Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 30, 1878, Page 9

' THE L(HlCAGO TRIBUNE: SATURf)AY. AUGUST 31, 1878—TWELVE. PAGES: dictates §a the one now belleved a suspicions nature, We owe to (t perhaps his strong attachment to this cuuntey When even 1ts most hopeful friends had begun to desbair and in consequence of it he now is pecu thought to be an Amertean-Englishman. aho Englishman whom Americans mora de- light to honor, and nope to whom they more assiatanco o counscl, 1 the leisure of same LITERATUR i ition of it by Mr. Vanderhilt {aal- most o the wordsof Mr. wa reen much atrong statements of tne n of competition, Atd the uniairness of the same hetween solvent and Insolvent com- panes, as {n the works of thoae two hiloso- Me. Vapdertait's late accommodation Wwilh the (ireat Western managers, which wan procired by the magnanimous and nmazing proposition’of urbitration through Col, Seoit, eneroun offer to the Grand Trank of a stmra of the Michizan Central bisiness, are both in the line of Mr. Adana’ conn «The New Paul and Virginia,” by W. H. Mallock. readily turn for s Mr. Gladstone forty yeara to tho study of Iomer. lelsara of the busy man, ont the greateat resnits. prising that, In that time, about mastered one who, apeaking merely have an_equal authorit ho has written oft withbut an effort, flenco it I8 not sur- he should have as an amateur, contd Mr. Cladstone’s Primer of an this anbject with Homer === Unity of the lliad. these 150 nhages avparently o plunges into the Woll: fan controversy with a conildenco that secms almust too great; but the result shows that he nad not judged without reflection. has to say about Woll fs, briefly, that the first far more lujurious than the at- of Gamallch, We shouldd perhapn feel more encouraged condnet {f there were not evldence that he con- In freighta durlmg the win- ter to pay him for his torbearance in_summier, when he has water-iie tocomipere with, Oue other point of Mr. Adais' essag is open o proposes that the undertake a vizurous competition with the water-ways, so thal the rato estoblished at Cnicago, for fne stauce, in consequence ol water competitton, sball modity the rates from Louwsville or othier lands-potnt Eastwari, he wonld have the ralironds, ae far us In them lies, counteract the natural advantuges of situ- atlun which auy statlon may possess; and bhe- causc of those -advantages distribute benefits equally throughout the country. ‘Lhis 1e the most philanthropic scheme since Don Quixote. It lntroduces a wew form of competition be- ays as u whole and woter-ways as o whole, with the tGovernment somowhat fu favor ol tha farmer, since {¢ would contribute organ- Ization and coutrul so that system. the raiironds have combined 1o take busincss us much ns pussible from the lakes aud cunals, otlier pojuts sl fo water will ‘proba- lose their commercial supremaey; but until that millennial period arrives we shall try to comlork ourselyes by thingiug that it ls in- concelvable such ‘s comblnation should take I the worst should comie, 1L may by pussible 1o nrove that cumnpetition by water- way s us prodigious an error as competition by rullway, and that the only remedy for it is Gov- ernment control of every erafe that fluats, and Governmeut supervision to make competition templated u mque “Railroads; Their Origin and Problems,” by C. F, Adams, Jr. lling. and, T em he cori. :Lopinion, that the poema were not origloally weitien compowitions, but were de- pendent on humen memoy for their beinz handed 4 “The first generatidn of thelr defendera had to seeloun objection. mt ihat tranemission by memnory was mplona sllowed that rans. ‘ipt had not been the drat aefual Tf they were not thus placed in liters conflict with one anothar, at any rato tho pracil effect was that the adversary sceepted each of tne two ncpsrate adminslons, and that o great fmpulsa ‘was given to the negative snoculations. Mr. Gladstone belleves that the poems were uowritten; that they were transmitted bY hat the cfféct of public recitatlons was conservating rather than destructive; that the cars of tho state and tho lnternal forco of poems were other prescrvative influences; aud that the suppusition of the trustworthiness of the text, while not to bo accapted without turther examination, fa at least reasonable. Mr. Gladstone dwells upon tue argument de- rived from tbe unity of the plot of the Iliad, the force of which, we caunot help thinking, lie bas much overrated. have shown that the plog of ‘the whole lllad fs ‘The dead come to life, the cripplos are liealed, and the well act In the most conttadictory manner. made to go to three dinner partiea—full-fledged affairs, too—in one night; Piyemencs ta killed 1V., but ts the chief mourner at the fu- VIIL; and Teucer, i impossible; later b0 by manus Ir. Spottisywooile’s Address at the Opening of the British Assoclation, other woris, Notes on Lite Ancient Athletics erature, Art, and LITERATURE. TUE NEW PAUL AND VIRGINIA, Alr. Mallock bas not done so well in '“Ihe Wew Paul and Virginia” as fo **The New Re- Hoe bas In the former case con- t burlesque and satire. No doubt the original Paul and Virginia fa a it ob- ject for burlesque. We can think, indeed, of nowork in the field of tender romance that more thoroug!y deserves {t. The positivists also fave many flawa in thelr armor that ought to be examinesd Withsearching weapons, and of these weapons satire {8 on many accounts the be But the blending of these two aims in one was pure to result, as 1t has In this fnstance, in par- tlat taflurc; i the suthor has not missed the * taruet nitogetlier, o has at most only hitit ln the outer circle, We have sald that *‘Panl and Virginia" is it object for burlesque. Whoever shall read it fu his maturer years, divesting s s far as pos- glvle of the charm of the story and the style, swill agree to this judgment. It fs well tore. member that the story, spite of ita purc tono and atmosphere, 13 product of the teachings of holds the imlrror up to nsture, but to nature favested with attributes that ex- rlence bas proved she dons not possess. St, \eree had caught tho Infectlon seriously ubly before he went to tho Mauritius atall: wo kuow, at least, that Ronsscau was his J, and that it was no uncommon thing for the twvoto be secn walking together arm ln Moreover, Roussea’s fortuuate 1 ¥y kood suthoritles tulf of inconsiatencles. founded the office: ‘Thus Ulysses is neral of nLis son in Book whao {s desperately wounded one night, s in tho thick of the flght the next morning. The hy- thests ot a complete plot for the hooks treat- ing only of the wrath ot A accounts, more rational than that which Mr. Gladetone has adopted. for tho common authorship of the Itiad aud tne s Mr. Gladstone does not in- sist strenuously, and with good reason. simply impossible to prave, and difficult to be- lieve, that both books were written by onehand, ‘Thosa who do advocate thistheory are compelied 1o suppose that the wuthor of the {hiad, when his wrote the Odysscy, had grown old, and lost much of his orlzinai cunning. Mr. Gladstono uaceuuntably siizhts his own argument by suegesting in one place that the name of the suthor of the Illad 15 not known ‘The volume fn which this discussiou occurs contalns muct cxtraneous matter, inciuding an The Uenesis of Ratiroads,” of no ‘Uhe treatment of the liranger coldemic is candid and able, showings that there wero miauakes of violence on the part of the Grangers, aud of artorance on_thy part of chilles {8, ¢n many present value, 8o with the