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10 e ——— e — LITERATURE. Chorloy’s Momofrs. o~ OERT ART AND BOOILETY: An Drsonmmm BER" AUTODIOGNAPHY AND MeMorne or lizsn ¥ FormemnaiLL Unontey, Cowmpiled from the edl- tlon of HENRY G, Hxwrrrr, by 0. I, Joxxs, 13 Mo, pp. 317, Frlco $2, New York: Homiy' ot & Co, Prior to the publication, at a recont dato; of tho. blography of Nir, Chorloy, his name iras. almost unkmown in Amorion, Bince then, owlng 10 tho oxcooding interost of that work, which wao erowded with anocdotes and rominisconoos of distinguiahiea contemporary mon and women n Englond, and on tho Continent, tho chiof plrcumstancos of his lifo have gained tho ac- quaintanco of most Cis-Atlantlo roadors. The volume under notico is condonsod from tho orig- Inal oxpensivo memoirs of Mr. Howlett,—thoso portions slone having place in it which will provo entortaining to tho gonoral publia, Much of, the acconnt of the enrly life of Mr, Chorleyls oxtrnoted from his nutobiograply, srhich howas proparing for publication at the time of hin donth. Tho simplicity and pathos of his aro touching, for his was ono of the many Jivea that fail of their highost sspirations, bo- oause of tho tyranny of ndverso circumstancos. Thoro wero no striking traits in tho intelloct or charactorof Mr. Chorloy, nor any poculintly note~ worthy oveuts in his eareor, to mark him among 1iis follows ; bt hio was an agrooablocompanion, & faithful friond, and uncompromisingly true to his duties in tho position which ho hold for many yoars ns musical oritio of the Atheneum. Thia was gnrely onongh to make him boloved and ro- #pectod by tho numorous circle’ of his acquaint- nncos; but it was tho notable acquaintances thomselves, who continunlly boar him company in thoe momoir of his Jife, that givo that life its artioular valuo. X Mr. Chorloy was born in 1808 at Blm]dn! Touse, near Lnnoashire, o camo of an ol i Jmpovarished family, and, through his childhoo nns youtb, thoro was & Inck of monus to P‘rupor— 1y dovelop the boy’s individunl tastos, 0 pos- messod tho nrtist-tomperament joined to an in- tonse fondnoss Tor music ; but tho significanca of theso cironmatancas was not undorstood, and ho was put, whon of sultablo age, to casting ac- ‘counts in o merchant’s ofico_in Liverpool, The omploymont was so distastoful that ho noon ob- iained rolense from it by adwmission to tho stafl of the Athenaum, To rotained his connection with that ?ourm\l for thirty-five yoars, in which he gradual ly roso to the highest rank as musioal critio in Logland, By roason of lis offico ag woll a8 of his personal worth, ho cnjoyod iho ncquaintance and the fnunduhfp of most of tho distinguished mombera of tho musical and liternry cotorios of England and tho Continent, In 1868 ho retirod from the Athencum, and thonce, until his Aeath in 1872, gave bimself to the occupations and amusomonts of private and sooial life. His journals, from which his memoirs are largoly compiled, ara filled with rominisconces of tho celobritios whom ho mot in the world of art and lottors. 'ho Lost' portions of theso memorabilin have alroady beon borrowed to en- Jiven tho columns of tho American pross, bub thero aro still a filsw interesting nnecdotes loft to reward tho lato gloanor. T Guiccloli Cja doscribod by Mr. Chorley, aftor thoir first moeting, in September, 1835, a8 " prosisoly what T Lad ozpooted to find_ Bor, Bwoot, artloss, carnest, untidy, vory guileloss of mind,’ with o pemly-whito complexion, & hugo foot, and profuse hair,—tho color of a pale, ripa at,—with nll the gostioulation and sbandon of =0 Itallan womsn, and something high-bred in spito of all,” A charectoristic scono which ocourred botweon Lnndor and M. Rio, author of '* Art Chretion,” &t the hiouse of Ludy Blessington, touches to the lifo the two most prominent aotors : On the oceanfon reforrod to, Landor was more petu. Jent and paradoxicnl than I ever heard Lim, saying viclent and odd rather than the clever and pootical Hiings o usod to_say; of all thinge in the world, ohioosing to attack {ho” Psalme, M. Rio, who s an Ultramontane Catholle, winced undor this, as auy nan of good tasta muat huvo done, Lady Blessington put & stop, Layorer, fo this displensiug (all by naying, Ln her nrelt, inimitable way, “Do wnte something etter, r, Landor,” A lottor which Afrs, Hawthorne addressed to Plx. Chorloy, in pleasant protest against the Yone of criticism assumed by the former. in = reviow of **Tho Marble Faun," will speclally Interest Americans, a8 it _roveals somothing of Mir. Hawthorno's method in composition, and 2180 tho oxtrome graco with which the writer ‘wielded the pen: DMy D Ci eY: Whydo yon rmn with your 26 Tomeo diveoty 1ok tho faco of TildnT Yo wets oflerco and wrathful at bemg sbut out from the mysterias (for wlilch wo wero all disappointed) that ou struck in your spurs and plunged with your vieor Fown. Tor rdoed, fud in trath, 1Hilda fa 10t Thebe, po morothan o wild ross is o uflulu'r. They aro aliko only in purity ond innocence; and I am’ sura you will 800 thir whonever you read tho romance & accond time. Iam very muich grievod that Mr, Olior- Jey should scom not to be nicely discriminatiug; for whot are we to do in thnt ‘case? ' The srtistic, pensive, resorved, contomplative, dolicatoly~ approciative 11ildn can in no wisa be related to ehaatlug itle housowife, wlioro cnorgy, radisacs, and eglantine mwostnees fill her daily hnma‘y duties with joy, oulmation, and fragrance, Tell me, then, is it notso7 I uttorly protost ngalust bolng supposcd par~ tiul becauso I nin Mrs, Hawthorne, Butitismo very tmighty of sou to domolih this new growth in wucli a hurry, that X cannot help a disclaimer; and I am o pure of your fricndliness und largoness thatX am not in the lesst afrald, . . o 1 havo a good denl of fight loft in mo still abont Renyon, nud tho “of courso” union of Konyon and Tilda; ‘but T will not say more, oxcapt that_Nr, Haw- Lhorne kind noidea that they were destined for each other, Mr, Huwihorne i3 drivon by his Muse, but docs not drive lior; aud I have known fim to be in inox- tricable doubt, in the midat of o book or skotch, as to ita probable isaue,—waiting upon the Muse for tho rounding in of tho sphere which every truo work of artis. Iomeurprised fo fnd thaé Mr, Hawthorne ‘was #0 abaorbed in Italy that he had no idea that tho &tory, o6 such, wus interestingl and, thorefore, ia sometwlat abiolvod from Laving Tuthlossly ¢ exotfed our jutorest to voraclty.” o 4 Sicetchos by B. . Taylors THE WORLD O WLEELS ; AND Ornin SEETCIES, By B. F. Tavron, 12mo, pp 258, Ohbicago: 8§, 0, Grigys X Co, ‘The pon-piotures of B. F. Taylor sro among tho most brilliant and eccentrio productions of tho presont day, Thoy are like the muslo of Gottschalk played by Gottachalk himself, Or like nky-rockats that burst in thoe zonith and fall in showors of fiery rain, Thoy are word-won- ders, rominding us of necromaney, with the daz- zlo and bewilderment of their rapid sucecssion, ‘We gaze at the gorgeous and ondloss displey +with s mixture of surpriso, snd ndmiration, and- envy. What 2 gift in this, by which one has a]l 1he resources of language uuder parfact control, and marshals forth, gt lightning-oall, the strongoat, the subtlest, the aptost, the most pic- turesquo terms aud phrages, and weaves them togethor in the most ‘musical and cloquont utter- ances, Buch prose i8 more charming than verse. Tthas all tho beauty, the varioty, and the Jmagery of pootry, without the woarying aud ‘Yestricting confinenent and monotony of moas- ‘Thomnjority of the skotchon in_this volume ran through tho columns of tho Now York Jiz- aminer and Clronicle Inst summer ; but thoy Hesoryo to be rend by a logion outsida tho circle of patrons belonging to any newspaper, and so are reprinted in their present appropriste form, with all tho nccessories which the publishers can® bring together to comploto their attractiveness. Iu addition to tho sketches of travol entitled * Whools,” thera iu a serios of desultory papers gathored undor tho hoad of “Baggage.” ‘Tha wrticle ** My Iiyvo,” which i ot loast a8 good as any in tho yolume, hus ‘gone tho rounds of the ross and been road from Maine to Californin. Wo wish it hod not,—it is 80 tomuting & morceau to copy bore. Tn ite atend, howover, we transcribe ono or two_passnges which will rep- resent tho book e well as