Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 21, 1877, Page 9

LITERATURE, Judge Caton on the Antelope and Deer of America. The Physical Basis of Mind--- Books by Gail Ham- ilton, Montenegro and Bulgarin~-Poor's Railrond-Manual—Two En- glish Reviews, vrof. Sellar's “' Virgil'=«-Ancient Styles of Architectures-= Our National Flag. Flora Round About Chicago: The Gourd Fanily---Discover= ers of Anesthesia. LITERATURE. ANTELOPE AND DEER. THE ANTELOPE AND DEER OF AM ICA. A COMPREMENMVE Sciextitic TREATISE UPON THR Natiman iratony, Ixcitmoxa tun CHuanace rewuaticn, Hanits, APPINITIER, AND CArAactTy Fou DOMESTICATION, OF THR ANTILOCATA AND Cenvimn or Noni Amrmca, ¥ oy Hard & Nonxate CAlcagos danacne Meclurg Co Vhicago: Janacn, clues » BTO., ). 0, rice, $4. Lj La The reader unycrsed in science is able to une derstand that this work makes an impurtant contribution to tho Ife-histury of the Antito- capra and the Cervida of Amertea. Its author has for many years kept ail the species, except the Woodland and the Barren-Ground Caribou, in domestication, and fins mathe thelr nature and habits the subject of caroful observation. With such unusually favorable opvortunitics for stuty, systematically tisproved, there could not fall to result a mass of facts relative to this class of animals which are both new and tne structive. Tho clear, minute, and methodical uanuer in which theso facts aro presented to the public, helghions thelr value, and also tho gratitude with which they will be jrecelyed by , those most Inferested,—tha sportsman and the natural-bletorian, Each species of tho group ireated ts first do- ascribed separately, and, when this fs done, the wholo aro pnesed In review together, and thelr respective churacteristics compared and cone trasted. By this mncans the dlatinetive traits of each spocics are more sharply defined, and its fndividuality {s more finpressively portrayed. A lurge spavo is given to a comparison of tho autlers of the different deer, and toan oxposl- (on of their made of growth, nutrition, furs, aud uses. The other organsof the body—ans the ear, the tall, the glands, the coat, etv.—are Iku- wise examined at length, and Hkenesres and contrasts fn thelr structure particularly pointed. out. Considerable altention Is paid to tho habits of the deer in domestication, and to the question of their betng rendered useful to mankind tn yarlyus ways. Other toples which aru duly lls euesed are the hybridity of the Cervide; their aliment congeners, ant discases; tho value of their skins and of thelr iesh; and, lastly, the micans hy which they are most succcesfully hunted tn their native haunta, Although the author characterizes hia work asa “actentitie treatise,” and very justly 50, the narrative Js of a popular style, and will {u- terest the general reader. It’ Is interspersed with many anecdotes and Incidents, whict fuse itwith life and untination, Among the facts related which throw new laht on the dis- porltion of the deer, we quote the following, referring to the Elk: Tho mont prominent instinct in the young fawn in that of deception. I have several ‘tlies come neroan fawne evidently but a few hours old, left by the mother tn supposed wecurity. They affect death to perfection, only they forget to shut thelr eyen, ‘They lay without motion, aud, if you prek them up, they uro.as Iimpay a wot rig the hend and limbs banging down without the least mnecn- Ine netion, --tha bright eye falsly eparkling all the time. ‘The frst T met really decelyed me, for T thonghtit had met with rome accident by which it wae completely paralyzed, and returned the next day expeetiny to Gnd it derd, It was gone. andauan afier 1 found it following ate dam na epusbily an pornthte, Laatanting | fund one, picked It np. and carried it come distance and Inid tt down, and watcher for rome time from adiatance, bat not the leart Alen of fe would it manifert, rave only inthe bright eyes. ‘Tho Elk’s fawn follows its dam much rooner than moat of the othor iver, At mortitis feft in ecclusion bat a aay or two, when the mother takes It in inimedlate charge, they mingle with the herd. In thie regard Ihe habit of the Wanitl differs from that of the smaller der, who keep their young eccinded for ecterat weeks, Judge Caton relates that, at the beginning of our late War, Gen. Harding had about elgtty deer in his grounds near Nashville, Tenn. They were rvon cither killed or driven away by the’ soldiers in the vicinity. After peace was re- stored and. qqulet iad once more sei ted around the General's vetate, ho was gratified to note that the deer began to come back voluntarily to thelr ol! home, and soon his park was well- stocked Benth This fs interesting evidence of the tegaclty of memory and habit in the do- mestitated dees, Of the engaging qualities of the Antelope when tamed by companionship with man, Judge Caton furnishea the following Mlustratlon: In intelligence, too, and reftective powers [ha remarks} Hey are exceptional. he young apectuien of which I have rpoken waa allowed to foltow me from one park to snether, and even outof the parks into Me park whers the Eik, or Wapitl, wero kept. ‘Shees world chaeo him away, When he would look to me for protection, which could nat alwaye be tmade effectual, for would wi jor opportunitica to make daxhea nt bim, when he would escape to the out: aide of the band of Etk; bat, when he saw me ap. roach the wate to pam ont, he would dash up iniust Hike @ flaeh to go ont with me. There viaite to the Elk park soon became disagrceable to lim, so that, when he saw me approach the gate leading Into ft, he would get before me, put his head againet my lexe, and try lo pus mo tuck or retard iny progress on much a8 pormble, and scemed to heg of me, in every way in which he coukt convey hia wiahes, not to goin there. 1 would frequently yiekl to his remonstranees, and turnaway in another direction, when he would maniioet his satisfaction by gamboling about tn the grenteatdchizht, When he was allowed to ful- low me out off the park inte the tlelds and anoadows, he would scour away as if to try bls ‘apecd, but ina few minutes would go to bunting beat for eome cholce tufts of fries, and would rometlines get two or three hinndreds yards away; but he alwaye kepto close eye apon me, and, when he naw nie going tumwarde the park-gate, though it was faraway, world geadunily lessen the distance, but, no oon as Erenched the gate, he world reel pot fall apced, and perhape prance around asi very happy. or rub his head a! Lit agaluet me, Who will blame me if Tloved the ittle pet and enjoyed his company In my walke, aud really mourned his lose when he died ¥ ‘Tho testimony of Judge Caton, drawn from personal observation, shows that the ditt it species of deer degenerate In domestleatton, belong Hate tu disease, and decreasing In fertili- ty. ‘The Elk adapt themselves to the change of linbite faduced by novel conditions better than the other species, belue fess particular about 4helr diet, mure courageous In disposition, and more horilye