Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 7, 1874, Page 11

THE CHICAGO -DATLY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1874--SUPPLEMENT. PRACTICAL ABOLITIONISM. The Origin of the Underground Railroad. Some Notable Characters Connected with “ Slave-Stealing.” The Threo TImprisoncd Aboli- tionists, None have hoard without eonsation thoso in- epirations of patriotism, having uttoraaco in song or music, which camo forth from the oxul« tations of tho hour in our lato coutest with tho Blavoholdera® Rebollion,—such s tho ** Maroh from Atlanta to tho Soa;" *Wo Aro Comingy Fathor Abrabam ;" “Tramp, Tramp;* * John Brown's Soul Goes Marohing On ;" Lho * Jubi- Joo,"” ote. Such e thiose are thoso songs of tho poople of which the auolont philosophor eaid, if Ti0 hiad tho making of them Ko cared not who had the making of their lawa, Fow have the yatience, if thoy have the capncity, to trace thoso straing back to thoir uspiring source, Attncied to many of tho compositions in musto which hind their origin from the impulso of the lour in tho Iato Wor like the abovo, of wlich “Jublleo” aud * Shermau's March" sro striling instancos, is tho nawe of wons, & young man of Chicago, as the composer of the muole, and occasionally, I think, of the words also. o was the composer of many very popus- 1ar airs which woro brought out by Root & Cady during that time. Thero is nothing particularly significant in tho nowe, exceptiug industry; and perhaps it is not known to ono in ton thou- pand of those who have Leard his music with such dolight, feoling that it struck a wondrous chord to stir dooply tho humaujheart,jihat thoro was anything about this young man's history or oxperience that sbould givo him tho inspira- tion, or mako it A FITNESS AOVE ALL TIIINGS hat he aliould have writton just such music as this. And when once having henrd ane of these songs, and been arousod from souud slumbor at midnight by the band playing it, and fooling it thrill through every fibre, aud reading aftorward tho name of the author |(|lpon the printed music- sheet, it brought to mind the following sories of ovonts in the history of tho great slavory agita~ tion in tho Northwost, sod made me deoply real- izo hiow strangely do ovouts work out their own vivdication, and how appropriately fit ara tho in- struments of uso in {ho hands of tho avenging Newesis | This young Worlk is tho son of tho elder of a dlstingiished trio who flgured largoly on the Elgo of popular ovonts from 1840 on for a num-~ or of years as the THHEZ IMPRISONED ADOLITIONISTS,— Burr, Work, and ‘lhompeon,—yho, whilo cit~ xous of Illiuois, wero captured off Minsouri soil, xnd, for acts partly done fu this Stato snd ot- tempted to bo consummated in_Missourd, wera \riod, couvioted, and sont to tho Ponitentiary for life, for the critno of * slave-stealing.” Thero wos an old statute law of tho Jows, that, if a person stole & man, and sold lim, **or if Lo bo found on his hands,” ko (the thicf) should sure- Sy bo put to doath, This law was supposed to bo repeated ‘in all civilized countries undor common _law, which protected 2 man’s right in himsolf as againet kiduappings and so tho ‘Abolitionists interproted it as a law that cutup pluyery root and branch, and no man could bo stolen” unless deprived of himself; in other words, of lis liberty, or tho right to Limeelf. "Tho slavebolding moral code interprated it to bo o dead shiot ot nfi Abolitionists, and simed in o specinl mauner at any person aiding_or abotting o tlave to eacapp from his muster. This helping another o freadam was by their codo MAN-STEALING § and eo sensitive and ancred were rights of prop- exty in mon beld, that 1t waa considered a crime of very groat turpitude, ke & crimo sgainst watura. And so the statutos of tho Slave Statos made this act a exlmo of tho most odious clar- acter, and punisbed it accordingly. 2 This young Work was probably a child of this event in his father’s life ; born about the timo of big impriconmont, so that it became an in- grediont 0f sorrow’ sud retribution in his mother's milk ; or somoe years lnter, after his father's release, for ho was the first ono pardon- od, whon tho moral character of the act, tho wartyrdom of the punishment, must have sauk deep 1nto the souls of both parents and becomo a purt of their moral constitution. If any per- son could be born with hatred to slavery, or born far & special wark ta do againet it, ot with a mission unfulfilled in Lis boing, it would boa chlld born of such parents under such clreum- stances, Itis A FEARFUL THING for any people if thoir cximes bocome the sonrca of eungendering s power to demand retribution ! Boon after tho begiuning of the modern and final ngitation of the Blavery qucstion by Lundy, Garrison, Loavitt, and others, about 1830, or somo poried in the enrly part of thet decade, the good Dr. David D. Nelsoun, author of that vers populnr and valuable book, ** Nelsor on Infidel- 1ty" (he boing a repentant slnveholder from Ten- nesgoo), togother with the Rov. Moses Huuter,— aldo, I'believe, from the Bouth,—camo to Adams Counity, in thit State, and on iho _prairics, nob Aar from tho bluffs of the Mississippi, » mile or wwo tfrom Quiney, sot up & collego for the eduza- tiou of’ youug mon for tho miniatry, which thoy called the =~ | IOESION INSTITUTE. It embraced some very practical.votions for tho education of young mon destituto of meaus o help themselves, and it_should bo better known and =|ppxmntcd thav it is, forit was ominently calculated torain up the Joung to bo men of hbaracter and stamina,—such men as we havo neod of more, ‘L'horo was not muchof tha ele- mont of the Yankee in this instilution, made up a8 it wou by meu of Southorn and Western sya- pathies, who loved liberty, who had an houau:s of purposo in life oqual to tho bost of tho lan though they not protend they ho sucked it from Iyniouth Rack. Tho Anti-Shavery party, in catly times, in tho Northwest, was made up largely from such mou, who bad left the South to bo free from the ourse that afllicted the land, and they wero less liable to be caught and bamboozled Juto n maze of {ho right or wroug of the matter h{‘lhe uonsense of the sophistrios and subtlotios which misled so many of the good peoplo untiy thoy wore lured on to tho vergo of mativnal ruig. THIE THIO OF ADOLITIONIATS, whoso names were rung in one chain, wore students of, or connecled with, the Jivsouri In- stituto, uudor, tho tutorship of theso two un- compromising’ worthies, Nolson and Hunter. Goorge Thompson, tho youngor, s porson of ewmiucnt pisty, fiwnt enorgy and 'aotivity, who was prabubly the inspiriug genius of the oc- casion, was studyivg for tho ministry, Joseph E. Burr was a wan thon past 30, and, if a stu- dont, had n less specific purpose in view. Alan- son Work, father of the musical composer, was @ marricd man, aud filled a station as steward, or » position in aid of sustaining the businoss- affairs of the Institute, 'l‘hedy Wero from asmong the choicest spirits, catoomed by all, and mon who over governod their conduct by the highest principles, and lived, a8 thoy thought, in the four of God, This Tustitato was known in all the adjoining Slave-Statca, and known a3 boing run by opos- tates from Slevery ; oud it was hated, and all jta accompunimonts, ay widoly as it was known, It was regarded a8 A DREEDING NEST of poatiferous Abnlitionssts, and the Hves of its mauagers would hurdly binyo boon safe in the noighbun‘uf Btato of AMissouri. 