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PAms, March 23, Another speoch, whic! nd Important step in U which ho lins ot latw undertaken, al efoends hinself once * geenlt influence,” S 8peech was made on Sunday bef ral assembly of the Commurelal Union ) {ha Tracaléro Palnes, and creafed o pro- H nd sensation, “But the reuctlonfsts linve ’ ut made up thelr minds to let (umbotta othing hos come np in connection he Greelan mntter and G e now umm{ ulhlmnsl:ue:l [l ned tholr uttentlon In (‘:P)‘fr directlons, Gambettn distinctlwstated M8 speech on Sunday that he had entored mpalgn In favor of government by o:l;}]«‘b :i}d uu'xtl hel shcmhl ngvx:r retlfie ns i3 health nnd strength d out. Ha tdiculed the id ght of dictatorsl Gambetta has mode e personnl cams hipor o coup d'6tat coul: pe to thie people, wishing.to ourse triimph by mll&la‘l, sclentific, ans, destring to owe noghmg to 0 other thun the persuasion of Lhove time beforo me, 1 possess :‘lllm'ghme. 1 have, nBovi:t all e80! Speaks with canflllnnce,pnbxrglg :er?l'x‘gg’al \v|l,l|}“s use_he feols his Tecognizes the weakness of his argy, this, an Iuexllx, LITERATURE---SCIENCE, History of Modern Europe—An Unsatisfactory Treatise by Mr, Fyfle, Bhadows of Bhasta—The Poet Joaguin Miller on tho Indian Ques- tion, Medical: Works—Gleanings in the ; Fiold of Art—Fiiria- tion Camp. A Magazines — Books Received — Literary and Scie ntific Notes, LITERATURE. IISTORY OTF MODERN EUROPE. An English criticism of My, Fyilo's first vol- umo likens 1t to **a handsoma suite of rooms in which the productions of the great histor- fenl factories aro exhibited to the beat nd- vaniage,” 'To o certaln extent this Is nof an unwarranted comment. The work s an Ingtoriedl compliation rather than history proper, and the author mnkes the mistake of not always acknowledging his-authorities, In his opinfons Mr. Fyffe ls deeldedly orig- fnnl, and at no pains to conceal his Liberal sentlments. Allison’s history of -the same perfod was marred by Its author’s avowed Torylsm. It was much more minute and de- tailed than this one, however. e required ten volumes to cover tho twenty-five yenrs which JMr. Fyffe nnnlyzes in one, Butthe latter’s Liberalism' is:ns mnrked ns the other’s Torylsm, and, whilo the charge of innccuracy . may ‘nol, perhnps, be ns fairly Inld at his dvor, his_tmpgriiality mny be equally questioned. There is another renson why Fiffo's volume falls short-of belng the best history of tha Hevolutionary cvoch yet written, 1t s published too soon, Importnnt works dealing with this thue (1702-1814) are announced as.in preparation or hays been but: recently putlished, Met- ternlel’s Memoirs, Talleyrand’s Memolrs, Mmie, do Stilel’s Memolrs, Mie. doRémusat’s Mentofrs, and slmilar works, nre too impor- tant in their bem-h:& -upon tho perlod dis- cussed to be_overtod®ed by tho faithful his- torian, Ir. Fyfe also falls to recognize ono striking fact in Napolcon’s eareer, and that [s this: the distinetion between the soldier and and tho civil ruler. As soldler, ho was ono of tho greatest of mitltnry goniuses, earrled all Dbefore him, and in 1808 waa practically Military Dictator of Europe, Yet within elght years Franco had galned nothing by his conquests except an inmenso debt and the Joss of n million ‘lives. On the other hand, as s clvil ruler, nlthough shrowd and dlptomatic, he schemed and planned solely fromt selfish motives, Yet his elvil polity remnalns to-tay substantially as he left At *“The administration of tha lnws, of tho finances, of government arc to-any the samo as thoy were In 1804,” snys Hillebrand, and tho Cotde Napoleon alone Is an imperishable. . monumont of his civil ndministration, 5 'The history of the years embraced In this first voluino Is little clse than a history of Napoleon, taking ns it does the era from the outbrenk of the Revolutionary war In 1702 to tho nccesslon of Louls XVIIL The Emper- or's. trenchieries—of which the so-called Treaty of Lunéville i3 a conspicuons exnmple—senrcely recelva the condem- nutiop thoy ' deserve, Corruption and ~ bribery * - were. potent influences in tho Court of tha First Consul. " After tho treaty, for instance, * Talloyrand and his con- fidant’ Matthlen. hed. no ocenslon to nsk-for Dbribes, pr to manouvre: for - tha position of arbitors . in . Germany, . 'Thoey . ere “over- whelined with -importunities.” Solemn di- plomatists'of ‘tho old school tolled up four lights of stalrs to the ladgings of . the needy Secretary, or_danced attendancant the par- tles. of .the witty Miniater. “They hugged Talleyrand’s poodle; they played blind-man’s buif, and betnbored enchother with handker- chiefs to please his little nigee, ‘Fhio shrewder of them fortitied his attention with solid bar- s, mid mada it thelr principal earo not to 0 outbidden at the anction,” * ‘This sketeh of life in politieal aris nt this time suggests tho palnting of the * Education of n Prince,” where gray-haired .statesmen nro on thelr knges amusing the comineg soverefe, Oue singlo’ polnt Wil show how Mr. Fyfla might havealtored soma parts of his work hud he awalted “the complotion of Mottor- nich’s Memolrs or consulted them morecare- fully. Mr. Fyffa speuks of the army concen- trated at Boulogne (1803—1805) ns’ destined forn descent on England, 1losays (nage 2y5): “Events hnd frustrated Napoleon's Plnn for nn attack upon Great Britaln, ‘This attack,'which In 17997 had been but lightly threatened, had, upon tho renewal of war” with England {n 150:, beenma the abjeet of Napoleon’s most serlous efforts. An army was concontrated at Boulogne sullicient to ‘everwhelm :tho military forces of England, If once It could reach ~the opposit” shore. Napoloon's thoughts wero contered on n . plan for omnmlnf: the . naval superiority in the Channel, ifonly for the fow honrs whiceh it would tnko 1o transport tho army {rom Loulogne to the Engllsh const,” ete,, ote, Now we turt to Metternlch’s Momolrs, Vol 1. 