The New York Herald Newspaper, May 21, 1871, Page 7

an, — PARIS FASHIONS, SPRING AND SUMMER FASHIONS Looking Still to the French Cepital for Etyle— What tho. Modistes are Doing—Morning Robes and Promenade and Seaside Cos. ‘tumes—Hats and Headdresses, Panis, April 20, 1871, Spring aud summer fasbions are rather im the shade, aud the few novelties to be seen aro mace for foreiguers and orders sent by Parisiennes wo are in the country, 1 visited several of the leading Grexsmaking establishments, and at one I saw ao Wousseau of forty dressea tuut was to be sent to London ‘for a French lady. The dressmakers in- Jormed me that several of the costumes and robes de bal were ber own “get up,” and for the benefit of the taay readers I will describe as nearly as pos- sible the styleand material of them. The robea de chambre were ail 1u cachemere and jaconet, the for- mer trimmed with velvet a shade darker and the latter wit Lace and broderle de Saxe, or Saxon em- brokiory, Which is very pretty. A pretty MORNING ROBB Was a gris de perie, cut plainly and trimmed in front and aides with velvet a sade darker and {nthe form of 4 harp—a very preily short costume tn Piqué, with two ounces of broderie de Saxe on the uuderskirt; the overskurt short, with small Mouuers; the iront tadlier and potnted in the back; the waist & short basque, with a pretty postillon, and Uimined in the same manner; sieves shell form, ‘The muslin dresses were ail trimmed with Mie same material, with barrowly-nemmed ruiies on the two skirts. they are very pretty, but cost agreat deal for the dog up, as the rules are so ful and so many. Guipure lace ia much worn on Tuusa dresses, A very stylish, rich looking costume was a jessa- mune sulk glace, golden sliade, with gilt buttons, and trimmed with material a shade lighter; the under- skirt a piaited flounce cut in biases, and placed tri- angularly with the darker shade of wimming; the fecond flounce the same, Only three smatier biases ibove, witha distance of two inches between on each breadit, The tunique was short and raised on the left side by h large bow of sane material. ‘The corsage high Lo the neck and trunmed in zouave form WW trout, aud the trimaing in bask @ jolie basque, the sleeves half flowing, held together inthe opeatig of each by a bow. The price of thls costume was $60, it Was very richly trimmed nd just the ing for spring wear; hat to maicb, in straw Of some color, timuned WIN crépe de chine, @ud plumes on the light costumes for spring wear. Trimming the corsage in the zouave form ts much admired, A PROMENADE COSTUMB en poult de sow garnet color, semi-traln ; trimmed with velvet tie same shade; trlmining volant plissé arond piis and trimmed with two slopes of velvet; the secoud Volant sine length, witb small headings Of velvet; two very large plants with @ plain space between, and the end of gach space the velvet laid Ou in the low of a half opea ian, The waist was a Joug Masque, making a very beautiful punique, irdume. to match the skirt, and mace to open on the slues & Volauic, tue ur Mug ving so arranged as (0 render the opcumy iuvisible, Grenadige savin Wipes Will be much Work this Suinmer; the tuniques Wil be trimeicd with frig ad cut in oue. The Most popular colors are bine, gris de perle and black, peri is euch Grunied with White and black lace--that 1s simple grenadine, ROBES DB BAL. Poult de sole wiilte, Wii & deep founce of tulle, edged with orange-colvred satin or capuotne avout ® ha an ivch deep, laid on the skirt; then a Chactily (black) lace Dounce a halla yard in depth Jalung Over the tulle douuces and raised on the fort wide 11 ule form of asheil and flushed by bows ot toe sume satin, ‘The buck al the dress is entirely covered by (ue told of lave and falls gracefully, the lace being ted by large Knots of wide riboob to mnateh Ue satin and to Save Lie cutting of the lace. The Waist, & petilo basque, 1s modern and. slightly potted in front, trimmed with narrow lace and balty W match the skirt, the sleeves very short. Rove de bat, poull de soie, evening green, ver; pale, Uimured with whlie Brussels lace,’ wit tujle Louillopnie, cul et rahe and laid on vias to holt the face The tunigue was in teen tulle, Ulumed with same lace, and quite short tm front and raised on the left side by a smail bouquet of roses de i engale, With trailing rosebuds; le Waist slighly pointed in front and a berthe bouillonnee, with snail ruches and lace to match tne skitG ‘She edect Was very lovely. The headdress worn wiih this robe de bal was a green plume, the same shade as the dress, with small rosebuds, ie entire costume a a Marle Antoinetie. All these costumes I saw at the house of Milica. Dumountiel, on the Boulevar) Haussmann, 72. 1t ts in ordinary times mucn patroni.ed by Ainericans, THE SEASIDE COSTUMES were made a la Marie Antoincite, and all of at large figured prints, trimmed with black velvet a guipure lace; the sieoves of one were 21a Louis XI1V., The Waist cut in one iong tunique behind and short in 1ront, with a very jarge plait ia the centre of the back, the underskirt piam, with biack velvet pat on per- pendicularly. @ eect ts odd—such common ma- terial made Im such asiylish manner, The prihts were very high colo apd nothing less tian furni- ture color, only a little fuer than what is usaaily used for such & paxposs, On Gi, that it 18 very ele- gaut for bains de mer. Cachemere Is very much worn for costumes and trimming, and for trimming it is suppie and matches Well ou heavy goods. Taffetas en gris de perie. are very mach worn for undorskiris, with semi-train and trimmed with cachemere a shade Nghter. The tanique Is cut in the form of a round skirt, only sborter and raised ou each side, with folds of cachemere Gnished at the ends with tassels or light iringe; the folds ave cut bias; the waist ts cut ib oasque form, oped on both sides and forms a 848, With lowing sleeves trimmed to match. Fig & very pretty costume and not expeusive, lowing sicevés aré made a litte smaller, but will be the fashion for some time. The half-fowing sleeve, called “La Marie Antoinette,” 1s very pretty and as much worn as the Louis XIV. on promenade and dinner costumes, HATS Are Worn quite high in the crowa, with profusion of trimmings on the left side. Flowers and luce are very much worn. Pale roses are more fashionable than any other Mowers, although marguerites are very much Worn. Isaw some very pretty nuts mado of crepe de ching, with no other trimming than & tea rose. The crepe was blue-black and brown. No other colors 01 thaf material are worn on hata. Mourn- ing hats arc trimmed with very fine jet howers, ex- cept In case of deep mourning, where only crape is orn. VEL are worn very long this spring. Square vetis, with border all around, aid Mirowa over the hat or bon- net, a Vespagnols, They look very pretty. Some beantiful