arzument In docs not fall w percoive that the struggle was bighty beneficial, and that It establisned o wreat principt of popular riguts which had been too We commend this part ot tbe essay tu the New York Nation, “our esteemed contempurary,” wbicn bus been as abuaive and disingenuous in ita treatment of the railrond problaii as fn that of tho shiver questlot. Rallroads: Thelr Origin and Problems. ‘tiarles Francis Adams, Jr, Puttons sons. Price, 81.23.) b RECENT NOVELS. “Baveli's Explation” was the first book to establish Henry Grevllle’s fame, and logically it should have been translated {n this country Uefore “ Dasia,” **Gabrletle,”” or any other of lior Iater eftorts, But perhaps it hias not suffer- ed by walting, since Mury Neal 8herwood has at last become the translator of It. Her success in dealing with Daudet bas encouraged us to beileve that, Insome vcspects at least, shels that {deal trauslator for whom novel-readers liave lang walted in valn, It must be sald, too, that labor is worthlly expended on this book. ‘I'hough by no meansa high-class nuyel, nor “]leary Greville” has written, it is full of power. The, chiel defect oLit, from auartistic point of viow, fs want '’ of unity. It covers thres generations; sud, io0g neglectod. New York: G. 1% the maker, or Poet, as ho was . y of homage to hin paramonnt ex- cellence fn later times, ts ilumeros, the Fitter, wonls may have boon sugucsted by tha single pna. auge of the Odyssey, in waicl we linve tho kindred verb, Aomeruein, used to desceibe tho meeting to- gelher of porsons from a d 1 hor {nstance of & name thu indls- which 15 now su inoxtricably into the mind and memory of man, that if, by any accident, the true name could be discov- t would scarcely have a chiznce of diaplacing rinciples about part of his renppear in ] On the_contrary, there sre many such jo- uineey points out several, that of ¢ goldou-monshed thenes (the strenzth of tho people) among oth- crs; but thero {s one more noticeavte, becausa of a unagaisted, 15 the truest teacher; that chlldren who grow up without books, but with keen per- ceptive power, arc tho best instructed; anfd that sulitude with the reflectiva spirt is the condl- erre was so {ar enamored of the new philosuphy that he made Virginfa the victim toit. Tarls and o convent—an excellent achool—to vt the tdea of modesty, and then be sacriticed er, ilke & new Iphireata, excossive plety. It aho gether in the state of nature, as sha began, nred not, uccording to .moacrn lights, have the fden 0f modenty at «all, nor ever hiave been * g sublune vletim Lo sont her away to | b - ave both strangely nelected, namoly, | cven the best that How wmroy persuns among the half-educated or uneducated know that this name Is a mere anagram; and how many others of greater pretensions to famlliarity with it~ d sgrco to substitute Arouct for i Mr, Gladstonc writes scnalbly of tho hy, sis of Homcr's blindness, rejecting the deriva- tion of hiz namo from the Greek word signify- fng *tblind?’ or “leading the blind,""—an error which we gbscrve Mr, Collins bas recently fallen nto, *What mny be dence,” Mr, Qladstons i blind ot all, only life. Kor, ashe Is the most objectivo of all pocts, 0 it {s vspecially tho fmagery of sight which supulics bim with a chict vart of his in- Ris acnse of light, of form, aud of motlon was huyond suything vig- orous and prolifie; and, though his perceptions of specisl color were ver! even color has suppiled hitarwith, effecfivo touchts, la othor voets geuerally that of Voitaire. to atone for his awn isd grown up alto- are visited upon the children, according to promisc lu the end, wo must coufesn to Lelng tolerably indifferent when the dispensation is wrought out. ‘Tne doctrine at the base of tho novel is too far-fetched for human purposcs. As 2 doctring of moral atoncment by children for the sins of thelr parcuts we condeinn und repu- diata it altogether; and a3 8 doctsine of phvs- feal heredity 1t Is not cven uttempted to be on- forced. Bavuli bad, in fact, dous nothing for ring deserved to sufler. ited fo the kililog ol his tel i but that muster, who was almost be- d fmapioaton cruel sod. despleable, ty. nerited doath ac his haada. mittal A trothed, for whi toit. Bowe must jan convent for tho tragedy. Be this us ft may, all roust percelve that the pure, the esthetic, the plous romauce of Bernardin 8¢, Yierre owed fta existcuco to that theoretieal racticnl sinner, Jean Jacques Rons- seau) Emtle was but the prototype of Virginla, Burely there could be no more legitimate object for burlesque than a romance of such birth and *is that Homer, hind 1o later which ho or his offs Thu poeitivists are mado of different stuff, As asorl, be bad e Tuelr fault is not cxcoss of scotiment but want quure their conduct by thelr principles, but gencrally by a bigher morality, the esistence of whi Tuussean nnd his schuol did just the opposite— thes professced better things than they prac- ¢ polnt only 18 there solld agree- tivists and tho scntl- Both believe n the substautiul vature, But tlev arrive at this clusion_by widely different proceases The sentimentalista believo nature s wornl because ft 18 in accordance with revelation ; the positiviats becanse it super sedes revelatton. The former trust nature be- cause they hope it will help themn to see O the latter becuuse it s God, 8o the apparent resemblanes between the two schools is merely & point of contact, and the kind of treatment which they deserve widely disstniler. There fa '] hardly materlal in the suntimentulists for sutire or Iu tho posttivists for burlesque, but each miy be ridiculed elfectually by the other methogd, a8 been “safd, however, {t mpt admitted that Mr. Mallock has shown much cleverncss and humor (n this much of the charm of it conalsts fn the way {t 13 told fewr peoplo will imagine on a first read- e but all may be helped to an wnderstanding ol it by attemptlug to repeat fosfamtllar con- veraation the gist of the story. seein much that o Posltivist Prolessor should be cast away ou an isloud with the young, beautf. ful, uud fudlscreet wifo of a'Blshop; or that he should convert her to that she, freed from moral wake Jove to bim in return, bas mangged to throw s good deal of drapery about thie ¥ituations. that Nuture is horribly immoral; even Mr. John Btuart M has coufussed ths in bis but we do not al- exhaustiblo resources. ‘Thoy do not always erminate, yet I.u umhur" ot ly In pxcess of wnat ave beet able td obrain rroin ft. * Afr, Gladstone's chapters on the rela- tlons of Romer to fhstory; to Guography, to Mythology, to Ethnolocylto the cthies of the Achalau time and to the Achalan to be desired departments. The new orthograph: adopted thrqughout this volume. It jostructed eyu still strange to see Alas for Ajux, - Kukloped for Cyclops, Lukourcos, Muronidones, fch, when fully proved, even mgdern soctety is accustumed to thluk death, without s trial ot tou suvere o ponalty, Savelt ought not_to be called vn for an sxplation of such an offense as Lie la suid to have committed fatfon, the scparation of his son daughter of tho murds years afterwurds {s ludicroual ‘fbe novel will, for all this, rending, {2 unly as a study of Heary € method aud style. and, a8 au e, from tho gran of ‘reasontug. s (Puitadelphia; J. B, Peter- 0 & Bros.) »datar-Tadg),” trom the French of Princo Lubomirskf, is the eloventh number of D, & Co's “Collection of Forelyn uvell’s Exvtation, the story s of Russian orlizin, though the sceno Is luid 'ho picture of lfo and wanners country which