The New York Herald Newspaper, May 24, 1875, Page 4

4 ” LITERATURE. (Bishop Haven’s Book Travels in Mexico. of iA PROTESTANTIZING PEREGRINATION. "The Land of the Montezumas Through Episcopal Spectacles. INTERESTING SKETCHES. Chats About the Latest, Works of Fiction. “WE AND OUR NEIGHBORS.” | Nowhere”---Bertha’s ments”---An Old Snarler. “Castle Engage- | picks herself up and is kaocket ; the buzzard, perhaps because it was biack. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET herself in wrage or rear or macness, Up and gown we followed, sick and scared. “Alter much ground acd lofty tumbling the berth is abandoned, with great reeling and sick- ness, for the deck, | Perched among the shrouds that lash the base of the masts, or reeling siong tne side of the drunken vessel, I enjoy tie nortner. The sea 18 capped with ioam; the waves leap | | snort and high; | and is buried and sudden hills of water, back on its baunches by trying to mount tue hills coming up on the other side of the holiew. How she -taggers and down, and own ag ip, and bilndly rears and as blinaly fall Her fremgnt has been Chiefly leit at Havana and Progresso, and 80 sne beliaves worse than she might nave otherwise done. 1 bad neyer seen so cruzy a creature on the sea. I thought the long swells of the Auantio, the short surges of the Mediterranean, and even the chopping waves of the fuglish Onarnel and the | Huron Bay bad enough, but tis Mexican Norther Do you wish to pay that toll to Scelled them all. tee ths ) ke see (his garden? {t will pay, for seasickue) toothacne, never kills.” die seems rather to aiversion. THE BUZZARD AS A SCAVENGER. ‘The streets oi Very Cruz aie kept clean, not by man or beast, but by birds, row, as they should be tn hot countries. ‘fin, rivuléts trickle down tneir centres, and disinfec ants in the sickly 6easoo Bightly cleanse open sewers. Anotner and more tmportant source of its clean- lnees is tae buzzard. 1 bad been taugnt to desea hac heard how Wnelean @ tuing tt Was, and was ex- ceedingly prejudiced agains’ ti. Butt dad, to my surprise, that bere (his despised aud detested Bishop Maven has made a most readable book of travels out of bis wimter in Mexico, The con- tents of the book appeared partially in Harper's — creature is the sacred bird, almost. It varkens the air With its Mocks, vests on ie rools, Lowers, Steepie-tops, everywhere. A fne of $5 is levied ‘against one who shoots one of them, it the most privieged in- dividual of the town, Lhe reason why? 1tis the Strect cleaner. 1t picks the offal from gutter or sidewalk, aud nothing escapes its hangry maw. I's business may Dot be Ceanly, but 13 person ts It never looks sulled, bus its Lick wings suine, and Its beak 18 as White as “store teeth.” It looks | like a pice bousemaid Whose service does not make ver solted, Lt is a bird, looking line the turkey, though of a diferent sb°ces, aud ol a Magazine, where it found numerous readers. He broek, swift wing, (Nat su-tatus iC in long flights. a ‘ t. appears very solemn, tie priest oO: the air, has not made s mere guide book, as so many especialy wheo it 51°83 62 (ae Cross of the churokes, travellers do, but gives us the beuefls of bis keen observation of people and things #nd of a careful oue on euch arm irequentiy, and One on the top. Once I saw two thus sittin; On tue top, one on tie ovner, a8 quiet and churchly a3 though each were inquiry into the condition o: the country, In carved in stone. the last cnapter be sums up the object ‘Tce chiel street of Vera Cruz has two arcades, of his visit and tells more particularly | With little markets apd tables tor brandy or cotlee of the work of Protestanizing 4 0. He says ‘hat this purpose ‘has not veen largely thrnst into the body of toe work, brief and infrequent references only having been made to the subject. ‘The aim has been to give a transcript of the land and people, apart from all especial views or ents, go that those who sought light upon the country or sougiit the country itself should not have too much, to them, extraneous matter set before sippers. It hasa score or two 0! stores, wih quaint names, such as “Ei Pobre Diabolo” (The Poor Devil), over neat ary goods uo. Wuose mercognt thereby humbiy confesses he does not make o' one per sient’? on © Another has B. B. b. u Lito, Barato” (good, pretty, chea)), Ihe ousimess Ol the city is quite large, 8uMe Nouses do # miifion anda nali ayear, Suncay is not opserved in tis the boa! goes down these sbarp | have enjoyed this ‘litte | The streets are nar- | these | city, according to strict orrhowox ideas; shops aud | theatres are ali open the same 3 on ocher days. The autnor cescants largely on the sweetness and | bett ‘ P juiciuess of the oranges Of this regiou; Ne thinks, them, Itscemed detier to put such matter in @ | Could they be gotten to our markels, that tuey chapter by itsel/, so that those who wished it not would dfive out all others. He also says might avold the dish entirely, and those who wished for it might enjoy 1 all by itself? The conclusion arrived at 18 that Mexico of- fers fine field tor missionary iabors, the most discouraging obstacles having already been surmounted, The history of the frst Mechoc ist church in the City of Mexico 1s one of tnrull- ing intemgst. Comonsort struck the keynote of the Felormaffon in 1850; overs flocked around tue standard-bearer, among them the lave Manuel ar- guas, tormeriy a Romish priest, wiom Btsnop Haven regards as the clef fruit of this reforma- tion, It may not be unsatural in @ Protestant bishop, but some of this reverend author's blows at the Church of Kome seem to tue unprejudicea Teader to be too hard to be quite fair. He does Mot grant the older faith any ground whatever, and apparently sees nothing in it of good. The Bishop's sketches of character and bits of @escription are the most charming part of his book to the average reader. Here 1s one of A FRER RELIGION(S7. Acharacter thatI met oa the steamer by its strangeness relieved the sea qualms, and, if jor no other reason, deserves @ sketch. He was 4 fope of a vanising class—few, I hope, as any time, but notwithout existence. He was a Ha vana pianter, who had come to New Orie wo Dell his crop, and was returning brimful of cash and whiskey—nay, not brimfui of the jatter, or, If wi of eulargement—w preachers p 80, than some prolix | yer that the Mexican coffee 14 umong the vest in the would, the best Colima‘berry at the west coast selllug as high as a dollar and a half a pound. It is prepared Very sirony, anu tien ved ap with two-tulrds Mos muK, 11 )ou are not seclumated. As you become so the proportion of miuk disap- pears until it 18 well nigh wil cogce, But the Coffee Louse boys always bring two pots, one of codfee, one of bot milk, ana pour a. your pieasure. Bevore ue leit Mexico the Bishop got quice used Lo seeing ladies pull the iragraut cigaretle. THE PEOPLE'S BEVERAGE. Old folks and catldren turusi into sour noses, and would iain toto your mouths, the villanons ariak of the couutry—puiqui. It is tue people's chet beverage, It tasies jike sour ana vad smelling buttermilk, ts white like that, Gut thin, ‘They crowd a.ouna the cars with It, selling @ plot Measure for three cenis, [tasted it and Was