Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 10, 1875, Page 3

et e e THE CHTCAGO TRIBUN SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1875, —TWELVE LS. PG LITERATURE. DRAMA. Ve TennTIoN, ccta, 1o, 1D Quzry Manr: Al ors Hilit o LH), Duston: 0, "I ieve 18 much in thia play of Lugland’s post- Inuren‘e to recall Shakapoato's drama of ** King Howmy VIIL” Iy this wo do not moan to nay that tl:o latier work rivals tho earlior onein power and improssivences, but that the per- sonages and the Incldonts portrayed in it are fi*imately related n thair chatactor and tragical conclusion to those which fguro in the scenca of tho oller play, snd bave somothing of the eama n.oral olovation and sublimity, Tho drama of **Quban Mary " i8 ua truo to history as [sthat of “Homy VILL"; and, thorofore, its charac- ters cannot, through any idealization of tho oet, Tiso to an_equal heiglit of graudour, and enhst our admiration 8o warmly by thelr great- nam, of shiock aud pain our sympathies so deop- 17 Ly thole fall, Queen Mery had sirongor aud lcen lovely Lraita than ber motlier, Katherine of Aragon, aud fu a great mossuro baving wrought out her own wrotched fate, wo do not accord hor our pity without reeerve, Yet Tonuyson has Enpartod so much majesty and pathos to hia pict- wro of tius ** Unhappicet of Quocns and wives end womon,” that our foclings aro touchod with comra ‘#ion for her dezolaling sorrowa. At} or striking qualitios sro depicted fn the tiveliots ocolors: the lion-like courage, the imperial bearing, the unyielding dispo eiticn thot wero Lor {uheritanco from tho Todora; tho spirit of religions zoal oud Ligotry and porsecution that camo with lior Sp.anish blood ; and tho abject, piteons de- vuliou to bor husband that was the poriion of hereex. Thess lard, unbending dispomtions that dwalt together in Mary's charactor, aud foro- dcamed bor to work mischief to hereelf and hor Ringdom, are vigorously brought cut by Tenuy- son, and creste au imposing and effective piocs of poitraiture, ©Of all tho omotlons it ox- cites in tho spoctator, commiseraln {4 para- monnt, 1t in rathor doubtful who among the rest of tho drume tis person ranks noxt o the Quoen in muportance, Between forty and fifty differont figurea entor upon Lhe econs during the action of tha play, which mcludes tho ontire period of Mary's volgn. Somo of theso flit quickly scione tho slago, supplying & light link fn the story, and thon are noO mnro seen, whils of tho more conspicuous cliaracters only Elizabeth and Sitmon Lenard ap- pear m tho first nnd _survive to tho flith net. Briseon Cranmer and Cardinal Wolkoy o paral- 1t i% naLuralty suggoated, althongh the former Lails uu far below the Jatter (n roul greattiess as d.en Mury honeath Queen Kathorine. Cranmer 1< itroduced, at ou onily stago of tho druma. a8 il n remdent of Lambeth Palace and clothed with tha autharity of tho Archbishop of Cantor- b but perila aro atready thickoning araund Litm, aenid which ho as yot itands firm. In the fouth act o anpoats ngain, but degraded from puwer, his spinit brokeu, sud himnolf an lumato of the Oxford Priron, From this last he noeacs ty St. Mury's Cburch on bLis way to the s*1ko, and instend of reading lis recanta- tion, a8 the Catholics oxpected, recovern ha coursge and concludesn an adidross (w} of tho digwty and sweotncss of Chris- tian chanty, by sonulling his recantation, aud Iica Lravely marches, with o smilo on lns faco, {a 1l flery death awaiting bim, ‘I'bis spoech, in which Cranmer bids farewoll to the pooplo, 18 ag (i e a4 anything in tho drama, aud wa copy the Gnal porton: 34 ] ‘ople, overs man at time of death il Saha ot foryh noue naylv. that miey Liva Attt is death und batter humanland ; \ given ilfe's Lest word u power 10 lve, o stone-cut opitaph, reinain vaulshi'd voics, aud ageak o uion, -t ma grace o glorify my God ! { fir ¢ T aay it in n gricvous cann, y s dlote upon this bubble world, o -olora fu u momont brealt cud iy, Tray ¢ ro for nothiug claed What saflly 8t John: “1,.ve 3t (hia world f6 batred againat God,"” A i, Tpray you all tht, nest to God, V'3 do unmurmuringly aud wiliugly 0. ey year Klog and Queen, and not for dread 0 theen ulone, but from tuo fear of Him Vanse inintsters they be to govern you, Tu'rdly, T pray you sl to love togriLer Lite k¥ theen’ yet what hatred Christian men Jear to each ollier, secuiing not as brethren, But i rial foes ! But do you good to all Aswicu a8 in you lieth, ilort 00 man more Wt you would barm your loving nsturnl brother OF (ke wame rool, same breast, It wny do, AlLeit 1.0 thuk imeelf at honio with God, Of Vi baatirr, La ts wiole worlds away, Fourdity, to thoss that ows excaading wealth, seienper that nore saying spoken oncs Tiv Him that was the truth, © How bard It 18 e tho rich man o enter ffeaven.” A1 vick men remember that hard word, « not timo for mores 1£ aver, now ~m flow forth in charity, scolng now pcor 50 many, and all food wo dear, et have heard Ivo 10 the poor, th s in tho poor, .w 1 come to the great causs that weighs conacienco mofe thu auytiing done u all ny ife by me; T thcre b wrltinga 1 ave et abroxd Jirsnat tho truth 1 kucw within my hestt, Writlen for fear of desth, to save my life, 10 that might be; o pajara by my band Eign'd since my dagradation—by this hand Writien and wgued—1 hero renonncs them sty Ani, stuce my band offended, having written Agsiiitiny hoart, my Leart sball Arst be Lusat, By 1 miay cowme to the fire, WiLLiase, Fon kraw that you recanted all you safd Juclfog the sacrament in (Bt saws book w1 W+ oto agaiunt my Locd of Wincloster Di.sereblo not; play'the plain Christfau mag, 5 Alss, my Lord, 1 hye beon & man loved plaiuness allmy lifa} 1.uriclaramble, but tha hour bas cor }, T u*tex truth and pluiouess ; whe nh--\fl by all X wrote wathin that baol toren.ver, ), I count him anti-Chriat, & fur e Po With u) ifs Devil's doctriues : aud refug, Reject Lim, and abbor him, have aald, Fo: succeas on ths stage, Tenanyson's play mus; borrow largely from the resourcos of tho Lostrionicart, It will need afl the skill of the .kt covAummato octors to Juvess the ncencs v:ith interost, woila to glve thetn nnity will bo an i ole tauk, Chis waa tho poot's pert, and e hrw failed to accompliali §t. ‘Tho plot linges on tlis Jove of Mary for Philip of Spaln, which thie chiet cause of her minery lm‘1 hor misgovern- mout § bat 100 little room i8 given in tho drama fur the play of thie fotal rnmnn, looco strong olfcts are missead that might eosily have beon created. In s woid, criticiem mav. h\y of *gueen Mary ™ that {t is a historical drama in which the Lintorical eloment greatly outweighs the dramatio, PORTRAITS OF THE GAUL. Tug Farcu az Hour, Dy Arpens lmcoer, With I8 ustrations, hquaro oy . 20, Jew Yark s Dodd & Blead, - s B¢ It{s bard for the Anglo-Baxon to understand thie Frenob charaoter, and therefors to entsr into sywpathy with it and judge it justly, The light- uness, cheerfulness, vanity, grace, sensuousness, sud pession for beauty and for pleasure that mark the Frenchman aro forelgn to the Rravo, 3 elrcamapact citizons of Eugland and Amerles, L, rousing s sutagonism, blind bim to tho real morits that underlio the gavety and frivolity of the Gallio oalure. A brief residence in France, or s familiarity with tho authors of hep notita literature, doos not furnish one with the koy to the Frenchman's {diosynerasies, It fu fuund, if found at all, only after & long and {oti- inate study of life fa tho French Capital, and of tho expresslons of the national spint and tem- perament that ‘are written out'in tho jnatitue tiovs, the srts,"and the industries, as well ay In the mauners aud habite of the people, Mr. Rhodes bas enjoyed & favorable opportu- nity for galuing lnsight into the disposition and heconduct of the typlcal Parivian, and Lis ob- w:rvations aro as replate with tnstruction ay they are with eutertalomant, They firat saw the Mgl iu the pages of the Galary, but ara now repro- duced with cousidarable additions in & more por- raanent aod socessible form. In s waries of wix Itvely and clever easays, they Ppresent, inwo far as thioy go, » fine viow of some of the most salisut polatsin thetemper and the customyof ** tho cal. tivated Pagan of the ninetesnih century, who fsculties are developed in 8 school of mathetios where even his acknowlodged Charoh is.mads subardinate, notwithstauding its prastige and requirements. The bosutiful in art, in nature, lnl:h: ;m::. sud phyaical li!cu'm, i the Ides of which he eased ; sud when thls in mindit .