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Waettor wo wulk’ taroug -| LITERATURE---ART---SCIENGE, Homicide, North and South— A Volume of Facts and Figures. A New Life of Lord Byron—Giean- ings from a Literary Life. i Army-Tife In Russia—Queer Pets at Marcy’s—Cooley’s | Cycloe pedia. 2 Minor Notices—Magazinos—Books Recetyod— » Art Publications—Litorary, Art, and ‘ Solentific Notes. LITERATURE. NOMICIDE, NORTH AND SOUTIT, Mr. Redfeld's book ts nota campaign doe- umont, It ts not written in the Intercels of any party. Many of Its suggestive figures ad facts reflect somewhint severely upon tho soelal condition of the Southern States, They mny be used in attempts to show how false pride, fgnorance, and an absurd standard of “honor”: have combined to reduce s-largo section of this country te 9 condition of semi: barbarism go far as value of human Hfe ts concerned, A work like this—a mere com- pliintion of. facts and figures—tocs not aitmit of extended review or erlticisim. We are obliged to assume that the statistics are curate because we linve no means of verify ing or ‘dlsproving them. There is no ques- tion of Iterary abillly or of tle lack of tt, All that can bo done fs to qttote some of the nore important facts-or gleductions In order to show that. the book itself is worth reading. We may adi that Mr, Redfield has done his work well; that the task assumed was an tine vortant one; that he appears to have earrled jtoutin aspirit of perfect fairness ond impartiality; ant that his book deserves wide clrculntlon, carefal conslderation, and ought to tend to'‘practical measures toremedy the appurently lawless condition of some of the» Southern Commonwwealths,—not that there are actually no tars against homicide or for its-punfaliment! ‘The Jnws are there, on the statute books, but Inasmuch as they are practically nuliiiied by non-enforcement and cynston, they are but dead-letters, and the communities would . be as wel) off with- outthem. That Mr, Redfeld’s chapters give new emphasis to the demand for better and more extended frellities for eduention In the South; that they ugain ell public attention tothe Inseeurlty of Mfe and the practically uncivilized condition of an importhnt part of this country; that the knife, pistol, and shot-gun still, have full sway in the late Slave States; and that the Courts citlerdare not, cannot, or are too ignorant to administer cynal and exact justice to all men,—It those conclusions are drawn from Mr. Redfeld’s statements, he, ut least, does: notimake them, ‘They are the logic of his nets. “ Homleide, North and South,” is the title of his book. Its auther ts a well-known Journalist. In adarau experience io nearly wll the Southern States hu became tmpressed with the freanency of homicide,—1v erhaps' a homicldc a day inn give rinonths at a time, and tliat, tov, where tho population was but one-ftth ‘or one- sixth as great “ng that of yania or New York; and his in writing this bouk, he says, try and xrouso the governing elements tn the Sonth ton proper appreeintion of tho evil that uflicts society, to may be Invrensed’ respeet for luman life and less consideration shown man-stayers in the Courts.” And in closing his pi adds: “Although there have: been many polllical murders in tho Southern States, yet tho great. majority of honigides and the Glass dealt with in this book dave no more connection with politics than has potit Jar. ceny In New York.) | “Ln Englund, fn the last 40 years, the mur- der-rute has eeronsed 1800 per cent, ealcn= lating tho relative idnmber of homicides: to pondation. dn England and Wales the num- er of hemicies ryerages Jess than one to avery 100.000 inhabitants, In ull the New England Staies, in the nericulttiral regions of New York, Pennsylvania, Northern Ohio, and many portions of Michigan and Wiscon- sin the rate is nothleher thanin England, Among the rural population of the New Eu- gland States the nutuiber of felonious howl: | yearly nverage of . tides does nat exceed a ‘ane to every 150,000 population, ‘The number: of homicides In the Southern States is found on Investigation tebe propurtionatels greater than in way country on enrth tho popuiatfon of which ds rated as clyllized, and since the "War renches: the ‘enormous. dzureaate of 40,000," “Cont! the saine'rate, the destruction of dife would equal thatot 9 erent war? In Texns, Ken- {icky ant! South Carolina in tho year (878 ey were GH honileldes and 622 persons Ke- verely wounded by. shats and stabs, In ‘Texas, during the year 1878, there were more homicides than In the ten States of Maine, Now Hatpstiire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Conneeticut, New York, Venn= sylvania, Michtxan, and Minnesota, with an aggregate population of nearly, if not quite, 7,000,000, Tn Kuentnelcy dhat year there werd nore homleldes than in the eight States of Matue, New Hainpshire, Vermont, Massa- ehusetts, Hhode Isfand, Conneetieut, Michl- ean. and Minnesota, with an agerernte pop wlation of nenely 10,000,000, In South Caro- inn that year there wore more homicides than In the efght States of Maine, New Trmpshire, mont, Massachusetts, Khode Island, Connectlent, Michigan, and Abin sola, With an ggzregate population of about 0,000,000, .. . ‘Tho excess of murder and mauslanghter In the Southern States was not confined to the your 1873, It exists every: year, Lut [selected that pear beenise It is a Tair average pertod, without wnusual ds turbunees in any quarter, elthor political or comuruimstie,?, ‘ That is the pleturawithout embelliahment. Ibis cortalnly suggestive. ‘The population of tho threo States taken ns examples is about 400,000 less than that of tha New England States, yet tho inhabitants af these three Southern States KI one