Congressmen, and others, he is one of the very few indeed, out of a large number, who have shown anything whatever of deference for the opinions of men personally skilled in art. It is, for example, only a few weeks since a House Committee, who were to pronounce on the merits of some designs for the Farragut monument, voted with entire coolness that the work should be entrusted to Miss Vinnie Ream, a decision from which the Senate Committee fortunately dissented, but as to which there is no evidence that competent counsel was sought from experts by either the Senate Committee or that of the House. Congressmen who would admit themselves ignorant of the art of navigation, or of surveying, or of most other arts which men study for years, entertain as little doubt of their ability to decide one of the most difficult of all kinds of questions as they entertain of their ability to walk; and already they have made the array of pictures at Washington one of the wonders of the world for bad taste and ignorance. And the worst is that they are at it daily, and that daily protests will be necessary for, we fear, a long time to come. Take the case of the last picture purchased by Congress-Mr. Powell's "Victory of Lake Erie." The Washington Capital gives this account of its purchase, and we dare say it is an account entirely true in spirit: Some years since Mr. Powell, something of a protégé of General Robert C. Schenck, appeared at Washington as a candidate for an order for a painting which should have for its subject some naval action. General Schenck was interested and influential, and Mr. Powell by-and-by got an order for a twenty-five-thousand-dollar picture, and this in spite of the fact that his "De Soto" already stretched its length and breadth in the Rotunda. The twenty-five thousand dollars was to be paid in instalments as the work went on, and our account says that when $18,000 of it had been paid the picture was finally accepted, although, if the Capital is not misinformed, the "original picture" at Washington bears a close resemblance to "Perry's Victory," previously sold to the State of Ohio by the same painter. However that may be, good opinions will not differ as to whether we have paid out $25,000 for a picture worth having, at that price or any.price. -We did not discuss the litigation over Mr. Greeley's will because we thought the matter had little or no interest for the public, and that the heat with which public opinion was appealed to was, pendente lite, very unnecessary and ill-judged. All parties are, we believe, now pretty well satisfied with the result. The will of 1871 has been admitted to probate, but the Misses Greeley are, even under it, well provided for. We are, however, very sorry to hear that the simple fact that the Children's Aid Society was, greatly to Mr. Greeley's honor, legatee under this will, has created a prejudice against the society in some minds owing to the belief that it was in some way concerned in the proceedings before the Surrogate. During the litigation denunciations of it appeared in various quarters for seeking to take the bread away" from Mr. Greeley's orphans, and several gentlemen who, we firmly believe, never gave a cent to its funds, announced in print their intention of withdrawing all support from it. Let us now say of our personal knowledge, that the clamor against it was, from first to last, ridiculous, and that the trustees acted throughout with the utmost propriety. They took no part in the litigation whatever. They left Mr. Greeley's executors and family to test the validity of his wills, which was what delicacy prescribed; and when the will which left the Society a legacy was admitted to probate, they went to the utmost limits of magnanimity permissible to Trustees by passing a resolution declining the bequest in case the estate had been materially diminished since the date of the will. There is no question of Mr. Greeley's sanity at that date, and if he then thought his fortune was sufficiently large, and the provision he made for his daughters, to whom he was tenderly attached, sufficiently good to permit of his making a bequest to a charity in which he was greatly interested, we should like to hear what rule of law and morals it is which requires the Society to question his judgment and decline his money; nay, we should like to hear what rule of morals would permit the trustees to decline it, if, as is not denied, the state of Mr. Greeley's fortune, when he made his will, assured his daughters a more than comfortable maintenance. The men who compose the Board of Trustees stand in the very highest rank, not simply as business men but as gentlemen, and indeed there is not one of them whom we should not be glad to consult on any question raised by the conflicting claims of interest and honor; and we advise all charitable persons to rest assured that what they have done about the Greeley will was the fittest and fairest