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6 ENG TMK ean H BOOKS. codeine! The Latest Productions of the British Press. Books on War, Travel, Geography, | Music and the Telegraphs. Science in Pro the Monthlies Say. London, Sept. 17, 1874. Itisto be hoped that we are now nearly done | brings with the literary results of the Ashantee war. ‘The last and the worst—for Captain Brackenbury's Dook ts too official 'o have expected a place in the -weneral circulatiou—is Mr. Winwood Reade’s Story of the ashautee Campaign.” thoritative critics uwve taken it upon themselves to declare that Mr, Winwood Reade, being unap- proachavle amon and 108 people, must necessarily know more than any other man out the campaign on the Gold Coast, But the naturalists and travellers are Who do not admit Mr. Winwood Reade’s supremacy | did believe in the Angora cat. in Alrican eruuition, and nis “Atrican Sketch Book” — was ne of the most auda- cious and unsuccessful feats of book- making ever cilvcted, He went to the Gold Coast as speci correspondent to the Times, and the clearest impression to be gained from tie reprint of his leiters 1s, | that it was souebody’s fault and everybody's | musfortune that We did not go in the additonal ca. | pacity of commanuer-in-cuief of the expedition, | Sel(-giorification uud abuse of Sir Garnet Wolseley apropos of everyting which the General did, or sof Being Made Rasy—What grasping for even @ bush, @ root or a projecting rock. TECEGRAPHS, The narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England | and Lodta has just been pablished under the Une “Telegraph and Travel.” ‘rhe book 1s intere=ting in both departments of tts purpose, but especially 80 QS containing @ biographical sketen of Lieut enant Colone! Patrick Stewart, than whom “the service” has never had to mourn a finer fellow or while engaged in the arduous wodertaking (which he did not live to complete) of continuing the | line of telegraph from the head of the Persian Gulf to Kurrachee and connecting it with India read like @ boy’s book of fictitious danger and bravery, and his talents were as versatile as his | disposition was amiable. Sir H. Goldsmid, who succeeded him aud Sarried the task to Its success- | ful conclusion, tells Stewarts story and his | own with much verve and sprightliness, and us into many extraordinary, re- mote, but on the whole disappomung places; not only to Zobeide’s tomb, still vividly pic- turesque in the midst of the wretchedness and esviation which have settled down upon the Certain au- | lana once flushed with wealth and splendor in the golden prime of her great caliphs, The Teheran | is, however, more disappointing than Bagdad, ago, that there are no roses in Casnmere, and that the Bendemeer is as mythical as the Manzanares, being, like tl, all caannel aud no water; but we Now it appears, when you ask for one on its supposed native heath, you are told that you mean the cat of Lake Van, and must go thither to find one. Though the illustrations are not 80 good as those in Mr. Nord- hoi’s book, they are highly commendable, and in many instances really humorous, ILLUSTRATIONS, ‘The art of illustrating books is decidedly looking ‘up, except in the case of the Magazines, which is, apparently, hopeless, Mr. Parker Gillimore, better known in the sport- ing-literary world as “Ubique,” is probably as aid not do, are the leading characteristics of the | great a favorite on your side oi the Atlantic as on book, whicl is quite Worthiess in any other sense than the scenery descriptions; and in that is far | plains and prairies, ours, especially as he writes chedy avout the the mountains, lakes aud surpassed by Mr. Goyie’s ‘Campaign on the Gold rivers of the Far West, and tueir creatures in fur, Coust.” The extrsordinary absence of animal life | fin and featuers, His iatest work, ‘Forest and tiroughout the wuole region is awelt on inpar- | Prairie,” 1s the best which he has written. tially by all the writers, but they dimer in tueir -conciusions flom that circumstance; some accept- ing it as a conclusive reason against European occu- ‘pation, others maintaining that domesiic animals might be suce nily mtroduced. Whether the game couid ever be worth the candle represented by men’s lives Wl.c. would have to be consumed in she importation uni acclimatization is a question too serious to be decided offhand by any of tae Theorists. One thiug comes clearly out of all the records of the cawpuizn, ad detaches itself from be found in itscnapters on birds, especially the | every conflict 01 opinion and statement; itis that Its full of interest to the sportsman, the naturalist and the unscientile lover of nature. Notung finer than his description of the buffalo runs (ex- cept, indeed, Captain: Butler’s) has taught us islanders something of the majestic grandeur of the northeru Continent of America aud its myriad brute inhabitants, Some chapters on acer, in which he gives a beautiful description of the Wapitt and Virginian spécies, are most inter. esting, but the chief novelty of the book is to innumerable waterfowl of the great lakes, Mr. England musi use ver paramount position utterly | Parker Giliimore writes with all his heart in ts to stamp out humau sacrifices in Ashantee and Dahomey. Ii the ‘rives will kill each other in war we may not be able to prevent them from doing | 90, Dut “the customs” Lave yet hencelorta ‘to be ouored in the oreac.” MUSIC AS A SCIENCE. Bimultaneously with the extraordinary impulse which music has received of tate—an impuise q@hich has not only taxen away our reproacn among European nations in the matter of musical sclence but raised us to pre-eminence among tuem; for though Kussta pays great artists better she employs much iewer, and the peopie have little or ho share \n the resuits of the expenditure—nas arisen a demand for the biograpiues of great com- posers, hitherto peculiar to Germany only. Within | now afew weeks Miss Glen's transiation of “Goethe nod Mendelssohn” has gone through two edi:ions, gud there is ap e.ually brisk demand for the same lady's transiavion v Ferdinand Hilher’s LETTERS AND RECOLLECTIONS OF MENDELSSOHN. They are both rewarkuoly pleasant and tnterest- Jog Looks, and Wey give a charming novon of the great composer, genius, was not isoluied