The New York Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1874, Page 6

Te ion il NEW YORK | LITERATURE. | knowtedged as Mother in Christ, and by ber fol- lowers called Mother Ann. im these visions she discovered “whence and wherein all mankiud were lost from God,” the foundation of human de- pravity, and “the very act of transgression com- What Our Authors Are | mitted by the frst man and woman tn the Garden macy with a woman who is pearing 8 Dotne of Eden.” ‘By the tmmediate revelation of Cnrist | aon am R ooh ¥ ha Ee Sige or Phyo = soph very . | cl ironins| Ces; Ing she henceforth bore an open testimony against | oer it must, nevertheless, be struggi ; the lustiul gratification of the fesh as the source | and foundation of human corruption, and testified in the most piain and pointed manner that no | svul could follow Ohrist in regeneration by living 4n the works of natura! generation or in any of the gratifications of just.” Mr. Nordhoif quotes & Singular Shaker poem, in which Adam is made to confess the nature of his fall. It 18 tm the nature Of 4 dialogue of Adam with his children :— Apau.—When I was placed on Eden’s soil, I lived by mimands, \ To keep hue! garton ali the while, and labor, working | with my hands— } Ineed not toi beyond my power. yet never waste one recious hour But ih'a careless, idle trame, I gazea about on what was | A FIRESIDE TALK ABOUT NEW BOOKS, } COMMUNISM IN AMERICA. Harper & Brothers have published in handsome style Mr. Nordhoi?’s book on the Communistic s0- cieties of the United States, with illustrations, The book describes the Amana Society, the Har- } monists, at Economy; thé Separatists, of Zoar; | tue Oneida Perfectionists, the Aurora and Bethel Communes, the Icarians, the Bishop Hill Colony, | made; ‘And idle hands will gather shame and wandering eyes e he coutuse { end. hoe and pruning knife to view the beauties ~ Laropped my tue Cedar Vale Commune, tne Social Freedom | ons ae sists, sic: alice Genediaae wk dake Community, and three other colonies not com- 4° “je. ghy ot Msnest ra CURE SP ee munistic—Anakeim, in California; Vineland, in | 494 showed to Eve a curious prank, affirming that it was no crime, “Ye shail aot die, as God has said; it isa sham; be not airraid."’ ' All this was pleasant to the eye, ana Eve affirmed the | fruit Was good, So I gave up, to gratity, the meanest passion in my New Jersey, and Stik ville Prairie Home, in Kansas. ‘The tutroductory chapter ts a thoughtiul, elaborate | discussion of the philosophy and political economy underlying the communist system so Jar as it has | blood. | s was bot hey paneer er py per of 7 sta “While 1 | Oh, horrid gailt! I was afraid; I was condemaed; yea, I rmness, and is slowly jaling into decay—‘a ean) eae ead, melancholy story,” says Mr. Nordhof, ‘showing nave given an impartial and respectful account of the ite of the first man, your fattier,and his | poth what can be aciteved by combined the religious faith of each commune,” says Mr. | 6, cbotiess his W I d | industry and what trifes oan destroy Nordnoff, “1am not tobe supposed to hold any Mee pe end, Ln Wes mua akan; hey, F sia | such ‘an organization a8 @ — commuustic i sin; Uiis my fall; this your condition, one | Society. The Cedar Vaie community, ip good in any of them. and all Howard county, Kansas, is Russian in its | INSPIRATIONISTS, | The Amana Community, or Inspirationists, Is @ German society, seventy-four miles west of paven~ port, lowa, numbering 1,450 members, owning about 25,000 acres of land, with seven towns. At It is to be observed that Ann Lee herself was | married and bad our children; but she “showed the uimost repugnance to the married state,” | and returned to ber parents. Receiving a revela- | tion that sue should come to America, she em- - in the woods of Watervliet, N.Y. Aun supported the head of the organization is @ woman, hag 18 herself by Wasting and ‘irouing, her husband supposed by the members to speak by direct “Im | “running away with apother woman.” | spiration of God.’? Hence they call themselves In- | after ber settlement she ‘performed miracles," | spirationists. They came irom Germany in 1842, | Healing the cancer, andso on, dying i 1764, in | | the iorty-ninta year of her age, settied near Buffalo, and in 1855 removed to lowa. have been & woman of practical sense, The work of inspiration to which the society owes | Siucerely pious and humble-minded; thick-set, | its foundation goes back almost as far as the | but straignt, regalar in iorm and feature, oO: | light complexion, blue eyes, mild, but grave an eighteenth century, and it was especially vouch- | solemn in demeanor. Her lessons were those o1 saled to Barbara Heynemann, a poor and ignorant | 2Onesty, trugalisy, charity, industry and tempe ce, servant mald in Alsace. Barbara’s inspiration | “Pur your bands wo work aud give your hearts to came to her in 1818 She married one William | God;? “Do all your work as though you had a Landmann, came to this country, and has been for | thousand years to live, yet as you would if you ts om oN kuew you must die to-morrow ;”’ ‘Let every faith- some time “the tnspired oracle” of Amana. The jy; man 60 lorth and put up his fences in season, name Amana is taken from the Bible, and | and br yet ihape car in season, tog put his 5 crops into the grouud in season; such a man may wil be found im the Song of Solomon, | with confidence look ior a blessing.” Among the fourth chapter, eighth verse—Come with | doctrines she propounded was tue theory that me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from God was @ Lebanon: jook from the top of Amana, from the | twat Curist 18 @ spirit, who appeared first as . Jesus, representing the males, and secondly top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’dens, as Anon Lee, yepresenting the females of irom the mountains of the leopards." Theseven God. She taugut that there were Jour Two of the members leit affluence and position in varked from Liverpool in May, 1774, aud settied | Sake of principles. ph sing are munity in Chesterfield county, Shortly | bership of two women, one man and three boys, With (our Women aud five men provationary mem- She appears to | © land and Prairie Home—three colonies—not com- munistic; but we have no space to follow Mr. Nord- id moe work more in detail. H is r- | Ucal economy it is @ valuabie contribution to Some o! her maxiws are worth repeating. | OUr Ilteracure. of these experiments Mr. | communists are signally honest, humane and personal ease ava comiort, | cording to their tastes, and are unusually heal ‘they are temperate in the use of wine and spirits, Prosperous, They marry young. dual person, both maie and iemale; | {nds to be a sacrifice, HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1874.