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THE -CHICAGO TRIBUNEKE: BATURDAY, DECEMBUR 21, 1878~81X715 PAGES RATURE. OYSTERS! “BOSS” BRAND! INDEPENDENCE IS OUR “The Origin, Progress, and Des- tiny of the English Language.” “The Lifs of Shelley,” hy J. A, Symonds wCoffln’s ** Story of Liherty.” “ Switzerland Tllustrated * ~- The WE ARE DOWN ON MO- Goethe Gallery—" Freo NOPOLY! The *BOSS” BRAND DOES NOT BELONG TO THE BAL- TIMORE PAOKERS' ASS0- CIATION, WE WOULD CAUTION the Public against the Patent Sew- er-Swelled and Bloated Coal- 0il Oysters that are being put upon the market by some of the Oldest Oyster Dealers in Minor Notes of Books of the Sea- sone=-Literary Notess= Science News. LITERATURE, RTUDY OF ENGLISIL, Philology Is comparatively n new sclence. 1t has made progruss slowly. Its development by the uso- of wrong Men have followed the history of worda exclualvely, or have trled to determing the stato of nlanguaze without fully studying One methoil fs sswrong as the dther, Partenlars are worthless in themselves, and rencralizations which do not rest on particulars are good for nothing., This fs a sclence In which impressions’ do not go far. 1t will not do to criticiso tha atyle of a neriod with rofer- enca only to its effect upon one reader or set of readers, fts history muat ba searched nand its clementsaunlyzed, and the more nearly thisanal- ysls approaches mathcinatical accuracy, the moro valuable it will be. These principlcs have been adopted in a work on tho “ Origin, Progress, and Destiny of the English Language and Literature,” just pub- lishied In New York. The author is John A. At tho aze of 30 o knew not a Bluce then for thirty years he has devoted himselt to the study of that lan- guage, Only Gormap erudition and vatlence could have carried him safely to the end of his task. This was nothing lers than the scitle- ment of the natitre of the Engllsh language by counting and classifying the rout-words of the best authors, - 118 jilan was to writings of represontativo v Ing froin Ring Ethiclbert to Tennyson, passages 100 different words of ‘[hese words wero clssified according to thelr etymology, and the percent- or Gotho-Germanle) aud The results roach. has been deisyed The only way to test the ty of the Best Bivalves is to try the * BOSS” Brand at LAFLIN & C0.%, “No. 40 STATE-ST. WILLIAM TAYLOR, Packer, Ballimoro, DOWN-TOWN WESL.SID PACKERS! fler thetr Goods to Cit pame ieine 31 Welsse, M. D. word of Englleh. 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Jewel Boxes, Gloveand Handkerchief Boxes, Writing Desks, Albums, Port- folios, Games, Fancy Cigar and Tobacco Boxes, Shopping Bags, Elegant Boxos of ries for PAGE, HOYNE & CO., Retail Stationers, 118 and 120 Mon- wus fi per cent, Wikh tho twelfth nerlo] closeds Tts vocabulury, that of the Franco-Eugliah period (1200-1000 and thot of thy English perfod (1600-187), ara compared by Dr, Wel : At the closs of the Anglo-Sazon perig vocabulary of the “Anglo-Suzon beriod DLOSIIRGH, f -Germanie or Anglo-Saxon: ath, ucluding but 2 per cent W and traces of Remitic that came to It thronzh At the cloan of tha Franco- Engitah peeiad, A, 1. 1000, tho vocutulary of the Franco- Eaglih liera- G0 per cent Uotho-(iermanic. cont Anglo-Saxo 48 per cent Oreco-Latin, Incl Inzluding 47 per Y s e uding 43 ver cent 2 per cent Calllc, and traces of Semltfc, Whereas the vocanniary of the liieratnre of tho English period from A, . 1600 to our day, 1878, ho-Germanie, Including 28 per nyla-Saxoni 04 per cont Qvl'gcao T od Froe-tiurniing u‘ml'ncludlnn 35 por cent abou 2 per cent c';!u "lml tracea of Slavonle and = on within tho last fourteen centuries the fircco-Latin alement in tho Anglo-Saxon dialect rono ta § per cent during the Angiu-Sazon, 44 per cont during the Franco-Engl duriug the Engllsh_ perfod,” o cent treco-Latin aro ¥ Classltying the words of Inherent meaning again by parts of speceh, it Iv found that tho English language now contalos over Greco-Latln nouns to one Anglo-Haxon or, three Graco-Latin verbs e or Anglo-Suxon; over two Gircco-Latin sdjectives to ono Gutho-Ger- manle or Anglo-Saxen, omd shinost two (reco- Iatin gualicative aidverbs to vne Gotho-Ger- manic or Auglo-Saxon. nine-tenths ol the particles, or words without inherent menaninie, are Gotbo-Germanie, aumd ono-tenth Greco-Latin, . Welssc has veritled his results, a0 far s he was abie, by averniiuge Webster's and Walk-, He found them to contaiu 70 per cent of Gireco-Latin words and 27 per cent ‘These flcures correspond nearly with those he had peachied by the other It may bo taken for granted, there- ore, that the averaus English stylo contains 63 to 70 per cent of words derived frum the Ureek or Latin, priocipally through the French, and 23 to 30 ber cent of Gotho-ticrmanie words, thu remainder being words of Celtic or Semltic . and 08 por cunt 53 of “tha S por Odor Cases, Uotho-Germanic; neard; to one Gothu-German On the other hand, er’s Dictionaries, {iotho-Uermaoie, HOLIDAY WINES! 01} 3010 19 n "fnin géneral statement fs Hable to some re- much larger rropors tion of Gotho-ticrmunic words thun prosy, both becaine it Is the language of the emotions snd speaks with etinplicity, and because the requlre- ments of metre exclude long and awkward I, or aclentific writlngs, on the other hand, use more than the averaro In worits, bocauss thls wauds exact and technienl Dr. Welssa quotes = Warranted pure. Price Lst and caialogue. 