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Iatient hoart that watches all the dey nsldo tho wasto of wators coldly gray, 1rs slls aro far—sa far—tha sun Is low. ‘gl LLLTH 0] J Olonely child that watches b’s&;'lg;-mmd ll\hylflulimublml? Anl tho sen I8 broad, Dt aot t00 broad for im, who apoko tho word: Amm.lmxh—; land appenr.” * And it was so, A 0 groat soothing waste ol waters board, 20t too hrond for Him to koo across, Therg W be Lronkors, and there may b loss; Tommml. b9 wo on Earth untli the close it Yot oo e n mockness evorm Olonely chila that watohos by the 5001 i Mm-.nw::o darkness, soft white wings may Asonce thp Bavjor w A atked upon th ' 80 ncroas tho binck, blaok aon of wo harming ato: Y Ol ltyin Abranch i suain or R e Howor shull biossom in the dawn. 8 st cctio shivarn, and is lost— AR A AT o Olonely hid it wateas by sia ek} 70 40P e child, but wh at if when the night ::4 tha great wavea are e W sl:o‘}-:“lgz- ST the ona whito, shining satt b fag fm& tho sunken | mur-fifl‘ricn?fff’ oom? 1twg! nbfi‘m 8all be balf eo shining-white Yebirs llous doubts hud markad the nlght? Ho ta? -;ddmm Were done, the hopo gono by, il 'u tho stur of comfort shine au theo oo heart spoke not, * Tl will be done," Y child that watchos by tna do 4 Brvarmmy, Jottorson Co., Moy 7Y O UTAEY: ——— How and Where Globes Are Made. A4e & tact nop ToLTUIE vy 1°T% hat Troy fg 4 o0 oa » one of the I t Sonducers of schionl aud ey . 3%'.‘"'1’-:“?5 ) o o manutaoture was ! itlbe s AUt unly & batl v Jaohos i g1 lobi by but & tonsinob terrostrial E,“ e toon -*{ln:.h Tho 1ot oF alxon reas rap- the | 3 ulls are made in Boston, !‘-?;‘:i"}m"fl-fi" Aro supnlied and the globos ho. nllle&pg?n::; this city, whoro aro whioh' ted. " Globa-makin nolu ': -u'fi’flm ‘he m Process, &mall suctions on English g:uwlg: e, Upan thg p 11080 segments must bo nlcely put ki ';:é‘".',";““ of 8 that thors of 1o chango ita inclination bln? 80 truly in space : fn {ta rovoluuon” ut S and remain mo- Powh ontrs of ol st () ai ,.“rf::: oS, pruth ofuse 10 rest wi U bolenyq L4 Amorica on top, the tokor 31268 gyt i0te Patriotio thua sklliful, Tho tores 1o thirty l\-‘n-'d for general use runge trom to gy Prive, Che8 In dinmeter, and from §3 Ry Tn'w 456 wounted in forty differ- b8 orng' .x: Jucroasing demand for 4 q'g" fi'f’"’ m:‘:fl hfl'l‘hl; g:cv. that tho ship- r *thaa during g pmeau:: ;':u? i Tame, will ot halt LITERATURE. The Tast in the Presoni—Dr. Mitchell’s Contrihution to Archieological Litora- iure. Rome and Carthage—Life of Sir David Wilkie—Ploughed Under—But- ler the Philosopher. Manuela Paredes~Science for All— Eber's Egypt—Porlodicals Re- coived—Literary and Art Notes, LITERATURE. TRAE PAST IN TIHE PRESENT, The author of thls substantial volume, Ar- thur Mitehell, LL, D,, Is the Professor of Anclent History to the Roynat Srottish Aend- emy, ‘Chis book conslsts of two courses of lectures,—the ** Rhind Lectures on.Avehieol- omy,"—the former course of six leetures he- ing entitled * The Past I, the Present,” and tho subsequent course, “ What Is Clviliza- tion?” ‘The work s abundantly fllustrnted, and hasalso an appendix of constderable length, oxplaining the lectures, together with afull index. "In the lirst six lectures Dr, Mitehell secks {n showing how often the past is scen In the present—* lhow, many neo- archnic objeets and customns oxist among uy’ ~toprove that the methods fullowed in archie- ological inquiries shoull e ns strict ny those which are deemed necossary in other departments of sclence, and in a speeinl manner 1o show that “strict meth- ods should bo followed In those arclue- ologieal Inquirles which are nat the sama time authropologleal, beeause in themn thero appears to be a speelal lability to fall in seeing the whole significance of tho obser- vations from which conclusions are drawn a3 to tho antlquity and condition of the so- called Primeval Man,” The last four lect~ tires aro o sort of corollary to the first six, and give the author’s views as to the nature and origin of elvilization, ‘Tho professional archieologist will prob- ably enjoy the first part of. this work better than the second. With tho general reader tho opposit result will probably bo renched, But both the student and the general reader will find the book interesting aud instruetiva reading and gifted with a pecullar churm of stylo and languago which wlil make him re- gretthat Dr. ditehell did not go a little further tn his theorles, and carry out somewhat mors deflnilly the conclusions le has evidently reaclied. Of the first lecture, treating the *whorl™ and .spindle, the * Knockin® Stane” and mallet, itmay Bo summed up In this: D, Mitehell thinks 1t a mistake to attribute the rise of an inferior method to s lower grade of civiliza- tion, even when superior methods are known and employed at the same time, And he also mnkes the point—applied particularly to the cnse of spluning—that Inferior and ruder forms do not necessarily hnply priority of time, Tho second Jecture Jends to the same Inferences In conneetlon with alarger varioty of similar objeets. T'he other lectures nre examinations of other objects, as the * Black” and ' Bee-hive” houses of the MHebrides; cave dwellings, which are Inhabited to-day: calrns and viollns; seythesand * one-stilted plows; wheelless ecarts, tinder-boxes, &teels yards, ete,, and in the Inst lecture are consid- ared severnl old butstill existent superstitions T'he point Dr, Mitehell makes from his con- sidoration of these varlous objects and facts has been nlready indieated, 1{o sceks to im- press upon his readers the Iden that the cur- rent classiticatlon of nmlq'ultles for Instunce does not mark polnts of tlme, nor necessuri- ly indleate ruccessive stages of culture, What'seems abnormal when found existing novw imay also have been abnormal at the riod from which 1L dates its origin. So that no thuore' can rightfully be forniulnted on o supposition thatdiscovories now ade of pre- oxisting objects cuver tlie constant and nor- mal usge of the things found. ‘The Scoteh tinkers ltving in caves nud destitute of any sense of decency to<lay seemn to us somothing unnatural or “abnoraial,’” as the Doctor puts it. But why wmuy not the “cave dwellers” who inlablied the *“Bec” houses and the “cafrns’ linve been e m\ll¥ ‘‘abnormal”* to the civilizntion about them In the second course of leetures the author defines “clvillzation ” as being * nothing more that a_complicated outcome of awar waged with Nature by man In society to pre- vent ier from bulting into exccution in his case her Inw of Natural Selection, Afl men —everywhere and In nll stages of progress— from states of vory low to states of very high clvilization—arobanded u)gmlher. wonk- 1y or powerfully, to fight this tight,. and the measure of success which attends the strug- 1o of each band or assoclation so enguged