Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 8, 1874, Page 9

TIIE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY MARCH 8, 1874, 9 telezeopo of his own,—not & Government instru- ‘ment under is cace, butownad by himself in feo _gimplo,—that be may pursuo bis ivestigations cbsolutely untrammeled. This is the mesning .of his American lecture-tour. This tour, 8satl who resd the newspapers know, has ‘been a com- pleto euccess from first to last.—great crovds ateending the lectures wherever tocy have been given. No other ecientist who has ever visited our country, not excepting Tyndall, has been received with such & goouine ovation. The interes. of the lectures if greatly enbanced by the —ethod of illustration em- plosed, Mr. Proctn: ‘.sving supplied himself with o large number ~ beautifel Iupar pboto- graphs, which sre thrown upon scrcen by means of the osyhydrogen light, and algo with many artistic paictings and diagrams, prepared ander his own supervision, Wwith special refer- once to his American tour. Iu person Mr. Proctor is ratber under the medium beight, what is termed - thick-set,” and apparently in the most vigorous health, though iv is said he was very delicale when a child, and consamp- tion is ot & stranger to his family. As s speaker, he is remarkably fiuent; ssas student, suvthing but a recluse; asa man, one of the most geninl and cxemplary. Chicago, without doubt, will give him & hearty reception. g Pt i AN OBSTINATE WOMAN. The most obstinate saloon-keepor the praying women have eocountered is an Trish woman; who sells whisky at Greenville, Tenn., named Mra. fvard. At last accounts, the Crusaders had been sncamped nino days befora her doors, and the Milesian heroine was still holding out. On the 25th uit. the Crusaders were rcinforced by Father Marron, a Catholic priest, from Nashville. The good Father triod a little strategy. Instead f attempting to go into the salion, *he went to the barracks and gent word to tfrs. Ward. The 1atter immediately locked up her place and went tosee him. What passed at the interview is not fmown. They were closeted for two hours, but, 35 be went back by the next train, and she im- mediately went back to her saloon, and the .contest was renewed by her with more fervor 1han ever, there is little reason to doubt that she had the best of the argnment with the Father. The next morning the besiegers offered to pay Mrs. Ward an 10demnity if she would surrender the citadel. Atnoon Mrs. Ward, under a flag of trace, met the enemy and agreed to eapiculato 2nd leave Greenville with all her forces, on the payment of $2,000. Asno immediate reply was made, eho returned to her stronghold. The be- siegers kept on with their prayers and songs, £nd, loud above the din, 3Irs. Ward replied wil cheerful Milesian objurgations. The ne:xt morning there was & division 1n the councils of ¢ho besiegers, soma being in favor of rairing tlie ndemaity, and others opposing it strongly, thezr voices being still for wer. The battle was then renewed. The Crusaders drew up in line of bat- tle and delivered melodious broadsides at the ealoon, Mrs. Ward from an upper window reply- ing with a rattling fire of choice expletives. Abont noon Mrs. Ward appeared at the window, wita her face wreathed in smiles, and blewa trumpet-blast of joy. Thirty ssloon-keepers of Chattanooga td sent ber & hsndsome sum of money, which tue express-messenger dolivered at the back-door without the knowledge of the Crussders. The money was snfficient to enabte bher to hold oui for a long time to come, and at 1ast accounts she was holding out, and the be- siegers were getting tired. Two thousand dol- tars wonld get her ont, but the question at last 1ccounts was, Whero can the money be raised ? B G g At a conferenco of tho Episcopal clergymen of Now York City tho subject of public amuse- ment was discussed, and somo criticisms passed upon the modern strge which betrayed the fact that tho speakers vpon this subject Jived up to thieir advice to their congregation mob to visit thestres, One gentleman thought that ‘¢ pas- rion-plays representing the lifo and sufferings and death of the Redeemer were instigated by thedevil.” This may or may not be true. Its truth or falsity, however, has no esrthly bearing Du the question, 28 ** passion-plays” of this de- Keription bisvo not, g0 far 58 learned, been put upon the stage of this country. Another boldly suggested that ** there is a vast differenco in the delineation of & historical matter on the stage and the ‘Black Crook,'” an assertion which the most hardened theatre-goer will readi- Iy subscribe to. Another clergyman said it was Impossible for any Christian mau or womsa to zttend & theatre at the preeent day ‘‘without bringing & blush to his or her cheeks,” which, if it ia true, would argue an sbnormal acuteness in the perception of the shameful on the part of the person thus distressed. After reading these comments, we are prepared for the remarke of tue last speaker in the conference, who had come in quest of information, and had obtained no new ideas from the discussion. He declined to express any opinion upon a subject with which i was unscquainted. Beforo condomning the etage, he hinted, clorgymen might familiarize themselves with it. Their efforts againstim- morality might then be intelligontly diracted. There is need of purification in tho drams, but it cannot be accomplished by blind denunciation of the whole stage, any more then the depraved tendencies of human nature can be counteracted br condemning every member of the human family. A correspondent of the Cleveland Herald, writing from Missiesippi, puts on record s pro- diction that the newly-elected Sepator from that Btate—Col. B. K. Brues, & colored man—will win Lonors for himself acd his copstituency in the Benate, althongh he will be one of the youngest men that has ever taken s seat in that body, being only 33 years of age. He was bom s slave in Virginia in 1841. In 1853 his owner removed 1o Mississippi, and thence, at the outbreak of the War, to Missouri. Ho was educated at Oberlin, and went back to Mssissippi in 1869, and was at once appointed Registrar of Talla- duntchie County by Gen. Ames. Upon the assem- bling of the Legislature, in Janaary, 1870, he was elected Sorgeant-at-Arms of the Scuste. This position ho resigned in May, 1871, and was ap- pointsd Assessor for Bolivar County, and in No- vember of that year was overwhelmingly elected Sheriff of tho samo connty. In November, 1872, 1o was appointed Superintendent of Education in his connty. He was also clected to a seat in the Leveo Board, and last fall was re-clected Sheriff without opposition. In the contest for the United States Scnate, he was olected over three colored and three white competitors—the Iatter being G. W. Wells, M. J. Maoning, and Congressman Hon. George C. McKee. et A very general fallacy pervades the minds of the public in regard to the position of the city religions press. It is supposed they are the organs of the churches smong which they circa- late and from which they mainly derive their support. This is not true. The Inferior is ovned by Mr. Cyrus H. McCormick. His money controls it. He employs a man to edit it, the Rev. TFrancis L. Patton. Mr. Patton stands before the world 2s an accuser of his brethren, and in his self- Ttonceit and arrogance seems to think hecan tram the antiquated dogmas and the bigotry of the sixteenth century down the throats of the tlergy and members of the Presbyterian Church of the Northwest, To say, theretore, that the Tnderior is the organ of anybody but McCormick And Patton is a grave mistake, and an injustice tothe intelligence and the piety of the Presby- Jerian Church. S — After all, tho naval pageant in Florida Bay has Mot been utterly unproductive. During the Janeusres tho speed of the vessels had to bo *educed to four knota an hour to allow the moni- tors to keep up, and cven at this rate of speed the