Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 13, 1873, Page 9

THE CHICAGO DAILY FRANCE. What the Late War with Goermany Cost Her. Hor National Debt Inereased $2,184,000,000, Low She Raised the Money for the Enormous German Indemnity. The Govornment-Loans Nearly All Token by Her Farmers. Franco {he Most SelfSupporting Coun- try in the World---Her Ex- ports and Imports. Thorough Reorgantzation of Wer Army=-- Her Determination to Reconquer Alsnco and Lorraine, Contrast Between the Land-Systems of Grent Britain and France. Sspectal Correapondenco of The Chicago Tribune. Paws, Nov, 29, 1873, Something like ton wocks sgo, tho lust in- stallmont of thohuge Gorman fine was liquidated by Franco; nud tho lost German regiment marened out of her torritory on the 16th of Hoptombor, 1873, and left tho Fionch people to themsolves, ufter an occupation of nearly three yonrs of the eastern distvicts, which were beld 8 security for the paymont of the so-called in- demnity. ‘The promptitude with which the monoy was raised sud paid has clinllengzed the wonder aud ndmiration of all nations, The Gormans intend- od to inflict O ENORMOUS A FI,E 04 to cripploaud weakon Frace for many yenrs to cowe, and render hor uuable, from sheer flscal exhaustion, to attempt tho vengeance which all Frenchmou lave sworn to take soonor or later. The principal of the fine waa fiva milliords of francs, or §1,000,000,000 in gold, with & per cout ivterest on the unpnid installmonts. But this was not tho whola liability of France on account of lher unfortunato war. 'There aro to be added th:o runsom of Paris, which was $40,000,000, and the expense of supporting the German forco loft in tho occupiod territury until the whole fine was paid, Tho aggregate sum of theso itoms, including the ransom of Poris, was $1,141,000,000; from which de- duct £65,000,000 g the purchnge-money of the railroadsin the captured provincou of Alsaco and Lorraine,—loaving to ho paid in Lord cagh $1,076,000,000, or nearly half tho presout nationsl dobt of the United States. Resides this cnormous indemnity, the French Goverument had to provide for its own oxpeudi- tuves in waging tho war, and afterward in crush- ing the Commune, M. Magne, the Minister of Finance, in his rocent report to the French Par- linment, states tho actual cost of waging the war at 600,000,000, and the loss of revenue in 1870, *71, '74, and 18, causod by tho war, at $250,000,- 000, Tho national debthas been increased since July, 1870, much more than the German indem- nity aud the cost of resistance, becaure the monoy had to bn raised by the salo of bouds at henvy discount. The Londs now form part af the national debt, and draw & per cent interest. ‘Thie monoy was OBTAINED IN TUE FOLLOWING MANNER: The first £160,000,000, subscribed for at the outbroak of the war, sold for nearly par. The next was the Morgan loan of 3100,q00,000, nego- tisted in England, when the Gormans had erush- od the French into the dusl. Itsold forless thro 80 per cont, and is costing 7 4-10 per cont on the money renlized, The $1,000,000,000 Ger- wan fine was raised by two national subserip- tions, which realized about 83 per cont, muking the bonds cost 6 per cont on the mioney re- ceived, Then there were severrl loaus from TIE DANK OF FRANCE, aggrogating £306,000,000, nt 1 per ceut, to bo ropaid in installments, or aunuitics, of $40,000,- W0 per punum. The reason for obtaining this immonso loan from tho Bank at 80 low a rate of intarest should Le explained. The Government firet suthorized the Bauk to suspend specie-pay- ments ; sccond, to iucrenso its notes to the winount of the loan ; third, the notes wore made u logal-touder, recoivable by the Government for all taxes aud dutios, and s legsl-tonder for the payment of debts of all kinds, In consid- sration of thowo oxtraordinary priviloges, the Iunk agroed to charge the Government only 1 per cont inforeat on tha notes louned 10 it, to bo repaid, us above stated, in somothing loss than sicht yenrs, 1lofore the war, tho Bank of France hud 28 000,680 to 850,000,000 of notes in civewlation, snd held in its vaults $225,000,000 to 8280,000,- 00 of coin for their redemption. Tho Bauk 0o has $146,000,000 of coin on Lund, and £600,- 900,000 of notes in circulation, The umount varles more or less, ‘Tho muximum Issue of uolen in $640,000,000, g0 that tho full quantity permitted by Juw is not at this timo in civeula- tlon. Ibuhave thero is o stipulation that, ns funt ns tho Government yepays its lonn to the Bagk, a like amonut of notes shull be enuceled 5 sud, us the Government has refunded to the Bank the first ** anuuity ” of £40,000,000, I anp- poso that accounts for the appaient coniraction of a like amount below the maximum Limit. ‘'he money borrowed 1o extingnieh the Gor- mau fiue, and to defray the axpensds of tho wur, nd lozs of rovenue, nmounted to ¥1,856,000,000, Bue as the bonds 8old, on which tho moucy was procured, only realized su average of 85 per srut of Lheir face, tha nddition to the bonded dobt of I'rance iu several hundred mitlions more thau that sum. As nearly as I can flud out, the INOREASE OF THE DELT ix ad followa: Bonds sold ut averagn of 85 per cout to realizo umount of Germun Line, Lorrowed from Bank of Fruuco, Houds pold to dofray war expen $1,288,000,000 506,000, Lowa of roveuuo. 590,000,000 4 Eale i Total Werenso of tho dcbt..... ... §2,184,000,01 Intereat thercou suntally. ... ke It is shown that thoro has beon added to the provious debt of Frauco u sum equal Lo tho prex- caut nationn} dobt of the United Stutes, 'Tlie six raonthe’ war with Gormany resulted in_ doub- T tho national dobt, ndding nearly 10,000,000 o your to the public tuxes forover, und the loss of two fine provinces, conlaining 1,600,000 in- babitauts; yet Iwaneo Les withstood thowo onormons lowses, und recovered her strongth svith u rebonnd tlnt is ASTONISHING TO CONTEMPLATE, It s quite Lo that the cost of tho war, sside from tho German confiscation, was expented Withiu France, sud is not lost to the capital of tho untion, oxcept to the extent that it represents propotty consumed and destroyed by ho war, Ifut the Germun fine, lovied on tho nation (and on Parik), amounting, with interost, to neurly $1,100,000,000, hed to” be raised aud 1oub out of tha country. ' As tho wholo gold and silvor coiu i eivenlation in Frauco, ut tho_time of the conclunion of the war, wus supposed not to excoed €6u0,000,000, ur w little moro thau balf tho indemuity, how wan I'rauce able to land pver to Germany, in two years and o lalf, §1,070,000,000 it coin ; for It was puid In solid gold, ovory frano of it'? T wball try und explain HOW TIIE FEAT WAS ACCOMPLIMIIED, In the flrat placo—When the Govornment bor— cowod from tho Bauk of Frauce £300,000,000, and authorized tho Lauk to fssuo o liko amount of uotes in rddition to its fovmor cirenlation, it Hberuted from eiveulation au squal amouut of s0in which was no longer requived for tho trans- action of business, us the Law notes porform ity tunctions, Scocond—-Tho Governmont not only made the 1ates of thoe Dank & logul-tender for everything, ncluding intorest on tho nationnl debt, nnd for iuties vu fmpoits, but suthorized tho Bank to raepeud lpuulu-wimontu. 