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teer.ulcelly called touraer ud certainty does look ry absurd. Th reason or this strung manner of raaaiag te give the novices a soflieieat ibmiI of exercise to tbe morning, together wit fresh sir. la the efUu-aeoa tier ia plenty ef eo tlon tw hour of recreation, besides nua work, end thro walks! a tea imi. fco. to make up tuiadencieaey.

Were Admoniwur ku order to mora ou at brisk pace, and ha does. At the end of tha line, Uet of all. walk tha Frere nbstttat-e pale, won JiitU nan. nearly forty years old. Ha very oldora speaks of himself.

All wa know la that be was solicitor, ud baa coat here thinking sad, rest from tha world. And all day loe bs baa to carry about soutaaeu, boot, eomba, brushes, and Wbatnot aoppiring a ae community and buetltiig about like Martha, when tba repose of Mary would anil Jtttm Utter. HtiU. waa aad wearied ae he la. be seems very patient aod self-will baa ail Let died oat of bim.

Farbapa something telle him that be aiay aooa dad rest enough, and that (a little mora than a yesHs time all will be ever forever. Blocknooa' PBOVBBB. watched aot aerer betla." the eld wive aay; Though fciwaeil teatlr the sabers strive, rk Hap wltfe IsBghiac lipe Sees ail afee To kaap ua ltlai ulekertag Bas alive. Taos Paaatoa roaaa with kta fervid breath A littla lee. a wearies, aad It dlae, And tb heaped sosl grew grey end eblll be- IMIaatll Tba pttaoat plaadlac at Faith's wistful eras riMina vkiapars.

aeak tor other fare, sr waste lire's Seaner la aaea aaaUea toil: Jb raia. tbe food Treat, wrapped la tore aad nrrer. Ut by tba aserth "tfca ate bad pet aover Botla." Alt lA laar Mound. iaaaai.i.A, inn ftwiuwo 90 vaaju-'-xt difficult to understand why tbe Spaniard, a preod, asaaitiv people, should nave submitted ao long to a ruler whom tbey could sot respect; her good-hserted, happy-go-lucky nature aeetned to caat a charm over them. Her total lack of reticence appealed to tbem they eon Id follow ao eaaily all tbe workings of ber mind, whether, with child lab petalaticy, aba waa reproaching her Minister with betraying her, or confessing with remorse aha had wronged tbem.

If lier ains were open, ao waa her repentence; year by year, when Holy Week came roand, this woman, who, for the other fifty-oue wnrk had been outraging every law, human and divine, kneeled iu cbarcb for the hour together, and with load sobs and groans, proclaimed ber Borrow for tbe past her resolution to make atoaemeat ia tbe future, lier subject, seeing ber Borrow, Borrowed too, and. when Easter Day arrived, were aa con vinced aa ahe waa that a new era in ber life waa at hand. Tbe Maundy Thursday cere mony never failed to win for ber hearty adherents. She washed tbe feet of the beggar with such manifest ceal; spoke to tbem soon kindly, loving worda; aervea tbem with food aa if ahe thought it a privilege to do ao, and, at the close of the least, cleared the table with a dexterity that ahowed her heart waa in ber work. Her splendid robea she always wore fall Court lire apon thee occasion seemed to enhance the toucbiag humility of ber attitude, and, although the fmetbinking part of tbe community scoffed at what they railed tha Popi.h mummery of tbe whole affair, that waa not tba fiwlina with which the balk of the population regarded it.

One year, while aha wa serving at table, a diamond fell from herheaddreas on to tha plate ef one of the beggar. A doaen handa were stretched oat te restore the jewel, but tba Queen motioned to the man to keep it. remarking simply: "It baa 1 alien to him Lylot." Her generosity waa unbounded; Jt ia net in her nature to aay "no" to a beg-jcar while tbe one point upon which ah a made a firm atand against ber Ministers waa ia insisting upon her right to exercise mercy, and tbe hardest struggle ahe ever had with them waa apropos of a pardon granted at tbe request of KestorL A yneen iiaa maay chances of doing little gracious acta, and Isabella never failed to aeizs each one aa it came in her way 1 not, however, for tbe aaka of winning popularity, but simply te fellow the bent of her ewa nature, which, aa aba ahowed tbe otHer aiay, ia still unchanged, for ahe of all Pari waa the Urat to remember that Prado'a victim needed help and comfort. Ia GtutU Angaria. 'eoa Bonaparte used to apeak of the Freach aa the modern Roman confronted by a new Carthage in perfidioua Albion.

But nothing la more out roe than the fainoua Baying Invented by one noodle and kept up by tbouaanda of auecesaive neodlee about history repeat! a itself." Think honestly lor a minute, and yon will see that the exact contrary it nearer the truth. Until cause are tha same, it la impoeaible that exacts should not differ. Most impoeaible of all la it to find two natioaa wbo, not only in respective but in relative 4)ualltiee, ahould resemble two nationa of twenty centariee gone by. If, however, we muat have an analogy from the paat for tha characters of the two nation divided by the Britiah Channel, and lor their relatione to each other, it would le better to compare the English to the Roman and leave tha French to represent the Greeks of old. Like the latter, the French sre quick, artistic, and apt to preach to and mistrust one another.

The English, on the other hand, are aiow, practical, bound to tha chanot-wbeela of experience, each attentive to bis own affaire, yet united in time of trouble. The last thing that emch a people would do would be to take tba lngenion speculations of poeta and eeeayiat and writers of fiction too 1 aerioualy much leaa would they be awT into hastily making use of such things aa prescription meant for actual -practice. But this ia exactly what our vol-avtlla neighbor over tha water did exactly hundred yeara ago. Witoout political training, and broken up into antipathetic etwtioae of caste and province, they felt Xhat things were going wrong, and because thev purvey era of light literature confirmed that feeling, they assumed that whatever thee personages suggested was an infallible retuedy. JA JVetweal kevtev.

HaTO-At the Paris Exposition many af 4 he South American republics ahow specimens of the product known locally aa Hate or Paraguayan tea, and derived from tha tern fled leaves and atalk of different apeoiea of ilex. It ia exhibited in packete and in original balea of green bide. Thie ia tbe dietetic beverage of about 20,000,000 in South America, and iU popularity la ahowa by the exhibite in the vari-oua paviliena of the Argentine' Republic Paraguay. Uruguay, BraiU. Chili.

Bolivia, fcc It ie difficult to get at any reliable return aa to the entire traffic in this commodity, the production of which ia carried ilB ia UlAH itnllM a m-jJ. and exteoda over ao vaat an area of wild country, where tbe holly tree flourish. In the Argentine Republic tbe eoneumptioa ia over 35.000,000 pound, against fl.OOO.OOO pounds of coffee. In Paraguay the production of mate ia about 6,000.000 pounds; Iron Braail there is aa export of pouada to neighboring States, while the local eoneumptioa ia about hall aa auch. Thia ia aingalar in the great corlee-produeiag centre of tbe world, which aenda eeaamcree aaaaally more than half tbe entire aroductioa of coifoe.