s the measure of clvillzation it haa at- tained.” And iu this connection Mr. Mitchell enuncintes his doctrine of the sur- vival of the_ ‘**unfittest” as well ns of the “ittest.” Man s not influenced by the Inw of natural selection as are the brutes, but forms combinations to defeat tho law, and ‘‘the most anclent man of whom a8 yot we know anything does not seem to have been Inforior, elther phyale- nily or inteflactually, to the Iatest and most highly civilized.” "And finally the writer considors the offect of “religious boliefs upon civiiization, aud is nf»pnruully of the opinion that & universal faith is essentlal to the de- velopment of the highest fovm of civilfzation, Published In New York by Harper & Bros. ROME AND CARTITAGE. When au author abridges Jils own work, tho shorter version ought to be as valu- able 08 the longer. It I8 mnot prob- nble that the abridgoment will bo as thorough as though undertaken by less interested party, but 1t is pretty sure to convey an ndequate fden of how much of the larger work Is really superflu- ous 80 far na an nequaintance with the facts pertalning to the subject wlhereon it treats Is concorned. * Raino and Car- thnre" is an abbreviation by It Bosworth Smith of his larger work on **Carthage and the Carthagintuns.” ‘I'he shorter work 1s un addition to the * Epochs of Auclont 1listar: Serles,” edited by the Rev. Sir G, W, Cox and u‘.th&I‘w . No nthrmtrlt h;\u been m{:(lo :o aiter the langunge of the lurger work or to *write (a‘lnwu” to the Brn‘:‘unnumcn of ounger rendors, In the last ehapter Mr, fimln gives nv account of the Imrreuflluu produeed upon him by a comparntively re- cent visit to the klito of Carthage, The little book treats of an Important epoch in anclont history, and the nuthor Is filled with the en- llnfilna? of aspaclal studont of this special subjec d Tublished in New York by Charles Scrib- nor’s Sons, SIR DAVID WILKIF. ‘The latest contribution to the serlos of illustrated blographles of the great artists Is a Jife of 8Sir David Wilkie, by John W, Mel- let. Allan Cunnlugham’s larga work cen- tains about nll that can be sald about this great English palutor, and Mr. Mollot has drawn liberally from its pages, lulwer apoke of Wilkla ns ths ' Goldsmith of rnlnb- ers In the nmiable and pathetic lntmor, In the combination of smlles and tears, of tha famitlar and the benutiful.” Ieslio spoke of i aa o truly great artist and u truly good man.” 'Ihe author speaks of hhn ag'n man who had over many friends aud no enemies, whose great suceess oied honors wora borne 80 modestly that he excited no envy at tho simplicity of whote method of indefatigable Industry” In study would haver disarmed jeulousy itself. ‘The life of such a man is worth reading, and Mr, Mollet has prepared an interesting and satistactory addition ton series which has Jong siuce won ita. way to popularity, Publlshed fu New York by Scribner & ‘Waelford, TLOUGHED UNDER, In tho first place, It Is asking & great deal of the reading public to" require them to be- lleve the statement made that this book is the product of the intellectual labor of an Indian alone. The “soun of an Indian chief” may have held the pen between his flugers, but a white man or woman guided it. Itis too palpably & comblnation or cowpilation of oft-ropented alorles of Indian hardships and aufferines with which no single Indian iy ‘fanfltar. It (s n special plen rather than n fair statement; n discosston rather than a work of fictlon, and 18 open to the snme ob- Jeetion made to A Century of Dishonor? and othor works like 1t, which view the In- disnquestion [rom thesentimental side only that I, one-sided and unfair, IL Instances harsh treatment and cruefties which nre undoubledly oblcially recorded, but it omits all - specifleations as to the canses which ded to the adoption of harsh teeatment, ete, Itomits all record ot Indian mnssneres, of stealthy midnight murders, of outrages upon gettlers, of trencherous violatlons of promises, of such atrocities In recent times ns the murder of Gen, Cunby and the Meeker assasiiation, “ The incldents of this tale,”? says Hright Iycs, the Ponea malden, who contributes un futraituetion to the hank before s, * ure based upon easily-nuthentiented facts,—most of thom, indeud, heing matters of officla) rec. ord.” CThink of wht o story of wrotig al Injustiee conkd be gathered from the **oflicin] records ” of the trentmdnt of the Chinese on the Pacifte Coust, -'I'wo wrongs do not make a right, but it is sot o fir analysis of the In- «lnn auestion to gather together widely-sep- urated instances of injustice nnd evil treat. ment pertalning o seattered trib and under widely different cireum- stances, and to string these “ records?® togoethor a8 an indictment aguinst the Natlon for its treatment of its wards, Aud It is even less fuir to gronp toguther these iso- Inted eases nnd put thent inte the forn of o work of fiction for the purpose of dxclting l?’lupnuu{ and compurison for & state of things which, as” represented, does not exiat. anywhere, * Ploughed Under?” 18 {hereforg disappointing, 1t I3 an imitation, in the first leuc(-. ns to style nnd nuthorship; it Is n com- bination of fiects having no connection, atd 1t 14 not properly a work of fictlon or so pre- poved ng to necomplish that for which n work of ity kind might by cspecmllz}mlnplml. ‘The storyof *Plonghed Under™ I8 nar- mated by tiie son of achiet of one of our Western tribes, wio l»rntos-ms to tell s own experience; his youth and training amibd famn- ily Influences at hume, afield s s love, with ul III‘K and wedding, ‘There is given an necount of the coming of thnt important porson, the Indian Agentamong the tribe, with s ful- lowing of good nnd evil; the holding of cotinellg, the makiug of treatles, the pursuit of criminals; the Intrigues and wickedness of vnoe of the whites, who makes way with the young Indinn’s girilsh bride; her perils and eseapes, and the deceit{ul deulings of the whites with the tribe, ete,, ete.. ‘The pletures presented of the whits men are black enough fo satisfy the most sentlmental DBostonlan, while (i Indinns enbody in tiemselves ull the nobility and darving of oue of Cooper's icroes. Published id New York by Fords, Howard & Hulbert, aud hints nnd batties | thelr customs of woo- BUTLER. The second voluine in the series of Philo- sophical Classles for English Iteaders, edited by Willimn Kuight, is a life of Joseph Dut- ler by the Rev. I, Lueas Coltins, The sub- Ject of this biography Is chiefly remembared a8 the nuthor of n work entitled *The Anul- ogy ot teligipn, Nutural and Revenled, totho Coustlitution and Course of Nature.” 1o was nlso o celebrated divine of the Established Chureh, having refused the Primacy but accepled the nppointment of Blshiop of Bristol and Durhmin. His life Wwas not & returkable one, and oceuples but thirty pages of’ the 17 composing this volume. 