by it, and also unlike most amen of special genius, did not develop it in suder- ang and obscurity but under very pleasant au- €pices. ‘The letters to Hillier are tull of frank ana charming geniallty, aud those which form an ap- pendix to the larger work are even more variously anteresting. One o; them is addressed to his mother, and gives an account of Mendelssohn's ‘wisit to the Queen and Prince Albert at Bucking- sham Palace during lus stay tn this country in 142, “which readers of the present generation find it ‘hard to believe in. HOOZS OF TRAVEL. subject, and, thongh not an accomplished or artis- tic writer, he lends areal picturesqueness to his subject by bis beartleit “picasure im the lonely woods.”” FICTION. Among the noticeabie works of fiction at this dull “Lord of Himself,” by Mr. Francis mor than for its pictures of a state of society always Strange to us, and completely passed away from among yourselves, There is very little eise to commend, and the number of novels which are only to be named with contempt is increasing | Gally. Some oracular journalist is always foretell- | ing the cessation of the demand Jor novels, the turning of the public taste from frivolity im some | | 800n appear in London. other direction ; but the facts continue ohstinately Wao, unlike most men of special | to contraict the theories of these sages, and to | belie their vaticinations, No doubt the appetite for fiction 1s too deeply rooted in human nature to yieid to reason, or even to the more potent argu. | ment of satiety; for the novels go on “coming out,” and people go on reading them and declaring them not worth reading, forever, An absurd novel by Mr. Mortimer Collins, calied ‘Frances,’ hag appeared. It is ridiculous, but readable—or rather glanceable-througa, if such word-coinage may be allowed—and has many pretty bits of de- scription in the author’s sunny, sensuous style, A new novel by the author of “Rosa Noel," a story { which achieved an ephemeral success last year, is The tourtst season is, as usual, productive of | called by a singularly unattractive title, travel books, some of Wuich are of an objection- | ably “funny” description, leading the reader into the depths of low spirits and mducing tim to hate tbe very names of the places they are designed to | to the story, which may be as tame as the pnrase; | Of this orderis Iramps it may have only an incidental or side-winded ‘tempt bim to Visit. through tue Tyrol,” a wretched imitatiun of that | bearing upon it. THE “SISTERS LAWLESS," one of those titles which seem studiously in- tended to mislead. It may have direct reference In this instance the title hag Most delightial of whimsical and yet practical ttle significance in one sense and mrch in an- books, “A Voyaze en Zigzag.” Of the serious books | other. The story is all about two sisters, and their , i travel we bave, however, a few are interesi- | name is Lawless; but the shocking tameness of fiug, and the announcements for the forthcoming | the name 18 wholly misrepresented by the style season, especiaily trom Messrs, Sampson Low & rd contents of the book, charming, inconsistent, inartistic, but readable, ; traveller beads the lis! of pleasant books Jor this | indséd irresistible; slight, and yet startling in | Mr. Norunoi’s “Northern Calsfornia, plot; fippant often, and yet deeply pathetic; idle ; tory of Japan” will bring the work down to the 4g of and inconsequent in many parts, where some con- | year 1871. sclentious painstaking would have made tt power- | assed interest a8 a narra- ful, the book is one to be read througnat asit- ©o., are very promising. AS usual, an American mouth, Oregon and the andwich Islands’ considerable practical value, in aa dition to its uns tive of picturesque and adventurous travel. The author gives viain and circumsiantial details, such as would in {and be Gf use to travellers | for pleasure or iniorwation, and enable the reader | to judge oi the clu, scenery and natural r urces of the Wonder ui regions he has visite do short, al the in.vrmation wich one would like AG ec neing the journey. The practice of profusely iiustrading is spreading. be commendanie av books beau ecuies und uighly finished, in Mr. Doran ook, are most helpful and attractive to the speciaiiy those which illustrate his description of the marvellous phenomena of the Sandwich 1s. We na er bad anything dike ttis rs account of the volcanoes and i js Of Hawaii berore, and his Getailed = parrerive of how to do an exhaustive no. the isiands and their very duteresting aiso periectly novel. The ordinary tr uy ever goes, and thereiore ‘wo hardly eve yond tae coast line, bat Mr Nordhoi tias tra © greater islands through- , out, and “pared bo v4). to master every detaul of their jormation coadition. nounces then eu ft for Jarming, in the American seu can “ive” ib tie san igiauds, he considers tbat, except thelr bewu Bivantage to offer to cmig chapter on the iepe: ate, they have no ts. A very curious Wut, founded in 1865, at Molokal, a small, be island, entirely competttion for ‘first read.” An audacious whisper mbandoned to the alo sleepers, and where | is actually in the air that Anthony Trollope is tuey are, though rigidly \ irom contact | “piayed out.” The titie of Mr. Wilkle Collins’ | with the people of the ovber | cured for and marvelously conte Us of the deepest interest and absolu THIS LEPPR SETTLEMENT may have been visited by English travers, put blere is HOt, Withis our knowledge, aD acount of Jt in any English book. The plain of Ka wvad, on which the houses of t ers are built, 18 appuy plosen, easily gu practically ther peciusion is periect. have been known br women switnwin the precipitous yq purf-beaten shore, sev ght miles, to rea basbands or fr settlement; but, they would subject selves to share the peclusion ‘or life, v occurrences do not Against the security of the island, with ite won- derfal “Pali” stretching tor adozen miles along jts windward coast. Thisisasheer precipice, in is, excellently and happy, y novel, ends im wh most paris from 1,00 to 2,000 jeet high, washed by tie oa 6 at «its «base, and baving, in most parts, not @ trace of beach, When we have jollowed the writer turough his descrip. tion of the asylum, 61 its wotul inmates, its ad- mirable institutions, its