170 MADISON-ST. TEUBEN COUNTY WINE (0. words. Historical, proportion of Ureco-La kind of wriun e phepamenon more (wil} from Longfellow’s snd sud from Byron's ™ Oceasional Pro- > and “Lines Uuder the Elm." Long- Paalm of Life'" contalns T3 per cent Gatho-Germanle, sud & puseage Crom Ll * Pocty aud Pootry of Europe " but 5 per ce Another curfousresult of Dr. Welss sls 14 to shiow that a ereat part of ordinury En- ulish composition consluts of repetitions, * "I ‘author’s atatement is that *tha Lersest and cholcest productlons of English literature con- tain ouly about ouequarter of uithuste different words, the other lhree-quartors belug repeti- tious, which are tosti; Llus uot, by tha way, fallen Into the grave error of underruting thy imoortance of partictes. e estimates them at thelr trus worth, but endeav- ors to show that iu all previous Inquiries into English language thoy have been allowed to have oo much w quence of thelr frequeut ocvurrence, ‘I'the destiny of ths Euglish language la g great question iu liself, aud Ur, Wi left bimselt space 1o discasa it fully. speaking peaple rule over one-fourth thoe earth 10 arca, unid ouc-fourth the 314 willions ruled by ouly sbout 90,000,000 DIATIONDS, WARCHES, Etc, "D"O‘Nl T FORGET a arerags of 33 welry, Dismonds, Weichea Salld & 8c., frum the large Baul Goldsmid's Loan Office, OO0 Itast Madison-st., Al goods warranted us represented or money retunded. Per Gl Less Than Btore Prices. Fine Watches, Dis. ., 80ld to pay sdvan; Lum? , Prival 0 Handolph-st., Rooms 6 and 6. WATCHE Bl oY F(RVY. 1:1- Madisos st e cluse Las hardly spoak Eugilsh; but the laniruaio 18 so well adapted tomuke jts own way that {t secime a mero question of tinie when it shall become the lunguuge of all aver whom wrules. When this hus becn accowmplished, it &n enormous advantags over other nd must eventually driye them out, ‘Tl ctlel obstucle to the diffusion of Engllsb now s l arbitrary orthosraphy. due, Ur. Welsse sayy, to the coufuslon caused 1u Auglo-daxon by the Intruduction of proviscial- Nearly all the words not spelied as they opvusced are ol Avglo-Saxun origiu, and advances. Wil take ¥ Mi EDUCATIONAL. RACINE COLLEGE Witreopen Jan. 16, W contlaue Lulicke fncludes 8 betwal of Letter ¢ Scloul, " Thicro fs ala & Uratamiar bebuol, which, pre- Lual I hurutgl tateilert: ined wiih frue discipiioe, Tel Boys from 10 yean old an Yirce buys for culle fare, aud Llgh caiture. biwdrda ard recelved 1 3bo G 16 s tuken Of U JuUBICE Loye by (Lo Mateona. dur Latalugucs &ad GLier utGrmRliul 3pplY Lo the Eer. Jasks LK KOVEN, L.D., Baclas, Wis earlv Baxou the spelllog aud of tueso words ure barmonlods, this coune-tioy, gives u tavle ol dfty Anglo- Baxun words, fepresquted by 179 letters, vach sveragiog tureo letters, all of woulih are vro- irawmar Schovl. nounced; whereas the nl:( corresponding B ish words aro represented hy tiwvrnty-three lel w:n averaglng four leiters, of which at AR . e is unpronsunced, Thus the mother dlaleet {3 more phonctle and conclee than the davghiter, A8 theas sancrflunts letters cre; Intn ¥inglish through provincialisms," savs ti amtnor, #to Arop them and return to bl Anglo-8axon under Alfrt the Great wonll vlonntize aboot one-quarier of the English lan- guage and ronder 1L more lnconle, two declded advantazes which ought o catlst Anglo-Saxon- Ista in Lhis movemecut, esnectalty when they con- nider that the Enelish vovabulary numbers nhout three-quarters of Ureco-Latin words, which need ™ less phonetizing than 1k Anglo-Hsxon qaarter.' Among the En- elish words which would be phone- tized by retuening to thelr orieinal Anelo-Saxon equivalents are tha followinz forclble example: hord for boapd ; col for conls flot for flost gren for fron; feld for Neld s wult for wolf; ned for need ; tunge for tongne; ren for raing Jos for lossy yu for you; fung for youn; dor for door; for fights mint for mizht; thoht for thought, If tha Anmo-Saxon words of our vacabulary were phonetized In this man- nery, and different vowel sounds were marked b‘v necents and dercses, Dr, Welsse bolievea that Engliah, owing 1o jta fiexibitity, richness, and peculiar composition, wouid e perfectly wdapted to become tho universal languaye. We biavo passeid the limits of an ordinary re- vicw, and have been unabio to mention some of tha miost futerestivg ihiuzs in this curious book, It eontalns compnrative tables of French and English words of Identieal menning and orthography, and analyses of the vovabutaries of twenty-one edivalors, twenty- cight writers on sacred subjects, twentv-clzht newspapers, twenty-two volltico-legal writers, aixteen dramatists, fourteen historians, sevel teen poets, Lwenty romanticists,nnd twen four writers on niscellancous subjects, each group belng srrunged ond averaged separalely, Among the newapapers, the New York Observer which Jlight strictly to be classed with theo- ogical writings) contains the most Greeo-Latly words, and thw New York Home Journal (which, not Lo put It profanely, s a romantle publica- tlon) most Anglo-Saxon, ‘fo Tnz CiicAuo TrintNe belungs the proud pre-eminence of contalning maost Celtle (3 per cent); but, as thls result was obtalned frowm o single article written on the *Immediato Transportution Act,” wo propose 1o petitign for a rehenring. Thesu tables areof courso rather curious than valiable, sinco they are based on Insufllclent dato. ‘Th uven cause same apprehension lest Dr. Wesso's whole work may beopen to