Pouludainos, Odusseus, Mukcesl, and Chruscis; but tu thls cowplexion we must all come st Inst. (New York: D, Apploton & Co. t'rice, Authors.” Liko * | fn "Turkistan. in that er-away substantial merits of its ow! better be ** Rolfefl"* than *. plot moves about the forier more thau the lat- ter, Reifelt {8 n Russlun oficer, who has jolned the army to be near the wifo of u certaln Uen- cral. This woman had promised Keheft mars rlage, but jlited him whew bo had gone o buy the woddins presents. Bhio muarried for position and power u men much her sculor, whom ehe dtd not love, and whose vxcess ot fondiess dis. Bhe atscovers when thrown in dally companionshin with Reliofl after marriago that she aLlll toves him, and causes Lim to THY, RATLROAD PROBLEM, Mr. Charlcs Francis Adams,Jr., has devoted much time to the study of rallronds snd thelr e bos been amember of the Massachusetts Rallway Committeo from its organization, and has discharzed his dutles In connoction with It with marked fidelity and fu- telligence, A discussion of the railroad prob. Jem by him {s therefore cntiticd to respectful consideration. The argument ts, iy substance, iittle togk, How | management. uew religion; or restraint, shoul The prinelplea of freo-trade, while correct gen- But Mr. Aallbcl erally, are not of ualisuted spplication. Tuere are functions of moden life: the number of which in contiuaally Incredsing, which necessarily partake r essence of the character of mononalive. pplying ralroud and felograph 4 Wa all know, as he inaprisuniuent among iscretlon. Tho court-martialed througl moral g that u womun ought uot tu be married to ono manand love another—whien i as old at Jeast as the laws of Moxes, ér:uhltnu writers of fletfon do without the Ten s Gotdsiith's Wits ber of Avploton's Hundy-Volumo serica. v is natory of the lust century. The coldsmith fa an ugly man who belongs to the Order of Bluc Penttents, the avocation of which is to tury The wife, who is a prett and pu on a smaliscale. could bo nanied, nopolies as a fun supposed that Mr. Mallock, good churchman: thut he fs, would writs about her with such a tlavor of fmmorulity, But it 1s possible tu en- tor all that, soms of his pesverss sud fn- lous logic. He makes the Professorway: lhus, stuco countless things exist thut the scnses can take accouut of, it Is evident that uothing k:ll'lll..l that the senses can not take ace e senses can take no sccount of Uod, therefore God does not cxist, sce tueology in a ridiculous eology has 1o slde that is not ho saine discourse oo says: y 0ol o coulorning to them; AT rtake of the el aracter of o~ wental condstion of iheir ge- Now it is found that, wherover this charactorlstic exisls, the effect of compotilion s not o equallze cost or equalize uroduction, but er or leas degreo of frictiun to briag about combluation snd & closer monopoly. As comblioation s s natural conacquence of competition, and monopoly of combination, 5r, Adams bellevea in not binderlng efther, but iu regulating both: bination should take place under tho couditions (3) Publiclty; and () After all, what s the latest num. bebeaded criminals. lictlo womusn, carefully watched b! mother-in-Jaw, 18 in mortal terror of the Order of and in great want of sympathy pite of the close confusinent 1 which shy was Kept, sho manages (o travel and fall in love with o melanclolly bandit, her troubles. Tho story is wel Charles Keybaud is the author, IMPRFSSIONS QF ABMERICA, D. Appleton & Co. have collected in ove of their handy volumes the Hev, K. W. Dale’s papers on Americs, published originally In thu Ninelesnth Uentury. Thore were four of these papers, devoted to threo subjects, Soclety, Pulitics, and Popular Educatiou. Each of them was noticed ecitorially fu Tus Taisuan as it appeared; and no further review of them in detail is noccssary. As & whole, they ure 's dlllvence aud candor. An educationsl oxercise, common In tho East and quita rar 1t 18 to bu hoped {n the West, 1 thus described by Mr. Dale: ng ladies were asked for *‘ declamations 3 DO Feapouse, they were maked fur Instantly vne lady roa other fn every part of the hall, and, wi ing ber place, recited a brief pass in prose, sowetiwes fu verse, They wer nd American autbors, but, if I re- quotztions wera scicuee con onl Heh, theretore Slomlviuee that coms Blue Penitents, aud affection. (1) Legality: Respousibility. would bave the present authorized “pools® established and recog- mzed by Jaws, thelr proceedings aud accounts open to oflicers of the Uoyernment and the oulilic, and _responsibility for their action en- “hrough thls prucess only,’* he remar & an organized wi 0 e with any public sud controlling force, whethier of law or public oplulon. Ounve let all the roilroad companies conf with law, aud the process through which this tant coufrontiug result would be sentlal features of W tlon aud extortion would grudually be fortnu- Iated juto rules, aund ibe muwent that bs s complished competition will work cquitably. ' The confederation of rallrosds ts not all of Mr. Adame' scbeme, Al that 18, s imat irregular and un- d struggle to do_what wo cannot for an [os old dolng.” ~ Even better than this ; Iul o the philosophy ot altrutam, uuog curate who appears ou the Lland for & 1ot & woral aud adorn & aul and Virgiola, Paul *ean tho rallrosd riet period, only L verjod, only, ol6 be brougbt facu tale, {3 dinlng with tu the curate; **What I 8 enfoying fo drink, and what Ollln’llt'n the champagns oy 1o I a8 €hAobegae Jeate; thiaie e’ Siblims sutsoms ot sl ence; this Iu the sublime oute lence; thia lathe ame of ‘sulighiened ederaty in sccord #acu uf us are unl; Juring theu, they Yond deveription. * Ispiurously, **indocd, thoy bottlo for your suke. ' it i e tuased OIf threo glasecs: said, ax he dutehed thrus more. we, gear, do | look significuut)'” o sdded, as he lurne 10 Virginis, sud sudden; Ly kisslug ber. [bis perhaps will bo sufiicient toshow the and pive an fden of the style New York: Scrfbaer, Welford creditable to Mr. ‘The supplement of this part of it Is the estabiishment vf a Governmeut tribunal, which should confrout the cunfeder- ated rallroad system and muke {6 smensble 1o Bo fur 88 BUY DFURTCes has t been mude,” be remarks, ‘16 s obviously the dire:tion lndicated fu tho development of Governuient supervisfon ou thsone sido sud tho conceutration of railroads 1o escupe cowpe- Utiou-on the other.” Preclely ut this pulnt ok Alr. Adams bas oversdot the wmurk. Ouco grant the pri Supervislon of rallroads is to ke place, is Lomatenial whether coufederation is ted ur uot. Ouly let tho supervision by rigid; tho probibitivn of extortlou au u, thy establisumeat of & uulform system of swcountiug, aud the publication of the same; aud tha people will oot cery whether reglsters tho docrees of We can surrender the prin- ly trled to crown tho gon: 2 publie opioion. t of toe story, of tho suthor. (. & Arwmstrougs.) THE HOMERIC QUESTION, Mr. Gladstone's Hower {s the most fnterest. ng of the Litcrature Primera that nave yet ap- ,Dflu’ud. It js mado so by the subject snd tho autbor. . By the subject because Homer ls the tirat, the greatest, and the most romantic tizure 1u literature, and by the suthor becauso hots the representative wan of bis country and tiwe. It Would be fdle now w judulge In glorifcation VM. Giadstoue. His defectsof temperument e us woll known s bis transcendent merits, iauo liviug Englisbman who aTger share of the contideuce, esteein, snd re- Eoglish-spesking people in all parts d than be doce; whose intuegrity is wiore believed du; whoso