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THI BOOK WORLD. A Batch of Grave and Gay Publications. STE. BREUVE'S ENGLISH PORTRAT! “Bisie”--“Safely Married”--"The Romance of an Honest Woman.” “POINT LACE AND DIAMONDS.’ Henry Holt & Co., have just published a volume of “Hngiieo Portraits,” selected and translated irom Suinte-Beuve’s “Causeries du Lundi.”’ The volume 38 introduced with achapter on Samte- Beuve’s lite and writings, which the reader cannot afford to #kip, It serves to whet tie appetite for the essays which follow. The author of this in- woductory chapter, while he bas a keen apprecia- ion of the brillant Frenchman, does not hesitate vo criticise where criticism is called for, Saimte- Benve ‘lived lke @ bermit and worked like a horse.” Hig “caaseries,” which read though they Howed inepired trom his pen, were labored over as newspaper articles never were before, ‘The “causeries” appeared every Monday morning m the Constituttonnel, conducted vy Dr. Véron. Aswisted by his secretary, Sainte-Beuve began every Mouday morning to prepare the ai Ucle for the following week, Having selected bs subject, alter much reflection he dictated a rough outline of the article, filling in blanks and making additions with bis own hand, This first drart was then copied, revised and sometimes written over again, For twelve hours daily trom Monday to ‘Thursday he labored in his study, refusing to re- ceive visitors or to be interrupted in any way, and taking no relaxation till the evening. By Friday ihe manuscript was ready for the printer, and on that day Sainte-Beuve went and read it to Dr. Véron, whose judgment he vaiued for a reason yesembling that which induced Moliére to respect tne verdict of his old housekeeper, After proft- ing by Dr. Véron’s suggestions or objections he had the article putin type. Alter the proof haa been subjected to @ revision as minute and search- Jng as thay which tne manuscript had undergone it was pronounced ready for publication on Mon- aay. For this exhausting labor the first man of Jetiors of his day im Paris received an annual salary of about $3,200. Sainte-Beuve rauks much higher as a critic than 48 4 poet or novelist, ke was a born critic, ana made criticism @ fine art, It was no pleasure to Lim to puncture an author with his caustic pen and jeave bim crippled on the fleld. He was never moved by personal likes or dislikes; but he care- jutly weighed his words, and stated his conclusions without passion or prejudice, “His goal was truth, and his guide toit was sympatny.” In bis own { words:—*The critic is bat @ man who knows how | w read, and wno teaches others to read, writi- ism, 48 } understand and as I snouid lie to pra: tise it, is an invention, a perpetual creation.” The EKngiish portraits in this volume are of Mary Queen of Scots, Lord Cuesterfield, Ben- | jamia=« Franko, Edward Gibbon, Willam wowper, of Taine, and a short sketch on | Pope a8 @ poet, which is among tue | best drawn in the book. We can scarcely appre- ciate the author's idea in classing Scotiand’s | Mary, our own Franklin and that unmistakable | Frenchman, H, Tame, among his Engiisn por- iraits. However, We are not disposed to quarrel | with an arrangement which 1s so greatly to our | wdvaniage. Pernaps the best essay in the book is me one on Cowper. Sulnie-Beuve bas painted the author of the “Task” in warmer and more attra tive colors than we have been used to contempia log bia, Notlong before bis death, Sainte-Beuve iold a iriend:—-Tne perusal of Cowper's works is oue of the sweetest yet bitterest memories of my ile; at the ume I was affected with a sort of moral malady somewhat resembling his, and ths caused me to take & dangerous pleasure in study- mg the poets of bis school’? This accounts for the gentleness with which he has dealt with the post Wuuse Weaknesses Dave Leen made repulsive ry kindly hands, ‘toe portrait of Frankia is drawn witha vigorous and sympa- inetic touch, The vrilliaat Frenciman eatertained & profound admiration ior our simple-bearted plilosopher, thougu ae was ofveu shocked by cer- iain practical qualities that robbed him of any- | thing akin to seutiment, Sainte-Beuve’s pertect | mastery of the English language gave nim the ad- | Vantage of his countrymen in the study of Eng- | usnh uterature, No young writer, or ola writer either for that matter, cau afford 10 neglect tus book. Although Sainte-Beuve was an earnest scholar aud provound thinker, it 19 not so much Whut he says a8 the Way Ue says it that gives his writings their charm, | “BLSIB, A LOWLAND SKETECII."’ “There is the same quiet fascimation about alt aiiau’s popular novels,” said Maritava, when isi¢, & Lowiand Sketch,’ to our book shelves, The last few uave been tales of Scot- sh life among the peasantry. The story of “Elsie i# the story of hundreds of heroines, but it is toia fo prettily and go freshly that It bas all the attrac. uous of something entirely new. Elsie was the only daughter of Joun Evliot, the miler, and Mary, bis wite, John was “en elder of the kirk aud wair respectat in a’ the country side’—whica | s# equivalent to saying that he was a man witn 4 mind a8 narrow as & knile binde. Hie wile, on the other land, wae more liberal, aud, conse- gueniiy, More lovabie, When Fisie was achild ol some twelve years a young gentieman, Hervers Yates by name, Met With an accident and was jaut up at the miiler’s house for a fortnight. faete acted as his purse, and acquitted herself with credit. Herbert was the first gentieman she | had ever seen, and when he went away sie | treasured his image in her heart and worsnippea | his memory. im six years’ time he returned to the little Scotch village, being a visitor at the house of the laird, He met Elsie again and was completely captivated by ber beauty and winning Ways. She was above fer station in instinctive refinement, but ner beauty was not that of a biooded wdy, She was iarge ane healthy looking, and her hands were not smail, taough they wero white and shapely. Her neart was as large and | white a8 Der Dacds and she was as honest as the | sun. Merbert was very handsome aiso, but of a | more conventional type, and bis hands were smatier thag hers. Elsie used to go on | with bim to show bim the good places. aogiing jor fish he caught Eisie’s heart, using 4s bait bis seunctl im | her. Perhaps but all the love of which ne was Wout not have | sunk a@ line, Elsie was a simple couatry | | | | less capabie girl, and the woru of @ gentieman was to her litue snort of Gospel. At last Herbert declared his passion ana proposed ty marry tier. lathe meantme ber mother had been away and her sather bad told her that she was a backslider count Dever be one of the poor child exceedingly, but jade up her miud tuat if what her jather said was true, and she never doubted his Word, that there was no use tn changing ber course t Hlervert Was good and kiud to her While her savher Was cross. Oh, i! the mother had only been home, hisve consented to Herbdert’s proposition, and in @ Week from that time It Was arranged tuat tiey should go off and get quietiy married, then \hey would be forgiven and everthing woulda go on stooothly ana pieasautiy. flierber. went down to naon 'o atrange fis plans, leeling very much d with nimself to think that he was geing to Viriuous @ thing as marry the girl While in town he told @ ire@ud of What he was about to dat ior his sum- Tie very idea of tying one’s self down to a girl like that—it was ridical His motuer bad @ young lady ta v jor bim to marry, He, ‘however, turned bis back Upon temptation and hastened Uy to Scotian, | met Eisie and took ner away in his dogeart. 