immense alleviations, it 13 fleeply impressive to accompany him to the brink pi that tremendous barrier which stats the (sland out from the rest of the ocean girt, smiling, flower decked comrades; the vast Wall of rock at whose foot the shipwrecked mariner Would be utterly helpless, at whose foot he must drown, not poerely in The drawings, all forecast success. Full of iaults, and yet ting, and remembered, vivid patches alterward. THE MONTHLIES, Among the current monthly serials there Is nothing of remarkable interest except “The Three Feathers,’ by Mr. William Black; in which the high finish and the quiet humor come quite up to the general expectation, Mr. Wilkie Collins is trying an experiment for which it is difficnit to He is reprinting in Temple Bar, in the jorm of a dramatic narrative, the once famous piay called “The Frozen Deep,’ which was acted with such ¢cla¢ by the amateur performers at Tavistock House, under the celebrated man- agement of Charles Dickens, who acted in it him- self, When produced elsewhere, and without Dickens, “The Frozen Deep” was not successful, andi narrative form, without the grace and expansion of @ story, and equally witaout the rapididy and expr ion Of dialogue, it falls very fat indeed, resembling a scenario more than astory. The reprint isan innovation which will hardly find imitators. Mr. Anthony Trollope’s serial “The Way We Live Now,” has not a3 & whole, but ia He pro- | failen so flat that nonody ever hears of it, and no- | body ever sees it. If it finds its foriorn way into ‘and thougheverybody the Mudie book box, bound for tne nills and the Moors and the seaside, it may perhaps aiso find readers, but nobody ever hears anybody mention it, and it never lies about with curly edges on tables in clubs and drawing rooms, telling of forthcoming work is “The Law and the Lady,” 6o thatqhe 18 evidently about to exploiter | some of the “burning questions of the | day. Mr. Browning is engaged in finishing a drama, but the title is not yet known even to the privileged few who have tne entrée of the poet- philosopher’s sanctum, where he occasionally col- jects & small number of appreciative souls and treats them to a private reading. Mr. Tennysou's “Boadicea” is not to be published, it is under- stood, this year. Wonderial rumors are current respecting the lustrations for the large edition, which have been intrusted to an artist supposed to be peculiarly sound in archwology, and who will, no doubt, be easily beaten by M. Gustave | Loré when that gifted painter shall have had the ‘ext in bis hand for a week or 80, © serial story which, under the title, “A De- Cree N11," forms one of the leading features of the LeW veexly, the World, is much admired. It is @ SLOT) \ modern society, but Of @ more serious and suidlé somption than the “Boudoir Cabal,” which JOTIDS Us serial story in Fantty Fair, to which the World 8 wyposed to faire concurrence. Hitherto there Nas ween plenty of room for poth. The Weekly Catuong in Vanity Fair are decidedly fall- ing o% “Abe is growing careless, or is losing that incisive lant wich took in the Whole moral and intellectual Péronality at once, as clearly a8 it comprehended vy out of the features and of the tof tend, bat with os hands vainly | clotues. Ovcasiouiy that decidedly clever comic Weekly, the Hornet, has @ coarsely executed car- toon good enoug' to recall the old days of Leech | and TeunieL These are very exceptional, but they | do occur, A ‘ew weeks since, for instance, there ‘was one, “The Danmow Filtch,” the idea of which Was of quite first rate excellence, representing & scolding mutch between Mr, Disraeli and Lord Salisbury, with the Hornet Waving away the coveted fitch with the exor- dium, “Take it away! I knew the union could not last for a year and@day!” This only required palmy days, Mr. Burnand’s comic novel, @ burlesque of Victor Hugo in general and of “Ninety-three im particular, now ap- pearing in Punch, 18 very much better than his serious(!) novel, which has just been reprinted jrom Macmiilan. “My time, and What I’ve Done with It,’ is an exceedingly dreary production. Mr. Burnand cannot write a novel, but he would probably have failed less egregiously in his at- tempt to do 80 it he haa discarded the idea of being funny in three votume: | LITERARY CHIT CHAT. Mr. JouN S. HITTeLL has written a “History of Culture” tor the press of the Appletons. CHARLES BRADLAUGH'S book of “Sketches and Es- Says in Religion and Politics’ will be published by: English authorities upon Africa | and there are no cats at Angora, We knew, long a, K. Butts & Co., New York. | Carneeiwe E, Bexcurr’s “Educational Remt- niscences and Suggestions” is about ready at J. B. Fora & Co.'s. M. MaiLtarD has added another interesting book to the history of the latest French Revolu- tion, It gives an account of the Songs, pamphlets and satires which were sold in the streets oi Paris, and is entitted “Les Publications de la Rue.'? Prorgssog T. SYERRY HUNT has @ volume of | chemical and geological essays in Osgood’s press, | Proressor JoskpH ToRREY’s “Theory of Fine Art” is nearly ready at Scribner's, | A TRANSLATION of Viollot le Duc’s Discourses | on Architecture,’’ and also his “Story of a House,” | will soon appear Irom the press of J. R. Osgood & Co. Tne Saturday Review has a pragmatical artfeie on “The Art of Skipping,” taking the ground that all noveis and poetry should be read through or not at all, while solid books should be systemau- cally skipped in great part. | ‘Tne FRrenps of Proudhon are collecting for pub- lication the letters of the late celebrated author of the “Contradictions Keonomiques.”” They have in hand wore than 1,000 letvers, which are to fill at least four volumes, | AMone@ forthcoming art publications evincing ' the rapid spread of good taste in this country is a transiation by Harriet Preston of “Art in the | House,” by Jacob Faike, which Osgood will pub- lish with copious heliotype illustrations, | Mr. CHARLES BARNARD is writing a new musical work entitied “Uamilla,” which is based on the | artistic life of Camilla Urso, the violinist. A New Book on the inexhaustible woman ques- tion, by J. ©, V. Smith, M. D., will soon issue from the Hartford press under tne title of “fhe Ways of Women in tueir Physical, Moral