Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 20, 1877, Page 9

~-NEW YORK. How King ‘Carnival Captured a Cynical City, . = Then‘ Ran Away with Its e purse in His Pocket. -w..myu‘ Reception in the " Home of Tilden and Tammany. Man with Eclipsed Facnlties 4 “m.nd Lost Equilibrium, . eynerasies of the Jovial Fel- mmsylnlows on ’Change. g Author's Views on the Symbolism of . Jspaness Art, Prom Our Own Correspondent. Kay Yops, Msy 17.—The Carnival agony s v, aod fnally 80 far 25 New Yorkfs concerned. - ing s dead, and not 3 sonl can e fonnd to ot “Lamg live the King1” Thousands of 7o woke ap Wednesday morning in the wrath P I cansequent upon mpositions, of which £ armival was one of thechlef. The silly ones wbo paid from §2 to $5 for a window-geat or place Taibe Unlon-Square stand before which the night was to pass in review are not least. indlg- ¥ith a startling unanimity toe: morning 1sined toclud the Jife out of the pretentious, Vad-pefied body. and fhus city will be Xio more T eatied by bis Majesty Rex Carnival. If the beer~ rg want to advertise themselves by a stroet- show pext seasan, they will be sure to call it by s otber niame. Chauge of bait may not work wellwith fish, bat it is necessary for the catching of carlons folk. J pustnot be inferred, however, that every- was dissatisfied with the results of this stu- bumbng. Happy over it, because richer {elt, are the owners of trucks and available win- a0 balcony space, the soda-water and ice- oum dealers, the restaurateurs, the horse-rail- ud companies, and last bat chief of all, the pro- jectors and. profit-pocketers of the scheme. These e bappy, but reticent. They are much sought sfer just now, but for the firet time in weeks are {ogulaly retiring and modest about showing them- wives. The questionsare pouring inas 10 what has ‘hecomeof the money subscribed, or rather obtained Imder false pretenses; to say nothing of the re- teipts from the ball and parade stand. No answers. Kbeglos o dawn on the minds of those who spent thels money toward its success, that the carnival yus zotonly a humbng but a swindle. And now § reetsin partios are putting everything of blame Zpon “Col.” St. Martin, and charging, as the last sbsurduty which men in the forgetfolness of wrath sy indulge, that Chicago is in some measure re- ‘becsuse this man used to lve there. No donbt it wonldbe the extreme sin fora Chicago swpertofind his dopes in the metropolis; and if suchhas been the czse, whereof I know nothing, e expenditure of all sorts of harsh talk can be forgiven_zs following the expenditure of money ithont retarn. ‘FROPITS WHICH HAVE GONE ELSEWIIERE. The carnival mansgers got & good deal of money fom oue source and another. The question is, o vwaithey did with it. The main subscribers were © ¥as§200. . This gave receipts put at $15,000. For the second and third class hotel-keepers, the gaaller merchants, and the firms which were to srertise themselves in the procession. The ‘oozey was 10 be invested in a pageant 8o grand 28 shoold draw mere than 100.000 people from all sections of the country, znd make New York the richer by a million and s Lalf of money. All this s faithfally promiscd by the indefatigable can- Tamers, who fairly scoured the city for money,and bored itont of those whom talk could not con- vince. The hotel men pave from §50 to $250, the wia) from them being some $4,000.- For cvery ¥1gun in the procession by day the charge of entry the Tall, throwing aside the pretensions made deforeband of having sold 5,000 tickets, it is fnoged that 1,000 were disposed of at S5 each. The eeats in Union Square bronght in nearly $L000. The place of King wasbought by a brewer for more than $1,500. Amother brewer invested $4,000in the aflaur. ‘The {ucome from all sources iscstimated. then, at $30,000. - The most liberal allownce cannot account for an outlay of more 1£3n313,000, leaving a snug balance for somebody. Ttim* likely that anything can be douc about it s the project was of private enterprise, and with- oot particalar responsibility; but the lesson was 100 dear 10 De loet, and this is a free countryto owlin, at any rate. THE CITY'S BIG DAT. One thinz abont this performance was success- " fally doge anide, from the canvassing. It was suc- cedully advertised. Flaming posters full of falae promises were hung in the Post-Ofices of cvery Yorksnd Jersey village, found their way into all New Englind, and it fs eatd into the Far West, thouzh how far west s not defined. Ifundreds of tountey people came to town Tauesday. expecting 1o see both President Hayes and two wonderful disglays. In place of the latter, hoars of waiting wderowding and weariness were rewarded with aiilitions’ 50 absnrd as to make the spectators prochaim themselves the real fools of the occasion forthelr paina. One can imagine the fute of those if any perchance suill held the wall when ¢ cheated comnfryman got home sgain. The Yrs doings, 80 far as the carnival was concerned, ueesly summarized. In the morning there was alling 10 see, and in the evening light was want- kgtobalf see what there was. Whata jam and jostle there was in New York, 5ch. It was worth tomething to ce the crowds ‘reyubere, Broodway has seldom shown such o ::hde of people. A very small proportion, - fever, were of the profitable class to traders d hote).] . The suburbs furnished the majority of the outsiders, and these limited their Rironage 15 the beer-saloons, =oda-fountains, 1 restsurants. . The anxions merchant was in Wltmgfor the influx of country customers guar- fled him by the glib canvasser, but he only, Wiled, Central Park had a rush and crgsh of :‘m but the Park fs free to all. The beneft to clty's long-depressed trade cannot be found freavwith the sharpest spy-glass, and the Herald #fter baving lent all the ald possible to the Lad 10 confess it & fizzle and frand. J u_mmzn CORRESPONDENCE. ", Xlnsnhny. the actress, receives on the aver- l?xwm twenty-five letters & day. These come rom all parts of the country, and contain all %t of requests. A goodly proportion are beg- fm! . From the supe up, those of the pro- :::Il who hiave played with her, or been connect- i) suy theatre where she has appezred, or Ting o, 80 connected, send fu_thelr various T fifw assistance. Then the army of auto- 'l dends and album-owners and. strack admir- ) “exbaostible. But stranger than ‘this, the n ‘:fllyfllwnupondenu are girls, ususlly from aul& who request interviews and beg but a kiss % embrace from the enchantress. As an illus- of what a charming actress—or perhaps her Ttte, Xeretary—must endure, Tam permitied to % Printthisconfession of masculine folly, —one 1be hundreds of Iike epistles which fall into the x:n‘;nlegt fire: g OB, May 9.—Miss Neilson: I hoj gflmrmmwmmer me presuming in_ ad- m“"firm lines 10 you, but my object in doing ‘uipparent to you before yon have nished o] ler. Some two days ago I called Wlnmmue Windsor Hotel in this city for wonld 2P, which you kindly gave me. 1now ) "rium" JOu to erant me an interview in order fare agpome lines in my album, with your sizna- Ton tikeg ¢d. Even at the time I called upon you Dly, or sons whether I desired your signaiure ter mmellnes, and though preferring the lat- Hoange ! former. 'This may seem somewhat Jour eaoJ0% Yt I can eastly account for it: Gzaiie of 350 éclipeed my faculties that 1 was in- P et oS 10] on ma; ™2uble Y0 10 address a few lines of assent to, Zlc- !:In:m will have to reeret not only lipied facnltipg and Joss of equilibrinm, —a dan- i ""%u.