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“BANTAM V8. GINX, Cy this ‘bis biue-deo! #ho Life of a Young Bnglish Aristocrat Who Seen: Hap Imbibed Radical Ideas, A weeping Satire on the Anomaly of | nits British Institutions—The First Drops of the Deluge. » (From the Advance Sheets.) ‘The author of ‘“Ginx’s Bany’ comes before the public once more with & biting satire upon English social life. This time it is not the thirteenth child of the huge navvy, born in Rosemary street, West mineter, that claims our attention, but an ofspring Of the landed nobility—the child of luxury, not the child of penury. Wide as ts thé gulf between the two social extremes the author of the unfortunate Ginx’s bapy finds im Lord Bantam a peg on which to hang his satire and his forebodings, and most of the latter are gloomy. The atory of Baby Ginx, by means of @ series of powerful tabieaux, laid Dare only the subject of the diMculty that to-day be- ‘sets all countries where an aristocracy has gathered almost all the wealth into ite hands, where poverty moans beside the palace, and where poor men such as Ginx can be pardoned for thinking that babies, ay, and men and women, are already too plentiful. In the present work the author goes to the vory heart of the mystery, and those who mustake bis Purpose because the constructioa seems unreal had better grasp the spirit and not tho dress of his narrative. Ho does not aim at telling what 1s merely dramatic; were nothing of the mere conteur, although the syle 18 polished, and here and there are found bits of neat description, He moves his patricians and plebs about like chessmen on a board, satisfied in the mere display of relative strength of position, until he has shown in his play the last secret of the much-vexed game of government, The result of this 13 thas, while he preserves the vraisembiance to real life, his lessons come with native force upon even the moderately thoughtful reader. Tho satiriets of manners, ralers and peoples have for centuries more or less adopted this form. Rabelais, in the sixteenth century, mn spite of the grossness and obscenity of Dis “Gargantua and Pantagruel,” managed to strike a stunning blow at the corruptuess and absurdity of old ideas, old customs, antique pre- judices and usurped respects, which made way in the heart of the feudalism of France for the new era about to dawn. His homilies were well under- stood through their coarse garb, Swift, through Many a story, struck bitterly, and somewhat coarsely, too, at the abuses of his time, and while he lefi much that is pleasant reading yet, apart from its hidden meaning, we can as keenly enjoy the point of his sarcasm as though living in bis day. Ja bim the author of “Lord Bantam” hus found bis model for form, and in the tendency to pithy digres- siveness we observe how he has followed the man- ner of the Dean of St. Patrick’s, Swift knew ‘at to convey forcibly the meaning of his soctal mddies it was necessary to make them plain, and Lord Bantam’s literary parent has acted aed in following his example therein. Of late English authors with but one necd he be compared—namely, Disraeli. The fashion of writing books with @ social dot ered ts becoming common cnough; but the reader of “Lord Bantam’ will turn to “Lothair” instinctively for a compari- son of treatment, the pallor the early iife of an English nobleman —vetog the same, Without oven for @ woment admitting it, except impliedly, there & defiance of the model of the nice young ir, whose will is so amall in the varied scenes he figures in, and who comes out of Carbonarism, Romanism and Liberallam @ correct true blue aristocrat of the mildest type. A mano who can, as Swift says, “with Epicurus, content his ideas with the films and im: at oy off irom the superticies of things; wi wise, creame off uature, leaving the sour and tne d for phi and reason to lap up. ‘This,’ ad any . sublime and refined point of felicity, Called the possession of beimg well deceived; the young nobleman through ron a Bre ne 7c hat burns among the oppreased jal strata of Europe, without even guessing at the cause of ite growing fury, ready to and wee] everything ns ve it of the tase ‘of the earth, only incul for a liletime yet, ‘the cyniciam wit! tory of Lord that aristocracy ts safe jous admission despite a which itis put forth. In tue bis- Bantam all this ts looked at with an ) sincerity and knowledge which com- earnest ness, Mend it to the careful considerauon of ‘scornfnl, imper! dzes and threate! de whips or ridicutes are, however, more related en passant than otherwise, for this small is Dothing more hor less thau a study of Communism, 4n one of its objects, the division of land among thoge who labor. 4s we have only the advance sheets of the Srst_nundred pages (for which we are indebted to whe courtesy of Messrs. George Routledge & Sons), we cannot underiake to criticise his views for the cure of the evils under which Bngiand labors in this regard, but there is Stee pregnant matter in his ore Of the case, as far ‘as we have seen 1, to justify the bellef that there ‘will be iound tn it when completed, more than the simple suggestivencss in the stor; Ginx’s baby, Baby Bantam ts, as we have intimated, the social avtithesis of Baby Ginx, and we are treated in the opening chapters to a pointed picture of the exces- sive care aud tenderness which hang around young Bantam irom the day of his birth, aud inaced to) ‘before it, by way of contrast with the rough-and- tumble vicissitudes that crowd around the early hours of the thirteenth little Ginx. BIRTH OF THE BANTAM, On the Sth day of April, A. D, 18, the following an- Bouncement appeared in the Piccadilly Journ! :— BONB, Ffowlsmere, Countess of, ou the let instant, at 20 Hiton ‘The excitement creaved by the event thus ary and statie- teally chronicled was uot contined to the dllnguished lady and little individual of the spectes under which be was classi- ed. In Lord Fiowlsmere'’s noble bi io that general which Kanglish 's fainily is said to end in the society wherein the Karl aud Countess of Ffowls- mere were distingnighed political lead the birth thi baldly scheduied sent o us feeit There is Doing wonderful in the bith of a eon, even xmong the aristocracy when married ; why, then, may some iu- quisitive person ask, anould there bo ‘any rare excilement to Lady, Ffowlsmere happened 0 common- ight T, along with several million Frowismere family, ine who were not suificientiy hizhbred to know ‘catises that agitate the inner circles o! society; and, as @ fact, we ahoula have been us ignorant of the trepidation gaof ls reagon, hag not the icnultiy Journal printed, fow days aiter the advertisement, the followin “We uuderstami that the Conatess of Ffowismnere is pro- eressing very favorably aince the birth of a son on the Ist just, Iti a curious tact that Her Ladysbip’s last child, the ‘present Lon! Bantam, wnd ber to the Peerage, was born a0 far back aa Juue, 18, @ period of nearly niseteen years.” ‘J have rather refected on the Piccadilly Journal, but I will about the same time at th ors 9 convcreation, overbea: jon. Mra, ‘Trippety's bali, The personages were none oth hy das AMD, Nie, Kyerare Ubesham, and those charm: andar eyeg silecea By SIDER wre eng, 18. CHEGHAN--Liave you nyt Lady Frowlsmore haa a 80a, ‘Launa Du Post--Oh, nonsense, dear Mrs, Chesham. You by Batitam is over eighteen, and \d the news? Oh, eo quite impossible, Mra, CHBSHAM—Hush, dears you don't know what ts possl- sible or iny yole. I'm eure it's Vio tees drove over (he ttraw as we came he! rs Mire, ONREHAN—Norturc, dear; you oughtn’t to try Latin words, you kaow, But, indeed, tuat expresses exactly what H ought to be cailed—poor thing! Ifthe Lcd at of society Was scandalized