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6 THB BOOK WORLD. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY. JANUARY 01, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Gulzot. It 1s, Merefore, a somewhat solemn leg- | Dune, the wile of a Duten reformed minister over acy which two illustrious Frenchmen, almost | in Newark, you know. |. equally great im wisdom and morality, have be- Fruicta—Oh, indeed. hen that ts the reason book! It seems to meas thongh authors and pub- | arctic expeditions from 1773 to 1874, with bio lishers racked their braing nowadays to see what | graphical and other matter, will soon be published outlandish names they could give their books. | by Messrs. Griffin, of Portsea, England, serving of sympathy, it shall not be,my fauit, Whether now orin the future. Be my fate what 1s may, I shall nov cease to be & trae Spaniard, nor, luke ail my ancestors, a trne Catholic, nor asa man ~ Jrhich sets boys and girls a laughing, whue they What the French Anthors Giving Forth for 1875. Wravel, History, Fiction and Philosophy. ® @ireside Chats About the Latest Ameri- can Books. "Jack's Sister”—“ From My Youth Up.” + Parts, Dec. 24, 1874, ‘The lists of the Parisian publishers are particu- | ‘Barly well filled this month, not only with the erdi+ | mary literature for the new year, which was de- @cribed in my November review to the readers of | She HERALD, Dut aiso with works of more gravity ‘than have issued irom the French press for some @ime past. 1: is fair, therefore, to presume that rts and letters are reviving under the Septen- mate, { have selected ‘or this month’s review uch books as are likely to have a special vaiue for the American public, and will commence, on fins occasion with the pubiications of Mesars, Hachette & Co. “LINDE DES BAJAHS,’? This book contains tne record of a journey in ‘Central ladia aud in the provinces of Bombay and | ef Bengal, by M, Louis Rousgelet. It is illustrated | By 317 engravings on wood, designed by the most | elebrated French artists, and it has six maps, | @arefully printed and perfectly trustworthy in ‘Skeir iniormation. It will be published in January queathed tous. It treats of faith and science, of the actual state of Christianisy in France, of the influences of Christianity upon modern society, and concludes with seven letters upon the alege of Paris, which ig discussed with admirable good Those who wish w read ymen can write of them should study the lessons which Guizot and Vitet teach, “LES AMOURS D&B CE TEMPS La,” HOUSSAYE. ‘The favorite novelist of the Second Empire has (Published a sprightly volume about the ladies who graced the courts of the later Bourbon kings of France; and he bas almost succeeded in raising Mme. de Parabére into a heroine. He admits tha it ts just possible she may have had more than twenty lovers; but she hersel{ had onty an inclina- tion for two of them. “She loved the others,” ob- served M. Houssaye, “between @ parenthesis.” Her husband found no favor in ner eyes; anda personal friend of hie, one M. Gacé, having deter- mined to pay ms addresses to her while M. de Parabére was overcome by liquor, unexpectedly sound her in conversation with ® gub-lieutenant of cavalry, who ia escaping through her bedroom window. “It appears,’ remarked Gacé, arily, “that the romance 1 wisbed to write has been al- ready printed.” M. Houssaye writes so well that @ story comprised in his new book has been for some time attributed to Voltaire; it is called “varbre de la Science,” and has a deal of that dry, bright wit whien distin gulshes the great laughing philosopher. The conciusion of his new book is devoted to the glorification of Manon Lescaut, the imaginary heroine of the Abbé Préyvost romance, which in- spired Dumas and Verdi with the “Dame aux Camellias” and the “Traviata.” M. Houseaye has also something to say of Rousseaa, and believes that the author of the “Confessions” knew very little o1 himself. To people who are fond of very lignt reading M. Houssaye’s books may always be commended, and perhaps a8 much is to be learned from them inan indirect way as from more pre tentious volumes, PAR ARGENE mext, No work apon India #0 important as this Pas yet issued from the French press, and it | fe not going too farto say that any one woo has @arefauly perused it will have a better idea of the British possessions in the East than he could have @cquired by years of residence there, untess he had enjoyed extraordinary advantages and ex- | weptional introductions. It isa complete pictare | book on natural history. he ferocity ; the childish pleasures and the magnit- went hospitality of its great people, and the abject mtate of misery of the poor. Masterpiece of art, and the style in which the ex- pianatory text is written 1s most clear and @cholarly. It is impossibie to exggerate the value @f this book to the political student and the arcni- Atisa beautiful drawing room book, and it will also hold a permanent place in the brary of every Orientalist. “LE JOURNAL DE LA JEUNESSR, 1873-74."? Ithas hitherto been among those compiaints, ‘which are not wholly unreasonabie, tat tuere are Jew good French books for the young. Messieurs Hachette have now silenced that complaint, aad 4m “Le Journai de la Jeunesse’ there is not a g@ingle word to which the most scrupulous per- gon could object as having au ambiguous | theque d'Histoire Contemporaine, aiso published Meaning. The letter press is gay, innocent and amusing. Tne illustrations, which are very mumerous, are positively charming, and the book $s precisely of that nature which best instructs @bildren because it entertains them most. The account of Stanley’s meeting with Livingstone is admirably given, and there ts an account o/ the We and death of Horace Greeley which is likely to @tiract considerable attention in the United States, Narratives of strange perils by land and sea, some of them worthy of De Foe; the wonders of Arciic travel, the accidents of ballooning, toe maryeis of natural history, astronomy and science ‘B¥e aii treated by turns, and alwaye well, while | ‘the fiction is of that delightiul, groiesqte sort | Jearm Jar more than could be taught tuem by | graver methods. “DICTIONNAIRE DE CHIMIE, PCRE RT APPLIQUEE,” by A. Wurtz, member of the Institute o! France, is work deserving the attention of maaufacturers, #armersand men of science genervily. It