The New York Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1874, Page 5

“THE MILLENNIAL, The Herald’s Correspondent Stops at the Faroe Islands, OUT OF THE PATH OF COMMERCE. The Social Life and Habits of the Faroeans and Shetlanders, THE WOMAN QUESTION bas supplieo one king and sundry princes to the thrones and royai /amiltes of Lurope, scarceiy looks above forty-five years old. I was greatly interested in observing the behavior of people who had never before seen a live king. This was certainly @ great day for the good peopie of Thorsbavn. They all rurned out in thetr Sunday best, which was not mach to boast of, but their best for all that. They crowded the church and rose when the King entered, just be/ore the service NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. LITERATURE. The Latest English Books—Author- ship, Scope and Intent, began, and manifested their loyaity by solemn The Revival of Heywood—“Adventures in staring. The town does not contain above 1,000 people, and they must all have crowded into the litue church to watch the behavior oj ther King, for there was hardly standing room for another soul. The service was conducted alter the Lue theran form, in an extremely dull fashion, by aman from whom I had expected better things. He ia, in- |, deed, quite famous as a collecter of Norse lays, but especially those of the Faroe Islands, All who are fond of Norse literature will always reca!l the name of Dean Hammershaimh, who, if he did not | preach @ good sermon, did at least interest by his earnestness and learning, The King listened with close attention, and this may have sligntly em- barrassed the worthy divine, who, speaking ex- First Visit of Christian IX. to His Faroean Subjects. ON BOARD THE STEAM YACHT ALBION, } THORSHAVN, Faroe Islands, July 26, 1874. Our expedition has so far got on finely. Our stay at the Shetlands was very short and af- forded very littie opportunity for observation, yet 2sfound opportunity to cross over from Lerwick, %ue capital, to Scalloway, where stood the rains @f the castle of that Marl Patrick Stewart, the Yegends of whose cruclty are so common in the Shetlands and the Orkueys, The little boy who ‘was my guide about the ruin pointed to the lofty old wall, which 1s seven feet thick, exclaiming, Bee there! that’s the ring the wicked Earl hung the Shetianders ti!” And sure enough there was the ring, and many & poor creature was doubtless strung up to it for no other crime than that of not producing suMictently to the revenues of the crafty Bir Patrick, wbo could pardon any other crime vather than that. RELICS OF THE NORSEMEN, ‘The Shetlands interested me very much. Here Wecatch the first glimpse of Norselana, and the (lands are teeming with Norse traditions. This ‘Was considered the very central point of their op- ‘rations for many centuries, and even now the Rowses are Norse, the people are Norse, and the Janguage has a touch of the Norse which you do Wot find in the Orkneys nor in Scotland. In fact ‘the people are altogether different from the Scotch, ‘She Maxen hair of the Northmen ts everywhere ween, and the women are more comely than further South. They have at least not the enormous feet @nd hands of their Scotch sisters. The islands are ‘without trees, and although tiere is a good deal of and under cultivation most of it is 2 wild waste, @n which any one at will may rear bis herds of sbeep, and the shepherd and his sheep and his dogs ‘were everywhere to be met as we crossed over to Scailoway. Many of the flocks of sheep were of im- Mmense size, and every such flock was literally fenced in by men and dogs, and roamed up and @own among the hilis and dells at will, THE TURF BEDS, There being no trees upon the islands there 1s mothing for the people to burn but tur/, of which there seems tobe an inexhaustible supply. The turf beds are illimitabie, not being. as in Ireland, confined to the low lands, but extending often- times to the summits of the hills, The first turf beds are to be seen about a mile from Lerwick, and tuence on the way, for nearly four miles, toward Bealloway, hillside and valley were covered with great stacks of peat, put up to dry, while the road ‘was everywhere lined with women carrying this: peat into town. And this, to me, was a tnost curi- us repectable. You observe two industries of the falands at once—the women performing both, and Doth at once. The Shetlands are famous, as every- Dody knows, for the fneness of the wool of the sheep, and Shetland shawis are known the world over. Here they are very cheap, and are knit with marvellous skill. But what struck me most, and was not without its comical fea- tures, was the sight of caravans of women, each ‘with a basket of turf, holding a bushel, strapped to Ber back, trudging along the road into town in her bare fect, and every one knitting as she went. THE CHEAPEST LABORERS, Of hundreds that 1 saw of these turf carriers there was but a single man, and he was very old. Im al provabinty the men were fishing or idling, these being the principal occupations of the men of Shetiand everywhere. I saw only three turf sarts on the whole journey, and were it not tor the sturdy women | do not see how the 5,000 peo- ple of Lerwick would-ever keep themselves warm. A few of the wealthier classes burn coal, but the common fuel 1s turf, and practically allof it is Drought into town on the backs of women. In fact, in these northern countries the women do | their jull share of outdoor work along with the | men, sometimes, but more commonly, with the Doys. In the Orkneys, where the land is produc- tive, gangs of them go about from farm to farm and from ficid to field, usually under the charge of | @ man, to sow and boe and mow, at sixteen pence | @ day, and although I can put think such oc: | cupation most demoralizing, yet the groups of | ‘Women, with their variously colored dresses, make | even apotato patch look picturesque. What a | Deantiiul exemph:fication all this is of the practical | application of woman’s rights! Every field is open toher here, and while at home an advocate of | ‘woman’s rights would hardly venture to desire for anyone of the sex the position of a field hand, here it is not only an unquestioned right but a @uty to dig and carry burdens jor sixteen pence & day. A MATTER OF HISTORY. 