Strong efforts re aetBg niada to open a trade with it ia i-nrepa, especially in Franca, where shops advertiee end recommend it. Whether this ul aocoaad remains to ba Been, looking at ae increased redaction at tea and tae enonaoua increaae in its aale 3i iopa Avpreacbing ia its chemical oaipoaitioa to ootfa end tea, it ia aeaertmi that it doea not eaaaa wakef nlneaa or prevent aleep. In the rural districts, aa well a in the smeller towna, thia beverage is oaaiaerl a regular form at diet, aad aot, like tea. a anara uMnnulauat Iwtakfast table. It Is a wee ten ed with sugar atU it almost becomes syrup.

It is sold at 2d. to ad. ner Pound, and ana turned will proaoco abont twenty quart ef ininaion. It ia aometimes Havored with cinnamon, "fang Peal, or lemon juice. Carat and Tks Boy.

ur tstk Pxuotx A boy of the pa riod, who anderstood aia awn Talae and ajavw what waa azpeeasd af bias, when aakyd what wee hi duty to hie father and aaattsac, aaa wared amarUir Te takataetm ul let a walk1 em Bomdaya. and net let them aaa new raoea mere knew taaa aa-CataaVi ewraat tbey 4 Th Paqoaa or tub Ekuuxd Eiot Bowx. From tbe entrances facing the plain en a clear day the view mast be magnificent; hut at the time ef ear visit the faille on tbe etber tide of the plain were shrouded la base, and we eooid only see tbe eeuatry for two er three! mile beyond tbe town. The lty aad village were hidden by the foliage, and the: whole plain aa far aa we eould see looked! one great orchard ef palm and frail treea, with here and there a narrow alip of rice plain.1 Nothing can be more deceptive thsaJ traveling through auch a country the. great bodges of fruit trees aad clumps- Of handsome bamboo that fringe the field continually Hiding the extent) of tbe cultivation.

In the fringes surrounding the fielda, and ia the beautiful grove that are scattered about, lie the houses of the villagers, making it simply impossible without a census to arrive, er even make a near gueea, at the population. Seeing one of tbe Ka-wat. or pagoda alavea, sweeping up some fallen lesrea. Dr. Cnahlng asked him to relate the legend of tbe pagoda and tbe origin of its name.

In reply; be told that long. long ago, a company of Pee, or pints, brought five of the bowls which are uaed for begging by tbe monka, and offered them at the ahrine. These were each of different color red, yellow, white, blue, and green, cut out of precious gems, and fitted one within the other the green or emerald bawl containing the teat. The pagoda is therefore named "The Pagoda of the Emerald Rice BowL" He farther assured ua that the right name for Loi Soo Tayp waa Loi boo Tee. iu name haviag originated from a white elephant that ascended tbe mountain, bearing sacred relics, exclaiming, aa he reached the top, Soo Too." or The place ends." Tbe pagoda alavea are looked upon as outcasts by the remainder of tbe people, and are either the descendants of pagoda alavea or have been dedicated to the service of tbe pagoda by tbeir master on account of tbe merit accruing to the deed, or have been ao dedicated as a punubment for crimes tbey have committed.

Not even a Klug dare free a pagoda slave, for if be did ao be would, after this life, infallibly have to descend to tbe bottom of tbe moet fearful belL They are not only pagod 1 alavea and outcasts, but their posterity must remain ao during the dispensation of Oaadama Buddha, embracing a period of 5,000 yeara after hia death, which is said to have occurred B. C. 543. Pagoda slaves may not be employed in any other work than keeping the shrine in order, and are obliged to present tithes of all tbey produce for the nse and maintenance of tbe pagoda and ua monks. On our return the journey took only three hours and a half, aa the elephants went quickly down the hill and were in a hurry to get home for their evening's feed.

Biockwovu'i Magattne. Opposed to thk Fashions. Headdresses." aaya Clement of Alexandria, "and varietiea of headdresses, and elaborate braiding, and infinite mode of dressing tbe hair, and costly mirrors, in which they arrange tbeir costume, axe characteristic of women who have lost all ahame." And if the adornment of tbe natural body ia thus condemned, the endless variety of artificial contrivances employed by the Roman and Greek ladies la necessarily considered abominable. In regard to the hair. Cyprian addresses virgins thus: "Are sincerity and truth preserved When what is sincere is polluted by adulterous colors, and what is true ia changed into a lie by the deceitful dye of medicamentaf Year Lord say 'Thou canst not make one hair black or and you.

in order to overcome the word of your Lord, will be more mighty than He, and stain your hair with a daring endeavor, and witb profane contempt; with evil presage of the future, make a beginning to yourself already of dame-colored hair." And he uses equally strong expressions in regard to tinting the eyes. "You cannot see God, since your eyes are not those which God made, but those which the devil bas spoiled. You have followed bim. you have imitated the red and painted eves of the serpent. As you are adorned in tbe fashion of your enemy, with him also you shall burn by and by." And be thus sums up the exhortations which be addresses to tbe virgins: Let your countenance remain in you incorrupt, your neck unadorned, your figure simple; let not wounds be mads in your ears, nor let the precious chain of bracelets and necklaces circle your arms or your neck let your feet be free from golden bands, your hair stained with no dye, your eyes worthy of; beholding God." Ike Contemporary Kevietf.

This Carp. The carp is a fine-looking fellow with bis golden olive-brown back and sides. Tbe edges of bis scales are golden yellow land bis belly is yellowish white; tbe fins are dark brown. Still Water suits his ruminating disposition: the place to look for him is a pool or pond witb great clumps of flag round about it, and masses of water weeds, with channels running between them which lead out to the open spots of deep water. I say to look for him; to catch him is a very different matter, for he is crafty as a tex In regard to bait.

On a warm Summer evening you may see the carp moving about in all directions, their great black Una abow-ing above the water. Some of them weigh tour, and some aa much as seven, pounds. One peculiarity about hooking a earp ia that you are almost sure to do it when you are fishing for some other fish which differs entirely in its waysand He is a strong creature and requires judicious treatment to bring him to grass. And when one has got him there what to do with him ia a question, at least to myself, with wbem be is not the favorite be was with the monks ef old. who were supposed to be good judges in the matter of eating.

After admiring him as a fine bit of tish study I have generally restored him to bis native element Tory little the worse for what he bas undergone, for he is a regular die-bard of a nan. ia Corn kill Magatme. A Weddlxg. We once took a wedding at which the only attendant, besides the groomsman and bridesmaid, was a stout, determined-looking elderly female, who did not come up with the wedding party to tbe altar rails, but seated herself in one of tbe choir stalls not far off. We observed that both bride and bridegroom looked at her with very disquieted glances.

