The New York Herald Newspaper, July 9, 1871, Page 4

4 LONG BRANCH. A NIGHT WALK ALONG THE BEACH, Fashionable Life by the Seaside and the Life That Is Not Fachionable—Glances at the Cot- tages and the Hotels and Glimpses of the People at the Branch — Roystering Western Hoosiers—Murmurs of the Sea and Voices of the Night. Lona Branen, July 8, 1871. Those of your million readers who have never lost themselves in revery on a pebbly peach at night when the stars are out, and the waves, sighing in unison with the balmy wind, fall smiling with a mn- sleal cadence on the strand, have yet something to enjoy. extend beyona the shore, Of the sea he could not have said that there was nothing in it. Great, com- manding, nobdie, In wrath or at rest, the ocean is ever changing, yet always unchanged. When the light from the firmament dtps down on the upturned face of the sea and spreads over it a calm and holy brightess, it ts a spectacie satisfying toa samt and too good for a sinner. It 1s well that both saints and sinners have that great book of nature to read, It is not controversial, it abuses no creed, as- sails no system, Typical of eternity, it rolis on and in majestically, the incontrovertible argument of Ommisicence. Man feels his litueness in presence of Uns tremendous power and the voice of ambition 1# unheara WHERE THE BREAKERS TRUNDER ous from the darkness, Some thouguts like these passed through afiy mind iast nigot asi sat on the beach, where the water, failing from the wp of bich, arching waves, came tumbling and laughing to my feet, It was a caim, solemn night out on the ocean; and it was only the younger waves that, unrestrained by ‘he wise undercurrent, came, uproariously in, splitting their sides with laughter over the eccen- tricities of the sand bar. Joined to the tncom- Parable melody of their voices were soft strains of music, to which light feel kept time, and that other music so pleasant to the ear, the pretty prattle of charming women. How long I should have re- mained gazing at the sea, watcning for the fleeting forms of ghostlike ships and listening to the sounds Sir Charles Coldstream’s experience did not | NEW Y ART MATTERS. Our Public Statues. It would appear that the go-ahead quality which distinguishes in trade the American from the slower and less enterprising nations of the Old World is about to be imported into the domain of art, Atleast we are led to imagine so from the sudden awakening of art taste which fids ex- pression in the erection of public monuments to men who have conferred honor and benefit on the community, It would be diMcult to decide what ulumate effect might be produced by the imiroduc- tion of Yankee notions into art, which is peculiarly reverential and conservative, walking in patis jong trodden and markea with footprints which THE WRARY S7UDENT PILGRIMS | Kiss reverentially us they follow at humble dis- tance in the wake of the great men the light of whose genius is leading them on the roat to fame: | It would be a curious subject for specuiation to | trace the probavle results of Young America rusi- ing along at railroad speed to the great goal aliead, overturning the iandmarks of the past and cover- ing up the sacred footprints that have gaided the artistic worid for ages in the pursuit of the beanti- | tuland tender, Whatever may be the advantages | Of this strong physteal energy in matvers per- taining to the ordinary affeira of life, we fear that m the domain of art it would only be de- structive of many | BEAUTIFUL, DELICATE FLOWERS OF THOUGHT, | and of that sedate, nobie dignity of repose which is shadowed forth on the canvass of the old masters. ‘The qualitics of a people find expression in their art, Which is the standard by which an age will be Judged by posterity. Looking back to antiquity, we have an example inthe Grecian repabdlics of how much the reputation of a people is affected by the quality of thelr art. Who ever thinks of Greece in any connection but as the home of a nightly civilized people, endowed with a subtle tenderness of thought that makes them something more than mortal? It is | ; ting but the eftect intended, ORK WERALD. Whose powerful brain subjected the lightning to man’s use the artist nas given to the great electri- cian & meaningless expression. just relieved by a smile, rather indicative of good-natured weakness than of any quality which we are likely to assoctate im our minds with THE PACHER OF TRURGRAPHY. Perhaps the worst feature in thi work is tne total absence of form, it would that the artist never took the trouble to my the man at all, but contented nunself with medeling the clothes. This may appear an exaggeraied idea to people conversant with art, but, with the memory ol @ visit to # cervain American sculptor’s studio in | our minds, We are jucliued to think that our notion bas some foundation, If we do the artist injustice ; we regret it very much, but plead in extenuation | that his work produces this impression. Thus ab- | Sence of jorm 18 especially noticeable in the legs of the figure; there 18 not the sugntest indication that j under the trousers are bones and muscles with well defined forms and graceiul, 8’ iz lives, Wor ali that tells us of tiese traths the trousers might as well be fliled up with sawdust instead of bones and tuuscie, NO care has been used to secure even cor- rectuess of outiine, and in all OUR EXVKRIENCS OF SCULPTURE we do not ever remember v0 have seen anything more faulty or iucorrect than the right leg of this igure; it is comietciy out of drawing and wanting in form. Modern costume, it must be confessed, 18 & poor subject for artistic treatment in scuipture, and critics fecl culled upon not to be too exacting iu this matter; but if no grand or striking effects Are expected, past ease and naturainess ure looked ior. In the present instance, though the whole figure, with the exception of the head and hands, 1s draped, there ts not oue good or pleasing effieci to be recorded. ‘The coat and trousers look as if they were starcied, and the most of the drapery seems to have been made trom wet canvas, so hard and angular does it look, ‘The cloak, which was mtro- duced with the intention of relieving TRE HARA, SOANT LINKS OF THE MODERN COSTUME, under je treatment it recetved, produces any- It falls from the Tight shoulder over the rigut side aud arm in front, and covers almost completely tee back of the figure with heavy toids of stuff drapery. In Iront the folds are Um and striagy, without breadth or beauty in the linea, The lines of me Lent on the right aud at the back are broken and ragged, without even TUL PRETENCE OF FORM, . There is evtdence of an attempt to produce grand effeci4, bul Want of Knowledge prevented success, rge Spaces are gpencd up and left without detatl, t there 1s no ease or grace in the disposition of the folds, and uot one broad line in the Composition. almost impossible (o connect the thought of anything mean or degraded with the nation that gave us Apollo and Venus. Who has any conception of what a Greek rough would look ike’ if we look 1nward we shall, perhaps, be forced to confess that the ilies of rough has never been associated in our minds with a citizen of one of the Grectan republics. Such a character seems to be entirely out of place in a nation so much devoted to THE WORSHIP OF THE PRAUTIFUL that It never occurs to us to associate them in our minds. No doubt we believe in the exisience of that disturbed the sleep of the night, I do not know, had it not suddenly occurred to me that my letter ‘was unwritten. Turning my back to the wave—a very risky thing, Imay say en passant, when you are bathiag—I strolled ALONG THE BEACH. ‘The hotels were ablaze with light and the cottages Were brilliantly iNummated. Not that there wae anyuning very special going on, but the people here understand the Importance of plenty of light and know how it is appreciated by the pudiic. 