Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 2, 1878, Page 9

T CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY.. NOVEMBER 2, I8e—TWELVE PFAGEN, . 9‘ New Edition of Matthew Arnold «.“The Europeans,” by Henry James, Jr. The Ceramic Art, by Jennie J. Young -—Bench and Bar of Reflections on Library Work ~--The Portfolio-—-Lit- Correspondence Between Charles Reade and Mrs. Hodg- The Brain and Intellizence in Man—-Utilization of Solar Meal-.-African Exploralion— MATTAREW ARNOLD'S POEMS, Macmiilan & Co, have doune good work In publishing In one volume tlte puems of Matthew Arnold, ‘Tho voliume, tou, has aheauty of bind- fng and printing, which will commend it to the admirers of Lhese poewms, of Mattliew Arnold’s poems may bo the meaus of making them betler known thun they are. Matthew Arnold’s repututioy us the most ex- ccllent of English critics Is so exalted and so exteuded that it has overshadowed his reputa- tlon as a port. To many who are familiar with him as the author of the essay on Mleine, anl on Joubert, a8 tho apostie of a culture of sweet- pess and Jight, he Is unknown as the author of sgolirab und Rustum,” or *Empedocies on Aud that this should be so s not strauge nor unjust, for Matthew Arnold Is a more perfect critic than poet. In truth, be s a very excellent critie. Sometlimes we may dis- lis conclusions; we Etoa? pute LITERATURE. St. Louis. era. ry Notes. son Burnett. Brience Noles. LITERATURE. withhold our admiration of ner tion. The heanty of h in which e may not always agree with him: wu never can upbraid him 1or haste and want of vrepara- DrORO utterances ure And the despalr of matchluss musie ot these sentences ringing In our ears, how can wo cssay to criticise the writ- ten words of Matthew Arnold? would venture to citiciso him must think bow miteh better the critle would have put it,—how hig well-stored mind would have viewed the subject from all its nspects, how ho would have Lrodght the best obtainable thought to besr on it, low his active futelleet would have played around {t, and how his pen would have fash- foned the wholointo a thing of besuty, Let this feoling cause us to speak with hecoming diflidence. One to whom we owe so much pep- fect pleanure we eannot approach with feelings of hostility, And, besides, the day when criticlsm coosisted simply in vituperation, and in oxpos- ing tha comparatively fusigniticant werkneases ina whole, hns passcid away., Tho bhest that s in books 08 fn fricuds s woiten through sympa- thy, Jeflrey is dead; and to Matthew Arnold we owe it ' larize measuréahat o standard of eriterion higher than that of Jeffrey has been adopted. Perlaps the first impressfon tho reader of Matthew Arnold's poems will get s that the voet has done the very utinost that was viven hin to do fn the directionof vouetry, Ho has mada the verv, best of his gifts fu that direc- tion. Ihs perfcet taste and his extraordinary beauty of Intellectunl expresston huys enabled bim to sccomplish more than his natural poctie glfta were au corneat of. He s not essentially 8 natural—or, to use_ tho commoucr phrase, & born—poet, Endowed with an exquisite appreci- ation of beauty of form, with a miud of subtle tinencss, castin a time with which bo was outof. sympathy, with Josglogs wlich jn him could not beinerticulate, ':]h'“ mada.a good account of his e tot’ himubil o -poet, works are more than lnteresting a They frequently reach’ o high poetfe al andto the ‘mind whith'ia attuned to beauty of torm und expreasion, which instinctively recolls from gatlsh valgarity, they afford a irue and tolouts,:-and m lasting nlessure, are conumon_ to cneration, s canse ho has b ulthe popular poet. that he would Bugit Itnes,—'* au fron time," His words doubts, disputes, old order scuined to have aud dissatisfaction were abroad. was the frie doubtaers, thelr own time, stany we do yot,” which we call wurk, ume will suggest this Empedocies gy Urania, elasics, [ bave hag rold nd rom ¥ r 1 iy ::;e muelt Yery best tha tue early world,” are peculiarly delfea beyer Hattbew Arnol tribute ay thy With his pecull; latthew Arnal Iispiration wiich et of diffuse, have a which ars admirable. Epontanclty vl the poet who mings because ho must, ho yet has 8 gruce, and u lovollne, & deuth which wo would regret to bave lost. Aud because ho is the- faultless poct, and ho- 0t the fresh and rucy svontanelty natural ainger, and bocause he is the ex- bouent of the feclivgs of a cultured minority whose minds are i1l ot eage, he can never be He hardly cap bave expected slug 10°a large congregation, he slng to the goodly company of lovers of cultare and of Leauty, ho will not bave written fn valo, The time fn which he was born rives us o clew to the formation of his te churacter. He grew up In troublous as he phrascs it, “of distractions, feors.” I asacd away. At Oxford be rend ot Clough and other gifted They were oul of sympathy with Ho regrettod ho was born tuo late. Notbiug wassatisiactory,and helooked with Tugretiul eycs to the ast. *lu the sfucere suid tho bewide What is sound and tru to mysell to flud the only suro gulda: only ‘xolid footint, amung the anclents, rate, know what they wanted in Art, a And tufs adwiration 1or the times clusslcal has §is fmpress on his tor they would bo described as classical o form. A glanco at the contents of this vol. as we read the pamcs, on Etna, Bappho, Antigons on He has saturated bis mind with the aud clothed his poems with thelr char- ext Lo the clussics, the two men wuo the greatest intuence on Mattnew Ar- 8 poct are Gorthe and Wordsworth, be hus galned rsunal culture, bl love for the cupable of iu the u the grostest of poots sinco Shakspears (and that Is his e of Wordsworth) 1o bas guined bis ex- Quisho love of Nature and “tho freshness of s descriptions of Nature rly te, and huvy tho flucuess of 8 cameo, ‘Lhey are fino and bricf touche: Again uud sgain i hts puge d, with a_gencrous loyalty, L foct of his two great mastors. ar and Mmited ) ld did wisely and well In takin, und character from the classics, are wodels for all thne, from the ereat- todern minds, aud frous tho best of En- riug et b‘ tho min‘l’l ‘il Py of beauty; snd fro #slimat, he puts his admirors, Mutthew Arnold’s force of mind and faculty of expression have enabled him to write good poetfys his severcly wood taste hiis preventsd him from writing nonscoac 3t namby-pamby diatribes or Bwinburalan gyw. hustics lu voeal notinngness, the vative Ivrical beuuty of Bumns, or the rush- Iug strength of Byrun at his best, or the raretled ourity and depth of Wordaworth, but he glves utterance In poctic language to Teellnga whicn tluer winds “of the fmpulses are dignilled German $Ush modern pocta, While they arg and go; Choseu Loy T or. 4 buet dow uuets, Iu i Bulrab £900 ldeallpu” oie aud augge Sud yet p hag l"hk'.b [ £Xpected, bt ke hias an exqus :'l:,lr): digoitied, artiatic Tocing an Kive g Leee Lah. the nay Waal tryumpn s b, Aung I know thuy 'lli-‘llclmek uf la hue, olt, Cukercuterd bale, CEL 0ycs Of blue, Tue dud Aud this ia from © Switzerland graceful furo falr, u, rey but b Yizorous rush of hie blinge) s UF Possess fo an cminent degres what sell has described as **the lyrical ery,”! produced somo guod 1yTics, fes fu this direction we bard: L true, he L not sitely tender fuellug ud reul, He nm.m“‘" than hupulsively fiupassioned. 1t (s it £Xbression Lo apply to voetry, but wo 0L hielp fecling that thers is about these air of divullicd good breedivg. Wu few specinieas of bis hrical e 4 the liginnlug of * Philowela l?lly i;uam these poews bave & common cbarscter, o varled lu thelr form, embracing, as they ) Burrative, Iyric, dronatie, and elegiac pocius v puctus hu has relgn subjects, or oues remote (n thue, Bick King in Bokharw,' * Balder Dead,’ The narrative la lzed, clear uarration, It {s deliberats sumewbat waotivg fu the suceessiul narrator, iis narrutl Rusiuw, Lllugale— Thi twuy-theyat Hark, (roiy the m:«?::ll arg! Wil pain. " Uraula » euds tyus; L Lo hin wy, Naziog fu Lie il reaca her band, eyea will sland, We hape this edition scldom For 110 hoa nothing of It he pas not i P 8 think I should wake s very fine mlnn, l:'f L[ (3] lu 1854 endeayor to learn aud practive, confusion of our times, 8 fu pootival nrltl. 