hemian Girl. DRAMA. proof in the arguments to sustain them. Mr. Parton's improved men, who in the fulness of their wisdom and virtue will neither smoke nor drink wine, will not get entire possession of the earth without such a reminder from Mr. Fiske as Burns derives from Solomon: performance of Trovatore, Martha, and the Bo-whelmed by the announcement that her first hus- supposed any counsel could be obtained for the band, Mr. Thornley, whom she believes dead, has defence. But the world of good-fellowdom (we turned up, and "is at the banking-house and would know an experienced matron, by the way, who like to see her." says she never knew a good fellow that was not a With to-night's performance at the Holliday Such is the barest outline of the tissue of ab- bad fellow!) had no idea of abandoning friends in Street, ends the two week's engagement of Mrs. surdities which, loosely strung together in the misfortune, and Mr. John Fiske came to the bar D. P. Bowers. Moderately good houses have at- most improbable and disjointed way, constitute to prove that the alleged culprits were both useful tended her performances. Among these, Snares, the plot of Snares. That Mrs. Bowers should and ornamental members of society. If you treat we believe, was played for the first time in this city have made such a piece pass off even tolerably them well, he says, they will treat you well, as on Monday night. Nothing can more strikingly well, is no small evidence of her power as an you deserve; if you abuse them, they will abuse illustrate the poverty of invention and lack even actress. Other parts in which she has appeared, you, as you deserve. There seems to be some of the ordinary accomplishments of literary join-as in those of Mary, Queen of Scots, and truth in these frank assertions, as well as some ership among dramatic authors of the present day, Elizabeth, even with the unavoidable comparison than the clumsy inartificial construction of this suggested between her acting and that of Ristori, piece, with its pointless dialogue and unreal plot, stamp her as a tragic actress of the very highest situations and characters. In the first part of the merit. We question, indeed, whether she has her play we have Harry Melville (Mr. J. H. McCol- superior now upon the English stage. The same lom) and his wife Clara Melville (Mrs. Bowers), elements of histrionic power-a fine presence, rich, who are supposed to be people of the highest re- sweet and well-modulated voice, an enunciation "My son, these maxims make a rule, and lump them aye togither, spectability, living in the enjoyment of the most always clear and distinct-a thorough comprehen- The rigid righteous is a fool, the rigid wise anither." exquisite connubial felicity, without a cloud to ob- sion of the requirements of her part, and great ca- The fact is, with or without the Fiske and Parscure their domestic horizon. The destroyer of pacity of expression-make her success equally ton essays, the rigid righteous and the rigid wise this Eden appears in the person of a widow Thorn- complete in roles such as Pauline in the Lady of are not going to get immediate possession of the ley (Mrs. Meek), young, handsome, rich,-who Lyons and Julia in the Hunchback. We can only world, or of any great portions thereof-Boston, has set her unhallowed affections upon Mr. Mel- regret that she has not given us more of such rep- and Washington mayhap, excepted. Outside of ville, and is determined to have him at any price-resentations during her stay, instead of producing these glorious centres of wisdom and virtue, Mr. despite the trifling obstacle of his being already pieces like East Lynne and Lady Audley's Secret, Parton and the other moral reformers will find it married to one woman, to whom he is devotedly in which all the extravagancies of a most exagger-difficult to bring the masses of men up to the stanattached. To accomplish her purpose, the widow ated fiction are made to appear doubly extravagant dard of angelic perfection while a woman or a proceeds to lay her snares-invoking the assistance by dramatization-and Snares, of which we have grape is to be found flourishing on the face of the of her brother, Edward Vaughan (Mr. Healey), who already given our opinion. earth. is the male villain of the piece. Through their As an actor, Mr. McCollom has disappointed We say Mr. Fiske brings forth arguments, and contrivances, Henry Melville is arrested for debt, our expectations. His style, often exaggerated-clever ones at that, in support of the use, as distinand also upon "a charge of fraud"-said fraud his manner frequently stagey, and his utterance guished from the abuse, of tobacco and alcohol, or consisting in overdrawing his account at bank. almost always boisterous-serve sometimes as foils we may say, of smoking and drinking. He brings While husband and wife are plunged in the deep-to set off the quiet ease and grace of Mrs. Bowers' up eminent modern physiologists to the witnessest distress, the suggestion is made to the latter representations. We do not know whether or not stand, and makes the most of their testimony. He that the whole thing can be arranged, and Melville Mrs. Meek is a permanent addition to the stock- proves to the satisfaction of a large portion of inrestored to liberty and fortune, upon one condition, company at the Holliday Street. If so, the public telligent readers that smoking and drinking, in which is that the wife shall sell her husband to the may be congratulated upon the fact. In the lead-bounds, are salutary institutions, not things indifwidow. The same suggestion is made to the hus- ing female parts in which she has appeared, she ferent. They are economisers of the life fund, band, with the view of obtaining his assent to the has played with uniform good taste and success. wholesome medicaments, aids to digestion, special transfer. This remarkable overture being de- She unites with very considerable personal advan- forms of food. He has been conning Dr. Anstie clined, Melville goes to prison. The wife, who tages of voice, face and person, the manner of closely, and Anstie is a man of note among recent is supposed to be, at midnight, standing outside a finished and cultivated actress. In the play physiologists and therapeutists, who has published the prison, trying to catch a glimpse of her of