Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 8, 1881, Page 9

8, 1881—SIX v wew P UBLICA 710. MESIAL ALBU by FORESTIER and ANDERSON, persis |, sirnitgo, nod yot strangoly cans Accolleetion et wa ichnates feunn the ined oe Ont aed ac tho muaic tint Ineplecd We bimuct millaelishtigvors uf wnt ie wilt, rleb, paid ecient GANRFIELD'S FUNERAL MARCH, Fine portale Xo ROBERT FRANZ’ ALBUM OF SONG. Vit and new, Approved by tho Mnater Himsolf, A Hieh overy note Isngem. German and Ens Bi An wien ohudred exquisite sons, #2 vuardsy WwW cloth. Mrnabp oy Prater, For Choirs nnd Conventions, 1, WOES TE ALT. fies ay nging-Hchoo! Huok of the dix- durable cotiectton of interests Tevtive niusle, combined Inn prace course, Ident suceess in an ideal sult fram u Boa BETLS, For Commun School LYON & HEALY, Chicago, Ill. OLAVEI DITRON & CO, Hosta, BUNDY’S > Life of Garfield. Price 31. Kmeraun, @ cts, {2mo. Cloth. WAstnaTos, 1. Cu Oot. 4, 1951, GENTLEMEN? Of tho inn tives of the Inte Prest~ dunt (1 have eon ten ur trrelve) published during tho eampatan last yonr, that of Major Bundy ning be slite nallzedt as regards authenticity und general iuterort, js within my knowledge that Major Bundy had ace ton tnrge mass of correspondence and private momorandn, whieh afurded kim ununual facilities In the preparation of his work=In fact, a lnbor of fovo— whiely in my judgmont, was well and faithfully done, Tn munklng this statement! de not undervalue the work of othor weitora who, with the materint at thelr command, tried to iHustrate a life whiel hun bocomo Gancred memory In tho hearteof the Amertcan pov plo, Very truly yours, A ROCKWELL, Blowsrs, AS. BARNES & CO. Publishors, 11 ond 113 Wullant-st, New York. “ The Family Library. Now Novol by VIOLET ntitiga “SUNDER A GOLDEN VEIL.” fe, Hold by all nowsdentors, | International Nowa tlae General Agents, Steal Weokmmnente Ne ty News tu. Goneral seen MR. EDMUND YATES. London “World No. 8 chasms No, 16 contain: 8 charm The Editor of Explains How is Paper Suy that a Certain Clans of “Should Bo Avoided Like Americans or Frankfort Jows.?? To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, 1 York Srneetr, Covent GAnDEN, Losnon, W. C., Thursday, Sept. 22, t881.— shall begreatly obliged by yourgiving pub- licity to the following statement. + Lhave recelved this morning from an an- onymous correspondent a copy of the Now York Sun of Sept. 9, in which Is the follow- ing editorial note: Wo learn from Tue Curcado Triwuxe that Die. Edmund Yates, tho editor of a pnper called the World, publiched {u London, suid recently, in speaking of a certain cluss of nujannces, tint “thoy sould bo avoided like Americans ur Fraukfort Jews.” fie Gaoxe thinks thut Mr. Yates recolved great hoapltulity during his ‘Vialt to this country soveral yours ugo, and that bis spleen Teluexp) iuable. ; This nodoubt is trie, in regard to ontertaiuing bin at dinner and treating him with politences: but this is not whut Mr. Yates desired bere. Ho knew that Mr, Tunckeray and Mr. Dickens had found great success and bad made much mney by Ieoturing and reading in this country; and hla hopo was that tho Yankees would como in crowds to tho Jcotures bo wished to give thom and Mt his pock- ots With tholr cash, In this, however, he wus dis- appoluted.. Tho lovtures. wore duil,.and the Yunkeos avoided them; and Mr. Yates ju turn thinks that the Yankees ought to bo avolded, Hy tho way, dia not Mr. Thackeray describe Mr, Yates hinaolf ug a sort of nuisance? Thore 1a Q tradition of that kind, lad this statement ns well as the comment whieh It hos evoked emunated from the Now York Sun, Ishouid have taken no more notice of it than 1 have of the various amenities which from tine to time I havo recelved atthe hands of tha conductorof that Journal, but, being fully aware of tha position deservedly held by Tm Cittcaco ‘Trinune, Fam unwilling to aceopt the con- tuinely thus thrown upon mo without stat- ing my case, The expression which has given offenso appeared In the World of Aug. 31, ina por- tlon of the paper entitled “What the World Says.” which strives to present an epitome ofthe gossip of the day, and whilel Is the production of very many writers. ‘The Ine gttoted reads offensivuly as itis given, but nototfensively, I submit, whon taken with the context, which fs to tho effect that school inistresses and their pupils on tour ara disagreenble companions and are to eo “avolted ike =the plague—or the traveling curates, or tho Americans, or the Frankfort Jews, or,..iu faet, anybody traveling.” However thls may be, T willing- ly admit that, had the paper bean ti my. elle torlal charge, 1 should not have permitted the expression to puss; but, asa matter of fuet, Ewas at that date many lundred mites Bway on my annual hollday. . And now, sir, having sald thia much about the paragraph, L will, with penutsston, say fow words npon the general chirge brought Oygaiust me by the writurin the Sun, ‘That iy lectures were dull 1s very possible; 1 do not claim to possess the scholarly culture of Mr, Dana, or the retined polish of Mr, Joseph Howard, but I deny that they were nnsue- cessful, or thatthe * Yankees avatded them.” Jn tho course of a six months’ tour, during which 1 had to give up many engagements Mn consequence of the extraordinary se yority of the wenther, L earned, ‘after paying all expenses of travellnz, ving, ete, a net profit of over $7,000, ‘The lectures wera delivered to yery {nro nuiiences In New York, Boston, Pitladelphin, Washing- ton, Chicago, Albuny, Rochester, Pittsburg, Buitalo, Detroit, and Portland (te). Liat not go to the Sonth, and my visit to the West ‘Was prevented by an engagement from Mr, James Goruon Bennett to represent the New York Herald tn Lurope, an appolutment to which a munisicont salary was attached, and which Lhetu for two years. L could not without tronelilnis upon private matters speak of tha hospitality which I received wherover I went, but Lmiay say that during ny stay In New York. 1 was made an_hon- orary, (renter of the Union, the Union Leagud, the Manhattan, and the ‘Travelers? Clubs, and a ife-member of the Lotos, and that the distinguished nen from whont personal uttention and civility 2. Tecel Wore Gen. Grant (then President), Mr, Evarts, Chicf-Justice paly. Judge ‘Brad Ys tr, Horace Greeley, Mr Belknap and Mr, Robeson, Secretaries of State, Mr, Belmont, 8. 1. Barlow, Mr. Butlor Duncan, Prof, Longfellow, Dr, O. W, flolmes, Col, Jubii Hay, Mr, Whitelaw Reld, Mr. Bret Harte, and the editors of the Jeating journals {n the Yarlous cities where I lectured, So much for my having beon * avolded by the Yankees,” + dtonly remains for ine to udd once and for all—for it 18 by no means the first the L have notteed that random expressions regarding America which appear oceastonally in the World are ascribed to me and adversely commented upon by American Journals—to state that f have never fulled, in publis or In private, to. Sx nroas my gratitude to the Amerjean Nation, which by {ts appreciation of iny efforts enabled inv to take the tirat steps In achleving whatever good fortuna T may now enjoy, Lam, slr, fulthfully yours, 5 Evuunp Yat, oo STRANGEST OF ALL. It is so very strango that I am fain Ey suy ‘tie falsa Sod with a little frown Yoxlug her brows, sho laid tho romance down, Buch etrangy things du not bup; such joy ana fe ah! ono day— What changes do the switt yours inakel—I ervas Ter path again: a her face had somothing lost 4 Hi something gaincd, and thus | acaed hor gay? How weak aud poor {8 the romancor's art! here is uo tongue or pen that cun portray Ht ¢ story of the elmpicat human beat. + ? nee bud tead and wondered; now, in sooth, Know there's naugbt ao bittervstrange as ‘Truth.’ _ “Carlotta Henry in New York Supt ! TERATURE. Three Months in the Cold Rogion of Scandi- navin. The Yorktown Campaign and tho Surrender of Corn- wallis, Three of the Oldest Books in Eu- rope in Our Publio Li- brary. A Collection of Juvenile Works—The Re- vised Statutes—Theology Bound. Magazines — Art Publications — Books Received—Literary and Art Notes. LITERATURE. NORSK, LAVP, AND FINN, Mr. Vincent will be pleasantly remembered by readers of works of trayel on account of his publication entitled “Tha Land of the White Elephant,” of which a new edition has just been issued, From tho tropics to the Arctic Zune isa tong leap, but Mr. Vin- cent hns taken it, His present volume con- {ains his observations and records his exe periences during several months of travel in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, where, iu- stend of the lnrge, showy flowersand gigantic parasitic plants of equatorial regions, ono meets the dwarf bireh, the gray alder, and generally stunted vegetation, In theregions: of heat ian is ardent and cifusive; about the polar circles his emotions are cons gealed, Many books have been written on those northern uations, who mtuber 10,000,000 people and oceupy over half a million square mies, But there.are no works of: recent date; none embodying the Intest statistics, facts, or observations essential for a clear iden of the intellecttal, Industrial, and com- mercial conditions of these countries, Even Bayard Taylor's pictures of Senndinavia were mnady over twenty-dlve years azo, More- over, he never visited Finkandt at all, and al Ils personal knowledge of Denmark was uc- uiilred Ina three days’ stay at Copentingen, journey throng Norway and Sweden of- fers many attractions to the tourist, and ev. ery year dds to the nimmber of those who are extending their travels in that direction, Mr Vineent has written a valun- ble and an entertaining book. Valuable because he studied us well as observed, and has accumuhited the faets that everyone de stres to know before visiting the countries he rents about, tertaining beeditse clearly and concisely written, and deabing with nations and countries whose imunners and customs, 23 well ag inte nil svenory, are so entirely differant from our own, s Published In New York by G, 2. Putnam’s jons. TNE REVISED STATUTES, We have received from tha Chiengo Legal News Company a ‘copy of the “levised Statutes of the State of Mlinols” for 1831, compiled and edited by Harvey LB. urd This work has one great advantage over many books that are published, It Is absolutely indispensable for avery lawyer, and necessary to many members -of other professtons, or’ in business, ‘The Legisiature of 1881 mnde so many changes in tha Inws,: particularly In those relating to tho ndimintstration of as- tates, aulmuls, charities, cittes, villages and towns, conunizsion of clalins, conveynnees, Coroners, costa, courts, erininal code, dralie uge, elections, fareibte entry and detainer, gurnishment, guardian and ward, Insuratce, Justlees and Constables, libraries, marriages, imedicine and surgery, mortgnges, negotindle {nstruments, oficers, oficlat bonds, parks, Peultentinry, practlee, quo warranto, rall- roud ald ponds, railroads and warehouses, reployin, revenue, schuols, surveyors and surveys, venue, and wills, that another re- vision of the statutes which should contain in one volume all the Inws of the State of a general nature became absolutely necessary. ‘This edition contains all tho iaws In foree on tho 1st day of October, 1¢31, THE YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN. Mr. Jolinston’s work Is thniely and valun- Die. Issued on the eve of an international eclebration of the vietory which made our independence a fact, It furnishes, In a come pact form, the Information with which every reader ought tobe familiar, but which he muy not know exactly where to find, Ant so curefully have all available sources of In- formution on tho subject been consulted that the little book attains tho dignity of a yalua- ble contribution to the history af the Revolus tion, ‘Tu ‘TMpuxe has ulrentdy published a Tong and complete account of the Yorktown campaign and of the surrender of Corn wallls, so that It fs unneeessury to quote from Mr. Johnston's book or to outline its contents. It is a full, completa and ndmirable necount of a grent event, or rather of aserles of events. And in the appendix will be found a rare collection of Jetters, journals, ete, many of them never before published, and what ts of especial and peculiar interest is the appended complete organization of Washington’s army, with all the field ofllcers and every battalion proper! brigaded. Maps and {lustrations are inane ant, TITEOLOGICAL WORKS, “Tho Mosiic Era’ is anothor volume from tha pen of the former pastor of the See- ond Presvysterlan Church of Chicago, tho Rey, J. Munro Gibson, D. D. It consists of a series of lectures by tho author on E Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronom, approprintely follows the former work, en titled “The Ages Before Moses.” It is the alm of Dr, Gibson in these lectures to du velop tha spiritual Import of the cere. mionlal and typical rites that aro re quired by the Miwa of Blouses, Hopco he does not consider every _portlon the four books that are more strictly called the Mosaic law, Only those parts are dwelt Upon that pertain to tho Hebrew ritual, As tho design of the lectures Is practical, those questions in regard to the authorship and dates of the books which It Is the special business of "the higher criticism” to deal with ara not discussed, At the same Uno the author hopes that he may have shed soma ght on those questions by showing the fit- ness of the Mosaic system to its place as the early educator of the Mebrow people tn rela- ton to tho fundamental truths of rovented religion, Dr, Gibson ts a pleasant and clear writer, In the present lectures he has evinced good jutlgmont in keeping the mean between: extreme Steralism and yndue spiritaniizing, ‘The book will be fountread- able nud instructive, It well sustains the author's reputation as a lucid and intelligent writer, {ts not suversly critical, und, Ike the author's other works, leaves room for quentiontng In regard to sonia of the views advanced. It cannot fall to bo useful, —J. LB, Lippincatt & Co., of Philadelphia, have Intely published a yolime prepared by Edmund A, Beaman on Swedenborg and ha Naw Ago; or, “The Holy City, New deruaniem,” It ts the purpose of tho huthor to show what tha New Jornsalem is, and when snd how it, comes down from God out of heaven; and Sweitenborg's mission tn relation toit. ‘The work embraces an ox- tended introduction respecting “God and Man.” ‘Lhe