Sat. istied, It isonly not so Villanous 4 ax lager and Londoa porter aud savarian beer and Frenca vinegar-wine and Albacy aie. It is nard to teil which of these 1g “slinkingest of the stinking kind.” * * * . * . . Tne pulqui ts a white liquor found in the ma- guey, % species of tue cactus, It grows eigit years uselessiy aripk. That year it become more useless by depositing in its centre a bowl ef t juice. Jt picked taen ail ht, or ail wrong, rather. Just as tois ceucral bulb ts be- ginning 10 swell witn its coming juices it is scooped Out ands hole tig enough to hold a pail is made {iu the bottom of (ue middie of the plant. Into this cavity ior three of toar wonihs wwe tuice exudes, aud is taken om by twe poliul daily, 1i the piant ts left alone sais bulb shoots Into a Stalk ten or twelve feet nigh, wiih a biossom, 101s this Diossom which is exulbited in our States as tue century plant—a sevyeu to tea years’, and nota buodred years’ blossom. Then it cuines to seed aud naught. text. When the captisin entered tue ca The chief traMc of the road isin carrying tls he greeted him with a suower of oarns, | Stull to Puebla and Mexico. It ties at the station bot in rage, but in good bumor, that being | 1B pigskins and barrels, th sing more hog- simost his oniy vocaoulary. He called constantly | gish tban ever, as they ud are for every sort of liqaor—bveer, gin, wine, whiskey. Ued at each leg and at th of tals He drank all the thee days aud nigots like a fish, | 1o0Ush stun. it jerment aud tne varreis it a fleu ever drinks, It never drinks sucn stam as , are left uncorked und the pigs nuses unmuzzied be constantly poured down is 1nfamed throat, | to prevent explosion. You will see ihe navives ‘The stud that weut IB aod (oat came out were alike horriole. A ciever colored jad from Philadelphia was the Bpectal object Oo! bis contemptuous devestation. He ordered him to get tue liquors and bot water every few minutes until near inidinight, When the fires were ous, aNd Hot Water was uot tobe had, and | he Dar shut, and the liquors aiso abscnt, toeu he aed at the lad for Got waking Up the steward and porser aud Oring the delectable elements, If the boy went siow!y to uls impossible task, bow he cursed titm | how he biaspoemed lis peopie | how he cursed the sbolitioulsis jor setiiug them free | declaimed against Massacuusetts in particular for ber share in this matier, and declared their in- | capacity for liberty, though the boy was tenfold more capable of ireedom than nimseif, Yet he Was as shrewd as aoy otuer Yaukee, and said thas slavery Was as good as dead in Cuba. abd ne had persuaded bis wué, and soi Of ali his “Diggers” | when he could get something for them, am | sure they were giad to get uway from the lash of his tongue and arm, and | piticd the hired bands on whom ue votded the rneum of an arrogant dis- position, a trained contempt aod Latred, a [alse theory and a jeariul appeu Nay, Lis wie must suffer often from tuat scoarg thongh withont He was a good Romanist with doxy of his Church. He said that any of the orti ne prayed nightly tu the Virgin, but ne did not be- sticking thelr nuses into the hog’s nose and drink- ing the milk Of this swinish cocoanu: even as they are dumping it on the piatiorm. THE CITY OF MuXICcO. Mexico begins well, thougl perhaps a good be- ginning may result in a bud ending. Jt wag Satur- Guy evening, at setting o: the suG, that we landed atthe Buena Vista siation, just outside tue ciiy. The last rays had jeft the top of Popocatepet!, but | were Lingering yet in a rosy Cloud above the sauwy deadness o! iztaccinuatl Taese two misnt guards- men are set to watch this lovely valley that « es beneath them, a girdle of hungreds of m.les, itseit encircled with a lower put not imerior range of mountains. 1ue drive into the ciry ts torouga a long avenue of grecn trees, past the Alameda, or ark, balfa mule square, weil crowaed with trees thelr best June apparel down the streets of San Francisco and Proie-4, roond ihe corner oF the elegant Churcn of the Proftesa into the Hotel Gillow, a uew hotel built ou 4 part of tne convent property belonging to the Ceuren of the Profesa and confiscated, but in this case built uoon by the gentieman Whose tame It bears, whose sou is & priest Oo! tuis convent, and who manages, I he Goes not ows, the bdiluving, ana who thus assists in Gesecraling @ portion o1 tue estates of the Churco. Selling lottery tickets Is one Of the chic! occu- patious of the ctuzens, the venders crying their Wares thiough ine They eall the Various lieve ia her or Chriss or tue Bivie or anytbing bus | letteries the houest — “Divi ETOVI- God. Isaid, “if you velieve in Goa you believe Gencia,” “Virgin o pe.” “st, Josepu,’ in Christ, for Jesus corset is “Tne Holy Spirit,” ‘i irmity,™ “Porleims Oorist!” he broke Jortn; * Concepcion,” and such ike. Fue most popular uf It was the worst oaili i had ever heard. I cailead | these is t of the Virgin of aiuye. vhe him quick to his senses, and he halved amoment | Yeuders a badge bearing th umber, and in his mad and profane career. He wasa free re- f0r # me jo, of six and a quar ® you can e om | have met on | TU2 the risk of gettiog or losing irom one to 10,000 e also European Roman e308, Or dollars. ‘Jhese lotteries are laruey sowing that ¢ operated by tue Church, and are oae 01 its sources te ce ID tus an ti-l of income. & MARKED PLACE OF PROGRESSO. Bisuop Haven attended the second religious The rfarket place of i'r vresno, aclty Gumspien- Service held in the Bogiisa lau In toe ns for its retrograrion as a lair sampie | City of Me Suoppia. in this ci oy Of Mexican ma +t place Is # pro- | the high from Ukeir carriage Jecting (nateved r je of @one-story condescer t shop; € ifice. On mate st old jadles with almoss Ot to the we Cathedral oo Sunday equally old jookimg vege'acics, Liere are oranges, 48 the great Daganas, black Lea boiled ia mo- sort of candy, T HIOM MASS. here two weeks aco lasses, ud oluer escul to me unkouwn. Amovg them is vue called euchre. rsHOo, Never Paying kaown wha’ (fat vou familar word dispiay Lever means in the howebalure of the States 1 qua's tals thought 1 would Gad out iis mesuing in Yucatan, Of dress and posture. A br be w er. the side o1 tue altar, an cupisuup, iu Costly so 1 Investec a six-an.-s- ent bit im this ame of chance. I received 4 plvce «f tae root— for s0 1 judged it to - ooking lke a cross be- tween a turaip and @ car rious shapes, routd, squar wos about We rouod asa cb as long a8 ite hand, J tasted it and was sasisied with euchre a8 an article o1 die The chocolate of Progressy being particularly tempting. “Here I first tasted ile sort of chocolate of which Montezuma Was 40 fond, and whico ne took fo thick as aimos: to make it af edibie. A brown, brawny womao made 4 & CUp oO: [hg same ina bamboo-sided, rusu-rooled café. It was wortny Montezuma’s praise; Parisian chocolate takes the second piace nereaiter, and & good way below the firs’ tis prepared if milk, and 16 @ thick, work hi that meits oa your tungue ana ‘goerh down sweetly, causing the ips of tuose that are p to speak.’ dame would make ner io New York, Bat, then, for no jortune, ang her se I the dames of (ne conntr, may never be reveaed oolsive the Jand jtseil, You must come to Mexicu to know Low ‘chuco- late’ can taste.” YUCATAN COSTUMES. ‘The natives of Yucatan are of the usual Indie tint, live in comiortable houses and dress in @ | comfortable manuer. Bota sexes wear white, the men and ooys laving often one leg of their trowsers folied up, for what purpose they alone know. The wWomea wear a eairtol white Sud a | loose White Waist, separate from the skirt, and banging sometines near to the bottom of the under garment, iver skirtor robe ia orn mented with fringe and oorders worked m_ biue, 18 pronounced as goid and suver the crimson velvet Dail to be @ piece of uppaiuted trame with whit Wooden puueys, by which the top of the veivet back was let out uver tae head @ yard or more as aroof. it was evidentiy made sO that tols pro- jection could be vauied up to a line with the vack ‘when it Was to be Carriea to the eacristy, or de pository, of the acred xarments. On eliner side of this kin of pries 8 were many pompously arrayed vassuls. Heore him were toree oMiciating ministers in like gaudy appares On the Arcobishop’s head was a tall, oPaate, giided mitre, which he changed for vss guded pasteboard in the moe peult-mual portions of toe ceremon. A duzen boys, in Dac and white swung ense aod id canaies, Une of trew was the keeper of His Grace's handkerenief, which he once cated fer by touching nis nose. It Was hauded him, @ diagy brown and red sik oandanna, clean and folded, however, He took, opened, used, re,olded and returned, and ine serv. went ou, 1 ain surprised so fine a gentleman does aot use @ White linen handkercaiel, of one with a gold bor- der. is that enregie? saw an oficiator as tue Madelaine, in Paris, biowW Bis vose upon @ like buge ana dirty co.ored silk. It jarrea badly wit bis yoiden robes Do you wish to know how the Archbishop looks? He is trom fifty to fifty-two, short, tmick set, full fleshed, faced; vas a’ strony, loud voice, and ¢ biand and hed mauner, a overnmet y 0 & large Andicues in (he sagrario, Who It oF kneel upon tue foor. te is Hot an orator alter the impassioned sort; vut, like most nigh oiMciala, eaningless -mile, a pol The bead dress is « suawior mantle of lignt cotton | 1 evidently a manager rutver ‘ban g talker. | the 2e, of bine of pur;le. thrown gracelully over | ‘tetests of bis Uharen wii not sudertu ais hands, the bead god shoulders. Oue lady, evidentiy | 80 Jaf as policy and push can javor them, thinking wel of herself and. her apparel, | 4 Small image, set in a golien base. was carried had a ring om every Gnger of each hap round the churcn by fou bine cotten-roved peons— and goid ornaments Lacging profusely from ner | the image, I believe, of st. Fauiip, a8 it was ills Neck. Ihave seen Many ladies woo, itthey dis. | day—and the © lowed singing. aad tne tributed the rings siagiy on each finger, Would not | Cleray and a crowd of § and Wor. nd both bands suMicicnt (or their display. This , Slppers treadiog almos roves aud Hight brown jaugning madam had fer limits seem. | Welr more sacred wearers. : tngiy, beyond which she would not go—eight rings | sTue singing was Magoiuicent, as far as clabo- aud bo more. Fateness gocs. Afier the pormy bad finished they Tar “yortiten.” Gisrobed the Archoishop, in the presence of te Bishop Maven was wulorusate enough tobe Congregation, 0 avout Pali auezeo garmeats aad caught ina “north ) @ species Of Simoou OF nur. ricane, [le thus deseriwes i :-— : done. “Gur vessel had pusied on a swift and even keel MEXICAN HOMES. to the jaxt Gay outone. | was about coneiuding We pass np the street uf san Francieco, by the that the semi-quaimis Would not develop any | Modest house of President Lerdo, a two story city more Violent siages, and Was even gevting ready | font, with green bi Without pretence oF cost; to follow Byroa, acd siroke the mane of iwe Hotel Itorpide, once that Kinperor's pa this wid beast of the World that aces | #08, DOW the Hote! ii mencias, tie custiies. ed and devours irom store to chore—even ax @ | M0@ on the streets part tue euapel of sau Francis scared child, voiding iraiy to the pareatal arma | © 40d the pile of ouuoings Which Made tat fi aud iegs, may Tub iis tiny hand on tie neck of the | MOUS convent. Neariy ppusite the chapel and huge dog tbat has friguseued it, when, lol five | @8rdenus are w Hees OF Lhe LwOo Weal biest o'clock ia the morning, aiter leaviog Progresso, | | M@Xicans, Barron and ixcanaron, Tne brosner | was siuug Violentiy up and down, clinging ti des of the later once gave bis check for $7,000 00). peration to the door of ihe room, which was, ior. | Me h eyevem all over sbie’couatry. Mines, elt. tunately, iaslened back lo my berth, 1 le 6hP | roads #0d other operations keen it erowing. Theis peomed on its beam ends, bv and down abe fone | pot ou Bim @ scares robe. it was wi grandly | tone and manner. that have been trans | on eee residences are platn withont, except the latter's new house, which essays plilars and bronze dogs and lions on its roof, Wituin tuey are sumptuous. Courts, fowers, long suits of long parlors, every- thing the heart craves ts there, eXcept that which it craves pre-eminently—the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Between their houses is an od structure, faced with porcelain, blue and white biocks, \our Menes square, of various figures. | Witntn is a court with carved pillars. It is a very fauciful structure, and originally cost muco. Across the Way irom these dignities, in pieasant apartments, fs the resid of the American Con- sul Geperal, Dr. Juli: ‘Sktlton, who won large reputé for courage the less for bis Sagacity aud Courage as a reporter of tue New YORK HERALD during the close of the French occupation. Whoever comes to Mexico will be sure of @ handsome Welcume in this Ameri- can home, . A Mexican house 1s ail beantifal within, if any- where. It 1 not 80, certainly, without, You enter through @ large, Digh a00r, wide enough to admit your carriage, Into @ patio, or open, paved court. Around tuts are yooms for servants and horses On the frst door. Handsome stairs lead to tae upper siories, light balconies run areund them, and roomns open into them, They are not allowed to open on neizhboring estates, so they must open on cour: or street, The last commands usually One O/ the sour sides; 80 most houses have three-iourchs of their light rom tne court, These Toms are as S90] and airy a8 those Oulle fashion, though they usually have ohly one for air aud ight, They are much higher in cetling than ours and are tastelully set off in frescoes, ‘The balustrades are often of brass, and the werk hys a nore fluisbed look, even in common houses, | than the best in the States exhibit. Ou the street side are small balconies lor sight-seeing. are more disagreeaole dwellings by far than & Orst class Mexican house, Une of tue drawhacks to Mexican life ts the fre- queney and voldne-s of the robberies committed. ‘Loe parks are not saie even In broad dayligat, INPERVIEW WiTH THB PRESIDENT. The first eiicial recognition by the head of the Mexican nation of any other Church than the Roman Catholic, which was till within a few years the ouly possivie religion, Was so trauk, cordial gud [ree a8 Lo Show bow Complete are tue execu- tive, and, thereiore, political