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— LITERATURE, The Historical Method in Political Economy. PROFESSOR ROSCHER cialis WORK A Nobieman’s Nove!—Life-Saving Guns— Book Notes. By William at the Uni- of Political Economy. Professor of Political F ersity of Leipzig, &e. From th edition, with Additional Chapters fu Author for this first English on Paper Money, International Tr and a Preliminary Essay on the His- tive System; torical Method in Political Eeonomy (from the French), by L. Wolowski. The whole translated by John J. 1 2 vols., pp. 464, 495, Chicago: Callahan ‘The title are dispensed at once from the necessity of giving anything like an inventory of its contents. The value of the publication a8 a contribution to the science of political economy might be inferred from the chair which Professor her holds in one of the leading universities of Germany, as also from the permanent place which has been awarded to thie particular treatise of his in the literature of the Fatherland. ‘Vranslated into the French by M. Wolowski, of the Institute of France, more than twenty years ago, this great work has never before been presented to the Eng- lish reading public in our vernacular tongue, and now, by a curious coincidence, it is simultaneously issued in an English version by two American publishing houses—one in this city and one im Chicago. If haye selected the version of Mr. Lalor for the purpose of bringing this publication to the notice of our readers it is because his translation has had the advar of receiving Professor Roscher’s care- ful revision, and because its contents have been aug- mented by several important additions exclusively furnished by the author to the form which the body of his book has received at Mr. Lalor’s hand. ‘The idiomatic structure of the work in the original has made the office of the translator no easy task, but Mr. Lalor has successfully coped with the difficulties presented by the precise, formal and sometimes crabbed nomenclature of Professor Roscher. It must de admitted that the version still retains, in many places, what Locke would have called “the tang of the cask” from whieh it is decanted; but these traces of the German flavor do not at all impair the sub- stantial perspicuity of the present volumes. For the distinctive character of Professor Roscher's treatise on political economy we must look not so ch to its particular doctrines as to its specific Method. He is considered among his countrymen as the real founder and principal representative of “the historical school” in economical science, and if his pretensions to originality in the application of the historical method to politico-economical problems may be disputed it is at least certain that no other writer can compete with him as an authority in the skilful use of the method which he has illus- trated and adorned with an amplitude of scholarship that is without rival in the walks of economical lit- erature. Kelating, as he does, all the principles of Political economy to the great writers and thinkers by whom those principles were first propounded or enforced, Professor Roscher has, by his foot notes, made of this work an invaluable index to the whole body of doctrine embraced within the scope of eco- nomical science, aud if, as Herbert Spencer has argued (or rather as D'Alembert argued before him), “the genesis of knowledge in the individual must follow in the same course ax the genesis of knowledge in the humun race,” it follows that the historic method is not only the best but the sole sufficient way in which the truths of political economy can be im- parted to the learner in all their completeness and in ail their natural and logical order.” This method furnishes a constant corrective against the allurements of dogmatism and the narrowness of individual opinion. ‘Through all the variations and contraricties of thoughts which have proceeded from the one or the other of these disturbing sources we may here discern the traces of one perennial doctrine, advancing from age to age in clearer definition and in fuller content according as new con- tributions have come from time to time to #well the volume of economical science. It is the signal glory of the historic method that it not only retraces the past and ascertains the present position of economical science, but enables us, in certain lines of thonght and discovery, to project its future. Bishop Butler has remarked in his immortal “Anal- ogy” that by observing the course of events in so- ciety we may often discern the play of tendencies which have not yet been converted into permanent and universal effects. When Professor Fawcett says that aH “the principles of political economy are Geseribing tendencies, instead of actual results,” Dr. Roscher is quick to perceive that the historical method would give also the theory on which the evolution of the latter must finally depend; and per- ceiving this truth as clearly as he does we are sur- prised that he has not given to it a larger place in determining what we may call the speculative and philosophical aspects of political economy, ‘The his- torical method is comparatively barren unless it lead to sound generalizations for future guidance as well fs to accurate reductions from the past stages through which the race moved on, reaching its present altitude on questions of economic concern; or, as the mathematician would phrase it, from the differential elements which mark the lines of progress in economical opinion, we should now be able, if possible, to integrate the for- mula of change which will ultimately conduct the civilized nations of the world to settled practices in conformity with the settled principles of economical seience. For instance, to illustrate our meaning under this head we would point, in oarconception of the historical method, to the significant fact that the rift of economical change among the most enlight ened nations of the earth is slowly but steadily set ting in the direction of free trade as against the once prevalent but now declining dogmas of protection. Auy historical method which does not emphasize this fact is a method which moves too exclusively in the dead past instead of being quickened by the living Present and drawing inspiration from the pregnant future, We fear that Professor Roscher cannot be entirely exempted from the reproach of looking a little too intently on the purely historical aspect of his study, and so he has failed, in some slight dgree, draw from his wide and masterly survey a full measare of that “philosophy which teaches by ex- tmplé."” But none the less do we commend this work to all students of “the dismal science,” as Southey so #trangely called it, and which, so far from being the dismal study he