Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 29, 1873, Page 6

6 THI: CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1873, — METROPOLITAN HiODES.--- fewels ‘and Ornaments---Diamonds, Rubies, and Sapphires--- Pearls and Emeralds %0ld-Work in This Country and Abroad—Bracelets and Crys- tal Decorations, Exquisite Cameos-=-Guido's Au- k rora in Onyx. Prom Our Own Correapondint, NEW Yonx, Juzie 26, 1873, This is fit westher to writa of jewela; for the Weather ia royal, and royalty and jewels are in- teparable,—excopt whore some poor wretch of & Prince, whoso patrimonial acres are less in num- ser than his pstrimonial diamonds, is forced to tell the Intter to save the former from ignomini- sus forfeiture. Formy own part, I don’t know sut T should let the acres go and ssvo the dia- monds, were the difficulty mine; especislly if the jewels were like some I have seen lately. D1AMONDS are cheap now ; do you know it ? At least they tell me g0, and then have the assurance toay, of agpsrkof fire on my finger, which blazed like the eye of an Olympian god, that {ta price was £3,500 gold ; adding, consolingly, that, u year ago, it was rated st £5,000. On the whole, it was rather dissppointing to Jearn that Its merket-value had decreased so much ; since, #s regarded buying iz, I might 25 well have taken It at the highest asat the lowest sum. The cause of the depression in theso procious stones fs the influx of African gems, which, during the psst two years, hinvo nearly swamped the Indian eod Drazilian stones. Nobody need be dissatis- fied with & Oape Town jewel, howover. - Many of them sre very beautlfal, though none of purest water; which, to the wise, meaus that they are ell slightly tinged with color. A superb speci- men of this description was eo clear and 8o pale that its tint was undiscoverable until it lay be- side an Old Mine stone. Then itlooked asif s my of moonlight had suddenly fallen onit, in thetit was eimply not colorless. . For this superb thing, as large as & cherry-pit; was askod only $2,100 gold (the prices are all gold)s thongh il was twice the size of -tho £3,500 gem, and, in my opinion, handsomer. Diamonds— solitaires—can be had from €80 to any amount oue is willing to pay for them. Just at pregent, diamonds are neither the dearest nor tho most fashionable of gems,—rubies being their sups- riors in cost, and apphires in mode. Tho passion for BUBIES hss somewhst abated, on the principle that in- cresse of appetite grows by what it feeds on,— there having been little food recently for the ruby sppetito to grow upon. Indeed, fine specimena ere not to bs hod at any price, unlesa one is obtained occasionally by private purchase. The supply seems entirely exhausted, for gome un- known reeson; though it is popularly belioved thet the Shah of Persin decorates himself daily, on his grand European_tour, with the contents of tho mines of the Last. “It ia fortunate for the buser that rubies are not fashionable, when their valae, carat for carat, is 80 much in sdvance of dismon SATPHIRES ar0 the thing " at this moment, and some per- fect ones are now on exhibition.” An unset sap- phire—so deeply, intonsely blue that holding it 1o the window for the sun to stream through scarcely paled its color—is $1,500—more than forty times ita weight in gold, This is & very rare stone,—probably the finessin Americs,—and the owners are in no haste to part withit, siuco it might Do years befora it could bo_replaced. _ Sapphifcs set in_-dismonds, and combined ~with them in various forms, are tho mode, though they probably will Dot loug remain such, sinco their Lue is too dark to ba very becoming to either blondes or bru- nettes. And what womar would wear the Even- ing-Star, if it were unbecoming? PEABLS AND ENERALDS are alweys in style, and the sale of the latter is more cven, and the price less lisble to fiuctua- tione, than that of any other gem. Their rate is sbout the present rate of diamonds and pearls. Ono of the finest, if not the fimsshho{ pearl- pecklaces ever in this country, is hera now. It hos 146 pearls, absolutely perfect in shape and color, and identical in size. Thoy are strung bead-like on silk threads, aud there are two rows balf round the neck, where they are caught together by three small diamonds. The value of this trinket is §1,000,—enougli; one wonld say, for 80 tiny & ‘bauble. 'Another similar necklace was of smaller earls, and had a_diamond and Eenrl pendant, This was only €45 more than the other,—the difference being in tho size of the pearls, The - lovely pear-shaped pourls are only malforma- tions after all, and are simply uged as drops to broochos and ear-rings. Novertheless, 8 largs pear-shaped 1 got with emeralds or diz- Taonds is mo gift to be deepised, malformation though it bo. The stringing of costly pearls on s silken thread seems pesitively inbuman to me. With their changing, opaline tints, they seem like some fair, young bride, snd to pierce one ¢f them is like stsbbing her on her wedding-dsy- . orALs, by the by, suggestive of translucent disnonds $n veristions of color, are in such ill-reputo for Juck that {hero is comparatively no sale for them. Is it not strange that anything so rscoptionally ‘beautifal, 8o intercsting a study it its momenta~ Ty alterations, should be among snlightened peo- ple the innocent victim of ap 8bsurd supersti- tion ? Itis hardly credible and, were not my suthority ono of the hoads of the jewelry busi- nesz in this conntry, I ssould scont the notion. GOEO-TWORK. > “Tt upeaka well forthe progress of the mechani- cal arts in thisvountry that the finest and most artistic gold.work in the world is mede in aud sbont 1e Metropolis. For besuty of do- pign aid delicacy in execntion, no - foreign prodpuion excels, aud very' few equal jt. the chains—neck and watch—are the most pautiful to bo fonud,—eo light, flexible, almost .uread-like are they. The Eanry cable and link cheins.etill have many admirers; but to fastidi- ous castomers are offered curiously-wTought chaias of red gold, espscially made to wear with jeweled pendanis. Gold ornaments are losing 1heir popularity, thanks to Franch gilt and other clever imitations. Gold is not, on the whole, an economical decoration; bocause, in its beat qualities and_designs (and who wants anything eise of metal ?) it costs almost 88 much aa some charming thing it semi-precious stanes, which does not decaive the eye, and cannot bo success- fully imitated. _Almost any woman of society would rather wait two years for a Jovely set of coral, of topnz, of gimet, or of amber, than’ boy, ot fke end of ono yoar, & gct of gold, end have tho miserable satisfaction of seeing the small-tredesman’s wife, at the street-ccrmer, appear in one Eo pearly like her own that o careless_eye might detect no difference, vhile she inwardly knew it 0 be a base counterfeis. Dracelets aro —coming within reasonable ‘bounds, and ars o longer puinfully euggestive of manacles and Biate Prison sentences. Inch snd balf-inch bands for glove-bracelets, and fancy styles with jeweled tops for full dress, are the favorite mode. A hendeome pair of bands costa from %50 up, though rarrow ones, & trifle pesse in deeign, ave as low as $30. A beautiful oruement of thia kind was wrought in_elender erubosque, of red gold, slim under the arm, broad sbove, the top being omamented witl seven superb pearls, each separated from tho others, and poised on & slender point of gold. It was a dainty conceit, and worthy a place in | this £ne collection. CBYSTAL ORNAMENTS are novelties ix {iicir present form. Pine, ear- xings, sleeve-buttons, and lockets are cat, quite convex, and round in shape, from specially fine, clear Scotch erystals, Tho back of theto is flat andonitis ont o doep intaglio of so-called Jzpancse design, representing birds, flowers, landscapee, somotimes animals ; and this delicetely-carved picture is_painted in natural zolora by skillful artiste. Then the crystal is wiith its convex side out, and the painting “hows throngh, 88 if it were Taisad in rolict on & mooth surface. These baubles aro unique and oreity, and promise to have a more lasting popu- than is usoal with articles of trifiing pecu- niary value. But tho true gemsin this colles- tion are the cazos, the sclection of which showa taste and nice Sudgment enongh to have boen the loved labor of some leisurely artist. It roquires calturs sod efinement to fully apprecinto the inexhaustible boautics of a fine cameo ; but, once eppreciated, 1o costly jewels are moro attractive or give more continuod pleasure. A besntiful set of chalce- dony, whage tint was of o pale, warm, luminous gray, was carved in the semblance of the lovely Anno of Austria, who showed her weskness in wedding Mazarin for streusth. Tne oval on which, in high relief, the heand and bust was carved, was not more than twoinches in length ; and yet the featurcs, the poise of tho Lead, the ewell of the throat, the lace of tho standing ruff, are so exquisitely portrayed that long examinations with & intense magvifior discovers not only no flaw, but abaolutely noth- ing thot could b improved by change. 