latter fell behind. Commodore Parker sums Bptho results of the roview in the statement .uat it hag ** demonstrated the lamentable con- fition of the American navy.” This is encour- ging, but not movel To most competent {udges the samo conclusion could have beon ar- ¥red at with far less troubla, g REAL ESTATE. Very Few Large Transactions and but Little'Speciation. But a Great Many Cheap Lots Sold for Occupation, Capitalists from Abroad Waiting for “Bargains.” A Test of the Market to Be Made on | ;! Monday, March 9. Tmprovements in Lake View--The Balti- more & Ohio Railroad. There has been very little activityin real estato trausactions duriog the past weok, except in the sale of cheap lots in the suburos to mechrnics ilud salaried men who are invosting their savings in homes. This class of business keeps up sbout as well as ever, nobwithstanding the unfavorablo woather. But tho larger and mora speculative trausactions are very few. We know of some large amounts of money, be- longiug to capitalista from abroad, being offered for investment in improved business property i the central ports of the city, but these would-be purchasers have come here with the impressian that they would be ablo to buy important busi- ness property for just about two-thirds wof the ostunated values if they paid all cash, Their viows are 8o much below those -of the bolders of property-that very little is domo. A 2000 muny property-on ners, however, are very hard up, and there is no denyihg that some sales have been made o this basis within the past few montbs. Many men who have mortgaged thair property heawily to rebuild, find iv difficuls to tido over the present cra of luw rents, aud are obtiged to yield to somobody who bas g tfiiasie cial scrongth to carry tho property, without any net income for a year or two. Tho decline in rents will undoubtedly estend this spring to all that cluss of dwellings that have herétofora rented for 31,000 per year aud up- ward. Whilo thero is a large surpius of this class of houses, the number of tenants; who havo Teretoforo boen ablo to occupy thesa has di- minished, because many_have Yoort obliged to adopt o more economicalscale of liviny.and must either get their present dwellings at lower ronts or seck smaller houses. Mouses at $t00, 709, sud 3500 per year soem to bo always fo demand in this city. Tho prices of SUDURBAN ACRES . seem to be botter sustained than of any other class of propersy, for- the reasou that #here is a geueral behief that the large accumuiations of capital now ocking some sort of investment ‘must eventually find it in real estate, and thac, whilo there is little prospect for an adiauce in the high-priced property in_the ccutral psris of ihe city, there is a chance for a lurgo ady avce in the chesper property. There have, hawover, been but few sales of acres in the last weok, 3ir. Daniel N. Bush sold 80 acres in the S, E. 2{ of Sec. 35, Town 33, Range 13, being two miles southwost of South Lynmg, for $10,000. We Liear also of the sale by the Mesara. Fitch af 20 ond street, but no positive figurcs as to- the price. TMPORTANT AUCTION SALE. Mesers, William A. Butters & Co. advertise s peremptory ” sale on Mondsy, March 5, Of some valuzble residence property, comprising over 400 feet of frontage ob Congress, Wes £ Jackson, end West Van Buren streets, in Sec. 18, bemngs about-two and ono-half miles west oif the Court-House, and nearly 300 fect on State, street, Wabash aud Michigan avonues, at Fifty- first sireot. Nearly the wnole of this is in quair- tors that are rapid'y improving with first-cluss buildings, snd is probably as desirable propo: ty for either spoculative investment or for occupn- tion a3 thero is in the city. The advisability of offering such property st suction ia a time of sold it will probably be at lower prices thau could be obtainzd a month or two henco. BOULEVARD PROPERTT. Messrs. H. J. & J. Weil sold this week 132 feet, west front, on the Grand Boulovard, just north of Thirty-seventh street, the Jot ranning through to Vernon aveuue, for 33,00%. THE LINCOLY PARK COMMISSTONERS &ro active in inaugurating improvements, snd ga- couraging others to do the same. _Thay bave in- ducea the town suthorities of Laxe View to widen Lake View aveuus from 66 to 100 feet, from Diversy streec to Belmont aveoue, & dis- tance of balf & mile, This will make s fine driving street from Lincoln Park to tho junctiou with the Lake Shore Drive, and next summer, when the roadway is completed, will be one of the most attractive localities zbout the city. The Park Commissioners have also decided to sot out throe rows of new trees along tho wost boundary of Lincoln Park from Centre street to North avenue, and to make other improvements i the way of fencos, walks, etc., along the samo ine. THE BALTIMOLE 4 OHIO RATLEOAD AND TiE SOUTH PARE. It begins to look doubtful if the Baltimore & Ohio ltulroad will offer saything tbat the South Park Commissioners” would be jus- tified in accepting a8 & comsid- eration for the rigut-of-wpy through the southwest corner of the park. ‘The Baltimore & Ohio people seem to be pledred not to become competitors of the Illinois Central in its sub- urban business. This would prevent the Balti- more & Ohio from offeriug any extra facilities for quick or convenient eccess to the park from the centre of the city, and, unless they can do this, the Park Commissioners wonld not be ex- cusable for pormitting any railroad to go through the parks, which have been dedicated as pleas- ure-grounds for the people. The suggestion has been made, that the Baltimore & Ohio could condomn tho Tight of way throngh the park. But this is as preposterous 8s that they could condemn Michigan avenuo for their track. ~ Wo suspect that tho Baltmore & Ohio people will bave to find some other route into the city. A NEW CUT-OFF. It 1s reported that the Pittsburgh & Fort Wayne Company have decided to build a new cuteoff in Lake County, Ind., from romewhere about Hartsdalo or Crown Porot, on the Pitts- burgls, Clucago & St. Louis Road, directly north about ten miles, to o junction with the Pittsburgh & Fort Wayne Road somewhere betweeu Tolles- ton nnd Wolt Lako. This would bring the +Great Eastern passepger trains into the Fort Wayne Depot on Madison street on the west side of theriver. The suburban town of HIGHWOOD, twenty-four miles north of the city, on the Alil- waukee Road, which was laid out only two years ago, has now forty houses. Twelve new ones aro being erected thera now, and the place bids fair to become ono of the most attractive suburbs on the lake shore. BATUEDAY'S TBANSFERS. The following iustruments were filed for rec- ord on Saturday, March 7: CITY PHOPEBTY. The premises No, 114 Calumetav, dated March 5; gousideration, §15.000. Nelson Ludington to Henry A, obn. Groveland Park, 125 ft e of Cottago Groveav,sf, x1:0 6-10 £t, dnted March 5 consideration, $5,000, Twenty-soventh 6t, & w cor of Hanover, 1 f, 24x1%4 9-10 ft, doted Feb, 21; consideration, 1,230, Supcrior st, 693 ft 0 of Sedgwick s, 8 f, 24x130 ft, ;s;{l'l:}:unu properts, dated darch 5; consideration, Crittenden at, 391 ft e of Noble st, 8 f, 25x125 ft, dsted March 5} consideration, §1,200. Sholto st, 1103 ft 8 of Harricon st, e £, 24xMx t, dated Fob, 23 consideration, $1,300. Evergreen av, 130 £t w of lobey st, n f, 20x150 ft, aated Dee. 8, 1673 ; consideration, $1,000. Toman &, 168 £i n of West Ofo af, w 1, 24x125% t, dated March 6; consideration, $700. “Park o, 103 ft 0 of Leavit st, 8 f, 35x114 ft. dated Feb. 11; consideration, $5,500. Calumet av, 513 ft 5 of Twenty-sixth st, e f, 24x1813 £1, dated March 5; cousideration, $12,000. ‘state st, 99 ¢ 0 of Thirts-seveuth £t, dzted Feb. 253 consideration, $13, "Bauwens 8t 236 £t 0 w of Ashiand uv, 1 e f, 2410 ft, smprovements, duted March €7 consideration, $2,400. Tidgeviilo Toad, 8 6 cor of Black Huwk st, w1, 43x 1263 ft, mprovements, dated Afarch 6; consideration, ,000. "Lat 19, in