Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 4, 1874, Page 9

NAPLES, Appearanco of tho City—Ignoraneo and Su- perstition of tho Inhabitants, Clorioal Hostilily to Education---How the Government Is Counteract- ing That Influence. ' ifho Riviera di Ohinja---The To- L gilipo Grotto, and tho 'Tomb of Virgil, * Capua and Hannibal. 1 Correspondence af the Chicapo Tribunes Sptal Corboan Narwes, March 7, 1874, Disagrecable wenthor in Romo induced mo to eoek for bottor further south. Bo I bought ticketa for Napoli (Nnples), 180 miles southonst of Romo, For tho first 20 miles tho rallway- track runs noarly parallel with THE APPIAN WAY,— the gront military raad of the Romans, con- atructed 812 yenra before the Christian ers, and oxtonding first to Naplos, and then across the peninsulo to Brandusium, on the Adriatie Scu.\, 120 milos,—making the wholo lengih of this granite-paved rond 300 milos, Brundusiom—tha | modorn Brindisi—was tho groat naval station of 1hio Roman Empiro. It was tho port of embark- atlon for {ho Roman armios for Greoco and Asin, and is colobrated in history for tho siego sustainoed in it by Pompoy, whohad taken refuge i in its citndol, with the Consuls and Scnators of ' Romo, ngainet tho viclorious army of Juling - ' Omsar. , Aftor pnssing the second station from Romo, ! the railroaq turns enstward, passing through the middlo of the great plain ‘which oxtends from Tomo to Naples, bounded on tho loft, as you go . sonthenst, by tho Apounino ranga of now- ! cappod mountaine, and on the right by the Med- ! jterranenn Sen. Tho averago width of this *cam- pagna” botweon tho mountain-range and sea is 40 to 50 milos, Dut it is not all lovel land, Much of it may bo described as *rolling prairle,” and port of it is brolon into high ridges and low -gpurs of mountains, The Applan Way kept {within sight of tho sea, fouching at tho porta of Terracina and Gaota,—both important +Roman naval stations, At the Intter city, tho Popo took refuge after his flight from Rome in 1660, and remnined thore uniil the Fronch army reimposed bim on the Romnns. THE FAMOUS TONTINE MATSIES commenco ot the distanes of 46 miles south of Rome, and extend 30 miles furthor south. They aro 6 to 12 milos broad., Tho Appisn Way ran straight through them. They are tenanted now by herds of wild cattle, wild boars, stags, wild ' fowls, and frogs; and, whero they are traversed “by tho highrond, tho ocoupants of the faw eoll- ! tary post-houscs exhibit, in their dark and livid ! countenances, the ovidences of the deadly mala- ixln which fs oxhaled therefrom, In Pliny's time i they were drained, cultivatod, and highly pro- | ductivo. The recent offoris at drainage havo partially reclaimed about 13,000 acres; and tho Government engineors are atudying the bost methods for finishing tho work. Muchof tha unhoalthinoss of Romo, and tho campagna ! araund it, in summer, is ascribod to the malaria, from the Pontine Marshes, wafted over the city ‘and surrounding country by the southeastorn | “*girocco” winds, The grent diffieulty in drain- Jing thom is caused Dby tho want of fall iuto tho \@ea, as thoy are almost on o level with it, and, in '{ho ainy eoason, nra overflowed by the rush of water from the mountains, The Roman Con- suls mado many efforts to drain these marahes, Dut it was not fully accomplished till the timo of Julius Crsar, who constructed a_great canal, with many Iateral branches, through thom. The hollow way of the old canal can still be traced. About 2 or 8 miles from the northern end of the oarshes Iu spot called - TOIO AYTIO, which has an intorest for tho Christinn travolor, os tho spot whero St. Paul firat mot his brothren from Rome, 28 he journoyed from Naples to the “Tternal City" to stand his trial on accusa- tion of the Jows, as a pestilont, radical amtator who had been stirring up_mischief among the orthodox coneervatives. We read in Acts: “And 80 wo went forward ttoward Rome, And from thenco, when tho brethren henrd of us, thoy came to meect ns a8 far as tho Appil Forum and the Threo Taverns; whom, whon Paul saw, ho thanked God and took courage.” There is still a small inn, where alunch and a glass of wino mny bo proeured, at the identieal placo where atood tho *Three Taverns® mentioned by Paul, The distanco the brothron camo forth “to meot their lender wags about forty-nine miles from tho City of Rome. But I must roturn to the tralnen route to Na- ples, the Iargest city in Ttaly. Tho lnst cighty milos of the distance is through em exceedingly fortile conntry, watered by tho Garigliano and Volturno Rivers. THE FAMOUS CATUA, the pleasures of which g0 enorvated the Cartha- genisu army—who lingored about there soveral ears, that, Haunibal could no longer win vioto- ries with them over ths logions of Romo—is on the banl of tho Volturno River, withinaighteon miles of Naplos. I felt o curiosity to sco this onco-ronowned ecity, which aspired to rival TRome iteelf, In tho deys of tho Crosars, its wnlls wera 8 miles in circumference, and it con- tainod 800,000 inhabMants. It has shrunken in- to n town of 18,000, and contains nothing worth romark, excopt tho ruins of its anciont Amphi- theatro, which was _of enormous dimensions. The rullway-train £6¢ the lost 10 miles pasnes through a pluin of continuouns gardons, vino- vards, and mulberry plantations, and which is ihickly studded over with villagos. Naples do- yives her _food,—bread, ment, vegetables, fruit, and macaroni—from this cam- pagns, watered by tho Volturno, ana fruitful as tho Valloy of the Nile. The soll is Dlack and rich a8 the prairios of Contral Illinois, The district of country which is thus immedl- ately tributary to Nnples is perhaps 60 milos Iong by 25 wido, On this spaco of 1,600 nquare miles live 907,762 souls, of whom 547,660 nro huddlod and packed in Naples. ‘This equals a population of 1to the acro, or 640 to the squaro mile. Near the south oud of this plain, and about 7 miles from Naples, towers up DLACK AND SAVAGE VESUVIUS, threo-quarters of a mile high; ond around its aloping baso live 80,000 sonis)—part or all of whom may be ovornhelmed by &n eruption at ony timo, for tho crator i8 es treachorous as & tiger, and somotimes mives but alight warning before it belches forth a flood “of molten lava, For sovoral weoks post a cloud of smoko hns risen perpotually from” the yawnin cavern ; and becasionnlly 10w, rumbling” sounds arn heard, as if tho bowols of tho monntain wero out of order, Pooplo in tho city think thoro will bo another eruption bofore lonz as sovere a8 that of two years ago, which dnnfroyed HOV- eral srall villagos and o ’nrgu number of lives, THE APPEABANOY OF NAVLEH is tolemh:iy familiar to most readors, from ple- turos and descriptiona which thoy have seen. The inhabitants clayn for it tho moat beautlful site of avy city in tho world, not oxcepting Con- stantinaplo or Now York, in ponoramio offeck it is probable that tha sitnation of no other city equals it. The Bay of Naplea rosombles tholattor 0, bolng a great crescont, or throe-quarters of o virclo, 50 miles in cirouit aud20 across. Tho eity s bullt on tho north shore, at the foot and uj the slopes of o range of hills, which sheltor it from tho cold winds off the Apennine Moun- tains, In front of tho city, snd at tho distance of miles southward, looms up the dromedary- looking Istaud of Capri, but which scoms not forthor than & or 6 miles off. I utrotohes ueross . the vision, on the horizon, 2 or J miles, and ono of tho “ humps "' 18 1,800 fook Ligh, and tho 100, In tho mist of tha mnm(ng. Capri Inokis lilie & huge apparition of & gromedary with its two humps, The long Promentory of Sor- vento inclosos the Eastorn side of the bay, and srojects far ont futo the ron ; and it {8 so bigh lhul the crost of tho ridge is covored with snov, whilo the owers grow and bloom down its slopes, and overy milo of its longth is studded a dintanco of Smilea; and, in onopatt, it ox- tonds bnek nbout 2 milos. But, for tho grontor portion of ite length, ita brendth is much less, na thero