1o offcct of thiy 2ws a0b Wi Lu ouublo tho Bank to part with Ll } SATBRDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1873 -SUPPLEMEN . its usual atock of coln sud bullion, and this sob ut liberty 150,000,000 move ;ium nad wilvor. Moro, then, was & double fund of s amounting to 3450.000,000, which could Losnured without deranging tho_finances of tha nation, and sufliciout’ to_oxtingnlsh mora than 19 por eent of (ho fino and intoest thoraon. Third—Tlo monoy was pracurod by PUNLIC AUDSGRIPTIONY, {n two loans of nhont 251,000,000 each. The hondn femied are callod Nontos, In Bagland thoy would bo called Congoln. "There heing no tima fixed for their redomption, they aro futer- minable bonds, and ean only bo oxtinguished by letng purehnsed in tha opon market for what- ovor the holders are willing to nceept for |liom, ‘Ihoy draw 6 por cent intorest, and waro wold to tho highest biddors, and realized all round sbout A1 por cont,—boginning at 80, and advancing to 00 bofora tlie loans were cloged, . Fourtlh—1Lhe whole subseription was taken by o 10, PARNLIS, SHOPKEEPERS, AND BANKERS, the Iatter purchasing on speontution tor & rivo, and then resolliug to the furmors. Tho great bulk of thoso lientes hayo Tound thelr way into the pockots of the Ironch farmers, It was found, whon tho tomptntion was placed leforo then, that nearly avery favmor in F'rance hnd o seerot hoard of gold “Napoloons " and G-Iranc silver coing, of tha oxisienco of which thero was a suspicion, but of the fact or amount little way Jnown, ‘Mhe common poople of Fratice ratoly doposit tholr money in envings- bauks of snywhora clse oxeopt in an oarthon crock fu tho wround. But overy Fronchman, no matter what hix poli- tics or ralipion,—whothor lio be a Royalist, o Re- publican, or n Communist ; a Catholic,n Protest- aut, or a Skeptle,—has avsolute confkienco in thie solvency of his Government, and s willing to lonn his Jast - franc, shirt, or pair of sabots. Tho subseriptions for the national loau ta liher- ato Franco from the oceupation ot the hated and abliorrod L'Allemagno (Gornun), awounted to YOUR OR FIVE TIMEX the aum roquired; and, at all places whoro thoe books ware apennd to roceive proposnls for Rentos, thero wero great crowds, much excito- ment and contentich, and & scrambling rush first to reach tho books. For twenty-fonr hours in advaueo of tho time for opening them, long lines of womon hiold their places, rogatd- loss of rain or hont, wind or weather, and impa- tiontly waited for tho sigual for the ' procession t0 movo upon tho books and make their olfer- ings of wo mony Lundred or thousnnd francs onli; for, in making theso subscriptions, tho women munnged tho business, as they to pietty much evory other business in 1'rance,—tho men stunding helpleasly idlo, and watching thoir spouses with that feoling which the INFERIOR 1A8 FOI THE SUPERION, Fifth—11 was demonstrated by the result of tho offerings, and tho facts that camo to light, thnt the French farmers alone had more gold aud silver honrded away aud secreted m un- lnown #pots than would sftice to_discharge tho whole German fino and the cost of the war be- wides, 1t had long beon o mystory what hind be~ cowe of the stendy stronm of the precious metaly which, for the lase filty or sixty yenrs, had poured futo France, Some said thoy had heen re-oxportod in the shapa of Jowelry, gilding, and ornaments; and othors had mmgoiied the smount of coin in civeulation and intho baulks, Lut the truth is, tha Fronch peasantry, und shop-konpers, and meebanics had Loorded 16 by tho hundrelds, ond perlinps thousands, of millions. The womon of IFrauce hold the purse-strings, They are sharp and eco- homteal boyoud ~ American conception, industrious to a degres of which American womon Lliave 1o idea, elosc, saving, Btingy, aud acquisl- tive. Slowly, day by day, montl by montl, and yoar by year, the little surplun savings aud Helf- tounials of edch groud dame and lier family go ou aceumulating aud inereasiug, aud aro_ caretully converted into the indostructible precious met- uly, and DURIED IN TILE GROUND, or hid in the wuil of tho cottuge, and kept there with oll tho secretivencus of Free-Masomy, Quly on cccasions of murringes ov purchase of lnud is any part of those hoards cver tonched. For tho former, a certain amount comes forth Trom its hiding-place to pay the stipulated mar- riago-dowry of the dsughtor or fortune given ho son s oud then the money only sces the day- Jight for a day, for the now owners instuntly lay it sway, and begin the labor of muriied Lfe to enrn 1oney, 8avo it, and add it to tho patrimo- vial hoards, Sixth—Erance is the MOST MELF-SGPPORTING NATION in Europo or the world. _1ior exports ulways ex- coed her imports largoly, and this bolance is exncted in tho precious metals, and nos in raw materials, as in Great Pritain, Luris is tho fuehiounble capital of the world, the Empressof fennledom; and to her shrine they como or woud their offerings from all tho nntions of the carth, Parie eots the foshions and changes them ot pleasute, and o8 ofton gy tho changes. of tho moon or tho direction of tho winds, All that is costly, uscloss, flimsy, eud flaming in the femalo wardrobe aud toilet, i manufactured in France, and sold in_Varis to tho world’s buttertlics ; while the fop eloment of tho musculine porsunsion are also provided with their stunning styles of dress by the Froneh; and tho whole champngne-drinking fraternity Yurchue their costly carbonic acid and cider in Franee. France importa O BREADSTUFT'S 0Lt MEATS, excopt & lirtle at long intervals when her crops uro short, ns. appons to bo the cuse this yoar ; bnt nearly ahways sbo hoy 8 surplus of wheat, beof, and mutton, which is_exported across the charel to Eugland, whera it finds # ready mar- Yot nt high prices. France imports logs migar or molasses’ than sho exports, except from her owu colonies, She produces enormous quanti- titios of sugar and molasses from the boet-1oot,— onough for domestic consumption, and & surpius to export. France imports 1o ili, excopt in tha raw ntuto, and produces most of tho raw material within hor own borders, and then nunufacturey it into a thousand forms of fabrics and tissues, and sells 8100,000,000 or £200,000,000 worth of it to all tho famales of tho world, ufcer supply- ing her own very moderato and sparing con- sumption. Irance manufactures the great bulk of hor own iron, aud nemly overything made therefrom in tho form of iteel and iron im- {:lamunlu, railvond-tiacks, ouginen, ships, ete. Whilo tlo conl-meusures of Frauco aro scaut, slio monages to avoid importation from England to muy groat cxtont. ‘o domastic fuel of Franco is wood, birned with sn cconomy 1hat makes one shiver on a cold day. Troes aro A8 OAREFUILY PLANTED AND GROWN in France as boots or wheat, or any othar pro- duer, Frnnco grows neatly ait the wool ro- quired for domestic cousmuption and oxport, i tho shape of cloths, oxcopt cortain cond variotios naed 10 mixwith the native fno feeces, and purehased cheaply fn Australis and Sonth Americs, in exchouge for gimeracks and toilet nrticlen, o Fronch produce their own higuors,—wines and brandy,-~and export tons of willions of dollavs' worth to other nations, (They diink no whisky and but littlo beer; thoy calt the Tormor American poison, and the intter nasty Gormen soup, ond nolther of thew fit for the hunau stamuel) I'ho gkin of every bonst and four-footed ani- mal is converled into leather. Thoy utilizo the hides of ull the hoises, nwses, mules, eatile, calves, door, sheep, lanbs, gosty, Jids, 11003, DOGS, CATH, RATH, foxes, wolves, rubbity, and other animals, wild or domestic, and sell the products to all tho world in the shape of French ealf and kid boots and shoos, and moraceo wear, and gloves by the wmillion gross. They make wparing uso of thoxo articles for thompolves, but wear wooden shoos, ‘mora generally than anythiug olse, through tha rural_diswriots and among the pooyer clusses of tha cities and towns. ‘o imports of Franco consist ALDIOHT WHOLLY of raw materials, purchased to be convarted into fabrics, mainly for exportation abroad, exeept tobneco, which is o Government-monopoly, and iswold at an onormous profit, whereb; large roveuue in derived. ‘o chicr urticles of import are raw cottou