Snares, the new comedian, Mr. Woods, in the a notable book upon Stimulants and Narcotics, incarcerated lord, swoons in the street while character of Bob Nettles, seemed to afford consid- wherein such views are more or less directly advosaying her prayers. She is picked up by the erable amusement to the house. He appears to be cated. He cites such authorities as Pareira and police, and, strange to say, carried to the Dead a sprightly actor. Next week, it is announced, Christison and Lewes to show that no deleterious house. The husband, who from his barred window Mr. Jefferson begins a brief engagement. results have been ever proved to follow the temsees his wife fall, indulges in the most violent deIt may be observed that the execrable quality of perate use of tobacco in smoking. Then he brings monstrations. He implores Edward Vaughan, who the gas at present furnished to the public is partic- forward the positive proofs in its favor. happens opportunely to drop in at the prison, ularly noticeable at all places of amusement. The "(upon the widow's business,) to find his wife, and light through the body of the house at the Hollihave her attended to. Vaughan, curiously, goes day Street Theatre, at times, amounts to little more straight to the Morgue, where affairs appear to be than twilight-a sort of darkness visible, or dim conducted in the loosest manner possible. The irreligious light, which is far from agreeable. poor wife, who is not dead, recovers her consciousness, and, horrified at the situation-and particularly at the proximity of the corpse of a drowned woman-swoons again! Vaughan, arriving, observes that there is a striking resemblance between the drowned woman and Mrs. Melville, which suggests to him the happy thought of passing off the former as Mrs. Melville, while the latter is to be shut up in a mad-house. The physician in charge of the Morgue, who appears to be as great a despot in his way as ever was Secretary Stanton or Mr. Seward, issues the necessary certificate for the burial of the dead woman as Mrs. Melville, and also an order committing the latter tó a lunatic asylum. After this, it is needless to say that Mr. Melville marries the widow, whose triumph, however, is short-lived. The first Mrs. Melville is discharged from the asylum, and returns upon the scene to claim her conjugal rights. Poetic justice is inflicted upon the wicked widow Smoking and Drinking have been so often arand her wicked brother-the latter is arrested raigned, so often convicted, hung, drawn, quarupon a charge of forgery, and his sister is over-tered, banished, etc., that it was not for a moment perfluity; but if he eat too much or too little, it ( .0 Reviews. Tobacco and Alcohol. It Does Pay to Smoke: Tobacco undoubtedly has its uses: it grows for a purpose. Dr. Anstie and Mr. Fiske maintain its nutritive properties. Mr. Fiske improved in condition personally from adopting the habit of smoking. He considers cause and effect in his case to be perfectly clear. Perhaps he is right; but though he may be so, we will make free to assert that every physician can show more cases injured than benefited by tobacco as men ordinarily use it. We will go further, and say that no physician can show a healthy man whose health has been made better by smoking. This, be it remembered, is far from saying that tobacco has no therapeutic uses. These it undoubtedly has, though they are of somewhat difficult appreciation. Tobacco and Alcohol, under the aliases of Smoking and Drinking, are arraigned before the bar of public justice by Mr. James Parton, who, assum- Mr. Fiske, in defence of smoking, cites certain ing the special privileges of a military court, acts experiments of Dr. Hammond's, but the facts do as prosecutor, judge and jury; convicts them, of not afford very strong arguments for the defence. course, and then gives such reasons as seem good Dr. Hammond, who, in physiology at least, has a to him for the verdict; the sentence being death decidedly Athenian taste for new things, deduced and ignominious burial, fathoms deep, whence from some experiments made by and upon himself, neither smoke nor spirits can ever rise to show that tobacco is a valuable accessory food; but his their burial place. No more smoking and drink- experiments tend to show that a man who has a ing, no more cakes and ale thereafter. due supply of wholesome food, is rather injured than benefited by the accessory. If a man eats just enough for his proper wants, tobacco is a su may have beneficial action, or the reverse. When | "A kind of narcotism, the very existence of which series. In none of his works do Mr. Taylor's keen is usually ignored, but which is in truth well marked Dr. Hammond ate full meals, the only really im- and easy to identify, is that occasioned by habitual perceptive powers, bright touches of description, portant result from smoking two cigars after each excess in tea and coffee. There are many points of and easy pleasant style, neither labored nor flipdifference in the action of these two substances, taken meal was transient disturbance of the nervous sys- in poisonous excess; but one common feature is very pant, show to happier advantage. tem, "great nervous excitement," etc. When he constant, viz: the production of muscular tremor. The first narrative in the book describes a cruise Out of twenty-four cases of undoubted excess in the use ate sparingly, smoking abated the sense of hunger of tea, and an equal number of instances of extrava- on Lake Ladoga, which probably no American and-caused "the same nervous excitement, trem-gant consumption of coffee, which I have collected, had ever visited before, with a party of Russian there were only five patients who did not exhibit this bling and wakefulness, but in a somewhat less de-symptom, which I am inclined to place to the score of pilgrims going to celebrate the anniversary of the theine which is contained in both these drinks. Saints Sergius and Herrmann on the holy isle of Valaam. The arrival at these islands is thus described: all others. : As we drew around to the northern shore, point came out behind point, all equally bold with rock, dark with pines, and destitute of any sign of habitation. We were looking forward, over the nearest headland, when, all at once, a sharp glitter through the tops of the pines struck our