was destroyed were the following: (1) Congress enacted the non-return of fugitives to our army lines. (2) Abolition of Slavery in Territories. (3) Emancipation of slaves of rebels. (4) Suppression of the African Slavetrade. (5) Employment of colored troops. (6) Proclamation of emancipation by the President. (7) Fugitive Slave-act abolished. (8) Thirteenth amendment of the Constitution, abolishing Slavery finally and for ever. In securing these gradual and decisive steps, our own Senators - Sumner and Wilson foremost or conspicuous. were In closing, candor compels us to say, that, valuable and admirable as this book is, it is written too much in the partisan spirit. Mr. Wilson was not a philosopher, — perhaps not even a statesman, in the highest sense of the word, but a politician and a partisan. He did as well as could be expected from one of his gifts and his nature. If he had been a scholar, he would have written a book less exceptional in a literary point of view; and if he had been a broad, comprehensive, farseeing, wise thinker, he would have written one more lasting in its fame than this may prove to be. THE RAJAH OF SARAWAK* A few pages on in this journal, the writer announces his intention of visiting Borneo, a place where hundreds and thousands of human beings have for years blessed the day when Sir James or as he is better known in the East, Rajah Brooke - set foot on their shores. The following brief description is taken from a paper written at Singapore in 1821:— ried out; and, though it reads almost like a fairy tale, in time Sir James Brooke, by the wish of Muda Hassim and his people, became Rajah Brooke, which title the Sultan of Bruné confirmed in 1842. From this time for many years, golden opportunities of spreading commerce and performing untold philanthropic good were obstinately refused by the "The island of Borneo measures at its English government. The ministries of Lords extreme length nine hundred miles; at its great- Palmerston and Russell believed in the singleest breadth, seven hundred; and in circum-ness of Rajah Brooke's purpose; but Lord ference, six thousand. With the exception of Clarendon's government persecuted him with Australia, it is the largest island known. Oc cupying a central situation in the Eastern a vehemence worthy of a better cause. It was That part of Borneo where the Rajah first landed was called Sarawak. After visiting the ruling Rajah, — Muda Hassim, — Sir James spent some months in exploring Celebes, an island of seventy thousand square miles and upwards, even at the present day but little known. Sir James found that the effect of European domination in the Archipelago had It was not until the year 1864, that recognition on the part of the Crown was gained. Years before, the United States had made a treaty with the Rajah of Sarawak; but that which had been sought for and needed the most came last. In September, 1863, Rajah Brooke, failing in health, left the shores of Borneo and returned to England; where, June 11, 1868, he died. Since his departure from Sarawak, his nephew, Charles Johnson, having assumed the name of Brooke, — has held the reins of government.. By the will of "The first voyagers from the West found Sir James Brooke, the sovereignty of Sarawak the natives rich and powerful, with strong established governments, and a thriving trade was bequeathed to his nephew and his male with all parts of the world. The rapacious issue; failing such, to his nephew, Stuart European has reduced them to their present Johnson, and his male issue. condition. posTheir governments have been The typography of these volumes are worbroken up; the old States decomposed by thy of especial praise; and we recommend our readers to a perusal of one of the most interesting biographical sketches that has appeared of late. WHATEVER weak points the Life of Sir James Brooke developed, few will deny, and more will concede, that his character showed principles truly noble. Born and bred in luxury, controlled by a roving spirit and love of adventure, when he came into session of an ample fortune, he fitted up a yacht at his own expense, and in November, 1838, sailed from England for the Eastern Archipelago. After a fortnight's stay at Rio Janeiro, and touching at Cape Town in the last week in May the following year, the "Royalist" passed through the Straits of Sunda and Banca, and anchored at Singapore. Sir James Brooke thus mentions, in his journal, the differences between the two larger classes of native residents at that time (1839): – been any thing but favorable: — former ? their before and HISTORY OF ENGLISH THOUGHT.