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THE CHICAGO TRIBU BATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1877--TWELVE PAGES. LITERATURE. “Hotty'a Strange History”-—Bur- dott’s “ Hawk-eytems," remove from tte object. Men having this kind of uprightners ant loyalty rarely are much given to words or demonstrations of alfoc- tion, To them love takes {t¢ place side hv site with the common air, the course of the sun, the rucceasion of days and wichts, and all other unqucationed and unalterable things {n tho workd.? Nevertheless, she brood. cu over the ten that, in tying with her, he was being defrauded of happiness he nobly desorved, and slowly she matitren the resolution to steal Anachronisms in -Art—--The | from her home in ench away that there could Mathias Corvinus Library. Conference of .Librarianse-«Art- Notes---dournalism in the Celestial Empire. Flora Round About Chicago: Tho Heath Family---The Brit- ish Vivisection Act. LITERATURE. NO-eNAME SERIES, AFTTY'S STRANGE HISTOR By the Anthor of '* Mercy Philbrick's Choice,” Isuston; Rub- erts Bros. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Uo. 16mo., pp, 201, Price, $1. Tt le quite within tho possibilities thal ' Het. benodoubt she had come to her death by drowning. ‘The aatoniahing resolve was carried ont, and Hetty fled toa remote town in Canada, where medicinal springacalied many tivalils from varfons nitatters. For ten yeara she sujottrned here under an assumed name, dwelling in ee- clusion, and earning a livellhood by acling As day-nurse in the great hospltat of the sick who thronged to Bt. Mary's, Meanwhile Dr. Even mourned his wife 3 Mead, and was inconsolable, Sorrow preyet upon bin, inducing disease, and giving tifa ‘the bent, worn look of an old man, Wearled with sickness sod loneliness, he finally closed his affairs In the plove where Ie tad been eo blessed to him with Hetty, mean Ing to eeex physical benefit and mental rolace Crom travel tn Europe. But first, by vhanee, his quent Ted tim to try the waters of St. Mary's. “Reason tottered on ite throne when he faint himself face to face with his lost Hetty, and in that moment ste discovered lier terrible mistake. Love mae everything to be forgiven between thetns but Dr. Eben insisted upon a sevoud marringe with Hetty. inder the feigned nume whe bal taken. Elis first wife, he sul, had. been dead to him for ten years: tmonament had been ralsed to hee memory in the cemetery where ler parents were lying, and ty's Strange History" should be a truc one, as | her miine ol fonld not be etained with the re the author intimates at the close. There Is no | fi concelvable inconsistency, nor freak'shincss, nor contradiction, that tnay not be developed in hie man nature and human conduct. Budden, und unprecedented, and unaccountable It may be, but never Incredible.“ Nothing surprises me,” {sa trite declaration of the worltdly-wise, which conveys a clilling, repulsive insinuation to the breast of youth and inexperience; but, aa the years pass on, bringing contact with mankind in Its infinite diveraity aud incompletences, the grim sentence wins an unreserved ace quicscence. No, there {8 nothing too strange to be belleyed,—no diaerepan- cica 1u cbaracter that may not be possi- ble,—no startling discordancies in action that may net at any moment be revealed. In some Dreasts this conviction prodaces eyticism, bit- terncag, distrust; in others, tt stimulates the growth of the gentlest rirtues, aud, most ofall, of humility and charity. id Hetty Gunn, the herolne with the strane Matury, fs represented as attaining the nature |, age of 3G without ever having loved or been nuked In marriage, Yet she was a most attract- tyeexample of womanhood, with a {alr person, Kindly manners, and generous heart. Was a self-sulliclugness in her nature which ts uncommon {n woman, and kept her from reallz- {ng the needs of compantonship, and protection, which are so imperions with most of her eox. Her tnsensibjlity to the sucicty and the atten- tlens of tha men of her sequaintance effectually prevented any ardent attempts at woolng; for, as the author puts It, “it is a rare beauty, or a rare spell of some sort, witch, can draw a man past the barrier of a womnn's honest, unuffecterl, und persistent tnconscious- ness of ayy thoughts of love and matrimony.” Tn her beth year, uirenuistances brought about adaily aegociation between Hetty and a pnysl- clan newly come into the community, who Was five years ber juntor. Hesty's relation with hin was wa frank and free as it had been with every other friend of her acquuntanee, and ft was a bewllderhyg event when Dr. Eber Willia avowed his love and desire to make ner his wife, Tn the end, love tegat love, and Hetty ylelded the buon that had been asked of her. Eight of profound happluess followed her miar- but, In their progress, they hud aged the energetic wonrsn, whose life waa, for the greater part, spent out of doors, in the mannge- ment of her form, or $n nasisting: hee husband = fn devoted == ministrations to the poor and needy — aniong © his patents, Ags eho contrasted her faded face, tn its frame of whitening hate, with her bushand's fresh, manly beauty at 40 years, In tte perfect pritne, & pang at the diifereice in thelr ages and Sppearanee for the frat time altiicted her, A morbid state of fecling was cngendéred, and, wile under its infuence, the sight of 0 beauti- fal: girl whom the Doctor was caring for with the tenderitcas habitual to him sugeested to Hetty that her hngland would ba happler with syoung wife, aud the children that were now | rativeof Icht construction. Tenled bin. than was possible with hor, Netty felt no jealousy in the ordinary scnec af the term, tor Doctor Ebun wana man of thac fine Abre of organi loyalty to whicl there Bot posstlic oven a temptation to forsake or A BLUESTOCKING. BY MRX, LOWARDS, Actuon or Quant Wr to Visit len Lean: A Wowax or Fasiioy," | Ancins Loven." Ete., Ere. CILAPTER V.—Continvzp, CHAINS MATRIMONIAL, Meanwhile, when the early clouds of cherry aud bawwthorn lay white upon the hillsides, Paul opened his bluc eyes upon the world, Daphne, os [ have sald, had wtood up resolutely, nt first. + Her herolsm ended now. With physical weak- Neas came reaction from the mor tension of all the past unhappy, stcopless weeks, and "twas long before the doctors cuuld pronuunre or Aunt Ilosie botieve her to be out of danger. 