and Iniellectual | Relations.” | Mg. Gronar Sarrn's forthcoming book on As- syria will rival “Layard’s Nineven” in interest. It | time which, when peopie are looking torward to | 18 the fruit of original researcnes. | Wilkie Collins beginning again in the Graphic, and | | the merest rumor that Georze Eliot is ‘about it,” | be published by Roberts Bros., of Boston. | are seized On with avidity, is one which comes to us | from America. | Underwood is very popular, and deservealy so, no | 4 translation, “Ihe Woman of Fire.” less ior its charming sty 1¢ and cuaracteristic hu- | be Northend’s “Churchyara Literature,” being a GEORGE SAND‘s new history of Louis XVIL will | Wittiam PF. Grit & Co., of Boston, will print G. A. Belot’s sensation novel ‘La Femme de Feu” in AN ENTERTAINING BOOK ona grave subject will collection of quaint, amusing and curious epitapiis, which Dustin, Gilman & Co., of Hartford will issue. Mr. BAYARD Tayior’s “Egypt and Iceland” is nearly ready tor publication by the Putnams. “A Romance of Acadia Two Centuries Ago,” by | the late Charles Knight and his daughter, will soon appear in London, SAMUEL Lover's life and unpublished works will Dk. Staves’ sceptical book, “The Old and the New Faith,” has passed through seven editions, In the credentials of Ministers sent to Spain by the Powers which lately joined in the recognition Movement the word repubdilc does not occur. | Was the omission concerted ? Tue Woburn (Mass.) Journal urges the Con, gresstonal claims of Colonel Grammar, of wat district. They do need grammar in Congress, THE great National Library of France 6 showing some signs of life and vigor, The 9/ministration has just finished publishing prinfed catalogues of 441,536 works relating to the Mistory of France. It is announced that the epare lbrary embraces the evormous number Of 2,077,571 volumes. KEEN, Cooke & Co., of Chicago, will publish “Historical Sketehes of the Anti-Slavery Move- | ment in the United States,” TWO Hew sporting books are in the press of J. B. Ford & Uo.—viz., “American Wild Fow! Shooting,” by J. W. Long, and “Field, Cover and Trap Shoot- ing,” by A. H. Bogardus. | seventy years, Commenting ona blunder of the | willdo better when he comes to be of my age.” | | | old and tull of years. GUIZOT. The PoliticalCareer of the French States~ man Reviewed After His Death. to regret a greater loss, His personal adventures petver manipuation to eqnal Punch in its| His Public Merits and the Cause of His Failures. UNDAZZLED BY THE GLORY OF NAPOLEON I. Domestic History—Matri- mony and Religion. Encounter Between Guizot and | Wapoleon IIl. Pants, Sept. 15, 1874, The telegraph will have iniormed you ere tuis of | M. Guizot’s death. He literally fell asleep, being ‘Till within a few days of the | end he was working on the “iilstory of France.” Nor did he ever cease to take @ hvely interest in the course of political events. It was even said that the Duke de Broglte pressed ttm much, when | he was in office, to accept the umbassy to Lon- don, But M. Guizot wisely confined himself to aiding the statesman of his party with his coun- | sels, which were drawa from the experience of ex-President, he observed, with a smile, “Thiers He was eighty-seven years vid at the time of his death, “Every Protestant," said Sainte-Beuve, ‘is A POPE WITH A BIBLE IN HIS HAND,"? To no member of his church wouid the aefinition have applied more happily tnan to the Minister of Louis Philippe, who, indeed, was nicknamed Pope Guizot, It was not that he was inordinavely vain, or that he relied too much on his own powers, but he felt a too just contempt ior most of his adver- | Saries, and Was at no pains to conceal his ieelings. | time to the pape Mr. J. J. Revy’s splendid folio volume on the | | “Hydraulics of Great Rivers” embraces the Pa- rana, the Uruguay and the La Plataestuary. Itis @ Very valuable contribution to engineering sci- ence, now in great favor in this country, Tax second voluine of Mr. F. 0. Adams? “fis- AN important branch of international law has been illuminated ia a new work by William Ed- | ward Hall, a London barrister, on “The Rights | andDuties of Neutrals.” PROFESSOR floprin’s “Life of Admiral Foote” | will be published by Harper & Bros, | THE theory that America was not discovered by Columbus is getting fresh support. Mr R. Be | Anderson, of the University of Wis ing out with a book to prove that the tenth century were the true di: Rovtt # & Co, will soon print “The Book of Table Taik,’’ being a new collection of the conver- sations of distinguished men, | A very trencnant reply to Profe: | mey’s “Philological Essays” has been printed in | German by Professor Steinthal, undertakes to | convict Professor Whitney of iguorance aud mis- represenvation. Dopp & Meap wil publish this fall Rev. EB. P. Roe's third story, ‘A Chestnut Burr.” Tne Cobden Club, of London, will publish in Feb- Truary an important book on local government, to include, by half a dozen different writers, the iocal governmento! England, Ireland, Scotiand, France, Germany, Spain, Kuesia, Holand and Belgium, J. B, Forp & Co. have three new vooks by the Beecher family in pres: Tue new miscellany by members of the Lotos Club, of New York, entitled “ Lotos Leaves,” will appear soon from the press of W. F. Gill & Co, ‘THE long drawn out catalogue of books on the Franco-Prussian war, has baueer’s “German Artillery” in tue batties near Mgtz, just transiated in London, ‘Tur linperial Paoli Library of St. Potersburg has printed a catalogue in two volumes of books | in joreign languages relating to Russia, HaRvER & BROS. have in press a very important | work, by Dr. Leonard Bacon, on the ‘Genesis of the New England Courches.” A Gossipy and amusing book fs Mr. J. 3. Clarge’s | “Autobiographical Recollections of the Medical Profession,” just out in London, | Prorgsson RAIRNONDI, the Italhan geographer | and naturalist of Peru, has putiisned a remark able work ou the mineral resources of that country. FaTHER AUG, THEINER, @ learned theologian and writer on Roman Catholte Church pisiory, died recently. The great task Of lis life was the com- pletion of the “Annales Eccle begua by | Baronius, which was printed 1 the Vatican, Dr. E. H, CLARKE, Who raised such a tempest by his “Sex in Education,” is writing