folio, by the late king of Oude, which was printed in his palace; and the "Sabda Kalpa Druma of the Rajah Radhakant Deb," a Sanscrit Dictionary, in seven volumes, folio the last two not yet received. Neither of these works was printed for sale; several copies of the first were sent as presents to the East India Company in London, one of which we have; and the second was intended only for presents to the native and English pundits. Our copy was one which was presented to the Rev. W. Morton, author of a Bengali and English Dictionary, at whose death it was sold. The whole linguistic collection numbers two thousand one hundred volumes.

sion of languages, the mother tongue has been forgotten; but that is not the case; we have come at last to the pure well of English undefiled. In the collection of English Literature, very few of the works of much value will be found wanting. It is not as large as it might easily be made: but it has its full proportion, and cannot rightly claim to be made absolutely complete at the expense of the others. It now numbers three thousand four hundred volumes, more than three hundred of which are exclusively Shaksperian literature It should be borne in mind that a large portion of every department in the library, except that of literature, consists of books in the English In the other divisions of literature, the classifi-language; so that it is fair to conclude that more cation is made first according to language, and than one-half of the whole could be read by those then in each language the subdivisions are more who know no other. To this it may be added, or less minute in proportion as the works are nu- that in collecting books for a library which aims merous. The history of each literature is found to be a good and a great one, the proper queswith it; and, first, of Greek and Latin literature. tion is, what is the merit of a work, and not in This is neither a very strong nor a weak depart-what language it is written. ment of the library; it is just about as it ought The Historical Department is the last in the to be, to stand neither above nor below its fair order of classification. This department is fuller proportion. It contains a copy of one or more perhaps than any other, with the exception of editions of all the authors of note in both lan- Mathematics, Languages and Bibliography. It guages. When it has one edition only, the most constitutes a fourth part at least of the whole liapproved has uniformly been selected. Of the brary. With a few exceptions, it is arranged in authors of the highest rank, several editions, in the series of alcoves extending on the main floor, all cases, have been provided. There are, for in- from the southeast to the southwest corner. stance, more than a dozen different Homers. Works on Chronology, Diplomatics, NumismatAmong them the princeps of 1488; half as many ics, Heraldry, Inscriptions and Antiquities are of the Greek tragedians, of Pindar, of Demosthe-regarded as introductions to the right undernes, of Herodotus, of Thucydides, and all of that standing of history, and are placed in the first class. So in Latin there are twelve Virgils, alcove, with General Biographical Dictionaries quite as many Horaces, half as many Ovids, and and Universal History. Biography does not Ciceros, and Livys, and Plinys: the whole num- form a class by itself; but is placed either with ber of volumes, in both languages, with the appa- the civil or literary history to which it belongs. ratus criticus pertaining to them, is three thousand Geography, for the more convenient use of Maps one hundred. In Spanish and Portuguese Lite- and Charts is placed on the second floor; and rature, the number of volumes is six hundred and Voyages and Travels, as most intimately conseventy-three; the Italian, though not fuller in nected with the discovery and history of Amer proportion, has one thousand seven hundred and ica, are placed in immediate proximity to it, insixty-one. In coming to the French, we find a stead of preceding the historical collection, as still more copious literature; in this, the library they usually do. has three thousand one hundred and one vol- Ecclesiastical History is appended to Theoumes. German Literature is of a more recent logy. This account has already been extended growth than either of those previously named; too far to allow the details to be continued. It of the fourteen hundred volumes in this language can only be stated generally, that the historical of the class of belles lettres, certainly one thousand divisions are in the usual way, and that when it must be the productions of the present century, was necessary to bring the history of more than and not above one hundred anterior to the mid- one country into the same alcove, regard was dle of the last. Out of respect to the old Knick- had to the connection which had existed beerbockers of New York, we have brought together tween them in the past. Thus, Spanish, Portuone hundred and fifty-six volumes in euphonious guese and Italian History are together; French Dutch, including the immortal Cats, in various occupies a whole alcove; German, Dutch and forms and sizes; Vondel, Feith, the publications Belgian are together in an alcove, and with them of the Bataafsehe Matschappij, the Maatschap- Scandinavian and Russian; English, Scotch and pij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde te Leiden, the Irish History fills another alcove. Asiatic and Hollandsche Maatschappij van Fraije Kunsten African History, for want of room below, is en Wetenschapen, and of the Vereeniging ter placed on the second floor, in an alcove with OriBevordering der Oude Nederlandsche Letter-ental Literature, the latter, including the Chinese, kunde. numbers seven hundred volumes. The collection of Scandinavian Literature, To the American Historical Department a distinct from the Sagas and other historical larger space in the library has been assigned than works, amounts to eight hundred and nine vo- to any other, because it is intended to make this lumes. In the Hungarian, and in the Slavo- the most complete. The collection already formnic languages collectively, we have only forty-ed contains most of the early Spanish writers; the early voyages, the accounts of the first colo