8 0 spoke of her husband jo her delirium only, not asking for his prcasnce; sho luoked with dull, unwelcoming eyes upon the child. Alas, and worse wasto come, When, at tast, her pale Itpa did murmur Barry Chester's name, with what responso inuat she be mot How. should {t bo broken to her, faintly struggling © back from tho stillness of the dark valley to the pes. and ular of Iving, that he had deserted jor forever; that the tiny babe who lay upon her breast was worse'than fatherless? Twice only had Mr. Chestes written during Daphno's incas, in the first letter ackuowledg- ing, without noto or cumment, the news of his son's birth, in the second coolly announcing his own departure for America, Ths attempts at iinding work in England, the promlecs of friends, interest that he thought eould be relied upon,—all had provetl enipty. At the present moment, after paving his paes- age-moncy to New York (where he would task ikely starve), hie stood without a £1Unote tthe world. Useless for Daphne todream of further correspondence. The marriage had beet a “sell, —this was how Mr, Chester expressed himeelf,—a “sell for both of them, Let tt be forgattent Re hoped that she possessed wuf- Uelent Christan charity to forgive him any pain ne inight have caused her, and that she would trouble herself no more about his existence. Ho Was étarting for America under a tictitions DAME; any efforts mada with a view to traci him inst therefure be labor in vain. ‘The past ‘Was pustand done with. The beat thing for both of them was to embark ona new life that should blot out the errors of the old one, dn fewer words; he had abandoned her and her thild forever. Daphne bors the blow with 9 auict- Desa that, for a cirt of her age and tempera- ment, boded no quick recovery. Amidst the tumult of thoughts that thronged her brain, the one, perhaps. which stood forth the clearest Was—the tinpussibrlity of her, Daphne Chester. having done with happiness. Nineteen year: old, the aun shining into the hearts of spr: first roses, the birds chanting Up and down the Janes—there was, Ilterally, as yet, no place in. the existing fabrle of her thoughts” for the realization uf her own despair, It needed thoe —tine, whom the superdcial name Healer! the slow engraver and perpetuator of gricf in human beart@to teach ber to be wretched. Tho {ntlation over, the A, B, C, of euffers ine inastered, she was no ioape or laggard: schotur for the future, roach that she had willfully dererted a faithful ushand, and alfitetert bin through long sears withthe tormentsofitesolation, Hettventmitted hinmbly to the decree, and the reuntted pair went to Eurone tozether to spend the remalne der of thelt liver, that xo thetr sal accret. might be bid from all whe had before known them, ‘A feeble Idea of the power of the story can bo conveyed inabrieC abstract. ft full strength must” be malned from tha original tteclf, The details and acvessuries which give {t elaboration and hefgbten the effeet, and, beyond thal, sue- roand it with the alr of planelbttity, are of as much fmpurtinve as tie main tneidents in Ue rchaine, A atuorad is puintedty druwn inthe nt- ttudy of Hetty Loward Sully and Jim, who by a youthful sty had tucurred the ectentless ‘con- demnation of a Puritan community. * letty’s Strange History” ts very unlike “Mercy Philbrick’s Chuley’? fn theme and treat~ ment, and still the same Rand is apparent i. exch, ‘The present work t¢ more evenly sitse tained that Chat which Pecreded i, and couse- quently, ts at whole, may be considered its au- pertor, Hoth exnibie Hne studica of character, and are ustrictive to the thoughtful-minded, "Those faruthar with the pootrs of & [1, TL." will qt nize the authorship of the two books in following verses which constitute the pres face of this Inats. What tover baat hie love itoth prove and show? But there | Tno one whore words are awiftert love to state? ‘Tho one who meaaitres out his love hy welxut In costly plfta which all men eee and know? Nay! wortle are cheap ant casy, they may £o Tor what mert thtok them worth; or soun or late, They are but ais. Any cifte? Still cheaper rate Are they at which men barter ta ani fro ‘Where love fe not! ‘One (tng romaine. 0 Lord, ‘Thaw hast eo actdom even it on the Earth, No name for it has ever sprinz to bitin: ‘Vo give one’s wn hfe ap enu's lve to prave, Notin the muartyr's ueath, but in the death OF daily life's must wenring daily groore.. mo. And, unto him who thie grent thing hath done, What does Great Love return? No ensedy toy! ‘That ewitt dellzhe whicn beareth large alloy, , In enerdon Luve bestowed on bin whe won A loneer trust: the happiness begun In tapyiners, of tapoliess may clay, ja own subtle fue, itealf destroy. : vadfast, Lrclesa, quenchiless aa the eno, Doth grow that gladness which bath root in pala, Harth's conimon griefa aseail this anal tn valo, Great Love himself, too poor tu pay snch debt, Doth borrow Coul's great peace which passeth set Allonderstanding, Foil tenfold sgain Is found the fe, laid down without regret! ROMANCES. . Dy Genatons Bert, rice, 20 cents, THE TIME OF Gritatpixe Nort. Paper. Pei MRS, ARTY! Noven. By’ Mi t, Author of **Chronictes of Carlingford Bap Price, Bros. Chicago: Janeen, McClurg & Co. “Dicudonue” and “The Time of Rosca” are two pleasiog morceaux presented by Harper & Bros. in their ‘* Half-Hour Berles.” They are the work of the samo author, and one who has ahappy faculty of infusing intercet into o nar- “'Diendonne" is amost pathetl: story of the sicze of Paris, which moves the reader frequontly well-nigh to tears, and tears of such pure. sweet fecling that, DIEUDONNE. Paper. ROSES, By SOcents. New York: Harper & } wnd touching. Hon. A little airl, whose name aenifies God. given," is the heroine of the tale, hut sce, and experience, and romantle adventare cout offer nothing surpassing tke charmof her artless faith nul unconscious heralam, Only a chapter from the endless chronictes of the ditine passton is recited under the title of “The Time of Roane,” but it is cmnbellished with suct grace of style that Its lack of sinking originality Is forgotten. Mes. Oftphant is prodietng novels with far too ereat rapt ny to dothem ant ber really root abilities justice, Her fale repnte ns an author muatenifer from the repetition of tmnertect work Ike thin now before us. The vigorous writing and vivid Nenre-painting of which abo facapable withont any eiort will not atone for glaring Improbabilities tn the action of a story, which with proper care could have been ayold- ed. Had Mrs. Oliphant worked wp the plot cancelyed Jn the novel, * Mrs, Arthur’? with the ekill quite possible to her, her admirers wontd have had uccasion to congratulate her, as they Daye ko many times nad the privilege of dolug heretofore, WAT. ART: A Weersy Incoatnaten Revinw, Third Your, Second Volume. Parte: — LAvralrie de IArl. BD Chaussee dAntin. Now York: J. W, Honton, 70 Broadway. The Just-recefyed volume of L' Art, which tsa. collection of the weckty issucs of a pertod of threo months, is, like the preeetiing volumes, full of vartety, adding to [ts usual interest many reproductions of this summer's pictures ant sculptures In the anqual exhibitions of London and Paris, Perhaps, foremost in Interest among the ittustrations [s tha carcful etching of F. Leighton’s “Athicte Strangting a Python,’ The work {s in the possession of the Urittsh Royal Academy, aml hos received great praise as one ot the marvels of motern art, Mr. Leighton fs 2 painter, most careful ond scholarly in the use of the brush, ond thi {s his rst essay In sculpture. Some of the London Academy paintings represented in JA Art are: .