1 seemed etie fu t cedar what s burst! And know her friend, and weep far glee, And ery: Long, Iong I've lovked for (hee, Then will sha weep, with miles, til} then, Coldly she mockx the rona of men. Tt then, er loving eves maintain Tholr pure, unwavering, deep disdaln, . Here I8 an old theme: And sometimas, by atill haraer fate, Thea lovees meet, hut meot too Inte. Thy heart Is mine el truel ah, triel— Then, love, thy hand! no! adiew The_elexine poems are the fincst, for they show Matlhew Arnold at his best as a poet. T bis loving memorial verses his finc critical faculty comes into piay. Clough, Goothe, Worilsworth, the firontes, Heine, and Dr. Ar- nold are the sibjects ot pocma, and constdered simply a8 criticlsms they are excellent, The estimalo ot Ileine Is sdmirable, though inferjor to somo of the others as noetry; there i pity In the censurn he haa for the poct with every elft but love, “thechild of light,” whotol! us barren knowledge tiat the (God-given port helpe us to forget. We cannot here descrilio his Thyrsis, & monnly to the memory of Clough. What shall we say of this lovely creatfon? Bimply that it sugasts tho **Lycldas! of Milton, written to commemorate " his friend King, and the Adonals of S8necllay, written to the rnemory of Keats; and that, as we read, we for the thne forget the words of Milton and of Bhelley. The *finest poem In the yolume Is **Oberman Unce Morc.” Oberman fs the work of Senaucour, a comparatively un- known Frenchman, and It has, to use Arnold's words, *'a gravity and scterity which distinguish it from all_the other writers of the sentimental school." fle was much admired by Chateau- briand and Madame De Stacl. Me lived in Bwitzerland: and there the scene of the poen 16 1ald, It hasa swiftncss, a fire, a fellcity and force of feellue that ralse it ahove all tho other poens, The Greek aned the Roman eivilizatio the introduction of Clirfstianity, and the French Revolution are all passed In review, and all are suggested by a visit to the place where the an- thor of *Ghermau” lived. We can best give an idea of It by giving & few detached verses from it. . Across the valtey, on that slope, 'hie hints of Avant ahine! 1te nines, under Lheir branches, ops Waya for the pasturing kine, Full-foaming milk-palis, Al »Nweet heaps of lr(llv:ulr - Iu¥ite to sunt the traveler therw efore he climb the pas . . . Tn hie cool hail, with haggard eyes, The laman noble jay; Te drove srosd In furious galse, Aloug the Appian way. Tle mada & fenst. drank fierce and fast, And crown'd pis bale with fluwwers— No wuuler not no guicker paased The impracticably bours, The East bow'd low before the blast In patient, deep dide) She let the legions thunder pnst, And plunged In thought again, morning broke Actosa het snirit gray, A conquering,: new-born joy awoke, Aud 811’4 he; ith joy. . . PR . Now he indead! Far hence he les In the lons Syrian twn ¢ Aud on his prave, with shining oyes, ‘The Byrian stars look down, But we must close, and we cannot do It bet- ter than by quoting the ruet'- tribute to the groul singors of whom be [s & disciple: They speak! the happiness divine They fecl rune o'er in every line; Tta epell is round them like 8 shuwer— 1t givesthem pathos, gives them power, No painter yet hath such a way, Nor no musictan made, as they, And gather'd on {mmorial knntla Buch lovely flowers for clicerini souls, Huethoven, Rapnscl, eannot reach ~ whe chorm which [iamer, Shakejieare teach, Tu theso, to there, thelr'thankial race Gives them tue first, the faircst place; Aud brightest is thelr clory's sheen, ¥or greatest hath thelr labor becn, McD, TIIE EUROPEANS, “ The Europeans ' will go far to establish Henry James' rank among the fiest of Amerfeun writers of flctlon. ‘Ho s In some respects su- perior to any of " those who might successfully dispute the claim to pre-emincnce with him, He bas much of Hawthorne's power of analysis, and aven amorc complete synthetic faculty, He bas Howells’ charm of style, with moru than hils caergy. . Ho bas not yeu oxhibited the dramatic skill of Mrs. Btows in her solitary great work, but has surpassad - her in ‘évery other quality of » good novel. 3lr. James bag properly offered this hook to the public as * a'sketch.? It lacks the element ol a great and suflicient motive, and the robust tone which we are accustomed to associate with full-grown books. But it bas things which arc more necessary than these. It has ad- mirable studies of caracter, n loving appre- clation of local coloring in aud about Boston, and a cosmopolitan sympathy with strange idens sud tastos—thiat s to say, with human nature «nodified by surroundings. The character with ‘whom the autlior bas evidently taken the most ains is Mr. Wontworth, the Puritau father—wo ad almost sald forefather—of the story, Ho is, In the words of oncof the Kuropesus, *u tremendousty high-toued old fellow; be luoks as if he wero undergoing msrtyrdom, not by fire, but by freezing.” Mr. Wentworth, with his rizld countenanve and freezing ways, ree miuds onc of wnother distinguished Now En- glander whose reputation in politienl vircles Is lomelmmi of tho samu kind. The l'uritan of the story has more than the average New Eu- Rlund horror of tho Rotan Catholics and for- elgnors, whom ho kroups togctber by somo muntal process which he has pever fairly worked out. There {5 handly anything better In the book than the dialoguo bétween this old man and his nepbew, one of the Euro- K:Bnl, peculiarly effervescent in his manner and bit of thought, "Felix i a good smateur artist, and talks of taking his uncle's portrait, 4+1ahould ike to do your head, sf 1 " anid Fellx 1o bis unclo one evening before them ull, no tnteresting hiead; it's vory medfwval, Mr. Weatworth looked grave;:ho folt swkward. 1y, as if ali tho compnny had como in, and found him stondiug bofore ihe looking-glass, *lhe Lord mada it,"" he sald. **idon't think 1t Is for man to mako it over ugain, " g rd rerllud Telix, s But Jife has beon touching up the work, Tt Y inter- ealing type of hoad, , It's delightfully wasted and eniaciated. The complexion is wondeefully vieach- ou.” Aud Folix lovked round at the circle, aa It to call tncir attentjon 10 thess 1ntercating pointa, Mr, Wentworth grow visinly palor, o+ 1 bhunad Tige 1o do you ae an ol prolute, an old Cardinal, or the Prior of an order, ™ . ** A prelste, a Cardiual,"’ murmured Mr, Went- tajnly, tho o bing, ‘tand He mado it very worth, **Do you refer to the liuman Catholie pricsthood " **1 mean su old acclesinatic who should nave led & vory pure, abstincut Iife. Now, 1. take it baw eex the cass with yoi face.” Follx pr » b ¢ e mure in a man's face than I abould think of looking for," sald Mr. Wentworth, coldl, "'he Uaruncss {tho olher Kuropesn, wud Felix's aistor) rattled ker fan and gave hor brillisut laugh, 1t feo rlak to look 80 cluse." she exclaimed, *4 3y uncle hos sowo pecadillocs on his cons sclence,' Mr, Wentworlh looked at bier, paintuls Iy at a losa; and In ao far as Lho sizne of & pure snd abatinent 1ifo were visiblu in hiw face, they were then pml}nbl peculiaely sanifest, You are s beau vielllard, dear uncle, sald Mme, Munster, swiling wita her benign oyes. Mr, Wentworth. it must be said, at first dis- trusted the morality of the two Europeans merely becauss they wers fureigners. But Folix had a Joyous, sunny dispositiun snd an essential bunesiy which uearly disarmed sil suspldons before the end. The Barouess ou the other band was distogenuovus. Desides, sho had been warred morganaticully to a (icrn Prince, ana the word “morguuatlc” overawed all of Mr. Wentworth's tcuder susceptibilitics; it re- minded hlm of a certalv Mrs. Morean whowm he had ooce koowu, and who had been bold, unpleasaut woman,” Eveu without this un!urlunaw reminiscence, thore was reason cuough fOr a clashiuy between the Europesns sud ‘the Puritan houseliold tromn which they were suparated by a generation fo time and two ceuturies in educition. Gertrude was the vnly meimber of the Wentworth tamlly who seems ever to bave linagined that the chief end of man was uob to glonfy God by bLetug fscrable. “'There must bu s thousund different wuys of bulng dresry,” sho oucu sald, “and sometimes L thibk we wake usc of them all.” The Euro- p“u"a“ tuu other band, bud never dow much tlse than toseck after their own eojoyment. ‘The whole purpose of thts little sketeh 1s tound 1u the coutrust between the two modes of lving and thinking presented by the ditfesent branch- es