was destroyed were the following: (1) Congress enacted the non-return of fugitives to our army lines. (2) Abolition of Slavery in Territories. (3) Emancipation of slaves of rebels. (4) Suppression of the African Slavetrade. (5) Employment of colored troops. (6) Proclamation of emancipation by the President. (7) Fugitive Slave-act abolished. (8) Thirteenth amendment of the Constitution, abolishing Slavery finally and for ever. In securing these gradual and decisive steps, our own Senators - Sumner and Wilson - were foremost or conspicuous. In closing, candor compels us to say, that, valuable and admirable as this book is, it is written too much in the partisan spirit. Mr. Wilson was not a philosopher, — perhaps not even a statesman, in the highest sense of the word, but a politician and a partisan. He did as well as could be expected from one of his gifts and his nature. If he had been a scholar, he would have written a book less exceptional in a literary point of view; and if he had been a broad, comprehensive, farseeing, wise thinker, he would have written one more lasting in its fame than this may prove to be. THE RAJAH OF SARAWAK.* WHATEVER weak points the Life of Sir A few pages on in this journal, the writer announces his intention of visiting Borneo, a place where hundreds and thousands of human beings have for years blessed the day when Sir James - or as he is better known in the East, Rajah Brooke set foot on their shores. The following brief description is taken from a paper written at Singapore in 1821: — ried out; and, though it reads almost like a fairy tale, in time Sir James Brooke, by the wish of Muda Hassim and his people, became Rajah Brooke, - which title the Sultan of Bruné confirmed in 1842. From this time for many years, golden opportunities of spreading commerce and performing untold philanthropic good were obstinately refused by the "The island of Borneo measures at its English government. The ministries of Lords extreme length nine hundred miles; at its great- Palmerston and Russell believed in the singleest breadth, seven hundred; and in circum-ness of Rajah Brooke's purpose; but Lord ference, six thousand. With the exception of Clarendon's government persecuted him with Australia, it is the largest island known. Oc cupying a central situation in the Eastern a vehemence worthy of a better cause. It was That part of Borneo where the Rajah first landed was called Sarawak. After visiting the ruling Rajah, — Muda Hassim, — Sir James spent some months in exploring Celebes, an island of seventy thousand square miles and upwards, even at the present day but little known. Sir James found that the effect of European domination in the Archipelago had been any thing but favorable : — It was not until the year 1864, that recognition on the part of the Crown was gained. Years before, the United States had made a treaty with the Rajah of Sarawak; but that which had been sought for and needed the most came last. In September, 1863, Rajah Brooke, failing in health, left the shores of Borneo and returned to England; where, June 11, 1868, he died. Since his departure from Sarawak, his nephew, Charles Johnson, having assumed the name of Brooke, — has held the reins of government.. By the will of Sir James Brooke, the sovereignty of Sarawak was bequeathed to his nephew and his male issue; failing such, to his nephew, Stuart Johnson, and his male issue. The first voyagers from the West found the natives rich and powerful, with strong established governments, and a thriving trade with all parts of the world. The rapacious European has reduced them to their present condition. posTheir governments have been The typography of these volumes are worbroken up; the old States decomposed by treachery, by bribery, and intrigue; their thy of especial praise; and we recommend our possessions wrested from them under flimsy readers to a perusal of one of the most interpretences; their trade restricted, their vices esting biographical sketches that has appeared encouraged, their virtues repressed, and their of late. energies paralyzed or rendered desperate; till there is every reason to fear the gradual exThis is the his James Brooke developed, few will deny, and more will concede, that his character showed principles truly noble. Born and bred in luxury, controlled by a roving spirit and love of adventure, when he came into session of an ample fortune, he fitted up a yacht at his own expense, and in November, 1838, sailed from England for the Eastern Archipelago. After a fortnight's stay at Rio Janeiro, and touching at Cape Town in the last week in May the following year, the "Royal-tinction of the Malay races. ist" passed through the Straits of Sunda and Banca, and anchored at Singapore. Sir James Brooke thus mentions, in his journal, the differences between the two larger classes of native residents at that time (1839) : THIS HISTORY OF ENGLISH THOUGHT.