from Americn aund cotton- yorn from England, wuw and floss sill, wool, timber, coal, coffee, ten, and tobac: TUE UALANCE OF TRAD! darived from foreign cummorco, boetweon 1860 and 1800, averaged 70,000,000 vor auuum. Sinco then it hus avoiuged SI00,000,000, ‘Phin is ox- clusive of the protits made on good: sold ut retnil to tho wmnltitudes of foreigners, inelading Amor- icans, who swarm over Franco, aud the protits mado on commereo which the tabtos of lmporta aud exports nover tato or ludicafo, ‘Ihe Euglish loan the larger part of thoir not protits on foreign trade to the various nations of the world ; that is, they put their money out on interent wheto thoy cau got the Lost weourity and highest rato of ussnee, T'he Fronch loan ubroud compuratively little of their surplus capitak “Che uatioual tondeney is to invest it ut howe or hawrd 1. Ithink it bas now beon oxplained how tho Trouch wero ablo to sparo neurly £1,100,000,000 in coin to pay off tho Gorman fine iu two-and-n- hnlf yeurs, without hwpoverisbment, or oven serious inconvonience, Diemarok thougli o had inflieted n wound on Franco that wouid wenken aud enfeoblobior fordecudos tocomo. But thoblow AK NOT PUODUCED tho antleipated fatnl offoots, puld ; the toruicory ia liboxated, nco In freo, powerful, pud burniug for rovenge, The prido of the notion bas been chastoned ; egotism Las vedd o terribla full ; vanity has boon privied ; 40 Frada now comprehonds hor own wtreugth Tho monoy is and rexonrees without blind nxaggoration, and :{luflu of hior enemy without stuptdiy underrating o, Evory dollnr of the debt of Franco, which now oxcendn that of Great Dritaln, iy hold at home, In tho hands of her own citizens, 'Tho ltentos nro diffuked all ovor tho natlon. Almoat uyory favimor owns somo of thom, ind hourds thom with tho kame tenneity with which ho clings to iy gold Napoloons. ‘ho *Morgnn loan” of £100,000,000, takon by the Engheh to help the Frotnch out of their troubles, has all_been hought up, sud is now held fn Frauce. It 18 truo tho war has inoronsod taxes by 25 per cont, and diminished vovenuo in tho proportion tho twe eapturoed proviuces of Alsnco and Lorraine boro to_the wholo nation 5 but this loss can bo borne. Beforo the war, the nocessary rovonus of I'rance wero somothing Toss than $300,000,000 por autmim ; tho taxes now profucs 370,000,000, nnd thora' is ntill o de- ticiency of neatly %3,000,000 to bo ptovided by additional tnxes, One-half of tho total revonuo is roquired to pny interont on tho cnormows daobt ; but, ns tho Jlentes are owned and hold by most of the tax-payors, 1t i« much the sano as taldng monay ont of ono pocket and puiting it into the othor, One would suppose that, with this addition of noarly £400,000,000 w yonr to the anmual budget, tho Froueh Aduinistiation WOULD INAUGURATE ECONONY § rotrench at ovory point, 1 ting off thousands of sincenre ofilces, dischn sing surplus em- playoy, abd, above ull, by reducing the army to a penca-faoking, DBntnothing of the lund tuw boen done or proposcd, ‘Ihor are on tho pay= valls of the army to-dny more than 500,000 armed men, stationed in garvisons all ovor Frauco and Algeria, of whom 30,000 warrivon Paris, und 00 nro kept in Algeria, The cost of the War- Dogartment for 1878 will bo 200,000,000, nnd of iho Navy-Dopartmont 331,000,000, —making to- othor ¢121,000,000 a6 tho cost of the stauding army and navy in tuno of profound pence, THE PRUBSIAN MILITARY BYSIEM s been adopted, to mnke every man over 20 yours of age sorve four yosts in the sctive nrmy § than Lhoy aro nent Lo thorosorvo of tho aclivo army for five years; then to the torritorial nng for ~ flve years; then into the roservoe of tho torritorisl army for six years longor,—making twonty yoars® active or passivo service. No substitutes aro now accapted, nud no bouuty in paid. Tho objnck is to have avary man_in Franee over & feol high, and fit for sorvice, hetwoon tho ages of 20 and 40, ou {ho nrmy-tolls ns disciplined soldiors, roady for offenrtvo or defonsive operations. The Froneh caleulato that, in & fow yenrs, thoy will bo able to place in tho flold 1,600,000 men for offonsivo nction, and bavo = another 1,500,000 as rosorves, doing garrison-duly, and stunding roady to 511 up tho gaps mndo In the runks of the army operating in tho field. One thought scoms Lo auimate the entira popuiation to CONQUER BACK ALSACE AND LORRAINE, tho next time (hey go to war with Germauy, and peradventure to recover tho indomuity extorted from them, with intereat thoreon, If is donbt~ fulif thevois o French man or woman, boy or el now living in Franco, but oxpeots tnd bo- fioves that the lost provinces will ovontually be racovered,—must be recovorod at all bazards. iy erlculato on the continued lovo and nifec- tion of tho people of those provinces for Franco; aud they count on thelr nctive assiat- nuca to throw ol ¢ the German yoke” wheu tho propor timo comes, 'his ¢ the main teanon for Franco enduring the beavy cost of support- ing 500,000 mon in arms, and pubmittmg with- out e murmur to the inoxorable military con- seription system, The army Lus beon ENTINELY REORGANIZED since the conclusion of tho war, Tho worthless oficors have been weeded out; o strictor disci- phue has heen mitroduced; and the mustor-rolls no longer bear the mnames of fleti- tious moldiers, with oMclal bummers draw- ing pay and rations for thoso iwag- inary warriors, a8 was tho caso under tho Inte Empiro. Tho Gormsu system of tactics and comoinations is bewg_ carefully studicd by tho lighit of their Iate disastrous oxperienco, Tho National Guara of Paris is_disbauded, and ihe whole population disarmed, so that thero maybo no fulure fire-in-tho-rear from tho un- shot membors of tho late Commune organiza- tion, which pillagod Paris and burnt o part of it. Iu whort, everything i being dono which seoms possiblo’ to_urm, discipline, and propare the nation for the NEXT STRUGGLE WITII TITE GERMANS, for tho recovery of tho dismembered provinces, The Fronch say that Bismarck and Moltke, and other grent lenders, will dis bofore long, as they uro old mon ; and that Govmany will entor upon the next war inflated with vanity and pride, Lalf- propared and half-marshaled, 08 France was in 1870, which wil result in o sories of dofeats and humiliations, This muy or may not bo the cas but ono_thing s certain, thatthe fghting wit nessed during the late war was . MERE CHILD'S PLAY comparad with the fighting that will be douo in tho next war by France, who will outer upon it with tho flrea of n volcano burning in hor breast, All that rage aud batred, added to valor and discipline, _can accomplish, will bo aochieved, If Trance is Uleaton next time, it will bo in despite of tho mont ful and_porfoct preparation, and_after her iticss efforts have beon oxhausted. 