Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1874, Page 9

"THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, *.1874-~SUPPLEMENT. ~ ANCIENT CHICAGO. some of the Early Ways in the Early Days. Roads In and Out. ? Water Roads, Mud Roads, Wood Roads, and Iron Roads. There is & bit of charm or fascination in trying toseo things of tho prosent as they looked in the pastorin the beginning. The first steambont would be nosw s more interesting sight than the Great Eastern. The first locomotive would be & sight worth sceing. The old Fort and Block- House were quite a memoir of the early days of Chicago ; they would have grown lika tho trees of God on Mt. Lebanon, in sll tho future years, for centuries upon centuries, if they could have hoen preserved. And among the very few things | that show that our early settiors wero ever stupid, is the fact that they took no steps to preservo the old Block-House, after the Govern- ment surrendered its title. The march of im- provement and demand for city lots swept it 2 bad sweep, and & bad march in that di- rection” But, had it been proserved, it would have gone, in the great conflagration, where the little girl after the fire said ber * guib” had gone, toits ** Hobenly Fader.” Doubtiess many of the children of Chicago would like tosce the beginning of things, or Chicago s it onco was; as their most aged fath- erssawit. But it would be no great sight after sll. Plenty of ancient Chicago can now bo seen dovn in the Calumet swamps. Some, cannot help bot thunk what might have been there once, befors evon woodeu roads were laid through the strects. Sbould it ever be necessary to dig for a arain or otherwise, some ten or twelve feet in Lake street, to an under stratum of blackness, there might be turned up 8 sample of the color and consistency of the streets of Chicago till £ome time into the decade of 1840. There are not many people now, young or old, who do not glide ontheir rapid and joyful way out of this muddle—but not guite so much of a mud of a city aa it once was—on the ringing iron-rail; and Dardly think whata task it was to get ot of it, in the best way possible, before 1840. HOW, THEN, DID IT LOOE MERE, when there was not much tosee? Travelers came along 'here sometimes. They frequently wrote down, for our edification I suppose, what they saw hore. These travelers aro very worthy g«uple, and ought to be patronized. More than 00 years ago, some French gentlemen took this route in their peregrinations over the earth, and they wrote w great desl about Chicago and its surroundings, which in this day is quite enter- 1umning resding. They spelled Chicago Chicau- gay, which makes it quife certain they wero too learned in letters to spell well Kow we can read what was said of us, or Chi- £ago, ten years nearly before there was any Chi- 21go, if we laok up Maj. Long's “ Narrative of the Expedition somewhere, which Prof. Keat- ing wrote in 1823¢ In the first place, he says: #\¥e were much disappointed at the appearance of Chicago snd its vicinity.” They may have been the first, but certainly not the "last, who bave becn disappointed iz that way. Chicago has always been a city of disappointment, one ¥ay or another, sadly or joyfully. Wéthink the ‘happily-disappointed preponderate. The fact i, Mzj. Long came Lere too s6on. MAJ. LONG CONTINUES ' 4 The wppéarance of the country near Chicago offers but fow features upon which the eyo of the traveler can dwell with pleasure. There is too much uniformity in the ecencry [he might have said no scencry at sll]. The extensive water-prospoct is & waste uncheckered by fslnds, unenlivened by the spreading canvas, and the fatigning monotony of which 1s in- creagsed by the equally undiversified prospect of 4£ho land-acenery, which &ffords no relief to the sight, 2 it consists merely of & plain, in which but Xew;nlcheu of thin and scrubby woods are observed scattered here and there. . . . . Ths village [villago!] presents no chesring rospect, as, notwithstanding its antiguity, it cousists of but "few -huts, inhabited by a miserable raco of men, scarcely equal to [ndisns from whom they are descended. Their fog or bark houses are low, filthy, and disgust- ing, displaving not the least traco of comfort.” This picture might be finished off by ssying ‘hat, beside the lake on tho esst, Chicago, in some seasons of the year; was bounded by water »n the west,—surrounded (except by the litlo Selt of sand-ridges, thrown up by the action of iho waves and the winds, along the lske-shore) 5y water and marsh, ‘That, in a short time after smigrants began to lesve, foot-marks and wheel- tracks behind them, it was cut off from the main land by a ses of mud. Aud o it was that, from 1832 to 1836, and so on till past 1840, THEE TRAVELEB OUT OF CHICAGO, if he moved upon one of Frink's old stages, 28 they mostly departed at night, counld hear during many weeks in fall and spring the tramp of the horees’ hoofs in water,—splash, splash,— for a distance of 8 to 10 miles, uatil they made ihe Sand-Ridge at Widow Berry's Point (now Riverside), or the Oak Ridge, west, or Suther- land's, at’ the point of the Sand-Bidge, north- ‘west. - So the emigrants, unused to such quaking foundations for a road, departed on their west- am course, seeking _homo besond the gea of mud, and toiled on hardly (14 miles 1n fifteen deys, never daring to look bebind :Mem), till they strack land, far beyond fho O'Plain, ‘a8 everybody called tho sluggish tiver that now dividea Maywood from Chicago. the eummer-season, or after the water had tubeided in the spriog, so that vegetation could ttart up, the whole boundless contiguity be- came a ses of green,—conrse, rank slongh- prass growing up; except where trodden down by travel ; roots, knitting strong on tho surface, mede a tough but elastic sod, that would tremble under the tread of ‘the wild buffalo, if any ever e3me along ; but, an they didu't, tho trombling wes mostly under the wheela of the Hoosier wagon or Frink's crazy stages which he im- parted from the Connecticnt River Valley, for- getting torub out the Inbels on their yellow sides, * Springfield and Hartford,” or ‘¢ North- _ampton and Greenfield.” 2 In the fall, the fropt having seared the rauk 283, and the Indian-summer san having dried it 0 8 crisp, the kindling spark was sure to bo £cat from somo quarter, tho firo swept over the whole swampy range, and the old sottlers en- Joyed the sight of the memorable = *' PRATRIE ON FIRE,” got up in the best stsle. 5 The way to gol over this endless Blough of Dospond, which made many & heart foel more despondent than ever Pilgrim felt (these hoarts of the new eettlers who had left the green bills of New England for the green prairies of Illinois, tired of life-long tag upon the hills, tired now with their first tug with mud),—the way to get -over gafely was an unusual precodent: Follow in no man’s track. Strike out boldly for your- self alone. If you can possibly find s space un- trodden, where no wheel-tracks mark the way, where no foot has broken down the ‘tough grass, or ruthleesly crushed the prairie- flower, then 'venture boldly, dnve on with-Taith aud confidence, try foot aud wheel; the tongh #0d, closely knitted, as it is, by tho strong_roots grasa, will safely bear you up. But go not where others have gone before you.