single paragraphs can, soparated from tho contoxt : B Wlien you see & brace of iron tars Jaid parallel upon 1ho ground, aud o hatp of wire atrung along busldo it, ou Aiew tho fragmient of a man. that cun nover indulgs in asoul without bLorrowing oue. It lsthe liusof s ‘mighty mucle aud the thread of a fino nerve, On the ‘onu, thoughts fiy,~thouyhts thut uro *up anil dressed " 1n thelr varbal clothos, On tho ather, things, The ono §8 meven-ninthe of & Scriptural aspitation, Ave-nintha reallzed ; *O that 1 hisd the wings of a dovo that I might iy away—and ba at Test,” The other s tho con. solldaled arn: of Ohristendom, the common carrier of the mwovable world, But, grand aa it i, and priceless a8 are tho treasurcs it 18 lu}x. 1t was too lute for the holiest burden of all time. ‘Thore was no traln to Jerusalom, und tho Lord of Lifo rode info tho city in {lie humblest guige, upon & donkoy, , . It has raved to bo anytifng but what it was suspected of be- ig,—thio Joromiotive Las,—for, mads to be s common carrler, & gigantlo, quick-lime dray-horee, it in clvi- Tizer, v hullder of clticd, and, If tha tree Wis—Messrs, Wesloy Brothers and Whitfield—will forgive mo, a soré of Methadiat ; i fact, nn outright lrcuiteridor, and a mueslonary withail Thoe prouchors of flesh and Dblood deniounce the Borsglio and the haroms of the American Dosert, but novody minded if, ‘The Iaw= ‘maliern frowned npon them, sud (hoy grow ike o gar- {en of cucumbors ; woro sbout s far boyond thele urisdiction uy the houschold-economy of * tho mun n the moon,” The locomotive made for them at laat, from Atlautio nud Pacific ; it brought the Gontiles und the “Halntn” shoulder to shoulder ; its mountsin. engglo elocution rang through tha valleys of Utah, and yooner or lutor it will whistle thut barbarism of tho Orient down the wind. The hrnxuullwll liio.n gul:m"mnn g sido up, il it el wo sharp, ffific-x‘ US0E. S i ings back tho lover, Tho pugine's . slonder mrme” Megin te feel alowly iu slde up, spills the on- | THE CHICAGO DAILY. TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MAY' 30, 1874, ter oylinrical pocksts for somothing they nevor And, * and never tira of fooling for, Groat, unwashied flacces aré cemnted slowly out from the smoke-alack, The furnsci»doors opon and shiut fantor and fastor, Tho faces o f tho’ elook-dlala nhine in the burats of iight, e nevly-washod school-ohil- vo bodn Joliaed o with o craal-fowal. wung o 1itlo furthor down. ‘The noarch for things gota livoly. Tieeco nto getilng plontier, Tho coal goes into tiie farnaco said out of the chimnoy, J'1ko the Lot of a groat, black artory, Thore is a riak 1h 2020 that makes your ir sl roam itk o comot's, 4’0 locomiotivo {s alive witli rosorved power, . . o Flra' you got tho idea, and noxt the oxbilaration, of power' and_motfont, Itis battor than *the Blllers, soft and creamy," of ollow. It fa for ban ritling Ontawba, 1t bna the totich of wingnin it onwatch the track, andl you hoar somothing, Yot D alwaywsupponod the iron bars wers Inld in two arallel Lnes, But {n\xl(nl It is o long slender V, apering o » polnt In thes dintance, Dut the engino pricn {him apect as it plutiges on, ond snakos track of them, V Geoxge Elfot’s ;Lntest Pooms. THE [LEGEXD OF JUDAL; Atp Ornen PORMS, By Gronom Evtor, Authirs Edition, 16mo., pp. 233, Prico$1.60, Boston: Jnmes B. Osgood & Co, Tho author of “Adam Budo" and * Romols,” tho groatest of living English novelists, would soarcely ot hor hand to lnferior work of any wort, She who has won tho J3ighost triumphs in prose-fiotion may bo rolied 11pon to excel in any doparitnont of literature within hor ambition. In sttompting pootry, sho ‘displays the same masterful gunlitios that have given her fllua- trious victorios In the fleld of romantic nar- rotive, There Is the same power of fnventlon, tho samo folicitdua choice of langusge, and groat skill in tho art of verstfication. hero sooms bat 1ittle Incking to 1ift her pootry on 1o o plano with tho toftiont; and yet juss that little ia lacking, Postry that moroly ranks with tho bost proso falls bolow tho highast grade. Thero fs an otherinl emsonce, n divine rapturs, in the song of tha truo poot, whicl cannot bo ¢aught, eannot bo imitated, by tho moet eloquent;, tho most ox- altod proso-writer. The goniua of tho poet is an Inspiration of the pruest, intomscstglow. To tho gonins of overy other olass, it is like tho goldon glory of the sun to tho silvery splondor of the moon. ~ ‘Though we do not rate (ho pootry of Goorge TEliot mth the flrat, wo gtill hold it in high cs- teom, and are plonsed that she should furnish the test of her ability in writing it. Nothing that sho has produced in voruo has yiolded the gratification or agquired tho f.vme of her novels, and yot wo may infor it affords horself a now pleasuro to vary the form of Lwer compositions, and it cortainly gives her adm.\lrers ploasuro to witness hor auccess in tho affort. ‘Thore aro nine poems in tho volumo before us, besidos the one which lencls the book its title.. ** How Lisa Loved the Ki'ng" wns origi~ nally printed in the Atlantio. Wi presumo the othors to bo now to Amorican reaclers. Of tho ontiro number, tho most intoresiling—not be- causo of supertor merit, but bocantte thoy revonl domothing of thio history nnd personnel of the writor—are the two nanied ‘‘Lrothor and Sis- ter,” and *' O, Moy I Join the Cholr Invisible," Georgo Eliot i8, Jike her husband, George Henry Lowas, a disciplo of Comto and o Poaitiviet, In tho latter of the twc:mgnnmu we bayo just in- stancod, she has voi her roligions creed in straing thot aro lofty both in sontiment and ox- prossion, As it is not over-long, we subjoin tho complote poom : 0 may I joln tho cholr invisible Of thoso immortal dead whio livo agnin In miuds made bolter by their presence? live Iu pulsca atirred to gencrosity, 1n deods of daring rectitudo, 1n Acorn For miserable aims that und with self In thioughts sublime that plorce the nlght 1o stars, And with thelr mild porstatonco urge men's search To vaat lasues, 50 to livo 18 heaven : To mako undying musio n tho world, Broathing na beatteous ordor that contraln With growing sway tho growing life of mon. | 80 we fuborit that secret purity For which wo struggled, falled, and sgonired With widening retrospect that bred dospnir. Robollious flesh {hat would not be subdued, A viclous parant shaming still ita child, Poor onxious penitongs, 1s quick dlssofved ; Tia discords, quelchod by mogting harmontes, Die in the larga and charitable ir, ‘And all our rarer, botter, truer sclf, That sobbod religlously 3o yenrning song, That watched to case tha burtlen of thy world Laborlously trncing what must bo, ‘And what may yot ba bottor, saw within A worthier imngo for the sanctuary, And shapod it forth beforo the multitude Divinaly human, ralsing worsbip 8o To higlior reverénce moro mizod with love— That botter self shall Hve il human tlmo 8hall fold 1ts eyelids, and the human uky Bo gatherod likte & scroll within the tomb, Unread forover, Thia §# llfo to como, Which martyred men have made mors glorious, For us to atrive to follow, May I roach That purcat_heaven, bo {0 other souls Tho cup of ptrongth in some groat agony, Enkindle genorois ardor, feel puro love, Begot the smiles that havo no cruelty— Do tho sweet preeenco of o good ditfused, ‘And in diffuslon ever moro intanso, o shall T joln the choir invisibla® Whose muslo i tho gladness of the world, Louise Chandler NMoulton’s Novels BOME WOMEN'S HEARTS, Louise ClAnDISR Aouzron, author of *Bed-wlme Btorios," 16 mo,, pp. 364, oston: Roberts Bs There is promiso in the title of this volume, . taken in connoction with tho name of its author. It ellures with tha prospact that sacial topics of especial moment at the present hour will be tronted in an earnest, thoughtful, and profitable mannex. The world justly expocts that, when #o facile and brilliant & writer as Mrs. Moulton applies her pen to questions affocting hor sex, words and hints will flow from it of genuino value. But, in the prosont instanco, the expecta- tion is dieappointed. “BSomo Women's Hearts" is simply s story of inconsidarable length and of indifferent quality. There is manifest neithor fortile invention in the plot nor in the characterization, nor peouliar freshness in the atyle, to raiso it above tho aver- ago tiction of the magezino or