Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 11, 1879, Page 9

JANUARY 11, I879—N1X'TE 1] THE CHICAGO writing . The Dutch Republ When it was | bave had many sympathies, done, no’_London publistier conld be found to | ccat the Beeretars pain, ns he scld it dtd, to be printit. Mr. Murray cisjly declined the mant- forced to commuileata with Mr. Moran, [nstead scrint, and It wan publishé at the anthor's cx- | of with Mr. Motleg. nie by Mr. Joln Chapman. [ ruceess Whatever may have heen the motives of the s inmediate £n § geent, Mr, Iroude, who had | President and Scerctary of State, thelr action never then seen the anthor, reviewed | told with great effect upont Mr. Motley, Tt w it favorably In tho Wettmbnater Rienew, closinz | a shock from which he never fully with the statement: * His glaco will ho at enca | 1€ it be true that he was removed conteded amone the first historlans In onr com- | wax Sumner's friend, and dealt with sa the ally mon_languac: Neurly all the reviewers in | of the enemy, “the shaft. which had glaneeil Enzland and America foilowed this lesd. The | from the s triplez of the obdurate Henator hook waa trapslated_fnto Dateh, Into (ierman, | steick to the heart of the acnsitive Envo; and into Rusafan. M. {inizot bersonally super- We cannot lger aver the nezountof Mr. Mot- {ntended and wrote an introduction for | ley'slnat fliness, death, and burfil, Enough has ihe French edition. D, Lieber said Con- | nlready been nuoted to show that Dr. Holmes" gress ought to give the author & vote ook s written with taste and vigor, anil that Bt thanks. Mr. freing, Mr. Bancroft, Mr, Suni- | It recommends ftaelf to the good senso of in- ner, Mr. Hiliard united their voices in the sama | telligent readers. The treatment of the suh- strain of commemndation. Ject s eminently suggestive. One cannot. read “Fiftcen thousand coples had nlrmn{ Leen | Tar, for instauce, without wondering what would sold in London iy 1857 In America it was | have become ~ of Motley’s compreliensive equally wculnr. Its author saw his name | literary rchems i he hod ‘not en- enfolled by common consent among , tho | joyed ™ private means, ample lefeure, grest writers of his time. Furope accent- | and cultivated soclety, —an how fur ed him, hls country was proud to clalm | the want of these fs the causs of the compara- him, nuhulnrshll‘ set its _jeatously- | tive dearth of American literature, and wheiher guarded seal upon tha rosuits of his labors, the | time will soon providu thewn fo such abundanco reading world, which had not cared greati} for | that our Augustan or Ellzabethan seo may Lis storics, hung in delight over a narrative | dawn, The carecr of Mr. Motiey also rulses n more exciting than romances, and the lonely } traln of reflection a8 to the n\pruu:ll conllict student, who had almost forzotten the look of | between culture anid political life In o demoeras tivinz men in tho solitade of afchives haunted | ey, If this conflict is neccssary and natural, by dead memorles, fonnd himsell suddeoly in | demncracies have somcthing to avswer for the full blaze of n great reputatton,” which they canuot put off with a brute vute. The first two volumes of “'Tlia History of the | ‘These are large ?ucnlum. which no ono can United Netherlamis ** wera published in 1660, | hastily dfsposs of, It is time, however, thoy four years after * The Dutch Heoublic.”” ‘The | should be consldered; and so far ns Dr. author hnd not to reck a publisher now. Mur- | tolmes’ bhook tenda to put them in the way of ray frankly admitted that ho fiad made a mis- | gettlement, it serves an excellent purpose, i take, and solicited tho privitego of printing what | additiun to its pritnary one of telling the story Te had before refused. 1o was thenceforward | of 2 good una great man's Jlc sa that his futiy 1imp a8 ha walked, but_hefore politicat gathé, ingn or on the floor of the Honse of Repressntss tives I have never heand his equal as an orator. His Intrllectunl endowments presented a rarg examiple, In which great logical powers and the most vivid imagination were happily bieaded, While lic frequently songhit to siause, ho raraly falled at the same iimo to Instruct an-andienee. His broiliane wir, his keen earcasm, and the rapldity vith which he ttlustrated hils pointa by 2 raphl suceession of brilliant melaphors, made him formidable s nn notagonist and wonder- fully attractive to all who heard him. Unfor- tunately, hts convivial habits undermined his health and fie dicd in his 421 year.” LINCOLN AND STANTON. Anecilote Showing the Methoda hy Whick Each Dismissed Applicants for OfMce. To the Edilor of The Tridune. z Catcado, Jan. 10.—In the winter of 1804 after serving threa years In the Unlon army, anid befng honorably discharged, I made appli eation for the post sutlership at Polnt Lookonit My father being interested, we made applica- tion to Mr. Stanton, then Bceretary oi War. Wa obtalned an audierge, and I was ushered into the presence of the most poxnpous man I ever met. As I entered he waved his hand for me ‘o stop at a glyen distance from him, snd then put these questions, viz.: “DId you serve three years in the army1" S did, sir'? “ \Were you honorably dischargedi® ' I was, sir." # Let me sce your discharge.” - vogne smong the (Germans. This is the pronn hy, [0: Ianguago il | handle tiation of the cousonant p e ov_of the French onl, not differing much from English w.)' The Germana pronbunce it ax [T {t were slnply w. ‘Thus thes snv) Waymee, ivedee, woekee, for Veal, vidl, viel, Against tsis provunctation Mr, Btory enters the most positive awd shsnluta protest for the ll.lluw[u‘z reasonst The con- fuclon m this case, as n The case of {and J, I3 e to the fact that the Romens had only aue charncter to express two totally different soundi that of the vowel 1 orouand that of the consonant v, If this letter v be always pro- vecl aa w, which Is simply the Italian n, it tly coases to b a'cotisunant at all, and wo must admit that theros wis no cousonant v in Lotin. But if any factod earth {s clear, it s that the Romans hed a consonant v as distin- guiahes from u. Tt would be easy, but uscless, o muitiply quotations. from_ancient granima- rlans to establish this poini. Beslde, the Italtung sl retaln the sound of ‘our v iuall nimey of persons and places which have cume down from the anclents, Valerfa, Virginh, Vit- torla, Vingitla, Octavin, and Livia may be adduced as the names of persons, anil Voiterra, Venetia, Veronn, Vesuvio, Velobro, nmen;i inany others, ns names of nlac Tuit possibie that such names were pronounced We. rona, Wenctia, Walerls, or, warse still, Lewia and Octawia (which arc ahnost impossibly cacophonous)! As to the gu, it scems probable that in some cages ot least it had the sounidof kor hard e, But morethan even inthe soundof tholetters, it Is to bhe fearcd that Inaccents the Enciiali-tierman pronounciation s entirely wronz. Wesimost alwavs throw the accont backwnrd {ustead of rward, and probably are as wrong In ro doinge f wa should ° pronouce ~Freuch fn 1ike manner. Indeed, this 1a precisely the vice to which all English am prone in speaking and under this aliar they cacape the i ire, 403 travel and ob AL 0:ma- | rerating of the: customs ofllcers, who neyer terial relence, 305 history, 305 art, £ political | think tiiat the ** vine louse ! may he sccretinz acience, 15. glmwlr in m'; lé‘nm‘cntl-lmklwz lbumllcu. i What The usual price paid by the Vineteenth Century | Dah bucome of Signor Becearl’s important cargo o Bt ta #10- 5 jres ehongh M, | the 1uilan Journal does not yet ko, Gladstone has 850, L Is untleratood that the - — Prinecton Kevien pavs 810 a"mue, the North THE FHONEIDOSCODLE. American Rewiew from $5 to %10, the Inlerna- Raitimore Jessenger. tiona' Rewiew nz-‘.lrl?'llm same_rate, and the NVa- An {nstrument wih tha sbove-mentioned Ln:l {r'nm (] '0;; bal vln m:w. “Thn {‘"i"',f“ n:!r;iu name was presented to the Societe Francaise do paid for contribuzfons In the monthly maga. e w15 g Horersate w113 | N2 1 i T L