Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 27, 1875, Page 1

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ALT, ABTEN & CO, i T6767 + Ornoe ov raz Liowt-Hoose Boan: ad peopevat wit be lahilixaTON bata Ha mops Metooeute ef Hy gebiice ohn btodied nd ul oF ihe au ne, nay Ver Lads aot tee 2 a “MAOHINERY. DIAMOND DRILL MACHINES Bilver- Mini inery, Gold aa Hinges, sad Bolene FRASER, CHALMERS & OO., 145 Fulton-st., Chicago, Chamber of Commesce, Chicago, dvences MONEY on Produ Estate, Clty Care tidcatee, aad utes” Richouge for sale al pe on all part LAZARUS, SILVERMAN, CHICAGO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1875.— LITERATURE. “*Graziella: A Story of Itale fan Love.” A Translation from Lamartine by a Gentleman of - Chicago, Mra. Fletcher's Autobicgraphy--= Glimpses, of Some British Celebrities of Old= en Times. Nero Dramatized---Poems’ by Varl- ous Authors---Juverile Liter. ature---Architecture, How Parsees and Hindoos Dispose of Their Dead---Jugglory in India, The “Jains” and Their Re. spect for Animal Life--- Hindoo Fakirs. Tho Fauna of Mindostan—Man-Slaying Tigers and Their Fearful Depre- dations—A Seayenger- Bird. The English Walnut--Bamboo for Paper- Making-—-Timber-Culture in Mauritius. The English ArctioExpedition---Around the World in Ton Months--An- cient Egyptian Dogs, LITERATURE “GRAZIELLA,” Gnazicria: A Brony oF Iratsan Love, Translated from the French of A, Dr Lawtantixe hy James B, Rusmion, Obicago: Jansen, MzClurg & Co, 1873, This dainty little book is a mark of & notable and a new period in tho history of Chicago. Culturo islargely a matter of buok- waking and book-reading. It is not #0 very long since we began to read books, Now wo haye be- guntomako them. The recent publication of our houses cover a wido range of subjects, from acience up to poctry, “ Grazielin " is a poem iu prose, Tho subject and tho treatment aro both eminently poctic. Tho sentencos aro full of wonsuous ewootnoss, Thero {a a growing tasto for knowledge of the details of great mon’s lives. Tho biography Playa a more important part in Mteratnre every year, Oneof the most sucecssful American his- tories ever published is James Parton's serios of biographies, despite the fact that they aro more histotical novols, In response to thin taste, it bas become the custom for friends of tho great doad to write familiar akotches of the Intter's lives, and acquaint the pablic with many minuto and whimatoal detaile, which might better bo buried in kindly oblivion, ‘Tbe groat man of to- day might well parody Jon's exclamation, and eay: “Would that mino friend would not writo a book.” Mrs, Bigouruey becamo the terror of ber acquaint- sncos In this way, util Moally she was loft a log- acyon condition that sho would not write the textator's lifo, in poetry or prose. Our Boswell, Mr, Jamos T. Flolds, gossips wlth the moat go. nial good humor about a lino of doparted worthies, out Dr. Johngon's Latin epitaph on Goldemith would have to be reversed in ordor to describo the result of tnovo well-moant labors, Mr, Fielda “ornavit nihil quod tetrgit.” His Osi yalpatzen Thackeray, and shows us Srekens only as be uecd to wound our eyes on Jeoture-piatforms. artayod jo a figured vatyot ‘Yeat, with @ profusion of gold cbnina moander- ing over his capacioug stomach, and miniatura fowor-garden rowing on his loft —lappel. Such complaints canvas be brougut against ‘‘Grazietla."” The book, aa tho transistor happily pbrasce it, is “a leat from the peraonal momoirs of the famous French historian, poot, and orator who wrote it— brightened by hia amilea and molatoned with his tears.” Ibis Lamartiue’s sketch of 8 romantic episode in bis own life. and, whilo it fecds the popular taste for personal details, it nowhere ainke below tho leval of the theme or the author, Xt refines, instond of vutgarizing. ‘the memory of the famous Fronchman, Written moro than thirty yeare aftor tho ovente of which it treats, at util! tells tha atory with tho passionate emotion of youth. [¢ waa composed on the Ieland of Ischis, underneath a cor tain lemon trac, whouce the poet could survey the very spot whoro Graziells lived, loved, and died. ‘The story is as frankly told ag it Rousseau himaolf had made it part of bia “Confessions.” Butit is happily froo, wholly. free, from the tatut which the “Confessions” have, tp common with so much of French litera. ry work. Itis sensuous, but not sensual, It lows with love of the beautiful in all nature; f painta with touches uf delicate tondarnors tho face and figure of Giaziolla; it sketches tho sowth and the culmination of the passionate love that throbbed in the hearts of tha poet and the pesaant girl: but i¢ nowhere coutains a line or 8 word calculated to cffond tho mout abrinkivg modesty. Wo do not in- tend to give avon tho skeloton of theatory. 