Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 19, 1874, Page 10

i i Rl T 1 10 'THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1874. THE WOMAN QUESTION. The Mutual Relations of Man and Woman. Probable Origin of Woman's Pres- ent Legal and Social Posi- tion, Woman-Suffrage as an Ageney in the ““ Development of Woman as a Tuman Being.” Yomar’s Inferfority in Fighting Poiwer, .and Her Conseguent Dependenco upon Those Possessing That Power. $hs Taw of Compensation--~Woman's Capsbilities After the Period of Heternity Has Passed. £he May Then ° Enter upon a New Life, and Select Any Voca- tion She Pleases.” Xhe Iutual Relations of Man and Womaz. o the Editor of The Cliicago Tribune: Bm: My attempt to show the fallacy of the sesumption, that woman holds ail rights and privilegea *subject to the good-will of man” (in any sense in which he does not hold all rights and priviloges subject to her good-will), by re- ducing the assnmption to an absurdity, does not scem to have been understood. Permit me, therefore, to state my objections to tho assumption in s more serions maaner, and differently, Man, though probably less cuduring than women, is capable of some sorts of physical wctivity from which woman ehrinks, and of which &he is perbaps jacapsble, He is nlso to-day more fertile in resources and better fitted for the general work of life than womsn. But man, as & class of the genus homo, CAKNOT EXIST WITHOUT WOMAN; and 50 complox and closs are the relations of the sexee, not only in the samo gwneration, but, throngh the action of the laws of inheritance, in succeeding ones, that it is now genorally admit- ted that, justin proportion as woman is injured, uan becomes deteriorated. For this, amoug oth- ec reacons, thinking people sce that, whatever may bo the dispoaision of individuals, it is not poasible that man, a8 a clasy, will ever willfaily aud conscionsly do anything to permanently in- juTe the class, womsn. And women need nob fear any direful contequesces from incurting the disploasare of man, however much your brave corrospondent of last Sunday may find gratification of some masculine inetinets i such threats. Furthermors, IT 15 XOT TRUE that, “As we sscend iu the scale of apimal ex- igtence, the dependence of tlo femalo upan the male increasss.” Through the whole range of snimal lifs there are no croatures among wWhom the females are more self-supportiog, less sub- Jject to, and more indspendent of, the males, than in the orders Herbivora and Carnivors, and these are found directly below mau in the class Mammalis. Inonoof these orders, aud, ia the family Felids, or cot-tnibe, thero are some gpecies in which the femals adds, to her other Guties in the care of her offspring aud self-sup- port, increasing vigilanco n protecting her young from the aduit male. Far below these creaturea, a8 they are ranked by nsturslists, 13 the cinss Aves, in some fami- Jies of which tho fomale is aided by tho male in hor parental carce. Permit me to ropeat, therefors, that the law of your correspondent, tiat., *“ A8 we rise in tho scale of avimal life, tho differentiation of power, and coorequent depandence ot _the female npon tho mals, increase,” has no existence, except i the iwaginations of those who would pargsps likso to discover it somewhers, Again, it is not true 1o human socicty that tho waor which permits the excreiso of a hitherto- snicd right, or has conferred & new privilege, will always or generally have the powerto ro- peal the right or pri\'ile]g& All human history Jaroves the contrary. Does anybody suppose that tho members of the Englisi Parliament by whoee votes the suffrage has been so much ex- tended in England during the Inst quarter of & century, could rcassemble and ropeal their past Iegislation if they eaw fit ? Pnvilegos of that &ork, ouca conferred upon & class, CAN NEVER BE RECALLED, exoopt by the consent or indifferenca of the class itsolf. It is probable that there aro in the United States to-day as many voters who beliove that tho exsenkion of the suffrage to naturalized citizous was 3 biunder, na thero were to favor that oxtension in the first phace. But, sinca the insanity of Enow-Nothingiam, no ono is found to Sc:nhhelv advocate an aftempt to repeal it. Similarly it would be imposeible for man to repeal she extevsion of the suffrage to womsn until womeu should themselves see it desirablo todoso, Norindeed is it probsble that man can long refuse tho suffrage to woman after a wzjority of women shall have decided that tbo common weal requires woman's admission to it. Pending that time, calm diccussions of the question m all its bearings should bo quite in onder. And first, although of no paramount practieal beariag upon cur opinion of the valuo of the eufirage to woman, or of her alility to wisely exercize it, comes up this question of ha origi of . THE DIFFERENTIATION OF SEX in the genns Lomo. Lying, as it probably does, far back in the pre-nistoric expercnces an struggies of the racs to attain a foothold upon the earth, a demand to cxplnin fis originin a mowspaper-articls is about as rational s to ask £0 be told why mun exists atsll Each man or woman gtands as tho produet of o vast series of sequences of causes and effects, which have actod upon the line of organic life of which the individaal is the latostrasult. In ite last aval- seie, the problem of sex, liko the problem of existence, 15 a3 yet unexplsined. But, concern- ing the gzrog;h:le origin of woman's prescnt ogal and s position, soma thoaghts ma; not bo amisa. i 2 % Afan, it is supposed, appeared upon the cartl at 8 time when its physical conditions wero |__ QUITE DIFFERENT FROX TIK PRESENT OXES, 1Not to speak of atmospheric snd other con- ‘ditions, ebout which thero is dispute, it is sc- Lnowledged that huge beasts, of which we have Tow Do Lnowledge excopt’ from their Tossil remains, were his contemporarics and compan- ious in his struggles for cxisience and suprom- scy; and (hat nothing of his present noble heri- itage from tho paet of his race was about him, or 1u his blood, or brain, 10 warn, to teach, to con- &ole, or to inspire. . s first food wea doubtless raw fiesh of fish, or bird, or beast, or uncooked roots, dug by Lis naked, unwmed fitgers. His first clothing ing, rome wila beast’s tkin, or plumage of bird, or leaf of palm. His first domicile, some rocky cave, or hollow % of the gigautic trees then Goutebiog. e : n pairs or singly, this creature men, fighting for s foothold upoa' the earth, S Eem‘{ and brutalities of Nature arouud him, woula mako little progress with Bome pair or pairs of shelily sdvanced intelligence, chose somma cave rock a8 placo of refuge, a sort of fense, of safer retreat {rom pursu- and accumalated thero food for a 2 of wuat and peril, and such wespons and material of dofenso as'they had yet sttained. What would naturally bo the nextstep? Cor tanly, that the young snould bo kept there, and to provacs SHOULD BEMALY 51 ran: six em, while the forosts aud fought for prey. St Reed Even in the first geertion eo Living, it is lnin that this primitive woman would become ess fierce a5 an animal, less canablo for the oat. ward swugylo; while it 18 quita conceivably that, alone in ce with her young, Ler sffectional and epiritual nature’ may bave Lad better opportunity for growtl, And eo she may have atiained reaches of thought £2d emotionsl life impossible to her companion in his wild, casseless war with extornal nataro and havo begun to fupress him a8 in somo way :lix’:er and msh;.