Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 3, 1873, Page 11

ITALY. How Shopping Is Conducted in That Country. Sceries in Florence-==Tho Cascine--~ “siatues in the Loggia di Lanzie Ball's Statue of St John the Evan* golist, A Festa on the Grand Canal of | Venice. Spectal Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, . BADEX DADEN, July 9, 1619, n tho hurry and confusion of rapid travoling, T have boen unablo until now to obtain loisuro- time enough to sond you yot n fow rominisconcos of Italian travel which T hind thought might provo of intorost to your rondora, Oue thing I want %0 say & fow words about is BUOPFING TN ITALY, and human naturo o8 oxemplified in tho Italian shopman. Now, I.am naturally inclined to look favorably tpon humanity. I beliove peoplo, o arule, aro protty respoctablo, and moan to do ‘thoir duty to their followa; but a largo exporionco of Italian shopmen is almost onough to shinko ono's faith {n humen naturo. 1 thin thesomon aro intimately acquaintod with Machiavolli, and ool to sot out his maxima in their daily lifo. You can hardly boliove onything thoy eay, 88 o gonoral thing, Thoy aro &ly boyond all beliof. T was told by old residents in Roma that, if you como ina oarringe to their storos, they will charge you highor pricos than if you came on foot, What close studonts of charactor thoso follows are! They have scquired the habit of monsuring each customer intellectually, prob- ing his woak points, scolng. how good-naturod ho in, and how much humbug hoislikely to swallow, tosting tho depth of his purao, observing oriti- cally his suscoptibility to flattery; in a word, taking his moral and intollectual portrait ina marvelously short epace of time, and acting no- cordingly. Thoy always ask yoa moro for thoir wares than thoy oxpect floally to roceive; the ouly question is, how yauch more, whother three timos or twice the valuo of tho article, oronly L)t o8 much again. It is amusing to watch thom when tho besting-down procees bogins. They aro at onco armed for dofonso, **Tiwenty {ranca for this, you wretch? How much less will you tnko?" ¢ Oh, Bignor, Signor! itisso ‘wondor- fully woll mado; the workmanship so oxquisite; ah! and tho besuty, tho costliness!” * What's your lowest prico?” “Well, 1 might let you baveit for19, for the eakoof & trado, but I shall loso money.” “I will give 16 francs.” 0Ol Bignor! impossible, impossiblo.” # Yery woll,” and you turn to go. ‘*Ah! 18, Signor ! 381" «I'l give you 15 francs.” With a shrug of tho shoulders and,an_oxpression of absoluto contempt ¢ Impossible, Bignor " . You goet nbout hnif-way out of the store, when ho calls you baclk, and whines for 17 francs, or 16 at the vory lonst, and he makea wry facos over that. You got cloar out into the strock, snd ho runs aftor you, calls you back, sud offers you the artiolo at your own prico, “Takoit! take it, Siguor " but he looks molancholy and ill-used. The result s, you have probably paid about half g8 much againas tho articlo is worth ; yougo away wishing youlind offorod 10 franca and the trades- man chucklos asho thinks what afool yousrato al- 1ow yoursolf to be 8o imposed upon. And so it goon averywhoro, uutil you ste tired of buying, and voyr you wlil not enter auother shop. Some- times thoro are ona-prico stores § but the prices in them are alwaya tho bighest in the market. The only difforence botween thom and the othors ie, that thoso latter denlors may have rather ‘moro capital and impudenco than the othors, and will not abatoe their oxtortionate demands, ‘whero- as the othors will if you drive thom to it. But the subject is not & very sgrooable one, partiou- tarly to any one who has boen long in Italy, I would rather writo of somothing pleasanter, and shat moro delightful subject could I chooso than o zh PATR CITY OF FLORENCE ? 1t sooms to mo asit Florence must be tho most boautitul city in the world, Itis such & pootical city, and seems to stand with such o simplo ma- Jesty upon the banke of its éwift-rushing Aruo, and in tho midst of its lovoly hill-encircled valo. 3omo citles aro beautifully situated, and onjoy Al the charms which Nnture can give them; pthors are finely built, and aro in thomeelves at- tractive ; but Florenco is the only city I over saw which combines, in tho most romarkable manner, oxquisito uatural benuties snd porfoct grace and dignity of architocture. There is T tho outslirts of tho city a drive, which hos been constructed . of late, and _ whioh must cortainly bo tho fincst suburban irive fn the world. Tho road winds upward over the slopes of o groen hill-sido, and, a8 it turns now this way sud now ihat, over now viows of tho fnir city bolow and the encircling «hlls aro sproad out boforo tho oye. Around the rity, whose walle now gliston whito bolow us, are sproad out mendows of vivid, dazzling groem, with here and thore & 8nOWy MAnsion, with ifs fuxuriant groves sbout it, and Lore and thero & chutel, n every hill-side riso tho bright villag, and many & summit is orownod with its {flulurnquu monastory, or lonely, massivo ower, : 2 TIE OAY CITY ITBELP, #ith all its brilliance of color, forms the fora- round of this oxquisite picturo, sud right in o contre risos the wondrous dome, the ride of Florenco, the admiration of lichaol Angolo, tho grontest domo that human hands, have ever —raisod ; . and close fosido it standa tho lofty Campanile, offering, with ita slender graco and dolicats beauty of outling, 8 striking contrast to the grandour and gignity of tho great dome. Another tower joins tho group, the most plcturasque, 1f not the most imposing, of all tho towors of Floronce,—the ptrange, weird, stono tower of the Palazzi Voc- chio, whose slendor shaft and widening top give |t the appearance of & gigantio flower on & lofty stem. ~ Around theso contral flguron clustor many s brilliant structure, warm with southern tints, and many o storn sod _sombro Kile' whose severe simplicity and massivo sirengh rocall the Republican doys of Torence, It is n glorious scone, and, when bathed in the golden sud pur- plo llghts’ of an Itallan sunsot, fills the mind with images of poetry and beauty, and pro- duces an impression never to bo forgotten. Another of the attractions of Floronco ls TIHE CAHOINE, 8 largo park, filled with very ‘benutiful folisge, and most pic m'ur“xnly situated on the bonks of the Arno, and in the midst of soft groon moad- ows, which strotch awsy to tho blue, inclosing hills, Hithor comoall tho arigtocracy.of flor- snce,—some in handsome oarriagos, others on horsoback, and perhaps & very fow walking along the moro shady and secludod pothe, It is avery gay scono, partionlarly at the hour of punsot, when nearly all Florenco seoms to be horo; indoed, & large, opon placo in the Caacine, in front of & handsomo rostaurant, might be callod Florenco's recoption-room, for hora all tho carringes cougregato ‘aftor their drivo, sand the inmaten converso togethier a8 if they wore at au ovoning party. But we must not epend all our time in riding abont tho outskirty and parks of the dity. There aro ploasnut walks, offeriug wmuch to tepay the pedostrian, in the interior of the oity. Ouoof the first places thot strangors walk to .880 i tho Pinzza dolin Bignorls, & larga squaro, with the grim walls of the Palszzo Vecchio on ono aldo, and _ tho graceful arches of, the Loggia i Lanzi on tho other. I desiro to say & fow words about this Loggin, Thore are s \ GUEAT MANY BTATUES {n it, and, a8 it used to bo the favorite assem- bling-place of tho populace, I muppose tho . sharaotor of tho statues would be s tolerably rorreot expression of tho faste of the Florentinos, If @0, they are, or wore, sloodthirnty,—very, ~The * first slatue wo ook ub ls o bronze Yorsous, rathor ‘ho worse for tho weather, but who would be s oy handsome young man wero it not for the Aafus upon ks “face, snd doubtless very af- Factive, excopt for tho disagreoable aspect in whioh 'ho s _unfortunatoly hunded down to postority, 1o has hown tho head from & prostrato fomale form, appar- ublio vlew. A. gront donl of blood flows from ho dissavorod hoad, also from the hendloss nack, nnd tho effoct {8 rathor disngrooable to me. I nl:flm!n tho Florentines liked fi, would linvo beon taken down long sgo. The noxt statuo Lohind this spngninary individual in group of n warrior who hns slain one womun, is about to slay nuother with his sword, which ho is brandishing sloft, and {8 run- ning off with n third, who s sirolch- ing out ler hands in an &mnforh\g mannor, and looks, and no doibt s, in great troubls. The mmlimlro of this _group i veory fine, Ism told, but I object to the subject. "Lt us go o little farthior.” On tha othor sldo, & big Roman is run- niug off with a Babino girl, who acoms in torrible dintross, and so does her mothor, whom the Erone, u‘umny, cruel Roman is mmiusuly trond~ ng undor foat, This anh{’ucl doos not plonso mo ; it iu vory distrossing. Bohind tlus Roman party is Ilorcules, ongaged in tho !)lununnl task of toaring o Centaur to plecen, Of courso tho Contaur objocts, snd his oxprossion of agony offers & fit_companion-piccs for tho poor Bablne q}lr ,” the unfortunato - Pol‘{xonu and.