—hm he 1oss of the balance of his 3 ¢ mterview and lines—as well. The THE PRESIDENT I¥ XEW YORK. e M&p&km accorded President Hayes in this P trongnold fs cause sufficient for the Yould oy felt by his friends and supporters. It bave been strange had open insult been -L‘"‘l“n ‘There are plenty of the low politician Yaone h:lll ready for any dirty work. There falt 4pg Rewspaper which did all- it conld to Mmhflumm More strange is it, in- ,b;-hlmdon.h.h. the President was met Wofl wluchnu of people. The public re- Ot hednudu-u the -best proof of the his favor, and was the occasion of the acked demonstrations of enthusiasm, Itis ved of clirysantbemums one day, sbe resumed her 'HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. MAY: 20, IS/7—NIXTEEN PAGES, remarked by frlends of bothmen; —not for invldious comparison, but asspeclally indicative of the preva- lent feeling, and specially pleasing in the circum- stances,—that President Hayes has had a larger welcome than the metropolis ever gave to his pre- decessor in tne White House. s social reception could scarcely hiave been more distinguished. The parlors of ex-Gov. Morgan, Gen. Wilson, and John Jicob Astor were filled with the first socicty of the city in the best sense of the phrase, The most widely-known bankers and basiness-men, without regard to thelr politics, met Mr. Hayes in these, circles as they met him at the Chamber of Com- merce dinner. There aleo he met the men eminent tn lterary and professiousl life. And in propor- tion as they became known, both himaelf and Mrs. Hayes grew in favor. If T heard the remark once, Iheard it 3 hundred times, ** We have 2 man fora President! . % EKNOCKING OFF THE OFPICIAL HAT. ‘The members on 'Change in Chicago appreciate having a good time, as those who know them well well know, and now and then they indulge in a hilar- ious scrimmage, using sample four for whitewash, or rushing an unfortunate. At their snnual mecting, 100, it needs not to say, they do not allow the oc- caslon to become over funereal. But they have some Hmit to what s called fun, ond that s the differ- ence between them and the stock-brokers in Wall street, who haven't. At the installation of oficers the other day, for instance, the rcmarks of the newly-elected were cndurcd and cheered, and the meeting was astonishingly respegtful. -But no sooner had the congratulatory addresses end- ed than therc was a grand rsh for the high hats of the mew officials, from the Presidentof the Ex- changedown. What with these hats to kick and toss, and two or three new members to haze, the ‘boys were successful In raising 2 pandemonium of the first degree. A hatter, it is believed, can 8o wonderful things in the way of transforming an oldsilc intoas good 2ss new one; but he might ‘well stand aghast were a stovepipe bronght him for repairs after ithad been **interviewed," as they express it, on 'Change. This may be oné reason why it is so rare tosec & broker wearing a beaver during ‘business Lours and in business places. There is amuch stronger reason, though. The ‘wearer is altogether too Jikely to get a brick in it, and without having any of the fun of putting it there himself. i PEANUTS AT WIOLESALE. There seems to be something in the wear and tear of a broker's life that impels him to scek re- Mef in all sorts of wild aeviltry. The popular pea- nut-vender on 'Change does notallow this to worry him inthe least. Experienco has taught him that i mischief is done by a broker, it will be well paid for. One of the common sports used to be the up- setting of the peannt stand and seller. With the simple warning, **Look out for fun, boys,” one of the jolly feliows would mive the stand & ralse, sending the multitndinous peanats in all directions over the floor, where they were zathered by a jost- ling, scrambling crowd. A skiliful trip at the same time wonld place the small merchant in the corner, whence he might behold the loss of his stock. But never a hair turned gray on his head by reason of this summary disposal. Next morning a purse would be put in his hands, the amount ex- cecding the valu¢ of his peanuta by = half dozen times. This and other indulgences have grown rare since the decline of the business for the lesser brokers, who now have to look after penuies where, in the War times, they scorned to save dollars. *4Going home ina cab,” which signifies that the party o traveling has met with a happy turn in stocks, 1s also among the occasioral, where it was forwerly among the daily, occurrences. The bro- kers, waiting on the revolution of fortune’s wheel, do not, howerer, lose their spirits a8 they do their business. They wouldn't object to anoth- er civil war, thongh—a shor: one. “THE JAPANESE IN ART. Among the graduates at the Union Theological Seminary last week was William Elliot Grifls, who has won enviable distinction for a young msn through his work on ‘*The Mika- do's Empire,” the second cdition of which recently appeared. Since his return from the Sun- 1and, Mr. Grifis has, aside{rom his work asa student 1a theology, carried on his studies and researches relatlve to the Japauese, devoting attention epec- fally to theirart. This art hes become a feature in Americzn parlors to an extent unknown prior to the Centennial, and sbout this art Mr. Grifiis means to write his second book. In conversation on the subject he gave me an ountiine of his purpose. This is mot to enter Into a criticism of Japanese art. Tl having done this, in une or 1wo cascs claborately, hs regards as the error of those who have treated the topic. Atanyrate, they have covered that ground, and if their treat- ment was not tisfactory it was because of the utter impossibility of making Japanese works smenable to any rules of art aawe know them. The onc feature of Japanese art which can be made clear is, in Mr. Grifie’ opinion, its eymboliem. | To show that the apparently meaningless drawings are, on the contrary, full of meaning; to render that meaning as plain to the buyers of fans and bric-a-brac as it was to the manufactarers of these articles,—this 1a his object. If we are to have these symbols always beforc ourcyes, Jet us be able to understand them. He would be anart- expounder, not an art-cntic. FONDNESS FOR PAIRS. His plan is further brought out by Mr. Griflis in two short papers which appear in the appendix of the second edition referred to, the one on **Asso- clated Ideasin Art ond Poetry,” the other on ++Legendary Art at the Centennial Exposition.” TIn the first he soys: *4There are certain pairs of objects which form theé main stock of the Japanese artist’s designs.” With many variations and com- binations, they apoear over and over agein in pict- ures, on vases. iacquer-ware, traye, dishes, em- broidery, bronze, and other articles of use and virta, and form the set of symbols oftencst em- ployed by the poet. The pinc-tree and stork, emblems of longevity, are embroidered on robes presented to mewly-vorn infants. The willow and swatlow, and bamboo and sparrow, indica- tive of gentlemess, are seen oftenest on screens, fans, and upright objects of household adornment. The young moon and cuckoo, the bird fiying across the crescent, is o poetic reference to Yorimasa, & renowned archer, who shota hideons beast, having the head of o monkey, body and claws of a tiger, nnd the tail of adragon. The pheenix bird and the imperialis tree are often to- gether as twin emblems on the Mikado's robes, rugs, and curtains. The tree is an cmblem of rectitude. The peony and Chincse lion—a beast which mever trod this earth, but which may be seen rampant on temple screens—form a couplet for lovers of the huge and monstrous. The mul- berry and goat are put together by the artist, since this animal has the appetite of 2 silk-worm and feeds voraciously on mulberry , leaves. The hare peeps out of the rushes on many 2 lacquered box or tray. - Instead of eeeing a man in the moon carrying a bundle of sticks, Japancse fancy - bebolds this leaping rodent sconring her face with equisctum. The red maple leaves and the etag are painted with fine effect on screens. The Japanese word iro means both color and love; for a lover to send a sprig of aulnmn maple is equivalent to GIVING THE “MITTEN." The Ieaf snd heart have both changed their iro. The bamboo and tiger are often secn together; “ithe tigers, afraid of elephants, hide in the bam- boo, jungle.” Thesc illustrations will serve to ehovw that a guide-book or key to the