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10 + cem—————— LITERATURE. COharlon Kuight. PABBAGES FROM THE LIFE OF CHARLES RNIGHT. 19100, pp, 480, Now York: G, I' Putnam's Sona, Ae nn nuthor aud & publisher, the nsme of Chorles Kniglt witl bo long and honorably ro- momborad smong thoe lterary lights of England. During an activa oarcer, which extonded over more than half & contury, ho tollod assiduonsly &t tho kindred professions of writiug and print~ ing, dolng auch good work st both as to gain the entoom oud applnuse of his countrymon and the substaptisl rewards of fortuno. Bub it is for his onrly, persistent, and succosful labors in the diffusion of a choap and wholosoms litern~ turo, that the plessnutost and most gratoful ‘memorica of him will bo cherishod. Many hnvo Becured fortune Ly tlicir talents and reputation by thelr genius; but fow have, liko Chnrlo# Knight, socurcd to thomselves both wealth and fame, whilo consocrating their onuvrgies and abilities, with & singlo-henrted purposs, to tho fmprovemont nnd olovation of the humblor classos of tholr follow-boiugs, It i with a fool-. ing of rospect and reveronce, which wo do not yiold to the most brilliant achicvements of mers futellect sud learning, that wo contomplate the noblo earecr which I8 portrayed in the simple and manly words of this autoblography. Mr. Knight was born in Windeor, England, March 16, 1701, His mother died in Lis infancy, and, the only child of a widowod fathor, hio grow up in the solitude of a desolato bouschold, With paseionate caressos and an incessant solicitudo, his fathor wndenvored to supply to him the loss of o mothor's tender caro, and the companion- ship of brothors snd sistors, Booka wore plen- tiful about him, and in their socioty ho passed his linpplest hours, His education was pursucd ju o desultory fasliion, alternataly at school and wudor privats tutors.” At 14, just as his mind hud become etimulated to su sinbition for sound scholarship, he was takon from tho somowhat fumous classicnl echoolof Dr. Nichols, ot Ealing, whoro had Lad beon at study two yenrs, and ap- prenticed to bis fathor's trade of booksolling. ltho ehange was unputntablo to tho lad, for ho nlready bod foud literary aspirations; {ut, with that patient submiesion to the control of elrcum- stauces, and that rosolution to improve adverse conditions, which through bis }fo wero telling tenits in his charactor, lio nccepted tho destiny which deereud him n tradosman, and diligontly nmrliell‘ himuolf to the pursuits conncctod with s craft, - ‘Whon he had renched his 16th yosr, he bo- camo ongrossed in bibliomania, aud for somo time gavo himsolf up to the search for old aud vare volumes, 'I'his occupation was of lasling rdvantago in widoning s knowlodge of books and nuthors, Lefore his apprenticeship was conetnded, tho project of oxtonding his vocation by tho printing of a journal had taken distinct shape in liig mind. In 1812, his trade boing mastered and bis majority attained, bo wont to Y.ondon to acquire, by a short service on the ro- orters’ staff of a daily paper, some Instruction n tho art of conducting a jomnali Returning 1o Windsor, on tho lat of Auguat, 1812, he is- sued the initial number of the Windsor and Elon Express,—sharing with his father tho proprie- torehip,—he holding alone the responsible posi- tion of editor, Tho noble aim which ho sct for Iumeelf ou cntoring the carcer of the journalist was that of the reformer and the oducator. As he wrotoat the time to a friond, **I will sot out a8 the temporato advocate of evorything that thinking men will support,—Toleration, Lduca- tion of tho Yoor, Diffusion of Religion, Knowl- edge, Public Economy. I sball adopt the opin- jons of no soct of men in Church or Stato ; but think for myself ouall points.” From theso principlos, ustablished at tho begiuuing of his publie life, ho neverswerved. A sense of thomoral responeibility of apublic writer deoply improssed Dim, restraining him from hesty, passionato, or purely politio utterauces, 1ty eifcct was imme- daately folt, croaving a trust in his motive and Lis judgment, and lending a woight to his words, which no amount of talent divorced from puuciple conld have securod to them, 'I'ho Erpress was the first nvewspaper published in Windsor, At the time it wus sterted, journal- ismn was not tho io;mlnr profession it hins sinco become, In all England thero were nota hun- dred nowspapers printed, and theso were moatly locatod 1n the larger citiss.. A chienp newspapor was an impossibility. A tax of 4 pence was im- potied upon each papor, and o duty of 3 shillinga upon esch advertizemeont. ‘Lhero was uo system of railronds aud tolegraphs by which news could bo rapidly communicated and papers spoodily circulated. Mail-carts z9d pony-expresses, or evon_foot-carriers, wero the tedio.s means by which mails woro_convayed from one pomt to onother. The delivery, the publication even, of the mostintluential deily papers of London, wera often delayed, and sumotimes altogather intor- mitted, 1t was not until 1814 that the Zimes was printed by steam machivory. Prior to this, twoimen, \\'Dx‘kiu& with all thoir strength at tho Lind-presy, could provide Lut 250 impressions on ono sido of a sheet in an hour. The wages of mochanical Jabor were high, and there was a duty of 8 pouce per pound on paper. Not many newspapera ventured upon original writing, and those which did incurred groat rislc, of actions for libel, Both Governmentand poo- pooplo were excessively seusitivo to nowapapor- commonts. Criticism upoa military uffairs was ospecially dreaded, sy tho subjoct of flogging in tho arimy was wae wholly forbidden to editori- ol comment. 1t was in March, 1812, that John and Loigh Hunt wero convictod of libeling tho Yriuce-Hegout in the columns of the EKramin- er, and sentonced to a fino of £1,000 aud two years' imprisonment. Iu a siuglo year, ver- dicts in potty libel suits, which he was particu~ lurly cautious to avoid, cost Mr. Knight £500, - Buch were some of the difticultios which, little move than flfty yoars ago, harassed tho nowspa- per propriotor, hindering freo speech, hum- peving lus usofulness, rendoring his vocation la- orious und yoxations, aud his profits precarious, Aud Mr, Kuight had the courage to encounter them all, aud, by the exercise of raro caution and eugacity, managed tho Windsor Kzpress suc- consfully for Tourtuen years. In 1820 ko bocamo, with lr. Locker, jomt proprietor of n London wookly newspaper called the Guardian, but ra- tained Ing Intorest in the publication for only two years. The same year was marked by tho cetublishment of the Ltonian, nmonthly maga- zizo edited by two Eton students, William Blunt and Winthrop Macxworth Praed, and published Dy Mr, Kuight, The periodical was brilliautly suslnined during its ehort life by contributions from Macaulsy, Siduey Walkor, Heury Nelson Coloridge, Derwont Coleridge, Honry Maldon, Johi Moultiie, and others, Un' the suspeusion of tho Elonian, tho same corps of writers united in tha supportof Anight's Quarterly Magazine, a serial whicn imitated ity predecessor in a briof but bright carcer, 1w connceiion with the Quarterly Magazine Ied to tho estuolishmout of Mr. Knight as u Lion- don publisher 1 182). The dopression from which tho irado of miscollancous publishing Eufered during the eusuing few years resulted dinastrously to My, Knight, and bu temporarily relinquishod tho business in 1827, I walked forth {he writes] from my business-houses in T.ondon and Windsor, after the fashion ot a man ropresented u the wood-cut in a title-page of ono of theold printers which comes Rno my thoughts,—n mun, not bowed down by age or sorrow, moving forward, not briskly,” but not unnteadily, with his stoub staff, audhis small wallot, uud o Iabel of four words’ * Omuia Alea BMrewn Porto, It was in the autumnof 1820 that the * Society for the Diffusion of Useful* Knowledge" was founded, with Lord Brougham at its hoad, and John Mibs, Ienry Hullen, Lord Jobn Russoll, and other noted and eftiviont mon, as his cond- Jutors. Its object was the dissemination of une- Tl informntion among the musses by means of cheap publications, In the full of 1827, Mr, Juight beeamo connectod with this Soclety, and through tho associntion flmukly rogained hls pluco us o publisher in Pail Mall Enst, und