-tho Tolioadod Modusn, In tho middle of tho Loggia, wehave somo humauity nt lant. Somo warrior {8 trflng to rosoue his friond's body from the foo. Tho subjoct of it i not cortninly known, I bollovo ; but, generally sponking, it is, a8 I havo anid, & wartior "fl:’fi to resouo his friond's body. I ehould think ona would bo rotty caroful of n friond's body in this erowd, or fonr of docapitation or other mislireatment from tho bloodthiraty individuals. all around, Thoro aro 8 fow quiot and respectablo stntues round the walls; but they koop in tho back- ground, oa though thoy woro ashamod of their company. mgfi nerogs tho strcot s another which ought to be In the Loggin, but i8 . 'Theso gon'lomen aro looking _ toward oic frionds in tho Loggin, sud lmow thoy bolong thero, I refer to IHorcules, who has got Cacus by tho lair, and 1 poising 1ils club & momont bofore i Lraius him. This group would bo dlsnsmnnblu, 1iko the othors, ox~ cu‘n hat it is so ludicrously funny. Old Hor- culos stands thore, looking™ biaudiy off toward somo distant quartor of tho univorso, and not exerting tho lonst forco to keep his victim down, unlegs {t bo_moral forco, aud I sm sure ho had Jittlo enough of that. 'Tho vielim, howovor, waits witl &_pationco whicli ia_roelly bonutiful, and sooms to be saying, “ Whonovor you aro ready to hit mo, Horoules, go ahoad, but don't hurry in the least, I will waib ]m!iund{." Thore nro & good many similar groups in various parts of Europe, and they alwnya strike mo as supromo- 1y ridioulous in attitudo and osprossion. Thore ‘aro sovoral other statucs in_this squuro, tho fin- o8t boing Michnol Angolo's Duvid ; but thoy nro about to romove this to an eminonco at the sido of tho suburban_drivo I mentioned. =~ Probably David folt himeol€ in uncongonial socioty. Cor- tainly, whon ho leaves, thero will bo vori' littlo ruslmctnbilu loft in the statues of tho Pluzza delln Signorin. & 1 liave no intention of speaking about those two wondrous gallories which give to Florenco s highor place ag a Lomo of painting than porhaps any other city in Buropo ; nor shall I eay any- thing about that solenm, imponotrablo statue of TLoronzo do Medici, one of tho most glorious of all Michnol Angelo's productions ; but there in ono statuo hero in Floronco about which I muat suy o fow words, ag i is from tho chigel ‘of an American seujptor, Mr. Ball, and is goingto ‘Americn, whero it isto bo ¥lnuud in_ orest- Hill Cemotory, noar Boston, it isa full-longth figuro of BT. JOHN THE LVANGELIST, and sooms to mo tho most perfeet ombodimont | of lofty roligious iuspiration which I Live acon. The Baint stnnds eroct, with s oyes turnod to- wards heaven, and holding in his right Lund the pen with which ho is about to trouscribo the thoughts which erowd upon his inspired soul. The face is, most noble and strong, and yet mar- volously sweot, full of the force of o groat man whosa whole grontness is iutorpenetratod with and mouldod by the lovo of Clhwist, Intolloct, povwer, purity, and, sbovo all, the high rapturo of ingpiration, broatho from tho fonturcs, aud goom to throw a glory about the wholo form. Tho soulptor scoms to have csught and im- prosod upon tho marble tho very soul of St.. Jobn, the dearly-beloved friond of tho Bavior, and in the feld of sculpturo to which it belongs, it sooms to mo there aro fow works 8o perfect, Tthink every American who gocs it must bo proud tliat an American sculptor has produced n work of such ionlus. But I must bid farewoll to Florence ; nor will T Jinger at Milan ; nor on tho ehores of tho cxquia- ito itslian lakes, in nll thoir entrancing loveli- noss, Only one more scono must I describo bo- foro Iloave Italy, nnd thst is o scons inthe most romarkable snd unique of all hor cities, Venico. Itiaa . “ FESTA" ON THE GRAND OANAL, and it takes placo about oncos mouth, Great numbera of gondole como togother, many of thom illuminated with brillinut-colored lanterns, and each bearing its light party of fnily-llmanmi ploasure-seckers, In tho midst o the floating mass i8 & little steamor bearing o fluo band of music, and also & bargo containing s cliorus of singors, So tho wholo procession pagses up tho Grand Canal from the Piazza di San Marco to tho Rialto, and bnok again; and, 28 thoy move plowly over tho smooth wator, now the band ploys boautifal music, aud now, in their turn, tho chorus sing tho romantic goudoln songs of Venice, Such asight can boscen nowhero also on onrth, 'I'he bright light rotlocted by the glittoring wators, that glow in consoquence with % thousand_epariding tints ; the ~ picturesquo palacos and churchos, which aro illuminated now _with red, now while, now green lights 3 o' little skils on tho oulskirts of tho crowd of gondolss, darting bithor and thithor with wondorful spood, snd booring Bengal lights, which throw an uncartlly radianco ovor overything ; tho slow, noiscless movemont of the wholo mass of boats; tho exquislto music flonting over the waves,—all combine to pro- duce un effect of wondrous boauty, and ro- markablo boyond sl deseription, I nover shall forget the sceno in front of tho Dogo's alaco, whero the procossion halted s moment, and, whilo tho quaint, pieturosquo_old building _was flooded with 8 white, almoat ghostly light, the notes of ‘most goft and most bowitching music flled tho air, Anything moro bosutiful and pootic, moro perfectly in harmony with all our xomantic ideas of this Oity of tho Bea, could hardly be imng- ined. The offect of the brilliant Hgt;t a8 Won- darfully enbanced by the rofloction in tho waters fudood, tho wator i tho cloment most cseontial to tho pootry of Venclian lifo. It inapires and Jonds norr Liosuty o tho songs thoy ving. It is tho paront of their stravgo gondolas, and it ivos tholr rich palaces o tenfold greator charm than their own richuess could aver bestow. Ven- ico has doubled beauty: her own, and what the water lends ber, W.C. L. R “HE IS NOT- DEAD.” ~ 4'With omptiod arms and trossure lost.” 5 ‘Hush 1 Trosd aoftly loet i slesn Tio disturbed, Nay, do not woop Bobblug forth, in angulsh vain, "That no earthly nolso or pain Nuw can make tho dropt lids riso, Or trouble biuo, untroubled oyes. Whah was that? What word was sald ? “That the littls one waa “ dend 7" Never lot thom mako your hoart In thetlying thought tako part | Friend, thore ia 1o roal death § Truo, the milky, baby-breath Latt it prison,—flying far Taut tho highedt crowning star Tiying stralght, "1 cought und prost Oni the dear Go's loving Lroast, There, within that happy home, - Littlo feot may safely roum, Oh, my darling] Though I miss Daby-inugh sud baby-kiss,— Though tho aching, empty heart Touse Huelf with uoh nid start,— Reaching through tho din and ound o that littlo, now-mada mound,— Tot 1 hear the calm, sweot yolco : it Mother, for hix saxo, Tojolce; Tud ho sfayed, thore might Iisve been Dluch of sarrow—much of biuj Now, whatover Tme nay do, Tio 14 safo tho agoa througl, Littlo face, 80 puro—so whito,— "Fhiougl carth hildo you from iy sight Well 1 know that #omo fair day You will greot me far away | God wil kegp you ewcot and falrg Aud T leavo you tu I carg. mrax KmMTLAND, S —— Livos Lost in the Fishorios,’ The Cape Ann Adverliser esys that in com- piling and collocting (he statiutics for the *‘ Figh~ ormon's Momorial and Record Dook,” it finds that thore have boon lost from Gloucestor eince 1830—s period of forty-two and o Ll yoars— twolvo hundred and fifty-one lives and two huu- drod and elghty-one vessels—valuod at noarly a million and a half—in tho fishing nnd coasting ‘businoss, averaging upward of twonty-nino livos and six vessols yoarly, L'ho valuo of tho vossals lost is $1,403,222; thelr insurance, $823,105, mast!