‘rh being, whom ha was only oo tocerve. This impression, perpetnated in Eh- desoondants of soms peirs, may have in- creased from goneration to generation, aod havo been the origin of the chivalrons tincts, with all the poctry aud sentimont of which they form part, in chivalrous races and individuals. Side by mide, however, mith these instincts ennobling woman, there would exist a tendency to the do- velopmont in her of that GENERAL WEAKNESS AND INOAPACITY which always follow disuse of powers, just as far as that development was not modified by in- heritancs of qualitios from the fathers, by the stimulating offects of sn intensified emotional life, and by tho discipline of those vicissitudes to which sba was still subject. In many instan- ces. it which families, and races doubtless, the fo- male incapacity and weakmess inherited from the mother, and inoreased by the life of the in- dividual, would bo accompanied by strong sni- mal and brutish inatincts inlerited from the futber; and, in suchraces, woman would inevita- Dly become the object of man's contempt, and nis degradod slave; while such racea would not tend towards civilieation, The first associations of man, following the family, wers in tribes g‘\‘hith wero simply an extension of the amily); and then conquestsa of tribes by ifibes, ocreatiog govdroments of brute force. In such a social state, and 1n the midst of such cxterna! environments, womsa's posi tion of protection, and limitation of hor activi- ties to maternily and related occupations, was probably ESSEXTIAL TO TIE EXISTENCE OF TUE RACE. Baz by it, or rather a8 the resalt of it, there have developed, sido by side with much that is eano- bling and refining, many evil tendeneios, and an undue exageerstion of some desires 80 power- fully active it bosh scxcs that they seom to tho ordinary observer & necessary part of humsn natare. At the enme timo, these results of woman's past and prosent position are 10 more due to man's choiea or will concerning it than to woman's. Together thoy havo straggled (throngh all the ienced of countless generations of mring expe racos and duals) from the Jow ranges of their primitive existanco to sach heights of pover aud insight as they bavo yot attained. Together they must moant still higher, or desccxatL Man cannot leave woman permanantly Dehind. Ae human life hos ariren to higher snd finer conditions, many social reguiations, and customs, usoful in one pericd, have become bharmful aad o hindrance to further progecss in tho nest. And this ia precisely analogous to tho general 1aw of organized lifo_everywhers, which is, that special activity of a function, or set of funo- tions, tends inevitably, if long continuod, 4o a DEGEXERACT OF THE GENEDAL ORGANI, which 16 followed by a degonoracy of the func- tion €0 specialized, until ab last comes utier ruin, naless the tandsncfl is eounteracted by something stimulating the genersl functional activity or checking she special one. There are indications in the montal, morsl, and physical condition of women ja_all civilized Taoes to-day, of the action of this law. Neither timo nor inclination favors an analyeis of thom hera. But this much may be pald: That, aa we would not hopo to got: tho best ro- sults of rtisual power i any iven vumbar of peoplo by an exaggerated ex- ercisc of their organs of sight; or by checking their other sctivities, that their strength might be loft for sight alono; or by teaching them that the proper exerciss of thoir eves shoald be determined less by their own de- 6ire to seo than by the goneral esthmate of the noed that things ehould be seen: 80 we have no right 10 hope for the bost remmitsof human moikerhood by similar methods, but rather through the moat parfect aud harmonions devel- opment of womsn A3 A HUMAN BEING, For this, among maay other reagons, it scoms right that women shoald ask that, in the future, that protection which is porbaps essential to their best porformance of their special work as mothers, should gradually ceaso to be associated, eithor by social custom or legis- lation, with necdless limitation of their activi- ties, or with sny curtailments of their rights aud privileges as individuals, bocause of their sox. Looking to that ond, the admission of women to the suffrge seoms to bo the firat and most practicablo step in the right dirac- tion. It is pot probablo that it would Jong bo more repuguant to masculine instincts than have ben many emilar changes fn tho past: tho admssion of women to temples of wor- ship, or to sit_mde by sida with man at the table of the Lord’s Bnpper, in the nowly- Curistianized Gontile nations of old, for in- stance, Bus it is rometimes contended that, if the interests of men and womon ara identical, tho oxtension of the right of sulfrage to women is_simply superfluous; s man must bs now takiog care of woman's interests in caring for Lis own. This error arrises from confonuding barmouy of interests with identity of ability to comprel:end them, which is CLEARLY BOMETHING VERY DIFFEREST. The question is not, Can mon logislate for sl more wisely than womaa could do?—but whother it may ot be reasonanly expected that man and woman together would soon be wiser than eithor alone. To an impartial observer it might seom strange that, while man is unwilling to trust woman with & share in logislation, bo expects her torest in sublime confidence that his power and insight will alone be equal to the best possi- ble care of all her interosts. And this notwith- stonding the constant evidenco we hsvo that something i sedly wrong in human affairs. " M. AL s Stuft nud Nonscnsc.?? T the Editor of T'he Chicago Tribune : Sm: A sample specimon of feminine argu- mentation is that by which your correspondent of last Bunday demolishes my positions. This is the way it was: The correspondent, who lays euch stress upon the Inck of the fighting element 1 womsn a6 proof of har inferiority. Now, my statemené 8 Eimply, that woman is inferior in the gualities (fighting) power is com— posed of. 80 far from cousidering thatass “proof of inferiority,” I consider it as an in- feriority in specific functions, which is sccom- penied by & superiority in those functions which tho femnle §s capecially fitted for by Na- toro. The malo and the femaloe being necessary complements of and depandent npoa each other, NEITHER ONE 18 THE ‘‘ INFERIOR OF THIE OTIEDR. ™ May suddenly bo shocked ont of Lis seuse of propriety by eome subtla method of wurfare which :I‘lah!s beas effectunl a knock-down argument as fistie The hardy population of the Rocky Mountain districts, which is inured to the struggle for life, in every shape, has the habit of saying of any person who is threatening to fight without ever doing it: “Ho is shooting out of his month.” Methinks that form of speech would eplendidly Bt tho prosent case. You are cordially invited, Indy fair, to shock my sense of pro- priaty by marshaling your hosts of strong-minded Amazons, and to upees the universal experience of all history by knocking down the superior power of the male with some subtlo method of warfare, Atter you have dane so, you will have no farther need af “ pleading 2ad coaxing ™ for your rights, 88 the latter will be firmly founded on the bed-rock of your own power, niterly in- dependent of * the ‘grace of the malo sex.” We would ssk 3t that is the characteriatic element of manliness. What 7 The superiority of (fighting) power ? T CrAIN IT 15. In tho antmal crestion, the fanale brate is the most farious. . Which does not prove the power of the female brute. Itis well known to every eoldier that the greatest cowards are the most uwnrelenting and ferocious enemies whenever thoy happen to achlove avictory. A brave man doss not fero- ciously strike Lus defented adversary. As we evolve from animalism. Beg your pardon, fair lady, for telling you that we aro not doing any such thing at &ll. Even you, supremely civilized and angelically divino a8 vou nndoubtedly are, are under the dire neces- sity, unless sou wish to dumage your healthy ex- isteuce whilo you abide in this valo of tears, perlorm everysingle ono of the animal functiobs ! Wo drop off the claws. So we do, indeed; we are using needle-guna nowsdaya. And leave out the blows. As it is far more effcctive