5 Another brooch is chiseled from & stone in- digenous to our own country, peculier in color and quality, called Labradorite. \While the stono is very hard, it is also flaky in charncter, and ex- tremely difficult to *“work.” It has two varie- ties, the predominant line in each being a dull ‘mouse color, which has chameleon-like tints of blue and green. Theé one [ epeak of was of the gray-blue, in the form of s Medusa's head, with the snaky locks curling and writhing round the face. Two tiny brilliants areset in the eyes, and another in the mouth, and several diamond- tip‘imd claws clasp it from behind. It is weird, and antigne, snd fascinating enough to have been dropped from Cloopatra's swulot. A famous besuty of centuries ginco is oxhibit- edin fleshscolored sardonyx, the illusion of which is 8o perfect that one wondors the. cheeks do not turn rosier at the vision of her own love- liness. But the most beauntiful of all the cameos is a pendant of onyx, the stone being only two-and- a-haif inches long by one-and-a-half broad. On this black ground is cat Guido's famous fresco of the Aurors. Imsgineit! The car, with the Hours in flowing robea dancing about it; the cherubs_scattering flowers on the path: the downy clouds, and all the dainty tonches of the pictare, brought out in white, bold, but delicato relief. Simpfins o work of art it should be placed in the Metropolitan Museum, where ev- erybody can enjoy this wonderful pro- duction of a clever and conscientious artist. As s jowel, any woman might give 8 pocket full of pearls to possess it. The dra- pery of the feminine figures is. light, floating, and illumingly stirred by 2 summor breczo, Tho chierubs are round, shubby boye, instinct with life and snimation. The flowers drop from their haods ag thoy drop in the fresco; and tho wholo is absolately perfect. Tho sotting is_an original besign by ome of tho heads of .tho firm who own thix priceless carving. A narrow but solid baud of red gold surrounds the cameo. Above thoe centre, & large diamond of purest ‘water, supported of slender rays of gold, repre- sents the Rising - Sun; whilo, still higher, a smaller brilliant, in s tiny frame of gold, rocalls the Evening Star. Below the cameo, a fine frot- work of gold, studded with emall but puro diamonds. Suggests tho heavens bofore the dawn ; and the whole 18 karmonious, rhythmic, and fanlt- less. Fonszrow. LITERATURE. Lippincott’s Magazine for July. Edward Straban, encouraged by the lucky von- ture which he made with a recant book of trav- els, has bégun n series of chatty, agreeable sketches in Lippincotl's, under the title, “The New Hyperion.” They describs the little ad- ventures and delights of the journey from Paris t0 Macly by wsy of the Rhine, and ave illustrated with vignettes drawn by Gustave Dore, after the etchings of the anthor. TRobert Morris Copeland gives the Philadel- phis, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad s good puff, +n & profusely-illustratca pa- per, ““From Philadelphia to Baltimoro.” «Strange Bea-Adventures sud Industries” reveals the boautied that diversify tke sconmery of the ocean-bottom, and the curious industries that find profit in dolving among its natural and scquired treasures. One of tho most perilons of there is the recovery of suuken treasuro. Will Wallaco Harney, the Leaunfal of this story, gives au account of ~ne _of “theso subaqueous enterpriscs, An East Indiaman, loaded with drugs and Sycee silver, and sunk in Chincse waters near Canton - From pickiny his way across the Turtar plains, and ‘probing in the Dead 563 and eating its fruits, just to Jmor that Jiving crustacem could bo_ found ix gne and ‘pulpy flesh in the other, our Launfal, looking for the Bangrezl in chariot-wheels, wound Lis dcvious way to the flowery kingdom, having tricd a stroke o two at poarl-diving, and given somo valuablo hints, that wwere ‘wasted, in Hod Sea fishingnnd the Suez Canal. The sleepy celeatial ceasons had gone fowering their way to ivo, and tho uplum-smuggler B Ber syces siiver lay eafe and swallowed in ribs and jowl of quick- ssnd. Our American proposed to haveitup by tho locks, 7Two things said nay—the coral insect, which was using it in its architectural designs, and tho hun- gry quickssnd, Worst of all, the American couid not Budit. They hid tho bulky vesscl in hills of sand, and after two months' lsbor in sutmarine ermor the speculator was beaten, “Get s coolie,” gaid a resident China merchant, and ho did, ‘Every seaport city of Ohina is a twin. Ttfs two citys —ono inland, narrow-streated, paved with rubblo stones; tho ofher ot ses, flostilg on bamboo reods. The amphibious {mstes of the marine town ToVer go ashore, but ore & species Of otter or eeal. Besides, they are first-class thicves, aa well as cowardly, crue! pirates ard wrockers. Thes will steal the shesthing from & copper-bottomed vessel in brosd dsylight, and at night a gusrd-bost i8 'necessary for protection. They will defy a sentry on shipbeerd—steal his sbip from under kim whils he is wondering what he is et to guard. They are all expert divers, &s familiar with the sea-bottom 88 with their own ugly Jittle hovels. Buch a native waa found, snd for a dollar spotted the submerged veseel in her Matrix of sand aud coral, “ Now set guard-b0st,” s3id_tho Englishnuan, “or e will steal the Jixc, o got another doliar for finding the smuggler agein.”” : But the want of experis defeated the plan, after all, It was necesmary to usc a pelard to lay basa the tress- Tre, and po one had the necessary skill. When the Ambricen consented to lost time and defost the cyclono threv another spoil in his way, Tho East like tha Weat Indfes i tho brooding-place of storms, which in gyrstory colls, like s Iasgo thrown wido and large, go fwiating uort by west._ 1t caught Frepch figa(s n the loop, and flung her poor bones on the coral reefs, and tho hungry sand abeorbed her, It is a peculiarity of those seas, But she was found, and the petard, like » huge axe wiclded by a giant's arms, cut into her troasuro-louse and rescuod it. Tne American's ex- ‘penses for 2 journey round the world wero paid. Talph Kecler repeats some reminiscences of 4ho exploits of the “American Ambulance Corps at Paris,” which did 80 moblo service during the war with Prussia. The scene of his first service with the American ambulance was before the corps which operatod at the siego of Paris Thad been properly formed. Dr, Sims, Dr. Tom Pratt, Frank Hayden, ead others, with throe ambilancs-wagons, were going o the front + we heard a grest deal of *“a Lerlin! ™ in the streets in those days. I camo down this wus to the Palais dTn- dustrio to seo them off, and when 1 did. ace the Ameri- can ladies raising the colors to march through the crowd, I couldu’t help taking part in the procession, 801 put on the brassard of Genovs,—a red cross'on & white band atrspped on the arm, being the smbulance ‘badge establizhod in 1804 by tho Tnternationsl Conven- tion of Geneva,—and teized one of the sticks with & sack on the end of it, and began asking contributions for the woundod ss the cortego moved on. 1t was oo of the most cxciing scencs I ever wit- Dessed, our march for miles through the crowded boulevards to the station of the Northern Railway, Dr, Sims walked behind his own Lorus, which hoadod tho procession, snd the (hrong everywhere commented -sdmiringly npon