1114 bopk—ns an adequate method- lenl defense of Christinnity=has become antiquated, and its utility for tho purpose of attncking n'kcpualsm lins been superseded by other works, whil the tendency of his sys- tem to wike moralily dependent unon prob- ability is rejected by many eminent philo- sophical writers of modern times. Butler befonged to the Intuitive or Bentimental schnol of moraliste--of which Descartes, Cudworth, llerbert, Hutcheson, and Waollns- ton wers leaders—as distinguished from the Utllitarian school, of which Thomas flobbes was the lhead. Muny confliet- inz oplnlons have been expressed as to thamerits and strength of Butler’s argu- ments, Pitt said that his * Analogy ” ralsed more doubts than it angwered. Dr. Marti- neau regards {t a8 faving furnished one of tho most terrible of the persunsives to athe- imn that hos ever been produced, on the Frouml that it is possible, by substituting tho den-of ** Nature? for-the-iden of God, to turn the whols course of Butlor’s argument In that direction, Sonthoy, on the contrary, clahined that it was #n ** irrefragable proof ™ of the Christlan rovelation. Dut Butler's aim was throughout comnendable. . ilg sought to fmpress us with the oblfgations of duty, His purpose was to Inquire Into the practical Influence of the laws of morality upon hife. Of this lttle work It may bo sald that its author has furnished a ‘pleasant blography, and & popular, untechnleal digest of lifs wrlllugs. Published in Philndelphin by J. B. Lippin- cott & Co. MANUELA I’AREDES. ‘This Intost number of the No-Name serios of novels Is fully up to the average of merit, ‘The suthor hins, perhaps, no great experlence u novel-writing, but has some of the qualifl- cations for success In that Kind of work. Her inventlon fs remarkably fortile, and her management of detalls often skiliful. She orrs If at all In crowding the narrative with too many lucldents, and pouting into one volume the “stock’ for half-n-dozen. A more prudent or n moroe parsintonlous writer would have kept the story at least on one slde of the Atlantic Oceun, and would have mado it more specilically elther n study of character and of manners, or n deyelopment of Intrigue. But tha comprohensive plan of the buok will not be a hlomish in the opinion of moat readers of novels, and to them In tha lust resort must bo left tha judgment on all warka of this school, 1t would be deing fnjusticeto the Inhorlous efforts ot the wrlter to set forth oven in skel- eton the outlines of the story, Suflice It to sny that there I3 an unusuai degreo of good- ness distributed among the characters, there bulng but one villain, and his dutics are of themost superfinous kind, ¢ There s a plous character who desorted her husband and chitld somo twenty-five years bofure the story opens, and seeks fo recinim tho Intter in the course of events. Tha terms of famiffar in- timney on which sho assoclates with her former husband’s new famiiy may bo a little out of the ordinary, but it would™ doubtless sava trouble for afl other familles placod in that trying situntion to behavo with the samo excinplury, forbenranco—if Lhey can. Whilo te caunot commeid “Manualn Turedes” as belongling to the highestarder of fiction, or ns being the best spocimen of it kind, wo can bespeak for it the kindly ntten- tlon of the public. Fora first work "ft cer tafnly has very unusual morit. BCIENCE FORt ALL. Cassell, Potter & Galpin hava sont us Parts 10 and 20 of their “*Science for All," a pub- lication undertaken by them with the com- mendable object of diffusing as widely as possible a knawledgo of the elementary facts of sclenco and an’ explgnation of ordinary natural phenomens intolligible to the masses, In these two nnmbers the toples discussed are: Sualls and Ships; A Water-Wheel; The Chemistry of a Color-Box; Sclonce from Penny Toys; flow Ifnilstones Ars Forged (n tho (ernls‘ 'Tho Starfish and Its Relatlves; e VG AR DR ohomind et ronch; low Electrlel 10 r; A Plece of Puddingstone, eto, ete. ¢ EGYPT. ‘We havoe received fromn the publishers, Cassel), Petter, Galpln & Co., parts 7 and 8 of the maguificent work on Egypt, by Prof. 4. Ebera, which they are publishing In this form. We sce no renson to change the lnpresslon produced by the first numbers, noticed ab_some lancth In these columns at the thne of their publication. ‘The work em- bodles the resnlts of years ot labor and of the highest grade of scholarship. 1t is abun- dantly illustrated and handsomoly printed, ond will be when completed a fuil unex- celled deseription of * E descriptive, historleal, nn':l plcturuqugu.xrtby one gt the rreatest of Egyptologlats. LITERARY NOTES, Lippincott announces a fifty editlon of “Friquet of Soclal Life in Washington,” by M. V. Dahlgren, Lady Duffus Hardy’s book of -travels In the Unltad States 14 to be entitled “'Thirough Cittes and Prairle Lands,” “The Btory of Ireland” s the title of a brief but sensational baok, written by Dlon 2|:‘|£lnlult. and just published by Osgood The hundredth anniversary of the publica- tlon of Kaunt's “Critique of Pure n will this year b celebrated in Germany, nnd probably also in the United States, 'I'wo complete cditlons of ‘Thackeray from now plates nre in preparation by Estes & Luurtat, The * Cambtidga Editlon” will by in twenty volumes, ond the “Prople’s Edl- tlon” i ten, *The Library? will b thesubject of the new volinne of the ** Art at Home Serles (Macmillan & Co,) 1t:comes from the hunil of Andrew Lang, and wiil have nclmrler on Enlish lusteated works by Austin Dobson, Macmillan & Co, have undertaken to sup- Ely the demand for on elegant edition of Shatles Kingsley's novels, [t fa ealfed the *Evers sdition,’” nfter the parish in Itampshire wiere Kingsley was fiest a curate and nfterward the Rector, Gen, Cheathnm, of Tennessee, Is writing n history of the wiyance of Gen. Hood's arniy to. Nushville and subscquent retrent, Ife commanded a corps I Gon, Hood’s army, and until now has kept silent In regard to tho effort to mke hiin responsibly for the foflure of the cumpnign, ‘Ll most, nlriklmi articlo In the Dritish glmrlcrlu Review for: Aprll Is Prof, ¥, A, 3 B3 n“e)":« trenchunt attack npon Schliemunn's 1), Prof. Paley has ng bellef 1w his- I ‘I'roy or a historleal Homer, and con- slders the ‘Iliud to have been complied at Athens from several Oselic poems, about tho time of the great Attle tragedinng. A. DT, Randotph & :Co, will publish’ e medlutely *Fhe Recoghltion of the Supers natural In Letters and_ I Life,” an oration by Richard S. Storrs, 1. D, originally de- livered befors the Phi-Beta-Kappa Soclety in Harvard University, Jul; LIRS0, and sub- sequently dellvered in New York at the ro- auestof* tho Asseciation for the Advance- munt of Selence and Aty b April last. M. Emlle da Laveleyeils about to Jublish a work