2 cannot here enter into any history of the e@hetlinds, further than to observe that they were | probably occupied by the Picia for several cen- | turies before the Christian era, Ruins of their | Buts are still to be seen, The name ts a cor- | | Fuption of Hiattaland. Agricola 1s said to have @iscovered the Orkneys, and he, on the same au- thority, saw the Shetlands, and, douotless, the “Thule” of Tacitus is the Shetlands of the present Gay. its subsequent occupation hy the Northmen ‘was mainly begua in the time of Harold Haurfarer, King of Norway, who, by the tyranny of tus rule, Grove so many of his peaple to seek homes e'se- where, and the Shetlands became their principal Tendezvous. From here it was they descended to the coasts of Scotland, England, Ireland and France, penetrating even into the Mediterranean, @nd, not content with there pillaging and plun- | @ering, they sought in the West new fleids of en- terprise. They reached, finally, the Faroe Islanda, and then Icciand, Greenland and America, {am now upon their track, and.in a few days shall sce in [celand the only spot where they cultivated the arts of peace, and where their language for the @rst time took form and shape in a literature rich tm the loftiest poetic tmages and philosophical re- Mections. In passing on my course I have only wtepped, as it were, from place to place. Of this last stone on my way 1 can say but littie, Itisa luster of islands interesting for the most part Only becaase it remains stiil, a8 dees Iccland and Greenland, in the possession of the Northmen. A ROYAL VisEITOR, The Danish flag is fluating to-day from almost every bousetop in Thorshavoa, and the royal standard of Denmark floats from the mast of a fine steam frigate near us, for the King of Denmark is Rere on his way to imitiate those ceremonies tn Iceland, to participate in witch Iam bound, Thus you see we start {air and are in good season, We Jeave almost immediately, but the King, with his two ships, does not sail antil to-morrow. The cere- monies of the millennial begin on August 2 and | Will be prolonged until about the 7th, winding up With & great gatuering on the lava plains of Thing- ‘vallo, where, in ancient times, and, indeed, until the latter part of the last century, the people gathered together in tho great Althing, and from the Lagborg, or Law Mount, was proclaimed the Public and private decrees which are to be bind- {ng for the year, RELIGION IN LiGHT DOSES. 1 went ashore this morning nnd attended eharch, I fancy the church was never so full be- fore. His Majesty the King was expected and in due season made his appearance, attended by his ste He 18 Randeowe man, and, elthongh he | say, except that as seen from the vessel the moun- tempore, might weil have been embarrassed in the presence of Royalty and by the unusual occasion. HAS DR, OX BREN HERE? In fact everybody in this town seems to have lost hishead. If you say good day to a man he !s sure to say good morrow, and they are al running about in a state of wild excitement as if hunting for something they cannot find. Every house has @ flag with its groundwork of red and its cross of white—the famous Danebrog—floating over it, and these with about a dozen vessels and any number of fishing boats in the harbor, all sporung the na- tional colors, give the place a very gay and festive look, And the town is quaint anda orginal enough to be interesting without any such ex- hibition of gayety. With few exceptions the houses are one story high and covered with turf, and 80 close are the houses togetner that one might pasture his sheep on the tops of the houses and = trust to thetr getting from one pasture ground to the other by springing across the streets from roof to roof—for the hquses are joined together in the most strange and intricate manner, They are all inabeap. Through some of the streets men can scarcely pass two apreast, This is altogether inex- plicable and unnecessary except upon the ground that people like to live as near to each other ag they possibly can, and society 1s better than pota- toes and flowers, and yetI did see some flower gardens that were very pretty and ifonlya little more than four degrees south of the Arctic circie, there were patches of potatoes that looked quite fresh and vigorous in appearance, SLIGHTED BY THE COMMERCIAL WORLD. Inever saw so small a space of ground covered by so many houses, and yet there is not in the whole town a street through which you could drive s one horse cart, But that 18 never likely to happen as there are no horses on the islands, and I believe, never were. Tney have some cows and goats and sheep; 1 saw two dogs and three or four cats. There are plenty of ducks and some chickens and any quantity of fish. The smell of which pervaded the innermost sanctuary of the church, The people live mainly on fish and by fishing and to the core seemed 'o be permeated with a fishy aroma, {t oozes from them like water from a porous pot, and if His Majesty the King was not glad to get into the open air. and breathe again a more diluted atmosphere, Iam sure I did. ROOM FOR HIS MAJESTY, ROOM! The King did not, however, seem to bein any great hurry. When the service was over he marched down the aisle attended by his youngest son, Prince Valdemar, who accompanies him on the voyage (2nd a fine looking young {eliow he is), and ashe passed he bowed kindly to the silent greetings of the people. There was no demonstra- tion of any Kind antilhe had passed from the church, when there wasa@ rush forthe door and the great crowd gave—a huge stare. This solemn admiration of the people strack me as the very highest expression of respect. I have never seen anything like it, The good natured, kindly King moved among them, and they seemed to wonder why he was simple like themseives, Perbaps they would have woke up to some tokens of demonstra- tion had he put on some kind of kingly airs and madea great fuss, but ashe did nothing of the kind, the poor, simple isianders were quite amazed. A MELODRAMATIO INCIDENT. Why, only yesterday the Lord Mayor, or Ampt- mann, I believe as he is or was called,teli down dead after he had delivered a formal speech of welcome to the King, so much was he overcome by seeing that, in addressing reyalty for the first time, he was addressing only a man hke lumself, although, no doubt, much handsomer. This dramatic inci- dent took place almost beneath an arch which the loyal Farvere bad erected above the landing, and had inserted upon its front, peeping out from among green moss, in the brightest flowers, “Welcome.” The arch is there to-day; but the poor Amptmaun was not equal to the mighty event, and his neart burst at the very fect of his royal master. It was too bac of him to spoil @ ceremony in such a fashion, and the good people | recognize its impropriety by stéil keeping their flags fluttering in the air, as if it were no lessa