a simtlar abjection, But as ne has “checked his firat results ly his important tables by a patient averaze of Livo great dictlonarles, they may be called approxi- mately correet. Morcover, any defects that may ubpear in his caleutattons will notat all aiter the usefulness of his nethod, which {s, wo fully belfeve, the.onty Line way 1o inanire fully and faiely {nto the nature of”"the English lan- guage, In accordanco with ft, Dr. Welsse has made o valuable contribution to Enghish Hierae ture as well as to philology, and_ las written a ook which will interest not only achulage but all caltivatzd persons, (**Urlizin, Progress, and Destiny of the English Languaze apd Litera- rare,”” By Joiin A, Wels D, New York: J. W. Bouton & Co. Price, 85.) SYMONDS’ LIFE OF STIELLEY. ‘This is an interesting volitme, though It Joes not commend ftsolf to our unqualified npproval, And while it Is worthy of the acries of books to which it belangs. it {3 fur from equal to the vol- umes by Mr. [lutton end Mr, Leslie Btephen whieh preceded It. Mr. Bymonds informs us that liq has, alter much deliberation, chosen the nar- rative rather than the essay form. Ile must bo Judged accordingly. Ifls atylo hias not the free and equable fow of good-golng narrative. And, besides, the arrangeinent §s defectivo and lacks perfect proportion. He could not complnin of lack of matter. Forallfo of Shclloy there are cxceptional advantages. The accants ot Shiel- ley left us by Medwin, Trelawney, Lelel Ilunt, Hogg, and others, leave nothing to bo de- sired except a_ untformity which 1t s the dwy of the blographer to bring about, or exolain why he falls to do wo. Then, Shelloy prosents i fizure that s strik- ing and full of orlginality, and his brief lile was fuller of tncldent thon are the lives ol the pocts generally, We hardly think Mr, Bymonds has Aucceeded (n his tasic, To those who coma to this book for thelr lirst neguaintance with the pout (and the alin of these books 1a to opular- {=u authora amnong those whio have little titg to read) the hapresslon 1eft on thelr tinds will ho romnuirhat coufused. [t shows a want of litera- ry akill in Mr, Bymonds that {n different parts of a gmall uoak o has given us no less than six accounts of Shelll external appearance. "Fhieu the bouk t8 tou dogmatle, eapecinlly for tho “rarratiyo style.”” Mr. Symonds deliber- ately nforins us that Shelloy **was the loftiest and’the most spontancous singer of our lan. gunge, I range of puwer he was alho con- #plcuous abovethe rost.” Speaking of Shelley’s superlor Irrical ability, Mr. Symonds refers us to Palgrave's Go'den Treaxury 1o show us how many Ivrics have been selested from Bhelley, We Qiave counted them, und flnd twenty-Lwo, but we find that from Wordaw forty-one were selected. Yet the author deseribes Worils- worth as “a cold, nethodical stadent, a ino~ chanieal versifler, and & politicsl turncoat,” It i3 hardly worthy of Mr. Bvmonds to describe Wordsworth as a **politicul turvcoat,” The mind that cannot descrlbo the development in Wordsworth of the eager Radieal fnto the Con- servative when years had' brought *‘the philo- sophicmind™ in‘other terma than the anprobrious one of **turncoat,’ sliows that author may use harsh words, but that be at Jeast mukes no pre- tensu Lo possessing M the philosoplie avind.’ When he speaks of Shelloy ot receiving sympa- thy, he haa something to say sbout *the sncors of ‘Moore, the stupldity of Campbell, tho fno- sunca of Wordsworth, and the priceishness of Bouthey.,” And wo are tho moreconvinced that Mr, Syinonds has hot the miud wo have spoken of whon we cousider his treatment of Shelley's oplulons. We confcss we stared with omake- ment as wo read the following statement: »It iscertaln thet as Chiristianity passes bevoud Its medimval phase, aud caste uslido the finsks of outworn dogma, W will moro swi wore approximate to Bheiley's exposition.” It Christinnity docs ehinnga into Shelley’s tem, it will bave ceascdito bo Christianity, * For those,” sags Mr.8ymonis, ** who would neither on theone band relinquish whaut s permanent in roliglon nor yet ou the othier deny the fuevits abla conclusious of modern thought, his teach- lug is Inuuhunhl{ valuable,”” W ure not ad- yauced far enough to aceept Shelloy us a sup- plomont to the Scrlptures. ‘The *porwanent™ qualitles of Chrlatiunity wre good, and, incas- urod by reason, vomniend themselves to the plillosophers, the csseotiul claracteriatics of Bnelley's svstom do not demand the aporovalof rewson, Mr. Bymonds las adonted the grand airof speaking which Is_sometinies mict in the pukes of sience to-dav, Cunsldering that Chrls- tianity bas been in tho Muo of progreas, that the beat of civilizatton has como alone with it, ftscems llke the swaggerlng arrozance of o skeptical {ntolerante o say that Christioulty must seck now lifu in the droary duserts of Bhclley’s writings, or that it {s to b supersedud by the sprightly skirmishing of science, 1t te & generous motive which commauds us to speak well of the dead, nud in cstimating }umrv wo are, a8 Fuly, lottly warned awoy rom the contemplatiun of the poct's life, With 8helley it must ho otherwise, {ils most friendly coinentaturs demand that the reader, to understand bls poetry, usderstamd bls life and prlaciptes, Ho preactivd charity and tove, Lut the Chrlatlanity that he carsed did this more cffectively, Ha siruck at the most sacred fustltutious of society; he advocated tncest, ho denounced