Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 16, 1873, Page 9

) THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER. 16, 1R73. ' R g S , M . LONDON. The Largest City ‘that Tver Existed, Itn:Populution, Its Extent, and ; Its Wealth. The Headquarters of tho Exchanges of the World, The Ancient. Corporation ~-- Its Lord' Mayor and Aldermen. "Tho’ Motropolitan District-+-Its Boards of Public Works, Dolico, Firo, Health, and Educa- tion, Parliamont tho Real énmmpn Couneil of 4 the Great City. Spectal Correspondence of The Chieago Tribune, Loxvow, Oct, 24, 1870, Amerleans aro charged with o tendenoy to ox- aggoration of oxpression in describing anything, or In giving vont to their foolligs aud opinions, But thereds .. r- N0 DANGER OF COMMITTING TINTE ENTOR 1n desoribing Liondon, - Ono may usé tho strong- st adjcotivod and intonsest vorbs wilh eafoty, and striotly within bounds of naked truth, Itis 8afo to afirm that it is-the- largest city in tho world, or, for that matter, that" ever was in tho world. It containa moro inhabitants, and moro houses,, and moro miles of streot, than any. . other city of nmcient or mod- orn timos, “And' ‘it is far tho wealthieat clty that over existed. London {8 tothe mod- orn what Romo was to the anclont world, in ro- spoct to population sud woslth. But Rome, in Jhor palmicst dayl; was & poor city in comparison Sath London. The 8,500,000 of sonls which com- pose the population of London need nover do another day's work for wagos. They havo capi- tal onough invosted in bonds and stocks, in do- ‘mestio and forolgn securitios, and monoy at in- toroat, and fucomo from real ostato and railroad- onrniugs, and.othor sotirces from which they de- xive dividends, - COMFORTADLY TO BUDAIRY THE ENTIRE FOFTULA- A TION, to purchuso thom food, clothing, fuel, drinks, furniture, litorature, make all ropairs of thoir Tabitations, pay all their taxes and assogsmenta, and, in short, defray all their houschold ox- ponges and personal outlays, to the aggrogato total.of what they now ¢xpond in cost of living. All the productive labor performed by the people of London £ ADDS ITSELF TO THEIR OAPITAL oach yosr, bocause they do not coneume tho income ‘of ' thoir « invosted 'capital. Lon- don }s In the condition of a family whose Incomo, in the shapo of dividends on stocks and bonds, exceeds tho, cost of their stylo of living, and who may, therefors, go out of businoss and live on that inoome without treuching on a dollar of the capital of the family, Of what other great pity - can this bo said ? But tho property of London is not ownod and bold in commo, or in equl portions. One man has o bundred timea more than he neods, and o hundred men have less than thoy need. Lon« don haa-some thonsanda of citizens worth tons of ‘millions each, and also has 100,000 citizons in $ho poorhouso. Dub the groat mass of tho pecplo are prosperous and <IN OOMFORTADLE OTHCUMSTANORS,~— tens of thousands' of them worth- tons of thousands each. Tho_ lelsuro olasa—thoss liviig on fixed in- comes snd regular dividonds on investmonts— sre very numerbus, numbering tens of thousands.. Their only business 18 to amuso themsolvoa sud fight onnul, Their lives are a continual picnig. . Thoy aro habitucs of the clubs, patronizo the turf, keep fast ‘horses, sup~ port establishmonts, ramblo about the feland, ronm over Europe, and maka excursions up the Nilo and to tho Holy Land and tho * farthar Ind.” London is theloadquartors of the landed aristoctacy of tho Three Kingdoms, who are in rocoipt of ronts aggrogating nearly A THOUSAND MILLIONS OF DOLTARS por annum, 'The absontoo frish landlords may here be found during tho * season,” flourishing lilke groon bay trees.” Horois concentratod tho banking Wenlth of tho Empire, Hero {8 beld the bulk of tho bonds ropresenting the National dobt, and a largo part of the National, Btate, and Municipal dobts of tho world, Horo are owned a majority of tho railway stocks and bonds of Great Britain and tho,Culonios, inciud- ing £100,000,000 investod in tho India railway system, besides vast sums in railway stocks and bonds of othior countries, ' THE UNITED STATES INCLUDED. Hore is tho grand dopot of tho tos, coffeo, sugas, wplce, and -drug commorco of Grost Britain. Hore aro hold tho largost stooks of woolen, silk, ' lesther, and even cotton .goods, in tho Empire, Great na ia tho shipping of Liver- pool, it is not nearly ocqual to that of London, for hore is the focus of the shipping trade bo- tyveen Groat Britain and the East and West In- dios, Chins -and Japan, the Moditerranean, and most of Africa. The greater part of the whieat | exports of California and Russia, and tho beef, wool, and gold of Australia, como up the‘Ihames to London for & market, T'he chicf part of the commeree carried on with Franco, Spain, Ttaly, Gormany, Boandinavis, Russia, and, indeod, ail Europo, 18 transscted in London, Xtis the EPADQUARTERS OF TNE EXOUANGES OF TiE WonLp, and its 1uotn!lona fix tho valuo, in groat mens- are, of all tho raw and mouufaotured products of all nations, and go far to dotermine tho our- rout valuo of the stocks and bonds, of eves Kiud, of othor lands. ‘London is tho world's cloaring-houso, ita largeat warchouso, its biggest bau! "\Ll(‘w'nklng at Tondon geographieally, it {s difi- qult to convoy “pu aceurato concoption of tho epace it covors; {ndoeed, it 1s hard to describo in &by rospect, forftia- - 4 $ TILE ELEPIANT AMOXG CITTES, On the cloarest ‘day, from the highost point of observation, tho whole city cannot Lo seon, but boyond the range of vision aro loug stroots andthousahda upon thousanda of houses, Tuking Charing Cross na a contro, the suburbs cannot e reachod in any dirgotion in loss than 8 to 10 miles, and in'some not in twico that dla- tanco, Tho Thames runs 25 miles through tho olty,” It London were put down in Cook Coun- ty, it would reach along the shore of the lake from Evanaton to tho Calumet, and sproad far out beyond the Despleiuos Rivor. On this spaca g concontrated s population equaling that of the g of the guilds, burgosmgs, froomen, and corporation of London. The Tonquoror, ploasod with tholr jonlousy of tholr rights, added many privilogos not herotofora onjoyad. Tho new charter was reducad to writing on parche mont, 6lgnod aud sonlad by the King ; whoroupon tho diawbridge was let down, and tho King and his onvahiers erosscd the London bridge and toolk orsonclan of {ho Royal pnlacos, This chartor rom Willinm tho Conqueror i utill prosorved in tho archiven of tho city, London lina grown' in numbors, magnitndo, aud cansoquonco, with tho growth of the nwliot of which it has boen tho oapital for, MONE TUAN TWELVE, CENTUMIES, v London is now tho politieal capital of an Eme pire of 260,000,000 of ouls, and it {sthe finanolal capital of {ho wholo Anglo‘Snxon race, including the United States, It iu a curions fact that tho “Rovoltod Colonies™ aro tha largest oustomers of tho ' Mother Country,” and the lnrgost bors rowers of London mon : Whon sposking of * London," tho anclont corporation of that namo must not bo undor- stood. Tho . v o OITY OF LONDON FROPER, ruled ovor by a Lovd Mayor aud Hoard of Alder- mon, 18 ouly o milo * lang Dby two- thirds of ' ‘milo broad, contnining 460 acres, and.lens than 75,000 inhabitants, It decrensed, hotweon 1861 and 1871,-more than 87,000 in population, ‘This Old London, s aopplo of .centurien -ngo, containod 250,000 in- babliants. " But tho fawily population hnve nenrly all moved -ont of it, snd it s now glven 1 to banke, insnrance-oflices, wholesnlo stores, Lok aud nawspaper publising, govorimont ot fices, lawyors' oflices, nnd gncli husiness ay ono sees in Now York onomlle from the Battery Ap Broadway and the cross-stroots, 1. BUT WHAT THE WONLD CALLS LONDON, donaiats of ton districts, tho smallost of all tho othors halnfi;‘muuh larper then London propor, viz.: Cholsen, Finsbury, Grosuwich, Haolmoy, Lambeth, Merylobono, Southwark, Yower IIam- lots; Wontminstor, and London, - Three or four of thoto distriots contain each moro thnn 500,000 souls, Tho wliole aro kuown hero o tho Mot- ropolitan District. 