16 | would take too jong to get married by a clergy | mau, [Or in that case their banus would have to be read, so he concinaed that as sayrmg beiore wit- nesses that you took @ woman to be your wile was ‘egal Marriage ja Scotiand, be Would adops thas siuple ceremony. 1s was his intention to have periormed th: ctin Auchen fh, but the hotel was filled with people attending lair, so they passed on to veddesdangh., Later on, looking over fis guiue book, Heroert saw that Geddes bough was on the kngusn side of the border, Wieretore their marriage was no marriage. Ab | Hirst he thought of driving vack and doing it ail over in anorner town, but ne hesita Weanhess, aud them deciued het to itn Hess, here Maritana ground her teetn with rage, and with a dark irown diviguring her usually | paCld EUW, phe Sau, “Mesder’ Yuses is the musk | wickeu- | With aS no sooner gets to running | at four yea | practicalexempie of Bis theories, id | one of @xasperating ehuracter 1 have met in fiction or oot ols inalong time. He was so thoroughly weak aod so contemptubly selfisn, made himself tnipk that he was guile an honoraole fellow. He was not only a fast man, but the most repulsive kind of bad man, @ Don Juan and water. For three years he jet Elsie vhink that she was married to him, and then oy an accigent he let slip the truth, She did not say a word, but took her bat and shaw! and lef him. He found her once benind a counter, and begg: her to go with him. She made no reply, but gave him such @ look that be was glad to fee Irom her sorrowiul eyes, Aiter six years she returned her home, and found the door unlocked and a bow! ol bread and milk Waiting for her on the table, where her mother bad put it every night since she jeit. A letter she wrote to her mother and which she gave her husband to }ost he bad destroyed, 80 her parents bad no idea what had become of her. G y the mother took her in, but the father was a little stif-necked; he had gone through the formality of a curse on the day o} ber e.opement, and it was hardly the thing to forgive without @ struggle, At last he blessed her, and they were a.! happy together, with the excep- tion of John Appleck, & peasant lad, who loved the pretty Hisieé rom’ her childhood, but to the just she said, “Johp, lamsorry canna, Do not ask me.”? “SAPELY MARRIED,” Almivava read “Salely Marriea” (Harper Bros.) through, and jaid it down with a sigh of rehel, “| do not KnOW What that book was written lor,’? said she, “unless it was to show how great a knave a fool may be. The only natural characte: in the book 18 Aunt Hammond, who writes ¢| ast as poe would pave her, but the others are thoroughly stagy, Aunt Hammond ig a dear old soul, but she often gets coniused in her sentences, Her words seem to get plaited together in the most mysterious manner. I have olven read @ paragraph over three or jour times without having any idea what it means. The story 18 O! @ vain, silly girl, Elfie, the heroine; a good young man, Allan Braivwait, her husband and cousin, and Eu; Ramsey, the ville 180 her cousin: Angela, Alian’s ward, is simply walking lady, ifie marries her cousin, Ali cause he 18 rich, but she has alw sirange drawing toward Ramsey, the bad in his composition found an answering ¢hord in hers. All she lived for was Quttery and to be amused, Ramsey both flatiered and amused he: Allan only loved her. There are some remarkable scenes in the vook. Elfie goes out horseback rid- ing witb Sir Granton Breakspear, a broken down Old Take, against the p sitive commands of her husband, sne is Mad at Sir Grantou lor coaxing her out, though she wanted to go jor the sake of ridiag bis horse Elfin King. But she mace nim ride ber horse, which was unused to men and would throw him, she hoped, She dared him to leap an impossipie fence; he rode at it and was hurled to the ground. Then seeing her chance she whipped up her own norse and made him give @ sucden movement with his lore feet, wuich knocked the last spark of life out of Sir Granton Breakspear, Her pusband rode up at this junc- ture and carried her home, Where she lay for two nights and a day in a profound sleep, which he. took advantage o! by packing up his Purimanseau and leaving sor ioreign parts. While away he became a rav- ing lunatic, and well he might, and was locked up mamad house. When Eifle recovered from her sieep sae Was & changed woman, and hegan to make amends for her wicked hie by aistrivuting tracts apd medicine among the poor, That is the way English girisdo—a Frenen girl would have hidden herself ina nunnery. ‘The news reacnes Engiand that Alan is dead—thai eamer he salled in was wrecked, This being the case, Ram- sey, beg next oi kin, isthe heir. bifle goes to live with Auot Hammond, dressed in her widow's weeds, Ramsey visits her there and offers to marry ber, >ne scorns nis offer, and Aunt Ham- mond 1s 80 outraged by his effrontery that she fiings her cane at him in the excitement of the mowent, it hits him on the ankle, and he grace- fully returns 1 to the irate old lady. The villain mevts Kife in the woods one day and trys to drag her tO his carriage. She screams ‘‘Alian! bus band! help!”