industry & more ad- § Who-e genlua f more cujoye Uuence 13 wors extensive thau bis. 3ty of comprelicuaivencss belongs to b wiory thau to any of bis contemporatics. Atllan, uy orator, sud a scholur, 1f Lix pulitical udeinent s ot alwuys correct, It 18 because Lo Meves 100 fwplicitly o buwan vature; b bs S0 wuch of wu optiwiat tu distrust Lis wollves Of the clharucter of Lis countrywen. Butthb very #aves Libw trow the corredisg ellveta of member aright, French. Ou the whole, the selectivng wers credit- able to the judgment {aats ot the students. Ax tho timo for this **eserciso ™ was zunniug vut, iwo or three often stood u uess of the youn, wost s keei a4 the cagerneas 0 bere to speuk during au exciting dubate o th was not a mioment ase from fnt to laat. 1 did not count the nuw beard, but T had the im. tesalon that there Wero belweeh twenly and Tueu, a8 u matter o course, came thu ouinous furmula which bad now bexun to soand uite humorous: the verson disgulsed suder the [attering ulias of **s distinguished strauger '’ bad by his e become Accustomed to the mannars of 1o country, 80d wus Dot taken uuaweres, hut nigid (luvt'rnuu:ult Ilouse of Cumnions, r ol lagics whom oug otticer or tweat the Guyerowent. ciplo of competition, uud eatubilsh th, we shall uot buve mude 0 this end combloation way by neceesary, a8 the pationce of tiu people bus ot tried that h:hny liavo lald Lut on woy otber grouuds combination e ss unnecessary and ws purcly lacidentul to Go erument contrul ws baskrutey fa, g, fudeed, thet 80 sagucious & wan us Alr, duts stould make comolostion un eud of tselt, pot pereelving that it is s balt-way meas- Ty, @ PrUvOcation, & wedds Lo the end of Gov- cruiuent coutrol The reasouing of Mr. Adas sud those who Rereo with bt bas pot be latioa fo its bl LITERARY Gladstouc’s speech fu support of Lord Hart- fogtou’s wotloa is sbout” to o republisbed w vawpblet forw. 4 Rallroads; Thelr Orlziu and Problems,” by Charles Fraucis Adams, Jr., cau bo obtained of W. Q. Holwes, bookseller, 75 Madison street. Bpeakiug of Mr. G. H. Lewes' * Proble: Lifo aud Miod,” tbe New York Times says our public lbrarivs, the trst voluwe of bis work tullucutial quarters, Thecs Lo ovideuce that the | s geuerally pretty well uscd,—uavd 1o duo yet been 80 stroi man's enersfen are bent np to thelr very ntmost, it 14 ‘worthy ‘embodiment of duty in face of eatts, proportion 1o the esteem In which the anthor's name |« hield,—while the seconid has nlways re- malned staoding on the shelves fn sputiess vir- ginity," ' The Athenerum vegrets that the reading public 1a “content to follow n formal fashion,” ami then pralses fndiscriminately * Watch and Ward,” ona of ll:nry Jamea’ carliest and Teast BOOK RECEIVED. Trave von Prvare Acrise, Trandated from the Erench and Jialan by membens of the Beiteyso Dramauie Clab of Newport. - Lolsure-lonr tertes. New York: Honry Holt & Co. Brexre's Tixprn Axp Loo Nook, New York: American Newn Company. Frice, enta, Tirutorueed Mgoica. Cincinnatl: Hobert Clarke & Co, * Price, 25 conta. Citniar'a Woune, Ny Prof. 3. B. Tarner, Rprinzgfield (1L ): H. W. Roker, aee. By the Hev. J. [ Hillocks. Gieorge tilnllan. Glasgow: satinfactory workg of fiethm, > The New York Jlera’d congratulates Seribmer's Month'y upon the suceess of its plan of employ- ing young artista in the work of drawing, and artistle engrayers to reproduce thelr designs. “I'ho natural ré@ult, of this will be, In time, the Ilera’d belleves, *the extinetion of the hack victorlal draughtaman on wood of the class who alm no higher."” B. Nicholosen, writing to Nofex and Queries ou the passage in ¢ Measure for Measure, ' At ihe deilehted apirit To bathe In fervifioods, or tu reerde Tn theaiing tezlons of thick-ribbed ice, sugees:s that **cditors should hereafter print dedighted with a hvphen, thus at once making 1t fense clear 1o the reader, and distingulsning it from the ordinanty-used word.” " Arthur Venner, In the September Lippincott's, sayas “ Mme. Ureville Is a comfortabie-lobking hody of with the air of 40, and 18 a mose agrécable taiker, In her varied expericacs ahe has sech a zood deal of the ups and downs of life, but has now settied down, 8s shie told my, *to muking her threy novels s yeur,” I hardly think she will ever again reach tha level of the Expiationde Suvell, tlarhusbuud isthe Parir. cor- respondent of a 8t, Petersbury paper, and in dentally & painter.”” (For her Explation de 8a- vell she received only $150. Samuel Il Crockpr, who dled in Boston Thuraday week, founded the Literary Word in June, 1870, and had bezun to feel success within hisrench when [nsaity selzed him, resulting finatiy in s death, Mr. Crocker served n the War, and had practiced law. But his tastes and ambitjon_era towand literature, ana fn the Literary Wor.d he fount n purpose after his owan heart, It was an ¢xceas of labor on that periodical, and othier brain work wich he hiad found necessary it order to live, that produced hits tusauity and deathi—New York Trimne. Mr. Matthew Arnold, inn recent articlo In Macemillaw’s Magazine, recommended 8 volume griving us Johnaon's Laves of Miton, Dryden, Bwift, Adutson, Pope, and Gray. to which ahoiald be pretixed Lord Macailay's Life of Jontson. h a voltime ‘Mr. Arnold satd would give ua the compendious story of a whole Important age In Euglish licerature, told by a wreat man. No ong else uppearing, Mr. Arnold has undertaken to do the work himsel(: the book will b pubhshed by Macmillau & Ce., and soveral Ameriean houses have also snuvunced it ‘The Atheieum has o favorable notice of Prof. Von loist's +Cos listory of the United States,” the second volume of which has appeared 0 Germauy. ‘The titte has been chanted In uccordance with the suggestion of the Amerienn translator, who did not adopt the terman title ln translating the rst volume. Prol. Vou Hoist 18 stili direatisficd mith the utle, hutdespaire of finding a better one, The Atheneum points out a sertous blunder at page 1, where the getlon of the Congreaslonal cau- cusus o nominuting body s coufounded with that of the Electoral Collexe. ‘T'his errur, it 1s to be hoped, will be rectitfod Jn the American translation. Srs, Sarah liclen Whitman, who died re- ceutly at Providence, in hue 7th year, hus lefs two volumes, consisting thiefly of critical ar- ticles und fuuitive verse, which are suon likely to be publlshed, Bhe steddfostly relused to atlow them to oppea: dutlug her Htgtime, Bho also refused to allow Mr. John I, Ingram, the English-viudicator of the memory of Pog, to whotn she communtcated tho whole of the' ro- gntie history of her engagement with Poe, the causo of the rupture of that engugement, und the poet’s corsespondenca with hee, to publish the story of tius ncident in ber lifs untll sny hod passed away.