sudden cliauge, which proved to be lasting, 
he succeeded in gaining the ear of the vaga¬ 
bonds of London, Glasgow and other great 
cities, and, knowing 
occupants of the interior rooms. The hol¬ 
low square thus formed by the surrounding 
walla of the building will be something im¬ 
posing, even beautiful, with tlm gold lish 
anil the fountain. The basement will be 
fourteen feet below the level of the street, 
and its vaults will reveal the massive ma¬ 
sonry, which, Allas-like, will shoulder the 
peopled iron world above. There will be a 
great engine tor generating steam for beat¬ 
ing the building, for raising and lowering 
the great elevators, for driving the vast fans 
that are to cool the summer air, and for' 
lending iron sinews to the kitchen and the 
laundry. There are to be ventilating shafts 
A FROSTY DAY 
Utoax xs fficrlir 
GltASS HllolU wears silver t hatch, 
PallURS all are edged with rimo, 
I'roBt-llowers pattern round tho latch, 
Cloud nor hreexe dissolve the climo; 
When the waves are solid door, 
And the clouds are iron bound. 
And the boughs are erystailed hoar. 
And the red leaf nailed aground. 
When the fieldfare's flight is slow. 
And a rosy vapor rite, 
Now the sun Is small and low, 
Uclts along the region dint. 
When the Ice crack llles and (laws. 
Shore to shore, with thunder shocli. 
Deeper than tho evening daws, 
Clearer than the village clock. 
When the rusty blackbird strips, 
Bunch by bunch, the coral thorn. 
And the pale day-crescent dips 
Now to Heaven a slender horn. 
where to find his hear¬ 
ers, and how to touch them, he has accom¬ 
plished a good work. 
Rev. VV. II. H. Murray, of Adirondack 
fame, who has been lecturing at Si. Albans, 
is thus “ made a note of’’ by the Messenger : 
“lie tells the wildest, the most poetic, t lie 
most flowery, the most Arabian-night-like 
tales about the Adirondacks, and yet sol¬ 
emnly asserts them to head true,and makes 
you believe it in spite of yourself. He is a 
youug man, and therefore not wholly dried | 
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LITERARY NOTES AND ITEMS. 
James Parton’s famous article entitled 
“ Does it Pay to Smoke ?” has been issued in 
a neat pocket edition by a London publisher. 
J. T. Headley is going to tell the readers 
of Scribner’s .Monthly what he knows and 
what there is to he known about Phila. 
Rrof. Russell is running Cornell Uni¬ 
versity during President White's excursion 
to Sail Domingo. 
Col. W. INI. Grosvenor, author of the 
pamphlet, “ Does Protection Protect?” has 
withdrawn from the St. Louis Democrat, 
The Chicago Bible Society has one hun¬ 
dred agents at work in the different school 
districts of the city. Last year 20,000 books 
were distributed. 
Scribner’s Monthly is proving a great 
success. New editions of tbo November 
and February numbers are now being print¬ 
ed to supply the demand. 
Senator Wilson, it is said, has another 
rod in pickle for Judge Black; in other 
words, be intends to reply to Mi'. Black’s 
article in the February Galaxy. 
R. Shelton Mackenzie of the Philadel¬ 
phia Press, now at least ninety years of age, 
lias been reciting his own poems from the 
stage of the Philadelphia Academy. 
Mr. Garrett, Director of Public Instruc¬ 
tion in Mysore, is preparing a classical dic¬ 
tionary of all the Indian deities and mythical 
personages recorded in standard works. 
Miss Austen, at her death, left the manu¬ 
script of a novel entitled “ Lady Susan,” 
which is at length to ho published, together 
with some sketches, in one volume. 
John G. Whittier was once an editor, 
having succeeded George D. Prentice on 
the New England Review, published at 
Hartford, more than thirty years ago. 
George Augustus Sala talks of making 
the tour of America, and writing his obser¬ 
vations to the London Telegraph, as soon as 
the Franco-German war is over. 
Tltpkk, the author of “ Proverbial Phi¬ 
losophy,” it is said, contemplates a visit to 
this country with the design of giving read¬ 
ings from his works. May wo be spared the 
intlietion ! , 
Prof. Youmans’ lecture on the “Corre¬ 
lation of Forces” is spoken of as the most 
attractive of the season, both on account of 
the interest of the subject and the ability of 
the speaker. 
