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2 Do Tte reper, i ro = THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE : SATURDAY, JULY 17, LITERATURE Renan in London—His Hib- bert Lectures—Rome ~ and Christi- - anity. Queen Victoria .at Mome—Tho Late dustin Butterfleld— Recent Theological Works. * ‘The Soionco of English Verse— Michel Angelo — Alexander Pope—Tho United States Government. ‘Theadora—Solence for All—-Archesology —Books Received—Magazines —titerary Notes. RENAN IN LONDON. Erneat ienan,of Parts, dimly known to most of us who are orthodox tt least by descent ‘one of tho nnt!-Christs. lis" Life of Jesus" and pis “Origine of Christiafity" nre tho works with whieh our pulpits have ahuddertnyty Inked bis name, M. Renan recently crossed over from Forls to Lonton to epenk for the frst tine, though In French, to an llsh audience, . No enme at the Invitation of the Trustees of tho Mibbert Foundation, supported by a legney lett twenty yenra ago by Nobert Hibbert, who tind the wise Iden that tho progress of enlightoncd Christianity could not be separated from that of renson and sclonce. In this course M. Renu delivered four lectures, or conferences 18 he culls them, on Romo aud Christiinity, and elsc~ where in Londdu’ guve another couforetica on Marous Auretius, which anticipates bis Ife of thut wie Emperor soon to appenr. ‘hese tive addresses huve been tranalated by Clara Lirskino ‘Clement, who hna done her work excellently, and have been published ina neat little volume by James It. Oszood & Co. Renan [8 0 disburser of religions, ethical, and 4no lurge way of pollticut Idens, and in those conferences thoy will bo found sumined up in tho best Iternty form. The political force of Christianity, {te relations to other religions be- ‘fore and after, to huntin welfare generally, and to Homan society and polity; the development out of the primitive Chureh of tho Paprey and Protestautism, are the leading topics, aud thelr treutmont fs aecompnnied by the frankest utter- ances on the grent problems of indlyidual and social destiny and conduct, Tn 160 sinalt pages of large type all tha ig not to be given In dott, ‘Dntitls, plain that M, Renan determined that inappenring before his first English audience he would glva his whole — philosophy, ers of his “Life of Jesus,” “The Apostles,” “Tho Origins of Christianity," and his many eegiys on social, governmental, and educational tupics will tid thut these conferonzes contain tho best of thom all, Kenan'a appenranee was tho literary evont of the season in London, His person at 67 yeurs ot age is noble, be Is. a master of style, oven amon the French, and he loyes Christlunity, Tho origins of Christianity he says form tha most herole episode In the history of humanity. Man never drew frou his heart more devotion, more Jove of tha iden, than in the 160 yours whlch elupsed from the sweet Galllcun vislon, udder Wiberius, to tho death of Marcus Aurelia, Tho Tena thot wrote this ts not the Ronin wo hive had held up fa our thootoglen] seminuries for erneliixion, It 18 characteristic of tho dog. mutism whieh has stolen tho Hyery of religion that ita hurd and nurraw © eyes cane Not see this man, Renan js not in tho Mterary fashion, any more thin in favor with tho thevlogluus. Ho is almost solitary. Like Emeraon In this country, and Matthow Arnold in Grent Britain, be indies in enthusiisme and titultions, allot which fs shocking to your niodern who settles overything by euvironmen survival of tho fittest, und enlightened gelfgh- ness, Ronan can gush, -and not blush for it. The nolsy tdol-breaking of Palue and Ingersoll da far below his fove), Ho fs one of thosu great souls of whom tt few have found voles in overy era, Who geck bupplnesy for themeelves and ‘othors by discovering In tho tangled threads of duman fate a bright straln of prowreas. Mut his. Js too atrong at mind Co be content with muarnt- facturing sweet phrases. Hls chosen work 1s that of historian, He loves history, and bates doginn, = =There (are historinns of win, of fushlons, of industry.” Henan could bo tho historian of religion only. All religions muy be defective and incomplete; Naglony nn huinanity ig nothing less than divine.” Keligion 4a the worahlp of Henls, and the histary of these: 44 greator thin the records of tho groseor strug: wlesof men with cach other and with nature which give Macaulay and Bancroft their lower and duller tlelds, id ‘ In the domuin- of retigious history, Ronan's chosen flold is tho history of Christianity, and these conferences contre About tha connection uf Rome and Christianity. Christianity moved. westward over tho rons and undor the Jaws of the Homan Emplro. Home not only provided the natural conditions of tho propagation of the Christinn religion, tut, paradoxical np it gay soem {nthe fuec of tho wall-remembored persecution of tho carly Christians, affordad tho new thought tho lberty without which it vould not have grown, — Liberty of thought ine Inorensed tinder the new régime of Kome, Itls true, us Renan enya, thut this Mberty fe often tore prosperous under a King or Prince thin under tho Jenlous ind narrow-minded plobelun, It was, he says, tho Attall, tho Ptolemics, who Tirtt gave men of thought the frocdom which'no ono of tho old repubiies ever offered them, Tho Emptre, in destroying the abseluto sovereignty of tho fugnily, tho’ elty, the tribe, and replacing ‘those by the soveroliinty, of tha Stato, give Ine dividual thought a wider cirele tha it could Bayo had in carly Rome, or in Athens, which Doasted a fino “aid noble Inquisition. Tho Homan Empire brought within one political Doundary yast and diverse poputations, which Sound that thoy ind common woes and wero wn relict, * Asia nd Maly, * cone honest men, without dls- tho. epeotiela Minor, Greece, 8; egy pl talned mnsses of papr, aftor their manner, bumblo an Unetion; but rovalted nt which the Roman qristocrioy nido, full of thoso hideous representations in tho theators, ju which Rome mado n dle Yorston of sultoring, ‘ho moral consetonco of the human raco sont up an immonse protesta- ton, and thore wag no priest to interprot it, no nitylug God to reply to the sighs of poor sulfur Ing humanity, A‘ Futhor in Houvet was ro- quired who kopt a record of Aho offorts of mit, and promiscd hin wroopmpoue. A future of justice was required in which thoourth belonged: to tho feeble and the voor, ‘This Chriatlunit brought. Tho Roman uristoomes, ike tho British nobility of to ay remained ways falthful to. tuo.old woralilp Ww lob gave u divine suction to ‘he Jows cme to Rome sixty years bofore tho birth of Christ, Tholr quarter was beyond the Wouer, in the poorest and dirtiest part of the city, whore w Homan who respeeted himsclt would never plute his foot, it was probably neur the prosont Porta Portese. Here tho Jews traded and prosalytized. A world of fdeus, snys our author, was thus set in motion on tho vulgur ny, whore the morohandise of tho whole world was piled up. Undoubtolly the proud patricinna who, tn their promenades on the Aventing, onrt thoir eyes on tho other sido of tho Tiber, did not imaglio the future that was forming Itavlf in that cluster of pour houses at the fout of Janiculuin, Elsowhere, with a gently {rony, ho saya the most sugaclous Homan would baye been greatly nstonfished to. preferring: to bo his own Ynterpreter. Rend- | Jearn that the religious reign of the future bo. longed neithor to Serapis Hae tostithra, end that the Rrmeaaue religion was growing iinpore ceptibly in Judea. Je would baye been, Spoeklng to thom In tho highest degree, But so ofton in hiatory have Improbable prodictions become true, go often hus wisdom been mistaken, that it fu best not to rely too mich upon tho Ikea and adalikes of enlightoned mun, of bone cuprite us re aay when they undertake to predict tho LUO, Renan {ntroduces us to the moat ancient known members of tho Chureb of Homo, Priss cllla and hor husband Aquilu,uJew und, ko Bt. Paul, an upholsterer, - Ho desorihes at longth tho dissonsions of Peter and Paul, besides whivh 19 Wiiferences which to-day separate the ortho- Gox, the heretics and tho schismatics of tho whole world, arenothing; the posthumous recon- elllation effected betwoon then by the Churn; the decadence of the Church of Jerusalom; tho rise of the Church of Rome; and the develop. ent within It of the Roman idoa of order and uity into the Papacy, | 1f there Is anything in tho world which was hot instituted by Jesud, it {a the Papacy,—thut 18 psay. tho idea thut the Church Iva monureby.” All thls Js told wit