Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 6, 1873, Page 9

THE CURRENGY QUESTION. o In What Manner Can Wo Mako Onr Papor- Mooy Ligual to Gold 2 But Two Praclical Methods of Solving the Problem. The First: Covernment-Redemption of Greenhacks in Coin, Bounds Belng Solito Raise tho Gold. - Tho Becond: Interconvertibility of Greenbacks and Bonds. How a Propor Currcncy-Reform Would Furnish Us {ho Most Ferlect Monclary System Ever Possessod By A‘ny Hation. Special Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, Pants, Nov. 10, 1573, Tho curronoy question will doubtlessly bo the leading topic in Congress (his winter, as it s the chief one among tio poople. There sooma to be n gouoral desiva for a rosumption of specie payments, or tho adoption of somo plan whereby paper-money may ba made equal to gold in pur- chasing power, aud kept there in fijure. IHow this is to bo accomplishod iu the problom that puzzles tho wise heads, and causes such an in- fluite varioty of plans sud opinions. Tho prablom would bocomo a very simplo and casy oneif the yeoplo and politicians wero willing that tho Government should METIRE 178 GREENDACKS, and leave to private eapital tho task of furnish- ing = gold and convortible curroncy. If Con- gress should onnct this wintor that greenbacks shall bo convorted into b por cout bonds, or ovon Into4 por conts, they wonld apaedily disap- year from eirculation, and bank-notes would at onco rise in value to tho gold standard. Hl[vur would como into circulation ns smnll change, and notes and gold bo thereaftor of equal' pur- chasing power,—at loast o long ns the banks ‘wero able to redoom their issuos, aud that would Lo always, when there was no finaneial pavie or sudden call for large amounts of coin. A beavy, sudden demaud on a few New York baoks would probabty force their suapension, just as a heavy run by depositors might exhaust their cash-means, This WOULD TRODUCE A TANIC, dostroy confldenco, aud cause both note-holders and depositors to malke a run on other Now York banks, forcing them iuto suspension, Then the panie would apread all over the Union, and close up all the bauks, just as the lato panic among New York depositors forced all tho banis in the Union into suepension, or mto o position whero they had to censo lending money and accom- modating the public. But, after the panic, tho banks would again generally resume specio pay- mouts in & more or less crippled condi- tion, and eo0 continne until tho next panic or convulsion in monetary matters. Buch waa the past exporienco of spocie-paying bauks, and such will bo tho future, as liko causes pro- duco like offects. No bauk cnn be prepared to withstand a double *‘1un ™ of uote-holders and depositors, unless it koops in its vaults coin noarly aqual to its notes in circulation, aud ro- tains its doposits iustead of loaning them out; I other words, it must stand idle, sud no loan oithor notes or deposits on time-paper. Tho ONLY ABSOLUTELY BAFE DANK is of that clnss which iseuca no notes, and londs only ita own capital, and loans no do- posits except on call, scoured by con- vertiblo stocis, such as Fedoral bonds. DBut 1ho busiuess closses would hardly bo satisiled with tlnt deceription of banking, In cousider- Ing tho question of resumption, wo must not shut our oycs to thoe exporionce of the past, or supposo {hiat o repetition of any old poliey will not yield a repotition of old experionco. Tor one resson or another, tue general public are NOT IN FAVOR OF DANISHING GREENTACKS from circulation, but desire and inlend to rotain thew. No Lill will pass tho next Congress, nor (ho next, retiring tuo popular groenbacks from the money of nccount ; and whatever plan may bo dovised for tho improvement and stability of the currency, it must include the roten- tion and contivuation of tho legal-tenders wa a componont pmt of the currency, I sl mot stop lo arguo his assortion, ot udduce teasons for thinkiug 8o, or combat’ objections theroto, bocausio it 13 uscless and unnecossary, 1t is noedless to wasto words on the inev- ftable, Tho greonbacks nro ns certain to remnin la clreulation for years to come s that the Mis- riewippi River will continuo to flow to the xoa, 1f ovary member of Congross was convineed in his mind that greenbacks should be funded into honds and retired, they daro not onact a lu dos ing it, 80 long as tho masses have not perceived tho wisdom, udvautage, and oxpediency of the wet, Congrows will only daro to run coun- for to public opiuion in Ealary-grabs and ihings ~of that kind, and b s quite certnin thal they regret having “grabbed™ cither forwurd or hackward, and will not be apt to ropent it, during this goneration ut lnast, I assume, therefore, that the greenbneks are dsitined to remain in cireulation for A CONSIDERABLE TIME LONGER, for the simple reuson that the faimors are op- josed to having them retired from cireulation ; hat the mecnanics are opposed to it; that the leborova are opposed to it; that National Danks donot favorit; and that the merchnnts, nad- B, und muilvord-compnuies do not advocate it; thercfore, the politicinus, in and out of Congreas, will oppose the meusuro; ®o thero is uo use in mguing tho matter furthor, a3 Voz Populi is not friondly to the proposition, Eentosmanslup counists in denting with men and things us they are, aud muking the best of the eituation. The problom may bo stated thus: Givon £100,000,000 of legal-tender wotes (Including fractional mlu-?, and $5351,000,000 of bank- notes redeomabfo fu logal-téndurs, to rosume upecie puyments without retiring’ the logal- tenders, Lhere havo never baon but TWO PRACTICAL METHODS of wolving the proolors yroposed. The firat is that advocated by the lato 1forace Groaley, viz, : far tho Govornment to rodeom thn groonbacks in coin on preuontation at the Treasury, nud, in order to fortify itkolf to that end, to sell Louds for gold ny fast s coin was called for, 'ho second mothod v that advocated in I'ue Cuicaco Lrinuse sovoral yeurs ugo, viz. sinko greenbacles coavoriiblo” futo Londs on do- mand of the Loider, aud bonds convertible into geenbucis at thoe snme option. By the first inethod, tho wholo volume of the eurronoy would be olovatad tu the level of goid, and liold tihera stoadily o long as the Govornment proved ablo to redcom its greenbacks on demand. 3y the second plan, tho greeubacks, and ulso the sank-notes, would bo raed to tho XACT MARKLT-VALUL >t the Todoral bonds into _ which tho formor was exchuugeable. If tho bouds wero worlh par, tho notes would aleo bo ; if the Londs Lore & premium in the mazltot, 80 would tha greoubacks, but not tha bank-notow, aw the bunks have tho option to todeom thom in gold or legal-tenduin; und, if $ho bonds vold Lelow par, so would tho legal- tuuders und Lank-uotes bo worth that much less than an. 1t thio bonds soleotod for this convertible pur- pose ware G por coul grold bonds, wuch ny tho 10-104, thoy Would elovato tha prvcoubisks to 99 @100, ui they have 1. 