? amd, as good lack would nave it, Alian steps out from benind @ convenient tree and Jeils Ramsey to the earth. The husoand and wile are reconciled; but itis nOt until then tuar Kite 18 salely married.” THE GREAT TONE POETS. Miss Sotto Voce, who reads everything relating” to music or music! thatshe can lay her upoo, has just finished Mr. F. Crowest’s ‘Tone Poets” (seribner, Welford & Armstong), and pronounces 1 4 most Interesting Volume. As the | autuor says i bis preface, the book was written for the general reader as well as the musician. The tone poets, Whuse brief biographies are here recorded are, Bach, Handel, Gluck, Haydn, Mo- zart, Beethoven, Spohr, Weber, Rossini, sc.uberr, Mendelssohn and scuumann, “What can there be That 18 DEW adout tose composers?” say Read Mr. Crowest’s book and see. Miss Voce, whom we have always looked upod as a Walking encyciopwula of musical Knowledge says tuat she learned a great aval from tne book, be sides getting some good ideas irom the author's comments and suzgestions, Mr. Crowest does not heattate to haul the Englisa singing socievies over the coals for MOt giving @nytuing but the same oravorios year aiter year. He gays it is now. jog out of Handel’s but the “Messian,” “Judas Maccaowus” aud “Isreal in Egypt.” Because tue puolc never tre of tuese the conductors keep on giving them, Why not try “Saul” once in @ while ? No one ever thinks of bringing out anything o! Han- dei’s but ais oratorios, When there 18 Nis pastoral pay of “Acis and Galatea, B Poittemo,” *Kinaido and Arminga,”? “Otho” and other operas, which created a great Sensation at the time of tneir first production, Haudei Was more liberal in bis views thao are some German musicians of the preseut day: “With the severe and strict style of com, sitioa which he acquired at the leet of Zackau and his other German masters, the youth- ful yet prolound musician Jelt that to become universal he must combine the grace and loveiluess which characterizes the staltan schoo”? Gluck, Mozart, Mendelssonn and Schumann considered their study Of the ftauan school a8 Of great importance, as 1t certainly ts, particularly in the couposition of operas. Uperas used w ron tor forty and flity mghts in the good ola times, What ap ROS to the itis withdrawn to make room jor 801 The time may come, and if certain rumors are as well founded as tuey appear w be, itis not jar distant, Whea tie support of music will not de- pend eg | Upon the caprics of a fickle public, When that happy time arrives, we hope to hear beetnoven’s “Fiwelio,” Gitlex’s “Orieo,”’ --Alcesie”’ and “iphigenia,” Weber’y “Abu Hassen” and “Buryautne,”’ Rossini’s “fancredi” and “Semira- miue,’? ai ters Wu ag Those persous wu sneer at iiaut prodigies should read the lives of the great music i they Waal ¢o be convinced Of Cuetr fully. Neariy every One began to piay 48 Soon as be could reach the piano keys or lit a bow, and Mozart composea uiuses lave to Work 4s bard as day laborers is aiso proved by histery. Mandel wore the Keys o1 bis | 1avorite harpsicuurd into tue shape of the bow! of & spoon by Us 1nCessaut practising upon them. MUSICAL COMPOSERS. Mrs. Sarah Tyu Tneir Works” ( 3 “Musical Composers and verts Bros.) is somewhat similar to Mr. Crowest’s vook, taougn it covers more ground. Mrs. Tytler vegt With Palestrina and with Wagner. Her book js more a nistory of in the lives of the musician: text book jor the information it COMtatos, besides Leng pleasautiy written. Tne Interest in music 18 Lecoming 80 Universal in Amer- lea that Mrs. Tytier’s audience will unquestion- ably be a large one. She gives a great weal ina putehell ‘of suct importance that it Is as meces- sary to the amateur as to the proiessi be man or Woman, boy or girl, Wuo masters tents of this book Will have @ fund of musical knowledge (nat will pro vi THE ROMANCE OF 4N HONEST WOMAN. Deuz Mondes, 0. which paper he lterary critic, Alter telling the public What a novel sbould be, be takes up his pen apa gives them a “Josepa Nol- rel’s Revenge’ made an immense sensation when It first appeared, and now comes ‘fhe Romance oi an Honest Woman” (Wiliam ¥, U net quite as dramatic as equal to it in many other particulars, hut more than haif a dozen characters in wi book, amd the interest is centred in two. Isabel de Loanne is the beroine, the honest woi Maxde Lestang the hero, isavel tes story, jou which we iver that, though an nonest Woman, she Was a8 Cold as astone. Brought ap entirely by her lather, a0 old antiquary, whe speus | IS days Mm M@king excavations aud fis nights in reading Greek poetry to his daughter. Such a course Was Hot calculated to develope the neart Of the girl, WOO Was as Deauliiul and as chante as rv iather’s Greek Vases. While ving tu the forests of Louveau the Baroness de Ferjeux came down from Paris to she could not enjoy a new sensation ia country lie. laspienaole, sem! points, though @ great schemer, ¢ takes @ fancy to isabel at once. O1 de Feryeux telis her young 1 just sent to Paris ior her pephew, tue Marquis de Lestang, Whom she describes as “a superd iellow, cUirby-LWo years vid, Dandsome as an Apolio, ora’ as Artaban, as suotie and discreet as trince charming, who owns & house in Paris and a castie ‘This Jascinating Loveiace has been ie melancholy and determmed to resign nis joerty if bi him @ woman unlike erjeux for her nepuew Noth withstanding Woman, Isabel does mm on disposition of her band and heart. Weil, tke Marquis comes down, aud, instead of paying court to the danenter, he devoies mis time to the iather; dusts mis vooks and (alks art with bim by the hour. one day taey are ous horseback riding together and nave little talk om the presses admiration of a beauriful Illy, grow: high Up among the rocks, Ina minute t quis leaps an abyss, and a6 the riek of itie and limo plucks the lily. Galloping back ne pi esented it to the irightened girl, saying, “With tous flo 1 offer you my lie; Wil you have it?” she he: tates but # moment, and, thougn she has known him out a iew days, returns @ trembling “Yes.” They are married, aud soon the troubdie begins, | Isabel sees that her Marquis 1s getung tired of her, anG mstead Of exerting nerself to be attract- ive to Him sne Withdraws into ter shell of @e and lets hin go, Ske Is very unUappy, but she never wives an wen. ADO Jame—Miee, Murviel—sp pears upon the scene. Tne Marquis visits her and writes ner letters, some of which Isabel sees. ne now treats him not only with coldness, but stinging imdiPerence, although sue really loves him. A young noble. a devotee, comer across her path and Jails madly in love with her. Sue listens to bis passionate declarations, but gives hira no encouragement, He benaves like a lovesick madman. It only wants a straw vo turn the scale, and one day when the Marquis Nad been unwuaily cruel she deterimines to dy With the young devotee, but being a2 bovest woman she does not, 1 Marquis goes to Paris ana leaves bis wile at tne chateau. Suddeuiy he returns and acts as though he would jike to mai peace with ber, Sue od turns al he her and se er strange conduct, able to drive her image loves her and has not be: Jrom bis beart. The troubie he writes, that she was too easily won, ays:—"On & day when | gave youa mountain ily and ollered 40 consecrate wy life to you, On th day 1 loved you a8 | iove you now. You yielaea too quickly, and | despised happiness because it hud pov re- sisted me, How it bas avenged itsell! Farewell. What @ mystery is lije!? The ice is melted by this letter and Isabel fies to Max, Whom she bas ualWays loved better than herie. The strengto 1 the book 18 nut in its plot, for tnatis as Old as the werld, but it igim the Working out, Max was @ bad lel0w and did not pretend to conceal bis taults, isabel was, on the ober hand, too good & woman jor such @ man, She found it bard to forgive his “indiscretions,” whica were