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THE NEW-YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, NEW PUBLICATIONS ROBERT CttAXT OS THE ART OF LITIS ART OF LIVING. By Robert Grant. Illustrated by C. D. Gibson, B.

Weet CTlnexllnst, -B4 W. It. Hyde. New-Yorkt Charles Sortb-acr Bon. 1S.

2 SO. To -Y anything worth saving about the of ltvinc tn any country or town presupposes a vli) knowledge of the resource well a the custom of the people, and a correspondingly deep knowledge of the cau of social phenomena. It one happens ta be at once an astute student of economic and sociology and a brilliant man of letter, such a the late Walter Bagehot. to take a rare example, the te-ivlt will bp both generally Interesting and particularly valuable. Mr.

Grant has not. we think, aimed at this composite attain neat. He one of the many who enjoy discussion for discussion' sake, and he la particularly fortunate tn having a less prosy vocabulary thsn the majority of his kind. Ills talk flown on with a fair sprinkling of after-dinner wit, and entertains even where ft does not convince. HI book la as much book with a purpose a Robert or Th Heavenly Twins." and thla purpose, which runs through a drift of smart generalizations on both side of a variety of arguments.

Is to prove that the aesthetic side of life is to be preferred to th ascetic side, and that a man In the city gjy spend $10,000 a year on himself and kis family without being; a villain. For the Individual who In thi generation contents himself with a homely "house when he might have a beautiful one, one or two servants, when he might have four or five; Indifference to social Intercourse, when he night spend three evening a week tn ether people' houses, Mr. Grant experience a certain contempt, and by way of expressing It he draws comparison between what he deems the artistic life and the humdrum existence of those who lay by cor a rainy He considers that a fine sense of selection ought to govern the expenditure Income and doe not ay6r the purchase Af steam yacht or a diamond crescent on seven to eleven thousand a year, but a Bian with an Income within that range should have a home with modern convenience, an efficient staff of servants, a carefully chosen family physician, a Bum-Bier home, or an ample margin wherewith to hire one, the best educational advantage for hi children which the community will afford, and choice social aurroundlngs If, we suggest, he can get them. Mr. Grant' scale Is a trifle disproportionate.

His ten-thousand-dollar man living in New-York or Boston, satisfactorily to himself, spends half his Income on the rent of his bouse and the wages of his servants; how he Is to get the necessary food, heat, specialists, tutor, travel, social advantages, house furnishing, dress. Ac. out of the remaining five thousand without falling below Mr. Grant's standard oT elegance present a delicate mathematical problem. To point his moral, the author present Roger, the bookkeeper, bringing up two boys and three girl on $2,200 a year, and sending on of the boys through college, and giving one daughter a coming-out party on that modest Income.

If Rogers can lead a exemplary life on $2,200 a year, why Should not a ten-thousand-dollar man save at least half his Income and be virtuous and happy like Rogers. Mrs. Barbara, the author's feminine adviser, answers the question promptly by describing Rogers's of living. It seems that he dines down town en pea soup and squash pie, or mutton stew and watermelon, while Mrs. Rogers and the children have a pick-up dinner at home, and provide mutton hash and a head of lettuce for the lord and master at night.

They are supposed to' keep -one ervant, -the girls make most of their dresses, and the boys buy ready-made clothing. As to the coming-out, party." remarks- with somewhat cruel sVSine effects of splendor and all "the delights, of social intercourse can be produced by laying a white drugget on the "parlor carpet, the judicious use of half a. dozen lemons and a mould of Ice cream, with angel cake, and by Imposing upon the good nature of a friend who can play the piano for dancing." It is not to wondered at that this description doe not win over the ten-thousand-dollar man" to the practice of such strict economy. He that Rogers could not well live on less' without feeling the pinch of poverty, but denies that there would be any virtue la hi following in Rogers's, footsteps. Later on, Mr.

Grant feels moved to apologize to Rogers for having used him as a type of still too many In this with homes "where music, art, literature, social tastes, and Intelligent interest in human affairs in the abstract, when developed beyond mere rudimentary lines, are unappreciated and regarded as vanities or Inanities." For-all he he says, Rogers's home may In reality be a seething caldron of progress. Instead of the affair he has described. We fail to see. however, that Mr. Grant has made his point here.