another ata rate about 1800 por cent greater than do tho popu- Tatton of New England} Mr. Redfield next takes up the statistles of homleide and assautts with deadly weapans Inench of the States of the Union. An ine teresting paragraph is found in the chapter on Ohio, whieh we quote because it affords strong evidenee of tho efllncy af iutelll- gence In the prevention of crime, particularly of erlue against the person, He says: “Tt has been clahned for Gen, Gariolt's Congressional district, In Northern Ohio, that among its people is a higher average grade of {ntelligence than Is found In nny ather district of equal population; that 43, that the per cent of flliterney in lawer 6 6s Thera are outside of Now England and New York no clusters of counties where tho average Jutellizence (as in- dented by nbsenea of — ilteracy) ly higher than tn the seven counties referred to in Northern Olio, Tt ts also true that there are {ey clu 6 of counties outside of Now England and New York of equal popu- Tation where houleldy ts as rare aa ly these counties, En threa of these counties, with en aggregate population of over (0,000, thore wi hut teve hointehdes In five yours” Sr, Redfelt’d analysis of the howletdal statisties In each of the Stutes Is fill, clear, and start Ing. In regard to the murder of colored men he says: Lhe trouble with Uw blacks Inthe ‘border States’ of the South (where political murders are unknown or vary rare: snot the mumbor of apsaulla Upon shen, but the Habllity of ussniitt and murder to happen at any cain with wight provocation, «0. + With nearnes there is always a sense of In- arity Among armed and quarrelsome to men, and they keep aut of the way w ble. But, ba ax diserect oy they mays numbers are shot down annually by while desperadoes, who ‘Gxenpy! If nat by filylt, thon by the ‘technicalities of the law, always invoked to the fullest oxtent ino white imun’s behalf, 1f these will not save him, then the next move is for his frlenda to break into fall and take him out, He the wurder us cold: hlonded as It ean, ag Hnntgvaked as te may, It bs almost lnipos-, sible, in the present condition of Southern fueling, to adgauately punish a white man for kiting a negro. As milglit be oxpected, Texas 1s the chain- ton State for murders and assasinatious. Whe eases clted read like the most horrible fiction, Seven thoueand: murders In fifteen ation of 818,000! In South titotine and sflsstssippl there is au Increase 2 ’ 7 ia end that there |p Pee } Thus he snys of Win: nulog through a generation at. | ee in the number of murders under Hampton, Simpson, and Stone over the nays of Chain- berlaly, Scott, and Ames, There are not 40 minny polivien) inucders, but the average 14 well kept np by ‘personal difficnities,’ street- fizhts, and atrays having no counection with spatities.” Ter contra, the statistles of 1870 show not a homicide tn Vermont Stupne the census year, and butane in New Mampslilre. ‘The aggre: to population of tho two States was nearly 700,000, Mr, Redfield sums up to this effect: “The administration of law li most of the South: urn States with reference to erimes against the person t4 very Jase Tf the murderer hing sockal p m money, and -frients, and if the man ed happened fo be wanting in these, convictlon and adeguate pitishment. Ave nlmnst. Lnpassibia’ Several Instances: are cited, Among othars: “1 dlaing-room af a hotel in one of the Southern: States Eaaw aman dollierately draw @ pistol , from beneath his enat uid shoot an unarmed wan sitting oppostt hin, with whom he wos having an tarmiunent’ ‘The assailant was tunedtately released on ball. platal ated all. Twas told thot ho had atrendy shot several anen, and was regarded as somewhat danger ous... The reimerdy anual. be found in an Increased Fespeck for human fife, rigid enforcement of Inw, and ns nearly a8 pose slide, adequate puniahment for every case of Unjustiiadle honttelde.” 0 as Woecomment Mr. Redfield's, book to the attention of all interested: fn thie sockal prob lumsafthe day, and particularly to, those anxtoits to develap Southern Industries and to nid the prosperity” of that seetion of our jand “The state of vltairs pletured In this book ts not pleaannt ta contemplate. (lomickle, North and South, By I. V. Redfehl, Philadelphia: J, B. Lippincott & Co, Price $1.25.) RYRON, “Byron's fo was passed under the fierce Melt that beats upon au intellectual throne. He succeeded In making himself—what ho wished to be—the most noturlous Persenety, in the world of letters of our century. ost every one who -canie in contact witht him has whom ho was genial, loved him, the principte of evil incarnate; an Amertean writer of tracts in tho form of stories to the Is of the sane opinion: Countess Gincefoll he fs an archangel. Mr, Carlyle considers him ta have beon a mere ‘sulky dandy.’ Goetha ranks iin as the first English poet afier Shakspeare, and fs followed by the lending erltles of France, Italy, and Spain. All concur fn the admission that Byron was as proud of his race asof hits yerse, and that in noxainpled measure the rood and evil of his nittre were Inherited and Inborn’? Such ts Mr, Nichols’ intro- ductlon ta his * Lite of Lord -Byron,” now published In tho “English Men of Let- ters? Serics, Lord Byron has had no lack of blographors, but, with tho exception of Moore's and Eberty’s, the other works aro of little real value, however interesting reading they may be. Mr. Nichol professes to be impartinl, to have consulted Lho other blog- raphers freely, to have written’ withdut ex- tenuating faults or vices, or tenoring to find any war- There Is nothing of interest or Importance {n thts book that hus not been told before, The ex- We fail these virtues. rants for assertions. tracts from his