sho, apieti, (s s fall hel o g R - - andnoerof Senther meves s delicate particularitivs of sunotous vibratory E. Walford writes to Notes and Querira: 4 Are Dinehoys HHan and 3¢, Sqeers foreshadowed | mutement. A thin 6lm of Hquld glycurine Is in the following psnsage in Winter Evenings, | formed on & smail opening mado in & plece of published at Dublin in 17891 ¢ She declarsd In [ blackened braas, and It reflects the light In a all companies that she thonght it the first of & | Jamp in produciog either on the retina direct or mother's duties to take care that her children | by projection on a scrcen, the well-known frrl- were wefl cducated. She therefore sent then | descent cffects uf thin transoarent plates. As outxde pamengers by the stage conch fo an academy | jong as the Gim ie motionless, the simpie colors In Yorkshire, where ahe atipulated that they show'd | of “jreidescence slone are visible, But if, by 1ot come hiome tn_the holidays, and indeed not til | means of a bent tube, the vibrations of & aus- her husband arrived from abroad.! tuined sound sre conducted underneatls that “N, W, f.,”" of Andover, Mazss.. writes to the film, by the volze or otherwiee, the film hegins Literary Warld : I have read with regret your to vibrate, and the colors are distributed geo- notles of Mrs. Stowe's book, * Unele Tom.? 1 metrically, producing on the surface fixed suvposcd 1t had disappearcd with the other yel- bunds and moving rings, the disposition of Tow cavered literatura of the day. Certainly uo | Which varies with the death of the tone and the hook of that class was ore_false, scnsatiunal, | Dature of the lh-rmmP sccompanying jl—that is or half so mischievous. Calling one woman to | t0 #ay, the pitch. M. Tavlor showed, by pro- Judgo the work of anotlier, sec. Miss Mitford's | Jcctlon, that the acoustie fizures thus obtained Tetters, Vol. 1Ly vp. 810, 333, 895, 843, 859, not become more snd more compllcated as the tone for a full revicw of the book, but for a stralght- cmitted rlees, or when, the helzht remaining forward, downrlght opinion of {t. It certainly conmul.dmcn-m.mwe‘n are pronounced. The 15 tinie that the same faction should no longer | colors thrown n the screen differed durlne the rule the lieraturo of the country,”* exl;w.'rlmv:nl. in proportion ns the film became x thinner by evaporation, but the acoustic fizures . Mr. John.facon Astor hns Intely preeented to | did pot vary. The results obtsined aro extreme- the Astar Library some very valuable books. | )y curious und of varied sppearance, aceording LITERATURE. “A Memoir of John Lo= throp Motley,” by Dr. Holmes. The Incidents of the Austrian and English Missions Reviewed. « The Pronunciation ef the Latin Language,” by W. W. Story. % Dick Sands, the Boy COaptain,” by Jules Verne—Liter- ary Notes, Art Notes-=-Periodical Literature ==-Science News and Gossip. 4 t lie the ] bo induc | Frelich. Our ordinary accent. of Latiu words [ One of these, custing 815,800, (s an carly printed | as apertures of different forms are need. M. Tuave it to him, He Tooked It over and then P ?:‘:;32}’-"“ n?.?u""’ .fi‘?“""z'\‘"‘.“g‘riiifl.‘”"fl!:f“r‘z }:i&’ifi".’f:fi.’;&"‘ ‘E‘;Ji".‘fi?’ lluot:‘él;xl::“ggs- conveys no correct notion of Lhielr quantity: and | book, the first editlon of the #Catholicon ' of | Taslor projected the phenomena produced by | eald: * Were you ever woundedi” his books. ‘The first two volumes of “The | good. Price, 81.50.) Snivaa o van copieoiye that the lto:mans Al not | Joantes Balkua dedenna, dated 160,—a treatise | opeutvgs triangular, square, and, round, Ly | 1 toid bim es, at the hutcle o Williamsburs, LITERATURE. History of the United Netherlands® clearly txpress the rhythm ot thelr verses (o | O graminarand rhetorle and a Latin dictionary, | means of the Drummond lizht. The consider- | May B, 1851, 3 reading or declaiming them, we must adinit that the English accent of Latin is totally erroneons. A continuation of Mr. 8tory’s papers on this d. We hope to give further absiracts of thennand such criticlsms a8 may by suggested by competent authoritics, —the ormting of which Is attributed to Guten- | able heut which sccompanies that process of terg, Another valuableearly work is & Ger- | Jighting causes, after a certain time, the evapo- man Bible, the carlieat ona_with date, printea | ratfon of the film_of elycerine, and terminates Ly Lanl Augabure, in 1477,—a flne example | tho cxperimont. But fta duration may bo aug- of carly printing_ with fiothle type. Anotner mmmfiq pnssing the luminous raya through a rare work 18 a benutiful (ireck’ manuscript of | glasa flask filled with water, which deorives :‘ll‘:'e:‘l‘::““:;‘vx\l;ur(‘hh!ll'f'l; I!h;" :-'zurnvrlll‘" fr'clpul‘!m them :.;r ;,lm gereater nrlllon of tho qnalities ab- e h no Ae 8 1 ¥ 3 iy an s ram dtie cuflastian o the 1ota D, | "0ruate by tho llaul gyverine. i Sussex, AN ECLIPSE FOR MARS. When Mr. Gladstone’s * Kin Beyond Sea” At the lnst meeting of the Royal Astronom- 'y‘r;s;:n‘;,‘d":z.:m)nnd‘ the Timex (Londun) aceused | foq) doclety, London, Mr. Marth ealled atten- inie the Americs ¢ word % Queen? with a amall " q." ‘Fhe article | Phenomenon fn question would only be seen by havine been printed during the absence of Mr. | nstronomers ou the planct Mars. On Nov. 12, A, Thorndiko Itce, the editor of the North | 1579, about two minutes befars 2, Gircenwich American Review, in which perlodical the article K 9 appearcd, Mr. Tt has writien to the Tomes e | mean time, a amatl black body would mako ith w0y careless proof-render I3 entirely responsible | Appearance on the soutls followlng side of the for tbls viece of purely typosraphical Smpro- | dise of the sun; in slx mioutes it would have priety,” Mr. Gladstone, he says, * had poth- | fully entered upon tha disc, and proceed Howly ug whate to do with i1, A, Ttce begs to | froin left to right in & direction little inclined assure the Thmes, if 1t ** will pardon so obvions | 1o the eeiiptic of Mars, Aboutn quarter past n jest," that hie has taken measures to fusure | 4 another and bigeer black body would en- hereatter, oo the part of proof-readers, *amore | troach upon the disc, and would geenpy twenty- caretul attention to their p's and thelr q’s.” ‘unc l:ll_llmllel Imlom' hod 1un,vz hnmeml nnm; ‘The second and final yvolume of Prof. Stern’s Lo isa. tH0 2 9 wers 0, Jaoun, B Ulograhy of dohn Milton has just heen pub- | (1, €orthy and they ‘would be it lished in Leipste.. 1t will probubity be tranelated | £iom all parts of plancts whers the Fud, W63 nto English, ail the Academy remrks thot It | Sore e boron, O pnrte- will thern deserve ™ ta oceupy & permuneot, placs | 3,CEFiain rone or track would bave the upportu- in Enwiish Herature. Prof. Btern claims thae | Ty oL seeinzn thied snd sppsrently biceer tho history of the ceventeenth century witl | o) e Tt el fi‘ "L i nuver be really understood W) 1t 18 recognized | 410D0% the inner satcliite, Lut observers on that Silton ati Land, to atl appearance a8 re- Mars would he far moreinterested in tho transit inote froim ona anathidr as the polos. were n | OLiLG carthiand moou than In that of Phobos, reality uining at common object. Ther both | 810CE In tho course of o Martisl year thero rero looked for & standlng-ground from whence to | U9 1658, thod M;ml‘l ‘; raeits OF tA0Uos combat the commouplace moraiity and the | BToR8 the sl Thible Jeom somS Sk or hther commonplace_ntelifgence of the day, Tt mado | Pothes "wae ahont. 