es —- PROBLEMS OF LIFE AND MIND. Tlik PUYBICAL BASIS OF MIND, With Titua- tratlons, Heing the Second Serien of Pronouns orl io Mi ly Gronan Hesny Lew {James KR. Osgood & Co, Chleayo? Ha ley Brow, & Co. Hve., pp. Got Tho mystctlous relation of mind to matter always offers fin attractive path for study to the earnest searcher after truth. The subject is in character 80 unique, the data from which the concluafons are tu bu drawn are apparently eo ensily attainable, that it seems us though the deductions made woulll be accepted by all. But this is very far from belme the truth. ‘The Splritualtstsa—us Mr. Lewes culls those who belleve in the extstence of a soul—expliin the action of the mind on the body by some Iifdden power exerted by the immortal part of man, The Materialists, on the other hand, de- clare that the motions of the nerve-cells oro sufliclent to account for the operations of nud, and that a man thinks according as bla tnuscles und nerves are nudifled jy themselves, Mr, Lowes seme to strive to occupy a phice bee tween these two schools. Ile denies tit a soul is necessary to explain the manifestatlons of our | mental facultios, but he also takes pains to dis- unguieh himeel! frum the niaterialistl: school. The human mind, he says, as fer us ft Is acces- sible to scleutifie inquiry, has a two-fold rool. man belng not only an aniual organism, buta uit in the social organism, thy complete theury uf the functions and the facuttles of tho nilud tnuet be sought fn thts two-fuld direction. The soclal development of mind was treated by Me. Lotwes in the thrat series of tho “4 Urabe tem of Life and Mind ;" and to this the prosent work forms asequch It fs, however, o suttl- elertly distinct work to be real by ateclf, To master It there is requisite a most extens{ye and thorough knowledges of piyalolozy. The works of the best scientists have becn rausackod to obtain the material to be wrought ito it, THE CHICAGO He the author's contributions fran his own personal observation are neither few nor sinail. The subject. Is divided into four probe sections,—the firat being the nature of life, in whieh the various theorirs on the organization, functions, and properties of life are discussed, ond, the nervous mechanism, or the stenctire and Inws of nervous activity; third, antmal automatian,—the rejatton of body and mind consctouaness, and voluntary or involuntary ac- tions; and, |fourth, the reflex theory, or Arcfutation of the theories of the orthodox metapliystcinns, ‘The treatment of Lhe subject fs eminently ectentific and candid. Tho author recognizes the difiicuities of applying his theory to all facta, and honestly criticises the opinions of bis antsgoniste, ‘The book repreents the work of years of observation and reacarch; and, though ‘the generalization seems often too sweeping, Mr, Lewes wives good grownd tor hin deductions. ‘The facts from which the con chistons are drawn haye been culled from many different aourcén; and, 1f the conclusions will not be accepted by many, the data it remain yalunble, aut afford « rare opportunity to earn @ novel chapter on the organization of the nerv- ous ssstern., We would, Haw every warn the reniter agatnet the supposition that the book ts Might summer-reading. The text in iilustrated with a number of ex- cellent woodcuts, representing the growth of nerye-cells, of the spinal cord, and of the halr, GAIL SEATON: ‘i $ VE IS BEST: A Bestinextat Sxeten, Fe Ali liawnnros. Hoston: Eaten & Laurlat. Chicage: Janeen. McClurg & Co. Mmu., np. 805, Prire, 81,50, WHAT THINK YE’ oF cits’ MONT OF THE Exotsen Dior, T! THe Testi By Gait H tox. floston: Estes uriat. | Chicaxe: Jansen, McClurg & Co, 18mo., vp. 107. Price, gi. There was no question but Gait Hamiiton would produce a work of fletion worth reading, whenever she should ecu fit to attempt tt. Though the plot might be thin and the char- acterization feeble, the Iterary style would be sure to make the book attractive by Its aparkte and piquaney. Whether it be a trade launched agatiat a publisher or a politician, a homily on invrals or theology, a playful aketch, or an cs say on the woman-question,—a downright scold in the character of a vixen, or a dignified dls- quisition becoming a worn of entture,—what- ever piece of writing Gath Iamilton juts fort: exhiblts a use of words so apt, loreible. and ine elaive that the attention fs arsestedl, and the re- sult, to aay the least, is arausement. ‘The astory tlenamed © First Love Ts Best,” fs merely what [t cluins to be, no‘ eontimentat aketel.* It would te overweighted with the designation of sovel, but It is a bright, spicy tale, affording agreeable entertainment when leisure-hours lag heavily. ‘the sequel of the action pinluly contradicts the proposition de- elated tu the titles set'thuse funiliar with the author will not pick a quarrel with her because iu tiie thelr rightful expectation bas been dis- appointed. Ne one can think of demanding consistency of Gall Hatilton. Ia Tt not aufll- clent fur weiler tobe dashing and brilliant? Must she at the sane thne be required to make a display of logic und reason t ‘The essny fn answer to the Inquiry, “What Think Ye of Cli curneetly exsiniues the evidences of the character amt doctrine of Christ which are contained fi the New Testa- ment. [tis eandld in aplrit, and. vigorous, not impregnable, in argument. Ita tone ‘ays cords inthe main with the Interpretations of conservative theulogy. THE EASTERN QUESTION, A BUIEF HISTORY OF MONTENEURO: To Winer ts Apunp a Snoxt Accocst or Tt OANA, COMPILED Thom Mack AND LAK! Ny Geonoy M. Towtg, Mostout Jamen IOs. good & Co. Chicnyo: Madiny Brow, & Co, sma, pp. tH. “Price, hO centa, That little, sry litte, Principality in South- a eastern Europe, known to the outer world as Montenegro, but calied by its own people Tsernagora; which Includes only 250 square miles of territory; which baa a population ot only about 120,000, out of which ft matnlaing an army of 20,000; which has nut more than 800 towns and villages within Its borders, the larg: eat of which has not above 1,500 Inhabltanta,— affords the matter fora brief ‘but interesting sketoh by Mr. George M. Towle. Cettlnje Ia tho capital of the country, and is a homed: humbly village, situated ina plaln amidst lofty mountains. It has but tworereets, crossing eacn other at right angles inthe centre of the town,—the one leading to the palace at one extremity, and the other toa large inn ‘The houses Hnlug the streets aro not above two- storles high, aud are builtof stone, and thatched or rudely shingled, ‘The dwellings in this, “3b in other Montene- grin villages, ure Imited tou single npartmisnt on the fower floor, ‘Tals room ie seautily fu nahed with benches nnd tables. Ly one corner {ea treplace destitute of chiinney, and opposite itis a rude bod of naked plinks resting on a frpin Rarely a matt softens this place of 1877—TWELVE PAGES, reat, on which thi ent Msrobing and with bis arina beetle Wim. The second story Is the granary and etoreroomn, and inreached by aladder In “one corner, Sach je the rough, uncouth home of the braye. warlike, hatt-savage Monteneurin. Slia wife is elevated a degree above the tomate of the harem, and set is his eubinissive servant.