Japanesc art is o possible thing, and it will certsinly be interesting. The lsdy who buys a vase or Jacquered cablnet laving onm 3t tue simple representation of a fox imbedded in chrysan- themum, will soe more in it when the poetical myth which gave the artist his jdea is revealed. A fox, in the form of lovely woman, bewitched a certain Prince, but happening to fall aslecp ona normsl ehape, and was shot in the forehead by the Prince, who was ont shooting. Finaing afterward hat his Jady had & wound in her forehead, the Prince discovered her true nature. There arc hun- Areds of these foxy storles alone, and they indi- cate the style of romantic incident the Japancse enjoy. Mr. Griflis showed me some of their books, corresponding to our dime novels, with. the excep- tion. of being. profusely illustrated. The popular story, he said, was nearly always compounded of adventure and encounter, entangled loves. and miseries, ending in o grand tragedy. in which nearly all the characters were Ellled off. The cuts I saw bore ont this description to the fall. Now that printing in the modern style has invaded upon the old method of engraved books in Dai Nippon, a fortune awaits ‘the enterprising parties who shall starta Ledger in Fukul. - The old stories of Cobb and companion-writers could be worked over by tranclation, and the easy adadition of a few pounds of blood to each exciting incident. There is no likelihood that Alro Grifis will under- | take, nor should he ever be -charged with suggest- ing, o task of this nature. After his four years of expericnce in_the Imperial College of Japan, and subsequent two years of exploration into the deeps of Calvinistic theology, be now proposes to settle -| down to pastoral labor, and the making of more ‘books. * H.G. i ———— Dr. Tayler Lowis' grave st Schenectady is near that of the late President Nott. ..~ LONDON. The Queen's Refusal to Open the New Manchester Town-Hall What the People of the Lancashire Me- tropolis Think of Her Action, The Sale of Baron Grant's Oolleotion of Piotures—Some of the ’ : Masterpieces. Lectares by Miss Helen Taylor and Lady Anma Gore-Langton-—The Women « . of India, Special Correspondence of The Tribune. Loxnox, Eng., April 28.—A good deal of feeling ‘has been evoked by the refusal of the Queen to visit Manchester in May, and open the new Town- Tall, which is at the point of completion. The in- habitants of that- manufacturing metropolis have looked with laudable pride at the rising walls of theirmagnificeat municipal palace, and it has begn a-universal idea ameng theun, loudly and frequently expressed, that nothing short of the Sovereign berself would sufice for . the imangural ceremonies. **Nome of your Princess Christians or Duchess of Tecks for us!™ the inflated citizen has been heard to declare in the peculiarly fam- boyant manner of the traditional ‘'Manchester man™; he has nodded with pitylng condescension to Bristol, and with patronizing affability to Brighton, when those cities have expanded in the vivifying presence of the Prince of Wales and the Marchioness of Lorme, ot the opening of tho great docks of the one and the new School of Art of the otker. Dut, withont implying the slightest disrespect to those distinguished personages, he has let it be well understood that nothing but the presence of B JIER GRACIOUS MAJESTY " would meet the expectations and deserts of Man- chester. - These expectations have been iwell known at **Headquarters,” and, as nothing in the natare of o discouragement’ had proccedcd thence, the Town Clerk of Manchester, writing to the Prime Minister to request that hor Majeaty would fix the day for the opening ceremonics, was overwhelmed to receive an official reply stating that it was **out of her Majesty’s power ™ to be present on that oc- caston. The result is of the nature of a wet blanket flung upon the glowing loyalty of Lancashire. Press and people have been fertile in conjecture 18 to the poseible occasion for this unexvected rebuff, and the majority agree in attributimgit to personal or partisan pique on the part of the Earl of Bea- consfield. The leading journal of Manchester con- tains this week o spirited article on the subject, which is significant and enggestive. It says: **When we are told that it is *out of her Majesty's power" 1o grant the coveted favor, it Is unavold- ably suggested that the inability is moral; that, in short, the Queen cannot come BECAUSE SHE WON'T. . « . Terajestyis ono of the few persons in the world to whom the privilege belonge of wrati- fying millions of people by & scarcely appreciable gacrifice of their own convenience. . . . Man- chester is the metropolis of Lancashire, and Lan- cashire, with Its teenyine population of busy work- cers, might be describéd by an enthusiastic historian as one of the brightest jewels in her Majesty's crown. Here are millions of people whose indus- try has made the name of Englund famous to the ends of the éarth, whose patient tofl creates tho wealth which maintains our armies and navies, and whose Inbrea allegiance is one of the pillars of the throne. .Loyalty like theirs is cheaply rewarded by a glimpse of their Sovereign once in twenty years. Moreover, what is the modern theory of mon- archy? The Soverelgn reigns, but docs not govern. ‘The governing part of the business we conld do as well without Royalty as with it, and in this de- partment we do virtaally dispensu with it already. The chief function left to Royalty; is that of serv- ingas arallying-point for nations! scatiment, a brilliant centre 'round which our affections may guther. If Royalty losea this function, its game ia playod ont, and is 4 OX THE ROAD TO EXTINCTION.’ In another place the cditoreays: ‘‘What can have offended her Majesty? Is it possible that she has heard that we have erected a statue of Oliver Cromwell, and that tite costs have been defrayed by the wife of the Mayer? Or s it that petition which waa presented to Parliament by the Corporation against the assumption of the Imperinl title.” Others have found & solution of the matter in the fact that the majority of the Corporition are Liberale, the Mayor is a Liberal, and they bave lately returned a Liberal representative to Par- liament. Still another explanation has been found in the person of Manchester's present Chiel Magis- trate, Mr. Abel lleywood. Forty-ve years ago, it scems, this gentleman wasa champion of the rights of the people1o a free, unstamped preas, and was connected with s paper called the Poor AMan’s Guardian, devoted to the: social elevation” ond improvement of the working classes. For selling this paperhe suffered imprisonment, but con- tinued the publication; and the judgment by which he suffered was ofterwards reversed by a higber Court. The visit of the Queen wonld, by long- established custom, have involved the bestowal of some Incldenta] honor—perhaps that of Knighthood —upon tlus gentleman; and this, rumor says, would have been exceedingly distastefal to the present chief of the Tory -party.. The fum and substance of the whole matter ‘is, however, ‘that the Qucen is not to come, and that the people of Manchester have concluded to aseign to the Mayor the place in' the opening ceremonial which bad been offered to the Queen. **No doubt, ™ says the Manchester Times, **we shall mannge to get our new Town-Iiall opened without the assistance of Toyalty. * The operation will cost us less, and it will be seasoned with the qulet assurance that we arcableat a pinch to help ourselves. Perbaps, too, we ehall be all the better hercafter for this shock of the Windsor shower-bath. It will help ns to brace up our political merves, and serve 28 o tonic to our civic virtues; in short, it will make us LE3S LIEE FLUNKIES, AND MORE LIEE MEN.” To which it might be added that Liberalism will have received a decided impetusina district already predisposéd to such opinions. PEventa like this are of Interest and eigmfleance abroad as well a3 in England, for they are