Acut beauty of lunguage, devout sympathy with tho uplifting ciforts of the massed, and Ss great fullness of fucts us tho weanty records crit, Perbapa more. A hostile critte culls tenan's writings romunco; & Fisnely une etyles: them conjectural restorations of history. It does not matter, Renun's conjectures aro better than Hucklo’s fucte, ‘The facts of yesturluy aro tho mywterles of to-day; really, nd ane van find them out. Itenan is true in bis interprotation of tho great tondonoles of bymun development, Ho gives bis imagination puly ta the interstives Of the past, and ft iv no fault, Dates, names, sequences of avents, oro facty, Hed ure fucty, buta greuter fuct ts the love Of the beautiful that groups them into o noble Dulldieg, Hunwu 1s au oxvelleut Hobrow scholar, knows Arumite and Arablo well, Ist master of Creek and Latin. te td Profesear of Mebrew in the Voller or Fravee, He has dovoted his tite: tothe atudy of the growth of Christhimiv—te iin the geandest. episode of history. Hts history Is good, notwithstanding Strauss’ sneer that ft wits Jota of roxewater,” Iter shows all his strong characteristics in thoay addresses. Ho is esscntinily non-cynionl, Ho does not belleve that huninn nature (6 sitgared Iniguity. Ife fs not utilitarian. Bent ty M4 not to he adintred becuse it hus utilitas Thin nepecta, but. heeause It & sng toan Inner need of man. He ts not Parisian in his views of the feminine world. In polities he exhihits atringo contrasts,” Though wel- comlny Christianity for nothing fo much as for what it hat done for the mosses, ho hates equale ity, fn hs Forth Conference he takes great piling to show the Papacy de orkginal Cheisthin Conmmiune ie 10 ren apontuncorsly arranged themselves fate at ormiuilzation which ennalstod of a tatty while soon came to bo nothing, and of a hicrare with a sipreme hend—the Pope. Ongthe one sfile the shopherds, on tho other the flock, Prin. itive equality ne tonger existed: in fi it had endured but a singh ident thinka that In this the Chureb Hhistrated a yeneral huni tone Elsewhere be'enys that democratic nsgaclath recnreful thit’ the functions of thot oft phil be limited. 18 far ng possible, sto paws and duration; but from this arises that precir ‘ous something which bus prevented any demo cratic association from vutlusting she clreun- Sinnees thut huve created it, Tis dlatinetly his opinion that there is vulgarity in democracy. Paitin recolls not before fraud.” ‘Thoweh he holds (he yw of Professor of Hebrew under the Republic, bo does not tt private eotecal his nreforence for geverninent on tha English or Pritastaty pit 8 nuty, respon. day. end o wir apeut of Its Rigi in soy. put, though so little of 1 demo- erat, be 0 pehiliat enough to write in The Apostles: Tho glory of the Jewish nation Is to Ive prociatined the principle: 1 fraternity, and which ls itselt tined to periat. Annlty is on meitt of thls Suen, church 1s h commun ty where wacl: Ines bis clilin onal, where thero must be no one indigent, no one wicker and where In conseaenee there 140 mutont right to supervise and command, Primitive Christianity muy be ealled a grent aseoelation of tha poor, herole effort ugainat egotism, based on the prin- ciple that the clibns of the didividenal gone furthor thin to tho ubsolutely necessary, that supertalties belong to those who tet When he sald in London that Sockilism grow Sn’ more as patriotism grew Iese, there is no incon sistency, for Renny belleves there ts something: higher thin putriotin, One's conntry. ho ox~ oltiing, is not all bere below, One is niin and a Son of God before nt Frenchman orn Gers man. There js nother polities ceonomy (unin Ricarto’s In. the statuinent tnt the Govern- ments whieh have rested upon tho supposition that man fs_composed of covetous fnstinets only have dec#lved thepselves. Devotion Ix ns nuturité ts bgotlam toa true-born wun, Emerson fy bla fine wey aaysn sioistir Gains wenre and enlture of men are tho best. political ceonumys” Tunsen thought thy Jesuits bud Just maniyed to spoll Renan fora scholar, but is it most Ike Loyola or Huxley to ray: “1 believe tht tho hip due from nut to the (deal constats In endentselentitie rexcarch, without regard to results, and thut the true mainner of ren ing homaye to the truth [sto pursite tt with cenging with tho tirm resolution of snerific! alltoit.” Itis tho opposit of Jesuittei ta find ina sliglo word—{berty—the guide of conduct for State and individual in thelr treatment of tho rullgious problem, Renan has a horror of dogina. Verituble oternal Evangel ho culls Mareus Aurelius’ Thought, “which will never grow old Deenuse It asserts nie dagmn.” | He sate peota dogmitism beeauea it Js dogmatten, Ho dogs not need to exaTaine it religious or pittes. sophloal system to deny to [tthe possibilty of Inclosing the ubsolute truth, IMs doctrine $s, that all metaphysical controversy is sterile, an the truth fs fur exch one us he sees It. All philosophy i¢ burren tinices it finds fruit in principle of comluct. Renin has hig. There will always bo some to carry on the work of tho Incorrigibles, some possessed of the diving spirit who will sneriilce tholr pert interest to truth and Justice, He itso, They have chosen the better part, 1 know not whit assures mo that be, who, without knowlng why, through simple nobility of nature, hits chosen for him- self the essentially unproductiy yt in this world oC doing goad is the trie sage, nnd has discavered the tegitimate uso of Hfe with more suyaelty thin the seltish tn," One more quotation will sum up tho system of this rent teacher, In his closing words to his London audfence, he sald: ** About our deatiny and our ond there {a ono thing certain: (tis the paternitl smile which at certain hours plerees nature, attesting thit ong regnrds tts, and on herrt follows ua,” (English Conferences of Ernest onan, Tone and Christianity, “Mares Aurelius, Teausited by Clara Erskine Clement. Boston: James 1, Osgood & Co. 1880, ive Thcents.) HD. L. THE QUEEN, Harper & ‘Bros. have republished in thoir “Frankia Square Library" series a skotch of tho life of Queen Victorin, originally written by Mrs. Ollphant for, tha summer numbor of tho London Graphte, Tho pamphtet js profusely Mustrated, It is probably intended as nu suppie- ment to the recent “ Life of the Prince Consort," and calls for no especial criticism or review. Tt isu Intoresting sketch of tho personul lifo of Enginnd’s Queen, of no historical fmportance, but pleasant roading for those interested In tho dully acts of Royalty. Extracts might be almoat indefinitly. multiplied from a work of this kind, We have mundo rooin for two or threo, which will'sorve to give a good iden of the gun- eral style aud nature of tho entire book, Wo have this account of the wirl's ently trains ing In the days of her compurative povert “All was as modest, ts retired, n# quict as ove ‘Tho little heiress of England was not permitted to take part dn the pagennt of her unelo’s voro- nation, or brought forwird too soon inte tho glare of day. After this date tho course of ber eduention widened, and shoe was mide ncquatnt- ed with various features of ber own country, making 9 aerics of vielts and oxpeditions throughout England to many of tho most inter- esting towns, cathedrals, and other remarkable placed. And wherever the little maiden went, 8 Wak nitural, she was the centro of nttracs tion. ‘hus hor wiso mother nceustomed her, unvongciously, to tha multitude of eyes that were to watel her every moveimont, and to the often wearlsome, If somewhat 6: fog, detail of n public life. Thore does not seein aty ap. pearance that in her ourly diys tho Queen showed auy of that distaste for the prtbiic ob- servation which is tho groftest reproach that any org hus inade against her in her ehicr days, Didieultica af alt kinda, however, Ws wits natu- ral, beget her young path, Her position wns in- ilnitly more dolicate and critical than bad sho hoon tho dattghter of the reigning sovercicn, folding anatural place in histamily. The King: tool dire offense nt tho wise restratat under which the young Pringess was brought up, and 80 far forgot what was due to a lady and his guest a6 to upbrald the Duchess of Kent at his ‘own table for keeping her young duughter 1s miuett nd she could outot the unwhalesome aly of the Court. On the other hand, whilo the Duchess was blamed for keeping tho young Princess out of the buzz of tho Court, sho wae eaaully Diamned for tho little ox- potitions, so profitable to ull: parties, by which he young tidy was mado aequilnted with ber country, and becanie to some deurce known, 60 far na tho medesty of hor girlhood permitted, to. hor futuro people. Her mothor kept hor child from all yuluar contact with the crowd; It was w * vigorous seclusion.’ Sho took her to son bene tiful cathedral or 4 bletorienl benutiful house, It wasanuttemptat a Raynl progress, So the orltica, contradicted cach othor, And in the meantime Kensington Princo buld ity own with a Orniness not Iess renurkablo thin the purity anu qpavity of tho ulms which wore thore pur- ot Bho Ja stated to have mato ono polltieal blun- dor during tho few mouths vefore ber marrige whon she. relgned alone. It was upparcotly very sniull mutton, but seems to have wnnoyed tho’ Ministry, Mrs. Ollphunt anys: “Of the short interval which fullowod of the young Queen's rely alone thors Is lttlo record. “+ bid suditen chunge from tho secluded life at. Ken- sington to the independence of hor position ns Queen regnnutat thengtof 18, intghthavoebeen an excuse for nany mlstakeg; butitis hard to seo what thore is to pardon, She wus gulity of onc Inte constitutional sin, which, wo may make bold to suy now, amused tho nation fully more thin it alarmed tf. Lord, Melbourne fad re~ algned,—who was tho Queen's first Minister and devoted porsonal friend, besides bulng the head ofthé party to which all her training hud in- ollned her,—and Sir Robert Pool was prepared to tako his pices but thy offorts of tho Consorvas tive Premier were frustrated by tho refusal of the Queen to chanzo her Mistress of the Itobes and “Redchamber Lidles,—an unforeseen pro- ovedinyg, which hd the result of deferring the Ke for a short thine,” @ scene in which the young Queen an- nounced her botrothul to hor Binwters $4 thud plensaatly deveribed; "fho young pir roe inulned toxother for above a inenth, keoplug their docret from all but thir friends, and grows tug to know each othor in the closy {ntercoursa ot thelr betruthal. And it wus not till the de parture of the young lover bad brought back commun Iife und Its vures tut the Quoch neryed heraulf for the public declurution which to one could make for bor. Tho situation 18 ey peculiar that we know soarcely any precedents for it. Evon now, whion she hud been two youre Oy tho throne, no Queen eo young had over rolguod in England, dnd ho Enillah Queen bad over bad auct tule to tell to her Privy Connelly ons, ‘The young lady did it with tho modest ich hud from tho first disthiyulshed her; and here ts the deseription of it she bus herselr given us, with ber usual happy sline piivity and stratghtforwardness. Tho Privy Rouncll, knowing bow important tho sitdng was, mustered strong, There wero olglity gone Uenien of thom assembled In the 'bow-room on the ground floor ef Buckingham Palace,’ whom dbis young creature, with her beart full, bud to fave sluny, and tell whut bad happened to her. Bho nnd a beucelut upon her pretty wrist. + Pecebsely at 3 o'clock’ (the narrative ia from the Quoen's Journ) * Lwentin. Tho roont was full, but 1 harilly kuow, who wus there. Lord | Melbourne auw looktug kindly at mo with teun In his eyes, but be was not near ine. thon rend my declaration. +1 felt that my bands shook, but £ dit not make ous mistake. .I felt most huppy and thankful whun it was over. Lord Lungdowno thon rose, and in tho nuns of the Privy Counell asked that thig wiost gracious und moat welcowe communication might bo printed.’ 1 thon loft "the room, the whole thing not tatelng adr by the Rov, + Musa. 4 two of Caumbeldyee ene was sland ing anid or three miniter. The Dn fnte tho «uate braty whe wished me Joy.” Sho wasn wixe std careful mother. “ Thegrent- eat maxi of atl,” she writes, “ie that the & dren should be brought up aa simply and ia na domeatiy a way 148 posalbles that (not Interfering with thoir lestona) thes. should be as tntich ns posable with their pirente, and fearnto place hioir wrantest confidence In them in all things.” “Tt taalroady a hard ense for me," the Queen aids, when she spenks of the pressure of public business whieh prevented her from giving tothe little Princess Moyntull theationtion Khe wished, “that my occupations preveat me from belng: with her whan she siya her prayers.” The Woof tha Queen has been three thes in nyer from would-be asgaising, “The first of these attempls took place in Juno, 1810, only afew months after the Queen's Mnurrlage, when arian nimed Flward Oxford mM atthe Qtiven when. rhe was driving down Constitution Hill for ber dally airing. Royal couple were bi nana! ph pay tholr dutiful visit tothe [ntel Prince Albert driving his wifo Pesuatulnest ag the aumines ardis proceeded a hein palace, whan T patie ton the fuot-path on Tho rinca Albert writes, iy Bide, A Httle, miean= looking mun, holding something toward ts; and before Peould distinguieh what It wae, a shot waa tired which alinost stunned ug both, it wie fo Jott, and fired barely six pres, from ts, Vietoria hed just turned to tho lett, to look “nt horse, and could not understand Why ‘her eats were ringing, | ns, from its helng-ao vory nent. sho could hirdly: dsthngelsh that it proceeded froin a xhot having been tred, ‘Tho horses started aud the carriage stopped. T seized Victorin’s hands, if tho fright had not. shaken hor. but she Inuyhed ut the thing. 1 thon looked again at the mit, who was: Bt standing in tho snine pitce, his arin crossed, and nt platot ty cach hind, His attitude was 80 thentricn] and affected, If quite amused ine, Suddonily he wget polnted his pistol und fred n sevond the. - Vietoria also saw tho shot, nnd stooped quickly, drawn down by me. Tho ball must bave prised just, nuove “her head.’ The Queen, howover, continiied her course U~ daunted, ‘The Queen at the (ling wis ina state oF health such as ts often alfected seriously by a very much minaticr motter, but her sound nerves and high spirits defended hotter (han armor ot mul ‘The wretched culprit: was a dissipated Ind of 1%, app nirnely moved by nothing more rerious than depraved vanity and desiro to ho notorious. Tt is not even certain whether there wren Iuillet In the platol he fired, tnd the conventent plen of tne gumty was brought in to save England fron tho bothor of exceuting such a being for high treason.” The second attempt waa mado two rat nearly the sume pluce by we tile, flocking rascal" nated Frinelswith- outany motlye for hiaattempt. A month Inter a deformed min mined Bean madeanothor tri, equally unsuccesatul. & Mra. Oliphaut’s work 1s, of course, highly pslatic nnd sluteriing to its subject, CCS, to mercy mide Up of miter Martin's volumes, and gives tv pod Idan tho domestle ifs of the Queen of Englund aud Empress of India. TIE LATE JUSTIN BUTTERFIELD, Judge John M. Wilson hus written, und tho Chicago Legal News Campany bave published, very interesting memorial of tho late Justin Hutterflold, Our ofder citizens will have plensant momortes called up at the mention of thonamo of Justin Butterfleld. To was one of tho ablest mombers of the early Chicago Bar, always an ornnment of his profession, and he «ld tho Btate most valuable service In securing the completion of tho IiMmois & Michigun Conal and tn attending to other public matters. Hig keen and caustic wit innde bim a most formidablo. adversary, and govern] of hie sharp retorts wre mentioned by Judgo Witkon, Wo yer to_yepeat’one that probably the learned dud ae forgot at tho time of writing his excullent meinolr: Dr, Willard, from Central New York, was n most skillful physician, wealthy, and ncourteons und inost oxcellent gentiomun, fe was hero in enrly times, but, attracted by his woulthy lates and the refined society of his early Cy he conchided to return to New York some the subsequent toJ8l0, He was withal 0 godly man, an elder in ono of our Prestiyteriat churchos, Ut hid cloxe-fisted ponurlowstiess was known oF all men. It wag, in fret, his tosutting éln, for in allelso ho commanded the confidence and the reapect of all who Kiew hin. ‘he doctar and the Inwyer wore ‘always tho Dest of friends. When avout to teave the dity the elder called on Mr. Ruttertioh, aod, after an intercatma chit over thelr mutual pleasures, tn tho pust, Or. Willted said, * You know, Mr. But= terfold, that Fim about to return to my Enstern home, and tn parting will you perinit ie to aug rest and ndvise that you da not give such undl- yitod and absorbing attention to worldly atalrs ue to neglect those anered and spiritual Interests whieh take hold on tmmortality?” . “Thank you, thank you most. cordially,” 1 Myr. Huttertield!, "aud muy 1 suggest eee eet aot arcenilent te, tana eneren] vided and