eyes. A few more turns of the paddles, and a bulging dome of gold flashed splendidly in the sun! Our voyage, thus far, had been one of surprises, and this was not the least. Crowning a slender, pointed roof, its connection with the latter was not immediately visible: it seemed to spring into the air and hang there, like a marvellous whole building appeared,-an hexagonal church, of meteor shot from the sun. Presently, however, the pale-red brick, the architecture of which was an admirable reproduction of the older Byzantine forms. It stood upon a rocky islet, on either side of which a narrow channel communicated with a deep cove, cleft between walls of rock. Turning in towards the first of these channels, we presently saw the inlet of darkest-blue water, pushing its way into the heart of the island. Crowning its eastern bank, and about half a mile distant, stood an immense mass of buildings, from the centre of which Arctic Zone, in the solitude of unhewn forests, was gree." Per contra, there was an increase of bodily The paralysing influence of narcotic doses of tea is weight under the first condition, and a saving of further displayed by the production of a particularly loss under the second, which are respectively at- the action of the heart to a distressing degree. I beobstinate kind of dyspepsia; while coffee disorders tributed to a restraint of tissue metamorphosis;lieve that a very much larger amount of illness is but which might as justly be attributed to a more than is commonly supposed.' caused by intemperate indulgence in these narcotics obvious fact: that is, to retention of excreta. And elsewhere: We have admitted the probability that Mr. "It is strange, doubtless, that every or nearly every Fiske's digestion was promoted by smoking; but stimulant we know, is in large doses a poison; and a grave moral might be drawn, were this the place for the benefit, if real, was not necessarily due to any moralising, from the fact that the evil always lies so virtue in the tobacco. A man may feel his stomach near the good. But it is still more strange to observe that to many who are unable to believe in the possioppressed from eating too much or too fast, so that bility of alcohol or sulphuric æther acting in any dose the alimentary bolus may be inadequately supplied difficulty in explaining the diametrically opposite acas food, it never occurs that there is precisely the same with saliva or gastric juice or other juices neces-tions of tea, of coffee, or of quinine, according as they are taken, in small or in excessive doses. We are acsary to a beneficent eutrophia. Now, in such con- customed to think of these things simply as tonic dition, let him put anything in his mouth which stimulants exercising a beneficial influence on nutrition; we are apt to forget that they are undoubted will cause motion of the jaws as in mastication, narcotic poisons when taken in excessive doses, and and not only the saliva but the other juices will be that excesses in tea and coffee do actually produce poisoning in a very considerable number of cases." made to flow upon the excessive or ill-chewed ali-Anstie, Stimulants and Narcotics. mentary mass, and to promote its digestion. A The great and growing prevalence of nervous tall white towers and green cupolas shot up against good cigar may be a fit remedy for indigestion in diseases is largely due to the use of such stimu- the sky. This was the monastery of Valaam. Here, such a case, but in a hygienical point of view pre-lants as tea, coffee and tobacco, and as to the last, in the midst of this lonely lake, on the borders of the vention is better than cure in this instance, as in most men who use it will almost surely cross the one of those palaces which religion is so fond of rearpoison line, and pass from stimulation to narcot-ing, to show her humility. In the warm afternoon sunshine, and with the singular luxuriance of vege Dr. Hammond was an admirable subject for the ism, not only occasionally, but habitually. The tation which clothed the terraces of rock on either tobacco experiment, being a vigorous, temperate practical result is, that many men are injured, pines in the rear, could have fancied ourselves aphand, we forgot the high latitude, and, but for the man, who had never used the weed in any form, while few, if any, are benefited by smoking. proaching some cove of Athos or Euboea. The steamer and who had no prejudices to maintain or to over- There are yet others who are not appreciably bene- of the birch almost swept her deck; every ledge tra ran so near the rocky walls that the trailing branches Whoever will take the pains to read his fited or injured by moderate smoking. As we are versing their gray, even masonry, was crowded with wild red pinks, geranium, saxifrage, and golden flowpaper (Physiological Effects of Alcohol and To- not of those who confound the fragrance of to- ered purslane; and the air, wonderfully pure and bacco: Am. Journal of Medical Sciences, Oct.,bacco smoke with the odor of total depravity, and sweet in itself, was flavored with delicate woodland 1856,) will be at a loss to find any real beneficial as the fume thereof does not to us as to the British an orchard of large apple-trees in full-bloom, on a influence from its use, even while the doctor was Solomon "resemble the horrible Stygian smoake shelf near the water; above them grew huge oaks and maples, heavy with their wealth of foliage; and over on short rations; and it assuredly did him no good of the pit that is bottomless," we would let the last- the tops of these the level coping of the precipice, with named smokers enjoy their pipes simply in ac- had arrived before us, were leaning and looking down. a balustrade, upon which hundreds of pilgrims, who Mr. Fiske bears hard upon Mr. Parton for as-cordance with the best point made by Mr. Fiske Beyond this point, the inlet widened into a basin serting that smoking makes men slaves. "The where the steamer had room to turn around. Here we found some forty or fifty boats moored to the bank, Turks and Persians are great smokers, and they while the passengers they had brought (principally live under a despotic form of government. Q.E.D. lying between it and Onega) were scattered over the from the eastern shore of the lake, and the district The extreme liberality of Oriental