1t cannot be separated from tho ex- waite wording without brutal viulenco to ono of the moat beautiful ploces of Iteraturo with which the nineteenth century has ondawed tho world. dhooghts and words are too ivtimatoly conuected to be cut apart.” ‘Tho book must be taken ass wholo, not road Ina hurried conden- sation, If the reador should chance to blame Latnartine for the death of Graziolla, tet him re- member that if the poasans’s lovo for the poet brought her death, the poet's lovo for her haw given Ler immortality, “Graziella” is full of tho simple powcr that has mado Hone Christian Anderson's “Tmprovisatoro" famous forevor. It sparkles with gemn of fancy, bat the sotting view io brilliancy with tho fowols, and the latter jose by being torn from it, Dut was Iechia over bettor doscribed than in theao words: |‘ Socing this island for the first time, it seemed to ma ay though it were awimmung iu light, rising trom thonea, losing fteeif in tho bluc aky,—born hke the dream of a puet in tho light steop of a sum- mer plight"? The witty Boston lady whom Hig- Ginson quotes av saving that she proferred lit- eraturo per se to ecion je purbling would find in * Graziella” her ideal. 2e is pure literature, a porfect story couchod in perfect words, ‘The ltalisns apioverb: “Ji traddulore @ tt traditore," trangiator ia a traitor,” There is too often reason in tha saylog, but 1% docs not pppty here, Tue transistlon bas evidently eeu ok jor at love. ‘There Is scarcely a slip fn it. The sentencos hgve tho rhythm aod fow, the sreeivoza and tender fancy, of the origiual, The English language—or rather tho Gernian wide ar it—u singulary well fitted for = story couched iu the pashetic minor key of “Grazlella.” Mr, Runpion hea dono his work admirably woll, ‘The publishors have oot been bobind band in thelr part of tho tadk. They have given ‘“Graziolla” a fitting drosy, “The book is Fisted on heavy caleadored papor, with red- ioe borders, artistic vignettes, and gis edges. it is ‘uniform with Mr.' George P. Upton's Memories," the Hith edition of which bas jus! ELVE PAGES, been publishod, and it abould stand rido by aide with that on tho atelves of overy lover of pura, strong thoughta put in pure, ntrong words. “Grazieila” is a book to be loved. MRS. FLETCHE! Avctomtoonarny or Mas, Pertcurn: Wren Lertens ann OtHFA Fawtur Memontats, Eulited by the Hurvivor of Her Family, amo, pp. 376. Boaton Roberts Brothers, Prive, $2.5 The subject of this autoblography was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1770, and diod at Lan- origg, inthe Lake District, in 1858, at tho ad- vanced ago of 88, Her fatber “ wan desconded from ® respectable raco of seomon,” aud waa the owner of a small oetate, anda land-aurvoyor by profession. Mer mother, o daughter of ao old and honorable famtly, died a fow days after giving her birth, and the young girl grew up tho fudulged, yot not spoiled, pet of household in which 9 grandmother and maiden aunts wero) prominent inmates. From a por. trait. accompanying the volume, wo dis- gover tbat Bisa Dawson, at tho ago of 15, possessed 8 bright, amiable, end attractive countenance, reflecting an iotelligent Sod sprightly mind ; whilo the autoblograpby in- forms us that, s fot years lator, her hand was sought by many cligiblo suitors. Among thoxo ero Dr. Cartwright, the poot, clergyman, and Inventor of the powor-loom, and Lord Grantley, a gentioman of wealth an woll aa title, But Mies Dawuou favored with ber regard an Edinburg barrieter, without fortune, and twonty-five years her senior. Her inclination towards this gentleman was strongly opposed by her father, who lad formed “splendid oxpectations for the cbild on whoin he doted”; yet tho persietenco of the lovers ovarboroe his disapprobation, and they wore mar- ried when Eliza was a little beyond 21. A bappy nnion of thirty-soven years attested the wisdom of Mies Dawson's marital choice, ‘During all that timo,” writes Mrs. Fletchor at the beginning of ker widowhood, “I hover experienced an unkind word or deed from my husband; I never know him du # thing that was not alriotly honorable and high- principled. . . . Wis indulgence towarda mo knew no bounda; and he secured my respect and affection by the virtues of his character, tho soundnesss of Lis uudcratanding, aud tho ton- dorness of hiahonit.” Of tho seven children that Wore tho fruit of this nnion, ono daughter bocamo the wife of Dr, Davy, brother of Fir Humphrey Davy, and auother of Bir John Richardson, the Arctic explorer. At tho ago of 67, Mrs, Fletcher was induced by her children to writa her autobiography for cir- culstion among her relatives and friends. From the uneventful teoorof her life, a8 ind.tated by the fow details wo have given sbovo, it might rearonably bo asked why these porsoual recol- lections of an individonl quite “unknown ta famo" wero not hmited to the circlo for whom they wero originally tutended, Tho autobiography itsolf will furnish a satisfactore answer, ‘Ihoy sro written in an caay and animated style, and, without affectation or vanity, present aplearing, and instructive pictare of s lofty type of womanly charactor, and of tao refinement and charm of Engle domestic life among tho cultured middle-classes, Thoy also afford interestlag glimy sea of many of the cale- brated men and women of Great Britain, with whom, rocially and intellec:ually, Mrs. was entitled to rank ou terma of oquallzy, Of Mra. Vietchor it was satd by one who knew her well while she was a resident of Edinburg, and an acknowledzed ornamout to its cultivated society: ‘ I have known as bosntiful, 8 attract- ive, and moro witty young women; butI have nover known apy ono so tenderly, and truly, and Ralvarenily beloved.” In her old age, whou