- Their besten pathe are deceptive. For, once broken thraugh, this sea of mud will prove bottomless. ‘our wagon will go @own to the axles, and you will s0on seo tho way strewn with such wrocks, or signs whero & fearful contest has boen waged ith the engulfing fluid. g And thus it was thst the first roads to Chicago 5 WERE VELY PECULIAR 4 In contrast with roads in any other section. ey grew vider and wider the mors they wers traveled. Thore was no safety in following an- Other wayfarer's example. Thus the way in fiom the green fields whero farmers delighted to dwell, on the Fox River, Wwaa 28 it 8D~ proached’ Chicago, euggestive in breadth, if not I&ngtm of the broad way that leads to destruc- Tn those days there wero in the City of Chi- 80, plaunted by the side of the unpaved and uf- Planked streets, yot lined by sidewslks made of Pioe planks running lengthwise, such notable Dlaces aa these: The first Tromont House, on the Rorthweat corner of Lake and Dearborn stroets ; the Ohio Honse, on LaSalio, north of Lakej; the Hew York House, on Randolph_strect, west of Wells; the Ssganosh (the Indisn name of & celebrated Cluef, Billy Cadwell), on the corner of Lake and Market (site of the Lincoln Wig- wam); ond the EXCHANGE, mewhers elso (let those tell 'who remember). And the iuterior of any ono of thase was much like the interior of any other one, excopt that ikeTremont had a litilo more the aristocratic i, because it was three stories high. Thess all Bzd what were called BAR-BOOMS, i OF rooms in which everybody staid, and every- 'y did what they pleased,—for those days wore intensely dsmocratic,—and free to eve; be the ¢t . Thay had the cannon aud e was ‘kept chock full of sulphus- coal. * Ou the side were & row of benches, = s pository for old shoes and slippers, and & row of pegs on which to hang the coats of the weary travelers. The floors wero all painted with thy black of the precious soil, brought in from the street ; and g0, withal, we might say, wero paint. tho chairs and benches, Aronnd thess can. uon-stoves were usually-found, in early spring, & group of ‘youthful loafers, feet elevated to live with fheir chests, cquirting tobacco-juice upon tho floors, or upon definite maarie upon the rusty stoves, and discoursing upon the wonderful topics of the times: of th coach Leing stuck fast in tho mud opposite Frink's pffice, or the mil befora the Post-Gffise on the part of Raudolph street which had bosy marked - boltomless," us a warning to tho driv- w! teams; and of such a number of persons (3 ““ SLEWED " (sloughod) on the prairie. This beinfi slewed did ) Dot mean that theyhad been “corned,” orintos- icated, but simply that they bad got ' stuck fast in the mud, somewhere beyond re emption. And theso intoresting young men were prairie, or, mud = pilots; and their voeation® was ' to solicit jobs from the farmers from the country, or travelets going Wost, of piloting them over the wet prairio tothe eand-ridgs, and pointin, them the way to a safe landing on_hard ground. , That was one of the ways in which tho enter- risiog youth of curly Chicago earmod a liveli- < - THE FIRST MADE ROAD out of Chicago was the so-called Archer Road,— being, at this end, the Archer avenuo of this time. This road was mada in 183G, for the pur- poso of fucilitating the work upon the causl, and, commencing at the road runuing south, which is now Stata streot, followed the sxme lino it uow docs, southwent to Canalpart, or Bridgeport, than parallel with the Canal to the Summic Level. This road” was of great service tc tho Canal, and was named ** Archer Road,” from Gen. Archer, ono of the enterprising Canal Com- missioners who projected it. This was the ouly worked roadway out of Chicago for many years. But it only sorved for s small portion of the business coming into the city, then rapidly be- coming a commercial cenfre. The emi- grants were Chicago's first patrons. Pro- visions wero imported from the East, But, as ‘the Stato began to bo settled in the northern portion, there seemed to bo a necessity for better wagon-roads to the west and noribyvest. And thero was great complaint made by'the farmers just begiuning in those directions. 1 There was at that time boarding at the Ohio Honse » printer recently from Michigan, but a few years beforo from AMassachusetts, working in the American offico (the Whig nowspsper, published by Stewart), by tho name of CARYER BUTTERFIELD. This person is deserving of special mention among the early journoymen-printers of Chi- cago, and his pame may fill hercafter a lace in some reminisconce of the West. He eard tho farmers who stopped at the Ohio House lament the great difliculty they had to encounter with the mud in getting into tho city. Butterficld was s beliover in enterprise. He supposed ali that would ba required {o moke 2 good road over the wet prairie was to tarnpiko it, build up a high road above the water, With deep sido gutte; nd that the traffic would 1 time pack it 0 a hard, durablo road. Withont consultation withany one, he wrote, aud set up, and printed a public notice in the _American, calling & meeting of people from tho country and citizens of the town, interested in having good roads in and out of the city, to assemblo at tho Court House at a time specified. No name was eigned to it. But the request was rea- sonable snd timely. A very rospectable meet- it:f sssembled. The result wag the secoud turn- pike road outof the city,— TRE NORTHWESTERN TURNPIKE §ib became afterward the Northwestern Plank- Road,—now, in city limits, Milwaukeo avenus,), the then northwostern thoroughfare that made » point for a good road at Sutherland's Tavern, at the Saad Ridge (now Chester Dickinson's), and leading also to tho more popular stand further north on the ridee, known ss Wentworth's, whero ncw tho Northwestern Ralroad crosses the Plank-Road, and where the good David L. Roborts, keeper of Temperanco houses in Chicago, having bought out Wentworth, 1aid ~out the Villige of Jefferson, one of the earliest of our suburban towns. Bat: terficld very likely did mot attend the public meeting, he was not a man for ehow, but better for work ; but ho it was who sot that ball in motion, aad thera are very few porsons who ever knew that he bad a hand in it. But these oarth roads, a best, were only mud- yoads in the spring and 1n wet timea ; and would become badly cut up, 8o that at times no other soction could best Chicago in the roughness of her roacs. They never gave satiefaction. There was too broad s surface of earth which had heen drenchod and soaked with water from untold nges, watil tho soil was like a npfini. The first practicable step to make the region around Chicago habitable, and with & foundation for an earth-road, was the SYSTE OF DEAINAGE which was_initisted in sbout 1846, and which, under much difficulty snd eome log-rolling aod Iobby-work at Springfield, was mado legal 1n the Drainage Commission, which authorized the tazation of land for drainnge purposes, and which begot more grambling, open hostility, and charges of personal interest and speculation than almost any local public act, and which has rosuited in good with scarce a dreg of evil. It has revolutionized the surroundings of Chicago, and mada many sites for towns where geees onco delighted topaddle and the muskrat to burrow mid reeds snd rushes. Dr.Dyer was one of these odious Drainage Commissioners, and no- body should blamse him if he did make many a quarter of swamp at 85 an acre appear as dry Iand aftor the flood. PLANK ROADS followed next in the order of improvemonts. In these the Doctor also had 8 large share,—the public grumblingly psying s smail feo as 3 com- ‘pensation for being kept out of the mud. But the roads nover paid their Owners; they soon wore out, and went out of fashion, having served ths public & vory good turn in their short day. THE IRON ROAD, 2 which is the best name for the steam railroad (and go the French and other Europeans call it), ins been tho road that supplanted mud, and has gone over and through fire and water, and has made Chicago what it is. Allits broad, flat sur- face, the gmall difference between the water- level of the lske and the land- lovet of the country, is ‘what makes Chicago, above w»y other important city of the land, availablo for railway transpor- fation, and its connection with the navigation of the iake. Hero are commercial advantages which could be little appreciated when tha hottom of Chicsgo was a Bhatibe qangmire, Time con- quers ol things. So Chicago Las srisen out of tho depths. Her surroundings, as seen by iho firat settlers, are only traditions of the past. Z. EASTMAN. —_— Three Court Beautics of the Last Cen- tury. . As the reissued portraits of the three beauti- {0l Miss Gunnings, seen amidst the gay throog in the gallery of the Irish House of Parliament as it appeared 11790, are attracting so much attention in Liverpool, it may interest many to Jmow somewhat about those celobrated Irish besuties, They were born in Roscommon Coun- ty, Ircland, and wero the daughters of & Gen, inning. Their parents were respectable, but by mo mesns rich. Thomas Sheridan, at the time lessee of one of tho principal theatres in Daoblin, was accustomed to let