was not room to build n wide olty botween tho sen and tho ridge of hilla bohind {t. The wholo apaco coyercd by Naplos ia not largor than that ombracod by tho South Divialon of Shlcn 0, But upon that space thero ia gwknd a population which oxceods that of all Ohleago by 160,000, .;l‘bo stroots, with a fow oxceptions, are moro al- oy8, or % ' 7 “onpoms TETWEEN WAL, 3 and the buildings nre five to saven stories high, and partitionod off into small apartmonts, The stores and shiopa oceupy a short depth of tho gmnnd-flnnr front, and the romalndor of the uilding I8 ernmmed with familos and lodgors, from bagemont to gnrrot. And then thoussuds of the lowor rapblo live and sleop out of doors, nll thoir lives, In tho day-timo, whon the aun shinos,—and that is gonerally,—tha ontiro popu~ Intion ' soom to livoout of doora, Tho arowds that throug tho stroots in ovory dircotion aro nmazing, Thoro are no sidewalks on most of iho siroots, nnd pedestrians and pack- milos, donkoy-carta and gonts, aro all mixod up togothor, with tha thousands of {dle, mondicant monke, and tons of thousands of importunate, raggoed, flithy boggara, of all nagos, Boxes, sores, and couditions, ‘There are 200 more churchiea in Naples than the pioty of thoe place roquires, and 200 fower achool-houses than tho oducational wants of tho olty demnad. Thomnss of the population is eunk in ig- noranco, povorty, and suporstition, The throo things soom to ¥o togethor overywhero in Italy, but In no part of it so conspicuous aa in Naples, Howover, some progress hins beon mndo since tho unification of Italy. 'The number of beg- ars hag boon roduced moro than half ‘sinco tho ourbons wore ran off ; 20,000 children attond the publio schools, whote, under tho old atute of -things, thore ware no &choola provided for tho ohildron of tho poor. But thore are stitl 60,000 ragged yrohing who nover put foot inside of a nchool-room, or know a lottor of tho aiphabat. Tho fricnds of & united and progroseive Italy with & white village, The othor arm or prom- ontory whick: incloses tho bay doos nat project #o fuf, bubitis supplementod by & ohalu of Hit- to islands, with navigablo channels botwcen sem, whin venal » 1oor way ot to uan, ‘Lhe ty af Noploy follows tho ouive of tho bay for . oraotod thels wausolowm, ot tho sido of complain of the 1OSTILITY OF THE CLERICALS towards tho froo-school system, and oharga them with keoplug tho children out of school by pol- soning tho minds of the mothera agninst tho system, while thoy are too lnz{ or indifferent themeclvos to opon schools and teach them, It 18 oharged againat tho Clericals that thoy aro in favor of ignorance for the sake of superstition, and nra afraid of popular cducation of tho masacs lost it may causo thom to loso tho abroluto cou- trol thoy oxorciso over tho minds of tho lower ordors, ospeoially of the women. I'ho " fooling towards tho Olericals, on the part of the frionds of tho Government, is very bit- tor 3 but tho Oloricals rociprocate the animosity withh intorost, and walt and hope for tho ox- poctod French intorvontion whioh is to dethrono Victor Emnnuel aud broak Italy into fragmonts, a8 of yoro. But, from presont appoarances, that ovent is & long way off. Every day is strongthening, not only tljo detormiuation of tha peoplo to maintain national unity, but to de- fond 1t agninst Franco or any othor Power j whilo the fun]iug in Franco against interforenco in tho affalrs. of Italy is stoadily gaming force, The Italians bavo a standing nl‘moy of 260,000 men. Ench yenr thoro aro 80,000 young mon cnlled to gorve in the ranks, and an ‘equosl num- ber who havo sorved throo years are furlonghed and sont home, until thoir servicos are needed In time of war. Already over 600,000 mon have veen thus drilled and furloughed. In s fow ymérs moro, tho Government will bo ablo to oall out - . A MILLION of well-trained and disciplined soldiers to defond. Ttaly against lnvasion. All classes ol young men mudt serve in the rauks, without the right of substitution, whather Prince or possant, noble or workmau. Thoso who ara unable to read and write whan they onter tho ranka are required to lenrn, and cannot receivo a disoharge until thoy oan pngs an examination in reading, writing, and the “olements of arithmotic. Tho nampnu{; officers and sergants are roquired toach tho illltorate privates. From South- orn Italy, throo-lourths of all the conscripts, when thay enter the army, can neithor road nor writo. In Central Iialy, thonropurtlon is 60 por cent; and, in Northern Italy, about 40 per cent. Sardinia only returns 23 per cent of know-nothings ;™ winle some provinoces of Bouthern Italy roturned 88 per cent a fow years ago. 'The Liberals say that tho Olerionls may intorcept education at home, but thoy can't pro- vent the Captsins and Licutenants from teach- ing the youug moen o rond the newspapors, or the Bibie, or tho history of Italy, aftor thoy don the National uniform.” Aunolhor thing is done: The consoripts are mixed’ together in the rogi- ments, The better educated aud more patriotio young mon of the Northorn States aro put_into rogiments with (ho less-oducatod conscripts of tho Bouthern; and regimenta com- osed mainly of Northerners are sont to do dut; Fn the Bouth, and, vice versa, those of tha South aro sont to tho Northern Slates. A fow yoors ago, tha poople of tho several States of Italy bad sooreely any intercourse or sequaintanco with ench other, and spoke a dozen dfalects, grently differing from cach other. But the method of mixing and educating the young soldiors is hoving the happiest offeot” in~ curing thess de- fects, and in producing and diffusing & nationnl and patriotio sentimont all over Italy. In mak- ing the people of the difforont acotions acquainted with each other, trade and oommerce aro fos- tored and iucreased, aud national prospovity is theroby promoted, But returning to Naploa after this digreesion : The fashionablo part of. tho city is g THE *WEST END," which is & long strip betwoen the sen-wall and the ridga callod Aount Posolipo. On this slp- ing slrip of ground isIaid off, nextthe sen, o little park, of nbout the width of tho Michigan Avonue Lake-Park, and perhaps & mile in length. The park is beautifully decornted with meny kinds of semi-tropical “trees, which aro over- greon, with fountains and groups - of statuary, and laid off in shedy walks. One or two little round tomples, with statuary within, after tho Groele style, and two or three handsome ice- croam and cake restaurants, nro also in tho park, for the dolectation of visitors. A wide avonuo rans along this park, the outer “thirty feot of which is fenced off for the uso of cquestrians, and the innor seventy faet is prved with broad granito flagging for the carriago drivoway. Tho opposite side of the stroet is oc- cupied b{ numerous four or five-story palaces, and hotels, aud residencos of tho wenlthy classos, Nearly all 'tho strangers who visit Naples take up their quarters on this favorite, sunuy avenue, called tha RIVIERA DI CITATA, which looks out to the south over the park and bay, and commandd o view of mountain and ieland-sconory lard to surpass. Bvory nfter- noon, all tho families of Naples who can afford to keep or hire a two-horso opoen carrinzo ““tnko the pir” onthig * Ohlnja" avenue, The gentlemon who are fond of horebnck-oxorcise take a saddlo; and those who have neither car- ringo nor horse walk i the pork, Irom m; window I have seon four lines of cnvringes filf- ing the avenuo its wholo length, whilo hundreds rode on horsoback on the “row,” .and tons of thousanda .of well-dressod persons swarmed tho foot-paths of tho shady park, or loitered around the military band, which plays any aftornoon in an opon space n the park, with statuary and fountains around it. ‘I'ne_King (who' spendy ok of bis wintors horo), in & plain, open arouche, with o gontleman' at his sldo, takon Em in this carriage-promonnde ovory aftcrnoon, undny included. There I8 s larga garrison kopt in Naples, Tho oficors, whose uniforms aro very