—New York Timnes, 8, C. Griggs & Co. announce this week a now and enlargad edition of ZurBrucke's ¥ (ierman Without Granmar or Diclonary : also the third edltion of Prof. Bacon's” ** Manual of Uesture.” The work hn%;.vcr 100 Hnstra- Edity John PTERIODICALS RECEIVED, Vick’s Miustraled Monthly for Scptember has come to hawd. The American Journat of Science and Arts for August hios been recelved. Notable stticles in Macmillan's Magazine for August are * Business of the House of Com- mone," by the [Ton, Knatehbull-Hugesenn, and Imaginary Portralts,” by Walter 11, Pater, the art-eritie s unmercifully rativized 0 “ The New Ropublie.” Macmillau's Iy perhaps the only one of te English monthlies it to rank with our awn; and, {t inust be confussed, its cotmvetition in close and seve: The North-American Iten'ew for 8eptember- October opens with an_ article entitied «* Kin Ho{ulnl Sea,” by Mr. Gladstone. The other ar- ticles are: “Torpedo Wariare," by Aamiral Porter; “Is the Rerormer uny Longer Necd- ed!" by G, W, Julian: **'Tne Keadjustment of Vocattots,” by Willlam T. Harris, LL. D.3 “Civil Bervice Reform,” by John Jay: ** Alfred do Musset, " by Thumes Sergeant Perry: a arin- posjum—**Wiiat fs Insnirationi—by the Re F. 1L Tledge, 1.1, the Rey. E. H. Washburs 1.D., the Kev. Chauncer Giies, the Rev, J. P, Newman, D.D., the Most Rov. Jumes Gibbons, D;x.r:ud Jobu Fiske: and Contewporary Lit- A. B, Barpes & Co.'s ndmirable Vagazine of American Hutory for Beptember begine with au article on the * Van Schalck Munsion at Kinder- hook, by chat vetcran autianaring, Henry C, Van Schuack. The orlginal docaments peinted this mombh are 2 memnorinl of * Gov, Stuyve- voyare to Fsopus,' and the “(icneral Orders of the Allied Forees at the Sjere of Savannah.” The *Exploration of the Missis. sipph" by LuSalle, Is the only reprnt. ‘Lhe magazine Is in all respects what it should be. In paper and typugenphy it {8 a modcl, und its value to studeits of American history 'fs sim- ply Incaleutable, We are gind to bear that it {s rapldly ealniog in favor, and thae it success 1 now assured. Coples of the lrst volame are al- ready scarce, and the second volume will soun become o, A. 8. Burnes & Co., New York and Chicago, ure the jublishers, i e FAMILIAR TALK, ANCIENT ATHLETICS, Reveraing the usage of modern training, the athletes of former Cuys ook thelr heavieat meal In the evening, and often prolonged it til late In the uight. Tnis foreed diet was naturally condueive to heaviuess oud drowsiness, Plato represents them as passing their Il i sleen. More sovere still, Galen says of them that they rearcely Know that they have 8 coul, aud ure very far from suspeeting it of betny ratlonal or of belug endowed with tental quadities of any kiud. This e excess, whict theie way of iite rendered necessary to u certain cxient, Is the anly one with which even their bitterest on- pouents could repruach atnletes. Thelr tente peratic, thefr vontinence, mnd thelr en- dursuce ure mentioned with admiration by profane and red writers alike. 8t. Paul tetls us that ** Every man that striveth for the wnastery {3 temperats In ull things ™ (L Cor.y Ix., 23). Aud u Dassao In ‘Tertulllau is to the 'sans eilfeet. A ancedoto related by <Ellon elves us a strlklig cxsmple of conti- nence and of conjugul figelley in aw athlese, Eubatas of Cyrewr. The famous courtesan Laig having seou_bim, becanie so decply coam- vred that ehe proposed warrisge o bio. Unwilling to cxpuse blmsedl to her resente ment -and her vengeance by a refusal, he promisd to comply with ber desire after tho celebrallon of the wumes, and took great care to avold all intercourse it li¢r in the meuntime. After loving beeu crown- «d victor, not wishingr to be accused af breaking his word to Lais, he caused her portralt to bo taken vud sct off witn It to his own country, saying thut ho bad thus taken ber to hiscif. Chrarmed with such fdelity, bis wife coused a statue to bo erected to blm (Aitlaul Parie Hi- torie, 1, X, . 3% To fucilitate the' obscryance of the rule which cujolnes who were proparing tor t| e “Ralmse, freo -quent tuthing was onles und they were sumutimes required to carry plates of Jead about .Ruelr loine, - & . ¢ 1 But of sll the quallitics required of a yood athiete, patienco und endurance were the ciiel. The severe tatizueawhich they nad togoturough wero sucis that Benees gives them the hame of Hlormentat * « They who axoect to conguer o the zame: say: x;h.-u:m-. must be ready to undergo al urdslips. In the contests of the arcuw it was thelr - chief care to hide thefr pan, however great it migbt be, wol enly from the spectators, but from the uvpponent who hw! cavsed it Ailian relates of u C: mean athlewe that o swallowed bis own tec that bits udversury mizht not imow the effect of the blow he hud dealt bim, Dion Chrysosto- 1nus lays peeullar stress ou thiy meredible en- durance of the uthletes, and pronounces it wore worthy of admiration stun victory fuself. The athlcte” Melancomas, bie says, was of 11lus- srious birth; he possesacd beuuty, strength, courage, temperauce, which are the greatest good. What is more admirable still, 1a not only that hie was uever beaten, but that lie never suc- cumbed to labor, excesslve heat, nor to pleas ure. 1t is worthy of mention that the most severs test of undurancs did nut consist m the hard blows and the wounds of the actual con- test, and that mony sn stbicte, whose body was 80 thorourbly trabued that he scarcely feltthem, was unablu Lo bear tho glaring beat of the sun. It scema to have hicen so intolerabls at the Ulymplau gatnes, which were celevrated during tho sutner solstice, that 1o Eltan ua ungry tuaster I8 represented threatenfug to send his alave, not to the mill, but to Olymypla, The contume of ¢he athlutes wus necessarily of thy very sluhitest kind, Homer represcnts them nispensing with svery kimd of clothing except the girdle, which decency rendered absolutely indisponsable, [n the laier times even this wis luli aaide, and the athletes uppesred nuked in the lists, According to Eustathilus thls was in cousequence of an accident which happenod to a certatn Ocslpous, wause seurt Tell as he was competing in # fuot-race, und throw him with such violenco that, accordivgg to some, ho was Kkiilod from the shock, or, st suy rate, was easily beaten by his oppouent. . An uthlote ol the niine of Acanthus s men- tioued as the irst who availed hunself of the lu:rmluluu tweompege fn o wtate ol nudity. t was protably for tis resson that, us soveril authors jufor us, women were not atiowed to bu present at the yutues, Iu order to runder tho body more supple it was customary to auoint athlctes, especially wrestlers, with an ointmont to which the name of Ceroma was lveu. Lucian opens his dialogue “ De (iymna- wlis™ by u reterouce Lo this pructice, utid shiows us the atuletes in tratolng pertorming tor eacn other the functions of Unclores or Alipla, tions, and 1s founded on Austin’s Chironointa, pibluhed fn_ London in 1 The asme firm wlll fsuute carly in Boptembera ** Waverley Lpic- tionary, which fa an alvhabotical nrrangement of gl the characters fn Bir Walter Scott’s » Waverley Novels,” with adeacriptive analysis of ench charactor and flitstrative sclectfons from the text, About the esme time they wiil bring out a new work on short-bund by an ox- werlenced reporter aud teachyr, entitied **Cross' }‘Sch:cuc Buort-Hand." ‘Tho Dundes Adrertiser sgya: ** Mr. Gilfillan had quite comploted tho Htcfary portiou of thy JLifo “of Burns about. w0 by published by Mr. ‘Mackenzie, of Glnsgow, Ho revised the Tatter Dortion spme time 8go, and . the delay in publi- catlon is stinply caured by tha care taken i pre- parig tho iflustrations and. the tunes which ace comphnv 3 number of the sopgs. will v o sunse 8 wemonal work:from Burti’ mosy sympathotic and nuywmtlvu editor.’”” The me journal odds: *What Mr. Glitlillan con- sidored tho magnum opus of s life yet remains to be publisbed, Ho was very yeticent regard. Ingz 1t to even hls wost intlmate (ricnds, and rarely dropped bhints ng it; but from theso b was gathered that:he hud written it twico over, and was engaged writing it for tho thind and last thne, It is: suppused to bo o seg]-philosoplical, semi-poctical somunce.” A correspondent ot Notes and Queries notices anmubg imstances of commun