absorbing uttentlon to those gacred and spiritual interests thit take hold on fimmore tallty as to pegivet those tinancint and worldly atnire so esaontiul to our happiness and welfare in our journos Ubrough tfer . "5 Ho rotort.wus curtiulnly courtoous, Wut torrl- ble. Mr. Butterfletd could not help It. for it was part of his nature, RECENT TITEOLOGICAL WORKS, Amerie has produced @ory few divines equal to tho Into Horace Bushnell, D, D., formerly of Hartford, Conn, Aman of uncommon pawers of intellect, au extraordinarily bold inquirer, an indefatigable student in bls pecutar depart. mentsof thought, original in bis conceptions and methods of statement, always striking and Auggostive a8 8 critio snd preneher, with fow graces of ianner but unusual brilfancy of style, earnestly doyout, pubtic-splrited, an ine ventor in the mechunicnl ine, almost a uni- versal gentus, he could not fall of making an enduring Impression upon the thinking minds, notouly at Amerlea, but of Great Britain, the whole of Europe, and the world, [fo sprang from the town of Litebheld,Conn,, where ho was born, in 128, In tho Hitle village of LBantiun, His‘parents werd © plain farming: people, know to their nelghbors ‘na well for thelr excellent abilities as for tholt Uprights, industry, and kindness," the fathor a Methadist, the mothor an Eplacopaliun. Ho owed hig strong character, in a hirge degree, to his mothor,—liky many othor men of diatinetion, Ilo received his ncn dems education {1 Yule Colleze, where he after. wards served a8 n tutor, Ho first studled lnw Profession, but subsequently felt it his duty ta- devote tt to tho) Christian” ministry, and atudied thealozy undyr the Inte Dr, N. W.tavlor iit tho New Haven Theological School, He was not easily sitistod with muy thoories of religion, but, tholigh naturally daclined to donb. he was too, in his moral and xpiritual tondenctos reat in negative unbellof, He could not pept tho okt Calvinism, nor yet tho current a of elthor Armontaninn or Unityriantan, ter ho cntared (ho ministry ‘ho was dovmud by muny of his miniatoral brethren unsound fn tho fulth, And his discourses on Goi in Christ, Atonemont, and Langungo fy its bearing on written, crecds, caused 2 great -elamear agitinst, hin. Certainly, if tried by the ald standards of orthodox eburghes, Dr, Bushnell would not fully endure the tést. But his explanations partly ee auch oureful divines as tha Into Dr. Jocl Thecss In spirit and religions tone, he waa by no }ienns a Caitarinn, while It would be ditioutt to Aconclle his thoories of the 'Triulty and the Atonemont with tho revolved theology of tho evangelical churches, At one the he predicted A great inereney tho more sober and devout typo of Unitariuntsin, which, hows oyer, does not acem to have been realized. Ho wos on terms of speolitl cowadanie with Dr, Hartol, of Boston, who apenks of him th recent: work in torme of ndilrition and affection. No- Rides his theologlen! Useourtes and published kerinons, mone Which aro xomd Of the beat in our Iangungo, he committed to the press 1 y Jeutures delivered on various ocenslons, Ww if tone would have served to perpetunte tho inomory of hia extraordinary endowments, Tho volume before us, which fin agtivo of 67 pues, ats Promnred by Mary Huahnell Cheney. tcontaing, bosidea a iifé of Dr, Bushnell, many of bis letters, written to bis wife and othor pir flog, Ingumeof those fettors the gentle und tendor side of his naturo uppoars in tupressive dovelopment, ay nlso tho fervor of hls practical piety. Wo miss in tho whole voluma a cone neeted vlow of his Inver life and the pre 8 of his Inquirlos in successive stops. Hult the book Js ono of tinusual fntervat, especially to uinis+ tors and thoologloal readers, Wo pity the inn who cannat. syrnpatizo with the Vigorous and troubled thinking of Dr, Bushnell, or wha docs not admire hig magnificent vonceptions of tho porson of Christ as brought aut in bis nature und the supernatural, however bo muy dlaont fyom many of his conclusions, —Prof. G, Rawlinson, of Oxford, England, and tho lute Dr. HL. 1. Hackett, of Rochester, Ni Ys, ne rogarded ag uinong tho best authoritics in Bibite antiquities, A’ volume by Prot. Rawlinson was published in Eagland sone yours a40, Which has reproduced in this colmtry undor the editorial supervision of Prof, Huck ott, who has udded yaluablo notes, The Tlie. trattons shed Important Iyht on all the historical books of the Old ‘Testament, unicas “ ttuth" should be excepted, and the book of “ Daniel,’ Many objeations of Culonso and othors ure an- ewered, and strong confirmatory ovidenves ura praduced from the user ptlons that have heen deviphored withluthe lust ffty yours, and from Varlous traditions and blstorical sources. ‘Tho volume is. a duodecimo of 27 pages. It will, bo found extremely valuable to Sunday-school fis Who wisi to ho Well postod tt fewurd to! ts he wall posted in reyurd to the uuthority of the Old Teatumont history, . —We havo beforo usa work beorlug the titl “Congregadonaliem as Boon in its Literature,” Dr. HM. Dexter, ot Now Bodf f he volume consists of Td octave pus wand i Dlewraphy, of Congrogationullsm, with un Indox, of buges. No other writer in thle country, or, 60 far as we aro uwaro, of uny other cauntry, bas gone into tho blatory 6f Cougrega- donalistn with us much pationt tudustry gud -xenl asthe author of this grout work. With its careful discussion of the different phuses of Congregationalia {0 tho several periods of its hiutury and ita oxtended vlogruply. thle volume tay bo regarded ay nsort of thosaurua of tho wholo subject, whiub scurcely leaves anything: more ty bo desired. Dr, Dexter bas nade suing original Investigutions, which have borne frult tn duportapt discoveries, Lhe basie uf the whole was a sorles of twelve lectures iff Longre . ligm: ‘The Exodus to Aimstendun; Fortas which tho author delivered In the Atlover ‘Thenlowleal Beminary two or three years aso. Dr, Dexter ta pot disthigajshed for vas: muted transparent. style, but hit inutter will well re- ward the attentive reader, Among the now post? brought out in these lectures wo notlee a correetion of the common, impression that John pbinsan’s eclebrated saying tn bin farewell ad- dress to the piigrims at Leyden, about tho new We t that inight boexpeeted to spring forth from Go's wort, pertained to Chriethin doctrine, Our author shows that Robinson was apenking of church pollty, not of doctrine. | Tt ix quite ovi- dont from these Inctures that Congregational- ism, Ike most other church systems, hugs been marked by conflicts of dive) nents, Bure rowlamn nnd rownisin bity primes for the inore consorvative and tho more radical tend encies. And henee the dileulty of detormin- ing ovon at this day what Congregntionnalism fs, This difficulty is tho greater because the Congregational eburehes bh it authoritative standard ex tint, of course, variously interpreted, In trim point of view itis remarkable thit these churches nye so generally hold to tho old faith, As to polity, the old questions are still unan- awored, although of | the tendencies have been toward Drownisin, Pure independency 14 not likely to be practienlly realized, while its advocates certaluly have tho advantage as to tho recognized petites of Congregutionallar, It fs not likely that tho questions betweon ridl- eal and conservative Congregntionalists | will ever be settled, for the renson that thore fs no neknowledged authority to setts them, Rut the nntterlala for un intelligent Judgment in ree Fant to this whole subfect, ure brought by Di Dexter's volume within. the reach of overy lor. The toples of the lectures ure tho fle tow! Tho Darkness and tho Dawn; | Brown and his Co-workers; The M ate Controversy; The Martyrs of ohn Tobie tly New England. Misfortunes tn Ainsterdams Leydon Congregationatisin; Barly HF Congregationulfans Later New England Ce gregutiomisns; Eeetodastlea! Councilay ~ rurationsllep In England; Things More Cleart; won, Many, things oro written and published in these dats on Soclalism, The lectures by Je neph Cook on this subjeut are deement by many os superior to anything else iat has to the public in relution to this topt a tho little volume of ox-Preald y 1s inory exact In its diseriminatle ‘but. it 18 questionable whether Dr, Woolsey" als pasion Ida well adapted to populur nee ue theses tures of Joseph Cook, whivh were delivered In 1878—1579, ‘The salient poluts in tha volume before us are this stated In the [ntreduction: SL Ac eration of the perlis of the United Rtates from susceptibility te Communistte aid. Socintlatte disense, 2 A defense of the principle: of etlf-hulp as opposed to that of State help, us the hopo of the poor, 3 Aw exposure of tho political ‘blunders of. Socialism both in theory «and practice. 