letters aro mostly. from Moore’s life of tho pout, whieh contalned about 1,000, Hecontributes uo freah Nght on disputed points, Lis sketch ts’ readable, but not valttable as an addition to our knowl |! edgeof the great English poet. Byron wa a great poct,—otie of the great- est. In his lifo ho wag an’ out-and-out Bo- hemiat. Elevated to a-high rank by the erlttes of his time, and made the Ilon of En- ent to draw upon hin tho venom ‘ory class. Hissed In public places, ab by tha fickle populace, ex- froin society, | every, interpreted, hoe fled from “Englund and dled ia foreign Iand. But for every mis: fortune that befell him, foravery hand that, was ralsed talist him, for the loss of friends” and tha practival expatrintion he suifered, he had buthiinself to binwe. iA - great genins and a great poet, he won for: himself a de-- reputation for inmorality and -wick- Bcrver odness that equals iis Jame as writer. a ‘Tho widency oE-Mr.; Nichol’s boul: 8 to gloss over bis faults, to represent hin a8 aminn as inuch sinned against as shining, to necuse other writers of unfairness, while ho himself is as unfuirin the othor way. His Inst chapter Is the best, and.) makes’ amends. for the apparent shortcomings of the others, “Tle has given imore of himself-in dese cinl signittennce we call a brother poct. Jen,’ he writes tn 15 “has lont me a quantl- ty of Burne’ unpublished letters... What an antithotleal inlnd!—tendterness, rough ness — delicacy, conrseness — sentiment, sensuality — soaring and Deity—all mixed. up in, that one cont pound of Inspired clay? We tayeonly tondd to these antitheses in’ applying them with slight modifieation to the .wrl finity anc brutality, In consistent In noting but. his passion and his pride, yet redeenng all his defects by is hab his graces, und woalling ‘n xrentness: ¢) efrora can only half obscure.” . Jack Shep- pard was noted for bis graces”. mid. his courtesy; he rifled your pockets with an apotoxy, and romoved the necklace from the neek of beauty with @ contly. Derless regrets at tho trouble he was causing. ‘Yet ho was none the less a bighwaywan and a foe to goclety. Ikisa.new ereed to tench that w uian’s defects, such as Mr. Nichol him- self is obliged to acknowledge as belonging fo his hero, are redeemed. by” “his” graces, ‘The pallshets eourtiy"villain, then, is no villain at hil} Aun, Mr, rleating esenpades for him. “There is no romance of Munchansen or -Dumns more marvelous than the adventures attrinuted to Lord Byron abroad, “Attached to his frat expedizion are 2 series of ‘unrratives, by pro- fussing eyo. witnesses, of his Intrines, ene counters, aets of dinblerie nnd of cence, In particular of his roaming about the of Greeco and taking possession of one reality as the * Arabian: Nights! io tho actual relan of Haroun Al Raschid’! Pos. sibly others did do an injustice to Lord Byron, But in Lord Byron's awn datters he fs een Ene jn strange adventures shadowed forth in iis Inter poems in which pirates and aut- 4 Hyton was always continuntly hiiathi et he ed tins laws wero the he affecting the know bo fall of "deep, da Nichol speaks of Byron ad “tured inte Yalsons of all sorts and shades,” Byron 40 of gront secrets, to at ig dak "HAR MEG vf a ne was ray al Mr. Nichol conalders | thot ha 5 ‘was . hey also “Yured” tuto vatnb ishing & harem at Venico! Aguin, his: proposal ta Misa Mil- hanke ts apokenof ns," au tneldent ent fram a French novel" and the wholt story of his dnurrlage is vealed © the one apparently insole uble en un, in an otherwise.only too trans- 7 dn another plico Byron Is spoken of ng always full of secrets, aud the record of his various . adventures Itself gives parent life.” ne reasons for any o! aioe reason, was lils 2 not appear to remember that 1 cessful In hig snits for the Mochdale prop. ety, and that he thereby acaulred the wealth ho oadessautl and spent during the latter part of Ms fife, Another blographor ling usserted. that Byron neglected his mother before ‘her death, and dd not visit her for two years, fund that her last words werann fmprecation that he nile become as deformed Jn mind 48 he Was. ys. : and with fiistico proba- lions, Impulse, Ar, Nichol sou bly, Sirs, Stowo's ‘horribts story as to tha eauso which fed to the separation qf Lord mul Lady Byron. Hy own view of the mate ter Is conjectural, but not unreasonable, and Will beur quoting. It $3 quite possible ‘that Taidy Byron was ag much to Diame as her HIDE sponte ‘i and Moore or gome other bor Byron Insisted Inv writing that should return tu her father’s house, Sho did 80, Jan, 15, 1818. On Feb, 2 her father wrote to Byron proposhig a forint separation, Byron refused, but on belng threatened with iegal proceedings consented,” 3fr, Nichol “It may be doubted If Byron would have made a good husband to any woman; : hls - wife cand *.he were even more than usually iHlussorted, 4. Whatcould her plackt temperament con- lecture of & nan whom she gaw tn one of hig ty of passion throwiug a favorit watch un- dor the fire, and grinding it to pleces with a paler’ ‘Or how could hor conselous virtue olurate the recurring irregularities which he was accustoinud not only to permit himself, but to parade? ‘The s harassment of lia affalra stitaulated bly violonce ail she was Joclined to suspect hin tobe mad, Some of contents sent fh the public conclusion that the mere fart of Ing it made reconel|iation fmpossibles and the inveterate obstinacy whieh lurker be neath her gracious exterior made her eling thronh life to the substanee—not always to the form. Nichol’s_ book estimate of Byron's place in Mterature ts fair and just, Je tecrank bli among the first and Rreatestot English poets. & Bros, GLEANINGS eft on record various impressions of intinacy or Interview. Those