Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 15, 1876, Page 9

: THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 187%6—TWELVE PAGES. I.' IERA i URE "r’i’;’é‘“ mll"h Eldmm%fl b':o‘m i o “Efi"m""' e amng'h,“h pomo gurdonepsen In | o, . ., i um‘-:«'lldt:my Vet oot | Fomatm ?f d““‘,’ o i ““""‘i 'i"‘“"‘"““fl 1 une has found ample roturns in publishing - . v siworthy oxha ril l U 5 L ull roports of sctontiflo loctures and 'lllllnlulml front and rear, tho boy passed & Lappy child- | gnypiy, Tite cioth hough fil_put on, wera good, At AtHC ¢ oco l:”““" placo which ia not fiiled by any of our caa dictionaring, spocial or” mixcollancous, and is o usnful adjunct to ovory study-table. Tho articlos, A0 far 83 we Liave bad time to oxamino hood, From tlio time that ho waa 3 years old," snys bin blographor, **hio resd incossantly, for tho most part Iying on the rug befora tho iiro, and his wardrobe wod slwaya enormonaly overstackod, Tatee in lifo o (udulgnd Limsolt in an apyaroitly in ezheuntiblo succession of handsome embrotiered waintcosts, which e usod to regard with roueh cowm- eesays on subjocts of aciontifio roscarch, A intimated, Appletons coufirmod what Harper statod, that the book-trade could not legitimate- jomething About the Con= * Lisk 1y flnd laulr.dn&hktho nn|mnnt olt zn‘;luoudhumg with his book on tho ground, and a'ploce of r\hl‘l[n;ry. ‘lu -:;;nhma .Tl -' r‘.“ 08 ?m {xvuhq.- ;Illu.aem.lgkvo‘ x;:ldcm(:lu of Iellmln;:. renearch, nlnd »* i1 4 done, 00 oks aro in constant domand, au o1 -} B ampled in lence of nl 10 knew him, el ral apirt and ronder accemsible a large dition of the ublish- therae is little risk in pubhehing them, :’.',f,,‘.‘i.,“.?h'.‘,"ff,:; 'fl':’r l:‘l:‘: ho:n:z’pc.x;:{ In the open alr, lie woro perfoctly new dark kid 7‘“'"' amount of {oformation not readily found elae- 1nlo the fingers of whicli ha nover aucceeded fa (neort- {ng hin own more than hslf way, After he amled for Inds, thers wers found in hin chambers thirty of forty’ strops, hacked into strips aud splinters, and ) razors withott beginning or oad, Abont the sme po- of a volume sabig an himsolf. Fa dld not care | Fazors withiout boglnniag BrERde AOo, S8 TS P for toys, but was vory fond of taking hils walk, jon, lis aakad whiat was to psy, when o Would hob] forth to Lin Gompanions | Foeyer ety the s S ubaiersr you. Wnidly o173 whutnor nurss or mother, telllog {nterminabla | thapsrann who shaves you.! Tn that case,” sail storien ont of his own hoad, or ropoating what | Maciulay, “L snall give you s great gash on each he biad boen ronding, in langmage far shove hia | cheek.” yenra. Iiis memory rolained withous offort tho After thres yesrs of active mervico in Pare phraasology of tha'book which ho had boon inat | liament, Macaulsy was appoioted a mombor of engagod on, and he talked, as tho maid mald, | tho Hupromo Council of In bich tnvolved a *quite printed wards,’ which produced an effect | reaidenco in Caloutts and s salary of £10,000 s that appesred formal, and often, no doubt, ox- | year, it waa a sacrifice to him to leave Lugland, ceedingly droll."” and to give up his inflnontial position in Lomo Whon'4 yenars old, the prococious child was | politics; but thio hopeof being enablad to secure, taken to viait Lady Walaegrave, o friend of hin Ey 50 doing. tho moans of sorving his family, fathior's, and, attor much bapplocss eojoynd in | and a lifo-compotoncy for himaelf, dacided tho tho novelties exhibited for his smusemont. an | mattor. Ife lad boon engagod for yoars, with ankward sorvant spilled soma Lot coffoo in Lis | his Lrothor Honry, in relloving hia father from Iap, *Tho hostess was ail kinduoss and com- | the indebtodness resulting from tho failuro of Ing Business.’ A D, P, RANDOLPT— # publishor who dosls largely in books of & ro- liglous charactor—informed mo that, for the past few months, there has boen n groming de- mand for religions books, ‘Chia ho attributes to the intorast awakenod jin_religioua mubjocts by Moody and Bankey and othor Evangolista. Among othor things, ho mentlonod that ho now sells twonty ** Baxtor's Bibles " whore he usod to moll ono. Biblo-Commontaries arc also much nought after, and there 18 & good ealo for almoat ali works caloulated to fllustrate or oxplain tho texts of the Lible. Biblical hstorios also find ready sales ; whilo the littlo books writton by Moodv, and tho compilations of hymna by Bankoy, arosold in great quantities, Indeed, 1t tho name of sithor of thesa popular enthualasts can In any way bo placed upon tho title pago of s book, a market la &t once made for that book. Thus I eaw omo or two litllo roligious works ta which Moody whore, An undue tims has olapsed minco the iraue of the preceding volutno, but the delay fs accounted for by the abssnco in Europo aod the Eaat of ono of the aditors, IMORRIS' ANEID. ‘Tne Axxios or Vizoit, Done into English Verss by ‘Wituias Monnr, Author of *Tue Earthly Parslise,” RBoston : Noberte Brothers. It must bo s bold spirit who would attempt to translate Virgil'a Eneid aftor ao many vor- slons biave beon mado by varions achiolars and poots, frum Bishop Gawain Douglas down to the Iate Prof. Conington. Butof a poct like him, who waa for sl timo, travelations will bo noodod sa long ns tims lasts. Indeod, it may bo A question whother overy distinctive perlod of fitesary actlvity does not domand s now trans- Intion. Each succeeding age ncludes the bost masid, told liow ho used to sitin his nankson frook, perched on tho table by hor an sha was cleanlog tha plate, and oxpuuniding to her out prominent Housos in ‘Now York Not Affected by the Hard Times, A Steady Domand for and Large 8ales of Really Good Books, Heavy Amounts of Oapital In- vested in Forthcoming bad written introductions, and whoso pamo upon | passion, and whan, b 508 3 aurl, now that the effort of overy sgo beforo it; it also posscsaoa somo- ‘Works. tha title-page (in biggor typoe than was accorded E.lma "how _ba :nn .?eaerlln;. :]l;l,lu, Ilm: l;‘;:ln:::(:n';,firumd, he Ic;ngod to rid hlm'fl"u(:’ thing peculiar to itsalf. To ronder a translation to thio suthor of tho book) waa rolied upon to socuro largo satos for tho work, Bo °°'"I" ationa of dovotional musio aro labelsd an *indorsed by or gung by " Mr. Bankoy ; and his namala expocted to carry them through soveral aditions, But Moody aund Bantioy aro not to Lo craditad en- tiroly for the now demand for roligious books that haa eprung up. All over tho country thoro seoms to En o religious swakenlog,—ln many localitics golng on qulotly, and croating no ex- aitemont oteide of lacal llmite, bnt serving to make s demoud for booka of spiritual instruc. tion, Undor tho fniluonce of this roligious soutiment which is abrond {u tho land, thoto Is also & domand for publicatione of a spiritusl character, suitablo for progonts. Thus wo have compilationa of raoligious pocme, bLiographicat skotchos of eminont divines, momoirs of relig- jons enthusiasts, works of art embodylog rollg- foun eentiment, apiritunl chromos in many shades of printera’ ik, etc.,—all of which con- tributo to mako businesslively for the publishers of this class of books and things. Thoreforo thoy inve no complaints to mnko of hard timos, but, on tho contrary, aro inclined ta bo oxcoed- ingly thankful for tho religious sontiment that Is becomiug o wide-vpread, 0. W. CARLTON, follow looked up in hor faco, and ropliod *Thank you, madam; the agony i3 sbatod. boy was reat to school &t a'very oarly age, but ‘woot most reluctantly, every day begiing to re- main at home, and overy day recolviug tho in- variablo ravly, **No, Tom; if it rains cols and dogs you aliall go.” At tho ago of 7 ho wau al- randy a prolifio author., Among otlior ambitious works, Lio bed writton o compendium of niver- #al history, sn argumont for the conversion of tho hoatlion to the Clristian religion, and any number of hymns and horots pooma, It is eald that, in all his ciitdieh compositions, which wero dastiod off