1uove spokenof the wondorful enso with which tho puoxlu of France raised tho money to liquidate the German * indemalty,” and given some explanationn theroof ; but there romaing ona reaton not. yot named, which should not be omitted. Tho bulk of the munuf' way contribut- ed by the French farmers, aud they were ablo to subgeribo it beeauso THET OWNED THE LAXD they cultivete, and pay no ronts to & landed uristocracy, such g _that which monopolizes the land of Great Britain and Ircland. Tho monoy which tho British and Irish farmors Linve to pay to the landlords, the French hold in {heir pos- session, and wero ablo to loan it to the Qovarn- ment in the day of need. Supposo tho Germany Ind invaded Ureat Britain snd conquored it, and then oxacted o rausom of several hundred mill- ions of pounds stexling in_gold,—low much of the. money conld. the English and Iriah tonant- ll'a]rmsr?s have subscribed und paid to liberate the lan RCARCELY A SOVEREION, for the simplo reaxon that they have not got it to give. Y'he morchants, manufacturers, and banlkers would haye been obliged to raiso the monoy. Of all tho debtof England, but thomorest fraction is held by the tenant-farmers, and not ashilliug of it by the laboring sorfu; whorens, in Franco, the farmars und eouimon peopla hold nearly tho whola of tho boudy representing the notional debt. ‘Uhut shows the difforonee in the cffect of the two svstoms of Jand {ennre in o light that requiren 1o furthor commont or elucidation. The English systom: divides tho people into threo elassen ; firt, an oligarchy of 4 faw thoueand bloated luud-monopolists ; #econd, 200,000 tonnut-farmors, who have hard worl to pay rents, tuxos, and hire of laborers; third, 1,000,000 BENF-FAMILIES, ntterly without property, monoy, education, kuowlodgo, politienl rights, or unyililng olse 1ot enjoyod by beasts of burden. Tie Lreuch sys- tem produces 5,000,000 indopondent, prosperous yeonien, ovory ono owning tho farm ho culti- vates, who can take bis rest wuder his own shade-treo, and ent the grapes sud drink the wine of his own production ; nud, when his country is jn trouble, ho has a son williug to fight for it, and a bug of gold whick ho can spare and j8 willing to contribute towards the cost of tho war, Now, which i8 the boltor systom for the uationnl good, it time of poaco’ or i time of poril? 33 A Curtous Naturalist Tho New Haven Pyess holds {tself vespousible for tho Lruth of the following ¢ Mr. Mendell, of St. Lonis, Mo, who has Dbeon for the lust few days staying with somo Iriends i this oity, luos o most singulu love for Ingect-lifo, and an intimuto kuowledgo ot the charnoter and tompor of several mombors of tho iuseet fumily, which be earrios ubout with im for the purnose of diversion nud wiudy. In ona of hiy puskots Mr, Mondell has domesticated u tolony of ymull brown ants, tralned in their in- telligoneo to do some surpriing things, 1o will placa & picce of sugar upon & tabla and retivo 10w pucos troi ot by some munipulation which hiy judustrious pots undorstand Lo monn- ing of, ho porsundos them to come out und matelt in Indiou fllo down tho leg of hix pantsloons, soross tho floor, up the fog of tho tahlo, uutil thoy rouch the sugar, Tho nuts will, uttor onoii one hus wnpplicd itsolt with u tny wrain of the swcet commiodity, tuko up the lino of mareh on a returu trip to Mr. alondell's Iluclinl. iuto wlioh !hoy will onter, ouch one with tw londn of swoots, 'Lho sume gontloman hoy also m i colleotion of inseet pots u dozon or moro of groen_ bugs, with black atripos ruuning nround thelr bodies, and which, ho says, are Poculine inhabitants of u npocios of ucacin tran, Theno bugs will, atu motion uf thoir muster's Hlugor, 1o’ through some romarksblo acrobutio petformuncos, walking flest-ou thoir hiwd legs and afterwards on their foro logs, the hinder part of thelr bhudies boing olovated, their only word of commaud, so to npesk, being givon by tho motion of thelr trainer's fingor. Alr. Mondoll hus for soma yourd found great ploasuro in de- voting his lotsuro howa to pursuita of the kind :ho;u.-‘mmugnnd, aud ought ceriainly to wilte a 00k, LITERATURE. Musde THE GLORY: A CornvrorioN ok HINGISQ ULARRS, MUAIOAL CONVENTIONH, AND Outonw, By Oxonnk ¥, Root, nnatl ' John Ghurell & Co. Chltago: Toot & Towls, No, %ii2 Htnlo alreot, wnd George 1, oot & Hons, No, 101 Hiulp ntroet, .'I'hin {8 the Inst of womo thirty or forty vol- wmos of mutlenl works from tho same author. Sinco its publication 1t haa alrandy attained a wide popularity, and it will doubtioss mcresse tho well-established roputation of Mr. Root. Musio Fon Ilis musle, not to sny his books, aro meatterod all over the Coutlnent. They aro found i the cholis of the floeat and” the Jargeat congrogations, East ond West ; wo have found them smong tho mounraing of Colovado, ovorywhersin Coll- fornin and Oregon, and in the cabins of Utah and Washington Torritories, Not ouly lins hin ‘musio blessed and cheored every nook and cor- ner in Ameriea, but it has crossed tho ocean, and wo aro erodibly informed that 1t in sung iu churchos and conforence mestings in England moro thau that of uny othor Jiving anthor, And, wherovor our misalonarion have gono, **'Tho Bhining Bhoro™ ond other goms of Mr. Roob’s musle are eung by the native Chrise tisus, and yon may hosr it in almost all tho writton langunges of the world. Borrowing and modifying somewhat Wobstor's grand thought in rolation to the martisl musio of England, it may bo truly snid that, boginning wherover you will, on Sabbath morning, some ILimblo sonl may bo found einging * Tho Shin- ings Shore ;” and snothor catching up tho ro- frain, hour by hour, with the sun in his courso, sings of o Shiniug Shioro,” il tho wholo world is belted with tais bright, Leavenly song of_ona of our most valied and worthy citizons, Mr, Root Lins not eoufined himaelf to church- music. 10 ** Mazol Dell " and ** Rosalio,” and iy othor sougs, hovo a wido popularity, But, during the War of tho Robollion, his noble, patriotie mnsio beeams of national valne und importsnce. ‘Lhe ' country owes him s debt of gratitudo for “1ho Tattle-Cryof Troedom,” ** Tramp.Tramp,” * Lhe Vacant Char,” *.fust After the Dattle," and othor atirving pieces, which it never cau repay. Thoy thyilled tho wonls of our peoplo in mu- meotings and {u country school-ionses; they made eireerful the lonaly, tedious mureh, and they fired the hearts of our soldiors to plant the Sears and Keripes in trium&:h ahova the clonds on Loakout Mountain, We leave to tho historian of the future to solve the question, whether auy man really did moto to put down the Rebellion than Georga 1. Ttoot. Aud bero the question may bo asked, whethor Gaorgo I, Root §s o grout musicien, Nobody protends to rauk im among tho graud old com-= otiors of tho past. 1o cluims no such placo. 10 is too modest and too wiko for that. Ty aim is to teach tho people,—tho wholo people. He writes such musio g will instruct and bless thom,—music that will make them bappier and botter. Itisnot always what is ecientitically and mechanicatly tho host music that can have the wideat popularity, or {hat doos the most ood. Operas with rwoot, simple nirs, thut tho indicnco can apprecinte aud understand, now {nko with the peoplo, and siwayn will, much botter than the - lughest siyle of classic musie. Flotow's *Merthe” will Lo acied a hundred times to Iicethoven's ‘‘Fidolio” once. 8o will Auber's “Tra Dinvolo® and Balfo's “Jiohemn _Gld,” and though hardor, Gounod's “Taust:" whilo Wagnor's music aud “The Propbet” of Moyerocer requiro a Theodoro 'Lhomas to render thom to nudiences of sul:urim- mugical culture, nnd to ngke them at all tolerablo to tho massey of the peoplo, The * Mossiah” and tho * Creation” will always by sunyz on great musical oceasions ; while it ¢au searcely bo donbted that George Fu Root's music will also bo sung iv thoe chureh and tho prayer-meeting till tho ond of time. Having suid thus much about Mr, Root's music, our vonders would probably lilio to_kuow some- thiug about the mat personally, Born in Bhei- fiold; Mass,, o littlo moro than fifly yoars ago, ho bus literatly worked his way up to the envia- ble position which o now enjoys, In 1845, ho went to New Yoric as ‘s singing-master.” Tho old musical heads there rathor mucored at the temority of the “Yankee stripling” coming thora without their leavo or roquost. Tor foutr years hio toilod on, spending bis loisure hours in perfecting himeelf ms buss; Mrs, Georgo F. nssoprano; his sistor, nowMrs, Quim- ley, of Orange, N. J., as alto; and his brothor ‘Iowner, now oug of ouir bost-kuown citizons, as tonor. By this time thoy hud mastered porfoctiy somo of the most difticult sud beautiful quar- tottes thon kuown to the musical public; und the President of tho Philharmonie—porhups it wa he of the Academy—so far doffod his lofty dignity a8 to nceept an invitation to a privato rehearsul. It is nocdless to add that he was surprised and dolighted. They waro invited to nm[fi before the Society, and won tho highost applause. From that timo the **Root Quartatie lad anhonored place. nnoni; the londing musiciaun of New York, We could name n gentle- man who heard that same quartette sing some of thoso very piacos & fow waoks ngo, and ho uusures us that ho wns then the noarcst leaven Do ovor expeets to be in this world, Sineo 1859 Mr. Root has mndo his home in this city, having attonded musieal conventions at tha Waxt soveral yems previous. Befora the fira bo had earned » comfortable compotonce; but, ulns! that great enlamity swept it all away. Liko t of our peopla lio knows not tho word rail,” aud ho is now at work hard and cheer- fully us evor, His family—brothors and sistors —ia n largo one, and all are musiciaus. Around Tiis own board are a goodly number of eons and dnughtere. 