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Charles Foster, Governor, and of n Leg lature that would ‘send Gen, Garfield to the United States Senate, nnd proceeded to glvo my own views of his abill- ties and character, both. 0s o patriotic statesman and man, much as tho world has since heard him spoken of allke from rostrum, pulpit, and press, and also saylng I believed that by his fairness, eundor, aud magnaoiuity he commanded inore generally than any other public man the confidence and esteem of his political opponents und rlyals, “Let mo give you an instance,” sald my companion, ‘' Iustrating the characteristics you attribute to Gon. Garfleld’?; and he pro- ceeded to givo me the narrative now reduced to writing and inclosed in compliaues with a request from me made sines election. 2did not ask before, fearing I’ might embarrass my Democratic fricnds. I have always thought the unanimous standing yote glven by the House for the resolution vindicating Speaker Korr from the gross charges preferred against him the sone net that did more than all others to re- store to that House the respect and con- fidence of the country. 4 BR Novesnen 2, A. D, 1880—My Dean Sin: Trecolivet the conversation I bad with you “on the sca” the diy of the Ohio cleo. tow, a year ago. Tho ficte I tuted wore within my personal knowlodge, but, aa L novor Intended “to make thom publi, £ withhold my namo, na it [a nut necessary to show the part Mr. Gurtlold took tn tho trauauction referred to. LThuvye no political reason for dolng so, but otherwiso 1 night nwaken tnisapprehonelon as tomy motive, As you know, no charge was ever ntide implicating Ste. Kerr until some time after he was vlcoted Speuker of tho Houde, und not long before ble Iumentod denth. Suddenly the public was startled by euch a charge ry Rpoar= {ug ina loading motropolitan journul, Within a ihonth or so the witness camo on to Wash- ington, and appeared before the proper Commnittes, then composed af a majority of Republicans, several Nemecratic membors belug absent on Boutharn Committees, and Sr, Korr was notltied, Although tun vory tl, hoat once wont before the Committee and confronted his nocuser. Aftor thu latter bad made hisstate~ mont, Mr. Korr, believing that any duy uilght end bis tite, was permitted to mnko tila states ment, although the proscoution hud not rested, In the Improasivo words of # pure and fintellect- sual man, who stood on tho narrow fine dividing: two worlds, bo watisted every Ilstener of the t= tor falsity of the chirge agulnat him; and othor, aud the most conclusive, proot of its fay Wis offered. "Tho Conmnittae reported in bis favor, und tho Deinocratio mombora at tha House, of which | wis one, were requested by some lend- ing Iepubilicans, inoluding Sr. Gartiold, tu leave the matter in thor hunds, aud nobly ag well ag xonvrously did they do tholr work which resulted in a standing and unantinous vote infavarof the comploto nequittal of Mr. Kerr. Five Ropubites Knw took wn native part in tho debate, if such it may be called whore there was entire unan hlty of sentiment; Mr. Gurfold wax ono of the five, and throw bia wholo woul jute the matter, After tho vote Tsuw the Sponker at bls hotel; though eittiog up, his fect and head were both bandaged, und it was vers evident thut bis Ite was continued by tha power of a inlgbty wills bis intelleot was us clonr and his eyes ua bright as whon he held tho Houde entranced by tho power of his cloquenco, J told him what bud occurred, and particularly the part tuken thoruln by the five Republican membors who apoke upon tho question, and from the depths of bis huart ho waid, Vhunk Gud for auch a detlverunce from u false nceusation, and that he could now dle fvellug that no stain was Jeft upon bis reputation and no record to cause sorrow to” bis tumily, aud in the fultness of bis joy tho strong man wept. Within a day or twoa stenoy rap eer called upe on me with “a mesauge from Mr. Kerr, which bo rend, statlug In substinoe that ho wisbod me to cull upon the tive members before spoken of, and sly to each that ho was unable to leave hig room oF to writo, and thut I should also say to them. in my gwo way, as bu wodestly put it, certain thinya which ho suggested, Feeling how Utterly hiadoquate any words of inino woult bo ta express tho thoughts of such a man, who bad dictated thom under such clroumstunces, | 1 asked tho stenogruphor to write them out for Jue, and, with the paper in my band, found four ofthem in the House; thoy wore all deeply paced y so oluquent. thoughtful, and gratelal ir. Gurtiold Ldld wot dad, and called at blahouso in tho Svene Wo talked of tho charge made against Str, Kerr and bls yindleas ou. Mr. Gariluid papiruanig the greut autisface ho folt and fly deep sympathy for Mr. Kere. f then read to him tho message which br. Kore bad sent, and wnothor “strong man wept"; perbups the way, as you suy you remember that! stated It to you on the ocean, ia the more Krapblo: “And thon nnotbor fellow cried.” ‘To uttempt to give the messugo of Mr, Kerr as bo dictated it, and which #0 moved the gontioman to whain it was