Wilson's part w 3¢ of n w i Sec 18, 39, 14, dated Marchi 22, 1873 ; consideration, $3,410. ‘Lots 26 to 50, in Block 36, of Walker's Lart, s of canal, " of n w X Bac 81, 89, 14, dated Feb. 14 consideration, 5,000 s Park av, 231 ft s of Thirty-seventh st, w £, 132 2997 {t, dated March 2; consideration, §33,000. iWill- 1am Moseback to Georgo A. Seaverns. Milwatkes av, 48 £t, 8 6 of Houston st, nef, 24x100 11, dated Teb. 23 consideration, £2,50. Geneses av, 300 ft south of Twenty—third st, w f, 50x 126 810 £t, dated March 1; consideration, £3,500. YORTI OF CITT LnwTs, Lots 35 to 38 in 8 3¢ Lill's Block15, of e 3¢ Sec 29, 40, 14, dated Feb. 73 considerstion, $10,000. Dock 3, 1 Giybourn's Addition to Bsvenswood, dated Feb., 28 ; considaration, $8,000. BO' CITY LIMITS, Lota 1040 18, bo Biock 4 of Davis Bloek 3 of Tyman's acres on the lake rhore, south of Saventy'-gec- dopression lixe the present is doubttul, aud if ctal. 8 3 nw i and n w X 0 e i(.Sec 11, 38, 14, dazed Aurch 73 conrlderntion, $7,630. $ ‘Lots 23 to 26 of Dobbins’ n consi 4, dated Slarch 5§ Lot 7, in MeKeever's n i M ue X ofneX BeeS, 38, eration, $7,500, Lo 4110 43, of Block 11 Kerfoot’s perte 3 1 e X 8ecl, consideration, $360. Lot 4 in Lot 7 of Crawford’s Lots 3and 7 in Block 2 of Baltonriail & Russell’s 0 ¥ 1 ¢ X of 6 0 X Becd, 38, 14, dated Feb. 93 consideration, 4,500, L0t 18 in Tock 4, Webster & Perk's 8 X ofse X Sec 8, 33, 14, duted Fob, 10; consideration, £550. Lot 8 and undividel 75 of Lot 79 of Hinckles'snw I of n e if Sec§, 33, 14, datod Oct. 6, 1873 ; consider— 1, 0 20 fn Block 3 in Wright & Embree's Block 33, Sec 16, 38, 14, dated Fob. 23 ; consideration, £3,500. ftof Lot6 in Block 5 Cleivervilie Addition, dated i srch 5 ; consideration, §4,500, 'USIART OF TEANSFEES FOR THE WEEK. The foliowing I8 the total amount of city and sub- urbsn property transferred during the’ weel endiug Baturdsy, Murch 7:_City Property—Nnmber of 65 145 conssdurntion, $825.118. North of City Limita— 1Tntaber of sales, 7; coniGaration, $59,500. South of i wiler of wales, 087 consideration, idn, 50, West of City Limits—Number of sales, 1; tonsideration, $2,414 Total sales, 1603 total conutd= eration, §1,035,983. - DR. EDWARD BEECHER ON ETERNAL PUNISH- MENT. Phare’s Lots 4 o 7 of 38, 13, asted Jan. 15 To the Editar of The Chicago Tribunes Sme: The Christan Union of the 18thult. contains an exposition of the Greek noun aion by the Rev. Edward Beocher, D. D. The article is able and interesting. He discusses the mean- ing of this word in relation to the doctrina of fature etornad punishment, Ho says that the original scnse of aion ia not “etornity, » mor “ time™ in any form, but * life.”" The justiy-cohebrated scholars Liddell and Scott, in their last edition of their Greel Loxicon (1871), define aion, first, *‘one's life timo,” ‘life,"—iike tho Latin word @oum (avd this word eoum denotos, first, ** unin- terrupted time” ‘*‘eternity"; second, ~ poriod,” * Lifetime,” “life,” ¢ age"); sec- ond, ““one's timo of life,” * age,” ** the age of man " ; third, * an age,” * geveration " ; then g long space of time,” “eternity,"—like the Latin vum. The distinguished scholar ! Cremer, in his Biblical Greek Lesicon, gives as the original meaning of @ion “ the life which hastes awayin the breathing of our breath,” wlifo as transitory™; them, * the courso of life,” ‘time of life;” in genarnl. “lifo in its temporal form.” Ho al- so ssyn it is o suitable exproesion for historical time,” and for *‘cternity.” Prof. Sophocles, & nativo Greok, and the very highest authority, in his Lexicon of the Boman and Byzantino periods,—from 146 B. C. to A. D. 1100, _defines it, first, age,"—liko tho Latin zzvum ; second, *‘time without- end.” © forever," ‘ for i LITERATURE. Mrs. Barbauld. THE LIFE AND WORES OF ANNA LETITIA DABBAULD. By Guack A, ELus, Boston: James B. Osgood & Co. A carious, yei generous, euthusiasm for the character and writings of Mrs. Barbauld has led to the preparation of the present memoir, with selections from ber works, in the hope of restoring the author to ber original position of prominence and popularity. The task ia s diffi- cult, not to say imposaible, one. The literary fa- vornites of one gencration are scldom thefavorites of the next. The intelloctusl taste changes with every decade. Theexperionco included within the span of an ordinary life is reproduced on'a mors oxtonded zale in the history of mankind, ‘fhe books which please us 1 youth are not Likely to be those which satisiy our mature and declining years. As timo progiesscs, we outgrow suthors, __with the exception of thoso who are 1mmortal, and companions for every age and mood,—and Iaythem aside as wo lay aside tho garments that have outlasted their fashion and usefulness. And so, us the world moves on, snd the spirit of tho age expands aud advauces, requiring new istclligence, mew Biws, and nocessities, old things of every sortloss their adapteduess, and must conseut to bo rejected or furgotten, or as- wume fresh forms, 1 keeping with the impulse and need of tho bour. | ; Inthe day when Mrs. Barbauld wrote, book- makers wero scarco, especially among the gentle wex ; and it was & distinction to compose a claver essny, & skillful sonnet, or au amusing story. ‘I'ne woman of England who had the ability or inclination to turn from the pleasures aud duties of fusbionable or domestic lifo, and seck fame through priut, could almost be counted on oue's tingers, Ihere was good Hannah More, whom ‘o remember moro forher pioty than hor gonius ; \irw, Coapone ; Fauuy Burney, aftarwurds Mad- ime D'Arviay, and Mre. Montsgue, who martied and Gid not blusn to for a_ position, ackpowloage that she was mever in love iy her life,—whose elegant home was the centre ot the hiterary circies of London, and who, for ber wit, added to ber wealth, was &t tho noad of tho tamous bas bleus of her day. Ang, s hule later, there were Miss Edgwortl, Mrs: Austin, Joanme Bailie, aud & number gradunlly multiplyiug 2 too years wore ou. But things were not thon as they are now, when every third lady wo mmeot—is it an_ovot- estimnte ¥ —hus puckers on Ler brow and ink on bher fingers, becruying the application of her pOwers to Lhe pen; Waon every newspaper onc takes up is liable to have aruclos a3 protound 1t thought and finistied in sLyie a8 the essuys Of Addison or Jolnsuis, the writers of whieh would Dot diesw of clanuig auy urticular credit for 2heir work, Nt ovo 80 Inata as & recoguition of thetr authorstup. over and over " ; third, “ ever-existiog "; fourth, «world,"—a Hebraism; Afth, “age”; suxth, “Divine entity.” In some of the definitious thus given by Prof. Sophocles aro combinations with Greele propositions which are found in the New Testament and elsewhore. Tho forogoing are unquestionably tho corzect dofinilions of aion. Tharefore it may bo ad- mitted that the original meaning of aion wes “life,” as stated by Dr. Beccher. But this by no mesns disproves the doctrine of fature eter- nal punishment, for there is anotber word—an adjective—used in the New Testament, which has only the meaning “lasting,” *constaat,” “perpetnal,” *everlasting.” *oternal.” This word ia aiomios. All lexicographers worthy of mention agres that @aonios slways means *con- stant,” “lasting,” * perpetual,” “ overlasting,” «of long duration,” *eternal” Ko gentwine scholar will deny this. Sophocles gives “over- lasting,” © cternal,” as tho only dafinitioms. Wherever in the New Testament the doctrine of 2 future cternsl life is taught, this ad)ective aionios is used, conjofned with the Greek word 20¢—* lifo "—or some form or forms of cvon with the proper Greek preposition. The doctrine of future oternal life is foundcd solely upon these wordsin the New Testament. 