thing that could be done. -Since the death of Lord Lytton it has been made known that in his late years he was the author of two anonymous books. Of these, one-'The Coming Race'-was attributed to various persons, and among others to Mr. Laurence Oliphant, a gentleman who, by a residence in this country while engaged in some little-known socialist experiments, had presumbly be come acquainted with our politics and polity, which 'The Coming Race' rather contemptuously satirizes. It appears, however, that Lord Lytton was the author, for so his publishers now state; and, in the veteran contributor to Blackwood, the satire is easy to account for-easier than if the author had been a socialist, for its contempt of Republicanism is bred of its belief in Conservatism. We have not seen it mentioned that Lord Lytton's machinery in the opening of this book-the deep mine, the young mining-engineer who, by an accident, penetrates into the country of the coming man and woman in the interior recesses of the earth—was apparently taken from Mr. Robert Landor's 'Fountain of Arethusa.' The other anonymous work by which Lord Lytton somewhat curiously chose to test his real favor with the public was a story now in course of publication in Blackwood, and entitled "The Parisians." The reader, ignorant of its authorship, may well have imagined it the production of some cultivated person, man or woman, in a state of refined but serious revolt against the rawness and realism of current thought and fiction, who had reverted for inspiration to the ancient old-time literary novel and volume of letters. An American family figures in it; so do a number of French people, literary people, and others; an English hero, "who rides, draws the bow, and speaks the truth," like any young model of English aristocracy in a well-toned conservative nove!, and who also has that mastery of blue-books, that knowledge of the House of Commons, of colonial politics, of diplomacy, etc., which are attributes of so many of Lord Lytton's serious young heroes. A reading of a few chapters some time since made us think this a story which many of our readers would greatly enjoy. We believe it is finished in manuscript, as also is another novel yet to appear. -Physicians whose lot it is to attend great personages in their last hours are liable to be accused by the public, and even by their own colleagues, of having caused the death of their patients. This has been noticeably the case with the medical advisers of and operators upon the late Emperor Napoleon; and so cautious and fair-minded a journal as the London Prac titioner feels constrained to join in the general condemnation of the course pursued and the reasons assigned for it. While this dispute is going on, the exEmperor's brain is examined in the interest of science, and is found to weigh 1,500 grammes, and to rank among the "very large," though inferior to several well-known examples of extraordinary weight and size. On the other hand, as it surpasses in weight the brains of confessedly superior men, it gives no help in solving the problem of the relation between brainweight and size on the one hand, and intellect on the other, except to make it more than ever certain that the former are not an absolute measure of the latter. THE LIFE OF BISHOP HOPKINS.* HE life of Bishop Hopkins has interest primarily for those who were his personal friends, and for those who are engaged in party warfare inside the Episcopal Church. The latter will find here information with regard to many of the incidents in the great battle of High and Low, Broad and Narrow, which has been going on in that communion from the beginning. The Bishop's life was a life of controversy. He was robust and energetic in mind-far beyond the men with whom he was called upon to associate. Не found himself always amongst inferiors, and the position of leader was forced upon him from the first diocesan convention which he attended. It may well be true that his popular reputation was unjust, and that he was rather, as bis biographer represents it, in a continual attitude of deprecation with regard to the position thrust upon him, first by one party, and then by the other. It is certain, however, that he had that disposition which sniffs the battle of controversy from afar, and that, either from habit or nature (we should say the latter), he felt called upon to do execution upon all evil-doers or wrong-thinkers. His biographer follows him not only with the affection of a son, but also with the sympathy of a like disposition. Low Church means for him all that is plebeian and vulgar. In stray epithets, in sharp foot-notes, in contemptuous references, this animus is apparent. The Low-Church party appears here as truculent in prosperity and intriguing in adversity, and as the originators of tricks and schemes in church politics, though their adversaries, on the same showing, seem to have quickly learned the lesson and "bettered