sho bad established bersolf among bor frieuds, tho Arnolda, tho Wordsworths, etc., in the beautiful Lako-country, {twas said of her br Mergarot Faller, who met her thore: “Soveuty-ulx years bavo passed over her head, only to prove in hor the truth of my theory, that no need nover grow old... , Hor eyo was full of Mekey her manner and gesture, of dignity ; her voice, rich, sonorous, and finoly moduinted; her tide of taltr marked by candor and justice, showing in ovory aoatenco her tipo experience, and her noble, gemal nature, Dear to metnors will be tho sight of herintho beaatiful acclusion of ber ome ainong the mountains,—a picturesque, flower- wraatied dwolling, where affection, tranquillity, aud wisdom were the goduof the bearth, 10 whom was offered no vain oblation. Grant us more such women, Time! Grant to men to revor- auco, to seek for auch.” Lord Jeffrey, a life: long friend of Mra, Fletcher, playfully charac. torized her as ono of tho “women that would plazuo Lim with rational convorsstion,” Of the inviting social scenes to which Mrs. Flatcher’s autobiography admits ug, thie, sletch- ing the features of polito intercourse in tho highest circles of Edioburg at ine closo of tho last contury, ia not the least interesting: A little before this time, the forma of socis! mect- ings bad somewhat ehanged trom what they were when I knew Edinburg frst, Larza dinner-partios Were lesa frequent, sud supper-pariies—I mean ot suppers—were gellerally discarded, In thelr place cay large ovening-parties (sometimes larger then the rooms could couveuiently hold), where card-playing generally gavo placo tu musle or conversation. The come Dany met ut 9 aod parted at 12 o'clock, ‘Tea and coffee were handed about at 9,and the guests eat down to some light cold refreahments later on in the ovening: people dis] not, in those parties, meat to est, but to talk and listen, There you would sees group (ebielly Of ladles) Ustouing to tho brilliant talk af Mr. Jeffroy; In a ditlerent part of the room, perhaps anolber cir: cle, amongst whom were pale-faced, reverential-looking students, lending their ours to the playful, imaginative discoursos of Dr. Brown,—while Prof, Viayfair would somettmies throw in an ingentous or quiot romuark, that Rave freah animation to the discourss, On other uo lous, old Air, Mackenzie wou'd euliven tho conver jon with anecdotes of men aud manuora gono by, + ¢,Emay remark thet 3 was in this socioly that Lord John Rureell, then an inmate of | Ir fair, used to spend sone of the eventng-hours t could spare from bard atudy, From tho numLorleas ight aketchoa of pereoos of distinction with which Mra, Itetcher ombal- Mvhos hor autobiography, we content ounielvos with solocting tho following of tho author of “Simple Snean” and othor popular novela : Misa dgeworth's personal appearance was not at- tractive ; but her vivacity, good humor, and cleverness in conversation quite equaled my expectations. I should say eho Was more tprightly and brillisnt than refined, ‘She excolled’ in the raciiesa of Irab humor ; but the great defect of her mauner, aa it seemedto mo: vas an oxceas of compliment, of what in Irland i called * blarney,” and it one wha moved in bout circles, both as fo manuers end mind, it surprised mo notallttie, Sho repelled all epproach’ to fatimesy on my part] by the excess of her complimentary reception of me whuu Wo were first Introduced to cach ol! ff I never felt coufidence iu. the reality of what ale w: afterwards, I do not know whether it wee the sence of good taste iu her, or that alie supposed T was sally and vain enough to be tlattered by auch verbiage, Tt was the dret timo in wy life Thad met with such oveructod civility; but 1 was glad of an opportunity Of meeting & person whose genius aud powers of mind had been exercised in beuotiting the world, a hers had been, , , , Mise Fdgeworth and ber ‘two very agrecable slaters were ploased to meet at our hones Sir Nobert and Laty Liston, . . , Mies Edgoworth's Varied information aud quick repartes appeared to great advantge Jo couvorsation with tho poliaed ex- Arn'nasador of Constantinople, who always reminded me of the couplet : * Polite, as all bis life in Courts bad Leen; ‘Yot good, av he the world had never sen,” Tho reader will conclude, from an acqualntance with Mra, Miatchor, that Ler humility, alarmed at the pratuos ftecly avokon by Mixa Edgeworth, be- trayed her into some injustica in her estimate of tho manaor and motive of tho distiuguiauod noveliut. letcher POEMS, Neno: Aw Mironoay Pray. By W. W. Stony, Limo. pp, 275. New York: Werltner, Welford & Ariatrong. “Chicagor Janson, “MeClurg” & Co, Price, Oauroons, By Mamaaner J. Parstox, 12mo,, pp. 20, Bostou: Roverta Brothers. Pricu, $1.50, Tux bray avy tux Ugch; wiry Orucw Porns, Cunurorien Prause Cuancu. mo. ppe dit. Bostun; Janice lt. Osgood & Co, ‘Tux MyrH ov Stoxx Ibo: A Love-Lxcexp oy Dae xota, By Witt P, Joes, A, M., Lato Preaideut of the Northwestern Female Collego, Evanston, Ill, 12mo., py. 74, Chicago: 8. 