Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1874, Page 9

: X PHE CHICAGO DAILY . TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY. 22, 1874; . . W—m- " intensely democratic,—and free to eve: ANCIENT CHICAGO. Some of the Early Ways in tho Early Pajs. Toads In and Cut. Water Roads, Mud Roads, Wood Roads, end Iron Roads. There is a bit of charm or fazcinetion in trying Eosee things of the proscat as they looked in tho pastorin the beginning. The first steamboat yrould be pow & more interesting sight than tho Grest Eastern. The firat locomotive would be & gight worth seeing. The old Fort and Block- House wero quits a memoir of the early dsya of Chicago ; they would havo grown like tho trees of God on M. Lebauon, in all tho future years, {for centuries upon centuries, if they could have poen preserved. And among the very few thinga that show that our early settlers were ever stupid, is the fact that they tookno steps to preserve tho old Block-House, after the Govern- ment surrendered its tile, The march of im- provement and demand for city lota swept it away,—8& bad sweep, and & bad march in that di- cection. Bat, had it beon preserved, it would fave gone, in the great conflagration, where the “fittle girl after the fire said her * quib™ had gove, toits ** Hebenly Fader.” . Doubtless many of the children of Chicago would liko to sea the beginning of things, or Chiesgo 85 it once was; as their most aged fath- ers saw it. DBat it wonld be no great sight after all. .Plenty of ancient Chicago can now be scon down in the Calumet swamps. Some cannot Lielp but thunk what might have becn there onco, bafore even wooden roads wore laid through the streets. Should it ever ba necossary to dig for s drain or otherwise, some ten or twelve foet in ZLeke streot, to an under stratum of blackness, there might be turned up & samplo of the color and consistency of the streets of Chicago till €ome time into tho decado of 1840. There ars not many people new, young or old, who do not glido on their rapid and josful way out of this muddle—but not quite so much of a mud of = city.aa it once was—on the rluging iroc-rail, and pardly think what s task it wes to get_out of it, in the bost way possitle, before 184V, . _.EQW, THEX, DID IT LOOK MERE, when there was Dot much tosee ? Travelers came along here sometimes. Thoy frequently wrote down, for onr edification I suppose, what they saw here. These travelars are very worthy ople, snd ought to_be patronized. ore than 5o Yeirs g0, toms French gentlemen took this Foute in their peregrinations over the earth, end 1hey wrote a great desl sbont Chicago and its surronndings, which in this day is quite enter- taming rending. They spellod Chicago Chicau- gau, which ~makee it quite coriain the ere too learned in letters fo spell wi Now we can read what was said of us, or C! 20, ten years nearly before there waa any Chi- ¥aio, if we look up Maj. Long's “Narrative of the Expedition” somewhere, which Prof. Keat- ing wrole in 1823. - In the hirst place, ho says: e wero much dissppoiuted at the sppearance of Chicago and its vicinity.” They msy have been the first, but certainly not the laat, who bave been disappointed in that way. Chicago 4ss always been city of disappointment, one way or another, sadly or joyfully, We think the #isopils-disappointed proponderats, The fact is, ‘Maj. Long came hers too soon. P A3, LONG CONTINUES : 44 The appearanca of the country nesr Chicago offery but few features npon which the eye of the traveler can. dwell with pleasure. Thers is ¢oo much nniformuty in the scenory [he might havessid no econery at alll, The extensive water-prospect -ia A waste uncheckered by islands, .unenlivened by the spreading canvas, and the fatiguing monotony of which 18 in- creased by the equally andiversified prospect of the land-scenery, which uffords no reliof to the sight, a8 it conaists merely of & plain, in which ‘but faw patchea of thin and gcrubby woods are observed scattered here and there. . . . The villige [villega!] presents no - cheering proepect, as, notwithstanding ita antiquity, it copsists of but few huts, inhabited by & .miserable race of men, ecarcely equal to Indians from whom they &re descended. Thair Jog or bark hounos are low, filthy, and disgust fng, dieplaying not the lesst trace of comfort. Hihia pictars might be finishod off by saying that, boside tho lake on tho east, Chicago, in soms seasons of tho year, was bounded by water on the west,—surrounded (except by the little belt of sandridgos, thrown up by the action_of the waves and the winds, nlong the lake-share) by water and marsh. That, in & short time after emigrants began to leave foot-marks ad whebl- iracks behind them, it was cut off from the main Iaud by 8 sea of mud. Aud 8o it was that, from 1832 to 1836, and 80 on tul past 1840, - THE TBAVELER OUT OF CEHICAGO, # he movedupon oneof Frink's old stages, 88 they mostly departed at night, could hear dunng many wecks in fall and spring the tramp of the horses' hoofs in water,—splash, splash,— for a distance of 8 - to 10 mites, until they made the Sand-Ridge at Widow Berry's Point (mow Riverside), or the. Osk Ridge, west, or Suther- iand's, st the point of the .Sand-Ridge, north- west. Bo the emigrants, unused to such quaking foundations for & road, departed on their wast- ern coursa, seexing a_bome beyond the sea of mnd, and toiled_on hardly (14 miles in fiftoen daye, pever dsring to look behind thew), till thoy _struck lend, fer beyond the O'Plain, s evérybody called the sluggiah river that now divides Muywood from Chicago. In the summer-season, or aftor tho water bad sbeided in the spring, 8o that vegetation could start up, the whole boundless contiguity bo- came & £ca of green,—coarso, renk slongh- s growing up, except whero trodden down ¥ travel ; roots, knitting strong on the surface, made s tough but elastio sod, that would trembla under the tread of the wild baffalo, if any ever came along ; but, as they didn’t, the. trembling was mostly under the wheels .of the Hoosier wegon or Frink's crazy stages which he im- ported trom the Connecticut River Valley, for- geiting torub out the labels on their yelow Eides, «* Springfield and Hartford,” or * North- empton and Greenfield.” In the fall, tho frort having peared the rank 8, and the Indian-summer sun having dried t0 & crisp, the kindling spark was ‘sare o bo sgent from some quarter. the fire swept over ibo whole swampy range, and the_ old settlers op- Joyed the sight of the memorabls . ",‘ mum;s ox FIRE,” got up in the best style. . The way to get over this endless Slough of Despord, which msde many 8 heart feel mora deepondent than ever Pilgrim felt (theso hearts of the ew eettlers who had left the green hills of New England for tho green prairies of Illinois, tired of alife-long tug upon the hills, tired now with their firat tug with mud),—tho way to get over eafely was an unusual precedent: Follow inno man’s track. Btrike ont boldly for your- self alone, If you can possibly find a apace uu- trodden, where no wheel-tracke mark the way, Where no foot has broken down the Sough grass, or ruthlessly crushed the prairie- flower, then venture boldiy, drive on with faith aud configence, try foot and wheel; the tough 803, clogely kniited, ss it is, by the strong 100:s of the grass, will safely bear you up. But go Dot where others havo gono before you. Their beaten paths are deceptive. For, once broken throngh, this ses of mud will prove bottomless. Your wigon will go down to the axles, and you ill goon soo the way strewn with such wrocks, or eigne where & foarfal contost has been waged W¥ith the engulfing flnid. - And thus it wag thut the first roads to Chiosge WERE VERY PECULIAR in contrast with roads in_sny otber section. They grew wider and wider the more they were (?hvded. There wzs no nlnLyhin {ntll{owmg axl; other wayfarer's example. Thus tho way from the green fields where farmers delighted to dwed, on tho Fox River, was 38 it ap- prosched’ Chicago, euzgestive in breadth, if nob gfllwm of the brosd way that leads to destruc- 0. E Tn those days there were in the City of Qhi- g0, planted by tho side of tne unpeved and un- Dlanked etreets, yet linod by sidewalks made of Fine planks runniog lengihwise, such notable Dlacea 15 these : The first Tremont House, on the Rorthwest corner of Lake and Dearborn straets ; the Ohio House, on LaSalle, north of Lake ; tho New York House, on Randolph_street, west of Wells ; the Saganosh (the Indisn name of & celebrated Chuef, Billy Cadwell), on the corner of Lake and Market (site of the Lincoln Wig- ¥am); aod the EXCHANGE, Homewhers else (let those tall who remember). d the ivterior of auy one of thess was much e the interior of any other one, oxcopt that the Tremont had a little wore the aristocratic Alr, because it was three stories high. These all bad what were called BAR-ROOMS, © rooms in which everybody staid, and overy- body did wha they pleased.