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LITERATURE. "A Prose Translation of the Odyssey by Butcher and Lang. Lefevre’s Philosophy---Spiritu- al Songs---Life of Dr. Eddy. ‘Le Conto’s Elements of Geology-- Bricf Notices---Litorary Notes. Tho Inertia of the Rotina--Nation- ality in France and Germany =-Soience Notes. LITERATURE s THE ODYSSEY IN PROSE. Butcher and Lang’s prose. translation of the — Odyssey, recently published by Macmillan & “Co., is an attempt to give “the simple truth about the matter of the poem.” The translators have trled to transfer not al} the truth, but the Mlstorical truth, of the Odyssey into Engltal, They admit that “ without the muste of verse, only ahalf truth about Homer can bo told.” 1 They belfuye also that there ean be no final En- lish translation of ‘the opics. “In cach thera must be, in addition to what {¢ Greek and eternal, the clement of what 1s modern, person> al,, and fleeting, A prose translation cannot ‘ give the movoment and the fire of n euccesaful translation in verso; {t only gathers, as It were, the crumbs whieb fabl from the richertable, only tells tho story without the song. Yet toa prose _ translation 18 permitted, perhaps, that close ad- erence sto the archsiems of the epic whieh {n yersa become mere oddities.’ The transintdrs have chosen a somowhat antiquated > English prose, the words being, ag a rule, such as aré found In the King James’ version of the Bible. They have endeavored alao to preserve the aaga elements of the pocm, and even to use u poctical-prose style, holding that the “Homeric . epica. are sagas)? “told with an art which Is not the art of the Northern pocts.” Mr. Lang, it {8 understood, hing brought to the work poetical akil} and erit- feat knowledge of early povtry in many Jan- guages, while Mr. Butcher has contributed ag Ay capital jn the joint entorprise a thorough knowledge uf the Greek language. 5 ‘The reault of these combjocd labors fs a trang- lation which it would be hurd to match for fidel- - fty, vigor, aud purity of style. The epithets of the orlginal, which aro so characteristic of it, “and yet 80 difflentt to reproduce in poctry, have been brought out in this version with special dis- tineenves, and the repetitions have been adhered - to, Odysseus “rieh fn counsel”? and Telemna- ehus * the high-spoken " aliays appear as atch dn these pages whenover tlicy are so deseribed in the corruapondiug, line of the original. So the full meaning of oach word 1s pressed out of fteyen when, a8 frequently happens miore than one word In English is necessary for the purpose. Thus Telemachus is made to speak of his kine “with traiiing feet and slambling galt,’ while In the -original two words contaln he whole of the descriptive phrase. In thls passage, by the way, an odd and awkward colfucation of phrases niakes the trans- notion inGegant. As an illustration of the carelgssnesa which crops out ot several places, und {8 the only serious blemish iu the tranala- tlon, we quot ‘Then wise Tolemachns answered tim and said: ‘sMonelaus, son of Atreuy, fosterling of Zeus, leader of the host, [lave come if perchance thou maycat tell ma some tidings of my father. My hone ia being devoured. and my fat lands are Thined, and my dwelling 1a full of focmen, who #laughter continually my thronglng flocks, and my kino with trailing feet ang ehambling galt, even the wooers of my mother, despiteful out of me¢as- ure.” e : Notonly does this srraugenient make the kine grammatically the wooers, but the mother is “desnttetul,” whereas nothing was further, fromthe Intention af Homer. A almilar error 1 occurs on tlig-Arat page, whore the stlfocss of , the translation is remarkably; < Now all tho rest, as many a6 fled from sheer dee. struction, were at hamu and had: eacaped both war and pen, but Odyesens only, yearniug tor bia wife and his returniiy, the lady-nymph Calypso held, that falr goddess, in har hotlow caves, Jonuing to , have him for her lord, 5 “Calypso, that fair goddess, held In her hollow. eaves,’ {s better English and @ correct transla- tion, though not following go closely the ordor of the original. It is evident, indeed, that these and other like Ulunders In the first two or three books arise from a sloyish udherence to the order of the Greel:, which fs for the Engllet reader a matter of no great consequence, and should not, at ny rate, bo permitted to {neum- ver the translation with obscurities. Tapplily, the trauslators have discarded in the later books their ambition to be faithiul tn this way, "The translators are at thelr best in telling the charming story of Nausicaa, and, a3 an tllustro- ton of what poetical prose can do toward re- producing the spirit of Homer, wa give tho fol- lowing: by Anun come the throned Dawn, and awakened neicao of the falrrobes, who atraightway mare velod onthe dream, and went through the halls to toll her paronte, her father dearand her mother, Ant ahe found them within, her mother altting by the hearth with the women ‘her handmafde, apin- ning yarn of sea-purplte stain, but her father whe met da hoe was golug forth tu the renowned Kings in thelr council, whither the noble Phwacians Vade bin, Standing closo by her dear father sho spake, saying: “**Father, dear, couldat thou not Jend me 9 bigh wavon with strong wheols, that I muy take thy gooilly rfinent to the river to wast, soinuchas 1 haye Ting soiled? Yea, and it 1s neomly that thou thyvelf when among the Princes Jn council whould have fresh raunent to wear, Alvo, there are five dear sons of thing in the halls, two ‘married, but three are lusty bachelura, and there are always eager for now-Washen garments Whereln to to tho dances, fur all thesu things havo J taken thought.” ‘hia who wald because sho was ashamed to apeak of clad marriage to her father, but to saw oll and anawered, eaynig: “+ Neither tho mules nor aught elaedo 1 grudge theo, my child. Go thy ways, and the thralls shall vet theo ready a high wagon with good wheels, and tted with an upper frame," Now when they were como to the beautiful Streawi of thy river, where truly sveru tho unfalling Clvtorns and bright water welled up frou from be- Neath. und fowed paat, enough to wash the foulost Rarments clean, there the giriv untiarnessed tho mu from under the charlot, and turning them Jnogo they drove thom alonz the banks of tho addy ing river to graze on the eweet clover, ‘Then thoy took the gartnents from the wain, in thelr hands, and boro thon to the black water, und brlakly trod thon down 11 the tranchey, in bywy rivalry. Now whon they had washed ‘and cleanyed all the atains, thoy spread all wut In order along the aliore Of tly deoy, even whore tho wea, In boating on the coust, wavhed the pebbles cloan, Then haying Vathed and anointed them with alt, they twok thelr tulddoy meal on the river's bank, waiting tl) the clothes whould dry inthe rtp tiene of the wun, Anon, when thoy “woro satieled with foud, the maldenaana te Princess, they fell to playing ut bal, casting away thelr fires, and among them Nausteas of tho white arma began the song. And even as Artemis, the archer, smoveth down tho wountainy, either along the ridgew of lofty Tay- vetas or Erymunthus, taking ber pastime jn the Chase of: board and swift deer, and with her the wild wood-nymphe divport them, the daughters of Zeus, lord of the weis/ond Leto. te giad at heart, white bigh ovor all she rears her head and brows, andesaly may she be known,—-butall are {air; even, eo thé girl unwed outehono her maiden com- any. Tt fo difficult to stop quoting from such a assoge, but it ie stil iucomplete, To our mind is {t more like Homer than anything in Pope or Chapinau, ‘She tranalatora lo pot, howover, comm(t.the cRreat mistake of woderrating the poetical ver- slous of Homer, Popo und Chapman composed English eptca, in imitation of Homer, if they did bop truly Foproseut the genius of the Greck, : Each satlafled the demands of bis own age, and Wrote in accordance with itsspirit, ‘The present: translators have profited by the experience of all their predecessors in thy same field of effort. ‘e find them following Pope and Chapman, for Anatane Unelr travslation of the celebrated