Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 4, 1876, Page 9

oe THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1876-TWELVE PAGES. better to meot and haves talk with the sezton than with the Rector, And his love of Natura and of solitude, and his artlons carnestnoss, are dinplaved in the follow- ing amusing Incident, which happoned st Con- cord: T remember walking with him at the O14 Manse, » milo ores distant from The Wayside, hie new rerl- dence, and talking over England and his proposed nb- sence of aaveral yoars. We atrollod round the house, where he xpent tho firet yeara of hia merrind life fud he pointed from the outside to the window out of which he bad fooked and econ miperuat= ural and other visions, We walked up and down tha avenus, the memory of which he lesem- balmed. fn th wea; and he dincoursed mont iearantly af sll that had befallen tim since he fet a lonely, nocluded fe in Salem, It was a pleepy, warm Afterndon, and be proposed that wa rlonl! wander up the banks of tho river, sud le down and watch tho clouda float above and in the quict atresm, I rocall bis longing, asay alrsa he tolled me aloag until wo cama ton spot secluded, and ofttimes ascred to hin wayward (houghts, He bado rae lie down In thn grass and hear the birds aing. As wo stcepeil ourselrca in the deifcious {dleness hie began to mormur nome half forgotten Hnea from Thomron's *Heaour,” which ho fa(d iad boon favorites of lin toybood. White wa Iny there, hidden in the grass, we heard approaching four steps, aud Hawthorne hurriedly whtapcred, Duck t or w6 shall be interrupted by romebody.”" Thin nal- emnity of fils manner, «ad the thought of the down- fist position ia which wa hs both plaeod ourselves to avoid belng acen, threw me into s fooileh, som|-historl- cal Nt of langhter, and when he nudged ino, and again ‘whispered moro lugubrioualy than ever, " Heaven help mo, Mr, — {a (close upon un!" I felt convineod that, if the thing went further, auffocation, {n roy cese at leant, must ensue. Onr readers will go to the littlo book itnelf for tho rest of the captivating aketch of Hawthorns, It is presonted in so noat and cheap a shapo that valuable, Thus, in tho paragraph devoted to tho Fronch poot and aootimentaliat, and beariug tho date 1837, wo read: ¢ Tamarting himectf, I thing, fe about 45 years old, Ahiu fn person, but dignified and gracoful 14 lle mane ner, and with a-vory fine style of bend. —s head ond countenance, indeed, that inay ba called poetical, Ho fa, [should tmagino, nervous and renaitive; and walks tu and down fo the back partof his saloon, talking with only one, or at most two persons, who walk with him. This, t'am told, $6 bia hablt, and that # 1s not agresabte to Lim to talk whon eilting, In the courses of halfan hour, thua walking and talking with him, only two things etruck me,—tia complote Ignorance of the present Euglial literature, and the atrong expres sion of his pootica, fully that the recent impruve> ments in inateriat fe, like atcam and rail roads, have their jwctten! aldo, and will be ted for poatienl purposoa ‘with anecens, He was an curions about America snd Americas Istoraturo as was polite, Lut, 1 think, carea roally vory little about elther. itfs table was covored, and even heaped, with recent publications by living authors, who wish to get a word of a amite from tho refgning favorite; for nobody now publistion anything in ole gant ltoraturo without sending iim ® copy, I am told, At a dinner at Lord Fullerton’s, in Edinburg, Mr. Tickuor had an opportunity of scauning tho frco snd mannorn of "Kit North,” but does not goom to have coma into aympathy with tho man: ‘The person 1 was most envious about was Wilson [Po cantoter], tho muccessor of Dugald Stewart. and ho editor of Hlackwoot, Me auawered much to the idea given of bin among the rofaterers of tho “ Noctes Ambroalane.” He 1s a ntout, costes, red-faced per- eon, with & groat deal of red, bunhy hale flying sbout hiv faco and shouldory, taking enuff freely, aud care- Jean {n dress, talking Lrilllantly, sometimes potulantly, and, once or twice, savagely, Hots a ntranne persun. Nor waa Mr. ‘Ticknor more sgreoably improased with Talford, of whom he says: thet I hays come from him with nothing but an indis- tinct, though lively, impression of the goodnoss snd vivacity of hia disposition, From London Mr, Ticknor proceoded to Gor- many, and eatadlishod bimsslf at Gotlingan, which was thon the soataf the leading univer- alty, For nearly two yoara lio hore devoted him- self apecially to a study of tho Gorman languago and litoraturo, and of ‘the Innguage and history of Greece. Tt was while in Gottingen that he was invited to accept the Profersorship of Span- talt Literature at Cambridge. ‘This proposition, with which ho finally closed, induced a cliange In bis plans, loading him to resign the projoct of atudy in Groeco, for sgojournin Bpalo, During the autumn of 1810, ho mado a tour through Northern Germany, and was able to racord, among othor plossant notes of a similar charso- tor, an account of an interview with Goothe. To tho spring of 1817, Mr. Ticknor concluded bis atudios in Gottingen, and soon aftor took up his reeldonco in Paria for the aummer. Iforo, agin London, he minglod freely with the brill- isnt mon and women who composed the most polite nosioty of Europe. Ho was o frequont visitor at tho houso of Madame Do Staol, and there and olsomhere formed the wonhint ager with othors, of Humboldt, August Schlogel, Chateaubriand, Madaine Necamior, aud Benjamin Constant, Among this let none attract us moro toan tho distinguished mon of whom Me, Tick~ nor writes: ‘The two moat interesting acquaintances I havo In Paria, thus far, aro Schlegel and Humboldt; and the ‘manner of Itving adopted by Loth of them ia original, Hehlege's ia such, indeed, 24 partly to sccount for his success as a man of letters, snd aa wroomber of tho may society of Pacis, He wakcs at do'clock in the forning: ‘and, instead of getting up, baa hie candle ait tenote schoolmaster for March geook & Hewett, Nore n for Februnt . er ee ty (Western Publishing Anancia. Intelts Focing Age—Corrent numbers (Littell & Gay, Arnletors’ Journat—Ou Toten oe one irrent numbers (D, Appleton & American Nuturatat for March (I, 0, Ton Hlosioay, (H, O, Houghton & LITERATURE. “Life, Letters, and Journal of George Ticknor. ed FAMILIAR TALK, GARIBALDI AND HIS MEN, In bls recent history of French provincial life, entitled ‘ Round My House," Mr. Hamorton oc- cupies a number of pages with a doncription of Garibaldi sod bfs little army of soldiors, who, daring the Fraoco-German wat, woro garrisoned for somo time In the viclolty of 3fr. Hamerton’s residence, The account forme onoof the mout interostiog episodes in Mr, Hamerton'a yol- ume, and, aa {t prosonts the ‘* Doliverer of tha Two Bicilies” ins strong sod original light, wa condonre it for tho plonsure of our readers. It wae o cold wintor sight whon tho rumor ran round tho town near which Mr. Hamerton dwells, that Garibaldi and 9 baod of fils mon would shortly arrive within {ts precincts. No enthu- sinam was aroused to grost tho horo, for he waa not reganicd with friendlinces by tho I'rench people, notwwithatanding ho was fighting in thetr army and in their defenss, Both o nations! aod sroligious projudice operated against the Gan- eral, for was ho not an Itatian, sad. in ateag- Reminiscences of. Byron, Schle. gel, Humboldt, Madame De Stael, Paulino Bonaparte, Tamartine, “ Kit North,” Talfourd, Bulwer, Southey, and Other Eminent Personages, (ields’ Memoir of Nathaniel Maw- thorne---Some Anecdotes of tho Great Novelist. American Covernmonts--Mrs, Oliphant’s brought to him, aud reads five or ‘six houre; then | "s7 aescrointed mo. Hotano doubt a poetofgentas, | CXChyvody can now procure it, Wohave mado | pine for tho lboration of his coun: Inst Novel-~Parliamontary Lavi | seeratwo or tnten sora; and then gle op aud words | wiittncersiniits, aod adory handoworatanyageeons: | {Hatt So yomralven,: bowererfasire, aro | OF, lind ho not sselaled in tho line Punctuation and Capital- man of the world, in fostety, ani overfiowing with conta ie ble appenranee 