4, A digcussion. of the experinients made fn cooperative thdustry in England, Germany, aud France, and especially ot the codperative' savings-hinks founded by Sehulze-Delltzseh. G. An examination of the problem of tenenent-houses and overerowded elty popalations. 6, A study of the methods by whieh workingmen may become bullders and owners of thelr own homes, 7, A defense of i4 the source of a united cltizen= A consideration of Sunduy-liwa, and of a of a day of rest aud worship asi maintalning industrial vigor and ul society. % An eximinetion of the runge question In the iisrht of recent dis- iesaa to the fnilucnes of aleohal on the 7 Bt ok’ discuRsions ot * Self-Help,” © Codperatio High-Reb “ Bundhis> awe," und “Tempermice" are especially de- serving af uttention and study. But the whole volume. nchtding the preludes to the lectures, ought to be enrefully read by alt cligscs of our eltizens, . . (Life and Lettors of Horace Busbuell. New York: Harpor & Bros. Price 83.) (Historical Tustrations of (he Old Testament. By the Rov, G. Rawlinson, M. A. Chicago: Hen+ ry A, Sumner & Co.) (Tho ‘Congregationalism of the Last Three Hunired Years, us Seen in Its Diteraturos With ‘peelnl Heferenes to Certain Rucandite, Neg lected, or Disputed Passagea. Ty Heury Martyn Dexter. New York; Hurper & liros. Prico £0) (Boston Monday Lectures, Socialism: with Preludes ou Current Events. By Joseph Cook. Loston: Houghton, Mifilln & Co,) HW. PR, TNE SCIENCE OF GIISIE VERSE. Mr. Lanter has assutned that we do pot possess ftheory or even 2 working-hypothesils of tho technique of English yorse. Not that thera has not been abundant fuvestigution and pratse- worthy effort in the right direction. Only that ho does not consiiler that elther Jyvestigation or effort has brought forth good fruit. And ho therefore secks to supply.the doticieney by his work on "The Selence of Enulieh Verse.” Versiflcation has 0 techniea! side quite na cape De of belyg reduced to rules ns that of ity other ting art, The skeptic need only read a tew pages of this work of Mr. Lunter's to he thoroughly Balistind as to tho truth of thit proposition, Mr. Lanior's book develops an entirely vow theory of Engilah prosody. In this. reepeet it wit undoubtedly nttract wide attention und exe elte diseussion. But it doos more than this. It includes critical. studies of tho older English poetry and contulns a review of. tho — reln- ons of musia to vorse which opens an entirely original Ine of thought, Bo fur ae this work fs designed to ben popular treatise for tho genoral rouder we question ite sitccoss, Agwimannal for the vendors stident itis on- titled to high rank, Mr, fanier. hia had mit v diflicultics to contend with, but has pergevored, and surmotunted them bravely, His chief stitt- eulty now will be to tind those er and willy to follow bis lend as he retraces his ateps, nos lyzes the difleultics he encountered, and shows how they were surmounted, Fow but the des voted student will care to undertake so arduous atask, And even the student will undoubtedly cone to tho eine conclusion as. Mr, Lanler— thut “ the matters herein (rented are only tn the nature of bints loading tu the widest possible ylows af poetic form, aud by no aneans laws, For the artist in vorse there Is no hu; the eeption und love of degen constitute tha v cout; and whut Is berein sot forth is taken merely us enlarging tht percoptian and. exniting that love. In all cases the appont is to the eur; but the ear should for that purpose be educated up to the highest posslule plaue of culture.” ‘Chis fa rather discouraging aftor go qnch Jubor spent in attempting to master and apply tho rules laid down fh over 300 pages of sold, teehnieal reading matter and there given tho full force and effeut of hws, The seience of Engitah verso fs really only a collection or cot bination and apuileation ol nit the about verse, Mr, Lanlor tsa better expont ot this definition nppiicd to this purticulur subject than clthor Mitford or Syivester. Ho isn cone selontlaus and piatuatateting writer, His fuinill- arity with English Hterature fs remarkable, Aud inthis work he bas brought togethor all theso ohuracteristics, Wo have, therefore, a book which will be vituablo mainly to tho fow who will, from futerget in tho subject, seck to appree elate properly tho author's lonrning, abliity, and ‘close rensonbays power. (The Selous, of English Vorse, By Sidney Tanier, Now York; Churles Seribner’s Sons, Trico €2.) —— MICHEL ANGELO. Tho beat of ull tho Liographics of thiagrent sonlptor, artist, poot, onglucor, and soldier, 18 wnidoubtedly the eno written many yeurs ngo by Hermann Grimm, Thot is the standard work, although miny other most excellent books have been writtonon tho mimo subject, The four- teenth and-litest volume tn the series of “Great Artista’ is a transiution of - Charles Clément’s Hfe of “Michel Angelo." Bf, Clém- ont's work was a blography of threo great artistas Michot Angoto, Leonardo du Vinel, and Haphacl, aud {t appeared somo yeurs ago in Fruvce, It ‘is an exceltent, compact edition, containing some olghteen ploturcs flustrative of the alatues, freecoes, and athor works of one of tho grentest of nil artists. M, Clément con- alders bim os a better reprosontative of tho It nalssince thin any of his edntemporarivs. Charvoter with bin was on vo par with genits, His fe of almost a contury, und marvelously netive, Was vpotlcss, Ile untied tho two unter ftucultios “which ure, soto apeak, the potos of hunian nature, whose combination fu the sane indlylaunl creates tho soverelyn greatness of tho ‘Tugcansehoo),—Invention and Judyment— a vast and tory tmnaginutlon directed by a mothod precise, Arm, and sat [t ta unnccedaary to quote from the many In- teresting fucta cited connetted with Michol Aus o's fo to prove the fmportiunce of publishing ust such books ag tls, well-printed, conventont nt forin, and cheap fn price, in order to populares izo tho history of tho deods of truly great men, The history of "Stichel Angelo’ 18 she histor of that muignitteent era opened by Dante an Giotto and developed by Leonardo da Vinel, Michel Angelo, and Raphnel, Tals work of 3 Clément's te Pampit, but gives all the details connected with the seulptor which it is neccssn~ ty ta know, In an addition to the book some oxs traota from Wilson's * Lito and Works of Michul Angelo” buve been appended. Th an essay ree contly written by Hermann Grimm, and trans luted for the current number of the Journal of Speculative Piilosophy, ho fs wel Blchol 1 two wuvcdotea — HbOUE Angelo which ‘do not uppeur in MM, Clément’s book, Ina referency to Miohol Angolo's do- sire to have his model for a Christ, which ho was: quuxlog, fastened to tho oreds, that ho inight witer percelye tho expression of pain, Grimus remarks that thia act would never baye been ut- tributed to Raphucl Michel Angelo's pride and ambition worn "only the expression of his aspiration ta be worthy of himecif."”) Grimin re latus that Vasurt oue duy entored the private room whore Michel Angelo curved bis * David," and naturally desired to suo What tho fumous artist was engaged upon. Tthud beon Michel Anyelo’s wish tht no one should goo tho statuo until (t was fluished, und accordingly ho put out the light Instuotly when Vasari appoared, and went ou talking jit the durk, (Tho Uroat Artists—Siohol Angolo Buonur- roll. By Charlos Ciémont. New York; Scribner & Welford. Privo $1.25.) ALEXANDER ‘POPE, ‘Tho lutest addition to the “English Mon of Lottors" voriva is *Aloxandor Popo,” by the somo hand that fnaugurated this populur and valuablo series with a iustorly sketch of “Same ugl Jobuson.” In this bouk Mr, Stophon bus tried to be Just both to bis subject aud to the public, Pape has been the thome of Innumor- ablo blographies. ‘The beat or ident one has to be written, Mr, Btephen hia made a yery renduble book nnd has pletured tous inn truth. ful if not a finttering manner the “ilttlo, de- erepit, Intelculng, titlicious, Jentous, apitefial, und credutous, but withal clever mun’ and wblo and aceompllahed weiter of verse. i@ never Reems tots, in those payes, to have been really erent. Bomething was always Incking lit his genius, Often it was the motive or Foe sunllty. of tho impulso that his muse, ‘The best poetry ennrint spring from an unworthy source, or deseribe an tenoblo subject, Pape was ut. onn timo