showy and elogant, swarm on the Ohinja,” tho “* row,” and the park, contesting with tho ladies tho palm of brilliant costumes, The whole scenoc of & bright, clear, balmy after noon, is very imposing, and rominds one of a concourso of pencocks and birds of paradise moving about and admiringly oxhibiting tholr gorgoois plumago. » The western extremity of the avenuo,abruptly terminates ot tho foot of tho ridge or littlo mountain which there precipitatoly forms the edge of tho bay, Through this ridgo is the # DOSILIFO GROTTO,"” .which 8 simply & tunncl cut by the Romans, ‘about 2,000 Joirs ngo, for tho purpaso of reache ing the fertile plain bohind it, and thoreby saying the Inbor of going over tho ridge, or the long distance round it This ** grotto" is about balf o milo long, It was usod for sevoral of tho early conturios of tho Christian era for tho passage of man, boast, and vehiclo; but fnally portiony of thexoot (fail in, closing it up, and it was not clenrad out during tho * dark agea," for 1,000 yoard. A couplo of conturies ago it we:s widonod considorably, and deepencd 40 or 50 foat, in ordor to reduco tho grade of tho roadway that appronches its mouth. Tt is now a wide, high cat, throngh which pours an uncessing atronn of carrlagos, donkoy-carts, mules, gonts, and heg;:turu,—cupoomlly boggars, who infest tho gratto, Looklng up tho sidesof the tunnol, 40 foob aboyn ono's hiend, thora can_bo plainly seon the ‘marks of the bubs of the Roman caits, whiloh *wore deop scores into the sides of the walls cighteen or tweuty oenturios ago. But tho dis- lln{nluhlug thing about this artifloial grotto, and thnt which gives it npocial interost in' the_eyes g’l Q‘nurlutu, {8 the tomb of tho Frince of Iatin oots, VIRGTL. A tomb was erected for his ashos at the month of this grotto, There in o little ravino thut comes down the mountain quite near where tho tunnol onters it. Taking uIvnnlnFu of thiy do- prasuion (n tha fase of tha roalk, liis family m:}'; ) THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, APRIL ™4, 187 roadway and onl Both tho rond-bod and tha boitom of the tunnol hiaving boon lowored 40 or B0 faot, two or throo conturloy sgo, the tomb s soon porched high upon n bonch of the rack, and look from tho carringo-woy liko an- old, Dalf-rufned Hmo-kiln, ‘Tho bost place for sooing the tomb of Virgil ia on the brow of tho precipice overlooking tho mouth of the tunnel. "I mada n pilgrimage to it Dy ascouding a long ilight of stops, and following o olrcuitons path up and down through tor- racod vinoyard and flower gardon, which finally brought mo to tho place whoro slept the nshes of tho immortal post for many conturins, The tomb is awculnr in form, porhaps 80 foot in diamotor aud 20 in helght, constineted of vol- canlo stono, and ndw avor[lrown with ivy, grass, ond mogs. It coutning a chiamber about 15 foot square hy 10 high, with vaultod roof, and lighted bly two small openings in tho sldes, Thoro ia nlso n narraw doorway by which it was entered from tho rondway at tho mouth of tho “grotto.” In tho walls aro ton nichos, or recessos, for cin- orary urns,—one belug largor than tho othora; and in that one it is supposed tho urn stoo which contained the ashos of Virgll, All the urns wero carriod off fivo conturics ngo, aud hinvo beon lost. As Inte as 1320 tho tomb was ontirs, and was doscribod av that timo by Pe- trovoh s in a good stato of preservation. IIo stated that tho ashos of the poet wero containod in o marblo urn, aud nino emall columns deco- rated tho tomb, e piantod o Inurel ot the sido of t{he tomb, which afterwards disappoared undor the kuives of visitora of all nations, It scoms from authoutio rocords’ that Tobort of Anjov carried off the urn and the oolumns, about tho yoor 1848, and presented thom to thio Cardinal of Mantua for romoval to Virgil'e birthplaco at Andes, noor Mantua, whoro now tomb was intonded to bo crectod. Tho Onrdinal, returning by soa, died at Genon, and nll traco of tho preciousrolica porishod with him. This ie about all thatecoms to bo known on the subjact, excopt that the tomb was certaluly in- tact in {ha enrly part of tho fourteonth contury ; but that, befora the end thercof, the urn con- tnining tho nehes of Virgit hod 'dissppored, to tho great griof all subsoquont pilgrims. TUE FAVOIITE WINTER RESIDENCE of Virgil was at Naplos, Ho owned a villa on tho aide of the mountain overlooking the spot whoro stands his tomb, It waa thoro le wrote tho Eclogues and the Goorgles, The Mneid was | 8lso composcd thero. Aftor finlshing the twolfth book, ho mado s visst to Athens to meot Au(:']u!ius. On his return, ho took siclk, and Ianded ot Brundusium (tho modern Brindisi), on the Adviatic, and about 120 miles cast of Na- Bluu. Hero bo grow worso, and died Sopt. 22, . 0,10, His romaing wore carried to Naples, roduced to ashes, nnd deposited in tho tomb abovo described, whero thoy Iny undisturbed for thirteen and a half conturies, and woro then lost in the way stated. Shaks?unro probably had the fato of Virgil's ashes in his mind whon ho wroto tho warning ourse on * him who ehould disturb his bones,” Naples was o favorito winter-restdouce for tho wealthy classes of itomo in the days of that city’s greatnoss, Thousands of Roman familics hiad villag here and around the southorn base of Mount Vesuvius, whoro Pompeii and other towns stood, and sonttored slong the sunny slopes of tho Serrano Promontory, and around tho Westorn or Pozzuoli shore of tho bay, and among ihe islands that dot it, Theso situ- ations sro eheltored from the cold winds of tho Apouniucs, which aro go bitter in Romo in winter, and thoro .was g0 much gonial sunshine durlng thoso months, as woll a8 80 much moro coolness in summer that no plonsanter or hoalthior port of Italy could bo found. And thon’tho natives wero of the lively, art-loving, festivo, pootical Greek ox- traction. " Southern Italy was ORIGINALLY OOLONIZED FROM GREECE, It wns covored with flourishing Greok sottle- ments and cities boforo Romo was founded; and, as Iato 0 tho time of Cicoro, s majority of tho Inbnbitants spoko the Grocl Iangungo. And, in the Plnmtudn of tho Imporial power and great~ noss of Romo, the Greole tonguo and literature, and Greek monners and art, shll prevaile around tho beautiful Bay of Naples, and the sunny shoros of Selorno, At Prostum, §0 miles south of Nnples, standa the well-preserved ruin of tho Tomplo of Noptuno, cracted by the Grook colony thero fully 600 years before the Christian orn, Tho city iftsolf was a large and flourishing place at the time of its capture by tho Romans, 1. O, 278 ; after which it fell into deeny, and now presonts nothing but magnifl- cont Tuing, n fow foot abovo it, TANNIDAL, the Curthagenian Genoral, loved to linger aronnd theso shores, He fratornized with tho inhabitants, who, buinr: of ‘Greok origin, dislilted tho Romans, and willingly furnished his army with supplics and reornits. But he lingered too long, His soldiers lost their vigor, discipline, hardihood, and coursge. As the snows and frosta of Russia_destroyed the French army, so tho sunshino and wines of Oapun enarvated the logions of Hannibal, and caused them to fall be- foro tho onsot of the Romans, On the weatorn side of the bay, 8 few miles from Naples, is tho proity town of Pozzuoli, which is tho Putaoli at which St. Paul landed on his way to Rome, ‘U'he monks show the visitor, for a franc, tho mark or mndentation left on the stone-stop by Paul's foot whon they firs} touched tho shore ! “This pions fraud has beon bolieved by thoir crodulous, suporatitious dupes for many & coutury. But I must not lingor longar around thego sunny shores, amoug the relics and ruins of bygone ages., Further account of the Nea- l)u“tnn literati of tho past, and the ignorati of lie present, must bo deforrad, J. M, —— SHE KISSED THE DEAD, = Bho kased tho dead, Iier warm, red lips \Vnrn;ucssnd oguinst his marhle brow, 4 For if ho's but asleep,” she said, ¢ And s not numberod with the dead, 1ie'll rigo nud kiss mo now,” 8ho kissed tho dead, Her warm, rod lips Were pressed against his hieloss cheok, “Tor ho will kmow," sho softly suld, 4y kigs, and if bo bo not dead, 11¢1l turn to me and sposk,” Bhio kiesed tho dead, Ter warm, red lips Ware preased against his lipa of icc, #1fo nswors uat, slie weoping aaid, 41 kuow my darllng must Ue dead, For T buvo kissed hiin thirico,” —Homer Greene.