Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 18, 1876, Page 11

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1876—TWELVE PAGES, “TITERATURE pr. Weiss' Essays on Shak- gpeareah Characters. o Southern Side of the An- dersonville-Prison Hor- fcism and Pagan Sentiment Life-History of Our (ilbert Hamorton-—Popular Tibraries in France, 1he Goinea-Worm-—Russian Naturalists-- Hygicno of Plants, LITERATURE. AKSPEAREAN TSSAYS, e ANDSUAKRSPEARE, TweLvE Es- 2 mo., pp. 428, Doston: ts of Shaksneare nnd of Luman na- Jovers of subtle thought strongly {ndividuality, and conveyed In o poetie dietion, will find o { enjoyinent Jn this collection of cssfys. f the twelve come under the first two general title, und treat respeet- 4 The Cause of Laughter; nd of certatn of the mirth- ng charactera In the plays of the preat dramatist, a3 Dopberry, ‘Touchstone, Falstafl, e Torter fn * Macbeth,” the Clown in wTwelfth Nighty""and the Fool n ¢ Lear.” The gz essays fall exclusively under the Lead of * Shakspeare,”* and conslst of skitiful cholarly analyees of o hatf-score or moreof the promiuent men and women in the Immortal lery of the poet's creation. Among them all, the dissertation on ¢ Hame Jet " will e the promptest to Invite attention, The subject 13 =0 enlgmatical, so tantalizing, snl#o fascinating, that every cultivated mind given to speculating upon the problems of Na- turesnd ‘Philosophy has, at one time or noe ather,tried to pluck out theheart of itsmystery. The tert has been construed into an cudless variety of readings, and a moreor less ngenlous wiution has been founded upon cach one of them. Yet it hns remalned for Mr. Weiss to produce 8 quite novel fnterpretation, or at lenst one that Las not before obtalned especial prom- The ldea has hitherto generally prevailed that the noble Dane was elther really mad, or that hefelgnedt to he 05 and the fnvention has been mainly exercised upon thequery as to the propor- tion fn his behavior of the actual to the simu- fated frenzye Mr. Weiss takes the bold posi- tlon that Hamlet never lost his sanity, nor tried toplaythe lunatle; and that all his stiange, in- coberent words and actions had their origin fn By ald of this resource of over-refined and Wealized miuds, he avtually saved his wits from derangement when he dlscovered how false, and wutradictory, and dlsappolnting were all men and things about bim; when, by a rude shock, hissenses opened to the revelntion of the rot- tnoces of Denmark. the author, “has not reprosented any of lifs mature anid well-constructed natures as eapuble of befug overthrown by pussion the most exl- ot or events the wost heartrending, They jrvserve thelr vanity to sufler, as all creat sonly mustdoto muke us worship them with tears, £ Hamlet, belnz Inenpable of jundness, aml Iifted nbove the necessity of folunlng It, eivesto ererthing the complexion of the news which has =—that {&, the King, his uncle, s not whiit hie seerms; his mother's ls- band does not appear to be o murdever. The Etate of Denmark Is rotten with this irony. No wonder that his brain took on the color of the leaf on which It fed.” The perlxl In the play which proves the turn- Inzpont o Humlet's “temper—which clianges htsfirm and gentle tone to the bitter scorn of tlre~is fixcd by Mr, Wulss on the morning atter the apparltion and setlon of the that he soon went {rom the oath speare,’ declares revolted hils 1oral pe plece. ullow s to suppose -taklng to' visit he turned from that bloml- sitation to see e heaving and reddening in 3ihs which he Lad loye's Iiberdy ia was the most wnstering impulse of t stretebied like a broad, vich domain, which he eame from the sRhsdow thought, to filue himse unshine, and revel fn the Tu was this visit which {u'her father, relating how A sheveled dresy, And with a look so piteous in purport, Avir b haa been 10oked out of etl " To rpeak of horrors, falled to give im the comfort looked for; the terrible intellizence dveached Iim- through Yeutlon welghed too heavl pawering v.-vcu‘l t}xu lnlxlucm ; and he departe Eroping fu the very ml?l‘:nlu lls head over b shoulder turne n way withont s eves; swent withont thelr holp, nded thelr ght on me. Welss, " What other such o gecret for its Too strongly h the carth- laces of Wis private the unchecked s limpid bath of feel Ophelfa deseribed zhostly fnter- y upon his soul, over- of Oplctin's tender (1 from her presence e seem'd to find i For out of doors ho Aud, 10 the lust, be And nuw, sks Mr, mood eould u soul ‘with 1 for entertalnment { vel tobo cracked witl nadness; too awlully overclouded WIth imaginings of Wit 0o, duubted with the thouzht of u dear father urgutorlal flames to i o Rumor—all s pirt] break into the genfality h lost of late, thero is Ho method of relfef, to the mind ed to Jive with disscmbicrs and ton ghost, but ¢y i Y ns ruthless and sweepin He “guves his wits, which m ity suspiclon and ool distrau by assuming thut love, marriage, i toruhlo things, and friondship ha:‘;fi‘;' and that he who banters them Il(selmtlullfll he ool e returng trky 1o his {00, with un fron, futo Ophelis’s zrave ntive habt of Intense As lie there discovers Nuture's nius- {u hiding, fu the Hying und uitleation of death, he rielt hie has worn s long, And the flrst fch parts his lips declures of Lls nature: forty thousand brothers h thelr quantity of love, “ONEBL utterancy wiy € atrongest feellng !lum} Ophellas lanation of thu conduct of clever to warrant a new the Hight of its sugyes- lon of the charucter of Lad v is equally original, Mry, Siddons, Beottlsh Thany was bluc-eyed th a sl frame and a dell Bhe was nclther coarse, bus, nor bloodthirsty; but, fm- the ‘sule wotive of 4 love for swiftly selzes xpuctedly prescuted, of ad lonie yearned to o accomplished, her & Jeary sickens and faints ot the ¢ 1a haunted by the memorles of 14 nee. Herofeally sho strives inorse und sustain the conrug ps she has set{n the patlh he wwiltly runs could not cuncelve But st sinks under the tusk ¢ moment of wild {mpulse; glves way, and sho keucs Mr. Wetss, would have been r of the strongest [ ly Macbeth Is coms Bhie would have marched buce by Ler husband's sf 6 way, brafsed and_ kil ttion” that' her love had fn- ul of dooms upon him for unsexed herself, h the suthor. draws of the s woman furcing her un the evening 2ays, “Lotween the Nues how the overtaxed woman altbough tho Exhaustion so 13 too fulut to The act oncs Which, once ¢ deeds ol yurder she licarted woman o " female butcher rtk,ytuul-uunurc." g Vi 3 chier, and ey orr rafust which she hus no ) to regatu the old moor- Ing-ground whence they cut lovee aud allowed an unseen current to eluteh the slim bark, Nelthier eurlosity nor self-interess can rouse her