the arriaze tie, This roformer cursod tho crystallized results ol what experi ence tells us *“inakes for fighteousness.” His prinviples wers Bot born of o base mutive, They were to him an (deal. To soclety they sra futsl aud pernfelous. lle did not reckon that they would brlag much happiness herealter; alus, they brought llitlo here to those who came withln thelr sway, But let us leava the thistles and conslter the flowers In the garden of 8belley, and, us we writa tha word *garden,' wa thluk af the “Hensitive Paut,” Hhelley bas written thoe most usical of English verse: he' hus weitten some lyries ke *“TheRiylark ™ and ' 'The West Wind," which bave au lntuxicating buux}'; and bo bus written the *Cencl,” which s ol great power, e hus a marvellous command “over words, As Mr. Bymonds happily says: *He scoms to ruslize the miracle of making words detached from weaniny,—the substance of o uew cthereal musici and yet, although thers were Yorbal hartony in such, they are never do- vold uf detluite significuncy for “thosa who un- derstund,” Mr. Bwinburue, bis successor in sun, has excelled Lim wuvic ae also, we think, In sasking words detichod from meanlng, Ho- gardiug Bwinburne’s superlority fy the first churucteriatic there may be doubt; reganding bls superiority in the second thero ean by uu\l;p‘ z va- THE STORY OF LIBERTY. 11 the story of liberty consists ouly of & nar- rative of tho struggle of freo thought with tue Cathoile Cuurch, Mr. G, C. Coftin has told ¢ forcibly sud well. But ¢ ¢ {s this and soine- thing wore; i1t begun before Curlsttanity, and U, ¢ cuutioued fu Protestunt coustrica loog after the Retormativn, snd s wot vet cow- pluted, the prescut work e partlal and mislcad- tug. Noooewould be slower than we to jus- tily the atrocitfes perpetrated by the Catholie Church tn Spuln, France, the Netherlands, Eu- Kiaud, and wherever elow it possessed suprcwo power thren centurles ago, But It Is merely shutting the baok of hiatory to lgnore the fact that the Protestants persecuted fn turn when they had the nower. As a cclebrated writer hn< recently eald, they determined when tha Reformation was a~comptirhed that ** there should be nu more protesiing.” Calyin burned Bervetus; Queen Edizabeth seat Catho- Jies to the stake; fie Puritans enforced gloomy creed by treadful penalties chnactta Bay and Plvinoath exiled Roze fama for advocating religions talecatlon, and publicty whipped the ptous Obadiah Holmes be- cause lie wan a Baptist; Connreticut and Vir. ginfa cnacted tyranndeal religlous laws, The experience of thie race teaches that all religions have perscented in turn, and that the sufferings of minrtyrs in a righteous eause have never pre- vented thelr descendants from abusing power when they got . We shonld not forret, though the Clirch itself forzotin the sixteenth century, that the Cathofle Church endured In fta infancy the bloodiest persccutions which history recor: It was not so0 much the of the peinclplea of the Church as of the de. praved human usture which governed it that the InauistMon burned at the stake 10,1 heretics, and puntshed 100,000 more with dread- ful penaitics, But Mr. Cofiin’a “Story of Liberty, though not complete, 13 caleulated to serve a eood purpose s faras it goes, It teaches re- siatance not_only to Catholic tyranny, hut to every other form of intulerance; as well to the apirit of 8¢, Bartholomew’s day as to that of ing George the ‘INird and uis advieers, 1t carries the young reader throuzh the mportant verlod of tie Ketarmation down to the estah. Nalhment of free lnstitutions in America, It dte- seribes graphically tha work of the Borgias, des Medicts, Joha Wicklie, John Huss, Tenry V111, Martin Luther, Casrles V., Queen Mary, lenry of Navarre, Mars Quoun of Scots, and the sfgntigr of Magna Charis, the luventian of printlng, the discovery of Americs, tho estab- lishment of the Inguition, the foundation of the Order of the Jesuits, ete. These are thipze the youth ought to know about, and aa Mr, Coffla hias treated of - them trathfuliy, and in a inost altractive and interestl extended his plan and made it Inchule all the opponents of liberty 1o the dast 300 years, or if ho bt gimited 1t and teted only to show that the Catholie Churel Lins opposed during that period, wheraver it couldsalely doso, thespread of personal freedom, and the supremacy of civil government, he would have falrer aud more cotnplete th Story of Llberty.” Hy Charles Carleton Coflin, author of theBoya of "6 Jilustrated, New York: llarper & Bros. 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The book fs beautifully bound'in green and gold, ‘The encravings of courso ave classte, and nake ahollday present that is o testimoninl st onve to the tuste of whoever gives aud whouver ro- n-lv;-u 1t (Bostou. Houghton, Uszood & Co. TREYE TRADE, The tarlff, onco as a scctlonal,- anw as an economical question, 13 always with us, It will never ba serticd tlll, as one of our statesmen han knld of another question, it Is settied right, Mr, flichard Hawloy, 8 successful businoss-man of Detroit, and prominent for many yenrs fu the falthful clrelo, of non-gnlitical Freo-Tradoes, has added to tho lteraturo of the tarllt queation a0 fateresting monograph on Freo Trade, Mr, Hawley’s muthiod s the historical, 8o well com- mended by the ereat German ecconombst, Roscher, " His little book of shxty-tvo pagea Is nlue-tenths fact. Mr. Huwiey begins - with — the violations of cotn- mereial equity by which Ureat Mritain drove th Colonies to sct up o8’ the Umted states, umd, without attempting formal history or exhaustive statistivs, gives In o rapid and readable form o sketeh of our commercelal polivy and its resnlts, Mr. lfawlev's work shows wide reading, nnd s valuable tor Ita runuing rum- mary of tho tariff debates in Cobgress, [t s olso froshened by tho resuits of lucal observa- tlon, us fn the oxamplo wiven from the Detroft Sron & Bridze Works, whose Buperintendent fs quoted as aavioy that * was jt not for tho ¢x- ceasiva cost of pie-Iron caused by the tanfl, - we should now be employlng ten inen where wo mnul:,?r one.” (“An Essay on Free-Trade.