1u the Clty of Quincy, at that time, was alo n nost_of citizen-Abolitionists ; thoy who wero build\ufi!up s Liberty party in politics, while tho Tustituto was shapig the moraly of tho Church, Tholo wore thero auong them a woll-kuown charactor, Dr, Richard Eolls, a_practitioner and teachor of incendiariem, nnd tho Rey, II. Foob and Sowoll, practicers of righteousness ; and, on the rivor-bauk, two young moen, runniug a lum- bering-mill, by the name of VauDorn, and thoy wore men wio were known to have no re- speck for persons, and would as eoon lavo pointed s colored asa white man to the North Blar, if he desired to follow his fortuncd i that direction, Tho lumbering-mill on the rlver-bank, and its engine belching out stosmn; the spire of the Congregationsl Oburch; the smoke curllug up from the chimneys of the Mig- slon Instilute, were all objeots eloarly scon and to be deoply oursod from tho othor side, ns monumonts of Abolition iniquity, by ono olass ; and soen ulso by anothor clasy, Josa intoligout, oy LAND-BARKS OF BAEEDOM, To the exteut that Ly one thoy were howled about and threatenod, they wore made objects of respect by the other, aud a desire to be placed on better acquaintance, And, ass resuls, the In- utitute beoamo the point of raids from tho slaves holilors ; and the persons and proporty of thn obnozious in the town mado nub’l’oct. almost with the connivance of the oltizons of Quiucy, to violenca and destruction, With attch a stalo of feoling oxisting, Inovita- bLly the slavon flod acroes tho rivor~—gomo oven BWAIN ACXO8N On r]unku or brokon timbor—to fleo to thoir frionds they heard o much about from thair maators, Thov did not find it nocessary to 88y, '* Christian, will you sond mo back?" ?nw over woro coaxed or forcod baok. And thas originated one of the maiu linoes of tho UNDERGNOUND RAILIVAD,— it was the Quincy, Golesburg & Chicago, and uot the Chieago, Burlington & Quinoy of tho progont dny. Owon Lovojoy was tho agont at 'rincelon, and s Director in general of the roand. Wo had another no, that torminnted nlso in Ohicago, the B:. Louls, Alton & Chioago, which was anterior to tho pros- ont Uhicago, Alton & 8t, Louis, One of Mr. Lincoln's_prominent clionts was station-master ot Bpringfiold, No aid ind ever beon offered to Ece slavos to loavo (hoir mastoers in tho Slave tatos, It had come to Lo merely a question, Bhall wo protect tho fugitivo who hins come for sbolter at our own doora; or shall wo turn traitor to humanity, and deny tho outenst food and shellor, and aid in the most Inudablo of all pursuits,—the galning of his own liberty ? IT WAS IN 1840 tbat ons of these three Abolitionists happenod to bo upon the west eido of tho Misslsaippi River, 'Chore was ospiod a black man_skulkin, nmong the undorbrush upon tho river-bank, ang hio besonght the student to tako him across tho iver, o tho student fold Lim he could nob thon safoly do, Dut he promisod that, if tho Dblack man would come, with ceriain others, to tho snme placo At a timo of night ‘fmod upon, lio would como with 8 bont and fatch them noross, and placo thom smong friends, 'Fho intorviow was witnessod by some whito porsons on tho wateh, the shrinking negro pumped dry, and the plau revenled, and a plot sot on fool to cusonre the Abolittonists, At the appolnted Lour, tho throo atudouta wors scon to movo to the shoro with a boat, Thoy were drawn into the trap, and not permitted to sco a Froo Biato again for many years, until the voico of the world had de- monded their roleaso, nnd they, one aftor another, were pardoned out and banished from tho Btate by the Governor, Thoy wero takon to Palmyra In & mook-herole procossion, there confined {n jail, in due time triod and convioted, aud sontencod in course to . IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE. During thoir imprisonment in tho county, they woro confinad in tho lowor coll of a log jail,— like the Apostlo, thoir foot made fast in chains, and, lilo I'aul aud Bilns, thoy sang praisos ane filmmcd God, In aroom above them were con~ nod horso-thieves, forgers, and murderers, who made mockory of their dovotion, aud joored thom for thoir love of ‘‘niggera;” and, “while the Abolltionists prayed, the thioves played cards, and dropped down upon their devoted heads, ‘bowed iu prayer, tho cards with which they wera wont to pass away the todious hours while nwait~ ing tho coming of tardy justico, t could not, of courso, bo kept from the oars of tho negroces that tho terrible men whose feot wore mado fast in chains in the lower coll, were there coufluod because thoy bnd offored to aid tho'slavo to ozcapo from bis master. They tim- idly, nt first, but more boldly afterward, GATHELED AT NIONT to tho grated window at tho rear of the log Jail, to hear what theso frionds of the *niggors™ had to_tell thom. Thoy pronched to them a profitable and good abolition gospel, and the gist of it was, that there was & laud of freadom this side of the grave, nnd that it was their duty to 1loe to Canada, Thoy told them whero it could bo found ; thoy gave them names ‘of friends into whoso hands it would be aafe to cast tliom- solves; aud upon the cards that bad served tho purposoe of tho thioves in the moro comfortablo :}unrtou above thiem, both for amusoment and orision, having eplit thom in shoets, they drew littlo maps of directions for fugitivea to follow on first stepping thoir feot upon the State of Illiuojs, untit they got well upon the line of the Underground Railroads. In this way, hundreds, during their confinemant, reeerved tha neceasary instructions by which they wore enabled in timo {.c ‘make their cscape. ‘Tho exodus from slavery ecnmo MORE AND MORE GENERAL ' tho railroad Inrgoly inoressed its busines ; and, at this end of the line, Dr, Dycr and Philo Car- penter had moro to attond to than had beon uriihmlly contraotod for, aud it had to bo shared with Dr. Kennicott, Dan Davidson, Deacon Johuaon, and othors too numerous to mention. But a long story must be shortoned. The threo Abolitionists went to Jefforson Peniton- tinry, of course, there to break their teoth in munching tho hard corn of Missouri ; Burr to crueh his atm in the machinery for making homp oloth ; tho trio to labor for the State, and to preach Abolitiomsm by oxnmplo and procopt o8 nmch as possiblo; to pray constamtly; to ondure harduess with noblo pluck; to hold tho authority of thioBlute of Mikgouri a8 a vicious compact with the powers of dorknces, and to wound tho heart and conscienco of every por- tion of its decency, until the world pointoed to the examplo to inquirg, ARE THESE MEN CRIMINALS ? The bettor of you, you have put inside your prigon_walla! And, from mere shame, they oponod tho prison-doors, first to Work, to go to the care of his family; then toBurr. to go out to shame still more the State by tho oxhibition of his shattered hand, and tho oxposition of his prison-lifo ; noxt, reluctantly nud slowly, but at last, the most turbulent spirit of them all, George ‘Thompson, was sot frco, aftor many yoars of captivily, to go ag & mis- sionary to Atrica,—afterward to pronch, a8 he is .now.doing, to the lumbermen in tho north of Michigan, Missonti nover scnt & moro faithtil missiopary to henthen or Christinn than she then sent from her prison-walls. A son of Work composes tho songs that thrill tho heart and nerve tho arm that at lnst STRIKES BLAVERY DEAD. The uncompromising Moses - Huater, who trained these men to tho rare, infloxiblo intog- rity of John Brown, whilo tho Abolitionists woro yot in the grasp of Missouri ‘f'ustics, c¢ame fo Chicago in foeblo health, and with but few frisnds to sympathize agd aid bim (for Christian friends then wero tcarce). 