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THE CHICAGO TRIBUN SUNDAY,” APRIL~ 95;~ 1880—TWENTY PAGES RELIGIOUS. What the Roman Empire Did for the Spread of the i Gospel. An Interesting and Scholarly ‘Lecture in London by Ernest Renan. Are Eminently Respectable Churches Dying of the Dry Rot ? “The Sunday Newspapers Re- sponsible,” So Says the “Interior.” City How an Episcopalian Rector Went Be- hind the Returns and Wouldn't Resign. General Notes, Personals, Sunday Small Talk, Services To- é Day. GOD CARES FOR ME. I gat in the door at eventide, ‘My heart wus full of fears: ‘And I suw the landscape before me lie ‘Through mists of burning tears— I thought to myself, The world is dark, No light nor joy I see; Nothing but toi! and want is mine, And no ove cares for ine. A sparrow was twittering at my feet, ‘With its peautiful auburn head, And tooked at me with dark, mild eyes Asit picked up crumbs of bread; And said to me in wordsas plain As the words of a bird could be: “in only a sparrow, a worthless bird, But the dear Lord cares for me.” A lily was growing beside the hedge, Beautiful, tall, and white, And it'shone through the glossy leaves of green Like an angel clothed in light; And it sald to me, as it waved its he On the breezes soft and free: ‘ «]'m only a lily, a useless flower, But the Master cares for me.” ‘Then it seemed that the hand of the loving Lord Over my head was laid, And he said to me: **O faithless child, Wherefore art thou dismayed? Iclothe the lilies, I feed the birds, 1 eee sparrows fall; at Nothing escupes my watchful eye, My kindness is over all.”* RELIGION AND ROME. M. ERNEST RENAN’S EXPOSITION OF THE IN- FLUENCE EXERCISED BY THE ROMAN EM- PIRE UPON THE EARLY SPREAD OF CHRIS- TIANITY. Tuesday afternoon, April 6, the distin- guished Frenchman, Ernest Renan, delivered In his native language, before a crowded tudience, admitted by ticket to St. George’s Hall, London, the first of 2 course of four lectures, which he has undertaken to read at the request of the Hibbert trustees on the question, in what sense Christianity is a crea> tion of Rome. (En quel sens le Christian- isme est une ceuvre Romaine.) In these words did the lecturer formulate at the out- set the subject, which in the official adver- tisements of this third series of Hibbert ~ lectures is less tersely, but, perhaps, in more popular phrase, announced to be “The In- fluence of the Institutions, Thought, and Culture of Rome on Christianity, and the Development of the Catholic Church.” The beginnings of Christianity, said M_ Renan, are the most heroic episode in the history of mankind. - Never did man draw forth from his bosom more devotion, more Jove of the ideal, than during the 150 years which elapsed between the sweet Galilean vision andthe death of Marcus Aurelius. Never was the religious conscience more em- inently creative, never did it lay down with ‘more authority the law for future ages. It ‘was from the bosom of Judaism that this ex- traordinary movement, to which no other is comparable, went forth. But itis doubtful whether Judaism pure and simple could have conquered the world. What was wanted was thatsome youthful and bold school, sprung from its bosom, should have audacity enough to give up the greater partof the Mosaic ritual. What was needed above all was that the new movement should be transplanted into the midstof the Greeks and Romans until the barbarians should be ready for it, and that it should become » like leaven in the lump of those European Taces, by whose ineans humanity fulfills its destinies. What a fine subject would the man have to treat before them who should one day be intrusted with the task to show them the share taken by Greece in this great common work! His own subject was Rome’s part in the achievement. In one sense Rome’s action was the earlier in point of time. 1t Was hardly before the former half of the third century that Greek genius, in the per- sons of Clement of Alexandria and Origen, really took hold of Christianity. ML Renan said he hoped to show that from the second century Rome exerted a decisive influence on the Church of. Jesus. In one sense, Rome spread religion over the world 4sshe spread civilization, as she generated the idea of a central government stretel over wide territories. But just as the ci zation spread by Rome was not the small, nar- quw, austere culture of old Latium, put the massive and broad civilization which Greece had created, so.the sion to which in the end Rome gave hersupport was not the pitiful Superstition which was good enough for the Tude primitive inhabitanis of the Palatine, but itwas Judaism,—that is, precisely that religion Which Rome had scorned and hated most; that which shethought she had twice or thrice vanquished forever to the aggrandizement ofher own national gods. The learned lect- urer illustrated in some detail the poverty- Stricken character of the antique Latin and other Italiote religions. Prayer was a magic formula operating independently of moral dispositions and for the satisfaction of selfish sites, ‘There were ritual directories called tudigitamenta, containing Jong lists of the gods who presided over all human wants, and to, invoke the god by his wrong name Was to incur his displeasure. Besides these divinities there were endless deified ab- structions, such as Fear, Cough, Fever, Male Fortune, ‘Modesty, Patrician, and Plebeian, and the Jike, not forgetting the Safety y of the Rowan people at the heid of all. For the State was Koine’s real god, and Rome’s re- jigion was theocracy inverted. Civil law Tegulated all acts, not troubling itself about en's thoughts. ome had not the least idea ofdogina. “Lhe citizen was not to fall short of giving the gods their due, but to give them any more was superstitio, of which every ise Roman felt as great a horror as of im- Was there ever a religion less capable than is of becoming the Teligion of mankind ? je intensely aristocratic stamp tended to the ust to shut out the plebeians, not only from the priesthood but from the public cultus al- together, In the great struggle for civil luality, which fills the pages of Roman rel the -religious incapacity of the . Plebeians to take the state auspices was al- ays the grand argument urged against the Tevolutionary party. ‘The question became h Nested with a livelier interest when Rome ine conquered all the Mediterranean sea- gourds. What could an “African, a Gaul, a yrian, care about a cultus which was the concern of but a handful of haughty and filen tyrannical families? Everywhere the geal religions held their ground, but Usustus, who was even more a religious ganizer than a great statesman, spread everywhere “the Roman idea, by ‘his in- Stitution of the worship of, the God- the ma. Her altars and those of the deified Augustus himself became centre of a hierarchy of Augustal famens ‘and septemvirs, side by” side With which divinities he admitted the local : 85 lares, This grand attemptto estab- 8 cultus of the Roman state, although an heart. B eM could not y fe in such a coufraternity It was the God of the Jews. It ‘was impossible to pass olf Jehovah as a lar, and to associate him with the Genius of theEmperor. War was plain- Jy imminent between the Roman State this irreconcilable and refractory divinity. Weill, said M. Renan, see now the most sur- prising phenomenon, the highest pitch of irony in all history! Itis this, that the god Whose worship Rome has spread throughout the world was not the old Jupiter Capitolinus or Latiaris, still less was the worship that of Augustus and the Genius of the Emperor; it was precisely that of Jehovah; it was Juda- ism under its Christian form which Rome propagated without wishing it, and yet with such mighty energy that from a certain epoch Romanism and Christianity became all but synonymous words, ‘The march of the first Christian missions was westward, and, with the exception of a small pateh of Mesopatamia, their theatre was the Roman Empire, the ‘Mediterranean and the Roman roads being the pass along which the preachers traveled to deliver their message, mostly in the Greek tongue. It was not easy to imagine how in the face of an Asia Minor, a Greece, an Italy split up into ‘a hundred small republics, of a Gaul, a Spain, an’ Africa, an Egypt in possession of their old national institutions, the Apostles could have succeeded, or even how their project could have been started. The unity. of the empire was the condition precedent of all religious proselytism on a grand scale, if it was to place itself above the nationalities, The Empire felt this in the fourth century. it saw that Christianity was the religion which it had engendered without knowing it, the religion whose boundaries were its own. frontiers, which was identified with itself and was capable of giving it a ond life. On her side, the Chureh be-. 