their instruction." On the other hand, to be "catholic-minded" is to be elegant, cultivated; in short, patrician. In the bishop, this opinion was tempered in practice by a really mild disposition and solidity of mind; in his biographer, it becomes fretful and arrogant. The sympathy between the author and his subject is so complete that we cannot expect, and do not find, any critical delineation of the mental development by which the frontier The Life of the late Rt. Rev. John Henry Hopkins, First Bishop of Vermont, and Seventh Presiding Bishop. By One of his Sons. New York: F. J. Huntington & Co. 1873. iron-master and lawyer became a High-Church bishop. To us, that would have been the most interesting aspect of the Bishop's life. The Episcopal Church presents some remarkable phenomena in our American society, not the least of which is the process by which it segregates from this crude and active community of ours certain types of men, and subjects them to a process from which they issue anything but what might have been expected. We have little information here with regard to the peculiar character by which Bishop Hopkins was marked in his early years. We hear of him as trying various occupations with a facility of change which was more practicable fifty years ago than now, and showing a certain versatility in all. He is engaged in manufacturing and law in a frontier town, and the only idea we can form of him is conformable to his occupations and surroundings. This man, drawn into the Episcopal Church by one accident and into its ministry by another, takes to the study of patristic theology, forms his dogmatic opinions upon the authority of the Fathers, and spends his life in the see-saw of party strife, in the discussions of theological traditions, in making war upon hereties, in denouncing schismatics, in sharpening the sectarian lines about his own Zion, in propagating a set of notions which he and others had built up and dubbed "catholic," and in chasing the chimera of “primitiveness" through the changing forms of ecclesiastical usage. No misgiving that after all he was working very hard at a very small matter, or that spiritual culture has a deeper root than ecclesiastical tradition, or that unity and learning amongst those who seek the spiritual welfare of mankind must be sought on some broader basis than the fiction of a "Primitive Catholicity," seems ever to have dimmed his zeal. He was a Tractarian before the Tractarians. He found in the Fathers indications that certain usages had once existed, and that was for him conclusive that they ought to exist now. Considerations of changed place and circumstance were impertinent. He followed the Oxford men, or accompanied them, up to Tract 90, when he drew back; but in his last years he once more joined the march. So likewise, when the Fathers and Councils permitted slavery, and interpreted Scripture as allowing it, it seemed to him that that interpretation was guaranteed beyond question, and that it made slavery for ever "lawful." In this circuit his mind worked his whole life long. By it he ruled his parish and his diocese; by it he elaborated what he called "church principles "; and by these he measured and judged all movements and institutions, and guided his action in his numerous controversies. The picture given us (p. 274) of his scheme for a commentary on the Bible, to be made with D'Oyly and Mant on one side, and the Fathers on the other, is significant of his estimate of the things worth doing in this life, and of the means by which they are to be accomplished. He was energetic, sincere, and faithful to what he considered duty, and his life was a happy one, because it was free from any misgiving as to the importance of his work or the correctness of his means; but whether it was a useful life or not must be decided by the question whether men who want to be useful in life ought to devote their energies to the elaboration of institutions, trusting that these, if perfected, will regenerate mankind. To us it seems that the church of which Bishop Hopkins dreamed would, if realized, be like an exquisite but over-claborate machine, in which the friction is so great that all the force it can bear only sufficies to move it, leaving no power to be spent on the material to be wrought. THE CHAPMAN'S EVOLUTION OF LIFE.