* torical record of the rule of Europeans from their earliest landing to the present moment. HIS is a book for thinkers. The author The same spirit which combines the atrocity writes with a vigorous and incisive pen. of the Spaniard with the meanness of the Jew His mind is evidently crammed with his subpedler has actuated them throughout, receiv former? ing only such modifications as time and neces-ject; and his sentences are like rifle shots, "The Malays of Singapore are a simple-sity has compelled them to adopt. Who that short, sharp, and pregnant. He seems also minded but independent people, who would compares the States of the Peninsula, - Java, to be judicial in the quality of his mind. He resent ill-usage with more violence than dis- Sumatra, Borneo, or Celebes, before and cretion, and appear to have but little idea of subsequent to the period of European domina-analyzes and explains, and has an apparent the wily craft requisite to enable them to contion, but must decide on the superiority of the disposition to state fairly both sides. He is tend with the Chinese. They are frugal and a historian and reasoner; not a dogmatist. easily satisfied; consequently they never tax "Let these considerations, fairly reflected on Hand in hand, he leads the reader along from themselves with continued labor, though capaand enlarged, be presented to the candid and ble of great exertion for a limited period. liberal mind; and I think that, however point to point, from period to period, from The Chinese bear all the marks of having lived strong the present prepossessions, they will thinker to thinker; and in a pleasant, rapid, under a despotic government and in a thickly shake the belief in the advantages to be gained but lucid manner unfolds to him the panorama populated country; the Malays, of being the by European rule, as generally constituted. of eighteenth-century thought. denizens of a beneficent clime, which furnishes In certain districts of Celebes, all the offices of sufficient for man's simple wants, without the state, including even that of matoah, are open necessity of toil, and allows them to yield to to women; and they actually fill the important the dictates of Nature or of passion, without posts of government, four out of the six care or apparent responsibility." great chiefs of Wajo being at present females." In 1841, the Rajah decided to settle in Borneo; to plant there a mixed colony amid a wild but not unvirtuous race, and to become the pioneer of European knowledge and native improvement." This noble resolve was car *The Raja of Sarawak. An account of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B., LL.D. Given chiefly through letters and journals. By Gertrude L. Jacob. Two Vols. With portrait, maps, &c. London and New York: Macmi lan & Co. An admirable table of contents prefaces each volume. From these we are able to give our readers a bird's-eye view of the ground over which the author invites them to travel. Volume I. Chapter I. Introductory: the History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century. By Leslie Stephen. Two Vols. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1876. the &c. We give one or two sketches or estimates influence of great thinkers; } evolution of ville; Shaftesbury's School; Mandeville's thought; approximation to truth the general School; &c. law; hasty rejection of old opinions; Butler, Hutcheson, Reid; &c. Hartley and romantic regret; its true meaning; Adam Smith, &c. The Utilitarians: Locke; The Cartesian philosophy: Descartes' his vacillation; Hume's moral theory; his provisional doubt; the soul and God; the crude psychology; scientific view of morality; "A conversion of this kind is significant of fundamental difficulty; reality undiscoverable; practical weakness of Hume; laxity of his dogmatism and scepticism; Spinoza's philoso- view; Paley's morality; his definition of vir- the weak side of Gibbon's intellect and character. He has given an admirable summary phy; influence of Cartesians upon English tue; Paley and Bentham; the latter's influ- of the bare facts of history; but he is everythought; &c. The English criticism: Locke ence; his value as a moralist; &c. Chapter where conspicuously deficient in that sympaand innate ideas; Berkeley on materialism; X. Political theories: non-existence of a thetic power which enables an