29 Sate euueee aay | always free aod welcome, aud bocsaso thono | milistion of tho Pope? Tho Fronehmon inti $i abSeo until midnight, whoa be tgina bis course | Fatusr han roundly, —letending Cato, for inntanco, bee utara nes ee wlll tus epeny boforoisill dis- | resentad an a disgrace the fact that o foreigner Asan adinitabls, povtical tragody; and tw je ton % a j zAion. again, artificial and too brilliant, bothin tho structure and | ‘Tho “ Enelieh Note-Baoke” form tho twolten | #4 offered to help them in their bour of neod; ‘Humbotdt's ta ontirely difforent, but no lesa remarke able, For him, night and day form one mass of timo, ‘whlch he usoa for slooptng, for moate, for labor, witl- Out making any arbitrary division of it, It must bo confessed that bis power, or habit, is eonvonient in the Kind of life which must bo led In a great metropolis ‘Dy one who, with groat talents, wishes io be st once uraseology of hlsgeutences, and in the gunoral tone of 1a thoughts, Auother portrait, not more flattering, imme- dlataty succoods ” ‘ ‘Tho only perton to whom I was introduced, that I and, whilo no French officer ould servo undor Garibaldi, the civilinns regarded him with Joal- ousy, ond witbueld from bim a wolcome, A crowd of idle observora gathered to witness bis arrival at the dopot, aod a shabby ono-horss and thirteenth volumeo of the now oditions of Hawthorne's works. ‘They contain 9 rucccasion of exquisite pictures of English sconces and Fn- glish men and women, nod their boauties aro too well known to nocd praise here. Garibaldi and His Men in the Franco- "German War-—-Unearthing of was ctirlous aboot, waa Dulwer, the novellat,—a white: Itia also suporiinous toesy more of Lonz- + Antiquities at Alex- Lan uecafores aleepa only when lie ie woaty aud haa Patel nite eral ae tsca, nileateakort, | fellows poom of, Slag Htandiay than (legit) CArTisie Orem Ap. karnenive tte ncldloe of Tal, andria. Teauro, aud If ho wekos at midnight, bo Fiscsand be- | sud hia conversation, to match tho whole, nes ond | ls laauod in the “ Vost-Pockot Horios.' auiidepondeness’ (bubpellGer cleriy. nor local qin bla work as he would in the morning, He cata when ho is hungry, and, ff ho is invited to dine at 6 o'clock, thig does tot prevent him from going at 5 to restaurant, becaues ho eonsidors o groat diuner only aan party of pleasure and antnsoment. Dut all the reatof tho time, when ho sa not in society, he locks his door and ives himself up to study, rarely receiving visita but those which have been announced to him tho day previous, aud vevor, I believe, Tefusing thece, Yecause, x8 ho well expiainod to me, when he can was aniused, nud uot norry, ta boar him (Itogers) ‘nay fhat Dulwery though of a fénd old family, and eujoy- {ng a cortain degres of popularity, had uevee been abl to eatablish for himself splice in the bent Landon society, Mo addod that bo himeolf hed never seen Lim eo ea to know hiro, though ba supposod he maint aye met Iiint in Inrgo ‘parties; 9 curious fact, coueld- ering Mogors’ own universality, Au snocdote told of Southoy is vory touching nrivtocsacy voucheafed tho honor of their pros- ence. ‘Tho train containing tho fower of Garibaldi’s army, bis children " sa they wero called, set down its burden firet, and, oa the troops formed In the gardon attached to the depot, it was ro- marked how unovon thoy wero in etature, and WOMEN’S CONGRESS, Payens Tzap at Tie Thuy Coxcness of Wourx, ‘Brnacuax, Oct. 13,14, axw 15, 1875, Paper. Pp, 133. Draining the Zayder Zee---The Carnauba Palm--Ornithology of Northenastorn Africa. Thie unpretentious pamphlet ia + book of whlch American women may bo justly proud. It incloses betweon its papor covers a collection of in its Dotrayal of deep migory. It was related to | cesays which would bo noteworthy for thor bigh | how many of them were moro boys. All wore fpsoece saialerry Hons thie Sonn tore nes Mr. ‘Ticknor by Monry N. Coleridge : charactor from whatovor source they might |"Urossed in freal, bright coliforms, ond carried Brysipclas and Puerperal Fevor—The | wut thensuchs two things: aconstic | In talking of Bouthey and Wordeworth, he #ald— new Remington rifles, and, despite of tho aeil- come, and which aro ogpecinily so a8 they givo evidence of the nobio purpose and tho carncat thonght that onimnte the leading and activo ‘whot $# socording to my own smproasion—that Words- worth has # keen enjoyment of life, aud ho added that Southey is becomes oxtremely weary of life, Not long since, ho ssid, nomabody wav predicting whot they ent tution abla to resist sit fatigue, physical and, moral; ands reputation which puta ils possessor above the conventions of society, and allows him to sct oa a King, Daron Humboldt unites them both, Hts ample Frenoh Oystor-Supply—Urban Mortality from Com cate, youttfal sppearance of tho striplings among thom, tholr manner was proud sod voliiorly. When tho commander bimsolf ‘ Iked through tho depot to the und fogular {canio, his firm atep, and the decision and | should sco if te and Boudhoy lived ten years longer, | Members of the eocloty calling itself tho “Con- | arrived and wa muy tion, force Sith which le marke every movement, indfoate | Without directly ioterrapting niin, Southey dined gress of Women.” Through this publication of bumblo carriage avwatting bic, ie gaslight To- the man who has survived the tropical hoat of the Orl- | hia hands and cast hie oses upward, efeculatiug pereu- | ite aims, and of the mannor in which they scok | Vosled *'s palc. grave faco, much mura lilo that noc and secenided the peak of Chimborazo: « «+ | thettcally, © Which God in Hin infinite mercy forbid!” | 44 49 promoted, tho Institution establishes not, | Of {,etedent and pbilosoplier than a loro of ‘ax~ while, end 0 Bhi allo h ‘ s * “ od LITERATURE, Y all sides to tho limite of iving ro long ‘ile hee heen iar thie aneiaue | only itu right to exist, butite claim to the reepoct | Goris He inex an ee Garibaldi!" the horo suawerod, in a tone of ex- treme pravity ond sadness, ** Vive la Lepublique Francaice !* ‘Tho day after bis arrival, Garibaldi reviewed hig tavops, which bad now asacindled to tha number of thousands, remaiuing seated in hls cariuge while the regiments marchod past bim, Thay was unfolded the Guribaldian 4h standard designed by himeclf, uud bearin strungo device.” ‘Tho groond was colid red, ennguinary bue,—with thosingle word “Patatrac’ ments, extending nearly on all sid human discovery, kindled by’an enthualasm which bas supportod him where avery other principle would have faited, and prevented from being oppressive or ob- truding by a sort of modesty which makes it {mpossl~ ‘ble to ofend,—sll together render him ono of the most dnteresting. sen in the world, and tho idol of Voriaian nociety. At this time, Madame Do Stael was sufforing from what proved o fatal illness, and saw little socloty,—her daughter, the Duchesa do Broglie, recolving hor friends in hor atead, But tho pleasing impreaeion which possibly diving. fo long. choly state, 1 underataud, ever rince Mrs. Southoy first guvo signs of insanity, siout five years ago, ‘Mr. Ticknor returned from his wecond sojourn in Europo in 1893, and the romsinder of his life was passed in Boston, in the quiet pursuits of a goutioman of culturo and foisure, His ' Uisto- ry of Spanish Litoraturo"—tho worit by which Lis memory will bo proservod among sil studonts of Dolles-lattroa—wes publishod 10 1818, It was tho product of ten years of industrious aud ab- sorbing Inbor, ‘ho Life of Prescott ond the syinpathy of overy reilecting man sud woman, ‘Tho addrees of the Preeldont. Prof, Maria Mitcholl, of Vassar College, opous the pamphlet, and fitly proparos the way, by its clear exposition of tho worl the ‘Women's Congress” has already sccomplished, and of the lopo it hos of more oxtended operations in tho futuro, for tho array of able papers that follow. Thesu ore al], with ecarcely au exception, of a practi- cal charactor, discusaing topica that vitully aifoct MEMOIRS OF GEORGE TICKNOR. ure, Lerrens, ND JOURNALS or Gxonox TioxNon, Tio Volumes. bvo,, pp. 511 aud 510, Boston: James R, Usgood & Uo, Vrice, $4. Jt is