—performing the drucds- ery of Ife, while he buntes tinsel with nts fire arins, of engages In battle with the enemy. Appended to the history of Montenegro ts a slight account of Bulzaria, made up, as if in tos much haste for an original ratrative, of extracts from Jate books on Turaey and Its provinci RAILROADS, MANUAL OF THE RAILROADS OF THE UNITED STATES: Suowita Thrin Minnaug, Stoi Ks, Hoxps, Cost, Trarric, Bansixca, ESPexe AND Onnastzations: Witit a BkETON oF Trt Rise, Prounres, Ixr.urscr, Tongtien ITH ax Atrrsinx Containing a FELL ANALY? are or THe DEntTa oF Tue USitey STATES, or tite Bevenat, States. Ty Mewar Tenth Serien, New York: If. V. = fhiceag Janten, McClurg & Co, Hru., pp. titi, Price, &: During the ten sears which this annual has been before the public, it has established its claim to be regarded as 4 trustworthy authority in affatra included within {ts ecope. This last series presents In compact statements the lite tory of all the railroads iu the United States, downto the tatest date. In addition tu the usual matter contained in the preface, a comparison - fs given between the — con- dition of our fuflroads and the generat business of the country now, aud at the beginuing of the last deeate, While the gross carnings of the last yearphow a decrease Jrom the preceeding year of $5,807,310, the net earn ings show an hicrcase of WES. By economy Inthe management of railroads, the cust of transportation tins been reduced nearty utte-halt within a periud of five fears. Halironds have suffered, along with every other commerctal 4 terest, during the depression which bas pi yailed since 1373; but the trial has not been without Its uses, and there ara hopeful Indica- tons that the worst fs over, — SELLAIVS: VIRGIL, THE ROMAN PUETS OF THE AUOUS By We ¥. Betnant Mo AL, Professor of Manan ity Inthe Enlversity ‘of Edinburg, aud formerly Fellow of Ortel College, Oxford. Virtai.. Lone don and New York: Macmillan & Co, on Kru., po. 3.5 41 if "Tho leading Loudon pagers and magazines are favorably reviewlng the dew buok on The Ro- mun Poets of the Augubtan Age, by Sellar, We have not sel received HM, but find. this view of the book dn the Nation: ot a few will allow that their only reat knowl- edge of Lueretiue and Catatius—lct alone thele Jeqer poeta, whom hardly any unc pretend w know-dates from their readinig of Prof, Kellar s rich, thoughttil, and lively expusition it his work on the **Pouin of the Koman Kepublic." preeent work avawedly continues tut, and be followed by one on ** Horace and th ac " which we earnestly hope may be in two The Vigil before us 4s complete work Itingn excellent execution of anex- It Is net an edition-we have y editions of Virgil—but a descriptive monograph, of the character of Geotc's *' Pate," That admirable and clasaieal wock wan the frst of a sort wiuch can hardly be too much multiplied, —hooks which net only adit depth and sto ule actual or prospective study othe gre: classica, tut present a pleture of them, true, con+ sistent, ond lively. townch as du uot expect to tinku any atch wtudy. Grote's **htato" was a trearure’ alike to aludents who: meant to probe Vito to hin depth, and te readers whe were con- tent to be toid, with the traditional homeliness of tho late President Sparks, *' Who Platu was; where ho lived; phathe wrote; something gen- eral," —in ebort, tu have him a man, and not s name, Prof. Sellar proves himeelf a worthy fol- Jower and rival of rote, z Iiis book has cleven chupters, Tho first isa gen- eral Introduction, a1 zing and exploding that hackneyed phtaee, ‘*the Auguatan Age.” The second tHacusses Virgil's place in [tuman Ftcrnture, In four rections, viz. : lin former undisputed pre- entinence us its greatest bard; the change in that entiomte during the present century; tie supreme furportauce as preacntative writers aud hie claim to rank among the great poets of the world. ‘The third chapter disenyees the tite and personal characteriatics of Virgil. The fourth is occupied ho Eclognes, theledutes, thelr reiation to ( pantorala, and their truth of feeling, ‘The next three Chapters are devoted to the Geur- gice, their ateucture anu object, thelr reluttons to the great poem of Lucretin d their strictly Ital Jan character, Tho oighth chapter le on the pr Virgillan ftoman epic, wand the three remaining ui alyze tho ' cnet fn fia form and etyic, tte in portance 4.0 notional work, and ita Value us an matt life, sald the book snot an edition. Thero im, and, fndecd, no repetition in no textual crit! of Virgil's language at all except to iiuetrate and contiem tho text. Sill lew ie it part of the sathor's plan to translate Virgil, dts bovk afforda nu conntenance to thet theory Uiterally preposterous, for it olnborately and o-- fentatiourly puts the cart befuro the horec) that wo eat find out what the Homans ond Greeka said by incank of w modern language, Nothing haw done inure harm tu Atnerican learning, nothloy tas gone. farther to present our graduates from reauing Latin and Greek with facliily, than thin view, which, indorsed though it ve hy rome distlngaiaied: (2: TAN AGE. yolunter, by Ibelt, Lae Anidenme names dist! name aishont chi rtlon, f¢, after nil, a mere ‘pony In, and may well vive the new a new tion of the fate of Salmone meant ut 1A. OL OED MUlAres eyo tet, When Prof. Sellar qnotes, he quotes Virgil's own words, and the famiilar ye! ften startle n« fotmen with the tichnes= a1 biilliuncy developed in his spitting. (f course, in awotk like thie, manch 4-e9 Hot profers to he orlainkl, except ss far aa tl Jor gors. | ‘There is, pertiaps, nothing eteictly anew Inthe facta ert forth ag to Viele Ife ain, tines, the sources from which he drew hie ma- teriala, and the princtyten of art he followed; Ubst i, None part or anottier throuh the whole maen uf Virztlian literature, an omuisorou student nay Feengiive the quutce of every ane uf Prof, sebiar e atatementa and deductions, Indeed, toray anything how about Virgil, one must pe eccen- bia tito meanines and phrases he never dreamt of. Of thin there has been ntore than enough; but never were all the stores of Varziliun eohujatehdp combined into such a rich whole, cast inte euch eedeeful shaper, and chured {n sich det) tute workummnsilp, an now, in Me fearing, acute nits eriticlen, tender in Its sympathy, is indeed Virgiian, Vrof. Selier has thoraushly reen and ret forth syaalltvea that vake N Teil what he Je. First, norousn an feeling; hte decp and passion- ato love for . e P 4) uel paere che ‘I mar clrondae lAlpe. In his must essentially Greek adaptations, —hie balt-sictan wlieoherds, hia half Beotian farmers his Honet.c herve, —aull the ‘Mayne parcne frngum, Saturnia te: auigna viru,” with ad ber wauty and ali her etreneth, all hee history aud all her future, ts present as the queen of tie heart and theme of binrong. He hac understond