SEPT. 4 
574 
stucco and paste of Ills ornamentation liave fallen 
away. 
scott, It must be remembered, does not belong to 
readers of English alone. He and Byron are the 
only English writers of this century—and Shake¬ 
speare la the only other—whose fame has spread 
over the whole of Europe, and Scott’s Influence 
over his contemporaries is really beyond estima¬ 
tion. 
The Invention of English writers has gone back 
to Its customary channels, those of domestic Inci¬ 
dent and inartistic detail, but readers still possess 
the faculty of Imagination, and those who care 
more, for the free air of romance than lor narrow 
precision still return to him as the last purely 
Imaginative writer of English tlctlon.—Thomas 
Sergeant Perry In September Atlantic. 
11a kpek’s Maoazin k Contents: The Ameri¬ 
can 1 1races ; Fish and Men In the Maine Islands; 
The Family of George 111; By-paths In the Moun¬ 
tains; The seven sleepers’ Paradise beside the 
Loire; Amid the Grasses. A Poem; Squatter-life 
In New York; Motherhood. A Poem; White 
Wings. A Yachting Romance; Amandar. A 
Story; Washington Square. A Novel: The Red- 
horse Tavern; A Midsummer-night’s Adventure. 
Indian and Negro; Edltors’s Easy Chair; Editor’s 
Literary Record; Editors’ Historical Record; 
Political Intelligence; Disasters; Obituary. • 
A M rcH-W iutten-About Royal Family.— 
Thackeray, In bis well-known lectures, has brought 
before us as in panoramic procession the courts or 
the four Georges. “Burney,” whom he quotes 
In describing the household of the third George, 
has much to tell us of Its members. A more 
highly favored observer of the same royal ramlly 
was the aged Mrs. Delany, who, while living with 
the Duchess of Portland at Bulstrode, had fre¬ 
quent opportunities of Intercourse with the King 
and Queen, and whose home during the latter 
years of her life was at Windsor, where she had 
been established by royal invitation. Through 
these sources—Mrs. Delnny’s recollections being 
supplemented by those of later generations In 
her own family—arc we principally enabled to 
look into this royal interior. Here we learn 
something Of the home life of George 111., the 
good husband and lather, the unwise King, who 
was as a thorn In the side of our forefathers, his 
transatlantic subjects, until they worked out 
their own deliverance. Of Queen Charlotte 
we hear much. Miss Burney, as we know, held 
tho drearily honorable post of Keeper of the 
Queen’s Robes; and Macaulay, m bis essay on 
Madame P’Arblay, dwells Indignantly on the 
hardships of her position. In truth, the “sweet 
Queen.” so considerate for her venerable friend 
Mrs Delany, was very mueli the Ml? dome sans 
mere/ with her dependents. Queen charlotte 
preserved her royal graelousness of manner, 
however, and appeared regally unconscious of the 
sacrifices she required from her ladles. The case 
was somewhat, the same with his Majesty and 
wearle d^ttendatus coot 
pared miseries and condoled with one another 
over their treadmill existence. 
But the chiefest victim, the authoressol Evelina, 
who is a very lamb for patience and amiability, 
is meanwhile taking her unconscious revenge. 
Did they not know there was “achiel amang 
them takin’ notes ?” She keeps a diary ; she tiles 
to Its pages as a relief from unhappiness and 
ennui : and though too loyal and Torylsh to 
breath a word of direct reproach, the simple 
narrative of facts is all that is needed. But 
Miss Burney’s reverence for royalty makes her 
eager to excuse aud explain away the Queen’s 
selfishness, and her attitude of adoration toward 
the whole family is truly edifying.—K. M. Row¬ 
land, In Harper’s Magazine for September. 
Sckibnek’s.—'T his number contains four or more 
contributions to history; all, are In a readable and 
popular vein. “Eighteen Years Alone,” the first 
account. In permament form, of an Indian wornau 
who lived alone on one ot the Santa Barbara 
Islands from tS35 to 185S.“ The loss of the Oneida,” 
a description of thceollislon between this vessel 
and the English steam-ship Bombay. Lieutenant T. 
A. Lyons, Li. S. N’., the author of the article,— 
which Is the first correct and popular history of 
the disaster,—was In the vicinity at the time ot 
the accident, and assisted in the official investiga¬ 
tion at Yokohama.’’ “Thomas Paine and the 
French Revolution,” by lion. E. B. Washburne, 
our late Minister to France. “Over the Balkans 
with Gourko” Is an account of General Gourko’a 
campaign during the late Uusso-Turklsh war, from 
Plevna, over the Balkans to Constantinople, by 
Lieutenant Francis v. Green, U. B. A., who was 
sent abroad by the United States Government as 
military uitaphe to the American Embassy at St, 
Petersburg. Eugene Schuyler continues his great 
historical serial, “Peter the Great.” Somewhat 
or an historical nature also is the life of “Jean 
Francois MlUetr-Peasant and Painter,” by Alfred 
Sensler, with an introduction by R. VV. G., and re¬ 
productions of his most noted work's. 