when Macheth ‘tmentlons that hu hoas strange :lmu:m i liead which hie means to carry to per- Orn . ** ¢ You lack the senson of all natures, sleen,’ {3 a1l hier tverd nature has left Lo sy, “ler fortitude funl cked herout toreach the gractous actlon that dismissed the geaeats, as shie wished ¢\ kind good night to allV Yes, good night to All,—to ua » Bhe gaine the slielter of her chambers; then ehic entircly disap. lmnrn fromn the uction of the ten to sicken n scelusfon with the ronsclpus that her atal lnve has purveyed e v dersto lier houscliol,”” "We liave had space but to bint at the nuthor's arguments; yet this bare outline, torether with the extracts exhibiting his subtic maner of reasoning, will suffice to send onr reader to his hook to gain o perfect conceptiun of lifs Interesting theories, y The essays on © Women and Men," on'“ Por. tia,'* “Hclonn,” “Ophelfa,” and others of Bhnkepenre's herolnes, nre adiirable expositions of humon hature, and ghow a rare Insizht into the ohscurs depths of the femals heart, The author must have something of the seer's power of divination to be able to disclose with so much fine accuracy the secrat maods and motives of wonien, which the diffosence of sex effectually conceals Imm the understanding of ordinary men. In defining her limitations as well as her pecuMaritics, his liberal comprehension does her nmrle Justices and, in noting her eapacitles nnd deficiencies, he often accords her jrenerous ad- vice. ‘The striking ficures of speech with which Mr. Welsa adds force and bez\ul‘y to hla diction, de- serve n moment’s {llustration, and this cannot be hetter doue than by tha dlsplay of two or three exumples: ‘When the heart pronounces strongly, Its mean- iny 13 sure to gather In the countenance, and lend to canduct the purple of viciory, “The verae has the high instep of A woman who can be haughty enonglh to crash the blussomns of hia new, surprising sentiment. ‘Thus the lipa which anoath had scaled melt apart in the firat kiss, and hor heact, like a fluid ruby, rushcs through, In the middle notes almost everything that ia worth linving in ‘music 18 10 be fonnd.” Rehind thoso burs, the melodies which can Le domesticated under man's roof and by his earthalde are patients Iy walting to bo Jed forth and ba installed. ANDERSONVILLE. TIIE SOUTHERN SIDE :08, ANvERADNVILLE PR1s- ox: Conptnen ruon Orrictat Docusrxre, Iy 1t. aNporpi STRvENsuN, M, D,, Furmerly Sur- geon in the Army of the Confederate States of Amerlen, Chiet fiur‘iv.‘m) uf the Confederate States Milltary Prison Hoepitals, Anderonville, Gn. TORKTHZL WITH AN EXAMINATION OP THE Winz Tman; A CoXPAIIRON 0F TIUE MORTALITY 1% NonThEaN AND SouTneny Piisoss; REMARKE O TIE EXCHANOR BUREAU, ETC, AN APPLNe X, SHowiNa Tie Nusnki oy PUisoNsis TiaAr Did AT ANDERSONVILLE, AND TR CAUSER OF DEAvIL CLASMITIED Lists oF Avt Tuar Dizn s HTOCKADE AND HOSPITAL, XTC., RTC. HYo., pp. 488, Dalthnores Trumbiull Brothers, DPrice, $3. Notwithstanding its suspicious title and {ts painful and exciting contents, this book I8 to be welcomed as o valuable contributlon to the an- nals of the late ¢ivil counflict. ‘The story of that contest ean neither be just nor complete until we lave from both sldes the most ininute and veraclous testimony that can be procuved. Oue of the most important, as it is the most distressing, portions of the nccount relates to the history of Andersonville Prison; and hiere we have the statements, in part composed of oflicial documents, of one of the surgeons in command of that stockade. It {s written from the'Southern point of view, and In that spirit of vlolent and uncompromising partisanship which led the Pro-Skavery portion of our populstion to make war aguinst the Unfon; yet the evidence of unquestionable authority which it contalus Is most gervicenble. It corroborates the witness of the wretehed captives conflned fn the military sluughter-pen at Andersonville, who survived to tell the talo of thelr sufferlugs, and supplements thetr story with praphie detalls of thelr un- matched aud appailing wisery. Surgeon J. H. White, for a time chief of the medical corps on duty ot the prison, reported to Gen. Winder, Aug. 6, 1864: The prisvners ure without barracks or tents, Thirty ‘thonkand men sro densely crowded to- ether, shollerad only by blankets and low hovelx, hun:cly and ircegulurly arranged, proventing freo clreulation, eiizendoriug foul and noxious vepors, nwvl precluding cuy aystem of police; the men are expored during the duy to the rays of the sun and l;m \h:;u ut night, und many aro unprotected during the rulns, . . . The vations conslat of onc-third-pound of bacon and 8 quarter-pound 1neal. Tho meal I8 unbolted, and, when ba . the bread in coarseand ieriiating, producing dlscases of the organs of the dlgestive system (dinrehed and dyscntery). The absence of Vegotublo diot bus prodaced seurvy to an alarming extafn. . water {8 obtalned from springs ‘The drinkinj rettiod on the hanksof the stream, aud from wells, und, 1o some extent, from the streanms, The water obtalned from the stream s uniit for use, contuine ing uiony impurities from the Lakery and cook- houee, “Some of the campe of ‘the “garrison ore situated on thls etream, the surfucs-dealnago from which einpties Into thin streamn before passing through the stocknde. ‘The supply from the springs near the stream o a little brackish, but better than the streamn. A Jorge numberof wells have been tlu\;lnl the prison, aifording water of an excellent quallty, ., . 3 " Phoao who have been prisonera fora long time are budly supplied with clotinug, and but few of them have o chunge, in colmm‘uuncu of which they are, for the most purt, very Hithy., Dr, Stevensun, the suceessor of Dr, White in command of the medieal force, reported Sept. 10, 1864: ‘The #tockade (in tho #hape of a parallclogram) Inciudes twenty-seven acres of gronnd. A con- whilernble ptream of water passes throngh it, rune ning Ina westward directlon, In this spuce of ground from 110, 000 to 40,000 prisoners have been ctowded, With no protection whatever from the burning rays of the sun, except such as could be made with” blankets or dirt hovels, — Along the bankw of tho stream tho ground is qulte bugyy, nudk\vn\cr s constuntly oozing Jrom the low ke, L. Krom 3,000 to 4,000 sick and wounded men are Inalde the stockade. . . . At present writing only four niedical oflicers are on duty ; wherens, to tahe proper eare of the slek and wousded, thore shonld Lo not lexs than twenty-five eflicient medical ofilvers constuntly on duty in thestockade, . Under the present rc;ilmu hundreds die in stockade, andare buried are unknows, . . . . ‘4 lie huspital [« pltuated near the southwest cor- ner of the wtockade, covering about five acres of sronnd, inclosed by a frall ourd fence, o . 