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. “Tn the course of what we cal aid Mr. Noyes, “Charles is, you know, im the situation of one who must, by and by, become a father, In these circumstances he has {alien under the too common temptation of | seifiah love, and has a desire to walt anda cultivate exclusive ' ing temptation, ‘stirpicuicure,' ’ in an inti. led against. ‘nerefore, determined to isolate him- self entirely irom tie woman and let another man take his place at her side. This he had done with the most praiseworthy spirit of self-sacrifice. He has stil further taken up his cross ‘by going to sleep with the smailer children to take charge of them during the night.” All things considered, Mr. Noyes thought Ciiaries was improving, so the meeting was dismissea, OVuER COMMUNITIRS, These are the most important communities described by Mr. Nordbom. They illustrate an | eXtraordinary phase in our religious apd social condition. Aurora and Bethel communities, 10 Missouri, have been well managed »y a Dr, Keil, The theory of their government is ‘Love one another.” Sunday they regard as @ day of amuse- ment. They practise econowy and plain wy 9 The lcarians, hear Corning, lowa, were tounded by Etienne Cabet, a dreamy Frencoman, based upon “the brotherhood of mankind,’’ the aboution of | servitude aud compulsory marriage. ‘They have | no religion, and regard sunday as a day of amuse- | ment. [bis the lease prosperous of all the com. | munes Mr. Nordhoff visite nd alone represents m America an attempt democratic com- muuism."" The Biskop Hill colony, Henry county, li, 18 of Swedisu origi, and was founded in 1845. Charles ha origin, and is based upon a theory of liberty, equality and fraternity. It is just beginning its career, and, therefore, its success is not known. Russia and subject themselves to poverty for the ‘The Social Freedom Com- Virginia, is the bexianing of an experiment, containing a mem- bers. it believes in moral suasion and free criti- isin. ‘There is an interesting chapter on Anaheim, Vine- As a history of singuiar phase of religious and poli- Io summing up the character Nordahoff finds that the charitable; that their lives are full of devices for They sive CS avoid debt, speculation and hazard, and, when | the family relation is upheld, their people are Celibacy he and he does not accept the argument that it 18 necessarily healtniul. He could hear 01 no cases of insanity or idiocy tracea- bie to the celibate condition. He did not find their life dull and dreary, out rather giving serenity of villages are called Amana, AMana-near-the-Hill, and East, West, South and Middle Amana, and the cycies in the history of mankind; first, tue ante- diluvian, ending with Noah; second, the Jews, up (Oo the appearance of Jesus; toird, all who had Homestead. ‘The principal employments are | appeared up pone Ae yrery of Ann Lee. The | Gress 0 woollen, saw and grist milling, farming and “e4veus, Le icurth abe inal i peo tcre are tae | in process of formation. children of the last dispensation. ‘‘neir pri! ciples are those of tue Pentecostal Church, ce bacy, Doa-resistence, separate government, power over disease. ‘o all these but tne last they have attained, and the last they confidently look for, and even DOW urge that disease 1s an offeace ! to God, apd that it 131m the power of men to be healthful if they will.” They reject the doctrines — vising mento “fly Irom intercourse with women | of the Trinity, resurrection and atonement. They | do not worsnip Jesus or Ann Lee, but | asa very dangerous magnetic aad magical fre.” r simply love them. They are spiritualista, ‘He | Tne women are compelied to work hard, | oniyisGod’s true servant who lives @ stainless | ares plainly, avoid ornament, comb their | oe siniess life.” They do po oa a ie | and property a8 crimes or disorders, but as the haw and not have any association with the | embiems of @ lower order of society. Finally, other sex. Notwithstanding the difficulties of re- | they apply their system 80 as to incuicate celi- lationship there are marriages and much domestic | vacy, Towesty in i and “ag omen. dilt- 4 gence, economy, temperance, frugality, keeping comfort, Amusements are forbidden, as well a8 Clear oi deot, education of caiidren, community of cards. games, photographs and pictures. ‘They | goous, to work for all and provision for all in sick- are non-resistant and do not believe in war. The | ess, infirmity and old age. twenty-one rules of dally life, written by BL. | y, ‘The experience of tue Shakers proves that it ts ot wise to take cniidten. They lost seriousl: Gruber, would imdicate abstinence, penitence, : to z tanning. Each family has a house to itself, but the people eat and cook together. Men and women separate at tabie, “to prevent silly con- | versation and trifing conduct.” The boly inau- | ence Of woman is not much respected by these Inspirationists, one of their esteemed writers ad- during the war. deep devotion and temperance. THE RAPPISTS. Tne Rappist or Harmony settlement at Economy is on the Ohio River, “in the midst of a rich plain, with swelling hills benind protecting it irom cold winds in winter.” George Bapp, who founded this society, wae a German, born at Wartemburg more than a@ hundred years ago. He seceded from the Christian denomination oy “insisting on bis right to beleve what he pleased and go to church when he thonght best.” Persecation came, and ip 1804 the ship Aurora arrived at Baltimore with 200 of his {ol- | lowers, followed by 300 more, who came to Phiia- delphia. Rapp had preceded them, and he settled his people im different parts of Maryland and Pennsylvania. He did not discourage marriage, although he did not encourage it, and recently a numper of the members, “convinced of the true holiness Of our purpose, voluntarily and onani- mously” adopted celibacy. Mr. Nordhoff reports that they regard the celibate life as healtnfal, Father Rapp living unti! he was ninety, and those now living, his followers, as far as be could see them, were strong, well built, hardy people. The society has always lived at peace and friendship with tts neigibors, governed by simple laws. They hold that Adam was created in the likeness of God, that he was a dual being, contain- ing in bis own person the sexual eiements of man and woman, and had he been contented to remain in his original state he would have increased, without the help of a female, to bring forth new beings to replenisn the earth. Wuen Adam became discontented God took the Semale part irom his body and gave it to him, according to his desire. Therein consisted the jail ofman. From this the Rappists argue that cell- bacy 18 pleasing to God, ana that in the new world Wwe shall resume the ‘dual, Godlike. Adamic condition” They believe that Christ will soon come, that Jesus was @ dual being. They teach @ community of