It Is not made evident where th line of progres la drawn. Over against Rogers, Mr. Grant puts the intelligent and aspiring portion of the' people." who recognize that the true zest of life lies In it manysidedness, and Us possibilities of development along aesthetic, social, and Intellectual as well as moral lines but be falls to show Rogers's defection In these regard at all convincingly. To send a son to college on an Income of 12.200 a year, divided between seven persons, or 90 cents a day apiece, at a rough estimate, argues some appreciation of the possibility of development along the Intellectual line, it would seem, and so- far as the social Intercourse Is concerned, there was nothing about that coming-out party to indicate 'that the guests did not discuss humanffalra in the abstract, unless Mr. Grant wishes to intimate that the presence of angel cake and lemonade necessarily debars intelligent conversation.

This, to our mind. Is Mr. Grant's error In the case Of Rogers. The only proof we are given of the unprogressivenes of the family lies In the fact of their offering cheap refreshments to their guests a matter of dollars and cents, rather than of choice, and calculated to leave them a margin for pictures and Theexpenslveness of food and service occupies so large a share of Mr. Grant's attention to the art of living that the reader would be tempted to think he Pats it as the chief necessity of elegance did he not resolutely deny this charge.

In Perkins. Mr Grant's second type." have a very cleverly drawn portrait of a man who tries to bring up four daughters in luxury, and leave them $7,000 a year when he dies. To accomplish this object he commits several crimes in the eyes of Mrs. Barbara, one of which is to live In a. "suburban" residence, a residence twenty minutes removed." that Is.

from and dinner parties, th concert, and the theatre, the educational and philanthropic meeting." Probably Mr. Grant means that It Is necessary for Perkins to allow himself twenty minutes more than the Usual smount of time allotted to the going to and from thes functions, but that i not what says. If we go by the letter of his law, New-Yorkers living west of Ninth Avenue, between Seventieth and Ninetieth Street, cannot hope to remain faithful longer than year to Daly's or Carnegie Music Hall, tha private view nights at the Society of American Artists, or the Academy, or the Horse Show, a score more of metropoll-tA gayatle. At the end of that time they will Bad themselves "seven evenings out of even nodding by their fireside after an unpie meal, with all. their social Instincts relaxed." The all-around city man is the true object of.

Mr, Grant' admiration, sjid -r i i lets very Intelligent words In his traIso. as well a tn dispraise or the unfortunate individuals who have failed to volve according to his fancy. The shortcoming cf this tatter class are partially indicated In th Chapter on the use of time. duty to hts spiritual to his aesthetic nature, to Mi family, to public affairs, and to his social "nature, are no ess imperative than hi duty to his dally calling." Mr. Grant writes upon the blackboard, shaking his rod warnlngly at the man who is absorbed fn business.

Some men" think they can lighten the load by disregarding their religious side. Others congratulate themselves that they never read novels or poetry, and speak disrespectfully of the works of new schools of art as daubs. A still larger number ahlrks attention to political and social problems and declares bluffly that If a man votes twice a year and goes to a caucus, when he Is sent for In a carriage by the committee, it Is all that can be expected of a busy man. Another large contingent swathes Itself in graceless virtue and professes to thank God that It keeps aloof from society people and their doing." Mr. Grant's rebuking attitude and unstinted use of the Imperative makes one fear that his masculine readers, may lose patience with hte cleverly turned arguments.