—or thoso davs ware body but tho “ pigger.” They had the cannon and chareoal stove, Which was kept chock fi = coal. Ou the side Wu‘l"e 8 Tow nful?eu‘::{mzm{h:;- pository for old shoes and slippers, and & ros of Pezs on which to hung the dosts of the we travelers. The floors were all painted with thy bluck of the precious soul, brought in from the etreet; and 80, withal, we might say, wore paint. €d the chairs and Leuches, Around these can. tua-stoves were usally found, m early sprng, b of vouthfal loafers, foet clevatol fo o with thcir chests, »yisting tubscco-juise upon the Hoors, or upon definite . marke upon the rusty stoves, and discourniug upen the wonderful top.ca of the times: of the coach Leing stuck fasy m the mud opposite Trink's ofsice, o the mail before the Post-Offico, on tho part of Raudoiph sircet which had Loon marked * bottomless,” ns & warning to the driv- ers of'teams; and of such a number of porsons being - ‘“ SLEWED " (sloughed) on tho nrairic. . This being alowoed did Dot moan 1hat they bad boen * corzed,” orintox- icated, but simply that they had got stuck fast in tho mud, someshere beyond redemption. And theso interosting young men were prairie, or mud pilota; and their vocation was to solicit jobs from the farmors from the country, or travelers going West, of piloting thom over tho wet prairie tothe sind-ridge, and _pointin them the way to safo landing on_hard ground, 1at wes ono of the ways in which tho enter- Prisiog youth of. early Chicago carned & liveli- od. THE FIRST MADE ROAD out of Chicago was the so-callod Archer Road,— beiug, at this end, tho Archer avouuo of this time, This road was mado in 1836, for the pur- Poso of fucilitatng the work upon the caual, and, Commencivg at the roed runuing south, which is uow State streot, foilowed the ssmo line it uow does, southnwast to Canalport, or Bridgeport, than parallel -with the Canal tothe Suwmit Level. This rosd was of great service to the Caual, and was named * Arckc: Road,” from Gen. Archer, oue of tho enterprising Canal Com- miesionors who projected it. ~This was the only worked roadway out of Chicago for many years. But it only eorved for a small portion of the business coming into the city, then rapidly be-. coming & commercial centre. The emi- groots were Chicago’s first patrons. Pro- vieions wero imported from the. East. But,” a8 the State began to bo " settled in the northern portion, there seemed to be = necessity for better wagon-roads to the west and norihwest. And thero was great complaint medo by the farmers just begiuning in those directione, Thero was at that time boarding st the Ohio Houso a printer recently from Michigan, but a fow yeara before from Mussachusetts, working in the American offico (the Whig newspaper, published by Stewart), by the name of CARVER BUTTERFIELD. This person is deserving of special mention among the carly journeymen-printers of Chi- cago, and his nsme may 4l bercafter s lace in some reminiscenos of the West. He eard the farmers who stopped at tho Ohio House Iament the great difiiculty they had to encounter with the mud in getting into the city. ' Butterfield was a beliover in enterprise. He supposed all that would be required to moke & good road over the wet prairio was to tarnpike it, build up a high road above the water, with deep side guttors; ond that the trafiic wounld n time pack it into & hard, durable road. Without consultation withany one, ho Wrote, aud eet up, and printed a public notice. in the American, calling a meeting of peoplo from the country and citizens of tho town, interested in having good roads in sod out of the city, to assemblo st the Court House 1t & time specified. No Dnamo was migned to it But tho request was rea- onable and timely. A very respectable meat- ing sssembled. The result was the second turn- pike road out of the city,— THE NORTHWESTERN TURNFIER (it became afterward the Northwestern Plank- Road,—~nor, in city limits, Milwaukee a\'ann:g, —the then northwestern thoronghfare that made & point for a good road at Satherlsnd’s Tavern, at the Sand Ridge (now Ohester Dickinson's), and leading also to the moro popular stand further north on the ridee, kuown as Wentworth's, where now tho Northwestern Railroad crosses “the Plank-Rond, and where the good David L. of Temperance_houses in Chicago, bLaving bought out Wentworth, laid out the Villopge of Jefferson, ono of the earliest of our suburban towns. But- torfield very likely did not attend the public meeting, he was not & man for show, but better for work ; but he it was #hi0 set that ball in motion, and there are very few persons who ever know that he bad a hand in it. But theso carth roads, at best, wers only mud- roads in tho spring and mn wet times ; and would become badly cut up, go that at times no other section could Dbeat Chicago in the roughness of her rosds. They never gave satisfaction. There was too broad a kurface of earth which had been drenched and soaked with water from untold ages, until tho soil was liko & eprini. The first practicablo atep to make the rogion around Chicago habitable, and withk a foundation for an oartir-rosd. was tho SYSTEM OF DRAINAGE which was _ipitiated in zbout 1846, and which, under much difficulty and soms log-rolling and lobby-work at Springfield, was mado legal 1n tho Drainage Commission, wbich anthorized the tazation of land for drainsge purposcs, and which begot moro grumbling, open hostility, and charges of persousl intercst and speculation than almost any loeal public act, and which has resulted in good with scarco & dreg of evil: If haa revolationized the surroundings of Chicago, and made meny sites for towns where geese once delighted topaddle .and the muslat to burrow mid reeds nd rusbes. Dr. Dyer was ono of these odious Draiuage Commissioners, and no- body should Llamo him if ho did male many a quarter of swamp at, $5 sn acre appear as dry Iand after tho flood. PLANE ROADS followed next in the ordsr of improvements. In theae the Dostor also bad & large siare,—the public crumblingly Pasiog s small feo as & com- pensation for being kept oat of the mud. Bui the roads nevor paid their owners; they soon wore ont, and went out of fashion, buving sorved the public a very good turn in their short day. TUE IRON BOAD, which ie the beet name for the steam railroad (and 80 the French and other Europenns call it), Das been the road that enpplsntod mud, and has gone over and through firo and waler, and has Foade Chicago what it is. All its broad, Oat sur- face, the small difference between the wall lovol of the leke and the land- lovel of the - country, ' i what makes Chicago, above any other important cily of tho land, available for ruilway transpor- tation, and ite connection with the navigation of {Lio 1ake. Here are commercial advantages which could be little appreciated when the bottom of Chicago was a shakibg quagmire, Time con- ners all things. So Chicago has arisen out of the depths. Her surroundings, 88 seen by ihe firat settlers, aro only traditions of the past. s Z. EssTMUN. Roberts, kecpar ‘Chree Court Benutics of the Last Cens tury. : » As the reissued portraits of the three beanti- f#al Miss Gannings, seen amidst the gay throng in the gallery of the Irish House of Parliament 28 it appeared 1n 1790, are sttracting g0 mauch attention in Liverpool, it may interest many to Imow somewhat about -those celobrated Trish beauties, They were born in Roscommon Conn- ty, Iroland, and wero tho daughters of & Gen. Gunning. - ‘Their parents wera respectable, but