the nowspaper. It touches upon the marriage-relation, but with a fooble and ineffective hand. Whon a drams is onactod by men and women having scarcoly more naturalncss than {mages of woad or stone, it canhaveno forco in tho elucidation of the problom of renl lifo. The' story of * Some Women's Hoarts"” runs as followa: Elliott Lo Roy, o man of wealth and fashion and_n succonsful author, sponds & summor iu tho Village of Lennox, Mass. He moets thera a refined, sousitive, ungoplusticated girl, who, on their first encountor, piques his vyauity by her impussive roception of his gnl- lantry, o coolly resolves to amuse himsolf by subduipg to his own will the affoctions of thin Elizabotts Fordyeo. It is not a diflcult matter to accomplish ; but, during the procosd, he con- cludes tho Indy will adorn his house and do honor -to his name, and, withoub any sincero love in his hoart, he marrics hor, His cold and solfish nature, betrayed long befors thoir nuptials, af- torward manifests itsolt openly aud cruelly, and at tho ond of five years tho couple'are utterly es- franged. ‘To Elizaboth, this alliance with & man whom she has como to bate proves a slow and tortur- ing martyrdom, and alio finally resolves to brosk hor bondy and soex rolist in & soparation, The death of an uncle puts her in timely posssssion of $8,000, and, with this guarantas of indopend- ence, she fllos to Poris, and, in humble, solitary lodgings, slowly rufinlun happiness. A child, the fruit of her mixerable marriago, is born to hors fow montha aftor tho recovery of her freodom, and completes hor contont. The physician who attends hor in hor illness becomes interosted in the lonoly wowan, and continues to watch with friondly #olicitudo ovor the mothor and child. It {8 not loni; bofore an ardent love grownup botweon Elizaboth and hor chivalrons protectors but, st its fiual botrayal, sho confosnc tho roul clrcumstancos of hor situntion, aud, true to the diotates of honor, the Iattor oxiles himself from M iaita baby ick Blizaboth's bal ickons, nnd, with the ter- rible drend of ita iuna. thn’rl\ comos & pittor ro- mores to the mothor's heart, and_ sho writes to Lor huaband to join hor immedintoly, if ho wonld losk upou his child alive. He comon; but tho littlo one lies liko & waxon_ lily broken from the stom, whon his glanco flret beholdsit. Noracon- ollintlon is Lorn of thu atHiotion, but Eiliott com- mands Elizaboth toaccompanyhimhomo, and sho moekly obeys. They suffer shipwreck on tho voyage, and Elliott “Is drownod in tho effort to ronel tho life-boat in which bie has placod Eliga bath. Bho Is suved, and, in tho course of & year or two, is united to lor falthful friond, the D ekoso as thia plot , t ackneyod as this plot s, It might have boo vivified by novel incidents and clover mnnnga‘z mont, and go rondered impressivo. Bt it Is, s wo havo said, in_no ranrnct elovatod above the commonplnce, Bovon still shortor atorios fill aut tho yolume. One of theso, ' Twelvo Yonrs in My Lifo,” reprodnces with little ohange of oir- cumstances tho plot of the tirst, Othors are u[:rl;:htly in movomont, but not ona has the slawp of gonlus upon It. Church and State, RELIGION AND T STATE: Puotrcfiox on Ate LIARCE? TAXATION O EXEMrTIONY? By ALvaw Hover, D.D,, Prosidont of “Nowton Theological Instltale,"” Timo, pp. 8. Boslon: Xalos & Lau- at, s The relations of the Btate to the Ohurch, of tho Govornmont to Deligion, are disoussed In : - thia littlo volumo in singularly olear, calm, and dispassionato manner. It does not for n moment appoar in tho author's ronsoning or'deocisious thint ho {8 & soctarian of any sort, but simply that be ia o man and a Ohristian. Hix vision is broad and cloar, and no bosm: ohsoures his own oye while he carofully endorvors to plick the moto from his brothor's. d - 1 ‘I'ho primo objoot of tho dlsaussion Iu to ascor- taln it Ohristlan clurohos or donominations should ask of tho Btato anything more than tho protection of thoir natural rights,—tho rights which are accordod to soonlar iugtitutions, Tt is Mr. Hovoy's opinion that tho Biate shonld bo ontiroly sovorod from tho Clhurch; that thora should bo no connoction botween the two,. #nve thint which proporly exists botwoon a protector and the protooted. Tho Btato hag no businoss with mau es a spiritual bolng, but morely with him a8 & human boing, _ It should knovw ita poo- glo 08 mon, and not a3 Protestants or Oatholios, lormons or Pagang, It muat guard thoir lives, tholr liborties, their proporty, and suffer nono to intorforo with tho rights, the {:fivl)ogus, of an- othor; but, when it comos to thoir religion, it eannot in ml“lty moddle, beyond scouring for all freadom to think for themsolvos, so long as they do not infringo upon ¢he libertics of others. Tho Chinaman should bo protected in his right to worship his idols, and the Atheist to talk and Emwh his infidolity, as woll as the Qhristian to ow down boforo the living God; hut nelther should seok or, obtain help from tho Btate to maintmn or oxtend his religion. To enforoo the obuservanco of tho Sabbath, or the ume of tho Dible in schools, {8 nnjust and injurious, No good comon of & forced and mechanical ndhor- once to roligious forms; and tho Jew, the Catho- lig, tho Atheist, have the samoe right to complain of impositions_upon their consolonce that tho Christian would haye. Pocunlary aid of any kind, by way of exemp- tion from . taxation, or of grants, should not bo -affordod by the State to charitable or religlous institutions. Every church, every miniator, every ns{lum. should Ve supportod by Christlan denominations with- out help from the Government, Thus en even Justioo would bo moted to tho varioua sects, and no man wonld'bo taxed to uphold anothor man's faith, Xt ia a_loalthy noceesity which would compol cach denomination to build its own churchos, sustain ita own schools and colloges, and tako onro of its own poor. History shows that, whon Christians have boon obligod to pro- ngato thair roligion without secular assistanco, l’r. E-u lx;gnuud nnd sproad with an unparalleled rosperity. z Tl}’oau aro the chief points which Dr. Hovey offirms in his argumont mpon the Ohurch and tho State. Thoy are sot forth with candor and owor, and muat command rospectful sttention, not unreserved adhesion. John Quincy Adnms. MEMOIRS OF JOHN QUINOY ADAMS; Cournis o PorTIoNs oF M DIAnx smox 1708 To 1818, Edltod by Ouazexs Fraxom Apasts, Vol 1. 8vo,, pp. 631, Philudelphla s J, 1, Lippincott & Oo, There may have lived brilliant writers whose hoads wore po crammed with livoly idesn that they could pour out into their dlarics, through a long life-timo, 0 daily offusion which 1t would omuse tho world to read ; but we nevor hoard of ono. Cortainly, with all reapect to the memory of Tohn Quinoy Adams, he has not furnishod us with & caso, There is drlor ronding than this journal of his; Webstor’'s Unabridged, taken consacutively, for instance. - But, a8 wo cannob imagine any inducement that would porsuade a porson to read the aforesnid ‘‘ Unabridged ™ from cover to covor, wo cannot conceivo of any tomptation strong onough to prevail upon_ono to rond through this dreary moemolr. Joha Quincy Adamp was unquostionably o great and s good man ; but tho multitide will be contont to know only 8o much of him, rather than to loarn more by wadlng through his insufforably prolix and todious journal. 318t Day.—Riso botween 7 and 8 In the morning,~ gonorally about munrise. Road in the Oreck Testament or Homer's llisd until 9, Dreakfast, Walk fo the Capitol, and attend at the Henato-Chamber until 3 or 3. Waik homo, Dino about 5, From G until 7 in the evening, I generally read; sometimes write about Bl o hour. Poss yers fow evenings in compnny, sither at home or sbroad, Bup a¢ 0, and soon after 8cek the ropose of night. Who in going to road a dnily record like this, strotghing on without varioty over a poriod of forty-two years ? And yot this is not a fair sam- 1o of tho diary : it ia unusually full of incldont; Ellfi wo tool it by chanco, and will 1ot it stand as an index’ of Mr. Adams' method of keeping a journal. A beautiful portralt of tho statesman ornaments tho volume. It reprosonts a hand- somo young man, with somothing of the style of features bolonging to Washington. The month ia very prim, indicating that Tio words evor fell from thoso lips that wore not prociso and formal. After pationtly examining this momoir, if rev- orence for a venoratod President of tho United Statos did not rosirain us, wo should feel very muol liko ealling John Quinoy Adams a prig. Bacdekoer's Gulde-Boolks, DAEDERER'S EUROPEAN GUIDE-BOOKS. Tae TRAVELERY MANUAL OF CONVERGATION IN EN- ovtsm, GERMAY, FRENOH, AND ITALIAN. 