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PH CHICAGU TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1877— TWELVE PAGES, LITERATURE. Last Volume of the Memoira of John Quincy Adams. sketches by James T. Fields--Tho Author of “Paul and Virginia.’”’ Culture of Beauty---Village-Im- provenients---Tho East- ern Question. Art-Notes --- The “Yankoo"---Elderly Beauties. Term Longevit rea Reond About Chleago: The Broomrapes-- The Cobra-Plante--Teeth-Deformity. LITERATURE, ' JOS QUINOY AO R8 OF JONUN QUINCY ADAMS: Cow- STMOUS Ohrionn oF His rant Plow 1706 40 Epiren Ar Cuancrs Francia Apaw Ti Philadelptia: J. 1. Lippincott & c Cicsgot Madiey Bros. a Co, Br0., pp. bi Pree, $5 Twelve octavo volumes, of over 500 pages ench, have been required to contain the memoirs under the form of a diaryof Jolin Quinct ‘Adams. “There has, perhaps," he bimaelf re- marks, near the cluse of the bulky manuscrivt, ‘pot been another individual of the human rave, Whose dally oxistenco, from early child- hood to fourscoro years, has been noted with hisown hand eo minutcly asimine.” At Httle moro thon 12 yearsof age Mr. Adams began the habit of Journalizing, and through a pertod of sixty-eeven years, or until hia death, he per- severed In the practice with but few and brief intervals of omfssion, Tho tendency of hla intnd to occupy Itaelf with: the details of every subject—that tendenc that pecullarly qualified him fora diplomatist—ia conspicuously prom!- rent in hla diary, which, from the very first, surprises ono with tho attention given tosmall parttculare, Thia tralt, whieh becomes tiresome in an ordinary narrative, Is valuable in the precent Instance, os, the life of Mr. Adains being chicfly spent in the public service, the de- tulled record of his acts has an important his- torlcal Interest, = The private affairs of the wnter have beon throughout his Journal kept almost entirely out. of sight. It was o8 0 statesman, a8 a loyal cit- fzen of the American Republic. as a devoted eervant of the people he represented fn diplo- nintie elrcles abroad and fn legislative halls at home, that he seemed to have regarded his ca- reer as worth thinking or talking about, Mis whole being uppcars to have been absorbed in the operations of polltical scionce, and the de- feats or aucvesscs toliowing bis own efforts in controlling the machinery of government wero things of the most intense and patnful moment. He was posscesed of superior abilities, and his mind was enrlehed py doep and wide culture, Atuld the arduous duties of his public position, Qw continually found time to add to his stores: ol kuowled| ‘the study of classic authors and of tho new inventions and discoveries In the ofts and sclenves, We had little cnthusiasm. Tits nature wus cold and reserved, nt least on the exterior, and, judging from his private confcestons, he failed to attract personal pathy ur tu make many. and ardent friends, " ‘This lack of the power of. enragiug the feelinga and winning the hearts of those with wnom he publicly mingled, was a eource of deep mortification, and was nuted wth many o pang in the coures of his journal, Yet he who was not bimself cordial and tr.endly could not hope to ovoke warm emotions of Ktadliness from others. The intellect, the learning, the dignity, and the integrity of Mr. Adams commanved the respect, the fear, the ulimiration of bia coadjutors; but the glow, ‘the thrill, of strong und generous passion, were ueeded to atir their affections, Mr. Adams had the inflexdlo resolution, the herole courge, the unyieldlug unprightness, which St men for the fate of martyrdom. In his Jong and stern, strupzle agatust the cucroach- mi of the Sluyo-Power, he wore a front which would have become a Savonarola, or a Latimer ot tho stake, But his sufferings mean- while wero us from tongues of fire tapping the naked flesh. We may suppose that only to the confidence of his Journal did he acknowledge the biting pain endured; but, after days of bod contict In the House of Repreeentatives, the arcun where he fouuht his fler-cat tattles, ho frequently disclosed an angi cauacs wonder that one ag strony weak; that one who continunily sti opponents to the most reckless and sesuules, should be so painfully sensitive te thelr attacks, ‘There wasn taint of vanity and” selfconcelt in the character of Mir. Adame, which renlered him keenly anaceptible to the manifestations of hostility which were abund- antly Siplayell toward hifi by bis pollti.al ene- mics, He would have refolced in universal homage, and he was obliged to recognize it. him- self, especlally during the iattcr purtion of his Iife, one of the most. If not the most, unpopu- Jar of Atnerkan statesmen. Still, it must be remembered to bis honor that lie voluntarily chose to hear thls sora trial rather than sacrifice one fot of lofty principle, To 1945, leas than three years beforehis death, : Mr, Adaina made an entry in his Journal which falrly reflects the more quiet tenor of his feel- ing.” It was the forty-ciglith anniversary of his marriage, aud the occasion Induced a retro- + spective wl ce Over the past. * We have entoyed. much,” runs the recprd. “We have suffered | notatittie. Good and evit have followed us alternately, The thread has been of checkered yarn, Altogether, my lot has becn a happy one upon earth, and every fecling of my heart ought to beasentiment of gratitude to Hin who Is the disposer of vents. [have met with bitter disappointments. [cavy calamities have befallen me. AH my children, with ono ex- | ception, have beon taken from me.—one fu in- fancy, two inthe prime of life,—and this be-- | Teayement has once been exteuded to the see ond generation. The successive decease of ny: brotiter Charles, of uy sinter, of my matter, of ny father, and of my brother Thomas, have tor the last thirteen yoars left me the only mem ber of the famlly of tho past and present genet ation surviving on this carth. « .. With re - gard to what {a called the wheel of Fortune, nv + career in life has been, with severe Viciasituded on the whole highty susticious. With advan - tages of cducatlon perhaps unparalleled; wit + principles of fntewrity, of benevutence, of in dustry and frucality, and the lofty spirit of pa triotism and independence, taught me fromte 3 cradle; with the love of letters and thearta, tut - ful and ornamental; and vith aspirations science, Iimited only by the scanty spark ethereal fire in my soul,—my intercourse wit 1 my contemporaries Las, in mt its fluctuations been more successful than I deserved. My Lid has been