goods. All mankind will be ultimately redeemed. They reject Spiritualism. Father Rapp tanght humility, simplicity in living, self-sacrifice, love for your neighbor, regniar, persevering industry, prayer and self-examination. He 1s remembered as “a good man, with true, honest eye and ne was certulnly a man Of great force and nigtf character. Pecuniarily Rapp's experiment has been an extraordinary success, and tne society is Said to be wortn from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000, As long as Father Rapp lived bis infuence over the people was avsoiute.” THE SEPARATISTS, The Separatists at Zoar, a village in Tuscarawas mucn suffering among the young people on this mas story, county, Volo, about half way between Clevetand aod Vittsburg, came also from Wirtemberg, and founded their society in 1817. Their leader was Joseph Baumeler, originally a weaver, later a teacher, and who became their temporal and spiritual head. In the beginning they preveuted marriage, but in time allowed it. They bave about 300 members, worth about $1,000,000. Their theology consists in a belief in the Trinity, Adam’s tall, Christ’s intercession, the inspiration of the Scriptures, the banishment of all human ceremonies as useless and injurious, honors to none but God. Marriages are by mutual consent, “without the intervention of priests or preachers,” and “all intercourse of the sexes, except what is necessary to perpetuate the species, is siniul.” They reject war and re- spect political authority. in all qnestions of dis- pute they refer to arbitration. Marriages must be approved vy the trustees. THE SHAKERS. The Shakers represent the oldest communistic Society on this Continent, Mr. Nordhoff gives 140 Pages to its history. From this we learn that there are now eighteen societies, spreading from Mount Lebanon, which was established cighty-two years | ago; that there are fifty-eight families, containing @ population of 2415 souls, owning about 100,000 acres of land. ‘They are Spiritualists, belt in Christ's second coming, that they are the only true children, “in which revelation, spiritualism, celibacy, orai confession, community, non-resistance, peace, the gift of healing, mira- clea, separation from the world, are the founda tions of the new heavens.” in practical Itfe, according to Mr. Nordhof, “they are industrious, peaceful, honest, nighiy ingenious, patient of toil nd extraordinarily cleanly.” Their tounder, Ann Lee, was an English woman, born at Manchester in 1736, the Qaugoter of @ blacksmith, and to the day of her death could neither read nor write. When imprisoned tor heterodox proceedings ste Feceived @ special manifestation of Divine light, The “present testimony of salvation and eternal live’? was fully revesied to her; she saw “the Lord Jesus Christ in His glory; had most astonisning visions and Divine miMfticgtations, aud was a¢- Ceibacy 1s held to produce long life. #lder Fred. W. Evans is quoted as saying, ~The joys ol the celibate ile are iar greater than can make you know. They are indescribable.” They do not regara women as cqual with men. Shaker men and women do not shake hanus with each other. ‘heir lives have almost no privacy, even to the elder, of whom two always room together. The sexes even eat apart, and they labor apart. They worsnip stand- img aud marching apart. They visit eacn other only at stated intervals ana according to « pre- | scribed order. They mortily the body by early | Tising ana very plain living. Smoking ts prohiv- tted, The housekeeping 18 perfect. Obedience is @u important purt of the ite. THE PEKFECTIONISTS. The Perfectionists of Oneida and Wallingford were iounded by Jonn Humpirey Noyes, born in | 1811, near Brattlevoro, Vt. The society was founded 1m 1845, at Putney, based upon a peculiar | theory of the relation of the sexes. Driven trom Pu.ney, they established themselves at Oneida, in Madison county, N. ¥., in 1848, and Wailingiord, Conn., in i850, They have 664 acres o: lan in. New York and 240 at Wallingford. | They number 283 persons, 131 males aud 152 | females. ‘he members of the societies are | mostly Americans, and ‘embrace lawyers, clergy- Men, physicians, Merchants and teaciers,” the greater part being New England farmers and mechanics. No Catholics have ever joined the community. Their property is estimated at about $500,000. ‘They cali themselves ‘Periectionists.” | rheir doctrine is ‘‘a total and immediate cessation Irom sin.’ The Jews they regara as tue royal n tiou, ‘They believe in praying for cure trom phys- teal ills and a community o1 goods, as commanded | by Jesus Christ. 1ms community they extend into their marriage relation, ‘They have no preaching, | no baptism or Lord’s Supper, no Supday and no iorms. Tuey Tread the Bioie and quote it much. | Tuey practise what they call compiex marriage, | “Within tae limits of the community member- | ship,” says Mr. Noruhof, “any mau and woman | may and do freely cohabit, aving first gamed each other’s consent, not by private con- versation oF courtship, but through the imtervention of some third person or Persons.” “They strongly discourage, as an evidence of sinfai seiushness, what they call exciasive and idolatrous attacnment of two | persons for each other, and aim to break up, by criticism and otuer means, everytaing of this kid ip ‘he community.” ‘They teach the advisability | of pairing persous of different ages—the young o! one sex with the aged of the othe—and as the imatter is under tue control of the more agea memvers it is thus arranged.” “The propagation of coliaren 18 under the control of the society, which preteuds to conduct the matter on scien- ulic principtes.” “Previous to avout two and a haif years ago,” said Mr. Noyes, “we reirained from the asuat rate of child bearing ‘or several reasons, Hoanciai and otwerwise, Since that ume we fave made an attempt to reduce the usual number of offspring to What people im tue middle Classes are able \o afford moderate and judicial care, with the advantages Of @ spirit ual education. In this attempt twen- ty-our men and twenty women have been engaged, selected [rom among those who Dave most thoroughly pracused our social the- ory.” Mr. Nordhoi observes, however, that there | 18a strong tendency toward tailing in love, the | attachment of two persons to each other and their desire to be true, and that tuere has been account. “Tbey rebuke this propensity, however, as seifish and siuful, and break it down accor ingly.” Children are leit in care of their mothers until they are weaned. ‘They are tlen put into the general nursery. Mr. Nordhoff observed that they lookea plump and sound, but “a livtie des. olate and sabdued, as though they missed the ex- jasive love and Care of @ father and mother.” man or woman,” he adds, “may not find this greeavle—to be part of 4 great machine. 