by Do means rich. Thomas Sheridsn, at the time lessce of ‘one of the principal theatres in Dablin, was sccustomed to let them have access o the the theatrical wardrobe to dresa themeelves when they went to the castle or any of the balls in the them gay city of Dublin: Thay resolved %o go upon tho stage; indeed, it is said the eld- st did appear for 70 pights on tho boards of MMr. Bhenidan., Howaver, be’ provailed umpon thom, before they finally committed themselves, $o ake their protey faces to London for one soa- son. The fascinafing beautiea goon threw Lon- ‘don into an amazing excitement. On their sp- pearing in Rotten _row and Vauxhall they wers Imobbed, the crowd forming an_avenue throuch which they had to walk. It may bo remarked thst, though poor, they dotermined to hwve «lords” for their husbands, and they were not long in securing them, to the ragoof all the fine ladies in London. The eldest one met the Duke of Hamiton at an evening party, and his grace fell eo desperately in love with the Irish beauty tbat be determined to be mar- ried thero and then, midnight though it was! A married lady was nob ’pmnnl, and only & eort of “couple beggar” clergyman; however, a bed-curtain ring was gn‘% and the Bappy pir thoro and then united. - Walpole, of Strawberry Hill notoriety, tells amusing etories of the high state kept up by the Duke and his besn- tifal byide; at all times preceding their company from the drawing-room to the mfi;:s-mm, 8eat- ing themselves together at the hesd of their ta- ble, enting of the samo plaio, drinking ont of e aame plass, and_studiously making a point Y aover drinking wine with any of their guests whoso rank was below that of 83 u}:am T Duk: il jed ; she then was marri g of Hamilton Qi own her descands ha the Duko of ATEY 1 i tho husband of_Princess P ;ga]i::::h sipser becsme Lady Coven- TLouiso, . try. and, itia said, trutl Lilfed biorsell by bho excesy o8 o eroand of the iled Batal - Fs ?nl::ug.“:vdumu:::fl:: r«; the Hon. Mr. Blakeney. Lfully or not, that she ve use of white paint. ‘relation axd Cons . to rotranstorm. LITERATURE. Conscrvation of Energy. THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY. Ly Barrocz Brewart, LL.D.. F. R. 8., Professor of Natural Pilosopty at the Owens Coiiege, Manchesier, New York:'D. Appleton & C3. Volume 70f tha Inter- national Scleuiific Serios. No discovery io Scienco has been more prolific of results thau the modern doewrine of the Cor- ion of Forees. Grove and Mager, in 1342, first gaso expression to the theory, that the diercnt manifostations of forces are mutually convertible; and that foico in itself i indescructible and pereistent. Joule, after au claborate senes of experiments, estab- lished the méchanical ejuivalont of beat, and reduced it to 1te simplest term as & unit of work. Tyadall, in that most fascinating of books of Science, ¢ Heat asa Mode of Motion,” followed it through its various transformations, acd wrung fcom flames nod liguids, iron and ice, the smallost particles of mattor, and the sun him- el the secret of their changos, and showed them but tho outward visible appearances of matter acted upon and controlled by an imper- ishable force. Nor bas the investigation rested hers. Mon early began to suspect that vitality {tself was eubject to this same law; and that the growth and development of orgauio lifa, and sl the thought and motion that conatitute indi- viduals and socioties, had their place under the same conditions that regulate the expansion of .an iron bar, or raiso water into steam under the application of heat. Theories of the possibility of a perpetnal motion, no less than the sudden acquisition of material, social, nd intellectual prosperity through tho emactment of Inws, rocolved a death-blow when once the fact waa established that tho sum of ‘forccs is constant, =and incapable either of croation or annikilstion; and that re- sults are directly and inevitably rolated to the smount of exertion or energy put forth, which aimply tranafers the abiding place of s0 much forcs from one factor of physical or social phe- nomena to another, - Enorgy is » power which the body possesses of overcoming resistanco. It is of two voriotios : molecular or invisible energy, and mechanical or visible cnergy. The first doals with the back- ward and forward motion which tskes place among tho moleculos of a body, without chang- ing its position in regard tosurrounding objects ; tho last with the movement of bodics and organ- isms through eprce. Aloreover, there is an en- ergy of mofion 2nd an energy of position,—nasin a cannon-ball in actual motion, and the eame ball at rest upon the top of a house. This dis- tinction holds for invisible molecular energy as truly as it does for that which 1s visible, En- ergios may be conveniently classified as foilows : 1. Energy of visible motion,—as in the planets, & running stream, meteors, etc. 2. Visiblo en- ergy of position,—as in & Lead of water, & bow strung for use, or a clock wound up. - Between theso is the case of a pendulum, which, in vi- brating, alternately displaya both modes. Theso are sawples of visible energics. The following are invisible, namely: 1. Heat. 2. Molecalar soparation. . Chemical ‘separation. 4. Elec- trical separation. 5. Electricity which is con- tinuogs. 6. Radiant ouergy which proceeds to us from the sun. T'he sum of these taien togotheris constant, despite the continuons changes from one to tho other. The evidence upon which this zssertion is based is peculiar,—peculiar in its magnitudo, inita universslity, in the subile nature of the sgenta with which it deals. It cannot be proved a8 We prove the conservation of matter in chem- ical experiments, but, under certain test condi- tione, wo obtaia resuits which prove the law to be true in all cages where rigorous oxperimont is available, All work can be changed into heat, but, although heatcan be changed back into work, all of the heat cannot be utilized. Beyond whas' is squandered in the shapaof fiiction, somo escapes into spaco, and leaves the earth altogether. We cannct prevent ita going, and, with refarenca to the eartl, cannot say that tha sum is constzat. But the physicist, in anfold~ ing the laws of Naturo, stops not at the earth on which we live. Gravitation bolds 1ts sway in the furthest regions of spaco, and hera wo find our energy whichis dissipated. Wo may, indeed, sssume that, for all the energy radiated into space, an equal quantity returns to us in energy radiated from the sidereal system. But, putting this aside, the main msource of our planetary energy is the sun. It iastored in the ehape of fuel, t0od, & head of water, ;tides, and tho cner~ gy of chemical separation in pative sulphur, iron, etc. ; beeides which, there is tho energy of air and water in motion. Conscionsly and unconscionsly, this energy is gradually becoming transformed into besuty, somo proportion of it is beyond our power Hence tho startilng concluston that more and more will tho mechanical energy of the universe bo transformed into a univer- sally-diffasod heat, natl it will no longor be afit abode for humaxn beings, since the production of work and the possibility of life dopend upon dif- ferences of temperature. _Although, therefore, s strictly-mechanical gonse, thers is o con- sorvation of enorgy, yet, as rogards usefulness or fituees for Living beings, tho energy of the ugiverss is in procoss of deterioration. It is not within the province of Prof. Stowart to deal with tho application of thess principles 0 other than inanimsate matter, but in an appen- dix aro added two essays : on the ‘‘Correlation of Vital with Chiemical and Physics! Forces,” by Trof. Josoph Lo Conte; aud the ‘‘Correlation of Nervous and Mental Forces,” by Prof. Alex~ ander Bain ; which will give tho reader an idoa of the relations of energy to life. This work very opportunely follows that of Prof. Cooiko upon the *‘New Chemistry,” ana may be read in counection with it to great ad- vantage. The two combined cannot fal to pra- sent & clear concoption of the present condition of chemical aud physical science. It iu poseiblo, with reference to the work of Prof. Stewart, that some faint tinge of disappointient may be felt by those