( in tho looa! offices, Ninety-two of these yasuofs were lost in the Goorgos fishery, o littlo ovor ono-third of the wholo numbor ;" fifty-six in the Bay of Bt. Lawronco mackorel fisliory'; twonty in the shore cod flshory ; twonty-threo in tho Grand and Westorn Bank fishery § eigh- toon in the Newfoundland horring fishery ; twvo in tho Grand Meuan herring flshery ; one in the Groonland Liaiibut febory ; thirty-threo in tho + =y sty the xebel pirate Tas olso Poraous | Tt CHICAGO DAfLY THRIBUNE SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 1875. gony, and ona pilot boat lost in QGlouceater har- ¢ t 'An thera is no racord of the number of sidowa and orphana provions to 1868, it is impossibloe to got at the correct mumbor, bt it 8 probable thoy would nvorags ahout the same proportion a6 thona of tho last fourteen yonrs—tho mimbor ©of marriod mon being nbout one-third tho wholo number lost, and avernging two childron to » man, This’ would give in round numbors 400 widows and 800 fathorless childron loft destitute by tho diarstorn of the paat forty-two lyn:;rn, an averngo of ton widows and fwonty ohildren yonr- {_v,mlwhluh is not & largo ostimnto.” A sad rocord y. i AT B THE SONG IN THE DARK. T hieard & 1itlo Bird atnys ont, ono morning, Kehtlo el {ho dnrknews oversprend the wks, Auil 1ot 4 singlo akroko of raso gave waruing “Thiat duy was nigh ; It eang with such a awoot and joyful cleatness, Tho pilenco \len‘iuv with & notu so fino, Tstartod, thrilled with sudden senso of nearncss “T'o love divine, 40l weary honrt,” it soemed to uttor, henrkon! God rendw o michrngo 1o yoit in 1ny Rong s Tlio day i coming, thougii tho shadows darkon, And night'in loug, # God aoca your oyollds heavy—nob with flumber 3 - Tho norrowful fonrs that mako their brightness dim, - And all your pationt prayors=-1io man cau Humber—~ ‘Aro known to ltha, o day shall comie, your darkness dlspeneesaing '~ “And whilo thio bird sang, on my eyelits prest A'welght of aleep, tho woary brain earaasing Lo hnppy rest, 1 &lopt aa chlldren sleap, tired ont with crving ; Gud known, not T, when I hnd elept bofors 1 waked, to ind the gracious sunshine iying “Along tho floor. And in its Wessed light to see returning “Uihe faco of ono that was tho worid-to mo s Tho faco my heart, with bittor grief and yearning, ad nchied to Boo, Thedny had come, indeod | O sweetast singer, Thio xowy Yot aung me in the dark wan trilo, And would flnt T cottld be 8o swift a bringor 0f joy fo you! Your neat ehould rack tho greonest hranches, truly s ‘And thiere your sy brown mate ind downy brond Bhould chirp to you, and apread tholr winglets duly, Nor Inck for food, N oruel aporfeman ovor should besct you, No muliden fempeat evr cato aflvight, Nor any Jil, hint birds aro helr to, fret yot, By day or night. Vain wish, alaa} and valucless complotely & For whother it wan hiuckbird, wren, or lirk, Or eilver-throated thrnsl, that b1l 0 swoetly Sang in {ho dark, 1 never knew—yoll NOFETMArG COMD LEAT MO § Tut I can trugt you, clearly, to 1is caro ‘Whoso tender pity sont your song, to choer me Tnny despair, —The Aldine. e LITERARY NOTES. A now poom from Walt Whitman is promisod.. —'Tho minor works of tho Into M. Grote, iu- cluding seyoral unpublisliod papers, sre to bo p“huufied in London. —Tho Longmans, of London, announco * Tho Chironology of the Biblo and Historical Synchvon- isms,” by M. Ernest do Bunkon. Sfr, Blenchard Jerrold is engagod, with special Banction of the Empress Eugonio,on 1“The Life and Tismos of Napoloon 111" The fivat part is oxpectod about Christmas. —Dr, Colongo hins just ivsuod hiv work, from ywhich much hias beon antieipnted, on tho ¢ Fou- tatouch and tho Moabite Btono.” —Tortor & Contes, of Philadolphin, announco a now. complato, and thoronghly-roviked odition of Charles Yonno Hoffman's * Pooms.” —Mr. Froudo has engaged to writo tha ** An- nals of an Tnglish Abbay™ for Seribner's Month- Iy, for ¥1,000. *_Miss ‘Ann Frothingham, sistor of tho Rov, 0. B. Frothingbam, und_ tho trauslntor of ** lor- mann ond Dordthea,” s tranlaiod Lossing's # Laocoon,” aud Roborts Brothors will publish ftin tho fall. —'Tho Now York Graplic ina bogun the publi- cntion of onoof Pauldo Munsot's storios, eti- Hitiod. ¢ Tho Whito Dlackbird,” translntod by Miss Tdn Greeloy. Miss Groeloy is also engoged upon o story for tha Graphic, ‘which will soon BpPpoBY, —The Saturday Review eays thot the- transla- tlons from Sopliucles recantly published by Prof. Lowis Camploll, of St. Audrow's Universily, Taiuburgh, aro tho best and truest that havo yob appeared in Boglish, " Mrs, Mary Hovwitt an attompted to abridgo into ono' volume thut todious nine-volumo novel which wag s0 much admired by our leisurely an- costors, *8ir Charlos Oraudivon.”” Tho result in not oncouraging. —Among; the so-callod “new novela ™ of this summo way _* Tho oiress of Swoetwator,” by 3. Thornton Randolph ; publisbod by a Philadof- fuia houso. o wame navel pracisoly way pub- ished soventeen years ago, b{ the same pub- Jishor, under tho nano o * Kuto Aylesford, n Story of tho Refugeos,” by Charles J. I'etorson. —arly in the auturin will o published n col- loction of sketches by Brot lfarte, with n pre- Taco by the suthor, o volumo willincludo *An Episode of Fiddiotown,” now runniug in Serib- ‘ner's Monthly; Guild’s Signal,” wlich appenrod not longs ince in tho Tribune s * Mra. Binucho Bays,” ¢ Frinr Pedro's Ride," © My Othor Salf,” Aunivorsary Poom,” ¢ At tho Haciends,” aud A now fnc-similoof tho 1623 Folio of Bhak- aFcnra’u Plays, under the direct nnrorvislou of Mr. Howard Stanton, will ba shortly issued in Tondou, The fac-similo is o reproduction of the Bplendid copy in tho library of the Earl of Ellog~ more, at Bridgowator Houso; supplomented, whero any pages of that volume aro defective, by tho fine copy in the Greuvillo Library of the Britigh Musenm, —Crstelar’s now book upon “0ld Rome and Now Italy,” just translated into Enghsh, is pro- nounced by tho Athen@wmn gront litorary sue- cess, ““Thoro aro innumerable works, in all lan- Eungen, which poiut out the antiquitios aud tho intorical violssitudes of Rome, but thoro is nono which deseribas tho yaryiug nspects of Ital- ian lifo more vividly in fow chapters.” —ir. Furnoss’ varlorum edition of *¢Mac- both” oxhausts history, fiction, and eriticism in tho {llustration of that sublime croation of Shak- speare. A large and clogant octavo volumo ia lod with various rendings, versions, common- tarios and oriticisms, containing almost every- thing which the iugonuity ot 800, Yaars has bean ablo to nccumulats concorning tho dramn, the author, or the subject. —Mr. A, J. Ellig, tho President of the Philo- logleal Rocioty of En[i'llmd, will completo his work on * Early Loglish® Pronnneiation, with spacial roforence to Cliaucer and Shaks, oaro,"” % tho autnmn of {ho prosont year, o that tho throo mociotios which publish tho book may gsuo the fourth nnd concluding part noxt January. —Mrs, Olipbant, onco tho pleasantest and most sparkling of navel writers, has grown woak and weary lika tho rest of thom, Iler “Inno- cent™ ia a failuro, totally unworthy of the author of tha * Chronicles of Calingford.” ‘The fact is, Mra. Oliphant hag written too many novels under tho_temptation growing out of “popular puccoss. No writor cau produco, as sho has _done, twonty novals in twelve yeard and keop up tho quality either of substauco or of stylo.