™ By tfehard Nawley. New York: G. P, Pute vam's Bous.) ——_— COURT RULES OF PRACTICE, The Rules of Practice of the Cours of tho United States und of the Btate of Illinols, om- Uraclug the Supreme Court, Courts ul Equity, of Admlralty, and of Bankraptey of the Unlted Btates; tho Circuit and Districe Courts of the United States for the Northern and the Bouth- orn Districts of Hliuots; the Bupreme Court of Titinols; tho Appellate Courts fortho Firat, Bee. ond, 'Third, snd Kourth Districts of Jllinols; aod the Clrewit, Superlor, Criminal, Couut! and Probate Courts of Couk County, with wt of decislons, By Frank Buker, of the Chicuyo Bur, M G, Lampkiny, Publlsbur, bvo. luw ek, pp. 07, Thutltle so Tully shows thy extent and scopo of this work that “fuither ex- Jauation ts cutirely unnccessury. Tho bring. iz toucther of all the rulus of the varous courts sitting tu Cnleago luto one volume will i tound very handy to tho profession, and the work appeurs to have been satlsfuctorily dove. 'll‘nu type and style of exceution also are fault- eas. YA B, MM itor of Ths Tribune, Creverang, 0., Dee, 16— ask lcave to oo cupy & part of your apace to reply 1o 8 reviow of my trauslation of Roscher’s Politieal Eeonomy, ‘The review referred toavpeared lu TUB Tuthuns ol the 7en inat., and was signed ** A, B, M. The tirst two parugraphs in ** A, B, M. view aro as followa: Tho principlos of political economy aze ths prins ciplus, wuod und bad, which rogulate men's purauit of wealth, 'Thero aro two wetliods uf disceverinnt thew, tho paychologlcal and the bistoricsl, Stuart 3Myll takes what mian |a s 8 basls, and argues frou st liow ha will wct In regard Lo acquisis Jtoacher takes What ausn bus don will du, Noughly " re- the i u o English aud' the tle Tho Eugllsh 1 tho beiter of thutwo, . . . Fost hoe, eriw propier Aoc, 1s the stumbling- Wlock of the Gutinan school, I join fssuc with ** A, B, 3" on every state- ment above made, excopt the statemceut that the Listorical wmetlud (s Roscher's metiod. ‘I'iere I8 oo such method In political economy as tha *paychological,” 1t therulora cannol be SMlPs mcthod. “Stuart Mitl dous pot take “what masu ls a0 basts.” Roscher docs not take “whut man bos done as a basis,” sor are 6 therefrom ‘*what he will do.” Roscher ‘s fuke “what 1wun 18" as & boals, 80 far 4 taked a0 w8 basia” st all, 1 have said thero was uo such method a3 the “ paychulogicul.’ It ta baid 0 prove s uega- tive, and yet | think I can prove oos biere, Mil} nowbery inentious the ** paychological method * Io tresting of the method of political ecunomy tn his “8ystems of Logic” (Book VL, Cha 9, Boc. 8) nor anyywhere ¢ se. Rosther, i hiv o cusslon ~ of the wmuthods o itical does mot speak ol the method” (sce that dis- er, Vol L, pp. 103110} Calruce does uot utice refer tu it Iu bis work, * Politic Ecouomy: 1t Cluructer sod Logical Methio, I bad uever heard of the **paychological ! wuthiod vutil f read A, B. M.’ articie. If there be @ ** peychological ¥ method o political weunoiny, “ A, B, AL" is it fuventor; but, attue saine tune, Il thire bo such & metbod, 1t bears fta condewoation fu ite pae, How could a “payenological ™ (L e, “pertalnmg to the selenco of wan’s splriteal wature,''— Webster's Dict.) wethod govirn 1o s selencs cu cerned with o subject s un-paycholugi-uat a8 the wawwn of ths worldt How could the laws which govern rent, population, wages, produce tlun, credit, prives, moncy, luternational traile, ete., be discosered by self-introspection t T marvel that, with Rnscher's houk hefore Wy AL T MUY conld have fallen 1en it crror ne to call MIHs method oozl and to contrast 1L with w J1ad lie ermanites) Ruscher, be would havo learned what. Mili's ethod fn_political cconomy {85 aud he would have learned furthier that oscher n-’yn expreasly that he agreen with i; f e, with® the *gon- cretis dncduelive® mothod, which f¢ the methel of politieal economy, uecording to Mill, (“Syatem of Lozie,” Book V1., Chap. D( Boc, 8y 9 A, TB.MLY did not need to go 1o MIY timsell to refresh bis memory as to what Mill's tnethod e, A glance at Rasener’s touk, when ho was writtnwr his seview of Roscher’s method, would have told him what Mill's method wan; far Rosclier, fn slescribing hits own method, took eare to nay that e agreed w.th the *concrele de- dufl-‘)re" (or Mill's) method. (Vol. L, p. 106, nute), In the text towhiel this note relates Prof, Ro=eher t1 peaking of tae conteast between the historieal or pea atic awlb the idea’istic methods, {Sen Val, I, page 105.) ~1le, therefore, contrasts s tethod, nat with the inductive, or deduct- Ivey or concrete deductive, but with theidealiatie, which s tho method of ‘Fuuricr, Proudhon, &t Bimon, LaSalle, K and Communists. ‘The historical or realistie methud does not ex- elude