imaginative his idealism; David Hume; his sceptical con- political science; the social compact; &c. writer to breathe life into the dead bones of the past. He regards all creeds, political and clusion; Hume's theory of causation; &c. The Principles of 1688: Locke's political He examines the religious, from the outside. Common-sense and Materialism: opposition to writings; the origin of property; Church and evidence for facts with judicial severity, but is scepticism in England; Reid's position; Hart- State; possibility of a separation; &c. The quite incapable of sharing or appreciating the ley's materialism; &c. Chapter II. The Bangorian controversy, &c. The Walpole passions of which the facts are the outward starting-point of Deism: Locke and Bossuet; Era: character of the period; the social symbols. A skilful anatomical demonstrator of the dead framework of society, he is an Christianity and philosophy; Christianity and compact" and "balance of power" theories; utterly incompetent observer of its living Deism; &c. Chapter III.- Constructive Hume's political theories; &c. The French development. A long series of historical Deism: external and internal evidence, &c. influence: Montesquieu and Rousseau; Burke figures passes before us in his stately pages; but they resemble the masks in a funeral proLocke and Toland: Locke's theology; the on Montesquieu; Rousseau's political theory; cession. They are grouped with exquisite essence of Christianity; Locke the typical &c. The Fermentation: Letters of Junius; literary skill; but we catch no glimpse of the latitudinarian; John Toland; his philosophy; democratic tendency; Parties under George profounder springs of action, which must be &c. Clarke and Wollaston: Clarke's phil- III.; Chatham; &c. The Tories: Dr. John-appreciated before we can understand the osophy; free will; theology and morality; son, &c. The Constitutionalists: the British underlying order, or guess at the dominant laws of evolution. In perfect harmony with William Wollaston; his pessimism; pessimism Constitution, &c. Edmund Burke: his genius; this view, his ideal state of society is the deathand optimism; &c. Tindal and his opponents: his moral elevation; his hatred of metaphy- like trance of an enlightened despotism. If Christianity as old as the creation; " moral-sics; as the Whig prophet; the American a man were called,' as he says in an oftenity the essence of religion; Christianity and question; the French Revolution; Burke's quoted passage, to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition progress; &c. The decay of Deism: Thomas failure to appreciate it, &c. The Revolution-1 of the human race was most happy and prosists: Price and Priestley; American politics; perous, he would, without hesitation, name the "Federalist; " Tom Paine; Paine and that which elapsed from the death of Domitian Burke; William Godwin; Mary Wollstone- to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute craft; Malthus; &c. Chapter XI. Chapter IV.. under the direction of virtue power, and wisdom!'" The Common-sense School: of authors, in which the book abounds. Speaking of Gibbon, and the critical passage in his life when he was converted to Catholicism by Middleton and Bossuet, Stephen says: - Political - Character "enthu Speaking of the leaders of the literary reaction against dogmatism and superstition, he says, near the close: Chubb; Thomas Morgan; causes of the decay of Deism; &c. Conclusion: rationalism and scepticism; Bolingbroke's theological writings; Atheists and divines; &c. Critical Deism: assumptions of the critics; Economy: Adam Smith's "Wealth of Naabsence of critical canons; scientific concep- tions," &c. The Mercantile Theory: Hume's tions; &c. Leslie's short method: his "four economical theories; &c. The French Economists, &c. Adam Smith: his reputation; rules;" application of them; &c. Collins on free-thinking: Collins and Bentley; Swift's his originality; Smith and Hume; Godwin and attack upon Collins; &c. The argument from Malthus; &c. Chapter XII. Prophecy, &c. The argument from Miracles, istics: literature and philosophy; &c. The &c. Chapter V. Butler's "Analogy: "Preachers: eighteenth-century sermons, &c. general character of the " Analogy; &c. The Poets: Pope; Spenser; Thomson; Chapter VI. - David Hume: imperfect appre- Young; Akenside; &c. General Literature: order which might not unfairly represent the ciation of Hume; neglect of his writings; New literary forms; aversion to completeness of his arguments; Kant's scheme siasm;" Swift and Johnson; Johnson and of theological arguments; Hume's general Voltaire; Henry Fielding; English novels; reply