anew yolume ob the education of girls, DR, SCHLIEMANN writes to the London Academy that the excavation in whe Acropolls, at Athens, of the Treasury of King Minyas, who reigned several generations before Homer, promises to reveal many objects, which “Will be so many pages of the | nistory of the so-called Heroic Age.” | Dr. Joun WILLIAM DRaPER Will contribute an important book on the history of theology and | sclence and their relations from the earitest times | to the present day, which will be published in the | International Scientific Sertea, ynsin, 1s com- ‘or W. D. Whit- srici,” | more an accession in Hott | He had once, in the Chamber, censured some legitimist Deputies for what was really an ‘unjustifable act on their part. They replied py noisily hurling reproaches 01 inconsistency against him, who, conscious of his incorruptibiity, looked down on the gesticulating representatives as they crowded up the steps of the tribune, and ex- ciaimed, “Step up, gentlemen, step up; you will never raise yourselves to the height of my dis- | dain.” PARENTAGE, M. Guizot was born five years before the procia- mation of the First Republic. He was only six years old when his tather—a distinguishea advo- cate, but whose liberal sentiments had caused a good deal of unpleasantness between him and the members of his profession—perished on the revo- lutionary scaffold for not being hberal enough. It 1s to the son’s credit that this event did not drive him, as it would have driven an ordinary man, into the arms of a bigoted conservatism. But it could have no lesa effect than to impress upon | him from te time he couid first reason a horror of | extreme opinions, which he retained through life, and which was the keynote of his political creed. His love of rational freedom was, however, no chilly | senument, arising simply out of a dislike of ex- cesses, His boyhood was spent in Geneva, and | lus attention, as a Protestant, was early dirceted | to the religious and political struggles of England, of which he was to be the imparuul but enthusi- astic historian, PUBLIC LIFE. The young Guizot came to Parts in 1805 to study | for the Bar. Jt was the year of Austerltz, when Napoleon, already Emperor, had entered the meridian of pis glory, He had proclatmed that a caress was oped, Mader his rule, to all men of salex Youth and ability combined were sure to find favor in his sight, But Gutzoh | as re- Mective at eighteen as at eizhty, Wws wn- dazzied by the splendor of the new monarchy; f and made no attempt to pus’ his fortunes through | the patronage of the great, He spent for some years @ pieasant literary life, for he came to the capital with good introductions, und some of his earliest articies in the Pudlicisie on Chateau- briand’s “Martyrs” attracted a good aeal of atten- tion. On the staff that journal was a lady, MLLE, PAULINE DE MEULAN by name, who received a great deal of assistance trom the new contributor during an illness which had prevented her trom giving her due share of | right to call herself between thirty and forty when, in reward for M. Guizot’s diligence, she bestowed her hand upon him. He was just twenty- five, but there was seldom a happier or fortunate marriage. The lady was of nobie birth and bad iriends among the chie's of the royalist party. In two years Louis XVIII. returned from exile, and Guizot quitted the chair of a professor for tne post of Secretary General in the Ministry of the Interior. From this moment he became one of the foremost men in France, and his lile for a third of a century is ciosely interwoven with the history of his coun- try. It is a life of severe rectitude. M. Guizot never sinned, except in the interest of his own | crotchets, Which he very naturally identified with the interests of France. From first to last he was the firm adherent of constitutional monarchy, never serving under republic or empire. On the return of Bonaparte from Elba he resigned office, and even followed the Bourbon King to Gnent. At the second restoration he found himsel! once | more in office, which he threw up in disgust at the massacres in the South, where royalists were in- augucating a new reign of terror with the conni- vance of the government, Ministers, however, | soon succeeded in conciliating him, and for tour or five years longer he heid piaces of subordinate rank but high importance. At the same time and tiilthe revolution of 1530 he wrote indefatigapiy, His most valuabie work,the “History of the English Civil War,’’ belongs to this epocu, wIbowED, Bus first wife died in 1827, having embraced the Protestant religion on her death bed. Her husband was reading aloud Bossuet’s sermon on the tm- mortality of the soul as she passed away, to have the question solved on even higher authority, Next year M. Guizot MARRIED HIS DECEASED WI¥'T’S NIECE, | according to the advice the former had given Both his wives were | him while still on earth, clever ana wrote goody books which are still es- teemed by a section of the orthodox world in France and England. HIS GRAND CHANCE IN LIFE, Mr. Disraeli has said that every man has one great chance in life. M. Guizot’s came one bright duly morning when Charies X. had determined to annihilate the liberty of tne press by @ prociama- | tion, The famous protest of the deputies was drafted by Guizot and gave such satistaction that it was no longer possible to exclude him from the innermost councils of his party, He was among the first as he was the last Minister of Louis Phi- lippe and was seldom out of ofice during that Sovereign’s reign, On the whole HIS CARKER a8 A PRACTICAL STATESMAN must be considered 4 failure, not so much from bis fault as from the insane way in which Minis- ters are chosen under parliamentary government, | He presided admirably over tke Department of | Education, but was totally anfit to be at the head | in France a | of the dome OMce, which requires soldier in plain clothes, The Minister of the In- terior has at ieast 40,000 officiais under him, who are jooked upon a9 @ regular civilian army, bound to move at @ Moment’s notice in any direction the central authority at Paris may command. Con- siderabie powers of organization and, above all, a habit of being obeyed, are indispensable to the | commander of a force at once 80 