48, and wo find this paragraphs 2 Th onio of my longer coiversations with Napoleon . , . ‘tha ‘conversation turned upan tho greatmulltary pmfixrnumu which he had® mnde in the yenrs 1803-1805 nt Bou- logne, 1frankly confessed to hiin that even at that timo L eould not regard theseotlenslve measures a8 dirceted ngalnst England,” “You were very right,’ “replied the Em- peror siniling; * never would. I have beon such a fool as to wmuke n descent upon Ene- gland, unless fndeed n revolution had taken glncu within that country, ‘The army nssom- led nt Boulogne was alwaps in nrray oeainst Aystrin, I could not ‘placo it any- whore alsg without glving offense, and-buing obliged 1o forin It somowhere, I did so n Boulogne, where I could whilst collecting it alsoisquict England,” 3 . Mr, Fyffennkes somecurlous orrors, Thus on page 807, at o date ' a fuw wenks” after the ** third Week of danuary, 1809, hospenis of Motternich ns * notw Austrisn Ambassa- dor at Parls.” At this thne, and, in faot, until tho following. November, Mattornlch was the Avatrian Minister of Foralgn Af- falrs#and dld wot becoms Ambassador to Taris until 1810, e ulso%wnkn of Metter- nlch ns reporting * that Napoleon was Ins tendIng to divide Turkey ng soon s he had conquered Spain,” Wa find no confirmatory avidence of this In Mettornlel’s Memolrs, Ir, Fyflo dates this yeport " from tho Aus- trian Ambassador early in 1800, DurlmSSep- teinber, 1810, dMetternleh raported that the Ewperor had snid, * he would not put up with a llussinn protectornta over Servin,” nid that I8 all he does * roport” on thg sublect. In F{flo. poge 495, 1o speaks of Metternichins “Inventingastrangodiplomatic form in which Austrin was still deseribud i o noutral, nlthough she touk part In tho war," and ho refers to Y Metternleh, Mémotres, f.. 110.” ‘T'his s a reference probably to the French cdltion, for in the Engllsh edition the refuronce is a onrlnflon‘ of aball at Cambu- cdrds, ahd on Lose 491, Fyffo rofers to Mot- ternleh, L, 150, "In proof of the theory that Napoleon undurestimuted the Austrinn forco, whlle the reference contalus only this sen- tence that could bo'seconstrued: * Napoleon dld not think a material strengthening of hly forces necessary.'” 3 . Mr. ¥yfle's objoct in this work is to show how tho States of Europs have gained thelr, present form and churacter, ‘This ho pro- poses to do In three vojuines, 1'he first opens with the Kevolutlonary War In 1702, and ends In I8t4; the second volume wlill bring the readur dowy to the {nnr 1848, and the third clown 1o the presont time, He at loast tells his story cleatly and m‘unaqlly. 03 would bg wxpeeted from so eultvated and seholarly o mun, Hu mnkes history ensy rending, and 80 far wiltes to kool purpose,” Yep his work will hardly satisfy any class of listorical students, not only because it contalus no now lixht and is professedly liitlo else than & skillful cowpllation, but on account ot the writer's opinlons”as to a period which is still_a subfect of - constant coulruvamy; Readers of Carlyle's * French Revolutlon,’ orybhose who. recall the facts of* the bjoody Ra’m of ‘Terror, of. the murders, assasina- tlons, and outragus perpetrated In the name oceurred ntsen which. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1881—SIXTEEN PAGES. of liberty and narrated by many writers, wilt hardly be prepared to nccept a8 o safe gulde A author who ' uses Innguage ke this,—referring to the so-called Itepublican -Government of 1703: *'Such n system .was perhaps inherantly not mnoro unjust than the normal order of socloly, In which a few enjoy every earthly good, while the many have little wore than suflices for thelr anlmal needs: nor was Jife sacrifleed moro freely to a po- litlen! ideal than at a Inter period it has hean ancrificed to dangerous and unwholesome Ine dustries which enrieh tha capltalist.”” Such Innguuge would not sound out of place eom- Ing from Lind and addressed to George Drand in Mr, Biack's novel of " Sunrise,” but it would hardly he oxpected from an impartinl historian.” Mr, Fyfle gives an ne- count of the baltle of Marengo nnd nseribes, perhinps Justly, the eredit for that victory to jen, Desalx, " But he "weakens hls version by lhnmedintely nasserting that' every docunient - containing the real account of tho baitle was at oncu Jlestroyed | a8 Mr. tk'ma been on a Dantesque teip to the Infernd for mnterinls? Again he spoaka of nn ** nudacious stratagem of Murat’s ' at the timo of the French entry into Vienna, (Nov. 13, 1805,) but.cxasperatingly omits to fell what the ‘“stratagem” was, On the next pnge ho spenks of the Russinng * rotort~ ing " upou Murat the * stratagen - ho had inaugurated, but wa ara stlil left in lgnor- ancons lo the nature of this so successtul plece of strategy, ‘Tlie voltume i admirably printed In large, clear {ype and mneatly bound, - It contalng twvo maps, on nejther of which, howover, can the progress of Napoleon’s nrinles be traced, Ile speaks of the French boundary Iino as extoniling to n wlnc “npposit M- tun " but omits to put Mantua down atall, 1€ by *modern Luropo” continentul Europy Is nieant, tiie events of tho epoch deseribed are fairly covered, but the reader will have to look elsewhere for n history of (reat Britain during the perfod between 1702 and 1814, exeept 80 furas England participated in events neross the Channcl, Perhaps this p:\rngmyh from the prefaco may explain some of the restrictions lmposed by the writor upon himself in writing this history: “1lnve andeavored to tell nslmple story, belisving that o nnrrative in whicl fnets nra chosen for thelr slgnificance, and oxhibited 1n thelr real connectlon, niny be made to con- vay as trus an hinvression a3 a fuller history in‘which the writer is not forced by the nec- asity of concentration to exerclso the samo rigor towards himself apd his materinis.” C&‘uhnshed in New York by Ienry Holt & . SITADOWS OF SITASTA. Cincinnatus 11eine Milier, better known as “ Jonquin * Millor, the poet of the Slerras, hns contributed his share to the fast-Increns- ing Uteraturo on the Indinn question. First of recent writers, Col, Manypenny opened tha ball with bis *Indinn Wards.” Mrs, Ilelen ITunt Jnckson followed with a * Cent- ury of Dishonor,” and,. within o fortnight, the “Son of an Indlan Chict,” born possibly under the shadow of Bunier il Monu- ment, has published his story under the title, * Ploughed Under.” Gen. IToward has avolume nearly ready on the “ Nez I'ercos War,” and. My, Miller hus just completed his “Shadows of Shasta.” ‘I'he warm heart of the Oregon bard. has heen stirred to the depths by facts that have come within s own observation, and he hns written a- book which stands on n- difterent footlng from some others of recent lssue, IIu has written n story .of .thrilllng interest, all' the. more exciting - from this declaration s to his narrative and lts loro: “Ilknew this ‘Indian boy and his mother well, and kuow every foat of the ground L Intend to go over, i avery fact. I, proposs to narrate. And if you ave. not prepured to retelve this as truth, I prefer you to close this page right here.” That Is eniphatic and to the point. .'The facts ho knuws furnish a talo of outrage and of Injustice which will be | rend with Interest and with - Indignation.” 