0ld_ London I8 the ouly division that ib govornod by n Mayor and Boar, of Aldermen, *‘Thio other districih havo Boards of Vestrymon, whoso dutles aro an fow and sim- plo as those of the Town Board of an Illinoln township, Thoy Livo vory littlo to do except to loolk aftor-tho paupors in tholr dietriots, = - Tho powers of tlio Mayor and. Aldermon of O1d London' are very peenllar and difticalt to under- stand or describo, ‘ag they. bear no.rosomblanco t?< tho -munfelpal governmont of an Amorican “THE CANTER OF LONDON 18 not from Parlismont, becauge it is older than Parliament, - It dates bnok to Jullua Cmsar, and consluta of varloun spocial privilogos, rights,. and monopblics, granted and conferred by vatic ous monarolis,—notably by Willlsm the Con- queror, King John, lienry 1IT., Elizaboth, and others, - Whonover tho Kings wore hard run for money to ety on their wars, tho Corporation of London would give or loan them o sum in con- dorntion of un_eplargoment, of Bpecial priv- ileges, monopolies in trade, tolls, and dutles, Tho Aldermon aro oclected for lifs, but have no salaries. In nddition to Aldermanic dutios, thoy aro Magistrates, Laving cortain Justico of thio Peaco powera. Tho two Sheriffs of London are -clectad by.the Aldermon from their body, and nleo two Under-Sheriffs, oach for ono yoar. From thoso Shoriffe - ' THEMAYOR ia solectod by tho rule of rotation. - ITo gocupies tho offica only ono_yoar, and in rarely Gver Xo- oloctod, though-oligible. - His salary is $25,000 por snoum, ~with ~furnishod Marsion-llouse and liveriod servants provided ot tho oity's ox- enso. ‘Ho is miways kmighted, and hss a “8ir" as a handle to his name. Ho s ox- Enctud to .spend twico bis enlary in giving anquots aud civio ontertaiuments, and rarely fails'to do it. Tho hoior of tho placo is con- siderad an cquivalont for the §25,000 of which o is out of packot at tho ond of hia yoar. His dutios, asido from entertnining distnguished people and giving banquots, consist of prosiding ovor tho City Council, and ‘holding & Oriminal Court, whoro hio can punish by Gnosnd imprison~ mont, tho samo as Polico Justico Banyon, Ho has no voto-powor, no pardoning power, no powor of appointmont or romoval, no seat in any othor Board, and no authority to sond mossages, :gonoral or spocisl, rocommendiug any thing o mensuro to tho Aldormanio body. The prosent Mayor has tho samo powers, and dutios, and ceromouies to porform that all the procading EIGNTEEN HUNDRED LORD-MAYORS 1iad,—noithor more nor less. I could not learn that tho functions of his offico hed beon an- ; Intged or diminishod sgince the Norman, Saxon, or Roman conquests, It would be cstcemod worso than sacrilego to chango anything con- ncoted with tho oflico an jota. Buch is the in- vincible fored of habit and love of anciont usage in the English mind, Asido from theso curlous old custome, the Motropolitan District of Groat *London it gov- erned by Parliament, which is really tho Com- mon Council of London. Aoetropolitan London is governed, flrut, by &, BOAKD OF FUDLIG WORKE,— solocted in some way by tlio Ministry,—whose duitios oro very oxtousive aud important. Thoy have chargo of the river, ita"bridges and em- ‘bunlmont-walls of stone ; the soweisge, water, a8 3 also, atroot opouings and improyoments, paving, ropairing, aud ulea and, I musi Rdd, thio atieets Ao botlor paved, clonted, thd kept in ropair, by all gomparison, than those of lné city in Aniorica. * Nextls the TOTIOR DOARD, with a forco of 10,000 men undor their charge, who aro coutrolied and worked on imilitary priu cipios and by military officors. Itisn s}xlagdx‘d bady of “men, under tho highest state of disoi-~ ling and -oflicionoy, and affords s protection to ifo, imb, and property, and a sonao of socurity littla known or folt in any American city, unless it Lo Boston, Aftor {he mob and ofticors Liave servod accoptably o certaln numbor of yoars, thoy aro rotired_on pensions, and, if they ars crippled or maimed in the servico, thoy rocoive_ponsions. Thoy aro all appointed for lifo or good behavior. I wish tho Chicago Board of Polics could see and study tho - London polico-forco and its discipline as a model for thoir own forco. Next comes tho ; FIRE-DRIGADE, conalsting of abont 500, men and 85 steamors, with ofher fire-oquipmohts to matoh, AllT nc 8ay of thom in, they rumlPr over permit nny firo to oxtend boyond the building in which it com- menced, aud not often boyond the room or floor, It is hardly, neceesary to add that tho - Firo- Prigade aro in the bighest stato of dlsciplino nmf ofoiency, Tho bost clags of mon aro solgct~ cd to fill vacancios, a8 is the caso in tho polico force ; and tho swino rnlos oxist ag to terms of gervico and pensions for wounds and old age. il;lm ?]linmry controls the sppolntmont of tho onrd, | Tho Honlth and Sanitary DeY‘uhmmt ia also under control of the Crown. Tho BOALD OF EDUCATION is elootod by tho peoplo, on the cumulative- Dallot and_minority-roprosentation plan, coplad {from tho Tllinois Constitution, Women who aro rate-poyers may vote for mombors of tho Schaol Board, and aro also eligible as mombers of 1t. Buch, in very brief, is the form of tho munioi- pul goveroment of Anclent Londou and Motro- politan London. It is nn oxcellently governod clty ; ita affairs are prudently, economically, and honestlyadmiaistored. Ina comprehensivosenso, TARLIAMENT ITSELF 18 TUE CITY COUNCIL or legislative body, and tho Primo Minister is Mayor,—or porliapa Hor Msjoaty tho Quoon. As & mattor of fact, tho Prime Minister is the reign- ing monarch of Great Britain, The Quesn besrs about tho samo relation to the body politio sa tho bonnot with its ostrich-plumes on the hoad of a lady, who, whon &hie goes a-shopping, thinks of her clegant head-dress, and is influenced by it Just about in the same degreo aud mauncr sg the Quoon influonces tho realm, o far as any will or control eho exorcises over public affaira and the politics of the Empiro, I M., —_— About the Apnche Women, From the Salt Lake Tribune. * The naual presonts o 1{u\mnn for tholr daugh- tors are horses, game, flroarms, blankets, and BTATES OF JLLINOIA AND WISCORSIN, ar, according to tha consus of 1873, that of the Qlties of Now York, Brooklyn, Boston, Phila~ dolphia, Daltimoro, Cincinuatl, St. Louls, Now . Orleans, and Chicego, all combined, But, im- monso 68 {a the population of London, it hat nos oensed to grow, On the contrary, it never added 80 many pooplo to its numbers as during tho Inat decndo. 