to ontologists; his real belief; &c. &c. The Religious Reaction; moral standard Chapter VII. - William Warburton: War- of the eighteenth century; Bishop Wilson; burton and Pope; Warburton's relation to Isaac Watts; Philip Doddridge; John WesHume and Butler; &c. Chapter VIII. ley; William Law; Whitefield; the MethodThe later theology; &c. The Common-sense ists; the Evangelicals; Protestantism, old and school, &c. Science and Revelation, &c. new; &c. The Literary Reaction: SentiPaley and his School, &c. The Subscription mentalism; morbid social conditions; vicious Controversy: Rise of Unitarianism, &c. The styles; growth of romanticism; "Naturalism;" revolt against classicUnitarians: Joseph Priestley; his inconsis- taste; tencies and materialism; his strong point; ism; Pope and Wordsworth; Cowper; Burns. &c. The Infidels: Gibbon; his defects as a From the foregoing synopsis of Stephen's historian; his attack on Christianity; force of work, our readers may see how many and how his argument; Paine's "Age of Reason;" great matters of interest are treated therein. Paine's ignorance and impudence; his moral- From some of his opinions of men and their ity; replies to Paine; &c. writings there is abundant opportunity to disVolume II. Chapter IX.- Moral Philos- sent; and yet one can but feel that views ophy. The Intellectual School: its chief which are presented with such affluence of writers; its starting-point; the intellect and learning must be important and valuable to the emotions; &c. Shaftesbury and Mande- consider. 66 Gothic "Of Burns- a poet who has left behind him an impression of power quite astonishing when compared with the fragmentary character of his works it is needless to say much. Burns is the spokesman of a social interpretation of Rousseau's state of Nature. The strong healthy race of the Scotch lowlands, unconsciously absorbing the influences of a free open-air life, and far apart from all sickly sentimentalism, had produced for ages a race of poets whose ballads reflect their vigorous character. In the age of Burns, life had become peaceable, and not luxurious. The society in which he lived had acquired a certain degree of culture, but had not yet been broken up by the restless movements of modern development. Burns, therefore, was qualified to stand forth to the world ripening for revolution, and give in a few vigorous touches the presentiment of the truly vigorous peasant life, not stained by idyllic sentimentalism, and with strong manly blood coursing through every vein. In one sense he was consciously a revolutionist. The [Scotch] religion had become an effete sham. A hundred years before, Burns might have been a Covenanter. But the old Covenanting spirit had become a an effete idol, thing of shreds and patches, no longer capable of rallying true men to its side. And therefore Burns puts his whole heart into such tremendous satires as 'Holy Willie's Prayer.' The peasant expressed his hearty contempt for the hypocritical leaders who 46 Real Life," were it past or present? Enough of this romance attached to Elizabeth Barrett, who, doomed from girlhood to the seclusion of her chamber, saw her brother and cousin sink into the treacherous depths of ocean from her invalid's couch, and seemed so sacred to grief, that the world honestly believed her 'Portuguese Sonnets" to be translations out of that tongue. Enough, also, to Walter Savage Landor, who, cursed from birth by the boisterous stormy temperament which Dickens feebly sketched in the character of Boythorn, lived out of the world because he might not live in it, and printed his own works at his own superb press, when the world declined to recognize his merits. Here was a man with a heart and a head too large for common measure, and withal having blood coursing through his veins at a heat and with a speed that no mortal creature understood. Surely, among the distant suns God will find some sphere, where these will be in equilibrium with social and planetary forces, and so a tardy justice reach this illstarred son of earth. Yet perhaps the splendor of his mental powers, and the keen delight their play must have given him, may long ago have justified his fate to himself. fence it out doubly from the populace, — odi profanum vulgus et arceo. 