1 walked down from the President's cottage, from which came faint echoes of a pleasant air, then listened a moment near @ house @ littie way oif trom the shore, where a piano was being tortured by a merctiess woman excited to a fine frenzy by the plaudits of a few insane Philadeiphians The poor dis traught lady thumped the wretched = tnstra- ment as ul her salvation depended on me strength and frequency of her blows, and the young men’s coat tails (their shadows were thrown on the blinds) wagged excitedly. I pitied the lady and the men. BAD MUSIC AND IDIOTIC REJOICINGS over It on such a glorioas night could not be borne with patience. I felt certain that if any of the swallow-tailed men had come out after the musical performance the Dog Star wouid have stood on nis tailand howled at them, But perhaps that terrestrial canine does not belong to the fautiy of stars which, according to Addison, Utter forth a glorious voice, Forever singing av they shine. A number of forms moved tn the ligut that slanted out irom the gambling palace, and fas! norses, with Men as fast but not Baif so temperate, looked curi- ousiy over the fences of the road as they dusned b And a chatty, fashionable mnititude occupied th corridors of the West End Hotel. Tuere was a hop going on inside, and, right properiy, the children had the first place. Tt was a pleasaut scene, I1tttle Lotta, “the Marebioness,” tripped among the prvtte dancers, lively as a Dird in the May season. Molly Lusoy, a beautiful, graceful and tastefully dressed child, Whose every movement indicates refluement and culture, skips around the littie theatrical ceicb- rity; Master Nathan, Patterson and other cilldren ln partnership with comrades troll round to the music of an excellent band. Charley Sykes, @ philo- Soper of twelve, stands with FOLDED ARMS AND A GLOOMY EXPRESSION of face, looking on. He would like to call out and shoot, Soutnern fashion, # fierce-looking rival of eighteen. The music changes, and the big people— who are never so interesting as the little foiks—pre are to dance. I will write of them another time. otte 1s ready to trip again and float her flowing hair in the face of her willing partner; but I resume my walk. There is a pleasant party at the Howland House, next to the West find, and the children got yei sent to bed caper joyousiy about tie lawn in front. Be- tween that house and the Continental Hotel 1 sre noting worth stopping to jook at. But there are a few hundred darkies on the road, It ts their time for Greek criminals, but they take the form of pollahed scoundrels, who sin with svch a grace that we are almost inclined to condone their crime, This is but one example of how much influence art exercises over the opinions of mankind. And we find that in Just proportion as art has flonrished in any age or country is the respect of posterity awarded. If the enlightenment and civilization of America to-day ve judged by this standard we fear that our boasted in- telligence and progress will not save us from the contempt of the future, unless, indeed, OUR UTILITARIAN TRIUMPBS come to the rescue and plead for gentle jndgmenta: but if we are judged by the standard of the beauti- Tal, ihen, indeed, we stand already condemned, Nor will the spasmodic efforts at present being made in | the interest of art production avail us much unless a better and a wiser spirit s:ep m to guide us in the prowovion of irue art. It is not enough that money shouid be freely given 10 encourage the production of art works. Patronage which 1s not directed with judgment is just as likely to beget bad works as good. High art, like everything precious, Is necessarily limited in quantity, and cannot be produced to order, like 20 many yards of calico, The productive power of the greatest artist 1s limited within a very narrow space, and any temptation to overtax his power generally results in Inferior work, When to- (erior artists, Who have no reputatiog to lose, know Unat iney are patronized not so much in the interest of art as from the inflaence of personal frieads, the temptation to degrade the pursult of art into A MONEY-GRUBRING TRADE becomes almost irresistible, and hence the abomt- nations which are constantiy produced unblush+ ingly under the title of art works. The absence of a correct art taste in Ameri giving a dangerous aevelopment to this spurio’ rt, which threatens to undermine the growing taste of the people. 11 is Impossible to over-estimate the tufiuence for evil which the constant pressure of spurions art works ibust have in corrupting the popwar tdeas of the Yeautiln!, A public statue stands gut to the masgof th? people as 7.) AUPEORTTATIVE EXPRESSION OF ART SKILEs No suutter how bad the work may be, no matter ow great Its defects, @ certain seal of authority is ed upon tt when ftis erceted In public, Simple. nded people argue that unless the work possessed rit of some kind it would never have been ‘ted to mark present approval of some worthy deed by men Who are aliowed to Know much more abou good and correct iu ari (han the mass of the community. Hence springs the great evi false potions of att are inculcated, and the pubilc taste becomes so corrupt that 1t 18 incapable of re- pw anim m enjoyment, and certainly they amuse themseives (0 the utmost, Dan Bryant wight learn a lesson from these sable Southerners, See ihetr eyes sparkle in the uncertain light as they dance, inthe summer houses now abandoned to them, the real, gen-n-wine Virginian breakdown} oy are the happiest peopie here, and their board doesn't cost th five dollars a day! But in the middie of the road, sway- Ing recklessly to rignt and left, see A CROWD OF WESTERN HOOSIERS ! Where did they come from last? It 14 too aark to Aistingulsh their faces. The votes are not very sweet, but they are loud enough in all conscience. ear them in chorus :— “* Altogether boys, now |” Bab ! And when you come to Dixy's ferry, And yer bealth ye would enjoy, Jump én board the emigrant care Tu the State of Il-tn-noy | Bau! A few hundred verses, more or jess, of this stuff, and the crowd get quieted in a smal hostiery where Jersey whiskey and Shrewsbury ciavix are the sta- i ple food. Then passing a hotel which, thongh painted white, reminds me of the Zollicoiier House, in Nashville, ‘Tennessee, afterwards the most ligh-smelling bar- rack that ever soldier sweltered in, the Continental shines