Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1874, Page 10

10 THE , CHICAGO, DAILY ''TRIBUNE NEW YORK. . Lights and Shedows of Metro- politan Life. & Fashionable Church---Scenes In~ % side and Outside. Sharp Oontrasts of Luxury and Des- titution, Prevalence of Abject Poverty; and What Is Being Done fo Re- lieve 1t The Yiarm lnflicted by a “Per- fectly-Harmless> Toy. Correspondence of The Chicago Tridune, New Yorx, March 6, 1674 ZLast Sundsy evening I attended service in one bf ourmost fashionable up-town churches, oo Fifth avenna; snd, being o plain, simple body, 1had_some little trouble in getting say one to find moaseat. A tall, stylish young man, with fiying hair, immaculato clotbes, unapproachable ouetache, and sllppers on his feet, seemed t0 circulate very noweclessly aound the sisles; and, from his white necktie and clerical ap- pearznce, I supposed him to bo the officiating clergyman, until I noticed that be khad the ecating of etrangers, and I therefore mod- esily asked him for & seat. Taking a leis- urely survey of my person and tho quslity of my clothing, he informed me, in & vers ool manner, that there wore plenty of seats fiee, up in the side-galery, evenings, and as suddenly walked himself away, to bow down beforo some Iadies eiczantly attired. Up to the gallery I mounted, sud, takings sezt, mot too cobspicuous, bohind a pillar, I watched * THE CONGREGATION AXD THE SERVICE. The music was exquisite, thoroughly classical =nd operatic, with B soprano that I had heard sing in Gesman opers, and with & professional tenor and: bass. The organist was s perfect masier of his instrument, and, with the most finishod oxecntion, gavo us airs from * Martha " snd tho *Huguenots.” I looked down upon tho worshipers -Wall-strcet aud Broad-street brokers and bankers, wealthy merchants, and men eminent at the bar, and largely representing thoe wealth of our wealthy city,—their wives and danghters, who came 1ate, in their family coupes, 2nd were all clad in garments befitting tho rank and atation of their husbands snd fathers. There wera 2o poor people tobe secon,—none belonging to that church, appatentls ; sad s I lookod down upon the fashionable congregation, the olegani surroundings, the * dim religious light,” nnd the subdued, floating music, T thought the sight wes quite as enchauting as to attend the opera on Nilsson’s openiog night. Then; the dignificd Rector, with his . bland smilo, his even, white teoth, and waving sur- plice. Iis sermon was about * 2 CHARITY ; and he spoks in touching tones of .the poor in this grest city, and of the 1,000,000 that had been donated overy week since the poverty and destitation of the lower classes hed been made ¥nown. Then he spoke of the generosity of his own cburch iu particular,—of their princely giviog to the different charitablo societies,—and his voice 'grow saft and tonder as he patted his parishion- 253 on the back, and smiles of perfect natisfac- tion crept over msnya farrowed face. The hole effect of the sermon was to make the con- msm.i:m individually eatisfied with himself or rerself ; and the discourse ended with a sooth- ing bonediction, that made every one feel as if he bad dono only zood, and ought to feel per- fecily conieuted. ” Then the organ pealed forth 2 jubilats, “ Peaco on oarth, good-will to men” ; aud people began to get into their carriages, and disperso. 1t wa s lovely, moonlight night, cluar, cold, aod still ; and ‘my laet plimpse was of scarlet draperics, rich purple hangings, melting music, 3ud an cingantly-self-gratitied” people complac- ently coming down the graunize steps.! Hardly bad T gone & step boforo I was acccsted by a wild-syed, wan woman, clad only in & fadedcotton drezs, 2 olelees shoe and old list slipgier; Ler yray heed, nncovercd, gleaming silver-white in the moonbeams. *‘ For the love of God hear me,” cried she, clasping my arm in her bony fingers. **Iam hungry,— AYE, STARVING ! Couslder my age, and Lave pity upon me,"—~her fooble voice growing more znd more shnil 1 questioned hes, took ber uame aud vumber, gave her & little loose cbaage, promised to' call in ' the morning, snd then stood watching fo ber approach carriage-doors,—to be met invariably with the ensp of the coachman's whip as the Qoor was bunged in her pitiful face, and tho car- siege, with its rich, well-clothed, well-fad occu- pauts drove off. Iwent the next dayto the damp basement, given me s her home..” Found the poor old grandmother, 72 years of age (tho ono who Lad mpproached me at the churche £teps) ; found the daughter, helpless from rheu- matic fever for four months,—kad been a for- mer school-tescher in ane of our public schools, auntil obliged to resign her situstion on account of rhenmutism; found the family were culti- vated, refined, educated people, yot with- ont " a speck, of e, & momel of food, 8 bed, or & ecrap of decent clothing, in the miserable, damp, {ll-ventilated basement. “We could not beg, and e suffered in_silence, pawn- ing one article after another,” said the daughter, **until wo had nothing left to sell; and I said to Grandmother, ¢ Wo can only die,—that 18 ALL THAT 1§ LEFT TO T8 NOW.' ‘Then, beceming desverate at our gisuation, he fled into the dlrect, and reached the church-steps just as thd service was over.” 1 asked her if sho ad applied to any one beforeshe spoke to me, md‘ with streaming eyes, she answered, ‘‘Oh, yes! yes! "to juany a Tich woman as she came ~ to . got- Into _ber ' carriege, . only t6, be, repulsed” I lingered %o lsten ' lo the _glorions music, and Ihad been the only Samdritan in all that vast congregation of worshipers, whoso lesson hud been “ Faith, Hope, and Charity ; but tho great- ext of theso is Charity.” T think I never saw 5o many objects of pity 2s Are presented in New York at this vory time. Bome of the papers Lave cried down tho opening of so msuy *! EOUT-ETICHENS " . under the Herald's auspices, B that it foe- tered vice and beggary, and ‘brought into our alrezdy Gver-full city thé paupers from all the country round sbout. I do not know whether thus can bo eo ornot. I have visited daily some of the ** soup-kitchens,” to each of which comd every dsy from 2,000 to 8,000 pergons, eeking for food, I have visited twelve different kitchens, finding in each about the sarie number >f hungry, wan-eyed men, women, apd children, +who not only come to eat, themeelves, all they can, but bring buckets, pails, kettlcs, and any- ‘thing they can beg or_borrow, to take home soup to their families. Tdid not find the yagrant, the “bummer,” here very often, Lut heggaid ‘mechanics, tidy men and women, peopla we could “hardly aEsoelits with the hardened, iniportunate beggar-class. SO0 ‘ouT oF wonk! oUT'OF Wonk!" This has been the auswer of one and all; and maay a -poor seamstress.has told me, **This Las been the first winter I bave been out of work ail winter long.” When I saw the Lope- less, hupgmy army that daily depend upon these * scup-bouses” and wonid starve Lt for them, Isay, * surely all the poor of New York sre reached and fed here;” but, when 1 walk the streets, or enter, &3 a_visitor for someo benevolent society, the desolste homes, the sinms, sud tenement-houses, and see the hun- dreds stifl too ‘prond to beg, or too sick to aval themselves of thess missions, thon .1 begin to realize what a vast world of poor and suffering re have around us. I go in to Lord & Taylor's, to A. T. Siewart's, any of our fashionable empo- rinms, and I cen berdly make my way for the CROWD OF WELL-DBESSED, ELEGANT LADIES who, st each coustar, grow enthusiastic overthe new styles; the soft grays which are com- the ~ fifty different 0 ing .in - this spring; j :hEdeu of this up;e. ‘marvelons y in blue called the -tints, shading- soft and creamy, an: Tossinn gray; the delicato Swedish gray, with it sugzesuon of a clear blonde face and o faint- mchy chieek; tho ocool N wearer,” bo she fair or dark. And the ladies are il enraptured over these last new spring im- portations; - and, a9 the air is soft and baly to-day, and the early robins bave been seen in the *"Park” slready, oue 15 