institutions beheights. The captain pointed out to us a stately, twostory brick edifice, some three hundred feet long, fore the introduction of tobacco, Mr. Parton probBeyond this we make no concessions to his facts flanking the monastery, as the house for guests. ably thinks so well known as not to require men- (we will refer him to John Hunter for the fact Another of less dimensions, on the hill in front of the landing-place, appeared to be appropriated especially tion." This is a clever hit, but a point of some that there are more false facts than false theories to the use of the peasants. A rich succession of musignificance is not mentioned by either party, in medicine) or his theories. If people are really sical chimes pealed down to us from the belfry, as if in welcome, and our deck-load of pilgrims crossed which is that the Turks are not the men now that benefited in health by smoking, Mrs. Blank and themselves in reverent congratulation as they stepped they were when they lived, and throve, and the girls would have the same right to the pipe upon the sacred soil. fought, without tobacco, as without wine. It may that we have; smoking would become unquestionbe asserted on the one hand, that their deteriora- ably one of "women's rights," and men who find tion is not due to tobacco, but with at least equal it inconvenient to pay daily for their own cigars, force on the other, that they certainly have not would have to quadruple this little expense for the improved under its use. health of wife and daughters. And just think of the whole family all puffing away together for life, or for health, after each meal, besides a few extra smokes by way of stimulus to correct the narcotism from a slight excess on yesterday. come. while on full rations. in favor of smoking. "If such a pleasure is to be After passing the whole matter in review, we think, taking smoking as it is done, and not as it ought to be, the good being equivocal, and the harm being certain, to say nothing of waste of time and money, that it does not pay to smoke. odors. On the other side, under the monastery, was Bright as a picture is the description of the procession of the pilgrims a burst of banners and a cloud of incense issued from The chimes pealed out quick and joyously, and soon the great gate. All the pilgrims-nearly two thousand in number-thronged around the double line of chanting monks, and it was found necessary to inclose the The agents usually recognised as narcotics are latter in a hollow square, formed by a linked chain of hands. As the morning sun shone on the bare-headed for the most part, it is maintained by Dr. Anstie, multitude, the beauty of their unshorn hair struck only such in full or excessive doses; the same me like a new revelation. Some of the heads, of lustrous, flossy gold, actually shone by their own light. agents being stimulants in small doses. The inIt was marvellous that skin so hard and coarse in texfluence, then, of the same agent upon the animal of the men, also, were strikingly soft and rich. They ture should produce such beautiful hair. The beards organism is, according to the dose, stimulant or never shave, and thus avoid bristles, the down of narcotic. Tobacco in small doses is stimulant, and adolescence thickening into a natural beard. As the procession approached, Alexis, who was a wholesome stimulant, according to Mr. Fiske; walking behind the monks, inside the protecting guard, beckoned us to join him. The peasants rebut in larger doses it is narcotic, and as such, it is spectfully made way, two hands unlinked to admit invariably pernicious. With all such agents there us, and we became, unexpectedly, participants in the ceremonies. From the south side the procession is a poison line between stimulation and narcotism, moved around to the east, where a litany was again and those who cross the line are the worse for it. chanted. The fine voices of the monks lost but little of their volume in the open air; there was no wind, And if a few men are benefited by tobacco, which and the tapers burned and the incense diffused itself, is scarcely proved-we speak, of course, of men as in the church. A sacred picture, which two monks in health-many are assuredly injured. If tea and By-Ways of Europe. By Bayard Taylor. lar reverence by the pilgrims, numbers of whom carried on a sort of litter, was regarded with particu crept under the line of guards to snatch a moment's coffee are very often pernicious in common use, York: G. P. Putnam & Son. 1809. devotion before it. At every pause in the proceedings we must suppose tobacco, as more potent, to be A series of episodes of travel, visits to unac- there was a rush from all sides, and the poor fellows more so. Dr. Anstie, we think, makes but an in-customed places, or unusual experiences in more who formed the lines held each other's hands with all their strength. Yet, flushed, sweating, and exhausted different argument in favor of tobacco as an ac- familiar regions, this book forms as it were a sup- as they were, the responsibility of their position made cessory food; and of tea and coffee he holds the plementary volume to the author's larger narra-guardians of cross and shrine, of the holy books, the them perfectly proud and happy. They were the following language: tives, and to our mind is the most agreeable of the monks, and the abbot himself. Upon a future occasion we will have a word to say upon the other old offender, who for want of better company is usually loitering or rollicking around with Tobacco. New From the east side we proceeded to the north, where the dead monks sleep in their cemetery, high over the watery gorge. In one corner of this inclosure, under a group of giant maples, is the grave of King Magnus of Sweden, who is said to have perished by shipwreck on the island. Here, in the deep shade, a solemn mass for the dead was chanted. Nothing could have added to the impressiveness of the scene. The tapers burning under the thick-leaved boughs, the light smoke curling up in the shade, the grave voices of the monks, the bending heads of the beautiful-haired crowd, and the dashes of white, pink, scarlet, blue, and gold in their dresses, made a picture the solemnity of which was only heightened by its pomp of color. Our author visits the artificial ice-hills of St. Petersburg, and has