MOONLIGHT 
H Y MKIlTi:i.K CONO. 
Yon* white face on my silent floor, its silver light is 
throwing; 
Ilow long since that tlrst summer ovo, I Knelt be¬ 
fore its gleaming, 
With a story in my foolish eyes, you smiled at in your 
knowing, 
As 1 event with folded hands to Uon, and could not, 
pray, for dreaming! 
There was a Jewel In the light, it smiled in both our 
faces, 
Hut yours that night was paler, love, and now my 
own is whitest; 
The very earth laughed tip at ns, the stars within 
their places, 
Of all the days of my young life, that (lay hud been 
tho brightest! 
NEW PUBLICATIONS 
FrocUcal Compo»lHon. (Xmv York ; Chas. 
Scribner & Co.) -Hnvingsoinewhal can fully ex¬ 
amined litis unpretending 12-mo. of two hun¬ 
dred and two pages, by Mrs. 51 Ain J. Hakpek 
of ranker Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, we 
ure led to wonder why such u volume has not 
long siime been produced. The lost motions it 
contains arc so plain, so admirably put, that if 
seems us if even tins dullest learner could not 
fail to become a tolerable writer by conning 
them. It (ft purely practical, and gives rules 
for, and examples of, about every variety of 
composition required of any one in practical 
life, not excepting even an editor! Wo might 
criticise certain phraseologies, might say that 
•‘has sank," p. VI, Is not grammatical, and ihat 
•• to tea." p. 121, is faulty,"—but while we regie; 
such little, evidences of carelessness on the >m- 
ihor’s part, we congratulate her on having done 
a good work for tho young, and give it our en¬ 
dorsement. 
Do you remember, foolish moon, I held my hands out, 
smiling, 
Aud watched you Kiss tho jewel, till it woke be¬ 
neath your splendor Y 
And still you murk the same old paths, and shine in 
your beguiling, 
Mayhap, to-night, you shine In eyes with love's 
now dream grown tender! 
For all the shadows, as of old, taml solemnly and 
stndghtly. 
The old church turret and the houghs of elms that 
sigh and shiver. 
And lo your silver solitude, you look down.oalmuud 
stately, 
Nor blush, to see your false white face, within the 
same old river! 
to, 
Our.Veto Way Hound the World. (Boston : 
Fields. Osgood A Co.) Hooks of travel, like text¬ 
books, are becoming alarmingly abundant, mid 
w'o look upon each new addition to the already 
large list with misgivings. We have read tho 
present handsome volume of five hundred and 
more pages, however, with much interest. Its 
author, Mr. Charles Uarlkton CVikmn, inn 
long career as a newspaper correspondent, has 
been trained to just those habits of obsenalien 
which avail the traveler, utjd has acquired that 
condensed style of writing which tells much in 
little, yet tolls it attractively. He went round 
tho world from the (to mi) eastward, but dwells 
lightly on the well-known European ground, 
treating most fully of Egypt, India, China and 
Japan, closing willi tt hasty yet comprehensive 
sketch of our new West. 1 1 may be said (hut Mr. 
CurrrN's work Is sitpertlofal; yet we do not see 
how a volume covering - o much could well do it 
in a manner more thorough and satisfactory. 
And yet, O lady of the night, what vovs you knew, 
ami heeded I 
I wonder if, far up m heaven, you trembled to their 
sweetness? 
They tilled the hunger of a soul, their tenderness 
that needed, 
They seemed to widen earth and heaven, by love’s 
divine completeness! 
These hands! 1 held them empty out, within tho 
moonlight's glory, 
And love,and life, they tilled them both,with crown¬ 
ing, heavenly duty, 
And then 1 heeded hut the joy within my young life's 
story, 
And dreamt that evermore your light, would mean 
but peace and beauty! 
Cturleel* .Vnr .llethod for Iteril fh-f?ann. 
(Boston: Oliver Ditsoti .V Co.)— From a rather 
critical examination of litis work we are led to 
behove it ati exceptionally gnod mm of the kind. 
