The New York Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1875, Page 6

THE ERA OF GOOD FEELING.” ea ES ae ete The Diary of John Quincy Adams as Secretary of State. INNBR LIFE OF MONROK’S ADMINISTRATION -—_—_—_ | Sketches of the Men and the Time. The Missouri Question and the Opening of the Slavery Agitation. | en | SHADOWS OF THE REBELLION MEMOIRS OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, comprising por- tions of his Diary from 1795 tu 1848, Edited oy Charles Francis Adams. Vol. tv. Pniladeipnia: J, B. Lippincott «& Co. When we closed the iast volume of this most interesting contribution to the political history of America Jobn Qniney Adams bad accepted the office of Secretary of State under President Mon- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 1875--QUADRUPLE SHEET. eandidates for the next Presidency to decay me | or vetiement, He spoke with great power, and | vilifying us for twenty years as a low-minded, as much a8 possible in public opimion, The men conspicuous In this are Crawiord. Secretary of the Treasury, and Clay and De Witt Clinton, Clay ex- pected himself to be Secretary of State, and be auc ail his creatures are disappointed by my ap- pointment, He is therefore coming out as the head of & neW opposition in Congress, and be makes nO seruple of giving the tone to all his party in running me down.’ Forsyth, the Chairman of the House Commitiee on Poreign Afairs, was = evidentiy no match for Clay, who kept continually stinging him, as if he were “a dependant to the Execut've.”* “Forsyth,” says Adams, “is a man of mild, ania- ble disposition and good talents, but neither by weight Of character, torce of genius nor keenness Of spirit’, at all able to cope with Clay.’ This ani mosity continued, much disturving the Presi- dent. “Clay,” says Adams—and considering that this entry bas marked -ignificance., “Clay appears to have made up his misd to succeed Monroe in expectation of being appointed Secretary of State. ln this he was disappointed, and though offered the War Department declined accepting it, and from that moment formed. the project of rising upon the ruin of the administration.” THE MONROE CABINET, President, while Calhoun generally agreed with Adams. Crawford seemed to make it *‘a point of | honor’ to differ on all occasions with the he aiterwara became bis own Secretafy of State— | the Presidency, and supported bis election in the | In the Cabinet there was not much good feeling. | Crowninshield and Wirt always agreed with the | the great siuveholders ip the House gnawed their | | lps and clenched their fists as they heard pit.” Later m thesmonth there Was an evening | Party at Mr. Calboun’s, “Nothing was talked ‘of “but the Missouri question and the | speeches of King.” “The slavebolders,” writes Adams, “cannot hear of them without being seized with cramps, They call them seditious and lunflammatory, When their greatest reai defect 1s toeir Umidity, Never since human sentiment and conduct were inifaenced by humau speech was there a theme for eloquence like tne iree side of | tus question now bere the Congress of this | Union. By what fatality does it happen that al- most all the eloquence and orators im this bocy are on the slavery side? Toere is a great mass of | cool judgment and plain sense on the side of the jreemen, but the ardent Spirits aiid passions are | on tue side of oppression. On! if but one man could advise with a genius capable of compre- of erernal ance those ecapab communicating | iu ali its nakeduess that outrage on the goodness et God—human siavery! Now is the ume and ts | is the occasion upon which such a man woutd per- jorm the duties of an angel upon earth,’? CALHOUN'S PRUPHECY. Stil later, there was a ihemorable conversation with Calooun on the slavery question, Cuilioun Said, “he did not tniuk it would produce a disso- | tution of the Union: but tf ir should | would be compeiied, trom necessity, to jor an | aluance, olfensive and delensive, with Great Britain.” [said that would be a retarn to the coloutal state. He said. “Yes, pretty much; but it Wii be forced upen them.” | asked him whether he thought i, by the effect of tnis alliance, ofeu- sive and defensive, the population of the North would be oY trom its natural outlet on the | ocean, it Woula fall back upon its rocks, bound ud ana foot, to starve, or whether It would re- | taib its powers 0: locomotion to wove southward youn said they Would fina it neces- sury to mase thetr commanities ali military. 1 pressed tue conversation no jurther, bat i the Secretary of State, “Wirt appeared to be thinking more about his salary, or what | be called bread and mea: for } roe. “I have,’’ he says, “now compictely brought up the arrears of this journal, which during my fast residence in Europe, and most especially | trom the time when [ left St. Petersburg | to attend the negotiation of the F e of Ghent, has occupied so large a portion of my time. On my return to my native | country a new and for some time at least a basy | and laborious scene threatens to open before me— | 4 scene so laborious and full of pert!s and perplex- | ittes that a stouter heart than mine would be ap- | pailed at the prospect. My whole time must be | devoted to the performance of duties, and may the biessings of Heaven assist me to duly dis- | charge them.” On the 6th of August, 1817, Mr. Adams arrived at Sandy Hook, alter a passage of over six weeks. He had been absent for eight years, and during that time had been Minister to Russia, Commissioner for the negotiation of the Peace of Ghent and Minister at the Convention of Commerce with Great Britain, He was in the fiftieth year of his age, and in learning, accom- plishments, experience and knowledge of pubdiic wifairs at home and abroad, the foremost man of | bis time, He had been in the public service since ‘is boyhood, for he was only fifteen years of age when he accompanied his father to Russia as his private secretary. He nad been Minister in Hol- land, Engiand, Sweden and Russia; a member of the Cnited States Senate for five years, State Ser- Mor in Massachusetts; now, im the prime and fulness of life, he returned to take the chief posi- tom in the Cabinet of President Monroe. OUR FOURTH DECADE, When Monroe became President the country was about to enter into the fourth decade of its ?xistence, It bad increased in population from 4,000,000 to 9,600,000; trom thirteen States to nine- seen. Indiana had just been admitted into the Union with a population of about 150,000, while Mississippi was knocking at the door, Liinois was a sparsely settied prairie ter- Titory, with 55,000 inhabitants, while Maine, Missouri, Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, Texas and Wisconsin were still fragments of our vast territorial dominion; James Monroe was in the Gfty-ninth year of his age, Daniel D. Tomp- Kins, 0: New York, was Vice President; Henry Clay, then a flery young man of forty, was Speaker of the House; William H. Crawford, of Georgia, afterward to be the rivai of Adame jor the Presi- dency, was Secretary of