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Not “Tn going to tet the country go to her des Strugtion® Yes. slr; Pin gulng 1 eee her plungud fa tue et ia ras reo oO Was RUNNIN elthar, o What, al is tho uted ay Funarvehy gud hever raise tan bt peeve q a dol Hype awe te coun a ey don't knuw me, sir y in to know aot” » sir—they don't hee pas athe valeaag barat oi) 8: keuirrel Mlinade a dinner olf of hard. | Piece of galt coutlsh, : as rr ke An Audactous Hawk, A Geergia bawk tecontly mada. it b ‘pon alady, Sbu wis sittin Ino ‘rahe aioli dug the bufl tn ber houxe in Vinuville, when ste. heurd a heavy thud, and tho nolse of taltinsg wines outside the door, Rushing into tho hall sho found her little child thure. und perched Upon some object near nt hand a glguntte hawk, Upou the appearance of tho Indy the bint made wswoop for ber, und while sho was using ull avorato protect the child by covering its taned its talons in the lady's halr, rious struggle sho succeeded in buat> when It retreated toa picture callea upon the setvanta ec -Upon the serv fo close the ball-door, ‘This was done, and the hawk would bave buen @ captive, darted toe bedroom sidiat upto the wraderce aped, Hu was an largo that whon bo ntered the dou! as red kare Ww his wings atruck the dourway LITERATURE. “Modern Creece,” by Prof. Jebb, of Glasgow Uni- versity. “The Stillwater Tragedy,” by Thomas Bailey Al- drich, New Poems of Longfellow and Holmes—“ Delphic Days.” Matthew Arnold’s Prose— James BH. Murdoch's Recollections, The Experiences of a Barrister—New Periodicals and Books Received. MODERN GREECE, It is barely sixty years—not tho lifetime of ninan—since Byron wrote of the Isles of Greece, All, excont their stn, Is sot; and the eptgram isabrenily falsiiied. No coun- try inthe world) hag seen such changes as Greece In the present century, in’ 1820 0 wretched province, despoiled by ‘Turkish fax-ratherers, now she is an Independent kingdom, ant hasan Constitutional Govern: ment, She was then weighted by popular fgnoranee, widespread and apparently {neur- able, Now her complalat is overcducation, ‘he moral and huatellectual progress has been matched by tho material prosperity of the country, ‘The ravages of war have been re- pilred. Large addittons have been imate to the aren of arable Innd, ‘The cultivation of ollves lias Inerensed about three-fold since sw; of tlys, six-fold; of currants, fifteen-fold; of vines, twenty-elglit-fold, The manufacturing industries of the Kingdom = litve made — rapid progress In the inst few . years, — especially since the advent of the Constitutionn) Mon- avehy. ‘The Peirwus dit not contain a single stenin factory in 186% It tins now more than thirty such establishments; aud the king. dom contains In all no less than 112 steam factories. Most of these haye been established within the lust ten years, There ave, besides, about 10 factories which do not use stem, ‘The mtunber of artisans em- ployed fy 25,000, and the annual prod uels represent a value of £6,000,000 sterling. ‘The impediuents to the growth of Creece have been the destruction of the forests and the public debt, necessitating a burden of taxation very hard to be borne by the people, Tho forests were tut dow by the Turks, and oa” revived ‘ growth has been prevented’ by’ the + gonts of the natives, which range over ‘the mountains and destroy every green thing. Of the public debt, only a fraction was ever apvlied honest- ay to the benefit of the chuntry, AI of the second lonn of #£1,200,000 that renehed Greece, for Instance, was the sun of £209,000; and the other loans were scaled down by Jand pirates In proportion. Another sowree of distress to Greece has been the ‘impracticable frontier bestowed upon her by the Powers in 18. ‘This de- feet will be partially remedied by the Powers a¥ s00n as the provisions of the Berlin Con- ference nro put In actual operation. . But the embarrassments of the Government on ace count of Ito theorelleal boundaries will only then cense tobe. Not only has the kingdom been a constant hot-bei of political agita- tion, but the sicoplo themselves have sutfered most unqnictly the repruaches of thelr coun- trymen, deprived of tho benefits to which they were Justly entitled. ‘These facts and many others relating to tho present condition af Greece are set forth In Vrof, Jebb's little vohinie, “Modern Greece.” ‘The book includes two lectures delivered be- fore tho Philosuphienl Institution at Edin- burg, and two additional papers. The title ig not quite accurate, The frst lecture, which ly tho most valuable, and will be for many readers the most Interesting, part of the volume, does not. reli to moilern Greece, but Is a rapid and very graphie suivey of the hfstory of Greece since the Macedontan con- quest, What Prof. devb bus to say of the condition of the Greeks of to-dny we may find in’ perhaps a hundred other volumes 18 comprehensive and necurate, If not so we Itten as his, notably in Lewls Sergesnes eeve,” noticed last year, But we would not know where else te go for so learned and pleturesque an aecount of me- doval Greece, ‘Tho best quality of criticism us been combined with the knowledge of a svholar and the imagination of & poet to pro- dive an essay that may take mk with those which first made the Edlubury Review fanous, ‘Thy effort of tie author fy this first essay his been fo represent medieval Greeca to the mind of the reader so that it shall seem to ben reniity, | Clis ts ne small effort, dt Hires, frst of all, knowledge; next, nition: thirdly, literary skill ‘Eh ay Ju ou this extract how well bb Tus succveded : LaLiteAe . 