64 promise of the youth Thucydides, and to the -- Of this man in the letters recently published, Elizabeth Barrett writes, to explain the spirit of a Greek epigram then just written by him on Napoleon the First: : Mr. Landor went to Paris in the beginning of the century, where he witnessed the ceremony of Napoleon being made consul for life, amidst the acclamations of multitudes. serted Emperor pass through Tours, on his He subsequently saw the dethroned and deway to embark for America. Napoleon was attended by a single servant, and descended at the Prefecture unrecognized by any body except Landor. The people of Tours were most hostile to Napoleon; and, as a republican politician, Landor had hated him. Had he now pointed his finger at him, it would have done what all the artillery of twenty years had failed to accomplish: the people would have torn him to pieces. He held his breath, and let the hero pass." "Other causes," continues Miss Barrett, "than the originality of his faculty, prevented Landor's favor with the public. He has the most select audience, perhaps the fittest, the fewest, of any distinguished author of the day; and this of choice. Give me,' he said, 'ten accomplished men for readers, and I am content.'" 66 Whatever his English contemporaries may have felt, the children of this generation owe Almost all conscientious artists are forced, only a debt of gratitude to Savage Landor. What superb scholarship, what an exquisite before they lay by their pens, to a position style, what perfect mastery over situations and something like this; but few are capable of subjects, meet us in the three volumes already replying boldly to an adverse critic as Landor issued in this edition! It seems almost a pity once did: If you can write any thing betto read him in any thing but his own delicious ter," he said, "you shall have three hot print and paper; but the price we used to pay penny-rolls"! for one of those books, no one pays without He writes," says our friend, "criticism grumbling now. "It's pages," said Lowell for critics, poetry for poets; and his drama in those glad times, take you to the theatre supposes neither pit nor gallery, nor critics, nor laws. He is not a publican among poets, where Prometheus' is played, to the house - he does not sell his Amreela cups upon the where Socrates and Aristophanes meet, to the highway. He delivers them, rather, with the dignity of a giver to the ticketed persons; analyzing their flavor and fragrance with a 66 "His sentences have articulations of very excellent proportions. Abounding in striking lifting them like statues to pedestals, where images and thoughts, he is remarkable for they may be seen distinctly, and strike with enduring though gradual impression. His smaller poems, for classic grace and tenderness and exquisite care in their polish, may best be compared to the beautiful cameos and vases of the ancients. Two of Landor's works are probably known to less than half-a-dozen The above is a condensation of some of the words written by the most remarkable woman of our generation concerning him whom we are inclined to call its most remarkable man. Mrs. Browning has had no intellectual peers, if we except George Eliot and George Sand. She had a warmer heart and keener sympathy than George Eliot, and God was still to her a real presence. She had sufficient sensuous basis to her nature to understand George Sand, and - that "large-brained woman large-hearted man," — and yet to hold herself in complete equilibrium. * Imaginary Conversations. By Walter Savage learned delicacy, and an appeal to the esoteric try," which is to include all sorts of good Landor. Third Series. Dialogues of Literary Men. Boston: Roberts Brothers. Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, addressed to Richard Hengist Horne. Edited by S. R. Townshend Mayer. London: Richard Bentley. things, both new and old, native and foreign, and for which we can wish no more than the His very spelling of English is uncommon and same success that has attended its older impossible; and the contrary effect of necesbrother, the "No-Name" series. -- says, sity leaves on the mind something of the disa- erties in manufacturing; for the river had chosen to run to the east of the range of hills Nor can it fail of this, if "Ben Milner" be that separated the valley of Milltown from the a fair sample of its quality. It is a pearl tion had early been engaged in agricultural sweet intervales of Dornfield. The populaamong novels, so fresh and pure. Pattie is pursuits. There were many large landed prothe daintiest and most bewitching of heroines, None of this teazing and unpleasant ambi- prietors, who lived in the old substantial mana perfect briar-rose like the Heidenröslein guity exists in "The Great Match." From sions built a hundred years ago, beneath elms Goethe sings. And dear honest Ben is such the first page to the last, it is evidently the work these old mansions the owners preserved with which witnessed many Indian