% genre picture by Mares Stone, entitled “Sacrifice *; Rose,a younc lady in a pletureequa dress, by James Archer; 9 “Breezy Marsh,” by J. Brixton Kuight. By anirited etchings, W. Q. Orchardson's Queen of the Sworts,” and R. W, Macbeth's “Potato- Marvest in the Feus,' arc reproduced. Tne “Queen of the Swords" is a representation, with many fluures, of the stately “Siworl- Dance” of the last century, where the ladies Pass under an archwat formed by the crossed swords of thelr cayallcrs, Froin the much-lauded Grosvenor Gallery of London, we have various fac-sinites of drawings by Alphonas Legros, Slade Professor of the ‘ine Arts at London Univerally, which draw- Ings were executed before lis pupils as lessons (wart-work. These show the exact knowledge and certatn touch of Mr. Lezras, and his ability tu ttl the important position given to him n'a forelgn country. Another Frensiman, tio of whose paintings are represented in the Grosre- nor Gallery, 16 Janes Tissot. Hie pictures are: “Summer,” a young lacy In moder attire, with Wook and parasol; atid “The Widower," shown ina full-page Mustration. The Intter paluting is much: pied in London, though the sud-faved father, bearlig his Nttle girl in his arma, Is sail to bu much subordinated to the rendering of the abundant follace and vegeta- tation, and the effects of lizht and shade, In recant tu the Paris Salon of the present ear, we are tuld thateame of the hest native aud ureign artiste have net sent pletures, but are waiting until the Universal Exposition of 1873, where they can shoty their efforts toa larger auuilience. Still, there are 4,010 palntings and senlptures oxhibited, and of these we buve rep- reacnted in 2 Art forty of the most interesting. Ty full-page engravings ant etchings, allot force and yaluv, we have: “The Mead of St. John," by J.d. Hennu; @ Algerienne,” by P, M, Boyle; * Cilffs of Dieppe." by A. Guillemet; “ Bridal Gifts,” by Gonzalez, “ October at Ve~ zelay,” by Guillon; “The Fifticth,' a birthday- seene, by Maurice Goseman, " Saluting the Wonnded,'* a scene of the Franco-Prussian war, by Edward Detaille, bought by Str. Hawk, of New York: “Fishing.” by Ulyeee Bue. tin; “Consolation,” a fine ctebing of the painting by, Paczka; another fine etching of “The Lisette of Beranger,” by Charbonnel,‘ Wooden-Shoe-Makers in the forest of Finisterre;” three other choice land- scapes; and “Fate and Love," a drawing of a Piece of sculpture b7 Dore. This last is strong Love, a wined youth of tender age, leans bishead pon the breast of Fate, n colossal, aged, but immortal woman. At their fect lie an overturned hour-class and a quiver of arrows. Luve is already touched by the lan- or of approaching death, and holds Matlessly fais hands the thread of life, upon which Fats, with sorrow, but with determination, fs jurt closing her fatal shears. These large engrav- ings and etchings, besides the numerous small ones, give 4 mont interesting ond instructive record of the Paris exhibition. In the 826 pages of this volume of L'Art, there the heart is cle anged and refreshed by the ema! are ctchings by eleven ditfcreut artints, wood- you, child, what kind of Waste your regrete upon.” “Barry Cliester comes of a doomed stock.” So, In an upright feminine hand, wrote one of Mies Thoodora’s unknown corrcanonients, & Chester herself by marringe, sinartluc, poss!- bly» under wrougs that fnfnsed gall into her ink. “Tis father was worthless, his grand: father worthless. The boy was born, us cvery Chester muiat be, to a hopeless lulicritance of evil, = Althongh I da not know Mra, Barry Chester," the letter ouded, “1 tell her ‘honestly that 1 congratutate her on her good ‘fortune in having seen her husband for the Jast time. Krom father to son tie Chestore haye brought shame and desolation to tho neart of every woman who has loved them, It will be so to the and.’ Facta, with a vengeance, these. Facts, each af whosu written syllahics seems to Daphne's eoul to look up at her with cruel bnman eyes, anc whose influence sank, tike the stain of sume dart porson-lowwer, through all the yot unopened pages of hor young life. Horn to'n hopeless {nheritance of evil’; even as tha babe, jut beginning to ainile up in her face, must bol She felt herself, and, what was dearer than hernelf, the child, to be in the grasp of Inexorabla Jaw, marked-out victim of Teccesity, If she had graduated tn the very new- est schonl of sclentitle Calvinism, had Hetcned to the Iaat ita teaching” of Bile Phosphorus and Despair, her morbid sense of slavery to elre cumstance could scarce have been profounder, And tho other-worldly utterances of plows friends,—powerlves, Hko all scemly phrases alg- nifying nothing, against the smock of any great erisla,—the Jon-like consolations of the elder Miss Vanelttarte, everything, save the influence of Aunt Hoale’s healthy, upward-looklug spirit, tended to sink her more helplessly in the slouch — of fatalian; — the “moat dreary creed, however learned, how uver formulated, that ever served to render human Ife unsweet. ‘The roses opencd, fell (rom thelr etalks; then rang harvest-songe ns heart whole, then shone harvest-mnvons as ellver, as of oll. Al then the woods faced fron red to dun, the chill No- rember ratua began to sweep up from the At- lantles and Daphne, wandering alone under the gray akiva by the sturiny shore, realterd that her winter Tutd act” in. In the blossom of her youth, she stood in an eunpty world: “the | plaything of oa. bilna destiny through the very affections which were as the Abres aud lite-blood of her belng. Nad Chester lived, her unharpinesa, however acute, aust, with the progress of time, have become checkered, Barry Chester, living, must infallibty have wanted moncy, iufalllbly have fallen back upon the Mtas Vanalttarts for help; and Daphne, thirsting to forgive on any terms, would, you bu ature, have relented over the very lirst letter that Implicd reconcilation and geked for sovercigns, But no such opportunity came to her. Within a year of thetr separation,” Mr, Cheater dled, miserably as he had lived, in Lon- don,—the little project af starving in America roving a fletfon with which he hat staved of he distasteful necessity of working for bread in England. A few personal trices of ne valuc were sent to the Iadics of Flef-de-la-Reins by the keeper uf the Jodging-house in which he uicd, also adoctor's and other ville; all of which, the poor gentleman assured lies, hls relations would inake ita point of honor tu pay. one jnesaage of contrition of of love: uot a re- membrance of the woman whose bapylucss ho ad wreeked, or of bia child! man you Jn marrying Barry Chester she had invested b ‘One likes. at Icast in fable, to think of the ¥ all—or she believed so; and arc not our be- liefa the sternest focts we know! In losing ve. ber docket was struck, She waa bank- Aunt Hoste, with lovo-born keenness of ine Sight, saw that the poor child's wound was likely solary best if left 18 Nature’s curing: aud when they were alona together-—by alone I mean, of course, with little Paul—the name of Barry Cheater dropped cradually into disue, But Biles. at nea lors. with Surtees eynipatiies, “¢7er- fot is crying outw! grace, DO for the stifed iow: : most purpuscless of humun Iives as rounded off into something of harmony by the approach of death, The tubcritance of evil restea on Barry Chester tothe end. Without a thought beyoud the groveling satisfaction of the hour be had Hved cut hia term of human animation, and, dying, breathed not a word to release the une heart that loved him from its legacy of desola- fou, Thts was why her face, amidst ce pure lines and coloring, Wore the unexpectant look of aye. Groau,—was far from | This is how her account with the world came to \oproving cr practicing such reticence. Tbeo- One fora was all for herole. treatment in the mural Bg Cased ab icrendtwenty, iments of others, the blacksmith’s band of CHAPTER VL ron rather than the surgeon's baud of atweL Theodora, guriog Daphne's liness, had exer- ised her consctence by writing a kind of cireu- ‘ar letter to” euc he had knowl of (including, [ rather be- Mere, the Warwickshire Stamers), ad ac cumulated facts that abo considered it a sacred duty to by before the girl {a ber bour of