by the frank announcement tn the Picadilly Journal, the editor, for bis ry Know ledg art, might have retorted on th Poctety atforied tim ground to. bel that, quite en ray rf with them. The anomaly of a birth in a noble family after f0 iong & Jupse aS nineteen years, notwithstanding the siniater Whispers Witch Jt evokes, seems after ali more an exigency of tho author's ‘to introduce briefly the career of the elder son, as will be seen. ‘We need not dwell now oo the tuteresting preliminaries to that birth which occasioned gomuch sly small talk, elavorateiy as our author describes thet veyond remarking that Lady Frowismere—the mother having a rvoted objection to red hair—was frightened by the appearance of a -headed marquis at her carriage Window, while fer aayeniy, Su ay {driving ono doy during the eyuterestiia’ period. ~ yorker gene ts sone The day ai length arrived when the Countess must fnoe the cross of woman's cur N need circully— stood in her iffe path. an ber pase itor die at ita base, Herein my lady vast. regions of the mansion thril pad of ite tenanis in vi of himaelf, as regarded wae (be gray! man, bie decp'y Salted Cook, the shocked or gi; id all atey ped iigutly over tbe velret carpets, gos 00 ving Mg oniy 10 whiserse ‘The Fart retired to hie Notary, where he pretended to bimeelf to be reading a blue book re- ‘on the condition of bis own tenantry Ip various shires, in Her Ladyship's room—no matier; there were Sir Samuel Jorpbill, Mr. Burton, FR. 0. &., and the nw echoes . Happiiy, the Conntess passed through the gntz Of Rorrow, eee und Went by |) paiv!u! crows—and 4 pfping little voice In te next roow seemed to Her gy fpa half-senscless Grgam, to come and Ro Hike gon, glad tousic. ye Fae! ha a a the chamber bad rap “to tow = The ‘of the Staite, and bad carried its mighty lees swittly we butler who walled in the hall; snd mort vord Of speech, Und vrgcipitated Nima Abrough Ri Um door ht the Ear, with the ag cultural bine-book tn standing mt the mant jece, blanched with anatety, which be endeavored repress by repeating to bina: ‘There Was av old merchant of Rotteniam— Aud every morning be said," am ‘The vichest merchant 1m Rotter When tp dura: Trayfoot the butier— gals the Far), ip hia nervousness, ineotantariy repeating thal eyiabie ont very loud ar be tired round, “) umbly LORYAsdon, your sawesb))! gasped Trayfoot, "DAM"? NEW YURK HERALD, MONDAY. DECEMBER 18, 187).-TRIPLE SHEET. Goa,” the Bart; and lea) the sheer excitement of moment the pale, sweet, her eet"te | utiiod io’ perte prunes ita you wer elit, Raum Toe agent of acted most thiq) 7 and you ouzht to Foor masts expences, it'nok Fy wit have sed lam: right equality wa yee before God EAR —Herday, my young moraltst, what have “God and fi aman and by the joy thay come out of ntry” with erty at Penshurst, 1 won- Boerne Harpo mcs iz Puna ome OFFA | OR a ad al arly av ho A RL —| goes a. gets as CounrRse—Neltber have I. ‘Sanran- Norte ‘bus not an equality He seems to have; thro door) ~Btruthers. bring the baby. ah it The Earl fetched » candle, the nurse the litle lace-awathed honorable, the Countess turned ily towards terea a shriek and fainted away. The Karl dropped tie candle, dropped the baby, ‘The itte houorabie’s Sted eas the color of « Walters orange. We can now torn to his fatner, the Karl of Fiowlsmere, who was one of the wealthiest men fn the three kingdoms, His in agricultural — count in mineral strict, in the metropolis—not to mention half the vast manufacturing town of Ironchester—were 60 enormous and their returns so Incrative that the public may be forgiven for attributing to him fabulous riches aud enter- taining itself with calculations that every second of the day or ni Karl was receiving @ sum equivalent w a re- jble man's salary for a year. A CLEVER ANCESTOR OF TRE EARL, duly ere and assistea py the laws of these ren'm: Dappening, by good luck to him, to possess land thal Barr [ip nese the parse, whose back appeared in. ip great «request = for houses of a , og, ., pomulation, “had ‘been able crank it to various tenants for just uimety-nine years, In effect this to keep the real Ownership of tne lard in mange while two or verbaps three yeneraiiins. ved and and then, long after the clever oid man was in his rare, to,caas the immensely enhanced freehold to fall in a be bad ‘never seen, and whom he couldonly pOphetically and vaguely dengnate as the next Of some one. It was the merost “uke”—if I may use a felleitous 7ulgariam -that the Lari of Ffowimmere's father happened to be that fortunate next heir, He bad done oF concelved of nothing on earth to entitle him totake a vast property, a noble name, a place in the legislature of the Country, the right of nominating a hundred clergy to as Many perebing tocks; all that fell apon him slmply by fate and the custom of Kngland. In defiance of cconom the land was locked up for those ninety-nine years from mblic enterprise and general exchange. No one could $uilaon ‘anything but"what was permitted by the torm of the leases, One terip, for instance, bad been that no sho} were to be opened upon the land, No shops were or could ‘be opened, and the jine of healthy trade wan blocked out of a large aréa to be went winding about in Bewhbering slums and byways. No churches other than those of the estab- lishment were to be erectod within the sacred precincts, that is to say, w treats him exactly as it treats you, b youave the ‘advantage, You can alford to be indiferent to result, he cannot. Cringeley with your money bought ‘up ail the available talent the ctreuit to belp to = F child—no sooner turned than she ut- | case—whbich, if it were an honest one, ought not to need it— fo the hope Of caiaing al unfair advantage. Thnt le legal but is it few dealing between man and man? lie was Iwenily ableto checkmate you by getting & first clase advo- cate; but T sup at at ex] ee -pert aru Siig tatreeh feta "at tn og dasa Ougnt to be treated by another; therefore, he i wronged. ‘This is pot social communism or eq) of rights, fhe’ Earl was accustomed to command bis emperor he might have received this barancue with a resentment fatal to the forward young gentleman's poliiical education. He Gave a loug, low whist Eant—What do you think of that, Lady Ftowlsmere? “social Communism! Equaiity of Rights "13 that what you have learnt at Oxbridge? However (said the old. diptomat, smiling), you may thank your sturs, sir, that your con ‘and prospects will compel you to drop these aan; heresies. “A man with sbalfa million a year is not likely be a Communist. THB COMING OF AGE, But the sensation was coming Whic’i would startle that fater still more. When the “auspicious day’? arrived and all was revelry over the broad lawn Bhaftlestraw Caste and the regulation address wae do2 onhds | Mature, tn debate on De Witt Chnton’s bill for the the | Construction of the Brie Canal, that he could build & su- | railroad at much fess cost than the canal, and he the | a0 alluded to the possible employment of locomo- tives. He was laughed at for his pains, and New York State lost ‘ne honor of being the first sister of the Union to embrace “locomotive and railroad” Civitization, ‘We have thus followed Mr. Brown in his digres- sion about rails because he is here very interesting, thougn it has but little to do with his avowed sub- ject. We shall, however, skip some dozen or 80 of chapters in which he tells the story of the gradual working out of the iron norse problem in Engiand, beginning bis narrative, a8 was Batural with a hter- ary beginner, with Hero of Alexandria’s account of that statue of Memnon which used to howl by steam power. The frat locomotive ever seen in America was im- ported irom Engiand for the Delaware and Hudson Cunal and Ratlroad Company. It