of the fawlly. For the rest, thero is much « coaversatlon, love-makiug, schumiog, and 1dljug; and the sauce piquunte too abundans, W It auytpiog, THE CERAMIC ART, S It would at irss sight seem lmprobable, from the number of works lately aritten upon this subject, that anythiug fresh or orteinal Upon it could be written. Previous wuthors, whotusr devoting’ themscives to a special department, 8y Birel to that of **Ancient Pottery,” or Mar- ryat to that of moderu, or, us in the later case ot Prime, to a generul resume of the whole sub-. Ject, In all times and 1n all countries, had seemed to treat their themes 8o exhanstisely, andithere reemed, with some few exceptions, ro little chance of obtalning new data, that, on sccing a rew book upon the subject aunounced, there coutd be sllght expectation of finding in it Any- new information upon the subject. This s In the present case perhaps true, if we look only for direct information, but the atudant intercsted in this art who lins & reason- ahly good fdea of its general history—its main techifical processes, and its nomencluture—will find In the volume umder conalderation that pleasure and futerest, by no means stuall, which an amateur or connofsseur th anv subfect finds In the discussion or even gossip therenf. In the present ease we find also somewhat more of an nttempt, and & success(nl one, todeal s little more fully than usual with the historical data of tha different epochs and varleties of creative work in clay; to place somewhat clearty befors tha reader the eunviranments of time and cir- cuustance under which apecial schools of ceram- le work were born and flourished; to state the causes which fed tothem, and to snalyze ond discuss the theorles and opinfons refating to thein. This treatment of the subject, though we may In some cases aiffer from the conclustons of our suthoress, may fecl somg of hicr geucralizations to be hasty,or even hier data to he incorroct, serves to give the book a certaiu flavor akin to that of Mr. Elliott’s on the same subject, which, though offering noth- Inz particularly new In the way of inforination, yet lose the impress of lis speclal thought and fecling on the different questions relating to the subject, whicls arc what are wanted Inan author by thuse who look beyond the mere itement of facts and provesscs with which they are nu‘nnlnlcd. Such s Lreatment serves, too, not vnly to fntarest but Lo inform and sthnulate the reader. 1o finds, as for lnstance in the case of the lotroduction fnro Italy of the processes of the atannifcrous cnamel, and the metallle Justre, or of the cxtent of the precedence of China over Japan in porcelain-making, or of the making ot poreelsin in Indlaor Persta, that there ary two sdes to theso questions, and that they ars fsirly open to discussion; and this very fact leads tho individual reader L0 look Into these matters u lttle for himself, and hence to et that knowledge obtained by a Httle careful {uvestigation, which so far outlssts the mere reading It as o narrative. The au- thoress sliows ber individuality vot only In her Jiscussions and in the fulnesa ot her lilstorlcal rehabilitations, but also in her suggestfons of & new momenclature for the divisiuna of ceramic work i general, and those of Orjental work in particular. ‘The somewhat arbitrary and une certain division into familles Ly rolors, as that ol the rose, or tho green, shie would have yleld, certalnly in the caso of Javancse work, to that” by localltics ns Hizen or Kaga, or makers as Banko or Erkn, One notablo fuature of the book Is that many of {ts Nlustrations ure drawn from japecimens— and worthy oucs too—owned i this country; wo wish that our own clty were richer In thei. Bho adds her testimony, too, to that of the large number of latellizenty writers upon art who protest apalnst the fetters bound upun the progress of rood art in this country, by the frratfonal, untair tarifl, which not only exciudes Irom this young nation, su sadly in need of exnmples of the prest art of tho creat past, wherefrom to study and cducate ftself, those masterpicces which would so Lelpand delight us, but actually discriminates 1 {is charges in {avor of mere manulacture over artistic work. The work will please and fustruct those per- sons enough interested {n the subject to vead it carefully, and is especially opportuns to those who arc looking forword “with pleasurable cx- pectation to tho cointug extibit tn our midst of some of the cholcest speciniens of ceramic work which our commumty owos. (*'The Ceramic Art.” ll}‘y Jeonle J. Young, ' New York: tlarper & Hros.) E. 8. W. BAR AND BENCIL OF MISBOURI, A bandsomely-printed volume of 600 pages, by the Hon. W. V, N, Buy, late ono of the Judges of the Buprewe Court of Aissourd, has Just been issued. It s made up of blogrophics and reminiscences of the Bar and Bench of Mis- sourl. It {s confined exclusively v those who have died, and has an Intercst far heyond the lmits of that State. It treats of many men who have had s nationsl history and reputation, and gives much that pertalns to the early his- torv of the Northwest, The volume bears ao engraved portralt gf Rufus Easton, onc ol the pioncer settiers of ritory of Louislana. In 1804, shortly alter the acquisition of Loulslana, bearlog lctters of in- troduction from Aaron Burr, he started for New Orleans, but stopjed at Vlncuunu, Ind. fn 1805 ne reachied St. Youls, Alded by Burr, he was -pgulnud Judgg of the Territory of Loulsl- sua. Burr, in agnouncing the lfmmnlm:n wrote to him urging a fricndship on L part for Gen. Wilkinson, asnd stathd that ho would prohably flost down the Olily River fu tho soring, Hurr was then Vice-Predis dent, and, with Wilkinson, was preparing the ereat conspiracy to establish o grand Westér) Eaplre. 1t was on this trip that Burr made th acquaintaoee of Blenncrhassett and his beautls ful wife, whose story has beeu made historieal by the u\oquuncn of Wirt. During all his jour- neys hie was ju correspondence with Easton, and finally, with Wilkinson, mot Easton at New Orlesns. ‘The conspirators then learned that Easton could not be depended upon, and ho was excluded. All this correspondence concerniug the conspiracy, with letters of President Jefler- son, Wikineon, aud others, s collected In thy ‘biography of kaston, much of whichis new, and throws great Hight on the listory, progress, and explosion of theconspiracy. Esston represented the ‘Territory in Cougress, beld ncarly all the offices in siccession, and his great adliftics and many virtues ontitied bim justly to pre-cmi- nence In his day, Amosg tho other men named in this volume whose fawe has extended beyond Missoutl, sod who, lu thelr day, wera conspleuous for their ability and for distiuction In uationul affulrs, we find Thomas IL Benton, who was oue of the frat United States Beuators from Missourl, and wbo contiuucd fn that offiey thirty years. The akcteh of Col. Benton §s ju- tercatiog and historical. David Darton, who wus elected Beantor at the sume-timo with Benton; Edward Bates, who was Attornoy-Gen- eral underMr, Liacolo; Goo. Frank P, Bl [31 Benator L. V. Bogy, who died a few years agu; Heury 3. Geyer, an old Whig, who also reached the Bonste; Jamcs 8. Greem, s man of groat ability, and who at the timo recelved much promlveuco bocausa selected by the South as Cuairman of the Senate Committes on Terri- torics whien Dourlos was depused on accouut of his ooposition to Lecomptoolstu; Luke K. Luawless, whose twprisouuent for contempt by Judge Peck led to the calchrated impeschinent and trial of that Judge by the deunate of the United Btates, and which also led to the statutory defloition of contempt lu Unlted Btates Courts. Uf course Judgo P'eck, whose triul was an event [n ibat day, is also sketehied in this volume ; sud Truston' Polk, vz velled from the United Biates Benate for treason, Busldes theso are’ uany otbers eminent as Juages aud lawyers, all of whom by their pub- lic services have contributed to the high charac- 1er af the legul profession tn Missourl, Many of these sketches have a gouserul lnterest every- where, but to the Bar all over the country they will be peculiarly ncceptable, Judge Bay has performed his work with great suc ‘The houk 1s nut & were comulation of culogles; by has wmade it cxceedingly futerestiug, aud his good taste s cspecially commendable. ) REFLECTIONS ON LIBRARNY WORK, To the Editor 07 Th Tridume. ToLepo, 0., Oct. 20.