the chic of the fie snimals, The American Iadics—there were threo of them—marched Beside thio wagons, besring tho French and American colors end the red crossof the International ambu- Innce. Wa filled end emptied and refillod our sacks Wil the Napoleons from the ,mwonde in their and from ihe loungers of tho - gressy maus of tho workingmen and _ grieettes. Many fook out purses contalning five eous and gave {hree: many ook out purses containing silver and_copper, and gave the siiver. Old men with fosblc sight and hear- ing would Bobblo up o ua through tho crowd sad ask, | “For tho wounded,” we would say—* far France!” And tremliing hadds would ba thrust into pockets, “God's blessing on you!” would go wilh their eilyer or sous, Well, well, it was s grest day. It was, T believe, tho largest collection ever faken np in Paris for the wonnded. We thouted onrselves hoarse when tho train bore the corps away for Mezlores, Thoy rerved threugh the war, part of iho {ime with (e Erench, rt of the time ‘With the Prussians, Mauy of them ave sinco been decorated by both Governments, 13 “Bome Paesages in Sholley's Early Histo- ry," Jannary Searlo tells about Shelley’s curions friendship for Stockdale, & Iow bookeeller of Pall Mell, who published an unclean magxazine called Stockdale’s Budget, and was finally driven out of business because of his licentious attacks on the private characters of the Upper Ten. _Scribner’s Magazine for July. In Scribmer's for July, the Rev. J. A. Reed, of Springfiold, IIL, proves irofutably that Presi- dent Lincoln was ' mot the infidel that Lsmon, in his disreputsble book, sesert- ed him to be; and disproves also the elander that he was & bastard. We have re- printed the greater part of the article, and need not call further attention to its importance. No magazine of the day is more finely illus- trated than Scribner's ; and the first of the series entitled *“The Groat South,” which sppears in this number, is remarkable for the beauty of ila sketchea. This psper is entitled *“The New Route to the Gulf,” snd in it Mr. Edwerd King describes the movement of the great tide of im- mugration that is turning toward the boundless and fertile Bouthwest. “Low Life in Berlin” is another well-lllus- trated paper. An orthodox minister talks of *“ The Liberal- ity of Protestantism ;" and Mrs. M. E. W. Sher- wood gives answer to the gaestion, * What Has America Done for Women?"” With all their beanty, and character, and wit, American women —rs, Sherwoed thinks—are not gracious; ia fact, they are too often indiffercnt to extornal good bohavior. An_auonymous writer, who declares that he feels like rushing through the world with two placards,—one held aloft in Lis right hand, “ Be~ waro of childrsn's magazines;” tho other flourished i is left, * Child's mag- azino wanted, "—discustes the typoElranhicnl and litorary qualities needed in & periodical for chil- dren, and comes to the conviction that the per- fect magazine for children lies folded at the heart of the ideal best magazine for grown-ups. “Recollections of a Restored Lunatic,” by Dr, Newell, is understood to bo sutobiograplic, an is of peculiar intorest. R Dr. Holland talks, in ¢ Topics of the Time, of * American Morals,” ¢ 8killed Domcstic Ser~ vico,” and * Summer Play.” ; The stories aro: “Elinor Dane,” by Adeline Trafton; “A Ten Days' Drama,” by Kate Put nam Oegood ; and tho continuation of ‘* Arthur Bonnicastle,” in which Old Jenka dics, Georgo MacDonald’s *Spiritual Song,” G. P. Tathrop's * Song-Sparrow,” B. F. Taylor's “Yano on the Spire,” C. F. Bates' ** Treading tho Circle,” and A. R. Annan's “ Christ,” com~ prise all the poetry. PRINCE PRETTYMAN. How the Young Ladies Wait for Rim, und Get Fooled When They Caich Eim. From the London Saturday Review, Whatever the strong-minded eisterliood may eay, marringe is the great object of most women's lives, their chief theught when they are young, their greatest regret, if missed, when they are .old. Almost all women of nor- mal, healthy development, desire to be wives and mothers, and feel that the best of life has been forgone, if fato and circumstances have forbidden it. Itis a truism to say that the world would not go on else; and there ifno reason to be ashamed of the fact or its avowal. There is more reason to be ashamed of its denial, repro- senting as it does the absence of some of tho noblest aud tenderest qualities of womanhood, which et have to be kpt in hand till the fitting momont has arrived. Negotiation and control, however, are different things. Tho question, then, with those who bavo what the world calls “chances,” is not, save In rare, oxceptional cases, Shall I refuse them all? but, Which sball T tako? Itisagrave question, as every woman lnows who has at the same moment a bona fide lover of a good kind and a potential hanger-onof abetter; and it is a question in which soul and souse, pradence snd passion, the lovely dreams of romance, and the greatest chanco of proctical prosaic happiness, seldom unito. Many girls, chietly family favorites and’ considerod E;my in their circlo, in_which opinion oy themsolves coucur, but also some who are neither, rofuso all sorls of fairseoming ol out of tho puro unreason of youth and for the sake of the daz- zling gonuib' ities of the future. They donot kpowhow many goldon balls, ever o much biggor and ricker than this may not be thrown at their feat ; and thoy rojoct the actual and liv- ingman who would reslly make them very happy if they would only, think so, waiting for that apocryphal Prince Prottyman who never comes. They are dimly conkcious, too, that, when & woman® gives herself in marriage, she bas lost ler prosent form of intoxicating supremacy, though by tact and temper she may gain another of more sober and dur- ablo kind. The courting time is' her time of queenhood ; and 6o long a8 she keeps from ut- toring that Tatal “ yos,” ho is Iistress of the situation, a8 tho ono who has to decide for the ‘misery or happinees of both, and who can con- for a fevor and grant & prayer. Naturally she anxious to prolong her sovoreignty, Enowing that when she marvies she siuks from a quoen into o slave, and that the lover ~who favned upon hor ns bumbly as s dog becomes her master, more or less sovere, as soon a5 the law makes bim her husband. Al girls fool this ; aud those among them who have most of what is called maidealy pridoe in their intuitivo knowledge of what that gelf-surrender means, helf uncossciously, Lalf conciouely, proloug that moment of surrender a3 any one elsa would delay any action by which power was logt, though, in & souse, secnTity was gained. This is one reason why girls with chances hesitate, and why they are sometimes g0 long in making up thoir minds that the chances paes them by, aud leavo them stranded {for the remainder of their days. Another reason for their delay is Prince Prottyman. There are women who ero always waitiog for tho coming of tho Princo, like the high-born maidens in the palace towers of ro- mance and fairyland, and_who will be content with nothing less thau their ideal realized. No- body is good enough for them ; and their frionds stare st the infatuation which led them to ro- fuse such suitable, such excellent offers, for no one knows what reason. Smith is one of the aspirants. Ho is really a very good follow : with a nice present income, fair prospects, and no hereditary diseaso that the world knows of. To bo suro ha is no Rothschilds ; and his sharp- featured mothor, with his tribe of busy maiden sisters and industrious brothers, do not take rank smong the idealities of the human race. But, 0 far s he himself goes, you might find many & worse man, if some better; and Clorinda “would not do amiss if sho choso him.. Clorinda rejects him. Sho is waiting for Prince Preftyman—Princo Prettyman, who has no sharp-festured oid mother with &trict notions sbout Sundays and chignocs, no busy maiden sisters who talk three atatimo, snd_who would consider her house, ber maids, and her babigs a8 much_theirs as hor own, no industrious brothers of all sorts of ueer profestions, and no amount of * style.” mith's income and prospects, and good condi- tion generally are not sufiicient for her, penni- less as she i3. Bhe must