spent in the puplic eerviee. Washhag - ton, Madtson, Munroe, were my friendeorm | benefactors; Jefferson, @ hollow and trenches - ous friend; dackeon, Charics J. Ingersoll, George W. £wing, Jonathan Russell, twas malignant, and lying encinics,—n ist to whicl] might, but will uot, add other naines, J huve enjoyed a portion of tho favor of my country al least equal to my desert, but have suffered. and yet suffer, much from that sander whlen outvenome all the worms of the Nile." ‘The closing volume of Mr. Adams’ Memoirs continues h.6 diary from April 2, 1844, to the Wth of February, 1847. After this latter date entries were written at Intervais by his grand- daughter from hia dictation, but the editor has. preferred to piilisk no extracts from thet. The account of Mr, Adama’ death, which took pince in one of the commmittce-roonia of the. National Capitol, on the 23d of February, 1348, ia extremely brief, aud no comment whatever tes pe ed ucon the life so minutely written out by: himechf, A conlous index, ovenpyivg 233 pares, completes the voluminous work. enters, SKETCHES BY FIELDS. i TNDERNRUSU. By JaugsT. Fizups, Toston: - James lt, Osgood & Cu, 18mo,, pp, 303, ' It fs unuecessary to say that this new volume t from Mr. Ficlds fs alive with interest. Every * one knows before looking at it that {t moat be + so. Asapeaker and writer, Mr. Fields demon- « strated long ago his charming faculty for narra- + tion, and the rich fund of Uterary auecdute at his command with which to aulmate any subject he might choose to touch. “Underbrush " {s the not inapt title bestowed | upon a collection of miszelancous sket-bes of ? no great preteusion, but-of a most readable character. Many entertaining {teme, relating ° to authors of the past and the present tiie, en- liven the description of My Friend's Library"? much research and a good deal of “personal'ob- | servation have been employed in gathering the | information contained iu the paper on * Dis- monds and Pearle"; ond the dozen othe sketches have cal some plousont feature of amusement or inatraction, which iuvites a perusal. Fron tho cane, on 8t, Pierre, *The Author of ‘Paul and Virginia,’ we extract a touching Incident, one of many, which give a delleluus duyor tothe book. Tho story of * Pau) and Virginia ’ was presented to tho world tu 17835 but, whilo ft waa atill ia manuscript, Madame Necker Invited 8t, Plorre to rend it too com- pany of critical auditors at ber solun, “Sbe tromised ?—1 wo have ft from Mr, Fields— “that the judzes sho woul! convene to hear bin were among those elie usteemed tho moat worthy, Mousicur Necker biniseé, as a distiu. guiehed favor, would be at home on the v A BLUESTOCKING. BY MRS. EDWARDS, Acrnon or ‘Ove We to Viatr Ment” “Lean: AWowan o7 Fanuiox," ** Ancix Lovet," Erc., Etc. CHAPTER XIII, SAND-EELING; PART I. The tide is iu a fitting condition for tho flel- ing expedition to start soon after 9 o'clock; and, by svne kind of process of natural selec Mon, the little party froin Fief-lo-tn-Reine at ouce breaks up into paire, Jean: Marle and Margot, barefoot and armed with a short kind of reaplng-hook, the ‘regulation eand-celing Weapon, stort-on ohead. Aunt Hosic, slmi- Jarly equipped, follows noxt, with Pera Andre, Then come the legitimate lovers, expe- Menelog, if thedeprossion of theirmanoer speak truth, nore difleulty than common fn finding pexa whereon ta haug the sweat banalottes of fenthnent. Duphneand Mr. Broughton, slow- dy sauntering, gayly chatting, secure in the knowledge that they at least are uot legitimate lovers, follow lost, [tts one of the lowest tides of the year, and wattered all ncrusy tho broad, white sands of Quernec Bay ure groups of ‘sand-celers; the Women pepe with lanterns, and keeping, while yet thoy may, to terra firma, the men ond lads wading Wolstdcep across tha currents, in their eaverness to reach the d-cel banks of st renown before thelr fellows, The night is perfect; balmy as noon, mit a falut breeze “utlrring from the east, ‘und Hurnined by the ‘must plorious Silky Vay, a rond of very sliver, spanning the whole arch of purple heaven. 'By-and-by rses tho wiles just bebind the fsolated tower of Gabri- i es, aud then—whosball way how these things appen t—Daptine discovers that Sir Jolin So- Nerne bas becons ner companion, while the te- ures of Cousin Felix and Miss Hardcastle Ub- hue at cach mument more indistinct In the far evertio hi q ic her companion, and for the Iast {ine to-night, for very certaln, the ending of thelr friendship! Well, for 4 spaco they keep commonplace small talk, tite two indlterene acquafutuuces looking forward to seeing each sther to-morrow, aud every succeeding morrow Wrouzhout the year. Daphne Chester knows, aswellos though the experience of a dozen ; adon scasons bad tauxht her, that for people s Placed as they orc placed silence must bo fraught with danger. She knows thin; she forvecea, fille in Gvery pause dexterously. Sir fohu shall tuke no avowal, shall utter Do re greta to whlch Clementina Hardcastle might Dot Hatcn unpained. So far her resolutions are Oladamaot. Untortanately Severus bas formed Tsulutlops, also of adamaut, and tending in a petristners fH pealte direction to her own, Chester quite sure to write to me, Mrs, everne waits far no opportune break, choo: Ro wufcly neative plarage with which t lead up. othe question. Heputs it abruptly: justatter ‘aphou haa remarked that the cousins are Wauderlag from the way wherein the: should ge Mery taal te of duty must be followed au cht. i We. Prougtiton and Miss Hardcastle on a wrong kt they will find their way back toa Hel tone, depend upon ft, without our assist- pire. | Yes, you wilt write ta me, 1 know, You ae Riven tho your word already that you will ‘0 #0. Stl, it is pleasaut tohear good promises Repsated Laden over," Ou would nut want the letter repeated ike over! Why, Aunt Theodora says Tdon't bot i by xrummar rules, and as to “Aud you think I should parse your letters, Heutens che, Murray a a van e@dictiouary and Lindley You would find it hard to sentenca of Now, Aubt” ‘Theodt ally Wy, ora rei peed erie the tmost beautiful letter, without ere inuklug a rough copy first. Every sentl- eaereey eXpressed, ever word—?? 5 ee Tsuesters ura you about to propuge that cut Guicad of Fun oe Se SEU eerrespundeutt O Str Jobn, you know Wat never euuld be thit, Of edumen te L Hyalecd it, I will write to you onec——"" “A tormal note, hoplog that I bud @ prosper enough mine. ous journeys, informing imc that.the weather {95 hot, ur cou), that the harvest prespects coutinuc! Fos, tot the Miss Vaosittarts desire their’ (ud regards, and that Paul ranembers me, not uite aa vividly, ou the whole, um he remembers tho burnt almonds of Cousin delix. I under- stand.'