Virgil 1 pecubar lo.e uf Nature, awl eayceialiy he has’ tee alized the full force uf ‘that wonderful pereonitica- tion of the Barth which runs throuxhout the Geotglea, drat, the deSant enemy, then the te- beiious eulyect, the crafty slave, wud at abt the rignteous ‘servant, the tra friend of man, “Sor hee’ tn connection with \truil'a deactiptions of Nature. oniward or inward, fai.cd tu apprehend the aunsitivenere ite nae Con Inglun's Most uporupriate wordy of Lin laneuaze, the peculia my of expression, strictly a ogaus te that uf Suphucles, whereby a amunical on fret reading, touching one positively Ungles with restrained sentine: aliiis points dod bearings are apprehenie 7 doce justice to Virgil a appreciation of the great work of peace and prosperity which tome owed to Auguatue, fle hae none of Muminsen's iunimoral Cirarimany but be duce catch thorouuhly the seurn- ing fe peuce that thrilled the heart af (tie pure schulat, the devout poet, ** plus vaten et Phun digns locutas,’ who xaw "the rouzh Unier prow tid after tue hundred. years’ civil war was ended, ie tas, finuliy, apnrce:ated the «trange kind of re livion waict Vici felt ae a moving force in hts ile, Fromtue® venerable bat engnlarly doll and soulless formalities of Latham, frou tie borrowed Hraces of icevk mythology. from the boldest apve- distuua of Eyicurus and hie prederersors, the re- served, nensittve, reverent eoul of the Coita-Italte- Rh aeinular thread of unvaryin. dependence on on ever-preavnt deity to which there ix ov precise paratlel in theological hletory, but Which has proved a chord af harmony to many of yout rouls since his tle, notavly: ble fh the abo les of the dead, the constant cellent ‘arninga of the Georges, the whole theme of the jd." are but retterations of the refrain, deus file, Menalea.” ucts Ve eetion whether Virgil tins he considered au Original poet, he howe ly that Latin orlelnallty Ie th ite essence t from that of Ureece or of the modern nu- nbd tl rts did originule x new type of ple povtry ae truly aa Home oriznated a new ime perial polity. ie ano percuiver, but hardly bei the point ot strong enouzh, that the xdnd 4 'The reealt, profound 5 = inality which a modern dramatist or novellet woul, aim at an dealing with the heroes of tra ditlon—auch desigus of eye erva an Tennyson shows In the "'fésle of the Kin would have been thought positively fo pions fn Sophocles or Virgil: as impious wal? Mil jon liad allered the Bible statements tn hla enies ant his tragedy, It wae uw new ecttins of the old sacred jewels, anew telly of the old inspired story, that an anclent audience eouzht for, Prof, Sellar bandeomeiy vindicates Virgil from the charge of a failure to gis hunian tnlereet to his enle. though be grant his inferiority to Homer in the dlecrminating presentment of individual aracter, We hail think he dove justice to i's pecultur excelience aa the poct of gallant, pirited youth, Ascanius, Pallas, Nisus, Euryalus, and Laucus are pictures. full of ning to esery one whu lias been honored with the confidence and regard of a candid onl generons boy. Sti lead hae he cangie inits fate ruhtcal evenificance the royal character of Virgil's bero,—the here of moral duty, whore heart tea in the arher of ‘Troy. All earthly Passion Is hence- forth dead for tim; he Ives for Heaven and his veaitered natton alone. Tetpted hy maligu intine ences te one instant of sin, he bresks a the moment the volew of Heaven aroures him. ta Tat non ponte wequor.” is his all-sufticient an- swer to Dldo; ‘*sequimar te, suncte devrum, quinquis es," Ile unalterable mative, We clove thin article with reluctance, recon: mefiding most cordialty thie clesant and solid monument of well-directed echoiarebip. TWO ENGLISH REVIEWS, The divorce declared between Mr. James Knowles and the Contemporary Jeview hos re- sulted In the additton of @ valuable magazine to English periodical lNteratures and, if that man [ss public henefactor who makes two Ulades of gruss grow where one grew before, whit shall be eakd of hit who makes two good Nineteenth Century has {mpatred tn no degre the effiriency of the Contemporary, Num- hers af both magazines for July have come to hand, and both show tho results of vigorous and intelligent management, Both pursue the practice of publishing the names of contributors, This practice isin some reepects objectionable, While {t 1s useful for advertising purposes, it presenta the free discussion of some anbjects, by limiting contributors of known reputation to hone utterances. wlileh may he cane(dered nates That great hugbear—conslstencyets ever he- fore the man who srites over hisown slenature. A contributor in the position of Mr. Gladstone, for inatance, must hampered by what he has written before, though his views may have revently changed; and, in the treatment of politicnl questions, considerations of — party- expediency must be taken Into the account by lim, Subjects of remote or inerely speculat! interest. un the other hand, can te treated by him aa freely over hia own struature ns anomy- snously. No motive of prudence need resteala hha from siening bis name to such an artlele as his “Rejoinder on Authority in| Matters of Option,’ in the current number of the Vine- heath Century, or his Piracy in Borneo, and the Opcrationa of duly, 1389," in dhe Contem- pili ‘There 4s room for the exercise of tea- sonable disretion fn thls respect. and perhaps He reviews would gain by abullsning the fron ‘ule. evontente ofthe July numbers are snf- Aeiently varied. The Nineteenth Century con- second part of Viscount Stratford de article on Turker; “The Risdale Judgment and ite Results,” by the Bishop of louvester and Bristol: “Round the World in the ‘Sunbearn,’' by Brasscy, M. conclusion of Cardinal Manning's of the Vatlean Counc" “Greater or Britain.” by Sir Julius V F. Harrison's paper on “The Lifes'* the aecond part of J. J and “Times of Thomas Five Nights’ Debate," “Another — Lesson Lessur 1y the conclusion of mu and Future Froule's Pile Becket?! The by Grant Dui; from e Rudfo- tneter,"? by W. Crookes; “Medical Wom en by the Hon. 