Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1878, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE SATURDAY, DECEMBER LITERATURE. | New Novels--"" For Percival®” ** Paul Faber,” by G. Macdonald. Hardy's “ Return of the Native” Feuillet’s “ Diary of a Woman,” The Lifo of W ashington Allsion~- Dr. Schafi's New Com- nmentary. English Const Scenery~-—Poems of Places---Fairy Tales: Their Origin and Meaning, Prof. Huxley's Psychology=s=How Eels Breed==-Other Scien= tific News, LITERATURE. NEW NOVIELS. #TFor Percival " fsaJong novel with much wood fn it 1 the autbior had been content to come to his polnt and stop some hundred pages eooner than he does, we ahould say that his buok bad served Its purpose well. This pur- puse 1s simply simnsement, 1tisan aifair of persous, not characters or Ideas, Percival 1s a young mau of- small fortune, bronght ‘up to vo particular businessorprofession, Flis father was disinherjted for marrying wilifully, At tho” upenlng of the story both of Pereival’s varcats are dead, Lot tho stern old granafather fs still Mving. Tho heir of the cstaies fs Horace, a coustn of Percival, The grandfather Urings Pereival to the Hali, takes a fancy to him, and determines to provide handsomely for him. As Ilorace beging to show a will of his own in love afairs, the grandfatler conalders seriously whether e shall not give Pereival his own oguhi. At this polut the necrolue of the slnri' appears, She isn younz womnan living at the Hall aloug with the Others, s nlece by marrluge of the old *Squire, snd an affectionate, swect, unscltish charucter. Sue loves Percival, and feels thut o has been defrouded of nis rights. Bhe lougs to do some- thing for hitn, ‘Thoueh berolsm ts not in herline, ready to do* something herole tor bim, homent comes when the crandiather, with aview to conflrming his_suspicions of Master Horace, asks her where that young gentleman ‘was at._a certaln hour of the evening. o was with her in tho garden, but she, koowing thy object of the question, and wisu- ing to -put Percival bnack in his beir- ship, lles to her graudfather, 1t wos all stor Percival 3 but ft does him no zood, and ruina her. Jle discovers the falsehowd, and, though by this time they are enguged, ho up- brods ber, 'x‘lu.-{ separate, ‘The 'Squlre dics without making the new will he had intended, and everything goes to IHorace, . To crown all, Percival Toses tho litle fortune ho had from his mother, sud {8 thrown upon his own resources, ‘We shall not follow tno story, except to say thus it does not end in the couventional way. Tholletold * for Percival? 18 aeveruly punished, and no goud comes of it. ‘The story 1a not, for all that, intended to have a moraf. Thers 18 not much individuality in the several characters, save that of the weak, mmhllufi eirl, who telcs to be o licrotne, nnd fulls so dismolly 1 her own estimation, 1T she could obly have known that she was tobe pul tun novel, perbaps tunt would kove been & compeusation, And there was uerulsin in hier He. * It was & good end noble lin from vne point of .xluw ;. uo Jnan, for whom {t-was told could fnil 0 furzive her for it, ‘I'ho author {s conseqicutly obliced to fnvent other misunderstandifigs to keeo her and Uer- clyal apurt, and at this point his story almost breuks duwir, Thero fs o sub-plot fu the *buck concerned with the fortunes of the Lislce, un futoresting brother und sfster with whom Per- cival I8 thrown joto Intimate relations in the days of his poverty. ‘Thelr adventures are sufli- ciently. varied, but bardly worth recitin ¢l lengthif the novel had not 1o bo printed first i werial form. ‘Lhe dialogue of the story fa brisk utflrst, and there arushrewd ohseryations the interest of the reader alert, Tais of style, indepeadent country *Squire aml bis neigh- bers of the old sort, for tustancor ** o luughed ut them, and they Kuew it 1hey Jaughed at blm, and he Knew §t; nnd, each velng convineed that his cause for scorn wus the oue well founded, they ull got on dellghtiully together' And this of Muster Ilorace: * Ho wos not chary of s kisson he had un idea that, 8 ho bad uo sis- ters, other girls were bound to muke goud Lhe deficlency.' This, ugain, ia [0 the same veln, snd 1t inutst Ue our laat exumplo: 1 fmagingtiat o woman who has 10 fues made about her wed- ding must feel much as o man might if bo could ‘wake up and flud thut he had esten a good din- ner whils fu o statu of unconsclousness, The de- sired end would ba attained in both cases,—she . would be marrled, aud he would be fed,—but L think the twe sulTerers would ogree that it was attained In 8 most unsatisfactory woy.” Wo cun recommend “For Peretval 10 thuse who like a lung movel fur its ows sakej and to others who are more discriminat- ug, wo cau suy thut thrue-quarters of 1t will vrove well worth reading, (*' For Percival,”” novel. With illustrutlons, Philadelphia: J, B, Lilpplucott & Co. 75 cents.) When Mr. George Macdonald goes asbout writing & novel In these days, the sophisticated reader, knowing what is tn ‘store for hh, enters into severo moral trafninge. We hava o theory that Mr. Macdonald oughit to bo read ouly in Lent; but there are some choico spirits fn such vonditfon that they are equal to him at suy time, ‘They will find ¥ Paul Faber " quite as severa an cffort o8 any they Lave undergone, Not that the excellent aiithor Is more soluaiy, di- dactic.orprigejsh thun before, or that bo follows Mr, Authony ‘Trotlope mors closely than ever into the nfinite littiencases of clereal life, or that he hus strewu the path of one tnuse with karlauds of poesy borrowed {rom another—so 1o speak; but that be has offended in g way wot customary with him sgainat good taoste. Faul Fuber {8 & young surgeon i good practice. Ho is uu (utidel and su athelst,—and ratber mory blatantly so than wiso youny doctors are apt to be. In the course of his practice he falls in with an Iuteresting young woman of whain no- body scems to kuow auything. lie saves her from deuth by tuklug blood out of his own veing and putting It juto hers. Tue next thing for hlin,to do is to fall in Jove with her, Ho marries ber, Sheis agood wife, trustioe her lusbaud, and fully trusted by bim, She is pious alvo, und fond of golvg to chureh, tler wplritual vetura Is decply stirred by s sermon she hears, and sho feels compelled fo make a confession to bun, Tuls coufesalon, baldly put, 6 that she was seduced wheu sbio was a girl. ‘Tho husband spurns her. She bares her back, bringe hitn & whiy, and bezs blin to beat her with gt Thereupon Mr. Macdonald inter- vuots the narrative and indulges fa the follow- $ng remarkable retletions; ‘o e dcarce anyUhiug 18 so uttarly pathetic as the back, ‘Yhatof au aujwal even fu full of sau reflections. But the buinan back1 I ie the other, he dark side, of the buman moon: tho bliud #ida of the being defcuseless und exposed 1o every- htng; the Ignonat side, turnud lowards the abys of ls’ uoknown onwin; tha unfeatured side, cye- less, sud dumb, and helpless,—the endurlng aol- 1ual'of tha wmarvelons, to o given to the suilor and Lend bencaih ihe burden, —luvely in ite paticnce and the tender forme of Iie strengtia, We will not stop toconsider whether the sen- timent here expresscd s gevulue or spurious. U1 course it would be posstble to Hud reasou Just s sound for growing pathetic sbout the human ehie-bone. “the plty is n\Ls thut alr. M ould bave written this, but that bould have conceryed a sltuation so shock- fuze thut thls redection occursing tu the widst of it ta compuratively a reilef. e does not at all otons fur thls acenc by the reperts be gives of thres sertoous supoosed to have bevn aelivered by one of his characters, or by the poetry aurib- uted to vue god svother (tho creditivg of whlch #0 varjously s reusonable in this: that It migbt have been written by anybody) Tue bustaud bus o slollur conlcssion” L Drofligacy before warrlags to wake; and Is recouciled Lo bls wite ou_this ground wlone, and the lilegitimote child of the hushanud s taken huwe and sdopted, Mr. Macdopald has judeed Glled . the cup full to uverfiowlug. 