parasols were purchased by American ladies, ‘The handles were exquisitely carved ivory, PASHIONABLE SUMMER RESORTS. Items frem Long Branch. Edwin Booth 1s occupying his villa. ‘The smalpox 1# prevalent in New Jersey, but not 4 case has yet been reported at the Branch, ‘The Mansion House is to have Dodworth’s band tor the season. It will open on the 10th of June. That the coming season will be the most pros- perous one ever known at Long Branch ts conf. dently prophesied. The Union House 1s to be called the arlington. The Howland Hotel has been enlarged, The United States has had another story added to tt. ‘The new freight house of the New Jersey South- ern Railroad will be sixty feet tong and eighteen feet wide, gurrounded by a platform ten feet wide. ‘The new cottage erected by Mr. Nehomlan Perry. of Newark, ts one of the finest at the Branch, and will shortly be occnpied by the owner and his family. A new printin, Branch Vy parsiog tsom Red Baxke Pe Matte tata new dally paper will ve issued during the summer, The Marine and Inia organized under the act onthe Mant Leoidanaee ie about to erect a me from Long Branch t Trenvoa and Camden, It 1s expected that e.areas many shows will visit a cote til SeahoS. ted will include nearly scription of tent exhibitions, concerts, negro minstrels and lectures, axe Ex-Senator Amos Robins, President of the Long Branch Racing Association, was in the village last week looking aiter certain improvements to be anade on Monmouth Park. The Woman's suffrage women, the woman’s righte women, and tho strong-minded women generally, are to hold a jot convention here in August. Governor Clatin, of Massachusetts; Ben Butler, and foorge W. Julien, of Indiana, will be present, Newport News. A number of the principal streets are being tm- proved. Some of the “big jints’’ wi visit Newport before returning to England. The Atianiic House opened on Monday, which is much earlier than usual. One real estate agent alone has rented already 102 cottages and villas for the season. Nilsson has engaged apartments at one of the hotels and will remain during the month of July, Newport papers chronicle as an evidence of pro- gress the increasing mumber of lodgers in che station house there. A number of families havo arrived and domtciied themseives, and others are golug every day ito their summer quarters, ‘The Emperor and Empreas of Brazil ara expected here goon after their arrival in this country, if ite lot too late in the seasou. On Tuesday moraing a pile of rags, left by tho polignera on the piazza oF the elegant residence of ur. George H. Norman, took fire from spontaneous combustion, and some littie damage was done, Mr, Mahlon Sands, of New York, has purchased the Ward villa, on Ledge road aud the ocean, Tue place is almost out ut sea, but very delightfully siiuated; the house is spacious and clean Dr. George P, Clapp, of New York, has bought the Smith Villa, at the extreme end of Bellevue avenue, ‘or $4,000. Mr. George G. Richardson, who has just bullt® beautiful cottage for his own occupancy, has sold the “Brush” house, on the avenue, to Eugene Langdon, of New York, for $25,000, Notea frow Suratega. A pew road is being buiit from the village to the lake. The High Rock Spring ig.to be furced towards public favor this summer. Henry Ward Beceher has promised to preach one sericon here some time during the summer, The hotel proprietors are as busy as bees in@ tar bucket, They intend to was’ a good show at the opening. All Ure houses of ill repute in the village have been plete and the young |: will ve sent to New York, After the fancy women have been effectually driven trom the village we authorities intend to at tack the tiger interest. Hathorn’s Village Hull, occupied by the Methodist Society for their services since last tall, has been leased for a billiard room. Milliners and mantuamakers of both sexes are already beginning to stow their smiling counte- nances in front of the Broadway shops, ‘They an- ticipate a, prosperous season. A cote is being elegantly fitte. up at th e Grand Unton tor the reception of Prince Alexis, tne Czarewitch, and suxte, who will visit Saratoga this Fs about the Ist of July, and will stay some me. There seems to be & good deal of objection to the Preposed avenue between Bailston and Saratoga. One of ~* “fossils” states his objection in these with Chantilly lace covers placed over white satin, With a white alk lining, the back falling simply om the border, without any satin, THE SUICIDAL MANIA. More Self-Murders int Jersey —A Crack Uanard Denounced. Ere yet the public mind of New Jersey has ceased to rummato on tho peculiarly sad seif-slaugnter of preity Minnte Gardner, at Orange, reports of similar shocking occurrences are coming in from various other points in the State. In Newark on Friday a German, named Philip Schaffer, thirty- five years of age, attached during tie war to Com- pany B, Second regiment Now Jersey volunteers, detivered himself from a weary life by jumping into the Passaic river, near the Zinc Works, and drown- ing himself. He waa heard earlier in the day muttering to himself, ‘win I, or will [ not.” A fellow countryman of his saw him undress and jump into ihe wator, bus sapposing that ho wi erely taking @ bath walked of co his dinner au Jett fer to bis fate. On his return TH DEAD DODY WAS FOUND FLOATING on the suriace of the water and taken On shore. A year or two ago, while a prisoner tp the City Prison, Hobaiter tried to cut his throat with a penknife, bus ‘Was canght in ume by the doorman to thwart the desigi yesterday afternoon the dead body of an unknown man was found foating im the er at the foot of Madison street, Whether he came by his death through accident, his own ace or that of others remains to be discotered. Deceased looked like a German, forty years of Agar wpa Sve. Soon four inches high, wore a ark mixed suit wna Congress galters, and from the fact that in nis pockets were found @ inusic pook and a masical instrument mouthpiece the inference is natural that he was & musician, A gold waten, marked ejgireen carat, and a chain and Key were aiso found on the body, whioh was far advanced in decomposiuon, having robabiy been in the water over a week. The au- horities have been notified. New Brunswick's latest suicide, Solon Norton, also @ German, Who pierced his own heart with a bullet, a few nights ago, In consequence ¢s domestic dimicuities, com! to be the theme of discussion im that place, In comnedtion with the Orange sutcid), Mr W. J. A, Fuller, & respectaple citizen, and land rier of that place, pronount as ent! Jacking in nsatior Bory by, trath we) nal Bory circula TUAST TO- arties in Newark, which Jot phere parties, 44 net yb forth that rere aaa ing aay, MENTO SVO.ner when wer Saaaunra te eee words:—“When the Lord created Ballston he de- ciaved hig work good and