Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 25, 1879, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY. JANUARY 25, [BT9—TWELVE PAGES LITERATURE Erances Ann Kemble's “ Rec- ords of a Girl hood.” fler Carcer as an Actress---Fa- mous Persous of ller Ac- quaintance, iterary and Art Notes--The u eNo? Magazines-~Books Received. §ir Jobo Lubbock Among His Ants —New Wonders of the Speotroscope. (clor-Dlindness in Boston—The Swedish Arctic Expedition-~The Coltic Languages. LITERATURE. NECONDS OF A UTRLITOOD. Fanofe Kemble's book fs about ready for fhe publie. Those who fo'lowed her papers in the Atiantic Monthly, two years ago, will re- member that they were printed under the title of *An O1d Womsan's Gossip,” Thls volume will bu called * Records of a Girlhood.” There 18 little cholee between the titles. Both arc in 8 sense appropriate, and botl appeal in a pecullar way to the indulgence of the reader. And it must be confessed that Mrs, Kemble's writings need that sort ot Indulgence. Blie her- sl imazined, even when very young, that she hada great literary gift, and that if she chose 10 use hier pen freoly she might make both fame and fortune vy it. How mistaken thls {dca was even her Infatunted admirers miust have per- celved long before the At'antic articles wera fln- tshed. Mre. Kemble writes, Indeed, with fuency and grace. She has a good cominand of language, and sensible opinfuns of most sub- fects, ticroffense 18 diffuscness. Shofalutly rec- ognizea this In one place where sho refers to the patural garrulousncss of an old woman, Herdim percepblon of the truth does not, however, pro- vent ler from disregarding what we stiould think would be the prompiings of a nature so [ostrueted. Here are 600 pages, close- Iy printed, given to the record of an artistic ca- reer which, all told, extonded over only four years aud & half, The career {taclf was not so remarkable, uor ita succesges 80 triumphaut, that 14 descrved to- be chronleled at ereater lencth than that of Macready or Garrick, or the famous Mrs, Blddons herself. The recollections, it should be understood, aro mot brought down further thau Fanoy Kernble’s marriago and her retirement from the stage. ‘These doublo events spparently morked o painful cra o her life, for she cluses her volume abruptly with the simple announcement of her marringe iu Philadelphia in June, 1834, and ber name {8 printed on the fiy-leal Franuces Ann Komble, Wa bave chasen to respect her wishes, and drop the marrled name fu the few remarks that are to be made in this lsce upon her volume. ‘The book derives its chifef value—and it un- questionably bas value of a cortaln sort—from ~the light it” tbrows on conteinporary lifa and manners, and from {ts contributions to dra- matle annals, The history of the Kemble fam- 1y would be incomplete withont this addition to it The ong or two cxquisite touches that tha author gives. lu -describ] n$ her visits to ler Aunt Barah are, for the Intter part of Mra, Siddons’ life, worth all that the blographers bave wiitten about her. “What a pricosho ‘s pald for her celobrity 1" wrate Fannle Kem- ble fo 1831,—" uncasiuess, vacuity, and "utter deaducss of splrit. The cup has been so highly Bavored that 1ife s sbsolutely without savor or IWeetnesa to- hier-now, nothing but tostclees Jnstpldity, Bt bas stood on a pinnacle till all things Lave come to look flat and dreary, mero shiapeless, colorless, level monotony to her. Pour woman! What o fate to bw ‘con. demned to, aud yet how she has been envied well ‘as adwmired.” Could thers he stronger teatimony than this to the witherin elfect of life on the stage, even when it is useful aul bonorablel ‘Tho ‘experfence of her Aunt 8arah muy well Lave beun the first causo of Faunlo Kemble's own settled aversion to the staze as @ profeasion for women. Sho [ntimntes ulm‘pch 1 I:HuLln‘r placo: *'Tne yapld vacuity of the last years of m: Aunt Siddons' life bad maden wfuunfllmprcl slun upon me,~her spparent doadness and fu- dillerenca to eversthing, which I attributed (un- uatly, perhaps) less to her advanced age and mpaired powers than to what I supposed the Withering and drylug fnfluence of the oserstimu. lating atmaspbere of emotlon, excltement, and mduiration fnwhich she had passed lier life; certal it 1s that such was my dread of the effect of my profession upon me, thut I added an farnest petition to iy daily prayers that I might be detended from the eyil infuence I fearcd it mieht exercise upon me," e present voluuie s still more_ valuable, of courke, for what 1t tellsof the last days of Charles Kemule. His painful strugzles with debtand [ll-health aro’ deseribed fu general terms 1o ** The Ilistory of the Kemble Family." But, from the nature of tho case, uo ather Vozrapher could know so well as thils ouc how Tmmuml und how killing those struerles were, t was the misfortune of Charles to belong to a %'n-nldmumuu family without posscasinig to the ém the @its of his elder brother or his sfater. s uarlca iever was nicreat actor. Hewas an excel- ll andlfuithfuluctor in many subordinate parts, ils Mereutio, 80 far as wo cun Judge fri :I"meu e¥ldence, was the best ever toce; szt and so ‘witls bls Jaga, Mo LI refined, praceful actor, bearlng the faume relation to John Kemble' thut Charles :xluun dld to Edmund Kean, Mrs, Fannto Kemblo mma-mhmu his inferlority ina passage re- h er:’ble, 43 Inany passages (o her book are, for $udden frunkuuses ™ My fatlier s lhurd uoon Keaw's defects be- "nnul:huy are especlully antagonistic to his “w-‘:hu.-(o aid tendeney, but I think, too, Sk ulnhtl.ll fufusion of the vexation of un- pkp. “m n;ld labor fo iy father's criticlam of _ 1¢ lorgets that power §s univeraally felt bl :»m-nmuu, and refloement seldom the one Teuny Sthery waid fur u thousaud who spplaud nm:'f'( What, wouldat thou bave a serpent ".s. Il hee twiced ! Frohnbly not ten people aro r..‘ll‘l. of his exquisite * neverthcless! fn the ol ughul Antonio's letter, Most vyes can ‘sco b "unl by duglight '3 not many stop to luok Pt Hichia wiid simdaws that aro forsver vary- w:;u{"“ adding to the beauty of tts aspect. [ buf nfi low, Leluz us well aware as_wy father e :bl‘ll'm ne work that eseapes the ‘eyes of 2 dlfm.'t' e can ears for this kind of thing as Wantiug pre-e minent ab!lity as en actor, the ““"‘{h;h‘luu that could have saved Clarles :vg' b:-' tuansgement of Covent Gurden would il 0 declued capacity for business. But 10 e ored more detlcient lo this respect than ‘mu other. Ho soent monoy luvlsl ly when engugey s U0 promise of & return forit. He lwhlfi'l In two expensive lawsults, when hia T n either case were not worth coutendiog . ;n;’ul he bad tho misfortuns uot to know "nl‘l 0 Was brretrievubly rufued, so that he Tito s Pouriug bis curnfnws and bis strength e ll:mmuumlc gulf, Mrs. Kewble writes of - -l;mlllull (puge 511), and relates how her ‘hrmk‘lm bavig sunk “overythlog fu that P il tomb, suid, “1f L had owly £10,000 |Im1fi“ Telifeve everything.” This wes ouly .“m:“‘“ Y Ol @ gambler. Faunule Kemblo P :‘Jgfiwfl.‘:‘llbult‘l‘ul:nd bod £100,000 at this 0| ave Y ot it for Covent Gardbar ber dacker'a “:;nll\vmblu buas twico repeated Macready's ..sh“u”un ber own actiug to the cffect that T 1) hot uuderntand the first rudiments of doghi The eriticlai is severe, but we have no iy M{un It was in the matu just. Lt would Koy :la survrising It Faunio Kemble had Bromel is rudimcnts of Lerart. Sho bsd o lrd: -’lll traluine, dho bounded upon the 'llhuul,u Lovent Garden without exerieace, bergrye 2R84y, without thorough devotion to u."' and without serloua purpose or awbls Ueks 1o g vly & sort of amsteur cleyver- faliy (C3FY berthrough. * She becamu the oat Ly h“{ @ Bciason or wwo, it lé true, but she T 1) upon tho publie, und IF sho had re- F sueeion shecould never bave wudeun- Mgy nfl“" Her vuma tils o such_largo or Gobdrawatlc aunals as that of Mrs. Clbber, Migy ,'fitu,Ann Hellamy, or Biss O'Nell, or gureg o8 Lree, to way ndtbing of sucis gravd iy, i) 2086 Of er aunt, Sarub Biddons, sud Iug “mcKanl. The reason of ber bot succeed- g uble bereelt cidarly percelved, A i Cvuu‘ Of earucatuvés wus at thy bottuim of b the roverent, humble, feartul spirit with which cready appronched e new part In Hhakspeare, nnd the foolls bonst of Fannfa Kemble to a friend that ahe had learned Jreatrice, which she was to play within n week, fn an hour! I such foolizhness can he pardoned In the young girl, what can be thoueht ot the wiedom of the actress who thus testifled to her own childish folly? 