1egaturly relling for Lhut price in the money-mutkew of Liuropo and Amoricn for soma yons past ; and tho lute panic and presont soricun deprossion in tho selling tice of all stocks and morchundise seem not to uva porceptibly affectad them; but, in the fco uf tao crisis, whon overytlung olso was tum- bling hexdlong, the b por cents (and 6 per conts) of the Govertiment stood tiem, and tho gold tould bo got for them atany moment in Now Yorl, London, Paris, Fronkfort, or etlin, al- mokt &b their faco; whilo the 6-20 U per cent bouds stood at a respeotablo promim, fu would be dificult to concelve n wovoror test of thoir worth and slability, It may, then, wafoly Lo talion for grautod, that, It tho green- sncks wore exonangeablo into O por cont 1 gold bouds, and tho bouds re- )F:éll:munfio futo l«:gnl-iuudn'u, tha latter Nould ©'be worth | pur with gold w, ll oxdinary times, aud, fn tyo sovorest cum- merelal rovalaion, would depreotato hut 1 or 2 por cont at tho utmort ; and, necosentily, tho Nue | tional-Bank notes would bo on a lovel with pveonbncky, ov ns nearly wo s thoy have Luon. Ho far, than, us tho purchasing nawer of such o curraniey Is concernad, thero would ho LITYLE TO COMPLALY OT, Tho importers could alwg eell it to the brokors whon wanting gold h which to pay dntios, at tho market price of G por cont honds'; { and, as they are bought and sold gnd convart- { iblo into gald, in Great Dritain, Trance, CGer- mauy, Begium, Holland, amd tho United Bintes, at par or “therenbout at any and all timos, no alko would the convertible groenbacke commind aqual amgunts of gold ovorywhere, “t'his schomo for improving the curroney is ALTOUETHER THE SIIPLEST of auy proposed ; unybady ean understand it. “Chit it would operate adwmlrably, tan harély be a inattor f dou It would not ouly securo to the prople n surconov subatantislly o’tual to gold in valne, but a floxible currency, that would ex- pand and contract aw requived by the businoas- necessitien of the country. There nevor would ho tens of millions of idle monoy lying in tho vpults of banks, from May to October each year, secking any Xind of borrowers, nud tempting #neculators to embark fu all soris of hazurdous schomes, unsetthing tho value of stocks, aud Promoting n gumbling apirit fn businoss, Au tho Governmert does not redeom its noton on demand, aceording to the pledgo on their fnce, it should, ot the very least, pay interest on thom in this form when demanded by the hold- convertiblo bonds n rort of nationnl savings bunit, of abeoluto security, and never liable to panic or suspenston, It mey be said that o large apart of tho groonbncks would be counverted into bonda that thoro would be o GERIOUS BTRINOENCY YOR OURRENCY, I do not think o, becanee thors siill would bo tho wholo volumo of bnuk-notes; and wilver would bo abundant for all small trons- actions; and_ pold would relufoico tho bank-notos when curreacy was mearco ; and, besides all theeo, tho convertiblo bondy would he largely used as currency in all the Inrgor tranzactions. A bond would boequivalent to legzal-tendor notes for its face and earned in- {orest, and be takon in peyment of any debt, or for uny property, with avidity, Thoy would sim- ply bo unother forn of greenbacks, which would alivays bo carning the holders romething whits in thelr poescesion; nnd for thts reason thoy would bo extremoly popular, and, once intro- duced inte general use, would probably never bo discarded or disused 80 long s thera was n bond of the national dobt outstanding and unro- deomed. 'Lhe greenbacks would bo used in tho ordinary transactions, whilo the bonds would fulfill such duties ay bills of oxchango. And right hore let mo digress to rommile that, while groeubneko ure redzomed by tho Govorn- mont at no prico, but stand ay PROTESTED, DISURACED PATER, thoy aro convertiblo into gold at all times at somio prico, Tho bankers and brokern clways stand 1cudy to purchase them ab a **shave.” Wore it otherwise, they would soon bo worth nothivg. The gold-quatntions in New York each day, or several times n day, simply meau tht tho 'brokers, banMers, and monoy-jobbors aro paylng tho roported prices for greanbacks. Whon gold is quoted at 108, it meann that tho brokers are buying greenbacks from tho import- crant 02 2-3 cents on the dollnr,—paying that mueh gold therefor ; tho imporlers using the old to pny tho dutios on their importod goods. g tho valuo of the grecubacks is thus fixed by what the New York brokers will givo for them ench day, i8 it nny wondor that snch valuo is al- ways _finctuating,—forover bobbing up and down? To-duy thiey may bo 108; to-morrow, 1163 noxt day. 120; on Black Fridays, at 160,— mneaning that a groonbuck is worth but 6214 in gold on such days. g It would groatly simplify tho whole currency- quostion if tho public would bear in mind that greonbacks havo only the valuo as motiey “hich tha New York brokers will give for thom in gold. From tho day that Congress repexled tho lnw making them convertible into 5-20 bonda (whick was in 1663-4) until tho present time, their value bas been FISED DY TNE GOLD-BRORERS, and thoy havo been purchased by them for ten yoars, ak s varying prico each dny; but whatover was givon for thom was in gold, and their pur- chasing-power was detormined by what the; would uufil for in gold. This is the inevitablo fate of an inconvertible or irredecmablo currency. If tho issuers of it fail to redeem it on demand, it will bs sold to the ourroncy-specu- lators, aud will Do worth, as monay, precisly what those spoculutors will give for'it iv coin, To have any valuo above that of waste-paper, somebody must offer gold for it, aud its valao will bo whatever per cent of gold those porsons will give for it. Why they offor more for 1t one day than anothor,—some days giving as high as’ 03 por cent and on other days only 75 or 623¢,—Is a socret 1 shall not atiempt to divine, but lreat it na_ ono of those things which * no fellow can find out,” as Dundreary would say. But n curroncy whose value as money i8 thus loft to chance, whim, speculation, and * corner * operntious of gold-gamblers, is A NATIONAL DISGRACE and a commercial calamity, alrendy endured five or six years longer than thero was any necosity or Justification for il. Tho conduct of Congross in the premises has been both stupid and cow- ardly. Returning now to the other, or JMEROIC METHOD OF REDEMPTION ! Clongress can enuct that tio Secrotary of the ‘I'reasury, after a duy named,—say o year ahead of tho ' duo of tho bill—uhell redeom all lepal-tonder nmotes, ou prescutation at tho New York Sub-Ficasury, at par in gold ; und, in order to onable him to do it, place the wurplus coiu in the ‘Ireasury at his disposul, and, iu uddition thereto, eay 800,000,000 of 5 per cont gold bouds, with authority to soll for coin o many thereof ae moy be necdad to rodeem grooubicks, It would Lo the wisor course to make half of them sterhng bonds, with iuterest paynble in London, so that, in case the gold- Lrokers combiued in New York to purchase bonds ot much less than par, they might Lo offered for sale Dy "'reasury-Agents in London, Varis, or Berlin, whero they would bo sure tofoteh thoir Tuce-value, or vory near it, at all times 3 and the sules could bo made on’ telegraph-order, thus dofonting the Now York * corner” schamars. "Iho redeowed greenbacky, of courss, would ILAVE TO DE PAID OUT AGALN, otherwiso ths wholo legal-tender currency would wpeedily dieappear from circulation, and (he Lanks alone would ba left to fwinmsh curroncy and face redemption-music. DBut, as this s not what the public want, it wonld be necessury to roinkue the 5|-eanlmcku neurly ns fast ns thoy como in; aud that roises tho question, Ifow could théy bo roissued 7 For what would they be paid out? Ovviously for nothing except in purclin.g of boncs. ‘Lbe regulay 1evenues nre, and must be, sulliciont to dofray the expenses of the Government, iucluding the interest on tho dabt; otherwise it would mdefinitely incronso, and thereby impair the public eradit, ‘e Govern® wment would be obliged to purchuse bonds with 1ts redeomed proonbucks. As it could not forco the foroign Lolders to accept graoabacks for them without such a breach of Toith as would 1mpair ! 