have perfection all round—Prince Prottyman, and never s flaw in Dis circumstances, porsonal or relative. The consequence of which is that at 40 sho sub-. sists on charitable contributions from her friends, and music-lessons, when she cn get pupils.” Brown comes to the front, and lsys seige to the fair Amanda’s heart, as Smith had done to Clorinda's. He gratifies her romantic aspirations as little a3 in the other case. He is 1s worthy & fellow 28 ever atepped ; and ho too has enough sud to spare for comfort. Ho -would be & guiet, xl)llacnhlu kind of husband, who would use his laich-key with discretion, and niob make her tompor bad by the sourness of hig ovn. Hoe wounld mnot _philander after pretfy women abroad, snd he would mot ragoin the sauctuary st home. He would give her a liberal allowanco for pins and_honsekeep- ing; ond ho would tako tha boys off her hands at holidsy times, and be generally willing to save her both trouble and annoyancd. But with all those slices of solid pudding he is not Prince Prottyman ; consequently Lo is nowhero in tho running. His eyes are small, hiis nose composes badly iu a photograph, Lis voice is unmelodious, and "bis hands aro uncomfortabla about the Novertheless, small eyes, a mean nose, and uncomfortsbly articulated hands, united with & good homo lifo and a Lind husbaud, are befter than peauty and a bad heart, rupture in the honeymoon and repent- anco éver after. Yot Amauds, like her eister, rofuscs Lonest, homely Brownin favor of the beeutiful Prince over tke wseas; and the chances are s0 many as to make a cer- tainty that the Prince wiil nover _cross those scas at all, and that Amenda too will go husbandless torough life, because of tho tinsel picture which romancoe had drawn on_her young soul, and which thero was not enough commonz. sense about her o rub out; or, perchance, worse 5till, she will end with martrying Brown's clerk, who bas every disadvantago Lis master had, and nothing of his compeneazions, Frince Prottyman has many impersonations— 18 mauy ss there are silly girls who wait for Lim. With some it is absolutely necessury that he should be in the army. The glitter of epau- Jets and the jingle of spurs are worth aay amount of stupid, civilisn, workadsy vir. tues, snd nothing bLut s well-set-up cav- slry’ officer can get o hearing from the garrison of bellos who havo learn- ed but one litany of love. With others a Jjoints. . mau whose sonl is devoted to dogs and horses is the only kind of person who carries Yrince Prot- tyman'a credentisls. Talk of a well-conditioned city merchaot, with s sprinkling of gray hairs and suspicious tracts of shining mf’", orof o rising) young professional who could as soon mount & camel as a horse, to thoso sweet cren- tures whose fancy paints fhe gallant hussar or tho fast young squirn—talk of. fidelity, ten- derness, fruth, and tho like, without dash, without personal beauty, without the glittering insignia of Prince Pretiyman—and you talk to the deaf. They havo thoir ideal man and their ideal conditions, and nothing short of either will be accepted. A beautifat young painter or poet, s0ft eyes and a silvery voice, well up in tha ligion of art, and cultivated to the highest E_flnt in methetics, is Prince Prettyman to one. ig i8 in All{:mhnbility tho kind which talks of the union of souls and forgets the butcher’s bill. Itis s way both he and hia admirers have; the debasing considerations of filthy lucrs t:lu!l.h% tho soul in & remarksble man- mer. It “is a pity that the tax-gatherer should be so obdurate; und that Princo Prettyman sailing over the silver seaof crea- tive fancy should be brought up every now and then with a round turn to the barren stake of goverly, or grounded on the grating shallows of omestic bills with no effects to meet them, A Ligi-cluss diplomatic-looking person ia the hero of one young maiden, who hasideas; and eho will uc&;\n Do offer, bowevor eligible, if the maker thereof is below 6 fept, is rotund in body, and of an indiscriminato kind of social position. 8o 1t goes on; Princo Prettyman, whatever his special form, alweys looming in the horizon, always being waited for, and in tho great majority of cases never coming. It is & complaint as old 88 man, that we only know how to live when we have done with life. The saying is essentially true to marrisge and of the right kind of on to choose. Girls of romantic tendencies think they ought not to marry unless with the most passionata JSuror of love. They do not know that respect ‘and compatibilify of tempor aro botter surties fora happy life than & passion which must in time wear itsolf out, bowever strong it may be now, and of which the best hope is that it may become friendship. Good plain, common- senso men, who would make excellent husbands, but are nothing to look at, are refused by cer- tain of the foathor-headod, in favor of a_drosm £hat will never be realized, a fancy that hae no more substance than a soap bubble. Orpersonal worth is rofused for mere wealth, quito as often aa for penniless romance. Themsan of a girl's fancy is too handsome to bo & traiior, & roue, wesk, ar of o wayward & tompor that her life, if she marries him, will be simply a fortano. 8ho is sure of him, sho Eays with in- dignation whon stony-hearted wisdom points out his patent flaws, and experionce preaches cau- tion and renuncistion. Bho Imows that love will not fly out of her window when pove stalks in at the door; or she doos not believe he i8 a roue now, whatoever the evidence. And even if Lo is, she comforts herself with the sensible reflection that a reformed rake makes notoriously the best husbsnd, and no woman is proof against tho seduction of reform- ing tho man she loves, aud bringing him to virtue by means of her wiles. She is in love, and she belioves that her love is eternal. Pretty l;xxlu of poor circumstances, and belonging to arge families, whom it would bo an incalcula- ble relief to get well settled, have boen known to refuse eligible offers from good tmen because of this fancy of theira sbout Prince Prettyman. Of conrse one would not like fo see woman give themsclves to auy oue, no matter who he might be, for tho sake of gotiing married; but the solid things of life should be taught them as well as ita poetic beauties; and falag hopes, false ideas, unsubstantial loves, should be rigorously ex- cluded. A bad merriage or a loveless life is not 8 plensant coda to that nover-scted romance; nor is the disenchantment which coracs With such cruel certainty on the hoels of tho love~ sick and_unsuitablo marmsge a blessing to be desired. Boauty fades, passion cools, the blind- ness of Tomanco gets couched when seeing is Yoo tata; pustey Desnot by g batthary Sua allantry of beariug of the ‘*long sword, sad- sla, and bridle ""kind is apt to lose itself in do- mestic bad lasngusge when the pot is empty of pudding, and hialta-dozen children swarm about 0 musty lodgings or dingy quarters to which lovo snd folly bave reducod the gay Lioutenant and his bride. On the whole, Prince Prettyman iy & dangerons fellow either to got or to weit for, having the trick of unsubstantiality throughont. Romantic girls would - do well to re- floct that, 1f they are to have only one gown in a lifetimo, they had botter buy one that will wash and wear creditably to the end. rather thar a flimey bit of finery that looks well only in the beginning, and goes to piecos before the first year 1s out. . % —_—— THE DAWN AND THE DAY. I Buch dawns, can they be mother of such days? Late vigils Beld mo all oue night swake, And, Iooking up from my completed sk, With throbbing brain, and luguid nerves relaxed, Glad I atose, that glorious spectacla With solemn adorstion’to behuld,— - A new-created dsy, Ethereal hosts Of bright, expectant clouds, swift-gathering, Went troopiug {rom tho zenith to the Esst, To greet the sun ; resplendent gods roclined, And goddesses, on banks of amathyst, Or rosy pearl, by their Sorco ardor wafted ; Or golden chiriots guiding, swiftly drawn' By winged coursers ; multitudinous, . A'thronging bost of fair, dissolving forms, Bright, gleaming faces, mma outstratchod, love-yesrn- ing,— o Al speotiog to that palace of the East Frocs whoea affulgent portal should emergo Tuer monarch. ‘Through