to throw iron-balls from the cannon's mouth. A political power which to-day would try to fight with *blows,” E;‘;{d Lo blown out o1 existence in less than no A fighting man will not Lo hurd of in the courss of ceutunus ol civilization. A prophecy that will undoubtedly coms to Pass ebout the time whea our mother Earth will gracefully sink ioto the warm embraces of the paront Sun. 1 em Lowever, that the ardent fervor of their rousion may bo such that civilizatiou iteelf will undergo a slight soorching. Until that centusy happens to d; WE WILL RAVE TO PCT TP WITX that monstrously tyraunical and vLoudsh jn- iquity, the ** Sghiting man,” unless, infeed, somo superior fighting Fower should,’ Ly * some subtle method of % ‘neriomly extin- guish him ; in which case, the Iattor would keep the rest of organic Lifo in “ subjoctiog.” The value of the “ X ™ argument may aleo be increasod hy tha remark tias the. parcaniage of. fomalo childron who aro * educated " as “ littla | I will loave her a fow pawders which will relieve Indies * is very small indeed, that style of eda. { Ler prosont symptoms,—a littls opiste to quist cation boing altogether too costly for the im- ‘meneo majority of mankind. Tha$ difference in education prevails only among the ** upper-ten- dom " of a very few nations ; and, if that were the cause of the difforence between the sexcs, the latter would only obtain in the small number of individuals who have the accidental good luck of being born_and bred iu fashionable private recidences. It my information is correct, how- ever, that differoncs oxists overywhers, and has always oxisted, even amongst that grest bulk of nobodies whoso children, malo or female, do not receive any education or dainty dresses at all, but are left to grow up into men and women aa Dbost they may. Tn order to avoid the coaseless rehnshing of *‘stuff and nonsensa " akin 10 shat whick I havo just now exhibited in its true light, I would re- mark $hat the one common ground all my ad- versaries meet on i3 their inability to compre- hend why I lay “so much stress on fighting power|™ "To shorten tho discuseion, I herewitn propoes #o give thom sn explanation of that mystery, waich will, I hope, enable them to throw the bombshells of their phraseology at once into tho very foundations of my system of thought. For this purpose I condense my viows in the following AXDIE, which I claim are facts, established by Nature herself, and, as such abeolate and unchangesblo. Let who ¢an rofase them: 1. Man has a natural tondency to lay a claim 1o anytning he desiros, 2. Man tries o enforco his claim against any rival claimants, by the exercizo of bis natural faculties; i. e., by his * power.” 3. Mau succeeds in the coniest ensuing in es- tablishing bis claim by his superiority in_ power, which gives him the victory in the struggle sgainst his rivala. 4. Man enters into a trace with his fellows and rivals, which stipulates the way aud manner how every ono of thom shall enjoy what ho has guned by bis power. 5. The terms of this truco form the * consti- tation of society,” 6. And the boenefits each single member enjoys under those terms are his * rights.” From which I concludo : d 7. That only those who have *fighting power " are able to euter into the terms of truce called the “constitution of sociery” as inde- pondent members. 8. That only the independent members have rights by virtuo of their own power. That all who have no *fighting power” have 1o rights of themselvas, but are dopenders (do facto), for whatover rights society—oom- posed of the indopendent mombers—may be pleased to bestow upon them, on *the graco of the men, possessed of sighting power.” Jorx H. BECKER. Compensation, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribuns: Sm: A woman's rights are to make tho best of herself ; to secure the best Lusband ; to be blessed with the eweotest, beat, and prottiest children ; and to be provided with suflicient means to dovoto all hor timo and attention to the perfect training of her offopring,, that it may be said of her, " Hex children arise up and oall her blessed ; her husband also, and he praissth her.™ The Scripturo ideal of womsn is A HAPPY WIFE AND MOTHER, and it will be the ideal of woman throngh all coming time. Thiy ideal woman presupposes peculiar fitness for her vocation; far how can any one till a po- sition for whi¢h he or sho is not fitted ?—and a fitnoss for this position presupposes a knowl- edge of herself, of her wifely and matornal da- tica. How does she obtain this knowledge? Sho obtains it at present only by dearly-bought expericoce. A boy and girl in the same family are sent to school, and for a time they pursuo the same studies. As they appronch manhood and womanhood, the boy is expected to chooso his earcor in life, and educate himself forit; but the gul—oh! she has nothing to do but look pretty in order to catch a busband; the more stylish she dresses, and the prettier she looks, the better husband sbo will be hikely to eatch; but 2 husband she must bave, of some kind. No thought of the duties and rosponsibilities sho will take upon horsolf when sho has succeeded in her object. Obno! Her life-purpose is now fulfilled; the rest will naturally follow. Thia girl, perchance, has scme of her father's stubboruness in her nature, aod a hitle self-will, and sbe bolieves there i3 such a thing as lovo. Unfortunately she loves and marrics some ono whom her patents do not like, and whom they will not recoive into their family. In their angor they discard her, and leave her to a fature for which thoy bava criminally neglectad to give her any proparation ; in consequsnce of which sho has ignorantly and presumptuously entered upon duties which EHE I8 NOT FITTED TO I'DLFILL,— with a man, 100, who probably is unable o give ber a support. On tho other hand, a girl who has been im- bued with the ides that earth hss no blessing like rickes, or who bas felt the eting of poverty #0 bitterly in her father's house, aud from that caose has imbibed the sams idea, is detarmined tomarrya wealthy man; and, whon she has fully made up her mind to marry money, she usually accomplishes it, ‘When 8 woman will, sie will, you may depond en’t ; And when sbe won't, alia won't, and theru's an end on't. Bhe now enters npon & life which nothing but Jove can meke at all endurable; and, as ghe has nolove to bring, she lives ont 8 wrotched ex- istenoo, unless she entors & divorce-court, and by womo plea has $he marriage annulled. Afier marriago follows maternity ; and this is o period in the cxistence of woman which i3 TOO LIGHTLY EIGARDED. Prot. Huxley, speaking of this %lhm of woman's life, eays : * This period, extending over somany years of worian's life, i a torrible thing to tho retlective mind, It is, even to the wife of the rich man, full of psiu, carc, sud saxiety; what muzl:lben:!o tha::{e&tbupoof man? If the right of euffrage will the poor womaa, in ng'n name lot her have ‘1‘&.