1ts credit in selling 5 per cont bonds for gold, it woull be uecessary to buy bonds at the market- prico In greontaclis, In this way it Is quite prob- uble thos the Govermment would lose at times s Liigh as 1 or 2 por ecut n the irausaction, for it would bo solling 5 per cont bonds for gold at some diseount, and buying 6 per cont 5-20s at a promium, becauso paying for them, not n coln, but in legel-tender, Aund the snma would bo true in buyiug 1049 6 por cont bunds, WHAT THE ANNUAL LOSS to tho Trensury would Lo ean only be n matter of guosk, but it could hardly Lo loss than soms milions a year, ‘ho mggrogate amount of sieonbacks thut would bo picsonted to the Lrousury in tho courss of u year for redemption would probably not bo less” thau_$200,000,000, and might o twico thae wum. AN tlie National TBuuks would look to the Treasury for coin to tho extons of their wants 3 the importers would o Lo it, or to tlie banks, for golil. ‘Mo or throe Iiundroed millions of coin would have to be pro- vidod for popular uso. Millions of the wore ignotunt cluwscs would hoard more or loss gold; motably iy would b tho caso in the South; and the pro- cert of absorption would proceod until the conn- ty wus suliciently sasurated with the precious wetaly, But, putling the totul tinnsnctions in redemption of greonbacks for all purposes, in- cluding sudden ealls by the Lnropcan bauks, at nu oxtromo figuro of, suy, #400,000,0001n 1 singlo your, and the lows _in diwcount on tho sale of bouds for gold, and purchase of bouds for greon- Lucln,at t per cent ench way,—thtis,telilugonds for 99 in gold, and bu; thom back ot 101 in grecubacks,—tho aggreguto loss would only bo ¥8,000,000 "n year, or 40 conls on oach inhabitant in” tho Union. Tho poople COULD BETTER AFFOND TO PAY ton, or even twonty, times that sum per nnnum, than continuo to be cursed by s fluciunting, da- preciated cursency, Lut tho ressvnablo probu- ilitics_ore, thal tho loss to the U'roasury in maintaining specie rodemption wouldnotoxeued, after the first year, 1,000,000 or $2,000,000 per annum; which {8 a mero Lagatolle, that should not bo ullowed to weigh aguinat the pluu the “rhioft " of & feather, if It {8 desirablo in all othor respecty, . Aftor coln-redemption of greoubacks was fu- augurated, it would be no longer necessary to roquae pold for tariff-duticy; and, if “the opticu were given to the Londholders to tako groenbacke or coln for Iuterest-coupons, ors, Such n pchemo of currency would rendor | Amorican' bondholders, Including tho bauks, wonld generally piofor tho greenbacits, on ne« count of convenlence and tho choapross of trana- portation by tho oxpress-companics, and {ho hame thing would be true, to soms oxtont, with lorelgnhomdlioklors, hocause greonbacks would then cirouluta at pur auywhern IN EUNOPE Oit THE WORLD, just as is thoe eass with Bauk of Eugland notea, A question will naturally arise In tho minds of readors, that, if the Govermment thus under- tnkes to redeem ita notos In cbin, what uso is thore for banlk-notes, scoiug that they aro ro- deomed In groonbacks, aud that, in practical oifeat, tho whole burdon of rodomption falls on the Goverument? Why should not tho bas notes bo rotired, sud tho seonrity-bonds bo 1o twrnod to the banks, who could sell them to tho CGovormnent for groenbaene, and thon Lank on this national currency, without fear of ovor being called on to redeom tholr notos ? I confoss my inability to glve n satisfactory ro- ply In tho nogativo to this quastion, sud, afler turning it ovor in ovory liglt, concodo tho point that thio proper policy would bo for the DANK-NOTIS TO I RETIRED, nud greonbacks redesmable in uuh‘ issued in ! thoir sload, 8 Jong an the_groonbaols romam irredecuable, & wonld bo bad polioy to add to tholr volumo, as tho cffeot would inovilnbly ‘b fo dopreciate thom very much more than they are. The bLrokers would pay far lesa for greenbacks not rodocmed by tho 1ssuer if thore wero £750,000,000 of them allont than il only £356,100,000 wero kiting around loose, without a father 1o recognizo his poor offspring. It {8 prosumablo that the banks wonld mnke n sorlous objection to mmrendoring thelr cireu~ lating notes,~ibat is, the banks hu the rural dis- tricts, whoro deposits aro comparatively llght. Tha city banks would probably earo vory litlo atout it, as circalation yielda™ them but littlo protit, and, in the ovent of resumption, might prove o logs, Dut it would not be advisablo ab the outset for tho Govornmont to undertako to redeom any grenter volumo of currancy than it bau now afloat, Botter try that expsrimont first, and seo how 1t would work. ‘While the plan hero sketched would furnish the country with o gound specio currency, having for its support the wholo eredit and strongth of tho nation, i IT WOULD NOT PREVENT pauies and rovilsions growing out of stock- watering and stock-gumbling, and confidenca-ine vestments {n wild-cat and moonshine enter- prises : nor would it provent tho payment of iu- toroat on depositn botweon bunks, or interost ou enll-loans, which is raally tho same thing; nor would it proveut a gltt of curroncy in the banis’ vaults in tho dull soason, aud a stringency in the activo businoss part of tho year, wheu tho crops ro going forward, becauso tha quantity of tho currency would, at all soasons of tho year, bo {ho s#amo, just &s it {8 now. Teliof against theso ovils, lowever, could be given by tha Govorbment consenting to exchange bonds for greoubacks, nud re-ox- chango them on demand, Thus, if the Govern-~ ment would give the holders of its notes the op- tion or choica to convert them into coin or 5-per cont bonds, aud, at tho mamo timo, gave the Tolders of bonda the privilege to surrender them in exchango for groonbacks, then thoro would be uecured to tho country A FLEXINLE CURRENCY, which would expard when the business-needs of tho country required it, and contract whon thero wera moro notes in clrenlation than woro wanted. ‘I'his would bo uniting the two plaus of currency- reform in hnrmonious actton forthe public goud, andit wonld furmeh the Amerienu people thn most perfect monotaty systom ovor possensed by ony vation. Tho fentura of this plan which allows of tho conversion of the ldle, surplus curroucy into bonds durlug the dull part of tho year, would do more to prevent stock-gambling, reck- loss speculations, aud panics, tian any and all olliers that have ovor been proposed. Tho curroney WOULD RESEMNLE INDIA-RUBDER ; it would oxpand whon necessury; but the tendency would always bo in tho other dircotion, which Is exactly what the country needs ; and, if wo had Lind such & systom udopted o fow years ago, the Iate panic an cnlln}mn would not have Lappened, and a loss to tho industrial interests of hundrads of millions would have boon avoided, and nll the atlendant ovils averted, In tho busy, activo portions of the year, whon thore was.an nctivo domand for money, tho bankers would sond o their stock of bonds, and oxchango thom for greenbneks. Ono or two hundrsd millions would probably be thrown into cirenlation in Boptemler or "October, which would bo withdrawn in ihe following May and Juno. With this esfoty-valve attached to the system of greonback-redomption, it is dificult to imagine how & monotary panic, followed by n prostrating breakdown of industrinl operations, could possibly oconr. But, if any one 148 A DETTER TLAN for the reform of tho currency, and tho future health ond safety of the business-interests of tho country, lot Lim bring it forth. A R el il A Woman Who IZas Maintained Si- Ience for Five Years, Denmark, Towa (Nov. %).'Carnmomlmca of the Keokuk Jute 4. Wo wore overtakon by darknoss last evening, swhile still distant from oue n!ox:{]lng place. Wo wero tortunate, however, in finding o refuge at A farmbouse, whero there was amplo ncconimo- dation, and where wo found a—** sensation.” "I'ho family consintod of tho husband, wife, and soveral childion, and = descriprion of the father and chiidron might apply to any other farmer's Tamily, but thera was somethivg in the Rppont- anco of the wifo which strouyly attracted us. Sho moved rku[ckly ubont propating tha ovening meal, and uoticed that while the children aeemod to look to her for direction, conveyed by o look, or a scarcely norceptible ges- turo, no word passed botwoen them, whilo thoy talked freoly with ono another. We won- dered whether shio wis deaf and dumb, - But no, that conld not bo the case, for when her littls, prattling, 4-yoar-oid boy urged her to take hit rubber baby, and told