the Treasury; John C. Calnoun, then an austere young statesman of thirty-five, was Secretary of War; Benjamin W. Crowninshield, & name famous in its time, bat long since torgotten, was Secretary of the Navy, | wnue Return J. Meigs, of Connecticut, wno had been Congreseman and Governor, was Postmaster General. The Attorney General was the brillfant Willtam Wirt, In the Senate there were Rufus P. King, from New York, in the closing years of and Bis itte, John J. Crittenden, begin- Bing his as Senator irom Ken- tucky. Macon represented Nortn Carona and Harrison Gray Otis Massa- enusetts. In the House we observe John C. Spen- cer, from New York; Samuel D, Ingham, irom Pennsylvania, who was to be Jackson's Secre- tary of the Treasury; John Tyler, ‘rom Virginia, siterward to be the President of the United States; Joun Forsyth, of Georgia, afterward tobe Mints- ter to Spain and Secretary of State under Jack- son and Van Buren; Richard M. Jonnson, ot Ken- sucky, aiterward to be Vice President witn Van Buren, and William Henry Harrison, of Ohio, who became President. THE STATE DEPARTMENT. Among the early duties after his arrival was a dinner at Tammany Halil, Mr. Astor being one of the committee and De Witt Clinton among the yuests. Without delaying, alter accepting these ‘nd other courtesies, he hurried to Quincy, and “ped the inexpressible happiness of finding his fear and venerable father and mother in per.ect health.’ Then came a dinner at Boston (Judge Story prominent host), aud the journey to Washington, where ho arrrived gm the 20th of September, and met the President, ho had just returned irom a four months’ tour ‘hrough the country. The White House, which she British burned, was not completely fn- iehed, and the President was apprenensive of the tffects of the ‘iresh painting and plastering.” Although it was an “era of good feeling.’’ accord: ing to the historical accounts, Mr. Adams was very much disturbed on his first view of lia new office, and bis diary gives expression to bis emo- (ones in some verses of the following character:= 0, God! my only trust was Thow Zn a lile's scenes betore; at Thy throne again I bow Ww mercies to implore! ve owers, grant fervid zeal, ‘Thy control, And ever be my country's we: Te purpose of my soul, Extend, all-seeing God, Thy band; in mercy still Gecree, And make, to bless my native land, An instrament of me. “Prom information given me by Boyd,” he writes, “the patn before me is beset by thorns, nd it becomes more doubtful than evyeg whetuer | snail comtinue long init. At two distinct periods of my ite beretofore my position bas been perilous and fall of anxious ‘orecast, but mever so precari” 9us a8 at this time. BENRY CLAY AND THE OPPOSITION. lt seems there were troubles with Spain in ref erence to the revolt of her colopies in South america. Henry Clay was leading the movement, taking occasion to leave the chair as Speaker of the House to make an earnest appeai in benall of intervention, the speeco reminding us very mucn | Of the addresses We occasionally ear aoous Cuda. Be compared the condition of tne Spanish prov- inees in Soutu America to those of our own colonies during tue R tion, anu began an at tack OB the administration in (avor o/ their imme- Giate recognition. Mr. Clay's course in this mat- ter annoyed Mr. Adams, who says, ‘Clay has ear.y Mousted bis South American great boree. again, “Clay's project (s that in whieh Jono Ran- doiph failed, to control or overturow the Executive Dy swaying the House of Representatives.’ His plan was to force trom the government a recog. Bition of Buenos Ayres aud pernaps Uni, The President was inclined to this view, but Adams, sustained by Calhoun, strongly opposed, at @ dinner party with Crawford ‘Clay came out with great violence against the course pursued in so American afairs,’’ “He is as rancorousiy melevolemt as Joun Ran- doiph.”” “OCrawiord told me tie other day that Olay, being gay ana warm with wine, told him be meant co follow up bis attack and added, ‘I will beat you, by tinued, not only in the Cabinet but out Of the Cabinet. “PME BRA OF GOOD FRELING.” We Gnd jn this era of good feeling that there were 8 MOov political ambition and strife as ip our .'" This opposition of Clay con. | his | children, than any other subject.” “Calhoun is | generally of sound, comprehensive and judicious | mind,” while the President sometimes took one | side and sometimes another, trolled by no special influence, except the Rict- | mond /nguirer, “rhe paper by which Virginia | works upon the President,” “which 18 the voice | of Virgiuia, and speaks to him like a master to his | siave.” “Virginia 1s already President, and shows a disposition to dictate to lum in measures without scraple or delicacy, and there 18 no present prospect that a citizen of Vir- ginia can be raised to the next Presidency, The pis-auler vt Virginia Will be to putin a native of | that State, residing tu another, for whicn either | Clay or Crawiord wit! serve their turn.” Later, sul, Virgiuia induence yrew stronger. Decem- ber, 181s, John Aagams writes thus:—‘There is | what in Vulgar language 1s called an undertow, | always Working upon and about the President— | What used in Fogland to be called a back stairs influence, of which he never says anything to me, and whicu 1 discover only vy 1'9 eflects.’” VINGINIA STATESMEN, Whenever Mr. Adams alludes to Virginia there is a Spirit Of acrimony add vexation that does not neraity pervade his caim, placid style. He meets james Barbour on One Occasion, WhO Was aiter- ward to be bis own Secretary of War and ois | appotntee as Minister \o Englaud, woo was then Senator from Virginia and President of the Sen- ate, “& man of affectea pomposity of speech, handsome presence, full of prejudices and dogma- tisms ana commonplace eXaggeration and repute | licamsm.” We are curious to know upon what principles Mr. Adams finaiiy mave up his Cabinet; for in pis diury we find that his Secretary of state, clay, was his constant aod almost’ insolent enemy; that his Attorney General, Wirt, never supported him tn his administration measures, | while Barbour, his Secretary of War, offenaed bis | sense of propriety. Forsyth. of Georgia, who was the leacer of the administration party, did not impress Mr. Adams, who had not formed ‘a very exalted opinion o! Forsyth’s princinies, or of the loirimess or aelicacy Oo! his character.’? DB WITT CLINTON. De Witt Clinton was regarded by Adams as a man ‘whose political fortunes have been more marked with star's 0; good and evil fortune than | those of any other man in the Union. He hasbeen taken up and laid aside at ijeast half a dozen times, and was never more low and discredited in public opinion than immediately beiore he wus elected Governor o! New York without opposition, He is, in jact, 4 man of great talents and Nas mag- nificent purposes of puolic service. He bas com- | preheusive Views au great designs; but with | inese high and honorable materigis of ambition re employs those of the paser sort—the charlatapry 0; popular enticements, He affects tu be a man of universal scienca and smatters in agriculure, | the arts and manufactures. antiquities and every- thing that smacks of combination and pookmak- ing. He nas been laboring ali nis life in combina- tions and coalitions aud political intriguing witb individuais and with parties. The chances are against him for bis re-election next year. His abilities rank him among the first men in tue Union, He is the must emiuent, ti not the ablest, mau in the State o! New York, anc, as he is yet not more than filty years old, anotner {ali will by no means be decisive of nis Jate for lite.’’ Asa singular comment on Mr. Adams’ judgment and prophecy, Clinton, who was to die within nine years after this Was written, became the Governor ‘or the State of New York, and was re-elected to the same office in 1826, while Mr. Adams himself offered bim the mission to Engiand, whicn he declined. THE SLAVERY QUESTION. In 1819 we have the first shadows of the slavery agitation, Which came with toe proposition to ad- mit Missouri as a State, It is interesting to note the opipions of Mr. Adams on this subject, es- pecialiy when we remember that he was after- Waru to be the jeader, champion, and, we may ay, ths political patriarch Of anti-slavery in the ited States, On the Fourth o! July, 1819, there was. a celebration in the Congreas Hall on Capito: Hill. ‘Tne procession was smail ana ‘the oration reasonabiy duil,” the orator being Richard Bland Lee, meauiog, probably, fnomas Biand Lee, who had been a Representative in the Continental Coogress. Crawlord gave a8 a toast, “The ad- | mission of new States on the principles of the federal constitution, that they should pe repudli- can.’ This toast was regarded by Adams as a concession to tne Southern States. Here we have an entry, the tone of which. 1n {ts earnestness and Passion, sadly propnesies the violence of the dis- cussions that were afterward to harass the Union, “Tue slave drivers, aa usual when this topic is brought up, blaze and bully, tak of the white siaves of the Eastern States, dissolution of the Union and o: biood, and the Northern men, as Usual, pocket al this hectoring, sit down in quiet and submit to tne scourging republicanism of the planters, Crawiord, who sees how this aflair wil ultimately go aud who relics on the support o! the slave drivers, determined to show them that he ison their side and gave this toast to expibit bimsei: as their champion,” JOHN C. CALHOCN. It_ is interesting to observe, also, tne impression Made upon Adams by Calhoun, afterward to be- frst met the illustrious Carolinian he was niguly Impressed with nim. This i1pression grew irom Gay today. At the close o: 1819 we find this:—*1 asked Caihoun whether he would accept the mis- sion to Frauce. He said it wouid suit him in every other respect but the expense. He could not afford it. | said it Was not easy to reply to that objection, the salaries of our Ministers @oroad being inadequate to their necessary ex- enses; that they vould not remain long in arope without drawing on their private resources; but asIexpected more from him than from any other man alve puolic service of tis nation, { wisned, irom purely public motives, tuat he could go anu spend some time in Europe, because J was convinced that it would much enlarge bis sphere of use fulmess, by familiarizing him = with edge whien could in no other w: SHADOWS OF THE REBELLION. The Missouri question, vowever, grew more and re important. January 10, 1320, Adams says:— and seemed con- | 4 ‘ chaosin bis mind | that later they saould have become so bitterly ppe | Of nis drawing room as the President's.” come the leader of the slavery purty. When adams | to the benefit of the | be acquired.” | dissolution of the Union snouid result from the | slave cuestion tt ts a8 obvious as apy. | thug that cam be seen im faturity that | it must be tollowed by the universal | emancipation of the slave.” “This conversation | with Cahoun led me into a momentous train of | reflection, it aiso engayed me so much thatd de- ub at ius ofice unl oearly ive o'clock, past Mis dining time.’ “The dissolution, at least Lemporary, of the Union as now consti- tuted, would be certainly necessary, and the dt so/UTION Inust Le Lpon a point involving the que tion oF nd po other. ‘toe | wiul in ifs prospects, supine and beau- Ui iM its issue. A life devoted to it Would be | novly spent or sacrificed.” i RANDOLPH, OF ROANOKE. “A day or two iater JonmRandoiph addressed the House on the Atssouri question, Adams listening to bun for taree or lour hours.” Ais speech, as usi had neither beginning, mr dle, norend. Egotism, Virginia “arissocracy, slave-scourging of liveity, religion, itierature, science, wit, lancy, generous feel and malignant passions. constituced a irom Which nothing orderly could ever tlow. Clay twice called Randoipi to order. It was useless cailing him to order. He could bo more keep order than be could keep silence. lt was past tour when he sat down. Ywenly yards of tape worm had come from iim, bgt there Was an endless iength within.”’ ANDREW JACKSON. These comments on the Missouri question close the fourth volume of the Diary, bringing it to the 27ub of February, 1820, it shows the earnestness o! Mr. Adaims’ convictions in the slavery questiva and now early in bis lite they were formed. It is | the onty subject, in fact, 1m which he exnibits any passion or tendency tv injustice. The budok ts ill Of ailusions to hisrorical character, side gilmpses of great men, famous and jorgetten, Andrew Jacxson comes largely on the canvass, under a cloud for his summary processes in Florida. On one occ.sion the President asked Jefferson how it Would suit to appoimt Jackson to the Russian mission. Jefferson's reply was:—"Why, good God! he'd breed you a quarrel belore he had veen there a month.” In the controversy between Jackson anu Cathonn, arising out of the proceed- ings at Pensacola, Adams took strong ground to favor of tue General, ‘lf the question were uubi- ous,” be said, “itis better toerr un the side of vigor than weakness, on the side of our own officer, who has rendered tne most emi- nent services to the nation, than on the side oi our bittered enemies, and against him.” Jackson nad | taken Pensacola witnout orders, personaily offend. | ing Calhoun, secretary of War and his superior, | and begluning @ quarrel Which ended only with | their lives. [tJs singular that Adame shouid have | sustained Jackson 80 strongly in this strife and hostile. Jackson returned tu Washington and evidently had a stormy time with the authorities. ‘The Eugiish were exasperated by his execution of Arbuthnot and Ambister; ‘but,” says Adams, ‘1 thought the execution justifianle and according to the ordinary laws o! war.”” Crawiord made espe- cial War upon Jackson, in the hope 0; driving mim | out ot public lite, and es; ecialiy as a candidate ior the Presidency; out this result only strengthened tne General’s popuia:ity; and on the occasion of nis first appearance at the President’s levée, “Irom the eargestuess with Which the compan. pressed aroun. him, and tne