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Mecessity for the use of this sacrament at all Ueft out, of course, as they should to be con- Bistent with his views, the only religious element which makes this Supper differ from ‘every other meal to a Christian mind and namely, faith. It is not the Lord’s Sup- that the Christian thinks most about as he before the table and receives the sacred pmblems. It is the Lord’s death, and ‘‘as oft as yedo this ye do show forth the Lord’s @eath till He come.” Without this idea the prime element of a sacrament is lacking. If men forget or ignore the death of Chriat for “the redemption of the world it matters very Aiittle for the soul’s eternal good how much else ey May remember. It would hardly be courteous in us to p! by without notice the Rev. Mr. Frothingham, ho yesterday let his hearers know that he is i regular and attentive reader of Monday’s ; but he evidently was not as sweet hand genial as he sometimes is. Vor instance, Bpeaking of the moral ideal of humanity's re- Jigion he remarked that ‘‘the best man is the jman. The best man in the clerical fession is the one who can blow his own orn the loudest, win the largest salary, have Fhe most servants and get the longest reports In the Henarp.” Of course we accept the compliment to our own discrimination in the Hast sentence, but we think the reverend brother is a little too hard upon his fellow workmen inthe Lord’s vinoyard in the other phrases. After reading through Mr. Chauncey Giles’ fermon on the Creation physically described, but spiritually interpreted, we are ready to ndmit how easy it is to darken counsel aby avords without knowledge. ‘The reader may find much more to admire in and be better able to comprehend the following sentences than we are, and we are quit willing he Bhall:—‘‘Fishes represent living scientifics that relate to the affections or will, and wherever mentioned in the Biblo they have this significance. They also represent those who teach them, and it was for this reason hat the Lord chose fishermen for apostles.” ar we should exorcis> our Yankee privilege of guessing we should guess that the Saviour ‘had no such thought in His mind, and for one jof many reasons—namely, that not one-haif fof the disciples were fishermen, so far as the Bacred record informs us, What, then, Pecomes of the theory of “living scientifics hat relate to the affections or will?” . “The Vices of New York, as Manifested in Its Extravagance,” was the theme of Mr, Northrop yesterday. This extravagance is ween in the style of our houses and living, and also in the style of our funerals after Heath. The great fault lay, he thought, in Fhe poor aping the wealthy in these things. e@ ladies were reminded of their extrava- in dress: and the vanity which breeds and fosters. How -much ter it would be if tbe extravagant es could say with the Dominican Friar Burke, “I never will own a penny or a penny’s Worth,” with the addition “that is not conse- brated to God and His cause.” Breaking Bhrough the established usages of Catholic churches, Father Burke refused to preach or lecture in St. James’ church yesterday unless e admission fee was ignored. He was to preach a charity sermon, and ke was willing to trust the people. The result more than tified this confidence, for, as our report tates, the largest collection ever known in this church was taken up. In St. Paul’s Roman Catholic church, Harlem, the sins of calumny and dctraction were depre- pated by Father McGuire, who excoriated ‘Nast and his caricatures as gross calumniators, especially of Catholics and Irish. In St. Stephen's church Father McCready declared Bhat the great want of this age is lack of reflection. The truths of religion will avail man nothing unless he thinks upon them. And from thinking springs action. Let the people think more about the future and the things of the life to come, and they are morally certain to lead better and holier lives here on earth. The Brooklyn Academy services were con- Bucted last evening by General Howard, Rev. HH. M. Gallaher and Mr. Powers, and our re- porter states a fact and draws a conclusion which is not very creditable to the religious sptability of the thousands who flock to those Bervices. The name that is above every other mame—Jesus—was the subject of General Howard's discourse. He illustrated the power Yhat may reside in a name, and encouraged his hearers to entreat the Lord to help them to break off their sins, and to put their trast in the Saviour and do their duty. The Rev. Mr. Gallaher followed in a few words of good fheer and Godspeed to this uew enter- prise. Mr. Beecher was engaged with the subject of prayer yesterday, illustrating Its effect upon those who pray and upon ose who are prayed for. Mr. Pomeroy was in that ‘“‘nothing in God’s universe is more bstantial than heaven; that saints are not phosts ; that the society of the redeemed is ot a mingling of particles of gas, nor are they who dwell in glory floating loose in ether like waifs upon the sea.” Though heaven is thus real he was glad that there would be no faxes or rent to pay and no ‘‘ring” of lawless plunderers ruling there. As was proper after working up the imagination of the congrega- Hion to the highest point of anxiety to get , he pointed them to the only way, by ith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We commend e sermons