on *Contemporary Socinlism,” Among the subjeets treated of ave: Contemporar Soctalisin In Germany s the Theorists, Jtods Dertus, Marlo, Karl Mfrx: the Agitators, especinlly Ferdinand Lngsalte: the Conservas tive and the Evnumellcnlsnelnllm: the Cath- olle Soclutists: the riso and decline of the International; Nihilism; Bakunin, ete. A note from Lord Darrington has been }mhllalwl o set ut reqt the doabts nbout Lard Beaconstield’s Im.wnrx revised on his slek-bed the proof-sheets of his Inst speee 1t runs us follows: “w&‘(mrwu atreet, V.. Lord Barrington presegts hiy cnm,-llmenls to the editor of * 11ansarfl’s Debates,” and re- turns the proof-sheet of [Lord Beaconstield’s sneech an tho adidress of condolence to the ttecu, carrected by his pwn haud this day, Marel i, 1881, A eurlous littie vnlums,cnllml “*The * Aro- ny Colunm® in the London Times Newspr- per,” has been issued Allze Clay, Fora great many yenrs the sedond eolumn of thay Journal ling” been devotdd to correspomdence wdvertisements, more dr less mysterious, When the epthet “agotly colnnn was first nrnlle(l to it not known, ‘Tha book con- sists malnly of the nos) Interesting adver- tisements of this description, published be- tween 1800 and 1870, e Mr., Howells, In renln_m"mz the, editorship of the Atlantle, evidently means to earr out his plan of devoting himsec If nssid- uously to anthorship. e has just put the Insttonches to +* A Feartul Responsibility,” which, although coverlng forty-twe of Serthner's pages, will be given complete In two numbers of the magazine.—those for June and July, ‘The seene of thisstory Is Iaid in Venice, Mr. Iowells is now said to be busily employed upon s longer serinl story for Scribner’s Monthly, and has in contemplation other literury enterprises whose scope has not yet heen announced, TERIODICALS RECEIVED. Jarper's Magazine—Juneo. (Harper & Dros,, New York,) Coatents: **Tho White Muuntalns,” by Snmucl Adams Drake; “Tho Dead Child and the Moeking-Rird,” by Prul H. Hayne: Mad Maydes Sougo," by Itobert Herric! Ttuby-Throat,” vy Mrs. Sara A. Hubba Neglected Corner of Europe.~L, Lisbon,” by Mrs. Lizzio W, Champaoy; “Ballads and Ballad- Music llustrating Bbakspeare,” by Amelln B, Barr; “Edwin Booth,” by Willlam Winter; Anne," by Miss Constancd Fenimore Woolsu: * Bencdetto Clvilett],” Ly Luigl Montl; “The Firat Sottler's Story,” by Will Carleton; * The Trial of Jounno Dare,” by James Parton; * Mrs. Milllngton and Her Librarion,” by Baxe IHohn; “Kentucky Farms,” by Edward Atkinson; * A Laodicoun,"” by Thomas Hardy, Fortnightly Review—May. -(Chinpman & Hall, London, Eng) Cunterila: ¥ lipressions of the Irish Land BiL” (1) by Prof, Itichey, {2) by Bir Goorge Campbell; “Statius,” by Alfred Chureli; “ Inglish aud Eastern Horses.” by 8ir Francla il. Doylo; * Tho Lark Asconding,” by Georgo More- dith; *Hns Our Vacelnation Degenerated 2" by Dr. Charles Cameron; Litcrature under the Amorican Iepublie,” by G, E. Woodberry: *Commoroint Unfon from u Canadinn Polnt uf Viow,™ by 8ir . Hincks: *Cobden's First Pame« hleta,” by tho Edltor; * Politionl Heuds—Chlofs, Ings," ato, (continued), by Herbort Sponcer; “iloian and Forolen ANalrs. & Nineteenth Ceniury—May. (0, Kegan Paul &' Co., Loudon, Eng.) Contents: *The Bliver tiroak,” by Adwiral Lord Duasany; * Penco In tho Church,” by the Rt. Ifon. A. J. 1. Heresford Hope: * George Eillot,” by Kdith Simeox; * Prof l-Bhnl'lllf. by b‘ml!c( Taylor; ** French Yorso In English,” by Willinw M. Hardiuzo; * Haligious Fulrs in Indin'” by W. Kulghton; * West-End Improvements,” by the Ion. Maude * Curlylo’s Lectured on the Perinds of Cultare," transcribed by Prof, Bdward n; *Tho Now Irish Lund BilL" by the Duke of Argyil. Macmillan's Magazine—~May. (Macmilinn & Co., London and Now Yark,) ~Contents: ** Tho Portraitof n Lady,” L'X Henry James. Jr., Chnps, XXIX.—XXXIV: M by A, X.—X X nmur‘r‘l Bong," Matheson; ** Old Myxth n Maodern Poétr; by Androw C. Bradleys 4 8ir Doun Hiowart's March from Kandabnr to Kubul " * The Engllsh Caminunity in Inwa," by Robert Renson: * A Short Mloa for Sclentitie Agriculiure and for Arlcultural Education.” Penn Montily—May (Penn Monthiy Associntion, Thiladolphin). Coutents: * Politico-Socinl Fune- tions,” by Lester F. Ward: * Voltalre at the Rar of History.," by Dora «'Isteis School of Financo and Eeunumy, Hogers; “Bhakspearc's Dream, Crosby; * The Owners of Irol; K. Rrown (to bo continued); ments, {3 Chieago Medical Journal and Eraminer—Mny (Chivngo Medignt Pross Association). Cantents: “Bewmidt on Yollow-Fover,” by Dr. 8. V, Cluy- Tho l'nlhulnkf' and Trontmoent of Yel- low-Fevar, with 8omo Homnrks Upon the Naturo of Ita Cause and Its Prevention,” by Dr. 1L D, Behinkits * Remarks on Sources und Varictics of > sour C. Do Wolf; ** Lord yelolans,” by Dr. Jumos Tho Wharton by Fairman by Josopn and.” by Thomus Editorial Depart- L Tugkers *Clinleal porta’'; Original Tenns povsls, or dout of tho nnin Séa; ** Lettor fram China—Nativo ) pragtice™: * Boaten Letter,” oto., ate. American Juirnal of Philology—May (Basil L. Glldorsicove, Baltimore), Contents: * Vorrlus Fiacous," 1L, by H. Nettleskip: “A Study of Rontley's English," by H. L. S8tebhord; * On the Consonant_Declension i Old Norse,” I, by 8, Primor; % On the Enclitio* No' in Enrly Latin," by Minton Warron; Editoriol Doprrtments, Vick's, Tllustrated Monthly Magazlia—~3a, (James Viok, Rochestor, N, Y.). 4 Literary News—May (P, fieypoldt, Now York). Literary World—May T—E. Il. Hamos & Co., Hoston), Bookseller and Stationer—day (J, Fred Wag- goner, Chicago). ml.;twu‘n Living Age—>ay 14 (Littell & Co., Bos- 0 ART. THE PARIS SALON, + New York Erentng Post, May3, This mornlng occurred the principal event of the cosmopolitan art year. 'I'he Parls Salon was opened to the public. Though heretofore under the diroction of the French Minlster of Fine Arts, who appointed ane- thmli of the ]t;ry of m}mll.ulnn. ll;a great ane nual displry of new paintings, sctlptures, ei- rmvlnu‘.’ ulr’:'lwhum nunlol.h';‘r \vurkf by mlsu n avery quarter of the xlebo s this year con- trolled exclusively by the artists themsulves .who elected a Cammlttee of Direction nnd contributeil 840,000 to juect its oxpenses. ‘This Comutittes las caused to bo hung only 9,448 of the 0,000 oll paintings offered—last year 4,000 were hung—and has subjected to exnmination even the eontributfons which, under the former regulations, were oxumpf from scrutiny, It has also put Frenchwen and forelguors aids by side, just as the two last Hanglng Comnilttees at the Metropolhan Museyun have dealt with Amuricuns and for- elgners. Dissatisfuction among the rejectad contributors Is, of course, as velr s eve but way militales ugalust what 5 axcaptional success of the ‘;{r l‘ . In addition to the 2,448 ofl paint- 1,111 water-colors, pencil-drawings, and so on, 807 sculptures, and 470 engravings and architectural deslgus. The CGermans have been well treated. But there lsa gon- era) absence of very striking works. Hans Makart, Munkacesy, Dord, Jacquet, Armand Duwnwresq are not represented atall, Nor have Messrs, F. A, Bridgman, Blashfield, and Henry Bacon put in s appearunce, The tirst picture to greet the visitor Is (as ‘wa sald several days ago) Mr. Baudry’s large representation intendud for the decoratiun of a celling, In n review of the Salon in the Heratd this work and several others nre de- [ L Bawdry's sunject s an allegorienl shtatlon of Jurisprud typitied by n w, Justier, Force, and Fqulty, and above them the decrees,—these lnst all femnle figures ot great bunuty, ‘The enlors nre tender, but the effect 1s vhf-mmn. The execution 14 luss rlm“lm:: still, when placed at its destined hight, this decorative plece will surpasy the works by the smne master which wre the must preclous ornnmentsof the Grand Opera- House, . Iinatien Lepage sends a portrait of M, Al- e Flgera’s art eritle, amoking a bert Waoiff, clrynret nnd seeking an fnspiration, A copy of the Flgars Is spread ont before him, and the jovial face of Alexandre Dumas, the elder,—eastly recognlzable,—lovks down upon the scene from the wall itke n tutelary genius, ‘The pleture is finlshed and ultri- finlshed in wvery detal, very effective, and n_eapital portrait, With 1his the same artist sends o pietura of “A Duggar,” alinost Iife-slze, and treated with great force _amd freedom, yer very shinply, Derne-Bellecour hns only one piethre hinig, and that one not very fmportant, It records an episode of the Franco-Prassian war,—the *Cnpturs of the Chatentt de Monthellard ” by the French in the winter of 157071, The Irusgians had rnsmessluu of the chiteaun, which stood, and still stands, on the summit of u hilly \'!Ilufiv, ne: HBesangon, Tho French are erceping nh/nllhllg;_up the hill, preparing to surprise them, ‘The snow lles thick upon the ground, und a dull, gray sky hangs heavily over the houses, Bonnat, recently elected member of the In- stitute to fill the ehalr of [4#on Cozniet, his former mnster, contributes a portealt of his redecessor nl the nge of 85, and he hns put nto this Inbor of love all the pawer of driw- Ing and of efieet which charneterlze his famous likenesses of Thiers, Prosldent Grovy, and Vietar Hugo, together with o touch of sentiment unnsunl “with him, ‘The head is vigorously madeled, nnl contrusts ngalnst o tuckground, M. Bounat exhibita also a strikine portralt of the Countess Potocka, which liss sl the distingnished alr of the fair orlglunl, The face I3 sweety it Isthe one point of interest in the canvas, for her rich satin dress is quite covered by along otter-skin pelisse, this aifording & motive tor thg sober effects affectioned by the nrtist. Bouguerean has two large pletures with % Ilfe-siza figures—"‘I'ha Virgin with the Angels,” the Madonna Iyimg with her chilld under th listeniug to the o shade of u tree, strains played on wnusical s riments by thres nn{(els above them; ond *Morniug,” 0 young girl flontinez above the misis of o Inke and sipping the dew of o white lily. Cabanel’s ehief work—us we mentioned some time pgo—i5 “’The Cholee ot the Uns- kets,” nseene from *The Merchant of Yen- fce”” Another work Isaportrait of Miss Mackay, daughter of the * Bontwnza King."” Deseotfes Is” seen n oneof his still lifes, Detaille's ** Distripution of the Standards,' wwenty-four feet by fourteen, represents the ceremony that occurred lust July at Long- champs,” The scene is viowed from the in- terlor of the Tresident's pavilion. In the immediate foregronnil we have o group of Deputies, In the costiume of niodern soclety, forining i rather disagreeable mass, Newr them arcthebright uniforms of Gen.Connolly, the English military attaché, and his Russian colteague, Col, Frederichs (the latter In the ixsrcen and gold of an imperialalde-de-camp). eyond i3 ML Grévy, the central fizure in the picture, wearing the insignin ot the Leglon of Honor, and seen In vroftle.. On his left and right stand M. Gambetta, President of tho Chamber of Deputles, and M. Léon Say, President of the Senate—M. Gumbetta nat- urally occupyting n eonsplicuous place in the composition, M. Léon Snerm naturally hay- ing one relafively instgniticant. The Senators can be made out a little further, together with the thoughtful head of M, de Freyeinet, the long nose and black whlskers of M. Jules Ferry, and tho fncesiof several other memn- bers of the Cabinet. T NOTES. Millals, the English painter, has commis- slung for portrutis amounting to £200,000, An exhibition of the works of Thomns Allston 18 to bd hetd shortly at the Boston Museum of Fino Arts, M. Secretan has sold Millet’s “ Angefus,” which he bought at the Wilson sale for the ligh figure of £2,000, for $40,000, (ustave Courbet’s family Intend to have n sals of about sixty of his tnluunus. Among thew are the celebrated “ Enterrement d'Or- nano’” and ** Les Grands Combats de Cerfs.” Comparing— Dritish-<vith~American and other foretzn work at the London exhibition of DPainters-Etchers, the Spectator sums upt “1f the truth must be tokd,” the innjority ot the British work I3 inferior both In' nethod and Imagination,” The artist Rogers was showingz some West- crners through his studio, 'l'hu{ canie at Jast to his statuo of Nydla, the biind girl.of Pompell, “Has it lntely been excavated 27 asked one of the party. “ O ves,” snid Rogers; I had it ditg out myself.” Milials got two sittings from Beaconsfield before he died. The portralt Is sald to ba excellent, 1tis neurlf’ In profile. "T'he roport oes that Millais recelved 3,000 gulneas from he THuatrated Lowdon News for his * Oln- derella,” now at the exhibitlon of the Royal Amu{uuu’. foruso In the Christinas supple- men & ; ‘The sales at the recent axhibition of the National Academy, at New York, amounted, for 113 pletures, ncc(mlinsi {o entalogt vrices, to $40,154. Among the latest sales were: V., Tojotti’s ** elien and Julie” for 54,000, J. F, Cropsey’s “Ramnpo Valley ' for 81,500, ond V. L, Sonntag’s *“ Morning 'in the Mountains ”” for $1,000, Mr, Walkius Is a Sncramento artist. 