indubit- ably the straining and enapping of the fine strands in the great cable which binds one of the most democratic of peoples to the show and semblance —for it is now bat little more—~of Monarchy. While we are waiting for the opening of the Academy, we have bad an nnexpected treat in the shape of the Grant collection of pictures, which have been,on cxhibition at the rooms of the well- known auctioneers, Christic & Manson; and for geale nnder the hammer yesterday and to-day. They had been intended by the owner to constitute the art-gallery of his own house at Kensington, and are of very great value, —representing, chiefy, the modern British school of artists. It would be difficult to flnd 8o large a collection of masterpicced outside of a public gallery. The collector, Mr. Albert Grant,—or. ashelikes to hear himself called, BARON GRANT,— - was originally an unsuccessful wine-merchant, of Jewish extraction, bearing & German name. Il afterwards amasged a colossal fortune by certain financial operations, and seemed at one time on the high rond to a certain kind of graidenr. Among his efforts towards popalarily was his im- provement of Leicester Square. _ He bought up the rights of neighuoring property-holders in the neg- Jected and unsightly piece of land in the centre of the square, converted it into a pleasant little gar- den, with shrabs, flowers, and seats offering agree- able repose to tired workmen and. nursery-maids, and placed there a statue of Shakspeare, bearing on 1ts pedestal the statement that' this spot was piescnted to the city by ‘*Albert Grant, M. P." Tle bought also at Kensington a plece.of land cov- ercd with tenements of the poorest description,and erected upon it & magnificent palace, to be called Kensington House, with. billiard-rooms and miniature theatre, and pleasure-garden in therear Taving advanced 8o far on the way o eminence, his career scemed to terminate. His Parliamentary honors lasted only ten days, when he lost his seat on account of certain irregularities in the election. He had been enguged in the promotion of number- 1oss stock companfes, many of which collapsed after a certain period, to the great lossof the stockhelders. Many.of these were people of small ‘means, whose little Feserve funds were swallowed up in these rufnous speculations. As the prime agent in these transactions, 'innumerable suits were instituted against him, and, a short timeago, onc of these was decided against him in such a way s to form a Jegal precedent for the others. Since then, while prosecatingan appeal to a higher court, he has begun to . & TURN INTO MONEY o 7 {he resuits of bis gigantic specalations, Thobead= | tifal mansion st Kensington, not yet occnpled, was put into the” market, and, report suys, has been sold to the Duke of Northumberland for £375,000. 1t is said to bavo cost £600,000 ster- aling. At present, his fine colloction of pictures is The rooms have been crowded under the hammer, for the lnst threc days by a highly-appreciative throng, and the little street in front of Christic's has been so blocked with carriages that the assist- ance of the police has been necessary to marahal them to thelr places in the neighboring square. So far, tne pictures have rarely fallen be- Jow thelr original price, anl in some cases they have exceeded it, which, in the present depressed state of the money-market, may be taken 28 8 teatimony to theirintrinsic value. Some of the pictares are well known in America through engravings, ns Ary Schefler's ‘‘Hebe,"—an ex- quisite figure in classic dravery, overshadowed by the great wings of the bird of Jove, ¢ ANOTHER MASTERPIECE 18 Landseer's **Otter-Hunt.” The spearing of the otter n this pletare, and the writhings of tho agonized little animal on the spears, are features too painful to contemplate; and, to, one not rendered callous by conventional and barbarons notions of “igport,” they destroy the satisfaction to b de- rived from contemplating the admirable attitudes of the dogs, and the cool, refreshing beaaty of the reedy.brook below. A very peculiar nnd characteristic picture is Tolman Iunt's ** Christ Before the Doctors in the Temple.” 1 suppose that great study and research cuter intothe details of this scene,—the adorn- ‘ments of the Temple, the facos and costumes of the old rabbls, —but, to those who associate herolc and poetic ideas with the Great Teacher and His mother, there is something highly repulsive in the counte- nances of both, No assumed fidelity fo the linea- ments of & marked #nd peculiar race will reconclle usto facesand expressions which connect them- scives with the more ignorant types of modern Hebrews engaged fn sordid or petty affairs. AFINE PICTURE, ~ and one which attracts much attention, is W. P, Frith's **Before Diuner at Boswell's Lodgings, 1769." Little Garrick holds by the lapels of the ‘burly Dpctor's coat, talking Ina caressing, admir- ing way; Sir Joshua is. twirling his car-trampet; Boawell is listening with all his mind In his face; meanwhile Goldsmith, in front of the tall mirror at one end of the room, is taking a sly look . into the glass to observe the effect of his boloved ++ bloom-colored coat.” There are two very 500d Leslies,—* ermione, " a beautiful; harmonious facc; and ** Falstadf Per- sonating the King." - In both these, one is struck ith the very Eaglish type of faces and figures. Hermioue Is the very fdeal English matron, —ideal ot often met face to face in reality, since the En- glish matrou of Uermione’s age has all that ten- dency to over-rnddiness of complexion and over- cxpansion of figure which drew the satirical notice of Hawthorne. 2 This introductlon of & sort of NATIONAL CONVENTIONALITY INTO ART borders. upon the humorous in Etty's **Plato Carrylng O Proserpine.” Tne maiden herself is a florid specimen of a blonde, with some very fine and misty drapery slipping from her in the grasp of the dusky King; but the aitendant maidens, who flee fn affright at the pawing of the black steeds, and whose costume consists simply ofa kind of a shawl which has fallen to the ground at their feet, have their hair neatly done up ina twist behind, with peadant curls in front of the car, exuctly after tne manner of ladies in the **Book of Beauty,” fifty ycars sgo. The effect 1s, to say the lepst, not classic; and in minds hav- ing & natural bius towards levity, ia provocative of what Lord Knmes calls **risible emotions." A very pecutiarand besutifal little pictare is Dyce's **Christin the Garden of Gethsemane.* The thin crescent riding highin the heavens; the white moonlizht touching thetops of the dark trees, and the hills above them; the sort of Ori- ental redness in the shadows of the glen below, where the traditional. fignre walks by the little brook flowing over the flut stones, —are wonderfal- ly painted. 1suw many connoisseurs pause by this picture, some of whom declazed, with all the emphasis belonging to the **art-prancer™ in pub- lic placea, that it way * “SDIPLY PERFECTION!" The same artist has another pictare in the col- lection, **George Herbert ut Bemerton, * in which the figure of the gentle **Country Parson " is not of special merit, but there Is a characteristic English landscope—a tranquil river, church-apire scen throgh the mist, and two magnificent trees covered with luxuriant ivy-=which is very fize. The ivy-wreathed troes seem o me maighless, s indi- vidnal os two human beings. * Here, also, are two of Stanfield's finest works, — “‘The Morning of the Wreck,” and’ **The Battle of Roveredo.” XMillais has several pictures in the collection,—**Scotch Firs," **Wintor Fuel,” and ¢*The Knight Errant.” The' ** Winter Fuel ™ is in the proverbial wanner of this artist,—every tiny twig s elaborated with painful nicoty; bnt there is inthe scene enough of :the sights, hues,—I was gong to add, odors,—of the autumn-woods, to de- hght a lover of Nature, 5 TITERE 1S ALSO A STRIKING CANVAS of A. Elmore's *‘Charles V. ot the Convent of Yuste.” The great Emperor, sltting in an open gallery which looks ont on the oaks and chestnats of the lovely Valley of the Vera, gazes on the por- trait of Isabella, the bride of his yonth. E. M. Ward hasa pictore, of the historical por- trait style,”—**Josephine Signing the Act of Her Divorce.” The leading personages of the Court of the First Emypire are gathered abouta pale, stricken woman, who is hesitating to sign the decree which scparates her forever from the Man of Destiny. Beyond, he sits, leaning his massive head npon his hand, and Jooks at no one.” **Ojus monster!