1t isro wonder that Macready sald Fannle "Kemblo did not under- etand tlie mdimeuts of herart, In his whole 1tfe he seldom played any of the great parts of Bhakspeare to Lija own ratisfaction, aud, as long an he acted them, he studled thom, Tle never represcnted any Shakapearean charscter for the first time without careful preparation, ‘The modeaty of the author in speaking of her owntalents na an actress Is, it must be confessed, instrong contrast with the practice of most atage Fcnplu. Bhe never made the mistako of anppos- ng that she was & preat actr and certalnly never rald that she was, She frankly records not only the savage remnark of Macready, but the brutally frank criticisin of anothcer friend, that her Queen Catherine reminded him of Mrs, 8iddooa n the same part ns scen throueh the wrong end of the opera-glasses. She says all, and moro than ali, that the ablest critics have said of her: “1Liking my work so little, and belng so de- vold of enthusiasm, ruPcct, or Jove forit, it is wonderful tome_ that | ever achlcved any suc- cess In It st all, The dramaticelement Inherent in my organization must have heen very power- ful to have cnabled e without elther study of or lova for my ]Hntcea!nn to do nnythln;z worth anything in it. But this is the reason why, with an'unususl gift and many unusual advantuges for it, Idll. really so liitle; why my perforin. ances wero always uncven In themselves wud perfectly unequal with cach other, nover com- picte as o *hole, however striking In occastonal arts, and never at the same level twonighis ogother; depending for their effcct upon the stato of my perves unil spirits, fnstead of being the result of deliberate thuuy ht and considera. tion,—study, In short, carefully and conscien- tlously npnl‘cd to my worky the permanent element which proserves the artist, however Inevitably he must feel the Influcnee of moods of mind “and body, from ever being at tscir merey. I brouzbt but one-half the 'CSRRTY material to the exerelse of my profession, thut which Naturc gave med amd never odded the cultivation and labor requisite to produce any fine performance fu the right sense of the word§ and, coming of a family uf roal’ artists, have never folt that-I deserved that honorable name,” Writing ot her debnt in Judlet, when, il at any time, Mrs. Kemble mizht be supnosed to have some tenderncss for tho dramutic profession, slie snys frankly: “As for my success, there was, I bellere, a genuine clement fn it, Jor pufling can send up- ward only things that have a buoyant, rising quality in themseives: hut there was also a great feellug of personal sympathy for my father and motler, ol kiadly indulgence for my youth, and of respectful recollection of my i~ cle and aunti and a very gencral desiro thut the fine theatre where they had excrcised thelr pow. ers should ba rescued, It posaible, from fs difi- cuitles. All tuis went to make up a result of which I had the credit.” that I played Juliet “1t is certaln, however, upward of 120 times ruvmlnr,', with nlf the irreg- ularity und uncevennces of Immature Inequalit of. whict I have spoken aa churacterlstics whi werg never correeted Inny performances, My mother; who never miseed” one of them, woulkl sometimes como down Jroin lier box, aud, fold- ing me fu her arms, say only the very satinfac- tory words, ‘Beautiful, mv dear!’” Quitc as often, If not oftencr, the verilict was, *My dear, your nerformance - was not At to be scen! | don't kuow how you ever contrived fo do the part decently s it must have been by some knack or trick which you appear to bave entirely Jost thao secret of; you hud better glve the whole thing up at ‘once than po on dolog it so dis- zrmlnll*flh' Tils wns awlul, and made my heart sink down fnto my sboces, whatever might have bicen the fervor of ‘applunse with which the sudienco bad grected my performance, « '« o _“Aud so my llfo was determined, ana 1 devoted myself to an avocation which I never lked or honored, and about the very nature of which L have neyer been able to conie Lo any de- elded oofulon.. It is in vaiu that the unaoubted specific 2ifts of great netors nnd actresses sug- gest that all: gifis are glven for rightful exer- vige, ond not suppression; in voin that Sbak- spearc’s plays usgd their fmporativeclalm to the most perfect lllustration they can recelve from histrlonle interpretation; o duaness which is ju- cessant excitement nud factitions emotion secms to _me wortby of s man; a busivess which Is public oxhibitfon, unworthy of & woman.' Fannle Kemble's persousl appearance must have varled much wito circumstsuees, Her mother cauaed her to catch sinali-pox in carly eirlhood, thinking that, us her brother had n mild type of the disense, shu would come out of § well, But it was uot then understood that vaccination ought to be repeated. . Fannle had emall-pox of the most malignsut type, und her complexion was forever ruined. But this wasa defect that could be easily remedled on the stage, and there, by all accounts, she was truly beautiful, Bhe writes of this whole paintul eplsode fu her life—liow painful it must bave been ouly & womnan and an_sctress can judge— with o sweetness and unoffected modesty that will endear her to many of her readers, But cnouch has been sald of 1he bock a8 n contribution to stage annsls. 1t s even better worth reading for 1ts various gussip about fa- mous men wid womien two gencrations ago, Mrs. Kemble bad unusual opportusities for mcev,lmilnh.!h« velebritics of London in her day, Destds ber own aud ber father’s fricuds, ner brother had forschool aud college mates Arthur Hallam, Alired Tevnyson, and hls brothers, Frederick: Muurlee, John Starling. Richard French, Willlam Donue, Wililam Thackeray, uud Richard Monckton Milnes; and this brilliant company of young men often visited the Kem- bles, Fupnle Kemble herselt was a constunt friend aud correspondent of Mra.dameson. She brenkfusted with Walter Scott, Sne knew all thie celebrated Sherldan slsters, 8he had lsten- ed to the fmprovisations of Theodore Hook, 8he had heard Ludy Byron speak scriously of writing an essay to counteract tho linmoral ten- devcles of her busbund’s works. 