154 On the Jrenuiig o all the difference that Laud rousht for s ful- | e Tk “"', e “ Sl erum from which to move the world fn external | Sraese O HE gy e T e {ms’r- authinrity, whilo Aliltan sought It in lecalized | FENCER ARG Tastone Baving 4t e o liberty of apecch. The onectung ton theory | 1637 15X, wwlitle the next to follow would hap- maintained and lucreased the reputation galncd PRONUNCIATION OF LATIN. by the fire: Distory. Tho diet two volitacs | Mr. W. W. Bloty contributes to the last num- palilished lw 1807, wera leas sucecrainne ge berof the North Ameriean Review sn article the luterest of thesubject had beirun to flay. “They contained, howu\'cr,jmuny fine descriptions | entitled “The Pronunciation of the Latin Lan- of events and cooracters, Mr. Motiey’s “John | guage.?? which, as it{s written by an eminent of Buruevell” was published ‘fu 1874 | scholar skilled both In Latin and Italian, sccms 1t was aimost cqual” in dramatie 0+ | yorthy of more than ordinary sttention. There terest to -his sketeh of * Willlam the 4 4 - trentn 1t “formed, | boweyer, anly thy | tan scarcely ba any question, says Mr. Story, introductlon to the last part of his original | that at present all the vowels aro pronounced schieime, which was lutended to cover the wholo | incorrcetly tn what is known as tho Engllsh ;yfr!o;l um;lm;-mm.\}{‘;n-\\mllurmgfl{!‘{:‘ed“l;;* Method of pronouncing Latin. Though wo have au i alester ho to M. Lrancis Us | g1 the vowel sounds, yet esch vuwel or charae- N 850, e whole | % pind 4 ?3,',';&5;‘,‘,’:";;’,&‘.‘.‘.,(';‘}“,,‘;,‘,','lu, re he Ol | ler tn diferently kounded in Engilsh from already published form a part, will be calied | the corrosponding letters of any other “'The Eighty Years' War of Liverty. natfon. The new sylinbus put forth “Epoc I, is tho *tise of the Dutch Repub- | by ~Oxford and Cambrldzo Trofeasors, “";lr &0« Tidepaniines achibredr. From with a view to the adopflon of the R A g e 3 Continental Mothod, {s atill far from porfect. tho death of Williany the Silent il the TWEIVS | i g, it starta with the declaration that mod- “Epoch 11l Indepcndence recognized. | ern Itafian Is probably nearer anclent Latinthan From the Twelve Years' Truce to the Peace of | any other modern language, it Flvcl sotinds to Westphalin. 1009-1614. tlie vowels which are uot recognized in Itallan, Mr, Motley did nat live to complete the third | Tha shortcominga with refercice to the vowels part of big work. His history renatus, like M are, however, comparatively unimportant, They caulny’s Eugland and Prescott’s Phillp the See- | could bo got over i the sounda of the cunso- vnd, 8 fraznient. nants wero correctly given, But the conso- Mr. Motley's diplomatic_carecr 18 o painful | pants, sceordiog to” the syllabus, are pro- rubject for the reviewer. He had all the quali= | nounced according to the Gorman rule, « Espe- ties which shionld have made him successful 1n | clally s this truo of the g, thee, and thev. An this kind of work, and ho failed, not only In | far as scholarship is concerned, there can bo spite of them, but because of them, 10 queation that great deference {s due Lo the His presonca east mora uncouth patrlota info the | erudition and critical newnen of the (icrmans. shades: his tearning was 8 reproachto the lgnorant; | They are eminent as philolugiats, and in thelr lils fame was tuo bricht a distinction: hia hizh< | commentaries and criticisms thev atand in tho Ured alf and rofinoment, which e could not heip. st rank. But in_ their pronunclacon of highs would harcly commend him ta_the averago cltizen ,, : : T s Which, TaoNOteicy I8 At R | fuiclen languacus tho Germane are singuinrly g fscriminatlon, In_their ut i, o the patiral nobility of preseace, | inapband without discriin W¥hich rarely comon withant Ially nntecedonin to | teratico they confuse, confound, and misp account for 1t, 14 not alway aurecahle to tho many | nounce more than half the consouants, seeming Whoso two fdealw are The’ Man on Horseback, and |.incapable of distinzutshing between them toan the man In hie shirt-xleeves. It iay well b ques- | exteut which s found in ne other nation, It Me then rald : ** I think we can give this posl- tlon tos soldier who haa lost an arn or leir, ho heing more deserving,’ and bothen sald that L looked hearty and healthy enough to serva thres years more. Ie would not eive me m thanee to arzne my ense, ‘The audlonen was at an end. Tlo waved his hand tome, I was then diamisned from the wugust presence of tha 1lotorable Secretary of War. . My father waos woiting for me In the hallway, who eaw by tny vountensnea that 1 was wot sucvessful.” L osala to iy father, *“Let nus go over Lo M, Ldncoln: he may give us moro ratine faction.” He satd it would do no good, hut wa went over, Mr. Lineoln’s reception-room wus full of ladies and gontlemen when we eotered, and the scene was (ne 1 shall never forget. On her knres was o woman In the agonies of duspalr, with tears rolling down her cheeks, Im- rlunnz for the life “of her ron, who had deseried aml had heen condemned to ba shot. 1 lieard Mr. Lincoln say: * Madam, o not act this way, it in agony to mes | woula pardon vour son if It was in_my power, but there must be an cxample made, or I will have no urmy,' At this specch the woman falnted. Lincoln foned to his attendant, who picked the nan up and carried her ont. Alltn tho room were in tears. But, now changing the scene from tho stibe 1imo to tho ridlenlous, the next applicant for favor was n ble, buxom Irish womau. who stood befare the President with arms akimbo, saying, “Mr, Lincoln, can't I scll apples on the rallrond £ }Lfluzh(cr.] Lincoln said: & Certamly, Madamj you an sell sl you wish.® But she sald, © You must glve mea pass or tha soldlers will not let me.” Lincoln then wrote a few lines and gavo it to her,'who sald, *Thank you, slr; God bleas, you.” : This thowa haw quick'and clear wero all this man's deutslons, ) Itood and watched him for two hours, and lie dinmtssed each case s quickly as the above, JOTIN LOTHROP MOTLEY. Dr. Holmes twas appointed by the Massachu- rotts Historlcal Socloty to prepare n sketch of John Lothrop Motley for its Proccedings. This sketchhas been expanded Into a volume. The author disclalms any attempt to write a com- plete blography of Motley. That work is loft for anothier generation, when the correspond® ence of tho hiatorian and statesman, much of which §s stll under the seat of friendship, will be nccessible, The biographer, whoever he may be, will have hard work to mnke a more intecesting volume than this of Dr. Holmes. Though avowedly ooly a memolir, it treats tho subject with such personal knowl- edge and sympathy that a writer less fortunate- 1y pinced, even though he possessed full com- mand of the correspondence, might well hesi- tate to take up the work where it has been left., Dr. Holmes hus pre-crapted the ground, without wholly occupying it. Hence, his memolr muy linder rather than help, as he sugcests, the writing of a blography of his lamented friend. Mr. Motlcy’s reputation grows with time. It 18 impossible to read this volume falrly without coming to the opinfon that he wns underrated in hisown country during his lifetine. Dr. Holmes has laid bare tho causes of his dlglo- matle fallures in some biting sentences. The Judgment is nll the more revers because the factanre given on without varnish or gloss. They tell ngainst the average of American political Jife, which wos the standard by which Botley was tried and found wantlog, The conclu- slons are all plain, and cannot be trathfully de- nfed. Motley’s scholarship was en_obstruction to his political pdvancement. s fine mauncrs were offensive to a part of his countrymen, His DICK SANDS, Onc of Jules Verno's storfes that will recom- mend ftself to most youthful readersis “Dick Snnds, the Doy Captsin.’ A cabin-boy in the ship of a wealthy Culifornia merchant, Dick Hands rises to a position of command througi a-scrics of accidents and:a shipwreck. His ves- acl I8 cast away on the West Caast of Africa, lis wanderings through the Dark Continent ara vividiy.described by the nuthor, who has em- boiied in his narrativo somo of the latest re- aulta of the discoveries of Stanley and Living- stone. We cannot think of o juvenile book of recent date that Is likely to give more aseful fu- formation toftarcaders. Jules Verne interweaves fact with his fictlon in so skiliful n way that it fa ditlicult to tell when he is geaifo in one clement and when {n the othier. Bat, penerally spenking, when he deals with statements that are capablé of scientific verification, they are accurate. Wa should expact the boy who had read * Dick 8ands'! topass a tolersblo exatninu- tion in Livingetono or Btanley. HBeside the fact, there s a great amount and variety of fiction, Theruare nmustug eccentric characters, a Porturuese negro cook and an entomologlist, and there are more than & hundred full-page fllustratlons. ‘The average boy who cannot be pleased with this inugt be hard’ to sult, (New York: Charles Berfbuer's Sons, $3,) AME“!C‘AN DECISIONS. The sixth volume of thia’scries of law re- ports hias Just sppeared, coutainiog decisions of X % c) 105, with satisfaction to all, Trinnacy with ‘sersons of birth and breeding | Honed whether Washingion, with his gcandman- | s tufs defect of car and ubterabice which | courts of cleven different States, and embracing | wiicl hiad dohe fus wark, the other to theory | P90 10 ; Bhvond it hitn_ aua S0 cogrro suspicions a | BEry would be ncarly sa pouuine with what ao [ rendors them very tinsole guides in motiers | wo period botween 1812 and 1815 Tha wditor. | whith had its work stlll 10 do, d o r.’é},'urm::.'a":fifl agnes “Lincald poks. o my home. s muxué-m wan questioned by man | Satled ECthe mansen o Vincoly with, 18 | of pronunciation. Bo remarkable Iathis pecu { ve’ Tt ave i face that ho b ’ s dibieb TIIE JIIABITS OF RIRDS. e 2 fentlemen, be pleased N e Dor e Hther of Chis native | humely woys and brond elorle, e wiin | Marity that oo bas only to confound and tus- | ¢ f. Protfatt; suys In s pitface that ho has pean SPARKS OF SCIENCE At recent mevsing of the Maryland Acade- | fobe a3 quiclc as possitle with your buslnons, s vients 1o "Che eonsidored _n . patriat. | mraX e e Rain Cinidia, without taking | Prouounce the consonants of any lanuaze In cunbled to perfect his arranzements so that the LES LD NCE. my of Sclences, Mr. Otto Luger read a puper | It 14 EFORINE late. My fathor then stepoud un ant bisda; Dased fioas Wi ota siocnal Gbsskva :l.) le'ollil ‘t','."l.‘fl"""““’d me t;! him. L:m‘uln 5 LS ) h o ien sakd, ‘ake a seat, gentlomen, antl stata FOW TIE ALY WERE FORMED: | tions. Moat birds, e rald, take but two meals | yunr busiices ns ghick aa pozsiblc.” "There was e 4, W utd, . 1t 8 Professor of Usole- | oy —carly i the mornini and sbuut aarks | bt one chalr by Lincoln, so he motioned to my I]-\y l\:l'lvul‘h at the l.OflAflOII in«(ltlxtlun two birds of ey "“’l‘ly morefhin nRcR du)‘. Threa T bntneas e “'" e 4 1ho bustuess to him as stated above, He then weekn aizo, hls subject being the formation of houra out of the twenty-four scem sufliclent | wupd, *fHave vou been to aeg Mr, Btanton P rest in sleep for singing birds, They aze sensi- | We told nim that ke hailerefosed, ils :L-‘:::‘hl:n‘n‘:lr:'x " {::: ,:2::::,:, :;hf:::"fi::l L:fi bly affected by atmospheric conditions, stoging (3., I.lucnln') then said s * GGentleren, this fs bl R e Pt ot 1AL | tows and esn Jubllantly during cloudy, wet | r. Stautow's liusincas; T cannot futerfere with ires can be recognized in the Nistors of | weuther, Male birds usually mate with one him; haaitends Iunvllll'x’em_ matters, and 1am these Alps. First, the existence of a lincof | femalo and remain faithal to her, puarding her | sofry I cuntiot hielp vou. weakness In the eartl's erust ucarly coincldent ul::x[e a‘fl« b;mdn lufiu ulcul‘k;r lhg imine: brood, hd‘fifl'fl"z&"[’:’;_,‘;g “"":‘r'“ng::’I'DSD“"H:“’-M;H&&’L‘:} with the Jine of the present wountains. and feedinglier while she is incub stine the ecys, | U8 00 ” Bigherk eyl iy Lin: ! % search of foud. Birds have litle discriminn- | sud who wasa staunch Repubiican, . weakness there were voleanie outbursts, the | tion as to what kiuda of egus nre plaved under Mr. Linculn then s xli * Now, wentlemen, ‘T resulin of which can stitl be traced. Becondly, | them in the nest to locubate, and will try to ("M tell you what it | have tinusands of up. thero foltuwed il ’lli»:!::l! ‘nvi-urnl or xm‘l 13 mu?& In!tt&z nlen fres fl;;’:{f?;:‘.‘{&‘flm:’{hn 'l.hhe.:,":o:;ll(‘::::l:rb; i g i : “ n | & of eops. emperature of 86 degrens o e e 0 depresslon, and 1t gl enaroudh’ | Falirenheit for twenty-one davais requireil to | MK aflce-seckers, Liera ure too, many les for ol poxtont Mhiore Were jacounnlated | linteh most birda' egus. “The voung are notns. | LML, oy, lstenl i Tt AL ATE mnrial el iniche wae || Batcid, Jethele purente tolcave the eisgcliie B e T o, i arers b Tl the ne - ;e ll_n- when each one has broken its wayout the | fation place ¢ handkerchieia to thele (uce’.q L‘r:'. it x.nd ll{u;'o | ‘u‘ )u. t}}rlma (Inl .:.:- parent carefully renioves tho pleces of Lroken | #nd turned awav, But the joke of Old Abe's n’ mfi 011, a1 d'lul I:‘l‘ erinl p'.‘ ”lere l.c\ - | epre 1rom the next. Tha young generally emerge | Put us ail in a rood buwor. ° \We then left the Yened |"“ ; mtlll-k mn on dwfi of from -;na from the larzer end of tho ery, and, before | Presence of the greatest sudmost st man wae suven m| n thickness, and the mere weight | comine put, can be beard at work breaking their | ever lived to fHil the Presidential cair, Motley belovged 1o an old New England fam- 1ly. Ifis nnceatry coull le traced back easily for 200 yeurs. 1w inherited his patriotism. o Tind 1t Tong before he had an oflice, or thought of having oue. ‘Il traditions of lberty, of re- sistance to tyranny, of representitive {nstitu- tions, wero handed down to bim from New Eu- cland merchiants and divines who ot theiropin- fous honestly, and hield them through blood snd fire, Joho Lothrop, bis maternal grandfather, was o Mberty-loving minlster, and so were both his matcrnal great-grand- fathers, 18 erent-great-grandfather was fm- prisoned in England for nonconformity. The Amerieaulsm ot such u man shonld never have been questioneds yot a cerlsiu class of poli- ticlans used to say that hie was not *atrue Ameriean? Tliose who insist most loudly on havioz " trno Awmoricava® appotntéd 10°6fey, und kept thero are rruq)nenlly,mn able to trace hack thelr antecedente In this countrv bayond generation or two, Must “truc Amerfcans go 10 Bertin, Parle, Loudon, or Cork to be bornt Motley's boyhiood was thoroughly American, Ile fived in Walnut street, near tlio corner of Ucacon, fu Boston. Two of his playmates then, and college-mates afterward, were Thomas Goll Avpplcton,—the Boston wit and diner-out,—and suiececding volumes wiil be fssued more rapldlv, yet without reducing tho standard or character of the work. and be even promides ereater noeu~ racy, fuller annotations, and a higher standard than beforo, sometning from ita crystal clearess, We meed | Order to lmitate the utterance of a German. not go so far as ono of onr well-known puhitictana | The Germana unconAciously trunspose, iithout han recently xone In saying that no great man ean | apoarently recoguizing any real difference, b Tosch the highest position In our Giovernment, hut | with p, d with £and th, g with_e and qu, j with wo can safely sav that, apart from wilitary fame, | ¢ and g, f with v, s with ... You have only to o loftieat and pnrest and finest permonal qnalities | granspoze dess leddurs ant you have de Are not those which can be most depended upon &t | gheech of & Chalrman—in = garigachure. the baliot s This fs_ equally the ctae i their Thesa are bitter wonls, hut not stronger than | Sronunciatton of Itallan, French, and Spanisb. tho elrcwnetances of Motley's retlrement from | |y g rare to find n German who can distinetly offlce on two oceaslons seemi to warraut, say the simple words, * on jour, Madame," His diplomatic carreer began with kix appoint- | Wihont changlog thrce of the consonants;— mont a8 Becretary of Legation, under Mx Todd | fogy chour, Matame. ‘Tho pronuuciation of in 1841, to thy Russlan Missfon, This position | §4vn by the Germans was formerly counidered ho resigued n @ few months, owlng to tho | yerbarons, as will plainly appesr from the fol- n-?umuan from his family which™ It In- | jowing aceredited fragment of history: *In Yolved, o 801 ho wat madn Mintster | TR Aineadars rom - the Paps . wero