1 suspect it is hard for a little child.” She women be regards aa inserior to the men. THE ORDEAL OF “CKITICISM.” They have @ system of “criticism.” The mem- | bers meet together. ‘The person to sulfer criti- Cism Bits in silence, While the rest of the company, eacn in turn, tell him his faults with “an astonish- | ing and o/ten exasperating plainness of speeca." In these criticisms the most perfect freedom 13 ex- pected, and Mr. Nordhoif assures us—wuich we can well velleve—that it iy Ollen “iar irom agreea- bie to those whose Vanity and egotisin are stronger vhan their truth ioving.” Ar. Nordhoif describes a meeting ior \ae purposes Of “criticism” at which he was allowed to be present, Mr. Noyes sat in a large chair, Tuere were iiteen persons present, | cised, Was there. When the doors were closed be | was asked by Mr. Noyes if he desired to say any- thing. He admitted certain doubts and fears, but he was “combating the evil spirit within him, | | and hoped he had gained somewhat,’ One of the men then remarked thathe thought Charles had been hardened by too great good tortune, that be was wise in bis own esteem. A young woman | iniormed him he Was hauguty anu superciious and needlessly cart at times. Another young lady complained that he wasa@ “respecter of certain | Persons, and showed his liking by calling them pet names in public.” A third young woman complained of his carelessness of language, using siang phrases and Not always being polite. Tis complaint was confirmed by one oi (he members, who had heard Charies condemn tné becisteak o a certain occasion as “tough.” Another woman complained that Charles had been @ “‘respecter of persons,” while still another feared that waiie he was an able man he was not religious. One of the men spouse that Charles, instead of being spotled y his success, should have been humbdled and not pbaughty. Two | or three men then referred to a transaction in | which he had said one thing fo the face of a hie | man aod another behind his back. al | very plain speaking,’ says Mr. Nordbof, | “Charles sat speechless, looking betore him; bat | as the accusations multiplied his face grew paler ps rspiration began to stand on his forehead,’’ Alter the circle bad spoken Mr. wees tact lamenting t but he ¢ it was trying to cure himself, He spoke of his @bility and good character, his Ormness in resist. ‘about half women, Charles, the person to be criti- | spirit, offering a wider range of wholesome en- | joyments and greater restraiuts against debasing pleasures, reiieving the individual life from a | great mass of carking cares, trom the necessity of | and exhaustive toil, from the dread of exposure in old age. Religion, he thinks, | must de at the base of the successtul commune. | The one text of the Scripture which underies ali | communistic experience 1s in that narrative of Luke :—“And ali that velleved were together, and | had all tuings in common, and sold their posses- | sions and goods and purted them, to all men as every man had need.” ‘rhese words,” he says, “nave had a singular power over men in all ages since the world has been created. ‘They form the character of every communistic society of which I | have spoken, for even the Icarians recall them.’’ We cannot compliment Mr. Nordhoff too highly on the thoroughness, fairness and sincerity with which he has done this wise work. It is to be re- | gretted that he did not inform himself more accu- Tately on the causes tuat led to the Commune | movement in Paris, (or be is too sair a man to ac- | cept the common Philistine view of this remarka- | ble movement, the true meaning of which will | never be written until some French writer, as able and Impartial as our author, will probe its causes and tendencies as faithtully as he has described | those underlying the communistic societies of the United States. TALKS ABOUT NEW BOOKS. “How do you like Farjeon’s last novel?” said | the Doctor, glancing at a copy of “Jessie Trim” (Harper & Bros.) that lay upon the library vable. “I think that it is among his best," replied Miss Rachel, who had laid the book’ down a few mo- ments before. “Itis not equal to’ “Grif,” bust ts way ahead of ‘London's Heart.’ Farjeon depicts | @ certain class of characters with great cleverness, but [ never could understand how his admirers can possibly compare him to Dickens. The com- parison cannot but hurt Farjeon.”” “The only similarity that I can see in the two novelists is that they both draw their characters trom low life,”’ said the Doctor. i Miss RACHEL—But there the likeness stops. | Dickens’ common people were very uncommon, while Farjeon’s are commonplace. FRLIciIaA—! am aiways more interested | Farjeon’s stories than in his people, although I | think Jessie Trim and Mrs. Carey both good char- | said Fred, who sat by the library window witn a | of trouble,” said the Doctor. “The only trouble | R.G.S., &c., with maps and ittustrations, Rew copy of “The Phantom of the Forest” (Ulaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger) in hishand, ‘The whole story does not cover a month, yet it contains more thrilling adventures than one would care to ex- perience in a lifetime, The autnor, Emerson Ben- nett, 18 @ man of active imagination, who gets bis hero and heroine in the most romantic and un- natural situations without seeming to thinktnat he has done anything unusual.” “Do tell as all about the book,” says Felicia, ‘for it ts 80 deligntful to hear of wild adventure among Indians and wolves while one sits before a blazing fire, buried in the depthsof a luxurious chair, with nothing worse tban a civilized burglar within miles of you and vigilant police on every corner. Give us the story, Fred, and don’t spare the _hor- rors.’ “To begin with,” resumes Fred, “the scene 1s laid in the wilds of Kentucky during the period just after the Revolutionary War. The hero is Henry Colburn, a young poet, artist and trapper, and the heroine 1s Isaline Holcombe, the daughter ofacolonel stationed on the borders, who is on her way to joim her ‘ather, Henry Colburn and Tom Sturgess, better known as Rough Tom, are sent toact as her escort across the Indian coun- try, and it is while on that journey that they meet ‘with so many adventures, They coine together on board of @ boat in the Obio, and the moment their eyes met ‘something passed between the souls of each that neither had experienced before.’ All would have gone well enough with Isaline and Henry but for the presence of Charles Hampton, who claims to be a lover of the charming Isaline and looks upon Henry as nig rival. The rivals finally have a quarrel and go into the woods at night to settle their diMculty at the point of their rifles, when, just as the word to fire is aboat being given a wild and unearthly shriek resounds through tne forest and the party scatters in all directions. Henry, however, does not lose his presence of mind, and looking im the direction from whence the sound comes he sees 9 thing with legs and arms, like a man, and covered with short hair, descend froma tree and vound after Hampton. This is the unknown, the Phantom of the Forest. To make a long story short, the party leave the boat soon after this and strike ’cross country. Henry and Isaline become separated from the party and are finally captured by the savages. One of these—Methoto—a white man, who has lived with the savages-since babyhood, and is a great brate of a man, ts seized with a vio- lent passion for saline. He steals her away and is captured again, and then Hampton, who nas joined the Indians, steals her away also. She and Henry make their escape and are recaptured and escape again. While feeing from the savages the second time they pass through a beautiful valley which so charms the artist’s eye that he stops to sketch it, for which piece or thoughtlessness they are again taken captive. The shmek- ing of the Phantom saves them from | | | with Ridd was that he had too soft a heart.” “If Lorna had died on che altar steps when Oar. ver shot her,” said Felicia, “I should have thrown tne book into the fire. No doubt it would have been more natural if she had, but it would have epouled the story for me.” “What a jolly good fellow Tom Faggas was;” continued the Doctor, “such a highwayman as he was an honor to is profession. I have thoroughly enjoyed this book; it seems so unpretentious and yet is sq clever and true to the life.”” - VRS DB SOCIRTE. “Pred, L hope you will forgive me, but { opened this package that came to you from Henry Holt & Co.’s, and have been hovering over this volume of Vers de Société ali the afternoon,” sata Felicia. Frep—Well, that is a great note; I was going to hang that to your Christmas stocking; now you have spoiled the surprise, out you get the present nevertheless, Fsuicia—Oh, fred, how kind of you and how sorry Iam; but what a beautiiul present! I never sawamuch handsomer book. The binding and paper are exquisite; and such dainty little pic- tares—they suit the verses exactly. The selec- tions are very carefully made, Thackeray, Hood, Locker, Landor, Moore, Holmes, Owen Meredith, Stedman and a host of others contribute their wit- ticisms. I do love to read such verses as these, You knew my weakness, Fred, when you got me this book. Listen to this description of the Belle of the Baliroom:— She sketch'd; the vale, the wood, the beach Grew loveller from her pene ading. Sne botanized ; | envied each Young blossom in her boudoir fading. She warbled Hande!; it was grand— she made the Catalani jealous. She touched the organ, I could stand For hours and hours to blow the bellows, When you are not quite equal to Milton there's notbing like a volume of “Vers de Société.” I can always pick tt up and find hours of enjoyment with it. You could not have pleased me better. FRED—The book certainly ts beautiful. Authors, printers, artist and publisher have all done their vest for this volume, LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Shakespeare’s character of Caraina! Wolsey, as has recently been shown, is copied almost ver- batim trom Campion’s “History of Ireland,” writ- ten in 1571. Mr. Percy Fitzgerald has written a gossipy two- volume book, entitled, “The Romance of the Eng- lish Stage.’? It 1s :ull of anecdote of the kings and queens of the greenroom. The Rev. W. D, Parish has in the press ‘‘A Dic- vionary of the Sussex Dialect,” which wiil contain upward of 1,500 words, There will ve added a list York: Harper & Bros. Broken Chains, Translated by Frances A. Shaw, from the German of E. Werner. Boston: James & Osgood & Co. For Better, for Worse. A Love Story. From “Temple Bar.” Pailadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, f Autumn Leaves; Poems by 8. Collinson. Loa- don: Sampson Low & Oo. The Circassian Boy. ‘Translated through the German, from the Russian of Michail Lermontom. By S. S. Conant, Boston: James R. Osgood & Oo. Selected Readings, Serious and Humorous, im Prose and Poetry, with an Appendix on Elocu- tion, &c, By Professor J. E. Frobisher. New York: J. W. Schermerhorn & Co, The Stately Homes of England. By Liewellya Jewitt, F, S. 4., &c., and 8. 0. Hall, PF, 5. A, Hlus- trated with 210 eugravings. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, Health Fragments; or, Steps Toward a True Life, embracing Health, Digestion, Disease ana the Science of the Reproductive Organs. Illus- Yrated. Part First by George H. Everett, M. D.; Part Second by Susan Everett, M.D. Published by the author. The Evangel, in verse, By Abraham Coles, M. D., LL. D., author of “Dies Ire in Thirteen Ver- sions,” “The Microcosm,” 40, New York: D. Appleton & Co. The New Hyperion. From Paris to Marly by way of the Rhine. By Edward Strahan. With Over 300 illustrations, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippim- cott & Co. Malcolm. A Romance. By George Macdonald. Philadelphia: J, B. Lippincott & Co. Lotos Leaves. Original Stories, Essays and Poems. By Whitelaw Reid, Wiikie Collins, Mark Twain, John Hay, John Brougham, Noah Brooks, P. V. Nasby, J. H. Bromley, John Elderkin, Thomas Ww. Knox, W. J. Florence, Chandos Fulton, J. H. Hager, . Bissell, J. B. Bouton, W. S, Andrews, Gilbert Burling, C. J. Pardee, D. D.; 0, McK. Loeser, R, B. Roosevelt, William F, Gill, C. Florio, ©, E. L. Holmes, Charles Gral Gayler, James Peck, H. S, Olcott. Ed. Grey, James B; Matthews and Alfred Tennyson. Illustrated. Boston: William F, Gill & Co. The Myths of the Rhine. French of X. B, Saintine. By Professor M. Schele De Vere, LL. Ds Ilustrated by Gustave Doré, New York: Scribner, Armstrong & 60, Kecitations and Readings. Edited by Alvan G. Beecher. New York: Dick & Fitageraid. LONDON GOSSIP. Translated from the | Lonpon, Dec, 3, 187& THE RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY ig still in force, although most of the daily news- pupers have had enough of tt. Upwards of 70,000 of Sussex surnames. The American Historical Record, 4 Philadel- phia monthly, edited for two or three years past | by B. J. Lossing, is to be enlarged and lis uame of Mr, Gladstone’s pamphiet have been sold, and the sale still continues. A pastoral from Arch- bishop Manning, of a highly encouraging charac- death once or twice, for it drives the ! changed to Potier's American Monthly. Indians away in fright. In the end Methoto | ‘he historical spirit, althongh steadily growing, | again runs off with Jsaline, while Henry is bound | does not seem yet adequate to the support of a | tel, was read in all the Roman Catholic chapels hand and foot. The savage has the girl on the | distinctive magazine. last Sunday. Tne Archbishop is away in Rome, norse in front of him, and they ride over