1e Wholly Roman, and hasremained to our own days like a survivial of the Empire. During the whole Middle Age, the Church played the part of Old Rome, reclaiming au- thority over the barbarians whom Rome had conquered, imposing upon them her decre- tals, as the Empire had aforetime laid on their necks the yoke of its laws, and ruling them-by means of <7 Cardinals, as the Ro- man State had governed them by its Impe- rial'légates and its proconsuls. : By the creation of its vast Empire, then, Rome furnished the material condition of the propagation of Christianity. Above all, she had created the moral state of things which served the new religion as its atmos- phere and medium. By crushing out polit- ieal life everywhere Rome called ‘into _exist- enee social and religious instincts. M. Renan sketched a glowing picture of the commer- cial and industrial prosperity enjoyed under the Empire, as compared with the Republic and with the Greek Commonwealths. Free- dom, even, he said, flourished more, not ex- cepting liberty of thought. This ‘kind of liberty often enjoyed more toleration under a King than under jealous and prejudiced. shopkeepers. Ue instanced the Athenian inquisition, and the trouble it pare qnany of the Athenian thinkers besides Socrates, whom it put to death. Tolerance, he said; was first practiced by the rulers of the king- doms carved out of Alexander's empire, such as the house of Attalus and the Ptolemies. The Roman Empire continued the same tradition. It must be owned there was more than one arbitrary act against philosophers under the Empire, but political intermeddling was in each instance the real offense. Before Constantine the Roman laws might be searched in vain for any text against liberty ot thought; in the history of Constantine’s predecessors there was no prosecution for abstract doctrine. At certain epochs, no doubt, the Roman Empire harshly perse- cuted Christianity, but at least it did not render it impossible, as the ancient republics would have done, no less than the Jews, but for the strong hand of Roman authority. Allusion was made to the broad and even universalistic ideas of brotherhood which were current under the Empire among the Stoics. There were dreams ofgja new era and of new worlds, and a general sentiment of a common humanity was springing up. Passing on to take a general survey of the ethical condition of the Roman Empire in general, M. Renan, while admit- ting the revolting cynicism with whieh all the vices advertised themselves, and the frightful corruption which the public specta- cles had introduced, thought the picture was often drawn in too dark colors. Moreover, in more than one respect, things were mend- ing. Virgil and Tibullus were cited to show that Roman harshness and cruelty were softening down. Maxims of humanity were being spread abroad; equality and the rights of man were preached by the Stoics. Woman was becoming more her own mistress, and slaves were better treated than in Cato’s days. Pride of birth was lowering its tone. Very humane and just laws were enacted under the very worst Emperors—Tiberius and Nero were able financiers. Love for the poor, sympathy with all men, alms-giving were becoming virtues. ° M. Renan said he could understand and share the indignation of earnest liberals against a régime which subjected the world toa frightful despotism. But political as- irations are not everything here below. The antique heroism had passed away, and after the terrible butcheries ot the old cen- turies mankind was crying with the voice of Virgil for peace and pity. The establish- ment ot Christianity responded to this ery of all tender and weary souls. Christianity could only have been born and have spread at an epoch when men had no longer a country. If anything was wanting to the founders of the Church it was patriotism. After developing this point at some length, the lecturer remarked that as patriotism wanes socialism is wont to get the upper hand. Christianity was that explosion of so- cial and religious ideas which became in- evitable after Augustus. had put an end to political struggles. A universi religion, like islam, Christianity could not but be at bot- tom the foe of nationalities. How many cen- turies had it taken and how many schisins haq it cost to form national churches with a religion which was at first the negation of every earthly country—a religion which was admirable step forward, was quite insuf- Sclent to meet the religious needs of the born at an epoch when there could be found in the world neither city nor citizens—a religion which the old Republics, inflexible and strong, of Italy and Greece would surely have expelled as poison deadly to the State. This characteristic, the lecturer proceeded to argue, was one of the causes of the ag- grandizement of the new religion. The State could only organize egoism. The Church organized the devotional sentiment, which is asnatural to man as egoism. The pagan temple was in no sense what the Synagog and the Church were in their best days—the common home, the school, the hostelry, the hospital, the shelter where the poor man could seek asylum. It wasacold cella, which one either never enfered at all or where one learned nothing. Having no guard- ians, but a shifting popular tradition and in- terested sacristans, the pagan worship could not fail to degenerate into adulation of the Emperors, as we see in the ignoble squabble between the towns of Asia for the honor of rearing a temple in honor of Tiberius, and in other like instances. The attacks of the Chureh fathers on the immortalities of Saturn as a father,.Jupiter as a husband of Mars and Venus, with the organized vice of her wor- ship, however,we may smileat their sarcasms against these deified powers of nature, helped to wean men from the State religion. In hopes of relief men turned to Egyptian mys- teries_and to the rites of the Persian sun- god Mithra, of which striking illustrations were given. Even after the triumph of Christianity groups of converts thered round these foreign gods, and even defended courageously the sincerity of their behefs. But around the Greek and Italian gods none then rallied. Only small sects spring up and hold out in such crises, It_is.so sweet to be- lieve we share with a handful of brethren a monopoly of such blessings. We have seen like phenomena in our own times. So in that day the mystery of the Abracadabra brought its votaries religious enjoyments, and with the help of a little good-will men could find in it a sublime theology. CHURCH DRY-ROT. ARE THEY DYING OF RESPECTABILITY ? Interior. What is the matter with our citychurches? Are they dying of. respectability? We have nine less of our denomination in Chicago than we had ten years ago. Cincinnati is in worse condition than it was thirty years ago. ‘There are a number of influences at work. One is the spread of rationalism in the churches, mainly through the influence of the Sunday newspapers. This leads not only to doubt of Christian doctrine, but to ques- tioning of motives. It leads to a habit of analysis of the forces which propel Christian work,—and this is done in the spiyit of the chemist who is seeking for a poison,—the good he disregards, the evil receives his minutest attention. That the poiSon exists was evident from the condition of the patient. It is possible that another difficulty is a lack of spirituality in.the spiritual supplies. May- hup a stone is given where bread is needed. Stones are very good for building purposes, od to throw atan adversary,—we woula and isparage them in their places, but they ie not good t eat. An undoubted difficulty - will be preached Monday evening by the Re’ T. is the select club This spirit is not cultivated 3 it grow ecruse favored by its Surroundings. It costs enormously to “run” a city church. This ren a wealthy membership essential. ‘The habi and tastes fostered by wealth give character to the congregation as a unit, and they repel the inasses,—not only so, but fill them with prejudice against the churches. The wealthy members of our churches are, for the most part, perfectly innocent of any design or Purpose of this sort. The pews must be Tented at high rates, of necess ity, because the money must be had. ‘The Christian lady of, wealth—as humble a disciple in her heart as the lowliest widow—pins her lace collar With a diamond and puts on a sealskin sacque with no more thought of vain display than the widow does when she takes down her ten-year-old alapaca dress, and puts it on to Es to church. » She uses what is usual to her. ‘he wealthy lady does not intend it,—does not even kuow it—but the diamond drives out the alapaca. ‘There is another difficulty in the way of the power of the Gospel in our cities. Ourchurches overtax their ministers. They require two brilliantsermons per week, and one first-class Wednesday evening lect- ure. He has no time for general evangelical work, If he take time, people are liable to complain,—they pay for and demand all there is of him, body, ‘heart, and intellect, for themselves: tls He concen tated: seliish ness, and is alien to the self-sacriti spirit of the Gospel. ee THE LAY PAPACY. HOW A CLEYGYMAN WENT BEHIND THE RE- TURNS AND COUNTED OUT HOSTILE CoM- MUNICANTS. Correspondence Living Church. New York, April 17.—Just at this time, the subject of the relations subsisting be- tween the clergy of the Church and their parishes, and of the relative advantages and disadvantages of these relations, is freely dis- cussed in clerical circles, and in our Church press. A series of cheap tracts, bringing the matter to the attention of the Chureh, is issuing from the press, and is circulated broadcast among the people. The parochial system is said to be the source of all the evils that afflict us; and it is thought that its abolition, and the appointment of the clergy to their cures by the Bishops, and the pay- ment of their salaries out of the general fund, would be a long step toward tho millennium. It would crush out a myriad of lay-popes and popesses, and would create among the clergy a Kind of ecclesiastical communism. The plums would be equally distributed, and ‘all being “virtuous,” would have “cakes and ale.” This is said to have been the primitive method, and to constitute the secret of the success of the Romanists and Methodists. Wardens and Vestrymen not only cripple the influence of the clergy, and make them mere hirelings, instead of persons with a mission; bueé they often stand arrayed against the Bishops themselves. They are modern in- ventions; and, just at this time, there is no small hostility aroused against them. In the Far West a clergyman resigned a parish on account of scruples concerning the parochial system; and now, in the East, another cler- gyman has found a new method to deprive itof its sting, and to render it powerless, For some reason or other, there had been in the parish a strong desire to make a change in the Rectorship. The fac- tion grew “fast and furious”; and it was evident that the clergyman was losing his grip upon his people. Last year the election of a hostile Vestry was barely escaped. ‘This year, after a careful scrutiny and counting of noses, it was found that there would be a clear majority against the minister’s further continuance in that parish; and that, unless something was done, he would have to jom the peripatetics, and “ walk.” Te was, liow- ever, equal to the emergency. In order to be a voter in the parish election it was necessary to be acommunicant in good standing; and just before Easter, when election-day’ was about to present itself, the Rector quietly suspended from the Communion fifteen of the chief men in the parish. On Easter- Monday their votes were challenged, and, the Rector being in the ehair, the chal- Jenge was sustained; and so the conserva- tives (that is, those who were in favor of leaving things as they were) were trium- phantly elected. It was considered a very ingenious dodge, especially for a country town; and it would d io credit to some of the polifical methods in our great cities. The nen who were suspended, when they learned. the fact, appealed to the Bishop and he has appointed a Commissioner to examine into the merits of the case. But meanwhile, the election for the year is over; and, the ruse being successful, we see no reason why it may not be repeated another year with even amore wholesale suspension. At least, it would seem that an effectual ineans of self- protection against their parishes has been tound for the clergy; and we do not know why it should not be even more beneficial than “ Hodges’ Liniment,” when applied to the cure of “ritualism,” We do not give the names or localities; it may be the clergy- man will take ont letters-patent for the dis- covery, but we have the names in our pos- session, and can vouch generally for the facts. GENERAL NOTES, The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, organized in 1869, has now 55,560 members and an annual in- come of $60,515. The Virginia Bible Society is about to make a perfect canvass of the State for the purpose of ascertaining how many homes are without Bibles. . ‘The Baptist Publication Society propose to inaugurate Sunday-school work as svon as suflicient books and tracts in the Spanish Janguage can be printed. During March the American Baptist Mis- sionary Society received $118,185, which wi enable it to pay all current expenses and re- duce the deficit of last year some $10,000. The next Protestant Episcopal General Convention becalled upon tocrect a new inissionary diocese on the Pacific Cuast, to be called the Diocese of Buise and Walla Walla. The Christian Leader intimates that The tramps who call themselves the Salvation Army were sent to New York as a repri for the atlliction of Talmage’s visit to gland.” The Stewart Cathedral at Garden City: Long Island, is rapidly nearing completion it is expected that the edifice will be ded cated some time this month by Bishop Lit- tlejohn. Acensus of the Society of Friends shows that it has about 83,000 members, of whom 66,850 are_in “the United States and Canada, 14,725 in England, 3,948 in Scotland, and 3,500 in other couiitries. Of the 14,000 Methodist Episcopal minis- tersin this country, there are, according to the Methodist, only eleven