an adventure upon one. The Planet. A Song of a Distant World. By It takes but a glance to see that this is the pro- "Rise, mortal, from thy dreams arise,' The construction of these ice-hills is very simple. but not even the possession of a Muse suffices, now- cave of planking upon which water is poured until it is covered with a six-inch coating of solid ice. Raised planks at the side keep the sled in its place until it reaches the foot, where it enters upon an icy plain two to four hundred yards in length (in proportion to the height of the hill), at the extremity of which rises a similar hill, facing towards the first, but a little on one side, so that the sleds from the opposite ends may pass without collision. The first experience of this diversion is fearful to a person of delicate nerves. The pitch of the descent is so sheer, the height so great (apparently), the motion of the sled so swift, and its course so easily changed, "Boundless the store that I [Mr. Best] have got." The "higher views" to which Mr. Best's Muse "points the way" may possibly be views of grammar. Especially in regard to the concord of the verb with its nominative, his views are either very As rivulets the land When fell revenge impelled On the present occasion, however, he does not be- "And Peace grew solemn-weary quite." With the next Canto we learn that Vivanco has sailed somewhere on a trading expedition, and even the lifting of a hand is sufficient,-that the novice lofty or very loose, and he appears to consider the Zillora, pining in solitude, calls for her maid is almost sure to make immediate shipwreck. The sleds are small and low, with smooth fron runners, and a plush cushion, upon which the navigator sits bolt upright with his legs close together, projecting over the front. The runners must be exactly parallel to the lines of the course at starting, and the least tendency to sway to either side must be instantly corrected by the slightest motion of the hand. I engaged one of the mujiks in attendance to pilot me on my first voyage. The man having taken his position well forward on the little sled, I knelt upon the rear end, where there was barely space enough for my knees, placed my hands upon his shoulders, and awaited the result. He shoved the sled with his hands, very gently and carefully, to the brink of the icy steep: then there was a moment's adjustment: then a poise; then-sinking of the heart, cessation of breath, giddy roaring and whistling of the air, and found myself scudding along the level with the speed of an express train. I never happened to fall out of a fourth-story window, but I immediately understood the sensations of the unfortunate persons who do. It was so frightful that I shuddered when we reached the end of the course and the man coolly began ascending the steps of the opposite hill, with the sled under his arm. But my companions were waiting to see me return, so I mounted after him, knelt again, and held my breath. This time, knowing what was coming, I caught a glimpse of our descent, and found that only the first plunge from the brink was threatening. The lower part of the curve, which is nearly a parabolic line, is more gradual, and the seeming headlong fall does not last more than the tenth part of a second. The sensation, nevertheless, is very powerful, having all the attraction, without the reality, of danger. The ice-hills in the Tauria Gardens were not so whole matter an open question. For example:- A common element contains." And yet we can not positively say, from any- "Thus she called: 'Constanza!' "as a morning bliss enters "Zillora's boudoir" (which we observe "Hark from the willow-dell Mad revellers in guilt! But they none astonish In broad Christian lands, built With altars 'fore which fals'ties wilt." We need not call the attention of the classical reader to the fine effect of the grammatical figures apocope and ecthlipsis in "'fore" and "fals'ties;" while in the bold and striking metaphor of these fals'ties wilting before the altars, we are at a loss whether more to admire the thought or the expression. Like the preceding work, this volume of poems leaves our mind in a very undecided state; but the Zillora, on her way to church, is met by an atrodoubt now is not whether the author may not be cious person in the garb of a monk, whose soul a poet. By no means: in answering that question "Was monstrous, for it planned Deeds such as vilify a land." high, and the descent was less abrupt: the course was the smooth floor of an intervening lake, which was kept clear for skating. Here I borrowed a sled, and was so elated at performing the feat successfully, on there can not be an instant's hesitation. Wouter the first attempt, that I offered my services as charioteer to a lady rash enough to accept them. The in-van Twiller would have decided that point off-But his behavior to Zillora is not so bad as we creased weight gave so much additional impetus to hand, on the evidence of a single stanza. But might have expected. He only predicts to her the sled, and thus rendered its guidance a more delicate matter. Finding that it began to turn even be- here is the trouble :-"From the Literary World," that "Vivanco never will return." Possibly his fore reaching the bottom, I put down my hand sud- says Mr. McClure in his preface, "I ask a just and real demon-nature vented itself in the style in denly upon the ice. The effect was like an explosion; we struck the edge of a snow-bank, and were thrown candid criticism." With all our heart: you are which this prophecy was conveyed, for we are inentirely over it and deeply buried on the opposite side. welcome to our poor opinion; only, what is it all The attendants picked us up without relaxing a muscle of their grave, respectful faces, and quietly swept the about? In a sort of conscientious frenzy under ice for another trial. But after that I preferred de- this appeal, we have wrestled with Zillora; and, baffled, we admit that we can't discover who the people are, where they live, what they do, nor scending alone. Very curious and interesting. is the account of the little Republic of Andorra, situated in the Pyrenees, whose modest liberties have been respected for more than a thousand years. We grieve to learn that there is a probability of their yielding to the seductive and insidious