1t Is ndmirably told, In strong, vowerful Anglo- Saxon, with poetle ferver and vivid deserip- tive power. The crlmes and’ wickedness of Indinn ngents of old have, been often set be- fore the publle, . but never, perhapa us forel- bly and as directly; for ‘the ‘desvotic rnlo of the Indian guardinn, aud his abuse of his au- thority to serve his own ends ‘nnd Inereaso his nucunlnri' resources, 18 the founda. tlon upon which **Shadows: of tha Shosta !, Ia-budlt, .- So mueh -for+ Mr. -Miller's story and his facts.. Whef " ho “theorizes or moralizes, howover, he “falls Into- the same pitfall of exaggeration . In which so many other writers on the same subject lave Jofs their bones. ‘Thus hosays of what ho:is pleased (o “call the * real® Indian—tha In- dian “of the mountnins” of whom Capt. Jack and Chief Joseph ara cited as samples: " 8 . . . nota, beggar,not n lulur’ but the hrightest, bravest, tritest nuin alive, Who does he: expect to.belleve that? ‘The fumily of Gen, Canby? ''he daughter of Ralph Meeker; the friends of the haroes who wers massnered with Custer? Tho thon sands of ploncer ael{.lem whose: homs tho bullet. of the suenki snvage in snfe nu- bush has rendored desolnte? 'Chere aro two sldes to this questlon ns to most otliers. Op- pression and cruelty aro not to be condoned or exeused, but. the Indinn cannot stand in the way of ndvaueing civilizatlon. The “real " Indian is -ut heart the sumu |('H|u¥ that -~ he n Teginin in 162 or In c100: that le “wns at Holyoke and Wethersflold; nt Laka Georgo and ut Fort Dearborn,—n stentthy, treacherous, blnodthirsty fog, de- termingd to oppose the progress of the white mun by assasiintion and tha toreh, To enll him the *brightest, bravest, truest man aliva” {3 ridiculous; Just as ridleulous s nll legitimate attompts {0 fmurove his candition in nceordance with progressive civillzution aro mlsuwurth[)' and commendable, ‘Then, ngiin, Mr, Milier says: ‘“The only really raliglous, unguestioning, and absolutely deo- vout Christians 1 ever motin Americr are the Indinus, I know of no other peoplo so falthful and so blindly true to their belfef, outside of tho peasaniry of Italy.” Ilere agnin Mr, Mlllurswcs tao far, Suroly the re- Iigious fervor and zenl of the colored rce lins been 100 often recognized to bu entirely over- looked by him. ‘I'here is no neod of quoting othor inatances of unfnir statementa which ccrmllnly do not help thoe causo the writey ad- Yvocntes, 1t s somowhnt diffienlt Lo exactly elnss this little volne. 1t Is not o novel, for Mr, Miller vouches for the truth of evary fact, und {6 theroforo lacks the essential clemont of fletlon {at it Is somothing more than more navrative, nnd hag teo many romantic fentures to bo entitled histery. John Logan, tho horo, Is the son *‘of "an ofllcer mady famous In the, war nnnals of the world " and of an Indian’ woman; Carrle and Stumps aro half-breed children brought up in a mining camp, the girl In time developing n rare beauty, Old Forty-nine I8 o véteran miner fond of ‘deop votntlons but kind-henrt- od, and whio enres for the two waifa in his own eabin under the shadow of Shasta, * tho monnreh of tha Siarrns,” The 1ndian Agent was by luw constitnted a man-hunter, with power to appoint deputies to bring In wil In- diuns. o 0 Reservation, Dosson . and Emens ave tho deputles, the bad en and \lesperndoes, whoso offorts to ' eaptura and {ake Vi tlon to mossess cabln. - and land in “Camp " nnd to obtain tha girl for themselves, constle tuta the main fentures of this story, The romance Is found in the luve of Carrle for JLogun, hor dovotion to him aud rayery in Iis defonse. Of these elements Mr, Mlller has made the best possible wse, There Is no nead to tell his renders of his wonderful sl in colurln(. of the brlulmmlraf his pen plctures, Aud he has writtan this tale with tho fira of Indignntion flercely burning with- In bl *and finparting to his poges o glow and o warmth not often found In narrutives of facts ke thls, 1lis fist paragrapl fur- pishes tho koy-noto for all thut follows: * Why this book ¥ Beeausa Inst year, In tho heart'of the Slerras, Lsaw women und chil- dron ehalied toguther and miarched down Logan hlm from thelr nol, healthy . homes to degrudntion and death on . tho Reser- vatlon, - At the slde of ~ this long chulned ling, urged on and kept in order by Lnyonets, 1ode nm,)('}:unc offlcor, splendid in old nnd\)ma:. and newly burnished, from hat now fuimous charity-ichool on the Iud- son, ‘Thoso women and ohildren wers gullty of no crlme; they wers not even accused of Wrong. But tholr fathers and brothors Iny dead In battle-harness, on the woutaln hllmns, awd in the lava-beds; and theso fow allent survlvors, like isruel of old, were be- Iuk led duto captivity,—but, unjike the chosuy ehlldren, neyar to’ returit to beloved heart of theip mountaina,”” '&I"Jx‘x‘gushed in Ohlcago by Jpnsen, McClurg MEDICAL WORKS, = - “Robb & Co.'s Family Physlolan® Is noms and title of a volume. published by Robb & Co,, of Burlington, Towa, and Lon- dop, Canada, This is a volume of generous ¥ g the |- proportions, which noeds must be when we conslder tho fact that It s Intonded to fur- nishthebuyer with the nggregated knowledgo ot tho profession of inedicine, so farns it Telntes to tho treatment of disenses. Lhese belng many, recelve from the authors more or Jess attentlon, cach and overy one. While It goes over the ground covered by all wrllers In our toxt-books, 5o far as relates to the history nnd symptomatology of discase, 1t is distinetive In this, whatever may be its virtues or defeets in other directlons: that tha two schools, of modern medicino are lero presented: : slde by ' side, fhe llon of Allopathy lles down with the lamb of Ilomcopathy, You purchase the volgme, and you have your cholce of {rcatmMAt, a8 the two methods nostlae lovingly together. ” There Is ns Hitle blekering or jealousy s one woull find among the dwellers In 8 country church- yard. You may try ono inothod, and whon it pleases your fancy you may exchango for tho other, or you mayy: shbuld you so eleet, serve two masters,—tho one may niternate with the other, The, nauscous draught of lpscnc may be suceceded by the sednetive pellet of nux, bryonia, or pulsatilla, Of that part of the volume furnished by him of the old school persuasion, we inust, In justice to the nuthor, say that