the town finished, ‘and he on wasn’t goin’ to do nothin’ agin the Divine Spray from Cape May. Congress Hail will open for the season June 1. Embroidered sacques will be all the go this season. The streets and drives are still being put in order. ‘Phe surf “ls now ready for the reception of visitors.” The police force thig summer will bo reduced to SIX men and a boy. There ts talx among the authorities about having & public bath house, There will be qatraentinle falling of in the num- ber of hacks on the wtreets this summer. There will be no changes made this season in pom managers—every proprietor running Lis owa Tanch. Tt seems to bo generally conceded that yachting gport will hereafter take the lead at Cape ajay, aud become as popular as it ls in New York. There is some talk of the Editorial Association of New Je making Cape May one of the objective points In thelr annual excursion next month, “Rents” at Oape May aro much lower than at Long Branch, and ying in cheaper; but style is not © much fn demand atthe former as at the latter place. Myecellaneous. Couzens’, at West Point, iw already receiving guests. Belmont Hall, at New Brighton, on Staten Island, is now open, The hotels at the Delaware Water Gap, Pa., are re- cetving visitors, All the Virginia springs are recelving visitors, many of whom are invalids, The Cooper House. in Cooperstown, Otsego Lake, opens in the middie of June, The Stockton House at Cape May will open for the summer on or about the Ist of Jane. ‘The Fort William Denry Hotel, at Lake George, wili open for the season on the first of Juno. Columbia Hall, at New Lebanon Springs, has been Paoulit and will be opened aiter the kev of June. Belmont Hall, on the top of Scbooley Mountain, in New Jersey, will be opened on the oth of June, It is stated that the White Mountain hotels will accommodate guests tis seagon at tae low race of $1 60 per day. All the hotels at the watering places throughout the country will be in fall operation before the close of the first week in June. THE RAPID TRANSIT QUESTIONS. What the Harlem Steamboate Teward Solving the Proble ‘White the public aro still deeply Interested in tho solution of the apeedy transit problem and will con- tinue Wo be until its detnite and satisfactory solution in the completing of the viaduct railroad or some other scheme meeting the public demands tn this re- gard, the Harlem steamboats are doing a good deal toward tho solution of this all-important question. They have three boats ruqning— ErveD, Grove," “sylvan Stream” and “$)lvan Glen.” By putting these voats in the finest oy order—and welt ve al Deiag been repainted and newly furnished as weil he iiete et gabe stop, at One Handred an ntieth street, between One Hundred and Thirtieth street and Peck slip, they can make the distance in twenty-seven minutes, The have been pars of o rathef slow and easy concern heretofore, but the prospoct of au opposition line, the clamor about wicker transit, and getting Captain Taltman, old radeon river steamboat man of forty years’ expe- rience, gave it new life and vi and ine result le as stated, Another result ls je Fush of passen- gers, and which, if it increases as it has since the new arrangement went into effect, will necessitare thé putting on of other boats, ‘These steamers run ail @ay, every half hour, (rom «ix A. M, to seven P. M, ‘The express boats, those making but one stop, make ‘Uuree trips. Ps ae Tae “IRON Jaw’ CincUS MAN ARRESTED.— “Monaleur d’Atalic, the man with the iron jaw,” an Junerant es fifa pangs le ~ Bedale hs ‘fous, wi ry re) 0 0) aunty, ny oy a couple of Philadelphia detect! property arined with warrants and Governor Geary’ requisition, duly endorsed ee Hendon Tne charge against the prisoner is that brutally Whipped and otherwise abused @ little boy, six years of age, whom he had in Charge training for the circus business, The little fellow was so sh smefully treated a8 to necessitate his removal to an hospital, where he now remains in @ condition, most dritical. The showman had before been ar- pee ond haid in. $900 ball, bat on te thet he. was nownere to be found. i teeta teeta Sy SR Pah hatec edt wishes LITERATURE. Critictems of New Books. REGINALD ARCHER. A novel. 4.9 Anne M. Orane Seemuiler, James R. Osgood & Co., Boston. “The old saying runs that there 1s a woman at the bottom of everything. Hf there be an exception to tts rule jt certainly ts not in the case of novels. In them, at least, the femaie clement issuMeientiy felt, generally forming, not only wbe foundation, but a large portion of the structure of the tale. Your herotne ts a necessity, and the motive power which makes the world go round here appears in its fall proportions; here, at least, woman and love receive credit forall they accomplish, Be the lady what she may, she is, ex-oficio, the centre of the story.” ‘Thus saith the author of “Reginald Archer,” and traly enough of her own work. It 1s writ- ten by ® woman, portrays the fate of one woman and deals with considerable force with that momentous question, the relation of the sexes, Prudes, intelligent minds of provin- cial towns, whose society represents the best phase of humanity and persons of limited observation, will denounce Mrs, Seemuiler for drawing a thoroughly false picture aad advocating pernicious doctrines. We believe neither accusation, We know that the author’s motives tn writing “Regi nal@ Archer! were noble, and we know by experl- ence that every character conceived by her has lis counterpart in metropolitan cities. We should ag soon think of branding the missionary of Baxter street as a panderer to vice when he stands before the publte to relate the foul things done there as to accuse Mrs, Seemuller of impure mo- tives in unyellmg the wickedness rampant in a certain phase of fashiunable so- ciety. Reginald Archer, the hero, is drawn from life, He is physteally beautiful, iatelleetual, brilliant andfascinating. He possesses the double Pewerof “sinning like a man and sleeping like an animal.” Certain good people believe this to be im- possibie, We know it to be fact. Reginald Archer 18 @ thoroughly bad man, but he ts also also a thor- ouguly well ored one. He would calmly ruin a wo- man for time and for clernity: but he is incapable of offering one what he wouta consider an unnecessary Ingait. Repudiating the possibility of any woman being ruined for eternity, a creed which can hardly be belleved by the author, we recognize the truth of her photograph, Tuls haudsome devil fascinates and marries a rich young girl merely for the sake of an estabiishment—a silent tragedy that we see enacted many times auring tho year, and always with miugied feilings of sorrow and surprise. For this strange spectacle Mrs. See- muller gives good reasons. ‘Women,’ she says, “marry men with apparent disregard for their lack of purity, sometimes because they know too lttle, and sometimes because they know too much, With one class it 13 the seeming indliference of ig- norance; With the other it is the real carelessness of experimental knowledge and natural taste."’ [t was ignorance with Christie Macalaster, She had faith 1n the man she loved, and it was with her as with the majority of women. ‘A perfectly pure-minded girl,” deciares Mrs, Seemuller, “who bas been reared in an innocemt home, who carries @bout with her a spiritual atmosphere into which evil cannot enter, has not the power to take in or understand the actual quality of wick edmess. To talk to her of such things is to speak a foreign tongue, and the words fail to convey their true sense, A knowleage of the worst alle of life may be forced upon & woman, or she may roil im- purity as a sweet morsel under her tongue; the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil may be held (0 shrinking, recoiling lips, or to those which long after and seize the horrible, tainted food; but she must in some way have become acquainted with it before any deacription can appeal to her per- ception in the slightest degree, That dreadful intro- duction to sia must nave beon undergone before she can recognize it, sadly or gladly, as it may be in her nature to do, When Words- worth sang of that little gir! who, though she had seen the graves of her brothers and sisters, could not take in the idea of death, and belleved that they seven were still an unbroken band, when the great poet told that simple story he conveyed ‘the same deep principle of life—that we have but the abuity to comprehend that which in some de- gree corresponds to our experience and our nature,” Reginald’s approaching marriage, being discussed in the ciabs, extends to the following dtalogue:—‘‘I suppose,” says one young man, “that Reginald will give up his pretty ways, in mere decency, when he ig married; he wiil be ashamed to go on as he now does.” “My young friend,” replied an elderly gentleman, ‘neither @ man’s nor @ woman's na- ture ie changed by having a few words sald over him or her, What ts born in the one will come out 1m the flesh. If &® man has not sufficient conscience and honor and fixed stand- ard of rigat and wrong to restrain wm before his marriage, tue wedding ceremony isno miracle to give them to him. If a far less abandoned man than Reginald Archer plants certain seeds in his nature they will crop out from time to time in spite of himself; atleast, suitictentty to make his wife a very miserable woman, if she possess consotance, a heart and nigh-toned honor, and, above all, is striv- ing honestly to keep her marriage vow.” That elderly man speaks such truth as all unmarried women should learn by heart, They blindly deceive themselves in supposing marriage fo be @ panacea for vice, ‘as though @ man could ever be raised by an outside process by anything but ‘working out his owa galvation.’ These pitiable, biessedly ignorant womea believe that as a man can Lorust his hand in flit, end afterward wash it white and clean, he cau dip bis soul and body in sin and not absorb It into bis very essence,” Is the ignorance ‘‘biessed,’’ Mrs, Seemuller? Does it not perpetuate the very evil your novel exposes? Christie ts not long in ais- covering the true character of her husband, and then follows the dreadiul, inevitable struggle. “Christe and Reginald Archer had ove thing tn common—their necessity to took at facts for themselves, The cicar intellects of each en- tirely refused to accept two standards of right and wrong, or to hold thac there can be any key insin, * * * The absolute scrupuious- hess of one and unscrupulousness of the other had brought them to the same clear perception, un- clouded by earthiy creed or custom. Christie meas. ured her huspand and his act by the samo immuta- bie law of God which would have been applied to her had she been tue criminal. No drop of bitterness, which, in like circumstances, would have filled a man’s cup to overflowing, was lacking in hers, &c., &c.”” Yes, strange as it may seem, for li is gen- erally the case that the more abandoned the man the more relentless he 13. in avenging the very inf. delity brongnt about by his own tnconstancy. Reginald Archer has one redeeming quality, that of justice toward sex: “If there be a God,” he argues, “and a dednite right and wrong existing in His mind aud in our nature—which 4 am not at all prepared to affirm or deny, veing very slightly interested in the matter—I am not such an idiot as to suppose that He will acknowledge any sex In sin; that He will look at the actor instead of the quality of the act, I have never supposed that the wrath of God, like the wrath of thia word, 18 reserved for the feminine gender, or that, If there ve a judg: ment day, men and women will not stand together before Him to be judged by ono fixed and equal standard. I tiear myself called by rather hard names sometimes; but | am neither a coward nor a lunatic, and consequently I acknowledge that when Tcommit an act I abdicate for ever my right to critigage it in any one else. Not being of the whited sepuichre kina, [ don’t make myself Tidiculous, by condemuing @ woman for enjoying herself as [have done.” “The final proof of the man’s total depravity!” we hear some one exclaim, Init? “Lethim thatis without sin cast the first atone,’ says the Saviour, When ail men Argue this matter as clearly a8 Reginald Archer, and when all women dare to brand vice im men ag society now brands it in women (when openly fol- lowed) the era of reform will set in—not before. “Upon my word,” continues Reginald, “it is & rather hard case when & woman supposes she II marrying a salpt and discovers afterwards that he 1s @ sinner; when she imagines she ts allying hor- self with one man and finds herself tled for life toan entirely diferent person. * * * If a man were to Make the same discovery I suppose he would feel. called upon to shoot her or himeelf, If he found out that she had takeu even one step upon the path I havo always trodden he would bave tug NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1871—QUADRUPLE SHEET: whole world sympathizing with his wounded honor and justifymg him in any degree ot abhor rence and vengeance. He would probably send her tote right about, as though contaminating ‘his Dame and station, even though he had committed the same sin himself countless of times; whereas if this poor chiid complains of my past life, and allows it to affect her conduct towards me, she will be laughed at for her pains, and considered @ mor- bidly sentimental young person, What a farce it all is! * * * T really can’t see what greater right of complaint one has than tne other. When most men criticise women's — vir- tue and shortcomings it strongly re- minds me of a story I onco heard told ofagreat orator. A man with negro blood tn his veins had arisen and denounced General Washing- ton asa sconndrel and a thleffor owning slaves. ‘My friend,’ rewroed the aforesaid orator, mildly, ‘I would not use these epithets in that connection if Iwere you; it isn’t graphic. Because if you call General Washington a scoundrel what have you left for Franklin Pierce?’ Just so, my dear boy, if you call Women hard names for a single slip or two what have you left for yourself? Why, how many have yoo ever known, notactually upon the streets, who fre not, by strict wtathemaiics, far better than your” Reginald Archer pursued his lofty vocation unti shot. down by a jealous husband, Hig wife Onds her ideal in Tom Archer, the brother, who has loved her from the first, though bravely concealing his passton, and virtue finds its reward In the closing chapter, There are few meu as good as Tom, fewer as bad aa Reginald, but the world contains both types, and tue story told by Mrs, Seemuller, a bare skeleton of which is here pre- sented, cannot be read by earnest souls without producing serious thouglit and discassion upon a subject of vital importance. The book ts powerfully written tn portions, carelessly written in others, and foolishly begua by drawing @ likeness between the Archer family and the various “little pigs” that “went to market” in the rhyme familiar to nur- series; but takenasa whole, “Reginald Archer’’ 13 the most forcible and trathful novel that has been written by an American for many a day, . By the author of “Guy Livingstone,’’ “Breaking a butterfly,” “Sword aad Gowan,” &c. Harper & Brothers, New York. The authorship of tals book ts of itself a sure pass- port to perusal and favor. But, setting aside the partiality with which a work from the gifted pen of the author of “Guy Livingstone’ would naturally be received, “Anteros’” is @ novel of rare merit, wonderfully powerful and fascinating, It Is a ro- mance of English life among the higher clasa, with well contrasting home, social and hunting soenes. If society is not here represented quite as it ought to be, there can be little doubt that itis pictured as it actually is The characters are numerous and perfectly drawn; without being prodigies of virtue or samples of extreme infamy, they are yet sudictently contrasted to be thoroughly individualized, Ralph, Lord Atherstone, the hero of the tale, 18 certainly an exceptionally fine character; yeteven he is not without his fauits, whiie ull the other actors in the book, excepting the lady Marian, have their redeeming points. In other words the dramatis persone are true to Iife— thoroughly natural—and the reader finds himself hoping, fearing and grieving with and for them. We know few authors who possess to so great a degree the power to command tho sympathies. In short, ‘‘Anteros,’’ like the writer's previous works, is a success, and of all the recent additions to the Messrs, Harper's “Library of Select Volumes” (of which 1t 1s the latest), we think none will re- celve @ more cordial reception from the public, A Lirs's Assize. By Mrs. J. H. Riddell, author of “Maxwell Drewitt,” “The Race for Wealth,” &o. &c. Harper & Brothers, New York. Asad story, but in spite of this, or pernaps partly because of tt, one of thrilling interest. “Hewreux le peuple dont Uhistoire s'ennute’’ is one of the trueas of saws, and among the happy ones, poor Andrew Hardell, tried in the dawn of bis manhood and the outset of the book for the murder of Kenneth Chal- Jerson, can scarcely be accounted. Released from a Scottish prison through the significant verdict ofa Scottish Jary—“not proven’—he yet remains con- victed in the eyes of all honoat men, and condemned by his own remorse to ‘A Life’s Assize."” Guiltless of wilful murder, and himself the victim of false friendship and accidental circumstance, through wantof moral courage to confess the truth he holds lus grievious assize to the end, and can only be really discharged when God, the great Judge, shall pronounce at last, “Not Guilty,’’ (nstead of “Not proven.’? Mrs. Riddell is deservedly popular as an author, and no work that she has written exhibits greater talent than the present volume. In purity of styio and clearness of expression she has few superiors. The only defect noticeable im her novels 1s a trifle too much evidence of hard work. “A Life's Assize” shows that It hasbeen thought out and planned with infinite care, The reader, interested, fascinated and thrilled, as he cannot fail to be by the powerful situations with which the book abounds, ts yet consctous of the author's feeling of responsibility and the respect she has for her work. Commendable as this conscienttousuess certainly 1s, it yet should not be too visible, the perfection of art being, a8 we are told, its apparent absence. “A Life’s Assize” Is No. 369 of the “Library of Select Novels’? Love oN THE Wing, Anovel. By Charles March, Frank . Fuller, Boston, publisher, This is @ deevledly commonplace book, written apparently by an inexperienced author. The utlo page bears the motto, “Truth 13 stranger than fic- tion,” and certainly there ts nothing particularly re- markable about the fiction with which Mr. March has favored the public, unless it may be its tedious- ness, “Love on the Wing” comprises some 436 closely though ciearly printed pages, Toe OorLytas, By Miss Mulock, Brothers, New York, The above named house are about pnbitshing a new and attractive edition of the works of this charming authoress, The merits of the touching and beautiful story of “The Ogilvies,” the frst volume that has been issued, are too well known Co require furthor comment, Harper & in Exrtz. A Translation, Philadelphia: J. B. Lip- pincott & Co, This work is a traslation from the German of W. Von. St. The story is quite interesting, and will be found entertaing in whillng away leisure mo- ments, PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. Inquiry Inte the Charges A ‘Trustee Riley- The hearing in the case of Quin and others agalnst Terence Riley, School Trustee of the Twenty-second ward, was resumed yesterday before Commissioners Gross (presiding) and Lewis and the Committe on inet School Teachers. Commissioner Ingersoll was also present, Wiliam Brandow, & conductor on ® Third avenue car, was examived, and stated that he knew Quin four years; he lent him $100, which Quin told him was to be patd to Terence Riley, school trustee, tn consideration of his getting him the position of janitor; accompanied Quin to meet Mr. Perry on the corner of Tenth avenue and Twellth street, and saw him hand Perry the $100 for Riley; Quin paid me back In four or six months after, That finished the evidence in the case of Quin, The charges made by Patrick Golding were then taken up. Golding, being aworn, said he lived near Fitty-fourtn street, in Bleventh avenue; haga dangh- ter, Mary