12mo., pp. 3, Prico $1.96, Tug Rumss ¥moM Rorren- DAM 70 CONBTANGE: With_16 Maps aud_16 Iians, 12ino., pp. 300. Prico §2. Doston : Jumes I, Osgood o ; ‘The ontire sot of Baedekor's Manuals, number- ing tho volumes, will bo reprinted by G. Osgood & Co. for the bonoflt of Amorican Travelers on tho Europezn Continont. Thoy have long en- joyed a bigh roputation in tho Old World,— ranking, iudeed, with critioal tourists, above the famous handbook of Murray. As tostimony to the esteom in which they aro hold, wo note the number of editions through which/ they have assed. Tho ‘*Manual of Conversntion,” for instanco, hins entered into the twenty-first edi- tion. The volumos ara mont convenient in ahapo; orosmall and light, therefore easy to handlo and {mck shout ; and, as for their infor- mation, that is full, concise, snd mothodically arranged. Tho * 3anual of Conversation " eannot be toos strongly recommonded to - travelors ignorant of oither Fronch, German, or Italian, In fact, 1hore is not o hotter toxt-book extant for ono desirous of acquiring these languagoes to study at home ornbroud. The words and sentences in tho four languages—English boing added—are ranged in parallel columns, glving at a glanco tho differont vorsions of tho samo oxpression, It I the bost mothod over yot devised for lonrn- ing an alion tongue, and ia the ono used by somo of the most distingutnhed and successiul {each- ors of tho languages. s A Provencal Poem. MIRCIO: A PrOVENCAL Pory, Dy FREDERIO JISTAAL. Translated by Hawmer W, PRKSTON, 16100, pp, 941, Boston; Roberts Lros, This admirablo translation of & noble posm was given to tho American public in tho spring of 1873. The issuo of & fresh edition calls ronowed attentlon to its merits. It is tho work of & young Provoncal berd, the son of & gontleman-farmor living in the South of Franco, and was originally published in Paris in tho fall of 1859. It is the fineat oxnmple of tho poatic muse which has yot been produced to mark the intoresting rovivalof Provencal minstralsy, that had its be ginning only about thirky yonrs buck. Tho poom has boon twico bafore rondered into tho Lunglish tongue. _ Mr, C. II, Grant mado a prose-version of it, and Mr, H.Orichiton put it into motre. Miss Proston's translation—the only one published in Americu—has recoivod cordial praise from the ‘boat eritica, J ‘The poem i8 o paatoral, suggesting ln incldent ond ontastropho the exquisito story of * Paul end Virginin,” It is like the lattor Idy], also, in simplicity of treatmont, delicacy of portraiture, aud romuntic character. Songs of the Son. BEA AND BHORE: A _Oourrorion or POEMS, Squore 10mo, Boston : Roborls Bros, An inviting little volume is this, One of tho dainty editions which the Boston publishers know o well, how to porfoot, It is fHled with songs of thu son, culled from both anclont and modern authors, Thero are upward of 160 of thom, all having tho smoil of brine about them. Tho air, and the sound, and the look, ana the life of tho ocoan aro conjured up by each poom in the collestion, It is just the book to thrust into one's pocket whnnnfiolng down to the shore, #nd to_take out and rond to the musio of thg wavoes, while idly lounging on tho rooks or the snuds, It i enelor to eny who is not roprosonted in the collection than to tell who Is. Almost overy brrd, partioutarly of lator days, who has turneda auccossful rhymo, has writton one or more songs to commemorate the ses. In soarching throug! this multitudo for suitable contents for tho pros- ont volume tho thomo has boon tho main quahfl- cation, and & few poams hiave boen_soloctéd that havo not much olso to recommond them. Yet, a8 & wholo, good taste how ruled the ohoieo, and tho ammpunuon mny be plonsantly reoom- mended, Books Recelvods PORTEIVS COMPLETE NIBLE LNOYCLOPEDIA, Ldited by the Iloy, WiLLux lizioxwnop, D, LL, D,, suflior of * Hlackwood's Comprobe Aids to'the Study of the Ioly Bible," eto, oto, 13-10, Fhiladeiphia 1 Jobn' B, Potter & Cs; “ '+ - .SPARKS OF SCIENCE. i TAIE TWO PHGEDEA. All dny long st -oft-recurring intervals, from. tho firat blush of "dnwn until twilight hoa fadod into tho obsourity of ‘evening, thore drops ontha onr of the listonar in grovos and woodlands tho most mournful,. complaining, besoeching note that ovor broke from the heart of bird, Tho pothos of it would bo intolerabla wero it not softonod and subdued by a purity snd swoot- noss {n tho toné that mako it as ravishing as it in molancholy. Xt 1s iilo tho voico from tho doptha of somo divino dospair, wailing and monning in sorrow that cannot bo assuagod or comforted, and.that yot takos on s soothing, tender from tho exquisito natare of tho boing so afilict~ ed. Ta thore, in truth, & socrot anguish gnaw- ing at tho hoart of this unhappy bird, giving it 10 reat from pain, no relicf nave in the sobbing uttornnoo of ite long-drawn, submisaive, sufler- ingery? Wo connot thinkit. 1tis but one of {hoso tantalizing, perplexing cnsbs whore Na- ture, in an elfish mood, mocks experienco and intultion, passing off for genuine a consummate and {nsorutablo counterfeit. As whon sho writos on the human brow tokenn of genius that have no sxraol, and kindles in human oyes firea that isload with the hope of warmth® yhere nono oxita, or draws lnes of truth and candor on facos which mnsk tho hollownoss and folelty of tho ‘hoart within, . It was only-elght or ton days ago that this ponsivo bird, the {‘Vood-!’m\'un £Oon1pn|ts virens), roturnod from the Sonth., It brings up the roar of tho logions whioh migrato annually from one olimats to anothor, and is the vory Inst of the Ioitorors that linger bohind the main army, leisurely dallying in milder letitudes until the bland and fonl.le moods of spring aro on tho point of bl ulnfi into the hont and pasaion of summor. It contines fiaelt protty closoly within the limits of grove and forest, chooning for its bivouns and parado-ground tho uppermost branchoes of troos of tho lofticst statire, On tho horizontal srm of some high, dry twig its. nost will bo found, if found it ovor fs, for it Is. #0 ounningly constructod s almost to dofy dis- covery., 1t is shallow as a sauocer, nud is com- posed internally of fine, soft flbrous sub- stances, and conted on_ tho oxtorlor with mossos and lichous gluod togother with nalive, - Beated on the top of o docayed and moss-grown limb, it looks 80 oxnotly like n. kuot on tho branch that, in nino cases out of ton, it would poss for such, But examine it clogoly, and it is & wondor of bird-architeoture not sur— passed in bonnty and ingonuity in the whole world of housos built withont hands. Tho oggs ard generally four in number, and aro as lovely nathonest that holds thom. Thoy aroa deli~ cato cream-color, with a flush of lilao and brown epots massed at the Jarger end. But one brood is raisod in & season, and the period of incubation i completed in a fortnight, Tho Wood-Péwoo takos its doparturo onrly in Soptomber, and {s said to extend its ml};mficn into Bouth America. As long na it is with us, it oontinues without intermission its plonding, lnintive ‘ory. In tho' honrt of midsummer t in almost tho only bird-note that broaks on tho stillnens of the woods. Bwoot andsad a8 ** somo meludious tonr,” it moves tho sympathios and gtirs tho fancy boyond all other straius that mingle in tho varled harmonies of Naturo. It is eupacially touohing at eventide, when all olso is hushed into reposs, and the bird pours, with no interrupting scconts, its wild complaint into tho enr of night. If it wero praying for help snd roleano from somo grent burdoen of sorrow, strong must ba the hoort” that could rofuso to melt at ita petition. Clouo cousin to tho bird wo_have deseribed, is tho Common-Poweo, ‘or Phebo (Sayornis JSusous). The two look o much alike as goarcely to bo distinguished from cach othor. They are both plain- plumagod birds, with gowns of dull olive-brown and tuckers of yollowisk white. ‘They bavo big hords and rather homely figures; but whoover knows nnyu.