1t is awazing that a sincerely dovout man, us he Ly, would Lave written such o tale with the notivn { it would du goud, (* Puul Fuber, Surgeor By ticurge Macdon- 3 )l’bmduipnu: J. B. Lippiocott & Co. . ‘fhomas Hardy’s Return of tue Natlve !” Loy whicn ¢ i3 uincly to ads it 18 written lu sin ugrrecable style. It deajs witn unbuudiar tyiws ol chorecter, 13 bas a plot of £t wuteorntexic and varlety, ‘Fhere 1 ratber 10s wuh descripiae Wrtiue in 1t —iLet 1s (o ¥a¥y Lv auUcy Geaeniptivi 1or thy adkc l vrit- taz. Heaths, and fens, and moors are won derful things, no doubt: there mag be elo- quence in the language of ferns, and farze-cut- ting msy be a noble occupation: but the great majority of the reading world knowa little about these sabjecta and cores feas. Mr, Hardy 18 not entirely free, morcover, from o disposition to lmlulre In fine writing. s claracters ore nearly sl on & level when he forgets them and airs litmsell in this respcet, [fow odd this scu- tenct: s, coming from the mouth of arough country lad fn Wessex: '“Bhe {8 erazy, sbout “Mm, 8o their pgenera’ tervant of a. work . feds me'" This sceme, from = one point of view, a trivial fault; but fine writing s A radleal error with Mr. Hardy, A conecquence of it1s that his characters often lack distinct- ness. We agren with what he has written to the Tondon Athenenm, as reported In these columing laal week, of the (nmmrrlrzy of mak- inz dialect the matn thing. But theroahonld be couristency in the use of it. A chinracter should not talk n patois on_one page nnd pure English on the next. ‘Lhere Is snother want. No per- souage well bred, well read, and well fel ap- pears in the whole course of the story. Henes there |s no standard of compmizon fnit. The hero ia a jeweler's cterk, and the heroine the daughter’ of a bandmester. The distance be- tween them snd the people about thom is not such that we can conveive it posaible for them to huve many soclal ups or downs Ia life. The yista for ‘romsncg before us, therefore, I8 ex- tremely limited, When the hero takes to furze. cutting, in consequence of weak eycn, hin fate does nut seem terribte, though “the author intends it should be so. 'The jeweler's elerk in the story is thoughit to be a great man bevauso he ias lived o Paris: but thuse who are not blinded by the bulo of glury such a residence gives, and who are not accustomed to luvok up tu jewclers’ clerks as demigods wetely beeaune they have lived there, will uot ehare the admira- tiod of the mob In this case. It will bs much caster to get up some human sympathy for the bandinastes’s daughter, Eusticla, e {8 o charmiing crestion, fu inany ways the best Mr. ardy hes ever doue. Romuntic, impulsive,will- ful, ana_well moaning, she wants only falr average luck to become n ueeiul and good woman. But she does nobhave that luck, Bha marrics the jeweler's clerk vecaure he has lived jn Parls, ood she 18 convinced he wiil tako ber there, thouvh he says ho will not. He is ns mel os his " word, and disappolnts her. Hu lias regolved to hecome a schooimaster and benefit bis kind. While pre- aring for this work his eyesight fatls him, and B« takes to furze-cutting for a makeshift, This ndclal come-down wounds his wife bitterly, She 1s sensitive to the oplnfon of those about her, Bhe thought she was dolug a graud thing wlhen she marricd, and she has still a longing for social plessurcs. 8he permits hersell to en- uage in a flircation, 18 put In an cquivocal posle tion, and misunacrstoud. ‘The end 18 paniul and disastrous for her and her husband, The charm of Eustacia lics fu ler cleveruess and vaturaluess. Thoso who know the nature of young and romantic eirlbood con judge iwhetuer this speech from lier mouth s natural ornot: *Once I saw an oflleer of the Hlussars ride down tio atreet at Budinouth, and, though be was a total stranger and never spoke to me, I foved him il I really thought I should dic of love; but L didn't die, and at fast I left off caring fur him.” Eustacia can never ho made to accept lier husband’s ides of Jife. Tnat word for her means * music, woctry, passion, war, and all tho beating and pulsing that is goloe on in the oreat arteries of the world,” When o forner lover tempti wife, disappointed of these cxnectations, she says: **You mean that youstill love me. Well, thiat gives me sorrow, for Ium not made s0 en- tirely happy by my marrfuge that Lam willing L0 spurn you 1or the inturmation as I oucht to,"? Beeides Lustacin, tlicro 18 a character much fo- sisted on and Intended to Lave indlviduality. Thia Is a reddleman, or a man who scils reddie to sheep-fariners. But, spito of Mr. [lurdy's ev.dent desire tu make the reddlemen _noble, he searcely escapes helng growsque, The niost manileat success of the book, indeed, I8 not In the drawing of character ut all, but in the com- position ol an atmosphere und buck- ground for the choructers, Thero fs a real chorus, after the fushion of - Greek trazedy, and plenty of scenery; only sume good acturs ars wanted 1o muke the enterfainment omplete, (*The Roturn of the Nutives! By T, ttardy. New York: Henry {loit & Co. 81.) Our Parls currespondent seversl months azo wrote at sums longth of Octave Feufllet’s * 1.0 Jourual d'Une Femime,” and the recoption given it at hone. A translation of IL has now boeg, printed In Appletuus’ Colleetion of Fore ejgn Authora, ‘The pecullarity of this novel {s that it §s highly moral witnuut ntending to b s, Iuthid respect it i Just the opposite of (ieorga Macdonald's * Puul Faber,” which trics how to teach o lesson, and fails. Uectave L' lot’s * Woman * Is plous and good, Al wouien are very much that way or very much the other. ‘Uhis one sacrifices her hoppiness wot vnee, but mmany times, 1or the sake of her triends, Bhe marries a cripplo to please Lis mothier. After his death, she gives up the man slic has really loved all aloug rattier than fnjure the reputation of his dead wlifo, who huad Jeft a confession futended for him, T'ne fate of this wiie §s tragle ¢nvugh o make Ler sin an awful cxatnple. If all Freuch novels were Hko this, 1t would be cusy to Justify them, The purity o its style, the dircctueas und slmplichty of ita actlon, and the real human ntereat of its char- acters, commend it stronzly to favor, (4'The Diary of a Wotnan.”? From the French of Oc- tave’ Fuutllet, - New York: D, Avpleton & Co, B0 cente.) WASHINGTON ALLSTON. The life of Wusbington Allston las been well written by Mr, Swectacr, and addod to the ecries of artlst Llogrophice, 1t wasin many respects o noblo lite. Allston was not merely on accomplished artist, but & gentleman and a schotar, He came from the old Allstou family of Bouth Caroling, whom one of Marion's stall described ws “Fine fcllows, rich as Jews, and hearty as wo could wish.” flis birth pud for- tune secured to bim a good edueation, first at Nuwport—iu those days a favorito resort for wealtby Soutberoers' and a schuoliog-place for boys—undt stterwards st Flarvard. His foti- wate fricods ot collewo wers Witllam Eller Channiug, whose sister he afterward married, and Richard Heory Dauwt, When ho went abroad b foruied su tutlmate friendship with the post Colurlde\s, who bad agreat Intluonce upon his life. Washington Irviug was also s near friewn), and Morss and Lesite wero his uurll- in Loudon, It wasa plty perhinps that Alistou returned to Amerlea tolive alter his success in England, Mr, Bwectser thinks, with zo0d. rcnluub that ho shoula have scitied in ‘cutl. taly, where be woull und the nspira- tion be needed, Mo was esseutially an Iwullan fn bis art. In Amerlea ho was casily the rat ortfst of bis doy: but appreclation in'a so- clety comunrativelv so Monted as Awmerican society was fu those davs did not being bl the renown ho desired, Fu felt that he bad not wot from ft wil he oueht to huve, and he concens trated everything on a supremeetfort, Intended to be the crownlugonsol hisortistic career. Mr, Bwectser rightly calls “The Belshazzar's Feast? the wourco of all Allston’s failures. ‘Tha atory of that paluting is unc of tho nust pa- thatic lo all history. Mr.Bwectscr las told how it was concelyed und the author’s expectations with reference to it hiw promiss of tulshing