holiday that their head man was dead, ‘The result of all this bad business is that I cannot get hold of either the Amptmann’s speech or the King’s re- ply, and so have to leave you in ignorance of what either contained, further than that I am as- sured by the Postmaster (who, like every other oficial, is this day dressed in an extremely ih fitting uniform, very new and adorned witn very new buttons and very new gold jace, and having @ very new lok all over) that the Amptmann said that Tuorshavn was very much honored by the visit of His Majesty, and Lis Majesty said or was guing to say in reply—but did not say it, owing te the man he was about saying if to having Jalen down dead—that he was deeply sensible of the honor. | On any other occasion the sudden death of an | Amptmann would have been a remarkable event in Thorshavn, but when sach festivities are going | on it clearly seems to be looked upon by the people a8 an exhibition of bad taste, HOW THE KING VOYAGES, Thave visited the King’s ship, the Jyliand, and | had a long talk with Captain Malthe Brunn, who | commands her. The King was not on board, but I saw his private cabin and can speak certainly in | confirmation of his well kuown reputation for simplicity im taste and habit, We are by no Means luxurious in this little yacht of ours, but he bas nothing much bettter. Alter the ceremonies in iceland he is to visit the Geysers, and I shail see more of him, and I have no doubt something concerning his movements (in this, what secms & most erratic voyage for a King) will interest you, and there is propably no monarch in Europe more respected by the American peovie than Uhristian IX. of Denmark, DIRECT FOR ICELAND. OF the Faroe Islands in general I have nothing to tains are high and picturesque, the grass ts very | green, and the people are very polite, We came | upon it yesterday out of a most villanons fog, and | Ihave never seen tand rise up from the sea more grandiy. The great ciiff holding up under a deli- | cate mantle of mist @ great table of green pre- sented 23 picture which I shall long remember. Our course home will be direct for Iceland, from which place I will write you {f occasion offers; if Dot, will bring My OWn news, and send from the nearest poiut. Respectiully and truly yours, I, L HAYES, THE EUROPEAN WHEAT CROP. London, Augnst 12, 1874, The Mark Lane Express, in tts review of the breadstufis market, has the lollowing in regard to the wheat crop:— i We are now at the middie of the harvest, and new wheat shows nothing to indicate more’ than | average quality and growth, though some ot tt shows more than average ripeness. Some of our contemporaries say the crop will be two-thirds above the average, others one-third, and others about average, while some think it will be below the average. An immense amount of wheat is yet unharvested, and an increase of rain would ba ‘Tuere 18 great diversity of opinion about in France and Belgium. In closing ite review the £xrpress says:—"We do not see how the price of wheat can be mucu de- pressed,” colored | Morocco”—Victor Hugo Transiated—What Is In the Macazincs—What Is Thought of Earl Bussol] as an Author. LONDON, Angust 2, 1874, The reprinting of our old English dramatists has been going on for some time with vigor, and Mr. Pearson's serics now includes the Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, whom Charles Lamb, the long unheeded heraid of this revival of an almost {crgotten but most valuable branch of our litera- ture, called “A prose Shakespeare.” This work, in six volumes, is one which will naturally be found only in literary collections, by the side of the Dekker collection which was published last year. The publication of Heywooa’s plays was under- taken by the Shakespeare Society in 2842, butdi only proceeded so far as the production of four dramas, The present edition comprises twenty-three, which are probably only those most wortny of being retained in perpetual memory, for he wrote, arranged and owned to having had a hand tn 220 dramas, in 1663, and got through an immense qnantity of other literary work m addition, The historical plays, “Edward IV." and “If Yon Know Not Me You Know Nobody’?— the latter a study of the early days of Queen Eliza- beth—and a fine burst of patriotism apropos of the Spanisn Armada are the most interesting in some senses, but the domestic plays are sometimes ex- ceedingly beautilul, with the charm that is of all time, The masques and mythological dramas, in which Heywood sought his materials from the Greek mythology, are rather wearisome, though they are very graceful. His best work is “A Wo- man Killed With Kindness;” but that is known outside special studies of this kind, and is, indeed, described by Mr. Symonds, whose judgment most scholars will accept as the finest bourgeois tragedy of our Elizabethan literature. The language of this dramatist is singularly easy and devoid of the “quips” which frequently render the reading of seventeenth century literature unremuneratively troublesome. ROHLFS AND WINWOOD READE. There has been a good deal of disputing about the authenticity of a new book of travel which was | extensively advertised through the well known medium of the puff preliminary, This is “Dr, Ger- hard Rohifs Adventures in Morocco and Journeys Through the Oases of Dran and Tafllet.’ We really do know very little about the Empire of Morocco, and Rohlis’ name as a great traveller creared a preliminary interest in the book, which ‘was not, however, increased for those who were ecquainted with Mr. Winwood Reade's notion of introductions by the announcement that Dr. Rohlis was to be presented to the public under the auspices of the author of “The Martyrdom of Man.”’ We remembered the “African Sketch Book,” and we did not forget the tutroduction to “The Heart of Africa”— Mr. Reade’s latest and most unsatistac- tory perlormances, Qut came Rohifs book, and its exterior alone was most discredit- able. Carelessness 13 too mild a term for its putting together, and slovenliness best describes itsediting. A wretched, clumsy transiation of the disjointed contents of several note books, which had been used, in their native German, in sundry periodicals, Without any rearrangement, and pre- faced by @ jew pages written by Mr. Winwood Reade, and which contained two flagrant errors, one of geography—he places the “Alrican Sahara” on the eastern side ot the Egyptian Valley, and one of fact—he assumes the English public to be in utter ignorance concerning the Grand Sherif of Wazan, whereas Miss Perrier told us all that was necdiul and more than was pleasant to know about him in her “Winter in Morocco,” Such did the long unexpected work prove to be. People could not believe it, and they said it must be a trumped up compilation from Peterman's Journal, Revision or endorsement from the au- tor, it could have had none; he is exploring tue Libyan Desert. It scems, however, tnat the book, such as it is, 18 genuine, but that Dr. Konlis, like many intrepid and accompfshed traveilcrs, has no literary ability whatever, and has been so unlucky a8 to meet his match in his translator. Notwithstanding these grave drawbacks the book is valuable because the traveller has really gone further into the unknown country, which 1s so near to Europe and 18 still 80 deep a mystery to Europeans, than any one else has done, Hitherto we have had little except popular sketches o: the coast towns aud their inhabitants, but the German physician and traveller, having edopted the dress and the faith of the Moors, entered the service ot the late Sultan a8 surgeon, alter sundry strange adventures before he reached Fez; resided there for some time, and afterwards crossed the Atlas and ihe whole country benind the range into Al- geria. He penetrated to all the chief towns in tue interior, and indeed made the entire circuit of Morocco. His description of the flerce fanaticism { of the people is very striking, and his own adven- tures are interesting; but the slovenly arrange- ment aud clumsy language deprive the book of all charm beyond tuat of the absolute acquisition of knowledge. A TOLERAPLE TRANSLATION, Asuccessiul translation of a work by Victor Hugo 1s a teat on which no one hag hitherto been in a position tobe congratulated. Perhaps the very worst translation that ever was executed was that of “L’Homme Qui Rit,” which appeared under the quite inappropriate, indeed incompre- Gentleman's Magazine. At length, however, there 18 a good translation of the most diMfcult of all French prose, It ts Mr. Frach Lee Benedict's ver- sion of “Quatre Vingt Treize,” advertised as by tnat gentleman, whose novels are much liked in England, and Mr, Hain Friswell. This ta a col- laboration which it is difficult to understand, Mr. Friswell not being remarkable for ability in any way, and sertainly possessing no beauties of style wherewith to invest a rendering of Hugo's fantas- tic ruggednesses and highdowa sentiment. The experiment ts, however, really successful—indeed, the translation has only one fault—tvo close ad- herence to the interjectional atyle of the original in portions whose characteristic features are not strengthened thereby, but, on the contrary, ex- aggerated in consequence of the variance between the French and English modes of conveying tn- tensity. “YOUNG BROWN.” It ts the dead season just now in point of serious literature, but there is a steady outnonring of novels, concerning which one wonders more and more who are the people who read and who are the people who write them. The most interesting | announcement is that of a serial by Mr. William Black, to commence next month in the Cornhill Magazine under the titie, “The Three Feathers,” There has been an absurd fuss made about this title, in which some profound persona pretended to discover # subtle intention to bring royalty into disrepute, by naughty revelations anent the Prince of Wales. This guess, which implied an apsolute ignorance of Mr. Black's previons works and posi- tion in literature, actually “got into the papers” luke Mr, Vincent Crummle’s bit of biography, and has been solemnly refuted, with an announcement country tun; which would have occurred to Must people. The publication of “Young Brown” in three-volume form has afforded the public a fair opportunity of estimating that work justly, The editor of the Cornhill used his discretionary pow- ers sowewhat arbitrarily in the course of the serial publication of the story. Some shallow‘and conventional criticism having been directed against the earlier numbers, the later ones wero curtatied, much to the injury of a fiction which was admirably constructed as well as brilliantly written, In the preface to the complete edition the author, who proves to be identical with the writer of that cleverest of all modern political nove): m “THR MEMBER FOR PARIS,” has an opportunity of discussing the purpose of the work pnd tho spirit in whicu Jt was received hensibie, utle, “By Order of the King,” in the | that “The Three Feathers” fs merely tho sign of a | jin the by opposite sections of literary opinton. This preface is a remarkable piece of writing—as !orci- ble as anything within our knowledge, admirably temperate and strictly true. The author contends that the exhibition of wickedness in high places 18a fitting task Jor the novelist who purposes to tm- press upon the public mind a comprehension of grave social abuses, because it is in the exalted spheres of our social system that such things im- press, not in the ordinasy milieu. He enforces his view by the example of Swift, who laid the scene of his political satire in Lilput, but that of bis social invective in Brobdingnag, because the social vices of greed, selfishness and uncleanness could be made 80 much the more revolting by being per- petrated by huge persons. The novel in its present form ts aculeving a marked success; and people are asking tor “The Member for Paris,” whicn, though its exceeding cleverness and shrewd in- sight were discerned by the small number of dis- eriminating readers among those who form a novelist’s public, did not acquire popularity in the Mbrary-demand and drawingroom-gossip sense; but tt ts bidding fair for it now, retrospectively. “Young Brown” is the oniy remarkable novel of the day. WEAK WORK BY WOMEN. Mrs, Oljphant has written four within two years. It ts not surprising that only two should have been worth reading. Her last, “For Love and Life,” is weak aud strained, quite wanting in the quaint freshness of her former style, and a mere hash of her former incidents, Mrs. Craik, the patentee of goody fiction of a pecu'iar schooi— the school whose admirers verily believe that John Galiiax was a gentleman and “The Head of the Family” an estimable and agreeabie person- age—has just produced a work called “My Mother and I,” which is a perfect specimen of the profit and impunity attaching to certatn orders of hum- bug. In this case it is the pious, decorative order which isin evidence. Between the harm which lively pictures ef society which is out of their reach is calculated to do novel reading young ladies of the middle classes and the harm which books in which self-consciousness ts exaited into a virtue of the first class, and its methods are inculcated a8 @ high art, are certain to do them, because sel!