It may be that women take more kindly to correction, and will find in "The Art of Living something of the same stimulating charm as Is afforded by Th'e Woman's Own Book." Manners and Social Usages," and other guides to cortect behavior; but capable American housewives of the ten-thousand-a-year class will smile at the statement that unless a man would have his- wife and daughters merely household factors and drudges, he must keep from three to five or six servants, whose wages vary from $4 to $0 or $7 a week. It is possible to take exception to the assertion that even heartless elegance is preferable to that s'lf-rlghteous commonness of spirit which sits at home In its- shirt-sleeve and Is graceless, ascetic, and unimaginative in the name of God." Since Mr. Grant has chosen to. dwell upon the art of living, bringing in the aesthetic element, we may typify his book by one expression of his own: "That straight-laced type of American who Is content to be moral In his own narrow way, and to exclude from his scheme of life all those interests which serve to refine and to Inspire, bears the same relation to the ideal man or woman that a chromo bears to a masterpiece of painting." It must be a man singularly, obtuse to the principles of true art who can make this comparison, wlio can ignore the fact that the product of a master is not a matter of brushwork, of graces of handling, and adornments of color, but Is determined by that strenuous truth to rigid laws which is the very morality of art. It is never the moral man who is the chromo.

KIFUXG'S XEW JUXGLE B00C THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK. Ey Rudyard Kipling. Decorated by John Lockwood Kipling. 2mo. New-York: The Century Company.

If ever there was. hit off what might be called arborial- man, the human being just as he passed from savage animalism to- a higher status, then Rudyard Kipling presents him. It is the poesy of anthropology. You see it distinctly in The Spring Running." Kipling's concluding chapter. The fever is in Mowgll.

the Man Cub's, veins. Shall he return to his mother, he who has been the boon companion of the wolves, the panthers, the pythons not only that, but their master an darling? He roams -through the Jungle unhappy. When he tired of groUnd-going, he threw up his hands, monkey-fashion, to -the nearest creeper, and seemed to float rather than to climb up Into the-thin. branches whence he would follow a tree road tilt his mood changed." and he shot downward in, a long leafy curve to the levels again." That is the true simian swing." A you read these marvelous stories, the old atavism in you crop out; former longings for an absolutely physical existence, a clime where the temperature was always mild, and clothes were unnecessary, where fcod was water abundant, and, when having satisfied hunger and thirst, you simply dropped off to sleep. You understand why, having acquired the language of the animals.

when you met one. you did nd: say, day," but Good hunting." Think of the art which makes you feel as if the love the Man Cub has for 'Kaa, the python, were perfectly natural. Yira want" to be swayed in the: folds of a boa constrict-' or. In "The Red Dog," which'actually is a fight between dingoes and bees, the story is made up so as to seem 'as If it were the mortal struggle of giants. la "Th MJracle.of Purun Bhagat you conceive some -idea of the strange devotion of these Orientals.

Sir Purun the' Knight of the Grand Cross of the Star of India, the man Who, representing the Maharajah In London, was declared to be one of the most fascinating of. he who knew English as perfectly as he did his own language, suddenly sought He threw aside the' of gave away every penny be and became, a. wandering beggar. With a bowl for an antelope skin for a covering, and a crutch; he wandered far away, from civilization. When, on some far distant mountainside, he saved a small village from destructionfor he warned them of the landslide then his mission was" filled.

Through overexertion it killed him who was the village's saint, for they- worshipped him after death. Little did the humble people know that he once belonged to the most progressive and enlightened of Indian States. There was once a Frenchman. Grandvllle. who, as an artist, came nearer than has any one before him or after him to making animals look like men.

It is Mr; Kipling who gives to his jungle beasts the speech of men that talk, so savage, so curt, which they must have had. You feel the torrid beat of the jungle and you are of the Gray brothers of the Seeonee Pack, and you growl or yelp Good hunting! The clever illustrations are by the father of Mr. Kipling. A FAMOUS SHORE LIVE THE RIVIERA. Ancient and Modern.

Ey Charles Lentherlc Translated by. Charles West. WHh maps and plans. 8vo- New-York: O. P.

Putnam's Sons. M. Lentherlc, having made a survey of that Mediterranean coast which formed a portion of old OauL ha not been satisfied with pure technical details, hut has widened his topic and given the history of that part of France, with some of the surrounding territory. Hero is that inviting country, to which the Romans gave the name of the province, Provlncla Romana. and which "from age to age has still kept Its original name of Provence." It is this coast which ha been the abode of Ligurlans, Phoenicians.

Greeks. Latins. Franks. Goths. Burgundians, Lombards, and Saracens.