“ o 1f she have married & good man, whom sho Joves, and who loves her, and is. willing to make Bacrifices, and who ia able to provide for her so that sbe can_tako the best possiblo care of her- self and children, sho willingly and choerfuily submits to ber ot ; and she m a blossing to her family, while ber home is a miniaturo Paradise. If sho have married a man who is not able to support a fomily, snd sbe s, in addition to her maternal dusies, sompolled to provide somewhat for her own and children's sustenance,—to bs BOTI MA¥ AND WOMAK T0O,— then God help her, for sha sorcly needs super- human ald. Detiar, much betier, both for hor and her children, it she bad never married. Those who can afford to buy newspapors and read the articles on the Woman Question, know but little how many are obliged to do it. A men who cannot provide for & family never ought to have one. A women who is umarried msy manago to support herself comfortably; but with ciidven who neod her care and attan- tion, it is an utter impossibility. Avother portion of mankind, and by farthe greater, are thoeo who bring ifo the family all that i necessary in a crude state, and expect the mother to prepare tha food for eating, and make up the cloth into wearing apparel. The wife of ono of theso men is busy all day cooking, wash- ing, ironing, scrubbing, and taking care of her children, who have 8 thonsand littlo wants, which demaad attention. In addition to this, she fre- quently sits up half the night, while the rest are all swootly slecping, to manufacture or mend some nceded garment for either busband or child, if she is not otherwise engagod witha sickly, fretful babo. In consequence of this continued strain on her system, her health gives way, and she Bacomes weak, ailing, and peevish. ‘The liwh)'sicmu i ealled in, who says, * She will be all right in a few daya; there is not much the matter ; SHE IS ONLY NERVODS.” Well, that dreaded hydrophobis i6 s nervous disease merely, snd persous suffering with its frightful paroxyems aro only necvous, Whone ever I Loar » physician say of a woman, **Sbe is nervous, that is all,” I am just wicked enough to wigh that ho could Le the mother of ten chil- dren, and have to raise them on $10 a week, and that thoy would all have the whooping-cough at the same time. I rather think ho wouid be just a littlo nervous. Couversing with an aged physician who had spent a lifetime in Lis profession, be maid: ** Whenover I am called in tosee a sick woman, who hae three or four children, and is doing her own work, I 1nvariably tell ber husband that the best investment he can make of his money ia to mr:l; a girl for n;ufl: waail and let hia wife rest; and my prescription, wher followe proves to be the right one.” o genaially Wodded life, Larmonfously commenced, fre- dq:;nu;;nmn pumieni)‘omm, because the wife Dot understsnd har own system, nor how much i will beas, whils her heabsnd undar: stands it sill less. Tho healthy, bappy, rouy, blushiog maldon 18, fn a fow ahort years, tran. farmed “into the pale, sickly, weary-looking wife and mother. Whea the physician is called in, whose business it shonld be to enlighten them on the true etate of the case, he save, “She is acrvous ; she does not need much medicine, but her nerves.” “I'ne woman feels angry at being: called nervous ; while her husband, who might othorwise have sympathy for her, becomes im- patient with her ** narvousness.” This want of knon ledgo, TII8 IGKORANGK OF THENSELVES, is deplorable. The wife sufTers from the viola- tions of the lswa of health; while the husband suffera atill more, 28 she who should make his home & little hesven upon earth has turned it into—tho other placo; the result of which is s cat-and-dog Iite, or a divorce case, Tho wealthy have a botter chance; thoy have the means in their hands of providing against all theso ills; but they, through ignorance, fre- quently suffer as much sa tho other classes. It is ot only woman's right, then, that she should bave all knowledgo relating to hersolf placed st Lber dispoeal, but it isalso man's right, and chil- dren's right, as they suffer from her ignorance even more than she henself doos. There is such a Law in Nature ag . TOE LAW OF COMPENSATION, and this law is not lacking in woman's case, It Las been decreed that woman shall pses many long years fraught with pain, sorrow, and anx- iety, " which do not fall to the lot of her more favored brother, man. The same power Lus also decreed that she shall, after this period s passed, if she have lived rightly and oboyed all the laws of her being, live many long years, and be £mtfl an immunity from diseass which is pot allowed to man. If eho bas not disobeyed the laws of health, Lier eyos will bo clear and bright; thero will be uo dimming of the sight yet,—no noed of un- sightly spectaclea ; her vision is 88 good 8a in thio daya of childhood ; avd she may now dovoto her eoergics to whatover pursuit she pleases, untrammoled by any of the ills to which sbe was before subjected. The sufferings through which she has passed have given her fortitudo and on- durance, and she brings to her work an nntiring devotion, a watchful patience, born of the years through which she has lived. msha may now, if she chioose, cater upon & new 0 AT SELECT ASY YOCATION SHE PLEASES, with no thonght of hindranca; in fact, not so much as man at her ago, a3 she has a much bettar prospect bofore hor of length of days than ho hos. It has been the custom for such ‘women to pass into obscurity. Their work, tho work monopolized by womon, the work of maternity, is finished, and, with tho standing women have had in sociaty, they are no longar needed, and are allowed to rotire and grow old gracefully. This is all that is now expectad of them : 6 rolinquish failing youth and weloomo aga with bocoming arace. Ob ye savans! how grataful we are for your many favors, and your axcellent advies we shall ba eure to follow. * Wo have granted that wom- an's matornal dutles must necoswarily take up { lier timo and stteution, and she needs the sup- port and protection of man, and aho is entitied to thom from the man who brought matornity upon her ; but, when those duties are over, she must, they say, dopend nson tho friondship of the othor gex and grow old gracafully. Wo srs vory much obliged for the priviloge, and wo in- tend to avail ourselves of a patt of it, and only & part. We have hived one life, and WE INTEND TO LIVE ANOTRER, and we ehall endeavor to live it wall, and do with all our might whatevor our hands shall find to do, whether it i3 sweeping » floor, ‘washing dighes, writing a book, engaging in some busic ness which has hithorbo been moncpolized by man, or depositing & Yote in the ballot-box. A strong barrier has been removed from the path of woman by tho late law passed by our Legislature, which permits a woman to cntor into partaership with _ber husband, or with any other man providing she bas hor husband’s con- sent. I ‘am somewbhat old-fashioned,—just enough 8o to belicvo that the husband's world should centre in hia wife, aud the wife’s world ehould contre in her hus- band, and the partnership in busmoss should bo between those who have alréndy entered into a matrimonial partnership, and their businces-relations should boas sweet, a8 strong oand onduring, s their marringo-relations,—the wifo being tho holpmate for which she was orig- inally designod. Is & mana lasryor, his wife ean propare his briefs and plead his clisnt's causo. 1s he a physician, sba can digponse his pills and powdors to bia pationts. 18 bo a minster, sho can propare bis surmons, and occawtonally presch thom. I8 he a carpeoter or mason, she can nse his 88, or plans, or his trowol ; akhough we imsgine that fow women wonld salect tho mechanical aris or tha laborer's profession, as maunal labor does not pay, and women are jusc 44 Smart a5 men in that reapect, and thoso with brains will be ikely to SELECT A YOCATION TIAT PATS. It msy be eaid fo them, aa to men, # The professions aro always overcrowded.” This i also true of tho tredes and mechanical arts ; they too ara’ overcrowded, with tho additional disadvantage that thoy require but little brans, machinery baving taken their place ; while, in the professions, machinery is st a disconnt, brains are necessary thers, and, s it has been eaid, “Thero is always room in tho upper story.” The person with the finestand most cultivated brains will rige the highost and shine the bn‘fhtuz m the professions. Gentlemen, look to your laurels. With an equal chance, it s not the attractions of the young and beautiful with which you will have to competo ; but it is the ripe, cultivated, puri- fled souls of women of older years, who, by their sufferings, have bocu tried as by fire, and have come from the furnace strengthened in body and mind, nerved to effort and patient endurance. As restriction efter reatriction is removed, and the natural law of Shings can bave fair play, it will be clearly demonstrated that a kind_Provi- dence bas not neglected woman in the laws of compensation. 