A. Golding, Wao has been a teacher since the fail Of 1868; about three years ago made appit- cation to Riley to secure his daughter a position ag teacher, and tola him it would be ‘all rignt;’”’? cour not say whether Riley asked him for any money; gave him $26 on the corner of Bighth avenne and Fifty-fourth sweet; my daughter received. the ap- Ppa In Forty-seventh street school; I intended 'o give him bag did not pay him the balance after the $26; Sar . McKenzie is & peugnnor of mine; as her people were not very well of I asked Kiley to she Sg a agen fo fl a ere baw cas nn, joy'8. di Ri noon atter adked him tf ne we un * you, thats all right; Riley dtd not say he Spe ne money, but sae “that’s all right: Mr. MeKenale gave me the $10); T have tad @ political difference with Riley; have been induced to come ana make charges becat jain, @ Sir ‘waa disc! from his position througa lley’s influence, and Kiley may use that to oust ™imore Geing ne other witnesses in shis case the committee adionrnat eee MUSIC AND THE At Heme. Dan Bryant was to have taken @ benefit at the Academy of Music, but he bas given ap the idea, Lina Edwin closes her season at ner theatre in this city on June 3. She talks of going West with a company to play in Chicago. (he Rigi Sisters, Betty and Emily, and Mrs. Rig sailed for Europe on the 20th inst. They have been In this country nearly seven years. “The Three Blind Mice” pantomime, of which Tony Denier and ©, K. rox are managers, 13 to be produced at Wood's Maseum on June 5 Ricnard Edgar, who has been tn this country about a@ year, and whois the son of the English actress, Miss Marriott, saits for England on the 20th inst, Next weck is the last of “Winter’s Tale” at Booth’s theatre, after which @ new piece, now being played in London, wt!l be produced, with Lawrenes Barrett tn the leading rdte, In the Provinces. Rose and Harry Watkins play “ (the Walnut Street theatre, Philadelphia, next weok. ‘Nel Warner opens a week's engagement at the Dew Opera House, Rochester, N. Y., on June 5. Line Fdwin playa her dramatic company at the Arch street theatre, Philadelptila, in June, Bob Butler’s variety troupe play at the Boston theatre for four weeks, commencing on June 19%, Ed Banker has jotned Carncross & Dixey's Minstrels, opening with them m Cincinnati, Onto, on the 224 Inst. : Little Nell plays in Toronto, Canada, for one week, commencing June 19, and goes theaos to Monireal for the following week. The Imperial Japanese troupe, with “Little All Right,” remain at Fox’s, Philadelphia, next week, and open ta vittsburg on May 29 fur two weeks. A combination will shortly start for a Western tour, visiting all the principal towns and cities, It will consist of the Imperial Japanese troupe, with the original “Little All Right’? now in Philadel- pula; also the Magiltons, Young Americus, the in- fant Violinist, two first class premterse danseuses and a corps de vallet of etyht young and beautiful ladies, Colonel Brown Is the agent, Driftings Abroad. The following was the programme of the fourth subscription concert given by the Musical Academy, Munich:—“Ninth Symphony,” Beethoven; ‘Katser- march,” R. Wagner; ‘Violin Concerto,” Mendels- goin (Herr Benno Walter), and tne ‘‘iHuudredth Psalm,’’ Handel. According to report—cnaracterized by a stronger flavor of truth about it than usual—the grand Beethoven festival, at Bonn, which was to have come of last year, but which the outbreak of hostlil- ties rendered impossible, will be given tn the month of Angust next, with strupulous fidelity to the original programme. Miss Netlson’s benefit at Birmingham wasa scene of the greatest excitement ever wituessed, Nut only was tho orchestra turned into stalls, bat por tions of the stage were furnished with seats, 3 it Was, scores of visitors were sont away, Miss Notlson’s appearance as Rosalind has been so suc- cessful a secoud engagement bas peen made, and the talented actress Wil! appear as Jultet. A military and naval amateur dramatic society has receauly been established, having for tts object the organization of amateur performances from me to time tn London and the provinces, of which the profits are to be devoted to charities Principally of a military and naval character, Their perform- ances at the Gaiety Theatre have*eforded an op. portunity of exhibiting the ability of the company, Signor Ernesto Rossi, the great Italian tragedtan ana actor, whose intended visit to South America Was lately announced, has been unexpectedly pre- ceded by Signor Tommaso Salvini, his confrdre and rival. Signor Ernesto Rossi left Genoa at the en of last month, after receiving from King Amadeus of Spain the insignia of Commendatore. Signor Kosai will perform at Rio Jantero, Buenos Ayres und Montevideo, > Herr R. Wagner's “Meistersinger von Niirnberg” has been produced at tae Stadt theatre, Hamburg. Herr Nachbaur, of Munich, sang the part of Walther Stolzing at the Orst threo performances, ‘The dis: olples of the school of the future assert the work ‘Was a great success und will become @ stock-plece, A very great number of tho general public stoutly Maintain the contrary. Qui vivra verra /—lierr Nachbaur took his leave as the hero tn err Re Waguer’s “Lohengrin.” From the official returns just published at Wles baden we learn that during the year 1870 Meyer- peer's works (represented be four operas) were moro popular than those of any other composer, having a given fifteen times at the Ducal theatre. Theu comes Mozart with tweive performances, Lortzing with eleven, Donizettt (four operas) with nine. Auber and Wagner with seven each, Weber with six, Rossini and Verdi with five each, Gounod (“Faust”) with four, Bellini and Flotow with three eaoh, Méhui with two und Beethoven and Ginck with one gach. Meyerbeer's ‘‘Africaine” was pew and four other operas were revivals. A project has been broached for celebrating next Year at Moscow the 20th anuiversary of Pever he Great's birth by a grand uational musical festival, wo be divided into two pi pal parts, It is pro- rey that the first part shail consist of a competi- ion between Russian composers and the perform- ance of occasional pieces, or pleces written ex- pe, for the occasion. The s€cond part will be a ind of musico-ethnographic ¢. tion, at which the different races belonging to the Russian empire will execute, in their respective national costumes, pieces of popaiat music, Vocal and instrumeatal. If Js reported that the government has signified its m- tention of contributing 100,000 roupies toward carry- ing out the notion. We hear dismal groanings at the state of the Lon- dou theatrical market at the present season, and forebodings as to the disasters which may be ex- Pected within the next month or six weeks. Lon- don is overcrowded with theatres, yet not hall a dozen could bo reckoned as doing & really good businesa, Many