THE LITERARY WORLD. COPYRIGHT, S. R. CROCKER. BOSTON, FEBRUARY 1, 1877. S. R. CROCKER. Our rates for advertising in this paper are fifteen cents per line for the second, third, and fourth pages of the cover, and seventeen cents per line for the first page. TO SUBSCRIBERS. citizen is shorn of his rights in a measure, as passively accepts the doctrine which is imif he had deposited part of his substance in a posed upon him. The rigor of Hebraic rule government savings-bank to help support the has survived in the Church even to our day. government. It is equitable enough, indeed, The consequences of this rigor are too plain that the citizen should spare a fraction of his to need exposition. The mind of man will rights and of his property, in return for the sometimes assert itself, even under the severEDITOR. Protection and security afforded him by his est restrictions, secretly but certainly; and State; but the most perfect freedom, such as the uprising of diverse opinions on questions we have defined, and such as there is a yearn- of vital importance promotes schism and coning for in every human heart, —is impossible troversy and bitterness. To prove the propounder the above conditions. These must in-sition, we have only to cite the many secessions volve a consciousness of dependence, which is of clergymen from one denomination to anfatal to the idea of freedom. other, and who, like the Parthians, throw their arrows back upon the ranks they have deserted. This state of things is a strong argument against the expediency of instituting exclusive religious organizations, and in favor of voluntary associations for Divine worship. The average man is prone to do well, if left to be guided by his own impulses; but driven and harried, and required to walk on a line, The expiration of every subscription is indicated in the printed address on the wrapper. Yet, even in our own so-called free land, we have not attained a full realization of this idea. Though virtually independent of the until payment of all arrearages is made as required by government, we yet lean upon individuals, Papers are forwarded until an explicit order is received by the publisher for their discontinuance, and law. THE INDEPENDENCE. : PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS. and, in the words of Seneca, are guided not ETWEEN these two classes there has BE -a mere instru SAYS Seneca: "One cause of our unhappi- like luxury. We are in doubt whether to call mother on her child: it is flawless, perfect, WE THE POETRY OF LAW. E certainly had supposed that, if there were any intellectual pursuit which could be deemed prosy, and void of poetical attractions, it was the profession of the law. Most law books that have come in our way have worn to us a very uninviting aspect, notwithstanding they made a handsome external appearance upon library shelves, dressed in their clean calf covers: their pages once opened however, and they have seemed as little touched by the Muse as the librarian's catalogue. The leaves of the Arithmetic we used to study at school were enlivened by an occasional verse, such as, and, "Thirty days hath September," "In Dover dwells George Brown, Esquire; " but who ever looked into a volume of Law Reports expecting to find rhyme or melody, or listened to a decision from the bench the key of which could be given by a tuning fork? Charles Sumner, unpoetic as he was in his nature, had the greatest difficulty to make himself contented in his early life with the dry details of law practice; and we suppose that Mr. Longfellow, if that beau one of his most intimate friends, did not visit the young lawyer's office attracted by any of the legal literature that he found there. And yet, - if we may believe the signs of the times, tiful friendship could but be renewed on this earth (as we hope it may be elsewhere), it is altogether likely that those two fine spirits might experience a common pleasure in perusing even the reports of judicial proceedings and Common Pleas' cases. For here comes the staid "American Law Review," for January, and delectates us all with a witty account of the latest attempt to hitch the wagon of the law to Pegasus, in "Leading Cases done into English, by an Apprentice of Lincoln's Inn, small provincial town; and our great Daniel, in his youth, was so perplexed and discouraged by the study of Coke on Littleton, that he was obliged to lay it aside in disgust, and take up some lighter reading. He, though naturally no poet, had a glimpse of that new system which we now purpose to advocate; and, in a 1806, he makes this suggestion: If the legisletter to his friend Bingham, dated Jan. 19, lature will but put our writs into a poetical and musical form, it will certainly be the most harmonious thing they ever did.' He thereupon put into verse a writ which he was then filling out in his little country-office. It ran as follows; viz. : "All good sheriffs in the land, That forthwith you arrest John Dyer, If in your precinct you can find him, We have no doubt that he would have actively pursued this idea, if he had not been occupied in after life by other, perhaps more pressing, duties. "Then, again, it cannot be denied that the mental exercise of writing poetry is one which tends to produce a precision of thought and language, and great accuracy and conciseness in the description of facts. Moreover, it is a familiar