literary. sov- oreign of Bogland, eueceeding Dryden tn tho, Royul chalr, litt he was nearly always artitictal and incehanient, Mr. Stephen Is not overfond ofhim, “Ho is neither bis hero ag a oinan nor hisfdol.as in poet.” But he ts commendably fair and juat both In prilseand censure. Pope's Essay on Mat give him las fame and rink, but his blowrapher hus not_ permitted it to over. shadow the beauty and foree of sone of his Hy istlos and satires, or the good things In the “Duneiad" On the whole we buave ow very) fair and readable popular Ife of the celebrated English poetof the seventeenth and elghteenth centuries, and tho volume well maine tains tho high standard of excellence nttalned by the inajority of {ta forerunners in tho serios. It ¢loes wive anything wae but it well dl- “8 and conden ie old, Popo. ¥ lin Stephens, Ene giisheMen-of-Lettors Series. New York: Har per & ros. Price i THE UNIT 3 GOVERNMENT Mr. Litnptere hos vompiled anexcellont hand- book of the orgunizution and practical work- Ingsof tho United States Government. It ts one of the best of Its kind, and contains an ims mense ninaunt of useful and important infor- mation. It will be found serviceable eltber in kehouls or og a reference-book sun Ubrary. Vor tho Jutter position its elaborate In- dex Is an additional qualification. © The author's preliininary statement as to the enuse which sttggested the bouk—hla personnl obser- vation of alick of knowledge on tho part of dany persons of the Government of the United Btates—l4 unfortuontely only too true. | Mr. Lamphere bas wisely, therefore, udapted bis work to the needs of the general publle. As he auys: “Efera will be found tho Declaration of Tndepenrtence, the Coustitution of the Bait Stutes, the organization of Conzress and is ployés, the manner of making lows, 1 deserip- Uon of the Library of Congress and of the Bos tanteal Garden. “Thon tho Executive Depurt- ment ts considered, beginning, frat, with tho President, the manner of bis election, tls powers. und dutics, and the farce emploveds in his office, Then the seven great executive depiriments,— Nreasury, Watr, Navy, lutertor, Post- stleo,—with thoir orynulzntion, tho multy of al the prinelpul ‘ofie cers, ing necaunts of | the practice and custotns in the sever! bureaus, with nn ite. count Of tho kerviee outside of Washipgton, Ine cluding foreln Ministers, Consuls, Jonsuliar: Agents, the Ladian Serv! the B le Lands, Customs Be Tnternal-Revenud ®8ervice, the Army nnd Navy, with tho pay of ull officers, civil, military. ind naval, of tho Government.” ‘Tho reope of tho work fs suiticlently eompre= + mid, so far ng our eximintion of the extended, we have not detected any rors. whieh hays so seriously wifected ratiompts at cpinpiliug works of this kind, (Lhe United States Government: Its Orgune {zation and Preetien! Workings. By Georme N, Tannpbere. Philadelphia: J. i. Lippincott & Co. Prico §3,) a THEODORA; Ol, STAR BY STAR, ‘his 4 wn anonymous novel’ by a lady not un- known in this clty. ft fsa well-written novel, and it {san Interesting novel. There are sone excellunt passuges, both of descriptive writing ond of churncter sketching, and the heroine wins our sympathy from tho aturt. Whether It is tho frat Ilterary venture of the Writer, or but one of many attempts, we do not know, Inany case, {tie not a work to be nshnimed of, but a very foud and unabsectionntlg book for light jog. Ut ransulong ae enesily and naturally: ay though ao mnrrative of personul experience, A natural criticlsim would be that thoro Ja too much disappointment fn the book—no one seems to ger anything thoy want. ‘This to cone reof the reading, Ne theless, ni deserves aw geod place th tho tylt Iiterature of the season, und tho suc cess Jt bas tlready attalned Is merited by its good quulities. z SCIENCE FOR ALL, We bave recetved through the Western agent of Cassell, Potter & Galpin, Mr. J... Watson, 1k Bouth Clark stroct, Parts 14 and 15 of “Belence for All,” edited by Hobert Brown, M. Ay PhD, Fol. By FRG. 8. When tho iret parts of this periodical were fesucd wo tonk oc- easton to spenk warmly both of the phin and the tnanner In which it was being enrricd out. We see no reagon to change the oplilon then ax- pressed. Ib ig a most excellent, timely, well- edited work. ‘Tho tHlustrntlons aro cleur, dis- tinet, and well drawn, ‘The toxt ts free from fechnicalitles and fs suMeclently plain to being tha svlentiiic topics treated within reneh of all. Moreover the subjects ehosen for treatinont are reudable and tnteresting tt thomselves, and the volumes when completed eunnot tall to possess: FA eat value, Tho ideas of the prospeetus ure Aly carried out, and we have in fuct, and not only In namo, sclence for all. ANCILEOLOGY, Barly intast. year 2 society was orgunized in Boston, with tha avowed object. of furthering and directing archiwological Savestigution amd yesearch, Tho “ Archivological Institute" now consists of 16 members, who held their first annial meeting May 1binst. The proceedings of that meeting bave since been published, the bunk comprising somo 161 octave pages, with munecrous {lustritions, The pupers ure 1. A Stuy of the Houses of the American Aborigines, with scheme of exploration of the Rivers li New Moxico, aud elsewhero, by Lewis H. Mor ns 2. Anciont Walls of Monte Leone, th the Province of Grosaato, Italy, by W, J. Stillman; anda. Archwologicul Notes on Grook Shores, by Joseph Thieper Clarke, Tho first una third pipers nro yeby Interesting, bringing out several new points in the demestle life of our American Aborigines, and inweh historical matter benring on the military skill of the early Grocks, (Firat Anmial Report of tho Executive Com- mittes of the Archeological Listltite of Amore fea. ‘Cambridge: John Wilson & Son,) MAGAZINES. In addition to its usual summary for tho month, the Penn Monthly for July hus urticles ou Tho Philosophy of Cleoro," by 8. F. Clark; “The Cumpbollites or Disciples," by John Dyer: “Tho Threo Clhnntes of Geology" (third puper), by C, 3..Warring; “Moralich Thut Mich Er- “Trenen,” by Harriett Ry Krauth; and Educa- Monat Reform in France," by J.P. Ly =Tho July number of the Chicago Medteal Ex- aminer bus wn “originul lecture" (whatover that may do), by I. F. Welt, on “Stone In tho Blad- dor"; origin! communications on “Belect Topes of Modorn Surgery,” by Drs. Leo und “Hyateria,” by De. J. A. Gollsberry; orobral Rhoumnti * by Dr. 2. O'Con= nelt, ‘The clinienl reps ntitied “Iodide of Ethyl in Astana,” Y re Browor, and “A Cave of Superfostation, by Dr. Walden. Phoro tro the usual soelety revorts, domestic corre+ snondence, reviows, cto. =—The Libriry. Journal has mado its lost ap- pearance as dich, Henceforth it Is to bo merged with the Publishers’ Weekly, und tha latter moat excellent periodical adds auothur to ite muny Interesting and vuluablo features. The two Teuding articles In tho last mimber of the Jour- nal are outitied, “A Clussiticution for tho Natie rat Seloncos,” by C. A, Cutter, and “On the Treatmont of Painpblets in Speelul Libraries,” by B.S, Hulten. ‘The Journal has not recelyed the support to which it was entitled. It prom ises to njntin “set up for itselt whonover it can suo its way clonr to do 60, —Tho two articles most Ikely to attract atten- don in the July number of tho Fortnightly Re= view ure * Religious Liberty and Athelan, by: John W. Probyn, and “The luilrouds of tho United Btutes,’ by Kaward Athiuson, ‘Thoother articles uray M, Ginel on the Division of Land in France,” by F, Barhum, Zineke; The Sul- uns Hotes in Asia,” by Wilfrid Sonrven Blunt: * A Now Poot" (jumes Thomason), by G. A. Si cox; ’ Stato Education: A Holp or Hindrance, by the lon, Auborun Herborts; “ Partiod and the Diatribution of Bouts," by W. A. Hunter; © Ede gf Allun Poo," by Witthim Mintoy * Democracy iy Victoria,” by Charles Hl. Poarson, —Thy Niideenth Century for July presonts an unusual Het ofatrong names, Matthow Arnold bas nnarticlgon “Tho Future of Literalism.” W. HL, Matlock disoussos * Atholam and Hepont= ance: A Famllar Colloquy'"; and George Jacob Holyoake tells wbout A Strangor in Amor- fou.” Othor articles are: “'The Coe in” Parhomont,* : yang Mourn’ Frawch Arty ede og by Gorard Holdwin | Hrowny, Stor; eTolltng, ry Suites Payn;: 'Tho Commerotal ‘Creaty Between Faunce and England,” by H, Itioul Duval; © Thy House of Lords and National insurance, by the Rev. W. Lowery Blackley; “Tho Fronet Cl ad tho Lrosorit Kepublio,” by tho ALLE ard " il by erat au Martins "Tho PalulieHtoyal Theatre, glequo durveyt bad © dileuding to Douth,” by It M. Hyndaian. Tho