is a ‘Pook of ready reierence, ts iniormation 1s trust- ‘Worthy and it is sold at the moderate price of, Every engraving is a | GERMER BAILLIERB are abont to publish a work by M. Wan Beneden, entitied “Les Commensaux ev les Parasites dans Je Régne Animal” Tue author is protessor at the ‘University of Louvain and correspondent of the French Institute, and lis work, though comprised in a portable volume, 1s really a iearped and able He contrives to invest “PHILOSOPHIE DE LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE,” by Paul Janet, member of the Institute of France and Professor of the Pacuity of Literature of Parts, is the next work on Germer Baliliére’s list. If is @ collection of some remarkable articles which , have appeared ior the most part in the Aevue des Deux Mondes—an introduction sufficient to guar- to the socialists and the democratic Catholics, represented by Buchez ana Louis Bianc; gives us | some criticisms on Michelet and Quinet, and some able commentaries on the writings of De Tocque- ville, Rénan and Montegut, M. Janet concludes | his reasonings with some brilliant paradoxes in savor of republican government, “HISTOIRE DE L’ALLEMAGNE DEPUIS LA BATTAILLE DE sapowa,” by Eugene Véron, is the new volume of the Btnlio- by Germer Batlligre, eIt explains the character of Prince Bismarck’s policy as it is understood in France and 810ws the present state of govern- ment in Germany; describes the position of Prus- sia from 1867 to 1870, and admits that a war with France was necessary to the salety of tne Southern German States. It concludes with an examination of the German military laws, with the difficulties at howe and abroad which surround the pew Empire. M. Véronis a fair and candid inquirer, and be has given much time to the inves- tigation of the relations between France and Germany, whichare stl imperfecily undersiood in both couatries, “\'ALGERIB: IMPRESSIONS DR VOYAGE’? BAILLIBRE), is the record of a journey made in 1873 by Dr. J. J. Clamagerau, 40 eminent lawyer, formerly at- tached to the Mayoraity of Paris, and member of | the Society of Political Economy. 1t concludes by an essay on the institutions of the Kapyles and French colonization. Dr, Calmageran explains | the obstacles which still exist Lo the settlement of Algeria, and thinks that ignorance and routine (GEBMBR she speaxs so feelingty about minister’s wrongs, and that 1s why she calls sleeping in church “‘a bestial. habit.” Ithougnt she pitched into such things pretty strongly ser.a disinterested out- sider, Miss RacnEL—I do not betteve that it is from any expertence in her own chureh. I attended service ‘there one Sunday whea I happened to be in New- ark, and. more wide awake preacher or a more wide awake congregation @ne would not care to see, Dr. Terhune is net at all such a man as the Rev. Felix Hedden, for he visita @ great deal among his congregation, intereets himself in alt important movements in or out of the church, and 13 very papular with all denominations, FELICI4a—The reason L thought the story might be the author’s own experience is that so many incidents are marked “true” and “a fact.” The Dooron—Tue world 18 full of just such mem as Parson Hedaen, I meet them constantly. Men of learning and noble characters, but who, owing tosome defect in their make up, fail to find the tight niche in the world. They are not to blame, poor fellows; bat, unless they are rich by inherit- ance, they bave no business to marry, for they always have large families, that they find it bard *work to feed and clothe. Mrs, NoRTON—What a beautiful character Mrs, Hedden ts, She isso well drawnthat I felt upon laying down the work that I had lost a dear friend. The Docror—She ts one of the angels who walk Unseen on earth, but who when flown are recog- nized. Feiicta—I don’t see why the heroine, May, need have hada birth mark on her cheek. She might heve been made plain looking without being de- fermea, Such things are bad enough in real life without having them thrust at us tn fiction, Miss RacHeI—That 18 part of the story, which goss to show how a homely, almost deformed, girl won the love of all who knew hef by the no- bility of her character, Feicra—it 1s incomprehensible to me how such a fme fellow as Cari Cromer, who might have had nis pick of giris, should have thrown himeelf away upon May. Ican better understand his love for Rosa Wagner, heartless creature that she was, for he aid not know that, and her beauty capti- vated him. Miss RacHEt— Ronald ts the best man fn the book, I think. He ts far more attractive to me than Carl. He was so strong, and Cari was often very weak. FRED—After making Otis Wagner such @ bad than that. By the way, did you notice that the author uses the word “aggravated” Incorrectly ? She says that Mr. Wagner “was 60 aggravated by the way Mr. Hedden answered him back,” &c. Now, according to Webster, “aggravated’’ means “increased in severity or enormity; made worse.’’ The Docror—It tsa very common mistake, and Marion Hariand ts not the only person wao \says hair preparatory toretiring for the night)—Have you read “Jack's Sister” (Harper & Bros,), the book that Archie Hamilton left here the other day ? Miss Racwezr, trom her own chair by the fire- place—Yes, I have read it and agree with Archie that itis a very clever story. Fe.icta—It is not only clever, but itis very nat- ural; as Archie says, it is like finding a spring in & desert to come across 48 good a story as this trom the pen of an unknown author, Miss RAcuEL—I don’t know when I have seen better character painting. The Delamayne family must have been drawn from the life. -Don’t they suggest the Stroud family very stsongly? And Baby*Delamayne, although she seems too worldly wise and heartiess for so young a girl, 19 very much like Aunie Strond. FELiciA—~Yes, I thought of the Strouds all the time. Enid Leyburn was too true to her trust, I think. Merle ts a perfectly odious fellow. I can- not understand why Enid did not find him out sooner; every one else knew just how bad Ne was. | But (tugging at aM onrufy snarl fa her hair? Archie says @ Man seidom snows the cloven foot to as he was capable of loving. She believed in tim, and thought it was persecation when the others denounced him. The fact of being bis champion made her love hem, I suppose. Miss RACHEL—Although the author would have us understand that Enid was really