writer holds that Swedenbore Is to be aceeptod as a religious teacher only so far as his writings commend chenselyes to the reason and conselence of men, al- though wo presume he would not say that any of those writings do not thus commend themselves. Itwould be dificult for any one tounderstand fully Mr. Deaman’s dlscis- slong who Is not fuiniliar with the peculiar doctrines of the new Church and the terms that gre customarily uaed by Swedenborgian writers, And, understandingthe thoughts ads vunced, It would seq that the reader must Higa ay find spiritual se Mr, Beamar araplis Whit, th real a ullar mental tendency to bes with the distinetions that aye drasvn ad Ines that are nfinned. We refer ing reader to the volume Itself for a full development of the author's views re- aarding Sweel His call anid bores relation ta. the Lord, paration, fils writings and the 4 hits books andthe Advent ete, asks, in tbs concluding par Is tho position of ¢ —the imiuref the he writhnes of Il fs that ot ard to the writs wun oF this y Jerusnlori—in reg Swedenborg 2” and answe a rational Inilrer, ag ine te Ings of any other author, welghhug them and Judging them necording to tw measure of rationnl sitisfaction he derives from thers, ‘They are authority to flim, Just xo far and only so far ns they help bin io rationally see truth, or what Is truth to hin; and then it ts not the writings, whieh are ingre statements of truth, but the truth ltself thus rationally geon—which 14 the Lurd—that Is ‘uithority.? Tf, then, these writings do not help ns to see truth, they are not authoritative for us, whieh describes the condition of many who think themselves candid readers, 1 W. DP. Ne' JUVENILE BOOKS, “Boston ‘Town’? is a work prepared by Tlornce EB, Scudder, authar of those charm ing books for children known as the Bod ley Books.” ‘This volume iy Uustrated and houtsonely gotten up, but the lus trations ara Himited fn onimnber and de- eldedly old-fashioned, and = the elnb- orate cover Is more than $s required on achild’s book, ‘The contents of the work are Ju the slinpe of stories or tales narrated by Mr. Benjamin Callender forthe benefit and Justruction of his grandsons, and they contaln alltho more important points of Boston's history down to the tline of the Revolution, Mr, Sendder's tdea was wt happy one—to hang tho narrative upon the tyes and public sery- ices of n few great incn and tho history of a few public buildings of Natlonal fame, —"Storles of Adventure,” by Edward FE, Hale, Is the third ina series suggested at the Librarians’ Congress In Boston, ‘The next yolume will be" Storles ot Discovery Told by Discoverers.”) Whatever Mr. Tile writes is sure tobe —seentertain- ing In theso volumes he — hus, however, tried to do more thu merely to ene tertaln iis renders, He seeks so to titerest boys and itis inthe men about: whom and tho events of which he writes that they will be fed'to read mud stidy them fi amore etith- ornate works. His sketches are clearly writ- fen and cleverly told, being espechilly de. siznec for young people who are somewhat funillar with history and geography, anclent and modern, —"Thoe Quartet”? is n_ sequel to “Dab Kinzer,” by Witliam O. Stoddard, Dabney: Kinzer, Vord Foster, Frank tarley, aud the young colored boy, Dick Lee, are the quartet Whose dolngs are here: revorded. They will all be remembered with pleasure by readers of Dab Kinzer’? We find them now at school amt ng twlof fun and frofle as ever, and yet equally ardent in their pursuit ol knowledge. ‘The book carries tem to the ent of thelr school days, indientlng: the final fate of ench, and leaving Dab on the edge of mittrimony. " = Aine the jnvenita bools of tho week is one by Jallana Horatia Ewlng. called “Mrs, Overtheway’s Remembrances.” Lt is a work for children of a dozen yeurs or so who are fond of sitting by themselves and reading something which Is neither written way be- lew nor way above then, ‘The story points many morals and contiing 2 goad deal of wholcsomeinstruction, ** Mrs. Overthewny " tulls the stories found here to “Little du,’ and doubtless many Mttle Jdas will be ghd tu have thom told again for thelr benefit. —Still mother writer has been employing her pe for the benefit of the Httle folks, Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson has told at length the “True Story of Seventeen Cats,” und has called this intest fruit of her Iterury bors * Maminy Titticback and Her Fauily. There are a umber of very good Htustra- tions by Addic Ledyard, and “ti. 11.7 Is a writer of too extended experience In dealing: with children to fail in telllng an entertain- ing story. —Dinplo Dopp and Othor Stories” Is_ar admirable book for little people, by Laura s. ii. Cooke, It is a coltectlan of three fairy stories or tales in that style. ‘There are sev- gral quaint Hustrations to interest the young ones, and we doubtiot they will find this one of thd inost acceptable of the amany books written for their especial use. —"Cross ‘Pateh” 13 o story for young children, by Susan Coolidge, who knows bow tosny just what the Httle people want to hear, ‘he tale {8 intended maiuly for very little girls, and they will fotluw Patty's his- tory with profit. and posstbly lvarn. the wis- dom of cultivating a cheerful, obedient spirit, and always doing as they are bid, ANCIENT LITERATURE. Three very remarkabte books have been recently added to tho already splendlil col- lection in the Public Library of this city. ‘They ara the three most Importunt books thatextstin the old Guelle language of Lre- Jand and Svotland, and are called respective- ly the Book of tha Dun Cow, the Speek- ted Book, and the Book of Leluster. It 3 not perhaps quite correct to call them hooks, for the term book now means a printed volume; the works in’ question are in reality imanuseripts, and the coples In the Public Library here are fac shinites. of the originals, The work of reproducing them and putting them before scholars exactly as they appear in tho original muntscripts was performed by the Inte Mr. O’Longan, and was one of the most tedious, trying, and Inhorions tasks: of the kind ever undertaken In either ancient or modern times, ‘The manuseriys wero first carefully copied by hand and then pho- tographed; every ¢rror, If any existed in them, has been carefully copied; and, with tho exception of the many beantl{al iuml- nated or colored capital letters which they contain, thoy have been exaclly re- produced, When the yolumjnous nature of these oll books [8 understood, tho task performed by Mr, O’Longan will be better understood. Tho Speckled Book and the Book of Lelnester contain euch vory nearly as much mutter as thore Is in the Old Testament; tho Book of tho Dun Cow” not nearly so voluminous, and Ig only a mere fragment of tho original, fully half of ft having been lost, ‘Thesa books are perhaps tha most remarka- bie monuments of the kind possessed by any European nation, for although the date of their transcription fs not so very ancient, the Jangunge of the greater purt of them is much more qucientthan the Gaelle that was cur Tent at the tine they were transeriied, ‘Tho Boak of the Dun Cow, * Lerohar ma h-Uld- nei,” Isso named from having been written