-':“.:T.r mn‘ndnmmd and jud‘g‘o l?.i‘;;“ The writerio anotber place says: ‘The charge of decelt snd falssuess sometimes ur, sgiust Ihi‘um:nmu 18 of coursw t! .r....n’.?:':mm lendsss. He treats bis fellows wiik courtesy b; iystem, The Augio-Baxon is impressed br his up{ch‘ @mars of Iluml‘llflfl be )llflsu the Gaul Ly Bimslf, En koows tlab If be were enchantsd® ta sea an ", desclated @ 1o qult a fullow-creature, that man would i s frlend fg‘ who! 9 would elasd ready (o mal as, A8 (0alve récaytion Lrou the Channel or Atlan. i friom] oau by e b, chman, tho man from b el greated whew s v t t0 or lem piiloaoplideal, Mo tries to et the mod out of lfa by Cwoking §t smoath and aut all round,” Ie ewdeavors (o chat sunshine Tt the Ave of tan-minuta b.ita atomg Nx's Joneneys Out of peer and prolet dre lie has fiean, fr na taskonable peraun tries'to tivo as good an e et, thisa ctablisal wystem of exchange which tickes of the ¥ sitractive peoply that they ar. tirown for n few mitntes with an unthawabio creature, he wiil nil anako the attempt 0 1o amtablo; and Lerd e s rigut wigain, tor Iifo 14 too abiurt to minlt tha feo sith which wrich an ono s incrusted, i Thie cane bo Wraps hime nelf I pleasant wouvenirs snd drawe on the past for tho present, Huroly thera [s a princin'o of truo philosophy at tho root of this amiable demcanor that the gum: Avglo-Saxon shoald respect if ha do not chuoso to glve it away vver hia owa conduat, Ayain romarks Mr, Rtiodos: The Frenchinan's potitene 14 carried to great lenggthe, 1w bowa withs o coup da chapean in the Bols, to tue Lot of the Lake, of in the public gardeus, ilo Liolds conversations with her at the theatee, tn slyht of those wavare vntitled treeeive It fwnilimate homaite, 1o beatowa costly fayora on Ler which should bo cone frrred elsewhere, Many an Anglus3azon wr.::hl n-ol thie kato wers b utissen 3 anid this fs ono of striking ditferences beiwr Qoewcertaln acls of which ho I8 ushan which lie oo tuo; the uihe Ikl these things veralui, B e betiecen thoin: 3¢t the Eagliabiino fa at sy revtidluavor g L0 appose tiig Letter i nnder his sk Of prim cotivoltinunlity, wisizh binitatos the othe oF, who ctargea b witts Lol Tartutfe,—in ahort, alynoerite. A nice quention [8 rajsed to tho above para- graph that eauuot bo settied without exhoustive srgument pro aud on; but wo fnave tho snectal analysis of Freuch chavactor. and taka (rom tho many rcenns vavidly dopictad by tho suthor s whatel fucluded ju the history of A Day with tha Paiutars,” In an atohier in the upper siory of one of tho old-fuabioned liouses Lordering (he Heiug, twenty students are gaitiorod winding for the nppearauce of tho person who is to pose for tuem Proacntly tho model srrived,—8 bright, handsoma trunetto of 19 or 20, Thera waw a_demonetration of welcome from the pafuters, the door was lucked, and by procevilud 1 8 bustuesselike faditois to prepare for watk, Whoi roady, slio moutited u platforin about 2 feet Iilgiy, where suo fell uudor a lofty Lroad lde-light, Ty of o more nidvanced paintrn, who scted us 8 commitico of Aprangorents, yliced ler ina position, “Chs eyt e Deat pode, thiere wan discusaion wbout the psition to Do nesumed, Heveral times the twa placed ber, and then 1etired @ few yards to oberve the subioct, temarkiug as they dud Ro, # Don't Liuld tho % # Ingitne the bead n ' tililo,” s what u Janled witn painters’ pattumin.o such o slawly sawibg the Lead, shutthig out portioos with tio futercepted liatd, and uarslug the elfects with buif- closed uyed, The Tourth trisl proved to boa succens, at wiitel o plrase of gencral satisfaction Was Cxpress o, The 4wo, enjuluing hor Dol (o budge, willi thn other gut bubind thelr essuls, aud wenl o work, sonio toking oIf fueir custs, Ono oiodeied i clny't itk tufs sxception all Lold crayons, All the facca turned eariently towsrds o cavis, the cioy, and the 108 a sz of dawdling or frivolity waa to L sechi, ‘L0 thern 1ho Woman wuk stutue, Nutilugg wan recogolzed Liero bub art it took the form of wor- abifp, aud he who loolicd with othier eyen tiau tuose of an urtist was acconnled sacilegous, ” Thun the public aploion of the atelict mwudo e all artmes; aud, i thonrt feollng way 1 vutned, Bt was asaard, Afier o thn tho silenco was. broken by her Toqieats fng oo oua 10 heat up tho stovo, s wle was culd, wiiich bronght oo ar (wo ejaculations smi 8 murinur tuat wo were alraady in thu intorior of Africa s to which slio relorted thut they would not think s if they were in her ylace, Anotlier long Mlence was Interrupted by lior askiug tho thme, 8t Which oue of the cldurs - marked, * Not yor, Madenmowello,” Agatn, u s few wikutes slie said 'l wos aurs the tue must bo fr. It s, my cbitd,” wuewered tho ssmo elder; reposn youruelf,” 8uo left tho staud, drow s mantle Alout ber, and took a xeat by s slove'with 3 enso of rollcf, Hbe waw oliliged to luok out fur horself 1o ro- ward t tho time of puking, us Lo pajuters were usu- uily soalaorbed o to forget t, approachied the modal ws whe sat by tho atoya, and entored into couversation witli hor, When I learned that shio Lad another ecenpation, thut of sriificlal- flowar suaker, by which ahio carued 3 fraucs n day, Posturing wus naturully mors profitablu; she recelved 6 fratics for thotwo hours und & ball {0 threo lLours abio xeusalned iu the ateiler, during which she posod sbout two bonrs, the rewninder holng tuken up in onta, “Ilie times of repase shic called her entrlactes, Belloving mo to Lo n puinter, sio_called my atlention, in a simplo, nwlural way, to tie rounducss of her arm, the texturo aud color of {ha skin, cud tho carved lnos of lher shoulders, Ble went on to say, {n o mmnuer purely professional,— “My arins und shouldors are 1y \est polits, snd I oceasionally pose for thew ; 1like it much bottes than yosig for ha wholo fiyure, At lougth the paluter fu _autbority to1d Lor Lt wos thims to rouums the pose, sud, befora stoppiug on tho platform, she lookod ct kis wateh, Whew 8o got turough, sha wade her tollatta in the 810 business-Hke way that sho bud unmadeat, Sbo wslied for & looking-glaas to complete it, but tho erticly coald uot at unce Le found, * Whit ‘saveges 1" sald she; ¢ (wenty wen sud Dot oug mirror! ButIam ot surkrised at it ; you aro such monstors you aro ulraid to look ut yonrscivos | A Freuchmon ko ta called monsters by the women, this was taken su n youeral compliment,” At lougth' & cracked mifrror— poetically atslud sturred—was roduced, boforo which o mwoothed over her pluinage lke & ho eunshive. Her sttire wus almple; a momuracolored liftlo hat, & black alpaca robe; dark-brown mactle, cisely-fitting glaves and boo! snd o parasol fn'haud, comprisod her costum Lquipped, sle ind the domeanur of & roalero of Nane terre, or ' conveut girl, The befraug pieco wud bauded to her cavolopol in paper, & mark of dellcacy, Afier ninking on appolutmenit for suother day, siie yuswed out, with o modast, quist alr, smidat & general clurus af adious, The llitle voluma holding Mr, Rliodes’ essayr mfilnmar in st oxceodingly ueab upeciloon of tho publishor's handiorafs, NOTES OF TRAVEL. Last Larrens rou Eoter: o Witic ARE ADDRD LrTTans pros Tk CAPr, Dy Lady DUFv (OUDON, With & Memorr by Iler Daughter, Mrs. Ross, 1imo,, Pp. 40, Londont Macmillan & Co, Prico, $2. Lady Duff Gordon was, duving the latter por- tlon of ber life, Lanishod by iil-health trom hier home in England, and compolled to dwellina climate whoso warm, dry airs wore enited to dolicate lungs. A long mea-voyago being pro- seribed for Ler in 1860, sho went out to tho Cape of Good Hopo in a eailing vessel, returning in 1802, Bhortly after sho (tried tho climate of Egypt. aud, finding It very favorable to her