was named tho Stourbridge Lion, and was tanded im New York, at $0 | the toot of Beach street, about the middie of May, 1820, It created much excitement and visitors were indulged with a view of the “critter going through its motions” by steam. About the 1st of July it was shipped up the North River to Rondout, thence handed in on its iliuminated vellum, & bend of | taken by canal to Carbondale, and nally tried upon English Socialists, belonging headed by ihe terrible Lroudbent, of vaccinatory fame, hand in another address ‘plainly on an American model,’ which, with a multitude of “whereases,” calls on Lora Bantam to “pledge yourself that you will, on attaining to the ordi- hate prorerty to which you are ae your brother citizens.” Ww THE PROLETARIAN COMP: IMENT, rephes in a warm Comimunisvic speech. to the tow, | the rairoad at Honesdaie, Between the 3d and 8th of August it ran afew miles upon the road, but had then to be taken trom the wack, as the road was not strong enougi to carry it, Experiment number one the heir, distribute | With locomotives in America was, therefore, an ex- Bantam, flushed | pensive fizzle, In the early part of 1627 a meeting was held in Balumore for tae purposs of torming a railroad If you know what it is to see something Itke a chill shud- | Tad coinpany to connect the waters of the East der pass through a vast assemblage, you may picture to your- Acie the effect of these words on' Lot Hantara's amazed with the waters of the West, A committee, then ap- hearers, ‘The Earl was biting bia lip viciously and repeating | polled, soon reported tbat tie project was feasible, Rotterdam tormula to himself in a-sort of desperation; Hence every disnen'er who lives there was forced to worship, roth intr aremberacy’ were 100) TIME A LEPER IW TSRAYL, “WITHOUT Tink CaM.” | {he brother and sister aristocracy were amused, tue bucolle mes aster ana ah imatechsomes which pass over such ‘reas “Yoa, my friends, I believe, ava would have you all be- So grees chaae_ tbe trensformenion, of develings (ionic eve, that souch whlch is Contained in thie scroll Im true, and poh Te cea sltrite Bh geared bie eee gig Tact, | needs to be thought on sacrediy and seriously by those who, Glstrlet by the ninety-nine-voar leasehoids. Progress had to | 1 such @ position aa L to-day vecury, are the invidious er and round it, and at great inconvenience to find in farther off. itis scarcely possible to trace out fulness the vicions effects of the law under which such rescription was leral. How it locked up for years from puoilo competition, from beaithy und veneucant activity of exchange, hundreds upon hunure’ ‘propert: ow it re- ained<’as wo have seen--the ‘to which the proper. jave been put; how W sph it lmited the number of P s 10 eempnaly, that could possibly gain liveli- Rood or profit from the vxletence the character and arcultectire ee Ln ee the soil; how, m fact, the ten’ency of this arrangement was to diminish fn'a certain proportion for every man in Angiand Qe caer Saf ML" LUMPS aa yu992 t enterpr! ait ‘vigor of a Stato—of acquiring landed property, In fact {ls no un- truth to say thatthe State had permitted this ol ip common\with half a hundred more, to rob pester! - sibilities of action and advantage to which ft was righteously entitled, Significant and touclyng, though not of particular moment, is the story of THE HUMAN FERDING DOrTLT, or wet nurse—single, highly reepectable—who nourishes young Bantam. Next come some pas- sages from a diary of Lady liowlsmere, of wiich ‘we can only aflord space for one:— HOW RADIGALISM GOT INTO HIS BLOOD. T've bad a most terrible fright. The brought to the castle tho other day, with id, to vace!- nate Albert from, was recognized’ by some of the servants, and it turos out (nat she Js the wife of that shoemaker Broad- bent, who 1s an {infidel Chartist | | I the plague of the town, He 18 repeatedly addressing meetings and getting up oppo- ion to us at eleotions, and has insulted the vicar by callme fn “an ecclesiastical areaking-trumpet.” I. was inost in dignant that auch shocking bioo! should be transferred to OF little Alfred, and sent for Mr. Bellew immediately. He ad nothing to say for himself except that {t was the health. ‘ent child in tne neighborhood! T told him he ought to have known that thouch we were free in our politics, we hated euob vuigar ani seditious wretehes; and it was an everiast- ing disgrace to us to have their brand on # scion of our house, The Earl gave him a check, and he is never to enter the castle in. IT have sent to town for Mr. Burton to come and see hi T shall be in terror now leat the child has been inoculated ‘with some tow Red opinions, The Earl gays he 's not likely, with the property he will get, to prac- ‘tse them, even if they are in bis blood; but 1 have the utmost horror of extremists.’ ‘The Countess was unquestionably a prig (whig). Young Bantam progressed in years euMfciently to learn his letters, and this brings before us the story of his elder brother, Lord Bantam, which 18 that of many scores of young English aristocracs, not, perhaps, to the same extent, but fearfuily iu the same direction. We see how he goes from Winton Academy to the University of Camford (Cambrtze), ‘and how the ready harpies that thrive on the weak- pene of the rich, loose young men there fasten on im: ‘THE FIR Of a morning, towards no: bara by the great catnedra!l rang with lo: ued apoa bis Window sil, velvet capped, with pewter in hand, Lord beld spicy converse with the son of-a prime minist Jeaned, amol:ing, out of an opposite casement, or exe a bets abd jokes 6 a dubloue character with a kaut of noisy men on tl wwement below, You,an honest lnglishman, Patna *y for your eee uate ene a baba 2 heart for Manly an eros rt we wonder, a8 you tra- versed the onnn and gaaed pon this scent, whether idle no. bility and parvena wealth should be afforded tn the precingts. of hallowe abrines and the clofsters of iesraing Hotnol jie fo corrapt the hopes.of coming generations. alas TUE BND OF ALL THIS. ‘When he came of age Lord Bantam owed (40,000. By the end of that year his Mablities Teached 495,000, and in two ie years more were £200,000. ot course, left Camtord, Bnd fecret’ nests about the country, formed —, after Haison with masculine indifference oth hand net of F 8e%, Jen, fell into the an tndnitely Clever beauty provided along with the other animals by the altentive Renile. ‘This person wi entleman—a “financier.” who kept lis carriage and gave dinners to the princes of the turf, ‘The woman ‘was his slave. She pretended that Lord Bantam had seduced her. He was infatuated with her almost to idiocy. She threatened to @: him to the earl, was backed up by Rendle, and the pair, keeping their game for a fort- peut Seis or tuttele trecntueees tramtiniet ant fear, ‘succeeded in geting him to marry her. in at Jeng . Re turnit from the unholy ceremony as with a blast vpon bim the shrine he bad in aelt jam and recognizing bi Does . whether {t be true that a thing 50 o. earl I. After ali they did not absorb a year's Incoine. Not tong after the factotim mar. 1 Lady Bautam. Thus at four yeais oli our hero became ord Bantam, and st was fortunate for him that he was too young to know the seandal he inherited with the name. It ‘was a acandal of a sort whereof society does not make more than a nine days’ wonder. There !s great repairing power in ‘an earldom and several huodred thousands a year, ‘THE NRW LORD BANTAM. Qur hero was now Lord Bantam, and the Earl takes a different course with his second sop. He is edacated at home by tutors, and taught some- thing of the value of ideas ve, words, on which point the author digresses to ‘rea @ lesson on verbiage to Americans. He travels and becomegan author afier