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= LITERATURE. NOVELS. T + A Romance. ity Gronax MacDomatn, Mot A Falconory ot BY0. b, 280, Philsdeiphinz J, B, Lippincott & Co, caves Knxer: A Btory of Ameresn tife. By Urmantea Cantrrox Covrtx, * Girleton,” ~ suthor of “Winning_His Way," olc, 13mo,, pp, 500, Dos- oms Lo & Stepard, s van Ty Mrs, Awwir. Enwine, ati- Wioe of “ Areblo Tovell,” ¢te, 12mo,, pp. 432, New York: Sheldon & Co. Dy 7. N. De Fonest, Ge. 10ma0., PO 290, JAcQUELINE ', TowNsEND, Philae a7 Jonn VaNe: A story, n‘l’::ll:flr of “ Kate Heanmont,”" ete, Now Haven ¢ Tuchmoni & Fotter, one Womin's Two LovERs{ o Traxss'n Onorce, Iy Vinarsia Auhor ot i*Ouly Girln”cle, Timo, 7. 34- . B, Lippindott & Co, Sl e T o e fectini, Tn tbankfy’ to may. 1 naver lent ony guid como of (hem, ‘Thoy'ro s terrible 1t £ the gait. ety ovor thottcht o Jagin' % to yer chalrgs, ) B beed, T ayo had enench adit to du tho thing T ind at nacbody wad du but m. oo e e Y fur foetin's o’ that," d Miss Horn, m.‘:nuvul which opena with thia uniquo bit of colloquy has clearly somo quaint studies of char- sctor which will bo profitable for perusal. Tho woman who haa wasted nono of her forces in emotion, but, with a steadfast eye on duty, has dono tho things tuat camo in ler way todo, without fuss and nonsense, {6 a woman rarely worth knowing, And such is Miss Horn, in #Maloolm 3" » stanch, sturdy SHcotchwoman, embodying the marked traits of her nation in tholr fullest dovelopmont. A maidon lady, ad- yancod in years, of humbla station, of gaunt, stern aspect, solitary inlife, unyicldingly reticont regarding hor own affairs, and the af- fairs of others that rest in hor keoping, this lowly, rude, homels, rugged woman Las a quiot strength and force of character that aro simply stupendous. A rock of granito is not more flrm and inflexiblo than ber integrity. Whon the hills can be moved from thoir founda- tions, rho may be coaxed or coerced into a hatr- Lreadth's devistion from the lino of rectitnde, but not eooner. Thero is & grandeur in this fxed, rooted incorruptibtlity that fills ono with »wo and admiration. And when, a8 in tho por- 1on of Miss 1lorn, bencatha marble-liko probity, thora boats & leart truo and warm, which wilk botray ita existenco deepite tho stern guard held sver It lost it bias tho judgment or weaken tho ronscienco, thers is a human being whose power and charm are Inexhaustible. But Miaa Horn is not tho only examplo of lofty humanity delineated in ** Malcolm.” Tho hero himself, whoso namo gives titlo to tho voluwe, 18 no lees imposing an 1ndividuality. Iio, too, has tho sterling attributes of the Scotch chisrac- ter, pure and unadulterated, with s combination of grace that renders thom beautiful as they aro noblo. Btill, there is nothing euperhuman in Malcolm's virtuo. It is natural, consistent, and unaflocted, although extraordinary and surpris- ing. Purity and truth are so jugrained in tho warp and woof of his being that to eayor do wiat {8 not utterly honest, candid, and atraiglt- forward, is altogether impossiblo. The offect of crfect ingenuousness undor svery circum- ::‘n::g:a |ru moat Exuplnu{!. It is like th?uuullgm euddeniy lot in upou dark places; like s fresh Breezo direct from heaven; like o cup of cold water to a fainting apint ; it is tho assurance of trustworthinoss in a world whoro perfldy stran- gles evory hopo of good faith, And still thero are other atriking figures grouped shout tho two wo have mentioned,” in the romanco of *Malcolm.” Like the elout, brawny forms thnt stall over tho Iighlands, standing out boldly agaiust the blenk hull-gidos, tho various partics required to il out tlus nimic drama move through its successive scenos. All ppeak and act 83 living beings, and havo a distinct porsonality, to which they are constantly fattbful. The strength of MacDonald a8 a novol- ist lies in hin :npuntf 10 portray character. Bat- iefled with this faoulty for creating success, ho males no attempt o work up exciting situntions orcomplicated intrigues. Common-place, every- day ovents are suflicient for his purposes, for he seta people to following theso out who are capas ble of exalting thom to tho helghts of morai grandeur, Not inferior to this power in Mr. MacDonald's work s the influcnce of its deeply-religious tone. Hermous, in the form of dinlogue, aro aptly in- troduced iuto tho narrative, aud, by their brovity, yortinenco, and suasive simplicity, nppoal to thio feelings nnd the renson with singular force. It is ot tho prenching of a thoologton, of & man of creeds, but of one who knpws the beauty and wvalue of a pure lifo, the fiuite comfort of a faith in o toviog Father, and of s certsin convic- tion that aapiration Liere will he crowned with realization Leronfter, A party of ignorant flshermen, whose miuds have heon disquicted by attendance upon a Methodist rovival, have called upon the school- master to ask his aid in settling their doubts upon cortain tonets of tho Chureh. 1n the course of thoir conferonce, tho master pushes tho in- en a public ansembly 18 not necessary for tho commnuicstion of the gifts of the Bplyit 77 Tlioy were ilent, “ 1un't it possibla that the eagerncen after auch sa- semblies muy hisvo soniething 1o do with a want of con- fidence in what the Lord says of Ilis Kingdura,—thut 4t apreads liko the bidden leaven, grows like the buried #oed 7 My own conviction fn, thut, If 8 man wonld but iend bis energles to five ; if io wonld but try to be o true—that is, o Godlike—man in all his dealings with g fellows, & genuine neighbor, and not a selfisb unit, be would open such chanuels for tho flow of tho Bpirit as no amount of cvew honest and so-called aue- ceesful preachlug could,” Again, one of his intorlocutors inquires : * An’ hoo are wo to glo coreel’s up till Him 7-~for ya 00 wo're practical kin' o’ fowk, huz flsher fowk, Mainter Graham,” sall Bow-o-meal, The fous {um- plied that the achaolinaster waa not practical, 1 way aguin, in dolng His will, and not your own,” “Au? what miny Lis wull be 7" I8 1le not telliug you Himaclf at this moment? Do rou not kuow what Iits willis? How should / comu tween Him and you? ~For anything 1 know, it may bo tat you pay soir noxt door nciglibor a crab yoit owo Lim, or muke an ajpology to thu one on tho ofher sldo, I do not know ; you do," “Dinna ye think aboot savin’ yor ain sowl, noo, Hatater Grabiani 7 seid Bow-o* moal, returningod theit rack. * No, Idon’t, T've forgotten all about that, I cnl: destro "and pray to do tho will of my God, which ta al} 1n alt to me," . 4 What nay ye, then, aboot the £owls o ither fowk 7 Wadno ye save thein—no?"! % Gladly would Isava them, but sccording to the willof God. If T were, oven unwittingly, to stlempt 4t in uny otlier way, 1 slould bs casiing stumbliug- Dlocks {1 thelr paith aud reparuting myeelf from iy God,—dolng that whirhia not of failh, sod {herefore faoih, o o Whoknows what harm may bo dono to 8 man Ly Burrying s apiritual process in him 2" Again, o dissoluto Lord, who is unoxpoctedly brought low on a bod of death, keuds for Mastor fln;lmnln hia oxtromity. flo groots tho lattor with: # They tell me I'm dying, My, Grabam,” * I'm'sorry it seens 1o trouble you, my Lord,” # \What, wouldn't it trouble you, then?” #1 dou't think go, my Lord,"” % Ah! you're one of tlie elect, no doubt 2" * ‘That’s u thing I never did tlink about, my Lord 1" # What do you thiuk about, then 2% # About Gad,” “Aund when you die you'll go atraight to Heaven, of course " - my Ford, That's sother thing T w1 don’t know, mever troubls 1y head about.” i “Ani soure like mme, thon, I dont care much about golug to Heaven, What do you care about 7" “The will of God. I Lops your Lordship will sy the srme, i+ Noy Cwom'ts T want may avm wiln Well, that {8 to bo had, my Lord," “ How?” “ By taking Tt for yours as the Whiéh % must Lo everywa 4 That's all moousilne, #1¢ {a ligt, wy Lord,' “¥Well, 1 don't mind confesstng, if I am to dfe, T should prefer Heaven Lo the other {lacaj but T trust I Lo noclioice of eltuer. Do you uow Loneatly be- Hevo thero aro two such places 1% ; 1 don't know, my Lord," “ You don't kuow? - And you come bece to comfort dylug man Your Lordship must firat tell me what you mesn by 'iwo such places.’ Aud 88 to comfort, guing by my wotions, T catuot tell which You would by tuore Of Ieay comfortable in; and that, I presume, would be tho i polut with your Lordiiy “Aud what, 1ray, sir, would be (e main potat with FJour” ‘: "Iv'a' B: nearer w?nfl." i \ “Well, 1 cac’t say J want 10 get nearer lo God, Tt's ittle Ilu's ever dous for me." - 4 8 good deal He bus trled to dofor you, my Xord, ** Well, who interfered? Who stood In Hls way, thent + Yourself, my Lora," : *1wawt ' swiro of fl, When 014 o over fry tado lll‘)_'lh.lnl for mv, and I stood u Iis wey 1" ‘When ave yut ono of the lovoliest of women, my Lor, , Graliam, with solewn, faltaring volos, “aud By ou etk her 1 CHILi't0 bo brought wp by streagsoe s acgicl, aud bos Tho Marquis gave s ery. The unexpected auswer Lsd rowed tho slowly- Tad rouinl y-guawing death, aud wudo it Farther on the Master adde: # Love & woman Hke that, Comie Lo thia 1. Wo imust ol core f0 hia 1" sonuer or later, Coms to whi Y, naving lovet * That, baving loved 8 woman like her, you are con. tent tojuxa Ler.” In blie ume of Gud, aire (o seo Lor agelu U Ravn Yo sode: ‘At would Lo sn awkward meeting,” sald the uis, ., . % Labould bo your friend, my Lozd, i 1€ wero oaly better of the two, for your wifs'saske, Bhe disd loving yon, I want to send you to her, my Lord, You will ullow that, a8 & gentleman_ you'nt Itast awe her an agnlogy.” “ Ty Jove, yuu nfe right, sir] Then you realy and positively Lelievn In tie pice thioy euil ifeayon 77 My Tord, T Lolievo that thise who open thelr hearta to the truth xhull aew the light on their friendn’ facen ngain, and Le shio to et right what was wrung Letween thm, "t t'n & week 100 Iate 10 talk of motting right,” *Gia and tell har yon ara sarry, tny Lord,~ihat will bo enough for her, 4 AN I'but thiere's mare than her concerned.” “You nre right, mny Lord, There i ancther,—0ns o cauniot be satinfied that the fairest worke of Hiis handr, or ratlier tho loveiiest chiliven of Jiis Loart, shioutd be treated an you have treated women,” “Thut the Deity you talk of - 148 o gour garlon, my Locd; Ttalked of o Dity, 1 talked of & Laving Iove that gave ua birth and calls s clifideen, Your Dety 1 knaw uothing of,” “ Call Ifiin what you plesao ; He won't ba put off s0 earily,” **H{o won't bo put off, ane jot or one tittle, o will forgiveanything, hut He will yass nothing, Wil your wife forgive you 1! 4+ 8ho will, when T explatn." “Then why should you thing the forgivenens of Qod, whicl created her forgiveness, should bo leas 1" " ‘Tl:cn you drfl( n‘uknk' n,floo:l God ‘would cars to unish poor wretchien like ua L *' Your Lordship has not been n the habit of regard- Ing himuclf an a jioor wretch, Anud, remoimber, you ;fl:i;l “Il a cLild s poor wretch without Insulting tho ather of it." “Tlion 1fe can't be #0 Hard oni bim a8 tho parsons i “He will give him sbaolute justice, which is the only guod ting. e will apare notbing o bring 1is chlidren back (o Himsclf, their fola well-being. What would yott do, my Lord, 5t you saw your son strike & woman 7" “ Kuock him down and horsewlip him.” Thero disjointod oxtracts, plquant ax thoy are, fully ropreseut tha effectiveness of the co naciod conversations. In this iast is rovonled the secrot of thé Atory. Malcolm., who lLas been roared bya bind piper to tha calling of a fiwh- erman, is tho lawfal son of the Marquis,—a fact which he learus in the hour after Lis father's voico is stilled in death., Grabam has loved from boghood the wowan who was Maleolin's mother and the wronged wife of tha Marquis; but the truth novor escapes Lim, Wo guess it from tho lighteat lints. IMiea Ilorn chberishes In the sanctity of Ler home, for twenty years, the wo- man—her cousin—who wae, by a_eruel intrigue, rabbod of hor husband and child ; and, io alt that time, nover asks thostors »f tho wrocked careor, which the sufferer carries Jealously down to the grave. Tho old Scuteh spinstor bad “nae feelins "; Lnt shio sorved her friends witha devotionand fidolity sleepless and undylug. Ax a whole, tho romunco of * Malcolm™ wiil seem what 1a called “slow" to tho impatient reader. 'Ihe Bcotch dinlect, which is the spoech of most of tho charactors, {8 hard to master and teying Lo tho patience. Nome pagos will prob- ally bo skipped by the majority; but there ia much in the book worth having, aud, long afier itia read, it will haunt you, It infiuonco does not end at the word * Finis.” 1t is aliving pow- or that tolls on the life. ‘'fhe authior promiscs that another voluine shall carry still further the bistory of Malcoln: aid every ono who has road thia will wait with pleased expectation the fulfillmont of his word. * Celob Krinkle " was made; it did not grow. In other words, it Is an artiticial rathior thau an Inapired production Tho aushor has not deep aud right mnceflioxm of human pature. Lo Lns observed superticially, and failed to discover tho hidden gources of action. Hence he is unable to ondow his idoal characters with vitality. They are plainly automata whose movements ho cou- trols Dy ‘machinery. 'They are hollow, or filled with sawdust, like the dolls tho children play with, and arouso no doeper intorest, Tho story of Caleb Krinklo Logins with his childliood, aud concludes whera tho storeotyped novel culminates, with his marringo. Ho in country-born, and growa up on a farm, passing through the exporieuce, mingled of work, and school, aud play, common to lis class, DBut, In the oubsot, it 16 evident ho ls to bo & haro of ro- mance; that he is to tower above others in in- telligence and virtuo; that Lo 18 to be victimized by a vicious comrade, destined from tho oradle to bo his evil gonius; that Le i8 to be crossed in love; and that be ia finally to overcome all ob- stacles and cuemies, and bo thereaiter prospor- ous - and happy. All this, we repeat, is foreshadowed in the very begin- ning, when Caleb and his evil gonius aforesaid (Moses by namo) nro still nrchius; and isis ratlser painful to sco how nssiduously lie is Jed by the author in the right wav, and Moses in tho wrong, through all those years of youth when wo look, in tho sons of men, for somo spontanc- ous and natural impulees toward both goed and avil. 'Che sory, through all its length. may bo callod n picturo of American life; but it is an 1mitation, & ohromo,—uot & tzanscript of Nature {tnelf, Mrs, Annfe Fdwards is an industrious writer. It is not much more than six years siuce hor Hrst novel was reprinted here, and the present ono is tho niuth on her list. Nouo of hLor novels are first-rate, but all aro readable, * Estolle” will compsare favorably with those of them wo have scen, It is imponuible in plot, and its characters aro of o stylo never soon oulside of & fiction ; yet one or two of them are fairly drawn, and some of the scones are wrought np to & considerabls do- groe of intensity. ‘The book will serve for amusoment whou - thore is nothing better at hand ; but it has no distinctive merit to singlo 1t from tho multitude of curront romances. Mr. Do Forest has endeavored to road his constituonts n wholesomo lerson by depicting, in the carcor of ** Houest Johin Vane,” thio ouormi- tics of Congrossional corruption. = But his offort will not meet with a large mensure of success, for John Vane is too cominon, not to eay valgar, o mon to auswer as tho pattorn of a Congross- man. We, will not dispute that heis painted trus to life, but such truth is unpalatablo, Tho average Rovresentotive of the American people in the Halls of National Legislation may bo a good-hearted, coarso-fibred, uneducated, inedso- cre follow ; but tho people