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CHAPTER I, noses, Acranite-hulit, Jeracy farm-honse, Ite walls bleached by the salt storms of a hundred win- tera, its windows casemented and lozenged af- tor the fashion of 1750,—the date thut, with two hearts cutwined, figures in rudely. eut characters above the contral perch- way. Overhead are balinicat sumuwer-airs, a sky with moro blue {o it than you will sev during o dozen ordinary English Junes, and roses. Roses around the windows, sbove the door, along the caves, roscs everywhere, The ponetrating olor of nowty-burnt “yrale” strikes the sense, overpowering even the lusclous-sinclling ganten Niles, the pinks, gillyflowers, and blown Inyender that stock the trim-kept borders, You may hear the crawl of the tile upon the sands; you may hear, ff you Jiston long enough, the following love-song, chauted forth, from suiny Interior region of tho house, in a monato~ nous peasant volce, a volee possessing about as duch pretension to cadences or expreeston as doce the wild refruin ttaclf to meaning; Helle diguudi, elle diguudaine, Helle diguedon, Nondon—dendont Glher sound or sign of uman existence fs there none—and- Indeed the — afig- era yolco before tong grows silent. Hay- cutting {6 at {ts hefuht to-rlay, and Maryout, tho solitary wotnan servant of Flef-do- Ja-Reine, Is hurrylng through her kitchen work to join the men and matdens in the Meld. The housedlog takes bls afternoon siesta tn the porch, Floode of sunshine, solid, amber, Cuyp- like, ulve to tho wcene [know not what dreamy flavor of Mariana in the South, Almost you tight expect to hear the alarp ery of tho clvata, almost belleve that yonder sweep of quivering sopohire were the Mediterranean or Adriatic, nut the prosalc strip of British sca that scparutes Cherbourg from the Channel Istands. “tAnd this is alit For this we are born, weep alittle, and dic.” So muscs Davhne Chester, sa abe louks out ot tho world, her last pat of butter printed, from the elder-shaded windows of the cool, sweot dairy, “Hay-making this tnonth, harvest the next, and then the second crop of bay,—apple-picking, clder-making, tur- nips, mangela, plowing for the corn, potsto- planting, potato-diguing, back tu hay again} 1f one were only as old us Aunt Hosle! If oue could only wake some blessed morning and find that one had done everythlng,—done thirty orforty mage hay-haryeets, aud vider-makings, and potatowliugings, ‘say! If lie were a little Jess long, or a ttle more yarleguted, Why for twenty-Sour hours to pass without a tide, for Margot tosing a newer luve-soug thun Diguc- dup; vay, even for a single murket-lay, to priut the butter with anuther name than fief: de-la-Kelue, would be someting! © Mumsey,” bricks uut a piplug treble from the direction of the tlower-garden, * Viens, pilite Manian, irte—Puulle caught bins. fast, Daphne leuus forth her face quickly through the dalry window and bebolis er enalt «son, = Paul, prone in the tuiddly of a ceutre burder, hus goldcu bead scorching in the sun, bij straw but crushed tu u rth beucath both brown dimpled tlsts— alas! and one of tho fineat dove pinks in the gar- den—Aunt Hosio's spectal care aud glory— Crushed wloug with It! “ Ab Pauhe, wicbed boy that you are,” erics ve ever bestowed on womun vo! - Villty e stern, above all wheu it euddreseta the of Aunt Hosle’s beat aluce dinncr—and your hat torn turibbons, a new hat last Whitentda! Wait ll Peome out. This tine 1 shall punish you fn goud enrncet, alr." nd, moment Inter, behold her fyitug forth througn the porch, then dows the garden path, her white arma bare, her dairy apron Hang as. an tinprovised sunshade over ticr head, to administer condign Judgmont aud retribution upon her son, Daphne fs a falr, slenderly-built girlof two and twenty, gravetul after the: manuer that out-of door Hving and unconsclousuess of elfect aro upt to beget, and with hair of as burnished s Donde asthe curls of Ittle Paul, Her com- plexion bousts the pink of a May morning, a alr of Himpil hazel eyes etvo to hur counte- Hance somewhat of the graces of Currcyio's Virgin Mother's. Bo much for the aurface color- fig, the outward form. What fa the hidden, the moral wuut of Mrs. Chester's tacct For this waut existe, a stranger cun svares be in her company aiuiioute without discerning. No taw to Hap; and Fault, whore healthy heart | ia granite hhard,—Paul has already learnt tho delights of playtme tyrant. “ICL tell youn great bie seorct,—ol, ever 80 hig, Paullot how many kisaes will you give me, Iwondert* The child nestles his cheek conxtnely againat bis mother’s, Atthree years of aye children are suticiently versed in philology to know that the Mat “secret? moana a new pleasure for them- selves, “To-morrow Jean Marie will bring the hay home, Aunt Hose and £ mady cakes this morning, ani there's 9 ittle cake for Paul to take down to the feld, Uke the real haymakers."? ‘ALL for mine own self ¢? All for your uwn self, alr, and with 'Paulton the Ha in currants. Now, how many Kisses!” Ho hn ell nigh ta strangulation, hes bur nolsy, carcless Kisses on her checks and neck, tlually, a éresh butterily, more puinted than the Just, catching tus eye, strige gles down out of her embrace, and, waving lis father’ of feature; the profile is clear; the serous Hps close well above o act of white und even teeth. © Notre pative demoleetlo a Ia Muladio sans Maladic,” uy the country people uf the district, hitting the nail’ strafght tome, “Notre demolselle grew old before she was young, Mer account with the world (s closed.” fs the solution: “Le Maladie sana Dissect the young faco curlously aud you will fod that what It lacks is expectation. Tho blank, acquicscent look that Ife plows Intu facea” of aud 50, and that wo Jabel so reaignatiun oor despair, according to our creeds, twenty-two years have suflced, without a Hoe, without a wrinkle, to truce on hers. Daphus Chester expects nothing, is forbidden even tho natural joy ot lookin forward to Paul’s manhood. She grew oldu! heart before she was young; has had futaitst experience of tucnj—of thelr love, of their truth; and would falu keep the child a baby forever on her breast. Me taught him, Mamucy,” repeats Paul, look- fng up, the triumphant ilow of & Nimrod on his peacillke, ruddy cheeks, "deo what Puullo aye And cautiously fromm bencath bis flattened straw hatdraws forth what twomtuutcsazo Wasa buttery, a mungled heap of lege, wings, and geld powder, just enough of life animating wl) for the creature to quiver an fustaut In Its con- queror’s ron grip, then be etill, Oh, Puull ane more butterfly murdered,’ says Daphne, iu a yolce gravely proportioned to the heluuusness of the child's crime,“ He was so happy with his friends amoung the flowers, and did nobody any harm, aud you have kitted flint Paul will never be ab the poor butterily again." “Me till anath leto run races with says Paul prampt- Ty, and showin, row of tiny pearl white teeth as he shakes tho corpses of the victhn with disgust trom, bis small sugers. “ Vilalu butterfty—vat!" Mra, Ci shatched the child up from the ground, locka reproviugly for a moment or two at bis bold, brawn S-year-old face, then begtus wwsmother bin with Ktasce—the usual begin- ning and ending of Paui’s * punishments." Pact ue, ny eweet,"* she whispers, as she bears bin tn her strong, young arms towards the house; “think along thine drat, and tell me how much love Paul bus got for Mansey I"? Without = thiuking = =@ pevond, — Paul mutes olf @ scarcely appreciable fraction of act on one ny Manger. Aud how uiueb for tho three old aunts, who all Want tu seo Paul a youd boy t* Fora woment Paul looks fnnoccatly up at the oky, as though hu heard the question not. yen Le counnences drumming w little am- prouiptu tune of bis own composition upon bbe uuther's shoulder, “What, uo love for Aunt Hosle, when she makes you tuffes on Saturday?" Pauly appreciation of Aunt Hosio’s toffec- making is megeurcd, after duv delibera- ton, by the Honus of bis