scrimmages. In a true matter-of-fact, nineteenth-century lover, of a man. It is impossible to mistake the jealous care the samplers worked by their who goes to the play directly Pattie is relent- bright virile quality of which the book is full. female ancestors, the spinning-wheels, the lessly dragged from him; "nor," as the book Of another fault in modern fiction it is equally antique clocks, and the straight-backed chairs, "is it known that Salvini was any the devoid; being singularly free from that ana- old mansions were kept up with great care by which were their proofs of old family. These less listened to or appreciated by Ben, though tomical tendency which is the bane of some their descendants, although in many cases the he had not Pattie to sit by him." How differ- of our best writers, and which deals with eldest sons had gone West to seek their forent from the Lovelace or Sir Charles Grandi-human character as a botanist with a flower, tunes. This preservation was due to some son of a by-gone generation, who tore their or a vivisector with stray dogs. The story daughters of Dornfield farmers had made with fortunate marriages which the handsome hair and raved on a much less occasion in a opens promptly, as a story should. Its per- aristocratic families in the metropolis. way which would put to shame any heroine of sonages come at once upon the stage, with no the main street of the place there was, as we a modern romance,- tempora mutantur, et nos awkward shuffling of side-scenes, or letting have said, but one store, and an old tavern, up and down of the curtain, and proceed place of the stages which ran from Albany to which was once renowned as the stopping briskly and compactly to their work. There the metropolis. It was now strictly temperare no wearisome digressions, no long inter- ance, and very quiet. A few of the best peoludes to explain facts which need no explana-ple came there to board every summer. Some of the old stages were tumbling to pieces in a corner of the barn attached to the house. The unreclaimed in Milltown told very facetious stories in regard to the possibility of getting something to quench their thirst at this tavern. They once used to make the attempt very maiden lady, summer boarders, and the often; but the stern respectability of the knowledge that a lineal descendant of the first minister killed by the Indians in Dornfield inhabited the house, made them extremely wary. mutamur in illis. 66 Then, who of us does not know a Miss Phoebe, or "Phibs " as Ben called her, the devoted elder sister, who delights in her brother's teasing, and cannot bear to give him up to another woman? — for she knows no young wife will knit his vests, and wash them with her own hands for him, as his sister does. His sister has had all the care and anxiety of bringing him up and establishing him in the world; and, now the worst is over, let her retire and make room for a young wife to come and enjoy his ease and prosperity." Many, too, will be pleased with the glimpse of those modern evangelists, Moody and Sankey, even now working in our midst, and the brief account of their work in England. We will not forestall the reader's pleasure, by telling him any thing of the story itself, but only say that he has a treat in store; which we sincerely envy him, and frankly confess that, like the children, we would like to have it all over again." 66 THE tion. 66 'The Great Match," or Matches, for we shall not tell the reader, beforehand, which of the several described is the great one, has for scene the rival villages of Dornfield and Milltown: one, sleepy, conservative, agricultural; the other, brisk, manufacturing, and on a railroad. Both are graphically depicted; and not less so the rivalry between them: On It is true that there were cliques and sets in "It seems that, in the early days, the Dornfield. Unfortunately the Indians could not Indians killed six of the inhabitants of Dorn- foresee that, in tomahawking some and sparing field to one of those of Milltown. Why this others, they were creating immense distincdifference? It certainly argued blood; and tions in society. When to the fact that one's anDornfield, and shoddy at Milltown. There of an alliance with a family which had a judge in to this day the aristocracy is to be found at cestors had been scalped, was joined the fact was a shelf in the town library devoted to it, even the most bigoted leveller in Milltown genealogies of the rich manufacturers of Mill- felt an involuntary respect for such Dornfield there, as there were in Dornfield. Milltown in Dornfield. Several literary men and women town; but there were no time-honored names families. Then, too, there was much culture had the money, and Dornfield the aristocracy: had resided there from time to time, and had this was universally acknowledged. The vil- sown seed which had been religiously perpetulage papers of Milltown often amused them- ated by several families. Most of the ladies selves about what they termed the blue blood in town sketched, and one "sculpted," as THE GREAT MATCH.