whom he excluded or patronized snalieneds thase to Mr Southey. in all sincerity, regarded hin ks tute for it, clety, hig separation from his wife netion mils agalust, tho» donble | standard renlenetization “of. silver. Ameriean Academy of Arts and ibing one whom with shee - and groveling — dire 3, Again he snys of lms A strange mixture oP magnan- of Inughter and tears, ow and mint Nichol accuses others of fab- mnuniile 3] of them, whish have all the sno relation to mystery,” Again, Mr, vatural cut clon. combats they with iasterh artleles are all well worthy o' ‘The tendency of Prof, Bowen's plillosophy is nuthor does TON WAS 8UO+ hat, after thelr child wus sho “Russian Generals"; wHas CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SA’ TUnDA:, VCLOBEN YY Ic —SLaLlwin PAG recently-printed Irtiers—ns that to Lady Kerns arian, and the reports of later ob- ervers of her character, 04 Wiliam Howitt = enti 1o detract {rom the earlier tributes to her conslalent amlabillty, ideas oO manne faye been trying toa pat ta be aked by his wife, impationtof his late hours, when hewns going to leave off wrlling verses; to be told ha had no real enthusiasin; orto have his desk broken open and its compromising and confirm our the Incompaubility of the pair. It to tho persons for what hey were. least Intended. Tho amoal- we Ing . elements of . discontent may have been fanned hy the gossip dependants, or the oficiona zeal of rein- fae nd kindled inte a Jealous fidine by the oatentation of regard, circle af his howe, helieved sone story whfeli. when comimunl- for others beyond tho Lady Byron doubtless ted ta her Inenl aitvisers, tet them to. the rer bellev- whatever that may have heen—of her first Impressions. Her Inter letters to Mra. Leizh, 1s that called forth by Moore's “Life? ara certahivy as open to th of self-rizhteousness as those of her fuse band's are to self-disparacement.” 6 charge Fillo notentirely satisfactory, then, Mr. fetal bo Is ‘auinently. read able, His The tendency of mortern crittelsin (ord Byron. By Joh Nichol. Enelish Men of Letters Serfes; New York: Harper Prico 7 cents.) + FROM A LITERARY LIFE. We have’ but few such ilferary and philo- sophica) scholars in this country as Francis Bowen, Professor of Pillosophy in Harvard College. Sie excels as nteacher; but he fs best known by his writlnee, which are high ly esteemed on’ both sites of the Atlintle, His works sodern philesophy and Amer fean polltical economy would have given him an enduring uname ff he had written nothing else. But his contributlons to vari- ous perludicals and the papers of severn) ns- soclations on the subjects of educution, polite feal economy, and philosophy have laid the public under additional objigations tor his Industrlous and fruitful labors, Prof. Bowen is not ambitious to-seem oriinal so much as to subserve the cause of truth and dl rect’ tho thought of his Umes into safe channels, He ts searching In hits inves- tigations, and resolute in lis opposition to all theorles thnt threaten the subversion of morallty and religion, Weare glad that ho has lately gathered Into a volume a number of his admirable, essays, several of which have been published before in the Revlews, and some of which are now for the first tine riven to tho world, having been read before diferent American socletics or institutes, ‘The volume before us is entitled *Glean- ings of a Literary Life.” Lt embraces s tecn or eighteen essays, Which weru Ww and published or read ab various times from 1838 tu 1880, ‘The first subject treated of is Ettueation, Under’ this hend have a “ Prefutary Note on the Contest Between the Anclents and the Moderns”; “Chass Usliltarlan Studies ??; and nn appendix on “The Avuse of the Study of Grauinar” The writer earnestly defonds elassival studies as @ necessary, part of the usual course in our colleges, auialy onthe ground thatthe study: af the Greek and Momin — classivs cone fera on the tlnd of tig. student a meas- ure of needful diselpline, and — training sueh as can bs derived from no’ substi- In this we heartily agree while we would’ not exclude from curricuun aff studles that night with hit H be cealled utilitarian. ‘THe danger is not now. thatthe useful sefences will be banished, b that they will bo suffered to supersede In ig Jarge in¢astre the anelent classler, without which a: substantial’ foundation fora thor- ough education can searecty ho Inid, at Jenst, o in ordluary eases. Prof, Bowes paper on this snbject was read before the American Academy of Ars and Serences in 187 as 0 reply to-Dr. Wyaelow, who had previously read an claborate essay in opposition to clasdigal studies, , Under tho hend.of Pollt- teal Econousy we ‘find four nrticles: First, a Minority Report on the Silver Question, presenter’ to the Senate of the United States jy April, 1877, This is perhaps tho ublest, discussion of this question that has appeared Mi and. u ic" hose ~ who aeree with’ Prof. Bowel#s view of this sub-, Jeet, as wo.do not, will probably accept lis i plausible ‘orzuments as conclusive. The second: article discusses, the Perpetulty of National i Delt pean policy a! nattonal debts, and. coidemns the Euro- ho indafinit continuance of This wag real before the lenecs in 1868, Third, we have the Financial Con- duct of the War.