Too many " methods" arc euteh-pouny affairs, 
with only a few studios sandwiched between 
numerous illy arranged popular airs, -of no 
practical value to the musical student. This by 
William II. Clarke, is compiled with much 
care. It.-, arrangement is progressive, taking I ho 
learner id ng step by step through all tho 
scaler.—the relative minor of each major scale 
being placed, as it should be, in immediate rela¬ 
tion therewith,—while between them are melo¬ 
dies and transcriptions which, serving as recre¬ 
ation, also cultivate a sincere love for harmony. 
Part II. is made up of easy voluntaries, Inter¬ 
ludes and modulations. 
And now, to-night, 1 see you there, my lady, pale and 
saintly, 
And in your light the same old shades of church, 
and elm, and river, 
And still I hold my hands to thee, and sob, unheard, 
and faintly, 
While throbs the blossom-crowned earth, with 
pantos to the Giver! 
O culm,cold moon! O culm, cold stars! so cruel in 
your shining! 
I yet might son my life away, and no glad sign ho 
given; 
No promise of the future comes, to meet niv heart's 
divining! 
There’s no one left me now but Gun, and lh is up 
In heaven! 
PEASANT OOSTUMES ITS! ALSACE AND BADEN, GJGliJYIA2VV 
walk through the woods would assuredly get 
a scolding oil account of torn muslins, sodden 
shoes, and sunburnt faces ; and lie grows up 
with the notion that, girls are very pleasant 
companions once in a. while, but a good deal 
of trouble to look after. 
This state of things is very inexpedient, 
and what fashion should he founded on is 
expediency. We admit, that an ettsy inter¬ 
course between the two sexes improves the 
diameter from childhood upward, and ren¬ 
ders the relations of after life happier ; yet we 
allow the complications of costume to stand 
in i,he way of all Intercourse but that of the 
drawing-room. Simplify dress and more 
would be done to strengthen the ehameter 
and fortify tho health of woman than hy an 
elaboration of hygiene or education. We are 
not perhaps justified in hoping that, the les¬ 
sons of utilitarianism will be readily taken to 
heart; hut tradition is being unseated from 
its throne, and we may hope that the free¬ 
dom extended to theological and scientific 
inquiry will he also extended to the less 
obvious hut hardly less Influential expression 
of individual men and women in their social 
and domestic relations. Till then, it were 
vain to preach against the slavery of dress. 
sell-asserting, she will make laws for us 
while we make love lo her,—will kiss our 
children while she conquers crime,— we shall 
welcome her proudly, aud will strive as wo 
may to forget the Rachels and Ruths and 
Naomis and Makys and Marthas of days 
gone by. But if all the sweet influences of 
the old woman,—the dear old woman Mr. 
Fulton alluded to,—are lost in the self- 
assertion of the new, what then? Excuse 
us from sketching the picture. 
Seriously, we don’t wish to lose sight of 
woman according to tho Bible, unless ex¬ 
traordinary benefits are to accrue from such 
loss. And we would pr' V, v to await the 
benefits a little longer, while wo labor for 
them in some other way. If our Ke nt will 
vote and remain Ruth still, lovely and lov¬ 
ing, we will not put a straw in the way of 
her voting; if she is income, hy her right 
of suffrage, to declare for pantaloons ct al ., 
as Mrs. Stanton lots done,—t hat Mrs. Stan¬ 
ton whom we have believed a ROTH hereto¬ 
fore, and whose womanly nobleness would 
win forgiveness for anything but such a 
declaration,—we shall enter our most earnest 
protest. 