* says my next neighbor, & determined specimen of the British matron. y " On the whole, the collection Iaa highly iaterest- ing and valuable one,—collection no more, for, a3 T write, I hear that the sale is completed, the pict- ures having brought @ sumjtotal of a little more than half o mitiion dola; Last Sunday I went, Withi considerable interest and curfosity, to hear 3188 HELEN TATLOR lecture before the Sunday Lecture Society. Miss Taylor, 2s the faithful friend, assistant, and liter- ary execator of John Stuart-Mill, would be inter- esting to Americans apart from her labors in the cause of free education in England. Her counte- nance is' pleasing,—dark, 'with smooth bands of very.black hatr, and calm, intelligeat eyes. Her attire was in quite good tagle, and she gave me the impression of one who bad been very beautifal in youth, but-such, I am tdid by thoee who knew her carlier, was not the' case. Her voice is -agreeable, but her deliverysomewhat monotonous, 25 {3 that of most of the public epeakers I have heard here. 'Ier subject’'was *‘The Limits of Local Government.” Mo, lecture was sensible, temperate, and well nformed, but not atall clo- quent. A fricnd informs me that she was some- times unusnally 50 on the” subject of the suffrage for women. LADY ANNA GORE-LANGTON has been spebking to very select audiences lately on **Tne Women of India,? under the auspices of the ‘Women's Suffrage Assocition of London. Lady Langton s the sister 6f the Duke of Bucking- ‘ham, Governor of Madras, and has bad, of conrse, unnsual opportunities for seeing the interior life of women in Indin, into which Enropeans so rarely penetrate. Some of the information imparted was ot entirely new, but the greimr ‘portion was highly novel and amusing a8 well a5 Instractive. She al- Inded to the low esteem fnwhich girls ore hold, the onc disgrace which the farents are cacéfal to avertisc failureto marry: They are-generally masried as early a8 9 years 6 age. Lady Langton visited a girls' school of the Nigher.class, Iately es- tublished, and protested privately .to . the £xam- iners on the character of books given as prizes: 8 heavy **History of India,’§ “‘Every One's Own Cook-Book,” ‘and ‘*HintE'to Mothers.” She leamedto her great surpriie that most of the puplls were married, and snany of- them- were: mothers. Many of these lakt were only 12 years old. She-described very graphically the wed-' dings of the. people: the; poor little brides plastered with jewels; nthe . great family- houses in which the wife, grandmother, and often great-grandmother, and thdif hasbands and chil- dren, live together, and th oldest woman rules. To these great caravansarfss the little bride of 9 years goes, is lonely and misgrable, and sometimes Das to be sent home to be peffed back into health. In Indis thé necedle ‘is o foan's implement: the women do not sew,—theyJare the porters, the, grooms of the horses, the £, .+ - - . WORKERS ON TIE PYBLIC ROADS. They take their babies on thpir arm when they o oat to work, - drawing rollerd on_ the highway or catting fodder for horses. 1In a regiment an oficer ‘stated that his seventy men were accompanied by ninety women. These womea required 10 wagons for baggage or transport;’ they marchied 8 far ‘And as well as their husbands,] carrylog the accus- tomed baby, on their ¢arm,- in addition 1o the knife for cutting fodder,and the soup-kettle. ‘When they cucamped for the Inight, they gathered twigs and cooked the suppbr, fed, and groomed tae horses, andwere npbright and eacly o get ‘breskfast. As for the women of the upper classes, ‘they do nothing, they go nowhere, they see noth- ing. - They atay &% bome, 80d Jook at their fine “made It an express condition thathe will pay his “committed suicide Tnesday night in consequence .in Parison the success of African missions. No clothies and jewels, and their existence is an fnex- pressible wearlness to themselves. As they must never be scen in public, great pains must be taken 1o seclade them from oil eyes should they leave home. Nothing in the'lecture was more amnsing than Lady Langton's accoant of the absnrdities to which they were compelled at the Governor's palace when the wives of the native Ptinces came to visit her. The sentincls had to be dismissed; the coachmen sentaway when tho carriages had entered the courtynrd; and then the women, rolled up in silk-like bundles, were conveyed by the women-servants up the palace-stairs into the re- ception-room. Here an interpreter, placed behind 8 screen, translated the conversation without sec- ing any of the speakers. In very hot weather thesc precautions became, the marrator smilingly confessed, *QUITE DREADFUL.” The lectarer said that the men of India, urged by herself or other Europeans to” the ndoption of dif- ferent cnstoms or idens, invariably sheltered them- selves behind the ageregate of womankind in the famlly-house. *‘My women wouldn’t like it,” was the usual answer to an attempt to edncate the girls; **My women would not let me becomea Christian,” and #o forth. She did not know wheth- er this was mercly an ingenious evasion, or wheth- er the women, sccluded from all intellectual lite 2nd growth, became a formidable balwark of con- servatism, Certainly, many of the yonnger wom- en were very anxions to know “and to learn. ‘One beantifal Hindoo woman, of high rank, had made 4 bold stroke for emancipation, had adopted En- ropean dress, appeared at the Prince of Wales' re- ception, learned the square dances, and was re- garded by her neighbors as hopelessly demoralized; she had even been seen driving on the beach with her husband. ‘‘Before I went to Tndia,” concladed Lady Langton, *‘I was often met with the statement that a true woman's only ephere was home. Bat in Indla, where 2 woman never goes out, never reads or studles literature, never sknows anything ontside of her own walls, the houses are dirty and comfortless, the children are spoiledand untaught; the mothers know and do nothing. *What do you do?' I said to a Iady of high rank, curions to know her employments through the day. * She answerea, ‘r s That was all,—she sat and looked at herfine clothes snd jewela.” The lectarer concluded by saying that there was a greatfield in India for ‘women &4 teachers and as physiclans. Sir Salar Jung sent to England for a 1ady physician for the Zena- na, asthe doctors there can be of little assistance to women on account of the national customs. Not finding one at the time in England, he obtain- ed one from Americs, and she held a fine position there, with excellentemolament. Lady Langton began in a rather monotonous tone and rather high-pitched volce, but, as she proceed- ed, she became quite easyand unaffected, and adopted a nataral and pleasant conversational tone, She i3 free from the exaggerated formality and cccentricities which distinguish so many of her untraveled countrywomen, and has—what scems to me rare among Englishwomen—a lively appreciation of the humorous. Ihave thonght it worth while to describe her and her lecture ot some length, as she and Miss Taylor are the first repre- sentatives of the advocotes of woman-suffrage I have met in England. I was also interested in PROF. PAWCETT, the blind member of Parliament, who presided at the mecting. His dellvery was guite effective when he was speaking flucntly; but, whenever he hesitated, which he occasionally did, he hung on to one word in a despairing kind ‘of way, & good deal like a schoolboy who s afrald of breaking down. after the fashion of Englishmen in **after-dioner speeches,” =0 graphically described bp Hawthorne and Thack- eray. Prof. Fawcett's connection with most of the great Liberal movements, including woman-suf-’ fragv, is well known in America. His wife (Miss Garrott) and her sister, Mrs.