the mode proper to Neig- hing lords One of his tutors 1s a kind-hearted, broad-minded, learned Scowhman, Mr. Kelso, wno instts into the young iord’s mind precepts on re- ligion and politics at dangerous variance with the position which fate hath prepared tor him, THE OREED WORSHIP OF THE Day. “A creed,” he used to say, “Isa declaration of fait! ought to be the crystaliization in words of joul-thougnts and faith, the outlines of fe with God. [n fact, the beat creel 1 Deatitudes. ‘They embody practical faith. imply accepted from another man, attopted in terror, aud held un- der the threats of a terrible sanction—not grasped and brought foto the #oul, and incorporated with its Iife—acreed in uni¢ a semblance; it Is ‘Nehushian,’ stuff, not itfe, Strauss used to begin one of his lect ‘Gentlemen, we i ‘He was not moi Prerane than many x man wo ehtaks trom bis p have often thon , wheo I bave seen men going avout to, construct creeds, or iimuing out tor themselves Go's fea- tures aud decrees, in thelr own words und ideas, of Isaiah's scornfal satire on the wooden-god makers of his day." He lectures him off politics and social economy. ‘The aristocracy do not Jook beyond thé narrow cirenit of tho British [eiands, Not gue of thein takes any Droge Pros oo View Or THE IMPERIAL SUTURE, “Tne coming struggic 1s between the lqjaser fotre and that almost equally bad and perilous Aiciasm which looks to the Staty to do everything.” But most forcible 1s his definition of os THE status Qvé IN ENGLAND, ‘The feudal system has Leen decaying with the growth of nglish Ubertg which, lke ivy, bas Spread and Bouriohed over ite crumbling gidries. Rei it they are incompatible with {nour 1 idea ite, ray, 0d your class gives, way 0 last to give way, because of the ported into It from ‘the mlidie classes, ib, Ong danger is the weakness Of the clade ti main tower, the monarchy. An unpopular monarch will not only coinmit swore for the royalty of England, but wil carry with him to extinction the fabric ot aristocracy, aibly the former will be the metiod of canerete anomaiy of modern constitution based on feudal fetloge, existing on popular maintained only by, the ‘ostultious ulgntis wencity te members, You must see that such a patent tneongrulty cannot long brave the criticiem of po.itical philosayhy or the seltish keenuess of vulgar instinct. As Disraeli took Lothair to view and be affected by the pomp of the Roman Cathville ritual, the Scotch tutor takes Bantam toa disseuting chapel, with its “at home” religion, vevwement piety and uncouth forms, and frou these preaches a broad Catholicism of faith, Which, however, with them. Jt will be Vitality coustantiy tm nt two dangers Pos ter to the most does not take deep root in’ tue young Lord's | Beeps Be Fl the Universtty of Oxbridge {0} ie ortaas i nk, mt olny Joins the Radisa Clu which vody of a dl #08 youag reiorn ig died, and theoretic uproote Socialisuc tender” are developed dtd Sond aoe aerial i Ss THE UNIVERSITY INTL Sngly common parado: <that ie unbel'e’. and doubtless” a partial = Was, that he had heard ¥ -. Teaching the bases of De, hey were bullt.” B. cituge war fested to be a." ncito in the brondest ren s eminence of none. oH far beyoud Mr, Kelso, of his extravagance fons, without edgeon which ent first pro- to recognize Then ho dis. the erlorky of the Bible over other phitvsopatcal jous authoritien, and shifted sbe tests ‘rom the teld of 10 that of @p ivr: Péasoning. This ie dangerous, in bas an almor ome range of knowedye, for © privr¢to ignorant or balf-instrocied mus ia iiie ewe than Ego When the young. a lord leaves the University ana returns to Hifou place pis moter proposes a series of magimacent fetes for tis cominw Of age. He de- noupees Me ke os a sinful waste, and the o1 compromise will make is that of a sere at be Shosiestraw Castle, The “vaccimauona” is beginning toteil. A RANK COMMUNIST, About this time fe fas a cobversation with bis father, Whol Wilt explain tself;— BANTAM--Why. my Jord, becange ft fe Inhuman and un- just for you. a great eari, With an immense ineome, to tako Adyabiage of avy such clreutostances lo /Diuses Derbava wo claimants of extray: vig Oy T may yes yes! And [cannot au a conselentions man but have muo gmpaby with the position taken by Mr, Broadbent and his lends,’ At this potut Bantam's eye happened to light on his mother, who was weeping hysterically. Simultaneous!y a lusty vole fae down in the middie remarked :— “E dbant motnd tht damned Broadbent, do'ee? E aint yer brother no more than Oi be!” ‘An inadequate joke, which made a perfect earthquake 10 the buman mass. I am not sure that I have not heard an answer {bout ‘equal to this in wit and logic carry its day nt and a charter was applied for and obtained, and the Baltimore aud Onjo Railroad Company organized On April 24, 1527, ‘Ihe corner stone of the road was Jatd by Charies Carrol on the Fourth of July in the foliowing year, with appropriate rejolcings and ceremonies, Charies Carroll, chen ninety years of age, made the followmg memorable remark to a friend:—‘'1 consiaer this among the most important acts of mny life, second only to my signing the De- claration of Independence, it even ft be second to vo that.” Yosteriiy will agree with him. The corner stone once laid, work wus vigorously begun, f vd by Agricultural representative in a great dé i deseri ‘i roc wi Vere aE) grin Ran ghtletl AC # The following description of tie process of con. 14 A ~ oth OO leila tas ere coe wal this is, OF Sourse, burlesque; but then, algo, If ie ewspapers moralize on him when this is published, and we must leave Lord Buntaia for the present pursuing economic studies tounaed on the mnamense estates Of bis father and their lnbor organ- ization, with the recommendation of we author on the PROBLEM OF THE REDS. Look not at it askance, © ye se'ect and heaven- Ordained body of primogenitais—{t must be solved or ou disgoved. It 1» @ question between you aud the maximum! To it, honest reformeral Not ‘with malicious animosity against a peerage, though possibly you may find that to de inextricably Involved in the iand aystom, or with insensate envy of wenlth, or with mere revo- Mutionary passion, bat in thé pure, healthy, earoest tmpu'se of a deliberate reform spirit. Xbe land must no longer be for the few, but forthe many. Pray and work that. the transler may be made without coniscation or plunder oF terror through @ gradual process of solvent le; jon. We may ada that the talented author is sald to be @ barrister of the Temple, London, named Jenkins, whose father is at present a Congregationalist Monister at Montreal, ~LITERA Tae Hisrory or THE First Locomorives IN Amenica. Sy Wm. H, Brown. Appleton & Vo, This is @ book which, in spite of many detects, is & very welcome contribution to American historical literature. It 18 evidently the production of a man of vers little literary experience, who was 80 per- rectly familiar with the facts of his subject as to be fairly overwhelmed by them. Almost every page 18 & chevaux-de-frise of Dames and dates, and auto- graph letters and extracts from newspapers—tne most admirabie rough material for an interesting Darrative of the introduction of ihe iron horse in TURE. ape America that could be desived, Mr. Brown, how- ever, has apparently labored in vain to marshal this mass of details into a connected and coherent form; and has, therefore, in despair of dog better, pitenforked them — together pell-melt, under some forty-three diferent heads of chapters. For this lack of pains he will be punished, no dondt, in the course of the next few years, by the penalty usually attached ty such a hetnous literary crime. Some lively, clear-headed bookmaker will chance to stumble across his vol- ume, will at once