more in love ‘with Clutton Gore she does things for Merie thata girl could not do fora man uuless she loved bim truly. the girl he loves; and Merle did love Enid as truly | “He Cometh Not, She Said,” and such like. Out on the lot! I say. read’ the book before you condemn it. my purpose. Here comes the heroime over the bad taste to begin with—and sne is described as being unmistakably a lady, and her name is Jacqueline Thayne, She meets a small boy on the bridge, to whom in the generosity of her heart she ives a jew pennies to buy some gingerbread. A perfect lady in thought, word and deed, for this is |«What |.a3ses through her mind as she places her hand on the “dirty pile of hair:’’—‘Lousy, I dare- gay, or scald head; but, you miserable little raga- muMn, Pm sorry for you. God made you as well a8 me, and I can take no special credit on my side for the difference between us; yet, having made you—for what reason He knows, I don’t—its natu- Tal He shouid care for you more than He does for me, a8 Ive had the best chance thus far.” Not only ladylike but logical; no wonder the people of Heagerows thought her odd if she ever gave pubiic expression to suco thoughts. Misa RacoueL—The girl improves as the story goes on, Faep—She might well do that; put even then! cannot understand how she ever succeeded 10 Getting two lovers, One was all she deserved. Miss RacHEL—if you read the story you will find out, A great deal depends upon the k vers, does it not? One was naughty and the other was nice, One proposed to-her aud she refused him, and the other did not propose and she accepted him, There is a littie plotting and counter-plotting in the story, the moral of which 18, that if you “tell the truth and shame the devil’? ail will be well with you, “POR THB KING'S DUES.” “Now, here is a little novel worth reading,” said Fred, taking ‘For the King’s Dues” (Macmillan & Co.) out of his sister’s work basket. FsLicla—It ts, indeed, a pretty story and very English, I do not care so much for the hero and heroine as I do for some of the other characters. Dolly Carrell is a much more attractive girl to me than Amice Blunt, Frep—Amice ts too sweet and too sensitive, She could not take a little chafing without getting 1n a pet, while Dolly could give as well as take. 1 do not like these girls with great gray eyes, who go through the worla without seeing any but its Much as you dislike girls like Amice. I do not think it necessary fer an officer to show his valor by turning spy and sneak. 1 do not think he fully understood the meaning of those lines of Love- Jace that he was so jond of (looking at Feliciay)— I could not love thee, dear, 30 much, Loved I not honor more. and then toenter@ man’s house, ashe did Jack Cartaret’s, and pry into an old woman's most sacred treasures? That is what I call overreach- ing the mark, and had 1 been the girl he loved 1 would have cut him dead, FELIGIA (energetically)—And so would I. He showed how delicate were his perceptions by bis Wauting to drag Amice into court to testmy against the smugglers, I cannot imagine how Wolly could have had even @ momentary passion for such & man, not but that he was @ worthy fellow in Many ways; but his life followed bis own narrow measure too closely. Dolly would be my choice for a wife a thousand times sooner than Amice. \ Miss RacHEL—You must remember that Amice had been brought up in a country parsonage, while Dolly was a reigning belle 1p London society. If Amice bad seep @ little more of toe world it would bave done her good, aithough I tnink her very lovable as she was, and sbe showed consider- able spirit at times, Frep—I will give her credit for behaving very well that night tn the cave. 1 don’t believe Felicia here would have been any braver, and I know that Rachel woujd bave fainted with iright and been drowned by thé rising tide. . Miss RacheL—Frea, what a tiresome fellow you are! isnouid have done nothing of the kind. In the first place I never would nave gone into a cave to read—I am not romantic enough for that—and im the second piace I should bave picked up my petticoats and waded out the moment the water began to come in. AncBIE HaMILTON—That cave experience is very ARCHIE HamMiLTON—Oome now, Fred, that is not fair to yudge of @ book by its title. You should FRED—I’m obliged to you, bus a glance answers bridge, dressed wy @ brown hat.and gray shawl— if I were @ man | Arsene Houssaye’s “Parisian Society of To-day” will be issued in book form by G, P, Putnam’s Sons. MM. Eckmann-Chatrtan’s “Brigadier Frederic” Will be published im this country py Scribner, Arm- strong & Co. A posthumous essay on “Socialism,” by John Stuart Mill, will soon be brought out. BE. P. Dutton & Co, will soon issue a $3 edition of Farrar’s “Life ef Christ.” Dr. J. G. Hollaud ts said to make the cleanest “copy” of any apthor. A well known writer calls Susan Coolidge, Miss Woolsey, the American Hans Christian Andersen. “Housekeeping ia the Blue Grass” is the rur title of a cook book prepared by the ladies of the Presoyterian church Of Paris, Kentucky, and pub- Ushed tn Cincinnati, Mr. George F, Fort, a distinguished lawyer of Camden, N. J., has just completed “The Barly His- tory and Antiquities of Free Masonry,” upon which he has been engaged for severai years, Mr. Fort proves that many features which exist in the modern society are directiy derived from old Norse sources. Authorities are produced to attest the contemporaneous existence of Germanic guilds in Northern Italy with a corporation of By- gzantine builders, Mr. William Biaek inflicts another letter on “American Curiosity” upon the readers of the Atheneum, in which as little as possible is satd in the largest number of words. » Mr. Raiston, of tne British Museum, is lecturing to Londoners on ‘Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning.” ‘The Boston magazine Old and New will hereafter be published py Lee & Shepard, and will be tilus- trated, Mr. Gladstone’s pamphlet on the Vatican decrees has been selling ior weeks in London at the rate of 7,000 copies a day average. * Spiritualist literature appears to bave cap- tured several of the magazines of late, A new edition of the Latin Fathers, well edited, 18 promised by the Imperial Academy of Austria. This is greatly needed, as the Abbé Migne’s edigion of the Fathers has been out of print ever since the burning of jts immense pub- Usbing