St. Nicholas is a thorough sea-side and out-of- 
doors number. 
Miss Alcott’s serial, “Jack and JIB,” takes its 
young people through fun and mishap beside the 
sea, and Mr. Noah Brooks’s continued story, “ The 
Falrport Nine,” describes a night attack by the 
“ Whtte Bears” upon the camp of the “ Falrports.” 
Of the complete short stories, “A Day off Barne- 
gat,” illustrated by W. I,. Sheppard, narrates how 
cedar-logs are mined out of sunken marshes ; 
“ Roll’s Runaway," Illustrated by E. B. Bensell; 
“How Tom Cole Carried out his Plan,” para¬ 
phrases an incident In the life of William Morris 
Hunt; “The Lesson of Walnut Creek," with two 
pictures, shows the advantage of girls knowing 
bow to swim; “The New Engineer of the Valley 
Railroad," Illustrated by H. Faber, gives an ac¬ 
count of a rash monkey’s exploit on an unattended 
locomotive; and “The Naughtiest Day of my 
Life,” with two pictures by Robert Lewis, Is the 
first half of a characteristic story by H. H, 
THE RHBAL WEW-YOMKER. 
Mr. Norton’s fully Rlustrated article about 
“SmallBoats: How to Rig and Sail Them,”and 
Mr. Barnard’s “Talk about the Bicycle,” with 
Its nine pictures, are of interest to boys. 
There are also In this number a description of 
the “ Girls’ Swimming-Bath," with several pic¬ 
tures, by Miss C. A. Northam: “Chased by a 
Hoop-Snake,” one of "The Major's Btg-talk Sto¬ 
ries," with a tunny Illustration by Miss S. A. Ran¬ 
kin; several comical pictures, a number of poems, 
a Young Contributor's story f“ Tho Bicycle Boys”)* 
two pages ot large type and pictures for very little 
readers, andtheusuai departments, “Jack-ln-the- 
I’utplt,” “Letter-Box,” and itlddlc-Box.” 
LipriNcon”s Mauazinr.—C ontents: Ekonlah 
Scrub, Among Florida Lakes, Illustrated; Canoe¬ 
ing on the High Mississippi, Part II., Illustrated ; 
Adam and Eve, a novel; A villegglatura in Aslsl; 
Horse-Racing In France, Part I., Illustrated; Mrs. 
Pinckney's Governess; Tho Home ot the Gentians; 
Newport a Hundred Years Ago; studies In the 
Slums, Diet and Its Doings; Delecratio Plscatorla, 
The Upper Kennebec; The Ruin of Me (told by a 
Young Married Man); Short Studies lu the Pic¬ 
turesque ; Our Monthly Gossip—; Literature of 
the Day. 
Newport a Hundred Years Ago.— There Is a 
magnetism In places which has as strong and 
subtle a potency as that which belongs to certain 
persons. Newport, Rhode Island, Is not an Inapt 
example of the class of whtch I speak. The won¬ 
derful mildness of the air, coupled with Its exhil¬ 
arating qualities; the fertility of the soil, which 
throws tropical vegetation over the stern realism 
ot crag and precipice ; the mixture of the wildest 
features ot Nature with its sortestand most Intoxi¬ 
cating Influences—all these anomalies, unex¬ 
plained even by the proximity ot the Itself Inex¬ 
plicable Gulf Stream, combine to form a perfect 
and most deslrablo whole. Nor Is this description 
over-colored or the off-shot of the latter day 
caprice that has made of the place a fashionable 
resort. The very name of the State suggests I hat 
of a classic Island famed for Its atmosphere; and 
as Verrazano, writing In 1524, compares Block 
Island to Rhodes, 1C Is possible that hence arose 
Its title. Neal In ITU, and the Abbe Robin In 1771, 
both speak ot Newport as the Paradise of New 
England, and endorse Its Indian appellation, 
Aquldneek, or the Isle of Peace. Berkeley, dean 
or Derry, who came here in 1729 full of zealous but 
utopian plans of proselytlsm, writes of it that 
“ the climate Is warmer than Italy, and far prefer¬ 
able to Bermuda ” (hts original destination). In¬ 
deed, It Is to the good man’s enthusiasm for New¬ 
port that we owe his hurst of poetical prophecy, 
•> Westward the course of empire takes Its way.”— 
Frances I’iekrepont North, In Ltpplncott’s for 
September. 