on vellum that was manufactured from the hide of i vurticulur dun cow sald to bo owned by Saint Linran, ‘Chis book was copled about the year 1080 by a Jay monte of Cloumnenols; so that it may he safely sald that in the Mook of the Dui Cow we hive 4 falr sumple of the Gaelic of the sixth century; although it seems prob. able, in fact ceruin, thit the Levite. who copled Jt in the eleventh century added Jnrgety to it by insertlug some compositions of umore recent date, Tho Book of Lelie ster, * Leathar Lalghian,” comes next in ane tiquity. ‘The date of its transcrlption could ardly have been Known at all were it not for a very curlous marginal entry made prob: ably by the serlbe who copled tt, ‘Tho entry Is us follows: “Oh, Mary! itis a wouderful thing that has been dony in Ireland, today, Dermott, the son of Murrough, King of Lelnator and the Danes, to be banished tast- ward across the sea by the men of Ireland, ord, what shill { dof? ie iy certain from this that the Hook. of Lelnster existed prior to the Norman invasion under Strong- ay, however long it may have been com piled before it, The Speckled Book, *Leathar Lreae,” was compiled some tine In the fourteenth century; but as aw proof tint the date of the compilation of thesu ald books forins no busts as to the antiquity of the language In which they: are written, it is w fact that some of the most ancient, specimens uf Gaelic oxtant are td be found. in the Speckled Book, tl though the language curyent In Treland and the date at which the Book of the Dun Cow was transcribed has also been aseertalnied by the means of marginal entries in the bool Hoelr, which aay hat it was compiled by 0 di certain lay monk of Clonmacnuis about, the pent 1080, ‘The data for fixing tho pe of the pecklod Book exactly are wanting, but none of the Celtic antiqtartes believe that it wis coupled previous to the middle of the fourteenth century, Beotland tn the four- teenth century was hardly diferent from the Gaelic spoken jn those countries at pres- ent. Tho extreme care and skill with which hese old bvoks were Ww warmest adiniration. ‘They ure almost ay uiuelt works of art ag they are repositories of ‘Mterature, Some of the capital tetlers In them must have taken. houry to make, aud there ig an evenness, regularity, ait bealy In the handwriting whieh It would be almost Inposaibte to Imitute at present; for eare- fullyas Mr. O'Longan vopied then: he hind Hot steadfiress ot Daud enongh to reproduce thelr. wonderful original reguinrity, whieh ean be 1 Sn photographs of tha original vellum oon which thoy were written, and whici ore nttached to an appendix in each of the books, In some pliets the vellum 1s 80 black and diseotored that an unpracticed ©: would fall to discover t single legible word, and it was in suelt Wegible places that Mr. O'Longan’s seholarship and experlence in deelpherlng old writings proved of such great use to the lover of anclent literature, as there probably was not anowier man to be found iy Burope with enough patience and knowl- edge of the language to be able to reproduces. the writing on the many discolored) paper, some of which tad been written for neatly a thousand yours. These old books, like Binant avery allisr relie of the past, seem full of contradictions to the modern niind. ‘Ol Ww! has been anid of the beauty and regularity of the pen- meanship to bes in them, one would at ones suppose that they wi so. legible that “those who rin might read” theo Th very contrary {3 tho en: ‘The best Celue scfiolar that ever lived, one who would know every word in them, could not read them without practice; for whether from pedante, or from «desire tospare the yel- iin and erowd as much inatter as possible into uw sinall space, tha writers practiced 0 system of contractions, many of which seem to have hud no object whatever, except to puzzle the reader, Hardly one word in three Is wrilten In full, and: soimetines tho initint letter only fs xlven. Many of tho contractions are arbitrary. and some of, thom simply men that oa cere nin” letter or letters are omltted— what those jetters are can only be ascertalied by one who has the most con: plete knowledge of the Janguauze, ‘This complicated by stent of contraction, which was so generally practiced in all countries before the artot printing: was known, must. have had its orlgin either ina desire to: suve tho vellum, or to prevent us imuedl ay possi Die the difusion of knowledges or probably both Ieas vontributed fn origliating the abe surd system of manuscript contrac! Vellum was a very expensive material, ehurehinen did nine-tenths of the writing, and chitirchinen never have been remarkable fora desire to diffuse knowledge, and the churelmenof the Middle Ages were stil less remurkable for such a desire, In anelent tires the art of writing was lo 0 great extent unknown to the laity, ‘The proudest noble of the tenth or oleventh century would think it no disgrace ‘not to be able to write his name, and whatever there existed of learning in those rude and barbarous times was cone fined within the walls of monasterle: ‘The contents of these old books is of the most varied character. Much of it would be called rubbish, but much of itis extremely interesting, and sonte of the poetic pieces are of great beauty, As may easily be sup- posed, a very large sportlon of the con. tents is of n religious thuracter, while some of he stories are purely Pagan, und relate to Pagan thes. ‘These’ books wero in fact something of tho nature of a modern maza- zine, but embracing a very much tore heter- ogeneous table of contents than elther dar per or the Athentic Monthty, Resurrection, or the Day of Judgment, will be lnmedintely preceded or followed by the questionable nehievements of tho hero Cue hullin tn staying the warclors or reviving the reputation of the Ingles of ancient Ulster, As hag been already stgted, the most valu ble of these books, ghe Book of the Dun Cow, Is 8 mere fragn@nt, fully one-half of it having been lost; if fhe wholo of It were In existence It would probabiy throw lizhton some of the | darkest — portlons of irish and Seattish history, for {tis the most ancient book uxtant tn any of tho vernacular Jangunges of: Europe. lhnperfect and heter- eropencous in contents as these old boaks may be, they are nevertheless most valuable repertorles of anelent learning and clviliza- tlon, ‘There oxists a vast number of other ancient writings in thé Gaelic language of whieh the learned world know little ns yet, Dut the publication of the book under ‘no- tive will probably give a sthuulis to the study of the numerous'and to a great extent forgotten writings thatyot exist In dhe an- cient Innguage of Scotland and Ireland, ‘These books are wéltten i 2 character eallud by the differant hates of debased Ro- iim, Celtic, and Saxon, but more conmonly called Trish, ‘Chat it-{s Roman uo one cosi- vorsant with tho subject Ting any doubts whatever nt prosent; but some Celtic scliol- urs of the Insteentury believed that the Celts of Ireland were not indebted to the Romans for their alfabet, and that the so-called trish letters were indigenous to Ireland. Cultic scloturs of tho present day do not think so, and aro of the opinion