Once or twice we noticed that the elderly female seemed to be about to make a move, especially at that part of the service when possible opponents are requested to 44 speak or else hereafter forever hold tbeir peace." When the service waa over we inquired of thia good dame why ahe bad come te the wedding. I'm tbe girl's mother," was her reply, and 1 came to prevent the business." We naturally asked why she hsd n't "prevented tbe business," and we found that the thought had struck her at tbe laat moment that they might do worse than get married after alL" We bavs often since thought of what must have been the agitated feelings of that bride and bridegroom until tbe irrevocable words were said over tbem. CaaatiW JouruL Osrs Hundred Miles ax HocrT Sir Edward Watkln has, on behalf of tbe Metropolitan Railway Company, offered tbe manager of the Water Railway a piece of ground' near London on which to lay down a line two mile in length. We shall, therefore, aooa have an opportunity to try what, if the account ase true, must be tbe very poetry ef. motion The carnages run on skates or slides, but between the slide and the rail ia forced a film of water, which prevents all Jolting, bumping, and shaking, and, in fact, makes the carriages skim along as a boat does on the sea.

1 hen, too. tbe pace is a hundred miles an hour. If tbe new railway ia really practicable for long distances, all England will be suburb of London aad Surrey will be saved from becoming a chessboard, covered witb what the auctioneers call villa residence standing in their own three acres aad a half ef arklike ground. A hundred mile aa our would make Bath as accessible as zi -i x. 1.21.

1 be reached la an boar and fifty minatea. aesesostatsTt djt gfo-gorh Ciggy v-K. iW PUBLICATIONS' THE ABLT AHKRIOAX FT A OB. MUiTP "'l" ABJCRTCAaT THEATBK TBI BVXVOLOTIOX AHo imt! Mr fcaoBOB O. MuuLAaaa.

raileaetoalai Mr. Se -tiamer seems to have undertaken rery rmidable work. Ia bis first quarto, -Hlator of the American Theatre before tbe Rev oiutioa. he gave no aint of bis intentie 1 to pursue his labors ef research; jut new comes another volume of the earn 1 airs aad shape, continuing the record 1 the American etage up to tbe year 1792, tb a distinct promise that tbe history wii be farther continued. The work of correi tine the errors of William Dunlap is, evld itly, a greater task than It seemed at first.

A pre! mi nary chapter in the new relume ia devot 4 to the pamphlet literature in dramati 1 form ef the Revolutionary era. Moat of hese political pamphlets were the veriest 1 rash, and tbeir form did not make them dr unatic. though the influence of tho early efl rts ef tbe American company to tranapla at tbe British drama in the colonies maybe raced in tbem. The theatre was the ami jement of idle British officers in Boaton, iew-York, and Philadelphia during the war. No plays had been acted in Boston befc re tbe Revolution.

Hallam, Douglass, ant tbeir predecessors bad not dared to face he Puritan griffin In iu stronghold. Mr. Sell lamer finds records of a few concerts, thfc programmes of which included suoh musical pieces as the cantata" of Uymoi end lpbieaia" and Bickerataft'e operetta of "Love ia a Village," presented, howevei, with no pretence of acting or scenery. lie also ba unearthed the adver-tiseuien of a reading" of witty Sir John'a Prove Led wbicb muat have be-wildere 1 the sober Puritans who heard ft The exposition of the Puritan element ws oo strong for the British officers in 17o9, tien they made their firat attempt to give tublie performancea of atage playa iL1 own amunt and profit: but in 1 75 Bi rgoyne'a officers had a theatre in full blai it, with along list of actors and a number of women to take tbe female char- vuicia. inuwea ana uiinLon'a orncera in New-York and' Phlladelnhia atu.ii.u1 H.

John-Stteet and South wark Theatres dur ing sami epocn. Among the actors wvre any men of rank and title, and the "actresses" probably included more than one beautiful but frail creature at once thi 1 envy and the scorn of the respectable wt res ana mothers of Tory colonists. John ndre, according to Dunlap, and hence a scording to long-cherished popular belief, ras one of these amatcar actors, but Mr. S-i hainerdoee aot believe that Andre's theatrii am Uon over carried him beyond the coi iparatively bumble occupation of scene 1 ainter. A landscape drop bearing the ill- tated offioer'a signature was treasured in the old theatre In Philadelphia as late aa 1821.

when the house and all iu con ten 1 were destroyed by tire. These amateur performjice, of course, have no very close relation to the history of the American theatre. It is not likely that tbey were of any artistic value, or that the actors themselves regarded them very seriously. But it is worthy of note tJaat these military idlers gave te first performances in America, such aa they were, of many famous plays, includu Foote's "Liar," Commissary," and Beaumont and Fletcher's "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife." Sheridan's Rivals," and Arthur Murphy's Ko One's Lnemy but His Own." The attack of tbe colonists on Char lae town. Jan.

8, 1776, occurred while the soldiers of King (. eorge were acting in "The Busybody." The performance of the comeuy waa, ui happily, interrupted. Strii. tent legislation sgainst the play-bouse ontinued in torce everywhere under patriot rule during the Revolution. The American company, under the second Lewis iallam, had retired to the Uland of Jamaica in 1774, and there ia no record of theatrical performances by professional aetors the rebellious colonies for seven yeara In 1781 the first theatre in Baltimore v.

as built, in spite of public opinion and th Continental Congress, and opened by one Wall, who had been a poor actor in the Ua I lam company, in partuerahip with Adam i-iindaay, who haa kept a publie house. Wail gratified his ambition, but scarcely filled his pocket, by acting Richard Uloster, Beverley, Zanga, Don Felix. Marplot, aad Tony Lumpkin, tie and ndaay, who acted aiao in a modest way, irvived two hard aeaaona in Baltimore and also gave performances in Annapolis. One of their actresses was a Mr. Robinson, whose name causes Mr.

Seilbamer to indilge in one of his interesting and in-vigors Ling imaginative flights, tihe soon diaapp ared from view, aud history recorda nothin if of her except her brief engagement witb 1 all and Lindsay. But the new historian of the American stage is sure that she wi that beautiful i'erdlta whose name was scandalously associated with that of the piecioua Prince of Wales who afterward 1 ras George IV. Af te two years Wall and Lindsay's ambition to re-establish the theatre iu America seems to have been satisfied, 'but Dennis Ryan elieved them of tbeir burden, and, more energetio than his predecessors, broug it his actors to New-York and re-opene the old John-Street Theatre. lie had a season of two months in the Summer of 17SS, and gave a few performances in Octob of the same year. The next Winter and Sj tring he confined his labors to Baltimore 1 nd Annapolis.