? “Paul will be made to rerrember you while: my life Insts,” savas Daphne, gorloualy. “As fur® Jetter-writing,—why, L unght got write to peo- plo fora dozen,—twenty years, but I should think of then the same in my heart."? “Have I the gvod fortune to be tocladed in that haopy class of *people’?" “You know you have, You kuow,’? right Dravely, without healtatton, she gets thy words. out, “that I slial) think warmly of you, aud ol Misa Hardcastle, both now aud-in the long fu- ture years to come, alter your inarriage," For a minute or more Neverne walks Frimiy onin silence. At iast—'' It is easy for you to speak so ealialy,” he exclufins, a vibration of sudden ardor In his volke. ‘ Easy for you,whu- foul nothing,to tik about the long inture years’ in which iny,Jifs ts tu be mada wretched, “Nay, Mra. | Chester,"—for she has atopped, turned away from hin; bas ralsed her hands in ute deprecation uf the avowal sie cannot vseape,—"* It ta too late in the day for you to tetuse to Hatento me, You cannot be ignorant, you cannot alfect to be ignorant that—I love you! As well my crime, if erlme it be, should be acknowledged {n plain speech before: we bid cach other good-lyy."" Easy for her who feelwuofitog! And all thor atreiling to aouy, all, time Daphne’s breast fs the time, were sacritice of sclf tho only thing uceded, she would go ta tho otber end of ther world to love,tu servo hinnay,to miniaterto bis. merest whint or caprice, She Gare not trust herself to speak:, what spcech of hers Dut Sar ja sbevitaul oy iuto al & sane fcmlont and, wor ry ck {ine Severne takes bee hand, draws alse, ter towards him, and sees'her face. Her face {s wot with tears. “Mra. Chester—Daphne! ‘Teil me that you aro not indiferent—that it causce you just one brief pang to bid me good-by forever! And though still no actual word, 90, por cvon aqguiver of the lip, betrays her, bs fore another tofnute bas passed by, Sir John Suverue guesses bor secret. ‘: Itisasocret the barest possibility’ of whose existence be had nover, up tothe yaesent mo- ment, reckoned on. That bis own beart should be irrevocably given toa women sonweet and lovable; that ber fave, alter | pursulng him durlug every moment of his wak- fog hours, should render his —_pil- low aleepless; nally, the briaf mad- nees of an explanation and o parting lived throuch, that he should worl: out his destiny, marry Miss Hurdcastle, put love asido out of his existence, and look back ¢o0 Duphue Chester fron: the prosats dusty paths of iniddle age, as men, wedded to Rowena, do luok buck to the Nevevca of their youth! Al ythis vista of pere sonal luss and Ulsappoiutment. tas, during the Jast few days,grown gradually clearer aud clear- er before Yeverne'’s vision, That he should have won love inreturn, that the richest cup hunian lps can taste should Le held out to bin, might he drink tnercof, by LD iphue’s hauds,— of this contingency, being in vi cry trath uo cox- comb, he had never dreamed, “1 don’t think, remembert ig your en] apts pou boukl have spoken} wu tie lke this.? ig white, her breast beaves convul- alvely, aud, furgetiing everythi nu but that sho {s to palo, end that be ts the as bor of her palu, Severne clasps ler in a wild cual orace. “My engegcment.” ho repel 4 with growing ogi n. “A careless Prom| se mads years ago between a boy and » xin 4ignoraut of love and of theaisclyes! WouNt you let this weigh pralnet the happiness or ‘“infery of all our “Twould have you keep 1% ith with Miss Hardcastle, let it toe what it mi ght,” sho an- swere him simply, “Of course. £ will spcak ta: Miss Hard- castle towiyht. I will give ber back witre that sho voice = her freedom—a gift you ma: will joyfully accept.” Daphee ia ing tod low aud pleading whisveq —" you will love we—you Will be my wifol “Ty ail are pot such deaperately bard words to pronounce. Pronounce thei, aud let mo kuow 4 6 much of Heaven as 2 ioan cen kuow side of death.” But, by thy time, Daphne Cho ster's scif- possession has come back tober, Bhie realizes upun the brink of what uu abyss slew bas mo- mentarily stood, “Tt Mise Hardcastle wabes your enrago- ron, Madame Germain, wei when St. Pierre appeared and eat down with the manusitint OF 'Paut nad. Virelmat vpen before film. At first he was beart in prefound silence; he went = an, and the attentton grew Ianenid: the aurnat assembly began to whisper. to yawn, and. to listen no longer. Monsieur de Bu pulled out bis watch ani called for hits horses; those altting nearthe dour aofselessly allpped ont; one of the company was ecen in profound sium- ber} some of the ladies wept. but Monsieur Necker Jered at. them, and. thes, ashamed nf thelr tears, dared not confess buw much inter- ested tuey bad been, Whew the reading was finished, not one word of praiac followed it. Madame Necker criticised the conversations in the book, and spoke of the tedious and common- place actlon of the story. A. shower of {ced water acemed to fatl on poor St. Pierre, who re- tired from the rovm in a state of overwhelming depreasion./ He fctt as if a sentence of deat had been prrponnued on ‘his story, and that ‘Paul and Virginia’ was. unworthy to appear before the publle eye. “Buta man of gentus—the painter, Joseph Vernet, wlio bad not been present at the read- ing at Madame ‘Necker's—-dropped fn one mora- {ug on St. Plerre in hie garret. and revived his almost sinking courage. ‘Perhaps Monaleur will read lis new etory to bla friend Vernet?’ So the author took up his manuscript. which since that fatal day had been cast aside, and he- gan to read. An Vernet Iletened, the charm fell upon hin, snd at every page he uttered an ex- clamation of delight, Hoon he ccased to pralae; he only wept. When St. Plerre reached that part of the book which Madame Necker bad found so much fault with, tha author proposed to omit that portion of the narrative; but Vernet would not cunsent ta omit anything, When the book wae finished, Vernet threw his arms about St. Pierre, and told him he bad produced achef dueuvre,, ' My friend,’ exclaimed Veaict, *you are a great painter, and I dare to promise yott a splendid reputation |? Filtyoaitigns, that year ‘Paul and Virginia’ was pul biiahed, attest- ‘ed the wise Judgment of Joseph Vernet.’ Tn hts youth St. Plerre suffered much from poverty, and through life he was frequently the victiin of disease, and was always tormented. with the senstive temperament which necom- panics genius, Lis Inst years were tranaull anid happy, und he dicd at the age of 77. Mr. Fields celle us that “He waeo beautifal old man in personil appearance, and bts long stiver ir, flowing carelessly over his well-knit shoulders, gave him prominence as.an individual, even in the crowded streets of Paris. ‘The cuminun peu- ple knew and loved his venerable furat, and ns hey passed suluted with reverence the autber of Paul aud Virgin?” MEDICAL, FAT AND BLOOD: AND HOW TO MAKE TURM. By 8, Warn Mircrest, M. D,, Mbyrl- clan to the Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary on Diseases of the Nervots System, ate., ice, and Author of **A Treatise on Injuries of the Ne Mate, 20.0. pp. 101. Price, $1.25, NUNSK AND PATIENT; AND UANP-CURE, By §. Wrin Mircnei., M.D. Aathurof ** Wear and Tear," ** Fat and Blood." etc. 18 mo., pu Td. Price, HOcents, Philaddiphia: J.B. Lip: pincott & Co, Chicayo: Madley Bros. & Co. Tho frat of these little treatises by Dr. Mitchell, of Pailadelphia,—a physician eminent for special akill in nervous discasca,—is ad- dressed to memnbera of the medical profession, and yet offers most useful advice and supece tions ton large class of invalids, and to their friends. Its object is tu explain the methods in most successful tise by the author, of restor- ing the vitality of enfcebled, dyspeptic, and nervous patients, by acombination of absolute reat, generous feeding, massage (wanipulativu), and electricity. To secure a healthful and abiding gain of fat and blood, fs the first consideration in the treat- ment of {uoumerabie cases of chronle ulsease; an@ this ecems to be effected in a remarkable manner by the practice—partly original and partly borrowed-—-whicu hes been ntonted, and fehere advocated, by Dr. Mitchell. ‘The means employed; and the mode of combining them to suit diverso maladies, are carcfully and plainly described, {u order that the practitioner wisli- ing to nake use of them may proceed fntelli- utly, Maury cases are cited to illustrate the eneit of the treatment; aud their testimony gova far to catablish faith In Ita effl.acy, It vertatuly holds out a new and cheering hope tu the despondent, discouraged valctudinarian, ‘The sevond book, by thu same author, com- | prises two essays reprinted from Lippincott’s Magazine. That entitied “Nurse and Patient” urges with great serlousucas the fmpor- dance of employing paid nurses to ut- tend upon patients aofficted with clther aeate or chronle matudies. Tho evils resulting to hoth tho sick and the well wen the nurse is avelative, and thus tempted by tenderness auc afe:tion to undue self-sevrifice, are graphically deptted, The nurse in any case bas tho sym pathy of her physiclan, aud the necessity of her obtaining regular aud umple hours of freedom and exercise aro strictly enjoined. ** Apart trom Ye phyaicnl Mls of continement.” argucs the author, “amd never-oudiog, monotonousidutles, ment broken off, sho would! hereclf be the first to speak. Ihave seen enough of her to be sure of that. Ag to her takiog back ber fred dom—what woman would say ‘vo’ to such a galling ofa? You talx of happiness. Could it ever, do you suppose, be built on dishonor, true happiness ou falsehood? Why, If 1 ware to Usten to you mow, you, a boy carried away by a week's romautde fancy, do you believe, fn the aftertime, vou would not despise me, as Lahould daserve to bo deaplsed{ No, You are saying you know not what, aud I—[am to blame for letting such Jeneilaee be possible.” , “And you thank that King the truth fe ‘falsehood,’ keeping to the miserabic Ictter ofa promise ‘honor,’ vo matter whether the spirit of the promise be broken or nott"’ “T think I would nnich avouer dle than como netween you and what you owe to Nuss Hardeastle,’" 8a she cnes, fy Uroken accents, and stil! with firinnees that he caunot choose but respect, “Long ago 1 had my abare of hope and youth, short tho: itwas, [have nothing to loak to now but duty, If Iwas a airl, unvenicd tn suffering, eclish througu {g- norance, there might be excusy forme, Thero fsa timo of life when we hold personal evjoy- ment to bedur right. come by it os we may. But Ihave done with all that. Sir Jobo, I shall euink of you, till my last hour, as my trtend. ‘¢For Panl’a sake! T know.” “Not only for Pusil's sake, but for your own. You will Ief me have your forgivencss, will you uot, full and eatire P? “Forgiveness between you and mef Uh, Chester,” ho exclaims, passionately. “Now, on this last night thot we aball be together, give me a mo ment's taste—well, 1 won't say of bappiness, but of what happincas might havebeen |! Tell ine, if I hud bven free, that you would not haye re- jected me! Letme have one~ouly onc—kles pm your lps."" For a moment sho remains cold as the moon- Ught in which she stands, Then, suddowly, she takes the young man’s hand, lifts, and khvses it, “When you saved Paul, I gave you many Kisser without your asking for ee whe nave gravely. low that you ask, [ givo you an! one. That fe bow Iife’s favors come to-ue” 2: i ane eaverna ntecprets ber iss Cie ae interprets it aa the vory sign and se: a ing that shall be flnal. re SS CHAPTER XIV, GAND-EELING! PART It, Meanwhile a sccond love-scons Is being played out between widely«difterent actors, with wide- Jy-diferent results, ‘We were futerrupted the other day, my dear Clem," begins Cousta Fellx. coolly posmise- ing bimself of Miss Hardcastio's hand and dri:w- ing it withlo bis own,—" Interrupted at @ point of some lutereat to me, at all events, I am caa- templating marriage. “Your taste inclining towards, Lydia, if she had no Mr, or towards Mrs, do Mauley, if debts!” “And L have been serlously reviewing the subject from another polut of view than that of mere personal Hking.. Buch a woman as Lady Lydia Jorulngham, however unincambered, would not suit me as a wife, nor Mrs. de Mauley enber.” “No? ‘Bre, de Mauley sloze—false, they tell, mo, habitually; half = note sharo in her correctest. moments, But this ts beside the question. False or true, she sings. Women who sing paturally require musical morulogs, full-dress coucorts, aod a@ friend of the soul who plays the vio. Joncella. I could not stand ‘musical mornio; full-dresa conce! and @ frlend of the so who played the vivloucelto.)