1f they, do mot prove the doctrme of eternal life, then it cannot be proved in the Now Testa- ment. This same word aionios is expressly used ip the New Testament to denote the future punishment of the wicked. If it means “ eter- nal” in relation to the life after desth, it also just as surely means “goternal” in relation to future punishment. This conclusion 18 mevitable, I will refar to only one verse to rustain my statement. Imricht refer to many. Tho forty-sixth vorse of the tusen- ty-fifth chapter of Matthow reads iu the adm- ‘mon version thus: ‘‘And these shall go away ‘into everlasting punishment, but the rightaous _tto ife eternal.” The Greck word here uried to denote * punishment” is kolasin, the accu- gative case of kolasis; and the Greek word used to denote ‘‘life” is z0en, the accusatirve ciwo of 20e + sverlasting,” before the ward * punishment,” is cionion, the accusative case of aionios; rmd the seme word and case, viz.: aionion, is wited to .denote * oternal” before the word “life.” In toth cages the adjective follows the noun. Beth adjectives should be translated by fthe same Englixh word. No one will deny this who is at all familiar with the original Greek. If {this and kindred verses are changed smd transikted €0 8S to give to the adjective aion:ion the meaning of & limited duration, then surcly the sagmo chango must beapplied to both clauses, which would make the life of evervbody after doath, whetker rightcous or wicked, & limited. and not an evernal, existence. If tho life after death is s Iizoited duration, then the doctrine (belie'red by but few) of ultimate annihilation must bie true. I refer sny person who may de- gire to examino this question to & fow of the passages in the: Now Testament, viz. : Mattbe iii., 13; xvix., 16 and 29; xxv., 41; Mark, ii., 29; x., 17 and 3); Luke, x., 25; xviii,, 18 and 30; Johm, iii., 13, 16, and 86; IT. Thessaloninns, i, 9, etc. The 9rh verso of IL Thessalonizng is a significant sndl awful wamningto those who deny God, and whio do not obey the Gospel of Christ. Paui there says such porsons shall be furnished with * everlasting destruction™ (ole- thron aionion) fram the presence of the Lord, and from tho glory of His power. The Greek word olethron, there used, is the accusative case of oletiros, which always donotes either ** destruction,” * rmnin,” or *perdition.” Tt is from the Greok verb ollumi, which eiguifies 1o destroy.” 1 aionion, in this verse, signifies *‘limited duration,” stiil the consequences to those who know not God, and who donot obey the Gzospel of Chrrist, is all £he same. It ‘makes but little differ- ence whether: “destruction™ or “ruin” is of “ limited durtion " or *“eternal.” More, far miore, can be said on this question ; ‘but T will clotie with a brief statement of the de- rivation of aion and aionios. The derivation of aion is involv ed in some doabt. It comes either from the adve rb aef, which means ‘“‘ever,” “al- ays," and on , the preeent participlo of the Greek verb eimi, wh ich signifies * to be,” ** to exiat, . go that the word aion thus derived signifies « aver-being,’’ *‘always,” “existing;" or itis derived from the vorbs @o, aemi, which mean it blow,” ‘~to bresthe.” Scholars are divided on this questicm. . The adjectit’e aionios is undoubtedly derived from the nos:n gion. Inasmuch as the noun aion in some conuections sigoifies “‘forever,” “etarnity” (st sbove ehown), it scems clear and reasopable th ¢ the adjective aionios was used by {ho Now-Ta stament writers to donoto “eter- nal,” »overlast ing,” in their statements concern- mg s future :life. It is the only word in the Greek languagi» which con!d havg been ueed to oxpross “eters al,” “everlasting.” At some fu- The adjective used to dennie | ‘Hua any of the writers mentioned above flonr- jshed a bundred years luter,—iuat is in the nineteenth instead of the erguteenth century,— ibeir beads would not rise above the level of neores who stend as high us ever tuey did, but who do not achieve anytiung Like their reputa- t10u, because they are 50 umerous thero is no sipgwisuly to distinguish thew. ‘I'ns 18 not said co datract frow the just estimato of old and revered autuors, but to luko away that unduo fooling of awe with which time is apt to inspire 1, aud wlich interferes with _our lolding men 2ud thiugs of tho pst at their right valuo. But woy try to imagme the works of these \ritaps 86 tie producis of this era? It is im- possible. to conceive of them as such. Their method is foreign, and 80 also is .much of their motive. ‘Lhoy are ss alion as though they be- longed to another languago s well w8 anotber age. ‘They are to be stuaied 23 antiques, o in- torproters of the charsoter of the proceding cen- tury, &s progenitors ot tho spirit of the preseat. Wo are to oxamine them a8 we investizate tho history of our ancestors for su explavation of their and our own idiosyncrasies. We cannot expect to have the fondnoss for them, the en- Joyment 1 them, wiich wo bLave i the wozis { aud lives of our contemporaries. Lhey are jn- tercstiug and wstractive, but of remots affinitics, 2nd mnadequate o our tsto nod requiremeuts. “Thoy cun never recover the popularity they had in tiieir day and genciation. 1t i » good thing, however, to bave occasional new editious of these old writers. ‘'hey should be kept accessible to the reador. As standards and classics, thers will always be some domand for them, but not a lively murket. - The prescat memoir is written by one very much 1n earueat, and very couscientions bui mot of maguetic forco suilictent to inspire others with ber en- busiasm. Mrs. Barbauld was arf sdmirablo woman, with at-z=ciivo perconal qualities, fine mental gilts, fratued by 8 botter thaa sverzgo education, aud of desp aud consisicnt piecy. Sbe wes the dsaahier and the wife of Dissenting ‘mimstaers, and. us such, eujoyed s respectable social rank, and Lhe adyantages of retiued and literary com- paniansbips. Her paseags through life, which _extended from 1743 to 1025, wad cranquil,—nothing bresking its quiet monot- ony other thau the icdents commou to ha lot of ordinary mortals. For several years after hor marriage. she was engaged, with Lor Lusbaud, in the churge of & pnvato boarding- school. ‘It was for her young pupils that she wrote the ¢ Eurly Lossons for Children” and 1 Prose Hymas,"—two books which sttained & wide popularisy, and aid the foundation for that lugher order of juvenile literature whick has cuiminated in our day. . Amnong her other literary works were political pampllots, & volume of poetry, & Life of Hich- ar:tson the novelist, eritical and, miscellaneous evouys, etc., ete, Hor dovotiousl Lymns bave found » placo in the psalmody of varions relig- ous depominations, aud bave . made ler name famuiar to Christisn worship- ers wherever English i8 suog. 1he closing stenza of her posm on “ Life," com- posed when 8ho was 80 years of a;7e, Was & great favorito with Wordsworth. Crabb Hobinson meniions thyt he onco heard Wordsworth say : 47 am not m the habit of grudging pavple their good :hinss, but I wish 1 had writton those Iines.” They xun ns foliows : Life! T kmow not what thou art, Bat know that thou aud 1 rfust part; And when, or bow, or where wo met, T own to mo's & secret yet, Lifs! We've been long togother, Turough pleassut and Lirough clondy weathes Tis hard to part when frienas are dear,— Perhiups “twitl cost @ sigh, o tear ; Then, steal away, give litle warning, Cuooso thine own v'me ; . Say not Good-Nighi,- ~but, in soma brightar clime, Bid me Govd-Morning, . Mrs. Darbanld’s proee style was elegant, dig- nified, aud artificial, o responding sracily to tLe mannera of tho polite World of ber tiie. A singlo passage from one of Uer letiers affordsa feer samplo of this, and also , W«loses tho then pi ovailiog sentiments rogardi.’