* possessions wrested from them under flimsy pretences; their trade restricted, their vices encouraged, their virtues repressed, and their energies paralyzed or rendered desperate; till tinction of the Malay races. there is every reason to fear the gradual exThis is the historical record of the rule of Europeans from their earliest landing to the present moment. THIS is a book for thinkers. The author The same spirit which combines the atrocity writes with a vigorous and incisive pen. of the Spaniard with the meanness of the Jew His mind is evidently crammed with his subpedler has actuated them throughout, receiving only such modifications as time and neces-ject; and his sentences are like rifle shots, "The Malays of Singapore are a simple- sity has compelled them to adopt. Who that short, sharp, and pregnant. He seems also minded but independent people, who would compares the States of the Peninsula, Java, to be judicial in the quality of his mind. He resent ill-usage with more violence than dis- Sumatra, Borneo, or Celebes, cretion, and appear to have but little idea of subsequent to the period of European domina-analyzes and explains, and has an apparent the wily craft requisite to enable them to con- tion, but must decide on the superiority of the disposition to state fairly both sides. He is tend with the Chinese. They are frugal and a historian and reasoner; not a dogmatist. easily satisfied; consequently they never tax "Let these considerations, fairly reflected on Hand in hand, he leads the reader along from themselves with continued labor, though capa-liberal mind; and I think that, however and enlarged, be presented to the candid and point to point, from period to period, from ble of great exertion for a limited period. The Chinese bear all the marks of having lived strong the present prepossessions, they will thinker to thinker; and in a pleasant, rapid, under a despotic government and in a thickly shake the belief in the advantages to be gained but lucid manner unfolds to him the panorama populated country; the Malays, of being the by European rule, as generally constituted. of eighteenth-century thought. denizens of a beneficent clime, which furnishes In certain districts of Celebes, all the offices of An admirable table of contents prefaces sufficient for man's simple wants, without the state, including even that of matoah, are open each volume. From these we are able to necessity of toil, and allows them to yield to to women; and they actually fill the important the dictates of Nature or of passion, without posts of government, four out of the six give our readers a bird's-eye view of the care or apparent responsibility.” great chiefs of Wajo being at present females." ground over which the author invites them to travel. In 1841, the Rajah decided to settle in Bor"to plant there a mixed colony amid a wild but not unvirtuous race, and to become the pioneer of European knowledge and native improvement." This noble resolve was car *The Raja of Sarawak. An account of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B., LL.D. Given chiefly through letters and journals. By Gertrude L. Jacob. Two Vols. With portrait, maps, &c. London and New York: Macmillan & Co. neo; Volume I. Chapter I. - Introductory: the *History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century. By Leslie Stephen. Two Vols. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1876. law; the &c. 46 influence of great thinkers; evolution of ville; Shaftesbury's School; Mandeville's We give one or two sketches or estimates thought; approximation to truth the general School; &c. The Common-sense School: of authors, in which the book abounds. hasty rejection of old opinions; Butler, Hutcheson, Reid; &c. Hartley and Speaking of Gibbon, and the critical passage romantic regret; its true meaning; Adam Smith, &c. The Utilitarians: Locke; in his life when he was converted to CatholiThe Cartesian philosophy: Descartes' his vacillation; Hume's moral theory; his cism by Middleton and Bossuet, Stephen provisional doubt; the soul and God; the crude psychology; scientific view of morality; says: fundamental difficulty; reality undiscoverable; practical weakness of Hume; laxity of his "A conversion of this kind is significant of dogmatism and scepticism; Spinoza's philoso- view; Paley's morality; his definition of vir- the weak side of Gibbon's intellect and charphy; influence of Cartesians upon English tue; Paley and Bentham; the latter's influ-acter. He has given an admirable summary of the bare facts of history; but he is everythought; &c. The English criticism: Locke ence; his value as a moralist; &c. Chapter where conspicuously deficient in that sympaand innate ideas; Berkeley on materialism; X.