tempted to sdmire and onvy the dear creatures who have crowded with such profusion into all the most fashion- able stores. Then lot us open the door and stop out on to DROADWAY. What s contrast! Thero 18 always that irre- pressinlo boy, with black shawl-pins znd but- tons, who follows and importunes yon, until, in dosperation, you 1avest 25 conts and buy ont his whole stock in trade. There is the professional beggar, lond-voiced, dirty, whining, and inter- copting your onwand progress, that con never 100k you openly in tho face, aud that you feol in o frand and s bumbug. Then—saddest sight of of all—thero aro groupa and groups of poorly- clod men snd pitiful-looking women, vacantly slaring into the showy shop-windows, for want of somio occupation. Theso ate your needy ones. Thege follow you humbly, perhaps begin to ad: dress you, but atop, aud congb, and till up, sud choko,—unused to beg, yet porbaps homeless aud without food for the whole day. The busy, bustling Broadway is s FULL OF THEY,— peopls withoat work, and who have exbausted everything thev nad of comfort; people despo— rata, despairing, vot those who cannol speak the words, *'I am hungry " 2 Not many evenings since, we had s furions northezst snow-storm. All day tho treots had been blocked, cars and ‘buses delayed; sud all day the cold, sloety snow fell without cesaation. Atnightfall it waa still falling, and, asI was awake about dagbresk, I arose from my -bsd, and went to the window, looking out on Brosd- way, to seo if it still was snowing. A gas-lamp from the opposite side of tha strect showed me threo figuros: two policomon dissppearing around the corner on theirdown-town boat ; snd 2 man without overcost, who stood look- iog inoto a window of engravings right againat the gas-light. It had ceased snowing. but tha ground waa white, and the snow lay full three inches on a level. He scemed to bo star- ing at the window, but, in reality, be was watch- ing tho policemen, and shivered, and stamped his fest to keep his blood from freezing. When he was sure that the policemen had gone, he tarned, and crept, and shufiled down somo hasg- ment-staira that Jed into a trunk-store. I watch- ed bim doublo his feet up on tho stops, and, fearing that ho ghould freeze, I woke up a kind servant in the houee, and sent him over the streot to bring the men into my lodging-place. He camo gladly opough, but 0 bonumbed with cold a8 to be bardly sble fo soeak. Afier got- ting him warmed, and giving him 2 bowl of hot coffee, he told mo his storv.—ouly one of THOUSANDS AS TIOPELESS AND PITIFUL! A friend in Brooklyn had written him-that ho could get work hero : Le was & house-painter by trade. He left the West. where his_work twas not very remunorative, and came to New York, with the mistaken idea that Le could get steady employment, and better pay here, Daring the carly fall work wag plenty, and ha did well, sav- ing o little from Lis earviogs. DBofore Christ- mas his friend sickenea and died, and, almost a stranger, ha was left without work. Day by day he traveled the streets, asking work of any kind. Finally hio was turned from his lodging-house, having no money to pay for his board. * I have no_shirt; I pawn the last ome I kad, to buy bread;” and I saw tbat he had only a £hin Bummer cozt on, and no shirt or veat; and for forty-eight hours hohad walked the streets] Ho had been to one of the soup-kouses, hiad boen warmed aod fed. *‘But I had to move on for others to come, sud I tried to go to ono of the police-stations to sleep.” But the bad ven: tilation, the stench, the varmin, the * bummer woro tao much for this decent young man, and ho could not lio down or ‘sleep in such quartors; &0 he walked tho streots, by day and night, .. WEARY. FAMISHED, JTEART-SICE. 1 afterwards found that his story was true, and. throngh the kindness of friends, got him a situation for the present. There are mumerous charities, and some of our wealthy residents have dona nobly, visiting the poor themselves and with their familios, an leaving substantisl relief. Mauy families have taken some entira poor family to attend to nntil the panic is over and spring shall come with its need for workers. Asa city, New York has ro- ponded liberally and nobly 'to the demand for 2id; but et here aro a class of our rich people who give a £10 or s 220 bill, and think the “* poor wrotches” erc abundantlv supplied. Were it not forrepeating much that has_appeared of 8 singular character in the New York Zferald, I could fill my letter with cases that have come under my own observation,—scn.e even more heart-rending thanany thathave b 1toldinthat paper. The nnemployedworkirgmeaaro becoming defiant, and scowls and jeers aro thrown at many a fair ocenpant of & catriage, a8 she whirls up Fifth avenue to her Lenten service; tnd I fear that the riotons demonstration in Tompkins Square will soon again be repeated, unless these hungry men ean bo st to work. T believe that, ‘but for our very eflicient police-force, & TIOT WOULD HAVE LROKEN OUT long ago. For thoee rich people srho seek out the suffering, and give not only of their means, but of their Bympathy, bave only unmessured praise; but by far a large class of our wealthy men, who worship in aristocratic churches, and got up ‘“corness” on Wall street, content themselves with giving a litile moncy, and Jesve all tho work, and all tho sym- pathy, ana the help to come from otbers. It hus not - been ordinary vagrants that have been found starving this winter. It has been the in- dustrions, deserving, worthy poor, who have ruffered cola, and nakedness, and huuger, rather than make their necessities known. And Tecan hear that Divine Voice that spoks so sweetly nineteen bundred years ago, repeating to the gencrous ones who ~have contributed 8o much toward belping the poor, the same silvery words, “Inasmuch 24 vo have done it unto ons of tho least of these Ay brethren, yo have done it unto Me." Bat, fearing this subject may bo worn ont for you aiready, I want to ask you if you would like 1o buy the cnpyright, or patent, for a new, per- fectly-harmlexs (as the circulars say) little Dar- lor-tog, called tho PARLOR-ARTILLERY. It was s simplo little rubber-ball, Iying in & {ittle tin-base, like & mortar ; and was exhibited in the large plate-glass show-window on Broad- way, in the comer-store opposite Lord & Tay- lor's establishment. othera wero fond of tak- ing their little boys into that store ; and, ns tho apent asgured them that the bail bonndad with & spriug, and waa a very ingenfous litfle plaything, little urchine- innumerable induced their fond mammas to buy them one of these mininture toys. The opposite show-window was occnpied by a farner: and soalsscques, and caps, and furs were displarad in grent -profusion. Suddonly, nt about 4 p. m., while, fortunately, the immnediate vicinity was comparative clear, thoro camo A TEURIFIO EXPLOSION {from our infantine battery. The whole building jarred and quivered ; all the lights of glass in the rour stortes wera blown out; the front doors ware blown out; the eatiro fropt was warped and blistered ; not o vestiza of .plate-glass door or windows was left, all being ground to fine gm\'dar; and the agent was found lying in the obris, mangled and bloeding, and his clothing literally torn off. Not only that, but two ladies who were just then passing wero blown into the street, sud, {from tho force of the concussion ,not only, but from cuts by glass snd powder, were rendercd inseusible, if not sorionely injured. One of tho Iadies bad on s soal-skin sacque and cap ; the cap was cut into inch-pieces, aud tue sacque, as well as therest of her clothing, was toro into small shreds. The poor furrier had hardiy a piece of fur remaining,—all thst wae not blown to Eiucus hoving been” stolen by the crowd.that rushed to the spot. Nitro-giycerine proved to ‘b2 n pretty expensive parlor-toy, in this case ; and those fond mothors who investedin the « pew palor toy * will now be only too anxious to destroy tho proté~ piaything. It scems asif one was not sure of anytaing in this world. If, when attired in