are carried onin sheer Renpece an, some are on the verge of Insolvency. The boasts of London msuagers at the ume of Mr. Boucicaalt’a suggestion for cheap prices could hardly be made now. There are few houses at present that do not rely on the power of ‘‘paper”’ to produce an audience. In fact, prospects are extremely bad, and this in face of @ season Witch 1s to bring more visitors to London than ever, and an Exhibition which ts sup- posed to symbolize universal peace and prosperity. ‘The frequenters of tho Alcusar Muste Hall at Mar- seilles have beea treated to the performance of “General Fichton-Khan,’? a satire on the ex-En- peror Napoleon, which was very successful in Paris during the stege. At the conciusion of the piece on Friday there was a great deal of appiause [rom the majority of the audience, but two ty 3 three non-com- nussioned Oftvery in the valcony having taken it into their heads to hiss, 1nuch to the disgust of the remainder of the house, @ riot began to brew. “Pica us down those Badinguets,” suouted t people in the pit. ‘*Assasstas,” shrieked the others, and the disturbance was only put an end to by the arrival of a detacument from a neighvurtag barrack, who Were obliged to carry of their companions to protect them trom the mob. Wtih bis customary consistency, says a Londoa paper, the Lord Chamberlain, after having forvidden the performance of certain scenes aud sentiments in Victorien Sardou'’s comedy ‘Nos Intimes,’’ has now granted his permission for the piece to be played intact, and intact it was played at the Lyceum. What ishmoral one year, it seeuis, bscomes moral the next—nay, even the lapse of @ mouth marks the boundary line between propriety aud lupropriciy ju the mind of our Censor of Plays. When 18 tire stage lo be cleared of the anachronism of thls med. dimg fanctionary, who, set up to appoint the dis- Unction between rigut and Wrong, cannot matutain his own opinion for two weeks I succession? Tue oMce shonid be abolished, as no one can posslbiy hold st with satisiaction to himself or others, MUSTO IN BERLIN, The new grand three act opera entitled “Fritjhof,” words by Herr Emit Hopifer, aad music by Here Bernhard Uopifer, has been produced at the Royal Opera House, As far as the first night gous, 1t was & success; the public took every opportunity of applauding during the course of the work, und, at the end of @ach act, called for the composer und the performers, Whether the future wil be as tavora- bie ia itg verdict Wo must leave the future to deters mine. So much, however, may fairly be asserted, Herr Bernhard Hoptfer, wito, ay yet, 13 littie known to fame, possesses UnWistakable natural gifts, whic ifindustriously cultivated may yield an abundant harvest. At present Herr Hopi +t has mach tw learn and also much to Unlearn. His reminiscences, to, of several great masters must become much weaket dbelore his originality can atta Anything like strength. The book 18 too long, but greatly superior, voth In interest and construction, to Lie inajority of So-calied librettos, The vooalists were Madames Maliinger and Lehmann; Herren Niemann, Bet Fricke and Hebrens, Here Niemann bovb sang al acted splendidiy as Frijhoft, aud the same hoids 1 of Madaine. Mallinger, as the heroine, Inge rg. ‘The mise-en-socne Was admirable, at the eighth symphony soir’e of the Royal Chapel there were, 80 to say, two “Richmonds in tue fleld,’? or, to Lond somewhat less figuratively and much more Inteligibly, there weretwo over+ tures to “Medea” in the programme. The first, anov- elty, was by Herr Bargtel; a classical work was the second, by Cherubini. Herr Bargtel’s new venture proved very successful, andis far superior tn almost every respect tomany of his former efforts, Re Schumana’s D minor symphony and Beethoven's B flat symphony were aiso comorised in the pro- gramme, eee by sd Cad aan music Fad Los - separable. e grea! vent respecting the je the forthcoming Visit of Maestro Kicbard Wagnor, “the composer ahead of the age,” as he is called, who Will couduct a grand. charitable concert at the Royal Opera House, where will also be executed the vs ‘Maron’ composed by hin expressty for tue see reas ie ati oPwagnera eet L jes the name 0! je ti the t aa tw a bombshell. vton that Wag- a “a if Botearithe r Kapellmets: it he title of Kaiserliche 5 tor ts flrendy setting by theears hiy frends and op. nents Who are preparing for. grand Crusade as Between classical and Zakunit's niasto THE FOUNDLINGS. Denial by the Sisters of Charity of the Waste ington Gift Enterprise—The Institution, [is Work and Its Debts, For some weeks past the country haa been flooded with circulars for a “grand gitt concert and distri- bution” for the benefit of thé Pounding Asylum of the Sisters of Charity, of thia city, and the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home, Wash ington, BD. ©. The drawing 13 advertised to take place at Washington on the 7th ot June next. Such names aa the Hon. H. McCallough, Major George T. Uastle anil the Hon. James 5. Neg- ley are stated on the prospectus to be the commis sioners and trustees of the affair. It also beara on the back a permis from General Pleasonton, Com- missioner of Internal Revenue, entiving the enter- prise to go free of all tax. ‘The prizes are many and valuable, and so far as names and fair promises go, everything would seem satisfac. tory. So many tnstitations of the kind have, unfor- tunately, turned out DBLIBERATR SWINDLES, that it was felt to pe the duty of the Reranp to make some inquiries in the matter, A reporter, there- fore, called at the Founding Asylum, No. 3 North Wasnington square, yesterday, and made inquires in the matter, There it was learned that the an- nouncement was completely without authority. About two months ago the New York agent ealled at the Asyinm, and was referred to Father Storrs, the Vicar General. That reverend gentieman had stated to the Sisters that he had given NO AUTHORIZATION, A nomber of letters had been received from Boston and other piaces asking If the announcement wai genuine, In conversation tt fell out that the an- nouncement had been made before even the good Sisters in charge of the Asylum were referred to, On being asked whether the fnstitution was opposed to recelving a sum of money from tha scheme the answer was made that the asylum was $4,009 in debt, and that they should be glad of help: from almost any quarter, but that the Sfaters would not lend their iames to any such enterprise unlest everything Counected with it was fair legally and IN PERF ROT HONKATY. Father Starrs was not at his house in Mott street being out of town, and hence his direct personal opinion could not be learned. It may be remarked that the eminently divine charity which takes the charge of infants wha would otherwise be left to starve or die, tf the terrible monster of