? You would be jealous of your wife's talents. As well coufcas {t openly.” “Your experience tells you that { am of a feroclously jealous temperament, does it notl’? Misa Har. tle. Blushees bul, happily, the stato Of tho atmosphere aod own = preuccupies mind serve to cuncesl the weakness from Couslo Felix. “ibeu LadyeLydia—I mention her as the type of @ cluss—.i horribly unpuuctual, Six days out of seven, with a wifeas ziddy as La- dy Lyle, you would have your fab overbollal. if coures this does very well for a waa like Buffon, the Abbe Gallant, Monsieue and | tt 1 for no one ty be too conatantly in the among the tribunal j roviety of any one peraun, ond feast or ail fn that of one necessarily inade more o* less mor- Dil by Miness. Just as chase of climate [4 es- rentlul to bodily vicor, so change of moral cli- trate Is needtal for health of mind; and the contact with a yaricly of peB@ple becomes of service to tho-¢ who otherwise run the lak oleh evmes of ‘eet gray lives and changeless avs.’ . The ersay on *Camp-Cure” advocates the expedien y of worn, overworked people sban- dolng, for a season in the suminor, the Juzuries of elvilized hfe, and dwelling tn tent-, where pure, fresh afr, freedom from the restraints of society, and companionship with Nature, are constantly Insured. The surest remedy for the Mls of Iife $s tu be found In some form of return to berbarisin,"” nara Dr. Mitche!l: and camprlite is recommended as at once the caaient, must agreeable, ant wholesome means of get- ‘Ung back to the simplicity of Nature. ue Iterary style of these two cesays might cll he envied by the professional writer; while the saze, sensible fdeas with which they abound give them a value for every reader, —— CULTURE OF BEAUTY. PERSONAL APPEARANCE. AND THE CUL- TURE OF BEAUTY, WITH HINTS AS TO CHARACTER. UyT. 8, Sozixaxey, ai. D.. Ph. Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott. 12mo., Dp. 10u, Price, $1.60. It Is not to be wondered at that hooks which profess to teach the art of cultivating Leauty make @ trong appeal to Women, when tt fs the open declaration of the world that no charm Ss 80 potent ns thatof a lovely face and form. Even Herbert Spencer, the profound philoso- pher, docs not hesitate to aver, “thet, out of many elements uniting fo various proportions to produce In 9 man's breast that complex emo- tion which we call love, the strongest are those produced by pbystcal attractions; the next in order of strength aro those produced by moral attractions; the wenkest ara those pro- duced by intellectual attractions, and even these are devendent much Jess upon ac- quired knowledge than on natural faculty, quickness, wit, jnsleht."” It is the consclous- vess of this truth thut fmocls women tu scek. by tricks of the tolet and by graces of dress, to chhance their natural comeliness, and render thenxctyas as pleasing to thecyeas ft is in their power to be. Thelr efforts will not le misdirected, however, If they act upon the statement of Dr. Sozinskey. thut pure thoughts, uw Bwect disposition, refined tnauners, and ad- herence to the iaws of Hygeia, effect more tuward the production and preservation of physica’ lovellness than any exterior artitices or appilentions. 3 ‘The book of this author fs rather above the averave of treatiaea on the-culture of Leauty. It pays less attention to the dress and the tollette than to the improvement of the health and the development of visor, by which freshness of complexion, roundness of contour, and caso and grace of moveinent ore naturally guatained. Some curious facta re- garding the propurtions of tho Venus de Medict und other statues renowned for beauty, with abundant jIlustrations taken from a wide range of reading, inpart to tho essay a degree of futerest. A few Mnes of good advice, culled by chance from one of the chapters, cun- tains the gist of the treatiee: |“! Beauty born of health fs natural, real, and without aifectation; itis free and graceful, Any attempt to repress emotions gives an air of conceit; nur is opativr desirable; suwe should try to be sound att serene Within, and Ict the sweetness of oue nature brin over without thought. Happy emotions are always happily expressed; luokes, aa well as Innguaye. rarely doll to divulge the real state of the feelings and thoughts. Affece tatlou und deceit ore at best but thinly velled. The hallowed soul !s always circled with a halo of glory.’? $ — VILLAGES. VILLA NTS AND FARM-VI LAG Wantxa, Jn, Consu ing Agricultural we ok c 0. Chicayo: tadloy Brow, & Co, **Little-Classic”” Style. Price 7h conta, Forming peopto and residents {n country-vil- Ingea will dud fn this ttle volume a good deal which they van study to advantage, It is writ- ten In thelr interests, by onc whu shares their life, who knows {ts routine, its pleasures, prof- its, and discomforts, and whe hag endeavored, by the labor of much thonght and experiment, to devise ways for Increasing its usefitiness and happiness, The mafn topics It clacuases ore Villuze-Improvements, Village Sanitary Work, Farm-Viliages, and Life and Work of the Easteru Farmer, Under these heads most belpful hints are given with regard to the adorninent of country-villages, for on tm- provement in their neat, tasteful, and attractive appearance, forthe construction of ruadways, plantlog of stade-trecs, arrangement of squares: and public apa 8, for the attainment of a water-sunply, for economical and effective sew- erage, and for the clustering of farm-houses in small central villages. Onv copy of the book in the hands of a publicepirited, progressive man Joruingham. Jorniugham is orich fellow, and can keep a chef, au artist, equal to al! eniergen= cles, [would never ault me, For genteel des- titution the domestic virtues are o vital condi- tion of existence."* Mr. Broughtou eounciates this sentiment with distinctness, Hike one disburdening lis tice of some all-important and sluwiv- ecl-at Jogina. You agrev with me, Tam sure, Clementina, For a pauper Ilke myself the domestic virtues are Indispensable.” “Thope you will meet with them,” Hardcastle; with rather 9 forced ch “ Tho domestic virtues, beauty, wealth, youth, and widowhood, are fot qualitcations, cun- bined, to be met with very day, and in the crowded highways of Sife."” “Iu the crowded highways, no,’ ho replies. “For that proclae reason £ am endeavoring to maku my eelection, to Sind my parugon, in one of the very quict, untrodden ‘by-patis that He arotad Fiolde-la-Reive." ‘Tho haod that rests upon his arm rembles, ceantta all Clementina's trafued habits of sclf- control, Mr. Broughton proceeds, with equanimity: “ As for wealthie resin it. My tastes, as you know, ore ant!