she lifts her views concerning the universo_out of tho cloudy atmosphere og hypothesisinto theclear ather of theary grounder on fact, 8o much the more will the ga) rowed which since Kant has separate from philosophy. Schiller’s adsice to philosoa, phers and men of scienco— “ Peindschaft sel zwiachen guch ; noch fst d=s Bundw gncsdnna ‘of being and be- o, and spirity by tug; e mora; be nar~ scionce: * niss zu fruhe; 3 Kur weon in Eampe ihr eh euch trennt, dson wird dig ‘Wahrheit enthult,” has been followed for more than half a centurrd to the gain of the nataral sciences, but_ofien i tho injury of .philosophy, which would knocl away the firm ground from under our feet. Ba since Herbart and Schopenhauer, and especially through Hartmann's labors, haye the two chie drifts’ of the work of tho human min beewpmnching; and if nataral science b - she must court the purif; sgophical criticism; _sn Cohn’s estimation, the ecience of the future cannot reject. Ita importance rests not merely int the much interesting_and useful_information] which can be made available to trade and indns~ try, for daily economy and universal civiliza-: tion; she must build a sure foundation fon, our 'collective view of the universo, for ou }mo\flndga of ultimate and highest things. t even our most educated cl of insufficiont edncation, have' neither interest nor intelligence for thoe pursuit and acquisitiond of scionfi§ be no more able to shun battle with other sye~ “tems of the universe which have been hallowe by the traditions of a thousand years, than wera Socrates and Aristotle, Copernicus and Gelileo.. Victory will lie on the side of truth. by on to mold tho fature of our race g, infiuence of philo this mission, in Dr.} must be no longer the case thal ges, in_consoquencq c knowledge. Moreover, science wiq But if anxious souls shonld fear thas, with he advanco of a scicntific knowledge of tho uni~ verse among the people, wonld como a breakin up of political and social order, lot them bo as<, sured by the teaching of Listory. When we pera ceive the flash of an electric spark, we cortaiuly; do not take it for a bolt darted by the rovengo= fal Jupiter ; and, as the vault of heaven is re< solved into oir and light, 8o also must the would not believe that new species of animals ox’mtgu o shattored which wes built thoreon.: aud plants, from the veast. fangus to the mam- malia, had been crystalized parontless out of transformed matorials, was _shut up to the belief that in primeval time an ommip- otent act of -creatiom, or, a8 it may ba otherwise expresaed, a power of nature, at present utterly unknown, in- torfored with'ths rflgnhr&mgreas of tho world's development ; yes, sccording to the researches of D'Orbigny and Elio de “Beaumont, twenty- scvon diffarcnt acts of croation” must have fol- lowed each other previous to the- appearance of man—but, after that, no more. It was Darwin who lifted natural sclonce out of this dilemm: Dby advgncing tho doctrine that the animals an: plants of the late geologicul cras no more ap- penred oll at onco npon the scene, than those of the preceding epochs simaltaneonsly.and sud- denly disappeated ; on the contrary, these cre. the dircet deacendants of former specics, which gradually in the coursa of en exceedingly long period, through aduptation to altered couditions of lifs, through -the struggle for exiats onco, throngh natural and sexual selec- tion, have been changod into the new species. Prof. Cohn doos not 5nnbt but that Darwin and his echool may have over-cstimated the reach of tho cxplanations given by him to sccount for tho transmutation of species, and especially the im- portanca of natural and sexual selaction, but tha fundamontal fact has been ostablished, aud will remain o for all future time. This fact is, thal the collective lifo of the earth, from the bogin- ning even until now, aud from the fangas-vell up £0 man, represents a single sories which hus never once been broken, whose members through direct propagation have proceeded out of each other, and in the course of a vast.period have been developed into manifold'and, on the whole, perfect forms. : The eciences which are concerned with life baye during late years” been enltivated on all sides; even in garlier yéars Cavier aud Jussieu Thad dono a8 much for zology and botany as the state of discovery in their timo permitied, but since 1858 tho "boundaries of both kingdomns have been widely extendod by the labors of Car- penter, Huxloy, and Pourtales, After referring to the researches of Gaethe in the last century, and those of Bauer and of Johannes Muller in the present, in rofer- ence_to the physiology of plants and animals, Prof. Cobn says it was only in our own timo, an: firat in 1343 in Schleiden's “Grundzugen der Wis- senschaftlichen Botanik,” that the new principlo was followed ont ; the principls, namely, that all vegetable phenomena and all the various forma of plants Erocaad from the lifs and the develop- ment of their cells. After Bchwann discovered that animal bodies lso were built up ofrom an analozous coll, mainly by Virchow was then de- velopad from this principle the modem cellular phyeiology and finthology which trace the condi- tion both of healthy and discased mon and £nimals back to the life-function of fheir cells. But, a8 the lacturer says, to sitompt to follow out the adyances made by scienco in theso direc- tiong during the last fwenty-five years would require a large volume, and caunnot’ be done in the spacs of & lecture or an article. x Even the cell itself has been changed. Until Bchleiden’s time it was s little bleb filled with flnid ; w0 now regard it as a soft glutinous body constructed out of the.albriminous protoplasn firat distinguished by 3oh! in 1835, and which is covered with a cellular intej ent, a3 the oyster i3 with its coll, After waxing eloguent over the cell ga an entity, an *‘ego " by itaalf, and its re- Iations to the outer world, Prof. Cohn sayu that gclence now teaches us thero.is only one lifo and one - cell, mfufu“u of plants nnd:n?: nimals" being essenti e 'sams. ; The. : feveloped anirisl differs frota. tho impleat plant oaly in,thé namber and grester eeHlopment of fio Tastter comiposing 'the cells, but, above all, to the more complete elab~ But -good, remain unshaken; they have been all tho more firmly estaolished, for' they bava deduced from the order of the wnivorse and’ from tho mind of man himself. And that tha pursuit of nalursl scionce does not lead to ma- - terialism, and in no way injures the ideal mind! ia vouched for by the czeo of Aloxander voa flumboldt himself, who, evon in oxtreme old: age, kept up his_lovo for research and povier o ork, a3 woll 83 s lively suscoptibility for, audy energotic ahare in, sll the noblo pursuits o man! trne eloquence fonnded on sober fact, with high compliment to_tho ma: of the Prosident of the il Dooppert. Such a man s ho ia said o be, tla locturer traly says, may hope, like Gostlo, Humboldt, and othor previons maintain, to the ntmost limit Beart, and epirit, full of the freshuess of youth Elfl;moreover. fn later grnerations bo honored 0 ideas of the true, tho beautiful, aud the Dr. Cohn concludes his lecture, so brimfal of a ‘worthy qualitiex an_Society, Dr. to Eilozophers L fite, existence, 9% tro guardian of the highost good of grates ful'mankind.—Nature. THEN AND NOW. Then, you whiapered, “Love, I vow Your eyes are dark ‘and raro ; No woman haa a whiter brow, Nor sunnler-tinted hair, 40, well you know your proud, red mont il um;mxy{ Soless o g And tbat your face Ia graced by yout “And beaaty's magie splendor.s To-day, you do not care to see ‘That same face e'er agaie ; Youd grieve not thongh my life shouid be ‘Henceforth, through you, aif pain. Then, woman-like. I thought you moved *Mongst other men, » King; 7. 1 scorn myecly, who loved Bo false, #0 base a thing. Then, each avowed 10 each, “Ob, T Could live without thes never [ And now our lips have said * Good-bya,” Torever and forever. Cmcaao, Feb. 21, 1873, M KinezanD, Valued ot £10. 2 Married men are occasionally heard to' com-~ plain of their wives' extravazance in dresa. IS will, therefore, we hope, afford husbends come satirfaction to learn that if tho robes in which a 1ady drapes her limbs are sometimes too dear, tho limbs themaelves zre sbout s cconomical in price as limbs_well can be. The jaw-bons, Collar-bons, and shonlder-bone of a lady of tha name of Heisch has just been, by & Middlosex ng.) jury, valued togother at &50. Tho de- onca 10 a0 sction vas iLat tho 1sdy 1ad threa dogs, and that these dogs worzied ] Xknoc! that the owner of tlie cow 50 worriod wes not awaro of the dnnfiero\u condition in which that animal was at {! . have refected this defense, to havoe cxounerated the three dogs, and toLave beld that the defenc. ant did know that the cow was vicious. wise they could not have found a verdict againct him. Itwonld appear, theefore, thet the ju:z deliberately Alhongrlt i 1 which to estimate the valuo of threo suel im- Eomm constituent partsof & lad, e cow that d hor down and trarapled upon her, aad o timo. JLutthe jury seem to Othier— £10 wes o fair price st .88 her jaw. one, her collar-bono, and ker. shoulder-boro. I tho jary were right, then, in epulo of tisa high price of coel and mest, comes ‘in England' need mnot Fives are chenp, anhot. people of moderate in- despair 88 yoi. -~—An 0ld1ady describes & genini'ag “a mea “what knows moro'n be can find u t, and apiil vittels on his clothes.” g SISLED i