one.

It may be feared, perhaps, that in this confu-nists, the various histories of the war of Inde

pendence, and the older books generally. In the English Parliamentary Journals, Debates and more modern ones there are many deficiencies to Reports. These amount to more than two thoube supplied. Not in American History only, but sand volumes, chiefly folios; the long room on also in American Literature, it is hoped that the the left of the main entrance door has been library will sooner or later, be made complete. taken for them, and for other like European It now numbers three thousand four hundred documents; added to those just named, the numand seven volumes, making in all the divisions is now two thousand eight hundred and eighty of history twenty thousand three hundred and volumes. The corresponding room on the right fifty volumes. will be appropriated to American public docu

At the end of his system of classification, Bru- ments of the United States, and of the indivinet has a sort of Appendix, which he calls Para-dual States. This use of them will in no wise lipomènes Historiques, where he places Biblio-interfere with their being used as reading rooms, graphy and Literary History. It would certainly should they be needed for that purpose. The be quite as philosophical an arrangement to re-present arrangement for reading is at the tables gard books of this class as introductions, for in the main library room.

they are indispensable to the knowledge of all As the public may be curious to know what is others. For this reason, and for the conve-done about catalogues of the library, I add, that nience of those who have charge of the library, they have this place assigned to them in our arrangement. The collection is very full in both of these classes, particularly in the former, in which scarcely one important work is wanting. The number of volumes contained in them is four thousand six hundred, which is exclusive of the special Literary History of the different partments. countries.

In the classification of the Astor Library there are various minor subdivisions which could not be specified; and there is a large number of miscellaneous and polygraphic writers, and of duplicates which have not been included in the foregoing computations. These altogether amount to five thousand volumes.

The library possesses a complete collection of

From the New York Daily Times.
TWO PREACHERS.

Who loves all excellence of kind,
May group, but not compare, the two,
Since they are diverse types of mind,
And each to self and culture true.
The first one's thoughts, in rapid sweep,
A broad and crystal theme define,
Distinct and spacious as the deep,

Edged with the long horizon's line.
No narrow creek, no stagnant pond,

Nor close shut bay contracts the view,
But, always onward and beyond,

A sure helm guides you o'er the blue,-
A stout ship bears you and its freight
Of learning, gathered from all time,
Of gold as fine as large in weight,

And precious fruits from every clime.
And ever spreads the billowy space,
Moved by a fresh and steady breeze,
And, here and there along its face,

The sparkling water swells to seas
That break and foam in fancy's light,
Until, at last, you reach the land
A firm conclusion of your flight.
Sea-ward you gaze, as there you stand,
And list the final, full appeal,

And hear the shells and pebbles drift
In rolling undertone, and feel

The rising wind, that loves to lift The long, high surges, rushing in With swifter force and louder din.

Thus, to the end, more clearly roars,

an alphabetical one is now completed, with every title on a separate slip, so that it can be indefinitely enlarged, without the necessity of being rewritten. A copy of this will be prepared for the use of readers with all possible despatch; probably it will be printed, and then followed by classified catalogues of the several de

I have endeavored to make the preceding statement as accurate as possible, and as full as could be allowed in a weekly journal. On the ninth of January the library will be opened, and then any one may see for himself how much of truth there is in it. I wish to have it received as my individual communication, made on my own responsibility; and, therefore, put my name to it. Jos. G. COGSWELL.