Mea iwhile tbe two principal actors of those who remained of the old America company, Lewis Hallam and John Henry, turned iroin Jamaica, eacn on hi nt, to look over the ground and at the prospect was for resuming the 01 tneir profession in tne uewly-untry. Henry prospected chief! adelphia. Hallam came to Maw-The outlook was not encouraging. The country was very poor, and tbe people were not in tee riant mooa to appreciate nenta. Moreover, the old Puritan still dominated in tbe large towns aa in rural neighborhoods, and tbe public opinion waa strongly against bouse.

ng their exile uauam and tienry in jointly intereated in a tueatro at on. Jamaica, but tbey must nave only a hand-to-mouth liviug. Tbey many new playa there, freab from a. sad the record of their work reads evertaelees, they preferred, it seems, tha hard chance of a fight for life in America, battling against the indisposition of the people and religious bigotry, to remaining in the West Indies. Hallam, sorrosoded by a feeble company, opened tbe Jphn-S treat Theatre early in the Autumn fof 1785.

He resorted to all tbe old subterfuges to hoodwink the sagacious Punts as, advertising the representations of plays aa lectures and moral entertain-mentA The new partnership ef Hallam and Henry began in November of that year. Moaiof the old members of the American company were then got together, and Tbotrsae wbo had joined the party in 117, and had never before acted in America, apeedily became a strong rival of hia older aaaoeiatea. Lewi Hallam and John Henri, in the esteem of the few playgoers of thi it era. Fro a this point Mr. Seilbamer gives with reinsi kable uUneas of detail the record of the 1 rork of the new American theatrical comp my until 1792, when the epoch covered by the present volume ends.

Tbe epoch that succeeds, in which Wignell was a prominent figure, and which saw tbe advei it in the youag Republic of such relatively great actors as tne first Joseph Jefferson, the elder Warren, and Thomas Abth irpe Cooper, was richer ia achievement than tboee years of struggle and hardship if which Mr. Setlhamer has given us. for tl first time, an authentic record. Mr. Sell hanker ia an enthusiastic and im-agini tive man.

and inclined to exaggerate the 1 trtistie merit of tbe work of these nion era of the drama in America. Tbeir i 1 jerfo nances must nn "wn i crvua as to reason that English comedians 1 1 who 1 aid aeve gainea a oare uveunooa on Tinrial circuits in their own country the would never have faced the hardehipaof theatrical work in a new aad poor country, sparsely settled, where the theatre was re garded oy a large prvipvruua uaiwn intelligent people in iheeommaairy aa one of the gatea ef perdition. The poor actor ok4 hard time in that era in England knt Hia atrugcles and privations were noth ing compared to those of Hallam and bis tea. tney aaa uuw mosey so speea. and the theatre were barauko aBraecares, dim! lighted witb lamps or dip, aad ill- Kvded with scenery and accessories.

We no doubt that the plays were sea- Qnoha 13; TQms: eraftr badly acted. Tbe leading players would have been aaea ef mighty gestae If they eo. id have eueeesaf aily ortrayed tbe great variety of characters they ambitiously aasumed. Yet. ae pioneers who accomplished tbe bard work of establishing the theatre ia thie eouatry, who finally the eppaaition of legislators 00a-trolled by deep-rooted prejudice, aad paved the way for that brilliant group of corn a-dianswao made the real beginning ef the American theatre later on.

they deserve to he remembered, and no better tribute to their memory could have been devised than the two handsome volumes Mr. Seilhamer has devoted to the history of their work. The bow volume ia as rich as the first one was in advertisements, east ef plays, 00-eaatoaal programmes, and contemporary newspaper report that tbe author bas discovered ia his painstaking search. There intoresting and valuable chapter on ReyaU Tyler's first American comedy, "The Contrast," with a long extract from its Bcconat of iu first performance and its publication. There is a complete record of the performances given by Hallam.

Henry, and Wignell in New-York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, and tbe contemporaneous small beginnings of tbe theatre in other places are made note of. A long and interesting account of legislation against the theatre and in favor of it ia also The battle of the players was practically won at tbe close of the epoch. Mr. Seilhamera chapter of William Dunlap. his Mxe notra apparently, is verv interesting reading.

He has another grievance, however, besides blundering Mr. Dunlap, and that is ths severity of criticism, and be manages to get a sly dig at the critic of today in commenting upon the critic of the past. But Mr. Seilbamer ia a critic himself, and be is a critic of the severest sort whenever poor old Duniap's name comes to ths surface. Tne present volume, however, is more temperate in tone than its predecessor and freer from the author's curious flights of imagination.

It ia a pity, though, that an important book of reference ahould be disfigured by such irritating typographical errors as Caia for Cams, (page 137;) of Mr. instead of Mrs. Morris in the part of Per-dita, (pave 142 of Flatter instead of Flutter in The Belle's Stratagem." (page 143;) lx.Fr'F"''l! for TTapentl, (page 151.) Why. also, should Mr. Seilhamer call Arthur Murphy'a lugubrioua Orphan of China" a comedy, (page 132.) and why ahould be, by hia contradictory atatemeuta on pages and 229.

bopelesaly bewilder tbe reader aa to the cnaractera played by Hallam and Henry in "The Contrast" Perhaps tbe flies of adverse criticism were annoying Mr. Seilbamer more than usually while he was writing that chapter. 1HK FKASKLIM LITER A TURK. FB1VKUH BIBI.IoQRAPHT. AUattf BmU Wri.vn by or Relatifa: 10 Benjamin rraaklia.

By t-AL'L LaicaaTBB roan. Breokla. lass. Mr. Ford bas rendered a service alike to the public and the memory of Franklin.

ust as there was long and pressing need of an adequate and essentially complete edition of Franklin's writings, so has there existed an opportunity for some one to compile an exhaustive list of the books Franklin wrote and their various editions, together with an account of the books written about Franklin. Many circumstances combined to make such a task no easy one, That Mr. Ford bas found it necessary to de vote 265 printed pages to the work, in itself, indicates tbe magnitude of the undertaking. He bas prosecated the enterprise with singular fidelity aud patience. His typographical and bibliographical methods, moreover, will com-niend themselves to those who are skilled in tbeae matters.

No amount of labor ap pears to have daunted bim in bis search of accurate informatiou. One easily acquires coouoenee in Air. lord's accuracy, bis capacity for taking pains and care as to the smallest things are ao obvioas everywhere. It was a wiae steD to make the volume- in its outward form, a copy ot one of the vol- umea in Mr. Jobn BigeloWa recently-completed edition of Franklin's works.

Binding, paper, type, and aiae are close copies. In order to give tbe volume the required thickness Mr. Ford haa printed on only one aide of each leaf, lbe pages ou the left thus remain white, and will be found of service to those who care to make notes. Franklin's "Way to Wealth" comes in for tbe largest number of entries. First printed in Boston ia 17tK).

it has since been issued in New-Haven, London. Pans, Dublin. Paisley, Canterbury, Edinburgh. Lansingburg. New bury port.

Worcester, Birmingham, Lausanne, Danbury, Philadelphia, Manchester, Salem. Nottingham, New-York, Dedham. Coventry, Besaneon, Mill Hill, (near Trenton.) Newcastle, Vienna, Berha, Blackburn, New-Ipewtch, Hertford, Stockport, Bermondaey, Copenhagen, Preston. Geneva. Windsor.