our Best, and bound on a shop- ping expedition, wo are lizblo to be suddenly blown up, and maimed or disfigured for hie, wo ougit as least to kaow whero such harmiess toys are located, that we may avoid them. THE OPENINGS of the millinery-rooms at Stewart's and eeveral other fashionaulo modistes' take place to-uior- rows snd, after the Lenten prayers, the ladies can discuss tho new styles goiug home, Itis very warm and spring-like, with s geutlo rain, which, Lhowever, does not doter our ladies from their one continual round of shopping. . And, while the prosperous ride to the Patk, or up Fifth avenue, or through Broadway an: laby- rinth of shops, the poor start out at you from unexpected doorways, waylay you in stroet-cars, Sing atyou on forrs-hoats, or, bolder growa, follow you, beseeching for & penny| And %o sats tho sun on Now York, to-night, to rise to the same scenes, enscted again aud again. BeoLan. R ST, Dr. Livingsione and Weéstminsier Ab= boy. . Late accounts from Zanzibar report that the ‘body of Livingstono was still on its way from the interior unider the charge of ono Alr. Mar- phy. The London Geographical Society has te- Len measures: to celebrate the funeral &ppro- pristely, though some of the members cling to the hopo that Livingstone, after all, is not yot dead. Dean Btanley hna offered to give the re- mains of the great African fraveler s - final rest- ing-place beneath the hallowed sisles of West- CTTULITERATURES Dicikens. . THE LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS. By Jomuy FomsteR. Vol. IIL 12ma,, €00 pp. Philadelphis: 4. B. Lippincott & Co. This closing volume of tho biograpby of Dick- ons includes » history of the eightecn years be- tween 1852 and 1870, the date of the grest novelist's death. Theso woro. among the most active, fertile, and conspicuous yoars of Dickens' life. During their passage he produced the novels, * Bleak House,” ** Little Dorrit,” “ Tale of Two Cities,” * Great Expectations,” # Qur Mutaal Friend,” and the upfinished story of *Edwin Drood,” besides the many brief tales and detsched papers which he contributed to Household Words and All the Year Round. In their courso was embracod his carecr as a public reader, which extondedover the twelve last and most Iaborious of his years. And, finally, in their round of stirring and important events was unfolded tho scparation from his wife, the sorriest and most fateful incldent that trans- pired in all lus Jong and shockerod bistory. In the early part of this period Dickens was at the zenith of his fame and geuius, but there- after he slowly, stgadily declined in physical strength and mental power, until it became “third volime with a sorrowfal tint. “In the spirit of- lgve, and yet of;iruth; the writer invariably spenks of his friend, delicately alinding to:his infirmities, tenderly extolling his virtues, and Jjudicionaly scquitting himsely of a difficnlt duty. ‘We need the help of thisbiograply to spprociate Dickens, no matter how much we msy have read and loved his booka. It is a continual leeson in Iiberality, dolivered by Dickens bhimself. His own spirit, glowing with love ond sympathy, quickena ours to s generous emalation, and com™- pels us to exorcise that charity which he be stowed 5o lavishly upon the weak, the erriog, and the unfortunate. , Euthanasy. EUTHANABY; On, Happy Tank Towaros Toe Exn or Lirg, Dy WiLLIAM MouxTroRD, 12mo,, 511 Bp. Boston : James R, Osgood & Co. v Euothanasy? To make it easy living is the great question with the bulk of mankind, task- ing the entire force of brain and muscle. How can thoy afford to pause and provide ways for easy dying? It wonld secm to be easy dying at any time. Only to give up the strife, let go the hold, reeign the breath, and cease to be. But life is precious to the voriest wrolch. By all of us it is to bo prized and made the most of. Every moment is to be counted, and fts total of use and beauty garnered. Each minnte holdsa- fowel, if we did but know it; s gloam of sun- ebino, a breath of sweetness, a nots of music, a psinfully apparent that the functions. of body and mind had lost irrecoverably their formor quick, sure, and exquisite play. The firat symp- toms of the réstlessness, longing, and discon- tont that finally destroyed his happiness and hastoned his desth, found distinct expres- sion in the story of *‘ David Copperfleld,” tho work completed immadiately prior to the era under notice. Into tho biography of Copper- fiold Dickens had ‘poured much of his own spirit, and feeling, and oxporience. In tho life of that horo he had given a transcript of his own,—not literal, to be sure, bat after the truo artistic mothod, with a basis of truth that, by them who knew him, could clearly be discernod through tho fiction that ideslized and eombellished it,. *'The uuhappy loss or want of something ™ that cover shadowed and oppressed David'a soul, was but a reflex of the craving void ia Dickens’ heart ; of the torturing disquiet that Le sufforcd to incronso with nis days, to impel “bim to procedures which they who loved him dapre- cated and doplored, and which at last became & Nemesis that was avenged by the prema~ turs dissolution of his life. From Dickens himself we have i, that his owvn father and mother sat for the portrails of Mrs, Nickleby and Micawber. Allowing much for ex- aggeration of caricature, the figures remain dis- torted by prominent foibles and weaknesscs. Tho child of two snch faulty individoals:could searcely fail to develop an unbslanced charcter, & discordant temperament. Defects of disposi- Hon'and of intellect are the almost Inevitable in- heritance of imperfect parentage. The doom of his unfortunate birth bors heavily on Dickens all his lifo. Slm%glo ngainst it as ho might, its ponalties and dirabilities would make thomeelves felt in many s thwarted, if not misdirected, an- ergy and aspiration. b The vanity of the father, which was whim- sically exhibited in sounding words and jnflated sentences, tho son_botrayed in a fondaocss for flashy waistcoas, for the bravery of tangled loo&n of glistening chains, for pins ond rings, and whatever of color and plint the masculing dress will pormit. The failing was b ess in cither case, but it was _indicative of a coarse grain in the nature. That same coarse grain which brasquely displayed iteolf to Washington TIrving in Dickens' jovial salutation on their firat meoting, ¢ What'll you drink, Irving ? A brandy- ‘smash orf -cocktail 2" and which so ehocked the refined sensitiveness of Irving that he never could forgive it. That sume coarse grain which Tled Dickens' to violate tha sacred laws of hos- pitality, and grossly satirizo in one of his novels nation that had generonsly welcomed, honored, and cheriehed bim. : - From Dickens’ mother must have come his 1ack of morsl strength to restrain fligntv snd ir- regular inclinations, to subduse self-will, and to enduro with courage and patienco the daily crosses and sacrifices that aro the painful, yot precious, disciplive of life. That lack of dopth and sorenity of nature which bocame more and mora evident in the closing years of his lifo; that threw him upon theoxterior and the arti- fizaal, for distraction, whiagkcoutd not be happi- ness,—for forgetfulness, which could not be peaco; that identified his expenence with “the 50 bappy, and yot 80 vnhappy, existence which soeks its realities in unrealities, and finda ita dangerous comfort in a pergetual escape from the disappointment of heart round it.” While Dickens' childron were young, and his enius was vigoreus and fertile, the needs of his being were solaced aod satisfied. He found full compensations and enjoyments i the so- ciaty of the little ones gathered about Lis hearth, whom he passionatoly loved, and in the 'crea- tions of his fancy, which were slmost equall; dear and engaging. But, sbont thotime “ Daw Copperfield” wes written, his €lder children wore advancing in youth, nad oo by ove desert: ing ‘the home-nest, leaving it and hie heart empty. Just then, foo, his fancy becama way- ward and uncontrollable. It was no longer to ‘be trusted. "It required careful wooing angd per- snasion, aud in somo respects altogether ovaded him. 1t was o'griovous trinl, for on this divino faculty he had bitherto relied for the relief of oblivion from every sorrow. These were un- happy chavges, and they had an adverse influ- ence on his remaining career. The incowmpatibility betwween Dickens and his wife, which undoabtedly had jarred npon him from the begioning, but could not spoil the mel- ody of his life While other circumstances wero fruitful of hope and. happiness, now grow con- tinually moie irritating. Instead of manfally facing tho trouble, and so conquering it, or ra- ducing it to its smallest dimensions, he weakly sielded to the dictates of selfishness, and finally put away the woman who' had becn his com- panion for upwards of twenty. years and the mother of hia ten children. Exceedingly littie with regard to this action has been disclosed by his biographer or by public rumor.