punning scene iv the Cave of Polyphemus, ‘hose who haye becn many years from college May not take offense on being reminded that Odysseus when first questioned by Polyphomus ave hiv name ag Nomou (outis); and when the 'yelon's eye had been bored outvand he, bellow- {uy with palu inalde bis cave, apoke to his com pantons outside, they wero misled by this odd hame, Pope yiyes thy speech of Polyphomus Std the reply of bis brethren thus: «Tho Cyclop from hig den replica: “Friends, Nowun killg mo; Noman In the hour Of sleep oppresscs ino with fraudful power." ; ‘If no mau hurts thee, but the hand divine, Todict divesse, it Mts thes to resign: ‘9 Joye of tu thy fatner Neptune pray.” = * ‘The brethren cried, and atrode away. « Chapman's yerslon is os followat Ue answered fron: bladens ‘*Isy craft nor might, established, No-mian hath givon me death." They thea sald reht: “1 no man hurt thee, and thyself alone, ‘That which in done to thes by dove 18 dono; Anil what great Jove Iniliets no man can fly. Bray ta thy Fathor yot. n Deity, And prove. trom him, if thau cans't help acquire." Thue apoke thoy, Teaving alin, ‘The prosa transtation elyes the colloquy thts: And tho atrong Potyohemas Kpoke unto them from ont tha cava: **My frlende, Nownn ts alay- Jug me by guile, tor at all ny farce.” And they anawered nnd enoke winged wordas ‘If thon tio man ta violently handling thee In thy sulitode, it can In no wieo be that thom uldent escape the alcknens sont by mighty Zens. Pray thon rather to thy father, thelord Poseidon. Though Satcher and Lang have followed Pope nnd Choptnan fn the use of Noman, they hays followed them, it will be observed, fm Mttle clan, ‘They have brought out diatiuctly the meaning of the phrast, opposing Voscidon to Zeus; and as the wrathof Poscldon, on account of the prayer of Polyphasmita, was the cause of Ubysaca! oubsequent wandering and suffering, the difference fa all important. Thia is but one Mustration out of a thousand of the greater fidelity aud clearness of the prosc tranalution. Vor (te aceurary wil its spin, and the charm of ifs narrative we prefer fe to any other trans- Intion of the Odyssey. ‘This notice, It seems, would be incomplete without the sonnet by Mr. Lang prefixed to the volume: Aé one that fora wenry apace has tain Luiled by the song of Circe and her wine In gardens near tho pale of Praaperptng, Whero that Frean tale forecte the main, + And only the low Intes of love complain, « Aud only abadows of wan luvere pine, Aneuclh an one were gind to know the brine Salt on bis ips, and the large air again, So ladly. from the songs of modern speech Aen tin and sco the stars, and feel the free Shrill wind beyond thacloxe of heavy flowers, And througt the muate of the tanguld buace, They hear Ike ocean on a weatern beach ‘he surge and thonder of the Odyssey. ( The Odyssey of Homer Done tnto English Prose.” By B. HL Butcher, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and A. Lang, Late Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. London and New fares Maviiilun & Co. 8yo4 P4310, Cloth. PHILOSOPHY --+ HISTORICAL CRITICAL. ‘The translator of Lefovro’s Philosophy devotes his Introduction to ap apology for his work ane f refutation of the fundamental principtes which his author everywhera assumes fo his history of Phitoaovhy. Mr. Keane hos mode good his attempted refutation. How far his reasons will stand for introducing such a treatise to English readers remain to be seen. We set out with the thought of giving an outline of the genarat ideas of Lefevre’s work, but had scarcely begun the reading when we discovered that the wholo book ismade up of prejudiced and.one-sided representations, and that hardly a page was written in the spirit of an fmpartial philosophy. ‘The author's manifest alm from beginning to end fs to sup the foundations of 'Ihefam, and hia bit- terness arainat Christianity {s open and undis- gulsed wherever he has opportunity to develop it, Ho aoproves the statement of Tacitus that Christinnity fs hostile to nl! the best intercsta of the human rice, and ofter goes out of his way to express bis dotestation of its doctrines and principles. Mohanmmedaniem, hie thinks, fs bad enough, but far better than Christianity. In the second part of his work, Lefevre endeavors to show how organisms and man were developed on materinilatic principles, without any designing first. cause. Granting his assumptions, hic carries the point. But these assumptions cover the whole ground. ‘The whole book is an argument, and the orcu- ment breaks down at“Inst for the want of any fucts to sustain the theory defended. This Mr. Keane has shown fn his introduction, and it Is still more apparent in the reading of Lefevre’s reasoulnyza. ‘The discusston evinces ingenulty, But to a calm aud philosophical thinker it will go for very little until its postutntes are better When a mon cau lft himsclf by the straps of his boots, It may be stiown how the orgaule world could he evolved on the principle of pure materialism, 7: ‘philosophy, Historical and ‘Critteal. By Andre Lofeyre; translated with introduction by H, Keane. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1879, “. 8 mo, (Library of Contemporary y. 5). Cloth, $1.75, SPIRITUAL SONGS. Dr. Robinson 1s well kuown not only as a-the- o)ogian und a preacher, but as the author of several selections of hymna and tunce, His “Songs of the Church’? nnd “Songs of the Sanctuary,” which wers prepared sith thenssist- ance of Mr. Joseph P, Hotbrook tu the musical department, ore widely used in the churches of aiiferent denominations. “The present selec- tlon has pecn gathered forthe uscoft a few paa- tora who desire it for the churches to which they aro ministering.” But it is woll ndapted for the use of other churches, unt bids falrto have au extended circulation. It is about the sane size as the “Songs of:the Sauctuary,” aud fs very much Ike that work, though differing from {5 tn several respects. It consists of 440 pages,and embraces 1,080 hymns aud chants, with twenty- AND 698 p. Science, four dorologics, an index of tunes, 5 metrical index, an iudex of authors, one of Scripture toxts, one of hymua, and one of subjects, The hymns are chtefly those in common usa and well known, but all the best recent com- positiona are included, with sovorat that have not been published before, Dr, Robinson evinces cuod taste in bis solcction of hymns, In afew cases bis selections are not aboro criti clain. “The hymns of F. W, Fisher are for the moat part simple and excellentin sentiment, but not lyrical. Some of the repetitious hymns used by such revivalists os dir. Sankey answer a tem- porary purpose, but aya not eot{tled to a place jn a perinanent selection of hymna for the eburches, ‘The detail of distressea in Hymn 403 is not a lyrical compoaltion, although the spirit- ual import {s good. Asa whole, the hymuse are among the best in our languace. The transla- tions are, almost of necesalty, o ttle less facile than the writings of good English composers, but some of them ure highly satisfactory. The number of hymue {3 suillciently larae. ‘fhe tunes are generally well adapted for uso In the churches, “‘T'icy are neither too heavy nor too lett, aud the movements ara sufctently varied to avold the monoteny of such works of the “Sabbath Hymn and Tune-Book,” which failed because Dr. Mason, in his old ove, sought to reduco hts church tunes to the simplest. kind, of unfsform measure. ‘The simplest music fa not, alwayssthe most popular, A taking melody will carry n tune with the people, even if It be sume- what dililcult, In this reepeet the’ music of Dr. Noblnson'’s Looks surpasavs that of muy’ other hymn and tune-books with which we are ac- quainted, The compactness of the work before ‘us hos been promoted by placing tunes betwe: the hyning, and hymns at the end of tun which did not rin across the pares, in a largo number of cases, ‘This impatra the general ap- penradce of the book, and disturbs a reader who looks over the hymnstoa And one for his pur- pose, [twould bo better to have the tunes fpisealt above und the hymns dolow, as in most hyinn ‘and tung-books, "This selection 18 only