Just a tn geological research the epoch are known by th deposited strata, "so each race has left behind in Its own layer the ruins of its buildings and it atone monument, it arm and its gods, its bones, its memories." The translator explains that M. Lenthe-rlc volume la not a guide book, but is to regarded as a companion to th intelligent traveler." giving precise history as to the pat civilization of this coast. The Romans were well acquainted with tb seductive charm of this portion of the empire, and the patrician had there a civilisation almost as perfect as xits at th present Romans iZfcUt. i. along the -shores sumptuous villas.

Th material prosperity of Provence as a whole dates, however, from not unher back than the beginning of our era. The history of the early Roman movement in Provence Is carefully traced. When you "read the old chronicles of Languedoc, you find the presence of a new element In Southern France, and that la the Arabic or Sara cenic one. The name of Saracen Is written on every page of the annals of Provence; that memory Is attached to every ruin; and the name of the Mountains of the Moors still clings to range of mountains which projects further seaward than any other part of the Mediterranean Unfortunately, there is no authentic history of this MoorlHh Invasion or occupation of Provence. Contemporary narratives have suffered from exaggerations.

Neither are the Christian or the Moorish stories trustworthy. When tho Arabs or Moors held Sicily, schemes of conquest were harbored, and on the route to Spain encroachment could be made by a flank movement along the coasts of Provence and Languedoc It doe not seem as if the conquest of Southern France had been an easy "task tor th Saracens. The Visigoth were a fighting race, and offered a stubborn resistance. But conquer they did, and during tha first years of the eighth century the Inroads of the Saracens struck deep into the heart of Provence. BesJers, St.

Giles. Aries, and the. whole Narbonnaise were despoiled. The fiocd of Invaders ascended the valley of the Rhone. The heaviest Inroad occurred In T25.

Aquitaine and Bordeaux fell, and the march of tho Saracens was onward. But Charles Mattel stopped them. What is not so well known Is this, that on the other side of the Rhone the Moors still held their own. Then there were fresh recruits coming from across the Mediterranean. For a century the Moors held their own.

In 92 the abbot of Cluny preached a crusade, and, at last, the Moor was subdued, and his stronghold. Grand-Fraxinet, was captured. The abbot of Cluny did not treat the conquered with severity. They "were not put to the "sword because they burned the bulk of the villages rear the coast. They were made slaves.

As late as 1230 Romeo de Ville-ncuve made a will, ordering that his Saracen men and women should be sold. The Saracen race, then, still survives In Provence, and you wUl find, writes M. Lentheric, along the coast the direct descendants of th great Arab race. whose angular features, black eyes, receding foreheads, and almost curly hatr recall, after the lapse of more than 800 years, th chief feature of the African type." The children to-day In the Department of the Var have a game which they call La guerro del berbero." which recalls the Berbers. This interesting volume concludes with a brief sketch, historical for the major part, of Monaco, that State, 2 miles long by about 104 yards broad.

Here is a fictitious nationality, a comic country. The Grimaldl are the rulers, and they descended from some Genoese, who fought the Saracens. By some genealogical cock-and-bull story, the Grimaldl are supposed to have descended in right Mne from Hercules, and so. without reference to Monte Carlo and rouge et noire, clubs are trumps." AT SEA WITH 5AP0LE0X NAPOLEON'S LAST VOYAGES. Being the arles of feir Thomas Casher, R.

K. C. (on board the Undaunted,) and John R. Secretary to Rear Admiral Cockburn, (on board the Northumberland.) With explanatory nobea and illustrations. 8vo.

London: T. FJsher Unwln. Philadelphia: J. B. Llpplncott Company.

$1. iBy an arrangement with Mr. T. Fisher Uowin of The Century Magazine in 1S93, published the contents of this book In a series of illustrated articles, and rather loudly claimed credit for first placing the two diaries before thiT public. It was announced that Ussher's manuscript wasi obtained bia descendant.

W. II. L'ssher, and that of Secretary Glover from a Rev. Mr. Grindon of England, whose father-in-law had married Mr.

Glover's widow. No mention was made of the facts, which, as has since been discovered, were easily ascertainable, that Sir Thomas Ussher had himself published at Dublin, in 1841, bis account of the voyage to. Elba." and that 'of the Glover manuscript at least two" editions had appeared one at Boston, i in the other at London, tn lSSB. It now appears, from one of several communications recently printed in The London that as soon as The Century Issued its first Installment, of the so-called Glover diary, Mr. Unwin received a' letter from a Mr.