- Only they who were intimate with Dickens' self and il his domestic experionco bave o Tight to judzo haw 1ar Lie erred, and how much censure he deserved. As for tho rest of us, it ie meet that wo uso that charity toward him, when his faults ariso for judgnient, that we each would ask of mankind Sthen it comee our turn to be weighed in the ‘balauce, We may justly fecl that, had ho borne his sor— rownobly io the end, wo should haya honored him with an unreserve that is now impossible. Ddt Dickens has taught us the verdict to apply to bhis own conduct, in the aublime words heuttered on the death of hislist surviving ‘brother: ‘It was a wasted lifo, but God forbid that one ehonld bohard upon it, or upon any- thing in this world that is not deliberately and coldly wrong.” In view-of the preat love and humanity that filled Dickens’ soul, that permea- ted all 'his writiugs, that waaacheer and s blessing to_the world while he lived, and will continne to be 80 s longes his_ books enrvive, wo forgive the grave errors and the Jighter in- firmities {hat sometimes 8o strangely belied his principles and goneral practice. Immodiately - befors the great change in Dickens' Jomeatic bilnirs, in the spring of 1858, he began a courso of pnid readings, in defiancs to tho strenuous opposition of hiefriends, He urged tho pathetic excuse: “I must do some- thing, or I ehall wear my heart away. I can geo no better thing to do that ia balf 8o hopeful in itgelf, or balf so well suited to my restless state.” His marvelons faculty of invention had ‘partially deserted him, as wo have before men- tioned, and ho reckleasly planged into the most tircsome and_exciting activity in search of con- ‘solatiou. His wisest counsellors dreaded the effect upon an already-wenkening frame, and upon 2 disposition that showed a growing tendeucy to break from healthful restraiats. But the Fnopla ‘welcomod - bis appearance upon the platform with nnprecedonted enthusiasm. Everywhere crowds came out to greet him, over~ flowing the lecture-rooms, nud, by every demon- stration of affcction and deiight, proving how fondly and gratefully he was enshrined in the hesrt of (ho mation. Nearly up to the week of bis death, these readings ware resumed ab frequens intervals, rccciving the unvarying patronaza of tarongs and unintermittent har- vests of npplause. But they told heawily upon his strength, sappivg it surely, uotil it was wholly overcome. - Tha reason of Dickens' close seclusion while on his lust tour in America, and_his decision not to visit the West, contrary to his firat intention, .is oxplained by bis extreme feebleness. He was & vonfirmed and sullering invalid before he came to our . shores, and our harsh climate, and bis arduous exertions in public, powerfally holpedto basten the end of his carecr. It was his won- derful nerve and resolution that, through theso Jost vears, kept Dickens up to the tremendous task he had impbeed on himaelf. Only those in sttendonce upon him knew how ofien he was prostrata in an exhaustion next to death, at the end of su <"»mng's reading. 1t was but a qnes- tion of time waen all shonld cnd. Tho worjd was struck with mrEriu when the hour cama, but the flame of Dickene’ life had baen steadily sii ing far a torm of ten or twelve years before it finally expired. . ‘ "The rocord of thia siow decay, of “the horoic thongh misgnided endeavor to stay its course, to beguile its sufferinz, and still fo_sccoplish what the will decreéd, despite the sbrinking of emila of love, a spasm of pain. Eoch has a value, and is a blessing, would we but look upon it rightly. Neither the pleasure nor the pain can bo dispensed with, and often the latter ia the mora profitable. This. is not sentiment, nor folly, It is wisdom, which, put in practice. would make every life rich and fruitful, but not easy. Au easy death may be compasned, but ease and duty aro incompatible eo long 88 wo flt? in this spoiled Eden. ‘The fear of death is often the plague of lfe. ‘Wa caunot dodgo the dread event. fiuie the cer- tain fate of every human being ; thorefore it is the highest wirdom to learn to regerd it with oquanimity. Pleasant thoughts, which como out of right views about dying, axe a vast Lelp to oasy livieg. ‘Thio discussion of Enthanasy which ocoupies Mr. Mountford's volame ia soothing to the aux- ious mind, or to tho placid oye, that is contem- plating the gravo noar at hand. It takes place +hetween an old mamr who is approaching the end of his conrse, and & young msn who, in his eatly promise, is called upon to lay down tha work and the hope of this world, and pass ont into the mystery that is boyond.” Finito 1ifo has boen s0 much to him, iis pain_and ita joy so full of toeaning, that his faith is firm in ao iofinite life of blessedness, He reasons au immortality out of mortality without the aid of revelation, al- though accopting that ns the crown of holief for the ~Christian. Beautiful and comfortable thoughts umte in his dscourse, commending. it even td thoso who cannot yield to the persua- sion, . The book is not new cne. It passed through » number of editions twelve years ago, aud then tho issue was discontinued. It is worth reviv- ing, for its apirit ispercnnial, and there srosome in every nge whom it will comfortand encourage. Juveniles. PET ; On, PASTIMES AND PENALTISS, Dy fhe Rev. . H.R Hawzs, M, A, aulbor of *Music and Mor- als.” 12mo,, 314 pp, New York : HMarper & Brow. WILLOW LHDOK, By the sntlor of “ The Wide, Vide World” 12mo., M8 pp. New York : Rubert Carter & Bros, - 3 ‘There is » pecaliarly fresh and robust atmos- phero sweeping through an English juvenile. 1t is delightfully invigorating aud enlufary, like the briny air of tha sos, or tha bracing breeze of the mountain. It1s strikingly felt in the books of Thomas Hughes, constituting their wondrous and vital charm; and in a less degres it exists in nearly every specimen of children’s literature that conies from our cousins across the sca. It is the broath that inflates the Jungs of English childron, making them hale and strong, and lay- ing tho foundation for thatsturdyand firm character and constitution that distinguish En- glish mep and women. Tho Reov. Mr, Haweis, who, a year or two ago, ‘made himsolf agreeably knovn to many Amer- ican roaders of his ~interesting volume oa “ Music and Morals,” bas now given us an ax- ample of his skill in tbe production of a child's story. It hase that singular fascination we bave beon describing. The children it brings together &ro nourished by a safiiciency of oxygen, and, with unstinted freedom in the oxerciso of every facalty, keep true to the simple, childieh natare. It is refresbing to be in their company, for we are immodiately sensible of their healthful in- finences, and renew for the time our youth and spirits. But, in addition to this, tho book has another value. So artfully as to leave his motive entire- ly unsuspected, tho author introduces among the amusements of his youthfnl characters lively lectures on tho rodiments of Chemistry, with an abundance of experimonts in illustration. The child-readar cannot escape haviog™ his, curiosity inflamed, and forthwith attempting