dark- acu, + Facte that wil! at least show ittos maxim, BLUESTOCKINGS 4 La MODE, ‘That civilized man, with all bis resources, Mr. Chestes's relatious as | cannot attain.to a new sensation, was a truth guessed at by thinkers some tac before exhsusted young gentlemen of the oninteenth century had reduced “ engravings by twelve, facsimiles of drawings hy forty-five, beaten’ an almost fonumerable number of reproductions of orfzinal works of contemporary and earlier masters, The depart- ment of Sniditetrial Art is atunaantly repre sented In the Fletirone, the Lettres Ornees, the, Culde-Lampes, and various deehene. The text contains blog eal and erjtfcal notices of ware fons artiste and of provincial exhibitions, the Important artenews of the day, — repre- eentattons of different’ French “actors In mmpular olen of the present time, anid Toughtfal casaye upon various matters: amonz which last fa Levassenr's General Influence of Art upon Indusizy." A biography of Charles Gounod, with hie portrait. at the age of 93, and an acvoint of the artfat-life of Theaphilo Gau- tler, with his poetralt in ok costume, will be real with Interest by Americans, The only con- tnbution of our own country to this volding is a notice, occupying a page, ot our New York Academy of Nesisn and its lact annual exhibl- tion, written by Horatio N. Powers. pti as ‘WAWHK-RYTEMS.? THE TIS AND FALL OF ‘THK MUSTACTR; AND OTHER HAWK-RYTEMS," Br Rone nar, Kennerre. the Hamorist of the Borhng. ton THark-Kye, Mustented by RW. Want Burlington, Ja. Burlington Publieting Com: pany. + PD. 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Appldons Art-Journal for July opens with a delicatcly-engraved representation of one of the pletures of C. W. Cope, the British historical painter. Mr. Cope, born In Leeds in 1811, fs the son of anartist. Ho presented to the public tis Grst picture in 1833, and was clected Royal Academician in 1848. Several large paintings, exhibited at different seasons tn London, with frescocs in the Houses of Parliament, have made him woll known In England. Tho engraving In question is from a picture dated 143, repre- ecoting the hackneyed but always pleasing sub- fect of “Mother and Cail.” Next follows a biographical sketch of Edmund J, Nieman, 0 somewhat obscure but merftoriuus Engtish landscnpe-painter, Mr, Nieman scems to have heen reasonably successful in the sale of his works, which were generally Engilsh Jand- scapes. Four of them have been bequeathed by former possessors to the national collection at Sonth Kensington. The brief history af the artist Is iMustrated by thre: wood-engravings of Ins pletures, This nutuber of the Journal contains the last of the Profusibytlluateal ed articles on the grand + scenery of the Pactile Hallway. The well-written and well-(itnatrated num- ‘orway and on Ceramics are contin. ued,—the latter being devoted to Italian Ma- jollea. The name Majolica ts clearly defined as fotlowa: ‘The term Majolica, in’ is generic sense, means what Delft does in Tolland, Fatence in France, ond Earthenware in England, All are roft pottery, covered with an opaque glaze called cnamel.’* An account of the American pre-Raphaelite palnter, Willlam T, Richards: deecriptions of he great sunual exhibitions of London and Paris; with other skerches, full-paze Mlustra- ftlons, and instructive art-notes, complete the mamber, FAMILIAR TALE. ANACHRONISMS LN ART, Awriter In the Atheneum points out with sharp censure the anachronisms In fowers and fruits that uccur in the pulntings in this year's exhibition of the Royal Academy, and mingles with his censure a good teal of botanteal lore. tn “An Egyptian Feast, by Mr. Lone, the artist has introduced the alue and the plantain, “Artists arc ulways Introducing the aloc, and cactus, aud malze," complains the crite, “into their plcturos of the ancient life of the Old Workt. They orc all three natives of the New World, and were unknown im the countries of the Mediterrancan 8ea Uefore the discovery of America. Nor was the plantain probably known in Ecypt before the Sarscens introdaved it, together with the orange and lemon, from Tndis, between the seventh and twelfth cen- tury.” It {ts conjectured that tho plantain is de- scribed by Theophrastus uuder the names of pala and ouraun or ariena, but the critfe in the Atheneum Delicves the description docs not justify the conjecture, The first’? he de- clares, “to unequivocally name and describo the plantain, ‘excopting, of course, the Sanserit writers, are the Arabs, Scrapton, Avicenna, Mcsue, avd, among Europe- aus, Prosper Alpinus; aud, inthe whole range of the ancient monuments of Egypt, there is not, so far o8 I can find, the trace of a repre- sentation of it anywhere. Indigenous to the Concane, Canara, Malaban, It would acem to be and Guzerat, and to the opposite parts of Tropical Africa; and its original habitat was possibly the sunk land of Sclater’s, quaintly named femuria (Monkey-Land), any 2 fathom nnder the sea, To the sauth of sun-bright Araby, the supposed link between the Deccan and South Africa.’ Tt has been suggested that the plantain or banana was the forbidden frult of Faden. St, Pierre," continues the critic, ‘in his delightful way, observes how the swelling violet cone at the end of the branch of. plantains, with the stigmas piercing through like gleaming cycr, might well have suggested {o the guilty Im- ination: of Eve the semblance of a serpent,’ tempting her to pluck of the fruit whieh it bore In the form of an erect and golden crest. In like wise, the grape, shaddock, cherry, apple, ant many other pleasant fruits have been thought ‘the forbidden fruit.’ » . But nelther cherries, apples, figs, grapes, shaddocks, nor pimtains confer immortality. and ormnis- clence, and the tree that would do so will, we may be cortaln, find noplace inthe systomseither of Litnros or Jussion. Well miny tho plantain, however, have been the primeval fom of mat, as it Nas been obviously associated with the ne- Froid races from the time of ther most remote traditions, Its herbaceous, succulent stem, crowned with large translucent green Ieates, srranged as in the paling, makes itene of the tnost striking and pleasing objects on which the eye can rest tu the Tropics, espectatly when in contrast with other vegetable forties while its golden frult, in handsome «dusters, cach a weight for atoan, coptains every element of humaty food, mixed with fragrant principles in such proportion that at once it possesees the whole. somenoss and uneloying taste of the finest wheatco bread, and the attraction of the most exyulnite confertionery. Moreover, it ls nore easily cultivated and nivre prolife even than the potaty, and Is nlinost tho only Trovical fruit without alone, or core of any kort, and which tan be eaten without Inconventener, and, in- deed, most conventently, unatded by any inatru- ment, Nevertheluex, tt fs scarvety jiosaible that the plantain bad become naturalized in the low. er Nile Valley ut the date of Mr. Lont's *Kevpt fan Feast’; and, inthe absence of any record of tt inuncient Egypt ils representation Is tine pardonable Ina picture whieh aflects the must painful elaboration of antiquirian Jearning,” In the picture of “A Sick Chit Brought inte the Temple of Aeculupius,” the pointer has Jutroducedl a buneh of Madam Margatin?