T. Borradalle. containing the information that the latter had published In 188. with the full consent of the Cock-burn family, a manuscript purporting to be the Clary of Sir George Cockburxb and had been by Mr. Bbrra-dalle's father among Glover's effects, at St.

Helena. A correspondence ensued, but no satisfactory settlement of the matter was obtained from Mr. Unwin, and his advertisement, claiming -originality, was hot discontinued. note the December Century of tS93, however, admitted that a email volume printed In 188S. comprising the- diary of Sir George Cockburn." had come to light, and indicated that the Admiral's account, based on the fuller and more imjxatSuit record of his secretary, stood as an authentication of the.

more valuable Glover manuscript published in The Century As a matter of fact. The London Times' correspondent, by fallowing Mr. Unwin's own advice to all interested in the questionthat is, by referring to The Athenaeum of 1803 has learned that all three versions of the diary are practically the same. The only between the 1803 version and the other two, which are Identical; seem to bet. That the former contains two entirely unimportant conversations held by Mr.

Glover with Napoleon and Dr. 0Meara; that It places under the date of Aug. 14 events which happened on Napoleon's birthday, and which should manifestly be under Aug. 15. as they are in the other two versions, and that It claims to be written by Glover himself, while the previous editions wer represented to be the diary of Admiral Cockburn, though taken from manuscripts in his secretary's handwriting.

When confronted with all these plain facts, Mr. L'nwln deduced the illogical but convenient conclusion that Sir George Cockburn must' have made use of his secretary's notes to complete his own diary. The London Time writer Infers that the secretary, who must have had access to Sir George's papers and enjoyed his confidence, appropriated the former and abused the latter when he compiled a version of the Admiral's. Journal in his own name." This would account for the omission of the two. conversations from the earlier publication, and explain the following curious with which Glover closes his As the foregoing narrative was kept for my own gratiticatlon and that of my friends, and, being particularly averse that any part of it should get into print.

I most particularly request of those to whom I may lend it that they will on no account copy any part it or allow any one so to do. In spite of the Information in regard to the Rev. Mr. Grindon's unique discovery which Mr. Unwin obtained during Its appearance In The Century, in 1J3, he publishes this book in 15, without heralding blrocelf as a literary discoverer, to be sure, but yet without considering it worth while to submit to his prospective readers the history of th publication.

Not even Mr, Usaher, In his introductory sketch of bis distinguished-ancestor, hints that the' Admiral's diary has ever appeared before. However, the moral question Involved will probably, hot at Ail affect tb public's enjoyment of, thes. pictures of Napoleon at two most interesting points In bis career his voyag to Elba and that to St. Helena, What particularly strikes on In the narratives Is the marvelous ease with which the Imperious spirit of th Emperor submitted to the restrictions and humiliations which were the natural accompaniments of his fallen state, and the calmness, the apparent indifference which he maintained during the long and trying voyage to St. Helena.

Only once or twice doe th Journal note that th Emperor was out of sorts, and retired to his room after dinner without the customary gam of cards. "Th scourge of mankind." as Mr. Glover calls Napoleon, proved a most gentle and agreeable prisoner, and exercised bis old personal charm to such good effect that the order to treat him with no unusual respect was found most difficult tb enforce. Heads were instinctively bared in hi presence, even by the hostile and Intensely prejudiced naval officers on the English ship. These diaries are an interesting addition to the wealth of Napoleonic literature already in existence, but no especial credit seems to be due to their present publishers until they have settled their indebtedness to those earlier editions, none of which, however, could compare with thla one In typographical beauty, or In the value of It Illustrations.

AX OLD A5D HONORED FAULT THE GURNETS OF EARLHAM. By Augustus J. Hare. Two volumes. 12mo.