{Garrett-Anderson, are sadvocates of the same cause. ¥ Speaking of the advocates of suffrage for women reminds me of the irreverent jocalarity with which many of the newspapers annoance the engagement:to s gentleman of Bristol of Miss Lillas Ashworth, NIECE OF JOIN BRIGHT, and one of the prominent champions of this re- form. Shoisdescribed in some of these witty paragraphs s one of the ** financial pillars™ of the cause In question, and her apostasy is taken as & matter of course. Miss Ashworth's friends, how- ever, repudiste all suggestiona of .any change™1n her cherished and ably-supported opinions. CoarBs Laxpon. PERSONAL. The Graphic says Helen Hunt Jackson is 47, and 80 Is Saxe-Holm. Timothy Titcomb Holland has a passion for slippers until 9 o'clock in the evening, and for bed afterwards. The Viscountess Mandeville, formerly XTiss Consuelo Yznaga, of New York, was presented to Queen Victoria May 3 by the Duchess of Welling- ton. & ] Charles Dudley Warner will have an obit- uary on Calvin—not'the theologian, but a cat of that name, whose acquaintance we made in *‘My Summerina Garden"—in the next number of Scribner's Monthly. Gov. Carroll stole a march on the Balti- more swells the other day. He had the front doors of the cathedral locked, and went in thrdugh the Archbishop's residence with Miss Thompson and & few friends and was quietly married. “What Think Ye of Christ?” by Gail Mamilton, 15 aunounced by W. F. Gill & Co. It will be published a8 a companioa volume to her Iate essays, which aro to be collected and printed under the title of **You're Liar.” The Nation suggests—whether seriously ornot. it is difficals to say—that Mr. O. P. Morton is the author of the very entertaining ** Political Reflections * by ** A Japanese Traveler” in the last number of the North American Review. Ex-President Grant will occapy the resi- dence of the American Consul-General in London, Gen. Adam Badean, while in that city; bt he has own expenses while occupying the house,—a very commendable, if an unusual, provision. ¢ The Rev. Joseph E. Cook,” says a writer in the New York Erening Post, **isa little moro than 35 yearsold, in the vigor of o robust man- hood, doing the work of three or four men, and looks like some strong, sunny-haired sea-king, & Scandinavian bero fallen on modern times.™ James M. Howard, a New York salesman, of the loss of his watch, which had been taken from him by a pickpocket during the Carnival. Abont twd hours after the discovery of the suicide, the pickpocket was arrested, and the watch re- stored to the brother of the dead man. Baron Albert von "Schiller, who died last week, was not the ** last male descendant " of the poet, a8 telegraphed. Bayard Taylor, in the New York Tribune, says that the son of Schiller's young- est daugher, Emile, the Daron von Gleichen Rusawurm, lives and is father of 2 10-year-old boy. christened Schiller,. and that snother grandson of the poet is a landscape-painter at Welmar. B Oskey Hall totters about Kensington Gar- dens, London, on the arm of o fashionable young Indy. A correspondent writes of him -as-‘‘sad, honest, and honorable, but politically disappoint- ‘ed.” This is almost the exact reverse of the trath. He is happy, dishonest, ana dishonorable, and, if e s politically disappolnted. it must be because he has an abounding conceit. Tae political pre- ferment he received was- mach greater than he was entitled to. . N. Moffat, an_Englishman, recently spoka ‘one has a better right than he to speak on this sub- ject. In 1810 he went to Africa, where he remain- edfifty-six ycors Iaboring to convert the heathen. Only once during this entire time did he return to England, and-he then made the acquaintance of Dr. Livingatone, whom he persaaded to accompany him on hisréturn to Africa. Livingstoneafterwards married Moffat's' daughter, and became known as the great African explorer, The old gentleman is now 82 yearsof age, and is traveling throngn ‘Eardpe seekingald for the work to which he has devoted 50 much of his life. 4 The first article in_the current number of ‘the Aflantic's Coutribdtors’ Club desls with Mr. Edward Psyson Hammond's **Sketches in Pales- tine " ina veln of devere frony. The writer thinks the Hook has been slizlitly ovcrrated; aud, though he admits thera is nothing in Shakspeare itke parts of this poem, he insists that Mr. Hammond has been placed too high on the roll of poets. Ilammond's description of his bridal-trip to Niagara is, of course, onc of the finest things in the language, and the transition is too abrupt from that mighty fall to the placid scene deplcted in thes lines: Then they turned their steps to Rockfard, ‘Where tha Sabdath-5chool Convention” Met for mataal lnstraction 1n tha GRS of Zioa's Wellare, BOSTON. The Famous Wit of the Hub Comes Out in & New Book. ‘Advance’ Sheets of “A Man of Two Hemispheres.” The Brutal Turk in the Present Crisis. 4 Slory of & Persaonted Ohristisn—Appre- ciation of the Yankee, XYom Qur Oun Correspondent. Bosrox, May 16. —Twenty-five years ago, George Willlam Cartls in that chirming book of -his called **Lotus-Eating, " allnded very delightfally cvery now and then along its pages to his friend “40f two hemispheres, Mot Notelppa.” The curioms reader for a moment - puzzles over this odd name, ond the next moment finds his wits and reads the odd name backwards. It is odd no longer, but reads simply and honestly,—Tom Appleton. If the reader is of New England, or especially. of Boston, he knows that this is the man who is epoken of =2s ‘‘ome of Boston's famous wits,” when Boston soclety 18 under discussion. I don't think you could talk ten -minutes with an old West-Ender about Bos- ton's disadvantages of climate without his tarning to you presently and saying, with a twinkle of sat- isfaction, **Yon know what Tom Appleton says of the east wind as it comes round the corner of* the Common and Park sireet™ andif you are 8 stranger within the gates, and respond that you are in ignorance, the twinkle deepens, and there is peculiar unction in the voice that replies, *‘Why, that somebody ought to puta shorn lamb on that corne. ¥ don’t know how many times I have been told this, and, though eo familiar to me, Ialways listen to it with a renewed sense of its grim humor. But this is only one of many, and Mr. Curtis strikess different key when he quotes from him as eaying that ¢ AMERICA 13 ONLY A SPLENDID EXILE FOR THE SAYON RACE.” And this wit and philosopher has just given 2 new book to the public which forms the third in Roberts Brothers ‘‘Town and Country Series.” In some respects it is 2 notable book; in every way an un- commonly charming one 1n style and composition. It bas the smooth title, *‘Syrian Sun- shine,” and 18 in fact a2 record of six weeks of Syrian travel in the spring of 1875. In the preface the author gives the following sug- Restion of interest at this time of ‘‘war and rumors of war™: ‘‘The necessity for an apol- ogetic preface, when writing of a land s0 much ex- plored s Palestine, is -perhaps diminished by the fresh interest that Turkey and its conquests bave mow for .every one. The amthor, when in Syria, was made sensible of the shame it is that the, Turk1s permitted to keep and desecrate the Holy Laud.” ) - Evidently Mr. Appleton agrees with Mr. Edward Freeman’s opinion of the Turk, which that gentle- man expresses so clearly in his recent essay called *The’ Turks in Earope,” published in Harper's Half-Hour Series. And do not let the reader sup- pose that Mr. Appleton's opinion is simply the result of this sir’weeks' journey. Mr. Appleton is an experienced traveler, whose earller