1lls most npmbitlous painting, n landscape with cows, was sold by nuetlon for 8540, and he wns elated ot the price. The purchaser was the provristor of u dairy-furm, and he plnced the pleture In his window 1 a sign painted on ench of the picturesquocows: * Morgan's pure milk producer.” ‘he artist sought to atop this use of his work, but was advised mlx:tl» tllta present owner could doas he pleased with Tho London Saturda I Whistler souds to the London Academy Ix- hibition My Lust Duchess,)—a portralt of her Grace tha Duchess of Stilton, Seldom has this countly painter been so fortunate in a subject or on luspiration. Reviving the fmclous clnasiealism of tho Inst century, the toynolds of our age has represcuted her tirnco as Juno with her pencock., The pen- cock, a renl fugue of Back's in the coruscat- ing harmonies of his cestutie notes of color, accupies the entire foreground, 1ler Graco is faintly Indicatud, we might say hinted ("ts a_mere innuendo, o breath, a “vapor on the ilnuu). In the middle distance. As Mlchuel ngelo commonly left o corner of the un- hewn rwle primeval marble In his seulpture, 80 Mr, Whistler hns neglected to glazo the hands and face of the Duchess.” —— A FABLE, Bome cawlng Crows, a hooting Owl, A Hawk, a Cannry, an old Marsh-Fowl, Unio day oll met 'ugothor, ‘T'a hiald W caulous and sottio the fato Of a cortuln bird (without o mnto), A bird of another foather, “My tr(‘:gds." id the Owl, with a look most wise, “Tho Enxlo {8 soaring too noar the akies, Inn way that hq‘flflo lmpraper; Yot tho world is pralsing hor, And I think her actions bave growi 8o bold , That some of us cught tastop her.'* * 1 havo heard it sald," nuath Hawk with n sigh, “That f'ounv lambs died at thogiance of her oye, And [ wholly scorn and deaplse hor, This, and more, ! um told thoy say— And [ think that the only propor way 18 never to recogaize bor," Review snys: “Ar, “1 am quits convinced,’ said Crow with a caw, “That the Kagle minds no moral iaw~— "gll:‘g: :n":?l"l‘ ";’n‘:'q“n'z"-"fi'?i',fli'é*.'nm Rird; Boma oAl HOr i aRdsOmO~It'8 80 ADIGRd—: Bhe hasn't a docont featurs.” Then tho old Marsh-Hen wont hopping about, Bho sald sho was suro—alic nadn’t a doubt— Of tho truth of each bird's nury;l And sho thought It o daty to stop hor Right, T'o pull hor down from ber lofty hight, And tuko the gllt from ber glory. . But lo! from a peak on the mountaln grand I'bat loaks out over the smiling land And over the nnghty ocean, ‘Theo FKugle le spreading hor splondid wings— 580 rises, rlscs, and upwiuni swings With a slow majestia motion, ‘v{y In tho bluo of God's own skios, th a cry of rapture, away sho files, ose to the Greut Bterualy 8ha gwoops tho world with her Flnl\:lnz sight— Her soul ls Atfed with the Ignito, Aad the joy of things supernal. ‘Thus rise forover the chosen of God, The gonius-crowned ur the powor-shod, Over tho dust-world salling; Aud back, like spliuters biow by the winds, Must fall Lhe missites of sfily minds, Uselees and unsvaiil ELLA’ WnExLER, e —— 1bave Iun%ruu’dbml the Bhakers' Sarsapa- rillas, and 1 think it & most valukble medicine,— Jervuilah Blake, M. D., Gilwaston, N, H, ENGL II ORTHOGRAFY. How It May Be Improved by Restoring Many Old . Spellings. Some Specimens of Gross Violations of Anglo-Saxon Etymology. Drosttent. F. A, Muteh, LL. D,y of Lafagetle College, Eualon, Pu., in N::I York ' m!nl":{flflnmr.f"’ e It has often been sald that tha most lin- portant invention ever made Is that of alfa- betic writing. Before that invention men used to deaw pletures for writing, or make other signs of vbjects or thoughts, and there wer ns may different slgns as there wer words In the writing. The lerned wernl titelr llves lerulng to read. It 18 now sa ln Chinese. ‘The invention of alfabetie writing consisted In writing sizns for the sonnds of spoken language, ‘Theelementary sonnds ar few in any langungs, thirty to fifty atnost, and may be leriul in o few hours, ‘This saves the labor of & lifetime. In Chinese thers ar two langunges, one spoken and ons wrltten, ench hns to be lernd by Rself, Where the writing is slfabetie there Is but one tan- guage, the spoken languaze, Writing I onty o tieans of recording and teansmitiog ity amd in o wel spelt Janguage spelling inay be lernd inn few hours. Inaperfect nlfahet there Is ono sign and only one for each elementary sound. One who knows It can tel at once from hearing o word exuctly how to write it, and from seeing a word axaetly how to pronnunce it. Every one knos that the English speling 18 NUT PERFECT. What with having been mixt np by Saxon. Normau, nnd the Dane {n the first place, and wixt in with Latin, Greek, Welsh, Iebrew, French, and o sprinkling of words from al tha rest of maukind, what with having been put in print by Duteh printers, and having been the sport of pedagozs. and profesors of Latin and Greek, and printers’ boys for gen- erations, while great changes of pronuncia- tion wer taking place al thru It, upseting the hole gamut of vowel sounds, we hay reacht at last the worst speling In the world, One con never tel in English how to write a word from hearing it, or how to pronounce n word fromn seeing It writen, ‘The writen language I In many respects a different language fron the spoken, It represents the langunge of soml past generation, or som furen: natlon, und wust be lernd, ench word by itself, with little help from the sounds, Ve make o very fair approach in complexity aud difil- culty to the Chinese, Qur peple hav been fond of this speling, or ot least proud of it. Is there not somining that muy wel stimulate honorable pride in having n speling that cannot be spelt without knoing Latin, Ureek, and French, and Anglo- Saxon, and n leash of other tungs 2 Butsince the science of [nngunge hins cum into being, and the £ %llsll lunguage has reslly becuu a subject of selentitie study, nnd the lerncd speling 1s found to be mostly a hubub of blunders, the time s‘peut in lerning it fs seen to be absurd waste for the literary clas, and WICKED ROBDERY of the seant school-time of the peple. Within the last ten years this matter has been very fuliy shown up. ‘The llugulatic scholars In whose speclalty our speling lles hay spoken out very freely in reprobation and objurgation o it, 1tis, lu .fact, among foren schiolars as well is _our own, the opro- brlumotEanlsh scholarship, - Dliteracy 1s also everywliere recognized ns one of the most presing dungers to fre institutions and to Chirlstian living, But what can we do about it? The appa- ratus which I8 familiar to our generation when any great moral work s 1o be don has been set in motlon. Speling-reform ussocl- ations hiny been formnd here and in England, Lecturers ar in the field, :Conventlons, State, National, International, ar held. The pres is uppenld to, and the Government. Schenes of reform swarim, But 18 fs evident that {f the world woves in the regular grouvs and we have no cataclysm, an effectunl reforin, atich nd to giv us a mlrl{ 4 ,s‘a(elt fanguage ko ul\muun or¥panistwitl take several génern- tlons. When this is said, however, it 18 not_Im- plied that nothingean be dons atonce, It is not necessary to wait til everybody who reads Lnglish Is ngreed ton complate system before doing anything, From u publisher’s polnt of view, In the first place, us soon us thero ar o sufilclent number of persons nltozether who wil buy books In sinended speling, or take a periodi- cal printed In it, to make a substantial and ln‘nmnblu biznes, the time bas cum to estab- ish a publishing house to carry on this blz- nes, and to ESTABLISI REFORMD SPELING