crimes 1 ber eyes—yet sne loved him, A statue figures conspicuously through the story. At first they thought it was @ Nemesis, but it turns Out to be a Psyche. ‘The book aovunds ip epigrams, some Of wiich are well worth quotin; jor example “What is the coud of being a woman 41 you have to look to see?” “Religion degrades Where \t does nov sauctily;” “There igne tried virtue which has not looked upon evil.” We await with impauence the next povel of the glited Cherbuilez, *DOLORES.”” Mrs, Zadel Barnes Buddington demonstrated to her own, i bot tu Others’ sa isfuction some time ago that the old can love, and bow comes Mrs, Forrester to prove that toat passion may ve felt oe the very young, also, 10 a novel Cailea “Dolores,” (WJ. B. Lipp.ucou & Co.) inthe first chapter « author say. ‘l am going to tell all you wo care to eur it a simple stury of a little cnildish, inue- cent maiden, who bax nO part nor parcel in royalty or grandeur, WhO KuOws nothing of cralt Or ambition or despair, but leads her own Lumbie, sunple life Witbuut great events but with- out great surrows,"” “Lhe impression lett by that introduction,” says the Growler, “is very differcot irom that Whicu 1s leat by Lhe story.’”? And the Growler is right for once, Dolores had & most eventfal lue lor one so young, and great rrOWS LOO, Mi Neart acues couat jor anything. At the teuder age o! Jourteen she meets sic Guy Wensworch, one of those giited Engisamen who GO ALOUL With sketch OVOK in hand looking ior old Tuins or pretty !aces. Sir Guy was sketching bis way tbrough the picturesque city of Rouen whea be accidentally saw Dolores out walking with her Buree, “Greuze’s la Couche Cassée,” he @. Clalgé ag Mis eyes resc Upon her pretty face, He 1s seized Witu @ desire to paint her, and veing a mad with Whom to Wish Is lo dd, he brives eld nurse Marcelline to let hum come up to (he house and make the sketch, ‘ihe mother is away, and he 1s Such @ pleasant spoken gentleman Wal she cannot but consent. So tor several Gays Sir Guy 48 busy in transierring the lace oi toe Little beauty to bis sketcn buok, He 18 really a very good fellow, and bas no designs whatever upon the cniia’s heart, The oid nurse, however, sees that Dolores is madly in love with the Gasuing Englisno- man, so she gues to him and vegs hum to leave town aud not see her litte mistress any more. Sir Gay appreciates the siluauon, aud altwough he has not Huisued bis sketch be packs up and goes Lo Paris, Dolores 1s inconsviabie at his loss. She weeps and tear, uer oair, and one day when the Durse’s ack 18 turned she packs her bag and goes up to Paris aiso, By good lorcune she meeis Guy’s servant in the street, and he takes her to nis master’s hovel. ‘there she flings hersei into the arme ol tue as- tonisned gentl-man and begs lim to let her live With bim, li only a3 Dis servant. lie explalus to her that such a proceeding would not 100k weil im tue eyes ol the World, Wuat does sue care, it is only lis eyes tual move her. Sir Guy’s arguments prevail, however, and she is sent home, torvu- nately a few evenings beiore Sir Guy met with @ young and Interesting Wicow with whom he be- came istautly euamored, or he would fave Miur- ried the little Dolores out of sheer pily, Subse- quently Dolores becomes engaged to @ man of tnree times her age and ts about to marry him, but he, seeing that oer heart is all Jor Gay, turus ber over to him. ‘The widow, Milly, bad pre- viously Married @ hall-brother oi Gay's, so be bad ais haad LM Dot ois heart iree and he bestowed ib upon nis worshipper. ‘Lhe scene shuts irom Paris to Wentwortn Court, giaod, Sir Guy aud Loiores, Captain CBar- wend bis wile, eX-Widow, gO Gown to Visit Wentworth, ibere young heronmere te Lady sale Gesperately :n iove wiih Dolores, and she .. Wita mim to revenge herseit on Guy, Wao firts Finally Delores geis jor Guy ana elopes with With the cuarming ally. over her love Lord Heronmere. Om tne very Gay of tue elopement Guy and Muy ate out driviag and are bota w *u from taeir carriage. Muley is in- stantly Kuied ana Guy is-bDroken hearted. H, is pever agai the same man, Dolores and her Lord happily togetser and every ming turus Ul peasant y jor tue heroine. “inat is not what I cal a very simple life,” sheers tue Growler, “and al ark belore Sue was sweet sx rester think that moshing short of murder can uiake 4 tragedy?” POINT LACE AND DIAMONDS. Tue vers de socikté, Which wave appeared from time to time In Serioner’s Monti} a tne Lven- ing Mail, irom the pen of Mr. George A. Bak nave bee ied In & volume entitied, Lace and Diamonds,’ and published by F. B. Pat- lerson. ‘ihe Duok Is Must veautifully gotten up, and delicately illustrated by miss Addie Led- Mr. Baker, who 18 an authority ta society was “un DIL? OL tae au Wen Wat paper paid more attention to svciai in- terests. His Verses are graceiul and bumorous and give # very lair idea of Lhe lashionable society of tue a “New” appears to be @ javorite of this young poet, for she figures im oeariy every poem. 8s Ledyard bas dove her part ol the book ceilenuy Well, She has just caught the ‘no! aud “sweil’’ bi best verses ar Young Dream,” “Up tne Aisie,’’ and “Le Dernier Jour D’un Coa 4 ‘haster Moraing”’ mat,” | ter we quote as a Jair sample 01 the author's pieas- And shat the greatest ge. | wut anu oi-hucd style:— Ns wear you with pride But I'm dressiag to-mght My own, and you'd Bot de at al. You've too many wine stains about y re scented too much with ciga: When the gaslizht shines tall on your collar it glitters with myriad % ‘That wouldu't lvok weil suey'd seem hap propri Ii doesn’! use diaunond powder, he veils me it Fuins the hair, You've been out on Cozzens’ piazza Too iate, when the evenings were damp; When the mooonbeams were sivering cron Ans the lights Were all out mi Lue camy, You've rested on aiguiy-oiled stairways cet eyes were Dr it dress—not Neli flowed round a Fivers of whi There's @ reprobate looseness about you; should 1 Wear you to-ma@ht, 4 bedeve i came with my bride trom the altar, al i wicked old sleev So go to your grave in the wardrobe, And furnish @ feast for the mota, Neit’s clove shalt betray its sweet secrets ‘wo put on ss made iD 100 that’s ne Old coat I'm afraid rt will never Pet as Casily OL me as you. OAKRIDGE, it is only the easy aud natural way in which it ts toid that saves “Oakridge,” tory receutiy puvitsued by J. R. Osgood & Vo, OF ail the highly wrougut tales we nave read in many &@ day this ay take the lead, The two leading characters are maniacs, although the author smooths it aown by calling them monemaoiacs, One, Dr. Delany, is Gevermined to marry Agnes Leroyd, whether she WLi or Dot, and telows bert irom Engiaud to America jor that purpose, She is terribiy airaia ol 0 ud With reusou. There is no question in | the reauer’s mind that Deiany is imsage. Al- toough Agues is cagaged to ve married oa young went soe has met in