supposed, is rather the study which opens the brightest visions to the seholar and philan- thropist, and of which, considered {u the domain of we Practical politics, it is not tec much to say that it absolutely holds in its hands the keys of all future ftatesmansbip, and hence of the highest political promotion, “RELVERDALE,” A NOVEL, BY THE EARL OF The announcemen English nobi work by this distinguished nau is always received with gratifica: clen#le ot literary adinivers. In his “The Children of Nature,” “Beyond he demonstrated the qualities that belong to a ready writer—a fertile imagination and quick wit, reinforced by the experience which at- taches to travel aud cultivated association. In “Kelverdale” — these amie charaetrristics are al beervab! but even to ® greater degree than. bef inasmuch as the theme of the novel concerua the higher social life that exists abroad, wherein the suthor finds ample materials for the description of scenes und individualities of whieh the wealthy are supposed to be cognizant, Beyond the more entertainment of the reader the y was not written to subserve any great pur It contains only the gentlest of satire and It is simply a ouly reeks to correct no popular evil. bright colored picture of the lives of three or four lo with rs, the tints of which are laid on with grace, t too many shadows to create gloom and just breezy descriptions of landscape hunts aud Luylish sports to make oue sure that such enotigh of » fox NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1879.-TRIPLE SHEET. a book could have been written by no other person than # well bred Englishman. ‘The plot is as follows:—The town of Kelverdale be- longed to Sir Edward Derrick-Hillingstone, an ecoen- tric bucheior, esteemed the richest man in the county His only brother, Colonel Hillingstone, of the Hus- sars, had married, so it was said, but died leaving be- hind him an only son. This lad was generously taken care of by the uncle, and on the death of the latter it was found that the whole estate had been left ‘to the heir male lawfully born in wedlock" of Colonel Hil- | lingstone, and, failing him, to the testator's niece, Lady May Derrick, only child of Robert, fourth Earl | of Delafield, Lionel Hillingstone, the heir, was at this time twenty-one years of aye, with a rent roll of nearly fifty thousand a year. Accompanying this will were two documents, neither of which Was to be opened until Lionel attained his twenty- third year, aud he was enjoined not to get married. Meanwhile he enters on the occupancy of the vast estate, and, with Arthur Elton, his early tutor and | companion, sees much of London life and his new surroundings. Little Lady May Derrick lives but six miles from Kelverdale, and in the course of time the two aupposed cousins come together. ‘The author | exhibits a keen perception of character in his pen and ink sketches of these, the hero and heroine of the story, and the conversations between them as re- | corded are among the liveliest in the book. Lionel falls desperately in love, but May, with her roman- tic notions, prefers the tutor, Arthur Elton. Among the leading chareeters now introduced is a Mrs. Domerby, who eventually becomes the female Marplot of the novel. She loves Lionel from the first, but, keeping her secret and hiding her jeal- ousy, contents herself as the recipient of his con- fidence. She likewise confides to him the story of her own life, which is that of a woman married to a man who seeks to squander her fortune. She dis- covers an endeavor on his part to poison her and casts him off, but the fellow relentlessly purses her, demanding und receiving money, until, finally, they corte together in London lodgings, where Lionel saves her from death at the hands of the recreant husband, who there dies by his own weapon. The situation is admirably portrayed, and, as well as any other in the three volumes, | illustrates the graphic descriptive power ot the | writer. When Lionel reaches his twenty-third year | he opens the mysterious letter from his uncle and discovers that his lifeis a lie, his inheritance a nfyth; that Kelverdale is no more his than it is his foot- man’s; that he is a bastard, a pauper and an im- postor. Like a brave young fellow he accepts the situation, himself announces his own disgrace to May Derrick, the rightful heir, surrenders her hand to Arthur Elton and goes forth into the world to battle alone. He becomes a dramatic author, strug- gles with poverty and encounters with nonchalance the cuts of his former fashionable club friends. He falls in love with a pure-hearted, lovely young actress—one Ethel Bede—and life be- gins anew and romantically. Mrs. Domerby, however, comes between the lovers ‘at every turn, insinuates into the mind of cach that the other is untrue, and eventually Ethel dies of a broken heart iu the arms of Lionel, who, having dis- covered the infamy of Mrs. Domerby, sceks to inake every reparation in his power. But it is too late. Arthur Elton, the husband of Lady May, goes to Parliament, He essays to become the leader of the opposition and prepares himself for # tremendous effort. ‘The mental strain tells upon his intellect. In the midst of his great speech he becomes wild, in- sane, subsequently dashes out of the buildings and madly plunges into the Thames. The dénouement may be easily, guessed. Lionel goes to the Continent broken hearted, and the young widow passes a reasonable probation in her widow's weeds, but eventually the original lovers come together, are married and have the usual number of happy chil- aren. From the aboyo outline it will be seen that the author has deftly knitted together a series of inci- dents that aro calculated to please the ordinary novel reader. While there is little that is new in them the grouping exhibits not a little art and the treatment at times rises to the altitude of the picturesque. The identity of the noble writer with scenes which afford him the widest scope of description, such, for in- stanco, a8 the field sports and club life of England, is, as before stated, strongly indicated everywhere in the book, Most readers will doubtless be likewise impressed with the naturalness of style that prevails throughout the novel, the ready flow of conversa- tion and thé off-hand aphorismic sparkle that lends brightness to many a page. By way of example, we cull a few of the sententious expressions : “It is a well known principle that when the repre- sentative of an ancient line is forced for pecuniury reasons to contract an alliance with a girl who brings nothing but gold as a dowry, nature herself recog- nizes the necessity of the case, and the blue blood % all discolored by the slight admixture of a paler fluid.” “It doesn’t matter what his fortune is to