'I'wo of his sous, Fred snd another, alrendy givo promke of vory high musical at- tainments. As ono whoso Tabors havo secat- tered far and wide, all ovor iho laud, blessings #o varied, 80 rich and so enduring, onr wholo_peoplo will it their best wishes for his long life, unstloycd happmess, and abundant prosooerity. Wo udd that the words of *Shining Bhore™ wore written by thu late Dr., Nelson, of 8t, Louis, the author of tho * Cauee and Curo of Infidel- ity:" 8o that beautiful hymn and tho music are both Western productions, More Musies CIIURCH WELCOME : A CoLircrioy oF New Mu- 10 ron_CHOINS, CLASSES, AND CONVENTIONS, By W. O, Prnass, New York: Willlum A, Pond & Co. Chieugo: Ruot & Lewis, No. Btate street, Wo have lookod over this work with interest, Benides tho usnal pages of iustruction, we find first & fino colleution of glees and songs for sociul gathiorings, followed by o large amount of new charch wusic, and also some of the old standnrd piecos nsed in all our churches. The book hag already beon cirenluted widely for tho su{mly of our tor wmnging-schools, and the call for it will increase s ity werits are bottor understood, Messrs, Raot & Lowis aro prepurod 1o supply ull orders promptly, 'Fhoe Atmosphere. THE ATMOSPIERE, Translatod from tho French of CasuLLy Frasanion, Now York: Marper & Brothorn, ‘This work, alveady in fragmentory passages und cavoful reviows of itw originnl toxé antici- puted in notlco, ia n translation end abridgment of M. Flammarion's *I.'Atmaspliero,” pnblished in Puris in 1872, 'The tranelation hias been made by C. B, Pitman, and the tusk of editing—as tha prefaco statos, not o light one—has hoon sccom- plighed by James Glaisher, Superintendont of tho Mugnolical and Motuorologieal Dopartment of tho Itoyal Socloty at Greonwich, Tu form, tho volumo is an ulognnt erown uetavo of 450 pagos, ustrated with 10 chromo-lithographs,—with but Lwo exeoptions particulnrly excellent onos,— and 80 wood-cuts, The subjoct of the Atmosphers, wonderful and interesting au it Is to those who liave their boing in ita vital mr, in fully treatod in various rolations, classiflod—with mmerous minor clavse - sifientions—under tho genaral titlo of six books ¢ L Ouv Planct and its Vital Fluid, TI Light and the Optionl Phonomena of tho Alr, IIL Tomperaturo, IV.The Wind, V. Water, Clouds, Raw, VI Rleotrioity, ‘Lhunder-Storms, and Lightning, In thin fnst division tho most interesting ohap- tors oeeur, hooause the elucidutions thoy coniain nro of u moro noyel nature than thoso whiol Holoneo_ hus with loss dilliculty approhonded or _oxplored, Its speoiflcations ineludo full and - cloar inforowtion, to okt ro- cont wolontifio dute, of Eloctrleity upon the Enrth and in the Atmosphore; Llee- tiie Condition of the Tarrestrinl (ilobo; Discoy- ary of Atmosphorio Elootricity ; Exporimonts of Otto do Guericko, Wall, Nollot, Franldin, Romas, Richmuu, Sausntiva, &0, Bleotrioity of tho Hoil, of tha Cloudy, of tho Air; Formation dor Btormu; Lightuing and Thunder: LElmo Fires, Juck o' Lunterns, and Auroin Bore- alin, 'L'ho Hlustrations in this part of thevolume aro vory excitingj thoy roprosunt, eloso after tho experiments of Franklin and Remas, “Roh. munn, of Bt, Potersburg, Btruck by Lightuing Durlug an Elegtrical Bxporlmont,” ¥ Hasvoutorn Killed by Lightning,"—n group of elght who, anjoving thelr noonduy rapust vunder o wmdplo-tres wors killed by ono stroko and who™ "snb ag of l|;illlllhu{. petrifiod in tho exact position in which death surpriced thom” ¢ A Cavions Froal of Light- ning,"—rolling n bull of fire neross the kitehon- floor'of a honso In Bulagune, France; **#it. Eimo Tiro over tho Hpire_of Notro Dame, Parls; an Aurora Borenlls Boon nt DPavis May 13, l)!fl.\!;" —plving w view of city and sky, in chiromo- lltum‘rnph; “ An Aurora Borenlis over tho Tolar Heas" anothor, whorled in_logarithinic curves, soon *'at Splizborgon,” Janunry, 1830; and, lastly, o atill more wondorfutl oftnet visiblo in the same month and yonr ut Bpitzborgon, I'hroughont the wholo work tho tusld expian- atory toxt Is nccompnulod by statistical tnbles, many of which are of great scieutific value, Trom thoso interasting to popular curiosity, wa oxtraol the folllowing tablo of the highest spoty of earth inhabited by man : Feet, “The Buddhist clolater of Haule (Thibet), Clolaeraon tho afdes of e (Timaliga ‘i'hio Post-Toukoof Apo (Pert) "Fho Port-Houso of Aticomarcs e Villago of Tucora (Peru) Tho Town of Calamnyes (Bolivia) Vinogard of Antleatia (E:ador) Tho Town of Lotosl (lioll 'I'ho 'Pawn of Peru (Pern Tho Tan of Oniro (oitviy The Town of T Paz (Bolivia) “Tho birds, of conrae,” Flammarion con- o, aftor adding to this table ono of tho Tiighest mountains in the world, *¢ ro\u'mmnb the populntion of the vory highest altitudes, In tho Andos tho condor, bt the Alps the engle and yulture, hover abova the Lopniost peaks.” Certain kinds of huttorfltos useond still high- or. ¢ norial voyagos,” thin fascinating aptor on * Aoronantical Asconts " conclades, avo mot with butterilies at heights to which the birds of our Ietitudo do not nscond, aud at morae than 9,800 foot nbove the ground, Dr. J. D, Hooker noticed some at Mount Momay, ut an altitude of more than 17,70 feot. Buclh {n tho sealo of animal life in thess Alpine zones, whero tho faunn graduolly beoomes somcor, finally iving way Lo solitudo and dosolntion. Boyond o Just atago of Vogotaifun, bevun tho extrome rogion attaited by the ingect nnd manunifers, nll becomes silont sud uninhnbitad ; yot the air is wlill full of microncopic nnimuleulos, which tha wind raiscs up iike dnst, and which are dissem- inated to av unknown height.” ‘ 10,032 4,164 to 16,404 Wi ‘The Pyrenoes. A TOUR THROUGH TILt: PYRENEES, By Hre- poLyrE Aporvur Laryr, Author of WA Ifintory of Tuggliels Literature, 4 Truvels {n Tialy," ote, Tiluea truted by GusraV Donz. " New York Ieury Molt ¢ Co, To possesh the complote works of Taino has becomo a determivmtion with all nnalytical students of Art and admirers of sumptnous lino and color. Within tho past fow years, no othor writer has done so much tomold artistic thought. 