More brightly breaks and grandly pours,
The voice and thought of copious STORRS.
Would you attend the other's speech,

No full-sailed vessel speeds your mind
O'er flowing seas to looked-for beach-
You mount the chariot of the wind,
And, as you skim a world of things,

And gaze with eagle vision down,
The sudden-shifting current brings
Your soaring sail right o'er the town,
Floats you above the beggar's den,

The rich man's home, the busy street,-
Blows from the mantled forms of men
The fair disguise that hides deceit,
Reveals their characters, and plays

Fearlessly with their stately pride,—
Then whirls you where the forest sways,
And harvests wave in valleys wide,
Or lifts you to a mountain's height,

And driving down its mass of cloud,
Courses the plains with flashing light,
And peals of thunder, long and loud;
Prostrates the castled Wrong, and cleaves
The walls of Doubt and Bigotry,
Or, dashing ocean-ward, it heaves

With thought profound the deepest sea.
Yet hath its fiercest inspiration

A soothing breath for sad despair,
And always, with the agitation,

Brings purified, reviving air.
A sweeping, free and fiery preacher,
A keenly lightening, kindling teacher,
Is livid, swift, and hearty BEECHER.

H. W. P.

From the Christian Observer.
SOLITARINESS OF HEART.

and a feeling of solitariness may well follow him
wherever he goes.
He lives on because he must.
He wears, perhaps, a smooth brow, and duly ex-
changes courtesies with his neighbors. But his
heart yearns through many a lonely hour, for
those warm greetings that do not come, and the
missing companions whom he will see no more.

I AM disposed to think that those expressions in which Christian men especially are described as "strangers on the earth," are not taken in the breadth of meaning which properly belongs to them. In a certain sense, indeed, all admit the But there are other things, beside actual losses justice of the description. And the acknowledg- and separations, which bring a sense of loneliness ment is, in fact, forced upon all of us. What are over the mind. Let a man stand out from the we all but "strangers upon the earth? Not crowd, as one who thinks for himself, and looks proprietors surely for, who built our homes; who with keener observation on things around him, keeps them; and who peoples them, but the great than the busy triflers who skim the mere surface Lord of all? We are occupants rather, for an of society and gather amusement for the mouncertain season-a brief one at the longest: ment,-let him be one who does not take his dwellers by sufferance where we are-permitted, opinions ready made from the set he lives with like ten thousand more, to pitch our tent in some or the party he belongs to, but feels that, before spot which chances to be untenanted, but, before he can adopt the current opinion, there is much we are well rested, sure to be summoned away chaff to be winnowed from the wheat, and for a fresh stage in our journey. If a man has a many weeds to be plucked up and cast away;right to claim lordship anywhere, he ought to such a man must often feel himself a stranger in know how to keep away spoilers and intruders, the world. The popular persons in every circle and to bid defiance to all accident and change. are almost sure to be the credulous and yielding; But, in another sense, the thought that we are men easily adopting the mistakes and prejudices "strangers" here, is often thrust upon us. It is hard which are most in fashion; whilst independence to make friends, and keep them through half our of thought and action is to be purchased at the time. A man may be at once strong enough, and cost of sneers which no reasoning can answer, godless enough, to reckon on life almost as his and suspicions which it is difficult to endure. own; and yet, with the bulk of those he meets The world, in fact, is too commonly the home of with, he lives almost like a foreigner. They have the narrow-minded and the narrow-hearted: no share in his feelings, and speak not his lan- whilst those who overleap the boundaries of guage. There are indeed a few, of kindred tastes popular opinion, who range far and wide in and pursuits, gathered out of the throng, to whom search of Truth, who adopt, perhaps from the he may be able to unbosom himself without re- volume of Inspiration, what are accounted serve, and from whose lips he may catch the strange notions about religion and its obligations, sweet music of thoughts and memories and as- are regarded as we should regard travellers who pirations, which are as the echo of his own. But have come from a far country, and have brought as to the mass, though he be known to many, with them a strange language and an outlandish according to the world's poor notion of acquain- dress. Very often, therefore, as a man increases tanceship, he has still the stranger's mark upon in wisdom he loses in popularity; and a barrier him; and he often labors under a sense of lone-grows up between himself and society which liness, from which he most imperfectly escapes makes intimacy impossible, though a cold ac only by plunging into the crowd of those whom quaintanceship may survive. the world calls friends, simply because they resort to the same places and talk about the same things.