them have access to the the theatrical wardrobo to dress themselves when they went to the castle or any of the balls in the then gay city of Dublin. They resolved to go upon the atago; indeed, it is aid the eld- est did appear for £wo nights on the boards of Mr. Shendan. However, he prevailed upon them, before they finally committed themselves, fo take their profty faces to London for one sea- son. The fascinsfing beanties soon throw Lon- don into an smazing excitement. On their ap- ypearing in Rotten _row and Vauxhsll they wore mobved, the crowa forming an avenne throngh which they had to walk. It msy be remarked that, though poor, they determined to bave i“lords”™ for their husbands, and they wero not long in securing them, to the rage of all the fine Indies in London. The eldest one met the Duko of Hamilton at uo evening party, and his grace fell so desperately in love with the Irish besuty that ho determined to bo mar- Tied thero and then, midnight though it waa! A married lady was not preseot, snd only a sort of “couple beggar” clergyman ; however, & bed-curtain ring was got, and the happy, pair thero snd then ‘united. ~ Walpole, of Strawberry Hill notoriety, lells amusing stories of the high state kept up by the Duke and his bean- tifal bride ; at ali times preceding their company {from the drawing-room-to the dining-room, seat- ing themselves together at the head of their ta- blo, enting off th same plate, drinking ont of the samo lass, and_etudionsiy making & point of never drinking wine with any of their guesta wWitose rank was below tbat of an Earl! The Duke of Hamilton died ; she then was married to : ad from her descends the the Duke of Argrll and Lo e Princess is of Lorns, th 3 Toha. Ok o oo sister became Lady Coven- and, it ia ssid, truthfully of mot, that sho Xkilled herself by the excessive use of white paint. The third sister, more in the bsckgroaad of the group, was muried to the Hon, Alr. Blakeney. o LITERATURE. Conservation of Energys ‘THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY. By BALTOUR| Brewant, LL.D., F, R. 8., Professor of Natural ‘Philosooliy at the Owens Colicge, Manchester, New York: D, Appleton & Co. Volume 7of the Inter- nationsl Scientific Serles. 3 No discovery in Science has been mors prolific of results than the modern doctrine of the Cor- relation and Conservation of Forces. Grove and Mayer, in 1842, first gave expression to iho theory, that the different manifestations of forces are mutually convertible; and that force in itaelf is indestructiblo and persistent. Joule, after an elaborate serios of experiments, estab- lished tho mechanical equivalent of heat, and reduced it to 1ts simplest torm as a unit of work. Tyodall, in that most fascinating of books of Scioucs, ** Heat as s Mode of Motion,” followed it through ita various transformations, and wrung fcom fiames and liquids, iron and ice, tho smallest particles of matter, and tho sun him- self, the secrot of their changes, and showed them but the outward visiblo appezrances of matter acted upon and controlled by an imper- ishable force. Nor has the investigation rested here. Men early began to suspect that vitality itgolf was subject to this samo law; and that the growth and development of organie life, and all the thought and motion that constitute indi- viduals and societies, bad their place under the same conditions that regulate the expansion of 2n iron bar, or raise water into steam under the application of heat. Theories of® the possibility of s porpotual motion, 1o less than the sudden acquisition of waterial, social, and intellectual prosperity through the enactment of laws, recelved s death-blow when onco tho fact was estoblished that the sum of forces is constsnt, and incapadle either of creation or annikilation; and that re- sults are directly and inevitably related to tho amount of excrtion or energy put forth, which simply transfors tho abiding place of so mich force from one factor of physical or social phe- nomeus to another. Energy is a power which the body possesses of overcoming resistance. It is of two varieties : molecular or invisiblo energy, and mechanical or visible energy. The first deals with the back- ward and forward motion which takes place among the molecules of & body, without chang- ing its position in regard tosurrounding objects ; the last with the movement of bodies and organ- isms through upace. Moreover, thersis an en- ergy of molion and sn energy of position,—asin a cannon-ball in sctual motion, aud the same ball at rest upon the top of a house. This dis- tinction holds for invisible molecular enorgy as truly as it does for that which ia visible. En- ergies may be conveniently classitied as foilows : 1. Energy of vieible motion,—as in the planets, a running stroam, metoors, otc. 2. Viaible en- ergy of position,—as in a head of water, a bow strung for use, or a clock wound up. Between these is the case of a pondulum, which, in vi- Lrating. alternately displays both modes. Theso aro samples of visible energies. Tha following are invisible, namely: 1. Hoat. 2. Molecular separation. 3. Chemical separation. 4. Eloc- trieal ‘separation, 5. Electricity which is con- tinuous. 6. Radiant energy which proceeds to us from the san. Tho sum of these taken togetheris constant, despito the continuons changes from one to the othar. The evidonce upon whick this asscrtion i based is peculiar,—peculiar in its magnitude, in its universality, in the subtle nature of the agents with which it deals. "It caunot be proved 88 Wwe prove the couservation of matter in chem- ical experiments, but, under certain test condi- tions, we obtain results which prove the law to be teuie in all cases where rigorous experiment is available. All work can be changed into heat, but, alihough heatcan bo chauged back into work, all of the heat cannot be utilized. Beyond what' ia squandered in the shape of friction, some escapes’ into space, and leaves tho earth altogether. Wo cannot prevent. its going, sad, with rolerence to the earth, cannot say that the sum is constant. But the physicist, in unfold- ing the las of Nature, stops not at the carth on which we live. Gravitation holds its sway in the furthest regions of space, aud here we tind our onorgy which is dissipated. We may, indeed, assume that, for all the energy radiated into 6pace, an equal quantity roturns to us in enargy radiated from tho sidereal system. But, putting this aside, the main source of our planetary onergy is the sun. It is atoredin the shape of fue, food, & head of water, .tides, and tho ener- gy of chomical separation in native sulphur, iron, etc. ; besides which, thers is tho energy of air and water in motion. Couscicusly and unconsciously, this energy ia gradually becoming transformed into beauty, aud some proportion of it is beyond our poswer to retransform. Hence the startling wncfuainn that more and more will tho mechanical enargy of the universo be transformed into a univer- sally-diffused heat, until it will no longer be afit abodo for human beings, since the production of work and tho possibility of lif» depend upon dif- ferences of temperatyre. Alihough, tharefore, na strictly-mechanical sense, thercis o con- servation of energy, yet, as rogards uscfulness or fituess for liviug beings, the energy of the universe is in process of deterioration. Ii is not within the province of Prof. Stawart to deal with the application of these principlos to other than inanimate maiter, but in an appen- dix aro added two essays : on the “Correlation of Vital with Chemical and Physical Forces,” by Prof. Josoph Le Conte; and the *Correlation of Nervous and Mental Forces,” by Prof. Alex~ ander Bain ; whicl will give tho reador an idea of tho relations of energy to lifo. This work very opportunely. follows that of Prof. Cooke upun the **New Chemistry,” and may bo read in connection with it to great ad- vautage. The two combiued caanot fail to pre- sont & clear conception of tho present condition of chiemical and physical science. It is posible, with reference to the work of Prof, Stewart, that some fuint tinge of disappointment may be felt by those persons who arc familiar with the more advanced and profounder trestment of the sub- ject by Grove, Tyndall, Helmholtz, Spencer, and