5 nen travaler yiaftlng Greece i found? ef id autwird uapect of the cites hy would have geen nich of the old Holtenty character, Many of tho nuctent tomples—sone of them now converted to Ghelstian usa—wers still pecs fect o In fale proservation, Tarbaraus | rs had mindy somo hivoe. and heer te: bad stona its work, expeuially in the Polupennesuss butmost of the large towns could stil) show remalns of anclent architecture, Our yiaitors would hive looked ty vali, no dott, for the arent tonsterpleces of seulpter and paluters Todt of thom hud lowe wines. gone to tho Now Rowe or to the Oh. Ho would have heard the Greek Iangunire, strinugely impovers ished, Indeed, and a yom deat corrupted 5 gram sar, Dut not ad yet alloyed with many fureign Hiementss aml. (fF be had tatked ta mun of the better cinsa he would live found that te old Greok literatura was atitl rend. Het bis chlet fecllng woulit be the scnse that a great wave of roel ebange bud at seine ting dwent ayer Grecee, not, indeed, obuterating all the lands murks of the past, yet greatly altering tho sure tuce and the lite, Firat, it would strike. him bow tho people seemed to have forgotten the old names ot places; oven the most Camous seaport towns, tne thee bud generally kopt thelr mimes— as Corinth, Arxox, Methane, Patras. Hut he woutd’ and) with wonder that phi wae known ws Koster: thie | Maras thon had become Vrana, unit Sutunia wits Atle}, Chat Plitea was Koohht, that: Mycame Waa Kharvata, that Olympia waa dilraka. Then in vxreut part of tho rich plulny und on tho lower Mapes of the hills be would find a Population ving on yood terms with the Greeks, Yetor a very distinet phyaieul type,—these were desxcendanta of the Bluvonians, who bad long Ago settiod th Greece, und wers chivily Grazlyes, F our inedioval traveler wished to ali rthe true svring af Geek vuergy aud prosperity he would turn from the fluids to the towns. ‘Tho allk-eworn had een brought inte Cirgewe feo Ching in nlan'a relun, detieval obi ah Athens — ttuurisbed by the Hutwetare of Bll aust Manchester has flourished by cotton, ‘Their Tarts could show iminy other costly wares bee sldes,~-woulen fabrics uf gorgeous hues, arouses embroldcred with gold, oweinys and einbrold- ered urns. 1 the ELURTOE visiled the southern part of Monemvasia—whenes inuilusey 100k its tutinu—or tho harbor of Peinvus, he would bo in the tuldat OF Ww scans as busy Os the Hialte of Venicu in liter days. Undor the Byzantine ( pire the trade of India and Chine passe Throgh Continl Adi, north of tho Calipls due aninlon, tothe Buxtue, aud thones thrauzh tho sEgeun to the west, Thu Greek marine, both mereanilo ond naval was the laryeat {nthe world, Tho Greeky bad in thoir bands almont all the cummerce with the Bluck Soa aud with tho west. Dhoy carried to Lurope tho per fumes ent! lowels Of India and 18, — abo thelr aplecs, then largely sed at tablo, and for incense in churchos—tho Ching,—tho tortolse-sbell of Africa,—as the Oils, fruits, and wines, the toxturce, arm id Jewelore’ workof the Empire itsolf."” Could anything be more vivid or picture esque thin these Imaginary scenes unfolded ‘ot only to the supposed medieval traveler, but to all the modern world. Byzunting 2 ant Thoves Hive agains intnelr streets muy heard the coitfuston of strange tongues and the hin af inany industries, while thelr Greetan harbors ure erowded WIEN orgostes of colton salts, Students of this snd eartier pertols of Grecian history will be indebted to Prot, Sebh for the distlactions he has drawn b tho European and the Asiatle Greekw. 10 wre almosl oa ira aly ot history for the Ashaties to look upon their hreu in the atherland ats alice “The nationale tyy which be e Byzantine Minplre, was." the author tenmrks, “tho Astatic, not the European.” Yet, tho Euro- peat Greeks still retained a pitietiot ely liza ton, ‘To this faet we are indebted for the absorption of Stavoulan invaders wuinerical- Iy ftreseoss of the Greek resident whieh is Acurlens and encouraging proof of the sol- vent powers of a high civilization, The nthe Empire went down at last AH before the ( Sout opened the mtewayy to Europe. This fact dis linpressed: {self Upon the minds of modern renders, whe are too uptto forget that the Empire hell the post for seven centurles, and died glottots: y in the breach.” The gratitude ow. ing far — the centuries at faithful service is hot Jess beeanse: at last, through w the and death, teould no longer be rendered. EE the first cheek had not been iven, and tho outposts held for so winiy hundred years, it is possible, nay probable, that Europe would not have been strong enough to turn back the tide. For the clear tracing out of these effects to thelr causes, also, Wo are vhder some: ubliations to Prof, debb,. 1Hs lectures will hold the attention of those who find all the historteal ground familiar; and they will, we belleve, Instruct many who have taken atthe best a super ficiuf view of Greece sinee Alexander. ‘The Ieper on The Progress of Greves"” and “Byron in Greece” are supplemental to the two Ieettires, and do not add much to tie yalne of the solid parts of the volume. But they supply some deticlencles, and lave been Wisely Ineltided as comny within the general svope of, the discussion, (“Modern Greece,'t By RC. Jebh, Professor of Greek in the University of Glasgow, London and New York: Macnililan& Co, Priee $1.40) THE STILLWATER TRAGEDY, The close in the September sttlantice of ‘Mr. Aldrich's latest story: reminds one how great is the debt of American literature to the fostering enre of that perlodient, Between the opening chaptersof ° The Autocrat of the Brenkfast-'Table ” and the final Installment of “The Stillwater Tragedy” there Is an inter- val of twenty-three years. During that tlie the Atlantic has contained much of the best work of Lowell, Hawthorne, Emerson, Long- fellow, Holmes, Bryant, Whittler, Bancroft, Parkman, Thoreau, Channing, Miteliell, dames Freeman Clarke, Stoddard, Whipple, Bayard Taylor, mutT, W. Parsons,—a poet. whose fine is by ne means the measure of his genius. For feniate writers it has had Mrs, Stowe, Mrs, Whitney, Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. Kirkland, Mrs. Spofford, Fanny Kem- Ule, Rose Terry Cooke, Lucy Lareom, Celia ‘Thaxter, H. I., Miss Woolson, Nora Perry, Miss Olney, Miss Alcott, and Miss