journeys in the East date thirty years buck. But here is & bit of description which has the color and the warmth'of the Syrian sun, and the -acuteneis of | the exiled Sezon, in resding THE CHARACTER OF THE TURK: 44 One finds it difficult to nnderstand how these Jople, 80 courteous in thelr. manner, o dignified oif bearing, with a haughty reposc_ever look- ing out of their dark eyes, ¢an be suddenly con— verted into the active wild beasts we know they can. But a creatare so tranguil, 80 unreasoning, 50 indolent, finds no measure fof the extravagance of passion when he indalges it. He has no con- | tinaity of activity, he has no habit in any line of his thought, of liberality or. freedom. So the tiger in him leaps up, master of his na and wiil not® withdraw- agnin. to the. dark cavern of Ms heart ol dts chirst m; Blood, ia peascd.. War- seems_| m his in- dolence, and stimalatd him to sustained bravery, through'the energy of his fanaticism. The best ovinions agree in Considering the Turkish soidier as auperior, —docile,.capable of trafning, and fear- Iosa as few are. What he lacks is the proper off- cer. With his ignorance of everything comes the ignorance of modern tactics, He may buy the ‘est gun that America can furnish, but, till he on- derstands the terrible enginery of war, the valor of his soldiers is half lost to him by imperfect leadership. How much he knows, how much of the old rage which once carried ali before it stil) survives, tbe world, by springtime, seems in a fair way of ascertaining. We cannot but homor thls desperate valor, and the sublime indifference to death which their doctrine of fate (Kismet) al- lows them. ¢+ But Christendom has had enough of them, and will no longer endure their alien barbarity. Though the sick man, Iike Pope Sextus, may riso in o death spasm, and flourish his crutches till the world think his infirmity a pretense, yet the smew of war isso wholly wanting that his strugple can- not be long. And with_his disappearance how the world will be changed! That historic shore of Palestie, and the magnificent Bosphoran, will then fecl the influence which we all share; and good roads, Iiberty of the press, free commerce, and an equality of civil and roligious rights, will swiftly change the faceof the East. Andif the blind zealots of Mahomet mnust still count their millions, it will be in the depths of Asia, and nota erpetual menace and discord to the free air of Eutope.” This occurs in the chapter on Damascus, srd in the same chapter, speaking of the ancient temples which is referable to the hostile"successions which have devastated it, therc is tnis significant pas- ge: ¢ Six successions of rale looked out upon the same lapdmarks, and that perpetual besuty which smiled alikeon all. But if there be, as there must, procions tokens of the past there, they aro e uden nndera soil which_is measured By 50 prolonged an exiatence, that, till the balefnl re of the bratal Tark s over, there will be little chance of any excavations torecover them.” But Mr. Appleton predicts thatat some future day not far distant some Schilemann of the time shall discover hidden tokens of antiquity which will be eagerly welcomed. **And now,” he says, ‘‘all eyes are already fixed on that crumbling Empire of the Osmanli, with a thonsand hopes not only of beholding the cross acain triumphaht from the dome of St. Sophia, but the Holy Land cleansed of its pestilent possessor, and even Damascus given once again to the children of the sofl.” And this is followed by THE STORY OF ONE OF THE FPERSECUTED CHRISTIANS, ‘which is of most startling interest now: *4We met at the hotel a valel-de-place who was s Chri: many_of whose family. perished in the outbreak of 1860. Hc spoke with smothered rage end without fear, as could so many of his tellow-believers, who still thirst for revenge. ‘Hadwe but arms,’he said, ‘small as was our number, we shonld not have feared them.’ = But,in the R“:l the Christian has no arms; and therefore the fanaticism which devotes to destruction men, women, and children, is as cowardly as it ia cruel. ‘Wedonot hear of aTark losing hialife in the stroggle of 1860. Of course some- Turks must have been kiiled, bat 8o few as not to be worthy of ‘mentien.” But there are other things in the book-pusiness ‘besides thesc spirited passes at the Tark. Indeed, thesc passcs are only incidental, for this is a record of 1875, yet all the more valuable for that. * With -the shorn-lamb story in his mind the reader will, perhaps, not be prepared fos the fervor of Mr. Appleton’s feeling in regard to the tegacred” points of interest in the Holy Land. But let him speak for himself: i *Perhaps, in this era of uneasiness and donbtfal faith, the author should apolugize for the old- fashioned tenderness which be shows for these mlgll;:{ legends of the post. His tendency—and he is glad of it—is to belief, and evermore belief, in the hopefal 1ife of the planet. He is only happy when trusting the mystery he cannot fathom, and, if he speak of sacrea places and that one Divine Person with & familiar ardor that may be miscon- strucd, he regrets it; for he ever remembers that terrible eaying of a witty English lady, when lpenkhgolnhte work upon the Holy Land, “Jodas betrayed lus Master, but it was left for Renan to patronize him. *** And fin this connection T may refer to the very manly avowal of bellef in the Spiritaalistic phe- nomena, which. follows a summing-up of the va- rious progresaive steps of sclentific discovery. I say manly, meaning of course thereby the courige .which comes from self-respecting independence of character, which is not always found in 3 flourish- ing condition in the class 1n which Mr. Appleton. lives, and moves, and has his being,— THE CLASS OF AMERICAN ARISTOCRACT,— ‘which perhaps more than the aristocracy of another _countryis less independent in striking ont for indlyidual freedom, and, because so limited, hav- “ingasoit of life-In-a-glass-house conscionsness, which inevitably shrinks from the conspicuousness of originality, when that s of the unpopalar kind. But here is & man who has held the position of chief wit and sntocrat of the dinner- table- for & third of & century com- ing oot on the side of the valgar, as the smaller class always designate the larger. Kayiewiog the ling of the discoveries of the world, | Mr. Appleton, touching at the last the wonder off telegraphy, says in conclusion: ¢t And, gathering courage from.hope, he micht venture the prediction, 2s.man now has made his. home sentient, enveloped in tingling extensions of himself, if there be such s thing, logically, bis - “next advance shonld de spirit Interconrse.” And ‘when it c’me. of course in its infancy and witnoat that cataclysm which might shiver esrth 1o s cen- tre, its infant cry was but & repetition of that ‘:fi sound which the telegraph had made familisr, Which makes the metal speak.” et And farther on: h **For the world takessmall notics of the solidity, of the belief of the ple called Spiritualists in their discovery. It {s too certain to be serionaly e method it uses, the end it alms at, arc necessarily obscare,—from the maturc of things, it most be s0; but that something with intelligence g&::u l.mlell to - be :3:]"5 by arn, always proclaimed as com= ing “trom the beyond, n{:‘d‘:rlth a rescmblance throughont the whole world, cannot be seriously deni| The tricks of mediums. the little in- formation, the blundera and mistakes of this intelligence, are of small accoont to a philoso- g.her who cap hold fast to the fact of its tence. 