to-day to our numerous readers, The Late Solar Eclipse. The observations of the late eclipse have hot yet been fully gathered in, and the results fo be deduced from them can hardly be ex- pected for some weeks, but there is reason to know that they will be very rich. The eclipse Was observed by Professors Respighi, De la Rive, Jaussen and Lockyer, with numerous Scientific assistants, who, in almost every in- Btance, report successful attempts in photo- graphing the important pbenowenon, The composition and structure of a part of the Solar corona has been forever sct at rest, while seventeen accurate photozrapis—taken by instruments of the same pattern and power—have rewarded the zeal of the astrono- mers who went to India, Such a mass of in- formation has never before been in the posses- sion of asironomy with which to investigate exterior coronal regions of the sun, It has been conclusively determined that the eveat star of our system—on which the entire terrestrial economy depends for heat—is sur- rounded by an immensely extended, exces- sively rare atmosphere of a hydrogen base. At the beginning of totality the spectroscope clearly revealed the reversal of the dark lines and the unmistakable hydrogen bright lines during the whole period of totality. This hydrogen atmosphere surrounding the sun is proved to be permanent, and not due to any outside or cosmical causes, and it is said with- out doubt to be supplied by matter ejected with great violence from the photosphere. There is doubtless much in store for science from the discovery of the nature of the sun in its relations to the meteorology, climates and seasons of our own planet, and the world is now looking to its astronomers to make vigor- ous attempts to solve the whole solar ques- tion, Royalty and Republicanism iu England, The demonstrations of the royalists, or loyalists, in England lately against the radical republicans show that turbulence and violence are not confined to one party—that the so- called conservatives, who profess to be the champions of law, order and loyalty, can be as violent as the most ardent democratic levellers. Our telegram from London, pub- lished yesterday, represents that at a public meeting in Kingston, Surrey, of the radical republicans, at which Mr. Odger, member of Parliament, was making a speech, the royalists, made up chiefly of the supporters of the government, attacked the building, broke the windows and dispersed the assemblage. Mr. Odger was compelled to scale a wall and seek safety by flight, A few days ago a similar demonstration was made against another radical meeting in England at which Sir Charles Dilke was speaking. Had the position of the parties been reversed—the meetings being called by the royalists and the assailants being radicals—there would have been a universal outcry from the press against the offenders, denouncing them as Jacobins, rebels, firebrands and everything else vile. The boasted fair play and liberal toleration of Englishmen go no farther than tolerance in countries less free when political questions were involved. We do not say that the radicals have not done and would not do the same as the royalists ; but it is evident they have not the same favor shown to them by the government and governing classes. This turbulence of the royalists indicates an apprehension of the growing power of radi- calism. If the radicals were few and the republican sentiment not becoming formid- able the monarchists would show more indif- ference. "he extraordinary efforts made by the government in the late Prince of Wales pageant to revive a loyal sentiment for the Crown proves, we think, that republican ideas are spreading among the people. This must be, however, a slow process, compara- tively, in England, except in the large cities, where the working classes read and discuss political matters; for the monarchical and aristocratic sentiment is ingrained in the gov- erning classes aod in the ignorant rural population, which is under the heel and con- trol of the gentry. The English government may resist the progress of ideas and the aspirations of the urban population for a time, but there must be more and more an approach to republicanism—for that means self-government by the many or the whole people in contradistinction to the present oligarchy. Monarchy and feudalism are incompatible with the progressive democratic ideas of the nineteenth century. Tue SURRENDER OF METz, that strong for- tress, with its French army of 175,000 men, is now under investigation by the Capitulation Committee of the National Assembly, and a delegation of the Municipal Council of Metz are tobe examined. The idea is that the sur- render was the result of Bazaine’s treachery ; but as all the other sieges and battles of the war went the same way, empire or republic, we are afraid that the loss of Metz must be charged, not to the treachery of Bazaine, but to the demoralization of France. , Personal Intelligence. United States Senator A. H. Cragin, of New Hampshire, is again a> the Westmoreland Hotel. Miss Nilsson arrived in town from Boston yester- day and has rooms at the Clarendon Hotel. Ex-Governor A, &. Paddock, of Omaha, is domt- ciled at the Hoffman House. Max Sirakosch is at the Everett House, Professor F, J. Hinman, of Cambridge, is among the late arrivals at the Metropolitan Hotel, State Senator W, T. Horrobin, of