August number of the Atlantio* Monthly is full of dod things. ‘Thera faaullisiont yarloty to sult the inost fuatidious. We might oven vaguely and dimly hint Chat the staid and steady oid Atlantio was growing a tlttle bit lively and layful whon it clues Oppert’s “ Forblddon iver wud Nordonskjold’s © Arctlo Vi iby undor tho head of * Amusiug Books of 'Travel,” lus table of contents Is us follows: * Tho Bull. water Tragedy,” XVIUL-XXIL,° by, Thomas Builoy Aldyich; “ Sicilian Hospitulity,* 8 Luigi Month; * Kintu,” by Susun Coutidgu; + Pho bu oon ut the Klekt Hospital"; + Ate. Hi Maching,” by FD. Millet; *Popacton: A Suit Voyure "by Jubn Burroughs; * "Tho Arch-' bishop an diy tftae,” by Ciiger Weudell Upliieds *Bylviu's Sulton: A Lityy Epluotey by Louse Bueckton; * Among tho Pueblos,” by Susan BE, Wallace; * Kdward fills and Geo Denton CG + "Phe Bro= Vale, by Murk Twalgs “ Allon Sin Captor vf Blowcay" By weaucis 1, Unuerwood; “An Englishwoman in Country "3% The Teed MWigwinsons Grant Whites Canaitate tho New England Hl 1 Thumortal’” by P, W. ‘Tauens Centaurus” by Richard Tha Ropubiicnns and Their wine Amusing Books of avers“! Prof. Fisher's Discussions": Henry Armite Brown": “ Natural Selene nnd Religion; Itallan Poetry"; "Tho Con- tributors’ Club." LAnpineott's Magazine for August containa: Amerigan Acronantae” by Will Q, Bates (lun. Adain and Hye." novel, by the aut Dorothy Fox 3 4 Possesdon,” a poem, Elian Calvert Hal by * An Old Engilsh Bramehiit Hous Rose (. Kingeley; * Ca- in nocing on tho High Minsisalppl” Part f by ACT. J Sivgfeled (ilusteated): * National Mitalo an Ine terproter of Natlonul Character,” by Amelia E. Harry © Maileton’s Youngest.” 2 story, by M. Hl, Cathorwoods © The Karly Duyn of Mormontany” by Frederly G. Mather: A Vengeance.” 8 Kdgar Faweett; “ Mtudies in the 1 Went lta i Campbell; Allee Tyentritzs * W Bightning Htrikes," by George J. Varney: * The Sen's cret,” by G, A. Davis © Dungeness, Gon, Greene's sIshind Piantation.” by Fredertek A, Ober: jane Monthly Gossip"; "Literatura of tho —The United Service for August opens with 9 timely artlete op “Collisions at Sea.” by Lieut, Seaton Schroeder U.8.N. 0 tte a tevlow of nt French book on the subject, and tivocates: tho fume ayatenn of a cwte of whistles recently nde vounted by Capt. Burker. 1 writes on Military Laurdi reviews the history of some of our frontier posta Lieut. T. 1. M, Muson, U.S8.N.. dlscusses tho, tople of “ Naval Education.” and Capt. Cushing: writes on the * Employmant ot Troops iy Gurr: son.” “The Engllst Naval Prize Esaay for 1g" fs concluded. Livnt.-Col, Closson writes on i8lts of Army Etymology"; Lleut. Hutehingon "The Mode of Manufieture of Cable-fron, Chain Cubles, und Anchor, United States Navy"; “Tho Frat Home-Coming of the I t An Old Reserves “The United States Revenue Murlue.” by Liowt. smith, 0.8.2 Mas Tho Militia of Great Britain,” by Capt. Philip Salus. brery; and Jhe Editorial Notes complete the con- tonta of # vory readable number. Eppletons’ Journal for August 18 9 food sum inter. Ib gives complete an exeellent novelet by Jilian Sturgis, beuring the ttle of “Sebaet and 1,°"—a seuslle vacation. story, lat of the southern const of Englund. ‘Thore bd also the ftrat half of nuothernovelet, entitled * Edie Tools,” the sce of which Is ld at a Canadian Iie resort. Dr. Richardson continues. bis Houlth wt Home" papers, In which there ts au owitl Ay and gracefully z abundance of wise, practical blurs, Mr, Renvington — Atkinson, the well-knowit writer on iirt-thomes, gives the | thrat piper of a #eries, entitled = The mhince of Art in Dally Life” whieh ts full of admirable suggestions, and comos in very ape In connection with Dr. Richardson's: In regard to the ‘ho Gerimitn Dialect- Poets, ‘bh contains nimerou: rt wad HOk's Oracle,” 4 Sanka € amusing essny on tho famous Dr. KRehhier, Hahtens up tha sutaber very happl ‘here Isa review of Swinburno's new volume’ of pocms; of Gollwin Smith's “Cowper”; some" Brlefa on Recent: Novels"; ani the uiual discursive tall In tha *“Ealtor's ‘al : — LITERARY NOTES, “Tho Cardinal Archvlsbop,” « now story in verse, by Col. Colomb, Is in the press. +A campaign life of Gen. Hancock by Col. J, W. Forney will be ono of the literary curloattics of the senson. —Tho next volume {n tho “English 3fen of Lotters" Isto be asketeh of Byron, from the pen of Prof, Nichol. E Tennyson is worth nearly a milllon dollars— a big furtune for a poet; but thon why shouldn't be get rich on 80 0 Inot —The uewly-discovered memoirs of St. Simon will by published in Paris at an curly day, They are ulrcady in the bands of an editor. —"Tho Story of u Grent Singer" {a tho title of n new book, written by Emma Abbott, to be ahaa eurly in August. The edition. will be Tho sono of "Salvage," tho new No-Namo novel, Js ltd ehletly on an ocean atcamer which is wreeked during ‘the passage from Liverpool to New York, A Gerinan writer, Herr G. Hormann, wants to prove thut A Midsummer Night's Dream" is In some degres uw literary sutire, directed uygalust Marlowe, Greeng, und Nash, —Mr. Horace Cox will shortly publish a work en “ An Ancedotal Hlstory of tho Britlsh Parliament, from the Enrliest Perluls to the Prevent flue,” by George Henry Jennings. —Fiwin Arnott, author of tho Licht of Asta,” Is 48 years pld. Ho graduated ut Oxfort with high ctassical honors, and svon after went to India as Principal of Deccan College, Poona, —We have recolyed un advance copy of tho T ‘motions of the Amuricun Beulety’ of Civil Engtheers, containing tha Aununl Address far oe, prepared by Mr. O.Churinte, tho Vico-Presi- ent. —Messrs, J, 11. Bufford’s Sons, of Boston, have sent The Trinunk a tno hirgo Uthograph of Gon, James A, Gartleld, Itts a creditabte pro- duction and n good ikoness, As a cumpalyn Portrait it is erent success, 2h —Muacmillan & Co. expect to bring outtho final two yolumes of * Tho English Pooty” vory soon, Mark Pattison does tho “ Pope"; Matthaw Are nold the “Gray; Goldwin Smith tho “Seott ye Synjonds the * Byron," und Mr, Arnold tho * Kouta." —The change in the editorship of the Pall Matt Gazette bus aceldentally brought out for Mr. Main's “Treasury of English Sonnets" two lony reviews; but, fortunately for the parce, whore: ontire staff ty understood to have changed, both notices pructically agreed respecting the merits of tho work, —Gvorge Ellot, when sho returns from Ttaly with Mr. Cross, will make ber nome aut No.4 Cheyne Walk, in Cholsen, the bouse In which Maciiso Mycd aud painted many years, Turn- or's lust dwelling place {a only a short distance nwa and Carlylos well-known house also ja not far digtant. : —Of new Fronch booka wo may mention Grains de Kon Sens," by Alphonse Kurrs # Liliéritage de Xéule" Wy Henry, Grévillos “Lo Mari” by Ernest Dandoty “La Mali Coupéa,” by Fortuné du Rojsgobe: id * Nou- veau Diotonnulre do MMographie Contemporalue, Franyalse et Etrangére,” by Ad, Biturd, —Nelano A. Goddard, editor of tho Toston Advertiser, has turned his leisure to excellent aeenunt fu furnishing to tho New England I ls- torie, Genealogicnl Soclety, 2 paper which bas just been published in pitinphiet form by A, Willitina &Co., Boston, on *Nowspapers and Newspaper Writers in Now Bugtand, 1787-1815," —The slthenoun statos that the Mériinéo let- tors nddrcsaed to slr Anthony Panlzzi will bo fesuedl very shortly In two octavo volumos, Mr, L, fayun ‘has withdrawn certain portions, but. considerable light le thrown by tho fecters on tho political nistory of the hite Emplro, aud stilt more on the life of tho late Prince Lmporial and tho private life of St. Cloud, ~—Aniniportunt sclontitlo work by tho Chiof of the Bureau of Stenm-Huysinontinigs United Btates Nuvy, Commodore W. H. Shock, will bo purbliahed jn the fall by D, Van Nostrand & Co., In Now York, It le cntitiod “Ktewm-Boitors; Their Design, Construction, and Manugement." Commodore Shock bas been engaged for four yeurs in prepuving thta work, It will bo quarto diyand profusely Mustrated, —Coponbagen. hns fifty-seven printing-olticus which ty 187) published twenty-threa pdlitioal and 130 seluntitle Journals and 10 volumes, . tn tho provineve 112 ofices Iatued 13) politteal and Ifty-tive qusrunis dovoted to various interests, and 600 volunas. OF the Its books pubtished, aki were novels and poons, of which 10) were tranalations,—thirty from the Huxlish and twons ty-seven from the Gormun and French. Tho August Harper hus a poom by Mr. Long fellow, on eitobert turns. i iy tho opening fenturo of the number und threo iustrations hive been made for it. M.D. Conway has writ- ton