who have blots on their names, and three of these have been condemned unjustly. Protestant churches are multiplying very rapidly in Italy, Of churches which have services u1 a foreign tongue for foreign peo- ple there’ are 50; of churches composed of talian converts from Catholicism there are 138, of which the Methodists have 4, the ‘Vaudois 39, the Free Chureh 21, the Baptists 19, and the Plymouth Brethren 15. A Northern Methodist minister, writin; from Texas, says; ‘‘ Fraternity here (with Southern Methodists) consists in simply this: Persecution, bitterest opposition, anu ‘ostra- cism for yourself and family until you grow tobe the more popular church of the com- munity; then the Methodist Episcopal Church South is only too ready to accept your favors and become your beneficiary. ‘The semi-annual meeting of the Michigan Unitarian Conference will ve held at Kalama- zoo Muy 17,18, and 19. The opening sermon B. Forbush, of Detroit. The exercis will consist of sermons, essays, and discus- sions on_ living questions. The Unitarian Society of Kalamazoo extends the hospitality of its homes to visitors. There will be a meeting of the friends of the American and Foreign Bible Society and of the American Bible Union at Saratoga, May 2, to.confer togethes and adopt meas- ures for carrying forward Baptist Bible work athome and abroad. The Srundard thinks it unwise for the Societies to resolve upon uny definit plan of action until after the ap- pearance of the revised translation of the Scriptures now approaching completion. It seems that the theological unrest which is now ible in Presbyterian Scotland is disturbi the Presbyterians at the anti- podes, ‘The ree lariat Review, the orean of the Synod of Victoria, Australasia, has been under suspension ‘for laxity in doctrinal matters, and charges have been brought and investigated of unsettling teachings. ‘The Review defends itself and says: ‘The theo- logical dialect of the seventeenth century, as it is embodied in the Westminster Standards, does need now and then to be translated into the language of the nineteenth. We cannot conduct ali our fighting in that old armor. is preaches pe Presbyterians of the time of the First Charles and the Commonwealth, north or south of the ‘Tweed, preached. — We have to face problems that those ood forefathers of ours knew nothing of. Much has had to be altered or modified.” ‘The bronze god Daibootz, the great Bud- dhist divinity of Japan, is over oo years old. It rises, a majestic image, sixty-five feet high. ‘There is a tradition that this great fizure was cast from copper and bronze. coins thrown into the temple by poor pilgrims as votive offerings to the god. Some time during October there will be held an Inter-Seminary Convention for the urpose of considering the relations of theo- logical students to the cause of home and foreign missions. ‘The call for the Conven- tion, it is stated, will be signed by the follow- ing seminaries: _Presbyterian—Princetén, Union, Auburn;. Congregational—Andover, Ilartford, New Laven; Baptist—Newton an ne wa Rochester; Methodist—Boston and Drew: Reformed—New Brunswick; ‘Lutheran Philadelphia. ‘The British Protestant Alliance has issued a circular calling attention to the position attained by the Church of Romein the United Kingdom. It states it “Last year there were 34 Catholic Peers, 26 holding seats in the House of Lords; 51 Catholic members of the Ilouse of Commons,”- and five Catholic members of the Queen’s Privy Council; and there are in Great Britain 18 Archbishops or Bishops, 2,140 priests, and 1,348 Catholic places of worship. The circular intimates that the Church of England is threatened by the spread of Romanism. : PERSONALS, The Rev. J. D. Cole, D. D., recently fell from a wagon, backward, and broke his right arm. The Rey. S. I. McKee, of Lockport, I, has declined the call to the Congregational Church at De Kalb. The First Presbyterian Church of Buffalo has extended _a cull to the Rey. Hf. D. Gans D. D., of St. Louis. su The Rev. Henry M. Morey, of Loganspo Ind., has accepted a call to the ‘Third peas byterian Church of Indianapolis, Last Sunday the Rev. Theodore L. Cuyle celebrated the twentieth anniversary of iis pastorate of the Lafayette Avenue Presby- terian Church, Brooklyn, The Rey. Dr. J. S. Hutton, for nearly fifty years one of the prominent pastors of the utch Reformed Church of New York, died suddenly of disease of the heart a few days ago, The Rey. Arthur Foster, of Baltimore, has withdrawn from the Methodist denomination toaccept the Rectorship of the Reformed Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, in Wash- ington, Cc. The Rey. George Chainey, of Evangvill declares that he is not a Chistian, and dat he will never pray in. Ie believes all the hymn-books should be consigned to the Tagan, f The Rev. T. B. Forbush, who has so long been connected with the Chicago Athenwum, Jeft this city yesterday with his family for Detroit, where he takes up his residence as the Unitarian minister for thatcity. | The Rev. William H. Channing, of London, England, conducts the services at Unity Chureh to-day. He is tne nephew and biog- rapher of the late Dr. Channing, whose cen- tennial birthday was celebrated in this city a few days ago. When the Rey. H. V. Gardner, of Ham- monugport, N. Y., preached his farewell sermon, a few Sundaysago, all other churehes in the town were closed inorder to give their congregations an opportunity to ‘manifest their respect for the retiring Rector. “ Miss Anna Oliver recently applied to the New England Conference for ordination, but Bishop Andrews, the Presiding Bishop, re- fused, according to a previous decision of the E| 1 Board, to submit the question of ion to the Conference. An appeal was taken from the Bishop’s ruling to the General Conference, whieh will probabl: settle the question whether a woman shall be ordained: in the Methodist Episcopal urch. The Rev. S. H. Thompson, of Des Moines, accepted a call extended by the Govanstown Presbyterian Church, near Baltimore. On arriving at the latter city he was informed by the ruling Elder, one Dr. J. H. Prentiss, that his services were: not required. It ap- pears that the latter had ‘received letters dis- paraging to the pastor from an expelled member-of the church at Des Moines. Mr. Thompson at once returned to his former home and accepted a recall to his pastoral charge. SUNDAY SMALL TALK. He has reformed since his back was filled with birdshot while sneaking away from his neighbor’s hen-roost, and he now sings with great fervor: “A charge to keep I-have.” Sankey has written a new hymn entitled “Is Your Lamp Burning ?? We burn gas, so the conundrum doesn’t interest us. It is addressed to wicked people.—Norristown Herald. Aclergyman at Bellows Falls, Vt., recent- ly announced, before his sermon, an inten- tion of marriage, and then upset the gravity of his audience by saying as his text, “In the resurrection, therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be 2” 2 A drunken Seotch parishioner was ad- monished by his parson. “TI can go into the village,” concluded the latter, ‘‘and come home again without getting drunk.” “Ah, , but Pm sae popular!” was the Scotchman’s apologetic reply. An aged colored man was: hastening home from chureh, and was asked why he was in so great a. hurry. “0, nothin | partiklar, boss,” was his answer; “ony I jess heerd at de confrunce dat Sam Johnson's fell fm grace, an’ I thought Vd get right home ’s scons Icould’n lock up my chickens; that’s all. Atnreligious meeting in Winsted, Conn., on a recent Sunday, the wife of a well- known citizen told how much religion had done for her and how much better she was with it than without it. When she had spoken, another sister got up and expressed a fervent hope that if religion had done for the preceding speaker all that she had said she would soon become good enough to pay her the 50 cents she owed her. Free-Kirk Divine (of advanced opinions, who has recently introduced an organ into his chapel): ‘Iam sorry to hear, Mrs. Me- Grawley, that you are by no means so regu- lar in your attendance at church as you used to be.” Fair Beggite (indignant at the pas- tor’s latest iniquity): “Kirk, indeed! Wud ye luurre me_tae Rome wi? the rest 0’ them, wi’ your orgings an’ anthums an’ sich like abominations! Na, na, until ye gie’ me th’ Auld Hunder’ again without the whustles, Vil tak’ ma’ speeritual comfort at-hame.”