the conerete deductive, witcin s Mill'a, but ndopts it rather as & mode of arsising nt rorrect results. \What, flien, beeomes of A, B M. fuwdement, 4 The Encifsh (Mill's) method i the hriter of the two 't 50 tnuch for | or's methiod and Mill's, pasa to wy secund poiat. [ satl abave that Mt dues not take **what man is asa hasfs" He tells ux so bimself. o hisayatem of logle, Bogk Vi.. Chap. D, Bex, 3, Lo says: * Political economy considers mankind aa m‘ru,)l‘l!l w'ey in uequirivg and consuming wealth,”” He thus, for the purvose of tue eclence, createa an artis fictat mankind,—tnen with but one thought aud one asplration, 8 faett of dollas-hunting betngs. He cerwainly doea not take what man isus a basts, a5 he sdmita bimselt Jower duwn In the seetlon wbuve refesred to, He savs: ' Not tiat Ruy potitical econuinist wus ever so nbsand as to rupnose that mankind was really thus constituted, nut because this s the mude in which acfence must necessarily proceed.” Here Roschier disagrees with bim, for Roscher does take ten as they are. 1o sags, Vol I, page 1042 ‘ur, 1n0st assuredly, as our sclence hus to dn with men, It must ‘take them and trear then as thoy actually ore, moved ot ones by . very different and non- eeonomie motives, belonging to an enlirely different peapic, state, age, ete.'” Mo does not argue that people will don the futura what tues have done fu the pest. No one shows mora clearly than he that, as cyliization ad- vances, wien call for and origlnate new lnstitu- tlons, enpst new laws, ete, ete. Bul how {4 this possible if he clalins at the fama time thae men will act as they have acted In things economicl “A. B ALY cluses bis comparison of the & psychotozieal rod istorfeal metlods withy the astounding statement: ' Post hoe, eryo propter hoe is the stumbling-block of the ter- wan (Roschwer’s) schiool” What! 7ne his- torical school founded on a_faliacy, and on such a fallacy,—a fallues which Jobn Scuart Mill calls “the wost vuliar forn of “the fallacy of gen- eralizatlon 1 Can it be that Roacher’s methoa s but a series of Inferences, the gencral formulu for which I8 past hoe, eeqjo_giraiter hoe, S+ After thin, therefore ecauso of this™! DId “ A, B, ALY meay thist 1 now turi to A, B, M.% criticlsm of my own work. He says: *In the first volume, on nuge B, autlaudsbeduerfufue should be rene dered ‘comlorts,' rathier than *decencles.” Yo which Lreply: Nu Glerman dictionary in the worid renders Anstandbaluerfn e~ by “eomforts.!! Beaides, the anthor was good enotizh to suwgest 10 me liow ho desired cer- taln worls transiated. He: wanted that word deerncies,” and 1 oo transiated i T have now in my posseskfon lettera from the author in which this transistion was advised, To cuard against the possibility of amstake, 1 ut the uriginal fn brackets after the trapala- fon, to show that 1t had 8 shade of ncaning difficult to expreas fn English, 1 appeal to candld readers to declde Whether the eriticlsm of my transtation under the clreumstances can be justitied, An to thie inders, It was omitted after due de- Miveration, and because thy table of contents Is sullicientty anatytical to refer the reader tv any subject he may Wisn Lo see troated. In omittinge an fodex and wving the table of coutents which Laid, 1 follawed tha exemplo of Jonn Htuart Mill, whom ® A, B, M." &0 much admires, and 1 80 wrut to the pabiishers. Ml hasno tndex, but a table of contents exactly like the one 1 prefized to Roscher, . Jois J, Lavon. rl Marx, and otter Soclalists QTORGE IIENRY LIWES, ‘The London Témes printed a long aod appre- cintivy obltuary nutlee of Gieorgo Henry Lewes, lu tha rogrse of which it sald: Mr. Lowes' friends will admit that hie name would have beew on more 11 to-dry had his na- tore becn narrower than It was, hiy sywpathles And pureulta tewer than they were. o . . No doabt it 37111 b wsic that ho was fn the maln only o popnlarizee of the hivas of otters, This 1a 8 coin- rehenalie and convenlent epithet, which readily endie itueif 10 abuscd, o . . ills wind wae alngularly oppreciative and ‘hospitable, 1t wan rendy ta take in, ciothe,and feed youn:t and home- Joun apecalations which appearcd (o hiny th promive woll. o o o 4f ST, fewes s to baapoken of as a popoiarizer of souin of the beat ideas of his tluio, 1et 3t bo at loast owned that Lo was amony the tmost succesafal In o dificlt art. . . . What the majorily of people know of (o history of puilosophy of of | wiiysloloey, of the con. stitution of theje bodles or of the yproblens of ncience conuected therewith, fs Inrgely due to moe .. “I'o hiterature, 100, ho rendesed some not ‘unim+ porinntservives. 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Archie Btockwell; $A Expericoces During the Two Sleges of Parls,” by May LafTub, wuthorof % The W (in Soutbern [Mhuols), by Edward C, of & Provery, a Folry Tale o by Shiney Lanfer; % Notes to Newtoundland,'” by 1), C, Macdon- wlatue Dubarey,” by Ly sur tirown Leople,” Ketches in tiction, entl- begun o this Women's [usbauds,” | ‘e stury, Through d ! uumber, aud Ellen W. Olne; Winding Ways,” is contluued, Seribser’s fur Juouary has the following llus- trated articles, the llustrations belug, s for ANy monthis pust, by Conatautls Hrooks; - “Old Marytan ners,”? LY Frauk B, Mayer: ¢ Lsouarda da Couk; *'The Tila Club ot L1 iy Clareuce {Tan; ** The Mouuntalu by W, Mockay La Lakes of Califoruls,” b tby Old Bull's ficad,' Thwing writes of Purter of * Ninog,” J. . Raymond