out. There is a hop goyng on tere, too, and every guest is interested. There is a man dancin who never opens his mouth put he puts his foo. t it: but of that auother time. There are many of | shail give it all the praise 1¢ may metit, aud siall coguizing # good work when it fet magi ‘To some- \uing of this pass we are waiking with hasty strides. A few years ago we had no art, and suddenty we awakened to the necessity of creating a school of artists, and without more ado, with true AMEKICAN GO-ABEADISM we encourage a number of genticmen to produce an uniimited number of art works at so much a foot, ‘Phe resuli has not disappoinied any one conversant with art, and we hope it has given satisfaction to the patrons. We say this charitably. Butso far as we ourselves are concerned, We must take occasion to express our strong dissatisfaction. We love art, and would have it encouraged and cultivated with the utmost liberality. But for this very love we bear all that ts true and beantifnl in the tender thougnt aud subtle skill of man, We would elimiuate ail that is un- worthy or base Irom the domain of art. We desire perfection, but will be satisied with much less. Vhenever a bold or beautiful idea is presented, though srirronnded by 4 maxs of unworthiness, we pass hghtty over (né many faults in thankialness for the ONE GLEAM OF TROTH or bewaty. On the other hand we spall wage ruth- Jess, Unceasing War upon shaw) art, which vutrages boti our taste and jutelligence. To-day we purpose to review critically the latest } contribation to the public monnments of our city — | the Moree etatue, If we pause and examiue fora | moment the importance of the event which the | that class here who pull thei immense BUNDLES OF GREENDACKS out on every occasion. Foote once told a man that if he put a biack coat op Dla back and kept Nis mouth shut he might possibly pass fora gentieman. But these fellows who bave gravbed—the Lord oniy knows how—s couple ef hundred thousand dollars cennot be modest. They Dave no family arms, it is | true; bul their pedigree is written on their faces. ‘The glitter of a costly diamond cannot lend grace to she conntenance of aruMan “to the manner porn.” But jortunatciy for society at (he Coutmental and } its surroandings, this lass is potas yet in the ina- jority, notwithstanding the presence of two sashy and notorious lumbi and a long tail of their adaurers. There tsa large namper of nice people in the parlor and they seem to enjoy the dancing very much. ‘They Itsten to an excellent bend of music. A walk te the depot und below tt di nothing uew. The hoteis below the Continental ave stent. Cudoubtedly the most pleasant drive in uus coun- | try ig that from the depot to the Wesi Kad flore', and [question very much if there is a watering Diace in Rurope to equal 1. it is AS GOOD A WALK AS IP 18 A DRIVE. though, perhaps, just a littie too long. Op such B | Bight, however, and In Company of the melodious wingers of the night, the freshly excited wind, rising to applaud, and the admiring stare locking down, | preferred to waik back to my hotel. turned conscious of the fact that I bad seen enough of the “beach at Long Branch’ to serve tor many | Jetters, and in this faith | slept. TOE WIFK-KILLER, KEENAN. Formul Examination of James Keenan for Shooting Mis Wi Committed for Trial James Keenan shot his wife on Sunday morning, Jone 11, as she was on her way to church, ip North Sixth street, Williamsburg. He fired two shots at her, one ball lodging in the back of her head, pro- ducing 4 painful though not dangerous wound, ie ‘The partics bad been married about six years and had one child, @ daughter. Keenan alleged that lis wife abandoned him, taking we girl with her, and tuat she had since refused to let him ree his ebiid. On the morning of the shooting he war on his way to his wite’s mother’s to demand the privilege of seeing fis child, and mei his wife on the street, He asked her if he could nis = ittle = gir, and she replisa see “No,” adding that he could vever look upon his daughter's face again. Keenan then drew @ pistol and fired at Ler, as above etated. He was immed- ately arrested and committed for examination. He remained ip jail unt yesterday, when @ formal ¢x- amination was had betore Justice Voorhecs. prisoner was fully commiited for trial on the charge of assault with tntent to kill, Keenan testified that he was twenty-hree years of age, born in Willlams- burg, resided in Franklin street, Greenpoint, and Was ab engineer by occupation. When asked what ¢ bad to say in answer to the charge he replica:—- am gull Ad shooting her, but vot gully with ateut to Bil im re- | —The Privener Fully | The | starue is Intended to commemorate we shali be | strnck with the mumense seope which the subject | afforded for the exercise ol the artist's skill tm re- | presenting powerful and supwe (honght. No grander theme Wae ever treated by art tau i HE TRIUMPH OF MIND lements, reducing the electrie cur- yniroi and waking 1 the servant aud ines - nenger of MAN io do tus bidding by sea and land to time, Mere was a subject worthy of the artist's thought, and fit to call up whatever conceptions of grandeur, force and dignity might be lying iatentin | Is soul. But a great artist only could ‘hope to rise | to the conception of the taeme and concentrate the expression of THR THOUSAND MOBILE FORCES OF THOUGHT in bard, inflexibie stone. ‘Che treatment of a statue shouid he in keeping With the achtevernonts it ts in- | feuded to commemoraté, and should shadow forth oral qualities of Uie actions of men rather than mere physical resemblance, tn fact, a statue should be the epitomized history of a life or of an and convey to us the ideas of grandenr and ex- | Hence which it is se upto honor, ‘Che work b us fails iM every condition thal justifies the erechion | of a public stacue, and warns ns that itis becoming necesmary on (ke part of Our city authortites to ex. eTcixe # closer supervision over the quality of ihe works which they allow to be set np in puole laces. One essential condition should in all cases pe tussted Ob—nawiely. that the statues erecied In. honour 0! great 19eD stivuld be OF a certain i STANDARD OF RXCBLLENCE | to entivie them to public recogatt We may not go #0 fur As the Greeks, who Vanished au avtist who Offended Ube public tasie by the production of a bad | starue, but af lensi we cin ostracize the bad works | and save our public grounds from being disigured | by the presence of defective and wretehodly ex- ecuied srt Works. ‘The Morse statue, bv Mr. Pickett, is weak In con- copuon, conveying nu sense o! dignity or power; the figure is clothed m ine modern costume, sup- | plemented vy ahuge cloak in order to afford the | aust scope for drapery modelling. ‘ itis posed on igh over the very j rei to the im jor, with the left foot = tly advanced, | the left hand resting lightly on the telegraph ma: | { @, Which is supported ona short column; # e of teiegraph iape ts held in the right hand, ) Which is advanced to the froat, in position | THE FIGURE WEAK AND UNEXTRESSIVE apd wanting in stability. {t 1 not weil paianeed. | gud does not rest op its fect with