GERMAN PEASANT COSTUMES, 
Our illustration pictures two specimens of 
feminine costume, as seen among a large 
class of German peasantry. We submit 
both as very sensible styles of dress, except¬ 
ing only the lull hat of one, In Baden the 
ancient simplicity of apparel is preserved to 
a degree quite marked; and especially do 
the peasants of the Black Forest cling to 
long established customs*in this regard. The 
tall bat worn by the women is made of straw; 
their stockings are of some coarse material, 
colored red. The peasant, women of Alsace 
dress in a manner less striking, to us, hut 
which wo commend to all womankind. Blue 
is the predominant color, with them,—blue 
chemise, apron of blue, and waist of a bine 
material having luster. Those living upon 
the Lower Rhine never show their linen 
undcrhundkerchief, except through tho open¬ 
ing in the neck of their waist, which gives 
them an uncommonly somber appearance, 
although they are really more lively and 
vivacious than their neighbors in Koehers- 
bet'g, who wear red dresses and white aprons. 
And is tt thus, the song is done,—the veil Is drawn 
forever ? 
Tile pro ml tie of the years is lost, the false vows idly 
broken? 
And must t look into thy face, O silver moon, and 
never 
Renew the glory of thy kiss, the splendor of thy 
token ? 
Yet life ivtll yield its gruiu tit last, and death must 
yield its guerdon; 
Us more than recompensing good, Its jubilant 
transition, 
And heart and hand will learn to lose the aching, mid 
the burden. 
When heaven hits crowned the victory,und yielded 
its fruition! 
,'Valural ffiniory of .l> inmix, (New York: 
Charles Scribner.) A very comprehensive yet 
succinct account of tho Animal Kingdom is 
given ’.i Hits volume by Professor SamiorN 
Ten nev aiul Aunv A. Ten nev, of VassarCollege. 
The numerous species of vertebrates, articu¬ 
lates. moliusk:-, radiates, and protozoans, are 
dearly described, uud over live hundred of I hem 
Illustrated, uud so well as to convey very Just 
impressions of their individual eh tract ei istics. 
For the young, to whom it is dedicated, tho book 
has rare interest in store, and should lie gener¬ 
ally made use of by them an a text-book. 
tones for 
The Philosophy of 't'eorJitmr, (Now York: 
Harper & Brothers.)—In this handsomely printed 
8 -vo. of sixty pages, Mr. Nathaniel sands 
gives Id* \ lews upon the Teacher, the Pupil, the 
School, Teaching and Training, and depicts a 
model school as hi his opinion itshould exist. 
Education, acc ording- to Ids philosophy, la ab¬ 
sorption, ;>.u assimilation <>t outward material 
for inward growth. To increase it, he would 
bring forward every appliance of practical life, 
every suggestion of nature. Mr. Sands’ treatise 
Is thoughtful and progressive. 
VIOLA’S DREAM 
A DRESS REFORM NEEDED 
AVOID DISPUTATION. 
The Pall Mall Gazette thus earnestly and 
sensibly discourses upon the need of emanci¬ 
pation from fashion in dress. We commend 
what is said to t he careful consideration of 
all our readers: 
Clearly, we want a reform in dress that 
shall work toward moral, esthetic and social 
ends. Dress should be, in the first place, 
conscientious; in tho second, beautiful; in 
the third, appropriate. A crusader against 
fashion must send traditions to tho four 
winds and acknowledge no canons hut those 
of reason. Tradition imposes upon men, 
perhaps a convenient, but certainly as ugly 
a costume as could bo devised. Tradition 
imposes upon women an elaborate, foolish 
and often unhealthy toilette. But what is 
tradition to us? Why should not the one 
sex discard chimney pot, hats and swallow¬ 
tail coats, and the other droolUiO dresses and 
corsets? Why should men enjoy all the 
ease and woman all the elegance? 
It is universally acknowledged that the 
happiest state of society is one which makes 
woman the companion of man; hut this 
companionship is limited by an undue idea 
of appropriateness in dress. In public walks 
and parks, for instance, little hoys are allowed 
to play about helter-skelter; but little girls, 
because they will spoil or disarrange their 
clothes, are compelled to walk demurely be¬ 
side their nurse or governess. Again, the 
daily walk of a man is an accessible pleasure 
in most weathers; but how many women 
keep al home, either from dislike of the elabo¬ 
rate process of lacing hoots, fastening hooks 
atld pins, tying strings, adjusting tippets and 
mantles, and so on ad infinitum, or from want 
of time to achieve both toilette and exercise, 
or from want of a dress really suitable for 
inclement weather. 