Vermont, is at the Westminster Hotel. Juage J, 8. Gibson, of Omaha, ts registered at the Grand Centrat Hote}, Colonel W. Feilding, of the British Army, 1s so- journing at the Brevoort House, Judge L, Burke, of Cleveland, 18 among the late arrivals at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Hon, L. As Senecal, of Canada, is staying at the St. Denis Hotei. , Personal Notes. Miss Mary Harris, the young Indiana lady who shot and kiiled her seducer, Burroughs, and was kissed out of court by Hon. Dan Voorhees, is aciu- ally insane. Wiltam Montgomery, of Augusta, Ga., recently appointed by Governor Smith to the Supreme Court bench of that State, is the law partner of Herschel Y. Johnson. John H, Surratt has settled down to school teach- Ing at Brookville, Md. Governor Buckingham, of Connecticut, is lying sick at nis residence in Norwich of gastric fever, a dangerous complaint for one of his years. REAR ADMIRAL BOGGS’ ILLNESS. New Brunswick, N. J., March 3, 1872. Rear Admiral Boggs continues Hil at his residence here, but nis conaition is not considered dangerous by his friends, THE CENTURY OF UNION. PHILADELPBIA, March 3, 1872. The Centennial Commissioners, representa- tives of twenty-one States, being now here, will hold an informal meeting at the Continental Hotel at half-past ten o'clock to-morrow morning, and at hajf-past eleven A. M. they will be welcomed to the city at Independence Hall by the Mayor. General Hawicy, of Connecticut, will re- spond. A STEAMER SUNK. Sr. Lovrs, March 3, 1872. A telegram received here-to-day says the steamer Sallie was sunk to the botier deck near Swan Lake, in the Arkansas River, and will provably be a totat loss. A small portion of the cargo was saved. ‘The Sallie was owned by the St, Louis, Arkansas and White River Packet Company. She left here last Sunday, With a cargo valued at $75,000, she was rated by the Pittsburg underwriters at $18,000, and was insured In that city for $12,000, Her freight list vas partially insured and her cargo is believed to be fully covereds ee eee EWGLAND. The American Policy Toward the Canadian Fisheries and Alabama Questions. Secretary Fish’s Reply to Granville’s Note—The Joint Commission Work. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, March 3, 1872. The Observer (newspaper) to-day, in an article on the Alabama claims, expresses the opinion that in case England should renounce the Treaty of Wash- ington the United States would take no immediate action in consequence, but would insist on the val- idity of the right hithérto claimed for American seamen to fish in Canadian waters, and on that point would meet with no opposition trom Eng- land, MR, FISH’S NOTE TO GRANVILLE. The reply of the American government to Lord Granville’s note is expected to reach London a week from Tuesday. “FINISHING UP” WORK. Mr. Russell Gurney, of the British American Mixed, Commission, will leave New York in the steamer of the 30th inst. for home, but intends to return to America in Novemoer to complete the work of the Commission. England’s “fixed Fact’? Court. Lonpon, March 3, 1872. It is alleged in political circles to-day, and there 1s excellent reason to credit the correctness of the statement, that the English government Is prepared to consent to allow the arbitration of the Alabama claims to proceed under an agreement that in no event shall the sum awarded for damages exceed @ certain stipulated amount. FRANCE. Charges of Official Fraud and Cabinet Dissension Over the Trial of the Accused—A Ministe- rial Crisis Imminent-How Chambord Will Venture for His Country. for the Geveva TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Paris, March 3, 1872. The ex-Prefect of the Department of Eure, charged with embezzlement of funds for the relie( of France, is now on trial at Rouen. He was appointed to of- fice under the empire, since the tall of which he has been conspicuous in defence of the ex-Emperor. Mr. Pouyer Quertier, the Minister of Finance, ap- peared before the Court last week as a witness, and his testimony was strongly In favor of the accused. His conduct in thts matter produces a feeling of great dissatisfaction on the part of some of his col- leagues in the Cabinet, and it is understood that M. Dufaure and other members threaten to leave it un- less he resigns. THE PRESIDENT AND THE PRESS. A ministerial crisis ts believed to be impending from other causes. In addition to the conflict be- tween the Executive and the Legislature on the Catholic petitions and the question of adjournment, & difference bas arisen between President Thiers and the committee of the Assembly on the bill pro- posed by Minister Lefranc granting the government additional powers for the control of the press. The committee insists on an amendment giving journals the right to discuss the constitution, which the President 1s not willing to concede. CHAMBORD’S COURAGE AND CHANCES, A correspondent of the Ziberté newspaper reports an interview ‘with the private secretary of the Count de Chambord, in the course of which the secretary said “his master was willing to risk ols life to save France.” ALEXIS IN HAVANA. The Grand Duke Attends a Cock Fight on Sunday. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. HAvana, March 3, 1872, The Grand Duke Alexis, accompanied by nis staf and by Governor Moreno and others, dNended cock figntto-der. The day being Sunday a large crowd was present. A ball will be given at the Paiace to-night. The Spanish iron-clad Numancia has arrived. EXPRESS THIEVING. An Express Messenger Steals Over Four Thousand Dollars and Baries it Under an Apple Tree—The Funds Restored and the Young Expert Comiug North to go Abroad. RicuMonpD, Va., March 3, 1872. For some timc »ast considerable sums of money, consigned to various parties South through the Soutnern Express Company, and mostly from New York, have fatied to reach their destination. The missing packages disappeared somewhere between Richmond, Va,, and Wilmington, N. C., but every effort on the part of the route agent, Mr. Kell, and the Superintendent of tne company to discover the leakage were fruitiess, AMONG THE MISSING PACKAGES were one of $3,000, consigned by A. T. Bruce & Co., of New York, to a mercantile firm m Goldsboro, N. C,, and one of $1,000 to a Tarboro (N. C.) firm by | the same parties, Besides these otner packages of lesser denominations were missing. These de- falcations were reported to the headquarters of the Southern Express Company in New York by Super- intendent Gusson, of this city, and il. W. Davies, of Pemberton’s National Detective Agency, New York, was atonce despatched here to work the case up, and, with the assistance of Detective John Wren, an expert of this city, ne solved the mystery and discovered the thief. Davies had not been in the city three days before HE MARKED HIS MAN and at once arrested him. There were four express messengers on the route between between here and Wilmington, and of these Le Roy Archer, a young man of good family and respectable connections, turned out to be the criminal. When arrested he at first stoutly denied the theft of the packages; but when tne officer showed him the proofshe had Archer confessed the crime, and with Davies went to Petersburg, where his father resided, Nearly all of the missing funds were found BURIED UNDER AN APPLE TREE inthe paternal orchard, The largest of the pack- ages was sent from New York on the 7th of Febru- ary, und was stolen on the 8th, and the other, of $1,000, Was sent on the 17th and stolen on the 19th of September last, Archer, with the aid of a heart- proken father, refunded ail of the money but $80, and was allowed to go {ree by the Express Com- pany. He now expresses a determination to leave the country for the country’s good, and will depart North by the first steamer leaving Norfolk, with the intention of embarking for some foreign country. THE KRAMER MURDER. Denth of Mrs. Kramer=Indignation of the Inhabitants. ScuUYLKILL Haven, Pa, March 3, 1872. Mrs, Kramer, who was brutally beaten at the time her husband was murdered, in Washington township, died at three o'clock this morning. ‘The indignation of the people against the mur- derer has become doubly intense, and were it in their power to take him irom the custody of the authorities he would meet with no mercy at thelr hands, JEALOUSY AND MURDER, SPRINGFIELD, Mass, March 3, 1872. John Faller, of Curtisville, who had parted from his wife and was trying to effect a reconciliation, shot Join Murphy, of Sheffield, while mad with Jealousy, at Pittstield, on Saturday afternoon, ‘The ball entered Murphy's right side, and the wound Wil probably prove fatal, WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, March 3, 1872 The Cabinet a Unit on the Treaty Question. Gentlemen in prominent positions express the opinion that the articles which are being telegraped hence and published in the newspapers indicating @ difference of opinion in the Cabinet on the answer which has been sent to the British views on the Treaty Of Washington are caiculated to weaken the position of the United Staves abroad. In point of fact there -has not ever been a shade of diifer- ence of opinion as to the form or the con- clusions of the answer, which goes out in very nearly the identical language in Which it. was prepared and submitted in the Cabinet by the Secretary of State, It has been as- certained the few changes made therein were verbal, i order to give the clearest expression to the thoughts which it was designed to convey. The gonsideration of the paper at successive Cabinet meetings was, it appears, rather an excuse for delay in its beine: forwarded, in the belief that time was having its effect in allaying the excitement in Great Britain, This is not regarded as an unfortu- nate circumstance, Baying Bonds—Selling No Gold. The Secretary of the Treasury has authorizea the Assistant Treasurer at New York to purchase $1,000,000 of bonds on Thursday, the 14th, and $1,000,000 on Thursday, the 28th inst. The Secretary of the Treasury sells no gold this month, in consequence of heavy payments to be made on account of called bonds which fall due on the 6th inst, to the extent of $40,000,000. The Japanese Embassy Weather-Bound at tke Arlington=Functious to be Performed and Courtesics to be Extended. The severe winter weather prevailing here fas kept the Japanese within doors to-day. 1t had been announced that our Oriental visitors would be re- gaied with bits of ecclesiastical wisdom at the Metropolitan Methodist Byiscopal church, where the President, Vice President ana Senator Harlan are supposed to be constant in their attendance, but they did not attend, it had been represented to the innocent Japs that Methodism was the religion of the government, but