8ir Thomus Lawrooce was au old fricnd of the fam- fly., Sterddan Kuowles was an associato ju thie theatre. Facnle Kerble was one of the tirst persons in Enuland to ride on s locomotive, nind she had Stephensun for her guide, counselor, und friend on that occasion, Mr. Adams, in s recent book on raflrouds, has quoted largoly from beraccount of that meinorable trip. Lady Caroline Latmb and her husband are described here fu oue of thedr famous domestic scenvs wugn fruokness no contemporary writer bas used: My mother’s sitting-room faced that of Lady oline, unil before lights were broughbt into it she and ny father hud the futl benellt of & curlous sceno in the room of thelr vpposite neighbors, wiio secmed quito unmindful that, thelr apartment being ligted and the curtalns not drawn, thuy were, a8 regarded the opposite wing of the bulldiug, 8 spectucle lor gods and men, My, Lamb on entering the roow sat down ou the sofn, and his wifo perclied bersell ou the clbow of ft with ber arm rouud bis neek, which evgaging attitude sho presently exchanged tor s atill more. versuasive one, by kucolugz ut his feets but upon his cetting up, the lively lady did so also, und fn & mowent be- gun Gylug rouml the room, selzing wimd tlinging on tho floor cups, ssucers, plutes,—thewhola cabaret,—vases, cunuleaticks, her poor husbaud pursuing ml attempting 10 restrain his mad mojety, 1o the mldst of which extraordhry seeno the curtalus were abruy ity cloaed, und the domeitic drama nlshed bebind them, leay- Ing no doubt, however, In my father's and mother's minds that the question of Lady Caro- linu's prolonged stay Il Lurd Byrow's arrival in Puris had caused” the disturbance they bad witnessed.! Lator in life, 3. Kemble met William Lamb when he had_become Lord Melbourue, Frime Minister ot Englan [ retain one very vivid imuression of that mosat charming of “debevalr noblemen, Lord Melbourne, I had the bunor of diniug at his house ouce, with the beautitul, highly gifted, ond unfortuuate woman with whoin "bis relu- tions ulterwards beeame subject of such crucl jublic seandals sud ufter dimier T gat for some !lmu opposlto 8 large, erimsoti-covered attuman, LLord Melbourne reclfued, surroutile o whid by thuse threo enchanting Sherldan sisters, Alre. Norton, Mis. Blackwood (atterwards Lady Dufferiu), sud Lady 8t Maur (afterwards Dud of Bomersct, and always Queen of DBeauty). A more remarksble collection of comely crestures, I think, cotd hardly be seen, und takiug futo consideration the bigh muk, ewinent position, uud jutetlcetual distinction of the four persons who formed that beautiiul Kroup, it certalnly w picture to remala b pressed uvon one's memory," Faunle Kemble kurw, of course, all the stazo celebrittes of her day. Weber brousht out “Der Frelschutz ang “Oberon® under bier father's wansgement, and when (he rivaln with Russlog began abie kad the bonor of s acquaintunce. Meods hu sho wus intro- duced to wlterward, und hla criticlsm of the subjects chosen for opura In bis day §s intercst- fog In the cxtreme. Other profusslonal ey qualutauces were Clarles Youuyw, thu Garcia sisters, 1 Ellen Tree, uud Eontag, whose experience with Mallbrun fu the opera of **Romeo und Jutet ? Fannle Kemble bad some opportunlly of wituesstng, But it would Lo dutlicult to mentlon uny person of eminenes literagure or art In Englund durlsz Fauole Kewble's own professtonal career whom shie dit wot mect. The remiclseciees of these dis- tingutsbed persovuzes will gmva thls Look o real value lu the opiuton of thusa who belleve such goaslp werih treasurluee, It bas the mert ot copcernlog the clusses wost rickly cudowed fu Englaud; und, If cossfy bs ever atull codura- ble, ft' must be s0 whow telating to persoos so interestivg In themaelves ‘a8 muny of Feonla Kemble! cqnaind (*Records of a0 hool.? By Frances Ann Kemble. New York: Henry Hult & Co. Advgneu sherts,) ICHABOD WASTIBURN, Autobiographvy and Memorials of Ichahod Washburn, by the Itev. Henry T. Checyer, au- thor of ‘‘Island World of the Pacific,’ ete. 10mo. 81. Boston: D. 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It Is a work that ought to be fn cvery scliool-hvuse il Hbrary in Wisconsin as a Look of reference and guide to a correct knowiedgze of the prominent lcatures of that fne Sthte. HARPEI'S PERIODICATS, Messrs, Haroer Bros, send us bound volumes of thelr Magasine, Weekly, and Bazar for 1578, Tlheso are alwass welcome, The interest of much In the Harper periodieals rests upon solid and endurivg merit, and 8o outlasts tho tem- porary valuc of the separate publications. Yl Weekly, to this form, is alinost a pleture-gatlery In Itself. Certainly n collectlon of Nast's cur- toons, of equal niumber with thoee vontalned in this voluine, would beworth a considerable st 1 alooe, und this fs muking nothivg of the many otier iustrations by good artists, The Llazar'a fashion-plates Jouse value inone way with time, but gain in another. ‘Vhey have, or will bave years henee, an historleal value not now easily reckoned, und the reading-mutter in the Bazar, under the supervision of that ex- celient wornan and editor, Mary L. $ooth, Is of a very superfor quallty. ‘The magazine has a reputation that speaksa for itself, It has suce ceeded dn etriking well the averago of popular taste, Its descriplive {Hustrated articles sro simply unrivaled fn perioleal literature, and they ‘convey a large amount of uscful informa- tlon o an entertalning wayv. In the bound vol- umes of the magazing the worth of the historical and acient!fic summarics printed cach mouth is for the first time fully seen und sppreciated, ‘They make a contfnuoue record of humau prog- ress, which increases in value with the age of the magazine. T THE PRONUNCIATION OF LATIN. To the Edilor of The Tribune, CaNTRALIA,' 11}, Jnn, 20.—Wo do not know how the Latin Janguage was protouuced by the anclent Romans, but wo do kunow that at the present time its prununciation varies with the different natlonalities, 'Take 2 au fnstance the c:beforg the vowels o and 1, as o the word Cleero. - The common English pronunciation is Blsscro, because the ¢ before those vowels has .the sound of & sharp or double s o Engllshs the Qermans for a similar reacon vronounce it 4 Teltsero)” glving the e the sound of the Ger- manzas in Zeltung, Zubn, cte; the Itatians pronounce *“Tabitshero,” giving ¢ the sound of ch 1o church: the Spanlands pronounce “Thi- thero glving ¢ n regulur *th " sound, as in *‘theatre,”” Now, some say that the anclont Ronsans wave ¢ the hued sound beforoall vowels, lieneg pronounced * Kikerv,'! becatse the Urecks u all Latin_dervatl rendered ¢ by thelr “kappa! But 1t scems bardly probuble to *mu that the Romans same sound before e und i as befure o, o, u} we find it nut tobe the cgse In ltalian, Bpanish, Freneh, or any of the langusges de- rived from the Latin, and it da therefore reason- able to suppuse that the old Rumans made a similar distinction and It Mr. Story’s statcment thut the Greeks hud oo equivalenc {n their ol- phabet for the solt sound of ¢ be true, and thefr substitution of * kappa" wua merely arbitrary firenders the theory o which Iadhere still more plausivle. What I havo sald of the letterc lalikewiso apolicable to g, und it is o refereace to this letter where the Oerinan method s purticularly at fault. According to ticrmon rules of Latin prouunciation, the alvays recelves the hara sound (a8 in “girl ™), To cite an example, they make no alfference in the pronunciation of “genus ™ and “gaudeo’ 1kuow this tobe a fact, for 1 haye beard it so pronounced by atl Gorinan Professors that 1 have met with, 1 do nut concur, however, in Mr. Btory's opinlon that the Italian sound of ¢ und i before e nud { comes nearest to the old Roman pronuuciation; 1t may be und it may not be, 1 cau elalm vhat Spanish is as much related to Latin as Itadla, and vet thers Ls o vast differ- ence in the pronunciationof the soft Itattun e nud cund the same letters In the Spanish langusge, the sound of ¢ Inspanish belng like aGierman “ch ' (a8 in Bach), for which wo have no equive slent In English; und {n Italian encuy as the sound of £ in thu word “generul'F; wiilo 1o sound of the ltullunc {a lke chifu * church,"* wud the Spanlsh a pure FEuglish th," asin “think.” 1o regurd to the letter J, wesre In utter darkness us to its pronunclation, and we donot sven knaw whether [t waa orginally & vowel or & consonaut sound, We are fu the ain vrudicament with the Hebrew Datter “ayin® (v), und rizhe here § would reqark that we mect wilh the ramne diticuitivsin pronouncing Hebrew us fo Laun. ‘Thero are two schools, the Pollah und the Portugueze, differing erfully in thelr manuer of Hebrew provuuctation, wnd yvet Hlebrew has alivays beeu the raligious languure of the Jews, unl {8 nol 6o much adead lungitage ua Latin, ‘Che diffienlty with both languazes 1s 1bat thero are 1o living witnesses 1o testify to the original and correet pronunclatlion of cither, How would it do, if, i place of accepting the German pronanciation of Latla, whlch isnclther leas objectionable thau nor preferable to gny other, and, instead of wrangling uud ofsput our niost eminent Latin scnolars and Prolessors would meet in some Eurapean eity, und then und thero adopt a Hxed standund for pronomee- lugz Latin, This Is & consummatton devoutly to be wished for, LITERARY NOTES, ‘The only signs of weaxknouss fu French litera- ture, at the present time, ero zald by the Athe nam to bo lu works of the imagination. Euzcno Schuyler siys the death last year of tho Rusalan poct, Nekrusof, has lefe the nation without n poet. ‘Thers are men remalojug who write poetry in their way, but Nckrusof “was {nsplred.” 