large and scat. tered over so wide » space. It was the greatest soldier tam world bas seen Wo veriected the | On purely commercial principies, t, Whatever their frgth or privace opinions. | Mile. de Meulan had just the | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1874—QUINTUPLE SHEET. system of governing France by battalions of Mayors, OMcered by Preiecis and Sud-Prefects, No wonder lawyers and men of letters find the system unsuited to their genius. Nor did M, Guizot succeed better in diplomacy. As THM FIRST PROTESTANT AMBASSADOR France had evgr sent to London, be was welcomed with extraordinary cordiality by the English, and he bas Jett a pieasant volume of recoliections on the subject of his miasion. It is noteworthy that though his thin and angular features suggest any- thing but the idea of a man who would require to be amused, yet he found Queen Victoria's Court insuferably dull, Engiish society generally he liked very much, and was careful to conciliate it by bringing over an excellent French cook and going one day to Westminster Abbey. Mesnwhile Lord Palmerston having amused him with negott- beuind his back with the representatives of Aus- tria, Rossta and Prussia, which practically ex- ciuded France tor a time from the Euro- pean system. M. Thiers, who was then to war with England, but was restrained by the timidity of Louis Philippe. The same year | (29th October, 1840) he resigued, and was suc ceeded in the Premiership by Guizot, who In- augurated a domestic policy of repression and a Joreign policy of peace at any price. In tye latter he was seconded by Sir Robert Peel, who, nom- tnally a tory, was really the first of those Manches- | ter traders who have administered English affairs M. Gulaot hked nim much better than Lord Palmerscon, as did also the Emperor Nicholas, and, generally speak- | ing, all who wished to outwit “perfidious Albion,’” Seven years of steady opposition to reform on the | part of @ government which gave the French neither glory abroad nor extraordinary prosperity at home were too much fer “the great nation.” In 1848 M. Guizot, who had long since lost all popu. larity, lost oftice as well, and dragged down in his fall the King, the royal nouse, the monarchy and order itself. More fortunate than Prince Polignac and his colleagues, who suffered six years’ imprisonment for their follies, M. Guizot escaped with a short exile. im vain to get elected to the Legislative Assem- bly. A French statesman has too often to com- | plain, like Wolsey, that When once he falls he falls like Lucifer. Never to rise again. It is hazardous to prophesy, but if Thiers, Ol- livier or Rouher 1s ever agatn at the head of at- fairs his good fortune will be almost unpre- cedented. Minor positions may be recovered, but the drat rank of all ts not easily regained, NAPOLEON Ul, Still, M. Guizot was director of the French Acad- emy, and therefore enjoyed both diguity and infu- ence evenunder the Secoad Empire. It was his | duly to Dresent each newly elected “Immortal”? to tne Chtet of the State, and even M. Guizor's Orleanism did not shrink from these necessary interviews with Napoleon UI. He indemnified himself for this implicit acknowledgment of the Emperor by saying unpleasant things to that much enduring Prince, When informed of Pre- yost-Paradol’s election, His Majesty asked, “Who | is he?” M, Guizot replied, “sire, his handwriting | is on the wail.” According to a friend who knew | the Emperor weil, he would receive these imperti- | Dences in dignified silence, but when alone he gave | vent to his feelings—his eyes rolied wildiy, he | Stamped on the grouna, he almost screamed with | rage—in a word, all thej Corsican was visible. In making ill-natured remarks, meditating (in print) on the beauties of the Christian religion, and steadily narrowing his views of men and things, | M. Guizot passed ya tranquil aud venerated | old age. HIS CHARACTER, At length he ts gone, and it may be said of him that he was a man of talent, eloquenee an’ sur- Passing diligence. “Omnium consensi capar tm, perit, si nunquam tmperavisset.” Me has been | of Clarendon, Tie chief tault—or ratner the mis- | fortune—of beth was that they were political edants who hai learned the grammar of govern- | ment without understanding its philosophy. | Ciarendon and Guizot misgoverned their respect ive countries on the most correct constitutional principles. It may be doubted whether Hyde en- dured fourteen years’ exile so much out of devo- | ton to the two Charieses as from seer dishke | or such new-fanglcd ideas as a Commonwealth, and a Parliament with no upper house in it, anda Chureh witout bishops. So men of M. Guizot’s stam) wilibe unable to conceive the possibility of monarehicai institutions when the present Repub- he shall Ive cel-brated, like the Uulied States, ite first cemrenary and accumulated a proper amount of precedents. LIFE GS WASHINGTON. I may here commend ‘6 Americag readers M. Guizot’s “Life of Wasaington,” as well as iis | Shorter study on the career of that inimitable | man. It 3s the very model of what an historical essay shouid be. presenting in a hundred pages an exhaustive anglysis of the work done by Wasiung- ton a3 & statesmen and showing a just apprecia- tion of the difliculties with whicn he had to con- self with such a fame as satisfied his friend Hallam, His carer would not the less have been one of active usefulnesseven in the sphere of politics, for those Who declaim on pubhe platforms are not always the men who reaily sway the minds of kings and peopies. ‘The recluse who had the ear of Grey, Melbourne and Lansdowne probably served his country quite as effectively as tne straightlaced Genevese lawyer, wno must have Jet 80 strange in white silk breeches and gold | lace, with a red rivbon aud a diamond star to match. One can fancy Calvin looking down sourly from his owas particular heaven on his spiritual descendant Clad in a costume more gorgeous than that of a mediwval bishop. THE AMERIOAN NAVY ABROAD, (From Gulignant’s Messenger, Sept. 17 Rear Admiral A. Ludiow C commanding the Umited States squadron on Furopean station, has just terminated an agreeable visit to Frank W. Potter, American Consul Marseilles, The flag- | ship Franklin, uccoiupanied by the United states steamer