establishment, and was moreover very in- correct tn text. Decidedly the book that bas made the greatest sensation among recent Catholic publications ts Mrs, St. Joun Eckel’s autobiography, under tha title of “Maria Monk’s Daughter.” It bas been it, The young authoress has been unmercitully Persecuted by some of the unco pious, But now comes the venerable Orestes brownson, the most famous and uncompromising champion of ultra- montanism in America, to the rescue of the plucky little woman. He says:— Her book bears on every page the stamp, not merely of eminent ability, out of rare genius, more entertaining; and the reader, having once taken it up, will hardly be able to lay it down belore having read on ‘to the end. AS’ a mere literaly production it is not surpassed and is hardly equalied by any that has issued (rom the American press. We thank God for it, ana we thank Him that He has brovgat one, naturaily so bright and so gifted, from darkuess to light, and enabled her to find solace and peace in living in sacred union with Him. Her trials and struggies are not yet over, perhaps are but just beginming; | but let her take courage, and remember that wno- ever would win the crown must fight and conquer. For ourselves, we believe God has raised her up, permitted hier to ran an exiraordinary career, and enabled her to acquire a lar,e and varied experi- ence of lie, that she may do a great and good work for his glory. To His gracious providence rh Gates dk boti her and ler book. God speed oth. BOOKS RECEIVED. The Works ot William E. Channing, D. D., witb an Introduction. New and complete edition, re- arranged. Boston: ameriedh Unitarian Associa- tion. Tne Valiant Woman. A Series of Discourses by Mgr. Landriot, Archbishop of Rheims, Trans- lated by Helena Lyons, Buston: Patrick Dona- bue. The Strawcutter’s Daughter. Edited by Lady Georgiana Fullerton. New York: P. U'Shea, KING ALFONSO’S PLATFORM. Prince Alfonso of the Asturias, now King of Spain, received, at bis residence in England, addresses from the grapdees of Spain and from many of the political “circles” of Madrid con- of my time, truly liberal. Yours, &c.. ALFONSO DE BOBDON. YORKTOWN (Sanahurst), Dec. 1, 1874 THE “SHAKERS” IN ENGLAND INTERVIEW WITH MOTHEB GIRLING, THE wud PRIESTESS OF THE SECT. Areporter of the Northampton (England) Radi- cal visited the despotied temple of the scet of Eng- lish Shakers soon after the forcible ejection of the congregation from their location ia the woods, near that city, by the constables, This occurred: shortly before Christmas Day. He nad an {pter- view with the High Priestss, Mra. Girling, which is published in the Radical, THE INTERVIEW WITH MRS, GIRLING. T left the tempie and retraced my steps toward the barn, where the Hign Priegtess of the persua- sion was located. It was now five o'clock, and night had crept on. I had a mile anda balf to waik, and on reaching this lady superior’s tempo- rary domicile, was courteousigushered tnto her presence by @ pretty Shakeress in trousers, Mrs, Girling was seated by a good fire, in this audience chamber. It was only about eight feet by six, and 80 stiflingly close that my first remark was one of extremé commiseration with the lady over the excessive hardships she was being subjected to, “Ob, we are not incommoded in the least,” she answered with a sort of serapbic simile, “Uur dear Lord 13 only eying our faith, He doeth what seemeth to him to ve good. Blessed be His nsme.’” Talluded to ber persecutors, but no such name would she use with reference to them. They were rather to be pitied—nay, even to be prayed for, Mrs. Girling, I asked, who was the founder of your sect? e Toe message, sir, was given to me personally, so that lam the Nead and the founder of this co munity. We have no written creed—no book con. taluing our revelations—we have written rules of our community, and hymns which our own poetesses have written, and which we sing, but otherwise, we have no literature of our religion, which we can show you. We are not Shakers as those at Oneida Creek, New York, are; these latter are free lovers, but we are celibates. We do not experience any of the desires of the flesh, and have not since the date of our second birth, I havo it from God himself, that I shail not see death. 1am as positive of that as that [am now sitting In this chair, I am an illiterate woman, poor and weak, bat nevertheless, no power in heaven, or earth, or hetl, could remove from me the memory Of that vision, or the abiding sense of sense Of 1t8 reality watch I entertain, You accept the Bible, Mrs. Girling ? Of course we do, And we aecept it more fully, and with more fatthminess to its real literal text, than the other sects, They do violence to its meaning, because they tear the frowns of the world around them. In the-fuiness of our joy | ef the manners, customs, ar architecture, C we dance, as the patriarch Davia of oid banca es a anna plier net toapegegehl | aulenbertaet he a melas Mobaitess and | fellow, I think he should have done something | solemn stde. Give me agiri who will laugh and | unsparingly praised and unsparingly denounced. | qi, “votre the ‘Lord. We are ‘considered Makes them as interesting as human beings, or | worse than to uave turned oat a popular preacher | cry with me by turns—oitener the former than | McMasters and some of the priests declare itim- | eccentric (Mrs. Girling pronounced the word @ravings in it present all the barbaric pomp and! more so, for we know somewhat less about them, | ip a rien parish. Ronald did not do any better | the latter. moral, Two libel suits have already sprung out of | @#8entTic) ; but we cannot heip that We @quaiid poverty of the country; the magnificence, | and that which M. Van Beneden telis us is new. ARCHIE HaMILTon—I dislike men like Frazer as consider .only the glory of the Father. We do not believe only, we know, that Christ is shortly to appear aud take os to reign with him over the earth jor @ thousand years in the clouds. We shall reign m these bodies we now possess, Strange as it may appear to you these bodies of ours (those of us who have been converted) have already undergone tneir finai change, 1 have aiready died unto sin, I have been dead, felt the cold, clammy feeling, and come to life again. Do not look tncredulous, tt is the fact. 4 ect, It is one of the most seductive works of | antee their excellence. M. Janet