others; but, bearing i mind the purposo of the works forming the uternational Scries, the vol- ume will be found admirably sdapted to the wants of those who desire a plain statement of the theory, unincumbered with technical and minute details. A Novel by Rhoda Broughton. NANCY: A NovrL. By Ruopa BrouGHTON, Author of “ Good-Bye, Sweethart,” ete, Now York: D, Ap- pleton & Co, This is, inthe first half of it, altogether tho raciest book we have read in a long while. It hss much of the spicy flavor of Miss Alcott's *Littlo Women,"” andrecalls that charming story by numerous points of resemblance. Miss Broughton does not prosper well in the concep- tion of a plot, and her characters are apt to be inconeistent, but she has an extraordinary fac- ulty for pustaining a colloquy ; and, as there is nothing in all tho world more fascinating than a crisp, witty conversation, she keeps her readers perpetually amused by the cxercise of this talent. Sho mansges climaxes, too, cleverly; and near- 1y evory chapter winds up with & smart, sharp colmination, that is delightfully exhilarating. We said hor characters were apt to bo incongra. ous ; but, for all that, she continues to throw a epell of intorest about them that is particalarly tautalizing, it 50 foils and yet succeods in tri ing our common sonse. I most of ber bools, the attraction centres in a wayward young wom- an with unnaturally-exaggerated qualities, vet with a vigorous and piquant originality that re- conciles us to her most outragoous absurdities. She is the chief figuro-piece in the preseat work, and is decidedly the most engaging compound of graces and imper{ections that Miss Bronghton has yet produced. Nancy is her name,—1iss Broughton does not dub hor heroines with high-sounding titles— aud sho tells her own story in & simple, uncon- scious way, without reserve or affectation, She is just 19 at the pomt where she begins, aad the third in tho family of six robust, boisterous children, who revel bealthily in the very joy of living. Their home is an English country-man- sion. Their father ia & domestic tyrant, with & meanness infecting his austerity which makes him odious to_his entire family. For the most part, the children keep out of his way, cr_mfimug an themselvesto their schocl-room, zmusing cheriuhing each ather in 8 loving communion of chiidish pursuite and pastimes. - Suddenly there comes to visit their father an old friend from India, Sir Roger Tempest, arich, benign, and handsome bachetor. He firat meats the children—for children they aro despite the sdvancing youth of the eldest—at pravers, the one oceasion in the day when the whole house- Bold is asscbled for the sake of discipline and ceremonial. Whon the womhxx;‘ls nv)er—d - “ W to fatber (writes Nancy), and coldly .na‘l‘z‘x’m“? $iss him, e s waliing 0 receive our parents’ chill palute, I steal a second glsnce st our goest. Yes, ho is old certainly. Deapite the youth of Bis eyes, deapite tho uprightnsse, the miter freedom from superfinous fieeh—{rom the ugly, sbaky b Daas of age—in bis tall and stalwart agure, silll Be 18 old,—old in the eyes of 19,—us old 38 father, perhaps, —though in much better prescrvation,—8 or 493 for 12 not his hatr frcn-gray; and bis beavy moustache, and the thick and silxy beard that falis on his broad bresst, sre they not irngray, oot T hava dropped my $mall and umwilling kiss on faiher's forehead, and s3id ¢ Good-night? in & tons as suppressedly hostile as Bis own, NowImsygo. We may.allgo. I am tha Inst, or I think I sm, to pass through the swing-door, I burey slong the pussage to join thsrestin tho school-room, I reprovoths boys for the rash impicty of their demeanor, I feel o foot on my garments be- hind, and hear 3 long, cracking sound that I t0o, t00 well know to mean gathers.” : T4You beast1” cried T,in good nervous English, turning sharply round with my hand raised in act o strike: * that i tho third time this week that you have sk o o \top Ambonnded, 1t Imean to box the offend- ersears, T must raise my hand considerably higher than it 14 at present. Angels and ministera of grace ! What hea happened? I have called Gen. Sir Roger Tcmpest a beast, and offered £o_cuff him. For & me~ ment, 1 am dgmbfounded, Then—for ‘shynoss has never been my besetting sin, and somothing in the go- nial laughter of his eyes reassurcs me—I Bold out the injured portion of my raiment, and say : “WLook! Wlen you see what you have done, Iam sure you will forgive me; but of course I mever dreamt it was you.” : ‘He takes hold of one end of the rent, Tof tfie other, and we both examino it. “ow exceodingly clumsy of ma! How could i have Lappened? I beg your pardon ten thousand times.” - T lis words there is polite remorso ¥nd salicitade ; 3o his faco only » friendly mirth. He is old, that i& cloar, Hadhe boen young, be would havo said, with {hat variety and suitability of epitheta so charactaristic of this generation : “Tom awfully sorry! How awfully stupld of mo What an awful duffer 1 am ! " Of course, after this informal and eccentric in- troduction, the acquaintance between Nancy and Sir Roger Fipens rapidly. The girl's irreprossiblo ‘and innocent candor catpivates the gentleman, and in a brief space of timo ho_proposes for her hand. She feels the charm of his kindly and up- right nature; yet more to bo freod from her {nther’s harsh rule than for love of him, she ac- copta his offor. They aro married, and the pros- ect of o bavpy usion is favorable, notwithstand- ing the disparity in their ages. Up to this point tho book is very gay and smusing. The lively plav and chatter of the children, and Nancy's blunt, blandering frank- ness, that precipitates her into continual Iudi- crous difficulties, provoke- incessant smilos and laughter. But now the story graduatly clouds over, until it becomes distressingly gloomy. Shyriess, constrant, and lack of tact on the part of both originate painful misuaderstandings be- tween the couplo who should - have been at one, with each other. Au_intriguing - womsn drives Naucy haif-fiantie with causeloss jeslousy. and an unprincipled Lothario nyolves her in _much undeserved misory. Sho is transformed into something very Liko 5 shrow, and, for a poriod of nearly two years, leads her husband a szd hife of it. Then, over the gravo of a beloved sister, thore como repontance and matial explanations and forgivencss, and the story fuishes with love restored, and full of hope again. + From this brief synopsis, and the short pas. sago extracted, it will be secn that Miss Brough- ton does not dopend upon plot, but upon narra- tivo and dialogue, for ner effects. She uses plain ond strong English, never picking for nico terms, but tho most forcible aod claatic, that will tell what she has tosayin the plampest manner. She does not besitate to say leg when ghe mozns log, nor to employ any other direct and Loucst word, although prudery may have pronounced it unbecoming. Bhe gives in this ways good mauy shocks to clegant Americsn nerves, but they are wholesome aud invigorat-- ing. A study of her sinowy style would havoa result liko that of association with & hoalthy, uneophisticated nature. It wounld tend to root out foolish motions, and put sensible ones in their place. Words have & power over thonghts that 18 somotimes unsuspected. The Learncd Blacksmith. TEN-MINUTE TALK ON ALL SORTS OF SUB- JECTS. DBy Eiitu BUmrTr, With Autobiography of this Author. Bostou: Lea & Shepard, 1t is about twenty-five yeara since Mr. Burritt first appeared in the character of authorin the United States. Hs then published a little book entitled * Sparks from the Anvil," which was re- ceived with much favoron account of the specisl interest attachicg to ‘‘the Learned Black- smith,” 8a well 2s for its own merit. His activo public life at home an abroad now being over, ho has agnin resumed ihe literary pursnits which gave him celebrity in bis early manhood, and sonds out the present collection of short papers to ronow his connection with his friendly readers of the past and present. Tho *‘tatks"—aq he styles them—embrace a grest diversity of topic. MMr. Burritt's wide ex- perience and large attainments enable him to speak intelligently upon an uncommon range of subjects, and to sdd to each some useful in- formation