Congress, euiercd that port on the 4th Inst, and Teimaimed Until the 12th, attracting little actention irom the lively Marset ing the sojaurh va social courtesies Wook jlace 10ta Admiral Cause entertained Consul Potter at an ele. | gant banquet on board the Fras klin— | participated in by the principal ort | both ships—wuich “was followed by a duiner given by the Consul at iis residenc the » Among tie guesis at the acter, in tion ty Admiral ‘use, Were Cap Hin, commanding tae franklin; Captain lish, commanding the Congress; —Conimanc Ames, Lieutenant Fieid, Midshipman Case, Mr. Seaton Munroe, privace secretary tu the Adimral, | and others, Mrs. Potter presiaed with much | grace and elegance. Admirai Case ieit Marseilles with his vessels on the 12, for Barcelona, preparatory to an in- tended cruise in the Levant. BARON A, ROLASCEILO'3 WILL The wiil of the late Baron A. Rovhacnild ts re. } markable for the sense of piety toward lus late | father, which pervades the whole document, con- sisting Of twenty-five articles, Paragraph 2013 as | follows :— 1 exhort a'l my heloved children always to live in harmouy. Hever to loosen satutly bonds, to avotd all diderences, dissonsinys and iitigations, to use forbemance toward each other and not (0 allow \ temper to get We better os them, and to b irtendly in tieir disposittou, My Gatidren posse @ good eXampic in thetr excellent grandpareat. Friendiiess Was always tae sure condition to che happiness and success of the whole Rovhsentid jumily, May my children now and never jose sight of this family tradition, and may tuey lollow the exhortation of my late father, thetr grand. | father, contamed in paragrapn 15 of bis last will and vestuncnut, viways to remain trae and lauhral, aud without changing, to the paternal faith of | Israel, CONTRABAND FUR THE CARLISTS, [From Galignani’s Messenger, Sept. 18.] A steamer uamed the Notre Dame de Fourvieres left Antwerp avoid seizuce at the demand of the Spanish Minis ver, She was suppo: to be bound for England with engaged duet, said that for the Carlists the vessel was the Coast of Spain. When this news reached tle ears oi M. de Tetaan the steamer Was on her way with @ crew hastily got together, | She carries the French flag, bug the captato | named Crockwell. and all vae Won, are Kugiab. ” il deserted, and, to explaim their con- crates Were filled with muskets ations on the Eastern question, signed a treaty | But he attempted | taree days back, just in time to o ol window ylass, Dut the crew first, Minister jor Foreign Affairs, would have gone | LONDON GOSSIP. Financial Position of the Heir Apparent—Ameri- can Catholic and Other Visitors—Lit- erary Affairs and Newspa- per Press Property. Lonpon, Sept. 12, 1874, There is a rumor that the Prince of Wales ia not very comfortable just now. It is re- Ported that he is largely in debt, and that big creditors are pressing him for money, and, though I do not imagine that the sum 1n- volved is anything ike the enormous amount men- tioned by my esteemed friend Mr. Smalley in the columns of your contemporary, there seems to be some ground for belief that tue debts are heavy, and that, agis frequently said in the invoices, “an early settlement is desired.” Public attention has been called to this matter within the last week bya letter from Mr. Peter Taylor, the radical member tor Leicester, In which, while | thanking some of his constituents for their appro- bation of his conduct in opposing the yearly allow- ance for Prince Leopold, he said:—“If a grant ia proposed to pay the debts of the Prince of Wales then will be tle time to make a fignt inside the House of Commons.” Some of the press have ignored this epistie; but others, more outspoken, have found in it matter for comment. The new journal, the World, in an article called “The Prince of Wales’ Debts,” seems to take the affair as @ Matter of course. The writer's views are tuat all young men run in debt, ana that there is no reason for “our astonishment at conduct in a prince sach as is every day brought under our notice in Belgravian and Baker street youth.” Another paragraph declares that the English peo- ple ‘would much preter that he should considerably overstep the bounds of financial prudence rather than he should exhibit tue wretched parsimo- } Rious spirlt which characterized his father, and by which bis secona brother, the Duke of Edin- burgh, 18 unenviably distinguished.” This is all very weil in its way, but Idoubt it this would be the spirit in which the House of Commons would receive a proposal to vote a sum of money for this specific purpose. By his pleasant, gonial manner the Prince has made a great many iriends, but the economical party in the House 1s not merely nue merically strong, but Very influential, and in sev- eral of the provincial papers a warning note has | been issued which would lead one to prepare lor a coming storm. ‘fue Controversy as to Whether a NON-CONFORMIST DIVINE, is entitled to be styled “Keverend,” in which the Bishop ot Lincoln has taken an ungracious and ridiculous part, still continues; but itis graufying to Know that the majority of the clergy and nearly ail the laity decitned to tadorse the Bishop's nar- row views. Meanwhile Dean staniey, whose soul is @ good deal doo big ior his diminutive body, tin his position as Dean of Westminster, has been re- -quesied to allow a medaliion portrait of Wesley to be placed in Westminster Abbey. The Dean has given his consent, and, a8 Wesiey was an ordained | minister of the Church of Eugland, nothing could be said. Butit is rumored tnat an application is about to be made for permission te erect a statue of Kichard Baxter, the well-known non-coniorm- ist divine and author of the “Saint’s. Everlasting Resi,” 1n the same locality. Here we foresee TOcks ahead; for on the base of the statue there Must be an inscription, and in the inscription Dust occur the word “reverend,” and what will be said to that by those who are on the Bishop of Lincoln's side ? A LUCKY TUTOR AND A MITRE. Apropos Oi tis religivus subject I uote the death of Charles Sumner, ex-bishop of Winchester, @ courtiy, worldly man, who owed his success in the Church not to Classical or theological knowledge, but to worldly acumen and savoir faire, His very first step in life