sent, would, for reas gona before suggested, bo unjust to bin, do would require the gratitudo, the intellect, tho | situadon. — <2 Noother Whisker Pyo equals Hil'g—£9 gents Story, LITERATURE AND ART. The Memorial History of Boston —A Great Work by Great Men, : Woman in Music—Reminiscences of a Journalist—Life and Work of Henry Smith, Notes on Books—Hollday Books—Maga- zincs—Books fecelved—Art Pubs Nentlous—Literary and Art Notes. LITERATURE. MEMORIAL INSTORY OF BOSTON, “The objectof this work isto commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the founding of Boston, September, 1630, and to present the prinelpal historical phases of the town’s and elty’s Ife and development, together with the traces of previous occupation and the nawral history of the locality.’ So reads the first paragraph in the elreular accom panying the massive quarto volume, which Inaugurates the series of four to ba prepared onthis subject. Hardly has the echo of the music of the bands —marching through the streets of the city In a grand procession to celebrate with mirth and general festivity tho birthday of tho Commgnvenlth—died away non the ear, when the records of that Commonwealth, explored, digested, analyzed, and verified, are offered on the altar of Pubile Opinion, ‘Tho plan of the work Is novel. The purpose, grand, Its execution almost faultless, if our opinion of the entire work ean be predicated upon -the first volume. It is Wifstory written by experts, Each chapter Iya complete department tn Itself, OF the seventy writers enlisted in the service of this “ Memorial Mistery,” some twenty- four haye contributed to this first volume, There has been no tdeal standard formed to which cach writer was required to. conform, ‘The widest range of opinion and expression has been freely allowed, So the Individuall- ty of the writer has not been merged or lost in an attempt to conform to arbitrary rules. Everything breathes a broad catholic spirit of gencrous freedom of Hberality. Trobably the first impresston produced upon the reader’s inind will beof the massive nature of the work andthe grandeur of the conception emboslied In tt. It fs, after all, but the history of a single Commonwealth, Few would have credited tha fact that the records of the past of this ono city could have offered such a harvest of valuable ma- terlal for the gteaners of to-day. And the grent number of written works of discourse, sermon, and of history, pre- served for the examination and Investi- gation of the curious, is also surprising. The tives of documents, elted in the Intro: duction, are apparently limitless, and alt of them are well authentleated records, What other elty enn show so vast a collection? Then, again, no other scheme could have been so well planned to praduce an exhaust- ive work, No subject is left untouched. No branch, or twig, or leaf of tho grand old parent trunk Is passed overunnoticed, Each theme assumes importance fn its mere state- ment. How difiienttthesubdiviston and how comprehensive when perfected! Not more than two other cittes in this community of Sintes can offer an equally fertile field, And neither of these two contd develop an equally Interesting ante-colonial, or even ante-Revo- lutionary, history, ‘I'he traditions that, clis- ter about the early Massachusetts settlers have been woven Into the songs and poems of our greatest bards, ‘Their sturdy manhood and devotlon to principh,.the causes that led | them to seek New England, thoir modes of life, their manners, and their cus- toms,—all these havo ever proved fascinating toples to younx and old alike, All the elements that could give general or universal attractiveness to such a work ns this have been skillfully combined. ‘The mun of selenee finds clay ters on geology, paicontology, arelieology, botany, prehistoric inan, ete. ‘The mano letters can read of the colonial Mterature, Tho historian is Jn the midst of his treas- ures, or at least o} nortion of thei, all through the book, ‘The theologlan ean turn, for Instruction to the tistory of the rise of churches, of the Puritan Commonwealth, of the beginning and progress of the Eplscopal and other fulths. The social student will find inines of wenlth in Mr, Sendder's charm Ing account of the life ot the colonial period, or In Mr. Whilnere's neeount of the chief familles of colonial times, ‘Taking up the ponderous volume, we come first tothe "Intreduction,” prepared by dustin Winsor, the editor-in-chief of the en- ure work. itis a succinet accountof what hns heretofore been done for the history of Boston, with a review of the chief sources— in manuseript and print—of its history, Aud mark how the innate pride of the Bostonian creeps out oven inthe solemn pago of his- tory when he says that Mr. Dexter in giving a bibMography of the sublect of Congregn- tionallsin of the last three hundred years, nx seen in its Hterature, quotes 7,250 titles, “showing most of the books ne. must con sult on the early history of Boston!" Think ofthat! And Mr. Winsor was editing tho most thorongth history of neity ever written when he made that statement of the