* HE contents of this interesting volume are so largely taken from Professor Häckel's 'Schöpfungsgeschichte' that a recognition of the fact upon the title-page would have been quite appropriate. As it is, the author would appear to have been not sufficiently careful in stating the amount and character of his obligatious to the German work. There is not, indeed, any attempt in the body of the book to cover up the source from which its facts and conclusions are obtained; but in the preface, at least, Prof. Häckel should have been prominently mentioned, and not merely alluded to in an incidental way, along with twenty-two other writers on the development theory. The oversight is doubtless unintentional, but it has an unpleasant look, and would be well worth correcting if Dr. Chapman's work should pass to a second edition; for in no way does this work present the results of original investigation or of original thinking. The facts and the speculations are like those of Häckel, and they are given. without further elaboration, very much as they stand in the German work. It is not, therefore, as an original treatise that Dr. Chapman's book is to be criticised. Its faults and excellences are not its own, though we may freely accredit it with the general merit of making the views of Prof. Häckel accessible to readers in 'this country. Students of natural history, have for some time known Prof. Häckel as Evolution of Life. By Henry C. Chapman, M.D.' Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1873. one of the foremost comparative anatomists of Germany and as a staunch advocate of the Darwinian theory. His great work is the 'Generelle Morphologie der Organismen,' in which the general principles of animal structure are elaborately discussed. But as this book is too technical and cumbrous for any save professed students of science, the author has taken the trouble to present his views in a more intelligible form in his 'Schöpfungsgeschichte,' or 'History of Creation,' which is probably the most complete, accurate, and interesting exposition of the Darwinian theory that has ever been made. It is, however, more than a simple exposition; for with regard to the classification and genetic relationships of animals, Prof. Häckel has contributed a vast number of suggestions of his own which are of the highest interest, and which are ably and succinctly summed up in Dr. Chapman's book. One or two of these suggestions we may briefly mention, as indicating the kind of assistance which the students of the development theory or of the classification of animals may expect to get from Dr. Chapman. Prof. Häckel's original and elaborate researches into the simplest forms of organized matter have resulted in the conviction that those organisms which possess no distinctively animal or vegetal characteristics should be grouped together as constituting a third kingdom. Instead of "protozoa" and protophyta," ," Prof. Häckel recognizes only "protists," in which we may see the types of the forerunners of both the animal and the vegetable kingdoms. They represent the primitive less-specialized forms whose descendants have become variously specialized, first as animal or vegetal, then as cœlenterate or mollusk, cryptogam or phænogam, and so on. Starting from the Amaba and its kindred, which are neither animal nor vegetable in character, we encounter two diverging lines of development, represented respectively, according to Hickel's surmise, by the protists with harder envelopes, which are the predecessors of the vegetable kingdom, and the protists with softer envelopes, which are the forerunners of the more mobile animal organization. Confining our attention to animals, we have first the Cœlenterata. including sponges, corals, and jelly-fish, characterized by the union of masses of amœba-like units, with but little specialization of structure or of function. Besides these lowly forms, but not immediately above any one of them, we find echinoderms starting off in one direction, worms or aunuloida in a second, and molluscoida in a third. Following the first road, we stop short with echinoderms. But on the second we find annuloid worms, succeeded by true annulosa or articulata, reaching the greatest divergence from the primitive forms in the crabs, spiders, and ants. On the third road we find the molluscoid worms diverging into mollusks and vertebrates. Through the Bryozoa we are gradually led to the mollusks, while the Tunicata, of which the ascidian or "pitcher" (the primitive "tadpole” of unscientific ridiculers of Darwinism) is the most familiar form, lead us directly to the vertebrates. Kovalevsky has discovered some wonderful likenesses between the embryonic development of the ascidian and that of the amphioxus or lowest known vertebrate. Of all the "missing links" the assumed absence of which is so triumphantly cited by the adherents of the dogma of fixity of species, the most important one would appear to have been found; for it is a link which connects the complex and highly developed vertebrate with a very lowly form which passes its natural existence rooted plant-like to the soil or rather to the sca-bottom. The ascidian cannot, indeed, be regarded as typifying the direct ancestors of the vertebrate. It is a curiously aberrant and degraded form, and its own progenitors had doubtless once "seen better days." In its embryonic state it possesses a well-marked vertebral column, and it behaves in general very much as if it were going to grow to something like the amphioxus. But it afterwards falls considerably