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VARIETIES. 
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” ~Tlr£ Farmer for the Fair.—A husbandman. 
Good nature Is more amiable than beauty and 
more agreeable than wit. 
Tub habit of being always employed Is a great 
safeguard through life, as well as essential u> the 
.culture of every true virtue. 
There Is a Gaelic proverb: “If the best man’s 
vaults were written on Ills forehead, it would make 
lilm pull his hat over his eyes.” 
He who Is false to present duty breaks a thread 
In the loom, and will see the defect when the 
weaving of lifetime Is unrolled. 
It Is said If you sit down when assailed by a fero¬ 
cious dog the beast will not touch you. But the 
judicious man will select as high a seat as possible 
—at the top of a tall tree, for example. 
Politeness. —The fountain of true politeness Is 
a good and generous heart. It consists less In ex¬ 
terior manners than In the spirit developed In con¬ 
ducting the true intercourse of society. 
Erskine puzzled the wits of his acquaintance 
by Inscribing on a tea-chest the words: “ Tu 
awes:' It was some time before they found out 
the wit of Hits literal translation —“ Thou teach- 
est.” 
Waste no Time.— Time lost can never be re¬ 
gained. After allow lDg yourself proper time to 
rest, don’t live an hour of your life without doing 
exactly what Is to be done In it, and going st raight 
through with It from beginning to end. 
The Bmall stones which fill up the crevices have 
almost as much to do with the making the fair 
aud firm wall as the great rocks: so the right and 
wise use of spare moments contributes not a little 
to the buUdlng up, In good proportion with 
strength, a man’s mind. 
When you are traveling always take some 
stranger Into your confidence, tell him how much 
money you have with you. where you keep it, and 
what you are going to do with It, If he doesn't 
relieve you or what you possess you’ll have the 
satisfaction of knowing that you have at last met 
an honest man. 
An eccentric Englishman lately went to the top 
of Mount Blanc for the purpose of building a fire 
where none had ever been kindled. He succeeded 
In doing so, and on getting back to the inn at the 
foot ot the mountain recorded his triumph in Eng¬ 
lish upon the hotel register. It was achievements 
like this that originally made the Englishman the 
laughing-stock In French comedy that he Is to¬ 
day. 
What You Do. Do Well,— If a thing Is worth 
doti»g at all, It is woith while to do It well. Yet 
the world is full of work badly done and half done, 
it, is always bad policy to do work in a poor, half¬ 
hearted, and slovenly fashion. Good and honest 
work will always be of the greatest service, both 
lo the serving and the served. The worker will 
ever find it to his best interest to work conscien¬ 
tiously and carefuUy, and to do his very best. 
Nothing gives more mental and bodily vigor 
than sound rest when properly obtained. Sleep is 
our great replenishes and if we neglect to take It, 
regularly in childhood, the result will be all the 
worse for us when we grow up. It we go to bed 
early, we ripen; If we sit up late, wo decay; and 
sooner or later we contract a disease called in¬ 
somnia. or sleeplessness, a llowing It to be perma¬ 
nently fixed upon us, and then we begin to decay, 
even In youth. Late hours are shadows from the 
grave. 
Worthy of Imitation.— When Philip Henry, 
the father of the commentator, sought the hand 
of the only daughter of Mrs. Mathew In marriage, 
an objection was made by her father, who admit¬ 
ted that lie was a gentleman, scholar, and an ex¬ 
cellent preacher, but he was a stranger, “and 
that they did not even know where he came from.” 
" True,” said the daughter, who had well weighed 
the excellent qualities and graces of the stranger, 
“hut I know where he Is going, and I would like 
to go with himaud they walked life’s pilgrimage 
together, 
-♦♦♦- 
Effects of Perfume on Health.— An Italian 
professor has made some very agreeable medical 
researches, resulting in the discovery that veg e- 
lable perfumes exercise a positively healthful 
Influence on the atmosphere, converting Its oxy¬ 
gen Into ozone, and thus increasing its oxidizing 
Influences. The essences found to develop tho 
largest, quantity of ozone are those of the cherry, 
laurel, clover, lavender, mint, juniper, fennel, 
and bergamot; those that give it In smaller 
quantities are anise, nutmeg, aud thyme. The 
flowers of the narcissus, hyacinth, mignonette, 
heliotrope, and Illy-of-the-valley develop ozone 
In closed vessels. Flowers destitute of perfume 
do not develop It, and those which have slight 
perfume develop It only In small quantities. 
