Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1873, Page 9

THE CHICAGO DAILY. TRIBUNE: SATURDA 7, DECEMBER 27, 1873---SUPPLEMEN FRANCE. Her Goverument a Sort of Provisional Military Dictatorship, The Problem-of Her Extrication from « Her Present Political Dilemma. A Skoeh of tho Changes iu the Fronch Govormment During the Last - Eighty Years, ThelCountry Now Where It Wasa Quax- ter of a Contury Ago. Strifes and Plottings of the Factlonses= Freuch Ignorance of True Tepublicanisim, Sveeial Correapondence of The Chivigo Tribune., Tiaus, Dee, G, 1873, The present Govornment of Krancé is meroly provisional. Tho prolongation of tho powery of Marshial MacMahon is considered simply as an EXPEDIENT OR MAKE-BHIFT that, during its existence, Frauce may reen- porato, produce, and ropair tho breaches made in her fortunes. Btability is still sought for, and cannot bo found. Frauco Iy in a ditommu, aud drifts, hopiog that something mny turn up to reliove her, 'I'o so-called Ropublican mom- Lera of the Assembly voted against conferring the Dictatorship on MacMalion, The Royalists all voted for ‘‘the prolongation of powora.” Butthoy aro now plotting for a Monarchical succension ; while the “Ltepublicans " scom ro- solved to accopt tho now stato of things, and support tha Dietatorship, 1 order to proevent the Legitimists from thirusting o Dourbon on the vacant Throne. MacMahon agts with tho Legitimists, who uro scheming to relieve him of Lig ofiico long boforn tho expiration of the soven yonrs for which he was nominated, and oppoeas tha “Ropublicans,” who insist tint he thall rule for soven years, a4 n choico of ovils, Buat, ufter all, this only means that ho shall oceupy tho Dictaforship until they obtain control of affairs nd sgroo on his suc- cesror, whon he will be retired without further, ceremony or dolay ; so that, as n matter of fact, both parties have in view the SAME ULTIMATE ONTECT. Tlow is Frauce to bo extricated from lier di- lemma? No manhas yob found a volution. A Monarchy can only be maintained in one of two ways: fivst, by military force; or, sacond, by common cousent. The Monarehy of Great Dyitain is maintained by common consent. Lot the clifof parties uphold the ** Crown™ w8 tho cmblem of State wovercignty. The Libernls nro as stamith defendors and snp- portors of tho Monarchy #s tho Conservatives, Republicanism in Great Dritain i o sontimont entertained ouly by s wemall fraction of the people, and they of the ** uninfluential classes," Jobn Bullis o ROTALIST TO THE BACKNONE, because, in o contest between partios and poli- cics in Great Rritain, the Quecn tnkes o part. Sho bolongs to no party, The Mmistry who govern Great Britain must bo in political aceord with the mmjority party in tho House of Commone. When thoy are mobt in such accord, the House never fails to pnss 2 wvotoe of want -of confidonco in them, and they have the alternative eithor to 1ecign and tondor their portfolios Lo the Queen, or to ask the Queen to dissolve tho House and order s now clection, which is called tuking' an uppeal to the country. Dut the Queen is eup- poted to be wholly indifferent 28 to tho result, and just as willing to appoint & Cabinct of Torics ae of Whige, if the House of Commons desiroiit, sl vice versa, ‘I'his system of responsible admintstration is . THE BAFETY-VALVE of the British form of Government, and it i3 to fts action that the perpotuwily of tho Monarchy i duo, For, if the Queen shonld ally herself with eithor of tho great partics; and undertnke to administer tho Governmont exclusively in accordnnee with ils views, the other party would neccssmrily bo arrayed against her; and when it came into power, ntter gome Parlinmontary election, it would oust hor from theThrone, and erown somo ono clee ug King or Queen. It could not do otherwiso, Tho Government could not be con- ducted with the Monarchy pulling in one diraction and the Legislativa Body in the other, Tho Intter would refuso to voto supplies and tnxes fortho support of tho Government, and the MMonareh, if the axmy was obedient to hig will, would undertake to coerce the Parlinment, and this would nt onee produca civil war, ending in DETHUONEHENT OR DESPOTISA, Groat Brituin has had those experiences two or three times. ‘The Houso of Stunyt undertook -to_muintain & code of politicnl aund religious policies antagonistio to the sentiment of Parlin- ment, and ono of thom lost his tlhrono and another his head in consequonce of it. But, for tho lust 200 yenrs,—that is, sineo the commence- ment of the reign of Willinm I11L,—the Mon- archa of DBritain have permitted tho voice ond will of the Mouse of Commons to prevail in the Dlinistry, while they uave lopt aloof in a groat measure from party sntanglemon Bince _the beginning of the Rl'esunt cent, Groat Brifain lus had but threo tonaxchs, viz: Georgo 1V, (including bus Re- eney), William 1V.., and Vietorin 1. ; but, during iho same time, there have baen TWENTY-FOUR CIANGLR OF THE MINISTRY, commencing with Addington in 1801, aud endi with Gladstono in 1873,--tho longost of w wea that of the Earl of Livorpool, oxten: from 1812 to 1827, u period of fi{teon yeurs., T'ho avorage term of oflice of nll the other twenty- three Ministries was oniy two and & half yoars eaoh. Some of them ruled not move than o few months, During all thése chunges of administration, both parties supported tho Crown, and the Crown, mn turn, ruled the countyy by thio ndvico and consont of tho {louse of Commons, using tho majority party fur the timo being to support the administration of the affairs of Stato. Had tho Mongych beon attached to the party in powor, a8 the Prosident of tho United Btutew Lu nupposed to be, thoro would probubly have con A SCORE OF KINGS ENTIRONED AND DETHRONED sinco the beginning of this contury, together wiil pevorul bloody sud destructive civil wars and rovolutions, In former times the Kings overrode the will of the Logislative Body by meaus of the fidel- ity of the mmy, audof sssorted den ontic powers indorsed by the Church. 'The ilonumhs of the Coutinents! countries of Furopo, nutil tho lastifty yeurs, huve ruled thoir ro- gpoctive uations In disregard of the will of tho popular branch of the Parlinmontary Bodies, hut in atilance with the nobles, and by menus of tho army. Indeed, tho populur branch hud beon so sonstituted in most casos ea either Lo have no will other thnn that of the King and nobies, or to havo its functions so limited thut it was fm- otont for good or avil, But, vinca about 1820, the practical working of the Lritish Constitution ont grently madified the [deas of Europosu pube liu;ugn and the British plan of u and statosmen, tevponaible Ministry has como Lo ba ERALLY ADOPTED more or logs closely, In all countries whera it by boon fully udopted, plots and rebellions for L3 ovorthrow of tho Monarchy luve cousud, Ecandinavis hos copied thu British Varlinmont- my and Ministorial systom, Bo have Urooce, Holland, Belgium, Roumunia, Ituly, Portugal, aud Austrin, aud last, but not leasi, Gormuny tau cortain extont, the Parlinmont of which iy now modeled somewhat after that of Qreat Dritain, The Ministry hoveafter must nominully obey the will of tho Relehsing, or Parliwmont,— tho Emperor consenting to sppoint u Cabinet in sympnthy with tho policy of the stronger porty fu the Reichstag, or Diet of tho Realin whioh pogscarus the lagislutive functions of the Lmpire. Heretotors the Governments of Prusain and mout of the Germun States hnve beon *iron despotisms; and, for all practical purposes, tho new Clerman Ympire is still o mlll’:my despotisg as absolute us that of Tussia, But tho effort je bolng made, under’ the udvico and influence of Princo Bismurck, (o rdopt the British form of Constitutional Monnichy and Ministoral responaibility, ns the only form sulted to the prosont iontal doyalopmont of tho pooplo, | ronfitanco iuflamed_the nation, or likely to oxiut in tho future und escapo the pertls of domocratio opposition nud rovolution, nuch as wore experionced in 1849, TIE