—New York Herald. 3 —A copy of the “Livre Commentaira do Mathioli, & largo folio of about 500 pages, printed in soven lnnguagos, and dating” from tho middle of the Ttoonth contury, line ro- cently boen offored for sule in Paris. Whis work, of which two copies only wero talen, was priutmi by Gutenberg, with woodon typos cut by him- golf, Tho National Library of L'aris, it appears, would be glad to purchase it, and prevent its scquisition by s foreignor; but tho prosent owner, a riclicolloctor of curfositicn at Bordoaux, asks $20,000 for it. —Somo publishor acema to havo hit wpon n novel mathod of pro-advertising & sequal to the 4 Mystery ot Edwin Drood.” “The Brattloboro (Vt.) correspondent of the Bpringfield Jepublican vivos the public an account of somo length of ho mysterious manner in_which somo medium- {stlo young man, ono * B, A, Hill," of Brattlo- boro, is ncting a8 tho amanucnsiy of Dickeny in writing out this sequel, which ia to bo ready b tho middle_of Soptember. ~‘Chis Nr. Hill ha novor road ‘‘Edwin Drood,” wo are gravol informed, and this is toldto inorease the marvol, which it cortainly does, 5 —1T'ho Goothe literature has junt roceived an lm}lortnut addition in the shape of throo largo volumes of correspondence, odited by Prof, Bratenot, of the Universit; of Cracow. Ono of iheso ia entitled * Qoothe's Corronpondenco with tho Drothers 1lumboldt,” and_ocontains a long sorles of lotters ranging from 1795 to 1832, ox- changed chicfly by Goothe with William von Iumboldt, 'Thio other two volumes ara publish- od a4 " Correspondonco on Natural Sciouco," and embrace the lwanl:{ yoars of Goetho's lifo betwoen 1812 and 1842, whon ho carrled ona most voluminous corrospondonco on kciontifio subjocts with various writers and students of moro o less importanco, Someof thoso, indeod, aro names little known oven in Gormany. —A public graapcclun is now issued of the Tiilernational Iteview, which atatesits *plat- form."” ‘hore iy, of courso, the usual assump- tion of now entorprises that tho country hag Tong folt un saching void in tho neod of such a roviow ; * the timo hay como In our history os o y::]xlu whon thero should bo oatablished & truly ional Quazterly Reviow," ote. Wo are vory - vory njurlouly ; L cru(lulous‘ glad to welcomo o friondly rival of our oxcotlons nntionnl quniwrl , the North American, but it tho ‘International is to dosorve tho succoss wo trust it will schiove, this high and loft Rmulnmnunn fashion must go iy tho board. ho roviow, wo loarn furthor, nims’ at catholio, disoriminating, and tolling trentment of all live nostions by tho best tnlent of Europo and marica, but, * while fonrless and progrossive, aiming to lead tho times by advanciug overy lioalthiful raform, will nover assnil thoDivine nus- thority of the Beriptures, or the supromnoy of our Conatitution ovor o united Republie;” to tho solidity of n‘llflmt{ will strive to wuito (slo) tho nprl%htllnul\fl of the monthly; it will bo printed In tho bost style, and will Tio fusnod moro froquently han quartorly if tho publio do- mand, A fine list of promineut contributors is appended, including wmong others, tho Hon. Chorles Francis Adams, ox-Pres- | ident Woolsoy, Presidont McCosh, Dr. Bush- noll, Dr. Ray P'alroer, Dr. Behadl, Prof. Theo. W. Duwight, Prosident Portor, Dr, A, P, Peabody, Gen. [ownrd, Prof. Park, ex-President Hopking, Chaneolior Crosby, Prof. J. W. Draper, Trof. (icorgo T. Fishér, Dr. Aloxander IT, Vinton, Prof. Guyot, Gou. F. A. Walker, aud tho Lon. Amasn Walkor.—New York Mail, -A London (July 0? Toltor to the New Yark Tribunc anys ¢ _** At lnst Mr. Ruskin lns per- mittod & now oditlon of hin ¢ Modorn Paintors’ to apponr in the spmo slze "i and with all the {llustrations of tho last. Tho book ~had become so_ Benrco—or, 1athor, two yolumes of it hnd—that of Jate years it Tas Doon' difficult to gob & roally good copy at any price, It renchod on ono oceasion £28, in clotl at nuction, though its market prico whon uttai ablo Iins boon about £16, or double the publica- tion price. DBut tho demnnd for the book lna leon out of all proportion to tho s\lpFly. Why Mr. Ruskin objectcd to it republication i ox- Flnhmd i his profaco to tho now odition, which 4 un putoblographical curiosily, like most recont writings of Mr. Ruskin, 1ol violded, ho says, with some violoneo to his own faclinga, * for many Pnrlu of the first and sccond volumes avo writion n o narow onthusiasm, and the substance of their motophynical and roligious s];nnuln!lon is only justifiab{c on the ground of its nheoluto honosty.” Uhis nllusion nooma to mako it propor to say—what ls certuinly no necrot awmong cre~ ful rondera cf_Afr. Ruukin's lator wrilingi—thot his theological apinions huve undorgone . coin- lote change pince his youngor dnys, Tho re- ixious—protoundly _rcligious—clement in liis nnture Fornins, and must always romain tho gamo, but ho would not mow mako Biblieal phrascology tho brain of such argumonts as axo geattored thronghout his works,—in tho fnmous + Lectures on Architeoture and U'ninting,’ for ex- ample. Tho profaca procceds : 01 0f tho third, fourth, and fifth volumes I indeed ‘mean oventunlly to rearrango what I think of permo- nent intorest, for the conplota_edition of any worke, Dut with fowor and lces olaborate fllustrations ; nor liove X any rerioun graunda for rofusing to allow the ook o moro to appear in the jrregular form which it took a# it was written, siuco of the_art-{eaching snd Iandscapo deseription it contains I have littla to ro- tronch and nothing to retract, Thix Inal edition must howavar, bo limitod to s thourand coplos, for_ somo of 1ho moro delicato plates aro already worn, that of the il strosm du tho Afth volumo and of tho Loiro Bido whilo that of the Shoren of Wharfo Bad to be rotouchicd by & engraver aftor the removal of thio mezzotint for roprinting, But Mr, Arinytage's, Mr, Couson's, und Mr, Cuf’s magnificont plates nre sill} in-good tato ; aud my own etchinge, though - Jured, aro atill good cnough Lo nnswer their purpose, T »igu with iny own hand (s prefacota overy copy, thus cerlifying it as contufning tho Leat impressions of tho origiual piutes now vroduceable, and belonging to tha Tust edition of tho book iu ita complete form, Jonx RuskIN. #The wording of the Inst sentence might loave & quostion open whothor Mr. LRuskin signg the profaco oncs for all or signs ench copy. o is not tho man to take rofuge in an ambignity from o littlo futigue. But if anybody should bo in- comparison of different coples will show that tho signaturo varies, and that ench lmyior gots an setual autograph of tho greab writer, “ A now book by Matthew Arnold is nlways sn ovent. 