4 . On the sonthwest side of the Tuelosura s ‘s swump abuut S00 feet wide: and on the northwest slde s the stream which flows through the etockade. The banks being very low and sublect to averfiow, from these swanips nrise putrld oxhalations, at “times olnont Insupportable, . . From 1,800 to 2,600 patfents are crowded Into thisypnee, Tents of n° very Inferlor lllullllly are the only taeuna of protection, . . . Temporary bunks ure erected 1o wost of thein, h( iriy g furke futo the gronnd, and placing wmalfl poles or bosrdato lic on: a great number of patients aro compelled fo e on the grosnd. . . . The cuoklng urfungements sre very deficlent; two Iurgo Kettlus, erected on o furauce, are uearly all the ulensila that ore wwed, 'Fhe bread is of tho moxt unhealthy eharacter, belng mude of course, unbolted eors-meal. In expluining the causes of the terrible mor- tality that prevalled amone the wahappy prisun- erd, Dr. Btevenson says, fn alluslon to thelr diet, that, belng unaceustomed to the use of corn- tueal, when the captives came to be conflued to it exclusively, an uncouquotuble loatbing often provented thelr eating Iu: Thoso who were 80 dlagustcd with this form of food that they had to appetite to purtake of it, ¢ cept In quuniltics iusutliclent to supply the w of tlasuew, were, of course, Ju the condition of men slowly wlorviug. . . . Iu_ ihis staty, ihe muscular steencth was rapidly diminished, the tirsues wasted, and the thin, skeleton-like forms moved about with theappraranco of uttorexbaustion and dejection, The wentul condition connceted with lonr coufinement, with the most miserable surroundings, and with 1o hope fur the future, also scd all the vous and vital actions, and in dentroying the appetite, The eticets of mental depression, und of dofective nutrition, were maulfested notonly in the alow, feeble mutlons of the wasted, skeleton ke forins, Dut aleo In such lethargy, Hatlessness, and torpor of the moental fucultios, gy rendered thowe unfortu- nate men oblivious aud fudidercit to thelr willicted condition, In wany cores, ) of the greatest appurent sutferfng und dlrtiess, instead of showing any anxiely to communlcate fho causes of thel distress, or to relute their privatious, and their Tougings for thelr howes and tlielr friends and rela- h 1hey lay In o tistless, Ictharsic, uncomplaine ‘tho whose nnics and diseasea in e, 2 W0 natico either of helr own dle- treeved condlition, or of tho gluuntic wavs of human wmfaery by which they wers surrounded. Noth- ing appalled und deprossed mo s wuch as thele allent; uncomplainfug misery, These oxtracts, let {t bo Lorne fa mind, are ‘from the reports made on the spot by the sur- geons In chargo of the prisou; and they omit mauy detaits recorded, which are too glastly to Le repeated, After readlug the candid confes- slon which Dr. Stevenson made to his superfos oflicers of the frightful condition of the prison- crs, the mind is not in o mood to aceept hls des fense of thelr treatment by the Boutly, nor his assertion that the blame rested wholly upon tho Exchange Burcau of the North, Nor will the cquivocal testhoony he brings forward to show thut, ln tho wilitary prisons contajuing Coufed- erate soldlers, tho suilerlng exceeded that of the Andersonville stockade, Le trusted. The ofticlal reports of the Unlon ofllcers must be sct agalust those of the Cunlederate army; wud Dr. 8teven- son furnishes none. » The ovidence of bis officlal docuwicnts wo recelve,—its vurport bas been scen,~but that of his rancorous and passfonate rlieloric niust go for what 1 {8 worth, CATHOLICISM AND PAGANISM, 10 RY EVOLUTION: AN Exaay ox Al CHAN By Br. Gnonan D. Ap- New York: The argument prescnted Inthis essay {s (n- terecting asa candid expression of the opinions of a mon whose vlvon has heen broadened by extensive and exact sclentiiieeniture, and whose intelligence ylelds the most zealuus nud unrues- tloning faith to the dogmas of the Roman- Catholle Church. In cortain departments of Notural Iistory his word Is sceepted among the learned in England as an authority: in questlons pertalning to religious, civil, and soclal nffairs, his views are regarded by those outslde of lds scet as subject to fatul distortion through the influence of o desputle creel. But it Is as & representative of the more enlightened portion ot thebndy of Catholies that he speaks In the present volume, and in this charater it 18 worth while to hear what he has to say, Tha Inquiry which Mr. Mivart undertakes to dlspose of relates to the ultlmate eeet upon Christlanity of the revival of the Pazan senti- ment; which, beginniug with the thirteenth century, I8 conthuing ita uninterrupted prog- rees through the present era. The uso of the term Christfanity he lmita strictly to the Catholie Chtrehy—Lrotestantism belig declared by him a nezative fwtor n the sum of forces which have marde an fmpress on the world; or, ranting it somne Htte efMect, 1L lag been merely one of the Infturoces h.ul.enlu;f the process of Chrfstian disbitegratton. The Inereaslng spread of Paganlem for un indefinite peviod to come 13 cansidercd by hin as s rational forecast frum the present attitud Lhit It is wdmitted, and al} CONBEUEn caltnly estimated. The worst, thut may vesnlt front the full develops ment of the worklues of eclentiile, phtlosophle, and esthetle evolution Ia reckoned n the 1- Tatfon; and yet i3 tooked tupon without dism ond the final and complete Glimph of thie Catholic Chureh is confldently pred The canges which will sveire the re-extablislie ment of Chirlstianity are: First, the veaction which mitet sooner or Juter set ju againat the [:ruaem. naturalistle movement, and turn back he popular tide toward the old theoeracy, See- onilly, the education of the peaple In Selence and Plilosophy will brlng them to doser vone nection with the clergy, and enable them to Judge with au enlizhtened inteltizence of the urity, and liberallty, and wuthority of the shurchs wnd, thus aivested of prejudive and alarm, they will readily come nnder its control aguin, Thirdly, the “effect upon the Church itself of the prevailing Pagan sentim s | been to strenctl Its organization, to give pre- ciston and distinetuess to {ts dogmas, to perfect unanimity in the faith and uims of its followers, and to fncrease the eflicieney of fts wovernmge power. While luslug $ts hold upon teggporali- ties, it has been constantly gaining Fpiritunl sway, ind, by the stimulus of opposition, It bas developed vizor, dlscipline, and ardor, und pro- pared dtself for the right maintenance of the 8l n:mm-i' It 1s Iierenfter to attaln. n unfolding bix argament, Mr, Mivart {s, in the mmn, cool {n his manner,—galning for Tits opinfons the respeet lu:lnn% 2 to them ae the utternnces of an honest Catholle; but oeca- slonally pusalon zets the better of courtesy, and he indulges in the nse of bitter words, Calllng Bismarcle, Garfbaldi, and Victor Emmanue “obseene creatures of raphne,” and “unclean vultures and hyenas,” may eratify personal splte, but it does not add wefluht to tie author's ageertlons, nor lereaseconfidencein the charita- ble epirit of the Church he worships. ITusley Tyndall, und otheis of the naturatistic school o pefentists, recelve fldo-hits of conslilerable severity now aud then hut, to this sort of treat- ment from Mr. Mivart, theyure well aceustomed. THE EARTIL LIFE-IISTORY OF OUR PLANET. By Wintian D, Gusxizo, 1lustrated by Many "Gus x.!