Du. Evans, the well-known American 
dentist, who accompanied Ihe Empress 
Eugenie to England, and who is now in that 
country, is about to publish an account of 
his journey. 
The British and Foreign Unitarian Asso¬ 
ciation will publish at an early date a new 
edition of “ The History of the Corruptions 
of Christianity,” by the Rev. Joseph 
Priestley, LL. D. 
The Young King of Bavaria’s latest 
phase of eccentricity is shown in determin¬ 
ing to edit a journal advocating certain re¬ 
forms in music. As the Scotch say, lie must 
Mr. Alexander T. Stewart, the emi¬ 
nent merchant, has set aside six millions of 
dollars for the erection of buildings for the 
work people of Now York city—one for 
work-women and another for workmen. 
We give herewith an illustration of the ele¬ 
vation of the building now erecting on 
Fourth avenue, between Thirty-second and 
Thirty-third streets, this city, for the homes 
AT NIGHTFALL 
When, in tho evening's solitude. 
My thought hits leisure to bo free, 
Tho purer life, the higher mond, 
tl'ho nobler purpose wakes in me. 
Rut m tho rums that I)trough I ho day 
Constrain the mind from hour to hour, 
The nobler purpose fade* away, 
Grows fulnt, ami loans all Its power. 
So some pure star’s excelling ray, 
With all tilts beauty of Its light. 
Is hidden by tho glare of day, 
And only shines with fall of night. 
[< 'lumber*' 
AGNES BUEMANN 
Translated from ttie Norwegian of Christo! Jansen 
for Moore's Kural Now-Yorker. 
IConeluded from page 111, last No.J 
CHAPTER VIII. 
Agnes and Mathilde. —Quarrels. 
Agnes’ heart beat fast. She flew up to 
her room, threw herself on her bed and burst 
into tears. “Goo forgive me,” she sobbed, 
“ forgive me and strengthen me! Teach me 
to love my father as I ought,—forgive me— 
do not forsake me, but strengthen me to do 
right!” 
She cried long and bitterly, but at last her 
sobs became less frequent. She lay now 
quite still, with her head on her pillow. The 
storm bad passed; after u little slut got lip, 
went, to the book-shelf, and took down her 
old favorite, the Student’s present. She 
lighted a candle and sat down to read. After 
reading a page, she began to think ; she put 
her turns down on the book and placed her 
head on them. She remained thus some 
time. At last some one came up stairs, some 
one opened the door, but stopped on the 
door sill. It was Matihlde. Site saw Ag¬ 
nes lying there. 
“ Are you come home at last ?” she said. 
Agnes did not answer. Mathilde, think¬ 
ing site bad fallen asleep, crept softly behind 
her chair, and looking at the book over her 
shoulder read, “ Where is that woman to he 
found, who, feeling her own weakness, has 
not at least once in her life wished for a 
man’s arm upon which to lean, and protect 
her. But whore also is the woman who 
does not carefully conceal this secret thought 
and wait patiently until she be sought, even 
should she wail in vain—whose heart burns 
for sympathy, lmt who would rather this 
lire should consume Her than let, it he seen.” 
“Ha, 1m, ha—that is capital,” and Ma- 
Tiuf.DE hurst out laughing. “ Agnes, Ag¬ 
nes," she cried, “ do let me read a little 
more?” And saying this she drew the hook 
from under Agnes’ arm. Agnes sprang up 
and snatched it from her. 
“ Do not touch that book—it is too good 
to be polluted by your eyes.” 
Mathilde retreated a step. She looked 
at Agnes in dismay, as she stood with 
sparkling eyes, like an angry lioness in her 
den. 
“What is the matter with you?” said 
Mathilde. “ Has lie proposed already ?” 
“Don’t mention himt” shrieked Agnes, 
and now her long pent, up anger burst forth. 
“ You dare to speak of him, you —! who 
are not worthy to kiss even tbe dust under 
his feet 1 You have tried to make me an 
empty headed peacock, like yourself; you 
thought you could do as you liked with me, 
and that I had no will of my own !—and I 
had been as you are now, as giddy and 
thoughtless, but, thank God, I have awak¬ 
ened from that dream, and have become 
conscious of my errors. I have come to my 
senses, and see you in your true colors, and I 
will no longer live under the same roof as you. 
you have separated me from my lather ; you 
have set me against the people here, who are 
much better than you are; you have sepa¬ 
rated me from my God ! But I will suffer it 
no longer; you must go home; 1 will not 
have you here any longer! 