with oxtromo rapidity, the spolling and punctuation wora perfoctly correct, whilo tlio Innguage was always grammatical and the thonght lucidly oxpressed, Tho paronta hisa tho singnlar wisdom to avold sny comment upon tho boy's remarkable for- wardnoss, or o parndo of 1t beforo othera ; thus ho waa kept in ignorance of big muperior abili- tion, and’free from the hnteful vica of vanity. Hils ingennousnoss mado all the moro impresntvo his oxtraordinary gifts and acquisitions, At 12 ho was pincod in a private school, whera his od- ucation scoms to havo boen judiciousiy conduct- ed. 1lis correspondonce, malntained with his paronta during tho following six yoars, oxhiibits of aposm accaptable to tho Iatest generation, the distinctivo ltorary characteristica of that goneration must ba embodied In it, Dryden's paraphrase, ths represcotation of tho classical sge of English literature, faila to satlsfy the taato of the ninetesntt contury, hecause It lacks the olabarate simplicity and eelf-conacionsnces of ‘lhu Victorian era, 1In thia rospect, Mr, Mor- rig' traunlation 1a & pre-ominent puccess, for ho 18 imbued with the liviog spirit of our timo. But his translation is deficiont in another fm- portant qualification,—fldality to the spirit and tono of tho oiiginal. The only truo motive for tranaferring & poam into & forcign languago {s so anothor peopls 8~ mnew thing of beanty; but it must preserve tho charactoristicn of ita exomplor. Virgil was apoot of Art. not Nature. Ifis cplo moves calmly op, atately and dignifled. Dot his last translator has unfortunately chosen the long, cumbrous, fourteeu-syliable timo, tho natlonal- bailad mennure ; and tho offact 4 to create tho impreeeion_ that Virzil wna o careless rhymor, who poured forth his veraes without thought of clogance or future famo. Br. Morris is emi- nently a Baxon ; ho acknowledges Chinucor as is mastor ; his vm:lhulnr( 1 obiefly drawn from tho well of English undefifed ; and hio has nsed many farthor pocunfary anxieties. By holding tho post of Counecilor for a few years, It was hia cealculation to uave from the liboral ealary at- tachied £35,000,—a sum which bo regardod a3 so ample fortunc. Ilia slster Hannab, s girl of 23, and ton voars his junior. sccompanied him, at Lin earnest entroaty. Tiis affaction for this beloved campantion In in- dicated from tha following paasage from Lhe let- ter fn which ho broke tho plan of their joint Jowrnoy to India: **If my dear sister would con- nont to pivo me, at this “great crisla of my lifo, thint proof, that paioful and arduons proof, of lior affection which I beg of ber, Ithiuk that she will not repent of it. 8ho shall not, if the unbounded coufldonce and sttachmont of ouo to whom sho in doaréf than lifo can compeneato lier for & fow years® absonca from much that sl loves.” Daring the four yosrs which Macanlay passod in India, ho kad milch loisure for study, which was vodulously omployed. Tho porussal of the classics was his principal literary occupation, sod tho amount of reading which ho did waa enormous. ** During tho last thirteon months," bo writos to & frisnd, *'Ibavo road Xschylaa twice; Bophocles twice; Buripides onco; Pindar onco; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodis; Qnin- tus Cslaber; Thoocritus twico ; Horodotus ; Thue The Life and Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay, o Aboriginal Legend in Verse--Man's Tabitations---Language-Lessons. Tho Ordinance of 1787, and the Attempts Made to Establish Slavery in [lfinois. Tho Baroness Do Riedosol, and Her Ex- periences During the Burgoyne Campaign in America. ' ttt0 fovial publishér of miwaciinaoous booke, al- | tho samo raro maturity of mind that character- | cydides: almost all Xonophon' worka ; simost | 45t ustod and obgoleta words in his reudering, {lan Book of the Dead #==1low .o“zfm-flaoa acoount of the book-trado. ' Ho | 170 lus childhood, Ilo oxprosses himself upon R} Tlalo; Atlstotle's Politics; aud’a good "lh'fl;,';?‘ '}f‘g*‘"duififlfld *;! fflmmw nor tho The Egyp! ‘“r‘“ Wc o "’ Wit may b takon g tho roprosootative var ool | al topica in tho sisly of ‘s cultivatod man | dosl of "bis Otganon, Jesidos' dipning pisa o Wuliatiy ko theoniploMl, e snsmsnt ame to Wrile 1 f tho publishers of* miscellanoous books. | of wide exporicnce. ho secret O @ | elsewhero in him; tho whole o utarclh's J Longfellow e O D o0, blach-oyad, frac-and- | Uncommon prococisy in. fousd in i | Livea; about Ll of Lucian; two or thrce votsion is probably the bost that hay cver boen ¢ Evangeline.? mado,—proserving tho senso of the origina! to a dogres never dreamed of by Dryden. Itimn poot's rondering of a post : it i3 Virgil, and more essy ehiap, who cojoys lifa Lugoly, Is largely on- dowed with enterprige, and i rordy at ali timos to tako bold of enything that promisos to pay. prodigious memory, and {n hia marvelous facalty of selzing upon tho contunts of a book with a swift, unerring glance. It I8 rolatod of him that Dookn of_Athanmus; Plautus twice; Terrence twico; Lucrotiua twica; Catullnas Tibullua; Proportius; Lucan; Btotlug; Siliua Italicus; Ho {8 something of an nutbor himsolf, with a | onco upon a time, when a child, **ho accompa- | Livy; Velleius Patcroulus; ‘Sallust; Cwmsar; | 280 Virgil,—~a representation of tho Auguaton Tho Flora Bound Abont Ohicagot Tho | % 5ton sireak running thougl b, whic | ol bl fethor o u affcnoor o, and fouad snd lastly, Gicoro." foro ned not B sald of | 380 of lomen itcratare, suftoned aod onxiched Orowfoot Pamily—A Curious finds vant, on occaston, at tho nib of Lispon or | on a table the * Ly of, tho FLaat Minstro),’ which | his industry and mental capacity, w o0 fullnesa of the experionca of all time ince. tho point of his pencil; for bo Lns occasionally alngo. dom')7 somo horxl{:’lpruuuy {llustrations for his own Looks. Wall, Catlton says thora iy no troublo, even in theso times, of finding & ready sslo for miscellancous books, it you only toko boid of good ones. Mon will bayo thoir novels aud light llieraturo, just as suroly as they will have their beor and hoir cocktailn ; and the ladios wonld no more think of goiug withont tho latost novel thon thoy wonld witliout the latest atylo of bonnot, Bué Cnrlton has grest discrimsiuution, and pre- fors thio works of authors who havo alrendy achioved success to taking chauces Jwith thoso who are to famo unlmown. Btill, if & now man Nas & good thing Cariton will tako bim, snd, by judiciously advertlsing him and ushivg him in tho thousand-and-one ways noculiar to bimsclf, will make his work soll, ~ But ks retics upon the ho lind nover before met with, /o kept himsolf quiot with his prizo whilo thq elddra wera talk- ing, and on hia roturn home eat down upon hls mother's bed, and repoated to hor 88 many can- tos ay nho had the pationce or strength Lo liston to." Inlaterlife, ** Ho was known to say that, it by somo_miraczle of vandalism, all copies of Paradiso Lont *and *Tho Pilgrim's Progress’ wora deatroyed off tho faco of tho earth, ho wonld undertake to roproduce {hem from recol- lection.” As for his faculty of rapid and cor- probousive reading, ho literally devoured books with his oyo and 1nind, takiug io tho print and tho eoneo almost as fast as be could turn the lonves. It was said of I'beodoro Parker that he appearcd Lo posaess himscif of the soul of & book whilo he eut ita pages; and thia marvelous faculty waa ono of tho puculinr gifts of Macau- Tho volumo leaves Macaulay on the ove of his return to England, at the closo of 1837. The memoir could” hordly fail to bo interosting hav- ing for its subject 8o eminent and engaging & charactor. We forget to criticiae in our cager observation of tho splendidoareor of a highly-en- dowed and singularly-amiable individual. " And yob, rogardiog the work with & cool aftor- thought, it s essyto romark alack of method that forms a considorable dofeet, The etylo, howerver, ia animated, and thero is an abundance of anocdots, both of Macaulay and of the noted personagoa with whom ba was politically and socially relatod. T'ho book may justly be con- sidered a valunbla accession o our litorary por- traitures of illustrious 1en. Afrioan Bird, ABBOTT'S PARAGRAPH HISTORIES. A PiRaGuAps-IISIORY OF TRE AMERICAN TEvOLU- 210, By Ebwaup Aspors. 