be, a rich man should be always able to face poverty. No man can be happy idle when he has the capabilities of If he is a fool at books try him at manual “There's something solemn about a letter from a dead man, though you nover knew him, “A young mau who doesn’t fall in love minses a part of the lesson necessary to give him a middle age.” ScWhen a woman rolls her handkerchief into a ball she is nsnally thinking of something of more than ordinary interest.” “It is curious how often a woman will givo toa horse all the admtration she fecls for its rider.” “Tadylike and refined flirtation Is a necessary part of society.” “Tt requires @ generous nature to be able to accept bonetits proper! “A gentleman's clothes when worn beyond their natu time convert him at once into a sceundrel capable of any atrocity, from forging a will to rob- bing a widow. There is something intensely cun- ning in the shining seams, something repulsive in the frayed velvet collar, which are not to be found in common garments, although they may be dropping growing too close together ruin each ah ht to do all the work of the world and rs of Parliament and women all the talking “How quickly we get old! ‘The hair on our upper lip, whose first appearance was hailed with yreat Aclight, took along time to come to maturity, but how quickly that on the top of our bead conies off when once the moulting process begins “When in doubt make a bow—it is avery important diplomatic axiom.” “A man will remain calm under many aspersions, but there is scarcely any who will not indiguwntly deny ignorance of wine, women and horses.” “A man can be no wore than a gentleman or a woman more than a lady,” ‘The above selections, ade at random from hun- give one an idea of the in- tellectual merit that underlies the volame. Whether the latter has been put on the market at the author's expense, a4 actors sometimes buy plays in which to become stars, is nota question to be considered, for is worthy of perusal. Pabbshed by LIEUTENANT LYLE'S RE GUNS. ‘The term “death-dealing” may not be always applied to artillery, as there aro guns in the Orinance De- partment devoted to the noble purpose of life saving. ‘Vhe report of the Chief of Ordnance is supplemented by a very exhaustive and interesting account of life” saving guns and projectiles by Lieutenant D, A. Lyle, of the National Armory, Springfield, Mass. The im- portance of having an efficient apparatus to establish communication between a wreck and the shore, es- pecially when the roughness of the sea proclades the possibility of launching a boat successfully, catmot be overestimated, The parting of shot lines, inaccuracy of aim or insufficient range of the projectile that carries the line may often result iu the loss of the shipwrecked people, who vainly look for a bond of safety to be established between them and land. Had the life-saving apparatus been in any reasonable state of efficiency the tragedies of the Circassian and the Huron might have been robbed of most of their horrors. In the early part of the year 1876 the Secretary of the ‘Treasury applied to the Secretary of War for assistance in the prosecution of experiments for the purpose of improving the life- saving apparatas, then under the special charge of Captain J. H. Merryman, Ufited States Revenue Marine. Lieutenant D. A. Lyle was assigned to the task, and the result of his labors is embodied in this report. Experiments were made at Springfield, Mass., and at Sandy Hook, ‘Che result of the trial of rifled cannon satisfied the Board of the unfitness of such RE ON LIVE-BAVING ordnance for line-carrying purposes. The ex- aminers then cut loose from rifled mortars and rifle projectiles, wire ropes, spiral springs, rubber straps, rubber washers and plugs, brass washers, caps and retaining screws, and made suc cessful experiments with smooth-bore guns, Brouze ‘Was selected as the material for the new guns on ac- count of its great ultimate tenacity, ductility and combination of great strength with light weight. ‘The Parrott patent, an improvement on the system of Captain Manby, is the basis, with some moditica- tions, for the new life-saving gun and projectile. ‘fhe gun carriages formerly in use were very inefficient in actual service, and care has been taken with the new ones to combine elasticity with strength, so as to act well upon sandy beac Braided linen has been found superior in usefulness to the hemp lines pre. viously in service and are not so heavy. A range of 400 yards is understood to be about the maximum range necessary for the requirements of the service along our coasts, and it is not probable that a hawser and life-car can be used with success over even 50 great a distance, ‘The velocity of the wind is a very important cle- ment in the use of life-saving guns, and a fierce gale blowing directly across the plane of fire is an almost insuperable obstacle to the gunner. Temporary lulls of the wind occur, however, in the most severe storms, and the report advises that the piece, in case of wreck, be prepared for firing, and with lanyard tant and the gunner ready await the favorable moment and then fire without loss of time, Twenty-five sec- onds in the most extreme case will suffice to fire the piece, to allow the shot to describe its trajectory and the line to settle upon the round or water, A de- scription of Boxer’s life-saving rockets is appended tothe report. M. August Delvigne invented a gun for projecting line-carrying arrows, which were found to be very efficient. “THE JOURNAL OF ‘THE FAIR.” It is seldom, indeed, that the journals issued dur- ing church fairs have other than the most transitory value, but an exception must be made in favor of that issued daily during the progress of the late fair at the Catholic Cathedral, and of which an old and expert journalist, Mr. John Mullaly, was the editor. No better estimate of its worth need be taken than the fact that it netted during the six weeks of its existence a yery handsome profit. As a daily record of the fair itself, which is monumental among enterprises of the kind, it was, of course, in- teresting to the Catholics of New York, while its articles, contributed by many well known writers of ability, gave it a wider claim for appreciation. Notable among these are the articles, accompanied by handsome illustrations, on the principal cathe drals and churches of the world, including, of course, St. Patrick's, the papers by Rev. Dr, Henry A. Brann, on ‘the Churches of the Early Christians’ and “A History of Stained Glass.” The entire series of the journal has now been tastefully bound in cloth and gold, and can be had of Sadlier & Co., New York, for a moderate price. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT, J. B, Lippincott & Co. have issued a society novel entitled “His Heart's Desire.” The name of the au” thor is withheld. “A Holiday Tour in Europe” is the title of a work just published. “The Englishman’s Critical and Expository Bible Encyclopedia,” by Rev. A. R. Fausset, A. M., has been commenced by J.B. Lippincott & Co. It is to be published in numbers and sold by subseription. ‘The early numbers of the second yolume of the “History of the City of New York” are now in press and will be issued shortly. Messrs. A. 8S. Barnes & Co. have begun the publica- tion of aseries of volumes with the title “Atlas.” ‘hey will embrace essays, stories, &c. “As It May Happen” is above the average of Ameri- can novels. The scenes are laid in the rural dis- tricts of Pennsylvania, and the characters, though seeming eccentric to the society eye, are natural to the country, and not improbable in their development. There is enough of mystery and crime to make the story almost sensational, but the plot is well con- structed and the narrative absorbing. Published by Porter & Coates, Philadelphia. Macmillan & Co. republish from the Saturday Re- view nearly fitty short essays on social and domestic topics, by Mrs. Loftie. All of them are readable. “Do They Love Us Yet?" a compilation, is a book which might greatly interest a large number of peo- ple who long to be satisfied of the carthly presence of the spirits of dear ones who havo died. Unfortu- nately, however, the compiler wastes a portion of her space by printing revelations supposed to have been given through Spiritualistic mediums. Pub- lished by James Miller, New York. NEW BOOKS RECEIVED. Sport, and Work on the Nepaul Frontier; or, Tw Years’ Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter. By ‘ori.’ Macmillan & Co., publishers, Londou aud New rk. Social Twitters. By Mrs, Loftie, Macmillan & Co., pub- Zina, A Russian story. By ‘eterson & Brothers, publisuers, ors. Hretty Little Countes ‘Henry Greville. T. B. Fiiiludelphia. ‘The Applications of Physical Forces, By Amedeo Guille- min, Translated trom the French by Mes. Norman Lock- yer. With four colored plates and nearly tive hundred engravings. In Foreign Lands, From original notes by Daniel F. Beatty. Published by the author at Washington, New dorsey, Total Abstinence. Benjamin w lan & Co., A course of addresses, b: Richardson, M.D., F. RS, &e. Mactaill publisher *. Nebraska Gazetteor and Business Directory for 1879-80, Compiled and published by J. M. Wolfe. Drift from York Harbor, Maine. A. Williams & Co., publishers, Boston, ‘A Womun's Thoughts About Men.” By Brinkley. Derby Brothers, publishers. New Catalogue Dos Fabrieantes Manufactoros By George Houghton Mes. Hugh L. York. de todos os Artigos de Exportagao Fabric Unidos d’America, Para 0 Brazil ¢ America Pulicado por Mitchell J. Ash & Co., New Yor] ‘he Swamp Doe dventur . By “Madison Tensas,” M. D., and urtoen ull page illustrations by Darley. T. B. Peterson & Broth- ers, publishers, Philadelphia. gone Veron, Translated by W. IL. J.B, Lippincott & Co., publish: nae, 1879, P. and its Mi Publishing Mistheties. By Eu) Armstrong, B.A. (Oxou). ers, Phil ry jelphia, ¥ Trish: aks. By Com- pany, DICKENS’ READING BOOKS. A recent European steamer has brought to Scribner & Welford a number of volumes from the library of Charles Dickens, stamped with his crest, and many containing marginal notes by his hand. Among the most valuable and interesting of this collection are two small volumes containing as much of ‘Martin Chuzzlewit” and of “Nicholas Nickleby” as he read in public, The books are his reading copies and con- densations of his novels. The volume of “Nicholas Nickleby” is condensed to three chapters, and even those have been reduced by the author's hand. For exampie, in the description of Mr. Squeers he cuts “the eye he had was useful, but not ornamental, being of @ greenish gray and in shape resembling the fanlight of a street door.” Many passages are underscored with two lines of blue ink. Here is @ slight change from tho original written in asmall though legible hand. When Squeers bids Nicholas good night on his first evening at Dotheboy’s Hall, he says:—“I don't know I'm sure whose towel to put you on, but if you'll make shift with something to-morrow morning Mrs. Squeers will arrange that in the ise of the day.” Dickens has written in, “I don’t know, by the by, whose towel to put youon. But it you'll make shift with your pockethandkerchiet in the morning Mrs. Syueers will look into it.” ‘There is not # page without some alterations. Here are eighteen pages taken right out of the body of the book and tied up with narrow red ribbon, Half a page of a new jutroduction’ is inserted to the chapter deserib- ing Smike's departure. It is written in blue ink on blue paper and pasted in:—Time sod away. The poor creature Smike paid bitterly (heavily was written and scravched out) for the friendship of Nicholas Nickleby; all the spleen and il-humor that could not be vented on Nicholas were bestowed on him. Stripes and blows, stri and blows, stripes and blows, morning, noon and night, were bis penalty for being compassionated by the daring new master. Squcers was jealous of the ine fluence which the said new master soon acquired in the school, and hated him for it, Mrs. Squeers hated him trom the first, and poor Smike paid heavily for all.” Further on’ there are three pages scaled up with the margin that comes on postage stamps, Con- densation appears to have been the yient aim of the novelist in these prone books, and there is not @ word leit in that could be stricken out, ‘The reading copy of “Martin Chuzzlewit” is called Mrs, Gamp, and was evidently made in this country, for it bears the imprint of Ticknor & Fields and the Gato 1468, ‘There aro only eighteon pages in wll in this book, and a third of these is crossed out, and only now and then is there aword written in. One can re- call his every tone and gesture in reading these little books. The recollection of the former is made par- ticularly vivid by the upstrokes of the pen ut the end of a sentence, Among the other works from Gad's Hill is a copy of Leigh Hunt's poetical works, inscribed “To Charles: Dickens, from his constant admirer and obliged friend, Leigh Hunt;" a copy of Hood's comic annual for 1842, with @ sonnet to’ Dickens on his proposed voyage to America, and a presentation copy of Fitz ieene Halleck’s poems, inscribed “To Charles ns, Kequire, from bis friend and admirer, Pits ¢ Halleck, New York, North America, 6th June, Dic FINE ARTS. NEW PICTURES IN THE GALLERIES. Among the pictures in the upper rooms at M. Knoedler & Co.'s gallery is one of Professor Carl Becker's historical canvases “The Emperor Maxi- milian Crowning the Poet Ulrich Von Hutten with the Laurel Wreaths, at