3rs. M. D. Wrxgoor. Women’s Vote on Women’s Rights. From e Cincinnati Gazette. The question whethor women waat to vote has been answared by an indignant “no’ on the part of Mrs. Dahlgren and other consarvativa ladies, while Mrs. Btanton and Miss Anthony, from the platform, end Miss Abby Smith, with ber cows, bave responded with a still more em- phatic yos. Michigon is not tho whole Union, nor is Traverse City the whole of Michizan ; but & recent test ju thet city msy bo taken 8s a *‘straw.” BSome of tbe fnale chawmpions of fe- malo emancipation residing in the above-named place left at every honse s circular asking two questions, to which every woman over 21 years of age was requosted to reply on an sccompany- ing Blip. queries were 86 follows : 1. Do you wast to vote? 2. If No to the first quoetion, snawer this: Tn ease £ shouid be decidod that women be allowed to voley wo on questions Froral of palitica refors 7 Wi When the answers wero collected they stood, as to tho first question: yeas 42, nays 95, blanks 66. About 28 women made no reply, snd may generally be counted with the noes, as they weze at best too littlo intorested in the subjoct £0 exprass an opinion. To the second quaskion, 53 blanks, 109 yens, and 34 nays were counted. Tbe Traverso City Herald, counting only tho yeas on the side of female suflrage, says: ‘W think that t will be admitted by the suffragists themsctvea that their cunso fa strangor in this village thian in any otlier part of the Traverss region ; but the Dallot takon on Monday shows that not more than ons in five of our women dodire to vote, and, a3 imdicated above, we think an accurato enumeration of the sutfra- gists and anti-euffragists would materially roduce the proportion of the formar. If the Herald is right in its inferences, and it ought to know the field which it surveys, thers is utill room for a good deal of radical miskionary work in and around Grand Traverse. Prof. Huxley on Higher Education for Girlu, A -public meeting, convoned under the aus- pices of the Women's Education Union, was held at the Eyre Arms, 8t. John's Wood, London, re- cently, for the purpose of promoting the ostab- lishment of girls' public day-school jn that district. Prof. Huxley, who ocoupied the chair in the absence of Lord Aberdare, introduced the subject by refernng to the three courses open to a man who desired to educate his daughters. Finst, there ¥as the boarding-achool, but there were few_thoroughly good ones, snd those wero exceedingly expensive; and the ordinary boarding-achool was the last he should sclect. " The next alternative was home educa- tion, which had a groat dealto recommend it, but it was a costly process, and, moreover, de- prived girls of the heulthy influences of coming 1 contact with other young minds and different teachers. The day-achiool was the third and best course, combining, ss it did, both the advan- tages of thorough school and home toachings, and the object of the Women's Education Union was $0 esiablish such sohools, not 88 they are, bub ss they ought to be, m all fho grest suburban distriets of London, = No object, be concewvod, could be calculated to erers more benoficial influenco upon tho welfare of the community than that. Tho company in association with the Urion bsd alresdy founded schools™as Noting Hill sud Chelses, which wers ox: gly flotrish- ing, and co 10 to be a great boon ts the residenta of thuse neighborboods. It was now proposed to establish anaother for the dis- trict of Bt. John's Wood, where the education he yet disputed this position. Experience proy- ed that snccess in dvery statlon of life was less the resmlt of intellectual and moral etrengih than the exercise of patience, industry, and temper—qualities very much dopendent npon bealthy organisms. Taking, then, the brosd &V the central point of moral aud intel- lect eapsacity was rather higher in the male than in the femalo group ; but, though man was higher in that respect than womsaa, he would mot go o far 8s to say the lowest of the woman group was lower than the lowest of the man group. Both, kowever, stood on an equality in tho matter of patience, industry and temper, and a8 the capacity for education rested npon those qualitics, he eonld discover no reason why bringing up the educational standard of girls to tho same levol of boys should be cal- culated to endanger their physicial welfare. He should, therefors, conclude by moving, *That thiy meeting considers tho provision for the higher education for girla is inadequate and un- stiafactory, and that measnres sbould be taken for effecting an improvement.” Miss Sex-Biake Recelves a Checks Misa Jex-Blske has received a lesson which onght to impress that courageous though some- what too impulsive young Indy. The fact that she failed to pass an examination in connection with her medical studies at the University of Edinburg baving lately been referred to in the London Times, & good-natared friend wrote to explain how the failure came about, from Do fault of the studont. Miss Jex-Blake thereupon wroto to correct her friend, by showing how her failuro waa who]]i the fault of ber oxaminers. They bad testod her quahfica- tions by a standard differect from the ordinary oao. The cause of her failure, she in fact in- sinuated, was wholly duo to their prejudices against the meaical education of women. Bhe had, thercfore, boen a victim, and hsd suffered grievous injustice. It wasnot to be expected thot the oxaminers wonld quietly tolerato an open aceusation of injustico to a Tejected candi- date brought forward in this manner, and brought forward, as they ssy, “for the firt time in the " history of our university.” So they wrote to the Times to say that Miss Jox-Blake's papers wero “carefully examined by six examiners (threo of whom wera Professars), and they unanimously agreed that the answors wero extromely dofective on every subjoct,” and that * the only person not s membor of our who hag perused the papers deliv- ered to her by ber sxaminers is one of our col- laagues, who is satisfiod that the examiners did 10 mare than their imperative daty.” After this even Misa Jex-Blake will porbaps be silent. The Girls in the University of London. From the London Athenzewin, At the adjudication of prizes at University College, London, tho firdt prize in jurispru- dence was awarded to s young lady ‘who two years ago, at the ssme college, achieved a like success in political economy. The second %Ilue in tho same class waa® aitained by another lady. Another obtained honors in_political economy ; nnd prizes wore gained by three, and certificates by several, in the fine arta classes. That women riiouid prove themselves equal to men in drawing aod pamting s, perhaps, less remarkable than their success in sterner studies ; but it is notewortly in these days, when freeh considoration ia being ziven to the gques- tion of fomale education. The exporiment of mixed classes has as yet been only very partially tried at Uuniversity College, and ite extension through the wholo of the art schools would in- volve nous of the peculiar difficultica that have been incident to the sattompt 10 teach medicine to Iadies in Edinburg. Tho Senate of the Uni- vermty of London is soon to consider the recent vote of convocation in favor of admitting women, on the same conditions 98 men, to its degres ex- aminations. If a woman, competing at colloga with men, can take prizes in political economy and jurisprudouce, it is hard that she should not be allawed the chance of obtaiving & degree m arts or lavs. Miscelinneous Items. The Wapokonets (0.) Democrat says: *If women would study