the coun- The wile of Proiessor Fawcett, of Oxford, tread- | Where he has been received by the Pope, who, try like mad, Suddenly they.come to the edge of | ing in the footsteps of Miss Martineau, bas pub- | during the interview expressed his joy at the @ precipice, where the awful screech of the Phan- | lished a volume of ‘Tales im Political Economy,’ , Progress which the Catholic religion is making tm tom is heard. The terrified horse rears and | which are really imteresting. | Engtand—a movement which he hoped the ene- plunges and finally falls over the clit upon his | The Baron de Habner, im bis “Rambles Round | mies of the Church would not be able to back, burying Methoto in his fall. The savage is | the World in 1871,” which is writven in an easy | Stop. It is probable that the Archbishop killed and the Phantom jumps over the rocks and | and animated style, gives us the best account of | Will return to us decorated with the read carries the unconscions Isaline to acave where she | Brigham Young and Mormondom which bas yet | Nat of @ cardinal Meantime in his absence lies 1n a low fever for a week. When she recovers | appeared, | the war ts being carried on under the direction of she finds that the terribie Unknown is @ poor A new translation of Thucydides by Richard | Mgr. Capel, who i¢ a Jar more attractive man than crazy girl, who bas covered herself with skins and | Crawley, just published in London, possesses great | YT. Manning, and wonderfully popular with all goes shrieking through the forests. At last Henry | iterary merit, and the notes have much uistorica: #0Tt8 aod conditions of men, and especially and his sweetheart are restored to each other's | value, | women. He is the well known original of Mgr. arms, the Phantom recovers her reason and | Mr. Tom Hood, Jr., editor of the London Pun, | Catesby in “Lovhair,” and is said to have made | everyday life and should retire trom the world at marries; every one who should dies, and the | story ends happily. | “Notwithstanding the rather wild character of the pook it seems to be pervaded by a deeply religious vein, for the heroine sees the hand of Providence in all her troubies, and is ready to | talk theology under any circumstances.” “BROKEN CHAINS,” “ ‘Broken Chains’ is too passionate a novel for good in the story, and I enjoyed it very much. I detest such men as Reinhold and do not think they have any rigntto marry. Men whose souls are too high for this worid are very uncomfortable sort of people to live with; they are not made for | once.’’ “Ido not blame him for leaving nis wife and go, ing off with Beatrice, the opera singer,” said Miss dropped in to spend the evening. “Reinhold was , @ great musician and a genius, while his wile was | as commonplace as 4 woman could well be. acters, Miss RacHEL—The people be introduces as sort of side shows are usually more attractive to me than the principals—.or instance, the little girl who gave Mrs. Carey her half-penny and the poor | street girl who died in Bryan Carey’s arma. FeLicia—i hated Bryan Carey. There ts no ex- | cuse for such morose, sour men. They generally | do ashe did—get a notion into their heads and can never see over or around it. I could not heip | feeling sorry for tfe old man when Chris. talked | to him so savagely the night of Jessie’s fight, ‘That was undeserved, for he had always becn kind to Chris, The West family are very enter- taining, particular)y Miss Josey and Turk, Far- jeon seems to understand theatrical people very | well, He should write a play, for he certainly | would not be at a loss for a plot, and his sense of | humor is keen enough ‘or comedy. Miss RacueL—It seems to me that novels writ- ten in the first person are apt to make priga of | their heroes, Such a ‘goody-goody” Jellow as Christopher Carey is very uninteresting, in his | own hands, at any rate. Perhaps, if the story had | not been in the autobiograpnic form, he would have been more attractive ag boy and man, It must be hard to do yourself justice witueut seem- ing to overrate your good points. THE KING OF NOLAND. While the Doctor was deep among the pages of “Jessie Trim’? Miss Rachel took her cousin off toa Tetired corner to tell her about Farjeon’s Christ | “The King of Noland” (Harper & | Bros.), which she had heard read aloud at the book ciub the evening before, “Ihe King of No- land,’ ”’ began Miss Rachel, ‘48 an allegory. The | | King is a Prince when the story opens, who chaies | | and frets at the restraints put upon him on ac- | count of His Princeship. He rans away trom the palace every day and plays with a peasant boy in the neighborhood. Prince Sassairas is a dreamer and a sort of mystic—just the kind of a noy who | spends his childhood in talking metaphysics to the { flowers and fritters away his manhood in tie same | Sort of talk with men. He never knew exactly what he did want until he was about nineteen or | twenty years of age, and then he married the | sister of the peasant boy, who, by the way, has no | idea of bis rank in life. When his father, | tue King, dies the young Prince succeeds | to the throne, which appears to make | bim very unhappy. The couruers fawn about | | nim and the people bate him. He 18 shot at for a | tyrant, which grieves him very much, for he loves , | his people, and would do anything to make them happy. One day a party of bis subjects, neaded | by an old radical, visit him and make known their | Wrongs. The old man gives it as his humble opin- | | fon that the monarchical institution had proved | iteelf utterly inadequate to remedy these evils, | The King listened to all he had to say and that night he fed from the paiace, leaving a commn- | | nication declaring that he bad resigned his tnrone | | tothe people, For a full year he iived alone in the forests with bis peasant bride. At the end of that | time the people found him out ana begged him to | retarn to his throne, They were more unbappy | under their own government than under his; so } the ever sensitive King resumed his crown and | reigned peacefully and quietiy over Noland to the end of his days. “The story has a hit at Engiand for her demon- | | Strations over the Shah of Persia, and the moral | of it is that while Great Britain is not ready for republicanism it {8 not satisfied with the present state of things, and would like it better if the head of the government took more interest in her sub- ! should nave left her, said, Beatrice answered the requirements of his soul and of his deeply passionate nature. because her parents decreed it (rom the day he was born. He was chained toa woman he could fever love, and although he is not such a man ag | Scholar, will soon print nig new translation of the | New Testament, irom the latest Greek text of Ladmire, [ thing he was not so dreadful as far as his elopement is concerned. He ta!ked to his wife bratally on the night he leit her; for that there is no excuse.” “Reinhold was a weak, selfish man," said Fred, ! Joining tn the conversation; ‘ae had no business to desert his wife; she was a magnificent creature, too good for him bv far.” “You forget that she developed into what she ‘Was after Reimboid left ner,” said Felicia, “At the | tume they lived together she was only @ weak, jov- ing woman, who appeared to care for nothing be- yond nousehold duties, If she’had always been what she at last became her husband would never have left her.’ “lcan never forgive her for taking him -back again,” said Fred. “Ajter his cruel and insulting treatment of her every spark of love for him That strikes me as being a weak ending to the bvok. much more naturel if she had married Hugo, who was really a splendid fellow. Bow did Elia know It would have been | my taste,’ said Miss Rachel, as she laid the fast of | 10 that fleld. Osgood & Co. will acon issue a large 4. BR. Osgood & Co.'s Popular Novels upon the tabie Hl quarto entitled ‘The Picturesque Architecttre of | | ather side. “Still there 1s a great deal that is | Switzerland,” illustrated by the heliotype process. | in | Hamiiton,@ young laay friend of Felicia’s, who had | Controversy tn successive issues, gives notice that — Ashe | written by Charles, Duke of Orleans, A. D. She ap- | ' preciated iis musical creations, while his wile baa ' tenth volume not a single eloquent passage. This | no sympathy with them; and then, again, he did | 18 peculiarly hardon Mr. Bancroft, | hot marry Ella because ne loved her, but stmply | tive,” says the Review, “‘stagnates throughout at a | Gied recentiy, at the age of Jorty. more conversions than any man of his time. He Another English edition of Edgar Poe’s works, | ives at Kensington, at Cedar Villa, a house for- edited by J. B. Ingram, has appeared tn Edinburgh, ; Merly occupied oy Mr. Sothern, the actor, and his The next volume o! Scribner's very successtul | atest and most favorite scheme is tbe organisa. and popuiar oric-a-brac series will be the ! tion of a new Roman Catholic college there. The “Greville Memoirs,” nicely hashed into a series of | Monsignor is said to be very much vexed just nom fresh and racy anecdotes. at the reiusal of Mr. R. A. Proctor to accept the American ambition tn architecture is {Ilustratea , Professorship of astrononty in tnis college, by the rapid publication of many expensive books | THE VICKLENESS OF THE PURSLIC, ' how often has 1t been sung! In its latest applica» | tion it has selected @ gigantic victim—none less | than the Right Honorabie Joun Bright. The peo- ple of Birmingham, for whieh town he sits, are get- “Natural History of Selboroe,’ nas appeared ina | “2g @ littie ured of ‘he imperfect manner in new edition, with Bewick’s engravings, which they are represented in Parlianent. Asplendid new history is im the press of d.o. Tkey are @ long suffering constituency, and Houghton & Co., entitled ‘Boston, Past and Pres- | when Mr. Brignt was really ill they bore his ent,” which will be finely illustrated witn por- | absence with patience and re-elected him with traits of prominent citizens. unanimity. But they complain now, and not with. Tne London journal, Public Opinion, after in- | 0Ut reason, that Mr. Bright's life is one long holi- serting @ score or so Of letters on the Catholic | “ay, passed in salmon fishing and in paying visits @t agreeable country houses, and that, though it will print no more letters on that subject. , Just belore each of the last three sessions com- The earnest known poetical valentines were menced they bave been told that Mr. Bright would 1415, | OMce more take part in tue debates, that promise has never been fulfilled. Under these circum- stances an “advanced liberal’ newspaper of the town asks how much longer the constituency ts to “ ! be deprived of one-third of its representatiot Oshond Agni more especially when it 1s understood, baat in cone sequence of the labor thrown upon them in the ; Session the Other two members, Messrs. Muntg and Dickson, are quite worn out. What will the mighty tribune doy Will he say with the Roman sallrist, “fopudus me sidbiat ac nik plaudo,” or Will he gracefully retirer Not the iuwtver, 1 think, upiess, like the proverbial well bred dug, he takes @ graceiul leave before compulsion is used, for tt 1s said that his consticuents have a candidate promised by Mr. M’Kie, of Kilmarnock. ready to SDE DY ois eo Oey Cerne 1 thenew 7 | is none vtuer tuan Mr, Joseph Chamberlain, who ree ee paeoket org lsccinors oy Lehr ceived the royaities so graceiully last month, and whose poems it reviews, that they are “among who writes so smartly ia she Fortnightly Review. the dantiest and most delicate work America has | tacieath 4 Eehaae ot Oe. manent oe . ' nas‘fallen on the head of Dr, Kenealy, was yet given us, and that i Mr.Aldrich’s piace is not | yesterday disbarred by the benchers ol Gray’s Ina with the immortals he is at least on the slopes of jor scundalous aud atrocious Ibels published in Parnassus,” | the sngushman eteotion or ee he is bee 1g «4 : editor, and is consequently benceforth prevent ms. 4. S. Wooa’s “men and Beast Here and | trom exercising nw projession. There is no doubt Hereafter” is @ two-volume study in natural | that, in ihe iace of these articles, it was impos history, highly curious and entertaining. AM he | sivie for she Deashers to 2 Syrated one ee + u 18 Virulent and incon: ju Sere PES er. Hb were te Wael vember. iecoreee id cal, an undignitied shriek of tury wituout @ gram tality of brates is this sentimen' 1 am con- of prooi. 16 is rumored, and probably with rea~ That much-pointed and delightiul vook, White's ‘They are in the library of the British Museum, The Saturday Review finds in Mr. Bancrofi’s dead levei of wearisome mediocrity.” Dr. Samuel Davidson, the learned bibitcal Tischendort. Aconcordance to the works of Robert Burns is | vinced that any creature which iscapabie of suffer. | son, that these articles Were not written by the but that Reinhold would cast her offagain if it | suited his pleasure? He did su once, and he soon tired oi Beatrice. What assurance had the wife | | that another answering sou! would not lead him away again?” “With ali her spirit, Ella lacked true womanli- ness,” said Miss Rachel, “Alter ailshe had been subjected to, think of her saying to ber brute of a huspand, ‘Could you love the woman who, at that | Mme, did not understand yoo—who understood | hot even hersell? We had to be separated in or- der to be fully, truly tried,’ She certainly was tried. Idoubt, nowever, if she would have gone back to Remhold if it had mot been for his rescue | of she chiid under such awful circumstances,” “] think the book has lostin the translation,” said Fred; “ior German stories, as