i in six or elght wouths, when the remainlng tweaty-nve years of bis Ifu did not sullice for tho tusk ; and fus Anul destiny—to hang com- pleted fu a Muscum of Fine Arts. But ho has not aefzed the lcsson of this fatlure to show how characteristic it was of Allsion's whole life. Iwprovidence 8 a harsh woid in such o counection, but it might falrly be used of o man who put patrimony In a banker's hands and drew on it prodigall uotif it was exhuausted, wio rulned his healt lsnn-mnm' and ldled cousistently fur weeks ter lulshing cach plcture, und who uever ex- octly measured his resoun at auy period of his “life, “Bulshazzar's Feast! would have been tinished loug betore Allston's desth, If ho bad mot brought to all hls work sume of thy careleas habits of Southern 1fe In the old days, 80 tbat Lifs birth bud its misfortuns for bim w3 well as the oppusite, Mr, funcss bas expressed this idea sumewhat differcutly, saving that *Thu terary bad 100 strong a hold upou his mind, creatjur 1 bhn ddeas which were uum{lmu" But it wasnot somuch the literur us the-dilsttante spirit which obstructed bfs fume. Itis sometling Lo aay that jo spite of bis ill-health, bis want of wethod fu small do- westie thivgs, and his dreamy dispossiion, All- ston accomplished what be did, aud placed bim- self confessedly ut thu Lead of American oft., The pitv 18 that he did got do more, He bud the capacity, periapa, to achicye all that he de- sired, but missod {e through scattering his cuer- gies, Still, bis wemory will be chesbbed fn tuls country, vot vuly for bis great service to art, but tor lus exumple of cultivated hiviog aud thinking, Heis oue of the furciiost gcutle- meu, us as the frit artue, Atcriea vroduced,—a poet, etitic, novelist, uud ‘mun of the world, whow tor bis varied gitts i would be burd to watcl fu Amcrican bistory, (" Artut- Buograpbice, Allatun. Hostou:™ Mougbion, Osggood & Co. B ceuts) BIBLE COMMENTARY. ‘The preeent volume of Prof, Echeaf's uew Cotnestary for Euglish readers Is clearly print- ed snd bsndsowely bound: It cinbruces 303 octaro pages. The waps und plans, which ure exvelleut, aro prevared by Prof. Aruold Guyot, of Priuceton, N. J., the macerials fur them nav- fug bedh furnlsbed by the Rev. Willum M. ‘Tuomson, . ik, tate of Svrbi, and ‘Ihuwsou, M. D,y of New Yok, ] tary M the lint voiutue was Coninen- teu by Prof., Schanf and Prof, M. B, Riddle, D. ., Hartiord. In the remaining volames the editor whil be as- ststed by several Bibilcal setiolara of England and Scotland and by Prof. Riddle. The wark will thus exhible the best frults of exegetical lahor [n aeveral sctionts of theolozical inquirs, while preserving substuntial agreement in the viewa presented, 'The chief disadvantags of this method will be foned fn minor _Ineon: netes in thy interpretations of parallel vag s by different nuthors. It [s bupthe alm of this Commentary to give the process of fuvestization ho much 83 the re- sults attained. ~This §s well for tha vommon render, and to Biblical scholars It will at lcast indlcate tho conchtslons that have been reachied by several of the ablest exegetista of our time, Prot. Rehas! bimsel! is among the most learned men of this country, having pursued his eritical, cxegetical, aml historlcal studiea for many years {n his native Germagy, and heving con- tined them for trenty-ive years or longer in Ameriea. 1lls general Introduction to the New ‘Testoment in 1he present volume furnishes, within parrow compass, the frults of the most claborats inquiries In° this department. Tho Commentary itself is, in the main, clear and Judicious, whlle it evinces breadth of thoneht and charity, The editor, thongh now s Presby- terian, s by no means o narrow-minded secta- rian. as his‘selection of asslstantain his work and his exegesis sufficient!y ahow. On sume points we dissent from his expositiors, especially those in which he betrays a Jeaning towsrds the Mil- lenarinn views, wiich are now somewhiat preva- lent among the Evangclical commentators of Germany. We nevertheless predict great bene- it to the churches from this cxtended labor of Prof, Schaat, in which ho has been engaged for the 1nst ten years. It will constitute a fitting sequel to the learned author's cditorial work tu the transiatlon and reproduction tn an Impraved forn_of Dr. Lange's Cumwmentary on the Old and New Testament. Aud we shinll be disup- pointed f this exbositlon of the New T ment by Dr. Schaaf does not prove a fiuhlo thian Lange's deservedly-popular critieal, doetrinal, and homllctical work by which it has been preceded, Btill another ~ commentary scems to us to be needed, to furnish ministers and private readers with the results of the heat American scholarship in the Biblical department, from the standpolnt of our Amercan Chris- tlanity. But unul such an exposition of the Heriptures appears wo_arc not likely to have anything better than Prof. Bchaat's * Popular Commentary,” which s at onco condensed, Juminous, and earncatly Christlan in spirit. ‘I'ng second volume, we understand, is alreads in press, aud the remaining volumes will soon be lssu “A Popular Commentary on the New Testament.” By English and American Bcholars ot varlous Evangelical Denominations. With 1llustrations sud Maps. Edited by Philip Schanf, D, D., LL.D,, Baldwin Proicasor of Soered Literuture fn the Unlon ‘Theological Seminary, Now York. 1In four volumes. Vul. I, Introcduction, and the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, sni Luke. New York: BScribuer’s Sons, Ediuburg: T &8\ Clark, 1870, RW. P ENGLISTT COAST SCENERY,. A puperb gift-book, which came too late for notlee at the proper time, is “Siauficld’s En- giish Coast Sceuery.” This is described In the sub-title as A scries of plctureaque vicws in the British Channel and on the const of France, from original drawiuga taken expressly for the work, by Clarksou Stanfleld, Royal Acade- mician,” We welcomo this reproduction as well beeauro 1t Is beautiful In itacll as Lecause 1t is llkely to make Stanfield better known in Amerlcs, Bis works are comparatively un- known here, becatse they are too bighly prized in Eopland, A coutemporary of Turner, hutas even more succesatul fu producing certaln sca effects,. The presont work {5 & col- lection made by bim In 1830, and then published by Bmith, Eler & Co, with a vlew to Aulustrating a peculiar phase of Iils art-work and professional oxperls cuce. There aro thivty-cight vlates fn all, and they represent such various subjects as St Mtchael's Mount, Cornwall; 8t. Michael’s Mount, Normaudy; Dartmouths SBeenes abwut the Isla of Wight} Scenve about Plvmouth: iastings, trom the Sca; Dieppe, Boulogno i I9; Dover Plors Ramsgato; liroadstair; Eddystonc Light- house, cte. Toe engraving 18 the finest quallty of line work, Explanatory toxt sceompunics cach view. Altogether, the Louk Is one of the most lustructive und attractive that tha hollday season hns prougbt forth. It is not ro mucha uisfortuye that it fatled to ot [nto the market carlier, for those who esn appreciate its merits add have the means will buy It whether or ne Londen: Smith, Elder & Co. 1830, New York: . W. Bouton, 1870, $5 fel POELMS OF PLACES. Mr. Tongfellow's * Pocins of Places” have reached fruiiful soll. New Enwiand fs, of ali places. the one that can bo best illustrated in this manuer, and Mr. Longfellow {s probably tho most competent man living to perform the task, Introductory 10 the subject, a sumber of pouems addressed to Americans in geueral are orinted, focluding such lines as Schiller's ¥ Columbus,” " Freneau's * Indlan Burying- Groun,” and Lougfellow’s own “ Ship of Btate. Tho selections from Mr. Longfellow's own writings In the body of tho work are ncees- sarily mauy, bub not moro th-4 tho subject re- aulred. Tt would have been a promoting of false modeaty that could have induced the suthor to fuclude less fromn his own pen, The advantage of his plan appears faulty in thess vol- umes, for olaces give a local babitation, if not o uame, to muny of the most famllur poems in our national life, Thus we fiod Lucy Larcam's *Haunah Binding Bhoces " mecribed _to Hoverley, Mass.; *The Bridge® and *The Villaze Blacksinitn " to “The 01d Clock on the 8taira” to “Tue Old_Oaken Bucket” to The Wayside Tun" to Sudbury, Mass, is catalogus sugeests anotbor reason whiy Mr, Longfetiow hasbeenso lberal in the use of bls own poetry, Ile naturally fluds it easter to say what acenca fnspired it than to perform o simllar service for other poets. Whittier also has nearly forty eclections, Lowell ten, Bryunt six, Emerson six, Ilolines seven, Channine two, and Thoreau one, Wo bave found these vol- utnes Intcresting, and bellevo others will do the same, (* Poemsgof Places.” Edited by Henry Wadsworth Louefellow, ¢ New Englana.’ Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Co. Two vol- umes, #1each, . ORIGIN OF FAIRY TALES, Macmillon & Co, send us “Falry Tales: Their Urlgin and Meaniog, with somo Account of Dwellers In Fairylund.” By Joha Thackray Vuvee, $1.25, Tho book is an enlargement of & course of Christinas bollday lectures, deliv- ered {n 1877 at the Birmingham and Midland lostitute, and is Intended. capecrally for young people. Tho author has, perhaps, tuken too much for granted in attempting to trace the myths of fairyland to thelr sources, Many of 1 no duubt, kave o more fnnocent origla than Lul pposes, and, If they are Aryan at ull are only 0 ln the scnse that all fiction an thought itsell 1s Interwuven moro or luss with Aryub words, At tho sawe time the book mey set sumu young peobly, who have just past the age aL which fuiry tules are sppropriate reading, 10 thinking; aud, so tar as it van do this, {t wilt serve a good purpose, PERIODICAT, LITERATURE, Wo bhove recelved the tirst number of the Unlted Service, a quarterly review of military sud paval sffalrs (Philadelphis: L. R Hamer- sley & Co,, 1610 Cuesiuut street). It promiscs to supply a real waut, The coutents of the first uumber are rich and abundunt, fucluding v Admiral Porter, Cupt, Howgate, Commsvaer Lull, sud mony others, The navy svems tu bave ratber the larger sharo of this nuaber, bus the Lalanco will be restored no doubt 1o the luture. Price 75 cents lor stugle numbers: §2.50 per annum. The Lor/fulio for December has beon received. Tae froutispivee 18 wn etehing from W.'T, Ur- chardson’s * Conditivsal Neutrality” 1L s & portrait of the painuter's son, whou s represented us rather @ martlul young geutlemwan, of reso- lute bearing, who, nnlike mauy warifors of 1LUrS Wuture yeurs, docs uot disdain 1o bo bls drumuicr, own Mr. Urchardsou’s carcer 1s treated of In the text. S llu- merton's blograpbical sketch pf Tane is cuvcluded with & long but intercating in- stalluscot, 1t will prove s real addition (o the literature of gbs subject wien it suall have been published In book-form, s it probably will be. Auother etcliug i this number is a reproduction (o facsimile by M. Armand Durand ot Peter Tomn's Rembrd “desus Curtat Preaching.” This occurs, of course, o the series of *Etchiugs by the Old Muslers." sud o Betory of the wrigiual-plate fs ausounced by tho vditor. ‘The pa; on * Old Edluvury Y are also conctuded 1o this ber of the 1 ortfo i, uud with them Mr. Locksr's views, Thore u notudly flue one of Aula Beckie ot the ead, making e ditlug wonclusion to & Loteworthy voluwe. Al NOTES. Toe Art Commitice of the New York Unlon League Club propusc tu ask for au wjpropria- tlou of frum $3,000 to #10,60) 8 year from tho Club fuwds to be applicd Lo tbe purchase of pletures fiom our uative artists to form a Club collecuvn of Awcihas palutiugs. Tuts Club has already done much foruet by ir2 monthly ons and exhibitions, and tas new mave thoull meat tne hearty upyroval of all as lookine toward the inuch-uceded encourage- ment of home art, The larga nicture by Melssonier, * Culrassiors " which was In the French display at the lute exhibition, and swhich {8 about the samo eize ax A, T, Stewart's 11907)" haw besn sold to a Belalan gontleman for 2ER00L Thn price orlginaliy anked was F00.000L. and an ofce of 230,0001, by the French Governmient, who wished i tor the great lottery, was refused. ‘Wao remember that Ross Bonhour some yoars ago was engared on a maygnnm opus which was stown to her friends in the studio at her coun- try houee, and prumistd to by the principal plet- ure by which Ler name should he remembernd, 1t was to bia work of yeais, and wo are not aware whother it ha yetheen completea or not. —Magasine of A7t Mr, Millals has cither vompleted, or almost completed, xeveral important portraits for the cxlubitions of next year. Among them that of Mr. Gladstona will “command attention as ohie of the artist’s inost eharacterbstfe worki we venture to say, the niost distinetively ) ke of the artist’s portrafts; lie scems to have worked at his subject with a peenllar and ha sympathy. The ex-Premier has, usIs e case with must men whose fices depend rather on chiaracter than on rezulurity of featurefor their interest, grown deckledly tnare pletorial with the sdvance of years. ~No nore thoronghly Intelllgent study”of his licad hus ever been made than thls of Mr, Millais, and the technlcal execntion I as fine ns the sutellizence of the reading. A companion portrait of Lord Beacone- Beld is on the easal, and one of Mr. Carlyle fs siready finished; in the latter work the oilos- oplier 1a taken geaterd, with his hauds un theton ol hia stick, and the ahouldera snnew ot ratsed 3 the face has the charucteristie hizh colur, which 1o othier artist, of the muny who Lave rttempted the ramo subject, hos preserved, cxcept Mr. Legros, One of the ost striking and. 50 to say, dra- matfe works at the Parts Balon of the present fe-r wae b{ M. Nehienck, an artlst herezofore ittle keand of, and prohably stiil younz. 1t was atyled L'Agon'e, and it represented, with cxtmurdlnn‘?' fdelity and force, s wild piace, snuw-covered, after’ a heavy fall of snow, The principal fiizures were n heep and lamb, — the lamb iylng thin, stiff, snd dead on the downdallen snow, and the mother- slicep standing over It, herseif breathiug with dificulty her last breath In the frieid air, but standing pussionately, with a little ticreences still left In the ¢ye and a tittle force in the JHimb, to protect the dead lamb trom the black come pany of uirds now crowding round, In full vigor and’ alertness, to taste and share thelr prey, Beblod the desolate scene rusc a sky, soft, and thick, aud shrouded, as betokuning lenath of winter and_evil days tor detleate things. We hear that M. Belienek’s pleture 1a coming to Manchester,~—umay, indeed, in all vossibility, make the tour of our lorce English towns,— when it is intended that the adinirable etehtng by M. Demare shall aleo he placed within the reach of the Engllsh publie, Of pietures of an- imal and bird l!fe hardly over has one been more successful. Mr. T. Moran, the New York artist, has ilis- covered a lost Turner fn New Jersey, und gives he followlng account of his discovey: * Fiiteen or twenty days,” he said, *previous to the ap- pearance of tho foliuwing odvertisement in Neribner Mr. Giider sent to me asking if 1t did not mention the very picture that I had often spolien with nim about. It was ua follows: For sole, an_fmportant plcture by Turner, the fa- mous Engiish rulmur. AFor partientlare and rice address J, 8, P.-0. Box 146, Hammonton, Nt 1 repled that this must be the same work, and proceeded forthwith to Hummonton, ‘Twenty-live vears nzo I saw it olten in London. On the way to Hlammonton I drew a sketeh of It for Mis. Moran, whicn-was just like the original. The moment [ suw the orlrinal 1 recounized ity and hefore the advertisement was publishied I was wegotiating for it Mr. Moran deszribed the work thus: In the centre are the town nud costle of Conway at the base ol a Dich wwountaln, above which to the richt, are white, cumulus clouds, backed by white, cirrus clouds, Below tieni thuarc.of nratnbow is secn through some rawm, whilo a.coach and four are about to cross the river that Hows In Iront of the castle, ‘Ilie light 18 just breaking out alter the sturm, fliuminating the whole middle of the pict- ure, and resting on the castle and partly on the mountatn, Thewooded forezround Is by autam- nal intes. Jt prescuts four cows, a slieplierd, and sheey, and four fleures, On theextreme leftare yellowish brown and Srownlsh green trees, The compusition is very sln:{:ly usnd 80 18 the are rangement ot tight and’ shiade, ‘The spectator 18 auppused to stand on the cast side of the Conway River, and at his cxtremo rizhe aro gitmpses of the Irieh Sen, The canvas 18 threw ln.