18mo, pp. 411 Bos- tou: Hoberls Drothors, Prico, 69 cente, I'ie story of the American Rovolution is ad- mirably epitomized io this littlo volume. Tho loading events ars related in eeparate para- graphy, arrauged in succinot nnd chronologicat order, In this wav, & clear and comprehensive 1des ia gawnod of tho condition aud struggles of the American Colouics during tho mout oxcited poriod of their existence. Quito enough is told to convoy a vivid plcture of the ers, and vet tho memory {4 not burdoned with a multitude of minor details, Mapa and culs aesist in the elu- cidation of tho toxt, As the autnhor hints lo his BOOKS AND BOOK-MAKERN, CONDITION OF THE PUBLISHING BUSINESS IN NEW YORK, Bpectal Correspondence of 1'he Chicago Tridune. Nxw Yong, April 9,—I have bad occasion, dur- {ng the past week, to drop in upon somo of our most prominent publisters ; and, judging from what I gaw and what they said, I think they scem to bo a pacalinrly favored claes of busincss-men in theso bard times. Every man of thom apoko cheorfally of busincsa-proopects ; bad no com- piainta to make regarding dullness for tho past “THE MYTH OF STONE-DOL" ‘When Moore had decidod to wrte au Orlental f loy. face, the buok a far tiaveiers Lo tor throo yours, sa all othor businoss-men | Yol kaown sulliows, ik Mary J. lfolmes, | Although through Nfo Macaulsy rolaioed o | poom, attor nestly four sears of otady and Dt poboi o otlis GurTar tis Gt bave; aud spoko 8o choorfully of the present | Marion Inrland, Aunguste J. Evans, John | playful disposition, snd way e}(rumoly fond of Jabor, ho simply told a talo of Tastara lovo and | teunial. domand thst ono could not have gleaned from | Taul, Josn Lillings, = Joaquin ~Aliflor, and | the maddost merry-makings with the mombors |y o0y ooing; aud yet, in ** Lulla Kookh," thom tho Idea that stagnation was the rule in other Eupulnr novellsta snd humorists, | of his own family, he nover joined in tho aporta 3 TALES, ia pressos ruuning sod his pot boiling, Yesterday he issucd a_new utory by Joaquin Miller, entitled * One Fair Woman," and prom- iscs bialf a-dozen othois by differant anthors durlog tho month, By the way, I met Miller at Carlton’s, and found him s gonia), chalty, ploas- ant goutlomnn, far differcnt from tho brusquo and uncouth person bo Las boen o fraqueutly Toprosented to bo. 1o s & remarkably good opinion of this now book of Lus, and soys of ity #1¢ I over did writo & boolk that 19 & book, this is tho ono,” I hovo read ouly n portion of is; of hiy school-companions, Thoir prido iu lim as o clovor studont wna temnpered, wo aro told, by tho compassion excited by “bia utter inability to play any sort of gamo, . He coyld neither swim, nor row, nor drivo, nor skato, nor shoot. 1le_soldom crocsed o maddlo, aud novor wiliingly. When in attendanco at Windsor, 8 o Cabinol Miniator, o wad fnformed that o horao was ot bis disposal. *If Her Majeaty wishes to gec mo ride,’ ho sald, ‘she must order out an olophant.,” Tho ouly oxercise in which e ox- cellcd was that of threading crowdod streots tho Liabits and customa of a poculiar poople are faithfully portrayed, and the poem {a always read with pleasure and lvstruction. In our own America 18 the rompant of & once powerful peopls, whose history is evon stranger, and ‘whoso origin is shrouded in n atill greater mys- tory,thantho ** Fire-Worship" of tho anciont Per- elane, The raco will soom becomo extinct; thoir struggles, wholler for the riglt or wrong, will soon bo ovor. The history of this strange to koop TOMANOES AND REALITIE Faxcy. By Mrn. AMiria F. Baus, 12mo., pp. 432 New York: J, D. I'ord & Co. Tlio papers in this volama ere brisf ; forty-one of them nre foclosed withinitacovers; buttheraio writtou with considorablo force, and aro marked by a bizh moral tone. The book will excelloutly fill & place in the Library of tho Bundsy-schuol, BOOKS RECEIVED, MrDITATIONS ON TR ESsENcz or CHRIATIANITY. TALEs or TRUTA AND business-circlea gonerally throughout the coun- try. AT HAWPERS', for instance, I metJ, W, Harper, Jr., or * Brook- iynJos" as heis famillsyly spoken of by his frionds, whoso jolly, rublcund faco givea mo token of starvation. Indood, *Joe™ isa good livar, and enjoys the good thinga of this lifo as enly one who fecla at oase with himself and all tho world, and baa o comfortablo income fowlog is too short T on iions | Sith bl eyos fizad on & book, e mighi bp | poplo must ever intorcst us, and noytblag | Batvris o Ty glag o PP 15 Hostont life Hoberts Brothers, Vric, § inupon biw, can enjoy thom. If youwantto | of years to ko in all Aillor writes, | Bast :7‘:15‘5"'" lllmr?sh'fmv s Usford stroot sl | portafalug to tholr habite 'sad traditions | A Sman wxp 4 izian 1y Fioncscs Mussrars. catoh o Harper in s hurry, don't go thers about | Thoro ~aro thoso, however, iwlo mire on! , walliing a8 88 other poopla walk- | yyye¢ arouse our curiosity and gommand our at- apor, Dostou: Lering. DPrice, b0 conts, % Junch-timo; for ten chancos ta ono, 1t you do, | bis style, aud tiero aro athera who adoro Walt od, and rosding a geont doal !::’:lcn;lflfig 4070017 | {enclon, aa tholr fata. 15 <0 e ntiod it 4 Boinixgeonss L Novew “hy v Euiy tox ! you will find that **Joo* and aomo of tho othor [ Whitman ¢ thiy class of readors will doubtloss | ol s B J &2, 10° | gur own proapority. When thedo traditions and 3. B, Lippineots & Co, A%’ Obp Courtr. By Mrs, Ouriuxr, Author of * Clirontelzs “of Carilngaford,” etc., ote; 1imo , pp. 256, Phitadeiphia: Porter & Coates. Price, $1.50. DiaD Mex's uoea: A Novis, Iy Misa M. it Baao- DO, Authcr of = Aurora Fioyd,” efc, Paper, New York: Harper & Brothers, Lrice, 75 cents, Great Exvrcratrons, Uy Cirantra Dickens, With Thirty iustrations by F. A. FRaacr, 8v0., pp. 163, Now York: Harper & Hrothom, Ciicago Janaen, McClarg & Ca. Vrice, $1.50. GowTUR Rosaw Eruatis, Translated into Eoglish Verso, {n the original metre, by L Noa. Bguare . Morton: §:hoentiof & Moclier, 5 y ELta Wikenen, 12mo, pp. 24, AMitlwaukoe, Tnx Srieet Wonza or TenfCLLiAN. Edited. for Behools and Collrzes, by I, A, Mansn, LL.D, With an introduction by Lrsan CoLzax, D, D. fuasar of Latin in Lafayette College. 12mo., py faries Hucpse thers, Chicsgo? Jaa: 'r be plonsed with **Ono Fair Woman." ~Carlton is r?nood triond to the “Groat American Hu- morist,” whoover ho may Lo, or whorever be may turo up. Ho published tho works of "Dou'- stickn,” ** Artomus Ward,” * Drick Pomeroy.” + Il Arp,” ¢ Jobn Paul,” *Josh Billings,” and ono or two othor authors who have lald claim to being more or Jezs humorous in thoir writings; 2ud wo may oxpoct yet tosea him publlxhln%thn works of such jolly jokers as Ifenry Ward Beaocher, Dr, Storrs, DoWitt Tslmago, and Dr. Budivgton. But, with tho writers who loak to Carlton to put thom fato print and between cov- ors, ho 16 uniformly successful. Itis a raro thing for him 1o publieh an unsalable book, aithough I havo o distinct recolloction of his baving angaged iu at losat one such specula- tion, ‘Therefore, Cariton whistlea merrily and chirps cheorfully over the twenty or thirty new ventures bLe is proparing to lsuuch upon tho doed, abovo tho average. Io_ 1810, Macaulay entered Trinity Collego, Cambridge. Ho onjoyed his unlvoruity carcor intensoly, having congeotal frienda ju thas two Coleridges, nophos and son, in Hydo Villfors sod Charlos Auatio, with whom he’ could cou- yereo intorminably, and Lsving froodom to read simost tho twenty-four hours round. ‘Iho high- cat colloge-honors would scom to have bosn within bis grasp, and yet bo strove for few, and theso ho_did not always obtsln, Ho was not chosen a Fellow until bis third trial. *When tho tripos of 1823 mado its appearazcs hls name did not grace tho lst, In short, touse the ox- pressive vocabulary of the uvivorsity, Macauley sraa gulfed,—a mishap which disabled bim trom contending for tho Chancollor's medsls, thon tho crowning trophios of o classleal carcer.’ In 1624 he secured the coveted Fellowablp, and two rnm Intor was ndmitted to tho Bar. Ho did but sirange legondy aro woveo iuto altractive verse, thoy are. read with incressed pleasuro sud a deeper tutereat, Wo haye just finlehod arending of “Tho Myth of tono-1dol,” by Prof. . P, Jones (pub- lished by 8. C. Griggs & Co., Chicago),—a poom. tor which, in view of the faithfulness in por- traying Indian character, wo predict a cordial welcomo aud a genorsl m““mf by all who aro cunious conceruing tho tod Man of tho West. Tho thomo ix o traditionary love-romance of the Ricearaon, which justifion' tho author in aasiug, in his briof prefaco : **Itis an echo of ono of those fast-oxpiriog songs of the wilderneso, wwhich, only o fow yoars ago, fltod all this grand Westarn vorld with pootry,” Again bo ssye @ “'flhoso many-colored leaves of tho Indian sututnn, whicl should bo pres ed batwoen wolden covers, and progorved to adorn our libraries, Boem, for want of chroniclers, to be dostined to “ boya * havo gono out, with o friond or two, for s sumptuous midday meal, which will ocoupy him ond thom for au bour or two, Tho immenso busineas of this firm {s now inthe bands of tho socond goneration of Harpors, and thero aro to be found among tho many employes of tho ostablishmont sovoeral roprescntativos of tho third genoration. UponJ. W. Harpor, Jr., saoms to hava fallen the principal burdon of tho businous-cares, and his partnord scom por- toctly willing to trust to his gonius and tact the fortunes of tho hougo, 1o fias tho credit of snpplying tho brains and power which retain tha old firm of Harpors in tho froat rank, whore fts founders hnd placed it. But to return to trade-mattors : Paicricat ToeATiE HE Bu Desta: EfPLCIALLY FOR AMERI- T foand 3r, Harpor i the midst of tholr busy | public, aud saya peopla will Levo them; thoy | littla roading of Jaw, and had atll losa practioa. | ap.party buriel benoath tho noms of tist otar- | - uw Snzrikass. v Hny Szswins, Tiuatrsted, estabilsbinont, sarrounded by ity or sisty | a0 good of tholr Lind, snd Uiolr kind ly'ia no | Tho profosion did not sult bim, and, au tho | pal wintor which most eogn briug oblision to | - 1amo. pp, 2 New York: Grauus Sudd Com: Wise bad. Thus ho, ¢ lonst, roparts thot the trado in miscollancous books Liag not bosn serl- ouuly affactod by the hard timos, Indeod, ho ex- thio Jaat of tho Aborigines.” "Tue logond (geo Journal of Lowia & Clark's Bspedition, mado by arder of the Government, salosmen and boolikeopors. Ho 13 o young man, 85 or 40 yosrs of age, affabla sud polite in Lis Chicsgo: Jansen, McClurg & Co. Price, Dy Mrs, L, B. Dor- pau 31,50, TUE RELATIONS OF THT BYXEs. out life his nover roadily appliod himse!f to any pursult that wag agains the grain.” 3 o T~ o that buninoss hag boon 80 good During tho eight yoars that followed Macau- " rxx, Author of * What Women 5hould Know,” ete, assurance that ho koows what Le s | lan boen gostagnant. fi"f“l‘l‘ %fiflnamfii‘fy ntr:n;. ‘:‘n d“}f‘"l‘m‘i“t :’:_ ures. 'thso. necording to tho Indian Jogendry, | By Jutis Vense. Chicago: Donnelles, Loyd & 1 have Lhought it well to give you this account of the (CUEENFULNESS WIIICH 18 UNIVERSAL IN TUE BOOK TRADE, are Lulu and her Meunowoo,—two uufortunato | - Co. but wost devoted lovors,—tranaformod iuto genli Ly the Groat Bpirit, in honor of their un- talkivg asbout. ITe gaid that, so far as their Price 10 ceuta, houso was concornod, thay had no complaints of hnrd times to make, ‘Their publications, school- cioty ho was evor hngplust. ‘I'ho skotolies of the home scenes io which ho took o lively part aro RIODICA , vory charming, ** {u tho morning,” says Lis vio- PERt LS NEQEVED Harper's Magazine for May (Uarper & Brothers, New Fiolding couatancy. y (U Trovolyan, * thoro was somo protenso | ¥ York). Contents: *'The Wheeler Lxpodition in books and standurd works, woro of . chsractor | bocsusa 1 have rocently written you rathior de- | ior Lady Wo will not undertake to spoil the story by g 0 A toat the publio must havo, and ho did of work and study. In tho afternoon, your uucle | yoncating in proso what tho autbor bas given to | Seaster Colorsde, William I, iideingarithy Fhfleen rossing accounts of the coadition of other crlnchosnf industry, It f8 pleasant to find ovon ons green spot in o dosert of droariness. not seo but the trade n thom was fully a4 good aa In ordinary timos, Perhapa tloy had not dono Uhemlni'] alweys took my sister Murgarot and Tllustrations ; * Nuemoiyae, A Sonnct,” John G, myeelf o long walk, Wo travorsed evory pare of 8 A the world in Elcn-lngverue, but will simply state “ Cardinal Mopalsto.” Junius ileari Browne, <50 tmueh I ookanovelse bl & Eenorally mis | Dat o you know P—I ao not beliave it is quito [ tho eity, Talivgton, Clorkonweli, and tho parks, o o e o e | e e e irasa s (o collaneons character as thoy mi A hava.dons B Df o dosert ag somo Of our businees. | Foturning Just io timo for & G-o'clock dinuor. | goug woom to Lo purely and B iroly characior. | cluded), Praf, Baiuel Lockwood, will Hoventonn iy Lo tlmon, bt thoy L laskod ot | tiow would moko out. Our book-men aro uatur- | Whit ~ suocdotes “ho usod to = pour oub | i of Indlan 1fo an tradition, " lustratlons ; *‘Che liomance of the Hudson.—IL Tor thls, and hiad publisbed and printed nccord- | ally philosoplers, and thoy look upon tho bright [ sbout overy | stock, aud ' squaro, sud » A e e L Teation: ingly, Their oxperloncs bad taught them thut court, and alley ero nany places MAN'S HABITATIONS. cdicts H@orth: A Noy eide of nvnrythlur. In their convorsation with othora, thoy porsiatently presout this wde to viow, and, with much {act and foresight, thoy Novel,” Jullan lawthorne; nover paes without tho tonder graco of a day R L A ieiion, Devata: whbatovor the public wauted in a literary way the that is doad coming back to wo, Then, after public would liave, and that it was nlways safo Titk TIABITATIONS OF Ma¥ ALt Auxs, By Eoaaxs ViotLrt-Lr-Deo, T 1= tion, and ¥urnlture (Firet Papor), L liudson Holly, to publish the works of mutho 4 i over I8 gloomy or dopressipg | dinnor, bo always walked up sud down the NaLL, Architect, With erous Illustrations, Al Nineteen Tiusteation ‘o By Maples: A wers asOgnIzoD o;ays molromll‘:g"a:fl‘d.m Tho | b0 the ‘c‘ahnl;fh::l;. 5:lunrybualuusr{nnn. § | drawing-room botweou us, chatting tilt ton time. | 8 .24, Doston: Janus B Osgood & Co, | Tiem.v Witliam G, Jictarde; *0ld Philadeiptia® Herpora Jitorally show thoir faith in this | find, do tho roverso of this, nursing carofully | Our noisy misth, hiy wrotchod puns, wo mauy & | I'rice, 83, (Quncinded), lebesea Harding Davia, with Lighteon Yospect by their works, for their ligt of | that which is of ill-omen, and parading beforo minuto, 80 many au hour! 1l:!un WO saug, none ‘I'ho titlo of this volumo is tnost engaging, and nmi."r‘x;‘_lem § “iAu ir V':ll'l|u0:' fh‘n"fi?&mfic“-fl ’;x"nb-nx-. .mfnx publications includos some twanty vol- | the oyes of tho world sheir personal grievauces. ?gu'?"o}':‘fl‘:"bffilys'{fi'f"ffiu'zl dhal-) mnl;;g:g;lg; tho nawo of the author is ous in which we have ;;;;,,,m;f.g;g‘-,m, ST luatrations Py umes or more. ‘I'bo varioty in these ombraces I belioys that hslf the ills of thess hard times nearly the whole fiold of literaturo, for thorn are ! od L t great confid . Vi -16-Di are to bo attributed to tho dismal croakings of ostned to put great confidence. Viollet-ls-Duc Btory,” Hurnict Proscott Spofford: *Alif-Lails: Au 1a o mastor {n his department of Fino Art, L5y woro 8o to musio and clisuted, Esstetn Btory,” Edward Lverett lalo: * Gabrlello My fatlior, 8it- ) R i who ¥l ting at hils own table, usod to look up occasiou- nd " ‘A Dramatic Skytels” Bsrky Cornval) !’1‘.