Augsburg, A. D., 1517." It is an admirably composed work, careful in costume and other historical detail. The poet has received the order of knighthood from the Emperor, and the crown, which confers a higher distinction, hus been woven by the fair hands of Else Pentinger, the pearl of all the maidens of the city, who stands by the side of Maximilian, ‘To the left, by the throne, are the ladies of the court, and with them the court fool laughing at the scene. Acardinal, courtiers, knights, the syndics and the populace are to the right, while at the side of the hall are ranged the members of a band whoare playing Instily, In the gallery there has been recently placed an im- portant river sunset by Jules Dupré, painted in his most powerful yein, As an example of solid rich coloring the sky is masterful, All its gorgeous tints, gathering around s strip of clear turquoise blue near the horizon, are reflected in the quiet waters of the stream. Near a huge tree some cattle are at drink, while their keeper stands by, The last rays of the sun strike here and there on rocks, on the tree trunks, the cattle and on tho walls of a farmhouse to the extreme right, The foreground is managed with such consummate skill, kept in such masterly shadow, that the sky aud general cape masses are only seen at first. The Separate objects of the first plan take place aud form only ufter some study of the canvas. The repetition of Yines parallel to each other, which are formed by two foreground rock masses and sharply defined by lines of light, seems artistically a mistake. In Schaus’ gallery there is now on an easel a large canvas by Benjamin Constant ‘La Soif—Prisonniers Marocains,” one of the two Pgregaos which repre- sented the artist at the Salon of last year. Five pris- oners, whose hands are linked together by short chains, have reached running water after a ldug march. Wild with thirst, they lay flat on the sands, with their heads toward us, lapping up greedily the water, while one of their guards sits like @ statue on his horse to the lett, aud another, on foot, rests on the sand back of the group. It is a wild scene, full of the very lite of the desert; excellent in its expres- sion of the convulsive action of the poor prisoners, as they dig their feet in the sand and bend to the stream, and of the stolid unconcern of the guards. The cold white and biue light of a mirage is seen on the hori- zon and all around is the waste of sand, The weakest point in the picture is the painting of the Arab horse, which, though well posed and excellent in silhoustte, lacks solidity. NOTES FROM HOME STUDIOS. ‘ T. L, Smith has on an easel one of his favorite snow scenes, inwhich the dim light of a winter sunset throws its last rays over a landscape. In the foreground is a pond frozen over and in the middle distance a vil- lage. The sun has just gone down and tints with faint cold pink the edges of the gray clouds. Frank Waller, who will leave the city in a few days for Florida, has started for the Academy a picture which he will finish there. The motive is a pic- turesque one, a sunset effect on the ruins of the tem- ple at Komombos on the Nile. He has also on an easel a view on the lagoon near Chioggia, Venice, with fishing boats moored in the foreground. Frank M. Boggs hus in his studio a large seene in the Rue Vaurigard in Paris, painted some time ago. ‘The low houses, little shops, figures and an omni- bus are given with a good deal of chic and the local lor is excellent. A view on Twentieth street, in this city, near the East River, shows what fine material there is to be found at our very doors, E. Sanguinet¥ has in his studio, in addition toa nuinber of portraits of celebrated trotting and ran- ning horses, a couple of little canvases with figures of French cavalrymen. In one a huzzar, erect on his | steed, is on picket post, and in the other a cuirassier comes toward us in b long gallop. Both show care and skill and are creditable little pictures. Arthur Quartley is working on a canvas with a fine motive—a summer moonlight on the coast of Maine, with an old hulk stranded on the beach, the houses of @ village in the middle distance lit up 4 the moon, and a tug steaming out to sea with a brigantine in tow. A fisherman is arranging nets to dry on the disimautied schooner, The cool grayish white of the moonlight on the walls of the houses of the fishing village, the sky and the moon path over the ripphng waters are roudered with great skill. In composition it is one of the best of the artist's recent works. Stanley G. Middleton has on an casel a little por- trait of a young girl, which promises well as far as it has ne. J. C. Beckwith, whose life-size portrait of a well known amateur of art att #0 much attention at the opening of the monthly exhibition ot the Union League Club, is at work on # large one of # lady, posed in the Carolus Duran manner. Arthur Parton had just finished, at our last visit, a picturesque scene on Loch Leven, which he intends for the Utica Exhibition. The sky is good and the ef- fect of light on the mountain forms, down one of which runs a silvered rill, is admirable. It need hardly be said that the drawing is a strong point. Humphrey Moore is working on his picture of a girl dancing in a Mauresque apartment, while a man plays tor her on 4 stringed instrument. Walter Paris has among his recent water color dra’ ings, a good wood scene With # man seated against tree trunk smoking. A careful study in the back- ground of a farmhouse at Easthampton promises well. Among his rocent studies are views along the Hudson and one of the Falls of the Potomac. A charming little sketch is of @ windmill by s pauduide at Easthampton. THE ART INTERCHANGE. ‘The first bound volume of the Ari Interchange, a household journal, the attractive little paper pub- lished in the interest and under the auspices of that excellent institution, the Socicty of Decorative Art, has come to hand. It contains the eight semi- monthiy numbers from its first appearance on the 18th of September to the close of the year. A steady improvement is noticeable in each number, and the articles under the heads of “The Class Room,’ fhe Studio"—The Library,” “The = Morning Room,” “Lhe Drawing Room" /sic)\—devoted chiefly to musical news—“Archit cture” and “Notes and Queries,” are in most cases well adapted to the needs of the readers of the journal. Among the articles especially noticeable in the volume are those by Mary dj Cesnola on Cyprus; of William C, Prime, on “Some Important Art Sales;"" the letters from the South Kensington Museum Art Needlework School; “A Glance at the History and Symbolisin of Japanese Art,” by William Elliott Griftis, and ‘Potteries and Porcelains” and ‘Bric-a-Brac”’ at the second Loan Exhibition, by