-fl clght 1nches high and four feee cight inches ong, LITERARY NOTEN, Mr. Carlyle was 83 years old Dec, 4. His health §s excellent, I'rof. Knight hias mado selections from Words- worth toserve ns an Ltlnerary of the Lake Re- glon. The Atheneum says the work has Leen admirably done, Praf. A, W, Word will coutributes volume on Chaueer, and Mr. Nenry Jomes, Jr., one on Hawthorne, to Messrs, Macmillan & Co.'s **Men of Letters " scries. D. Aupicton & Co. announce that the suthor of “Jdolin-a-Dicame," the littie nuvel roprinted by them from the thist Engtist editlon, s Mr. dJulian Sturcis, an American, ‘Willfaw . Boeard, the nrtist, ts preparine o volume of drawlngs desicued to suit tbe pecutiar vein of cach celebrated Americun poet, to be aecompanied by orlzinal poema written expressly by the several authiors represented, Lord Chelmstord, it scems, st the time of his death, was engaged 1o writlng o work coutaiu- {ng wany amusing reminiscences and anecdotes ol the English Mor, e had wvited acveral of his colleajrues to assist him with their recolloe- tong.—.Athenwuin, Mr. J, €. Morlsun writes ns follows of Van Laun's Frencs Revolutfonary Epocia in thy Academ; Mr. Vau Laun's hook fs as tur ru- moved o te trom cither model, Com- monplace, tuaccurate, und dull, i& is unly & wod- ¢l of how history should not be written,” 'The Life of Colden, fuunded on materials fur- nislied by his revresentatives nmt friends, to which Mr. Juhin Morloy {3 ut present devs bis lelsure, {s well udvouced, and will, it {s ex- Qulud, appuear ut the beginnmg of May, Mr, Morley was chnsen for the task on the recoms nmendation of Mr. John Brigit. - D. Appleton & Co, arepreparings sumpttious limited and & privately-printed ¥ edltion of the © Memoriat ol Ftz-Gireens Hullek,” cdited by the lato K, A, Duyckiuck, sud adorped with new portealts of thu editor, the Iate Messrs. Bryunt and Taylor, Holines, Whittier, and oth- crs, berldes nue efligie of Halleels himseif, FEdmond About Is doing sowme caustle writing in his Athewseups correspondence. 1n his last letter be valls Talou ** u violent and cluinsy ene- 1y of the Freneh Revotution,” and Edouard Fournler * & third-rate pundit, a erivie without mfluence, & uiere bookworin 'y and aske: * Who knows If, after two centuries and a half of existence, the Academy may not die out for want of cundidutes, us the " K des Deus Mundea threatens ta perish for wunt of writers Just wnen it counts tbe greutest Bumber of bubscriberal Mr. Whistler i3 not alone among promineat people who have catize 10 complatn of the lae tuugzo Mr, Ruskin uses fn eriucivm of them, The pectulur poluts out that i * Fors Clavigera!! Lrof, Guldwin Smith has beencalled “agooss ™y Miss Murtinean gallantly desiruated as not only wu dntlael, but *u vuigad und foolish one ™ and that reserence Las been rnde to ¢ that blasphe- uious blockheadwta of Mr. Greg and tue ke of . Whilo vy A‘{«Mur secd Ho redson why Mr. Whigtler sbould have gane o court with bis cownplaint, {t takes paius 1o remurk thut saflectious and reverence cannot bind Mr. Raskin's slucerest adinzers 1o bis wild, way- ward, trawllne words." Bays the Londdn World of Dec. 41 % Tho ad- mlrers of the Laureate will hear with dismsy that the great Iyneal poet verseveres in tie ju- 1atuanon tust be has s dramutie genus, A0 ¢ Queen Mary ' was voor und * fiarold’ deploras bie, Wo sy expuct stitl worsu things from Thomas o' Beekott *—a subject so full of din cult pelizlous controversy that it can hurdly bave satislactory trestinent 10 Lthe baoas of un quthor wuo 1 soludeperdent of autborities as to have wnitten bis *Queon xlan' without cver Laviig louked futo Lingard, [ beliove ] um correct iu saying that Mr. Tennyson was quite iznorant untit after the publication of that druma ghat any Roman Catholle had been pat 1o death dur- nlu; E,llmbvlh'x virginal reign for religion slone,’ uintsbury, in the Acudany of Dec. T, cellentiy of 4 Macleod of Dare:" The ungstciousticss sud bascuess of the seay shle of Geitrude's claracter are perfectly deawa. But Mr. Black fa dlstiuctly band upon bis berofoe, and o povellst sbould be bard upon is characters. Ho visy show them, ur muke e sbow therselves, i the most detesiable lishits, Lut by mwust B poiit the buger of ot ut them, Toat s the part or she reader, + o« « Weurecertaln thut tuose who judire of wuovel by fts sutrinsle worth fnstead of Ly ull wavuer of extetnal conslderatious will with us in consldenng * Muzteod of Dare? Lesb buok tlat Me, Black hus wriitea. the Cest BVl that Ly uppeared o Bugaud tur sowe 2%, 1878—~TWELVE PAGES, and on 3 to (ot Gz e e rority iy hifoso notfe of M, Lows fn 7 #Mr. Lewes waa the chief yepresentative to most reading Enslist men of the posit sophy. It g to the poteney of that positivee philosophy that Mr, Lewes owes bis real fufluen: il it 1& throuzn * alone that Justice will uitunately b s trtie merit os an Eoziish teadher, i e, tien, the work of Mr. Lewes in this Hzht, weshall conciude that his troe intucn =« hos not nearly rcached ity Ihatt; that it whi con- tinue to gain and deepens nay, rathee that ls highest “infinstice has scarcely hegun to + o o And his thauzhita will” continue to ive In 16 andinary weasur: und in po conimon scnse, 1 that e bas left unspoken to the world ouimitted 10 the charge of one who had ot only inost perfeer communion of thowght with hiny hut the perfect capasits to expoind and express that thought.” The Watkinson Lihrary (lisrtford) has recefv- ed ane of the coples of an edition af the Bible, which, in the words of Mr. Glatatone, “may ba called the ellmax and consummatton of s art of printine.™ 1t fs a_volumo of LA3) paves, 10mo. minten type, bound Iu bl Hurkey alamped on one aide with Lhe arus of rfily of Oxlurd ingoldy and inviosed ina huudsome moroces care, Faclay the title Is the fullowing [nscription, in black lewer: Wholly printed and tonnd in twelte nonrs, On this #0ta dav of dune, 1877, For the Caxton F° =, ebeatton. Only 100 copies Were printed, af which this in Presented to {what follows i« in mannsceipt] I Hammond Trumbull, Eeq.. L. L, . for the Wat- &inson Liorary, Martforl, Coaneetieut, Wy tho Jlelozates of "the L nive’sity Prexs of txfotd, theough Tirsny Srivess, F % af \eruont, *In Memoriarn Gul, Caxton’! stands ut the Diead of un extra titic-nases und at the Lurtom itst of every sheet of the volume s . ¢ The Oxfurd-Caxton Celevtation Edi- tion, 1577,1 SPARKS OF SCIENCE. PROF. HUXL. S PLYCUHOLOOY, Prof. Huxley dellvered a lecture on “The Elements of I'sychoiogy * at the Lundun fustl- tution Nov. 30, Hesald he wonll try to keep clear of the strango obscurity thiown sround the study of paycliviugy by exuesalve specuiation and comolteated hvpotheees, With this object in vlew be wou to the simple terminology of Hume, who proposed to call all the phenoaiena of CONSIOUARR4 * Der- ceptions ™ or *states of mind." The-e Hame subditided fnto the oniminal impressioas made 1pon the genses und the reprogaction of such firet-hung or freah hopressions throtich the faculty of memory, Prot. Huxlev would not discuss whether “Hume's account of mental phenonicna was an exact or exhausiive one, But there could be no doubt a8 1o what that philosoplier meant by the terms he employal, amd in tols respect fie hod o great adv. over inore modern psvehologiste. It was i that some account muist now be taken of the nuscular sense, in sddition to the five knowa to the unel atd Prof, Huxley w.s hlmselt pre- pared to aud relational pereeptions to the two subdivisions propused by Hume. Perceptions of relation arose from the co-existence of seusations. . For exmmple. from the co- existence of certain souuds urose the per- ceptlon of harmony, oud the plessure thus catised. 