hand, say thrve-fuchos-uud-o-ball, “And for Maitre Audre, when he lets you ride Lisette at the Grande Ubarruet" ‘Ths child stretches both arms wile, “Paul alse Maitre Audre beautoup, beau- tout,” bo crics rly, Pauls language. | must explain, is strictly composite, part broken English, part patois French. Bou plus qu’ tol p' tite Maman.” Dapboe’s Up trembles, She belongs to the class of wuincu who want perpetual expressions of love feom the ‘object beloved, even hat wittly above his head, ts off, Daphne watehes the sinall impetuous fgure unt it is lost tu sight among the raspberry bushes ond capatlered pour trees that divide the Qomuin of flowers from the ampler kitchen garden. , Then she turns away into the house, Where her own. anme at. this dnstant fa belay lustily —-vuelferated. from the landlag of the first ftoor. “Daphne! What tu the world ie Dapline blus- tering about??? tho eyes of the whule household, with the sacred halo of [rresponalbility, Little Val hlin- self, the very dogs and eats, seem to know that Theodors Viuusittart Is not of the same work-n- day commonplace sort of stull as Aunt Iosio and Daphne. “Tt ty futile to argue, J know Henrletta’s ec- contrivities do not, alas! decreuse with age. But it does seem a Httle hard thatothers should: bo made to suffer for what T cannot but regard asthe very reiinement of seliishness, our pote grandpapa, child, Col. George Vausittart, ho sweetust-teimpered, most forgiving of men, used to say that the one unbearable triat of uur career da pilgrima was to be kept waithny for one's letters. Naw, my doir Daphne, may 1 beg of you to put on your hat, take Paul as your com paulon, and rin up to Quernee with what busts you cant Margot fe absent from, the kitchen, you tell mo,—for the suke, It may “be assumed, of meeting lier lover in the hay-fleld,--so 1 fear 1 must ask you to hurry back with us little de- Jay us tnay be, tn the cvent of visitors.” Twelve letters, perhaps, ona liberal average arrive at Fielde-lu-Relue during a twelve- month. A stray, open-ended clreular thude its. way = thither occasionally, Mins Theodora” having, = im an unzuarded moment, addresecd a Londen ee tsuker, ¥ ars agy, on the matter of investinents, and Helwig forever after treated asa speculative capitalist by the whole ‘kbrokinug fraternity. Once o week theslatcra voto * Chelteutam Looker-On” three or four days old, together with an untedl- = ‘The vuica Is old, quavering, yet possesses a certalu grull ring of majesty In its tones, One would aug, hearlug it for thu frst thine, thas, during threo or four score yedrs of human life, that voice bad been muré used to command than to entreat. “Theodura! 1 wish to know i¢ our niece Daphne, with her usual heedicesness, has fur- gotten the post-bag |! Upun thi, a door on tho opposite aldo of, the passage to tho kitchen opens, and a modiah- ly-lressed lady appears upon the threshuld. fuse the wort madish” with premeditation, Faded though Theodora Vansittart's layonder oilk may be, it has recetyed adjustments and readjustinents that bring. oP its style te tho level of Mf. Worth—1 mean M. Worth as repre- sented fn the last number but three uf the /etlt Courrler dea Dames. Mur collars and cuffs would have been the newest thing out, not a twelve- month ayo, Jn Oxford street. = Her flaxen hair, plentiful still, though sixty wiuters havo powered it, is fashionably, almost uirllsily, made the inost of beneath @ ny Wavteau cap of fave rose-bude end ribbon. tarnished blue-und-gold keepsake or aunual, of adate couval with Miss Thoodora's own youth, fain her band. “Ay dear Daphue! Isit possible that ‘Ou have aguln forgotten th ‘ i ttle too hard o port-burt ‘Tis Ys a ‘Theodora Vansittart's tone barely savors of so plebelan a quality a8 sourness, yet It isacidu- lated enouxh to carry reproach, “Zbave been performing my duty,’ those ataccatocd, chilly accounts seem to tmply. drest In a Javeater silk, a la Regen with folded) = whito bands. with =a gnind engaged in the purcult of elegant litera- ture, have, iu the expectation of pusaible vislt- ors, been Keeping Up the appearance that be- its our family's birth and” breeding, while you—— “+E and Aut Hoslo have hail as busy a day as Lremeusbor,” says Dapline, with the bameetace homage that (in real ute the Tndustrious Ap- prentico ever offers to the fille one, “ Fire there were the currant cakes for to-morr haynuking,—vou know Aunt Hoste will never suller any une but ine to beat the egusjand then hut “to print all the market butter by wyself, Margot contd svarco singe “Diguedon,? in her fevgr to; away from house- work to thy huy-field, so L——' “A cannot, for the life of me, understand per formiug imental work for pleasure,” kgerrupted Miss ‘Theodora, with a downward turn cf the eyelids upon ber own dainty dress aud aseless, delicate hands.“ *Superintend your domestic coucerus as nerrunelyias. you will," our poor ve paps used to tell ux your orders overy tuyruiuy tu the housekvever, aud let ber responsible for thelr ponfultitinent. But ever, Uf you wish your servants to respect you, etep beyond the precincts of your drawing-room. Now, really, ety should nut SMurgot compound the laborers’ cakes ssl print the butter for the market as well us Benrictiauud yourselft" Dapkus toakes uo reply. Fuded rejuvenated olka, useless Lands, clezant jiterature, and svete duties performed towards society io gen- rbd. “Another pink truken—thap makes three * though the object aball havo only learnt ' oral, bave long agu Luvestud Miss Theodora, in luvian “Court Journal.” Christus brings ite muadest, very modcat, stock of tradecsmen's bills, Yet so ‘ineradicable is hubit, the two elder Mise Vaneltturts etl louk out for the = post asin those ol, long-dead thes of youth aud prosperity, when the postman really used to bring them commu- nications of Living flesh-and-blood {ntcrest,— invitations to dinner or balls, letters of friend- ip, tetters of love! Ratn or shine, aver much, walks to the village shop at by ‘arrangement, the oyer- worked country factor goes dally throuch the transparent fiction of depositing the Fiot-lo-la- Reine letter-bag. “Ifthe thermometer did not stand at 80, Poul would enjoy the walk, Aunt Theodoral As {t is*%—with hall-gullty consciousness Daphne makes 8 sugeestion that in- volves Theodora Vansittart duing anything— “as tt ly, it fair would wot mind looklng after the child a Ittle tH Teome back! Me will give you ng trouble if you let him aay in the war. den. Paul ta always good when he fs out uf doors. Paul fe nevor good,—out of doors or in," Miss Theodora, with Bismarckian deeiaion. jut Lam, of course, ready to keep wateh over him in your absence, If you consider such watch- ing neccesary. When F was a chitd,” adds ‘The odora, devoutly, “people of education believed the world to ‘be under a moral government, Parents had fatth ta Providence.” “80 have I,” cries Daphne Chester, * when— when the tide Is golug outt Stemember Maitre Hatmen's grandson; think how soon a little chud as perhaps Paul inight be aurrounded by any