'Iho Board of Publis Works roport fhiat 149,820 buildings woro oreoted between 1801 ?’flul 1871, The addition way but little loss than o WHOLE TOPULATION OF NEW YORK, Prodigious s iu tho population of Lundon, it §a° not” disproportionate ' to bnee of it puprorp In tho first place, it fs one 7 the oldcat of oxisting oitics, ' Tt Was s plnce of mportanco yndor tho Ruingns, and was famod of ite vast goriflus of fraders, nd fta abundaut pmmerco, sveu in thio fivat conturyof tho Obris- (a0 erg. From tho lg“".m““ i} ragnlvad jls mn- -pio{ppl institutlons, which have ondused, in thelir “maln featuras, o tho meut day, Tt wns (Lo ohiof olty of Great Biltnin at 1o time of THE NONWMWAN CONQUEMT, and its officors and iuhabitauty rofuzan = the dray on the Louden stect o William's Ariny ovosa Inlo th Rt firat oxagtod from nlm"n";'.'xfif;%yh‘::f "hfi'fi'olm Fespeot tho anclent ighta - aud Uberties irjikots, - Bomo girls, daughters of chiofd, cost s much s twenty-fivo horsos, nob on_nédount pf:their bonuty, but the houor of tho thing, A man gan disonrd or goll Lis wifo, Sho lus no Volol'In the transuction. Physically tho Apachos aro probably ono of the handsomest of the In- dian racos, especinlly the fomalos, ~ Their com- ploxion is & nut brown, Many of tho women aro chrming brunottos, black hale aud oyos, tho latter modium in Hizo and obliquo in shapo; noses of the Italinu shepo: maguiflc cout teoth; good mouths; tho contonr rof the faco oval and emaciated h} the mon, round and full in the women. In figure, modinm, the men svoraging b feet b inches; thoe woren 4 feot 11 [nolicas tho mon deficlont in, thewomen reploto with, adipose tissug, Tho chests, skiouldors, and arma af the mon are yory loan, abby, and muscley illy developad, ‘tliaso of {hio womieu full and round, the rosult I tho foringt of totnl abatinency frouj, of tholatter an- tire mapqpely of, lubnr ho wmgnui with gop- uxltul(ons'nu{mpnlml by ho visow vf the = i e, attain b IoMer us 307750 Sunally usnvior i N aon sitain full physical doyolopmont at 20 to 92, womon at 14, Muny girls becomno mothars at from 10 to 12, andnvorage 180 pounda Inweight at tho lattor nge. Their health s usually good, the only dlsonso provailing bolug showwatlvm. LITERATURE. Tnlces at Tel ime, TAIRY-BTORILS, With Illustrations, Macmillan & Qo. Chieagos Jannon, McClurg & Co, A soros of storios for ohildron, somowliat after tho atylo of the Norae 'Ualon, Just tho thing for paronts to buy, and thus gratify tho congoless craving of children for tha marvelous, Sumucl Jo My MEMOIR OF BAMUEN, 7, MAY, _Toston s rotliers, Obicagas Jausen, MeClurg & Co. This ntomolr wili sorvo not only to glve an ac- count of the trials and Jabors of ono of the most oarnost workors in the Antl-8lavory causo, but 16 will fllustrato tho - progross of publio opluion on. thls subjoot.. For instanco, it will now scarcoly bo bolloved that in 1803, only forty yonra 8go, the good poople of Uantorbury, Ot., mobbed a sohoot kept for colored glrls by Miss Prudonce Orandall, and forosd- her to oloso it Blie was ovon put in’ jall under an infamous binok law thon In oxistonco in the etaid old Btato of Connboticut, The book i full of facta like the nbovo, and will be found a Bourco of oasy roforonco by thoso who have oocasion to use thom, . ¥ Toberis ) A Strange Story. ' . A STRANGE STORY, By St ¥, Buswen Lyrrox, ‘lart, New Yorlk: Tarper & Drotlors, Chicago: wJuuson, McOlurg & Co, - Tho story of this boolk is ono of tho most weird and wondorful that have ovor boon' prosentod to tho reading publie, It Is not & mero collection of ‘fancitul talog; but tho groat novelist quotes from tho mont losrnod atithors of the Isngunge, anil givos on account of thelr -ollofa in tho su-- pornatural, nud also atories- which illuetrate thoso boliota. ¢ i -Socinl Jllll‘lnfll’ll:l‘fil.‘;“ Sriw 2 GMENTS, 3 o £ Jatios . Grgooa. & Go. - Ghtcego: *Willism B, Keon, Cooko & Co. * This is n colleotion of able ossaya on Madsme do'Btao, Ohnteaubriand, snd_on-various ‘sub-_ jedts, Literary -readors will find the work well Warthy of thoir attontion. - Osgood & Co give no othrs to tho publie. 5 T ‘ Dolng Mis Mosts . N . Boats Keen, Cooko & Co. B 2 Junt tho book for boys, writton in the authors' bost stylo. Many 8 boy- will dovour- its pages durlug tho lonely ovenings of - the - coming ; win- tor. : Emma Willard, Tar LiFe ;r Exya_WILLAnD, Iy the Rov, Jome Now York: D, Apploton & Co, nD, Ch- oago ¢ , Toon, Cooko & Co, o lifo and gorvicos of . Emma Willasd have probably blessed more Americsn homos than {hoso of any othor woman our country eyer pro-' duced, 'Tho foundor, and for many yoars tho Principal, of Troy Tomale Seminary, hor pupils, now' matrons and grandmothers, have tarricd hor principlos and teachings probably into ovory State in the Union. oy Fo: malo - Beminary, . whose high charactor wh duo to tho labors and tha inspiration of Mre, Wil-. Iard, was tho firat really succesaful institution of ils kind iu the country, To her, theroforo, fomalo education owos its first and noblost tri~ umphs. As an author, her works have had o ‘wide popularity; her History of the United States, ospecially, has long boon a text-book in atie sohoola. . Boio Of bor pooms, for instanas * Rocked in the Oradio of tho Doop,” will live a8 long 88 tho Ingusge. And yot _thia loaznod, noblo troman did & most foolish, thing in. hor marriage with Dr, Yates ; and, &s the circum- stances are minutoly detallod by her biographer, they should ba carefally ponderod by thosa who, in later yonrs, aro liabls to be nntrlppe\ifi{:g%m 0. *fortune-hunters,2s Dr. Yatos proved hims Tho work is dodicated to the pupils of Troy, Fe- rialo Bominary, and by them certainly - hor namo will bo hold in most grateful romembrance, It is & boolt which overy judiclous father will bo ploased to put into thie hands of bis daughter, “ e Lite of Mrs, Willard " can searoely fail to Iavo o most salutary effoct upon the Welfare of all who road it. " Marcus Banir. U MAROUS BLAIR: A STORY OF PROVINOIAL TrbEs, Ton TuE YoUNG, Dy Caus B, Witanr. Philadele phia: J. B, Lippincott: Ohicago : William B, Keen, Govke & Co. ~ * = A very intorosting story of travals throngh the woods, lifo on the bordors, hunting-excursions, all in the Colonial days of out Likfory. ' We coms mond it to the boys, for whom it wwaa writton, Joshun Davidso: JOSHUA DAVIDSON, COMMUNIST. . Philadelphi : 7. B. Lippiucott, Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Tho horo of this story ia ropresonted as a Clor- nish carponter, who want to London, and lived and labored thero among tho poor .and tho out- casts of the groat Metropolis, The stary is-writ- ton in_tho atyle of *Ginx's Baby,” and, in its foueral foaturoo, in a hiting’ Fnfiva’on tlia troat- ment which civilization oxtonds to tho poor and tho dopraved. Those who wish a vivid ploture of low Ufo In London will find it in the hlatory of Joshua Davidson, ™ & Monopolics, MONOPOLIES AND THE PEOPLE, By D, G, 0rovn, of Muscatine, Is, -Davenport: Day, Egbort & Fld- lor. Muscatizie : Allon Broomhall, ‘Tho prossure upon our columns, - and the huge piloof books upon our table, each claiming & hort notico at loast, alons provent us from writ- ing -o lengthy reviow of thia ablo and timely work, Tho quostions of the day are so oloarly sinted, and the facts and deductions aro so apt and just,,that we commond the book to our read- ora without rosorve. . Of monopollns, the suthor. Boys: ““Thoy bave transformed tho Govorn mont; whils woare inname & Ropublio, snd theorstically the peoplo govern, we'are in fact an oligarchy, and corparations rule the country.” The means by whicki corporations have mannged to scouro this powor ; tho unsorupulous and cor- rapt manner i which thoy wield it ; the dangors that threaton, not only the prosperity, but the life, of the Republio; the nocessity that tho peoplo should roassort and roolaim their rights ; aud the conetitutional and - the *logal means by ‘which it can bo done,—are all.ably and thor- oughly disouseod, The work iz dodiosted o tho ¢ Patrons of Husbandry;” aud so clearly doos it show them how systomatioally thoy are oppresa- ¢d by monapallos, that to tham agpocially it will Lo mast welcome, Littla wondor is it that thoy havo combined thelr votes at tho ballo-box to sayo themaolves from utter ruin, Ono of the nbicat chapters is dovoted to the Tarift, Inour judgment, the author's argn- mentd are unaunsirorable, Some of the aonclu- glonn ab which ho arrives aro as follows : Protection t a amall band of monopolista has caused an auuusl dacreaso in tho amount of coin in the coun- try, aqual tothe excess of imports ovor exports, A 20w rich fnctories and furnaces aro boing benoilted and enrichied by Proteolion s tho peices of manufactured articlos have incroased’ on an avorage