8o there was & harmons ol color ap- pealing to the sense of sleht. We could even speak of ® harmony and melody of the valate, with which the culluary art haa to deal, Be- slles the co-existence of sensations, relationnt pereentions comprehended their sueceaston, und their likeness or unlikeuess, Prof, Huxley was aisposed to think that the primary pereentions urstates of consclousuess caused by first-nand sensations might vers lkely be the only ones known to beinees in the early stuges of anfmated Hfe. Dut higher up in the scaly there was a power of repraducing scusations, w ntight e termed ddeation, ow ma for - stance, were sugzested vy tio word “rose | He nimsvil was wont to recal the flower's form, eolor, aud even the Yr(cklnz ol hts flager by the thorn, They would be astonished ou try- g the expuritient to find how mauny things might be sugeested by the word which syw- bolized the ruse, The nume clled up the thisg, and the thing the name, by a macle law of assoclation which, howcver d. cutt te explain, none the joss -zave a trucstate- ment of the facts, Prof. Huxley then aiscuss e tue theory of onr brllels us to both past and and future events—f. €., our remombranc ourexpectations. 1t was declaned to damentnl and principal laww o€ paycholu oil beliets 03 to the past rest on experienice. So, 100, With vur belfel of expectatlqn, us wien o burnt ¢hild drends the fice. The lecture con clided with a compreliensive survey of the bor- der-land conneeting physivlogy and psvehology, He rejeeted the Carfestan hypothesis whic nterpolated hetween tae objective and sub- Jective phenomena an fmmaterial something without form, shape, or dimenefons, 8o, too, it eotild 8ca ho goud reason for adonting Leib- nitz's hypothes:s of cotcurreave between the tWo serics, a5 betweon Ewo cJueks set by un ex. ternal power tokeep the same tine, Helouzhe that, nsaworkine bypathesis ut least, the mara- ttalistie was the best, althuugh ho by no means utllrimed that it wasirce irom serious diflleulties of its own, ANCIENT POLAR VEGETATION., Inresizning the chair of the Royal Socl 81r Joseph Hook made o general resuie of sel- entifie progress during the pase fAve years. The resumie I8 too long for Insertion in this plave, but n part of 1t is worthy reproduction. Ree ferring to the evsay of Count Gastun de Saporta, an L'Anclenne Vegetation Polaire, the speaker especlally directed attention to the wuy in which the Cunut suxgesisusolution of thu aifficulty which has always prescuted Haclf,— how to account for suflicient lzbt. within the Arctle revions for the rlen flora whieh from fossil evidonce it 18 known turmerly ourfsned tuere, Bapurta takes his tucts trom the works of licer, though he aiifers from him in nis nferences, Buflon, i his * Epojues de la Noture,” had argued that the conting of the glote baving heen o gradual process, the Polar regions inust have been tha ilest b whicn the heat was aulliciently - wodenate for Hie to have sppearcd ubon dtartie from this thests, 2aporta assumes that the termtnation of th axole period cvineided with a cooiing of the water to the peint at witleh the caaeulation of albutnen dues hot occur, nod that tacn orguuie ife appeared, not fu contact with the atio phere, but in the water itself. Not only does he razard Jifu us oniinating, i not at the Norta Loic, ut teast near to ft, but he hotds that tor o long period lite was active and reprodia-tive only tucre. Pesslng from epeculstions resard- mg tow imtlal conditlons of terrostrtal Wi, the questlon, the Presfdent sall, presented asell with reunl 1o the carboniterous and juter floras, Bow coutd plants have Hourleted Dy wach dati- tudes if summers wero of mortha aaid winters of sitflar fengihs us nuw 1 Saports sigeested that bealdes tao etleeta of probubde fugs duv to soutu- wely warin oceanle euerents, the solar light was, werhape, not distributd over the globe ns it now 18, but jur more diffusive, the solar hody not paviug srrived at Qs present state of condenaat.on. Bir Josepli polnted ot that some of Saporta’s concbuvions wers siappertald by the worit of Mr. Thisetion Dyer, whue by s tata.ly diferent line o1 reseurch, had aroved oty cuneluaon that the Northern Hemsphere sad ulwaye played the most importunt part in the evolution wod distritution of new yezersble 1ypes, or, 1o other words, that g gieater number wf plangs had migrated irom north to south than iu the seversed direction, and that ull the preat aesembiazes of plants which we calied lora secined to wdnfb of Geing traced s ut somg timetn thelr nistory to the Norihera Lemisphere, JIOW EELY HBREED. Prof. Balrd's observations of eels witlh ripe ovaries Luye been corrobuorated by Mr. Eugeny G, biwkford, of Fulton Market, who has examined eggs usder the micruseupe sud fouud that the ovtagonal shape fn tho ovary {s due to theie pressiug upon each other. Vhen sepa- rated they resume the globutar form, ‘Tho re- cent discovery of & male ect by Prof. Packurd hias alsu sct the question of thelr unlsexuality at reat, It bas been found droiy & mibcroscopic examination of the oyarles of ecld tnas tuey hear from 5,000,000 1o 1NN exes st u tine, Al these uvestlzutions ars of sbsorbing interest to naturalists, sinve, up to the tine ot Prot. Balrd'sdiscoveries (lust February), nobody has - been able to say bow ecls breed, Aristotie, after roasting the lsiestines ¢ cels wnd pecording that he heard the egis craek, afeerward doubted the evidence, uud, for want ul sowctuing oelter, deciared that they were bora of waud, 15 was Jmproved wpon by Pliny, wao soletinly attsibuted t wrlcn to particles rubued drom mature écls bY contnet with rocks ete. Laterconjectuies of fisheren aud others havecredied taelr extsteuce to the “hatewortn," or ** Bar-snalic,” cdiug, weich o f1s turn ls absurdiy suld L0 originate frow halr. ¢ls, lawnlireys, carmion, snd otbes vbjeets, anunate or inanlinate, bave beet caaraed wild their weteruity € BCIENCE NOTES. Herr Peclear save that the total duction of tae world for INio was tous. Great Britatn rased FREITGT. Grerwany sod the Uwited States, cacl, vl pro- | i Lo Lgium, st A FEancary, 14,42, ons; and otlinr parts .01 tons. ir doseph flooker, tate Presilent of he Roval soclety, has reerived 4 eommunication Irom the Astronomer-Royal stating that the ranre of observationsof the lale transit of "',‘ a8 {ndicates a glstance frum the sun of 92,644,000 to U2,770,00 miles. Une hunired years ago not & pound of coal, not a cutnt foot” of Hluminating gas had heen buroed in thts countrs, No fron stoves were used. and tio contrivanes for ecunomizinz heat employed until Dr, Fronklin tnvented the fron framed fire plare which etill bears his name. 1t I announced that thare will ‘no an interna- Honal exhibition of sea s river fishing mate- rlal at DeYlin in 1820, This exbibition witl con- tiir st dess than nine departinents. A pro- gramme Wil he rent ahrond svou. giving all heerteary parttculars to thuse who may desire to forward eehihit In coustdering geological cllinate and geo- lozical thne, . Willizm Iavies suggests that the Leat shich the earth once recelved from the tmoen onzht 1o be taken into account by phsste- He thinks that, at cue time, the moon rrust have exerted an (ntuence on the earth {ike that of n seceid or niditional sun, M. Lids, the Dircetor of e Rlo de Janeiro Obscrvatory, hea begun the groat work of de- terminlng ny electric telexranh the lungitude of In comaarieon with Greenaich, Wnen the 0; eration shall have been completed the geo- Lruphical puagd of every city in Sonthern Awmerica will be known srith exactitude.— Nature, At 0 recent meeting of the Nritish Sctentifie Assoctution at Dublin, John Evans, F, It N, etey, Presiirot, deliveral an adireess bafore the ticological Seetion, In wibeh he gave a sketeh of 4 recent theory of & tradudl change of whie nxis of the earth, os aecoanting fur glactal marl our continenta. e favored the theory, and quuted th or four waters in support of it wivitg dates of the articies, nu ong of whica prior tu 16T, e merit ot the duacovery Is % elaimyad for Mr. R AV K, Oensby, who Tiest avanved the view and mtpporteithy urznment i n work entitfed * Darwin and His Views, published fn 1565, Miteh of the siesnlations rezardime the qnes- Lion, **Are the elements elementary £ reminda one of the rtatesnent made several soine ¢ traveied u cood deal’” he sali, *an’seen a good deal. wn' [ hey come to the kuuclusion that everything 13 kuwnpored o hidergen an' niter- gen: an’ the only ibing that troubles mv s u Jeotle trimbhin in the chist,”? Waat the *trime bitn fn the chist” had to do %ith the * kunclu- #lon ™ was nog very clears but there ean bie no doubt of the snaliness of the methods and of the rensoatae of tmany of thuse wio have fu- duled In aimilar sweeplng assertions.