—In my perambulations recently about our library, comiog suddenly upon Mr, Fiske's much-quoled cle oo & “Librarlan’s Work" fu & file of unbound® Atlantic Monthiys ou m quiet shelf, she ovenlug paragraph caused ine such astart of surprise that it had nearly led to my discovery by our quick-eyed llbrarian, and would undoubtedly baveputanend then sod there to all futurc apeculsilons, but that sho was 20 absorbed in the mysteries of the Ambherst system of classiti- cations, 1 was thus enabled to get back tocover without discovery. - Aud 80 tho question, What do you do with your timei—* As though," says Mr. Fiske, * the position of librariau, betog virtually a sivecure oflice, must leave so much lelsurs for private study aud work of a literary sort Ye-is the ox- pression of s far-reachisg oplolon. Why, 1t was not five miuutes gg0 thac I beard a lagdy saylog much the same thing to oua of our wecary sislstants, who, for six mortal hours, in adswer to demands, pad been puttiog together the titlcs and suthors of such bouks as tbe *Aad Marriage" and *Quly a Clod," with scarcely & variution lu the monotouy LY 8 requiromend for fuformation upon soni¢ subject of hugher intollectual luter- St est. 2 ludeed! I am sure I, by any’ phonographic Pprovess, wo could preserve thu 1nost-uskod ques- tivus io our library, wevk lu and weok out, Bext‘to 1uquiries for Anytblug of Mary J. Holmes's, **Miss Stevius's,® Al South- wick'si'—as 8 muu.lflnlwul cricget, 1 nus glve prouunciations exult,—this popular faliucy upon the adveutsges of library oppurtusitics would comu next in vzder. Catalogue-1auking, bowever, except ina fow ) and well-coduwed horaries, where luus are luuited ouly vy the juds- e then comprohensiyo Ter- ment of the lihrarian, constitates hut a smal) portion of - nrdinary lthrary service. and Mr. Fiske's answer to the guestion, ** What do you do with your time:!"? yrives but a falnt coniep- tlon of the multifarfous exactions, hath physical d mental, upon the time and strength of our h a I these Himes of severe economy. The subject has = practical as well as a sentimental elde, for, if our libraries are to serye In any measure as a mcand by which a vigorous intellertuality and healthy sentiment are spresd ahrind tn the world, this must be largely the work of those engaged In this servfer, 1t will not spring apontancously from the hest prepated catalogue or uther wriiten or priuted awds, but must the fruit of per- songl supgestion and ntelicctual sympathy. The supposed rdvantages of the positiol e, therefore, often an exasperation to those thus engaged, ambitious to give the beat service,—to the most thoroughly equipped mind, as well a3 the one not thus prepared,—who ses no op- portunity at least for * private gtudy,” if not other * Interests of a literary sort.” Thls Is especially true as regards currcot lersture, for a uur familiarity with the same books wiil In time rive to any average [ntellect some n'gprehennlon of their scope and charscter, 0 & certain ex- tent the theory holds good, that the handling of bouks Is an education, To be able to put the titles and authors together without besitation and in the twinkling of sa cye, 1s, indeed, some- thing to acquire. It Is not” a sort of knowl- cdge that the one who has any just spore- cistion of the books he handles 15”at ail likely to grow coueeited about. Tt s true, that many a library employe never gets much beyond thi; and yet renders Important service, This sort ol lterary spprchensiun canuot, howerver, be re- garued as 2u education fu (ts Isriest sense, or that from which the public Is Lo recelve the most benefit. § am Inclined to speak empbatic- slly upon this point, and for the resson that this influcnce {n library service has not recelved the attention dus from thoss who have spoken upon these [ntereats, nor from those who have them In charre. Again, for the reason—and with ail due regard to the sdvantages offered in the admirable arrangemeiits now in course of development—that thero fs danger that the more important branch of persousl seryice will be overlooked In this much mecnanism. From my present retreat between the covers of the last Library Jowrnal on our librarian's table 1o the alcove devoted to Physical Sciences Lcan see in the open library beyond s long ar- ray of applicants awaiting atiention. These may beclassified in three divisious, viz.: The peuple who know what books they want; snd can et them: the people who know what bouks they want, and ean’¢ wet them; and those who don't know what they want, and must depend upon some outside source for sugrestion, As Prof, Rublnson has justly said, *'Ihe question in inust librurics at present Is nut How shall the experienced reader be ssslsted b—though it nay be questiuned T even he, In his search, wiil not often puss by what, If found, would serve him best; it haa” reflerenco to the learuer, not to the learued, specialist. ; 1lere, for intance, s one who desires to ob- tain all possible lirhts u the American Sys- tem ol Government, wii pecial reference to present politlcal conditious. 1n adaition to tho many valusbie'works Indicated in the catalogue, the library attendant, wbo has kept bimeel! in- formed upon current fnterests {u literature, may perbapa suggest to the student the recent dis- cussfuns upon our Eloctoral System by Judge Covley and the Hon, Abram B. Hewitt, in a Iate Isaue of the North American Heview, Perhaps,ns a side lssue, Prof. Qoldwin Binith's paper onthe Decliue of Partics, or the recent Bympostutn ou tho value of popular judgmeuts, by & group of Euglish Parlisincnsary eaders, reproauced for an American public In the peges of the Jopu'ar Science supplement. Another studeot, who I8 Erepnlnz an cssay upon Culture, and wishes to know what our best weifars have to say on this, s referred to the elegant . cssays by~ Matthew 0 the .general reader, not to the Aruold and Prof,. : Bhairn ipon thls subject, For others,\ sskiog wsuggestions of desirable things in literature, the discerumng Jibrariag will come up to the requirements of each Hpdividual toste, sending ono delighted away with an_futroduction to Maurive de Gucrin oe’the Causerles de Lundi of 8t, Beave,—perunpg; dome brilliant essay by Mr. Gladstone or Mgl Froude,—while others there muy bu to wh tlw Iife of the Count Montalemvert, or of arles Kiogsler, may awaken new interest {8 jthe changiog currents of soctal and political{ pvents beyoud the aca, or the Chronfuies of th¢:Bechonpes 'otta Fam- 1ly tu the history of re! us progress, that will not cease fu their jdpinents with ths read- 1ug of these books. ) ue mizht go oo f uitely with the oppor- tunities of w libraridg,do this dircction of survice wbich Is only. important to the Hectual compensation, 0 the trinls which such depenidenco edtalis, 'liat; fo (nstauce, is the symoathotio librarian 2 do with that class who want & “'novel withousi-too much tiction {u it," —who expect the attendavt to be equal to all loterprotations of prosuvcistion, sod to have un Instant apprebension of the wapts of the book-applicant, no mamur under what title It fs rsked forl Recently | came ugon ane of our assistant Sibrariune in an alcovegwhere shie bad retired to escapu observation, nearly in couvulslons over o request for the * LeghEm! of\the Madouna," and soon alter asotliey politely ‘trying to 1oter- bret the wants of an joqulrer for ** somethivg of Fominine (1) Coopurls.” The look of per- lexity that cune overithe face of anutber Ii- rarian with a request for the * Miller's Grind- stone " was & study for anartlst, and 1was nearly surprisod futo another impr when she sugcested flagh Millel Baudstoue " as ths book required; and (¢ was. I thiuk au unswer to tho qualiticattoas asked for by Mr. Muilius in & Mbrary attendaut, that of dlviuation, sbould clsun nttention from those {oto whose hauds the proposed training of our future librarians is to b placed. ‘Wa bave beun rearranging our library on the Amberst plan, and after s carclul fuvestization ol this system, snd thes present arrangement of our books, I s Inclibed to think that the librarian who is quoted by Mr. Mulline as aay- fng that *‘thio one wbo reads fs Jost " tnust be au apostle of this new o of library econo- injes. For it is m{ opinfou—and 1 cive it not without due