Dijon. Ths Hague, Nantes. Limoges, Mar-laix, Cobuxg, fiochester, Venice. Carlarube, Northampton, Erfurt, Brussels, Vicenza. Caracas.

Bologna, Milan, St. Petersburg. Cincinnati. Florence, Peking, and New-London. As many of the foreign reprints bear date earlier than the first year of this century, we see how early it was that the writings of Franklin gave America some reputation for literature in the Old World.

For tbe list of the various editions of the "Way to Wealth" twenty-one pages are required, and Mr. Ford otters it only as a basia for some future list. He believes the work has been oftener printed and translated than any other work from an American pen. Many of the reprints were made without the date, place, or printer being given, and hence it has been "simply impossible to find and note all the editions." But be is able to state that 70 editions have been printed in English. 56 in French.

1 1 in German. 9 iu Italian, and that other translations have been mads into Spanish, Danish, Swedish. Welsh. Polish, Gaelic, Russian. Bohemian, Dutch, Catalan, Chinese, modern Greek, and phonetic writing.

The work ha been printed at least four hundred tiaie. and is to-day as popular as ever." Of equal interest are the entries of the Autobiography." Mr. Ford contributes a note two pages long, telling tbe history of the various copies of this celebrated work. At least eight copies of it in manuscript loini, and more or less complete, were in existence when Franklin died, and. starting with thi fact, he give the curious story of the various publications down to Mr.

Bige-low's, in ltt8, which latter waa the first edition that gave the work complete as Franklin wrote it. Mr. Ford very properly calls this Bigelow edition ths only true first edition of Frsnklin's autobiography. Read-era will be glad to find that Mr. Bigelnw'a labors are further recognised in the dedication of this volume to bim.

Interesting and uueiul features of Mr. Ford's work are the lists of works in which are to be tound letters of Franklin, ef pseudonyms used by Franklin, of writings wrongfully or doubtfully attributed to him, of works relating to, written to, or dedicated to him, and of works relating to Franklin in a leaser degree. Mr. Ford has done this work with a thoroughness and patient devotion that deserve cordial recognition. It is proper to add that he is a brother of Mr.

Wortkington C. Ford, who is now editing tbe Putnam edition of the writings of Waahingtoa. INDIVIDUALITY IN ART. BIX PORTRAITS. DIUl ROBBIA.

CO RK ROOM ULaJCK. HOT. GEO MUX TU LJLfcK. WlSLuW UOMkUL Uy Mr Schutikb Vii Rbbskblabb. Boatoa aad Haw-Yerfc: Hovea-Toa.

Mirrus A co. Mrs. Van Rensselaer usee for motto thst clever phraae of Paul Boarget's showing bow difficult it is to define talent Translating Bo urge t. the words read: "That which we call talent exists in an undefina-ble persoaality, (la ptrnoun steW.) And the proof is that once the person disappears tbe precise shade of talent has also disappeared, and forever." In the introduction tbe author atate her object, and it ia to abow the meaning of individuality in art." Aa Emeraoa has it. art is nature "passed through the alembie of man," and Mr.

Vun Rensselaer expresses it happily When she writes that the artist is not a mere recorder. He is an interpreter. He neither copies nor falsities the facts of nature. He transmutes them, giving them new beauties and a new meaning drawn from the essence cf his own soul." As to the critic, it is his dnty to put himself (if be can) ia perfect nympatby now with one artist and now with another." The first of tbe portraits, taking Luea dalia Sobbta ah the subject, shows a perfect acquaintance with Italian art. one only peeaible by aa eye study of the etenaUaaaee.

it repaired a nice discrimination te weuh 1 "22, enameled terra eetta ae the vehicle for art eortrayel. Zi eUr a leas delightful bbb-iZSi-u?" --ble, and when it cVfwiu a smooth enamel, tbe very quality that makes it so useful and ae tempting the brilliant hardness of iu sur-laco-ioiaa with the conditiona of ita fcaking te put ita results, considered from the purely artistic point ef view. beJsw the reaultaof metal and stone." There enters he fixed idea that wktjaa aeceesity when a statue or bas-relief is made, and though ceramic wfI5-" the Assyrian bricks, defy time, nevertheless modern man ia not aeewstomed ifvJT? by--elweyB suspect iu likelihood to fracture. With thai wooder- ndoUa Robbie uaed the uniform white of it. when covering a broad ex-'he1r reflecU tb light than absorbs It.

and thia is contrary to the canons of art. rJl" A terra glare, ploaaes mere with iu 2r "t'orm color, though it may be reddish, thaa would bluea or whites or yellows. But it is not because Luoa della Robbia did his work with peculiar materials that his name so universally famous. He was a inferior to few, which be belonged, tb f. J6 cnlpters that has lived Since the Greek." He may not be as vigorous, noble, or supreme as DouaUllo, Ghiber-ti.

or Sanaovino. but be ia "more lovable" than any of them. It is bis exquisite poise STm tww tremee which individualises him. k-? "'Bobbie's year of birth was at it th? fourteenth or tbe beginning tiJ.i efifteb century, and be was a Flo-iT 3 WM respecU the 11- ahbuckler. Beuvenuto aL noTr married, was intensely devoted to bis art.

and almost equally so to the education of his nephews, especially of ifaot Dd bu deal, in lt wuh, hu nephews, in a little house in the Via Gnelfa, a uniform, peaceful, almost austere existence. That he was held in high estimation by his feilow-craftsmen ia evident, beoauxe 1471 he declined tbe greatest of honors, the Presidency of the Corporation of Florentine Artists. Vasari telly us that Luca della Robbia worked long before. hia. discovery 01 bis impervious enamel, and it is sup-poaable that he was the first in Italy to use stsnniferous enameL Diacuas-tng his variona claima of a technical character only.

Mrs. Van Rensselaer believes him to have been tbe first of the moderns to apply color by means of enamel to sculpture in relief, and then to monumental decoration. There always will be trouble in diHcrim-Instmg between the woik of Luca and hie successors of the della Robbia family. Ihe manipulation of the clay, the enameling of it, did not fall below tbe high Jfodard of manufacture after Luca' death, lbs later pieces are quite as good, as to material, but to the eye of the critic, in the work of Andrea, hia nephew, there ia want of aentimenu I bat exact talent waich pQi Boar-get telle us is not "definsble" was lost when Luca was dead. Mr.