—n lecture delivered before the Lowell Institute in 1805. .In this lecture Prof. Bowen, while recog nizing the immense expenses of the War, expresses the conyletion that thers will in the end bo an ampio compensation for all the outlay, and gives a clear and Intelligent sur- vey of the whole case, Then comes, fourth, Tho Utility and the Linitutlonsof theScience of Political Economy, froin: the Christan Brunner for March, 8S—a discriminating disettssion, Tho artteles on philosophy are Duallsin, Mateclalism, or Ideally, from the Princeton Review of 88; The Idea of Cause, frourthe Prineefon Revicie of 17; ‘The Latest Porm of the Development Theory, conmmunteated to the Memoirs of the Aineri- ean Academy, (8003 Diseases and Malforina- tlons not Heredtable, trom the proveedings of the Anierienn Academy, 1851; Tho Psyelile- vets of Ktherlaatioy, from the London cetittor, 187%; Buckle’s History of Clyili- zation, North-simertean Revicir, 30l; John Stuart MiUl’s Examination of Hanillton’s Philosophy, simeriean Presbyterian | Re- wlere, 18603 The Hunan and the Brute Mind, Princeton Review, 1880; Malthusianisin, Darwinlsm, and Pessina orth Ameren, Review, 1st Haseal, Nordieet can Revie, 1843; Essays and Reviews; Tho Clergymen’s Attack on Cliristiantty, Oxford North-American Review, 10. Li wil the artleles pertulniitg to Muterlullsim, ihe De- ppment Theory, Cause, and other subjects touching religion, Prof, Bowen takes tie Christin side and’ powelfully argues nealint the skeptics, y connat aurea with his position that diseases and mulformations, eluding — fnsnnilt, are not heredit- able, if he means’ that Woy are net more Hkely to appear in thy offspring of parents who ttre sublect to these wiisfortunes than in other elildren, di” his" Review _ of Buckle'’s [story hoe alleges that Mr, Buckle set out with a theory to establial, anid ransacked all the annuls of civilization to fintl facts ta favor tt, and that he built his whole scheme ou the wsaumption that the Tinan inlad ts absala eontrotied by 8 ant poss no trug free. It were well if such skeptles as Buckle wero the only men who tke Ih phiiosoph: y of motives in detormiuing the human will as the busts of thelr -reasoninys. Prof, Bowen secs clearly the necessary re | sults of auch assumptions’ and logic. and force. ‘These cureful study, isalways Wi the rleht direction, ‘The last artlele fg devoted to" Tho Restoration of the ‘Text of Shakspeure,’ 9 critical discusslon of rent valuy fin tis line, We hme said (ius much In regard to this collection of essays, Which haye heen for the anogt part papiiated before, but were. widel: senttered, b reatiso Wodeens the volume as {6 is now offered one of extraordinary Interest, pat An wilt bo permanontly useful to thought- nil readers, Gleanings from 2 Litery Lifes 1888—1890, BS Francis Howen, LL, D., Alford Professor of Pullosophy in Unrvard Colles, Now York; Charles Scribner's Sons, Byles si) SKETCHES OF ARMY LITE IN nus- KIA, = Liout, Greeno’s work has recolyed universal commendation. ‘The author is an officer of the reguine army and tho late milltary at- taché of the United States Legution at St. Petersburg, He was appointed to: make an ofileial report of the Itusslan War, which was published under the title of’ ‘The Russish Army and Its Campalgnain Turkey in 187. *78,."Tho volume before us Is supplementary tothe forogulng. contalns wore iletuils of his personal vx- perience and adventures during that. war, and theresnits of his observations upon tho hablisand characteristics of the officers and men of the Russian ariny. grouped under chapters entitled; Taor"; Tho Russian Soldier"; “Shipka Itis written more freely, ‘These he has “The Plevna”; “Tho Winter Campaign”; War Correspond- “Constantinople”; 8t, Peters "The Eastern Question,” In the lattor chapter the author gives us the statenient of even in times of peace at home. something to aay, and he says wasting words In rhetoric. the pinta OF the Fi + chnracterist sums, ningples, cats, stances, anost that irom the works of edition, purtly rewritten by Richard V. Tuson, of rit shou be found «wt this valuable work, we of questions satisfactorily It Is n vast store-house of uxeful information, ant du thls ngo of progtess and restless Blick Forest people, th! the question as seen from the Russian stand- point. Lieut. Greene's former work was a treatise of especial value to the members of the pro- fession to which he belongs, ‘This volume Ig equally valuablo and interesting to the lay reader, “Both prove the eminent titness of Lieut. Greene for the work to which le was anelaned and the services ‘such intelligent, observing) keen-eyed officers ag the writer H arecapable of rendering to thelr country et. We has St without. Asa result, wo fnve an Interesting, fresh. and entertatnltys Tis styte is unaffected and di volume fifled with a variety of usefil Infors qation, and all the more thnely in that It is based on personal observation and experi- etre, "Nhe temptation to quote from a work like this Is very great. A single extract will, how. ever, atiflice to show the character of some of drawn for us. d 0 tun Roldier he says: “He rors into Hattlnunthusiaaltenl ys and with Iivel: energy, but not quite vivaclously: there fs moro of a erin solemnity in his manner a5, he marches forward singing Justily the nn- tlonal hyinn, and thoughtless of his fate. He Is at tirst dull and slow in Initiative and self relianees and itis only, atter he has ph sed. through several battles that he learns by ter- rible experfence the knavk of looking out for himself—of taking advantage of ovary shel- ter, of quickly protecting himself by Ins trenching, nni‘all the other Httls tricks of battle which may save a man’s tife without inspatring his efiiclency or detracting from his courage. He jnstinetively Jovks for orders, and obeys them ‘with a blind instinct, without stopping to question thelr merit; left to his own resources, he ts almost helpless snd will often get killed fram sheer stupidity inatanding sul and waiting for an, order when every one is dead who has tho right to giveune, . . . Deprived of their oflicers, a body of Russian gotdiers may degenerate inton helpless, Inert mass, and be