(n;n Dp. 808, Chlcago: . B. Keen, Cooke A vast tople, llkke that of the slow einergence of our world from a condition of chnos. of its preparation through long geologle ages for the linbitation of plants and nnimals, and of thelr evolution from the lowest forms to the highest Inthe scale of belng, Is u ditficult one to com- press Into the pages of 4 slngle duodeclmo, At most, only the essentfal polnts of the subje can be Introduced; aud these, to aflford a con- nected and comprehensive fdea of the whole, must be graphically presented, and so skili- fully Huked together that the gaps which must frequently oecur shall be so distributed, and thelr cexistence so indleated, that a true per- spective shall be properly preserved. Itisa task demanding vomplete tasteryof the theme, skill In maintalning symmetry while diminish- ing its proportlons, falent for writing a Iucld narratlve, and nmple time, Prof. Gunning gives sufllvent evidence of asing: the tirst qualitication. His fumilarl- vith the facts of the carth’s history is that of one tralued to repeat thein from memory and in chronologleal sequence, to. suit tlwfi])urpmua of the popular lecturer on Natural Science, He never hesitates nor stamimers in bis ready re- hearsal of detalls and deseriptions; Indeed, he comes near erring in the oppusite direetlon,—in the swittness with which ke brings furward one phienoienon to conjoin, and almost erowd out, another n the relution. Aud, drawing his in- cidents and fllustrations from wide-spreading sources, they hivethefreshuess of uew alliunces, and_ reciprocally helzhten their effect by novel contrust and comparison. Moreover, they may be trusteq, for the compller Is known to be o ditizeut und eareful gleaner in the various fields of Sclence. In the eelectlon and arrangement of his ma- terdnl, the author has been less etliclent, 1lo lias apparently been troubled with an emburrass- ment of richies; and the mass of data within his grusp has tended to confuse his Judgment, and tempted him to employ too miteh, and that without _due heed to 'its impartance and rele- vaney, The cousequence §s an overloaded nare rative, which wearles the reader with it burden olumn-rm el and somethmes Indiscriminate itenis. It needs to be taken In small portfons, in order that its stores of infornution may bo lllurunulll{‘uvpmprlnml; yet this I8 not” the way {n which n pupular work, even on a recon- dite aubject, § to bu perused. An attentive but unlubored examluation {s all that the aversgs pergon is wilting to grant o bovk not meant for actual etudy, and it Is all that should be de- wanded. 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Chunpney ** Georee Sand ot lome," by Gotthel litier; ** San Fra 0 of the Desert," by Mr, E Benegng ** ‘Tower of Fereemont, .y by George A Dohiemiun Song, " by It Now York, " by wene thu | Editor; Chanters V1L~ Paryn (conciusion); ow Books," JOURNAL AND EX- {W. B, Keen, Cooke & NERVOUS AND ME: J0! Al AL DISEASES—October, Sons, New York), - E FAMILIAR TALX. PIILIP GILBERT IIAMTERTON, The books of the genlal and entertainlng art- writer, Phillp Gllbert Hamerton, bave had a Iarge circulatlon among the reading public of Amerlea, and bave wou for thelr author a feel- ng of very friendly futerest. This Is nuturally attended with a curloglty concerning the person- al history of the writer, und especlally regarding the circumstunces which have stimulated his Hteracy and artistle procllvitics, The Interna- tional fteview coutalns an extended sketeh of the man und of his books and pletures, evidently written by oue whose seurces of infurmation ure authentie, To gratify our own readens, the ne- count f8 coudensed into the following para- grapha: Mr, Hunerton s of an old and honorable En- glish fumily, several members of whom have been knfghted for geeds of pecullar distinetion, ‘I'he remalus of the sucient * castle-hall " oceu- pled by his carly ancestors still atand {n Crayen, —n ruln venerable with the el of many centu- ries, The remuinder of the estates belonging to the fumlly were conflseated fu the time of (Ienry VIIL, fu requital for the tressou of Sir Stephen Iamerton, the then head of the house. hlllp Gilbert, the lust eminent scion of the Hamertons, was born near Shaw, Lancasbire, (o 1831, 11is mother died soon after his birth, awd lie was given to the care of two mudden risters of s father, who watched over his childhood with tender solleftude. s father, n solicitor by professton ang & many of good wind, died when 'ulllp was a boy of 10, The resldence of the orphan was then transferred to Holllus, the beautiful estate of s grandfather, near Burn- ley, nud the respousibility of his trainlng wus futrusted to his father's elder slster, The boy bad already developed a taste for both literature und peinting, ood his futurve vocatlon was thus carly foreshadowed, Before his fother's death ho Lud made Zood progress English studies and [n the svquirement of the Yrench language, Latln was begun ut the age of five and a haif; lint, fnthis and Greek, the boy advonced very slowly, Tndeed, his dislike of the clussles amounted to positive sversion. Yet, by dint of steady drill, he way brought up to the standurd demanded Jor wlwission to Oxford, Despite the long-luld plan, he was destined uever to receive auniversity education; fur, at the uverfod . of his student-life, thu gatea of the twe great schools of Fu- sland—Oxford and Cambrlige—opened only to thiose who would sln the Tulrty-nlue Artivles of the Established Church. Young Hauerton could not consclentionsly confurm to the ro- uirement, atd for this reason the schieine for a Mberal cducatlon was abuudoned. o now re- sulved to devoto himself to ust, and at the sre of Mwent up to Londoen to study with a land- scape-pafuter, uue My, Pettdll, Art aud literature ubout equally divided his attention for the ensuing two years, [u 1855 he pubtiahed a volume of poewns, Busteated