eacolugy the use of 't approclate” as to vatue ‘bizhly, instead of to value st the praver worth, Ho also_justitica soms of the American intovations, as * Look at here,!! which is better, ho says, than * ook lere ™3 for huw can you, the person addressed, beiniz there, look here 7 ‘Then oeer the situature is tuanitestly better than under; and In ** Martin Chuzzlewit ™ Mr. Beadder usesaformcomuion in the Btates, * Feel o' my hauds *'; this I8 classis and o pure Greclsm, “Apothior correspondent objects to the statement thot’ England ** quar ¥ or ** yives a guansuteo” of the Asiatic posscasions of Yurkey, In this transaction En- gland is the *guarantor” and Turkey the Wyuarsntee,” towhom Encland gives “*a guaran- ty,” Weliave no verb “to guarant, though wo have **to warrant,” but we cal bstitute for the Iatter *“to give & warranty,” and siml- larly we cau say “to gIve & guaranty." AR'T NOTES, Mr. O. T\ Newton proposes to commence ox- cavatious In Cyprus as soou as possible, for he belleves that Mr, Laog and Gen. di Cesnola have by no means rausscked the Island sutii- clently. ¢ A correspondent of the Forest and Straam says that Lo t{sss, Moran, Cary Smith, Brown, aud Beecher are about, the only mariue paintes who never offend agatust tho probabilities in drawlug 8 ship under sall; and the most accu- ratd of these Ls Cary Smith. The chicf attruction in the Portfolio of latest data is the fucsimllo by Awand Durand of the portrait of **Lucas Vorsterman," ectched by Van Dyke. ‘The original s one of the famous etchings of tho great masters snd Is a bold, vowertul work, Following this in foterest s the etchiog by Flameng after a pafuting en- titled A Convocation,” by Sir Juho Gilbest, aud the engraviog atter “the dellueation o “Jalrus' Duughter,” h’nn.lmd Mox. The se- ooly M Whilst thiey were being anointed and rubbed S:l':n:llf ; “"l!:r‘m.?r." sud m‘;‘l‘i”f&"}:’&{,‘f downp, thu athlctes wero required to stitlfen theie alnews with all thels might aud uot Lo draw thelr breath, Tals was supposed to lend -mure efticacy to the nrocess. 8uci is thefoforma- tion which wegather frow tho writersul antlquity concerulug the tralnng of those * who strove for the maatery.” Thelr actusl cuntests scarcel; need such cxhaustive detatls; thov ure so I, mfltar tu us from the writings of Homer that o description of them woull bu but littis more than & repetition of the games [u tho twe third ook of the * [Hald."'—~Noles and Queriaa. burg,’ furnish the bulk of the litoraturs of the number. (New York: J. W. Boughtou.) A private view was givenon Saturday at his lludHl by Mr. J. Wilson Macconald of ity fuil- £z clay model for his statue of Gen. Custer, to ba erected at West Polut. Tav statue, whicki s of heroic stze, 16 clght frct in biclght, sod repro- sunits the brave oflicer standing sa it fighting on foat, s left Ieg 18 advanced, the foot resting on a small rlse lu the grovnd; the lett arm is salsed and bent w4 i€ 1o avotd a blow, while the hand of the right arm, extcud:d down and back at full lencth, 1s'to bold the sword. ‘Ine Lcad {4 bare, with sbort bair, sud tho faco {a deter- mived. Tho tigure ks lu full usiforn, with wiguiticttes on thoe luft breust snd with cavalry boots.—New York derald. Harriet Hosmer's nowest vork, uow on e hibitiou in London, 4 **Tno Seatiuel of Pom- peil.” Tho London Zimes pruscs it Lighly, sud describes It thus: ‘Tho fgure Is eight feet in hight, clad In Belmut, #nd corsclet of bronze plates modeled after tbo vrigis ate, leaning upon bie lance i1 vaiu tho Ueadening snduence of thy rulphuro the falucy dust snd ashes. Hus vyes ad closed. ‘Ttio blood fu lus velus thickens slow. Looking st tho fgure {u yrutle, wo neu Loat ho siready stagzund ‘can scarco austaln bimaclt by uid of his lanow, bard cluiched sud prosssd a4 & int of support 'agsiust bis bued. Beades bie imet and coreelel ks wears vuly 8 short tuulc sud sandals showlng the fnstep and tocs, o thst tha limbearo froely displayed, and thers s at once th least puasible conccalment of tho Bgure sd e Juaat possible sdvautuge derived trom rnpfl{h Tue perfect slmolleily and slucerlty of the Lrest: i WY, Thero is something ulmost plalotive in the truly Euglish word *wly.” 1t may be ludetl- nltely prolonged upou ths lips, aud dwells on the Dbreath, lke she letter H according to Mivy Fanghawe. The Latin *cur' is too curt. ‘Tho French * pourquol ' sed & postpouemeut ol tha question. But “wuy” is simost poctical in ttaelf, and Auly lotroduces the best hexumeter 1u the languugu: ‘Why do the hestUtu raga ang the people imagine & Lia sesin pootsy are sloioet Tiuse: snd n n) uise, and one wmodern wmumnkcu wlmost » Hue of I8 sloues. Why do the night-winds sigh, Tho sea-virds wiidly cry, The sutamer-ciouds pass by, i et Hibe o (e eyt Ry —oh why? There Wssamething, lodeed, quite Homerie in tho Irish lamcus, # Vhoy did yodoyt” Butihe word Lus 1te comic mepect, 100, sud bus cotie wenced almost cvery couuddrii “s(uce the svat kive W Miss Losuier's desigu the improasive- svery conl v 8 nder tbe para. | uncicut days wheu the Urudsndes i ol ottty iy, tho- tnewe. and | Wyulyts &' Warda sueked, “WAY o dog s round” vefors b les dowui’ and udd: answer that * fo B&uwelh not bis bed’s beus frum bis bed’s fuot.” But to woat of thy whys wo have to propotud thers (3 not eveu w govd wthecause Y us this, It way bo the wWealler, {L way be reaction alter the political excemvnt ot th:rnt fow tnonths, 1t way b beguse the wud of the scason & at kandi Luywe sre sluews af the stronk seuth Sbo viupulyiug vapars wuich ars begluning Lo o power sntes and slrenih. Do has Clossd bis eyes, sppareutly, mory to uid the coucentration of bis puwery than mtluudl wights of borfor, which thruugh that thick cloud of falllng asbes could Rardiy pave been witlly Liskes. Tue muscies of uls llmbe aze fu steuny teusion, the boues drumly sub, Giving swphasls 10 tiv lusvsvss’an Lhut 1o N temoted fust now more than at other times to £0 about with an unanawerable why an our lipe, The lnquiring mind {5 puzzied to acconnt for caleatators." Tint trnth s tion; and i2 he had llved onf with m"‘efl bropriety have salc Tn concluston, he xatd: Mathematics cannoat toll ne whether there bo or be not mits to time or aps bath of Indefinito extent. and this In & renne which nelther aflirma nor denros that they are lthee fn- Mathematics cannot whetber matler be continnnux or discrots in is stenetare: hat to her it s inditerent whether it be one ar the other, and hee cancinnions are Inde- pendent of elther particniar hypotheats. matica can fel] 04 nothine of the orlein_of matter, of ita creatlon or annibilntin 1t fn A state of exlatence; but within that stats may sary from our moxt elementary conception to oy most complex Mathemalica can tell un nothinz bow yond the profienin which vho soecifically andet- tnkea: whe will carry them ta their limit. bt thel #he atope, and oo the great region hegond she Contermmanse with apa Ana cocval with thne ie the kingdom of mathem tices within this ranze her domigton Js enpren: ralng: to her order nothing can n contragiction W Ier Jaws nothing takes O her myteriaay acroll Is to bo funnd Written for {hore wio can read 1t WAL which or stranger than flc- day he might Tand tover ta where 1t §s hotter] Why are the milllana wha live In London unaninious only In hating 17 Why does anybo Iy go to the Expositlon? Hundreds of such guestions ocenr and no satisfactory reply . Lile i# too short for the man nlianny heat woat phrenologiets call ‘“eansality ™ 1s Jargely developed. by the way, fa it phirenology, aml not e %, or something of the Kind! siwara anying, Why, and we have all heanl of Pone aud’the man who tatked of the little crooked thing that asked questions, awain, have we no shorter name than * note Interrogation ™ for the rounds 80 many a seute batto her they are finits or finite. 