tusk be- fore hin! ‘Tho * introduction” fs follawed by Mr. Whittler’s puomentitled * The King’s jasive,” in which he tells the story of tho arrival of. the measenger from the King ordering the gency of the untried Quaker prisoners to England for trial, In itthe now venerable poet fy at his best. “Me begins: ‘Under the grent bill sloping bare Te cove ind meadow and Common lot, In bla counell chamber and onken chair, Sat the worshipful Governor Endicott, A grave, strong nun who knew no pecr In tho pligrim land, where he ruled In foar OF Gad, not man, and for good or Ml Veld bls trent witb an iron will, 4 He first refuses to see the messenger, but is obliged to yleld and to obey the orders of his Sovereign: . So tho door of tha jnil waa apen cast, And tke Qunlel out of tho tion's deo Tonder youth and girlhood passed, With agu-bowed women and tray looked men. And the voice of ono appointed tadlo Was lifted In praise and thinks on bigh. And the tttle auld from New Nethorlands Kissed, bu ber Joy, the dvomed inun’a hands, Ono brave voloo rosa ubove tho din. Ipault, ray with bis length of days, Cried from the door of tis Red Lon tun: “dion of Hoston, give Gud the prulso} No more stall innocent blood call down, ‘The bolts of wrath ou your guilty town, Thu freedem of wosdlp, dear to you, Is dear to all, and to all is due, * T aee tho vision of days to como, * When your beautiful City of tho Ray Sbull be Chriatiun Hherts's chosen hone, aes And nous shall his neighbor's AM itant wulnsay, The yuryiug Noles of worship stulll loud And as due sereut prayer to God uscend, And bands of mutual charity rate ‘Watlls of aulvation and gutes of praise,” ‘Tho first. chapter Tienes he poeur being followed by a carefully-prepared mup af of aud new Boston—ls an outhite of the geology of Boston and ity environs by Prof, Nathati- fel Southzate Shaler, whieh Is. premised by sone general statements ts to the geolouienl conditlons of wil Enstern New England, There were no ore-bearmg deposits in that sectlon, and the “eruze for gold and silver” was, therefore, unknown in the early days of New England. Prof, Shuler belleyes that In time the present harhor will be entirely tiled up with sand. Mr, duel A. Allen trents uf the “Fauna of Eastern Massachusetts,” of those brought in and expelled by elyilization, ‘These changes are only such ag would nat- urally occur in the transformation of a tor- eot-wilderness Into n thickly-populated dls- tilet. “The extirpation of all the larger Ine digenous mammals and birds, and -the pare tial extinetion of imany others, . . . the great reduction in numbers of nearly all forins of animal life, both terrestrial and aquatic, a3 wellas the introduction of varlaus domesticated species as housy rats, mice, En- lish sparrows, and 9 few species of noxious Insects,” All this Is undoubtedly correet, but would hardly require the services of au ex: vt to discover It, rh zoBlout rof, Asa Gray follows with a chapter on the * Flora of Boston and Its Vicinity,” and the changes it has undergone, which js to bo supplemented In the fourth volume with fron the fn article on Hortleniture by Marshall P. Wilder, The division of “Early WMistory” begins withan recount by George Dexter of the “Karly European Voyagers in Massactiu- 8 fay." Me considers It conclusively proved that ho vestiges of the visits of the Northinen now remain probably that It is z an was Killed at the tm hor?) Mr, J lennochastte rte 8 were the first isglishmen have set foot on the soil of Massachusetts. Jn tere they landed near Cape Ann, duatin Winsor devotes the next chapter to the Ear Nest Maps of Masstchusetts Bay and Boston arbor? HMustrating it with fae-shnile repros duetions of Lesearhot's and Champlain's maps Zand John Smith's wap of eit, ‘The Hest outline of the coast from Gloucester to Salem Harbor preserved to us in any orbital drawhig was made by Winthrop in 163), ‘The third chapter in this division is by Charles Franels Adams on the * Earliest Explorations and Settlement of Boston Hare bor.” ‘The first explorers visited the site of the present elty Sept, Wei. They were thirteen in number and commanded by Capt, les Standish, One William Blackstone”? nppeurs to have been the first resident on the how aristocratle hight of Beacon IH, come Ing there in 1625 und living near the present Bencon and Spruce streets. is nearest nelghbors werea binckamith Iiving in Charles- town and fn fisherman al Bast Boston, “The Colonial Period?’ forms the third division of the volun e and begins with Sam tel Foster Havens’ chapter on. "The Massae chusetts Company.” Ln It he shows that Boston reeclved ity name Sept. 71630, being A change from the former designation of “Trl Mountaly.” ‘The history of the elty istraced in its transition from a trading copartnership engaged in the business of fishing to the em: bryo of the religlous and poliiteal common: wealth, ‘ion, obertC. Winthrop treats of * Boston Founded,"1830-1619, ‘This chapter contains many Interesting ancedotes of colo- nal manners, An order of the General Court, for Instance, reads: “There is leave granted to the Deputy-Governor, Jolin Wine throp, Esq., and Jolin Winthrop, Jr, each of them to entertain an [ndlan apiece asa household servant.” In tho next chapter George E, Elis tells about “The Puritan Contnonwealth; the Rise of Churches, and the Relations of them tothe Antlomians,” ete, The original manners Chapel.” so we are told pe lows neles, Ie fo | Palfrey Gosnold, Breriton, and three nown to In the Rey, . W, Foote’s chapter on the Riso of Dissenting Falths,” cost the sui of $1,425... One of the’ most Interesting chapters is the fotlowlng one by Charles C. Smith, on “The Relations of Boston to the Growing Colony 3 the settlement of the adjacent re- gions, ete. Iere there ts some going over of the ground already trodden, which Is mot strange, or, in this Instance, objectionable, is discusses the “Indians of Eustern husetts.” John Jllot is spoken of ag tg acquired that fing necoimpllshment of peta rmeeful beggar (for others) of something from rybody.”? — 1p their inter- course with the Indians the Purltans were anparently convinced that “they were deal- Ing with the fiends of hell so... A re- view of our colonial and Natlonal histor reaching down tothe year Inst passed would,” says Dr. Ellis, “present aimuss of evidence to prove that white men on the borders of elvilization have steadily become amore and more ruthless under these experiences of savage warfare.” Charles C, Sinlth lins the following chapter on “ Relations of Boston to the Neighboring English and French Col- onles; to the Quarrelsot La Tour, DiAulney, ete,” which brings the history down to tle end of the Confederacy. Thomas Wentworth Hlgeluson contributes achapter on “General story, from thes Death of Wluthrop to Vhitip’s Wur, with the Influences of the Chnnges of Government in England” In this chanter Col. Ligeinson gnotes a passage from Johnson's “ Wonder-Working Provi- dence,” which gives a quaint description of Boston in 1650, It mist have grown very rapidly, for he su he chiefu Edifice of this City-like ‘Towne fs crowded on the Sea- bankes, and wharfed out with great Industry and cost, the buildings beautifull and large, some fulrluy set forth with Brick, Tile, Stone, and State, ahd orderly placed with comly streets whose © continual! inlargement presages some sumptuonsClty, . . . Good store of Shipping fs here yearly built, and some very faire ones; this town fs the very Mart of the Land.” The eighth chapter according to the pros- Fouts but the ninth in the book, is by the Rev. Edward Everett Tale on * Boston In Philip's, War? Charles Denne’s article on “The Struggle to “Maintain the Charter of King Churits the First, and Its {nal Loss ti 103," fs prefaced with a fae siinile re production of the old Charter, The text five chapters contaln the histories of Charlestown, Roxbury, Dorchester, Brighton, Chelsea, Winthrop, and Revere, written by Henry Jierbert. Edes, F, oS. Drake, S. °F. Bare 1. Drake, and’ Mellen Chamberlain, row! Tes] ively. The editor, Mr. Winsor, writes on “The Literature of | tho Colonint Period." Previous to that tlme there hind been Issued gxbout 800 separate publiea- stlons, of which only one *can be held to be a memorable nddition to the world’s store of Mterature.? “That was an edition of * Bie yian’s Pilgrim’s'Progress”? printed, in 1681, The first printer died when he B his tombstone was iuseribed “5! cash.” Slo probably: sturved to death, “The Bay Psalm Book,” the first Anglo- American book, Mr. Winsor has little to say in praise, MAS 1 Sheeler of English versv it Is hardly possible to fnagine anythin: much worse than this version, Grammar is tortured; the ear {s filled with djssonance; the sense confused; and the printer kept company with the authors fn scattering his polats with utter disregard of proprivty.” t was frequently revised, and tho third ver- sion was In tse In Boston us lute as 177, Goy, Winthrop's journal is. pertiaps the best of the few publicitlons of this period, 'The next chapter, the seventeenth, does not appenr in the prospectus ot nll, and appears tu have been interpolated, It is by the Hon, dy Hammond ‘Trambull on “The Lndian Tongue mul Its Literature a9 Fashioned by Eliot and Others,” and would seem to be- after Dr. Els artlele, Mr, ders article on “Life in Boston Durlug the Colonial Period” we have one of the most interesting In the entire book, Of the old-fashloned four-poster bed he saya: © Woll-to-do persons in Boston helt fust to the traditional canopy-bed, which In- deed formed a tent Ja whleh they could shel- ter themselves against the inclemency within the house,” ‘Tl They had sai curlous customs In those days, Josselyn wrote that, “Ln 1037 thore were not many houses in tke Town of Boston, anongst which were two houses of entertalnment called ordinaries, into whileh if wstranger went he was prese! nly followed by une appointed to that oflee, who would thrust himself into hts company walavited 3 andif he ealled for mora drink thin the offeer thought In his Judgment he could berly bear away, he would presently coun- termabd tt, and appelut. the preportion, be- yond which he could not get one drop? In 1H a penalty was finposed for rude