Of thess treacherous spring (des, and care ried away to sca before aand could be stretched out to suve him,” Her cheeks pale, her eyes suffuse before the Meture, luridly terrible as Murtiu’s Deluge, that ter own Imagfnation paluts. “Oh, Lknow, [ kuow,” retorts Miss Theo- dora, with the natural irritation of au perior orthodoxy, “This want trust, nervous, — tnarbld pation of evil, is the flaw of your chara ter, Dapline. ft former days, W the nursery, mothers had nu uerves to speak of, the better for thelr children, With Paul's selitsh temperament, fen fuay be quile eaay as to bis taking care of hiaself under all efrcum- stances ;j—there he fatramiay down the lower- beds at this moment! However, if you insing upon it, will carry my book down vb the terrace and keep guurd—the pluks upd yereuluins fur very certain need yuards fug—untll uu return.) Wik 80, botore Mrw. Chester starte upon ber errand, so has the comfort of secing Mlss The- odora, in a girlish, broad-brinimed hat, the bouk vf olegant literature Iu her hand, stitly pacing upand down a@ terrace at the bottom of the Fardenn while sho kecus watch aud ward over aul. “Qood-by, myewcet! Be sure you kill no more butterilics, and stay close to Auut Theo dora, and remouber tue currantcake for to- suorrow.?? Tous Dapbos admonishes ber ideas, on education, her von, as the reader must. “observe, having their basis fn the doctrine of rewards and punish- nents of bribery aud corruption. Then ahe turns away down the narrow path which leada to the aide entrance of Flet-de-ta Meine, and Miss The- odara and ler charge are left nfo ‘The sun grows hotter and hotter as h the flower ganien at tis hour of the duy is shadeless. Lesa than half a dozen turns upon the parched sward of the terrace sulllce to set Theodora Vansittart longing tor the cool com fort of the rose-scented, oak-fuored farm house parlor. Au Paul fa so eafe—Paul, intent on mischief, slyly watching Aunt Theodora’s overy movement from beneath bis eye-lashes,—and the very notion of keepin sen- try over a boy @ years of age is so ridiculous! Theodora, however, ia wu woman of honor, a6 honor guca; will hold to the letter though she trausgress the septrit of her promise. In the lower portion of the flowery arbor, at an angle commanding the egress towards tho beach, stands # fig-tree, ancient, wide-spreading, be- wenth =~ the natural arbor of whase branches are plaved oa _srustle = table aud sone chatrs, ‘Thither Miss Theodora trangports her buok, and ere tony, epeetacies on nose, {8 again engrossed inthe young ladles and gentlemen of, qualy whose love ailyentures form its staple. Paul, who would seem to have mado a Midden unnatural lapse (nto the way of virtue, Juiters qutetly near, With finger on lip, with wtlll stealing covert, quickly- averted glances at hls warder's face, Lower sinks the sun, hotter ts the air; the thde, as yet ome distance off, murmurs scarce more articulately than docs the sultry woul ainong the gurdcn trees, ‘Theodora Vansitturt's head begins to nod, She recovers ticracilt: with o stait, adjusts lier spectacles, and returns to the fortunes of her heroine. Which {6 the heroine in white satin, and which is the attendant in cumbrle? Is pursuant guilt or fying virtue In the ascendantt ‘Alas, Theodora fast approaches that preluda- tory stage of slumber in which the setses con: tinite to bring their measuyes to the brain, but without coheston of sequence, ‘The smell of the lavender and Liles, the droning tide, the printed characters uf the page belore her,—of all these things sho stilt ts cognizant, but ints ly, Some Influence she would fain strumsde avalnet, but that perpetually gains the mastery, Hosts between her consciousters and the ex- ternal world. She dozes, this dine in earnest; her head sinks forward a ithe eftort at re- covering herself {3 (rebler; and Paul, finger on lip, advances, and tds that tho crunch of ble Uttle steps along the gravel ts unnoticed, Presently tho book, heroine and all, falle upon Mixe Theodoru's knee, Rerolne! Nay, ts no_longer a ques- ian af fetitiaus love affalrs ‘Theadora Vansittart, on girl of Win a bishop sleeved inualin and plak ribbons, is Lerwcll the centre of a jealous ring of aduitrers at an al fresvo garrison-hall, Tt is In Malta, where her father, Col, George Vaneittart,’” coi- mands his reginent. She can sco the sinut- btue waters of the port, thickly studded with trim men-of-war and youdily-paintet native craft, She can sec the many-piled cools of Sanglis and Conspicua, with the apires and citu- del of Citta Veclita, on the fulut horizon, The military band strikes up some fashionable dlanee-tune of the day; poor faded Miss Theodora feels ag remembered “arm steal round her walst, hears uw remetibered yolce close tober car, Bie whispers,—aht in the mazes of the waltz she seliabere the © yea that should have browsht wartnth and color into another life as well us hers. And the volume of eleguat literature tall to the ground, the drone of the rioiag the, the rustle of the garden trees, disturb her senses nu inore—Mive Theodora is asleep, And now, on Uptos, hls ips apart and eager, his eyes never quilting ils wurder'’s face, does Paul come forward. it he cuu pasa ber side in safety, the beach, with all its glorious wouder-laud of racks wud pools, Uve before bin. With bls hand bi his mother's safe clap, Paul once thls suminer (at 3 yeare old thie summer” bounds the whole of Memory) bas wandered to the farther Minits of the shore, even tu the tower uf Gubrielles,—eor- arated already from the aaln-land by'a thin line of waveless sea. He remembers low the prowns, blz auc fearful game to Maul, gave each other thasy amoung the muny-culored pouls; re- tembers bow, Manicy carrying te sucks sud shoes, he, Vaul, paddled in scarch of craba upon the wet, sult sands, fimagtuation palnte—uuo Mamscy by—how he uray. puddle ta he real bly tide, bf shoce aud sucks om, Bye, and ble frock wet, and bia buttoned straw hat pushed before hin asa shrimping-net through the water, aud never a votce to nay Don's! Ifonly Aunt Theodora wlll keep asteep. Rhe keeps asleep; her head gradually settling: back into 8 comfortable uttitude azatust the corner of the arbor, her mouth opening a little, her spectacles resting upon the extreine tip of her aquiline old nose,—and, with a rush, Pant passes her. ‘Two minutes later, he fs running, fast ns his sturdy Jege ‘can bear him, towards Cabriclles, the thie crawling slowly, surely, iu around hin on every Bide. ——— ' CHAYTER Il. SCIENCE. ‘The tide clores round Httle Paul, and his mother, without a mleciving at her heart, walks onwards through the verdant, summer-stmelling: lanes, the Dive sky smiling overheatl, the volees of the haymakers ringing merry through the elds: earth and = heaven, one would aay, keeping holiday; no place for dan- ger, and loss, and awift irrevocable despatr in o world so harmoulzed to joy ns this! * Throughout every season of the year the Jersey lunes have sume unique charm, some duodecino beauty of thelr owe that we niles