appreclatiou of the extraordinary fugenutty wmaolfested, aud of tho occastousl values of tho systcm—~ithat a more complicated aud arbitrary rubordination of books to system it would bo dificult to concelve. In all wethuds of buok arrangoments for the public library two objects are generally keot in viaw—the one to facilivste and suaplify the work of the librarisn, the ofher to Uring books un kindred subjocts into satisfactory relatlous for the convemeucs of the.livrarian” and the spe- clalist. The difticulty of determiuing these re- lations with & large class of books Is sufticient evidenco that auy attoiapt st au elsborate sys- tem of grouplos will bu ous 1 theory and confuslng In spplicatiou, ‘This bus, bowever, ‘been attempted fn the Amborst pluy, and the result is, that in order to supply the frultful beadiugs and sub-licads of this new system .with a * reason-to-be," there arc associatious aud sspsrutions amoug thu books subjected taat that will create thelr own confusious fu the mind of the reading li- brarian. A way out uf thesd verplexitics Is of- fered, It s troe, fu the call-pumbers and tho catulogue, but taese do not alford tisfactory sulution 1o these mystiScatious, sud are ouly au cxmaperution fu those burried moments when thery 1s uo tiny for Juokiig up facts 1a tho catu- logue and une is rash enough t turs to their luner consclousness for {napiration. A system- muaker, for fustance, inuy delurmine, for reasons of his owu—and very guod ressons, too—that +00k-books shu!l have their plsce with dramatic litarsture—surcly Is thers not a dramatic us welt us a0 esthotic side to the culloary arel— aud with the cull-oumbers, the catalngue, I sud an - average memorg. the librarsy will undoubtedly bLe able to unruvel thess atrays Treuks of position, Al tne saune, howcwer, the reason-to-be 'bc a_perplexity which of thess zruuglnm will ouly those who uave sucrceded, after the pre- Raphaclite metnod, In getting bebiod the soul of tne system-maker will comprebend. It is Dot to be understood that iu the Awberst plan cook-buuks hiave cote into ultinate wssochation with thy Evglish drams. The ilustration fs a good oue, thuugh, aud auswers very well as au exawply of the curious surpriscs which this systews hias for those who cume to enjuy its prowised sdvautsges. But wby should we speak Ip riddlcs when we may have factal As books have beeu hitherto known of men, they bave come under tue fow tollowiug siwble vlsssitications, us llstory, Travels, mu‘nflh{. Beteuee, Fictton, * Pootry sod tue Draws, Pullosoply, ‘Lheoloyy, and Mis- ccllsucous Literature. “1n the Awberst play, all this 1s chauged. Herd the lierature of our Horurles s arrsuced fu nine prest groups, 88 Philosopby, Theolugy, Soclology, I'hilology, Natural Beleoce, Useful ‘Arte, Floe Arts, Litcra. ture, und Histury, Fuch of these whie gencral divisions 18 szadu divided 1oto uiue parts, with & zero attachoa, cacl division obtaiuing fu thiy arrangewcut o special Wvisionsl nuber, Tue headiugs of these generul gruumnru agaln sup- josed 1o ullect 1007w ue Jeas L ub-groups— more i pusaibie, sud Iess whery impossible— Iu esch perticular departwent, ‘Tuus, ju Blog- raphy, which fortus iu Lol -amm & part of the great Mstorical division, we bave a swatl eroup O uhtusuphers; auulher ol pous uico aund women, represcuting e l‘hxlu.::fny aud Toe- olugy of the systew; whils fwincdintely fullow- lug we bave auotber Croup of Livzraphies wurks fug out the fuveutor's idea uf Boaulugy, aud so forth snd 80 vu. Some ol the divisious urs oot 80 pltaut, boweyer, w3, tur fustauce, Usclul Arts, Fiue Arts, snd the Natural Scicoces, wheretbeology iuy y uuy inlluence. ‘This s BUL W BALLer fuF aUTbRe, B W e L5lo oui- #lderation anly the present hostlle attitades ot #elence and Helfelon, Sut It nnst e acknost vdged that, as there d'cmrlmenm so lmperfectiy work out the anthor's fdea, insomuch the syvs tem s fallurc. Blography is, however. more pliant, and affords an excellént (lustration of the influctice of tois system, In our old plan of book arrangementa we had fn Biography a leading section devoted to miscellancous litera- ture: following this camn the separate indivil- ual bistorles in the alphshetical order of ar- rangement, as Brassey, Bronte, Byron, Chase, Cleern,Columbus,ete,,—an arrangement ensy to follow, and where In the largest collection of hooka of this class these caine readily to hand and without confuaton, £ In toe new systein we have things somawhat as follows: Firat, general blozraphy: following this & group of ylilosuphers; sgaln, a group of people eminent for piety; each of these grouns besring its own distinctlye numbe for Misccllaneous Biography; 2] Hiographtes of Philosophera: “#22" for the Blography ot Theology, snd so on until we reuch the great group, which works out the sys- Llem-moker's fascinations for Boclofory, This group, numbercd %23, cunsists of n collection nf small groups, with no speefsl nitmber-markings to show where each of these sub-groups heelns and ends. As an ilustration of the vancty affyried here, we have the lives of Kings ami Queens, Huicrs. Niatesmnen, Politiclans (male and female), JLawyers, Missionarics, Discover- ers, ete., ete. This curious collection of groups ended, conie other divisions, s of artists, lifler- afeurs, etc., uutil the tinal zero Is redehed, when blography--and with it the system—cuases to Now, if I have been ro fortunate ma to make the expositiou ol the general festures of the em {u any wise clear, it will be seen that breaking up ot Brograohy into groups, and the doubliag up of special groups so that these niay pot exceed the dimts nine, must bring sbout thelr own confuslons with all who have not beew long famiiiar with these facts. The theory, however, upon which this much divisive is based fa, that specialists when they do come to understand the syztein will be abie to go to y group more readily for special studies, hus, tu the group of statesmen, for the life nf a statesman; to the group of artists, for the lite of anartist; to the group of Gtteratenrs and orators, fur the ltfe of s literarv man or an orator, ete. Whatever the case may bein a college library, I think the cxperience of those in public Ibraries s, that ?ullunu for blugraphy, as a general lmm‘, o nut come with vague requests for the life of a states- man,—the requisition i for the hfe of some partlcular statesman. If, towcver, the appli. cant dves come In such a dazed condition of wants, there 18 scarcely a library where some icular statesinan may hot be provided: or, if such libraries there be, I do not sec bow the Amberst planis to Yriug about the desired refor- mation. Agaln, the understandings of a librarian may place a history of this class In cne of several 'nhu Are ‘we, for fnstauce, to look for the ife vf Banjamin Franklin with scientists, philos- uphers, or stalcaruen! For Macaulay with litterateurs or lusocial blography! Agaid, in the department we have hithicrto Kuown as Miscel- lauy, now forming a part of the great group of Literature, wo tiud this divided into fractional arts,—as Collections, Essays, Humor, Letters, {scellany, ete. Now where In A number of places that the following bouks are likely to be shell we flud them? Are Carlyle's Miscellanies in Collections or Essays! Bhall we flnd “The Autocrat of the Breskfast Table' in Miscellany or Humor! And where, O where, arc Irviug's *Alham- bra " and “Twelve Miles from & Lemon "'{ The readiue lbrarian who fioel to bis inner con- sclousncss for light will, fudeed, be *lost" amia discriminations where ministers “Theology*” and misstonaries are **Sociology': where *(ala Days," * Back-Lox Studles," aud Michelet's *L’Amour” flaunt qlvly in “Es- & " while ** Nursery Noonfugs " s~ tomanca, iy Bummer o 8 Garden" Is Usctul Arts, and Micuelot's ** Woman *' is Ethlcs. Or, auzuin, turoing to other departments, where we find Agnes Btrickland’s * Lives of the Qucens af England ” and Voltalre's * Ago of Louts X1V," are Biography; while Mrs.” Matthew lHall's “Lives of the Quecns of Eugland Before the Norman Conguost "' and the “*Age of Quecn Anne " are Histors, And what Is oue to do, Iu the presence of that all-pervading myatery—the ‘aplrit of socicty "—which jutrudes itsellin this system {u overy department of our lbrary econoe and where we find Mr, Bumuer and Beck- Callus’* arc Bociology, and soafe ** Coal Btatistics "1 It isa thing, howevcr, for which to be devoutly thankful, that theso zeroes, and digits, oud much Boclology, have not become as obatrusively manifest in romance as in other departments, in which ficld s0 large a portion of a librarian’s work lies. Another question 1 should like to put to an ‘enlightened public, before the cunclusion of the present chirrup, Is, Why do we find such curfous (plscriminations in some of our catalogues In (piames with the prefix “DY before them, as Eluull. D'Aublgne, and D'Ossulll While i)' larueit s lnvariably included withi the D's, the 3reflx with the other nawmes 18 o8 ofted ignored A8 recoznized, and these mre classifled with the : A's or O's, pa tho case may be, GH TIE PORTIOLIO. 