about 60 por eont 3 tho wages of operatives and Inborers have fn. croased but 13 percent; the exports of manufno- tured articles havo decressod ; the valuo of imports Lina fnc + Lhio occan-commorea of the nation haa© been destroyed ; tho prices of the sgricultural pro- ducta of thio_country ara roduced ta a polut that haa Lissied tho proapecta of to furmor, sud mad t difn- cult for him fo Uvo; thecountry of ila precious motals, curronoy liss bocome tho only clrculating medium 3 values aro unsottlod, and tho country ia throatened ‘with financtal ruln,—all to afford protsction to home- manufactures aud_corporations, Frotoction e but snother nms for thosyslamatiolunder of i farmor, Iaborer, and all the mdustrial inforeats of the country, by claag of monopolista that sliould b clsstod with corporations, stock-jobbers, and Wall-street brokers, and who ard, iu part st least, componed of the aa men who control {he "corporata {ntorgala of the country, This was writton & fow menths ago, aince Which ¢ime the arash distinctly forshadowed by Mr, Oloud hins come, The fact that wa havo for tho past fow weolws beon recelving largo amounty of gold from England doos not invalidato hig roasoning in the loast, The orash stoppod tho importation to a vory largs oxtent of forolgn goods, and, as the countries from which England fionurnlly gots hor coraals tind ehort crops, she 28 beon obliged to pay us in for our bread- 8tuffa, Novor bofore‘in the history of tho coun- try hias Amdrioa rooelyed In 8o ot ' tima go minoh coln from Europe, and, aa the canten {hat hiavo prodnood it ato boligved to bo tomporary, thia " stato of ‘things cannot last, Bosides tho moro payiuent in coln for our corenls, our ship- ments of flonr and wanufsotured Ari\ulua o f!uu]fl; 14:9&" yqt:‘n!c‘:u 4 0 - and - pnd ormany,’ * gud palan=es trom,odar” sqnnbelan. 50 -““;‘m,,flfl; Pn?fl--}:“ Thisd s ssondon, ag gho Is tho cloars ., wuni0 Of the world, ‘This Laa tended groat- 1y'to fucroass aur recoipta af aaiu b, in epita of thia temporary turn of coln-gh Fmonu in our favor, the reasoning and tho couolusions of Mr, Ciond avo undonbtudly corroct, Tho iarift-iaws of tho conntry, au & part of tho systern of mo- nopulies by which our peopla sre plundorod without. stint, are an unuitigated curso and & guinding opprossion, fo Lo Kabaied 65 foal and tt|lv’rm and tho good sonse of the people ean ronch 01 m. Tasuod while tho pooplo aro writhing undortha iron heal of monopolies of nll gorts, and writton with referonce o tho moasurcs nocosesry to ro- movo thom, the work s woll anlenlated to givo a right dirgolion to tho publiomind. In 1ts pro- duotlon, Mr. Cloud has shown himaolf ono of the ablost thinkara in the country; aud ho doserves, and will rocalvo, the cordial thanks, espaclally of {ho poople of tho Northwost, onnp-Boolis,. SCOTTISN OWAD-BODKS, Iy Joun Franxn, Libra- rian to Congress, Now York: Henry L, 1ifi{on, This is a firut of o serlos of papers to bo issuocd 08 circumstances shall pormit koronftor. Wo aro told that Ohinp-Books wore on all Borts of sub- .jocts, and woro gonorally hawked about and sold by peddlers among the common peoplo, Tho apoci- mon befora usis fuil of curious historiealinei- donts, and wit, koon, sparkling,incisive,—oll ilius~ -teating Boottith chiaractor in 1ts variotia phnas, Mr. Prasor will do an excollont sorvico if Lo com- lotan his dosign in the same spirit in which ho ing commenced it. . Throngh the Alr. INNOUGH THE AIR: A NANATIVE or Fonty YrAns' EXPERIENOK AR AN ABRONAUT, Dy Jonx Wisk. To-Day Printing and Pnblishing Company, Olifengo and other principsl citios, . This ja 8 work, profusely illustrated, of 650 pages, It gives tho oxporieuco of Mr, Wiso through all tho years of his professional lifo, and also an nocount of hundrods of aecensions by others, with partloulars of disastors, hair- broadth excapps, and incidonts without numbor, Ta this . arg ndded dircotions for making bolloons, . {ho mouufsolura of gascs’ to thom, . how ' to mannge ' thom, and -tho selentific principles conuected with thom § - atmosphorio obgorvations amid storms and -clouds, and the wondorful scones ono travoraos in sailing far abovo them. In fact, tho work i "oxbinuitive of the subject of which it troats,'and is_a most valuablo ‘addltion to our -ourious aa well g our sofentiflo litorature. wi "\ sybul smuntington. o BYBIL MUNTINGTON: A Noven, By Mrs, JuLia O, 3t. Do, . Philadolphia: J, 1, Lippincott & Co, Ghlcagoy Jansen, MeOlurg & Co, . Tho publishors Lippincott -have tho reputa- tion'of presopting to_tha' publio only the bottor clags of literdtire, “and: the work boforo-us will- be mly tully to sustain their reputation in this rogard.”.; : 2 Pater Mundh, - PATER MUNDI ; o1, Trz DOOTRINK OF EVOLUTION, By tho Rov. B, F, Huns, D, D., Lecturer on Sciens tiflo Evldouces of Raliglon in Amborst Collogo. Bos- ton: Noyes, Holmoa ‘& Co., Ohloago: Jauson; McClurg £03, - 2 - Dr. Burr has givon the public a work of groat powor. Ho handlos the-devolopment -theory with a grasp and a broadth of “fllustration which mark him sa a master of the subject. Wo dotoct no cant, or a mero assortion of theological dogma aa.applicd to soienco; but a falr mooting of fact by faot,'and- tho argumonts of opponents by thoso from’ which™ thoro sooms to be no chanco eucoossfully to appeal. Tho Ohristian publio will thank” Prof. Burr for his timoly and most ablo work, ~ : . " songs i SONGS FROM THE OLD DRAMATISTS, Edited by AnpEY Saaxk: RiouanpsoN, Now York: Hurd & Houghton, : Clicago: Jausen, McOlurg & Co, - Tho frlonds of Jirs, Richardson—and sho hss hosts of them—will give thia beantiful little volume & most cordinl wolcomo. The seleotions aro made with exquisite tasts, and the publishiors Dave dono thoir part with thoir usual skill, giv- ing us & ‘most bosutiful volume,—juss tho thing for » prosont, or for tlio - purlor-table, to whilo away & lolst W ! . political Essays. POLITICAL ESSAYS. By I, E. OAtRNes, MLA,, Emerie * tus Profossor of Political Economy in University Oole « Joge, London, ~Londen : Macmnil & Co, Ohicago: ¢ Jonson, McClurg & Qo, ' {Thia work, by one of tho leading politioal wri- tara of England, is commonded to the attontion of soholars, and espocinily to tho statosman and philanthropist, It is composed of lectures and ondays, most of which have appeared In tho Re- viows, and whioh aroriow collectod and published togethier for conveniont rofaronc. w & Normandy Plcturesque. - NORMANDY PIOTURESQUE, By TuoMis BLAox- DunN, With Ilustrations, Boston : James 1, Os- 1good & Co, Chicago: W. B. Keen, Gaoke & Co, ! This i & basutiful little book, handsomoly il« Instrated. The suthor travels.through Nor mandy, and gives & graphio account of. the z;mpln, of their manners, and quaint old cus- ms, of thoir anclont houses, and a thousand gibot things curious and intorcsting. The noxt 8t thing to » month's rosidence in Normandy lfi & perusal of Mr. Blaokburn's book. | . " Qhild-Life:” ?xm.b-x.nm IN PROSE, Ilusirated, By Joux G. Wairzien, Boaton : James R, Osgood & Co, - Ohi- | cago: W, B, Keen, Cooke & Go, | The publishora. have given to their yonthful xueadors.one of tha most beautiful aud iutensoly- intorosting books that Lisve fallen undor our ob- gorvation formany adsy. Nothing loss could bo expooted from one of. America's, greatost poeta, Tho stories_are selocted from Harw- thorne, Higginson, Dickens, Miss Pholps, Mra, Bocchor-Btowo, Whittier, ant porhapa o scoro of othors, They'roally embrace tho vory cream of this kind of litorature. It will form a most wol- dome and charming prosont for tho holidays, - 2 4 Across the Continont,? THE ATLANTIO TO THE PACIFIQ:" WmiT To | Ber, anp_How 70 Ske It. By Joun Enasrus Lrsren, Boston: Shepard & Gill, Chiesgo: Jan- i #on, McClurg & Co, . ‘A vory roadable, gossipy hook, derived