upon consultation with their advisers on temporal matters, they learned that attendance at this churen was not obliga- tory, any more than when they reached London would they be expected to attend the service of the Church of Euglund or in Paris the Cathedral of Notre Dame, ‘he arrangements for the presentation of the credentials of the Embassy to-morrow at the Executive Mansion bave been planued by the Secretary of State. The Ambassador and Vice Ambassadors, with ther secretaries and attachés, will appear in we costume of thelr country, all wearing the royal ro! of state, ‘The ceremony of presentation will be carried out strictly im accordance with the desire of the Em- bassy. After the credentials have been presented and speeches made those present will be introduced tothe dignitaries, after which the Japs will return to the Arlington, On Tuesday afternoon it has been arranged that from ‘two until after four o’clock the diplomatic corps will be received by the Ambassadors, In the evening the Embassy is to be liomzed at Masonic Temple, and Japanese Tommy will have the (reedom of kissing all the ladies in Wasnington extended to him, provided the fair sex have no objection. On Wednesday evening thirty of the Embassy will, at the expense of Uncle sam, attend the opera. Con- j gress 1s expected to extend an invitation to the Japanese diguttaries to visit the floor of the Senate and House, a courtesy extended to foreigners but twice in the history of the government—to Lafayette and Kossuth. Commercial and Financial Reforms Pro- posed by the National Beard of Trade. fhe Hxecutive Council of the National Board of Trade has been in session in this city during the past week, and has had under consideration the va- rious questions upon which the Board acted at its annual meeting m St. Louis, in September last. The Council has memortalized Congress in favor of the appointment of a commissioner, to be appointed in behalf of the Dominion of Canada, to negotiate @ new treaty of reciprocity between Canada and the United States, on a broader and more compre- heusive basis than that upon which the former treaty rested. Some improvements to the law of July 14 1870, relative to direct importationis to ifiterior cities, in order to make the act more efficient, have been recommended, and tt has urged the formation of a Sanitary Board of Ap- peal to protect our citizens and our foreign com- merce from the irresponsible control of local Quar- antine officers. It has presented the resolutions adopted by the Board at St, Louis in favor of a gradual and moderate contraction of the greenback currency and of a revision of the tariff system of the country so that monopoly may be checked, a healthy competition m trade and manufactures established, and native industry protected by cheap- ening the necessaries and comforts of life to the masses of the people. . ‘The Council has appeared before both Committees on Vommerce of Congress and have represented the views Of the Board on the shipping question. The Board discriminated between the shipowning and | interests, and urges that while | the shipbuilaing many complications exist m connection with the plans proposed for the relict of the latter, ine course to be pursued in reference to the former is perfectly simple and easy. There being a deficiency of tonnage, the judgment of the Board ts that every barrier should be removed to its acqui- sition by American merchants wherein they find that which 1s suitavle for thelr purposes. The Council has, therefore, presented a memorial drawn with great care, tn accordance with the ex- pressed and unanimous opinion of the Board, ask- ing for permission to American shipowners to regis- ter under their own flag for purposes of foreign trade, steamers and sailing vessels wherever built, including all tonnage alienated to foreign flags during the war, so far as owners may desire this. ‘The memorial also recommends the witndrawat of duty from bonded warehouses of ship stores and supplies and of arucies needed for repairs. These views were supported by speeches from Frederick Froley, of Philadelphia, President of the Board; George Ovdyke, of New York; Robert R, Kirkland, of Baltimore, and otners. Tue Wisconsin Land Grabs—Gathering of the Vultur The persons interested in the success of the Ray- field and St. Croix Ratiroad jand-steal are working strenuously to make the measure successful when it again comes back Into the House. It Is expected that it will be reported on Tuesday, and when it comes all the elements of plunder will be linked as much as possible to Make 1t go through, One of the means adopted to make it go Is a charge that the Northern Pacitic is using money to defeat it. This may be true, but the honest people in the House have determined to take the fangs out of both cor, porations, and not to pass any measure which shal be a wholesale land-sical. ‘The Indian Peace Policy. An army officer from Arizona says the Third cavalry has gone out to the Plains and the Fiftn cavalry Will take its place in that Territory. rhe ‘vwenty-third infantry, now in Oregon, and tne Twenty-first, in Arizona, will change locations. General Crook has given notice to the indians that the time being extended to the 16th ot Fepruary to come upon the reservation and be fed, falling to do so they will be regarded as hostile and deait with accordingly. The