are not yet ready to accopt the fact. The oflica has not wholly loxt itw prestiye, outragoously as it haa Leen abused, 1t still invests whoever possosses it with anideal diguity that commnands respect. Whatover ex- perionco may have dono to dostroy the illusion, tho abstruct Congressman romaing o superior porson and o gentleman; and wo require that o sball be so presonted in fiction, | What though John Vane did stoop to bribes 7 His lapse from honesty does not add much to our provious disgust for his bad grammar, his stupid infatuation with o shallow, heartless, no- privcipled woman, aud bis general lack’of re- finoment and culiure. No, we have no sympa- thy for Johu Vane. We disliko him from the tirst, and it gives no hiealthy shock tothe moral felivgs to seo him afiiliating with lobbyists and uullluf bis votes for the wherewithal to dress g wife liko other American Frincosscs, and to maintain au ostablisimont fit for Emperors and affected by l(eynhlmm Kings., Dofore wo have done with John Vane, we would soriously ask: Are thereno adies in our country engaved in the honorable vocation of keeping boardors? Iu there something in this calling that degrades and perverta true woman- hood, divesting it of all delicate and endearing qualities? One or other must be the case, Judging from the roprosentations of all writors, from the novelist to the newspaper-reportor. The name of vuarding-houso-keeper has como, through the roproach thay liavo cast upon it, to b syuonymous wish all tuat is hard, seltish, and nulovely in buman umwure, It 18 ‘time that (his stigma bo romoved from an occupation that ehould ~rank omong tho most gonial and respectablo. Lot amiable sud oficient women, who are looking for u moans of livelihoud, take hold of this, aud ole- vate it to its proper level. Johu Vane marries the daugliter of a baurding-houso-kecper, and mother and daughtor iltusirate the conventional idoa of the claws. Honce these remarks; for wo ata-weary of what, if it ba false, iu an asporsion of the foinale sex; if true, iu itd Uoop disgrace. With an infuzion of staniins into **Oue Wom- an's Two Lovots,” 8o play upon the words_ju- tonded; with a reduotiun of {ts excess of senli- with an omizsion of rome ailly manuer- isma in tho stylo; with lees eflort at fine writing, and losu attitudinizing on the part of the dram- atis persono,~iss Townsend's atory would bo groatly strongthened aud improved, 'r[‘:oehlnnuu suggestod dowand & prov= genaral rocoustruo- tion_of the woik, ‘ouv the trouble would bo in every way proffabk. As it ls, the teader Las n divagroosblo suspicion 'oon- tinually tormenting bim, tha® "tho author is by mnature au actress; that sho has the porpotual consciousuces of bemg befure the footlighite, and labors uuder the mustuken ides that her effects must be thoatzical to creale an impression, 1n short, abe and ber tralu of obar. actors soom to be always wosring thoir company- unuors, and studviug, by trausparent artitices, Low to l|lweur bighter and wore taking than thoy roally are, ‘F'his {8 diwpleasing and dissppolnting. Pre- tendery, lm!mutow. coquettes, aud tricksters, aro wvbnosious, 1n & novel or out of it; aud wo 'tire aud wickou of their endioss posturing and dise sowmbling. Wo Lave used the word dissppoint. ing, It lptlmu justly 10 the book. 'There is over a possibility in viow of Its belug better than it proves,—moro nutural, healthiui, ssuo, and vigorous, 1t wauts solidity, Itnoeds tho toughe oning of hard common seuse, KMERSON'S COMPILATION OF PORMS. Pamvasavs. Edited by Ratru Warno 12w, pp. 834, Bortul: James B, Orgond & A volume of poema compiled by Emerson will have for a multitude of readers a profound in- tex ‘This wisdom of the Bsge in making his welections may be perfootly trusted, for rare woholarship and fluo poetio lneigut eminently it him for choosing, in the wila fislds of pocsy, those flowers which are of the lovoliest hue and mold, sud oxhalo tho swactest fragranto of thought, But of groater valne than the an- thology itaclf, howevor largo snd melect, ia tha indox it givea of tho taste of tha colloct or. s has beon many years bringing it up to its present bonnds. It has Leon tha habit of hia life-time to copy into an album auch linos, or stanzas, or antire pooms, as improssed him by thelr suportor boauty of sentiment or charm of atyle ; and su, slowly and carofully growing, the collection hanavotded all quentionable accansions, and bas expanded to include every primo favor- Ito. The volume comprises nearly 700 pieces, repre- sonting consldorably fawor than 200 authors. Bmk-snro is, of course, tho mont largely quoted ; for, of wll human wiitings. Emerson Aota the highest value upon thoso of the Bard of Avon. Eighty-niuc extracts aro made from hin dramas oud ‘poems. Wordsworth ranks next among tho copious contributions, forty- ona pleces ,having his namo appended, ‘Thirty-threo seclections are taken from Dyron, twenty-three from Herrick, twonty-two from Tennyson, twenty-four from Durne, and twouty-two_from Ben Jonson, Among tho six from Coleridga, *Tho Aucicat Marinor” is nota- biy absent. No citations are mada from Milton's opic, as Emerson remarks, in explanation, **It ues no surely with the Bible on to overy book= ahelf ;" but the whole of thy **Comus" and the “Lyeidan,” with tho geandest pazsnges from ““Sammon Avonistes,” wro given. Awmong the poota of America, of tho prament goueratiom, who are honured by the compilor’s preference, is Brot Iarte,—whose five ptecer do not fnclnde *Tho Heathen Chineas” *If, 11," who has five picces; {lolmos, who bas seven; Whittier, soven; lowell, eight; Uryaut, eight; au Longfellow, seven. The whole collection is divided Into twelve arts, with the respective titlea: Naturo, Iuman Ffl(o, Iutellectual, Icroie, Hongs, ete., ete, A table of coutents, an index of authors, and an- other of firat lines, rendor perfoctly convenient of access what, it issafo to say, is tha monst valuablo compilation of poetry thut Lias yot been publirhed. ‘We have omitted until the laat mention of the intoresting cesay on pdets and poetry that pre- faces the volume. Though brief, it ia ropleto with terso cnticism and pithy Buggestion, “ Poetry,” says the weiter, * leaches the onormous force of & fow words, and, in pruiimlhm to the inspiration, checka loquaeity. Tt requires that rplendor of expres- sion which carries with it tho proof of great thuughts, Great thoughts ivsuro musical ex- pressions, Jivery word should be the right word. The poeis arc they who seo that spiritual ks groater than uny matenal force; that thoughts rylo the world.” Emoreun ranges the poets into two clarscs,— **the posts by educalion and practice,—tlhese we roapect; and poots by nature,—tbeso we love."” I'ope Lo ranks in the firat class: and Chaucer, . Shakspearo, Jonson, Ilerbert, Herrick, Collios, and lurns, are placed in tho sccoud class. Heott he pronounces ** a man of eenius, but only an accomplished rbhymer;” aud remarks of Claucer, **1 think ko bas lincs of more force than any English writer, excopt Bhakspenre.” In writing of tho latter bard, hoexprasses tho wirh that tho Academy of l.otters would offer a piizo for the beat casay on the poom, * Let the bird of proudest lay,” and the *‘Threnos," with which 1t clores ; ** the aim of the cesay being to oxjilain, by & historical research into tho poctic msths aud tendeucies of the ago in which {5 waa written, the framoe and allusicns of tho poem.” 1t is iutoresting to note that Emerson counts the ** Laodamia ™ and the **Ode on Immortali- ty " the best productions of Wordaworth, The ¢3say clodes'with the subjoiued para- g1aph ¢ Tae imagination wakened brings its own language, snd that i alvays musical. Tt uay or, moy ol Liste rhyme or 5 fixed metro; but it will slways bave its milaic or tone. Whatever Jangnago tho bard uses, thy secret of tone fa at tho Lieart of tha poem, Every great master i such by this power,~Cluucer, and - Bhuk- spearo, and Raleigh, and Milton, and _ Cole Hins, and Burns, und §iyron, and Teunynon, and Woie, ‘The truc uspiratiun alwaya bringa it, - Perlaps it can- 10t bo aualyzed ; but wo sl ylald toit. ILis the lifo of the good ballats : it fs in the German hymua which Wesley tranalated ; it i3 fn tho ** Maracillaing " of Rouget de Lislo; it gave (heir value to tho clauts of the old Ronilsh aod of the £ngilsh Church : snd it is the only sccotint wo can givo of \eir womlerful power on tho people. Poemn may pleaso by their talent and fnge- nuity: but, when they charm ue, it in because they Luve tiuds quzality, for this fs the ubion of Naturo with Thought, THE LAW OF WILLS. LEADING AMERICAN CABES AND NOTEN UPON THE LW or WiLLs, Ly Isiao F, Xroreip, LL.D, Bos ton: Litle, Brown & Co. 1874, This volumo will be found what its suthor in- tended it to bo: » supploment—and a valuable ane—to his worl on Wills, It is arranged in the eamo mannor as tho lattor treativs, and isdivided into six parts, treating respectively of Testn- moutary Capacits ; Fraud and Undue Intluencoin the Procurcment of Wille; Admission of Oral “Testimony to Expluin or Aid in the Coustruction of Wills;" the Extens to which Equity Wiil En- force btipulatious Mado to funduco Auy One to Omit Making a Will or a Bequest in 'avor of the Complainant ; the Execution of Wills and Tes- tameontary Qifta; and a selection of Iater casea upon s0mo of tho foregoiny topics. Lach part bas appropriate subdivisious, containing the leading canod on the subject-matter treated. Thoe noten of the author are very full, and marked by the Judge's learning, The leading cancs in Massa- chunotts, Vermout, New Yorl, Maryland, Maio, Michigan, Conneoticut, Now Jersay, Delawaro, Georgin, Pouusylvania, Kentucky, Tonnesuoe, Missours, North Carolins, Obio, aud Alabama are given. Tho book will tako its placo by the side of Hare's woll-known ** Leading Casos," A HOLIDAY-BOOK. IaNoe GRRENwWOOD AND PEANL OP PRIcE, WITH Tuzin Doxuey Kivp AxD Wise, Translated from tho Germun of 11, HOFFMANK DONNER by M, DEs- ranp, llustrated by ELEANOR GLXATOREX. QuAr- to, pp. 1. Irice, $1.25. Chlcugo: Jausen, Mce Clurg & Co,, and W. B, Keen, Cooke & Co. This holiday book comes to hand rather late in tho season ; but perhaps it is quite as well, 08 there ia not much to be eaid in praise of it. The rhymed fable s not remarkable for wit or moral, nor are tho illustrations of spocial futor- ost. Thoy aro outlinesdrawings, much as any skillod draughtsman might striko off for his own or anather's passing smusement, Wa will mako au exceptiun in favor of tho sncmro facivg pago 12, which has gonuine huuor 1o it. BOOKS RECEIVED. HaLr-Tloun RecueaTioss 15 Porutan Borenct, No, 'Tiix THANSMISION OF BQUND LY THE ATMOS- wiEnE, By Joux TYNDALL. @1aaxTio OuTrLy-Ive, By BAviLe Kext, Dapor, Boston : Estes & Lanriat, Havr-llouR RECREATIONS IN NATURAL Histony, Ine FECTH OF THE VOND AND BTHraM, By A, 8, PAok- Anv,dn, Paper, Bostou: Fates & Laurint, Hysxs AND RuYAtEs ron HOME Awp BCHOOL, Col- Tuctod by 3lrs, C. 8, Gustn, Compller of “Tiymna for Moihers and Children,® etc, = 18mo., pp, 132, Bston : Nichols & ilall, THE ANTEDILUVIAN; OR, BERPENTINE MOSINGS, Dya Descendant of Noab. 13mo., pp- 77 Now York,. Published for the Authior byd. P, Puttam's Sous, PERIUDICALS REORIVED. Saturday Journal and Day of Rest for Decem- ber (Aloxander Strahan, London ; Willwer & Ttogors® Nows Company, Now York). 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Erekwaou-Uhatnan's latest work, P The lutest contribntion to8hakspearean Jitera- turo is Mr. W, C. Lazlit's ** Fairy Mythology of Blakapoare.” Bhakepoarc's charactor of Cardinal Wolscy, as hae rocently boen showw, s copied aluivst ver- batim from Campion's * Iistory of Irelaud," written in 1671, Lord Lytton is said to be engaged upon an im- portsut work in the uature of a rumancs In verso, or & long love-poem. Btill anothor posthumous essay by Mr. Mill fs to seo the ligut. 1t seems that Lio left partly TIIE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBU. SATURDAY, finishead an ersny on ' Rocialisim,” which will bo bronght out early In the year, “Bonga uf Our Youth" Iy the author of * John [alifax, Gentleman,” “with pooms and music, {a just ready tn Englond, Victor Ingo Las jusl comuleted the mecond port of his novel “Quartre-vingt-treize,” Tt will ba entitled ** La Guerro Etrangerr The first volumno will sppear early in January, Mias Annie L. Howella, & nister of the editor of tha Atiantis, has voutured upan a verial atory, which |8 to appioar noxs year in the falary. The earlicat knnwn poetical valenlines waro written by Charlea, Duke of Orleans, A. 1D, 1415, ‘They aro’in tho library of tho British Muaseum. The witn of I’rof, Fawcatt, of Oxford, treading In the footateps of Miun Martinesn, haa publiahi- od & voluma of ** Talon of Political Economy," Drot Harts reports that mnch-talked-of play as noarly ready. The novel bas boen under way forgome tima. Mr. Harte will not Jive in Mor- nistown, N. J., after this year, Though Leo & Shepard havo becomo the pub- lnhiers of Gl and Nvw, itn_real ownership re- naing the same,—Air, Weeden, of Klodo Island, being tho largost stockhulder. A Calcutta correspondent of the London Times says that Paine’s ““Aza of Reason ™ is largely placarded on tho walls of that city, and is exton- sively circulatod at 1 ahilling a coj Julisn Hawthorno relates that his father ad- vised him to earn an honest llving in any way rather than be au author, Bat the yonug man, like other young mon, didn't taka the advice, ‘* A History of Political Economy fa Qer- many,” by the celebrated economst, I'rof. Roschier, of Loipzig, hlnzunt been publishod at Muunich by the Historical Commission of the Royal Bavarian Acadomy ot Sciences. The groater part of the views in Mr, Theodora Martin's ** Lifo of Princo Consort " have, I ia #ald, been mupplicd by Iier Majesty from her orivate partfolio and the touches of moro than oua royal pen will be found in the work, The London Saturday Review fids in Mr. Tancroft’s tenth volumo not s singlo eloquent paneage. **The narrativo," mavs tho Jeeview, ' etagnatey thrunfghuut at a dead level of weari- somp mediocrty.” The London Alleneum say the book is *' tame, discursive, and 1u bad tasto," A French psper mays that the Memolrs of Juarez, late Prevident of tha Mexican Reyublic, aro about to be published. It in mad that tius publication will coutain_curious revelationa with regard to tho Emperor Maximilian and Marshal Dazalue, Tt is roported that in the **Biblioteca” at Rio Janeiro, n gincovery Las becu imade of thirty- seven woodeuts by Albert Durer, in fine condi- tion,—the subject the ** Paseion of Our Lord," and dated 1624. No campleto set, it ix said, can bo found elsowhero. In addition, there hias also “turuedup” a copy of tho celebrated Adam and Eveof 1504, Mins Thackeray {n writing a new mor{’ callod “Migs Augel,” which s beon socurrd by Har- per's Magazine. and will bo commenced o the Febrnary number, It ia based on the romance of the lifo of Angelica Kaulltnan, the beautiful portrait-painter of the last century, mentioued &0 frequently by Sir Joshun Lieyuolde, aud of whom 10 Jess thau thrce bouks lhave been written. Johuson, Wilson & Co,, Now York, announce a Ilistory of the United States from the discov- ory of Americs until the close of the first cen- tennial period of the Republic, in 1876, 1t is to bo writton by Mr. Lossing, and illusteated by Darloy, in two volumesof 1,600 pages, with 500 cuts, under the titlo of ** Our Countrv.” The Bryant-Gay history is well along in the firat vol- ume, but will not be ready unil Jate in 1675, The disappearauce s reported from Trinity Colioge Library, Dublin, of 8t, Columbkill'a ** Book of Kells,” The book is valuod at £12,- 000, and o great excitemout i said to have been caused by the discovery that it is missing. It is #ail to have been sent