ONLY GOVERNMENTR romnlning in Burope which have not adopled tho Dritish form are Russia, an enlightened mili- tary despotiam ; Turkoy, a Dbarbarous military despotinm ; Bw‘wnrlmul, o protty close copy of a Ropublie; Hpnin, which in cunumumma of ourhon Divine Right, Carthagena Communinm, and Madrd Dictatorship,—tho mixture togethior productng civil war wud suarchy ; aud, Jastly, &"mm‘n. which i n nondeseripl Uovorntont,— noither an Imporial Despotism, a_Conatitutional Monatehy, nor a nolf-governing Ropublio, but n Bort of lu'uviuinlml wititary Dictatorship, Tho Fronch Kings had long rnled IFranco on denputio priveiples, bucked by the noblos and priosty. A thmo entho, ubont clghty youtn ago, whon tho majority of o Genoral Ausembly, ot Partismont, eame fnto eollwlon with the will of tho King, who adhored to tho counsels of his courtiors and tho traditions of lis race. ''he or rather the Paris part of Jt. French exeltability quickly OULMINATED IN REVALUTION, The King was fiest dothroned snd then he- hoaded ; the Governmoent wns for a year man- aged by what was called the Ropublic and Convention, nud then it pussod under tho Reign of Torror for w timg, in which the practical oporations of the prin- ciples " of Communism wore lrvied. Noxt 0 junta called the Directory * ran Lhe machine” for o thme, "'hin was succoeded by tho Consulate of Nupoloon, which was a mililary deapotism in everything oxcopt tho numo; hut it wansoon fol- fowoil by tho Hmpiro, boingz o dospolism pure and simplo. Aftor the overtirow of the'Tim~ piro by the othor nations of Furopg, and the restoration of tho Legitimistdynasty, Francohad penco an ong as sho was garrisoned by tho ar- mics of the allien. When tho fuvadors with- drow, the Fronch refused to submit to the des- ,muu myay of Chorles X., and chasod him awny. ‘{‘lmn they tried anothior: branch of$the Bour- ons,— LOUIS PHILIFPE n mild, well-disposed King, who attempted to introduco and unnturalizo the British system of govornment ns bost adapted to tho character of the Trench people. Ilo way tho most liberal King that over reigned in Trance. Ho ostab- lished a Constitutional form of governniont, with two Chambers—one of nobles and eminent non, and the other of Commons; adopted the system af n responsiblo Ministry, and yioldad gronter latitudo to Lhe press than ruy rulor beforo or since hig time in I'rance. Ifo reigned for cighitcon yoara; but, with scarcely o ‘mnlclc of resistance, ahdicatod and tled from his 'Throno, on neconut of a domonstration of a Socinlist mob, A moro POERILE AND DISGRACEFUL * termination of au othorwise wiss und libernt reign was never witnessed in thodorn timos. The masses of the Freuch people wera well satistlod with his rule, and he wan BII{I ported by an im- menso maejority of the Assembly. But e beeamo prnic-stricken nt the howlings of the Paris rab- ]u‘ aud succumbed at tho first puil of wind, ~ Tho mob then proclaimed the * Ropublic," with Liberly, Equality, and Fratoraity for théir watelwords, ‘I'he civil soldiory Joined thom. Tho Parinmont was broken up and dispersed, and o Provisionn! Government was organized in the shape of n Committoo of Public Bafety. Dissongions quickly aroveumony the demngogues who lod the Socialistic faction, 'The Commun- ists insisted that it wgs tho duty of the State,. as tho freat fathor, to” TROVIDE EMPLOYMENT AND SURSISTENCT: for his children ; and, for a_time, tha 1abble #nbeisted on the prodeeds of French bonds, or “renten,” while the mational dobt rapid- ly nuguiented. An indignant- outery _aross over France, especinlly smong the farmers and shiop-keopers, naninst this system of loaferdom and *'dead-beatism.” Civil' war began in cnrnest between the Communists and Consorvatives. The strecte of Taris ran with blood. Sauguine ary insnrroctions broke out in varions parts of France, The state of riogo was declared. Gen, Cnvaignae was made Dietator, and he BLAUGHTERED TIE COMMUNISTH BY THOUSANDS, and domolished their absurd ¥ afeliers national schemae, - After tho Sociuliste had been suppressod and frustrated by gunpowdor, the Assenibly, which jnst before thewo ovonts had been_clectad, framed n Constitution providiug for n Prosident to bo electod, Ly .universal suifrage, for four years, and re-cligible only after an terval of Tour years; also, for a Corps Legislatif of two Chambers, ete. " Au election for President way ordered, whereupon the Bouapartists ralliod on the exilo, LOTIS XAPOLLON, y who was in England rt tho time, and elected him Ly o mnjority of some millions of votee, ‘The Socinlists polled for Todru Rollin but- 500,000 votes, Most of the Royalisis voted fov the Die- tator, Cavaignac, who received 1,600,000 ; but the furmews sud the worsbipors'of lis wucle rallied to the support of Louis Napoleon, and gavo nim 5,500,000 votos. Aftor two yoars of the Republic, whicl wns full of plots and counterplots, camo tho famous, or infamous, COUP D'ETAT of Dec. 2, 1851, which was planned with cool andueity, and oxceutod with fearless courngo; and the thing called ““ the Republic” censed for twenty years to exint. Louis Napolcon had baen President but a short yenr until he found himself at loggorheuds winh the majorily of the Assembly, which pulled in ono direction, whilo ho pulled in another, ‘The Qoverunent was dostituta of the safety- vatve of tho British Constitution, Ministerial re: sponsibility to Parliament. T.ouis was detor- mined to have his own way, and exoceute his will Tegmidless of that of tho Ascombly. ‘Uho Cabi- not wera creatures of his seleetion, and respon- #ible only to bim. 'Whis state of things conld not long continue, Eithor the will of (he As- sembly must provail, or that of the so-called President. "Tho Intter ent thoe Gordian knot by PROCLAIMING TN ENPER and dissolving and dispers Assembly. 1o loat no time in absorbing in him- self ull political and military suthori aud for the noxt twenty yemrs dovoted bis time to'fur- nishing amusements for Franeo, whilo he ruled the nation ns an absolute despot. 'Che last amusement provided for Franco was an attuck on Germany, which rruvnd rather costly, and speedily resulied in his capture, sud dethrone- ment, and inearceration in a Gorman prison. After the torminatiou ot the disastrous war, he s released from jail, wont buek to Englind, and shortly afterwards gave up the ghost, ° Menunwhile, darshal MacMuhon crushed tho Commune which had seized Paris, and BXECUTED 16,000 socIALIsTS in doing it. Tinst Moy the Thiors Administration wan over- thrown by tho Royulints, and Marshal MuacAahon was appointed temporary Dictator. Last month his term waa oxtended for kovon yoars, under the namo of *“‘Che President of the Fronch Ro}mh- lie;" but, a8 no Republic exists in Franco, thore cun bo no Presidont of it. i France now finds horself just whoro she was a quarter of a centuryugo, whon Gon, Cavaignas was Dictator, She lins completely swung ronnd the circlo sinco 1848, and AURIVED AT THE STAINTING-PLACE, : Shio hai bad o raid of a Pwyis rabblo on e Con- stitutional King, with his aBdieation; then the Socinl Ropublic; mnext n Military Diotator- ship; then a Conservativa Republie; then 4 Coup d'Etnt aud u DMilltary Fmpirve: then an overthwow of the Empite aud an ab- dieation ; then o Committea of Public Bafety; then tho Commuuo in Daris, supprossed, as in 1848, aftev horriblo masencre; (followad by the Military Dictatorship of tho ofticer who put it down, " This brings ua to the present moment, A Provisional Assombly is_engaged in the worlk of plotting for u Monarchicul restoration, and in framing n now Constitution which shall elimiunte what little populur liberty remaing in Frauce, Tt will be the fificenth or twentiotl Constitution 'framed sieo the days of Louin XVI. Thore s nothing in I'ranco ro roudily disenrded ag & Conntitntion, It seems to pos- sessno mare binding force or sacrodness in Trench ayos than an unfashionablo gavment, and lxlm_\' ave changed umu-]y“ a4 often as tho fash- ong. Woll, whutnext? Who sliall rule in . tho fu- ture? No