America, Heary Oak. ruige, the one Wie tells tae st Delany lays ms plans to abduct ver. Before ber iather movea into his wouse he (Delany) had from we bedrooms to could readily ace spguiar part of it at Giguiued aod gen iriends every Where, and no Would suspect h insanity unless Che conversation tarne@ upun tae ovject of his affections, One night he steals tae gir away and pides wer ina cave, fitted up with ali tue luxury @: a gemtieman’s parior. Ba swears (hat it is and vamed. toembark for Eng. jana with the anoappy gitl he is arrested and jail. A ume of ihe arrest Henr; Hs De Man. Whom ne thinks is going t this piece of ja Wiessness the fat oa tae murdere! ead Deiany is tried on &@ charge of abduction, ana is nity dodge, Which is quite right in is case, Later om Oakrid) marries Agnes and y go to Europe. in I ke shous & man, mistal increases a mim vy accident. At this time Delaay agata appe: 16 Be and is avenged. He turns apou Oakridgeand fia in the most impressive manner:—‘'ii you woul not dye your sands still deeper in the bloed of those nearest and dearest to you, sulfer no man biaden to enter your house, and bidden enter use.’ The innucent murderer has i to drown his sorrows, and almost hag an attack of dejriam tremens, Wneu te re- COVers Ais reaagn Le Ages ko lives @ hermit’s life. Every cat or dog thai he calls 10 bim he steels irresianble de- ve to kill, but he dies without having adaed any more murders to his list, One of the most singuiar things in the book is the killing of four of the principal caaracters by one stroke of bec re-rsy 9 “they had to be gotten rid of to make the story, and that Was an easy way of put'ing them out of the world,” says the Growler. “My argument is, ou know, that every novel bas ts morai. What bis one is 1 f man Who is be! upon carrying peint, though he commit crime to do tt. 18 not vicious, but simply monomaniac. Anotier moral of this story is that wrong always triumpheover right.” Amore melodramatic story it would be bard to imagine, yet the author is clever enough uot to Jot you feel that whiie reading it. It is only upon Teviewlog t Startling situations, jor while perusing it you are completely carried away with the story. LITERARY CHAT. A new book from the pen of Joaquin Miller will | be published by Roberts #rothers, It is a novel of far Western life, entitied, “In a California Eden,” Mr, Miller has also completed a three volume story of Italian life and bas a fourth volume of poems nearly ready. A great book for literary antiquarians 1s the re- cent publication of the Registers of the Company of Stationers, of Londen, from 1554 to 1640, A, D. It 18 fail of nuggets for the hunters after obscure facts, throwing light on the actual dates of issue of multitudes of dram: without date in the sixteenth century. The Hakiuyt Society has publishea “The First ‘Voyage Rouna the World,” by Mageilan, the Por tuguese discoverer. The book is well edited by Lord Staniey, and contains no lesa than six con- temporary accounts of this notable voyage. The best collection of books relating to the American Indians ever gathered will be disposed of by auction May 24 and following Gays, at Bangs, Merwin & Co,’s rooms, in New York. Six hundred and two thousand persons visited the British Museum during the year 1574. A new life of Admiral Coligny, by Mr. Walter Besant, of London, is promised, We are to have a great thesauras of the Malay language, from materials coliected by the late Mr. Ven Dewall, Watts’ great Dictionary of Chemistry, in six volumes has been supplemented by a new ap- pendix, bringing chemical science down to the latest dates, Anew biography of Prince Bismarck, in English, will soon appear from the press of the Baron Taucnnitz, of Leipzig. The Prince bimself highly | approves is as the best book yet written about him, “The Land of the North Wind” is the funny titie of Mr. Ed ward Rae's new travels among the Lap- landers, A bistory of photography, from the pen of M. Tissandier, who so nearly lost his life in the late perilous balloon ascension, wil! soon appear in English. The second volume of Michelet’s History of the Nineteenth Century will appear this month, It is largely occupied with Engiand, We are to have @ new edition of Machiavelli's works tn the Itallan, including a mass of Intherto unpublished documents. ‘The most graphic sketcn ever penned of Honoré de Balzac appears in Gautier’s posthumous work, ‘Portratis Contemporains.”? says of the other «that Balzac actually lived tne characters ideally whom he portrayed in his won- | derful ficuons, retire to @ remote province or to another quarter of Paris, and dress, talk and live the life of the character he was studying and would depict. Thomas W. Knox has a fresh book in Worthing- ton’s Hartford press, entitled “Backsheesh: An Tuastrated Record of Lie and Adventures in the Orient.” Harper & Brothers have in press “The Might and Mirth of Literature; A Treatise oa Figurative Language,” by Joun W. V. Macbeth. ‘Mr. Semuel Adams Deake’s ‘‘ Nooks and Corners of the New England Coaat” will quickly appear from the pross of Harper & Brothers. The splendid art work of M. Charles Blane, | “Histoire des Peintres de Toutes les Ecoles,” has — been Drought to completion in twelve volumes, | Its woodcuts are the most superb yet achieved in France. “Paris Tous Diadles,” is the harrowing | title of M. Paul Véron’s last book, “Tne North Star and the Southern Cross” is the title of a forthcoming volume o/ persenal ex- pericnces in @ journey around the world, by Margaretha Weppner. Most of Anthony Trollope’s novels bave been translated inte French, and are soja at one frane each, Some modern critics are like Hazlitt, who swal- lowed his authors greedily or abused them roundly, treating the writers of vooks, not as im- personal creators of literature, but as buman be- ings, to be loved or hated, Among the novelties of special trade papers is The Conrectioners’ Journal, which is started in Philadelphia, Stanley, says bis theology is of the vaguest possi- bie description and his oratory of a very inferior order, in which eloquence ts never reached, The Augsburg Gazette announces the eariy pubd- Neation by Lieutenant Stumm, tue only toreign oficer allowed to follow the Russian expedition in Central Asia, of a work containing a fuli descrip- tion of thia expedition and of the admirable man- ner in waich it was carried out. The lavest vanity out Im Paris isa “fi Fans Among Ail Nations and in Ail Ages." ry of The last book of the German-Eaglishman, Zincke, who wrote learnediy on bKgypt aud Switzerland, is, “A Waik in the Prisons.” The Abbé Do: joh, who l# agreat quack, hus published two more octavos at Paris on the losophy of History” as exhibited in the “Prophecy of Daniel.”