assared ease, and there comes An thyoluntary feeling that tne slatne or something of i stability to the presence of thé column with the telegraph machine. The pro- portions of the figure are decidedly wrong. Rach ger seems to have been modelled independently nd Wither Lop relation to anyother, The Agnre is short and the head too jarge, while the legs are mneh too short for the forse, Nor are these aupar- donable errors of the einpiest proportions atoned for ue any way by BXOBLLKNOL OF DRTATL. Most care seems 10 have been bestowed ow the modelling of the face, and though we are mol ina position to proveance Whether or not se portrait is good, we Lave no hesitation in saying iat there te an absence of that idealized expression which we expect W find in the state of a great man, as repre- sentative of the spiritual beauty that we Sasodiate with mental power, however iittie physical beauty the subject may have been endowed with. } i A place of a noble and redecttye look of hue man | wore oF ) | fully ipsure: Atter wiiat we have satd tt is almost unnecessary to state that the Huish of the statue leaves much to be desired, and that a tittie more cave in the chasing Would not have been wasted. THE NATIONAL GAME. Mutuals ‘Mashing’? Martia—The Eckfords Badly Whipped. About three thousand persons assembled on the Union grounds yesterday afternoon to: witness the second gatne of the series hetween the Eckfords and Mutuals. Owing to the ontragedus drubbing the Prooklyn poys administered to the New Yorkers on “the Fourth’? the admirers of the game were not @ luttle curious to see what kind of headway the “Mutes? would make against the inimitable Mat tin’s pitching, a curiosity which was soon satisfied, as in the d@rst innmg the “ex-champions’? hit him for four first and five total bases. Indeed, Martin’s pitching never was batted with such @fect as on this occasion. Nor was 1t any fauit of his, for he never in all Dis iife mant- puiated the ball better, but it was due wholly to the skill and determination shown by the Mutuals, wlio went Into the game with a settled purpose to ad- muiniste, just sucu a dose to tle ‘Yellow Stocking’ nine as they themseives had to swallow on inde- pendence Day. Owing to errors by Hatfield and Pearce they tailed in accomplishing this, but, never- theiess, they gave the Brooklynites such a thrashing as they will long remember. In the third, sixth, eighth and ninth innings the “Mutes’? did by far the finest baiting that has been seen in this vicinity this season. In ihe ninth inning they made no less than five first and thirteen total bases, Smith and Start each making clean home runs on beautiful line atts to and over centre fleld. The following 1s the score: {The column headed “R.” indicates the number of runs muie; "2B." first bases on good hits; “T.,"" total bases on good ita; “P..” put out by the player opposite whose name Te atands;"*A.,” agsisted to put out,” ana “£.," errors made.} MUTUAL, ECKFORD. Player. RABT.P. ALP, Players. ReABT.P. A. Pe Pearce, 8 m..2'5 6 0 0 2 Allison, Istb..0 1 1100 1 Smith,2b.....2 3 5 6 12 eee | Start, Ist b...8 8 5 6 I g2081 64443 32500 $2381 2243 23333 Oos08 35910 rigio niters, p-..2 22 0 1 00044 Higham, r 2301 00500 Totals.....98 28 41 27 11 9 971218 my Cb ly. |. GA. Tth. Buh. 9h. Mutual... Fy 340 3° 7B Eetfora 0 2 4 0 0-6 Sth. Gh. th. BA. 9. 0 og 3g -0 a o 09 9 0 0H Umpire—sir. of the Atlantic Club, Time of gawwp—Two ‘hours. An Amateur Coatest—Social vs. Rosedale. Last Wednesday these two amateur clubs played their first game on the Social's ground» Hoboken. ‘The result was an old-time victory for the former club, a8 the following score will show:— SOCIAL. ROSEDALE. 0. R. Oo R. 6 8 2 4 43 204 5 3 i 4 303 2 8 1 6 Ketenum, o. he § teen cy i eat, P. 5 os am. | Browns vb. -2 8 8 9 Row, rf. 5 8 27 88 2 a) Buse Ball Netes. ‘Towaras the latter part of this month the Socials (anduteurs) will start on a trip to Pennsylvania, and piny several games; among others one at Easton on the lat of August. A large party of gentiemen friends and members of the club will accompany the nine, and a pleasant time 1s anticipated. ‘To-morrow the Ecktords play the Atianties on the Unton inde, and the Mutuals play the Olympics at Washington. The Western Unton Telegraph Company have made srrangements to bave the resuit of each tn- ning of the game in Washington telegraphed to the Union grounds where it will be posted mn a conspicug ous place. Taesday the Eckfords start West on a tour, which will extena to Chicago, Cleveiand, Rockford, Fort Wayne aud several other “small towns,” Mr. Ray, the president of the club, at the Unton Gronnds yes- verday, very kindly (*) de out lists of games to oe played on the tour and handed them to some of the reporters, among others to those of ine most obscure sheets, but why he did not give a copy to all the reporters ts not as yet Known. It is highly probable, however, that the next time the Eckfords play & game ia this vicinity he will not forgei vo re- quest + reporters to “just Make anote of ily please. A wel! contested game of base ball took place at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken, between the employes: of B, L, Solomon & Sons and James Wide, Jr, & Co., Nn Which the former Were viciorious by a score of 18 to 12, Mr. Charles Bearman acted as umpire, FIRES. Stables in First Avenne—Loas $4,000. Atane rly hour yesterday morning fire was dis- covered In the two story frame siangiiter house No, 322 First avenue, occupied by Davis & Murpiy, and before the flames could be gotten under snbjection it had damaged the stock to the extent of $1,000, iotly insured ia the Metropolitan Company. The batiding Was injured to the amornt of $1,500, and is he fire communicated to the three adjoining, to the siaughter house of George F. Garvey, No. $20 First avenue, and to the Wiacksmith «¥Gp of John Logan, No. 318 First ave- une. The dayiage to the Lnree stabies is estimated at $500, and they are insured for $4600 in the Phaemx Company. The slaughter house of Mr. Garvey was damaged some $700 Worth, apd is not insured, and ihe blacksmith shop $150; fully insured, Conon Co in Bridge Street—Loss $10,000. At half-paa! seven o'clock yesterday morning a fire occurred im tne five story buuding 17 Krhige street, occapied py Dewitt & Duncan as acotton warehouse, The Ore origiuaied on the first floor and spread rapidly througuont most of the pudaing. The dam- age 10 stock Will provably amount to $4,000, while SUNDAY. JOLY ¥. 1871.