- consciousness is perfectly within their compass, people who know anything of human nature are not likely to hesitate, The knowledge of human nature 1a not, however, @ strong point with the estimable, but perhaps rather silly, possiviy a trife conceited, individuals Who conduct the goody branch of the literature of Good Words. A great many shams, literary and social, want Squashing, but none is more harmfal than that which represents the most natural and simple feel- ings, the easiest, most every-day duties of human- ity, inan artificially heroic light; a kind of sham of which Mrs. Cratk is a habitual exhibitor. “My Mother and I” contrives, under @ suave, quasi- poetic exterior, to convey ag false an estimate of the relations of mother and child from the healthy and common sense voint of view as any highly-spiced narrative of the mardatre school, and one which 13 of course incidentally more aanger- ous, because mére attractive and addressed to a larger and more susceptible audience, who hold the author to be at least semi-inspired. “THE SINCEREST FLATTERY.”” In addition to this school of pseudo piety, pseudo-poetry and pseudo.romance, we are al- flicted just now with another species of the genus imitator. Itts'the species which imitates George Eliot, and which is, anhappily, increasing In num- ber and boldness, Mr. Hardy is the leader of this mtrepid band, He has pushed his mimicry o1 the dnimitable peasan!-mind of George Eliot’s books quite over the border between realism and carica- ture, and done her positive philosophy, tempered by the poetic vision into @ baldness of platitudi. narlanism which would be amusing tf only it were not so very wearisome. His serial novel, ‘Far from the Madding Crown,” which is now appear- ing in the Cornhill Magazine, 18 simply an imita- tion of George Ellot’s harder and less sympathetic method—the grain of the material, without the genius which polishes it into grace and lustre—and the result is deplorable for Mr. Hardy, because he might do so much better than write these singeries for bis readers, for they can hardly do Worse than read them. But the latest LMITATOR OF GRORGE ELIOT is really funny. Sheis Mra, Campton Reade, and she treats us to her version of ‘“Midvlemarch” me- taphysics, “Romoia”’ romance, and Felix Holt pnil- osophy and political economy, ma novel entitled “Rose and Rue” (though why so calied not Mrs, Nickleby herself could discover), which is a traly delicious sample of pompous nonsense. We have @ metaphysical disquisition between a farmer's daughter and a Wesleyan parson, the incidents being supposed to take place in a Dorsetshire farmhouse upward of fifty years ago, when the science of metaphysics was, as Dr. Jenkinson said of the world, ‘in its infancy,” even in the schools; and we have the advanced social theortes of the last decade freely advanced in an extraordinary jargon, and in sentences ranging between twenty- four and forty-seven lines each, in a district primt- tive to the point of barbarism—indeed, beyond it— to the extent of the combination of farmer and highwayman in the same individual. ‘Rose’ is presumably (we don’t get beyond presumption) Miss Tryphena Fawke, the heroine who falls in love with the gentleman of liberal views, whom her father has shot in the shoulder tn bis double capacity of agricuiturist and highwayman. Tho Wesleyan parson is one Acts Latchet, and a copy, anything but to the life, of George Eliot's Dis- senters, but with a shameless mingling of vice and projanity In him, which we preter to regard ag perfectly original on the part of the author. It ts not surprising to cbservers of current criticism and the gallioility of the reading public to find that this daring ana glaring mimicry 1s achieving acertain amount of success, One “organ” tells the people who are making out their lists for Mudie’s that Mrs, Reade’s novel |s “able and | Vigorous,” and that there is “an attractive farmhouse fifty years ago.’? Anybody who knows what a Dorsetshire farmhouse and its habitual pursuits and conversation are at present, wiil no doubt bein a better condition to appreciate this novelty, Another “organ,” and this one played on the northern side of the Tweed, recommends “Rose and Rue” to “readers who relish the minute analysis and powerful delineation of the working of human passions and emoticons,” and declares also that “its style is ey graceinl and easy,” the truth being that its style is preposter- ously affected and quite outrageously ungram- matical. These instances of current criticism are quoted merely for the purpose of announcing a nope which has been inspired in the mind of the dis- cerning portion of the public, who still cherish be- lief in criticism as a genuine literary art, and carn. estly desire its restoration to integrity and Its main- tenance in respect by the appearance of the new WERELY JOURNAL, called the World, which is the leading literary event of the day. The Worldis not a newspaper in the ordinary sense—that of Reuter and report- ing—but it is a newspaper in the sense of putting the latest novelties in the worlds of politics, sport, fashion, social proceedings, art, drama. gossip and. literature in the most piquant possible form be- fore its readers, A hand mirror held up to catch the passing sun flash would not be a bad image by which to describe the handsome new-born child of our prolific time. Bat tnough itis as bright and a8 present and as recurrent as 4 flash, its actualité is of the sincere and stringent kina. It is search ing, Vivid and mis¢(-dispelling as light should be," and it fashes upon the literature of the day in an exceedingly satisfactory fashion. 