§_femate educa- ticu. The latter are not likely b e relisied by ove u consorvativo women.of tho p. e=ebt period: The:r show, however, the distance Wi Public opis l&e Totter is dated 1774, and was written swer to a proposal for the establishment acaderay or college for girls,—au innos. upon vhe existing order of thingy which A Barbaud decidedly discournged. She writes : Young gentlemen, who aro to display their imowl- ©dgo to Ly world, siiould havy every wotive of emula- tion; should be ‘formed into regular classes; should bave all tho honora, and, if one may say 5, the pomp, of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It iu thelr busiucss, and they should apply to it us such. But young ladies, who ought only ta havo such a gencral tincture of knowledg 3s to make them agree- able companions to a 1man of sense, and to enable them to find rational smusemzent for a solitary hour, should Kain {hese accomplishments in a rore quict and unob- ferved manner, subject 10 a regalation like that of the ancient Spartaus, The thefts of koowledge in our scx ore ouly connived at while carefully concealed, and, if displayed, punighed with Qingrace. Tho best way for womtn to acquire knowledge is from conver- sation with 3 father, 3 urothor, or a friend, in the way of family intercourspand easy conversation, aad by much a ‘course of resding us they may recommend. If sou add to tnexs an attendance upon thoss masters which oro usually provided in schools, aud, periaps such al st of lctures as r. Ferguaon's, waicli It {s not uncommon for Ludics to attead, 1 think » woman wili be in 3 way to ac~ quire all the leurning that can bo of 1se to those who aro nos to teach orcupage fn any lenrned profession. Perbara you may thank that, having myself stepped out of thie bouuds of femule reserve in becoming un author, it i8 with an 1llgrace I offer these scatjments ; but, though this circubietauce may destroy toe grace,- stice, of (b remarke; snd oz t0 Eave reat fonduess for baoka iz Litlo favorablo to the hanriacss of & woman, espectally ono not in atflaent circamstances.. oo bas traveled in justa hond 3 g taro time I wil | give a more complete reference to this subject, as tanght in tho New-Teatament Greek. Yours, ete., Crarrres H. REED. Ci10aa0, Mare h 6, 1874 gy i T A . Russian Eall. At the Wintes - Ralaco the other night, writes s SE. Detersburg . wedding-correspondent of _tho London Z'imes,, the ball-rcom was lit by 5,600 wax lights, sud the whole_suite of 8alvons and supper-rooms by 26,000 Tho cxact number of Perons who sat down fo supper wes 1,050, and your readers may * judge of tbe cost of the feast when I that « ne dish, of which thero was far more than eaon gh for all, was of exccedingly fiue nsparanps. Now, they tell me that as- paragus in’ Bt. P eferaburz, at this timo of the year, for a supper of 2,000 porsons, could not posnibly haye boa,a bought for loss than 4,000 roubles, oz batwed @ £600 and £000. . Thomas Jefferson. LIFE OF THOMAS JEFVERSON, Third President of tho United States.' By Jaues A B tho, Dlisd Siaten By Panrox. Doston To the great maass of readers, the name oi” Thomas Jefferson stands for the author of tha Deciaration of Independence; for a fignre-hentd which flourished at the front of the United States Government at an carly date aftor its foundation ; for the awner of the stately man- sion of AMonticello, which wss pictured in the old school-geographies,~—and for very little more. and vitalized ideas of the man, very few bave dren are brought np oa a rigid det of Americad As for any distinet, rounded, sttalned {t. Althongh our chil- of tainfal inzeres: history thronghout the years devoted to texi- ‘books, they retain almost nothingin the memory beyond acrowd of dry facts and dates, having little clearnees or connection. But they do ac- quire in many cases, through so much cramming of bare husks, a rooted aversion to the history of their own country, whick preciudes any fatare pursuit of it. Thus it often happens that in- telligent persons, fond of reading, fond of gen- eral history, are deplorably lackiug in a knowl- cdge of tho men and events_that are combined inthe past annals-of the Umited Staies. By such, into wnose hands this life of Jeffei- son may fall, Mr. Parton will be regarded with especisl gratitude for baving dissipated old prejudices, revivified dead chronicles, sud in- Jeciod the currouss of life into & period that ba- jore secmed 8s withered and juiceless as an Egyptian mummy. Alr. Parton is o most sympathetic writer. He sees and feels oll that Die descries. The past which he is contemplating is no mora the past; 1t 1s the living present. Lo is in the midst of it, auimated by its spirit, impeiled by its motives, pousessed of its vecrets, He puts himselfl inw the place of every actor on the scene, and by a fine 1mnsight discovers tae spriugs of their bewg. He enters mnto their life, and realizos their aims and the meaning of their efforts. He conjures his heroos from thew graves, not us gLOSLS OF shadows, not as poppets pulled by wires, but as human beings, clothed with flesn and blood, breathing, thinling, feeling, and going over theur life again with the old determination and destiny, With the same keen intercs:t that we walch tho drema of the passiug bour, we gaze upon thus rosurrection of the long-ugo, whicn 1 as real, a8 moving, a8 if1t were now for the fimst time brought 1mto existouce. ‘o produce tuis magic effect, there is some glamour thrown un tho eyes, it cannot be deniod. Tue lights me not all true; the colots aro artfully beightened; but the result is cxcoedingly impressivoe’ _ sad plensant. Proue as haman natute is to decry aud find fault, it in never so well satistied 23 whea it is regard- 1g the besutiful sud the good ; hence, Alr. Partou puts lus readers into tho happiest bumar by inverting the objects of his intecest with a rosy atmospbere, L'he glow with which ho suf- fuses Nuture and History is captivating ; and, thongh it be somewhat too wntenso at tunmes for cold reality, we owe bim thanks for winuing us by s spell to an acquaintaace with men sud things which otherwise might never have had any attraction. ‘I'hore is all the accustomed cbarm of his art in the present biograpky. A vivid hgbt is poured upou the carcer of Jefferson, frowm its dswy, i tho wilds of Westorn Virginia, apul' 13, 1746, to its closo, on the Leusts of Monticello, July 4, 1523, nearly o century aftor. Evory phaso and 3xperiones of the mau, his churucter, his stiaiments, s pursuits, achievements, and intlucuce, are de- picted with circumstantixlity. It is by no moans a giugle portrait. It 18 o great hustorical preture, fillod with igures, aud inc.dents, and accessories, to complete its significance. The porurayal or Jefferson’s domestic lite ncludas the coutinual presonco of Lus lamily, bis friends, oud his Deigubors ; and the representation of Lis public his era belonging to Lis own couutry, and many Diography of Jolierson embraces miuch of the bistory of tue United States tor eigaty-threo momentous years. Air. Parton hus included the whole horizon in his scopo, and tho entire period Lies spread upon boon to the hustorical literature of Ame:ice. adds a shade of polish to refined miuds. The Persecution of the Huguenots in Erance, THE BUGUENOTS IN FRANCE AFTER THE RE- VOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANIES: Wrrn & VisIT 7O THE COUNIRY OF THE VAUDOIS. By Sastoew Sxrues. New York: Hurper & Broa. between the revocation of the maintained by the Governiaent with unrelenting ‘ferocity ; snd France. in the graphic language etual St. Bartholomew.” Itis cstimated that, 1o this time, 1,000,000 of her subjectu—the most industrious and useful—wero bunished, killed, imprisoned, or sent to the galloys. "Ln 1788 there ware rccsoned 1,600,000 families of Protestsots in Fronce. Thirty years aitor, Louis XIV. proclaimed that there was not 8 Protestant left in tho King- dom. So severe and scarching bad been tho action sgamst the berotics, demanding their apostacy or death, that thay were driven to take refoge in foreign countrics, or to hide in deserts aud mountains; and Protestantism, ap- parently, had ceased to exist. Bat persecution fans tho zeal of the oppressed; and, thomgh hunted and spoited, and killed, prisoned, or en- slaved, whorever canght, the Huguenots refused {0 be exterminated. With incredible temacity of purposo snd endurance, thay clung to therr ro- ligion and their country, snd, in the end, con- quered a peace, and tho liberty to worship God according to the dictates of theirown conscionce. ‘When Rabant St. Etienne stood up iu the Con- slituont Assembly at Daris, in 1787, and clgimed avil and . religious rights for his Protostant fellow-conntrymen, he claimed them in the namoof 2,000,000 French citizens. France Jiad warred for & century upon & portion of her poo?