—TRKIPLK tT: - LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. THE WALFER ScorT centenary celebration is to be opéhed at Edinburg on the 15tn of Jniy. There have already been gathered there for exhibition the cradle in which the great novelist was rocked, the silver snuff-box used by him, Meg Vod’s punch bowl, the Queen’s Body Guard sult he used to wear, che original MSS. of some of his Works and a large number of portraits of Scott and his family. THERB ARE Few LireRaky wants more felt than the need of @ good American biographical diction- axy. Except the meagre ‘and unsattsiactory com- Pilation of the late Dr. Allen there 1s rea dictionary of Americans worth the name. Mr. F. S. Drake, of Boston, has in press his attempt to supply the vacuum in a “Dictionary of American Blo- graphy,” to contain 10,000 names, includjng both lyving and deceased persons. i GEORGE SAND’s new novel, “Francia,” now ap- pearing as a serial tn the Revue de Deux Mondes, brings the distinguished author $40 per page. AS each page of this periodical contains, about 500 Words the compensation 1s at the rate of eignt cents a word, and, should the story run to 400 pages, Madame Sand will recetye the handsome sum of $16,000, ; Mr. CHARLES LANMAN, of Georgetown, D. ©., has received a commission through an agent of the Japanese government to prepare a volume on the history and resources of the United States, t0 be translated and circulated in Japan. That wonderful people appear determined to know all about America and the Americans. TAR SAFETY of the great national Uvrary of France daring the mad retan of the Commune is at- tributed to the discretion and firmness of its sub- ordinate officers. M. Taschereau, the lbrarian-in- chief, quitted his post scon after the msurrection broke our, and retired to Versailles, leaving M. de | shoes; @ Journal of Sibertan ‘Travel.”’ Laborde in charge. The Commune appointed M. ‘Vincent as head of the library, who, however, left Laborde and the other emplosés in charge, and confined his exertions to the erabezzling of a sum of 10,000f out of funds entrusted to him from the Communal treasury for library expenses, This dis- covered, M. Vincent was removed and M. Reclus ap- potuted In his place, He signalized his accession by demanding that all tne assistant librarians should give in their adbesion to che Commune, This sixty-five of them refused to do, recoge nizing the rsailles government as lawful. A Communal decree at once removed the recusants from office, but they declined to aesert the library, came daily tv the tables as readers, and keptan eye on the new management. M. Reclus, after a few days’ attempt to carry on the library without experts, permitted some of the old assist- “ants to resume thetr places without adhesion to the Commune government. Once’ restored, some of them never left the library by night or by day until the safe restoration of the Versailles government, and no attempt to burn the noble coliection of over one million volumes was made. Mrs. Henry Woop, whose earliest efforts at | ovel writing were hawked about London without finding &@ purchaser, 13 said to have recetved over one hun- dred thousand dollars from publishers for her fictions since 1861, when “Kast Lynne’? was first published, Ten thousand a year for a woman is not bad. Epwarp LEar’s latest book, called “Nonsense, Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets,’? is repub- lished by James R. Osgood & Co., of Boston, and 13 full of fantastical pictures with iaughabie accom- paniments. ‘Tux Latest Issug of the Spenser Soctety, which was organized in London in 1867, is ‘tA Handful of Pleasant Delites, by Clement Robinson and divers others,” reprinted (in black letter) from the original edition of 1584. This highly curtous volume of early songs and ballads 1s one of the very rarest books of the Elizabethan age, only one copy of it being known to exist, and this one lacking a leaf, which forms a hiatus valde deflendus i the reprint, of these quaint old “sonets and histories’’ space per- mits us only one brief specimen: Diana and her darlings deare ‘Walkt once, as you shal! heare, Throngh woods and waters cieare, Themse!ves to play, ‘The leaues were gay and green, And pleasant to be seen; They went the trees between, in cole aray, ” So tong that at the last they founda place ‘Of waters fuil cleare, So pure and faire a bath necer was ‘ound many a yeare. We have not seen it noted by any of the industri- ous burrowefs into Shakspeartana that this ola vol- ume contains the following, which suggests Ophe- lia’s “There's rosemary, that's for remembrance Rosemarie is for remembrance Between us daie and nignt, Wishing that I might alwaies hace You present in my sight. ‘This was printed just twenty years before Hamlet. HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Will soon publish, through Osgood & Co., a volume of “New England Legends,” to include Captain Kidd, the Salem Witchcraft, the Burning of the Charlestown Convent and other stories; told in her weird and romantic style. Several of thiese sketches appeared im Frank | Lesite’s Illustrated Newspaper a year or two since. Kay & Brorner, of Philadelphia, have in press “Commentaries on the Law of Married Women Under the Statutes of the Several States, and ar Common Law afd in Equity,” hy Joel Prentiss Bishop, author of “Commentaries on the Crimina Law” and the ‘Law of Marriage and Divorce.” Anew “Manual of Commerce,” by 8. H. Browne, 1a in the press of Bill, Nichols & Co., of Springficid, Mass. J. R. OSGOOD & Co. will issue ‘A Dictionary of the Characters of Charles Dickens,” bv Gilbert A, Pie @e, of Washington. ‘This will supply a key to the scenes and novels in which every one of the noveltst’s creations appear, irom Job Trotter down to Mr. Crisparkle, and, though not @ concordance, cannot fail to prove highiy useful as an index, CLaxToN, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER, of Phila- delphia, will soon bring out “My Roses: The Romance of a June Day,” by the favorite Southern | author, Mra. L. Virginia French. NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED From D. Appleton & Co.:—"Metaphysics, or the Philosophy of Consctousness, Phenomina! and Real.” By Henry 1. Mansel, 8. D. ‘sfames Gor don’s Wife.” A Novel. From Harper & Brothers:—‘‘The Island Neigh- bora”? Aonovel of American Life. By Antormeite Brown Blackwell. ‘Reindeer, Dogs and xnow- By Richard J. Bush. From Roberts Brothers, Boston: Tyranny.” A society uovel. Beecher Stowe. By Mrs, Harriet From Loring, Bostoi “Zem Throop's Experi- ment.’ By Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, From Little, Brown & Co., Boston:—The Ameri can Law Review.” From Phillipa. Andrade & Co. : wfacturers? and Importers’ Business Registry New York City.” A TASTE FOR PRECIOLS GEMS, ot Jowellers Swindled by a Nice Young Man. Caprain Knrden, of the Twenty-ninth precinct, | appeared at Jefferson Market Court yesterday, hav- ing in custody a Mr. David Johnson, aiias Tyler, alias Taylor, alias Ear! ‘The young man with the numerous sobrijvets has been teading a gay life | lately, swindling a large portion of tne leadiag jew- the injury wo the putiaing, which is owned by B. | Blanco, wil amount to Both stock and butlding are fully covered by insurance. ‘The five story Ouliding next door, N) 19, 21 and ‘ 93, as well a’ the merchandise stored there, Was | heavily damaged, | Kerosene Explosion in West street—Twice Threatened. At seven o'clock last evening a kerosene lamp ex- ploded in @& small restaurant at iov Weal street, kept by Philip Wentiing. The woodworm ana far- niture Caught fre, and alter great exertion on ihe part of rogepemen Hassin, of the fwenty-seventh precinct, £ fire was extinguished. Tle awning was entirely cousumed. A ian named Brown was severely burned. A similar explosion acourred im the «ame nouse on the Fourth of por bat the ba Wap saved by (he exertions of 0 cers Thom: Davis and Sotineider, who happen tobe in the uelghborhood at fhe tinie, GRASSHOPPERS AND BCG IN New Jensny.