— Punch. . A young lady who resides in that part of Pennsylvania which is called “the Switzer- Jand of America” has a Sunday-school class of rather bright boys, averaging between 7 and 9 years. Recently she requested each pupil to come on the following Sunday with some passage of Scripture bearing upon love. ‘The lads heeded the request, and _in turn re- cited their verses_bearing upon that popular topic, such as “Love your enemies,” “ Lit- tle children, love one another,” ete. The teacher said to the boy whose turn came last, “Weil, Robbie, what is your verse?” Raising himself up, he responded, “Song of Solumon, secont chapter, fifth verse: * Stay me_the flagons, comfort me with ap- ples: for Tam sick of love.’ Now what could be done with that style of boy?—Harper’s Drawer. The serio-comic ‘ideas that enter the head of Sainbo, when exercised on religious mat- ters, causing anxiety perhaps to himself but laughter to the listener, were exemplified in the case of an “uncle” in Chester, S. C., who had been to a camp-meeting, and_ returned greatly troubled about his sins. Perceiving him one day with a downeast look, his mas- ter asked iim the cause. “Oh, Massa, Pin such a great sinner!” “ But, Pete, you_are foolish to take it so much to heart. You never see me troubled about my sins” “1 know de reason, Massa: when you go out duck shooting, and kill one duck and wound another, don’t you run after de wounded duck?” “Yes, Pete.” And the master won- dered what was coming next. “ Well, Massa, dat is de way wid you and me: de debbil has got you sure; but, as he’s not sure of me, he chases dis chile all de time!” CHURCH SERVICES. UNITARLAN, The Rev. Brooke Herford preaches at the Church of the Messiah. Morning subject: *Reat in the Lord.” Evening lecture: Robert Raikes, the Founder of Sunday-Scifools.”” —The Rev. William Henry Channing preaches atthe Unity Church. Morning subject: “The | Universal of Chitdren of God." Even- Channing Regarded as the Ideal Ameri- ~The Rev. B. I. Galvin preaches at the Third Church at 8:00 o'clock. ‘The Rey. N. BAPTIST. c Rev. N. F. Ravii . arrpe Kev. George C. Lorimer will preach both morning and evening at the First Church, corner of hirty-first street and South Park avenue. Morning subject: He Knoweth.” Evening: Sah teen —Fo lureh, corner of West Washington pnd Paulina streeté. The Rov... I Hulbere Bee par at 10:30 a. m, and 7:5) p. me. by = University Place Church, irty- fitth strect and Rhodes venue Service at 10:0 a. m. and 7:20 p. m. by the Hov. J.T. Bur- Fenorth Star Church, corner Division andSedg- wick streets. Services at 10: 7 m. by the Itov. J. nrioge Soar > And 70, p. —Western: Avenue Church, corner Western and Warren avenues. Servicesat 10% 7:00 p. tn. by the ltev. G. Perrin, pastor eee —Coventry Street Church, corner Coventry street und Bloomingdule road. ‘Services at 1000 am and 7:30 p.m. by the Rov. W. H. Parker, —OlivetChurch, Fourth avenue,*near Tay street. ‘The Kev.'R. De Baptiste, pastor “Senge Teos.at Ha, mi aid Tp. me by tho pustor. lurch, corne: strvgts., Sorvieos ut Thavan 2 ww Housparte ‘entennial Church, corner Lit Jackson streets, "Services uf 10 eed ee P. m, by the Rev. A K. Parker, pustor: —Central Chure, 248) Orchard street, near S0- hia. ‘The Rev. E. 0. Taylor, pastor, Services —Dearborn Street Church, Thirty-sixth Dearborn streets, Services at Wikia me enn ie m., by the pastor, the Rey. W. A. Broad- —Evangel Church, Rock Island car- Dearborn street, near Forty-seventh. Servites nt 10:45;8. m. and 7:30 p. m. by the Rov. J.Q. A. |- on. —First German Chueh, corner Bickerdike and Huron streets. Tho Hev. Mr. Meyer pastor. Baty ices) at 10:30 a, m, and 7:20 p. m. by the Pas- or. —First_ Norwegian Church, corner Noble West Onto streets. ‘The Kev. JB. Sunth, pastor Services at 10:80 a. m. and 7:36 p.m. by the pas: 0 Ir. —First Swedish Church, Oak street, near Sedg- wiek. ‘The Rev. John Onginun, pastor, Services at 10:30 n,m. and 7:30 p, m. by the pastor. .- —Tho Rev. Gulusha Anderson preaches at the Second Church morning and evening. EPISCOPAL. Cathedral SS. Peter and Paul, corner of West ‘Wushington and Peoriu streets, the Rt.-Iev, W. E. MeLuren, S. TY. D., Bishop; the Rev. J. Knowles, priost in charge. Holy Communion at 8a.m, Choral morning prayer and celebration of Holy Communion at 10:80 a. m. —St, Jumes' Church, corner of Cass and Huron streets. ‘The Rey. Frederick Courtney, Rector. Services: Holy Communionat a, m.; morning prayer, litany, and sermon, 10:45 a.m.; evening pravor and sermon, 7:45 p.m. —Trinity Church, corner prentyssixth street and Michigan avenue. The Rey. R. A. Holland, Reotor. Services at 10a. m. and 7:45p.m. Cele- brution of the Holy Communion at 8:30 p.m. race Church, W: P. ‘abash avenue, near Six- teenth strect. The Rev. Clinton Locke, D. D., ‘ Rector. Services at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. it. Andrew's Church, corner of West Wash- ington and Hobey streeta, The Rov. William Hl. Knowlton, Rector. Services at 10:30 a. m. boeenth 330 D. m. ch . it. Ansgarius’ Church, Sedgwick street, near Chicago .uvenue. ‘The’ Rey. John Hedman, Rector. Services at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —Church of the Ascension, North Lua Sulle and Elm‘strects. The Rey. Arthur Ritchie, pastor. Communion, 8a. m. Morning prayer, 10 a. m. Choral euchnrist with sermon, lla.m. Solemn Vespers with sermon, 7:30 p. m. Seats not rented. —St. Paul's Church, ‘Hyde Park avenue, be- tween Forty-ninth and Fifticth streets. ‘The Rev. Charles Stanley Lester, Rector. Services at 1a, m. and 7:30 p. m. —St. Mark's Churoh, Cottage Grove avenue, corner Thirty-sixth street. “The Rev. B. F. Fleetwood, Rector. Services at 10:30 a.m. and 230. p. ma. —St. Stephen’s Church, Johnston street, be- twoen Taylor and Twelfth streets, The Rev. J. D. Cowan, Rector. The Rev. L. W. Applegate prosenes in the morning and the pastor in the evening. —Calvary Church, Warren avenue, between Onkley street and Western avenue, The Rev. Luther Pardee ,Kector. Services at 1:30 a.m. and 7:30 p. am Celebration of the Holy Com- munion at 7:45 a. m. * the Epiphany, ‘Throop strect, be- 2 —Church of tween Monroc and Adams streets. The Rev. T. N. Morrison, Jr., Rector. Services at 10;30 x. m. und 7:30 p. in.’ Celebration of the Holy Com- munion at 8a. m. —Church of Our Savior, corner of Lincoln and Belden avenues. The Rev. W. J. Petrie, Rector. Services at 11 a.m, and 4:30 p. m. St. Thomas’ Church, Indiana avenue, be- tween Twenty-ninth and Thirticth streets. The Rev. James BE. Thompson, Rector. Services ut Ila. m, and 7:45 p. m. Celebration of the Holy Communion at 8 a.m. —St. Luke’s Mission, 987 and 989 Polk street. Services at 11:45 a. m. and 7:30-p. m. UNIVERSALIST. The Rey. D.C. Tomiinson will preach at St. Paul's Church, Michtgaun avenue, near Eight- eenth street, morning and evening. . CHRISTIAN. ‘The Rev. J. K, Edwards will" preach in the church corner of Western avenue and Congress street morning and evening. —tThe Hey. I. A. Searles preaches at the South Side Church morning and evening. Morning subject: ‘Council of War.” Evening: “ Blaz- ing the Way.” —Dr. Muthowson preaches at No. 91 South Green street, morning and evening. —The Hev. Charles H. Caton preaches at the Second Church. Morning subject: “Our _At- mosphericSurroundings—A Great Cloud of Wit- nesses.” Evening: “ Manhood, Its Mightiness and Meanness.”" 