big Tovmor prospority. It would bo todious to anu- wmorato hero tho various literary entorprises which waro catried ton successiul conolusion during the twonty yeurs in whioh he labored Lo promute tho ends of the Ukeful Knowlodge So- cioty. Lo most valuubla of thom all wore the Trenny Magazine wnd tho Fenny -Cyclupedia, Tho tirst o thioye wus n ponny wooelkly shoot, . prepurcd with care, and publishicd with os mueh neatuess &g tho prico would pormit. The issuo wan begun in 1892, and coutinued uulil 1815, 'ho enie of the Magazine, at the eud of a few Junouth, reached 200,000 copioa, Cironlating among the poor and working olnseos, to whom common books and periodicals were inuccessible, ity educational intluenco was beyond vonmiputa- I Yhe Fenny Cyclopedia yan from 1834 to 1844, 1t~ was origioally issued weokly, und on- joyod a nule of 75,000 copion ; but, at. this rate of priblication, it would have requived thirty-soven years to comploto the work, Aftor the fiimt yoar, thorefore, tho 1ate of fesuo wus doubled, and, in consequence, tho sale droppod to 44,000, At the ond of tho fourth year tho lwsuo wus quadrupled, and the ecivenlation was reduced to 20,000, at which figmeo it stendily remained to-the finul jusup. Upon its completion, the exponso of pub- lishing tho Cyelopedia hnd oxcoeded tho Income by 440,788, ’I'h{n loss Blr, Kmght sustaiued uione aud volunturily, The work was not a com- pilation, but was the original production_of noarly 200 contributors, In aftor yeurs Mr. Koight caused It to bo wmended aud elaborated, and under his own namo it now stands arcong tho most complote and nblo works of _ita luin.d, Among the Intor works of Mr. Knight, ‘by which 08 writor aud publishor Lo obtainod the cordial and gratoful rocoguition of scholars, are * Half-Hours with tho Bost Authora™ (4 yoluwmes, 1847-1848); * Tho Piotorial SBhaksponro,” \vith a * Blography,” and a *¢ Wistory of Opinion with Doubttul Plays" (8 volumos, 1880-1841-'7) ; aiud “Tho Popular Ilistory of England" ?Bfifl« by high au- 15&2?, which has beon pronounco: thorities the best history of England which we ponuoss, Although Mr, Knight had rotired from sctlve businos somo yoara bofore his denth, ho contin- ued to tho Inat diligontly ongaged in tho labors of authorship, Ho hnd, nontly finishod his 7dth flunr when ho wrote, in 1806, the finnl pagos of is autoblography, ‘¢ alf-Houra with the Bost Lottor-Writors and Autoblographers,” ** Shad- owa of tho Old Booksollers,” and tho historical romance, ** Beggod at Court,” wora composed in the following throo yenrs, His carcor na editor was continued still lator ; but his failing powers now admonisbied him that his working-days were noarly ovor. His last literary sorvics was per~ formed upon the volumes of the Brilish Almanac and tho Companton for 1869. Tho 0th of March, 1879, his life camo gently to ita closo ; whilo bis wife, tho loved companion of fln.y-mfiht yoars, and his cherlshod daughters, watched tonderly by lils pillow. Thoro was much in the lifo-work of Mr. Kuight that was identienl with that of tho Cham- bors brothers. Ho in London, and thoy in Bdin- burg, wors tailing for the samo onds,—tho dilfu- slou of knowledgo smong the working clusses, and throughrouch the sama inatrumoatalitios, The Chambers' Edinburg Journaly o weckly shoot at 8 hndf-ponce, wne “ostablishod but six woeks beforo tho, publieation of tho FPanny Magazine. Chambers' Encyclopedia was bogun in 1859, and cortivued untilits completion in ten volumes in 1808. 1ts objoct was, like the Penny Cyclopedia, to benoefit the people, nnd, boing less oxtonsivo, 1t was afforded choapor., Mr, Kiight did not rise from » condition of abject poaury to aqoumon of influorrco and usofulnoss by un- aldod nnd oxtraordivary exertion, as dil tho Chambers brothers; but, sctuated by the vame humaue desire to improve hte raco, ho gave, ke thom, his means aud bis encrglos to the canso of “ muking knowledgo a common pousession in- stoad of an oxolusive privilege." " Like them he will ba romombered as a benefactor by tho hum- ble rerdors of Great Britnin, and by the refined and scholarly 23 & man of tafont, ontorpriso, aud ntegrity, ',l‘fiu ‘{pnnungnn " comprisod in the book beforia us havo been solectod from the originnl threo- volumed cdltion(Y\lbllshud In England, Enough hiae boen 1otuined in thelr presont condensed form to satisfy the curiosity and sustaln tho in- torest of tho American reader. Tho history of Mr. Knight's careor a8 & publishor and man of letters necossarily includes anccdotos and romi- niscencos of many distingnished mon of In- gland, - But little sccount 18 givon of his social life, yet ho was brought {oto pleasant and friond- 1y business-relations with a large circle of"the loading spirits of Loudon. Lulling into his company at auy timo, wo immediately onter iuto the Bocloty of other active aud osrneat intollects ; and, when wa take our leave of him and thom, wo feel that it has been gqod for us to dwoll, foi* even n few bricf momonts, with people of such oxalted aims and character. The Europenn Tour of o Dright Woman, PATHS; on, A Woxaw's VacatioN. By LLA W, TROMPEON, 13m0, DP. 27d. Now Leo & Bhopard, Though ono has beon nourishod on & diat of iravolors' note-books from the days since ho was first ablo to spell in his primor, ono will slt down to this little volume with the heartiost rel- ish, it is so racy, and spicy, and well-flavored, Its suthoris ono of tho cleverest and wittiost. womea in Boston ; and, moreover, I8 one of thoso, na sle horsolf confesses, ** who would rather havoan Indla shawlany day than tha suffrago.” There may not bo sny visible con~ noction botween tho two facts in the more state- mont, but there is a vory close union sustained in ber volume, Shrowd and sharp-witted as only & bright woman can be, viowing with a lynx's oyo all that is best worth secing in Burope, snd puesing tho koenest, subtlost judgmonts on everybody and everything, she is still the wom- anliost little woman that evor swore foalty to her own sox and—the other, Joining her “ Euro- pean fortunes, for better or worao, to six othor anxious but no longer aimless women,"” sho dnuntlessly crossed the Atlantie, and trod the *“ beaton paths " of CGreat Britaln and the Con- tinont to ox.ollent purpose, Her littlo record of tho tour is ns chock-full of informntion as & guide-book, and has what n guide-book nover boasted, a sprighly anocdote BEATEN Mre, or a humorsome comment packod in every crovice and cranuy. In short, it 13 the stookicst littlo portfolio that over closed on a traveler's pon- skotchos. Sho wonl whers evervbody else goes, but sbo by nomesns did, aund heard, and saw just what oversbody clso doos. Slie had ways all Lier own of usiog ber souscs, and the * cutest” Yankeo faculty of describing tho noveltics that impreesod them, 1t i infinitoly diverting to go along with her, for she novor drags, or tires, or gots stupid ; and bor fresh, lively spirit invosts tho most hacknoyed scencs with a new interest. We muako room for a fow oxtracts from her pages, which will show, botter than o multitude of our words, how piquant and decided an indi- viduality she hag: ¥ A Lombardy poplar {s just o wood-cut of an clderly spinater of tho ecrawny type, holding up her skirts and pleking bor way over the puddies on & wet day,— o trea nipped In the bud; reliictant to give shado, llke a character frozen by early noglect, 1f men lind in- ventod trues, their Aret atiompt must Lave looked Uik » poplar, ¥ Many reanons hava been givon for tho fall of Napo- Ieon; only this one in dearto me,—* a poor thing, ar, but mine own ; Ho compussod throng easily enongh Dut had not eyes to sea the power that isatways bebind it, ' Through Iife he needlessly nnd wantonly uffronted thio self-love of womon, e found feult with the dressca of the ladics of his Court,—an inault that some women taka more to heart than a slur on their beauty or ruputation, I drove way Madamo do Staol whiew sho would hiave adored lim, and #o socured &u enomy alwuys fightiug under cover, Ho outraged tho whola sex by divoreing Josophinie s and, when ho muriod n Princoss of the Iottso of Austriny counting on her ine fluence with her father, the simplest of womon could have fold him it would e uscless when shio Lind & step= mother, And ho sulfered Marla Louia to affond