short of this mark. Already in early life its vertebræ begin to become "rudimentary or evanescent; and when fully matured, it stops swimming about after its prey, and, striking root in the sub-marine soil, remains thereafter standing, with its broad pitcher-like mouth ever in readiness to suck down such organisms floating by as may serve for its nutriment. That vertebræ should be found in the embryo of such an animal is a fact of striking interest. It would seem to mark the ascidian as a retrogaded offshoot of those primitive forms on the way toward assuming the vertebrate structure, of which the more fortunate ones succeeded in leaving as their representatives the amphioxus and the progenitors of the lampreys. In treating of the classification of mammals, Dr. Chapman differs from Häckel in one important point. The old Cuvierian classification of marsupials as an order side by side with carnivora, rodentia, etc., is now generally abandoned; the absence of a placenta and possession of a pouch for the developing young is justly regarded as a deeper point of difference than any of those which demarcate from each other the various orders of placental mammals. Both Häckel and Huxley divide the class mammals into three great sub-classes-ornithodelphia, didelphis, and monodelphia. The first includes the ornithorhynchus and echidna, the second the marsupials, and the third MR. THE MAGAZINES FOR MARCH. R. THURLOW WEED'S personal recollections of the late Horace Greeley, interspersed with letters from him, are published in the March Galaxy, and will have interest for many readers besides having promise of interest for a great many more; but they are set down currente calamo, and are not really of much importance. It is curious to see how Mr. Greeley's political enthusiasm and desire to win given political campaigns were associated with those enthusiasms and "isms" which are not usually supposed to have been much connected with his practical political action. But practical politics were probably sure sooner or later to color all his views, however abstract. Take, for instance, this passage from a letter which was written to Mr. Weed in 1941, when Mr. Greeley was deep in Fourierism and Brisbanism. Mr. Weed, alarmed at the Tribune's social istic course, had published an article in his Albany paper in which Fourierism was handled without gloves. Mr. Greeley replies and endeavors to show that the Whigs would do well to secure a Fourierite following, because, the Democratic party being the poor man's party, the Whigs must somehow throw off the stigma of being aristocratic: "I assure you that the doctrines of Fourier-I mean his fundamental position with regard to the economies of association-have received the assent of some of the strongest and most practical minds of this city and elsewhere. Clerk Garland of the U. S. House, General Keim, M. C. from Berks, G. A. Worth, cashier of City Bank, Alderman Phoenix, and many other sound men, are favorably impressed with it. "I think you take the wrong view of the political bearing of this matter, though I act without reference to that. Hitherto all the devotees of social reform of any kind-all the advocates of a higher destiny for labor-all the combatants against unjust and false social principles-in short, all the social discontent of the country has been regularly repelled from the Whig party and attracted to its opposite. This forms a heavy deadweight against us. It strikes me that it is unwise to persist in this course, unless we are ambitious to be considered the enemies of improvement and the bulwarks of an outgrown aristocracy in the country. But I will not ask you to think as I do. I only want a chance to think for myself." Mr. Weed, however, was not convinced. Another characteristic instance of attention to the immediately practical in politics is exhibited in a letter of Mr. Greeley's written in 1852, in the early part of the year, when State issues were to be made up with reference to the presidential struggle in the autumn: "I don't see how they [the Democrats] could live but for our troubles. Chief among these is the Maine law. That need not have been a trouble. If some sort of an act had been passed and sent to the people, all would have been easy. If there is any fear of its immediate operation, it might have been made to take effect far ahead-say the 1st of May, 1853--and meantime submitted to the people at the fall of a special election. Now it goes square into the fall contest and ruins our chance for the Legislature. "It seems to me that we must run Patterson for Governor. He is an old temperance man, but not known to be anywhere on the Maine law. We can get through with him if anybody." Other articles in the March 'Galaxy are "Casual Cogitations" by Carl Benson, who discourses upon the mercantile spirit of our society and the labor question; four chapters of Mr. De Forest's "Wetherel Affair"; General Custer's, who gives us