—The grasshoppers are damaging the crops in sussex county aud A me of the state, An insect ge Ls nt yt wail the tt seen cee aged the cherry tees, i rulis gee Ler hoje by ‘uadects . Adam | ry stores in town, His rete operandt was as follows:—Entering & store, iis gentlemanly bearing would favorabiy tm- press the salesman, and, afier seecting an article of njouteri#, he would direct them to send it to his yooTa at some one of the principal hotels. When the errand boy arrived he was left in the corridor, while the prisoner went to ascertain if th article suited the person for whom {t was intonded, Strange to say, he forgot to come hack to teil ine messeuger Whether the jewelry suited or not, Among the firms swindled by this young innocent were Messrs. Tiffany, of two lockers valued at $95 He had ordered of this firm @ locket and # diamond ring, worth $125 tn all, A firm in John atreet lost two watohes, Mr. Rirk patrick Was also swindled out of jeweiry owing bo ihe bianaishinents of this youth, Whose ways and tricks, like the Heathen Chinee, were both durk aud Mr. Magauran, of Tiffany's, anda clerk of Kirk- the person A failen danghter of Eve, about whose virme or the want of 11 there can be No question whatsoever, was the cause of bis fall. ‘The prisoner was remanded until this morning by Judge Fowler, to allow Captain Burcén to collect more evidence. The ct AOU! of Lis Operations has not Deon aaccrtalngds : SHEET. “Pink and White | “Merchants’, Man- MUSIC AND THE D. CENTRAL PRRE GaRDEN—THOMAS’ CONCHRTS.—~ ‘The throng which nightly visits the cool bowers and brilliant halls of this popular resort evidences the gradual growth of public taste to cosmopolitan Stanaard.. Gardens ‘we have had ‘in olden time, like the Vauxhall, with its balloon ascension and fireworks, out they lacked certain ele- ments indispensable “to the more refined portion of our population. ‘The multiforin features of city tite, as now existing, offer few pleasanter attractions than the modern gardens, such as those at Central Park, The merchant, the banker, and all who toil | through the day, seem to find reluxation | and amusement im recourse to them, just @s much as be would at a watering place orat the seaside, without pelng compelled une dergo the tedinnrof @ridé by rail or being hurried to catch an afiernoon steamer, as an literimediate sucri in pursuttor pleasure, ‘The whirl of proin- enaders and the strains of delicious music recall tu no faint degree the simer throngs aud music ar me large hotels m the country. ‘he visitor inay as he | chooses have starlight or gaslight, and sip ls cov ble ana putf his cigar beneath the oue or the other. ‘In the music he bas certainly the advantage of the guest at the summer resort, for the conceris are More artistic and more careiuily prepared. Terrace GaxpEx—Mons. JULIE BENEvIT, —- Terrace Garden was last night crowded by a select and fashionable audtence, on the occaston Julten’s benefit, The scene on the grounds of this pretty retreat was exceedingly ilvely, owing ‘oO the. presence of quife a num- ber of the fair sex» im the light aud fairy-like summer costames.’ The'programine of the nighv’s entertainment was very’ varied, and imetuded Selections from the most ement composers. A grand march, composed expressly for the occasion hy Retizel, and: dedicated to the Anion Musical Soclety, was thé/first piece uiven. [t was followed by Julien's’ “Polka de Concert—Les Co- saques.”? Both were rendered in briliiant style, Miss Lissner,'a young débutante, sang the aria, “Vor Che Sapeti,” and Was warmly applauded. M Joseph Heine executed 2 violin solo, “Ti Pirata,” in which he dispisved great power of execution, and exquishe tenderness of feeling, Herr Hanelman sang effectively Schubert’s “frie King.'’’ An ope- Tate selection irom the ‘Huguenots,” given by the full orchestra, cailed down the aprianse of the audi ence, and gave M, Julien an opportunity of exhibit. ing bis great command over the orchestra he has succeeded im trating so aduurably ti so short a time. This orchestration was — per- fect, every instrument workiaog in perfect unison. Mons. Julien had spectaliy arranged the parts, and the orchestra did iil justice to them, This seiec- tion Was undoubtedly the gem of # night's brillant entertainment. A selection was also played from “ia Grande Duciesse’? of Offenbach. ‘The concert was brought w xa clo: by the overtnre trom = “Wi'liam When the concert iad ened a number of friend and admirers of Mons. Julien presented that gentie- man With & valuabie plece of piate, as some Lecog- nition of the uable service uc has rendered to Tousic by placing really gooa music willun Teach of the people and extending = its civilizing aud himanizing milacnce. This pleasant episode brought co @ Conclusion a pleasant mgnvs entertamment, aM, Julien was warmly compit- Thented On the eMicicney of his orchesita py his musical Inenas, and the feeling of sausfaction of the eneral public Was not less strongly expressed, uring the performance of the selection from te “Grande Dachesse’ Mons. Julien presented each of the ladies pre ent witn a copy of lis “Polonaise,” one Of ius most charming compositions. Thuis delicute avientl hac its reward atures, aud he rose in thelr estimation as a@ gallant as weil asa clever man. ‘Ihe coup M@élac quite svormed ine feminine heart, aud has secured Jution forever im the good graces of the ladies Of New York. Driftings Abroad, Mr. Jonn &, Clarke returns to the Strand, this month. “Eileen Oge"' is the title of Mr. Falconer’s forih- coming piece in London. Mme. Arabella Goddard will make a coucert tour in Germany in th tamn. ‘The general meeting of the German Theatr Union took place at Cassel on the igtn of May. Signor Mongini has given up lis engagement at the Koyai itallan Gpera ana returned to the Conti- nent. Mr. Charles Adams Is engeged at te hupertal Opera House, Vieuna, jor iour years, wiih an aniial salary of 16,000 florins. Mr. and Mre. W. J. Florence, who bave been many years away from England, are playing at the Prince's ‘Theatre, Manchester. 