truth that rhymes have been used as the principal feature of all mnemonic systems, from time immemorial. Having in mind, therefore, these three objects, — 1st, To make the study of the law attractive, nay, even seductive, to the young of both sexes; 2d, To foster habits of accuracy and conciseness in statements of the law, in the members of the court, and the profession generally; and, 3d, To assist the public, and especially the profession, to remember what the decisions of the Supreme Court are, we desire to sirable ends can be attained; and, in so doing offer a plan, by means of which these highly dethis, we modestly disclaim the merit due to the discoverer of a great truth. Daniel Webster, in his poetical writ; the efforts of other great jurists, which occur to every one of our readers; and the industrious apprentice, in the work before us, all have provided finger-posts, to guide us on the way to the great result. We hold ourselves merely the office of advocates, and, as such, request the thoughtful attention of the profession. What the "We have before us a little book of only times demand, what the profession requires, sixty-four pages, containing twelve poems of is a poetical reporter of the decisions of the various lengths and styles, each of them de- Supreme Court. Perhaps the suggestion will voted to the versification of one of the well- be made, that it would be much better to have, known leading cases of the courts of Great at least, one member of the Bench itself a Britain. The subject-matter of these poems, poet; and that the other members could do the and their uniform excellence, however, nega- necessary and useful work of making the decitive the idea at once that they are the work tions, while the poet could make them beautiful. of the idle apprentice. We are impressed We admit fully the truth of this suggestion; with the feeling, that this little book is little but let us make haste slowly. We cannot only in its outward appearance, and that it con- spare, at present, the services of any of the tains a great idea. It is, in fact, the germ- worthy occupants of the Bench; and we fear cell, so to speak, of a new system of legal that they are too old to begin to poetize now. education. It is the beginning of a new era. But we can easily have a poetical reporter "Let us explain what we mean. It is a now; and, when the next vacancy occurs well-known fact, that very young lawyers - upon the Bench, we can bring the requisite the sucking Chief Justices, as they are some-pressure to bear upon the appointing power, times called often experience great difficulty and secure our desideratum. at first in taking hold and in grasping the great principles of the common law. The fault must necessarily belong to the present system of teaching. It cannot be in the learner; for it is a historical fact, that many of the greatest luminaries of the law have experienced this difficulty. Lord Eldon nearly deserted the law, to accept the position of recorder in a pressed thus: London: " "Let, then, the reporter begin at once to practise his new profession, and give us at least the rescripts, as they come down from the Supreme Court, aptly clothed in the robes of poetry. For instance, take the collected wisdom of the court in the matter of woman's right to office, could it not be briefly ex Opinion of Justices, 106 Mass. 604. There is the whole matter in a nut-shell, which any child can crack. What a saving of time! how easy to remember! how melodious! "It cannot be claimed, with any regard to truth, that there are no proper materials for poetry in the reports. Even a careless perusal of them will show that they actually teem with subjects for poetry. All the cases exhibit human nature in some one of its different aspects, and some of them present great and dramatic situations. Some, of course, would tax the powers of an inexperienced reporter, but many are of such a character that they would almost propriâ motu burst into song and inetre. Take the long struggle of fallen man and woman, upon the slippery sidewalks of the cities, to obtain reparation for their sufferings. The unsuccessful attempts might propcrly be put into some elegiac measure; but when, after years of failure, there arose a new reformer, a second Luther, who discovered that ridges of snow were actionable defects for which towns were liable, who succeeded in finding the ridges and in obtaining a verdiet for a fall thereon, would not the tale of his success be fitly expressed in light and flowing lyrics, not wholly unmindful, however, of the gravity of the event? We offer, modestly, the following example of how it might be done: "In Worcester, when the sun was low, Of sidewalk smooth with ice that night, Luther v. Worcester, 97 Mass. 272. "We all know that the great struggle of woman in this country for her so-called rights has been fought on various battle-fields, with unvarying success. We do not propose now to discuss the legal or moral aspects of these claims. We refer only to accomplished facts, which are but too well known. It has been shown that woman has but to demand it, and all that man has is hers. It has been said that we are living over a volcano. How that is, we shall not attempt to say. We know, however, that at the appearance of a slight smoke, or the gentlest rumble, man, the tyrant, has at once given up, one after the other, his most