that the Ogham char- neters were the only kind of letters known to the Irish before the Introduction of Christianity amongst thom, The char- naeter in which tho ol = Gaelic books are written was the same ag that fn “use inost all over Europa tntil about the twelfth century, when the yarintlon of the Roman known as black-letter, Gothic, or German, innde Its appearance, “Phils latter was the most barbarous clinuge made In the anclent Roman letters, ‘The present smull Roman letters now in general tsa almost all over the clyllized world appeared first in Italy about the middio of the sixteauth eent- ury. Lt was so much clearer nnd hand: somer than the barbarous Gothic | let- ter then In use that all the Euro- pean nations except the Germans and enndinavinng had the good sense to adopt it almost as soon as it made its appearance, and it is probably destined to come futo gen- eral use ere Jong all over the elvilized world, ‘The German language wUL continuy to be 0 Dugbear to all forelguers so long as Germans persist In pein tins {tin the uncouth and bar- barlelools ng letters which they use at pres- ante ‘There are tour other {mmense yolumes In the Gaelle linguage which -are hardly less important than the threa at present in the ye Wc library here; thoy are called The }00)] kK of Levan, The Yellow Hook of Jwean, ‘The Book of Bnllymote, and The ook of Fermoy. The dutes of thelr composition are fom the fourteenth to tho sixteenth centuries, but, Hke the three books under notice, the language in which thor. are written Is for the most part of great antiquity, showing plaluly that they ‘are merely transeriptions. Ina historical an philological polut of view Uiey ure nlmost a6 dmportant and interesting as any books hn the Gaelic Janguage. As the writing In then is comparatively legible, It Is hard IW prob- ablo that tho British Government will ko to the expense of naying them transeribeds aud It isto be feared that the yast amount of other Guolle writings still extant will be loft In Hs present state wlso. Only three volumes of the anclent Celtle law books have been translated, but there are ten volumes more of itextant, ‘The extreme dificuity of inter- pretlug these law beoks, which tre, for tho greater part, written In a peculiar Jaw die lect, is 80 great as almost to deter the very best Celtic acholur from attempting to trans Inte thom, While treating of ancient Celtic books it would bo a grave omlssion not to say some- thing about the famous Book o: i All lt contains ia a Latin copy of the Gos- pels, but one supposed to be the oldest in uxisten except the one In the Hbrary of Aho Vatican, and some charters in the Giaelle Janguage which were inserted In an appendix. and composed In the eleventh century, ‘Ihe Kook of Kells was one of the anelent manu- seripty used by the scholars who linve brought out the new translution of the Bible ‘fhe date at whieh the Book of Kells was written cunnot bu correctly ascertained, but Jenrned men agre fixing it somewhere In the sixth or seventh century, and ancient Collie tradition as well as: history goes to show that [it was the ark a! thea fiumons anchorite, Colum-CU. The great nul transeendant feature of the Bool of Kells are tts iluminations. As a work of iltuninated art it is imeouparably the most wonderful known to exist, “The most clah- orate productions of modern engravers, piuteny, and Jthoxraphers fail to xive an dea of thetmarvelous beauty, latieaey, an richness of the iluminations inthe Book of Kells, and, une of the wost extraordinary things connected wlth It, the colors are fn Most cases as. bright and as briliiant as if they were the productions of the mlnotecnth century Instead of the seventh, ‘The Hook ot Kells Is preserved In the library of ‘Trinity College, Dublin, yy ook of Ardmuch Is supposed by Coltio scholars to contain the oldest moni- ments of tho Gaclic lauguags known to existin books, It too ts only as transeript, and ts thought to have been copied in Ardmach in the seventh century, ‘Tho ab- sence of any known speciuions of Gaclis In Noman characters older than the seventh century. does not by any means’ prove that “the Jnbapitants of Ireland and Scotland were unacquainted with letters be- fore the introduction of Christianity amongst them. The old Ogham letters were general ty written on wooden tablets, and these could be preservedt only. by the terest chance, ‘There ara plenty of compositions in Gaelle of meu who Uyed long auterlor to the time of ck, and the abs iT orig dsl produetions no more disproves the knowledge of letters amongst them than the absenec of the orlzinal copies of tha Gospels disproves their authentichty. Whatever may be the real value of the contents of these old books, filed from a mouern standpoint, the fret that they extst atall, end that so great a quantity o! wuclent Gaelle writings exist only be a enuse of Joy to st the work, buta fact of whiel should justly feet proud. $1101 ever, these old ks are to Coll to Irishmen of the t day, monument of shame than anything else, bee cause so few of them can read them and so few of them edre anything about them, Se Jong as the present Indifference to book Jenrning exists amongst the great mass of the pople they neither can be nor deserve to pe fre "They may get tand for nothing and have the miking of thelr own Inws, but until hoy heeone fonder of books they can never nine great and respected. ‘Tho day when the sword was tha emblem of power hag passed wway forever; the book ty whit cone quers the world now, and It would be well if the Ceitle race at home and abroad would adapta Look us thelrembleu with tie motto: In hoe slyno vincemus libertates nostras— In this slyn stall we natier our liberties, ‘There has been onty one old Celtic book preserved inSeotiand: it is called the “ Book of Dier’* Dier was tie name of an old abbey In Aberdeenshire, ‘This) book {8 a8 old as tho ninth century; It is mostly in Lating the Gaelle part of ft 1s merely a elar- terconveying certain lands to the monastery, butts very fmportant ina historical point 0 view, ag the Gaelle in it prayes the absolute identity of the people of Scotland and Ire- Jand di language and customs in ancient times, T. Ov WAITE’S JUSTORY OF THE CiURIS- TIAN RELIGION, Inn London paper ealled the Medhon wo And the following concerning Judge Walte’s book called the “Iistory of the Christian Nelizion to the Year 200"; Tu.the Echo (Dunedin, Now Zealand) of July 16 Apovars a review of 1 work with the Above title, by Charles B, Waite, M. A. publishod at Chieszo by GV. Waite & Co. We dave not seen tue book, but, as the review alluded to touches on imittters being treated by writers in the Medtion nt the present tlie, we think §t will interest our readers, and weeordiugly quote part of its “Tho book, Judge Walte tells us in tho pref- face, * Is the result of an investigation extending through several years, and instituted for hls ows satisfaction. ‘Two yeurs of the time were syent Mn tho Library of Congress, which $3 pecullarly rich in Iiblival Utorature, We cannot say the book fs. connected narrative of the events conuceted with the Cbristitu religion. It is rutier «the facts) to) be discov- ered about the period to which