0. Grigga & Co, Price, Ar. Story hag chosen for the hero of bia drama one of tho most deterted of the vicious aud brutal Emperora whoue brief but bloody reigns occupied, with two or threa short intermission: tho fret many separate tragediow full of gloom and hor- ror, yot the whole measuru of bis odious dooda iy condensed inte this. Lut, with the skill of the cougummate artist, the story is go varied aud re- Heved by tho charms of tho vehicle im which it ig conveyed, and by the expedient always legiti- tasty in tho hands of tho dramatio narrator, that it nowhero overpowera one with [ta ropulnive de- tails, The facts of history aro rcrupulously respect ed throngh tho entire course of tho drama, al- though, with the licenno allowed to the poet, rofter colors aro used in certain dotineatious than have Leon employed by history. Poppra ia represented as hating much moro gentlo and honorable womanty feoling than we have boen tanght to arcribo to her, and, in ker first inter view with Noro, qmto wins our sympathy. Agripping, too,—most infamous of Roman wives and Empresser,—sometimes awakens a aanti- ment of reapectful pity. Yothero the pont 1s more truo to nature than the elern, bard regin- trara who writs down the anuala of the world, The good angot nover wholly deserta humanits, howover pervorse and corrupt it may become, but, in somo tender moods, comea back to tha hoart scomingly given up to demoni and, though for a fow brief momenta, lighta it with Bloams of right and kiodly fonting, Tho test of tho acting powers of a play muat be appliod to tho staye, with all the accessorios of sconic effect and tho arts of tho trainad per- sonator, As aw reading play. ‘Nero fully endures a , aad proves of absorbing Interest, Of tho verno, it is bigh praise to de- claro it so luminous that never onco does it call attention from tho atory to itaclf, There aro fow pansages which, for any particular beauty of fontiment or oxpresalon, would bo culled from the rest for especial admiration; neverfheless, ths wholo coustruction is smooth. flexible, aud irect, Mra, Margaret J. Preston haa been a prolific, and, especially in the Southera States, a much- esicemed, poot. Her Inet volume was nubliahed, Wo botievo, 1 1870; beuce we may infer that the one before os contains poems produced within the past five years. ‘They are felicitously strled “Cartoone," being ver: Ne ekotches executed in words instead of colors. The list is divided into Cartoons from the Life of the Old Mastera, from tho Lifo of tho Logende, and from tho Life of To-Day. Thero is in them all a movement, a freedom, and o finish, that is very pleasing. Many would be noted le any collection for ome cellenes, yot one among them—Franccsca's Woralip—standa out from tho rest uncqaated in ite exquielte beauty. The pocm is too long to be copied cntire, as we sluuld bo glad’ to do, but wo make room fore few linos. As tha story rune, Francesca sought the eeciueion of thoeanctusry “in the deep afterncon,” after aday that bad overflowed with charities for others, to effer up her origonn. An slo bowed before tho altar, murmuring tho opeaing sentenco of her prayor, on her lips she helt ‘The words distiliingly, as though the drained A honesed drop from euch wow syliable, Dut ber invecation waa quickly interrupted by & mensenger dirpatched fiom har housouold to claim renewed service there. Tlirce times was sho thas summoned intho midst of her davo- tions, and esch timo sho obeyed the inopportana call with tho aweetcat patience. Finally : Tome,” ahe sald, her forehead Inminaua With inward gut’: “For Tuow wouldst teach me, lord, That Thou art just ax near me, ministering Athome, as in these ronse:rated aisles; Ang that I worship Theo ns purely when I pour the wine for bm I lure, of hola The Httlo throbbing toad, as when I bow Above the sacrod ieaf,—sina2 Duty Ie the true altar whero I serve Th When, under the Campagna’s purple rim, ‘The sun had sunk so long that all was gray, Once nore across the duskiug sacristy Francesca glided lack, The Pralter lay Scarcely dis ‘ernitla amid the gloom } But lo, the marvol ! On the open pace ‘Tho verse which thrico sho had esssyed to read Now shone Irradlate, sliver-ciear, ax though God's haad bad written ft with the fish of stars! ‘The poem of * Tho Bird and the Bolt,” which lende ite name to the vo:ume by Mr. Cranch, was written during ite author's prolonged po pata in Europe, a score or more veara ago. It gives utterance to the bitter foohngs with whieh o ataoch Protestant witnesses the pomp and power of tho Romish Church iu the conntrios where it baa for agea been dominant, The re- matntng poeme in tho collection, something Ieaa than a hundred, Lear various — dates.— some —__ oxtending back as far aa 1852. Mr. Cranch has been called ‘a poct for poste, characterization which may well te correct, us the caim, thoughtful mannor of bia verse fits it for tho anpreciation of aulti+ vated roadors. The work which hes mads him beat known to tho public is his poetical transia- tion of Virgil. “ Tho Blyth of Stono Idol” rescues from obliv- ion one of tho romautic Indian lezends that add 8 delicate charm to almost overy scene of beauty and grandeur in tho broad Wost. The publishers havo given n taetofal retting to the story, warels is roadoted in metrical language, JUVENILE LITERATURE, Tuc Bro Broturn: A Storr o7 Inptan War. By Grosar Canr Eoourstox, Author of “Tow to acate Youraelf."