people of Arizona are not ony satisfled, but enthusiastic with the President's pollcy; as carried out by General Crook. United States Courts Fandiess. The appropriation for the expenses of United States Courts for the current year 18 exhausted, No payments can be made to their officers until an appropriation shall be made by Congress. There is @ clause in the Deficiency bill appropriating €1,000,000 for this purpose, Tue bill will probably be passed at an early day, MURDERED IN A WOOD, TSBURG, March 3, 1872. A special despatch from Johnstown, Pa., says the body of an wnknown woman was found tn the wood near Johnstown, murdered and the body covered with brush. The deceased was aged about forty-five, wore false teeth, and is supposed to be. long to Ohio, The police are cadeavoringao w up the case, galehigc PIA napster aman x LITERATURE. Criticisms of New Books. RecoLtections oF Past Lire. sy Sir Henry Hol- land, Bart., M.D, New York: D. Appleton & Wo., 1872 120, pp. X., 351, ‘This 1s athoroughly delightful book, Not delight ful in the sense of amusing or sparkling, but in the more solid quality of holding the interest of the reader by 1t8 intellectual vigor, wide views and variety,of svenes and characters introduced. Ae the work of an octogenarian, tt 18 singularly (ree both from egotism and from trivialities—two qual- ities which pervade so much of the biographical literature of the times, and torm so large a share of the staple of traveliers’ journa.s, Sir Henry Holland was a London phvsictan, hav- ing a large practice among the first circles of the “West End.” His was tne rare and eminedt good fortune to prosper through a long iife to that degree that he could spend every year two montna in foreign travel, A student by habit as well as con- stitution, he made these wide and varied tours the means of enlarging his knowledge as well as nitnis- tering to his health. At the early age of eighteen Holland received $1,000 for his first work, being a compilation of the agricultural lustory of Chesnire, his native county. The first year of his London practice his receipts were £1,200, and he svon reached an average annual meome of £5,000, which he wisely reso.ved never to exceou, thus restraining bimsell trom that exacting, wearing and money- making professional labor which breaks down so mauy ambitious and successful physicians, Still he ‘Was carefully attentive to his interests and to those of his patients, never suffering his two months of summer relaxation (wicn he took in August and September, when the prosperous class of Londoners are mostly out of town) to interiere with the bust ness which was always ready for him on his return In the course of these summer journeys Str Henry Holland eight times visited America, of which country he cherishes the most pleasaut reminis- cences, and oiten pauses to compliment our people, Whose only danger, he appears vo believe, 1s trom too much democracy, As the judgment of a most intelligent physician his opimon of our medical literature ts, perhaps, more valuavle; and he de- clares that tn the United States “bota the principles and practice of medicine are derived frou schools of instruction and a medical literature um uo wise inferior’? to those of England. Among bis American memories we get this pieas- ant glimpse of Abrabam Lincoln:— One of his (Sydney Smith's) warmest admirers ‘was the late President Lincoln, Who more than onee has quoted to me passages trom lis writtass wile 1 had forgotten. Lincoln was hinseil a man ot much quaint humor, curio of Kentucky and Lliinots Itfe, form of American speech. ‘These ne brougue connection with events seeming to require ag 3 iiustration, yet witich could not realty have been better illustrated. O1 the six Presidents of ine Unived States whom Ihave Known, cluding An- drew Johnson, he seemed to me the only one gifted With this tuculty. ollect sitting with dim and Mr, Seward over a log fre im the White House ((a¢ federal forts and General Lee's aismantied Villa Seen {rom the windows across tie Potomac) a few hours only after intelligence had been received of the tirsi disastrous batuc of Chattanooga. ‘fac con- versation at first centred on Uns event; but the cheerful temperament of these two remarcable men gradually transferred at to other topics; and the Presi- dent amused himseif and us by some of those racy anecdotes Which so often convey more of practical trath than any dry reasoning can afford—now and then stopping & moment to pui a fresh log on the fire. The possession ot this simpie and genial hu- mor, not alloyed by any personal asperities, helped greatly that popularity which was mainiy due to the nonesty and consisteney of the maa, in times of unforeseen and perilous trial to his country. Sir Henry Holland’s personal memories run through nearly al! the conspicuous men aad women of letters, art, science and politics of the past halt century, He knew Byron and Queen Caroline, Tal- lJeyrand and Brougham, Walter Scott and Ali Pacha, Dugald Stewart and William H. Seward, Canning and Louis Napoleon, Coleridge and Mme. D'Arbloy, Sydney Smith, Wordsworth, Macaulay, Guizot, Everett, Thiers, Cobaen, Campbell, Hallam, Koy Prince Albert, Mme, De Stail, Joanna Baill kine, Tom Moore, Miss KEugeworth, Mackintosh, Palmerston, Mrs, Barbauld, Mrs. Siddons aud Jef: Terson Davis. He tells us of the poet-banker, Samuel Rogers:— “His