New-York: Dodd. Mead a Co. If you look at a list of the Gurneys, the offspring of John Gurney and his wife, Catharine, you will find that they brought Into the world, between 1778 and 1T1. twelve children, there being four sons and eight daughters. Take thes twelve children and try to follow them in their marriages, with the changed names of the women, and you will see how extended is the task.

With Elisabeth Fry all the American world Is acquainted, and her name and her good deeds will never be forgotten. The Interest In her brothers Samuel and Joseph John is not so generaL It may be that, by having married Hannah Gurney, there cam to Thomas Fowell Buxton a transmitted glory. All the Gurneys were good and honest, and exceedingly well-to-do people. But aside from being a very united family, the Gurneys did not differ from many other good English people. The Gurneys were incessant writer of letters, journals, and diaries, all of which have been carefully preserved, and Mr.

Hare writes: "Amid such mountains of material, the editor has endeavored to select such passages as deal rather with facts than thoughts, such as give more Insight into the personal characteristics of the writers or their loving labors for God and man." Some three miles from the spire of Norwich Cathedral, on the road to Lyna, (all place names common to us on this side of the water.) is Earlham. and ever since I78C It has been rented by the Gurneys. It Is a property belonging to the Bacon family, but during a period of 10O years the Gurneys have been tenants, and Mr. Hare cites this as among the longest tenancies in England for a mansion of the size, though very frequent In the case of farm-bouses." This is the home of five generations of Gurneys, and "Its ancient gardens and green glades and sparkling river bring thoughts of domestic peace and happiness which cannot be given in words; its very name is a refrain of family unity and love." The house itself Is in some parts as old as the time of James The hall exists as it was at the close of the last century. with lt Old-fashioned furniture and pictures." and la the drawing room is Richmond's fine picture of Mrs.

Fry. with the likenesses of her many sisters and brother. The Gurney of Earlham were among the leading Quaker of followed closely the laws governing Friends as laid down by George Fox in 1048. John Gurney of Norwich, who was a cordwainer. In 1083, having openly.

Joined the Society of Friends, was "committed to the. city gaol with fifteen his sect, the sole ground of imprisonment being a refusal to take the oath of allegiance, which they declined doing simply from religious scruple as to taking any oath at all." John was only released in. the reign of James II. During his Imprisonment, It was his wife, Elizabeth, who managed his business, and was so capable that when John died. In 1721, he left a fair fortune to his four sons.

The economy, the money-making instinct, and mercantile ability of Elizabeth Gurney seem to have passed on to her descendants. i John Gurney. her eldest aon, was a woolen manufacturer, and the advocate of his class. When examined before the House of Lords on the measure which had been proposed prohibiting the Import of calico and cotton, he showed such eloquence and ability as to hav been offered a seat In Parliament by Sir R. Walpole, which honor he declined.

The good fortunes of the Gurneys date from this John. Horace Walpole was often John Gurney's guest. In time, manufacturing was turned Into banking, and this became the origin of the present Norwich Bank." Joseph, the second son of John Gurney, was a Norwich merchant, and was prosperous. In 1713 he married Hannah Mld-dleton of Darlington, and Darlington was one of the Quaker strongholds. The Gurneys all seem to have had large families, for Joseph was the father of ten children.

It was his second son. John, who married Catharine Bell in 1773, whence sprang the many remarkable sons and daughters. Incidents from whose lives Mr. Hare presents In this volume. It Is not to be supposed that the Gurneys did not look out for the main because Mr.

Hare tells us the family were much opposed to the marriage of John and Catharine Bell, because, though a charming young person, she had no fortune. There is a fine Gainsborough which shows Catharine Bell, and ah is an exceedingly handsome woman, dressed in the height of fashion. John Gurney was a fine-looking man. John was a wool stapler and spinner of worsted yarn. In 1S03 John became a partner with his brothers Richard and Joseph in the Norwich Bank.

The Gurneys. Mr. Hare tells us. all had eyebrows which met. and crooked little fingers, and used many terms of expression which were almost peculiar to themselves.