'hat implies s0 much. Even if this inter- course should prove lower than onr.anticipation of what it shonld be, it is still, if trie, -one 'of ‘the ‘most formidable additions to man’s knowledge. And at the last there ia this decided confesshon: | **As the writcr has no donbt whatever as to the reality of these modern miracles, he confidently awaits its_acceptance by science. It is only a question of timg. Then it will be seen to be s part. of the march of humanity, the last fowering of. . that development which has given us $o much, and even makes our -present proportions angelic, as vompared with the stature, dwarfed, and helrleu. of pre-historic man. “What it may do for us fusare, it is hard to aay; but he woald philosophize badly who could sugurno good for man in what Beens 0 stupendous. ™ - AR Afditisac the Mount of Olives where, in con- templating the sest of the old miracles, Mr: Apple- ton declares himself inthis way. Modern spirit- ism, he thinks, is but a reawakening of the old Jewish miracle in different forms to sult the differ- ent times. Mr. Appleton has written so little that he is comparatively unknown to the general read- * ing pubic. though his .- **Nile Journal® of a few years back was 50 G S WARMLY AFPRECIATED BY THE BRAZILUAN . EMPEROR, g 'Dom Pedro, fbat he sent him an enthusisstic nots. of thanks. That rather cool critic, Frank Sanborn, of the Springfiefd Republican, ssys of Appletox: that ‘‘he is one of the few Americans who have written too little,”” and greater praise than that no author can wish for. Yet to those who had so0 long heard of Mr. Applefon 2sa sharp wit; somewhat ‘of & cynic, and man of the world, this book isa: surprise. Perhaps, if T'had resd the **Nile Jour-- nal.” Imightnot have to-write myself down a3 one’ of those surprised persons;.but, having no knowl- edge of that, and with that shorn lamb story, to- ether with some others of the same stripe, run- ning in my mind, I must eay that I expected n different style of book. In vain I looked for shomn-lamb stories. In vain I looked for cynical wit, and what the mnewspapers call **a crisp style.” It is curionsly e-ident this book is written by & man of leisure. Itshows in every sentence and in all Its arrangement of Tdeas. And it 1s permeated with a religious spirit which sometimes rises into fervor. Now and then, . however, there are little dry tonches of numor, like this hit at Tornez’s pictures, at the close of & description of a road scene from Banius to Da- mascus: *4The scene owed itsecharm only to the tender th of golden browns, and the vertebrated wail of lighter rock, whose made violet chasms, all €0 faint, o 7air, that their repetition in the lake -reminded us of some of Tarner's plctures, which ~ you can look at indifferently upaide down or not.™ Yot Mr. Appleton is s A GREAT ADMIRER OF TURNER. and says of his astonishing slave ship that *‘itia & poetical pictare and no simple rendering of Natare, bata passionate expression of the devilish horrors of the slave trade.™ : ] ‘Yet, work of the man of Jeisure as this bock Is, there is the speculative and koen analysis of & strongibrained man who has become emancipated from mere class, and proves himsel, as Curtis wrote of him so long sgo, ** the manof two hem- ispheres. * And with this knowledge hé fally ap- preciates and does justicejto the “Vandal Ameri~ can™ of the present, without that little eneer at, ‘his ignorance which travelcd Americans sre igno- rantly prone to indulge in. In some delightful its of description of Jerusalem there isthis fine: equable passage: . 5 e ** America has a wit of its own _to whittle away:’ all prescription and authonty. There 1s no bitter- ness in its use of this knife, for we feel no bardens! ‘but it enjoys with poignancy a dislike to what is¢ not newly proved. Luckily it bas_fact on ita sids, the fact of to-day: and so its irreverence isin ita ‘way usefal, though mmunnn% to zealous and rev- erential spirits. A verse which ‘went:once tha round of the rs sancily expresses Jonathan's ‘Tostllity or erence to that royalty even Shaker @peare accepted as sacred: i % * He called the Ein, A did ¢ Ll with his old felt at onore" L And 50 from beginning to end there seems to ba’ ‘am equable spirit in this book, and for this spiritd and its breadth, and culture, commingled with the salient points; I have indicated concerning the . Turks, the book just at this time is much mores: Dotable than the author had probably any design o4 ‘hope of ita being. Andlmbemmgmmunbl thoronghly charming and lterally glowing with Syrian sunshine. N. P e ——— GENERAL. 3 ° Whenever the foreign correspondents are t4n doubt, remarks the Philadelphia Times, they send us word that Nicsic has been revictualed. The London Quarterly Review declares that- the Methodist i3 peculiarly Charch, "—as if anybody cared for the London Quarterly Review, or its opinions. : The man Crapo who has taken his wife with himona voyage across the ocean in a bost thirteen feet long, is recommended to the tender ‘mercies of the Soclety for the Prevention of Cruelty 1o Wives, 23 s500n a8 Mr. Bergh shall find time to think of 80 useful and necessary an organization. A New Yorklawyer, whohas beendisbarred - for bad character, bat who seems to understand the law of libel pretty well, bas sued the Albany - Eveniag Jouraal for publishing the official report of his case, as passed npon by the Coarts. The coart reporter has also been sued. “The Mother of Bix” recently -died -in.. London. Notswoman, but 8 man. Hewas the / member of the'staff of a great journal, and, when that paper wished to agitate a domestic subject, } this gentleman used to write a letter to.it and zign., ¢“The Mother of Six™ (or some othef number). * But his place will not be filled. Mothers have learned how towrite for themscives, and. . ‘withont proxy. a ‘The hearing in the case of Dr. J. O. Ayez, 1ately granted at Lowecll, showed that he was ine carably insane. The Courtappointed ns guardisne Benjamin Dean, F. P. Ayer, and Jacob Rogers. Mr. Dean is a well-known Boston iawyer, Mr..g Ayer isa son of the Doctor, and Mr. Rogers is's prominent Lowell merchant. Each gentleman wil be required to furnish bonds in the sum of ‘i quarter of million of dollars. ' The new literary weekly established in } New York, and called The Lidrary Weekly, will attempt to occupy the fleld which the London. Academy holds in Eugland. The articles of con-- tributors to the American weekly will be signed, as. In England. The new edltor is Porter C. Bliss, \ ‘who has had a busy life for 8 young man, having & \ large acquaintance with the Indian tribes of both the Americas, and being thoroughly conversant with Spanish literature, as well as that of En- gland and America. , He was Col. Forney's right-; ‘hand man for 8 yeat or two inediting the Washing- ton Chronicle. A few days ago there was at Quincy, Mass. a trial of excellence in reading among the acholars of the public schools, and an illustrated copy ol Shakspeara was given to the boy who was judged to bave scquitted himself best. Thereapan ap- peared in the weekly paper of the town.a mnote bringing to book the person who made. the pre- sentation and who had previously, - it seemed, of- fered a prayer. The writer aaid such action seem- ed to him very like hypocrisy, since Shakspears ‘was an improper book to place in any boy’s library, having o tendency to encourage play-going and in- temperance. It is believed that the note was gen- uine and sincere, and that the writer was {n pos- session of his mental facnlties, such as they are. The full extent of the Carnival humbag in New York is just beginning to sppear. The two. managers, it seems, sold privileges recklessly, charging the King alone $1,500 for his privileze, the man at the coat-room $600, each Knight $10, and each wagon in the procession $15. - About $15,000, it is. estimated, were obtained in this ‘manner, and comparatively nothing was disbursed. The arrangethents at. Gilmore's Gardem were shameful, and the crowd nothing to speak of.. The " \ man at the coat-room lost $500, and Bijot,-who . had provided eighty gallons of ice-cream, sold but two.- The bar-man was out of pocket $1,000, not. ‘being allowed 10 sell in the presence of the King, . ‘who was & brewer, and commanded . that his own. * beverages shonld be exclusively dealt ln. Siace -, the Chicago Jublles there. hag not been 50 mon- ‘‘the Amercan