telis us all about > Did he think 1s was honorable foran oMcer in | The work sparkles with wit and vivacity, Is it true, Mrs. Girling, that your communit, Sravel ever peuned, and tue manner in wich it 18 | tho iathers and sponsors of the first Revolauion | ihaee (oa cee ae His Majesty's service to dress up 88 8 Peasant and | i ee er On withoee vedere, | Possesses all a ar gomamon = got up reflects infmite credit on the publishers. | ang explains their influence. Then he passes on | fFergcra (combing out her bratds of chestnut | SPY BOM ® Party of unsuspecting countrymen, | ang with apparent unconsciousness. No novel 18 Parag GI a Coe ee ae given all be or she sessed—the poor man bis penny, the rieh man bis pound. We neither marry nor give in marriage. Christ did not, Paul did not. We ure waiting for our Lord's appearing. The lack of faith on the part of the world alone deters Him from being, even now, call- ing his people for ever from the earth. Ir 19 true that we do,not sell, for we have no wish to make merchandise and profit in this siniul world, irom which we are so swiftly flee- ing away. Weare obliged to buy, but thatis be- cause, as yet, we are not able to produce all that we need among ourselves. We hold thatit is wrong to goto law. If any man taketh from us our coat we are willing to give our cloak also. Some of our dear brothers on tne dreadful night of our ejection even tendered their coats to their ejectors. We feel that all that is now transpiring is a trial of our faith. May 1 ask, Mrs, Girling, to what religtous boay you originally beionged ? 1 was brought up in the Church of Engiand, but was afterwards of the Methodist persuasion, in which I was @ diligent class leader for several years, I became too biblical for them. I labored muci in Eastern Suffolk, and I come irom near Saxmundham in that coun MRS. GIBLING’S APPRARANCE. The little hovel where we were sitting was filled with smoke. There was no light, other than the lurid giare of the fire Kindied on the hearth, and which lit up the wan features of this modern sybil with a strange, unearthly glare. As she spoke eye dilyted, her voice increased in intensity, and in the more solemn and earnest passages toned down into a Blow, deliberate monotone, every word Pronounced with all the distinctness and emphasis ot @ practised elocutionls. Her age, we think, 1s about att givey She is tall, of dark complex- lon, wiry aod very nimble and agile in her move- ments, Possessed of & superabundant vitality and @ good physique, she does look as I! she will live a very long time. Her face 18 small, her features sharp and her eyes very keen and piercing. Her voice {8 very sweet and melodious. Despite the fervor of faith she aims at being argumentative in discourse rather her gratulating himon the advent of his eighteenth eighty cents the volume, so that every one may | fe at the bottom of most of them. His work 1s ny well told. The writer is excellent at descriptions , than rhapsodical. She has always her fin- poens. encumbering himself with superfuous most important of the French colonies. 4 at times. e ig auswer:— pebleas ot feuatbe” What beonene lese Wednen, ‘Mteratare. ‘aeworrs DU DUC DE sarNt Siuox,” Yy MM. Cheruel and A. Régnier the younger, openg ‘the first series of the Bibliotheque variée, issued ‘by Messrs. Hachette, and its price is seventy cents, At is a new edition of the well known “‘Mémoirs de Baint Simon;” but it is not a simple reproduction of the old editions, M. Régnier is sul-livrarian of ‘the Institute of France, and he nas thus been on- abied to restore the original text of the Duke's | memoirs as they were first written, and to cor- | ‘pect many errors and corruptions which had vi- Hated it. This work is accompanied by a notice | ef M, de Sainte-Beave, and it will be useiul to care- Sul students of history as well as to those readers ‘who are entertained by old scandals and queer gossip. “LA BASSE-COUR,” BY VICTOR RENDU, fs a pleasant treatise, adapved for the instraction ef rich farmers’ wives who are fond of their poul- ‘ry yerd, The author taiks delightfully about | @ocks and hens, turkeys aud geese, ducks and | | | *” ‘pigeons, and he sells the result of his experience fer ten cents. This little book is accompatied ‘With fourteen engravings. “GROGRAPHIE DE La FRANCE,” BERT, PAR BE. CORTEM: | | ten to prove that the married hives of artists | irritable being marry without eonsulting his “DB LA PROPRIETE ET S£E3 FORMS PRIMITIVES,” aiso publisned by Germer Bailtitre, ts a book by M. Emile de Layeleye, member o1 the Royal Acade- mies of Belgium, Madrid and Lisbon. It treats of the tenure of property in ancient and modern countries in all the ages of the world, and explains the principies which should regulate succession @ad inheritance. It is dedicated to the memory of John Stuart Mill and of Francois Fluet, and it is one of the most suggestive worke on political economy which has ocen published in France for many years. “LES FEMMES D'ARTISTES,” BY ALPHONSE DAUDET (DENTU, PUBLISHER). This is a little book. of light French tales, writ- are generally unhappy. We would suggest as a remedy that artists should choose their wives bet- ter. A great French composer lately deserted bis young wife, alleging that while he was composing she would intrude upon him twenty times in a morning to ask him if he had seen her scissors, thimble, &c., and shat in the evenings she obliged bim put on his dress clothes and dragged | him about society to exhibit bim hke a | pet lapdog. Well, but why did this gifted but loved her; then it was too late. have come to the point earlter. Miss RacHEL—What @ pity that a man cannot wear a little thermometer over his heart to show the state of bis affections. When he saw the mer- cury rising he snould begin to pay court slightly, at eighty degrees decidedly, and at boiling point propose. FELICIA—Suppose you get out a patent, my dear cousin, Miss RacuEt—! prefer leaving that to some one cise, for I do not want to make troubie in the world. Pienty of men who think they love their wives and sweethearts quite well enough would find the mercury at zero if they had heart ther- mometers. As itis, they jog along in biissful ig- norance of the true state of affairs. Pevicta—It is strangely natural fora dear, big, elephantine fellow like Jack Leyburn to fall in love with a nollow-hearted, babyish creature like the little Delamayne. Lucky for him that he tound her out in time, Whata lite they would have led had they married! And how natural for Cilfton Gore to loath her the Moment she gave herself up to him! It is @ wonder that he did not see through her at first, he was 60 much more a man of the world than dear Jack. Clitton should A FANTASTIC HISTORY. “Come here, Lucy ana Harry; I have such treat for you,” said Mrs. Norton to the two chil- dren who were playing dominoes on ber bedroom foor, i “uh, a beautiful new book)’ said Harry. 