to be regretted as add- ing to the Jarze number of new books already in the market, and as being well adapted to make the churches that ave adopted some of te other coltections divsatteficd with their choice. Lt is clearly printed, and Is small enough Jor conyantent use. (Selection of Bpirktual Songs, with Music for the Church and the Chofr.” Compiled by C..8, Robinson. New York: Beribner & Co. rey poee uctayo, silk, $2.60; cloth, $1,605 ilex- ible, 31.50.) RWB . LIFE OF DR. EDDY. Te was dtu that a Life of such a noble man Thomas M, Eddy should be written and sent us Dr, abroad. ‘The volume by Dr, S{ms {sau appro- priate tribute to this highly esteomed Chris- tian minister, ‘The introduction by’ Bishop Simpson ts graceful ond impresstve, and tho biography is characterized by good taste, sim. pilelty, anda judicious selection of the most interesting facts and traits In the ilfe of a trul; youd and great mun. , Dr. Eddy was descended from s Now England— and on one side « Quaker—ancestry. He wos born in tho State of Oblo, and was the son of a Prestding Elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church, fa which he became a communicant at ancarly age. His early education was rather Ninited, but he made up for deficlencles by sub: sequent und Vory auccessful study, Ito on- tered the ministry before ha was 20 years of age, and was from the beginning a highly populk end usetul preacher, belug equaled yery fow of his brethren tn polat of eloquence and the results of his car. neat labors. 40 185% bis health, which was al- woye delicate, so far gaye way that ho was obliged to retire from ordinary pastoral work, He therefora tubored in the service of the Amer {ean Bible Society for a year, und theu ucted for suveral sears ag tha editar of the Northweatern Christian Advocate, Yn this capacity, aud by hls outside work to the churches, Lo became wido) und favorably known not ouly in Chicago, but througbout the Northweat. Afterwards he re- turned for o scason to the pulplt in Baltimore aud Washington City. In 1873 ho was elected one of the three Secretaries of thu Misslovary Bosety of bly Ckurcly—a potion next mi bonor and atigalty to tiatof Bishop, But in October. 1874, his Trist Sess cane gon him, and he died peacefully and joyfully ot the early age of Bt. The gental soeint qualities and extraordinary plety of Dr, Eddy are tinely delineated In this yoltime, without extravagance and with mifect- (Ing [uateations drawn from bis letters and other writfigs and fran the: testimony of, friends, [The Life of the Rey. ‘Thomas M, Eddy.” By Charles N. Sims, D. 1., witht an Ine troluction by the Rev. Bishap Simpson, 1, 1), 0, Now York: Nelson & Phtiltve. Cin nutl: Hitcheock & Walden, 1879.) RW. ELEMENTS OF GEOLOGY. To one accustomed to Dana, the frat impres- alons on examining Prof, Le Conte’s work aro peculiar. ‘The latter acems to havo oxactly re- versed the order fn which publications of this kind have been written, Dana begina with the varllest information of the history of the earth, and advances to the tme of the completion of his studies, in Prof, Le Conte's * Eleinents” the opposite order is followed. He looks abroad over the earth, secs {ts mountaing, rivers, the vhenomena of ite atmosphere, ete. and pro- ceeds immediately to explain the causes of the condition of things, Inuther words, ne takes Ure condition of the earth ashe finds It, und works backward. ‘This method has tts advan- tages, as it enadles him to make evolution the central tden. This method {6 ro: markable, sf geolory is a Iistory of the earth, and iistories are naturally supposed to begin at the’ beeinnine rather thon at the end. But there {s no vital objection to such a plan, On the contrary, i¢ isa ver? pieasing, If not entirely satisfactory, way to study geology. What fs extremely plensurable about the work fs the absence, as far us possl- bic, of abstruse scientific language. ‘Tue whole yolume shows the skillful and powerful work- {ngs of a mastor-mind. ‘Ihe uarative fs simple and exact, not tediously specific. There {s no writing for effect. Concerning this work the author say Thave not attempted to make an exhaustive manual to be thumbed by the special student: for, oven tf Tfelt able to write such a work. Prot. Dana's ie already in the fleld, and it fe all that can bo deatred in this reepect, 1 have endeavored to present clearly to the thoroughly cultured student and reader whutever fu best and mont Interesting In wvological wcience. . . . I have desired to make a work which shal bs both Interesting and pate tothe general rendor, and at the samo imo a aultable text-book for the higher claxses of our colleges. In the selection of material and mode of presentation Ihave been guided by lonz exnerlence a# to what it 1s possibic to make inter- esting to a class of young nen aumewhnt advanced in general culture and eager for knowledge, but not expecting to become special geolugistr. Prof, LeConte has written more fully than is common of dynamical and structural gevlogy— ©. g., rivers, claciera, voleanos, geysers, earth- quakes, coral-recfa, slaty cleavage, metantor- ioses, mineral veins, mountain chains, ete. The genests of the horse, comprising the late re- searches of Huxley and Marsh, has an extended notice, and muny other late topics of {nterest. ‘The work fa designed to have a place between the -present publication known an * Elements,’* and the “Manual.” It is the size of Danals “Manual,” and {s especially adapted to use In the western part of this country. (“Elements of Geoloxy.” By Joseph LeConte, author of “Religion and Science,” ote., and Professor of Gevlozy and Natura! History Jn the Untyersity of California, VD, Apptetan & Co.) BRIEF NOTICES. ‘The’papers.of Prot. Bain on ‘Education as » Science,” which have been appeuring for a num- ber of months past in the: Moynilar Scene Monthly of the Messrs. Appleton, have now been collected ina volume which Is printed as one of the International Sctentific Series. Dr. Bain is Professor of Logle jn the University of Aber- deen, There fs probably not a more competent writer on uducation Iylng. (Price, $1.75.) Asories of charming papers which appeared originally In the Jall fall Gazette under the utle of “The Gamekeeper at Home,” have been. reprinted in this country by Mesera, Roberts Bros.. of Boston. ‘The writer exhibits much famillarity with the hab{ts and duttes of the gamekeeper, and treats of parts of his subject with a wninutencss of detail which would show, H he did not oxpreas'{t, that the principal fentures of his portralt aro drawn from life. ‘The styte fs excellent, and the book deserves, we should say, all the praige that has been be- stowed upon St by erltical authorities in England ante thle country, (Boston: Koberts Bros. Charles Scribner's 8ons haye printed. in tivo yolumea, bs already noted, Dr. Moritz-Buach’s Biamarck in the Franco-German Ware? ‘This fa the.book -that ercated so great a sensation in Germany und Englund at the time of tts frst appesrance. . THs Tuinune priuted several col- uinns of extracts trom ita pages at the tic, ‘There fs mucl more gossip of the gainc kind un- disturbed fo those volumes. It fs fn some reapects the most remarkable work of the kind over written, The sceming indiscretions in it ‘are authorized aud Intentional, ‘The whole pur+ pose of the book is to commend the iNustrious subject of It to the German people for hts brutal frankness, and to “keep hit before the nublic,? even at. the oxpensc of bis reputation for snguctty.a Price, 4. Pullip Gilbert Hamerton's “ Life of Turner,” which has appeared tn parts In the Jorffolio, fe now printed in a yolume by Messrs, Roberta Bros,, of Boston. ‘The author auysin his pre- face: *Lhave not thought It right to take all the pluins out of Mr. Thornbury's vook, witleh ‘will still be consulted by those who are inter. ested in Turner, but I thought there was room for another book executed more at telsure, £ trave taken iny time about thla. and brought it Bradually to its present form, belleving that it omits nothing of essential {mportunce.’ We oye had oceation to speak of the. felicitous style uni! apt criticisms of this Life from month to month, ana it 1s unnecessary to say more of them: at present, The bovk {fs handsomely bound, and contains nine iilustrations, etched by A. Brunet-Debalnes, (Bustou: Roberts Urns, $2.50.) “Brazil and the Brazilians, Portrayed in Wistorieal and Deseriptive Sketches,” by the Key, Jumea C, Fletcher und the Rev. D. 2. Kid- der, D. D., has passed toa ninth edition. ‘fhe stext in this edition bas been revised and brought down to date, ‘The book has long been a stund- ard authority on the subject, ‘The eighth edt- ton had become exceedingly scarce; copics commanded three times the original price, and stunditys ardurs bath (uy Londan wid Now York reaulted in ovtaininy but o afvete eccond-hand volume. In this edition many important events are treated which have occurred since the issue of the eighth edition, namely, the success- ful close of the Paraguayan war, the Emancipa- tion avt and the gradual extinction. of slavery, the triumph of the clvil over the eccleslastical Jaw in 1874 and 1875, the tours of the Emperor in Atwerica aud Europe, ete, ‘The book ts equal- ly vuluavle for {ts historical aud Its commerciat poriss and will command even # readier ealo in ts new forin than iu the old ouc, (Boston: Little, Brown & Co.) “The Endless Futuro of the Human Race,’ by Dr. ©. 8. Henry, a clergyman of the Protest- ant Episcopal Church in Aterica, is o letter written to a srlend several months before Canon Forrar’s “Sermons on Eterna! Hope” were preached. ‘Thu writer takes the naw common view of the word alonios, translated usually io the New Tostameut “everlasting or tend Jeas"'s und holds that {t means a apace indetin- itely fong, or weon-long, but not eternal, The main argument fa, Indecd, somewhat worn’ and trite; buc the appendices ore valuable, and the one which treata of +Modern Orthodox Repre- sentations of Future Punishinant” tsa curiosity Jn its way. It will be useful periapsfor persons Who feel that their faith in tue terrors of the Hereafter and the joy ‘of the Supreme Bomg jn the sufferinga of His creatures has been shaken, to turn to this appendix and read ugein whut the varly Now Englund divines thought-and belleved, Dr, Henry, by the way, regards Hellas ‘a great reforniatory institu- tlon,"’ aud the Catholic Purgatory as only fautcy dn not including aff who need purification bet belng admitted to the abodes of thy _b) (New York; D. Applevon & Co, cents.) i LILERARY NOTES, Atis stated Hint Edmund Clarence Stedman probably will write a Ife of Bayard Taylor, There ts in English criticism, especially as represented in certain familar journals of opinion, a depth of inadequacy which st Je dilil- cult to fathom.—London Kzaminer, A newspaper letter trom Now York asys that Mr. E. C. Stedman recently recelyed a letter from a rich lady, asking bim to write for. her w commemdrative poem on tho occasion of her silver wedulug, and informing bim that {£ it Suited ahe wouldn't mind paying $10 for it, ‘The Jate Mr. Charles J, Wells, who dicd last month Iu bis 78th year, the author of thy resus- cltated dramatic poemn, “Joseph and Elis Breth- ren," which cverybody praiacs now after its lying neglected for fifty yeara, was siugularly careless of fame. in 1850, twenty-six years after the orfginal publication, he was induced to make a revised copy of the poem; byt io 1676, when ‘Theodore Watts tried to got it from the pout, tt wan found thut Wells had lost it, indeed be bad forgotten tls exfateuce, When Mre, Welle died the poet burned several volumes of verve (hat be lad weltteus dle was the Irlend of Keats, v nov, huppily utc: THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY: MARCH 29 and wrote "Joseph"? out of pique—to show that he, ton, “could do something ’—whien thefr friendahtp, through a practical joke that Sally played on Keats’ brother, was inter- rupted. The ninth volume of the “Encyclopedia Uritaunica” will be ronly for delivery In April. [textends the work vearly through the letter “EY The article on “ Benjamin Franklin” ts written by John Bigelow; that on ‘Millard Filmore" by Dr. G, BE. Ellis, of Bustony ' Fic- sole”! by W. M. Rossetti; “ Flelding by Will- fam Mintu: “Charles James Fox" by W. Fy Raey und Frolesart” by Walter Beaant. The admirers of Cowper, the poct, who sro raising a church todis memory at Olney, hope to seo the foundation-stone Jald in a few weeks. Like all people who bulld churches, they want money, and iti to be hoped that they will get as intich os the modest sum they want. Cowper apparently has no mouument exvent 2 memorial wlidow at Berkhampstead.- A church ts the safest fort of a monument he could have, —/on- don News, - ‘The late James Macdonell, the London jour- uolist, had planned out and partly pregured a book on France. ‘fhe Spectatur, in sttelsys tte death, remarks that society had begun to rec~ ognize hie brilliance in conversntion, that his houso had begun to beacentre for the culth vated, gand that his position jn his profession was wll displayed at bis funeral. “It fs scarcely too much to say that, if the train which carted bis friends to Beckenham had been trrecked, Liberal journaligm tn Londen would momentarily have stopped." Parko Godwin writes of Seelye’s ‘ Lite of Stein"? In the Library Tabé jn a savage way: “Forgetting Sydnov! Smith's reminder, that mankind ore no longer antedeluvinus, he {Prof, Seelye] takes nore thon 8 thousand solid pages to tell his tale, und tells ft poorly at that. Sle 1s painstalcing: of courso—minute, consclen- tlous, impart a,—-but oxcessively tedious, Only a strong sense of duty as a reviewer has enabled ineto push ontothe dnd, . . . If the huge tomes wero condenséd into about a hundred pages, wo should perbaps reach u better concep Uon of Bteln.’?» % Messrs, Little, Brown & Co, have In preas and will publieh during thé present season the me- mnolr and writlhgs of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL.D., fn two volumes, edited by his son, Ben- jamin i Curtis, ‘The lirst volume will contalu the memotr by George Tickuor Curtis; the sec- ond the miscellaneous writings of Judge Curtis. With the memolr will, be printed for the first timo Judge Curtis’ correspondence with Chict- dustice Tauey relating to the Dred Scott de- efaton, und other papers throwlng much new and interesting Ight on tpt once famous contro- versy, ‘The earlier history of Mr, Curtis, from 1830 to 1850, while a|member of the Suffulk Bar,—of which little is known except by tradl- tion,—is also fully related for the tlrat time, ‘The following sonnet, on the death of Bishop Foley, is printed in the last number of the Catholic World, Tho Tyrer, ite understood, ta Mra. M. G. Meatyard, df this city. The suonet ie sobbed Chicazo, ‘sul bears date Feb. 19, The servants of our Lord must follow Him. Many the pathe they tread—tne end 1s one; Su towards one ocean distant torrents ran Down mountain ateevs, "mid valleys deep and dim, Tonnd Him these shratigh foot of eorruw swim; ‘And these His scourge bf righteous unger beur. Som with Him at Guna’s feast. and abare Itw heavenly yintage tll their cupe o'erorim; Buch was lie hoppy. place, and tucnce he brought Pure Joy that all hie loukitransnyared, Celestial peace from haute of seraphim. O flock bereft! your Shepherd's fondest thought, ‘That our poor sl ihe to falth’s great biyhty ov led. The servant of uur Lord has followed Him. A Western banking-house Incloses us some lines of poetry’ and gake us to explain therm, ‘They constitute a apeclmen of what eritics call “ Nonsensy Verses,” and the Freneh denom- inate Ainpnizou, ‘The “whole verse {s itself imiitatea from the French, avd we quote all of it, as ftis one of the finest {Illustrations of this array of words without ineaning to be found {pn the language: ae Wow happy to defend aur heart, When Love has never thrown a dart! But ah! unhuppy when it bends, Tf ploarore her aoft bliss suspende! Sweet Inn wild, dledrdered strain, A lost and wandering heart to galnt Olt in mlataken Jungaaze wooed The skitiful lover's pndurstood. Even the celebrated Foutenelle was misted by this composition (ia its original French), and undertouk to explain its blddeo meaning, but, after being rallted by Mme. Tencln on his mis- take, at lust cave up in despair, amd adinitted that the :sompoaition was sound without sense, —New York Journal of Commerce. The “Bay Psatm Book,” which sold at the Brinley sale ror $1,200, was not lone remarka- bie in the fact that it was probably the first ‘book printed in America, and ta now yery rare. Moses Colt Tylur, in his ‘History of American | Literature,” suys it ‘will*pp forever memorable asnsort of prodizy among the literary: produc- tions of our first periods—'a posue phenome we may hope, in all the Hteratures of English spcech.'