to Austria by Mr. Lincoln, e held this oflice t to (Germany, whom the Chancelior untll-1866,-when he rasignod. The causo of his }-or-the Univeralty of Tubligen was - de- realznation was o misunderstanding with Mr | yyeed 1o - spawer. But his pronunclo- Johnson. An unkuown personage nained Georgo | gjon was eo barbargus as to be neasly uniutelti- W. McCrackln, which may or inay vut havebeen | gibta and tho duty was theroupon trunsferred to L gutlicutis womey e doihy President | Jrouchlfn, on the ground that e could at least charging Mr. Motley with having spokeu distce | make Limaclf understood,and hada “ sunuin pro- spectfnlly of him. “Without jnyesticating th'u uuntiationis minus borridum.” And In the six. cha! orn-ncrlnlnlm.: George W. McCrackin's | ¢aonth century, ut Wurtemberg, regulutions fepatation fur veracity or ttle to respeetabilithy | wyre fssued ordering that thoss whose German Ay, Bewand wvote ol etier to thu | gioutlis contd not prouounco all theletters were PERTIODICAL LITRERATURE. Rose-Belford's Western Magazine for January (Chicago and Detroit) coptains 8 Christmns story by E. Fawcett, awl “The Monks of Thetems,” by Walter Besant and James Rice. Tho American Naturalist for January (2170 Dock street, Polindolplin) contulus an articlo by A. 8. Packard, Jr., an * The Breeding Habits of the Eel," and much other interesting matter. The Chicago Medical Jats} and Eraminer for January (188 Clark street) hns heen recelved. The editorlul articles aro *‘The Marine Hosphiul Service and “The Clucago Gyoweological Bovlety,” ¢ ‘The American Law Review for January (Boston: Littlo, Brown & Cu.) containa nrticles on *Ex. traditlon between Staten? “The Troposed Crhninal Code of Englund,” * The Requisites of a Chauge of Natlonal Domictle,” ** The Void ' Wendell ' Phillips. They f Miutater at Ylenoa, a egorical ad. | Moutha cauld et prououaeg ol e e by the | and Voldable Acta of Infants,” and tho usul | Ufthe supcencumbont motorialon the lower | way. “Thoy are born huogry, open thelr mouths 8zuar. Masor. care of Mr. Cogswell awml. Mr. Dan- IeL 0 4 | “The pronunciation of Latin by thu [taliani 5 T : iy = | Thelr eyes open in from five to ten days, When " care ot A, Cogawell and | Mr. | Dan | L% \fizndut D or “offeusiva® maniir, waethier | y1ueh ' s probabny Incorrect. i some partici: AT NOTES. erlug: Leat had led toeryatallization from fuslon. | gl yonue Lird is old. enoagh to forae for it TURMOIL IN TIFFIN ho had “ratled vivlently and shumefully” ‘Thera wan, tov, the crushing In from the sides Dt everything to spoil bim,—* besuty, preco- lars, would certatoly scem to ufford tbu best The memerial window ta Dr. Livingstone is self {t (s cruclly driven away by the parcot . 3 F ( the trough, This was lllustrated by a modet o » Hell HMath No Fury Like a Woman cioue intuilligence, apd » porsonal chag which | Maiuat the Presidont. of the United States, " A | goyienl rulo 10 follow. They are tbe descend- | about to bu placed In Wi ter Abboy. r q ¢ 3 birds. Mauy birde arenueh trouhled by skin ¢ 9 eentleman . who s asked whether he Seurrobe Tl ‘ % 0 bu placed In Westmunater Abboy. of thclatepir 11 do Jn Beche, where tateral vress- i . Kcorued.” sueht have niado him & untversal favorite, Ye | RRAEERR R0, B JORG TRCRIRE 0 | ants of thegancient Romans,—with much Inter- Two hundred sod forty pictures bave already | uro wus cmloyed on layersof differentcolored aud feather parasites o tielr heads and wings mixture of foreign blood, undoubtedly, but atill the neavest u line of all natious, The langunge bas probably changed less in their mouths than in those of forelguers, of whatever cllme or aspeech. It ‘hus Leen the coubstant utterance, even Iu its orig- jnal form, o the Church, from the curllest days of Cnristianity. [t bas been employed constantly, as not only a written but a spokeu language, Until 1870 It was the documeutary lnm,vugue employed in the bighest court of law Ta Romb¥, 1t has, thorelore, & con- :’hmoun Iiue of lying descent from tho ancient uys. fn the pronuncistion ot ¢, g, and v the Italians dificr entirely from the Germans, Je- tors eand I the c is provounced by the Itallans an our ¢4 In church, hut by the Guninans ss A} and it §s the latter pronounciution which s secommended by thio syllabus of Cambridie and Oxford, o ltke wmanuer tho Itahuns muke the g soft before ¢ und { and hard befors aand o, justaswo dogencrally in Enclish, as 10 generation, ginger, galiant, gol. Thu Gurninans make it iuvariably hard, and the syllabus rec- ommends this pronuncistion, Thy syllabus would have us _vronounce Cleero Kikero, But the name of Clccro bas slways been u Hving unume, familiar to svury ear fu Jialy, sid no ous thero evor heard it pronousced Rikero, 1t ds aileged, as an aigument in favor of this pronun- ciation, that it was spelled witn the Kapps, Kikervr, when written in Greek, Dub sup- vosing ft wero vrunounced by the sncient Romsus as by the moderns, Chichero, how were the Ureeks with their ulplabot 10 seorcsent tho soundt ‘fhey lad wo oiher letter with whichi to upell It nearer than Auppa. The o/ was & deep guttural, hie does not seem to huve been ggnerally populae at this perfod of nis Iffe. 1le was wlfllul. im- petuous, sometimes superclijous, alwars fus- tidious.” At the immature ageof 14 heentered Iluryard College. 1lis boyish traits kopt with o duriug all "his coliews course, and traces of them wers evident in after-life, Ho was second or third In his class the first year, but loat his rank through negligence, and was rus- ticated. fle returned o soborer and wiser buy, and graduated in due time, though with no varticnlar standing. o was even in college nt u literary turn, and wruto for the magazines. Owing to bis acknowledged abllity, the rules of the Phi Heta Kovpa Muty——whmh usually ad- wjts only tho tirst ten men ot every class— were: stretehed, and he was made a member. Atter leaving Harvard ho was sent to Germany 1o atudy,—frat to Gottiugen, then to Berlln, At hith places be was on lntlmato terms of Iriendship with vouog Blsmarck, now the Lord Chaugellor of the Uermnan Empire, shariog meals aud out-door exercise with him, and lodu- fug in tho samo bouse. After lisreturn to Amer- fen, bis firet literary ventureswere novels, Theso Nt Mttls merit. They were suvagely reviewed, aud tko nutbor advised to turn bis” efforts in some other directiou. liis tirss successtul pub- Jication was an articlo on Peter tho Great in the Nortl American Jieview. 'This wos adimired and praticd by thy best critles In America. ‘the author was urzed to laky sowse historical stb- Ject, sud treac ft fully, Ho did so, sfter full | Teflectivn, — Wheo he had got his ‘subject, it touk full posseasion of bitm, sud 8 could mnot “Jet it go. Hearing that 4 Mr. Prescott, then lo the full hight of his fame, was_gathering materiul for a Life of Phillp the Bccond, Mr. Motley feured that two writers, travorsing in part the vame ficld, would Trerin, 0., Jan. 8.—A public scandal, which :xlé,lltllllln::hn-;}hfiu?& u‘!m!'l'l‘: ’3'31-’-:575':’:!23';.'.