When hot up to the mark; they were off their centre." and when nervous. had their hurries." Catharine was only half a Quaker, and she. with her many sisters, must have had many an honest bit of fun. Clad in scarlet riding habits." they scoured th country on their ponies, and on one occasion, so It Is recorded, "the seven linked arms, drew a line across th road, and stopped th mall coach, from ascending the neighboring hllL" It can be understood how demureness and the suppression of mil natural joyoua-ness must be distasteful, almost impossible, for children, and th Gurney sisters did not relish overmuch the Quaker Sunday, or the dreary sermons. The meeting house in Norwich was situated in Goafs Lane, which was at least unfortunate, and the place of worahlp was designated by the Gurney girls as Goat's." and Goat's was dls as read in their Journals, meant that "Goat's was dls gustlng." For exercise in expression or to' obtain a literary style, the Gurney young ladies were expected to writ journals, and -some of the extracts from these Journals are highly amusing.

A curious mental phase happened when the wave of Infidelity which came with the French Revolution struck England. The religion of the whole family became undermined. Catharine writes; Rousseau amongst th few soon came into fashion as the most interesting of any. and I ned nt D0W undermining this waa to truth, both In thjE" and la Prac tice. My father.

In th. meantime, was unhappy, and at a loss how to treat the case." Then there seems to hav been a decided flirtation between Rachel Gurney and a Mr. Henry Enfield, a Catholic gentleman who exercised som influence over Rachel, which love passage tb Gurney father put a stop to. To follow out the men of the. Gurney family you must become acquainted with the history of modern baa king and the capitalists of Lombard Street, for conspicuous among them all was th one great house of Overend, Gurney A Co.

Think what a connection th nam of Gurney must hav once brought to a concern 1 But in finance now we put our trust more. with Jews than with Quaker. Samuel Gurney was often twitted through life because of hi eagerness for gain. BEXBT TAJ DYKE'S LITTLE BITERS LITTLE RIVERS. A Book of Essays la Profitable Idleness.

By Menry, Vaa Dyke. svo. New-York: Charles ctibner's Boas. $2. A book that rejuvenates, a book that awakens dormant memories and quickens the blood in elderly veins; a book to find us "as Coleridg would hav said and bring back to us youth, young manhood, and middle age.

with th many delight of each period such Is this volum. It is a difficult matter to writ of Dr. Van Dyke' charming essays and do them full Justice without appearing to praise them beyond their merit, and it is with difficulty that we can refrain from Indulging an abundance of superlatives. The easy, graceful, naturalness of the doctor's style commends- itself In hi first paragraph, and hold th reader until th last word in the book has been read with regret. The essays may be said to concern certain epochs In the writer's life, but whether they do or not they surely bring to the reader's mind epochs in his own, and while reading the printed page he Is living over again much that could not be spared without leaving his life barren.

Indeed. Th attractions of little river, with their myriad charms, their real company and friendship, tak hold upon us In boyhood, and, wrapping themselves about our affections, remain with us through life. Such being the case as every on must admit who has even a slight knowledge of and love for nature what do not owe to Dr. Van Dyk for giving us an opportunity again to put on our copper-toed, highly prized top boot and walk with him from toddling childhood to years of maturity, stopping by th way from' time to time at pleasure's milestones? He has found, as many another has, that "a river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of Its own, and is as full of good fellowship as a sugar maple Is of sap.

It can talk In various tones, loud or low, and of many subjects, grave and gay," and at time will even make shift to sing "In a vague, refreshing manner and to a' wandering air that goes over the hills and far With what quickening of memory a memory that has been almost torn from us by our busy, workaday lives comes the following: "It is by a river that I would choose to make love, and to revive old friendships, and to play with the children, and to confess my faults, and to. escape from vain, selfish desires, and to cleanse my mind from all false and foolish things that mar the Joy and peace of living." As we read do we. not hesitate, then stop, and, losing sight Of the author's words, pass backward through our lives to mossy banks' known to our memories, where we would choose as. he has chosen? What makes his book so dear to its reader? What makes' it awaken the best that we contain? Its naturalness, its truthfulness, its union of soul and body with nature and her freely offered gifts. And so as we go with him up and down the little rivers, taking here a trout and there a salmon, we thrill with his excitement of the and chat with him' in leisure moments, and gather much that broadens our humanity and acquaints us with ourcelves.

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