* It was the joint production of the-chicf divines of the country, each of whom took a separate portion of the original Hebrew for translation. . Iichard Mather, ong of the famous Mather family, wrote ha pretack. which Is a “characteristic bit of Puritan prose, very Hebraic tn fearning, very Nerole iu conaclentiousness, sharp and minute In opinion, quaint in phrase.” It fs the “up- ailing sincerity?’ of these men which must, In Prof, Tyler's opinion, cover the multitude of Aine they have cdmmnitted in their use of the English lauguace. ‘There are ju it “sentences wrenched about from end to ond, clauses beayed up and abandoned in chaos, words dia- embowweled or split quite Inte in the middle.” ‘The yeroes acetn to haye been * bammered out on an gnvil by blows from o blackstith's sledge. “Let us naw read, for our {mprove- ment,” continues the Profesgor, “a part of the Fifty-etehth Paolm; Tko wicked are estranged from the womb, they roo astray Ax soone aw ever they are borne; are thoy. Ike the serpont's poyson; 0 deafe aspe, her care ‘Though Charmer wirely charm, hia volce sho’wtll not heare, Within thelr mouth doe thou thelr teeth break out, o God most strony, doc thou, Jehovnh, tho great teeth breok of the tions young, In the prefave Itichard Mather remarks that ifthe verses “are nut always so siivoth and elegant as some may desire, let then: consider, tnt Godls altar necde not our polishings."t In 1873 u copy of this book waa _suld in Boston’ which originally belonged to Richard Mather and coutuined bls sutugraph. 'The New York corrcapundent of the 8pring- field Hepudlican writes: “In his unperverted Afo of Gerrit Smith, p fallished! something more thon oa year ago, 0. 8, Frothingham said crave- ly und with entire correctness, ‘Pergonal feel- ihg should never be permitted tu ol torical truth.’ ‘This, however, is pI tsdone in the sevoud editton, pudii a weeks ago, ‘The personal. fueling of Mr, Smith's family has been allowed to obscure the Matorical truth of Gerrit Smith’s covnection with the plans of Jou Brown; if possible, this feeling would have suppressed the truth, os ft did for n year suppress the volume containing it. ‘The omisstous and altorationa in the new edition are not fully desibed in the profatory note af the authar, It differs from the (rat edition wot alinply. {nthe withdrawal of cuin- ment on ‘historical facts,’ but aleu by the gup- pression of curtain facts und the Insertion of words here and there which materially chunge the meaulng of certain pusseges. Thus, the whole story of Mr, Suslth's dealings with Tue Curvago Tien la withdrawn; the material fact that Mr. Smith sent John Brown a check on the State Bank at Albany, after faformatioan rocelyed by Mr. Sandor and transmitted to Mr, Sintth; and that this check was sent by Mr, Smith to Chamberaburg, within a fow wocks of the attack made by Brown,—this, yud other facta ahowlig Sinith’s connection with Browo, are suppressed, Among several verbal chances on pages 252-4 of the unperverted first edition, the harintess phrase ‘to di&ciaim knowledge of his plaus,’ is changed into ‘state his Minted knowledge,’ and this ls atrengthened by the change on the same page from * prirporting to be a frank, full, final account of his’ connection with Johu Brown,’ to ‘asa full, frank, final ac count.’ In the new passage tutroduced at page 24 ta serve ag a commentary on thy facta, Ine atead of that which bas been canceled, occurs this statement, ‘to defy the authority or assail the power of the Untied States never entered Jobu Brown's imiud.’ On the contrary, it was often, one might say coustautly, {n° his miad, ta was no disuntoniat, but he did not look upon the tauthoritica! who wielded the ‘power of the United Stutes' as the nation Itself, Ifo held, with the Puritan poets ‘There 1s on earth a far augueter thing, Volled though it be, thau Purllament or King, ‘Thus much ft seemed needful for mo to sas about tila new edition of a long-suffering di- ography’? ART. NOTES, Mr, Bouton (700 Broadway, New York) an- Bounces that the administration of Ltirt have contracted with Mr, Adolplio Lalauze, the well- known painter and etcher, for an etching of ex- ceptional size (plate 2)9¢x113¢ loches) from the celebrated picture by Hgus Nekart of the “Entry of Charles ¥. into Antwerp," which recelycd the Medal of Honor at the Paris Exhi- bition, 1878, Each subscriber to the ordinury edition of L'Art for the current year, whose uame shall hove been recelyed prior to July 1, 1879, will be entitied to a8 Impression on Hole 1879—SIXTEEN PAGES. Tand papers with the letters, Each subscriber for the edition de luxe (100 vopies printed), whose name shall have been recelyed prior to July 1, 1879, will be vatitled to a proof Impres- sion, Uefore the letters, The Magaxtne of Art for March has a sketch with portraitof Millats. ‘The frantiapicce also ropresents the outlines of his * Northwest Pas- soge."? Other articles are * Lambeth Falence,* “The Midland Couuties: Nottingham,” and Nooks wud Corners of the Devonshire Coast.” (New York: Cassell, Petter & Galpin. Price, 25 cents.) Thu trontispleca of the Jortfotio for March (New York: J. W, Bouton) f¢ an ctehing by Herkomer, after one of his own sketches In the Bayarlan Alpa, Tho titly ts * Words of Com- fort," une the seane representa an aged woman Matening to the reading of the Bible bys youth- tal companion of her own 6ex, a daughter or granddaughter. There ts not much in it, but the attitude aud expression of the two women are good. Herkomer ts now only. 80 years of aye. Hic haa only been prominently vefore the public since 1375, when his ‘Lost Muster” was firat extibited. ft gainetl for Mr. Uerkomer one of | the two medale award at the Parls Exposition to the Engilsh echool, andl tt was much admtred both at the Roynt Academy and at Burlington ‘ouse. ‘There are several other aod etchings fu this number, and the Art Chronicle fs full and Inter f, abundantly vindicating the wis- dom of the editor tn establishing lt asa now feature. Price, $1. Mr. Jenunings writes to the New York World of the sale of the Eorl of Lonsdale's art-treas- ures: “Sume inquisitive people will ask why the Earl of Lonsdale should thus bring all his heirlooms to the hammer, If you look in the st of the great landowners of Britatn you will find that tie Earl ts the owner of over 69,000 acres, from which there is an_{ncome of £71,333 a seat, —or let ws soy $250,605, which the reader and Tcould inake a shift to live upon tf bard put. tolt. Moreover, there is understood to have been a considerable accumnulation of money when the Earl succeeded to the property, an event whieh only happened in August, b Then why the necessity of golng to the auction- cer for pecuulary assistance? ‘Thereby hanes o tale which beshiage some future historia of the *victasltudes uf the aristocracy’ may be tempt~ ed to write with ereaterfullucsa than could prup- erly be attempted at this moment. I conflae myself merely tu tacts which are publicly known when Usay that the Eart of Lonsdalg hos not managed his fe with that discretion and wisdom tehich are incumbunt upon us all, even iC we do not ull put them into exerctse, Last year he was married to the Laay Gladdys Herbert, and within a few months aoine of the West End tradesmen were rather startled to re- ceive a circular announcing that the Earl would not be respousible for debts contracted by his wife. That many persons ave been appealed to. for money before Mesars. Christle & Co, 6 alzo well known,—I{ndeed, the sale this week 1s believed to have beeu for the benefit of credit. ors, slowing the owner 8 prescribed