* The Saturday Review, in an articie on the coliect- | ing mania and sensation auction, declares that Engiaad is at once the ricuest country in the world, the fuliest of tings precious and rare, and the least imstracted in matters of taste. The middie and upper classes, it says, have a dreadful Jactlity in confusing beauty and hideousness. A new idea in journalism pas been started in Germany. It is @ paper styled, The Anti-Critic; Organ for Literary Self-Defence, and will be de- voted to pablishing replies of authors whose writ- ings have been uniavorably received by the press, ‘This great boon for aggrieved authors is to cost them only four shillings a page. Emule Chevallier has printed at Paris a treatise on gambling, entitled, ‘Jeux de Bourse, Courses de Chevaux, Maisons de Jeu, Loteries devant la Loi” The literature of the Bacon-Shakespeare contro- versy is to be enriched by a new edition of Juvge Holm of Shakespeare (New York: Hurd & Houghton—Cambriage: The Riversiae Press), With an appendix of nearly a nunarea pages, now first print Judge Holmes’ book is tue Mest Weighty presentation of the argument for Bacon which has appeared, and {ull of carious information worthy the consideration of all, how- ever widely peopie may dissent from the author's couclusion, in the appendix, besides introducing much coufirmatory matier, he gives in fall an in- | teresting correspondence which passed between bim and Mr, Spedding, the Englisn editor of Bacon’s works, This is tne more noteworthy since Mr. Spedding is an absolute sceptic as to Bacon's claims, aud presents, in @ few pages, avout as ciear a summary of t t against Bacon as can be found, Judge Holmes’ courage in print- Ing tue letter is only equalled by his courtesy in commenting on it. The oattie of the encyclopadias still goes on in the New York Evening Post. Jonnsou’s New Encs- clopedia, edited by President F. A. P. Barnard, is denounced for numerous errors and omissions by awriter signing bimseif X. Y. Z., who fears that the work is “likely to be regarded as thority among the ign t.” Dr. Barnard retorts with charges of uofair and malictous criticism, and says the New Encyciopwdia is “the production of & large number of the most eminent men of letters id of science in the United States.” We are to have anew book about Mendelssohn in the “Intimate Reoollectious of H. De Metster,”” to which will be added recollections of Goethe and and Beethoven, An unpublished nove! by Balzac has been found woods, woare ba | in Mauusering and will AoOR pe DUbEaEd, 1 60 discover, unless it be that & | ground that you appreciate tne | ballads, &c., published | One novelist | He would quit his home suddenly, | i. | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. | LITERATURE IN PRANCE. Jules Favre on the Republic and the Siege. | Another | Verne. | SOS TES ae A FRENCH LIFE OF GENERAL LEE. Paris, Apri! 29, 187 A BOOK BY JULES FAVRE, | Messrs, Pilon & Co. have just published the. third part of Mr. Jules Favre's “Narrative of | & Memoer of the Government of National De- fence.” (“Ré cit d'un Membre du Governement de | Ja Délense Nationale.”) The present portion of the work is unques- Wonably the most imteresting yet issued. It | Weats wholly of tho negotations relative to the signature of the armistice, of the conclusion of the peace, and of the ditferent arrangements with | tory; negotiations ip which Mr. Jules Fayre took anactive part ip his ca; eign Affairs, What gives this book a special valine is that it enables one to see how seriously the insurrection of the Communists endangered the maintenance of peace, Hitherto the existence of the danger had been suspected, but absolute proof of it nad not been furnished. With the help of diplomatic papers, the majority of which are now published | for the first time, M. Jules Favre established the fact that Germany was more than once on the point either of demanding fresh guarantees trom France, or of insisting on being admitted to co- Operate in the sevond siege of Paris, JULES FAVRE AS WRITER AND SPEAKER. A great speaker, M. Jules Fayre is also a great writer, not oniy because his style 18 one of re- he is not afraid to do justice to the German General, Von Fabrice, the envoy of tae King of Prussia. He dwells on the spirit of conciitation displayed by that oficer, on his frankness and areless good humor, qualities which the genuine | French chauvin would never have acknowledged, | | even if ne had observed them, in an enemy, Herr ‘Von Bismarck himself comes in for his share of | pratse im M. Favre's book, and the author’s | Opinion of the German Chancellor shows that he | was not untraly represented as meaning weil to | France, at least as compared with the military Jn regard to his fellow countrymen a, Fayre is | not less moder In his explanations of the aire ference which he bad with M. Gambetta, when the latter wished to proclaim the Bonapartists incapable of election to the Nationa! Assembly, one sees that be 1s not anxious to cast oil on the flames or to reawaken the embers of a scarcely extinguished tre. M. THIERS AND THE COMMUNE. M. Juies Favre i# aiso warm in his praise of M. Thiers. On the other hand, he is ihexorabie mm | his condemnation of tne Commune, and seems to forget the leverish stare Ol excitement into which | the Parisians had been thrown after the siege, an | excitement which explains, anu in a certain meas- ure excuses, the Crisis of the 18th of Marci, |. MENIBR is a famous manufacturer of chocolate, extremely h and possessed Of a splendid mansion in the Parc Monceaux, bat consumed by a passion ior scribbling, or raiher for setting others to seribble, see'ng that agentieman named Yves Guyot is tne Teal author 01 the Dbvoks Which Dear his name, in his work op the **laxation of Capital” (“Taéo- | mie et Application de Vimpot sur le Capital.” | Paris: E. Pion & Co.”), M. ler has set Limself | the task Of resolving a weighty probiem—viz., | aoolish taxes on consumption and use, whica it must be allowed bave been recklessly imposed of late in France. proposed, M. Menier also objects to an income tax, because It is almost impossible to g | solid basis. In conciusion, be ady capital, that 1s to say on fixe chreulating capital, which i | preauction, ought, he thinks, This 18 the book Of an Donest man, zealous for the commonwealth and thorougaly convinced of the soundness of his own principie’ Up to the | preseut time, however, M, Meuier’s theories have been little to the taste of the National Assemoly, while the pabiic at large is too much occupied With purely potitical questions to bave any jeisure tw bestow On au economic essay. M. Mehier will be one of the candidates of the moderate repuv- lican party at the geuel 0. JULES VERNE—“LE CHANCELLOR.” Verne is 4 naval officer on tue nalt-nay list. e lives at Honfleur, pear Havre, amd writes ali his books o board ayacat. He may ve described as the French autoor who puts most money into | the pockets of his publishers, His books are traos- | lutea into every