or refiection. But the esssys are not the most intereating portion of the volume. The autobiography, condensed - within: -fifty-thres pages, gives the book an‘exceptiopal valne. It presents an example of industry snd achievo- ment which has fow equals. It was written in order to correct many erroneous statements con- cerning Mr. Burritt’s career which have crept into print, and- also with the modest hope that aspiring young men might find in it encourago- ment, and perhaps saggestion. Elibu Burritt was bern in New Britain, Coon., in 1810, and was the youngest of ten children. Hig father owned a little, bard-soiled farm, from which he could obtsin but a partial support for his family. He, therefors, combined tho trade of the shioemaker with tbat of the farmer, plying the awl in wintry and rainy weather, and the hos in summer. Ho died in 1825, and Elibu soon after apprenticed nhimself to a blacksmith. He bad tho hankering for learning which was com- mon to his famly, and at the ape of 21 left his anvil to attend for a term at the village school. As every day’s absenca from the smithy cost him the loss of = dollar in wages, he waa stimulated to meko the most of bis intelloctual opportanity. Mathematics was his favorite study, and he gave himself to 1t almost exclusively. Returning to the anvil when the quartor's schooling was over, he continued to work on mental probloms while dealing blows with tho sledge-hammor. o was already pottaring a little over French and Latin, and fonnd that it was_essier to con parts of speech than to carry on intricato mathe- matical caleulations during the process of heating and bhammering iron. A vear passed and be mastered the Greek grammar, and now be resolved to have another three months of nuinterrupted studv. Thid time he wont to New Haven, but not to Yale. Ho wan ashamed of his small attaiuments at 22, and so set down under the sbadow of the college, on_the first morning inthe city, with the detormination that, if he could construe two lines of Homer by nightfall, ° ho would ask no help of tutors. Bafore tha afternoon had waned the victory was accomplish- ed. Ho had translated fifteen. lines, and com- mitted to memory the originals. Then, ho tells us, ho strolled out urder the classic clms, sod, lookinz up at the college-walks, indulgedin & half-defiant emotion of independence. He kept seven languages under way this wintar, and at tho ond of the soasoa folt a reluctance to drop them and go back to manual labor. e engaged in school-keepiug, but his health failed under the confinement, and hoe accopted a position a3 commercia! traveler. Just beforo the financial crash of 1837, he invested the waole of his gains in a small mercantile enterprise, and in tho general panic and ruin he lost every- thing. Upon thie lic resorzed to his trade onco more, locating in Worcester, where ho had ac- cess to the library of tho Antiquarian Society, which was rich in books in foreign languages. Ho renewed Lis atudy with the old zeet; translated Tcelandic sagas and Syriac _epistles, and finally vrote s lotter in Celto-Breton to the Royal Autiquarian Society of France, which elicted tho compliments of the Society upon the unusual feat. Al the lanpnages of Europe and several of Asia wero by this time mastered. Sovcral gentlemen of Boston, hearing of his extraor- dinary acquisitions, invited him to accept the advantages of Harvard at their expense ; but he gratefully declined, msofully choosing to hew out his own destiny. In1841 he way urgoed to appesr upon the ros- trum, and sccordingly prepared a lecture, in which bhe attempted to prove the falsity of the doctrine, Nascifur, non fit, sustaining his argu- ment by the evidence of” bis own case. ‘Ihe lec- turo was delivered sixty times in the course of the season, after whick thie lecturer laid off his broadeloth, tied on his leather apron, and began ounding_tho savil-chorns sgain in Worceater. hilo writing ont a new lecture for the cnsuing season, his thonghts were nttracted to the grand lan of uniting the nations of the earth in the bonds of brothernood, His heart became en- listed in tho subject. He suspended his studies, and entered iuto 2n sctiva career in i's promul- gation. Ho started » weekly paper devoted to Anti-Slavery, Peaco, Temperance, etc., and fot into circulation through the newspapers of the Union a series of short articles advocating Pesce, ucder the titloof *The Olive-Leaf Mission.” The qualities which signalized his success in ths uirement of languases wero now devoted with & similar assidnity to the advancemcat of philan- thropic enterprises. For the next twenty years, Mr. Burritt spent much of his time in Europe, laboring in_tho cause of Peace. He was active in the eatoblish- ment of *The League of Universal Brother- hood,” and in bringing -about _internstionsl peace-assemblies in Frankfort, Brossels, Lon- don, Parie, etc. **The Olivo-Leaf Missiou” was putin operation on the Continent, the papers eing transiated into sevon - different languages. 1In one of e intervals pasaed in America during theso years, he labored hard to perfect a scheme for: the extinction of Slavery. Mesntime, bo tilled his stony farm in New Britain with his own hands, and, in summer, did most of the writing devolving upon him, ‘“in his shirt- ‘sleaves, on the hesd of lime-cask in his barn,— gcn and hoe slternating through the day.” He ad acquired no property in all his life past. His time and toil had been given to the humane cauges which he served, only 50 much being re- served as would securo him the actusl .noces- saries of life. At times he had reduced his eating-expenses to 16 conts a day, that he might make the lightest possiblo draught upon the funds supporting tho objects he had at heart, In 1865, Mr. Burritt was appointed Consular Agent for the United States at Birmingham, and held the position four years. The munifi~ cent annual allowance forthe Azency was $1,500, snd tho expenses 81,000,—leaving 2500 for the incumbent to grow rich upon. Butthe office sfforded him facilities for literary.work of a con~ genial sort, which made it valusble to him. During his various sojourna in England, Mr. Burritt made oxteaded pedestrian tours, travers- ing the island from end to ond, and picking up on'hig.way all the information accessible, par- ticularly regarding agriculture and the manage- ment of modal farmy’and dairies, Everywhere, and at all times, he was busy as the bee, gather- ing up stores for the use of -others_ rather than humself. B g _In 1870 he returned to Americs, and took up his residenco on the old fsrm in New Britain, with the intention of employing the residuo of bia days in quiet and studious pursnits; snd there, in the midat of his books and the anjoy- mont of a well-arned repose, his sutobiography leaves bim. ; Itis uot 8o much for the importance of the work which r. Burritt has nccomplished, or for any especial renown which Lo has won, that his 1ifo 1mpresses us, but for the rare and noblo traits of his character—his wonderful industry, energy, unselfishness, and simplicity. With oll that he has dono to educate himself and beuefit bis fellows, Lo 18, to tho last, single-hearted and unassuming, contont to rest in the evening of his daye with none of. the rewards of successful men. Itisoneof the beautitul lives that em- bellish human higtory. Lectures by the Rov, F. D. mMaurice. THE FRIENDSHIP OF DBOOKS, axp Otnre Lrctunes. By the Bev. F. D, Maustor, Edited with a preface by T. Hvaues, M, C. London : Mac- millan & Co, As itwaa a profitable thing to come in contact with Mr. Maarico personally, to observe his con- duct and listen to his conversation, so it is to read his writings, into which he put his best self. Mr. Maurice did nothing slightly or superficially. - The wholo weight of his feeling and principlo went into whatever work ho undor- took. Lecturing constituted an important part of his life's labor, and he delivored a vast num- ber of addresses, in all parts of Linglend, to all clasges of poople. From thoso which are gath- ered into the present collection,—if wo have no prévious knowledge of his habit,—wo may koow that iuto every one ho infused .all tho learning snd’ thought ho conld command. The most was .made of cach opportunity, to quicken and