Lier *1t iad beon having a bundred and freo teef, and six croups, and o couple of fevers, and had a bad cold. aud he was afraid it was going to bo sick." I observed a faint, wintry smilo dewn upon ler face, s sho utrokiad the'little fellow's sunny ourls, So, of courwo, slia could henr, ‘Wo wero ontorreined with groat Lkindness, and depatted this morning as much puzzlod us over regarding ourquiet hostess, But a8 wo droveaway wo woro ovorlaken by one of their neighbors, who gave us thia cxplanation ; Somo five yoars ago tho good woman bad lost two children by scariot fovor, and she grieved goroly, aud would not bo comforted. While in this despairing stnto she was porsuaded to at- tond a protractad macting, Tho effcet upon her wmind wns distressing, She folt that she had committed tho unpardonable sin; that *“tho words of hor wowth ~ had not boen “ ncceptablo in HMis sight,” and 8o sho 1o- corded a vow that she nover again would uttor o syllable, and sho never has. Tor mora than five yeara sho has maintainod unbrokon silence, and the two youngoer childron have never heard their mothet's voieo. Noigh- hors and fricnds have wousht to convince hor that her rash vow, madoin o disonsed atato of mind, was not binding upon her, but their ef- forts wero fruitioss, and sho goes on her quiat way, leaving no daty undone, but showing her love and eymnulh{l v looks nud ucts; but nover by & word, Her hnsband treats ber with the tonderest considoration, and evidently loves and respects her. . —_— Cnpt. Incls Body, On Sundey, the 2d inst., soveral teams loaded with Government stores, from Fort Klamach, arrived at Rosobury, Oregon, nud unlonded at thedepot of the Orcpon & California railvoad, Shoitly after, one of tho teamsters went to tho co of the Plaiudealer, ond privatoly invited tho editor to walls with him to tho doepot. Tho ceditor went, and this is what ho n:\f‘n he raw ond heard: **When wo arived thero he pointod to w eask, which, on close luspection, proved to be nothing moro than a common whisky barrel, markod ¢ Socioty of Natural [istory, Wasning- ton, D. C." Wo then wauted to know what was the monning of this, whon our friond informod ug that the burrel contained nothing less than tho body of the Modoe chief, preservad in apir- itk, und was boiug shipped thik way ostensibly ns Guverutout stores, to provent commont by nowspnpers and the publl goneral, Our fne formunt then proceeded to give tho wholo story, 04 bo wns present at the exeention, sid had vo- maiued at Fort Klamath frow cho time tho In- diuts wore hung uutil ho left for Roscburg with us toam nud hotribla trelght, 1t sppears _that Juck's body was never buried aftor the hesd wus sovered from the truuk. In fuct, if it had not been for tho superstitious tears of the Indians concernlug their dend relativos, which canso them to vory ofton risk their livos in timo of war to cwmry thelr sluin from the field of battlo, and apprehonsions cutertained us to how ic would be recoived h{ the l:ublla mind, the body woull no- var havo been buried, As it wan, “the Modoo cliet only rested in his grave ubout 10 ov 12 bours, It was dug up nbout midnight on tho duy ho was Lung, by soldiers detailod for that purpose, who tllled up tho grave und loft it ay though [t liad novor boou disturled, ‘Tho body wad immediatoly cuiried to tha fort aud tho head taken off and put up for shipment cust, A fow days atter this the roma{nder of tho body waw placed In tho barrol, #a ulready stated, und start- ad for tho samo city for which tho head wus in- tondod, Wo Linvo venson ta beliove the story au told us i true in wvery pastioular,” LITERATURE. Tho Purltanse-Sir Walter Raleighea Fronde, PLAYS AND THE PURITANS ; AND Ornxn ITrstonr- OAL EfsAYA, Ly Cuantes Kinostey, Londou snd Now York: Macinilian & Co, Chicago: Janson, Me- Olurg & Co, The three ogsnys which mnke up tho volumo before ua were firat published in the North Brit- 1sh Review, In tho first oseay,—'* Plays and the Purltany,"—the writer combats what Is supposed to bo historienl fact by those who bLave not etudied eavefully the subject: that the Puritans woro tho Invetorate opposern, not only of all plays and play-acting, Yut of art In all ita departmonts, That they did oppose theatres and shows, {8 admitted; but Mr. Kingsley provos that the stage liad becomo tho delineator of debauchory and crimo fn its worst forms; that, borrowing its plots and its charnetors from tho basest productions of Italian litorature, tho piny-houses incited the English 1neople to adopt the worat habits of the conntries from which theso plays eame; aud hence not only the Puritans, but all good men, wote forced to condemn the uttor lcontiousness that had be- como the charactoristio of the Eugliah staco, o prove this, he quotes tho opinious of Bin Jonson and othor grost namos in the liternture of llm‘rnrlud, and gives u synopsia of the lead- ing incldents, no foras deccncy will permit, of sovoral of tha most popular plays of the time. Evon immortal Shakspoaroe is not freo from the taint of thenga in which he lived; oand, in bis enno, tao vory presagos which tho Puritans cone demued nro those which are now expungad bo- foro his plays aco put upon the stago, Those im. urities nro what the Duritans hated, and ustly, Mr. Kingsloy contonds. Ho claims thut not "~ only the pooticnl aud histrionic art of Englund hiad becomo thoroughly base and corrupt, but art, in nearly all its departmonts, was mado to inclte and pamper the lowest vices. It is becanso the Puritans led in those wars and torriblo sconca that struck down these vices of thu conrt and too many of its adlcronts, thab thoy Liave been charged with tho adium of op- posing all art, while they simply danounced—if you please, destroyed—iwhat good men in that and all othor ages must condomn. Somo may agsort that all the art and the poot- r{ of that day, goad and bad, belvuged to the oyaligts, "o autlior roplios ¢ “Thoro aro thoss who bellove Jobu Bnuyan, consider- ed simply anon arifst, to botho greatest dramatic autbor whom giand las seen minco Shakipeare; and thero Jinger, too, in the libraries und the eara of me, words of ono ‘John Milton. Mo was no rigid hinter of the beautifal niercly bocauso it was heutlion and Poplshi; 1o moro, indeed, woers muuy highly- editcated und bighly-born genticieu of tho Lot Yur- liament; no moro wus Cromwell himself, who Iy ruld 10 have preserved for tho nution Rapliacl's cartouns ond Andrea Bantigna's trfumph when Charles' ple- tures wero nold, Milton bad utecped hi wholo toul fu romance, He lad fell tho beauty ntd giory of tho chivalrous Middle Age s deoply us Shakpearo bim- el ; bio bnd ua much clasefcal lore as anyOxford pedaat, 1o folt to kiu Learts coro (for hesung it, aud, it he ha ot folt it, Lo would only bavo written ki) tha magnifi- genco und worth of really high art, of (o drama whea i was worthy of man aud of ftself': Of georgeoun tragedy, Presenting Uhebes’ or Pelops'line, Or tho tale of Troy divine, Or what, though rave, of later age, Enuobled hath the buskin'd siage. No poet, perhiaps, shows wider and truer sympathy with every form of tho really boautiful n art, vaturo, and istory ;aud yet ho was o Purdtan, . . . . Tho ouly lnstiig poet "of that generation ‘'was 3 Purituu § one who, If io Qi not write drawas for sport, at least acted drawmas fu carncal, The followiug extract, though rather long, will bo rend with Interost, for it does tho Old Puritans simplo justice ; nothing more. BIIn tho mattor of dress and of mnuners, the Purlton tyiumph hus boon complete, Even tholr’ worst enas mica hiavo conio over to thelr side, and tho whirliglg of ‘ime hiaa brought nbout it roveny toat of their’ canons of {aste all Englaud, Iigh-Ciurchmen, who still call then Roundbieads and Cropped-Ears, go about rounder- headed and closer-cropt than thoy ever went, Thoy Deld it more rational 1o cut tho alr {o @ comfortabio Jength than to wear offeminate