1t is thig lavish portrayer and erontive critic who upbuilds a clear philosophy smid tho richost imagery, and doflnes its sovere outlines against o baakground of eplondor. ITardly lossearnest is tho deslro to invo, ng an intimate recourse, somo work of Dore. For, notwithstanding thio would-ho annihilation of tI master by Ruskin, he has kindled the imngination of the ugo. A book that combines two such desirable possessions ng Dappily as they aro combined in the “Tour Through tho Pyrencos "—tho toxt, Taino; tho illutration, Dore—is trebly welcome. It is one of the beautiful offerings of the season. Tho volume i8 & squure octavo, bound, in.its costliest form, in morocco, sud, in its least cost- ly, in that stylo whick was inaugurated in the Leisuve-Honr Series, only moro richly ; its cov- ors &ro of polished linen of n marble-gray tint, ornamented with black and gold, and its pages display the ,satm smoothuess and fine typo that fastidions tasto roquices. . The illustrations ave 625 in numbdr,~almost all of thom by Dore, and in his best and most intellectual siylo. They possoss—and even in potito geme—amplo hints of that broad and in- tonso chiarotonro and balancing of contrasting hues whose brilliant axnmPlfl liag inspived o now echool. In illustrations of storme, ar of logonds of the supernntural, there is that informing of Natuve with the Lluman expression of the gro- teaque, pathotic, or aspiring, occnsionnlly intro- dnced by Turner in his romantio studics, but which, in Dore's sway, hea takon an origi- nal and suggestive phase. There sro plentiful contributions of humorous enri- cature: and ecattercd nmong tho pictures of seconery, and events, and monuers, there are portraits of historic people who ent us dramntis porsonee tho toxt : Jeanno d’Albort, Tlonry IV., Margaret of Nevarro, Valtaire, Sully, Troissart, Mlls. doSegur, Beothoven, and othots. Tho test is chractaristic of the piquant, rich- Is-colored, and magnotic style nlmadfl woll Inown. Tho tour in deseribodl in four books : T'he Coast ; The Valloy of Ossau ; Tho Valloy of Luz; Bagnerces and Luclkon, Theso books are sundivided to inclido chaptors upon Dordenux ; Royan ; Les Landes; Bavoune ; Biarilz ; Suin Jean-de-Luz; Dag; Orthez; Pan; Eaus-Bo mes; Baux-Chauden ; The Tulabitnnts; Lnz Safut-Sauvonr; Barreges; Canterots; Saint-Savin; Gavarnlo; The Bergonz; The Pledn Midi; Plants and animala; From Suez to Baqueres-do-Begorre; Tho Peoplo ; Tho ltoad to Baueros-de-Luchou ; Luchon ; and Taulouse. Tho translation is by J. Sniford Fisko, and it well preacrves the epigrammatle poriods and chromatic adjectives of nine. The deseriptions are not robbed of color ; and the humorous pas- sages which abound in the sorving up to tho render of * l:uuplo " genorally, aud travolers in potticular, hove not lost thoir vivid efferves- conco. The humorous passages, the historic legends, and critiquoy of character, aro tao long to quote. Onointerosting bar of description must suflico for a mentioning * finis," 1t nccompanies an oxquisite miniature, by Dore, of Bordeanx : Tho next evoning, n fresh sea-breezo has brought ns to Bordenux, Tho cnormona cily heaps its monu- wental lowses slong the river-ike boatlons; the red sliy 18 ombattlod by their coplbig, They ou oite. Tand, 1ho bridgo on 1o other, protect with o double ling the ort, whota the vesseld uro crowded together Ukon Hlock of yulls ; thowe graceful hulls, thoss tapering ‘munts, those seila swollen or floutiug, weave tho Ll rinth'of thelr movements ond fornis upon the m nitlcent purple of tlso sunset, Tho suit slukn down futo the midet of the river und sets it ull abluz e Uluek rigging, tho round lulls, stand out ugainat it contlagration, sud look lke jowels of Jet set fu gold. A Picturs of Life in the Notherlands, THI BURGOMASTEI'E FAMILY: or WrAL asn Wot 1y A Lirtsy Wonto, Uy Ounistine Mui- 1em, Tranclated from th Dutch by Bir Joux Sraw Lerkvie, New York : Seribner, Armstrong & Co. Iho writer whoso nom de plume is *Clns. tino Mullor " has, since the flattering rocoption of this work m her own country, becomeo known as Madame von Walsoe, & rosident of Brummen, in Gilderland, ‘Hor fatbor was o physicien in the medical do- partment of tho army of the Nethorlnnds ; and, until she was 12 yoars old, tho daughter lived in vavions lowns whero ho was stalioned. After that timo hor residonce wasin Amsterdam, where, as an accomplishe:d young lady, sho ontered much_into society, nntil her father's ilinoes ro- quired o romoval 'to Tiromumon, whero kho et aud muried ML von Walsee, Gifted with extvaordinary powers of obsorva- tion und pouetrution, ho authoress brings o hor hook the Tithiul aud pieturesquo detail of Iifo in the Nothorlands, Sho describes ordinary chrractor with o lively and humorons sensc of Inuman woakners and alwurdity 3 and, in entor- ing¢ deeply into tho livos of her hioroes and Levo- ines, who ave somowhnt above tho ordinsry standard of thelr kindred, sho finds meterinls for bor novol, of pathos, aud netion, und cragedy. Ona chuvacter of the book % strikingly orlg- insl,—that of tho benutiful, isoluted, and {un idolized Celino; and Immio, ho true \oraine, who fuspiren two men o aots of mus- nunimity, diaws iuto lor life's lova-story a phnse x{f t]!'qmrlcunu that hos not beon fumitinvized in tletion. Altogother, the book is one of thoso of which tho roudlor does not loso u word. And ity donouo- ment incorporntes s sentiment that. passes through the dut’s valley of the shadow of Doath Lofore it comas to light, 110 less it sooms in the quiot home-life of thio Nothorlauds than hero fn our oxciting days of Ameriea, ** God mukes His oreatures huppy ; but in iy own way, and not in theira” T Primovol World, PHE CHILDISOOD OF ') VORL] A S Account ‘or* AN I 1 Eaniy Tiuky, By I ‘Loudon mid Now York: Mavinilhn Junsen, MeOtrg & Co, ‘We have soldom, if ever, scou wo much reslly valuablo lzformntion in rolation to the emly in- tory of tho race aswo flnd in this book, Itbogins with the carliest time of man's appearance on the eavth, The first purt of tho work is davated to hiw necessitles, and the modes by which they wero at flval provided for, Il tools, as shown hy tho rolles of tho stone ugo; his dwollings ; weo of motnla § lunguugoe, wiiting, eto,, ote,, lwve wil @ brief notice, 'T'he latter part of the work is dovated to mau's bpliels, With o short sccount of objeots und forms of his worship, Wo quote tho following aspivation for Muaven aud Lmortality, whlol, the autlior says, was wiitten by somn gront-soulod Aryan thousands of yoars ago " Whera thora 18 eternal light, i tio world where tho mu - placed, m that immortal, mporisliabie world, place me, O Komu, Whiere' King Halvasvata relgus, whero tho secrot placo of Teaven b4, whorn thoso Tighty waters are, thero mnka mo immdrtal Whera life i frvo, fu th Third Heaven of Meavens, whero tho worlds afo radiart, thore mako mo Jmnors tal, Whoro wishies and deatros sro, wisero $ho plaes of the Dright sun e, where thera In feeedom and delight, thore make me immortal, Wiera thero fe uppinens nnd doligh, whero oy ond {:lunl\lrn reside, wiero the acsiren of vur desires aro obtuined, there mnke mo inunortnl, ‘'his and other quotations are_from very old Bruhmtu hools, hut tho author «hows no dispo- sition o Ignoro the anclont rocords nor the im- mortal teuths of the Chrstian Seriptures, Tho facts and illustrations of the bouk ro gathored from all sourcos. Ntories. BAXF, ITOTAUS STORIES, Now York : Beribmer, Wel ford & Co, It la dificult to analyze the acknowledged oharm of thoso storios, which lave appesrod from timo to timo in Seribmer’s Afonthly : and now include, in theiv book-form, * Draxy Mil- lor's Dowry " “The Llde's Wife," nequol to * Draxy Millor's Dowxy ;" * Whose Wife In 8ho?' o One-Togged Dancors ;" + How One Wom- au Kopt Hor Husband ;" and * Esthor Wyune's Lovo-Lettora." Denling with topics that neceasitato much worldly knowledge, tho manner of trortment i 0 ossentially utnworldly that woe musl consider the nuthor ono who {8 “n tho world, but not of it."” I'hs countrast of material and disposition dovolops itself in the moat prominont characters of tho succomsivo talos; especally in_that marked individunlity, tha churactor of Draxy Millor, at once modost and bold, musculinely strong, and fomininoly tendar. The most con- amaora