some time ago to the British Muscum to be hound, and & demand for ita ** immodiate delivery " has beon forwarded by s special legal moesenger to tho Musoum ‘Trustoes. The German papers sunounce the death of Hoinrich Brockhaus, tho Load of the great pub- lishing firm st Lumzig. Ho was not only the grentost Gorman publisher—the last catalogue of Lis house amounts to about 2,400 numbers—Lut le belonga to that old, sud now almost extinct, raco of Looksellers who ed their trade to the diguity of a liberal profemsion. snd used their in- fluence i creatiug and fostoring o natlonal lite- raturo. The death of Eugene ltenduel, one of the most notablo Parivian publishers, is roported by tho Taris ppers. Tenduel hiad the boldness to pub- lish the first works of Victor Hugo. When Heinrich Heint went to offer him **Reisbilder.” hie said to him, as to others, ‘‘You will dnive mo to dio on straw.” *Yes,"esid Heint, on the straw of a chatesu.” The words were prophetic, for bodied iu his Chatean de Beuvron, Nlevre, in his 70th vear. The frionds of Victor Hlugo say that Renduel hized 200,000 fraues by *Notre Dame do P'aris" alono, By closo study of tho * Plckwick Papers,” Mr, George C. Egglostou has discovered that ' * Old Woller " nover said to 8ammy, ** Beware of tho *yidders,” and that * Old Weller's” nane was not ** Tony,"” or, if it was, that Lo spelt it with an “8." ns in the following yassage: “ ¢+ Yoll, Sammy,’ said thoe father. “4Vell, my Prooshan Blue,’ responded the son, laying down his pen, * ¢ What's the last bullctin abont mother-in-law ?* ‘4+ Mre. Veller passod o wery good night, but is uncommon perwerso and unpleasant this morn- in', Biguod upon oath, 8. Veller, Esquire,Senior. That's the last vun a8 waa {ssued, Sammy,’ re- plied Mr, Weller, untying Lis shawl, The sddition of the word *“scnior” to the name would scem to indicate not anly that Mr. Weller thought lus namo began with 'an 8, but also that—for the time at losst—ho was under tho impression that it was Samuel or Samivel,— and tlis, too, betore the doublo ‘'glays o' tho inwariable Lad been swallowed, GERMAN VOLKSLIED, Tt is the will of On: ‘That mew should Dopartiug, ‘Though through the world's wade circle there 1x nothing haif so hard to bear "An parting, \bove what most they love I¢ thon a rosshud should'st recetve, Bot it In water, but believa o My warnlog s It may with opening petals glow To-mOrrow ; it will wither, though, Niat worning, Hast thon one love who seems & part O thing own Iifo? whoso nmoss Leart Thoi keepent 7 When hat u hitle while has flown, 6he will biave left theo ali aone, Thou weopest! et think not this & wayward cry 2 Wheu men clsap hands and say yoodsbye, Alihough the parting thrill with pain, Tuey whisper, * Friend, # Auf wiederschn 1 To imeet agawti] o melt agai —Annic Mutheaon w Christian Cnion, iagddos ol ey GENERAL NEWS [TEMS. Aftera world of work and drill, neglect of business and household duties, the Ladies' Building Fund Assocration, of Bloomingtou, 1il,, lwouglit out the oratorio of ** Belsbazzar,” and cloared §7.95. Charles Ilalo, formerly editor of the Boston Daily Adeertiser, at ous time Speaker of tho Massachusotts House of Represontatives, and afterwards Consul-General of tho United States in Egypt, haa just beon admitted ig practicous a lawyer 1n the fassachusctis courts. wonductor Chandler, of the Now Ilaven & Nortuauipton Rallroad, was surprised the other day by tho recovery of a diamond ring belonging 1o his wite, who was drowned in the flood, It wan found by a wan named Weleb, while digging in the Mill River valloy. When the Memorial chapel, which is now in pracess of construction, {v completed, tho amount of money vxvended iu building at Yalo Uullogo sluce 1809 will roach, at tho Jowest ostituate, the sum of §050,000, 'Tho results should b of kuch & charsctor as to awaken a feoling of prido every friond of tho institution, but instead of that’ they are utterly excerable as looked at from sn artistio point of view.—Harlford Post. The “applo {-ck " crop is heavy in Lehigh County, I's., this year. For tho month of Boptember 6,918 gallous were reportod to tho Unitod Siates Collector at Alleutown, aud for the month of Octpber 10,845 gallons. The Noveu- ber distillation bLsa yet to be reported, sud will prubably be 10,000 to 11,000 gallous more, Fvory rollua twust be repdrted to tha revouue ofticers, aud pay 70 cents per galloa. Over eixty different naticns, Including Japan, now burn American ketosone, and tho extremely emall price has given such &n impetus to its sduption as an lflummlwr all over ‘the world, that it must prove bighly beusficial to the pro- ducing intecest in future yoars. (iormauy, In 1573, conwumod 52,116,773 gallons, at a coet of 11,460,151 ¢ BeIFium, 42,016,650 gallons, costing §5,127.408 ; ¥ngland, 62,000,000 worth, and Ire~ laud about §1,341,7C5 worlh, JARY 2, 1875, FAMILIAR TALK. THE STAGE IN ITALY. A writer in tho last Lippincolt—s personal friond of Salvini—ecommunicates somo Interesting inteliigence concerming * ‘Lhe Stago in Ialy," The Italians are more addicted to the theatrn than any other people, but give to the opera tho preference over tha play, It is the wenersl cus- tom for every family of social position to own a box at somo prominent theatre, whero they regu- larly pend their oveninga and reccive their fricuds, The emallest city bas its piay-houso ; whilo the large cupitalw, like Milan and Naples, havo as many as a dozen. Tlo most spacions and clegant theatres aro reservod exclusively for tho representation of the opers, which may Lo considersd a national entortainment, and which 1a fostered, aud in part sustained, by the Government. On the other hand, the drama ro- caives no such encoursgement, but is aupported entirely by private enterpriso, ‘Ihe thoatres aro never ownod or controlled by & tnonager, aa in our country, but are tha property of sume noble- man or of s stock compauy, and are sented by tho month to traveling troupien, Tho actor is an itineraut iu Italy, and, while engaged m Lis profession, is ever moviog from place to place, and sojuurning, beyoud a fow weeks, in nove, 'Fhe entire corps of pLlayers ie dividad into about oighty troupes,—each heing under the direction of one person, who in usual- Iy botls mauager aud leading sctor. 'Lhe priuci- pal truu&mu in the line of tragedy are the '* Bal- vind," “ Ristord,” ** Majeroni,” ** Ledowskl," and * Iiemi;" fn Ligh comedy, the * Lollotti Bon,” and the *‘Je Merin," ‘in farce and vaudeville, The ** Balvini,” ** Ristori,” and ** Rousi " troupes liave made tho tour of the world ; but the * Lel- lotti Bon " Las uover boen outsiie of Italy. Lach company carries with it tho scenery and wardrobes required in_its entertainments, and, when about 10 visit a city, sfier renting a thea- tre, pecures & list of rabscriptions for the eea- #on, and, secording Lo thuir number, regulatcs its expenren, 3 T'ho Itallan players aro, as a class, frugal, in- duetrioun, and teapectabio ; oud thoie entertain- 1nents are of a purer moral tone than the aver- age of performauces on tho French or English ktoge. Yet socioty has lookod upon them coldly, and, until withu recent period, haa excluded from its palo mud privilegos aciors of even the disunguished abiiities of Salvini, Iistori, aud Roesi. Owing, 1 a great measure, to this cir- cumwmslancs, the profession, when once adopted, has been followad by parents and cuildren from seneration to goueration,—giving rise to tho Tuscan proverb, **Tho sonof an sctor is always an actor.” It will be remembered that, in the Salviui Company. there were the two brothors, Aleesandro aud Tomaso, several Fiamoutis, tyvo or three Piccitus, and two Colonellas. The pareuts of vini were both skillful sctors : Histori was for years connected with a troupe of which her motber, Signora Madalena Iistors, was the leading lady ; aud Rossi gud Mageroni wero boru and brought up on the etage. Several act- orsin s Venotisu compauy clsim descent from plavers who exhilited their talent for the amuse- mont of Lucrezia Boryia aud Leonora d'Exte, According to tho auhority on whom we rest thene patticulars, Bignora Sedoweki—the wife of & wealthy nobloman 1 vNapies, aud tho owner of throe large theatres in that city—is the Rreatoat trufim actross of Iialy. Less stately and graud than Ristorl, she excels her preat rivalin fire and depth of feeling, In the part of I'hedre, ske is said 10 bo tae equal of Lachel. Liamonti, tho first lady in the Balvini Troupe, is the pupil of her mauager, who doeclares of ber, that ehe is oue of tus most versatile nctresses he Lias over kuown, being egually good iu tragody aod comedy. Francesca di Rimint in considered her wraudest characterization. Ris- tori is, in Itaiy, mioro famous in comedy than in tragedy. although granted great genmus in the Iatter depattment of tho drama. Guetavo Modena bas enjoyed the highest ro- nown of any sctor in Italy, and mav be called the Qarrick of the Italian “stage. 