\iufi_ of birds sy an abiding affoction for ther. ‘hey are botl: fy- catohors, and mako wonderful shota on tho wiz'g, The flrat time I ovor observed a Phabe engagud in its native sport, X could not imagine whatit was about. lta point of doparturo was tho top.. rail of o fence, and_from this it would start out a8 if for oxtonded flight, and then suddenly doublo back and alight on ita porch again., This it cont{oued ta do over and oyer sgain, with im- porturbable perssversnce and gravity, It 10oked such a silly and pointloss proceeding, I thought tho bird must bo erazy, ButI watched it nar- royly until I got a clue to the mystery. It was merely snaring flies. In other woxds, catching and oating its nuflwn Evary time it flow for- ward, it snepped into its beak some little winged inscat. It nover missed its aim. Esch goat or fly thet camo_within its range was trappod as nure as fate. It is thoe rarest ocourrence when pursuing !inme, that tho halves of\a fly- cgtc&aer'n bill shut togothor without inclosing thelr proy. The Theobe is 8 porfoct littlo rustic. It may dwell within the city’s limits, but its voico un- doninbly betrays its provincial origin. Itahome ia amid mendows aud orchards, sud in oulti-, vated farm lnnds ; and, wherover it may wander, those sconos_como o mind at itscall. Its song is au limited in scopo am its cousin’s, and con~ sists in tho simplo refrain, “Pheebe, Pheebe,™ roponted with altornato rising and falling inflec- tion. Phebe is full as rustic » name sy Audroy; and, whon we hoar it sung out from one bird to another, we know without a queation, its ownors have come iu from the gountry. Butthereis a wholosome relish in tho sound. Ithasa dowyfreshunoss, liks thoearly morning clover and tho sweet breathed apple- blossom that load the air with fragrance. Tho Phoobo is friendly in its disposition, and 1ilkos to build its nest in tho poroh, or under the eaven, or in some outbuilding. If none of these plnces are quito to ita mind, it will fix its habi-. tation nmongthe timbers undoer a bridgo, or in the mouth of an old well, or on tho ledge of a cave, Its domiciloia fit for o fairy to live in. Tho firm mud wall—call it adobo—is lined on the inside with horse-hair, and cffectually conoesled on the outside with a mantle of greon mond. In this suug roceptmle sre deposited five small, shoarp-pointed, white agtxu, with sbolls so thin that the rosy yolks peep plnlulf througl. Thero‘are no worda to paiut truly its prettiness, Bteal a nout and keep it by you until you have studied all its charm, It ia nota vory naughty thing to do. The birds will mourn disconso- latoly at firat, and sond queer little qualms oreoping ovor you. You'll feol guiltier for a time than you over did bofore ; but, in a day or two, the poor little purents, reconciled to thoir loss, will select o new site, and full to building auother mansion, with hearts just as hnpp‘v 2 over beat in their bosoms, ' Tho sight will pluck tho root from your sorrow, espocially when you rofloct that there i8 a constant warfaroon birds' nests, and, if you spare tho one you covet, very likely somo orenture loss scrupulous will appro- priate it for bneor purposes, Moreliats who devour cakes gnd custards with caol consciencon will haply frotn upon the theft of a bird's nost. And it i8 o wioked business Pursund ‘wantonly. But, practiced once in & while, until you have got samples of oll the nests nnd eggs to bo found in your vicinity, it is as lnnocent as_the gratification of nino out of ton of cur manifold proponaities. The Pheebo usually raisos two or threo broods in a summer. If ons sot of its oggs go futo the collection of an oologist, there is no great harm done. Lhe bird is montly silent after June Is over; but, in tho late fall, when it is making rondy for its wintor-abuonco, It resumos its voice again, ne it to bid farewell to the scones it cfiuruhen. In the spring it is smong tho very first of the wanderers to 1lit back to its nosting- place. Early in March its quaint call is hoard, and no sound i more wolcome to thoso who long for signa of gontlo weather. VAMPIRES, Tho proprictor of & bird-store in Chatham atreot, Now Yok, has on oxbibition & ouriosity in tho ghispo of & pair of bats, which ha procured from & ship-Oaptaln, Who said they came from cithor Jamaion or Madegascar, it was uncertain which, Thelr bodies -aro about the size of a partridgo, and covored with Lamir that ia dark- brown on their backs and tow-color beneath, Their hoads aro shapod precisoly like that of afox, and their wings measuro nenrly a yard from tip to tip, ‘Phoy are fod upon fruit; and, although thore s sowme suspicion that thoy aro vamplres, they probably are not so, The namo of vampire has beon wrongly given to the bots of Southeast Asin and the Malayan Archipelago, which ave, in venlity, frugivorous. Thoe blood-sucking bats, or true vamplres, bolong to South America. In somo parts of the continent they are vory numorous, snd inflict o food deal of {njury upon domestio avimnls, "here nre districts in Brazil whore ealves cannot ‘bo reared, nor cattle bo profitably kept, on ac- count of their ravages. Thoy sometimes nre known to attack men whon sleopiug in the open alr. In the *Reports of tho expedition io “ohnuntopos in 1870, by Capt. I V. Bhufeld, U. 8, N.," Burgoon John O, Spoar gives tho fol- lowing account of tho *boustis ! 1In somo parts of the Isthius, vampire-bats (Philas- towa apectrum), of Which thero aro soveral viriul ore found in_conaidorsblo nunbers, Ono sort | Jargo an » half-grown chicken, aud ila wings, whou ex. totled, meusuro Acrosy 9 to3 foot, Anather sort i Tt lurgor than o meadow-Iark, whoso extoudod wings do not measura nore than 8 or 10 fnchies, We fouud most traublesomo in tho Chemalapa x:qlnn, Iy overy bt I:;B '.‘."::'m"i# W&l Anme hore, hi opening thoy made in the skin is ronnd, with clean .| cdaon, and alout one-fourth of an inch in dismeter, ; nd doos not ponotrate far bolow tho trite kin, It is ' common to find blood oozing from the wound sev- eral hours after tho bat has loft, The nook of tho lorso or mule’ s the part most generally Attackod, Obaorving this; one night for tho purposo of pratecting n horso which was always bitten moro fhan tha rost, wa govered his neck and Lody with a Disnkot; but; tho next moraig, groatly to our Qis- appolntmant, we found he had beon bitton in the hind lc{h ‘T of our gorvants wore hitten about the feot, They aald thoy did not feol tho bat il it flow mway, which waked fhom, Thoy slso snld tho wound was slightly patnful, but they 1id nob cmspll.h\ of feoling 1ho losn of blood, In tilo caso of ond of thom, it was Emnlnhr,v o spply o small compross to arresttho emorrlinge, . ‘Tho hm'lvimu soomed to bo somewhnt oxhaustod from the froquent bites, but not menrly so muoh 8 we ox- pooted thoy would be. We noticed ihat, when thors ‘was bright moonlight, tho animals ont-doors wors not attacked ; for the vampires, distiking the bright light, entorod tho housea and dark placos for thelr victims, A candlo was kopt burning in the room wo ocoupiod, and, aithough tie vampires woro soem to ontor, fid- ing & light they quickly fiaw out agatn, Tho natives closo their houses the best they can, to Xeep out the vnmlllrr,!l. ‘Thoy nlzo find It neconssry lo put the mulea snd pigu-nto houses bullt for this pure ‘poso, Anold Indian- assured us that twa bites ofa yampiro tho same night genorally proved fatal to an | infant, Wo watchod in ordor to” ancertaln tho exact manner in which the vampiro deplotes his vietim, to neo whathor o, keoms hin wings 1o motlon, ole.: Dot ‘we waro nover fortunato nlmllrm to spo_ono in tho act of biting, though thoy were whirling about our heads continvally, . TUE TUOALYPTUS, Tho Dlue Gum troo (Zucalyplus globulus), which s oxolting o good doal of attention among agrioulturiats in Turopo, is n native of Australls and amomborof tho Myrtlo family (Afyriacec). It wns intraduced into Algoerin oleven yoars ago, and, durlng tho last soven years, oxtensive plan- _tationa hovo boen cultivated in that conntry, It flourishes luxuriantly in this new Labitat, and trees of only soven yoars' growth from the sood havo rosched an avorsgo height of 50 foot, although nourlshed by vory poor soil. It is an ovorgroen tree, with & straight stom, orowned at the summit with spronding bushes, bearing wil- low-liko lonves. In their native forests theso troes