® rosas. antiga basket contatning ** Black © Ham- urge" graves and a pineapple. The eritic mai- nanimougsly allows the grapes and roses to pass without partictiar comment, but the pine-apple heregards as on indication of inexcusnble fe- norauce. # It is inconceivable,” ho remarks, “how eo distinctive a South-Amerlean and mod: ern fruit cour ever have been associited fu any. English mil with the Temple of eculaplus. It fe, no doubt, a very pleturesque and poetic. looking fruit. Du Tertrecalls it ‘the King of fruits,’ because of its incomparable form, and qualitles, ‘for which reason the King of Kings hath placed a crown upon thehead of tt. Again, ‘the flavor partaketh of the peach, the apple, the quince, and the muscadine together! But ' It tao native of Peru, ond lias not been known’ in Europe for much more than 150 years."? Ht fs urged, in defense of the practice among artists of selecting their accessories frum all tlme atvd space, that the old masters were guilty of manifold anachronisms. But, answers the critic, inastery comes from thorougtinesa, and, had the old niusters possessed our knowledge of ancient Howers, and fruits, and costumes, they, woull have avoided errors in the date of their “properties " aa carclully asdo the reat artists of the present day, —_ THE CORVINUS LIBRARY: Forty-five inanuscript volumes belonging to the famous library of Mattias Corvinus, “the ercatest King of Hungary and the greatest sov- ercifn of his axe,” have lately heen restored by the Turkish Government to Bnda, the Capital of Hungary. Mathias Corvinus was the second sonof John Muniades, the brare captuin who was unaplinously elected by the people, during the minority of the young Ladislaus to be governor of Hungary. At his -denth at the age of 70, John Iuniates left two sons, the elder of whom was treacher- ounly Imprisoned and bebeaded by the King, Ladisious V., whom his father hard moat effect- ively served. Mothias, the younger son, was elected King of Hungary in 1458, when but 15 yoara of age. From the raven, cormus, in tho corner of bis father's escutchoon, he took tho name of Corvinus. The necession of the boy-King was hailed with joy by all his subjects, but there were formidable obstacles to overcome before he could alt on bis throue in. pence. One of his eartiest moasures for the defense of bis Kingdom was the forma- tiun of a body of cavalry. To fill the corps, one man was enrolled out of every twenty famillea, trom which originated tbe term‘ Husar,! which means, In ungarian, ‘the price ordduc of twenty.” Mathias’ first. campalen “was against the Turks, over whom he achteved a brilliant victory. In 1461 he was crowned at Welsenberg with the sacred crown of St. Stephen. After asecond successful campai: against the Tarke, Mathfas devoted his energies to the cultivation of arts and letters among his peapte. He adornerl his Capital with fine sculpt > ures, and gathered together a large collection of hooks, forming the most notable library that atthat time existed north of the Alpe, Ie maintained a farge staff of ecopsists in Italy, who were engaged in transcribing valuable mau. uscripts, and his expenses for the support of these and for the ptitchase of books amounted. to 30,000 gold guldens annually. Lorenzo fe Medicl assisted Tim in collecting {n Florence, aud Politlan aided him with some. translations from the(ireek. Mathias prepared a large hail for his Greek, Latin, and Hebrew books, which were no doubt chietly M33. Uga- Tetus occupied the position of Ibrarian, and the volumes unter his charge have been eatimated at £0,000, although the number is nncertaln. (5. fe said that. Mathias was’ himselt a taicntet whiter, and that his taste for the fine arts was delicately appreciative. While engaged in cle- vating the intellectual condition of his subjects, he did not neglect to encourage commerce and industry, and to improve the administration of Justice, throughont his realm, amilitary leader, hia career was clorio warlike en- terpritcs terminating, with few extentions, in the increase of security to his territory. of fn the extevsion of Its Imits, Tn 1435 he con- quered Vienna, and thenceforth made it his seat of government. Five years later, at the age of 4¢, he died of a stroke of apopies: Mathias Corvinus had been dead only thirty- six sears when the army of Hungary was de- steoyved by Xolyrman the Magaifvent, at. the tat- eof Muhaca, Boda, the Canital, fell hefere the saine Sultan in Mil, sixteen years later, But. before Buda was captured by the Turks, the dispersion of the great Corvinits library had berun—a calamity to ‘Iterature whieh 1s con- silered even crcater than the burning of the Alexandrian Hhrary by the conquering Omar, But little value had bean set hy the feeble suc- vessore of Mathias upon the books he had col- Jected at en much entt, and they wercallowed to suffer continual diminution by being borrowed, stolen. or legitimately puretased. In 1655, when Buda owas “wrested from the Turks by Marsigtt, the remnant of the Mhrary was removit to Vienna, Meanwhile Corvinus’ MSS, bad found their way into several German. Nbraries, while a choice eclection of them had fren transported to Constantinople, “where they have been keen of fateycars In the Seraglio, arranged In glass cases with matern books, minone ch thelr crimeon-velvet sides and gold inonoyrains apneared bo great arivantage.”* It has becn hoped that, on the recovery of the Corvints MSS,, some of the missing bonks of Livy, or the Assyrian histories of Heratotus, o of the rixty-tnree lost plays of echylus; mighs be found among them. ——_ CONFERENCE OF LIBRARIANS. The arrangements for the Conferenca of Li- brarlans to take place In London this fall are now complete, and circulars are being sent to all the iinportant Mbraries 1n Europe, Canada, and the United States. The sessions will occur in the Iecture-theatre of the London Institu- tlon, on Oct. 2, 3, 4, and 5; and two sittings are appointed for cach day. After the election of offivers, on the first day, Mr. J. Winter Jones, Principal Librarian of the British Mu- scum, will deliver au duaugural address, The reading of papers and discussion of questions relating to the formation ‘of libraries and cou- struction of Mbrary-hnildings, wil! conclude the day and evening sessions. ‘She secon! duy wil) be devoted wholly to the snbjcct of cataloguing. On the third day, shell-arranzement, the pre- servation of, pamphicts; public documents, newspapers, tnnys, ete,, etc, aml the binding of books und library-sppliances, will recelve atten= tun, Various topics will occupy the.last. morn- ing, and the final evening session wil}'be given to aconsideration of the possibilities of vinsercom- munication and co-operation among. Nbrarians, and on effort will be made to institute a “ Library Association of the United King.tumn.” The vacant afternoons will be eraplosedt in iting the principal Whraries of Loudon. A larce attendance is expected, the Conference being open to all persons interested {n its aims. Ickets are issued at haifa guinea. A LOST REMBRANDT. Beakles the three important pictures of Rem: brandt, “Tho Night-Watch,"? “The Syndics,"’ and the “Anatomy-Lessoy,” which arc in Hol- land, there wasn sccond ‘+ Anatomy-Lesson,” that used tobe atthe Stadthouso at Amster. dam. The picture was there secn by Sir Joshua Reynolds, who thas deseribed ft: Abovo Btalrs 1s another Rembrandt, of the same kindof subject,"=-he had been referring to the other * Anatomy-Lesson,"—** Prof, Dutnan stoudiny bv a dead body, which {8 60 much foreshortened