offers of the gaming-princes of Homburg and Baden-Baden, and allowing their pernicious establishments to be erected within their territory. Innocent little Andorra will then become a cloaca to receive all the vice and luxury of Europe; and the loss of her liberties and her absorption into France will soon follow. We regret to learn that Mr. Taylor considers this to be "the last volume of travels he will ever what they mean. formed ""Twas told infernally." Vivanco however has separated from "his fleet," and gone to pay a visit to his father-in-law, who lives, it would seem, in America, as to reach him he speeds "On, on o'er Atlant's realm," Here, anyhow, is what we can make out of it; will our readers, and Mr. McClure accept it instead by which-though we have not an idea who Atlant of that "candid criticism" which, to our shame, may be-we conceive the Atlantic to be meant. we confess ourselves incompetent to furnish? After piously visiting the tomb of his mother-inAfter duly invoking the Muse-a good old cus-law, in the company, as we conceive, of his wife's tom which our irreverent age too often neglects-second cousin, he sets sail again for home. the poet tells us that we are in Greece, or thereabouts "Behold heroic Crete In the meantime "Dendari, Vivanco's deputy," had sailed with "the fleet" for Spain, with the purpose, apparently, of robbing an old abbey there. "The fleet" is wrecked, as it seems, in the churchLand"-yard-for there is a kind of dazzling darkness here -and "the doomed ship" which constituted it becomes "a wreck to warn the world." Her war-flag streams the sky"- publish." Very many travellers have contributed And the region is moreover rough and moun "In the dreamy twilight, Vivanco however returns safely to the Land of the Unsipt Cataracts, and meets his fond Zillora, who, in rapturous surprise, "-cried, her form aglow: ''Tis he, 'tis my lord VI-VAN-CO!'" HAMMER AND ANVIL. A NOVEL, BY FRIEDRICH SPIELHAGEN. [Translated from the German for The Statesman.] VOLUME II. CHAPTER V.-CONTINUED. 'Never,' she replied. Her voice was so serious, and her great blue eyes that looked over the board at my forehead, which she was then drawing, had so grave an expression, that I could not laugh, as I at first felt disposed to do. 'Why?' I inquired. She said it so gently and pleasantly, without a trace of offence; and yet I felt the blood rush to my cheeks. I felt as though I had struck a defenceless child. 'No, it was not at all kind,' I said with warmth; 'it was a very unfeeling speech: I do not know how I could say it. But clever boys have always 'When the boys can do without me, I will be been held up to me as models, and the comparison At this moment, however, a smile played over her serious face. She looked over her sketching-too board at me and said: You can get up, if you wish.' : 'I do not know it seems to me as if I should makes me think how stupid I am.' 'Even when they are learning Latin and Greek?' 'Have you finished?' I asked, availing myself of the permission, and going behind her chair. Why, you are still at work on the eyes. How can you have so much patience?' 'And you so much impatience?' she asked in re-not learn Greek too?' turn, quietly going on with her drawing. 'You are just like our little Oscar. When he has planted a bean, five minutes afterwards he digs it up again to see if it has grown at all.' 'Greek is so desperately hard: I tell you, Paula, 'But he is only seven years old.' fast as that.' 'You always find fault with Oscar, and after all he is your pet.' 'Who says so?' 'I think I will get that notion out of his head.' 'Benno told me so yesterday, in strictest confi- any one something which I believe to be good and dence. I was not to tell you.' 'Then you ought not to have told me.' But he is right.' useful to him. And then it is a good position for 'You ought not to call yourself stupid.' 'Well then, that I know so little; that I have learned so very little.' 'But that is nobody's fault but yours-that is, supposing it to be really the case.' 'It is the case,' I answered. It is frightful how little I know. To say nothing at all about Greek, which I maintain to be too hard, and only invented by teachers on purpose to torment us, my Latin does not amount to much, and that is certainly my fault, for I have seen how Arthur, who I don't believe is a bit cleverer than I am, could get along with it very well when he tried. Your English books, in which you read so much, might all be Greek for me; and as for French-perhaps I can still conjugate avoir and être, but I doubt it. And yesterday, when Benno could not get his exercises right and asked me, and I told him he must get them right himself-I don't mind telling you that I had not the slightest notion how to begin them; and when he afterwards got them right by himself, I felt shamed by a boy eleven years old; just as I have felt ashamed before Dr. Busch, our Professor of Mathematics, whenever, as he always Paula bent her head over her sketching-board, did, he wrote under my work "Thoroughly bad," and went on with her drawing more assiduously or "Quite remarkably bad," or ""Very well copied," than ever; but I saw that once or twice she raised or some such maliciousness.' her handkerchief to her eyes. It gave me pain to While I thus remorsefully confessed my shortsee it: I knew what anxiety, and that too well-comings, Paula looked steadily at me with her founded, Paula felt for her father's health, whom great eyes, from time to time shaking her head, as she loved devotedly. 'No, he is not right. Oscar is the smallest, and therefore I must look after him the most. Benno and Kurt can get along without me.' Except their exercises, which you correct for sive professions to learn; and although my father them.' 'Now take your seat again.' 'I may speak, may I not?' 'Certainly.' I had taken my seat, but several minutes passed while I sat silently watching her work. A ray of the evening sun which pierced the thick foliage of the great plane, fell upon her head and surrounded it with an aureole. 'Fräulein Paula,' I said. 'Paula,' she answered without looking up. 'Paula, then.' 'Well?' 'I wish I had had a sister like you.' 'You have a sister.' 'But she is so much older than I, and never cared much for me; and now she of course will have nothing more to do with me.' 'Where did you say that she lives?' 