singing jn taverns; {1683 the public taking of to- bacco was prohibited, but in 1037 all former Jaws aginst tobaceo were repealed. Strangely enough, thora was but ono law- yer hn colonial Boston, and he hada bard = i ume of it. rugistrates eld It ubjection- able that lawyers should direct men fn thelr enuses, Leehford stood itfor three years, “Tam kept’? ho write rament wndall place of prefers ment in the Conmmonwealth, and forced to get ny Jing by writhig petty things which sesree fintl me bread; and therefore sometiines £ Jook to planting of corn, but have not yet here an house of ny awn to put my head in, or vany stock golng.” | Unhappy, indeed, was tha lawyer's lot, Thw yemuinias apters are: “The ‘Lopogri- phy and Landmarks of the Colonial Porlad, with dn Account of the Quter Aspect of tho ‘YoWn, Lts Changes by Contlagratlon, ete,” by cdwin &. Bynner, and fhe Chlef Fainilles of the Colonint Period," by ini 1, Whitore, From the latter writer wo learn that forty fauilles were entitied ta prevo- dence and held the Mares shure of the pub- He honors prior ta A, D. 1700, fall Index pampletes tho first voluine of this great work, \ ‘The'next volume will treat of the “Pro. yineil Perlod,” and among the names of new contributors are Willian’ F. Poole, of Chleago, who will write on “Tho Witeheratt Delusion; tho Rey, Alexander McKenzie, George M. ‘Towle, Julin Ward Howe, an Delano A. Goddard, editor of the Hoston aldvertiser, ‘Tho third volume wilt deal with the “ Rovalutionary Period,” and among its new. contributors will be: Charles Franels Adams, Sr, E.G, Porter, Admiral Preble, U.S, No Honey ©. Ladue, J. AL Bue bee, Gi niirey,d. Freeman Clarke, Musars, ‘Larbox, King, Dorchester, Phillips Brooks, Peabody, Reed, and Father Byrne, on the churches, and C, A. Cummings. ‘The fourth and Jast volume will be, tow certain oxtent, a general summing up, tt will treat of the Tost hundred years and also of Special Tow fes, auch as Education, Libraries, Women, Churitles, Boston | gant Beloneey Doctors, Bench and Bar, Architecture, Fino Arts, Musie, Tho Bie, ete, Along the contrib- utors to this volume who have not written for clther of the others will be; J, P, Quitier, und then treated i Mr. Upton througi: each of th E. Stanwood, C.D. Wright, Hi. A. Tl, BE. Atkinson, Kidder and Peabody, QO. Tomer, Jr, 0. 1. Ditloway, B.D. Cheney, Gov. Long, Prof. Mitchell, Prof. Levering, Ottver Wen- detl Holt A. Green, a. T, Morse, C. A (aminings, wu. S. Dwleht, W. IL. Clapp, George Mpley, Jolin Noble, and LH. M, Dex- We have given so much space to this book not only on necount of Its Interesting nature, the magnitude of {ts reope, and the leading men dn tlitterent departments who fave con- tributed their best work to its pages, but berause it fs a work of National as well as of local interest. ‘There are many disagreeable features about Boston, She Is justly entitled to many of the hits and sheers so freely launched at hor conceits, mannerisms, and alfeetationss yet, after all, she fs the city of all others to whieh wo point with pride when taunted with our auth among nations. Her roll of ius. rious eltizens isa grand one, The State of which she fs the ehlef member is o proud afd worthy representative of 9 great, patriotic, intetllgent and oioaberatis come monwealth. ‘The tistory of Boston fs really the history of the early’ duys of the Nation. Ther is no need of comment on the literary wneritaof this book. ‘The autograph signa: tures to each article area new nnd com- mendable fenture. The volume his bee ably edited, broadly piasinedi handsomety Isstied. It might have been more fully lng trated—a defect whieh will be remedied in the other volumes, When completed It will fudeed form a monument “more lasting thin brass” of the city whose 250th birthday 1s colebrated by Its publication, cd ubllshed in Buston by J, R. Osgood & ‘0. WOMAN IN MUSIC. Mr. George P. Upton’s theme {5 a novel one, In Stself itis notof great fiuportance. Jsut so pleasantly and brightly has it been that it successfully assumes it. Writing on n subject with which he is. thor- oughly familar, his essay runs- along smootlily and gracefutly, and cannot fall to affurd entertainment and pleasure to any reader, Jt is a rather curious fact that woman, with all her emotional nature, with her keen artistic perceptions, her quick re- sponsiveness to impressions, the, high rank she hag taken In romance, Imagination, and portic feeling, should be utterly unable to herself express those qualities In. created form; white man, with his rougher, coarser nature, Js able to ereate and express the noblest feelings, which are often shuniated and fictitious, As a composer woman has never yet created anything ot first-class merit. As an interpreter she ranks with the first.” Assuming it, then, as a fact, that woman jas never yet created anythlig in musty of an enduring value, Mr. Upton considers the two propositions: first, her Influence in en- couraging tho great composers to Jabor, and Inspiring them In the preduction of their finest works; and second, the relations of woman to the performance of youn! and