- —— A Negro Giri’s Remarkabdle Memory. From the Lexington (Ky.) Guzette, 2 There {s & nogro girl in Drucotown about O yoars of age whoso memory ia truly marvelous, Her wonderful powers waro firgt brought to tho notice of a whito man, who keops s grocory in hat part of the city, about two weeks nro. “He had been roading aloud in her prosence the day bofore aud accidontally heard hor ropest word for word whnt ho had rond from the papor, though twenty-four homs had lnkm-vunerll? Af- tor this bo testod her momory !rerfiuouuy. and has found her capable of rag‘euting thirty or forty lines from n book after heering it road onco over., Her intellect in other respocts does not scem at all above, if oqual to, tho averago. Buch instauces of momiory are not vory uunstal, Nary Bummorville tells” of an 1diot in Edin- burgh who neyer failed to repest tho sermon, word for word, after attending tho kirk ench Buuday, saying: ** Haro the ministor coughed; " ¢ Hero Lo stopped to blow his nose.” 8ho also tells of anothor whom sho met in the Highlands, who know tho Biblo 80 porfoctly that if he was asked whoro such o verso was fo bo found, he conld tell without hesitation, and repoat the chapter. Wo remember, algo: to have renda ;;{unr or two ago an account of a man in Now ork who conld read one gide of the Now York Zerald, and thon mpcut 1t word for word, adver- tisomonts and all. 'Thirty years ago, or thero- abouts, thero was & book-peddler in this part of Kontuoky who had a uonu[&’len\blu roputation for Lis rematkablo raemory, Old ‘“Timmy Hutchi~ son " gold l’llfinm'u Progress, Ololiand’a Hymnus, Ohildren of tlio Abboy, Salltddo Swootoned, aud was ablo to vopeat wholo pages from almost any part of theso books. — MWoynl Mattors. Bomo tima toward the end®of May there is to be a grand famlly council at Saxe-Coburg, where tho futuro position of the Duke of Ldinburgh, a8 hoir to his unclo, tho Duko of Baxe-Coburg, will bo discussed und sottled, Qucon Viotoria will be there, and tha Emporar of Germany and the Emporor of Russia aro also expectod. Tho Emrorm‘ Willlam is cousin of tha Quoen, and uncloof the Czor, nud tho Queen is mother-in- law of tho Emparor Willinm's eldeat son and the Ozar's only daughter, The Ozar is coming over to England in hia steam-yacht, and proparations sro already being mado to pay him due bonor, A grand naval reviow at Por{sinouth is spoken of. Tho Czor,will spend & couplo of dags at Brussels, and will pmsbably take uon sgain for Antwerp or ¥lushing.—London leller. —_— . Couldn’t Do What He Pleased with Xis Own, Tyom the St. Zowuia Republiean. Aman by the uame of Jobn Hornback, a farmor ueer Exotor, Scott County, Ill., was ar- reutod the othor day forn burglary on his own bouso, - Ad thoy wore taking him to jail ho jumped ont of the buggy, and, with zevoral bhots after him, ho cscaped, He is n woalthy man, and tho caso causes nch comment. The amount stolon from his house was €8,000, and thoso who prooured his nrrast were his orodibors, who regardod the roported burglary an s ruse to dofraud them, LITERATURE. Education of Girls. THFE EDUOATION OF AMERICAN GIRLS: Con- ‘Sto¥nkp 18 A BEREs oF Essavs, Edited by ANNA C, BraoxerT. 1vol, 12 mo,, 401 pp, $1,76, New York: @, P, Patnsm's Bons. Moro than evor will tho thoughtful womon of Amorien bo glad of tho impulso which led Dr. Olarke to publish Lis opinions on * Box in Edu- cation,’’ now that this socond volumo has been drawn out in roply to him. The anxions, cnr- neat inquiry which bis work started in evory di- rection has horo recolved an olaboroto exposl« tion. Tha two toples which most vitally concorn womon, vize thoir hoalth and thoir education, liavo, through this timoly and sorious agliation, Dboon widely and extinustively discuesed, All who rend the sovoral books conncoted with the controversy will fool glad and proud to learn, from their testimony, how many noblo, clear- sighted, and cool-hended women there are in onr country, whe havo informed thomsolves thoraughly on all mattors touching tho welfaro of their sox, Who are capablo of entortalning broad, and wise, and impartinl viows upon them, and who are competent to sustain an argumont- with tho best thinkers and writors of tho oppo- slto sex, on any quostion sppertaluing to their nffairs, Onomust inevitably feel his respect and roveronco for American womon, and his nith In their powors and possibilitics, greatly strongthoned by the knowlodge that los thus Doen brought boforo him. In fino, ono is loft, at tho olose of tho argument, with a definite sus- piclon that it s not, after nll, g0 disnatrous o thing to bo born & womsn a4 the world bas hierctofore imagined. + Tho opening essny of the presont volume, writton by tho editor, s masterly in thought and statoment. Wo do not remembor when wo have' Beon, from a womsn's hand, 8o strong, sound, and solid n plece of litorary work. Ithag ovidently procoeded-from a mind trafned in the sovorest schoola of Scionco and Philosophy. To profound study, Miss Brackott bns sdded long exporionco in teaching; and theso, togothor, give hor opinions upon woman's physical aud psychical nature o high authority. Sho con- siders her subjoct, * Tho Education of American @irls,” under threo divisions: Culturo of the Boidy, of tho Intclicct, and of tho Will. Not becouse of its importance, but beeauso it is tho most universally neglocted, gl gives much moro apace to the firat of these divigions than to the other two, It s manifost- ly impossible to treat, within tho limits pro- geribed, oithor part of the subjoct with claborate fuliness; but, in each, the main poluts aro touched 'witlt & fow cmphatio words that suggost all which ig left unsaid. Wa may remark, horo, that In thie, a8 in tho other essays in tho vol- ume, there is nn oxquisito refinement mnintain- od, and the delicate subjects thut cannot be® svoided are indicatod by o glance or o gosture, a8 it wero, that noeds not to be supplomonted by diroct spooch. Under tho hend of Phyeical Oulture, Miss Brackett writos of woman's specialtios, such ag sowing, cooking, otc.,, with n sagacity which comes from s mastership of tho crafts. Bx- Snrmunodmomnm and housckaopers need not isdain to talo hints from her, B8ho wisely ad- vises that no attempt be made to instruct tho child in theso arts until sho lias reached at lonst the nfl;o of 14 or 16, aud hes boen propared to practice thom with skill and judgmont, by tho previous careful training of tho mind and hand acquired in good schools. ‘The formation of o lLicalthy appetite, and of regular habits of sloop, sho deems proper subjects of edutation. Plain and nourishing food at appointed intervala rig- idly adhored ta, and an abundance of sloop, ara insisted upon ns essontial to tho well-being of the growing girl, = : As to droes, sho prescribos 1o mies rni;nrdlng its outward cut or form, but urges that it shall bo loose, suspended from the shouldors, and sufliciently warm to provent tho hoat genorated by tho body from boing too_rapidly dissipated. In the matter of exercise, dancing, frood from its almost inovitablo accompaniments of late haurs, thin drossos, and irrogular food, is pro- nouncod loss iujurious than oroquot. Bu walk- ing {u, of all_exorcises, tho most practical and fm.liuiolu. Like sloop, food, and clothing, it be- longs to oducation; and o girl should ba taught, to enjoy and demand & llnfls walk of two or threo miles, a8 invariably as sho doos her dinnor. As the girl grows from childhood to woman- hood, sho passica through_throo distinct stages of intollectual activity. In "the first, sho is oc- cupiod in tho porcaption of abjects; In tho sec- ond, she is dominatod by tho imagination ; and, in