eagerness with whic! they all endeavored to obtain persoaal introduc. tions to him, and from the eyes of gratitude which beamed upon him, it had as mach tu pace bis odd enougo 10 note, a8 an ironical comment on the sineerity of political iriendsnip, that John Forsyth, who was to become Jackson's own Sec- retary of State, led the assault upon him, Jack- son, in bis stormy way, repelied these attacks of hending, @ heart capable of supporting and witer- | | truths which belong to tis question, to lay are | the South | | the press of Harper & Bros, mean, petty nation, having no ambition but in- verest and no god but gold, bas Bow changed her tone and 18 endeavoring to alarm the | world at the givanttc grasp of our am- | bition.” The admission” of Maine as a@ | State, which was accomplished by dissever- | Ing of Massachusetts, Was an event “much to be | lamented.” Aqams teared that Massachusetts | Would be tenth tn population and importance among the States. a prophecy that never fas been , Fealized, reuemvering vow that the oid Bay State | ranks as the seventh. Aitogether nis Cabinet itfe | thus far Was gloomy enough, ‘The first term of | the administration bad veen tranquil; the second, | be feared, wouid be most stormy and violent. On | January 5, he says, “f told the President tms Cay | that i thongut the diMcuities were thickening and | becoming hourly more and more sormidabdie.”’ | Abroad everytuing was dars, but it pecame far more gioumy and threatening when we turned our eyes loward. “The banks, the national currency, (Ge stagnation of commerce, the stagnation Oo! manuiactures, the wretched troubles in the State Legisiatures, the Missouri legislation, the dedcien- cies of the revenue und the supply, the ambition Ol individuals, mingling with other things in tne pre-ent aud in the future, are, 1 acknowledge, to mie appaling.”* Nearly sixty years have passed since these words were written. The giootuy anticipations of the anxious sratesman have long since died away, and We read these words of sadness and lear with the amusing interest with which our children, SIXTY years rom now, wlil read irom some priv vate diary of the appalling prospects of our own tuture, as seen by those who look at the growth of the Repuvlic only through the eyes of partisan- snip and ambition, TALKS ABOUT NEW BOOKS. MR. VaUGHN’s HEIR. Fred, being the wstnetic editor of The Key Nowe, & Weekly journal of no small reputa- tion, Will often bring home with him an ad- vance copy of a new book, about which there is % much greater fascination than pertaius to the same volume alter date of issue, There is something mysterious about the unvound pages, and one feeis that he is at once admitted to the muer sanctuary, The other even- | ing be came home with a copy of ‘*Mr. Vaughn's Heir,” Frank Lee Benedict's last novel, damp from The two young ladies of (he household began it that very evening, and had soon read every one of its 199 pages, which will not meet the public eye until some time next week, “This ts the most ambitious of Mr. Benedict's efforts, I should say,” remarked Miss Rachel, threading the unsbrinking eye of her worsted needie, PELiCcI4a—So it seems to me. He introduces more characters and more philosophizing into this than into lus other books. Like tn most of the others he keeps the scene continually shitting be- tween this country and Kurope without any more reason apparently than to show bis famiuarity with both hemispheres. Miss RaCHEL—Wbat an impossible creature Elizabetn Crautord ts, or, if she is not impossible, she Ought tobe, A woman who would bear all she did trom her busdand is more than unwo- maaiy. Even though she knew that Darrell Vaughn married her under false pretences, de- stroyed his uncle’s will, torged his cousin's name, stole Mr. Carstoe’s jewels and had an innogent wonau imprisoned for the theit, ate nasheesh, Tutned four or five women, and other things alto- gether odious, but trifling by comparison, she re- Iused to obtain a divorce. Ine author evidently admires ner for this iortitude, but I certainly do not. Frticla—Norl, {should bave left him the day he had iny parents’ dead bodies removed to build a railroad over their graves, That would have been enough for me without the Hes he told about it. It 1s a thousand pities that people in books cannot see what is before them as plainly as those who are reading. Now, | knew-the moment tnat Darrell appeared that he was a rascal. Miss RacHEL—Bad a8 Milaay was, she was an angel of light compared to Darrell. 1 have no feel- ing of repuguance to such a woman, only pity; but a man like Darrell (giving the needle a vigor- ous thrust through the canvas), I could hound him down—yes, and hit him aiter he was down. He never bad a nobie or generous thought in all his miserabie life; nothing but self, self, Be de- served a worse fate than awaited him, Fevicta—I can stand gn out and out villain, but the smiling treacherous wretcn 1s beyond any ex- pressions of contempt, Miss RaCHEL—A much Worse man than Launce Cromlin woud have shone like burnivhed siiver in such a connection. He is avery well drawn char- racter, and escapes the too gvod very cleverly. Crawlord, whom he denounced as a man capable of any baseness and sustained by no principle. was exasperated to the highest pitch, quarrelled with Scott, and with difficulty was prevented irom going to the residence of Eppes, senator from Virginia, to chaliehge him, aud, “if the subject should be brought op next winter, and he should be here,” says Adams, *l am atratd nothing could prevent thew fignting.”” THOMAS JEPPERSON. The opinion expressed by Mr, Adams of Jemfer- son, im the earlier voinmes, are confirmed in tms:—Jefferson was living in retirement, and consequently he did not come so mucd Within the range of bis observation; but there 18 one curious extract, written in December, 1819, noting a con- versation with Congressman Hill, Jrom Maine. “He aiso showed me @ letier from Mr. Jefferzon to the lace John Langdon, of New Hampshire, written In the year 1510, full of his political Snandy- jam, @ mixture of protound and sagacious observa- tion with strong prejudices and irritated passions, It is @ sort Of epitome of his political opinions and feelings. Jefferson ig one of the great men whom tnis country has produced—one of tne men Who nave contribute largely to the 'ormation of oar natiobal Character, to much that ts good and to not @ histie chat is evil in our sentiments and m: ners. His Declaration of Independence 1s an abridged Alcoran of political doctrine, iaying open the first Joundations ol Civil society; but ne does not appear ty have beeu aware that 1t also Jaid open a principle into which the slaveholding planters of lia country sooner or later must fall. With the Declaration of Indepedence on their lips and the merciless scourge of slavery in their hands amore flagrant image o; human inconsist- ency can scarcely be conceived than one of our Southern slavenolding republicans, Jeftlerson has been himsel! al! nis life a slavebolder, but he has opinions so blasting to the