he:las presented Lha reader with matter which reaches o highor Ievel than 18 ordinarily found In - vol- umes of this kind'” We wiil not ive expression any oplnion 1t regard to,the courses of treatment stig- gested by aile who. looks upon thernpeutics from a different standpoint from . the other, Whichever of these partles mny be in the wrong ho has but to turn & page’in this vol- ume and ha will find an antidote, As ourcye rung over the subtle refincments of synip- toms and drugs, ns presented by the new school nuthor In this wotk, wo can but nsk and wonderhow they will appear to the renson of thy medical iman whosecs the sun shining ulpun tho New Year A, D, 2000, In a pro- vious review of a simllar work by another anthor we gave expression to the opinlon that It is question for debate whether books of this kind sorye to diminish the aggregate of human suffering. Wi stlil bellevo that a Hitle knowledge Is n dangerous thing. —Dunean Tires,, ot this city, have for- warded to us a little volume entitled “Doc- tor, What Shall I Eat?" A landhook of Diet in i)lsunse," by Ch, Gatehell, M, D, Wo have been pleased by the matter and manner of this ittin volume. It deals with the subject fnnn intelligent and practieal way, and Is what it professes to be, i answer to n ques- tion propotunded to the' physiclan each and every day of his protesyional life, and one to which he does nnti in_niaiy Instances, an- swer ns satisfactorily ns hemight it ho wounld ifl\’e the subject the thoughiful considern- fon It deserves, This. book i3 nlso one de- serving n place in the houschold library, as it tells those who have thoenre how to provido foad for the sick and convalescent after the physlelan hos given genaral instructlon ns to what foud would ba best sulted to the neces- sities of tho Invalld, - —"“Canstipation Plainly Treated and Re- lieved Without the Useof Drugs,” by Joseph T, Edwards, 3L 1., 18 a_small’ book upon n ’xrcntsubjcct and full of goad wdvice to the ulty, and It in the hands of the community at largo It would soon:sive the practitloner of medlelne many n long and’ weary diseus- slon of conmon-denses views upon @ mntter which Is a source of: Infinit discomfort and. {l-health to many, The yolume has in it lit- tle that is new to the physictan, for whom it does not scem to be gspecinlly’ Intended, but he can well afford to buyiie and keep it for general eirculation minong his mulfius. GLEANINGS IN THT FIELD OF ART. ‘The title of this, work” aptly Indicates its contents, It.is n collegtion of lectures de- livered by Ednah D, Chebey on the: general -subjoct of “ Art.” The:main theme I sub- divided into: Art; Greek Art; Early Chrls- 'tinn Art; Byzantine Art; Restoration of Art In Ttalys Michel’ Angelo; the Poems of Michel Angelo; Spanldli-Art; French Art Albert Direr: Old German Arly Ameriean Art; English Avt; David Scott; Contempo- rancous Art, Either oneof tlieso subjects, If treated ab all eshaustively, would requiro for Itself o voluime much Inrger than tho one before ws. So that the .view glven of each tople Is rather superficinf, although possibly sulliciont, for the general, reader, Natura.-the .stroams 'Soinblne” to. form - the river, s0 In herintellectunl work Mrs. Cheney hns combined thio opinlons of the standnrd writers-to form her book, and her * glean- ings” ave taken frotn broad flelds almost unlimited In number, Wo' do not ob- ect to thls, -Any . art trentlss that professed to ignore tho researches and works of Kugler, Lubke, Winckelman, and “others would eitiior be valucless or o froud. Mrs, Cheney nses the art-writars ns the Inwyers do_nuthorities, to fortlfy = her oxpressed -nsflnlmw. itlso derived from thosame sources, ‘There have been wany handbooks writien on this snme subject, **Gleanings In the Fleld of Art,” Is ny'couclgg in its statements and as clear in Its method ns nny of the modern shorter works, In Mr, Murray's *llistory of Geok Seripture” his nitinl chapor on the . § “Theory of Art” I3 more sutisfactory and less involved than the treatment of the samo subject in tho volume before us, Bra. Cheney’s definition of art is too brondt to'ba apulieable; or rather to bethoraughly sntis- factory In connection with her lectures, Sho 13 treating only of the fino anfl,—mn(l 80 18e8 the worts “art?” mal *artista’’ all through,— but her definitlon would nlso include the. teades, Sho detivs ** Art" ns: **All thatseoks . 1o express thought inn materin! tornt, without reforenca to its uso forany materinl tfunc- tlon.”” Butitls not art, unless its appeals affect the mind ns well us the . vody with pleasurable emotions. ‘This does not apply 1o tho subject'or the theme, but to the mode by which "the theme Is doveloped, Lven in the most horrible dellnention of the sutfer- Ings of St, Sevastinn, tho skill of tho nrtist In depleting the tortureexeltes n feeling of grat- ifleatlon nud of pleasure, ‘This essentlal olo- ment Mrs, Choney does not recognize, She disenrds * benuty” as hebie an essentlal of tho definition, but ndds that, “beauty will be tho resultof the triest art which has Hought to uxpress tho noblest theme In tho most fitting foym."” A Mes, Chenuy’s leotures may bo rend with vleasure and with protit. ‘They give a fair 1ésmd of tho theorles of ors, and of all the facts known, . und the comments and- opinfons of . "ths = writer ara not koly to give offunse by degmatie ns- nssumptions, The first and last chapters nro tha least satisfactory: the first because it 1s somewhat rambling and has little connection with the rest of the work, und the Inst be- cause {ts tille Is mislending, and, while nom- lnuml' o roviow of “conteinporancous art,” and therefore In auticipatlon the most Inter- osting and porhaps the most practienl of nll tha ghapters, it i m\ll?' only o short appon- dix o whut has beon already writton on Ger- min_att. It fs confined almost ontirely to the Dhsseldort school, and pertalns exelu- slvely to art in- Germnny, which Jan vory nareow Interpretation of the words *cois tomporaneons art.” - The book s igsued by tho publishers in & neat and attractive forni, Published In Boston by Lee & Shepard, FLIRTATION CAMP, This Is enlled a * aporting romance,” Th romanco in it §s rathier woak, while the sport- ing part ls docldedly strong, There Is n great deal of information about hunting and fishing In Callfornin; nbout black brant and ourlew, hares and vallow quall, tho mountain trout and corraling antelope, deer-huuting and the * Great American Tront Swine,” but tho ** romancg " i only the Mrlmj thut holds the s flhui‘ulmplcra fokether, Just ut pres. ont the buok 18" exusperatiugi—wo read o summor scencs und outdoor \lny. and turn from a frozen lakeand hige snowdriftstothe genlal warmth ofn blazing fire in dlsuuumm’ sunmner will novoven * eust a shadow before," Threa months henee, with nothing (n the world to do and plenly of tim to do It i, tha rentter will plek up “Flirtation Cauip? and enjoy its Jite und splrit evon”though the namixitiro of fietion may not appear to' have added to the valuo of the work, = As \Webstor sald of mixine water with brandy, it spoiled “two good things,” Eh S \ MAGAZINES, ! In tho American Luw Review for Aprl} Ienry O. ‘Taylor has an article on “Tho Right of a Thivd Person toBye on a Contrnot, Made in His Favor.”