name stands fortlias & rallying contro, The Royalistn, who linve for the woment con- trol of the Assombly, and whose instrumout (s MacMnhion, had made all their plens to confor the erown on 2 . THE COUNT DE GHAMIORD, under the titlo of Henry V. Nt he refnsed to ucknowledgo the tri-colorad flag of the Revolu- tion, or to necept the ‘I'hvone ne o Constitutionsl King, with a Cabinet respousiblo to the prevail: iny views of tho Assembly and willing to carry out its polivios. Ho hanghtily declored, *Tam tho indisponsable pilot, the only ono enpable. of guiding the ehip to ]mrt, bocanse [ hava a _omission aud authority to met. Again: O T am asked to-dIny to pake n mecrifice of my honor, I glll votract or rotrench nothing of my former deelurations, The elaims of yeu- terday [that ho should sccopt (ho tri-color und rule us Comstitutional King] give ma thewoanuro of what would bo exneted on tho morrow, sud T eannot consont to innugnrate & roi uration and strength by unset of wenknoss," P'here wus no miktaking or misnnderntanding this Jungunge. Tho Royalials of the Ansombly did ot daro to hand bim the Crown on those torms, Trua to his Bourbon blood and broeding, ho hod FORGOTTEN NOTHING AND LEARNT NOTIING by tho ovouts of the last oighty yoars, e was rosolvad to fgnore_tho chankes Tmade In three geuarations, aund commoncd & xdgime . procipoly whore Louin XVI, left off i tho momont his hoad dropped In the bagket. Tranco would rather ondura o Military Dictnlor- ship, or ovon the Communo, Lhian tho nhwolutism of the old Bonrbon r Tor o tmo the slrugglo will go on bobween tho twa great partior,—lhoso who eall thom- selven Lopitimisty and thoso who faney thoy nro Republicans, Mennwhilo thoro in a third faotion waliting und hoping for the innuguration of the roign of tho EMPEROR NATOLEON 1V, who is now a buy of 18 years, goty tq school In Sng] If Pronch Tiborals had any just concoption of whnt n Republican form of (Tovernment really in, they ~might mmstor slrongth and in- fluenco vbnough to try the oxperiment. But Loy aro lxml‘mm Iy ignorant, and uttorly unconscious of it. 'I'hoynover got beyond tho idenlof n DProsldent and Assembly, olected by univorsal suffrage, with tho Ministry responsible to tho nmjorfiy party in the Assombly ; with all execu- Livo powoer coucentrated in tho hnnds of tho Chiof Ixcentive, mcl with a hugo standing army to onforco *order” and suppress liberty of ‘thae me nnd of speech, ''lis sort of governmont B an incongraity and an illogical ploco of ma- olinory. 1t in too strong for n_Rtopublic, and it in too weak for o Despotiem, It has not tho floxibility of o Couslitutional Monarchy, in whicl tho King Jbolougs to né party, but rules through o Cnbinet, in accord with tho sontinients of tho Assembly, cllnllfilug oy it ohanges, And it rents not on the will and afee- tion of the ong, but on the Layonets of the standing army, And ahove all, it mukoen no pro- vision for devolving on thy citizons tho responsi- ility ot TOOAL HELF-GOVERNMENT. No country ean be o ropublic where this i not done, 'T'lio elitzons musl mannge their domestic and municipal alfaits for thomselves, Iteo from control and - interforenco of the Contral Govern- mont, just os o family must be pormittod to mnnnge ‘it own domestic matters without the Intervoution or dictatlon of anybody. The poo- ple must golect thefr loeal m’wnuunmllvcn. sich a8 Mayors and Common Councils, Townsbip 'gisteos, County Comunissionors, State ofli- cers and Logislnturos. 'J‘huy ‘munt determine for themselves, through thoir solected agents, how much tocal and Spocint taxes thoy nio willing to py for tho support of public edi- cation, of tho poor, of charitics; for the con- siruction of roads nnd Inhli;uu, 1o water, streot- lighta, uewerage, and all things portaining to tho public Lealth, cloanliness, locomotion, and edu- cation, 'They nmast dotermine how much money #hnll bo epout in enforcing tho luws and ordi- nances, and thp preservation of proporty ngainst flre. 'he whole” business of ouforcing tho luws must_devolve on Courts, Policemen, Sherifls, and Constables of their selection. In short, they must learn to GOVERN TIEMSELVES, tax themselves for tho support of such govern- ment, and look ouly to themselves for civil gov- erument, aud not bo invoking the aid of Jupiter to protect thom or Tlercules to fiolp them. The only_standing arnly, boyond & more wkeloton, shoyld he the militin,—the people themsolves,— without the use of hireling substitntes. No such form of goverment as this has evor Uben tried in France, or deemed possible. In il 90 matters here montioned the contral authori- ty takes tho initiative und dictatos. It provides local government for the peonle; lovies such taxes n it plowscs ; appoints such oflicoholdern ny it plonses ; romoves them when it ploasoes ; novor consults the will and plensure of the citi- zone nhout any public affairs, but treats them ay minors und childvon, incupablo of self-government, and requiring guardiang to tako enre of them anddo their thinking for thom, If thoy object or complain, 0 bayonet is thrusi down their throuts. If a nu\vn]mpar erilicisoy the contral management. of public matters, it s summiasly fined or supprosged. It tho I yathor in mage-meetings, to discuss public af- fuirs, or eensure the Administration for its nog- ligonco or oppression, tho umuki“t; is promptly dibperned by tho military, and tho lenders ar- rested and thrown into prison. And all this is down in the name of * order ™ by THE CONTRIVANCE called the “* Republican Govermmnent of France,” 'I'o call such n contralived tyranny o Ropublk: is & gross misnomer; uand yet there is no party Franco proposing anything better or more in resemblance of a true limmlyhm The Jdon of gelf-govarnmont a8 practiced by tho peo- ple of tho United Suntos has mnot entered into 1he minds of Fiench politiciaus, It is not in (ho plniform of uny existing or proposed party. Tho programumne of the Commune is altogethor o dif- teront concoption from the American theory of self-government, It menus socinl and property oqunlity,—loveling down ths highest and best to the gindo of (ho lowest and worws ; bringang all classes Lo {he standard of the majority of num- bers 3 and tho eatablishment of some Kind of an irreligiots Utopin, nitotly IMPOSSIBLE OF PRACTICAL REALIZATION while tho bunan ruce remnins counstituted with the existing montal, moral, aud phyeieal ditfor- auces and dopravilles, Undor no civeumstances will tho farmors, shopkeepers, and employing classos uccopt the Cowmmune; nor will tha farmers nud Commun- iuts tolerate Dourhoniun: of tho old rogimo. ‘The presout Provisionsd Assombly, which hus outlived tho purposo and time for which it wia created, but 18 determined to hntd on to power ithetanding, is undor the control of the Royalists, It iy plotting sud schaming to do- prive tho pooplo of Iranco of whatover little purulnr liborties thoy possoss. It intends to - reduce the right of suffrago to small propor- tious by u 8weeping disfranchisement ; at leust, that i the annm outgiving, Other mensuros of repression, compression, and oppression, oqually arbitrary, are on the tapis, mcluding stitiing the press, controlling and paching the nmmicipal governmsnte, nud othor schemes of reprosston, How all this will end is not hard to predict., THERE WILL IE AN SI0N, a8 usual, under such provoeative cirenmsatances, "Tho Fronchure tho uiost nervous and omotionsl peoplo inthe world, and endure with tho loust pationue the arbitrary acis of their opponouts; and, when thoy brenk looss from coustramt, they act more like uncaged tigera than human buiu\:s. And yot, at other tumes, thoy are as gentle and quict us lnmbs, At all tines thelr uctions are full of pootry and sentiment, It iy somotimes comic, or opie, or tragic, or melo- dramatic neting ; but it i nover surly, morose, or npathotic acting. In ali things they are irre- prossible und sontimental, ‘The history of Frauce since 1789 [furnishes tho strangest nnd most dramulioclinpters of auy nmln:n in avy ngo. 1t has beon u succession of mosl jeaplo STARTLING PANORABIIC SCENES, During thin period she hus tought nll Europe, —sometimes with one power singly, thon willi sovoral, wnd again with o combiuntion of them all. Her sraues have entored and plundered avery Capilal in Burope, excepl that of Greab Dritain ; and tho armios of Fnrope hnve ro- turned those visits and plundored her Capital. Not satisfled with upsetting all tho olher Gov- ernments, sho has overturued her own half-u- dozen times, nnd chungod its form still oftener, She has tried every form under the suu, from Sooiulistic Auarchy to Military Dospotism, She hiag oxporimonted with liberty without law, and lnw without liberty ; thore “remaing but ono form yot wntriod, and that is local self- govornnient, which sgoms to ba boyond tio comprehension or reach of this eccontrie, rest loss, and varsatilo poople. -— WM, Whe Queens s Champion.”