‘,‘;“.‘?. E%:‘f:fiflfl‘%s&‘:”i‘.’m:‘h flggfl:"o‘: f:l.'m: :lflg;nn;:oxl}::.m}tcz“lf:y:;:m u‘(xtnzylxno:;‘;ob?h:,&: ally, and push back his wpeotacies, aud, 1 daro | on any subject withiu ita limits ho has tho O Xirlauas ”"u""‘,f ,.u.’u‘m“n,’c,,mmw soolal Batires, and tho novol puro snd simplo | tuno, and sing of ** the good time coming ™ aa [ 823 wondor in Lis heart how wo could 80 wnate | knowledge and tho ekill to discourso wisoly aud | Georgo Liot 8 Yany Chatr:” * Editor's onr timo, After tes, tho book then in reading was prodnced. Your uncle very soldom road nloud himsclf of an eveniug, but walked about 1latoning and commenting, and drinking wator," To propare and disposo of auch n varloty o reading-matter givos employmeut to hundred of mon and womoen, and miakos of llu{mu‘ establishment ono of Lho busicst publication- Literary Record Editor's Hclentifc Record ;" W Editor's Historiesl Jweord ;" + Liitor's Drawer.' number concludes the 534 volumo of the mag- 1n the Juno guwber will bo commonced 3 mevw serlal mory by the author of ** John lalltax, merrily »ado %Joa" Iarpor aud Carlton, they would not only dispol the gloom which bofogs thom, but earry susuliine snd hope to tho hiearis of otlors, Durro. fmpressively, tut botter even than tho koowl- odge and tho ekill which hio brings to the treat- ment of any architectural subject, is tho elo- o “Tho biograplior himeolf rocords that *'Thoro | vated motive with which ho regards it, and which W “The Laurel Dush; An Old- :lzgm:‘fi:h%;?;fl;fl:d&‘fi ‘3::1%?]& nt‘l?:r* ’lyu lefl Wero 86280NS durln§ the school-holidays whou | he toaclies his hiearers to estoem as 'Ihu Arst eu- ‘1'»:’2.\‘.'.%’{,’:5’ 'm"."«‘.‘z“'fiz‘iy.—“' ek another publishing house in the world that glves A’ 3 {hie biouse overllowed with notso sud frolic fram North American Jteciet—April (James R, Osgood & sontial to tho performanco of soy good aud profitablo work. Viollot-lo-Duc belobys to that uoblo band of noblo Art-writars who, whila thoy instruct, at the same timo botter, those who ©omo Lo themm for information. 2 Yat, notwithetanding its attraciivo litle, which morning, night; and Alacaulay, who at soy poriod of his lits conld literally spend wholo daysin plnylnF with childron, was mastor of the jonocent revols. Games of bide-and-soeck, that lastod for hours, with sboatiug, and blowing of tents: ¢ Dr. Cutler and the Or- dioknce of 1787;% * Mountzuma's Dinner;¥ Tho Consular Bysiem of the Uniled Statos Chjef- Justico Chinso; " * 'Fho Reform of Local Taxation; " W Critical Notices” Co., Boston,) tothe publio so great on aniount of reading- matter per snoum a8 doos Isrpora’s AT AVPLETONS' T recelvod substantislly the same information rogarding the etale of tho book-trade, ‘Thlé LORD MACAULAY., Tz Lire oxD LETTENS oF LoD MacaUray, By His Nephew, G. Orto THEVELTAX, Mewnber of Larlla- ment for lawlck, District of Burghs, In Two Volumes, Voll, 8vo, ppn 410, Noew York: Harper d 4, Southern Hustorieal Soclety Pflpcn,A\'nL 1., No, 3 (The firm pablistics largoly works of a sciontitlo char- | & sirut Cuicugo ! Jsusen, McGlurg & Co, | hornd up sud down d“;: o, Syt piean b { proniises 80 much, and tho hopo built on tha | - Tiav. 3. Willlam Jouce, bocrutary Southern istorical actor, and thoy repait that thore bias never bean | - Price, $1.80. T e 1 boump e during ther not o | Batuo of the sutlior, this is tha least valuablo of Boclely). - for April 1 (Hcribner & Co., New York » moro widespread and uniform dowand for | The world bhas hitherto regarded Macaulay as | Sho scolds of, oiud, bo cOanoser SAring bo act of yer. By 3 Y eitatinn, whilo'tho ofbors struck 1. with_ iho | (0o volumes we Lave scon from tho French « favnig Ago—Curreut numbora (Littell & Oay, books of this class than thors is at piesent. | g pralllaut geniue, whoas strong aund shining 10 had 4 t i architect. The form in which it is cast is unin- | “jzeton), The reading public sooms to orave now light chorus, 1o hind no notlon of wuslo, but av in- § yerenting, It cumbors tho uubject with 100 | Awierican Journat af Hedical Sciencea—April (Ilonry apos Ml biacte anh {6, oop pase with ghg | sttributos compol sdmiting wondor but this | faliblo ser for thythm. Iils knack of improp: | puuch o A et afovetiros | 4 BT e hts volume of his blography presents bim as s simplo-bearted man, whoso candor, sweot tom- isation bie st all timoes oxercised froely.” A scientists in their investigations, As an indica- favorito pastime with the family was capping Aspictons’ Jouriiat (u.) “Appleton & Co,, New York), tion of tho dircotion which publio thooglit iy some. 'The resl, solid matter contained in the book could bava boon compressed into one-fAfth N k at tho gaine, but Macau- laking, 1 ‘quota_ from_ Applotons' prink | por, and affectionsto nsture win the frlendiiost | YOr®os: all wero quid gaine, of the space over which it hss boen sproad. LITERARY NOTES. list of paw poblicationa tho followiug 3 lonalng hght 1 | JAY: With his astonishiug momory, way pro-omi- | iy it s not been so candouscd (s & grave do- [ Willism L. Btons, of Kuw York City, has been llon o8 bska’ oron acintile. ublocta: sympathy, Itia o new sud ploasing light 10 | yopy, + When tho timoe came for titm 4a bo off 0 | Zaot, which canuot. bo overooked i this day of 3 which to view the groat essayist snd historian, whoso writings, purely imporsonal in their char- acter, aszzlo the intellsot rathor than move the honrt. It lolghtons our cojoyment of his talents to find with what virtuoa thoy wero as- soolated; snd it incronsos our estimate of them to know how truly they wore mnatural endow- ments, sud Low continuous and thorough was the process of thdir dovelopment. Macsulay sprung from s noble stock, Iils su- ceators woro Scoteh, and in the pateroal line, for saveral genorationa diroctly precediug his own, bolonged to tho clerical profeasion. Ilia futher, Zachary Macaulay, a wsn of great force and alo- vation of character, In early youth occupled an jmportant position on an oatate in Jamalics, nud 8t the ago of 25 was appointod a mombor of the appointed Centeunial Historian of New York Btato, Elibu Burritt basin the Iagtford pross of Brown & Groes & *Banucrlt 11sud Book for the Firealdo."” wMark Twaln” (8amuel L. Clomens) hasu new book in presa at Hariford,—''The Adven. ture of Tom Sawyer." J, I, Oagood & Co. will reprodnce in holiotype Qustave Dore's illustrations, of Coleridge's ** An- clout Marinor." W. E. Gladstone's work ou Homer, horatof ore mentioned, ** Homerlo Synchroniam," will ba re- publietiod by Harper & Brothers this spriog. Mr. Tennyson promiges an annotated edition of his work ; which will, perliaps, illuminet: obsoure allusions which hiave puzzled many bad at his chambers, ho wounld rushout of the room after uttoring somo long-sought lino, and would bo pursued to tho top of tha atairs by ono of tho othors, wholiad contrived torecall n'verse which served tho purposs, (n order thst ho might not lenve tho bouso victorious ; but he, with the hull-door open in his baud, would shriek back a crowning offort, and go off tri- umphant,” : At tho sge of 25, Macaulay began bis long and splendid series of essayy for the Edinburg few ofew, with & papor upon Ailton, which appeared in the August number of 1825, The srticle pro- cured its author immediste fame, snd thonce- forth his prencuco was sought in the moat dia- tinguished social circles in Loudon. In 1524, bo was made n Commissloner of Bankruptoy, the emolumonts of which ofiice ralsod his {n- como to about £1,000 per annum. 