cherished and immemorial rights. He was forced, at first, to give up to woman all her own property, after being forced to endow her in marriage with all of his. He then was obliged to allow her to become a doctor; to be responsible for her own contracts and torts; and to sell or give away her own property; and now, finally, he has had to forego the sacred right of physical correction. We fear, moreover, that the fight is not yet over, and it is but a question of time as to when woman will vote, and be governor, and judge, in name as well as in fact. The following battle-hymn attempts to commemorate, or rather report, the facts of the last painful defeat of man, in his futile attempt to escape the penalties of the most finished poet of the 18th century, 66 Hugh McAfee, of Boston town, : He had the right, when she was drunk, As a defence, he claimed it, Upon his trial day, And swore his wife was insolent, And, when he struck, he never meant "Then out spake Reuben Chapman, Chief-justice of the court: To every woman in this State Life may be long or short; But, while I hold this office, No woman in this land Shall lawfully be beaten By her husband's brutal hand.' "Hugh McAfee, the husband, was Convicted of manslaughter; And thus the everlasting right To every wife and daughter, By brave old Reuben Chapman's act, To get drunk and be insolent, A CORRESPONDENT 66 elsewhere inti "Envy must own I live among the great'? I cannot say who this was; but the quota-Genesis xxxi. 48, 49: 66 Quidquid sum ego, quamvis That is to say, 'Unwilling Envy must own Your correspondent also asks the author- lofty place; but, popularly, it is used in an- "J. D. W.," Jr., Worcester, sends the following, as written by R. H. Stoddard, and says it may be found in several collections. It They are from Bryant's Battlefield.' As I contains an answer to the inquiry of "O. M. remember them, this is the context: E. R." in our January number: "The victory of endurance born.' "T. W. H.," Newport, R. I., replies to number 4 of "M. I. S.," in our Notes and Queries,' for January: "Asleep in lap of legends old' is from Keats's Eve of St. Agnes. And to number 9: "I don't know the palm of martyrdom, without the pain.' Mrs. A correspondent writes: "The initials in "J. F. C.," writes: "As to 'Raphael's Hours,' from a slip cut from the New York Evening Post, of March 21, 1875 (?), I can furnish this information :"— mates that the religious belief of Thomas Jefferson" has been "a much debated subject," and kindly furnishes a bit of evidence thereon. We know of no good reason why this question should be a vexed one. "It was my good fortune, during an exSurely, in the minds of his enemies it did not tended tour in the Old World, to pass the rest in doubt when Mr. Jefferson was a candi- winter of 1872-73, in the Eternal City; and date for the Presidency, as is evidenced by while there I undertook the task of finding the not an easy task, as the fact that by the Orthodox portion of the the Romans themselves were ignorant of their country he was pretty generally denounced as whereabouts. I fortunately made the ac"infidel," whatever that may mean. Many quaintance of an Italian, whose intimacy with of his letters, and his consistent practice, clearly show that in his religious convictions he was at least what may be called "liberal." "M. A. N.," New York, queries: "Can you give me any information as to the meanS. D.," Portland, Me., writes: ing of the word Mispah, so much used of late "In the Notes and Queries of your as a motto? The Hebrew Maspah,' — that January number, M. I. S.' asks, 'Who was is, elevated, —is hardly satisfactory." Into the night they went; At morning, side by side, Where the greatest dead abide: He answered, "I am here." "H. P. C.," says that Query number 14 of M. I. S.," in Literary World for January, is in a measure answered by reference to Osgood's "Maritime Provinces," p. 288. "The Isle of Orleans is about three and a half miles from Quebec, and contains seventy square miles (47,923 acres) of land,' &c. It received its name in honor of De Valois, Duke of Orleans, the son of Francis I. of France. sort of humor; and the practice we hope will die out, by editors refusing to print or copy such stuff. But the papers - not a few of them other wise too respectable to indulge in such small must have something for a sensa A correspondent writes: "The allusion on page 39 of Weiss's delicious Wit, Humor, and Shakspeare,' is common among nautical people the world over, and doubtless was an old saying generations before the birth of the Nantucket sea-captain to whom it is attrib-businessuted. Perhaps it was in vogue among the tion, and wherewith to be thought funny; and Phoenician mariners. Possibly it originated so now one peculiar way is to turn or twist a with Captain Jason of the good ship Argo.' name, or try to make a pun on a word, But I will not travel beyond the record. In whether the pun has any point, or is decent, modern parlance, the sailor is the mariner; and or not. Here is one of the more objectional the sailer the vessel, fast or slow, full freighted specimens going the rounds in the papers: or light, a good carrier or a bad one. Hence "Mrs. Leather bas just committed suicide the fitness of the comparison to the latter in New York, to hide her shame." only. And with nautical folk it is always so understood. Any Nantucket sailor