for this issue of Harper a puper on} A Mure Un Summer in the Garden, of France,” and the socond of Mra. It, H, Davis’ series on" By-Pathe in the Mountalns" iy given. ony Jamus’ “Washington Square” comes into tho fore- yrouud as the fresh story feature of this mug- azine, ~Spotlbagen’s lust novalot ts auld to be much deluhorto for the materia, Tho chief oriz- nullity consivts in tho dugenious method of aul- olde adopted by tho hero, why, baving been jllte od by tho horotne, weincutly contracts an tnourns hie heart disease by steeping on his loft side, fn defiance of the family doctor, Hofore dying ho composes Suni prat ulate, telegram to tho young ludy, who fy staying ut tho Hotel Quistasns ut Cupri—bence the title of tho book, *Quiits- una. S Mr, Gladstone has conferred a Clvil-List pon- lon of £400 year upon the author of tho ulabe orate “Concordunce to tho Odyssey and Hynes: of Homer,” Dr. Dunbar, of Gurolochead, Dum- burtonsbire, Tho preparation of the volunilnie ous MS, inminuto Greck chiractors, whieh oc- coupled Dr. Dunbar for several yours, serlouily aifocted his cyculyht. ‘Tho eling Miniatee bus ako granted’s pension from tuo Civil List to Hive G, F. Juckwon, the authorcss of Shropshire Word-Hook," James 1, Ougood & Co, havo in propuration a Congressional district votu-map of the United Btuted, and the following works: *Dramatie Biographies,” edited by Laurance sutton, “Belf-Culturo,” by tho Rov, James Froonniny Clarke; “Iccords and Reminiacences of tha Tuadienl Chostnut, Btrout tatited by Bes, Intery Te," 10 ub,’ John Sargent: * Pouma,” by’ Williaa ¥ “TMustratans of tho, Rurth’s Structure,’ ny Prof, Ne8. Shuter und W. Marria Davis Wille fam BM, Hunt," by De. 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C, Goudy and othurs to pay over to complalnants’ counsel the stm of $10.08 for thelr legal services, ‘Tho ensn involved over $10.00), und has beon to the United Sintos Supreme Court, the complalnants boing victorious, The Judso onl whan Mr. SMillee, complainants’ solicitor, ro ronted n proper uppltcation be would imnke some allowance for counsel fous. : of Campboll ya, The Chleagu, Hoekford Ratirond to dismins the whole pruccedi ‘Of furindiction. ‘Tho motion was overruled, Mr. eC. Campbell thett made a motlan that the its: of the mad have authority kiven bin to tears road to thy Chicazus Milwaukes & St aul Hounds Ix aphitention was resisted, and Uo caso was cons Unued Ut to-day. UNITED STATES COURTS, Tlerman Rayor, of San Francisco, tiled two bills against the Chicazo Mawhide Manufucturing Come pany yesterday, one to prevent them from infringing his patont for Impravemante in the modes of prenar~ Ing rawhido for bolting, ested Dee. aL. 1472, the other to restrait the infringement of his patent fur tas chines In treating rawhides, patantod Nov. 15, 18%, STATE COURTS, Ezra White fled a bill yesterday in the Superior Court agalnet James Mond Lelia Dryant, Salile Mt. McCampbell, A. G, MeCampbeli, Bryant ond Leavell MeCampbell, Patt B. Bryant, John Ford, Adelph Rosenberg, Miltun Jenkins, United States Morte Com pany, O, 1. Wheolock, C1, Thomas, W. P- kinsen, W. Mf. Wharton, Henry Van Uxom Dudley and Kitty Dudloy, and Susan Uf, Bryant to foreclose a mortgayo for $15,000 on Sublots ?and 1, Lota i and tuck 2%, in the Original Town of Chicao. Moghins Dencer and Gourxa Weisa fled a petition Agninat Henriuita F Velth, Jobn Velth, aud Charles Hutlor asking for a, mechanic's Ilen to the amount af HLA on LoL4, Block 3, in Canal “rustecs’ Subdivision Went & Andross sued Lucius Hoyt for 1). Tuttle, A, tunel commenced w suit WA trespass fguinet Waiter Proboy and James W. Tuttle, clulo- init $\(00 duroages, ‘A prtitiun was fied by Ti 2s Mills, Htators Attorney, for jonve tu rarturg, Ue rweutd of tho plat ar the sub- dlvinion known ax Kensington, Jultun Heasngor coumencad an action in trespass to rocover 3,0 alleged damaxas of Solomon Silver tan. VIE CALL, JUDGE NoSRs—CUIUNAL COUNT—Nos, 1,551, ie 1483. 1,199, 1,821, and 1,534, . JUDGMENTS, Burenion CovuT~CoNressions—T. A. Davis y. 11. C, Champlin, 82 Cincutr CountoConvesstons—Laura Crowder ¥ John W. Hooper, $1,157.00. ——— WHY NOT AFRO-AMERICAN ? + To the Billtor of The Chicago Tribune, CoupMncs, 0. duly 14.—Not mueh retlectian Is required tu reven! that the epithets commonly applied to the colored man are inappropriately and totally. non-subyersive of thelr purpose, in that thoy ‘do not ethnolowiently suow who he ‘The Englishmun comes from England, tho Frist mun comes from freland, tho Scot trom Scot- land, Germans from Germany, the Swede from Scandinavia, tha Frenchman from France, Chl- nese from China, Mulians from ftaly, but the “volored min,” he is who, and from v ot Surely his name sheds no light; hence inuppre- inte, PProrto the mingling of blood, superindyced by that Institution so long a bloton Amorten's fiir inine, theso several uppellations sufliecd, butdo not to-day. It should not be * negro,” ay a Jpucney: to Africa's clive brings us in coutict with # raco called negroes, but no blood of Amerienn éltizons courses in thelr voina, "Cole ored man” is indefinit, since nthor races ean, with equat proprioty, be so destynutet, Honea tho further use of these terms fy not justified by’ theso fucts. Wo know tho immortal bard of Stratford-on- Avon, after inquiring what fs fin name, his said arose would smell at aweet by any other nang, and we grant that the odoriferms onion wonld continue ta bedow tho cheek with crocos dil teara wore ft called a honeysuckle or tubes Yet wo hold that a body of 5,000,000 of lo should hive w proper free nime, and that Atro-Amorivans 18 tho proper namie jo sublo eltizens of tho United States ot Atmorica. For tho Americin trices his Hnenge frum the Angles und Saxons, and culls binsele Anglo-Amorican., Wo trade our Hnonge from the Anglo-Atorican and Afrieun races; wo wero born in Ameri benve wo aro indisputie bly Afro-dmericana, “Our soiloltude ta not gendered because we belluve that 1 change of Tame will oifect nny physical changes,—a moral impossibility, and absurd conception, Lut wo submit our reasons briatlys First—Hecnuse, a8 L have shown, we aro Afro- Americans, aaa ‘Serond-—An adjective may be derived from Afro-Amoricana, ne Afro-American wigration; while colored, tiie migration is nat udimlsanble, Pat must bo possessive, man's, to be yrame- matical, 2 ‘Third—Rachuse ite (Afro-American) longth {3° no objection whet Scandinavian, South Ameri- Australian, Aslatio Turk, ot TH tise. i—Wo must, us do othor racca, hisist up> on revogottion of our trug pedigree. Fifth—Rewause T belleve that @ nume proclaim ing ts eltizons of. the Now World, and indleating: our gencology, Wil convince oven the Wayfaring mun that we are mombersof the great American Nulion, and will greatly contribute toward over- throwing Who barrier of race and color custo which jg our bane adn people, Submitting those views to our readors, I nm the Afro-American, i. J. WatiNa, [But negro afinply means bluck, and comos from tho Latin niger, Which the Bpiotsh, Port gucso and Italluna prououneo uexro, and tho Fronoh négre—siinply uw black man, or a blick rico, Frod, Dougtiss tnsiata on usluy the term binck man bLeenuse {¢ fe pliner Engllsb than negro, which ia Spanish for the Lutin niger, whenco comes tho American term of contompt, nigger, But we ngreo with Br, Warlnw that Afro-Amorioans would Lo just us proper as Irtan-Americuns or German-Americana If it wore applied to bluok inen of Africun bieth who had become naturalized eltizena of America, We do not designate any persons of Europenn descent but of Amurican nitivity us Buropo- Ainoricaus or Teuton-Amorleans. All nitive ‘born are called Americans. If of Europoun derivation thoy are culled whites, and if Africun blacks or neyrocs; if mixed, muluttoca. 1t Is not Hkely that this habit of desigautiog porgons of African oxtrauvtion will bo chanyud beyond tho prusont comptimuntury or delicate frase of “colored porion."—Ep.] | * GREAT DISTRESS, is often suddenly experienced from an at tack of cramp Inthe stomuch, colle or othuc painful atfections for the rellut of which nothing is StLOrHOE to Dr, Plereo’s Compound Extract of Smurt-Weed, or WaterPeppor, compounded from the best French brandy, Juinutes ginger, silurbweed, or Wwater-pep- pes and and me wns. | For dlarrhia, ays: ntury, —blvoi y Mux, cholura-ayorbus, Its warning, gout! hai astringent ani heathy properties render It a perfect speulile, wisur- passed wy au anodyne and ulutiyat tu embro- cation or Huiment, Should be kept in ever, fuully, Sold by druawista ut 60 cents,