1t is not beyond hope that criticism may become reformed to some extent by the example of this young but certainly imtrepid wielder of the paper knife, to which neither fear nor favor is known. A series of papers, under the title ‘Town and Country ‘Tales,’ has already made its mark columns of the new journal by @ delightiully amusing novelctte in a nutshell, “The Eton and Harrow Cricket Match.” Watle London is Welcoming an addition of indisputable value to its literary resources Paria ts similarly engaged. An attempt is being seriously made at last to elevate PARISIAN JOURNALISM toalevel with ours, by the establishment of a weekly ey tte conducted by genuine men of letters, The political principles ot the new candi- dates for public favor are indicated by its titl Les Eohoe de |! Alsace-Lorraine, and its scope an pretensions may be estimated by the fact that tae celebrated collaborateurs, MM. Erchmann and Chatrian, are members of the committee of man- agement, SENILE! Among the announcements of forthcoming books isone which is regarded with regret ratuer than Anticipation. itis the announcement that Wari Russell is about to publish a volume entitied “Re- collections and Suggestions of Public Lite: 1513- 1878, ' ‘The mere juxtaposition of the dates 1s Melancholy. But there 1s no teaching a titled me- diocrity o: Karl Russell's stamp that he is “playea out,” and that the public is tired ove novelty in being transported to a Dorsetshire | | which, I feel certain, would be hospitably thrown IRELAND. A Royal Residence in the Emerald Isle. Mr. Mitchell Henry’s Castle and Gardens. They Are Visited by a Herald Correspondent. DvpLin, August 6, 1874. There has been recently some talk in the English Parliament with regard to the propricty of estabdilsbing in Ireland @ residence for the Qucen or for some other member of tne roval family. The friends of such a project declare that if the,Queen, or a member of ber famiiy, were to reside in Ireland for two or three months in each year, this would tend, in a great mexsure, to make the Irish people happy, contented and loyal, while, on the other band, those who do not much care for royalty or loyalty, assert that the mere residence of aroyal personage in Ireland would be a very poor wuy indeed of wiping out the sense of wrong under whicn the peopie smart. The Queen decidedly shows her preference for Scot- jand. The Scottish people are attached to her and she unquestionably is attached to them, and she shows this attachment by her visits every year to Balmoral. This cannot be sald of the [rish as regards the Queen. To all intents and purposes she has kept aloof fromthem. During her long reign of thirty-eight years she has been but three times in Ircland—in 1849, 1852 and in 1861 or 1862, In 1849 she came over to Dublin to find out how she would be received immediately after her governmeat had effected the transporta- tion of Wiliam Smith O’Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher, T. B. McMauus, Patrick O’Donohue, Joba Mitchel, John Martin ana Kevin lzoa O'Doherty, alt of whom had been found guilty of political offences, On that occasion Her Majesty was well received by the upper classes and by all those who hold in Ireland employment under che English crown; but the great mass of the people—those who had been meditating revolution and revolt against British power—sternly held aloot and took no part whatever in the loyal demonstration, which was confined aimost exclusively to persons whose interests identified them witi British con- nection, This I assert as & fact, for I wasin Ire- land at the time, keenly observing the passing of public events. Again, in 1852, the Queen arrived im Dublin to open the Dargan Exhibition, On ths oceasion she had abundant opportunity to make herself popular, but she did not avail herself of it, In tél or 1862 she went to the Lakes of Killarney and paid visits to Mr. Herbert, of Muckross, and Lord and Lady Castlerosse. She has never been in Irejand since. How far the residence of a royal Kuglish person in Ireland would tend to reconcile the peo. ple to British rule is not for me to determine, but I think I can venture to say that if Her Majesty would come on here next spring and open the Insh Parliament slice would by this act alone gain immediate possession of the hearts and allections of her Hibernian subjects, But, perhaps, this 1s too good a thing toexpect. The Queen isin the hands of her Ministers, and her present advisers are composed of men who would rather pass a coercion law than Go an act of common justice to ® country whose cause to-day is more misunder- stood and misrepresented than the cause of any other nation im tae world, But tf the Queen should take it into her head to reside in Ireland where would she find a suitable castie or palace in which to set up her establisnment and accommodate her servants and followers? The Castle of Duplin is a dingy and dirty old building, and the Vice- 5 ot eid fratt at Fulton ferry, New York, aud “boted” it with satisraction when going home to Brookiya after a bard day’s work. I was. In the most y manner shown over these aener, Mr. Garnier, Who, woeD ascertained tiat 1 was a representative of the New You inna, redou- bled his civilities, and spoke in tie most dattertn; way of the great American journal trom whien was accredited, Mr, Garnier, wo 13 & highly re- spectable and intelligent ian, assured me thas is gave Mr. Heury the greatest pleasure to know thas foreigners und strangers e 10 Bee his. place, and that Mr. Henry hime (who, 1 understand, has large business conne ins with America, and claims desceut irom Patrick Henry, the tlustrious atriot of Virginia, Who snapped his Gngers at the Jaws abd drow his sWord against the mercenaries of George i1!,) has been o!ten known \o show even the humbiest peasants and workmen over his castle and grounds, In uns letter Ihave already spoken of the Dia- Mond Mountain. Some days ater my visit to Kylemore gardens | walkcd to the top of the Dia- mond. {t iust be nearly 2,000 leet above the level of the sea. From this elevated position I could Bee the islands, commencing with Achill, on the coast of Mavo, to (nmistura, Shark and Innisbofiia, on the coast of Galway. 1 couid aso see the gar dens and castle of Kylemore, lying calmly in the Valley and looking placid, and veautiiul, unless when a storin of rain swept over tiem, ag one did while your correspondent sat under a sheltered spot, close Lo the crest of the Mountain, watehing the Windings oi the Vavris River, as 1c dowed along from the Lake of Kylemore into the sea at the bridge of verinver, 1t was a signt that I cannot soon forget. Betore descenaing irou the Diamond Tdid not scratch my name upon the rocks, but f stuck into a plic of stones on the ver. top of the mountaty a ¢: denoting toat a corressondent of the New YORK HuRALD Gad been tuere, [t must have been discovered in avou;le of hours after wards by two menivers of the Koyal Irish Con. stabulary force, whom I saw making the ascent which I had just compieted. Now, if Her Majesty the Queen could onty strike @ bargain wilh Mr. Mitclell teary and buy his castle, she would have a palace in ircland in every way betty 2 of royalty. Mr. Henry ts proud of nls grand residence, and well be may be. He may or may bot be disposed to sell it. fe tos laid ont oe- tween £200,000 and £300,000 on the purchase of the land, the building of the castle aud the improve- ment