In- strumental musle.. Under the tirst branch of the general subject the author says; "The atlachments of love, the bunds of friendshlp, the endearments of home, and the {nflrences of society, have played nn finportant part in shaping the careers of the great composers, and in glving colur, form, and direction to thelr music. In All these phases of life, Genlus has more than once sat at tho feet of Beauty and exeented her behests; and more than one iinmortal work of music may be traced to the cal, patient, steadfast love of woman inthe quiet “duties of home-life.” ‘This is all undoubtedly true,—and as true of other professions a3 it is of that of muste. The artist paints under the inspiration of love; a bright and happy home ts an assistant, !f not n necessity, for the full de- velopment of thought; -freedom from the petty annoyances of the household an essen- ual requisit for the performance of the best brain-work. All these requisits 2 good wife, nfaithtul, loving sister, ors devoted mother supplies naturally, Dy her performance of these duties slie conveys no inspiration, Her Influence in this respect is purely negative. ‘The positive, active Influence that buggests themes, Inspires welody, breeds thought, prompts composition, teaches harmony, inust be shown to exist to entitle her to the eredit of genulne Inspiration. ‘That a wom- ‘ots existence had aught to do directly and absolutely with “the originullug of the thoughts’ expressed. by musle—ot her thus “tepiring the production of the best work" —in the case of the composers elted in Mr. Upton’s churming little work, will still and probably. always be au open a question, least ‘one Juraely of Inference, and in fact in many instauees, the ce” 15 shown to have been positive and direct, bu’ fnmany others it Is purely conjectural; possible and therefore probab: Encouragement and inspiration are not ale ways co-equal. Musle fs detined to ba © the Interpreter and the hunguage of the emotions.” ‘That seems atrite narrow. ‘True it is that inusle fy an exponent of -feeling, aud ineasnres Its value, first, by the greatness or paucity of thought back of the outward expression aud then by: the quality and churacter of the tnterpreia- ton, ‘This detinition dues not seem to us sulllclontly comprehensive to allow for the undoubted fact that emotional woman ts un- nble to give expression to her own Intense feelings through the medium of music as well as imun. Mr. Upton himself adults this further on without enlarging hls definition, Masie My largely mechan Jt fs the art of combining nx arcanlnis sounds ngrece ably, - it is governed by rules. It is in one sense an Jutricate mathematical problem, And woman's weakness In this departinent seems to us duo alinost entirely to her inability to oxpress emotion niithe- matically, ‘That. Is to say, to | com: Dine deep feeling In rigid, ilxed, formal modes of expression, She. can express deep, enrnest feeling. She can also acquire great skill as a matnematiciin, uit her mind fs not so constituted that she ern cou bine and fuse her feeling, retaining [ts strong character within any narrowed conipass, (As Mr. Upton lilmself states it: ‘Po treat emotions us if they were tnthematies, to bind and measure and limit them within the rigld Jaws of baiHOny: and counterpoint, and toexpress them with arbitrary shxns, ty cold-blooded operation possible only to the sterner and more obdurate nature of man.” Woman has the capacity, but not the, de. veloped ability, ‘The statement that “'Phe turgu majority of women drop their musts Jong before the hair frows gray, or At the first touch of sorrow,” linus mnny exceptlons even in our own limited experience. Mr, Upton conelitdes his first part with an ex pression of the beifef that, for rensous alven, woman never will oriziiate musie dn tts fille est and grandest, hannonie ss She will always be the recipient and inti ‘| reter, but there ‘Is little hope she will be the ere ator’ Ho fsa bold man who thus detivs the sux! And the reat of propheey is a dllil- cult one to invade sticeessfully, In Part LL. the author gives short, terse sketches of the soclal lives of elyht. of the prinelpal taut ers, —Bueli, Haydn, Mozart, Yeetioven, ehubert, Selman Men- delssohn, and Choply,—and seeks toshow the fnfluence of woman upon thelr musicil pro- ductivity, Itwould bo pleasant to follow exe sketches, 80 seholurty, aud yet so entertalaing, in the Tuode of trentment, Te shows, clearly, that wonnn’s Influences’ had a great deal to do with many of the compositions of these distinguished men, and also, by deduction, that they were able co compose withoilpaatiy such Iidluence, Jaydn produced over & Inatrumental ipositions, and very few of them are quoted as Insplred by the envour- agement of any woman, Bach wrote cone stantly during his thirtean yeurs of wnarried life with his ies, wite, Sha wns a sensible, practical, Indastrious woman, but her ine fluence on Is work must have been entirely of the negutive kbd, Beethoven was always In love, and the Influence of woman © helpedt to prepare the way” for his inost: enduring inajestls works. Brau