by six- cen wool-eits of bis own designing, ‘The buvk baa had, i all, & sule of ubout the \nhcr. at o matnre sge, hus remarked of its contenty: *On thewhole, they were ruther studics fn poetry than real ps W Prior to their fssue, Mr. Tlaacrton bad tried s hand st varlous styles of dldactle prose. When stlll o yuuth of 18, hie tiad contributed to the Hitorle Times u series of srticlespon *Rume n 18931 and, the year after, had published o treative on Heruldry, which posscssed slender claims to uo- tlee. Huving sttalned Wis ajority o 1355, ke (U. T. Putnam's € e Knickerbockeru of New York: Tha ¢ Letter of Mr. Gladstone '™ **England hankeziving concludeld by Misa Editor's Sclentific Reeord'' ** kditor's went to Paris to further his knowledwe of patat- fng and of the Freneh Inguage and Ferature, The aueeeeding two years wert yiars of dis- couragement and depres [ for in nefther de- partinent of work to which Mr. Hamerton bud devoted himeelf had he tade o ratislactory suce vess, Inthe autumn of 19%, struck Wi of pennaneutly the hetter to pr. ea from Nature, "1 maors sHvidbye | id, In the followine year, the experience rhilre; wan repeated during o m»]lx.unl of five munthe near Loch Awe, In 8cotland, In 1858, N Hamerton was married to an w*mmpilfilu-vl French Luly, MHe, Engenfe Gindriez, whose ac- qualntance he had formed durkse his reafifence I Purie, For three A nfier this event, he maede Bis home on ‘the Island i Loch Awe, Leayving this * Gland-fartn 7§ 130, he removed 0 Franep,—l: ingg fur s thne in Sens, o stall ity on the Yonne, and 1n 1562 taking o country- lioitee near the town of Autun, where he atill remnlng, ‘The books by which Mr, Hamerton laid the foundation of” hiz liternvy repute were the 4 Pulnter’s Camp* and *‘Fiougots About Art," putilished togetier 52, These broueht him, healde rable name, ap- yllrnthms fram prominen 1h mngazines or contributions to theiy Duringe three years he served us the art-criti: Londoit Sefurday 1l the workd hiz stud] {ngzs, =2 costly wor) ciehings, It wis uot sterout il the edl tlon wus soon exhausted, It as since bee sued fn plainerstyle. In 185, Wenderholui a story of Lancashire emil Yorkshize, wos pub. lished,y Lut miet with 1itle favor, A new and much abridzed editlon of the novel has lately been produced, A vear Jater, Mr. Hamerton tounded the Porifolle, an art-periodieal which has copquered for itself a rettled place fn perl- wdleal Hierature, Ju the mr:s of this magazine lave appeared geveral of his latest works, aa “The Unknown River," ¥ Chapters on Anhmals,” and *The 1 Year” The * Life of Turuer,” now through the numbete, will be reprinted form Iy next vear, A boys' buok, ed * Hurrv “Dlount,” was published in 18754 and, within the present year, that pleasant nketeh of the Freneh ot home,” numed * Round My louse: Notesof Rural Life In France in Peaceand War” The best known of ull Me. Thwnerton’s worlts, the * Iutelectual Life, was fssucd in 1873, 1t hus been twelve times re- printed, and has a steady sale in England and Ameriea, Although Mr. Tlamerton has made such dill- gent urs uf the pen. his brush has not been Jdle, and he has exhibited oll-palntings u many of the public callerfes In Enisland and Farls, He has also given miuch tinie to etehing, for which ke hus un especial fondness, It 1s as an author, however, but he has feund suceess, Of the dully life_ of Mr. Hamerton, the writer to whom we are already so much Indebted says, big hubits are extremely quict and regular, e enerally employs the carly hours of the morn- ng for literary composition, and rescrves sev- eral of the best und lghtest hours of the day for rruclh'nl urt, Towards evening lie hag another iLerary sitigr, atter which he drives with his fumily. Ile has wisely oiven up ol literary work'nt nizht, Once fii o while, for the sake of recreation, le takes wu run to Parie, or London, or Switzerland; but even these visits nre tuened to good account, and wn'd ex- crelse hie pleks up ¢ tood many grains of edge. 1lis republie svopathies ar strongs amd hie hias w < the politleal events of Furope and Awerlea with profonnd nteres and a strong faith In tho growth of liberad principles awl Institutions. Mr. Munerton's general appearance is singularly attractive, 1In person lie Is well-formed und athletic, with o noble head, regulur features, a clear and penc- und atine heard, which {s worn full, ype of his teatures §s decldedly Ameriean, rother than English, and his countenance s rtrongly sugwestive of that of George Mae- donald, If, Indeed, it cannot be sald to rescmble the lutter,” with yriginal FRENCII POPULAR LIBRAR JFrance owes to the philantiropy of one of its bourgeols, M. Girard, an institution that is working ctliclently for the dissemination of knowledge among the peasautry and the laboring closges. ‘Tnis actlve friend ot the people knew Inearly lfe the hitterness of struzrling with poverty; but, by energy and pesseverance, ralsed himsell to u position where b could com- mand fucllities sor intelleztual hmproveme: e beeame a falthful nttendant upon the lect ures of the Conservatory of Arts snd Trades, and, grateful for the benetlts thus recelved, Tonged to spread them smonz his countrymen ‘who were Indigent and ignoraot, as e had once been. Qut of this andent desire grew the idea of establisbing o socloly which should lave for its object the forma- tion and encourayement of popular Ifbraries, The plun recelve t the upproval of a numbes of Hterary and dnituential wen, who jolned fn the organization of the Sociste Feaiklin pour {a Propagation des Bivliothques Popiiathes. By nu netive aod judlcions method of adimin. Istration, the Frauklin Soclety las been lnstru- mental 1w Jaylg the foundation of wmany popu- lur Nbraries, fn widening the sphere of usetul- nessof others ubready bewun, and i stimulating o destre for resdlng “smour & pewantry notable for {lliteracy wud sluggish habits of mind. Only two Frenctmen . three can read, and one of these wmust spetl his wey along the printed page; hence the libraries intended for the use ot the com- nion people muat be shaply writtea and most cantiously sen. To all librurians in their diflicult kearell for approprlate works, the So- elety appolnted o committce of teelve to make a cutalogue of select bouks, which should be at ouve plat, wholesome, amd nstructive, ‘The lst was published o 1567, aud contained the names of 852 works, To supply the sneed for bouks of the right character fn Seience, History, and Fietfon, anthors were Induced to write tor :Ilu‘l’l direet purpose, until the demanud was satis- ed, According to the Amerfean Library Journal, to which we owe an weknovledgment for the above Qoetails, thero were I Franee, in April, 