that stepmother by outslinmg her in diamonds aud other mugniticence, when he Leld @ roview of royalty ut Dresden, Only the dny beforo our vialt, the Dad Step hnd ita Iatesl tragedy, with a comifo odge to it, a8 most trage~ Qies have, In the pouring rain, n patty loft the hotol at Chawoun(x for the Mer de Glace, and, coming up on tho olierslde, took tis Bad Slep first. The aweat- est of littls old lndies, & mero dot of &' woman, with Lier doctor of -llvinity, ‘wero smong thom, and weat on ovor tho slippory rock, made doubly dangerous by the Tain, because, onco started, fliero was no turning LacK, Sho dragged the pounds on pounds of wet water-proof cloth clinging about lor feet ta tho littlo oasls whora peopls reat and gird up their lolns Leforo crossing tho ico. Ilera abo throw hersolf prone on the ground, and wa tili ag an ink-blot, When the others starled, her husbaud tried to_rouse hor, * No," sho sald: o you muy all goon, I want nofhing. T will die Tere!” It was tlie caimness of dospatr, YWomen often threnton, fu cartain contingoncics, to % gie up but the thing 18 Tnre asanow in Augnst, When it hup- pels, o fatnily-mychins slops, aud desnorato reme; dien are applied, This woman did tho thing without tho threat,—ulso & rare thing for ber sox; and won ever doctor of divinity in such a plight bofore? He nd lived with Ror forty yewrs, and sho bud tho power to surprleo - him, He hul meen her enduro of wanilng eickuess i Lo lud seen Ler 8o down into tho Valloy of the Shadow of Death, and como back emilling with & baby in hor arms ; but now at Iast aho had *“ glven up,” o offered to carry Lor down the Tocks aud acrosm the lce,—ho who had como abroad for hfu Lealth ; but eho buwered him only, “ Go with l}l.ll rest, I'will dio hore!" like the retrain of a dirge. "Tho Dactor must have scolded ut thfa polnt, 40 ho wore 3ot more than mortal ; but {t did no good, and finally ho wrapped the mantle of his thoughts about bim, and sat down in tho rain to meditate & now chapler on tho womnn-quostion, -The other peopls went on, and tho two kept solitaty watcl on the Mo di Gince, like tho two gray-liesded saglos in an oyHo, At the end of a silent bnif-hour, in which the dostor dis- cavered what very hurd-workiug pooplo thows aro wito # ouly stand aud walt," sho roso up, ‘watked over the {co, mounted her mule, and rogafned the hotel, Bhe tind broken the malu=kpring of hopo, aud it tovk Na turo Just Balf an hour {o moud it, Nothing demonstrates the auporlor strength of tue femnly budy over that of mun (lowover much 1t ay impign Ler sowmoi ueiie) i 10 ieo woniti wrapped I honvy aid aliuglug akirts do ensily wiu, men fiud difcult withont thut drawback, A woman ' givos thew aoveral pofuits n thie mattor of clothos, and ofton winu attor all, They [Aino mnturo inafdous on ‘shipboard, who had choweis celibacynk tha better part] iy wnmoved t their beds whon » groat wave passod dowst throngh the sky- lights fnto tho alate-rooins, snd et _ovorylody's booti atioat ke a fleot of bouts, Nelther did thoy soroam whett the futlicr of all raty wulked down tho piassugo 10 aea what liad happened, It wus a positive comfort tu Year tho sheill yolca of tho old-fashoned sort of woman, erying out for Lor shoes, **0, wouro all_golng to tho hatiom~—give no my shoos—1 must buve my slios I'— and tho grave volco of her hushand replylug, * Is- bolla, recollcct youraelf | Peoplo who ate goluit to tia hotton liava 10 nead of slioes,” In the bereftor, whon ourchlldreu yo sbroad wnd’ the walers overivhelm thiem, it will Lo the womau who will turn otit to rescue i Hatiayg sliogs, and culmily sdvise Uor Miwbuad to recolloct himselt, 1t noeded an fron dospotlsm to produce pomothing which should mesn maro than wpeech, and yet never Yo tald sguin, and the French shrig ia'the result ; tho Bastile and tize guiliotiue were e godfathers, Aineris ‘THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1874. :“l will novor import it, bocause thoy havo no need Wo (Irove one dny through tho" ¢ wonden,o aald. Jiino, IE {onte. . onough, without potiug it on a atreot-cornor, The Cnivinistic Fotic) FRTTOH IN THEOLOGY; on, DooTiunatisy Twiw 70 Nrruariss, By Jusix Minten, Princoton, N, J. 19mo,, pp. 201, Now York : Dodd & Mond, Had Mr. Millor but studied his mothor-tonguo ns ho han theology during tho past thirty yoars, o would have boon able to composo this book of hiy in tho simplo, intolligible Engliah which ia unlvoreally used and undorstood in his native country. Asitis, ho hns written it in » dialoct which is almost as foroign and puzzling as the language of Chaucor. It ia ourious thet ono whoso businoss it is fo toach and to pronach, should not, in tho buginning, havo ~ mas- tored tho vyornacular by which he must convoy his fideas to puplls and honrers, 1t is hiard onough, when worda are cloarst, to comprehond tho dogmns of thoology, with thele fino distinctions and myaterious sbatractions; but, when they aro oxpressed in n jargon as differont from puro English as provincial Ficonoh is from tho Darisian, tho difioulty is rendered woll-nigh insurmountoblo, It is the moro a pity in tho presont caso, bocauso, if Mr. Miller woro to sponk luoidly, wo are sure ho would prove n formidablo antagonist to the skillful polemio, Dr, odgo, From \hiat wo aro ablo now, at tho expenso ot somo pains, to intorprot, Mr. Millor has dis- coverod many o vulnerable spot in the argument of tho great theologian of Princeton. If o wore. -only nble, by moans of straightforward specol, to exposo thoso woak and unsound places in & bold light, thon woro a good work necomplishod in rid~ ding Calvinism of suporstition, Mr. Millor unitos good-nature to bravery. It roquires uaum‘(a—and he o Princoton Prosbyterian, too— to toll Dr. Hodge to his faco that thoro is fdolutry In his roligion; that he has mado a. fotich of his God, and bis Bible, and his Chural, aud of ropentance, prayer, almsgiving, l)mlwh- Ing, and fuith. Tl pinin ‘sseortion, with o fair aupport of proof, must make the good Doctor squirm,- But 3r, Miller is portectly suave and courteous while impaling bis viotim, Hosmiles. benignly throughout the oparation, Mr, stillor may be called the Dr. Bwing of Princoton, His roligion sooms to boar tho re~ Intion to Dr. Hodgo's theology that Dr, Swing's faith docs to Dr, Patton's, Thero is tho samo rational sense and, nbove all, the same Divine chavity, in it. As we Lave snid above, if Lie woro but s minstor of the art of plain writing, the ma~ Jority of the public would take great plossure in roeding Lim, Charles Sumner. LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVIOES OF OHARL SUMNER. iy O, Eowanos Leston, auihor of “Glory ntid Bhama of England, " ctc. 8 vo,, pp. 690, New York: United States Dublishing Compuny. This'volume has followed too soon upon the donth of tho grent Massachusctts Senator to be. tho full and finished memorial of him which his. frionds and tho nation will domand. It is pre- pared in the intoroats of the subscription-trade, aud writton tosell rather than to do adequates Justico to the memory of ono of thobrayest men, novlest patriots, and ablest statosmen, who have. yot rinon up to defend and chorish the country that has given thom birth, Tho author was jn- dood » personal acquaintance and admirer of' Alr. Sumner, and hag had some Hmvlaus practice in book-making ; but these qualifications are not. sufiiciont to constitute bim the proper historian of & wan who bag long stood among the fore- moet in the American Republic. = To some ono of the many men of ripe culture who haye grown up with bim in his native city, who ara intinate- ly familiar with the institutions of Massnchusetts and with the privato a8 well as public caroor of Sumuer, the duty should be assigned of correot- ing aud completaly portraving his charactor and courso of action, for tho beneflt of his country- men, Meanwhile, the skotoh here presonted is not dostitute of advantages, 1t offers in a cohorent form an outline of tho publio hfa and services of Bumner, Thora iy little ndded to the kuowl- edgo wlnch an 1utelligont reading of the news- papors has already impnrted, but it is something to have that knowledge at hand compactly ar- rangad for roforonco orroviow. A fino steel por- trait adorns the volume, which isin evory respoce. tastolully published, —_— Constitutional