dinners were fashioncd im the same artistic mould as his poetry—the society small end setect, the cookery superlative; no candles on the tavie, but light thrown from shaded lainps on the pictures round the room, each a small but consummate gem of art.” Of another scholarly giver of good and an English Lucuilus—tue laie Mr. Kaight—he says:— If Sir Joseph Banks’ house gave scientific re- pute tothe now-deserted regiva of Soho square, that of Payne Knight, close at hand, gave it repute for classical learning, urt and iuxury. ‘The dinners at this house were curious illustrations of its owner—the consummate scholar, the sensualist and the seeptic, I never dined with him without find- ing @ large dish of lampreys and hata dozen learned men leeding on this and the over various luxuries of his tavie with @ relish Which learning generaily seems in no sort to impair.” Sir Heury Holland is a memoer of the famous club founded in 1764 by Johnson, burke, Goldsmith, dinners Vayne and scholarsamp with which Macaulay, Grote, syd- ney Smith, Gladstone, Milman and sir George Vornwali Lewis illuminated its atter-dinner s sions, ‘fhe joyous humor of ney Smith played over and lightened we more solid and copious learnmg of Macaulay, The latter was devoted to theclub and rarely absent from it, Lt reduadanc at times in speech and argument it was simply from the overwhelmmg Knowledge he brought to the compa A little farther on we get this glimpse of ihe r of that great Kugish barrister, Lord In singular conirast to Sir S, Romilly came Lord Erskine, of Whoin, 1adeed, 1 saw mucit aud ata time when tis facies had unaergone a decay more obvious to ovmers than to himself fle was stall eager and eloquent in speeci, but with a cer- cd, as Lbeleve, by ces and by what ne 0 deemed the newiect of hts lormer political friends. His mind, too, wuea lL knew tim, was clouded oy little foibles and superstitions. 1 well pllect a dinner ai Sir S. Romully’s, wh nis agitation was curiously siown in his reluc to si! one of thirteen at table ¢ by the reit pressed when the fourteenth’ guest car i [lls life had been one of meteoric Kind throughout, Vanishing im mist, as such lives are prone to do, We can thiuk of no book of recent date which better deserves a great circulation than these “Re- coliections of Past Life,’ LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Tne Best Account of Brazil and the South American republics m any language ts in Dr. J. E, Wappdus’ “Handouch der Geograpiie und Sta- tistik,”” lately completed in Germany. It treats with true German thorouginess and accaracy the history, topography and statistics of Spanish Ame- rica and Brazil. Md Tur ELeGant Epition of “Piutarch's Morals,” in five volumes, published. last year in Boston has already had a sale of 1,500 copies, Onivek Oprric’s NeBxr (not his last) will be Northern Sands,” and will describe a tour through Germany and Russia, PRESiDENT HickOK has & new 900K in the press of Lee & Shepard on “Creation and the Creator.” Dr. MORGAN DIx’s LECTURES ON MATRIMONY Will be issued by Messrs, Pott, Young & Co., under the tue ot ‘The Two Estates.”? EMILE LiTTRE, Whose recent election tothe French Academy was severely contested, Is equally great as @ lexicographer and @ metapnysician., His theological heresies were the chief bars to his admission, and on tne announcement of his success Bishop Dupanloup, of Paris, indignantly resigned his membership rather than belong to the same body with such @ heretic as M, Littré, THat Uniquirovs AUTHOR-TRAVELLER, Carrain RicHarDd N, BURTON, has just published two vol umes on “Zanzibar—City, Isiand and Coast.” Cap. talu Burton conducted the first British East African expedition, In concert with Captain Speke. A History OF THE FOUR ORDERS OF FRIATS IV ENGLAND Will shortly be given to the press by a Franciscan, Mr. Palmer, ‘SHE ICELANDIC SAGA OF THOMAS BECKET will be published im the “Rolls Curonicles,” with Engush translation by Professor Magnusson, of the Univer- sity Library, Cambridge. Tue Revue Critique, which was suspended during the French war, is shortly to be revived. A NeW CATHOLie JOURNAL has been established at Rome unuer tue titie of L' Esperance de Rome. 1 tis conducted by that elexant writer M. Mery, wit Garrick, &¢,, and describes the keen Conflicts of wit | *, Dillinger, Pere Hyacinthe and others for com ‘tors, Of course it represents the Old Oatholla and not the iafalitpititats, ATZMANN’S neW book On “American-Asiatio ‘8, Via Bebring’s Straits,” is out at Lew. pvigypre * ‘shes nothing more than 4 presump- mnidy ” between the Amertcan aboriginal ose of the Old World, ‘LS bas written and C. C, Hine, of New York, has pm shed “An Illustrated History of the Steam Engine.” ‘tue Reseerton by vie French Academy of “ta mond About’? is said corn"? 