it refers, collected and published in thotr chron- olovical order. There iy uo rhetoric, no fino writing, Indeed the bouk Jouks inure like a fot of cages collected, with notes, bearing on some uw point. Perhaps Judge Waite's training may dave hud something to do with the method he hus udopted, But, whatever fault may be found with the ruther unutteactive way in which the ficts nre presented to tho reader, no complaint enn be made about tho matter. ft istull, cures ful, and yet conelse. Aud, aiter carefully perusing Itand comparing it with otbur works, we think the Judve is entitled to say that It ts ‘tho most completa record of the events con- neeted withthe’ Christian religion during tho {rst two centuries ever presented to the public’ in fue treatise. “The book is pecaniyed in slx periods; First— the Apostolic age, A. 1), We BW. Secont— Apostolle Fathers, A. ‘blr throw Apocryphil Gi 4 A.D. 120 to Deh Fourth—ot Curiitian writers, A. D, 120 to Iu. Fifth—the four Canonical Gospels, A. D. 170 to to 1853 und sixth—closo of second century, A.D. w ‘The tnanner in which tho Chrietinn writers ore chronvlogically arranged will givean insivbt of tho result nt whitch the wuthor bag arrived. For exumple, ke places Oracles of Christ, by Mutthew, at a. D. SU, but he aitys that our Gos- velof Mutthew was not written till IM. The carilest-written book in. the New Testament he belleves to be the Second Epletic to the Thesaa- loutnns, A. D.h%, aud the Intest the Acts of the apostles, i 18y, ‘The utsthor's iim ts to tind out. what the facts relating to the Christian religion during the first twocenturies are. In dofny this ho takes nll the nuthors—Cheistian and Pagan— who wrote, and from them he tries to tind out the writings of the early Church. He says thore were Gospel of Pant, aud Gospel of Peter, und a Gospel of Marion, and many otbor Ser hic now lost, When we state that all tho ange-nleene fathers are carefully reterrad to, armed the pussuyes in their writings bearing on tho eanontelty of the books we now call the Biba compared, It will be seen that tho Judge's task hug been onerous. ‘The authors in the original nye been referred to, and where the transii- tons in the anto-nicene Ciristtun Ibrary ure In- Accurate thoy bave been polnied out. “But not. only have the sources of tho History of the Unris- thin Religion, bean investigutod, ‘but whut tho ablest bistorlans buve sald on the subject has been noted. Judvad, the author seeing ne- quaiuted with the most recent German wid Ene Blish criticlam, The result attet his many years wf Juveaticadon ore, we need burdly say, such a8 will not be received ns orthodox.” A Wto A.D. to 10, J MAGAZINES. The last two numbers of the Living age for Sevtember aud the first number for Oct ber contain articles on Sehilemaun’s “Hilo: the Site of Troy;” “The Future of Isinm;” “Lawn-Tennis aud Its Players,” “Scottish, Shetlandic, and Germanic Water ‘Tales; “Besleged in the Transvaal,” “The Great Southern Comet of 1880; “ Nassau Sentor’s Journals and Conversations; * Arthur Pen- rhyn Stanley ;” “Curzola;” “The Lafayette Fauilly;” “Protective Discases;”” * Masked Heartlesnes: “The Grievance of Belng Overestimated;” “Summer Coolness tn Poetry;? “Women at Fitty;? “Camping Out on the St. Lawrences”. "An Ancient Myrian Capitals” “ Recollections of George Borrow,” Brigands and Thelr Cuptives;” with Installments of “In ‘Trast” and “The Freres,” and the usual amonnt of poetry, In the stmertean Law Revlew for Octobor TC. MeMurtrie has an essay on“ Resels- slon of Divisible Contracts”; E. B. Callen der writes on “Torts of Hospitals,” and ‘Thomas W, Peirce hus an articlo on“ Lue pied Warrantles on Sales.” ij We have received a copy of the soventh uuniber of the Journal of the Miltary Serv- tee Institution of the United States, Al though prepared especially for aud by offi- cers of the army iteoutalns much of Interest to iny readers, ntd is) an authority on military Hsstlones, The first article by. Gen, Thomas M. Vincent, and is entided “The Milltury Power ot the United Stites.” It is aw very carefully prepared: statistical article, the material for whieh bas been taken from the official records. tn what maummer the rapid growth of our army during the Rebellion gives us reason to bes eve that we have in ourselves the necessary resonrees to make us an invinelble nllitary power—thls is the question ably dlseassed wil elabarated | by Gen, Vineent, te Milos and Lient, Woodrutt have each an are ticluon “She Jidlin Question” ‘Che tirst- named officer, 8 hunous Ludian-tighter, saygs ‘Tho real lusue in the question which {3 now be- foro the Ainerican People 18. whether wo shill continue the yuciliating and expensive policy that has uturred our fair uate ast Nation and # Chrlatiin people, or devise some practical and Judicivus system by which wo can govern one atnarter of wuiiiion of our population, securing und Inuintataling thole loyalty, raising then frous Abe durkness of barbarian to the Jight of clyl- Heation, and putnuend to these Interminnblo auiexpunsive Indian wars, Tho suppusidon dunt we aro heur the ond of our Ladian troubles da crroneous, und the fact that u condition vf aitaira now uxlsts uver an enormous aren of country, in which an Amorieau citizen cannot travel, unguarded and unurmed, without tho danger of being wolestud, by, to suy the feast, Proposturotis and ungsatisfuctory, - Gen, Miles ndyocates the placing of the warllie ang nonadle tribes under the con trol of the War Departinent, which, asa mit: ter of fact, has ste take care of them as it fs, He concludes with this paragraph: A continuuvon of the system which bas pre- vaited for the past twenty yours will, it fs bes He simply perpetuate condition of atfairs tho resuit of which ian chronig stato of jue curity aod bostiities. The question my nas well be met aud decided. A race of suvages cannut by nny human ingenuity be olyitized and Coris> tanized within wo tow years of time; nelthor wilt 0,000 people with their descendants be do- strayed In the nest fifty yours. Tne white man und the Indian should be taught to lye side by side, each respeoting the rights of the othor, and butt living under wholesome laws, euforced With umple wuthority and exact justice, Lieut. Fredoriek Setiwatka contributes an exceedingly Interestlig artlele on * Aretic Experiences." No mun perhaps, certainty no inititary man, Is better qualiited to spenk on thistople, Sumeot his conclusions are gontrary to what hus been generally, bee Neved, “Mere Is one, for fustanee, in regard to Arctic service: elwasyotjo lourn tho fact, which T do not hositute toStato ua belug such, that Arctiu field duty, oven tn tho winter, strange na it may seem, can bo imide wore comfortable for the wae thing, and with tess rlek of life or limb, do fur na tho temperature ts coucernud, than the avoragy winter campalgnd of the American troops on our Westera plaing, Not that tho duterudne digcomfort aud on the contrary, the; are immensurably yrouter, but greater atill gro the theans which Nuture and tho cunning deviovg of Nature's children Ja these parte have furulsted for the adaptation of the Arcticalien, elements which risk ure thy tes; who must tinderstand bow toacecmmodnto hime