. Charles R, Darling |. writes on #The. Lex Loct In Regard to-Ins .solvont Asslgmmonts.”” Therols theusualfu= toresting legal revjew of .the month, and notlces of soveral Iaw-books recently pub- lished, T A In the Penn Monthly for April’ the Hon, Dorman B, Eaton's report to the President on #Ofvil-Servico Reform™ !s published {n full a3 & flmely contribution to the political Uter- A7i6-1777, T As In: aturo of tho day, W. do Benuvolr Fryer writes on ¢ Punch and the Fuppets’: Prof, Ttobert Ellis Thompson dliscusaes “'The Fut- ure of Our Dr. Thontag 8, Sozinskey treats of the ‘‘Aspects of Mortality Statistics,” and ":Iumlu for their more earnest conslderation. The Doctor nisa consilars that “they do not reflect tho local sanitary condition of tha place from whicl they are drawn, and that it {s simply absurd to compare aggregate death rates” Arthur l);]l:‘rl'nley writes Intelligently of * Fresco-Paint- Publle-School System " ‘The_ historleal articles In the April num- ber of the Maunzlnc of Amerlean History are entitled: "The Flmt Settiement In Ohlo," by Marin Cong, and *The New Ver- slon of tha Dattle of liarlom ]’Inlm"' by John Austin Btevens. ‘The blographlenl articlo Is n sketch or the life of Willinmn (zu of the Supremne Court of the 'rovinee of Now York, by M. L. Delafield, Tho “original_document”’ Is the “Orderl‘y ook of Sir Joln Johuson's Command, "art IL" The minor departments are full, varied, and Interesting. T Wa are In receipt of the number for the Aprll qunrier of the American Journal o the Malleal Sclences, edited by Dr. I, M, Ilays, 'his veteran perfodical 18 now In its slxty-first year, and s apparently ws hale and healthy as ever, notwithstanding the unre- mitiing serles of experlments of which It has been made the vietiin by physicians of “high nnd low degree.”” Its table ot con- tents Is too lonr to bo guoted here, but among ity contributors are Drs. Sti Forrest, Lidell, 1I. 1. Sands, G. M. Stel berg, O, 8. Bull, C., B, Kelsey, A, B, Isham, R, L. Ren, T’ R, Varlek, Georgo M. Leflerts, W. 5. Little, and Notinan Mackintosh, LITERARY NOTEN, Mra, Oliphant hins o new novel in the press entitled * 1arry Joscelyn.” ' The fourth volume of William 'Blanchard Jarrold’s “ History ot Nopoleon IILY will be published this season. e ¢ An Amerlcan edition of *“A'Dletlonary of the Anonymous and Pseudonynious Litera- ture of Great Britain” will soon be published fu Boston. The first part of th Brinley Library brought £40,000; the second part $33,000: the third part Is now belng sold, and the fourth part will be sold next year. ‘The London corrunnondet‘,t of the Pub- lishers' Weekly announces that Mr. Robert Browning I3 wrlting a new poern, to be called * Achilles and Penthesllea,"” The Athenceum calls Dret Harte*‘ong of the most popular of living writers of En- glish,”’ and nlso says that * within his limits mgfi,ls no living writer swho ean tmprove on Amony the new books announeed for pub- lcatlon next month are: *‘T'urkish Lifo in War ‘Tline," by )Ic-nrq' 0. Dwight; Mr, Mivart’s “Phe Cat™: “Tife Origln of Na- tlons,” by Prof. Rawlinson, audanew volume of *Chliys," by Max Mallér. 1 It hardly needs the present Interest in Rus- sia to make attractive the aunouncement by Messrs, Henry 1lolt §: Co, of Fedor Dos- tog effsky’s record of his ten venrs’ exile in Siberin, under the title of “Hurled Alive.! 'The book 1s not only a graphic nccount of tha oxile's .experiences, but contains n num- Ler of the stories.of his fellow-conviets. Sir Jullus Benedict, the famous London comnposer. wito, us a planist and director, ac- compnnicd Jenny Lind in her American tour in 18590, has written n blographical and critic- al paper on *The Swedish Nightingule ” for tho May Seribner’s, At the end of his nrticle Sir Jullus hints that he nmny follow this pn- per with another, upon tho subjectof mu- sical conservatories I this conntry. The contents of that portion of the Brinley Library now on sale refate to the hmm?' of the Southern and Western States in particu- larand of the United StatesIn general; to Mexico, the West Indies, and South Awmer- Ica; tothe origln, manners, and customs of tho North American Indians; to old Bibles, catechisms, aud primers; and to music an psaluody, A Tho nanie of Scribner & Co, Is to be changed at an early day, and mrre%pondlng chanzes will be made In the names of mneazines, Sertbner’s Monthly and St Nicholas, The editorial and business man- agement will he continued as heretofore, Dr. Holland renmining as editor-in-chiof of Serib- ater's Monthly, and Mrs, Dodge continulng to conduct 8t. Nicholas, ‘The Bibliothiecn Palntin nt Heldelberg has recontly recovered threo manuseripts which wero taken frow It about 260 \inum ago. They .| h are.threo_Greek codices” which in the six- teenth eentury, wore spoken of by thiv phillal-"1"0! 97 ogist Sylburg ns_Nos, 18, 264, 27, and were supposed by him to hnve been lost. Iately the Librarinu of the!University of 1lalie has discovered them among his treas- res and established thoir identity, several omlssions or lacunm belng found in them ns they were described by Sylburg, Assoon as the” Librartan at [Ialle jmade his discovery known, the University of 1cidelberg de- manded ek 1S sinn Minister of Iducation directed that It should bo returned, | . “The controveray between Mr, Whittler and Dy, George E, Ellls_conceniing the his- torical acenraey of *The Kinu's' Missive’ has been closed by n letter from the Intter In the Boston Advertizer, nud the Qunker bard 3 nuain convietd of o grave offense against listorical necuracy,” says u correspondent of the New York Herald, “* 1lehas written two open letters about It; but has not succeeded it proving the truth of his verses, and Dr, Ellis declines to discuss the wmatter suy further, In the course of his chapter in tho resent volumo of the *Mewmorial lllsmri" he revorend gentloman quictly snys that In historieal romances or poetry all draughts upon the {magination, all fictitious group- ings, fanelful touches, exaggerntlons, an- achronisms, are mude at the expenss of renl instruction and Information, as woll as of truth: *Men may yet come,’ he says, ‘to realiza that in God's universe and under Goil's providence thero Is nothing so wonder- futl, nothing so awlng, nothing so interesting 08 sober anid veritable facts.?? 