von Breuniag or a directed his genivs and kept him at work, flor iniluence was positive atut dlr His loves: were alinost “too nue merous to mention "Jeannette d? Mourath, the coquet, and Barbara Koch the “beay of Bonn"; Baroness, Dorothea von Ertmunt is sud to have “nspired his wonderful Sonata, op. WL" Magdelona Willian, the shy refused hi, becanss be wits 80 ugly and half cracked,” bat it ts not quite clear fy what manner she inilucnead hts compositions, ‘Chen beautitul Marle Kos- chak, whom ho truly loved, and Betthia von Arnim, who “brought Govthe wd Beethoven fogethor”—of her ho says in a letter: © Your approval is denrec to ine than wll else in the world? ‘Then enme the Countess Guibetin Guiecardi, the * Luaiortal’ Beloved,” hig favorit. mipil, an exeellent musielan and the insplrer of the © sharp minor sonata Known xs the “Moonlight.” “It is not unfair to assuine that all he wrote durlug its period was made brighter, purer, aud more ialestic by her memory.” Tt is Pleagayt ta ver over thiy greye tone = 9 master, whose Ife, ike his music, was full of tenderness, love, and poetry” * The iniitenca of women on’ Haydn ts rather acurlous example of the text. Iie wife waa a termagant, pride * with ndeclited. penchant for en talning priests and monks.” While the jolly priests were having a good time down-stalra laydn was writing anthems, motets, masses, and other forins of sacred music up-stalrsl Ths mistress was of no assistance morally of niusically, Other Jadtes had more influence over hit, although 1 is perhaps a question whether a" dedication tnplicd the aawnrd tere of the * inspiration”? that produced dedicated, It probably meant rote iN aa elghteenth century than ft docs In the nine: teenth. Mozart was grently Influenced by dls wife Constanes and her’ sister Aloysia. All ils event works were written after mare rlage, and ft was due to hits wife, not only that he produced so much, but that his must preserved ail its Joyousness, sweetness, an reshiess.” Schubert never loved, " but hag sting of it with purest Meal feeling, Thowgh is life was clouded with sadness, no hag piven to tha world immortal pletures nN tones of tho tenderest,. lovelies! and truest aspirations. of ie heart” Bebiteiain was indebted for Inspiration ta his w felssohin chiefly to his mi ant sh; pin tt fs sald thats hore Wits scare Hf event In his life, scarcely x pie » Of fis passion or his temperament, hardly n phrase of hts music, that 1s not re lated to wotnan,” E The last part ot the Httle volume, on woman is an interpreter of music, forms an Interesting chapter. Of woman in’ this line he snys: ° Mon maybe the intellect of musies she is its heart antsoul. What slo has nod done wih imuste matters little compared with the great glory and .benuty she has eiven to music, By the side of the great composers, In equal glory and faine, should he placed such women as Constance Weber, Fanny Menilelssolin, Wenrletta Voigt, Clara Sclumann, Pasta, Maltbran, Grisi, arid others, who have elevated music to greater. hights: by inspiring Ity ereation and giving tt to the World through the medium of the voico.”? Mr, Upton’s work fins been so admirably done that we really wish thers was more of it. His style $s graceful and attractive. He has clearly shown that some women Jutve had great influence over some com- posers, ‘Tho roll of grent artists is a lon one, Stradella, Scartatt!, Pergolesi, Hantle Auber, Spontini, Spolir, Meyerbeer, Dont= zetth, and Verd] are among Its most honored. nan Was Gluck’s aplonetie dramatic music; was Rossini’s brilliant fluency and rubini's sublime church musics wore Tellin’s romantic strains attributable to woman's Influence? We should ilke to see amore extented work on the same plan as this essay—as the writer lins chosen to call it—by the same writer. It might not In ita evelopment enlarge the sphere of woman's positive Iniluence by revealing proofs of her past work, but It would present charming and readable studles of the social side of the lives of men, eminent ina Freat profession, whose works have given pleasure, comfort, and rest to millions. ‘The appendix Is a cap Ital feature of this work, The hellotypes are excellent, but we do not understand why Ghouls should have been omitted from the series, Published by J. It, Osgood & Co., Boston. REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNALIST. For some tline past, Mr. Charles T. Cong: don—a veteran in the ranks of journalism— has been publishing a series of articles In the New York Tribune under the above caption. ‘The serles having been completed, the arti- eles have: been collected, revised, and ree touched, and are now published in book form. Mr. Congdon Is at present writing a second series entitled ‘Recollections of & Twader.”” The work before us is chatty and Kossippy, rambling from one subject to an- other, giving glimpses of the many distin= guished men he has met, but with very few of whom he appears to have had’ more than ®& mere acqualntance. Many of tho anee= dotes and storles cited are given on hearsay, and the book fs, perhaps not unnaturally, of asomewhut superficial