deopen the mindsof his hearers. No subject was tonched which he did not expand, and show new avenues loading mp to oroutof it. His ‘reverent and sympathotic spirit enabled him to elicit from the most commouplace tapics subtle and yoluminons meanings and uses. However much a theme may have been discussed before, be had always somo fresh way of putting it some ray of light to shed upon it, Bome original suggestion Lo increaso its value, But tho worth of his discourses is not confined to their subjoct-matter. It lios almost as much in the instrament through which Lo conveys his sommunications as in the communications them- selves. It is mot often that an author's style ‘mirrors his character 20 truly,—that his language 8o porfoctly reflects his mind. Immediately thoro is the feoling that we are in communication with the man, riot more by what he says than by his way of saying it. His clear, quiet, plain, and earnest words betray corresponding’ traits in his nature, and also teach, by their truth and trans- parency, s new idea of their own sanctity. There are thirtcen lectures in tha yolume be- forous, The firat is named in its title, and the others treat Words, Books, The Use and Abuse of Newspapers, Christiaa Cisilization, English History, Ailton, Milton Considered 5 a School- master, Spenser's *‘Tairie Queeme,” Edmund Burke,’ Acquisition, Illumination, nnd Catics. Attractive titles oll of thom, and so handled that they evor decpen in intorest. In discussing books afr, Maurice holds that such &s are gennine are living things, invosted with the personality of their suthor, and are, therefore, to be cherished as friends, their vir- tues . lovod, and their fanl:s mournod and for- given, a8 when they disfigure 2 beloved human being. Niebubr eaid of Cicero, that he knew his faults as well as anybody, but thet ha felt as much grioved when peoplo spoke of them as if ho were his brotier. Whon we regard all good books with this roverence, they will do their main work ; show us oursclves in those who have lived through all bistory, and, by their weaknoss a4 well 53 greatness, warn us from ar- rors aud guido us Lo tho right and the true. Tu tho lectare upon Nowspspors, a fow of their indirect uses o wisely pointed ont ; tho uses of sdvertisements, for instance,—aside from their obvions purpose,—in broadening our knowledgo of our fellow-creatures, disclosing their lackings and their haviogs, sad bow the ono fits to the other, and both form n great bond of society. Among the abuses of nowspspers aro our sufering the greed of nows to mako ut- | ter goseips of us, and gotting the babit of turn- ing our thinking over to cditorial writers. Tbe spirit is tho ‘same in all the lectures; serious and kindly, softening the heart while stimalating the mind. It deepous our yenera- tion for the writer, and for everything elso that is human, Wilkie Colling’ American Novel. THE DEAD ALIVE. By Witxix Corirvs, Fully Lllustrated,” Boston: Shepard & Gill. Only its antborship entitles thus story to men- tion. Itis based upon a trisl which actually oo~ curred in Vermont early in tho present century. Tro brothers wore arraigned for the murder of & man who had mysteriously disappesred. All the circumstances tended to convict tho accused. Finally, to save himself, ono of the brothers swore that tho other had committed the murder, and that he had witnessed the deed. Under the weight of such convincing tostimory, the guilty qno confessed his crime in all ity details. At this stage of the trial, the missing mau suddeniy returned, alive aud well, - from - soma out-of-the- way prowl he had taken of his own accord. Alr. Collins had in these facts oxcellent ma- terial for a first-ciasa fiction, and 1t 18 absolutely surprising to see how he has wasted it. m his clumsy work, one would not suspect him of a jot of literary talent. Perhaps it is a good thing to know how stupid smart people can bo sometimes. Errors in Pronunciation. PRONOUNCING HANDBOOK OF WORDS OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED, AND OF WORDS AS TO WHICH A CHOICE OF PRONUNCIATION I8 AL- LOWED. By Ricitarp 50uLZ and Looxs J, DrLL. Boston: Lee & Shepard, They who are scrupulous in orthoepy will be apt to bave Webster’s or Worcester's Un- abridged, which would seom to render this littlo manual superfluous. Dut it is small, cheap, and easy to handle, can be tucked in the pocket for consultation at any moment, and is & trostwor- thy reference. These are commendable qnali- tiés, and, if they give tho book popularity, thore is an abundance of work for it to do in correcting prevalent orrors in_pronunciation. Three thou- sand words are included in its vocabulary. Books Recciveds SWINTON'S _ SCHOOL-COMPOSITION : Li¥GUAGE-LESSONS YOR GRAMMAR-GEADES, York: Harper & Brothers. A PROGRESSIVE GRAMMAR_OF THE ENGLISH TONGUE: Baszp oX THE REsULTs OF Mopray PAMLOLOGY. By Prof. WILLLX SwINTON. New York: Harper & Brothers, THE CATHOLICS AND THE PUBLIC BCHOOLS. By Hesny Muntoy Scoppzs, D, D. New York: Mason, Baker & Pratc, 3 POLITICS AND MYSTERIES OF LIFE-INSUB- ANCE. By E11708 Waionr, Boston : Les & Shep- ard. . SWINTON'S LANGUAGE-LESSONS: AX I¥TRoDTC- TORT GRAMMAR AND COMTOSITION ¥OR INTERME- ADVANCED New \TE AND G EAD] New York: DTELTD ( k8. New York : Harper Periodicals Recetved. . Popular Science Monthly for March. D. Ap- pletocs & Co., New York. Contents: *The "World Before the Introduction of Life " (illus- Charles H. Hitchcock; | trated), by Prof. “Walking, Swimming, sand Fiying” (illus- trated), by E. Lewis, Jr. ; Roplies to the Quar- terly Reviewers,” by Herbert Bpencer; ** Physi- ology of the Passions,” by Femnand Papillon; * Our Ancestors on the Goose Question " (illus- ; ‘““Alternations in the Intensity of Dis- e2ses,” by Alphonse do Caudolle; *3odern Op- tics and Painting ” (illustrated), by Prof. 0. N. Bood; ‘Electric Signaling on English Rail- roeds,” by C. E. Pascos; *The Pacial Angle” (illuatrated), by Prof. Rsnsom Doxter, of -tlie #i2,” by Bichard Dliss, Jr. “# Literary Notices s **Miscellan; Unisersity of Chicago; ** Disposal of the Dead,” by Sir Henry Tkompeon; ‘“’fhe Futaro of Al- chemy,” by Charles Foebel; * Prof. Louis Agas- Editor's Table;" ‘Atlantic Monthly for March. & Co., Boston. Contents: .* Prudence Palfrey,” Chaps. ITI. and VIIT., by T. B. Aldrich: ‘‘Waa-~ derings” (poem), by A. L. Carlton; A Me- dieval Naturalist,” by J. H.A. Booe; * ¥Melanie™ (poem), bs W, L Brighamn; “ John's Trial," 1{»{ P. Deming; ““Ships” (poem), by H. K. Hud- B0n; ** Lafo in the Backwoods of Canada,” L., by H.B.K.; “InasMarket-Wagon,” by G. P. La- throg ; ‘“Baddeck and That Sort of Thing,” IIL, by Charles Dudley Warner; * Patienco Dow " em), by Marian Douglas; * Aborigines of alifornia,” by Stephen Powers ; * Mose Evans,” Part IL, by Willism M, Baker; * Winter Epi- thalamium” (poom), by Charlotte F. Bates; * Uwen Brown's Escapo from Harper's Ferry,” by Ralpk Keeler; “Ralph Kocler,” oy W. D, II.; ““Recont Literature;™ ** Art;" * Music.” Harper’s Magazine for 'March. Harper & Bros., New York. Contents: *The Light- Houses of tho United States lustrated), by Charles Nordboff; “ Advico," "by Elza- beth . Akers . Alien; .“The Chovalier Bay- ard” (ilustrated), by James Grant Wilson; *Bermuds;” (illustrated), by Christisna Rounds: ‘¢ Archibald Constable and His Frienda " (illus- trated), by A. G. Constable ; *“ My Mother and I; A LoveStory for Girls” (illustraced), by Dinah Mulock Craik ; * Prayer of Columbus,” by Walt Whitman; ¢ Obgervatories iu. tho United States " (illustrated), by Prof.” J. E. Nourse ; ** The Liviog Link * (illustrated), by Prof. James De Mille; ** The Rights and Wrongs of Seamen,” by Charles Nordhotf ; “Jo snd I,” by Harriet Prescott Spofford ; ** The Mission of St. Valontine” (with illustratod initial), by Fan- nie k. Robinson ; “The Night Train for Para-. dige " (Accommodation), by Louise E. Furni +-Love Among tho Graves,” by Mury B. Dodgo ; “ Recoliections of an Old Stager;” ** Tho Out- gido of the Window,” by John James Piatt ; * A Scheme for Vengeance,” by Mrs. Frauk Mc- Carthy ; * Lyric of Action,” by Paul H. Hayne; “Towis Gsylord Clark,” by T. B, Thorpe; * Editor's- Easy Chair;" Editor's Literary Record ;" “ Editor's Scientific Rocord ;" * Edi- tor’s Historical Record ;” *“Editor's Drawer" (with illustrations.) Galaxy for March, Sheldon & Co., Now York. Contents: “‘ Rominisceuces of Tom Marshall,” by Paul R. Shipman; “Linley Rochford" Chaps. XIL, XIL., and XIV., by Justin AcCat- thy; - “Recoguition,” by Virginia Vaunghn; * Linguistic and Literary Notes and Queries, IV., John Stuart Mill's Antobiography,” by Tichard Grant White ; * Guatave Dore,” by Jus- tin MeCarthy; *The Masquerade ;" *Mme. Do Mauves,” in Two Parta, Part IL, by Henry James, Jr. ; ** Jobann Sebastisn Buch,” by 3. L, Thompson; “Sonnot,” by Paul Hayne: My Russisn,” by Jane G. Austin; ** Confederate States and“Their Constitution,” by J. Curry; ** The Outside of the Cup,” by AL, . 