showed keen judgment and sound sense. tHe Was travelling abroad with the present Marquis of Couyngham as lis private tutor when the young genticman fell ip love with a beautiful Swiss lady, who had neitner wealth nor rank. The tutor was in duty bound to communicate the fact to Lord and Lady Conyngham, Irom whom he received a promise thatif he would remove the lady out 0} the way by marrying her himsel his 1uture inter- Pests should be cared for by them. The Rev. Charles Suiner seized the opportunity and married the compared, and not unjuatly, to Edward Hyde, Ean | lady, and Lord Conyngham kept his word. Mr. Sumner was introduced at Court and was imme- diuiely taken up by the Prince Regent, who appolated him in successtou to various lucrative posts, and turough whose influence he finally climbed to the episcopai dignity. His whoie Ie ) was devoted to the acquisition oj weaith, and the | Spectawr, which 18 very outspoken on theological niatters, has had a scatumg post-mortem article on lum, “He wrote nothing, urged nothiig, founded nowing,’* it says, ‘and il there never 1s anovher Bishop like bi so much the petter lor the cnuren.” AMERICANS IN EUROPE, ‘The presence of tue enormous number of Ameri- cans Iu Lurope at the present time 1s being gener- ally remarked upoo, At the religious cere- montal and sete at Boulogne, in honor of Our Lauy of Boulogne, 1t Was noticed tat an extraor- dinary number of Americans “assisted” at the ser- vice, and that they were far more devout (at least soiaras energy in crossing themselves 18 con+ cerned) than the Knglisn or even the Irish Catio+ lics. Further I nove tuat the Duke of Westminster, tie coming of aye of whose son, Earl Grosvenor, | has been celebrated with splendid festivities, in | a speech to the workpeopie engaged in extend. fis magnificent seat, Haton Hall, remarked that one uf 218 reasons for making these altera- tions and extensions to bis already prinvely reste deuce was to render it mere worthy oi the posi. tion which 16 occupied a3 an Engiish mansion of the bignest class in tne eyes 01 innumerable tourista “chiefly our American cousins,” WhO Cale to 1D- | spect it. tend, Itisa pity M. Guizot did not content tim. | LITERARY MATTERS, Five-and-twenty years ago, long before the aal- acious Swinburne, and nis comates Roseitl, Marston and O’sliauginessy, Were accepted as pvetic leaders by a certain class of tie people, tere existed What was called “the spasmodic school,” the two shining lights of which were Alexander Smith and sydney Dobell, who pub- Usued under the name of Sydney Yendys, the sec- oud uame belug merely the first read backward, Aiexander Smita died some seven years ago, aud how Mr. Dobe, at the comparatively early age ol fifty years, has followea tus friend into the “silent Land.” His principal works were “The Komen? aud “Balder;’ poems containing many adourable thoughts, disfigured by occasional ec. centricities and extravagances, Mr. Dobell had Do such poctic wealth of imagery as his friend Alexauder smith, tut the school tad much popu. larity in its time though it was merciiessly ridi+ cued by the late Mr. Pa py to a parody called “(irmilian,” 80 close and so clever au imitation that lor a long time 1b Was taken au sdriewx by the reading worid. TUR AMERICAN REGISTER, Apropos ot iiterary matters I may record the fact that that journal, so dear to all Americans in k »pe Who Wisi to Kuow where other Americans y happen to be, 7he American ister, been put up for sale aad ought io by the proprietors for vhe sum of 171,000 francs, The American Register 18 the most successiul news- payer which 1s printed in the English language on tue kuropean Continent, lor Galignani’y Messen- ger ver had much attraction for American readers, and 18 now but @ shadow of what it was, and the Continentat Herald cannot make any headway. ‘The little English papers, formerly pub- lisiied in Frankiort, are, I beleve, both dead, and the koman Times and the Naples Tunes have only @ local circulation. POLICEMEN OFF DUTY. Should the New Rule Stand ¥ New Yorg, Uct. 3, 1874 To The Epiror oF THE HERALD: — ‘Tne new order recently issued by the Police Commissioners, making it obligatory upon cap- taims, sergeants, roundsmen and patroimen to wear the prescribed untrorm at all times, except | on their nights off or when absent with leave by the Board, is not only arbitrary, tyrannical and humiliating, but is demoralizing to the 1orce and @ detriment to the public at large. Herevoiore hun- dreds of the force were roaming through the city | on their days off, in plain clothes, making at i that the real destination of | Dasser-hy. various times some very good arrests, and probably at all times preventing the commission of many flagrant outrages. The higaway yvobber, tue pocketbook svatcher, the Usl-tapper, shop-lifter, &¢., have frequently been deterred irom the commission Of # crime Not so mach from the fear of the uniformed policeman ag from fear that some policeman in the garb of a civilian and ready to pick upa good case mint have his eye on them, Those fears are all dispeiied by the recent stupid order ofthe Police Vom. missioners. If the public have suffered in times past irom outrages committed by policemen in plain clothes those outrages have been committed by men who were not ilt for the position, in the first place, aod the appointing power snould be held responsibie jor the mis- decds of the brutes whom they appoint to places on the force, This order destroys, to @ great extent, the independence of the officer, and | is calcwated to dishearten and deter men from doing their duiy. Lt has heretotore peen a source Of satisfaction to members of the force to think vat alter betog bandaged up in uniform and serv- ing the public faitntally for thirty-six hours, dur+ ing the hext tweive hours of relaxanon they could dress in citizens’ clothes and devote their time to the care of Cheir families or other private affairs. This new order makes policemea completely the slaves of the Commissioners, and it not only en- slaves the man himsell, but it enslaves his family, fie cannot go ont with his family on business or littie recreation unless he goes in unuorm, and then they immediately hecome the objects of sus+ picion and the subjects of remark from every WREKDOM, ——— a