? The denth is aunounced, at the age of 70, of tho Nov, Juhn Dymoke, **The Queen's Cham- plon.” o was tho youngor of tho two sons of the fato ltov, John Dymolie, of Nerivelsby, who ought to hove actod as ¢ chumpion ™ at tho cora- nation of Goorge 1V., bus who, 88 & clergyman, was exenged, or ratbor allowed to discharge his dnty by depitty ou that ocension; his won, the late Sir Henry Dymole, the ellor brothor of tha gontlomnn _whoso nnmo is now befora uk, acting in higatead, This wan tho lust occasion on which the oyes of the Peorsand l'eerossos of Tn- wland wore allowed to jgaze upon * the hereditiry chsmpion" of the English throue,—linl Groy, Lord Molbourne, and the Whigs in 1831, aud ngain in 1838, not boing willing to allow tho na- s Lon to ba put to any noodlessoxpannn, the writer of the “ Bluek Beok " having showed, on the un- thonty of Hansurd, that tho coromonies which attended tho coronation of George [V, cost no loan than §288,000. Tho oftico of chumplon hag Doen veated in the Dymokes for 600 years, - e — A Kupsns Judge. A Kausas paper givoes the tallowing reporl of u Judgo's sontoneo, Intoly pusged on w eriminul ¢ * Brawloy, you infamous seoundroll You're wn unredeomad villain! - You bam't n winglo ro- doeiming tralt In your charaotor, Your wifo and fumily wish wo had sont you to the Louitentiary, A'hin is tho fifth time I'vé had you befure me, and you huve put me to more trouble than your nock is worth, 1'vo oxliorted and prayed over you long enough, you scoundrol. Justgo home und tako one g ln?»sn ab your fumily, and ba oif in short order ] Don't let's evor” honr of you again ! Tho Grand Jury have found two othor indietnionts againat you, but LIl divchisrge you on your own rocognizances, snd if I ketuh you in thia neok of wooda to-morrow morning nb dav- Hlght, 11 sock you right fu juit and hump yon off to Joilersonvili fn less than no time, yoi infu- mous seoundrel] IFover I eateh you' crossing your tinger ut mun, womnn, o ehild—wlite mun or niggor—L'll sock you ri the aquare luto tho jugl Stand up, you scoundrol, while I pusy Boutence ou you i LITERATURE. Ari-trummnr, £ THE ARAMAAL OF PAINTING AND ENGRAVING. Translated from the Froneh of u:.mu{: Gyame e Arla du Desafn, by Kare Newgni, Doas- Nelv York : ¢ With original Tunirations, T & Htoughton, Muny pernons, highly intelligont aud culti- vated in most things, sro sndly doflciont in ar- Listie knowledge und taste. They ean talk wisoly and weoll on literary, historieal, politieal, and porhaps selontiile subjocts; bul of paiting, and the acts roluted to it, thoy aro nlmost fotally fg- norant, oy muy commond, ne all mhst, some gom of the graud old ninsters, but of-the prin- ciples thnt ennbled the artist to command the ilmiration nlike of the lenrnod and unloarned, thioy know Nttlo, porhaps abuolutoly nothing. T'o this largo class of persons,—lappily, in this country, becoming lows every L’unr,—lllu work bofore us will bo found au invaluable #ourco of knowledge, It glves thom the gram- mar of the subject, By qufn‘lly sindying its pages,—mado, by tho lutoresting fnots thoy con- taln, and the ateractive atylo of tho trauwinton n renl ploasure,—one may ‘luow why & pleturo vlonses him; and, besides, ho-will bo able to oxplain to himsolf and to othory whatever oxcel- loiicos o dofecls n work of urt may prosout. Ty oloment of “n liberal oducation™ is bo~ coming more ensontinl' to overy Iady and gontloman, s our, countrymun are constantly acquiving the menus for o higher artistic culture, Every one wlio ean afford to adorn his Tiomo, and who has tho good sonso o attempt it, should study this book carefuily, in the presence of some works of ncknowledged oxcollence, before hio ventures to purchnse] By this menns ho may save tho walls of his parlor from exposing his ignoranco, and lis pockot from the exponso of purchasing daubs, sure to fiud their way to the attic or tho auction-roog as wealth and artistic oculture increnso. Inl morely an econvmic view, thoreforo, tho study of tho “Qrammnr of Dainting” is cordinlly recom- monded. But théro ia o far highor object tobo nttained ; we mean, of courge, the culturs of our people in those arts which ennoble the nationnl mind, —which adorn and rofine the national lifo. sm,l, Italy of hor artistic tronsuros, aud she would bo merely au exportor of silk, macaroni, and wine, Could somo glont hand pick up the museum, tho nrt-gallery, and the green-rooms of Dresden, and drop them 1n some other eity, tho formor would, in a score of yours, bocomo o helf-desorted town on _the Elbe, whore not ono traveler in o thounand’ wonld cere to stop, It muy bo snid thub these and athor art-colloc- tions show the: culture of tho Kings and soveroigns of the past, rathor that of the {mopln over whom thoy reigued. But, in bis couniry, oil are sovorslgns, 'and henco tho importance of correct taste among thon, if wo would command tho respoct of thoko who ara to como after us, Studying sueh works ag the ono beforo uy, iustond of the low devlees of tho domagoguo on_the part of our public men, would have saved Amoricans from tho artintic abominations in Washington, some of which aro o burning disgraco to our uational Capitol, 'There tho most exalted gonius soldom finds enconrazement, whilo o pretly feminine faco, sot in pgolden or raven curls, can, oven for the wmost wrotched caricaturo getlarge npproprictions fromtie Netional U'rens- ury. If our public mou will not devote u small wwonnt of their timo to artistic culture, their Tsters, the people, should, so that thoy can de- mand a highor stamdard of tadto in thoso to whom the uffairs of tho nation are intrusted. ‘Whilo it in truo that tho art-collectious of Envope aro un oxpouent of the wealth and the culture of tho Hovoraigns that founded them, it is by no fienns the wholo trath, Theso galleries are thrown wide open to nli the people, aud thoir existonco in a part of the price which their rulors liuve paid for the priviluge of sitting upon tho throno. Many w pensant in Suxouy or in Floronce knows more sboul nrt—is ‘veally a better eritic on gnch subjects than some of our Wosh- ington worthics who faney thomselves great bo- catun they ean vota monay from the ronsury to some chatlatan for making hideons tho pubjic grounds or buildings, Tor wsuch ig- noranee there is now no excugo, and noue shonld be aoneptesl. Wo might dwell on tho pieasuro and the hap- Lincis that'evon o ainglo goodl pictyro will af- ford o family ; on tho intlnenco of “art upon the welfave of the public; on tho importance of fonnding froe gallorics 8¢ art in all our leading citics; but, for onr ‘intelligant . ‘rendors, no wsuch argumonts aro made. We add that the bool bdtore ‘us is issued on tinted paper, it suporb wivlo; and thec tho thanks of the entirc publie nre duo to Mrs, Doggott—ona of Chicago's most cultivated nnd nccomplished ladies—{orher very valuablo traune- lation of Mr, Blune's udmiralle work. LN The Mpon, Tur Moux: Hir MOTIONS, ASPECT, SCENRRY, AND Invscan CoNviriox, By R, A. Pnocron. With TLituar Photographs, Piates, Charts, ke, New York: D. Appleton & Co. This book, of 391 pages, ig