slang tered by means of their very cohesiveness, but they will never take & panic.” And of Russlan friendship for Amerlea: “Tt Ina fact, strange as it may appear to sone people, that there exists throughout the length and breadth of Russia a sentimental attachment fer Amerieans, af the Uepth of which we haye very little conception at home, The policy of the rulers of Russia, from the the of Catherine tothe present, has been ane of uniform and unbroken friend- ship for the United States; this is a well-known fact’ in polities, and people account for.it on the ground of ‘self-interest, or genuine admiration, according to thetr paliltcal opinions, But what Is net generally nown is the fact that this friendly feelin: permentes all clisses of sockety, anc ly far more firmly rooted In those portions of tha community which never see St. Petersburg. fn ft Is fh more cosmopolitan Court-cireles ofthat Capital. Itis of io use te argue that the feeling 1s superficial, that it has no sub- stantial foundation, that the political cus- toms and the habits of the people In the two eountrics are diametrically opposed, and that they have no interests In connion. ‘The feel- fu docs exist, and It is.a very strong one.” (Sketches of Army-Life in Russia. By Fe ¥. Greene, Lieutenant of Engineers, U.$.4 New York: Charles Seribner’s Song. Price 81.00, QUEER PETS AT MARCY’S. Mrs, Olive Thorno Miller’s last book, enti- tled “ Little Folks In Feathers and Fur,” wns her successful medium for conveying 0 great amount of natural philosophy into the youthful minds of her readers, Her present work is siinilar in character, and every legit- inate device iy used to Introduce anecdotes and faets in connection with the various peta domiciled at Marcy’s, Tho story itself is only the canvas, the mere framework on which to Aispiny thepecnilarities, habits, and je traits of hens, mire, appos- horses, fish, foxes, squlsrelg, parrots, cte., ete. and these differ- entanininls nre treated Aust as Iuinan beings: would be treated under similar eiream- If some of thom appear unnatural- ly clever, and the stories told about them nl- tuo much lke fnbies, wo. havo Indy's worl = for — it her haye been drawn tho best mortem naturalists and most trustworthy travelers, nnd that the stories of pets are well authen- the tleated, most of the latter occuring within her own elrels of nequalntances, Mrs, Milley knows iow to write most charmingly |. for young people. If tho first voll y fabled lencies, attraction with draw, Ly Olive ‘Thorne York: E. BP. Dutton & Co, to prove St, this one supplles nil di It may by added as an additional that the book Is fully iustrated Tames C, Beard,- Queer Vets at Murcs's. Miller, New Yi Price $2.50.) ‘ —- COOLEY’S CYCLOPEDIA. Nothing s0 well explulns the purport of tiese two ponderous volumes ns the title pare of Vol. 1: Covley’s Cyelupedia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Informa- tion in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades, including Medtcine, Pharmacy, and Domestic Economy: Comprehensive Supplement to the Pharma- copaln and General Book ot Referenco for the Manufacturer, Tradesman, Amateur, and Hendsof Families, The popularity of the book Designed as a is attested by Its having reached its sixth ‘This edition this been revised and London and Bertlu,” which ts nat, how- ever, a very accurate statement of his dom- elle, a\8 willbe inforred by the title tho volumes cover adiferent fluid from that so well trav- eled over by othar eneyclopedias, It ts In- eluded in the lst of reference books, prepared we belleve by Mr, Perkins, of works that in every good reference Mbrary, he two volumes contain 1,703 a and It would be dificult, for any one ut tha author to guess the number of siub- fects treated, Ginneing through tho pages nd myriads daily’ life arising in nnswored, and conelset: activity itis only by tho ald of works like this that ene enn hope to keep ubreast of the times and obtain tho latest fnformation easily, necurately, and when most wanted, (Coaley’s Encyclopedhit. New_York: D, Appleton & Co, “Two volumes, Price $9, —— MINOR NOTICES. In story-buoks the bad boys aro apt to make tho.best men, ‘Their misdeeds and wild pranks are always read with pleasure, Who can tell haw many of the mad school- bey explolis of modern youth have been pat- terned after the practical Jokes and adven- tures of such bad boys as Porctral Keene, Midshipmun Easy, Tom Brown, Tom Bate ley, or Tom Sawyer, gives us the story of +“ Worst Boy in ‘Town. It Mr. Wabborton now absolutely the is to bo hoped the work {9 not a thinly- velled autoblogravhy! Jack Whittingham certaluly {3 a remarkably unfortunate youth, even for 9 bad boy, for’ he is always found out, Some of his practical-jokes are oxceed- {ucly amusing, and his successful echemo for breaking up a political meeting {3 original, if not commendable. ‘That the story is well told {1s almost unnecessary to say, ‘There might have been more of it, but what thoro ists good, The principal fuult to be found wilh tho work Is that it ntuy prove altogether too fuuzeatlve, and lead to considerable pers sonal discomfort if It falls {nto the hands of Teck less, imitative Knickerbockerud str. lings. ‘Tho -book Js dedlented “to very bad Doys, and to the fine ald fellaws who once were callud very bad boys.” If all thoso to whon the book Is dedicated read It, tho author of “ Helen's Babies” will be the most universally read wan on this Cuntiuent, =If the author of “From Hong Kong to the Imalayas ” tells us nothing new, he at fuanst puts What he tas to say tn very goo shape. Someof the Mlustrations are very oot, some unpleusantl y AucRuatlve, such ny Tho indo Burning Pince,” for Instance, Mr, Clark, ag he says, undertook 9,000 iniles of travel jn a hot sountry in the hottest Boas, goof dhe year, The spirit of heat does not pervade theso pages. ‘Thoy are temperatly written, asd just such a tuck as aur intel. gent traveler with a good command of Tan- guagy would have been apt to write tn do- serlulng whathe saw-on bis journoy. The book fs neatly gotten up and typographically very tree fret errors, —Berthold Auerbach takes tho material for his tales and novels from real Ife, Aud the Black Forest region—that rangeot woody nyountalus In the southwestern part of Ger- nny which abounds {no historical remains and ‘assoclations—la.a favorit locality frour which he draws bis inspiration, His * For- esters,” which has just been pub- Hahei! 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The American Law Review for October contains tho third and concluding article on the Law of Collateral Securities, by Mr Leonard A. Jones, of the Boston Bar, ‘The pledge of stock and the pledge of negotiable paper have been treated of in former nui bers, ‘fhe present articte discusses the rem- edies for Inforeing negotiable collaterals. ‘Theso articies contain the dieta of laws not before fully collected and formulated. The Review of the month contains the most Inter esting portions of the address of tho {lon Benjamin If, Bristow, before the American Bar Association at its recent Convention ot Saratoga. ‘They treat at some lenrth of special subjects of lexisintion of interest to the whole country, ‘The Notes of Cases anil Notes of Exolanas complete the final pages of this valunBle legal monthly. —The October number of the American Journal of the Medlout Selences contains the prospectus for 188l. It claims to have the promise of its usual Narlely of linportant contributions from distinguished members of the profession in all parts of the country. No change fs made in the price or size of Wie magazine, which ranks amoug the first of medieval pubiicutions, Amon the subjects treated of in the original communications rin the current number are: ‘Congenital Syphilis of the Throat’: * Anenrist of the Tdnominate and Aorta,” fo which is slxnifi- cantly ndded, Death ot the xeventh day; “Pitvrlasis Maculata ot, Circinata”; “Tho Sureleal Treatment of Cancer of the Itect- un ??s ‘ata! Polsbning by Mushrooms’; “Tateral Lithotomy’?: Localized ‘nber- cular Pleurlsy; ““Paisoning by Curbolic Acid,” and niany others, The magazine 1s bul Fahad by Henry C. Lea's Sons, in Phila- lelphia. —The September number of the Revie Brittanique has been tecelved. This peri- odleal reproduces in French the leading articles of the English and Aterican maga- zines, and contains also some original artt- cles especially contributed to ft The Indian Question” from Sertbner’a, Monthly 1s the American articlo in this number, LITERARY NOTES. Miss Braddon’s uew novel fs entitled “Just as 1 Am.” —Victor Hugo will on the 15th of October publish a pou entitted “L'Ame,” —SMiss Rhoda Broughton bas been visiting Oxford and collecting inatertals for s story of untverslty life. ~—George MacDonald has written a new novel, [ustrative of modern English lite and. manners, entitled “Mary Marston.” —Over 85,000 sets of tha two anthorized . editions of the “ Eneyclopaxtin Britannlea” have already been sold In the United Stutes. —vohn Wiley & Sons have nearly ready a “Flistory of tho Mississippi Jetties,” by E. Me teal which has been revised by Capt. Eads. J.C. Tidball, of the Second Artil- 4, “A Manual of Artillery Servi for the usu of the Army ant inititis of tho United States. —The Princess Delta Bocca, the niece of Tlelnrich Heine, has written fn Itallan a hook whieh will soon appear, entitled “ Sonvenirs of tho Private Life of Helurich Helne.” 3 . —Mr. John 2. G. “Hassard has written an article for Serincr’s Monthly on the tacal uperatic stage. The magazine wil make nture of o feature, hereafter, of -musle, art, and the drama." "8 —According to a table published by the Statistiche Monatasehrift of Vienna, the himber of: Volumes in the National Library of Parls 1 2,078,000, and in the Britis! Museum only 1,000,000, Clara (Marchesa Lanza), the daughter of William A. Hammond, is the authoress of “Tit for Tat,” a novel published by the Put- nons, The scene of the story is laid partly In Dresden and partly in New York, —The Directors of the Edinburg ‘hilo sophical Institution have recently fis ore ders for *Oukda's”? novels to be withdrawn from circulation, .A large number of her novels lie on the shelves, —The announcement ls mado that Mr. Ben- famin HL. Ticknor not only returns to the book-trade, butds again a partner In the house of dames R. Osgood & Co., with which he was so long and succossfully connected fu former years, —Tenry Holt & Co, have in press another quatut holiday bonk by tha author and tls trator of * The Prince of Arcolly,” J. Moyr- Smith. ‘The new work, whieh ts eatled “ho Wooing of the Water Witeh,” appears to be even wore fanciful than its predecessor. —Dr, Charles Mackay fs ubout to issue 1 work on * Obscure Words and Phrases in Shakspenre and the Elizabethan Dramatists,” whieh he undertakes to explain for the frat {ime from tha Caltic sources of tho Enxlish Janznuge and the vernacular idioms of the Eugiish Ju the sixtecnth and seventeenth centuries, . —Charles Scribner's Sons have in tlon for thelr “Epochs of Ancien series a volume on “Troy,” by S. > Ben- ainta, The yolune will be an epitome of he legendary and mythological history, lit- aratire. and topography of that anclunt elty, and will liseuss the yersonalily of Homer, and Sehilemann’s discovery, —The Pall Malt Gazette has been investl- Rating Ouldd’s claims to be considered an authority in deseriptions of the sporting field, and finds ber wanting. It says tho chapter In“ Under Two Fings” desoribing the grand military steoplectiago ought to, bo fmmortal for the number of blunders crowacil Into a elven space, —L. W, Reavis, Esa, is preparing an elab- orate Jifeot Richard Yates, the War Governor Of Ulinols, ‘The author's Intention [sto em- body in the volume a history of the risa and prouress of the anthslavery and broalavery parties of the country and their final conflic {i the crisis of the Slavelotders’ Rebeltion. 