ofton visa fo tho halglat of 200, witl thoir shafts clear of branches for from 100 to 150 foct, and_resombling 8o many elogant columus irrog- ularly acattored sbout, and intercepting the viow &t tho distance of o fow huudred yords. Theso Eucalyptio groves ateeupecinlly gratefnl on the barren plains of Barbary. Ly thelr growth marshy landa aro'drained, and sun-balad spots are shiadowod and provided with moisture. ‘hoir blossoms ara fillod with bonoy, which at- traote multitudes of insgots ;" and they in turn invite tho birds, who flud not only an abundanco of food, but tho warmth of loaty coverts in wintor, and shelter from the florco hent of tho sun in summer, Tho treoa oxhale s fragranco which is dosicribod as delightfully resinous and pungent, * Thoy are spid to possess also various medicinal virtues. Baths In o decootion of tho leaves and branchea aro sald to_romove rheumatic pains, and nouralgin, aud to promoto xocovery from tho _dobllity loft by tho malaria incidontal to tho country. Thoro is no doubt ‘that the treo has proporties which give it ef- flcioncy in canos of fovor, [tsbark yiolds tan- ‘nin, and also on oil which is sorviconbls in tho arts, Attompts have boon made to cultivate the *tree’in England. A plant seven years old, in the gardons of the nui'nl Botanical Bociety, has at- ‘iainod o hoight of 16 foot. But 1t i8 thought that, exgopt in.the extremo south or wost of tho inland, the treo will not ondure the low tompora- ture of the ordinary English winter. The Eucalyptus is allied to the Pomegranite; tho (mava tree; the Coryophyllus aromatica, whoso dried flowor-buds aro tha cloves of com- morco; tho Pimento, whose borries are known under tho namo_of allspice ; and the Aki, or Lignum-Vite, of Now Zenland, The entire Myr- tlo family, numbering about 500 species, are o~ tivon of tropieal countrios, In the New and the 0ld World. IMPROVEMENT IN DIVING ATPARATUS. An improvement in diving appavatus has been mado by & London inventor, By its means, divors aro enabled, when employed at any dopth, to converso with thoso aut the surfaco of tho wator. Mithorto it has boen im- possible for divers to communicaté verbally with the sttendants above. Tho method herotofors adopted to make known thetr wanis was ususlly through aseries of preconverted signals given by pulls on a line, Experiments show that, by the prosent dovice, a diver may converso freely, during tho whole time he is under wator, with thona abovi,—every word ho sponks being dis- tinctly heand, Tho apparatus can, it is stated, be ensily ap)ilied to_any description of diving dress now in uso. It is expocted tho Invention will bo still further improved, so as to facilitato 1ts use in all diving operations connected with barbor-works, laying slone-blocks, etc. AUABKAN EXPLORATIONS, Mr. Willin I, Dall, tho well-known natural- ist, rerumed his Alaskan explorations, under the Coast Survey, about the 20th of April ; at which dote ho expocted to sail for Bitke nnd more northern points, Hia labors will probably bo gonducted in the meighborhood of Cook's Inlet, oand along the cosst: of Alnska na far as the Islands of Nunivak and 8t. Michael's. Ho is to completo @_cozst-pilot of the Taerritory, and mako careful magnotiont and other obsorvations, He hopes to add largely to the colloétions in natural history wihich he has gathored in pre- vious seasons, and which have done him and the Burvoy such great credit, POPULATION OF THE EARTH, In Pelormen's Mittheilungen thore la s paper by Behm and Wagner upon the population of the enarth, from which we extract the following table, giving the inhabitants of the five grand divisions of tho glob 380,530,000 200,300,000 84,562,000 4,436,000 HOW TO LIGHT A DARK ROOM, To light a dark room looking out on & narrow yard oratreet, lot tho glass bo roughly ground on the ontside, and sot flush with tho outer wall. The light from the entire visible eky, and from tho romotest parts of tho opposite wall, will be introduced into the apartment, reflocted from the innumorable faces or facets which the rough grinding has produccd, The whole window will appear a8 if the sky wero benind it, and from evory point of this luminous surface light will radiato 1to the room. KILLARNLT FERN IN RENTUOKY. Tho Trichomanes radicans, or Killarney fern, has been fonnd in Kontucky. Itw discovery thore is hailed with Intorost, as it has not bofora Dbeen suspoctod of a range so uorthorly. Ity limit is now fixod at latitude 88 deg. THE BLUE AND THE GRAY. By the flow of tho inland river, . Whanes the flects of irou huve fled, ‘Whera tho blades of the uew grass quiver, Asloep are the ranks of tho deud. Undor o godand tio dew, aiting tho Judgment-i Unuee thy, oue the Biney " Under the otber the Gray, ‘ Thiess In tho robing of glory, - Tlioso fu tho gloom of defoat, . A, with tho battlo-blood gory, T tho dusk of etornity meot. Tndor the sod and the dor, Waiting tho Judgment-day, Under the Inurel the Blup, Under tho willow the Gfay, From tho silance of sorrowful hours “I'he dusolate mourners go, Loviugly Indon with flowers, Alike for the friend and the fos, Under tho sol and tha dew, Waltiug the Judgmont-day, + « Undor ths roses tlie Blus, Under the lilies the Gray, B0, with an equal splendor, “"bio morning sun-rays fall, With 8 taucks imuartially tendar, On the blossoms l)lnmnlll)x‘pl( for all, 3 Undor tho s Valting tio Judgmentsdty, Brolderd with gold tho Blue, Mellowedd with gold ths Gray, Ho, when the Summor calloth, On forest nnil field of grain, Wl an egual e falleth T aoollny drip of the rain. Under the sod and tho dew, Walting the Judgmont-day, ‘Wat with tho rain the Bluo, Wt with tho rain tho Gray, Badlly, but not npbraiding, 1oLl onorous el was oy n tho storm of tho years thut ate fadin "No braver attle waa won: " Undor the sod and the dew, Waltiug tho Judgment-diy, Uniler tho blogsoms the Blu, Under tho garlend the Gray, No more shall tho war-cry sover, O tho winding river be rod ; They banlsh our anger forever When they Isurel {ho graves of our doad, ‘Under tho sod and the dev, Walling the Judgmont-day, 2 Love and teara for the Dluo, Teare and love for the Gray, and tho dew, FAMILIAR TALK. *! THE STECULATIVE ROOIETY.” A Lawyor Abroad,”by M, Henty Day, pro- sonts an intorosting skotoh of “Tho Specula- tivo Boolely " conneoted with the ‘University of Ldinburgh, ' Tho Booloty was foundod in 1704, Its mombors woro at firat limited to six, but torward tholr numbor was oxtonded to twonty~ fivo, Ita objoot was the oultivation of 1iterature, olaquonce, aud Aolonco; and its exerolscs con- sistod of oral disouesions and tho reading of es- says, "Among tho distinguishied men of Great Britaln, whoeo namos have boon onrolled in the cataloguo of this Booloty, aro Dugald Btewart, ‘Waltor Boott, OharleaJefIroy, Thomas Addin Em- mot, Bir James Mackintosh, Lord John Russell, Lord Brongham, Lord Erskino, Prof. Playfair, Bir William Hamilton, Kit North, Thores Onr- 1ylo, Lookhart, and a host of othors, dond and living. Bir Waltor Scott was Boorotary of the Boolaty from 1701 to 1705, Ho recorded the minutos with groat caro and procision, in round, oloar, bold handwriting, but with & singular disrogard of the rules of orthography, as witness: *Teus. dny, Nov, 20, 1703, Heoclely mot at tho usual hour. Boylo up tho ballanae duo on his note, Tresont—Joflry, Muirhoad, &o, Scocloty adjourned,” Scott,wan also Librarian and Treasurer of the Bociety, ** Hia constant good naturs moftencd tha aaporition of debato, whilo his multifarious loro and quist good humor onlivened its dis- play.” Lord Joffroy says: * Ho was struok the firat night e Apont “at “tho Speoulative Socloty with tho singular appenrauce of the Recrotary, who sat gravelyat the batiom of the tabld, in n bugo woolon night-cap; and, whon tho Prosidont took tho oliair, plonded a bad tooth- acho as his apology for coming into that wor- shipfulassombly insioh n ’pnrton{‘oflu manchine.'" Scott read an essay on ‘““Ballads” that night, whiol 8o intereated Jofrey that Lie bogged an ine troduotion, and the noxt avoning called upon the Becrotary, whom he found in o small don on the socond floor of bhis father's house in George Square, surrounded with dingy books. ¥rom this intorviow bogan tho warm and lifo-long friendship that united two of tho most distin- guiahed Htorary mon of their timo. s Lord Brougham was admitted