very existence of slav- | ery toat, however creditable they may be to nis candor and tumanity, they speak not much jor bis og ate or his forecast asa Virginian planter. he seeds of the Deciaration of Independence are yet maturing. The harvest will be what West, the paipter, calls the terrible sublime,” Much more we might say in the way of extracts or comments on ‘his interesting book, but we find we are largely exceeding our space. There isa | glimpse o| Edward Everett, “the Professor o! une Greek Language at the Harvard University—a young man of shining talents and large promise,"’ Who preached a sermon {in the Capitol irom 1. Coriuitians, Vi., O—“Bretoren, tne time is | short.” Clay was present, and Everett's sermon impressed Adams a8 ‘without comparison a Most splendid composition, and, a9 a sermon, the best I ever heard.” Clay, however, regarded | Everett's style as ‘‘too tueatrical.” We aiso have @ conversation with Clay, 10 which he shocked = ne Missuuri question has taken auch noid o: my imagination that, finding iy ideas connected with itso very namerous, but conjused for want of ngement, i bave within the last few days beynn to commit them to paper a8 they arise in | my mind.” And here comes an extraordinary prophecy :—‘d take it for granted tuat the preseat 18 @ mere preamble, a title page, to a great tragic volume. Ihe time may, andl think Will, Come When it will be my duty equally clear to give my opinion, and it is even now proper tnat I spould begin \o prepare Myseil jur that emergency. The President (Uiths thse question Will be Winked question t an indepenaent Power, es30 the Noxinern Seustors and Rep- ! yes compared witn those from the South. There ig an interesting mote (January, 1820) of a | Cosversation with the Celeorated Lowndes—Wii- liam Lowndes, of sou\n Carolina—whose early death closed Woat promised to be a brillant and {ilustrious career. “With tue exception of Ruius King," said Adams, ‘tnere is pot in eituer house of Congress a member irom the ir Scates able 'o cope in powers of the mind wi Wiliam Pinckney or James Barbour, in th House of Kepresentatives tue freemen nave now to contend on equal terms wita Joby Randolph or Henry Clay, Another misior une to the tee party is that some oO; their abiest men are either on this question With their adversaries or jakewarg im toe cause. Lowndes is amemver vi great weightagad infiueuce in tne House, yet, With Var.ous acquire ments aud a character of per ect integrity, there 18 4 Want Of energy abd activity im iis mind, He has too much love of ease and aversion to | lator.” On the 24th of Janvary tie notes a visit tu the Senate, to hear tne jamous Pinckney, of ble atd bameicss lie—Civse lis Missours ep-ecn. “any jadies, among Wuom seVera\ seated On the floor of the Senate. His janguage is good, | faevcy Witoout interraption or hesitation, Manner impressive, bul uis argument weak irom own umeasy time. ‘My office of Secretary of State." save Adams, “makes it the duty of ali the the luherent weakness Of Nis cause,’’ On the lith he heard Ruias Kiog ou the same suuject. “His | manner is diguided, grave, eataest, oat not rapia away by a compromise. But sodono.l Muco am {mistaken 1 it ls not destined fo survive his political and in@iviaval life aod mine.” And Ggain:—ihe Russi@n Minister told me he bad given a fuil account ip a despaich of tue Missouri oF slavery question, whien ts begin- Ling to shi tots Uuion to its fonuda- tions. e seems tv have already taken nis side, for he said he considered it @ qaestion whether this country should hereafter be # colony | Adam: men\ed Maryland—tien in the Closing years of & memora- | | Adams by saying, “Within five years from this | time the Union will be divided into turee distinct confederacies,”” Tne projesaion of journalism docs not stand in good repute with tile ex-President. Who makes @ peevish reierence to “Billy Duane,"’ asa oollsh and ubaccountable te.low, who | might have made twenty Jortunes; but, always having been the worst enemy to himsel!, 1s now | poor apd embarrassed.” ‘Billy’ Doane was | Wiliam Duane, a Jamous man in his time, editor | of the Aurora, a Warm supporter of Jefferson, and to Whom Jefferson, im probably some flattering mood, attributed bis election. Billy wanted an office or @ gun contract, “and althougn there wat a disposition om the part uf some of the democrats to serve him the Presi. dent regarded him with contempt,” and Mr. Adams desounced Lim as ‘an unprinciplea a tellow as irves, an Irish adventurer, meant ‘or | a Roman Catholic priest, editor of Aurora, the most slaaderous newspaper iu the United St | There isa queer story about A‘exander ton proposing that the President aud senators shoud hoid their oMces during life or “good pe- havior.” Tne coloniza Scheme looms up, aod its agents annoy Adams, “‘pusning and intriguing ani worrying” uim, untii he shail ve obliged to take @ stdud and 5® among its opponents, He con. | sigered it OD 4 par with symmen’ project of going to the Pole turougu the middie of the earth. There | is a giitmpse of Napoieon writhing aud iretting his | life away at St. Helena, Adams Saying that Ras | sia, Instead of w to tvewt mim gentiy, in- ou more A memorial had been eived from Kussia im refereuce to Napuieon, Which Adams regargea as “a movement to com- | Pei Joseph Bonaparte to leave tne country; out It Caime ty Botuing, in," Adams, nas 0 ividaai persoa more of | the hatredo! mankind (oun any other inaiviawa of | the age. He has perhaps doue more evil tuan any | Man ai Ls jail gas bis punishment, a con- | summation of jusid No Agony oO. sumerauce | can be too exquisile, uo prolongation of torture tou excruciating ior the magnituue of his crime,’ These were Vexativus times with France, wntie = rs gor. Our relations with kuvland coutiaued to be the saridest p Kicuerd Kush writes, in, 1649, thas wii parties tu kngiaud are a ; States, aod the lrigce Regent @ animosity toward tue country by vilite O its represe: tative.” Wass epone of th Duke of Welinutou tu very trivolous character, “in wuich, Adams, | Tab y Misiakeo.” ile 40 @ @ivaye angry, “Great Britain,” oe sai toward Engiang is | 4 s@uture, iter | bie interaal excite: Men who play such parts as nisin books are apt tohave toostrong a flavor of the Young Men’s Christian Association. FELICIA—I was rather amused by that conversa- tion on art, between Elizabeth and Launce. It was very high flown, particularly Launce’s de- Ainition :—“I should style Art a gr@nd soul calling to men out of tie infinite; all forms of art, as we term them, only voices of that soul wherewith she Strives to iift men toward the light up to the bewatiful and trae.” Miss RACHEL—That cous: room sc8ne is rather overdone, One shriek irom the doomed woman would have been more appalling than the dozen. Muady’s answers back and tue genera: description of the woman are pretty good, almost pictar- resque. FELICiA—I am not well posted in French women, but Nathalie is too great an anomaly for any nation to have been gullty of, and her mother is even worse. Miss RaCHEL—A girl Who was sucha brainless