mat- ady, took up her residenco on the Nile, whore slio romalnod until her death in 1869, at tho ago ot 48, During those yoars of sojourn fn forelgn countriop Lady Gordon was sep- arated from hor husband and cbildren, with tho excoption of occaglonal brief reunious, and way for the wost part of tho time spent in Egypt, withoul any English attondant. Yet her sunny, patiest disposition, and her remarkablo facility for adapting bLersolf to strango peoplo and circumataucos, enabled hor to maintain & cheertul, conteuted frame of mind wherever or however she might be situated, Blie wag the gifted child of gifted parents, and had from birth enjoyed the advautages of lngh rank and cultivated society. Her distlugulebing tralt waa a kindly sympatby for thode sbout her of all classes and conditlons, In overy human belug, no matter how poor or degraded, nhe recognized the bond that makes tho wholo world ono brotherkicod, and was ready with wise taot to lond what seslstance, what oom- paaionship, 6 could. Thle gentls, un- affected bumanity made her teuderly belov- ad by all who cama {n contact with ber, and Lor & clow to tho hearta snd the Laits of olnbrg ruch 8 fow porsous Hud, It is this raro and bekutiful mpirit of charity illuminatiog all ler lottorn that givea thom thoir groas ciarm, They ara dehighifully written, in tho easy, chatty style of fauulliar converantion, but mors valuabio tban the interestiog information they communicste in the moral that the thoughtful reader will draw lx:km ;h-m.‘ i h pleasant gleam of tho author’s ben| dlapasition is visible iu the followlng mc'-f:‘:u": that ocourred during Lady Duff Gordon's sojourn st Capetown ; Iasked oue of tho Hurrenbut brethren wi thers were auy real Hottentots, aud Lo sald, one ™ sad next movuing, ue 1 sat waltiug for under tho blg o4k treos {n t Fuaty 1 pechaps, b for aucy o eri ] ¥ pol 1 thio st Motientol: Lo s 107 years oldy and lives allalone.” looked om tho Httle, wearensd, Yellow face, and vria shocked that be ahould Le dragged up lke wild Desot 10 be atared at, A fochng of pity whieh felt Uke remorss fell upou me, aud my eyes fllod as 1 roue aud #toud before hiw, so tall sod like a fyrant sud opyressar, whilo hu uncavered bt poor Lttla oil snow-white hesd, und peered up u my face, 1 led nim 10 tho asat and helped bin 1o eit dow, And said Dutel, Fatber, 1 hopo you arv mot Lired old.5 'Ho saw and Leard ‘aa well s uver, aud spoke fn Duteh In & irm vuice, “ Yes, T ams ‘above ‘s Hun- #0ld, and alove.quile alute,” I sat beside bim, a2d ks put bis bead ou oie mide sud looked curlonsy Up 8t s with bis faded but aull lercing lttie ‘wid aro and put one tin; toked witl tha Lave fal} ke s murderer if Iy Curtonty e P Fomaats bala, 1o 13 tagia’ fuia, Fotw may sound ke Seatls "c‘mk m;nnn‘g‘auhunnut couceive the gwaers ot 4l Wia *Tunt, wid nos feet dibn an Engtieh (Wbt of 5 or 8, sl pe fiie kLo of ono of 1, 100 had all It ter 2 Phanth b notliin 2, wan vory Hittin vezin and ot at it h b hande, whi-h wery ilark broan, whila Ia f, yollaw. 1iis manmear aud Kpeaking wera fika thims of sn old ouiy biw voloe wan clasrer and tons nol Liuntald tx sge. ¢ <ol the infelonaried i the year 17 abouts, and remafued with them ever alncs Aftorwards, Laldy Gordon say at some dls. taucn inland & group of llotteutots. of whom Lo writon 1 45 Those ware youngish, two men and bwo women, quito it o tot’ darker than Exrojeans, and withy it Uiy BIack Janotw of wool piabaied over th-ix Toadeat futervile, They are bideoun in fac quisitely shag:ed—very, very small though, Ono of titn raen waw druuk, poor wratch, suid tooked tho pe. ture of misery, 'You can re the fiticnees of thelr ronacs by the way Iu which they durt their glaucen and prick (buir eare. y onn sgreed Tt waen tamwd, tbey mado tile Lest of wervinis— gontio, cloat, honosts bub tho peuny-as wine thiey esnnot rostal, untesa when caugbit and tanied youing, They work in the flalls, or dil €0 as oty as any were left § but aven hicre, I was told, It was & wune der 10 see tomm, , and traveled with or thero- JEAN IHGELOVZ. Farep 70 Dx Furx: A Nover, Ny Frax Inazrow, ‘Autlior of O thio Buellige," otc,, elc. 1oma,, pp, 44, Dowton? Roberts Brolers. Price, 11,75, Miss Ingolow slates in tho profaco to her novel thist sbe baa not “simed at produciog s work of att, bul o piece of Naturo,” aod that sbe han tried to make hor friends feucy that they waro reading the unsxiliful clraniclo of thinga that really accurred, rather than somo Invented story, as Intoresting he knew how to make it, “ltaccmod to me," she adds, *‘diNfcult to arilo, at least in prose, an asrtistic storv; but easy to come nearcr to life thao most stories do." This ocandid and surprising con- fession quite sccounts for the dull nud commonplace charactor of tho book, With- out it, the nystery would over remain unsolved, huw o poot of the fine gontus of Miky Ingolow could produca s utory 8o devoid of tu- govuity and of artaa this, which is called, for somo rcason that wo have failed to discovor, ated to Ba Froo." A story gives pleasure, and thorefora answers its purpose sod 18 a suceera only in proportion ayitin e work of art, And the more thumlodat is from an actlatie point of viow, tho mure rim- plo aud patural it will bo. Imagiuation iu as vee sontial to a fietion as to a vooem, and in either caxo muat be of a bigh order to produca a tirst- rato work. Tho story-teller, like tho portraite paintor, noeds to idealizo his subjects 3 to show un thu tino possibilitics lurking 1n each character thrown on the canvas, rathor than tho ordinary, eyvery-day qualities that have coma to tho wirfaco, sod aro read by tho common eye, e muss 0f hiunanity, takon an thoy Lshituaily appear in the dabi; currences of Life, aro prosy and uninepiring, F'ut iuto books aud pictures justus {loy are, witl no holp of the ailisv's iuncy to dress thain in becoming colorn nod dispono them in picturosquo atutudes and nvito thum to acts and exprosaions that Lave mesniny and conwequence, and they ars tedions, 1f not odious. We tiro of the piain, the trite, the sphitless beings fn the real world, aud demand thut whon introdaced juto nuvels, as ivto paint- inge and pooms, they shall be sot a little aliove tho common laval, that wo may eajoy the swest- out and nout enuobling of all delights, that of admiration, Accoraing to Miss Ingelow's showing, both in tho novel and the prefaco, she lLas siriven ot to do the very thiuun requiod of a novelist, and Lins consojuently weitten & story that 1sgimply 8a tatne, and obecuro, wud incousequant as tho record of any parl of o dozen or #o unoventful lives wounld ‘bo if samu misguided person wote tu waste tima in writing ft out. Noither has alio made an effort (0 eni~ belltah the nareative with any of the chxims 10 uso by populsr authors, and it is a1 plain and uuvarnished s it well could Lo. Miss Ingolow has certuinly trimnphed fo her atitemnt to prezent an * unskiliful ebronicls,” but whether her readora will religh it a9 they woull an *in- vouted story" of Ligh artistic excelleuce, it is for thom to decide. POLITICAL ECONOMY, TorrricaL Ecoxoux: Ivs Cnanierin axp Lontosn Meruop, Iy J, E. Camanes, L. D, New Yok : Horper & Lrothers, Culeago t Jansen, MeClurg & Co, 1475, flty ‘[lio death of Prof, Cairnes followa hard upon the publication of this work. The book which tho doud haud holds out to us ia nol wholly now, Ita substance was flrat publivhed moro than sovontoen yoara ago, and this is really a revised ond enlarged socond editfon. 1t was roviewed then as It is being raviewed now, u Eogland and Amorics, with slmost univorsal praise. And yot it fell flat on the markot. Tho larger work by tho same aathor, * Bomo Leading Principles of Political Xconomy Nowly Ex- pounded." which way publislied sbout a yearago, ly uald to buvo been » feilure pecuuianl, though it, too, was highly praiscd. ‘Fhe ox- planation of thaso facts fs donbtless to be found 1n tho oibor fact, thac Carces writes for tha studeut, and the trainod student at that,—uot for tho muititude. Hiv logic 18 pitilesaly exact, and Lo disdaina to enliven tho close-presucy ventonces which aro crowded into every paro. Helenco must be popularized nawadays to bo opular, ‘I'he time for big Looks, too, has pono y.