s perform- ance of the experimenta on his own acconnt,— thus fixin s mind certain chemical prin- ciples. Every atom of precise information in any scionce is of use, snd the knowledge of Chemistry which young folks will unconsciously pick up in the perusal of**'Pets” is so much ‘pure gain. When books succeed in imparting solid instruction in 8o attractive a manner that children accept 1t greadily, they fulfill their bigh- st office. - Nearly ageneration back,when books of the first rank were somewhat less plentiful than they are at present, * The Wide, Wido World” enjoyed & great populanty. The book has long been shelved, being of the sort that reign for & very brief season. its name, however, is not quita forgolten, and s little of tho old interest is called up when - jta -suthor, who has not altogether abandonod her profession, brings out & now novel. Bat, since the time of ‘*The Wide,Wide World " and “ Queechy," Miss Wetherell’s books have oxperionced religion and put on o severoly- serious aspect. Their solo object mow is to preach and convert to the rigid tenats of tho tho- ology of Knox and Calvin. Bomehow the human mind does not take kindly to this sort of fiction: Children swallow it as thopwould = sugar-cont~ ed pill, of nacessity,—cmphatically rojecting it if thoy can got anything bettor suited to the natural appetito, 2 4 4 In order to make sure of s just jndgmont on “Tho Willow Brook,” we put it in tho hands of &' child who 18 .an inordinate ronder. It waa wetly Iaid aside with the remark,-“ It’s rather dUIE; T gucas Tl g and play awhilo.” Was the fault in the book or the reader 7 We might ex- plain that tho Intter is not a pious child, but ono with pure and healthy iostincts. Surely thero is way to put moral ag well as sclentiflc truths so that the young will boinvited toward them. How important that it should . be' carefully chosen] Anthony Trollope’s Last, € POINEAS BEDUX: A NovEL. By ASTHONY TroL- rore, Ilustrated. ¥ vo., 255 pp. New York: Hao- per & Broa, : b e A One must be hard pushed for employment to read s mnovel by Anthony Trollope from title- pago to finis. His long doecriptions wear away the.lnst bit of patience of tho long-suffering. How can he tolerate writing them ? They aro very well put together. Nobody can find fault with the words or their arrangement; but there is such on interminatle host of them, stretching ous over column after column of blinding print. 1t is an_inscratable mystery bow he can 8o drag ont a narration, and yet absolutely manage not to repeat himself. His prosiness is mastorly in its completeness. G Flag the payment of 8o much a line anything to do with this prolixity; and has he purposely Dracticed it untilit has sttained its high state of | porfection, the best art of the kind in the nine- teenth century? Or is it the man's natural habit; and does he talk after the same tedions fashion? Heaven save us! bow insufferable he must be to Lia fricnds. The happiest among them is surely his wife, for a man is supposed to display hia talenta for the enjoyment of anybody but the llddy who @its opposite to Lim at the tamily-boerd. 3 And yet Anthony Trollope is not destitute of attractions, He bas an excellent kuack of draw- ing ciaracter and laying out o plot, and it is not. altogether unamusiog to watch him on this part :‘( s wo‘rks 31:1; lllicretde:hm:d thuhnhgk will ip Ly all the places,—that is, the desorip- tive. ‘;y:’;niunn of his book,—and just take the pith «f it, the colloguial parts, that allow. the dram}tis persons to speak for themselves and tell their own story. Just as your dainty eater will cick the heart out of a sandwich, or the plums ot of & pudding., 3 Phineas Redux i Phineas Finn revived again. ‘The reading public are familiar with this hero and s story in o former novel Ho is hand- some ; singie-hearted ; 8o Irishman; with, no end of talent, as we ara constantly sssured, but not clearly convinced,; successful in politics ; & -Roman; Catholio; and adored by .the ladies. ‘What is the reason that a man can be a villain or an idiot, and nct excits the derision that Le is -certain to_arouse if he is the darling of the ho flesh, is Tery sad.’ It covers the whole of this women ? _ Poor tellow it mag not be his_fault that ho is Bubject toan incessant bombardment SUNDAY, MARGH. 15, 1574, . [“with billet-dowrx and damagrod h a ridicalous-figure ha does -cut | vIt is equally undignified- to réturns aa good'as: he-receives, 1o capitulate, or to beat & retreat. Ho is helplesa aunder the firo ‘of the ememy; aud, before it cenacs, ho is apt to havesl] the manliness beaten out. of him.: To this unfortunats doom was Phineas Finn condomaed ; and, althoush Alr. Trollopo intonds him to be sn iroposing hero, ho is not at all so. His friends are too much for him. Unhappy Lady Laura, who had axajected the band of Phirfess to marry s rich old miser,” and get a recompense for the future she had gener- ously used to pay the debts of her brother, Iaid the foundation for a fature of wrotchedness. Before her husband's death, she declares to Phunozs her undying love for him. It is purely platonic, snd she vows to be bis sister, mother, friend. He accepts the friendship, and gives her imteful friendship in return. Buat, whea Lady aurs becomea a widow, he has-nothing more for her. Hig 0ld affection has died out. Indeed, he has loved one, and married another, since he first wooed the Lady Laura. And now, s widower, be inclines to, the- beautiful Afadame Gogssler, who, befors his own marriage, Iald her Deart at nis fect, and wss obliged to_take it up 8gnin. It is hard for Lady Laurs. She had resolved, ‘while a wife, to renounce all selfishness and re- joico over the union of Phineas With any woman Who would promise to bless him. Dut, a5 & widow, the ordenl is-too severe for-her. . To resign to another the Jove that is coveted, with- out which life will be desolate, ‘and still to be patient and gentle, requires & heroism of which fow ara capable. It is mot stranga that Lady Lsaura, wio is an averaga womao, should mourn, and murmur, and punish Phineas as far a8 sho is nble, by withdrawing from bim ber friendship and favor. He, like & man out of tho story~ books, is properly sorry for the disappointment, but bears tue loss of hor regard with comfurtable fortitude, He fs sustained tharcto by the affec- tionate sympathy of ths lady of his choce; for no woman, save tha Lady Laura herself, could ;}uu;rssin the blandishments of the handeomo ons. - woy A Rcligtons Novels GOLD AXD DROSS. By Epwanp Gannztr, Author of “Crooked Places,” “ Oocuputions ul » Tlelired Lifo," ete, 12 mo., %95 Pp. New York: Dodd & Mead. , Edward Garrett belonga in the class of strictly- religious, thongh not sectarian, writers. Through one or two of his previous novels he has earned » considerable reputatton. This last work is not oqual to his best, and still it is readable. There ara several earnest personages in it, whom we follow with & good deal of intereat. There is one capital thing sbout all Mr. Garrett’s good people: they nover pitch sermons directly at us, but, by casnal words and deeds, forcé hs to acknowledge tho beauty of their lives.