housékeeping as mon study law, modicine, and bookkeoping, there would be fewer spoiled dinners and poorly-done up ahirts.” —An elderly maiden in Lockport, N. Y., pur- chased one of the Egvplion muimmies at the Ni- az7aru Falls Museum, the othor day, fora parlor- omament. She said it would scom better to Davo a man around, even if ho was advanced i life and withered. —A lady-wnter noints out the faet aa worthy of notios that, * While the men who commiit sui- cide sre minost Always unmarried, the women ate married or widowed.” This louda to the in- ference that, while men eanbot live without women, womon find kife unbearsble with men. —Six voung ladiss in Londo are at this mo- mont **studying for tha bar.” Tuey are reading in chambors under eompotent direction, and are working throagh tho #amo course 8y the stu- dents of the other sex. Oue of tho young Ladies was a “prizeman™ in political economy, under Prof. Cairns, and ner sptitude for law studics 18 Baid to be astonisbing. —A girl namod Richards hos successively con- eludod at Ssploton, near Bristol, Englaud, the feat of walking 1,000 milos in 1,000 consecutive hours. When aho begsh on the 18t of May, an application was mado to the Magiatrates to' in- terfero ; but it was unsaccessful, on the ground that the young woman was o froe sgent. 1t was stated that she undsrtook the task iu order that hor father should win a wager of £50. —Women, it soems, sometimes takes part ia trades-outrages in England. The London Times gives an soconnt of_a brutal attack made upon & farm laborer, named Hunt, st Hesuett, a village near Bury St. Edmnnda. As Huut was retura- ing home, & crowd of about 100 persons, chiefly women, coliccted round Lim, snd aftor upbraid- ing hum for coming into the parish, one woman struck bim in tho faco snd mado his nossbleed ; another bit hum in tho back of the head ; a third pulled him to the ground by tho bair of his besd ; » fourth struck him with s stick ; two others kickod him whea he was down, while an- other threw a pail of water over bim. The man became insonatble under bis il usage, and was unable 4o go to work for several days. = His ag- enilants wore finod 144 esch. —A oricket match was played by ladics iw Sandhurst, Victoria, Australis, recently in aid of tho Jocal charities. ' The ladies had gone throngh a regular training for the gama. Crowds - sembled on 0 grouad to seo the sport, and everything betug in readiness, tho ladiea—ons sido_ wearing red Garibaldi jackets and sail- or's hats, the other blue jackets and eimilar hato—msarehed n pairs, rsd and blue being linkedtogother, from the tent to the Seld, headed by their respostive capteins. Their sp- pearance 8 descrived as having boen ‘“‘very protty and_pictar " and they were loudly spplaaded by the speotators. The captaina hav- ing tossed for innings, tho Reds first took the 10 be grven would be equal to thas provided far the boys at Uuiversity Oollege p‘;:hooL I was said giris. wero phymieally morally, and intollectually unequul, as a rule, 0 such an education ; and, though bo did not beliave in the equality of woman aod bat, sad soored a total of 63 runs beforo the last wioket fell. After the Inpsaof half an hour, tho Biues took the field, end put their opponents ont for 83 ruus. Ope inning each only was Jlayed, snd visiory therefore restod with tho ues. RECOMPENSE. “1t hs faded forever,® she sadly said, As sle teuderly Laid it down, And hesped up the earth, like atiny bed, O'ar the bulb of withared brown, Yet evory morn = she cama that way, And every ave asshe went, 8he paused, and a tear fall oa tho clay Asalie kindly o%r it bent, And the tear pressed down and the balb awoke, And, stirred by a rstloss power, Through the earth and claaping gloom it broke, And openod » tiuy flower, And the heart of the foller that came st morn o Bere forth in 8 Lappy strain 5 “From the spring of my sorrow a joy i Aod Ty labor 1 5ot T vainew, " 17 t oy Rosx Grasxux, gt SRS Niiss Hosmer's New Statue. Rowma Curresgondence of the Doston Adveriiser. T will now tell you of Miss Howmer's statae. Last year the Lxeeative Committes of the women'’s brauch of the Centennial Commission, scnt through me, their Chairwoman for Italy, an invitation to Miss Hosmer to make a statue for the woman's dopartmeat of the exposition of 1876, Mins Hosmer rosponded most generonaly and heartdly to this request. She inatantly put sside two fmportanc works oa which she had been engaged for Komo time, which were very near complotion, and set abaut Ler prosent work, Ty seate, intoadsd for the Gentenil, is the “African Sibyl foreshadowing the froedors of her race.” Shois soated in 8 bold Alighel An- gelesque pose, snd holds a tablot on which has Just been written those colenrated words of v s wWery is Dot wroag, nothing s wrong. The Bibyl ia Jooking up. There is & fine Let to tho bead ; the head-dress is the ancient one with clophants' tasks. About the great torio 18 & tiger' skin, Riaing up from the earth is a little negro ¢hild with manacled baby-wrists; its hitle bands graap the Sybil's foot. . This child sootas to typify the race, now in iss infancy, first cutche JULES JANIN. A Visit to the House of Mourning. Anecdotes of the Great Gossiper---The Funeral, Edmond About on the Dead Critic. DParis (June 27) Correspondence of the New York Hn:‘ld. Jules Janin, prince of dramatic critics, king of tho feuillelon, expired on Friday afternoou at the houss No. 11 Rue do 1a Pompe, in the sub- urb of Passy, where he had passed the laat fitteon yoars of his life. I went to his house vesterday, accompanied by a friend, a young Parisian journalist, {0 whom, as to all others of the profession, the desd man had shown kind- noss. “ Tlelait 3i bon pour moi,” said my friend, with toars in his eycs. Such a pretty house, built in the styla of a Swiss chalet, and standing in the midst of a garden full of waving trees, ? velvet turf, and sweot~ smelling flowers| In this garden Janin uséd, in the summer, to receive hix friends, members of theliterary world, 50 proud to pay homage to their illustrious confrore. Amid the iron work of its outer gate 18 worked the mon L5 A A imitials so eagerly looked for in the Journal des Debats every Sunday foc forty yesrs. Wo seat in our cards, and a gentlemsa came ont of the house to rocoive us—a typo of a certainclass of French- 1men, small, gray, self-possessed, dressed in black, ‘with thered ribbons of the Legion of Honor in his buttonhole. In answer toour interrogatories, having first,_announced himself s Dr. Villotto, tho family physician, b told us that M. Janin bad expired very peacefully and without & strug- gle. Yor weoks past his corpuloncy had boen 60 enormons that he had boen unable to move him- self, but had to be carried by his servants from place to place. Ou this Friday afterncon he had eaten rather more diuner than mmll{ a _little bouillon, instead of the cup of milk which had recently sufficed for his meal, and, feclivg fatigued, desired a servant to help bim to bed. As he reached the couch he gave one long sigh and it was all over. The ru- mor that he had been for some time out of his mind had, the Doctor declared, no_real founda- tion. The knowledge that he had lost forever the power of locomotion affected him very much. Not long before hia death be said to some friends: “I suppose I am celebrated; I ama great writer; I am s member of the Acadomy!. Eh bien! I would renounce all thet glory to walk, walk round this room withont sssistance !" And ho was ngecillly irritated by the com; ionate looks with whieh visitors would regard him. They did not like to opouly express their pity, bat they looked it. Junin, with his quick appreciation, recognized what waa meant and suffered under it horribly, but in silence. It was from this, Dr. Villette thought, that the idea of his dementia had first arisou. At the Doctor's ivitation we walked into the CHAMBER 