1574, 733 popular Bhrarles, 265 of witleh hadd been created by inunicipalities, and (03 by private persons, " The wajority of these Hbraries were more or less fudebted to the ad umd influence f the Franklin Soclety. And stil), atter all fts there remalned - fourtcen out of the -s1x departinents Into which Frunce s di- «l, destitute of books tor the uge of the peo- It Is the Iutentlon that the work of multl- Vi ple, lllylng librarics shall continue untll cach of the J000 comnmunes in Fraueo shull be provided with one. Ihe teports of the librarians show agreat ¢ but P:\\lully ot readers. In one case there Ivo or sIx rewders o weelt; In anothier, 125 vole wnes arw eirenlated in nine months; e a thind, 129 are takien out I the course of o yesr, In suveral communcs the experlinent hus been tried of sthnulating un futerest fn buoks by courses of leetures,—~the lectures belng ule up of ex- truets from aume pleasing work, with sceom- \mn{inz xplanations to wsslst the uneduceated inrelibrence, The attempt has been rewarded with an - encouraging wmeasure of success. The subseription to the popnlar Librarfes (3often only a penny a mnanth therefure therr inevine I scanty and thelrgrowth y slow, The Frankin Soclety s by ho means o wealthy orzanization, sl s obllged to be very cantious i the distribution of “its charities; yet it freely distributea ftr eatalogues, togzether with wivies ind help in the purcinss of buoks ut reduced rates. 1t also frequently dountes u s0 of books, coumpristug uaually twenty volumes, which, being choles fu - every way, dre regarded us o preclous benefustion, ————— CALIFORNEA CHINESE MISSION, - ‘The dmeriean Missionary gives statlstics from the report of the Californin Chinese Misslon, which declares that, during theyear ending with August, 1870, the cost of the unsalon has been 85,887, Anavernge of seventeen teachers have been constantly smployed; and the number of Chinamen wha have given evidence of couver- slon 18 not less than 115, Bosides these, the number who profess to bave lelt off the worship of idols, through the lnfluencs of Christinn teaching, 18 upward of 119, These results of missionary-labor smong the heathen on our weatern coast, are rightly regardud w3 very eu- cournging, SPARKS OF SCIENCE. TIHE GUINEA=WORM, One of the ugly parasitfc worma that find a congenial bome i the fleshof nen and anlmals 1a the iVlaria wiadiensts, popularly called tho Guinca-worm, It i fndigenous In certaln hot countries, as in Abyssinla, Upper Egypt, Sens egrad, and other parts of Africa; Inudia, Persls, Centrul Asia, and the Island of Curacos. 'The onty specimens that haye yet been fdontified were Impregnated females; but It is suppused that the little Tank-worms of Indlauroth Farval form of the Filarla, The adult anlinel 1s slonder ana eyliudrical, of un opaque, milk-white color, about one-pinth of an Inchin dlameter, and from six inches to four feet in length. ‘The manner fu which ths worm enters the buman body 18 nut known; but the probability 15, thut, while still very youug and minute, it peuctrates the skin. It 3 related by Carter that fifty school-<hiidren fn Bumbay went to bathe In n certein pond, and twenty-one of the number afterward suffered from the parasite, some of them belng sttacked by four or five. Natives, who are In the hablt of golng barofoot and of frequently entering the water, are more rbjert to i wttacks than arc Europeans, Alter entenng the body, the parusite remalng Tmbeddedd in the tisste, In a 1nore or less quivs. cent condition, until it bas fuily matured, which Lakea from cight woeks to -two years, [tthen appronches the surface, creating by its prosence at uleer, which brewsks spontancously in o few davs. Through the opening thua miade, the worm, If undisturbed, will eject ita young, s two or three inches of the anterlor end now protrude, the parasite van be easily drawn vut by pulling gentls on the end, and wineding b nmum{'n small stick, orn Httle roll of Buen, The process of extraction Is & protrweted one, < only n small portion of the wornt eat b drarn ot daily, It is neeeasary to ure great care not to bawr tho snimal, rs any rnrl Teft In the flesh (s apt to Induce violent in- ‘I.'lmnmuun, fevery and other injurious symp- ot | e Gulnea-worm oftenest occurs in the Jegs y nlthough 18 has been found jn the o i1t the layers of the mesentery bhehind . and under the conjimeting of” the eye. It I etated by one medical authy v that, In 172 et It uppeared 124 times In the fect, thirty- three thnes in the legs, eleven times nthe thigely, twvice in the hands, and twice clsewhere, As tnany as Ity wormns heen ported in o stugle pesson. Bometlmes the iever and pain ocenslop.ed by its presnve s very severe. It hus eveu heew known to result iy death, On the other haid, it oceasfonally - duces no particulurly unpleasant symptoma, The Gulnea-worm fs .unong the pests familiar to the wnclents, It has heen argied that the s dery serpenta” which, pinguerd the Israell durhig thelr eofuurn [n the wilderness were none other than theee | arasites, whieh, fn break- Ingz out, cause so much heat und anguish, They wre indlrenous to the ¢ entral and ewstern por- tion of Arabiu Petiea; und it fs thought that, while truversing this di trict, the Taraclites way have been attucked by them, and, from Igno- rance of the proper 1 reatment, suffered “the Lreat mortality that ie 1 aentioned fn the Seripte ures ug happening withh a the reglon. S i RUSSIAN NATURALISTS. Russin has s y to he allowed fur its v2rious cxpenscs. The fth annual meeting was held at Warsaw, bee ginning Sept. 12, 1890, atd lasting uine days. There were about %00 1w turalists present, und among them were very few foreigners. The mecting was divided fnto ten scctions,—those of Scientitle Medidne and «Chemistry being par- tleularly full, At the publl @ sessfons o slumber of Interesting ledures were deliverad. Among the provositions wideh receh ed strong sy nylmn h o was that of Prof. Wagner, to establ aoologleal stution «n the Suvlovetzky Islands, whi-h He In thw White Sea; nad of M. Grimm, unkitur the lmll; of the Naval Departmeot for dredisings In the Black Nea. On the oceasion of u visit of some of the nat- urallats to the Deal and Di:mb lustitute at Warsaw, Prof, Poploveicy deliw2red a lecture on the Causca of Deaf-Matenese, traciug them to the defective constittabon of parents and to warrfages bebween near relatives, At the ¢l Ing ineetinge o Teanity, in_which the avthor showed by sta- thstics that 70 per cent of the fusune could e cured If subjécted to treatment within a few ntha nfter the appearcaice of the disense, those who were not ¢ reated until the mal- yeurs' stau ding were generally v wod of two incurable, The next meeting-will coswene at St. Peters- the n:ane of*** Meeting of Meanwhile,” ac- cording to the usual cust s, the lectures and burg, and will take Noturalists and Pk felan 1Y longer Ip:-.