will tell you that often the best sailer is the poorest carrier." CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the Literary World: Your January number is a beautiful and generous feast of good things, - generous in a double sense. I can especially commend your kindly encouragement of younger aspirants for literary honors; and I cannot but think it wisely designed to bring out their best efforts in the future. The field of American literature is becoming too broad for the control of a literary oligarchy; and I, for one, rejoice to see it enriched by the influence of so competent an organ as the Literary World. I hand you a fragment from my scrap-book, which may throw light upon the religious belief of Thomas Jefferson, a much-debated subject among his biographers. It is from an original letter, written, as will be seen by the date, only four years before his death : Is there any thing amusing in such a turn enrich the contents of any journal? upon a name? Do such paragraphs help to Other examples might be quoted by the dozen, which have scarce more sense than the above. For instance: "A Miss Petticote attends school in Philadelphia. She is far below the rest of her class." "Thankful Blossom: A Romance of the Jerseys," by Bret Harte, is a slight story, not "I am not aware of the peculiar resistance tasking author's or reader's imagination heavily, to Unitarianism which you ascribe to Pennsyl- and not showing Mr. Harte at his best. Still, vania. When I lived in Philadelphia, there it is readable, as his stories always are; and, was a respectable congregation of that sect, although not strongly marked by his individual with a meeting-house and regular service genius, it has touches that betray the hand which I attended, and in which Dr. Priestley which wrote "The Luck of Roaring Camp." officiated to numerous audiences. Baltimore Washington figures in the story, of which has one or two churches, and their pastor, Morristown, New Jersey, is largely the scene; (sic) author of an inestimable book on this sub- Mrs. Washington also figures, not very charmject, was elected chaplain to the late Congress.ingly, however. [James R. Osgood & Co.] That doctrine has not yet been preached to us; but the breeze begins to be felt, which precedes the storm; and fanaticism is all in a bustle shutting its doors and windows to keep it out, but it will come, and will drive before it the foggy mists of Platonism, [!] which have so obscured our atmosphere.". Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Waterhouse, July 19, 1822. The ninth and tenth volumes of "Poems of Places " are devoted to France and Savoy. But few French poets are represented, Béranger, Victor Hugo, Mistral, De Ronsard, Marmer, De Musset, and a few others; while English and American names are numerous. This unique series, by virtue of Mr. Longfellow's fine taste and wide reading, includes a deal of delightful poetry. When complete, it will form a choice little library, comprising many of the best poems associated with heroism, romance, and the varied beauty of Nature. [James R. Osgood & Co.] Some months since, as you may perhaps remember, I called attention in these columns to the grim kind of humor indulged in by would-be funny paragraphists of the press, "Some other Babies," by Neil Forest, where accidents were made the point of a joke is a very charming child's-book, natural and of the tamest quality. Bayard Taylor has full of humor. It treats of the doings of a since referred to the same matter in a lecture, family of four children, who exhaust the possibilities of rural life. Each of them is strongly and his remarks have been widely copied, so individual, and Aunt Maria is an epitome of that of late there seems less of this peculiar crossness. [Roberts Brothers.] - Mr. Clement Biddle is a true poet, as is evidenced by his volume of " Poems," issued by Lindsey & Blakiston. "Edwin and Elvira" is, perhaps, the finest poem in the volume. FEBRUARY MAGAZINES. THE ATLANTIC opens with a poem by Whittier, entitled "The Witch of Wenham." It is a very sweet and beautiful story, though not so sad as most stories, of that age of superstition known in Colonial history as the "Salem Witchcraft." A fair girl, who dwelt 66 by Wenham side," was charged with being a witch by the mother of her lover, who wished to keep him away from her. The spell of beauty and of grace was, however, the only one that the maiden had cast over the young man, -one which, indeed, was irresistible in its fascination. Yet this was construed by the mischievous mother into evil; the parson's aid was invoked, who perversely decided that the Wenham maid was a veritable witch, and set the constable upon her. She was taken to jail, and told that "Those eyes, young witch, the crows shall peck But her lover did not fail her, and rescued her "Until from off its breast the land Bayard Taylor gives some "Studies of Animal Nature." Here is one that will interest the Darwinites: "Brehm, the German naturalist, gives a very curious account of a chimpanzee at the Zoological Garden in Hamburg. He satisfied himself that the animal understood as much human speech as an average child of two and a half years old. For instance, when he asked, Do you see the ducks?' the chimpanzee would look about the garden, passing over the geese and swans, until he found the birds indicated. At the command, Go and sit