income out, of the receipts to live upon. “On one of the ‘view’ days when I was In the rooms a group of the best-known connolsseurs in London was examining the Chelsea ware. ‘There were some of the fincst sveciinens of the much-songht-for genuine Chelsea china that have been put up for competition in iy time, And very pretty prices they brought, a single yaao, about Lwehty-one fuches in hight, having been eagerly competed for until the sun of 4 was reached, while a palr of vases with covers were sold for 420 guineas. ‘The vase fad medal- Mons of Chinese figures und exotic birds, and was undoubtedly a veautiful object to Jouk at, ‘The Dresden dinner-services were the tiniest I Nave ever seen, and one ar two of them were bought in their complete state, but others wero fold in pleces to various purchasers, and brought from £100 to £320. A dessert service of Derby ching, very handsome, was sold fur 257 guineas. Obvlously is was not much good fora puor inan to goto such a sale as that. Yet thera is nothing so uncertain ag an auction, Nino lots out of ten will briug fancy prices, and then the tenth-cqualty good {n ite way, Will zo fur an old song. ‘fhus, ot the third day of thasate sono rareuud beautiful furniture was sold at tre- mendous prices, and yetin the midst of the ‘scrimmage ? a dealer had the luck tu secure a fine carved and git Duchcas sofa, covered with ccitnson silk Genoa velvet—pilluw aud all com- plete—for 12. guineas! The most ordinarily well-made second-hand sofa would baye enst snore,» Mr. Vokins, a dealer in Great Portland street, buughta set of twelve copies of Yomn- belan freavoes, in bady color, for 50 guineas— dirtcheap, As one of the parsons preaent sald, colored photographs would have cust more. Such are the uucertuinties of sales. ‘The total amount produced, however, will nat fail far short of 425,00), the gum received to Inst nleht having been £19,259." Collectors of old ching and other ‘curios? may well feel eocodraged."! SPARKS. OF, SCIENCE. |. GECGRAPHICAL PROFESSORSHIPS, {he Council of the Royal Geograptical So- elety have just presented o memorial to her Majesty's Commissioners of the University of Oxford, those of Cambridge, and to the govern- Ing bodles of elther Univeralty,- urging upon them the Importance of establising Geograph- leal Profesgorships, In urging the clalins of weography to be thus represented, the Councll state that they take geography to mean, not merely topocraphy, but a compendious treat- ment of all the prominent conditions of a coun- try, such ns ita climate, conflzuration, minerals, plants, and animals, as well a8 its human in- habitants; the latter in respect not only to their race, but also to their present and past history, 80 far aa it {8 Intimately connected with the pecullnrities of the land they inhabit. The memorlal, then enlarges. on the nature of geographical science In this high and wide sense; as exumples they give two problems which geography ought to deal with, ‘The one deats with the reciprocal influence of nan and his aurroundings, showing on the one hand the influence of external nature in race, commercial development, and sociology; and, on the other, the influence of man on nature, in the clearing of forests, cultivation and dralnsge of the soll, introduction of new placate aud do- mestic animals, and tha Hxe, The other refers to the present und past history of the carton und ite denizens. In the souse thus given tu geogra- phy it really becomes the meeting-place of all the selences, aut a professor of geugraphy would thus require to be o man of wide attain- ments, great powervf selection and correlation; these attainments indeed having todo not only with all departments of physical and biological sclenee, but also with history and politics, It Is somewhat in this sense that geography fs accepted in Germans, where, fn several univeraltics, there are special chars devoted to the sclence. In this sense, tuo, it fs accepted by the editor of Petermaun's well-kuown (ey raphlsche aMitthellunyen and Behin's Geogr Jahrbuch, which Include articles and treatises on subjects connected with mcteorology, zuolozy, botany, authropalugy, geology, und problems requiring the ald of physics to salve. ‘The dutles of such o Profen- wor, the memorial urges, would be—firstly, to promote the study of sclontitic ceography as it fdetlued above, und secondly, to apply wun graphical knowledge fo ill avg and .com- pleting such of the recognized Uulvoraity studlua ay require ite ald. He would alau, per haps, deliver ot feast one annual discourse on some subject of original geographical reacareh, ‘The meoiorlal urges that while the fuctlitice for traveling are becoming greater every year, Very few Englishinen are qualitlcd to make an Intel- heont use of tie information which they may or inight obtain, und still fewer are qualiticd to uuiky observations of the least acientitle vatue, Bpectutly In thie the case with mission- aries und even many of our Con- suls and other —reprosentutives abroad, who, if they only know how, might add largely toa sclenutile knowledge of the countrh which they reside. ‘The Counell rightly u that whife there 1s no cuuittry that can less afford to dispensu with geographical knowledge thun Englund, there are few countries in whiteha high order of puographical teaching ts so litte envouraged, The interests of Euglund are as widu as the world, und these {nteresta have not untrequently been compromised by a want of weographical knowledge. Such is the pist and dritt of the memorial presented to the Univer- sity Commissioners by the Council of the Geo- . graphical Socivty. While the statements as to our ignorance of geography in ite highest and widest sense are only tov true, we must confess that it seema to us difticult fo the highest de- gree to define the Hmits of this depargment of eclence,-apart froin thos of the various qclences of which itis the application. Evidently, how: ever, there Is great roons for the enlightenment of educational opinion on the subject fo this sountry. WHAT I8 THE ZODIACAL LIGHT? Thia glowing archway across the skies, eon eo froquently at this time wf the year shortly alter sunset, writes @ correspondent of the Providence Journal, ls one of the astronomical puzzies that men of aclence aru zealously trying to pull to plecus. Thys far thelr efforts have been unsuccessful, and tho unpracticed observer who looks with simple wonder und admiration uvon the cliiptical glow in the evening sky koows almost os much of Its conatitution ant wilestua In the divine econumy as the wiseet astronomer in the land. Various are the theo- ries Unt have been advanced to account for the fresenee, of this Intruder on terrestrial domain. jome observers consider {t 9 ring of matter revolving round the earth; others louk «pan 1% as a collection of minute particles of metcoric or cometic matter traveling around the sun in yery eccentric orbits. More recent and more sentehing examination. gives a far grander explanation of fts origin, making the yodiscal Iiznt a continuation of the corona, and thus Indicating a Jenticular-shaped atmospticre of inconceivable rarity surrounding the sun and extending out near the plane of the eul{ptic be- yond the orbit of the earth. Our most thoucht- Tul aciontints do not sccont thia view, but sug- gest another even more sublime and awe-inspir- ing. Itis that the whole space between the carth und sun fs Gited with fnimonsn cloude of metcoroids, und that the sunlight reflected on these cosmical atoma of floating star-dust Is the cauee of the soft celestial glow that now Hngora evening after cvening four Western aky. ON TITE INERTIA OF THE RETINA, It ia truc of all the senses that an interval has to clapse between the application of an appro- priate stimulus and the development of the corresponding sensation, A certain degree of foertin hes to be overcome. By means of o special upparatus for graduating a} will the to- tensity of the incident raya, Charpentier has investigated this phenomenon in relation to the eye. If the inteasity of the light be gradually augmented from the zero-polut, the sensation Is doveloped when a certain minimum fotensity ta reached; but If the Intensity of the stimulus be now as gradually diminished, we find that the eve will continue to perceive ft till {t nas fallen to one-third or one-fourth of the origins! mnint- mum. In producing the {nitial sensation, a certato amount of light has, soto epeok, been wasted {n putting the machinery In motto Further, Ifthe eye has been carefully shielded from the light for some minutes before per- forming the experiment, it will be capable of vercelving Hent which Js fifty or even 100 times less intense than that required to provoke a Iumincus eensation, This enormous difference {fs equally manitested whether munochromatic or white light beemployed, Now, if we apply no similar test to the sensation of col- or, wo find that for the chromatic as for the Juminous stimulus a cer- tain minimum is needed to provoke the sensation, which still contioues to be ex- cited when the inteasity of the stimulus is progressively ditninished. 