1fe was of commandiug stature, with & piercing eye, and s rich, powerful voice of cxtraordinary compass. Like Michael Augelo and the elder Dooth, he bad a broken noso. He waa particularly cele- brated tn tho role of Saul, in Alfieris' traged; To Modoba, who was for some time his teachier, Halnim gratefally attributes much of his art and fame. ‘The iliustrious maestro mado his exit from lifo’s stage somo yoars. sgo. Majeroni las paeted his prime, and, in the decline of s years, 1alls off from his former greatness, and mars Lis sctiug with an excces of nowse and gesticulation. Rosey, in yoars aud talent the rival of Salvini, is moreimpetuous and ardent, Lut lees intellectual, and decidedly inferior in el easion, : Aprapos ot elocution, Salvini remarks : ** The best method is obtained by close cbservation of Nature, and, above ali, by earnestn: It you cau imprees people with ‘s conviction that you fesl what you say, they will parduu many shors- comings. ~And, above sll, studv—study—study | All tho gonius iu the world will not help you along with any art, unloss you become a hard student., It has taken me years to master a sin- Rle piart.” Balvini is now occupiod with the role of King Lear, with thoe purpose of adding it to Lis repertoire. ** I think 1 shall be able to muke somcthing out of the old King,” he says. ‘[ Liava been reading the tragedy for some time, but it will still take ma two years to etudy it thoroughly.” It took Salvini mnny years to petfect bimselt in Otheliv. e uterpre- tstion of Bbokspeate's iden of tho character s worth noting: "I am of &\Tiniou that Shakspeare iutended Othello to bo o Moor of Barbary, or some other postol Northern Afrnica, of whom therowvore many in Italy auring tho eixteonth ceutury. 1have mot several, and think I imitato their ways and mannors protty well, You are aware, howover, that the Listoric- al Othello was not a black &t all, Iio was & whito wan, and a Vouetian (leneral named Mora. s history.resembles that of Shakspears's hero in many particulars. Giraldo Cinthio, probably for bester effcct, mado out thie nawme Mora, Moro, a blackamoor; aud Shakspeare, unacquainted with the true story, followed this old novelist's lead aud 1t was woil ho did 8o, for Lave wo not it con- soiquence tho most perfect deitneation of the peculiarities of Moorish temperauent ever cou~ ceivod 2" SIR WALTER RALEIOW'S HOUSE. * One of tho principal objects of intorest in the seaporl town Youghsl, in the County of Cork, rolaud, is the house, now called Myrils Grove, which was onco ownod and fnhabited by Sir Wal- tor Raleigh. In 1780, tho Kuight, then 28 yeara of age, held a Captain’s commission in Ireland, and, for his gallaut services, was rewarded by the Crown with a gift of 12,000 acres out of the forfoited lands of the Earl of Desmond. On tho margin of the undertaker's deod of ths vonfia- cated estatos, dated 1635, is the following note: +*Bir Waltor Raleigh had theso lands by expresa words and warraut in a specia! letter from Ier Majesty,” A part of this property conssted of the bouse in Youghsl, which is an admirable specimen of the Llizacotlau style of architec- ture, and i an excollent stato of preservation. ‘Llicre ia said to be & striking resemblance bo- tween this bullding aud theold print of Hays Farm, the birthvlace of Raleigh, in Devonshiro. A writer iu the Dublin Unitersity Magazine of Hoptember, 1854, kays of tho Yourhal mansion : “'The iuterior 1s_throughout wainsootod with Irish oak,—now, through age, of almost chony hue,—and the paneling, iu_many placos, richly decorated, There is a chimuey-pleco in the drawing-room, also of oak, reacuing to the ceil. ing, aud covered over with grotesque figurcs eluborate curving, which would not disgrace Gim- lng Giboons., Uohind the wainscoting of this room, & receas way, & fow yearswsince, rovealed, in which a part of the old monkish tibsary, hid- den at the poriod of the Retormation, was dis- covered.” Lhe hbrary is limited to afew vol- umes printed botweon 1479 and 1484, Oune'of the fow ploces of furniture lott in the houss by Sir Walter Raleigh waa & curiously-carved cabie not, which was exhibited in the Cork Kixposition of 1852, The walls of tho houso wre 5 feot thick ; and such uas beeu the care oxpended in the preservation of the ancient edilice by its successtve owuers thoi it remains to-duy sub. stantially In the same condition as wheu tho property of Bir Walter, 300 yoors ago, ‘I'hio garden attached to tho houwe, in which tradition suys the first potato was planted in lre- lund, 18 but about 3 acrea u exteut. In it wtunds the yen-tree under the shade of which tho Knight smoked the fragrant weed intro- ducod by bim from Amorica into England, Iu 1549, the poot Spenser obtained from the Crown o grant of 8,024 acrus from the couflacal- ed estates of the Kuri of Desinond, with the pro- viso sttached, that he should reside upon the premises. 1o tuerefore tovk up bis residenco -lu Kilcolmau Uastle, near Dunervilo, in the Borough of Cork, where Le romained until 1593, wheu the castle was stormed by the insurgouts, und hoe tled, with his wife, to England. T'hun, Ly the chauces of fortuus, two of the great men whose names lsnd lustro to tue oigls of Eliza beth were, for s time, neighboriug lund-holders in the south af heland, laleigh was by uo moaus & pormatent resident of Youghal, as hu love of sdventure sud hLis servico upon tho Queen loft hiwm little lelsuro for u sojourn in any one place ; but, whilo Lo was at home iu tho ald sen-port, Lis interchango of visits with Sjenser was frequent. After the death of Bir Lbilip Bidney, be bheld toward the poot the place of patrow, reudosed vasant by sbo doceaso of that chivalroun conrtier and gantleman. In 1580 ho visitad Spenser, and the two {ilustrioua friands read togethier the mauusctipt of * Tho Tacry Quoon,"” Amongrt fhie eoclly ehado Of the green ldecs, by the Malia'a share, Rir Walter retained the house in Yougoal until 1602, when, according (o the den of transfer, * Hir Waiter Kaleigh, Knicht, Captain of the Quecn's Guard, Lord Warden of the Stannauia, and Governor of Jersey," disposed of lus Irish property to Mr. Boylo, in eongideration of thren payments of £390 “each. Sixtean years after, the Knight suffered au ignominious desth on the scaffold, inlus Gith yoar. Tue Raleigh housn has lately underyone” a ehange of owuerr, and tho fact Las called renawed atlention to the as- n‘ruinllmm cunnected with the veucrable man- sion. THE WORD PILANTHROPY. In s paper read by him beforo the American Phllological Asnociation, at tho Hartford mect- ing in July, Col.T. W. Higginson traces the modern history of the word Fhilantiropy. The term founa b place in the Lnglish vocabulary tn tho year 1625, when it sppeared in tho lint of new words In tho second edition of Menshen's ** Guide to the Tonguce," a8 fullowa: * Thilan- thropio: Ifumanitie, & Toving of men.” Tho word is not used by Claucer, or Spenser, or Bhakapeare ; neither does it occur in the author- ized revikion of the Engligh Bible, firat published in I1611. Tho Pilgrim Fathers had probably never heard it spoken. I 1623, Lord Liacon employod theterm inhis ergay on “*Gooducssand Gooduess of Heart," in tho enbjoined lines : **I take good- noss in this sense: the affecting of the weal of men, which i that the Greciana cell Philan- fhropia ; and the word IMumanity (aw it is umed) fs a hitlo too light (o exjroma it The n appearanco of the teim in in Jeromy Tavlor's *loly Dying,” pub- lished in 1651, where the author translates tho original Greek word Into ¥ a lover of mankind " but 1 his Sermons, dated the ensuing_year, ho used the Enelivh word in the phrass, ** That o4~ like excollaucy, & Flulanthrapy and lovo to' il mankiud"; and agam, *“The” Fhilanthropy_of God." Dut the word grew in use niowlr, Not until 1693 do we find 1t azain,—this timoju o preface to 8ir 1. Steere's vermion of Polvbius, wntten by Dryden, who says: *“This Flilan- tlropy, which we have not m proper woid in Enghels to expreea,” o quote Col. Higrinson: *Three loading writers of their century—Dacon, Tavlor, and Dryden—thus furaleh tho milestones that mark tha entry of the word Philantiropy into our lan- wuage, Doubtices the resson of ‘its use 18 cor- recily stated by Dryden: it was needed. Tho word may Le traced in Greek literawure to a date within about two centuries of tho begin. uing of suthentiz lustory, sbowing that the fei- tenen knew, atso early B period in their ex- isteuce, the virtue for which the word stood. Jeremy Taylor, Barrow, and Young, used tho word n application 1o the DLeity.—a uac in which it is now reldom emploved. The Greeks used the term in tho doubls scoso of *the fatherhood of God and the biotherhood of wan," ‘The word * Philantic," for *melf-love," wns introduced into the Jist of new woids by Meuslien, at the sams time with * Philanturopy.” aud way uned by Holinshed, and by Beautnont aud Fletcher: hut it 14 now obsolete. Lioth words had the same origin: but the one with o good impors taok root i the language, aud tho other withered and dic FUNDAY-C110013. To Francis Asburs, *the patriarch of Ameri- can Methodism," belongs the honor of establish- ing the first Sunduy-school in America, 1t was located in Hancock County, Virginia, it 1736, Four vears loter, the Methodist Confercuco passed a formal resolution Lo establieh Bundas schools for the beneflt of the poorer children, Dot white and colored. The following year, 1791, a Socicty was incorporated iu Philadelphia, under the title of **Tho First-Day or Sunday- School Bociety." Verious devomivations wero represented in this organization, of which Bishop White, of tho Episcopal Churcl, wis elected DPresident,—rotaimng the oftice daring bis life, Tho object of tho Society was tc mid in tho establishment of Bunday-ecuools which were conCucted by paid toachers. Though tho Soclety atill coutivues in existence, it Las bad 1o schools under its care since 1819, but oxpends its funds—amouunting ta about 300 an- nuslly—in donativns of books to needy schooly in and about I'hiladelphia. Iu 1804, Mr. Dim Bothuno opened one of the first permament Buuday-schools 1n the City of New York. It was oo his return from a visit to England, whero he had examined the svstom, and become much iotererted in its useful results. It was recorded of this school, in tho diary of a con- temporary, as * & wonderful thing that young Iadies. thd first fu station, in society nud ac- complishments, should volunteer to teach litile orplans of God's providouce,” ANCIENT AND MODERN. With the nse of modera machinery, a single miller is now ablo to produce flonr enough for the asily supply of 3,600 men. With tho hand- mill, which wan the machine for grinding grain smong the Greeks, o man could produce oaly flour enough to supply 35 mon. Tbus the ma- chinery of the prescat mitl represents thio lavor of 144 mon. A lively knitter can mako 30 stitches a winute with her kueedles, The kuitting-ma- chine will make 4,500 etitches in the same time; or, in other words, works withan efticieucy equiv- alent to 160 laborers, In the light of theso ile lustratious, if we compare tho slow process of bhand labor which prevailed among the aucionts, 1,000 years after Homer's timo, with tho abun- dant oud complex lusuries onjoyed by tbo aris- tocratic and idle clusses of that poriod, we slall give some coneeptivn of the drudgery performed Dy the laboring people, and of thelr miserablo roward, Tho splondor of autiquity grows dull and unenviabic when it 13 conmdered” at what a vast expense of humeu poverty sud suiferiug it was pracurod. SUICIDE, Itis estimated that, out of 1.000,000 inhahi- tants, 14 cowmmit suicide in Spain, 82 in tho United Btates, 43 in Delgium, 66 in Sweden, (9 in Great Britain, 73 in Davaria, 94 in Norway, 196 in tho Grand Duchy of Baden, 110 in France, 123 in Prussia, 123in Hanover, 155 in Olden- burg. 156 in Lauenburg, 159 in Mocklonburg, 173 in Holstein, 209 in Schlcswiyg, 251 in 8axony, 238 in Denmark, and 383 in 8axe-Altenburg. Of tho oceupations of theaosuicides, it in observed that Y por ceut bolong tothe sgrienltural clusses, 13 per cent to the tradesmon, 15 per cent tu tho merchants, 21 per cent to the professions, aml the romaiviog 41 per cent arc without o soitled ocenpation, It 18 remarked, in the kame contec- tion, that warm and dry seasons are regarded as particularly favorsble to tho duvelupacnt vi tho mauia for sulcido, e THE ASCENSION, Prom the Spanfahiof Luis Poncs de Lon, BY WILLIAM CULLEN BEVANT, Good shephord, wilt thou leave valo tho flock that wav thy eare Aloie L pine and griese, Waalo throush the purer sl Thou riscst up tolds forever fair? Tn thia lo Thiey who, supremely West Until the dawn of ihis unbapyy day, Loated on 1hy loviug breast, o whoin on (arth Shail they Hearken or Juok whien 140u art far uway ¢ What comeliness or grace Can they whosa eyus bokield thy Loauty see 1u other forin or fuce 7 Wuat wuaic will not.be Harsh to tho vans thut husrkeried once to thes? Who now apon the deep Shall Took aud curb ftw fury? Who shall lay Tho stormy winds sslecp? What Iode-atar's fricully ray, Whon thine {s hid, shall guide the veasol's way ¥ Why change our happy state, 0 enviuus cloud, to helplomuoss and fear 1 How proud of thelr rich freigut My shiuing folds ayjeirt How blind atid wretcled thou dust Jsave us here] —Indepenaent, Parix Correapondence uf the New York Fines, While speaking of Austria L may &s well men- tion au ominous report respoctiug the ** besuti- ful blua Dunube,” o called becauso it s of a wuddy, yellow volor. The schoue blauen Donsu shows a ‘decided inclination 1o conlerce with the Rbive, Butween Immerdingen aud Maliringen o largepart of tho waters jcave their bed, and from tluy point the Dsuube flows ju diminished volumo. otwoen it aud the streamas of the Rhiue thero is & rooky ridge about m mile and & balf 1 width, sud the Danube waters wbow & de- #ire to pass beneath it, to rise in what is known @8 the sepring of Ach, from whick tlows the.river by that vame, 800 feet De- low the level of tho bed of tue Dunubo. If a large subterrancan canal ouuld be woru out, all the waters of this Dbrauch of the Danubo would naturally go to swell the Ach sud tucuce fall into the Rhine, Ho much makes ita os now that'the mills of Mahringen sl -hll.lnc;:;sfi ALOIR re tly hald & meeting to dovise mywnn topping thin underground fluma, Tt o atap it would be to injure tho mills of Arlen, on tho Ach. and theie proprietors got out an injuncton to stop the proceodings. Thia has thrown the matter into eourt, and the lax, ha to decide whether or not tha Danubo will bo allowed to jnin ita forlunos with the chief river of the Faderland, A curious qaestion of what may ba ealled ** pradentinl economy * hare comng up. Supposing the yoluma