8° diszusted M. Thiers that ne seriously contempias,°? Sending in his own resignation as a member of wie "auortal for:y, THAT LEARNED SPECIALIST, T%' 48BR BRassnye Dr. DE BouRsourG, whe has male’ an history anc language tke study of nis 1Me;- isemed a cata. logue of rare works en: the lang! of Mexico and Centrai America, formag a part of \! Hocary. He has twenty works: on the Maya langage of Yacatan, fourteen on te Quichs of Mexte}, Aud twenty-five on the Nahuatl) of Mexico, grammara and vocavularies of the Ameremy Jan- guages, called “Artes,’’? ave peroapa: the rarces works in the whole range of the beotstrade, & knowledge of these languages 4 essential to the student who would really understand want can now | be learned of the early history of the American | races. tHe LITERARY PROSPECTS of the Argentine’ repub- lie are rapidly improvi In addition to the Revista de Buenos Air a monthly magazine, | there has recently been commences & Revista det Rio de (a Plaia, under the auspices of Dr. J. Me Gutierrez, Leyro.pr’s “Amerivan Catalogue for 1871," com taimig a tull hat of all orginal publications and reprints issued im the United states darmyg the past year, 18 to appear early in Maren, ‘Tk RETAIL Book 'kADB In Boston has been enor~ mously large for the past few weeks—a@ clreum- stance owing solely toa general and heavy reduc- tion of prices on the part of the principal booksell- rs, With a view to “clearance sates” for their heavy supplies ot Baglish and ovaer bouks, Mx, Joun 5, DaGoHrr Las written a much needed volume on “Tife Batlot and tts History m the United States’? We have no book on the right of suffrage, | except a small and inadequate treatise pabdlisned um 15H), and No DOOK Whatever On the important sud. ject of citizenship. Wo Wrote iv? An Index tothe More Noted Walks in Ancient aud Modern Literature, 1s the tiie of a book now in preparation by William A, Wheeier, of Boston, author of a “Dictionary of the Noted Names of Ficvon,’’ he vook, now tn press (of Lee & Shepard), will be an invaluable help to the | reading public, who find it so ai ficult to find out or to remember the names of the authors of anonymous and pseudonymous books, Tux WANDERING Exyenor ov Brazi, Nimself the author of several anonymous novels, took espe- clal pains to hunt up the literary celebrities of Varta by personal visits, and made a trip to Nohant, tm The provinces, to “iuterview" George Sand. THEke HAS JUS? BEZN PUBLISHED as a Partlae mentary blue book a volume entitled “Papers Rela- tuve to Forest Conservancy in Tada,” showing tho measures adopted to preserve the native trees of that great empire, with mapa. DONN PIATT has & book th press on some curiosi- ties of our foreign diplomatic service, LOUIS NAVOLEON’S new pook, tt 1s said, presents «tne jan’? in the ligatof @ military his torian A New “Manual of American Literature,” by Ne _K. Royse, is tu press in Cinciunatt, \. LUD, has written a new “yreatise on the Conflict of Laws, or Private Inter- national Law, including a Comparative View of Anglo-American, Roman, German and French Jurisprudence,’’ soon to be published by Ray & Brother. Tne LATE GERMAN METAPHYSICIAN, Arthur Sctide | pennaiier, has had the posthumous honor of @ “Schopenhauer-Lextkon,”” to commemorate all tha more striking thoughts which ve gave to the world. His stvie is admirably lucid and often pritliant. This great, forlora and solitary thinker disdainiully condemned the entire scheme of human existence as a failure, and the world—animate and inane mate—as @ gigantic imposition, BOOKS published Without dates are nutsances. They bother the collectors and catalogue makers and wiil prove & puzzle to posterity. Every pub- lisher should take pride in making hts books autnen- tic und honest, What would we think of a news . paper or magazine without adate? ‘Tae Reaper who would form to himself some sitght idea of the vaiue of old papers 1s informed that a fle of the Londoa Times 18 said to be worth no less @ sum than £3,090 sterling. Tue Athenwum calls M. Taine’s History of Eng- lish Literature “an eloquent, ingenious and able book, despite its inconaslstencies, its Freuchness and its shortcamings.’? DEAN STANLEY'S forthcoming book is “Lecturea ‘on the History of the Church of Seotiand.’’ Iv 1s Norep, as a sign of the times in Germany, } that the more expensive universities, as Berlin, Bonn and Heidelberg, are slowly going down, while cities of a middie size, like Halle, Gottingen and | Tavingen, where the cost of living {3 not great, are getiing far more than their usual complement of stude MACMILLAN & Co. will shortly publish a second edition of Mr, Hensleigh Wedzwoou's well-known | “uretionary of Engusnh Ety:mulogy.” Tats edition | has been thoroughly revised and much enlarged by the author, Wio has been assisted in its preparation by the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, author of the “Glossary of the Cieveland Pialect.’? The whole work wilt form a haudsome imperial octavo of 800 pages, doubie column, and will be found quite Ladispensa- ble to all students of the English language, puN JASPER'S Seerer,” a Sequel to Charles | Dickens’ unfinished novel of “The Mystery of Kdwin Drood,” is in press, and will be prbdlishea ina few days by T, B. Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia. It contains elyhtecn large full-page illustrative engravings, printed on tinted paper, It wilt be issued complete in a large duodecimo vuiume of over four hundred pages, bound in clown; price $2. THe PRES DUKE OF MARLBORO will tssue & catalogue of the celebrated Biennetin Library, rich inearly Classical Works and curious foreign liter- ature, A.—Werring’s Patent CHAMPION SAFES, 2ol Broadway, coraer Murray vie3ab ccinitv.—DLace Curmine in Stock ana ured to order from original designs, GL. KELTY & CO., 722 and 724 Browdway, ‘w York Match Company's Matches labels, are full count and superior quailty, aie, No. 4 Park place. 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