the ficlds of lower afr, On eld, swift wing, flew flocks of twitleriug birds, * Duwn-dipping to tiie church-spires, ontlined clear Agsinst tho blue, upsoaring to the clouds, And swooping with them to tho golden Eist, Elate with Joy, Tho ocoan gloamed ufar, A broad cxganée of silver—tnotionlzse— Quict as dimpled child in slumber bound. The dowy meadows glittored, and the sir Waa keen, eloctrical with tingling life. With rapture universal Naturo glowed, ; And 1 in ail that rapturo shared, u thought Soared with the birds and floated with the clouds, The mornipg afr inbaled, aad with it drank In cool, deep draughts, fuilnces of life and joy,— Avwuited glad, with all created things, Tho coming god, At last the sun xrose, Blood-ted and fiery. Slowly he emerged Majestical from void abyss of space, Then ealm surveyed the tremulous green earth. Then, as the glorious orb suspended hung QOue thofment on the horizon’s Ievel verge, One long, black, narrow cloud, like darting sake, Orrafter of wrecked veasel, ribbed his gold, Dividing sharp the blood-réd disk in twain. II. ‘He rose, and with o'er-powering splendor quenched Tho glory of the dawn—ineGable! And now in weariness I turned away. The open window closed, tho curtain drew, And in my dsrkened room lay down to rest, In deepest slumber sinking instantly, Wheun I awoke, the oir was cbill and damp, And in my cars a sound of falling rain,— A dismal sound, of rain, or restiess waves, As I were in somoe veesel tossed at sca 1In storm, or standard on loe, coral reef, 1 searied up bewildered, with quick han ‘The curtain drew, and once again looked forth From my lone eyrie cu the outer world. Dull clouds, a beavy pall, concesled the sky, And lashed the earth in fitful gusts the rain. I rubbed mine eyes, Surely ’twaa but 3 dream !— It could not be!” This dull, unlovely day, How could it e%er have followed that bright dawn, ‘Which in my memory like » vision hurg, Vouchsafed in moments blessod the quickened soul,— A vision beautiful of youth and love, Of the creative force &nd encrgy, And joy perpetual of life eternal, How could they be united o'en in thought 7 In wildest fantasy 21t could not be! Troubled, perplezed, 1 spoke; and, at the words, In wilder torrents fell the beating rain, And blacker grew the black pall overhead, 1 stood confronted with the dismal day. Again I turned away, in sadness now | ‘As silontly, through bpacs, thoso vapors dank Had darkly risen and o'ercast tho eky, XLong-buried memories within my soul From dim recesses of the past arose, Darkening my day. I thought of cherished friends ‘Whom deathi had enatched from my relzining grasp, Or by the world’s cold, cruct spell estranged ; Of happy lives which I, o'en I, hud seen Begin 1n glory and go down in gloom ; Of theo, dearest and best-beloved, sweet saint !— With thy frank, child-bluc eyes, aud brow serenc,— So etrong In goodness, wise sud innacent, That all who knew thee loved and reverenced,— Whoee patient virtues could not shield thy breast From sorrow’s sharpest sword, which at the last Slew thee, wounded by many ruel blowa ; Of thee, dear boy I—musician, poet born, Thy lifo 8o bright, with promise beautiful, ‘Who sauk in stagnant pool of dire discase, Anad died ucknown. And more, ah | mapy more,— B:loved and hapless ones, if nof 8o dear An these, stil] dear,—the best and brightest always (Whilo meanar souls swiftly attained their goal), Who dropped and died. Their palo, dejected ghosts, With bitter lamentations, round me thronged,— Phantoms, oh | not of these beloved fricnds Jteborn to happiness in Leavenly sphere,— . But of thelr palo and shadowed lives, on earth Forever unfulfilled, Mournful they came, And scemed to wind me in their cold, dead arma, And drag mo down with them, helpless, bennmbed, Into the grave. And I wept bitter tears, For these, and my own soul, and all on esrth, Who lise unblessed, unloved, and hopeless dfy v, Slowly the day drsggod to its dismal close, Dark, dark, and drear, Thal wild storm held its course ; BUll ftfully in forrents full the rain ; Qlerhicad the lowering clouds etill darkly frowned ; No brighter moment this dull, leader: gloom Tilumined, with rapid dlesm swift vaxishing ! Tho sun with all his plendor could not piorce, 3With Lis all-potent shaft of fiery beams, Their heavy pall; no sudden, golden ritt, Blue lake by topjiling, firc-scamed hills engirt, Tho burning hesvens afawe diaclosed, besoud Tho stormz, - And 60 in sullen wrath ho sank E'en ag at dswn in trinmph he had smiled. And all day long my dark, despairing mood, With doubt and fear tormeuting me, held 8%y, ‘This gloomy world, to my aad soul 1 eemed, By Deity beneficent, disownod, 1s'ruled by some dark fate, blind, merclless, Or conacious Fiend, in cruel, wanton sport, Who tortures man, his creature and his siave, And dogs im, wretched, to the srms of death, - VIEUINIA VAUGHAN, New Yors, Juno 1, 1672, ~Golden Age. N —A minister examined his school-boys thus : “VWhat is *ho mesving of the ward *rapent- ant?'" * Please, sir, don’s know."” “Now, if I had stolen a loaf of bread, what should 1 be 7" £“Pleasp, sir, locked up.» " Well, shonld T feel sorry 77 Yen.” “Well, why should I feal sorry?” Pleaso, 8ir, cos you was cofched.’” —It is a carious fact that, while besux are Eormictad to goonin the way they are bent, f.:l“lfa are expecied to go in tho way they are - . BIBLIOMANIA. Extraordinary £ale of Costly Books. The Perkins Library Put Up at Auction Near London—Some Rare Volumes-- Remarkable Prices. London (June 5) Correspondencs of the New York Tyidune. Tho great Perkins sale began on Taesdsy, and ends to-morrow,—not a long period for the dis- persion of & library. But Mr. Perkins’ books can hardly be said to have constitated a library. They remind me of what I once heards distin- guished Frenchman say to another Bibliophilo : “Ab, yon have s fine collection of books. I have a library,” which was true. He had about 8,000 volumes;the other had a certain number of bibliographical rarities. There are about 865 titles on the Perking [catalogue, and it contains two olasses of books, those which are worthless and those which are priceleas. Howaever, I will postpone what I heve to say generally of the li- brary till the Iast day's sale is over—a sale which includos a0 unusually fine first folio of Shak- speare aud the two Mezarin Bibles. From some whim, the owners have chosen to sell thess books st Hanworth Park, twelve miles from London, and it costs a wholo day, or at least from 12 to 6, to attend the eale. With an ordinary library, such a mistake would have been fatal, but the Perkins books would bring their price if sold in Madagascar, provided only that time enongh ‘were given to enable buyers either to go or send commissions. This library, 8s a whole, is ex- pected to fetch $100,000 ; an enormous price for less than'900 lots. Judging from the first day’s sal, the estimste will probably be exceed- ed, for the firat day, which is by 1o mesns tho richest, foots up about $20,000, I asked & book- selier what ho supposed & Alazarin Biblo on vel- lum would bring. “If I wanted it,” hean- gwered, “ I should not think of sending a bid of less than £20,000 I" We ehall know to-morrow how zear the estimato comes tothe sctusl price, and whether the Bhakspeare first folio, an- nounced as equal to the Daaiel copy, is“to equal oF surpass it in price. = Tho first day, thongh somewhst deficient in general interest, was very rich in Bibles, aud the prices were certainly, ini some cases, extraor- dinary. Pfllfinfx M8, nsido, the gem of the col- loction was a Dible in two volumes, folio, on vellum, with illaminsted capitals, being the firat edition of tho Latin Bible, with & date (1162), & book of groat rarity on paper, but, curiously enough, less rare on vellum, if Brunet is to be trusted, who says that forty copies exist on vel- lum and only twenty on paper. This is due, no doubt, to the great durability of vellum and the greater care taken of such copics. The present copy has been in & number of well-known libra- rieg, and has fetched at different sales a little under or over 21,000, In 1823, it was sold for $1,075, and afterward, at the Dent eale, for 3865, according to Brunet ; but, if I remember rightly, the sum was 31,365 (i. e., either £173 or £273). On Tuesdsy, the principal bidders wore Mossrs, Flis, Stevens, oad Quaritch, all booksellers, and it was knocked down to the latter for £780— £3,990. ! Lovpoy, June 6.