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SCIENTIFIOC NOTES, M, Rollot, of Creuzot, has sccured a patent for the desulphurization of Iron, tho success of which is of lmportuncu to the wholo iron Intorest, By its menus allores, evon those ot tho worst description, cun hereafter bo used, Underground cables for telugraphle pur- posus arg boing lald In Franco from Nancy to Tarls, J lne of twelve insuluted wires fs placed In a large tubo of east-iron, Atsulf- able distances doors aroconstructed so that o Loy 0 open th i, e e oblos e, imbedded in naphnit. ** The finpense |aboratory for chemicnl anal yaly la'b'%’ ‘|;nl r of uwy Préfet de Pollce, about-$o Lo opencd, Experts will thers ba at the service of thé public for the purpose of analyzluig wine, milk, chocalats, cotléy, meat, —in al word, all articles of oonanmxiuon,- aud that for very small fecs. This war aguinat aduiteration well deserves approval aud encouragement, - 1t Is Interesting to record a triumph of en- U Tomovs iy i‘l?::v%n: 0 Baltsday, Bacch b st tho thetwo', its lost trensure, and the Prug? Ashton Moss Colllery, in Lancashire, the main seam of coal wna cutnt tha depth of 2.00L feet, ‘This Is tho flcts}ws! pit in the Unlted Kingdom, HRose Bridge Colliery, which was the decpeat previous to this sink- ing, belng only. 2,460 feot, ‘The temperature in the Ashton Moss Colllery at 660 yards wns 78 degrees Fahr. The great Arlberg tunnel, one of the longest In the world, 13 aninuncel as begin, Outhewesternsidoof the Aribergthe progress of boring Is aeriously retarded h%lna Tush of quantities of water; on the ensfern side the rack 1s n micaceous slate, which allows rapl work, .1t scoms that the geologists ad- vised that the tnnnel bu. borod through a lower stratum of rocks of denser material and free from water, but their advice was disregurded. . ‘Tho avernge number of selentific men working at the Zotilogleal btation at Naples whns formerly twent{-five, but this year the AtT s to be 8o Incrensed that over forty naturalists wiil be u:s‘pln)'ud in originnl re- search lito tarlne z lflfl‘ and botany, the technical apparatus for thelr assistance being of the most clnborate and perfect uvur,v con- trived. A diving apparatus enables them to secura wnarine plants hidden in crevices where the ground net cannot reach, ‘I'hie report of tha_German statistical ométt shows that in 1870 the German mines and Iron-works ‘prmluccd 734,840,806 ewt. of . pig- Iron, Total amount of silver produced was 855,018 ponnds, Most of this sllver is ob- talned from four mines, situated at Manns- feld, Stolberg, one in the llarz, and one in Freldourg, "The fourth pnrt of the total production was obtained from foreign ores, Of gold only oneand u third million marks was_produced, and this the result of the washing in the Rthine. > SUNS. The Distance from' the Harik to the Sun and the Fixed Stars—The Npaces Fuil of Tumuit, Trof, Richard A. Proctor I3 “delivering a courso of astronomleal lectures in New Yorkl The following is a synopsls of one of them. The subject of the_ discoursa was “Tho Sun and Ilis Brother Suts The spunker sofd fn part: . . When we look at the skies on a calm, clear night, when all' the miyriuds of stars nro shining, tha lenst thoughiful mind s im- pressed with the idea that o solenn calin refgns there. Oue Is Inclined fo believe that all those suns ars In o state of perfect rest. The astronomer, . however, sees that they move. ‘They have several different move- ments. "Fliee, howeser, nra only apparent. Th turning of thie earth upon its nxis and it wmovement around the sun coitse these move- ments to appenr. ‘The astrononor reeognizes the stars us inonu sense still or fixed, Butthe star depths are full of noise and tumuit, Go into somg manufactory where a niagsof ma- chinery is in motlon, where there is n scene of great energy and nolse. 1t s nbsolutely nothing wm}mm! with what Is going on I the depths of space. We nre able to under- stand thiswhen we know that the stars areso far nwni‘. ‘Tho nearest of all the stars les nt +such a distance that our own sun, set beslde It, would seem to be an ordinary star of tho second magnitude. ‘Tho star which Is con- sidered the nenrest to-us is Alpha Centaurl, A think Lam justified in saying that it Is the only one whose distance from the earth i3 absolutely known, I'or.Instance, No, 61 of the constellntion of the Swan I3 said to be the second in distancs from us. Its distance is suld by some to bo three tmes s great as thatof the nearest”star, which les twenty' wlllions of milllous of inites from us. An American astronomer, Peters, makes it only twlice as far. Tlenca between the two caleu- Inttons thore -is- an error of at.least ten wiilions of milllons of nilles. ‘The trouble I3 Lhat nstronomers cannot get space enough to work npon. No bnse llnecan be obtained of sufiivlent léngth for the eal- culntion by triangulativn ot such enormous distances, But wo know that these stars li¢ 80 far away that the sun would be n small atar beside ong - of them. The sun s nuot a star of tho first magnitude, but we shall take him as nspecimen star, An. In the last leet- ure, the earth told ua the history of a planet, #0 the sun cun tell us what will be the his- tory of the star. Sirius is far larger than shesun, o lies at least four times ns far away from.the earth ns the nearest star,’ Alpha Centaurl, That star removed to the samo distance from us would- shine with only one-sixteenth ot bis light. But as ho is four thmes s Jarge he shines with sixty- four thnes the light of that star, -He also gives 200 times ag much light as the sun, 1f from n Aqunre mils of Siriis we get tho snme amount of light ns wo do-from a square mile "ot “the 'sun,” then - he-1nnst-be-290 -thnes-0s large as the sun, 1f, then, we are to take oursun as a smnple of the great suns that are scattered broadenst through space, let us enrefully consider him. In tha first place, the sun lies at n distance of botween 