4 NEW JERUSALEM. Tho Rev. L. P. Mercer preaches at Hershe: Hail this morning. Subject: * Tho Holy Spirit.” —The Rev. W. F. Pendicton proaches at the chavel near Menominee street this morning, and at the Temple, corner of Washington street and Ogden uveuue, this afternoon ut 5:30. METHODIST. ‘The Rev. Dr. Thomns preaches at Centenary Chureh morning and evening. —The Kev. D. Williamson will at the morning service repent zhis sermon on “Christ a Seien- tlle Necessity of the Soul.” Evening subject, “The | Garden of Eden, Granted, Lost, Re- guined.” ki —The Rev. Arthur Little will preach in the morning at Graco Churen, corner of La Salleand White streets. Serinon fu the morning by the pastor. Subject, “Christian Manliness.” —The Kev. F. M. Bristol preaches ut the Wa- bash Avenue Church morning and evening, —The Rev. George Chase preuches at tho Ful- ton Street Chureh this morning and Bishop Mer- rill this evening. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. The Rev. J. D. Wilson preaches at St. John's Churei this morning, Ellis avenue, near Thirty- seventh street. —Bishop Cheney preaches at Christ's Church. Morning subject: “How to Grow in Grace.” Eyening: “How Two Opponents Were Recon- ciled.” —The Rev. R. iJ Bosworth preaches at Trinity thurch, Englewood, at 3:45. ore Rew F. W. Adams preaches at St. Mut- thews’ Church. Morning subject: “ Why Does Not God Answer Our Prayers in the Way We Ask Him?" pevoning: .* Christian Loyalty—Its Source and Power.” —Tho Rev. Mason Gallagher will preach at St. Paul's Church, corner ot weet achiasten, and Curpenter streets, morning and evening. * —The Kev. Dr. Gooper preaches at the Church of the Good Shepherd, corner of Jones Homan streets, this evening. PRESBYTERLAN, The Rey. Walter Forsythe preaches at the Englewood Church, morning and evening —The Rev. J.L. Jenkins, of Pittsticid, Mass., preuches at the Fourth Church this morning. —The Rev. H. T. Miller preuches ut the Sixth Church, corner of Vincennes and Oak avenues, pin} Sthe Iter. J. Monro.Gibson will occupy the i © Rev. Mipit of tho Second Chiureh, corner of Michigua avenue and Twentieth street, morning and even- ing. ‘The morning service will have reference tothe sixthunniversary of his pustonite with the church. The Rey. H. M, Colliston will preach morn- ingandeveningat the Fullerton Avenue Church. Strangers cordiully Invited. —The Itev. Dr. Elliott will preach in the morn- ing at the Scotch Chureh, corner of Adams and Sungamon streets. The pustor, the Rev. Dr. MeLaughlin, will preach in the evening. —The Key. Arthur Swazey preaches at the Forty-tirst Street Church this morning. —The Rev. W.T, Meloy preaches xt the United Chureh, corner of Monroe and Paulina streets, at the usual hours. LUTHERAN, The Rev. H. Peck will preach at Trinity Church, corner of Dearborn ayenue and Eric street, at 11 o'clock. CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. E, F. Williams preaches at the South Church morning and evening. Z —The Key. Churies Hall Everest preaches at Plymouth Church ut the usual hours. —The Key. G. H. Peuke, of the Levitt Street Church, will preach both morning and evening. —The Kev. F. A. Noble will preach morning and evening at the Union Park Congregational Chureh. ¥ MISCELLANEOTS. Donald Ross and John Carnie, Scotch evangel- sts, will olficiate this afternoon and evening at No.'97 South Despluines street. “The Rev, N. F. Raylin preaches at the Wush- ingtonian Home at 3 o'clock. A Spiritualists’ and mediums’ meeting will be held ut No. 308 West Madison street at 3 o'clock. <The First Society. of Spiritualists meet at tho church, comer of Monro and Latin streets, morning and evening. drs. Core V. 1; Rich mond speaks in the morning on ~ The Christ an Anti-Christ of Spiritualism." and in tho evon- “The Law of the Soul.” . 108 the Liberal Reunion meets at No. 213 West et at 2x eaagder Forscutt reaches at No, 619 West Lake strect, moruing and evening. —Th di men hold meetings at the cor- OE eee inte streets at Govclock; at No. 4045 State street at 3:30; and at No, s Canal ttreet at . See —The Disciples of Christ meet at No. 229 Wes! Randolph street, at p. m. All ure fuvited. e —The Rev. Jumes Ray shpplebee will conduct the services before the Chicago Free Religious Society, both morning and evening, at Apploton Hall, corner of Thirty-fiftn street and Vincennes avenue. The subject for tho evening lecture at 7:30 will be,“ Shakspeare’s Richard the Second; or, Kingly Absolution Tried and Found Want- —The following iadies have been sclected to lead the 3 p. m. Gospel Temperance Meetings in Lower Farwell Hali during the coming week: Monday, Mrs. R. A. Decker; Tuesday, Mrs. Maj. MeDonald: Wednosdns, Mrs. Ai Merriam: ursday, Mrs. M.a.Cummings; Friday, Mrs. M. B. Willard; Saturday, Miss M. ‘A. Baker, —W. O. Lattimore will conduct a Gospel ser- vice for drinking men at Farwell Hall this even- —William Needham will lead the Gospel meet- ing at the Pacific Garden this evening. —Elder Burd will conduct « temperance meet- ing at the corner of Noble and Ohio streets this afternoon at 4:30. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. y EPISCOPAL, April 23—Fourth Sunday after Easter; St. Mark. April 30—Fast.. May 1-SS, Philip and James. CATHOLIC. April 25—Fourth Sunday after Easter; St. Mark, wane. : April 28—SS. Cletus and Marcellinus, PP. MLM. pl Dri St. Paul of the Cro: e }» M ‘April 20S Poters sf ros Ct St. Vitalis April 30—St. Catherine of Sienna, V. Muy 1-SS. Philip and Jumes, Apostics, LITERATURE. Chat with the Senior Partner of an Old , Publishing House—Some Astonishing Figures in Bookmaking. : New York Herald. “My recollections as a publisher,” said Mr. William IH. Appleton, the senior meniber of the firm of D. Appleton & Co., “extend over a period of fifty years. Ican remember when my father kept a bookstore on Ex- change place. It stood just back of the Cus- tom-House, but the street was not the resort of brokers and bankers that it is to-day. Ladies promenaded that narrow thorough- fare and fashionable life was found down around the Battery and Bowling Green. My father was a retail dealer then, and made quite a little fame in the trade as an importer of foreign books. He opened thestorein Ex- change place in 1825 and published his first book in 1831, This book was about three inches square and half an inch thick, but its Publication: caused the firm of D. Appleton & Jo, more anxiety than the * American Cyclo- pedia”’ undertaken some thirty years later. Lhis little book was called ‘Crumbs from . the Master’s Table,’ and consisted of selec- tions from Bible texts. We sold about 1,000 ‘Crumbs,’ and were very well satistied, so weil indeed that we followed it by a similar book, ‘which was equally successful. ‘The third book we published was called ‘A Ref- uge in Time of Plague and Pestilence, and it had an enormous sale, for it appeared in 1832, the terrible cholera year, and the public mistook it for a treatise on that disease, whereas it was a religious volume, pointing out Christ as the refuge. Some twenty-five years ago @ paragraph appeared in the papers saying it we would give a copy of the largest book we published to any one who would ge us a copy of ‘Crumbs.’ This announcement was seen by an old jody in Maryland, who sent us the little book, an we sent her one twenty times its size in re- turn. Ihad the old and worn covers taken off, and paid $35 to have it handsomely bound, and I keep it ina velvet-lined silver box at my house. My father gave more at- tention to importing than to making books, and sent me over to England to establish an agency in London, Iwas 21 years of age then, and I yery well remember meeting Tom Moore at a dinner given _by the well-known ‘publisher, Longmans. In those days Mr. ongmans gave his dinners in a room over the shop, and it was a great gathering-place for the literary lights of the day. No, I didn’t hear Moore sing, but I heard him talk. He was very gunial.und amusing, and I wa very much impressed.” . “You have been abroad a number of times since?” 2 “Yes, a great many times, and I have met & great y interesting people. We deal directly with most of our foreign authors, and pay them the same copyright that we do <American authors. As a rule we publish from the English plates, though we have published from Spencer’s manuscript. He is a very particular writer, and. almost entirely rewrites his articles from the proof-sheets. Huxley reads his proof in the manuscript; that is, he avrites very carefully at first. so that there is very little correction made in the proofs. Bancroft is a very particular writer, and it takes him a Jong time to prepare a book for the press. Hie is at work now ona new volume of his history, but it is*impossi- bie to say when it will be ready.” “How was Mr. Bryant as a maker of man- uscript?”? - “Mr, Bryant did all his laboring over the first draft of his poems, and the manuscript as we received it was like copper-plate.”” “How do his works sell?” “They have sold better since his death than before, for some reason or other.” ~ Whatis the best-selling book you pub- lish, if not too impertinent a question?” “ The best-selling book we pub! is Web- ster’s Speller,’ and it has the largest sale of any book in the world, except the Bible. We sell a million copies a year.” “ A million copies a year!” “ Yes, and have for forty years, making 40,000,000 of ‘ Webster’s Spellers’ that have issued from our pre ‘The year following the emancipation of th ves we sold 1,500,— ie every negro it only necessary to have a‘ Webster’s S| er’toread, After that year it fell back the original million, and has never varied. We sell them in cases of seventy-two dozen, and they are bought byall the large dry-zoods houses and supply stores and furnished by them to every cross-roads sture in ‘the coun- try.’ “Can you always tell whether a book will be successful?” , 4 “No more than a manager can predict the success of aplay. For example, when *‘Lo- thair? was written we determined to publish it, The tirm held a consultation, and some of the members were for printing an edition of 2,000, while others thought that was too many and doubted whether 1,000 would sell. Finaily we agreed to venture with 2,000, You may iinagine our surp! when I tell you that we sold 80,000 copies of that novel. We have to thank the Herald for a great deal .of this success, for that paper gave it 2 power- ful lift in this country. 1 have Mr. Disraeli’s letter on the subject here in the safe. You may use it if, you care to.” ‘The letter is dated Grosvenor Gate, July 7, 1870. ‘The style of writing is peculiar. Al- though it continues over the page the name of the firm is written in the left hand corner of the first page, and the first word of the succeeding page is given on the one before, after the style of the old-fashioned book: The signature which is given to the Iette: and on the envelope is written with a small “3,"—Disracli, “Trejoice,” he writes, ‘to hear that your enterprise has been so successful, and that *Lothair’ has gained the syinpatiies of your countrymen, Whose public iy often experienced, and whose esteem and Te- gardI value highly. Baron chnitz writes to me that ‘ Lothair’? has received almost as warn 2 welcome in Germany as in the States. So he is a forti \. Miss Mihi- ; nd Als Cour? tt ne W. Appleton, ‘while traveling down South, came arose acopy of this book printed at Atlanta, Ga., during the War. He bought it as a curiosity, for it was wretchedly printed on wrapping paper. Having an idle hour or so one day, he read the work and was at once struck by the elements of popularity in it, and it was published by the firm. Every one will remember the success of this stury, and how it was followed by a long series by the same author. Before the accident that led to the publication of “Joseph IL” Miss Miihl- bach’s novels had been offered to nearly every publisher in Ne Ce Sark. the Appletons among and refused. eee ao ere ‘successful American books are “ Sew: Travels Around the World ” and. “Gen. Sherngm’s Memoirs.”| Gen. Sher- man, Mr. Appiéton says, is as fast a writer eis talker, and he’ seldom has to. cor ect his manuscript. He wrote out all the book himself, except a few pages that were rewritten by his secretary. Mr. W. W. Ap- pleton has the Tuan acripe bound, and it kes four large volumes. migheS ould like,” said Sr. Appleton, taking upa pencil and sheet of paper, ** toshow you the cost of bookmaking. 1 don’t believe that ople, when they buy a buok for 50 cents, have any idea of the capital invested to bring it down ut that price. bach’s “Joseph ¢. For exainple, it cost us $138,000 to publish * Picturesque Amer- ica,’ and that without adding the cost of printing. ‘To be sure we iaile a good profit on it, Forty thousand copies were sold and $2,400,000 turned in by our agents. An even more profitable venture was the ‘ American. Cyclopedia,’ for which the public has paid 3,760,000. Of course, all of that isnot profit. It costs an iummense amowit-of money to employ (00 hands, and -pay out $298,470. in wi aS annually,” saat © have now in process of making a book that will be in many respects superior to “Picturesque America,’ For the past two years we have had artists—Mr. Harry Fenn and J. D. Woodw uf Lraveling through the Holy Land, making sketches for this book, which is to treat of the picturesque and his- torical aspects of that country. There will forty steel engravings and 600 wood. Nes, some of which have been made at the tisk of the ai Here is an interior the Mosque at Jerusalem, made by Mr. Woodward, _ He is the first outsider ever ad- mitted within the sacred -walls, and he was obliged to have two soldiers, armed to the teeth, stand guard over him as he sketched. Even then his life was threatened, the peo- ple are so prejudiced against strangers. fhe work will be issued in parts, and. edited By Col. Wilson, assisted by the Rey. Canon frestram; E. T. Rogers, British Consul at Cairo, and daughter, Miss Rogers: the Kev. F. W, Holland and E. H. Palmer: of Aunericans, the Rev. Dr. Schaif, auf, the Rev. Dr, Potter, and others, aA. P. Stanley, Dean of Westminster, has written the introduction. You may observe that the firm name con- tinues to be D, Appleton & Co. There have been three generations inthe firm, which will be always known as at present, in’ accordance with the wish of its founder, my father. On winding up his business’ he said to me, * William, I never had muclr personal pride, but I do feel proud of this business, and I do wish you would keep the name of Daniel as long as you can.’ I replied that it should be kept as long as the law would allow it, and that I would never sign a check or a note un- less his name was written in full, and I have been able to keep my promise.” LITERARY NOTES. The Academy says that an important discov- ery has just been made in the Record Ottice— viz.: a prayer in the handwriting of Charles I., dated 1631, which turns out to be Identical with the second prayer in the “ Elkon Basilike.” In a reference to an English book, the Inaccu- racles of which, it says, ure “multitudinous,"* the Spectator cites that the author, instead of saying“ Mr. Narraway, a fellmonger in Broad- mead,” said “Mr. Harraway, a jishmonger in Broadway.” J. B. Lippincott & Co. have in press Jackson's Vulley Campaign” (186t-"e2), by Licut.