and ornamentation of the grounds, aud this ot a time When employment was much ceded in Connemara. in that remote part of L he has done more gooa than the whole tribe of the Martins put together, for the head of that famtiy did notttag but ght duels and create election debts and mortgages, which ruined lis descend- ants and depyived them of the greatest estate im Gaiway. A SUSPICIOUS CASE. Sudden Death of an Oli Mysterious Therewith, About a mouth ago an old woman named Bridget Mattison, who lived tn an uninv tiny looking tenes ment house, at No, 144 West Ninew bh street, died under rather suspicious circw es, Tho deceased had been living in rhis city for a long time, having come over from the “Old Country’? twenty or more years ago, and recentiy was em- ployed in the capacity of a domestic 1m the fam- lly of a gentieman who is said to reside on Twenty-third street. It appears from the story of one of The occupants of the house in which the ae- ceased dicd that the last seen of her a! was on a Tuesday morning a month ago. neo neXt seen she wis lying on her miserable bed, in an upper story room of the house in which she resided, aud to all appearances looked asil she had been dead twoor three days. Upon investigation it further appears that the old woman was in the nabit of receiving @ visitor in the person of a young French woman, who is described as moderately good look- ing and not over thirty years of age. The latter had been seen on two or three occasions to enter the room o/ Mrs. Mattison, and the jast time was on Tuesday, two days before her death, She has not been seen in the neighborhood since. What the object of her visit to the old lady was no one can tell, and who she was no person who had seen her could say. Some of the heighbors who have known the deceased tor some tite have discussed among thenise!ves the circumstances of the case, and express their apprehension and belie! that the old Woinan was murdered, Some tuk sle must have had money, and some do not. A friend of the deceased says she must have saved money as she was temperate and industrious and seemed 10 have no relatives to care for. The agent of the house in which the deceased resided takes a differ- ent view oi the case and thinks sie was without means when she died, as the rent had been paid by auother person, #8 he Supposed Out of charity, for some ume. ‘The deceased Was in arrears for Woman. Circumstances Connected Wh in @ recumbent, position regal Lodge in the Phccnix Park 1s not much bet- ter. The noblemen and gentlemen of Ireland— Many of them—have splendid country seats; but there are very few of these that would be large enough for the accommodation of a royal house- hold. Wer Majesty is said to oe exceedingly fond of wild, romantic scenery, such as she finds in the Highlands of Scouland; but she has never yet been in the Irisn Highlands—the wilds of Connemara— where Jake and mountain and sea and cliff and glen lend to the scenery an attraction that cannot be found in any otter part of the Green Isle, If she went there she would find a castle, the doors of open to her and to the members of her family, Of this castle I propose to give the readers of the HERALD @ Qescriprion, and make relerence to its somewhat remarkable and wealthy owner. Any tourist irom America who has visitetl Connemara, or the Irish Highlands, as they are sometimes cailed, situated m the western part of the isiand, will recollect tae beautitul valicy of Kylemore, which the travellor passes througn on the road from Westport to Clifden. Kylemore Mountain, which is nearly all covered over with a growth ol natural wood, overiooks a lake of the same name, and opposite the Kyiemore Mountain several o! the nilis known as the “Dwelve Pins of Connemara” nse grandly into view, the “Diamond Mountain”? so called from the brightness of the rocks on its sides, aud its crest of ® whitish color, being the most prominent. The public road for a considerable distance runs along the northern shore of the lake, and at or near a stone, termed by tue country people “fhe Smoothing Iron” be- cause o1its peculiar shape, Kylemore Mountain, With its Irowning rocks, overhangs the road, and gives ‘o the whole place an aspect of say- age grandeur almost overpowering to behold. Nof jar from this remarkable spot stands the castle of Kylemore, the princely residence of Mr. Mitchell Henry, who owns the castle and thou- sands of acres of the adjoining lands, Mr. Mitcuett Henry is now the senior member in the English Parliament for the county of Galway, in which county nis [rish property is situate. Nothing can exceed the es:ecin in which he 13 held by the peo- ple, and his popularity is so great that he can re- tain his place 10 the House of Commons as jong aa le pleases. ‘The castle ts a noble and stately building, From its towers all the waters oi the lake can be dis- tinctly seen, and 10 the background rises up as @ wall the mountain of Kylemore, through the woods und crags o/ which winding paths imect you at every turn, The terrace of the castle ironts on the pudiic road; but Mr. Henrs, feeling that the thor- oughfare is too near his residence, bas, at his own expense, constructed a new road lurther away from the castle. This new road will be soon opened, and the view irom it will be ‘ar better than that atforded by the old one, It would be umpos- sible for me within the limits of tuis correspondence to describe the beauty and gran- deur of the intertor of the castle. ‘Ihe door of the principal entrance 1s made of oak which was taken from St. Pztrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, when Sir Benjamin Lee Gunners was restoring that struce ture; and this oaken door i# almost as hard as iron. The hall presents baronial proportions; the drawing rooms. dining rooms and bedrooms aro jurnished with every luxury that wealth could se- cure or art suggest. In one of the dining rooms [ noticed @ sidepoard carved in the most exquisite manner, The carvings represented fruits, lowers and vegetables, and, Lthink, a bead of Ceres, the Goddess of Pienty. The work was the finest of this description that I have ever seen, and it may have taken @ year or two to execute, When [ visited the castie on tne 3d inst. the family were not at home, but Mr. enry was momentarily ex- pected there for a tew days preparatory to his de- parture with his family for Kgypt, where they intend making a prolonge sojourn, The stewards and attendants were ex. tremely attentive and poiite. They showed me ail over the castle. The library {8 an exqni- fitely beautiful apartment. 