-British, Spartau-like in their pelmiltiva frugality. A theatre-stall io the winter-— “A theatre-atall! At Biefdelo-Relne, 1 honet* “Arun to Monte Carlo in the spring, An fre in summer, With simple pleasures ko th have been contented, even os abuchelor, Married toa pretty, gentle wooan who adored me,—such a wouun, say, apne, =I could bo satisted with Ife. We would take as form-house—all chintz, and contcatment, and Jow-raltered cellings, by tho sca~lve upon mutton-chops, grow our own roses, and —" “7 don’t know whether you are awuro of { Mr. Broughton, but the wholo of this time, au whils vou have been intent upon your own whe talk, my fect have gut wet through, Are expeditions of this barbarous description got up wilh an ulterior view of pleasure, I wonder!® Miss Hardcustle’s tone 16 scrimonious,~so acriontous that Felix Broughton alluws her hand to slip away from beneath hts arm, auc, putting up bie eyeglass, looks plectaly around him in the moonlight, . It is evident that they bave wandered tolera- bly far from the trick in which they were di- rected to keep. Low, seaweed-cuvered rocks, futerspcracd with pool. hem them tn on threo es, Whilo to regain the firin, white sanus of Quernec Bay a current of tresh water, twenty feet wide, at least, and more than an! ep in the shallowest part, must be forded. “T ghall not turn back, if you meanthat! I am wearled to death, al: ly," says Cleman- Yina,—It must be allowed with more unreason than sho ordinarily displays in the conduct of Nt. “And will nut wade through any mons water. Lam wet through usitis. So much far the delights of the country Tu the observations Mr. Broughton, fora mainul or more, offers no response. ‘Theo, lot- Ung fall bis Seta and folding bis anns with the rewignation of «a man prepared for every oxigency of fetninine caprices “As you refuse dcvisively to turu back, my ar Clementing,” he retarks, * three other courses rewaln open to you. Elther you will wade through the wat that Iles before us, or you will let me ca you across it, or you will re- main where ye) aro and be drowned by the ris- ing tide. Thus much ts certala.’! “Let you carty mo across! As if you would be guilty of suc’ an exertion for apy one but the pretty, gentle wonian who adores you, the parigon whais to convert you from Monte Carlo to mutton-chops,—Dapbue! Tam sure if Idid what was wisest,’? sho adda, pvetulantly, "1 should just wait auietly whero I aw for the tide to drown me, as Victor Hugo's man did to the povel."" * Had Victor Hogo'’s man to carry any one!” asks Couslu Feliz, with Interest. You know I Bever read novela ot firot band. Had Victor Hugo's man to carry sny ous, and was she heavy?! “You bad better set ashore with as little foconvenlence to yoursif as you can, Mr. Broughton, Mrs. Cheater will “probably have reached bome by this time, and nay be teeth auxious about you. Aud, perhaps, you woul kindly desire Sic John Suverne to conis down to tv aselstance?”” U4 Ulted you once, I remember, at the Zo- ol 1, tO ato the bears, and you were uo welzht to speak of. But that was a grvat many Years azo, However, if I Aud you beyoud my ina village or farining community, would be an fortrument of goat to all ntuut: but acupy fn every rural household world undeibtedsy ine atigute a desirable revolut.onin many important jjreumatenoes connected with their mauner of ving. ——— HARPER'S WALF-HOUI SERIES, PETER THE GREAT. By Sons Lotion Mor- LEY, Author of **The ODntch Republic,” ete, Price, 2h cents, COOKING RECEIPTS." From Harper's Bazar. Price, 25 cente, New York: Harper & Bros. 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Bajan's etching of “A Roman Eme- peror,”” by Alina-Tadeina 5 and an etching af the *Portralt of a Hoy," by Jacopo Carucct, fu able fnuitator of Michael “Angelo, conclude the number. ° LONGEVITY, A writer In Potter's American Afonthly, to Whose painstaklog care {0 collecting statistics the editor bears testimony, gives the following Mist of centevarians who have dled in the United States, and, with two or three exccp- tons, aince tho year 1800. Tho compiler has deen years inakivg the record, and bas admitted ‘Aven Co. Ua. t naginae, Mich.| hitee by Tr Francises Henry atlter, Pavid Keant us bin Valua. Taking the Unite! States census asa basls of caleulation, the compiler concludes that, of the annual deaths inthis coantry, 500 are of ccn- tenarlans. Thus, in 1340 the census mentions the death of 40) centenarians, It {sa curious fact that more than half ot these—that is, 290— Were slaves. Of the reinainder, 137 were wiite, and thirty-nino were free negrocs, ‘The con:dl- tions of slavery, embracing freedum fram re- snonsibllity and wearing vares, plain fare, and regular Labits, were conducive, to lonzevity. Yet, on the other hand, the exciting adventures and severc hardships of borier-lfe are not tne Imicat to longevity. Cant. Juan Lovewell was one of the bold, hardy pluncers wu love tho perils and privations enditred on the frontiera, and “was velebrated in song as the famous fn dian Sagainore Vaugus, near Frysburg, Mey Tv." It {s noted of Alexander Berkely that, at the axe of 110, he revovered his alzhe periectly, bat fost [t aguin at the expiration of thirty days, and Was lett perfectly blind, His wale was ulsoa centenurtuu, dying in 1823 atthe age of 111,—the two taving lived in weillok tor about ninuty Sears. Richard Samson, ot South Carolina, who led in 1813 at the age of 10u, had nls Baht re Stored to him several years before his death. Mike Dougherty walked two miles, ate a, hearty v Ulaner, and “sinoked bia post-prandial pipe,” the day he died. Ils years were 13h. Javiing back over the records ot the last cen- tury, tne compiler observes other curious tts conuected with some who enjuved remarkable longevity. Lewis Barry, ot Cuamolatu, No T., who died fy 1313 ut the age of 10%, bad twenty- four culldren by one wile, Mrs. Ana Slade, who tied in Bethlehem, Conu, atwat 1513, was followed to the grave by grandeuildren wna were great-grandiatheral” Itis also related of ona Thomas tt. Park, of Gratton, Vt, whe was nota centenarian, but dicd at the carly age of a that he was the father of twenly-oue cnil- Pele THE TERM “YANKEE. Toanswerto aqueryas to the origin of tho term Yankee, a correspondent in the Mayazine of Amertean History quotes ths explanation iven by Gordon, a historian of the Aterivan Revolution. As some of our readers may not have met with the paragraph, we reprint asa Matter of Interest: ‘Take the best account of it which your friend can procure, It was a cant, favorite word with Farmer Jonathan Hastings, of Cunbridge, about 1713, Two aed ininisters, who were at collese at that tata, have tald mae they remembered