- It is o natural kind of goodneds they profess,~a good- fiess that everybody sees is right; that ia not ine closed in narrow creeds, but is founded upon the universal and eternal principle of love. . But Mr. Garrett is leas successful in porkray- ing worldly charactors. His gold is very pure gold, but his dross is very bad Indeed. It is such indifferent scum that it does not answer the de- :irl;qblla purposs of & contrast to the precious icle, Rooks Received. - ‘A_HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE EXPEDI- TION AGAINST SANDUSEY UNDES COL. WILL~ 1AM CRAWEFORD, IN 1872, By C. ¥, BUTTZEVIKLD, 8vo, 103 pp. Cllcinnatis Robert Glarko & Co. A COMMENTARY ON THE HOLY SCRIFIURES: Tus MiNok PAOPIETS. EXEORTICALLY, TREOLOGIO: aLLr, Axp HosuLericaLLy Exroosprd, Edited by Puvie Scuary, D, D. 8vo, New York : Soribuer, Armatrong & CO. : THE RALF-YEARLY ABSTRACT OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCE3, Edited by WILLLA DOMUTT BIOKE, 3. D., . K. C. 8. Vol LVUL Philadalphis : Heu~ ry C.Lea, Periodicals Received, The numbers of Liltell’s Living Age (Littell & Gay, Doston) for Feb. 23 and Mareh 7 have the following eontents: “Memoir and Lettord of Sara Coleridge,” Edinburgh Revictw; a second inatallment of the “Letteis of Mrs. Browning on Literary and General Topics,” Conlemporary Review ; ** Spanish Life and Character in tho [n- terior during the Summer of , 1878," Part V., Macmilian's Magazine; *Sully, Soldier an Statesman,” New Quarlerly Revtew; **Fraoce, " Saturday Reriew; * How ng Clasges Benotited by the Increaso of Wealth ?” Economist ; together with Part ITL. of * Far from tbe Madding ‘Crowd;" the conelusion of & atory by Anthony Trullops; a short story by the author of * Patty,” and the npsual amounat of poetry and miscellany. Current numbers of Erery Saturday (H. O, Houghton & Co., Cambridge, Mass.), and Apple- tons' Journal (D. Appleton & Co., Rew York). freat Western Monthly for March. Great Western Publishing Company, Phlladelphia, - Qllustraled Annual of Phrenology and Physiog- nomy for 1874, 8. R. Wells, New York. ¥ Ameriean Naturalist ‘for March, Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, Mass. 3 . Qut Vest. Out West ‘Publishing Company, Colorado Springs, Col. g American Bee Journal. American Publishing Company, Chlcago. Wisconsin Zumberman for March. TWiscon- fu Lumberman Puublishing Company, Milwan- iee. National _Live-Slock Journal for March. George W. Ruat & Co., Chicago. Litcrary Notes. Spielhagen is to correspond from Germany for the Athencum (London). . —Mlark Twain is hard at work on & new book descriptive of the manners and customs of the English. _ —“Ivan de Eiron,” Arthur Helps' pew Rus- ;}ian s)wr_v, will bo issued this week. (Boberts ros.). . —The Putnams are going to reproduce Mr. Proctor's *‘ Bun Viewa of the Earth, or the Sea~ sons Illustrated.” . —The popular edition of Carlyls's writings, in thirty volumes, is to be enlarged by tbe addition of all hig translations. —Dio Lewis basn't got quiteenough to do in keoping up the whisky war ; 80 be ia busy on s new work treating of sexual bygiene. —T. 8. Arthur has written & new toraparance story, with the women's crusade as basis, which i3 now nearly ready. ” —The Vonice 3ail is an Taglish penny news- paper, just started in Verice. .What will the shados of Othello, Tago, and Shylock asy to the innovation?, —Tho new story by Jules Yerne, now appear- ink in the _!Iagazme D'Educalion el de. Kecrea- tion, eutitled The }Myaterions Island,” will be begun in the April number of Scribner’s Aaga- zine, and continued throughont the year. —After an illuess of eighteen months, Hans Christian Andersen has recovered his health saf- ficiently o o to the South of Europe, snd to roeume his literary Iabors. LRSS v —Ausrbaoh’s * Waldfried " is tobe isvued by Messrs. Holt (by arrangement with. the aathor), in an independent American translation, by Mr. Bimon A. Btern, who did very good work in the * Beintillations Zrom Heina,” —A superb English volume lately announced in “Shakspearo's Home snd Bural Life.” by Jamos Walter : a biographical parrative, illus- trated by sbout 100 landscapes and views by the ‘heliotype process from original drawings taken in tbe localities. —Number threel J. M. Stoddard & Co., of Philadelphin, announce still another reply to Dr. Clarke: “No Sex in. Education; or, An Equal_Chance for; Both Boya and Girls,” by Mrs, E. B. Duffey, suthorof * What.Women Bhould Enow.” —A new novel by Florence Maryatt, ** No In- tentions,” is in pross at the Appletons’, a8 slso Miss Fisher's s" Christian *Reid ") new story, * A Daughter of Bohemia.” i | —Ten thousand coples of the third volume of Torster's Dickens wore sold in England within ten days of publication s . —+T.ord Macanley's Letters,” to be published D0y _parts, in Eugland io seven monthly- ¥ix-pe: will be immediately reprinted here by Hurd & Horfibhn, with their compléte edition of his works. —~—“What Is Darwiniem ?” by Dr. Oharles Hodge, of Princaton, maybe expectod shortly from the Scribners. . g 7 X —~Thoautuorof thesg Englishnoval, Young Brown,” having eent that hero to Indis, .Jo- cally*“adapta ™ almost entiro ona of AMr. King- Iake's Crimean battie-scenes. . 5 —ThoTrov Press says thatnot long ago, as the Rev. Dr. Robinson was looking over the new books at H. B. Nims & Co.'s stors, he said: *I see you have ‘ Schoem’s Statistios of tho-World,’ bave you *Ham's Travels in the Delnge’? ™ * No,"” respanded Mr. Nims promptly, ‘' but we ¢an accommodate you with “Japhet in Search of His Father.'” Dr. Robinson laughed. —Daring this week Roberta Brothers will pub- lish & little work entitled ‘‘The Trust lmr?ho Remittance,? by Mary Cowden Clarke. - It -is written in metred prose, and bears on the fiy Jleaf this quaint inseription: “To the lover-hus- band of 8, this book 18 dedicated by the lover- wife of 63." ! ~—Mir. Tilton received thirteen proposals from as many leading houses for tbe publication of his Tomance, ""fcmpesl ‘Tossed,” in book form ; he has just closed arrangements with Sheldon & Co., who published hia **Bexton’s Tale, snd Other Poems,” snd.a little work by him issned. anony- B Aikit a nisce 62 THomas Carlylo, 3k —Miss n, & niece of | jomas Car) ‘who i 5 house for Bim, wesides at Chelsea and keeps i el |oalEsd for Mamllzn's Cholden Trewstry :| for some happy inspirati & oollection of ** Boottish Bong,” - Xt -is, undors, atood that Mr. Carlylehas rovised and gorraoted: |’ proof 8o thoroughly that it is virtually his bdok., —E, J. Hale.& Son announce & volume under the title of ** Down tho Miasissippi Biver; or, Praclical Lessons Under ihe Codeg)nulln." which will have twelve full-page illustrations by H. L. Btephicus, and an lpgfnuix containing the Amer-, ican (Wilson's), the Frenol, and she Irish duel-. ing codes, 3 —Iu spite of the Nafion's good guess, that “Far rrom the Madding Crowd” (which the London Spectalor attributed to George }:xing was by the author of * Under the Greenwoo Troo," the Nation intimates that the name “ Thomss Hardy " may be & nom de plamo, and other papers have inaisted that- it belongs to a woman. We learn from the American publish- ers of Mr. Hardy's books that the name belongs of right to a gentieman who, fortunately, is only about 30 years of age.—Boston Transcript. - —In view of Mr. Swinburne'srecent latter, London Figaro wntes him s valentine, Wl rmos as follows : - Bard of the hectic muse and lustfnl Iyre, Rant is not passion, nor ia fever fre. - - - ‘The sacred spring, oh | bard of blood and lust! Foul not with satyr-tread, with charnel-dust, Lava tky bot lips fo'the phre Hippocren . But—ahiame, sir! keep the Myse's fountaln clean —*‘A Lifé of Christ,” by the Rev. F.\V. Farrar, D. D., Master of Mariborough College, ‘i Chsplain i Ordinary to the' Queen, iz now in preparation, aod will be -shortlv published, in two volumes, by Messrs. Cassell, Pettar & Gal- pin." Each volume will contain an Jliustration from an original sketch, made expressly for the work, by Mr. Holman Hunt. i —Mr.W. Carew Hazlitt's book about the Lambs, which bears tho title of * Lambians,” has beety kept back “by copyright difficulties, only just sattled. 