a glimpse at the rascalities of the Indian agents, and fortifies his position by official letters which are all worth reading and saving; and there is in the Nebula a discussion of the question, What constitutes American Society? The essayist's conclusion is that we can hardly be said to have "society" at all, in the sense in which that word is used by the foreigners who come here seeking society. The tourist, he remarks, usually lands on these shores with a notion that here as in France, in England, in Italy, he is to find some body of men and women clothed with authority to legislate on social subjects, "who have the key to the sacred mystery of savoir faire, who may make rules, affix to them penalties and awards, admit new members," etc. But we have no such well-defined body possessed of plenary legislative and executive powers. The second mistake of the foreigner sojourning amidst us is the mistake of supposing that there is in this country any "fixity of national characteristics "-that because an Englishman will, under certain circumstances, always do certain things, and a Frenchman will always do certain things, therefore an American also has this fixity. From our want of a fixed "society," then, and of a fixed national type, it follows that whoso seeks among us fixed society usages will always be liable to mistakes. The subject is a deep and a high one; but tourists who intend paying us a visit might be referred to an article which appears in Lippincott's for March, entitled "Unsettled Points of Etiquette." Both for the points which it finds still mooted in Philadelphian circles, and for its way of settling them, it will serve to open a good many eyes. In the Atlantic, "Life Under Glass" argues in favor of the erection of immense glass houses like the Crystal Palace, in which a winter residence may be sought by all such people as wish to escape from "the hard gray weather" of Mr. Charles Kingsley's favorite skies, of which we have just been having so inexcusable a three months. Weary humanity deserves an equable climate, says the sanguine Mr. Shove, as much as exotic plants which now flourish in every conservatory, and can as easily have it. Every State should contain one or more winter gardens roofed with glass, each about as large as Boston Common, which contains some forty-five acres. Such a garden would be rather more than twice as large as the Crystal Palace of 1851, and not twice as large as that of 1862, with its "annexes" and picture galleries. Thorough ventilation could be secured, a uniform temperature could be maintained, and ten thousand patients could live for the winter months in a paradise of vegetable and other beauty, pure air, healthful temperature, orchestral music, and all delights. Running around this earthly paradise, of fifteen hundred feet in diameter, should be a broad arcade warmed, lighted, and ventilated like the garden, paved with wood or asphalt, and provided with driveways and sidewalks. Skirting the outside circumference of this boulevard should be the hotels and board ing-houses in which the inhabitants of the garden would dwell, and the shops to which they would go shopping. For the purchase and grading of a site for such a garden with its hotels and other appliances, about $12,000,000 would be required, the interest of which at 8 per cent. would amount to $960,000. To this sum must be added the cost of boarding ten thousand boarders from the first day of November to the first of June, which would be about $2,500,000, making the total amount of outgoes of each year $3,460,000. But at two dollars a day for the board of ten thousand persons for thirty weeks, the income of the establishment would be no less a sum than $4,200,000, "which would certainly provide a reserve fund large enough to meet any unforeseen or extraordinary outlay." Probably. One can only hope the same company will remember what is in store for us in July and August next, and be ready with its frigidarium also, which no doubt can be made nearly as profitable as the other. 64 Robert Owen at New Lanark"; "The Abbé Galiani”; “A Good Word for Quacks"; "The Quarrel of Jefferson and Hamilton," by Mr. Parton; Mr. Howells's "Chance Acquaintance"; "The Madonna of the Future," by Henry James, Jr., are other contributions in the new Atlantic. The critical departments are especially interesting; they treat of numerous books, domestic and foreign; of Mlle. Lucca and Miss Nillson; of some water-colors by Mrs. W. J. Stillman, and of some other pictures exhibited by the Boston Art Club, of Mr. Sidney Colvin's recent book on "Children in Italian and English Art," and of two or three recent scientific works. "Our Railroad Monopoly," under the head of politics, recites fresh instances of the arrogance of our railroad corporations, and a promise is made that there shall be a return to the subject. It appears that Mr. Coleman, the gentleman who had “A Fight with a Railroad," has, ever