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Cesnoln. ‘These charges were to the effect that certain settlptures of tho Cesnoln col- Jectton had been tampered with and others unintelligently restored, The other edi+ torlals deal with “An Overrated Boston ‘Treasure,’ “Two Sketches by Sarah Bernhardt,” “Do Haas and Gifford,’? and “Government <Art — Criticised.’ The department entitled “The art. Gallery” treats of; “American Art Galleries: VIL, Collection of the Estate of Marshall Owen Roberts"; ‘Boston Cor- respondence *; * Acquisitions by the Brilish Museum”; “The Medieval Artist’s Color- Box.” “Ceramics deals with “Sévres Chinn” and “Underginze Decoration”: “Brle-a-Brac” considers “Japanese Lace avers”; and the “ Department of Decoration and Furniture” investizates’ and comments on “The Art of Furnishing’: “Fashtonsble Prices for Furniture”; “The Natural in art”: “Etching on Marbie, Stone, and Jyery”; “Religions “Symbolism in Art"; “Menu and Guest Cards”; “ Work for the Seroll Saw.” —Selence for Allis more proparly a acione tific publication perhnps than entitled to be clussed os artiste. Novertholess {ts itnstra- tlons are really weil executed aud constitute the most iinportant partof the work. We have received Party 16, 17, and 18 whyeh ore fully equal in merit and attractiveyess to their predecessors. ‘The aim of the editor is to convey to the English people.an aceurate ‘ledge ofthe clementary tacts of sul- ence. -Livavdur.to dothis,.the sctentifiy: prin-* ciples underlying the every-day incldpnts of Tite are vinborated and “gxpluincd tes men who thoroughly understand the anbjects treated. Tnvthe current numbers, sued sub- sare discussed is "A Piece of Whine stone,” “Tbe Bottotn of the Sea,” t Mary? “Visible Sound,? * The Tarpedo,t frPaste,? phe Eye and dts Use? A. Lead | Mino,” “Tho Sun Telezraph, “A Frog,” ° Ways ‘Tap Spins,” © Sea Tite,” Inpiter,’® *ilow a Sno ke Is Formed,’: “Coral Islands,” “ The Cessation of Life,’ %A Dis cused Potato,” “ The Rivers of the Sea.” =-Tho September vamber of the’ irt Re vici opens with tho firstof.a surles of artl- eles on “Dr. Williaa Rimmer,” «by ‘t. He Bartlett. W. J. binton contributes the soventh chapter of “The History of Wond Eneraviug in America.’ 8, Re -Koehler’s thirteenth chapter In bis * Works of Amer- lean Etehers” deals with Kruseman Van Etten, and the sans writer bas @ paper ou Willan Leib). Charles ©, Perkins concluacs hisessay on “Ancient Literary Sources of the History of the Fonuative Ans Anion: the Greeks.” Charles Henry Hart/has a goo artlele on Tho, Stuart Exhibition at. the Musou of Fine Aris,” Boston, and Frédéric de Lyéno’s article an Tho Salon of 1850" Ia transtated und reprinted from L' Artiste. The eight prinecipaketchings are ‘fully up to the Avuries “Modjeska as Jallet” and “Mra, Phillip Nicklin" being noticeable for good workmanship, while‘ Study,” “Head of William Callen Bryant ‘and “}rensant’s Reading? are caually pleasing. On the whole the number is a good one, and sustains the reputation of tho best art period- fecal we have. It 3. published by Estes & Lauriat, Boston. 6 ANT-NOTES. A Dr. Schilemann Intends to dig at Orcko- menos next winter, . —Pastel bids fatr to sapersede crayon drawing for portraits, . —It {3 proposed to found an Arohwological Museum at Florence, Italy. Z —Mr. Hamerton ts preparing o third and enlarged edition of * Etching and Etchers.” —D. Lothrop & Co., of Boston, announce a second acries of Mr. 8. G. W. Benjamin's “Our American Artiste,” 3 —At tho Mechanicu’ Fair to be held in San Francisco, $1,000 will be distributed {n prizes among exhibiting artists, ig : —aAn fnternational committee has been formed Jn London to watch over the restora- tion of St, Mark’s, Venice. —Tha Fourth Genoral Exhibition of Art lately held at Dissuldorf Is universally com ceded to have been a fatlure. —tHinrichs, of Leipziz, are bringmg ont a third elition, in four volumes, of Overbeck'’s “Geschichte der griechischen Plastik.” —In Franco and Germany etching on mare ble, thograph stone, und Ivory has been In. troduced lately as an artistic ocoupation for ladies, x =—The fall exhibition of the Philadelphia Academy {s to be of special Importance, its great feature belug a large exhibit of the works of American artists abroad, Tho lato Ar, W. ¥, de Haas left in his studlo many studies from Nature, which, to-” peter with other of his works, will ba sold 5 xy anctinn as goon AS effects arrive from Fayal, where be died, : —In four months 779,403 peoplo visited the charge of it has received gifta of objects of urt valiied at ueatly $50,000, —H, Dugdale, of New York, is anid to hava fered 300,000 fc 01 for the Chatcau d'Kau fount. ain in Paris, lately. removed to make way for the statue of the Republic, Probably he in- tends to present [t to tho Clty of New Yor! tor erection In Centrat Park, ' —The Palais do l’Evols des Beaux-Arts in Paris is about to be considerably enlarged by [is absorption of the branch ont de. Plt in the Rue Bonaparte, which will be devoted to providing nituerous atellers, for the students of -palu' ing and sculpture. ¢ —ubscriptions have been opened through- out Italy ter the purpose of raising a nore Hee Ut oar es ee wel than the simple inserlption ave: at the house at Urbiuo In whlch he was borae, t i i ; k ‘ ‘ I