tt to have been in ttse anon thestudents, out bad no recollection uf it Lefure that pertod. ‘The Inventor used it to expreas. excellency, A Yankee good horee, or Yankee cider, and the like, were an excellent hursv and excellent cider. ‘The students used to hire horses from him; their lotercouree with him,and, Nis use of the terin on all oecaglous, led them to. adopt It, and they gave hin the pameul Yankee don. Ho was 5 worthy,honest mau. but no conjure er. Tals could not escape the notice of the col- legiates. Yankee probably became a byword amoug them to exuress a weak, ole, awk- Ward person; wos carried frow the roe With thei when they left it: and was tn that way elr- ewated and catahtished through the country (as was the case tu respect to Hudson's choles by the students of Cambridye In Uld England), till, from its currency In New England, it was at length taken up and unjustly applied to the strength, 1 can but set you down again, half- ‘way ucross,. Cotne, child!” ‘Miss Hardcastle's stature is calculated at Ove fect twu inches, Cousin Fellx stands just over elzteet, He lifts her with about us much case aaa child would Mita kitten, and, ere she cun remonstrate, walks mavfully forward, Wheo they have reached the middle of the stream Mr, Broughton shape, ae Thad no {dea it would ba so pleasant.” he remurks, looking somewhat earnestly at the delicate pale face su close to his in the moon- chit. What fs pleasant?” she asks, ungracloustv. “Walking through muddy water {n thin boutst No, carrylag peeelst mean, carrying yout Clem, that tiga L spoke of, at tho jogical, sau Bt your arms round my neck, do you recot- ject “ frecollect nothing at all nbout it, str; I be Neve the whole story to be w fletloi * And when I gave you a shiiliz's worth of buns for the bears, you kissed mu—on my hon- oryoudid! 1 wlsht there were bears to eet buos for here, Clementina.”” “TD wlah you would have the goodness to set mo down at ouce, Mr, Broughtou."* “In the atreain |?” “Upon the other side, of course, And wouid ou please not look at mesa hurd, if you cun herp itt Tt makes me nervous,'* “If we could imagine, just forthe time be- fog, and until we catch up with Daphne and Sir dobn, that {t wes the Zoological and ten ycars avo, ‘Cousin Felix,’ you woukd say, ‘love you a thousand tines better chan any other per- gon in the world,’"” Miss Hardcastle turns ber face away, ehorp- 8he knows that the blood must fave forsaken it; that, though hor volce may be under command, atiil her lips are trembling at every {dio word Felix Broughton utters, “+1 may bave sald many things ten years ago that would be misplaced now.” she murmurs, ed—yed. Aud uutruvalso!" “Naturally, 2 He carrics her acrossthe water, sctaher down, {n aafety, upon the firmer sunds, ond they pro- ceed along thelr way iu silence. Aflss Hard- castle breaks It frat. “Mrs, Chester {a undoubtedly a most amiable aud meritorious person. Bhe remiuds mo always = of one oof Thackcray’s good women, poor thing, and thero can be no manuer of doubt that sue has a pretty face, That kind of red-syt-white complexion is co pleasing, before time renders it coarsé, and, though not oneofl the features would bear crit- felainy, tho white teeth and genera) animation give you the (mpression of beauty, Never were good looks more of the deauthdu diable unter; stil “Ab, that ‘still? brings us tothe text! The rest fy marinal,?? of = Felix “To Broughton, didcult of — spollt the most human creatures, passing the remainder uf bis days with ber—Felix Hrovehton, 11 reality unaimuea- ble, yet who constantly expects that every wot. an be approaches eball be a ulnctecnth-century Mine, du Mulutenon, and amuse hin! Tell me, Felix, for you buye had 8 good many hours’ ex- perlence, doca Daphue ever originate an intelll-*| gible kon any subject whutever!"? ee Thave not the “ilgtiteat recollection,” ans awers Felix promptly. “That Mex. Chester bas uuder all eircumstuuces looked charming, £ su arin think — th tof look: “And you nl ie art of look- dug ch ie even in a womau who bud uo ftrieud of the soul, and who could remewber the diuger hour, would reuder a life- long tete-a-tete cudursbloi” “T think nothiug would render a lie-long telea-tete eudurable,” is Mr, Broughton'’s re- ply. “A tete-a-tete of any kind is the very last talng Ltook forward to iu marrlage."” “Not when you live upon mutton-chope fo the farm-bouse, give up ices aud Monte Carlo, aod prow your own rose! “Ab, thay tarui-house—tis{u Spain! Atun- donlng suviaplior, let us talk, Clem, of thu ovo thing that reajly concerns ourselyes, aud our- selves alone—ol ‘your warrlage.” She winces under thes word as under a blow. Follx Broughton woes ou calmly, and with de- ration. = “Your intended husband is undeniably o Young wan of abllity. As timo upoe ou, it strikes we that be bus q very fulr prospect of ing @ natue iu politics.” “Politics ("? echoes Clementios, drearily. “Yes, SirJobo and] baye bad oue or two serlous talks, of late, and J am convinced (or ho ° §s_ convinced) that bo bas a future be- fore him, You know Clem, the nothing Hew-nothing-true creed, of idle fellows Iie me, -Severne holds the pictures elfef, not unly thut Ihe ehould by ahe vere tact but that he, Severne, will infallibly leave hu- man uffaira, In general, straighter than he found them! He atso belleves fy vetting Into Varliament und working out reforms there for a erateful country! Depend upon It, when he Teaves the army he will go ly for Schou! Boards or the British Workman; in time, per- haps, write Pamphlets. ‘There you could help uim."* “T hate pamphlets,” exclaima the poor little Bluestocklog. “TD have been stifled with books, and writers. and cleverness of all kinds, ever since Tcuuld run alone, is not generous of you to tease me like this! “You spoke with frankness concernlug the object of my choice, Clementina.”® “Your cholce! Do you wean to tell me that Mrs. Chester———"" 1 incon," says Felix Broughton, with suin- Mary change of tore, and once more making bitnseli master of her hand, “I mean to talk no more either of Mra. Chester or Sir Jolin Severne, but of you andof inc, Clem, my darling, how many years is it, 1 wonder, since fret wo fell {n love with each other?” “in love!” she stammers, shrinking timidly away from hin, and with a pathus in her voice to which Felix Broughton Is not inaensible. “We—we have been affectionate cousins all our lives, I hope.’