that the hands and the {cet almost touch each other; the dea! man lies on -his back, with bis Atl, without making pretense to such an Anachronism as absolute newness, the relutive position of Sir Johu Severne aud Mrs. Chester must, 1 think, be admitted to contain some unwented cloments of originality. For a young and beautiful woman, modest as she fs beautiful, to sink at your fect and, in the tirat hour of acquaintance, cover your hands with Kisacs, 18 an expertenve that, I make bold to aay, falls not to the lot of one man vutof a miltton, aut as regards that mflllonth— unless he be oa very hardened eynie indeed, Jet him fook to it narrowly that he become not on the instant a vlavel Sir Jon Scverne is tive-and-twonty, less of acyntc than some Jads who have uot left olf their Eton jackets, and with a heart, up to the present thine, untouched by passiuns yes, although he signs himself the most derated of Clementins Hardcastle, snd for three years post has worn Clementina’s portrait against bls walstcoat. So when, on the day sneceeding Paul's fishing expedition, the young fellow tlods himself again approaching Mrs. Chestor's presence, sees hier, alae off, quit the band of workers tp the hay- Held, and walk unabashed towards him, hor hand outstretched, the frankest snttle of wel- come on her Hps,—when this moment comes, young Severne, to his suroriac, discovers the meaning of the word “shyness”? for the first the In lis fife, and colors, Ho has heard enough of Daphne's history to inspire him with agrestand chivalrous pity, oven did slic pos sess no vthcr claim ou his regard. And when to pity ts added a certain conscious remembrance— the lincering contact of the Joveliest palr of Iips—bie baahfulucss, it may be hoped, will not lower him in the reader's alght Did L not any at the commencement of this lit- Ue history that Sir John Severne had only lost as inuch of the boy as was nut worth the keep- log? BT was beginning to think the lanes were -playtug you fulee ugain, or+or that you had. func away to England without remembering: us.” ‘This she greets bim, her round, soft, face, with ite hato of pale gold, its tull-looking hazel eyes, secining as the face of one of Raphael's virgins in Beverne’a sieht, “And I wantot so much to thank you se ruualy for your great coodness. [could not sleop Inst night for thinking how cold, how poor iy “words must aye sounded; but indeed,” her ve hat) threatens volce sinking in a way th tears, “1 wus Coo wild with terror ta knuw ox- actly what J said of did,’? Happily for Sir Jahn (who can feel quickly enough—too quickly, perliaps—in situations whery'twere wisest tu Ive] nothing, yet possesses the truc Hritish incapacity for uttering graceful sontiments at tho Gtting inoment) Paul just now runs up beside his inother: Paul with hiscloth- fug reduced tu aminimum, bis tattered straw hat afew degrees more tattered than yesterday, Ils sunburnt Murillo face aglow with excite- ment. “Hullo, Muestou J’Ang'taz," he crice, all the neatly-framned fankastviog: Speech that Daphne has Isboriously taught him forgotten, * Alone done!” Holding out hishand, putron- izinglty, to SirJohn, * Allons joucrs * pousse mo J'ynerul’ pvec les babouins 2 ‘And jn five imtnutea' time Severno finds him- self among a crovd of girls and children, now pulled thia way, now that, through the mazes of catch-ne-that-catch-can, while Paul, sturdil Frasping, bis ‘hand, shrieks aloud with triuinp! bree every fresh instance in which Muasicu J Ang'laz shows his tevorance of the game, AH throughout the neighborhood of Fief- de-la-Heine the farming is strictly co-operative, the ideas a8 to pald labor held by these peasant lords of the soll befux pretty much on a level with these of sual! English farmers of ao hun- dred years ago. ‘The bread they cat is mado from their own wheat; there tiny plot of free- hold supplies them with bacon, cheese, cider. Mouev they louk upon asa this sacred in tt. Hf, totally distinct from all other courmodl- tes—a thing to be reverently bearded, kept bri! Vike the fainily-spuuns, and only parted with under protest, Ae a consequence, Touch uf the old-fasbtoned joy {uy labor which capital aud macutnery hate banished from Eo- land atill existe in this out-of-the-world little istrict. At the Grand ie, or big elght- horse plow of the year, the ten or twelve men who own a cumimou intercst fu the charruc dine and sup at the house of blm whose land is being plow: t potato-planting the same; at hay Or corn-barvest, @ substuntial tes, served in the « fcid, fs, with cider, songs, and anilinited, the established dorm of jpins stock conriviabty, Comparing Aunt Hosle’s hay-fleld with ona one modern English farm—the grass cut by the ald of cos and wheels, and formed tuto ricks by patent steam elevators--rou might half belleve_ yourself to huve gone “back to the (tavs of Goldsinitn; half expect to see the kindly neighbors helping the Vicur_t with his second vrop, or Mr. Burchell assisting Miss Sophia over the Inbors of the fork. Children, searce bigger than Httle Paul, are ainong the crottps of faneures, stalwart graud- sires are working with will and arin aos ty as thelr song, Here and there may bu seein some bent. alt inan or woman of the fourth = genetatiou, drawn forth — fram their chimney nook and yrale fire by the blue June sky, the temptation of getting a cup of Enelia tea froin the hands of *not'e bonne Aunt Hosie. And everybody, old aud young, must say bts word of compliient to Severue, Upon whom the Victoria cross has already been lavishly be- statred by Quemice imagination. Ho receives Talees Whuge outapokcuness must certaioly pur him to the blush, did he understand o word of the softesyllabled Frotseart patois in which they are uttered, hand ts brought inte contact with as many work-harden- ed palins os that of a popular candidate on clection day. When the last load has left the ficld, and a partiag fe. of some- thing Myelier than tea is being liberally served out by Jeane Marle and Margot, the Nealth of 4 Muasleu Sir John” ia proposed and drank with an honest English HNouras! that makes the surrounding orchard ring again: Hinally it fs sottled for him that he shall spend the re- maiuder of the evening at Fief-de-la-Reine, “You have been cheated out of your dinner," says Aunt Ilosla, iy her hearty North-Country voice, anid resting her hand on the young man's arm, “So you must just make a virtue of ne- cvesity ang vat a bit of Ho’clock supper with us at thy farm,”? And as you care for Art," adds Miss Theo- dora, with pretty cousclousness—Thoodora aet- ually on the hay-teld, and tna costume, up- looped, Watteauishs a bluc-ribboned straw hat atiading ber face, a Ja Gainsborough. * Aa you care for Art, Mrs. Chester and myaelt will alow you some of our small attempts in water-color, Thad the very best advantages iu my youth,! says Theodora, plulnttyely retrospective. “In- dced a Shenor Minutt, or Pincelli, or some such name, hus buen known toregret our dear papa's sovlal position. If the Signorina Teodor had tut to Worl: for money,’ poor Pinuti used ta say— “fut, unfortunately, we have no Signor Pinot! to pralse us now," interrupts Daphne, hot with confusion. ‘And nothing we do can possibly bo worth showing toa stranger; I—I mean to any onv who has traveled so much and must have secn 60 mauy ine pletures a8 Sir, Joby Severne." . ‘+L accept tho apology,” says Severne, with a look that brings the color to herchecks, ‘If