Van Rensselaer describes tbe della Robbia in Italian miisenms. and says that, ouuide of Italy tbrre is but one. in tbe South Kensington Unworn, and that is a huge polychrome relief, with tbe arms of Bene d'Aajou. The the Metropolitan Muaeum of New-York is not a Luca della Robbia. but the work of Andrea: butthatdoee not leaaen IU mania The mnthnp irm 1 mirable piece of work, and aaya it would be a treasure iu any European museum, and for this reason there is all the less aerd 10 ciaim tor it any interest or value not property ita own." Of Correggio tbe author tells us bow this man's position was phenomenal: "Born ia 1494 and dying in 1534, Corregaio's life nuou mo great wave we call the Reuaisaance was at iU tallest hai.tit uniMi wuu a marvelous form of beauty, between tbe slow upheaval and iU quicker dissolution." While Cor- reaaio wm 11ya ih.

van mil bore reeemblanoe to the time of PerirlM- it was the high tide of the Middle Renais sance, mere were in tbat artistic orchestra many inaunnienis. so Mrs. Van Rensselaer expresses it, playing the same ineme, but torreggio was not of them. He beat his music oat by and for himaalf U. 1 hat Correggio lived for himself.

indifferent uuiiiuo luouences. seems positive, when we notice how scanty were the notices of him daring the time when he worked. Mrs. Van Rensselaer believes that even his name was unknown to Raphael or Michael Angela. Vaaan'a book is almost devoid of iacis.

it was Annabel! Caracci who first saw his merit, and he said tbat "in Parma itself nothing con Id be gleaned about him even a few years after his death." If not for the patient research of Julius Meyer we might still be ia ignorance of Antouio AUegri. known as Correggio, the name taken from a little village near Modena. At seventeen Correggio must have been a marvel, providing tbe "St Francis" of tbe Dresden Gallery waa painted by him at that early age. How could he have scan ired that nnailita- nt t.l. .1..

inu im tion of color while still not twenty Think vi mat supero Marriage or tL Catharine" painted by him in 1517. Here ia a man with "no mannerisms, no limitation to one kind of subject matter." who creates for himself, who draws entirely on his own resources. He was isolated, self-developed, self-anfh- pient in rh. aiffK rA i i Renaissance." It be difficult to follow ioat exact uistinction wbicn tbe author makes between sensuousness and sensuality, as shown in Correggio. With Correggio it might have been aa affair of Umperament, but it is certain that his work expresses the delight of physical existence, but whether the qualifying adjective "voluptuous" be rightly sppiied to him we do not know.

He never was brutal, and if the Madonna of Correggio be on a lower scale than tbat of Raphael's, as far as we know Correggio was a purer man than was Raphael. William Blake, the man. and his work are boch difficult subjects to discuss. Perhaps Blake was fortunate in having a Gilchrist to explain him. who also overrated him, aad undoubtedly because people always want to worship something.

Blake had made for him a smalt circle of idolatrous enthusiasts." Wny should we adore an artist with whom conception goes for most, technical expression for least Why are we to get wild over a print or a sketch a few inches sqnare. and oecause it is so small rsv about tbe concentration in it We may say to ourselves if only William Blake had had a canvas 60 feet square he might have produced a ficture which would have thrown iichael Angelo'a Siatme ceiling in the ahade. We are requested to "imagine" a print or sketch of Blake's "painted with a Raphael's perfection or with the perfection of some one who in color was still greater than Raphael." That is something which a great many of the accommodating artistic enthusiasts find impoeaible to imagine. Blake was audacious, with an audacity which makes us believe in a power few have possessed, aad then, too. he had a fervor which was not EnglUh; but then the paper be covered was too small, and, as to the masterpieces "of a few inches square," it is hard to be expansive over them.

The most delightful of all Mrs. Van Rensselaer's papers Is the one on Co rot. and into that life the author puts her finest sympathies. Co rot waa the son of a Rouen barber. When Jean Baptists had seven years' education he knew all he was ever to acquire.

He could not be a clerk in a cloth shop because he always saw wood nymphs flitting through forest glades, and he hated the yardstick aad loved tha psint brush. Good papa Camille. tbe father, tbough he could never discern any art tendency in hia son. let his boy follow his inclination, and when Jean Baptiate. his eon.

gained th ernaa of the Legion of Honor the old coiffeur was still in doubt as te whether his boy hsd found his proper vocation. We have often thought what a pretty picture that would bare made ef "Jean Baptiate emancipated from tbe cloth bnsineea, tested somewhere on the grass, sketch book ia hand, amly working, and tbe girls from bis nt h.r alwkn jlrkYm a -m mm, no bnizing and chatting around him. There waa uavoK ue nevy one Jllle. Kose, wbo must bsve been blooming, sav. in lgi.t when tbe great Emperor waa fachting Pre, siana and Rusatana at Lutaen and Baataen When in after life and tbey both were old" Mile.

Rose came to see him. and Corot said I-ast week ahe waa hr ami friends, what a change and what tiona it gave birth to My picture baa not knMit It la a vamm i ana Breps still the hour end the weather wh-n it waa done. But Mile. Rose But If What are wf C.nrmt'm art ia tha atnrr- luwviiiii patiesee" aad ef a man bound up ia hia art. What cared he whether the warid liked hi picture or not He knew he leved his work, aad he felt that perfect tat- mmj.

ssna wiu oe aay way or Jr-miasr somo dsy. Oaly he kept an at it, aad ds mm BaBmuaa time the paiater'a iodivtalaabty. It was this sympathy wish nature, the leavaiag te interpret her aa he aaw her. that kept him as am wen ic sixiy-ooa yaars. When be was fifty he bad aa iaeome of $d00 a yeer.

and. aave a purchase mad aew aad the by a lellow-artiat ae one else bought hia picture- bee. later on, a picture of his that he had sold for 700L brought ia the tue-tioa room mil ho said was: It is not I that have hanged, hut the constancy of my principles that has triumphed. His was a life of met hod, sod ae stud Ought one not to love the art which proenree peace and contentment and even health f. bow to regulate bra lifet" What were the lew which guided Corel He haa told tbem: "Truth tae arst thing ia art.

and the second, aad tbe third." Ae the iatelligent author of this volume writes it, no one can in a picture tell the whole truth at once, A selection from the mass of nature's truth ia what tbe artist shows a few things at a time, and with sufhcient emphasis te make them clearly felt. You cannot paint bam-mer aad Winter ea a single canvas. Xe two suceeeaive hours of a bummer's day are just ehke. and you cannot paint them both." hat Corot, who wanted to be true aud knew the limitations of his art, tried to do was to get at effecU of nature rather than the isolated facts, and efiecU are nevertheless made up by the study of many features and dotal la. I la tks effects Ust we see first wken we are la aeuse'e peeseaee laat Impraaa aa saoat aad isageat ou our minds.

Outline, mod-ella-. laeal eetera, minor detail tseae shift, appear Bad disappear, or alter vastly aa lia-fet aud ahadew ehausa, aud not of toeui wa aever see at all aattl we take time te analyse. Look at the saois eerne on a aanay saoraiag or by a cleudy aoaaet lia-bt It la sot tbe sane, fba feaiaras are tbe same, but tbeir ilncl haa ebans. aad thia aieeaa a saw taadacap. a Bevel plctar.