* “We have been nothing of the kind," says Cousiu Felix, decislyely. “Do you rewember @ children’s ball you went to once in Eaton Place—Oh, bulf a century ago, aud when Tatllt wore a sword in her Majesty's servicut” A fancy-dress ball, balf juvenile, hall growo y My fuvitation came through you. Auy } casure that ever entered my, life, whea wus o child, came through you! Yes, [ remem- ber it all us though it were Festenduy.”? “You were dressed as Minerva, poor, small, over-learned Minerva that you were, and I—a: peared in iny natural character !—s young etmple- ton of the ninetectith century in bie scarlet jacket und gold tridunlngs.'* “You wrote vour nae down for every one of my dances, glviug me leave to throw you over —nw throw you over!—if t got achance of bet- ter partners.” ‘tementina, can you deny that you were in with me that evening?” iow could help myseit? You wer « full- grown oftiver, oir, and Ia partoeriess, neglected girl of 11.” : Well, and afterwards when I came to gricf, and hud to give on my scarlet jacket, tri mings, and all (and ne land, too, for the mut- ter of that), who, of ull ny friends, wrote me tho kindest letterst My dear," says Mr. Brough- ton, tenderly, * Ihave those little letters of yours uow, @ Vast deal too well spele and written for a child of 11; that was Dot your fault, but briinful of love and pity, and offeriug~yea, Clem, It ty a fact—offeriug to gave Up your pocket-monvy, If I thought aix- pence a week would be of any substantial ad- vantage to mic!” ‘AM that {3 past and over," she says, under her breath. ‘1 loved you, [ know, with a cbild- tah love. it would bo pdiculous to deny it." The there cume along lapse, Through good-natured relations, auxfous to settle me aa far away from themselves as possible, 1 got my ‘dipluatc post with nothing to du,and propor tlonatu pay, in Vienna, aud during five years, [ belleve, puly came tu London twice, And ueu—ene fine tmornog f received a letter vom Mrs, Uardcastle telling mg uf your on Bagement to Severn,” < . wus a achuul-cirl, not 28 years old,” says Misa Hardvastle, apulogetically. “I thougut: being enzuged would take te away from the ‘yma! and ‘ologies' of FraulciuSchnapper, I-- Iwas afcol! Whybesitate to use the fitting word! As for you, Fetix, I belloye vou bad for- gotten we loug before, More than once, re. inember, wo bad heard that you were guipg to be married, and——"" ©] bore the news as stolcally as I could. As far ua birth and money-prospects weut, I felt yor could oot” bavo made o wiser chulee than young Severue, aud [ told mnyself tt was best 60, They, wheu lsaw your face again, and every day that Lbaye seen it viuce, J have kuown, Clem, that we love each other, Don't by alralé—TI slull not transutess agajust the worulitics,”” adds Sr. Broughton, uikly. ‘When you are once Lady Severus 1 all Do silent exoush. dupend uoon tt. I Lave the right, Uke tho poor wretch who will be hanged to-morrow, to speak now,” “Oh, Cousin Felix!” And sho Ifts her foce, quivering with emotion, to bis, “If you bul only epoken sooner. I have al- aig aware cared —"" And then Miss choked by teara, Hardly-learnt philosophica, enlichtenments of tho pure reason and of ‘Tu itunte guvernesses, ou Lave come to this: the utter of a girl's wart—"the thrill of a ganglion ’—has proved. atrouger than you all! CHAPTER XY. Mate, The Time of Roses {s gouv hy, the green and flowery year turned ruaset. nm heaps of apples in every orchard betoken that cluer- inaking fs at hand. The corn-ficlds aro bare; the latest harvest of yrie is dried ‘aud stacked, As you pass along, the cot- tage gardens uo longer ecreet you with homely sweets uf lavender or of gilly- flower; thelr borders aro gay with au- pans scenticss blooms, with hollyhocks, bilas, and chrvsanthemums, Sumner has got {ts death-warrant, yet (Ike some hu- tan hearts) carriva a Draye front to the last; 6a ° brave that, but for the shortening days, tho songless hedge-rows, you might half bellevo that tho pulscs of spring were a-beat, the van- ished delights of May and midsummer still to come. It 18. a mellow October afternoon, and Fiefde- Ja-Retne once more Hes bathed tn sunshino; the Ichened walls of the old farm and ontbulldiogs, tho yellowing gardens, the pearly sky, all Diending in a siuglo note of color, exquisito as trunsient. Among tho flowerpots, trimly-kept as in June, the bees hum, Ignorant of thelr doom. Golden pumpkins, in rows, are lald to ripen on tho dairy rouf. Herbs ‘and lentile, for winter use, Ue outapead ou linen shects bofore the entrance of the house-place. Little Paul's laughter rings merrily on the still air from the orchard, where tie aud Aunt Ioaie aro busy over tho Last therlng of wiedlurs and October pears. Through the open kitchen wiatows may bo vard, as of old, the warblings of Margot— Margot who is to be married at Christmay, tho tale of spoons and house Hnen com- pleted, and whoae fancy with legitimate light ‘Deas turus to thoughts and songs of lore. Helle diguode, Helle diguedalne, Relle diguidon, Dandon, Dondon. “Quite an Arcadian scene,” remarks a voice, curlously attuned and softened since we heard 16 it, Re aearriaxe pulls up before the wicket- gate of Ficl-de-la-Reluy, tho wicket-qute at bite Severna aud ace vhetter ou atten sect: to Huger ere they part “fever wo do give up this wicked world, Slr Jobu, 1 shall assuredly come to Quernec tu seek our heriaitage. Now for Daphne's surprise, —(t abe has nelther = cintyrated = nor married ~— the village: curate in tho duterval ! Daphne: geuus mwonovyola, clasa_ortundria. How good ft {5 to (vel that one need never call anything by its Latin name again, ud iu another winute Ciemeuting, her face brighter than the October sunshine that riots on it, fs Walking up the path, full ia view of tho parlor windows, Sur John buverne at ber side. Her vole, 1 said, nas become attuned, her smile ts beartewhole, — Clemcntiua’s very step scema to have grown Junter, more youthful, siuce the evenluz when last whe yislted Figlde-la-Helue. ‘The uewneas percepti- ble in every detail of her attire would suffice to stamp her asa bride, in femlulne eyes, oven were berleft band with its shinlog weddiue- ring not ungloved. ud femiulie cyes are watching her, eycs within whoas clear depths teara of excecding bitterness are hardly kept from overtlowing! ly Daphue bas ‘stecled herself against hour, the crucl, ‘inevitable hour of meeting Severne and his wife; yet, now that it has — abrupt: come upon ber, tho tlervencas of tho a1 seems beyond ber etrengta to bear. During the thrce it montys she hus, in sume measure, becu Ecpe apy tho remembrance of her eclf-sacri- Bea, tha hour of passlonate temptation, Hardcastle’a utterance is ny $ 5 4