elf to varying circumstances with that true Yunkeo ductility thnt witl dovetail a round bun der Into o square success, so that not a crevice fy loft for the escape of critlelsm, And what these means are he tits stims ups These means are beinotpally, thoir habitations of tco and snow, uncomfortable ox they appear to the Inmughition at first, their pecullar dreds which fnsures a reasonable ninotint of comfort to those never comfort-sceking nomads of the North, and allows thom to hunt for subsistence uurler clreumstinces of temperature whon it whit would think of only tunting fora res and ather minor necessories, as dict, ni jon, ote, having more or less influs Tanntizatte ence un thelr endurance. Gen, James 1. Fry has an article to show the necessity for 1 Atliitary Court of Appenl; Lieut. Sedgwick Pratt writes on “The Pratt Runge Finder.” and Licut, Fd, A. Darr on “The Marvin Shell Extractor.” ‘The October number of Penn Monthly has the following table of contents: Be- yond the Snow Line,” by Dr. Maud Gussfeldt; ‘Taxation of Tnports Prior to bYy22" by Ale bert S. Bottles; “The Amerleat Incubus,” by ‘Thomas Leaning: “Translation from Goethe's * Faust,’ by tha Rev. i. Andrews Harriss Modern Musie,” by Burdett Ma- sou: "Early Christian Arty” L, by Dr. J. Ns Vorter.” IITERARY NOTES. An English firm aunauness a new volune by Mark ‘Twain, entitled “Prince” and Pauper.” Col. ‘T. W. Higginson is at his home in Cambridge, and is writing a Life of Benja- min Franklin? M. Du Chaillu’s new book, “The Land of the Midnight Sun,” will appear in London early this month, A sixpenny edition of Lady Brassey's “Voynge in the Sunbewn has been puo- Mshed In England, “Things of Love’? is the titleof a new French book by George Luchaud, the son of. the distinguished lawyer, Mr. Bionchard J Vs “Life of Napo- Jeon LIL” Is now re! ed complete by the issue of the fourth volume. “Roughing It in Rubber” is the title of an Account uf switnulng feats and adventures to be written by Capt. Boyton, Mrs... IL Riddell, the author of “George rwith,” has a new novel just ready, entitled “Alarie Spenceley; or, A Meh ideale? * “John Hax and Mamelon’? {3 the name of Judge Tourgee's fortheoming volute, Johu’s suruame is pronounced “ Ecks.”” itis asserted In an English paper that the firm which published the batind of “Mother Goose” Intends to prove that Oliver Crum- well was its author, ‘The Inte Dean Stanley once satd to an Amerlean triend: “Only one man ever called on me whom I refused to see, nnd that man was Mr, W, IL. Matlock.” Mr. BYP. Shillaver (Mrs. Partington) has written a third volume on Ike aud his friends, to be called, “The Double-Runner Club; or, The Lively Boys of Rivertown.” Of the elghty-four pages of announcements of new books In the last number of the Pub- Usher's Weekly, ty: tive and a quarter pages ure supplied by Boston liouses. A. Willinins & Co, will issue next week o humorous and dashime brochure under the title of “Summer Ratnbles,” detailing the adventures aud iishaps ot a couple of well- known Boston gentlemen, Mr. Thomas Hughes has written out his reminiscences of the late Dean Stuniey, especially with reference to hig Rugby lite aud his work asa paciticator in the Tigh Church diticultics at the east of London, The Athenmum accuses Capt. Clarke of the Royal Engineers of plagiarizing Lieut. Greene's work on the Russian army, in a piper on Plevna contributed to the “ Pro- tesslonnt Papers of the Corps of Royal En- glneers,”” A Prince of Breffny’ is the title of Mr. Thonus DP. May’s new novel, which is press and shortly to be published. ‘The of this book was a famous trish soldier of fortune and the first Spanish Governor of Louistana, ‘The new edition of “Cape Cod Folks” ts ready. In itfictitious names have supplanted the real names of the first editor, und) the author hopes that the: incensed Cape Cod people who haye threatened lawsuits will allow thelr wrath to subside, At was Napoleon who snid of the lettersand style of Madame de Sevigné: “Her style is undoubtedly full of charm, but ou Hat nothing by reading her, It Is itke eating snowballs, with which ono ean surfeit one’s self without satisfying the stomach,” “A Young Folks’ History of the War for the Union” 45 nearly ready at Henry Molt & Cols. It has been prepared with special ref- erence to the generation which has grown up since the War, and which liss no personal knowledge of the momentous events of the Rebellion, George W. Cable, the popular Southern novelist, Is the subject of un extended blo- eraphicnt and critical s by the nuthor of © Baby Rue,” In the Critle af Oct. 8. A por- tralt by Frank Fowler, from a photograph uiken expressly for this purpose, forms the frotlsplece of the review. Tlubert 1, Bancroft has Just completed in San Francisco a two-story and. basement brick building, forty by sixty fest, solely for the accommodation of hts private Ibrary of Yacitic Coust books, which now numbers 000 volumes, and has become speelally rich In orlginab manusertpt material for history. The new structure fs wholly encased fn brick aud iron, ond stands in the middle of a Jot 120 by 126 feet. ‘The publication of the history of the Paelfie States, on which Mr. Baneroft has been engaged for tho past. twelve years, Will begin next'year, and wiht comprise complete llstorles of Central Aterten, Mexleo, New Mexico and Arizona, Calitornia, Utnh and Nevada, Orexon, Washington, ddaho and. Montana, British Columbia, and Alaska, BOOKS RECEIVED. Tur Geonarcs or Veni. Translated by Hare rist Waters Preston. Boston: J. Rh. Osgood & Co. Price, &, Van Ontuovox Turonocy oF Tonay, By Nowman Smyth, New York; Charles Scribe vera Sons. 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There are two full-page engravings and one etching in the September number of tho artdournal ‘Tho Intter was both drawn and etehed by David Law. “Fishing-Boats off Whitby,” and represents an evening effect of gathering darkness at the close of a breezy day on the Yorkshire const, ‘Tho fleet drawn up inside the bar ts rather shadowy and commingted In outline, but the general effect Is satisfactory. “Hagarand Ishinael,” the first of the two engravings, ls engraved by W. Roffe froin painting by ‘the Mavarian artist, Carl Bauerlé. The draperies and fandscape are trie to Oriental life, and tho drapery hangs naturally about Slagar, “St. Margaret aud We Dragon” 1g an eneraving from a statue at the-Paris Exhibition of 1878, drawn by Miss Grant. ‘The artictes in this number are: “The Dwarf Citles of Germany,” by 1 W. Brower: "Phe Royal Academy 3 * Peasant Models,” by J, W. Mollett; * Aus~ trlan Art Industry," by. torleal Proce: logue Cathedral,” by J. Beavington Atkins sone * The Loan Exhthition xt. the Tague’? by Jdonet G, Jtobinsons Un-Academlo Art,” by Harry Quilter; “Seville, Part 11,” by Arthur Griliths, ART NOTES, Over 100 Amerleau art atudents are at work in Munich, ‘The Internattonal Exhibition of Fine Arts will be held In Vienna from April 1, 1898, to Sept. 20, The third Christmnas-card prize competl- Uon of L, Prang & Cu, will be held in No- vember. ‘Thora will be two sets of four prizes cach, amounting fn all to $4,000. ‘The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arte