‘3 SCIENCE NOTFS, some time ago crested more exciiement for Fourthly, there had been the seulpturiogof all Jtiseaid that the valeaue of Cotopaxi fs in | the time than soythluz of a lke nature has for his luto ita present form, which was tho work of | such & state ot activits that the clouds of ashes | years in this vicluity, has again been ;;H:,:%f(r:&lmfivwg r:'.;'l:,sw t;’:(‘;i ltg;hr:;;l:';‘ and smoke lasuing from it can be seen at Gua- | brougnt to the. surface by an sction 4 e i s o Toms the dhiutegrated Tatertal reaniting fromtho yaquil, on um-h’urnn( “f‘ Pacitie, which has been commenced in the Com Clon of 1t water, Cither ap ico in glaclers or | The Chemiker Zeltung, No. 42, for 1878, states | mon Pleas Court by Mrs. Auna J, Beneyuzalost e raln and streams, The amount of material | tuar fommenss deposits of gold bave recently | Auna i Walker, for damazes to the smount of removed In this way was so stupendous It was ¥ nd ataconk: £10,000, for alienating the uffectious of the plain- been found in Patagouls, extending from tho almost staggering to try Lo groap the facta, The J 7 . oy, | nculpl.urlng‘bl the el atill wolng on, | Cordilieras to the ocean, and from Sants Cruz ti's husband, tha Hou, Gicrge F. Seney, Tha ‘Tiis fourth stage was of auite recent date, | to Terra del Fuego. l""“el fl"““""'"‘ e of the fl;'l ""llli‘f"‘;f tlillu speakiug peolozically; but the wholo historv in- . Wi Braln, . | iy, aud as muny of your readezaare not famil- s thici 4t 1o e tam o1 s~ Willlen, Henle of the Trafalgar Coll. | jur yith tho preludo of ihis drama. n syRopsis This contury plillosophers would ot have heen | 16Fi€8: 0 tho forest of Dean, ter several | gt the plot will be interesting reading, prepured 1o wrant, even {2 thls slnce nequired }'fllrl‘;lflrolrtd v,o l;n{c[lu\ vxpflrlgxfntn lal:n l’lfillp- B nlliml‘fl‘ hu':lbnnu L: or wua G:on.'a l} 2 , blication of electrleity 1o lighting thu colliery | Sel utie of vur sblest uttorne) nd consid- knowlediza of facte el b“". prescnind to thow, wurtfilll.'l. l:mlu;(lu a ‘huvw?:!:l c‘\‘mq;“lw“‘ lnslc. ered me‘ln:'n cm:;l;x;l hmr in ld i sm;. with 9 5 week fu Hghting 0 pit banks, e result | plenty of this wi 's gouds and a goud prac- THE ORIGLD: OF.CONETI, Yot the Mesars, Hrain to hope that, they may | tiee, Tho dnfantunt {un tho (use s tho crand. In his theory of the acvelopment of tho solar | constantly use this light ai thew cxtensive | duughter of old osiah Hedgen, the founder of systen, Kuot derives the comets from the sub- | works. l‘lllll‘ city, nnd l|l|u dlvo]msu wife of Col. Georgs stauce of the condensing solar nebuln. He re- | prof, Barker, of the Unlversity of Peunsgl- | 1h; Howian, fecuasc, gards them us really plancts, which, through | yatta, s thorougly competent wuthorlty, hving | Tho plaintlil and defendant wers e on tha B 6 disturbiug cause, liavs been forced ant of | had the rincinl of Alr, Edison's aduutition of | M8t Ihtimied terms, ulways togethier on the 0 e clectric lignt commimicated to ki, hus pro- | Btrect aud ot howw, ainl it wis through this tu- thelr normul orblt. On the other hand, Lu | Heterteisy tt C e oot wew and | tamey that th detendant was thrown fato tue Place, fo worklug out his nebula hypotlesis, | Guceedaful, Mr. Kdison maintains that tho es- | Svclewy of plaiutiI's nushand. (fussip suld they supposcs comets to bo formed of matter dis- | seutial part of bis wmvention s cubively novel, wera too Intlmute, and when plainid chanced A . her mind about viaiting Clevelaud, af~ persed thronghont the reglons of thetited stars, | A minute Investization into all known upplics- tl.lr chauge et ey 4 2 etttk brgin ks 1o relation o the solas | Lions of tho light hus falled o detect unything | 166 810 1 e, s back Wiespegiety (b 4 hleved.—. the vight and found Miss Walker 1 Ler hus- nebnlu. Aro we in possesslon of facte whicl | oFresbonding to whiat lis has wchleved. =4I | |,y bed room and the doors lucked, piatntiit may warront a positive declslon between theso i viala “Todw of i Soden Mislonar :nuu’c‘h;nlnoo. A ulrur‘ca\n}lth m!uueq\l:]nu o y q T was Ny 0 o L el two theorlent THly luguiry, o Tocently meen | Soclety'a Exvedition reaclicd Ulfjion Auz. 257 | Bt B 00, B ¥ 10,000 cash as .’1'1'.':'::.;;;. L e . Amesiran - douruat.af — Sei- | incvod healths and steengin. olcliteon davu alter | | Siiica then thy blitervat lists bas ex ited In the Hiates or anubody ele in this manner might well, Dr. Holmes remarks, “wonder who would address such queation to the humblest citizen not supponed to be wanting in o common measure of ucl(-mn;xml." SMr Motley wast very sensitive, very hligh-spirited, very lpui- sive, very patriotle, and singularly truthful. The letter of Mr, Beward to such o man was like » builet on the cheek of an unurmed officer. Tt stung Itke tho thrust of a stiletto.” [le de- nonnced tho sccusations aa pltiful fabrica- tons snd vile calumuy. o udinitted that he Tl not concealed his opintuos of Mr. Johnson's Recoustenction Pollcy trom members of his own housetiold, ** uud oceasfonal American visitors.” Dt ho denfed that, becuuse ke lud the honor of bolng a public servaut of the Amerlcan people, he was deprived of the right of discussivg with- fu his owu walls the privest subjucts that cun interest freemsen, A Minlster of the United States does not,™ he wrote, **cease tu b a citi- zen of the United Btates as deeply {utercsied as all others in all that relates to the wellare of Dits country.” Dr, Jolmes writes that among the “uceasional Amerleau visitors' alluded to by Mr. Motley must have been * some ot those scit-appointed or hired ageous called tinterviowers ' who do for tho American public what the Venetfan spies ald for the Counctl uf Ten, what the famillors of the Inguieltion did for the priestnood, who invade vvery publie man's privacy, who llsten nt every hole, who tamper with crer‘y) guardion of secretsi purvey- ors to the fosatinble apgetito at s public which niust have o sluin reputation to devour with its brenkinst, as the monster of antlyulty caled reularly for hlstrivute of & sputless virgin” The erii humor of these sentences will by ap- preclated by no classofreaders twore fully perhurs been bought by the French Lottery Cominis- ston, Bome ef the gzems from the collection of plct- urea o the Fitzwilllam Museum, Cnmhrg 3 are to pepbrought to Londan, and wiil ne view at tho Wiuter Exhibition of Old Masters held by the Royal Academy. The works in auestion are three Jogarths, s Ruysdael, o Hobbema, and & Van der Velde, Mr, F. Mndox Brown's picture, *Tho En- tombment,” representing the carrylog into the rock chamber of the corpse of Christ, two flgures bearing the burden, with lookers-on at the side of the composilon, a deslgn of rure dignity, puthos, and perfect orighulity, Is ue rcaent to bo secn at the Fine Art Socloty's ullcries, Bond strest, London, The Paria Figaro gives an account of a battle royal which occurred n fortnight since between the members of the ateliera of MM, Cabunel and Gicrome, respectively, ‘Yhe schouls were closud by orders but, fnadvertently, the boxes, colors, clv,, wero {nnlde M. Gerome's studio, and 1ts doors were winastied by tho rintors deavorine to obtuin them, “Buch affulrs oa th do not occur In the reapectable Royal Acsdemy. In tho Print Room, Britlsh Museum, they uro engaged on an important work, the usetuincss of which will be ackuowledzed by all students. It {4 the cataloguing of ull the portraits which ocenr in priuted books and come under the cognizancu of tho officials, A very large num- ber of the books and mugnzines of the lust ol present centuries ars enriched with eugraved ted upon it | breast of Mre, Seucy toward the woman why ence and Arfs, lirst indicotes tte conse- 'y ¥ In like manner fn all ancient names of persous | portraits of eminent persons: these, to the by Katalumpuls wnd the ferrvman o carrled | outrivaled Ler in the sffections of ber husbuud, Intertera with cach other. Hu could nothopo | timh by the ©loterviewers ¥ themseves, Who, | uuy places fu which g oceurs betore eand i 1t is % " iy ey | Qeuce Of tho two theoriey wih regurd cross thie Malagaraxt River; but theso ex- bl hof fi o {itartoro with wacly oLber, o protli 200 1pe [ whilo they enjoy tha wrath uf tho exéelient | Sronbunced soit 2 the Iiahana, aud phis number of many. lundreds, Lave, already beeh | o furm aud distribution of ttie cometery pitis, them across al ¢ heso ex- | whe belng wrousht up to 8 piteh of frenzy every autnor, Wil perceive thas ho bus been guilly, fn condemning them unheard aud without s par- ticle ot evidence, of precisely the offense whizh hio chargea agulnst Mr, Seward ou benalf of Mr, Motley, ¢ Whether the suthor of the scandatous let- ter, which it wus disiracelul to the Government to recognize,” contivues Dr, Holiges, *was & protessioual Intervivwer, or ouly a maliclous smatear, or whethier he was u paid ‘spotter? sent by some jealous ufllclal to report wn the toreign Minlsters, us {s somethnes dono i tha cuse of comductors wf - clty horsu-cars, cannot he certainly kuowu.” Mr, Motley uever Kuew who his secuser was, He did not walt to tiud out, but forwarded hls resiguation st unce, and so retired frowm the service of the Govern- on b i v setfous would have been more revere hud not | time they chance to meet o the atrect. and then compares tho actually obwerved pattin | RS S%h0u0" hle tutereat. in tho expedition | week: for the first thue, Judzo Senoy und Siss iy attaching o small escort to ft. The juurney | Wutker appeared tn pubile togethier,” They wege wasun unprecedentedly furtuuate one, Novonds | gut sle Plalutilf passed them in a were Jost or st and few of theditlicuities | cutter, oo id, stiempted to winike her As, wm’u)- ncl:‘xqubm % rldlunl gfic unter vu-lw fxi rival with & - N " . ol orln | perienced. e Hev. J. 1L L 01 H1ag Aelected Mry, Beus B orL Nbarest (ho oy | & il wititu g distuice of threy mlles trou UL | atroug, and ah tnslructed her attorue, Sol . D (4o ehis wf Mare, and_are axposed o | wud elosc to Kiugoina Dav, uvon which tu estub- | Lemon, of Ciyde, to combienco suif at once, plunetary disturhanees, Prof. Newton caleulntes | st the tirs, mlsslonary atation.