'The eriticiams on * Literaturo and Dog- ma! hiavo hardly died away, yeb another and vory differont worlc is announced by 3Macmillan na nenrly ready—tho ‘Higher Schioola and Univorsl- ties of Gormany.' Tow Englishman havo studied tho subject of education more closely than Mr. Aruold; fewer still, huve had occasion to minko specinl inquiry iuto Continontal systoms, ns ho bas. Tho pro#ont book containg tho results of romo years' work, and, in spite of the revorenco hie must have for the En;zfiuh high-schaol sys- tem to which his fathor’s namo londs such & lus- tro, Mr Aruold's views aro not likely to exr from too groat conservatism, It moy be assumod that the prosont book will bo critical ns woll ag hiu- torienl. Tho snmo publishera promise Mr. P. G. TIamorton’s ¢ Thoughts about Art’ sborily; slso & book on which tho eritica will fasten. )y, M. D, Conwayis at work on & book, shortly to be_publishod, ontited *Tho Sncred ‘Anthology, » Book of Ethnical Seriptures,’ and deseribed a8 n collection and mothodieal clasifl- cation of tho finest parsnges from the Biblos and cherisbied volumes of all racos aud past nges, in- cluding selections from the Old and New Tesla- menty, in_carefully revised vorsions, Mr. Cou- way's studies have loug been of n ind to it him for making such o complication, Ho begnn by oxporiencing the need of it in bis own work, and ends by supplying it for others—not a bad gone- pis for o book of any kind, Mr. Emerson and Drof, Max:-Duller havo_both intorested thom- solvon in tho presout oudeaver, tud both given hints and help of various and valuablo kinds, “ Mr. Joanguin Miller's ‘Lifo Among the Modoes ' was to have been roady to-day, but it ix delayed, and will not be ou till noxt week. Yo stylos it ‘unwritton history,’ and it is, 1 pro- sumo, no secrot thnt Mr, Miller's viows of Indinn life and of the Indian himself aro very unlike thosa which proveil among tho gonorality of white mon nt tho West. Tho book is a dofanso of tho Indians, and as & dofonse of tho Indiany implics protty strang consuro on those who at- tack thom, thore ia. s prospect of o lively disoussion ahoad. entloy & Son Lring it out in_sn octavo volumo ot 14 ghillings. I _doubt whethor nuch aun ontorpriso would pay if tho suthor wero nob Jonquin Miller. British interost in the Dodocs caunot be very great, but in M, Milter it is cou- siderable, Tlero is still, however, & Bocioty for the Drotection of the Aboriginas, Euut s there ia & Society for the Convorsion of the Jows, aud 1 boliove tho formor Lias mado rather moro Lead- way than tho latter, In Amaricn, where Mr, Miller has, of courag, a copyright, his bool will Do publishod a littlo Jater than in England, \!Tho_salo of Mr. Macrendy's library, which oceurred on Tuosdny, hardly deserves notica oxcopt for the contrast it oftered to the Porking salo. Tho rich brewer formod s collection of litornry bric-a-brac just ng, had his tastes turned that way, he might havo fornied o collection of old china. It is said to have cost him about £7,000, and it sold for ovar £26,000, much to tho dolight of his heirs, Mr, Macrondy hed a working dramnatic and miscollaneous ibrnr{-? Vooks o use, aud used thom, and ho and lis Ligis ot tho bouofit of thom: and they sold for & fow hundred pounds. Ono book, and ono only, fotchod an much as £35, Egerton’s Theatrical romombrances, with notes of John Philip Komblo, I hoar that the Vollum Mazarin Bible which folched £3,400 at the Porking sule waa Lought for Lord Ashburnham, “’Among tho Englishraon who go to Amrica thiayoaris Mr. Gorald Massoy, the poot, who hns an engagement with the American Liiernry Durcau, Dir, Mosroy w8 once—and, [ prosumo utill js—well Imown in the Usited States by Lis poems, ospecially by tho volume in which the *Dallad of Babo Chrystabel' appearcd, Ifols ono of the self-mnado men of this country, whero such mon are loss common than with us, and whero to bo born of poor paronts, nd Gerald Mapagy was, monns usually a lifo of hard work with littlo pl\‘y or BiccesH of eny kind. 110 worked in & gitk-mill, then as s siraw-plattor, thon got o litlle teaching in & national sehool, enough to read tho Biblo, Pilgrim's Progrous, and lobingon Orusoo. T'hen Lo drifted to Lon= don, whoro ho found some Hort of a mercantilo employmeut, In 1846, thon 18 years old, he lmbl!s ed his first ook of poemm, Aud from liat timo dov:n to tho present has writton sud printed five or eix others.” A Dog's Funoral. A Tusplan Countess living in Paris folt it neconsary to try chango of air. Tho chiof companion of r{m journoys was o little dog, whhg; she oarrlod in lior mulf, her glecve, or hor pocket. At Milan, Toto, the gflt, died, His nistrexs invited all iho amall dog in Milau to the funeral, Threo hundred mourners appearad, oud each was supplied with & pull covered with silvor toars, After tho coromony the 800 wero iuvitod to partnke of tho funeral Laked monts, but horo_good conduoct and philosophy failed thom, and the foast broko up nbm[ltl{. Tho riot act had to be onforced, but not until one of tho guests had beon torn to piecen betweon the soup and dossort. —_—————— Keoping the Hoys Away, Wo read of & young sohool-miutreas in Ohio, who, boing like nuto the iciclo which hangs on Diai's tomplo, thongh oxtyomoly Landsomo, is vowed to !\finmn and tho spolling-books. Bolng muoh ombarrassed on Ler wuy to and from hor aoadomy by the adwiring young mon of the vie- inugo, and not balng abla to keep u lion to ride upon, sho Ls trainud s faithful I'ray to guard hor. ''Fhis sagacious dog knows exactly what in moant when Lo sees & juvenile gentloman in his Bunday olothos walving a pockot-handkerohiof, and thio too-sudent wooor I8 suro to bo bitten aud gnawed, Porty mistaken Xndymlons havo already boon lacorateds AN INEXPLICABLE FANCY. From the Overland Monthly. TFronchmon or Yronchwomen aro tragio, or nothing, unloss thoy lappen to bo comienl. Naturo hng endowed tho Gallio mind with an adroit nptnden that seizes with equal facility wpon the torrible or the grotesque, a rovolutlon or & masquerado, ‘This, by wny of proface, and tho story of *an inoxplicablo fanoy” boging ¢ Tonri Cardono was yonng Froneh artist of distinguiahed promise. 1Tis nent litilo domicilo and his protty }itlo wifo woro situnted-in suburb- an Parls. One enrly twilight in tho month of November of r certoin yonr, a8 ho ontored his hhomo, his wifo ran unto him, twlued hor plump arms around his necl, bestowing a full-blown alfoction upon his responsive lips, and immedi. ately exclaimed, ** O, doar Houril I hnd such a wurprito, such an odd visitor, this afternoon; o man with such an fuexplicable fanoy that I have Loon waiting theso two- hours for your nrrival, and (bestowing a playful cut thoreupon) your eura, _ ““Andnow tho onrs: have arrived, Irone, my Pot, I supposo your miorry tongue will ratile nway a8 glibly ay o nowly wonnd up music-box ; andonco started, I shallnot haye an opportunity to put n word in oven cdgowiso until you lave sun down complotely. Dut for this odd wman, with the ‘inexplicable faney,! o could not have takon & faucy to you, for that would have been neithor odd nor inoxphicablo. Did Lo, nt- terly regnrdioss of the divine #ot of his tronsors, go down upon his knecs and boscech of you to fly wilh Lim (o somo intonacly rural rolront, thoro to mubsist upon moon- shino end his adorable moustacho? aud was it s inexplicablo fanaoy than you should bo accom- panied by such littlo articles of available valuo s thin poor Liovel might aford? Or, was lioa wanderivg Gypsy lord, who predioted’ that you wore to Lo tho Quoen of all proud Fravao, in- Moad of ono humblo French hoart? And did Tio, just as hio was about to surround your august brow with the imporial crowa, suddonly suspend it aud tnko on inosplicnblo Tancy to have bis dirLy"pnlm fivst crossed with a crown of silver? - “ Thore, thero! do coneo yonr budinage,” snid the pouling littlo womun, stamping Lox small foob inpatioutly. * You will never bocome wise listening'to your own wigdom.” ¢ Nor woary listening to i‘um», my charming sago,” laughed tho volublo Wenri, carossing ber 801, brown hair fondly ; ** procoed—Irom thig on 1 am all cars.” 44Vell, Lot alt onrs liston. At about 3 o'cloclk this nftornoon, as I was sitting inlont upon tak- ing tho finest possible stitchesnround the border of your finont eambrio, thera camo . sharp rap at tho door. 1 hastoned, oponcd it, and found mauol( faco to faco with o man of middle ago, who bowed politoly and inquired if he wore on tho Ruo do Chalons, On boing informed thatho was, ho thanked mo vory aftabiy, aud was turu- fg to dopart, when his glinco chanced to fallon this littlo ' cornchmn crows, which _then, ©s now, was lyig on my Tosom. o atopped short, gazed fixedly ot it, ns tbough it possessed somo torriblo fascination, turned fivat deadly palo, then livid purplo, and in o honrse whisper articulatod, “ Madame, you will pardon mo, for it is no ordi- nary ourioslty that prompts’ the question, but might I venture to ask how that trinkat,’ point- iug o trombling fugor at tho oross, * camo into your vamnuuion—nudur what circumstances?’ " 4 Woll ?” queried Ifonri, in alow, intorostod tono, *what was my little wife's roply?” «Your little wifo told him, sir, that it wasa preont from bor husband, and that it Lad beon in her posscssion about four yenrs, Iow or wllmn'y you eame by it sho could not inform him,” “il'hon ho departed sntisfied ?" ©No, iudoed.” #Then ho inquired your namo, age, and pro- fession 2" \ VDidhe?" I do not know whether I ought to foel complimonted or iusulted. Did you toll in, 7 hesitated, and told him." 7 wigh you hnd_uot hesiéatod, and then not told Lim. _Somathing of motuent mny groyw out of ifs curiosity. - Bat it will not matter. hen Lio doparted 7 No; ho stood absorbed in troublod thought & fow minntes, ax though woighing o doep prob- Jem, and Usen wnid ho Lud taken 8 very strong and eccentrie fancy for tho trinket, aud” askoed it L yould for consideration consoiit to part with +Whnt waR liko propositi “ihat, being your gift, I should much dislike to let it go.” “Of courso, that must bavo terminated the convorsation ' ++ Of courso, but it did not, though. It bocnme moro pointed thun over.” ¢« Well, woll | I am oagor to loarn the denoue- mont,” enid Hourl, ¢ Lf [ ntu not at fault iu my wrinises, somothing will shortly grow oul of this affair that will” interost a vory wido circle, Give mo the exact particulnrs, What followed ¢ + IIo enid bo was wealthy and did not value monay ; and that ho Lind conceived o stroug a desiro to possess tho cross, thut, wild us tho of- Tor might keom, ho would nob demus ut giving 500 franes for it.” “ Tive hundred, parbleu! Tho trinket is not worth b francs,” auid Lonri, cxcitedly. * The man i# eithor a lunatie, or—what I niore strong- 1y suspect him of boing—" #And what is it possible for yon to moro strougly suspect him of being 2" asked Irono, “ Aknave., Inspito of the lemplation of 600 Sennes, 1 8eo that you still boar your oross. would havo thought the sum suflidiont to buy up all the crosses in P'aris and all the women bour- ing them. ow did you resist 7 %1f I did not know that your slur on women and their crosses was snid more in humor than enrnost, I would not give you uuothor word of information. I told tho man that tho offer was vory tomptivg, but that 1 could uot possibly no- “copt it without first consulting you.” “That was 8 noblo reply, my dorling, " said ‘Henxl, drawing his wifo closo to his mflo, bo- stowing on hor an eloguent glanco and sovor- al possionato kisscs, ‘¢ Moraufter I shall con- sidor you cheap nt 50,000 francs! What snid old Orests to your pricoloss auswer + At firat bio appeared much discomfited. Af- tor & littlo whilo ho seid he was goiug into the country to romain ono week; that lio should ro- turn this way, and if I, in the moantimo, gaiued your consont, or concluded to part with the Cross without it, ho would make good his offer, Aud thon ho bude mo o reluctant adiou, went to a post chaiso that was waiting in the road, gob in and drovo off rapidly to Chalons.” 4 Finally wo bave tho fivalo of mot firdt," re~ marked Honri. “You," responded ths musing Irone, toying with tho object of su much dizoussion, which was in reality of but little intrinsio vaiue, and in no way renarkablo, oxcopting from poculiarity of dodign. It was of n clear, blood-rod_coruelian, tho upright pillar being carvei Lo reprosent & descending arrow, aud the crogs-pioce a yory fuo wronght imitation of wings. 4 \What attraction this Lit of a thing, which, aside from boing your gift, I look upon na worth- 1og#, can possons to rendos it so exceodingly precious in tho eyos of tho wau, 1 cannot con- coture,” continued tho puzzled Ireno. 7 think I can furnish you with a cluo to the foundation of this extraordinary intervst," re- marked Fonrl. * What was his gonoral Rppoar- unco? 'Thot of a corsse, ill-bred porson?” “ Tar from that, Ilo was quite tull, not ovor fleshy, well dressod, and rofinod in boaring and Ianguage. iiscountonance batokoned much ill- Tnoss ot some early poriod of his lifo, or exces- sivo dissipation.” Should your cross -ennmored friond ecall again, ond I shonld much doubi if ho over doos," gnid Ifenri, ** 1 am the porson with whom 1o must deal.” Wiy with you, denr ?" W Tigonusie tho object ho 18 g0 oxtromely solic- itous to pousoss Liss a mystorious listory known ouly to mi'uolf." 3 @ And that mystorious history affords a key to the solution to tho seowingly insane ofter of five Lundred franes?” 47 npprohend such to bo tho case, That cross wae found upon & spob whoro, but & fow days rovious, a rovolting crime had heen committed, ?f my surmisos are correot, this strango visitor of yours was the author of that orimo, 1f 8o, hoand that litble red oross aro old acquaint- ances, and ho wonld readily sncrifice sovoral times five hundrod francs Lo compuss its ponson- slon. Why? BSimply becauxo, 80 long a8 it ro- maiug in other hands than his own, ho s puin- tully consiolons thub it moy at nn{ moment rise up in judgment beforo him, and cost him the more irreparablo snorifice of his head." #And you havo kept all this dark myastory from mo," complained-Irono, T have, but will no longer. I have rofrained from making you aequnintod with the cironm- stances that are sssociuted with my flumug‘ul tho trinket solely from a foar that the kuowledge 1nl[|:hl causo you to conceive o morbid QAiliko to it, and, a8 it is ronlly a protty toy, I liked to soe you woar it. Aud now for the your roply to that vory businoss- o myatery. Do you romomber {ho murdor, six yoars ago, of auobloman of the name of Comte do Bt. numulol in tho Rue do Germaine " Distinctly," repliod Ireno, **All Parla was thrillod with horror of thio mystory and barbarity of tho dood. _But what nasocintion can this arons linve with that drendful affair?" “An intimato association, That cross was foitnd by mo on the identical spot of tho wmur- dor, and but threo days thoreafter. It you closoly oxamino tho undersido, you will obsoryve n small drilled hola at each oxtromity. From thoso hotos I am led to infor that it was worn by the unknown assassin on the fatnl night in question; ond furthormore, that it was wronohed from ita fastenlygs by tho hand of tho hnpless . Comte’ in his dsing slritgglo. Naturally enongh, ft foll to tho grottid, winro I found it, Lo this day, In spito of tho superhuman offors of n by no monus ob- tuso_ police, nud the Incontivo of fabulous re- ward by Bt. Armande's rolatives, tho murdorer is undiscovered, nud tho wholo nffair remaing wrapped in impenotyablo mystory, Aftor nll theso unrevealiug yonrs who shull say that tho coming togothor of this man aud tho croes {unot tho working of a retributiva fale? Too woll docs-tho man of inexplicablo funcy know that tho little toy ho o covets iy ndequate, if it falls into propor hauds, to worle the erucl- fixion of a groat scoundrol.” #Ugh!® ghuddored Iroua. “And I have beon wenring it aif this time, and admiving it, tolally ignarant of tho torriblo thing its blood- rod color symbolizos. I can wear it no longor. loro"—romoving from hor shrinking neck tho chnin by which it was suspendod—*'Ican now viow it With no intorost but that of horror ;" and she throw it norvously into hor husband's Iap. ** Why, you littlo fool I" enid Heuri, in a jo- cono tono, * are you going to falut? Aro you afraid of it? Itds just ns harmloss ns it has Loon, and jusl as boautiful,” “ I do not fear it," replied Irenc, slrinking from it, novortholess, ** Iam not that foolisl. Dut I dislikeit. Its innocont charmis lost to me forover." Aftor \vclfihing tho matter in his mind until tho _specified week had nenrly olapsed, Houri guddouly and sagely concluded to agquaint tho Prefect of Polico with the atory in allits boar- ings, ronl and suppository. _ Thut astuto func- tionary proved to bo an into]ll@cnb and potiont listenor, and was only too glad to detall two pubordinatos to furthor n schome that sromised to result in tho capturo of ho criminal who had succeedod in eluding tho pursuit of justico. arly in the morning, & wook subsequont_to _that on which the supposed criminal lind called, Honrl sont Ireuo into tho city on o visit to some fricnds, with tho expllcit undorstanding that sho was not to return until ho camo for bor. Following eloso nJ)on hor de- parturo came tho arrival of two gondarmos, who twero forthwith socretod in hor but recontly va- cated bed-room, thereatter to make their ro- entroo in tho prosonco of the expected stranger,: or not, a8 ho might or might not eriminate lim~ seolf in tho futorview with Henri. All the pmllminmz' arrangements being raade, our artist dotectivo took station at tho window, #nd bobind s closad blinda becamo o silent and intonuo watchor. Iio wasa bravo and raosoluto man;_but, novertholess, an occnsiunnlmlsglving flittod ncross his mind. . Tho busincss boforo him wns of an oxtremoly hnzardous nature.’ Should the supposed criminal prove to botho ronl criminal, his capturo would bo likely to bo proluded by o desporate encounter. If fatn) Tatal to whom? Houri thought of this, thon of Trono, and olosod his oyes, ‘Lhon Lo thought of tho gondarmos in tho nextroom, sot is jaw, and, in n epirit of grim dofiance, put all forobodings from him. Morning, noon, sftornoou, and ovening glided by with no result. Henri yawned with impationt discouragoment. Hia nilies took to the Y;eflromn’ floor and cards oarly in the forenoon, Hithorto the oxcitement of tho chnso had boen quite strong enough to sus- tain Honrl's interest. DBut now, would the ox- pocted not_come at all? A briof consultation ‘ith tho ofilcers, who adhered to the opinion that Yo would come, and was much mora likely to make his appearanco within tho next threo hows than at suny time provious dun'nfi tho day, espoclally if he Wwas & roguc, an was not Incking in tho usual cunning, braced Honri pomewhat. Lighting & lamp for the quondan gamesters, and ~anothor for him- wolf, ho camped on tho lounge, He hiad got but comfortably settled, however, before & resonant Tap on tho stroot door bronght him instantly to s foet, Bcehooling himself to moot tho proba- Dlo crleis with quiet deliberation, he leisuroly yruuucdcd to tho door and oponed it. ~From veno's graphic description o had no difficulty in recognizing his visitor, The oxpectad man of tho cross stood beforo him. Iiis hoart gavon fremondons thump ngainet hisbrosst ; but his voico was stendy and quiet as ho saluted tho stranger with, ¢ Qood evening, sir." “ Good avening, sir," rosponded the visitor, gumfi;xiziug Houri clogely, * I8 tho madamo o ome P “My wifo is_the lady to whom you rofor, I resume,” snid Henrl. ** She is nbeent on o vis- t. Can I sorve you in anything? » Will you not wtop iu, sir?” Honri threw tho door wido opon, that tho man might s0e the room was vacsnb, and hence might imagine him to be alone. “Ah! you nro the husband of the lady,”" ro- maorked tho strauger, who, sfter poeringinm, walked in. #7T havo the honor. Pray bo seated.” 1 will trosppes upon your hospitality but for & fow moments——"" # No trospass, I assure you. Bolitudo is not {lie biost of companions,” Without romoving his hat, the strangor took tho proffored chair, _ ““I can tarry but & short timo,” ho snid. * Probably your wifo has io- formed you of an offer sho raceived & weok ago, for o emall, fanciful cornolian cross that was in Lher possossion " “Yon; sho did mention tho matter to mo, and wo both 'wondered at the strange fancy of the man, and the oxeessive price ho offered.” “wiyoll,” replied tho strangor, with o forced Tangh, *the fancy cannot matter to you; and ns for the price, if you fat it that ought to sat- iafy you on that point. 1om the manj and I renow the offor.” “Ah1 No, cortrinly not, tho fancy doos not concorn us, of courso not,” and Lenrl oyed the stranger koonly, “ But vou Jnow that unusual occurrencos will sot the 16ast curious of mortals {0 surmising.” « QOf courso, of courso,” said the stranger, with almn§ symptoms of unoasiness, ‘‘Poople cannot help thinking, that's what braine woro mado for. But to the point ; if you still possess tho cross, and will exchango it for the sum of- fered, that Bum is yours. Your answor ? You will excuse ray Rocming abruptnoss ; I am pressed for time, and cannob dally.” +1 hold you porfoctly oxeusablo,” said Honrl drawing tho covelod cross from hip pockot, and noting the engor flashing of tho stranger's eyes, na his goze fofl upon it. Deciding to thrust tho probo homo at ouco, ho doliberately addod : Another reason, other than want of time, may exist to oceasion 'your sbruptnoss, my frlond; want of confidonca,” “ What, sir " efnoulatod the man, starting up in o throatoning, apprehonsive way, * What do you moan by that romark 2" Liston, ond I will toll you,” roplied Tontd, fully convincod that he wan on tho right tracl, s his visitor indccisivoly mat down agnin. “Tiston, and Lwill tell you what I mean, 'This cross, for which you have taken such an inex- plioable fancy, came into my possession undor yery pocullar circumstances, clrcumatances that Invost it with oxtraordinary interest.” Dausing a momont to note the offéct of his lnngm&o, Trouri fixod his burning eyos on_the Btravger's. Bpoaking slowly, and emphulzlu& avery word, ho continued: “I found this cross ou tho 8d of Jonuary, 1840, on the Rue doGor- moine, on tho vory spot on which, thres daya Eruvlo\la, tho Comto do 8t. Armande had beou rutally murderod.” . During tho uttorance of tho conclnding words ‘of thonbove, tho countenance of tho ll.~<lunln€'i man_undorwont s most nmmlllufi. chango, an dreadful, indeed, ss though he nd honrd tho gontonco for Mis immediato oxocution pro- nounced. The muaclos of hiu faco twitchied con= vulsivoly, his under jaw foll, and his oycs rollod T thair soolats a3 though following the fantnstio evolutions of some horrid goblin, Tho paroxyam lasted but for s momont. Bi' o suporbuman effort of the will ie recoverod his facultion, eprang to hin feot, and with the de- monino_fury of & madman dashied at onri, Tissing botween hiu_teoth, 4 D—n you tho tell- ing of that talo Is your doath-knoll.” Just au his musoutnr hand closod oppresalvoly on Hourl's throat ho was violontly jorked back- wardy, snd found Limeolf in the tonacious clutches of tho two gendarmos, g0 hiol my fino fellow | ofnculated one of tho oficors, “We aro nltogother tuo”deoply concorned for the future welfuro of your soul to ]wrnm you to porpetrate wuch a crime. You iavo dono bad enough alroady to bring you to huugi‘xlxg, and that is quito sufiiclont for our pur- poso, e folled villin _glared suddenly from ono to tho other, and mado no attempt to es- capo, l"l'lmi Is right," romarked the oflicor who spoke heforo. * Take it oasy—hhows you ‘l'o Lo » vhnasu phor and & man of common seuso, ul‘ho prlflmmr coolly folded arms, and stood sllont, 4 Monslour Cardone,” continued tho officor, ¢ ag your friond ssoms to take kindly our intor- foronco witl hiu Jittlo plan to avoid you & luuF routing spoll, will you, with oquul disinterestad- noss, provido us with & rope for his_ bonotit? Unluckily, we cama from iown snd forgot to yrluu the profossional bmuelnm—nnnumntou— Tonnl ovorsight, which, I ussura you, addross- ing the prisoner, ' we utxlnru aven moro than yni\ yoursolf can, In facl, Wwe wore rathor un- * cortaln of having tho plossure of your com| on our return. 