of Alpendmont of Tavlor contributed an uture Plants,” A Epieedemtum ' # ljaworth's ' sud Hjstmer Hjorth Boyesen's Falconberk are coutluued. Cassell, letter & Gulpln’s Nugazing of Art for Its Iroutispieco sn ¢tehing ? palntior fo the Roysl Acad- ey of 1878: **And when did you luai see your palntiug represeuts & chil the perfod of the Commonweaith tned by a cowpany of Puritau inguisitors, Hetls fellow—it 13 & boy—stunds up valtuutly ut the table, mouuted upon a backgrouud are hiy motber sud sister walting with decp auxicty to hear whether bls tnnoceut A1 betray Qly father. of the sceno 1s admiruble. wonts ou “Our Living Artists" 3 devoted to Phlllp lermogeucs Calderon, R. A, portrait of tho ariist upd skvtches of his ** Con- aco of rare beauty, und *‘Sighing e for Deceber b of W. . Yeam fatber® The the wagazine are * Horses Iu Relation to Art,” “Etehing o Fogland,” crien ut Oxfurd.’” o Tue departiavat Anista’ llaunts,” “Tho Usiversily ture ut the Pasis of art notes {8 as {all and entertalning“ss ever; there s nothing eo satisfactory 10 fts way in parfodical literatare. Tha ifazanne, as n whole, {1 the best thing of the kind Tor-the price (84 pér annum: 25 cents for singlé numbers) pub- lished; und we are not sure that 1¢4 olan 1€ not - he'ter than that of the tuare awmbitions prblica- tiona which seck to seil fine engravings and art. news together. (London, Paris, and Netw York: Cassetl, Petter & Galpin.) The Poputur Setenca Aonthly 1« permanently enlarged to 144 pages with the January ounm- ber. Fhe contents of this number are: *Traces of an r;nfl( Racs tn Japan,” hy Prof. Edward 8. Morse; ' Virchow and Evotiition,)? by Prof. Join Tyndall: ¢ Astronomical Magni- tudes and Disiaucen') by Prof. }l. B. Cachare: " Herbert Spencer Refore the Eneilsh Copy- right Commistinn. “Tho Beginning "ot Nerveadn the Animal Rinzdom,” by George J, Romanea; " Pope and onti-I'apo,’ by Prof. Carl Yogt; * Belentliic Relatton of Socfology 1o Blologs,” by Prof. Joseph L. Conta: ** Bfack Diamoids," by M. F. Maurg; * The Devil-Fish and Tts Relatives,” by W, I, 3 flerod- ity," hy George fles; he I'hysicsi Functions of Leaves"; ** Cararl or Wnorara Pofson,” by . Maurtee (rard; * Moleealar Dynamics,” by T.. I Curtisas ** Effects of Alcoholic Fxcess on Character,? by J, Milner Fothergill, M, D.3 “Bketeh of Gustay Wallls.” Apv'rtons® Journal for January beglos the new departure, in acrordance with which [llustra- tiohs will be excluded from fnture numbers of the magazine. Another part of the plan, wo Judge, contewnplates the ratsing of the crade of © the magazine with seferenco to tho clinencter of the nuticles published. . The cholco will not be confined, moreover, to orlzinal articles: bat the mngazive wil be a_compromise. botwveen the strictly American nublications and the eclectica, In tha presens number several extracts from tha Euglish raviews nre printed, hrysautlierna from the Greek Anthology," by Willlsm M. Ilandinge, and the controversy between Mr. Mollock and R. 8. d. Tyrwhitt about Modern Art and Art Critlclsin, ’Thero are nléo a ttim- ber of orlzinul articles of nerit. This plan ha Leen pursucd successfully In the Popular Sei ence Mouthiy by the same publishers. Tha Atlantie for Janttary contains 8 Jong in stallient of Mr. Howelis” ** Lady of the Arous- took." The story, we regrot to ssy, does not finprove upon scqnuaintance. The most lmpor- tant article on “many accounta is Guldwin Siith's, on ¥ Universal Buffrage,” which has already been fully noticed cditorisily in Tus Tutouxe. JJ, (. Whittler contribntes & poem, “The Dead Feast of the Kol Folk,! Charles Dudley Warner a crisp and suprrestive essay o “Aspects of American Life,” and 1lareiet Beeener Stown A Student's Sea Brory. Ths Contributors’ Club {s still a charzeferistic feature, and it alono makes the Atlant'e welcome ugall thars and under all crecumstances, We observe that the publishera of the Atlantle, twith 2 alant perhaps at a rival publication, snnouncy that they *will endeavor to give uot uerely names, bitt papers of reai valus on all tha pub- e questions 1t discusses-'’ In oecordance with thls policy It gives a strone but anenvmous artlcle this month on *“Workingmen's Wives.” The North American. sieview after Jan. 1 will be published monthly. ‘The subscriptinn orica for the year will retmain at 85. buc the price of single cooles will bu reduced from 81 to 60 cents, ‘The North American is now one of thy {reslieat and most vigorous beriodicals pub- ltstied, snd wo aru gled to know that there ts to be twice as much of it as formerly, The table of contents for this manth contalns a great ar- ray of nnmea, and promises much more beside, It'is as tollo “Tho Flabery Award,” by Beuvator Eduiund Jnpublished Fragasents of the ' Little " I Uy Thotaas Mooros * Citles as Unita lu Qur Polity,” by Willlam R. Mar- tin: “The Prescrvation of Forests,” by Fellx L. Oswald; "“The ‘Bolld South,’'! by Henry Wattorson; * The Pronuucia- tion of “the Latin Langusge,” by W. W, Story; “Bubstance and Shadow In Finance,' " by (leurge 8, Doutwell; The Cralse of the Flor 2 Capt. 1. W. Howeato; ** Recent " (Trollopo's % Is He Popen- Jarti Jam fio Xnropeans,” James' ¢ Dal- v Miller.” Rlack's ** Maclead of Dare,” and Burnett's ** That Lass o' Lowrle's "), by Rich- ard Grant White. Mr, White, by the way, pro- clafms % That Lass o’ Lowrie's " the flower aud eream of al) recent fiction, and anffls out ** Mac- led of Dare’ (n o coatemptuous