among thess lmyo?. ‘This time has alredy cim. Isanc Pltman, of Bath, Eugland, the fuinous - Inventor of fonetle stenografy, pub- lishes the Phonctlc Journul, o weekly paper with a clreulntion of over 12,000, Ifis sub- scribers are seattered al over tho world, but the Jonrnal has been publisht slnce 1843, and s stedily, I slowly, Incrensing its circu- Iation. Mr. Bitman niso publishes varlous books, tracts, charts, an e llke, and his biznes is one of the great ones in hngluml. There 13 also g fonetie depot in London, kept by Mr, Fred Pitman, which doubties pays, Abiznos-inan will see at once how this biznes intospred, As soon asthe Luyers becum numerous enu, be smm:llh‘uml Mne the use of this kind of printing with new vigor, making it familiar to wmore persons, and so giving rise to st new publishers. There ar, in fact, alredy many smaler establishinents, emulating Mr, Pitman in England. and thora ean be llttle «out that the thne is fully ripe for the start- ing of an American publishing hous, If any Dliman s redy toman it. Perhups no town or clty woud at once support It, but it woud rnpi«l‘ly gather its constituency from the hole country, And &m groat biznes coud hardly be bilt up before our versatil publishers woud al bo puting out a book or two In amended speltng. And now what sort of wPullng coud such a publishing hous use? What sort ot spelin does Mr. Pitman use? The anser io this question indicates that NEFORM MUST DE GRADUAL. Sueh a publishing hots woud of corse use, as Mr. Pltman does, ditferent kinds of npaflng for dliferent purposes; matter intended for enthusinstic reformors 1S one thing, mission- nry mattor to win over oponents or interest the indifferent Is quite anothor. looking at the printed matter from another point of view, It may be seon to ba of thre Kkiuds, for sciontific use, for school use, for popuinr reading, Our dictionnrles ar the inost famil- inr examples of the first kind, They under- take to glv the pronunclgtion, and in order to do It they must hav s foWetic nlfabet. The make one by ading dfscritical murks ton suf- ficlent number of “the letters, Webster, for exauple, hing forty letters markt to indicate their ~ oxact pronunclation, hese or printed along "the bottom of ench pair of pages in the unabrigd dictionary, Mauny other works bestdes dictlonaries necd to glv the pronunclation of eccnsional words or lettors, ~ Looks of travel, grografical man- unls, esnys on langunge, and the like, ar tul of occasfons of that kind. Our dictionaries now use different aifabets, Worcester au Webster hav each to be lernt, and so with other books. ‘I'nkon al together umYv T~ sent such a complication that the' scholara wlio uso o dictionary ' dozen tlmes o doy hay to look at the kéy overy time to make aut the sound In doubtful cnses. It woud be a very groat imediate gnin If som comploty fonetic alfabet wer agreod on_for such uses, ‘The Natlonal Asociation of Great Dritaln for the Promotion of Social Science has had this matter baforo them, and taken action in favor of an MSTABLISHT RCIENTIPIO SPELING, No one woud object to ths use of perfect fonetlc speling for such usos as these, Aud this spel 13 also oxactly what the radical reformers want t ave used at once In every- thing they read, Newspupers and other worky printed spaclally for them mngeuc oned by printed u this way The number of readers 8 now sial, but most of them ar strong in faith, und beleve the only juode ot progres Iy to hold up the perfect stahdard snd rally al mon to it. Wa may bo sure when the battle is won they wil hav no dout who won it. But perhaps the tmediate value of this kind of speling 13 to be found In its belng a guide and sthmulus to partial refonu, rather than in Its power of comending itself directly to the majority for imedlate adoption. Our present speling has departed so far from fonetic speling that very fow readers recognize the words in fonotic spoling fast enuf to read with vlesure, ‘The lmprovments of speling hav been gradual heretofore, and they ar lficely to be so hereafwr, The pub- lishier of popuiar reading, newspapers, or boaks of general Interest must keep within tho bounds of what Is easily intolligibl, lu this field, therefore, reform must be gradual aud it seoms likely that horo the redy reformc ers Wil most succesfully initiate” improve ments, 'The elders of the present generntion renember the lively combats over the words ending in -our nnd -lck when Webstor gave hls authority in sor and -fc, I romomber when speling munlo first appeard in tha streets of Worcester. A now-cumer in ihat centre of Massachusetts, which Is the centreof the universe, put oul. aslgn lotterd musie-atore, ‘I'he sehiool-boya used to stop and spel it with deristy shouts, and plaster the sign With mud-bals In sumuer and snow- buts fn winter, “But mnusick lina now gon after Shakapere’s nnsique, and the —ourgmn Kon too, nomy hackt by etymolo sermd to demand these changes, Theschool- tasters and the literary men, who control the spellng, with the adviee and eonsout of the printers, knew that the Latin mustea had no kI ity and howor lnd a0 win it m’(l'ollnlsu:lgly”(flv:‘ch ‘u.-u w‘lw.n\vunls nr mm ¢ chunged next, They are wo Which hav useles letters which ny} 4 WHONG IN KTYMOLOOY, ,nm greater part of these ar Anglo-Saxon. The “famlline woras from Latin ar fairly apelt, But fifty years ago the inen who knew Anglo-Saxon cotd be counted on the fingers, It was studied powhera In England” or Ameriea. It wns left to our orators atkl csny- writers to dilate upon the glorles of the mother tung, or prandmother tung, of which they knew not one word, T{lzl! lexi- cografers ‘and profesors of Innguage wer worse atll, "They gave currency to imagin- ary derlvations “of Auglo-Saxon Englis) favor words from Latin and. Greck, and wnisspolt\ them o perpetaate their blunders, Thus the olit English Hand (1sland), meaning land in water, Wwasimagined to be from Latih tnsula, and on that buseles faney n silent » was in- serted to preserv the memory of the Latin, The ald English rime (chyine) was supposed tove from (reek, [ike rhythm, and 4o was misspelt nto the semblunce of a Greek derivatly, 'The old sithe ~(scythe) was thought to be from the root of Latin scindo, and wns fixt uP aceordingly, with {ta Inckles companions (i Dinndering, scfssors and achinlter or seymetur, or howuver they choose to spel the old English cimeter. Tung was 1 guod old Lnglist word,.bat aur Latin- Ists thonght it was a forn of the Latin ln- qrua, Krench langue, and they turnd it into tongue. An Anglo-Saxon scholar cannot rite such words s these without n protest. And the Anglo-Saxon scholirs sr becoming numeroys. No branch of stady has so rown In favor within the last ten years. here ar few, If any, of our wel-mand col- leges without n corse in it and It {s fast spreding in aur high-schouis and academies, "Theso etymologles ar becaning part of the commonglaces of -tha school-room, They hav alrendy rencht the popular dictlonaries. ‘I'ie new edition of Worcester, our great con- ?’L‘-?