from tho incldonts, facts, and observations of the au-" thor during a trip to the Paclfic comst in the summoer of 1872, It contains a grent amount o varied and interesting information, b [ % Onchet, OACHET; on, Tur Sionep ‘Somnow, A’ Noves, Mri, ML J, R, Hauluto, New York: @, W. , Carloton' & Co, Obicago: Jansen, MeClurg & Co. Tho suthor, Mrs;' Hamllton, has chosen the garb of romance to hold up the Union soldiors in tho War of the Robellion to_ the oxcoration of mankind. Plonty of descriptions she gives of Lorrid bratality, alloged to haye been practicod by thom, but not one word of Libby aud Audor- sonvillo. Of courso, writers on the ono side and tho othor will each work out thoir own thoughts snd faolings, both in faot and flotiou; but it wera: Lettor for tho world if all such books ns Mra, Hamilton's woro nover writton. ‘Miancho Seymour, BLANOIIE BEYMOUR : A Novrr. Dy ‘the suthor of piimmae Engagemont,” Philidelphta : J. B, Lip- pincolt & Oo, ~ Chilcago: Weatorn News Company, Rospeotfully dodicated to those who hisve time to study tho *light litoraturo” of the day. Alico and Phoobe Oary, THE LAST POEMS OF ALIOE AND PHDE OARY, Edited by Maux OLeuxs AMxy, Now York: Hurd & Houghion, Boautiful in their lives, tho Misses Oary gave to the world somo of itw purent, sweetest pootry. Their admirers will at once makathomsolves tho Posessnors of tholr latest pocmia, . Xlomcopathic. TAIE HOMEOPATLIO FAMILY-GUIDE, By Qzonaz . Suwsiax, 3, D, Obleago: Weatorn Nows oo pany, Dr. Bhipman has far nenrly, if not quite, a quoxrter of contury boen ono of our best known and most sucoessful homoopathie physioiana, Hia work, tho result of alife-long experionce, will a onoo take rank nsan suthority among: thoso who bolieve in Lis partieular sohool of medlelno, ¥ i Rhotorigy . i TUILOSO0PHY OF REET et e, B s S Woatarn Nows Conrpan ?"mu & G Ul Raunking, ap Bral, Bascom confessedly doos, among {4o srat thinkors and:soholars of hia day, bla work ou his partioular apoolally contains tho Iatest and boat thoughta on that ullbfluot. Wo shall oxpeqt 40 see it bocome n toxt-book in many, rarhnum noat, of tho laading oduol inatitutions ol ihe gountry, e e Porjodipais Racotvod .. Tho Fdinburja Rebielo tor Qetober.: Leonard Booty Iiblishing Company, Now York, Con- fouts; “Tho Iron Mask;" # Work and Wagos;" #Lives aud Leltors of Doothoven ;" **‘The Cu- ban Insuryeotion ;" * The Brooding of Horses:" #Tho Throo Cathedrala of Bt, Panl's " Trav- olors aud Ifavd-books ;" * Kaw Gaddens;" *'Dr, Birauss’ Oonfgupion " “Affairs on tho’ Gold Gonst, J Litiel's Living Ago tor Bov, & . KHall & Gey, pal Boston, Contonta s Polrarch HinLifo, Times, and Worke,” AMacmitian's Magazine; "Jsck and tho Bonn-Stalk,” by Miss Thaokoray, Part IL, Goruhdll Magastno; 11An Aratio Lxpadition [ 1874, Contemporary Review; ' Nins, the Witoh,"” by Julia Knvnnnqh, Part 1,, Argosy; ' Robort Bouthoy," Cornhill’ Magazins; ** Narrative of Princo Charlio's Encapo,” by Ono of his Com- prnions, Blackwood's Aagazing; * Mr. Tonnyaon an o Botanlat," 81, Paul’s; “ Epitaphn," Specta- for; *“'Tho Itoligious Embarrassmonta of Gor- many,” Pall Mall Gazllo; ** Lundnnl" Batur- day Revfeto ; * Ponsibilitios 1o, Bpain," Specta. loy. ” Poatry: ' By tho Fire;" * Loat-Lifo;" Tu'tho Oroliard.” “ @Gem of the West for Novombor. O. Aug. Hav- fland, Chicago. ZLadies' Own Magazine for Novomber. M. 0. Bland & Co., Ohicago. Medlcal Investigalor: for November. O. B. Hulscy, Chicago. Dembrasts ditustraied Monthly for Novombor, W. Jonuings Domorost, Now York. S Saturday—curront numbors. J. R.-0s- good & Co., Doston. P Applelon's Jowrndl—turrent numbors.’ D. Apploton & Co., Now York. < New Rooks and Now Editions from Mennrs, Roboris Brothors, Moston. Special Correspondence of The Chieago Tribune, Boston, Nov, 10, 1879, Messra. Roborts Brothars have a habit of pub- 1ishing books that plosse both the large publia of Intolligont roadors, and tho much smallor publio of thoughtful onos. Their catalogue—not 8 vory oxtonded ono, but _growing stoadily and loplthily—embracos a rathor unusual proportion of books which this gonoration of roaders insist on having, and onroading, too. Not torehearso tho list, tho onsy proof of my statomont is found "in the fact that it includes ‘¢ Ecco Homo,"” which &0 oxactly appoaled to n provalont typo of relig- jous; inquiry and aspiration, and was writton ‘with.fo porvading a tono of that * enthusinsm of Lumnnity " .which it extollod as the soul of Cbristianity, that it--lhad a very large cir- culatlon, ond s etill in froquont domand; 'Ecco Dous," tho, cloguont anawor, or-sup- ploment, to *Ecce Homo," by Dr. Parker; who divided honora with - Honry Ward Boackor at tho Evangelical Allinnco; Jean' Ingelow’s: Pooms, wlioko: truo-womanly ’naturo *londs a swootor groco to hor pootry, ‘and. endears it and hor to ‘honts who Lave known her only, through bor fooms ‘and - stories;’ Miss Alcott's 54 Lictlo ‘Womon," and othor storios, ' which ‘have hada romarkablo poptilozity in this conntry, and hard- 1y loas in England ; and. such writors a8 Hamors ton, Bartol, Algor, Hals, Woiss,” H..H,, and otlsors whoso work# aro {n stosdy domand whora- over good Amorioan literature finde lora. 'Thao Autumn-list of Roberta Brothors has mora now editions than now books, though theso are - nat wanting ; but overy now odition of & good ok ia & thing to be glad of, whoress a naw book ia possibly qond, but bas yot to prove ituelf ao, Thoir new issucs of books that haye passod the ordeal, inctudo * g e .. JEAN INGEX.OW'S COMPLETE FOEME in a vory tasteful Dismond ‘edition;. also'ina handsomo hulldafi Rod-Lino edition, with & flua ndw portrait of the noble woman and truo poot, nnd tho added attrdotion of sixtoon excollent tiill-page. engravings. Joan‘Ingelow is mot o liftlo liko ‘our own Whittior; fo be loved as woll 24 admired, to bo pratsed with porfect consont of head and hoatt. : ‘Eugena Plon’s excollont book on [ “ THORWALDEEN," h ‘which waa eaught up so‘sagor ly by thie publlo a yoar ago, will appearin an eularged odition, with 116 {lluatrations of tho great Danish soulptor's moat important works. e ! | -IAMERTON'A ‘! THOUGKTS ABOUT ART "— manly thoughts, and not 8o cthoreal ‘or trans- ‘condently learned aa to bo incomprohensibla to “rénders of Intelligenco who. happon'not to bo porfact conhoissours 12 omes out in & handsamo /mew edition,juniform with his sug- 'figfiv'n, yot popular, work on **Tho Intelloctual o." ¥ L - 10t Roborta Brothers’ now books, % ONANNING'S ' THOREAU ! ' THE POET-NATURAYLIST," finds sympathotic readers among tho admirors of tho Concord hormit, aud amoug thoso wio, since the publication of his booky, that fairly “briatlo with his uniquo porsonality, yot possoss wonderful insight aud beauty, havo boon curious “to know 'mora of his characfer and singular wa; of lifo. This Ohanning {5 & nophow of tho groal 'Dr. Channing, for whom ho waa named ; but ho hos hordly: inherited with the name all the enintly tralts which oro ssoribod to hia ro- nownadl wicle, Ho takes ogosslon to pay off somo dobts of disliko in_his book, and his atylo is anch aa ought not to bo writton in Conoord ; atill, aftor dcxlllaflnq all the faults of tho book, it "hns o largo silowanco of" virtues in it revelations .of Thoreau, and rightly claima a placo among tho noteworthy ‘biographies of tho yoar, C PLAMAARION'S ‘" BTORIZS OT INFINITY," whidh presaes astronomical knowledge into the dorvice of a. very oxuberant Imagination, s & poouliarly stfractive book to all who are intoroste ad'in Spiritualiem ;. also to. thoso who are curi- dug o fearn what light from sclonce a thought- ful and spoculative mind “discovers in tho yaguo futuro, ; 3 ! Tho * Rocords of a Quist Life,” which rolates tho story of tho noblo and gifted” ] . MARE ¥AMILY, ©_° i8 & trananry of fl\u’o