Tb eaUteke of too ataay aod-ern painters especially in fengland. to tbat tsy psiot trass analrals, aot from aijrat, Tbay peiac the thing tbey know or there, net the tames they perrelv josi aa they perealrs them. Thi t'orat did." But to get the effects tbe study thst Corot undertook was endleas, and where lies bU mastery When Corot painU a tree, tbe leave are fluttering, the bough have pliancy, the air is circulating through the loliage, hia skies shimmer, be aeixes the time of day. the weather, the seasons. No man had ever perfectly painted the etmos-phere till Corot did it, or the dlfiuaed, pervading quality of light, and lor thia reason no one had painted such delicate, infinite distances, such deep, luminous, palpitating skies." Corot never would be bound down to what ia known as the precise "rendering" oi nature.

Take a tree, as Mr. Vn Keua-slaer explain, it. You can make a lalintul copy of a single leaf, but not of a myriad of leaves, as on a tree. Try to work in all tbeae minute leaves and you waste paint and poll canvas. You want to maka "a xnaaa of leaves shot through aud through with light and air, and always more or less merged together and moving." We do not care a fig for a carefully -constructed tree, made twig by twig, but the eflect of it and how it sings yes.

sings ia the general aym-phony of nature: and Corot, because he knew it all, made his trees "alive." and he used to say, 1 he light reached their inmost leave, and the little birds could fly anions thnir Corot was critical as to bis own work. He knew be overflowed with sentiment and poetry, but feared about his drawing and declared that he was uncertain aa to color. It wa the idealism of Corot, his own individuality, which mads him a master. This criticism on Corot anowa sucn nappy judgment, haa ao little thst is aaaertive about it. but is so convincing as to the menu of the master, that it is to be considered as ranking very high among the art explanations of to-day.

There must be good reasons why there is such sincere love for the works of Corot, and wbv tbey touch ua so, and Mrs. Van Rensaelaer explains it. The studies on George Fuller and Wins-low Homer are of great excellence, showing a thorough sympathy with ths work of our own artiste. iV.fi IF BOOK8. Diabololosy The and Kingdom of Satan.

Ey Ike Rrt. Edward H. Jewett, S. T.D rrofeMtorin tkr General Tkoological Seminar. Xng-Yoik, Sew-York: Tkoma WkiUaker, tsto, pp.

"208. 1889. The present volume contains "Tbe Bishop Paddock Lectures" for 1889, in which the writer undertakes to deal with a subject of great difficulty and more or less uncertainty. Everybody knows bow common it has been, and is, to mock at and ridicule belief in a fierce, implacable spiritual enemy of mankind, called in the Bible atan, tbe Devil, the adversary of God and man alike, dec This has gone to such an extent that not only the skeptic and unbeliever laugh at the notion of there being any such personality as the devil, but even tbey who are considered to be Christian believer iu most respects yield to the clamor aud doubt as to whether the opponents of this tenet are not right after alL Dr. Jewett has evidently studied the subject with care and diligence.

He is familiar with the chief writers, ancient as well as modern, and he sUtes quiie lulJy and fairly tbe argumenU which have been used by men of tbe itaup of Busbnell. Theodore Parker, and others to discredit the existence and agency of a being called Diaboiua in bcripture language. He favors and pleads for what we believe to be the only safe course for Christian apologists i. to accept and maintain the testimony of the word of God in iU plain, natural meaning. The last lecture is devoted to a consideration of tbe sixth petition in the Lord's Prayer, "deliver us from eviL" Dr.

Jewett adopU the revised version, "deliver us from the evil one." end presents the argumenU at large wbich support that rendering. On the whole, this is a volume which requires aod will repay study, aud as such we commend it to our reader. In some minor points the lectures are open to criticism, and we could wish that the proofreading (especially in Greek) had been better attended to, and also that the author had furnished an index. This last, we reiterate, is very mncn needed in a book covering to a large ex-taut thm Ulhinrl Af fl.iiii.H.lA.. A ouiacal possessiona la respect to type and paper tbe publisher has brought out the volume in handsome style.

Among Ik lurks. By Yernty Lovett Cameron, D. C. Commander Royal Aar. Zb-don, Edinburgh, and Aev-York: Tkoma Stlion J- Son.

189. Commander I ckoofM Turkey and Pni for hU new a a i voiume and places tbe adventures of William Uobbea. seaman and aaoerrarirn in th. former half of laat centurv. If ba haa nm Stevenson's skill to fascinate tbe attention oi meu as weU as boys, be set fflrth shipwreck, enslavement, aod combaU with much of the simplicity and absence of circumlocutions we meet with in aecounU of adventurers.

William Hob Una shipwrecked on a Greek Island on his WBV to hniTrni unuvl Ii, tli. sold by tbem to the tax gatherer, who abipa him TA wKa alw a a us iOftUDUDopie. am iDDem to ha. re imbb n.wu aiaivnJ IVUIW municate there with acy of the Ministers of r-" ia ui a irereiaa wbo travel hv ri tl. iicwuvau.

iu9 account of tbe coasting craft in tbe Black iwMcutfere ana sailors, and tbe car-avan that goea up country Persia fiu verv wall ntn tha former times aa tbey might be related by an uiwu wivu a proper amount of content nt for imA wwiwaiioHi gotu Vi ajsj military order. Scenes and adveatures are constantly changing, and the slave paae VSBWUMtl IUO. It a goad book for boya. and will while ww ior ooya oi a larger math iw, thM oodeuu give gumpaeaof the vanoua citie Aaia VliBor throagh which tbe adventurer, alternately alav and merchant r- Tbe trip ends at Beoaorah. where Wuham Hob boa finds an Eagliah factory and gets a passage home.

-RmMaian PwiurtM Tlrmtrm i aaa PtneiL By Tkoma Jieaef, C. B. London TkoRciiyiou Tract Socielm. lKsL-Than(J of one of Murray's handbooks may be supposed to nave traveled, pretty carefully over the country he assumes to act aa guide JT Thomas MicheU is tbe author of laud, and that book haa been levied utxm for a creat part ef tbe facU given. The diftsTwBce for money which nosm lbor alone bciags aaowt.

Ho awrver wea ag-gTsssiva. Net evam in a Saild way did Core 10 ehape aidi. b. iSJrm'f gave, uasuitad for the traveJet TThet -2 iwueeiy uiustrated with woodcuts of oaaUr 11.0?.? praeent Tho am tea ae aaw a lomm one. lnoloduig-Canadian Picturee" bVtt! Maraate ofLorne.

-Yor! Irian." Amaoicaa Picturea." tbe mat by theaUv. Samuel Maaaiac. While aoeuracr Ii Bought, there le ne seeps for fine writing or exaausuve treatment ef tbe aubiect The standard ia that ef hooka like those prepared half a eectuxy ago by Mr aVT Era. C. lialL but there uLZi the pencils and lees liurary efiort la the peeja.