4 +The Portfvlio for October is at hand, It con- tains the ninth number of the ctehings from 4Pictures by Contemporary Artiats,” this oue \boing * The Silent Couvsclor,” etehed by L. JLowenstaing the 1th paper ou Edinbure, the speclal subjoct Grayfriars, text by K. L. Steven- “ipn and cteliogs by Lockart and Paterson: the ‘seventh of Atkinson's papers on * The Schools of Modern Art in Germany,” treating of Cea- sral Germany, Ulustrated by a beautiful etehing by Friedrich'of Kaulluck's ** Deluge”; and the continuation of Mr. 1. G. Hamerton's sketch of ‘Turner, In this last articlo it is sald that *Turner at the are of 64 really entered upon the +period of tls decline; adeclinaol which itmay be iruly said, that, althouzh It afforded awple op- portuuitics for the cruclties of criticistn,. it proved, tar more than the cautious aldvunves of his varly manhoud, the essentisily pictorial aality of lite mind, ' For what in his last years flm b retaln, aud what did the enfecbled hand surrender! e retujued color, reflection, m tery,—the guulities which uu'{ the most eulte vated care foror aporebiend. He lost tho thrm grasp of objects which 1s, [ will not say the fu- luney, but the carly mnn‘lwd. of the plctorial art.” ‘I'bis Judgment s, of conrse, caleulated to amaze mavy admirors of Turncr, fur tn the periud referred to some 01 bia wost fniportsnt works were produced, But the subject muy eriaps be more tairly cousidered when Mr. {amcerton's next paper uppears. Of tho eteh- fugs in tins number it is lmoppssile to speak with unreseryed praise. The Alorua Todema fsnot to all respects pleasing, becauss the painter bimself s tmmensely overrated: but tho aketeh of Urayfriars and the otching of Kuulbach's Deluge have o bigh deeree of werit. (New York: J. W, Bouton, 706 Brosdway.) LITERANY NOTFS, Prol. J. R. Sceley’s ‘*Life of Stein" bas been publishied tn Londui. Juitsn flawthurne is to beglu a fairy tolein tho Nuvember number of St Vichuwas, It fs not true that the Rev. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westiluster, will write a book about Awerice. Mr. Ruskiu, by sdvice of bls physician, haa avclded Lo writs no more au volitical ecunomy, but to give his dttention vxclusively to art. R. Worthington Las nearly ready Mr. R, A, Proctor's * Vlcasant Ways in Sdence," which troats m variety of tuples, from sun-spots to the Vhuuograpl, p A Drighton geotleman, who wroto re- cently to Mr, Gladstone oo the sub- *m.l of Sptritualism, has received the fol- uwing reply: * London, Oct. 1th—I do not sbare or upprovethu temper of shinplo contempt wits which wo many view the phenomena, 1t e » question, 1o the fest justance, of cvidenco; it then follows to xvlain, s Isr a3 wo cun, such fucts as may haye been established.” Roberts Brothers will publish on or ubout Nov. 1the ** No Nawe " book ol pogins, which hus bueen beralded so widely, * aaque of Pocla” fa the ttting title, 1or ‘wauy poets, several of wortid fuine, will be ln the Duok, conocaled un- Tess botruyed by their stylo of thought and ex- vaston. Jean Tngelow, Roasettl, Morris, L row- idgu, H. H., Busan Coollize, Latbrop, arc.a few ol the vanics binted as possibly represcnl- cd, ullM.l thore ury wthers certaluly quits sata- wods. The tbrec voluwes which Mr, Hlack's uew novel, * Macleod of Dare,’ fills will present & nuw teature. _Beveral of bls artistfileuds cach. prescated bufi with u drawing to Mlustratq uis story, sud these woodcuts will appear lu the turue-volume editiva. Tu gratltude Mr, Black dedicates bis hook to its ilustrators—Messrs, I, Faed, R AL, J, B Millais, R AL, J, Pottle, R A, W. Q. Urchardson, K. A, P Grsbaw, A, A do A, Alikew, Go M, Boughtou, T, Gra- baw Luvter, C, E. Jobuson, J. McWhirer, au ¥ Powell.— Alerieura. The Frencn historian of the Government of National Dcleuse, M. Fraucols Lo GoJ, has writies o Jife of the iate M. ‘Thiers, expressly fur Awerican resders, thereby udicatiog 1o u very comnphiientary way bis Bigh estimito of the value of American oploion. Besides givnge » regulidr Liograpuscal narrative, wolca bs brght. ened by wany freal anecdowcs, tue writer bay sought 1o 1sabke bis Work a colccutive uistory ol Freoch political atturrs durk last Lali- century, throwiis hsut upon she preseut comdi- ton ot e public wiad 1 Frauc e seeks £a0 L0 LUV Lol AL Tuters’ Lol tival vaseer wis cunsiateot with ftself, a theory which féw even of Thicrs’ fricnds have ventured to malntain, The work, transiated into Englian by Mr. Theo- A‘frl'” ] Stanton from the lu:hur"_n manuseript, AT b gy » Patiiam’s Sons, New York. : ‘the fundon Speator §avs of Mr. B. F. Tar- l?r'o boak on California, * Between the Gates i7: “The magnitudes of the place aeem to have affected nim. Ha caonot ba content 1o tell us what he saw in ordinary language. Everything tnust rise, It would seem, to the dignity of the tople, or depart from tl’m t1sual 80 as Lo mateh the ecceotricity of the subjecl, ‘There Is hriiliancy In the writing, but {t dazzles rather than charma. Allogether we should say that we have liere a book of much lbllli{ somnewhat apollt, but not spollt so bedly that It cannot be read with at least vecasional pleasure.” The Saturday lteview atarts a review of Mr. Mallock’s ¢ Lucretius® {n this promising fash- jun: *“‘If s cousiderable facility for amart writ- ing, an entire want of insight aud sympsthy, aod a perfect omission of snything ke real difi- gence, are qualificationa for stting hefure En- glish resders the spirit of the most profound and one of the greatest of Roman poets, then 1s Mr. Mallock excellently gualified for the task hie has now undertaken. Having made bimseif a_ certain kind of reputativn by s which grossly violated the laws of courtes maiutalned his no(uflc(r by & series of little dis- fquisitions on things In ‘general, » subject in which the difliculty of detecting lgnarance is in inverse proportton to the amount of positive knowledye which exiats, Mr. Mallock has at last tommitied himacl to 8 business more fitted to furnlsh some trst of his competenca [or serious work," I might write—upon the name terma. A gentle- man of the pame of Iatton, In conjnnction with another of the name of Maithison, wrote & olay founded on the story which .made of * Joan Lawrls 8 big-bomed. maadiin young woman with & wentimental passien for A pretentions prig; of Anice Darholm. An énlrane- ing creatare witl the eneaging jauntiness an abandon of a barmaid, and also impraved the other” charscters in the most cnconraging manner. Thesa kentlencn of conrse paid mo nothing, hot I wase nat younz enongh then 10 expect such romantle lavianne d, benide, I felt It was only fair that they shonld have all they conld make a4 & recom. pense for writing anch a play. 11 7 had written Anch 8 play 1 should have exvected to ho remuner- ted handsomely. Wnen I read 1.1 wad 50 moved y—ahail we deai tn glittering generalities and cati them conflicting emotiona®—toat I wrote & long Jet- ter to you, eiviny yon all the permission 1 owned, -~ nay, evenboaring yonas an act of generoaity to bes- cucthopeovlelant fond of from dramatic infamy, and make & good play, which [ kn 'ou could do I you took it in hand. 1 do not_ssk you to give me any of the proceeda uf it. | did not think of that st all; what [ cared for was somethiing else. After I bad written the letter 1 thought 1hat per- hae, ua the thing had been spoiled niresdy, you woald not eare for it, and TdId not send it. f ! 