Limitations. A TREATISE ON 'THE CONSTITUTIONAL LIMIT- ATIONS WHICH REST ON THE LEGI TIVE POWER OF THE STATES OF THE AMERICAN UNION, Dy Troas 3L, CooLey, LL. D., ono of the Justices of thoe Supreme Court of Michigun, und Jay Professor of Law in tho Uni- vorsity of Michigan, Third Editfon, with Consldera- Dlu Additious,Giving the Tlesults of the Recent Cases, 8o, pp. 837, Boston : Little, Brown & Co. Tho first edition of this work immediately placed its author in tho foremost rank of Amori- can logal writors,—on,a lovel with Kent, Story, and Groenleaf, The Constitutionsl Limitations won its way till it was rocognized as the stand- ard work on American constitutional law, equal al lenst to thoso of Story and Smith iu authority, and suporior to thom in that it embodied tho results of tho latost decisions on tho subjeot. In the most recont decisions on constitutional questions thero haa been froquent reforence Dy the Judges to Judge Cooley's book, nnd it is aliwaye meutionod with the highes; rospoat. Tho valuo of s lnw-book lies in tho correctness of tho principles it enunciatos; in the fullness of of tharoferonces totho judicial decisions on which theso principles roat; in tho non-omission of any- thing essential to an oxhaustivetreatment of the wubjoct. In all theso rospeots Judgo Cooley's book is a model, A glanceat the contonts ja suflicient to show how complote the work is, he styla is clear and coucise, The Eternal City. ROME AS JT IS, BriNg REMINISENOES OF A VISIT TO i UIrY oF THE CESALS, BMr: R, BcorT, ,5 % Glimpses of Life in Afriea,”” With Illustrations, 12mo,, pp. 201, Phaadelphia: J, B, Lippincott & Co, The above i8 a readablo transcript of travel, and, to thoso whonro not familiar with the trons- uros of Rome, will have sowo value, It doesnot supply any particular want, s the author, in her preface, oxpressos the hopo that it may, Too many ample and ablo volumea have been dovoted to the Eternal City to leave much need of . any- thing furthor boing wriiten, unloss it bo by somo inspired "pou that com give a welcome froshness or brilliancy to facts already imparted. Jlrs. Scott has houestly strivon to muke hor hook of servico a8 & guido to the travaler, or us a teachor to thoso who must atay at home, Ior talent for selectivg and arrauging mattors worth recordiug iv not conspicuous, but-sho haa sonia faculty for narration, and her earnest dosire to be usoful is at lonst concitiatory, Tho book is illustrated with a profusion of gaod engravings. Tho Domestic folutions. A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF THI: DOMESTIC TELATIONS : ENUBACING HUSNAND AND Wive, LARENT AND CHILD, UUARDIAN AND WALD, INEAN~ OY, AND MASTER AND SERVANT, ASEH BOIOU- | LR, Author of A 'Freatise on the Luw of Peruonal Properiy.” Second Edition, 8vo,, pp. 710, Bos- ton s Litilo, Brown & Co, The socond odition of this worlk presents the Iaw to tho profession as it stands at proont. It has been revisoed in the light of the late discus- sions on tho subject of which it treats, Tho lute casos have been assimilated with tho text, a8 well as with the foot-notes, to the number of about 1,000, ‘Fhis, a8 overy lawyer knows, muat have involved an ummense amount of Inbor on the part of the nuthar. It is lubor, howovor, for which the profossion will bo gratetul, Iooks Kecolveds AMERIOAN PIONEERS AND PATRIOTS, Davip Cnooxyre: His LIFEAND ADVENTUREH, By Jonx 8 O Awora. 13mioq 1. 80, New Yorks Doud i cud, WONDROUB RTRANGE: A Novern. By M, C, J, Newny, Author of Kata Kennedy," eto,, oto. Taper, ' Philadelpbla : T3, Poterson & Dros, UISFORY OF B CONQUEST OF PERU: Witk PRELIMINARY VIEW OF TiE CIVILIZATION OF THE Inoas, By WiLtiam 1L, Inzscotr, Noew snd He- vined Edition, Fdited by Joun Fosten K. In Two Volumos; Vol, 1T, 19mo,, pp, 630, Philadel~ plin 3 J, I, Lipplucott & Co, L GODOLPHIN, Ly Sir Epwanp BuLwen LYrrow, Dart, 14malpp, 410, Fulludelphia:” 3, B, Lippiu® cot PAUL OLIFFORD, By Sir Epwanp Dunwes Lxt- TON, Lart, 14mo,, pp. 853, Philadelphin: 3, 1, Tdppincott & Co, e ) Autogruph Lovo=Lotters. A ourfous kalo of autograph_love-locters - took Inco lately in Parls tn’ (ho Rue dos Hons rP“ mnts, Thoro woro lotiors from Mme, du Pdra- bore, Mmo, do_Chateauroux, Mmo. do Pompa-~ dour, Mmo. do In Popelinlero, and othors, Not n foy of thoso amutory oftusions woro nddressod to tho all-conquering Duo de Richoliou, and thero was hardly ono froo from tho most aston- Ishing faults of grammar aud speliing, the falr autbors apparontly having as lotty a contempt for the 1aws of orthography ay for the code of morals, ‘Tho lattors—~prolably on account-of tholr contonta-uold vory woll, 0ro, o Eve 2' “No,” “snlil 8t Uraula, Wo all 'ru.a Evo tho’l‘\‘l SPARKS OF SCIENCE. PIRCIOULTUNN IN MIOHIGAN, BIr. N. W. Olnrk, the Miohigan plscloulturist, placed, lnst Novembor, in tho State hatching- ‘boxos, 1,800,000 oggs of tho whitoflsh. Ninety por_ cont of thoso wore hatohod. Binco March 23, ho has distributed 1,600,000 young whitoflah in'104 Iakos and rivors in M{ohigan. CIROULAR BAWS, 5 The smallest ciroular sawa in use are those employod in tho manufacture of gold-pons, and are n half-inoh in diameter, It Is snid that some of tho anrcophagl of anclont Egypt besr the marls of baving besn bollowed ~out with tools of the'crown or oylindor saw order, TRANBFUSION OF DLOOD, It in stated in tho Droaden papera that, rovon- toon different timos in tho past year, the oxpori- ment of infusing Inmb's blood into the human subjeot hins been successfully’ performed in tho hospitals of that oity. In the firat case, tho pn- tiout had long suffered from pulmonary disonse, and the immedinte offcot of the operation wauto raiso the pulso and impert an incrensed onsa of strength. SQUIRRELD IN A HOLLOW TREE. A correapondont of JMHardwicke's Sclence- Gossip atatos that o hollow treo was cut down in Kont, last Fobruary, when out tumbled upwards of thirty squirrels, most of whioh woro dormant orin o stato of somi-sleop, On boing roused, thoy disporsed to varlous parts of the copeo, Tnoy hnd etored nlarge stook of nuts in tho hollow, It i common to find squirrels (hus stowed away for tho wintor, but not oftonin stich numbora togethor. , PHOTOGRAPNING ON HILK. - Bilk thoroughly fmpregnated with the bichro- mato of potash proseuts a very sensitive photo- graphio surfaco, Thus propared, any shapes cut out of tin and Iaid upon it may bo boautifully imprinted by the sun, and in tints, according to the color of the silk. A white on & vory light #ilk shows a dalicato palo-red improssion ; a rod- diah tiat takos s still deeper shade of red in the pattorn, ote, Toro-lenves, arranged to auit the tnate, and keopt flut by n shoct of glass, can be imprinted in tho samo way, CELERY, Colory, in Its wild state, is found in Britaln and {n most countrics of Europo. Itis a'cosrse, rank woed, with a penetrating, offonsivo odor, o bitterieh, ncrid taste, and nlmost polsonous quali- tion, Itgrows slong ditohes and in wet pluces, attainlug a hiolght of about 2 feot, It s com- monly called smallage, or smollago, and bolongs to the gonus Apium, of the ordor Umbolliforio. By cultivation this ugly weed undergoos n mar- velous transformation, and becomes n delicious adible, with & plonsantly-swootish nnd aromatic flavor, and a dolicate texture, A species of the Apium grows abundantly on tho shiors of Cape Horn, and on Staton Island, Itis a large and luxuriaut plant, and is nearly as wholesome and eslatable in its wild state a4 “tho gardon-colery. PRESERVATION OF IHOTOGRAPNS, A slmple juvention for tho proservation of oards, photographs, ete., from injury by mois- turo or dirt, consists of proparation of gutiu- porcha in solution. Tho liquid is thrown, in a very flue spray, over the article, by an atomizer, Whon the liquid Las in part evaporated, which it #oon dogs, 1L leavas tho object conted over with & thin, transluscont film, impervious to water. Tho gutta-poroha should firat bo purified, and 1t then 1s soluble in chloroform or ether. Tho pro- coss of dissolving the gum is in itself purifying. A drawing or photograph prote-ted by this™ Al can ba washed \\‘151 safoty, Tho proparation softons at & temperature of 160 dog. Falr. : but to this only a rare accideut would subjoot it. BTRENQGTI OF BTONES. Experimonts in order to test tho strength of etones to resist comprosaion, has been