1o died and was buried in tho Chicago cemetery. A monumont was talked of to be raised abovo his head; bub not & stone marks the placo of his roat; Onl: Dr. Dyor oo now foll whoro Lis bones lo. 1t nol already covered in Lthe greedy haste to make this sacroil ropository of tho dead . pleusure- park for the unreflocting living, the, in the uame of decency, LEF THEM BE DEMOVED, and placed whero & few who bave Leard of him may Lknow where to look for themn. Are not the bones, even, of such a man worth preserving 7 Here ig o hint for Dr. Dyer to point ont the spot, and to our reconstructed *‘ brothor-man* to do tho more noble thing of erecting a suitable monument to his memory. Ilnve thoy yotin« vealed anyirhore in sucH stock of gratitnde ? Did Miesouri find it n more profitablo job to imprigon thedo threo Abolitionists than Virginia found it to hang John Brown? Z. IASTMAN, — e e T Gustave Doree Edinund About in the London Athencetn, L'Espaguo of Baron Ch, Davillier is the worthy Pendlun of the ** Romo" of M, Francic Weyer. The book of M. Dawillier is enriched by "800 engravings, aftor designs by Gustavoe Doro. You know Dore, Lo is at loast as popularin London aa in Yaris, To me, who have nover lost sight of him since ho was scrawling his first skotches on oxorciso bools at tho Col- lege Charlomngno, thess Mustrations of Spain seem among his best productions, among those in which he is abeolutcly himeelf, It Las beon at onco the good and the eovil fortune of this strange genius to havo succcedod too soon. Ho was still on rhetorique whon Philipon, the pub. lisher, brought out his flrst_work, and album of caricatures of the labors of Hercules, Tho pub- lic found in it such clevernoss, such good humor, and such nstonishing facility with the pencil, that they adopted tho child—and one suw, in- credible” prodigy, an artist of 17 carning hia bread. From tho moment of his debut, Dore lind nothing but success, and success of mora than one_sort, for nature has been bountiful to him, Ho played the violin like a laureato of the Consorvatoire ; ho sang with a beautiful tenoring volce in snoh a way 88 to doserve khe applause of Rossini ; ho was s groat an athlote ay tho moat muscular nndergraduate of Oxford or Cambridge, Hlis genial and loyal obaracter disarmed envy, while his private life uuder bis mother's root wins universal esteewm. In one word, over sinco his 25th year, his Jifo, \mlqluu in its charaoter, has boon ono long tri- umph, cheered by an inccsaant toll, happy, cosy, and corlent do Hourco, We Ironchmon aré styled oapricious, yot wo have nover tired of his works; we huve nover even shown ourselyes satlated; and wo have mover found that the auther produces enough, Publialicrs of prints, journals, of books, haye not for one momout ‘consodl plagning him, I have seon him ovor and ovor again flnish a design on wood whilo the Pnbllulmr'n moasenger was walting st the door, "Phe mistortune s that this rapld production under pressuro over since he bogan his carcor hine uot left him time to complete the atudics which make great masters, The publio oxpeoted other things of him than marvelous skotches, Thay latd him under an injunction, so to #ay, to undertake vastor and more finished works, but lavo not left him the timo necousary. This i why 1 prefer his living and sparkling “studies of Bpain to_tbo large deslznu in tho Danto and h‘lblu, where wo don't flnd Mioknel Angelo or Doro ejther. LITERATURE. Tho Internationnl Solentitic Serlos: THE NEW CIREMISTRY, DBy JostAir P, 000KE, 1, Yrofessor of Chomistry in HMarvard University, Now York : D, Applaton & Co, Ho great a rovolution has takon place in the solonco of Chomistry, almost within tho presout gonotation, that mon doom thomsolvos justifiod in spenking of it inits prosont ondition as tho “Now Chemistry.” As in Botany the natural systom has displaced tho nrtiflelal system of Linomus, o tho modorn theory of atoms and moloculos scoms fair to placo tho sclenco of Chomistry upon o surer foundation than it has hitherto ocoupled, and, through a nomenclaturo at onco simplo and natural, to replaco the tom- porary oxpedients tor roprosonting thoe action of the various clomonts upon cach othor. Tho hwork of Prof. Oooko is devoted to a prosentation of the recont discovorios regarding tho ultimato composition of matter, the means used to do- tormine tho sizo, wolght, saud arrangemont of the molocules and atoms, and tho laws which govern their action, Tho rosults of n vast numbor of oxperimounts, tho principles which thoy are con- sidered to have proved, and tho furthor theories thoy already indieato as probable, are condonaed into » popular and intorosting account, with much less of tochnicality than would bo doemed poseiblo, and fully within tho power of tha in- tolligont, though non-solentific, reador to comprokond. ~ Lest the iofinito littleness of tho objects with which he doals sobuld seom to carry with thom the projudico that our efforts to roduco thom to the domain of fact should bo thought a dream of tho fancy, ho obsorves that, at the other extrome, we havo the sclenco of Astronomy,which measures enormous distances, and determinos facte of weight and maguitude which aro no loss romoved from tho ordinary comprohonsion than thoss invisibla and—save through oxperimont and reason—in- approciablo molecules, A cubio inoh of water changed to stoam ex- pands to a oublo foot. ‘Two suppositions are possible to account for this: one, that tho wator is morely diffused—thinned, as it woro— through tbis spaco ; another, ‘that it consiats of a cortain number of dofivite particles, which the application of heat separatos to a greater dis- tance from ench othor, Bubmitted to tho test of oxperimont, tho lattor scoms tho only possiblo oxplanation, The fact of intersticos in solids in likewiso shown, a8 in tho case of the passage of & beam of flgh‘ through glags. Curious and delicate oxperiments upon eonp-bubbles roveal tho fact thot a limit is ronched boyond which co- Losion is imposaiblo, and this limit is tho thick- ness of & single mu‘ecnle. whicl, roughly cati- mated, is one five-hundred-millionth of sn inch, A lump of sugar may bo divided in & mortar to particlos of miuutencss; still further, by Qissolving in wator, n division ia roachod boyond that of moro mochsnical divison, but the qualities aro still presorved, and, on ovaporating the water, it is atill sugar. Henco the chemist's doflnition of » molceule: the smalt- est particle of \a subslance in which ils qualilies inhere. But; by chomical means this sugar can bo rosolvod Into charconl and water, and tho wator into oxygen and hydrogon, Still further, oven these and other olemontary substances oan bo divided into two or more atoms; aud, finally, in an atom of hydrogon, we have the pmallest mass of matter known to scionco. ‘¢ All substances aro colloctions of moleculos, and in thoso molcoules their qualities inhere, ‘What is true of tho substance is truo of the molecule. Thomolecule is an aggregato of atomsa, somotimes of atoms of thoe swmo kind, ss in olemontary substancos ;-somotimes of atoms of difforent linds, a8 in compound substances, "I'lie molocules are destructible, while tho.atoms aro indestractible ; and chomical change consists in the production of new molecules by the re- arrangoment of former ones. Such, then, are our conceptions of tho constitution of sub- stances.” To_ moat persons, tho torms ‘‘atom” and “moleoule” are synonymous, ropresenting an indefinite 1dea of minutencss, It will be seon, from the dofinition given, how erroncous is this concoption ; and, furthermoro, a cloar jdos will o obtained as to their rolation. 