seldom that thoro aro unsoaled such opu- lent stores of anccdoto and reminiscences of tho most brilliant and famous porsonages In the Old and the New World as aro opened up to us in ¢his memoir. It isatrossury of recollections a tre, The a iT - and rofloctions of tho cholcost eoclety of the | MoM, AN, the flensine impreasion bleh 4 risntal momolr of a belovod friond— | womans Indorcets, ius epitit of intelligence, | Sent termegleauing out irom ies wnnittor’ note Capitats of Europe nnd Amorics, ombracing in | of Madame Do Stact caused in her adeviroto | W298 bogun by Mr, Ticknor whon bo | calmness, and LUborality. Wo havo spaco to | ting, ty contisius,—tho confusion of downfalt ts limita tho momorands of o period of yoara | aco bim, and sho did uo rogardiosa of thointer- | Was in bia Gsth year, ond was finished Penton ths titles of s fow of thon: Visco of | aud destruction. ; exceeding a half-coutury. Mr. Ticknor opjoyed | dict of her isaioian against an interview with threo sonra lator, fn 18GL 5 but its publication Wornsa peas tanta Rehoote, Eduah D, Choneyt "Tho ariay of Garibaldi was mado up of very throughout a long life advantages which eyo | 880g0r8. ‘Tho ecoto in the room of the dying | Was withLold until 1851. Thougu his puyaval | Marriogs and Work, tha Hev. Antowotto Brown- | qeterogencous meterials, A portion of the onergies gradually diminished danng tho noxt Disckwoll; Stctistics of tha Woman-Mivistry, docado, Mr. 'Ticknor presoryed lua intellect un- the Koy. Phobo A. Hanaforn!; Women in Jour- woman is thue described: mon, expecially his old companions who canoe rately beon accorded to an Amorican, of naso-. with Sho waa in bed, palo, feoble, and syidently doprossed. i 3 i him from Caprora, wero nobis, gal- ciation on torms of equality and familiarity with | in spirits; and tle mero slretching out her snd to | impaired until Lily doath, which occurrod Jau, | nalism, Mra. (Jenule Juuo) Croly; Science for | Inot geutlomen nud soldiera; but there the excluaivo nristocratic and litorary circlos at | me,or rather making alight movement, sa if sho | 26, 1871. Wotnen, Graco Anus Lewis; Art for Women, | wera under bis command fegions of desired “ta do it, cost au effort it was painful to Of the monner ja which bin momolr has boon homo and abroad; and, Laving the easy facility ofanatural writer, and o taste for producing copious accounts of his personal ox- poriences, bo socumulated a mass of journals and correspondence whose wealth Uss literally proved aa embarras de richesses to his biographers. It is not strange If, in the prosontation of thie interesting mato- rial, tho figure of Mr, Tickuor, who appoars for the most part in the character of narrator, shoutd occasionally bo lost in tho background. Ut would boa giant among men who would not ‘be ovorshsdowed in tho distinguished company by which we seo Mr. Ticknor continually eur- sounded ; and his sdinirors will bo content with the acknowledgment that ho waa a gifted, ac complished, gonial, snd high-minded man, but not, in the truogt sense, a great one. Mr. Tioknor was Lorn in Boston on the 1st day of August, 1701. Fortuno smiled upon him from he beginning, for bo entorod upon alo ¢ whose every circumstance was favorable toa free and taymmetrical developmont of mind and charactor. His paronts wore happily sltnated with regard to pecuniary affairs, boing secure in that onsy atate which is freo from the tonsing trials of either povarty or groat riches, They were representa- tives of Now England probity and culture, and held thelr own among {he most respectable eltizona of Boston, which, at the closs of the eightoouth contury, wasatown of about 18,000 iohabitanta, Facilltiea for education woro not extondod at this poriod, but tho best that existed were opon to young Ticknor, and he improved them faithfally, It is noted, as an instance of the fdolity of his early training, that he had, at the ago of 43¢ years, filled a copy-book with croditable epecimons of penmauship, After passing through the lower schools and tho rogular collegiate courso, Mr. Ticknor prepared himself for the profossiun of tho Jaw, was ad- mitted to the Bar, aod fora your pationtly at- tended to legal practice, But the vocation waa diptastefal, ang, with the consont of his paronta, hodecided to abandon it, and fit himeelf, by gomo years of study in Europe, for the carcor of @ man of lottera, Asa preliminary to this plan, he wisely em- plored several months {u travel io bis own Innd, hat ho might take with him to foreign countries po fntollgent idea of tho institutions and resourcoa of that in which he was born, Tho scheme of home-travel included a viait to Washington and lichmond, with stopa at tho principal towns on the way, oud filled the winter of 1811, It gave Mr, Tickuor tho opportunity of mesting many of the ominont mon of America, aud particularly of winning the friond- aiip of Mr. Jofforson, whose guest ho waa fora short time at Monticello. In May of tho follow. ing yoar, Mr. Ticknor doparted for Europe, Ho was vow «# man of 29, endowed with eu- Kato Newoll Doggett ; Organization as Rolate: to Civilization, Auna C. Brackott. Wo warmly comment tho beok to tho perural of women, who sill find much witbin itu pa;ses stimulating sorious aad valuablo roflection, {t may bo hadof Mrs, Kato N. Doggott, Chicago, Vice, 30 cents. OUR GOVERNMENTS, Tux Civ Govrunaxnzs oF vit, STATES, AND TNE Constitutional History or Tuy Uxrren Brarss, By P.Curowonc. New York. 1373, ‘Chis Is iu some souse a compilntion of hisbori- eal, and thoroforo interesting, facte, dates, and documents, It gives the history of the scttia- ment and progroaa of the several Coloice, and of the organtzation of the scvoral farms of Locat Governmonts, and of tho Governmonts of tho Unitod States. A concive history of the prog- ress of the Government and of the sovorel parties down to tho breaking-out of tho Ilebeh liow, is given. In tho wame way, a professed history of parties during the War and following tho War Isgivon; but ita rendorodv alnoteus by its extrems portisansliit, Haintentpornta Inngunge, and consequent inaccuracy. “fad the onthor coutinod himself to tho stork of compilation of facta, and omitted bis on opinions and com- monts, ho would havo rendored a service by turniebing fn. a compact form valuable informa- tion. As it is, he has spoiled whab otherwise niight have boon a good book, MRS, OLIPHANT'S LAST NOVEL.. ‘Tue Cumate mw Cnanar; A Noven, Br Mf Ont Puant, Author of **Ohronicles of Carlingford,” Paper, New York: Usryer ss Lrothers, ent, ‘Tho clover talont of Mrs. Oliphant will be rec- ogbized in this readable pioco of romance. It iy without assumption, fa destitute of striking incidents, but presents sevoral good examples of ebaracter-painting, and is written in the atylo of ono who is skilled in sho use of Ianguoge and in tho manogemont of o narrative. it is ono of the class of novala—as rostricted as that which contains tho vory tirst—that give no reasoo for fsult-finding, It furnishes pleasant amuues- ment, which It does not onco interrupt by an awkwardly-contrived or disappointing clreum- stance, Cicoly, tho eldest daughter of tho Cur- ute, and tho pancipal figure in tho piece, ia not the conventional heroine of fiction, but a trac aud noble woman, illustrating, by ler unpro- tonding domestic virtuos, tho fact that charactor ia abovo genius, and cau afford ovon to do with- out accomplishtnents, PARLIAMENTARY LAW. Pooxer-MAxvaL oy Nutra or Onpru ron Dextnen- ATIVE AsgrMuLies, By Maj, Hexay W. Rournta, Luginecr Corps, U, 8, A. Chicago? 8. 