analysis of chasnotor aconrs in the story # Ilow Ono_Woman' lopt. Hor Husband ;” and tho most winning puyeliological intorest clings to_tho oh—posaibly diawa from lifa— “Whose Wite Was Blie Many swaot Jittlo pnoms are intermingled with the prose ; among them—torming a part of tho Ttalian-sconoried ** Ono-Legyed Dancors "—is TR ANOEL OF PAIN, Angsl of Patu, I think thy fuco WHIL be, tn all'the beaveuly placa, “I'ho aweetest faco that T uisall rec, ‘o swittest face to amile ou me, All oilier Angels fuint and tiro 3 Fay weaties aud faroakes desr Hopo iultern fuco to face with Fite, Aud dies becawse it causiok walt 3 ‘Aud Love cuts short each loving day, Theeantao fond boarts eapuot obey “That pubtleet law which measnres biias By wiat §L A contant in misa. But thou, ob loying, faithtul Patn, Hated, raproached, Tefected, sluin, Dosl oty closor cling, aud biess Tnt sweeter, stronger sleadfantaess, Doar, pationt Angel, to tiiue own i coment, and art never known, ‘Till, lto in womo lons, twilighi-twilight place, ian Mght of thy tranaiiguved face Snddt ahinod auty md wpesclons tioy Know thoy hiave walked with Clrla: all day, A HMumorous Idyl. DUZZA-DUZZ; oR, TIE BEES, Transloted from the Gorman_of ' WILHELM Dusou by URZRKIAI WAT- KINK, With the Original German Tilustrations, and Twenty-elglit Origgiual Dawiggus Ly Park Bonjuwin, New York : Henry Holt & C A gift-book of the laugh-provoking kind, prot- tily bound in bronzo-color, stawped with black and gold. The author of this humorous idy) of the Bees ia known to Americau resders by his story of “2Mux and Mourico,” aod by the reputation which ho has guinod abroad by his dosigns for tho Fliegende Blatter, the German Punch, “Tho rhymo, which tolla & tale of tho tendar possion, is profusely illustrated by colored dusigus—two at least on evory page, excepting in cnses whora the whole page is dovoted to pic- ture, ns tha processional Buzza-Buzz of tho frontispieco, and tho ‘*Helter-skeltor, there they go.” Tha captions of the chapters, and the various portraits of Honoy-Lovers in their pre~ dieamonts of hup and mishap, will ufford muocl nmusement to people who have su eye for the ridioulous, 'Bhe Cary Sisterds BALLADS FOR LITTLE FOLK. By ALICE aud PRGRE Ouny. Taliad by MAny OLEMER AMEs, Now York: Ihwd & Houguton, A duiutily-bound actavo volume; pictured, oxteriorly and interiorly, with skotches of birds and buttorNies, grasses and Nowers, and abound- ing in doseriptions of country children and coun- try things. Tho titlo-page-illustration tukes Its anbject from * Grisolds Gooss,” the longest of tho ballads, The introduction by Mrs. Ames alludes with much tendorness to the sistors, who were 80 be- loved, and whowera tho friends of littlo childron. Tho volume contalvs sixty pooms, thirty-three of which nve by Alice, and the rematnder by Phabo Cory. Itwill doubtless bs choson nsa Morry Christmas and Happy Now Year gift for the littio oues by those who_cherish the names that give a personal valuo to its coutonts, 5te Panle THE CHARACTER OF ST, PAUL. Iy J. 8, Hew- so¥, D, D., Dean of Chiestor, New York: Dodd & Mead, Chfengo: dumeen, MeClurg & Co. We need unot tell our religious ronders that this work is from the pen of one of England's most ablo divines. Tho different traits in tho charactor of 8t. Paul aro discusged, in five loe- tuves, with marked ability. Inthe last lecture, his courago and porseverauce are brouglt out in a strong light, and hold up specially a3an oxam- ple which all Chinstians should cmulate, So, in fact, are some special traits noticed in onch of tho preceding loctures. It will do any one good to read Doan Hewaon's book. QUIDE ; JUNSDICTION AND CoUNTY COURTS ACCORDING TO_THE STATUTES AND DEQISIONS IN TIR S0aTs OF Iuit- Now, By Epwaup J, HiL, Chicago: E.B, My ry, No, 93 Washiugton strest. This is o conciso and valuable work,—oxactly the thing for gentlemen of tho legal profession to have on thoir tables for convenient referonce. It is nlso & guido for exccutors, adminislrators, unrdinns, and cousorvators, in the managemont snd sottlemont of estatcd. It has just boon issued, uud, of conrse, contning the latost infor mation on the subjects of which ic treats, MITLS PROBATE Pracrior 1 ‘Fheologicul. TIE QUESTION OF HELL: AN Hasax 18 NEW On- Troboxy, By o Puritun, New Haven: Wilion & Co. Chicago? W. D, Keew, Cookn & Co, TIn this little book tho suthor—whaever *Puri- tan” may be—digcusses the old question of the existence of & place of torment for gouls nfter doath, with great mcute- noss and force, As might he expected, ho com-~ bats the orthodox view vigorously: but it may roasionably bo contended that very Jittlo, if any- thiug, new can bo sald on eltbor side of the question. Legnl Iteforences, AN ALPHABETICAL INDEX. fnowiNa PARALLEL TPFRUENOES TO THE BEVERAL OARKS IN Tili ILLI= No18 REPORTH BUDSEQUENTLY 1tkvisen, MODIFIED, LXPLAINED, APPROVED, Ok MAINTAINED DY TR Sypgian: Counr ov Triiow: From Brecse Lo the Hith Volvmo Inclusivo of the Reports, By Gronox R, Weronio, Chicago: E, B. Myors & Co,, No, 93 Waahington str The titlo-page, copied above, will give all our Jogal readers an uccurato knowledgs of tho con- tenta of this boolk, They will at onco know and appreciata it value, Epintolnry. TUOY MARIA. By M, Anwy Moxtox Diaz, With Tiinstrations, Bostou: James K. Osgoud & Co, Chi- cagoi W, I, Kean, Cooku & Co. ‘o author has thrown hor obsorvations on Soviety, and all sorts ot subjects, in tho form of lottora, 'Lhie ntyle fs cany und flowing, and the sontiments of tho lottots we have been ablo to ook over are good. Wo venturo to commond v to the attention of our youny roadory, For the X OILES' MINORIY & und Girlse KoENES AT ‘£ RUD TOUSE, Ty M, Ronknr O'leissy, Loston : Roherts Dyothis era, Chieago: W, 1, Keon, Cooke & Co, Thooks for childron come to our table almost without number, Tho yonng people seom to be in uo dunger of haviug nothing to reud. The book before ns is o colleotion of interesting and smuelng talos, told in attyactive atyle. Poriodicals Recotved, Gem of the West for December. C. Aug. Huvie land, Chieago, Voics of Masonry for December., Johu O. W. Builoy, Ohleago. Norlhwestern Review for November, R, R, Deurdon, Chleago. Ladies' Oton Magazine for Decomber, M, O, Dlaud & Oo,, Chicugo, Wisconsin umberman for Desomber, ‘Lha Wisconsin Lwmberman Publishing Company, Milwauleo, Clueago_Teacher for Docombor. Joromiak Mahony, Chicago, Ameiioan Jice Jowrnal for Decombor, W. F. Clnrko, Chienzo. Young_Folls' Journal for Decembor. Luken: Sistors,’ Thinton, I'a, American Booksell-rs' Guide_for Decombor American Nows Cowpany, Literary Notes, TIroland fs **Urof tho Chaldeows,"—50 Mrs, Au lltn‘WAIldu says, and taltea o whole hoolk to ua; it In, ~Prof, George Rawlingon is about complatln his great historical work by a volumoe cntitle: * The Beveuth Creat Orlontal Atounrchy, or t istory of tho Sassnnians,” ~—Bianchard Jorrold is travoling about tin continent at work on_hia forthsoming Life ol ‘Nupoleon 111, of which Lho fivst volume 18 to ap+ poar in January, ~lr. John Fiake, of larvard Colloge, 1a now tu London. A work of lls ontitled * Guflines of Cosmic I'hilosophy, based on the Doctrino of Evolution," §8 soon to appoar, —'T'ho firut odition of HLull's “Autoblography,” zomdnzlug of 3,000 volumes, was sold it uix nys, ~It was not because thoy had rand Mark Twain thot the Y. )L O. A, of Colchoator, England, )flm:ml tatn books on the Indox expurgatorius, but ounuse of the horrible comic illustsations on the cover. Sinnforth, of London, 18 to publish * Ashant] Hld What We Know of It,” by Vies-Admirul sy, tejectad contributora form so lnrge a class in ngleud (hat thoy support two magazines, whoro pogen contain nothing thiat hos nob been declined by the editors of othoer poriodicals. —Ruakin's_latest lectures oro n sories of six on wood and motal ongraving, undor the char- uteriuucall; porapienous titlo of * Ariadne Florontinn.