[ifls read at the previous meetiuy will be published {n ove or two yvlumes, - HYGIENE OF 1PLANTS, Anarticle fu the Americass Naturalist on the “1lygienc of Plunts eommi inds the wholesome effect of growing vegetativiz In lving-rooms, It nsserts with reason that, 1 f forests purify the air about them, u gzroup of plants in the house will dothe same. Tt remark s that “ Many zase- ous and other substances affect animals and ar manner; smd, In many cases, on atmosphere in waich one wil not thrivo (s hurtful to theother. Many § njurlous guses that are too often found tn ourdw ellings effect plants even more veedlly than they do mam, 8o that, to a vertain extent, plants beee me tests of the alr founcl that plants will not grow In a soom ecausoe of gas fromn chandelier or furnace, it 13 sirely tre o that such pPlants fn a s we breathe; oud, when it ix rooms are unfit dor man’s o cenpation, awd that they cunnot be urcd without. certain®.njury to the health. An greenhouses, wh eve u lirge iumber of plunts wee shint up i 2 s all amoant of alr, It s trae that the mnount of carbanaie neld is, #ven at night, less thun out side, # forlsts, who spend imueh of thelr time {n grecalicuses, are as a eluss unusually bealthys rad sontimes these people sleep fory intl e greenl .onee, with not the feast evil effeet. P hyeiclans who have hud much exnerience nmones florists have unle formly testiifed to thetr gor werad robi sstness, 1t is also u well known fact U at asthunatie person: often find great relfel us shey cuter o gre hous? and breatho its b éven those Whose uulll;]flnhllpre\'enhc-nnfm.lub]u rest clsewhero ;‘,““ uyt'le or no trouble In sleeping i a green- ouse. d ——— FISH-CATCHING SPTINIR, The American Nuturaitst prints the {ollowlng stnzular ancedote, turnished by o oorrespond- ent: “Just before tac lato War? suys the writer, “I was at Cal. Oakley Bymue 's spring, in Lawrence County, Alabamna, near 2o Town of Courtland, where [[saw a school of minnows playing ju the sunshine near the cdje of the water. All at onco e.spider as large us the end of my finger dropped down among thiem from atree hunging over the spring. Thie splder scized one of the ndnnows neur the had. The fish thus selzed was sbout three inches long. As soon as {t wus scized by {ta captor, it swam around swiftly in the water, und }n:quunuy dived to the bottom; yet the splder held on to it. Fually, Tt came to the top, turned upon ts back, wid dled, It seemed to liave been bitten or wounded on the buck of the neck, near where the rewl Joins, Whien the fish was dewd, the splder moved off with It to the shore. The 1mb ol the tree from whlch the splder must huve fallen wus betwoon wen and Hifteen feet nbove the water, 1ts suceess shows that it had the judgvsent of a practiead eagi neer.” BIG SPTDERS, ‘The sands of thu steppes of Central Asia aro the abiding-place of nany specles of loathsome and polsonuus e eeplng thinge,” Mr, Schuy- ler mpeaks of u ‘whalanie (Solpuga araneoldes), oue of the long-legged spllers known ponularly oy the Harvestowun, or the Grandiather-Gruy- beard, which hus long halr, *and, when walk- ing, seems us large ns one’s two flsts,” This formidable beast is given to biting when frritated, sl with fts jaws iuskes fuur Nttle holes'in the flesh, The bite is pol ronous, thouth not deadly, Its victim feels at first no mora discomfort than from the sting ot s gonats but, alter a tine, the pain spreads over the whols body, and {s accompanied with fever und great exhaustion, A Chinese ofiicer stutes, o his travels iu Turiistun, that the body of tho kirgest Swipugas is the rize of o but. teruut; aud that of th smaller ones, of a wal- unt, 8piders of such dimenslons, with their big, hairy bodies lftod un on long, stout tes, must beas frightful an sdversary us one woul Le Hkely to enconnter In uny experlenco amid the haunts of wild submals. CALIFORNIA CARPET-MOTIL The dmerican Journal of Microscopy describes A pestiferous Insect which bs as destructive to curpets as the clothes-moth, It 1 u small beetle kuown to selence as tho dnthrenus lepidus, und In popular partance is callad the “Californtu Carpet-Moth." Its deprodations ave not contined to the State from which it takes its common uame, but estend frum the Pacitle States to thoau on the Atlentie coust. It {8 the lurvaof the beetle which 13 to bo dreaded. Thls ls a small, hairy grub, which feeds ou woolen stutfs, Tha fuscet pusses through the pupa state beforo custing off {ts lurval form, cuerging from the pups case aud the skin of tho larva at the samy ) ‘I'here are a balf-dozen species ‘of the An- threnus fu this conulr{. several of which aro nuted for their ravazeain the cubineta and mu- suums of the naturullst, The broetles fly about carly fn gpring, at which thne they lay their egps. Benzlue and carbolle acid “are ‘recoms wcaded us preventives of their attacks, BRIE}F NOTLS. £ Baron Von Nolken has returned to Oernany frow Colombia, where b has been studylng thy & ho ot ganized Notlonal Asso~ clation for the Advane ement of Sclence, like those of Great Rritain mad the United States; but every year its naturt Mats convene together for the reading of papers and the discussion of sefentifie topies. Before each meeting o permit Tins to be obtained frone the Czar, who settles the rules of the meeting, and the sum of money us- aper wis e ad on the subject of stirved, Bad doubls oppress me, iy heart alwost hru‘Lu. true; But this a foud heartla loth to bLelleve, Lepidoptera of the country. Iis colloctions fne clndde 10,000 of the lareer butterfll and mnn'y of the smaller ones. GRuoty ‘The Sclence Loan Exhibition in London has heen s0 siceessful that the time for closing has heen postponed, and the evenlng lectures In conncetion with it uro to be recommenced, Ata Inte mecting of the Parls Academy of Sclence, M. Balbiari reported fresh obscrvations upon the Phylosera of the vine and of the ok, The uew facts show agreat resemblance be- tween the two In their babits and the phenome- na of thelr reproductlon. A singla plantation of the Eucnlzvlua, be- tween Los Angeles and_ Analiciin, in Callfornis, has 80,000 trees on 140 neres. About 80,000 of the trees are frum nine to tielve fect 'Il{';h The gal of the Enealvptus in Cailfornia during the last scuson haa ‘becn larger than eyer hefore, Tha price has decreased, but the demaud res aing steady., Among the mountatns of the Tian-ehan range, huridering the vatley of the Zerupahun River, in Turkestan, there “isu little Take, tha 1skender Kul, at a