—which may partinily ezpisin the receptiou of tho ** Leaduyg Principles.,” Brovity bas be. comio tho societ of wucaasy, Tho general roader would probably not be in- ferested i the book now bofora ue. Bat tho rtudent and tho great niasw of educated men will find it well worth tho reading. It Lus su added iuterest from the fact that 1t fiatly vontradicts Jovous' theory of applyiug matbematics to po- liteal economy. This, Catrues ways, may be of uyo 1 fllustrating results resched in ather wavs, but not in original research. If it cag be used iu the latter way, why do not {le volaries discov- or with 1t some hitherto unknown priocipla? Pohtical econoty {8 a sclence, and proporly a deductive scicuce. 'This eeulence gives the thomo of tho book. The whole of 1t is devotad '.ulsnnof and illustration of this. aniel Webator and Becrotucy Boutwell have both recorded their opinion thai thore is na wuch \bipg as a science of political economy. Both lxravad by thoir actions that thoy did Lot willfully ie. To themthers was no such science, Thoy acted'with groat disregerd and grester ignorance of it. Tho noience oxiuta novorthioless, Ite gen- eral laws ars atfocted by ths homan will in countloss ways, but this does not alter their ex- istenco as lawd, Whon & child cawcties a falling applo, duss gravitation ceass to exist ? AMoro- over, the varistions of thess [aws can often bo roduced to snotber law, It i In omphasizig tho influouce of thown variatlons, of what may be cailed **wocoudary causon,” thae Prof, Carues has done Lls bust work, He istho best of Mill's critics, sujiple- meoting the defocts in that great thinker's eys- tem, and showing how the principles Le lave down as irresiutiblo are really chocked sud couu- teracted in & myriad ways, If thesuthor of this book eaios & place fu tho history of political eoonomy, ho will bo known au the apostle of soce ondary cauags. POPULAR SCIENCE, TR APRIAL WORLD: A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF THR PHUNUMENA AND LIZK OF THK ATMOSPNRAR, By U, Haxtwig, 41, k ¥, D., Author of ** The Bea sud I Living Wouders, ‘ete,, eic, With 8 Chionumcyio grapulo Plstes, 8 Map, aud Numorous Wood-Cuts, Bvo,, pp. 384, New York: D, Appleton & Co. A1, Hartwig is oue of tho few mon of lesrning who can weave from the matonals accumulated by velenco o narrative that Las all tho chann and simplicity of & romance, Avoiding thoe dry de- tails and the tochuical torms Lhat are sppropriste to orudite disquisitions aud to tho noeds of sovere students, he describes tho wonders of the universe in language that every ons can under- iutand, and with an afiiuenco of anecdate aud illusteation that kesps the interest continoally alive with surpriie and geatiication. The prescus work fu the tfih in & eeries of volumes that give s genwrsl view of tho phenoms eus and life of the materiai world, It {s limited to an mccount of tho varlous conditions sod =:huu of \io atmosphioro and of its maaifold ra- ations to mau, The subject, fu the hauds of M, Hartwig, [a an oxpanslve one, Including tho phenomens of winds, water-spouls, fo dew, ds, xain, 8now, hall, the mirage, sorors-bores alis, igais fatuus, serolites, electricity, and slio of merisl bird snd luscct life, towether with » description of flylng machines, Latioony, sod aorial vavigatlon, “In each departmens of tho subject much ourious fuformstion ls Impart= cd, witli the effact of excitiug in the mind & de- oire to despen the knowledge gelnsd—aso fruit- ful o field of lu.anny.- The volumme Is illustrated Wikt flue calored plates and copious wood-cuty. Women ns Navigutore. The Pall Mall Garelts makes tho followlng suggostion, which will be of much valuo to ad- vanced women who do not ses thelr way to ad- m:nmnmmm ot flul‘r sox to militar! rvica LR other occupations monopalized by miwn, but adwirabl J ted for womon, is {‘m of Zavigation. ia pre-cminontly one of /woman's ‘‘spheres.’ La roar of the tempest :&g‘l'd'rtn:nd.xowln u:; clnz uotes ;tn ber musical ssuing herorders, and ber eye, more watobful thsn mau's, wonld deteot In ln’ loatang :ny .h::,l:fi.:}w oral :hr:n njents f' the of 't l‘uulm&w ARy SFPARKS OF SCIENCE. foHCEn. Eversholy Is familiar, from conrtantly reeur- ring iilustrattoss, with the fact that light mre- fleclod from an oppcking eurtaco,—an, o cito & very common fustanco, when tha sunshine triitas the face nf & mitror it robounds ke a Lalland falla in anothnr direction. Just in thn mimn way the waves of sound tn tho air sro re- tlected or throsen back when they coma agniunt o wali or othor obatacle, aud the sound propa- pated hy tho rolurning waves fa called an cctio, In order to insuro sn echo, there raunt bo o cou- | eiderablo space batween the pojut at which the sound [a produce | and the reflecting aurface. A winry, quick nound may creats an echo when tho retlecling enrface is distaut §5 feet; but articu- late wounds require ab lenst doublo that dis- tanco. Tho laet ryl'abie of wo:ds loudiy spokan fu front of a reflectod surfaco dintavt 112.5 feot wiil receivo an echo, but, in order that (wo or more syllables way Lo repeatod, tho distauco 1ust ba douhled, treblod, and ko an. Muliiplo ectizen ara urodnced by opposito ro- flecting eu:facny, between which the wavo sounds hound back and forth with, of enirae, conntautly dimumnishing force, giving the ccho tho effect of receding In tho distance. In Woodstoek Park, near Oxford, thero is sn echo that repests soven- teen syllables by day aod tsenty by mght., Ane other ou the banka of tue Laks del Lupo, abova th falls of Ternl, rapeata fifteen times, Wrane gell dereribies in his * Siverian Travein " & multi- plo ccho that may Lo heard ou tho gieat River Leus, about 200 miles from tho Town of Kirensk. At this puint the river flows throngh a8 clannel walled io by pasceipitous rocks 600 fect in height. A pistol-sbot dixcharged hietween thexs oppoxing sutfacen in repeated above 100 times, and with gach powor as to resembln the rotl of 8 park of artiilary, Tho woll-known echo hetwaen Coulenz and Bingon, whoro the water« of tha Nahe pour into the Ruine, gives soventeon roneats. Mer senno rolates that the echo of Ormeensn, in the Valley of Montmorency, 1enhies fourtoen oylla- Llea by night, und only seven by dav, At tho base of the tiit Heligevberg, near Heidolber, an ccho may bo wiked that exactly imtates thundor. ¥he sound ia »o rafiectod by a wouded gorgu i frout tiat the ordinary report of & pistal eaunot ba heard, but i ita stead tho ro' | of & thnuder-bolt fitts the cara. Awong ho blults on the Mizswuri Mier 8 blog of powder or tho dischzrgo of 8 g produ zes tho tepurt of a tremendons peal of thnurior, leap- lnig from peal: to pealt of the numsirous bilis, and dying slowiy in the distance, Near Ader- Lach, in Bohentiu, thero iy a citer, ar vailes, sur- sounded by bar, pointed 10ckn aud fu the cen- tro dwelis an echo wbat will ropeat = wonteuca of roven syllables theee kopar wts times. But the wouder of 1t ix that al n he,ct dotanco from thia contral gpat the echo ix watircly inandiblo, At Ganetav, near Rouen, hvirg in o romarkablo echo in o woml-cireulsr conrta A singer croning the court hears but his awn voree, while thoss list- euing Licar only the otlo, which is singlo or mule tiote: accordini to thoir position, At (o towb of Ciocilix Metella, in the Roman Campazns, there §s an acho ibat, according to Pawsard, repeats & hexameter lino L tuney disttuctly aod - wevoral tuncs more im- verfoctlz. Av tho bnee of tho hill ou which tho tomb satands u montenca cro- ates o multiphied echo, In a ball sl Bi- moneita, near Miluy, tho report of a pistol is repeated from fort7 to wixty times. and the sonnd of the voico twenty-four to thirty times, Vargingand beantiful cehoes shuuber umouy tho rocks aud mouutaius of moest conutries. Among tho Alpa tho hors of tho Swiss goide often caunes the moat deliebtful repetaions. * Defors reaching tho wummit of the great Schoideck,” ways Urof, Tendall in “The Glaciera of thn Alpw," "1 frequently hicard tho wonderful acbouss of the Wetterborn. Tho kono.cus wavos arrived afler ono, two, threo, nud mroe refluctions, di winishivg graduaily in intensity, but {nesearing in Boftuose, ma 1f inits wanderings from crag to crag tho sound had undervoue s kind of sifting procens, lesving all the erensuces behind, and Toturume in detighitfui iute.