perceive its ‘adaptability’ for a popular book, and will appropriate all Mr. Brown’s laborious gleanings, and gei respectabdly paid, per- Daps in money and fame both, for thy thett. ‘There ts one popular error which Mr. Brown dls- pels in the very earilest pages of bis book. Tell any person In your acquaintance that railways are nore than a coupje of centuries old, an’ he will laugh at you as a ivol In the minds of nineteen men out of twenty, tne raflroad and the locomotive are regarded as simultancous or nearly simul taneous discoveries, the one. inseparably con- nected with the other, This ig a great mis- take. Old Roger North speaks of railways as being in use in the neignborhood of the River Tyne (England) in 1676, But we can go eveu further back than this, There 1s @ recoil of a rail track being used for the transportation of coal from the mines at Newcastle in 1630. The rails were of tim- ber, but that detracts nothing [rom the merit of the inventiop. Certainly the unknown man of genius who first bit upon this means of facilitating the movement of wheeled carriages ought to rank next to that other man of genius—also, we believe, un- known—who first invented wheels. Simple as the discovery was, it had escaped the attention of those great Egyptian and Roman engineers, among whose works are the Pyramids aud the Appian Way, in spite of a need of some such means being evidentiy “felt very greatly. The Hgyptians spent the labor for ten years of 100,000 men—thoug’n tis is one of tue few facts sir. Brown has apparently missea— to build o causeway of huge blocks of atone, fitted together with exquisite skill, from the river Nile to the chosen site at Ghiza, sumicientiy strong to serve for tue transportation of the enor- mous masses of stone and granite which were used in the construction of the Pyramids, Had they been acquainted with the simple—the ridtcalously sim- ple—contrivance of a railroad, & more fractional percentage of this labor would have beea necessary. The tirst iron ratls that we have aay account of were psed at Whitehaven, somewhere about 1740; and, m 3757, & French traveller in. England de- Boribes WIth enthustasin the immense advantages ’ CT Ai bee of oR S232 Tn ivo—tne year of we Declarauon, of Independence—the first ratis with a ledge on the outer side (afterwards changed vo the tnner side and thea abandoned i 1789 in favor of flauges upon the wheels) were cast, aud a road was constructed with them at the Duke of Norfolk's colliery, near SheMeid. The workmen of the neighborhood were so alarmed at the evident sav. ig of lavor thus eMected that they tore up and de- stroyed the road, gad forced Mr, Curr, its builder, to fy for hia life, 1n 1800, however, @ great advance was made by the improvement inthe construction of rallwayseffected by Mr. Benjamin Outram, who introduced stone props instead of timber for the support of the ends or joining of the rajjs, from that tine this class ie roals has, ‘ogea generally known as “tram roads” _ oyniraction of the “Ou- tram road.”” “ were tad Mr, Brow Vong deseribes the first ratiroads in halal The first railroad butit tn the United States was three miles in length, extending from the grantlo varries of Quincy, Masé, to the Neponset River. 3 road was commenced th 1826 ana completed in It was built with grantte sleepers seven and a haif feet tong, lard eigut feetapart. ‘The rails, five feet apart, Were of pine, & foot deep, covered with un oak plate, and these with flat bars of iron, ‘The sect railroad was commenced In January, 182%, and completed in May of tne same year, ex- teading from the coa? mines tn Mauch Chunk, Peunsyivania, to the Leigh River, a distance of nine miles. From the summit of the road, aud Within hait & mlié or the mines, the descent oy & plane was vine hundred and eighty-two feet, in- ciinet two hundred and twenty-five feet to th, river, and thence twenty-tive feet ina shute to tre spol Where the cara were discharged tnto the boats. ne cars descended by gravity with the loaded wagons, and were drawn Up again by mules. The ralig of the roat were ef Umber, jatd on wooden slegpers, and strapped With flat tron bars, Jo 1828 the Deiaware and Hudsoa Canal Company constructed @ ratiroad irom their coal mines to Honesdaie, the termination of their canal, The Baltimore and Olto Katiroad and the South Caro- ina Kaliroad were also commenced in the same year, Before this, however, Coionel Stevens, of Hobo- ken. & es | buugiion is cxwemely ioterestiag, ab least to en- ineers; = neti ; Alier the ground was brought to a level for the track tivo square holes were dug, fou feet apart, twenty ches wide, two feet long aud tyo fysk Seep In these holes broxén stones were put, saiilcieat fo fill to the surface, ‘They were then securely rammed down. Kaci particle ol stone was tested and passed through an ivon ring, to tusure its proper dimen- sions. On this pout great care was taken that every stone should be of the uaiiorm size reqnired, Aller the foundation 13 made a treach s1x mmches deep, and Milled with stone, broken and tesred with the ring a3. at firat, 1s extended across the track lrom one of the filled-up holes to another opposite, upon which a sleeper, made of cedur, seven feet long, 18 laid. By tals process the fonndation of tue ras is protected from the éfiects of dampness 07 frosts, and tirmness und stability are lnpartod to it, Taese cedar cross- pieces were lakl with great accuracy and | care; a spirlt level was used to adjust | them properly. In each end of these cedar crosspieces, immediacy above the stone foundation, norcies were cut ‘and care- fuily levelled; into these notches were laid wooden rails or stringpieces, and securely kept in their aces by wedges, These siringpleces were of yel- joW Pine, from tweive to twenty-four fepel long and 81x Inches square, and slightly bevelled on the to; of the upper side for the ange of the wheels, which At that tiae was on the outside. On these ‘string- pleces fron rails wére placed and securely nailed dowa with wrought iron naila four mehes long, ‘Phe earth between these cedar sleepers was care- fully removed, sv a8 not Lo come in contact with the bottoun of the stringpieces, aad thus the decay which otherwise migut take place was prevented, Yet with all these difticuities to contend with our Pioneers of tue Baltimore aud Onto Railroad perse- Vered until they brought thelr work to a successful termination. After several miles of this description of road had peeu made long granite siabs were sub- stituted for the Cedar crovs1eces aud the yellow piae stringers. Beyond Vinegar Hill these buge blocks 0: this solid Material could be seen deposited along the track, and gangs oi workmen engaged in the Various operauous of diessing, drilling, laying. and amixing the 1ron. ‘The Baltimore and Ohio road, after due consider- ation, determined to avail themselves of steam power. ‘the experiments in England were very closely watched, and very soon a dimeuity in the way of introducing the English locomotive was started. In Engtand the roads were pretty straight, or, at any rate, took very long curves; but in America the nature of the country necessitated sharp curves, for at that time capital was too scarce to ve procured for the cutting of tunnels and the construction of emvankments. Could a locomotive turn @sbarp curve and keep on the track? To solve this problem Mr. Peter Cooper, with charac- teristic public spirit anu energy, built the frst loco- Motive ever constructed in America at the St, Clair Works, tear Baltimore. This was first ran on the Baltimore and Ohio Ratiroad some time in the sum- mer of 1829, but tt aid not act as well a3 was expected, aad the plan was therefore considerably moditied, Tho frst actual experimental