made by Pplacing a cubio fuch of each between two steal plates, and charging it with Incroasing weight until it is orushed. For convenience sake, Lhis woight {s applied by means of n lever, so as to obviate the uecossity of actually hondling the hundrods and thousauds pounds required,—one or more sliding welghts on astrong bcam beiug sufticiont. Tho rcsuits of this experiment, as glvon by nn_oxchange, are copied in the follow- ing tablo. Tho number of pounds notad is that which tho subtance will bear without crushing: Tuferior pale brie Comtuon gold b ‘Preased Philadelpii broK, . Notv Englaud graulito, . Ttalisu marblo,, A PETRIFIED TODY. The remnins of & woman, which had reposed in agmvein the cemetery near Wheeling, W. Va.,.for six or eight yeurs, woro rocently disin- torred in order to romove tham to another place, Much diftidulty was oxperionced in ralsing thom, tho woight was 8o excessive. Ou opening the coffin the body was found, from the neck to the fent, tobea perfect specimen of peirifnction. Thoe form was full and sound; the fect, which woro iucased 1n gaiters, filled thom as complately 8a o living subjoct, aud tho hands and urms wera plump aud bard as a rock. The' clothing wus in an excellont state of proservation,—tho fabric proviug, when tested, to bo quite strong. Tho head, however, bad sufTered the dncug incident to tho period of timo it had Inin fu the ground. None of the bodies which rostod in close prox- fmity to this had undorgono a similar chango. PRIZES FOR INVENTIONS, Tor tho encouragoment of inventors, tho va- rious sclentific socioties of Turope offor & largo number of prizes for cortain practical improve- ments, Awmong those may be mentioned a rendy means of reproducing designs by artists, ag sur- face-blocks, possessing sulliciont relief to admit of their being worked at the steam-pross sbarply and without blur; au economical aud permanent means of telographing through uninsulated wires, botwoen places not less than 1,000 milos apart; an improved diving-npparatus, in which divers may work free fiom the inconvenienco of grent prossuro, and at groator depths than by the use of the diving-boll, holmet, or othor existing applisncer ; plans for the construotion of an offi- ciont and soaworthy vessel,—ono that, whon por- foratod oithor by shot or adcldout, and filled with wator, will in part maintam her floating power; and eu electric condenser, which shall combine high capacity with small bulk and emall residual charge. AN UNFORTUNATE ISLAND Sumo months ago, tho littlo Island of Niceros, iuthe Grociau Archipelago, wns shakou by n Rorios of earthquakes, which did much damags, and culminated in the Lurating of the Lighest peak on tho island, and tho digcharge of o flood of stoam and boiling water, which throatened Lo inuudate the wholo islaud and destroy every liv- ing thingon it. 'The mountsin, however, sud- denly coasod to boil over, aud it was hopod for o time thero would be no recurrence of the un- plossant plionomons, But, tho other day, tho mountaiu resumed its horrid belchings, emisting such volumes of scalding water that oxistonco on the island has become nlmoat {ntolerable, The ground is convulicd with earthquakes, and tho poople have takon to tho open flelds, whoro thoy aro sufer thay in thelr tottoring homos, A scar- cily of provisions 1 ndded to thoir other trou- bles ; and, without houses, without food, and n monster in view porpnumllyfiourmg out stresms of bailing water, menucing thom with o horiible dunth, ther condition is by no menns ouviable, TET SPIDEDS, A writer in the American Nafuralist glven an intereating acnount of iy oxperionge in tnming n pair of spidors, of , the gonus Lycosa, Thoxa spiders never bld a web, but wander for their proy, hidiug under stones, or burrowing in the ground, Thoy are large and stout, and covered with hair; and eomo of thom, as the tarantula, aro formidable {ngeols indeed, The pair in quou- tlon were donfiued In o elgar-box, vovered with o pane of glaes, through which their procecdings wero watohod. Spiders do not ordinnrily mani- fost soeial qualities; but thoso, aftor tholr firut foar of onch othor Was ovorcoms, bocame oxceed- ingly friendly. In the heginniug of their ac- uaintanco, both were timid and shy¢ but, in am course of n weok, they had ostablished » mout amicablo intlmacy. Phey would chasu oach othor about the box,~frst one, aud thon tho othor, boiug the pursugr, ‘They would meot togother in & mimie biattle, rearing on their hind logs, with the foro legs of each resting on the other's hoad and body, and distending thoir jaws, seeming on diro mikchiof futent. And, after n momeut's harmless encounter, they would drop their foot aguin, and run awuy from each othor, like a gouple of playful kittons, The ouly time they oxhibited absolute fll- tomper was whou thelr daily draft of water way given them, In thoir eagorneas to quench thuie thirst, thoy would ofton crowd ang josile ench mm»:, and then ono would, like enough, twrn my and drivo the othor sway, Their owner supplled them with wator’ by means of & Whalebone fringod lnto n brush at ono ond, This wonld lold n drop or two, After tho fitst two or throo {imes of drinking from this fountain, thospidors would run for it the Instant it was Intioduced lnto the box, and, rialng on tholr hind legs, rest- ing thoir fore legy on tha whalobone, thoy would suck it dry, Spidors nre uu{mound cnpablo of enduring long fasts from food and drink ; but, in thin instance, they worn nlwaya ready to siake thoir thirat at loast once » d"(i' Thoy wore amply suppliod with flion, which thoy wonld aapture somothing a8 n cat cntchos n bird. Thoy would creep to within an inch of tholr viotim; then, standing motionloss a mo- mont, throw tho body forward the lougth of the hind loge, which would romnin fixed. - Thoy sol~ dom missed on the firat effort ; but, If thoy did, they would repont the nttempt until successful, Aftor oating, thoy would clean themsolyos off ith gront proolsion, first hrushing oft the hoay with the legs, and then the logs with tho jaws and palph, ~ Whon all was dono, the minute honp of dirt which thoy had neccumulatod in front of them would be pushed sway with the fore-logs, On ono ocension, & common house-spider was put in tho box with them. It wae much smnller than thay, yot they wore grently afrald of i, {mnmug 08 far from it an possible. In the night, ho house-apider apun & web covoring most o the box. Noxt morning they wero found in one ,corner, complotely cowed. On romoving the house-spider, they recovored their spirits, and wera as lively as over, Enrth was !lmvmed for them in which to butrow and bido, if thoy chono, But civilization had probably deranged their natural inetincts ; for, thougl they dug holos in it, they wora irrogulntly constructod, and woro uover used for purpones of concoalment, THE PLANT-LOUBE. The tiny, groen louse (aphis) which is tho nni- vorenl post of vegotation, thriving in somo part of the root, stom, or lonf, of nlmost every living plant, {8 onoof tho most oxtraordinary of in- soote. Itlsn minute little croature, but mnkos up in numbors what it lacks in size. It mnakes its appearauco with tho first lonf that expandein tho spring, aud continucs its depredntions untit overy greon thing las porished in tho autumn, The firat broods of the season, that are batched from eggs devosited tho provious fail, consist, without o single oxcoption, of fomales. Theso vory soon give birth to a sccond brood, which are not Lintched from oggs, but produced alive, and are nlso oxclusively comporod of fomnles. Bonnet, o famous naturalist of the oighteonth contury, who made the apbides & special object or study, obsorved that onch virgin plant-lonse brings forth, on an avorago, about' 100 young,—becom- ing the mothor of, perhaps, fiftecn ortwenty ina plugle duy, This remnrkable kind of propagn- tion continues through nino gonorations, among which not a malo apbis is croated. Calculating tho rato at which tho spinster aphides multiply, wo havoe, at the end of ton broods, as tha” progony of n singlo louse, 1,000,000,000,000 young. = Prof. Huxloy snys, in commenting on this fack: ** I will assumo that au aphis woighs tho ono-thousnndth of n grain, which {8 under the mark. A quintillion will, on this estimate, woigh n quadrillion of grains, 'Ho is & vory stout man who weighs 2,000,000 grains ; consequeutly the tenth brood alone, if all the members survive tho perls ' to which thoy are exposed, contains mors sub- stauce than 500,000,000 stout men, to sny thelenst,—more than the whola population of China.” 