1g it about, mamma ?” “This is “The Fantastic History of the Celebrated Pierrot,’*! replied the mother. “I got it to read to my dear littie children when they are tired of play and want to hear @ beautiful story.”” “Yell us about it first, mamma,” said Lucy, “and then read It co us afterward.” “once upon @ time,” began the mother, ‘‘a mil- Jer and his wife had a littleson whom they named Pierrot. Now Pierrot bad a fairy godmother whose name was Aurora, and there was nothing that she would deny her favorite godchild. When he grew to be 4 man Pierrot became a soldier, and, with the heip of the good fairy, he fought and conquered armies, giants, demons and every- thing that came in his way. He was a great man, and lived a giorious life, and although he began his career as @ poor peasant boy he became the virtual Emperor of China, Thibet, Mongolia and the peninsula of Corea. “What is ali that you are trying to make these “What Ihave received from Spain a great number of congratulations upon the anniversary of my birth, and some {rom countrymen of ours now resident im Frauce. I desire to convey to you, as well a8 to all who have congratulated me, the expression of my gratitude and also that of my opint All Who have written to me snow themselves equally convinced that only by the re-establisument of the constitutional Monarchy can the oppression, the uncertainty and the cruel disturbances experi- enced by Spain be pus an end to. | am told that this is recognized by the majority of our com- patriots, and tat before long all those who are in good faitn will be with me, whatever may have been tueir political antecedents, understanding that they have to fear no exclusion irom a uew and ‘unprejudiced monarcn or from a system which is imposed to-lay precisely because it repre- septs ubion and peace. know not when or how, nor if this hope is to be realized. I can only say that 1 will omit noth- ing to make myself worthy of the dificult mis- sion Of re-establishing in our noble country legal order and political liberty at the same time as concord, if God, in His nigh designs, confides it to me. In virtue 0! the spontaneous and solemn ab- dication oO! my august mother, Whose generosity is only equalled by her misfortune, I am the soie representative of monarchicai mgbt in Spain. ‘This right rests upon the legislation of ages, coa- firmed by all the precedents of frones 1 and it is indissulubly united to the representative institu- tions, which Never ceased to act legaily during the thirty-five years which passed from the beginaing of my motwer’s reign until I, being still a child, trod, with all my family, a 1oreign soil. The nauion day before the wiseacres of the Lymington Union, Jor the purpose of being pronounced non compos men@is, she utterly discomfited the poor medical genius on whose certificate she’ had been appre- hended. Indeed it is uo easy matter for Bible Christians of any sect to hold their own in argu- ment with Mra. Girling, Jor, as she herself says, she has the Bible so thoroughly by heart that were you to burn it to-day she could reproduce it word by word, THE WEEK OF PRAYER. CLOSING EXERCISES AF DR. ROGERS’ CHURCH LAST EVENING—ADDRESSES BY DRS, ROGERS, COLLINS, HAMILTON AND WASHBURN. A general meeting of the Evangelical Alliance to bring toaclose the exercises of the week of prayer was held last night, at the South Reformed church, corner of Twenty-first street and Fifth avenue, The building was filled to its utmost capacity by an audience eager to listen to the re- marks of the speaker upon the effects of the late great revival in Ireland and Scotland. The ad- dresses were prefaced by @ prayer by Rev. Dr. Rogers, afer which the choir rendered the *Can- tate Domini,” Buck; the 468tn Hymn, ‘Heavenly Dwelling,” Schubert; Hymn 679, Congregational; Hymn $82, “Watchman tell ‘us of the night,” Con- { L—Ji being now orphaned of ali pubiic rignts and indefi- “i Vice President of the Geographicat Society, is a | future wifes character? When @ man hires a | Miss Racuei—Jack was a large hearted but | cniidren velleve?” said the Doctor, entering the nitely deprived of ver veFues, itis hataral that | @regational. Dr. Rogers then addressed th compilation showing the changes made in French | house he 1s never tired of making inquiries—W he often narrow minded fellow. The idea of his tell- | yoom and warming his hands at the open fire. | she should turn her eyes to ber accustomed con- | assembly upon the effects of the revivat wrritory by the Franco-German war. buys a horse it is much worse; but as to wives, an | ing bis fancée that she must not wear her hair “Lbave just been tellmg them about an English | Sututional rights and to those tree insututions | in this country. He said that men had “MANUBL MILITAIRE DE LA JEUNE: artist falls in love with @ pretty face, raves ro- ‘Dy A. Gandoiphe, captain of the Twenty-filth regi- ment of artillery, is a good class book soldiers, and enters into the elementary science of modern wariare. The recent improvements in @Brearms are care(wily treated. The for young | book is sold | | eccentricities to please her. | have very little sympathy with the Bohemianism | mantically, dismisses @ll prudential considera- tions, and, after marriage, feels quite aggrieved | because nis wife cannot alter her nature to suit | him, wen he will not sacrifice a single one of his To vell the truth, we | im @ certain way because his aunt and some other old ladies did not like it. That was carrying the joke a littie too Jar (giving the coals a savage dig with the poker). PeLicia—Stili it was just like such a man. You must remember that Jack was a man's man, and that he never would bave gone near a woman if book I bought at Scribner, Armstrong & Co.'s tnis morning,” replied his wife. “It is a fantastic tuing, a cross between Juies Verne and Baron