thoe lalest of o series of works by tho indofatigable writer, Richard A, Proctor, Honorary Sccrotary of the British Royal Astronomical Socioty, It ussumoes to Le a “popular " trentise on our noxt-door neighbor in the heavens. TItdescribostho variousmethous that bave been cmployed for ascertaining the moon's distance, size, and weight as compared with that of the earth; her motion in tho orbit, ns influenced by the atiraction of {he sun; her changes of aspact, in- cluding the phenomena of rotation aud libration ; and the results of ull the most trustworthy ob- servations of the luuur surfuee, with the con- clusious avrived at in rogard to her physical con- dition, the probabilitios m favor of or against Lier Leing inhinbited, and the changes to which hor contour is now subjected, Whe wholo isil- lustra ted with photographs of the moon's wur- fuce, taken by Rutlierford, of New York, nud enlarzed by Brathors, of Manchester, England ; aud Beer & Maedlor's map of the moon, besidos many illustrated dingrams. ~ The gencral deseriptions of the work are ex- cellent, und tho amount of information con- wined in this small volume is surprising; indi- caling o very cxtended courso of roading, with good judgnent in making selections, as well an ability on the part of the author to throw out new ideas for tho benefit of his renders, Itisn boolk that 18 deecrving of a very wido circuln- tion, as its porusal will udd largely to the popu- lor fund of knowledge about the moon. The one omiseion which the gonoral reader will bo upt to regret i a notice of the influence (or rither lack of influence) of the moon upan our earth-wenthor, Tho author might have dis- polled some strong delusions on that subject in o few sentonces, 'Tho only part of tha worlk that is open to ob- Jection is the wecond chapter, which treats of tho moon's wotion in the orbit, aud the chuuges in tho orbit itself, ns due to thn porturbing in- fluonco of tho sun. We think that every ono of our veaders who should take the troubla to wado through the ninety-Lthroo pages dovoted to that topic wonld ugree that the whole chaplor is o dismal failuro, Indeod, the ehances aro ihat udnoly-nino out of o hundrod would come to this conclusion long before reacling the ond of tho chaptor, and wonld skip the rost, Tt is much too prolix fora_popular exposition of the iuntercsting topic, und the multiplicity of unuccessary dotnil tondw to distract attontion from tho mnin point at issue, The remuining 301 pages may be vend with ploastire and profit, nud tho roader will rise from thoir porusul with tho ability to apureciuto o view of the lunar sur- fueo throgh u toloscope,—whick is no hotier thun & peepshow without somao_ sueh knowledge #u I8 contaiued in the work of Prof, Proctor, Religle D KO and Scionce. 33 A BEmIER OF BUNDAY UR 0F NATURAL AND Rite , T TRUTHR REVEALED 1N urroge, Wy Josepir Le CONTL, Profewsor” of Geology sid Natural History in {hd gn‘(}\'cnlly of Californin, New York: D, Appleton 0, Whintevor uciontists may say or think of the coneluntons of 1rof. Lo Conto, hin high position suiong thom las long beon vonceded, In thoso locturon ho cortuinly makes u most able atlempt to rocoucilo the acknowlodged facts of keienco with the aceopted dootrinea of tho Bible, und tho Christian publio cortalnly will givo his book n wost cordinl woleome, Ay the lecturos wero dolivered to & populer audisnce, they uve free Trom teelmicalitios, and, therafore, hin illustra- tious and {he conclusions renched chn rendily bo understood by the goneral roador, A o upecimon of tho thoroughly Cluistinn charactor of the buol, we ¢uota the following pavagraph ¢ In afler pretonded roveltions we flud the Doty represonted a8 powersul, and, fu_ soma extent, fu an npeefeot, Rmini iy, i s, an frite, s wrec, 16 guod ; e whero do we fnd B vepresonted us haly ¢ A holy God §i fuiud nowhere wxeopt in t{’m Burlp- tirg, Aud tho veason §v plaing Other ntteibutes: of tho Deity vu i, at Yeast I somo dmporfect wy, Iu thy humun heavt, Ont of {hess elomonts found i his 0w beart, 1nn uiy constriet an object of worihip uud eall it God, He caunat, howeyer, do mure than idoatize snd projuet outvierd whit No findy within, Butthe beauty of Liollass is uvt there, sud, therefore, Nutional Lo canuot project It outward wi au atielbute of (ho Delty, Tnthe Beriptures slone wo find 0 holy God 3 therefore iy hugpoken of in the Old Testament aa tho Haly One of Tarael, Deeause n Holy Ona wag uot known i uny other paflon, 18 not this, Dien, & powerful wrgit ment for the luspiration of thews Beriptures 7, thon, liollnows Ja th benuty wd perfeetion of the Diviun nadure, mvcly it 1 alwo (ho bewity wid perfoes tion of Inmnt uuture, Now, wo lave scen (it tha wholo work of hat o this earfty I8 to ealore ar por- feet tio Divino Inugo fu the nature of man, in tho rea- A0 Of tan as teuth, dn fho eart of man an lovo, Now, it in tho harmonions combination of all there Divihio fontures thnt conntitudes o heanty of tho Di- vinn fmago or holleoa i i, Linliness, thersfore, 1 tha trua end of fosman (fe, and overy other Is fulso, Christinnity and Manhaeods CHRISTIANITY; 'I'ne HomNck oy Masnoob, By Mixor JubsoN BAvAai, Boston: Noyed, 1Iolmes & Co;' Chleuo: Junsen, AfeClury & Co, he author’ oxnminos—having, as ho seys, hoon o doubtor himsolf—mauny of the objections to Christianity, nnd comes lo the conclusion that tho noblest typo of Manhood ean only bo found in tho firm belief in tho doctrines of tho Qospel, 1t nlone ean wubiuo tho passions, and 80 balauco, lberalize, and porfoet Lho clinractor 4 to bring man up to tho highest standard of oxcollonco of which his nature is susceptible. This I8 really, tho nuthor claims, vhe of the most_conviucing proofs of the anthonticity of the Hoeripturcs, 'L'ruo, thers aro scatiored through the history of the world wmoen of tho lighost intellectunl charactor, who wero at the samo time ominent for tleir virtues, whilo tho millions that wsurrounded thom wore sunk in the luwost dopths of ig- noranco and vico; but Christinnity takes these mausen from thoso dopths, inspires thom with w love of knowledgo and virtue, and, at length Drings them up to r higher lifa than mankind has over attained andor any other religioun sys- tom. Such are the tonchings of tho book, and, theroforo, they cannot fuml to do good to all who will give them their attention, Pluiel PLUTARCH: s I M “Lrves,” Axp This *Mona Four Lectures ly R, U, Tnkxen, D, D, and Archbishop of Diblin, Tondon and New York : Muemitlan & Co, Chieago : Jausen, McClurg & Co, Theso four lectures, making & smnll volumo, ongo Importaut & subject, by so distinguished a divino as Archbishop Tronch, will nitract gen- oral attention. To read Plutarch’s * Liven" ia onsontinl to overy scholar; but fow take time to learn much of the grent Grecian biographer him- #oll. Inlooking over tho first lecture, ono is surprised nt how littlo is kuown of him; and veot tho Bishop finds enongh to show us that whilo Plutarch has given us o large part of ol wo know ot the groat mon who lived before and soon after the commencement of tho Chrigtinn era, he wag himsoll truly & groat man. An nnalysis of his “Lives” and hig othor writings furnishea ahundant evidence of that, Born about the G0th year of tho Christinn era, ho flourished at o timo when intellectual power was rocognized und appreciated ; and Dr. Trench has managed to include in his book much that is valuabln in tho litoraturo and history of that classic period. T'he Far=Awany North. THE FUR-COUNTRY ; on, SeviNTy Drontes NorTio Lavirypr, Lranal from the French of JuLis VErsE by N/ D, Anvens, With Ono Hundred Ilius- trations,” Bostou: Jumes It, Osgood & Co, Our, ronders who have read ‘the other volumes of this wondorfully-prolific Fronch author, can readily undoratand tho charnctor of this book from its title-page. 1lo Imngines o party resid- ing for a timn in the territory of the Hudson Bay Company, nnd onduring all tha vieissitudes of the savage climato of the Arctic regions of Nortk America. This