4 flo hod caught the fdea of his goneration, had expressed It as none but a real poet can, and bad {ustilled It jnto others,” So Rreat was th [eeling toward .**this last great poee’ that ho was followed to the gravo by a cuncourse uocxampled In recent times ln itus- sla. “ Btrauge to sy, this poct of the people gruw rich by literuturo.”? 3Mr. Authony Trollopa has a thoughtiul and futcreating paper in the Junuary number of the Niugleewth Ceatury on Novel Readlng, fu which be tells us that there bas grown up custom lately smong tea-dealers to glve away o vertain number of books to thelr poorer custumers,— one book wiven Lo 80 muny unds of tea bought, ‘The other day 18,000 volumes of cns’ works were ordercd for this puroose, e Lovkseller suguested that 8 little varfuty might be expedicnt,” Would the Leagvolent tea-dealer like 1o vary prescnte! But wol ‘The trudesman, koowing his busincss, und be- iur suxious avove all “thiugs to atlract, aezdared that Diciens wus what ho wanted, o bad found that the teaconsuming world preferied thefe Dickvua,” Tils (s o prace tieal commentary —tbough pot nleaul 88 such— ou Mr. Trotlope's just reiark upou Thackeray sud Dickeus, that Dickens bus tapped s stretuw lower fu edicstion und wealth, und therefory BzuNaup Bavren. nuch wider, than that reached by his risal. 1t I8 long before it will be salil of *Vanity Fajr!! thut over 800,000 coples have been sold fn Fn- gland, a fact which Mr, Trollope, who has meann of - knowing, sllegen of ' Pickwick.” As mnny coples probably have been sold In Amerlen. ‘The Examiner (T.ondon) has received the fol- Jowing, which ought to Interest any speiling re- former in this country or the old: "% J'ieez imert tha,—A Lesox rorn Hanp Tiuz—A leder in the Zi‘m1 ov the 20th Desember sez: * Thrilt is akwoliti in which the In-glish pe-nl iz no-to- ri‘ousil defishent, If Bord 8ku‘lz kan be ma-d the chanelz for edu'ka:ting (hat neglekted fak- ulth, tha* wil pa- tha'r kost a hundrad limz over.) We- ar rekwested tur ad that f a0 much ti'm wer not wassted in tri'ing tu* te'ch our ahsurd nao'sistem oy spelling, tha'r wud he plentd oy t'm for te-ching thrift and mcnl uther gud thingz as wel.” ‘Those who have read * Macleod of Dare ¥ will enjoy the [ollowing golemn suggestion for an improved ending I **The Contributurs' Club" of the Atlantic: " Notwithstunding all that is sald about the absunlity of Macleod of Dare, it scems to me that Mr. Black deserves great credit for his scifrestraint. The temptation must have been almost frresistibie to bring Mies White on the deck of the Umpire at the monient when the vacht took fts final plunge. Just 1o show her, white and Liue, In a red light, for an Inatant, nid the Tunatle, in kilts, darting upon her with & wilkl *Hat! hal' That would have wakencd the Dutchman, nid called Ulva, ad got up a conversation with Fladda, and we might have expected a terrible remark from Lunga, aud wild' laughter fron Colunsay. It was too much to expect that the playful Hamish and = the rest of that genfar crew shosld tle up the madman when his purpose of murder became cvident; that would have broken with all the tro- ditions of the notle tribe. I do not complain of that; but what secms to me Incxeusable in an artistic point of view—uuwd I may rav this atter ncknowledging the author's powcrful self- control alrcady montinncd—is this: the reader's amusement in the last scenes needs to be toned down by something, und & perfect artiat, who knaws Gaclle, would have introduced the bag- pipe. “Lhe nbaenee of Donald and his pibrochat the only time in the story when bis eforts would have been In kecpinz with the general of- fect must be an oversizht. And, besides, it would have enabled the author to bring fn, hy way of variety, the echoes of Colonray, Dubh- Artach, Staffa, Fladda, Lunga, Mull, aud the rest, nid sobbing Ulva anawerlng to the wall of thie pipes with A prolonged howl of Oo'-a-ra. And ihe bagoipe, which Miss White unreason- ably hated, would have added a Just clement of retribution In the murder." ART NOTES, Anno Brewster writes to the Boston Adver- tiser: *‘The remains of a wholc apse palnted Ly Glotto lins been discovered lately at Rome. The credit belungs to theé well-kuown Roman srenmologleal paluter, Signor Scifont. Ile heard & fow weeks ago that there was a tradition ex- isting which said that Glotto had decorated a certain old church on the borders of the Cam- pugna, and instantly he began careful examina- tlons of the buflding. * Only two or three ner- sons know the Interesting fact; indeed, outside of this little number, there are few Lo take lo- terest Iu the matter. The pletures ara fast crumbline away. When 1 mounted the Indder to examine. variona parts of them, the mere tunching of my fur mantle against the wall causcd tnany fragments of palnted plaster to fall to the ground.” Mr. Robert Lenox Keanedy sylll soon present to the Lenox Litrary In New York City an art work of extraordibary. intcrest sud—if the French crities are to be trusted, as in sucha matter they eertalnly have some claim to be— ot distinulshed worth, nomely Munkacsy's large oil palnting cotfiled “ Blind™ Milton Die- tating Parudise Lost to His Duughters.” It measures about elght fect In length by about six feet in lnght, was ono of the * scnsations ™ nt the late Parls Exlilbition, and, while hauging there, was bought by Mr. Kennedy for tho pur- poss just mentfoned. The treatment of light und sunghing are sald to coustitute onc of its techinieal marvels. John Milton, ina comfort- able ehair in bis Hbrary, Is dictating ** Paradise Lost? to ong of his thirce dauchters who sits by the table and azty atmanuensiy, while an- other daughter at . anothier side of the table oceuplies beraelf with-fancy work of some sort, il the third daughter stouds lstentog near — PERIODICAL LITERATURE. Wide-Awake, the gxeellent juvenile for Fob- ruary, as artlcles by many favorite writers for the young folks, * y Wa hava received . the first number, of the Tiluatrated Co'tic Xonth'y, on Irlsh-American magezine, aevoted to lteraturc, musfe. the drama, and current events. Jomes llalligan, editor and publisher, No. 38 Nassau street, New York. Price, 25 ceots for single numbers, ” Lippincott's Magazine for February has an article Ly Margaret Bullivan, of Chicazo, on 4 Lord Beaconsfleld.” Edward King, the brill- faut correspondent, contributes a paper (illus- trated) on * Mungorian Types and Austrlan Pictures,” Howard (ilyndon, Marguret J. Pres- ton, Rebeees Harding Davls, and Frederic M. Bird have papers In this number. Lippincolt’s claims to be, and we believe Justly, the beat- printed of all the magazines, Macmillan's Magazine for January has the following tuble of contenta: ‘¢ Haworth's," Ly ¥rauces tlodgaon Burnett (Chape, XV1 XX]I.I' 11 Teatro . ltallano Couteinporaeg,’ 1600—1876, by Catheriue Mary Phitlimore: “Trafalgar: & Palinode,” by F. T, Palgra U 3lethods of - Bick Rell * ¢ America Re- diviva,” by Jolin W. Crass; “Life fn Lovine," frow Catullus, by H, F. Bramwell: *Two Af- ghan Refugees,” by [L. SButberiand Edwards; “ A Doubnlug Heart," py Miss Kearv (Chinps, XXIL, XVIIL): * Coveut Garden ‘Fheatre umt tlie Royal Ttalian Opera;™ *°f pect of the United