of tie Dannbo di- munishen o aa Lo lower the waler, sy 1) faet swould it not drain the marsbies of Wallachin, and thuws open up to enttivation millons of actes of Jand that have lain for centuriea Lile? Luay :*centuries,” but I may sy ages, for bofors mo in ¢lielved the femur of a mastodon tak-n from the mud of this section, and this is n tolerablo proof of tlio antiquity of ite unefulucss, Sl ALLIE ARNOLD. Toths Editor of The Chiraao Tribune : There were many-raddened f. when, some threo monthe ago, fiom her Miclugan home came tho tidgs, ** diw. Allio Arnotd. Crawford i dead,” A few dnys later, a throng of grief-stricken friends, in her nativo city, followed the loved remann to their burial, from sight, her beautitul life will long bo an insptration for gaod to all who knew her. Blie, Teing dead, yot epeaketh, Allio Arnold's native city was Fond da Lae, Wis,, amd thore all her girlhood dags wero spent, Her lovely lifo mlently unfolded itwolf year after sear, aud, when ho was gono, tho peoplo felt that one of tho chinf attractions that graced their pleasant city had been takon away, Neatly overybody Lnew her: scarccly a man, woman, or clild, who tid not receive from her a cordial greeting wheu sbe passed, Often, v tho early murning, her door-yard was filled swith hool-cluldren eagerly waiting for *¢ Miss Al- lie. Hor presanco charmed the mant fashionable circles, and ber auule wag like snlight to the posr. Lomutiful in person, gifted in' intelloct, pure in epirit, abe was * A perfect woman, nobly T warn, to comfort Her attail nly matelied by her ae- vity, nhter of o widowed mother 11 lumble cireametances, and always aivuled with her tho houselobl earan, During ber echiool-life kho was viry studious, complet- lug the High-Sohoul conrsa when el wos but 16, bewides taking extro studien 1 music and langiages. Biw was alwaye & great favorit with tencbiers and classmates s they gladls gave to hier the first place, which lier lovely disn.asie tion. high sclolarship, aund dekcato geutus, do kerved. torn year'n sojonrn in New Jorsev, where £hio won many frienis, tho retirued homo to enter the pelinlrom asa teacier, And, from that timo until her matriage,—a period of five years,—tho real brain-work that eho aceome phelied was wouderful, - Teuching in tho day- #ehool, Bunday-xchoul, aml musc-mom, slio yet found time to write frequently for ms Zines und papers, compose posius for pecinl o casions, aud, for 8ome mouthe, to Act a8 a=gint- ant editress of one of the ety papers, At the wame tle, 1o home or sovial duty was neglect- d: o was ever n losiug sister and devoted danghter. fhe walis of Ler hows woro adornod with her sketener, and flowers sprang up and blossomed 1o tho totich of her fary gy, Slie was nevor absent from hinr place at the churet-organ, and alwayy responded with pleas ura to every eall for vervien. No festive scend reemed complete without ler, and ler mang fnends made frequent demands upon ber vl able time. But #ho was perfectly kind anl impar. tinl, and mado every one wolcomo and al eare in her preserce.” HShe never seemed Lo reahize that elio wan more gifted and of raret make thau others, and hrer modesty and relf-for. getfulnera threw an added charm over her lifo, It is for Lier Iteracy labors that her namo will be romembered aud cheriched by thooe who did ot know her personally, Sno bosan writing fur the press before kho left the High School; prd, about the time elie graduated, one of her peetic cnl essave was pronounced by many one uf the Dbest productions that bad ever como from the pen of a Wiscousin student, ler vale- dictory was n fino composition, nnd none who leard her pive it win forgot the grace aud beauty of her rondering, Al then predicted for her o brilisnt future, Alas that it should bo ro short! From that timo until her death, she wrote constautly for somo of the best papers in the country She was n regular contributor ¢ Harper's Weekly, the Independent, the Ch at Work, the Christian Union, tho Advan other papers, ler poem, ** Easter-Mor published 1 Zarper's Weekly last April, wor the praiso of some of the best writers in the country, liad Mre. Crawford's life beon spared, sl would undoubtedly have obtained a hist placo in Jiteraure, Sue was but 28 and yet tbe depth and fimsh ol her pocms have often beon romaried. e beantiful thoughta, wafted on the wingsof the rexs, have brought delight and comfort to many iearts, and huve helped many o one to a higher, truer life. Not loug ngo, 8 gentleman, wh did not know ber at all, tovk from his pockot an en- velopo on whicls i hiad copied her exquisito fittle ‘mnm. ** Aftor the Storm,' s raid thut o ha! heeu more touched aud strongthened Ly thal +hott picce thau by anvthing that bo hal reuc for years. It wasono of tho last Lutes s wrote, when she knew ehe bad not long to live Q\""h"' sliowa bier entire resiguation to the Diviw il Death eame in * consumption'sphastly form, and severed the tios that bound her to 4 desotcr mothor, & loved brother, 8 hisband ¢ wiuni sl was fondly attached, and a dear letlo infan danghter, - ‘Iho loss to her friends, to socloty, to iiter ature, it great s Lut ber own fnlumg ter till Hersmrit was ever attuned to Heaven's har monies, aud tha discordant sounds of eurth wil 10 Moz jar upon her nonsitivo splrit. The following * New Your's™ poews from ha pen, published o fow years w0, at hor howa will ba rex! with ploasurs by the many who wen famlir with ber namo: Frony oir myht thie O11 Yonr faded, Fu the gt cold and gray 3 Down the patiw (s din snd shadod, Gt for uye, Gone, mnd yet Lho carly morning i¥uineen of the New Yeac's birthg Al the powing East glves warng To the earth, by Coming ] roming! 1lear tha calling Of hier voice among tho pinos, Whero the kuow-wreath, fu its falling, Whirls aud slines, Coming? Ye, her light step clingeth '0 tho feosty-pinfonesd whids Freably-dawaing 1ifo sho Lriugeth To nunkind, Now the world's great heart fs bea Witk 4 pulse elato and atreng. Waken, then, and glvo her grootiog, Glad und loug} Joyoun New Year! Iot thy desling cntlo b, and ever valin, — Al th woudd of vreor healing Withs thy Laini, Let the Spring, with roscate finger, ‘Prich thy pallid cheok, ond etarf All tho kb tdes, that lnger At thv heast, X Faint with Bumme r'a richest lustra Tetalod Hower atd tavseled weed § Aud ths Autunin grain still cluste For our necd, Then, 0 King of Pears and Promisa} "Ly Sow aeross the veds ko by face to vhine upon uy, Giviug Leace, o i Cronch Thrift, The Pictorial World Las the following: “T1 has Leen soid that nothing is over lost or throwa awuy i Paris, and this soying bas received a cions exemplitieation in the published state. munt of what becomen of the fallen leaves raked up in the public grounds of this grout city, All duad leavos, brokon bratchics, &c., are always carofully removed, and sro uover allowed to ac- cumulsto ou the grouwd, and rocontly we Irsve loen toid whut bocomes of thout. ~ The dead Ieuyos of the Paluis oyl Gurden belong by right to the person who has leasod the Cafu da In Hotundu and the four puvilivns, and who bas also purchused the right to let vug the chairs, ta colleet tho ice from tho funutwn, eic., for all of which privilegos ba pays about 17,000 franes por annum, 1lo sells the leaves to oue M. Bacristain, who mukes munuro of them. The leaves of the "Luilerics Gurdon are wweh prized by horti- culturisty becagso they coutaiu a great wany leaven from tho piano {res, which are valualla covoriug for aved plots, This ouo garden pro- duces from eighty to 100 vart-loads of dead leaves aunually, Thodo from the Luxembourg Garden are presorved by the Adwinistration, aud are puckod uway to Lo usod in winter for covering l(uplul plunts, The loayes of tho Champs Ely seos und from the other promenades are ssut ou to Passy to be used in the Goverument hot Liouses there.” lave run elort of water-power, and the rropii- But, though biddon * s