-Col. Will- iam Allan, with maps of the region and battle fields by Capt. Jed Hotchkiss; und “The United States Government: Its Organization and Prac= tical Workings,” by George N. Lamphere. “Tho Naval History of Great Britain, from. the Dechiration of War by France, in 17%, to the Accession of George IV.,” by William James, with a continuation of the history down to the battle of Navarino (18%), by Capt. Chamier, is qe ot: R. Bentley & Son’s (London) latest pub- ications. _ Many years ago there appeared a novel called “Rutl by un unknown American writer and now 2 new novel, by the same_ author, ent! tled * Sissy,” will be published by G. W. Carleton & Co., which promises to create us wide a sensa- tion as did the former volume, of which over 50,000 copies were sould. ‘Messrs. John Wiley & Sons have In press ap eluborately illustrated volume on“ The Navies of the World,” by Lieut. Very, U.S.N. It will treut of the construction of naval ships, armors, and torpedoes, and of. other relevant subjects and will give tables showing the classesize speed, and power of almost every man-of-wa ato Prof. Vamb¢ry is shortly coming over to En- glund ‘in order to read the paper which he has promised the Society of Arts “On Russia's Tn- luence Over the Iububitants.of Central Asin ‘During the Lust Ten Years.” The date on which the paper Is to be rend is the 16th of April. Prof. Vanibéry leayes Buda-Pesth on the 10th, and is expected in London on the Ith. A Mmited edition for subscribers only is an- nounced of * The St or, Kecalleetions of Actors and Acting. James -E. Murdoch, with 2 biozrapbical s! hof the author. publishers are J. M. Stoddart & Co., Philadel- phin. An etened portrait of the author, and hia autograph, 8 portrait of Edwin Forrest, und a list of subscribers will be udded to each copy. ~ Jansen, McClurg & Co. announce that on May they wilt issue the first number of « monthly periodical devoted to Nterary newsand criticism, to_be culled the Dial. Its contents will com- Prise critical reviews of important new books, with briefer descriptive notices, fresh terry notes and news, personal gossip about authors, lists of the books published during euch month, and announcements of those soon to appeur. ‘One of the purchases made at a recentsale In New York of 2 collection of rare literature re- luting to the early history of this country, wero ‘two volumes of tho Pennsylvania Gi the first of which was printed by Samuel Kelmer in 173-4), and the second by B. Frunklin and H. Meredith in 172-30. ‘They were bought for the: Historical Society of Pennsylvania. ‘The price paid wns $28) per volume. Afriend in Alabuinn has called the attention of the Hour to anuther case in which 2 bold, bad inan bas imposed on Messrs. Scribner & Co. In St, Nicholus, for April, there 13 2 si “Nupoleon ‘and the Young Egyptian,’ ing to be written by one Col. ‘fA, Dodg story can -be found almost word for word in “Arabian Days’ Entertainments, translated from the Germ, by Herbert Pelham Curtis. “Bos- ton, 1838.” A suit for infringement of copyright has just been tried before the Paris Civil Tribunal, 3. Calmaon Lévy is proprietor of the works of Tlenri Murger, Edgar A. Poe, and M. Louis Blane. In January lust the Rere@ commenced publishing extracts from them without uuthori- ty, or, in some cases. mentioning the source. M. Culmunn “Lévy having protested aigunst the piracy, the proprietors of tho Mereil offered to pay the usunl cbarze of five centimes per line Tor reproductions, but declined to pay damages. on the ground that the sale of the works would benetit by the extracts given. The Court con- deined the Revell to pay 1,000f. and the costs. English people have been laughing over a ro- cent mishzp of the Clurendon Press. A very learned Greek offefed to sell the authorities an nuscript, Which be declured he bad Hin Alexandrian, On examination it ito be a history of Egypt by « sage of the time, and the delegutes were uuturally r to nemire tho treasure, having, after a cen serutiny, decided that it was genuine. ‘The Greek sold It for a lurge sum and departed. In process of tine the manuseript wus printed, and a few proof copies were circuluted among the dons before publication. But conceive the con= sternution of alt concerned when one of them informed the -publishers thut the thing was a xross imposition, being merely u very bud trans- lation of 2 modern history of Egypt by a well- known German scholar and Professor. The announcement of Prof. Winchell’s forth- coming work by the publishers, S.C. Griggs & Co., hus attracted wide attention. The book ts entitled * Pre-Adamites; or, A Demonstration of the Existence of Men Before Adam.” It understood that it will be amply illustrated, und imap of great im- portance. st important questions discussed is that of the unity of the human ritce,—it question which hus caused a clush of opinions among men of science. It has been the great. battle-ticld among unthropologists, eth- nologists, geologists, pbilologists, and thevlo- gists. Autong the foremost in favor of the diversity of origin have been Agussiz, Murchi- gon, Ponchet, Wallace, and Schleicher, while the contrary has been maintained by an array of writers too numerous to mention. VENNOR. ‘The weather-beaten prophet, Mr. Vennor, the Canadian, B Mus bade adieu to Montreal, and sought the wilds exdian; He's studying bis Chemistry- and Physical Geog- Roviewhus bis Philosophy, and cramming in bys poiisked up the index of his anerold bar- And rearranged the figures on bis Farenheit thermometer; He cultivntesacquaintance with the members of the Zodi ac. Besceching enrly notice of the elements sym- posine; Manipulutes the long bow of the centaur, Sagit- turius, ‘ Ana eaters information from the spouting old. Aquarius; He nope, when he emerges, to exbibit his ability Ly ” In atmospheric changes with infallible facility, Reducing to a systein the phenomenal duplicity Of Colurado blizzurds and polaric electricity. And ighe bro successful, restussured that Mr, ennior’ Be crownud the weather prophet, in particular ” andgeneral. —Utlea Obsercer. Expensive Harem Pension-List. Geneva Continent. At the request of the British and French Gov- ernments, the {European Controllers of Egyp- tiun Finance have drawn up a return of all the living wives of past Viceroy, us well ug of the pensions which ther ncraly derive from the State Exchequer. m this tubular statement it appears that two relics of Mehemet Ali, the first Viceroy of Exypt and srent-grandfather of the present Khedive, still survive, und ure euch Inreceipt of un income equivulent tw £5,000 per annum. As Mehemet Ali died thirty-one years ugu, these two ladies have, since bis deuth, obtuined from the tian -Exchequer pecuniary consolation their bere: ent to the tune £310,000. Onl: one widow of Abbus Pusha is in existence, an Ber pension is comparutively moderate, umount- ing to not more than £2,400 4 year: but a greut: number of his surviving odulisques, daughters and granddunghters aru also in. tho’ enjoyment of regular incomes charguble to theState. This is, moreover, the case with muny female mem- bers of Ismail Pasha’s uncommo! large fum- ily, left behind him, tobe provided for by his ex-subjects, when he quitted Egypt, shortly after his deposition. The Egyptian Harem Pension List hus been recently subjected to re- ductions un ut lurge seale; but it still burdens the budget with an unnuai charge of 425,00, carry on our factory in Williamsburg. We * i i | rere