Reasoning from these facts, the professor recom¬ 
mended the cultivation ot flowers In marshy 
districts, and In all plaees lnrested with animal 
emanations, on account of the powerful oxidizing 
Influences of ozone. The Inhabitants of such re¬ 
gions should, be sal's, surround their houses with 
beds of the most odorous flowers. 
Mirth.— There Is a large class ot people who 
deem the business of life far too weighty and mo¬ 
mentous to be made light of; who would leave 
merriment to children and laughter to idiots; 
and who hold that a Joke would he as much out 
ot place on their lips as on a gravestone or In a 
ledger, surely It cannot be requisite to a man’s 
being In earnest that, he should wear a perpetual 
frown. Is there less of sincerity In nature during 
her gambols In Spring than during the stiffness 
and harshness of her wintry gloom? And Is It, 
then, altogether Impossible to take up one’s abode 
with truth, and to let all sweet, homely feelings 
grow about It and cluster around it, and to smile 
upon It as a kind father or mother, and to Bport 
with It, and hold light and merry talk with It. as 
with a loved brother or sister; and to fondle it, 
and play with it. as with a child? No otherwise 
did Socrates and 1‘Lato commune with truth; no 
otherwise. Cervantes and Shakespear e. 
Society has been aptly compared to a heap of 
embers, whtch, when separated, soon languish, 
darken, and expire; but If placed together glow 
with a ruddy and Intense heat-a Just emblem of 
the strength, happiness, and the security derived 
from the union of mankind. The savage, who 
never knew the blessffigs of combination, and he 
who quits society lrom apathy or misanthropic 
spleen, are like the separated embers—dark, dead, 
useless; they neither give nor receive heat, they 
neither love nor are beloved. To what acts of 
heroism and virtue, In every age and natloD, has 
not the Impetus or affection given rise! To what 
gloomy misery, despair, and even suicide, has not 
the desertion or society led! How often In the 
busy haunts ot men are all our noblest and gen¬ 
tlest vlr lues called forth! And how, In the bosom 
of a recluse, do all the soft emotions languish and 
grow faint! 
Statistics about Writing.— A rapid penman 
can write thirty words In a minute. To do this 
he must draw his pen through the space of a rod 
sixteen and a-half feet. Tn forty minutes his pen 
travels a furlong. We make, on an average, six¬ 
teen curves or turns of the pen In writing each 
word. Writing thirty words In a minute, we must 
make 4S0 to each minute; In an hour, 98,800; In a 
day or only five hours, 144,000; In a year of 300 
days, 43,200,000. The man who made 1 , 000,000 
strokes with Ills pen la a month was not at. nil re¬ 
markable. Many men, newspaper writers, for 
Instance, make 4,000,000. Here we have, In the 
aggregate, a mark of 300 miles long lo bo traced 
od paper by such a writer In a year. In making 
each letter of the ordinary alphabet we must 
make from three to seven turns of the pen, or an 
average of three and a-half to four. 
The Dumas family hua always been remarkable 
for strength and address. One night at the play 
Gen. Dumas, the grandfather of Dumas the 
younger, flung a man out of the stage box on to 
the stage. Dumas t he elder was a mau of Hercu¬ 
lean strength, and Dumas the younger excels In 
all games 01 strength and skill. He Is a master 
juggler, and he can put a frame of knives round a 
human head leaning against a board, with the 
most consummate surety ol hand. George Band 
was a brilliant pupil ot Dumas the younger, and 
In her later years she used to amuse herself for 
days in this perilous pastime. 
The Rev. Dr. Howard, chaplain to the mother 
of George III., Rector ot Rt. George’s, Southwark, 
was always lu arrears with his tradesman, and 
was often perpl xed to keep them In good temper, 
lie one day took tor Ills text, “ Have patience, and 
1 will pay you nil." Alter dilating for some time 
on the virtue of patience, he said: “ And nowl 
am come to the second part, ot my discourse, 
which Is < And I will pay you all,’ but that I shall 
defer to a future opportunity.” 
BRIC-A-BRAC. 
TUB WATERMELON. 
Come to the mortal as he sits 
Upon a dry poods box and nips 
The nectar from thy Juicy lips- 
Come to tho youngster as he flits 
Across the high and peaked fence 
And moves with ecstasy Intense 
Thy charms from off the nativo vine. 
And thou art terrible ! 
O August boru monstrosity ! 
Incarnate colicoeity! 
Beneath thy emerald bosom glow. 