Phelps, Of statesmen who have appeared sporad- featly in Its pages may be sentloned Charles Sumner, Blaine, E, . Hoar, ant James A, Garfield, While the atlantic has been dis- tinetively American, ft has’stili had a few En- @ilsh contributors. ‘The most hardened Pro- tectionist,, however, will hardly resent tho intrusion’ into a Cisatlantic periodical of Gollwin Smith, Arthur Hugh Clough, Charles Reade, Mary Cowden Clarke, George Eliot, Dickens, and Tennyson. Among all the authors whose pens have made the sit- lantic, from a Mterary point of view, the foremost of American ningnzines, none have written more yoluminously or more detight- fully than Mr. Howells, Mr. James, and Mr. Aldrich, We should Ike to say something about all ‘three, bnt for the present Mr, Aldrich claims our exclusive attention, “The Stillwater Tragedy” is the story of an orphan boy, who, werry of splitting kin- dilng-wood on holidays for a miserly old uncle, runs away tosea, After four years of nautical Ife, involving shipwreck and o residence of some duration on n desert Island whero the ernbs wero not doviled, Riehard Shackford returns penniless to’ hs pative village. ‘Here ne obtains the place of draughtsman In the marble-yard of Mr. Slocum, who employs him rather to annoy his old enemy Lemuel Shackford than from any esthetle considerations, “Richard thrives tunong the gravestones, which are supposed to keep men dotwn, and speedily rises to the superintendency of the yard. Ho Is indis- pensable to Mr, Slocum and engaged to his daughter Margaret. ‘A little while and Mr, Slocum’s mantio will fall on him,—not one of the marble ones.” J This is the posture of ‘affairs when ono morning Lemuel Shalkford is found’ mur- dered, ‘The strong-hox has been rifled, and the waste-basket contalnus the minuto frag- ments of some legal dovuinent. A detective comes down from the effy and causes the nr- Test of several innocent persuns, Ho also lays hands upon the real culprit, Wiliam Durgin, a9 young nutrble-worker, who, hay- ing been In boyhood the playmate of Rich- ard, now nourishes for him a hatred whieh only his friend's greater success enn Justify, Durain, however, expintis thet certain red. stains on his overalls came from the freshly- painted head of 2 pork-barrel, the hoops of which he had tightened for Mr. Shackford, and ts discharged. Damled but not beaten, Mr. 'Tageutt, the detective, now entors hhnself asian apprentieo In Slocum's yard, nnd proceeds to work up the easc;on the the- ory that Richard !s the murderof of his wi- ele, In a short thine he has elreuinatantlal evidence enough to convict a bed-riddan par- alytic, A dletionary in Richard's room ylutds a note from his unele asking an Interview on tho night of tho murder, Search of his workshop adds a chisel with a broken edge, the shape of which corresponds to the wound Jn the old man’s forehead, and a box of sate- ty matches, “whieh ean be Jenited only by friction on a strip of chemleally prepared waper glucd io the box.” The remnant of ono of’ these matches hot. been fomd In the house of the mur- dered oman, and Richard's box lacks ono of Its complement, Besides, thore are the fraginents of the lasal ducimont, which was presimably a will disinherlting Richard, ‘Theso facts are revealed ta Mr, Slocum, and by him fmparted to Margaret, ‘The father almost belloves Kiehard guilty, but the daughters falth in hin reeelves na shock, When tiformed of the sceusation against him Richard Is for the moment stricken helpless, He wanders Into his uncle’s house, While ho sits thera brooding over his trouble, his eye happens to rest on the pork barrel. Tho head is painted blue, dust as he makes this disvovery, Mr. ‘Taggett enters with a warrant for his arrest. Richard now turns detective. He polutsto the blug-headed barrel, and then drags Me. ‘Taggett off to hls boarid- Ing-house, where the maid servant explains the presence In tha dletionary of the: letter whieh Richard had dented having seen, Delivered in his absence, it hud [been placed there aud forgotten, “Tho pleeing lo- gether of the torn legal document, which turns out to ben will iu Kighard’s favor, had already upset one of Mr. 'Paxgotl’s assump. tlons, ‘Tho Mght of Durgin, who, of course, had placed the ehfsel and matches whore they were found and mallelously de gruel the wills and the dying con- fession of ‘Torrink an accessory. after the fact, leave him nothlag te stud on, Cog- wizant fron the first of "ine charge agaist her lover, Margaret has glyvan “no sign. When wil fs over, as they stand togethor on ‘Torrlul’s doorstep, where alt the children of the dead Italian, Yo asks hers * When you sat with mo list alght, iwert.you aware that Mr. Vuggett Hendy belleved: it was fo who Kite Lemuel Sinekford?? * Yes, said Margaret. ‘That ta all | care to know,’ erivd Ktehard; * that consoles mel? and the two pulrs of great Inquisitive eyes looking up from the stone step saw the signori standing quite mute and colorless with the strange gentleman's arms aroundher, And the Slenociun, was siiiiing.” Such, shorn of all Frace, is the outline of “The Billweter awedy.” To gay 0 sto) and compac told = wonld Be no “mews to those who have read “Marjorie Daw.’ It may well, however, to remark Upon +the restrained warmth and the perfect ref: nt of Mtr, Aldrich'’s loye-making, Wor-hy also of the highest pratss is hls treatment of workingmen’s strikes, the folly of whieh, in. jost Instances, Is wet Corth hot by Mr. Al: drich in person, but by the eonyersation oF Ws characters, ‘Cha detective port af the story is, perhaps, not ons exciiing as Wilkie Collins would have made 1G but ih fs inom sense tore | rel. tstle.