'The bosring of these discoverics on the nomenclature of Ohom- intry is disoussed, and tho roasons giveu for tho chango,—showing that, whilo the atomio woights of the now system ara tie Welghts of rosl quan- titios of maiter, tho combining numbers of the old system woro certain empirical proportions. Dotiniteness of structuro, a8 seon in crystalliza- tion, hos long been a familiar fact; and tho groat problem at which modern chemisis aro Workiug is, that ovory moleoule bus a dofinite structure. It not only consists of a dofinito kind nod a dofinite number of atoms, but theas atoms aro arrangod or grouped togother in a definito ordor, In Bome casea this is doemed already solved, as, for instanco, tho moleculo of nitro- glycerine. It would require too much space to Bliow tho reasoning by which this fact is reachied, but » few items of intorest may bo given. The difforence in the explosion of gunpowder and nitro-glycorine is explained by the fact of their composition, Iu gunpowder, the carbon snd oxygen atoms belong to differont molecules ; in nitro-glycorine, to tho samo moleculo. In pow- der, thoreforo, the union of the oxygen and car- bon can take Plnc« only on the surface at firat, then toward the centra; this action, although very suddon, yet consumes timo; in nitro-glyco- rina, tho comibustion is internal, and essontially instantancons, Honce (in part) tho explanation of tho enormous energy of nitro-glycerine ovor gunpowder. In no division of the reience is the valuo of the new meothod more foreibly shown than in that of organic compounds. Almost unknown totho old chemistry, prosumed to have been sustained by what was called tho ** vital prinel- Iflu," and exclusively the product of organisms, Lo pumber hos enormously incressed within twenty-five years, and a very largo number hiave Doon artificinlly propared. *¢ The chomist,” says Prof. Cooke, ' hias never succceded in forming singlo organio coll, and the wholo process of its growth and development is entirely boyond tho range of his knowledge ; but he hns every rea- sou to expect thiat, in tho no distant future, ho will be ablo to proparo, in bis laboratory, both the material of which that cell ia fashioned, and tho various products with wiuch it bocomos flled during life,” 5 This volumo is the first contribution of sn American author to the International Serios, and, oyond onnplyin;i s much-needod link in our knowledge of tho recent progress of Chem- istry, will comparo favorably with~ the volumes already published, Whalter Snvage Landor. OAMEOS SELECTED FROM TIE WORKS OF WAL- TER BAVAGE LANDOR. By E, C. STepaax and T, B, Aubmiost, With sn {utroduction, Xoston: James R, Osgood & Co, Publishers and editors lhave herewith por- formed & gracious service for the poetic and the scholarly ; but, by the world at largoe, it will searcely bo apprecisted. Walter SBavago Lundor doos not spoak to tho people. He had no sym- pathy with thom when living, and very littlo Witk any of his kind. He belongod to the clas- sical nges, and was ont of place in the ninsteentl contury, He was a Roman in spirit, and an autocrat by nature, and overy tio and obligation that bound him to his follow-men was baughtily disrogarded, He scorned social and oivil rola- tions, and, rashly rupturing them all, lived alone, Jiko a llon in his lair, an exile in a foreign land, disowned and decried by his countrymon ; his gonius unacknowledged, lis humors harshly judged, and his lonolincss uncompensated. was a sad fate, but self-sought and proudly borne, with no wealk lamentations, and no offort at cheering or chonging it As ho Isolated his boing, so ho did his gonius ; and it was o limited audionco_that, in his life- time, recoguized tho reaoh and grasp of his in- tollect, his wondorful command of his own and theLatin tongue, and the splendor of bis rhetorio, Sonthoy—the one friond to whom Landor clung with forvor and tenacity—used to declarc tbat Lo was the only man in England who had resd Gebir, until ho discoverad thnt DeQuincey head done the same. Whon the poem wae published, Landop proclaimod, in the profaco, thal i ton mon wore found to admire it hio shouwld bo satlsflod, With suon contompt for popular applause, thera was no dangor of his recolving it. But since, by hig death, all por- sonal autagonisme have beon romoved, Lan- dlor's works hinye beon growing in public estima- tion, and their oxnct value is gainmng acknowl- odgment, Upon his prose his fame must ohiefly rest, and flut thoro are noble attributos of hiy pootry, which will continue to ohnllongo admira- zln‘n, and mouy of hls Jinos will not soon be for- olton, Thig little colleotion of “ Camecos " will do somothing toward seouring a wide recognition of the beautios of Landor's verso, ‘Thoy have peon ploked up from tho midst of his prose and po- otical compositions, wherever ho carolotuly rlmeod thom, loftily professing Indifference to their fate. Cold, oloar-out, polished, and fin- ishiod, thoir art {'moto manifast thun thoir feol. ing. Aud atlll thoro are numerous vorses which oamo diveot from Landor's heart, and o touch ours, Hispasaionate love for flowera was one of his noouliar tralts, aud, devoloped with characteristio It e ——s | ‘waywardnoss, sssumed a curions jutersst. To would bond over the blonsoms in his gardon with intonse dovotion, but soldom plucked ono. The singular vonoration with which he rogarded them Ia oxpreased with exquisito grace in a fow tnos from tho ' Faosulsa Idyl," tho gem of all his pooma : And it s, st aver was, my winh and way To lot all flowor Tive freoly, and sl dio Whene'er their Genlun bida their souls depart Among thelr kindred in thelr native place. 1 novor pluck tho rose ; tho violet's Lhead Hath shaken with my Lreath upon its bank, And not reproached me s the ever-sncred cup Of thio pura lily bath botwoon my haudn _Folt safe, unsalled, nor lost ono grain of gold. !* Roso Aylmor " has boon the most papular of all Landor's lyries. Many havo. found un ox- traordinary charm in it, and erratic Obarles Tamb onco wrote, * Ilived upon it for wooks," Ita eight linos perfeot in their construstion, and movo with & smooth sud oven flow; but it owoa its subtla attraction as much to the enthu- singm of the admirer a8 to the goniusof tho author, It ovados the percoptionot & cool in- tolligonce, e will lot our roadors tryto find it s TMOBE AYLMER, Ah, what availa tho scoptored race | Ay whiat tho form divina | Whaf avery virtuo, overy grace { Rogo Ayimor, il wora thiue, Roto Aylmer, whom thoao waketul eyes oy Weop, bt nover seo, A night of momorlos and of slghs 1 consecrato to thee. Spirituniism, BTARTLING FACTS IN MODERN BPIRITUALISM, By M, B, WoLrr, M, D, Cincinnall, Tho titlo of this volume is repollant. There is an offensive odor of sousationalism about it. Bo much arrant imposture haa encumbered snd de- graded tho phonomena of modorn Spiritualism that the sobor mind instinotively fortifies itsclf for an oncountor with humbug whonever the subjeot fs prosented. The flashy binding, too, with its troop of symbolical figuros resplendent In gilt, inorenses tho fechng of distaste. Dut, passing theso