—In all the snnals of Biblio- mania,—and they aro- nuinerous,—there is nothing to equal the last duy's sale of tho Porkins Library. There havo been far more remarkable collections of books than that ownoed by the late Mr. Henry Perking. Thera have Leen sales which cxtended over ten times as many days. There have beon sales—though not many—which produced in the aggregates greater sum than was takenin the four days which wore found eufficient to disperse Mr. Perkins' cabinet. But never before was there a eale in which 80 few booke brought so mnch money, never ono in which ovor £10,000 (350,- 000) ‘ware bid in a single dsy, Daver onein which, on the same day, thero camo to the hammer the four Shakspecare folioy and two copies of the Mararin Biblo. The first Shakspears folio in fine condition, a3 this was, i8 of itself cnough to give celebrity to any sale, but to-dsy it has been almost Jost sight of in the splendor of two incomparably more precious = volumes. Probably in no private library were two copies of tho Mazarin Biblo" ever befors united.—cor- tainly never before was any copy, whether on vellum or paper, sold at euch s price a8 theso fetched to-day, More than this: Never before to-dsy has any printed book beon sold for so much a8 the least of these two. Never but once has any printed book broaght half so much, It would seem as if tho steadily and rapidiy in- creasing prices of rare books have at last reach- ed o point beyond which they caunot much fur- ther go—though I mean to make no prediction. Thera have been verious epochs in book-buying. The Boxbnl"gl sale marked one, tho Heber an- other, the Daniel another—not to go out of England. There were times when certain books Wers iu fashion &nd brought high prices, and other times when other books became the rage and the former were negleoted. The charscteristic of the present period is the dearness of all. Good books, of no matter what description, bring, if good, such prices 88 Were never before dreamed of. ~Msanuscripts, incana- buls, early-printed bookg of the sixteenth cen- tury, oarly English and French, Italisn, and oven Spanish pootry and romances, Peaiters, service-nooks, Aldines and Elzovirs, Books of Hours, whether manuscript or printed, books ownod by famous men or women Gr from famons libraries, books from the collections of Grolier, de Thou, Longepiorre, from Kings’' libraries or their mistrosses', books with really fine illustra- tious, especially of the eighteonth century, ‘books relating to Americs, tho whole catalogucs of early Shakspeares, and Elizabethan-dramatic litersture and pootry in general, and, lastly, books remarkablo solely for their bindings, are sought after with an agidity unsurpassed in any days, and prices ara paid for them which would have prevented the formation of most or all of the great collactions of former days. An spparent exception, furnished by to-day's sale, is only spparent. The Perkins first folio Stakspears’ bronght but £585, whilo the Daniol copy, to which the prosent is probably ca the whole equal, fetched £716, and was_bought, as is well known, for Miss Burdett-Coutts. But the circumstancea of that sale are not likely to oceur again, A copy gaid to be equal to eithor of the two in question has been lately disposed of by s London booksellor for £525, st private sale, The throe messure alike 1336 by 81 inches. The Perkins_copy, which I measured to-day, is rather over than under thogo figures, both ways, It has & number of rough leaves on the bottom edge, and would bo s matchless copyif the top edgo'had been spared by tho binder in_unything like thesame proportion as_ the bottom. But nearly all the margin is gone at the top.._ o really oo copy af fhe book is knoswn. If one should ever turn mp in an uncut stato, nobody can say what price it might not bring. The titlo of this copy is rebacked, and the funer edgo mounted, the impression of tho portrait good, the last leaf unusually sound, and &l tho leaves including the verses are of course genuine, Mr. Hayes, the Manchester bookseller, was the buyer, and considering how Manchester hus long compoted with London in pictures, there is nothing extraordinary in a fine firat folio being allowed to go to a provincial town. The second folio went for £44, the third for £105, both fine copies, and chesp. The fonrth was ‘bought by Mr. Probasco, of Cinciunati, for £23, also a fine copy. The Mazarin Bible gets its name from the fact that the copy first known to all biblio- iscovered in the library Cardinal Mazarin, It has the double distinction of being, probably, the first edition of the Latin Bible, and the first book printad with metal types by Guttenberg and Faust. As it has no dato (the first edition with a date is 1462), the year of its production can only be stated conjecturally, as not earlier than 1450 nor Iater than 1455. The description in the auction- eer’s catalogue follows Dibdin in many particu- lars, but Dibdin (though his books, from their beaaty and other ressons, bring higher prices than ever) is no longer an suthority, nor i8 ho to be trusted in eny matter where exactness is roquired. However, thore can be little doubt that this book was printed at Mayence, and we havo the usual roundabout testimony that be- fore the sheets were worked off the cost of it had reached 4,000 florins. Whether on paper or on vellum, it 1s one of the finest ks and rarest in tho world, and ono of tho fiest as well as carliest specimens of printing. One can al- most agree with the cataloguer that ““in con- umplntin‘g:hin work, the mind is lost in aston- ishment that the inventors of printing should, by a single effort, hsve exhibited tho perfection of their art.” A The book is in two volumes folio (but the vol- lum copies are printed on single, unfolded sheets), printed in doubie columns of 43 lines each, excepting tho eight, which have 40, and the ninth and tenth, which Bave 41 If I rightly understood Mr. Henry Stevens, tho copiea on vellum differ from tha copies on paper to such an extent that they are really two different edi- tions; the number of lines varying ix the two, and tho setting-up showing other variations. o The types employed are manifestly cast in imita~ tion of the lettars designed by the writers of the Ri.!n.ls A;d kl;x?;har bookalmnmh Bervice e.tyol e two Parkins copies, an opportunity to exumine only that on velium. Whethar the fiaeat in existence or not, it is an extraordinarily good example. It formerly conatituted, says the cata- logue, the chief ornament and glory of the Li- brary of the University of Mentz, whence it was obtained by Messrs. Nicol. Dibdin eays it then wanted two leaves, which wers supplicd by Whitaker in fac-simile. The catalogaer ad- mits that ho has found one doubtful leaf, but -has quite failed to discover the second Ono ‘missing leaf is quite enough to destroy all claim of this copy o be considered perfect. I do not know on what authority it is stated that * not.. one of the five known copies are belicved to be perfect.” To begin with, thers areseven known copies on vellum, insf of five. Icannotat the moment refor to Renouard’s catalogue, but I don'tshialk all ;;1 tho sgven are kuown or be- ieved to be imperfect. other raspects, the Ferking copy ia really 60 magnificsnt ao ety ita eingle deficiency all the more deplorable. It ‘mozsures 1634 inches by 1334, and its edges aro in many places the actual edges of the skin:- Mr, Btevens called my attention to s point that not even the zeal of the cataloguer discovered, viz.: that even the pin-holes are not trimmed off. It has s blank leaf at the beginning of Vol 1, and the general condition of the vellum is excel- lent, or ‘will beif the purchaser will only wipe off with & gilk bandkerchief the preparation with which some superserviceable restorar has smeared the vellum to make it look white and pure. Tho ink s brilliant, the impression basu- tifolly sharp and clear. It is & monument of typography ; yot, t0 one who eare for printing, tho copy on paper is more desirsblo book. _ &1 