1 had naw, hecanse (hen | micht have retained Wustan or g0, Until now I fancied thetn man's Right ws enough for him, notwitkstanding vther people's Weong, Bat the point 1e, that T wish yon to feel quile at ease on the acore of my aaking you 1o sbate aoyting of the procecis of your piav witn me. Asitis, it wouldonly ho a fine accentuation of myaelf to demand what better people dow't get. 1 haveno rights in England, notwitnstanding © bave llved mare than half iy life there hat | hare £ights In America, and Itia hecaune yon have triéd to Infringe even on these that I protaet. Iwrote *'Lasa'" here, “copyrighted it here. teserved ntage-rights here (which can bo done in the United Statesr, wrote my play here, cupyrighted that hero, and 1t will be played here,” |t duce snother veralon | cau, You have been ba ca, I Bave no donbt, Lut ¢ldsn American deamstistever piiite a play on s book of yours and takeit o Kn. Rland, and have it niayed thers In the face of & ver- slon of yoar own aiready capyrighted ana rold? 1t 1t ever was done, it waa preity hard, wasn'tity [ think It wae, and 1 eympathize with you; sad [ hope yuu like my aympathizing with yon, Vithinaoy thanka for {‘nurnmumn- offers, —they are generous, sinco you have so conclusively praved that 1 bave 1o tights anyuwhere,~1 remin, yours respectrnlly, =Nw York Pout, ART NOTES, At anale of pictures at the Hatel Drouot, Paris, last week, Husa Bonheur’s % Ozen at Pasture ' realized 18,000 franes, and * Heather Laud,” by the same srtist, 20,000 trancs. The Messrs. Rivington, London, wil publish early in November “An Introduction to the Study of Palnted Glass,” by A. A, Heury Holt & Co, will publish st once, as one of their hand-books, the “Studio Arts," . ny Elizabeth Winthrop Johusun, which Is intended to be an Introducting Lo the stuay of art and a help to those whio want a generul” knowiediee of art, It will beof value to thosc who luok at plctures or who buy them. *The Tender Passfon Universal * fe the title of & new pleture by Mr. Willlam M, Beard, Two hippopotaml, emerzing from the biishes oa the border ol & poul, 10ok into each other's fuces. The male is broudly grinning at the femate, who mives him the sheep's nye. - A thied hippopota- must, almost coucealed I the Lackground, wears a sombre and jealous expression. The story, lke niost of the storics Ju thin srtist's representations of animals, possesses deep Lu- mao luterest, The grassvs aud trees on the right are tinely patnted. JERROLD'S WIT. . dJerrold would percelve the germn of a retort hefore yuu had well begun tu form your sen- tence, aml would bringit fortn in full plossum the Instaut you nail done speaking. Iic hed o way of fouking stralht In the face of ono .to whom he dealt a repartee, and with an expres- ston of eye that scemed to ask sppreciation of the point of the thiug he was golag to say, thus depriviug 1t of r.crsonality or fll-nature, It was 08 1{ bie called upon Jts object to cnjoy it with him, rather thau resent fts sharpness, There wan a pecullar compression with o sudden curva orlift upof the lip that shuwed his own sense of the fun of the thing he was uttering, while bis glance et lis nterlocutor’s with & firm untlinching roguery and an unfalterinie drollery PERIODICAL RECEIVED, The Chicago Medical yournaland Kzaminer of tone that had none of th - for November devotes ail its cditorial space toa | long furtive fook and lrm:llnc ‘mn: M:t review of the case of Nathan T. Atken ve, The | usual utterers of mera rough retorts, ' State Board of Heslth, and a companion plece presented {n the course of the Chicago Times With reference to medical education. ‘The Zimes, it will be remembered, was a few months ago cngaged “In what the editors thought was a trusade agafnst the medical schools of Chicwsre,'? The cditors of this sheet wero at the same time receiving money from the publication of flaming sdvertisements’ of *specialist doctors, the Ipsissima verba of which the Medicat Journal cupl From this polut 1t makes oul a stroug cuse against the Times, and has the pleasure of fudulging In such recrimination as ft decms suitable. The other contents of the magnzine ure, as usual. varied aud fnteresting to members of the profession, When au wsunlnuncc caine up to him and sald, * Why, Jerrold, | hear you salil my nuse was like the ace of clubs,'* Jerrold returned, **No, I didn't; but, now I'iook at it, 1 sce it is vere like. Tne question of the actual resem- blaoco was far less present to his miud than the neatuess of his own turn upon the complainant, 80 with a repartee whicli hiv repeated 1o us hiwn- sell ashaving been made un a particular oceasion, evidently relishing the comic sudacity, . sn without intending 8 spark of Insolence. When the publisher of Dentiey's 3fisceliany said to Jerruld, *1 bad some doubts about the nsme I should give the magazine; I thought at one time of calling it the Wils' Wiscellany." “Well,” wus the rofolnder, ““but you needa’t hato gone to the other extremity.” Knowlng ——— Jerrold, b:fl(mi‘ that, Exml the speaker bev.-ltln n&- most a0 nius that ever lived, FAMILIAR TALK. the retort would have beeh the same, the patness haviog once entered his CHARLES READE AND MRS, BUR- NETT. Charles Rce}le has been writing & dramatic verslon ot *'That Lass o’ Lowrle's," and, a8 he was kuown to bave negotiated with an sctress for ite production In America, Mrs. Burnett, the authorof thenovel, and alsoof adramatic version of It which was produced last night fu #biladel- phia by Msa. John T. Raymond, protested against this course Ly means of a letter from ber hus- band, Dr. Burnctt, to Charles Reade, Charles Hende's reply snd Mrs. Burbett's rejolnder, which are given betuw, aro what a lIste distine izuished editor would call * mighty {uterestin! readiu’," and they need no further iutroduction s CIAMLES HEADE TO DR, BURNEFT, 10 ALnERT GaTE, KNIUNYPRRIDOE, LuNboy, Oct, 12, 1878.—Dran Bin: 1 beg tu acknowiedge your r, of which I hope you keepa copy. I will endeavorto anuwer 1ts points, "The report you have heard Is true as far as this: 1am ane of four persuns who have dramatized **'That Jasw o' Lowrie's' 1o Ehfllflfl; Thers w: no earshiy reasonwhy we shunld notdoso. The authoress in hier book has Atown a netoral and proper desire 10 rotain copyright iu both countrivs. But shu has not yanted obe ayllacle 10 lend vne to pose shic desired L0 relain sluge-right init, And, oy it s not the habit of “novellats, utiless known dramal bralp. strewed flowers aa he went on talking, lavishly. a8 one who&m scd countless store; yet al- wrays with that glance of enfoyment in them hiiself, and of challonging your sympathetic relish for thew In return, which scknowledyes the truth of tie Shakepearean axiom, * A jest's &wmrcmy ies frr thic car of him who hears L' Ho tllustrated his conversation, as It were, by thase wit-blossoms cast [n by the wa! Ing ol = savine, bitluy critic, Jerrold yes, he'll review the book as sn cast views an apple-trec.””® Of an actrcss - who thought ivordinately woll of herself he sald, 4 Bhe's a perfect whitlow of vanity *; andof . youus writer who brought out his first raw #pecimen of authorship Jerrold sald, * He s Iike 8 wan takjog duwn lis shop-shutters be- I‘l;lu i a3 suy goods to sell.’'— Kecollsctions . of riters, . Hpeak- BPARKS OF SCIENCE. THE BRAIN AND INTELLIGENCE, At the revcot Aatbropological Congress fn Paris Dr. lebon gave the results of his experl- meutal researchies on the varlstions of volume of the cranitm in reiativo to intellicence, Ac- cording to observations made on numerous v unly copyright, or the sola right ol printing an wublishing, ) will add that of the lhrl:n nlhuz K glish drmixs on this wubject one was played Gver Englund for ten mouths, and anoiher for months, and the third publicly advertised before § took thesubject in hand, and 1should ot have dome 1t then i€ s, Burnett had beou the author of cither of these verwjuns, or If the suthore had shown themselves capable of dealing with 1he sub- ect. 1t hare was & sabject wretchedly handled, open in law, open by cusiom, and avparestly open in morality, for novelisty do nut dramu works, and the ook itself clatned na o No much tfor England, where overy wine {e dramstized by others ualess 1 produce o intellfgent mdividuals haviug the most volumi- nuus cranlum. By comparing theso scrfos of crauu it 18 slso tound that tle su wrjor ra prescut much groster tumber of vilumlaoas crania thun the others. ‘I samu plienomens 15 presented tu pruruulou to the degree ol civ- Hization, the Partslan cranta of the twelfth