The consequence is, that an occasional 
promenade takes the place of anything like 
healthful exercise; and the same habit is 
carried to the watering-place and the country. 
A lad who should take his sisters for a rough 
Upon one point touching social enjoyment 
very nearly The Moralist well says: 
A rule for living happily with others is to 
avoid having stock subjects of disputation. 
It mostly happens, when people live much 
together, that they come lo have certain set 
topics, around which, from frequent dispute, 
there is such a growth of anger, mortified 
vanity, and the like, that the original subject 
of dillci'cnce becomes a standing subject for 
quarrel, and there is a tendency in all minor 
disputes to drift down to it. Again, if people 
wish to live well together they must not hold 
too much to logic, and suppose that every¬ 
thing is to be settled by sufficient reason. 
Dr. Johnson saw this clearly with regard 
to married people, when he said “ Wretch¬ 
ed would be the pair above all names of 
wretchedness who should be doomed to 
adjust by reason, every morning, all the 
minute details of a domestic day.’’ But the 
application should lie much more general 
than lie made it. There is no time for such 
reasonings, and nothing that is worth them. 
And when we recollect hew two lawyers, or 
two politicians, can go on contending, and 
that there is no end of one-sided reasoning on 
any subject, we shall not be sure that such 
contention is the best mode of arriving at 
truth. But certainly it is not the way to 
arrive at a good temper. 
“It slialt even ho us when an hungry man 
dreameth, and behold ho oatetli; but he awak- 
eth, and his soul is empty." 
“On father! that is like us, and T cannot 
read any more. T had a dream last night 
that was just what the verse says; and when 
I think of that, and then of what we arc and 
where we are, my soul is empty indeed!” 
And the girl, who seemed scarcely more than 
a child, threw herself hack on her pillow, 
with a restless, weary expression that did 
not suit her beautiful young face. For at 
seventeen grief or want cannot cat into ilm 
life, as it does in the after years. Wo are, 
nmsl of us, learning to bear, then; and tho 
full understanding of the lesson comes later, 
—when hope is dead. 
“My little Viola, my poor little bird,’’ 
said a tender voice, “you will not despair 
now ? You, who have al ways been my com¬ 
forter, my only brightness, in darker days 
than this, will not surely tell me to trust no 
longer?” And with a slow, uncertain mo¬ 
tion, the blind man groped his way across 
Hie room to the low cot where his child lay, 
and laid his thin, wasted hand upon her 
head, caressing it softly. “ That was a 
strange verso;” and lie repeated the words 
in a low tone, half to himself:—“He eateth, 
but ho awaketh and his soul is faint.” There 
was silence, a minute and then lie spoke again. 
“ Don’t you sec, dear, there have hern 
other people in the world, as badly oft’ as we 
are; and 1 suppose there arc a good many 
now, if we only knew it, ‘ and out of it all 
the Lord delivereth them,’ You needn’t 
read any more now; but you know there 
are hundreds of Cheering verses we’ve found 
before, and you must look for those instead 
of the sad ones—the ‘ Tarry thou,’ aud the 
waiting and trusting. But tell me the dream, 
now, and that, may he a feast for us.” 
“ l can’t remember it all, my father, for it 
gets confused; ami my head aches so I don’t 
think of anything else sometimes. The first 
that came to me distinctly was that we were 
WOMAN ACCORDING TO BIBLE 
A well-known clergyman of Boston,— 
Rev. J. D. Fulton,— who lias given con¬ 
siderable attention to the Woman Question, 
recently preached a sermon in Springfield, 
in which he argued that the Bible defines 
woman’s position, and urged its study hy 
those in doubt in relation thereto, lie said 
his first Impulse was to advocate the new 
reform movement, but research had con¬ 
vinced him the reform would he the very 
worst fate that ever befell womankind. We 
cun have no new woman; only the dear old 
woman we have loved and reverenced from 
infancy, ad God made her. Mr. Fulton 
denied the statement of the Methodist Re¬ 
view that then is no such word in the Bible 
as “ helpmeet,” and thanked God that there 
was such a word there, and that there was a 
helpmeet at his residence. lie also asserted 
that Christ in a ll his public ministry taught 
Hie subordination of women. 