-goies to tho ear.” On Eeho River. iu Mawracth Cave. sounds aro ropostod with weird aud wonderful offect. A ingla call will bo cauglt, up se1f by a troop of apirita on the cliffs abave and toased from ouo to tho other with moiry, mocking langhs, aud halloos thut multiply, and divide, and swoll, and die in strange, atartling cadoucoy, as seamiugly tho flact-footed throug: trip to and fro aud dance m and out among the bidden vaults and rocosses that reach awav jnto the darknesa fo eudiesy siceorsion, The low-bending: arch of rock ovor- Lead, that threntens to bow down upon the littln Bltul COUVOYILG RESOUEOrY acroes the river and smather all in o fearful embrace, is calenlatod 10 1ill the tiand with vervous approlienaisn, but whon tho rolhcking syuide lifts np his voice and Touses tho ochioas to their minchieyouns play, it noomy In truth me though the whoio hesvy roof of tho cave, jarrad trom its fonndations by the w;;}d clawmor, would tumble duwn iu vne terrivle ruin. Yot thess echiocs are less elflsh in their mport thon the rexonances that are o ba hewrd fn the drep, rock-bound pits (hat abound in tho cave. Drop a rlone 1uto one of thess {ashomloga Lol- tows, and when it finslly reachos the water al tho Bottom, thio £aint spiush it mimkes sppears aL orco to wake tho raze of & thousand demons. They clagh their wet arms togethier, and Leat iu bhuil fury sgainst tha rocky sides of their prison, sureing into evory crovice und cranny, in gearch of a1 outlet, while their doep, boarse moanigs aud grumblings, and bellowines, mgle together in a lideons turmoil, aud boil up to the top of the pit asf from (he mouth of the infernal regione, It ia a stout heart that can listen with- out a vhudder. Clear and dutinct echioes may be given off from very irregular surfaces. Ap o!d rampart, an aold tower, & tros, & hill, or & wooded gorge, form tho best sound retlectora. It s relstod of Gay Vornon tuat he found great amusement in tix youth in calling up an echo that hauoted the Luiidig of & mill. Whon ho returned to tho Bpot atter soveral years'abaence, to his surprise tho echw refuscd to snswer. On oxaminalion, nothing was found chanrod about tho mill, save 0 group of trecs which formorly shaded it had beon cut down. It was in their sbolter that the octio had found a_howmo, and with thoir fall ahe had periabed, Cloads wtford agood retlect- ing aurface for torcoatrial noines, \Who has not oleerved, in certain raro nstances, that tha réport of canuon lias created a roverberation liko thuuder rolling round tho ekv; when ordinanly the enme sound in tLe ¥ame place would produco no ocho whatever, The phenomenon may bo ex- piained by tho occarroncs of clouds at just tho right altituds overhioad to obatruct and throw back the wave sounds, Lchoes are also produced by excorsively high wavos, und by tho #alls of sbips. It is sald that words uttored through s epeaking-trampet will be repeated if they ntrike sgamnst the conves surface of beliviug sails. It is stated by Armott that onco upon & time, In & coasting vessel oif Tirazil, tho bells of San Salvador, distant 110 miles, wers plalnly heard by persons atandlog bofora the matusal. The wavesof sound propa- gatod h{ tho bell were probably condenued near the infdated wsail, as parallel raya of hioht con- vn‘l‘, aftor retiectlon from parabolio nurfacos, hen the reflecting wuifacea are at = loss distauce than 112 feet, the direct and roflectod sounds ars coufounded. This offect is calted resonance tnatead of echo. A vaulied Qotnio chspel fu Pualoy in#aid to huve, petbaps, tho Huest resonanco {u tho world. Hartwig thow describes it io “* Tue Xrial World": * When the oud door (he only one it has) 18 shut. the noise faequal to s loud and not very distant clap of thuuder. 1t you wltiko & slngle note of musc, you have tbe'sound gradually sscending with n frcn uuniber of repetitions, till it dies away as ( at 80 immaowe dielsuce, and alt the while diffusing itaclt through the cirenmamblont alv, If & good voico slngw, or & musical ingtrement 18 well played upon, tho effact s fncxpresaibly sgreesble. ‘The decpest, a8 well ae acufe,tones aro distinotiyrevorbeiated, 0 ragularintervals of time, When o musical instriumens 18 soundad, it bas the etfact of w number of instruments of & Like size and kind y'sving in concert, When & number of different Inalruments {n unisou sound the samo note, & good our is to distinguieh the varialy of wound produced by esch, A wingle inatrumsnt souudiog & particular note, and then instantly itu fifth or auy otber sccordant oote, the twn suunds can bo heard, ssit were, running iuto and unitivg witl each othor in & vory agroeabls man- ner, But tho effect of & varioty of lostruments plaving {u concer$ {s particularly charming,' Tho ticking of & watch can b Leard from ane end of tho church in the Abvey of 8t Aluan to tua other, aud in an octegon gallery in Gloucester Usthodral words spokea in & low voica atone eida of the nave cau be besnd on 1! duunltlo feot. In the \Vhisporing ¢ 8t Panl's, the faintest sound js. car- nod from one sido of the aupola tothe other, without being audible In the iutermediate spa Sir Juhu Hersctel tells of & cathedral in Siclly where confeselonsl was 6o pisced that the whispered confesalona of the panitant were ro~ flocted by the curved ulllfl aud oouveyed 1o » foous a4 & distaul pard of Mie bullding, AY this i Iatter point contl bn diphine: | nerial ¥ovazes ecneinti in obe 5y .. ! 08 ened wonla intanded 8’ for o o o :}rl:’mv:aw Oue o tho most 1163 ing & guscegant of the OF tho echors whila piveais, 1 nper o LY water. "No other nrface sty wd e wel] ax At al & wmooth ex g of s o Every avllabln that talla on it olished face repented with the utmoss ricy, w stvichy lauder a0amda a1l Lo win an echo frat tho losol plung, Deep wellw, ko rocky clefis anid oav- erne, aro favorablo for the nroductin of reso- nancex. A necale dronped into the woil of Gone wbiook Castfe—which in 210 focs deop ond 12 feel broad —is aivtiuctly heaed etriduug on tho wator, DUST WrIaLATAYYS, Inthe drv and elevated val and hssing of the Racky Mountaing aud of the Cordilleras of Metico the phenowens of tho whirlwind aro act~ fvely exhibited. *In tho dosp basinsof Mex- ico," waya Prof, . W. Pheipy, *whoro thera is 1o prevailing current of air, whirlwinds may bo soen in tho warmer hours of tha day, spinning apirally on their nxes, throwing up larga col- ugivy of dust sevoral hualdred feot in hinight, and romining Y wtationas v aa the sleoping top tora long time. Furthae north, in tho Rocky Mauntaine, whore tha goulhiwest Lreezes pre- vall, theao winriwiuda are generally borne along with tho wind. Tho ra pidity of the whirling mo- tion, i biolh cases, #4 nltugetlier too great to ba attributed Lo any pov.er short uf clectricat agau- cy. Themir oulsids of a stationary whirlwind is generally quils alil', whito with tho moving whirlwind it often 'ioitors alony, onlz 28 a 5, 10, or 15 milo breezr., Thue, whils the motion of translation of tho wlirlwind may he oniy 10 miles or 5o an hour, ita whirling veloeity Js often 100 miles o ¢ moro an hour," ‘Lo general feirm of these whirlwinda ohserved by Piol. Pheics wan of & tuie of dust, of ftom 11040 feet v dwrmeter, and soveral hundred feat in hoight.. 'Tloy were penerally perpendic Jar, wlhougl ono wen nuticed o mscend ine 21g20g direct 1on, awt cuother, after monnty yestically £ 2 a hort dintance, woved borizoutallv for a spaco aund then wrmuined A yerhieal course again, 1Y 5 motiun of tho whirlwinds wus eonn- titues Witk tho hauds uf tho watcl, sud at other times in an orposita dire From the Junrnal Wapt by Lrof. Pnelus, wo read that Juiy 10. 