5. ; ** Drift-wood,” by Philip Quilibet; * Scien- tific Miscellany ;" ** Current Literature;” ** Neb- ule," by the Editor. Lippincot{'s Aagazine for March, G. B. Lip- incott & Co., Philadelphia. Contents: ‘' The New Hyperion,” IX. (illustrated), by Edward Straban’; **Io s Caravan with Gorome® the Painter,” 1. (illustrated); ** Malcolm,” Chaps. VIL, VIIL, IX., X., by Georgo Ascdonald: ** Cannes,” by . Davoy; * Sonnet,” by Chbar- lotto F, Bates; “WhenI Was a Hoarder,” by Sarah Winter Kollogg; * Ferdinand do Les- sops” (with & dpnrlmfl). by J.E. Nourse; * A Moders_Crossids,” by Francis Asheton; ** Pa- tience in Friend ] (vaam), by M. T.; “ Critic and’ Artist,” by Titus Munsen Coan ; “On the Rocks," by Kate Hillard; * A Winter Thought" (poens), by Martfn J. Griffin ; ** Town- Planung in’ the West,” by Cbarles Edward Smith ; “ Our Monthly Gossip;” * Literature of the Day.” . B Scribner’s Afonthty for March. Seribner & Co., Now York. Contents: **Tho Great Sonth: Among the Mountains of Western North Caro- lina " (illustrated), by Edward King; * Tho Flower of Love Liea Bleeding” (poom), by Richard Henry Stoddard ; * The Credit Xobii- ier ” #To Ciiristine Nilsson ™ (poem), by John Frazer: Anny C. Brackett; *‘‘Ajellak Allah;' or. ‘The Women.of tho Arabs” (illustrated), by Cbarles 8. Robinson; ‘“*Agassiz” (poemj, by Jumes T. Fields; “‘The Heiress of Wash- ington ™ (illustrated), by William R. Hooper: +*Gabrielle,” (poem), by Joel Benton; *‘Katho- rine Earle,” Chaps. X., XL, XIL, (illustratod), by Adeline Trafton ; *“ The Tachypomp,” by Edward P. Mitchell ; * Earthen Pitchers,” Chaps. XIIL, XIV., by Rebecca Harding Davis: * The!Auto~ biograpliy of an Athiest;” ““ A Dream-Story,” by Katherine 8. Macquoid; *‘Topies of tho Tims;" “The Old Cabinet;" “Home and Bocioty:" “ Culture and Progress;” .“Nature and Bcl- ;;:eé" “ Etchings. The Rejected,” by Frank rd. - & 9 Catholic World for March. Catholic Publica- vion House, New York.. Coutents: * John Stuart Mill ;7 *¢ The Farm of Muicoron ;" ** The Littlo Chapel ;" ¢ Philosophical Lerminology ;” ‘ Lato Home ;" ** Grapes and Thorns” * The Religions Policy of. the Becond Empire;” ** Graco Seymour’s Mission:" *‘The Principles of Rea] Boing ;" ** Tho Jansenist Schismin Hol- land;” “* A Looker Back ;" * A Block of Gold;" “Yigil ;" ** Now Publications.” . St. Nicholas for March. Scribner & Co.. New York. Contents: Frontigpicce. **Edward Jen- per;” *Edward Jenner," by Clarence Coolk; “ How the Bullfinch Is Tanght to Sing » (illus- trated), by R.E. Hale: ** What Might Have Been Expected "' by Fraok R. 8tockton, Chaps. X, XI, XIL (illustrated) ; * Following & Good Exam- ple (illastrated) ; - “ Tho Gallaot Outriders " (poem—illustrafed) ; ** Roses sud_Forgot-me- nots " (illustrated), by Lonisa M. Alcott; “March " (posm—illustrated), by AL 3. D.; “ Somo jurious Fishes ” (illusuated) ; “Snowed In" (illustrated), by Martha M. Thomas; ‘“An’ Odd™ Fellow * (il- justrated), by Harriet AL Millar; * Peter Parrot” (poem), by Rose Terry Cooke ; “Wrecked at Home” (ilustrated), by Noah Brooks; _* Mako-Beliovo (poum—dlmimlcd?, by 8. 8. H.; ** Rascally Bandy,” by Robart Dale Owen; *Elfin Jack, the Giant-Killer” (illus- trated), by T. 8. Stacy; * Making Snow,” by James Ricbardson; ‘‘Broken" (Picture); “Emprunt du Peine " (illustrated), by T. 8. S. : “Nimpo's Troubles,” Chaps. V., VL., VIL. (illus- trated), by Olive Thorno; **The Trio” (poem— illustrated), by Mary A. Lathbury; “What the Stork Saw" (illustrated), by ~Hetta Lord Hayes Ward; ** Cossack Horsomen” (illustrated); “¥agt Frionds” Chaps. VUI, IX., X (illns- tratod), by J. T. Trowbridge: /* A Dangerous Expeniment” (picture); ‘* About Somo Quear LiztlePeople " (1llustrated), by Donald G, Mitch- ell; *“The Kindergarten Crow,” by Charles Barnard; ‘*‘Mamie's Lecture " (illustration); “ How theSnow Came” (poom), by A. R. Annan; 'he Last Pie,” by Alico Chadbonrno; * Hans Ryitzar's Broakfast” (trapslation of German story in February number); For Verr Little iks” (illustrated): ‘ Jack-in-the-Palpit:" 'he Letter-Rox;" “ Books and Music;” **The Riddle-Box” (illustrated). Old and New for March. Roberts Brothers, Boston: Contents: “Ola and New ;" * Tho Wa: we Liva Now," Chaps. XI- by Anthony Trol- Jope; ** The Winged Victory, by T. G. A.: ** L1 bor and its Organization ;" Thomas Muir,” by B. Drew ; *Tom Haliburton's Quandary; or, A Washington Season,” Chaps. V-VI, by Kate ‘Wise and Mark Sibley Severance ; ““In the Com- etery at New Orleans,” by Joseph M. Field; “ Mary Somerville,” by C. C. Smith; “The Quickiedgo Partners,” by H. A. n ; “Our Sketching Club,” by fhe Rev. I, St. John Tyr- whitt ; *Abose of Tax-Exemption,” by J. P. Quincy; *The Sailors' Law,” by H. H. McFar- Iand ; * Thorough Conversion;” * iner;” “Record of Progress; view Westminister Review—January. Leonard Scott Publishing Company, New York. Con- tents: ‘‘ The Diseatablishment and Disondow- ment of the Church of E: “politaa Police System ;" tho Heathe *The Workin: Stuart Mil * Third-Clsus ‘asgenger-Tarifls ;" “3fedical Charity—Its Extont and Abuses;” “ Contemporary Literature.” Tnited Slates Medicaland Surqical Journal— January. Published by Drs. Small, Ludlam, ‘Adams, and Foster, Chicago. Demorest's Illustrated Monthty for March. W. Jonninogs Demorest, Now York. Sunday-School Teacher for March. Adams, Blackmer & Lyon Publiehing. Company, Chi- cago. Frogressice Shipbuilder. Jobn W. Griffths, Nl and, Dressmaker. tor Februay. Ba Milliner a er for . _Be- coived from Emoraon & Stott, No. 239 West Madison street. “Aledical Intestigator for Februsry. No. 287 West Randolph screet, Chicago. Literature mrixom;:_.b espondence of The Chicago Tribune, ik 4 Bomi, Feb. 18, 1874, Publishing has recommenced, but not heavily, TIndeed, the prospect is not flattering for a large number of books this spring. Lee & Shopard, being about tc remove to the corner of Franklin and Hawloy streots, do not care to load them- selves with avy additional books; and soveral that they were preparing for this season were barned in the Sudbary street firo of a fow woeks 2go. Gould & Lincoln ara embarrasved, and at lesst temporarily out of the ranks of productive houses. (I may add that thewr suspension ex- cites only regret in the trade hers: Thay wars “Following Footsteps (poem), by | held in very friendly regard; everybody wished them the success they failed to win. Possibly thoy will come to the surface again, and resume their place in the publishing fraternity. If so, they will bo cordially welcomed.) Robertt Brothers seem rather inclined to folicitate ti seives-on the popularity of AMrs. Somerville's Recollections—a popularity altogethar deserved —than to push forwardncsr books. Still, they have eome, of which I will spesk by and by. 3. B. 05300D & €0, ast yoar did not issue a single voluma during January and February. This year thioy have already published Lewes' significans work, “ Problems of Lifoand Mind;” * Zelds's For- tune,” a pewerful story by - B. E. Francillon ; s new cdition of ** Euthanasy,” bythe Rov. William Mountford; and Mrs. Ellis’ *“Life of Mrs. Bar- bauld,” with selections from her works, in two volumes. It romains to be scen how much in- terest Mra. Barbauld, as a writer and ‘a womaa, has for American readers. Certainly the present generation knows very lttle of her, and there- fore cares little for her now : let us hope, since 8he was 80 oxcellent a character and o judicious su _author, that Mrs. Ellis may bavo the power and satisfaction to rekindlo somewhat the ad- muration for her which our fathers and mothers cherished. Her fame ought to bo dear to the good, church-going