'On the Polish frontier. She has been married, these ten years, to an officer in the Customs. She has a number of children.' 'Then she has enough to do with them: you must not be angry with her.' 'I am not angry with her: I hardly know her; I believe I should pass her by if I met her on the always takes a hopeful view-but I am not sure 'Fräulein Paula,' I said. She did not correct me this time; perhaps did not hear me. 'Fräulein Paula,' I said again, 'you must not cherish such gloomy thoughts. Your father is not so ill; and then you would not believe what a race the Zehrens are. Herr von Zehren used to call the Steuerrath a weakling, and yet he might take an undisputed place among those who account themselves robust men; but Herr von Zehren himself was a man of steel, and yet he once told me that his youngest brother was a match for two like him. And you see a strong constitution is everything, Doctor Snellius says, and so I say too.' To be sure, if you say so' Paula looked up, and a melancholy smile played about her beautiful lips. 'You mean that a miserable scarecrow, such as I sit here, has no business to be talking about strength?' 'O no; I know how strong you were before you were ill; and how soon you would be strong again, if you would take proper care of yourself, which you do not always do. For example you ought never to be sitting here without some wrappings, and you have let the coverlid fall off your lap; but 'But-?' said I, obediently drawing up the 'I mean that it is not quite right to say that a if she could not believe her ears. 'If this is really so—' 'Why do you always say "if," Paula? Little as I have learned, I have at least learned to tell the truth, and I would never attempt a falsehood with you.' The maiden blushed to her blonde tresses. 'Forgive me,' she said; I did not mean to wound you; although I can scarcely believe that you-that you spent so ill your time at school. I only meant to say that you must make it good again: you must make up for that lost time.' Benno knows more French, geography, and 'Easily said, Paula! How am I to begin? mathematics than I, and is only eleven years old, and next month I am twenty.' Paula pushed the drawing-board away from her upon the table, and leaned her head upon her hand, apparently in order better to ponder over so desperate a case. Suddenly she raised her head and said: 'You must speak to my father.' He will not be able to help me either.' That I well believe, Paula; but how can that help me? He can give me no part of his knowl edge, even if he were so kind as to wish it.' True, he can not do that; you must work your self; but how to work the best, and how to suc ceed the soonest, he knows, and will tell you if you ask him. Will you? 'Yes, I will; but - 'No-no "buts." I am not to say "if," so you must not say "but." Will you?' 'Yes.' This was Dr. Willibrod Snellius, resident phy-beetle that had run across his path; I remained them. I had arisen, and advanced a few paces to meet tions such as had not entered my mind since I had As to utter this 'yes' required some determination on my part, I spoke it in a firm loud voice. Paula folded her hands and bent her head, as if she were inwardly praying that my resolution might be blessed. Everything was calm around: only a bird twittered, and the red sunset-rays | ing-hm, hm, hm!' said the Doctor. glanced through the twigs. It may have been a Doctor Snellius had a habit of accompanying remnant of weakness which still clung to me, but his remarks with a peculiar nasal sound which was a strange and solemn feeling possessed me. It was half a grunt and half a snort, and always just an as though I were in a temple, and had just pro-octave below his ordinary voice, which was very nounced a solemn vow by which I broke away thin and of an unusually high pitch. This shrill from my entire past, and devoted myself to a new voice was the trial of his life to the doctor, who life and to new obligations. And while thus think-was a man of great taste; and by the deep growling I gazed with fixed eyes at the dear maiden, ing sound he emitted from time to time, he strove, who sat still, her hands folded, her thoughtful according to his own explanation, to convince head bent-gazed until the tears came into my himself that he was really a man and not a cock, eyes, and trees, sunlight and maiden were lost be- as his voice would indicate. hind a misty veil. At this moment clear voices resounded from the garden: it was Paula's brothers who had finished 'Can I know from that that it will do him good? their tasks in the house, and now were joyously-hm, hm, hm!' said Dr. Snellius. 'It was a medhurrying to their favorite spot where they were icine like another. If I always knew what effect certain of finding their sister. Paula gathered up my prescriptions would have, I would die Baron her drawing materials, and was spreading a sheet | Willibrod Snellius of Snelliusburg-hm, hm, hm!' of tissue-paper over her drawing, when the boys came bounding up the hill at full speed to us. 'I am first!' cried little Oscar, springing into his sister's arms. 'Because we let you,' said Kurt, jumping upon my knee. " Let's see, Paula,' said Benno, laying his hand upon his sister's arm. the Commerzienrath, who had traded in the recklessness of the Wild Zehren, and, in all likelihood, had hastened, if not brought about his ruin. What a tumult of emotions did not these names arouse within me! How hateful appeared to me all my past, into which these names and these persons were forever interwoven! Hateful, as the island even now appeared through a dingy sulphur-yellow pane of the window at which I was standing. And now, as I turned away with a sigh, my glance fell through the open door upon the space under the plane-trees, filled with the pure bright evening 'But you ordered it yourself, Doctor,' said the light, and upon the persons that were moving in it. Superintendent. The Superintendent and the Doctor were walking, the latter first on the right and then on the left, and both in animated conversation; the two eldest boys were playing about the knees of their mother, who sitting in her easy-chair, laughed and sported with them; Paula had taken the tea-things from 'Any one to hear you would think that all your the maid, and was setting the table, as they were science was mere illusion,' said Frau von Zeh-about to take tea in the open air, as was their cusren, taking her seat upon a chair which Paula had tom in fine weather. How deftly she did it all; placed for her. how silently, that the gentlemen might not be dis'You have certainly but slight reason to consider turbed in their conversation, and that no clatter of us wizards, gnädige Frau !' 