Infantictde did not clutch them tn bia innatural, inhuman grasp, 14 one which appeals to the best fectings of every man worthy of the name on this wite continent. ‘There are over 700 children in charge of the Sisters, and, reault of stnuings and lapsiag from viriue as they may be, there {3 A BROADER HUMANITY, A TIGHER SOUL inspiring this sustenance of the ilttle ones, beloved of Obrist, than almost any other in the land, It means children rescued, not only from death, but from lives of erime; It meuns young souls and bodies tenderly nurtured; It means Ronest men and wor men, ratsed for tho building of our great repnnlic. it 19 the faisest of false hypocrisies which says that it encourages immorality. Lhe fallen mother who can consent to abandon her offspring 18 surely not likely to do better for her child or hersetf if no sneh insti. {ution 13 at band to save the tifant, Thoxe good- hearted ladtes and gentlemen who recognize tha value of thls work to the state and to humanity should surety see that no monetary diMcuity inter- fere with the workings of a charity which 13 ABOVE ALL SECT AND PREJUDICE, and so much in the interest of alt. itis from such grounds that It ts destrable fully to understand whether the gift enterprise above alluded to is fairly in the interest of the foundlings. At present 1t would seem that no anthority to use the mame of the Foundhug Asylum has been given. BEFRIEND THE CHILD. Ladiew Fair at Apotly Hall. At 247 East Thirteenth street ts the home of an unpretentious charity which works much good in a quiet way, It 1s presided over by a number oj ladies of means who devote thetr spare time and money to the dual objects of the institation, which are, first, to reform degradeda girls; second, to rescue the children of degraded Parents, It at present takes care of fifty-four such, and within its short existence has seen fifteen girld restored to the path of virtue and earning once more the wages of honesty. it t# not connected with any religtous order, and the inmates are mad¢ to feel that 1t is ahome im every respect. Staying thore is not compulsory, and out of some few cases which deserted nearly all returned, only too glad to be readmitted, DEPRAVED GIRLS, UP TO SBVENTREN YEARS, are elimble, provided there 1s room, that being the only question, Girla at the early age of tivelve have: been taken in, who, trough bad example and evil surroundings, were habitual drunkards, To wipe Ont saob Diote on the face of social life and roplaca them by fair human ft is & good work and sake pares The ladies of the association are all by de hd renee our community. They have been holding a ur Iba laters for the past week, with fair results, at Apotio Hall, Twenty-eighth street, eutrance 1, Broadway. It will be continued TO-MORROW AND TUESDAY, where the nsual fancy objects found at baznard yu Re age sn8 ram a aire Ap oe ? a5 oo silver dollars, or . Garvey. Those with a love for specie should take a chance, There ia music In thé evening, acoompanied by young and pretty faces, while the godly temptatiom to be charitable {s present alt the time. DECORATION DAY. Preparations for the Celebration. ‘The committee having tn charge the arrangements for “Decoration Day" have met every evening) daring the past week at tho little camp on Bours, teenth street and Union square, and so far have met with the most decided success, Sub-committees have been appointed on masie, transportation, ha'ly flowers, &c., and everything bas been putin worke ing order. They have received promises from all ine prominent men in the city of assistanoo, Mra Onaries P. Daly will act as chairman of the Financ® Committee. William M, Tweed, General Sharp, William Hitchman, Geueral Jones and many o:hot city magnates are als9 on the comnittee. Tue exercises on the evening of the 3otu Inst, ag tho Academy of Music will consist of an oration, music, singing, recitations, &e., by the best tatentt thatean be procure). Tickets for the entertwin+ ment are fifty cents each, aud ean be obtained at ther headquarters on Union square, ac all the principal book stores, of tuy member of the comuiittees, andy at the door of the Academy on the evening of the goth =ojust. ‘The surplus, after paying exe uses, Will be denated to the Union, Home School for Soldiers? and Satiors’ orpha It is expected that Lieutenant Geuerat Shermat Will preside upon the vecasion. The neadquarter will be open day and evening anttl nine o’cloe! Tuesday, Svthinst., waen contributions of Bowers, jants, &c., or money, will be thankinily receivedy The exeoullve Committee consisia of Messrs F. Bay Farmer, B. Edgeworth, M. Cregan, J, Fores, 8s, Mennes, N, D. H. Clark, J. A. Christie, W. H, Corsays ©. Nitsohe, W. H. Frerest, J. F. tHavitand, O. Hej Scburman, T. J. Kelley, 4. Lyueh, M. Reed, + Alman, J. U. Pinckney, J. 8. Dingwall, B. P% As A. Marsan, T. J. Odium, W. MeEntee, J. K. rertey* and H. A. M, Beers, The oiicers are U. R. McDor ald, chatrman general comyittess F. 6. Parmer, chairman exeeultve committee; Jonn W. Marshail,, treasurer, aud Frank M. Clark, Secretary. PRINCE ERIG VICTIMIZED, How a Suarper Disposed of Bogue Tickets om the Erie Railroad—Arrest of the Sharper. For the past three months tue managers of the Erie and other railroads have been annoyed by @ system of counterfelt tickets, collected ny thelr vae vious conductors, bearing the same numbers sud dates as the original tickets, William it. Barr, toe general ticket agent of the Erie road, resolved, if possidle, to find the parcyor parties who bad been) swindling them, and sought the services of; @ State detective in the employ of the road named Stetson, to “work up’? the caso, Stem gon succeeded after a jong and tedious sear! in asecertaiming that the guilty party wad ol Edward B. Roverts. A third party was sought, wlio formed the acquatitance of Koverts and tag! - himseif so favorably in hi¥ adfections that Kober! made an agreement WKN him to sell him a certat amount of tickets at @ specified piace oD Taursdag) nigit. : inted hour Captain MeDermotty of ti Biatenaes preciach, and Stetson were at the trystiny lace, After observing Roberts pass (he tickets over: fo the purchaser they crossed the street and took) Roberts fo the station house in West Twentieth street, where, upon searctiug him, they found @ number of similar Uckets on the Krie aud other roads in als: possession. He appeared very reticent abuut the matier, aud staced he had stolem them; but Captan, McDermott is of the opinion that he has som TAngementa made With @printer, wire is weil Known to BUD) him with ohe us pasteboards, It iy aimed tae Rohartetsposed of a targe number to! ns WO attende the late Mzz!e DeLWeen Macy and Coburn by sching (hem ata reduced rate, He was armignea before Justice Powier, actin: magistrate at Jeilersou Market, yesterday alterna and held to answer Une charge,