language. He has, im fact, the power Oi instructing and amusing at tne same Verne’s last romance me oO ing her catea fire, th stowing away some of pie: | ney. It must be aamitted uonatural, Still M. Juies Verne, as usual, displays Lo sinall skill and bumor in their development. | “THE WOODS”? | The authors of this work (“Les Bois,” publishea by Rothschild, Rue des Saints Peres, Paris), are MM. Dupont and Bouquet Ge la Grye, geatiemen | of high reputation in tae world of science. Their vook contains curions and useful miormation on general reader will also Und mu resting 1D its pag: Some well-executed engravings facilitate study of the text. GENERAL LER. Under the titie o “tn Vaineu,”* the firm of He zei pudilsbes @ biograpuy of tue Couiederaie peciaily for en, coll proceeoing from the pen of Mme. Borssounas. | ine book is readabie, and written w.th a warmtn of partisanship Wien leaves no doubt of the sin- cerity of the author’s admiration for tne soidier whose history she relates, Tne republican press | in France has corded a favorable reception to this biography; Mime. Bolssunuas havi labored | 0 prove that ae bot Gghting for slavery, but drew ford on the | Lebel side because he considered that his duties to- | Wara tne State of Virg.ola, of Waica be was a citizen, had @ higher cl tons toward tne Union, At tne close of tue work tne autnor tells how Robert BE. Lee, aiter the de- feat of the souto, became the director of a college. | Ibis to be teared toat this ex not on | likely to be tollowed by Frencn gen , vi | quisiied or victorious, | THE NATIONAL GUARD id @ historian im M.A. De Chamborant de Périswat (‘1 Révolation.”” is: B. Pion & Co.) He shows now, from Its estavil: | meut, in 1789, to its final dissoiuuoa, in 1871, thas jorce never once upheld the jaw of which it was raised to be tue -pecial defender; that it over- threw the three constitutional monarchies of | France and neiped to renaer tue first two repab- | ics impossibie; finally, that the men who com- posed it fled like sneep before the Prassi tne day of battie. despatch trom Governor of Vincenn ‘Thomas, Commander-t Guard. i$ duted the 16th of December, 1870, when Franc agony of ner struggle for honorable —vommander of tie Two Handreath drank! At least half the men drank! Impossible to count on their services, Obliged to relieve their posts, Under the circum- stances, the National Guard is only am aaoitional trouble and danger.” Three mouths later Clément Thomas was murdered by theve miser- abe mea. A PRENCH SPORTSMAN. “Aventares et (asses dans "Extreme Orient, Deaxieme Partie, Le Sport de |Elépnant.” FP rper & Such ts the utte of a lively ory ee narrative of Eastern sport by M. Aa- quetil. An amu-ing c uanecessarily careful refutation of the pian of M. Gaidoz for the employment of elephants im Eu- ropeaa warfare. From the time of Pyrrbus down- ward it has been repeatedly demonstrated taas these animals are more formidavie to ur irtengs ing temper tid id refresh the atmosphere. The objection, de as it is by man familiar wita both climates, ts probabiy sound. THE JERSEY BALLOT FRAUDS. The Democratic General Committee of Hudson County, New Jersey, have employed cowu- sel to bring to the attentiym of tm Grand Jury the action of the Board of Canvassers after the recent election, with a view to tae indictment of the prominent memvers of that body tor the shameless frauds perpetrated by the Board. The case of ihe judges Book from Jules} | Prussia for the gradual evacuation of the terri- | ‘ity of Minisicr for For- | | Markable purity, but because he knows how | to place himself above the pitiful consid- | erations of fanaticism and of party, ‘Thos | party which surrounded the Emperor William. | | which 1s the best system of taxation? He would | 6; A duty on hats vas even veen | “Le Chancellor. ual to Sot € in the hold. | Tue Giasgow News, having been to hear Dean | ‘The passenger, Whose impressions are recoraed by | | M. Verne, can scarcely have Rad @ pleasant jour- | tl at the situations are | e time o1 tue ot * r Lee was | m oO bim than his obliga- — japter is devoted to an | 5 THE TILTON-BEECHER TRIAL A Brief | esuume of the En- tire Case. | What the Jury Have to Ac- complish. | | The cause c'lobre now on trial in Brookiyn 19 | Bearly at an end. Nothing tn it remains to bs | done except for Beecher’s counsel, on one side, to | “whistle down’ the calamny ana the slander, | which they will be sure to argue have been most | cruelly and unjus'ly raised against their cliemt; while on the other side Tilton’s coun- } sel will maintain that the defendant's character is as biack as night, and that the evidence clearly and undoubtedly points to his guilt. Tole is what counsel wili do. Undoubt- edly they will use their best efforts for tneir re- | spective clients; and when the last sentence of | the ‘summing up’ has died away in the court room the venerable aud respected Juige, who hag shown so much good temper and discretion throughoat the whole of this long and pain- | fal case, will address the jury in those solemn | and weighty words which so well become a mag- | strate intrusted witn one of the most | important and gravest duties known to thelaw. Whatever may be the result of this pro- tracted litigation, some of the parties to it can | claim that they have not been fally aud completely | heard. It would be hard to point out a lawsuit in which plainti® and deiendant have had such ample latitude to prove every fact tney deemed to be in their favor as in tuis suit of Tilton vs. | Beecher; and, uo doubt, it will be universally coa- | ceded that the rulings of the learned Judge, whether for the plaintil or for the defendan', have been dictated by TRE HIGHEST SENSE OF JUSTICE and the strictest aduerence to what he believed to | be the law. Itis agrand sight to see law fairly and strictly administered. There was a time, and | that not long ago, in the cityof New York, when certain mem>ers of the Judiciary, by their corrupt | and disgraceiul practices, brought dishonor on | the Bench and shame on the country, But that | time 18 gone. A tempest of popular indig- nation mas swept thoso dishonest magis- trates out of judicial existence, and now men like Judge Netlson preside over the courts of law | to save the State from wrong and the citizen from | Oppression. Tars is something to be proud of— | this issomething that our people should rejoice in. Im the frm and honest administration of law is to be found the surest guarantee for public ib- | erty and for private rights, and Messrs, Tilton and | Beecher must each rejoice that the co: | before a tribunal in which toey are © jairly dealt with. | In'every aspect this Tilton-Beecher case is mort | remarkable. Tne gravity ol the coarge, wick so | sertou affects the moral reputation o: a man | who has been regardeu by his 1oliowers—and by | many who are not tis iollowers—s