will open tts doors Noy. 1 for the display of ahirge coilection of Amerienn ipaknth ei AL novel feature in American exhibition filstory will be the award of prizes—? bene promised to the painter of the best lund- seape, with or without animals, and $300 te the painter of the best figure-plece contatn- Ing not less than two figures. There will be ut private reception on the evening of Mou- day, the Sst of Uetober, and the extiblicion wi remaln open during eight weeks there- after, According to some of the French journals, three Belstan art erities of reputation have assailed M, Jean Van Beerson account of his i tres “ Lily? and “La Sirdne,’? whict y adored In the Inst Salon, and whi are now Inthe exhibition at Brussels. ‘The assailants allege that they are we Mere nor than photographs deftly colored, and worth only a few franes Instead of the considerable prives set upon thent by M. Van deers, One orimore of the writers averrddt that traces of photography are observable in parts of the pictures, which are, undoubtedly, finished in the imost exattisit manner, ‘Tho writers did not hesitate to use hard names. M. Van Beers has replied to his fous very ersely, and stated that tho price of ‘Lis Siréne” fs 20,000 franes, that of “Lily” 10,- O00 frances. Sle will allow properly qualified experts, French or foreign, to scrape elther of the pletures, If the least trace of pho- tography 1s, found by this meuns the artist will immedintely pay the value of the pleture in question, Which stun he will deposit in vance With any banker named by his an- ronists, Lt, ou the other hand, ho traces of photography are discovered, M. Van Beers will expect that the critles will give the value of tho pleture to tho Benevolent Soclety of Artists at Brussels.—Atienwum = A PRINCESS. She wasn royal princess, * And the blow of a klugly race Mui lett its pride within ber breast And its buutour Io her face. Khe looked out over the kingdom, She looked upon the throne; : She looked at the scoptre and the crown: That yet might be her own. She looked within her mirror, Aud saw that she was fairy She juoked down #¢ Ler royal robes And tho goins that sparkled there, ‘What was thoro left to sigh for? Sure God had givon ber all; Anil yet, to ber, tho cup of life ‘Was full of the bitterest jul. And in ber haughty bosom ‘There surged 6 wild uworest; for u womun's heart, beitslave's or queen’ isu troublesome thing at best, Whatdid a kingdom mattar, When a plumesad a saldierly ate, And 4 laughing eye and a stalwart form, Nad brought her seul despatr? Bho loved beneath her station; + Jn spite of birth und pride, For one fond glance frou a soldier's eye She would huve gladly dled. Ho rode behind her carrlago, He camo at ber command: But he dtd not dream of hitting bls eyes: ‘Yo the princess of tho land, Ho wooed a pensant malden, Who sometiinea sighed, Ah met If 1 were only a priucess prand, How buppy 1 woulu be!" And, * Wero I but a pensant, J hight be blest today” ‘Tho princess cried, Jn ner great despalr. So runs tho workd away. ? —Ella Wheeler tn Chinury Corner, <<a Rouher. aud Louls Napoleon. Taudon Truth. A few weoks ago MM. ituubor made bia faro. weil bow to the world, at the comparatively carly uxe of 63, Lord Palmerston only be- cate Premier ut 70, Lord Russell became Pre- imier for the second thine nt 73. Mr. Gladstone will bo 72 in Decuntber, aod looks us if he hod plenty of work in him yet, And yet M. Kouher does well to retire. Jt Is no mere tautolugy toany that linperlaiism in France fell with the Second Empire, ‘The show was over and the showmun's purt was done, Lhe puppet-strings had been broken, and tho puppets, rudely kicked avout, luy sprawling oa the ground. All that was lott was to withdraw, with such dignit ng tho ciroumstunces admitted of, Not that M, Rouher despalred dunmediately after Sudan, Blessed with an astonishinyly good opinion of himself, bo attributed all tis niuster’s reverses to the siuple fact that be (outer) bad bev ousted Crom utlice I Sti, Civaur passed away, Cwsar'a wifo relzned, or pretended to, in his stead, For the next six Seurs it was M. Rowber's thankless tusk to ex- pliuin bard facts to a Indy who preferred fancies, t must have been terribly diticult to be explicit without seaming rude, | The Priney Impertul understood bis facher’s old advisor well envugh; but cue Empress was mistress of the purse, And watertulucd a yoverelgn contompt for comuion eenge. Called to tho bar in 18S, Rouher took ten years to make binself a name and 2 couttort. Tibie little Kum to spead on elections, Hy tne tine he was ihe earned about £1,000 0 yeur by is profession, whieh menus that hu was a8 bet oy the huddor ue an Engllih burriater who earned threo or Cour times as tuuch would be in our days, In 18i8 ho was sent ap to the Constituent Adsembly by bis native department of Pay-de- Ldmo, aid “immediately bid fur otlice, Lou Nupolvon sven heard al Thouber, any Jost) one time in hiring = bla Liking to govern biuself, ho wanted obedient serve ants, and Mouber wns rendy to obey anything vise tuat might bu ugrecable to tho dlsponser of patcumize, Within tinonth of completing hts doth yuur the provinolal gdvo- ento was timed Minister of Juaticu. It wis about that ting that 2 happy caricature repre- sented Jouls Nupoleon presidlag over 4 council of headless Ministurs. Rouber curtalnly pos. sesaud uw heut, but wus careful on ordinuty ov- casions to pit ft in his pocket. All bo cared for wis to Know the Prinve's mind. ‘That ouco as certolnod, it wus hla businews aud pleasure to tind hl tn reasons and arguments for doing whut ho pleased, 4 : For tho soyenteen yoars between 1853 and 1k89 ho was always in villca of some kind or another, His prime duty wits to act 18 spokesman of the Empire, and 0 organize the elaque In tho Cham. ber of Doputies. Ho bud to talk, and to geo thut Deputles mpplndods nigo thut they peta pret apenkera Ol 0 Opposition, “He ols Tsk, JC not woll, nt any rate, thor- oughly, Elly method was an extremely almplo one, perlul Adninlstration bo had one answer: “The Emperor ls the savior of svcluty, Attack his Government and you endanger society. “There fs ta choice for France hut butweon tho rule ot Napoleon 111. and the burrocs of 037" By dint of rolturating tals urgument fn a thousand va- rloua wava, Monsieur got a goud many Frooch~ men, and even some Englishes, who should haye know botter, to believe bin. Soctally M. uuber proved a fallurc. amused his wucetA ab a dinner purty ‘To wll iny criticlems on tae line Ho onco telling them bow 4 shopkeeper bud mistaken him tora footuina, but it fe doubtiia whathor be fully ap- proclated tho cause of the laugh be bud ralsed. Aa umatter of fact, every one present was think- Ing how natural hud beed the ahopkeaper’s error. And yet be lucked what Disruell calla tho stately composure of superior servants, “It was noted that his gloves never titted bln, oud that ho seemed tl) at ease fo bls gorgeous uulform, though his eyes often rested with ovidunt com~- Hucanoy on the gold lace, on the broud red ribs on, und on the Jeweled stars that decorated ola portly perdon. —————___-- Puny, weak, and sickly childron made bappy end strong by Brown's Jron Bitter, It is entitled, — ~~