0F DRATH whera the body thon lay. It was a largs dining-~ room, on the second floor, painted in gay colors, with 3 large open fireplaca in the style of the renaissance and with windows opaning on to the garden. Owingto its easiness of access M. Janin bad for some time wsed it a8 his dwelling room, and there he died on 8 couch on which Deranger had also breathed bis laat. At s table in 8 corner et a priest, ax old Iady, and two old gentlomen. The old lady had a long list before her from which she read aloud various names, and the old gantlemen and the pricats put cards into envolopes which they addreesed. Theso eards were the invita- tions o faire part, as # s ealied here, to taka part in the funeral ccremony. They looked around for s moment as we entered, but imme- diatoly returned to their business, which they carried out. I am bound to say, withonk ap- parently the mmallest appreciation of the surrounding _circumstances. And yot one might have thought that oven the most care- Tess would havo been fmpressed ; for there, on a Jow bed iu the middle of the room, lay the re- maing of one who, for a quarter of a century, had been one of the mosc shining lights of French jotrnalism, and who had won for him- self a world-wide reputation. The expression on tho hairless face was miid aud childlike, as though the seventy years’ coutest with the world bad left no impression on it, calm and in- nocent, as of & bappy old msn in a peacefal slumver. Peace to his manes. The Doctor gooompanied us through -« THE HOUSE. Bobind the mortuary ebamber is the kitchen, bright and glistening with its batterie de cnisine, its shining pots and stew-pans. The broad stair- case le to the first foor is hung with rare engravings after the sncient mesters. At the top of the staircase I8 toe small winter diniug-room, ood losding oat of it a huge chamber, indiscriminately as_dining-room and library. In each of the four corners of this room is sn enormous bookcaze in black oak, filled with Aldines and Elzevirs, rsre editions of rare works, _Above the white marble manteipiece, with its Louis Beize clock, ia a portrait of Madame Jauin. In front of the win- dow on a column pedestal is a8 marble bust of Janin, and close by is his desk, covered with papers written over in blue ink. There, envoloped in dreasing gown, and with a silk traveling cap on his head, ho nsed to work. Here ho pessed the last fifteen yoars of his life ; here he wrote hia translation’ of Horaes, his + Neven de Ramoou,” his holiday feuilletons for the Debals. ANECDOTES. His handwriting was vory bad, & very night- mare for s pnuter, o illegivle that'onlv two compositors out of the whole saf of the Debals were sble to translate it When he contributed to any other periodical he always dierNod his woris to Mmo. Janin, wiro writes aa excellent hand. ~ One day he waote a lotter to a friond, who after much trouble deciphered two or thres words which mode Lfm think his correspond- ent must be Janin. He immadiately started for Passy. ~Ab, bers yom aro!" eried Janin on seeing bim; ~yoa bave read my lotter 2 Nob st all” replied the friend, * 1 have receivod it, and 've brought it here for you toresd it to me* *Woil” sud Janin, much east dowm, “ I'll try.” Janin was not malicious, but ooussionally he would say » bittor thing. A rich but hard- hoarted man, who made mad khavoo of the French laogusge, ealled ou him ons dy. After lstening and suffer- ing for some time, Janin spoka to bus_visitor in The man was sstonished. * I don't un- darstand you, M. Janin™ he said after » pause, “1 don's speak Latin.” * Try, sir, try " cried critie who is sufficlently dold to “hck\‘ living and working demigod. Sgep .&Q. ploase it, because they halp to copuiitdy mediocre majority, Who feel humjl o2l te fame more or less legitimato of somg 1.7 b sons. Bt when & demigod is dead s’ whon his bust i8 placed in the nationy [X¢, inter signa majorum, it ia not oty e Afmal the height of imprudence, to demang . Bt bust sbould be removed to the Lood it iy make the collection loss completes %a‘fhy have no enemies, they make nobog, deyj they aro ovon usefil &t times, for (s 12Uy tion, henceforth unquestioned, g, P to diminish the merita of g ph; %M should, thon, have tho beat possibly grom ¥, 1 singing the praises of the old Acades it I has just dooo dying. L I profar to s 2t fronkly what I think Of him, it is bagugetl, 7 age of free trade and internationa 2% % seems to mo dishonest to givg fopg % it copper-gilt counter for a twenty.frnt e 4 Dame Europs, Who is ever fond o pes Pt a0d finds it to ber interest o STBU slready purchasiog immortalles * % hesr her ery, with swant gomld 1 ““Poor France!”" After 60 many digsgtar this was wanting, that she ghouss o Janio.” Many thanks for yonr pity, n: T camarades da pension ; but Teally jf 15 g, 0% tune of no consequence— cLild's bylipy L0 hbs broken ita string snd got spikeq”op g den railings. Tho explosion toox yoq pe 5% prise. ‘s(,lulm yourselves, und rasum !Bnryn:fi unsits, as we ours on the y, E"iigem‘ lity of Jal idsini “The originality €8 Tani ; merit oan be explzined in fax worge Ly it tho firut journalist who introduced ot "3 into eriticism. TLrown by sitoks of ggoq 109! among distinguished writers, who wes il ious, corroct, sod dull, who usodto wagr iid- odies and, if need be, Vaudorilles fn o a: of Zacus and Rhodsmanthus, he took 'y g view of the sacred profession, guve reing i foncy, sud put iuto bia foullleions. arer thing’ thet came into his head. The astonished the public without offer it, and people acquired & tasto for rambling a, cles, which were one series of parenthesis Whany the topics that ought to have been subenging: wore tha ruin of the principal theme, and ] aabject wus loat among a heap of paroles gy Like $hose talkers of the ealone who shing at small cost becausa they iy neither ~ words mor idess, he schisvg by a stratagem tho character of g wp Ho nzed and o abusad hia ropatatiob, for good for bsd, encouraging and discoursging true merit, sxalting the trae aod_the falie s cording to tbe wind that blew. mlmloginml which few readers took scriously, wers greatiy sought after by artists, for be borrowed fron the Journal des Debals some portion of ita grery sad legitimate intluouce. For over thiry yeury Janin talked sense and noneenss, quite a5 big ease, before tho most select publio of Fragss nnd of foreign eonntrice. He spoke aboas evorything under the sun, apropos of the stags, caressed his friends, worried his foea, told all his little affairs, ovon his mare riago, with groat minatences, qusted Hore iz sonson and outof seson, aud took Lberies with the Latin tongue, his kuowledgs of which was but indifferent. Thaoks to ti of this, ho eculd proclaim himsel the prince of critics without exciting suy great storm. Foruas | - smilod on tho_maioe vanity which had sntiy posseasion of him. Thia great spoiled chil, to whom all was forgiven, was onoof thy | \ppiest men of the day. His importance pufled | haj him ous vistbly hke La Fontaina's frog; To the L. 1ast yoar of his life he reigned absoluta ; he 1o coived embagsics, ho perused petitiona and su- plications, as ha 1:3 on the 5ofa to which goty and obesity had nailed him, Authors journeyed to Paasy to read lum their pieces, actors to spout their parta beforo him. The Fronch Acadomy came to seek him in 1870, after having long and justly closed its door tohim. Theiudulgence of tha Public allowed him to criticlse now worka, withe out quitting his vills, upon the reports of cam tain aides-de-camp whom he used to send to the thestre. It was only last year thst the editor of the Debats put him oa the retired list in consequence of the unanimous remon- strances of the subscribers. The most pationt gave up deciphering that senile drivel. The true eretic does mot wholly die—witness Sainte-Beuve, who bas left strong snd hating work, And the poet, too, who, like