cen- tury vresent, for example, a less volume thau thecrunia ol modern ["arelane; ot the ssuie i, the ditfercico winony individuals Iveomes more cousidersble, that light exercises any consnderable ndlucuce ol th Yoltmy of the cruniun gud the weleht of the braiu. Nevertheless, with equal uieht, s s s an il .fi;‘:,’,'.'i';,"fl{_""-}'},‘;m,",',‘:,'l'" svediv | e womsu hus @ bralu less heavy Lo noss fga mere offshu Miss Kytingy ere, | Whe wan, The autbor, from s study orf Auventesn male aud seventeen fewale brains, fouud betweon theru s difference of 172 granimus to the advantsge of tho foriner, 1t s worlly ol rei that uwour the supertor races tho crantum of the woman s zcuumu{ wuch Jess than smong the Wiferfor races, “This is duy, Dr. nt part taken by ie work of modern society. Tuo cumparative study uf the curves of the cireum- ferenos of the craniun, of thut of the head, ot the volume sud weight of th braln, shows tus relatiotis existing butween th variaus vulues, und renders puseible the construction of taulgts which, one of thews belng known, permit the immediate deterintnation of the others of the series, 1t ls seon, for uxawple, that w bead thy urcamference of which I tlity-saveu coutl- metres curtesponds to w ersbluw the elreuinfer- etice of which s (fty-two ceutimetres, apd Lhe volume LA cuble ventimetres. ‘The probable welght of the Uralo contalued Ju the crapium would be 1,350 grawmes. There s & constsnt fnequality of developuient betweon ths two halves of the brufn, which is sometlues mnore duveloped on the right, sometimes on the left, without racu or statu of jutelllgence sppeariug to have any msuitest iufluence on tue direction of this tnequality of development. ‘The cireyuw- feronce of the ‘craulum, on which depeuds tue vuluins of the brain, bas a cluse connection with the dogree of fntelligence, With the weasuro- mants of tho drcuinference of the bead, taken frou inora than 1,200 liviog subjects, Dr, Lebou bus constructed a serics of carves which sbow that frot the polnt of view of their develup- wmeot the beads of wodera Parisiaus and of the Inbabitauts of tho country are classed 11 thu fol- lowing order: 1. Savauts aud learued wen; 2. The Parislsn Bourgoolsie; 3. ‘I'he Old Notallty § =il knew I was about o produce tue drams and hud taken a theatre at Liverpool/ for the purpose, Bhe kuew my drama would be Laken for the United Ktaten by somavody, and sha treated with we for 18, Bowmie thine agu ebu let mo know that Mrs, Bur. :mu desired to deal with the subject tn ner own in. ereel. 1 wrote 10 say that naith: United States doen e st any suck (hingas tave-zight to 8 novel, but still it woald be merve- o to my feolinon iF sho ‘woald come to turiue th Mre, Burnett and ' pay erso much for eaca prescntation: and that 1, mysolf, would forogo s similsr proportion of my very m aty fee, “Phus the matter atande as regurds Mo, Durnett aud iy seil, Aavegards me and Awmorican citisens gone. emliy. they lave always robbed me of my dramatic property auder clrcamatances vory different. | am e dramstist. NoWung bat bad “lawe over drove ino iuto the novel, My uovels are knawn to bave u drama already wiltten bohind them: yet e Americat managers (akes every now of thew and grtsomo scribbler 10 w e dram: Taey drive mo off 8 of **Whits Lles, riitith Uaunt," **Hlachel the lleaper, " ** I'at Yoursslf in Blis Place,” **Foul Play,™ ete., tho taca the good drazias. T of . {hw ustion have uever conacnted o shisre with T ey bave slways takes every cent, me sntiruly o the Atnerican stage by own talent aud Iabor. No veg cuu be roasted all on one side. 1 eaunot b divinely just to Anicrican cilizens in 8 bunness whore they never show me one grain of Lhuman ustico OF vven mor; pd s0 long as your ustion 0 Iiterary thief yuu miudb expect occasionsl res prisals. ‘Thess ropnisale aro a sort of Lud cquit; However, I unly throw this el us a g proposition. Notwithstsnding wy ow Wrungd as o dramatist, | 8m unwiiii) urnetl's intereste in the Unita uw write W Ml Io Enzland nor i the njuze Brate: Eytinge mare decidedly, uesting bier Lo offer 8 nightly fee to Mrs. Bur | 3 Parfstan Domestic Bervants; 5. Peasauls, Welt. Bhould sho cou 1o leriue with Miua Ey: . | ¢ Ve, tuat Iady will slso pay bel lon of uy In remurilug on r. Laboo's puper, sald that, If among the less clvtitzed races the difference between the volurue of the craula of men and women 13 rolstively sinall, wolle it {s great among civiized races, this duos uot prove tho ntellectusl luferiority of woinen, Lot 1 ox- Ylnlutd by the uecessity fur savaurg wouen Lak- e part (o the strugel for existence uuder tho sama wondltions as the men, a port foe, if abe doex bt rob iy of these tecy as Mise ~——. thu Inst Aunerican scizess | trusted, did, 1 will; with ploasure, aleo allow Mrs,' Burnett sumethini out of my Bnglish protits, If any. lut, nul Lo Fatav any groat exvectation on kst polnt, 1 useb tol) you that wmy predecessors on 1 have very tauch projudicod the London 1 suninst it, snd I bave no offor for 1t whatuver at present. But it Is only 1o London that aa Eagllsh suthor can realize large profits by & piece of this kind, whlch eotails great cxponses sud requircs a full computy of oo actars to do It proputly, } shall asx Mins Evtings 1o suvpead performsnce until aho Laa used all reasonable sadesvors tocomy to. 8 friendly undectanding with you, and I ru- wpecifully sdvisa you not to veglect 10 negutiate with hor, but to wake terme and stipulate that she puts un tho bills **By couseut and spgcial treaty with Nrv. Burnett.' ‘That will servy (0 bolstor up your imegttuary right. for, beliove ue, fu thy United Stal as in Eozland, there tv po such thing ss Ight in & noyel, Yours respeciinlly, « CuanLss eaps, : [MRS BUUNETT TO CUAKLXS HEADLM. WasuixuToK, I U, ek, 27, 1878, — YUr. Charles Reade—Diau biki | have just been reuding your reply to Dr, Burnett’s lctter, ana 1 deo from It that sumehow a tile wisunderstandlug bas arisen. | dld uot sew L, Burputt! ,lc‘:ur buloge it was seut, but J cau scarcply thiuk by wesut (o sek from you what you scew Lo fadoy. UTILIZATION OF SOLAR IIEA'L. ‘The expurlments varrisd on by M. Muuchot during tho Puris Extlbition are highly fustruct~ Wve. They bad for ubjects, on the onc hagd, hols; on the other, the use uf solar beat asa motive fopce, fn tho watter of cvoking It wuy found that mirrors of less than ouc-Lifth syuare metre sutficed to roast Lulf s Kbogrsmme of beef tn twenty-two inlnutes, o cumpleie siows 10 un hour and « half that requiped four hours with su opdiary wood dire, xod tu rubse to boil- luf. i haif un bour, throesjuarters of a litrd? uf cold water. A pure Lruudy was obiziu- ed in 8 short Ume frun the distllilug spparatus. For abtafolug motive power 3, Mouchot bad consteucted a lange sular recebvur, the wirres haviug s aperturg ol about tweusy ul a youns : Puglsh . Squiara motres. In 14 focus was placed anirvi 1 Skuet auyihine o 9t | Boler welcbiue Witk - socesones - Kilo: grammes, uud haviog & oa; avity of 0 Mires, seventy belng devoted o weter. This apparatus was put iniction 9o the 2 of Soptember lor the lrst tlwe: o ball-ao hovy the water wus rused to boiliog, and’s pressure of six atio- spherca was ulthately regist€fed. Oun she 20ih, 8 pressure of seven atruuspleres was reacbad o two hours, uotwitbstendivg seversl passing vapors. Ou diifercut occusivns the steaus (with A pressure ol Lhrcs almospuercs) was wade 16 drive a Taugss puinp, retaing 1,500 10 1,500 ligres compatriots which'thu law dues wot dewand for 3 " was cond. Euglan hat 1t was done with **the U.e authuress.” sud | was informed of that fact by 4 Jeitet frum Mesare. Warna & 0., nouly wcgowm- mmwu by a glfLof & yellow-backed copy of the 0k, which I sball naturally ever cherab sucredly aud teoderly delleate Tribute from w cencruus vublliber 10 8 gratful sutlor,—a pavllabes who usvn went lo the woliile lenstl ol saying tat be savald be glad Lo give 10 tae weoidd 4wy ulucr bouks .3y aetand with tha sngos udingly pricted in Faancrs Hobasox Hunxewr, - Tert e TAMBtAY | sertes of cranu it ia proved that intelligence ls pecially the law of u.,gl.,.{; 1 proportion to the volume of the craniam, the uovollst sfage-rights I his work, but | Lest endowed races, sud among races the most « Dr. Letou dues not belleve | the cooking of fuod; and the dist!tation of wtvo~ He would drop his witticisma ‘like .