character, But’ it is brightly and cheerlly written, full of interesting stories well told, deals with an important perlod of time In our general Wistory, and runs along in an easy, pleasant’ manner that. Is really refreshing. It hears well tho, character the, author has himself given ft when he calls it the “Chat of a talkative old gon-. ‘ tleman, sitthig in slippered ease by the firo~ ny Follglous bigot and « side, and insisting upon having rather’ more’ than his share of the conversation.” There are always many grains of wisdom scattoted through such monologs, if one will only give the time and patience necessary to sift them out from thelr entourage, Mr. Cong don Js first and always a journalist, who haa been accustomed to discuss on short notico na kuleldoscople variety of topics. Ho has been constantly occupied In watehing publics affairs and public men without tho leisure necessury for any profound study of elther. ‘That he uscd his powers and opportunities to good purpose fs evidenced in the volume before us. ‘Tint he hascontributed anything new to the history of the Inst half-century he hing nelther attempted nor attained, . ‘The style of the book is entertaluing, and it should afford pleasure to the genoral reader. Mr. Congdon must have beon, whon young, of rather dwarfish proportions, Ile avted- as, carrier for his father's paper, in the old whal- ing town of New Bedford, dellverlng some 160 copies ench morning, As he wrote versos and read books of some depth he could not have been very young, Yet he says, that he was “about two feet high and ofa timid dathesis,” He has many humorous: stories, of ils nantieal fellow-cltizens, ‘he colored _ people bought, manned, and cqutpped awhals ng oriz, the “Rising States,” fore It left on its voyage fts dusky erew held a prayer meoting, at Which the following prayer was! offered? “O Lord, look down upon dis brig, de Ristig States, a-fitted ont by the enter- rise of Our culjud brederen. Par-ticulatly, Uiord, we prayde te lovk down upon de second mate,—htin as fs seated next to us, Lord, inde cheek ‘shirt and de duck pantae loons, Party feeling formerly ran pretty high in the quiet town, ‘The ‘author's grandfather was nt stanch Federalist, and saw his ‘party grow smull and the other larger with fealings of tndisguised wrath “One day, at a town tneeting, he was taunted with the growth in nimberof his mtturnl enemles something after this fashion: ‘Well, Capt, C,, thore was ra tiine when there werd only two or three Demoerats In towaz but thero 1s a plenty of tem here now.’ My revered ancestor. was equal to the oveasion. Yer,’ he replled, ‘und there was a ting when there was only one devil in the internal regions; but thera isa plenty of them there now,'” ‘This was tigonl speelmen of a neat retort, if not of the retort courteous, Mr, Congdon Is severe on the yonorable John Quiney Adams, “Hie was fortunate nelthor In miaking friends nor in keeping them. He could not be winnlig Jn bis ways. He woul car disagreeable thins in come pany Tle did not relish contradiction, and i he wast good hater. But what could be ux- yected of uw man who used tocuta hole ix Ue Tee that he might take his morning bath inthe gelid: waters of the Potomac?” Hae telly u xood story of a ninister In the town, A drunken blacksmith named George was found by the clerical gentiowan sitting on the slaps of the church, aud very unwell from the effects of imprudent potations, “Well, George, drunk again, ol?" suid the reverend min “No, purson,? answored Gearge, “Lain'tdrunk, ‘The fact is (le) that T'was tnking (ile) of fining your chureh; and the iors (iio) think of ft, the . sicker I grow!” Of Mr, Bancroft ab an orator he says: "Mr. Bancroft | was nnother Massuchusetts Demucrat of the doctrinaire school. Ue madon great deal of money fn tha Hoston Custoin-House,—for an ollies like his meant a fortune in those days, 1 do not thin! athe much cared to nuke stump specehes, but he had no cholco, Fyery Democratic officeholdor who coul apenk, and would not speak, was made to speak, «0204 Mr, Bancroft brought the rhotorls of-his history to the platform. He was ornate, gikied, aid occasionally famiog. Whatever he might be discuasing and peo~ ply did not discuss much save Sub-Treasury hi those thies,—he selaom delgued to dee scent from bis stilts, Io hada favorit way of beginning these election harangues. [Ho would luok with an expression of astonishe ment at the audience and exclaim, with the gesture of Humlet at the dret sight of the ghost, ‘This vast assemblage might well ap- pall mol? ‘This hnpreased those -who had never heard {t more than ¢wiee before, and £6 hat the further effect of giving the audl- ences iforesitld 8 good concelt of ‘its own proportions.” Str, Hancroft fs still ullye and nay bu loterested in thls pen portrait, Edward Everett he says: “A Professor of Greek, a clurgyinan, both Representative and Senator in Congress, a Governor, au Am! satlor, a college President, 8 Secretary, of State, an adinirable lecturer, « miscellancdus andelover writer for tho North american Feview as well as for Bowner’a Ledger, ly