'This cstimnto is based on' tho supposi- tion that the ontiro progeny of the plant-louse survives,—n cireumntance which in renlity never oceurs, Only & pair or two of plant-lice, out of the enormous number produced in tho courss of ponorations by ench individualof the first brood, is found an the end of the monson to have sur- vived tho vicissitndes to which thoy are exposed. The last brood brought forth ju the autumn comprises buth males and females, which in duo timo oro provided with winge, and pair, 'Tho fomales thon doposit their eggs, and, with the donth of themsolves and their mates, tho race bocomes extinct for tho senson. As 8oon as the aphides are usheraed Into being, thoy plunge their beak into tho leat or twig on which_they crowd, and there romsin through their lives, loading a purely gluttonous exist- onco. When disturbed, they kick and sprawl abont in n_most ludicrous way. Somo timea thoy will suspond themsolves by their boaks, and toss their logs about as if in s high Tiolic ; but thoy take caro to continuo suckingall tne whilo. In order that they may eat without coasing, and yet never gorgo thomselves, they aro Erovldurl with two littlo tubes on tho end of the bodv, thronugh which the superabundant flnid they have taken in s discharged. In its pas- sngo throngh tho body it is turned into n sweot liquor, which, flowing from tha tubes drop by drop, is called'honey-dow. 1t is often so abund- ant o to cover ontirely tha leaves of tho plant on which the lico foed.” Occasionally it solidifles into g solid white sugar. Ants aro very fond of this enccharine fluid, and sumo specios chiofly subsist ou it. Hence the aphis hps boen called tho ant's milch-cow, The Iindliost rolation seoms to subsist Dbotween tho two. The satems of plauts infeated with aphidea may bo seen coy- ored with loan and_hungry ants nsconding to make their hive, and with stout, full-bodied snts roturning, whoso sides are distorted with the swoot liquid they hiave swallowed. Tho visita of tho ants give the apbidos no annoyance. On tho contrary, thoy will ofton distill the fluid frpm their tubes in rosponse to a caremsing touch from tho antennio of thoir curlous friends. A singlo Toneo has baen known to give off drop after drop to succoasive auts, which wore waiting anxionsty to reccive it. In return, the ants carefully ro- ‘movs all dirt or rubbish from the aphides, and protect them from their cuemios, especinlly the ichuouman flies, which are perpotually hovering llbuut to doposit thoir eggy in thojbodios of the ico, Somo ants tranafer tho aphides to their nosts, where they chorish thew with care, in ordor that thoy may Lavo at hand s constant supply of their coveted food. Lhe nphides which live upon the roots of plants aro attonded by anty, Which build their neats in’ the immediato vicinity, and talto tho same care of their greon protoges ns of thoir own offupring. Wheu the aphides aro dis- turbod, the ants betray tho utmost alarm, snd, catehing thom up In their jaws, convey them to the most Becrot recosses of their nosts. It stated that, when tho root-lico havo exhausted a plaut on whicli they have lived, tho nuts will cm'n{:l them to now pastures; aund that they wateh with solicitude over the eggs of the loo,— in flne wonther bringmg them up to the surface to givo thom tho advautago of tho sun. It is a curlous relation oxisting botween two difforont specios of iuscots,—ono of tho wonders thut abound in the animal world. & A SONG OF THREE WORDS. - Oraro, Lnborary, et antare. Thres bifsaCul words I name to thes, hires words of potetst clurni, From eatlug care thy hoart to fre “Thy lifo to #hiold from harm, ‘Whaoso these bllssful words m:\?‘ know, A Lold, blithe-fronted fuce shall aliow, And, ahod with peace, shall safely go “Llirough war ni wild alurm, First, ero thy forward faot thow move, Audl wield thy arm of might, Lift up thine hoart to Mim sho “That oil thy ways Do right, To the prime sourca of life and power Lot Ih{ soul riso, uven as a flowor hat skywnrd clfmby {n sunny hour, ‘And soek the genial light, Thon gird thy lofns to mauly toll, Aud'tn the toil have joy ; Greot hatdebip with o wiiliog smilo, And lovs the stor employ, Thy glory thia tho Larsh to tamo, And ly wiko ntroko und tochnis flame, 1n God-liko Labor's fruitful numo, 01 Chuos to destroy. Thou, mid thy worksliop's dusty din, Whoro Titant stenm hath swiy, - Oroou to lhf‘lel! o koog within, Or pour the lusty lny'; Fven as 3 bird that cheerly singa i uurrow cage, NOF frota its wings, DBut with full-breastod Joyuuce Hiugs 1ta suul {uto the day, For Jofty things let othora strive Wil foll of vanutful drum ; Teop thou thy heurt & Lonoyed hive, Liko boe with buey hum, Quane not the bllus with wishful eyes “Thiat ever lurca und ovor fHes, But fu the present Joy bo wiky, And let the future como | ~Good Wards, JONN BTUART DLAORIE, ——— 3 An Ingonious Chinaman, Hromi the lielena (Hontuna) Independent, T'ho meok-ayed beathion, evon if ho does not know the name of il the different articles in o firat-olnss dry-goods store, huu n way of mahlu% Limnoll understood to the intelligont **Mellican’ anan, Yeuterdoy a Ohinaman entorod one of our dry-ggoods stores, walked up to the counter, de- positod n grassbopper theveon, saying, as ho fzed upon tho clork with u confiling look s Ho 0o muoh hoppev; wll hoppee—atop him, You anbboo?” And an the obliging olork commenced measnring off musquito-bar, the dolighted hoathen bogan humming a song of tho Ilowery Lisnd, happy in thought of lm\rliw wua going to fool the grasslioppors. ‘Thoy had beon destroying hig garden, aud wanting to purchinse some mnse quito-bar, but not knowing the namo of the articlo, he bronght tho destroyor with him—and lhudoldn-k understood In & mowent the wrtiolo needod. FAMILIAR TALK. DISHOP GRANT. It fa related of Dr. Grant, Iate Bishop of Bouthwarl, that, on the oceaslon of his entor- ing, at tho ago of 25, on lna Boorotaryahip une dor Cardinsl Acton, he ndopted the habit of kooping lis oyon down. Ho poralstontly dld he purauo tho practice that only a fow who knew him aftor that date bad an epportunity of sece ing tho only beautiful fonture of his face. Ho could, howover, rolax the guard which he rigor- ously kopt over this avonuo Lo tho senacs, whon oliarity or #omo othor emnctified motive ap- poalod to him., An instance in point is men- tioned in tho blqgnph{ racently published of him, A colloction was being made in his dio- coso for the orphany; and a charitable Indy, who was vory zoalous in tho osuso, wet him on the Atairs of 8t. Georga's one day, **My Lord,” she snld, “an cccontrio porson has promised mo .£50 towards tha collootion it your Lovdsbip will only look at me.,” “ Aud why should I net look nt yon, my dear child ?" ropliod Lho Bistiop, at once Taising his oycs o hor, with grave kindnoss, #God bloss you!" ho addod, and the orphans got their £60. d BTRAWDERRIES, Btrawberrles, that luscious frult, of which quatnt Izak Walton romarks in quotation, ‘“ Doubtlens Clod could have made a botter borry, but doubtleas Ho never did,"” is sold and sorved in o diMorent manuor in Britain from what it s o Amerion. In tho dingy old English markets, which, In the monthof July, turn poetical with ‘moss-rosebuds and searlot mountains of straw- borries," the fruit is woighed out to tho pur- chager. by tho pound, and poured into honest panor-bags, that nover, like tho box to which wo aro ocousiomed, prove = dolusion and a snaro. ‘Whon sont to the tablo, tho berrics appear in their hulls, and onch ia taken up by its stom, in tha fingors, ond soparatoly dipped in tho oroam and sugar. We profor tho American method of Borving strawborrios, rondy hullod, and emotlored in & Dblanket of noctar. Thero is o smack of tartness at tho heart of overy ono of tho acarlet globules that neads to be noutralized before tho berry in fit for tho palato. It is the delicious compound of swoet nnd sour in the rich juicos of a dish of strawberries under cream thiat constitutos its peculizrly-dolootable flavor, DRAINS V. BLOOD, Tho atngo has Intely beon tha recipiont