* of Dornfield. Whenever a representative to they termed it in Milltown. There was a the general court was to be elected, the two fern society, and a literary club. While HE sex of a novelist should be easy of de- towns were brought into active rivalry; for chromos were welcomed in Milltown, and tection. It is true that, in these later days, and each strove to elect one of their own weeping-willows over tombstones, and oil there was but one representative for the two, were fast replacing masterpieces in hair, a school of fiction has arisen which may be said townsmen. The cry of blue-blood and kid- paintings, the work of that man who founded to have no sex; and which mingles and inter- glove aristocracy, raised by the partisan the horse-car school of painting, Dornfield fuses the traits of each, and slips from mascu- papers of Milltown, generally decided the had passed chromos, and had made rapid strides line to feminine with such skill and dexterity elected a Milltownite, although no one wore day; and the manufacturing population toward higher art." as to baffle and confound the most practised kid gloves in Dornfield. analysis. The founder and most illustrious Milltown preached for the Universal Church, The minister in example of this school is George Eliot, whose and against the sin of exclusiveness; the min touch, keen, strong, subtle, precise, elusive, ister at Dornfield held up the dangers incident all at once, needs the shelter of no pseudo- bors at Milltown might remember that, where to making money, and prayed that their neighnym, but is itself its own best disguise. It is there was the greater temptation to sin, there a clever thing, this masquerading before all was also the greater reward." eyes; but an unsatisfactory element mixes with the cleverness. If manliness is in truth the first requisite of a man, and womanliness of a woman, these qualities should so flavor and interpenetrate style as to make mistake *The Great Match, and other Matches. No Name Series. 16mo. $1. Boston: Roberts Brothers. Half-a-dozen New England villages of our acquaintance might have sat for this felicitously drawn picture of Dornfield: — Freshness is the predominant quality of the book. It is full of open air, and has stronglymarked individual flavor, which we do not remember to have met so distinctly in any story Schoolmaster." since Mr. Edward Eggleston's "Hoosier As a fine example of the tender and paare written, we copy the following description thetic style in which portions of this story of Rose's preparation for a "Martha Washington tea-party": was peopled by many of those whose ances- equipage, and stood under the lilacs, watching "Dornfield, in its turn, had its virtues. It "Rose accompanied her visitor to her had never been any temptation to its inhabi- trasted Mis Milton's surroundings with her tors came over in the Mayflower.' There her as she whirled away. She bitterly contants to invest their comparatively small prop-own. On one side was the utmost warmth of RÜCKERT'S "WISDOM OF THE FRE BRAHMIN." But here, the best is that which in the first is left. Poorest of all are those that linger in the last. affection and devotion; and, on the other, extreme coldness and selfishness. Could she blame Ned Black if he was repelled by her surroundings, and attracted by the happy home and the wealth of her rival? The tears came to her eyes, as they are so apt to do in fits of self-abasement. She stole up stairs to her room, and scrutinized herself in the glass. She certainly had a better figure than Miss Milton. But was her face as good-looking? or appreciated amongst us of all the sons and The man who cannot jest is a poor wight at best; she could not tell. In the attic, among her fathers of German song. He was first intro worthy manner, a generation ago, by the None poorer, JEST AND EARNEST. save the man who naught can do but CONTENTMENT. What use of a great house? None, be it full or bare; Who keeps a great house, needs a host of servants there. A host of servants naught but heavy pay can hold; If there a constant crowd, and here content abide. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND. Among the precious stones, that is the choicest one "The Brahmin " is a poem of vast range, expressing in epigrammatic form, in twelve- Far sooner bear all wounds itself, than wound a brother's. dear mother's old things, she remembered that duced to the American public, in any Earnest is weak, that shuns a jest with jealous eyes; there was a very rich silk, with large figures of And jest is weaker still, in which no earnest lies. flowers, of a quaint fashion. It had been the dress in which she had gone to the ball given in honor of Lafayette. It would be just the dress for this party; Ned Black should see her at her best and she sprang up the attic stairs. How tender were the emotions awakened in the young girl's breast, as she opened the old oaken chest, and looked over her mother's things! This was not the first time that she had done so: her tears had often spotted some delicate vesture, as she bent over the contents of the chest, longing for the affection which a mother might have bestowed upon her; which, alas! it had never been her good fortune to know, for her mother had died when she was a mere child. There were rich, brocaded silk gowns; old-fashioned, large bonnets that brought a smile to Rose's lips even when her eyes trembled with tears. There were delicate little slippers in great numbers; for Mrs. Snevel evidently had a beautiful foot, and liked to indulge her syllable iambic rhymes, the world-wisdom womanly vanity. Rose frequently sat down which the author (who was for some time Proupon the hard attic floor, and tried on these fessor of Oriental Literature) had been for slippers; they were a trifle too large for her. years storing up in his large heart, and Then she would kiss them, and replace them evolving out of his creative soul, enriched tenderly. In the chest was laid away the wedding gown. It seemed so small to Rose, and quickened by sympathetic study of the in its flattened state, with the highly embroid- poesy and philosophy of the "Morning-land." ered sleeves folded over the front of the bodice, But the result is neither translation nor with a sad suggestion of a human form. While Rose bent over the chest, communing transfusion nor imitation, but a new creation; with the past, the day outside was exactly like as if a native singer and seer of the East, rethe one on which her mother had been mar- born under a Western sky, should prophesy ried, a half a century ago. The shadows of and poetize the spirit of a faith worthy to draw the soft, fleecy clouds pulsated on the green together all the true sons of the Highest, banks; the songs of the bobolinks came up from the clover-fields; the cheery call of the a morality inspired with religion, a religion ploughman to his oxen resounded from the up- marrying earth and heaven. land; the swallows twittered in the eaves; and the soft breeze whispered, in the same tone, to the old elm in front of the house. The mother might have walked down the garden path, knocked with the old knocker, and ascended to the attic, and found all just as if she had merely awakened from a dream, save the presence of this beautiful girl, who bent in tears over her mother's antiquated dresses. Rose gazed and gazed. A bee, which had entered the attic through some broken window-pane, buzzed against the old skylight, or made impatient excursions in a shaft of sunlight. The soothing noise of his wings, and the alternating gloom of the changing cloud-shadows, the absence of jarring sounds, together with the sight of the garments of one long at peace, work: always could calm the most impetuous emotions of Rose's breast. After a long revery, she took out the dress she was in search of, and, carrying it to her room, arrayed herself. It fitted her lithe form to perfection. The high ruff parted to show her pearly throat; and the open bosom, fringed with rich old lace, became her to perfection. Could Ned Black find any fault with her, in such a costume? With all the strange lack of insight of a young girl, she imputed considerations to her lover which should have made her despise him, instead of seeking to pander to them." In a series of what may be called “dis- ranging from the homely sense of a "Poor We give a few specimens as a foretaste of the quality, and a hint of the versatility, of the MEAL OR PEARL? For sifting meal we use coarse sieves and finer ones; runs. The coarsest meal is that which in the first is caught; not. Pearls, too, in several sieves, both coarse and fine, men sift; Thou ridest on the waves, the Spirit of the sea! * Rückert's "Wisdom of the Brahimin." Trans- points of English Grammar. Of this latter lated by Charles T. Brooks, of Newport. gentleman, Americans, generally, are but |