lieight of 6,770 fect above the sen. Itis alx niles in clreumiforetice, o fa surrotttided with most plstaresque acenery. T onlv species of fiah fnhatiting its watcrs 1s the Jiarbua fluviatilis, which Is notuble for i63 polaune ous roe. There grows in Texas, and the rexfon weat pod north, a small, thorny, knotty trec (.ilyarohia Mandulosa), Wl omflm: to theorder Leguminosa, und called the Mesquite tree. Its branchiea yleld uhunduuux'u gum which {8 0 wood sulmbls tute for gum-Arnble. During the pust vear, 12,009 pounds of thla gum have been gatlicred in Bexar County, andas mudi more Letween that and the const. The Frencl: Botanleal Soclety inaugurated an exhibitlon of mushrooms, at Parls, Oct, 23., It s the plan to rng together speclinens of every apcciea of muahirooms, clther In a fresh or dry state, togetlier with books, drawings, or en- gravings, Learing upon the subjoct. During the eluht duys of the exhibition, there wore o be leetureaup m mycology, and cxeursions in the vicinity of Parls, Varlous flnmuom regardin, the growtl, structure, and characteristics of g\u;h‘mom were provided for discussion by the oclety. ‘The Bulletin of the Belgian Academy containg an claborate report by M. Montigny on re- searchies upon the connection between thie acintfl- Intion of the starr and the vuriations in the weather, The report Is based upon 1,820 obser- vations made on lcvcnty atars during 230 days, ‘The sum of the report [s, that the scintillstion Invariably fncreases with the approsch and oce currence of rain, It is, on au nverage, stronger in winter thauin sumimer; and in all scasons incresses one or two days before the arrival of moist weather, and decreases immedlately after the rain has ceased. It also increases during strong winds, and with theapproach of baromet~ ric depressions. From this it appears that a study of the scintillation of thestars Is of im- portauce i meterological investigations, jasbnti et b THE LAKE-SAILOR. Fall many n acene af peril wild 'The sailor of the Lakes mast know,— His saf}s oft fann'd by breozes mid, Yet often atiff with hall and snow. ‘Wien wintry clouda obscure the san, And the ficrce tempest gatlicrs fast, i« dangerons voyage once hegun, Ie spreads his canivas to the blaat, Chlcago left, the fav'ringhreeze Fills with Ite bleseing every sall; 118 bark. carcering o'er the scan. Flies llke on eagle with the gale. But the long night draws on apace. Aund mist and darkness vell the skiea; The cold rain freezes on his face, As through the storm his vessel Ales, *Tis no bay's play to trim the aail, Along that Ice<hound, barren strand, When wildly blows the Northern gale, Andon the lea-beam iles the land. On snch “The sh nizht, in ench a storm, h r Milwsukee here wns loet, And, Whittemore, the lifcless form On Michigan's.rude wave was tost. On, on, the torm-tonaed vessel files, And now she passus ly the wpot Where the {1-fated Negtoge les, — A tale of horrar not forgot, Each headland has e fatal tale Of shipwreck, hardsilp, an{ of death, Where, I the flerce and wingry zale, Some gallang eonds gave up thelr breatt, Ani now the seaman‘s cn-er raze Ix strain'd, hile he. onpresseid with care, Prays hut 1 ace, amud i e, South Manitow vr Sleepluy Bear. 1t clears—the 1izliL on M. Fhey tpread Dielr canvas i With gladsome hearts thelr eours T day Tt nlght comes durkhm Tt t achecr. pursiie; 1, aml the wky Is clear. o0 gzl s s bank i e shmn'ring lizut off Wablshank, For racks are reatter'd far aud wide, Aw ncarer o the Polnt they denw; Aud dangeos tark on every slde, Throukoul the Bteaits of Mackiumw, Jaw o'er blue Huron's cryetal waves, e closesreefs the vesaul flles; Wil Sueine the scaman hravos, The unow fast falllnz from the skics. Naurht can be seen above, around, 1ut hiv blind conree ko must pnexie: One stand» with ready lenid to sonml, And watchfulness pervades the crow. And hark! the roundinzs by the fead—~ *+And n half fonr,™ the lendsman crics whonla—the shonls—land dead ahead nrd down your ielm!" ana round she fles, **Drace up the sarda! Tlaul aft the sheets} Dunger and stilpwreck lie hefare!" 'The billowy foe the verncl macts, Lmbay'don the Canadian shore, Snccers nttends the eeaman brave, — Tho long, lang nllxmol danger's pust} 1ks eallant vessal cleaven the wavo, And throuzh the Rupids gtides au last, Cincauy, Novewmber, 1570, C. MY LOVE, All day long the sun had been shining Over the river, and valley, and hilla; Soft-whispering breezes came up from the sonth. ward, Toselng the wild flowers, and rippling the rills, Then -hlu:lnw- Iengthened, -ndpa:".g hazy sun- igh Bathed the warm Earth in its 1ast crirgson lght; Turllht demeonded oyonog oved gepde LI8be3 Earth had thrown round Lier the mantly of Night, Tunt by myselt, all alone, in thestiliness, \\nlcllln%llm star-path of 1ight ‘thwart the eky; The rl|\'cr fowed past, with [ta low, weary mur. nur, Beariug ita burden of foam-flakes fast by, Then, on the hetah of the night ull around me, Fell the nound of a foutstep I knew, ah! tos welly And I found that my heart-throbs beat timo to thalr musie, ‘Whisperiog a story my Jips dared not tell, 1 ut"n;flm again, {that same nuight, in the stare Iy Alone; and the river was murmariog atitl; Thu pz}u midnlght-woon was Just shedding ita ra. anco Aduwit the dark aldo of the far distant hill. 1 wuw all and heard ull, ae though ‘twere n dream, 1u the voft, wellow light comlog down from above, And wy lieart was all fall of n rapture Islto, Tor Thud that gt ty Grat Tesson in tove, Bwut!wnm had been spoken in soft, luwered anck, Ani eacli to the other onr secrets revealod; Aud still, though I Joved hiin the foudest and hen My heart's real nffectiou from nim I concenled. In quick, earucat words, ha told me his Hiro; n h'naltlml:lwn'dwlm Joy, 'd twuiptation, snd ricf, And, 50\' that all that was doad with tho paxt, In » womsn's trug love his buare woughe cebicf, Our cond-bys wero spoken In sorrowfnl tuncs, And our eyes sought cach uther In devp, earness gazo; For we knew that the dawa of the oncowlug mors row Would part our two livea for many long duys, The days, weeks, and wmonths drag thelr weary way lhrough. And wy puor heart grows slck with hopo long deferred; For I have not had one word of rememUrance From hlin whom my beart's Grat atfection bas Aud the thought loomys befurs e, that be {v un- And | pray God wy sorrow bo Kept from Earth's view, N. bW, Kxoxvs, la. THE WORLD, *'Tlow sweet {a Life!" she sung: **'The World ia fair, and 1 sm young. How can they tell of Deatli—~Despater* She sung, und july swiled at care. Ouly a woman's oncs pure face, Now deeply sianiped with ouiny a trace Of lugering vhuuie und deep divgraco; Aud oiice tho World (0 ber wau fuir! @arva, 1., Nov, 1), Yaus,