mattors by as of no appreciablo wolght, wo open the book with the singlo desire of discovering what it actually han to say that is worth any one’s while to hear. Itis written in a froe, blufl, off-hand way, by ono who is ovidently no bigot, nofool, no knayo, snd, if » dupe, a sincorely-honest ono. He is not an oxport at book-making, nor & man of & nica refluement, and ofton violatos good tasto anid proprioty by his blunt mannors and familiar loquacity. And yet wo rather liko him the better forit. Therols no disguiso of tho roal mnn, and wo feol the moro confident that wo can trust him, whilo his lively colloquisl com- munications maintain the interest whero groater dignity and polish would very likely fail. ‘The norration is exclusively of tho author's personal experionce in the invostigation of the phonomenn. of Bpiritualism, It ia abundanily nu[)pnmd by undeninble authority, andis cortainly extraor- dinnry and impressive, Bo early as 1844, while & student of medicine at Ebensl urfi, Pa, Dr. Wolfe's attention fwas called to tho sudden ocourrenco of strange manifestations in tho houss of a poor and iiliter- ate farmer. Thoy cousieted in tho autic and riotous movementa of indiscriminato articlos of farniture, and wore produced by the wuaccount- able influence of a timid, frightened child of 12. A good deal of excitoment was created, and the disturbonco was popularly ascribed to witch- craft. Timo pagsed and the ‘mattor wos for- gotton, until in 1850 an account ofjthe “Roches- tor rappings” recalled it ta the Dactor’amemary, and tho similinrity of this to the oarlier phonomona struck “bim forcibly, His ouriosity was roused, and he began oxperiments at table- tipping, with vory successful rosuits, As tho so-calicd Bpiritual manifestations maitipliod abont him, he gave time and caroful thought to their investigation, Finally, to settle the ques- tion of their gonuineness in his own mind, © took up his residence for several months with the colobrated writing medium, Mr. J, V. Manaflold, of Chelsoa, Mass, Here followa » curious and apparently authontio account of » series of wonderful manifostations which ho there witnessed. Thoy woro 8o con- vincing in their nature na to restoro to Dr. Wolte a faith in tho Spintual world which had long been lost to him. This end remched, ho govo up all furthor interest in the phonomons of Spiritualism, and went about his business. But, in 1869, ho chanced to witness an exhibi~ tion of tho romarkable mediumistic endowment of Mrs. Mary J. Hollis, of Kentucky, and old intorest was revived, During the ensning four years, he oxpended uulimited pains and means to tost tho roality of the communications made through her powers; and, to afford tho publio the ssme opportunity, a history of this oxperionce fills tho major portion of his book. As wo bofore hinted, it is diffuse, Many of the professed communications provokeridicule ; and yntl throwing out all that {a puerilo, onough re- mains to elicit wonder and respect. Not beliof, Like doubting Thomas, this age has no faith ex- copt in its Benses, and we wust each see, and :m.r, and handle for ourselves, in order to trust. Tho most striking foaturo of the phonomena doseribed is the materialization of spint-forms and {aces,—we uso tho cwrent phraso for tho spoctacle. Thoro may b nothing new in theso marvels to those familiar with tho physical domonstrations of Bpirifualism, but they are nono the loss “atartling facta.” Thoy have been witnessed by too many sound and sobor minda for their occurrence to be doubted, The only question is : Are thoy matorial or spiritual ? “Thus far it haa beon usoloss for Sclonce to pros- ecute tha inquiry. It ia baflled by the myatery, and the nko{)tiunl world aeka : Cui bono? Bul there are multitudes of yoarning eouls to whom it would be 88 a roalization of IHeaven iteelf it one of their dond could come back sud prove that there is a lifo boyond tho grave. Fallen from Virtues HESTER MORLEY'S PROMISE. By Hrspa Braer- ToN, New York: Dodd & Mead, Hosba Btratton is a writer of uncommon talent, and this Iast work she hos produced desorves a firut position among works of the second rato. Its plot is cleverly managed; its Incidents, though sometimen artificial, aro worked up with intonee dramatic effect; the characters are firmly delinoated, ond the narrative is picturesque. ‘With thia combination of merils, it naturaily follows that the reader’s attention is pleasantly ongaged, and woe may add that mony of tho scenes sro so profoundly pathotic that strong nerve is requisite to prevont an absolute betray- al into toara, But there is somewhat above amusement in the atory. There is a moral purpose evident in its ovolution, and it succeeds in inculesting a powerful though very painful lesson. It doals with that most delicate, yot vital CDH’I the fall of woman 1£0m virtiie, and tho possibillty of hor rostitution, It Las made uso of noideal con- structions, but sots forth with torrible truth tho swlul consequences, oxtonding boyond tho indi- vidual to the family and tho communlg, of the orimo againet chlstl!{‘ Unlike “The New Mag- dalen,” of Wilkio Collins, the orring woman {’n the presont case is allowed no hope of humen urdon, though ner lapse from mtegrity was rief, committed in youth, and uuder circum- atances of extremo trial, From the day that her #in ju disclosed until tho hour of her death, the implacability of the world'a condomnation 1 rigidly sustained, The husband she had wronged, with b, rhuslly ‘mookery imprinting o kiss on hor dying ) fiu, daclares, indeed, that ho forgives her WA Tully’ an God forgives!” but, in the same Dronth, acknowledges that he would not havoe ber lite prolonged. Puriiod a8 o kiows ber to be by yonrs of penitence and atonoment, and loving her, as Lo still confesses, with yesrning tondernoss, governod hfl the time-honored pre- Judices ho can yever take hior Lack to tho shelter of_his namo and home. Hor partuer in crime {s_mado to suffer, but with the vast difforanco of tsuth in tho dogxeo of rotribution. Bociety and frionds receive him with oxtended arms as soon us ho iis rendy to re- turn from ways of evil. Ho recoives that ready forgivonoss and restoration to confidencoand re- spoct which is hnbitnally accorded to his sex. ot by one individual fu thoe story ie tho impar- tinl judgment of Christ moted out, Hoeator Mor- ley,—daughtor of him who was hotrayed, the in- nocout viotim of tho ruiu which foll on his house- Lold,—in the sancity of her' innocenco and hor Toynlty to justice, regards the sin of tho man aud womah as the samo, forglvos both freoly the wrong thoy havo bittorly repented, and bostows on the desolato, hopoless outeast the comfort of Yher love and consolation without reserve. This i the point on which the story hinges, Wo loave the reador to Judge how strongly, and with what usoful offect, it iy supportod. o6 Ko B VERSES, Dy If, i, Author of “Blis of Talk " and Blts of Travel,” Boston : Hoberts Brothers, It is but two or throo years sinco a skotoh of foroign travol, dated at Ilome, and signed with the initials ** II, IL," was printed v tho Atlantio Monthly, 'hie slgnature wasnew, This was the first timo it bad appoared amoug the magazines, The spirit of the eketch was as novel as tho signaturs, It was siugularly bright, and free, snd goy, with & oaptivaling dash of courage, mottle, and vonture, It made a mark notto be offaced. 