'Tho commla- sion was welcomo, 88 disasters oocllrrmg in tho businces of bis father had compelled M M1 of which aro solllugs roadily: ** Animal Para- dltes and Moesmates ;" * Diseasos of tho Nor- voua Bystom ;" **'I'he Progross of Scionco ;" * Uand-Book of Architectural Styles :" * Dis- dasca of Modern Life ;" * Modorn Oroeca;" * I'he lllnwrr of Qrestiol Nllur‘, of Light ;" *'Tho Emotions Will 3" 4+ Air and 1ts Relations to Lifo ars wiu's Movomenta and Mabits of Lifo" ' Our “lc,t;l Awong Infinitiea;” © Curroncy and Bauk- ing." ‘fhera aro mavoral educational text-books 0, and othiors which are aven mors tochiufcal iban auy I have meutioned. Dut that one firmi should undertake, iu ono ecason, the publication of elght or tou purely sclentifis baoks, involving Ao original outlay of hundseds of thousands of doliars, shows tho wonderful change which the reading public has undorgone aud s undergolug. Adozen or fiftoen ycars ngi::, no publisher wuui‘d bave ventured to idsuc suck worka without somo Ruarantoe sgaiust loss. 3o would not bave mantfold books and hurried readers. No pains have boeu sparcd to prosont tho vol- umo in & kandsome atyle. In all its foataros it roflscti crodit upon the publishore. LANGUAGE-LESSONS, Lesions 1n LaRaUAGE: AN INTRODTOTION TO THE 8rupr or Exazisn Grauuan, Dy limas apLer. burt 1 12, pp. 104, Chicago:” Hadloy Mrothers Wi, Iu tho five years during which thie little 1nan- usl hen beon in the Lauds of teachers it had beou constantly gainiug popularity. Its simple, uaturs} mothod, based upon the theory that a command of language isto bo acquired by ity correct use n childhood, commonds it to tho good sonso of educators, aud enablea it o bear tho teet of the achool-room. ‘F'ho stops by which itleads yonug pupils to » mastery of the act of acsulay Counoll for tho colonlzation of liberated elayes 1 ide for Limself, but to spoaklug and wrlting froely wud accuratoly, aro | ers. tisked his chances of romunoration to the publio not only to provide for himself, but to sssiat in 8 AT ¥ in Blerra Leono, ¥or six yoars ho reaided in tho | ¢hy mupport of hie {amily. This he cheerfully | 810w, oaslly graded, aud cortain. ling, or “Tho History of the Late War," by Jefferson \hata. Hut to-day books upon sclontiflo sublects, | ,jiamont whioso affalzs ho was occupled in ad- | sud goneronly continuod ¥ do 80 loug a8 sy of | oven stumbliug by tho war, is ucarcely possiblo I tinn wrilten in a popolar style, are in demand the ubllzmlfl? bocausv tloy flndn: m&"‘ffifi m‘mné. l.l-‘or m-‘ impmvl:xh' taste and inmtal- lovelopment among the poopl 108 graat oxtont, thank (8o Tybona. " 5o tany Davis, will probably be roady during the sum- 1o the litsla feet that travel [u the path it powte Dalti out. Tho presout uew edition has boon thor- oughly revisod, and much of it rewritten, in tho light af tho exporience vbisined in the praotical thent stood in noed of help Lo could present. In 1830, he entored Parlianient 88 tho membor for Calne, and ore long earned a repute as one of the most oloquont sposkers wiio bad ovor sat miniaterivg, displaying eminent stilition fitting him for the arduous position, o returaed to England tn 1799, snd exchanged his appointwent mer, (rom t moze, ‘The now French review, the Republiquo des prosa of Turnbull Bros, many the Colonization i uo of tho boak. ZLeltres, containg in its third number a posm by abla for the ofiice of Hecretary of ju the Commous, ; d y vlun“fir:mn?; ':333':‘551'.\':‘&';, ‘flf:fum;g Oompany. In tho summer of tho samo year bio | _His personsl appearanco st this time ls thog BIBLI CAL_—GV—GLOP(DI % afiang;l:‘hg:a‘h l‘;l:::'fihk{::%'l:ll:h‘fm" - wientifio subjects in oasy aud intelligiblo lan. | marriod Miss Sollna Mills, and took up his rosi- describad : CxcLopxpia oy IhuLIcAL, THEOLOGICAL, axD Lc. 5 . i guage, illustratiog tholr texts & simpl H tho 26th of Oc. | Mohad s massive head, and featuras of & powerful |~ cuivurricat Lurveatvis. lrepared b the Rov, | Qoorge Rawlinson's new work on *‘I'ie Sov- 100 Slilerening Y atbar AL ey, b | dence i Lismbésh. <eeoi DR st rogged cant: bt o comstantly. Jighted up oy | Seum Moot soon b, Do snd Jasks Braouo, b3 | enth Great Orieutal Mouarchy; or s History of ortod. & dnoie Mnong the' mactes UF0 | tobor, 1800, was Loru Thomss Babiogtuu M- | overy joyful sud ennobliog ematiou that it ‘stlered o Rieve o i 991, New'¥ori: | the Bassaniaus, with Notices, Geograpbical and . Yal . now wore of matters whioh, seen 80 supar- | SRUISY- listle if, when abuolutely quisecent, b faco was rather | - llarper & Brutherv, Autiquarian,” s published io Englund. Bolaly o oty pastially {atorsetad (heil®= | “sonn after the olild's birth, tha family re- | LEEl el R bking . baw | | 'thio valuo of tis able work in not confiaed 0 | o v Hishitations of Bon In All Agen” from S0y, Eisaag fis” Apilasons 20d it to thelr | moved to High wiost, in Cisptiam, whore, 1n & | weh b soke, s was BEER 10 Ba Shom 881 #oud Lt | tha shudsat of Taoologr. It exteuds to evory | tho Franch of Viollek lo Duc, sowa wstallmonts d {n the American Archi. tect, will moon bo published in book form by J. 1L Osgood & Oo. Tho Nav, Edward Abbott, whose *Paragraph Hintorica" have baon succonaful, will make s fur- ther cogtrilution to Centennia! litersture In * Revohutionary Times ; ‘Bkotchen of Ont Conn- try, Ita Peoplo, andjTheir \Ways 100 Years Ago.” The Memairs of Herr Voo Klindworth, the confidant and collesgue of Princa Mettoralch, aro to bo published in Paris lhurl‘I{y. At is ox- pocled that they will throw copsiderable iight uipon tho pohitical bistory of the firat Lalf of the prosont century, The Academy paya » compliment to American voetry lo paying that Mir, Aldrich’'s poom in the March Aliantic has the easy, thorough work- maoship which iy gotting to bo commoner in American thau in Lingilsh pootry, with rather moro distinct and saltd wubject ttian ueusl," A book lias recently boon publishod at Romo, odited by T. A. Trollope, cgnuln(na contribu- tions b{ Mr. and Mra, Trollope, Willism and Mary Howltt, and Cbatles Hemans, son of the :;,mfilz;l pootoss, :olrdunu llmnlnm of s school aud oms for povr childron In Roms, fonnded b Mra. Dr. Gould, an Awnerican lady, deceasad, o Beribner & Armstrong have ln Lrain for mpring and summer irsuo & now nories of volumas af Europeaa hiatory, biography and gossip, under the title of **Tho Sans Boucl Serfes.” Tl promise that thia will be more curiouy, in({‘ lul‘,’ mlng.;»llng r.lml: thul 80 muccossful ric- o-Brac Beries,” solocted by the samo e Titchard Henry Btoddard. % ey A subkcription work on the * Wild Flowers of Amorica” is announced by Hurd & Iloughton, the plates of which will boin chromo-litho- graply, aftor water-color drawinga by leaag Bprague, who saasisted in tho preparation of Audobon's grest work.and from four to eight w11l bo piven in oach &Y part, Prof, George N, Goodale, of Harvard, will writo tho text, Dr. Doollinger bas & new and interosting work in press, It is entitled ' Unpublished Roports snd Diarfea Rlolating to tho Coaucil of Trout,” and will be the first volamo of the * Collection of Documenty Concerning the Tront Council” which this famous church historian has for somo soars boon proparing. Tho materials for tho sccond volume are lo coarso of compilation. 'Tho jac-simile Bibles recoutly iseucd in move eral eizes by the Oxford University Pross embody a clever idos. 