80 fur, the two sen sations—that of ight and that of culor—obey the sue law. But {f wo proceed to compare the senaltivencss of the cys in full activity with that of the eve which bas been allowed a period of absulute rest, we no longer find any sucti in- crease in {te susceptibility to the chromatic stimulus as was observed in the case of HMubt. This resuit is altogether opposed to the current opinion that the sensation excited by white Uyght is really aresullavt of the simuitancous development of several determinate color-sen- sations; it shows, on the contrury, that the seu- sation of Hght ta nitogether Independent of thut of color, und really a siinpler kind of reaction on the part of the visual apparatus. ON NATIONALITY IN FRANCE AND GERMANY. Ina recent interesting paper on the subject, M. Bertillon comments on the fact that all the effort of the French agricultural population, the thrifty bourgeolsic, 1s applied to forming and amassing capital. Germany, on the otter hand, seems to have more aptitude for producing men, araveof warriors ‘apt toseize with strong hand vapital siready formed.” ‘The German Empire counts at present more than 40,000,000 inttahit- auta, und besa gencral natality of 40 por an- num and per 1,000, giving. aunually 1,000,000 live births, But it she were imited to the French small natality of 20 instead of 40, she would count only: 1,010,000 liye births annually. Thus, compared with France, Ger- many feara un aunusl excess of 660,000 chil- drev over what French uatality would give, aud this excesa produces annually, according to tables of mortality, about 843,500 adulre of 20 yeara of age. But, on the other hand, if we take ns base whats tan costs to bring up, It uppears from various calculations that we must estimate at not less than 4,000f, the value of an adult or 20 years, ‘Then 4,000/.544,500—1,376,- Q0Of, This is the annual sum which the excess ol German uatality over the French costs, like calculation made for France sbows thut she would haye'to expend anaually 1,240,00U,0001, to bring up the 500,000 Infauts thatare wanting tu equal the German natality, which would be- coma, 310,000 young peoplo of -20 years ‘of aye. ‘Thus France capitalizes a milllerd and a quarter to the detriment of its posterity, and Germany pays more than a rnilitard an own multiplication. ELECTRIC TELEPMONES, In g jecture delivered recently at the Royal Dublin Society on the latest developments of electric watepuones, Prof. Marrett auuounced that the new recelyer devised by Mr. Edison to be used with his carbon telephone transmitter had Just arrived to England, In charge of the in- ventor’s nephew. ‘This new recelyer nas no car- piece, and cau deliver the yolcu as loud as the words sro spoken. The principle on which this recalver depends {¢ the same as that of the cleo tronopograph, the novel telegreplite recelver, discovered by Mr. Edison in 18s4. A band of motstened paper moves below a pofnt, aud as ‘the current pasata the polne atips more or leas. This slipping 1s the source of sound in the re- ceiver, further particulars of which may begiven ahortly. Even without the afd of this receiver, Prof. Barrett was able, by means of the carbon telephone, to make the tyords of a person speak- lug und others playing cornets in Wistaut parts of the city nearly audibic tu the entire uudtence, siariaidstieh aches {, TOO, AM ‘‘ TIRED.” [70 Fanny Driscatt.] **So tired I'am of all the world, too, Sweet— Bo tired, so tired! Sumetimes Lait ond drew Dream: not nf drooping Hds, or **Deatn'a aril) sleep, Bat dreaa 1 stand once more beuide the stream Srbowe! ae ea break at our fect with faulticas rhythm; ‘The mist ta creoping up to dim the sunset-raye, And the soft muale of the Woods and stream Hecalle the happy moments of thoge deur old days, Once more 1 whteper tender words of love and Ove, While, the gray old shadows hide your blushing aces Dut tue straying breezes uritt the clouds aside, Aud ove fg shining m yourcyes, Lhold you ino clude embrace, And dreain again that fond old dream of love, And fee) the tuniling touch of thy soft bands And then the miels grow thick, and chill, and dup, And Icy breoxes float across our Summer-land. And fe te, gnthorlag ginom I hend to kiss thee, weet: But thon art gone. O God! I moan, and wildly: : For Douth, sehteh is more tind than Lite, For "Tia Life's cruel fate that polds thee, Swebt, away. ** And would I cara to come and find you there, With pale cold Ive, and allent folded nande Great God! 1 sub—my heart is dumb with pain; But you are ming once more, Deash’a icy bands Bat give you to my clinglug clusp, For me no more ‘Tho nner night. I press your cloy-cold Jlpe to mine, %: While hot fearu aim your sweet cold face, You'ry mao a iaet— you're raine. Hiv baud Di- ying Tae snapped the cruel Inks of Fate. And now 1 wildly clasp you to my breaking heart, Aud my hot kisves fain upon your face— Phere's nothing now to hold our so ‘Unant Pan, U1. Mu How a $600 Chronometer Lost Jahy Jacob Astor 660,000, In the "Causerle” of the Boston Transcript & woud story is retold, One of Jobn Jacob Astor's Cuptuiua had sutled elx voyages to Ching without & chrovometer, depending on “dead reckoning and “lunarg,’? Just oofore start- ing upon the: seventh voyage he suiested to Mr, Aator that it would be safer tu have a chro- nometer. ' Well, get one,” sald the merchant, ‘The Captain did so, und entered ite cost in Lis account current. When Mr. Astor's eye fell Uouu the item he drew bis pencil through it, ‘the Captain expostutated. ‘Tam it, man," sald Astor, **E tolt you to ect one; I tian’t any I'd pay for It." ‘Tne Captato severed ils con- noction then and there, went iuto Wall street, engaged with other ownerd, wud before ulghe was in command of as tluv a ship aa ever floated in New York's beautiful bay. In threo days he was roudy. for sua, und eet sail, At the same tine Astor's eblp, under the com- mand of a sew Cuntaia, set sail, also, They bad a race for Hong Kong, but the Captatn who, as housed to put it, had discharged John Jevob Astor, by keeping the man at the braccs, touk advantage of every puff of wind and won by three duys. ww ship was loaded tu the shortcat tine possible, und before Astor's vessel, whieh bad arrived meautiuc, wos half Juaded, our Captuiu welghed anchor, and with o ful cargo of tea sct sail for Sgudy Hook, arrived in good tue, gor his slip aloogeide the wharf, aud part, . Hewerr, a third for its” 9 began hotsting out his cargo, which was sold by auction on the spot. -This glutted the market, for the consumption. was comparatively small {a those days, and when Astor's ship came In prices had fallen, Two days later, as the Captain was snuntering down Brosdway. bo met lis former dia employer, “How much dtd that chronometer cost yout” asked the latter. “six hundred dojiars.” “ Vell,’ sald Astor, “dat vas sheap, Tt. cost me $60,000," ‘The.merchant and the Captain have long since pald the long reckoning, ‘but that chronometer ts still a cood twekeeper, and a treasured relic as well. THE PLAGUE IN RUSSIA. DUI tho Rusainns Worrow or reed It? Bratnoriety, Masy., March 23,—~7o the Editor of the Republican: A great peatilence hes been raging for acine time in