thonghta and rick- domestio: oxporioncod. Their Englivh’ solidity of oharao- tor, high oulture, litorary tastos, and fortunate social rolations, madoe this family cirela one of rare boauty, and in a mfl? dogreo worthy of bo- ing known, Thoso who Liave read that pithy and suggestivo volume, * Guesses nt Truth,” witl nflapreunto the litorary and_moral atmosphore of thio book, while the purity and sweatness of Mra, Tlaro's chiaraoter make tho work exquisltely do- lightful, as they mado hor home, iss Lllon Frothingham has translated. for Roborts' Brothora o %= LESSING'S FAMOUS 'fwnAocoow,” . the essay in which tho fmnt Gormaa critio dls- criminated go intelligontly and eharply botwoon tho provincesof paintiog and sculpture and of po- pkry. Tho gonoral idoa of this cssay ls, that whila may parrato events and actions, soulp- uro and palnting must ropresont objeocts; for, ?M‘ry can by words summon baforo the imagink- tion a succession of pictures, a panoramio view of a campaign of s Lmnqrfy; whilo {hestatuo oy tho painting, being unsudgeptiblo of chango, can saize but' s moments impres- bon, figmro;p that momont should be one, not of action, but of ropose. It is singular that so important a-littlo book na this was not long ago publishod horo, :Miss Frothingham hua given sufficient evidonco of her gonfug for translation in hor admirable_rondorings of * Hormann and Dorotliea,” aud Lossing's **Nathan the Wiso.” | TUIE REV, DI DABTOL. whoea. “Radical. Probloma™ croatd ng _n],lgl_\l stir in thoological circlos tiln fianh sirice, hoa noarly roady o_now wark ontigled’ “Tho Rising sith.” ‘Tho Dootor is g0 haterodox that it Iy ta ba fopred his now book will not, in the dndg mont of Orthodoxy, gvo much proof of falth ‘anything beyond tho Dogtor's own notlons, gud wiil seom maroly anothor radical problom.” But {thoso who valne tho pirit ~moro than the lottor,” and who aro willing overy sint ‘céro qoul " sball ‘pronounce’ "its ‘Shibbolotly né bost ft can, wils find beneatl tho Doétor's horstical words q traly eyangalical Toart, & doop and trustful faith Ii the simy plo essentials of all’ trup’ religion. 8608 turmoil ‘growing out of tho predent ¢! ogic: e ot Lo of Sooes ol et nud maro in\lflllgnnt ‘worabip, and holier rever- onog, bban the world has before known or has boou capable of produoing, . POD THE HOLIDAYS, a.book by Hamorton, § Imphiru on Animals " yilibo_broughi out, with tweuty stings by 1A ‘Veyraseat aud Karl Dodmor, Hoth artista and author guaraptee a volume of positive literary and artistio excellonca, . ', -Roberts Brotliors add to their emall but sologh ‘st of i BT 3 il JUVANILES & charming . book of * Bed-Tims . 8tories,” by Mra, L. O. Moultop,—~simplo, frosh, purc-heart- od, sltogothpr praisoworthy, and b, ood rights bolonging to all tho little Lol j < Giles' Mivior- w,“ by Eleanor Grage 9’¥gl whoso “Doll '0x1d'" hag h3dly & squres 'of entertainment and delight tufbonunndno!ioungmlmn and *What Katy. Did ot Bolool,” by Husan Qoolidge, author of “Thao Now Yoar's ain ™ and *What Xaty Did," two of thie bost and healthicnt, as woll as tho most attractive, books evar writien for boys and girls, Her new book aud Mra, Moulton's should. be _carefully rememberod jast' Lefora. Qlristmas by ovory Sriond‘of Bsnta ~Olaug tho obildren. SIS A sew odjth e T e _RANGARNY SDLIRR'S WENOINE AND WORKS, i i1 8ly, *olumen, is promised shortly by Roborts Brothors. Thoso bookn hardly find & more éns during home then thdlr wonderful authay found while livingy thoy Linve passed ‘from ope ‘rh.\- lishor!s handa to another's, &g it "thdy wdrd of but elight wotth. Vory posuibly their commor- clal valuo'to ahy publialier 16 not largs, but they aro among the mn!‘!‘k gignificant aud suggestive baoks ovor issucd in thik'country. 'The Mamoir; h{ tho Roy. Jamos Freeman Olarko, the Rov. W 1L, Ohanning (now in Epgland), aud Mr, Emor- son, 18 of quifo unique lntorest, tonching moro, sud widot, and deapor relations of' human lite and' thought; than oftou come within the ORESHTAUOR 0% OXROFIque0 of By alugle pop- For my own part, tho story of hor told by thoss emiuont writors, 15 pro- foundly fascinating ; movor commonpiace, but filled with lofty ambitions, sincoro desires, and incossant Labors for porfoct solf-culturo, yot novor forgotting the olaims of othera upon hor for ald and sympathy; aud onding in o tragod that would b inoxprosnibly mournful if 1t dl nok soom tha sublime, fitting oloso of a Jifo no toatloss and lnmpnnt-wnsut{( a4 hors 'had boon. Hor works aro loss dooply Intoresting than bor Momolm, yot her * Woman {u the Ninotoonth Contury s, porhans, thio boot ani broulost argu- mout yot mado for woman's rights ; or papera on ** Art and Literaturo" show s mind aingularly improssionabla to besuty, and of rosoluto indo- endonca ; hor rocords of travol in * Uomo and broad " and '* Lifo within and Life Without " are marked with Lor strong individuality, por-: vadod with hor profound love for Naturo aud in~- tonso Intorest {n lmmnnlty and mm? of the! scenos mho- deacribos are by her poefio fanoy fluahod srith ‘The Ught that nover waa on dea or land, Fnirz. Liternry Notes. Tho last book by Miss Do La Rams, onlling horsolt * Ouida,” in *Two Little Woodon Bhoes. —Loniss Muhlbach had five dlfferont books {n a more or loss forward stato of proparation ot tho time of hor doath. —The present Lord Lytton, Robort, who used to bo “ Owen Moredith,” is to publish & now volumo of pootry, * Fables in Bong.” * ' —Drot Marto's now Christmus slory In Scrib- nor's Monthly will be entitlod “ A Monte Flat Pastoral ;- How OId Man Plunkott Went Home,” e and will sail to-day for Europe. - i ——— to Iecturo in tho clilof towns of Groat Britain for o porfod of six wooks, whien ha will roturn Lomo again, and devote tho romaindor of tho scnson to locturing in this country, Mark's succoss on tho othor sido has beon vory great. o loaturod in Liverpool, and thousands woro unablo to obe taln admission to tho hall, Hls rocoption on this acension was of the most gratifying naturo, Ho s under tho munagoment of George_Dolby, who brought Dickonsa to this couutry, Mo haa arranged with the Routledges to publish tho hook which ho, with Charles Dudloy Warnor, Lina writton. It s nonrly rendy, and on his re- turn it will Yo issuod, almultancously with its publieation in Amorica. Mr. Clomens will bo antitlod to s copyright on the publioalion ia Groat Britaln, the Inw of which makes it possi- lo for anyono to hold n copsxight who is in Dritish dominions at the tmo~ his work lssuos from tho progs. Mark hns & voi ofjthe British public, with whom ho is alroady & groot favorito. Over 50,000 copies of his now - Work hiave already boon onllod for. It will soll at 20 shillings per copy, about 85 gold,” —The {.nm}nn Athiencum pronounces ** The TFalr God™ * ono of tho moat powerful historical: novels wo have evor road It apoaks of somo of the incidonts as *dramain a stylo of which fow living writors aro capable ; and tho battlea aro Homerio in their grandeur.” Tho ocritia adds: “Ttian roal pleasuro to bo ablo to writa those words aftor tho oxposuren which wo have latoly mado of tho abuolute worthlossness of, many much-bolaudod Amorican novels of the last 8lx montha,” Gon, Low Wallaca promisos auothor book if tho success of ** Tho Falr God " will warrant it. ~—Georgo Sand livos now almoat exolusively at hor'small houso in Tours, hor splondid country- seat in Borrl haviog beon sold to two weslthy high opinlon ~Mr., 8amuol W. Corrons Lns writton, and Bhopard & Gill, of Boston, wiil publish, & now work on Arizona and tho Apachoa, 13 —Tho Jewish World anys that the poot Tong- follow is muok takon up with.tho msrlu Dbrilllan- oy and fiunms of tho colobrated Jowish author, . :Jehudah Hallovi, and contomplates ropdering n;m\u of hig' productions