1t ‘embraces the correspondence of Mary Lamb, fac-similes of tho titles of the rare firat editions of Charles’ writings, drawings of his varions places of residence, unpublished or uncollected letters, papers, aud other curious scrap. Git K €% o —Thers is probably no other living author in this conntry whoso works show 80 Iarge an av- rage circulation and salo 28 those of 8. G. Holland, now even better known by own name than under his sobriquot of “**Timothy Titcoud.” " The hotise of Scribner,” with which he is now associated as editor of the Afagazine, has always been his poblishers, azd s rocent acs counting shows that up to date it had eold 10 less than 330,000 copies of his Looks. * Kath- rina "' leads with 74,663 copics, “ Bitter-Sweet " follows with 54,614 copies, and * Timothy Tit- comb's Leitera to Young Poopla” . with 64,614 copies. s 4 ER - ~We want to say a word to the children of Parnnssus who so abundantly favor us with their efusions, | The deep sadness that pervades the ify Beries |~ "OURWINTER-BIRDS. bulk of their verse ia nof in" harmdny with the genins of the age, ‘and thoss who “lisp their woa in numbars™ should seek au early oppor- tunity to sink ioto the tomb. No ‘pupil of the melancholy-romantic school ought to hesitate & moment between poetry and suicide. _The tal- ented sathor of ** The Wild Guldoo " wiil under- stand that theso romarks are not personal— Brooklyn Argus. LY '—The antoblograpliy of Franklin, edited by Johr Bigelow, and published in 1308, s to be en- Iarged by the addition of jmportant fnatter. . It now brings the story of Franklin's life’down to 1757. During the next five years ba lived abroad, carrying on correspondence with many frionds at home. His letters, written at this time, contain a foll acconnt of hus private life, and with thess Mr. Bigelow haa constructed a valuable supple- mont to his orizinal work. The new editlon;=ill be comprised in thrae_octavo volumes, snd will be published by J. B. Li‘pmncolt & Co. —Shopard & Gill, of ‘Boston, their li partnership. having oxpired, separate int>¥two firms, separating the plaes of the late biouss be- tween them. Mr.: Shopard will publishtha American Homes megazine and hia share o) the hooks somewhero iu the * burned district,”:end Mr. Gill, who associates with him AMr, Eanry B. Cram, will continne in the old stand,. Gharles Bradlangh’s * Impeachment of the Honua of Branawick ” is to be published by the Iatter, and he is promised also two neyw tales by Wilkia Col- hns and juveniles by Mra, Julia Ward Hows and Mrs. Elizabeth Btoddard. —*8axe Holm," wl er singular or still mystifies the public. Tho New York has received alotter, ““in the hnndwmting: of himself,” being baer response to Mrs. Celin Bnr- leigh's story abont the ‘‘unmarried and still young woman,” unknown to fame. living io_the interior of New York State. The real Saxe ‘Holm says Mrs. B. is mistaken, snd adds: * Iam beartily sorry that any woman—especially one of whom you spesk so kindly—shonld have been tempted by ambition to tell such a falsehood. It is for her eake, more thaa for any otber reson, that I undeceive yon. It will be an act of true {friendship for you to prevent her continuing to make this misteprenentation, which must secner or later cover her with embarrassment any: dis- grace.” i —In Mr. Freeman's ‘‘Historical Berica for 8chools " the ** History of Germany ™ will Le the next to appear, and will bo immediately followed by the * History of Americs.” The German his- tory is by Mr. James Sime, a young writer, who has resided several years in Germany, and has not only bad Mr. Freeman's %om.'nl supervision, bnt has been rovised in detail by Prof. A. W. Ward. The * History of tho United States of Amorica ™ has beeo writton by 3. 3. A. Dogl Fellaw of Al Souls, Oxford, who obtained al Oxford the Arnold prize for an essay ** On the El:flish Colonles of Americs Before tho War of Independence.” . —All the cobblers in the world are requested to contribute to a fund for the erection of a monument in honor of the great shoemaker goas. Hans Sachs, known in_this country chiefly y the notices of bis poetry in some of T.ong- fellow's and Lowell's works. The monament ig to be put up in Nurnberg, the hirthplace and residence of the poet, on_the occasion’ of his 300th anniversary, Jan., 20, 1876, . Hans Sacha was one of themost prolific poets that ever lived. Eizht years before his death he tock an inventory of his paetic atock, and found that ha had written then 6,131 pieces, namely: 4,200 songs, 208 comedies and tragedies, 1,700 comic ta'~<, and 73 miscallaneous lyrics. —Mancure D. Cooway's ** Sacred Anthology, & Baok of Ethnieal Scripteres,” whick will be ro- published on this side by Holt & Willisms, by ar-~ rangement with the author, cootaing 740 resd- inge, classlfied in twenty hooks. These chapters ara selected from the Sacred Scriptures and clagsie writers of Indis, China, Japan, Burmah, Siam, Persia, Arahls, Sabea, Egrpt, Coylon, Thibet, Syria, Ancient Russis, and Scandinavia 3 and aleo selections from the Hebrew and Chris- tian Scriptures { revised transiations. They are sccompanlea with full marginal referonces, & §“ of autharities, chronological notes snd m- ex. Y ~—In_“ A General Sketch of. the Historv of Peorsia” is the following: * Fat-h 'Aly. Shah waa himself & poet ; and his Laureate was an old chief named Fat-h "Aly Khan, whose ances- tors hsd been for - Soveral _ genorations tho Governorsa of Kashan. It is related that one day the Bhah gave him some of -his vorses to resd, and asked for, his opinion of them. *May my sonl be your sacri- fico,’ gaid tho Laureate, ‘ they are bosh.’ The ingulted soyereizn exclaimed, ‘ o is an ass— take him to the stables,’ And the order waa literally obeyed. After & short time bis Majesty sent for bim again, and read some more of his verses.- The poet_walked off without a word. ¢ Where aro you going 2 ' cried tho Shah. ‘Just backagain to the stables,’ exied the undaunted Laureate.” —3Ir. Thomas Balch, suthor of *Les Francais en Amerique,” i8 prepariug an English version which will be not & mere translation, bat a re- cast of the work, eliminating that which is cle- mentary to American readers, and adding, on the other hand, much new matter. Tho book covers the part taken by the French in our Revolu- tionary War, and the now portion will comprise the history of the, re&xmemu, and - biographical notices of officors of the army and navy and of French volunteers who served in America. 1t is curious as having been first written by an American in French for French readers., Every Saturday ssysi **A case parallel in.a measure was Mr. William Beach Lavwrence's ‘Etude do la ZLegislation compares sur le Mariags," firat pub- lished ea an article in Je Droif Infernational and sfterwards soparately at Ghent fn.-1830, Gov. Lawrenco hss had it. translated, aod in- tends to.read it soon ag lectures in Columbian Colloge, Waakington, of wlich L is professor. It wil ‘bu remembered also , that kford’s ‘Vathok’ was written by the author in. Fronck, - ;x;: translated into English by some other —Anotherseries of bookais planned by Messrs. James B. Osgood & Co., pbe called “Littlo Classics,” and to be something in the style of the **Baunterer's Series.”- Mra. Monlton; gives the following particulars in the Now York -Trib- une: “They will be edited by Rossiter Johnson, and a dozen volumes are projected. _ will be cailed ‘ Exile,” and will comprise ¢ Ethan Brand.’ by Hawthorne; *Rip Van Winkle,’ by Irving; “A Night in the Workhouse,’ by James Greenwood;: “The . Outesats of Poker Flat,' by Bret Harta; * The Man-Without s Ccuntry.” by Rev. E. E. Halo, and the * Flight of :a Tartar Tribe,’ by De Quincey. If all these are:not_al- ready’ classic thoy ought all to.be, aad Mr. Ros- sgiter is going to try his best fo make them so. ‘Intellect,’ ‘Tragedy,’ :Life,’ Langhter,’ . Loye,' .