There are, I think, particular seasons of life when this sense of loneliness presses with peculiar weight upon a tender and sensitive spirit, and when those who have not the consolations of religion are poor and desolate indeed. Such, for example, are times of bereavement. There is, perhaps, one known, proved, and trusted friend

I will not, however, take the case of mere thoughtless or godless men, but will speak of those who understand better what life is worth, and what hearts are worth, than the mere triflers in society. Thoughtful persons of warm and -one who, perhaps, has been the depository of strong affections, in one stage or another of their our joys and griefs, our chosen counsellor, our pilgrimage, are sometimes startled to find how faithful, considerate, unwearied associate through little hold they have upon the world, which is long years of trial and difficulty, and in comparmoving and shifting around them: the old fa-ison with whom other friends were as nothing. miliar circle is broken up; the old faces, that But the parting hour has come. He is removed used to throng around our board in the bright to a distance; or nearer and dearer claims grow morning of life, have passed away; the friends who vowed eternal constancy in youth are now bound by new ties, engrossed by cares and business, or rooted far away in some soil where we cannot follow them. And unless new friends are supplied, we may, after forty or fifty years have gone by, look around and find that the crowded city affords us little more opportunities for fellowship, for real fellowship, for seeking counsel from wise heads and sympathy from loving hearts, than if we lived in a desert. Such a man may well feel himself a stranger in the world,

up; or death cuts down the stronger. Then, a man, especially if he has not the love of God in his soul, becomes a "stranger" indeed. He may talk to others, but it seems to him vain and profitless talk. A hundred thoughts die away unrevealed. He cannot bring himself to tell to doubtful friends what might be received with a stare or a smile. And, till he finds another congenial heart, he lives on, amidst the cold greet ings and courtesies of life, a mere solitary, even in the midst of a densely peopled world.

There is another season, in which a sense of

roam abroad, and find no settled home, no certain track, no guiding clue ; — I should rejoice to unite myself to one company, if only I could be sure that God was with them. I would follow the law of my conscience, and do what it bids me, if I were sure of the soundness of my first principles. But wiser and better men than myself are opposed upon these; and where shall I choose, and on whom shall I fix as a guide? I am a wanderer and a truant; I travel on without an aim or purpose, till I know where I am, and feel that the spirit of the Lord is with me.