—New York Tones Iu consequence of Cot, Gurdon's successful experlment with clephants (o the equatorfal uroviness of Ezvot, and his advice to travelers to use them fn exploring expeditions from thie East Const, to which we referred on Aue. 31, we hear that auottenipt hos been made to Induce the Zauzibar authoritics to undertoke tha tam- Ingz of an Afriean elepbant for the sbovenumed parvose. We regret, however, to learn that an unfavorable answer lias been recelved, It heing understond that the Seyyid Das sce Lls heart on having a light lne of rallway to the Victoria Nyanza, though 1t does not appear quite clear wihiere the necessary [unds sre $o come from for such an expensive undestaking.— deademy, It is stated In the London Times that Dr. Boll has discoverea that the phenomenon of vislon I8 a case ol veritablu photozraphy, nud that sut- sequently Dr. Itubne has discovered the orzan by which apurple pigment in the last retinal layer of the eve 18 rezulsely deposited. With- out In_any war dircreditinze these discoveries, the Athenasn calls attentlon ton passage Ina paper by 8ir Joun Hersehel, printeld o the Roval Buclety's Lransactionn In 162, in which he stated, drawiug conclusions from some remark- abtle photugrapble effects whicls he was thon studving, that the plicnomenun of vision was of hotorraphie orlzti, tne Images of external ob- et beinge printed by the solar rays oo the Tetna or the chorold coat of the eye. Metaylie aleohol is used in manyof the tndus- trinl aris, nering o factory or Isboratory where it {3 cmploved its presence {8 soon de- tected, and the supearance of the peonle en- gared there indleate dl-tealth. 3. Polncare s taken palns to discover i1 methylle aleohol 1s really defeterions to hwalth. fle kept ani- amis trom clght W eixteen monttss n - apart- menta where the alr, thougin conntantly res newed, was charged with the vapor of this king of glenl The resuit was that ihe livers of these anlinals showed enlarzement aml fatty degeneration. A sinllar departure from bealthe ful structure was discovered In the muscutar tiures of the heart, in the epithelial cells, fn the urintferuus tibes, and 1 sho lanye cells, Thers was 2180 e oF less conguation of the nervous centres, It may casily be imagined wiat must the tne condition of thuse who work in the close aml hadly-ventilated eatublishments, the atmos- phere of whilch §s saturated with the {umes of wethy e aleuhol. Two French chetnists bave quite recontly suc- ceeded fn artifletally prouuc Irldescent elase, ke that found In the buried citles of Her- rutancun and Pompeit and Ronipntombs, ‘Lue received theors (s that this andent gluss, origle nally p'aln, became [rldescent trom longgexposure w tfxv action of air und Moititre 8 & Hz tem- puruture, there conditions befue sdmimbly ful- Hiled in the ol Roman tombs, where. most of this ziass Is tound. The modern tluss Is artl- fleiatly made by submittinz the lass under a considerable piessuse and atou clevated tem- ¢ {0 theaction of water contaluiug fifteen uchd, Linds of glass are suitable for this operat.on. ‘Tue moiein £iais slanis suy e of rue bingz of cleaning without losine its cutious prop- erty, but i the exposed surface becul vrground off the [ridescent effect s Instantly lost, shuwe ing that fts vause 1 merely sunerileial and noy structural, 08 13 the case with motner-ot-pearl. ‘Tite Bolewian gluss, so far, susmis to be the favurite fur ambellishiog with the new irides- ence, A wood dealut this irlaescent glassware 18 princivally for the Eutopean marki Awnerican publie Is haraly, ss ver, acquainted with this sovel und beautlin elasswre, One uf tne mrentest vbarms of this uew glass In tts anflinte veriety amid freshuess, pieces aro ullke in color, and uw plece re the same when placed fn @ new position ur ru- wwanded (roin a diiferent pownt of view.—Crockery o Glass Jurnn's - —— TWO SUNSELS, In the falr morninz of hin 1ife, Waen lis pure heart lay 1n Lis breass Pantiug, wits all tLat witd unrest, To piunge Into tuy great world's sirife That 114 younz hearta with mad deslre, e saw b suneot. 3led amd gold, e burning billows surged und rolled, And upward twased thelr cupe of dre, e looked s and, av he looked, the sight Sent froa s wonl, thoueh breast and bratn, Kucw Intensa oy 1 s Tike pain Hiv heart secin=d bursting wits deitght, P #o near the uknown scemed, so close, He mizhe have geusped 1t 4Lt bls baud, T4 1eit s finost seul esgand, Aamunlizat will expatia ro One tisy he heard 8 singi A hunuan veiee i | He patiovd, wid titlo rapluroenils Went taekiing downward thruugh each vela. Aud n hid heart, tho whale day lonz, e 1@ tomphe vered aud din, fiu Kept, @ pout with bita, The beauty of that sinzcr's sung. And then! Butwhy relate what then? 1is wiwoldering heart fame.d futy dre; o hnd bis oo vilureme dosire, Aui pluuged ko the world of wew, Vor years Quean Folly told ber sway, With pleasu f tha groswer kind; ~ho fed his feab and druzaed bix inind, Till, ehowed, he, sated, Wrned away. Ho nouht his bovlieod « huowe. That hour Trivwphuut sbould aave been in south, biuce be went furth au BusuOWY Yuuth, Aud cawe bacs crowned with wealth sud power, The clouds Nay & gorscous bed: 1o 32w the spieudor of tae sky * With tuwoved beart and stalld eye— He unly kisw tAe Wea® waa red. Then .mmeulr 8 frosh, young vuico ose, bird-like, frum roine hidden placa: He did not evew turn his isce— 1t struck it simply a1 4 noise, He trod the ald path “Plhuas rich-hucd leaves by fall-winds whisled, Huw cull fuey wers! How dull tbe worid! Dull, eveu In Lhe puisinz townt 0 worst of puntahwent, that brioge A cluurivg of all tner seuse, A loas o seellng ke, tute Aud dails us o (Lo biglee thy O penaity most dire, moxt sure, Swift following after grods diizts. Fliab ¢ 1o hure 366 beauteous eighte, Or hedr 8y 0uce the good sud pure. 0 vhape moro hidevas and wore dread *J ban Vengeaace 1akes i crved-tausit minds, Al ceetsin doom Tuat bluuts aud olinds, And strikea toe nolivst tustincis deadt Erta Wussiea. ot i Dicsy and Salbabury, Baal tzeti t dana. 4wy o field knows what Lora Sallabury’s sentlinents toward hini were 0ot long a2n. Hao mav even have had quoted to him a remark imputed to the uroud Marquls only twn vears since. The scenc was his chateau near Dieppe, and the coms’ pany were diseagaing Dizzy. $e had not vet mada himself Farl, and then, as now, he wag more often calied Dizzy toan anvthing else. Sail Lonl 8aligbury: The rest of you may be s cttil ns you like} for m¥ part, therels but one word In tie English laoguige which escribes my feclinz toward him, It 1.4 feeling of Toath- ing." A atrung word certafnly, and, nerhaps, the anezdoic wants verifi:atfon, or, a3 Lord Sallshure said on 2 memorabio ocession, lias not been nuthenticated, SHERMAN AND HEWITT. The Secrotary's Explicit Denials of the Con Kressman'a Charges of Favoritism fo the First Natlonal Unnk of New York—The Synilicats and the Four Per Cent Bonda= Me. Sherman Hopes to Mefand the Itee malnder of the 5-20 Bonds Next Year, New York Trikune, Dre. 25 Sccrctary Sherman was just getting ready late sesterday afternoon to take the train buck'to Washington when his attention was called to the interview with Mr. Hewlit published in the third. ealtion of the Evening lost, In which Mr. Hewits repeated at somne length his arraigoment of the Secretary recently presented to the IHouse for favoritiom Lo the First National Bank In the matter of prozuring the gold for resumption purpotes and in funding operations. After readligg ft, Secretary Sherman sald he thoughe Me. Hewitt hud. as usnal, formed and expressed us opinion without hearltgze reading, or inquie- ine s to the facte. He scemed to think that ln some way the First National Bank had been jm- properly favared. ** Ihe very magnitude of our succens,” sald Me. shersnan, * tn refunding aud resumption, 1s the ground of a charge of favorittam, 'This charpe s absolutely untrue, The sale of $50,- UK of bands for resumption purposes was made to the Syudicate, noE from cholw . Dbecause the hanka of New York could not, with due regard to the wants of their cuntomers, take the bonds and aurnish the gold couln the Freasury nevded. Toe Syndicate bid the full market price and paid the actual coin precisely s they agreed. ‘Ulicy selected the First Na- tinal Bauk, one of thelr members, as the me- diam ot payment. 1 3Qid not, [t was necessary under the Jaw to have a Nationai bank as an - termediary In paying for the bonds, and 1 would have accepted auy other as rewlily. The vonds were pohl for exactly us atipulated in the contract, in nctaal zold coin or com certili- cates or called bouds, the Lwo fatter rejresent- Ing uetust gold com fn the Treasury. No bonds were delivered exeept upon full payment, and the certitleate of tue bunk was only received g‘llun Awu' securced by a depositof United States **As to the 4 per cent Lunds," contlnued Mr, 8herman, '1helr sale was and §s_open to all the world on the pane terms. Every Notlonal bank was Invited by publle advertisument, often re- peated, sud sent in circulars to every bank and bauker fn the United States, to beconie tioverns ment azents. and public depositories fur the rale of these bonds, with sull notice that sul- scriptions made by them or throweh theu by any person whatever would be recetved and amount left on deposit to await the ninety-day calls required by Jaw. Not onu dollur was e posited by the Treasurs with clther the Forst Nattonal Bunk or any otber bank on account of the loan, and they were treated cxactly alike They were required, without excentlon or dis- erimination, to pay luto the Treasury within the duratfon of the current calls of &2 the amount of their subscsiptien, elther in com, e certifientes, or called bonds, and it Is justtothem to say thiat overy aubscription was promotlv net without delay or loss, In tue courre of business most of it wus paid in valled bunds, thus making bie suceess, withuut thy First Nattonal Hauk and eve of New York, and Bank, of Boston, were the most and successful agents in thia busivess, and thus thelr pubscrip. tions and sales were the larest, aud the amounts on nomival deposit were larger pre- cleely in accordance with the amount of thelr rales. They bad no favors of the Treasurs, buc tuey rendered great servics fo the Government by tbeir activity and success.” Coucernlng the double ‘intercst durinz the ranolog of the call, complained of by Mr. ilew- 1tt, that, eald Mr. Sherman, was unavoidable fu the operation of relunving. The call could noy be made: until subecriptions wers made, or \ere reasonably sure, “Chix was {ully scttied i Sce- resary Boutwell’s time, ** Mr [ewitt, in his Interview," remarked the Secretary, ** supposes acuse as follows: *Bunposo a bauker, In what he conslilered ta he a favoravie atato af the market, Lages $100, 009, ()0 14 peecent bonde, Mr. Suorman aclivers (heu Bl once, taiine aw secuntr a depost of the ¥ate ameount in G per cent bonde, ‘The banker draws nterest on botli ounds for threo month, aud all be binw ever put up 1s the 8 per ceat bonds,* “This Is precisely the vperation that the law contemplates, In the case sapposed, before thy el bl nmuxe’ daya the banier would lave 1o pay for the bonds fn rold cola or else his 6 per cent bunds would besold snd the proceeds up- plied to tho redemption of the catled bondw. 1€ Sr. Huwlts does ot sce that this {s a tavorably operation for the Government, he (8 not s shrewd a bugieaseman oy 1 took him to ve. Wo 1ose Interest on the 4 per cent bouds amoanting to 1 por cent, and eala wterest at the rate of 3 per cent per annum lor all time, 1 should he delighten it auy bonka would muke the propo- sition tor KI50,U00,000 o #s3, As lor the ety duys required by law fur the culy, [ think iz suaitiinivs fa too long, and have Invited the at- tentlon of Congress to t, but now, under the law, the vall inust run for that thne, *Lwlshuext yeur torefund ths wholeof the bl ance of the 550, aOUNLINE L0 BbOUL E35).000,- 0, on substantislly the satne terus; and, 1f thy otler bangs will be as active us the | named Dave been, 1L can be eastly und readily doie, and they will make ther connntsstons, atd the l'ufml States will save 000K o year In thy futerest of he publie debt. Perlaps this tenorant outery will heip alonr fn this gowd worit, by ndvertising Ireg the casy way it cay be acvomplishod. As for any abuse I may recviy by it diding persous whilo ey ure tindonr wut the frocesd ot Felunding 1ean atand it with compusitre, aud they Wil leass somethine, 1€ any one 14 beally foolish enough Lo thenk that L or any otleer of the Government las doie any uet Injurious 1o the publle totercsls or 17om - proper motives, il @adly hetp blm i the - quiry. 1inust catfeds L uny surprised Ly the fg- noranes manlivated at what bas been going on for 31X years in the vben gt of day ujon pun- e adverttsaineut,” L ‘Theessential points of Mr. Hewiit's Interview i the Lo, to whiels the Secretary of the ' reus- ury replico abuve, are as follows: Wl kriuvinca s this: ‘That tha Secretary of thy ‘Treasury aas cxercisud & discretivn (f he hay uny retian, AT this 46 el Wl aecerteined) to Ly advantage’ of thin Lank aud not ol the Govern- acit, Lhis b the grivia: Durtag e last eight montis the double intereat—(hatba, the lu- of the Maverl e tezvat on the 4 per cont bouda and un tne per cons Lunds -pald Gut Y the Goiernment ve e S0, 000,000 wisnthly dverawo el by shis bunk (s OOR), D), Jlere are Bie Uguroe tn the Can . I al fiecord, Wiual proportiou e tauk uss wado [don't kuow, 1 ouly Know suat the Luv- erument hus lust 1he §1, 000, U0, O o vou luie the beukr No,* v vou blama Mr, fherman?™ 441 he hva violated the law, he is to blame. If ha lus wboyed it B ds dot to blame, §f he has discretiv 1 the makicr, aud i the dee o Lhat dis- crction sclveled @ wotuod legul, but wiudiciods and, pnprovident, then also o' b to bluwe. 1 dut'L vy 1hat b baduny discretion, He certainly baw frequently exer discretion, ., . Now, 1 hotd thut Mr. Sherwan ehould ‘the 1 por cent bunds, ut lbe woney W the ‘reasury, nwi uvest Ib from Sine 1 e in such o wistnee luw may peeecrive—and 1 Uo viber Baalver Su far ae ho s uny disceetiun by LoUIQ uav 18310 Lvni:‘na Jroner Ualuuges, just w i &1 3 Cungress will ba whctaer of not Mr. sheroan’s tran:actlons with that bauk wero of the naluce of aluanop the Natiousl tunds (o private paities. As L bave suld, the Governent bas already cleariy fost at. loual §1,000,000 by thoss Lrawsactivns. Cuuld Rot b tioveraiuedt bave saved ihat euif “Flats la whiat I want Cungreas tu dud vut,** —— . LAST CHRISTMAS-EVE, Last Christmas-evo—ah! it was biiter cold. 1 poudered tu my chamver all ulone, Aud. as § sweetly dreumied of vays f old, 134w vnce wors my childuood's Uappy noe. 1 saw the gray slouo ansion. old kud Kraud, Loows like & casila on ils rucky icen. Leueatn 1t spread & wooded tract of luud: Bebind it rolled for sye tho dark-loe deew. Olil mersily we shouted Jn 11s antique balls Un Christoizs-ehus | Wheu bloowis And aif its & AL met alo Whlle wusiug on Uxaua, Neb OUZ. WedrY YeaTd K0, wreaihis wore liung upon it walls, d windows wero axluw, Junes Morun's I'atal Ambition, Albuny Argus. S James Moran, uf Auburs, went to New York recently and wade applicatiou for u positics vu the wl{w lorees but the Exuminive Buard 1 New York decided that be was pbyvsically dis- qualiied o decount Ul Varicuse Vetus dn the lely wrw, aithouzls he bad never been troubled from the sume, e, therefure, spolied to New York physicians to reduca thie veius to thar torwal atite, and they wers accordingly tied LY the deacturs u a New York hosuitul. ” Hewentboue, snd ntlainwdion s00d svb in wud causcd Lis death.