® Yo s iwsuing them ono by oo, with profuse explanations and apologics. —It iy told of tho late Muw. Jaunot Hamilton the Beoteh pootens ond_osaayiat, that sho coulc not read, and that sho dictated all her compost: tions Lo hor husband, who way a shoemalkor, —A lurge patt of tho second volume of Boech ar's “Lifo of Jeaus the Chriat " isIn typo, anc lie {8 hnrd at work upon its completion, although it will not bo jssued until spring. " Maleolm™ iu the Litle of Georgo Macdon. ald's now wtory, which will b commencod in the January Lippincolta. —A bool that has venorablo claims to atlen- tion Is aunonunced among the Ruglish “*new™ books: *“'Lhe Romantic Ilistory of Sakys Buddbn; tranelated from the Sanserit isto Chis nose, by Djuannkuta (A, D, 600), snd {rom the Chinese into Buglish.” --‘Pho most, noticeublo production of tha yoar in Franco is the * Book of Poetic Laurcls Strewy Upon the Grave of Thoophile Gantior,” by some 130 living writers—¥rench, Buglish, and Qur- man. r, Swinburue contributes six pooms, twe of which aro in French. —\Wnen the mapusoript of Carlylo’s ** Sartor Resnitus™ was put into Me, Mill's Louds, he thought slightly of it. 1lo seys: “I did uot, however, deom m{nel! o compotent judgo ol Curlyle, I folt that o was a poet and that 1 was ot ; that ho wes & man of iutnition, which I wos not, and thet as such o nob only spw 1mpny things loug Lofore me which I cauld ouly, when thoy were poivted out to me, bobble aftor und_prove, but that it wea Lighly probuble he could see mauy things which wero not visiblo tc 1mo ovon after they woro pointad out.” ~—T'he ** first serios " of Goorge l!enry Lores work on ** Problems of Lifo and Mind» is just ready in England, undor tho title of **The Foundations of & Creed.” In it the autbor on doavors Lo establish the erced of a philotophy toundod on tho Knowable. to the utter exclusion of what he considers the Unkoowuble. —* Tho Inforior Sex " 18 the subject and tha subtitio of » now novel by a Cinciunali lawyer, to be published by Lee & Shepard. I it's a fair quostion, to which sex doos tho man of law re- for? ‘Phe first Litle of tho book is ** Mra. Av- mington’s \ard,” and the suthor is D. Thow Wright. —Donn Pintt, of tho Washington Capital, mod- itates tho publivhing of Lis lotters from Europe the past summer i a volume. ‘Lhero novet were any lke thom, and the publisher who could combina these in & volume with thoso of Watter- son, of the Louisville Courizr-Journal, wonld either losa his character or mako bis fortune, porbups both,—Springfield Republican. —The dpringiiold Jepubhean gives tho follow- ing estimato of magazine circulutions : Jarpe claims, snd no doubt haw, o circulation of 135,000 copios, Godey's Lady's Book circulatos re thon 100,000 copics, mostly at the South inc West, whilo Lipvincott is yariovaly sel down s civeninting from 5,000 to 8,000 copies only. Uit and New probably oquals theso figures, tho Gal- axy oes up porbups to 15,000 or 20,000, and the Atlantic something higher, whilo Scribner has a Bteady snle of somo 50,000 copies. —A vory curious and valuable contribution to Amorican history is about to be made in o worlk which §, W, Bouton will publish, aud which was propared from MSS. proservad in the Stato Papor Department of Her JMnjesty's Public Iee- ord Ofic, Eugland, under the cditovship of John Camden Hotten. It contains “origiunl liuts of emigrants, religious ex- iloy, ~ politienl robels, serving-men sold for'a torm of years, npprouticcs, childrou stolon, maidens pressed, wud others who wont from Great Britain to the Americau plautations, 1600-1700, with their agos, tho localitios whero thoy formerly lived in e mother country, the nomes of the ships in which they cmbarked, aud othey interesting varticulurs,” —Now, that Wifliam 'Poll and his clan aro die- posed of sud we havo all confessed to heiug mythlakon on that score, cometl the Hon, Aaron Goodrich, United States Minieter to Bolgium, to telluy that Christopher Colunbus wusn't realty his name, snd that Lo wasw't what we thoughs him, and that he didn't discover whnt ho o sowe- body slso has protouded. Mr. Goodvich bus boon dovoting the leisura of his sovon yours in Eutope to the oxumination of dacuments und otherevidence on this subjoeet, and lie has sae- ceeded in convincing himsolf thoroughly ittt the popular ogmlou us to the porson commouly Jmown us C. C. is nitogether wyong. TheAppla- tons avo to give him an_opportuuity emly next yeur to convinco the public aigo. Some Odd Incidents of a Letter of Byron’u. . Tho following lotter of Lord Byron, o corro- spondent of the Athenewmn suys, hus never been publislied boforo : “Prsa, April 12, 1822, “Degan W Why dow't you take o turn in Ttaly ? T shiould be delightod to see you again, which is far moro than L'sball ever eay or facl for your island, or anythivg therein. They com- Dlaii of my abusing Eugland, mymothor country —u stop-damo, I fukeit. I'mado out o list tho ather day of all the things snd porsons I have been compared to, It begins with Aleibindos, but it ends with tho Swiss ginntess, or tho Polist dwarf—I forget which, I have uow to add an other deseription, sermonized by Pavsou Stylex depieting mo a8 ‘o denaturalized being, whe having dratned the cup of sin Lo ity bitteres drags, is revolved to show that he isnolonge. luniah ovou in bis frailties, but & cool, uncon. cernod fiond.’ That's duunably cool—that's flat —paraon! Woll, I hopo thut nighbor-loving Qivige’s holy rage will not put you in bodily fear of being cannibalizod Ly such an ogre as the author of snudry blasptiomous worlkk—should you cross tho Alps, A tigr forall their clumor— Como ouo, como all'—wo will fight & out, ‘When 1 one tako you in Linnd, it wili bo dificult for me not to make sport for thoe Philistines.' Now we lock upon oursclves ng uumuth!mi', oh! Tollow with somoe pith—how wo conld lay it on! I think I seo them wincing under the thong, the poapous poltroons, Buburn me if I dow't {un .their asses' slins for them. As to what I hove oid about you, nover mund; it was ouly Lohind your bactk, nnd undor thoss lagitimato’ cirewm- stances, why, oven our bost frionds cannot ex- poct us' to spare_them. Pray roply; nows are worth monoy, Beliove moe, always, ;i;mm vory afoetionntely, xnoN." Now in Disracli’s * Venotin,” Lord Cadurcis, who represonts Byron, las the following con vernation with Horbert, who s Shelley “ Now 8 not it tha most wonderful thing in tho world that yon snd I havo met 2" suid Ca- dureis. * Now I look upon oniselves s somo- thing liko, ohi! Follows with somo pithin thom. By Jove! if we only joined together how we could lay it on! Orack, crnck, oxack! I think Iseo them wincing under the thong, the pompous poltiuous | If you knew how thoy behuvad to mo! " Cadurely continues : ¢ Tmudo out n list the other day of all the orsons und things I have been compared to. It oging, woll, with Alcibigdos, but it ends with tho Bwiss glantoss or the Polish dwarf, I forget which,'® Cadureis sayn again : = #6And theu thoy complain of my abusing E‘Ill‘g‘il\lgh my mother-country—a step-damo, 1 o It, 1t is plnin thas Disracti has scon thin letler, or that the lotter itself is ono of the curions forgorios of Byron made by the porson oalliug himsolf Georgo Gordon. Gordon climed to ba Byron's son, aud it will be romembered that the forgorien atiraciod groat mttoution about 1852, Gordonuay hinve mado it up from Disrnoli's story; or omobody oo wight havo dona o, for that matter, The handwriting appearuio be B{mu‘u. ‘I'liy lottor hou boou in tlio pussossion of Toury " . Hi A, Drighs for twanty, yesrs. Mo got [t figm &