0, Griggs & ABI. Maj. Roborta, in this Mttle manual, haa ren- dorod valusblo sorvico to a largo body of poanlo, ‘Though the town-mecting, tho political club, and tho numerous Jocal conventions and aasem- bliles are moro uvivorsal among the Amorican poople thsn allothers, thera is, novorthelom, Frenchmen from Marsetiies, whosa Isck of discipline aud good.bohavior disgraced the [tal- ian Genoral and his brave consraden. All tho ir- regularitics committed by tho lawless 2fnrsoti- Jaiso cast an odium upoa their nominal com- mander and incrassod bis unpopularity, Thus, although the greater part of tho army of Gari- baldi wae composed of mon born ood nurtured ‘on tho coil of Franco, it was Jooked upon saa wholly foreign forco invading the boundaries and degrading tho pride of tho nation, Tho mon wore uncomfortably lodged and poorty pro- visionod, and their rouks wero continually thin- nod by deaths due to damp, and cold, ond hard- ship. It wan end to eco the young Genbaldians, who had followed their luador from a pure en- thosiasm, porishing from Inck of proper food and clothiog, in tho old Iranch town that was to give them a grave instead of glory, ‘The officers in Garibaldi’s own regitnonts wero many of thom fino-looking young Ltulians, clothioct in tho untform of their chief ; Aud they had a way of draping themselves majeatieally in thor scarlet cloaks, by throwiog them acrosy tho Droast and mouth, and over the shoulder, which, whon accompanied, aa it peporally was, by a. look of stifliciont sternuces and a resotutaly- martial boaring, had the happiost theatrical of- fect imnginuble, ‘Thoro wero one or two troops of light cavalry, called ‘Guides,’ employed in- cenpautly es scouts ; and theo follows bad a con- tumo eo very picturesque avd bovoming that it waa only too becoming, aud remindod owe.incy- itably of the hippodrome. ‘They woro tho rod shirt, ofton traversed by chains and trinkots, with ashort gcarlot clonk, light pinfan-gray tronsera, and Ligh equostrian ‘boots, ‘They wore, 100, 8 coquettivh-looking berretia(s peculiar zort of cap) with a bigh foather in it, aud thoy svon learnod: the art, or hud it uatloctiyely in their Italian blood, of setting this csp aud foather on their heady in the jauotiost poariblo mannor, with the ovident intention of causing covery protty Fronchwoman to fall i love with thein forth- with ‘Yho most striking trait exhibited by tho Italian ofiicers was a fondness tor awest-calcs, which ther wought perpetually at tho confectioners’, From early morning until the dinner-hour thoy thronged the shops, catiug sugary compounds to thoaccompanimont of Malaga wine, and rejoicing in the protty feces and graceful mivvemonta of tho French wonton who doalt out awects and smiles in a bewitching combination, ‘The pri- vaten in Garibaldi's army wore chiefly notable for thoir amazing irnorauce and euthumasm, Thoir blind faith iu their leader was illimitablo, Nothing could oqual it excopt their uaconecious- Nosy of any fact or reason for the foundation of theirtrust. Itwos that iutangible, indoilaablo something named fospirntion that had fired thom. It pervadod tho atmosphere surrounding their hero, and infected thom with an irrocit- ible contagion, “+ Qaribaldiauiam has very little to do with knowledgo,” writes Mr. Hamortun, “It is not even tho dovotion to a cause. Tho genuine Garibelihans, oilcors or men, know Jittle on cate little about causes. What thoy feol is wn entire, unroasoning, wholly uncritical faith in the absolute excellonce and wisdom of ono utuman being, their famous leader, whom they witness, Observing, with that intuition for which abs has been alwayaso famous, the eftect Ler situation pro- duced on me, sho said’: Ii ne faut pas mo jurer do co que vou voyez ici, Co n'est pas mol,—co n'est que Pombre do co ‘quo jetais {ly a quatro mola,—et uno ombre qui peut otra dlaparsitra bientot.” told her tat M. Portal snd Ler othor physicians did not think 80, “Out, said she, whilo ber eye kindled in the consciousness that elie was about to say oue of those Drilliant things with which she kad so often eloc- frifed a drawing-room,—"' oui, Je lo sale, mols ils mottent toujours tant de vanite a’auleur, quo Jone my ‘80 pus du tout. Jo no me Toverat jimala do cette rasladlo, Yon ania muro,"” | Sho saw at his moment that the Duchess de Brogile had entered tho apartinont, and was so. much nffocted by the lact romark that she hal gone to the window to hide her feollugs, Sho therefore Logan to talk about America, Everything she said was marked with that imagin- atfon which gives auch 8 peculiar onergy to her works, ond which bas made her eo lobg the Idol of French ro- cloty; but, whenever she aceimed to bo awaro that she wasabout'to utter any phiraso of forco and aptneen, her lauguid features were kindled with an anfruation wilch mado a strange conirast with her feeble condl- tion, Espocially when sho Bald of America, " Votin etes avant garde du genre Lummain, yous ctes l'avenir du mondo,” thera camo a slight tlage of feeling into hor, aco, ‘which spoke plainly enough of the prida of genus, . When Ireests go she gave meber hand and sald, ‘under the smpressica that I was golug to America, # Yous rerez bientot chez vous,—ot mol jy vols anual, I pretended not te understand her, and told hor I was surelehould sco her in Switzerland, much better. Buo looked on her datighter, whilo Ler eyes fillod with tea paid in Engh, “God grant me that fa- yor; " and Lioft her, On ftoaving Paris, Mr. Ticknor spent nine months iu Italy, and a like period fa Gre and although, aa olaowhors, ho enjoyed a largo ex- erence in gay aud fashlounblo wocioty, ho sedn- ously employed the butk of his time in studying tho Iangusye of cach country, and tho litorary treaguros it unlocked, While in Romo, he fre- quent Joincd tho cotorics thet assomblod around the Bonapartes, who had takeu refuge thore and woro living in ologant retiremont, Tho mothor of Napoloon, Madame Mero, as she was called, dwolt “in tho samo palace with her brother, Cardinal Forch—tho Cardinal in tho uppor part, and Madama in tho principal story, but both with princoly atato, in a magnificont suite of apartments.” Louis, the ex-King of Holland, was living, under the title of tho Count do St. Leu, ina uirple atylo, educating bis son, and passing bis loisure in reading Latin and wniting poctry. Pautine, the sister of Napoleon, so noted for hor beauty, was pronounced by Alr. ‘Ticknor the most consummato coquotia ho ovor aw, At the age of 42 [he writes) she Las an uncommon; beautiful form, and a face alll atriking, if not beaut. ful, Whon to thisis added tho preservutlou of youth- ful gayety, uncommon talent, aud a practical adtdroes, St will be apperent she fa, if not a Nivon dds l'Encios, a Inoat uncommon woman, At Lucton's, where a grave tone prevails, aho is o8 demuro as 8 nun; but, in ber own palace, whoro sho lives in i$ luxury, sho comes out in her true character, ond plays herself off in-a maunor shat maked Ler as great a curloalty as 9 rico show. On her birthuight sho gave o supper to society people, and the whole service wan in giltallver. But, notwithstanding the Esstorn splendor of everything, ‘united to Kuropean taste and refinument, I am per- ‘aded the sirangers there, Wke myself, wero more atruck with her manoeuvres, seated botween the old propared, but litte ia to be said. ‘Lho tok wan undortakon by Mr, Georgo 8. dillard, who Inid tho plan of tho work, and completed tho first ton: cbapters, Lo was intorrupted at this point by iMusgs, ond the work was carried to completion by Mrs. Ticknor and hor daughter, Miss Anna Tickuor. ‘The main labors of the biographers ovo consisted in the seloction and arrangoment of the autobiographical matter of wluch tho volumes aro chietly composed. Material of tho sort could herdly excood in interost that which 1s hero prosonted, and which will give tho work a. high rank among anccdoticai memoirs, HAWTHORNE. PassaGEs ROM TIE ENottsit Nors-Dooxs or Na- THANILL Hawrnonxz, Two Volumes, 18ino, Loa- ton: Jniaos R, Osgood & Co, Hawrnouxs,- Ny Jaxon 'f. Fretps, 32mo,, pp, 229, ‘Mlustruted. Loston; dames lt. Osgood & Go, Price cents, ‘Tor Counrsmmor Mites Sraxntsit, By Hesny W, LonoreLtow. Illustrated, 321 pp, 95. Boston > Jamea It. Osgood & Co, It is announced that oa Jifa of Hawthorne ia in Preparation by ins son-in-law, and, from the facilitica which the author will undoubtedly enjoy, we may oxpoct that the biography will bo fulloud complote, Yot those who have studied sympathotically the wondorful works of Haw- thorne, who bave discovored his spirit in tho printed pago, who havo caught the shv yot ox- prosaivo glimpses of his personality that havo occasionally tlashed athwart his writings, somo