? Illustrated, 1zmo,, pp, 182, New York: G, Y, Putnam's Bens, Tue shelves of the booksollers are taden with javenilo pablications; avery week adds a fresh installmont to tho glittering piles; aud yot, whon booke of solid valuo are sought for tha edification of young readera, where shall thay bo found? Thero is vo end of fiotion of the most choice and attractive sorta prepared for their amnsoment; but where sre tho volumes containiag history, biography, art, and scieuco, 80 presented as to be Inviting to tho immature mind? Parente and guardians have no troubla in securing any numbor of elogantly-wiitt en and skilifully-planned stories, fairy-talea, and ro- mauces, for their lada and lassies ; the perplex- ity hero ia how to select from the profusion that abounds; but, when thoy look about far some- thing moro serious and important, a painful paucity of books suited to the demand is discay- ered, Only a generation back, when children’s litera- ture was scarce and almost uukuown, ths young folks, in manner starved to it, read the booke of their elders, and, by dint of froqueat rapoti- tion and much pondering, thoy not uncommonly masterod, at an carly ago, writings of tho gravaat and most elovated style, {twas then not a gin- gular bred for boys and girls of 10 and there aboute to be Face igs: With Suakspearo, and Mil- ton,aud Buosan,and other worthies of thoir rank ; but how often do we hear of a child of the present lime who ever peopw into a book—aside from school-mavuals—of a micro substantial charactor than anovel? The pretty covers aud the really delightful stories furnished in endless quantitioa for tho ring goueration tempt us to forgot that matter of hight quality should form tho baais of a child's reading, and that tho stories should bo reserved for recreation. A con- tinued Indulgence in light reading harms the young mind just avitdocs tho adutt; weakons and vitiates it, until it rejects, because it Iu abe solutely unsblo to tuke iu aud comprehand, lit- orature of uterling merit. It comes iu our way to notice vory often, and in terms of praise, tho javenilo works tast pour atoadily from the presy of our country; aud the commendation ix cheerfully, because desorvedly, givov, Some of our most gifted writers are on- gngedin producing thous book, which aroin every way clever and winulug, but, amon: the whole wvumber that bave issuod from our prominent publishing bouges during the paat year, not above a hall-dozen— aud tho allowance ia hveral—have aimed to bo anything more than Srerliog ‘Tho greater part of these are pure, oven moral, iu tone, and, taken singly, would be wholexomo; but, road iu quan titios and exclusively,—as thore ig a presumption that, they aro, or they would not be au lavishly publivbed,—the effoct le certainly most iajurioas, There is au easy remedy for tho evil, and Low Anziouely patents should urgeit! Let our ine genious authors, wha havo a taste for proparing Juvenile literature, employ their tatent, a part of tho time, 1u writing simple yorsious of tho actual, intiuentiul events iu tho carcer of mauhood, ‘Thera ts an exbausticus amount of (he beat material for children's booky to bo oxtracted from the history of anciont and modern nations, and from tho blograpbles of emi- nent menand women, Tot any of tho thrill. ing, tregicat stories that have peen pro- served in thu records of the people, bo skillfully adapted to ® child's understanding, and they witl lose nono of their charm from hoag tuo. Imsgination caunot invent more touching, wtir- riug sccounts than those which lie embaluied in tho aunalu of tho pavt, aud which etiuuld bo 6o- lected and freshly rondered for the instruction of voung readers, ‘There aro oxtaut threo or four juvenile hia- tories of modern natious, wud a ‘tow Juvenile biogiaphies of celebrated persouages of receut times; byt they are by far too rare, Why ehonld not authors in every gonecation repeat anow the tales of history for the goou of the children, and thereby get tho returos which come from rehearsing the aime for the benefit Of adults? ‘he story of Josaphine, and Mary of Scotland, and William tho Hilont, of the Ru mans, the Greoke, tho Indians, will bear telling over and over again to the young aa weil as to tho old, aod each now and superior version would be ure of ita reward in popularity and Profit. ‘The subject ia one of consequence, and Generves tho coneciontious consideration of all Writers for tho young, ‘Tho book which haa auggosted the above ro- marka, “Tho ig Irother,” by George Cary Egeloston, takes a atep in tho right direction. Ite author haa the geattine interests of the chitd in view wheu he note out to amuse it, and takes care to blend uneful facts with a narrative that in none tho les attractive for tho admixture. His story reveals hey erat of tho history of our warfare with the Creok Indians, early in the currentceuttiy, The book banin it the ele- Mente of success, boing well written aud inter- outing; yet we wish it had given more history aud less romance. Now, who will write the mav- ing atory of King Philip, the son of Masssaoit, snd of his wife and son ‘*ho wora sold into slavory by the Puritan Fathers? ‘There ie an epirodo 10 the life of the Ametican Colonica that eserves to bo otoquently treated, and that Would excita youthful readers quite ‘sa much ag sho tucident of Biusboard. ARCHITECTURE, NCHITFCTURE, Hy LOGENE