143 Tweinnd thieew ) tha snnd io a b 32 or 3 fect in dian.eter, and moved 1rith 140 usnds of the watch, Twice ringd o uodilos .4 dust wero noticed whiriiog up the tule, and once portions of dust were spun off (romn LLo ex- taijor of LLo cyluder a4 if by a downward Lrecze, Aug. 13, ‘the whirlvinds wers numerous, ang seumed to leap mu i tfrum & vtule of porfect mtifiuens, croaked tubed rising to Lhe died feet. Apnl i, 1 teet in diamoter wan ohsarved turning agamst whirimind the hands of & watch. On one oeczsion & ews. npee wan caughit up by & whirlaiud to » height of abont 200 feet, aud there cailisted back snd Lourth ucrosy the track for some tane winlo we- compauying tho cuward mnvement of U coiumn. Auather day iwo whiriwiuds, withis &) yards of each otiier were turning v opjiu- sitn dicectious, Juse G, & whirtwind about 15 feet in diawelor croened n sticam of water withont auy apparent loss of force, Aguin, o whirlwind was observed to nass throngh & Lattery of nrtitlery of brars guue, from oun Uank 1o tha other, with no svide f being ullected Ly the cdvanturs whitlvind was remaried thint hed akide spiunitg aronod oo fie The wholo togerher describod a etroniit sbont 160 yarda acroes. These pliotomens oveurred at ieight of botwoen 4,600 anuy 5,000 fuet above the sed, where tho dry atmosphiess comainod littie vapor to luterfore with the wetivu of aiectricity. PERIODICALS RECEIVED. u Literary World for Jaly (8. R. Croc'tor, Bos- on, Book-Buyer for July (Seriboer, A.tustrong & Co., Now Yorx), American Booksellers' Guide for July (Amer fcan Nows Compauy, New Yoru). National Quarlorly Ieviee—June (F dward 1. Sours, New York). Contents: L ddbiem: Its P'ast, Proscut, and Future The Zoua cf Asteralds;” “Tho Various Fales fosrsiabs of the Jows; " “Outline Bkotchos of Ur dveratizs anil Calleges A Sbining Light co Christo- nher Celumbus ; Papal Infallioility : snd Civil Govornmean! Somn Renuoiscouce s of (ke Tammany “Otacles: Their Tistory il Intluenco; 4 Reviews and Critdeivms ;" Obituarios,"” Harper's Magazine for August (Hwrper & Brotuors, New York). The number « ontaioe: Longfellow's poem 1or the iftietu suiv ersury of lus claws at Bawdoin Collego; winrtrate 3 woems by Jodqun Miller sud tle Rev, Joseeh o deccripuion of Movechean;Lake, with twe 2z, illustrations, most of winch are from t! o pencit of Augustus Hopyin: a pspar by Fiancis A, ‘Walicer for tho Firat Contury s, boilg & ro- viow of the Growth and Distitbutiun of o ar Fop- ulation ; a contribution by Jamnes Partea, fro- fuscly illustrated, on Caricatures of Wornen; & chapter of curious infortation, by Charl =8 ltau, ou tha Ritchon Middena snd Aucient Lnigs Set- tlements of Northern Emope. with ilinstr ations ; tho continuation of Juliau Huwthorue's novel, “ Gorth ;" eomo more Haytisn Proveibs by Jobn Digolow; an 1lluatiated pagor, contributed by sn army officer, ou tho Aucient Puoblos (f Now Mozxico and Arizona, describing, ®iso, the pecu- har dwellings and cuntoms of the Zuni Jndians of to-day; & lustory of the growih of the oz- Jircas busineas: the aighteouth paper by Castolar ou *Tho Nepublican Alovement in Eizope;” shiort atories by Harriet Prorcott Spofford snd Elle Farman: aud poems by 5, M. B. Pinatt and Celia Thaxzter. ——— THE GRAVE'S VOICCS. o From the German. Bunk 18 In dreams, and lost 1u susions thought, 35 fuotateps Lroughs me to this louely spot, To whow elougs the Geld 7 wly urory bed T “ The desd,” Enter thou (o, my koul; why shouldst thou fear T Nought bul sweel Luda and dowers are bicoming hern. Whanico rouies Who esssnco frow thos Eweot per- fumes * From tomba.® , 0 1wan ! where all thy patbs moat en b oy e, h Bee e Lowever varind be , licar thou must & re {he caroless hearts thal on the earth ied it pain, i beat a0 bigh i mirth 7 0 Namie of batred smio'dl- % Moldered,” re the mighty who take 1ife by storm? 0 'ou to Leaven's Lielghta wild wishea furm, What croak thie raveus on 3ot wose-grown wall ? # Duried sk Trol Those In whose breasts eul? Where Wi Where are tho doar onss in Deatls' cold sleep lylng, . *Co whom Lave swore n memury undying ? What wail Yo oy)iross-trees 1—ob, heas'st thiou not £ * Fargot, To see where thete ones passed, Al no eye crave? May na wild lonting uierco beyuud the grave? ‘Thia fir-troes aliako thalc Welrd Luads buo Dy G003 ** Noue, uoue," The evening wiud amid the trces s sigh!cy, ered In druaias, 1y saddened soul 1 1ying, “Chia twiligiat falla, tho Ted clow pelath fast— L8 Jaat,” —dntonta Drckaon 1n Chambers’ Journal, THE DOLLYMOUNT SHOOTING. ount, the other day, flocked to fin, o Y ‘Would strive with the Irieh I ehoottn®, Thete was Paddy O'Hare and Crowasr Sx And vne.esad, Dlethern' Piper Ted, Wiib Biddy aiid Nora, tho swate red-besd, An' the divil's owu roariu’ su' teotss” Fullialoo, hubbaboo, wl Brar-Hpabgled Buer atd Erego- Thie roustnest time that 1ver you sax Was Douginount crickin’ the fides, Oh 1 folgs was tle sight ou Dublin Bay While thio waves rollad ¢ool, aud the szure tay Was alive wid bosts, wid Llleir streamers gay, pEbiaiiaia’ ke birle et the watets. 'be His wife and thew collesns bis daugbtars, Chorus, Ob! the Irisk team was fair (o view, And they'd beaton ths And the 'Merioan bo; ‘Tlers was wuan Hcotch sud the Engiteh too What 3 bullate.wo ttendis o uericay, Au’ the Lest tesw Liare miay it wiu the day, A’ divil & fear of coy toul play When the Irish Loys Loxs a band In, Cborus, +| Huresh for the Yankees! the day they have won ! Bucu vbootin' tusre uvver was Uudes thu sau Bloce the dsys wusn (b Quld Loy birst Laudled 8 Aud brougbt sboul deatl eatruction, And burrsh for Ould Krin, for 0uod it s way Bhe rejuicss 1o 8o the Llsck ;‘,un‘mau pisy 10 the bands of the atranges by fair Dubua Day, Aud be beal i » Irisndiyoike ructioas o Vot Graphia £ FAMILIAR TALK. SEVERE SEASOMA. Tt fs n common remark in any unuanel stress of cither hent ar cald that @ ** Nover was any- thing Tike it knewn,” while the oldest inhabitant luo hir memory and pronounces the weathor in Tiia experienco nnparalleled. Dut tho sunals of Datory rhow that from timo to {ime rinco tho advent of man into the woild remariably frigid wintors ana torrid summers hiave unwst tho cal- enletionn ond rufiled the equanimits of the in- Liatitanta of tetreratazones, Sovoral timoy the froctking s bien knovn to come down from thin hotghts of Europy aud veal the wators of the Adrintic. It #30 and 12331 the jen formed s seenro bridgo from Venica to the opinaitn Dalmatian oll. Often afterhonrn of travel the anly ref conh. went offered (Lo toants ia & roil i the dut bt i really seems to sirengtien and noutish the tough, bardy Ltte Juadcupeds, which an e darcribied by the lady from Whow we bave ale ready quitod : Tconlt weito & volnme on Gaps horses, Bnch val. t hitla braste, and o componrd o temper, 1 nover Raw, are nearly all ays—a few very dark gray, 1 have feun o biack, and oniy one dark. ehentnok, They ate pod colm, atid 1ok * very littie of them," and Tiavs uo lieatty ' bt ons of thean Bittls brutes, une 00w, half-fed, aeldone atabled, will carry a 81g-foot Dutchiman G miles 3 day, day afler day, at & shrfting, eary canter, G inile an hour, Yon “off gaddio” ers ery turen hionee, and JetLim roll; you alan et bim drink STl e ean ge s Lin cost shinis aml his ey- Lright, ud unsoun-dnean it yery tare, Thoy nre nieene properly broks, and the_ sofc-Houthe. cOl1A As sorie thmen mada vicions Ly the ernol bits and beavs hanudes bul by uature theie tewper e perfoct. Every moming all the horees in the village nea connt, In the winter of 1621 2 tinet waa fco- Lound near the ** ity of the D in 1709, the Adriatic wau comy letel 7 jeo. All the rivers of Ernusn mern -uzen in the years 1105 xnd 1364, the 1 1he niver Rhone beiug in somo pleena 17 £ thick, In 1700 the nrod with | cold was Intansa i the aath of Franco; most | g o of tho frgit e wern dasitoved, aud many por- Fons were frozan 4 leath o the roads, while at Cotle and 3larvelien tie aen wad ico-bound for & groat distanso ont. 