you had not retracted that obnoxious word ‘stranger,’ L alioutd have walked straight away to tha Larbor, Mrs.’Chester, A steamer starts for Newhaven to-night, and—" ; “And before to-morrow morniug Sir Jolm Severne would have forsotten that such a plaice us Quernee exists.” cries Daphne. “By this time they have fallen a little behina tho othere and are walkin, slowly, aide by side, along the narrowdJane; Str John well alin with rakes aad forks, she with her sunbonuet hanging on her urin, an empty water-jur poised ou her shoulder—just Vike o sady and geutioman of the cupaud-saucer school of comedy, preparing for a telling bit of s¥lvan firtatiun, At their fect, among {crus and grasses, the shalows lie deep; but shafts of occaslonal Hight sill quiver on Daphne's fair head through the graclous doine a! emerald that roofs thei in, Don't you think it might be as well for you to mako a note of our existence, alr? We shall Temewber you,” she zocs ou a Iittle sadly, * those of Us who live lou cuough,—well, for about the vext thirty or forty yours Events, strangers, are not go plentiful in Quernec uy to be scon forgotten. At yur Uhristinas parties to driuk the health of Mussicu Sir Juhn will be as inuch @ inatter of course as to dance ‘ Mon beau Laurier,’ andas to Juuc,—cvery June, every baymaking, will be a sort of anniveniary. Don't you think you might write a couple of words about us iu your pucket- book? Only the words Hicfde-fa-Reiue and the date of Yesterday wonid. be enough.” Under uny other clreumstances, the tone, tho look, that accompany these words would bo sufficient to stir the Vanity of tho Least vain of ‘Chester they nisan—ahat- gold and wea. brom Daphoo her kisecs, whut her tears, mesut yesterday: passionate, blind gratitude towards Paul's res cuter, If Sir John Severne were sixty years old instead of five-ond-twenty, sie must fect the sane towards him, must Took ant sini with the sawe rapt tenderness. Only the result might be somewhat differont tu the one auall {tet of Bir Jolin Scverne’s peace. “If yun wish truly and honestly that £ should remember Felf-de-la-Keine and every one be- Jonging to it, Mra, Chester.” It must be ac Knowledeed, Clementina considered, that there {a a shade too tender in young Sevcrne’s voice. Allowance, Lowever, muat be mado forthe scene, the hour, the ight that shines on him from Mrs. Chester’seyes, “If you wish that I should re- member everything connected with Quernec just one degree more vividly than [an certain to do already you must let mo make a sketeh of you and little Paul. 1 should like to get an out-dour portralt of you, looking as you look at this moment~—~! “In a cotton gown and sun bonnet, my cheeks well baked by cizht hours’ hay-makiug, a Water-jar on my shoulder? During the spa. thetic hopeless years sluce Chester deserted her, Daphne has sunk into the habit of considering her personal appearance as abouton a par with ‘Aunt Hosio’s. At this moment youth stirsin her as the sap fn trees newly kissed by April; she remembers that her hair is golden, her complexion peach-like, that her cyes—why do amplifyt—she re- members that she is fairt “ Youdon’t want mo to hide my picturesquenese under Bunday best, us the conutry people do when they go ta town to be ‘taken "by the photographers?" “+L want you to look precisely os Jos did when I trst'met you yesterday in the flelds.” A certain letter i my hand. Ah, Sir John, is you had never sropped your letter——" ' Mrs. Chester would not have directed me to the Martello tower in Quernec Bay, some other fellow would uve carried Pout este ashore, and AL this moment——no, it would not do to push theso kinds of sunpositions tou far. My own correspondent little knows the happy results that letter was {ate to bring about." Probably my own correspontent might hold that the results had already gone too far, could her eyes, overlooking the couple of hundred miles that divide London and Jersey, reat upon Quernee Bay this evening. ‘Thedistinct white light of day bas melted now into tenderest shifting hues of pearl and opal, Overhead hangs a staluless sky,—one of those akics with which rocks, sca, and distance fuso so divinely us to make the carth seem rather o portion of Heaven itself thay our poor labor. place and owt tomb, Severne sud Mrs, Chester, after I kuow pot how many houra spent in each other's society, are watching the stars rise, as they huve watched the sun act, from — the mernec shore. Paul has been forcibly carried off to bed tn thostrang armeof Marzot, the Misa Vansittarts, mindtul of damp and rheumatism, bave already He their parlor Pasnpe. Only these two ore abroad. So trouquil fs the wir, 8o utterly without sound or movenient the landscape, it might sevm as though the Httle Islan ro indved some re- gion of tho blest, some spot beyond space of which thesa two were the charmed aud only mortal inbabitants, Yes, wotalk like old acquaintance.” It Is Daphoe who speaks, her calm face lifted, with the after glow of all the west upon ft, to Severne’s. ‘Yet, io reality, the extont of our acqualulance isa knowledge of vach other's vames. Peovle who dwell in places like Queruce have so stopped off the stage of life as to havo nu history to speak of. I have been nin yeara at Fief-dv-la-Reine, aod each year the sei UUme, and‘ potato-plauting, oud harvest bave been pretty much the same. Nevermore diffgr- ence than ‘between a wet season and a dry onc, But ous BE your EEE ++ At my age, which {a four or five. yosrs more advanced than yours, Mrs. Chester!” “Ago {8 “not dependent upon the number of one's birthdays,” she guswers bim gravely. [was twoand-twenty the Aitventh of fast April.” “Two mouths ago! Like all fmmensely old people, you tnake the most of your lougovity.!” “And | acem to have done with life just as effectually as though I were SU. Youaruvmerely & schoolboy." Her cyes traveling over bis face with a kind of soft compassion, * beginning." “With a tolerable accuiulation of experience to start froin," sayeSuveroc. ** Nino years ago, whea I first weut to Woolwich, F oaked pon inyeelf, I can assure you, asa Anuwshed Ci - ficla in wasters of worldly wisdosk and Low, Your Mfe {a | after spending the three tast years fu India, ta 0 Pe ld coolly that 1 am ‘only a schoolboy atitl “After spending the tirea last years iu India,” repeats Daphne, stooping down and with ore tnger tracing out a kind of Chinese pagoda upon the sand. ‘You must have been you enongh, In all conscience, when you went awa: An fou have never returned to Englund since “Never, Tam tu the actof returning at this moment.'