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 miles from the earth. A train of cars golng at the rate of twenty miles an hour would be 500 yeurs In traversing - that enormous_ distance, A cnnnon-ball shot from a Krupp gun would be thirteen t’enrs, if {tcould maintain tho same rate ol speed throughout the entire distance, Even' light, wnich travels with a veloelty wholly beyond conception, takes clght and ong-quarter minutes in reaching us, Hence, the sun Is not in the place where e seens to be. Hu 18, just ns far awny from whero he secms tobaas hwcan travel in elzhit and one-quarter minutes, which is 9,000 miles, And this*leads us (o the important thought that, If- gravity traveled at only the saute rate, the whols salar system woulll be thrown ottt of gear. The planets would have tholr paths so widened that thoy would- not get the right amount of heat nud lght from the sun: 1lence, gruvity traverses distancn at u rate Intinitly greater than the velocity of ihit, J'The sun I8 tremendons body. It wo were on the sun gravity would erish us flat, Its 1lght awd hont aro wondertul, The elve, trle light ins only one-third the average lus— tro of the sun’s- surface. A square-juch of the sun's surface would glve 300 tlnes as much, and the entire . sun ono «iundrllnu'u times ns much Hght as an eloctric light, We Inquire wheneo the sun gets hls power of mnking heat, It was once supposed that the st was fire, -But even If it wers of tho best buening substance It would be used wo i 5,000 years, ‘Ui latest thoory I8 that the snu's Tient “fs. dorivedd from - [ts ‘own- graviiut power exerted on Its own_mass, The sun's age Is another question, The ugenf the earth proves that the sun must be vory pld; but he should hava shrunk more. 1 think the sun Is not what he seems, I think the surface we Jook upon I clouds and that the sun In r¢;ulltyls inuch smaller than the surface wo sereen plotures showling the surface of thy aun under ditferent conditions ns {llustrative of the theories ndvaneed. Pictures wore shown of tha great solnr spota ns [llustrating the theory that the visible surfuco of the sun 13 only mi_tneasement of clouds of molten metals, Pletures, werg.also shown of the iula of flnmy which are- visible through the clescope, and the spectra of the aun ol of othar sturs wera compnred, 1llustrations of clustars of sunsin the “star-depthis® woro also exhibited. A and Porsonal Gose P . WaAsimxaroy, D. C., April 6.—The recep- tions by the ladles of the Cablnet were not goneral to-day, alng will resume Wednesday réceptions after Easter, Sntur day evening receptions, to be contintied durs ing the month ot Al:rll. by the Secretary of State and Mrs, Jinine, are given to the nioni- bers of the Diplomatle Corps. Invitations arc extented to Senntors and their fumilles and to tho Judges of the Court and thelr fam- ilios, Every week Mrs, Blaine wilt add to the Jist o limited number of names of army and nayy residents in the city, and frow tige to thue will Invite o fow porsonal friends. Attorney-General and Mra. MacVengl took imxosnlon of thelr new lomeon Rhode aland wvenuo on Monday, an g\( Mrs, Muchufih held her firat teception. Sho was asalsted by hor nicce, Miss Camoron, duugh- tor of Senator Cameron, and Miss Uarnard, Ars, MacVeogl's dress wosan elogant uncut velyot and satin of a dark shade of gurnet, with ruro soft Inco at the throat. Miss Cam- oron wore f drexs of pulo blue, and Mlss Bar nurd's tollet was & dark silk with biack lace, A sparkliug wood-firv on the hearth gave o home-like alr to the handsome parlors, Mes, James, Wils of the Postinaster-Gener- al, recolved In the purlors at the Arlington, which were fragrant with exqulsit lowers, Hor tollet wasof dork grecn silk with a darker shado of velvet and trivumings of silk fringe, t\lllollf( tho cullurs was Mrs, J, A. J, Creswoll, who is temporarlly in the city, She woroe acarrlugudross of black velvot, Miss Hunt, the daughtor of the Secretary of the Niw 7, ussisted hor niother in ontere glnl;x Vi :l‘ 2:]';. u%'wmn" only davghtor and o alstor o A ‘The Hon, Luclus Falrohild, Minister to Spalu, wlill return home In flun. and will be sccompaniod by his wite. hy dn‘?h- ters. It [s thae Intention of Mr, ohild to Tetutn o his home I Wisconsin for a per- manent residen ‘Washington Social 3 g Proaldoat ani dra. Garfleld have declded’ flh-!:'vnu Toreato with a foot llmict%‘ tospeud the summer at the Soldlers' Home, view, 3 ‘Tlhe lecturer then exhibited . wpon the and with thelr children will occupy a cottay thore, ' Early In July the Prestdent will ae tend Coinmencoment_ at Williams College, and a little Inter his’two sons, arry an Jdames, will enter ns students, The Presi- tlent’s mother will return to Mentar, to re. maln during the summer with the family of Capt, ITenry Rudolph, a brother of Mrs, Gar- fiald, who I8 living on the President’s farm. Gen, and Mrs, Sheldon ana Miss Mason, who have heen Twm at tho Whito Housg wg&xme time, will return to Cleveland next NEW YORK POLITICIANS., TPostmastor-General Tnmnen—Robertson, and the Fight for Life Ite ¥as Made, ? * Gath." New Youi, April 0,—~By patlence, endur- ‘ance, and hard work, Postmaster43encral James hns accomplished that most diMcutt thing to do at thosame time,~popularity with the peaple, the admiration of tlio Presldent, and not the opposition of Conkling, It would hardly Lo any feather In Mr. Conkling’s cap to have snld one word ngninst Tom James In view of the morcantile feols ingin this city toward James.’ So ho was allowed to slide Into the . Cabinet,” though manya grumble was muttered In the regular Custom-House canp, Ona chap, would tell you, Ina whisper, that Tom James nlways hadn newspaver ot lis slde, and that his - popularity was worked up. If you would snv: “Has nunt he heen n aplendid Post. - master?? 