4 Mme. Adelina Patti and Mme. Trebelli Betiiat wilt sing at the Italian Opera House in Hamburg alter the close of the London season. Mile. Clara Doria bas been engaged as prima donna for the Parepa-Rosa troupe. Mile. Dora will Make her dcont as Arline in the “Bonertan Gi ‘Ambizione ¢ Amore,” a Dew comedy in four acts, by Signer Antouio Molinart, lateif, brought out at the ‘veatvo Hossint, of Venice, Nay been well re- ceived. The dearth is announced of the om von Belinghausen, tne well Known Anstrian and poct, who became popaiar and few the name of Friedrich Halin, On June 4 “Le Nozze di Figaro” was given at Munich ro celebrate the twenty-fltt anniversary oj lierr Kindermaua’s first appearance at ine itoyai Opera tous rhe age of Cherubino Was sustained on the occasion by his daugiier, Mile. Kinde mann, {rom the theatre at Cassel. Among the numerous papers whi the conilugration of the Tuileries there Was an an- tograph MS. of Rossini’s, an “Ave Muacia,”? whic, according {0 the preface—wriicen, itke the rest of the MS., in the master’s own hand—“had been cout posed expressly tor the Rimpress.” Another fair visitor has just appeared at tne Royal Opera House, Berlin, as Alice ja “Robert ie Diabie” and Agathe m “Der Frewenity, fer ware is Mile. Amann, and she comes from ihe Stadt Th ater, Kinigsberg. She nossesses an exceptionaiiy fine soprano, out she by no means makes an ex- ceptionally fine use of it, Mile, Brandt, from the Royal Opera House, Bertin, sang at Weunar iately at a court concert, tue pieces she selected being the aly, cia Ch'10 planga,’”’ from Handel's by Pauline Viardo! Lisat and Lasse: London, Mia Auiieat WS unaer rh perished im ann, The London Athencian points out that the time ‘ovent Garden ali the requisites re. erved special attention aud asks, whit we of things now’ The picturesque seenery or Mr, Beverley remains, but sets exiibit aay thing but artistic accuracy The original dresses, suinewhat dingy through wear wad lear, are uj “Letty the Ba: London Gatety, ket Maker,” playlag now at opera of Baife’s, the sub | matter of which wck to Augiast, 17 | 1b was neted, being ¢ Vhe Devil Co Pay; ¢ Wives Metamorphoses.’ the part of Nel!, the ¢ v afterwards made famous by Mrs, Jordan, and atterwards by Mrs. Davison (Miss Duncan), Dew then played bya Miss Raynor. {1 Was a musica farce, the conga being by Colley Cibber, | Mile. » Albani is engaged bv Mr. Gye for five years, the terns being £250 per nunth for ihe Pret ree’ years and £900 per moni for tite vest of the Mie, albant ts 4 Canadian by ng Howina La Jeunesse: her iather Is of an old Urench Canadian famny and her moines Of Scottish descent. She has studied under Lamberti, of Milau, aud made her déhar at Milan about eighteen rouths ago, She is twenty- one years of age. Great things are predicted for her, “Her family, we believe, reside im Albany. The Apollo Theatre of Rome war filled with pnt an at saccesK In : must he added to the | Jong dist of friamaphs int : After | “Pedra,” Signora Jessero-Guidone, who tad just performed at the Teatro del Vatic un the third per- formauce of “Nerone,” appesred WIth Signor Salva. dort, 1 the briliant comedietta by rated, entitled ost Portunutt” Tue vagaries of programmes ave ojten Unsecount- able, bub We never mer with amore crrions one | Unan that ofa concert which toot e recently in London, We subjoin a few extracts Hirratun Ar, “0, fot elm’ (fraviata), Verdt; solo~ pian ssonata in Dinin't (op. 2), Pijoutt’ (Faust), Gonnod: new scum, Tiher.’ BF. Peuna; cangoret, “0 Vows tor,’’ Macrias: | solu—vienincelle a notre sul Kossoie,” Angelo | Mariana: quartet, “Un di ae vont (Rigalette), Verdi: sO10—=prano, Jnck’s yenng,” Schumann: batlad, “Kathlec: Mavourneen,” Croach; battad, “The Dead Senedict; finale, “ti Carnevale.” For its §4j prope im the matter of amasenent, Vast cow au iWew of the aumber of holises Of enter- talnment Vearro Nacional de Opera, for opera only; dancing: T Teatro de) Circo or Was unanimbeu | the iraperson: ro Zarzneli, Spanish Batts Arderios, com « operas novel's ; Teatro ‘Teatro Lope de operas: Teatro Albanibra, comedy and farc Stic draIas and furces Dovedades, don Variedades, sensation dram Rendo, light comedy and fare Sau Mar- tin, couie diamas and farce: Teatro Alarcon, #en- sation pleces; Teatro Rarmillete, farces and Spanish dancing; Teatro Recreo, extravaganzas and bur- lesques: Wo de fofantel, broud tarces und danc~ ing: TeAtro Madroiini, hight pieces ana. dancing. ‘Tie follow: are sumtuer theatres:—Teairo de Madrid, opera, spectacle and bailet; Teauro e Oureo de Price, equestrianism and spectacle: Teatro Ros sint, comic opera and ballot; Teatro Relivo, comedy and farce; Campos Elisoos Gardens, concerts and varieties; Bueu Retiro Gardens, grand concerts and halls; Plaza de Toros, but ts on Sundays and rete days; Circo de Gallos, ting: Ji Reoreo, balls; Madroling, dancing and balls; Figue+ ras de Ceru, waxwork exhttition, ant numerous wail places fyx concerts aud alla ‘ of | tered; but Who looks alter the muke-up of tue suval- | the i Beethoven; ak, "Des | “Hither | Madr ix about the livebest city in | The following | vaniol, legitimate drama and spanish | YALE COLLEGE. Programme de eceaiiiand ‘ohe-nie Racing and Baccalaureate Sermons—The New Departure of the Connecticut Sages—Biographical Sketoh of President Woolssy—The Art Exhibition—New Build- ings— Wants of the Institution. New Haven, Conn., Juty @, 1671. The Influx of strangers intending to remain here during the exercises of commencement week has already begun, and the hotels are filling ap, while the town has put on quite ‘ A HOLIDAY APPEARANCE. The indieations are that tue number of visitors will be uncommonly large, there being some unusual attractions this season. Presentation day, whitch of late years, has come to be considered one of the most interesting features of the college calendar, #0 much so 30 Lact as to seriously detract from the popularity of its rivat commencement, has this year been deferred for upward of a month, and the two now take place durmg the same week. A crowd of graduates fs likely also to bein attend~ | ance on account of the change Which 18 to ba intro- I duced into the government of the College, by which f the’ aluntii will for the first time enjoy a direct representation in its Management, and to witness what Will probably be the LAST PUBLIC APPRARANCE | of President Woolsey, who for u quarter of a cen- tury has been the honored head of the university. For these and other reasons 1¢ ts believed that the ensuing week will be one of the most interesting ever known in the history of Yale. Several inaceu- rate statements réspecting the oraer of exercises for the week having deen pubtished, ( have taken pains toobtain one which 18 entirely correct. ‘The follow- ing is the programm: SUNDAY, JULY % “ue sermon in the College chapel, a P. M., by President Woolsey. MONDAY, JULY 10, anniversary of the Sheiieid Scientific Schoot be held im Shefttetd Hall, followed by a recep- tion in the same piace, (Cards of admission are necessary.) In the afternoon a boat race on Lake Saltonstall, between the Sophomore crew and the mnembers of atlanta Club, of brooklyn, N. Y. NUESDAY, JULY 11, Presentation day—Class oration and poem, tn the College chupel, at eleven o'clock A. M. Afternoon— Reading the class histories upon the green; Sopho- more prize declamations, at eight o’ciock P, M., im the College chapel. In the evening. the Regatta Balt, which takes the place of the famous Spoon Prome- nade Concert, at Music Hal. WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, Annual meeting ot the alumi of the College for the transaction of business, at Alumni Hall, at half past nine A, M, Inthe afternoon the annual boat races upon Lake Saltonstall for the prizes offered by Mr. Willkua Walter Pheips, of New Yor city, and the Southworth silver cap (valued at $300), ‘In the evenmg @ social gathering of ue friends of the College, with ladies, will take place in the Yule Art Buitding. Cards of admission may be procured, without charge, of the Treasurer and a Lue Coilege Library. THURSDAY, JULY 12. Commencement day. The procession will form at the Lyceum and will march to the Centre church, when tne exercises of the day will begin. “Gradu- Ales of other colleges and other guests are requested: to accompany the officers and graduates of thts Col- lege in the procession, and are uvited to dine with the President and Fellows in Alummi Hai, at the 03e of the exercises in the church (about two M). FRIDAY, JULY 14 Examinaiton of canatdates for, admission to the Acauemical Department and tothe Sheftield Scicn- Ufic School will begin, N. B.