pasanges in tho Italian Note-Dooks, moro ospecially in the sketch of tho "Old Manao” that opena the volumo of 'Mossos,"— and, to crown tho whole, who havo road the charming momoir that Mr, Fiolda first in- closed in his **Yesterdsya of Authors,” and which is now roprintod in tho ‘* Vest-Pockot Serue,” will scarcely feol It nocesuary thot a touch should bo addod to tho portrait of the maa, which thoy already havo ia mind. If in some points tho imago 18 indistinct, if tho most subtlo, olusivo attributes oro suggested rather than do- pictod, itis fit that it should po eo, ‘The living man secladed himacif from tho world's gazo. That which waa fnost aud rarest in his naturo vas carefully hid iu socret chambors, that wore never oponod save to the fow noarost and dear- oat; and why should a prying ond prurient cu- rioalty neek to invado tho privacy so vigilantly guarded during lifo? It soins like the robbing of s gravo, like a violation of tho sanctity of death, to tear away tho voll bohind which Haw. thorne concoalod himself, in order to exposes him ruthlesnly to tho multifude. in talking of his friend, olthongh Mr, Fictde has taken the public into his confidence, ho has, with sonuitiyo dolicacy, avoided disclosures that Hawthorne himecif would have sbrunk from, Ife baa boen inspired by roverocco as woll oy love in tho troatment of lily subject; and thoy havo guided his band so suroly that it bas over g Baging natural qualities, with the aids whioh | Cardinal Alvan! ang ths Cardinal Vicar, than | stopped short of sacrilego in tho work of partial | & gonoral want of information ns to tho dotail of | do not call ‘our Captain,’ nor ‘our General,’ but Culture and good-breeding afford, and with an | by. all. the magnificence and luzury” about | rowslation. Closror, however, than a paintivg f parliamentary law, Law for tho transaction of | ‘our Father.’ Garibatdianism ix roslly a new Lonorable ambition to mako the most of all | em. On nother evening ale showed her | or a photograph would do, ho haa shown us the Puaiueus in ‘all public mootinga is sa eason- | retiyion.” Jewels to four young men of ua who ha Pened to call on her’ sau {am eure T shall nevor fore, Get the tricks and mavouvros alie played off, It 19, After all, but coquetry, and it sible to have but ono opiolon of her character ; but {t 1a nota yulger soquetry, and isa tho taleut ‘and exill stout tb which redoauy it from ridleule, and make era curiosity, — 8 eon himeclf,—no$ respect but perfect in itself,” - pa ate On his roturn visit to Parts, in 1818, Bir. Tiok- nor met Talleyrand, of whom ho gave atively account. In England, through which le now pasnod en route for America, ho saw a good doa! of Sir James Mackintosh, Lord Uioghem, and Bydney Brith, and visited Wordsworth, Southoy, Hazlitt, Godwin, and similar celebritics, ia Edinburg, among the names added to hia list of acquaintance waro thono of Playfair, Mra, Flewohor, and. Waltor Scott. His visits at Ab- botsford and at Scott's revidence in the city woro dolightrul occasions, which le has carefully do- scribed. in tha summer of 1819, M. Ticknor returned opportunities to acquire knowledge, He was immediatoly introduced into the bout society of London, where ho was cordially welcomed as an scceuston. THis lotters and journals, for the benefit of those at home, began with his arrival in England, and are crowdod with ontortaining Particulars, His first syening in London was spont at the thestro, whore ho saw tho beautiful Muss O'Neil. Of this porformanco ho writes to his father: len ba say I nover knew what actiog was until I taw hor. 1 y war “The Gamester.” I cried Uke a school-boy, to tha great amusement of the Jolin Valls who were around me in the pit. All night my dreama did homage to the astonishing powers of this actress, snd my first waking fimaginations this moro- ing allli dwelt on the hysterical taugh when abo was mae Of theatage, I absolutely dread to seo her It was now tho height of the London sesson, and, during the month Mr, ‘Ticknor spent io tho city, be sow many of the chicf notabilitios of Nght and the bosuty that illuminated Haw thorne's deop, dark oyes, and the contour of his nobdlo faca, and tho modest graodour of his bear- tng, and tho swoot, vibrating molody of his volee. Ifo has mado ua hear “tho rostlo of ad- milration " Itawthorne's personal appoaranoo ox- cited when Locntered tho polished salona of London, and witnexa tho ollect that bis bigh brooding, bis gonutne graco and dofereutiat meonors, produced among cultivated circtos in Engtand’s metropolis, whore tho judgment ia mot critical and the standards most oxalted, ‘Thon ho has thrown passing lights upon tho inner man, whoso Lackwardnoys and hesitanoy wero #0 hard to overcome thst, a8 Holmes ouco ssid, “talking with bim was almost like love- making; and bis shy, beautiful soul had to bo wooed sfrom ita baubful pradory liko oo un- sobooled maidon.” We soa tho gloom which inprtoned, him, tha result of “curaod habits of solitude,” and which forcod hin, against bis will, to invest his crestions witha “Wo havo no discipline whatover,” said a Captain talsiug with Mr, Hnmortop ; * but our affection for cnr Father Garibaldi, it ie that which binds ua togethor, It was not for tho Fronch Republic that wo cama horo, but our Vuthor came, and so wo followed him, Look at shoso men in that atraw. Whore will they bo in aweol? In tho grave, perhaps, or iu the hospl- tal. ‘Lhero will bo hard dgbting soon, and itis a hard soason. Somo of those follows aro wolt- to-do, others have uot & halfponvy ; tho richer ones there with thelr poor bruthron; but, whatever mnsy ba the difforences of wocial atation or military rank, all tho Garibaldians foal tham.- eclves equal in tho presence of thoir Fathor, aud all are equally carod for aud boloved by him. Yes," he continucd, “there bad beon oo such influence oxerctsod over tho wills of meu siuco Jegua of Nazarcth way followod by Ltis dia. ciples. ‘Thero have been other great mulitary Tondera ; but thoy wore worldly mon, and their followora wero uctusted by worldly motives, tial na it is for tha government of #ov.oty. In thie little work, the ralos of ordor and their spalloabllty aro oxptained ina very casy and simple manner, bringing the wholo subject within tho sasy comprobension of avery roador, Tho book isin conyeuieut form und handsomely mountud, PUNOTUATION AND CAPITALIZATION, Avory timoly, useful, and iuutructivo pamph- Jot, giving “ Gonora} Rulos for tho Use of Capital Lettore, with Illustrated Extract," hax beon issucd—g third edition—by Charles W. Sever, of Cambridge, Maes. It is underitood to have been wnitten by Prof. A. 8. Till, of Harvard. Thora ia no winglo point in writing upon which thero fs auch a divorsity of opinion and practice aa in tho matter of puuctuation and the uso of capital lut- tors. Each publishing house has its own rulos, and the uowspapor-ollicas all differ upon these qupstiona, This little work, laying dowa gen- England. to Boston after his four yeurs’ absonco in Hu. } sombro atmosphero. “I wish God lind givon | ural ruled for (1 ror, ia bot | But our poor doar Father, Cfaribatds, Type wit eee Pate tee ropo, with charactor matured, intellect onrichod, | mo tho faculty of writing a sunshiny book” ho ioetragtivo aud ieee SFMCs, BOR pray what bas to offer? ‘Tho fo writes of the poot; * | and tastoa rofined by » moat liberal and fruitful | ouco cried ina moment of despair st tho siadows — iberty to follay him; tho dotight Tnateed of belng deformed, as Thad heard, ho ta ro- markably well built, with the exception of his feet, Instead of having a'thin and rather sharp aud anxious fico, ox ho lise in bis pictures, it 1s round, open, and ling; bis eyea aro light, ‘and not blsck; ay ad cafclass, rward and striking; and I found his manners. affable and gentle, experience in the cevtres of foreign learning and goolety. In tho samo summer, ho took his sont in the chair at Cambridgo, to which he had three years proviously beon electad, and imme- diately oxbibited that diligenco fu study, that conscientiousnosa in the fulfillment of his dutiey, that continually hovered about biw, darkemog bia