to tho Socloty in 1797, Of him Lord Joffroy romarks: * I recall to my racollogtion ‘tho effect which tho early appoarancos of Lord Brougham had upon thia Soclety ; tho admiration oxcited by tho voraa- tility of his talonts, his fortilo and oxhaustlons fanoy, his powor of illustration, his intropidity, and oven appnront rashnosg, in encountoring all unb{ncln, which proved in the ond to bo but tha instinotive consclousncas of power, and that ardont nnd somowhat forooions eloquonce with which he acorched, and blssted, and overthrow all who dared to gfve him battlo." Tho firat oseny rond by Duqn.h'l Btewart in tho Speoulative Socloty was on *! Dreaming.” This oesay containg tho gorms of his future work on tho * Philosophy of the Human Mind.” Ina noto to tho lirst volume ho saya: ** Tho obser- vetions which I have stated with ro- #pook to it (droamiog), oxoopting n vory fow anngmphu #inco added, wore writton at ho ago of 18, and formod part of tho firat philo- sophical ensay which I recollect to have at- tompted, When I wna aftorward, profossionally, 8t tho distanco of mnny yonrs, to resume the samo studlos, this short manuaerint was almost tho only momorial I had prosorved of theso favorito studles of my oarly youth; and from the views which it recallod to ma ingensibly 8rogo tho analysia which X havo since undertalken of onr [ntollectual facultics in goneral.” Theo first speoch in tho Speculative Soclety, by Bir Jamos Dlackintosh, was agaiust the slave- trado; and hig firab essay, on the roligion of Ossinn. Thus .we sco that tho atfontion of those young students was already turnod to quostions to which thoy wore destined aftorward. o dovote tho full strength of thelr maturo powers. Among tho subjeota discussod in_tho Soclaty by Seott wers, Origin of tho Foudal , System, Authentlolty of the Pooms of Oszian, and Origin of Scandina- vinn Mythology., Among thoso troated by Lord Drougham wore, Political Romarks on tho Union, the Balance of Yower, Indirect Influonco of the People, and Influenco of Natlonal Opinions, on External Rolations. Lord Joffrey read essays on Nobility, Authority of the Pooms of Osaien, Motrical Harmony, oto,, eto., and Prof. Plavfair read & dissortation on tho Goniua of Bir Isanc Nowton, In 1808 tho Bpooulativo Socloty hold its cen- tonnial, at which Earl Russell prosided, In his speech on the occasion, Lord Brougham re- markod: *'I ean novor forgot tho happy and usoful hours that I passed in the Bpooulativo Boolety for many yonrs, and with many succes- otons of persons; I ought to add, in'praise of our studies, and in proof of the forwardness of our opinions in these days, tho testimony of my cloquent aud oxcallent friend, BIr. Gladstono, Mo camo to mo tha other day r}uke dolighted that hio had obtalnod s history of thia Society, .| mounted with a diadom and gave it an hia -opinion that it was perfectly astonishing how far forward our mombora wera bofore all othors in these days in tho lending truths of political scionce.” PRESENTATION AT COURT. A Tondon corrospondent of tho Now York Times relates with dolorous dotail the fatigna and annoyances to whioh fine ladios are subject who would enjoy tho distinction of being pro- sonted at Court, Inthe first placo, s groateror loss number of houra—it is impossible to conjeoturo with snything Jike nssurance how many— must bo spent at thoe toiletts, under the hands ot tho Lir-dresser and tho tiring-maid. The oar~ riage Is ordered before noon to insure punctunlity in arriving at the Drawing-Room. An hour or two is consumed in the drive to tho palace, as tho endless procession of carringes, hoaded in the samo direction, move, per forco, slowly. Thoro is no rest during this tedions transit; for in full-dress of rich silk or velvot, with no ondof ufls, and ruflles, and flouncos that must not be Jamed, and with » pyramid of ourls and pufms, and braids, and feathers, aud flowors, on the hond, that muat. be proserved from peril of dig- arraugemont, the poor lady is constrained to sit bolt upright from ond to ond of the journay. At last, aftor & weary Interval, tho palaco-aaor- way is gainod ; but the Throno-Room is still o tiresome pligrimago distant. A number of in- toreuting rooms must bo traversed, and, as theso are dousoly orowded, progross ls nocossarily Fniulully retarded. When tho august prosonce s finelly reached, tho fair debutante is rondy to siuk with fatiguo ; her costly and clogant dross, onvwhich au endless amount of thought and money has beon lavished, is orushed and drag- Elcd ; and hor hair is, vory likely, loose and lowsy, A quickglance at a stout, florid-faced lady, iuablack dresn and a whito crape cap, standing surrounded by a blazo of uniforms and gay-colored silks and satins, and it is time to ‘ond in low roveronco and take up her line of doparture for tho room, giving room for tho oagor dobutantos bohind lier. Tut thia doos not concludo the penance. ~ Tha corridora loading to the door whero tho carriages tako up their inmates nre packed with pooplo waliting to got away. Thore aro no seats, no re- froshmonts of any kind nitainable ; and the wrotchod victim of sooial ambitlon Iu'in a truly pitiable condition, Porhapsauother hour or so is pagscd boforo the comparative comfort of ro-on- toring one's oarriage is possible, Thon thodrive home, and tho coromony of prosentation to tho Queon bins been achioved. What {a the honor thiat rowards for. this 2 At the recaption of tho Queon, which ogourred DIny G, it wns entimated that Lotwoon 2,000 and 8,000 people woro in attondance, and 400 porsons were newly presentod. Tho Quoecn ontorod the Throne-Room soon after 8 o'clock, snd tho prosentationa wero, of necassity, dispatehod with the utmost hnsto, Flor Majestyis subject to iddinoss, and standing is very fatiguing to her, n Bome cases, ono of the Princesscs has to be doputized to racolve in her place. It isanobjoct with the oficlals, thorofore, to gob through with tho wholo affair s soon as possiblo, On this oceasion tho Queen wak drossed in black silk en train, trimmed with blaclk ostrich-fonthers and erapo, Bho wore a long white tulle veil, sur- of emoralds and dinmonds, also a nocklnconnd brooch of the same Jewols, tho ribbon and tho star of the Ordor of tho QGarter, the Ordors of Viotoria and Albort, and_Louise of Prussin,” tho Snxo-Cobuirg and Gotha-Family Ordor, and the Persian Order of the Imperial Portrait. The Princess of Wales woro & dress of palo-groon gatin, with plaitivgs of greon orapo and a trimmiug of fino Brussels Ince, l«w}wd with bunches of red and whito cur- rants, Her hond-dress was composed of a tiarn of uiamouds, with foathers and a veil, Hor ornamonts wora peerty and dismonds, and the Orders woro those of the Victoria and Albert, and the Danish Family, BT. 8OPHIA, A largo nmount of the proporty In and about tho Oity of Constantinoplo belonge to mosqueis. P'ho sovenne ‘whiok 8t. Bophia dorives from ita Innded possessiona amounts to 8100,000 annually, Many of the monques in the oity are very large and imposing, but Bt, Bophia surpasues thom all in magnificonco, Tho foundations of this struc. ture wera lald by Constantine, in 825-826, It was otiglunlly & Christian ohurch, and was dedioated to the Hagla Sophis (Lloly Wisdom),—that is, to the Rocoud Person of the Trinity, The e e e I e church was dostroyed wnder the tinian, but was rebuilt by that E‘r-:tfionrln{n:; immennso cost, in expiation of the sacrilego. Ten thourand men wore employed in its orantion, and it was complotod within the 8paco of Aoven yonrs, Tho materinls waro muppliod from ovory part of the Empire, and comprlsed romnins from almost every colobratod templo of nnclant Pagan- ism. Marblos, granite, and porph aolor, aroblondod s 1l walln; Andanngec ey 1ts lofty nislen are 107 columns of difforont huos and oxquisite workmnnship. Among thosa columns _aro found pillsra from the Tomplo of the 8un at Baslbee, from the Tample of Diann ay Ephosus, from tho Tomplen of Oybole a gyflaun,nt Pallas at Athons, and Phobus st olos, Tho edifice coversan_ aros of abont 2 acres, and {8 surmounted with s domo_107. foot in dismotor, and 180 foot in hoight, Intorlorly, it in tho form of a Grook cross, and is surrounded by a woman's choir, or gallery, which rosts upon tho columns alroady desoribad, The bullding ia approsohied by a double porchi, which is about 100 faet in depth, g