the third, she should emerge into the domain of logical, rational thought. During thiy fira period, say from 7 to 15, 1t i all-important that He Slnly s pileod o tho mnt eotepotent tenchers, ‘*A failure to properly train lier at- tention hero, and the whole of her after-work is mvahdatod.” Tn tho second stage, it is, abovo all, necassary to provide her with plenty of good reading. No matter what kind of looks sho roads, they must bo the host of thoir kind. Ths storics of tho Old Testament and of Homer aro rocommended,—Don Quixots and Gulliver's Travels ; whilo sho * who, at this period of life, fails to road tho Arabian Niglts must miss for- ever n most_valunble part of hor cducation,” Amoug novels, the works of Dickens should come before thosa of ‘Thackeray, as tho former dwoll fu tho imnagiustion, while the lattor move into the upheres of emotion and roflection, In hor remarks on tho cultureof the will, Miss Brachott quotes & definition of politencss which should bo transcribod upon every memory: “It consiats, a8 wisor than I has said, in troating every porson as if sho were what ehe might bo, instend of what.she actually is. In nddition to the essay by Miss Drachott, thero are included in this volumo flve othor pa- pera, writton respectively by Edun D, Choney, Caroline H, Dall, Lucinda 11. Stone, Mnrlvl J. Toody, and Mary Patoam Jacobi, M. D, Thera ure nlso reports from Michigan University, Mount Holyoke Seminary, Oberlin, Vassar, a1 Antioch Colleges ; o lottor from a Gorman wo- mau; nnd & review of “Box in Education,” by the editor. 'Tho evidenco of theso srticlos is coneurrent a8 to the physical eapacity of Amori- can women to acquire an education idontical with thatof thoir brothoss. Mrs, Cheney makos o notable point with ro. gard to the deloterious influcnce of the study of musio upon tho noryous system of young girls. o listen to benutiful, olovating, or soothing music, is ono thing; and tho droary drill necoa- gary to perform the same is quito anoilior. The pursuit of no accomplishmont costs so much time, money, and nerve force, und, in nino cases out of ton, nmounts to so liltle. 'Thio fow who lave good oars and facile fingers may becomo sntisfactory porformers, and onjoy a compen- sation for the trouble and oxpeuse tho cultiva- tion of their talont hos cost thom ; buf, with tho multitude, who have no decided taste for tho art, tho afudy of music i worso than o folly,—it is a pouitive injury. If Nature has not boon cxceptionally niggardly, cach girl has a tasto or talont pointing in_ sonio unmistakable dircction, which, if she cultivate dilizontly, will yield hor far more comfort aud profit than sho could ds- rive from an ondless atudy of un art for which 8ho hus no natural preferenco, 1 T'ho essay by Mrs, L. H. Stone, of Kalamazoo, ia'ono of tho most able and intoresting of tho whole number. It contains thoe fruits of the author's extonded observation of tho condition of Oriontal womon, in the harom, and in the nowly-ostablished schools in the Eust, whoro thoy aro how boginning to loarn tho afpbabot. It nlso givey tho results of tho writor's ox- porience in the ncademios which provailed in her childhood, in which boys and gitls alike safoly bore much moro sevoro bram-lnbor ale claims, than is demanded in schools of the prosont day ; and likewlso hor conolusions; dorived from u pfilonuna morvice as teacher among Westorn girls, Miss Beody, who has enjoyed unusunl oppor~ tuuities for noting the methods of oducation adopted in England, draws n parallel Letweon “Girla and Womon in Englavd and America,” Much more attention ia paid to the siubject of hyglunie nmong the Lnglish than withus, In fuct, the importance of heslth is o dominnnt idea in tho nation. QOnildren, in sohool and out, aro carofully trained to rogufar aud wholosoma liabitg of living. As & result, English mon and womon are far more robust and athiotio than Amerleans, English girls seo little of society until their education is finished:; hence, during the years of siudy, thoy aro free from the distractiona” incident to fashionable and social life, and they come to womanhood with moro fresh and placid minds, and moro vigorous and enduring framos, In contrasting with this the habita of American girls, Miss Boody remarks that tho readiost sud surest correctivo for tho groed of our fi:lrlu for nooloty 18 to cnrry on tho system of cosducation, This supplios » “tomperato gratifioation to the soolal appetites, induces girls to remaln longer in rehool, aud to do more thorough work,—~thus socuring to thom other sources of pleasura than sooinl amusoments aud the companionsbips of frionds.” But we lave timo to mnako no further com- meats upon & werk which every Amerloan woman should rond for herself. ‘Chore ure noue who will not bo wiger foy its porusal; betmraqulp[md for tho porformance of their individual dutles, | oud the guidauve of the childron jutrusted to thelr caro. Tho motilomont of the quostion of the oducntion of women rests with thomsalves, To tholr intelligonce and renson it moy safoly bo committed. v : Philosophy of English Litorntnre. PHILOSOPHY OF INGLISH LITERATURE: A Counx o Lrotunts DELIVERED IN TR Lowxty INsTivuTe, By Jomy Dascos, Author of “ Principles of l'nz’chnluuy," Helence, Philasophy, and_Ticligion,” olo, 13mo., pp, 818, $L.76. Now York; @, I, Putnam’s Bous, Tho student and roador of English ltorature will find this littlo volumo s cholco coutribution to his library of toxt-books and manusls, One may bo thoroughly familiar with tho ‘multitude of succansivo authora whoso productions form tho vast troasury of English litoraturo and yob wholly Iack an undorstsuding of the conditions whiclh surrounded thom, the influonces which dircetod them, and tho relations which thoy hold to ono snother, A knowledge of forces, o well as of faots, is essential to our comprehonsion of any phenomenon, Wo must know the principles which undorlio ovents beforo wo can grasp the full oxtent of thoir moaning and importance. . We must approhend tho clonce of litarature, tho semo as of biology, In order to rocelve an organio and living im- preasion of ita genenls, progress, valuo, and rosults, . It is this which Mr. Bascom helpsus to do. From thoe high vantage-ground of Philosophy he Burveys tho entiro lino pursued by English iteratura ddring tho five centurios since it had its birth; aud notos with & swooping viston its varlous changos and fluctuations, its alternate rise ond docline, advance aud rotrogression, cuimination . and subsidenco, together with the causos and circumatances which occasioned and controlled these numerous and intoresting mu- tations. It is n curious etudy of the intelleotual evolution of the English race, Mr, Bascom divides Enillsh litorature into oight periods, ns followa: Iirst, the Initiative Porlod, coverlng the lost half of tho fourtoonth contury, in which the proso-writers Sir John Mandavillo and Wiokliffo, and the past Chaucer, flourished ; second, tho Retrogreasive Poriod, including tho firteonth and tho first balf of tho sixtcenth contury; third, tho First Creative TPoriod, which covered the last portion of tho six- teenth century and the firat portionof the seyon- toenth century, and is popularly known ns tho Eilzabothan eras fourth, the First Transition Period, extending over tho last part of tho sovontoonth century; fifth, tho First Oritlcal Poriod, umhmuhlr{ 0 early and middlo portions of the' cighteeuth contury; sixth, tho Second ‘Transition Period, comprising the' last portion of thofoightoenth ‘contury; sovonth, the Second Crontive Period, or fivat part of the nineteenth century; and, oightl, the Poriod of Diffusion, or the present era. In discugsing those various porieds, Mr. Bas- com does not enter into o detail of tho litorary facts which distinguished them. Ilo nssumes 8 genoral knowlodge of theso, and morely occu- pies himself with the attompt to traco thoir in- tordopendonco, Ho starts with tho oarliost works of pronounced merit, snd spesks only of those following which were