—tha detective falls, Old friends of Mr. Aldrich will be pieased to tind that is delicate hinmor has not focsaken bite. Dead eats could hardly he embalined ira neater enpheinisin than this: **’Corrhil fell out of favor, wit'in the widst of one of hls finest perarttions wntcompllinentiry missiles, ses reted from, the, animal kingdom, had beer thrown at din? Comicitt, too, is the plet+ ure of the “imiddle-nzeed mia with one eyes, brow higher than the vther, as it it had been wrenched out of Ine by the strain of hiblt- wal intoxteation.” Of course: Mr. Aldrich! hos the American adel on tis mind. Her what he says of the New England type: “These youtur wouen for the most part Tead quiet and restrivted yes so far as the aetnal. ites are concerned, but very deep wid fi Hvea In the world of books und. bnaal tlon, to whieh they make early ¢: ray They have tho high tnsthiets vomne of vod blood, =the physique: that naturally fits fine manners: and when hanes: takes one of these matdens frons ber Infand country hame or fron sate sleepy town on the seaboard, and sets her anti the complications of clty existence, she igan Unabashed snd unassinning lady. In Paris, she digers from tho Paristennes only tn the greater delleaey of her lithe benuty, her Inaccence whieh fs not izno- rance, and her French pronunclation; tf in London, she differs front: Engtish girls only In the matter of rosy cheeks and tho rising Inflection. Should ‘none of these fortunate {rangplant hugs befall her, she always merits them by adorning with grace, and hadustrs and intelligence tho narrower sphere to which destiny has assigned her’? In con: elusion we may say of tis book, os Indeed we anay of any by Mr, Aldrich, that It ls per- fectly wholesonic. To slightly modity a plirase now growing trite: a young girl may safely lend it to her mother, (The Stillwater ‘Tragedy. Boston: Houghton, Mittin & Co. 'The Riverside Press, Cumbridie, Jirtes aA, HL 00.) LONGFELLOW AND HOLMES, Two thin volitines of verse, from the press of Houghton, Millin & Co. claim attention thisaweek. ‘Ihe authors are two af tho five New England writers stil! living and deserv- ing of the name of National poets, ‘The five are Longfellow, Holmes, Emerson, Lowell, and Whittler; and the two first named are thoy whose verses are just now published, 'The poems have seen the {ght before. Some of them have been pronounced onanniye ry or other public occasions, and nearly all have been printed In tho siantie Monthly or Harper's Magazine, Mr. Lungfellow's poems are “ Bayard Tay- Jor,” “Phe Chamber Over the Gate,” “ From My Arm-Chatr,” “Jugiurtha,t* Tha Iron Pen” “Robert Barns,” “ Yelen of lyre.” “ Elogiac,”? “Old St. David's nt Radnor,” be- skles four folk-songs and three sonnets, “Ultima Thule,” the title of the eallection, seems to be a farewell, Nothing In this vol- time, we -belleve, will add anything to the fame of tho great and good poet, but can it ever be sald that fame should ve afruld ofashadow of its own tnaking? We take from this volumo tho Inst stanzas, not so much for thelr futrlusic Interest as for the title, “1/Envol,” which may easily prove to be prophetic: . AB the birds come in the spring, + We know not from whero; + Agthe atars come at ovening From dopths of the air; * As the rain comes from the clout, ‘And tho brook fromt the graund; Asauddenty, low or loud, Out of sifence u sound; As tho grapo comics to tho vino, Thue fruit to tho tree; A6 tho wind comes to the pine, And the tide to tha sons As.come tho white sails of ships O'er the ocean's verge: As comes tho sinilo to tho Ups, ‘Tho foam to the surzo; 80 coino to the Poet his songs, Alt hitherwart blown Frain tho nilsty'renhs that belongs ‘To tho vast Unknown, fs, and not his,‘nrothe lays Ho slugs; and:tholr tama 1s his, and not bis; and tho praiso ‘And the pride of 1 name, ty For vatecs pursue hin be day, And haunt him by night, Anil ho listens, and ni * When tho Angel says, ‘The contents of Mr. Molmes’ volume gre: “Tho Iron Gate,” * Vestigh Quinque Re- trorsum,” “My Aviary,” “On tho Thresh- ok,” “To George Peabody,’ “At the Papyrus Club,” “For Whittler’s Seventicth Birthday,” “Two Sonnats: Iarvard,” “ ‘Tho Last Survivor,’ ‘The Archbishop and Gil Blas,” "The Shadows,” “The Coming Era?’ §v Response,” “ For the Moore Centennial Celebration,” “To James Freeman Clarke,” * Wolcome to the Chicago Commerelal Club,” “American Academy Centennial Celobra- tlon,? “ ‘The Schaol-Boy,” "The Sllent Mute ody.) Nearly, If not quite, ul of these will be recognized a8 havin aphedred in: privat before, “Thera is ne diminution In the vein of Dr. Holmes’ humor, ft isias rich and as spontancous as when we first knew it jn “The Autocrat of tho UBreakfast-Table.” ‘The incorrigible humortst cracks Jokes at his ownexpense, Six of the nineteen poems fr this colluctionamake merry of old age. Bub there is a touch of pathos In “Cho Tron Gate,” which was read at the breattast elven la Honor afte tolmes’ quth birthday, Dee. 4, 1870, “ Teome not here your morning hour to sudden, A limptng pitgriin, toaniug on his sft, — , Wha have taver deemed tt sit to ghaddon ‘This valu of sorrows with & wholesoina hugh, Tt word of mino another's gloom bas bright- cned, . f ‘Through my dumb, Nps tho heaven-sent mes- BEY CHIN; If hand of mlve another's tisk has lightened, It felt tho guidance thut it dures not clalm, But, O my gentlo alsters, O iny brothers, Thero nas BOWE snov-llakea hint of toll’s roe Tenge; . Those feebler pulses bid mo lenveto others Tho sake once welcome; ovening asks for pouce, 1 ds must obo; Writer ‘Nino claims biatributo; silence now is goldel Lot nie not vex tho tuo long auiforlig Hy A ‘Though to your love untiring still bebotden ‘The curfow tells me—cover up tho tire. And noe wlth gratoful simile and’ accents cheerful, Ati warmer heart than look or word can tell, In slinpiost phraso—theso’ traitors eyes are teartui— ‘ ‘Thanks t Jrothers, Bistere—Childron—and fares wel “The Archbishop and Gil Blas” fs so re- cently out o¢ the magazine that it must be in the minds of most renders. “lho School boy" was printed ns a holiday-book in thy ist Christmas season, Nearly all readers of Ameylean prose and poetry are Indebted to Dr, Molnes,; We can only warn those who are already gousible of thelr onligallons that the debt will