the latter I bad only a glance, but, in the first place, it is_absolutely parfect, and, in the sec- ond, all vellum printing is a struggle with need- less difficultios, and the best tpression can hardly equal the best on paper.. Every book- fancier knows the difficulty of g?)eeing any book, and especially any modarn book, on vellum in a- good satate. The register of the paper copy of the Mazarin Hible is perfect, while in the vellum copy almost every other paga is uneven. There are twenty copies in existence on paper, of which one at least is in America, in ;ha] é\nox library, bought by him long ago for But there they wore, Be their merits or de- fects what they might, they sre s matchless E;ir, and anybody who wanted & Magarin Bible ew that a choice between two copies was not likely to occnr again inhis lifotime. The vellum copy Was putmugl at thirty-two minutes past 5, and was started at 1,000 guineas by Mr. Toovey, a book-geller in Picadilly. The second bid was £1,200, the third £3,400, and they advanced this regularly and rapidly by steps of £200 esch, till the book stood at 42,400, when Mr.. Ellis bid £2,600. From this time on there were but two competitors. In that crowded libs there re- mained nobody but Mr, Elis and Mr. Toovey to contest its posscssion. The bidding rose stoadily and - almost without pause by hundreds to £3,100 ; then by fifties & little more glowly to £3,250, which was Mr. Toovey's offer. Mr. Ellis, appesfed to to advance, refusad. The auctioneer's hammer swung in the air just ready to fall as he changed his mind sod bid £3,300. Mr. Toovey edded £50. Mr. Ellisslowly said £81400; there was a hush, a moment of silence, tollowed by » moment of entreaty from the suc- tioneer, but Mr. Toovey shook hishead snd moved ' sway, and the hammer came down at £3,400. The seliing hed occupid just six min- utes. Till then the largest sum éver bid for a printed book was £2,260 at the Eoxburgh sale by the Marquis of Blandford for the unique Val- darfor Boccaccio of 1471, and the other book L remember to have fetched over £1,000 was the first Coxton, with a dato also 1471, the *‘Re~ cayell of the Historyes of Troye,” sold at 1,000 guinoas at the same sale, sixty-one years ago. The paper copy foliowed at once. This also Mr. Toovey started at & thousand guiness, and Messrs. Ellis and Toovey were the chief bidders till it reached £1,990, when Mr., Quaritch came to the front and bid £2,000. From tlis point the contest wasmaintained between Mr. Quaritchand Mr. Toovey, the bidding ndvlncmE only by £10, sud sometimes by £5, till the book was knocked down to Mr. Quaritch for £2,6%0. It was under- stood that Mr. Ellis bought on a commiesion, and Mr. Quaritch on his own sccount, to sell again, though as to the former I am not sure. The 1wo together brought £6,090—say £30,000, 1 cannot learn thst any American library or cole lector made an effort to gecure cither. One or- der sent for the vellum copy at £2,250, was with- drawn by _cable—an ¢ expense quite thrown away, The amount . of _the singlo day's sale was £10,393; of the four days, £25,743. DMlore than four-fifths of this sum was produced by 55 books aud manuscripts. The whole amount would bave been increased but for the usual *knock-out™ among the book- sellers—an operation compared vith mlich high- way robbery is an honorable profession. G. W. 8. BOME OF THE PRICES PAID, To the Editor of the New York Tribune: Stm : One of the junior membera of our firm, who attended the sale of the Perkins Library at Haworth Park, near London, sends us a report of some of the items which will interest book- buyers; Lot No, 42—Boswell's Johnson presentation copy, “To Ar. Perkins from the Author......£& 62 Lot No. 174—Biblia Sscra Manuscript of the Thirtcenth Century...... Lot Xo. 186—Eiblia Sac, ‘printéd ‘on, vellums, 0 95 o 180 English Manuscript... i 1,320 Lot No. G95—Talpin. Instifution d'un’ Prince irestien. ... 109 Lot No, S14—Peieriny Lot No. B15—Pic Costumes 98 2 350 ] Lot No. 826—Purchas’ “ Pilgrimes i Tot No. 837—Shakspeare, firs: folio edition, 1053, 585 Lot No, B33—Shakspeare, second edidlon, 1682.... 4 Lot No, 830—Shakspeare, third edition, 1664. 105 840—Shakspeare, fourth edition, 1635, 2 . 858—Vitm Patrum, or “ Lyves of Her- mytes, 180 Lot No, 864—Diblia’ Sacra Latina, kno Mazarin Bible, on vellum. 3,400 (Probably the highest price ever paid for & single volume, being equal to £21,400 in Americats curzencs.) Yot No. 865—Biblia Sacra—tho seme book printed on paper.. . 2,690 ‘The entire sale real £26,000, or $136,000, for 865 Iots, which is by far the highest price over realizod for such a quantity of books. The owner belonged to the woll-kuown firm of Bar- clay, Perkins & Co., celobrated for their porter. J. Bany & Soxs. New Yoms, June 18, 1673, —_—_— ONLY A WORD. A DUSINESS-LIKT POEX, # Come,” was the only word she raid The only word—but oh, her look | 1 read it like soma fairy book ; And, 25 L read, The swimming biaza of perfumed light Grew faint. 1 watchod her sudden flight Likto one enraptured in a france ; Then wiftly cleft the whitling dance, And followed blindly where sheled. Through jewelled throng she swopt in pride, Bhe stood alone, and by hor side Istood! Bhe folt her magic power, Came music soft and sweet, 1 plucked s choice exotic flower ; 1 longod with worlds my love to dower— . 'Ta cast them at her fect, Bhe spoke again, She whispered “ Gol” 3y blood rosehot ! I cried, @0, "darling| Yo, from Iand to land, O'er Taging seas, o'er barren strand | - A wanderer from climo to clime, On to eternity through time— Bo this my lot, supreme, sublimal - No joy ahall charm, no speil entice. Repest thy mandate. Resdy, nee, Tstand prepared to fly for theo ™ * She sald, “ Go—get a strawb'ry ice I" —_— Higgine Dog. It was a great many years ago, at s camp~ mecting, that Brother Higgins, & good man, but passionately fond of dogs, came In one day ac-~ companied by a black-and-tan hound. Some- body asked him to address the congregation, and ho mounted the stand for that purpose, while his | dog eat down on haunches immediately in front, looking at his master. In the midat of the discourse, which entertained ns mnch, an- other dog came up, and after a few sociable mmiffs at Lirother Higgina' dog, began to oxamine the hind leg of tho latter with his teeth, spparently for the purpose of ascer: taining if it was tonder. An animated contest ensued, and ome of the congregation came forward for the purpose of separating the animala. His efforta were not wholly succesatul. Ho would enatch at the log of Hififma‘ dog, but beforo his hand got thero the yellow dog would be on that gide, and would probably take an_incidentsl and cursory bite at the deacon’s band. Brother Higgins paused in his discourse and watched the deacon. Thernhe exclaimed, “Spit in his eye, Brother Thomp. son; spit in thehound's eyel” Brother Thomp- son did, and the fight ended. * But I just want to say,” continued Mr. Higgis, ‘*that ontside of the sanctury that dog of mine can eat up any salmon-colored animal in the Siete, and then chaw up-the bones of its ancestors for four generations without turning & bair! You under- ;und me?” The services ~Maz GIRLS “AND" THEIR OPPORTUNITIES. From the Beston Adertiser. ithough the University at Cambridgo stil re. fuses to admit women s students within frg walls, it i8 quito willing .fo nesist in what. i called their higher education, and to give ther opportunity for collegiate study under its super. vision. The Faculty of the Colloge hsve just made l_mgamunks for the exzmination of womenina courss of study carefully markeg out for tham, and published with & fuil list of the necessary books. ' The preliminary exam- ination will bo beld fur the first timo iy JlmeA of npext year, and will embrace English, French, ~phyaical geography, botany or physics, arithmetic, algebra throngh quadratio equations, plene geometry, history, and either Greek, Latin, or German, An sy vanced oxamination will be held for girls who have passed the preliminary one. No girl under 17 is received at the first exami. nation, none under 18 ai the second. This re. striction is, we think, a wise one. Tho yearsbe. ¢ween 17 and 20 are in most cases the best years of & woman's life for uninterrupted