poreona who are familier with the more advanced and profounder treatment of the sub- ject by Grove, Tyndal!, Helmholtz, Spencer, and others; but, beating in mind the purposs of the worls forming the International Scries, the vol- ume will bo found admirably adapted to the wants of those who desire & plain statement of the theory, unincombered with technical and minute detaila, A Novel by Rhoda Broughton. NANGY: A Novez, By Rmopa Brovanrtoy, Author of “ Good-Bye, Sweethoart,” etc. New York: D, Ap- pleton & Co, _ . This is, in the first half of it, altogether iho raciest book we have read in s long while. It has much of the spicy flavor of Misa Alcott's “Littlo Women;" andrecalls that charming story by npumerous points of resemblance. Mias Broughton does not prosper well in the concep- tion of & plot, and her characters are apt to be inconeistent, but she has an extraordinary fao- wulty for sustaining a colloquy ; and, as there is nothing in all the world more fascinating than a crisp, witty conversation, she koeps her readers ‘perpetually amnused by the exercise of this talent. Bhe manages climaxes, t00, cleverly; and noar- ly every chapter winds ap with & smart, sharp | culmination, that is delightfully exhilaratiog. We said her characters were apt to be incongra- ous ; ‘but, for all that, she continues to throw a spell of interest sbont them that is particularly tantalizing, it 80 foils and yet succoeds in trick- ing our common sense. In most of hor books, the attraction cencres in o wayward yonng wom- an vith unnaturally-exaggerated ' qualities, yot with & vigorous and piquant originality that re- conciles us to her most outrageous zbsurdities. Bhe is the chief figure-piece inthe present work, and is decidedly the most engaging compound of nces and imperfections that Miss Broughton as yot produced. 2 Nancy is her namo,—Miss Rroughton does not dub hor heromes with high-souudiag titles,— ‘aud she tells her own story in o sunple, uncon- scious way, withont reservo or affectation. Sho is just 19 at the powt whers sho begins, and the third in the family of eix robus:, boisterons children, who revel healthily in the very joy of Living. Their home ia aa English conniry-man- sion. Thoir father is s domcstio tyrant, with » meanness infecsing bis austerity which makes Lim odions to his ontire family. For the most the children keap out of his way, confinin themselvesto their school-room, amusing an chenshing each other in & loving communion of chiidish pursnits aod pastimes. Soddenly there comes to visit their father sn old friend from Indis, Sir Roger Tempest, arich, Le: snd handsome bachelor. e first meets the children—Tfor children they sre despite the advancieg youth of the eldest—at prayers, the ono occasion in the day when the whole house- Dold is assembled for the eako of discipline and coromonial. When the worship is ovar— “Wa father (writes Nancy), and coldly and vy Eoe Dl ST s weiiag 0 recelsy our ta’ chill salate, I steal 3 second giance st our guest. Yes, he is old certainly. Despite the youth of $is excs, despite the mprighiness, the utter ‘fresdom from superfiuons flesh—fromi the ugly, sbaky bulki- neas of age—in his tall and stalwazt figure, still he is old,~old {n the eyes of 19,—61 old us fsther, perhaps, —though in much better preservation,—48 or 49 for 18 0ot his hatr fron-gray; and his hesvy monstachs, and the thick and silky beard that falla on his brosd breast, ars they not irongray, to0? I havo dropped my small and unwilling Kiss on fatber's forehead, and. sald ¢ Good-night’ in s tone as supprestedly hostile ax his own, NowImaygo. We may all go, I am the Lat, or T think I am, 1o psss through the swing-door., I Burry slong the passage to join the restin the ehool-room, 1 reprovetus boss for the rush impiety of their demesnor. I fecl s fuot on my garments bo- hind, and bear 8 long, eracking sonnd that I too, too well kn w to mean guliers.” “You beast!" cried I, in good mervous English, arpiy round witn my band rafrol in get {0 thiat $# the tuird time this weck that you have T stop duita er'auare, I must relsemy band considerably higher than 1t 16 at present. Angels and minizters of grace | What has haprened? I have called Gen. Sir Roger Timpest a beast, and ofered to_cuff him. “For a mo- ment; 1 am dumbfounded, Then—for shyness has Dever been my bescttig sin, nd nomothing in the ga- ‘nfal laughter ¢f his eycs resssures me—1 Lold out the injured portion of my raiment, and sy : e e son sca what you have done, T zm sura you will forgive mej but of course I mever dresmt it was you.’ 3 Tre takos hold uf onoend of the rént, Tof the ofher, 304 we botl examire it. “Jlow exceodingly ciumsy of me! How could it have happened ? £ beg JOT pardon ten thousand e words there 1a polite remorso snd solicitade ; in hls faco only o fricndly mirth, He is old, that is clear, Had ho boen young, he would have said, with that varoty and suitability of spitheta so charactéristio of thia generation 3 T am awfully sorry | How awfally stupld of me What an awful dnffer I am {7 Of course, nftor this informal and eccontris in- troduction, cho acqusintance betwoen Nancy and Sir Roger ripens rapidly. The girl's irreprossible and innocent candor catpivates tha geutleman, and in o briof kpaco of time he pruposes for her band. Sho feels the charm of bus Kindly and up- 1ight nature; yet more to bs fread from her {ather’s harsh rule than for love of Lim, she ao- copts his offer. Thoy aro married, and tho prog- cct of & happy uaion is favorable, notwithstand- ing tho disparity in their agea. ?}p to this point the buok i8 very gay and smusiug. Tho lively play and chatter of the children, and Nancy's blunt, bluodering frank- boss, that precipitates bor into continual Judi- erous difficulties, provoke incessant smiles and Inughter. Bat now tho story gradually clouds over, uptil it becomes distreseingly gloomy. Sbyness, constraint, and lack of tact on. tho part of bozh originate painful misuuderstandings be- tweon the couple who ghould have been at one with each other. An intriguing woman dnves Nancy half-frantic with causcless jealousy, and &n unprincipled Lothario involves her in _much undesorved misery, Sbo is transformed iato somotbing very liko a elraw, and, for & period of nearly Lwo years, leads her husband a sad life of it. Then, over tho gravo of & beloved sister, thoro come repentance and mutnal explanations and forgivencus, and tho story finishea with love restored, and full of hope again. From this brief synopsis, and the short pas- sage extracted, iv will bo scon that Miss Brough- ton does not depend upon plot, but upon narra- tive and dimlogue, for ber effects. She uses plain and strong English, never picking for nice terms, but the moat forcible and clastic, that will tell what she has to say in tho plumpest mauner. She dooa noc Lesitate to aay leg when she means leg, nor to employ any othor direct and honest word, although prudery may have pronounced it unbecoming. Bhe givesin this waya good many shocks to elegant American nerves, but they are wholesome and invigorat- ing. A study of her sinewy stylo would havo s result liko that of essociation with a bhoalthy, uosoplusticated mature. It would tond to root out foolish notions, and put scasible ones in their place. Words have a power over thoughts that 18 somotimes unsuspected. Fhe Learned Blacksmith. TEN-MINUIL TALK ON ALL SORTS OF SUB- JECTS. By Emu Boznrrr, With Autobiography of the Authior, Boston: Lee & Bhepard, It is abont twonty-five years sinco Mr., Burritt first appoared in the character of authorin the United States. He then published a littlo book entitled * Sparks from the Anvil,” which was re- ceived with much favor on account of tho special intorest attachig to *the Learned Black- smith,” as well as for its own merit. His active public life at home an abrosd now being over, o hes sgein resumed the literary pursnits which gave him cclebrity in his early manhood, and sends out the present collection of short papers to renew his connection with his friendly readers of the past and present. i Tho “talks”—as he styles them—ombrzce & great diversity of topic. 