10 us at cvery ste e dewin onty with §ta motes of le-shaned sign which W SPARKS OF SCIENCE, IR BRITING ANSOCTATION ‘Tho British Assoctation met at Dublin Aw The firat thing in order was the address of Mr, Spottiswuode, the new Prestdent, who s cele. Lrated as a mathematician, though nnlyan ama. tear; he Is In active tife vrinting firm of Spottiswoode& Co. The aiddress #led nine columns of the Lonton Times In closo print. [t was pronounced by those who heard it oncof tho mblest ever delivered hetore the Arsociation, thouzh Ruxley, Tyndall, and uthers equally famous bave oceupied the chalr fo turn, and thers fanohonor which English selentiflc men more covels. The subject was the relation of mathemnatics to practical affairs. Mr. 8pottis- woode selected fgr examination three minthods of which mathewmatictaus are often 1 have excerded all reasonable limits uveadupted for unknown ulllmr'llu than ac Everything material which 18 the sab- Jeckof knowledie has number, order, of position: and then are her firat ontlines for n akotch of the 1t aar more feehle hands cannot follow 11 her part fins been drawn with nd hue work cannot be zansald, range of mathematica] eckence, 30 L estend beyond our actaal pow- € of Waaipuistion. that at some moments we aro down witn even more than rever- encn before het majeatic presence, inited are her prom; thay we might wis nformailon whateyel out the details, an nncrring pe mewber of the great inclined to” fall nd powere, AbOLE RO much 10 know dnes she offer nn that at other moments wo aro fain to cal) hee reanlts but a vain thing, ud to reject them a8 o sfone when we had nskea Tor 11 ono mspect of the yaoject encourages ouelopes, su does tiic otiier tend to chisaten our deniras; and ue e nerhaps the wirest, and Inthe lung run the happlest, amoag his felluws, who haa thia clance, but also the larger indircetiy teachea—namely, to famper our aspirations to that which is possible, 1o moderato our deaires to that whica ds stiatnabl r Ropea Lo thiak of wiiich uccomplis iminediately practicable, in at feast hin the range of conception. learnt not oal culation, aud to puirposes an unknown tonrue.” mettiods fi question are~Iirst, tuat of fmaginary quantitiea; secondiy, that of mumfold Apace; and, thirliy, that of zeometry not accoridin: Euclid. After [Husteating the theory of fmag- inary quantities, he mid: [ ny perhape bee allowed to polnt out, in ilus- ¢ araunent, that In art unreal formenre frequently used for migzesting fdeas, for col e s meanlng for which no others seent Lo e Are no furme unknuwn to bivlogy. mituatione incompativie with vrayiiation, ponitfons wliich challenga not merely te atability unteven the posddility ol eq these tho very means to which | rrcauran [u ander {o convey his my RCIENCE NOTES. The eluborate puper In favor of silver curren- cy rend by 8. Dann Horton before the last inces- fnig of the Suclal Bclence Amvociatton has born ued in pamphict farm by Robert Clarke & An appendix contains vari- ous extracts hearing upon the stiver qurstion from previous essays by the same writer. Dr. Jotn W. Draper's volume of Memolrs," fortheomitne from the press of the contamns & uarrative of an, extensive serien of experiments made in the Uplveralty of Now Yurk by its author, on varlous hyaleal topies, between 1830 and 4870, ciieny o counection with lizist, radunt beat, and elec- tricity, and the Giferent papem ol which the voluime % Lo be composed alreyIs form & pop- tion of our current sclentific jlperature. G. B. Alry, tho Royal Ast Nature coneerning Prof, Wafon's ieport Mercurlaf planet as o ditrucs very we ramn bualished In Nature, and that (here mny be/s posaibitity that the ubject observed s in reshity this ster. . . Ve mairsituds - s, howsver, sinuller ol Watsuy, tht i the British assocl- bepe 5i4, nud that i anorielr'a Nt G i crepancy may sery caly oacur in the burey cuch n seusational eiservation, as on thes casions the tine ag th disposal of tho obszrier wnitable or wdequate. + of Clucinnail belum —are ot niag and to fa). Reouletric curvea ~wno_ has ot felt that thoso in- iave w clalm tu recognition very suntilar f thelr conirenere in mathematica? 11 it that the xrotesgue paintiiszs of the Mildle Ages the fantartic ecuipture of renote nations, and cven do 1L of the pro-hiftoric past, still impress us. i have an Interest uver and abave their anty- wuneian value, anicss it be that they are aymbole which, althaugl bard of intetpretation when taken alone, are yer capable, From « more comprehicneive leading us mentally (o sometling Iyes, and to traths waich, althouin have a ieality scarcely to be attrihutea to their vatward forus frdn art 1o betlers, trnth to natare and to doutitedly & characteritic of sierllng 3 and you In the uelineatlon of wut- humtner, writes to vovery of i ultra: *The pomition of § thag pzven In the t. ootut af vlew, of o . of the secret parta of char- ward wil feclings und affectio conduct, it trequently bau- ucter and molives vons that the wrilor ia deiven to 1nia analogy, or even {0 a terance to that of wh part tn recognized sywcch, cannot (nd & meanin for these lierary Cguaree, un IDWAEY ForpuRG Lo, Lidazinntive poutty,'to social fAction, or even 1o thosy tales of viant and fairy. ed, only for the nuesery ordee thus to_1eaniuate thows things with s meaning Leyund that of the a0 reconstder our At positlon, 10 enlarge tiw idess with whica we wtarted: have we not to cast adont 1or sumething which s coimon 1o the {dea cunveyed and to the subject wntually Gescrioed, and o acck for thu svunpathellc spring waich _ tindeelies botls havo we not, Iku the withematiclen, were, t0 suinc first pranciples, or, e it e pleage. nxu|er to deseribo It, (o become ugsin as & litile bl ating uf manifuld space in tbe sate way, very, 0 parados, In_ order to zive nt- ch there & no dircct connter- And yet witlch of us In an article M the tithed **In the Soon Dead ™ M reviews thie erlidence for dhie discoy Hesuvs 1t fs qalte possible that the crater may have been ulwuys lu 115 present condition, snd contiuues s profably been no voleanle change, wchunge has taken place o ull, the floor of crater bwo indles i diamcter, witer auderguing Jor mitiuns o yeurs the expansion jesuliing Iruan the Lreniendous heat of funar milddas (with a mun nearly vortical)und the coatea rful culd of Junar vletded to wunar ¢l upon the stoping wall Thut cuauges such nough prebaily ot Ko piace inthe . lontempurary Hevies, en- r Tand weitten, 1t 4 ur schoulroum? Iu mere words, have we *In Ny case thers rpmee Deneatd. should from tme Lo the: ormously long Intervala— 15 10 be expreted. : actible oF even surprising, we should beehabs copsiddr the 1eal woud bn that they ure tot niore 1. - In # rurfuce esposed to s@ek szl | of hicat and ¢ale.” g ST WILL AND KATE. e wore tuon to wed f wo neck & connterpartof thia in com- 14¢, § might reming you thet he permpective in drawlig i 1'a0)f » metion 30t altozether din: wimilac 10 that of wnieh | have Deen speaking: snd thiat the Latrd dimenstun o in & picture, has ita origin and 14 uge o hite akill, but hes no et . canvas which 1 the ‘tru tuenng 1 it of it works of e 0 Foa e rezarding thein inthe painter' cently recozmzed g vecthritudes existence audwork of bia | rafure, when in Ak Ee