RMMANCEL. re Author of “The Dio- Discovnera nx Vioner-ur. D: Trapalatet, wit by Hexny Van Brest, 1 of Architects, Iiustrated with Fiates and Wood. Cuts, Svo., pp, G17, Moston: dames 2 ood & Co, ‘Price, $5, ‘The esesya compnieing this yolume wero pub- lished in France in 1863, and are now for the first tims given to the American pnblic. They wero addronscd by tho author to an andianco composed of hia countrymen, and, in their prac- tical affiction, consider almost exclusively tho architecturo of Franco; till, their tntereat and usefulness aro by po meana confined to Frenchmen. Architects, buildera, and amateurs of overy raco and tongue, will be instructed by them: for the great principles un- derlying Art are immutable and guiversal, and overy able, carnost exporition of thelr @cope and meaning must be profitable to readers of auy nationality or perio’ of time. Tho great effort of M. Viollet-le-Duc, in there discouraee, in to impress his fellow-aitists with tho conviction that # frosh, puro, truo style of architecture csn bo created in the ninoteonth century, an easily oa it baa been done in any centnry of the past. The mocbanical ro- Fources of the architect were nover 80 varied and abundant, the facilities for transportation of materials were never go multiplied, aa to- day. It only remains, therefore, that tho snirit which entered into tho _constrac- tions of the ancient and medieral ar- chitects abould be applied to the monu:ments erected im tho proseut era, *o secure the de- velopment of a distinctive architecture, expresa- ing waturatiy and artistically tho charactoristics of mrdern civilzation. Tho writer iterates and reiterates tho trnth that architects must break airy from tuo tyranny of tradition and of tho echoala aud apply reagon aud common seneo to the composition of structures of avery kind. Jt is necessary to bo educated in the elements of Art, to nndeietand perfectly her laws which ro- quire to bo obeyed. and to bare studied faiths fully tho works of the grost masters who hare Rone before: yet there must bo an end of inita- tion, of servile and sonseless copying and Lore rowing. ‘The wants of the civilization of our timo aro of a difforout and more complox arder than thoso which wore met by tho ouilders of any provious Age. These now and intricate needs demand new forms tn architecture, which must ba cro- ated without regard to the theories derived from the monuments of tho past. Tu the erection of overs building, of s public ora private nature, the chief sim should be to Provide vonvenientiy aud comfurtably for the necessities which called for the structure, In fulfilling these requirements in tho secureat and completeet mannor allowed by the meana and the material eupplied, full liberty Ig loft tho architect to conform all to the umplo principles of Art, which aro clastic cnourt to fit every aitu- ation and cireumatance, Above all. MM. Viollot- le-Duc would bare tho conventional and arbitra- ry idea, that symmetry must prevail in every edifice, no matter | what its purpose or location, dona Bway with, Symmetry in distinct aud separate parts or sections ie ewsential ; but that au exact bal- snce of parts should bo maintained at any eac- rifice, is unreasonable, and hence contrary to the rues of Art, It is by irregularity in the plan of buildinga that the exigeocies arming from — com- plicated eocial svatem can often bo best watisiled, and out of this i:regu’arity groma the pictur- esque. Reason and trath are to be the guidea of the arebitect, and to their dictationa ho is confidingly and noreservozly to submi: Tn tho explication of hia theories, Al. Violet. lo-Duc treats elaborately of the architecture of the Greeys, the Romans, and tho Muiddio Ages. ‘The examples tlustrating tho atrios of tho Intter period aro chcsen from tose existing in France. The temaing of t _. .tavuical and medieval arch- Mecture in Italy ana the Greek colonics, and in bis own country, hare been studied, teas- ured. abd analyzed by the author wita singular idelity and intelligence, and bis cotoments upon them are replete with tastruction, Ia whatever ho save, the eptrit of an honest, ardent, onlight- eued thinker 18 manifest, giving the power of authority aud of enthusiasm to bie words, Tho work of translation has been wbly done by Mr. Van Miunt; and his profatory cassy—in- cluding a sketch of the French Academy of Fino Aris, of the art-lifo of M. Viollet-la-Diic, and a discueaton of tho circumstances and Prospects of Ameriesn architecture—forma an interesting fox- turo of tho volume ho iniroduces. ‘Tho plates and wood-cuta uéod in the book are tine speci- mons of the epgraver's art. THREE GREAT AMERICANS. Lincoty, STANTON, “AND Geant. — Hrerontcat, Nexreites, By Maj, Evan Row.and Jonxn, United States Conaul, Nowcastle-upon-Tyne, With Stes] Portraita, By, pp, 342. New York: Beribuer, Welford & Armvtroug, Chicago: Jausen, McClurg &Co, Prive, $3. ‘Thoue sketches are written with a good deal of vigor and generous fooling, and impart w lively conception of the subjects and sceues portrayed. Thera ia sume inequality in tho strle,—occaslon- al passagoa being stilted and overwrought, —but, for tho most part, the writer ia fospired with a sincere ardor, that burns and glows in hia lan- guage, and kindles « similar