Theophils Gantier, bas sbaudoned his true vocation and writes & dramatio feuillefon, still leaves some ug- dving pages which outlive tio mon and works whom he eriticises. But what survivesof batar dage, even themost happy, the most admired, the most famous ? The acho of a name. The heirs of therume of Janinare quilorich enough o reprind the thousands of feuilletons that ha scribbled; they cannot get thom read. Even his books, asd God knows bo published dozens, will not bare- & for thoy ara not written. One owes the truth to the desd, and the whole truth. I will therefors nob conclude this sincere and severe judgment withont doing homor to the qualities of tbe man. This critic without capscity, this writer withous stylo, was s man of lottars the tipe of his fingers, and thas in the most no- ble sense of the word. He loved reading, be adored books, he had s peasion for les choses ds TPesprit, be toiled without cemin% like & man to whom literature is all inall If he was led astray, and even gob iuto the mire at times by meddling with politics, he acted from entiraly disinterested motives, and he had a profound contempt for places, pensions, and sinecures. His lilings were sincere, his hatreds no less s0. Ho aid good and evil indiscriminately, but ever conacientiously. AN who enjoyed his intimaoy mourn in him the best of men and the mowt devoted of friends. His door was ever open to the youg. He, encouraged Ponsard and sided him during bis life, took him to Lis house, snd comforted him to the day of his docth. If bo ereated a falso school of writing, and leaves in his 200 volames only models to ba avoided, it is mone tie less true that his life did honor to our profession. ‘EpyoxD ABoUT. A2 “IN MORTE NON DIVISL” Ihad s dresm the other night— How strange and bard a thing it sems ‘That she sbould live for me in dreaxs Who once waild with me in the iight. 1 thought her presence filled the room, As the falnt écho of 3 song Borze through the gallerics of long Years past, and lifted up the gloom, * I kmew o foer, nor yet surprise ; How conld I 'when I gazed upon The steadfast Light of ova that shone From out tie dasr-remembered eyes 7 Bhe beckoned me tnto the night ‘Where Nature, nover sleeping, stands 80 petlunt, Hifting prayerful hands To Rim who gives and guides the lighty I followed hec until at lsat o cume to the familiar place ‘Where first I looked into her face, the great critie, * you could mot speak it so badly as you do ¥renoh.” Morpax, Jane 19, 1874, YHE PUNEBAL, I have just retumed from the first funoral ceremony'in the parish chorch of Pasey. Tho interment will not take place till to-morrow. Tho strects of the suborb wero kept by & num. ber of sergemts-do-ville, and, the docessed having bosm 8n Acadomicisn, a guard of honor of infantry wsa present. Among those sasembled in the garden of the Louss, I saw Emile Girardin, in his short coat and with his pince-nes; Damas fs, whoso hair haa grown gray, and whois becoming more and moro like bis father; John Letmoinne, & small, En- glish-looking man; swarthy Heari de Pene, with his glass fixed in his oya; gray, stout AL do Lessops; Miliogue, the famous actor, the orig- inal Buridan in the *Tour do Nesle;” Arsens Houseays, Nedar, tho photographer, and Al beric Second, I was stauding by a table om which were several shoes of paper o scrived with the names of the visitors. An old gentlaman with s white head and & short~ cut white beard, a red, pleasant faeo, dressed in a0 slpnca jackes and carrying s straw bzt in his Land, eato up to inscrirg and gavomo & kindly bow as I made way for him. As he Jeft I lookod down carefully at the paper to see what his name aight be, aud nearly ocollapsed 8 I read the words, *Victor Hugo.” £dmond About on Jules Janin. From the London Atheirum. The death of Julea Janin and the commotion 1t has caused not in France only, but also, and in even a greater dogree, abrosd, remind ma' of sn Tialian proverb, **To endure is $0 win the game.™ Happy. the writer who reaches 70 ; ‘whataver faults he may havo been guilty of, whatevar tho inconsistenciesof his life andthe changeableness of hug politics and criticiams.even if he has had the misfortune to outhva his talents, be can say, on quitting the scene, ** Victory | I have won'tho game.” His opponents, his ecouds, his judges, aro dead, or routed, or Worn out. The genara- tion that buries him has read ouly fragments of his writings; ite acquaintance with him ia found- ed on n amall number of anccdotes; it knows little of him but hiz nams, &nd as tho name has ing the groat word of liberty. Tho legends of all pations tell us of a great mvsterions race produced by the unioa of sngels with the daughe tars of men. Thete are the gianta and gibyla of tho art doqusin. o this ruce beloags Misa Hos- mex’s Bibsl ; 80 grand and marked are the poww esful propottions that they almost coase to be km“mmne. Itis m‘"b T nor :elnty which this statue expresses ; it is & mif national emo- ton pat mio a grandicse inmfi 4 mado some stir in ths world the world pronoun- ooa it with & certain respect. - It 18 hittls short of a muracle if, among the crowd, a single person, move impartial or less prejudiced than the rest, takes the troubls to weigh the merits of tho bappy.defunct. Why meok for the trath or tall i I8 not the public, like other sovereigus, in- different to fustice and trath? Lt prefars of all ite advisars those who say it is right and applsad ereniis exxara. Is sometimes approves of the And learned hier love, in days long past, Bhe stood, and as T looked was gone, Without s word o sign ; and I— wroteh I—gave out one piteous &7y alosa, Poor To know myself again And as T wopt T £elt ber near : “ Dear one,” s whisper sesmed to sy, * God's Jove is with us night and dsy, Aod, though unsoen, I'm with youhers.” | —_— Guizot. " During it Iast seven years he may be ssid (8 have ruled France with a rod of iron. The Kisg was completely nader his inflnenco; the Assem- bly, electod under official pressure, submissivelf rogistered his will; in vain did Thiers, with tb? thrilling, impetuous eloquence which has not J8 oot its. oharm, impeach his arbitrary coursé 3 tho tribuna. Guizot in ofico was still the - bonding doctrinzire. He clung obatinately 80 the letwer of the law. Profoundly patricish though s constitationalist, bo resisted reform and vehemently refased to grant an extensiod the suffrage. The rigid severity of his Tale & 1aat produced the result of which Thiers bsd warned him again and again. e Bat, while » monarchist and & doclrindire, H‘} inclined 10 take high-handed mossures 88 sgbis Liberals and Rapublicans, ho was far from beick the advocato of tus divine right of Kings. B¥ antagonism to the Boncbona is illustrated by 058 of the most memorablo scencs which occarred i3 the Chamber during his tenure of o Comnt de Chambord, then a youth Bcarcely of of jackets, was residing in Belgrave Square, don. Thither a number of Legitimis u—m::z them M. Borryer, Chateaubriand, De Valmy, or tho Duke do Fitzjames—rapaired to_psy th F homage to this ‘child of France.” these wore Doputies; aod Guizot, ¥b0 was Prime Miniutor, regarded _their Yil to London as a treasonable ~ aud sz dynastic domonstration. When thoy ret he sseended the tribune of the Chambar, 8 for once, in the vehemenco of his indignatiods lost that haughty self-control which be ususlf preservod in the fiercest dabates. He deno the Deputies with stinging invocsive sod I morseloss irony, and 8o exasperated them by b¥ taunts that saveral of tho timist Dep! eprang from their seats, rushed to the tnibuit and tried to chmb upon it as if to drag him do¥e Thon, drawing his tall and slender form o ¥3 full hoight, his bead raised contempsuousl the air, and, modulating his voice to calm, clesh firm tones, Guizot uttered the famons sarcasmi *Come up, mosriours. eomo up : do_what Y04 will, you will neve: ..ca th: gl of T T ST