down!' uttered without any inflection of voice or glance toward a chair, he would promptly obey; on being told, You are naughty,' he would hang his head with an expression of distress, and he very soon learned to express his affection by kisses and caresses, like the children whom he saw." That chimpanzee must be the needed “missing link" to make good the development theory! The Political Condition of South Carolina," by a South Carolinian, is of peculiar interest just now. Frances Anne Kemble's 66 Old Woman's Gossip" is continued. This, which she says of Goethe, will not be accepted by many: "Perhaps nothing indicates what I should call his intellectual unhumanity so much as his absolute want of sympathy with the progress of the race. Once, and once only, if I remember rightly, in his conversations with Eckerman, the cause of mankind elicits an expression of faith and hope from him, in some reference to the future of Amer ica." 66 APPLETON'S. The notable papers in this number are, "Our Winter Birds" (elegantly illustrated), The Men who Fascinate Women," "Rubens's Land," "How to Furnish a House," and "About Plays and Players." All homely men, amorously inclined, will be delighted to be assured by Junius Henri Brown, that " ugliness in men often seems to be a mask concealing mysterious fascinations, which, opportunity favoring, few women find themselves able to resist." He wisely concludes, however, that "Happier he who can earn but one heart than he to whom a hundred hearts are given!" ST. NICHOLAS. - One is almost tempted to envy the youngsters that they have so bright and jolly and lovely a magazine all made for and devoted to themselves. It just seems like having a holiday to look St. Nicholas through; and you don't know which of the many good things it offers you is best. Here, at any rate, is one gem from the casket, entitled Stars and Daisies": : ical and pictorial appearance as ever. It is SCRIBNER'S. The opening article, on but each other and Shakspeare." Bret Harte really delightful to glance through its hand-"Trout-fishing in the Rangeley Lakes," will occupies a page, and little more, with a poem, some and ample pages. This number has its be read with interest by all lovers of the pis- which apparently might as well have been left usual good supply offat things." The first catorial art. It is appropriately introduced blank. Richard Grant White in this number article. On the Taff," is not a treatise on by two illustrations, one of a party of fisher- concludes his valuable series of papers “On "Father Taf(t)," who is one of the drawers men who are smoking, drinking, and telling Reading Shakspeare." in Mr. Grant's cabinet, but is a charming and fish-stories; the other of a genuine speciinstructive description of the scenery and men of the speckled brook-trout. General towns on a river of that name in Wales. McClellan is still "On the Nile," where all "The English language," it is asserted, is seems to be as quiet" with him as it used to commonly spoken in all parts of Wales. It is be "on the Potomac." Dr. Holland gives us true that the Welsh tongue is also spoken by chapter five of " Nicholas Minturn." The a majority of the people, and is lovingly re- doctor never wrote to our especial edification tained in the religious practices of every com- except in " Bitter Sweet," which seemed to us munity; bards still sing their lays in Welsh, at the time a real spark of inspiration; but we and preachers preach, and newspapers are know that many read all his books with delight. printed, in the same ancient tongue; but it is Kate Field writes pleasantly of "A Morning only in the wildest regions that natives are with Sir Julius Benedict, Personal Reminisoccasionally to be found who do not under- cences of Weber, Beethoven, and Paganini." stand any English. It is far more common to Farmer Bassett's Romance," by Saxe Holm, find Germans in New York and Chicago who is worth reading. The truth was that John speak only their native language, than it is to Bassett was a pagan, -a New England pagan. find Welshmen in the cities of Wales who There are a few of these in every New Engspeak only Welsh." This statement in regard land county. They are the offspring of the to the Welsh language will prove a surprise, Westminster catechism. Apply enough of the we think, to those who have no knowledge of Westminster catechism to a meditative, clearit except by sight: "It is a terrible tongue to witted, logical, phlegmatic boy in his youth; look at; but it is musical to hear, having seven let him spend most of his days out on sunny vowels, and being full of soft liquid sounds. hillsides, thinking it over in silence, and askIt is a most copious language, too, containing ing nobody any questions, and the chances no fewer than eighty thousand words; and are that, when he is twenty-one, he will quit from this fact it is easy to believe that it has going to church, and be a high-minded pagan. greater scope for the utterance of poetical sen- He will have absorbed much that is grand and timents than the English language has. The ennobling; but he will have thrown away, in pronunciation is easy and flowing, so that, his slow-growing hatred of the cruel husk, part with its many and incessantly recurring vowels, of the sweet kernel also, and will be a deit is an easy language to sing, much more frauded and robbed man all his days for lack