cnables him to doseribe, ocorrecily, ns far a8 wo can judge, tho fur-beaving animals, and_the modes of tuking thom ; their unture and hobils, ond much - that will interest aud ingtruct youngor read- ers m the dangers to " be encouns tered in tho_inhospitable rogious of tho North, Great Bear Linko in & atorm; journoys to tho Polar Ben; fights with whito ears, seal- tnking, and & thousund things snd incidonts, nake this one of Mr. Vorne's most intoresting bool. 1t ia spocinily conunended s & holiday book for the boys. Rgypt in Caricature, GYPTIAN - BIL 1-BOOK. By Cuaxtes @, KLAND, New Youk : Hurd & Hougbion, Chicsgo : _Jnnnen, MeClurg & Co, . Our readers are bost nequuinted with tho author a8 ** Hans Breitmaun,” whose pootry has for some timo boon popular ub evening-parties, when read by those who can imitate Dutch ren- dered in broken Euglish. In the work before u#, ho gives tho ludicrous sides of what ono may 8ee in Lgy| -sometimes succoeding admirably, and often giving ue paragraphs that aro oxces- sively stupld. Ho has jokes nnd puns with- out number, some of which are atracious, and somo decidedly funny and mirth-provoking. he antiquition of Lgypt are sosn only in eari- cature, and o journey up tho Nilo sarves the nuthor a good turn by enabling him to paint the srotesque mananers and habits of the Egyptians. 1 its line the book is woll enough, It will sorve to while awny pleasantly nn hour, it miay bo on the eara or by the flreside. Relhholtziy Discoverics. S0UND AND Mumc: A NoN-MATuRsATICAL TREATISE 0% TG DAYSICAL CONKTITUTION o1 MURICAL SoUlps AuD TEALNONY, ISCLUDING TiE GKIEF AcousrioAl Discoveniks or Prov, HELMIOLTZ. Lix Tax Trinity College, Cumiridgo, MucMillau & Co, Chicago : By , Tondon and New Yor) Junsen, MeCiurg & Co. We hiave copied the title-pago of the work be- fore us so fully that our musical readers mmy understand ite chiaracter. It is olementary in all respeets, aud those who wish to writo orread “musio will find it, or somo work like it, essentinl to their kuccesy, As this is just from ihe prees the author has doubtless incorporated tho latest information on tho subject of which ho treats, He has iutroduced the divcovories of Holmboltz, and explnived thom iu secordance with his own ideas of how ho could make them best under- stood and useful to lus readors, Biographical Dictionary of Avtists, PAINT LPTORS, ARGHITECTS, EN. R4 AND TUEIR WORKS: A T1iNbnoox, By CLawa FiskiNg CLEMENT, With Tlusteatlons aml Monograms, New York: Iurd & Houghton, This is really un illustrated blographieal die- tionary of tho loading artists whose works have mado thom memorable among men. Not only doos the author give & short sketch of their livea and works, but tho names of the engravors who Lave givon these mlsiorpicees to the world in choaper form aro nlso stated, and ongravings are griven of tho best pictures of the loading artists. As o hand-boole of relerence, tho work is ono of great value to all who are in any way intorcsted n art mattors, For the Young, LADY NESTER; on, Unsuta’s Nanrative, By Cuanrorrs A, Yo Loudon ; MacMillan & Co. Chiengo:" Jawsen, McChurg & Co, Horo wo bave anothor of Mrs, Yongo's charming stories,—just tho one for s holiday present, ¥ John iay’s Last Pocm, o the Editor of tie Cl 0 Tribune: Hm: My Joln Hay, of the Now York T'ribune, n gontlomun helioved to bo possessed of o docont living, secured a vory onvinble litorary roputation by tho authorship of two picces of poetry. It is my opinion that ho s maltrenting that reputa- tion, If Mr, lay did need tho money which the businoss menagers of Seribner's probably saw fic to pay him for his lust poem in that perlodical, and it had been writton envofully and woll, mecheuically considered, there might bo only regrot swmong - the chari- table admirors of his former piccos that it should have become necessary oun his purt to liwve anything to suy upon u themo so Impotent ay that of * Dondoir-Prophecien.” Belloving him, howover, ovor the pricks of pecuniary dis- tress, und seoing his handiwork—coplod far and wido In metropotitan Bunday iusues, cros diy dalinquont tax-hste, and patent-outsides, only twaddle, but a rickety spocimon of the phe- unomouots, 1 am constrained to cry out, and to urgo othors Lo ory out, until it shall bo unprofit- ablo to ministor to the motrical wints of Amor- iean community with verses of which the follow- ing In o spovimion, ospacinlly whon no claim of puetry, per s¢, is made for the production s Ono day I the Tulicries, When a southwest Hosulih breezo Trought seanduions nows of the Queen, "I'he falr, prond Empress sald, My good srlend loees bew heud ; I hstiors go o iy wa Trhall se i o 6l Inth If any man will givo somo one rale which will apply fo the pronunciation of ‘the rhyming wordu In the firal aud socond asd in tho thivd and oighth lmes, Tihinll o obligad Lo content my- woll with objucting to rour lines in o stanza of olght bojug out of gaur with caeh other; to the atlending stunzos bearing littlo rnnomb‘uucnlu ,coustruction to the firab; and to tho pootio arl which wods the labor-saving vagaries of Coleridgo to an uttor nbaence of his imagory, Threo yearaago tho publio read *“Jim Bludkoa " aud “ Littlo Broochon” With somo oxcellont tiguren it o very largo elemont of the popuis- tion rosponding heartily to the moral sentiment of thego works, their ludicrous shps snd por- vading our-offendings wore swallowoed, and tho | whols” intolligonce of the Continent fell down and worshiped, Hul (hoy Lnve Leen prostrato too long. “Lhoss who look up may soo cloy, and, in the n(lllnlnu of your correspondent, of an unpromising quality.” Lot the publle demand holter plecen of poetry, whothor the namo sub- weribed bo good, bud, or indifforent, and the od itors of our magazihes, instend of puying Mr, Ilay ond othors o smart price for thio ke of Bondoir-Prophaclos,” will | very willingly se- loct for their columng gratuitons contributions inonmparably itu wuporior from among the thou- sands which they are forced to put into their waste-Bags overy month, J. Mod', CiticAuo, Doc, 25, 1874, Periodicnls Received. Galray for January. Sheldon & Co., Now York, Conlents: “Tho Duko of Argyll,” by Justin McCarthy; **Tho Wetliorol Affnir,’ Ohaptors LIIL to ond, by J. W. Dn Forost; “Voices,” by Franl Arbor Brown; ‘¢ Viows Abrond : 'T'ho French Pross,” by Albort Rhodes ; * Linley Rachford, Chapters VILL, VIIL., and IX.,” by Justin Mcflnrlhy; “ Physicial Impedi- ments to Soclal Huccess,” by Carl Bonson; A Sigh," by Vlrfimlm Vnn;;iuu *; Lnng Syne at Lau- sonno;” A Flower of the 8now,” by Constanco Fonimore Woolson: * Lingufstic and Literary Notes and Queries,” Ly Richard Graut Whito; “A Widow Indeed,” by Elln W, Thompson; * Other Folke’ Monoy," by Richard B. Kimball ; *2Ir, Black to Mr. Adams,” by J. 8, Black ; adito- rinl dopnrtmonts. A oircularfrom tho publishora dnyd: ““'Che Galaxy is just entoriug on the oighth yoar of its oxistonco, + Moj.