thing as Nathalie could never have written words that would have been of enough consequence to be translatea into two langaages. Some very radical journal might have been inouced to pubiish them for the sake of shocking people by their wickedness. But a bad book must be very well written to gain popularity—champagne Without any lie is not worth the drinking. Feiicia—Poor M, Latour; as much as I disbe- | lieve in the Way marriages are arranged in France I cannot but feel pity for a man who had such a creature as Nathalie for a wife. He only fol- lowed out the customs of nis country, but Na- thalie—how very near she came to selling ber soul, Miss RacHEL—That way they bave in France of finding husbands for giris and marrying them whether they will or no is @ little higahanded and the result is oftea disastrous. If Nathalie had been married to a man she loved peraaps sne would have amounted to something, but J think it doubtful. FsLicia—There ts no one real good character 1m tne book; Milady comes the nearest to it, but falig short of the mark, As a story, however, tt is Well told and of weil sustained interest. The dénonement is quite melodramatic and the devil, meaning Darrel: Vaugba, gets nie due, Miss Raceet—Hardiy his due, for he deserved a Worse fate than paraiysis, for he was unconscious of bis disgrace, Whereas if he had had his due he would nave been made to suffer from it. His wile, Elizabeth, the author's pet, was the greatest suf- ferer, but after years of waiting she bad her reward. FeLicis—What an exciung play it would make. isbould like tosee it upom the bourds of one of our theatres, with such @ cast as | could suggest to @ manager, “HAGARENE,”” FRED (rolling clgareite preparatory to joining his /atber and the Professor in the billiard room)— Iti quite like an old friend to see one of Law, Tence’s muscular novels again, and “Hagurene” (Barper & Brothers) is quite ap to, if not beyond, his average. Miss RacueL—It has been neariy, tf not quite, three years since the author of “Guy Livingstone” bas litted a pen in defence of bis peculiar heroes, “Hagarene” ought to ve good 1; he has been look- ing Up material in ail that tim How very char- acteristic the opening chapteris, With its allusivus to “\ne beards of Helianodicw,” “Cronian cliffs,” “stream of Alpheus,” “cycles of O.ympiads,” “tne Grove of Atias” and “the old Icouociasts.” Toe | exceptions in Mr. Lawrence's novels are chapters thut do got contain as many classic references in thelr Opening paragraphs. It is very tiresome, bot soGre all hobbies, His heroes are ali broad. Cheated, hard-bearded, uniathomable-iaced men, | who can drink enough liqaor at one sitting to float @ ship and piay deeper than a goid mine and loge fortunes wi' oat Changing the expression of Perhaps, when cndergoiny some terri- amber mouthpiece or bury their finger uatis half @n inca deep into the palms of their hands, FELICIA (interrupting)—And swear soft and low in Greek, tak about women as they would about horses and whose ideas of honor can only be ap- preciated by their aamirers, FRED—Apropos of the foregoing is the little rac- ing scene in the first chapter, where in hts excite- ment “the better half of Lord Ormskirke’s cigar Grops to earth, severed clean by the strong, sharp teeth, and his brow lowers as he, too, strides out into the hight’? “ Feiicta—Have you ever noticed that Lawrence’s heroes are uearly always men past the heyday of youth—men old enongn to begin new and better lives, is Miss RacHEL—Dreadfully artificial people, but interesting spite of a) Frep—There is a good deal of truth In what Lawrence says about duelling:—‘For the grossest conceivable contumely there is no requital short of persvnal assault save what can be granted by a civil tribunal.’ In the old days, when a man could call his insuiter to the feld of death, there was less of lib¢! and vile slander on innocent people. No man wants to drag his private atfairs before a court of law, and then there are gross wrongs that the law cannot tight. A sharp steel or a few ent, they wili bite tarougn as | ounces of lead, witha fair chance to punisn the offender, and a man feels that he can protect his own honor and that of those he loves, Feiicla—Good gracious! Fred, how grandilo- quent you can be. One would think that you were a regular fire-eater from that speech, Frep—1 do not believe in indiscriminate duel- ling, but I think chat if gentlemen were allowed to settla their own diMculties the gallows would soon go out of use. Miss RacneL—There you are at fault, for the class of men who take tne law into thelr own bands in cases of domestic trouvles are the would- be duellisis, aud they are seldom hanged, Feticta—Do let duelling alone and return vo the story. What do you think of Marietie Clyde? To me she is the best character that Mr. Lawrence has created. Miss RacoEL—I agree with you thoroughly. It takes considerable skill to draw such a woman. Cold, cruel, tyrannical, wicked—utteriy without sentiment; one who would lead @ man to the very verge of impropriety and then leave him; who would bare a heart to see it bieed, but who was utterly incapable of doing a “small” action. Sucb @ strange mixture of qualities were never pos- sessed by woman before. FeLicta—Yet with all her faults, not to say vices, she fascinates me, She can hardly be said to have flirted with Major GrifMiths, and he never accused her of it, but she knew that he was get- ting in love with her—that !s, as much as an hon- orable fellow like he was would allow himself to be with another man’s wtie. Miss RACHEL—Whiat betier could be expected of a girl Who was brougit up with a rascally horse, racing father, who never gave her a kind word, and with a horse trainer for ker most intimate iriend—and a good fiiend Pete Harradine was; much better than her father. FeLicia—She did not improve her condi‘ion much by marrying Leonard Clyde, for he was more debased than either her father or old Pete, I think the description of her wedding day 1s fairly blood-curdiing; but she anew exactly what she nad to expect. Miss RacHeL- at was a terrible tragedy at Bailynane, where Major Griffiths shot poor Arch- bold. It was worse than playing with edged tuols to foo) with, a man like the Major, FELIcIA—Could you have taken that box to Ma. jor GriMtns in his cell, knowing it contained poison, if you bad beea in Mariette’s place? Miss RacHEL—Yes, I believe Icould, lt was an awful thing to do, but it was better than that such aman should have beea publicly hanged. Frep—I should like to meet with a woman like Marlette; not that she was particularly lovable, but she would have been such a curious study. Miss RacHEL—And Cangerous, too, | guess you would have found her. Never play with fire, my dear cousin, for it will be very apt to burn you and leave a scar. Frep—Yet her friendship with Archbold was perfectly innocent. Miss RacuEL—True enough, she never was a bad woman, in the usual acceptation of that term, but sbe could ruin a man without meaning to quicker than any woman I ever read of. FELICIA—How strangely she