0O, yes, of course,” would be the reply; and then there would bo nnother reference to lilsCabinet staturoleing worked - up. Another bread nnd butter patriot would drop the intimation that Jnmes was.a little of a Urlah Jicep, and nltogethar too respect: ‘nblo with Demucrats, reformers, cte, Under tho Inflience of a robber Baron, ke Conkllng, It i3 necessary, in order to ba per. feetly patriotic, to oceaslonnlly go up and slap ‘a Democrat In the faco and spljc at s reforiner, ‘Uhe Conkling ldea of n truly beautiful Postmnster woitld be someboidy who carried n club, carricd his chin in the air, went down to Inisiness about 13 o’clock, and spent the evenings in tho gin-mills, Years have rolled over Postmaster James! hend, al he has had to walk the slack-rope of his Ienl(e' to Conkling and carry n_balance-pole . ns wide as the whole country. IIis head and mind _have been growing ‘educated by tite large functions hin ltas had to nndertake and the distinguished men ha has nots and yet Js feet have been all the while down on the unrrow rope of lmrsonnl obligation to Conk- ng. Ilo s not by uature ungrateful or n rebel; but nt this moment the ost distraln. ing Influence on his tnlents and administrae tion, no nintter what ha mny parsonally sny, 13 Conklingism, ~ Ile cannot earrs ont the re- forms he woull llke to do without dropping down to siea the Senator from thie cheest: dis- rlet.s . Like nimost nll men who do not look over thelr spectacles, James refnnls-,(!onkllng as one of the grentest inen of the thne, but -at the bottom thinks hin a political cad,’ In the present comrlhmnnu oyer the Collactor ot the Port it mightenter the Intrigning head of the Baron Roscoe that he .could “Injitre and annoy Gartleld, und seare him out ‘ot his support of Robertson, It he eonld get James - to talk out i the Cabinet und drop o hint of resigning, _Such Is the penalty of wearlng the eolinr bt uullf' Conkling. ~Peaple -who suppose that Conklinig Is a sort of rhetorical brulser and openly acting his personal feel- infis often” make o mistake. As ha grows older, more notorious, and imore ‘apparently sful, his eautlolis ports havo' become inordinntely lnrge, and the Jesuit. in him s much greater than the Baron. - il puts more velvet on his paw, a nobler huwmlilly In his eye, and stoops low to bez aud dofer where lie would lke to minsh things. You will see to-Uay, perhaps, some anclent house cat of an editor moving+to Washing- ton to rc?ncst the President, in a purring, nelghiborly way, to give « littlo hnrmony 1o New York, and withdraw Mr. Roberison's name, Behind this old chap, - porhaps, isa long intrigue, set on font by Conkling, who suspeets that theorgan in question may hava an influence on -Gnrtleld. - That. Is what ls * now going on under the scheme to revolu- tlonlze the Sennte’s ofiicers. All the fidrile- siriugs and cat-guts tarotl ars belng twitched and Yullul in somo way that \fill cramnp Gartfleld and make himn pull back Robertson’s nwne. Rubertson has been studiously repros sentod ns Blalne's an, In point of facty Robertson Is ns much of n man as’ Blalng © lle ‘is soven yoars ~oldor. than ' Blain ImLuF now 53, and hns - been. i official . position since. 1848, when he went to o the New ' York: - Assemne- bly, He hns heen State Senntor 6r’Asseniblyy, man foralarge part of his life, and neveg’ suffered n reproach, though active In every. thing of o public nature, IIn was eleve years a Judge in hisnative county, and \vcxa to Cougress tho sune year Conkling went ta tho Senate, und - served ‘on the same Cowme mittee of Commereo -which - Conkling now SOt remned to_genoral pibie opl [ a due regnrd to general publlc opinion hed'pervaded In the Stats of Now York Judge Robertson would have been, the cau. * didate five yenrs ngo; but ho was ruted out of his rank to fnlfll personal obliigations to Cornell, Ileelther had to hold his head up Hko n man nnd resist this presimptuous tyranny, starting th the ! Utlea cheese ‘dis- telet with o toleplione “detachment in the Custoni-tlouse, or to rounder and be buriod,- e went over tn Mr, Blaing a8 the niost avallable Republican leader o break down tha growlng narrowness of - the Republican ruloin Now York. -1Ia 1s not n thne-server, nor a erony of Mr, Bluine, but his equal any- where, He nover forguts to he a gontlemniy, whichis a fimnt offense In tho Conkling unmr. I1ia" bitterest enemy migitt have ofil- clal business on common Intorcourss’ with Judge Robertson, and ho_woulil recolvo the trentment of a clvilized man. From Conk- Iing hie would got the treatinent of a Bully Brooks, though I case of uxtromo Intorsst for Conkling n llttte palaver might accom- « pony the Insult, T "THE LEGEND OF MAN'S.FOOT, - f,.' For The Cheag Tribune. B Would you know why the human foot Is hollow? List unia me, then, und iny Miso shall follow Tho Sorvian legend, curious und old, 1a which tho reason fancifully is told. * Tong, long ago, oro yet our raca hefu. S Whun Buarth wis nmp!{ waiting still for mag,' efore the breath uf 11fo to him wns given, . T'wo Angels fell into n strifo In Heaven, o At length ono furious Angel nnusud the Bun, " And sped away s fast ns ho coutd run, © ke And, with u riiigiog lnugh of tiendist mirth, Ho lvaped the Luttlementa and fell to Ennh.’ Dark was ic then in Hoayen, But light below— ‘or thare A Dumon wandered to -m( o, ‘Tiiting nloft upon a'slunder pule - ELP, Tho orb of day—tho pilferingoldsoul! ©+ * Bnd sounds aroso in Hoavens but thro' the dark Tho greut Creator’s vuloo eriod mm:li *Harkl Who will réstare to mo the orb, of lghl, -+ Him witl I hoaor in ull Heayon's sight.” Thon o'er tho battlomonts thare laaped another (A shrawdor Aniol well thare could not be), Buylug, * Bebold my love for tho m{ brother, For Thuva luft ull Hesven to dwell wit “Wolcomo 1" thio Domon sald's “1am glad you' AlC Dt 150 elrry this pole alt ths samet ™ My theg wandarsd anward sls by ML '} Ul |+ by a fol n) “ML{ umné.'- 0 Angol sald Tfiu D “Donel, - e W But you yo Airat, whito 1 make fast the guu. Hoset tho pole well in the yluldhiu tuef, . 4 Aud enllod u jackduw ncar to watun the ?ullca. Munawbiio tho Angul f.nd«lod lu th surf, Aud pluytully daveit bls brothier to a rase.: They swarm around together for awhile:’ . Tho Domon alwaya n'i’ ing near his priu. Tl proseutly the Angel, with u smilo, " P’roposed a Bealthful diving aerciso. T'he Demon hesitated. ¥ Dut," thought hy #'¥ba jackdaw will inform we with a ory It s good brothor trics deoelving me. Iwill uot bo outdone by blw—not 1" « Down, down thoy went! The Augo} o a trios Tnde up awaln, aud swift lo shoro ho sped. The lackduw shricked: but lo1 & mile of fco Tho Demon found had trozen o'er hlshoad, o sworo an ontt, and eathorud ull his foroe A 0| rm| n 13 Who soarod away toward tho Heavenly Laad, b Ho gave pursult, Wrath lont speed to his chase, All m-vzn leaned down to watch the nx%nlu raco, : Ou, on thoy camo; aud stili the Evil One flnlnml_ on'tho Augel, burdoned with the Bun., ith buted bieath, and (a0es whito as ghosts, e D ool Aol IEONE o spon Tg'rew ‘ono ool !n‘rwnnl fni' the puu‘inmn'n. The Deman keized the other with & shout; Sl e hich S o e iokeg ol Dowa, by tuo S o1 Gidy who ‘oeiad, » Weu reat misfortuns shall be mad: ne— - ! XBLER.,