‘la, and, nt the close, they were scarcely weskened or diminished, and sho was forced to give back to them the freedom she had taken airay at o cost of untold bloodshed andsuffering, A 'vivid idea of the foul atrocities whiclh-msrk evory step of this terrible contlice may be gained from tho description of a favorite modo of pun- isbment inflicted upon captive Huguenots, viz: Servitude in the ga'leys: 1t 15 not necessary to describe tho tortures endured Dy the palley-slaves to the end of their journey. One Mitlo circumstance may, however, Lo mentionel. While marching - towards he coast, the exhausted IHugucnots, weary sud worn out Ly (ke hesviucss of thesr chainy, wero accustomed Lo stretch out their litde Sooden cand for a drop of water to the fnlinbitants of tho villges throngh which they passed. —The women, Shom thioy mostly addressed, suswered their entreaties with the Littorest epite. *Away! away1” they crled ; W'you are going where you will have waler enovah.” Yhen the gang, or chain, reaciied tho port at which $ho prisoucrs wero to be confined, they werodrafted ou Loard the different gallesa. Tiese were, for the most pasg, stationcd at Toulon; but ” there were Ta0’ ptber galleys, in which Hnguenots wore im- Jirleousd, at Marsellles, Dunkirk, Brest, St. alo, sod Bordeanx, Let us briefly describe the gelley of those days il broad, and was ezpable of contiining abuut 500 men. Sthad 60 benches for rowers, 25 0n each side. Bo- two 1owa of benclies was tae raised midiLo mmonly called tho walat of tiio sbip, 4 fect bout: or 4 feet broad, The oars wero 50 G Six mon worked at each oat, < “hey werg nad Les to enable Lle o 00 ross was iways insutliciout, 94 wwinter,— 4o Jower part U ‘ored with 3 st vrt 2 facke? a4 ek mmanacles preve.ited thieni ¢ d‘i’m; The ch.\in_which bound ] bench was fante bed £o 118 leg, and w. £ t0 enable his »'ect 10 coMme and 20 1 d night tho galles-1lave slet whero bo eat, e Begch on which oy ad been rowing all diy, . Was o room for bim to lie down. Ile mover qui. Ry bencl, except for the hosphial or the grava; yer soma of the Huguewot rowers contiuued to live upon their benches for thixty or forty years ! 1s it possibie to conceive s condition of human wretchedness - excooding this? The lst tro Huguenot galley-alaves were liberated in 1775. One was 79 years old, and both had been chained to their benches thirty years. After all its bigot~ ed iutolerance sud bloody persecution of Proteat- antism, Catbolic Frzaco 18 to-day tho mout irro- ligious of the Christinn uations. "The Iatter portion of Ar. Smiles’ book is oc- capied with so account of a visit to the Jand of tne Vandois, or Waidenses, a fect of Protestants whio for 700 years were the victima of Papzl per- gecation. Their homo was in Dauphiny, a prov- ince 10 tho suuth of Fraace, out of the' way of ordinary tourista. With the doscription of an almost unkaowa regiou, and the histors of a race of martyTs, tho author combiues & narrative . Self-Culture. OX SELF-CULTULE: INTELLECTUAL, PHYSI- CAL, AND MORAL. A Vabs-Mzous Ton Soove iz ixp Srooeszs,’ By Jons Sruaar Brackir, * Professor of Gresk in tho University of Edinburgh, Few York : Scribner, Armstrong & Co, carcer requires the introduction, with more or Jess dotall, of most of the distinguished men of of thoxo belongiug to Franco zad Eugliud. The bis canvas within the visiou of the reader. 1t is a nobie as well a8 interesting work,—s ventablo Aund its chief merit i3, that the multitude wiil be drawn to it sud profit by its instruction. The work of popularizing History, ke that of popu- lacizing Science, is most honorable. It briugs within the range of the masses kuowledge gen- erally avoided a8 recondite and difficult; aud whatever is udapted to the education of the peo- plois of greator use than that which meraly Six years azo, Mr. Smiles published a_history of the Huguenots in England and Ireland; to- which, in the American edition, wzs added an sccount of the Huguenots in America. As n supploment to that work, he has written the present marrative, which covers the period Edict of Nantes, by Louis XIV., in 1655, and the publication of the Act of Tolerance, by Louis XVI., in 1787. "Duriog a term of pearly a.ceo—| - tury, the porsecution of the Huguenols was of one of.ita- writers, ** was kept under a per- royal gelloy was about 150 fect long and 40 feet ‘of which 37 feet werp outside the ship and 13 chained to ke conriant command of 2 s y-aizvo-driver, who struck all about the comite, ""‘}fn’: \iip fo urging them to worlk. To DL, the e sat neked whilo tney N summer their bodiva Leing cov- % 3ui 5 wort of apron, for ‘tgom wearlng uay other h rower tosbis { sucn o leogth “serpwing. At 5, "t EOWINE. At o expect from their, they are what is stili Lester, sturdy and manly. Traths that have been repeated through the sges compose the bulk of them ; bat secutzered hero and there are torse &nd pithy maxims that bave an air of newaess, and are uncommonly forcibla. The chapter on Intellectusl Culture opcus with the assertion tha not books, but life, expe- rtence, thought, and action are the primary and natural sonrces of knowledge. Books are merely belps and tools ; and are to boread as we usethe microscope, which assists the eye in delicate investigations, but should never supersedo the ordinary exercise of that organ. Education shonid commence with the observation of facts. ‘The natural sciences, architecture, and drawing should be the primary studiss in schools; for they, above all others, teach thatmost impor- tant and most neglected art, —theuso of the eves. A snowledge of how to see, and what it ia we iee, i8 morg essential than anything we can get from tha writieu page. After the babit of observing facts has been gained, the process of reasoning should be ac- quired’; and nothing conduces to this g0 much 38 & thorough treining in mathemalics. Logio and metaphvsics are also useful,—the latter be- ing particularly essential in this age, when wis- dom is supposed to lie in mere physics, and the most important resnits sre to bo derived from induction. Nezt m order foliows the cultnro of the imagination,—a faculty that must con- tinually be ecalled upon in the acquisition of lenrning. No book is mastered until all tho imagos it represents are grusped by the fancr, and pictured before the mind with the defivite- ness of actual visions. We must not only kuow o fact, wo must see it, exactly as it ‘happens, which is another way of saying that we only koow @ thing when we cau_tell it Frederick Roberuson somewhere gays, in con- demning much and hasty reading, that it took lum s fortnight to read a certain volume of his- tory ; but, waen ho had done with it. it was as thoroughly incorporated into his mind ns the red corpuscles wero diffused throush his blood. This is the manner of reading that makes sound and ready men. To secure ezthetic calture, Prof. Blackie would Lave young men study whatever peci- mens of architecturo, paintug, snd the other fine arts, are in their reach ; and he wonld also hvo them visit the circus, and respoct- fully wview the leaping asd tumbling, “which are cunming exbivitions of the wonderful strength end lithe- ness of the human limbs, which every wise man ought to admire.” Thiy last is an odd bit of ad- vice, which tho averagoyouth will not be loatn to follow. The necessity of a facully of admiration i dwelt wpon st lengih, it various places: * La who does not habituslly admire and wonder in tiie midst of this magnificent universe,” says the Professor, *ahows that his sympathies aro narrow, aud his capacities small." In the essay upon Physical Culture, Prof. Blackie protests against the custom of sittiug while rending or studying. * Sitting,” he ex- claims, * is & slovealy habit, and ouglit not to bo induiged.” It ehould be the practico to stand or walk while conning lessons ; and reed- ing aloud should bs a constant usage. Tho wisest remark on the subject of eating is quoted from Abernethy, who was wont lo say _that “Tha two great killing powers of the world are Stuff and Fret.” In the matter of slcep, no rule can be Inid down with regazd to the proper amount. Onlysee to it that Nature peis fair play. Lot a wan sleco when he is sleepy, and nise when he is refreshed. As for rising early, our autbor frapkly confesses, ‘“‘It is a viriue which I was never able to practice.” In the trestise on Moral Culture, it is set down that the ona thing nesdtul 13 character,—a caltivated will. Of the virtues which they should strive for who would make the most of the Divine gift of life, obedienco is put first, and “then truthfulpess.