1t wan followed by othora of tha snmo fresl and nimbla air y and who fa * Il K" ? ba- camo tun curious query ; and the snroty that the lotiera stood for a vigorous, brilllant, and orig- inal goniua was cstablished. Following hard upon this, bits of pootry boar- ing traits of unmistakablo power, and with tho samo Initials attached, began to cironlate in tho porlodicals and nowspapors., As trio an inapira- tion wan visiblo in_theso ss had appoared In tho provious proso, By and by the poems woro rathered into s littlo volumo, and sont out under tho modest titlo, * Vorses, by H.IL" 'Thoir popularity was groat and deserved, and thria aud- donly ns loaped to n lofty place in Amorican litoraturo & wrilor who was, threo sliory yeara 8go, silont and unknown. A now edition of tho ““Vorses " has recently been issued, which adds ‘nm?lnthlng 1iko forty new pieces to tho first col- ection. Although thoversification is skillful, and there aro manifoat conatant folicitous arta of conatrie- tion, it is thesentimont in tha poetry of ** H. H." which atrikes doopest. It broathes from tho heart of a solitary, savorely-afilictod woman, but {8 unaltorably patient, submissive, hopeful, and brave. Thero is nulhlniz alokly, woal, or morbid {ainting it. It Is tho diutillod eseenco of Christian faitls "and devotion, and carries atrongth and comfort to every triod and dellbtln? apirit, From out the colloction we chaoso, for its brav- ity, » mnglo poem whioh, like many an other, frames o porirait of tho' sad, ntout-hoarted suthor I TIME OF FAMINE, # §ho has no heart,” they sald, and turned away, Thon, stung 50 that T wished my words might Two-adged awords, T suswered; low :— ave yo Not read Low once, when famine held’flnree WAy In Lydis, and mon died day by dsy * Of hunger, there woro fourd brave sauls whiose glos Bearco bid thelr pangs, who said, ‘ Now we Can ont but onco n two days; we will play Such games on thoso days whien wo eat no That wo forgot our pain,’ “Thua they withatood Long years of famine, and to thom we ows Tha trumpets, pipes, and balls which mirth finds good To-day, sud 1i(tls dreams that of wch woe They firat wore born, ‘' That woman's life I know as boeen all famine, Matk now, if ye dare, o hoar ber bravo, sad laughter {n the air,” It has beon whispered that **Baxe Holme' is but another psoudonym for H. H. ; and that the romarkably intense and individual storiea bearing tho former signature, which oxcitod so much at- tontion ag thoy lately appeared in Scribner's, woro really written by the author of theso " Vorson Holon Hunt, The rmor ia plauei- blo. Thero aro evidoncos of tho same strong, subtle hand in the pootry snd tho flotion ; and it is likolier that ono many-sided and fortilo in- tellect croatod both, than that two of a kindred and equally-high order should have dawnod upon us at once. [Essays of Charles Kingsley. PROSE-IDYLS, NEW_AND OLD, By tho Rev, CuanLes KinanLey, Canon of Westminstor, Lon- don: Maem! 3 Of the half-dozen essays comprising this volumo, four may be counted as 0ld,—one hav- ing appeared in Fraser's Magazine in 1849, two in 1868, and ono in 1867. The romainder, bonre ing no date, are to be accopted ss New. As thoir namo indicates, all take some phoso of Naturo for thoir themo, and chant her praises in afiluont language. Tho disciples of Izank ‘Walton will find a good deal to their liking In “Tho Chalk-8tream Biudies,” althongh much of (tho discourso is strictly pertinont to thoir English locality. Trout and * flics,” how- evor, are common to all countries, and the loye of angling has nn intorest for tho sportsman that is nover exhausted. Tho word-painting in ¢ A Charm of Birds” is, gomo of it, in Mr. Kingsbury's bost monner; yot fow can enter into his fino enthusissms over bird-songs and the concomitent beauties of flold andlforest in springtime. Itis ouly tne devout student of nture who can understand that his warm and exuborant specch is not s moro shapsody. Thero are snatches of history, poetry, and science, Intorsporsed thickly in nll those 1dyls ; for the writer has been a wide and busy gleaner in the fields of knowledge, snd ho is fond of enriobing his subjects with rolovant ecraps of *information from evory source open to him, Botto iso loves 1o introducs, whenevor sp- propriate, a fragment of pure philosophy, liko tho following, which closes his talk about * My Wintor-Garden: " As for doing fne things, my friend, with you, I have learned to believo that 1 am nofact {o do fine things, simply becsuso I sm not able fo do {liom ; and, aa for acoing Ao things, with you, I Liavo learned {oseo tho sight,—as weli as to do the duty,— which lles mesrest ma; sud to comfort myself with the fancy that, if I moko good uso of my eyes and brain in this life, X shall sco,—{f it bo of any uss to me,—all the fine things or, porhaps, finer atill in the life to como. But, if not-"What malterd In any life, in any state, howovor simple or humble, there will bo alagn uficlont to occupy & Minute Futlosophor ; and, if Amon be busy, and busy sbout his duty, what more doos ho requiro for t{me or sternity? Rocreatlons in Popular Science, THE GFOMUGY OF THE STARS. Dy PROP, WiN~ cueLy, of tho University of Michigan, Boston : Estea & Lauriat, This little work is the seventh in Esfes & Lauriat's sorics of ' Half-Flour Recroations in Popular Science.” Its autbor, Prof. Wiunchell, while not professing to diaclose any new facts in science, hns grouped in a bappy way the leading ideas in the chain of thought upon the procesa of evolution from chaotic gas to the oxtinction of organio life. Ho gives the following as the suc- cossive stages, moat of which lave lnown ex- amples at the present time in the visiblo honvens ¢ Gaselty : Mattor intenscly hested, and only imper- fectly luminous ; a8 in the central portion of the an- nulsr nebula in Lyra, Normal nebularity : Minute incandescent particles in s goseous medium, Spoctrum of onv to threa bright lines, Examples in some of the irresolvable nebulo. Firwinist : Bpoctrum of bright lines on faint, con« tinuous spectrum ; a8 fn the nebula in Draco, TTho primary nuclear stage ¢ Bright lincs on s cone finuous specirum, Examples in the planetary snd apiral nebulm, Seccondary nuclear stage: Spectrum continuous tlie polat of transition from bright lines to dark lines s in gome resolvable nobule, Sirion stago ; Atmosplere of great depth and ten- decided nuclous. Bpectrum of broad dark In whito stars, rcturan atogo: Absorbent linoe of natural breadth ; aa in yellow stars, Bolar atago: Incipiont variability, the photosphere Deing roduced in dopth sufMclently to permit the for- mation of apots; as In the sun, Variable stago: Approsching fotal liguefaction ; Lonco largo ‘spol-formations, causing variablo light a8 s, Liquld aiago: A molien globe, with continuous spe- trum o Bomo star-clusior, Tnctustive stage: Inciplont darkening; as the red o ‘Eruptive stage: A crusk formod, which collapscs at intorvals, giving occasional outbursts of light; as in tho tomporary stars, Saturnian stage: The ring condition, Jovian ntaga: Dongo Vvaporous atinosphers, with protoplytio life, Terrestrial stago: Continuation of the organio hase, P iartial staga: Encroaching cold, Decline of the organic phoso, Liunar stago: Extinotion of ife and foal rofrigora- taon, with absorption of ocean and alr, English Grammuar, HADLEY’'S SERILS ENGLISIY GRAMMAR : AN Ape VANCED Counsg or LissoNs IN LaNauaar, My Many V, Leg, Teacher in Miunesola Stato Normel Bchiool, and Iinax HApLEy, author of ** Lessons in Language,” ‘Lhe firat of this serics of