since he published his article in the Atlantic two or three months ago, been in receipt of numerous letters, many of them very full of feeling, and that he meditates employing them in another magazine article. The writer in Lippincott's, who begins a series of illustrated articles on "The Roumi in Kabylia"-the Franks in Algiers-has a good subject, which so far he handles pleasantly, and for this and for two or three other of its papers Lippincott's for March is worth having. One of these is a good loug instalment of Mr. Black's "Princess of Thule," in which be appears to be as strong as ever in his landscape painting, and to have luckily 170 opened a new field in his far-off highland isle of Borva. Another agreeable sketch is the semi-humorous one by Mr. Charles Warren Stoddard, which describes how the rather frightened crew of the Petrel, instead of encouraging each other while that vessel rolled heavily in the tempest, sat about telling each other the most dismal tales of marine disaster and horror, including cannibalism, and how, finally, they were saved. It is a subject for Mark Twain. Mr. Chauncey Hickox speaks hopefully of the municipal eprospets of the city of Washington, and Professor T. B. Maury is strong for the transAllegheny canal systems favored by the last Presidential message. We bespeak a perusal also for the article on "Etiquette," to which we have already referred, and to "Her Chance," a novelette by Mr. S. W. Kellogg. The "Chance" spoken of is Miss Mary Grilligus's chance to make a fortune, which she very much wants to make. The story of her endeavors in this direction is a singular one. The author is very ill-advised if he means pathos, and not much less so if he means fun. A fitter foil for the unexpected jocoseness of the conclusion should be found, the natural and welldescribed fears and troubles of the heroine at the beginning of the story deserving a better or less coarsely farcical conclusion than the absurd one reached. The Catholic World closes its eighth year with an address to its readers and contributors, in which, thanking the latter, it promises the former to continue waging war, in its degree, "against the impious, anti-Christian, and immoral press." Specifically it promises to try to give a greater number than it has hitherto given of articles pertaining to the special rights and duties of the Catholic Church in this country. With one such the March number opens. It is a discussion of "The Relations of the Right of Conscience to the Authority of the State under the Laws of our Republic," and is in the form of an address to a Catholic society of New Haven. Somewhat similar in point of topic is a sharp attack on the New York Times and Harper's Weekly for the alleged bigotry and injustice with which those journals recently handled such matters as the religious creed of Mr. Kernan, and the relations of the Society of Jesus with the Ku-klux Klan. Other articles of various degrees of readability are more of "Fleurange"; a "Sketch of Brussels"; "Recollections of Père Hermann"; a "Daughter of Saint Dominic"; and an article called "Marriage in the Nineteenth Century," which is as civil to Protestants as if there were no impurity of wedded life in Catholic lands, A warm article on but which is justly uncivil to them in many ways. "Italian Unity" is copied from a foreign source, and is severe enough on the "Sub-Alpine" Government and Count Cavour, the conspirator. Scribner's contains a kind biographical notice of the late Mr. Putuam, "The New the publisher; and it appears to be not more kind than just. Diamond Diggings" continues to be readable and in its way instructive. A long and elaborate discussion by Augustus Blauvelt, entitled "Christ's Miracles Scientifically Considered," and designed to show that both Strauss and Renan have missed the real nodus of the question before them, is the "Professor Morse and the Telegraph" is a most formidable contribution. well-illustrated paper, with the familiar story well enough told; and quite as good in letterpress and picture is the description of Hessian and Swabian peasantry, with its excellent engravings. "The Woman who Saved Me" is pabulum of an odd sort to set before the young people of Scribner's; or of any other magazine, for the matter of that. But nearly all of them do the same thing: A woman droops and pines, for she has found out that she does not love her husband and never did; the husband glooms and glowers; he evidently does not love his wife and never did; certainly he is extremely sulky about it; the life goes out of the wife's life, and she fades slowly but uncomplainingly and surely away; the doctor makes her visit her friend in Bamborough, and there she finds Ralph Gwynne, the man whom once she loved, whom now she sees she should have wedded; she droops yet more; the husband does not write, nor will she; an elopement is planned. But the woman who saves Gervase has known all along that the husband was in fact devoured with love for his wife, and ever had loved her; that he had loved her, but that his unfortunate manner of behaving like a bear with a sore head when he was in apprehension about his wife's health and saw her suffering, had concealed his affection; the illegitimate child was one that he had rescued from the street, not his own; Ralph Gwynne's heart is shallow in comparison, and all is accommodated at last, after the reader has pored over a fine lesson in sickly sentiment, unreality, stupidity, and falsity. 