Mattiilde’s face had become quite white. 
She was going to reply, but Agnes rushed 
out of the room, down stairs into the dining¬ 
room to her father. 
The Pastor was sitting writing when she 
entered, with red eyes and disordered hair. 
A. T. STEWART’S HOTEL FOR WORKING - WOMEN, ■ NEW YORK CITY, 
down to the crusty bard-pan of life. lie is 
an orthodox minister, and yet isn’t afraid to 
wear a moustache, tell a funny story, or con¬ 
fess that, to bis ear tbe sweetest music in the 
world is the haying of hounds. Ilis lecture 
here Monday evening was partly descriptive, 
partly sarcastic, (on the correspondents who 
have criticised his book,) partly rhapsodical, 
partly anecdotal, and nothing sacerdotal.” 
Wesley Smead, who died recently ut 
Poughkeepsie, and who was formerly a 
prominent banker of Cincinnati, is said to 
have left in MS. two or three volumes on 
finance, to be printed posthumously, with a 
provision in Ins will for their publication. 
Theodore Tilton is about to start a new 
weekly paper, which will discuss the “ liv¬ 
ing issues of church, State, literature, art, 
society and reform.” Tt is to be called 
“The Golden Age,” and will probably fore¬ 
shadow tbe Millenium in other things than 
its title. 
William M. Rossetti’s promised revis¬ 
ion of Shelley’s Poems has just appeared 
in England. Mr. Rossetti lias made nu¬ 
merous criticisms upon the poems, and has 
inserted very many emendations—but in 
Ids turn Ik: is himself sharply criticised by a 
reviewer in the London Times. 
Harper «& Bros.’ recent announcements 
jnclude Lady Belcher’s “ Mutineers of the 
Bounty ;” the Marquis de Beauvoir’s narra¬ 
tive of a “Voyage Round the World;” 
“ Recollections of Society in France and 
England“Turkish Ilarernsand Circassian 
Homes;” "The Revolt of the Coven ness;" 
Dyer’s “ History of Modern Europe;” “The 
A utobiograpliy of Lord BroughamHare’s 
“Walks in Koine;” Gregg’s “Scenes from 
the Life of Jesus," and several novels. 
Hurd & Houghton announce a number 
of works—among others “A Hand-book of 
Legendary and Mythological Art,” by 
Clara F.hskine Clement; “Stories from 
Old English Poetry ;” “ From Fourteen to 
Fourscore,” by Mrs. S. W. Jewictt; “Three 
Successful Girls,” by Julia Crouch ; “ Cas¬ 
tles in the Air," by “ Barry Gray,” (R. B. 
Coffin,) aud a novel left, in manuscript by 
Fred. S. Cozzbns, “ Tbe DebardeurProf. 
G. W. Greene’s completion of bis life of 
bis grandfather, Gen. Nathaniel Greene, 
vols. II. and III.; the second volume of the 
Surgical Memoirs of the U. S. Sanitary 
Commission,edited by Prof. Hamilton, and 
the fifth of the Final Reports; Dr. Ciias. 
II. Hall’s “ Notes on tbe Gospels,” ami the 
two final volumes of tbe “ Sermons of Dr. 
South.” 
Julius CL-esar is now declared by a clas 
sical student to have been the first editor of 
a newspaper, having fulfilled the journalistic 
function for a regular MSS, issued at Rome 
for public instruction. 
GOOD READERS 
Were I called on to give directions for 
making good readers, I should say the best 
Avay was to practice a great deal. It is sel¬ 
dom that you find one, even among intelli¬ 
gent persons, who is agreeable to listen to ; 
and the cause,l think, is lack of sufficient 
practice. • 1 have a brother who is an excel¬ 
lent reader, who, when a small boy, delight¬ 
ed in nothing so much as reading aloud. A 
friend gave him a bound volume of Parley’s 
Magazine, which lie read and re-read many 
times, and I have thought that the secret of 
his excellent reading in after life, was owing 
to the practice lie had in this way. Would 
it not do away with much of the monoton¬ 
ous, school boy stylo so common, if parents 
relied much more on practice at home, es¬ 
pecially in long winter evenings. It is 
considered a healthy exercise for the lungs, 
too,'and the more we have of it the easier it 
is.— L. E. K. 