One Stain frosa sack a work as this a good deal ot superficial knowledge of Raaaia ia Lurope and Aaia. Tbeeoenttyts too vast for aay thi a like detailedae-eounts. aad pernaae it bad beea betUr te give separate voausaos te Fialaad witb A art harm Rosaia aad Polaod with Soath-ern Ruaau, reserving the Cnmea. Caa casus, biberu, and Central Asia foTatUl brd WvrL. Mr Thomas MlcbeU haa aceom-plished very w.ll the teak af stretchjugbie limited text over ae vaata territory.

The cuts of Russun cathedral, decorative work found ia rebgioua B. script of the MieUlU Ages are aiaguUrly'o-teresung, while some eflort has beea tuade todep ctthe vanoua types ef people embraced under tbe Rnaeiaa rum. It may noted that Mr. MicheU does not wbiuwaah the Russian pnsen ay stem exsoaed by Mr. henuan lint i rr.

wuwri cirvum- stances rather than the Government te arrf Par ComU do Barra 4o XmtrA. i -ua. Breton i mom naturally a menarcbiat than the erdiaattr Frenchman, and the fart that ik. de Kanteuil lives nsar Merlaix and i tbe poeeeMor of a title warranU one ia expect. ing in bim a good deal of intolerance, It la, therefore, an agreeabks diaappointmeat that he is fraa fmt.

common fault, while alive to tbe difficul-tiea tbat occur in gov era man by and for the people. He gives what may perkapa prove aa overwrought view ef tbe bad atate of France, the most alarm in ir faatara ki ber low rare of increase as regards popula. lstion. which will, if it continues, bring her so much below the census of Germany and uiiui, iar as nam- bera are nmMmul k. Bm wt avcvBu BBU third rank aa a military power.

Thia Vl1 "tributes te neglect ef tbe family aod religion. "Fixity and mm given te tae vari ous orimordial aoeifitiaV wkUk w. bssia of every nation. The family aud the Church of France are in bis eyes tbe two vi mmD wbo have the virtues and unselbahnees, tb spirit of sacrifice aecee- BaTV trt IBVI thm onn.t 1 -w. danger.

1 he social peril ef France springs ujvw aeparusniii. and nnlm t'rZjrTZrml iiuw rni Jtaif Like most of the men of bis social condi- wwu, i. un naoeuii aemires ths English appreciaaias; aa well as be might bow superfluous it ia to emliarrassmg It may prsve at a critical moment in view of iu anachroeixm and powerlessnea in modern timea. The im-mediau step, however, which he proposes for trengtbenigg the Government of Franc0 is a law compelling an aspeal to the uouvTw a asiuisuy naa been overturned in the Chamber. Thee the people would have a chance to upheld pr discipline their representative according as tbe latter had overthrown ths in- wiua or wiutous tbe people real consent.

Jls Taller, Stltcted Eotayt. By JUjandm Ckarleo EraUL JUarf aa Wane J- Co. Another volume added to tbe Chandoa Classics series is usually an occasion of inUrest. Much of tbe choicest literature has already gone into this series. One feels sure that a new volume will produce agreeable impression These selections from the London periodical which was famous before the Spectator succeeded it (and which, in succeeding, also ecliaaed it) we are told are the first that have been mads in volume form.

Mr. wald understands that the popularity of the latltr never equaled tbat of the pro.mtor. hut this does not. to bis mind, account for the omission. Within these essay he says, are pagea which "for burner, wit, charms oi style, and knowledge of human nature are as deserving- of study as any ia the English language." Pre-eminently is tbe Tutor one of the work often referred to and never read.

He aecounU for the neglect of it from tho lact that it contains a "maaa of obsolete and uninteresting matter in which tb readable essay are so imbedded a to be practically aniotbered." But thi is the very reason why a volume of selections should exist lbe introductory essay, by Mr. Lwald, is an excellent one: though filling page, it i none too long; it i filled with Isctt of much value to tbe book, and will be read by all who consult the volume with intelligence. A Century of American Litoratur. Benjamin Franklin to Jame Eutoell Lowell So-lection from a Hundred Anlkor. By Unni-ington Smith.

Xnr-York: T. Y. CroweU Co. Mr. Smith designs this volume to serve as a companion to existing histories of American literature, and for thia reaaon he concluded to restrict iu limiu to a single convenient volume.

Tbe decision was wisely made. The really import ant American authors can be fairly indicated within such coinpasx A competent example or two serve sufficiently well to supplement tha ttJt m. invidi ii .4 viiuiuiji uiatory or American literature. Perhapa oae ahould ut me reairaint practiced by Mr. bmitb in conhaing himself to one hundred authors, and in anvin nnt- more than nine extracu from any one; in a good manr cum k.

gives only one. Sir. gmith finds no just reproach in the barren state ot our literature, "rjeven centurtea." he says. passed over uHKHiiunjuumenju soug; Greece was a thousand rears ia.de- uKKiare; nearly a lOQg a IWTIU1 nlllMMl 1 i- auaiaamatioe ot the Angle and the baxon resulted in Chaucer and his long line of soeceasors. fekaU we, alt boa tbe heirs of all tbe ages, with the spoils of civilization at our fast.

develop literature worthy the name ia the SDu of aiv hrif at centuries for Rome, ten for Greece, and 1 mm uinr ivr cugiaaa are laeu we v. mj hits auaicieni neea vo. Znoy of Jameo HueoeU Lowell. The Came lot Seriot. London Walir We can believe that thie volume found a prompt and cordial welcome in England.

Despite the knowledge of his writing which existed among the higher ring ios. the vast multitude wss in need of a small volnme of examples cboaen from the mass of Mr. Lowell's prose. Heren are essays on penser. Shakespeare, Milton.

KeaU. Leasing, and Rouaaean. bile all exeept tbe one on Leasing were written originally a lectures, the reader is scarcely conscious of aay didactie tone, and whatever of rhetorical tone tbey may have, Ibia adds soosetbicg te tbeir force and effectiveness. Mr. Low- eu-s Apology tor a rTefae." servea agreeable introduction totheeene.

kaari. era will be glad to fifd that in some way tho copyright lawa have not been an Insuperable obstacle to the presence of the volume ia thie country. -Boroce: The Ode. Epoda. Satire.

t.ptU. IrantUtod. F. Wane Co. tbe new atyle of binding uaed for the Chandoa Claeeics the volumes bsve been, at the low prices Still retained for them, about the least expensive things of tbeir quality that the stores afford.

The paper ia excellent the type equally so, and tbe binding quiet and durable. Thee election from the Roman poet have been made after an iatereating plan, hot one translation, but many, nave been lollowed. Ben Jonaon aervea a as well ae VV byte Melville, Mil ton as well as Sir Theodore Martin. Indeed, all the knew translators appear to contribute to tae eatiao-tion. inclo tag.

baida the already aemed. Addison. Dry Ceo, FraaeH, Hartley Coleridge. Cowper, Cowley. Beaameat, aad Johnson.

A brief sketch of the I lis ef Horace aervea aa aa imtMriii, 4.. i-. tioa. I I.