way, Whether b imlzmunt will chanze pulic opinton of the books In.question, or of his capacity 2s'a critie, fs at lcast an unscttied polat, We can agres with what he says of the catsstrophe fu * Macleod of Dare,” but a book need not be wholly rulned by a bad catastrophe, Qu the otter hand, therg thoso who shink = Thas Laxd o' Lowrie's overdrawn tbroughout, and nat merely ut the end. The herolne is an finpossible creation for the tima and ewrcum- stunces which are sald to produce her, LITERARY NOTES, g Julls Moore, the Sweet Singer of Michigan, has written another ook, It fsnot likely to be so auccesstul as tho first one, Tho dear pub- lic lias by this thoe hod euough of Julla Moote, "Thu publication of the Duko of Argyil's new work on the Eastern Question has been delayed until the end of the year, although th entire bouk, except the last two chinpters, has beon vrinted, = ” The narrative of the new * Wanderlogs of Ulysses,” to which cltizens of tho Uslted Sntes Jouk furward, will bo less compro heosive thun was expected, as (fen, Graut has cives up his plan of travellng round the world and re- turning home by way of Ban Franclsca, Mr, Ruesell Youug, who Yas generally accompanted hilsu, will be Intrusted with the arrangement of any particulars which Uon. Grant may dosire to pubiish, and Mr, Young’s own contributlons to the New York Jlerald will supply material for a volume,—Athencum. Prot. J, Norman Lockyer, assleted by Lls wife, has uudertaken a new work: sticeessor to hin Eunclish sditfono! AmedesGuitiamin's ** Forces of Nature,” tho parts of which have now all beon completed, Tho new work s slso by Awmedee Gulllomin, avd {s entitied “ The Ap- |pll«-fl‘lnu of Physical Forves. It wlil unrwr n elghtesn monthly parts, and will contula toue colored plates and nearly five undred engrav- ings, ire. Lockyer trauslates It from the French, and bier husband edits it with su intro- duetion, additions, aud notes. Mscillan & Lo, are the publishers. T, N. writes to the editor_of the Loudou Times: In reference to ono of Prince Blamarck’s remtalscences, 1 venture to send you the follow- intz extract from iny common-place book, whence derived 1 now forget: Towards the end of er relen the Empress Catherine fouud the clvil Jist of her son Puul much 1u deht,—a charze of rome thousand bottles of brandy for Lls use. He never tasted brandy,” The charges were truced up to tho day of his birth, ‘There were sume slutht excorlations on hix legs when be was burn, The uurse scnt tor wiclass of brandy tu ruuhe @ lotion for them, From that thng w buttle of brandy bad beoo seut (or charged) to him vrery day. A vorrespondent writes: * Why did 1¢ requlre oixteen yeurs to complete Mre, "Clarke's Cous vordauce to Bhskspearo! Was it the manual labor {uvolved! There ls no ** head-work ! re- quired, 1t scems 1o mo. What 1s the use of sucna book when completod ? 8y, Clarke did not devole sixteen years of closs, continuous Jubur to her Concordunce. Bhe was slxtcen years ju cowpillng it hacsuse v 18 an hinwenso work, roquiring not only great fudustry, but ood Judment aud tas its use iy, firet, to fmh-x Shakspeare, so that any part of bis writ- tugs can be wstuntly referred to; secoudiyeto ford waterlnls for & comparison of bis plays; d thirdly, to assist 1n an scalysis of Lis vo- vubulary. 12 it s usetul to study the greatess wnster of the Eoglish laoguage kuown, Mre. Clarko's Coucordance iy an importsut con- tributlon tu eur literature, ‘Thot Hardy writes to the Athmanm a8 Lollows A soewhat vexed quostion is reopensd In your erliiciom of uiy at “*The feturu of the Na- v representation [n writing of wat wnitiug fs y. ¢ peech of the peasantry wh futeaded 10 show mainly the charucter of the speakers, and only to give ral ides %l‘lhnlr lingulsiic peculiarilca. thor may be satd 10 falely convey ho splrit of lutelligeat pessaus talk 17 ne “retaine the idlow, compaad, sud caamcieristic oxpressions, sithough be muy Bob Inciwber the page with obeo- let pronguclatious of the purely English words, sod with mispronunciatious of those de- rived from Latiu and dreck., In the printiog ot staudard spocch hardly sy phonetio priaciple -t all fs obsorved: aud If a writer sttempte to exhillt un paper tho precive accents of 8 rastic apeaker ha disiurbe Wie proper baluuce of 8 truo representa- tion by unduly Insisting upon the INSOI;N' e aiant; thus directing attention 1w point of Inferior inturent, anu diverting 1t {rom the speaker's meag- fug, which {s by far tho cblcl coucorn wherv the sl 1o fu delct the men sad Ihvls ustures tather than thole dlalect furma, foe New York Triduse says of Bayard Tay- lor's * Privce Deukalfon: ‘The suvlime conception which vivides the poctic stratus of this uriginal sad powerful vm«uem 1s wstched with 8 faculty of vaccutioc, the gift of & bouuicous sud genial nuturv, watured by practice, fructilivd by stuiy, and redued by caltuce, withyus whicti thu teciniug fanclos of the bovs would buve b ulucy in thy secvice of boauty, aud no fanctiv at tho altar of bumavity. Not that ** Deukalfuy ™ cuu lay suy etrong clalm Lo the enjoyweut of an anmediate “und suporcisl vopulurity. 1t ls too wuintte and myatical (- character, o profosudly thoughtful {u Louv, aBd tuo recubdite i vxpressiol, aud Gigsiration 0 cov.wand 8 sudden olusiva of public applause, ~ But s an artstic combination of oetical invvation, yhilosvpble retvction, add clis- alcul lore 18 glves authcotle algus of & protisclud