distinct forces and g:_\'u character to tho periods undor consider- ation. : Litoratare is dofined s tha embodiment of that whioh is most nrtistic and. complete in lifo and thought. It is bonuty of form, excellonco in exccution, rather thun valuo of mattor, whicl gives its crontions distinction and perpotuity. T'he litoraturo of & nation may bo styled its art- gallery in lotters. I'ho early literaturs of England was nlmost oxolusively a literature of pootry. Nor s it strange that, in the intelloctual history of a peo- plo, wo should flud pootry unuuiputluf prose. I'he first may live or: tho lips, but the Inst pre- sorves its existonco in writing, Tha ono is the spoech of impulge, of emotion, of imagination; tho ot i tho lunguago of phtiont, thought, & vahicle of truth, and a thesnurus of facts. Poo- try bolongs to tho poriod of childhood, whon lifo expends itsolf in focling and action ; but proso attaches itsolf to that maturo and sober time whon the probloms of the universe demand se- rious and faithful investigation, . ‘The chiof rengons for tho decline of literaturo in the fifteenth and tho earlier portion of the sixtoenth century wore the stern repression of that froe roligious inquiry which the writings of Wickliffo bad oxcited ; and the civil wars, which wars prolonged until ho foudal might of tho nobles wus dostroyed, and tho succossion of Honry VI wag firmly established, These re- straining fogees hLeld intollectunl activity in oheck for a dreary 150 yonrs., Then dawned that brilliant epoch in Enghsh letters, the Firat Cro- atiyo Poriod, whoso inspiring and quickoning influences still continue to act upon modern civ- ilization and literary history. Thoe sgoncies which lod tothe unwonted energy ot mind characterizing this ern were tho renowed froedom of roligious thought, tho rovival of clnsgical- loarning, the incipient growth of seionce, tho geographical discoveries of the age, and, finally, the invention of tho printing-pross and of gunpowder, Bubsidiary to these groat first_conses woro the influchces of foroign scholarship, espacially Italian, the penceful reign of Elizabeth, and the chivalrous spirit of her Court. The genius of Spenser illumipated the dny-gpring of this poriod, Shakspenro its moridian, aud Milton its oventide. Aftor this camo a timo of revolution and con- flict, whon socioty was brokon up, and litoratura was divided by tho violonco of party-spirit. It was the First Transition Poriod in English lot- tors, and extonded over tho Iast yoars of the soventeonth contury. Hero began the degenor- acy of the drams, which has continued, ma groater or leas dogreo, to the present day. Sup- prossed durin;z the Commonwenlth, it was re- vived at the Restoration, but under corrupting influonces that destroyed its constructive power, and govored it almost wholly from literature. Drydon is the exponent of this age. Lacking virilo and moral strangth, he conformed to tho profligate epirit of tho times, and was content to refloct, Instead of ennobling it. Next succeeded a period of pro-ominent art, which hag long beon regarded as the Augustan ago of England, Its spirit ruled the whole of tho ofghtoonth contury, slowly oxpiring ot its clogo, Popo, a man of great and disciplinod tal- ent, an artist aud sll?lomntmb in lotters, jwas ita besb ombodimont, In tho lattor park of this eriod, proge became more prolifio and potontiat thn pootry, which lind lost its vigor and power of fuvention, Bwitt, Steclo, Addison, and John- pon were tho great leadors in this branch of literaturo. 3 Taseing throuph n second bnef, transitory state, during which thoro was no poot of tho ftrst, and scavcely ono undoniably of the second rank, English literaturo opens’ into a Becond Creative Period iu tho carly yoars of tho nine- teenth century,—the years of Scott, Byron, Cole- ridgo, aud Wordsworth, This ora dacs not quite ronch tho elavation of tho Elizabothan age, but fully equals it in fruitfulness, Pootry, a8 in overy great litorary poriod, i again dominant, notwithstanding that proso is constantly increny- ing in volume and in artistic meyit. ‘Lho lustre of one or two great namos bolonging to tha rival poriod surpussos the brightuess of any lights niat shine in tho boginving of the present con- tury ; yet, If the masterful gonius of Coloridge had sullered no unnatural eclipso, it {a probablo he would havo ranked zinong the fow great pocts of gll time, Tho oreativo onergy which marked the firsb thirty yoars of this contury has gently subsided, and wa cannot yot predict what the present time indicates, It may I)m\'e another poriod of tran- sition, which shull eventuully onter into an epoch of renowed invontion, 3Moautime, the ago is prosaio rather than pootic, A great desl of | pootry Is writton, yot fow poots command gen- oral attontion, Itis aporiod of divereitied and busy inquiry, of sharp criticlsm, of bold theory, and of practical roform. Tho two doport- ments of literaturo which are most cul- tivated aro the novel and the periodical. The groatest aulbors of fiction have been con- touporary with the presont fiunumuon, whilo the fertility of our pericdical literature iy a standing miraclo, Kuowledge is no longor mo- nepolizod by the highor classes, - It porcolutes down through until it reaches tho lowest stratn of soaioty, snd distils upon the humblest and poorest its civilizing influences. ‘Thoro is & gon- oral stir and diffusion of intolloctual life, a grad- ual enlightenmont and elovation of tho munses, that i fuil of promiso for tho futuro ouward progress of tho raco, " Goune Bayard, THE LIFE OF GEORGE DASHIELL BAYARD, Lute Carrain U, B, A, AND LBIGADIEN-GENERAL OF Vorvnriens, Ly SAMUEL J, Bavaup, 12m0, pp, 497, Now York : @, P, Putnum’s Sous, Gen, Doyard was ouo of that gullant host who, called to ontor tho servico of their country in tho lato War of tho Rebollion, freely gave up thoir lives in her defonse, Ho wne born at Soncen TFullg, N, Y., Deo, 18, 1835, aud waa lilled in tho Battlo of Fredericksburg, Docomber, 1863, 1o was a graduato of Weat Point, a brave and skill- ful officor, and an sccomplished and courteous gontloman, In his blography, which i properod by his father a8 an affectionnto memorial, he is wisely permitted to toll the story of his lifo l- mont entirely throngh lottors . writton homo ta his family and frionds during his absence at wchool aud in camp, Ifo was cigagod in activo ing, and of ita G LANGLEY MAN military servico, firat on the Westorn Platus, and thon o tho Eastorn Division of tho Grand Army, from tho timo Lo lofé Went Point, fu 1850, until his donth, Whon ho fell, mortally wounded by o shell, ho was in command of tlio cavalry forco attnoliod to the army of Gen, Frankiin, 1T loi- tora show him to hinvo baen, in all the rolations of life, like lis famous nncestor, tho Chevallor Bnyclhwi of Kranco, a man 8ans peur el suns ro- proche, Educntion of the Negro. HAMPTON AND ITS STUDENTS, Dy Two of Tta ‘Tenchors,—Nns, M, T, AnMsTnoNo and JHELEN W, éunww. 