'Tha wiier of 1783-'40 was rigorous throughont . The Rhono was frozen over at Lyous and tho Garauue at Tou- loueo. Tuo Thames wed shut 8 far an Gravos- cud, and st tho Christman ho'. Tiys the niver way eoverod with Loothw, Tha Atlantie frozo along its constn ton distence of rasaral leagues, and veesels wero unabla to spproach within eeveral milea nf Oeiend, in Belgium, a port that ordi- narily isuyen throughout tho year. The birds of tho Arctic rezious descended na far nouth ay France and the fiel periahed in all the ponds from the thickness of the lee. Tha wuter of 1812-'14 is memorablo for its ex- trems degreo of enid, whick began at an early date, wuffered from the bitter weather in the fatal ro- teast from Moscow wuflice to fix tho renson fn- delilly in the memory. Tha following yesr the wintor was 8o glacial in tho south of England that in February a stisen waw roasted on fhe frozen Thamen, and at 3 fair Leld on Lhe 4th of tho month the apace etween London and Blackfrints Bridges was tilisd with w ectalors. now fell in New Encdand tn esery nonth of the ¥oar 1ii, and the weather was wo nnifrmly cinlly that 6eanis erosw of cvers part wors har- vantad, Little or v corn ®as tniced. and aomes ;hin): a famina was threatoned for man and heant, In Wentern Eorapa tho winter of 18{0-"41 waa smone tho aaverest on recor), The sousnu is notalle ax tiat in whieh the bode of Napoleon wiar traneferred Hom Sk Helena to too Chureh of the [uvalides in Parie. Tho tomperainrn was 80 low on the day that the funorat procession Pavsed thro ugh the city that many of tle spec. tatord who viatchod 1ty nroresy from stations out of doo's pershed from osnosure. The miving was ealy in New kaogland in the vear 1931, but on 1 b 15t4 of May, sfter the gardens o made andd the vegetables well up. atd the o nt-buslies Ju Wloswow, the snow fell to the deptl of a foot. Nothiny was injured, howaver, by its beief bar: sl under the thick, doony blan- ket, and the ruramey was nnn=ualls finitful, ‘Tarning from wintate diningmshed by e~ cessivo Fizor, to mmmery that ara remarkable sor their ardor, w1 fiund that one of tho hotlest seagons ever expe; jcuced In England and Franco occurred in 1793, For iMfty-oue dase, becibmog with July 1, the vermometsr ranged in Lon- don from 78 deyrees to 05 degracs.--n wnat uncommon bei ght. Jnly € 1t stoad at 101, vet tho lLieat was £, iore oppreesivo ov Aue. 7. when it marked hut 87, for & suitry wind blew a« from o furnace, ot d *paralyzod respuration,” he droumht, ton, wak.81c kyivo, Iha watern of Seine had not beom an tow for wevents. Vozelation wa o withored anddriod. Tho e of the vine anl fruit-troos was seorched and shriseled, The trowvn n the Palums Royal dropoed most of their § caves ; no lexs than 150 were witinpeld enbiroly 1are. and many of them dicd. ‘Tho ol s the pardena of tho Luxem- bourg way dryv s o bed of ashes to the depth ol 3y feet, and jnthe nei thborhaod of Tantiune tho corn-erop entsrely tiiiled. Evervenere the eronud wan Laked aud cr telied by thio heat, acd graes and horbazw almoxl ‘died out, In France, Belgoim, and England, the summer of 1912 wae one of tho mor 2 torcid of tho present conturv. Ten yeara later - hiv punumor whe inthe gatn countrica wearvely 148 tesing. Meny do- mestic animals dropped der 4 from the Leat while Iavcring in the felds. Thiv year 1243 is note- worthy, not for a warin eutnmer but a mild winter. In Wurtemberg, 1. chronicle of the timo tells uy, the treas budd 11 at Christmas, In Fobruary the strawberrios ri: 1ened. anil 1 April the vines biossomod, Bntin Mar a chango came over the keana; enow fell and the vines and tha frint blaasoms wero Lilied. ¥ ¢4 3o seaton wae #till 5o carly that the vines put- forth new fuliage and tiowory, and the usnal am cunt of wine way produced, Yct nioro ramattat. do for a revorss nf the easons was Lhe sear 113, whon tho apnle trecs blo-womed fn January, an d thair fruit wae Inrgo au hazel-nuta In February — The barvest of tlus uxlrmnhtmry year wasin 3 [ay and tho vint- ago in Angusf. qu 2];q 1832, tha westlier at ddenly chanzed from intense boat Lo auch & degi eo of cold that the potatoes and ceresls woro fr.az0n in the elo- vatod districts of Wurtomborg Tlreo vears after there was_a mmilar abupt fall of the tempsrature v Franco at thedosa of Juue. which coverod tho mountams “\ith soow at Bourtan, aud the plaius with hos £ froet in the Auvergue, It is romarked by obeervers ihat estrame weather joany ove regign cn the earth is Lal- anced by tho oppomta phenomenon in foumoe otior region : thus, while 8 winter or 8 Ammoer of nunusnaf saverity prevails in anas part of tho world, 1t gunerslly bappens thiat tho vunegsaiun 18 elenwhere uncommonly mid, Wiule in the ond sgan } turned Joose, and a general eallop takes place fo thin water talk, where (hey drink and Jounge & Litles aud fhe *onng oned are (eiched bome by the niggess, whils e 01d atazers Kivuw they will ba wanted, and saus off by thenrelved, o o o Toan turn the twam of active hittlo lies Tesa veld to amtne (horisaives fo that they will ba thare, would aatons then to offer & hurso nothing but 10 rofresh himsell wtlal ! o, 1o cattlo hive (s A standing maeval to me. e velid (common) which esteudu sl over the euntry [Just clothed with & few square milen nf corn ero” acd tBerer (n covernd wilh a luw thin Mrab atout | ewedeen anches high, ealisd Vhewistona htouking Hae tneagre | urbor-vite ot gmie Sunfper, oo cattle and atiep will not touch this julcy 1etientos g but under each lttle burt, 1 faticy, ey crop a fow hisies of grase, aud on this thes ke ery good condition, e xen, with (beir luige harns (9 or 10 feet o, fromt 10 never fed, though they work hisrd, nor are e slicy, The alittls forage (osts, gtraw aud all), 1+hou it rew vight “or ton’ Of thess swit, why Ltte horees barieesed to o wagon,—s were Hat Jasifarm on wheeld, In front stands s wile-jooking Hottentt, wil patchen and featliers, aml deivea them Lest pace, all 44 bind," wang 4 whip ko 8 Ashing £t Tl whitcl hie o et et eavagely, Gut with 8 #kill whi: L would niake an old stage-coachiman burst with onvy to behold, 2" MUSICAL KITES. In Central Asin the auusciont of fiying kites is an popular as in Xuropo or America, but it is ‘Ihe horrors which Navoioon's army | made to yield o double gratilcation. It delights tho ear iy sn amizsion of woft, melodious mur- murings at the sawo time that it pleasca tho oyo with it graceful. bird-like motious. Eael kite in o constracted ay o produce thoe effect of & flouting /Eolian barp, and thus the fight aud tha gong of winged warbier aro both imitated in the lugsnious plastiung, Abbott gives a do- neription of thess wusical” kites (o iy tive of w Journey from Herat to Kliva “Each kito naro formod upon two diagonals wood, whote ex- tromitics mo conuected by o tight slnug, furnunz the sides of tho wqnate. Over thu whols paper i3 pasted. A loote string tpon the up- tisht diagonal Teceivos 1ho Btung by which the Kite into be hield, and a tml is fastened to its lower estremity, ‘The transverso diagonal or crus-atick is then bout back like a strung bow, and factoned by o throad of catgut. Uf courne every breezo that passes the kito vibrates this tignt cord, and the vibiations are coununnicated 10 the bichly sonoroue frame of tho kite. And, 83 nutaters of these Lites aro left doating i tho air all uight, the effoct is that oi serinl mueic, mototounits, but full of welancholy intervst,” We pugzest to Womn of the experimentative youth of Chicago thst they cquin their kites with an Toltan attackmens and test the offect vn a quiet eveniug. The wild, wayward music of Folus is far wore cuchanting thon any that can be dramn from instrutents playoed upon by Lu~ man tiugors. e e SOUTHERN SENTIMENT, Fo the Editor of The Chicas Cuastearas, 1, July 7.