We fear that very many, foremost in the 
reform, will not agree with the gentleman; 
and we fear, further, that, a portion of these 
are in their zeal ignoring Bible teachings al¬ 
together. With the latter it is not so much 
a matter of how woman was first endowed, 
as how she shall free herself from certain so¬ 
cial combinations which are, or are thought 
to be, working her harm. If she can be so 
freed only by creating her anew, and model¬ 
ing a being wholly different from the wo¬ 
man God gave unto Adam, they would 
cheerfully do even this. “ No matter what 
kind of woman we have,” say these enthu¬ 
siastic reformers, in the extreme of their 
logic, “ so she is self-assertive, and can vote, 
and protect herself generally.” 
If the self-assertive, voting woman will 
give a new impetus to civilization,—will 
banish glaring wrongs from the earth,—will 
in any wise hasten the dawn of the Milleni¬ 
um,—wc shall be rejoiced at her advent. If, 
Thackeray ^b JVovrii. (Boston: Fields, Os¬ 
good & Co.)—Of the Household Edition of 
Thackeray we have heretofore made t'avor- 
ablo mention. Three mote of Us elegant vol¬ 
umes are before us, containing " Tim Virgin¬ 
ians," “ Henry Esmond," “ hovel the Widower," 
and “ The Adventures of Philip," and they are 
equally as commendable in every particular as 
llic volumes formerly issued. For a cheap, yet 
excellent edition of this genial author, the 
“ Household” is unequaled. 
•I Forner unit .fualyter for Jlf^htnert, 
(New York: Harper & Brothers.) — This little 
volume of eighty-six pages, hy Francis A. 
March, Professor of tho English Language and 
Comparative Philology in Lafayette College, we 
regard an excellent aid to acquiring an accurate 
knowledge of tho construction ul sentences. In 
analytical examples it is very complete, and 
these are so pvogre dvoly arranged that the 
student can hardly fail of i'uhy comprehending 
them. 
The ffeorent if ttr~? a ion, (Syracuse: W. A. 
Burnham.)—All who have parted wit h dear ones 
“gone before,” and who cherish hopes of meet¬ 
ing them yet again, will read with peculiar 
pleasure theno extracts treating of Heavenly 
lie - Union, compiled bv Hex. A. D. Belknap 
from the writings ol' over forty divines, and 
comprising a pamphlet of fifty pages. 
kuiutrliiM. (New York: National Temperance 
Society and Publication House.)—The man in the 
moon has been heard from. In this little book 
of seventy-two pages tie has sought to discover 
a good in strong drink, and his Investigations 
prove l’utile. Other lutm-tics than Lunaiuus 
are well answered in the replies he receives. 
Possibly Trite. — At a fashionable wed¬ 
ding in Bt. Louis, recently, the officiating 
clergyman, the Rev. Father F. M. Reilly, in 
hia address to the groom, said: — “ You are 
the man, and the man must be the ruler. 
Any idea looking to the woman as being the 
ruler is a perversion of Scripture.” 
.inventm e* of Philip, (New York: Harper 
& Brothers.)—'lu a finely printed octavo pam¬ 
phlet ol' two hundred aud sixty-seven pages, 
t his entertaining story by Th ackeray is conve¬ 
niently companionable, and therefore to be 
desired. 
Let all troublesome topics he avoided at 
meals. Do not dwell upon the difficulties 
of business, the delinquencies of domestics, 
or discipline the children at the dinner table, 
for a cheerful spirit not only gives relish for 
food, but a good start at digesting the same. 
The Cornell fntversity tteginter, 1HGH-9. 
(Ithaca: Printed for the University.)— Is a neatly 
printed pamphlet of ninety-one pages, tolling 
ah about the young but famous institution. 