3ir. Burritt's wide ex- perience and large attainments ensble him to speak intelligontly upon an uncommon range of subjccts, aud to sdd to each some usefal in- formation or rofiection. But tho essaye are not the moat interesting portion of the volume. The satobiography, condensed within fifty-three pages, gives the book an exceptional valne. It presents an example of industry and achieve- mrat which has fow equals. It was written in order {0 correct many erroucous statoments con- corning Mr. Barritt’s career which have crept into priot, and also with the modest hopo that aspiring young men might find in it encourage- ment, and perhaps suggeation. Elihu Burritt was born in Now Britain, Conn., in 1810, and was the youngest of ten childron. His father owned a little, hard-soiled farm, from which ho could obtain but a partial support for his family. He, thorofore, combined tho trade of the shoemaker with that of the farmer, plying the avl in wintry snd rainy weather, and tho hoo insommsr. He died in 1828, and Elhu soon after appronticed himself to o blacksmith. Ho had the hankering for learning which was com- mon to his famuly, and at the age of 21 left Lis aovil to attend for a term at the village school. As every day's absence from the smithy cost him tho loss of a dollar in wages, ho was stimulated to make the most of his intellectual opportunity. Mathematica was his favorite study, 2od he gave himself to1t almost exclusively. Returning to the savil when tho quarter’s schooling was over, be continued to work on mantal problems whils dealing blows with tho sledge-hammer. He was already pottering a little over French and Latin, and found that it was_casier to, con parts of speech than to carry on intricato mathe- matical calculations during the process of heating and hammering iron. A sear pussed 20d ho mastered the Greek grammar, and now ho resolved to havo another three months of uninterrupted stady. This time he went to New Havon, but not to Yale. small attanments at 22, sud 6o set down undor the shadow of the college, on_the first morning inthe city, with the determination that, if he could construe two linea of Homer by nightfall, bo wonld ask no help of tutors. Beforo the aftornoon had wened the victory was accomplish- ed. o bad tronslated fificen lines, and com- mitted to memory the originals. Then, ho tells us, ho strolled ont urder the classic elms, and, looking up st the college-walks, indulgedin & half-defant emotion of independonco. He kept seven langunges under way this winter, snd at the end of the soason folt a reluctanco to drop them and go back to manual labor. He engaged in echool-kecping, but Lia health failed under the conflnemont, and he accepted a. position =3 commercial traveler. Just before the financial crash of 1837, he invested the whole of bis gains in a small mercantile enterprise, s0d in tho genoral punic nd rain Lo lost overs- thing. Upon this he resorted to his trade once more, locating in Worcestor. whoro he had ao- cesu to tho library of the Antiquarian Society, which waa rich in books in foreign languages. Ho renewed his study with tho old zest; transiated Icclaudic sagas and Syrizc _epintles, and finally wrote o letter in Celto-Breton to the Roryal Antiquarisn Society of France, which elicted the compliments of tho Bociety upon the unusual feat. All the languagesof Europe and several of Asia wera by this time mastered. Beveral gentlemen of Boston, hearing of his extroor- dinary acquisitions, invited Lim to sccept the advaniages of Harvard at their expense ; but he gratefally declined, maofully choosing to hesw ous his own destiny. In 1841 ho was urged to appear upon the ros- trum, aod accordingly propared a lecture, in which ho attempted to prove the falsity of tho doctrine, Naseilur, non fil, sustaining his argu- ment by the evidencs of bLis own case. The lec- ture was delivered sixty times in the course of tho season, after which the lecturer laid off his broadcloth, tied on his leather apron, and began pounding tho suvil-chorus again in Worcoster. While writing out s new lecturo for the ensuing season, his thoughta wero attracted to tho grand El:m of uniting the nations of the earth in the bonds of brothornood, His heart became en- listed in the snbject. He suspended his studies, and entered into an active career in its promul- gation. He started a weekly paper devoted to Anti-Slavery, Peace, Temperance, ote., and sot into circulation throngh the newspapers of ths Union a serics of short articles sdyocating Pezce, under the titloof “The Olive-Leaf Miegion.” The qualities which riznalized his success in the acquiremont of hngn.:e:a were now devoted with similar assiduity tc the sdvancement of philan- thropic enterprisas. ; For the next twenty years, Mr. Barritt spent much of his time in Lurops, Jaboring in_tho cause of Peace. He was active in the establieh- ment of “The Loague of Umversal Brother- hood,” snd in bringiog about _international peacé-ascemblies in Frankfort, Brussels, Lon- don, Paris, etc. ‘‘Tho Olive-Leaf Miesion " was at in operation on the Continent, the papers &m; translated into saven differont languages. In one of the intervals passed in America during Ho was ashamed of his . theso years, he Iabored hard to perfect a scheme for the extinction of. Slavery. Meantime, ho tilled his stony farm in New Britain with his own hands, and, in summer, did- most of the writing devolving upon him, “in his shirte aleoves, on the head of a lime-cask in his barn,— | pea and hoe altarnating through tho dar.” iTo 2d scquired mo property tn all his’ life past. His time and toil bad been given to the numane cauges which ba served, only so much being re- setved 83 would gecuro him :he actual neces- saries of life. At times be had reduced his eating-expenses to 16 cants 3 day. tha. he mighe mako the lighteat poseible driuzht upon tho fuuds supporting tho ovjec's ho had st hears. In 1865, Mr. Burrite was appoiuted Consular Agent for the Dnited States at Birminghsm, 80d held the position four yeara. The mubifi- cont annual allowances for the Agency was $1,500, sud tho exponses £1,000,—leaving €500 for the incumbent to-grow rich upon. But the office afforded him fecilities for literary work of o con- f)em}ll sort, which mede it valuablo to him. uring his various sojourns in England, Mr. Barritt made extended pedestrian tours, travers- ing the island from end to end, and picking up ou his way all tho information accessible, par- ticularly rogarding agriculturo and tho manage- mont of model farms and dairies, Everywhero, 8nd at all times, he waa busy as the boe, gather~ ing n[;‘umrea for tho use of others rather than solf. In 1870 he returned to America, and took up his reeidence on the old farm in New Britain, with the intention of omploying the residue of his days in quiet and studious pursuits; snd there, in the midst of his books and tho enjoy- ment of a well-carnod repose, his autobiography leaves bim. Itis uot 80 much for the importanco of the work which 3r. Burritt has sccomplished, or for any especial renown which he has won, that his life 1mpresses . us, but for the rare aad noble traits of his charncter—bis wonderful industry, euergy, unselfiehness, and sisaplicity. Waith all that hie has dono to educato Limself and beuefit bis fellows, he 13, to tho last, single-hearted and nnassuming, coutent to rest in the evening of bis dsys with nono of the rowards of succossfal men. "It is one of the beautiful lives that om- bollish human history. Lectures by tho Eev. F. D. Maurice. THE FRIENDSHIP. OF BOOKS, AND Orizn Lectono, ?’; froRer. 