? “ Not very hurriedly?” The Chinese pagoda grows elaborate, begins to poxsess minarets and cupolas, os abe leads him an to the polnt sue means to gain. “Well, no. I wanted to luok up an old schoobfricnd who has married and bur. ied bhnself {no Brittany. That ielayed mea fortnight between Paris and St. Mato,” "Ten “Then ‘Murray’ reminded me of my duty. The traveler is here at a cunventent point for Visiting the Chanucl Istands. You know the reat’? seen you for threo years, thent cries Daphue, ing ber eyes abruptly to Severne’s. She will Gnd you aftcred. Though you exchanged plio- togmphs every week, you coula not keep a face freak and’ lviug. before you through the changes of turec years." it {8 o home-thrust, the lke of which can only be given uuder one of two couditiuns; ab- solute knowledge or absolute {gnorance of the conventionalities, Sir Jobn throws 4 quick look ut Daphne's face, at the serious, trath-tolling eyes, the lips from which no word of “chaff,” or other wit of thy period, las ever towed, there, of enlightening her as to lis cugagemenut. Ho must sof hke, must sof udmire hur, buyond tho Ilinits of -urtistic admiration. So much is certain; and -perkape his best sufeguant | This ts ber tirst though will be: to iutrust. his secret. to her keeping. Poor Daphne, os though ber shoulders were not already weighted inadequutcly to thelr strength! “Yes, weshall find each other changed, Mrs, Chester, in things, perhaps, that don't come within the scope of photesraphy He takes upa# handfal of srua! pebbles, and, aa be talks, ms one after another at some imiavinary tar- t on tho margin of the water. ‘You nee, we ad Kuownench ulner just ix weeks, sod wo were chlidren—Miss Hardcastle, ut least, was 0 We spoke in our haste, and I suppose aball Lave tho intercal vow of finding out how far our speaking led us wronz.” Sir Joho Severno has told his story. (The re- jou of rawance once ente Ute telue!) Ho tas described that foulistr le bad given the details of every successive stave of folly: the ball at which ho first fell a victinn to thirty-six yards of white ganze, a jessa- tine wreatu, Intellect, wud his own iattered vans ity; the treasuriny of Miss Hurdcastic's withered bouquet; the furtive love-lctters; declurution; parental sanction, si neal 4 0 allonts Hor heart ie dead, no doubt, ou that polat; her belfef in persona! happtuess shattered. ‘Thy on) feeling sbe cam: possibly cotertaiu.toward dir Jon Severne is gratitudoy—just what she {clt for gouty old Dr, de Goriot, when he bat Drought Paul safely throuzh the meuales, Aud still the words of friendly congratulation on learning that Sle Jolin Severue’s heart is fet tered dp not come readily to ber lips. Daphne is human, simply that, and in every humsy liking—gvew ustster’s tor a brothe germs of jealousy, however little our duo nature may be disposed to taka them into ac- couu! ness fur the future,” su at length she speaks, in ber matter-of-fact, quict voice. ‘* When Urat f° eked up that letter I thought to wyself it-was rom your sweet——, frum souie one: you ¢: aWeeping out the pagoda with a touch, and rals- | weurs her ed, women want so | he is more thauhall in love, + exist some | fabed olf shore aud rocks; 1 te . + Y shall have more faith in my own clever- when be forced to say—prepare yoursclf, Mra. Cheater, acold shock Is in store tor you—that Miss Hard- castle fy the least bit in the world a Blucatock- ng. “4 Bluestocking!" exclaims Daphne, with 4 bitter sharp sense of her own deficiencies, and witha vision, grand, epic, homicidal, rising be- fore her, “The term is old-fashioned,” says Sir John, “ And still with feminine Icarning increasing at its present rate, I don’t know that we can well afford to do without it.” “Tels a very awful term,” cries Daphne, “+E have heanl my uunts speak of Mrs. Trimmer, Miss Porter—."" “And Mrs. Hannah More! Ah, the Modern Bluestocktog fa cast upon a different pattern, ‘exhibitadiverging manifestations,’ as she would say, In the’ language of the tribe. The Modern Minestocking acknawledges few things tat cannot be weighed in the balance or observed 10 the spectroscope. Of your own soul, if yuu are weak enough to fancy that you possess one, sic will tell you that it Is # distillation irae the vegetable and animal worlds from iv “ And the Itty who wrote that letter has not | orzanic nature. She talke fsrolitarly of atoms, molecules, and the argument trom expericuce. hair, (f she ta pretty, in a fringe upon her forcheaa; and, invariably writes humanity with a big H,"" “7 think,” says Daphne, forgetting polltcncss in the plenitude of her sincerity." that L would: iuch rather not come across tha Modern Blue Haurdenstle will fnevitably come across you,” returns Severne, looking amused. **In a couple of days, to-morrow perhaps, Miss Hard castlo and a party of her friends will arrive in Jorsey ov a yachting expedition.” Daphne's cheeks deepen In hue tilt they match and comes ty the stidden’ resolution, then and | red horizon streak (Jumining the farthest north. “Keep her away-—keo;. lier away from Flef-de- Ja-Relnel Never let my tgnorauce be placed shle by side with the science of auchaparagon!” » perhaps L should aay the Orst rush of wordless emotion from whic! thought springs. Ono second tater, “And is Miss, Hardcastle tall or short! sho asks, her Yoica so excellently schooled that her com panton’s dull masculine perveptions detect in is no, vonatraiut. ‘Has she black eyes ur biue, dark hair or blondes” Sir Johu Severue unfastens a locket from hi watch-chaly, then, opening its hinge, moves 6@ that he may conveniently display the face it contalus to Mrs, Clicater, “Alter the lapse of three years It Is dificuly child—when—when 1 was ordered to India. | to speak accurately about sbmdles of color,” be, reusurks, watching—uot the faded photography’ of the woinan he is to wed,—but the fashed aod Viving face of this danghter of Heth, thie acyuulutance of yesterday, with whom already, Miss Hardcastle, £ bave u fancy, was called falp——but no, you are love atfuir of bis well-nigh as plainly as though | fair, in the true painter’s scceptation of the word. She was-———-L am certain l could get » Hikcness of you at this moment, Uf there were Vght cnoughtodraw. One Ittto Hae more in protic,” With an artist's privilege, Sevoine’s aud rests for a seconds spave upgo her coils of silken balr. + You will Five me a first sitting and exchange of engagement | to-morrow, will you not!" —'+And ber eyes are dark, forcertaln, Sir ‘nd for one Jong miuute Daphne Cheater is dou Thtke the face of * your owncorrespoadent,’ There 1g something one could rely upon about thatanonth, tn spite of all the terrible tunes, you bave said abvut Blucstockings, I doa’! Shink 1 suall be yery frighteved to make tho ac- quaintauce ol~of—" out came the words with au effort, “ Miss Hardcastle, your sweetheart.” A-svore of stare hays cleft the pallid orange of the sky by the tima that Seyerno and Ars. Chester Did good-night outalde the wicket-gate of Ficf<te-la-Relne. * The ruby wiow bas van- ight ta growing in the hollows of the -hilis and amouget the borceai aud gapaliers of the duwy, bird-baunted arden. = Sir Jova "bas got about a buudred ps along bis road be turus, and through tho wy light: diaccrua' that % woman's tsure (ho would koow it among a huydred, already) lingera tu tho farm porch. As be looks tho more than common for, You must‘ be longing | fizure moves: Daphue for an finstant hesitates to get back to Englaud, Sir Jobu, After threo years of separution, the hours must pass beavily keep. you apart.” “Well,” unswers Severn, discharging his lest. shot wich vigor at the hmnagivary target, we are not rumautic people, cither 0! the fact. It is not a fact as regards himself; but poasi- bly, at this moment, he considers it to be one, "Slee Hardcastle smu uup bor characteria| ToT suppose iff bad'to | in'uis ears, dain ous werd Labould hart —theu scnds bin a last good-night " from tho tips of Lcr fogers, and qisappears tuto tho house. ‘ Witiingly, but in vain, would Severne's imagi- nation invest that parting gesture with tcader ‘Miss Hardcagtto—your sweetheart!” The works, spoken as Daphue Cocster spolis them, are still sounding, with unpleasant distinctness, [Zo bacontinusd next Saturday.) us; that ts | meunius. °: