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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, (879—-TWELVE PAGES, . LITERATURE, Boarates: A Translation of the Apology, Crito, and Parts ' of the Phaedo. Dr. Elliott Coues’ “Birds of the Colorado Valley.” The TUnpublished Corre- spondence of Hector Berlioz. Prof. Shedd’s Essays-==The Colored Cadet at West Point. fhe Riverside Edition of British © Poets--New " Edition of Macaulay’s England, ‘Arctic-American Birds—-The Nature of ~the FElements-—-Emissive Light-~-Science Notes. LITERATURE, SOCRATES, 5 * Platowas the reporter, the' edftor, and th blozrapher of Bocrates. The Apology, the Crito, and the Phizdo contaln themost suthentlc sccount now o cxistencs of the latter philosopher’s lifa and death, and ol his yicws on certaln subjects, It was a hanpy {dea which led un American scholar to translatc these works, and connect them together with a suflicient blographical aketch of Socrates. The name of the translator s withheld; but, as he makes acknowledgements for assistanco re- celved to Prof. Goodwin, he §s presumably a eraduatp ot Harvard. Tho suppression of the name Is, under the circumstances, a mistake, Th,n work has been In all respects so admirably dane, and it {s so valuablo a contribution to American scholnrahip, that the author might Justly take pride fnit. - . ~ Bocrates tells thostorg of his own lifo {n the Avology. Here, Prof. Goodwin remarks Inan introductory note, * Wo flud the samo plain, unpretending fnqulrer, whose portralt has been drawn from’ aunother point of view by Xcnophon in his Memorabilian. ~We find eomcthing more than this, The charm of tho Apology consists In tho fact that f¢ 18 an autvbiographical sketch, reported as liter- ully as circumatances would permit, It gives us, in Jocrates’ own words, the story of his re- sistance to popular clamor on acveral oceasions, his experfence of an funer spiritual sense, his noble disregard of death, his habit of exumin- ing men {n public to sss whether they were wise or only thought tnemselves 8o, the causcs of the popular batred toward him, and his sfocere eflort to make his fellow-citizens happy. *In Ui Apology, too, 8858 Prof. Goodwin, '*'wo hear the hum of the rezl gadfly (ns Bocrates called «himsell) which buzzed sbout the ears of tha venerable Dumas of Atuens, and stung that ‘testy old man' to maducss. Bocrates never professcd to be a teacher in the ordinary scuse of that word; he called himscif an examtner, Ho felt that the grost enemy of truth in Athens ‘wes not Ignorance,—~puro and slmple,—this he conld leave ta achoolmasters to enlighten,~but fgnorance puffed up with the conceit of knowi- edee” Lot ua turn to tho Apology, and aeu how the trausiator has succecded with this part of Bocratea dofense: ¥ went tv one of those who were reported wiso, thinkingthat there, if anywhera at all, I should be uble to refute the oracle, and say foit: ** You smd 1 was the wiscet man, Yot heea-1s one wisor than Iom.U' ‘Hat as 1 examined and conversea with himn, -1t was one of our statesmen with whom Ihad tul'exporience,~it_scomed td mo that tnis mau had the uppearanca of betnw wise in tho eyes of mony athiers, and most of all In his own, but In reality was not wise, Whereapon 1 trled triod to convince him that ho onlx thought himself wise, but wuns not really su, and consequently I becamo an object of hatred to him and (0 many of those who ware present. And, aa [ went away, 1 rea- voned thus within myself: % Iam wisorthan this mnni foritmay well oo that neithor of ns knuws i anyll Innruull{ beautifal Kuod, but -ho thinks thut he nowe cthing - when ho knows nothlug, wheress 1 neither know nor thilnk that ow unything, o acem to be wiser than he, mall particalar, that whot I know no0t, 1do not n think Iknow, ‘Thercupon I ment to ong of those who had the rupatation of e« {ng uven wisce than this mau, and hero it was the sute thing over nmyain, *And so 1 incurred bis batred, too, and thal of many others, . '+ Frowmthe statcsmen I went to the poets. Now Lam ashamed to toll you the truth, citizens, aud yot It mnat be declated. Nearly all the by standors, 1 may say, used to talk batter than th very posts did about what they themaselves had writtel . . » Finally Twent to the arttsans, for here 1 was consctous that 1 know nothing, so to speak, whllc ] was surg that [ atiould nd them versed in wuch that wus beautiful. And herein 1was not mlstaken, for they knew what I did uot kuow, and were in 8o far wiserthan 1, Bt it seamcd 80 nie, Athenlan citizens, that the guod artisans mado just the sume mistake ns the poots, Kach, because ho wurkod woll 1 tis own art, thonght hinwelf wisest matteraofl another and highernatare, and this ror ;Dflcurnn the kuowledge that he really pos scased. ‘Thowork of cxamiolog and questioning an onu who appenred to bo wise Hocrates couasld- ered asupremy duty,so that he rofuscd to abandon |:‘ ot }l;ho command of his judges, aud P cath, I'ie Apology contains two r:!:re/ncel to the daimonton or inucr spiritual sense of Socrates, the vuluo of ¥kich {s moro lnllrv reveslcd ju the * Blemorabllia " than o avy of the present writ- fugs. ‘Ihese referunces are valuablo as belug more_sutheotic than any of the others, On 2 H pagu 8L of this translation Socrates speaks of bis daimoulon as **a volce which from chitdhood , bas trequently came to me, and which makes ftgelf heard aity to tarn e back frowm what 1 ein about to do, but never fo mpel sne forpard." Apaln ou page 47, wheu giviug his reasous aflter shie soutence for accepting deat, hia ssys: ‘Tho mccustomed prophetic sign of my divine onitor has bitherio over constautly opposed mo sves In tho werest teitoe, i 1 wese about o wake 3 mintake, And mow that which you yoursolves hiave witnessed—tho greatest of evils, & it might be, and, fadeed, is constdercd—has come upon me; yet nok onco, eitheras I loft my housa thix moritng, of o 'my way hero 1o the Courl, of st any polot of my wrguinent, has the divine sun opposed me, And sithough on other ozcavions ban often cut mo short in the minst of what [ was opposed mo neither nor i my words. Whnat do I take to of Twill tell you, It must beytnat what has huppencd is for my good, and it 18 not possible that those of us who thivk death to be an evil can be judging rightly. Of this what biaw Lappenod scems (o me & stroug proof, for 1t is cerialn that the accustomed wign would have Ovpused mu il 1 bad uot been Ou my way 10 wmy owa good, . Bocrates shared in some manuer the delusions of Bwedcnborg, supposing himselt to be the special object of divine core; but it does not :L;I‘)::& :h.t‘bm“ former 'uvu' d;llr.nnd ll; blu ad- \ 0 the company of the g« asthe Iatter shspeodiat dide T 4 - Tho Critoshows Bocrates® respect for thelaws, and tue slucerity of his ataluments iu the Arulocy that Lo preferred death to cxile; for when it was casily possible for bim to escane from bis jailers ‘he ddclined to do so. ‘I'he Phudo, fu° 1ts narvative parts, is invaluable, ft completes the story, tel lnz’]mw Bocrutes dled. Lhere 18 bardly agything more linpressive sod patbetic lu anclent literature than thess parts of ihe Phredo. The calm of the philosupher, sur- rounded by his weepivg fricnds, 'urevcr re- wain In the memorics of thoss who bave once scen and understood . But the parts of the Plimdo which purports to ba abstracts of Soc- Tutes' disquisitfons on the immortality of the soul sre pot o trustwortby. bere, s Prof Quouwin assed from the latouic Bocrates. “Plato makes bls master utter suany doctriues which thy real Bocrates ‘would bandly haves understood, and mauy which that rizul questloner would have subjected Lo a werciicss cruss-cxumination.” Among theso is Plato’s doctrlue of independent fdeal forms, of idens and rewlulscence, sud of tho pre-exisicuce aud traus rution of tou soul. *The oplulon of the crates oo these subjects may Ls luterred from his rewurk in the apulogy tuat, i there 18 auy oue potud ou which be wouald clatm toLe wilser than other wen {t ts this, that tav- Lig no better Kuowledee than others of tho world to cowe, Le [s likewiso conviuced thut be Las yone.” ‘Fho trunsiator has wisely abridzed sbstracted the wueculitve parts of the 80 that uo more that ope-hall of the £ origtnal Is reproduced. The whole book is thus put 1n econventent snurc, including only 130 paees of large type, with broad margins. cre I8 room even for extracts from the Memorahilia, whicl wonld have made the treatment of the lul)‘Ject more complete. But, as {t s, this book Is the most attractlve, orlelnal, and scnsible 1ifs of Hocrates that we have anywhere acen. (**Soc- rates.)! A translation nf the Apojomy, Crito, and Proofs of the Phedo of Plato. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. $1.50.) BIRDS OF COLQRADO VALLRY. Ornithology 1s a very old scfence, 1t dates buck fn its Uibllography, even In this country, to 1612, and perhapa to an earller period. Since that time contributions on the North Anterican avl fauna have successively fullowed one an- other with remarkable rapldity. Dr. Coues, the author of theabove work, states that st the present ime ‘the works on this subject, treated by eminent savanfe and varjous writers, reach the number of 18.000 volumes, pamphlets, and papers. This excessive number does not In- clude oll, bot simply thoee comolled by Dr. Couea up to the present time for his forthcom- Ing work.—*A Universal Bibliography of Ornithology.! . Only abott 1,000 of these are at- tributed to'writers on American birds, leaving a Inrge proportion to other authors throughout the world. Itls evidentfrom thisthat the study of hirds s a singularly povnlar ono In all clvll- ized countries. Tiat {t is es) ednlly popular [n Amerlca {s evinced in Dr, iayden’s pretatory note to the work, in which he sny Reapecting the biouraphies or **life histories' of hirds whiich constitute the main text of the resent voluma, the author's view that this por. | tion of tho eubject ahould be so far divested of technicality as to meet the tastes and want of the pmbiic rathicr than tha eclentific requirements of he schoolmen In ornithatogy wiil donbtless mest with general and emphatic sporoval. It In possible to make natural history entertaining and attractivo as well as instructive; with no loss In ncientific precisjun, but witha great gain in stimniating. strenzthening, wnd coufirming the wholesomo influence which ihe study of the natoral scioncen moy cxert un tie higher grades of mental cilture: nor v 1t u matter of Jittle moment to so shape tho knowledga which result from the natn- raliat's Iabora thatils increase may be ausceptivle of tho widest possitle dilfasion, * Birds of Colorado Valley for twa years has heen nearly ready for this press, but, owlng to the suthor's engagements, the remoinder of the work was aelaged untll the present time, 1t is° on ‘eleqant and compre- lensive ‘handlingz of the asl fauna of the region under consideration, By “Colo- rado Valiey " is fruplicd the entire watershed of the Colorado River, which includes portlons or all New Moxico, Arizona, Utah; Nevada, Colorado, and somo of Southers Callfornia. This n-gluu is subject to tnore remarkable climatfe changes than any other equal arer In tha United States. Hero extremes meet. Soms of the country s desert land hedged fn by mountain ranges of {minense elevation, yet often contalniug other Jofty chains and peaks, Hern the mizrations ol birds arc sall to be alfected by altitude rather than by latitude or longitude, and they perform thélr migrations rather according to the *lay of the lund! than with referenco to the degree of latitude. At the junction of the Colorado sud Glla Rivers the mcan aunual ralnfall does not excced fiva inches, For weeks In succession the mereur; may rise over 100degrees Fahrenheit, 1u brief, somo of the region is torrid,—an * *alkaling waste.” Ina portlon of it are snow-capped mountains nsing to nearly 8,000 feet. Bome parts are the hotteat and somo tho coldest of tho United States, whila some portions have a Jarce rainfail and others but a small one, Un- der thesa conditions of climate, it is well said that a day’s march will exhibit s difference fa tha bird fauna equal to that between Massae chusctts and Oregon, It s a noticesble fact that the color- atlon of birds herc from the aridity of the climate I8’ much paler than olse- where, and that the tall s usually length. oned o asuch cases, In considcration of these facts, Dr. Coucs bad large material 10 draw from snd to construct n moomment to rAmerican ornithology. Unlike his ‘*Birds of the Northwest,” the autbor lu this volume ives oviglnal charncteriatics, data, and draw- ings of specimens In hand, so that students may caglly Tdcutify any of the birds described, The work {s denominated T'ort First, aud comprises over 800 pages, with saventy fllustrations, Itin- cludes birds {rom passeres Lo (auiide,—~thruahics, blucbirds, dippers, Old-World warblers, Wrene tits, tlimice, nuthatches, crespers, wrens, larks, waogtalls, American warblers, tanagers, swallows, wuxwings, grecnlets, .ond shrikes, Bome of Dr. Couca’ descriptions are fascinatiug, Without any attempt at sclectlon, one may Hnd delightiul bits of Information on. almost uny r:gm The following mas bequoted. Referring -to the ruby-crowned kinglet hu saye:’ > One of the woust remarkable things abont the ruby-crown 18 ita extraordinary powers of song. 1t §a_really surprising that such a tiny creaturo shonld Lo capable of tho strong and sustsined notes It utters when In full song. The lower larynx, the wsound-pruducing oipan, {s mneh bleger than 8 head, and the muscles sre almost microscopic surods of flesh. atrength of the hunian voico were in proportion to tho eizo of the larynx we conld converse with enso ata distance of & mile or more, ‘The Kinglot's ex- quisita yocalization deties discription; wa can only apcak ju genoral terms of tho power, purlly, and volume of the motes, their funlticss modulation and loug continuance, Many liave doubtlews lis tened to the musie withiont suspecting tho author, . Snch was tho caso even wilh Audubor, who heartloit tritmto to the accomplished little nd snys further: ** When I tell you vt it song s fully ‘as sonorous ss that of tho canary-bird, and —much zicler, 1 do not coms up fo tho truth, for it 1a not only us powerful and cieafy but much mora varied and pleasing. . . « 'lo obsorve the manners of the ruby-crown ono newd only repatr at night season to the nearest thicket cope pice, ‘or pleco of shrubbery, such us the titmlcw, ollow-rumny, and other warblers love to naunt, henc ara {ia favorlte resorts, oapaciolly 1n tho fail and winter, thouch sometimes, i aprin arifcus larly, it socms more ombltious, and its slight form may Le almost lost minong the branchlcts of taller trees, whors the equully dininunive parelc 1s al- most 8t home. We shall moat likely fnd it not alone, but tn strazgline groups, which keep up a 1t of companionship with each other a3 wall as with alfferent birds, thuugh each indlvidun) wecinn absorbed in its particalur busl- ness, Woliear tho slender, wiry note, and nen the liitle creature pplag nimbly about the branches fn endlessly varicd attituies, peering 1nto the crevices of the Lark for thole minute in- scct-food, taking short, nervous Aigats from ono buufh to another, twitching tnelr wings ag they alighit, and always sven (0 pay nitentlongto whut ay be going on sround them, They IKpcnr 10 be incessantly in motton, -1 know of 1o birds moro active,—presenting tho very picturc of restless. puny energy, miakiog *much ado about notolng.” " Tho familles and genera are Huocly and ex- baustively worked up,—exhibiting the combined masterpiece of tho sclontist and the historlau, Each goncra §s accomuaanied by references to all writlogs aod suthoritics on the subject, while cach species has o catalozus of all its stentliic nanies, giving the titles of all works and the au- thor adopting them, After treating the group of passeres (perchiers) toabout the uumber of 10), us represented in Coloradu Valloy, an exteuslve blbllt‘:!lru hy of North American ornithology Is added, Of thisthe authorsays: **'Lhe titles herowith presented, nearly or” about 1,000 [n number, are slinply thoso which 1 haye thus far comviled for niy *Universnl Blbliography of Ornithology'; but they ure - . to bs about 05 ‘per cent of that are extaut on this partic- ulur subjeet, und to represent romu 3 or | ver centof the llterature of ornitholowy.” Althongh this work is not us Iudhpo ublo as Lhe " Key to North Amerlcan HBinds,” yet as a work of (n- terest ft Is second to none of bis worlis on this branch ot science. 1t would be animprovement, and more nearly adapted to the wants of the wtuduut, hawever, I in the foot-notes after each succics ull otoer Lirdy had been noted, not rop- resoutod in the Colurado region, but fucluded in the swwe gesera. A complete check-list of Auierican birds would thus bave beea forined. In u bibliography, teo, Jt {8 destrable that the publisher's namo should be given, and ‘also the Informstion as to whettier the work mgv still be obtained. Dr, tluyden 15 to be cungratulated ou laviug so able und eflcient a colluborator o connection 4 irds of Colorado Valley, Firat of **Misecllaucous Collectious, of the Unlted States Ueologicsl Bar- V. Hayden In _charge, By Dr. Elllott Washiugton. Goverument” print. De- UOctaber, 1518.) W. il. Bavrou. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF IHECTOR BERLIOZ, Epecial Correspandence of The Tribune Paria, Dec, 13.—There I8 & pecullyr Btocss in the publication, by & Frenchmau, of auy work tending in the least to repair the well-nlgh frrap. urablc wrong Fraoce for so mauy years did to the genlus of vne of her greatest children,— diatinguishiod fu Mierature, both as a cntic and an autbior; ju musie, slinply the fizs glorlous of French comvosers; fn private life, & suffering and most misunderstood man. lector Berlioz hud already told us much of hits own story in his ¢ Memotrs,” which appeared origioshy fu 1869, and bave slace been reprinted I & cheaper and wigre couvenicnt form thon that of the orizinul edition; but everyoue had not thne to read through alt the * Stemolrs,” fascinauor sud full of iutercst though thoy were. Bealdes, {u relativg hls experleuces, Berlloz was suspected by manyof & not unvatural foclioation to set thiogs lu toe light wost favorsbie to hlmself sod most dawsgziog to hils countless cnctuies Urvev, vey, F, Cuues, partment of the luterlor, and rivals, No such suspicion can attach to the volume which M. Danfel Bernurd has fust given us—*The Unpublished Corre- spondence of Hectoy Berlloz, 1519 to 1803, with & Diographleal Notive.” (Correspondance In- edite de Hector Berlfoz, 1819-1808. Avec une }{atlcn Blogrsphique. Par Danfel Bernard. Chez Calmann Levy.) The letters included in this collection were hardly intended for pubil- cation. ~ Had they been, many exoressfons wonld have certainly been modified, snd many 8 literary alip would have been rectiticd. These features, which in one sense may be regarded as faulta, only make the valueof the work more undeniable. Amongst the letters, which range over neatly the whole of Lhe composer's life (Berlioz was born In 1803 2nd died in 1869), are scveral ad- dressed to Ferainand Hiller, Richard Wagner, Hans von Bulow, Lisat, Krcutzer, and Erneat lic{lcr. together with others, more confidential, to his son, Louls Berlioz, and to Mme. Massart. That datcd * Paris, Sept. 10, 1855 and ad- dressed to Richard Wagritr, has s moru than common jnterest tomusicians, It showa us, too, Berlioz In & vcay different character than that ot a raving and jealous macman, as his enc- mics would have him to be. Juuge for yoursell: Mr Drar Waoxen: Your Istter gave me great teasure. You are right snough In dlglorlnl my 1nnnnconluer an. All yousay de to the Impossi- billty of my sporeciating youe works [nave often told myself, “The fower of (musical) expresston 18 almoat always withered In translaiing, however delicate the trausiation may be, There are lanee n true music which demand s speclal word, and 'y sonarate words which require a special accent. one from the other, or to glve eituer an ‘mative expression, Is like making a goa appy, of pice rersa, But whatcan yon exp 1 v the most awlul diticalty in learuing isn; Ruaves, My whole knowledge hardly goes beyond a few wordaof Engliah and Itallan, Bo you are melting the glaciers with youe NTebs- tungen! . . . It mustbe graudtonave Naturoso glorionsly present while ong wrteal , , . An- othier forbidden pleasars! UBeantiful landscapes, lofty peaks, grand sea pictures, cotnpletely abwor me “instead of exciting any msuifestation of thonght, 1 feol, and know nut Low to express. 1can only draw the moon by ubseeving its Image retlected at the bottom of & well. It would give me zreat pleasure to send yon the scored you 80 kindly ask me for, but, nnhapplly, fora long time past wy publishers have given np sendiog wo any, Howaver, in a few wevks, Livu— perhape even hree—will aobear: the Ta Donm, **L’'Enfance du Chrisl,” and **Leliv™ (8 lyric manodramia), Theae Lauall atall ovents beable to send yoo. I hava yonr **Lohengrin.” 1f yon conld for- ward me **Tannhauncr,' you would greatiy volige me. The meeting you proposs would be delighe- fuls but 1 wust not even think of it. To tain & livelioood, I have to inake trips which nre not for all the fruse Paris gives mo If we could tive & handred years or so lunger, I dare ray we wonld conquesa great many things and men, That old Demluurcos wast often langn In his ancient beard wnen ha thiuks how auccessful his atale tricks slwaysare. . . But I will nay nofliof him, for ho s one of your feiends, and 1 know you protect him, 1am an im. pious felluw, but I have plenty of respect fur the I (o suls unimpia ploin de respect pour lea on this atrocions pun, with which aud ute 1 must conclude. ave & muititude of many-hued Ideas d 1tite ta communicate to you, Thera iano time. Write mo down on ass, for thu presont. ‘I'ho letters which Beriloz writes to his son Louis unvell & private trouble of which little ‘was known by the publie. ‘They are extremely but it might bave been better, nevertheless, to have let them rest awong thy fatully pancrs. Borlioz is best judged by his works. \Vith his private woes und ulllictions the public can hava no sympathy. Of whut good ta its curlosity ¢ Berlioz s not alwava just in his cstimate of other musictana, Rossinl sod Cherubini he held in eapeciat horror, and, to do_Cherubinf Justice, the sutinathy was mutual, Neithor did Tie and Mendelssohn'get on very well together when they were both. studyiug in Rome, In ono place we find Mendelssohn writiog, “Herilloz I8 n periect carleature, witnout a shadow of talput, groping about In durkness, and faucylug he uas ecreated o new world, 1 sometimus feel as I¥ I could devour hilm," Who would belieye this of so smlable a person os our fayorite Feilx? 'Uo be sure, Herlox i1 not very comulimentary to some composers, vither. Ile refers to Ilmmal, for Instance, uc * that: pork wod beer-burrel,"—a simile neither fitting nor graceful, But, to be sure, tuls is no disoarage- ment tu Handel’s genius, For Bpontinl, Gluck, Wober, avd Beethoven— Beethoven especially—LUerlloz had the most enthusiastic sdimiration. “Ji¢ ance sad, truth- fully enougt, though not very modestly, that S he had taken up music ot the polot st wiilch Heethiovenleltin,” * Certainly he has fwproved even upon tho immortal coinposer of the oing syumiphonies In the mater of fustrumentatton, '“The introdunetory sketch of Berdtoz which has bren added to the * Correspondence’ by if. Bernard s not the least attrnction posscsaci by the voole, It has been pud togetler carcfully. Jwpartislly, aud succloctly, It does not asplre to replace the ** Memolrs,”” but, shoré though it be, it will prove very soryviceable to many who could not spars thne to read the lonwer work; and it cannot fufl to Inspiro tho rewder with o desfre to know the masterbleces of the compo- ser. To know them {s, in Berlioz's case, to loyu No matte: them, ‘The life of Hector Berlloz was as full of cino- tions as a romance. o was born in 1803, at a littlo town called La Cote Bt. Andre, nesr Gre- nobie. 1Is father, who was o doctor, edusated him with 8 view to his adoptiug the medient vprofession, . and, on his reachlog the oo of reasom, gemt bl up 1o Yarls to completo his studiess Young IHec’or, however, cared nottinge for anatomy und bad an extreme distasto for the lectures of the 8chool of Medicne, Before lonis ho threw up hls med- feal studies and entered the cluss of Lesueur, a yrotessor ot music av the Conservatolre. ‘This alteration in lis plans led to o rupture with his father, und the future mmlmnur of thy, *Jan- tastic Bywphony " found himself living from hand to mouth on about & frate a day in the Quartler Latin, Atidst want and disappoine- nient of verfous kioda ho struggled bravely on (at one thae he was oblized to take a placois v rllorlntr at a second-rate Paris theatre; and on one mémurable New-Yoar's Duy, while the rest of the clty was makine meriy and feasting, ’)uor Hector was munching a dry crust—his on- ly meal—in a lovely garret) tl bla effurts wero Tewarded b{ s “winning tho Prix de Rome, Ll was fu 1820, Altlipugch his native place lay so near the bor- ders of Italy, Berliuz'lad never the slizhtest sympathy with Italians or Itatian music, 1lis siay in Kome (whure e met Mendelssohn) waoy of small service to iy and he retursed W Puuls without a sigh of regret. ‘Durng nls realdence In Italy, however, ho bad plenty of ad- ventures. One of thein camne near cavajog his death. Inatll of Jealous despondency ho fol) —or threw himsell—over o ¢l fnto the sea. Ho was saved by somo passcrs-by, hoppily for rt. Shortly after ho narried an Engiish actress— ewrietts Swmithson—who had come to Parls withan Eugllsh company to play shakspeare, ‘Fuere ure uo more moying or romuntic pussuies fu the **Memolrs™ than thosu in which he re- his courtabip, In M. Bervard's Notee the mutter §s only glanced at. Iis woolng was donu in—miuele,~tho universal lanwgunge, after all, 1t was with the * Funtastic Bymphony " he won his mistress, It may be doudbled whother the matrimontal bllas of the couple was perfect, Misa Bmnithson had apparently a great tulent for nthur thiugs than interpretiing Blak- speare,—spouding monay, amongst ti:em. Debls ail worey of all sorts wers welghing the com- poser down, when Paganing eanie to tie rescue, 1n an unusual birat of @dmirution the great vi- oliuist, after hearing oncof Berlivz’ssyuiphoutes ono du’y. senut him o urder on Rothsealld’s for 20,000 francs. 1n 1846, nowever, through the utter fallure of s # Dumuation Jo Fuust? at the Opers Com- ique, Berhos was rutned. He shook the dust ol 1arls frum his feet,and set vut on & lonk cou~ cert tour, in the courae of which le visited Gers many, Belglum, and Russla, tuding bluself everywhers honored aud apolanded. Jut hy vould uever freo himselt Trom tie fascination of the boulevaras, Paris alono disdatued him yes Tarlu be loved better than all the cticd i iho world, though be despiyud its Judgment. Mo re- turned, For wany years he contributed to thy Debals snd the Gautte Musca'e His connection with the press made biin eve 1ors enemies thau s wusical theories. In 1863 his opers * Les Troyens P was produced ut the Theatre Lyrlyue. It fuiled dismally, Ber- 1oz never recovered from the dlisppolutment. He had set all his hooes on the work, anda when it perished hope seerued to die. He lived ou for six years. morey till the Sth of March, 1509, ‘They gave bim n’nmxlueeul funersl ot the e old story, tery of Montmartre, be * Damnation of Faust ¥—Hector Berlioz® masterplece—was plaved to slmost cuipty Louses In 1548, In 1875, i1 1 remsmber rigtly, tle Boclets des Concerts veutur X vortlon of it, rather tlntdly, aud bardly expes fug it to succeed. The enuthustasm it aroused 1 Pde‘glulll- Binco then (L has beeu given cen thues to overflowlug audicnces at tho Clatelets and at this moment, alter bLaviog been neklected so wauy years, Hector Berlios ls thy wost popular musician fo Pariv. Too latel Hauny Mxrrzsi, — 1'ROF, SIIEDD'S ESSAYS. Bpeclal Corresporuience uf The Tribuns. Nzw Youk, Jao. & 1879.—Cowing howme one day atter latening to Beccbor,—thls was uany years ago,—1 overbeard a conversation between two young men of about iy own age which {n- terested me very much. Ofcourse, Beecher aud his sermous wers furolshiog the material for thelr talk. Oue of them sald, *“‘Yhere is He les (o the ceme- elgh wvor, Aud 1 a little feliow, who used to be up at Burlington, & Professor (n the "Uni- veraity there, whom 1 bad rather hear than Reecher. e 1s not eloguent exactly. ‘the crowd would not run to hear him, but there is more to bim tnan any preacher I know of, Afis name Is Shedd.” 1 remembered this conversation, and, on for- ther fnaniry, found that Prof. Stedd had been & Professor of Eaglish Literaturs and Rhetoric in the Univeraity of Vermont, had then gone to Auburn, N. Y., where he had been a Professor in the Theological Beminary for two years, and ‘was now on the polnt of going to Andover, Mass., a5 & Professor of Church History. 1 learncd, beside, that, It I were sominded, Icould hear his inougural sddress, for I was to be in the vicinity of Andover Hill about that time, I weat, saw, heard, admired, be- lleved, and came away almost a cunvert to the enthusiasm which that unknown graduate of Vermnont Univeraity had for his fellow-alumnus and forider Professor, At any rate, [ regretted that it had not beeo my lot to have felt, during my college course, the bracing influence of that wondertully-vicorous and sinewy mind. All these things have been freshly brought back, as [ have just 1aken up a valume of essays In which have been collected various review articies and literary arddresses prepared by Prot. Shedd at fotervals In his atudiona 1ife. read them with great eagernecss when_ they were first published, and now I have giadly surrendered myaeif agaln to thelr mascaiine and (iuk-kenluz power. As read Irecall what Carlyle wrote of Lessing: * That, among all the writers of this century, there |a not one of more compact and rigid fn- tellectunl structure, who more distinctly knows what he 18 aiming st or with more vigor and precision scts it forth to his readers,” Every word of this declslon I feel s api big to Prof. 8licdd. Profundity and clesrness charac- terize the treatment of every subject he takes in hand, His essays are treatises. Sometimes an incisive sentence or o brilllant metaphor will clear up n fog-bank of misty spcculation, justas ulmlTnmln;t sun cats up the exhalations of tue night. A great many men have writen essays on English Literature, but, in the whole wide range of my ncquaintance with writers, 1 flud nothiog 80 comprehensive and truly vivifying to the ru- cuptive student and the wise cducatoras his cssav on the **Method and Influence of Enclish Htudics."” On reading bis inspiring description of Chaucer, s man who had never read the # Canterbury Tales " could bardly keep himself fromn ot vnca bezinnlng to form the acquaint- ance of that bealthy, breezy, outdoor, flesh- and-blood old Engiish poet, who had eyes to see, a heart to feel, an Imagination to construct, and a tongue to speak. The essay on the *Na- ture of the Beauttful aud Its Relation o Cult: ure’ I a profound and brilliant treatlss on es- thetics, 1lere the fundamental princinics of art in all its departinentsureso distiuctly counclated tbat none nced be at aloss to know what art snould alm to do, whatover thy material with which it works, e it words, tones, color, or stone. As you ou feel that Prof, S8uedd has Jaid hold of aid bare truths In regard to cullure thut'pra s ‘‘decp as the centre.” He puts you on ajvantage ground so that you, can think with safjsfaction, and when you critl- clsu you linye a redson Lo give for your® positive opinlon, His shafp, clear-cut stutements aro 1Ko an electric batkery in csusiug thouzhts to crystallize that had been held In solution, T rolation of Jpuguage to stylo and thought lic treats so extqustively that, whatever clso you may read that] ta fundameutal and vital, you feel thi ou bad alresdy scen It clearly stated, Forinstauce, Matthew Arpold hns o preface to the flrst editlon ot his poems .pnllished in this country which coutatus In fubstance his matured views on thought and style. You caunot but agres with blin. You properly aserib the power of such o poemn a8 “l’txmer’n Death™ toths ear- rying out of theso principles. But they remind You ut once of ‘what the “lictle Profcasor at Burlington endedvored to plant in the minds of his Green Mountuln students, But yesterday I vpened Landor at random, when my eye fellon such words as .these—that poctry should bo "durhumns. not.prismatic, o that thoso who look Inte It maywea through. And this fa our essayist over adain. liceo nre other easays which evinee tho same clearvision,—uotably the ono upon the ** Phitos- ophy ol Iifstory,” which can give to thoughtfut nifuds enlarged and decper views on ths move- nients of the generations and the solldarity of tho mce. e In aootber volume the strictly theolugical cssays are brought together. ~ Many of our frood- thinking Christian nen and wonien would ex- perionee an essentigl bewrefit should they read, mwark, aud lnward®y: digest them, 16 the al lute neglect of wuny of the goodish Bune books which now they race through and torgget. Tholr winds would tecelve o nutriment and discipline which the. di. lated stuflf they nre takinz cannot give. Perbaps thy moat brilliant and strikiug ussay is on the oulessions af BL. Augustine, ‘Chis was ovidently writien con amore, No uno on the Contineiit has beens more profound and admir- g student of the Bishiop of Hippo, aud we doubt If thero{s a mun Hying who has atudies bt 8o thorougbly ns this Presbytoran Prol or. ‘The demnands of WMs own department of theologleal instruction have been in such hor- mony with i mental tondencies that his en- thusiasm for the mewphysiclan, the orator, and the tucolugiun of Africa has naver lost its fer- must say that, whouover L come across any alluslons to that ' Last of the Afrl. cans,” L lave a warmth of feellog toward linias 1f he wera a personal acquaintance, This I owe to the many references and to the manner in which Prof.’8hedd's articles and lectures bring tho Bishop to my miud, Now that Prof. N. I, 8mith is dead, thero s not, prouably, In the Presbyterian Church Prof, Bhedd’s cauul In hs espectal depastment. None have o clear a perceptlon of the various moye- ments of theologicul thauwht and of the meta- physics of belief, combined with such power of cleur und vigorous statemont. Whers the reader may —nob nl:co&n the peculfar form of doctrinal upinfou, lis has un increased respoce for the intellect which con make so powerful a presentation of philosophical ersor, Prof, Shedd 1s of medium hight and of & slender figure. In the shope of his hesd sl face hio bears 8 marked rosemblance to thu ene gruvings ot Ileq’r‘{ Clav, UHud ho welgbed 200 20, fustesd of 1 and had he been full of animal lfe, he would have been an orator, but fn hia frame therds I too littic of thy heat-hifTusing urorurly which Is absolutely ea. sentiol to tho vublic speaker, Indeed, he does not liko a cruwd, und this u mized sudlonce at ouco Instivetively feels, s mind, disciplined to such severity und habltuated to certain great Nnes of thoupht, takes pleasure in thosu themes which thes gonerality of church attendancs do naot cure nbout, s Juyalty 1o his own couvie- tlons of the kind of ‘preaching wmen vught to bave would never allow him to bu clther super- fictal, feeble, commonplace, or sonsational As he thinks his own thoughts, he must run tuem luto his own molls. For quite a number of years he hus been cons nected with thy Presbytertan Toeologleal Semi- nary of thls eity, Opuasionally be preaches. Ho’ hos published two volumes of lectures on the History of Doctriucs, one volume on Houtl- letics, a translation of a Church ilistory, and of & treatiso on Rhetaric, by Theremin, “The load- ers of tha Presbyterian Church have not u man {u thelr ronis who s bls superior fu Pucristic learnlng, 1u_powoer of subtle discrimination, in voucentrated cnergy uof atyle, aud fn profound rovereres for eternal trutha, T Dy TITE COLORED CADFET. Mr. Henry Qéstan Flipper, the only colored graduateof the Mititary Avademy, haswrittenout his unpressions of Iife at that fustitution. The rusult Is o book of gome 300 pages, for the most vure manly and digoitied. It gives o better ides than sny other bouk of the routine at the Academy, copying the regulations to such an extent that Jittlo 43 left to the Imagination, Mr, Flipper bas only unqualified prafse for the ofticers of the Avademy. They treated blw, so far us Lie wus wble to observe, with strict lmpor- tiality. He was soclally ostracized by bis class muates, but the ban had begun to wear away be- foru bis graguation; sud since his active couns uection with the army be Las geuerally been re. celved a8 au equal by bis brother-oteers, Hig ruly tha sry Is to “‘ostracizg® thuse who do mnot treat bim properiy. When ho was at ibe Academy lu atfected not to notice slights put upon bim, aud when he had an opourtunlty to return good for evil dld so. . In this manuer e put somo pf his active persecutors to shame, and won the cateem of others. M. Flipper's book would have becu fimproved by thie carctul editing of somu Iriend wiser than he s Parts of b ere fnjudiclous, and ltkely to provoke sntagonisms or rldleulo in toe urwy., A passage W which tho author scriously couslders whether the cadets wero sot afraid of him becauso he was & largo man s at variance with bls reputstion for good scuse. Tuers are some higu-flown sentlweuts alio, which indicate a vivid snd unchastencd hnagioa- tion ou the past of the suthor; and there are biunders fu rhetorfe wnd erammar which *an ofiicer and a gentlemwan ™ ought not to commit, On page 19, Tor lustance, be savs that sclass- wmaty *eutered upou a violent panczyric “of ine,”” when it by evident from ths conloxt that Just tho unposite of »* punceyric” 14 luteoded. Au allusios oo pags 207 to o visie of sowe tol- vred lady fricuds to Flipper aud Bauth, their weeting ou Flirtation Walk, aud the werri- meut unuus the utber caduts caused by the wisit, ls decidedly in bad taste, though certainly not so ob]ectionable a8 the conduct which tne writer condemns, Mr. Flipper's book will do Rood, fndecd, Il it shall aliow that the persccu- tions of his classmates appear smail and menn at this distaoce of time, and that a cotored man may aurpasa {n honor, acif-respect, and all the essentlal qualities of atrue grntleman rome of hia white companions., s The Colored Cadet a8 West Point.” Antoblography of Lteut. Henry Osstan Flipper, U. 8. A., Firat Gradunate of Color from the Unlited States Mllitary Acade. my. New York: Homer Lee & Co., G5 Liberty street.) BRITISH POETR~RIVEHSIDE EDI- TION. ‘The Riverside edition of tho British poets, now embracing about fifty volumes, has becnen- larged by the sddition of twovolumes of Hood's poems, and the poems of Campbell snd Falconer In one volume, This edition was originslly made, some old readers may remember, in 1853, Little, Brown & Co. then befog the publishers. The impressions st that time were comparative- 1v few, anid they were suon exhausted, But tho work has been ever sinco a standard, and the de- mand for {t has increased of Iate years. In order to meet this demand, Houghton, Osgood & Co,, by an arrangement with Littic, Brown & Cis., nndertook to_make 8 complete repeodnction of the first editfon. ‘1his repro- duction fs now about completed, The volumes of Iooa’s poems will not be the least. welcome of the serles. His fame as a humoriat has been constautly Increasing, and it does not obscure now, 8o much ns it formerly did, the merit of his scrious pleces. We reinember hearlog a young gentleman of pretensions to the highest Meulture’ say of food niany years nzo: “Yes! I alwaya did ndore Hood’s humor. There’s his ‘Bong of the 8hirt,' for fnstancel” Possibly there are fewer persons now who would con- fouud 1llood's fun with Lis deep pathos than there were n few years after his death. ‘Chis §s ducgpurtly to the fuller knowledgs we now have of the sadness of his own life and the deep veln of serousness that ran through it 6 poems of Campbell will not be less nceepta- ble. **‘'fho Pleasurcs of Hope," **(ierteuda of Wroming.” * Loch Warning,” ** Ye Marln- ers of England,” *llohenlinden,” aud " Lord Ullin's Daugnter ars classics wliose glories will not fade so loug as ** Litrarles ot Poctry and Bong ? are faskionable, end it {8 belter peraaps —we mean nd heresy—to have them together, a8 tho authior wrote them. Camuobell's classical attainmwents ourht not to b forgotten, cither, by trug lovers of poetry, and these are more fully exbibited In his travslations and imitations thau lu any other place. Falconer is more re- tnarkabls for his carcer and his promise than for his achievemcnts. His ous poem, “'The 8liowreck,” holds & place in British’ poetry chicfly becaune it was composed by a nian of bumble education and rauk. 1t Lias the adyan- tago of belog strictly correet in its uso of sea terms, owing to the suthor's connection with tho navy as a warrnnt-officer, Tiils poem also possesses u melancholy luterest on account of tha author's untimely’end by shipwreck, which may have taken place under clrcumstances alme flar to those which be descrilics. This, however, 18 matter for conjecture, for tho ship in which Faleoner salled was never heard from again, MACAULAY'S ENGLAND. Measrs, Harper & Bros, bavo Issued a new edltion of Macaulay's Ilistory of England, in black covera and gfit edges. The paper is of extra quality, and the binding more substantial than usual, The fntentlon I3 to make this a Hibrary cdition of Macaulay that will commend taelf to the favor of Intellizent book-buyers. Lord Macaulay's fouie as ‘s historian has suf- fercd aiuce bin death, His aceuracy has been mure. then ouve successfully lmpeached, Iy partisauanip has been established ; Indeod, it s+ uhinost confessed by him 1o more than one place, His brilllant rbetoric hus Inspired distrust rather tinn otherwtse, for it has been shown that ho has often been tempted to sacrillee fact fora chauce to turn & perlod; and rhetorical exax- geration became with him, toward the end, almost o habit. But, in suite of thuse defccts, Macaulay's Hlatory still holds Its pluce ahead of all uthers in the allections of the puople. It fs confessedly whnt he desired It should be, the mast uteresting History ol Fogland in exlstence, It 18 still ax eagerly soumht st -the clreulating libraries as the lnst novel, No library ecan be complete without It, because it has mow produced 80 deep an fmpression on the popular idwas of Fuxlish bistory, it has provoked su wmuny ro- Mes, and 14 Las taken so tarue 4 ol in direct- g the intelectual activity of n geueration, that without n knowledgn of it the lmmr‘y ot Iiterature iteed! would Lo tncomplete, . Those who- want an edition of Macaulay serviccable, attractive, and comparatively low-priced wili tind it in this pablication by tho Messrs. Harp- cra, Five volumca, Price, 310, ] GILDER'S POEMS. A new volume of poems by Mr. Richard Wat- fon Uilder Is suro to be welcome to thoss who Kuow his “New Doy,” or have u slighter nd quointance with him through Lis work in the 011 Cabinet of Sepibuer's Monthly, Mr, Gl1- der's poetry Is marked by delicacy, relinement, grace, and finlshed executlon. fis duneer les on the side uf tou preelse und finfeal a method ruthicr than on the other, Inthe present vol- uma the souncts, most it not all of whicn have hebn oublished fu the maguzine, commend thetmnsclves strongiy to favor. Awmong them we notlee *“The Bunnet,’ * Lonigfelluw’s Bouic of Bunnets,’? *Tu Mud?t!ku“' and “The Even- ing Btar.” The cntuuslasm of the young poet is coustantly breaking vut. Only a very foolish, or a yery courag , inan would write ns hehas written of Modjesks. ‘The longest poemt in the boak, and the une whichi wives it o name, I8 #The Poet amd Ilis Master.,”” It teaches one lesson that we might wish othier pocts than Mr. Gilder had fearneds 1 bid thew wine, even thongh I have not told All the devp flusd of anguish ahiell ba rolled Across thy dreast. Nor, Poet, shait thon bring ¥roo: out thowe depthis thy grief. Tell to the wind Mhy privato woes, but not to himan ear, s &ive fn the shape of comfort for thy kind, (“ The Poct and Ilis Master, und Other Po- ems,” By Richard Watson Ullder, Author of S 'The New Dav.” Now York: Charles Seril- ner's Sous. 810 T BOIEMIAN, A puzzling tlttle book §s “'The Dolemian, a Tragedy of Modern Life, by Charles Do Kay. 1t 1s hialf & poarody, and balf a sorfous uttempt at fletlon. 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Anasttractive volume of favorite hymns select- ed by the editor of * Quiet Hours ** aud ** Sur- sum Corda " hoa been priuted by Mcssrs. Rob- eris Bros., of Boston, under the title of “The Blesacil Life.”” The ablect of the cditor has been to brine together in=wmall compass a number of the best hymoa to which we are all stisched, and such us are worth learning by lieart. Fully three-quurters of the hymns are those which our mothers and grandmothers Ioved, and are full of sacred aod swcet assoclu- tlons. (Price, $1.) # Casilo Blalr,' n story of youthful days, by Flora L. Bnaw, Is publishied by Messra, Roberts Bros., of Boston. Opposita the title puge is printed this commendation, which should be ufiieient to commend the book to all purenta: “Tuere is a guite lovely littls book just co out about chftdren, * Custlo Blair.* . . . T bouk 18 goud, und lovely, and true, havine the best description of u nuble chidd fu it (Winule) that 1 over read, and nearly the best desertption of tho mext hest tuiug,—a noble dog.”—Juhn Jtuskin, (Price, 81.) A Ulstory of Knox County, Illinols; together with eketchics of the cities, villages, and town- shlps; record of ts volunteers in the late Wary caueationsl, religious, civil and political his- tory: portralts of promiuent persons, oud bioiraplical skecehes of the subscribera: hi tory of liliuols, abstracts of the Statu law: €tesy eten 18 Lho full title of a buiky volume of 7iSpages, Itis o made-up book, containmg much advertlsing matter; but it appenls In u pathetic way .o tholove of fanic of fts *!sub- scrlbers,” and It containg mitch that will, be - feresting to former residents of Knox County, and valuable to the hlstorin_ ln the futui Lublished . by rles C. Chapman_ & Co. Printed by Blakely, Brown & Marsh, Nos, 156 and 157 Dearborn street, Unicago, ——— PERIODICAL LITERATURE, Dotter's American Monthly for January (John E. Potter & Co., 617 Bameon street, Pulladul- phita) hos been recelved, The ZJlustrated Annual of Phrenology and Hew'th Almanue (New York: 8, I Wells & Co., No. 787 Broadwuy) has beenrecelved. Frice, 10 cents. 3 Ono of the scveral new features which wilt appear during thy nexc year In the Literary Word will be u series of “Short Studies of Amerlean Authors® by Mr. T W, Higganson. T'he Sunday-Sehsol Teacher for January (Chi- cago: Adams, Blockmer & Jivon Publlsh jne Company) has been received: also the hound volume for 1570, It is, of cours¢, without o rivalin its own fleld. g3 Mr. I B. Perkina is the editor and a jolut oroprictor of u new Boston weekly, the Sutur- day Magaszine.” It ta to be on ‘‘electritled etlectle,” giving some of its spucy to original watter, aod presentiug thu Iresiest things in tho brighteat way. Sunday Aflernoon for January (309 Main street, Bpringfleld, Maxs.) hus papers avd poems by Releeea Hardimg Davia, tvorie Davis (“The Vanlstied Beliet fn Witcherait ), Ehzabeth tusre Phelps, o, B. V. Marah, Goorge M, Towie, Ray Padues E. Hale (v contdnued atory), Lury Larcom, . Washburn, Rose ‘Lerry Cooke, and otuern, ‘The Huwnilariun for, Junuury (A N Bell, 47 Lafayctis pluce, New York) contams reporss of tho provecdings ol the Amcrican Public Health Association with - relerence to yellow-fever, a l):mcral the Hom (0 3. Pulmer, * Saselde N ividence of lusanity) gread before the v York Medico-Leeat Bo®ity, und u great varjely urmu,mun on miscellancous byglentes by the editors, “The Prolestant Ej Dlam‘.-:ury » for 1870 © D{:mnnl Almunae and ittaker, New Yark), ' Tie Churel Almani or 1874 (I'rotest- ant Eptscopal Tract Suviecy, New York), are out, and cen b obrained ut” titenell & Hutlie- way's, 168 Stato stroet, Chicago. ** Whittaker!. Alinack ™ gor 5jl=1lie most valuable b camplintion of tue land—has ulso been received throuzh the kindnesa of Breutuno's Literary Burcau, New York, The holllay number of the Loudon Vanilg Zalr contalns a number of contributlous {rom the nobllity, awmong othera: *The Unjty of tha Empire,” by tha pDuke of Munchester; * Bonto ~ Fawous Runs_and a Fumous Huntsman,” by the Duke ot Beaufort, K (L3 Yachting, by the Marqum uf Lonaonderry, 3 * Dead Kitignund Quecns, " by ** Lord Houald Gower T Agriculiural Jaborer,” by the Countess of Btrudbroke; Houseigeephyz, by thy Coutess Butthyouny; Tuntivg und Melfon Mowbray, by Lady Flor: ence Dixte; * ‘The Humoes of u Ruce-Courwe, Ly the Furl of Wincuelsea and Nottlugham § 4 Lito niter Denth," by the Earl of Desart. It will bu seen thal the cideavor s to nako Faalty Fuie the vrgan of the nobiliety. Thelr contribu. tions, it must bo suld, show s ligh averatw of abilisy. The - Mugasine of American Uialory for Jan- uary contuins su oruiele by Jumnls Austin Bteveus on ** Tha Birth of the” Emplre State— Formutlon of the First Constitutlon of New York3' on * Thu Globe of Vipius,” by B, I De Costay on “Uregon—"The Origm_ aml Sieaniug of the Name,'" by J. Hunmond Team- bull; original documents, notes, qucrics, re- plics, cte. ete, The cattor antounees that dur- ingz tho eurrene year wpecial attention will be given ln the mugazing o the guograpny of the American_ Continent, os showi upon ocorly globes, ‘The articls ii the present vunber on the globo ot Ulphus 18 thy dlrat of too series, ‘fenest will be the Lenox Globe, an inatru- munt now known to but few persons, and of whichyup to_the present wrling, 1o public entlon has been made. It {3 now fn the Lenox Labrary. TILERARY NOTES, 3la). Whyte Melvitle hnd, u few duys Lefore hls deatl, placed in thoe hauds of bis putlishers, Measrs, Chanman & Hall, inunuseript of a new three-volume novel—Athenwum, Adinirens ot tho lato Me, (. IL Lewes will bo ®lad Lo learn that ho hus left Lehind him as much manuscriot as will add two additional yolumes to bis last work, *Provlems of Lite aod Mind.” Thoso volwmes will be publishea in due course, under the superyision of Ueorgo Ellot.—Athenaum. With such unfinished works us Charles Dickeus® * Edwin Drood.” Thackeray's » Deuls Duval,' Macaulay's ** Historyof Buelund,” 3lot- ley's L uf Jubin of Barneveldt,” and fenry Wilsou's * [llstory of the Greut Conllice, uiust uuw be placed ‘Bayard ‘Tavior's *Lito of Gocthe,! us Library Journul tnakes one lmportant couccssion tu the phonetic movement, 1L prluts Seyialog? for cataluzues oud it kas ocedsion Lo use thy word 50 often that we would vot dury to gsthmato how wuch 1t saves by cultinz ot the twa fetters, In the Noyember nuwber wo Qbservu tbiere /8 o slarp controversy as to the relutive utility of shelf-usts und acecssion ‘catalogs,” fu which our Mr, Vool takes & lsud—and spells, by the way, (o thy old style. Waler W. Bheat writes o Yufes and Yusriaa strongly supposting Dr, Johnson's derivation ot ke word * cinbezzle ™ from *ubedlie, tnough it louks hike a wucss, {8 ubund, firmed by quotations from uid By Fho true sense of the verb 10 imbat { ([ s the beat apelling) was ws enfecble, dininish from§ detico to subtvact or tukes awey frous (sud by the common wdditlon o the sug- Kestion of & slulster motive), Lo subtract fron slyly, tocouvey away lur ouc's own usey which fathe only sense now sdwitted. Thealulater sense 4 & very ola one, appesring In the fifteentls centary, whiltt on the other hnhd the original sensc 18 now lost, Those who have rcad most widely fn English autbors hest know how man; senses become at 1ast attached to one word, ani how, In course of time, somo of them (often tho rrost literal ones) are lost sight of.” ;- | Tho Beaconsfielil cartoons “from the colled- tlon of Mr, Punch? have had & sale of ncarly 100,000 copics, and the clear profit on them {8 estimnted to have heen between $15.000 and £20,000, Mr, Pienefrhas just published asimilar collectlon relating to (iladstono snd Bright, each volume contalning forty cartoons. Thera © are 109 In the Beaconsficld collection, bnt i in estimated that the number relating to Bencons- field that have been published In the paperitself first and last reactics nearly 300. £ Frank Teslle’s Chimney Corner got Joaquin Miller into seriona troublo by reprintiiq from & London newspaper a copy of ‘‘Jespnette's Halr " credited to the Poet of the 8lerras, The frand was, of course, Instantly detected. Miles U'Relil¥'s friends came to the rescne, and it was broadly tatimated that Joaquin bad attempted to decelve. The matter was afterwards cleared up to the satislactlon of everybody, except, perbaps, the editor of the Chimney Corner, who was ueatly caught in an attempt to palin off & reprint as an original production. The comoiler of the ' Annual Register " con- festes Lo havine used the Spectafor's review of Frecman's **Ottoman Power {n Europo” withe out giving any credit. In aleller to the Spee- {ator be adds that ‘*therc I kearcely a pace in the old * Annual Register* within llving mem- ory—orobably not sfuce jta birth, more than a hundred sears sgo—which {s not egullty of plagiarism.”? It s the work of one or two hauds, and **in the historical part alone lays esen the smallest claim to orieinal writing."” The editor of the Speefator replies that hoshonld liave no objection to the adeptlon of artlcles fromn his paper If the source of them were ac knowledzed. : Among other recent German publications (s the now complets edition, In_two volumes, of 4 8oclal and Political Conditlon of the United Btates of America,” by John I1. Hecker, with o Erdncc by ¥r., Von Heliwald, printed in Augs- urg, Bavaria, The author, who has probably lived for some years In the United Seates, seeinn to hdvo oceupled his time while there in clipping from thc newspupers cverything relating to frand and corruption, past and present; every- thing showing a supposed antagonism between capital and Jabor; every line exposing the miseries of tenement-honse life fu the great cittes; and all the statistics af vice and crime, in order 1o be able 1o produce a hook which shatid out-Trollope Mrs. ‘Lrollope and check the tide of cmigration. In'that musical absurdity now playing at the Boston Muscum, *fH, M. 8. Plnafory,” tha boatswain siogs fn defensu of the too aspiriog mallors He himsclf And it's has said 1t, tly to his credit, n Englisninans t have been o Rooshaa, A Frenelhiman, Turk, or Prooshan, tal-y-nni Roosghaw," the whole chorus groan, as If it were too much to think of that Lalph ftacksivaie could ever have been that, In order to prepare the English mind for suehi o catastrophe, and for other obvious usecs, ilenry Riola rrcunru(l last spring ond Trubner put- lisked I London, with an introduction by Mr. Raulston, the Russian translotor, a mamial of the Inngunge, entitled * How to Lesrn Russiun,” which lus beon reprinted in Boston vy tlough- tou, Usgood & Co. It foilows the Ollendori wethod, but adds thereto a sulliclent treatise oo Tusslan grammar, so that it scems to be all, ex- ceut @ vocavulary, that one needs to yuallly NWmself for reading easy Russian.—Springfied Jeepublican. Victor Hugo, ju thn course of a protragted but neser tedious exfstence, has givon alttings to only three portrait palnters, Tue third ous 18 M. Bonnat, who is now tinlshing his picture for the noxt Salon, L. Knaus' * Chilldren at Play," the chlef worlk It the ectebrated Ocizelt enlleetion recently sold fu Vienna, brougit the sum of 17,000 florius (ahout 88,00}, and witl soon be in New York. Drawings and aketehies by Cruikshunk were Iately rold in London ot moderate prives. A collection compriafuz 105 lots went for.about 21,800, and fncluded many hutnorous stiaes dating from the years wien the ariist was se the hight of his -porvevs, hesldes sevoral rare elchinzgs owd cugravinzs, Amoug Liein wero sulng of Llie orizimal Hlustratlpns to ** Windsor Castle,”, #The Court ol Quecn Anne,' and +The Comle Almataek.” The followinz adverlisoment appesrs fu a number of the Lomdun newspenora: *Mr Huekin's costs fu the Jute action of Whistler va, Stusikin—"Thu amount of these Costs I8 estimated A First List of the Bubserlptiona o defrayinig the same, wnotnttne to 3461, senat the Fine Are Nodeiy’s Giallern Noew lomd Bteeet, An oceaunt, has boen o at tho Unfan Bank of London, Argyll str where gubaceiptions wmay be pakd."” The appearance of a now work hy AL Gustave Daore i3 an event o art, Messres, Hachotte luve Just published o aplendid_ folio edition, ln 650 pages, of the “Orlando Furlosn," trarlatest by M. du Pays, with over 500 tHustratlons by M. Dore. Arlusto could sot have wisted fora worthler interpreter, and one rises from the con- teinplation ot the pletures welt a feching of havine been couralny wver thu grandest nnd straneest laudsenncs peopled by bems such an the urdent imagination of Ariosto slons coull concelve, ‘This work wauld haveduoen cnonga to save Guatave Dore _from oblivien, I his pre- cedlug productions did not pratect hiw from the indifference of contemvararies ang posterity,— domdon Limes* I orresponidenes, Wa hiave recclved the first wwinbers of tha * Classies of Palnting," work undertulicn by Dr. 1% I, Kretl, of Munlel, ussisted by br. O, Eisenmann, of the Cassetl Art Gudeey, sl br. F. Hever, ol the Munleh Art Gallery, sr, B D'Esterre-Keeling s the translutos, and the Rev. J. Leonard Cornlug tno Amerlan oditor, ‘Ihe clussles will be a cotleetlon of pholotypes frotn unzruvings of pletures LY the masters ob the Ttaliun Honalennier. ‘Pl (st putz comains piates of Volterea's ** Descent” from tho Crosa’t wnd Japhact’s *Seiumph of Galtea,"! Pictiecs by Michael Angelu, Tittan, Andrea del Swto, Corregiio, (il Ttomano, and oters will foi- 1ow, und the work will be completu in thut cuMt parte. Urof, Lubbko cives the underiah- e the Leartieat commendation, velfeving that it will tend toudvancs ths causs of art education, SPARKS OF SCIENCE, ARCTLIC AMUERICAN BIRDN, The recent Aeyere weather has driven many Northorn birds to # more congental latitude, Tur at least Lwo svasuns no such promhient urrivals or uxcessive vumbers of thusame specles bave been noted here. Reports from various parts of the country show o general mizrs- tlon ol Arctie birds to within the borders of the United Btotes. These mippations ore hanily subject to discussion or rfced lnwy, bit sre more uften due to speela) causes, The greater majority of these blrds are eranivorans,—aed. caturs,—but also teed on budd, tudcets, cte. in the extreme Nossh, then, duri weather, Lielr fav buried witu suow (seed-we with ee (uuds ol trees), Thaps frozen, comptlllng themn to m The high weeds ot the great plalig, slot the borders of 1L luses, and, in fact, of general distribudon taronghout Unitod Butes, furnish lare quantitics of tho substauea roquired lor Lhu s tenance ol the zranivorous trives, Unider the elreqmstances, 18 no common thing, durlug the presvht season, 1o see mingied with tla anowHakes ol great storiy largo numbers ol Tepresentatives of thesetabes, The foliowing birds whose hmited habitat 13 Northern North Auers, havo arrived clties In tha viclnity of Cnlcago, or i known locallties Ju the Uniked Btates: ireat Gray Owl, cinercum, Boowy Owl, Nyctes nived. Hlawk OWl, Nurnls wwa, var, Audwnlca, Piue Urosteak, Lincoia enucleator. 2 Red croaabill, Logis curvirvatrg, var, Awmeris Syratum lupponicisa, var. cund. White-wiuged crosslill, Laria leucopicra. Lesacr Hled Voll, . £y othia tinarive, Mealy Red Poll, - Syiuths coucsens, Buow Buntiog, 1% etruphines ulia'ia. aplaud Longpsur, 2iectrophanes lopponicus. ‘Tuvre . wre RNy apeeics that - doubtless are cautitled to a place lu this Hat wiich have oo curred liere fo provious Acars, OUL ave onikted o uevount of & ek of evidenco ot their aupears ance this witer. The Great Gray Owl L8 the larzest knowu apevivs of its kind “of Awerien If Lot tis world. It scldous weeurs u the borders of tha Uuite Btates, and theu ouly m the wost severe ws er, A pair of theso 8 Weru seeh Ou thy v its of the Nurtbweatern Uulversity, Evausion, ik, Dev. 31, by the suthor, ‘Fbuy wore uever noted 13 that locality before. Thole appearanco in su large u town 13 tecorded with ¢pecial Interest ou secusut of thelr known e dusive kabits, n Tnu Suowy Owl (Nyetes Nivea) 13 & common winter vi~ltaot, ‘Ihdy frequest the haunts of rubuits sud various memberas of the groude frlve, Ou the borders of Lako Outurdy, iu the wreat wooded muistics, theae birds tiud shousyuds ol rabbita roamiug in oight tme lo the frewn