States,” by the Dean of Westmtuster, Har) Atagazine for February hasanarticle, with en {llustrations, on the Sea, by J, Heard; nouthier, *ftambles fo the 'South’ ol Froauce,” by 8. Q. W, Benjamin, with twent tllustrations; ** Winter Sports in Canada,” with nioe llustrations, by ¥, G, Mather; At the Mouths of the Ainazow,' with fifteen {llustru- tious, by M. Ninuris, Mlrs, Muloch-Craik's new novel, ** Young Mrs. Jardine," {a begun In this nuwber. There is 8 poem by Wil Carlet Commodere Meade writes of Admiral Pauldi Johu Esten Cooke of **Moonsuiners,” Horaco Beudder of Tudustrial Education In this Coun- try, and there are many other intercating pa- pefe, 'The Nurth American Renew for Fehruary has articdes by Senator Hooar on * fhe Conduct of Businesa in Uongress’; by “An Accountant on “‘he Mysteries of American Rallroad Ac- mununbv." particularly with reference fo the Vanderblit roads; by Gen. Dick ‘laylor on (eorize Masan, o statesman of the Colonial era tou little hunored fn our dey; by ex-Gov. Cham- berlalu on ** Recoustruction und'the Negro''; by <A Lusstun Nibilst” on **The Emplre of the Discontented”; by (0, ', Bherman on “The Nelentide Work' of the How:, by Dr. Taylor on * pensatlon oIt s and by Prof. 1 ¥, Crane oo * Medheval ‘rench Literaturd Seribner's for February lias for o frontisplece a portrait of Emerson drawn by Wyatt Eaton E el und engraved by Cole. ‘Tho arttcls oo *The fomes ‘and launts of Emer- fony' with — many beautiful - fllustrations, ia written by ¥. B. Banborn. *‘the Tile Club at Play,” by John Mulr, with many llustrations, describes the diversions of a club of New York artists. A symposium on the Chinese question 6 a burlesquo **luteeview " with representative foreicners ou this all- ubsurblug tople. ‘The writer burlesques not only the subjeet, but the newspaper lmter- viower us well, nil dues thie latter part of hia work, {0 auything, better tifan the former. Another curious artfcle in this number is from the pen of E. C. Stedman, vu the subject of * Aerlal Navlzation,” to which he bas given more or less atieution for many years, It is Lurdly necossary 1o say thet the fllustrations s vumber” of Scribuer's, us In Harper's, surpass anything kuown fu -perfodical literature until very recoutly, We had almoat forgotten 10 mentton an admirable orticle, with valuable und uch-needed {llustrations, on Juhy Leech, by Russell Sturgls, Au article of speclal interest to Chicago resd- crs_ju the Fobruary ouinber of the dé aabie will he Maj., H. A, Huutlugton's *Bword und Owl.” It 15 u wlight sketch, cbraclog barely three pages, wind vontatus sowo wriny reminiscences, apparently founded fu fuct, which wo cbellished by tbe author's delleate hu- mor and polstial astyle, To our _ way of thinking, Slurk Twaln's *Recent Great Freach Duel,” i the satue numberof the Aé- lante, 1 not halt so amustog, ‘Chis might bo constdered, tedeed, frous ouepolnt of view, falut pralse, for Murk ‘I'wain bas scidum dooe’ any- thiug 20 f11 98 this lust articla of bis. But to be better than Mark Twaln fo bls weak momenms sbould be, for wost Awcricav bumorlsts, suf- tickent glory. The political urticiea fu thls wum- ber of she dlaate are * ‘the Career af # Cap- ftalist,” uml * Linited Boverelgnty I the Unitrd States,” the latter a reply to Parkman’s srilcle in the Nortn American fevlew. Richurd Uraut White writes of ** Loudon Strects ' H. 1. Stoduard of By Taylor, whon he kuew Intimately; W, W, Storv ol “ 4 Roman Jloti- Qay "; Artbur G, Bedgwick ol “Iateroatioual Copyright ¢ Clares Cook of * The New Catholle Cathedral in New York.” The present fnstallment of *The Lady of the Aroostook aexuecdlngly Interestinz und quite satiafac- Ty, - — BONKS RECRIVED. Tre 8waMp-DOCTOR'S ADVRNTORES IN THE Bouawesr. Philadelphfa: T. B. Peterson & Bro, 81.50. Tne Trarxro or Crinpren. By Florence Bayard Lockwonl. Phitadelphia: Edward Stern & Co. 25 centa, As It Mar HlarrEn. A Story of American T.ite and Ctaracter, By Trebor. Phlladelphia: Porter & Coates. Excrisn History ix Suorr SToRIES, Ke. vised cditlon. New York and Chieago: A. 8. Barnes & Co. 81, Mns. MeRn1AM'Ss HCHOLARY. A 8tory of the Original Ten. l!( Edward E, Hale. "Boston: Roberts Bros, 81, Moxgs or TuinavA. A Novel. By Besant and Rice, Toronto and Chicagu: Rose-Belford Publishing Company. NRW AND ORIGINAL TNEORIZS OF TiE GREAT Prraicar, Fonrcna, By Henry Rarmond Rogers, M. D. Tublished for the author. Tne Swrpexsona Lintary, Vol, IV. * Di- vine Provideuce and Its_Laws." Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haflcifinger, "I'was 18 TRAPALGAR'S Bav, A Novelette. By Besant and Rice, Toronto and Chicsgo: Kose-Beltord Publishing Company. “Estnnrica.” Hy Eugene Veron. Trans- lated by W, Ii. Armstrong, B. A. (Oxon), Phil- adelphla: J. B, Lippincott & Co. $1.7 Mitriese: A Tale of Now England and the Tropies. By ¢ My Esposa e Yo,”” Belng a nar- rative of the versonal experiences of afather, his two daughters, und their physiciao, ship- wreeked upon an uninhabited fsland of the Pa- cllle, Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry. 82, Tne TEMPERAMENTS; or, The Varletios of Physical Covatitution in Man, considered 1 thetr Relations to Mental Charscter nnd the P'ructical Alfairs of Life, ete. By I1. D, Jacques, M.D. with an Introduction by i, &, Drayton, Editor of 0 page: the [hrendogiea’ Jouran, 150 lltusteations. extra cloth, New York: 8, R, Wells & Co,, 0, 737 Broadway. HPA“;(S OF SCIENCE. SIR JOIIN LUDBOCK AND 118 ANTS. . Londton Wortd, One of the hest rooms on the first floor of High Elms {a devoted to work, and at the pres- ent moment containe a nenagerfo of ants. Bu- tween thirty nnd forty species are represented by separate uesta, pluced under class, carciully shuded from the Hght, and surrounded by water to prevent the Interesting fuscets from escaping and pervading the house. 1t Is pleasant to sce 8ir John Lulbock, arrayed in his working suit of gray stufl, gently uncovering the nests, snd replacing the screens quickly lest the animals should take alarin at the Influx of light, and be thrown into disurganization by the thought that their pest s attacked, It is curious to observe that these ting creatures huve aoimnals with them, which, It'may be presumed, are useful in sumg way, us the ants forbear to uttack them, They are mostly of the beetle race, and some, lke the little Claviyer, are quite blind, possibly from confirmed subterra- nean babite, and are only found in ants' nests, the proprictors of wihich take as much vare of them as they do of thelr own young, Auvuparently ants have a considerable varfety of domestle anlmals, among which the bllud Platyarthrus 18 tonspleitous, a8 well as the Beckia albinos, the lntter of which was first fully deseribed Ly Bir John Lubbock, who sug- ests thut perhaps these two act the part of the Constantinople dog and the turkey buzzand, maokfog themselves useful ns scavengers, Au hour's chiat with the owner of this well-organ- 1zed work-room haa a tendeney to dispel some carly Hluslons of the unscientific mind concern- fugz the industry of the ant. It s an industri- ous creature ju the maln, but there are ants und ants. ‘The lare red species fonnd in Central Europe, and which disbluys extraordinary ac- tivity when light Is admitted to 1ts nest, is not fudustrious at\all. being o purely fighting aristo- cratana sluveholder, ~ She—thie Hzhting ants ure Amnzous—makes predatory excursions, the “commondoes” of the old boors, and carrles off the pups or chrysalis, the su-called ants' eergs of which ng pheasants are so Tond, of another species, and hrings them up alay As Blr Jonn Lublioek polnts out, th slavebolders present *u striking instance of the degrading teudency of slavery,” ‘They can neither wuah nor fred themscives. They have loat the grester part of their Instincts, thelrart, or power of bullding; thefr domentie fmlnlu, for they take no care of thelr youneg; their