curls down the back, We ent ours much_ghorler than they ever did. They Dield (with the Bpaniards, then tho finest gentlemen i tho world) (hat sad—that s dark—coiors, above all blaclk, wera the fittest for all stately and carnest gen tlamen, We all, from the Tractarian (o tha Avything arlan, hre oxaclly of the samo opinion, Thiy hold that ' lace, perfumes, and jowelry on & wman aro muarks of wnmanly foppishness and yanity. So hold the fincat gontlemon in Eogland now, | They thought it aqually abeurd and #inful for s man 1o carry his fucowe on Lls back, sud Ledizen himeolf out fus rode, biues, and_greeus, ribbons, kuots, and slaslics, and triplc, quadrnplo ‘Dedaliau’ rufla, bullt upon fron and timber, which have moro niches in them for pride thau London Bridge for use, Wo, if wo met such a ruffed and rutfiod worthy na_ used’ to swagper by dozous up oud down aula Walk, not knowlug Liow to got a dinnor, much less to_ pay bis talor, snould look upon him as firstly & fool, and sccondly a svindler ; while, If wo met an old_Puritan, wo " shonld considor him & man gracefully and plotureequely drest, but withal in the most pexfact sobriety of good tasto ; und, when we discovored (us wo probably should), Over and above, that tho hario- quin cavaller Lad o box of eaive and o paip of dico in ogo podot aud o pack upll- Fave become thoso of of cardza and 8 fow pawnbrokers’ cates in tho others; thot bia thoughits wore altogetlior of citizens’ wives and thelr 100 easy virtuo; and ihat e could not open Lifs mouth withonta dozen oatls; then we suould cousider the Paritan (sven thougl e 4id quote Seripturo somewhat througli his nosc) ua tho gentieman, aud the Courller as u most oilaneive spocimen Of the “anob triumphsut,” glorging in his wbame, ~Tho pleture 8 not ours, nor even the Puritan’s, Itis Dishop Hall's, ishop Earle’s; it is Beaumont's, Fletcher's, Jonron's Shakspenre’s,—tho pletruo whids overy dramatiut, oa well ay satiiat, lus drawn of the gallaut of tho Seventernth Century,’ No one can rend those writers houestly without secing that thie Puritan, and not the Cavalier, conception of whut abritish gentlemim sbould be, ia the ono uccepted Ly tho whole uation ut this day. The principles of tho Puritans, no less thau thowr eimplicity in dross and manners, now Iurgely control tho legislation and the national lifo in England and iu this conntry. Their gurdy morality and unflinching patriotism form tho groundwork of all modern progress. Tho first condomuy Crodit Mobilier steuls, salary- graby, aud oficll corruption, everywhoro ; ‘it puts Tweed in prigon, and sternly demands tho hunishwent of the criminal of high and of low degtee ; whilo American patriotism, deoply im- bued with the spirit of tho old Puritans, calm and storn in tho face of the most gigantic rebellion known to listory, Lnocks {ho nhacklos from 4,000,000 of nlaves, and carries tho Stars aud Slripos in triumph from the Ohio totho Gult of Moxico. Skopticism may sncer and rascaliLy may #colf, but tho principles of the old Roundhenads give to our modern civilization it noblest triumphs and its surest hopes for the future welfaro of (ho race. *Woa worth tho day * wheu it shall bo otherwise, Of tho ossays on Sir Waltor Rtaleigh and His Time, and Froude, wa have no room to speals. ‘Ihe firat in upecinlly oxcellent, ‘fho 'Treaty of Washington. THE TREATY OF WASHINOTON : Irs Nsooris- 7108, EXEGUTION, AND ~DISCUSSIONB RELATIN Tuenero. By CALEW CUBHISG, New York: Ha por & brothers, Cuicsgo: Jausen, McCiurg & Co, ‘Ihe Troaty of Washington, the seitlement of all questions under it, and the paymont of tho award by Great Britain, mark onc of the most importaut evonts in the history of the world, It is onvof tho graudest resulis of tho power of our Christian civilizalion, It ehows that, whero that power can worl out its legitimate results, it can keep tho peaze botween tho netions. It will be ranked with Magnn Chorta and tho Deolaration of Independonce, It moved forwurd largely tho index of progross on tho dinl-plato of ‘Fime, . Such being tho ostimato which History will unquestionably make of tho Treaty of Washing- ton, every fact in relation to it uhould bo care- fully rocorded. Calab Cunhing has, therafore, dono a most imporiant service to his country and to mankind in propaving tho work before mws, Trom its inception ho was perrectly conversaut, o8 ono of tho coun- sel for our Government, with all the facts nnd principles which ontered into tho ‘Trosty, and tha results reached abt Genova; and 1ho ne- count ho has given us sooms to ambrace o concise statemont of about ull that tho world neods to know i rogard to this grent- oxc Lrimnph of s teachings who procliimed »Peaco on earth and pood will toward woun," ‘Phe Treaty itnell, aud tho award, a1o published in foll. Commeals on onch soction, sud a synopsid of the urgements on aithor sido, nro giver; oud tho forms by which u conclusion was ronched, A brief sketeh of the lives of the mswhers who nogotialed the Lreaty, und of tho Arbitrators, and of their qualifications for the worit nssigued them, forms o very intoresting ohmpier of the voluma, Whe work will find u rlaco in cvery gentloman’s, and certainly in evory utalesman's, libvary, Logal, DIBBELL'S REPORTS: CAsks ARGUED AND DETER- MINED IN THE OIuCUIT AND Disrmios Counrs or THE UNITED STATES FOU TIE BLEVENTH JUDICIAL Ooutr, By Jostan H, DrasgLs, of tho Chicoyo l.hlr, Oticlal’ Reporter, Cullaghsu & Co, 1873, 3 Yoli, ‘This nerles, of which two volumes are alrendy published, and tho thind now in pross, comprlsos tho jwportant decinfons of tho Unitod Btates Quurts for tho Statos of Iliuois, Indions, and Wisconain, The ITon, Jobn McLean, while ono of tho Justlces of tho United Btates Bupromo Court, belng nllotted to this Cireuit, propared tho decilons during his day and published them in six volumen, which bear his name. 8ince hin death, in 1801, nothing hnd hoen dono townrd preserving the declsionn in o pormanont form | until Mr. Biseoll's appoiutment, althongh thero 1iad boen mich important litigation ; and thowo volumes show that many of tho questious do- cided woro of groat Intorest, not morely ta law- yort, but to the businoss comnuiity, 'IMo stylo of tho book is exccllont,—far anpe vlor to most. of the Inw-books publishod by cit! Eastorn or Wostern hiousoa; and thoro ave nano of thosa book-making devicos for muking u Nttle go & great waye which have caused so much ain- ;’numucnon amoug many of thu members of the ar, Ono noticonblo feature of the book is tha nu- morous refersucos by the Deportor to cases in othor courts on slmilar questionn.—n featuro whick can but bo of great valuo and cznvenionce to the practicing Iawyer. 'hern nro cited in thesa Lwo volumos about 5,000 easos,—being more, wo bellove, than in any roports horatofare publikhed, and a8 wany asapposr oven in the moro olaborato test-books, "Fhe publishers announce that this asries will bo regularly continiod, embracing all tho do- eislong of goneral intorest nud valuo within the Circuit. They Linvo cortainly spared no pains or oxpenso In tho proparation or pulnting of this worle ; and thoe Bar Is cevtainly to ho congratu-~ Inted in the fact that the decirions of tholr Court can be ro handsomely presentod in books whiclh wre eutirely of Chicago production, - Among the Jator devistons we notico n numker on hank- Taptey questions, omo of which—lke it re doslyn, Inve Knhley, In ya Knight, Campbell, Assignee, and Tyaders' Nalional Bank—hnyo nlrendy become loading ensen in the conrtn. We nl8o notica two tnteresting copyright cases, with full eitations of suthotities, and weveral on the rights and liabilities of common carrlors, Trniy, - Co COGITATIONES VESK TINB: ¢ 1IN Thougitra™ Dok s DuaMag, 1onns, | Pex-Lipy Fomys, By Unicus, F. I, Hellbery, Cileago, Dozamber, 187, Bomebody handed us this volumo—quito a formidablo affair—with o request that wo notice it ; but wo foar tho loss