8vo,, pp. 260, Now York: G, P, Puinam'’s jons, ‘I'ho abova skotch of tho *IHampton Normnl and Agricultural Institute,” at Hampton, Va., hins been publishod in tho hopo of attracting tho attontion of tha philanthropic to an educational ontorpriso that is desorving of gonerons syme patly and support. It will bo remombered that, nt an onrly period in our olvil war, in the sum- mor ‘of 1861, troops of holpless and homeless freodmon of thie colored race gathered for pro- teotion within tho Union lnes at Hampton and TFortress Monroo, Thelr wrotohed and destituto condition appenlad to tho pity of Northorn sol- dlers and oltizons, and & scanty aud desultory assistanco was rendored thom, by means of army- rations ond private chanty, during that season of hurry, anxiety, and confusion, But, in tho sutumn, a8 their pressing noeds, and the neces- sity of moking some provision for them, becamo prominently known, organized work for their roliof was bogun. It was Initlated by the Ameri- can Misslonary Assoolation, which in December rosolved to cultivate this now flold of missionary- Iabor with appropriato zeal and fidelity. Misslonarics and toachers wore immediately font among tho blacks at Inmpton. These, co- operating with tonchers supplied by the Bocloty of Frionds, at tho North, soon gathered 1,600 colored pupils into schools. In February, 1802, “The National Freedmon's Roliof Assoolation” was organized, at Cooper's Institute, Now York, for tho purpose of assisting tho Govornment the immenso work of caring for the liborated slavos, Innumerable difioultica Leset those who undortook systomatized offort for thelr reliof; yot ordor wes gradually ovoked out of the Ju-uvnllln chnos. In paco with the do- mand for food and clotbing was the call for i struction, and the schools rapidly multiplied. DBnt now it was discovored that teachors of another race could not accomplish for the frood- mon what mon and womon of their own blood would be able to do, Hence, in 1860, the Amori- can Misslonary Association resolved upon opon- inga Normal School, which should train “col- orod tanchers to tako up the work of educating theirignorant brothren. In Aprilof that year the school bogan, with tw«mc{fi pupils_and two academio tonchora, In Seplombor, 1873, the catalogue showed on its roll 220 pupils and cigh- toon teachers. In order to give its impoverishod students overy possiblo educational advantage, agricul- turll and industrial departmonts wero incorpor- oted with tho Institute in 1868, A farm of 192 nacros was purchasod, and o printing-ofiico and shops of various kinds wore established, where- by o train the students to steady and intolligont habits of labor. The system of teaching sus- taived in the achool has been. most thorough, and its resalts in the highost degres satisfactory. The pupils exhibit an avorage ubility equaling that ot any ordinary achool at the North, while their marked eagornges to loarn componsntos for the lack of culturo in gonerntions pnst aud of lome-training in tho presont. To quote from the book ¢ Tt s impossible to describe the differcnce botwoen & class in Hompton, aud a class of tho snmo relative ago ond intelligence in s Northern schiool, It would be good dndecd if I could put down upon paper tho en- thusiosm, the quick onswors of tonguo and eyo, tho ‘honest persoverance, the wild guessing, tho half-in- credulous astonlshment with which some bit of Lfsto- 1y, somo aclentific oxperimont, or maylisp £omo ring~ 1ng poom or well-demouatrated problem, 18 received by agroup of dusky scholars, ss thoy siand gathored nbout tho teacher, who for tliowm 18 an oracle, o Heaven- scut mossonger, 'Buch cagorness and earnesinoss of purposs mako sindy what it siould bey » delight to the teacher and pupll ; and fatigue ond dullncss aro un- known conditions’ in the midst of scholars to whom the swnllest fact is o treusure, and in whom overy day abows change and growth, Tho graduates go ont from this Instituto ox- collently proparved to carry on the work of edu- cating thoir raco, and, uuder their agency, echools are springing up il over tho South, Tho ‘better clasa of Southerners appreciate tho eco- nomio importance, 88 also tho justico, of odn- cating tho negroes ; nnd, a8 & result, the State Qovernments are gradually assuming the charge of the clementary instruction of their colored population, But the projudico against mixed sehools 18 still 8o great that they are shut out of all Southern colleginte institutions. Therefore 18 tho necessity moro urgent to sustain the work ot training colored teachers of both sexes in schools ostablished, like Hampton, ospecially for the purpose. But Hampton ia soroly in nood of pecuntary negistance. It hins hithortobeenlargely indobted to privato charity, which hag been gonorously, though irregularly, bostowed.: It should have a permnnont yndowment, and $800,000 is the sum called for. Itis nlgo in immediate neod of new buildings to accommodate tho increasing num- ber of it pupils. Many of its malo students aro now obliged to lodge in canvas-tents, whioh fur- nish ineflicient protoction from the storms of wintor. A new building—including chapol, dn-~ ing-room, and dormitorics—is buing slowly oroct- edns menns aro furnished by friends’ at tho North, 5 To nid in the accomplishmont of this work, a band of vacalists went out from the Inatitute two yoars ago, under tho name of ‘‘ Ilumpton Student Bingers,” to glve concerts in the_cities of tho Northorn States. It is hoped that, by the cumh\F Junoe, thoy will bo able to return to their school with a sufllciont smount of funds collect- ed to insuro tho immedinto completion of * Vir- rinia Hall,” The facts of tho past bistory of 1ampton, of tho important mission it is fulfill- Emm nced of help to sustain and extond its work, a8 y aro unarrated in thig volume, make an_ecloquont appeul to the kind and hiboral-minded. Sermons by Prof. Swing, TroTHs ¥on To-Da¥ : BrOKEN 1N THE PAST WINTER, By Daven Suma, ‘Pastor of tho Four{li Presbyterinn Ohurch, Ohicago : Jonsea, McClury & Co, 1874, ‘We have received tho advauce sheets of & vol- umo of Prof. Swing's latest sermons, only in timo to note the fact of publication befors going to press.- It is a book of nearly 300 pages, of a chasto stylo of typography, and contuns fftcon gormons, under the following titles: Re- ligious Toloration ; Tho Golden Rulo ; Right- cousnoss ; Christinnlty and Dogma; Emotion ond Evidence; Good Works; The Great Dobato; Charles Bumnor; The Lost Paradiso; Positive Rull{;lun( Clristianity sa a Civilization; Bt. Poul; Fnith; 8t Jobn; snd Immortal Life, Wo slall not undortako to raview ihe volume at prosont, and the fact that many of these gor~ mons have ananrod in our columns renders any ‘briof indication of their character unnecessary. The announcement that a new series of Frof, Bwing’s sermons have beon gatherod togother is in itdelf a matter of iutercst to tho community; Books Recelved. PRETTY MRS, GABTON ; AND OTutn STUDIES, By JoIN LsTEN COOKE, Autlior of * The Virginia Coni- cdinus, ¥ ofc, 1 vol,, 12 mo,, 288 pp. New York: Oraugo Judd Company, DOWN TIIE RIVER; on, PRAOTIOAL LESS0NS DNDLR e Copr Dustro. Dy on Amatour, 1 vol., 12 mo,, 307 pp,Now York: E, @, Hulo & Son, WOMAN, LOVE, AND MARRIAGE, DBy F. SAUN- s, Author of *Salad for the Solitary and Soclal.’ Taper, 12 mo,, 310 pp. Now York: G, W, Oarloton 0. LILIAN DATZELL, By tho nuthor of * Unclaimod.” Faper, G0, Boston : Loring, R, By Mrs, O, I Newsy, 500, Hoston : Loring. ELEMENTS OF Z0QLOGY; Fon SoHOOLS AND Sor- LNoE CrAsszs, Dy AL ‘LAupwo, Tead-Master Model School, Newlownards, 10mo,, pp, 172 York: G, P, Putnam's ous, —_— THE OLD LOVE. Taper, New ‘You lova rae, ouly me. Do I not know 7 T wera foue your 1fo would bo o more “Thian his who, hungeriug on a rocky sharo, Bhiipwrecked, alone, observes tho b and lov G liovoloan dcean widonfu forth below, ‘Aud {8 romombering all that was boforo. Dear, T bellova {t, at your strong hearts coro Tam tlio lifo ; no nieed to toll me so. And yot—Ab, husband | thottgh T be more fair, Moro worthy your love, aud though you loved hor t, (Flso st you Liaye some dlfforent, desper, amo Yor loving mo), dimiy T scom awaro “As though you councd old storics lan.