'Life on Board a Man-of-War" (illustrated); "Along the Elbe" (illustrated); "Aunt Eve Interviewed" (illustrated), being the garrulous reminiscences of an old negro woman; "Magdalen," by Mr. Wilkie Collins; "A Simpleton," by Mr. Charles Reade; Miss Thackeray's "Old Kensington," and a dozen more articles fill up Harper's table of contents. Mr. Curtis talks of the American prison system, of the late Mr. Kensett the artist, and of old artist days in Rome, and also of Mr. Froude and his mission to this country. Mr. Curtis makes the point that some of us are too ready to dis like Englishmen because we remember George the Third and Dr. Johnson; that many of us are too ready to put on "the green" to please our Irishborn population; that Mr. Froude and Father Burke and Mr. Meline, in talking about the historic questions which by and-by they had to talk about, were talking of questions which always arouse fierce heats of religious and political partisanship. Apparently these propositions imply that it was bad rather than good policy for Mr. Froude to come over among such people to discuss such questions. But whatever we think of Mr. Froude's wisdom, one point of Mr. Curtis's appears to be well taken-namely, that when once the attempt was made to close Mr. Froude's mouth by refusing him food, as was practically done by his Boston host, or by refusing him a place in which to speak, which was nowhere done that we know, it became our duty to insist on his speaking while there was any menace against him. Ueber den Begriff der Liebe in einigen alten und neuen Sprachen. Von Dr. Carl Abel. (Berlin: C. Habel. New York: L. W. Schmidt.)-This little volume is, in its unpretending way, an entertaining contribution to the study of philology. The author, who has acquired some distinction in Europe for his practical knowledge of numerous ancient and modern languages, aims in the present publication to define some of the words which, in different ways, convey the idea of love. He assumes that the words of a language express the thoughts which are most usual and most strongly felt; that a people which employs many words to express a sentiment or a moral must have enlarged and qualified it on many sides; that a contrary conclusion may be drawn in the case of a people with which the contrary is the case. He chose love because so strong and yet so tender a sentiment permits of a deep insight into the hearts of those by whom the words expressing this feeling are formed and employed.. Where the feeling is greatest the distinctions in the words are the most delicate. In order to exhibit the diversity of character among different peoples by reason of the different modes in which they express their love in words, Dr. Abel selects four languages: Hebrew, for the primitive Semitic period; Latin, as a type of classical antiquity; English, as representing the new Germanic world; and Russian, as representHe adduces several words in each of these ing the aspiring Slavic race. languages, and describes the shades of difference in the ideas which they convey. On reviewing his labor, he concludes that the most prominent features of the Hebrew tongue are: The love of God for man; the love of This last idea is most man for God; and the universal love among men. significant of an active, helping love, and its manifold expression requires three words: 'hesed, the gracious benevoleuce of a superior in rank; ‘hen, the favor which springs from affection; and Ra'ham, the mercy which draws the soft and willing heart toward the sufferer. The Latin language gives prominence to the feeling of duty which is implied in love. That which arises from family ties is distinguished by caritas; the more spiritual extended to the gods and to the country is expressed by pietas; and the zealous attachment which endeavors to serve a friend is shown by studium. There are four principal ideas in English to distinguish a gradation, expressed in the words liking, attachment, love, and affection. The Russian language, besides having words to express different grades of love, has a peculiar word, milost, which not only siguifies neighborly love, but also politeness and high, condescending grace inherent in the individual, regardless of divine command. The origin of the word is accounted for by the political and social relations which Russia is now endeavoring to rectify. 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