into an English ver- sion, 5 —Henry F. Chorley rocords his opinion of the Tato N. P. Willis-28 follows: 1 found him agrooablo and lindly In bis way, though flimey in his scquiroments and flashy in his mannors, & thorough litorary goiter-on, but,a botter-naturad ono than many Lliaso sinco kngwn,” —The . Momoirs of John Quincy’ Adams,” editod by Oharles Francia Adnms, Laying boon dolayod mora then nyonr by tho editor's ap- pointmoent to tho Gonova Conveontion, will now #ioon bo issued by tho Messra, Lippincott, of Philndelphia. ; E i " —DMr, Massen's “ Life-of Milton " has renched ité third volumo, It is o life of about cvery- body snd overything in England, and it will take sbout thirty volumot snd 100 years to,finish it ‘at thia rate. ,=Murroy bas oxtonded lis hand-books to “¢iAlgeris,” & part of tho world which has hozo- toforo boon nogloctod by tonrists, - P 1 .. —=Tho hiographer of Dr. Edward Payson says: {'Ho waa_ofton known to woop undor tha ‘pronching “of tho:Gospel when only 8 yoars old. " one of tho critics wiokodly suggosts that Liftls Ydward waa tired and wantod o go home, ¢ —Aucrbach Las just finishod a now novel, the plot having to do with tho lato war, tho scondin Alsagca and tho Black Forest. « (—H. Mayor, Cologne, will shortly publish the lnn%—u&cwd work on tho Mormons, by the colabratod travolor and ethnologist, Robort von Behlagintwoils,’ The work will embrace tho whole history of the dovelopmont of Mormonism. from lta origin to tho prescnt timo, - "—Tho sccond gorios of Lord Foughton's #.Monographs " ia snnounced in England. . y—It is statod that tho interost manifested in Dls magaeino pupors Loa fnducod ox-Socrotary Wollos to_consider tho writing of history of Prosidont Lincoln's Administration, - '—A writer in tho curont 8/, Paul's’ Magasine ‘offéra tho following bold challange to tho iwoman miovemont in an artiolo on ‘ Milfon on Divorce™: !*If & man roally managos to got out of tho Bible any dootrine’ about woman oxcopt that shois man's inforior, man’s tompter, man's subordi- ‘nate helpor, undor a apecinl curso for the fault of Evo, and under & special ban—coromonial bao, too—then I say ho ig cithor dishonest or wanting ish montal fibro.” 5 i—AMr. W, F. Poolo cironlates smong thoVbra- ‘rios very extonaivoly. Ho was for yonrs the Libra- Tian of the ‘Boston Atlenmum, Then ha tork chargo of the Public Library of Cincinnati. Now e has accopted a post of Librarian in the Public Litbs of Chicago. Ho mado an *‘Index of ‘I{afltmnnlldlsmtnm," which was of groat yalue, and augbt to bo comploted by additionnl volumes. o locturo; both on acoount of E: o facing audionces and tho de- mands upon his {ime made by his businoss, He .bag, however, by arrangement with Mr. William. ‘. Gill, his publisher, cndeavored to_ gratity the domand, no far sa possible, by writing soma'of his chardctoriatio sketches oxBreasly for a leg* ture entitled '* An Evening in Danbury,” whioh Mr. Gill will deliver. : 4 i —Gorald Massey has givon some saven years of ‘close study to tho origin'and _comparison of Thyths, and in ahout two years will bring out the results of his investigations and philosophizinga in an elaborate work. He thinka he has discov- ered many curious and important facts, and con- " has refusod & Englishmen, Whon' Geon}o Band wea & young Elr sho looked promaturely old ; but pinco sho 08 bocome & riponod matron sho looks hardly 50, although eho s over 60, Bho is the bappy grandmothor of sn interesting fami- ly “of ~ thirtoean, and sho . told tho youngor Dumas only & fow months ago, that gho should not all be surprised if sho ehould Lo- comio n pront-grandmothor, Her houso Is yory ‘Eln(nly urnished, but it-is overywhore full of ooke, - How 8l ronda all of thom in a mystory to thoso who know her; -but she doos read them, 24 soon as tho caudlos aro lighted in the ovenin, sho bogins t6 write, and sho continues until 1 or13, porforming during this time an amazing amount of work, Bhe often boon known to finish ono of hor extraordinary twonty-pago artis clos in tho Revug des Deux Mondes ab ono sitting, Buch an article i worth 8,000 or 4,000 francs gu Ler; and M.{Buloz of the Revuedes Deuz Mondes ie'glnd to poy hor that price, overy fortnight, Biio nlgo rocelvos from Lievy Frores 40,000 franch o yoar for hor cnnfirightn. Her son, Maurico Hand, ls an. excollont fouillotoniat and eoarns Plnnlyof mouey on the Parisian journals. Ho on0s toward tho Bonapartists, and, in conse- quonco, {8 not on tho bostof terms with his mother, who i a dovotod Republican. . Marico Band {s marriod to an- American. lady from Bos- Englieh fluontly, - A GREEN-EYED MONSTER, " The Dovil-Fish Secn Off the Const - ! Newfoundland. . . Joli'e, N. F. (Oct, 20), Gorrspordenca of the New Two-daya ago two of our flshermon wore out- in & small-boat in Conception Day, a short dise tanco from Portugal Cove, plying thelr avoca- tions. Buddo ly thoy discovorad a dark, shape- . loss mass floating on the surfaco of tho water, o short distance from thom. On approsching it the men concluded that it was s - bugo bala of goods, pnrhn‘\n part of -tho cargo of moma wireckod vessel, and that thoy had found & valus ablo prize. Ono of thom atruok the objoot with. his boat-hook, whoti suddenly the dark hesp bos camo animatod, and oponod out like a bugo um- " brolia witkont 8 handlo, and the horror-stricken fishermen behold & faco full* of _in- tolligance, but also ~of ferooity, and a pair of hastly groon eyes glarin, &t thom, ‘its huge, parroi-liko hoa nooming to opon with n'savage and malignaat purpose. Tho men were potrified with terror, and for a momont 5o fascinatod with tho horri- blo sight thot thoy woro powerless. The eyea ,of tho monster wore poculiarly largo and promi- ‘nont, bright, and spparently gloaming with rage, Before tho fishormen eould mako any offort to cacape, tho oreaturs, now but o fow fect from the boat, appearad to opgn out, and suddenly. \ore shot out from around its face sovoral long arms of corpee-like fleshinoss, graaping for tha bom and sooking to envolop' it iu thoir livid folds. Had these litho, slimy arms, with thelr donth-liko, adhosive powers, once fastonod’ ° thomsolvea on the boat or the men, nothing could havo eaved thom from dastraotion,, for, when the suckers with which thoy ara “furnished have taken hold, nothing can toar thom away. Thoy would have boon brought in s momont within' rench of the powerful besk ‘Which waa ready to daté upon thom. Only one of the longor tontaculs roached the boat, an owing to italength, wont completely over an boyond it. ‘Quick sa lightniug one of the men apizod his tomebawk, and at “one blow sovored the corpso-liko arm which wns flung over tha boat to drag it to destryotion. The grocn-oyod monster uttored wo ‘cry of paip, but it disaps poared benoath the watos mx fho. fisherman, aludes that Max Muller has oxplored more ferri- tory than ho.has tillod, ; —AMr. A, H. Casol, of Hflrlu{vllla. Montgom- ory County, Pa., has the largagt privato antiqua- rian library in the Unitod States. It containg botweon 10,000 and 11,000 rare old books relating to poliics philosoply, pootey, and axi, M. Cassel hias beon ovor forty yeats in makiog this aplondid collection, —Man and Apea” is the title of 8t George | Mivart's forthcoming work, which is an oxpos(- tion of structural rosemblances and differences bearing upon questions of affinity ‘and origin. Other golentifio books on cognate subjects forth- coming, o just ont, In Foglsnd, aro “ Echoos from Distant Footfalls,” on the origin and unity of tho human race, by J. Boyes, F. 8. A.; "Tho Evolution of Living Things,” by G. Houslow, snd a book on' * The Great Ico Age." —One of the mast sumptuous volumes of the senson will bo the Princesd Maris Lichenstoin's book on “‘ Holland Houso,” = That rosidence was for many gonerations & centro of English fash- ion and genius, and ovary room i8 erowded with. historo assaciations. B -—Aocoxdinfi gto tho English papers, Bollows’ Frenoh sud English Diotionary must bs a typo- graphical carioslty. It la s comploto diotionary of tho two languages in a volume thrqe-quartors of an inch thick, measaring fquy inches and & quartor by two Inohea and thige-quartors, and weighing' only four ounces and & half. It is rintod in ¢ brilllant” {ype, the smalioat known Great Dritain, 1nd tra alzos amallor thanthak in which tho most minute pooket testamonts are rinted, - 3fem.