of high honors, which will tend to olovate its social standing all over iho world. When Emperors and Autocrats set the sxamplo of payivg eourt to actors and actrosses, tho ranks below thom will not bo slow in imitating it. Tho Baroncss Edelshein Gyulay, the'wife of the Commander of the Forces In ITungary, was, bofore her mar- ringo, nu nctrees. Hor position, therefore, in tho oxclusive circlos of the Austrian Court, hos been n very trying one. No society in Europo is more haughty or intolerant of plobeian blood thnn tho aristocracy of Vionna and Posth. - Gen- ius of every sort and du§rcn Lias beon patronized by it, but nover recoguized as conferring o rank on its owner which would entitlo him to the cfi\‘meulcn of houorable alliance and companion- ship. But the Emperor of Austrin has, by an un- usual mark of distinction bestowed on” the Bar- oness Gyulay, broken through the rigid customs of courtly Bocicty, and established s new and nobla procedent. Boing present at the races at Denth, 1iis Majosty requosted Count Andrassy to conduct him to the Baroness' box, whera he ro- mained somo timo in lively conversation with her. This public act of Imperial recognition places tho lady on n level with the highest-born domo at tho “Austrian Court, Princessen will hereaftor graciously accord her a smile whom the King dolights to honor., The Austrian publio and press hnil this sct of the Emperor with hearty applause, as an onrnost that the time is near whon brain will rival blood in the proudest circles of socioty. A NEW LOCHINVAR, History continually ropoats itsolf, Ono hns but to observe thoughtfully the occurrence of events to remarle the truth of this, It is somo centuries since “Young Lochinvar” daringly stole the bride that bolonged to him from wnder tho very noso of despotic father and amorous groom, at the moment when tho ceremonial of the Church was praparing to eoparate her from liim foravar hy tho ornnlost of disponaations, A fow dnys oo, in unromantic New England, the story was re-cuacted, with the same fervor and bravery on the part of the horo, and the same constant dovotion on tho part of tho herolno, but with that doviation in attondant eciroum- stances which would necessarily ariso from the custems and appliances of a prosaic ago. The new Lochinvar was o desorving young man, who for many yoars had worshiped in secrob tho lovely girl who should bo bis wifo. Dashfulness restrainod him from pressing his snit, until a more presuming gallant had oajoled tho girl into & marringe-engagemont. Then up- rosn the spirit of tho now Lochinvar, and ho sworo ho would in, by fair mesus or foul, hor whom so long ho had dosired, Ho found op- portunity to meot her, and with the ardor of his words soon burned up hor inclinations toward anothor, and kiudled a warm flame of love for himself. 'Tho day following this clandestine in- torview, bo succeodod in surreptitiously securing her Saratoga trunk., This was nine-tonths of tho victory, for what is woman in tho nineteonth contury withopt hor wardrobe ? In tho event of o elopement, * if lady and trunlk cannot go to- fmflmr, loayo the Indy behind, by all moans. Bho s nothing if not in possossion of her paniersand chignons. In this case, it looked as {f it was to bo run- eway of the trunk, and nothing more. Tho wodding drow nosr, and the lady could find no way of oacaping unobsorved. I'inally, the very dny arrived on which lher marriage “wos fixed, Tho wulldiuf:—mmnls assombled. The bride was in whito entin, illugion, and orangoe-flowera, Oh! whero was the new Lochinvar in this desporate hour? Qutside, with a carriago-and-pair, cool, ulort, and equal 'to tho omergency. Ila couldn's leave the horses and dash in after the bride, but #ho soized & moment of confusion and fled to bis sido. Away sped tho steods to an adjoinin; villago, whera tho love-knot was hurriedly tiad, and thon tickets on the railroad to & placo of se- curity. Tho Lonoymoon was spont at Baratogn, whore the trunk, and the lady, and her lover, wore blissful in each other's society. QUAKER COSTUME, ‘The annual meoting of the Quakora closed In New York City Juno 4, after a sousion of two wooks. The convention of & large and repro- sentative body of Friends affords a favorable opportunity of noting tho changes which time s working in tha external habits of this poculiar denomination. Tho spirit of the age {s in- fluencing slowly, but surely, their dress and theirypoech ; and, in like manuer, though loss openly, the principles on which theso outward distinctions are founded. Tho men still rangs chemsolves in grave rows, under broad-brimmod hats, on one side of tho house,—banishing to the other thelr prim, drab-tiuted mates, as it they dared not trust their sauctity, in solomn mweotin' time, in near proquinity to s domure Quukor bonnet, with a sweot fommine face in- { sidoit. Itisnpititl concession to the wenk- neas of the flosh, which it is time thoy woro ashamed of. Tho Ilicksito branch of the Frionds proserve {he cuatoms of the Quakers more rigidly than do tho Orthodox, Only one minlstor of the formor sect, at the recont mooting, had assumed tho cufl and collar of worldly fashion; but tho sov- oral rows of Orthodox ministers displayed sover- al departures from the severo parb of Willlam Tenn. The long drab botmnet, the close-onfold- ing shawl, tho mualin Xerchiof crossed on the Losom,—the distinctive costume of the Quaker- outi for two conturles pnst,—is now confined al- most exclusively to the olderly mothers, Evon the middle-nged wives robo themsolves in bharmony witlh tho fnshions of tho period, Not many yeurs longer wiil tho chaste and charming pioture, in uiat colors and simple outlines, of ¥lm pretty 3m\kar malden or mother, ocour Lo rost and re- fresh the oye, fired and bowildered with popu- Inr garish modes. Tho young and intolligent members of tho donomiation prodict that, with tho presont goneration, the rule of the sovoro out and color of the Qualker garb will pags away, I'o digcovor how mich the simplicity in dress which the Friends have practiced uniformly for » couple of huudrod years has conduoed to their usofulnoss and morality, would bo a fitting ob- oot for tho lover of edolul reforms to dovoto {msolf to. “Ihero Is not an establishment in all Now York whora tho fomale Iriend ean have ber dross fit~ ted and mado in proper style, 8ho iy obliged to cut and sew all her garments at homo, "Thore {a ‘but one milliner who manufacturoa tho Qualor- bonnot. Ploin as this iy, it rm‘ulren grent skill in fts _ocoustruotion It has tho advautage of aurubility, howover,—often lasting five or wight yonrs, helped out with nun occosional fresh lining and pair of satrings, ‘Yho stuff of which the Quakerown costnme i come posed iy purchnsod ut Btowart's, or whorever olso » »aterial of right quality and oolor ean bo ob- (ained, ‘Uio mosc-froquoutod place iu a little wavp w0 Third wyonne, nonx Fifteenth atroet, A throng of ash-colored drosnon, and bonn: mnteh, crowd the store during the yoarly :::e'z? Ings, Tho morohant, taking Im(nu to koop m Aupply of auitablo goods on hand for thia qualng .class of oustomors, gova around among tho im« portors, and buya uB plain goods, Hovoral yoars l!