—The fall term commences September 15. ‘The Triennial Cauiogue will be ready for distribu- tion On Wednesday morning, at the Treasurer's once. Along the teadiug themes of conversation here, doth wicn the visitors and the memopers of the Col- lege, are Presiden’ Wooisey’s resignation, the vatu- able services which be has rendered during bis pro- ierm of office and the question 45 to the choice of the corporation for his successor. » current number or the Yale “Ltt,’ as for the sake of brevity the monthly Blagazine conducted by (he under graduates 1s denominated, contains an wuicresting and able sketch ot Dr. Woolsey from the pen of Mr. Charles C. Deming, a son of Hon. Henry c. Deming, of Hartford. From tims article and soute other sources [have gieaned afew brief par- ticulars which may be of interest at this time to the readers of the HknaLp. THEODORE DWIGHT WOOLSEY, youngest son of Wiiam Walton Wovisey, and a ne- phew of the distinguished President Dwignt, was born in New York city, October 51, 1801, and ts, con- Sequently now in bis seventieth yom He Yuie College at the early age or ifteen, and gradu- ated In 1520, taking the highest rnk in his class. After graduating be studied law for « thue (tn Witiout bbe intention of practicing the profession).ia the office of Mr. Charles Chauncey, of Philadelphia. Veecienilt he pursued the study of theology at nceton for two years, and for two more was em- ployed as tutor at Yale, In 1827 he sailed for Karope, Where be passed nearly three years In study aud in Visiting the most celebrated universities of the Old World and becoming tarailiar with their aystems of insivaction. Upon his return, in 1831, he was elected to the chair of Professor of Greek in Yale, and from that time to the present, a period of for years, has always been connected with the tustitu- ion, He may ve said to be the lather of Greek in- struction in this couutry, as before his time the writ- senophon and a comptlation called “Graeea Majora” were all the Greck read in college. Intro- ducing the study of the Greek tragedies into his Claskes, He was obaged to import the first text books from Germany, and these proving bat poorly adepred to the Wants of his scholars, to edit several eattious hiwself, In 1845 he again visited Europe, and in tue following year was chosen to the o1 of President of the University, which had been made } vacant by the resignation of Rev. Jeremiah Day. ‘The following 1s alist of nis predecessors in this po- sitton:--Ney. Abraham Plerson, appointed in 1701; Rev. Timothy Cutler, appointed in 1719; Rev. Elisha Wuliains, from 1726 to.17:9; Rev. Thomas Ciapp, from 1739 to ; Rev, Naphtalt Daggett, from.1766 to 1777; Kev, Ezra Stiles, from 1777 to 1795; Rev. ‘Viwotby Dwight, from 1795 to 1817; Rev. Jeremiah Day, irom 1517 to (846, President Woolsey 1s the author of numerous stand- ard edit.ons of the classics, andéin 1860 published his weil known “introduction to the Stady of interna- onal Law.” Among fis freaueat and valuable contabutions to tne various Reviews and other Periodicals the best known are his series Of essays | “pon the divorce laws of the United States and, those upon the “Mabama Question,” in which he took } essentially the same proabids aa those which. were | subsequently incorporated into the Treaty of Wash- aby the Jome High Commission, | fis administration, Ras been rked by the relurtation of Mony ancl nt abuses and the removal | of some antiquated resi rictious upon the freedomrot the stituents, Noi the least among the Mary bene- 263 wihteh ae Das conierred upon the college will be age m tie personnel of the corporation, at his snggestion, by which the six ment Sutte Legislature are to be replaced by ax luany trustees chosen from their own number by the alumni. The estioation in which he is held by the students tv well expressed vy one of the concluding: paragraphs of the article to whieh reference haw neon Taade, “Noi in measure, but in results, uot tn catalogues, burin the nunds aud hearts of the 2,400 men who #raduated under him, should his record he uated no measure for increas~ Bngitsh Hteratare; he in the art of writing, but purity aad simplicity of bis style 18 now discern- “le In every college compositions He has delivered o lectures against bombast und exaggeration, bat | Dis puptis uncouseiousiy prefer lis plain language to | a turgid style, and atrach more weight to bis mod- ) estly expressed Opinions than to the fervid axsever- ations of tuore pretenrions guides. He has never | formauy rebuked aftectations and shams, but they Were never more at diseredit a! Yale than to-day. Ife lias never joined in the cry tor { “PRACTICAL EDUCATION | put every student now fects that school teaching I his only resource lor a liveliiood when gradua- n cday DaKine iunon tne world. He makes no | boast of having raised rhe ste ‘d of scholarabip, | ui we are all conscious of being bewer able to grapple with Intellectiai Work from Aaving boew Messed With such a master” Among the many attractions of Newgaven during comunencement week will be tue exhibition of pawimes in the Yale School of FAne Arts, wiucte commences dwing the present Week and will con- tinue open for the veception of vasirors until Sep- tember, A sraxti admission fee wll be chat and the profits of the exhibitions will be devoted mainly to aiding Ww the already exterisive collection be- longing to the school of art. Besides this collection anu the fine specimens which, have been obtainca | frome private gatlories a larg number of new and original pretures have bee jou folowime comment wetis ss:— Albert lerstadi, J Hristol, A. T. BrAckner, J. G Brown, James KR. Brevoort, “We.” H. beard," Proderick KE. Charen, Samuel Colman, J. P. Cropsey, A. B. Durand, M. F. H. Detlaay, H. Fuesehel, Henry Pe- ters Gray, Sanford K. OV ford, William Hart, Daniet Huntington, James M. Aart, Richard W. Hubbard, | Kastinau Johnson, John F, Kensett, Henty A. Toop, cht » Richards, A. D. Shattuck, \e'A, Professor J. F. Weir, T. W. ‘@he fact that te arrangements for the exhabitton ‘pave beed 1 He under the super- vision ot Profesayr J, F, Weir Dimself an accom. shed artist, i# a suMerent guarantes that i will satisfactorily, STRIKE JAGatnet MPANNESS.—A number of females em éioyed in making suspenders for the Rus- soll Manv facturing Company, in Portland, Conn., pat O'A the S0th, and reiused to take any more work Trym them uniess their bille in future were paid In/full. It 1s the practice of tae company to de- «luck (ive per cent from all bills Cor work wien are Waid