1 would be giad to be the owner of such & valuable collection of books as {saw there. ‘The family not being at home and nearly all the furniture and works of art covered up, of course I did not see tue interior of the castie in its best and brightest aspects; but enough remained exposed to view to convince the beholder that he stood in an earthly paradise in the very wilds of Connemara, There were over forty servants employed in the castle at the period of my visit, and this number is considerably in- creased when Mr. Henry’s family is at Kylemore. The garcons o1 Kylemore are about hall a mile distant from the castle. They are surrounded by # high brick wail, and are of considerabie extent. ‘rhe conservatories and hothodses are not equalled by anything of the sor’ in any other part of Ireland, and it may sately be said vhat for elegance and care they are ex- ceeded but by few in England. The air was loaded with @ perme that came from beds of flowers and also irom flowers growing in baskets, the baskets being suspended im the air, ‘The eifect was deightiul, especially if one remembered thas he was standing within a mile or two of the Atlantic Ocean, on the wild western coast of Ireland, where the furious sea | huris its mists and rains and fogs against the sides ; oi the mountains, and the tempest sweeps 80 much | in the same direction as to cause the trees and shrabs to incline their heads towards the cast. In the hothouses J saw oranges and bananas grow- vent when she died. fe bad Known her to have @ siiver watch, but this could not be found amon; her effects, Mrs, Conners, Wi resides at No. 14 Nineteenth street, says that the old woman bad always kept ner room as “neatas a pip,’? but when the police came everything was found to be in disorder and = coutusion, ‘The scone was @ sickening one; the corpse jay half in and half out the bed, and the edlects o1 tue de- ceased were scattered harem ecarem about the roou, A smail trunk Or chest Was jound opened, the lock, to appearances, having been broken off and thrown away, and a few rags were all that were disclozed within. No money was jound on the person of tie deceased or in her room, Her effects were alverwards disposed of to a junk deater. The body Was removed to the Morgue py the police and the Corouer beid an inquest. The verdict Was tat the ‘leceased died 01 weart dis- ease.” Probably the police did not tiink it neees- sary to go intoan examination of every circum. Btance Of the case. ‘The circumstulices con- nected with the death, however, are rather suspicious, and deserve at least an investigation. A Well to do gentleman yesterday called tne at- tention of a representative of the HERALD to tue case, and said he Had seed no Notice of it In the newspapers, did not think the police had inquired into if and thought the matter would bear an in- vestigation. ‘The probability that the old woman had money, the failure to find ier watcn, and the ratuer sudden disappearance of the young Frenen woman, are in themselves suficient incidents ef importance to lead one to imagine that the dae- ceased died other than @ naturai death, Certainly, if the police have not, they should further imvesti- gate the case; and if they have, they suould have given it to the newspapers. Fy aN No Need tor Aiarm=—The Disease Within the Control of the Health Inspectors— New York Healthy. The number of cases of smallpox in the city last Week Was twenty-three, against thirty-live tor the previous week, a fact which does not by uny means mulicate that there need be fears of en epidemic. The highest number of cases for any week this sea- son was thirty-five, and this high figure was due to the disinclinat.on of the poor people occupying the shanties in the upper part of the east side of town to going to the smallpox hospital and consequently to receiying visits from the Board of Health tn- spectors. During the week tuere were twelve deaths tn ail trom the disease, A HERaLD reporter called yesterday on Dr. Harris, Registrar of Vital Statistics, and Dr. Jones, also of the Board of Health, and these gen- tlemen stated that there need be no apprehension of @ smallpox epidemic, The Inspectors nad the disease thorouguly within their gresp. Dr, Harris, in speaking of the disease, said thas New York should ieel rather proud of immunity from the ravages of the smallpox. In Vienna, a model city for sanitary regulations, there had been this sea- BON tén Cases per day ior the one New York had. All the great Kuropean cities had tad more of the aisease than New York. ‘There was no appre- hens.on in the minds of medical mon that the disease would spread beyond the ordinary extent whici might be expected this season, We might always anticipate @ visit from the smallpox, Just as from other diseases which seize upon cer- tain persons Wi0 are apt to them; but to say thes We are likely to have the malady to auy extent luke an epidemic would be absurd. The beaith of the city was in a good condition. The rece of the 126th street station house etated that they had noticed no signs of alarm tn the neignvorhood, Though it was weli known to all the dealers in the vicinity of 119th street that the smallpox was worse there than in avy part of the city, there was ho hesitation in selling to the people from tie shanties and in delivering the goods, even at tho places Where the discase was most virulent At the Hariem Dispensery Dr. Forbes, the House Phy- sician, stated that since the smallpox broke out im that section of the city he had vacciaated about 300 persons. Dr. Forbes believed that there was considerable alarm felt in the tenement houses in the neigbbortood of the 119th street shanties, but Still Re believed that the diligence of the Board of Health oMicers would keep disease from mak, ing wie in Harlem. Private physicians state that they have had no cases oj smallpox in the uptown district, the only cases known being those under the care of the health inspectors in the shanties. Family physicians will not, of course, attend ordinary smallpox patients, for ob- vious reasons, and henoe the whole duty devolves Upon the doctors belouging to the Board of Health. The Board of Health will have the v: bureau ready within s few weeks, THE OITY TREASURY. Comptroller Green reports the following re cetpts of tho Treasury yesterday :— From arrears of taxes, assessments and Interest... $1 From collection of ments and interest. From market rents From water rents. From rents, &c., Daj From sales 0: City artment of Pubiic Parka... 8 Record jog, and this reminded me of how oiten | had, on hot, broiling days, purchased the same kind of ' From Total... 6