Frederic Vors. FROM THE PARIS STUDIOS. Gérome, gratified with the success of his “Gladia- tors,” for which he received a medal, is modelling a group of Anacreon, with the infants, Love and Bac- chus. This will be cut in marble, instead of being cast in bronze, like the “Gladiators.” Schreyer, alter a long absence trom Paris, has ree turned, and is now at work in his old studio on tho Boulevard Malsherbes. Ho may be really classed as a French artist, as he has lived long in France, made his reputation there, and has two pictures in the Luxembourg. Cabanel is at work on the frieze to his decorative paintings for the Pantheon. He has recently fin- ished portraits of Mr. end Mrs. Mackay, the bonat qillionnaires of California, “Jeptha” is a canvas whieh he has painted for 8. P. Avery, The young girl in rich Eastern costume, with her bands raised in lamentation and pra amex up the mountain toward the spectator, while a group of young women is soem in the distance. Me has jast finished for Knoedler & Co, a “Samson and Delilah.” Loustaneau, the pupil of Vibert, is painting, for the Salon of tis year, a picture in Which the chicf figure is a gouty old gentleman, Vibert has nearly finished for Knoedler & Co. a rehearsal se oy a convent, with monks and acolytes: singing and Playing. Coutrasted reds and whites th of color motive. wes Merle has finished fora New York collection aille, hay in uploted @ large canvas which was ordered of him by Mr. Vanderbilt, ix now at work on his picture for the next Salon, ‘The Vanderitit picture is about the same size as Mr. Hawks’ “Salut Aux Blesses." Louis Leloir is painting for a New York collector a Watteat-like enbject, which is said to be charming. The painter is one of the beat and most dainty of the French water coloriats. Fans decorated by him are in great demand, He received #,0u0f, for the one which he painted for the Rothschild marriage Inst year, the drawing for which was exhibited at the Salon. Madrazo is engaged on an important work with many fyures—a fancy dress ball. It is intended for W. Hi. Vanderbilt's gallery. Babcock, of Boston, who was the friend of Millet, Rousseau and Diaz, still paints at Barbizon. Lefebvre is about commencing pictures for Mins Catherine Wolfe and for John Jacob Astor. He has finished portraits of the children of 8. F. Barge; of this city. Tt ix said that Mr, Vanderbilt has bought from William H. Stewart, of Paris, for the reported sum of $10,000, Za celebrated ‘Le Favori du Roi,” to have suggested to Gérome his inence Grise.” Excosura is putting the finishing touches to a pie- ture of “Charles 1, in the Studio of Vandyke,” CENERAL FOREIGN NOTES. ‘Theodore Roussean's “La Autte du Charbonnicr” was lately sold in Brussels to M. Vanderheim for $20,000, A fine mosaic pavement, thought to be of the third century, has recently been discovered at Angers. ‘The students in the ateliers of Gérome and Cabanel have lately had « pitched battle, which led to the schools being closed for a few weeks, The pupils of | Gérdme bagyed the boxes aud colors of their rivals, and the latter broke into the Gérdme studio to get them back. tis curious that we should learn first from the Athenvun ind Academy that Charles B. Curtis, of this city, is about to publish a catalogue of the works of Ve jez and Murillo founded on studies made in Spain and clsewhere, aud with the use of the author's large collection of engravings. Mr. Curtis solicits the assistance of all who can supply hin with intor- mution, His address is No, } East rifty-tourth street. At the “further sale” of the works of Cruikshank several of the best d were bought for America, Oxford talks of founding a museum of archwology. The Gazette des Beaux Arts has published in two volumes its works on the art at the late Exposition, ‘They contain plates of objects exhibited, which have ut previous times been published in the mouthly, as well as the matter in the last half yearly volume. ‘There ure 500 drawings and cuts in the text and torty- five etchings and other plates, ‘The Japanese Commission has presented to the French government several of the most important objects which they exhibited at the great Exposition, Haus Makart is how profeasor in the special school for historical painting of the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts, At an art sale at the Hotel Drouot, in Paris, the other day # curious incident occurred. Two cteh- ings by Seymour Haden were sold to au Englishman for £12, The purchaser looked st each and then tore one up, to the astonishment of those present, It ap- pears that Haden had taken off but twenty proofs of the etching and had numbered each proot. ihe knew where nineteen of the twenty were, and was much astonished when he saw two advertised for sale in Paris. A friond was instructed to buy them at an; price and to destroy one or both if hot numbered. One was und the other was not, s0 the etcher now knows where the twentieth etchingis, He acted wich ‘it aud shrewd business sense, The Paris Court of Appeals has just confirmed a curious decision of the ‘lribunal of Commerce, The cause which led to the litigation was the tollowing A picture dealer sold to another on approval a pi ture by Alfred Stevens, ‘The stipulated time was one year, at the end of which time the painting was re- turned, the purchaser saying that he had seen it enough. On examining the picture the first dealer found that it had been damaged, a hole having been jnade in the canvas, which had been patched up and painted over. He therefore claimed the purchase money. He was uwarded 500f, on the plea that the hole was “such a little one” and had only dumaged a part of the picture, “THE BATTLE OF CHALMETT TYRONE POWER ON THE BATTLE FIELD—INTER- ESTING REMINISCENCES. To rae Epirox ov THE HEeRaLp: — The frequent contradictions of history, particu- larly when written by authors who derive their intor- mation from sources embodying the views and prejudices of commanders liable to exaggerate or palliate the actions of their immediate corps, lead too frequently to confused accounts and to denials of their truthfulness by those who participated in the operations. Take, for instance, the battle of New Orleans described by General Jackson, Judge Martin, Major Lacurriére Latour, Commodore Patterson, and, finally, by the historian Gayarré, who drew from those narrators and from the public documents the materials for his ‘Battle of Chalmette.” Jackson is accused of errors of time, position, the number of troops engaged and the manner of attack and de- fence; nevertheless, these American narrators agree that General Kean, of the royal army, was guilty of a lack of veracity. ‘As a boy, interested in the State of my birth and particularly so in the gallant deeds of Major