the most | extraordipary preacner of his peculiar school | thab has ever appeared on tue Continent of Amer! the political and — social | opinions oo: the plaintitl, who appears | to have done himself a great injury by taking up | strange docirines and “isms’’ and questions, | when there was no good to be achieved by the | martyrdom which was sure (o follow; his pecuilar | style of writing, lis seif-esteem, bis excessive vanity, his assumed superiority over other men, the | number and vartety of tue witnesses, the contra- | dictors swearing, the absolute and dowarigat | perjury that has certainly beem committed some- | where, the long and spirited arguments 0! couns=L on large and small points, the closeness with which the suit Das been contested step by step ou both sides; above ail, tne lengtn of time over lob the iitigation bas extended—all the-e things | go to snow that the crim, con. case of Tuton v: | Beecher Bas no paraliei eituer tn this country r Engiand. It No stands aione and equal: hke it caa be from In all its elen it remains unapproached by the records u! any court of justice 14 modern umes, dud in fusure ages the historian and the jarisconsilt will won- der Bow it Was possibie that on a charge of such & low and vuigar uature nearly all toe working days Oi about halla year Swould have veen taken | Up in deciding where the alleged guilt lay. Iti | an old saying thot when @ man gets mto law he | does not Know when ne cag getoutol it, Tue law's delays are proverbial, and the Witen- Beecher suit does not form an exception to the provera. uu- cived THE CONTRADICTORY SWEARING in this case bas been irequently adverted to, and it forms # notable feature of this trial, A question here arises a§ to What, under these circum- stances, the jury Wil do. They may be sorey puzzied to kuow upon which side the trath | rests. Im a didecaity of this aature tue teudency is to raise the question oi creaibuity of the wituesses. Beecter has contradicted Titon and Tiltoo bas | contradicted Beecner. Moultoa has told one story a Beecher has told another, Tracy tas testi- fied that he b Said & cer.ain tlitny aud Tilton Nas tes\ified tuat Tracy had said the very opposite. Mrs, Moulton tas deposed that on tie 2a of Jus Mr, Beecher Was at her house and confessed her tue oOffeace or crime with which Mr. | charges bum. Mr. Leecoer | he was nut st Mrs, Moulton’: | question, that he was on ears positively tout house om the day thas very day up at farm at Peekskill, aud that be never, ou any ovca- sion, made any such confession as that tesabed to by Mrs, Moulton. Not only rhis, but Mr. Beecher prodaces ¢vidence to show that at the time when he Was alleged vo have been comessing [he alleged crime to Mrs. Moaiton he was seca On the railway train, while, on the ocBer hand, witnesses are cal for the plaiuti’ to reout that st | prove thas Mr. Beecher was seen Mrs, Moulton’s house about elevea o'clock oa the morning of June 2. These are but a few specimens of the rewarkable Contradictions that uave been | developed. What wil the jury say ? Waat can t say? Will they ask who is the liar—who is the perjurer’ For, deyoud « Goudt, there has been de- Niberate and wilini perjury someWauere in Chis case. it will be the sovema aud boandea auty of the jury to find out who the perjurer or perjurers ar Tus it @ matter they canuot sairk. Toey muss Jook the question straight and fuil in the face, and on their consciences 0d Oaths, AS MCD abd jurors, decide the paint questior 4 Lrar i” — ony before us’ The ation of morais de er, af some determination arrived at whiten will forever squelch this hideows aod cisgasting scandal of our law courts. The Judge will assuredly do his du'y by @ fair and impartial enarge, and tuen the re~ sponsibility rests with the jory. It ts the prayer jd wish of every honest man im the community that the jury, amid the mazes and mysteries of the case, amid the clouds of false Swearing and | Contradictions, will be enabled vo reach a definiie conciusion. 1t would be improper to anticipate | the result, That result can only be arrived at serious thought and deliberate consideratio judging irom the atiention the jury bas pa: | tue case, one would be incliued to think that result will be reached. But human appearances | are frequently deceptive, and the keenest calcuia- wo ‘H- | toms of men are ofsen at iauit. One can oniy hope jor tue best, THR TRIAL IN THE FUTURE. In years to co when ali the actors in the | ereat ana remarkabie case of Tilton vs. Deecher have passed away—in times whea tue walls of sie | court room in which tne suit has been tried are | crumoling into dus'—lawyers will be punting up | dusty volumes containing the report of tue triai | citiug some pout in it as iusirating o ‘and telling the Judge waat Judge nad ided ou this Woudertal crim con. trial, just as lawyers to-day may be heard citing the ‘acts of Edward Ii ., Eizaveth, Wiliam aud Mary and of the four Ge rges, | As We bave said, the Tiiton-Beecher case is near- | ing its ead, and when the end is reached 1) is to | be Roped that It Wili be of such @ character as to | render it Impossivie jor tmis great ever again to bore tue pablic with ita disgust aod paintul details. Toe w oe, mast be killed aud squelebed forever, and now is the time to do it. OLD NORTH CHURCH. About two years ago propositions were made Aad negotiations entered into between down | town Capitalists and the trustees of the old North | church ior the saie und purchase of the land upon | which that house of worship has stood for more than a century. Attue time mo little amount | of dissatisfaction was created when it was announced by those in thority that mmon had managed to obtain pos- | Session of oue of Gotaam’s oldest landmarks. | Those who bave worshipped from childhood in soe Wallis Of that edifice saw at a glance | that vhey would Delore long ve co! ed to wive p their house of worsaip and seek tual conse: | a | pen Saree Loe “Old Norte chure! THE 8 | Ihe great increase of business, | Immediate neighvorhood of the caurch, | continued demand for more capacious stores has induced tne trasiecs and deacons of the caured | to Gispose of the property at the dest rates ateatue oF e1ection Wiro counted out Alderman Wuy.e aud | able, During the past week quite a large gumber awarded bis seat tu Tliden has been laid velore | of workmen have been kept busily employed 10 ihe Grand Jury. One of the clerks engaged tn | completing the entire demolisnment of tue charch. iS business disappeared irom: the city a few | The property las veen leased for a period of sixty, daysago. I stated on good authority that in- | ti years, to Mr. Kerwin, proposes (o erect dictments have been found against three wemoers: thereon. Tue trustees have ol the Board of Uanyassers, but they Aave Bot yet ite for the vew churen, and propowe 4 been arrested, WOrKk Wogad JG MMAUnG Lda eLYs