so than the English, and only second in of the true comprehension of the gospel of this respect to the Italian." Cardiff is the Christ, which is loving, and of Christ's Father, chief city on the Taff, and sits at its mouth who is love." John Bassett goes to camp(was the "Cardiff Giant" born here?). "A meeting by accident; and falls in love. surprising feature of the provision shops, The March number, no doubt, will tell us which abound," says the writer, "is the pres- whether he also " got religion.' There are ence of great quantities of canned eatables many other articles in this number which are from America. Canned succotash from Bos- both interesting and valuable. ton, salmon from Oregon, oysters from Baltimore, are here in such protusion that I commented on the fact to a brawny John Bull behind his piled-up wares. Oh, yes 'r,' he answered heartily, • we couldn't get on 'ithout the 'Mericans; adding, after a moment, no, nor they 'ithout hus.'" Cardiff Castle was besieged by Cromwell during the civil wars. Oliver sat down with his forces before the stronghold, which was full of Royalists; but it was defended with such spirit that Cromwell might have failed in his purpose, but for the fact that a wretch deserted from the Royalist camp and conducted the Puritan soldiers within the castle, after which Cromwell promptly hanged him as a reward for his services!" "The stars are tiny daisies high, LITERARY NEWS. clearly the mission of the paper, and points out the differences of its policy from that which prevails in the general press. The political article closes with the wise conclusion, "that the country will not go to ruin under either Hayes or Tilden; but destruction awaits it, unless we recognize at once that in elections for the President of the United States, and for members of the House of Representatives, the citizens of the United States form one community, a nation; and that the nation should place in its fundamental law such provisions as experience has shown to be needful to securing an honest vote, and an honest count for these offices." -A new weekly paper has just been established in New York, called “The EvoluTHE GALAXY. Ex-Secretary Welles's tion." Its province of effort comprises "Administration of Abraham Lincoln is Politics, Religion, Science, Literature, and written with a rather stiff and stalky pen, but Art. It is in the editorial charge of several is quite readable nevertheless. It well shows eminent writers, whose reputation is a guarsome of the embarrassments which Mr. Lin-antee of its ability. The first number is full coln experienced in his task of guiding the of promise; the leading article, “Why a New nation. Mr. Welles says, "The second session Weekly?" being especially fine. It explains of the thirty-seventh Congress, from its commencement to its close, tested the strength of the Government." The strength of this Government has been tested a good many times, both before and since that period; and in every exigency, not so much its strength has been shown as that of the people, whose reserved conscience and common sense have so far carried the Nation through every peril, A surpassingly interesting sketch is that even when the Government " was sadly entitled," And who was Blennerhasset?" lacking in wisdom and courage. In Mr. Bargiving as it does a rapid but faithful account nard's "Applied Science: A Love Story," of the famous attempt of Aaron Burr to found we read: She fainted quietly away, and slid his empire in the West, into which brilliant down upon the floor at his feet." There is a but delusive scheme Blennerhasset was en- good deal of superfluous information in this ticed by the fascinating ex-vice-president. sentence. When people faint, they usually do The picture of Blennerhasset's elegant and it quietly; and, when they have once fainted, The Marquis D'Azeglio's novel, "Ettore beautiful home on the Ohio, of his accom- they do not proceed to faint away; and, in Fieramosca," comprises the following thrilling plished and lovely wife, his interesting house- fainting, they generally do not stand up, but story: The hero, whose name gives a title to hold, and of the generous and misguided man drop down. A scientific man, then, would the book, hated the French with all his soul. himself, is very vivid and impressive. It all have said, "She fainted;" or, "She fainted, He had been for several years deeply in love reads like a marvellous, enticing, but pitifully and fell at his feet.” Walter Burlingame tells with a young girl of the story, whom he had sad romance. the interesting story of the "Murder of Mar-lost in the following manner: The French solgary," which has to do with the international diers were just taking possession of a town relations between China and England. Henry where the young lady was attending the deathJames, Jr., in his "The Letters of Honore de bed of her father. The French were ruthless Balzac," compares that remarkable French-conquerors, especially towards women; and the man with Dickens; and, as it strikes us, helpless father, in his agony, gave his child and extravagantly says: They have had no rivals all he possessed to the first officer who pre 66 The land of the Incas " is full of interest; and Mr. Conway's William Lovett, - the Working-man, Chartist, Prisoner, and Author," is written with all the striking characteristics belonging to his pen. 66 |