Planche’s New Orleans battalion, composed of the best blood of Louisiana, I seized every occasion to read the re- ports of the battle, aud never to let pass an oppor- tunity of referring to the subject or of questioning those who had participated in the fight in regard to its history and incidents, Mr, Sylvain Peyroux--- nephew of the French military commandant of Louisiana, Henri Peyroux de la Coudriniére, head- quarters at New Madrid, subsequently at St. Louis: one of the Orleans battalion and proprietor of a beauti- ful estate situated on the plains of operation, be- tween Darcantel and Vill ae jantations, entertained in princely style. His mansion, at all times open to social gatherings, was especially so on Sundays, when his friends assembled there to enjoy themselves and to partake of the bountiful supplies ‘of @ hospitable host, At Mr. Peyroux’s table, while inbibing the rich wines, anecdotes flowed; and it was there that his companions in arms’ referred to the parts they had taken im the defence of New Orleans and to their unpublished observations in regard to it. It is true that of the incidents there were some too loud for history, such as would have produced an evil effect or giver a poor opinion of Louisiana's muse—viz., mh Garde Du a composed for oy Reinates, to Major Twiggs, late a major general in the United States Army, who had ordered sentinels to be posted- near his tent as a sanitary measure, Ou the Sunday before Tyrone Power's departure from New Orleans for Europe, via New York, on his ill-fated voyage, the cclebrated Irish comedian spent the day with Mr. Peyroux. Power proporgi, as he liad done on several other occasions, a vir¥: to the “«puttle ground.” He was accompanied by the host, Mr. Peyroux, and Messra. Saint Oyre, Planche and other veterans. I, mere boy, mounted my horse and followed, being uuxious to have a correct knowledge of the positions of the troops and of their movements onthe memorable 8th of January, that T might, at a future day, act as a guide to the sight- seers and travellers who would claim the hospitality of the planters of St. Bernard parish. We visited the situation of the settlement ot the traitorous Italian and Spanish fishermen, on the banks of Bayou Vil- leré, now known as Bayou Bienvenue, It was those fishermen, who supplied New Orleans with fish, who piloted the English to Villeré’s plantation, which subsequently became Packingham’s headquarters. “iritish and American’ foboes camped on Lacoste, Laronde, Chalmette, Jumonville, plantations. We rode over the rounds, which I knew by hei havin, Hunted over them and the rear swamps. General Jackson's earthworks were thrown up between the Mississippi levecs aud the swamp. A canal was on his front. General Morgan’s aud Patterson's forces wero intrenched on the left or southern bank of the river, nearly opposite to Chalmette, Patterson's battery was near the levee, so situated as to enfilad Packinighai’s forces when they advanced to attack, It was this battery which did such execution in the British ranks, aud which would have proved trouble- some, if not disastrous, to our own fo had Col- one! Thornton reached the opposite bank in time to surprise or carry it before Packingham’s death and the British retreat; for the lorious flight” of the “half horse, half alligator” Kentuckians bad com- vlied Commodore Patterson to spike and abandon ‘is battery. ‘The battle ground having been thoroughly surveyed and discussed the company assembled and repaired to the dining room, ‘Tyrone Power's numerous questions resulted in anecdotes and reminiscences, inoue the gentlemen present was Nicholas Sinnott, an Irishman of horculean strength, who distin- guished himeclf by dodging a sabre cut—whi xpoiled his hat—but he floored his adversary and cap- tured him. Another gentleman had found General Kean’s sword and handed it to General Jackson. Ma- jor Villere’s escape and concealment ina royal oak tree was allud to, The vetorans were unani- mous in the opinion that the battle of the 24 of December, fought on Larond’s plautation, had saved the city; also that the part of the British advance corps, composed of 3,000 men, would have been destroyed aud captured had Pianche's New Orleans battalion been permitted to charge bayonets; they clamored for it, but were checked by Major Koss, United States Army, who commanded two battalions. The Bare- turians were conspicuous; their battery was admirably handled. Dominique Bluchi (Suc aud the brothers Lafitte, Pierre and Jean, were especially distinguished. “The two latter were not expert seame they were blacksmiths who had worked at their trade in Now Orleans before assum- ing command of the buccance Staple had becn used in the embrasures of our bat- torics, but had been removed previous to the British cotton appropriated by General Jackson belonged to the Chevalier Jumoville de Villeré, son of De Villeré, to whom General (then Colonel) ington surrendered Bort Necessity. This seizure nearly resulted in @ duel. Bernard de Marigny in- troduced in the Legislature a bill for the relief of M. Jamoville de Villeré. In his speech he was ander- stood to say that “France and the French were the first to make Washington a hero.” “Not a word ot truth in it," thundored old Larry Moore, then a Senator. “God Almighty made George Washington hero.” Mor cay looked daggers; Larry frowned deflance, Marigny glowed with the blood of a chivalrous rac Moore was the type of the frontier American. Tho affair was settled. Marigny’s language had been mis- — Larry moant, not @ personal, but a politi- eal lie, It was under one of the three immense oaks which shaded the large mansion of Sylvain Peyroux that Jyckson isstied One of the first orders given on the Sth of Jayuary. It was also under their shade that ‘Tyrone Power handled the British shot and shell which were gathered there, From battle reminiscences the conversation had turned to the proposed race course at Algiers, oppo- site New Orleans. “Look out,” remarked Tyrone Power, as he winked to the creoles and eyed the Ken- tuckians present; ‘don't let the ‘half-horse’ get the best of you in your selection of a new course. You know they have tested the J od and made the best time known, leaving the British steeds tar in the Keep eye on them,” joined in the laugh, a8 the half battalions un Jackson's immediate cou mitigated the i sans. The ere marking who efi@ent and incompetent officer as brave Gencral Morgan proved to be, ‘To the unerriug riflesof the Tennesseeans the vet- evans attributed our sticcess and the English loss. ‘The “dirty shirts," as the British named them, never missed their mark, As@ proof of their expertness they sent to General Jackson his daily ration ot head- less snipe. Several of the charming ladies present