kept that brute of @ husband of her’s in suojection, and what a happy day that on which he died! iss RacHeL—I do not proiess to know much about gambiing saloons, but it seems to me that the description of the scene at Marlette’s place is very like life. . Frep—Very Uke, 1 should say, judging from ower descriptions that L nave read, FELICIA—The other day, a8 1 was riding up town in unomnious, I saw a man the very image of Horace Moreland, and I could scarcely keep from denouncing him then and tuere, Miss RacHEL—I don’t think much of Hugh Standish; be was too weak. In fact, all the re- spectanie characters in the book are quite unin- teresting; the charm of the story, sad to say, lies among the outlaws. FeLicia—When love did come to Mariette it wrougnt quite a transformation, Not that it tamed her altogether, but it nud a very softening influence. Frep—Noel Tempest was just the man to con- quer @ Woman like Mariette—cool, seli-possessed, brilliant, fast, and handsome withal; tor her to see him was to love him, er second marriage was the only impulsive thing Mariette was ever uilty of. wiities RacHeL—The death scene ts fine; the cruel waves beating avout the rocks; the beautiul Mariette clinging to the pie, where Noel at last joined her, aud the two, Who were just ubout to begin life in earnest, were borne down to their death, aud the mighty Ormskirke pluuging into tue water lo save them; but, aias, toolute, itis @ vivid picture, FELICIA—No one can complain of the ending of the story for the bad vecome good and forsake tueir ev id ways, and the good are prosperous ai —I1 do not like Mr. Lawrence's way of calling bis characters puppets, Speaking of tne death of Clyde, he says:—“tand now, irom among our marioleies, us puppe: shall Vauisn atterly. It the spectator is weary Of him, so aiso is the Wieider of (he Wires; yet, bis preseptment was ueediul for the sake oi tle Verity of the suow.” This idea takes away the reaiity; bat, perhaps, the author does not want us to think that sucn people as be draws are possible. FeiciA—Now that we are fault finding I might Mention the tiresome repetition of the phrase “guwise 1b gis generation” or “wise in his gener. ation; it occurs as often a8 the word “purpie’ im Mra, Browning's poetry or “royal” in Heen Hunt's. Frep—There is no lack of power in Mr. Law- rence’a writing and “Hagarene” 1s In his very best vein, and now, ladies, witn your permission, I will join the gentiemen up stairs, “AILEEN FERRERS."? PEeLiciA—But for one trifling circumstance ‘‘All- een Ferrers’ (darper & Brothers) might never have been written. “And What Was that” questioned Miss Rachel, who was watching the rain drop’ on the great panes of glass in the drawing room window. FELICIA (Walking across the room and taking her stand at another window)—l! Ralph had not proposed to marry Aileen unt the day atter that gn whicu he did “put the trying question, there would have been notuing to write about, Miss KacH&i—Vo not keep mein tre da tell me something about this book that you have been poring over al tue morning. PELICIA~Aljeen Ferrers was the daughter of a bursery governess and tue younger 800 vu! an ear, The Barl’s family, at least those who Kaew orf it, rejuseu to have anything to do wit Arthur Fer- rers alter lis marriage, and some time after the Cutid, Aileen, Was born the pareats died aud'tne Maternal grandmoth Mrs. Dymock, took the chia, Finally a sisier o: young Arthur's, Laay Grace Oaivert, learned of her brother's mar- riage, discovered the whereabouts of the lite Atieen and went for ner. On the very day upon Waic. Lady Grace arrived at Mra. Dymock’s, who Was a bailiff’s wie, to tuke Alleen home with her, Raph, tne bailitl’s handsome young assistant, pro- posed to Alleen and alter some demur was ac. cepted. Lady Grace was sitting in Mrs. Dymock’s parlor at the very moment when this hitie love sceune Was being enacted in the urchard, So when Aileen cuine in ani ber aunt made her proposi- tion, Whicn was sor Alleen to come and live with her and occupy the position her favier's rank gave her, Alleen was very grateful but decined ner Qunt’s offer because she Was engaged to marry Raipo, Then Lady Grace suggested ‘oat Aliecd should live with her ior six yeirs, she was tnen SIXte-U, aNd 1, ot (he expiration of that Ume, aie Ay | oved Ralph sne should come vack and marry a. Mies Racitet--Poor Raiph! | fear his chances Gre sim. FELIC\a—It Would seem 80; but he w 1004, unselfish sort of a iel0w, Bod ins! returning with wer aunt, and Wiling Lo Watt. Wel, Atleoa Went into society, traveued on tue Continent, studied and enjoyed ber: fall, and the six years came io an end, She saw great many fine men, and might have mad food match several times, but she thought o alph, and the day upou which tne years expired she bade ber aunt lareweil and returned to the Dymock tarm, believing that she suli loved Ralpt and was ready to marry him. Ot course she wat welcomed back with Joy; but, alas! Ralph, though @ good and true ‘ellow, was so fur below any of the geutiemen with Whom she nad been associated tbat she began to have her misgivings, But he was her devored slave, aud the more be snowed tus fondness by little attentions the more her heart Jailed her, Miss RacHEL—A foregone conclusion, I should say. Peicta—sne thought that her duty lay plain be fore her, and (hat she must marry Ralph. Sne consulted Mr, Lusbington, ay old iriend of her father’s, about It, and ne advised her togive up Ralph, tor they Would both be miserable if they married. She fottowed his advice, resigned Ralpt with many tears and signs on the part of bot and went back to her aunt. Ralph penaved spien didiy, lor he loved Aileen dearly, aithougn be thought her much above him. Tue upshot of the story ly that she married Lushington and ended her days among people of hes own rank in sociery, aud was inucu better saustied than if she bud married her love’s young dream. Miss Rac Rulph’s was & hard Jot, and it Was Very nove of Dim to insist upon Alleen going with her wunt in the first instance, jor the chanced of her return were one agaist a huodred, FeLicia—Would you have gone away irom the mun you were engaged to, as Atleen did ? Miss RacHEL—Not if | had been as old as I am now; but you must remember that Aileen was only acnild ang hardly knew what she did want, FRLICIA—Juat the weight of a straw turned the Scale, and the turuing gave a Very pretty story te the world. \ A RAMBLING STORY, FRED—! have just been glancing over the proof sheets of “A Rambling story” (Koberts Brothers) by Mary Cowden Clarke, that Mr. Nules was good ehough to send me the ovner day, FELICIA—I guess you must have enjoyed it, too, for you sat down here long alter every one in tne house nad letired. it must have been elter one o’clock when I neard you pass my dvor, Frep—{t was pretty late, 1 believe; but I interesied in the book ana kept on until lad Hnistied it, The story i3s quite jantastic and dee cidediy rambling. ‘Tne nero, Sydney Hamuiton, a young artist, discovers a deserted cottage ii wood and weaves a romance out of Waut Le sé tuere. He