—Do not try to read this dic- ianary through in course without firat obtaining & new pair of patoat ozoe. —Willie Collins says that the inooheroncy of the first chaptor of “ Edwin Drood" convinced, him, a8 B0oR 4 ' \was publishod, that Diokens waaill; and ho’oouldn't boar to'road o ling of ady sucosoding obapter till sftor the author's death. The Now York Sun eay: € (The lys- tery of Edwin Drood complete’ is & large octavo volume, published by Mr. T. P. Jomes, of Brattlolioro, Voimont, 88 containing the conclu~ sion of Oharles Dickens' unfinished tale, writton by the decoased suthor khmufih bim o4 s ‘spir- itual’ medium. Thia conclusion is tacked on to-| the ariginal fragmont, and the name of Dickens placod over tho wholo, It 18 perhaps unncoes- Bary to say that tho added portion is quito dos- titutq of litermy merit, s Now England authorship is betrayed on every pago. Soones *trauapiro; peoplo . *indorso’ " sontiments; ' lota lodgings ; steamora havq * walklnig- boama; ' & euit of clothes g ‘noat and tasty; ! dootor ‘staten’ that & cauo is hopolesa; and $he ‘balanco’ of lifs 18 spoken of whore, re- ‘maainder id moant, The plot is clumsily warked out, tka incidonts aro commonplace and unine tnunln& and tho genoral offock {4 Weatlsomo- nm"t} bo lu,lda (00, e T e == e, the London correspondont. | "of tho Bztaniam, that Guatave Doro ha, sok himasit the task of illustrating Bhakapears. The g]a“‘ in whioh Le makos & commencement are to \be ¢ A Midsummor. Night's Dream * and ¢ Mag- ‘both.’ Tho costumo, nu the former, ia Fm“ eailing, being purely of a fanciful charac- er ; but the realicin of the painter finds itaclt somewhat embarrassed with repard to tho ocos tume of the latter. Frionds have beou for somo time ransacking authorlties here for him, with- out * any. very " satleiictory rosult. The oni: thing thigh anpéira olear {8 that tho Hluhllng sazhuris, s we now know it, was nol worn by Macbth, Jlanquo, and other mela dramutis por- sonw, Tho siago cosjume of ‘Mackelh ropro. sonts the indlvidual ua & plossant mixturs of g conyentional Higland ohioftain, o Roman le~ glonnry, aud'a,_goldlor of Cromwall 3 but thin wl:é 'fl‘“l’x‘ déulli)rd]]x:m.‘: . 15 © Gllded Age,” Mark Twain and Dudle; Warnor's new novel, In ga-‘(‘ud by thom 1a-ths profaco to bo n_striotly jolnt production, the marke of bath minds appearing on nearly every rage. LIk runa a tilt over tho whole soolal and political fiold, so that ovory reador 15 oxe pooted to be porsonally intarcatall in it Hop- pw and othova haye illuatratod it, g —'The Now York '@raphio of the Bih saya: ¢ Mark Twain retiirned from Europe on Tues« day lnst, nodompanied by' hls family, and after stopping one night' in New York ‘proceeded to ¢ Horitord, - Ho reburnod to Nair Yok last wight, . found thomsolves in posscasion of tho ampus tated arm—an unprecedented trophy, for I bos liove no parailel ocourrenco ia on rocord. : The gufllon of tho kraken’s arm amputated by this rude surgieal oporation has besn forwarded to Bt. John's. ‘I have emt rotirned from a oaroful examination of it. It mensuros 19 fos( in longth, and' is tough and fibrous, but mol thicker than a man’s wrist, The flshorman wha aoted &g surgeon doolares that thoro must have been at lonat 6 feot of tho arm left bohind ab attached to tho monater's body, Indeod, I am inclined to think from tho description that the dovil-fish must have still 10 f66t of his arm re- maining, making its ontire longth 20 foet. Ha conld well sparo a fow faot, though he will prob< ably foel awkward fora timo in grappling for hia rey, owlng to tho- want of his forosrm. Pere aps, like the lobster, he can grow.s new limb, But the question remaing, What sizo is the body of tho monastor? X am unable tq : answor tHia question with any -p“mnoh to wocuraoy ; but I am heartless enough to hopa that thig dovil-fish may dio soon of tha wound ° inflicted by the tomabiawk, and that the body - may float ashora in Conooption_Hay. Tho ce count of the fishermen in regard to the siza of tlio fish is Liardly relinblo, as they were .sorely frightoned, but "they doscribo it as forty foot in length, Thia ] oousider {8 an on,igarmau, 2 the body af the cuttle-fish is small in proportion to the longth of its tontaclos. Tho amputated arm is livid in’ oolor, pointed at the extromit; whera it is covered with rows of suckors, whi are cartilaginous, Lorny, and about the size of a quarter-dollar, I have suggosted somo meas~ ures for its preservation in epirits, and it will ba placed in our musoum, If we -could only got the hm}{ what o keon competition there wonld ba for it botween the Bmithsonian Inatitution, Aglaslz, and Baraum | - It dooms to mo that the arm of this gigantic onttlo which wo now posscss 1s ane of tho twe long tontaculs which in cortain npecies extend in'the midst of the shortor erms, aud which, like thom, ore furnlslied with lsks or suckors, Thore sro eight antonnm in all, twoof them being much longor thau the, othera, By meana of these it aan oithor anchor jlself to the roclk, ox gaup its proy almost quick aa lightning at the \OF ot loask thicty faot. It is ovident thaf this is & far moro ilgaufio monster than, avun that whiok Viotor lugo doscribas. His lavilfish, .with™ outstrotohed arms, was ouly % lmfiur fivo feet in dlamotor,” and had ng soakalike appendsgos reaching out thirty faet. “I'ie body, too, was nothing in comparison With ! thst of qur krakai; 5 2 -+ + "Palitlcnl. Economy. From John Paul’s Letter to the Xew York Tribunzy . But it {s not my intention to wada very iteop into politionl economy just now. Bomn dny porbaps, Uil strip mysolf “for it, and thon youll ueo what a great mind yon'vo boon fooling with all this whilo; at this writing my businoss in aith faots, and not with theorics. Aa I woa ‘saying, though I hud not beon worth & cent for somo years past, and had’ fiatterod mysolf that. 1 could by no Doraibility logo by this erils, the {nsatlablo rabblo ** fullod ¥ mo’ tho vory day arrived homo,...\hat man, or what 'mon, what firm, or what Infirm, what individual, or what nation, could stand & *run," if Le'or it had uothing to pay with ? X aak 'this in trumpet tonos, # - matter of courso I had to fail. And X t;lgry in it, That my oreditors Wil ot nol bmfi 0nus0s ma vory littlo rogrot, for 4t was atmply thoir absurd action that caused my suspongion. ‘And the lossos which thoy brought ta my daor, the sacrifloes ontalled upon me by tholr stupidity, are direful, My: oredit would” hava boon good for sovoral montha’ wear and toar had thoy rofrained from tho fatal run, I havo lost ly thin panio a chinohilla ovorcoat, volvot trimmed, o whioh X counled to a cortainty. As it is, T have sent my linen duster to an obsoure tailor in tho suburbs to have a fur collar put ta ity and, having hoard that thore is warmth iu nowapapors, that thoy mako an oxoellont substis tata for bed-olothies, T have ordered it lined with Zyibune supploments, #o that, whon callod to ofn the innumerable caravans that move on in 10 horae-cars this winter, I may wrap tho dra. pory of my Evangelical Alliancoaous me aud sl o dowa bo soloutiflo droame | ton, nmamod Gaston, and spoaks and writea o, Who had thus csoaped from a horriblo death, *