'The printing is #o arraug- od that tho page of ouo editor i on oxact fac- sineile of tho othor, and thoso who bocome no- customed to tho special fpot or place in which corwain prssages and chapters aro to bo found can paes from one edition to anotler (a8 whon aggo reguires a largor print) without losing thia cue. ‘Lo fac-simile Diblon are furnished with maps-and other accesxories, ‘Tho valuablo colloction of prints and 389, of the Iato M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot, the Parls publisher, will be eoldshortly. Among tho MYS, of particular interaet aro soveral M5, of ances of the Round-Table avcle, and » Houra which belonged to Cathermo of Franco, daughter of Charles VI., and wifo of ileury V., bearing the Priucess’ signature and ornsmont- ed with inarvslous miniatures, it in Bolgium for 40,000 fran lection f8_cutimated on co worth 2,000,000 franca. Tho Epic of Hados is the name of & now :uglish poem by **A New \iritor.” whowo ure- vious twu eerica of **Bongs of Two Worlds ™ Love been widels praised 1u England, Iu the poem just publisbed, which is properly idglic, 1ha Loadon Athencuin thinkn, tho amtlior finds himsell among tho ghoats of tho people of the nclont world,—>ureyas, Defaueira, Helen, Enlymion, aod Lko shiadowny personagca of Greak fable,—osch of woom télls tus or bLer old story with the modern improveineut of & preseut spplication and moral, 3y, Bwinburno Laa recently finisbed a poom, callod *'The Last Oracle," "Starting from tho auswor brought back frow Delphi ta Juliuo the Apostate by Lis euvoy (A. D. $91), the poom In- vokes Apollo to reapipaar,—not as they called Lim in Greece, merely sou of Zucs the sooof Chrouos, but older than Time, the Light and Word incaroste 1b man, of whom comes the in- ner sunlight of the bhutnuu wind, whenco ail 1dens of gods possidle to nan take shape. Of thus, the sun-god and etugivg-god of the Groeks is assumod by the post to Le the most perfoct typo at bie, aud is callod apon to return and reappear over tho graves of luterveniug gods, The Rov. 0. B, Frothingham hay a new work in preas with G, P. Putnam's Sons which prom- iren to bo ono of groater than ordinary interest. It {8 a history of * Transcendentalism in New Lngland” from its begiumag to tho present time, ‘The osrlior chapters of tho work nro de- voted to tho Listory of ‘Lransceudentalism in Germany, Franca, aud England, but ouly 8o far a8 radical thought in thoes countries has bad an influence upon transcendentalism here, In thiu part of the work tho anthor skotchos the systems ot Kant, Fichte, Bebolling, Hegol, Rchicivrmach- er, Cousin, Constant, Compto, Locks, Colotidgo, ‘Wordsworth, Uarlyls, ste., ete., Tho later chant- ern are dovoted to Transcoadentalism iu He- ligion. Emeriion, Aleott, !ll!;rlnrut Fuller, Theo- dore Varker, Tplay, and tho Minor Prophats, A flnal chapter discussos 'I'ranscenaentaliam tu the Literature of Now tlugland, aud includes Ereer- mon's last rormon,—the only one of his sarmons aver printed auywhere. 'Che work witl ba ready in April. M. Didot bougiit ‘o whole col- suthority to bo s, FAMILIAR TALK, SLAVERY IN ILLINOIS. As a sequel to tho history of the Ordinanco of 1787, in last Eaturday's ivsue of Tux TRIDUNE it msy bo well to give a resumo of tho efforts made, 1o spito of that compact, tointroduce slavery into the Northwestorn Htates, TLo fact of its having existed for tnany yoata fn Lilwois may already Liave bsen forgotten by many of our readern, tlavery was introduced into Illinols by Renanlt in 1719, who, on Lis way to this country with cargo of wochunice, winers, aud laborers, otoppod at Bun Dowmingo, aud bought 500 pegro slaves. Alanyof thoso were doubtless lefe or sold at Now Orloaus and other places, Dut In 1750, Vivier sy, thore wora 300 in Kasiaskia and tho surrvuudivg aettloments, In 1810 tho ce sus atated therp wera 165 elaves in this Stato 1820, 817 ; aad fu 1830, the number bad fallen 740, ‘They wore beld profcssodly under tho claim thae their aucestors were alaves before tho territory was cedsd by Virginia to the United Btatos, aud that all the rights of their owners were guarantood under that act, Butto go back to 1802: Nov. 22, William Houry Harrison called s Conyention of delo- gates from tho Norttnestern 'Tortitories, who ot at Vivcennss on tho 20th of December, and dolibetated on “'larritorial interests.” Gov, Harrison preslded, ‘I'io Convantion sent o me- morial to Congress, full of tho most urgent sud mpecions argutents, imuloring the Genoral Qov- ernment to reveal tho tith article of tho Ordi- napca of 1747, iu March, 1803, John Rendolnh, of Virginin, roported against granting the prayer of tho petitioners, Iu bis report he said : The Comumittes deom it highly dangerous and inex- pedient to fmpeir »_yrovision wiscly calculated to pro- mote the happitcss aud tho prosperity of the North- westeru country, sod 10 give strength “sud seaurity to tlist oxtonsive frontler, ~la tho salutary operution of this sagacious and benevoleut restraint, it {2 Lebioved that tho {nbabitants will, at uo very ulstant day, wnd ample remuneration for a temporary privation of labor and immigration. These wera the ruggeations of a wise and smi- nently sound statesnianship ; but they did not satisfy the slavery-propagandists, Mr. Roduey, of Delaware, on the 4th of Fubruasry, 1604, ro- ported favorably to the susponsion of the Gth ujicle for ten years; but the subjoct was not acted upon. Adaitional momorialy wore sent in from tho Northwest Iu 1805-'6; and Mr, Osr- nett, of Virgiuin, also mado a roport in sccord- ancae with the wiskes of tho wmomorialiste, It wes made the speclal ordor for & cortain day; but it slept forever, u did the others, To the next Congross, Gov, lisrrison forwarded olber potitions; aud Mr. Parke, the Territorisl Delogato, oy Chair- man of s Bpecisl Committos, roported fuvorable upon them; but this repore met tho fate of ail that hsd preceded it. ‘ILia was dua largoty to tha romoustrance of the oppononts of tuo ropeal, who biad bocomo active iu thoir efforts to provent the introduction of alavery. Tho con- {eut in Congresa was finally endod in 1507, b an ablo roport sgaiust tho rcpesl of tho Gt articla of the Ordinauce, presentod to tho Bonate by Franklin, of North Carolins, Mitcholl, of New Jeruey, aud Tifiin, of Obio. Tut in this Stato the aritation of the elavery uostion waa kept up. ‘Ihore can be uo doubt that, biad it not beon _for the Ordinance of 87, thie Convention thiat formed the tirst State Con- gutution, in 1818, would have established sla. very. Dut, in tho moantime, the doctrine of State rights was Enlumg grouud. It was argued that, although tho Couveution of 1818 might have been bound by tho obnoxions ordinauce, now that Illinois was s Stato shio could alter her Constitution to sult the views aud interests of her own people, the samo a8 suy of the otd tbirtcen Blatos. Accordlugly, the Blavery question entered largely iuto the elec- e dhvoruor in. 1643; but Colas, s tho op- ponent of Blsvery, was electsd, His mossago diacowsed the subject fully; but it seemed only to iullame the Blavery-propsgsudists, Lt was #oon found that two-thirds éonld be had s Bonate to call a Btato Convantion; but one‘v?t: wan noodod in the Houso, This the majority procesded ta secure by nnsealing a momber from Pike Gounty, though his right to his mest had beon acknowlodged by his befng allows od to voto for tho re-clection of Jesse B. Thomas to tho United Btates Bensts, sud to participate in tho business of the . Houeo mince ita organization. His unseating Aiaa simply an cufrage; but it enabled the Legis- Iature to pase tha resclution for tue peopls to vote on calling & Convention at the noxt genaral olection. Then ‘commanced tha most excited social and politioal contest known in the hi of th’ Brate, and for s year and a haif it reged with” unabatod fury. " Preachers, politicians, Judges, lawyers, men in ail the vocations of lifs, wero ranged on the oue sida or tha othor; snd every moans that could influonce 8 man or com- mand his vote waa vigorously and porsistently used. At tho election, “overy votor was known and mfmumd by oach party; and all, in- oludiug cripplos and shronia invalids, brought ta tho polls. "Tho Biavery-advacates wora defeated 1,800 msjority, Mon never worked more carneatly or tnoro nobly for s good eause than {‘n’o nll-fl|ll“ury ]mu;: u& ldmlml‘“ in 1822-'4 ; bok 80 small & majority.did lilinois cscapo from the clutches of the Siavo-power. e Tho validity of tho Ordinance of 1787 is now universally acknowledged, and conteats to maine tain Ita suthority are not Jikely again to ocour. ‘Thie crushing-out of the Rebellion, it 1w to be Lopod, sottiad that forover, Of the Ordinance, Mr., Wobntersuid, in 1830 ; * \Ve aro sccastomed to praise tho lawgivers of antiquity ; wo help to Eorpumlu: tho fame of Holon and Lycurgus s ut I doubt whother one single iaw of any Iawgivor, anclont or modern, bas producod effecte of a moro distinct and lasting character