that is said about the hoolt tho botter for the publishers. Whoover Unicus may be, o will bo very likely to rank Irimself nmmli; that Inrgo class of mortala whom tho world aadly fails to nrm‘cclnto. ke a8 o specimen, on pago 85, tho opening liues of “'Pho Judgmont-Bar,"-a voiy solowmmn subject, surely : , Once upon time, at a sablo midnight’s core, 1 was borao on swiftest wings to the Stygkin soro, Was ft o dream 7 “Did my woul soar fortli 1 dow't wat ? | Perchancs wy oplrivs vesturo tid at thus hourio trot Take auotherapocimen, from *Courting,” page !t Oly, Joh," sald Jane, * you naughty Loy, Yowll break my beart {f you don't stup Withi Kate, and Maud, and Toao to foy’ You see my heart bow 'tis heaving up, 440l Jaug 1" nafd Jolin, you jealois 1 love theo lute and I fova then e “Chougia my heart {4 o ltarp of n thousand strings, Yet rial love for theo it singa.” After taking breath, wo quote as follows from the drama **Soroeis.” On page 338 Lo puts a song into the mouths of the darlings, Wo quote 2 Vorse : X Yor us, O, Thou Elernal Giver, Lel us fluat gently ou Weslth's river ; Givo us two-cdged tongues T get ov'a witi thoso wale deliclous roguos; Aud, if they give ua plenty of gald, Wit many dresses of colors vold, And let uw flivt a8 wa used of ol We giva them kiszes nany-fold, The brizhtand happy day is coming Whou we with blooming clieeks ure winning Thu race of progros+, mankiud's weal, For which to-night wo ullix our connmou seal, Thore, now, who says Chieago don't sport n 0ot,—ouo Unicus, whoovor ho may bo ¥ Wo shiull futlict upon our readers but two more verses, from ** Love's Muy," pago 40 : 11 wm right, I thiuk you once wera bablea ; T mean you who aro now men nad ladi Wik was it that met you ut your daw Al %tiwas @ moth s Tove i hew Lizart haca, While on your downy couch you wera asicep, Augels ou tip-tos kissed your chorry lips, But now you aro on tho top of tho laddur § Life's witter has eome—craation Ls cold But, ov'n in Lfw's winter, Jove is man's stronghotd, With the ucresso of uge ft grows the brighter ; Lovo' tire burns tien miid, ifko a gorgeous sulset, ‘And, liko {ts purple glow, points heavenward, After all thoso quotations, tho author suraly caunot claim that wo misropresont him. We simply add n raquest to tho publisher that ho would leave out Chicazo us tho place of pub- lication, Chicago has recoverad from ' the Groat Iire ; but sho coulit uot endure the pub- licn:]i.‘on of this book, Tuat would be asking too much. ancy Withs a Intred duction Ly ABNOLD Guzor, L'rofessor, civ,, Nassal 1all, Princeton, N, J. Witll 343 Lngravings, New Yorlt : Beribuar, Arinsirong & Co. Intho power to grasp tho most important facts,—the really casential olemonts of all sci- enco,—and to doseribe thom in languago roadily understood by tho non-professional reader, tho TFrench savants far oxcol those of auy other nation, The worlk beforo us is convincing proof of tho fact above stated. For its compre- honsivo grouping togatlier of tho most intorest- ing habits of ingocty, fishes, birds, nnd animal of thelr modes of living ; building their lubita: tions ; moans of locomotion ; tho genius—per- baps wo should eall it instinet—aud tasto they manifest ; snd o thousand and ono vhings in rogurd Lo snimal life, tho hook contaius by far the most remarkablo collection of facts wo re- mewber to have scen issued from thio press. Tho vegetable kingdom also comes in for o large sliaco of attoution, aud the neinowlodged facts in geologzy and astronomy aro also claarly and correclly” stated, And” then the book abouuda in & Wwealth and o Leauty of iliustration which rotlects tlio Lhighost croait upon the pub- lighers, Whilo the work is mainly designed for uou-professional readors, scientists will bo glud | to have it, for it will cairy them nbove the stricy tochuical rules of their” spocialties, and whow them tho beauty aud the glory of the works of | the Creator, We kuow of uo work whero so much real knowledgo Is condensad into 82 smali & space, Or oo we cau moto ktrongly recom- mend parents to Ym into the buunus of thewr children, It should adoin, as it certainly will Inutruct, every honsehotd that will do themuselves the pleasure to read it, innity. C CHRISTIANITY SUIENCE OF MANHOOD. pit M vage, Lastor of the Tatrd Uin- C-’ 1o Chiurel, Calcuron Bosion : Soges, el 0. 'Tins i3 & book of whick our city mav well ba proud. It aa baen recaivod with groat approba- {ion by tha entire religions puolic. Soms of tho leading religious journals complain that the authior doea not o quito far enough in basing Lis conclusions on what they vegard as Evangol- ical doctrine ; but all bear chioortul tostimony as to tho teal valuo of tho book. It is commerded a‘mcinlly to all who havo doubts as to the enno- bling elfects of Christianity upon individual chavacter, Of it tho Rov. Prof, David Swing, of ony city, soyy: Tua valunie entitled, “ Christianity the Sclence of Mankind,” I have Juet read witls an anusual pleasure, Tunll tie'colleges of the land ther: aro departinonts of “Applied Chemistry® and * Applled Meehanics,” Mr, Bavago Las, by lifw Uook, awakened iy suspicion it perkaps Carfatisnity noeds u new 6tudy in tha form of ub applled wliglon, With roal power nid Loauty mingled, Mr, 8vage leads the resder along throngh i3 whop of thought, und convinces ng that Curlatlanity 1 only s dierent numa for Manhond. Mrs, Jamiéson Curiatianlty 1s a woat Leanticui elviization,” Mo the muno conclusion this book will lead thio thoughtful reidor, Gardening for Young Folks. WORK, YLAY, ASD PROFIT ; ane’ YouNd Youys: A Qe By ARNA M, Hyor, With Iiusteations, Fhilsdelyhin: J, B, Lippiucott & Co. Chicuy Janken, McClurg & Co, ‘I'bis {8 o beautitul and interosting little book It givos the history of the gardening-operations® of a family of boya and girls, for the season, and shows how o very largo umount of information miny be galued by thom whilo enltivating u very suiall poce of ground, ‘The smount of knowie odge purontu may impart I n singslo senson to their ehuldren, of ™ the growth and the habits of plints, of binly, lnsocts, and u thoussud othor things, whilv nt the knwo titno they greatly pro- wmota thelr health uud happiness, s well illus- trated in this little book, For the Sad and the sorrowing, GONE DEFORE: A MaNuaL OF CONHOLATION i BEREAVED, AND o WELL OF bYSiiat 4ux Bounowind, FILLED oM BANY SoUncEs. Ly fasny Bousitoars, Philadelpbiat 4, D, Lippine cott & Cu, Chicago: Junsen, McClurg & Co, Thisis a collection of tho finest passages in tho Engllsh langnage, eclected from a groat variaty of authors n proso and pootry,— all of thom adapted to meot somo want of asoul distressod, Almout every phaso of sorrow can Lero find somo words of comfort,~something that will bind uptho brokon hoatt and give the anirlt poace. Weo can think of no moro appro- priale Fm ton frlond whose soul is torn with angaish for the departed,—for those that have “*gone befuro,” 1t will he found a wministoring augal, gontly lispiring wubilsedon to the will of i “who dootl wll things woll.” Africen. WEEKS 1N A BALLGON; on, Discoventes 13 AFnicA ny Tungr Exo By Juves Venne, Crunslated by Winnia tAsD, Wit 49 Dhustrations, Unston: James Osgaod & Co, Chlenga: AN the Bouksalers, "'lic publishors have sont wa advanco-shecln of this curious and futeresting book, It I in nomn respocts a satira on tho difforent reports of African discovory, The incidonts mo, of conrse, puroly nnginary, but they ure, nevoi- tholosy, trae to natura; that is, the deseriptions of auimals aro true to thair natuve, and tholr ut- tuckn and contosts aro desaribod just ns fhey woull wot under similar civemmsdtancos, ‘Uho author shows himsolf porfoctly familini with alt that is known of Afvier, and, reaching all parta of the conrinent, ns ho wakes his travolors do, by n kaltoon, o was at liborly to introduce such seonery aud such facts as suitod his pur- pase. 1t lionld bo said, alao, that