indus- try, for they take uo purt o vroviding them- u{ s with'tood; and, If the coloay chanzes its neat, the rulers ore carried by thels slaves to the uew one, Even their structure has altered; thelr maudibies bave lost thelr teeth, and bhave become mero nippers, terrible o war, but use- less for ather purposes. lg:n, except for fghting purposes, have t come, that, if deprived of thelr slaves, they actually die of tnger, ‘These curious facts, which sound al- mwost like the romance of natural Wstory, have all been verified ut 1ligh Elms by obaervatlons which contirm those of Iluber fu aliuvst every case, y $1.7%). vublishers, > COLOR-BLINTINESS, ltoston Adeertier, Tt 18 something beyond mere e losity which Induces Dr. Jeffries to take ruch palns to pro- cure statistivs regurding the prevalence of color- blinduess amone the children of our publle schools, He bas for some weeks devoted o fow hours each day to the examiunation of these children, uud Le reports the tollowluge results: Among the bays, the proportion of color-blind 18 obe In every twenty; of the griels he examined he only found two in’ over 8,000 who were thus attllctéd, ‘The test which he applics {8 very sm- plo, utid yet the result s always conclusive. He Lunu in his hand knot of bright grecu worst. ed, the pure green which has no that of blue or vellow; on thie white-covered table in front of Db s & large pilo of various colorsd worsteds, raneing througn all the colors, frum u_ light gray to a dark brown, fnchudlng the differout shadesof red, blue, yellow, vivlet, and green, ‘It scholars, ealled class by cluss, ore runged before hitn, und one at s thuo is tested ; no eolor 18 nuined, but showhie the knot which ho holds fn his band he says: ¢ Now pick out what looks to von MKe this, whether ft he 1t or dark.”” T§ the pesson f color-bilnd will pivk vut red, gray, ceriain shades of browne il possloly e 1hat shuws that all thesy colors look “ulik B, wiv, as nearly as can be detesmed, the effect i gray, It is peealiar that, whilo a person may be what (s termed green-red bling, they cai distingush yellow or purpte. Sometines this arder {4 reversed, aud while they can distinguish between red und, grecn they cannot see any ditference fu yellow and violet, For some time the fdes seemed to obtain that color-bllndness wan more pre -alent tn the tower classes, but actual exper proves thut wich {5 not the vase, In one ¢ thirty-six hoys i the Lawreoce School § Hoston, a school attended langely by the poorer cluss, not o Who was color-blind wads found: wnal in the who were examieed the nexe doy only tive were found, 1t was quite unusine to Iear some of the puines of colors given by these childien, One ol tiew villed gy wilie,’ nutkier called a very dark sbade of brown “black brown,” Some of them had o very quick oye for color, uml setected shudes with a greut deal of discrimination, "The object of all this i3 to brivg the guestion af olor-blindness futo prowincoee, Iurelutlon 1o the slunger from this wdrmby fn persons connected wIth rattways and the pllot service, As red aud green hurhis ure usea almost exclu- sively as signuls, it becomes w watter of some muomeut wiethor the moau who rupe the euging on the ratlway-train, oF gaides the ship jouto harbor, can distinzulsh one from the oiher. in Engzland the strictest tests are spplied o the prson fn search of a situation of the kind, wd t is hoped thut tie saimo rule may be coforeed In this country, Certalnly itis a gquestion in which the wenerad publlc by, ur shoulil be, et vely Iuterested, tuvolving s ft ducs s much of Ruporiance (o huinan life. Already it has comu before the Leglilature, und on Wednesday thwre will be a heoriug, st which Dr. Jetlries will present tho statlstics e bas rathered, aid have persong prescnt who will sbow to the Cotumlttee und others literested what color- bltudness really ia. THE CELTIC LANGUAGES, Tho Counelt of the Socicty for the Vreservas tiou of the Ueltle Lavguasee, founded two yeu wgo (o Dublin for the purpuse of extending o huowledige of the 1rlsh languuge und literaturo, und seeuriug for it a place 1 the curricalum of public schouls and cotlcges, hos prepured for publlcation the report of the proceedings und proueess for the year 1573, After dealing with tho estension of thudoclety, whicknumbers over 200 membens and 200 wseuclutes, chictly com- pwsed of Cuisersity men, and embracing wany sorelgn Nngulats, with soime thirty branchies Treland aloie, and severat kindred ossoclations 0 the Unitod Btatce, und atew ln Uermam, the Couunctl states ¢ that dutivgulstied - Prolessors iu Berliu, Parls, Lelpsic, sud Cupenbisgen are zealously studsing the Cettle language. The Professor of Sanacrit in the University of Bos- ton Is teaching Irixh to (ferman studenta in that Unlversits," and Dr. Lizerson reports that ** A well-known French Professor and_editor of a review devoted to plillology and Celtic lftera- tore has heen delivering weekly lecturcs at '1’Ecole Pratiquo des Hautes Etudes’ In the Forhonne un the grammar of the ancient Irish languege.” In reference to the sucvess of t primaryobjectsof the Societythe Counci] states *The great object the Boclety had In view and for which it labored—uamicly, to wet the language Introduced into the schools of Irelund—has hoen stralned. Th! objeet has been accomplished mora readily and with less opposition than the Soclety an- tcipated, The thanks of the Socicty and t country are eminently aue to the Commission- ers of Natlonal Fducation for thelr patriotic conduct in complytng so promptly with the re- quest of the memorial that the Ianguage should be placed on the programma of the national schonls, And o jegitimate and reasonablo did the Commissioncrs eonsider the request in the Intereat of education and Iearnlug that they placed Irfsh not nnl*on the same footing as French, German, and Ttalian, but on & footlng siinflar to Greek amd Latin, for which doubla the smount of extra fecs (s paid as for the mod- ern_languages, ‘The Commissiuners of Inter- medinte Educntion have likewias carried out the Intention of the Intermediate Education act fo a mauaer also yery satisfactory to the country, LIGHT AND LIFE. The question as to how life Is alfected by the dlfferent volors of the spectrum bas at varlous thmes engaged attention, and plant life has ap- parently heen more studied {n this respect than animal. Two distinct series of researclies lately deseribed to the French Academyseem to afford some fresh Insight Into the matter, and It {s fn- teresting to compare them together. One serics, by M. Dert, wason plants; the other, by M. Yune, on the eges of certaln animals, M. Bert kept .plauts within a glass trouch inclosure, contalnine an alcoholic solution of chlorophyll (very freauently renewed), and exposed them thus fu agood diffuse fig The solution, which wns very weak, and in & very thin layer, fintercepted lttle . more tnan the characteristic reglon of the red in the spectrum, This exchided part, then, was proved to be the fodispensahle part of white liht, for the plants tnmediutely ceased w grow, und before long dled. 1t s fu this red region (as M. Timirizzell has lately shown that the gruatest reduction of carbonic ae takes place. If red rays are kept from the leal the plant can no longer increase fts weleht, it I8 reduced to constuning rescrves previously ac- cumuiated, exbausts jtself, und dics. This part of the speetrum, however, though neces- sary. Is not sufficient. UBehind red cinas plants may no doubt live long, but they get excessive- Iy clongat.d and slender, and thelr leaves be- come narrow and litile-colored. This {8 owing 1o the absence of the blue violet rays. Thus cach reglon of the spectrum contalns parts tbst play an actfve role fo the Nfc of planta. Now turn to soimals: M. Yung hay experimented during three years on the cffect of l!lllft!rclll spectral colors on the