—truthfuloess in word and deed; trutafulness which hold wouid everysham and subterfuze as_base, and every bit of flimsy, shallow work as a lie. Atfter truthfulness come diligence, aud perseverance, and revercuce, and last, but not least, love, wiuch is charity. Wo know no man, we can judge no man, ustil we bave looked at the best that is in him with tho eye of o brother. As for riches, the dignity of a man consiats in what ho is, not in what ho has. Have money enough for the needs of life, by all means, says tho donghty phil- losopher, ‘*but mever set your heart on making & fortune.” Finally, whilo commenting on the beauty of unselfishness, aod the duty of cultivating & universal sympathy, which makes & man's life rich, and in its eswence poetical, he adds: * To live poctryis alwayn bet- ter than to write 1t,—bettar for the individual, sad better for society.” A Law-fook. RORER O JUDICIAL SALES. . A TRFATIRE OF THE LAw or JUDICIAL AND BXECUTION SaLis; By Da- Zué Rone, of the Iowa Bar, Chicago: Catlaghan 0. This valuable and carefully-prepared work treats, under six parts, of—1, the Natur of Ju- dicial and Execution Sales; 2, of Judicial Sates of Real Property; 8, of Judicial Sales of Per- sonal Property, Corporate Frauchires, Property, and Stocks ; 4, of Execution Sales of ieal Prop- erty; 5, of Execution Sales of Personal Prop- erty; and, 6, of Exemption from Salo and the Application of the Procceds. The line of dis- tinction betieen the -two classes of sales is cleatly traced,—the former being the act of the conrt, and tho latter generally tho act of tho execution-plaintiff, through the Shesiff as his ministerial officer. Both clasecs of sales are o important s feature in tha Litles of both realaad personal property that lawyers engaged to any ex- tent in certifying htles, and even in trying cases of rovlevin and trover for personal “properts, will find the work invaiuable and indispensable. It is remarkably condensed and brief, containing the points decided with references to tho cases only, without that discusgion of the cases them- solves which, if enteted into at all, might easily have mado tho work three timed its prescnt size. The work bears proof on every page of onginal and exhaustive labor, for we know of no law-book Leretofore written which even pretond- od to occupy the field which is filled by this. A bricf and imperfect chapter in the various works on Practice at Common Law and in Chancory, and another in works on Real Property or Con- . tracts, are all that have herotoforo been afford- ed. . In sl these, the important question of the validity of titles under jndicial and execution salos, the facts on which theycan be set aside, and in whoso behalf, andagainst whom, erise iucident- ully. Here they are. treated comprohensively and with system. The work embodies years of labor by a careful lawyer of bigh local reputation in lows, and will certainly lift his State repata- tion into a National one. "The first edition had an essy sule, and tho present one is being called for at a rate which attests tat the work, though very little advertised, hus found favor with the profession, 68 a ncat, concisv, valuablo, and la- borious work,—all that it claims to Le. A A VBINCESS OF THULE: A Noven. By WiLLuaie Brack, New York: Hurper & Bros. flraila, tho Princess of Thulo, is the only child of » Highland Chieftsin called King of Borva. His domain s an islet Iying under the shelter of the northernmost of tho Hebrides; und his sub- joots ere o few huadred poor aod primitivo people, who earn o meagro living tilling_ their little fields and toiling_in the fisherics. Sheila has grown to o beautiful womanhood, mth no o banch, Toup wad 10 BTy usico, | compaaions of hor own rank, and no knowledge B nfore Wi benind | Of the great world, savo tint gathored from Ler intercourso with the fow to the romantic sum- mer-scenery of Borva. Sho is proud, yet gentlo; - trong-willed, yet obedient to ‘duty; simple and sincers; with the health which comes from much out-door life, and the hig-born grace which comes from'treading the soil that has been owned and ruled by many generations of ancestors. A i‘onng artist named Lavander, from London, bandsome znd talented, like all idexl artists. #spends a boliday at Borva, and shares the old (hicf’s hopitaties. One rosult is inevitable “eupp bis visit : He wing the lovo of Shei ‘“gsfting serson beans her away & b da to Tt ha does not appreciate the prizo a3, The full strength and beaut? of i . stgp are pot suspected. He bas Sheils’s chara. fasury by s rch old been reared Sigpt © creaturo of fic- aunt,—that conve. to iuberit her for- tion,—and expects -0i of drawing-rooms tune. Ho bas been the , - snd idle. sellish aud the favorite of his club, ~ouerous traits. babita Liave smotlered natarally-_ “od presants e brings Sheila to bis citv-bome, , - Cistoms her to his_fashionable friouds. Th to the and conetraints of society aro iutolerable ~aly ingeouous child of Nature; bat sho bra. strives to conform to them for her husbuna . nake. Ho gradually resumea his clab and his flirtations. nod leaves the- sweet, wild tower whose perfume bad charmed him’ for tho mo- ment to pine in neglect. No cotplaint falls fromSheila’s" lips. She only trics the harder,-but ever moro sad moro hopelessly, to win back bher husband's ad- nuration. | It is useless. ~Despair onsues,” aud eho suddenly leaves. bhis' hooss, wich the calm, fixed resolution pever to ace his face ogain. ‘There-is no snger or passion min- books and {rom straugers nttracted 1 The three essays which make up this littlo Awlumu' pre'shrewd'aid’ ssgacions, as we should led with ber motive. Only the settled convic- tion that union and happiness aro Lupoauibls - among the ladio cen herseif and Lavaader, and that & seps~ rtion i3 wikeat for boti cr comes to Lis senses on losing Sheila. Ho thicars ol zhf uhnfl:lns of sloth nnd society, reiires 10 a remoto island, and begius a hfe of mg@penaegco and hard work at ).