a rule, run more smoothly than does this. The translator seems at times to be quite at a !oss for a word.” LORNA DOONB. “Girls, if you want to read a novel worth read- ing, you shoula read ‘Lorna Doone,’” said the Doctor; “it is one of the most deligutiul stories I have read in many a long day.” “T have read it,’ said Miss Rachel, “and I per- fectly agree with yo 6 8 charming story. So simple, aud yet writven With somuch force, The characters are all good and the plot is just what one would expect from such 4 book.’” “John Ridd was too big acow for my fancy,’’ id Felicia. wouid step on your dress and tear it al! out, bang his head against the door sili, tread on your toes or do anything that Was awkward.” “Pelicia, you ought to be ashamed,” said Miss Rachel. ‘John Ridd is one man in @ thousand, ‘was, but that is only his extreme modesty.” ‘4 am sure he would put his Knife in his mouth when eating amd tilt back in his chair when he was through,’ resumed Felicia, Miss Rachel, angrily, ‘He would do nothing of the kind. John Ridd was a genuiem What could have been more beautiiul than his treatment of Lorna? You forget tiat the story is supposed to be written in the seventeenth century.” jects.” THE PHANTOM OF TIIR FOREST. “1 enjoy a book like this once in 4 great while,” “I cannot forgive Ridd for not pulling the trigger when he had his gan against that outlaw Uarver Doone’s breast, It would have saved him a world “He is just the sort of man who | Of course Le makes bimself out worse than ne | ing has, in that very capacity. its passport to the | tate) pa oF to iy ee Meet a eternal life, for which its sufferings are but a | genius. Eoneaty himself is @ wonderful instance preparation.” | rs now se saan a vaiees +} 4 cont Catia by Mr. J, R. Green has written “A Brief History of S!ViNg bimse! eas maall envy and jealousy. Few cleverer me the Engush People,” illustrated with maps and rag Th id i ity 4 e than he—a ripe classic, & charming versifier, chronological tables, which is @ model of historical either in English or Latin; @ bold deoater, with condensation, | good social talents, too, such as made him the ns j favorite at many dinner tabie. But he was BOOKS’ RECEIVED. narrow-minded, always laboring under the idea that his merits were not sufficiently recognized, and entertaining an overweening jealousy and | natrea of ali those wuo seemed to be excelling bim The Ugly Girl Papers; or Hints for tne Toilet. in a ee ae ie begrens eat ry hg Reprinted irom’ Harpers Bazar, New York: | time of the Tichborne trial and reaniied Harper & Brothers. play of personal offensiveness injurt to bis ‘Toe Independent Youths’ Speller. By J. Madison Watson. New York: A. 5, Barnes & Co. The Man inthe Moon and Other People. W. Raymond. New York: J, B. Ford & Co. client and obnoxious to every one in court, How The Bewildered Querists and Other Nonsense, this misguided men will live now it 1s impossi- bie to say. He is prevented from exercising his By Francis Biake Croiton. New York: G. P. Pur nam’s Sons. By R. New profession; his journal, which only circulates to | the extent of @ few hundreds, cannot be any ‘rhe wretched shareholders in the EMMA SILVER MINE The Starling.’ By Norman MacLeod, D, D. York: Dodd & Mead. of old, when the nurse put ker elbows into the | stomach of the dying patient and finished him of. The Communistic Societies of the United States, | the saareboiders lor tne sa isfaction Cs! the exam- from Personal Visits and Observation, By Charies Me specially appointed; so yesterday the case y look { for the final winding up of the Emm affairs Remains of Lost Empires, Sketcnes of the Ruins | Within @ couple of months, when some extraordt. of Palmyra, Nineveh, Babylon and Persepolis, , own Church, At Oxford the other day BISHOP COLENSO The Vatican Decrees tn their Bearing on Civil Allegiance. A Political Expostuiation. By the pg Seratench bo sn oxtpcuacte | in. In she alterno ctl, together with the Latin and English text of | Dreetnen aeone of the college cnapeibe TR wphewe the Papal Syllabus and the Vatican Decrees, source of income to him, and the ae of injustice are to be “put out of their misery” much in the The Queen of the Kitchen: a Collection of oid _ The kuma ts to ve “wound up.” Even tn extremis bi ht before the Vice Chancellor, who made Nordhoft, With illustrations, New York: Harper |g positive ‘ | Mary disclosures are expecte Whi $1 with some notes on India and the Cashmerian | Was announced to preach at one of the city Rigut Honorable William E. Gladstone, M. P, To | cated heretic,” so that under pressure he did not By able that Bisnop €olenso beture lus proximate de- to the Tichborne Claimant, which has hitherto ! been his note of appeal, is used up and played out, game way a8 was adopted in the Spanish hospitals Maryland Family Recipes for Cooking. By Miss | te directors of the company made a fight of It, Tyson, Philadelphia: T. B, Peserson & Brothers. | the Secretary declining to produce the register of ®& positive order in whe matter, and we ma: & Brothers, lie Protestants are fighting Roman Catholics they are not without internal aissensions in wneir Himalayas. By P. V. Myers, A. M, Iilustra- tions, New York: Harper & Brothers. churches, but the locai clergy made a tremendous which are added the History of the Vatican Coun. | appear, but his sermon was read for him by aa G . D. New York: arture irom England will preach ia Westminster the Rev. Philip Schaf, D. D. New York: Harper rst The way has been prepared for Dim oy & Brothers. Dean Stanley, Who, in @ sermon iast The International Review, tor January, 1873, poten aiternoon, eulogized him as New York: A. S Barnes & Co. | “standing conspicuous among the missionaries of | our time for the noble self-forgetiuiness with which he has sacrificed his dearest prospects, Such @ sacrifice,” continued the Dean, “made ly and ireely, while ovhers, from whatever have kept silence or swelled the po; History of the Confilct between Religion and Science, By John William Draper, M. D., LL. D., ‘ fearless); Professor in tue University of New York. New motive, York: D. Appleton & Co, | panic, 18 an example of missionary enterprise and One Woman's Two Lovers; or, Jacqueline | of \oetraeeal Behe an oNtaaon ing ht Hayne’s Choice. By Virginia F. Townsend, Paila- | SPY dient ON ete proud te claim A — y ve delphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, fittle man the Dean, outspoken, frank and jeatiess, Ismailia; @ Narrative of the Expedition to Cen- | His wile, Lady Augusta Stanley, 1s, one regrets tO hear, very ill. tral Alrica for the Suppression of the Slave egves to announce the death of ur... Watts Trade, Organized by Ismail, Khédive of Kgypt. | Phillips, the dramatic author, which happened By Sit Samuel W, Baker, Pacha, M, Ay F, Be Sy F. | suddenly yesterday morping.