development of the cugs of frogs (the common froz und the edible froz), of trout, and ot fresh-water snalls, It wus found that violet lHght favored the devel- optnent very remurkubly blue light comes next n thisrespect, uivl Is followed by vellow light nid white light (which two gave nearly similar clfecta). On the other hand, red and green gp- pear to be positively fnjurious, for it was found impossible to get complete development of the cegs in these colors. Darkuess does not pre- vent developiment, but, cuntrary to what some have atlirmed, retards it. Tadpoles of the same size, und subjected to the same physieal condi- tlons previous to experiinent, died more guickly of fuamtion when deprived of food in violet and blue rays than in the others. THE SWEDISH AICTIC EXPEDI- TION. Bexton Journal. Cable dispatches report that the Crar has directed a sledge exoedition to be sent out from Fostern Siberis fo search of the Swedish Arctie expedition. Tals will be good news for all who liave watched the progrees of the venturesome company of explorers whom Prof. Nordenskjold han led futo the Arctic regions, und who, when 1nst directly heard from, seemed to be upon the eve of accomplishing important results, About the 20th of October the Cantain of an American whaling vessel, the Norman, which was then leaving the Bay of St. Lawrence, learned from same wnstworthy natives that a man-of-war had Leen seen jee-bound avout forty mlies north of Caps Eust. From the description which they gave of the vessel und the which it wus seen {1t las osftion In K‘uen couctuded that It was the Swedish ship Vega contalning the explurers. ‘The distance trumn the nearest Rusafan telecraph station, Al- bazun, to Cape East {3 between 23 amd B miles. It 1s calenluied that a tewmn of cleven dogs can carry o man and ) pounda of pro- vistons over mx er seven miles aday, ‘Tho *uurney to Cape East would thereforo take from urty to (ifty duys. ‘The 1arthest Hussian mill- tory station is Anudysk, about flity-six milea distant from Cape East, ‘the Great Northeru Telegraph Company lns offered ull fucllitics, and §t ought net to require more thuniwe months after the expeditlon fa started out, fn accordance with the Czar’s command, to bring detinite uews of the fate of the explorers, ‘I'he Vegs 1s well aupolled with provistons, and if the Ive bas nat clused fu upon ler in such o way as to cause damage, there 1s no reason for expect- o other than tavorable tidings from the gul- Juut company ou buard. A SLEEPING CHILD, [**During the Negency of Anne of Austris, the peoplo threatened an Insurcection. They gathored from all guerters, forced the gates, mounted the grand stuircase with groaus and lhwsvs. On thy first Jandlug atood the Queen. palo hut feariess, her iuger on her Hp. &he beckoned them to fole low, led the way futo a royul chiamber, and dis- played the form of Louir NIV, in tho trangull sleep of cbildnood. Ashamed and silent, tha crowd retreated, ' —Aillott's Ilstory of France.} The night te dark and starless, Here and there An tli-trumed lawp, from pulleys 1 the wir, Gilven out u itiul glimmer, Froni the Louvre, From tne old Church of 8t Germalue lo Auxer- rols, From 5. 'Antolne, frum the old Roman Tower Near Notre Dau he Incennsed marsey MOVO Up to the Roval Palace. On the might A'thousand voices 1 thouwund crlest *'Down with the tyrant! OF with Italian law! Deuth tothe forelen vriest and ruler! Down With traltors aud usurpers! Aadame Ann, Come fazth, urall you love aud salu dies? Come forth, wive up your lover, Mazarin, Aud long Hyve Gondl,™ Su with gatliering might The furlous crowd onwurses, Lilio s flosd Fud by u freshict, wo this human tite Bweeps on reniallesss of like somo wild besst Guoosaiug it tectl, and huwling for tho foust Ot quivering tiesh, snd all athirst for blood. A ahout! a crash! tho goards, with angry frown Aud uscless swurds, are ruiely thrist ustde, While pates aru forced, and men uro trampled owi And women crusbied; but still the swelling crowd oes on unbieeclig. Throngn the Jufty duors, Up the grsnd stalicase, unabashed 18 poars With ahunt, snd hizs, and [mprecation lond, Up. up, atill uo, tho furlous ueopte rusi— 'l'fiun suddenty aro still, I'hoy patwe and lush. Tholr imp! for Ta? unon tho lawdiug, Mo faiciuco icariess, she, the Queen, 18 stauding, With an nd 1t her thizerstip Pluced ae a sizn of sidence ou her o, She vtands Lefore thear, That upliited arm, Tuat reeal forw, act lkes ""}"“’ charm Upon tho ilol, tne smlius und whispers, *Comel"™ Anud awed o silence, and with wondor dumb, I'nu wotloy crowd vosys hier, s Crivi Proud of micn, With all her splundid beauly at its bight, Itobed with tho nchness thut becomes n'Qaeen, Her royal Jewols fushine In the lgus, Bho leads ihs way, through vaultod sallerles Aud aurptious ehamberw, to & princely room— Aud here sie puuses. Suddenly, thoagh cowed, Nelitud hor patsed, 00, the curinus srowd. Witn her fair bandv, 36 beautiful to weo hey abialh be molded fnto Hitory, Site drawe o silken curtatu. Lo! there Hes, Like game ratc blossom only balf [n hloom, A vounz ohild sleoiuy sweetly, Iurdencd faces Grow solt ond tenderas tho crowd swuys uesr Lo puze upun Linn, and a pearly tear Fally gleauwlng Mko 8 geul awung bis laces. “ngl l'Iu tho King!" a bronzed wan sofily ev. 4*God bluss the child!" an unkempt wooicn alghs, And slowly turng with reverent steon, e vino Who yos from worship wheu ber prayers aro ono, And Jeads the way; and all the men, th shame, With beads bowed down, reiruce tho sicps they came; While, hneeling low beside the child who sleops, ‘The dangzer over, Jul the brave Queen weuim, LA WHELLEM, o e —— Frenol Monarchists Angry at the K Pats, Jao. T.—1Ihe Monarchist papers chazriued at the satfsfacilon espressed [ K glonl at Suuduy’s elections, ‘Lhe G Frauce aillrms that the English expect, uv fai. teriug M. Gambetta, and by the Privcs of Walos shatang Jands with hing, to zet a6t} better conmervial trestys while the won deseriteoy Eugland o8 0 kind ucivhbor who, wisely contid- jog ber own deatiufes to the Lortes, 4s Bos sorry e “de | 10 sce France reduced by Republican poliey to nmmvlnnlml; to hier the defense of Farapéan jn« tereats and cerlain geographical reclifeations. ‘The emptv-landed pollcy, it adds, deserven graclous smiles from those with thelr hamds - . " full. ‘The Zemps, whila hundsomely ackoowls .. edeing the uniform aympathy of Englind with the French Republicans durfog painfal strug- gles, replics by antleipation to thise sncers, How, it nsks, could w6 partics which disazrea 28 to Eastern policy sagree In flattering the Re. publicans for the burpose of turthering that Eoncyl '**I'he English nation,” it kase, *which as precedesd ua in the practice of constitutlon- altam nnd liberty, cauld not cive ite eymoatbics to the resctionary partfes. 