the modos of Mling and munaging tho Lalloon are such ns acrotinuts amploy in thelr porflous journoyi ; | #0 iat venders can go mnch tnformation of the atmoynhere, and of tho continont of Afriea, itw climate, topography, vegotable and animal pro- ductions, from this book, It fs written In the uma siyloay the olher works of Mr. Vorna: ** Undor tho Sea, * Tho Contre of the Jarth," * Soarch for the Cnstaways,” and sevoral othiors, all of whicl nro on joylng au Immonso popularity among our younger rentlers, vy Horace. WHE GLODRE EDITION OF THI WORKR OF HOR- AOE; 1LENDRRED INTO BNGLISH Pltosiz: With In- troduction, Analyais, Notes, Eie, Mte, By Drof. Jastxs LoNguans, Osford sid King's College, Lons don, wnd | SAMUEL Lk, Lecturor, Fie, Christh Callege, Camuririge, Now York snd London t Maee il & Co, Cufeago: Jansen, MeClurye & Co, Wa need hardly sy to our non-classical readors that foraco was confosacdly ona of tho grostost poots that ever lived, Indeed, in his speciul dopnrtment, Odes, Satives, aud Epistlon, be ranks first in Roman literature ; and, in tha judgmout of many, he bns no superior, nnd it iy claimed, even, that Lo has o egmal, in any ago or couniry, o Uus ny it may, Eneliah rondars will give this traustation u cordinl welconme, Whily following (ho text elogaly, and glving tha exact mcaning as near as may bo, the whaols is rendored into clear, Loutiful English. 1fence, thene unacqualnted with Latin can now enjoy the wit, the tarcasm, and tho noble, Lmlrimlc sentiments of ono of the worla's greatest poets, 7 Comparative Anntomy. THE, COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF DOMESTI~ CATED ANLMALS, DBy A, Cifauveay, Prfessor i thio Lyons Veterinaty School—rumslated aud Edited by Gonor Yresiye, Voteriuary Surgeon of the Toyal Lngiucors, Witl' 430 Illustratiovs, New York D. Apyleton & Co. " Chicago: W. B, Koen, Cools Wo havo looked over this volume with great interest, and, to our uuprofossional eyes, thore tooms nothing mora to bo destrod in o work on the subject of which it treats, The deseriptions are 80 plain, aud the hlustrations ore so numorons and good, that any ouo of ordinary intelligonce ecan undorstand any of tho organs of animals, Man, of course, comes in for u comparivon ; and though, of course, tho work is uwob intended to supersede boolis upecially dovoled to him, one can learn that **Wo ara foarfully and wonderfully made ™ from this volume. ~ Spacially doca it show us our 16lationy to othor mammiferons animaly, The worl is of utaudavd value on this subject. Charles Fenno Eloffman. TIE POEMS OF CHARLES FENNO 1IOFFMAN, Colleated snd editod by his Nephow, Ebwanp Fes- No lMorrsaN, Phliadeipble: Podee & Coates, Chfengo : W. B, Keon, Covits & Co, Our literary ronders neced not boe told that Hoffinan has joscribed his namo among the best of America’s poots, I nephew has dove a good worl in giving ua so beautiful an odition of bis works. Iis * Montorey,” * Rosalic Clare,” and ** Sparkling and Dright * are known in ulmost overy housebold in the land, Aud whoro can_you find a more bLeautiful pocm thun the “*Bob-O-Linkum,” and a dozeu oth- ois thet might be named? Willia Cullen Biyant congratulates the cditor on the complo~ tion of his work, and montions Holfman as hav- ing beon amouz lus best nud most sopreciativo friends. Suvely pootry that Mr. Brvuat approves needd 10 words of fuvorable eriticism fro us, For aportsmen, By Hexny Tiluairated from Haturs by tuo New York : George L, Woodward, Orangs Cilcago: Jausen, M:Owirg & Co, This book stivs up every proponsity for field- sports within the roader. 'Yho illustrations of game-animals, birdg, and fish, are besutiful. The &eason in which to take thew ; thoir Labits and habitat ; the arts by which theiv natural instincts cau bo outwitted and ovorcomo ; vivid doserip- tions of hunting scenos ; the parapheinalia nee- cssnry to lifo in tho woods; in fact, all that “tho sportsman mneceds to kuow is loro accurately described by an export who know practieally of what hoe wrote. We uneed not commond the book to those who are fond of fleld-sports, They will tako to it naturally. Kiteraturce and Art. STUDIES IN THE UISTORY OF THE RENAIS- SANCE, By Watten H, Pater, Drofesssor.Or~ London nud New Yorl: Maciillau & Co. Clidcago : Jansen, MeClurg & Co, Tho suthor deflnes Reunissanco in ity flrat ap- plication fo meau tho great revival of classical antiquity iu the fifteenth contury. Now it has a more general menning,—not only referring to tho earncst pursuit of the boautiful und the in- tollectual in the art aud the literature of {he ** paat, but divining new sources of it, now expo~ rionces, now subjects of poorry, new forms o art.” ‘I'ho book denls mainly with the groat mon and tha wonderful revival of intellectual lifo in ths fifteenth century, aud, as such, commends iwsell to the attontion of all those who are in- terested in the listory of art aud literaturo in that remarkable period. Fhilosophy. THINKERS AND THINKING, liy J, E. GANRETSON, 3L, D, ¢+ Jobu Darby ). Fhfadenhia: 1,1, : cott & Co. Cuivago Junsen, MeClurg & Co, Dr. Garrotwon throws himsclf back into ono comner of the eofa and falks (writes) of phi- losophy and thinkors in all ages. Iis slylo is plain, and his Ianguage is casily understood, bub Lis subjects of discussion embraco the highest thomes that ever havo occupted the human mind. Socrates, Arwstotle, Plato, Descartes, Spinozn, Dacon, and rcores of otbers, with their lzndluf thoughts and opinions, all como in for remavks and discuscion, Iv is a work bya t;x‘mlcfi‘(or thinLers. Inforior readers will adon tire of ft. On the Amazon. THE CAMPING-OUT SE! ON TIIE AMAZON; o, THE ORUISE oF TRE ** Ravouen," Tilustra'ed, : Boaton : James R, Osgood & Co, Chicugo : W. 1, Keen, Cooke & Co. This work is specially adapted to our young people. The anthor deseribes a trip up the Am- azon River, ambracing kletches of the country and its productions, of the peopls and their mannors and customs, and thousand things in tho free and easy sivio to plopse tho bays and filrl!. In it thoy will find 2 great amount of nowladge of tho valloy of the largost and grandest river in tho world, Kenelm Chillingly. Wo noticed thiy worle of Lytton a few weeka ago, As an evidenco of its popularity, we lLave now two other editions, larger, with botter print, and, of course, moro pleasant to read ; tho ono published by the Harpors, New York, from Jansen, McClurg & Co; and the othoer_by Lippincott & Co., of Philadelphia, from W. B, Keou, Cooko & Co. Lippincott pro- noses to publish romo twenty-four volumos of Bulwer's novels uniform with the vno beforo us, The edition cannot farl to be Eopulgr, a8 the specimen beforo us fe isoued in beautiful style. Ilein chollte. THE ROSE OF DI A Noven, By HemNe kue, Tronsluted by Jaugs J, D, New York: Soeldon & Co, Chicago W, B, e, Ocolto & Co, Zecholiko lios tho 1oputation of being ono of Gormuny's bost writors of fiotion, ‘Iho trans- Intor has rondored the atory into Leautiful Ene glinh, and tho publishors have done their part wall, The book is commondod to onr readers as n spocimen of German light litoratura, A Novel, MIS8 FORESTER: A Nov: New York: Sheldon & Oo, Caokio & Co, Wa Luve not had thne to oxamine this book sufilolontly to pans upon its morits, It seemu to bo well writicn, and the writor has cextalnly . By Mrs, EDwanos, Ouicsgo: W, B, Keon, nolifeved an anviable reputation among modern writera of fietion, raptienl sunIL, AND-ATLAS OF T4 Comnint of W0 Colored Mape Engraved on_Goiper- Yoliu Size. Chieago s Lilward Baelier, 471 Wabas] nvenue, ¥ The two numbera of this splendid work now hzfore un oach contain threa of the best maps that have fallen nnder our obaervation, Tlho mountning and valloya of tha different cortatring ore mado at once plain (o tho eve hy the mont delicato tracings ; and tie eoloxings indienting the bownrlariow of different B.atcs anet nnlionw aro distinet and benniiful, It