to u cominua ien apace alreagy Dliud substances 14 ihentully paopiéd with, inue, may Dot tls Iaglnntion be rus viuy udded & newEpent to the ca- Basity of space, a fourth dlmensivial which ther o i» no enidence in exverimental fadty Non-Euclidean geometrs, or genersiized con. ceptlons of space, Were showh also Lo buve thelr practical valus: e rineiple of Tevresenting of another, aiud A, Loguen in the ot te fn pure watheiat pplication I eartog ric-eyed, brave. and troa; Hbe had tender cyes of blue, He had woued lier long 1o get Loving word of promise; yet Hanbiful Katle, tnough incifued, ‘Peemuhing, feared.fo speak lier mind, ds of hif, with lover'a srt, Mk# wunshitne on her heart, While tho blushe Whh the sea-shell's laveliness, N they wanered off, une day, ‘Enrough bee ulesdows sweaping Whers the trookiot sany heiow. co O ome K onched her 'ace ut hns longngw and other foatires belonging in realily to v'a murface are representod on the fat; und motle of representation, or profection, ayit fwcalled, there corresponds 8 sperial corrviation botween the #pherold und the plane. hi might pertiuj be added the seometry and #ll (imitar Bneem, otk military and ¢ Rut uoon such technical plnta I m 1t, however, a4 I hope, 1t_hae sufticlent! more extended fdeds cu- ethou of desceipiive oceesus in Use by Bu- Srawborrfé buaeath tho fest rkl, e and sweet. € vlosoins hangs Qatvenng witil'gasiw of woug. 0 thelr nearts the s Turilied and tritiod witi 1 the lanv, & suuw-whi Cuolng, sald, **1]ay o *++4ome one told her that, I kow, ‘Whu has taught you, 1u the teafly cuvert hi Somethiug auswered, **0 my Kate, 'aldh of me, shown thai uny of {hes adle us to rumbine toiether, provertics apd vroce: ary polutof view presout marked distin o they will have Justified their own u: nd, ‘o ueing them. we shall not have beun walking In & vain shadow nor disquieting onr “Flivwg extensiond of mathvimatical e overwhelunuz i d vy some wipiiiication in aciually employed, 1 will meation only two, viz, f furm and mechanical apaliance, tics as @ finy art, and inatheinatics 3e s At first. ad 10 symieley of form. ‘Fhery nee fany pussages of algaora 1t which long urocesses of _calculation at the ont~et seewm un- Heenlis are olten obtsined in the frst Instance through tangled wiass of formula, at best we cn Just make suro of our bruce without any general survey of the patly whicl we have traversed, and wiich #e have to parsue, ‘meaning words. which from t, idcas woult, howevol wers not compensate covet—now bewsrel - poy a forfelt. Theref™ while overhead v ++Ktua bor gaicker—kis b Hple! spact pict ‘Then she, pouting, sald, 1hnd aud Jover vex me s o't you do it—don't you da it, " Bang tho bird; ** You'll ruu it—rue It~ Tu-ib! tu-t ta-i +*'ears, v Kato—my woodland bird} nis ard, stili lesa of that Hut almort within our enerativn a new methoil has beon dovisad 1o lore currectly speuking, thie method 1 4ot new, for 1t ia inborent 1n the nd instances of it, un- rded, are o bo fonnd varly all mathematical W some cilent alsa by Gauss, AmoDR the older weilvrs, the meth. od uf which 1 am wpeaking was recuguized us a huk bestdea Liesa DeThape ho Liliers can 'wuti] & perlud within uur owa recollec. tion. Tho metliod COnaiels In symmetry of expres- In algouraics! formule, combinations of the riag theretn occur aud recis cholcs of these uantitics tho varlous rendered symuistrical, and o clear thiu cntanglcwent, P s of algebrs iteelf, naticed parbape or d crapoing up_ Ahrony! bl . Fold your winge by me, my aweel,” tle laughed: the merry souud ke & blrd dn cuat of brown: 0 ho whistiod Joud snd loug uaiot, prophetic sung: e Then & robin, porched aloft, Bluging lovo-sungs Jow and soft 1s muate within ber nust, liiushed to erimson on her Greast, +: Peter! she'}] ba swestir— tor! tetar! quitt combluativus way b reducen to 8 few ‘well-known tv teon dune, and ane such coml calculated, thy romainder, their requits, can aften be written duwn at ouce, 1 gold was gleaniing bright, it Eila weta crownadt Pt i rilled with swuet cuntent, m the distsot woodland-glsde Bymmotrical espres- niovepYer, aavy a8 muct tino and trouble in Invtead of wadin rough w serics uf expresslons which. al. tvely depondent, bear 6o wutward resemblance to one auother, wo may read o aym- 1aetrical {ormula af almust any length at A page uf suca formuus bueonics & pict forme are sren 10 dofinite groupings: th pasitions, UF kerupuctive very lighi and sludow, " most as much throngh $ne ‘sriukic facully nati jeative Of extended though succesal It tnay be called, thelr convey thelr mca MirLapate, M Lavites E. Aziaw, Where 8wordlish Are Plenty, ‘Tucaday Capt. Abtutba Me., brouiht to markol s wonster swordfish, L& wewsured tew feet In length, exclusive of the sword, which was thres feet long, and welgicd vannm-? uu:lfllncl wu) ks rivd on upuu quite an extensive scale last Mou- day, about Iou‘ru:elx miles otf Wood leland. Five bouts wepw cogaeed fu the work, und thoy sue- ceedod 10 capluring twenty-seven i, varsiogin welght from %00 to 800 bounds. 13 very eXvitiog svort, The vk were harpooned somewbit after the fashion of whalluy. are sneu restiug near the surface of the water, with the back o wavivg sbove. proaches, and, when sutliciently uear, tho bar- poou 13 driveu futothe 8sh. A loy teued (o tho barpoun, i attached to s perbaps & dory, wud the s s allowed to run with it uutll”death evsues. When tie tron is driven foto bl Bu darts ubout ¥ith great ve- lucity, sud the barrel goed bobbing around. The barrel acts w8 a buoy sul guide to tho teber- 1. cavitt, of Baco, peuking. tanical uppltances, Mr. Dsbbage, whien speakiing of the diticulty of ineuriug mcca- 0 the long nuwierical calculatious of theorets. reaarsed that the scieuce, which 12 1tau}f 16 tho most uccurate and certatn of all, had, througn theso dificulties, becowu iusccursty and uncertsln in poine of 1L resulte. doabtiess, sume euch couuled with bile divlike of employil where unekilled would the Invewtion of s calculsting wachices, idea of sybstituting mccbauical for wer has not lain dormaut; tor maculvus whuse w Nest us to weet about 600 pounds. cal ustronvmy, %¥esivn (from u now o uctual use) s Isasd Thdmay u desipoed for uven 7l au invention has wore dulicul ty coustructed w wachine which, by Remas of the mero friction of al s ball, te cupavle of c@ectivga vurlel calculutions which veeur 1 of walhematics tw v, y 1t wctws tnal an unek] sway, o 8 vlven U sialled tagtnemancia alike Lol salculat mleoruiugical, kod beibha wdlc “pheuuicns. tions of the second and ————— How ¥ather Faber Passed His Last Hours. Lond.w Warld, Hero 14 » trug little story whaich tho habitucs have wot orinted (tu o wackine ls kpplicadle of the Orutory tell, but deference, doubtiges, to the weakuwss ol tuy weak-kuced beathien), us an incldeut of the lsst? woments of their Browptou founderund brigut- st oruwment, Pather Fuber. Un the tust ot agood life wud uf aloug iltuess, Father Fuber asked his grlcuds whetuer the weut n»unlv@m 3 not to b lmwedlately sabd bo, turolng over with s salle, **Lnaug e Plokwiek !V solvo dificrvut equa- ctapa of wen bighor same luvention the probleis of Gndiue B free wolions of Auy nuwbder of mutually alisctiug particles, ugresiricicd by apy of the approxiuiite supbueilicys required s treatwent of tho luuar and plaiciary tcuries, {8 veduced L the slwplo process of urniug & ban- Whon Faradey bad cowmpletad the ex) wental part of » ubyical vrodicus, und duslced 1hat 18 abould thencefurward be . uatneustically, bo used irrvvercutly to way, ** Laud It oves to i