fre in the mind of hi resdor. Aa good tasto docs not alwars control the author's diction, so it fails at times to guido him fa tho oxpression of seotiments ; and thero gre corlain things waid, especially in tho frat gaaay, Which would botter Lave been omitted. Tho manuer in which tho marriage of Iaucoln, aud the ineanity of bia widow, are treated, iy, to way tho loaut, awkward, and caleulated to wound tho hearts of the widow and her son, The shoteh of Lincola in much less folicitous than tho two others; the author not being able #0 thoroughly to forget himself in the intorest of his theme. it is moro lybored sod unoven in eza- cution, ‘Lhe portraits are civsrly and finely cat. CHRISTMAS, Cuntetwas tx Bona ap Stony, Wilh Iustrations by Miner Fosren, Dons, Lxrcx, Nast, and Others, dte, Now York? James Covkerdit & Co, Price, $1, ‘Thia gift for the holidays is made up of 4 se. lection trom the popular prose and postical com- Pe jong, iu Unglish and Amorican litoratare, that celebrate the sanctity gad fextivity of the Christmss-time. Tho uunyaled Yavorite, “A Visit (rom Si. Nicholas,” leada the lat, and is followod by ealey's well-kuowa lyric, “ Hark! the herstd-angols sing ;" “A Legend of the Christ-Coild;" "Given Back on Christmas Morn," by Hood; **A Chnstmas-Cerol," by Dickens; and other equally old sud choice poems aud sketched. ‘Tue illuminated lettera used in the decoration of tho work are rich in dewign aod noatly exe- cuted. ‘The wood-outs vary much in excellenco. A fow are frosh and well ougraved. The text is handsomely set ins red-lino frame on toned paper. BOOKS RECFIVED, Tue Lire oy Sane Tenzss, Ly the Author of “De- votions Byfore and After Holy Comniuuiva.” 1mo., ph, S44. Now Yurks Macmullan & Cu, Chicagut jausen, McClurg & Ca, 5 Laurnne Lineauy, Vol. 1, No, 24, For tae Kia: Am Hutonical Romawte, ‘By Cuautes Grauoy, Obicago: Dounolley, Loya & Cu, Irice, 10 vents, PERIODICALS RECEIVED. Cutholia Worid for December (Oatholta Publication Hiouse, New York), Contents: “ Mr. Gladajune sud Marylaud Yoloretlon"; Are You My Wife 1” " ycol- dichous ‘ot Wordaworts *; “bis Thomas More; A NUMBER 094, Historical, Romance"; ‘Sine Labs Concepts * (poem) ; “ Vilisge-Life in New Hampshira'': “The Falatine Prelates of Rome's “Pom Action, and “Not Yat" “Bonga of tos tous Pietureshs 17 "a (porm) ;’ "The King of Metala ttong, | Cathone Pamfly Atmanan for 2878 (Catholla Pah Unhing Roclety, New Yorx; P. V, Fitzpatrick & Co., Chicago), “Portralta are given of “Cardinal McClon- key, Prof, Eugene OrCurry, Bishop Brute, Bishop Usrags, the Rev, Charlee Nerinckx, Cardinal Wise man, Cardinal Aitiert, the Cura Lildalgo, and Fra Aa. Rrlico; and thera are’s nowber of ‘other iltustra- ions, Kational Sunday-Sehool Teacher and The Iattle Folk for December (Adame, Blackmor & Lyon Publishing Company, Chicago), American Naturauet for November (Peabody Acad~ emy of Belence, Salem, Mase), Wallace's Monthly for November (Benjamin Singer- ly, New York), . Natwonal Teachers’ Monthty for December (A. 8, Barnen & Co,, New York and Chicago), Western, Journat of Kdueation for November (Johp W. Brown, Chicagn), Glove for November (utfalo), Movement People"; LITERARY NOTES, - Tho Marquis of Lorne’s poom ia illustrated by hig wifo, the Princess Louise, Whittior’a volumo of poetical selections, “Bonga of Three Centuries,” will appear in season and in dress for the nolidays. . Octave Feuillet's novel, “A Marnage in High Life,” publisbod by Carleton, is traualated by two women, Rose Estinge and Celia Logan, . Dr. Schwelnfurth bas [n preas bis new book, “Artos Africann: Pictures and Descriptions of the Productions of Central African Nations." Wo are to have a polyglot edition of the “ Pll. grim’s Progress” in six “,“uages—Englieh, French, German, Italian, “2Un sod Porta. guese, Xa lar The Rey, Dr. Joseph P. Thom, °C) I “ Joous of Nazaroth; Hislife forthe 1. ‘70 Lay, Osgood & Co. will shortly publish it ia aus On volume with many illusirations. 7 Lowell's new issuo of esssya, Among My Books,” second series, will be isaued early in Docomber. It will contaiaan elaborate paper on Dante, casays on Wordsworth and Spenser, acd many othor articlos, The first volume of Mr. Honri Tatne's “Origin of Contemporary France” ia in press. It is on tho Ancien Segi Mr. Victor Hago has aisoa book in pros, It ia «collection of his political spcoches, under the title of ‘Actes et Paroles," A translation of the entire works of Proudhon in contemplated by Benjamin R. Tazker, of Pnnceton, Mass. Tho first volnme fa promiacd for immediate publication: Whatis Proparty ; or, an Inquiry iuto the Principle of Right sod Government." Sanskrit fs becoming almost fashionable abroad, and tue quostion, "Mow can I get in formation about the names and nature of Ban- skrit writings, and of the religion, laws, and philosophy of the if-ndoo races?” is so often asked as to call forth a volume by Prof, Mouier Wilhams, of Oxford, which is spoken of a compact but comprohontive account of Sanskrit writiuga, with trauslatious of selected portions. Announcement ia mae of a new quarterty of & unique sort, to bo called the Facsinilist, to be published by James R. Osgood & Co., to ba edited by Justin Winsor, and to contain twelra to sixteen pages of oxact reproductions bv holio- type