in to be comp in thiity mmbots, (o bo insued monthiy. & T Another Juvenile, '3 AND Q81 on, Tae QuieT1oN oF PuTtING Upnss Ty Cuatinorrs: M, Yousax, Loudon nnd Sey Yo Aacndllan & G, Cileago t Tatmen, McCinrg & Co, ‘Chis is anothier of the autior's charming little hooks for children. Trom the number of works of this kind yecently placed upon our tablo, it wold appear that our hittle friends witl havo plenty ‘of hoaka to real. The one betore us soems to bo worthy of thewr attention. For the Child TROTTY'S WEDDISA-TOUR By Lntzansit Stoarr Iincrvs, 1L Osgool & €0, " Chicagu: W, B, Co, Uhe author af * Gates Ajac” weeuples an en- vinble place in Amorican litorature. The hook befure us is tull of charmiug stories for eluldren, written i Minv Phelps’ beat stvlo, [tin just the thing for a holiday gift to tho littlo ones, D _HTORY.100RK, wlon : “James weh, Covko & The Voices THE VOICE. AND. IfOW ‘(0 USE IT. By W. I, Daxtzr, Lowton : Jumes B, Osgood & Co, (el cago: W, B. Keen, Conke & Co, A liitlo work which we ecommend to thore who study music. Tha inatruation Is thrown tuto the shape of a dinlogue hetrasn teachar and punil, ami liones objeet a auswerad, and kuowladge is Imparted atiractive form. na T Suered Songe. . THE VICE POR ALL TR PEOVLE, Ty 1, Menui andst uf the Fiet ML E, Churelr, ~ Chleago teheock & Walden, A v neat little hoolt, containiug a collection- of our most popnlar church-music for the family circlo and the eonferenca-room. ‘e hymn nrw well solected, and will wnit all clavnes of Chvia- tiang, A Story for the Young. THE RUNAWAY: A Stonr rom st Younn, the author of * Mra. Jernughain's Journ: don and Now York: Macmillin & Co, Junkon, McClurg & Co, A story of an ndventurous young lady who ran away and was secroted Ly another. The author has maunged to tell a rather curions and romo. whet improbable storyin 2 very fascinating etylo. ny Cuieugo t J. Fenimore Cooper. TIE WATER-WITCH ; on, TiE SmiMMEn or Tns S¥as: A Taus, Hy ), FENDMORE COOPER New York: D. Appleton & Co, Cumicago, W. L, Reen, Cuoks & Co, Ono of the nuthor's bost-known soa-tales. It only noed Dbe added thut tho publishers luve issued the work in heautiful style, to form a part of a now odition of Coopor's works. Perviodicals. The publishors of Lillelt's Living Aqe (Littell & Quy, Boston), in thetr announcemont for 1574, make tho following statements Among the eminent authors lat ages ure Prof, Max Muller, (Tahwer) psented 19 ftw gonisbed Freuch writors, Rtussiny author, Mrt, Ol Mies Sutoch, Matt MucDonald, Froude, Giadaton A nevr reries won begun dau, I, 1 embraces neriaf aud rhort tori Froaeh, Geyman, and Rassien nutliors, via. Lytion, Erckmaun-Cintrisn, Frite Tvan Ture spilenieit, Mrs, Oiipliatt, (s, Parr, suthor of * Dore 1y Foxi® Mism Macqioid, wtitor’ of ~Putiy,” Mirs And d by the feadlny foreigu nuthors, will Le given the weual amount, unapproaclied by any otler periodteal, of the Dost Mtarary and scicuttli matter of tuo dsy, from the pous of tho ubnve-namied, und may otuer sble hiving contributors to current liforature, Brittan’s Journal of Spirvitual Science : Quar- torly. 8. D, Drittan, Riitor. Reenived from tho Leliglo-Philosophical Ilouse, corner Adami stroot nud Kifth avonue, Citicaga, . 'Tho Penn Monthly for December. Dhiladel: i, P ¥aod's Houseliotd Magazine for December. § E. Shutes, Now York auil Nowburgl, N, Y. "ho Sunday-Schoa! Teacher for Decamber. Adaws, Blackmer & Lyou L'ublishug Compray, Chicago, Plrenological Journal for December. Ramuel R. Wells, New York The Zome (rangs for Noverber. 8!, Louis. National Bee Journal Lor Novercbet. Rrs. Eflou 8. Tupper, Des 3oites, 1a, e Eook-Buyer for Novumbor, Seribaer, Welford & Arusirong, New York. Juifa K Literary Items, John Morley, the oditor of the Fortnizhily Re. view, hoe n new work on Tho Btaggio fur Na- tional Education.” It is statod that ovo of Emorson Dennett's highly uonuntionn! stofics, ** Prairio Fluwer,” L s01d to tho extent of 100,000 copron. 1L, Stoddmit, the poct, bas rovised mnd ghit down to 'the prosent time Chiswold's ‘smialo Poots of America,” which will be pub- lishe:l before the Liolidaya by James Millor. Coal, Clavenco Prentica had u voluno of the poema of hin father, Goorge D. Prantice, in proparation at tho time of Lis fatal accidont. Mr. Frothingham's *Lifo of ‘lheadora Parker,” on which he hias been clonely ougaged all through tho smnmer, iy now in tae bands of the publishors (Oagood), a:d way be expecied | olists ‘and T before the middle of the wints My, Janes T, Ficlds' now lesture is_on * Nov. ion,” from Bunyan and Do Fos down. M, Fields thinks thut the world conid not now woll get rlong without works of fiction, and, thouglh sone of the old wiiters were boras, othory wore good, Jofty, and grond, Sir Walter cott Lo cells tefescope, microscope. uud Laleidoseope, all in ome; but Bulwer iy *unsonnd lish," whoso writings doserve con- demuation. ** Freneh Humorists from the Twelfth Cen- tury,” by W, Bosant, and ** Eronch Sociaty from the I'ronde to the Rovolution,” arc annonnced in England, Witk these, the * French llome Lifo," to bo insned by the Applotous, aud tha “ History of French Literature,” from the Lip- pincotts, wo shall be nble to kuow something ubaut that conntry. - ‘I'ne only nniform edition of J. Stuart Mill's msceliancous works is that just put into shape by Henry Holt & Co. Besidos publishing tho & Autobibgraphy,” this houso bought tho- platos aud rights of others of ~ his books Irom tho various American publsuers, aud include in the set tho four = volumes of * Disseriations and Discussions,” tho two ot tho ** Examination of Sir William Iamilton's Plulosophy,” aud the ono on ** Compte’s Losi- tive Philosophy,” otiginully E\lbllnlmd by W. V. Spencor, and later by Lee & Bhopard ; the * Con- siderations on Ropresentative Government, sued by the [larpers; and, w oue volume, tho works ** On Liberty * (Osgoods), and on *The Subjection of Womon,"” (Applotons), each volumo AL §2,25, excopt the Compre, wh is at $1.50, This includes all Mill's colleetod works, oxcept tho ** Systom of Logic," still pub uwhod by tho Harpers; and tho ** Prmciplos of Political Econ- omy,” by tho Appletons. ‘Fhe English edition ia i ali 6hinjos und sizes, we beliove, ouly the sovoral volumes of tho Dissertation boing in liko siyle.—New York Mail, Mr. Grant White, iu his last lingwstic articlo, prosonts o litovary question for decision in a vomewhat novol manner. e having, i ** Words nud Thoir Uses,™ givan it as his opiion that, sinco the days of Shukn&u‘nm und tho King James translnzion of tho Bibls, the Englist lan- truage bas nudergone no grout ehauge, nad that the udditions to it lave Leen littlo oxeunt noy words for now tuingw,” Dr. lall anid, blnutly, thut **such conld not Le Lhe opinivu of une who had given attention to tie davetop- ment of English in modorn timos," nad added that verby, adjectives, und adve Lad since the thme in quastion come into war lau~ guugo by thousands.” Whereupon My, Whito, naming twenty of the most eminent, popular, Yoluminous, and ohavacloristic wiitera of tho Just Lnndred years, Goldwmith, Burlke, Coblott, Mill, Macanluy, Ielps, Ruskin, George Bliot, aud Prollope, prose writors, ‘wnd Grav, Cowwar, Wordsworth, Southsy, Byron, Keatw, Sheliey, Tennyson, Browning, and Murrls, puod, ofters that if Dr, all shall produce from tho writhngs of (hoso ropresen- tutive modern sutiore, not thonsaudw, Hut 1,000 distinct words which weto hot used by tho contemporarion of 8ha'tupoaro und of the trati- lutors of the King Jurnng Bibl, or by thoir pro- deceuuors, wiul which ure nat tha vawmes of new things, * Lis publishors shall puy 1,000 to Dr. Iinll ar to nny bonavolont Institution lie may soloot,” As authors have ‘wruvmb(nlly nodollary to throw away, My, Gravt White must havo folt vorysure of bis position beforo making this propoaltion, ‘I'ho question i oue of inoh ine [nx‘ant {u tho history of the English lunguago,