trip was made on August 25, 1830, about a year alter the first and last journey of the Stourbridge Lion. We wish we could reproduce for the benefit of our readers the sketch given by alr. Brown of this first of American loco- motives, It is as unlike a modern iron horse as could be tmagined. It is ® sort of freight truck, with very small wheels and a furnace and boiler, and piston rods and tubdiags strewn promiscuously over tne suriace of the fiat platform. Therear of the engine was used asa coal box. The following is a description of it by Mr. Ross Winans:— Mr. Ross Winans tells ine that Mr. Cooper brought | the boiler from New York in the spring or early in the summer of 1829, and It was on a frame and rested on four wheels belonging to the company; the road was then used thir.eea miles to Ellicott’s Milis, und With horse power. he botler was tubular and upright in position. Mr. Winans does not reco!lect the dimensions of it, slthough ne suys it lay in nis shop toc several years, He ihinks it was not more than twenty inches in diameter, and, pertiaps, from five to six fect high. There was a single cylinder of three and one-quarter inches in diameter, fourteen and one-quarter inches stroke, Uiut pro,ected its piston rod and connecting rod, so as to take wold of the crank by direct action. On the crank shaft, which rested on tie frame of the car, Was @ spur-wheel which geared with a pinion on the forward roac-wheels, 80 as toincreae speed, the road-wheeis being only two and one-halt feet in diameter. The fuel was anthracite coal, and an artificial draught im the fire-vox at the vottom of the boiler was created by a fan, driven by a belt passing aronud ® wooden drum attached to one of the road: wheels and @ pulley on the. Jan-shalt, ee Pw oe tab PEC SR gre : Ai tho best, however, Mr. Cooper's locomotive could “only be regardea as a working model.”’ At the final experiment it drew a weight of freight and passengers amounting to four and a half tons for) surtees Miley An sixty-one minutes die way, find fifiy-seven minutes the other. On the return | trip there was a race with @ fast trotting mare; but just as the engine was badly whipping the horse, a band slipped from the drum, and the engine was forthe moment disabied, Old Peter Cooper, who ected as his own engineer and foreman, in vain wlea to replace the band; yf only succeeded Ly jacerating wis hands. itis liard réstei the temp. tation to give this scene in fuller detail, but want of space compels us todo so. Wecommend our read- ers to the book for @ fuller description, ‘To the South{Carolina Railroad, however, belongs the honor of having first practically introduced joco- motives in America, This company Was organized on tho 12th of May, 1828, and after much discussion @ resolution offered ou January 14, 1830, by Mr, Ben+ nett, to tue edfect thal the locomotive should be used asthe only motive power on the road, was unanimously carried. In pursuance of this action contracts were ut once made for ihe purchase of locomotives, ‘the first one delivered was called the “Beat Friend of Charleston,” and was built at the West Point foundry. The gentleman who had charge of the work, Mr. David Mathew, gives this account of her: The Bost Friend was & four-wheel engine, all four wheels drivers, ‘Two inclined cylinders at au angle, working dowa on @ double crank, inside oi the frame, With the wheels outside of the frame, each wheel connecting together outside, with outside rods, The wheels were irou hub, wooden spokes and felloes, with Iron te, aud iron web and ping in the wheels to counect the outside rods to, The botier was @ vertical one, in form of an old- fashioned porter bottle, the furnace at the bottom surrounded with water, and all lied inside full of what we call teats, running out from the sides and top, with witernate stays to support the crown of the furnace; the smok a8 passing out through the siues at several points, nto an outside jacket, Which had the chimney on it. ‘the boiler sat ln the centre of the iour wheels, with the connecting rods rup- ning by it to come mto the crank-shaft. The cylinders were about six inches in the bore and sixteen inches stroke, Wheels avout four and a hail ieet in diameter, The Whole machine weigned about four and ® hait tons, It was shipped to a 33 had, as far back ag 1812 declared w tie Lea | Charieston, & CU. for Whe Churlesion aud Hamburg the alt of 1898, and. was pes upon that ‘shop unter teats for some” ame and visited by many. She was shipped to-Uharies- ton, on board of the ship Niagara, in October, 1830,’ A trial trip was made on the ¢a of November, but the engine aid not work very satisfactomly. On the 14th and 15th of December, however, the Best Friend had been got into good working order, and proved in eMciency doubio what had been contracted for, running at tho rate of from sixteen to twenty-one miles an hour, with some forty or Gfty passengers im some four or five cars, and, without the cars, thirty to thirty-five miles per hour, In June, 1831, however, she ex- Ploded, owing to the carelessness of a negro fire- man; but she was subsequently repaired and again set to work, under the new name of the “Phenix.” This is probably the fires railroad accident on record. The second American built locomotive was also con- atructed for the South Carolina Railroad Company. Jt was called the “West Point,” arrived in Charies- ton in February, 1831, and was‘ running on the road the fall of the same year. Mr. Brown next disposes of a claim which Phila- detphia, with her accustomed impudent effrontery 4m all questions of priorty, has made to hav- ing built and run the first American loco- motive. As Mr. Brown for many years hved in Pennsylvania this is highly salsfactory. Of course Philadelphia could not pessibly have been ahead in Any matter of enterprise so conspicuous as this, ‘The mere conception of such @ thing is absurd. New Yerk comes two years behind South Carolina in the adoption of the fron horse, The first trip of @ locomotive in this State was made about the 31st Of July, 1532, from Albany to Schenectady, by the locomotive De Wits Clinton. Among the passengers Was the venerab'e Thurlow Weed, We have thus given our readers a few of the more sallent features of ths Interesting book. Mr. Brown Would not be a very great success as a Knight of tho quill on any other subject than (his; but his perfect acquainrance withall the facts and nis industry in research have enabled him to produce a very read- able book. ‘The volume 1s Mlustrated with a num- ber of very well executed sketches of the locomo- taves @ud passenger cars referred to in the text. LL.ERASY CH T-CHAT. GENERAL JosEPn E. JOMNSTON, It is sald, is stil at work on the history uf his own campaigns in the War of sovession, The 1ate General Robert B, Lee had contracted with a New York house for the pub- Ueation, ot hi 3 own military history of the war, but the at.empt had been pretty nearly abandoned, it is said, long before his decease, owing partially to the destruction of the larger portion of the Con- federate records and military papers, which alone wouid have made an Psiitan Ret possibie, A “HistorY OF THE RISE AND FALL OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA,” by Hon, Henry Wilson, is in the press of J, R. Osgood & Co., Boston, It will be In three volumes, issued at intervals of about a year. Volume J. is nearly ready. HASLAM’S “ILLUSTRATIONS OF MADNESS,’ pub- Ushed in 1810, furaished to Charles Reade the curi- ous medley of the deiusions of a lunatic, supposed to be noted down by Sir Charies Bassett in the madhouse in ‘‘a Terrible Temptation.” A DavGurEk of the poet Schiller Js still alive, and 1s married to the Count Von Gieichen, His grand- son, Baron Fritz Von Schilier, is a retired officer in the Austrian service, and as he ts in failing health and without issue the name of Schiller will become extinct at his decease. Mr. Kopsrr BROWNING has new poems of con- siderable length to be published in December. ‘The publication of @ Congressional edition of all the State Constivutions, from the colonial period, edited by Ben Perey Poore, has been retarded by the delays of State oficials in responding to requesta for authentic information as to the adoption of con- stitutional amendments, &c. THE Afhenccum says of Mr. R. Somers’ “Sduthern: States since the War,” that “the author's style 18 induilerent, and his book is distinctly heavy reading, yet 1 contains a good deal of information. Mr. Somers obviously 18 what used to de called ‘a Southern sympatnizer.’ Max MULLER’s publication of the “Hymns of the Rig-Veda” (origmal Sanscrit text, in quarto), of which four volumes were isqued some years since, will be completed by the publication of the Mth ana sixth volumes carly next year, A New Issug of “Shelley’s Poems,” to include some hitherto unpubiished pleces,is in press in London. Miss FRANCES POWER CoBBR, one of the most fruitful of modern English essay writers, has a new book in press entitled “Oreeds of the East and Speculations of the West.” TroBNER’s new ‘Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars of the Principal Languages of the Worla” willembr:ce upwards of two hundred and fifty languages. ‘fue COMTE DE CHAMBRUN’S large volume of es- says, entitied *‘Les Fragments Politiques,” 1s just igsued in Paris. NiW PUBLICALIONS RECEIVED, From Charles Scribner & Co, :—‘‘Insects at Home. Being @ Popular Account of Insects, thelr Structure, Habits and Transformations.” By the Rev. J. G. Wood, M. A, F. L. S., &c.; “The Wonders of Water.” From the French of Gaston Tissandier. Edited, with numerous additions, by Schele de Vere, D, D., LL. D, From Francis B, Felt & Co.:—“The Walking Doll; or the Asters ana Disasters of Society.” By R. H. Neweil (Orpheus 0, Kerr); ‘Short Poems for Short People.” By Edgar Fawcett. From Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, Philadel. phia:—“‘Homo vs. Darwin: a Judicial Examination of Statements Recently Published by Mr. Darwin Regarding ‘The Descent of Man;’” “Dream-Life, aud Other Poems.” By Stockton Bates, From Patrick Donahoe, Boston:—‘The Four Great Evils of the Day.” By Henry Eaward, Arch- bishop of Westminster, Engiand, and a convert to the Catholic Church; ‘To and From the Passion Play, in the Summer of 1871, By Rev. H. G, Doane. From Dodd & Meade:. By Jennie Harrison. From Ivison, Blakeman & Co:—‘ Yous Speaker.” sy George R. Vathcart, A. M. From George Routledge & Sons:—"“The Haunted Crust,” &@, By Katherine Saunders, _ From H, B. DurandjnThe Lady Elgiva; a Girtetnas Meh By ML. B. From Anson D. F, Randolph & Co:—‘ The Baby’s Things,” a stury in verse for Christmas Eve. B; Edward Abbott, From L. & J. W. Feuchtwanger:—‘A Hand- Book on Silex.” By Dr. Lewis Feuchtwanger. From B, B, Russell, Bostou:—“ Imogen, and Other Poems.” From D. Appleton & Co.:—"Man: & Toem to Twelve Cantos.” By Franz 8. Ganter. From Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, New York:— “Oliver Optic'’s Almanac for soys and Girls,” From American News Compeny:—“Tne Mormon Trials at Salt Lake City.” By George Alfred Townsend, «Notes ON Historical Evidence in Reference to Ad- verse Theories of the Origin and Nature of the Gov- ernment of the United States of Ametica.” By Join B. Dillon. Magazines for January:—Lippincoti's, C204 Words, Phrenolgial Journal, Van Nospand’s Eolectio Engineertng Magazine, Catholic World, EBolectic. From D. Appleton & Co.:—'Household Book of Songs,” collected and arranged by Francois 0, Bow- man and Charles A. Dana; “The Story of the Foun tain,” by William Cullen Bryant, illustrated with “The Old Back Room.’ ART IN THu GALLERIES. It ta impoasible for any one at all interested In the progress of art in this country to visit whe various galleries of painting in this city without ex- periencing a feeling of satisfaction at the evidenee which they furnish of the rapid development of @ correct taste in artistic matters amoug our people. It ie true that we do not as yet. receive the ex- amples of the highest art’from Europe, bu! there is steadily growing a desire to possess works whose merits are beyond question, The state of feeling 18 calculated to produce such an advaacein knowl- edge as will have the effect of putting an end to the unwise and ll-directed patronage whch has fosterea quite a crowd of artists who have abso- lutely no claimy to consideration. It will also tend to develop our native school of art, which is sadly in want of examples of the best masters. The best evidence of the excellent \taste witch Growing up among us, and which is owing mM no small degree to the Influence of travel, forty-two engravings on wood; “Tne Philosophy of Style,’ an Essay by Herbert Spencer; “Text Books of Geotogy and Zovlogy,” by H. Alleyne Nicholson, From Woolworth, Ainsworth & Co, :—''sthetics; or, The Science of Beauty,” by John Bascom, Pro- fesgor in Williams College; ‘A Compendious Gram- mar of the Greek Language,” by Alpheus Crosby, Professor in Dartmouth College. From Hurd & Houghton:—‘Maccaronte Poetry,’ collected, With an Introduction by James Appleton Morgan, A. M, From Macmillan & Co., London and New York:— “Nine Years Oid.’? From J. B. Lippincott & Co.:.""The Funny Philo sopbers; or, Wags and Sweethearts,” a novel, bY George Yello Can be seen in the art galleries. The collectors who Cater to the pubdiic taste have not been slow to rey Cognize the change which has been operating in the public mind, and, as a resuit, we nave collec ti which are not unworthy of the older Huro- pean capilals, Examples of most of the European artiste of note can be found on the walis of the different exhibitions. We do not despair of sceing the best works of the European schools among us before many years as the tn- portab co of American patronage makes itself elt with the European:artists, At the present tine We know no more pleasant way of passing a few hours than snuntering through the gaileries of polatings where the cuilectors have: assembien alt heir works « honor of the Christmas times, whose influence is felt even in matters of art. ‘The pub- he seem more dsposed to purchase during the houldays, and a marked. increase bas taken parce tn the nuinber of sales effected during the past wees Compared with its predecessor, SNEDECOR’S GALLERY. Hore we have a large number of well-selected Pautings, by the best of our native and foreign arlists. Among the American pictnves Haris. “Under the Elms” merits special attention. It is rhape the most successful oO! this artist's works, e are charmed by the idyilio sentiment twat breathes through the composition, which is yonder- inliy concentrated, without losing breattt in ite treatment. What strikes us most 15 the ev.clence of peace and barmony rather than of force ciiaer on the composition or the color, its beauty is of the tender and gracefol kind, rather than gran pressive, But there 1s a freshness and freedom that irresistibly attract oar symvathy. ‘the drawing of the trees exlibits careful study of nature, combined with @ Dappy and delicate treatment of foliage such a8 we find in most of Mr. Hari’s works. There is about this picture an atmospnera Which we do not often tind in panting (9 cliel charm, however, depends on a foeling of poetic suggestiveness whici dweils mn the work. ‘Tins iy the essential quality which distine guishes works of a high order from mere pnoto- grapis of patore, no macter now good the tecnnical exccution may be, Artists too often lose signi of this fact, and while endeavoring (0 catch the out} ward form, lose sight of the animating sentiment, without Which no representation can reach our Migher Ayinppinies, An excellent colored pngto: was ot this Hatuting has ens asuet by tik Snewecor, which not alone preserves the sealiment of the orginal, but even reproduces, with much truth, the color of the original. By this process we have the outlines gtveu wiih ubsvlute tueimy, and we only miss those delicate nuances Which It 1s impossible to transier. A COAST SCENE, by A. H. Wyant, possesses the charm of peace and tranquillity in @ remarkable degree, It is no doubt drawh from nature; but there 13 evidence in It that this artist saw more than were — jaud and water, and strove to patat what he saw with the eye of interior consciousness. The calm of the water and tne | subdued colors of the rocks in the foreground melting gradually away by gentle gradatious Into the biue line of the distant coast speak so eloquently of peace that we experience something of a retl- gious sentiment in looking af this picture, Even the dark, sombre clouds and the biack, rocky isiand in the middle distance fall to disturp the sense of quiet, AN AUTUMN SCENE, by Jervis McEntve, has been happily treated. A Bumber of trees stand in an extensive nnd. scape, Which beac traces of the rapid advauce of wuiter in its somewhat bleak aspect, sowie of tie trees are quite bare and tne leafless branches tin- art a ceriain weird eifect to the scene, which I toned down by the autumn-unted follage oi some trees massed behind. ‘There is @ seuse Ol space and Joneliness avout the picture Which 1s myst attrac tye. In the color treatment grays and vrowns pre- dominate, and that offensive plastering ou of bril- ant pginents which some artists wuup! WI aus Suainal pictur has been careiuiy avowed. Much attention has been patd to tho correctness of tne tee-drawing, Which gives proof of carciut study. ‘Tue painting ts subdued aud pleasing tu tone, ‘A LAKE BCBNE, by David Johnson, is nung on tac opposite side of te gallery. it displays the mice, quict teehng which pervades most of this arusi’s work. ‘dhe scene ty trauquil aud a Little sombre. THM FOKRIGN ARTISTS. We have quite a large representation of the Eu- ropean artists, both in yenie and lwudscape sub- Jects. Jules Goupil is present with twe of bis inevie tavie, well-dressed ladies. This example exbivi the artist’s caroful and successful vexture paintiug. It is simple and naturally composed, wud displays nice feeling in Whe disposition of the draperies aud in the coutrast of the colors. A CANAL BCBNE IN VBSICE, by Ziam, displays rare power of drawing and coloring. ‘The artist has setzed with adinravie Jorce te sentiment of the picturesque which dwells in the old italian bulidings, and, by bis skiliul management of his light, manages to convey tg Jeeling to tue spectator. ‘he perspective has been bandied with so much judgment that we can imagine ourselves looking down the canal for mies. Ea same Knowledge and sound judginent are dite played in the composition of the picuuie and ine grouping of the bowls. ‘Tne painting Is tree } irom mannerism or suducss, and seeus so natural that we wave no evidence of eiort, Which ix the highest proof of art. A landscape by Lambinet displays his wonted force and depth of coier, com- bincd with @ Charm of suggestive Lhougutiumess: which beiongs to bis compositions, Meyer yuu Bremen’s * shepherdess’’ suows all the careiul finish which he gives his works, and has the additional charm of differing trom his usual tricky cliccis. Wa have # full daylight effect treated with unusuai force, Banguies’s ‘‘reparing ior the Ball’ is avother ex- mple of the texture school of modern pang. It displays great power of manipulation. “THE ALBANIAN SENTINEL,” by Jerome, has ail the strength of drawing and force of color which are jound iM this are Ust’s work. It is quite @ gem of art, kx- alupies from tae sclpod of fuiuillar genre after Pecrus, Nuremberg, Seigua!, aud Aufray, Se- gtet and other artists, haud incognita fama, complete the collection, which 1s fuli of interest. An exibition of water colors wil be opened in this gallery week. ‘Nuere wilt be exampies of hearly all of the European schovis in tuls churiing department of art. SCNAUS’ GALLERY. Among se tu this gallery which we have not already noticed are some Pastern scenes subjects by Toulmoucne, Sandelie, The collection is large ans By ‘Toulmouche we have one vi those or hits ES =} &. interesting. studies of modern lie Which ar: treated with suc, fresuness and force by Uns ar holding @ bouquet of fowers, is OhIOY al ruUND door, We can easily gucss that it is sone one's birthday, and there 15 @ pivased and ¢x ub Look about ibe face, which conveys admirauly the motive, The reddish dress fails in a mass of drapery, aud here the wouderful power of texture painting is shown. OLY FAMILY," MTHS Bs by Sandelle, wT very pleasiag picture, firmiy drawn and well grouped. ‘The infant ot, Jonn pre- sents A cross, Which the Infant Cirist exicuds dis hand to take,” ‘Yhe expression of the various figures Leyes and appropriate. ‘The Virgin's face & ul of sweethess ahd purity. Scaumei’’s “veguae” @ good painting ; tie hed iy well Weated and te JSurrowed brow painted with care, ag - GoU i) GSLLERY, The gem of thiy toiléction, whict atthe present Moment 13 rewarkavly tich, 18 Glaies “Group o ars,’ @ Work of the lrst order. Wheiher we look at the drawing of the Uygures oF (he palauny of the flesh we see the hand of @ master, Phe sup Jeot 1s not very agreeable, but the iorce of its Lrent ment, its depth oi fecling and naturainess, wall more than replace the mere qualilw uf pleasing, which m too many Ingyiauces is LO. hing more thal interesting Weakuess, In tue present work there is careful avoidance of exaggeration, and yer we cannot lv0k upon the picture of sorrow presemted without being deeply moved; Our sympatity hai rally flows towards tne old man whose tuce eveals such depth of suifering. A “Lied. scape,” by Lambinet, treated with ireesum a force, and & certain boldness wie geeks to produce impressive effecis. Minative has been disregarded for We treaiment of masses, and the resuit is & breadin and tuteusity in the color not often met with. A very curious aod pleasing (orest scene by Goethal presents a sunset eect through the trees Which possesses peculiar charms. ‘The modern Roman school of color is represented by a dancing gronp of classic figures, well composed, vas starting, from the brilitanc: the colors, Witten seem to have been used pure. ‘The efect ts pleas- Ing, notwithstanding the totul indtitere wit Colle A young lady, is tui is ventional treatment. ‘his auan pre-Rap Leis Teveais force and originality, but, tiowgi oloes ate intense, they lack depth and force. There is & small pamting vy Couture, Of ex. traordinary merit, representing a bauquet of Bacchanals, The miniature tyures are Well drawn, and the Composition of the group is very effective. While allowing great freedom to the sib groups, unity nas béen preserved with a bi Weatment not often found m larger works. undoubtedly, the most interesting picture fa Mo galiery 1s 6 scene on the Mediterraneau coast, Willa @ solitary horseman riding bre S| Foud im une md~ day sun. ‘The sense of daylight And tie ciear ulue Oi the sea and sky, Contrasung with thy picturesque crea miness of thé old structures, would give a chars to the painting Independeni of associatloit, ut te man Who rides aiong tie road 18 No other than The Meissonier himnsel!, aud the Characteristics ef tures and curriage Lave deel so well cought that we recogni There are & number ol other mmteresting Works In this gareny which pressure vl our space obliges Us over.

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