be much larger te they should happen to read this {ttle volume, Certainly: the cheerfulness, tho good-fellowship, anil the unaffected simplicity of the author hava never appeared to better advantage. CUltina ‘Thule. By Ueury Wadsworth Longfellow. Bostons Houghton, MIMin & Co, Advance sheets, Thy Tron Gate and Other Paes.” By Oliver Wendell Llalmes,, uatent Houghton, Miftiln & Co, Adyaneo sheets, DELPHIC DAYS, My Snider's “System of Shakespeare's Dramas," If worementber rightly, was hailed by the critics with almost choral unanhnity us the work of a lunatic in whose madness. there waa no inethud, Not discouraged by this shabby treatinent, aud perhaps embold- ened by his advancement tox Ieetureship tn the Summer School of Philosophy at Concord, Mr. Snider has ventured to print w yolumne of eleglus verse. In examining a poem written by a Hegellan philosopher the hardiest reviewer must feel that’ he fs on dangerous ground, Every phrase seem to Je In walt for him with sume esoterls signif- eauce, his fallureto grasp which will ex: pose him to the scorn of the author, ‘This, {fhe bo conscientious, makes his task not unilke that of the philosopher himself,— asesrch for something which probably does not exist and certainly cannot bo found, Butif he bea gay and careless sclollst, he will look for no meaning beyond that ex- pressed by the words, which there is no small chance may be the right one. “Delphic Daya” isapparentlya rhythmical record of the emotions awakened in its writer bya first. visit lo Greece, a country with whose history and philosophy he had Jong been familine, "Che eyele of the emo- tons could not bo complete without love, nose, asa partof his poetts scheme, Mr. Snider becomes enamored In an unsilstan- yot Hiplutke, a Greek aint, wham tte one place he suspects, we hope unjustly, of coveting Ms name, Bo this as It may, sho ls disappotuted. For ft ig only inn dream that our nuthor transports her to the banks of the Mississippi, where he hullds her “an abode fit Cura goddess of old.” And To built tt of whitest and purest of fare glanelug marble, Round ttl drew a bright friezo leaping with forms of tho fanst. While the roof was supported by many a gliston- fag cota, Many, ecu pture 1 placed in tho fair hallot tho tae, Now woe seriously adimtre the second of these Hires, aul yet, 98 we read on, and find the Father of Waters “‘ ronring lis head from the strenm,” there will intrude the vision of a posstiie door-plate on tho “ fang," and wo are not surprised that “he shakes his muddy old cluplet.”? Jt. will not be more readily admitted by Mr. Snider than by ourselves that there Is truo poetry In “Delphic Days.” ‘Tho more the pity that our author's absence of humor should have caused its utter sacrifice. Ils nalyeté alone often renders his verse alinost come. ‘Take for example his plaint at find- Ing Castalia forsaken of Tho intelligible forms of nnclent pacts, The fair humanities of old retigion, turned dato a shrine of St. John. “Tho saints atrabillary” are not to his liking, Nelther are the angels, For they seom but of ono aex, or, what fe the ermo thing, of no ecx; If many ie secant or man, surely it docs thom 1) good. Agaln, he finds some women washing ina strenm: Naked tho hinge of the kneo is, and naked the white is atove it, While tho pute modest thigh hides in tho kirtle for shame; And the waters are whirled inn fit of suprome exnitation, As a tremuttoug rill leaps round the ankles be- lows Wf arms nre bared to the shoulter whilo hands aro at play with the stronnict, Round the hose mirment 1 zone hardly reatrains tho coy daneo OF thoge fate twin sisters that rile on the swell of tho bosom: Thus in that gallery new wandor I long and ro- eet, From tho brink I touch with mine eyo cach turn f thelr member Deinkg tho ‘Olympian draughts which aro distilled from their forme, ‘This Is my wish: ‘That I were but one little drop of the brookiet, ‘That I might Innocent play round the domain of thelr wenlth, And wusnapected milght brush in my Bportivé- ness o'er the white surfaces Now ‘tls the beautiful worla wholly forbidden to touch, After this little burst of eroticism we are offered thego reflections: In the bure linbund its novemant of grace there is eaft attraction: Itis wicked, thoy exy, still I delight in these shipes. Can it be that Mr, Snider has never heard aeertain slang phrase? But our author has further apology to make for his conduct: If Lnow were athomel would shun them for. morn] exatuple, We fear Mr. Snider's morals are as flexible ns those of a country merchant, Zola delights In-Jaundrics, and is never more at his ease than when deseribing foul IInen. Mr. Snider, too, Is fond of laundries, but being an idealist he sees something more than 2 heap of garinents unspeakably stained, But for tho fostival wait, when tha youths shall tnove In the chorus, Then the glory of brawn from every rufile will gleam, And the folas of tho garments antiquo will teap tn their splendor; For ones mory thoy nro new, fresh from tho Muses’ clear rill. Wo havo reserved for the last a quotation which, to us, seems the most poetical in the book: Now tho marbics joln bands in a row of fare “ “abintig eqiurans, ‘ : Round tho.bright teinplo, thoy movo in a per+ petuat dance, a" In dismissing this poem, which, faulty as itis, possesses many beauties, we can but repeat our regret that a defective senso of huunor has provented Mr, Snider {rom seelng: himself as others seo him. (Delphic Days, St. Louis, Mo. Friedrich Roestein. Price $h) i. A. SL MATTHEW ARNOLD’S PROSE. ‘The selection of n number of tho best vas- sages from Matthew Arnold's prose-writ- ings anc the printing of the same in one small volume was a hoppy thought. Certalnly there is not now living among English erlites a more original and fearless mind than his. Me not only sees merits and defects that have esenpad the attention of others, but ho has the courage boldly to point out what he sees, He does not distrust his own capacity. of, If he does, he ts willing that the publ le should An him and sentence him, too, if ye found gull ‘Tho selections are arranged In general divisions of" Literature,” *Polltles ad Soclety,” "Philosophy and Retleton!’ fn the first dlyision are many selections fram “ Esaays In Critiesni.”"" Leetureson Homer,” “Celde Literature,” Mixed Essays,’ ate, In tha secon tture and Anarehy?? and © Prlondship's Garland ” are the eblef sources of supply, In the third, “Tdterature and Dogma” Is ae upon, Who can holp admiring the frankness of Mr, Arnoht’s connnents on the * Hebratsn of ‘To- Day”? or ©The Influence of Puritantsm,”? o¢ the keen- ness of his critieisms of Butler's Analogy, or tho ingonulty of bls. comparison of Wordsworth's “shiaptielty ? with A “shuptessa"? Tha quility of tls erftlelsim is like that of a fresh-biown breeze from tho salt sea, Invigorating snd pure, but not raw or bDiustering, (** Passages from Proso-Writ- ings.” Matthow Arnold. Now York; Muc- milan & Co, . Priev, $1. —— THE STAGE, . Mr. James FE. Murdoch, known even moro for his rhetorical accomplishments than for his abliily as an actor, has kindly committed to paper his revollections of actors and acting. The result is disappoluting.: Neither asa eritle nor a falthful historian has Mr. Mu doch established any claint upon the gratl tule of tho play-golng publir, He nasal the prejudices of the Philadelpnia school, which, Including a few good actors and num berfess bad erltles, has dane more than any athersingiengeney to retard tho development cof dramiutio art ln this conntry, Philadelphiy has produced more bad books about goad neting than all other Aterican citles come Diner. My. Murdoch's bool 4s not an ox- ception, It dispnrages Kean and Macready, and elevates that falyy ged, Forrest, to “a highor tess ih the pantheon, Much of Mr, Murdoch’s material Is stalo, Long oxtracts from auch familiny authorities as Doran and the lives of Siddons and Gare rick fl the pages. ‘Che best part of the vol- wae le Theophilus Cibber’s -* Dissertations on Theatrival Subjects,” which is inserted {1 the Appendix, 104s got Mr Murdoeh's fault that he is not a good writer aud ting no sense of literary proportion; but It fs. lus misfort- une that hoe bad not earlier been frankly i formed of the fact. (Tho Stage; or, Rue tectlons of Actors and Acting from an Experl- ence of Fifty Years”! aA series of deamutic sketches, By Janes E. Murdoch, With an fapoudle Philadelphia: J, M. Stoddart & Os, 2 —— EXPERIMNCES OF A BARRISTER, ‘Tho author of “Ten Thousand a Year” was spoiled by hls firstauccess; and the read- er who has foltowed his Hterary history hardly needs t be told that “The - Experl- ences of 0 Barrister {8 not high-class work, ‘Yo ewy nothing of its triylality, of which much might be said, it Is singularly deticlont fu yarlety, The sumo “experlence” is re- peated several thes, <A woman poisons her tnistress, and the sen of the culprit submits toaconviction to save her Site; a marriage apparently yold proves to be real; Innocent persons are convicted on strong clreumstane t jal evidence, and saved by the confessions pe remorseful accomplices, These are the maln types of experfences. It muat be said, too, that many of them are destitute of the least vestige of probability, as when s man-servant dons his master’s wig and cou- summates a marriags in his name, or a young gentleman administers polson to his aunt through several successive days by mistake, without consulting the family phy- siclan, Who suspects him all the tlme, ‘Tbe THE CITICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES. mock marrltees are so very mock and the polsonlug scrapes are so very transparent that it Is astonishing that any barrister of supernatural lenesr should be requiredto unravel then. ‘The book was first. printed 2 generation ago, It is only a few grates nbove the level of Allan ‘Pinkerton’s pro- fessional revelations, and it will an that ac- count be the more hkely, perlians, to have an extensive sale, C*'Tho dxperienees of 2 Larrister and Confessions of an Attorney.” Dy Sanel Warren, author of “Ton ‘Thou sand a Year,” "The Diary of a Physician,” ete, ete, Boston: Estes & Laurint) —— THE MINERVA, 4 S.C. Giriges, dry 25 Washington strect. Chicago, is the North Ameriean agent for Minervu,thonow Anglo-Latlan magazine, the object of which is thus set forth In tho pros- pectus: *'The scope of this review Is to offer the reading world a publication English, in form and language, but cosmopolitan in spirit, in accordance with tho exigencies of thenge. Written in English and issued in Italy, It necessarily considera as of first Im- portance those subjects, that espeelally tn- terest the Hallan nid English-speaking na- tons,” Tho contents of the July: nuniber are aa follows: “ Ancient Vestiges of Civitlza- tlon—The Suez Canal and the Cirenmuaviga- tion of Afrien,” by Karl Blinds “ Vandyek in Hayat Florence and Venice (continua. thom), by Altred Michiels; “Yachts and Yiehting th the, Mediterranean,” veoh; “An Unpublished Letter and Free Trade," by H. Lattarly M. Ber- sot nnd the Ecole Normale Supérieure,” by 34. Hulsson (lite Seholar of the Ecole Nor- mate, Examiner at tho University of Lon- don); “Mademotsello Bismarck ” (a contin: ued story), by Henri Rochefort; Review of Ttailan Palitles,” by Federico N nanelal Revlew—The Paris Bourse,” by Jul Valiants “Public Education In Greece,” Dr. Stamatins Antonopanios; GBibHography: apolls FE rn THE PUZZLERS' CORNER, (Original contributions will be published fo this department, Corresponitents will plenen rend tholr ren) names with thelr nome de plume, addressed) ta the * Puzzlers’ Corpor." “Avold obsolete words ns farns possible. Anstey cei be pubttshed the following week.) ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLES, No. 1,282, CATE RAN A oo raA 8 RSTRADE nn u 1 A R oob Y: B Lb No, 1,284, Marlton, No, 1,287, Made—inald, No. 1288, :Herpotology. No. 1,280, Wanderon, water ent, jONCSS, cuplne, ONe8S: Pore It will be acon that the contributors to the new mngazine, if the purpose of the pub- lishers holds out, are to bu writers of con- tinental reputation. AIL communications re- riding the review are to be addressed to Mr, Griggs, ut 25 Washington street, Chica- go, ag before stated, IATERARY NOTES, Next year will be the fourth centenary of the printing of the first hook in Vienna, and the event Is to be duly commemorated, Six poets who have passed three-score ant ten: Longfellow, Tennyson, ILugo, Whither, Browning, and Holmes, The author of “Hogan, M. P.," Is going to pidllsh another “gutter story,” somewhat after tho fashion of her delightful tale, “ Filtters, Tatters, and tha Counsellor,” ‘The story will i yaaE simultaneously In Great Brituin, thet nited States, and Canada. “A Century of Dishowor,? Mrs, Uelon Tlunt Jackson's sketeh of tha United States Government's deallngs with some of the Jndinn tribes, wh bo” published by the Har. pers. Mis, Jackson has devoted 9 great deal of tiine nnd thought to this subject, and has studied It from the life, ‘Those erttics who have found grounds for public conzratulation in tho statement that Zola had worked out ls particular vein will regret to learn that he hasanew story well In hand, entitled * Ltnondatlon.”” which the clever but not fastidious newspaper Le Vol- talre will be the first to publish. The Satirday Review thinks that If Browning “occasionally desvends to dog. gerel ho Ia Ikea grown ian amusing hin self with baby language, and at any moment he may choose to resumen fitting and mascu- Tine style,” and that after all “his artistle sing sare almost always gratuitous and will- wh ‘Tho heatth of Mr. Francis Parkman has been so much impatred by the return of his old malady that he has been obliged to lny down his pen and go to Europe. ‘This will not delay the reissue of nis “* Frenel: Con- quests in North Amerlea,? but it will post- poe tho publication of hig final volume on fontealm indefnitly. A new voluine by Jonathan Edwards is 0 strange announcement, yet Charles Serib- ner's Sons announce one. It seems that suf- ficient unpublished manuseript has been dls covered to make a ook, tha genuineness of whieh Is vouched for by. Prof, Egbert C, Smyth, of Andover ‘Theological Seminary, ils present custodian, Lieut. Greene, who was appointed by tho United States Government military atinché to Its legation at St. Petersburg during the Russo-Turklal war of 1878, and whogs able report of that conflict will be remembered, has written a volume entitled “Army Lito in Russia,” which fs filled with graphic desertptions and vigorats writing an an, tin portant subject, nil will bo published in a ‘ow days by tho Seribners. Mr. Henry dames,'Jr., In his Haw- thorne,” tooka “cosmopoiltan view ? of Con- cord culture, which Jed a young lady devotee of that enlture to take this view of him: "1 am thankful to Henry Janes. 1 have always: thought it woul be delightful to hate some- body thoroughly, and now T hate hin with all my heart. think L would dio happy if 1 could only seo him desperately in love and inurrled toa perfect Daisy Miller.” The Magazine of American History for September contafns artielus on tho affair at Block House Point, 1780; on the massnere of the Stockbridge Indians, 1778; on Georzo Clymer, the signer; on Liguest, the founder of St Louis: and the usual number of notes and ilustratlons, ‘The Iterary notices eon- tain a plea for the gold standard, n review of “onmpuign lives,” a notice of “ Easy Lessons in Popular Selence,” of © Hilda, 8 Poem," of Adams? “ Nallrond Accidents,” and other pabltentions not strictly related to American. story. ‘Those who know the value of Mr. Rus- kin’s ear ier work will bo sorry to rend such sentences as this coming from his pon: “The sense of the muteriu beauty, both in fnantnite nature, the lower aniinals, and. human belugs, is found to the full in only five en that [know of in modern times— namely: Ronssenu, Shelley, Byron, Turner, and myself.” ‘Phe worst of It is that avery coxcamh who has read Ruskin and no other writer on art Is sure to lnitate this eoncelt and to inake hivself a nuisance to ail sonsi- hie people whom misfortune muy cast In his way. ri Mr. O, DB. Frothingham has retired from the work In which he has been best known, Ly wtetter ta the Index he says: Lh have finally relinguished my post and abandoned my. professions nelther platform nor, pulpit will know ino again, | ‘This resolution Is due to no consideration of health. Aly health 13 snilsfactory—as good as it aver will ba—good enough, But } waut more lelsure than tho pilulstey affords for tho, pursuit af certain Hes of thought which ‘have interested ino since 1 have been in Europe, and the life of a inanof letters will bo more satistactory to ime. In another career Lean bo ax useful as in the old one, perhaps more so. Aly nbsunce will bo prolonged a yeur or more, In order that tho gulf may bo wider botween my past and ny fiture. ‘Thon L hope ta come back better than now, —_— BOOKS RECEIVED, Sun Rosa, A novel, By Charles T, Murray. New York: Carleton. CLonixpa, Anoyel. By Emile Zola, Phila- dolphins {. 