- Political theories: non-existence of a thetic power which enables an imaginative his idealism; David Hume; his sceptical con- political science; the social compact; &c. writer to breathe life into the dead bones of clusion; Hume's theory of causation; &c. The Principles of 1688: Locke's political the past. He regards all creeds, political and religious, from the outside. He examines the Common-sense and Materialism: opposition to writings; the origin of property; Church and evidence for facts with judicial severity, but is scepticism in England; Reid's position; Hart- State; possibility of a separation; &c. The quite incapable of sharing or appreciating the ley's materialism; &c. Chapter II.The Bangorian controversy, &c. The Walpole passions of which the facts are the outward symbols. A skilful anatomical demonstrator starting-point of Deism: Locke and Bossuet; Era: character of the period; the social of the dead framework of society, he is an Christianity and philosophy; Christianity and compact" and "balance of power" theories; utterly incompetent observer of its living Deism; &c. Chapter III. Constructive Hume's political theories; &c. The French development. A long series of historical Deism: external and internal evidence, &c. influence: Montesquieu and Rousseau; Burke figures passes before us in his stately pages; Locke and Toland: Locke's theology; the on Montesquieu; Rousseau's political theory; but they resemble the masks in a funeral procession. They are grouped with exquisite essence of Christianity; Locke the typical &c. The Fermentation: Letters of Junius; literary skill; but we catch no glimpse of the latitudinarian; John Toland; his philosophy; democratic tendency; Parties under George profounder springs of action, which must be &c. Clarke and Wollaston: Clarke's phil- III.; Chatham; &c. The Tories: Dr. John-appreciated before we can understand the osophy; free will; theology and morality; son, &c. The Constitutionalists: the British underlying order, or guess at the dominant laws of evolution. In perfect harmony with William Wollaston; his pessimism; pessimism Constitution, &c. Edmund Burke: his genius; this view, his ideal state of society is the deathand optimism; &c. Tindal and his opponents: his moral elevation; his hatred of metaphy- like trance of an enlightened despotism. Christianity as old as the creation; " moral-sics; as the Whig prophet; the American a man were called,' as he says in an oftenity the essence of religion; Christianity and question; the French Revolution; Burke's quoted passage, to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition progress; &c. The decay of Deism: Thomas failure to appreciate it, &c. The Revolution-1 of the human race was most happy and prosChubb; Thomas Morgan; causes of the decay perous, he would, without hesitation, name of Deism; &c. Conclusion: rationalism and that which elapsed from the death of Domitian scepticism; Bolingbroke's theological writings; to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by Atheists and divines; &c. Chapter IV. absolute power, under the direction of virtue Critical Deism: assumptions of the critics; and wisdom!'" absence of critical canons; scientific conceptions; &c. Leslie's short method: his "four rules;" application of them; &c. Collins on free-thinking: Collins and Bentley; Swift's attack upon Collins; &c. The argument from Prophecy, &c. The argument from Miracles, 64 &c. 'If Speaking of the leaders of the literary reaction against dogmatism and superstition, he says, near the close: ists: Price and Priestley; American politics; the " Federalist;" Tom Paine; Paine and Burke; William Godwin; Mary Wollstonecraft; Malthus; &c. Chapter XI. - Political Economy: Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations," ," &c. The Mercantile Theory: Hume's economical theories; &c. The French Economists, &c. Adam Smith: his reputation; his originality; Smith and Hume; Godwin and "Of Burns-a poet who has left behind Malthus; &c. Chapter XII. - Characterhim an impression of power quite astonishing istics: literature and philosophy; &c. The when compared with the fragmentary charChapter · V. — Butler's "Analogy:" Preachers: eighteenth-century sermons, &c. acter of his works it is needless to say general character of the " Analogy;" &c. The Poets: Pope; Spenser; Thomson; much. Burns is the spokesman of a social order which might not unfairly represent the Chapter VI. — David Hume: imperfect appre- Young; Akenside; &c. General Literature: interpretation