-Gon® Custor will continue during ti ar his Juter- cuting ukotchos of ¢ Army-Life “on tho Plaius, Justin McCarthy, tho brilliant cssayist, will con- tinue his uketchos of romnrkable mon. Ho has nlso just commenced a serinl story eatled ¢ Lin- loy Rtochford.' Mrs. Annie Edwards, ono of the most populor of living fomnale novolists, will commonce anow serial in the Qalaxy within a month or two, Richard Grant White will con- tinue his articles on the ‘ Proper Uso of Words." Ttichard B, Kimball, whoso ruPu!M(ml saan ablo financior ns wellas author, will givointorest tohis artictes will contribute » dories of papors on Wall stroot, Iu the wayof sketchos of travel, cusys, ete., Junius Hourt Browne, Kate Hillard, Fanny foper Foudge, and othors will npponr, Short stories may bo oxpocted from Mra. Iebecea larding Davis, Mrs. John 8Sherwood, Miss Ella W, Thompsou, Miss Rose Torry, Misy Dors Havens, Honry Janes, Col, J. W, DoForest, and othors. The departmonts of the Galazy will bo mininteined as heretofore. Prof. X, L. Youmuns will continue to prepare the_monthly *Beientifle Miscollany,’ aud Guo. E. Pond tho * Drift-Wood ' articles.” Old and New lor January. Roboris Brothors, Boston, Contonts: *0ld ond Now;” *Tho Wuy We Live Now " q?lmln I-V.), by Anthony Trollopo ; * Places,” by ' G. Ai; * Dave; or, The Plover-Flight," by Miss M. H, Hinckloy ; “Wall Stroot and the Crisis ;" *¢ Quatraivs,” by Myrou B, Benton ; © A Civil Servant,” by Ed- wird I3, Hale ; ¢ Our Bkotohing-Club " (IL.), by R. Bt. John Tyrwhitt; **‘Com Halibuttow'’s Quandary ; or, A" Washington Scnson " I')I by K. W. and M. 8,; * Tho Boston Tea-Party,” by Trancis 8, Drako ; “Scrog ; or, Tho Lost Li- beary” (Chap. XXIV-XXV.), by Froderio D. Perking ; editorinl dopartments. St Nicholas, for January, Beribner & Co,, Now York. In this number there is o Now York Cliristinas story, called “ Pote,” by Mrs, L. G. Morse, Thon thore iz s Gorman Chrisimas story, by Mary Lockwood, and a fairy Christmas story, “The Llves' Gift,” by Arthur Croaby. Among tho othor stories is **Tho Boy Who Worked,” by Roswell-Smith ; “A Garrot Adven- ture,” by Mys., M. M. Dodge ; and * The Story of tho Jolly Harpor Man,” by M. Butterworth. Thore nro three sorinls now running in two St Nicholas :_* What Might Have Beon Lxpected,” by Frauk R. Stockton, a story for boys ; ** Nim- po's T'roubles,” by Oliver Thorne, & story for girls ; and t'rowbridgo’s ** Fnst I'riends.” There aro also Christmas articles by Donald G. Mitch- oll and_Jobm_ Huy; pooms by Willinm Cullon Bryant, Lucy Larcom, and Mary Mapes Dodgo 5 ete,, ote. The ongravings are about forty in number. llustrated Catholic Family Alinanac for 1874, Catholic Publication Society, New York, Medical_Investigalor for_Decembor, ' No, 287 West Bandolph streot, Chicago. Student for January, Wondell & Einstein, Chicago, National Sunday-School Teacher. Adzms, Blackmor & Lyon Publishing Company, Chic cago. z Young Ladies’ Journal for Christmna and for Javuary. -Wilmer & Rogers' News Compauy, Now York. g Allustrated Living World : ** Ioliday and An- nual." Jllustrated Record. New York. S, Literary ltents, Yico-Admiral 1iay, R. N., bas in pross © Ashane ti and What Wo Know of It.” Ar. C. 13, Watking has given to the California Univorsity tho original manuscript of the poem “'ho Hoathou Chineo,” by Brot Harte, and the proof-shoots of tho sume, with important cor- rections, A translation of ‘¢ The Doicides,” by J. Cohen, tho well-known French journaliat and theologian, has heon mado by Anna Goldsmid and publishos by Deutsch & Co. It is nreviow of tho life of Josus Christ from the Jowish standpoint. * Slkotchos of Irish Soldiors in Every Land i tho titlo of a very neat littlo book recontly publislied by J, Alexander McGee, New York, trom the pen of Col. Jamos L. McGee, The sliotehos, over thirty in number, are short, con- ciso, and wall written, 5 Mr, Ruskin, m the thirty-fourth numbor of his “ Tory Clavigora," attacks Prof. Johu Tyndall for tho emptiness of his book on *'I'he Forms of Water." o ridicules tho Professor’s drmnatic picturcs of Alpino_sciontists wading * broost docp thirough snow,” which, Mr. Ruskin suys, 8 « mattor of hard fact, is impracticable. Tho Appletons bave in the press o curious book, by the Hon., Asron Goodrich, eountitlod, *‘T'ha Life and Actions of the So-Callod Chris- tophior Columbus,” Tho author, who scems to bo 1 historical ionoclnst, makes out that tho namo of the colobratod Genoese voyager was not Columbuy, and that be did not discover Amor- ica. A Boston publishing house snswors the ecur- ront objection to publishing books by subserip- tion by this statoment : ' They aunounced Gui- zot's ** Iistory of Franeo" for & wholo vear, us to Lo published for the book trade, but found no oncourngoment. They then concluded to pub- lish it Dby subscription, and a single ngont sold moro copiea in oue weelk than the on- tire book trude of the country called for on a yenr's advortising. #Tho Lifo, Reminiscencos, aud Personal Rec- ollections of Edwin Forrest,” tho great Amer~ ican trnfimliun, by James Rees (Colloy Cibber), which lins baen lprurlug for muny months pust, in weokly installments, in & Philadelphis nowapaper, i8 now in pross, and will bo pub- Jished In o fow days in book form, by 1. B, Polorson & Brothers. Tho nuthor has writton and added to the work woveral introductory chaptors, which contain a full and comploto history of Mr, Forrent's life from Lis birth until lus tiret apponrauco on ihe stage. Mo has also curefully ravised and rewritten tha whale of tho rest of the work. All the Romon papers aro paying tribute of rospect to the latoly-departed Signora Catering Hearpollind, the Italisu Mra. Somorville, Born of s ucientifio family, nieco of the distingnished astronomer, Bearpellini,—to whom Rome owes the Cupitoline Obsorvatory,—Catorun Searpel- lini was dovoted from girlhood to astronomy. Bhio directed tho Corrispondenza Scientifica, which has been published in Romo since 1817, and was the authoross of un intoresting essay upon the intlucncs of ozono in somo maladios, Bigmoro Scurpollini waa 05, but still ag enthus sinatic ag over in purkult of scienco. L A, 'L, 1. Morroll, tho well-known untiquari- an and deamatio publishor, has just comploted, after much exponse and soveral yemr's resesrch und lapor, a worl for which its uniquouess cun- not probubly bo cqualled. Tho worl Is entitled +'ho Life, Reminisconnos, aud Lotlora of Col. Jobn Trumbnull, the Soldier-Avtist of the Amori- can Rovolution,” This copy bas beou onlarged 1w » singlo octavo volume to five imperiul fo- ligs, richly bonnd in full levaut morocco, oxtra gilt, und having fusorted nearly 3,000 portrsits, viows, battlo svencs, drawings, uu‘ognphs, wmups, &o,, intorleavod with tho text, and ropro- senting some porson, loeutity, or ovent roferred to thorein.—New York Ezpress, Notwithstanding the muages, involutions, com- plicated connoctions, und allnsions of Do Quin- say, spparently indi grout doliborution in composition, Lo was real [ oo of tho most ot~ Tisid of wilwers, Whon the mood of compost- camo, lis sut _down at onee, serawled with rupidity in his shaky Bandwriting, pago e puge, without taking thoe trouble tu vruso; throw tho writton shoets over Lis uwhoulder ono by one, awd, tnving ¥ wreaked himsall' upon ox- prossion und got vid of idons” went bick to his aovantor of laudunum entively oblivious and oqually careless of the lilter wpon the Haor, uat htter was picked up, assorled, and sent to work agalu whon it was in prinl, It s all col- leotod now In volumes,—-thia Lnkby sorawlluge of oat gonlug,—and tho world reads 16 with avidity.—Iiarper's Weekly, The origin’ of tho favorite hymn ¢ From Uroonland’s oy mountaing,” the original manu- saoript of which is In the uollonummg‘\lr. Ttaftlos, magistralo of Livorpool, is thus glven by Dean Hawnon in tho At Jowrnal: * Wuon Bishop Ilobor wna n youny man, mineionaty sormons woro hot 80 frequont ns thoy arvo now ; and on ono oceaslon, when ho was ‘staylng with Deau Bhirloy, .Vicar of Wroxham, his fathor-in-law, such a sormon was to bo prenchad, and thoe want of n suitablo hymn waa folt. Iowns nsked on tho Snturday to write ong; and seated at the window of the viearngo liouse, he produced, aftor o short interval, in his cloar handwriting, with ane single word corrected, that hymn be ginming ¢ From Groeenland’sicy mountaina,” witl which wo aro all familinr, ‘I'hie writor of thes pages on the Deo_saw tho original manuscrip somao yoars ago in Livorpool, pid mora rocontly ho hnd soon the printer, still lviug at Wroxhan, who kot up the type when & boy. it et CAPITOLINE CHIT-CHAT. What the Diplomatists nt Washington Are Doing~<The Officinl Keceptions and Fomi 0 Squubblos. Waahington (Dec Correspondence of the New York = Herald, Cold, choory woanther nt last, to the avidont do- 1ight of tho old Ilaron d'Ofenburg, the Ministor Dlonipotentinry of ITis Majosty tho Emporor of Allthe Russina, "Tho Baron has wiltod during the warm autumn and unnaturally gonial wintor, but now that the north winda como swooping down over the mountains ho enjoys his constitntional