(u ho wont to England, and laid in a'large al Mkf not yot oxhaustod,—* for dressos and shiawln desoond from ono genoration to anothor.' The pine-upple Hanmana grenndine shawls are only 435 but, bafore the Friond throws ona ovor lier shoulder, sho outs the oruamental fringo off. A Quukor women's sult, oxclusivo of furs and undomloth(ufr, conts, for oither summer or wintor, about 870, Ior wintor parb inoludos a abnwl from Manchioster, England, $131 ao i sido shawl, of droes nilk, 82; & gown bt Iriah poplin, 1 ; a shouldor-shawl' of tnw spun silk, 30; o bonnet, 88; & drosn cap of queen's blonde, fi0 conta; Aloxandres kid gloves, oue button, 81.75; shoes, alwnys buskins, $1.60; umbroll @4 or #6. Hor undorgarmonts aro guiitloss o tuck or rufilo, Hor summor-sult I8 a silk gown, $20; alllc shnwl, £30; brown or drab Inco mitts, &1; Indin Lok noclerchiof, #1; wash blondg for insido of nockerchiof, G0 conta; conts; buskin shoos, umbrells, 812 more. A NATIVE FRIEST FOR GREENLAND, Xt i budt Littlo moro than n century und o half sinoo Frodoriok IV., of Donmark, established tho first Christian mission in his droary and dosolato domlnlon of Groonland. It was with infinite toil and troubls that the misslon waa sat in motion, and 1t mos with no brilliant succens during the life of Hans Egedo, the plous and ene thuelostic postor who cheorfully sacrificed the comforts of this world to tho work of convorting a dobased poople from heathonlem. It was long bofors, ho could realize how ecrampod and dwarfod way tho intelloct of the race, whose ex- istonce was epent in o continual contost with the borrors of cold and hungor. Yot, ero ho did, his honrt was gladdoned with o fotr sure signk that his tireless and herolo offorts had not boon \fl'}‘lllluu]%th?i{‘rlfldrntfl. " e Danisl ings have nlways maintainod interest in the spiritual anllght’flnmunt of Lho:no thoir poorost and most haploss subjects ; and, at the prosont momont, eight little missionary-gtn= tions aro sustained at as many difforont sottio- mouts along tho const of Greonland. Bosidos theso, tho Moravinn Brothron support five sta- tions of thoir own: eo that, from Julinnchanb, the monthornmost town, to Upernarile, the most: northern u‘{mz on tho world's surfaco inhabited by civilized men, the Gospel is proachied in tho uncouth tongue of the nativos. But, until fon, 70 8100; and bonnet aud recontly, all’ offorts to croate a mative clorgy hero have boen uuavailing, Sem- inaries woro instituted by Frederick VIIL, in 1844, at Qodthaab and Jacobshaon whero children and youth might bo trained to become toachora of othors. Butyoars and years wont by without o ulnqlo ono among tho oonverts gnlncfldlsp‘lnylug ntelligonco enough to assumo tho dutios of a Luthoran ministor, Ab laut, howover, a pativa pupil was found whoso gifta woro sufilciont to point him ont as o suita. blo ub{uct for tha education that procodes cone firmatiou, He was sont . to Donmark In 1872, and, after two yonrs of caroful instruction, was ordainad in Our Lady's Church, in Coponhagen, on the 13th of May lnst, Tho coromonios of the occaslon wero unusually improssive. Tho services wore conducted by Dr. Martenson, the groatost philo- sophical gonius belonging to the Luthoran Church in Luropo. ~Although many other eandi- dates woro ordainod at tho same time, the intor. eat centorod in the Groenlander, whosa low state ure, high choek-bones, and narrow'oyos, pro- claimed the Esquimaur, porkaps Mongolian, typo. ‘Fho scattored tribes of Groonland number now but about 10,000 porona in all, To those, his countrymen, the dullest of all the world's races, srill Tobias Morch, the young Lutheran priost, return, to carry the tidings of ealvation which Live been intrusted to him. It is hoped that a more rapid progress will bo made in tho civiliza- tion of Groentand, now that & native pastor hos bemlm( endowed and appointed to earry on the work, A CHINESE DEATH-OITY. As tho.cheorful subjoct of cremation 1s Just Dow paramonnt in men’s minds, every mortuary itom that can be gleaned, from whatover Bource, iy muttor of the liveliost intorest. Whis cone tinunl discussion of gravoyard topics gives to cur- rent litoraturo a quite funerenl aspoot. Every peper and magazine has one or more articles do. voted to tho sepalchral rites and coromonies that havo boon in comfortable praction by nations of tho pust, or that might be agroekbly adoptod by oxisting peoplos, Thoro {a no dangar, while tho slteleton of death is kopt 8o persiatently in sight, that any of us will fonioz the goal wo are rapidly travoling toward, or the mysterious and ghastly transformation thet awaits us all_in the instant that tho soul has parted from tho body. Aa s contribution to tho popular enbject, o writer in & late number of Temple Bar furnishes & curious account of a visit to one of tho woird and ghoatly cities of tho dead, that aro built by tho Chineso iu tho neighborhaod of the cities of tho living. Tho one describod wus situated just outside of Canton, on a billside, in full exposuro to tho breezo and the sunshine, ' The Chinuman, with a stanch belief in immortality, thinks moro of death than he does of lifo, and oxpends a groator amonnt of thought and caro on the way lis body shall bo preserved after it hns bo- como a mere clod, than whila it is suscoptiblo of bappiness and misery, Chorishing tho anciont suporstition of worshiping his ances. tors, it is a chief objoct with him tha{ familios shall be wuited In tho gray gonoration aftor generation, It is to carry ouf thin purposo that tho donth-cities aro bulit, where, iu houaos exactly like thoso ocoupied by the Jiving, tho coffined dond lie until all thady, relatives aro gathored about them, oud can bg consignod to thio earth togother. At “first pight, the doath-city presents the sama ng»punmuc_n a8 any other, save that therg 14 au absoluto silonco and absonco of movemont, whilo & hieavy, stagnant atmosphore porvades it, ‘Lhero aro the Bamo narrow, zigzng atreots, paved with cobblestones, and intersecting cach other at all orts of angles; tho snme quaint, little, squara houses, with the claborate screon sorving to closo tho doorway; and tho samo littio late ticed windows, from which the Chincse woman }mnua to soo what goes on in the outor world, ero and there aro patches of garden-ground, in which cadayerous flowera struzglo for breath, and a fow dwarfed shrubs stand languidly up af distant intorvals, But thoro 18 no sound nmr na movomont, no animal lifo of any sort, Not sa muok &8 a rat, a flon, or & mosquito strays inta this habitation of doath and intorrupts its op. Em.mnlvu stillness, Drawing asido the soreon af ho doorway, and ontering one of theso silanf dwollings, one finds himself in the ordinary Chinese parlor, or recoiving-room, furnished with the usual ebony cbairs and teapoys; with the gaudy rlutumn, Ineking perspective, on the walla ;- with the aliar and Joss, or idol, at ont oud, and tho brass urn, containing smolderin; inconse, ou oither side, and oups of tem an snmshoo in front. In iho centre of the room sinnds & divan covered with _the uiltod silk countorpane, such as is usod on hinese beds. Turn it down, and thero lics dia« closed the inbabitaut of tho houso, sealed in Lia coflin, Othorchrmbers in tho enme dwelling aro similarly furnishod: but on tho divan in some of thom rosts an empty casket, showing that tho individual for whom it is intonded st abides in tho liome of the living, The verandak about thée housa is provided with sonts, and vasoy of flowors, Tho travosty of life is por footly sustained in death. Eiiter another door, and the sign, 'fo Lot Unfurnished,” meots tho oyo. It is waiting for tonnnts, for thoso houscs aro ouly ronted until such o timo as an entire family shall huvo s~ sombled togethor within its walls, ‘Thoy then aro deposited in tho tomb, and their vacan place n‘\’xovn ground is ready for successive oc- oupants. '}.‘hu wealth and rank of the dead are shown by tho eleganco of thewr surroundings. 'Fhe houso of a high Mandarin s rich in gilding and vormillion, with costly mirrors, boautifully- onryed furniture of ivory and ebony, tea and samalioo cu,:u of exquisito agg-sholl chinn, objets de verfu lying on tho altar cmblazoned with jowals, and a crimson velvet quilt ombroid- orod iu gold and seod ‘punrlol and bordered with bullion filugo, worth ity wolght In gold, Im- monse wonlth fa stowed awny with him in the innormost of his throe exponsive coffins, Thus ha lies in stato, waiting not for resurrection, but for burial, This death-city noar Oanton I8 eaid to contaln sovoral thousand inhabitante. In view of & torm of such lonely and desolate waiting, oros mation would soom Vastly proforublo, A Mnyor's Resignation. John W, Ward, Mayor of tho littlo town of Floroyvillo, in Misslssippl, has tondared his ros- ignation to Gov, Amon by tho following lottors ** I herowith bog loave respeotfully to tendor my roslgnation ng Mayor of Floroyville, to which of+ fieo I wan appoinied by your high-honcded prede- cessor, which, with the h)tumfl groedinosy fo; oftico 6o charactoristla of tho American people, wae groon onough to accopt, In thus drawing off tho judicinl ermine I anv, govorned alone by tho haunting of being lnordinately rich 1f 1 con: tinuo to hold this luotive Ymmlnn. Per. hiaps somo othor man and brothor may be lu- voigled fnto the acoeptance of this position, but your humbla wervant profers to retlre to tht Rusbing werenlty of private lite,”