amidst the whle horizons of stateller countries, Now, IninidsJune, they are at their zenith, The flower of the hawthorns lias past, and still, fy some few abeltered = positions, =o flush of hectle serves to remind you of vast winds, and of May, The foam-like, drowasy-eeented elders aro In fullest blossome ‘The dwarf-rose filly every sandy bank or bitof common with {tewax-whito petals and delicate, lemon-tlavored odor. Great balls of honey. suckic, here budding crimson, there over- blown pink and buff, hang profusely from the hedges of acacia, sycamore, and wild cherry, which, tothe horror of setontite farmers snd the satisfaction of the remainder of mankind, form the boundaries of the flelds, Daphne saunters on, now in sun, now in shadow, amidst all this wealth of color and of fragrance; herself not the least fair accessory of the pieture, but unwitting as any dower along the path of her own fulrness. A book of extracts might be filled by some diligent extract-culler with the pretty fancies indulged in by the poets about uncon- scious beauty. IT would make bold to say that no healthy girl's heart of two-aud-twenty was ever callous on the scoru of personal attraction. Daphne Chester's stute of feeling is morbid, “her account with the world closed"; there is the secret of her sclf-Indiffer- ence. Uress ttvelf, that suro barometer fas toa woman's heart, ju Hilo gives her scanty pleasure, With the very country girlein tho lay-flelds disporting tunfcs, panters, and the hike, sho wears a skirt fashioned upon the toiled of @ dozen years ago; wears a straw hat that shades her face platoly-bralded halr, when every farmer's daughter holds ber head up in honorable conselousness of a Pamela or a Rubens! Ninety-nine ince out of a bundred, in short, would pass Mfrs, Chester by without a second Elanee,—so well has the ago educated ‘és tu meretriious charma,—aud to cs- yond glances Is precisely the result at which shd aliny. But the huadredth. ‘Tho bungreth, a sketeh-buok under his arms czar between tis lips, breaks upon Daphne's disconcerted algut just ay she has reached the cue absolutely loncly bit of all her walls, w fout- path leading through fleids of ripening barley, with thickly-bouhed spple-orchanty on either side; nut the echo uf a voice to be heard, not Bu muck as the outbuilding of a farw-house ly este ty excurstonist,” sho thinks, and tho var- nation urautles hotly over ber face and neck, Tsbould explain that, to the inbabiten thls district, the word excurfoulst ” fs a yeu ele term of reproach tor ull quaie human creatures, strangers, Who tuay be seen abroad atuong the lanes or tickds between the mouths of May aud October. it compreheuda cockney rallauiry tuward wouren; dliregard of gur- hie fences; a five-pousd return Uchet Victoria loud ralnbow-volored hut-scarfa; and vile tobacco. What shall Daphne Chester dot Bhe has no chuice but to set her features into the most for- bhidimg expression these soft featurcs are capable of wearing, fix her eyes steadfastly on Station to treed nuit; the distant aky-line, seal ber cars to. whatever all compliment the stranger thay think ow upon ber, and brush by. Literally by, for the path, at no the broad, is y scarce parsable by reason of ‘barley toat aways azroas {t, fu feathery, encroaching waves, from either alde. ‘The carnatlondeepens onthe girl's cheeks, but she holds her head up bravely and proceeds. The etranger is withii w dozen yards of hero well-knit youny fellow of five or eix- anttwenty, bronzed, hardy-looking, a soldicr you could hardly fall to prognosticate by pro- fession, yet with an wir ot boynvod, a lngering Jouk of Hurrow or of Rugby giving pleasant brightness to his fuce aud bearing. Wand not—wet an excursionist,” thinks Daphite on the instant. What Bultic sense, unclassified by physlalo- cists, enaliles » woman, with hereyes tiked cn the horizon, to seo clearly, aye, and theorize, upon every, sinallest tutermediate detall uf the picture: " fle has a sketch-hook—nust be aceon pllaled—has thrown his eigaraway—ts of geutle breeding. His hands do wot embarrass bitnsel!, bis eyes do not embarrass me." Only alive her as lougw glance as the eyes of five-and-twenty can give at the blushing face of a pretty woman, this atde of offense! ‘Theo the stranger steps aside tnto the deep burte Mre, Cheater tu pass, half rulscs his bat, one quick glance in pursultof the girllan, grace ful figure when it hay pussed, and continues his way. Thus the adventure fs over; in a We — sequestered = ay Daphne Chester's to come across a well-luoking stranger on aummer afternoon may, ulded by meditation, become an adventure, Thus these two peuple hove met; with fasues Mterallyof lifeand death dvpendent upon thelr speaklug, havo kept si- lence. Butnow appears the Deus ex machina, the first visible fink in that dark chain that bindauy and which it is our pleasure to call- ‘ato ‘The stranger, absorbed in his thoughts, or by Dis clyar, bus dropped a letter, and Daphne baa barely passed bln by half a dozen steps before she discovers It, yhig tn the path. She stoops down, Eve-like, speculative, She reada the address, "fy written in a woman's had, upon an enye- | lope of blue rep; a wquare-sbaped envelope ub least thres thes larger than the old-fasbluned letters to waulcl Mire 4 zleaters eyes ary accus- tomed at Fief-de-la-Reine. it he Jou Boverne, Roysl Engineers, Posto estante, Jersey. ity tine tie Daphno holds the letter between hertingers, The eltuation beri to involve questions of conscience rather than vf curiosity, “The sffair. is none of yours,” says Pridu. “Leave the letter where you found it, aud pass op. Flattering Indeed to @ man’s vanity, —think whut that 1s! a man's (uatiate pardty,— were you to pursite this youthand accost him— seck is acquaintance, unsulleited |? “Hut the luss of that fetter fay prove the spoillng of bis ilfe,” pleads Daphue's soft heart. It be from wife, poor boy!?* The thought makes her heave 8 sigh of pity, Or from his sweetheart. Af I were young—it IT belonged to the world slill—what gatght not, the loss of .a letter cost met It of Might, of is ties tian Duty to my neighbor, uo matter whether my nelghbur bea wan of 60 or of 3." Having soared into thy regivw of abstract and. jofty morals, Mrs. Chester waver nu more, “ i belleve this letter must belong to you, olr, Bhe has been forced to run at full specd to overtake bhua; ber face ls overspread with dau- ask; slic punts u little for breath; curt, reserve: ishermanner; cold, most wusuullng are ber i . Sir John Severne’s cyes, Labituated of late to Anglo-Lndian charms,—charts whose idlosyncra- ayls scarcely that of coldness or reserve,—reet upon Daphoe Chester with av admiration whit she it, fortunately, tod breathless or too bashful notice. + Lum extremely sorry that you should have taken su much trouble on my account,” be be- pits, inechaulesly transferring the rcatored let- ur te his kee. Sitleimgy have beca from bls wif, It was not from bis sweetheart!" yhe thiuks, with prompt decision. “ No boy of his age ever got |