than the Ordinanca of 1787. Wo seo ite consequeuces 8t this moment, and wo shall naver cesse to sce them, porhaps, whilo the Ohio ehall flow.” Of it tho late Chiof-Juatice Chasa wroto : ** Naver, probsbly, in tho history of the world, did & mensura of legislation &0 accuratoly fulfiil, and ‘ol 80 mightily oxceed, tho suticipations of the egisintora. Thoe Ordinauce Lias well been do- scribed as baving been a pillar of clond by day, and of fire by nigbt, in the sstticment and gove orumont of tho Norlhwestern Btates.” . For this Ordinanco, #0 wise, sud so command- ing in its intluonce on thy frecdom of mankind, tho world, s shown by Mr. Poolo, {8 indebted mainly to Dr. Cutlar, of Massachusetts ; and also to the Committes,—Col. Carringion, of Vugioia; Dang, of Massachusetts; Richard Heury Lee, of Virginia; 3r. Kean, of Bouth Carolins, and Mr. Smish, of Now York,—and tha Cangrens of 1737, Let their work and their names be Leld in everlastiug honor. THE DARONESS DE RIEDESEL. Montiov is made, 1n the story of the adven- tures of Ledy Harrict Auckiand fo the War of tho Americae Revolution, of the Baroness Do Ricdesel, who, with two oter ladios, wives of Englisb oflicers, eharod with her, during tho battlo of Sliltwater, tho poor refuge of a habj- tation appropriated by tho army-surgeons for the care of tho wounded. Ier rauk, her por- sonal aitractionn, lLer prolonged etav In thia country, and the publication of hor Lotters, gave to the Baroness Do Riedesol a conspicuous position among tho hieroinea of that stormy po- riod duriog which tho American Colonios strug- gled for their indepandenzo; ond ths rocital of the sufferiugs sho endured in sharing tho fore tuged of ter husband, wiuls he wae attached ta tho azmy of Gen. Burgovne. hus vaused many ¢ heart to throb with ympathy, Madame De Riedesol was tho daughtor of af. do Museon, who, at tho timo of Lor bivth, was the Prussinn Minister of H:nte, Sho waa born in Drandenberz, but, whun she was about 16 yours of nge, her fathor was sprofated Lieutou- sut-General of the uniied army at Mendon. 'fhore ko way married, at Lhe age of 17, te Licut,-Col. Laron Do Itiedesel, 8 member of s aucient and Lionorable family, aud tho owner of awplo landed estates. Tho attachment uniting the two was unusually strong, sud their bappis ness for soveral years was vory comploto. But, when CGoorgs IIL hired tho services of tua Brunswick troops to assist him in subduing the rebellion bo Liad provoked iir the American Col- onics, the Daran Lo Riedesel was placod at theit head, and the sorrow of » sopuration threstonad the young couple, 'the Baron was vory unwill ing to subject is dolicately-nurtured wifa to the bardslups of & wibtary compsigu iu s for- cign aud thioly-sctilod country, and strove to persaade ber to temain amid tho comforts on the iwmo during iy enforced nbssuce, Ies mother. now 6 widew, and other near and loye ing frieuds aleo sudeavored to infinence hor tq tha decision ; but the devoted woman, resistin, ail entreatios, resolved to brave ovorys peril mR privation rather than the loes of the society ot ou most undeared to hur, ‘Tho condition of her healt forbads her ace compauyiog Gen. Do Riedesul whou he emburked from Stade, early in the svrivg of 1770 ; but it wag nurovd that, “when sbe found horself sufi cioutly vecruitod, sbho was to join her husband tn Awsrica. Tho voyage ncross the Atlantic wae n0s then the switt” and comfortable affair that it 11as beeame in this day of steam navigation, but wh3 @ wattor fuvolving weeks of weary confine~ wont 1w 8 sniling vessol, ‘Lho General wrote back to hi wits, from ou board tho Pallas. thiy warning noto of woat was £3 bo expected in ber trausit acrous thosea: *Yourun . . . the rink of Iy el in bed with your chilaren, without tho least asuitauce, aud’ without any- thing to eat or drink. A whip's company goa- orally consists of tiithy and contso peopls, Whosa chicf food is ealt meat, hall done, sud gcarcoly ontaule, The water, tafter o eliort time, bocomot #o bai sud wvauseous that it is impossible ta drink it. You munst, thoroforo, prucure » stone tor flltering 1t, and occustom the childrou ta driuk boer, or have tho water for your daily cousumption, for awhils, neac tho fire. . . o Yor many deys wo Luve buon at a losa on whai tolive. ‘Our fronh most i3 goue, and we are ro- ducod to salt meat aud poultry, Wo shall soon bz to kill our shoop, . . . In oso word, T could nut, without docelving you, roprosonl such au oxistenco s an ngroeable oune."” No prospect of painful Lrials to ba enzoun- tered could chiango tho iesolution of Mada Do Riedesol. *+Lesides tho purils of the sea," »ho writes ju onoof hor lettoss, * I was told that we were exposed to be eaten by the eave ngos, and that pooply fu Awerica livad upon borseflesh nud cats. . . . I had, however, mndo up my mind; and the prospact of Heeing y husbaud, aud the cousciousneda of doing my duty, have predorved e durivg my wholo vov age from despondoncy.” . Iu May, 1776, the Bar onees ot nut to follow her husband. *She wae nceompanied by ber threo childron, the oldest ot whom was Bot quite 5 years of age, and tha soungest only 10 weaks. ~ ‘Tho jourucy to Lon= don conaured a fortnight, and” was tillod with tioublerome ncidenta. Arriviug thore, the lady found greas diflicalty in procurmxurlungn 0 America, and was actuslly detained in England clovon months waitiug for the doparturo of & suitable vesaol, and for tho companionship o some lody of bier own rank, witlout which her husband was unwilling to bave ner undertake the trials of tha sva-voyage. In April, 1777, she succeoded in surmounting all obstacles tn ber wav, and oo the 16k em- barked 1n a werchant-ship trom Portsmouth. Tue voyaye lasted oight wooks, termiuating in Quuboc on tho 11th of June. Tho letter to Les mother, aunwouncing the happy conclusion of Lier journoy by wos, closes with a bit of gossip about the diosa of the Cansdian wotaen, that will interost wany readers: The Canadisns of the lower clauses wear largo. cloaka of acarist cloth, The wealtny ladies have cloaks of the satne size, but of silk; and they never go sbroad without that arlicls of dress. ‘The latter wear, Lesidoe, o covering for the lead, with large knots of Qfferent colors, which may Le coneidered aa » sign of nobliity, snd upon which “tho ladiss of rank pride themselves 30 much that thoy could fiad {4 1n thelr Lioarts to tewr it from the Lead f tho plsbisn woman Dold euough to wear it. “The largacloaks cover some- times very ordinary sud mesn dresses, Ths femals garb canuusts, besides, of gowus and jackets with long alocves, and (for tho street boods, which cover not only the head, but aimosi “thia whole face, snd wiich, in (o winter, sro stufted with down, Madame De Riodesel'n presence in America did not socure her much of the mlat{‘ of her busband, who waa taking part in sn active cam« paign, and compelled to romain in charge of his troops. She met him at Chambly, June 193 but, aftor s roucion of only two days, she Gener- al returned to his cawp, leaving Ler to romain among etrangers at Three I When Bar- goyne's army made s Btand Fort Edward, yome weeks Iater, permission was given the oflcers to sond for their wived ; andthe Baroness De Riodosol bastencd for that polnt, which sh reachiod Aug. 14, Thon followe “dolighttul tranqutll: “We had lodgiuge,” wrote the Baroncss, ‘s dwelling caliea the Rod House. It consisted of ooe room for my husbaud, myself, snd our childres, a Z small nlud{ for my husband, and ao eutrauce ball, in which my female the weathor was flne, we aud, 1f not, io s barn, where planks w somo casks, to serva as & table. Here I tasted, for the firat time, bear's fleab, sad found it do- Lightful. Weolten were in aud 1 waa nevertheloss very for 1 was with my childron, and was sars of the attachment of thoso who surrounded ms." When the army bioke up camp, on the 11th of Boptembver, ths Barousss De Hisdessl was als lowed, with Lady Harriet Auckiand and othw