people who, Bunday after Sunday, sing her Lymns, albeit thess have bevn ‘*tinkered " freely Ly compilers of hymun-books, in whose eyes tho authorsof hymus have na rights that they are bound to respect. Of Mrs. Darbauld, who seems to have been a thoroughly- sonsible, practical, healthy-natared woman, Crabb Robinson, in his * Diary," gives many a pleasant Elimpsa: showing how highly she was :i:lfll.:emed y the literary magnates of ber gonera- AR, MOUSTFORD'S LOOK appeals to much the aamo class that found * The Gates Ajar" so suggestive and comforting. It is very unlike that, and lacks the romantic, pas. sionate element which mado Miss Phalps’ book 80 widely popular. Yot, to one sceking light amid tho lengthoning shadows of deciinivg Lifs and the darkuess of bereavement, or trying ta look even through the Valley of the Shadow of Death snd discern light boyond, atr. Monnt- ford’s Euthauasy"” is_ full of help and hope. 1t is, ns Le called it, ** happy talk towards tno end of life;" & cheertul, inspiring survey of tha world and all it offers” to ennoble and perfect mankind, and of the probabilities, or what sccm to the author the certainties, of the future state. It is not blind rhapsody, or unreasoning optimism, or fanatical ecstasy abont heaven ; bt & graphic ideal picturo of what is to come,— its outlinea drawn from tho analogica of the Ppresent state, but on a scale infinitely enlarged, and ita colors_supplicd by the aspirations snd sublimest imagininge of tha soul. 0sgood & Co. will soon add_** Young Brown™ to their Library of Novels. Ttia a remarkably smted story, with vastly more pith and vitality than most novels possess. 1t is by GRESVILE MOURRAY, who has madc himself conspicuous in the British diplomatic'service, aud who is recognized in En- gland g4 a writer of excoptional powar, brillian- cy, and versntility. Hia present story, *Tho Membor for Paris,” attracted unusua! attention by its masterly oxposure of the mothods and instraments by which Lonis Napoloon managed Paris and France. Itis poblished in Osgood’s Library of Novels, buthas not mado the same improasion hero a8 in England,—partly becanss Frenchmen and French politics are farther off, thereforo lesa immediately intoresting to us| partly becauso its great literary power and ita value as an historical picturs of a most curioug opoch in French affains are not generally knosn. -Mr. Murray is generally understood to bo tha authorof **Men of the Third Republis, "—= sories of pungont vkotches of Thiers, Gambetta, Jules Favre, MacMahon, the Duc de Broglie, an others who have been most prominent in Franco gince Sedan. And, if be did not writo, his liter- ary uvwin-brother must have written, */ Political Portraita, "—a series of papers on the leaders of English _politics,—very caustic, appallingly 1rauk, and too near the truth to be any way soothing. On the whole, Grenville Murray soems o be & writer who will boar watching and reading. ‘ OWEN MEREDITH "— who, by the death of Bulwer, has now bocome Robert Lord Lytton—has just 'issued in London 3 new postical work entitléd ** Fables in Song,” which Osgood & Co. will immediately republish hore. The English edition is in two volumes, but the American will contain but one, uniform with “ Owen Moredith’s Poems " previously issued. The ‘¢ Fables™ are stories or sketched, written in various meotres, each armed witha moral, or a_eatiro, or o sArcasm upon some aspect of modern political, social, religions, or literary life. Some of the lessons would not have been given by an Esop liviag in a different circlo; but mearly all aro lovel to tho averzge comprehension of mankind, and are as whole- somse and worth heeding a8 1f their aothor were cneof us, and nota Lord, The ossy gallop of is verse is delightfally comfortable to follow, and—with the fresh topics and incidents Lo has treated—ouglit to give hia Dow book »e large 5 popularity as his ‘ Lucile " bas had, of which more than 50,000 copica have been sold in this country. PARTON'S *‘ LIFE OF JEFPERSON " and Frothingaam's * Life of Theodore Parker” aro set down for early publication, and both ars likely to be among the moat notable books of the year. Parton’s * Jefferwon” labors under the possible disadvantage of having appeared— ° ‘much of it—in the Atlantic; it will bo accountod ‘meroly a reprint, and so will'run tho risk of a neglect which it morits a4 little as sny of tho excellant _biographies recently given to the world. Poustbly its appearance in the mags- zine will prove the best of advertisements for it, ipasmuch as those who read the successive monthly chaptors found thom fascinating to s quite remarkabls degree. Wus it Parton's mar- velous skill in telling the story, or was it the rare inherent charm of the story of Jefferson's career, which_gave those chaptors their great attraction? Both, perbaps ; at any rate, tho at- traction was real. The lifo of Jefferson, as Parton pictured it,—and he fortified himseif with weighty proof,—was ono of unuaual besuty,™ and peculiarly ricki in lessons which Americans, a4 8 nation and as individuals, need to have set before them in characters of liviog light. And this Mr. Parton has dope. Of the “Life of Theodore Parker™ I will speak mors fully in an- other letter. ROBERTS BROTHERY have mearly ready * Thorpe Regia” & new story by Miss Peard, whose two provious stories, *The Rose Garden and * Unawares,” rack considerably above the lovel of most Engiish novels. [hey do not Lolong to the list of great storics, like Georgs Eliot's; nor are they in any way stories that one musiread ; but they aro fresh, bright, entertaining stories, good for Ioinure hours, when ono does not wish to study, but to be agreeably beguiled, and thua refreshed for the work aod stress of life. Books that do this for us are by no means to be spoken of alightingly ; to tham is due many an hoor of ploazed forgetfatnens of caro snd toil. a wal- como relesse from the fret of everydsy exz- perience. ARTHUR WELPS' RUBSIAN STORY, ¢ * Ivan de Biron,” is well on towazd publication by Roberts. It seerns to have been suggested to bim by the proposed marriage of Prince Altred to the Grand Dactions Marie, which, of necesmty, would give the English peoplo 8 now interest in tussian history, and woald afford Mr. Helps » fine opportunity to sot forth thoso social, moral, and practical views to which he has devotcd 6o many excellent books. Good senso is so marked a feature of bis micd that it almost amonats to genius. His head in up where fine proepect may be commanded, but his foet aro always ou solid ground. Ruskin, in the third volume of ¢ Mod- orn History,” esys: ** A truo Thinker, who Las practical purposé in his thinking, and 15 sincere, a3 Plato, or Carlyle, or Helps, becomes in soma sort a sear, and must bo always of infinite 010 ‘o his generatiou.” In the appendix to the samo volume ho remarks , I shiould bo very sorry if 1 had not been coutinnally taught and influnenced by tho writers whom Ilove ; and am quite un- ngla to say to what extent my thoughts bave been guided by Wordeworth, Carlyle, snd Helps, towhom (with Dants and George Herbert, iu olden time) I owe more than to any ciher writers." Roberts Brothers purpose bringing out edi- tions of two books especially tendod for tus information of thoso uninstructed in regard to ART. They are “ The Old Masters and Their Pictures,” and “‘3lodern Painters acd Their Paintinge,™ both by Sarah Tytler. Their aim is nos ambi- tious, but—what is better—heloful; to give s n, simple, intelligible account of tho best snciom. and modern artists, their works and characteristic atyles. It woll dono, as isclaimed, thess books must bo highly serviceabls,—doubl; 80 1n this country, where 80 few yet andorstan tha alphabet of Art or of its history. R —A gentleman from EI Paso County, Texas, has informed the editor of tha Lay Cruces (Now Moxico) Borderer, that nine-tenths of tho peo- ple in nis section would favor the formation of " new Torritory, to be created by adjoining two or three counties of Northwestern Texas with Sonthern Now Mexico. Although tha people of Texas have hitherto opposed that which tanded to & dismemberment of the Lone Star State, it ia said that they will aid this move far tho oresifan of the Tasritaay af *Mantazuma.” HIRE.