study. Her health should then o vigorous; she snoald Tmve the enthusiasm of youth; snould not be burdened by social duties or domestic cares; should bo prepared for the College course by her training in the public orin private schools. and should find thosa last years of study yeara of thorough enjoyment, 85 well as of increasing mental and physical strength. o dogrees aro conferred on female students, but they receive certificaten signod by the Presja dent, declaring that A B has passod, passed with distinction, or paesed with .the highest distinc~ tion, the dpxeliminu.ry or_advanced examinaten held under the direction of the Faculty of Harvard College. The fos for tho prelimi: nary oxamination is - $15; that for the advanced, 10, Notices of the place and timo of 'examinstion will be sent to can didates. The Women's Education Association will take charge of those held in Boston, will provide board and lodging, and assist in_paying the cost of examinations for those girls who need such bolp. The first examination will las soven days. We welcome anything that puts the best of education within the reach of men or women, If only one woman in the country is convinced that she needs education according to Harvard, and can pay for it, it i8 well that she can ve her desire or ambision patisfied. But we wish to say emphatically that the graat defect in the present system of female education is fundamental snd can. ot beremedied by any course of advaseed stady. Women as a general thing, tanght from. ‘books, withoutreference to their practical dati or their condition in life. As the world is now, ‘most women leave school and enter at once npon their share of the endless and often dopressing cares of & household. The fortunate few—if in- doed they are fortunate—who escape thess cares, aro exceptions to the general rule; and public education should be for the greatest good of the greatest number, not for the excep~ tional few. ~Tnero i8 no question that 8 wisaly- cultivated intellect is, or should be, an infinite gource of happiness. Mr. Hammerton saya that “The essence of intellectual living resides not in the extent of scionce or perfection of expres- sion, but in a constant preferenco for higher thonghts over lower thoughta.” This preferance it is the province of teachers to-create and es. tablish; no woman who possesses it can be too grateful for it ; it often makes for her the differ- ence between's lifo of happincss and omeof misery. : : - It hag been our good fortune to know women of this aod the last generstion,—women who were almost without what are now called “ ad- vantages of education,” because suchadrantages did not then exist,—who might be models for the voung and ambitions students of to-day. They were women who had been taught practi- cally, and bed, bosides, trainod intellactns, tastes, They were mistresses in their house- holds, able, and often obliged, to do ail the wert: o & hoepitable family. They were not terrifed by sicknoss or appalled by danger, for they had best. tought to meet both with ‘calmness ‘and akill Bus they were not irritated ‘or demoralized by their petty cares, or tho real drudgery of their work ; they knew how to keap these subordinate, and their noble intellectual tastes, rahter than their petty cares, gave the tone to their livea: A half-hour’s reading each day of Bnc& or Mil. ton, or Sir Thomas Browno; & halt-hour's stady of gome acience or art; & half-hour's workat mathemstics, has held to its highest uses maoy o day of many a woman's lifs that” would otherwise have gone to wasts and weakness, To be able to getontof ths pressure and hurry of life, to staud aside, asif were, and see things in their trao lights and trus proportions, is one of the bast reaults of educs- tion. Such reading or such study lifts & woman- out of the daily routine; she stands above i seos the end and the good of it, sees how e the obstacles are that looked like mountainste her, serenely puts them aside, and does not al- low what are considered the Bpecial worries of Women to ruffle her dignity or clond her mind. The troubla to-day is, thit girls confound sc- uisition of knowledge with edncation, and pride emselves on & certain number of facts which they have stored in their memories, and which, for & few years, they use with showy effect. They think thoy know s great deal more than they do; they peep through the windows of science, ses 5o hure and s dower thera, trifie s fittls with acids, slkalics, and crucibles, snd are - persuaded that astroio- mers, botanists, and chemists; they mn- dervaluo all knowledge which they do not possess, and are inclined to despise all labor, save that of the studest. Tnero i3 no branchof Jearning which girls may not_bo tanght; thers is no height of learning to which gir] nob aspire ; buk they ehould be taught, most of all* persopal dignity, the noed snd the beanty d dupting themeelves to the life in which they are placed ; their studies shonld, 60 far s pos: sible, have a practical application’; they snould understand that they cannot know much at &0y rate, and should learn the graces of intellectual ‘modesty. The present method of education is very un- like the old, but wo are not sure it is an improve- ment upon it, it makes different womem, bu we should not dare to say that it makes better ones. It should keep what is of worth in the old, and add to it what is of worth in the nex. We would have girls taught, as they used to b taught, the elements of English education, sew- ing, helpfulness, system, obedience, respect for g0 and character, simple and healthfnl babitg— to learn these last five is a saving rather than a0 expenditure of time,—and a tasto for stud and the best literature. Then every girl ahoul have s few years of classical study,—the valu of which will bo falt in many imporiant but mdix roct ways, It gives & quality to the mind thatno other studies do give. To know that lifesnd world of the past, their greatness, their wisdom, their accomplishments, their heroes, philose- phers, and poets, is the best counterweight fo the conceit, impatience, hurry, and superfi study which nre the dangera of those Who L% wholly in_the present. Classical studies gife & find poise to the mind which itnesergul loses, and which it is not hard to keep, eves the midst of woman's practical life, if shobst the all-important intellectual taste. : This system of education does not preved any intellectnal growth, does not crush anyi> tellectual aspirations, does no stand in the w3 of any special culture. A collegiate traini’g: might lend graco and ornament to it, butit not necessary to ita symmetry or its srengih Tho mosna for the best education 87 now within tho reasch of every girl bt they are sadly overlooked. Parents i teachers should be guides as well 88 torty and shonld look to the future lives of mfi‘; pupils, and not merely to-their standing in the class or college. The child's plsy of stick™ flowers thick in_the earth and calling. them 8, garden, 15 harmless ; bt many a girl i eds e on that principle, and the resuit is ruinons. pes flowers fade ; the girl forgets her hmg.'m" there is left, in one case, and barren WSS in the other, a misereble, incapable 'am‘”‘"”'u: wenk and nervous,—whom physicians Pr for, and then, strangely enough, use 854 ing to other women against stady. o capacity, tomult, discontent, sod 7 homes come sometimes from ignoranch el Belp they are times from misapplicd or distorted knowy Education shonld stzengthen awomat, 810.7; mske 8 apace of Bweetnesa and lig! : her wherever she is placed. This is vl 4 ther who are to be poor, and to work BLIH, lives, meed. This is what W aro ' rich, and tempted to U, need, This T};u au;rg fiz; mh"fl, only equality; e condition of - spect and sympathy which 20 @d‘r ward circumstances can br s oot psir. Our truly edacated womsh o g & cresturo of the imagination, but Tite, whose ezample, if gt should be ‘fg'“fg! would, in another generation, increaso pen = ber of doestic and feminine wan tivated tastes and wall-trained and, co=3q Iy, well-stored_miods,—women who Da%0 ) 5e to their faith virtue, to their virtnek 5 snd who bave indoed found that \;;-"““‘ 'WaYB aro ways of pleasantness, and are peace.” B ———— A A e e e S S