\fs1 profezsion. His aunt dies, willing her property to azother. Bat s picrares scl), and he earns fame, and mouey, and manliness, together. After a long provation, during which he proves lus pesitence and the restoration of his better natnre, Lavan- ;isr d?:“ more \ili;l the trust of Shetla, whom he discovers rocking theis B i | nq‘)}?r s g their boy-baby in the home ere is nothing strikingly new 1 this e Tho main concepuon has beon worked ;‘va:!g:rx{y times before. And there is no marked cuar- acterization, Sheila is the ona beaatiful per- sonality, and that is not original. It has ap- peared succesaively in moat of the Eughsh novels. It is the type of femalo loveliuces just now popular, and we have not sat tired of it, 1f we ever shall. Thera is & power in simple trath to captivate, which does mot lio in suy other human virtue. It bas created for the * Princess of Thale ™ its measure of success. Mr. Black bas a talent for obzervation. He notes objects with = keen eye, und reproducea them with fidelity. His laudscapes sre stroug in local coloring. We feel that, on visiting the places, wo should recognize every featuro, With no specil originality or gift of imagination, he produces compositions that are agrecable trom their cool, bracicg s.mosphers of Tationshty. Books Received. THE PORTRAIT: A Rowaxce o TiE CUTAOGS Yatuex. Ly 0. G. Buopur, Autbor of “ Dt fulg- ley.” Boston: Nichols & Hall, ZELDA'S FURTUNE. Buston: Jamee B. Osgood & Periodicals Received. The Iilustrated Jowrnal for Fobruars, pube tished by the American Puolihing Company, Chicago, contains » number of iuteresting :rti- cler, i8 beautifully and profusely illus- trated, and gpriuted in the very best style. The following i3 i table of V ’s Revenge,” by Mat~ « “Tho tia . Brigza ; * The Brook by tho 'Hili," by Cuarlos Garduer ; *Tae Cabans' Cavalry-Lead- ; **Discontent,” by Ellen P. Aller- ton dalis—A Capital Joke," by Fiank Gillert ; K. B. Woodward™ ; *When ths Lis- on Dieappeared from Lliinois,” by Andrew Shu- man; **The Fist White Settler on the lock River,” by the Hon. Anson S. Aliller ; ** Legend of tbo Haunted Mines " (Illustrated), by Horace Stanton; * Woodward's Gardens, San Fraucis- co” (Dlustrated); *Our Iliustrations " {De- geriptive); © Literary Notes;” ‘- Art Notes;" £ Musical Notes;"” ‘“Pubhshers’ Depariment.” Ilustrations: **The Naiud's Abode;” “ Victord Talls, Africa;” **Strasbourg Catlicdral trait of B. B. Woodward;” ~“The Bison on tho tho Prairie;” ** Portrait of Father Dixon;" “ Yiew of Woodward's Gardena;” *The Con- servatory;” ¢ Holy-Ghost Flower.” Blackicood's Magazine for Fobruary. Leon- ard Scott Pubhsbing Company, New York. Contents: *‘The Story of Valoatwe, and His Drotaer;” “The Two Shevausky;” *‘Interus- tional Vanities : No. ITL.—Title: # Ths HBook of Carlaverock;” * 1nsorder of Dreamlan +*Skopticism and Modern Poetry;" *The P losopher's Baby;" “The Minor King of My- Bora;” * Fables in Song;” ** Postscript—The Political Surprise.” Edinburgh Review—January. Leonard Scott Puolishing Company, Now York. Contents : 4+ Livraries, Ancient and Modern “ ilamoirs snd Letiers of Sara Colendge;" ‘“’Lhe Diplomatic _Service;” ** Autobiography ~of Jobn Btusrt Mill;” “ Ninth Census of the United States;” ' Heor's *Primeval Lifs in Switzerland ;' * Life aod Correspondence of tho Fizst Earl of Minto;" *“ Resuits of the Ed- neation Act ;" **Tho Devotion of the Sacrod Heart;" * Mr. Disraeli’s Gissgow Speeche: g Penn Monihly for March. Penn Honthly As- sociation, Philadelphia. Contonts: * The Month;” “Temperaoca Plans and Possibi The Communisms of tho Old World ; Goverumeat Gwln;;im\ Sur- pottery ;™ * Ucberwe + Carman XXXVIIL; ties ;" “rhe Utility Chicago Medical Journal for March. W.B. Keen, Cooke & Co., Publisners. . Des. J. Adama Allen and Walter Hay, editors. Phrenological Journal for March. Samuel R. Wolls, New Yors. Sanitarian for March. A. S. Barnes & Co., Now York and Cuicago. Chicago Teacher for March. Jereminh Maho- ny, Chicago, Gem of the West tor March. Gem of the Test Compsany, Chiezgo. 2 Ch)_'oic of Masonry for March. Dailoy & Brown, icag American_Builder tor March., Charles D, Lakey, New Yori. Literary Itemd, ' % Thi correspondeace of the Rev. Dr. Channing and Lucy Aikin is to be issued by & Londea Louse. —The lato Dr. David Frederick Strauss left two untinished works, a # Lifo of Lessiug,” and a * Life of Becthoven.” —Tho latest literary rumor about Queen Victoria ie, the: Ler book on Germang, long | Leard of, is suon to b privately publisusd, with elaborate illustratious. —Lord Lytton remarks in *Tho Parisizng,” «§ix well-cJucated, claver girls, srit #f ton, keep & journal; not ouo well-oducated man in 16,096 does.” —f'ne noted Miss Longworth, now advertising herself as Lady Avoumore, will agsizappear bo- foro tho public as an suthor. Hiue has in the press & volume of traveis, entitled * Tereasing Poregrina.” —De Karl Mark, tho leader of tlo elder branch of tho International Association, 14 eugaged in translating bis work ou ** Capital,” which hat not vet appeared io au Eaglish form. —Ex Secretary Wells' book on ** Mr. Tincolo and Ar. Seward” isin the binder's hands, aud Sheldon & Co. will iusuo 1t tho 12th of March. —Tho Appletons will reprint Mr. W. J. Rae's book on * Witkes, Sheridan, and Fox,” and an« uonuce also Prof. Geikio's work oa *Tue Great Ico Aze.” —A curious book is 800n to be publisked by 3.. Louton. It is to be alit of cungrants, Teligious exiles, political rebels, children tolen, ‘maidens pressed, terving men sol fur & term of years, ete., who came from Great Britain to the ‘Americau plantations frow 1600 to 1700. —XMiss Jean Iogclow, eays tho Boston 7Trans- cript, is mostly occupied in the caro and attea- tion of her mother, who has been very uuwell and is now exceedingly infirm. Work npon her now novel, ns & consequence, 18 very glow, M. Guizot, who is now in hia 83th vsar, said recently: * Last year 1 fiuished my History of Trance, and this, please God, will seo ms com- meuce my Universal History. I como of 8 Dardy race. I can hear woll, seo well, sud work well, Pius IX. can do tho same. Wearo thd hardiest old men in Europe, aud will outlive many who are yot young, if God pleasa.” 2 Prcturesqae America” i to have a com- panion eenes in_“ Picturesque Burope.” Itis for thus puipose that Jir. Harry Foun was sont to Eutopo by tho Appletous s0me montbs winca, __Shirley Brooks, whose death deprives the London Punch of its master spisit. had reached an ago greater than that of most of those wha recoded lnm on that paper. With bim died the Jast of tho old ataff of Punch. The ittle bant ‘who established it or worked for it at an early riod wes wade up of Douglass Jorrold. Gilberl N'Bocket, Thackerav, Leech, Tom IHood, the Brough brotlers, Lemon. snd Shirley Brovks, Jerrcid was oniy 54 whev be died, and Tuackeray 52, Leech was only 47, and Lrooks renciied hearly 60. Ho was tho suthor of manybf tug Dost things whick havo appearod fu Sunch of late yeani—such o8 the parody oo “ Mawatha, tho Ensence of Parliament,” and nearly ali tbe ‘papers on the kocial follies of tho day. P ho Indianapolis Journal uays that the Hon, John . Defrees, formerly editor of that jour- pal in engazed in_preparing tho material for % Guvil Bud Political History of Indiane, snd Sictobies of [ts Prominent Citizon, from tho Formation of the Territorul Government to tko Close of the Year 1673.” e aro ziad to hear that Mr. Halliwell has consented to imsue forthwith five-and-twenty copiea of tho important documenis istely dus Govercd by him 1n relazion to Shakspearo's not boing harcholder in_the theatren which bo wwas supposed to have o share. These tive-sud- twenty copies Slr. Halliwell will place in the chicf ibrasries of Great Britain, tho Unitod States, and the Continent, so that Shakupearo studonts may at onco have access o thew, Without wait- ing for the iswne of the Lirst part of M. Halll well's ** 1llastrations of she Lifo of Shiat:pear sowe five or six mouthas Lence.—London A nEUn. —The two booka called forth, in the way of sudi alteram partein, by Dr. Clacke’s ** Sox: in Edaca- tion,” are botk nearly ready. That edited by Miss Brackett, and to bo issued by ine It Dams, was,'bowever, planned long bofors Dr. Clarke's cxsay was thought of, aud treats 12 obly ~identally, bewg of mach wider in dig- “ng * Tho Education of Ameri oit, Lucy IL Stone, slre. Dall, Lens ~ 3rs. kncile, Dr. Putnsm-Jacobl, and Dr. Avery, of Ve44ar, 4ro ill contribute to i¢, 02 & “Sex and Edncation,” Broy., wad & plan of eds carried oat with ~A Ward Howe, and e, Clazks by ciale 8 . Sias Br. L3 D, Cheney, s, Sarah Dix Ha, " uO W \\Ch. < herte wide rarize of ub,. to to publishod by Ro- Col. Higginson, siterws. modifications, by Mre. Juli ‘conninta-chiefly of reniewa of L. neut wrilars.