work, and proving the rofloction of tate. Wo aro mado tocco his simplicity ina singto Bnecdote: Tinet him one night at a great ovening-party, look. dng on from a noux a Uitle ruimoved trom tho full lara al of kuowing that wo ara near oim, and shall soo lily face occasionally, and hear tho tones of hia voice calling us bia childron ; the pride of being his own, la chosen, who have rharod init his verily, aud havo never dovorted him to the last, —these aro tho only rowards that the boloved BOOKS RECEIV:O, Foersay'alltstontoat. Covnae vou scnoos, Hisront OF Tue UstteD States, By J, A, Dovex, With Mapa Iilustrative of the Acquisition of Territory and the Lucreaaa in Population, By Faancts A, Water, Profesuve of Mlstory and’ Political Heonomy th the {vo interest in the wall-boing of the | Of tho soiree, Boon, however, it waa whieperad about | Suellield Helentitle Bebo! of Vato College timo. | Tatner ofery, or that tho devotod" oc Te ee a gad Cat aelte Taarked his eotire connvetfon with | atthe famous Americau ruianoe-writer was in the Liki tae a ee Pare omee J Gyre toan uutomaon degroos Postar ana tntoreating | tho fnatitution. Whon rosiguing bis position wt | Tuomi aud an euthuslastic fnuliss lady—agenulne | yi) Nurgaay Lavi A Noval, lly Mancus Cranxe, | ‘Thin buret of enthusiaam waa not unique, Tt eal of the history of lite eas! ly feelin wand habits; of | tho clogo of Sifteon years of worvice, ho way ablo | jepajvum, oud attacked Limfor'’s tow words audbie | Pabete New York: Marper& Urothers. Wrice, 16 | was frequently repeated by different oiicory, th lone of extrema content under which he | to make the remarkable atstoment to a friend, | nainoot thocnd,” Me looked dismally perploxed, an een tae - sud was simply tho key-note to which oll their Harold,” which he began at Jounnina | that, in the whole of tho time ho hed held it, ho | turning to me, ald Imploriugly, in» wine, For | Heaven ann anit; Pornupe 70 4M Uxruntaanen | ghirite were pitched. And (Garibaldi, tho in- Smyrna; and of the extravagant in- | had never once been absent fromm an oxorciso, or | pity's sake, wat aball I write? T cau't think of « RRIEGL DRssa: Eaercuety MADAM AND EVRA, New Panapise (out. L2ni0g pp 57. Laweube laurany, No, 34, Muuit MELTON t A Sronr, by Katuauxe King, Olicago } Donnelley, Loyd & Ca. Price, WU couta, PERIODICALS RETEIVED. word to add tomy namo, Mel ‘Thinwiog hin partly bu fun, 1 couplet—thls ono, for instance: “*Waen t City Heuember tie,’ And, to my astonishment, he stepped forward at onco spirer and object of this singular, unuoltish wore slip? “Ho lived in solitude, 3 sad-facod ine valid, an austere water-drinker, as nbsatcinione in cating as an anchorito.” lis oldost oficers asidom eaw bit, and nover spoke to him, at Teast, nggerts Mr. Hamortou, when he was tn evon 60 much as tardyatone! No comments that could bo mado upon tho character of Mr, Ticknor w ould teutify more cloquontly to his aterliog traits, ‘The nasortion abows habits of promptnoas, of method, and of energy, that arc, mo to something.” ) Write an orlgiual formed of settling in Greece, which, Of bis affairn, lat requiroa ble ° i fuliihas ‘the TEs. a hs Reviowers,"? Srrote at hia paternal estate ta the couch i ihn winter ore he set forth on bis travels, whl snow was on the ground; aud he xept heveo! fee ofortanately, exceptional among mankind. to the table, wrote the foolish lines I had suggsates Internationat ecw for March-April (A, 8. Barnes & sighborhood.” ils wrotched health and tmonth, during wiles Une be never sim the ight ot | “On boing liberated from. profossioual cares, | td, wuutlihg io boot, Lauded it very conteulealy 16 | Cow Nowy York, Chienyo, aud New Oriaa), Coue a ee etod Iblis, provented bis mnessiag oven ta the morning before dawn," The Corssie,"“he-veia | Me. Ticknor again visitod Europe, this timo ac- | te happy lady. toula * Cairvey on Home American aud Irvh Quoy | with tho ofticurs of bla wta(f, and ho ato ue basin tious," by George Walker, Now ¥ Ir, ie; be wrote iu elaven days, and copied on thetwelfth; by Ancunin Varda, Now’ York; * Hardiam," added that, whenover be undertook anything, ho companiod by bis family, Js stay abroad woe Tha Guemiedt ‘The form io which his religious neture found prolonged to four years, the record of which exprossion is hinted iu ¢he peseages of soup and drank his glass of water ulono, a8 4 Action of Diants,” by Prof, August el bo would baye dono im tho volitudes of Caprera, pnt necessary to devote all bie thoughts totbun. | repeats tha brilliant exporienco of tho| cap imagine hit, in his quict, musing way, atroll- Davaria ono Pr aeoetn Se ae ee ‘Ho wad very rurely visible to tho soldicry, and iy oO hed Ainlahiod it, This ig the resson | earlier days, ‘Thera is scarcoly m namo | ing through the daivied feidy ou. Sunday morning, | Puilowpby,” vy Urother Acsrias, Marylau then only iu tho character of an invabd taking WTP TD ,owgKer _Anlab his “childs | familiar to us among tho conspicuous | atid hearing the distant church-tel's chimlug to ser- | Old and td New South,” by Jolu O. Roed, Geo, *cartiago oxercine.’ Ho wont to bed regularly be- rey bia so long since bo lald i$ aside charactors of tho day, in Wonland or ou the Con | Vice. Iie religion was deep aud broad, but it was irk. Toe ttructire of the Uuiverro,"” by Brot, Hic! ty GandGo'clock sn the evening, aud for him teresting es no Arter a ete amen oF | tient, that we do ob figd mentioned in bie, | sime.0F, bins 9, bo, lastened iu by lawedoor and | A. Irociun nglands **vok'Reviews:® “Com | ayy together was only viuiblo to 1g valet or gio to leave him, tuinving either of his early follies or | ‘icknor’s correspondence and journals; aud, al- | rarely described bivusslf aa nada church, but Nued | Sunittrvin: for Marek (AleDivlits Gas Baidone. his present eccchiniclties for’ bas Sunitarsin for March (McDivitt, Campbell & Co,, te and his whole charsclor go ustural end UNATeed, ‘New York). _Mide-Auate for Mazch (P. Lathrop & Op. Boston). "i, though the note may bo brief, it consists of a ‘Tho declaration’ fu which Afr, Hamerton sums Lersenel recollection, aud afords an item that ls ‘ tu th 5 to wander sinoug the gravos tu tue church-yards, aud up the chasactes and the mituence of Gaslbaldi, canad Uso epllapds da Wyo Woud-KrOg Mab He tised in probably well fonndad, but its preliminary statement gives a rude blow to tho exalted oati- mation in which tho hero is gonorally held, “Garibaldl ia not wise, Garibaldi is not even in- teliiyent, whilst ho in far indeed from boing in- tellestual; but ho {sas perfect a tbo of genn- ine, believing horojsm as tho world bas over bo- hold. And tho consequence fs, that hia namo is itamortal, whilst the uamed of & huudred Gon- erate not loss brave than hols, sod much moro tearned in' their art than ho has evor beon, are as mortal ad their own bodies, and destined, like thom, to immivent oblivion.” TALMA, Whee Mr. Ticknor visited Paris In 1917, he witnessed tae porformanco of ® French play under very interesting ciroumatances. It was tho occasion of the bone fit of Mile. Bt. Val, and Talms and Mille. Mears wore both in the cast. ‘Tho pleco was “Iphigenia en Taurido,” and the beneficiairo, though old and ugly,—sle was thon 65 years of ago,~assumed tho part of Jphigente. “Bho was applauded through tho firet act with docisive good natura," notes Ar. Ticknor {0 hls journal, ‘end in many parts deserved it; but in tho second act, whon Talms came aut as Orestes, eho was at once forgotten, and he well doaorved that in bia presence no other should be remem berod. . . . Tho pleca and bin part, like almost ovorything of tho kind ion the Frouch drama, was conceived in tho atylo of the Court of Louis XIV,; but ‘Talma, in his dress. in ovury movo- meot, every look, waa a Greek. . 