lessons in langusgo, by its extrome gimplioity and carofully-graded movemont, has obtained the sanction of ex- porienced educators, and {rinmplantly borno the teut of uso in the schoolroom, This second numbor carries the {eatruction into the techni- calitios of grammar, which are the most diftioult things in the world to rid of a forbidding nspoot. The task has been accomplished with 8 success that is surprielng to one who used to thumb the manuals of by-gono years, which gave no mora sonse and ploasuro to the rules governing lan- guago than could be got from the rattle of dry bonos, All that is changed now, snd horo we recoguize the old skeletons actuslly invested with flesh and galvanized {nto life, Tho student of this little grammar will have bettor concop- tion of the nbstruso nature of the knowledge Lo iu helped to, it s so invitingly presonted, and mado #0 easy o his compreheusion, Tho system adopted is the objoct-methed, which calla cut the pupil's faculties of obaorvation and reason, and encourages him on by the perpotual reward of discerning new facts through bis owu pouo- tration, ‘I'he worl may bo confidently commond- od to teachors as tho beat text-book which has yot been propared for beginnors in the scienco of grammar, Lowell's ¢ Courtin?,?”? PHE QOURTIN', Ny Jamzs Russxun Lowein, Il- lustrated by WinsLow Homem, Boston: Jumua R, Ougaed & Qo, ‘I'ho publihora exercisod s wise cholco when thoy solected ** The Courtin'” for tho toxt of an {lluminated volume, It 18 porhaps the best known and most admired of all the many good and admirable thinga its accomplished and vor- sntilo author has writton, Its exquisito point, and wit, aud fooling touch the popular hoart, and commond it univorsally. But tho artist has not boon ablo to illustrato the pool. Ho has not caught the oharactor or tha ciroumatanco which the linos o graphically dolinente, Tho pootry, the pathos, tho atrongth and simplicity, of tha Yanlkeo nature have eacaped him, ~ With- out knowing his antocedents, one would bo siro ho is unfamilinr with the 1ife and spirit of Now England. Bomothing of his fll success may be owing to the styla of wit ho Las undertakon,— tho silhouotte, which, limited to mero ontline, noveroly tosts tho power of the flmufihumnn. ‘The publishiers have douo tholr part well, Europonn PEN-PICTURES OF EUROVE, By ELIZABETIH PEAKK, Philadelphia s 1. B, Lippincoit’ & Co, The lady who has here had the presumption to undertako .a sorles of pou-skotches of Europe quickly shows her unfitness for the tesk, An ovorweoning vanity, and a singular obluseness to proprioty, bave led hor to give publicity to a mass of minute andjvsignificant porsonaldotails, méant only for tho oyes of frionds. A littio oul- ture and observation teach us that now-a-days one-half the world go abroad to photograph Eu- Tope for thomselves ; and the othor half, who stay at home, know it nostly as well through themulti= tudo of books of travel, in which keon-sightod and deft-handod tourists have pictured over and over again every aceno and sxperience ordinarily encountered on'the great highwaya of Enrope. 1t in & wondorfully-gifted porson that can, nt {ho prosont day, bring back anyihing fresh from o summer's trfp scross the seas, for the genoral reador, The book is lavishly illustrated with ‘Deautiful full-pago engravings. Rtistoricnl Essnyws. HIBTORIOAL ESSAYS, Dy Enwanp A, FRERMaw, M. Ay, Hon, D, O, L., Late Fellow of Trinity Colx lego, Uxford. Second Herics. London aud Now York: Macmillan & Co. The essays in this collection were written as raviows, and firat saw the light in different Brit- ish periodicnls. Thoy havo undorgone cousid- orablo rovision to fit them for thoir prasent por- manent form,—all portions which could not lay claim to lnsting valuo being carofully excised. Nearly tha whole number—nine—ralate to the enrlior periods of Greok and Roman history, Tho Historians of Athens, The Athenian Dem- ocrney, Alexandor the Great, Mommson's History of Rome, aud Choe Flavian Crsars, are smong thoir titlos. Mr., Froeman is studiously prepared on the subjects ho troats, and writes with weight and cloarness, Ho not nn!( holps us to & better un- dorstanding of the historisns under eriticlam, but also contributes to our knowledge of tho opochs sud the nations which they have de- seribed. His book will be reckoned smong the nids to scholars of classical tondonoies. Angling. THE FISHING TOURIST: ANGLER'S GUIDR AND Rerenexor-Dook, By Omantes HALLOOK, Becres tory of the “ Dlooming Grove Park Association,” Now York: Harper snd Brothers, There is s wonderful fascination in fleld- sports. It is liko tbat which tho devotees of natural scionce feel, rousing all the fire, and onergy, and nobility of thoir nature. It is con- tact with the fresh, healthfal, vitalizing elo- ments of oarth, alr, and sky, that oxplains it. That which is simplest and purost in Lhumanity rosponds to their influences and rises to tho sur- face. For the timo boing man is inspired and ennobled, and becomes aa a littlo child, or asa refined and rogenerated spirit, Honest euthu- sinsme nro always clovating, and thoso which aro awakened by ount-door studies and pnatimes are the most gencrous, expangive, and wholosome. ‘We love Kit North for his ardont, poetio, and tonder uttorances; but we love him more for his grand monliness, that waa doveloped by active and dovoted companionship with Nature, by tho daya aud nights ko spent in hor solitudos, by the toilsome trampa he took to roacl her favorito fast- nesnes, and tho tromendous fatigae ho joyously incurred to secuire the diversions sho had in store for him. And #0 of all who, like him, find their most congenial and compensating pleasures in searching into the mysteries and pursuit of tho life abounding in wood, and plain, and stream. 1t ia on the sunniest side of their naturo that wo look when wo contemplate them hore,—on their hlp{flnt, {racst, and mont gonerons mooda. Mr, Halloch, in this last contribution to tholit- orature of piscatorial sports, displaya the nsual buoyant, exultant, and contagious euthnsiasm. o has had an experience of twenty-six yoarsin tho art ho exalts, and bas practiced it in oll se- cesaible resorts in America. He haa madoe a study of tho science a8 well as the art of fishiufi. and now oxposes the fruits of his matured knowl. edge for the benofih and enjoyment of such as aro kit with him in o sympathy of tastes, Ie opens his book with & treatise on the natural bis- tory of tho 8almonidre, and concludes it with » full and lnurehtlnf description of the various regions in the United Btates, Nova Scotia, New- foundland, Canads, eto,, where trout and salmon- fishing may be successfully followed. Instruc- tions for the outfit of tho fishermen are not omitted, nor anch otwer particulsr information a8 may be usoful. Miss Alcott’s Tales for Little Folin. AUNT J0'S SORAP-BAG. Vol 1IT. CUPID AND Cuow-Citow, £10. By Loulsa M. ALcOTT. Bostod : Roberts Brothers Every new book Miea Alcott sends out, be it & novel, a series of sketches, or notes of travol, iy certain to havo a pungeut, spicy flayor, relished by the goneral taste. ‘Cho present is a collection of briof tales, told with the view of intoresting little folks, but with an irrosistiblo charm that catches the ear of grown children. Inthe open- ing story, which gives titlo to the volume, the writer seizes tho occasion to denl some adroit hite at various foibles of tho hot-headed women- sgitators. Mlas Aleott is evidently sano