8uch Ip, we belley. the main resson, the lofty and disinterested reason, of its supoort.” AFRICA. A Second Dritish Indla=Proposed Rallrosd to Lake Victoria—Great Trade Predicted. Zendon Times, Jan, 9, A large mecting of gontlemen [ntercsted in the Lancashire trades was beld In the Memorial- Hall, Manchester, on Tuesday, for the purposs of appointing a committee to take steps to open up the interior of Africa to British Iodustry. Mr, J. Bradshaw, who has been [n correspond- cnce with the explorer Btanley on the subject of 4 Africs Our Sccond fodls,” was present, and Mr. J. W. Urafton presided. The Chairman, {n Introducing the subject, said that whatever might ba the cause of the extraor- dinary depression in trade, and there were prob- ably many causes for It, they would all agres thut It was of tho greatest Importance that some markets should be opesed to re- place those which were gradually slipping from our hands, and the vast Continent of Africa offered a good flcld for opening out such markets. We had already lost a largo number of our markets because other nations were beginoing to manufacture gouds for them- selves, and it was stronelvy probable that they would become our rivals. The first poiot of importance was to diffusc information, and that would be done to & certalu extent by the present mecting. {Hear, liear,] Mr. Bradshaw referred at the outsot of his re- marks to the geographical extent, ponulution, aud natural wealth of Africe. It was, he sald, - one-sixth Jess than the great Amerlcan conti- nent, but had five times the ares of Indiz. With respect 1o the poptlation of the country, Mr. H. M. Btanley, than whom he knew no better au- thority, put It ut from 150,000,000 to 200,000,000 people, Thia had becn questioned, but seein) that the country was five times the size of Indla, which “contalned about ,000,000 peonle, it was not, in his judement, ab &ll improbable that Mr. Stanley's calcula- tion was correct, Mr. Stanley told him that he thought ke himrelf saw at least 800,000 peo- le on the narrow line of route he traversed on iis last journey, and he assumed there wers 6,000,000 people restdent og the shores of Lake Nyanza. Asto natural weslth, everything that was found in other continents was found there, It had boen estimated that 2,400,000,000 yards o callco were sent annually from thia country to Indin, und there was no " reason why we should not send & simlilar quantity each year to Afriva. If this wero done, it would afford occupation to 200,000 Laochasblro operatives, besides giving & tremendous impetus to the trades of Slhelleid, Birmingham, and Yorkshire. In order to utll- 1ze this great continent {t'was esscntlal to get to the larze centres of population in the interfor. Opinfons differed anto the best means of reaching tieso places. His own oplolon was that they might be approached from ssveral poliita, but the point to which they should turn their attention, coergles, and caplial waa the development of the lake reglons, which could be well done from the cast coast. Mr, Stanley strongly advocated the construction of arallwsy of about 500 mites in length from a point on the caat coast to the southern end of the Victoria Nyanza. A reference to the map would show other lakes wero laked with the Nyanza, und assuming that wo were suvcessful tn trading operations ou tho shores of the Vie- toria, into which thero were inany rivers flowingz, a ratlway 150 miles lonz would feacn Lako Tan- eanyika, which bad a waterway. of about 830 millecs, nnd, when they Lad becoms masters of that, avother railway of 200 miles would bring them to Nynsss, which gavo them onother waterway, Apothershort rallway would then reach to the navizable waters of the Bhira aud Zambesh, which “flowed mto tle sea,—in other words, u link Hue of raflway of 400 wniles would afford ubout 1,300 miles of splendid navigablo water. ‘There was anothier resson why they should go toiVictoria Nyanza, which was thit the River Nile flowed into hat lake. [Hear, hear,] ‘There wos no doubt that the Khedive ot Egypt was ambitions to form a great Egyptian Emplre, unil was rapldly comlng down to this rekloo, lis ultimate alm belng tho Nyanza. 1 they wanted to push their way to “the west coast, there was the wonderful river which Mr. Stanley had rechrstened the * Livingstonc," sl which had its source very near to the ‘Tau- waoylks. They would ultimately be ablo to complete the chuin of trading ports right ucrose the coutinent, und they could then open out north wid south as clreumstances permitted. [Cheers,] Thera was another reason why they should proceed to the lake district, and that was that it would result fn the death of the sluve tratlic which exists there, To revert to the raflway, Mr. Stanley sald it conld casily bo constructed. ‘The foundaton was cood the wholo way, und the distance about iniles, the cust beinyz abouda milllon sterling. On the routo there was abundance of timber, sud no euginecring ditlicuitios worth =peaking of, Lu- Lor could be had very cheap, and the rallway would at once ntroduee them toa population of 80,000,000, What 8 difference It would mnke on the Muncbester Exehange (€ they had 80,000,- UX additloual custumers who had pleoty ot thinga Lo give lu exchange for our valicocst {ilcur, hear,| Mr. Bradshaw further suggested thit the undertaking should bo carried out by a company, uind tat It might be uecessary to rame £10,000,000 storiing. e deprecated the proposal Usat th:e Governineut shouls undertuko it, A dbseussion followed, after which resolutions were passed appointing o comimittee and ex- pressing the view that o couference should be beld ut an curly date fu the Free Trave Hull, Manchester, to which the leading men of thy country and M, 11, M.Elnnlu{ might Lo ju- vited, and that the outcome of such a meeting might result {n the promotion of o trading cor- poration, which would adopt st effuctual means {or openlng out thu luterior of Africu to trude, A further resolution was adopted ex- pressing the quIon that the openioe_of the interlor of Africa by means of cheap Enulish capital would be the most effectunl meaus of putting an eud to the iniquitous slaye tratlic, ——————— . MOTHER, 1've scen rude, rough, and lawlese men explre, Waose latest breatiing sichod this tendur word, Whils wild compsuions stuod uncovered near, ‘Uirsiled by the wagic of tte teuder spell. 'vo heard the ward low muttered, inditinet, Iy thoxe whose fevered mind all else forgot, I'vo hearil the soldicr speak the ssme dear uame, Whon smitton n tho heat of battle's rage, Au it it wero u wond of mystic power o apen teaven's gate anil pase him satelythrough, ‘Fhe swaotost accunta of an Angel-child Wero never swooter than those basrded men's, **Mother* woitly murtaurod from thel A calling Home, and love, and childlinod's scenssy other luve can Mother 4 love selipae, with supernal lustrousuess it shive As lie duchinen, und warms the frozen heart, Chilled by tho fluters of Deatl's iy hau e No Much an we long: for reat In Paradias, u quall the watcrs, cat tho feuit o llfe, Whera tearn fall uot, wnd mghts of patn ne® com, Where picusures bide throngbout unending day, Where we slialt incct the good of ov'ry age, Anil drink tn wisdomn from the source of ‘froth,= Yet tu our urphuned hearts, than sll more dear, ‘This thought cur fond unticipation foedv: ‘Fiere we sbull meet thee, Muther, uv'er to part, Now, Mother's (0uch seems vften on our heads, ilor acceuta uft we Licar on uther tougues; Nu liuman fraliy mars Ber BOmory, ilut, satated oo she 18, her fmngo bright Dirécts the way 1o you ctoras) Bome, La Unaxuz, W. J. Oznoesr, 2 — The Sulllvun Family af Miller's Marsh, Neo York World, At Miler’s Murab, uear Waterford, Bridget Bulilvan wus hit on the head with a bellows and wbrickby hor sister Mary, wnd kiiled. The polize fuund the body ou ihe floor, the futher, the mother, slsters, and drothera sl drunk, un sbout thirty persous in the house, all more or less intogicated. The father told the Coraucr's iur y thut he gidn't Kuow suythbuge about It, but ho had u lttle donkey, that” bud Just gied, und wanted to get some money from the Jury with which to buy snother, Mr, Maber (& juror)— **1lave you got coflln for your doad “child!" Withess—** I uave uot, but ton't miud tbat; fo is wy little dunkey perbiug on wo that is the troubly tw we.” . e Short Dresies, New York Grahee, There {3 an active movedicut among some of 1he Jeaders of the best society fu luvor of short dreascy Jor balls umt daseing partics, »}muily for youne ladies. ‘Pl etfort, 11 succesaful, will flrst take form and tind expressfon at she Chare ity Bull, nhich takes vlace at the Academy on Futy 105 hut the [d 2 bas been sdoutid by wany Juung auushters ashwuable fadlva gt prvity Limucnts, and eets riL <t oso wueh Uiyt oty §s so viziudy 1 weeaidence with the dlciates vt gowl sense wml corpect taste, that those {1 a position to wake & cholve could bards ly besitate between the sbure kit uud the lotgs