of rare angravingy, title-pages, MSS,. etc. with twenty pases of accompanying lotter-prosa by special ‘sts. Tha paper mill pattern tho old uand-~mado article, and the work will bo in folio aize? Tha “ Publishers’ Trado-Liet Annual" will by isauad from tho otlice of tha Publishers’ Weekly this weok. It will include nearly 1,800 pagea, Tue chief feuturo this vear ia tho indexes, of which thero are four: General, in which there Sre over 14,000 ontriea; Law, 850; Moadical, 800; and Educational, ovor 7,000,—in all nearly 23,- tl 00. Ibis estimated that about four-Gftha ot tho books riven iu the livta are cntered in the indexes; allowing for duplications, this would givo about 26,000 indopendonot tities in the Anomal, Mr. Goorge Bancroft ia now preparing for the prews ® conimuation of his history from the close of the Wer of Independence tz tho present time. This work wit! be completed in four oc- tavo volumes, the tiret of which extends from tho recognition of American Independence, in 1782, to the peqaition of Louisians from Prance, io 1803, The continuation will embrace five ereat epochs of American history, threo of which have been attended by war. The second epoch is the vindication of the place of the nited States among the powers of the world, 1803 to 1915; the third, the States and the Uni Statos, 1815-1537; the fourth, tho annexation of Toxan snd California, 1837-1840; and tho fifth, gecousion and Union, from 134! Tt taxes o Fronchman tocdaco "the history of civiczation” from ‘The Stary of the Stick." “The particular Frenchman 1a * Antony Boal ” (For- nand Biichel), whose book, ss translated aod ted by an American, will ba puolished sm- m bee by J, W. Bouton. Tle begins bie hia- tory with an account of legendary sticks, as thoao of Adam, Moves, aud Aaron, and noxt de tails the theological controversies over tho formar, which the theologians of Leyden main- talied waa of almoud wood, while those of Am- stentam would favo it from ‘the tree of good and evil.” He then discus-ea the divinity of tho atiax, as tho emblem of the gods, the probistone stick, tho utics au wceptro; in tho eacoud bouk, the stick iv feudal daye, as marshal’s truncheon and pilgrim'setat; iu book third,tneauverstitiona of ‘tho stick, as divining wand and tho like; next, tho uses and custome of the stick ; in book tfth, punishment by tho atick, in book sixth, thocano; tnally, “tho clyilzing stick," which ia the pon! Thore ia also collection of pro- verbs reiting to the stick, Tuo volume ts 9 carious collection of chat ca a small subject, » monograph to delight the lover of lore, and to excite the wondor of moro seriona people that there should bo so much to say about» bit of wood.—New York Tridune. * FAMILIAR TALK, HOW PARSEES AND HINDOOS DISPOSE OF THEIR DEAD, ‘Tho Parsecs, or l'iro-Worahipers, although one of the most civilized and progressive racea ine haditing India, stul adhere to tho auciont custom of disposing of their dead by abandoning the bady to the rapacity of carrion-birds, Tho Per- sinng carried their dead to the summits of tofty mountains, and thero left them to ba devoured by vultures aud other flosh-eating birds; but the Paraece inhabiting tho cities of India couutract high towers, in which thoir dead sre exposed to the samo dreadful fate. At tho bizhest point on tho creat of Malabar Milt, iu Dombay, stands the Great Doklima of tho Parsees, or tho Tower of Bilence, as it is atso called. “Hidden by a screen of huge trees, the tower rises cold and silent, No ou ie permitted te Spprosch too near, and it is only through the brancheu that ite summit can be seon, crowned with tonoraerable birds of prey. Evon among the ‘Parseos, tho utmost mystery provalls as to the interior of tho Dokhma; the dusfours, or Priests of the Fite, atone entor it. The relatives Of the deceasad leave tuo body at the door; it is taken withia tho tower, and placed between two. grates, which allow tho vultures to tear off the flosh, but not to carry away the limbs, Even that precaution ie not always taken in muluor towors up the country, Scarcely have the pries:a withdrawn wheu the whole troop, which has bees hovering iu acirclo above the tower, swoops down into the interior, to benques on the rapast proparod fur it." ‘Tho Hiudoow burn tholr dead, and take no pains to preserve tha aubos. In the inclowure whore the ceromony of cremation is perforaied, tho funoral-piles aro erected in parallel Hnow Corpses aro borue to the place on oven litter at the bead of @ procession of relatives ani friends. On reaching the ground, the bodies are wot dowo on one side, aud somo of tho fricads proceed to buy the necovsary wood aud other combustibles, to wplit the fagote and arrange the pile; while othors sit abous and watch the operation, or evoke dismal sounds fiom the muvical instruments wity which they are Bro vided. There is vo sppearavoe of sorrow oF gloom on the faces of the amwembly, for the Hine doa believes thas death produces merely a chanre of oxivtence; and, bart rr hele conduct with their beliof, do not surround the grave with @ molaucholy and repulsive atmos- ere, ‘Lhe fnacral-pilo being prepared, the corpse is placed upon 1 ile entirely covered with wall pieces of w Then the nearcst relative of the deceased appreaches, and, beatiog bis