'Just because I do not so consider you, I do not expect from you what is probably impossible.' Paula threw back the tissue-paper: Benno Frau von Zehren removed the disfiguring shade, looked attentively at the drawing, and then care- and raised her eyes with a look of thankfulness to fully compared it with the original; Kurt jumped the foliage of the trees which kindly softened the down from my knee, to examine his sister's work daylight for them. How lovely must those eyes too; even Oscar stuck his curly head from under have been while they were yet radiant with youth her arm to see what was going on. It was a charm- and happiness! How fair this face before sickness ing group, the three boys clustered around the sis-had wasted its beauteous features, and far too soon ter, now turning their bright eyes upon me, and then fixing them on the picture. -for Frau von Zehren was hardly forty years of age-whitened the luxuriant hair! Pale and wasted 'That is Uncle Doctor!' said Oscar. as she was, she was still beautiful-at least to me, Paula smiled and gently stroked the pretty who, short a time as I had been near her, had alboy's blonde curls. 'You are silly,' said Kurt; 'he wears spectacles.' 'It is well done, Paula,' said Benno, with the air of a connoisseur. 'Do you think so?' she asked. 'Yes; only he is not so good-looking.' · 'Now you have all seen it,' said Paula in a tone of decision. Benno, carry it into the Belvedere.' 'I will carry it!' said Kurt. 'No, I cried Oscar. 'Have you not heard that I am to carry it?' said Benno. You are too little.' 'O yes, you are the big one!' said Kurt, scornfully. 'Hush, hush!' said Paula. No disputes about it. He who is older is bigger, and can not help it; and he who is younger is smaller, and can not help it either.' George ready learned her angelic goodness, and how with 'We shall soon have a visit from your friend plates should annoy her mother's sensitive nerves! And how with it all she had time to chat with the little Oscar, who kept close at her side, and to look if I was not exposing myself too much to the wind! Yes, the bright peaceful present was fairer than my dark stormy past; and yet it seemed as though a shadow was cast across this also. If Arthur came here; if, as was to be expected, he was received into the family as a kinsman; if, with his plausible address, he wormed his way into the confidence of these unsuspicious people, and won their favor with his insinuating manners-if he, who as a mere boy, had practised the wiles of the rake, should dare-and his insolence would dare anything-to pay his insidious court to Paula, his cousin! I must still have been very weak, for I trembled at this thought from head to foot, and started violently as I perceived some one coming up the garden path toward the plane-trees. I thought for a moment it must be he whom I had once loved so dearly, and now so hated. when he took off his hat in a polite salutation, to be parted in the middle, and combed back behind his ears. I knew the gentleman well; I had seen him often enough crossing the prison-yard with slow pace and bowed head, entering this or that cell, and after a while coming out again, always in the same attitude of humility. Indeed I already enjoyed the happiness of a personal acquaintance, as he had one day unexpectedly entered my sickroom, and begun to talk about the welfare of my soul; and I should more frequently have enjoyed But it was no dandy ensign glittering in his new ner.' uniform, but a lean man dressed in black, wearing 'He has not,' I answered. 'I should speak an extremely narrow white cravat, and a lowfalsely to say otherwise. But how comes he here?' crowned hat with very broad brim, and whose 'He passed his examination at Easter, and is or-sleek dark hair, unfashionably long, was seen, dered to the battalion stationed here, with the rank of ensign. We shall probably see his parents also; and it may be the Commerzienrath, if he condescends to manage his affairs in person. The matter in question is the inheritance of my brother, or so much of it as has thus far escaped the hands of 'No, Paula,' said Kurt, 'that is not so. justice and of his creditors, among whom, as you is younger than father, and bigger too.' know, the Commerzienrath holds the first place. 'Here comes father,' said Paula, 'and mother The affair is rendered more difficult from the fact with him; and now be quiet.' that all his papers were destroyed when the castle The Superintendent came up the path; his wife was burned. Constance has sent from Naples a held his arm, and he was leading her slowly. Her formal renunciation of the inheritance, and so this felicity, had not Dr. Snellius, who came in, eyes were covered with a broad green shade. Be- there remain really only my brother and the Com- put a stop to it by giving him to understand that hind them, now on the left and now on the right merzienrath, as I for my part prefer to have noth-at the time the question was not that of the welfare side of the path, turning his uncovered head first ing to do with the whole affair; indeed I will add of my soul, but that of my body, which was not in one way and then in another, with a hat and that if it were not a duty to meet with dignity stick that he kept changing from hand to hand, what is inevitable, I should look forward to the came a short compact figure with a disproportion- meeting with great repugnance. What will not be ately large head, whose perfectly bald surface shone brought up at such a conference?-What do you in the light of the evening sun like a billiard-ball want, my child?' under the gas-lamps. likely to be benefited by such exciting topics. Indeed this difference of opinion led to a rather lively dispute at the door of my room, and, as it seemed, they came to pretty hard words; so that it was clearly a proof of the placable disposition of the Oscar must needs show his father an unlucky Deacon and Prison-chaplain Ewald von Krossow, |