—dcodemy, which wax done, the papers belug seryod ou Hat- P e Of iliesi itist urbahces, and urrives | Tl Freuch Minister ot Public Works (uccord- | urday fust, On Sunday dudge Fevey und Miss at the resule thst the curve corresponding to | ing to the Momteur Scieutifique) has been ex- Walker were quictly nurrled by vio e i o the aetual cometary paths I3 thus brought | perimeutiog on the River Lot, in Aveyron, with | Bleger, of thae Presostertan Churel, wnd o §iito zoud spreement with the theorctical curye [ an eleciric appurutus deslened to Teproduce Mouduy the defendaut, now Mrs, Neney No. 2, deduced from 4.8 Pluce's hypothests, wheress it | sutomatically, from u higler to a lower polut of e an answer, deaving each of the ullegutions does not so ngres with the carve from Keot's | the river, tho variations ot lavel, o ny to wive | mentioned ond act forth In the petition of the uypothesir, Thua the origin of comets, i secews, fmmediate warning of flnods, and enable the (a- { plamtl. 3 Iatter bad the fuvor of tho reading public on Loth sides the Atlantic, At the same thue Mr. Motley felt that the ubandoument of his deslen wuulmm! un end to his historical writing, ¢ It cemed to me," he wroto long atterward, *u bl Xlulhll‘l{; to do but to ubandon atonce a cherished dream, and probably renounce au- thorshlp. For I had nut Hirst made up my miud to write history and then cast about for a subject, My subject bad taken me up, drawn we o, and ubworbed e jnto ftself. 1t was necessary for me, it seemed, to write the book [ hied been thinking muct of, even If it wers des- tined to fall dead from the press, and I lud no Inclination or futcrest to write any other, ‘'he conduct of the 1wo histortans, under these circinstances, wus uflords one of tue strongest proofs that it was 50 protounced by the Latlus, When we con- stder tho lurze number of pure Latly words still In constant uss In ltaly, without change, so wuuy of which are unaies of things and materinls In common use,—words which have been constantly spoken ut every wro,—it s dulicult, to say the leust, to fwuioe that o all these the letter o Lius been vitally changed in tts pronuncistion by tha ltailans sud direet descendants ot the Ro- mans, while forelgners liko the Germans Lave kept the urigiuel pronuuctation, For tustauce, ia it probable thut such unchunged words us thu following sre all ¢ ronouseed i Haly i—avl- tas (civita), cervello (vercbellum), velebre, codo, celere, celage, celln, seuvre, ciocus, cibus (vibo), ‘which tney oceur, so that they becotos avalluble to fnquirers, Mr. 11, Btacey Marks, an artist long kuown for his ercat humor, tho fidelity and vividness of his fizure-painting, and thy quaintucss of his subjeets, bas been at length elected s Roval Academlcian, Mr. Marks s still comparutively young, but he has loug had so i!n:n & repute sy an artist that the koyal Academiclans would hive only shown then® discerument by electiog bl earlier. Perhaps he is less known as o landscupe-palnter than be deserves, fur he has puinted comparatively few landsespes, anid thoae, we belluve, chivlly in water-colors. Iut fuw artists who baye devoted themselves to the humman figure, and treated it with so much pow- of 247 comets. The former are represented by the author in two graphte curves, and when tho results of ubservation aro put (nto the samu foru, it is at first found that the eurve thus hud differs from both the theoretical oue £, 1 cy we Drenc ¢nt virtually ou the charge ol wn au ¥ : ! i el er, hiave shown 8o deep a feching for the poetical | must be plaved fu intersteliar space. hubitants to make whal preparation they cau, This w_uunuht dunper to tho plaintifl, sod sjorahiatonets, Moleywoncuo Browuttond | BeoL Yl 7 onyuous | chnes’ cindet), el cinpus (efpol.ciutury | S5, TS DY M ASP eSO SR fuiy) | musbaplacet i uor e il ceperimena wera il Letwesn e s | penuls Wt Kt her deciugs ou the sublecs Iranic and ready sud lberal sympathy, Dr, Nolrues writes wmore temperately of the v, Htory thinks tho proposed adootlon of tha add greatly to thoe intellectusl atreugth of the A NEW YLOWER, whiout & mile wpart, At the hizher, Laroque, iv | fear that it will lead to serious results, and pors Lowton 4 a float wnm'. follows lhln‘upvmrul and u'uwnxnnl :fi"’n'« .:Tzu % ufi:‘n ..mf&c;‘ }hg :':A’n.ulxl;y‘: I-;:‘:»:l:lt e ct motiou of the water (without bl affected by | 1y s BOW 2 Bte 0} ! - Tho Italiun Faujulis pecords the dlacorery of |y current). It communleates its movements | wther sult this thouzauiet e, Beey, (90 base a new giguntle flower, whi of such oo amaz- | (hrougl o attery aud conducting wire to the [ fullment Of coutrict in paying the woney part Ing sploudor as well a4 sizo that the Fictoria | yeedle of u gradusted acale at Cupdeuuc, the of the wlimony. Ttagia avd the Rafftes's Arao'di apvear wera | lawer point, und the needie thus indicateaall the | Our tity bn uzog over everytbing connacted e i Ita ahle. Tl fortunate finder of thia | Auctustions of lovel. “Ata cortaln poiut on tho | With the acandal. s it 1s tha drat one of lurge remarkable plant 18 the renowned traveler and scale 1a thin word danger, and when the needl | dimeuslons that Las spoedred in vur midst. ——————— haturalist Ouvsrdo Beccarl, who hss chietly reaches this it sets ln action & namber of bells T $u 1he houses on the banks, connected by wire FUISTI ! i curned bis fame by bls exhaustivo researches iu | with the fustruuent, ‘Fhius tho luhsbitants ary sod such an open-hearted, gulleleas expansive- Liend, that Motley fol persoual affection for him from tuut dour. *'He assured me,"” writes Motley, *that be bad no objection to my plan; that ho wished me every success, and that it tuere were any books in "his hbrury bearing on the subjece tiat 1 liked to use they weru co- tirely at my service.” 101451 Motluy left America. o resided for several years alterward at Berlin, Dresden, the M-l:uell ‘and Brussely, prosecuting his studies, clraumstances attending Mr. Motley’s retire. went trom the English Misston. fte does so apparently heeause the case 1 hardes to prove, and beeuuss lie Las a sincere regard for Uen, Girant, **J a wrong wus done,’ hy says, ‘it wust ba laid at the doors of those whom tho patlon has dellebted to hionor, aud whoie sery- 1ces no error of judgment, or feeling, or conduct can ever induce us to forget.” The concluslons ore prubably more conyinclug oo account of the guarded wnanoer 1o which they are put. Dro Tallun (aad German) pronunciation of § is ay [ 10Y81 Avadomy.