8. Peterson & Dro, Prico 75 cents. Inpta. By Fannie Roper Fendge., With 100 liptratione Boston: D, Lathrop &Co, Price Tuy STRANGLERS oF Panis, A novol. J Adolphe Bolot, Philadelphias T. B. Potorson Bro. Price 5 conte, ‘ Krevina Oxe Cow, Neing tho exportotiog of a number of practical writers upon tho manage. manta Reuuloullch cow. Now York: Oranyo a « Co. Some ‘Tunas in Awentca Ber Forti in THNTEEN LeTTens TQ LONDON Vanity Fatt. By Churles Warlug. London: Willlam Ridgway, Prleo sixponce, 2 Custian Socrovoay. By J. H.W, Btuckun- berg. 1, D., Hrofussor In, the Theatogicul Do- nurtingnt oF Aiba ls 4 College. Now Yorks 1, Ke Funk & Ca, Price $1.0, THE SOWER, From Schitler, for The Chicago Tribune, Lo! fullot hopo, thou Blrewest the golden Bead jn Earth's bosot Y 11, ‘ Aud — trustingly walt for Spring and the gore rninal buds But dost thou over bethink theo in the furrows of Timo to scatter: . Deeds which, 1€ sown by wisdom, shall for eter nity bloom? OsnKosit, Wis. MLE, Hanon, ——————————— Shoving the Silver, i the last ten days over three-quarters of a millon of standard aliver dollars bave been ore ry rom the T' ry scattered over tha country. The 60,000 circulars sent out by Treas- urer Gillan aro bearing Immediate fruits, Tor day twenty-five orders were received from the Weat and Routh asking for fro1 $500 10 420.000 cach. Tho largest order was from Athoos, Co., and tno noxt largest (rom Columbus, Ind. With these orders aro coiplaluts of a scarcity ot amull bills, which is tho primo cause of sliver golng #0 rapidly, MALTESE CROSS OF DLAMONDS—NO. 1,299, * * * eee ee tee * eH ® * vee + ee eee RR HH RK eee * eH * ee ee a ed * * Upper alnmand—tn Roso_Mayito; 2 man's uname; to toll; a plant; in Flenida. Left-hand diamond—In Netsonin; an abbreviation «for Aeovctys Katutions gas, sposer: fo Budge, Right-band dlamoad—In the hard kernel of fruity one who eplits; mber: in Deromive, Lower diumond—In Fritz; an animal; abund- uneo; a bud; in Poplar. Contents down, 1 sub ordinnte overseer; centrals across, n Chicago. RHOMBOID—NO, 1.201, Across—A nail without a hend; a genus of plants; a course rustic wamnn, transposed; a loft; a girl's namo. Down—In Youngster; an ubbrevintion for n Federal oficers fiumily; a eharneter in Shnkspeure's “ Autany and Cleo. potra "ya Knight in Sponsor's “ Faory Queer Heb; a Kind of cloth; an abbreviation: ‘yro. URwANA, Hl. Perc. HALE-SQUARE WORD—NO. 1,202, The region of tho dend; a coat of arins which benrs an altuston tothe nawie of tho person; ns letter and a conveyance; we ‘puzzlers; in Mrs, arria. Usitkostt, Wis, Pornan, CHARADE—NO. 1,293, An I walk in the sccoud, ‘The first by my side, I feel enlinly happy— - What Ht ean betide? T fear not the first, Though u foo he is reckoned, For tnil well Fknow - Ho's no’er found fo the second. When tho second [ Ieavo, Al, thon comes the worst, For Tn morally suro To encounter tho first. But still even then There's no causo for alarm, ‘With the whole for a second, It cun do nie no harm, Cuicaao,, couchman, E. PF. K. in Busiz Wrag, CROSS-WORD ENIGMA—NO, 1,201, In tacitura, but not io dumb; An taelturn, but not in dumb; In tneltarn, but uot in dumb; Iu tuoltueny but not (n demu; iu tacitdrn, tut uot in dumb; y In tuestarn, but not in dumb; Jn tuciturn, but not in dumb; In taclturn, but not in dumb; Tn taciturn, but not in dumb; Tu taciturn, but not in dumb, Now, Inok into this closely; Revolve it in your mind; And if you ure buccosstul,, Acity you will ind. Cnicago. ENODATOR. NUMURICAL ENIGMA—NO. 1,205, Tam composed of roven lottors, and am the nom do plume of a certain poot. My @, 4, 5, 0 J, {8 4 plint of the genus Triticum, My 7,2, 6,18 an aulinal, Nensoy, Il, Pe NELSONTAN, NUMERICAL ENIGMA—NO. 1,226. Tam composed of ten lotters, and am u shrub, My 1 ts to deride. My 9, 10, is w fruit. ENGLEWOOD, Ill. Bernice. AMERICAN CITIES AND STATER TRANS- YOSED—NO, 1,207. : (1) And now tarry, Int Megs. (2) Nolsontan, usa a raw oll. @) Mimlon sonnet, Budgor. (4) t searu a man ong frolic, T. HAWKETE, Des Moines, in. CORRESPONDENCE. ‘Tyro, city, stys the nows from Maina fs such a puzzio thut ho couldn't thiuk of anything cise. ie mudo out three, ud forgot to say whut they wore, Mr. KE. Us, Steward, Ill, made an assault on tho twists, und was successful to the extent of answering six correatly,—the cubo and the riddle resisting him. Thanks for puzzles. E. F, K., city, completed bis task Bonda morning, and thero ix no fautt to bo round wit his work, He says the * Maid" of the Dromios a8 ironstone bie, and this tha Dromlos, no doulit, will resent. Toso Mayle, Evanston, IL, gives bor opinion that the puzzlos were of tho toughest possible description, and sho was unable to answor but threo,—" Horpotology,” "Screed, and the transpositions, Punch, Urbana, l., bad entire confldenco in six answers sont, but wasa little shaky on his tnswor to Dromios' riddle, which bogtves™ Surf— sort." Tho nuawer not sent was “Screed.” A very fine lot of puzzles, Mr. Punch, and many thanks for same. ‘Tho Dromids, Galenn, Il, continue on In thelr unapproachable work of Fucssine correctly all the puzzies and sending them in at once, The list Isconaldered a good one, though not exces- sively bard. ‘Towhoud fs thanked for his flatter. ing uphilon, but thoy deny tne softimpeachment of thotutephono, tata Nolsonian, Nelson, Ill, givos up Punch’s cuba as being too hard, and nuswers tha Dromlos' riddio with n * Horse.” - His oxplanation is as follows; “*Hippla' (Grook for horse), a bur- rowing crustacean, for first definition; a sca- horso for second; and a common horse for the third.” Nelsonian bas lx auswers that be can safoly bot on. 'Towhead, Fulton, IL, tried to got_a fow spare moments for tho puzzies, but a little hougehold despot would not give hit wrest. Ho answor No, 1284, and thon wrote the followlug; bus wheter It isa puzzle or not no fellow can dnd outs Who'll respond to such s toast? raehine bi, Vuneb, Urbanal FAILURE, ou vor aaa Cpleage Lira mg ARO You Bald to me, Bweott x inridua kingwom before you It You pulnted it out co ny wittlig feur; You Tightod tho way with your loving oyes. Many the triumphs tho years havo brought— Koon the plonsures, but keoner the pains 1 stand by your sido In tho realin of thought, And] ask inyself, Ia It loss or gain? You giyo to mo gencrous mood of praise, You give tome fonor and trust, I know; But you think with rearet of my simple ways, My fond unwisdom, of long ago. Though} speak with tho wisdom of God and men, Piinew fut well iaat uover tgaia now full wel vor nyt Can I quicken your pulse by a single beat. Yo ot to blame-—thero 1s naughtto be saidy Ever by ate is our pinning ‘croste Por SSeRER PM doy iat Tat ok or the sake of winning what L have logs. 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