on the occa- sion alluded to had plied their needles, making over- coats of blankets for the Tennesseeans and Kei tuckians. ‘the dinner ended Va reading of ‘Thomas Dunn Enylish’s ballad, the only objection made to it peing the omission of the parts taken the battle by the Louisiana battalions aud the of the United states. The Tennessecans were f in three lines, the best marksmen resting and firing their rites off the earthworks, while two ranks Joaded tor them. Hence the precision and quick firing, not accounted tor by historians. rE. B. New York, January 7, 1579. i THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH'S BALLAD, As Mr, Thomas Dunn English’s poems have never been collected the ballad on “The Battle of New Orleans” cannot fail to have a fresh interest in con- nection with these reminiscences. It is as follows:— Here, in my rude log cabin, ‘eW poorer men there be Among the mountain ranges Ot Western Tennessee. My sabe: are weak and shrunken— hite hairs upon my brow, My dog—lie still, old fellow!— sole companion now. Yet I, when young and lusty, Have gone through stirrin; scencs, For I went down with Carroll ‘To fight at New Orleans, You say you'd like to hear me The stirring story tell Of those who stood the battle And those who fighting fell, Short work to count onr losses— —* We stood and dropped the foe As easily as by firelight Men shoot the ‘buck or doe, And while they fell by hundreds Upon the bloody plain, Of us, fourteen were wounded ‘And only eight were slain. The Sth of January, Before the break of day, Our raw and hasty levies Were brought into array No cotton bales before us: Some fool that falsehood told; Before us was an earthwork, Built from the swampy mould, And there we stood in silence, And waited with a frown, To yreet with bloody welcome The bulldogs of the Crown, ‘The heavy fog of morning Still hid the plain from sight, When came a thread of scarlet Marked faintly in the white, We tired a single cannon, And as its thunders rolled The mist before us lifted In many 2 heavy fold, ‘The mist before us lifted, And in their bravery fino Came rushing to their rnin ‘The fearless British line, ‘Then from our waiting cannons Leap'd forth the deadly flame, To meet the advancing columns ‘That swift and ly came, The thirty-twos of Crowley And Bluchi's twenty-four To Spott’s eighteen pounders Responded with their roar, Sending the grapeshot deadly ‘That marked its pathway om And paved the road it travelled With corpses of the slain, Our rifles firmly grasping, And heedless of the din, We stood in silence waiting For orders to begin, Our fingers on the triggers, Our hearts with anger stirred, Grow still more fierce and eager As Jackson's voice was heard. “Stand steady! Waste no powder! Wait till your shots will tell! 'Yo-day the work you finish— ‘See that you do it well!” ‘Their columns drawing nearer, We felt our patience tire, When came the voice of Carrol, Distinct and measured, “Fire Oh! then you should have mazk’d ae Our volleys on them pour— Have heard our joyous ritles Ring sharply through the roar, And seen their foremost columns Melt hastily away As snow in mountain gorges: Before the floods of ys They soon reformed their columns, And ‘mid the fatal rain We never ceased to hurtle Came to their work again. ‘Tho Forty-fourth is with them, That first its laurels won ‘With stout old Abercrombie Beneath an Eastern sun. It rushes to the battle, And, tho’ within the rear ‘Its leader is a laggard, It shows no signs of fear, It did not need its colonel, For soon there came An sople;ered, commander, And on its march he led, t her mere a I knew it by the cheering ‘That loudly round him peal’ And by his quick, sharp mo" We felt his heart was stirred, As when at Salamance He led the fighting ‘third. I raised my rifle quickly, Taighted at hin God save the gallant leader And take him to his rest! I did not draw the trigger, Icould not for my life. So calm he sat his charger Amid the deadly strife, ‘That in my fiercest moment A prayer rose from me, God save that gallant leader, Our foeman tho’ he be. Sir Kaward’s charger staggers; Hoe leaps at ondeto rond, Ané ere the beast falls bleeding Auother horse is found. Tis right arm falls—'tis wounded; He waves on high his left. In vain he leads the movement, ‘The ranks in twain are cleft, The men in scarlet waver Before the men in brown, And fly in utter panic— ‘The soldiers of the Crown! T thought the work was over, But nearer shouts were heard, And came, with Gibbs to head it, ‘The yallant Ninety-third. ‘Then Packingham, exulting, With proud and joyous glance, Cried, “Children of the Tartan— Bold Highlanders—advance! Advance to scale the breastworks And drive them from their hold, And show the stanchless courage ‘That marked your sires of oid.”” His voice as yet was ringing, When, quick as light, there came ‘The roaring of a cannon, And earth seemed all aflame, Who causes thus the thunder ‘The doom of men to speak? It is the Baretarian, ‘The fearless Dominique. Down through the marshall'd Scotsmen ‘The step of Death ix heard, And by the fierce tornado Falls half the Ninety-third. ‘The smoke paesed slowly upw: And, as it soar'd on high, ss Isaw the brave commander In dying anguish lie. ‘They bear Lim froin the battle Who never fled the foe. Unmoved by death around them His bearers softly yo. In vain their care, 80 gentle, Fades carth and all its scenes; ‘The man of Salamanca Lies dead at New Orleans, But where were nis lieutenants? Had t) ey in terror fled? No! K was sorely wounded ‘And Gibbs as good as dead. Brave Wilkinson, commanding A major of brigade ‘The shattered torce to rally, A final effort made. He led it up our ramparts, Small glory did he gain— Our captives some, while others fled, ‘And he himself was slain, ‘The stormers had retreated, ‘The bloody work was o'er; ‘The feet of the invaders * Were seen to leave our shore ‘We rested on our rifles ‘And talked about the fight, When came a sadden murmur Like fire from left to vient ‘We turned and saw our chicftain, And then, good friend of mine, You should have heard the cheers ‘That rang along the line, For well our men remembered How little when they came, Had they but native courage, And trust in Jackson's names How thro’ the day he labored, How kept the vigils still, ‘Til eo line cont ee A stronger power will; And how he horted us at them Within the evening hour, é ‘That red night in December, And made us feel our powar, In answer to our shouting Fire lit his eye of yray; rect, but thin and paid, He passed upon his ba; pas Weak from the bafiled fever, + And shrunken in each limb, ‘The swamps of Alabama Had done their work on him, But spite of that and fasting, And hours of sleepless care, The soul of Andrew Jackson Shone forth in glory there,