‘mlv authority in pronunciation aud spel- ) HAS THEM FAITHPULLY RECORDED, Iland, for exanple, 18 down in its proper place, and we are told that It 1s the cotrect speling of {xland; and under {sland the saue statoment s ented, with the expla- nntion that the 4 has heen ignorantly inserted thru confusing it with {sle, from tnsula, with rime and sithe and others. It secmis Impossibl that thess blunders can hold their grotund uch longer. ‘The snme may be sald of similar words, the disgutise of which 18 not to be traced to the Latin etymologist, Thus the L of could Is a madlern insertion under the influenco of wonld and should, the ls of which com from witl and shall. The 1 inwhole Is & pure blunder, vold of malice ufurethought, but 1t sepnrutes its victim from the kindred hale, heal, health, holy, und wenkens the sigmii- cance of the hole fumily, "There Is a class of wards In which an unfonetie and unetymo- logie ¢ ins been inserted: feather, from the old fether, leather, from lether, and the like, Webster dres utiention to thess and spelt them correctly, but thers wer not ten Anglo- Saxons in America to staud by him. Thero ar some seventy common words in which ca has the sound of short ¢, and the speling re- formers might n8 well reform m al-at ouce, Iteaders of old English Whose eyes ar made glnd by tho pages of Ciucer, and Spenser, and Shakspere are now uumerous enuf tomake & fashion. There is another hablt of the erly writlzg which may wel be more extensively used, that of speling the past tense and partieiple of verbs A8 THEY AR PIONOUNCT, writinz ¢ final when that Is the sound. It has nlways been i use, was once unlvursal, and 18 now ngen becoming commons wish aulxd, kist, shrickt, und the like, ean be use . by any author withont emburrasing hiy read- [ Tho revisul of goorl okl apullngs com- onds itself indeed to literary ar and erities of English lltoraturs “as an attractiv trait. Thero ein be no student of Shakespera who dovs novtind that Mr, Furnival’s Intro- ductivn to the * Leopolil Shiakspers” hns a peculiar planuney nud keeping frowg his fre- quent happy use of these foris, hey nr o sauce to his good wit, norcan they be eaviare to the gencral, ‘The {nterest In thls kind of reform s so great that the Filologleal So- clety of London has been indueed by many appeals 1o tuke up the matter in ernest and appoint a committes to report upon it, Mr, Swuet, the wel-knon leader of Apglo-Saxon scholarship in Enziond, has lxm-.l\' mado the ru!mrl. The ppuntlet cnnmlnlnf: i#1s entitled * Purtial Corrections of English speiings roc- now publishing houses will | omended by the Filologlieal Socloty for imme- dinte mluPllnn." ‘Thery I\rfllll‘l?‘- lires pnges of it, made up largely of listy of tords to be amended, The great body of, the wmend- ments proceed on historical or ‘stymological grounds, such as hav been fllustrated fn this articl, Most of thom conslst in the droping of slient letters. Silentcly THE GREATEST OFFRNDER? There ar somthing like twenty counts in, the indictiment wmingt it, twenty lists of speolti- cations, som of them long. words Inwhich e 18 fonstically misleading, 08 being used after n short vowel and sing consonunt. It 13 regularly an orthografio expedient in such a position to denote u Iona vowel; have, for example, ought by goos right to rime with slave, rave, brave, grave, and the Ilke; W[Ifhm' should rime with hive, strive, altve. 'The verb Lve, 18° rong too, Thore ar hosts of such words: medicin duoctrin, genuin, definit, infinit, qmnu. ang 80 on. ‘Then there ar 1sts of words in which an ¢ I8 simply useles, as the length of the preceding syllable Is plaln without 1it, as in believe, lecu. where the ditthong shows tho longth; or in carve, m:rm:l ‘where the consonants ar a’sufficient guide. It Is navized to chungo -re to -er, centre to center, thentre to theater, With such baoking this Improv- meut will no lonwor figure as an Amerlegn- Isin or n Websterism, Wo ar to drop the dof ~l¢ In many words, assembl, axi, coupl, beadly and the llke, and in the terminations -able, ihle, auy fele, a8 In Imllnmllm'cdlb artick It wil take us n long time to getrid of al those ¢'s, Meantime we can be golng on with OTHER IMPROVMENTS. ‘The fllologists, or at least Mr, Sweet, wil hay It that for leopurd and i rdy the older spelings fepard, jepardgBhal bo réstored; coman should be I{umlm. “The unhistorical of yartiument should be dro‘rt. ‘The old English snd ol Frenchu shoud be restord In guvern (gubernatoer), munkey, tung, wuider, wiri, and a long listof words now spolt with o. The orfginal*4 shoud bo re stord in wimen (women). A long Itst ol worils with a modorn ow shoud Ro back ta their historie u; jumg uaum%). (double), cuntry, nurish, and the TiLf, ugh, thrie After g, w 18 rong in nativ English words ko g (Funnl) gardian, flrm\tcc, and 50 =g In catnlog (calalogue), demagog, dinlog, harang (harangue), and the like. 'The re- port nlso Informs us that words ending In dubl by d, g, 3, 7, 1, 8¢ runfl- we shoud write ch (nni ehb), 80 ad (not ad i). eg, and pur for eqg wnd l.lurr. A great many words dorived from old Fronch and Anglo-Suxon ar spalk Incoreotly with dubl consunants to make them look. like Latin: « front la spelt nto affront, « fulve into-ufalr, a-forthtan Into afford, a-ciersod Into accursed, as tho they wer compounded with Latin ad-: and the list 18 long, A silent b has boen ndded with- out rime or reason to many words: erumb, Umb, iy, tuenh; and for a very bnd res- son to 8 gooid many more; those, iamely, in wiilch the Latinlsts hav tn modern times fn- serted it as u romiuder of the Latin word from whiel it orlginally came; dout (doubt) and (debt), for" exampl, had loal thabof tho Latin dublit-o and debit- In the kos rougth, sud tongh ought to bo en P and throtgl i : S Tl 205 = 4 ; . ‘The first ar dubd - s French from wiich the old Engllsh came; . doubt und debt or unhistorie, sing they wou teach that wo took them from the Latin in- sted of the French. Aany times ch is rong thru the BLUNDERING OF TIIE GRERKLINGH; ake I3 the tru old speling of ache, as Worces- ter takes care to Inform us; anker has tor gotten Its Greok, aud maskorades us anchor; ¢ for & is common: In elnder, old Euglisit sinder, ancled to be from Fronch cendre; pence, wher o Is for the plural sign x; wiee, where ¢ Is for the genliiv x, and tho Nke. Sovercign is another blunder of the Latin- ists, who lmugind It to be a compound ol regi-o, to refgn, insted of the adjectlv supars an-us. Milton's sovran has pleasant asso- clations. The words which in erly English wer spelt -abn and -cln from French -ain hav elther taken ain ‘exclusively, which is couunon fagh or -eus