and constitauonal changes in this anportant Repudic, At our o’ciock Luesday, January 14, the Ameri- can Minister, Hon. thomas H. Nelson, accumpa- nied by lis Secretary, Mr. Bliss, Sou of Rev. Asner Bisa, long missiovary among the Seneca Indians, a gentioman of remarsavle scholarship aud uardiy less remarkable wit, took three Americans ino the presence of the President of Mexico. One was General Palmer, the Philade!ph these American enterprises, and the third was a Methodist minister, come Liber to arrange jor toe planting of the Methodist Episcopal Church fu th:s country, The paiace occupies a side of the Grand Plaza. on which the cathedral fronts. Througa iong aud Randsome aparuuents We ure led to one ricily furuisned in ite hangings, marbles and paintin ebief of which 1s the portrait of Hmperor [turute Who, more than any otuer Wad, Was toe Washing: ton of Mexico, ana secured her independence. ‘The President soon enters. A small man, with small, Weil-snaped head and features, hair tuin Weil High tu Ualdness, With pleasaol, bland sai! We are lutroduced vy Mr. Nei- Gignitied form, and the son in graceful eud President addresses eaca by turn. Om toe iniroduc- | tion of the clergyinan he sald be vad ofven ueard of the antecedents oi the Church be represented, and welcomed lim to the supervision of her work in | No one Chureh was recognized by the State as of superio: claims Loanotmer, ‘Tuiera- tion Of ail faitlis was the jaw ofthe land. Tuis movement might not be looged Upom with favor by bishops here; but the civil power would pro- tect it, i 1k Lecau.e ecessary, In dereuce Oo. its Tights aod liberties. 1 thuukea him for bis omfers, but said 1 moved no such case would arise as Would cali for the protection of the stale, We had bo hosuile relations tv Oiuer religious bodies. Our mission was to build up our Work tn Oar own way, by education Of iue people, und by organiza- tion'of Churches of vur oWa fails aud order. He responded yet more at length, reatirming his readibess to suppor. our churches in any exi- gencles tuat might arise ta the prosecution of our Work, 80 lar as they Were lmperilied by any un- lawiul opposition. He repeated his welcouie to the land aud nis good wishes for our prosperity. ‘This Mterview means more than the recognt- tion of one Obristian Cuurch, It Is tue jormal and, to @ degree, Oficial aunouncement of tue policy of the natiou, The President ts a scholar and jurist of large repute. He bad charge in his éaruer years of a school in this city, and in later years Was president of the courts, where the question of eye property nas been olten in n all roh matters, He has been aired to be More in sympathy with the Churca party than Juarez, and some of 1t3 leaders have dreauied that their jormer prerogatives were to be restored under bis aumilistrauion. fhe couflscauon of Church property was an enormous joss of Cauren power. It held two- Unrds of tis Clty in its possession; it heid mort. gages tn as lar, portion of tae country. Let. ling its money at alow figure and on iiveral and long terms it gradually became an enormous savings bank, aud controlled the whole jauded interest of » coubuy, Its convents covered handreds of acres in the heart of the city aud were adorned in the uignest degree that art aud wealth Couiu devi BRILL this country. ON EVERY HAND. There seems tu be avout an equal danger of be- ing rovbed, kidnapped and other abased, Wiether you remain in the city oF gO into the country. For instance, right opposite my hotel a gentie- man ofa rich family Was kidnapped a few monihs ago, as he Was reluruing from the opera at an eur y uour Of the nivot, not later than ten, and confipead in @ room not far irom the Grand Pisza for nine Gays, bein€ put im a hole in the ground, and knives so placed that any movement of his body would thrust them into aim. So it i not without Bn even to remain in the hotel, or, rather, to go Oo ge Opera, @ possibility also e.sewhere, but of anowuer sort. Me was discovered by the tell-tale Oj @ Woman, Who Nad the sweet revenge of seeing four of wer masculine comrades executed im twenty-iour hours aller her revelation. But teere 19 bo less danger io ieaving the city. The country isJull of roobers. stage coaches are rifled on every road. The government 18 power- jess to pr. tect lite or property. Yee ore might as well die by the roboers as be scared to deato turouga lear of being ¢ TUE COST OF MINING. Bishop Haven aad his party visited the Real del Monte Mines, as oil this group is called, whica have been known aimost from the tnvasion of Cortez. They wave been regularly aud valuaoly worked for over one huadred and fifty years, toougu wito some intermissions, causea by the Water getting into the mines, fue mose successiul operator was Pedro Ter+ Teras, @ mu efeer, WhO found & shaft avous 1762, Worked It, ana grew so Tica thathe gave Charles IV. of Spaie two vessels of war, aud promised him, | uf he would visit America and Regia, tuat he should never put foot on tne New W but ouly on the silver from his mines, He w made Count of Regia, and his jamily are sul among tw wealimiest aiexicans, ‘Ihe present yieid of tne | mises ia put tour niioms aonual igh Bat few of tie wine ie, and though froin three to fo no are vaiua ends, * HOt paid expenses witha ear jor the past ten years. Those of better, bat do Botdo mucy, Many loss, Muco expense is Water. Miles and mountain, #0 the vast receipts expeuditures. Yet taey expect tu t will be pau for, and thea we will all ve changed from mule-drivia jor hove the heart would break, Silver mining companies amo, They do in spite of bope, a8 More tawi ORe pour minister has iound, from Massachusetts to Minneso.a. jhe couductor says, “Vo noc invest your money in silver mines, A share of two, i you can lose ‘t, ay be Well enough; but it if @ iess certain crup than wheat.” BUPAKFAST AMONG THE TREB TOPS. The Tivoil gardens open on San Vosme avenue, d just velow ihe terminus o1 the aqne- ere we pause for @ breakiast amid summer delights, Tmgs 18 & ite resort or out-ol-door dinner parties, and every cuuceit Jor such tastes—bowers, boxes en Ladies up in the trees, chatter ike and with th ot very high pric eat high living at you go wo Me. SUNDAY NIGHT PLAYS. On the sliow vill, at the entertainment for the Sabbatn night at Whe Theatre tidaigo Puebla, was @piay entitled “ive Destruction of the Pro‘es- taps” (La Destruccion de los Protesiantes), 1 ao hot know but that {| would bave overcome two scruples, Visiting the theatre and breaking the Savvath, bad | een there that Sunday, in order to have seen of wnat spirit some of the Puedlanos yet are and how tuey would portrayal of a Salut Bartuciome pay. The two serapies fave been wvercome ouce and again, though not at the same time, since} nave visited @ theaire jor religions purposes on Sunday, aud have witnessed Sanday school exhivitions which ated (he Lieaire in everyting but arustic ex ence afd success, For ine town of Choinia, Bishop Haven thinks the New Testament aod a fine woth como would Work tue greatest refurmauon. AKT AND MUSIO, eceived the One thing surprised our traveller above all | Others in MeXtico, and that is 1s attainment ard progress in art, see a large building devoted