Munchausen, and beautifully Mlustrated with a picture on almost every page. I think that chil- dren are better pleased with such stories than | those about the little goodies, who never look out | which neither prevented her from deiending her | independence 1m 1¥12 nor irom concluding in 1340 another obstinate civil war, Sie owed to them | aiso many years of constant progress, of prosper- | 1ty, of crédit, aud even of some wiory; years Which iv 1s not easy © blot out from the memory when there are stiil so many Who have known them. For all these reasons it 1s doubtless that the hered- itary and representative monarchy alone inspires Spain with confidence, since she regards it as the sneered at the idea of holding prayer meetings in the daytime in this city, in the very heart oj the business centre. But it nad been done, and with success, and to-day there were thousands who ad- mitted that the Spirit of God dwelt in them through the prayers offered in their behalf and made by themseives in the old John street church or forty cents. MM, MICHEL LEVY FKERES ‘will publish next mouth a ¥ arnea book, by works, must, of course, | be bad not been trapped vy Baby Delamayne. Miss RacHeL—I do not believe that a feliow like Clifton Gore couid ever have played the rascal’s guaraotee (for Which no substitute cap be found) of her rights and interests, from the working classes up to the nighest. ‘In the meantime, not only bas everything been overtarown which ex- andin the old Fulton street church, where, be thanked God, miaday prayers were yet to be heard. He believed God haa blessed and woula of the window on Sundays and sit ail day twirling | their thumbs and longing for Monday. Stories | luke the “Adventures of Pierrot’? dono harm and | | of genius, A man while he | pe let alone; but it is mooushine to pretend that | ne cannot compose as great works in the society | care abe shee oat a ia a soap btincapt | of a good wife as with a number of dissolute con- | part he 1s made to playin this story. That 18 | are very amusing.” isted in 1868, but also everythin which | yet bless more abundantly their efforts to spread i gion, spc se philosoph Kg it o ina, In- | Neetions flaunting round bis desk or easel. The | he chine pi: seri ph aed cete Bid iad icales Want ‘acts Have” aboard the oust. Bus Holy Word among ali the nations of the eartn, I id. Posen, Oo philosophy o ihe a 0 pamela example oi Byron has turned the minds of second FeLICIA—1 am so glad that the little Brace girl LITERARY OHIT-CHAT. tution of 1845, that which was formed ip | and to that end and for fis giory the Churcn nad sent out its missionaries, The Doctor related some instances of the anxiety that existed in Ireland ae to whether dally prayer meetings would be a suc- cess in this country. REV. CHARLES COLLINS was then Introduced tothe audience, and stated | rate brain-workers to @ theory at once disorderly | did not go to the bad, although stie came pretty and faise to nature, for purity of life is the chief | near it after Merie’s treatment of her, She turned essential to that vigor of thought by which alone | Out splendidiy. That scene between the three, the | works of lasting reputation are produced, | litte Brace, then the Dynevor, the Count and | Merie was spiendit. Ifever a fellow got what he | deserved, It was Merle Kinnardson. Macmillan & Co, will soon publisa the “Remmnis- | 1369 upon the basis, no been oa existing, 01 the mon- | archy was also been abolished by tacts. ia Junta | of Senators and Deputies, unconstituted by any legal lorm, decreed the Republic, the only Vortes convoked with the deliberate intention Of estao- lisning t system were very soon dissolved by the bayonets of the garrison of Madrid, All political questions are thas pending, and me, which refers parw Egypt, deserves the carejul study of theologians and aotiquarians @m aii countries. {t shows us how one creed has @ucceedea another in the world’s annals and of ‘what each creed was made, aad we see censes and Diary” of W. R. Macready, the actor. The same firm is preparing @ second edition of Baron Hubner’s “Rambles Round the World.” Every article iu tue London Academy 1s signed by the author’s (ull name. many | o ST Uilitits bs things. @o08etta ie My ah are stilaeimara | ies RACH —THS BEIT Of this Pook & un ‘The February number of Scribner's Monthly will | even reserved on the part of the present rulers, to | that the good work of Messrs. Moody and Sankey SEMMEMGSIA W6. thal portnps. dtapate for ever, YuoM MY YOUTH UP. | doubtediy a woman, for sue speaks so truly im de-| contain @ biograpiical aud critical article on | Dé,tteely decided in che tuture, Fortugutely. tne | in freland and Sdotiand had met with a success esate Gombated till they were besten down tnon. “what do you think of Marion Harland’s last | fence of her sex. | pneodore Thomas, by Mr. Jobn R. G, Hassard, the | in its principles the necessary flexibility, and the | far beyond their most sanguine expectations. He ’ 4 ponte Nogt And hage s therea | FeLIcla—In the fret part of the book that18 80, | rusical critic of the Trivune. A portrait of Mr. | Beed!ui conditions of success, for the solution in | Said that every large hali in the city of Edinburgh ee Sem Sey WO apring: oy n | Dovel?” asked Miss Rachel of the family gathered | | oc oos’back on usin the latter part. Listen | ‘ 7 | Conformity with the desires and interests of the | Was flied atevery ideeting to its utmost, and ue fresh, with new life and vig The sece | around the library table an evening or two since. | A fh, gece | Thomas will accompany the article, Sations of all the problems involved in ite Te-es. | had seen over 600 people standing i vne streets Gon which applies to India will i “{ have just fiisbed the book ana like it very | 1 ‘tis:—“Is not the drama of the betrayal carried | odd & Mead have sold 10,000 copies of Rev. E. | taviishment. to obtain admission to the places of worship. At “ ven uataia’ oes || eT ae ie 1 ‘down a copy of | out every day, even as it was in the varden of | p, Roe's “Opening of a vhestnat Burr.” Let no one expect me to decide anything | one meeting alone there had been gathered to- Diy be more eagerly read in Engiand than | much, i 8. Norton, laying do py | begs hastily or arbitrarily. Witnout the Cortes Spanish | gether (ue enormous namber oi 30,000 peopie. At | Gethsemane long ago?