'strangeness" is brought home very keenly to young minds. Some new position is reached, or some new responsibility is incurred, by one who has been hitherto under guidance and control. The scene is shifted, and life appears before him in quite another character. He must now feel, think, act for himself. The voice is silent which used to be everything to him. How many are the tender spirits that are almost crushed at times like these! How does such a person long for the home circle, instead of the new world of strange faces that present itself! Life is almost too busy a scene for making new friends. How Now where shall the tossed and anxious spirits heart-breaking the feeling which, in such a case, which I have endeavored to describe, find rest? will often press upon the mind! "I might die Who shall pour balm into these wounded hearts! here," he says, " and my funeral day hardly bring When bereavement has cast a shade over them; a tear upon any cheek, or be remembered beyond when the poor solitary is burdened by the loss of the morrow.". Surely among life's bitterest sor- old friends and the pressure of new duties, who rows, while it lasts, is this feeling of desolation, shall say authoritatively to these wanderers and when the rough world is fairly encountered for doubts," This the way, walk ye in it.". Perhaps the first time, and the new comer has to win his the best answer to these qeustions is supplied by own place and to shape his own fortune, with on-the words which David couples with the exclaly his own patience and discretion for his guides. mation to which I have referred, "Hide not Thy I may mention another season, in which many commandments from me." Such words, in the thoughtful minds especially feel the need of sym-mouth of a devout, earnest, truth-seeking man, pathy and companionship, I mean, a time of must mean, "Teach me all that Thou hast to controversy, when the minds of men are unsettled teach. Reveal to me Thy hidden counsels. Fill and agitated by new opinions, when eager and me, O Thou Giver of grace, and wisdom and inquiring spirits find it difficult to rest on the old goodness, with the knowledge of Thy will in foundations, or to walk in the old paths. Is it all wisdom and spiritual understanding." I possible to deny that we ourselves are fallen into know it is a trite thing to say, "If you are in one of these periods? The present age is com- doubt, go to the fountain-head of truth; listen to pletely unlike those which preceded it. Men the word of God; pray for the Holy Spirit to are no longer as they used to be; satisfied with clear away doubts and mists and prejudices, and falling into the ranks, and ranging themselves passions which blind the eye and the heart; under some party leader; contented to see with and yet, I confidently believe that this, in all their eyes, and hear with their ears; and allow-times and under all perplexities, is the counsel ing themselves to entertain no questions upon to which we must adhere, and which the teachers points not included in the received formularies of the great multitude must urge, even to weariof Faith. There is a bolder and more restlessness, if need be, upon willing or unwilling hearspirit abroad. Questions are canvassed and ar-rers.- Personal religion is, under God, our true gued on which the minds of well-educated and safeguard in days of error- our cordial in the intelligent men, unwarped by prejudice, were season of loneliness-our substitute and compensupposed to be settled three centuries since. Dis-sation for wise friends and loving companions, cussions about the Rule of Faith,-about the if we cannot find them where we are. How unclaims of that vague and undefined body, the speakable the blessedness of lifting our eyes to the Church, about the freedom of the individual fountain of light; of holding spiritual commu conscience. about the pretensions, as tested by nion with the Father of spirits; of passing the reason and Scripture and antiquity, of the arro-crowd who throng the door of the temple, and gant Priest who tells us that Rome is to rule entering the inner sanctuary where God teaches Christendom, though He who made us has taught and sanctifies His own children. It is someus to call no man master,- discussions on these points, and many others, are no longer the talk of the Schools, but common talk; and young and ardent minds are caught by novelties or perplexed by subtleties, while many nobler spirits, thoughtful, earnest searchers after truth, sigh in secret for the rest which they cannot find.

thing positive that we need in times of perplexity-something full and fresh as the streams from the fountain of life, for our hours of loneliness and desertion. And it is not enough to seek the temple, the sacraments, the ministers of the Lord only. The true wisdom and the essential duty are, to seek Himself.

If the thoughts of such persons were transla- Happy shall I be if thoughts not unprofitable ted into words, I believe they would be expressed to myself may find their way to other hearts; by such language as that of David - a man who and lead them to feel that the faithful Christian, in spite of his throne and his high intellectual far from being really solitary, has already "come atta.nments, must often have labored under these to the assembly and church of the first-born, and feelings; "I am a stranger on the earth: "I"to Jesus, the Mediator of the new covenant."

A BULLY.-Bullies go through society with| HAYDON.-Haydon was one of those men the impunity that a sweep or a brimming dung-who always talked as if there was a fiery chariot cart passes along the streets. waiting to take him up at the next cab-stand.

DVI.

LIVING AGE. VOL. IV. 15

From Household Words.
BY DAWK TO DELHI.

BUSINESS Summoned me recently from the modern to the ancient capital of India. From Calcutta to Delhi runs the Grand Trunk Road, nine hundred miles long; one of the few good, though late, results of the East India Company's rule. This journey I was to get over by Dawk travelling, and my purpose now is to explain what manner of travelling that is.

flooring of reasonably elastic cushion, covered to match the lining of the carriage; this extends over the whole length and breadth of the Dawk. The cushion is in four parts, one serving as lid to a well in which the traveller may put some of his luggage, or, if he should wish to sit, may put his legs. In short, the Dawk is a snug little house upon wheels.