4 Nor will you wled the hitherto quicscont captivo, suddonly kickin, out with his two poworful arms, upsotting botl liave that pleasurs,” tablo_on_which stood into the darknoss. bA= uf officors, kicking ovor the tho light, and loaping out Do vauishod, a bullot hissod by oithor oar, he eseaped unhurt. *Phio roport of tho platols hurried Honrl baok into tlie room from which he lLed gono in quest of b rope. "QxSckl" exclaimod ono of tho officora, *The dovil has outwitted and_cscapod us. Wo musi ‘Yo after him ot onco, It is Loono Bromo, the most recklens and foroclous of tha many oute thronts who [ufosted I'aris six yonrs ago. Ia ‘most miraculously dinnwmnrud ahout the timo of tho St. Armaude” murdor, and tho dopartment hiad givon him np for dond, Wo must allow him to have his lnnf;th for 5 momont. Our_first movo in to lodgo Mnformation at tho throo heada of the polico dopartment, o is an nstuto dog of infinito ronource, and the wholo forco on the seont will hardly sufiice to enpturo him." Brome was ovontually taken. But.so adroll was Lo, that ho contrived to roman at large for thrao weoks aftor Lis oscape from Oardone's houso, Ho was tried, condomned, and oxeeuted for tho murdor of Bt Armaudo, Bovoral wit- noasios bolug found who idontified him, and tos- tiflad to having secn fastencd to Lils shirt bosom on the evoulog of the murdor, that blood-red CroBR. Trono waa nover nfterward persunded to wanr it. It bung over tho mantol in hor boudoir, and many an ovening visitor has beon bcgullad by Tionri with a recital of tho two dark episodes in ite history which aro embodied in this story, and hive doparted shuddoring at its sanguinary hue. — -2 A SOPHOMORE’'S STORY. Ayray down in tho Btato of Maine, "tongst Androscoggln's sinuasfties, X chaucod to rosm, oTi0 AumMor day, Tu soarcli of health and curiositica, Raro things the inorganio roalm Disclosos to tho goologlan Wha {ops with hammer on the rock And wakoa the stratified custodisn. ot mine to delve in dirty sofl To demonatrato how near homologous Amorplions pobbios thickly lafd Within thoir granito-bullt sarcophagus. 1 sought to 81l my lofwure houra With observationa biological, With now ond thon—for proi's sako— Examinations phrenological, Among my * pationts ” camo a mald With locks unlike tho INio noctural, Nor yot lo match the golden rays Ttiat batho tho mountain-tops cternal ‘Nor any hacknoyed tint wan hors, Ot which wo road in tales ridictilous,— But common brown, which, on a hos, ight nexve to lodge thio pest podiculous. 1 ran my fingers through her Lialr, "And tatked on subjocts agricnitiirals ‘But somo remarks which sho lct fall Induced in ma o stato conjectural, Wo often mot,—tlio mafd and I,— As influcncéd by somo afinity s 1 Agon entbroned hor in my heark "Aud worahiped hor a8 my divinity, For sho wan fair to look upon ‘And gifted far above the ordinary, Aud therofore it can no'er o safd The soquel waa at all oxtracrdinary, Now, boya, you ses tha grand roanlt ‘Accomplistied Ly my estivation,— Athing 'm told thiat's chanced beforo Froin golng off on & vacation H, NEWHALL, — * HUMOR. Lo tied—Capt. Jack In chins. —Ladios claim that tho postal cards have no room on thom fors “P. 8." —1I1 you are short of ice this warm weathor, you cnnt always got a nico carto at the photog- rapher's. —Ono paper having said that ‘Unraquited love wes the toothincho of the soul,” another editor suggosts that the only way to stop it isto us gomo gold filling, —Tho market is very woll supplied with bor rios. The now wormn that conton with thom thic yont i rathor acid in flavor, and not altogotho Anplossant.—Danbury Netos. very sad_and doprossing fonturo of the so- vore rain st Danbury on Lriday aftornoon wa. nmanin linen clothes, who was waiting at the depot for the traln on which his wife's mothe' was oxpectod. —A Cincinnati yonng man who had read in hi clty papers that’ Clovoland girls always roplie: “ You bot" when tondored nn offer of marringc triod tho oxporiment with: ono of thom, and th only roply he got was, ©* You get!" —Excited wifo (to her husband): “Do you nc admit that woman hos a mission?” Cool hu: band: “Yos, my dear, sho has—submission. Gront confusion in tho domestic circle, and th Lusband colls on tho family surgoon for & plaste Tor his liead, ** wounded” by accidontnlly hittin it ngainat tho edgo of an opon door.” —An old bachelor says that ho has ko Indios in whorn tho instinct of decoration was & strong that if thoy ware told thoy must bo hauy ed in tho presonco of 20,000 persons to-morrov their firat thought would bo, O dear! And Liaven't & dress fit to be hung in!” __A Ponnsylvapia proackier, whilo holding so vicos recontly, gave thanks in a fervent pray for the prosporous condition of tho crops, ‘s copting, O Lord, the corn, which is backwar sud tho oats, which are mighty thin in spots,” w—Apropos of the tornado that recently - over lowa, by which so much proporty was d nlro{'nd, wo obsorvo that ono jonrnal bas in singlo gentonco summed up its torrible foro 41t was s wind that just st up on its hind-le and howled.” —4\Why Is it fhnt so man; troubled with brain diseaso of lnto?" a-" s, gontloman., *In this telegraphic, hig prossuro ngo,” replied o friond, *thoro a s groat many moro things to occupy ono's A men n tion than thero wero twenty years ngo, but t braina ain't any biggor now thuu then.” —An Extinguishor—Forward and loquacio youth—* By Jove, you know, upon my w. now—if I wero to soe & ghost, you know should be o chattering idiot for tho rost of-: lifol" Ingenuous maiden (droamily)—*Hi you goon & ghost 7" —A dispatch says that, ot the burning o. hotol in Prairio du Chion, Wi, * Soveral of | sorvant girls leaped from tho third-story wind into the arms of Capt. llobbe.” Homo of * ‘malo boardors tried to attract Hobbs' attonti but thoy finally had to crawl down tho lightnl xod, —A fow days ago o rceident of Detrolt + takon sick aud sont for e doctor, The doc Toft o proscription, and with it o roquest ¢ ono of the childron should call at his- ofico noxt day and say how the patient was doing. littlo girl came, and, when questioned, promn answored 1 * Please, sir, fathor is gotting | tor; ho's broko the stove all to piecos morning, and beon & fightiug mother, just ho uged to! ’ —Two amusing answera of the 82. 0 Wostorn Senator at West Point are rocor On being asked into how many pioces & charged ephorical shot will burst, Lo rop) W Tuto two, nt lonat, sir, Luhoull think:™ ¢ on boiuy asked what woro the usos of the in p picce of orduauco, roplied, after ma conwidoration, that * 1t showod tho g of tho gun, and it was usoful to spike it wit —'P'lie freodmen are never moro in their mont ot tho South then when attending o mooting. 'Thoy have n. peculinr intouation » thoy hoid forth, which is onhanced by the} dition of the xK'lln\)lu “ er" to the ond “of al. ovory word, story is told of an old col minister who, in expatiating upoun the horro} everlasting condemuation, which those noar, closo of thioir terrestrin) journoy must ox: pointed fo bis own agdd ftror, excloizy 4 i on foat 1 ut-or 1" H Laok nt that ole man-or, gravo-or, and tho othor 1l Advico to a Drotc . Lady. A brokon-hoarted young thiug writes ! wookly paper 18 follows: ** About throo ago 1 becuwo aequainted with a youug go Tt s and, although ho nover paid mo auy; ticular attontions,s ho would ofton sccoi Honr . from ohureh, &v. Lt lutoly, | ticed a gront chango in hiow Ilo avoids muoli as possiblo, and wtuarts if 1 addross | Can ho bave censed to love me ¥ for T I, did, though ho novor said eo, If I thougl] . hind, It wonld break my heart.” Porhuy ought not to intorforo in thin muttor ; but, kuow exactly what should be done wit ouugg man, we fuol a8 if wo «mfim to spon; | Lo not attampt to reazon with him or cajo) or pacify him. o noxt timolo calls, monkoy wrench, fauton Itsecurely upon his! load hitm off to tho dining-room, and oy’ what ho means, 1£1hio won't anawor, bw: swronoh throo or four timos, aud butt hin up ngainst tha stove or the mantol-picco Wb glooms i dinpolied. 1€ Lio says lio lms to loye you, lot your fingers dully with his' Joty lovingly for o fow mivutos, anc suddouly ift out n couplo of lnndfuly e an Irishinan at hand to como in aud vt o awhila and kuock ont his tosth u!ul Jump 1 down on Lim nud bo sociablo. ‘Ihon lot b and commonco your arrangomonts to ro frosh man, You cannot afford to wast young lifo upon puch a wretch as thi ‘whore hoart \r‘ll nat throb to hoart ors - gpoud to soul, the bosb thing to doisto ¢ | $honoso at ouoe. £