—only it isthe woman now who contrives to take the leading part on mort | | occasions. Judas was & poor, bungling traitor | compared tomany @ fair-haired, sweet-iaced girl | tn fritied akirts and Dolly Varden hat. Sometimes 1 fee! aimost inclined to doubt whether there be any faith or honor between women at ail. I pray there may pe, Nay, for the credit of the sex and | from my own experience, I dare vouch there is on | certain occasions, and with one condition always provided—that no man, or ehadow of @ man, en- | ter into the case. Granted this, and I could even velleve in the possibility of such a rara avis honest female friendship.” G. P, Putnam's Sons have in press a yolume on ‘ “Religion as Alfected by Modern Materialism,” by | James Martineau, with an introduction by Rev. | pr. Bello «s The volume is an analysis of Tyn- | | dali’s doctrines. The same house has just issued | Hieber’s “Treatment of Nervous Diseases hy Eleo- tricity,” and “The Bewildered Querists,” a curious | Uttie volume, by Francis Blake Crofton. Roverts Brothers Have tn press for immediate pubiicatton, “Recollections and Suggestions of Public Life,” by Jonn Ear! Russell; “social Press- use,” by Sir Arthur Helps; ‘Gubernatorial Rell- i | gion,” “Our Sketcning Club,” by R, St. John Tyr- What have you got to | wnitt; “Life of Ezra Stiles Gannett,” by his son another 16,000 had congregated to listen to the Word of God, In Aberdeen they Numbered 3,500 to 4.000, and to-day there were 10,000 converts in Wie different Scotch cities, all converted within three months, In the city of Aberdeen alone there 400 converts among the young people. In iz 1, the reward was not yet so great, but the spirit of God was fast making iteeli manifest among the people, and he believed that at no distant day her converts would be numbered by the thousands, as in scotland, He regretted the dissensions among the churches in thia country and hoped they would soon end, and tl ‘evivals Would be looked upon With the same interest as they are in the coun- tries mentioned above, He trusted that the daily prayer meetings would spread all over the differ- ent cities aud produce the good he knew they would {f ministers and professed Christians ion from every | “From my Youth Up.” (G. W, Carleton & 00.) the theoryand | “There's where I don’t agree with you, mother," said Fred, “for 1 was disappointed in tue book.” Mrs. NorToxy—Expiain yourself, Fred; 1 thought the story Was very interesting indeed. FReD—O! course you did; vat I don’t want to be trapped into reading a Sunday scnool book by having it cailed @ povel. The Docrou—There you do the book injustice, my son, for itis @ much better, purer and much less sensational story than asually finds its way to the shelves of our Sunday school libraries. Prep—I grant that, eir; but, nevertueless, the work 1s too pions for my tastes, When I want to princes never transacted serious business in the ancient tunes of the monarchy, and thts Most just rule of conduct wili not be forgotten “Y me in the present state of things and when ail Spaniards are already used to parliamentary proceedings. | When cases shall arise it will asy for & true. hearted prince and a free people to understand each other and to agree upon ail questions which may have to be decided, Nothing do I desire so much a8 that our country should be truly free. To this the hard lesson of these times must power. fully contribute—a lesson which, it It can be Jost | upon no one, can be #o least of all upon the hon- est and laborious men of the people, who have been victims to perfidious sophistries or to absurd dejusions, All that we are witnessing shows | Us that the greatest and most prosperous | nattons—where order, liberty and justice are best America, but it deserves a giatesman wihio is interested in practice of government, because it reveals the secret springs by whico men’s minds are movea, | ud how they may olten ve swayed by tradition nd faith when they are deaf to reason, fhe ac- eount of the retigious bistory and literature of the | Persians is Doth Dew and curious, and the story ef Chaiaes, that of Syria and Nineven is a welcome | commentary on the disputed passages in Holy Writ. The book, though learned, ts not dali, and ft is full of anecdotes and episodes such as only can De told by agreat writer who is master of his | — > | d—a te: wouid only steadfastly perform the work it wus yom PUMLOSOPHIQUES ET LITTERArRES,” rar | FeOd @ religious book I prefer an outand-outer— | say to that? F | “Harry Blount,” by Poilip Gilbert Hamerton, and | Rehan "Own MIAtGry Tous, ta ruth, does. not their bounden ‘duty to perform, He could ander- 4 L. ViTer. the Bible or “Pilgrim's Progress,” simple and un- | ‘Miss Racist, refectively—Only this: that the | +, Rambling Story,” by Mary Cowden Clark. | prevent them from observing attentively and fol- | stand as far 96 Bay morsel Lhe Gy me Geaven Sr r ‘This is @ work written by a French academician, | adulterated. | Woman who wrote it bas been pretty hard hit at The “Gr Memoirs” will be issued this month | lowing with secure steps the progressive march of Pe py ‘a ames Farnrecy . civilization, May, then, Divine ‘and it has attracted considerable attention in | FxLicla—Do you suppose the book is at all auto- some time invher jife, | in a Bric-A-Brac volume, by Seribner, Armstrong One day the Spahish people May be animated to | working in the Vineyard of his Lord, and ue France, partly owing to the literary cele- | biographical? | ONE WOMAN'S TWO LOVERS. | & Co. They will not be iljusuated, as at first an- | follow these exawpies. For my part, I am in- | trusted Go ly an miaay go abroad pf * Deity of its author, and partly to the | The Docron—fardly; it does not agree with | FPRsv, readtng the title of Virginia ¥. Townsend’s | nounced, Cg my aeio tate eee ie eon aed it religion in eiMtnere to Keep vatthiully at work. fact that it is preceded by & genial | whatI nave heard of the author's ile. | last novel, publisued by LAppincott & Go, “Une | Am Arctic and Antarctic navy list, containing | spain does not obt ‘position in it worsy of | Other addresses were made by Rev. Drs. Hamilton and statesmaplike = oreiace @yriteo by M Misa Racnat—Marion Harjand is Mrs. E. P. Ter. | Woman’a Two Lovers"—What 4 name to give ® 4 the names of every naval officer who bas seryed in | bar bistory, and at the time Indanandent and de- | aud Washbore