on tho voxed questions concerning her sex,’and, though enrnest for a!l the reforms that promiso real im- rovoment in true directions, indulges in a good- g\mmmd Inugh at the violence that would clutel mau by tha throat and domand woman's rights or hig lifo. Duties take theprecedence of rights in Miss Alcott's estimation, and a brave dovo- tion to these has scoured her % hurvest of the bost fruits of life. Mrs, Moulton’s Stories for Children. BED-TIME HBTORIES. By Lourrm: CHANDLER MourToN, With lllustrations by Apprz Legxaun, Boston: Roberts Brothers, , The business of constructing juvenile litera- ture hine attained such extont and importanco in theso Iast yeara that nearlyail our popular authors have beon tempted to try their pous at «it. Indeed, not a fewof them aro chiefly oc- oupiod in the work of sustaiming it; and, if wo would not miss some of the most pleasing little goms they have finished in prose and verse, wo must look over their contributions to the children’s book-shelves. Mrs. Louiso Obandler Moulton has earned n wide reputation as the brilliant literary correspondent of a prominont Now York journal, but sho has never written anything which will go touch the hearts of her adinirers as the little volume undor notico. From the dedication, 1n four protty stunzas, we infer that the storios were first invented to amuso the last sweet hour bofore bed-timo of her own fair-huired darling, aud, as an after thought, were sbared with other mathers and their little ones, They are unusually elovated in style and sentiment. If a fault can bo found, itis that their tono is too sombro. Pathos shadows all of them, and thero ia danger of seuding tondor-haarted rondors to bed in toars, A 'Fable=Book. BUMMER-ETOHINGS IN COLORADO. Dy Eniza GReaTOBEX, Introduction by Guack UBEENWOOD, New York: G, P, Putnam’s Sons, Tho above is & handsome table-book, intend- od, as all anoh. articles are, rathor for ornament than for valuablo ueos, Tho etchings,~iran- soripts of scenery in the Roeky Mouutains,— of which thore are twenty-two, full-page, give littlo notion of their originnl morit, beiug badly voproduced by the engraver. Their remarkable {fonturo is oppressive skios, beariug haavily dowu on overburdened mountuivs. The letter-uress illustrations are good examples of tho fluent grace of a cultivatod lady's convorsation. In all partionlnrs that pertain to the publisher's art, tho volume ia richly and tastefully finshod, : Morut Lessons, LEAVES FROM THE TREE OF TIFE, By the Rev, Tuonand Newrtox, D, D, New York: Iobort Carter & Urothord, The nsmo of Dr. Nowton, who for twonty years has beon preaching to childron and * mak- ing books of the sermons,” 18 & pssport to m- medinto favor. To koy that the prosent volumo in characterstic, is it bost introduction. The slmplicity, tho loving wpirit, tho overilowing fund of anecdote, that made * Diblo Wonders * and ¢ Nature’'s Wondors " favoritos of the child's lbrary, are rocognized fully in these Loaves. The Bible is compared to & Treo of Life, and ita loaves of hoaling are appliod to Lying, Covetousnoss, Idlences, Oonsolonco, and Quarrels, too, of Obedionce, Patienoe, and Faithfuinoss. Among the innumoerablo storles told in illustra tion of good procopt, the following ocours undon the lonf for ouring hylug: A littlo newaboy, to rell hia s, told & llo, ‘mator caniq up Tor coRvarsaton in K claan in Kandu achool, *Wonld you toll s lie for threo cent'?s” asked a teachor of one of her boys. *No, ma'am," ane swornd Dick vory prompily, "¢ ¥or n dollar 2% "% No, . ma'am.” * For a thousand dollars7" Hore Dick wan' ntaggered, A thousand dollsrs looked like such s ve; Tig i, Ol | what lota of things ho could buy with ' o thousand doflars | While lip wan thinking about it, and trying up 1 miad wiitiior 1 would poy to tell & e for thioussnd dolars, » hoy behind bim cried out, ¥ No, ma'am,” * Why not 2" askod the tencher, Now mark this boy’s anawer, and donot forgetit, “ De. cause, ma‘am,” sald ho‘ ' the lic aticks. When the thousand doliars ara ail gone, and the good things ‘lflll[(ll'? with them aro all gono, the Mo is there all the same, Prido, Evil They nre ?énsonn, Job, TAE ARGUMENT OF THE HOOK OF JOB DN- orl: Robert Cartor & Brothgrs, Tt 1o A comprohonsive view of the Book of Job, de- signed to oxhibit its plan by an analysis of ity contents, It is studiod without reforonco to nga or authorship, but simply as an inepired book of consolation, The happiness of Job; his tomptor; his nf- fliction; his friends; his triumphs; and the anawor of the Lord *out of the whirlwind," are in turn conmidered: and lastly the placo held by this history of a lifo in the schomo of Holy Seripture. ““*No book of the Biblo,"” says the author in his summary of tho virtues aof this anclent atory of Trialand Triumph, *stands apart by itaelf, or can be fully underatood if 1 {6 only studiod separately and in its isolation, Itis a port of a gradually-unfolded rovelation. It belongs to a woll-ordered system. It is » Huk in & chain, It ig n member of an organism. It ts what it is, not for itsolf alono ; it Las boou shaped with referenca to the position that it is to occupy, and the function it has to porform in tho plan of tho whole."” A Nursery Text-fBoolk. INFANT DIET. By A.Jaconr, M, D, Profeasor of Discuses of Cbfidren, Collego of Bhysiclaus and Bll;lwn!, New York, Now P, Putnam’s 8, An essay resd beforo tho Public Health As. sociation of Now York, to communicale the result of Dr. Jucobi's obsetvation critically directod to tho feeding of infants; and con- cluding with & few briof and intelligible rulos that should be understood and practiced by nursos and mothers. These rules are given aunder threo divisions, rolating to periods of infant lifo both in heslth and sicknoss ; snd are, in themsolves, sufiiciently useful and ox~ plicit to recommend the little volume of which they form but a minor part to an adoption as a nursery text-book. York: @, A Unique Volume, ‘THE MOTHER'S REGISTER : From tho French of Prof, J. B, Fousagrives, Now York: G,P, Put- nam's Sons, A unique volume, based upon the theory that arxocord of facts derivablo from the tout engem- ble of the physical existence, drawn by daily ob- servations of tho individual from date of birth, would be of valuo in familios as a means of pro- serving hoalth. 'Tho Registor consists of carofully-propared schedules, with spacos and blaok' pages, which mothers aro to fill out. The schedules are captioned: * Descont and Consanguinity”; *Growth " ; “ Indispositions” ; * Hygionic Hab- its," oto., etc, ; aud are given in two parts,—one for boys, ono for girls. An appendix contains some important - sug gestions, A chapter on “ Broathing,” writton with reference to Tyndall's lecture on *‘The Impurity of the Air," contains tho significant obsorvation, following a series of facis proving the danger of sleeping with the mouth open,—z habit known to no animal in Nature excepting man : T2 X were to endeavor to tant motto which humon language can convey, it should be in thede words : Shut—your—mouth, In tbe soctnl transactions of 1ifo tiits might hove ite beneficial rosults as tho moat friendly cautionary ad- vice, or be received as the grossest of insults; but, whoto I would print and engrave it,—in evory nursery and on every bed-poat in. the universe,—ita~ meaning conlld not bo mistaken ; and, if obeyod, its importancs ‘would soon be realized, ueath tho most fmpor. 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