toart. The gaileri are longer aud faller than any others on thts con- tinent, New York, Piiladeiphia ana Boston are far below Mextcoin these treasures. Tuey occavy same eivbt or ten long rooms, aud are of every age from the time Of the conynest until now, Not @ jew Of them are of much merit. claim Murhios among the spoils of the convents rred nitner. we) * The galleries of sculpture are less advanced. Most of the wroups are in plaster, mouey beg wanted to pus them soto stone. What is better Wan the galleries is tne school ofart. You see in Several 1oums, as you pass torougd and along the corridors, quite @ string of youths bending over their drawing boo! canvas, [ney are line looking ads oF all blood: Spanish, Aatec, ava all between. ihey Wave a8 instructors the best arusts of the aud teey are worthy of the time and cost ved pon them. When shali our Ameri Give ber lads equal opportumity ? Music ie ai | @ favorite ott apd han abadioed Canaidaralie Der il im our War, and nene | Tuere | a representa- | tuve of the Mexican rauiroad Movement; another | was Mr. Parisi, of Europe, co-operator abroad in | bis public life be nas thus | miitions is the annual prodact | The Keal dei Monte , sto Counts of Regia, If | a By the palace at toe capital, you | ‘They even | fection, The band of the capital is light THE SCHOOLS. perior to tno United States, the Bishop thinks, A large number of them are kept up by the Freemasons, Une of these | visited, in an old convent which was granted it by the state. I'he scholars were taugit French from cards hung round, the room, and primers and pepile story Here, too, all the girls'study bookkeeping, Thetr | pen hip is exquisite, and they will thus get openings to fields of labor hitherto denied them. They are also taught meediework and made useful for the il as the ne Over three | thousand pup: fag oN English in the pub- ic and privace school ‘hat 18 a sign of the in- fuence of our language. The French has failen out of favor since their invasion of the country. Our invasion seems to have made our tongue Lue more popular, The city bas a school of es, with abundant specimens of the wonderfal t! ures of the coun~ ere you see the try. Jt hag also marble wo! rare marbles of the land, translucent, transpar- ent can tan Ol as rich Variations as @ polished mahogauy kuot; @ future article of great commer- cial Value, MEXICAN BEGGARS. Beggars are an Instivution In Mexico, the most develo: Institutions, S room & gentleman met Me at the d @ faded but cieanly suit, not unl clerk er & BU) STAN RO AES RACE. He spoke low and courtedus. J listened, but could not un- derstand, and warned to a companion and asked him What this geatieman wished. He listened @ moment, “Ony S beggar ’ was his transiation, I was shocked, or would have been, but thatin My solicitations fer help of feebie churches and Christian causes I hada been myself often called by ‘uat contemptuvus name. Sol put this gentle- mab among the elergy. gave him what we get On suck occasions—a smile, but Doe shill THE QUERBTAKO COTTON FACTORY. A cottou factory two miles irom the city of Queretaro, has for its superintendent Mr, Saw- | yer, a New Hampshire gentleman. The cloth man- ulactured is poor aud would sell in the States lor about six cents a yard; here it sells at eighiecn and thiee-qaarter cents. A striking feature of this miil 18 the large garden in front planted with orange trees, enc.osed by a light aad graceful iron lence. ‘This garden is intersectea with Walks and foun- tains and jollage and flowers. Several gardeners Gaily care for the nourishment and pruning of these thiraty and wanton luxuries. Benches are scattered around, Thickets of green and natural houses are daiatily grown togetner. Everything is after the best type ofa lordly pleasure garden, and yet it fronts a lactory Where whirring spindies and looms are 118 constant music. How would our factories be improved with a slight approach to this beauty ? Perhaps they pre- Jer vo give Weir hands more than thirty-one cents day, and to work them less than fifteen hours, than to adora the grounds so richly, That is what these workmen and workwomen get and do For two reais and & medio they work from six In the ee Uo haif-past nine at night; some from five to that late lionr, with a recess of one hour and o balf, Al the workmen bay a real @ week for ihe doctor, Wuelher they Want him or not, and take one-third of their pay out of the com- pany’s store; so their fifteen reals, or $1 75 @ Week, Lecomes lourteea, and ten Of these, or $1 25, is all their casu in hand for Dinety hours’ steady Work, at hallf-past nine on Saturday night, No Wonder the huts they occupy my lord, tue owner of the mills, Would not put his favor.te a dog into, He even keeps a judge, belore whom he requires all tueir grievances to be brougit, aud over Uns deor of bis office is printed ‘I'ne Only Judge.” This signifes that mone shouid Seek refiel at aby other court except at his peril. The owner of these mills ts successiul and unsuccessful, making and losing many 4 fortune. He 1s @ young man Who inherited tue estadlishinent and Who has the cad ancy of going daily © town in a red stagecoach with four horses, which he drives, prejerring tois startling mode to riding horseback or ip an ordi- nary venicle. J saw him thus Saunt out. His mills do hot pay, despite the elegance of the gardens, the poorness and price of the goods and the cheapness ol the lubor, He is constantly and overwhelmingly in debt. So the Yankee miil- owner may couciude it is wiser to make his mills jess romantic and bis profits more sure. If he also WL Work his people less and pay them more his laek of taste may be condoned. | NATIVE COSTUMES. The revoza is the mantie of the ladles and their weakness; the Zarepe that of the gentiemen and one of their weaknesses, The rezoba is always quiet in color. It isa thin wove, lignt cotton some three yards jong and three-fourths wide aud is worn over the bead and snoulders, ‘The men wear the Zarepe. This 18 @ thick shawl of many colors. They muMe up thelr faces ana Wrap tueir shoulders in (his gay shaw! even in the hotiest days. it is their pride. Some of taem cost $200, and they rise with tne gold ana siiver lace embroidery to the helgnt of $500 and over. Dot so tae lady’s mantle. The highest priced re- boza | have seen was Worth $15 to $20 and was a plain lignt biue, checked, not looking @ whit be ter in color than @ biue checked calico ofa ten- ceut valuation, but o/ course soft and flue, It has also an edging of stiffened netting, a quarter o! Jard Wide, Which 13 a Sigh 01 its aristocratic Tank, ‘ghe men are not content with their radiant zarepe. They essay the sombrero in silver aud gold. d, light, gray-and-white felts are jaced with broad sliver jace, and Jantastically wrought | They have bands of siiver swollen 1010 a sbake- d the bottom of the crown; also They are oiten very = 3 Of sil costly and ornate. ‘Then come their pantaloons of leather, tf they Duttons, close packed from pocket \o heel, on the seam of either leg. extra fashionaole adorn this garment by fancy faciugs on back and legs, et in PE vg end making that rode patca f our chiidnood aud of many a manbood areaily handsome ornameaw It is bat proper