7. D, Wavpice, Edited preface by T. Huamxs, . London : M Tillan § Cor - S As itwas s profitable thing to come in contact with Mr. Maurice personally, to observe bis con- duct and listen' to his conversation, so it is to resd his writings, into which ho put his best solf. Mr. Maurice did nothing slightly or superficially. The wholo woight of his feeling and principle went into whatever work ho under- took. Lecturing constituted an important part of his life's labor, and ke delivered a vast num- ber of addresses, in all parts of kngland, to all classcs of people. From those which are gath- ered into the present collection,~—if we have no previous knowledge of his habit,—wo may know that into overy one he infused all the learning snd thought he could command. The most was made of each opportunity, to quicken and deepan the mindsof bis hearers. No subject was tonched which he did not expand, and show pow avenues leading up to or out of it. His reverent and sympathetio spirit enabled him to elicit from the most commonplace topics subtle and volumicous meanings and uses. However much a thome may have been discussed before, ho had always somo fresh way of putting it some ray of light to shed upon it, somoe original uufigauum {0 mcreaso its value. ut the worth of his discourses is not confined to their subject-matter. It lics almost as much in the instrument through which he conveys his communications s in the communications them- selves. It is not often that an author's style mirrors his character #0 truly,—that bis language 80 porfectly reflccts his mind. Immediatoly there is the feeling that wo are in communication with the man, not more by what ho says than by his way of saying it. His clear, quiot, plain, and earnest words botray correspouding traits in his nature, and also teach, by their truth and trans- parency, a now idea of their own eanctity. ‘There are thirtcon lectures in the volume be- fore us. Tho first is named in ite titlo, and the othera troat Words, Books, Tte Use and Abuse of Newspapors, Cliristian 'Civilization, English History, Milton, Milton Considered 2s'a School- master, Bpeasor's “Fairio Queene,” Edmund Burke, Acquisition, Illumination, and Crtics. Attractive titles 21l of thow, and 8o handled that thoy ever deopen in interest. In discussing books Alr, Maurice holds that such as are gennine aro living things, investsd with tho personality of thoir author, and are, therefore, to be cherished as friends, their vir- tues loved, and their faults mourned and for- given; as when thoy disligure a baloved human being. Niebuhr eaid of Cicero, tiat he knew his faults a8 well a8 anybody, but that he felt as much grioved when peoplo upoke of them as if be were his brotner. When we rogard all good books with this revorence, they will do their main work ; show us ourselves in those who have lived through all history, and, by thoir weakneus as well 03 greatness, warn us from or- rors and gaoide us Lo the right and the true. i In iho focture upon Nowspapers, & fow of their i indirect uses aro’wisely poiuted ont ; the ues | of ndvertiscments, for instance,—aside from their obvions purpose,—iu brosdening our knowledga of our fellow-creatures, dixclosing their lackings and their haviugs, and how the one fiis to tho other, and both form a great bond of society. Among tho abuses uf newspapers aro our suffering the greed of news to mako ut- ter gossips of us, and gotting tho habit of tamn- ing our thinking over to editorial writers. fi'he Bpirit is the samo’ in all the lecture l serious and kindly, softening the beart stimulating the mind. It deupons our yenera- tion fur the writer, and for overything elso thaf is human. ‘Wilkie Collins’ American Novels THE DEAD ALIVE. By WiLsig CoLtwss, Fully lustrated. Boaton: Shepard & Gill. Only its authorship entitles thia story to men- tion. Itis based upon a tria) which actually oc- carred in Vermont early in the present century. Two brothers were arraigned for the murder of a man who had mysteriously disappeared. All the circamstances tended to convict.the accngod. Finally, to savo . himself, one of the brothers swore that tho other had committed tho marder, and that ho had witnessed the decd. Under the weight of such convincing testimony, the guilty one confessed- his crime in all its details. At thia stage of tho trial, the missing man suddenly roturned, alive sud well, from somo out-of-tlie-~ way prowl ho had taken of his own accord. Mr. Collins had in these facts excellent ma- terial for a first-class fiction, and 1t i3 absolutely surprising to sce how he has wasted it. From his clumsy work, one would not suspect him of a jot of literary talent. Perhaps it is & good thing to know how stupid smart people can be sometimes. Errors in Pronuncintion. PRONOUNCING HANDBOOK OF WORDS OFTEN AISPRONOUNCED, AND OF WORDS AS TO WIHICH A CHOICE OF FRONUNCIATION I3 AL~ LOWED, By RicianD SovLz and Looxs J. Caxe— prrr, Bonton: Leo & Shepard. They who aro ecrupulous in orthoepy will be apt to bave Webster's or Worcester's Un- abridged, which would secm to render this littlo manual superfluous. But it is small, cheap, and easy to bandle, can be tucked io the pocket for consnltation at any moment, and is & trustwor- thy referenco. Tlose aro commendable quali- tice, and, it they give tho book popularity, thera is an abundance of work for it to doin correcting provalent orrors in_pronunciation. Threo thou- sand words are included in its vocabalary. Books Received. BWINTON'S - SCHOOL-COMPOSITION: ADVANCED LaNGUAGE-LESSONS rou GRa: ADEA, New York: Harper & Brothers, A PROGRESSIVE GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISI TONGUE: BASED O TQE LEAULTS OF MODERN PuItoLocY. Dy Irof. WILLLX BWINTON. New York: Harper & Drothers, THE CATHOLICS AND THE PUBLIC ECHOOLS, By Hpemax MunTiN 6copprn, D, D, New York: Mason, Baker & Prate. POLITICS AND MYSTERIES OF LIFE-INSUR- ‘A;‘:;Cl_ By EL1z08 Wmour, Boston : Leo & Bhep- BWINTOX'S LAXGUAGE-LESSONS: Ax IsTROpUC- TORY GEAMMAD AND COXPOSITION ¥OR INTrue- DIATE AND GnaMuan-Graprs. Now York: Harper & Brotrere. Periodicals Received. Popular Science Monthly for March. D. Ap- pleton .& Co., New York. Contents: * The World Before the Introduction of Life ™ (illus- trated), by Prof. Charles H. Hitcheock; «Walking, Swimming, and Fiying” (illus- trated), by E. Lewis, Jr. ; * Replies to the Quar- terly Beviewers,” by Horbert Spencer; ** Physi- ology of the Passions,” by Fernand Paj 4 Qur Ancestors on the Goose Question " (i trated); ‘“ Alternations in the Intensity of Din- eases,” by Alphonse de Cendolle; Modern Op- tics and Palnting ” (illustrated), by Prof. O. N. Bood; *Electric Bignaling on English Rail- roads,” by C. E. Pascoe; “The Facial Angle” (llustrated). by Prof. Ransam Dexter, of the University of Chicago ; * Disposal of the Desd,” by 8ir Heory Thompeon; chemy." by Charles Foebel; ** Prof. Lounis Agas- siz,” by Richard iliss, Jr.; “ Editor's_Tablo;" “ Literary Notices ;" **Miscellany;" * Notes.” Atlantiz Monthly for March. H. 0. Houghton & Co., Boston, Contents: * Prudence Palfroz,"” Chaps. 111 and VIIL, by . B. Aldrich: * Wi deriogs® (poem), by A. L. Carlton; dieval Naturalist,” by J. H. A, Bone; ** Melas (poem), by W. L. Brigham; *John's Trial," P. Deming; “Ships” (poem), by H. K. Hud- 8on : ** Life in tho Backwoods of Canala,” L, by H.B.K.; *Ina Market-Wagon,” by G. P. La~ throp; 'Baddeck and Thot Sort of Thing,"” IIL, by Charles Dudioy Warver; * Patieuco Dow * Epu:m),‘b_v Marian Douglas; * Aborigines of aliforuia,” brStophen Powers; *Mose Evans,” Part IL, by Williswm M. Baker; * Winter Epi- thalamium* (poom), by Charlotto F. Bates: *Uwon Brown's Escapo from Harper's Ferry,” by Ralph Keeler; “ Eslph Koeler,” by W. D. H.; “Recent Literature;" * Art:" % Music." Harper's Magazins for March. Harper & Bros., New York. Contents: *The Li Houses of tho United States™ (illustrateq), by Charles Nordboff; * Advice,” by Elza- both Akers Allen; *The Chovalior Bay- ard” (llustrated), by James Grant Wilson; “Bermuda” (illustrated), by Christiana Rounds} 4 Archibald Constablo and His Friends " (illus- trated), by A. G. Constablo ; “ My Mother aud I; A Love-Story for Girla” (illusirated), by Dinah Mulock Craik; * Prayer of Colnmbus,” %v'wm Whitman ;' * Observatories in_tha United States " (illustrated), by Prof. J. E. Noureo ; * The Living Link * (illustrated), by Prof. James De Millo; ** Tuo Rights aud Wroags of Seamon,” by Charles Nordhotl ; *Jo and 1" by Harriet Prescott Spofford ; ** The Mission of Si. Valeutine ™ (with llastratod initiai), by Fan- nie . Kobinson ; “Tno Night Train’ for Pars- dige " (Accommodation), by Lonise E. Furniss ; * Love Amoug the Graves,” by Mary B. Dodga “Tiecoliectious of an Old' Stager ;” *“ The sido of the Window,” by Joln James Piat; * A Bchema for Veugeance,” by Mrs. Fiauk Mc- Carthy ; ** Lyric of Action,” by Paul H. Hayno ; “Lewis Gaylord Clark,”'by T. B. Thorpe; “Edifor's Easy Chair;” “ Editors Literary ;" “ Editor's