—Spectator. uuwlse as the rejection of the Itullun pronuncia- tlun of the utber consvnants, ‘Tlhe contusion in thie Itallun pronunclution of f s due to the tuct that Latin bsd but ouu letier to express iwo soundy: ons was tue suund of {as o vowel, aud the other that of {as u cuusousnl. Jos & con- sonaut had nearly the sound of the Engiish j, o fact which 1s {udicated by the elslon of vowels befors § used us & vowel, uud Dot before 4 used w8 8 consousnt, AL j i TITERARY NOTES, The Almanuch de Gotha for 1570 has just been published. This Is ita 110th year, Charles Burr Todd, of Redding, Ct., has writ- ten the bistory of the Burr family o Amerlva. Harper & Broa. will fssue during the present month & new voluine ou * David Hume,” in d possessed the % . ¥ iLssue wnd Brusecly prosecutug s atudics, | enarded sosniee 1o which, ey 416 DU 0 | Riieonce of Jowt Cor 1 fas i oders dallan | 110 admirable Euluh Menof Letergseries, | Aho Eust ludlun Archincluco. This bueris | 2k [0 K. Tuis torous supurstis Lat tion Neat, white aad cold, (ot been abeoud Lo beord e L | o L ot sated watil one scar | OF Geriaka) thre “would. 13 Yerse. bo an elitlod | Tho upcolnk paper in the Atlantia Montily for | Uuknawn flower unfolda its. mighty cliatics bud in tho luvetion of 31, tiras, uf Hues, and it ‘o thy Cler 1 -y. ‘u:x‘ul ‘:lmg:w:lrcal:. Ifln k.x.d&n‘r‘); lfi ruulrun was m‘x to hu‘gh “'z“ulnh“l l;‘l:’l r—luukmx u{l l:\?l vrnaucdmz vunull.l Du: wuy pazs ol Vir- February will be an auonymous oue upon “The io the forests of ‘Sun‘xl.m.idq-nu ‘;lhjuvlercr IE’.' fl‘n ‘:‘nf:llc“\\l‘..rks"u -:‘ l{fin\ u‘-;z’;l' Enu“:}“ Lv' Wan ')h.f:.‘?i .:‘ng eo:;l"—aonldl_ ¢ a8 ous, 1l nisbe otliee mesntime withoul cat adiva- show_tnat such el : ' 4 slligy WO it usor, ; Ve 1he 914 Dutel anudlists and archivisth. £1is | tou 1hat b wad not givin satistaction to hla Slatv. Mr. Story's esplanation A sons | Carcer of a Capiiallst,"” which will be bealtbiul ?.Z‘I‘tfi;:é‘:!‘:fifl‘.,.::’fn! o Y i, b | Aveyron. ‘It need of sutuetbiug of the kiud Yet thou waat, once un a'lime, ¢n strongly felt, s fuods 1n tlat reglon Vrigbt ana freah, aad io dby prime, 4 rut) H 1 - . ranco {n their midet reminds Dr. Holmes of bave proved very disastrous. Bir John Lubt wnong bis apt-hills. ¥ Une doubtedly b disturbs the ants in toeir praise- worthy mml‘?, wuch s bis attentions may datter them. U superiors; that the letter reculliug bim was tssued the day after the defeat of the Ban Do« wingo tyeaty ; that the councetion between the two latter events is much closer aud more broounciation of ‘the Latin j u Italian fs that they tave nosinglo cbaractér represcutivg the Jlu Eogitel, They loat the art of reading aud writing, aud when they reguined it thuy wistouk reading for those numerous peoplo foud of de- nounciug capitatists. ‘The papers read at the late Py tio Confer- diameter of the fower, when full blown, aver- ayes Lblrty-three fnches, A peculiar ibilortune has bappened to the roots of the *Titan™ — . wmn‘; l.l‘lo upan my bler, which Sigoor Beccori has dispatched to Europe, pezs ke 1, ‘old a8 thou, M’ Be - aeantiie Who will wall o ine, 0 Year, aeationably th snte (f thelr | awparent than. thas between the resnation | the Lutln f for » souud with whicti thoy are | 8ce in New York have been revisdd by & com- | fix chests of bulb roots urrived ub Gevoa | The follow paragraphi is from one of Ben: » 1 n means of vxpressing themseives were equal to | and bis ofticial udiscresions In conversation | fawillar. It isa remarkable fact thatall the iittee, snd within s few wecks will be pub- | ou board e Freuch steamer, addressed to | Perley Poore's fetters to the Boston Journal Monrn for all thy loveliness, | their apparcnt intellectual sbility) coutd teacn | with Lord Clarendou a year belore; that Latin proper names sud otber wurds beginalug | Hsbed Ib book furw. Tha Rev. Dy N, West, of | thu Marquis Corsi-Salviati, vt Florcoce, who is 1 haye been wsked who, smong the Con- Vauished 1uto notbiugtoss? bim many thluge thut he bas over- | Mr. Flal's instructions o a létier subscquent to | with § 1n toe ongiual transterrod fute Ltatian | Clnclupatl, bas charge of the book. fatuous hortlculturist, sl who bad prepared | gressmew of tho past hallcentury, wus the Osuxosis, W M. B, Hanxox, looked, and correct blm n many | that conversation justiled the course of Mr, | sre writtea with ql aud sounded band, ‘['be Boston Literary Worid prints tol, special culture bouses fur the plant. Lo cus- | Createst orutor, sud [reply. without besitation, mistakes, But | the sute will labor | Alotley, ana that thy fricndship of Sumuer for | like the Ecoglish j. could tiardly be, i1 tho a ry Worid prints 8 notefrom | (U, piice ry of Genua, bowever, out of terror nL 8. Prentlse. born aud educated In Suffocating. a correspondent, who ssks the authomship of Suztorously without an obscrver to chrouicly the following: tuelr duings, snd tbc archivists sud sonalists Wil vile up fucta forever liks so many articu- lules, o5 wotluaks, or radlates, untit the verte- Lrato historun comes with bls geverutiziog ideus, bis beliefs, bls prejudices, b, idioayuera- sles of gl kinds, and brings tuc fscts ioto & wore or less tuperfect, but sulll orgaute, sere ol relations.” ‘Wheo ooe 02 the auts ries up sud pralies the Listoran for iudustry, the lat- ter must huve applicd biuself well. € years wers consuited io preparing forsod .\luzlui which procured him the positivn in the first pluce, must at leust bave becu un uguerava- ton of his old utfcuxe fn the eyes uf Geu. Grant siter tho Bau Domingo sifair.” Dr. Hulmes does put blawe Gew. Graut su much us Mr, Fish for this ushappy rupture. * 1t is ot strange that the spurs ol the wan who Lad o lately got out of the saddle sbould cateh in the ackolustic robo of thio wan oo the foor of the Scuate. But we should not bave lovked for any such autagontsm between the Se.rvtary ot State and the Envoy to Great Britain. Od tho cuntrary, they wust of the dreadued phy lloxery, buve bech prohibited from admittive any iving pluuts foto this port. ‘Tne rule prevailé ut prescot turougbout thy Italian Kiogdow, Jest the terrblo little foo of the sincyards skould be housits bimeelt fu the fmmigraut vlants, aud the harmnless bulbe of the *Titan* wers excluded i obedicncn to the strict letter of tho law. Noiwlthitandinog this law, the Funfulls declsres Mbat vinesiocks fruw Bordeaux are belng coustantly lsnded fo Geuoa. The buporter declures that hits bundles ar¢ wauted for walklug-sticks sud umbrells- aucieot Latin J uad the sound or” y. Thus amony nawes Jullus becomes Giullo; flohnnmu, Giuyaonl; Jullanus, Glultsno; Joscpbus, Gius seppe; Juuo, Giuone; Jupiter or Joviy, Glove; Jason, Glasono; Jerewlas, Gerewla, ul #0 ou. Tuke also such comwmon words a {udu, gludice; jurore, giurure; justus, ziusto sut 1o Misaisslppl, where be wis for Diapatch o Cmannals Eugelrer, utor fu a private faawily, aud then New Your, Jan. L—.@' Behroeder, by’ ability sud persousl courage—bounded | the byeurold daughter of Aled: Vaudusen, & Troils obscufity ta Fenowy, from the very foot to | wember of the Less Opers Tfir who the topwase round of the ladder of Fame. In | i wow in Chicago, was fuund desd fo bed due thue ha was sent to the House of Reprs- | at 831 Eust Fiftvouth strfet, o which sbe . scutatives from Missisalppl, sod bls electivn was | was sleeplug with ber T sdazle, sied 20, contested, cousing o long wud excitiog de- | who is a ncinber of the Birakosh Troupe. A bate fu tbe winter of 1633, lo which be | tre Lad been lubted iu w Frankia stove, sud it was the lesder sod cballeoger. o wue | s supposcd that the fumes escaplug from the ot & man of Lnposing persoval appearauce, sud | stove bad suifocated ker, Her alater baswil ia u duct wouud wade stand ungruceiully uud | s uncenscious state, A vogue aorest, And & nameiess longing flled Als bresst. The $orld does not auswer, presuinably be- cause it canuot, What does It say to a sesrch turough * Maud Muller™1 Tho Literary World's list of new publications for 1678 gives tho titles ol sbout 800 works e sutd wostly frow toe Americau press dusing the r‘ Tucy way be mucuH classiticd as fol- wa: Flettou, 2005 Juvcolics, 753 pettzlous, aw, gu; juvenis, glovene; juvare, glovae; ugun, glogo, sud son ou. luvuriably they ave the nard souud of the consonants. Fiually Mr. Btory cousiders an ionovation stlll ware sasious. which b e mava. salely in