Like glittering bubbles in the wine, 
The lurid flres of deadly woo, 
And from thy fascinations grow 
The pain, the cramp, the pang, tho throe— 
And all we fear, or dream, or know. 
Of agotiy is thine. 
Some one has charged Tennyson with plagiar¬ 
ism. We have long suspected the p. laureate has 
been remodeling the fugitive poems of the Sweet 
Singer of Michigan : 
Summer-time will come again. 
With its softly blowing zephyrs. 
Lowing kine are in the fields; 
Some are cows and some are heifers. 
—Tennyson. 
the pet name. 
There was an old fanner of Squarm 
Who called his wife nothing but Alarm, 
She said, “ Itsouuds qtioor. 
But if you like it, dear, 
/ like it; so where is t he harm ?’’ 
By adding one vowel to the following twenty- 
eight letters, they make two lines In verse. They 
were written over The ten commandments In the 
Church ot Alwelck, tn Wales, and remained a 
whole century before the true sense was found 
out— 
P R S V R Y P R F C T M N 
V R K T T II 8 P R C P T S T N. 
the questioner answered. 
“ Are you an Odd Fellow ?"—“ No, sir; I have 
been married more than a week.” “ I mean, do 
you belong to the Order of Odd Fellows ?” “ No; 
1 belong to the order of married men.” “ Mercy, 
how dull! Are you a mason ?” “ No ; I’m a car¬ 
penter.” “ Worse and worse! Are you a Son of 
Temperance?” “No; lam the son of Mr. John 
Gosling.” 
A London lady, on her way to Bond street, was 
accosted by a middle-aged, well-dressed man, who, 
after some conversation, requested the lady to 
come and dine with him at a cafe which he named, 
she at once consented, when he Instantly hailed a 
cab, opened the door, himself, and requested the 
lady to step In. She made some excuse, and re-* 
quested him to get into the cab first. On Ills do¬ 
ing so she shut the door on him, and called out to 
the driver: “ Drive this gentleman to a police 
station as quickly as possible.” 
Now that Rowell has walked and Tanner has 
starved, the next contest will be between two 
fashionable young ladles who will test their 
strength by seeing which can wear her spring hat 
the longest. _ 
The poet who composed the highly classical 
ode: 
“ When I was young and had no sen ho 
I bought a fiddle for 13 peucu,” 
died In the poor-house. Had he written It: 
“ When I was young, and had no guardian 
I invested my cash ou an old accordoon.” 
a grateful public would have risen up as one man 
and presented him with a brass medal. 
A preacher at a Hunday-school excursion de¬ 
scribed heaven as an eternity of picnics—and sev¬ 
eral young men members of his congregation, 
who lugged baskets weighing nearly a ton each, 
and climbed high trees to put up swings, have 
left church.—Norristown Herald. 
A fortune-teller was arrested In Paris, and 
carried betore rue tribunal ot correctional police. 
“ You know how to read fortunes,” said a mau of 
great wit, but rather fond of a Joke for a magis¬ 
trate. “ I do, sir,” replied the sorcerer. “ In this 
case," said the president, " you know the judg¬ 
ment. we intend to pronounce?” “ Certainly.” 
“ What will happen to you ?” “Nothing!” “You 
are sure of that?" “ Yes; you will acquit me.” 
“ Acquit you ?" “ There Is no doubt about It.” 
“Why?” “Because, sir, If It. had been your 
Intention to condemn me, you would not have 
added irony to misfortune.” The president, dis¬ 
concerted, turned to his brother Judges, and the 
sorcerer was discharged. 
A passkr-rv puts his head In at the window of a 
shop where an honest cobbler Is working, never 
thinking of evil, and says, cheerily • 
“ Well, my friend, how many thieves are there 
In this street without counting you ?” 
“What!” yells the cobbler, without counting 
me?” 
“ Well, then," says his lmpurturbable ques¬ 
tioner, “ how many are there counting you 7” 
A flock of girls is called a bevy; a bevy of 
wolves a pack ; a pack of thieves a gang; ft gang 
of angels a host; a host of porpoises a shoal; a 
shoal of buffaloes a heard; a herd of children a 
troop ; a troop of partridges ft covey ; a covey of 
beauties a galaxy; a galaxy of ruffians a horde : 
a horde ot ruffians a heap ; u heap ot oxen a drove; 
of blackguards a mob ; a mob of wbales a school; 
a school of worshipers a congregation; a con¬ 
gregation of engineers a norps ; a corps ot robbers 
a band; a band of locusts a swarm, and a swarm 
of people is called a crowd. 
The vigor of youth given to the aged and Infirm 
by using Hop Bitters. Try it. 