Scientific_Record ;" Edi- tor's Historical Record ; 'y 1 “Lditor's Drawer” (with illagtrations.) Galazy for March, Sheldon & Co., Now York. Coatents: “Reminiscences of Tom Marshall,” by Paul B. Shipman; ‘“Linley Rochford,” Chaps. XIL, XIfL, and SIV., by Justin McCar- thy; * Kecognition,” by Virgims Vaughn; “ Linguistic and Litérary Nofes and Queries, IV., John Stuart Mill's Autobioxraphy,” by Richiard Grant Whito; * Gustave Doro,” by Jus- tin McCarthy; “The Masquerade;” *Mme. Do Mauves,” in Two Parta, Part II., by Houry James, Jr. ; * Jobann Sebastian 1ach,” by L. L. Tuompson; ““Sonaet,” by Paul Haynes iy Russian,” by Jano G. Austin; * Confederaie States and Their Coustitution,” by J. L. M. Curry: *The Quisido of tho Cup,” by A, k. W. 8.; “Drift-wocd,” by Plulip Quilibet; * Seien- titic Miscellany " “ Current Litoraturd;” * Nob- ule,” by the Editor. Lippincott's Magazing tor Mareh, G. B. Lip- pincote & Co, Philadelphia. Conteuts: ' The New Hyperion,” IX. (illugtrated), Ly Edward. Strshan; “In s Carayan with Gorome the Painter,” L (illustrated); Malcolm,” Chaps. , VIL, IX, X., by Georgo Macdonali; “ Cunnos," by . Davey; * Sounet,” by Char- lotfo . Batés; “Whon I Was o Boarder,” by Sarah Winter Kellogg: * Fordinand ds Les- #0ps” (with a porurair), by J. E. Nourse; * A Modorn_Cressida,” by Francis Asheton; * Pa- tienco in Friendship” (poem), by AL T.; “Critic cnd Artist,” by 'itea Munsen Coan ; #On the Rocks,” by Kate Hillard; © A Winter Thought" (poem), by Martin J. Grifiin ; “Town- Planung in tho West,” by Chasles’ Edward mith ; “Our Monthiy Gossip;” “ Literature of tho Day.” Seribner’s Monthly for March, Scribner & Co., Now York, Coutenta: *Tho Great South: Among tho Mountains of Western North Caro- lina " (illustrated), by Edword King; “Tho Flowor of Love Lies Ble (voom), by Richard Heory Stoddard ; “Tho Credit Mobil- fer ;" “To Christino Nilsson ™" (poem), by Joun Frazor: “Following Footstevs” (poem), by Anny C. DBrackett; *“‘Ajellak Allsh i or. Tuo Womon of tha Arabs” (illnstrated), by Cbarles S. Tobinson; ‘“Asassiz” (poem), by James T. Frelds; Tho Hoiress of Wash- ington” (illustrated), by William R. Hooper: ** Gabriello,” (posm), by Joel Benton; **Katho- tino Earlo,” Chiaps, X., XL, XTI (illnstrated), by Adeline Trafton ; * The Tachypomp,” by Edward P. Mitchell ; Earthen Pitchers," Chaps. XIIL., XIV., by Rebecea Harding Davis: “Tho’Auto- biography of an Athieat;” “ A Dresm-Story,” by Katherine S. Macquoid ; * Topics of the Time;” #The Old Cabinet;” “Home and Socleiy;” © Culture and Progresa;” ‘Nature aud_Sci- enco” © Etchings. The Bojected,” by Frank Beard. Catholic World for March. Catholio Publica- ton Houso, New York, Contens: **John Stuart Mull 3" * The Farm of Maicoroa ;" * The Little Chapel ; * Philosophical Torinology ;™ “Late Homo ;* *Grapes and Thorns” “1Tlie Religious Policy of tho Eocond Ewpire:” * Graco Seymour'a Jlission:” “Tno Principles of Real Boiug ;" * Tho Jansenist Schismin Hol- Tooker Back ;" A Block of Gold ;" il ;7 4 Now Publications. Si. Nicholas for March. Scriboer & Co.. Now York, Contents: Frontispieco. **Edward Jen- per;” “Edward Jonner,” by Clarenco Cook; “ How the Bullfinch Is Taught to Sing " (illus- trated), by R.E. Halo; What Might Have Been Expected ¥ by Fraok R. Stockton, Chaps. X, XI, XU (illustrated) ; “ Following s Good Excm- plo (illnstrated); “The Gallent Outriders ™ (poom—illustrated) ; * Roses and_Forget-me- Recor nots " (ilastrated), by Louiea M. Alcolt; “2terch ™ (pogm—illustrated); by . 3, D.3 *'Some Curious Fichea * (illustrated) ; “Suowed In” (illustrated), by AMartha 3. Thomes; ‘An 0dd" Fellow " (il lustrated), by Hamics M. Miller; Peter Parzot” (poem), by Roso Terry Cooke ; #Wrecked at Homo™ (illustrated), by Noah Droks; * Mako-Delioro (poom—illustratea), H.; * Rascally 8andv,” by Robert Dafo “Elfn_Jack, the Giant-Eiller” (illus- trated), by T. S. Stacy; * Making Boow,” by Jamen Ricbardson; ‘% Brokon” (Picthro) 3 “Emprant da Peine " (illustrated), by T. §. 5. + «Ximpo's Tronbles,” Chaps. V., V1., VIL (iliua- trated), by Olive Thorne: ** Tho Trio” (poem— illustrated), by Mary A. Lathburys “What the Stork - Baw® (illnstrated), by = Hetta Lord Hayes Ward; “ Cossack Horsomen” (iilustrated); “Fopy Friends,” Chaps. VI, IX. X. (illus- trated), by J. T. Trowbridge} “ A 'Dsngerons Experiment ™ (picture); “ About Some -Qneer Little Poople ” (illustrated), by Donald G, Mitch- oll; “Tho Kindergarton Crow,” by Charles Parnard; “Mamic's Lecture ” (illustration); How.theBnow Came” (poem), by A. It. Anpan} “The Last Pio,” by Alice Chadbonrne; * Hans Ryitzar’s Dreakfast” (translation of German story in Febiuary namber); “ For Verv Littio Folka™ (illufitmled): * Jack-in-the-Pulpit ;" “Tho Lettor-Eox;” " Books and Music;” *The Riddle-Box” (illustrated). 0ld and New- for March. Roberts Prothers, Boston: Contents: “Old and New ;" “ Tho Wa vo Kow,” Chaps. XI-XYV., by Anthony Trol- lopa; * The Winged Victory,” by T. G. A.; = Bor aud Its Orgenization ;* * Thomas Aair,” by B, Drow ; “Tom Haliburton's Quandsry; cr, A Wachington Beason,” Chaps. V-VI, by Kate Wise and Mark Sibley Severance ; *“In the Cem- story st_Now Orleans,” by Josoph M. Field; “3fery Somerville,” by C. C. Bmith; “The Quickicdge Partners,” by Ef. A. Borton } “Ouar i R. St. John Tyr- fion,” by J. P. by H. H. McFar- Iond ; Y Thorongh Conversion;” *The Exam- " “Record of Progress;” **Masical Ro- Westmainister ~ Review—Jenuary. Leonard Beott Poblishing Company, New York. Con- tents: * The Disestablichment and Disendosw- mant of tho Church of England ;" The Metro- politan Police System:” * Christian Mineions to tho Heathen;" “Tho Working Classes;” *Jobn Stuart Mill ;¥ “ Third-Closs Fassecger- Tatifa “3cdical Charity—Its Extent and Abuscs;" ¢ Contemporary Literature.” Tniled States Medical and Zurgical Journal— January. Pablished by Drs. Small, Ludiem, Adems, and Foster, Chicago. B Demoresl's Illustrated Acathty for March., W. Jenuinga Domorest, New York. Sunday-School Teacher for March. Adams, Blackmer & Lycn Pablishing Company, Chi- eazo. : Progressize Shipbuilder. John V. Grifiths, New York. Milliner ard Dressmaker for February. Re- ceived from Emerson & Stott, No. 239 Weat Madison street. = fedical Intestizalor for February. No. 287 West Eandolph strect, Chicsgo. Literature in Boston. Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. Bosrox, Feb, 16, 1874, Publisbing bas recommenced, bat not heavily, Indeed, the prospect is not flattering for a largs pumber of books this spring. Leo & Shepard, being sbout to remove to tho corner of Fraoklin and Hawloy streets, do not care to Joad them- solves with any sdditional books; acd eeveral that they ‘wers preparing for this season were baroed in tle Sudbary street fire of a faw weeks ago. Gould & Lincoln are embarraseed. and a¢ Jeast temporarily out of the racks of productive houses. (I may add that their suepension ex- cites only regret in the trade hare. Thar wera held in very triendly regard; everybody wished thom the success thoy failed to win. Possibly they will come to tho surface again, and zesame their place in the pubjishing fraternity. If so, they will be cordisily welcomed.) Roberts Brothors seem rather inclined to folicitato them- sclves on tho populsrity of Ars. Somerville's Recollcctions—a populant; altogettior deserved —ihan to push forwardneey books. Still, they havo some, of which I will speak by and by. 3. R. 08GOOD & Co. ast year did not issue a singlo volume during January and February. This year they bave. . already published Lowes’ sinnificant work, Probloms of Life and Mind; " ** Zolda's For- tuno,” a powerfal story by K. E. Francillon ; 8 new edition of ** Euthanasy,” by tko Rev. Williara Mountford; and Mrs. Ellis’ *Life of 3rs. Bar- bauld,” with sclections from her works, in two volumes. It remains to be scen how much in- terest Mrs, Barbauld, 88 a writer'and a woman,’ has for American readers. Certainly the present goneration knows very Lttle of her, and thero- fore cares little for her now : let us hope, sicca she was eo excollent a character and so judicious an anthor, that Mrs. Ells may have the power and eatisfaction to rekindlo somewhat the ad- muration for har which our fathers and mothers cherished. Her fame ought to be dear to the good, church-going peoplo who, Sunday after Sunday, siug her hymus, albeit these have been ““tinkered " froely by compilers of hymn-books, in whose eyes tho anthors of Lymns Lave no righta that they are bound to respact. Of 3lra. Barbaald, who secms o bave been a thoronghly- seusible, practical, healthy-natured womai, Crabb Robinson, in his ** Diary,” gives many a pleasant glimpeo. showing how highly sho was z;::cmod ¥ the liierary magnetes of Lar goners- MR MOUNTFORD'S BOOK appeals to much the same class that found * The @ates Ajar™ eo ‘euggestive and comforting. 