} forgot, ‘Thoso days are with you—hors—beforo I cawo, 10 mountatn travelor, Joyons on hls way, T en -t yalo o ertand calls it ol “fhen counts with prido how far hoda from thore, And still pacends, And when my faucioa atray, Tloasnd wilh light memorice of & bygona day, 1 would not liave again the things that were; 1 breathio thelr thoight Hko fragrance In the atr Of lowers I gathered fn my childlsh ploy, ‘And thov, my vory saul, can toch thes 1¢ T romermber lior or T forget ? Doga tho sun ask if the white stars Lo act? Yep, I rocall, shall many times, maybe, . Tecatl tho'dear old boyleh days amain, ‘The dear old Loylsh passlou,” Love, what thon ? —Cornhili Magazine, STAR-GAUGING. Progress of tho Work in Difforent Paris of the World, What Qur Own Observatory 1Ins “Done, and What It Needs, Tho Cosmopolitan Astronomieat Socloty, forme od soveral years ago, for tho purposo of arrangs ing for systematio worlk inobsorving the Loavons from different portions of :thé oarth's surface, hold a meeting in Boptomber last at Hamburg, Gormany, Reports woro submitted from the difforont obsoryatories which hnd undertaken tha worlk of carofully eataloguing all tho stars in tho noriborn hiemiephiore. Tho following sro tha principal factd in tho ofiielal report, which has just como to hand: Lelpsic, with throo obsorvers pormanontly en- gaged in tho work, hag finished its allotted por- tion of the task in four yoars and a half; but tho results aro not yot ready for tho prosd. Loyden, with two observers, hnd comploted about threo-fourths of tho obaorvations raquired in tho zono of stars mssigucd to that observa~ tory. Tulkows, Neufchatel, Dorlin, Lonn, Cam- bridgo (Bng.), Holsingfors, Ohristianm, #nd Dorpat reported progross, Cambridge (Mlass,) and Kozan made no roport. Chieago roported a susponsion of ber share of the work, on account of the great fire, but ox- rosacd the hiope that its duty would be resnmoed oforg long. About halt tha required obsorva- tiona bad beon made, and one-quatter of the cul- culations comploted, in four and o hnlf yoars, 1 The obaervatories at Palermo and Manoheim lind found themselves con‘flmllcd to give up tho attompt to co-oporato. ho placo of the first s been taken by Nicolneff, and the othor pro- vidad for by nsslgnment clsewhore, From theso roports It was gathored that tho great bulk of the observations will have boon made by the end of tho year 1878, and the cal- culationn finishod by 1880, ‘The zone ussigned to Chicago contains tho mnterinl for about 26,000 obsorvations, Of {hieso, soma 10,000 had boon made up to the time of tho firo by one observer (Prof. Safford), without assistance, and without the advaotage of a chronograph to record the obscrvations aatomatically, l;io other observatory Las dons %0 muchin proportion to its facilitios ; excopt. ong, the share of which is much loss, and is only sbout one-fourth done. An effort is now being made to ravive our ob- sorvatory, which has boen idle since the firo, 1t is proposed to raiso a fand of not less than 85,000, in sums of 8100 ench, tho psyment of which will constitnto each donor a_life-memher of tho Astronomical Socicty of Chicago, with tho right to view the hoavous through the mag- nificent equatorial teloscope nt such timos nu may be convoniont, Tiftecn gentlomen have al- rendy subscribod tlielr names to a promise to pay 8100 ench on-condition that the wlolo amount of 86,000 be plodged, and thirty-five moro names are necded. ‘Those willing to asaist aro rospeot. fully requested to communicato with mo at ‘Cun Timpuxs oflice. It is absolutely necessary that something should bo done, and that spogdily. Tho doma that covors the telescope is in such bad condi tion that it must soon be replaced by & new ono, or the iustrument itself will be ruined. Tho ol dome, owing to faulty constrnction, has never beon fn good ordor, and for that ronson soveral of the original members have boon dissntisfiod at not boing able to gnin frec access to the in- strumont. ~ With efi,DflD o now domo can bo built that will work *' as easily es an old glove,” and permit all those who aro intereated to ob- tatn frequant viows of tho licavens through what was, till threo yenrs ago, the largost and best refracting telescope in the world. ’ In addition to n new dome, the fund will pro- vide for the operating oxpenses of the Obsorv- * atory for threo yoars, by the ond of which time it is hoped Chicngo will have sufilciently recov- ored from the fire and the panic to bu’ able to. ‘make more permanent provision for the work of suryejing the heavens, E. Counenr. THE SOFT GUITAR. A DRAMATIO ¥RAGMENT, SoxwE: Moonlight, Deneath the indy's window a peareth tho lovor und singoth, with guitar accom ment, . LOVER Open thy lattico, O lady bright ! The earth lica calm in the falr moonlight; Gazo on tho glint of each glaneing star, And liat to the notes of my soft guitar. At tho Indy’s window a vision shone— 1 *Twas the lady’s head, with a.night-cap on, LOvER, (In costanyy Seo! nt tho oasemont appesring now, ' With lily fingors sho hides hor brow. Ob, woop not—thongh Litter thy eorrows are, X will sootlio thom {0 rest with my soft gullat, Then the Indy anawered: “Wlo's going to ? Go 'way withi your fiddle, and let o uE.nsf'”" rovER, (Saddened, but still Ropeful) ‘Then slesp, doar lady: thy fringed lida closo, Pinlons of cherubs fan hy repose, il thzougl thy euscment, sigitly afsr, Bteal tho swcat nates of my soft gutiar, Then tha lady boe { socrot pain” confessad ; ‘With the plaintive murmur: ** Ob, givo us a resti® T0vER, (Stightly dsscotraged.) Ohido vey not Lasslily, O lady fair | Bend from thy lattice and bear my prayer, Bighing for theo I wander afar, Mournfully touching my soft guitar, And the iady snswored ; * You stupld thing, 1t you've got tho caturrly, stop trying to slng! " 3 LOVER. 3 (Filled with natural and righteous indignation,) Cruel but fair one, thy scorn restrain | ‘Dotter deathy's quiet than thy disdain, 1 go fo full in some distant war, Bearing in battlo my loved guifar. Anawerod the lady : Well, hurry and go! I'mn holding the slop-basin ready to throw.” roven, (Making immediate preparations to depart) Falko one, 1leave thoo! When T'n at rust il shall iy mesnory haunt thy breast ; Aspectral vislon thy joy sbll mar— ‘Asieloton touching a soft guitar ! From tho lady's window Lior dulcet fones -« Ou the night-wind floated: * Go it, Old Bones!™ ‘Chen tho lover, in agony, roamad afar— Lol ifmp fn the guttor and smashed bis guitar, ~—New York Graphio. Shoes by flaile The Virginia City (Nev.) Enferprise of the 10th says : *‘ At tho Post-Oilice in this city we wore sliown an old shoo, which started from the New Yark City Post-Office. Amang the docu- nmonts_stowed away in_ the shoo 18 one on - which is writton something to_the following offceb: - ‘We, tho undersigned, rus‘lmul[ully recommond thit our late comrade, Goodenough, ho =ppointed postal cobbler, this shoo being a specimen of his work.' Then follows & large number of siguatures, The ‘ specimon of his worle? is about the worst specimon in that line evor sean. It is pntohed with scraps of red loather, black loather, and all kinds of louthor. Tho new half-sole*is foarfully and wonderfull mado, and neiled on with copper, iron, and alt Linds of unils, whils apon the haol is spiked a sort of hslf-tap, The documents traveling with tha stwoe anow that it has been in many ofticos in the West, and it is now quite coverod with tags, post-marks, and all moonor of scraps of Post-Office wit. It loft last night for San Franoisco, . It travels looss in tho mail-bage, and goos in whatevor direction the fancy of the clerks happens tosond it oruiging.” —_— . 6 Juning?? Sir Aloxnndor Cockburn, the Lord Chief-Tus tico of Eugland, has undortakon to find out tho authority of “Juning” It iy sad that oven during the late great trial of Arthur Orton, he suatohed many hours to study the subject at tho British Museuin, A London paper remarka that tho seorot of *Junius’ has nover yob been ex- amiacd by a firgt-rato judicial intollect, and that if anybody can olear it up it is the Lord Ohief- Justico, * Ono of tho most accomplishod mon of tho day, 08 woll a8 onaof tho groatost Judgos, heis richly equippod both with the requisita Luowledge aud the powor of weighing evideuce," _——————— Repolling Flics. Acoording to Rochard, o Frouch voterinary eurgeon, # simple mothcd of proventing flica from snuoying borses conemsts in painting tho inaldo of tho ears, or any othor part especiall troubled, with s fow drops of empyroumatio ot of juniper, It is snid that the odor of this sub- staico {8 unondurable to flios, and that thoy will keop at & distance from tho parts so aunointed, If this treatment should accomplish the alloged vesult, it may perhaps b applicabla in repelling mosquitoos from the faces and liands of tourists snd Snoruman, whon passing thyough woods o1 mondos,