—You eay editorally that ex-Coufederato Geueral Beoouregard, Ad- wirsl Serames, ana onn ollier persou, Lave re- fused to ceielrato the Fourth of July,~makiog threo persous in tho whola Scuth who Lad ue revarenco for this gloiicus nuniversary, ete, Did tho writer of that article ever pass o Fourth of Julyin the Suuih? My observatlons thero would lead mo to catimato 75 per cout of the peuple, inetead of three out of 6,000,000, as beiug nou-celebrators, Tho fact 13, they dou't cele- Lrato tha dsy any better than th v Graut's ‘Tosoksgiving dagy, To-day TRE TRUTNE caila tua wiutoss ul Gen. Dreston ut tho Cuisersity of Virgmia extraordivary, Jhe Geverai's epéech ir, 11 BOWG BEUs0, OItrAOTGiuaTY § but lud views ure not rare. Lo tho addrees referred to, Gon. I'raston spesks truly tuo sentiments of wworo than 80 per cent of il tha wlito peopls of the Bouth, Wo Lave no quarrel with tho Soutbern peopio. eir war-record is slrvady formiven. We not only forgive, but forgoet; aud. whon thoy como among Uy, ZIve them an evon chavco in burinosy, atics, aud overy avenns of nmbition, Now, ie ot impertant that we be not decoived iu re- gatd to the feshngs of the Southetn peoplo tos ward us? Foriunes onousl havo been wrecked slready by miguuderstanding tho dispoaition of tho Southdrn ponplé fuwara Norslwru luiwi- grants, 1speak wnat I iinow when I eayibat they don't want Northera mlnmngnuh, uuleas they can coatrol thew politicails. X A CoNsTant READSER, —_— SHAD IN THE WEST. Specral Correanomdence of The Chicngo Twibune, Des Moines, lowa. July 5.—Two sttendants arrived Lere the uther day with $0.000 shad from Wasbugton, which were placsd i the Des Moines liver at this point, Thers bave been 100,000 shiad placed in the niver Lere, — THE LAP-DOG. Prom the ltclian of Parind, Thus Le dircoursoe ; 3l 4 gentie bear Bpriuge, while be speaks, into s laar's oyes, o .. Bherecalls the dar— Alasi thu'erucl day —what Hrat her wp-dog, er beauteoun lap-dog, dariing of iue Graces, Hporani 1w youtaful gayety, inprendel 2 Trihune winter of 173040, pavigation was completely | Hboran i yuuri i Lk o0 clased by the icu ou the River Tum‘««. aud u;?’ Tae e ot of & ol ey i vold. G was frozen & fac A4 Aud wacriliious toe, duug hec away, nllfira“n‘mnn(zmll:‘:m Outend, and 8 Lo 10 feet | Over sua hver thrice shy rulledy onl thirice ol snow foll in Bpiin and Portugal, | Bumyled her ailken coat, ant dm‘.u l"'.i'.'l'nd the inhabitants of Groenland nu.d lcfi ‘A’n:g.‘:';;féf:;:}.‘:f::.‘d‘:f';:‘::fffl' -‘-"fl.ufi,‘&.lp, Belpt* land were roveeling in extraordinarily muld f ifhen rated PREROTK EE e milded vauits westher. [t was remarkably warin 1 mout parta | oo LU0 6 Fodo suswered Bor ugain, of Furope, eapoc. ‘ally su tho narthiern countries, during the wimtor of 1821-'22; aud meanbiue the temporature in South America w8 extromoly Yor, on Feb, 20 + dio snow talung at Luovoa Ayres, The winter of 152)-'30 way o _Bovero it Southiwestern Euro) w that the Lake of Conatsuos time knowa to tho presout Ay frozen over, yot in tho Unted Btatos the vonthor was very soft :(;nl oyed n 35, zvluln The guilty menial trembled, sud with eyed wan, for the first generation, complots On the otl wr hand, Europo en, lessant, o P in the s wiutor of 184 gentls scason toznible cotd reigmed uary the Larbors of Baltimore wore locked foe. with the evergrecn ankn loe back thoir new loaves tuuo the summer-hiio wi “?E'J«i”? a u:r&h aspect, v or & time over | Agaiu, whila we an this ». ‘do of tus Allautio sul: foral frow the excessivo until Mateh 20, keusou in Eulope. AFRICAN CAMELS ANDC APETOWN HORSES, Thomilk of the cagiel i ¥ bIgLly esteemed Ly : d 1a preseribod the Arabs aa au articlo of d, 'ot, aodlap el YL as 8 apocifia in many cases Of diseso. D Qordon, who residod milk every morning, atud deriv. \3 & temporary benefit fram. it. In ber spioy lettors omo, sbo thus wrou>of the 9ovel bevorsge It has the marit of bLeing qu lte dolicious. i el I conld send you ‘a jug of it every moruiog, uch aa I drlaks it i biatter than a by other milk, e croum - The Arab sith thick froth like whi thick It very good foe called 8neriff bringe biu camel hore « Wery morn fng, sod milis her for we; {8 4o funuy, he looks sl Jogs and big L with soft fluffy, buficolorod bhatr, o0 very llttlo body to such tall legs, I ® ':x;m' vou could seovhe cauols heve thoir :;fllh‘ they sre tLie ouly people who uss & tablt o The cawmal-driver apresds s cloth 0o and poure s beap of wsize (doures) u thew old Mg, aud , \lra, Camo! ait down &t sud bottom, vary gravels, take their placen i1 proper ordor politely, bowing the it long necks np and dowa ouly ous was sulky, snd weat sud 4ed bia disner by bimuslf, ke a nas 1885y boy, and sometimes, the man saly, Lie wou & nob est at all, Whoo 1 Capetown, Africa, in one of hor loog Jourueys sftor the heal ' that ahe never found, Lady Dutf Gordon fraqu ttly mensionsd the woo- Jorful strength andendu 2008 of the native bresd of borses, 'The auimals &1 '® very soantily fed, and, 56 0o grass grows o the region, \holr fodder is sesisioted 10 oata, whish th ‘o7 suaugule utraw aud in Amorica, In carly Jan- Poston, Philladelphin, and 'lgnhn) fifl"““fii 3 10ir_roots in 3, an Lies were. Giled ol 1) t their foliage aud kept At this nter of Europs suddonly and snow andl frost pro- ‘ugland and Germany. cold of 1872-'13, tue kround was scarcely froz en dunpg the eutico soveral years in Egypt o the vain hopo of rec overiug from coo- tion in thab milét clims 6 drank camel's pkrigeasy good doal of | e, k pooplo;+ and & man hor 1 wby camel ack eyod wud 30 | founder aud to call tha tall tower his monuwment, tho & tound, .4 sod Pun:h:' sop | baik biw in bis stock operatious. and the othary sl nd eat quit ® | ocoupy Lis miud, nor Aud Jrow their classtral bas oty 1 dismay Thia servents ruptiod, nud frons thy UpjiF Fuome T paliit 1addeus treiubling Bew : uil came, The Ladly’a 1ace wan wicli roviving caveuco Hprinkied, and whio awakened f1om her swoon, Aber and griol copyulsed ber siill ; sl caat A ligltuiug glance upon tho guilty beuist, ‘And thrice with latguid volco abo calicd hier pet, Who rushed to her ctobtace, sud sconiod to wvake Vengozncs with her surill ténor, Aud revenge ‘Ihiott hudat, fair poodle, dartiug of the Uratas. Downicast recoivos his dooul, Naught Lugarasied Hia tweuty yours' dusert ; Laugb bius avaulsd i zeal Ju wecret sepvices § for b 11 valu wera prayer and jromiza ; forth be wenty Spotlud at the livery that ] now hiad wade pias Euviablo with tho vulgar, Aud it vau Lie boped suother lord ; the tender dates Wero burror-struck at lis ;:‘m?fi.‘m And foathod th suthor, Tho fabs X Aitts wll biw squalid Lrood, aud In the 3:7uatd, With Lus foats wif s tatters ut Lt el - | Vaduly lamented to the jasse: — W D. Howelda 1 the July 3ny Gould, tho Ldiiur, wpd the Tall oW wrove bat Jay Gould holds e canfiutiing lnfif,’fi'f i0rle Xew YOrk Tvibunie, and thia g s tte sock-jobbing Jutarevis of that & b gentiewau, ‘LLia may bo the ‘cise, but ik Geted i ifulness will be required et e ler rumors. 3T, Dausy i dltempting to A e Fribune, 8 work fn wbich he hes for sotn tudure o ten assduvusly sugagod, will oud that L h::en}mnmnu » big coutract,—Fhuiadelphia Chrou- Letter 1] Jay Gould owns the coutraliing interest . ln{‘l’;‘:‘ y|{um’. 4 proved by ita course. by tbe i eooduct of bis young editor, snd isamatier I abous winch no one {uformed s 1o ite stock, and Luo diwpositiuts that Luw been mado of it aluco r. Grooloy's death, hss the fighitess doubt. Jay Gould uses ita columus for took-gambling purposed, All Wall stroct knowa this 1t ia pal- yable b0 sny ono who follaws tho courss of the = | stock l‘l:\xl;kfl.‘u 'r'hulyouug editor up in his tall tower 4 Bl ool To_psiade ,uuuce Grooley's name ag [ts 14 to fusult the memory of thal great aud houust joarualist. 1¢ takes one's koigo Tise to thiuk of wuch hypocry sod to coutemplate such & d tion of b great name, .5:‘;'210‘:5; c:xf- potbing o!f:n:x::l:g apinl!;.::: o that atfpots Lis character suldobsiin ing of she prida ur smbition of the faithiu! jours y th liis roadore docs uut wallet, ’hulhl\lldaulu{ljm'.l:'huu.ln A dos fi: cupsut of the ‘tall tower. 33&.'.;5: ‘l:n‘t‘:vu'?;fimnoql. deatitute of gou- vicsions, with suiliciont newvpaper exreriabie, nth b0 upcomfortable scruplos uf honedt i sud o apaoity for bmldln‘s P b repuistion tor diu- 'and the paper of Jay Gould, whicl, umui;u fovin ded 1u fraud, sball };h;ug iuthe eyes of » dacey 0d publie,—&ew York Sun. iclyte Why la Dans 0 Kitter towards rwn'r ,m.: Now York Tribund ls got as pawarful & Jour asit wes when Graslay profe i leaders, mf; 19 3 mOI® enterpsialuyg aud beties naiw1pApes,