1t i very unliko that, and lacka the romantic, pas- sionaie element which mado Miss Phelps’ book 8o widoly popular. Yet, to one seck it amid the lengihening shadows of deciining Lfe and tho darkness of beresvemout, or tryivg to look even turough tho Vallsy of the Shadow of Death and diecern light beyond, ir. Mount- ford’s “Euthanasy” is fall of help and hope. It is, as becalled it, * bappy talk towards tbd ond of life;" a choertul, innpiring suryey of the world and all it otfers to ennoble and perfect mankind, and ¢f the probabilities, or what seem to the suthor tho cerfainties, of tho futare state. It i8 not blind rhapsody, or s00i; optimism, or fanatical ecatasy about heaven but o graphic ideal picture of what ia to come,— it outhines drawn’ from the analogica of the present state, but on a scalo infimitely cularged, and its colors supplied by the uspirations and sublimest imagininge of tho soal, 0sgood & Co. will soon add_* Young Brown " to their Library of, Novels. Itis a remarkably fl:xmed story, with vastly more pith and vitality an most novels possess. 1t ia by GRENTILLE YURRAY, who has made bimseif conspicaous in the British diplomatic service, and who is recognized in Ea- gland as a writer of exceptional power, brillian- oy, nod versatility, His presont story, Momber for Paris,” attracted unusasl attention Dy ils mastorly exposaro of the mothods snd instraments by which Louis Napoleon managed Paris aud France. Itis publishod in Osgood's Library of Novels, bushas not made the same impression hero 34 in England,—partly becanse Freuchmen and Fronch politics are farthor off, therefore less immedutely iuteresting 1o ua; partly becsuse its greau literary power and its value as an historical pictare of & most curicus opoch in Freuch affairs aro not generaily kuova. . Murray is generslly understood to be the authorof *Mea of tbe Third Republic,"—a series of pungent sketches of Thiers, Gambetta, Jules Favre, 3uc¥ahon, the Duc de Broglie, and others who have been mogt promineut in. France sinco Sedan. Aud, if be did not write, his hLter- ary twin-brothor must hava written, ** Political Portraite, "—a scrioa of papors on the leaders of English _politics,—very caustic, appallingly trouk, and too pedr the truth to bo auy way soothung. On the whole, Grenvillo Xurray socma 10 bo & writer who will bear watching an reading. ‘! OWEN WERELDITH "— who, by the dsath of Bulwer, has now becomes Robert Lord Lytton—hss just issued in London & new poetical work entitled ** Fables in Song," whick Ozgood & Co. will immediately repablish horo. The English edition is in two volumas, bt the American will contain but one, nniforsy with " Owen Meredit's Poewns™ previoualy issued. The * Fables™ are stories or sketchsd, writlen 1n various metres, each srmed with a moral, or a_6atiro, or a Sarcasm upon some aspect of modera political, social, religious, or literary life. Some of the lossous would not havo been given by an Zsop living in & diferent circlo; but noaly all are lovel to tha average comprehensicn of mankind, and sro as whole- woma and worth heeding as 1f their sothor were oneofus, zadncta Lord, Tho easy gallop of his Ve is delightfally comfortable to Kolffl v and—with the fresh topics and incidents be bas treatod—ought to give his new book aa lurge popularity as his * Lucilo " Las bad, of wiich more than 50,000 copies have boen sold in this country. * _PARTON'S ' LIFE or JEFFERSON " and Frothingoam's * Life of TlLeodore Parker * are dct down for early publication, and botl are likely to be among the most notsble booka of the year. Darton's *‘Jeffcrson” Inbors under the possible diasdvantago of having appeared much of it—in the {flautic; it will be accounted meraly & repring, aud o will run the nsii of & neglect whichi it meils oy little 53 any of tha oxcellont_biograpuies recently -given to the world. Poustbly its appearance in the maza- zine will prove the best of cdvertisements for ic, inasmuch as those who read the succeswive moothly chaptors found them fascinutivg o & quito remarkabla degres. Wea it Parton's mar- velous exill in telling tho story, or waa ii the Taro inherent charm of the story of Jefforsou's career, which_gave those chapters their groat attraction? Both, perbaps ; at any rate, tihe st traction was real. The life of Jeferson, &4 Parton piciured it,—aad he fortified himacif withs wei.i‘upy proof,—was one of unusnal beauty, and peculiarly rich In lessons which Amorican’, 24 n nation and s individuale, necd to have sos beforo thom in characters of living light. And this Mr. Parton hza dune. f the “Lifo of Theodore Parker” I will speak mora fully i as- other letter. ROBEBTS DROTHZR3 have mearly ready * Thorpa Ilegis,” a new tory by Aiss Peard, whos=o t#0 previous sterie e Roae Garden " aud ‘ Unawares,” considerably above the level of most Epglish novels, fhey do not belouy to the list of great stories, like Georgo Eliots; nor are they fa any way etories that oue mustread ; but they &ré fresh, bright, entertaining stories, good for Ieisnre hours, wlon ono does not wish o siudy, but to bo agreeabls beguiled, aud thus Tefresded for tho work and stross of life. Booke thai dao this for us aro by 10 means to_ bespoken o slightingly; Lo them is duo many sa hour of pleasid Torgetfulneus of caro and tail, a wol- come releate from the frot of everydsy ex- perience. : ARTHUR HELPS' BUSSIAN 6TOBT, o * Ivan de Biron," is well on toward publisation by Roberts, I seems toLiave beon sugested Lo him by the proposed marnsge of Frince alfred to the Grand Duchess Marie, which, of nacesaity, wouid give the English peovle 5. new interest iz Russiza history, aud would afford 3ir. Helps a fine opportanity to sot forth those. social, moral, and practical views to which he has dovoted so many excellent books. Good senso is 5o marked 2 featuro of lus mnd that it almeat smounts to erins. Lis bead is up where finu Pro¥peccs may B eemmanded, but i foet are alweza on hulidk gronud. Ruskis, in tho third volume of *' Hoi- rn History,” sayu: *' A tre Thinker, who has practicd purpose in bis thinkiog, and is sincore, L% Fiato, or Carlyle, or Helps, becomes in sows Bsort a acer, and murt ba always of iafinite uss to Tuis generation.” In the appendix to the same volumo ke remarks , ** I should ba vory sorry 1f 1 had not been continually taught and influenced by the writers whom Ilvve ; and am. quite nu- ableto say towhat extent my shoaghts have Leen guided i:> Wordsworth, Carlyle, and Helps, towkom (with Dante and Georgs Herbert, in olden time) I owe more than to 2oy other wnters.” % Toberta Brothers purpose bringing out edi- tiona of two booiis especially ntecded for tie information of thoso uninstiucted in regard to AzT. They sre ‘ The O}d Mastera and Thair Pictnres 2nd “Modern Painters and Theit Daintings,” both by Sarah Tstler. Their aim is not ambi- tious, but—what is_better—helpful; to give 3 plain, simple, intelligible sccount of tho best ancient and modern srtists, theicr works and chisracteristic styles. If well done, as is claimed, thess books musat be highly serviceahlo,—doukiy 80 in this countrs, where o fow yet undarstand the alpasbet of Art cr of its history. HISE. —A gentleman from Ll Psso Couaty, Texss, bas informed the editor of the Las Cruces (Now Mezico) Borderer, that nine-tenths of the peo- ple in nia section would favor tbe formation of & ‘new Territory, to be created by adjoining, two ot three countics of Northwestern Texas with Houthern New Mexico. Although the peple of Texas have hitherto opposed that which tended to a dismomberment of the Lone Star State, it ia eaid that they will aid this move {or the creation of the Tamtory of * 2lantezuma.”