Rusala; how far lt has extended Is only known to the Russian officials, who are ordered to hide the tenth fram the out- aide and civilized world. No Russian paper, for fear uf being suopreased and the editors rant for ashort vacation,—say about twenty yeara or #0 to Siberia,—ates to make public. the truo state of affairs nud causo of the present epl+ demic. Itis said that the plague was brought {nto Russia from Turkey. That may be #0, yee Tbeliove that the plague urigiuated rignt iu Ruesla, tar away from the Turkish frontier. £ believe the statement which follows, for I Know sthe Interior of Russia nnd Ite Mth, und further more, the paper which published ft. first and called the attention of the Russian ofileiats to it bag been puntatted und the writer of the let ter sentenced to Siberia, He kuew the ven- geance that awaited him tor disclosing an evil secret to the world without first going through the Russian red-tupy system, made: his escane out of the country, and fs now living {0 extle In Parls, This man, then, wrote to the Jtuski Wir as follows; “During my atay In Astrakhau I took it into my head to visit an Island {n the Volga, not far {rom the town. Iborrowed a boat from the Jondford of the tan fo which £ was stopping, nud soon reached my deat{nation, but could atay but a short tine att account of the yreat stench, At each step 1 found the body of dead and dying Cossacks und Katmucks.- I at once returned to the town, and there inquired of responsible oar- ties why the Island contained eo many putrefyin; bodies. I was told Rint toth the Cossacks ‘an Kalmucks do not dolleve in calling in pnysiclans to heal thelr sick, or tu help them In aiy way, but carry them to this {sland and there leave them to’ their fate, even ifthe afllicted one sbould bo father, mother, or other near kin, und if one perchance does recovor of diseuse, he or she fs left to die from starvation. i then asked: Is there no effort made the authorities or pollee to remedy the ovilt No; 1t ja. as much as one's life or liberty {8 worth: to complain or to show to toe officials thelr neg- lect. In this place the only law known to our horodnick (Mayor) is nis niniki{knout), “Should. any one dare tu ome to hin witha complains or be complained of, hy is sent on his way with twenty or ity atrokes of the Roman inatrumecot of jaatica on the hare back? ig same correspondent wrote that the con- dition of the poorer classes fs, indeed, pitiable | in the extreme: they are dying in great num- bers, uud no effort is nade by the nuthorities to relieve their woe, and when complatnts do cone befor the nigher officials the complaltiants aro treated Hike brutes; “the natives were then ne~ tually subsistivg on putrelied nnd decayed fab, and are tiving la dag-oute uaderground,?? Is ft, ben, to be wondered at, 1 ask, if the above fs true, that the plague fs raging go ter- ritly ia Russia? Self-preservation is we frat Jaw of outure, and it tg the duty of the Powers of Europe to fnvestieate the internal affairs of Rasela und bring about sanitary reform, other- wiav du the near future the whole of Europe, aye, nd even this country, ts Jo danger of being In- -Yaded by the terrible, purely Russian plague. Russls lougnt Turkey for the sole purpose, as she elated, to force her to bring about tnter- nal reforins. What was sduco for yhe ‘Lurkish ooae vught to be sauce for the Stussisa gander. C— Kr (Known os Joun Baker.) ae FEMALE SUFFRAGE. —= ’ Crowds of Women Voting In New Hamp- shire. * Dharatch ta Boston Mode, Coxcorn, N. H,, March 22.—The occasion of the aunual sehool-meeting uf the unlun school district of this city, which comprises all uf the city proper, this evening, was one of unprec- edented interest, For mouths echoot matters have been sharply agitated, and the election Lus been looked forward to 38 op oppor +i} tonity by. oll parties... To. the uncommon ‘Interest “centered ‘in the ‘matter the right of women'fo vote at dthool-invetings, delegated by the last scésidn of the Legisiature, ereatly ;added. The new eondition ot affairs had been fully canvassed, und the band of woman puffray- iets had degermined on making the best of thelr first opportunity, and winning o decisive victory if posalile. ‘he night of the meeting proved inauspleious, put, notwithstanding the severe storm of enow untl ‘sleet that was falling; the nowly-constituted citizens were out in force. AL hour: of opening the mecting the City-Hall was packed to suffocation, 600 of the audience at least be- ing ladtes. The first business was the choice of a Moderator, wud.in this the ladies may claim a victory, as the candidate a majority of them ‘supported was clected in the person of ex-Mayor Soba Kimball, After this came the reading ‘ot the report of tue Board of Kdocation, which was mtreniiolialy objected to by the male aup- porters of the fady wuifragista, In this they were beaten by a larga majority. The reading vomwnpleted, the imccting com- nteneed to ballot for three members:of the Board. The svene then became one beyond the ‘power of reportorial pen to deseribe, It wus'an old-fashioned New Hampshire town meeting, with the concomitant volstcrousuess and pro~ fanity subdued by the presence of the Indies, a4 line was furmed to the polla, and o strogeling, masgof humanity, in which anale and femute citizens were inconzruouely. wid ludicrously inlxed, sured toward the ballot-box. ‘The erowdlng, syucezing, snd puabing wero severe enough for the taste of the mas- enline yoter, and was harsh enough to make it extremely unpleasant for the .dear creat- ures who Were undergoing so, much to cast thelr maiden yote. To sdd to the delay the Hon, Nathaniel White, the woil-known express~ ian und o noted female, suffragist, bad planted his somewhat curpuleut form directly io frous of the bullot-box, aud staid the surcing tide to shake hands with evory ‘woman that youd, Having voted, the men were only too glad to teave the crowded holl and let the anxious crowd rush fu, und the work of counting was completed shortly before 11 gteioek. it was found that there were sumo ten different tickets in the flela, and forty-two candidates yoted fur; Lut trom this mass of votes there was vo choice, thougn the regular condidutes the outgoing members of the Bourd, who would have beun ulceted bad It uot been for the pew alement in the clection, were whead, baving plurality. Tha meoting was then adjourned tht hext Suturday, evening, when tue scones of to~ night witl bo fntensitied by u larger uttendance and ath greater mtereat, ‘The meeting to-night obtains hapurtance In Now iumpshite, 4a it te the centre of thu femaly sutfrage sentiment Io thla State, and the women are determiued to win here If posalbie, : HOW RARE. How razo for trae friends $a nation to meet. Few hearts beat to hearts Near all ta decelt. To health of in wo. ‘Thoy asunder the tle Tout Dinda huarts togother, ‘And stormclouds swuep by, Yee, thoy'll forsake thes When nlhts full of wa ‘ Sbed gloom on thy path, ‘On Life's journey below, Yes, friendudo prove false When Fortune goth frowny Few hearts e'er prove true . Vo the soul cast down, When adveraity's thing, One heart will remain Fre from tho fouk touch Of Salsity's stain. , In joy or sorrow, - + eur heart, to me flee; uy soul will bo o'er, 5 ; True to Heaven andith . Wantox, © us, J, Kinaston-on-tue-Junaan, + i a ” Misery In Paris, M, Leneveux, the Counsellorof the Muntcl- ality of Pacis, has just published a work which contatus sume startling facts about .*t the haud> soimvat Capital in the world,” ‘The book te eu- . titled " Parla Municipal." From - it. it appears that there are in Paris 0,035 housebolda whera ‘oue finds two beds in 4 sivgle room; 4.503 have rooms contaluline threo bods; 1118 have roome euntatuing four beds, ‘The rent of theso: domly Nes ranges from 100 to 0 franca a. year, 825 to $80; 418 lodginente aro lighted only: oy chasis o fabethens 2 Ue sashes," awalleat kfud; 1,80 ara hghted frou a corridor or stalrlunding; 8,000, nearly, have neither stove nor. chimusy. “Under such conditions!” ays the Devo'y, “how cau we wonder that the jaborer abould prefer thy catuset to ble Lowel}? the yote was at lostull in, ” y