to say that the ubiquitous Euro- pean is changing, these iasbions, and that more Bolt $8 und silk hats aiter the New York and Paris jashions are seen to-day on the plazas of ail the chief cities than maguifcentiy gotten up somvreros, Walle (he Zarepe 1s almost entirely re- manded to the workiug ciassea. Even ¥ less hats, With their towering feathers ers and lace, are repiaciug at black shawis for church, aud blue rebozas; aad Mexico will soon, Iiear, be undistinguishable in aress from New York, A BISUOP AT A DANOR While resting a+ Guanajuato Bisuop Haven was Sroused irom tis nap. He aay “But the sound of guitars aud narps in the open court witoout our quarters, to woick Indian yiris are fanciny; preveuis thatluxury. They mast be very busy by the unceasing sounds that fow imto my opeu Window, It is an indian iesta purely, neither Spanisu nor Romish seeming to interiere wita If Jt 8 prooaoly as ancient a8 any Azvec | event bow in vogue. A half dezen vents Rave a girl or two each, tramed to great nimbleness of toes and heels, who skip dowole aod quadrupie | measure and ail sorts of snui 0 the quick time of the hurp, singing in Indiau a muruurous ac- companiment to tie steps, The lookers on can pacticipate with ber for areal arouad, Of course there are plemty of men of all ages ready to pay their ‘bit.’ So the old folks earn much money | Ous of the leet of their dauguters, | “Walking round these vooths I was invited by one of these venerable fathers to enter bis shed, Lassented, not knowiug whither I went, for i nad | pot yes spelied out the purport of the festa. He gave me the seat of louor fronting the outsiae | crowd. I sven saw the incongruity of my posi- | tion, but was wit id from disturbing the mect- | ing. It was the frat bail 1 bad seen | sixteen, when | had gat turouch the night a fook- | er-on, as now. I was soon relieved of my anwill- | ing bondage to courvesy. I retreated to the rear of the gazing crowd in good order, “Toe dancing girl Was modest in her goings, which Coristiau (?) dancers are not. She allowed | | | | | | ber partners none of the immedest privileges of woe wailz and poika and kept ver dignity both of carriage and conduct. The ballet troupes, can- can atid even tne fashionable dancing of city balls are lar legs coasie, Civilization could get civilized at these festas.” are rare among the the weuuing jee being $8, whl beyond the means ot many, Ul doin, jod work by being less Bishop Haven closes the last ¢ entertaining DGok in these word ‘Phe work isdone, Jt remains but to thank the many friends who have aided in ing] i into (ms comely shape, Mr. Kilbarn, of the firm of Kilburn Brotners, Littieion, New Hampsnir | whom I met iu the capital, bas kindly allowed tue use of many of his superb photographs. Messrs. Skilton, Batier, ar others have aided with their superior knowledge. rer classes, several tmissiouary boards operating here bave Saoy pues me withthe data at their com man | | | CHATS ABOUT BOOKS. “WE AND OUR NEIGHBORS.” “What could be more delightful than an open | Tefrigerator on an evening like this?” saia the Doctor, giving the ice a friendly poke with tue | pick. ing tue spilnters as they flew over che butter, “and while yeu." composed | book. gious ror of Aztecs. ‘Their music is unique ana | a $e te Gif, sermonising and Be The schools of fa Ke fre in some respects su- | are om porsevack, witu a row of stlver or brass | ‘The secretaries of the | “It 1s, indeed, delightful,” replied Felicia, watch I move that we do mot lave the gas ligited{or @ agiri, aud | enjoyed them, moralizing, and the story is very childlike. I could scarcely believe shat it was written ‘or grown up people, Aunt ANN (with @ dangerous click of her knit- ting needles)—I am much older than you, Felicia, yet lL enjoyed the book exceedingly. The charac- ters are not plumed princes, nor satin robed ladies, to be sure; they are plain, everyday peeple. Only I wish they were commoner; just such as one might meet in an unfashionable street. Unfortunately they are not found in fashionable society. Fevigra—I don’t know what you call the Van Arsdales if not fashionable, Certainly Mrs. Stowe intends that they should be thought so. I grant you that it ts not often tnat very fashionable giris come down from Murray Hill to teach in mission Sunday schools. But snere Js no telling what they will do when there 1g @ moh and good looking bachelor clergyman in the question, FRep—Suca girls are my horror, They don’t know anything beyond dress and Sungay school. A 00d fellow like Jim Fellows ought not to have been caught in that way; but he seemed very wililag. Those editors and reporters were a queer lot, but they always are in books; so devil-may-care and always talking apout the influence of “our paper.” Tne Docron—That Dr. Campbell interests me. He 18 @ curious stuay. A man who never said what he meant or meant what he said. Miss Frrz James (who had until this moment been a listener rather than a participant in the conversation)—I must confess to an interest io | Bolton, who fits through the book like a dispep- Ucshadow, I cannot imagine what Mrs. Stowe put him in for, Evidently she meant to make something more out of him, put did not find him worthy, How did you ilke Mrs, Harry Henderson, Felicia? Fevicra—I have nothing inthe world against her, only on the general prinotpie that those vine training women are apt to neglect the holes in their stockings. It 1 @ rare exception where a women can attend thoroughly to both vines and stockings. She showed more piuck than 1 gave her credit for when shevisited the slums of New York, lookti forthat poor, lost girl. ‘The vest characters in the book, in my opinion, are the two old ladies whe lived acrosy the streey They aro very nicely described, Aunt Maria is a preity good character, {have known just such aunts, though their name was not Maria. Sne made mo 60 angry at first thatIcozld hardly go on with the book, IfI had been Mrs. Harry I would nave shut the door in her face, FRED—Aunts are not 50 easily disposed of. By the Way, what a lay figure Harry himselfis. His wife | even admirs that. The Docror—I think, on the whole, tnat you must admit that Mrs. Stowe is a very pleasing writer, She may choose hemely subjects, but that should not make them uninteresting. She writes easily and clearly, There is not much in the piot of this story, but that is not always a detriment. I will venture to say that she will find a larger au- | dience than George Macdonald, whose serial suc- ceeds her’s in the Christian Union, Frep—That’s a doubifal compliment. “CASTLE NOWHERE.” Fe.icra—Isn't it Stedman who speaks so highly of Constance Woolson’s stories? Miss RacwEL—lI believe it 1s, and well he may. | Tonly read one or two of them when they ap- | peared in the magazines, put since Osgood has published them in book form I have gone through the lot. Feicra—They certainly are pleasant reading, | yes there is something lacking. Miss RacueL—You mean that they are not per- | fect? FELICIA—No, not quite so bad as that; but I think them very unnazural, and tuat after going to such out ofthe way places to lay her scenes | and writing of such impossible people she does | Bot accomplish as much as @ Stronger writer | might with the same material. Take the first story, “Castle Nowhere;’ how thoroughly fan- | tastic and improbable, and it is not intended to be either. Miss KacneL—I grant you that It is both fan- | tastic and improbable, but I never thougt that | any drawback toa story. Look at Hawthorne! Feuicia—I see that you are determined not to | Understand me, and are pound to believe that I | do not appreciate Miss Woolson. I do like her ex- | | ceedingly, and I like whatshe says abont Bret | | Harte, too, That 1s very true abovt common | people not caring for Harte. it is among culti- | vated people that he flods his greatest admirers, | Miss Racue1—Althougn she admires Mr, Harte | she does not paint her miuers like nis, Those | that figure in ‘Peter the Parson” are @ bard crowd. Feticta—What an unpleasant character that arson is, The scene where he intercedes for the | sham parson is too maudlin to be pathetic. I was | not the least tonched at bis death, Ido not won. | der that the burly miner rough was enraged that | Rosamond should prefer such s poor specimen of | humanity to himself, “Jeane:te’’ is one of the | strongest stories in this volume, though I prefer | the “Lady of Little Fishing” as @ whole, Mise Racue—That story is spotied to me by the scene with Mitchell. It is too improbable, “Solo- | | mon” is rainer a pet of mine. There is more | thought in thar than one js apt to Mnd in magazine stories. FELICIA—It seams to me that we agree pretty well, atter all, my dear cousin, We both like Miss Wooison’s stories, but neither of us 1s blinded to her fauits. Ifshe will only prune down her words and concentrate her force, aad not apostrophize quite so mach, I believe that she will accomplish great results, for she has both youth and genius | in ner favor. AN OLD WRITER. The Docror—I am giad that you young ladies have come out of your discussion so peaceiaily. 1 almost feared bloodshed when you began. L have been employing my leisure mom during | the past few days in looking yer the works of | Thomas Love Peacock (Scribner, Weilord & Arm- Strong) that the Projessor was geod enongh to | leave on my oMice tabie. I don’t believe he knows where he left them, and he ia probably now mourning over their untimely loss. What a care- less man that is. He would leave his head some- where it it not fastened to his boas. Butt snouid not comprain, for! have been the gainer by bis forgetiuiness, It does an old lellow me good to read what another old fellow has written. Peacock was areguiat fighter. He did not have much love tor America. He says ‘ta U United States (ue numa mind nas continuously enerated, and the present saperiority—such is—of the white m: t up by intercourse may come mee a ve ages.” He had a great disgust of the fal of “Bxceisior,” “the only revurn we have got fur the gilt ef classic Lveravure with Which we had endowed them.” FRED—I like a peppery old chap like that. There 1s some amusement in reading @ writer who ows Low to tire a round of waviesome anuse. y severe ins 7 Aes some of his own countrymen, At the lg at of spertiy ne wrote that th "and ‘6m | represented every MM | worth remembering, moral or poiitioul truth, | anything naving tendency, no Make men wise cr better, to make them think—to make them even think of thinking—Wwas to be found nuspiam, nequaquam, nulltvt, nullomodo, in all these volumes, written in all tue Worst dia- lects Of tue Knglish language.” Frev—fe wust have been brave to have said that at that time, It seems, however, to be the fashion to Say it nowadays, | fhe Docror—Tuis miutant Peacock concen: | | trated @ personal and oayonat batred on Lord Brougham, of woom he said. “that his course of | ue wan vortuus as’ Tver, bus im 8 reverse prot | ess, beginning by being dark and deep and end- ing by being transparent” in his novel | of @ number of men of the day in @ sé@rc and witty mann | The Morixk—I remember reading ‘Headlong | Hail” and “Nightmare Aobey” whea I was quite too. 1 hope my chil- Gren Will take wdvantage of this new edition to | | become familiar with tue writings of this scholar | times in Which they were written. | | | “1 second the motion,” said Fred, froma retired | and poet, for they give & capital insight mto the | | coruer, where he was holding an animated con- Versation With Miss Alicia its James irom over the | way, The Doctor (inserting cobbier)—l see Mra, Stowe bors” (J, & Fora & Uv.) om the table. | been reading it? | Feisoia—!, for one, J am sorry to say. | The Doeror—Why 80, my daughter? I thought Mrs. Stowe was very popular among the young peop.e. FeLictA—They must be & great deal younger atraw in his sherry “We and vur Neign- Who has $0 misnamod, if this is called a novel. | me go myre tuaa @ regulation Sunday shod) than I am to enjoy it, then, 1 never knew anything It seems to ‘Tue Docror—Mr. Peacock Was. @ keen observer | Of mankind, and he bas chosen to show up their | | follies rather by humorous dissection and comics | portraiture than vy solemn censure oF scath- | ing ridicaie, His animosities were often un- reasoning, as In the case or scotland. Hecould | bee noting of good In that country. | | FRep—iis “Me Of shetiey” are the most interesting Lever read, iis humorous portrait | of Sneliey, in jgutmare Abpey,” is said to have greatly pleased the sensitive poet, Who con- Bidered it a capital sketch. Aithouga Peacock | loved and admired Shelley he does pot hesituie to condemn his social aberrations. He was a firm friend and @ remorseless enemy. ‘The PROFESSOR (entering tue room and rnnning Nis Uogers througe ais hair) —Did I leave a taree | volumed edition of Peacock’s works here the otuer L | day? Lhave beem to adocen different olaces try- | title of the | Husbandry’ is tobe writiea by 0. iL ic | tary ofthe Order. ing to find them. I musthave left them bere oF on cars. How annoying! The Docror--Here are your books, Pro! You leit them on my office table Monda, noon. We are all very much obliged. you got any more you can leave? e A's ENGAGEM! . “For the sake of my school ie days ” paid Fe- licta, frou the depths of ber armenair, was beguiled into reading this new story of Mra. Aun S, Stephens, ‘Bertha’s Engagement,’ (T. B, Peter- son & Brot e1-—Well, I hope you were repaid for or. after- ven's Miss Rao your trouvle, Fe.icia—Yes, 1 think I was. I do not know that 1 would care to repeat the experiment, but 1 must confess to ravine been interested in the story, melodramatic a8 it 1a, The opening acene aiscove 3 @ gentleman and three ladies on horse- a og Miss RacnEL—Not “a solitary horset ‘then? FeLicia—before two of the ladies j@ up penuanan bad proposed to ‘ha Canfield, t eroine Of the story, to whom she replied:—It human love were the growth of human will, Eg- bert Fletcher, you would not have asked for mine twice,” Witn this poor consolation pas of, They are resting at the top of lood Is rising in the valley below, the bridge that sepa- hem from bome is tottering to its fall. Two of tue girls put the whip to their horses and dash across. Bertha and Fletcher hesitate, ‘Miss RacneL—The man, or woman elther, wno hesitates 1s jost, Faicia—Lese two came very near it, but were not as you snall see. They start for the bridge, get way across, when the timbers