‘Romance,’, * Mystery,’ *Comedy’ and *Childhood," are the titles of the coming nine Yolumes, while the gleventh k:nd on . Something Abont the Fringtllidsm. A large mujority ‘of the birds which enliven the Win:er in our latinde beiong to tne family of L THE ¥RLALLIDE, or. Beed-Eaters. It mill ~cadily be seen thay I birds whioh live chiefly upou 1. ects and wormg ero compelled to migrate Southw. -d sooner- oy Izter aftor the decline of summer, \henever the cald has..oceasioned o scarcity . or (failare of thoir. favorite article of diet. The wood- peckers, nuthatches, and titmico, which ars with us tho year round, ars in. sectivorous, it ia truo; but their stapls food consists of insects in a dormsnt state, with, thelr larvm and eggs, which are bid.in the cracks and; cfoniés of * trees and decaying. wood, and are to be had for the bhunting, ne' matter Low low the thermometer ranges. Baf the birds which subsist principally upon seeds,” buds, and fruits, can many of them find, through.: out the winter, sn abundapes of the fara that’ suits them best ;- and, weli wrapped up in downy, overcoats, they aro able to defy the frosta which desolate Nsture, des:roying vegetation, and ex- tinguishing insect-life, or forcing it into secre nests and barrows. The . pine-grosbeaks, red-polls, pine-finches, and croas-bills thrive on the eeds of cone-bear- iog trees; of poplars, and ‘of birches, and find these granaries overflowing and sccessible af all. scasons of the year. ~Other speciés feed, wpon the seeds of weeds which.are seldom buried out of sight by tho spows, bat bold their little cups of grain steadily aloft, high 08 they can reach, 25 if with thio express parpose._of supplying the neods of the littlo busgry crostures that live upon their largess. & s wa Noture is 1y PRODIGAL IX IR ROUNTY. With an eya to the preservation of the myrad races which she has calied into being, she has planned that noarly every species shall ‘multic ply eo freely as tosecuro not only the perpetuity of 'its kind, but, after this requirement is ful- flliod, shzll have remmning o grast surplos for the nourishment of other species of other grades inthe sealo of life. 8o it comes about thst, of tho great variety of birds that we eee, generally in flocks, hovering in thickets, flitting smong overgroens, and swaying on the light crowns of desa wecds, in the coldest and dreariest daya, the grenter part are closely related in sttncture and habit, and are grouped by ornithologists into a single family, named Fringilida. Would suy one not let into the sccret image ino’ that the littla grayish sparrow, with nota single tint in his_dress o distinguish him from the acores of: dull-colored birds with. which Le may :be seen 1n company on almost any day in wintor, searching for seeds among low, withered. herbs, is in trath ideatical with the - TEAUTIFUL YELLOW-BIED, or gold-finch ( Chrysomilris (ristis), of last sum- mer, who, from 3ay to_ Septembor, was_ the blithest and liveliest warbler in =il the region? Even so. Youcan tell him by his undulatory flight, which escribes the sinuous line of tha waves of the ses, or, of a field of grain in-the wind; or by thet Eecnlimy wieot, pathetic call of his, which just balances in its exquisite tons, 2 cry of Tepturo with a sigh of pain. All the live-long sammer he sported s brillisni® yellow jacitet, with crown, wings, and tail-faath- 8 of jetty black, and was one of the gayest ané handsomest gallants of his tribs. - Bt he doffec his showy .zarmenta in tho: autamn, whes the season of love and song was over, and pat on 't sober snit, more in keeping with the dan aspest of the earth. There is a wonderful harmony running throagh all Nature. Her chords ara waya 3 : - TX PERFRCT UNISON. When the foliage is luxuriant, afording plon- tifal sheliering coverts, and the flowers gloy with ths richest colora, and there is a continua’ play of bright, warm tints over the esrth, bird: may safely appear in the full splondor of | theis plumage. - Thoy.do not then stand-ont in bolé and perilons relief from their cheerful surround ings. ..Thay bave a chzuee of epcapo from tiu mischievous, murderous eve of their encmies, But, whon the earth ia bare, and all her hues ax( pallid, birds and bossts must assume ber livery 88 4 measure of relf-preservation. ¢ The yellow-bird is partially migratory. Nom- bors probably fly South ovory sutumn: but, a8 the bird is fitted to endure the rigors of ouy climate, its go:ug or staying must depend upar 2 capricions notion. e 0o 'tho bright and mild days along in Februar and March, TIT® TBEE-EPARROWS (Spizella Montizoia) become conspicuous by seb tling in tlocks, from -time -to time, on some chanco trce, and there twittering in fine, gentle voices, with gushing volubility. So many chirg at once that a chorus of considerable volums it produced, and the offect-is as mild and sweot ag 1f it.wero the music of 80 many wind-harps tuned together, But we do mot hear, the" fimivhed melodies of these foreign artists. They nevor aing in solo until ready to mate, snd thon thoy. aro far awsy in {beir summer-home, on tht borders of Hudson’s Bay. Hers, tuey mercly chirrup and gossip with each otuer—nt doubt reviving old - recollections; ’and, st ihe season advances, confessing - the awnkening impulses that Ister shall find full exprezsion. in s perfect tide af song. From tho time of .its arrival, late in October, until now, the tree-sparrow bas been busy pick - ing ap 3 living in the brushwood, and in palcher of wild plants and grasses. It is gregarions during this =cason, and is geverally gatherod in Iarge assembiages. It'resembles tha chipping- sparrow 80 closely as to be popularly mistaken forit; but tho chippy is & less hardy bird, and regularly goes Sonth for the winter. This ia all the account of ths tree-sparrow we can write out of our own expericnsa, for iha most’ inter- esting portion of its life is spent in & distant region, only meagre records of which have as yet bean-procured by paturalists. 3 TILE S¥OW-DIRD . Sfimw I?Iyermxu.v) is another .member of the ingiliider, and bas s histery very similar:tc that ‘of tho tree-aparrow. Every body knows the bird, asitis ono of the moat abundant and familiar of the sparrows. In winter, whed storms are severe, it comes to our very doorsin quest of food. Its plumage is easily recognizod, being of a deop slata color over tho entire bady, except the under parts, which are pura white, cat square across ‘the lowor breast. Amdpg simplo folka there used tobo o prevalent nodu that this- bird chapges -its “colors - with the wenther,” wesring ' s light * dress when gnow 1g about, and a darx ono wken it ia roining.’ The ides seems (00 abeard to mention; but not loog 350 the writer of -this actually heard o porson of apparent {ntelligenco profésy & belief in it.- Thé error -arises from the spow-bird and sDowe bunting being mistaken for each othor. Tbe ararrows are !l g0 much alike in sppaaranco sod habit, it is not 2t 21l strange that curoless obasry: ers should confound oo with- another : but,’it thin day, most are wise enough to know that what séems to border on the miraculons is gen- erally ausccrtih!e of a natural solution. Tu the fall, the snow-bird spreals ia cammtless hosts ‘over the northern comtinents:of both hemispheres. It iu & #ocisl bird, snd 1s mach in company with its cousin, the trog-spatrow,, and otlier “species near of kin. When eprinZ. sp- pears, it roturns to its- breeding-placcs, in 1 vear tha Arctic Zone. There- it etill maintang gomething of ita grogsrious habit, and builda it nests in friendly neighborlidod, on* the groo All we hear.of the soug of-the snow-bird is & few scattered, colloguial notes, whiclt. is. care lessly lats fall i the 'proselo period: 1§ In our own latitude. ———— A COMPARIZON. Joarphus, writing centuries 270, 0 Some mention made of Jesus, calle] the Chrisy Who snffered crucifizion at ths hands 2 Of those wnose King He claimed Himeelf fo bA: But some—IIfs true disciples—formeil asoct - Disitnguished for an all-aboundivg ‘And holy Friendship, such as us'er. wers Xnd ‘Amony; the tribes ond nations of the Bsrth, He likewise wrots that, even in his d3y, Tho sect of Curistlans was not all extizeh. A, fiol The Kingdoin founded upon Levefp A jlure, unaelfish, ‘godly Love like Lt Wan nover destined 0 be overthrown: But onward to these later yeurs it spread, Tntil Eartl's many millions feel the powee Of that sublimest attribute of God— -~ ° His Love—the ever-open door that lcads To rest olernal in tle great unknown, . - '* ‘Tha templs of the Crucified fa raised =.- 5 1n every quarter of the rolling worid,. . - MDA Prayers and praiseadll the sacred In coustant adoration of the Man ‘Who sits eternally at God's right-hand. How Il then, it appears. in view of this, - m; any ELD h‘:‘l'i:s mu;u :hnm]uh'e-mm‘l. wors! is holy temglo here,’ p y temg ! of Hestisk § Blould chooes the *houte of Godand gate In which to foin fn elundcrous dfsputes ; And actions alfen to the Chriatian lita! Methinks that holy, Heavezsnorn Chardty,” Thet all things doti: endure abi! - elund’reth toly Finds iittls piace, mndsed, §n bearts iz tinds, -Albest thoy adyurie the stcred BERS . nams twelfth yet wait | of T %