2. To have arrived at euch porfection, he mnat Lavo atudied utiquity aa no modorn actor baa dono ; aud the proofs of this were very obvious, Is odresa owas perfect; hid gesturcs ond attitudes reminded one of ancient statues; and whon, in imapination pur- suod by the Furies, ho becomes fronzied, change color, trembloa, and falls, palo and powerless, before the imptacable avongors, it 1s Jnypossible to doubt that he has studied and felt tho scene in Euripides nut! the praca of Lon- ginus. ia ntndy of tho anclont ssatuon struck me iv the passago when, in bis second insanity, bo erles oat iu agony: “+ Vote-ta d'affrenx serpons, de ron front aclancer, Et ao Jour louga reps to ceindre, ct te presacr 7° No staried Dack into the postnro of Loocoon with great effect. Liko Demosthonos, he has had difticulties to overcome, and oven now at times be cannot concoal an unpleasant lisp; but T havo never seou acting, in many respects, ko bis. Cooke had ® more vehement and lofly genius, and Kean hss somotioos, psrbaps, tlaubay of eccentric talent; bat in an equal clo- vation of mind, and in digulty and force, ‘Calms, I think, loft tiem all tar beland."” ALEXANDRIAN ANTIQUITIES, The opening of tho now railway from Alex- andria to Aboubir hes been tho means of un- earthing a multitude of loteresting sntiqnities that bavo long lain hidiu the vicinity of tho former city. A corrospondent, writlog from Egypt to the Academy, relates that recont ox- cavations have brought to viow st Ramich tho head of the statue of alate Roman Emperor, togother with a large number of terra-cotts lamps.of tho Roman and Chiisan perioda, Among thoso last, tho most curious specimens are tho ** Toad Lamps,” which bear on their up- por eurfaco ti improssion of a largo toad, in tho midst of whose body appears the hote for the oil, In tho esrliost oxamplea of theca lamps, the figuie of the toad is tnmitigatodly agir; but, ou tbe Ferics progreeses, the body of the anitne!l is graddally eontracted, its legs sro Joopthoned and utraigbtenod. and the distiucive chornctorof the head is slterod, Vinally the figuro becomes thoroughly conventionalized, tho legs Loing reduced to atraight bunda,and the body transformed into a simple boes or kuob. tho stamp of the lato Greek Alpha impreeacd on tho under side of tho lamps shows that they wero wanufoctured in Alexandria. Bioall bottles, beanng the officy, and occasion- ally tho name, or 8, Mena, avaintof the fourth contury, are also often recuverod at Alexaudria, where thoy wore manofactnred. They aro of terracotta, of whith color, and usually of fmol! size, although one receotly found was above o foot high. They have two handles, and in shape resemblo tho “ pilgrims’ bottles" of tho Midilo Agoe. On ovo or both sides ix tho imago of tho saint, with o nimbus surrounding the head, anda cross on either wide, Other syin- bolic fignros uro 2dded, with #omotimes an in- scription in Greok, It 13 aupposed thut 8. Blo- nan belonged to the early Orthodox Church of cuypt, os hig namo docs noLappeac in the Coptic eslonuar. ‘ LADY MACBETH. ‘The reatling of tho passage in " sfacbeth,” act, scene 7— Mucb,—If we should fil? Tady 3.—-We full Gut kerew your courage to the aticking-plsce, And we'll not fetl— has been the subject of a good deal of disputa among critics. Mrs. Jameson relatos, in tho “Charactoristics of Women,” that ‘3frs. Sid- dons adopted succossively throo different into~ ctions in giving the words ‘ We fail:' At frat, 8 quick, contemptuous interrogation—! We fail.” Afterwards, with tho note of admiration—' We fav f—ond on scvcnt of indignant astonish- ment, Isring tuo pnocipel emphasis on the word uv—' We toil! Lastty, sho fixed oa what 1 am convinced is tho troo teading—* Wo fail,’ with the simple periad,—tnodulating ber voice to a doop, low, rczoluto tone, whieh sottled tho insus at onco,—aa though sho nad said. ‘If wo fall, why thon we fail. and all is over.’ Thia 13 con- sistent with the dsrk fatslism of the charactor and tho scose of tha fino following, ond tho of- fect wou sublime, almost asrful.” This Iset reading 16 supposed to have boon adopted by Mrs, biddoos from Stcoveus, who argued that Larly Afacleth dositnedly actnittodt tho possibility of failure, buy, tu the qoiot ad- miesion, betrayod her power to moet and masator any couceivablo reuult. ‘We fail’” eayn Steovens, “is tho calm deduction of a mind which, having weighed all circumstances, is pro- pared, without lots of contidence in iteetf, for tho worst that can happen.” ‘Mra, Siddons once read tho part of Laty Mac- beth to Henderson for correction, and, delivering the passage according to Steevons' suggestioa— We fait, But screw your coursge to the sticking place, Aud we'll not fail— Henderson interrupted her, saying, ‘No, that is inconsistent with Jady Macvelh's charactor, Sho never permits hersolf to doubt tnairsnccoss, and Teast of all whon arguing with ber husband. ead it thus, Mrs. Kiddons— Afuch, Uf we should fail? Lady SM. (ith contemut:) We tall 2 Tat ecrew your courage to the sticking place, And welll wot fall. ee LEIBNITZ, In the Stato Library ut Manovor le preeervod tho immense collection of the MSS, and the cor- respondence of Leibuitz. The latter 18 safficiout of iteclf to fill forty or: fifty larga drawors, and the bulk of the former 1a caormous, Itis in Latin, Greek, English, Fronch, Italian, and Ger- man, in poetry and prose, in script and in print, and treats of nearly overy brauch of buman knowledge : of philosophy, philology, polities, mathematica, history, divinity, exporimuutal and mechanical scionce, and bollex-lottres, In all thous departmonts Leibnitz was ominent, for the range of bla scholarship exeseded that of al- most any other inidividuel, But the most re- inarkablo fact connected with thin vast mass of manuscrivt ia tho care with which it was pro- pared, Notwithstanding the prodigious Inbors Whtch Leibaitz performed in sequirlug know!- odge, in contributing to all tho lesding sciontitle and Iterary jonrnals of his day, aud in ebidunt: io OX- ing 3 voluminons correspondence, pend endiesy paing upor the coustruce tion of his papers and — lotters, No man," remarks Mr, ‘Ticknor, “ever wrote with mors care, no man ever blotted, aud alterod, and coplod moro that: Lebnitz, ‘here aro instancen in this collection in which ho had written the amo totter throv ¢ituce over, and dnslly amond- ed it Ko much ny to be abliged to Kiva it to bis secretary to make the test copy; and all this, tuo, on au occasion of little importunco, Bull ho found time tor everything.” Industry can, iudued, work miracles. 2 SPARKS 01 SCIENCE, DRAINING THE ZUYDER ZEE, Romo little timo ago, wo Rave an account of tho drainage of Haarlom Lae, in tho Netbor- landy, the moet gigantic work of the kind ovor accomplished. Ihumengo ge were its propor- tions, however, the enterprise is to bo surpassed in magnitudo by tho courayoous, industrious pa. tion, who aro resolved, not only to restrain tho further intrusion of the sca upon their domin- jons, but to reclaim the lands that haya boon hithorto wrested from thom. After mauy yoars of caroful test of tha project, it Law boon do- cided to drain the Zuyder Zeo, a gule measuring iu ity whole extent sbout 60 mites in length ond 210 miles iu circumference. ‘Tbe area covored by thia boby of water was anco dry though low and, inclesing tho inner Lake Floyoo, which tJ communicated with the sea byariver, In the latter part of the thirtoonth contury, according to somo anthoritias, tho ocean broke through {te sandy barriors, and, pouring over the low landa, united mith Lako Flovoo and formed the Zayder 6," . Ine akotoh of the contemplated work, t t4 stated In Nature that “Tho drainage will be ef fected in that part of the gulf lying botween the tho Provincea of Gueldorland, Utrecht, and North Hotland, over an extent of 195,900 hectares {about 740 aquare miles), by means of #princl- pal diko or embankment, of 40 kilometres in length, 60 metres. broad at tho basa, and raisod Gmotres auove the ordinary tides, to be con- structed from the loft bonk of tho mouth‘of the Yesol to tho Island of Urk, nnd from ‘hence ta the Town of Erkhuyzen, in tho Province of North Holland. ‘Ino inclosed area will be divided into nquaros, and numorons pumping steam-one gluon witl thea be sotto work, having a collects iva force of 9,400 horse-powor, Tho Commis+ sion eatimates that tho work will bo ontirely ac: complished in rixteon years, and that it will coat 6 ann of £0,090,000, not including the intereat of the capital -employod; or .