giv wa: fern: horse sank into the chasm, Fletcher's leaped it and at the same time he drag- jertha across his saddle and tuey were saved. hat is only one of the many adventures related. Bertha ig so grateful to Fietcher for saving ber life that she gives him her love, but he did not ac- cept it now, thinking that she is only moved by gratitude, He goes away, telling her that he wil return by acertain time, and then, if she still loves Lim, they will be inarried, Miss RACHRL—A dangerous experiment, FELICIA—SO It roved, At this time they were grandparents’ house, Bertha cheol iriends, Clara Anderson and Mary Noel. The former was beauti- fui and high struug, but poor and took in sewing. ‘The latter was the daugater of a rich Southern planter. Clara lived tm the neighborhood and waa loved by the son of Judge Lane. The Judge and his family were bitterly opposed to the match, and Oi Was too proud to exerther power, At last she retired to her country home, and Mary goes back to the South. And now the Villain Spbets in the person of Russell Waldon, poet, politic: id man of the world, He has but to look at & girl to make ner love him, and to read her one o! poems to bring ber futtert to nis feet. He is sent by young Lane to plead his cause with Ciara, imstead of which be woos and wins her, and leaves her broken-hearted. le sees Bertha im the street and addresses her, but 80 politely that she Cannot take offence, Later on Ne is formally introduced by Lane, and he be- gins his love-making in earnest, Alter ho makes e has mobey he proposes and ta \efally accepted, and ‘Bertha’s engagement announced. ly | seems girl ina way peculiar to him rolls on, Bertha 18 invited South brag Noel, and Waldon tmproves the opportunity to visit a friend who owus @ neighboring esta: He soon finds out that Mary is immensely wealthy, ten times richer than Bertna; so he sets bis cap for her. Sue 18 & poor fool and 18 flattered. Bertua’s mother, who is an {nvalid, sends for Waldon one day and makes @ contession. Bertha 1s Dot a legitimate child; here 1s @ loop- hole; the villain wevounces the motuer, but promises to do nothing until six weeks have passed, during which time the wretched woman takes cold poison gnd dies. Waldon knows that he is a murderer, but tha: docs not trouvie him long and he seeks consojation with Mary Noel and breaks lis engagement with Bertha, He marries Mary, Bertha visits the bridal cham~- ber while the eI Waldon, in which the latter is wounded. The sto ends with the shooting and killing of Waldon by cross-eyed waiting maid, wio dr selfin consequence, Alter tais every tht! along as peacelully a8 rose leaves belore mer’s breeze. Miss KacukL—Have you learned anything by all that spun out twaddle, my Felicia ? Fxrticia-Yes, several things, among them to beware of jove making poets, to appreciate the vantages of cross-eyed Waiting maids and not te Venture into tuis path of ilterature again, LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Bret Harte bas nearly completed his first novel. Over 300 pages of it have been put in type by the American Pubiishing Company, of Hariword, Is the weantime the conductors of Scribner's Monthly have succeeded in negotiating with this company for the delay of the publication in book form im order that it may run as a serial in that magazine during the coming year. The reading public have been on the tip-toc of expectation for Mr. Harte’s frst novel, and its capture by Scribner & Co. 18 a piece of magazine enterprise that cannot fall ot appreciation, Mr. ttoswell Smith, the publisher of the Monthly, has just sauled for Europe, where he will make arrangements for the simultaneous pub- lication of the story in serial and/book form in England, France and Germany, and possibly Aus- traua. Those who have seen the proofsneets of this story pronounce 1b to be written in ’Mr. Hart:’s best aud most characteristic style. Brentano has removed his) literary emporium from No. 33 to No, 09 Untoa square. Sheldon & Co. wiil sooa publish Boyesen’s nov “A Norseman’s Pilgrimage.’’ A copy of “Readen and Rachel; or, Tales of Old Times,” by Mra. Susan Rowson, author of *Ovar- lotte Temple,’ ts offered for sale by Scribner, Armstrong & Co, The book was printed ta Lon- Gon in 1799, and fs very rare. have published William “Hler Dearest Foe’’ 1s the rather incongruous rial which will bo commenced in the June Temple Bar. Mr, Swinburne denounces the new race of Shakespearian oritics ta his Mrst articie in the Fortnightly Review. The question of international copyrignt is being again agitate. Mr. R. H. Stoddard ts announced as the editor of William F, Gill & Co.'s ‘Treasure Trove’ series. Porter & Coates announce @ second edition of “Days Near Rome,” and anew cookery 000k, oy Mrs. L. T. Paul, who takes a# her motto, “Read, ponder and inwardly digest.’ Sheldon & Co. have purchased the stereotyped plates ana right of publication of the eatire list of | Gould & Lincoin, of Boston. -A young lady heretofore unknown to literature Will be introduced by J, R. Osgood & Co, inw novel entitied, “Que Sammer.”” ‘The purchase of Old and New by Scribner & Co, Makes the fourth magazine devoured by Serib- ner’s, In the July number Mr. Frank R, Stockton Will publish the second instalment of “Radder Grange,” one of the most popular bumorous stories of last year. We are to havea new “Life of John Locke, the Philosopner,” by Mr, Fox-Bourne, late euttor of the London Eraminer, who will add some of Locke's unpudlished writing on free though: in re- ligion, &c. Mrs, A. L. Wister, of Philadeiphia, the tndefatt- gavie translator of German romances, has ta Lip- pincotVs press, “The Green Gate," irom the origi- nal of Ernst Wichert, “The Mecklenburg Centennial” ts the title of a forthcoming book from the press of i. J. Hale & Sou, New York, comtaining Hon. W. A. Gravam’s recent historical address and @ reprint of tne docaments on that subject pat forth by the Norw | Carolina State Legislature in 1931. Mr. J. T. Headiey’s book on the Adirondacks, long out of print, will be issued by Scribner, with Coloni’s new map of that region, Messrs. Little, Brown & Uo, Will) add to their American edition of the “Encyclopmdia Hritan- | mew’ in the}succeeding volumes many copyright | articles by American authors, making it iu some sense a new work. A new issne of “Prescott’s Miscelianeous says’ iain the press of J. Bs Lippincott & Uo. “A History of the National Grange of Patrons of , Secres Harpers’ Weekly says that ninety-nine diferent Works by Mr. Jacob Abbott have veen published by Harper & Brotners, besides some iifty otuer works through diferent publishers. A book on “European Lignthonse Systems," by Major General H. Hiliott, is in the pressof Van Nostrand, New York, The progress of Japan of late years is empnatic- ally shown inthe fact that while the first volume of Adams’ new “ilistory of Japan’ narrates tho whole history Of that country from the beginning to 1865, the second is Wholly occupied witu that of the years 1965 to 1371. D. Van Nostrand has in press General Q A. Gilimore’s “Practical Treatise on Roads, Stre | and Pavemenia.’? Mr. Darwin's book on “Ingectivorons Plants’ i# completed, and will soon appear from the urags oF Joun Muriav. Londoa,