fiuds a volume of poems, with tne name Ol bis iriend, Maurice Darwin, scrawied along the margin in a feminine hand, ' He tails 10 jove with tne upkvown aud Maurice Darwin talla iu love With his sister Heiet. Sydney is satistied, aiter some cross-questiouiny, buat Darwin knows botning of the lovest jaay, and gives bis brotherly Sanction to Ls sister’s uiarriage, One day, While walking turough @ park in Lon. don, he sees @ begutuu lady, and bis heart beats ike a siedge aammer; aud, as luck woud bave it, he ts just In tine tosave her irom being run over by a team of frisky horses, ihe tace makes un {ndetible impression on bis mind, and he vows to marry this unknown or uo one, He traveis around the world, row place to place, anu at iust dis covers that the unknown is Lady Gertrude Vivian, Wuo 18 jealously guarded by an old ogre ot al uncle, but, finully, in Italy they meet to part ne more lor Lady Gertrude coujesses that it is he sne loves, having once seen his tace; buc that she thought is name Was Maurice Darwin. They ace privately married While te old uucle is away, and everytuing Would have goue along merrily eaouga but that w wicked novie, who lias tong loved Lady Gertrude, has ner spirited away by a band of robe bers, She 18 rescued oy her husband and every one is reconciled, and peace and Durmony crow their deciining years, FeLiciIA—That suunds rather like a fairy story; does it not? FRED—Yes, rather; but tis more of a romance than anything eise. [i is graceiully written vod introduces some pretty littie sketches 01 character, Staneri, the innkeeper’s dauguter, taougn merely an cline, 18 An exceedingly attractive and spite tea sketcn, A MADMAN’S POEMS. The PROFESSOR—Fortunately for Wiillam Blake he Was idigereut to tue world’s opimion Ol hig poetry and painting, ‘he Docror—His indifference arose from the fact that he beueved nearly gil that be did was tae spired, and, thereiore, prov! vgainst fauttfinuimg. Mrs, NORTON—Still 16 would have been sou@ satisfaction could he have known how well hit works Were destined to be appreciated, ‘Yoe PRoFEssuR—Such men are seldom fairly judged during tueir Mietime. Their contempors Ties call them mad atid scou at tucir eccentricities, Mr. Rossetti very truly says, *1 eclipsed might be taken Blake’s mind; a gloridus iuwinary, and not de dimmed or overciouded 1n 118 lucid part, bat dite tinctly ret Of gat ma certuim other portion.” Mrs. NoksON—Perhaps not mad, but still an Une comiortable person to have tolive with. At least Jsuonid have found mm so; but Ms wie had nothing to compiain of, and their married lie waa singuluriy happy. Katnerive Blake was just ihe Wile for saca a Husband, ior she saw with his eyes, which Was particularly fortunate 10 the Case of the visions. ‘Tne Profgssor—To quote from Rossetti:—Te call Blake simply a mauman would be ridiculous and despicabie; even to call him (a8 some bave done) an inspired madman would be most incom. lete aud iisieading, Butit may, I think, be ale jowable to aay Chal be Was u sublime genius, oftem periectly sane, often visionary and exaleé wituoat precisely losing bis hold upgn sanity, and some times exhibiting an msane taint.’ Tne Docror—lne portrait accompanying this edition of Messrs. Rooerts Bros. nas not tne bead of @ madman. A more tnoroughly intellectual brow I never saw, and (he imout 13 as tira and beautilul as that of an Apollo, wauile the eyes look out upon the beholaer with a gaze that 18 aggene as It 18 penetrating or thongnuul, ‘The PROFESSOR—Blake Was One Of the few real geniuses that the world has produced, Unique 19 thought, rough and powerlul in expression, his poetry 1$ of the sort that a mam sas to read with his braim rather taan ais eyes. Take, 1or instance the “Broken ve.? You cannot wonder thal Swinba ne and vante Rossettiivand so much tn It to study and to admire. And again, woat could be stranger or stronger than these lines on ‘The Tiger? :— Tiger, tiger, burning bright, In the forests of the aignt; What immortal hand or eye Framed thy fearful symmetry? Jn what distant deeps or skies Burned toat tire within thine eyes? On what wings dared le aspire? What the hand dured seize the fire? And what shoulder and what art Cy uid twist the sinews of thy heartt Wuea thy t began to beat, Wit dread hand tormed thy dread sect? What the hammer. what the cnain Kuit thy strength and forged thy braiy t Whattue anvil? Whatdread grasp Dared thy deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to » Did He who made the lamb make thee ? Mrs, NonTON—in what marked contrast {3 th beautiful poem to tne delicate tenderness of t! “Songs of Inuoceace,”? it aoes not seem as thouga the same man could be so wild and passionate and yet so very gentle. ‘The PROPESSOR—Blake was greater as an artist than asa poet. Tne world is beginning to find ia him an artistic genjus it not as symmetrical a@ nuel Ange and Raphael’s, still as great ia ours qualities, and in certain qualities a8 value able. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. ‘vhe forthcoming book on the River and King» dom of Congo, by Captain R. F, Burton, will set the readers of African literature wild again, The Hakluyt Society, of London, has published @ very curious book on the Indians of Brazil in the shape of a translation of the ‘Captivity of Hans Stade, in A. D, 1457 to 1655, Among the Wild Tribed of Eastern Brazil.” The dearth of good books in Russia during the % year is attributed by good critics to thé severity of the literary censorship. A new life of Pestalozzi, the great educational reformer, by Professor Krusi, “will appear at Cit» einuati. The Rev. R. H. Hawels takes up the subject a cremation in a volume oalled, very appropriat “Ashes to Ashes,’ There is a great revival among the publishers ia England of the literature of controversy. Politio and religion divide the hour, The monument raised to Prince Albert in Theo dore Martin's “Life of the Prince Consort” wil not be enduring, Such a vast a mblage of trifle: must soon be laid on the shelf. A dook is to be publisned by Mr. J. W. Bouton, entitled “Antiquities of Long Island,” by Gabriel Furman, to which ls added a bibliography by Heury Orderdonk, Jr. Tne Lippincott’ alterea edition of Chambers “Cyclopsedia,” over which there has been so muck iscussion, is hereafter to be known as the Amen ican revised edition. Mr. Davenport Adams, Jr., 1s engaged on & Vob ume of selections of the wit and numor and vers dt société of modern poety, on a womewhat novel pian, “Ten Years of Gentleman Farming at Blennen hasset,”” an English village of 200 people, neag Carlige, 18 fall of value as @ contribution te tific agriculture. ere iaxportant book on “Teaching, ite Ends and Means,’’ by Protessor Calderwood, of Edinourgo University, who is also Chairman of the Edinburgt School Board, 1s nearly ready (or publication at tnams’. ber toe other early publications of the Oszoode will be Emorson’s new volume of “Rssays on Poe, try and Criticism,” whieb bes been long looked ward tO, We are to have a now Homeric Dictionary by B& MB, Bandar, of tue Caiteraiy of Kdioburge