£1.700,000 for preparatory works, provisional circulsr canals, ote, ; about 42,760,000 for the conetruction of the dike; and tho reet for tha purchase of on gines, tho drainage proper, and the conatrnotion of regervoirs, internal canals, ronda, railway~ lines, and worke, proparatory to bringing the new Janda undor culture, ‘Tho inturost’ on the above eum will rateo it to £19,400,000; but one- fourth of this will bo granted saa subeidy by Governnient, which will ba amply componaated by tha compazatively onormouy addition to ite small territory.” Binco 1&65the echomo for draining the Znyder Zee has boon under consideration. The Dutch Credit Foncier Asoctation employed two ongi- ueors—ono of whom drained Haarlem Lakc—to determine the foanibility of draining the south, ern aud most ehaltow and fertilo partion of ‘at gulf, Soundings were mado, which slowed {hat stich aud decp doposit of alluvial clay or jam ororlaid foar-liftha of tho bottom of the gon. ‘ula encouraging fact being ascertainer’, the Goverumont appointod s Commiseian to ¢ ongid. er tho wholo qnestion from anu aconomr ac snd sciontific point of viow, In April, 1968, thin cxem fontion, which bat been oxtendad over t*so years, concludod with a renort iavoring the execution of tue work, Several more yoars very now oc- cupied with the construction of a, plan thar should most succeenfully carry ou the enter- rise, Ln April, 1373, the Commie gion brought in weccond report, giving a atatyment of the aiitealtiss edt) vorereomd of che moans do- manded for subduing thom, ancy of th Or tie Sane va bs yaa 0 472,000 beres to drained, one-fifth only consiste of taud of secotsdary quality. ‘Tho sands comprising a porttyn of this will afford cesontinl material for tho contruction of the ‘base of the dike, and in uther neccesary works connected with the mach‘nory of drainago. Al- lowing for the Isnd that. must be devoted to on nals, dikes, xoada, otc., 400,UiX) acres of arable laud of tho sit cuuality will remuin, tho salo of which will probably oxcood ths cout of reclaim. ing them, “THE CA RNAUBA PALM, One of tlio most valnablo trees growing in the rich forests of Drazil in the Carnauba Pelm (Co- pernicia cerifera)., Itian yery banutiful tree, bearing its loafy crown nt a height of from 20 to 40 feet. Jn abounds especially in the northorn parte of :3rozil, whoro it freqnently forma vast forests. Is ilonrishea without culture, and withstards the severest dreughts. To such ‘multifarious ues can ita various parts end vroilucts be applied that tho wante of 8 simplo pcoplo can casily bo providod for from ita resources alono, It is said that, in times of wcarcity, it has ecrved ns a means of kup port for the population of an entire province. Tho top of the treo, whon young, ta an agrec- ubis and nutritious article of food, ‘Tho fruit, Waich is tho size of an olive, and black in boo, Tus o sweet and pleszant pulp, that is caton both fon end cooked in various ways, The nut is oily and eniulaive, and, whoo roasted, {4 usod aa a substitute for coffee. Tho roots hnvo tho vir- tuev of sarsaponiila. Tho juico furnishos, under variod troatmen:, wino and yinogar. From the stems of tho treo, 8 Kind of sago, ant also o @uechnrine matter, sro oxtractod. In times of Gronght, tho pith of the young wood is givon to cattla, and affords u toleracly nutritious foddor. The Abrous substance of tho pith of tho stoms and lenf-stalks makes very good cork, From tho runl. strong fibres aro obtained, snd also a nourishing starch, sumilar to maizena. Tho timber 18 Valuablo for building purpores in tho climate whora it 14 producod,—two or threo trons auillcing, with their feaves, tor tho construction of acabin. It wusod in Brazil for a varioty of othor Purposes, and is imported tnto Britain for you~ ecring. Beautifully mottled and colored canes, which take a high polish, are alao manufactured, outof it. Vrom the dricd straw ore made hats, mats, baskote, brooms, etc.: while much of the raw nisterial is exported to Earupo for the woave ing of fino hats. Dut the most important pro- duct of the treo ia (ho wax, which occurs in tho form of ecales upon the loaves, and is coltoctod from those that bavo fallen and withoerod. Melted into masses, large quantitioa of this wax, aro exported to foroign couutrios, Tha income from this eourco exceeds £162,000 annually. ‘The product is used te adalterato bocuwaz, aud also in the monnfacture of candlou. ORNITHOLOGY OF NORTHEASTERN AFRICA, Baron Theodor Von Hongliu has recently con- cluded his great work on the Ornithology of Northeastern Africa, For twelve years this ine dofatigable oxploror haw studied tho faunn of the coaats and Islands of the Red Soa, of the ro- gions of the White Nite, and of the Highlauds of. Abygsivia, Soon after hia roturn from his Isat expedition to these Jands, ha bogan to preparo, for publication tho material bo hud collected for; tho illustration of tho bird-fauns of that portion. of tho African Continent, The tirat part of his work was iosued in 1869; but interruptions in tho progress of his labor have dolayed tho publi- cation of the closing part until the boginniog of tho progent year, ‘Pao work comprises four vol- utes, iluatrated with fifty-one colorod plates aud o mapof tho territory visited. ‘This lous ombraces, together with tho regions already mentioned, Egypt, tho Nod Sor, aud Northern Bomali-land. The species enumerated as found in this territory amount to 43, upwards of 200 of which arc contined to Northeastern Africa. Oftho birds of Enropo which take refugo in Northern Africa duriag tho winter soason, abovo 900 aro mentionod by Baron Vou Henglin. ¥ ERYSIPELAS AND PUERPEMAL FEVER, Dr. Maithows Duncan road & paper at a lato meoting of tho Edinburg Modico-Chirurgical So- clety upon the alloged epidemic character of erysipeias and puorperna! fover; in whick, from a set of diagrams showing tho woolly and yearly deaths rogistored in London from 1848 to 1875, it was pointed out that theese two diseasos have novor, during this period, appronched in thelr desth-rato stich maladies o8 cholera, emall-pox, and scarlet-faver, which aro truly spidemic. Oa tho other hand, the weokly and annual tluctus- tions of eryeipalsa aud puerperal fovor are prac- tically identical In their death-rate with that of rhoumatiem. Henco tho author concluded the two disoauca under quostion should be classed aniong those which are endemic, and uot epl- domic, in their nature, FRENCH OYSTERS, From tho ofticial report of tho French fish+ ries, itweems that tho supply of oysters from artificial-boaring boda ja inoreseing. Statietios rexsrding the yleld of tho bods at Arcachon sob tho amount for 1873 at 42,000,000 of oysters, which were aold for £69,140. In 1874 the ylolé was 82,000,000, which wold for £80,000,—o targo fallin value, Although the returns are! united to those beds, itis to bo inferred that the harvest in other districts waa sleo increased, or the prices would not have fallen so low, ‘The inforenoco is supported by the facta that grants of oyster-beds aro anoually augmenting tn num- er. CONSUMPTION. In an addrosa bofore the American Publio Hoalth Aasocistion, at Baltimore, it was stated by Prof. Frank Donaldson that one-tenth of tha inhabitants of oitics dio of consumption. The ratio of deaths from the diveasa among the rich iw CO to 1,000; and among the pooz, 223 to 1,000. lt ia more frequently dovelopod among tha children of tho aged aud the poor, and in placos where gloom and dampness prevail, ‘Tho quao- tity of oxygen is duuinishod in citios, oven in the streetas hence consumptives should avoid them as dwolling-placos, and abide in the cautery where pure air and plenty of sunlight abound, GIANT RAQWEEDS, A correspondent of tha Lotanical Bultetin states that, ius locality noar Ilauover, Ind., in the rich alluvial boll of the river-bottom, the ambrosia (ryiday(vagwoed) attains a beight of from 123 to 18 feet, Tho plant uaturally doos not roach up beyond ¢ to 6 fect, Specimens having tho remarkably growth montoued have boon des posited in tho cabinet of Hunover'College, a» erideuco of Low fag heayenward the bumblest woods may axpize-