promonades in a fur-linod polisso and n#ablo cup, The old glories of the Russian Logation in the days of Bodisco, and the more recout oncapndes of tho charming Catacazy, aro not revived by tho courtly old Baron who has now the interests of tho double-hended eaglo undor his charge. The British Lion, moro fortunato, is to hiavo maguificent now menagerio, now. Leing built_in masuivo British stylo on Vermont nvenue. Tor Mu.junt;"a diplomatic ropresentative, Hir Ed- ward Thorntou, was bora in thio 'servico, fed on macoratod blue books, and is a thoroughly trained and eflicient reprosentative of his Soveroign. Mo, too, fndulges in a long walk overy afternoon whon the weather is cool onougl, but when Congress 18 in sogsion ho liny to avoid tho avenuo, ns tho intimate friends of Judgo Poland, a Vermont Ropresontutivo, will slap the Plenipotontinry on the back aud accost him in tho most familiar wey. Tho likeness « betweon the Briton and the Judgo is o striking a8 wns that botweon Gon. Cuss ond Laud- lord Guy, of tho National, which gave rise to g0 many smusing blunders. Just now Sir Edward has n wedding on bhand, ns oung Charlton, his pot attache, is to marry Miss Campbell, and his sister has como over to attond the coremony. Tho Socond Sccrotary of the British Logation now is 'a dlv. Gastroll, ono of thoso useful men who dolight tho Dritisk Gradgrinds by accumulating * fucts” on trade, commerce, and navigation, which appear in blue books, The mew Legation building will herdly bo completed before uext wintor, and until then thore will not bo much festivity ut Bir Edward's, Tho French Ministor, who had iwo houses knocked into ono that ho might entortain a8 beenme o Do Noailles, has recerved lis marcling_orders, and will only bo able to give ono Lall, as 2 pour prend conge. It iv wiiepored thiat bie had been too much undor tha influence of his kinsman, tho Marquis De Cham- brun to bo accoptablo to Seerotary Fish, and that ho ig not equal to urging the French War Claius, due French subjecis whowero “awaydown South in Dixie” during the littlo unploasantness, and whose cotton, ‘sugar aud rico were gobbled by Union Genorals, Bartholdi, who_is on his way hore to supersedo Do Nonilles, will bo the very man to urge the paymont of theso small nccounts, He {8 of Jowish origin, but a Protestant himsel§, and ho hins boxed the compass of Parisisn poli~ tics, from socialism_to imporiulisim, and around to ropublicanism, Whon Marshal Bazaine was in Mexico_ho was sont to toll him that France would do nathing more for Maximiliat, and he is rogarded as ono of the brightost ornomenta of tho Corps Diplomatique. Socially— don't mean as u Socialist—he caunot tako iho place of M. De Noailles and his charming wifo, from whom the young people expectod nany balls during the coming scuson. A for the Prassian Ministor, or, a8 ho calls himsolf, the Envoy Extraordinary of tho German Empive, he does little boyond eat whatever rood dinners he is invited to, aud hoe ia - great on terrapin. Admiral Polo, of Spain, is toa usy absut the Virginius tothink ubout entertniu~ monts, and neither Aristarchi Bey, of the Otte- man Empire, nor M. do Borgos, of Brazil, ia great in hospitslity, _And lastly, a8 for Gire Gaus, who runs tho Japancso Logation in thu absouce of Mori (who is still tho nceredited Minister), lio is o quiet little almond-oyed chup, who has the good sense to keop his Japanese wife out of * Veuity Fair” until she can spenk Eughsh, and got usod to woaring n pannier. Ot course Bocioly clamors for Ler appenrance, but socioty must wateh and wait, Outside the Diplomatic Ring, everything ia vory quiot, Thoso familics of Nonntors, Secre- tarics, and burcan chiofs, which furnish the sntollites revolving pbout tho noted foroigners, are entortaining liberally, and Mme, Fish has her recoptions, whore only la cromo do la cromo can como. 1t ju snid that Mrs. Villiams, wife ot the newly-nominated but stillunconfirmed Chief- Justice, is uot asked to the recoptions of Mmne. Fisb, and does not attend them. The oflicial potticont govornment is not pattial to Mmo. Chief-Justice—why, I do not attempt to sny. 1 Selhng a Wife, and Wan: Back. From the Sun Francisco Call. The thriving town of Workington was houored the other day with a visit by a young man from Whitehaven, in charge of o pony aud cart, thw Tattor containing o quantity of apples, which ho offored for sule, During his wanderings through the town Lo fell in with o Iaborer and his wife, and, nftor some convorsation, the leborer offerod to gell his ** migsus” to tho applo doaler for two shillings, The offer was accopted, nud, as ths woman mado uo objection to the arrangement, » bargain was struck, the mopey was puid, and the ludy sot out with her new lord and master ou her travels, and did her bost to ussiat him in diy- posing of his stock of apples. Hor husbuud, by way of consoling himself for the grent loss ho had sustained, spent lis wife's purchrse money in beer. After the money was gono, the dosolate man began to examibe tho siluation, and arrived at the dotes- mination Lo havo his wife back again. With this view he set out in search of the apple-denling puir, and, having found thom, nxellniuml to *'the young mun from Whitchavon” that he had re ng Xler Ponted of bis bargain, and that it was his intou- tion tuke tho purtner of his joys and sorrows te his heart and home again, T'ho gpple-dealer in timeted that bofore anything of the kind coul bo done the purchasc-moncy would have to by refunded. o comply with thin demand was imposnible s far us tho distracted bushand waus concerned for Lio hud swallowod tho price of his wite, A bitter wrafiglo cnsued; the husband wouted hiu wifa; the apple-denler wus thrmdy rosolved t¢ havae oither tho woman or his money; the lady, —alaa for Lier sox,-—taok park with tho applor doalor against hor lioge lord, und at longth took rofugo in a house in King atroet. . A orowd ase sombled to witness the fray. and one of the unaber told tho Lusband that his wifo had fled down tho street, Awsy in tho dircetion indi- ented sped the frantic man, and tho momont he did so the womsau camo out of tho house got wto tho cart which was steuding at tho door, tho applo-denlor took Lis sost Loside her, aud tha pony ot olf with tho paiv at u rattling pace in tho diroction of Whilehuven. The husbund, runping dowa the strect, henrd the sound ot wheols, und the truth_flashed ucross hin mind, With n cry of rago and despair ho turned rownd and started in pursuit of the runnways. IHis o forts to ovortalce thom, hpwaver, wera in vain his two logs wore no muteh for the fonr logs of tho whita pony, aud iu u short tima he wes com- pelled to turn'back, a wifeloss und meluucholy wan. —— . A Kentucky Farmer Killed by & Pane thior. Tram the Londavilte Ledger, TFor yome tiie past a forocious pantlior hng beon prowling through thoe woods over tho Cut illn, near Puylorsvillo, Speucer Co. On Mon- day last Richard Holt camo across tho pantber whiilo out hunting, and fired two chavges into itn sido without fatnl offects. This tonded 10 cn- rago tho nuiwal, and in loss than two minntos it hiad Jandod upoi Holt and was sayagely_clawing him to doath, A littlo Loy who was with ol ruu to whore w )mrly of mop were working in u field about hulf o milo wwhy, wod, 08 Buon Nk theso mon_ could wrmt ~ themsolves, they haatoned to ITolt’s aid; but when they vonched the spot thoy found Lim dead and the body toru almost iuto shreds. Tho boast, nitey killing Lim, had evidently eatou u portion of the body, 8 lurgo Jumps of flesh which had boon torn out of the body could not bo fouud anywhero whout tho spot. Ay, Holt was o fnrmer, vory foud of luntiag, was brave to a fault, s was vory ven- turesomne, Tho inhablinnts of the neighbor- Mr, Bluckwood, and the author ouly saw his hood have argunized for tho purposo of huntiy down and sluying tho monster of the woods, Tt i #id that the hideous yells of the beast can Vo Lioard overy night, but that tho poople are afrald to pessuo it in the dark, kv LR