In family council, we agreed that, as my luggage was not very heavy, it might all be packed next morning, and next morning many hands and sundry little fingers were at work about the vehicle; which swallowed up my luggage as though it were but a mouthful, much as it had

Dawk travelling is no more like railway travelling, than a donkey race is like the Newmarket St. Leger. It is more suggestive of the progress of Indian railways. They have a line at Bom-seemed to be when we were putting it together. bay something longer than its own name when We made but a solemn business of our goodit is printed in large capitals; Bengal can show by; and when the horse-which like the vehi a very few miles of embankment that have for cle, was rather strong than elegant was quite the last two or three years been nearly finished, ready to drag me from the sight of household and some cuttings which sanguine people say will faces, I ascended to my lair upon the cushions, be available in about a year; Madras talks lan- over which some kind packer had thrown a royai guidly about railways, and the North-West Pro- or colored quilt, and which was further furnished vinces have got as far as thinking of them. In- with a set of carefully adjusted pillows. More dia has not yet even come up to the advancement last words and the horse had started; but there of our old pair-horse or four-horse coach. Of was a brief stoppage - a little mouth that never Indian roads in their customary badness I say kept a secret, rose above a port-hole, to announce nothing; of the Grand Trunk Road between to me the name of the maker of a mysterious and Calcutta and Delhi, and of the improved system magnificent crotchet nightcap, that was spread of travelling thereupon the best kind of trav-out in all its glory on the shelf. It was too splenelling to which India has attained, and that but did to be worn as somebody perhaps thought, very recently I shall say much, if I may be when he stole it near the journey's end. allowed to say it in my own leisurely way. I am an old Indian; and we old Indians like to do things quietly we are not to be hurried.

Really off; out of sight of the old house, and traversing familiar streets. Down the broad busy thoroughfare that traverses the native town, A contract was first entered into between my- over the iron bridge, out of Calcutta, and upon self, on the one hand, and the North-Western the Barrackpore road, with its fifteen miles of Dawk Company, on the other; whereby, for the noble avenue. The first milestone; - and the sum of one hundred and thirty-eight rupees calculation was exceedingly comforting that I (equivalent to thirteen pounds sixteen shillings), had got over a thousandth part of my journey; the said Company agreed to convey me from at the second milestone I had finished a five-hunCalcutta to Delhi. In consequence of this con- dredth, and that sounded like progress; almost tract, a Dawk was driven to my door one even-like having got half-way. At the fifth milestone ing, that it might be packed by me and my we had turned the thousandth into a two hunhousehold overnight, ready for starting early in dredth part of the whole distance. My courage the morning. A Dawk may be described roughly rose. Here was quick progress - we should soon as a large palanquin running on four high be at the journey's end. wheels, and drawn by a single horse. It is strong It was needful that my courage should rise rabut not elegant; and is not decorated in accord-pidly, for I had work to do that called for all my ance with the highest principles of art; being energies. Calcutta streets I had heard much painted light green above and black below. To abused, and of the Barrackpore Road there were appear publicly in such a vehicle in England, incessant laudations in the town. Now, I began would occasion the conviction that the occupant had gone into the travelling show line, and was on his way to the next country fair. The wheels of the Dawk are stout, for they have heavy work to do, and the body is hung high between them; for the Dawk has streams to ford. Round the roof a railing runs, for the more secure accommodation of such heavy luggage as can be packed outside. The carriage has a sliding door on each side, and windows like port-holes. The roomy interior is lined with a strong woollen stuff of green and black; it is of considerable length, and there is a space in it for a great many odds and ends. There is a handy little shelf in front, there are two ample pockets, there are straps by which a hat or two may be slung, and there is a strong net suspended from the roof by its four corners. Level with the door-sill is a

to prefer a bad street to a good road. All had gone smoothly with me in the city; but, upon the road, affairs with the Dawk assumed a troubled aspect. Bottles began to clash together, a violent assault was made upon the tea-things by a heavy canister of biscuits, and I felt in my do. main like an Emperor within whose realms a revolution had sprung up. There was need that I should devote my whole mind, and my whole physical force to its suppression. I re-adjusted, re-arranged, marshalled, imprisoned, and bound the elements of all the strife, and restored order by giving a new constitution to the rebels, carefully removing any articles that were a cause of strife, and substituting others. The refractory biscuit could be subjugated only by keeping it firm under foot, and I found it requisite to lay a heavy hand upon other causes of contention;