On tho occupntion of Conatantinople by the Tarks, in 1453, Bt. Bophia wag trnnnmrme:{ into smoaque, It was atrippod of its Christian fit« tings, which consisted of an altar of gold en- riched with procious etonos, altar-cloths em- broided with gold and pearls, sacred vessols of solid gold, and o cross erowning the dome, of tho samo procioua mnterial, woighing 76 pouuds, and enorusted with poarls, snpphires, dismonds, ote., eto. The mosato plulurcn 8ot in tho walla wora coverod with plastor. Thus concecratod to Mo- hammedan worship, tho. Churoh was olosed apainst Christian visitora, " With s siight ox- penao they oan, howovor, obtain a spaolal firman, which admits thom to tho outer gnllory, whore thoy oan Jook n upon tho privilogad disolploy of 8 thoy recite thoir Iprayers or rond tholr Bible dircotly undor tho grgut{lome. TRAIN-TEANING BOOIETIES, A natural outgrowth of a viclous fashion of the prosont day is tho Train-Toaring Hoclety which has been Intely eatablishoed in the Gities of Vionna and Franlkfort-on-tho-Main, Tho Sooloty alroady numbors sovoral thonsand membeors, who vledgo themsclves to omit no opportunity to stop upon & woman's train, It is the, initial movement of & logltimate warfaro against an intolorablo nulsance, Whon a lady has the use of a parlor to horsolf, or shares it with mo fow that thero is abundant room for her to swing about & voluminous trail without In any way in- commoding othors, sho may bs priviloged to drag behind hor as many ynrds of wasto aloth ag gho ohoosen. Dut, In tho stroot, or in places line ble to bo orowded, itis an outragoous violation of . the laws of luto. propriety, and oloanll~ noss, for hor to woar n dress so long as to cumbor, hor own or anothor's footateps. I, in such circumstances, hor train gets tram- plad upon, torn, and ruined by Mlth nnd abuse, shoe haa nnl{’ horsoll ronsonably to blamo for it, Wo romember coming out of & closely-pnoked concert-hall, ono day, soveral yenrs ago, when q Indy by our sido chanced o ‘troad upon a train that dragged in tho path boforo her, Tho diac comflted ownor turnod shout to discover wha had committed tho hulli;nlty. when tho lady by our side, with the swoetest smilo and the most dulcot tones, romarked to her: I await yous apology for leavivg your train in my way." "Foy a moment the woman #o addrossed gazed in glupac faction, and thon, breaking out in n light laugh, ploasantly scknowledged that tho ogcnnu wag wholly on hor sido. It was n striking incldent, and we mentally wished at the moment that all of hor sox had the quick wit and good sensa of tho lady by our sido. . - MARRIAGES AT TIIE WIITE HOUSE. The recent marriago of Nellio Grant racalla thi fact that but throo weddings previous to he: havo taken place at tho Whito House, Tho firsl was that of Miss Marla Monrae, tho youngest daughter of Prosldent Monroe. 8ho was mare ried, in 1820, at the ago of 17, to hor cousin, Bamucl L. Gouvernour, of Now York, a hands somo and opulent youth of 20. Tho wodding wag private, only tho relativos and porsonal frlends of tho bride and groom being prosent. The coromony oceurred in the oval receptione room,—the contracting partios, as we aro gravely told, standing upon the figuro of the American oaglo which was worked in tho Fronch carpel that covored the floor. Thosccond marriage in the White Honso hape ycnod during tho administration of Androw ackson, On this oconsion, Delin Lowls, the daughtor of Gon, Jackson's intimnte friond, Mnj, Lowis, was united to Mousiour Alphonse de Pa« gent, the Seorotary of the Fronch Logation, and aftorwards Ministor from France. 'The Diplo~ matic Corps, the members of the Cabinot, and & 18] poraam\ fricuds and relatlves wors invitod'to thi wnddln%. The marrisge coremony was per- formed by Dr. Mathows, of Bt. Pattick's Church, tho patriarch of the Catholio clergy of his dio= cose, . Tho third timoe the hymoneal torch was lightai within the White House, Miss Elizaboth ‘f"ylog third daughter of tho President, wan led to tho altar by Mr. Waller, of Virginia, It wos in the winterof 1843,and the wodding: is describodas hava ing boon very grand. It was celobrated in the Tasy TRoom, and tho guosts conaistod of tho membors of the Cabiuet, with their wives and daughtors, the Foroign Ministora, and tho relatives an friends of the family. 'Tho bride was but 18, and, with hor blonde-laco veil heif-concealing, half-revenling Ler blushes and dimples, waa pro« fiouncud by sl beholders a rare anion of lova- noss, MORTALITY AMONG DRINKIE. According to the researches of the British General Life-Ofico, tho liability to doath among driunkars betwoon 31 and 40 yoars is ton times as groat a8 among temporato porsons; botwoen 41 and 00 years, four timea na gront; and boyond 60 yours, twice na groat. In England, in tho yoars 1850-'50, mora than 8,000 deaths from intompore anco wers recorded. It is ostimatoed that, out of 1,000 habitus] tipplors, 68.4 dio sunually ; while, out of 1,000 porsons not addioted to the usa of intoxioating bovorages, only 19 dio annunlly, ‘Thus the mortality among drinkers is throo timox a8 groat ag among the commumty at large, In the yeara 1851-'60, statistics showed that 193 mox and 44 womon in every 10,000 inhabitants in En< gland and Walos woro intomporate. Irom the proceding statemont, it would asem that imtems porauce is but & ulow and certein form of prace ticing suioido. TIIE TYLER FAMILY, John Tyler, Jr., in a lotter to tho Louisvilla Oourier-Journal, denies the statomont which hag been traveling through the pross, that the ohil- dron of tho first wifoof President Tyler contost= ad the will by which ho bequeathod all his prop« erty, both roaland personal, to his widow. On the contrary, the children choerfully acquiosced in their father's wislios, and accepted the povor- ty which it entailed upon them, without a mur- mur. Mr. Tylor manfully adds, at tho oloso of hin lottor: ““As worevoro our father, wa sine cerely rospoot Mrs. Tylor, and rognrd her with 1ilial foeling, Liaving for her children the afece tion of brothors and sisters. Alligators as Potw, From the Chriatian at Work, ‘Tho Now York Z'imes has an articlo on honss- hold potn, in which {t playfully and somowhat sarcastically suggoests pot alligatora as a vatlety for the houso. S Now, nbsurd as tho alligator may soem for o {:el, it 8o hnappons that we onco had somo of hom, and very ploagant little pots they proved to be, 1t was ‘during a residenco, sonie yoarg ngo, in a Southorn cily, not far from the bayous, whero alligators, groat and wmall, aro to ba bad by she hundred thousand. Instond of goe ingin porsonto cateh the little follows, wo Bo< cured the sorvices of an aged American citizon of Afrionn descont, who know mors than we did about keeping out of tho way of tha parcnt al« ligatora. Ho ncnnr‘nd up a dozon or two of baby 'gators, and brought them in, his face ornamont. ed yith a broad grin of dolight, in anticipation n:lg tho doliar ho had boon promised for oatohing om, Tor sovoral nionths & nnmber of thoss lively little fellows occupiod a nont nquarium tank in the library wipdow, whera the sun whone on them, They “woro a8 lively as little cats, and quito a8 playful. Equally hnppy in the ‘wator and out of it, thoy would “frisk” about like so many nionkeys whon thoy felt so disposed, and when they folt lazy (forallizators,like other folks, aro_subjoot to attacka of lazinoss) they wonld atratoh themselvos out, or lio innheap, one on tho othor, and bask in tho sunshine. x.‘l‘lmy had o habit of cating almost any cntuble thing that was given to them, their prinoipal luxury boing live flica, In catohiug those indocts thoy exhibe ited great doxterity, Large bectle cockronchos aldo afforded thom much plensuro. There was an abundance ot those in the louss, and the ulligatora consldorably reducod the stook. These alligators were in their firat summnior, and ‘were only n‘lnw inchos long, They wonld' run over people’s hands and clothes, and olimb upon :lfwfildnmnv‘vlth gruatullvounuuu. hwu RUVO Bomo hom away, and tho rost, probabl; by poliing aud ovortosding, ‘dlag, ) Powwored 0 once owned au alligator which wan al: long. But he !rlghtunofi an old lady out o‘t ffi:: wits, and 80 we gnvo him away, He wes too ly::.sra ‘z:: o‘n]’::'e phu.t: h: tl::lr fldm or uecond ) B ant pef Wosk dune gorous than kitions, Fobsi andan h‘ Figod theongh -