of Rousseau's state of Nature. ciation of Hume; neglect of his writings; New literary forms; aversion to "enthu The strong healthy race of the Scotch lowcompleteness of his arguments; Kant's scheme siasm;" Swift and Johnson; Johnson and lands, unconsciously absorbing the influences of theological arguments; Hume's general Voltaire; Henry Fielding; English novels; of a free open-air life, and far apart from all reply to ontologists; his real belief; &c. &c. The Religious Reaction; moral standard sickly sentimentalism, had produced for ages a race of poets whose ballads reflect their vigorChapter VII. William Warburton: War- of the eighteenth century; Bishop Wilson; ous character. In the age of Burns, life had burton and Pope; Warburton's relation to Isaac Watts; Philip Doddridge; John Wes- become peaceable, and not luxurious. The Hume and Butler; &c. Chapter VIII. – ley; William Law; Whitefield; the Method- society in which he lived had acquired a cerThe later theology; &c. The Common-sense ists; the Evangelicals; Protestantism, old and tain degree of culture, but had not yet been broken up by the restless movements of modschool, &c. Science and Revelation, &c. new; &c. The Literary Reaction: Sentiern development. Burns, therefore, was qualiPaley and his School, &c. The Subscription mentalism; morbid social conditions; vicious fied to stand forth to the world ripening for Controversy: Rise of Unitarianism, &c. The styles; growth of romanticism; Gothic" revolution, and give in a few vigorous touches Unitarians: Joseph Priestley; his inconsis- taste; "Naturalism;" revolt against classic- the presentiment of the truly vigorous peasant tencies and materialism; his strong point; ism; Pope and Wordsworth; Cowper; Burns. &c. The Infidels: Gibbon; his defects as a From the foregoing synopsis of Stephen's historian; his attack on Christianity; force of work, our readers may see how many and how his argument; Paine's "Age of Reason;" great matters of interest are treated therein. Paine's ignorance and impudence; his moral- From some of his opinions of men and their ity; replies to Paine; &c. writings there is abundant opportunity to disVolume II. Chapter IX.-Moral Philos- sent; and yet one can but feel that views ophy. The Intellectual School: its chief which are presented with such affluence of writers; its starting-point; the intellect and learning must be important and valuable to Willie's Prayer.' The peasant expressed his the emotions; &c. Shaftesbury and Mande- consider. 66 life, not stained by idyllic sentimentalism, and with strong manly blood coursing through every vein. In one sense he was consciously a revolutionist. The [Scotch] religion had become an effete sham. A hundred years before, Burns might have been a Covenanter. But the old Covenanting spirit had become a thing of shreds and patches, - an effete idol, no longer capable of rallying true men to its heart into such tremendous satires as 'Holy side. And therefore Burns puts his whole hearty contempt for the hypocritical leaders who HOW LANDOR AND BROWNING.* OW these two names made our pulses beat in the old days, when Margaret Fuller lived and ruled, and when West-End girls cared to know something beside the name of the last novel or the figure of the newest " German"! tried to traffic upon his lingering superstitions promise of the youth Thucydides, and to the Of this man in the letters recently published, Elizabeth Barrett writes, to explain the spirit of a Greek epigram then just written by him on Napoleon the First : fence it out doubly from the populace, profanum vulgus et arceo. 66 Mr. Landor is classical in the highest sense. His conceptions stand out clearly cut and fine, in a magnitude and nobility as far as possible removed from the small and sickly vagueness common to this century. If he seem at times obscure, it is from no inadequacy and involution in brevity, or infirmity, but from extreme concentration for a short string can be tied in a knot as well as a long one. He can be tender as the strong can best be; and his pathos when it comes is profound. thoughts self-produced and bold. The elaboraHis descriptions are full and startling, his tion produces no sense of heaviness: if it is cold, it is noble; if not impulsive, it is suggestive. As a writer of Latin poems, he ranks and majesty than Milton had, when he aspired with the most successful, having less harmony to that species of Life in Death,' but more variety and freedom. His Pericles and Aspasia and Pentameron' are books for the time shall come to their senses; complete in world and for all time, whenever the world and beauty of sentiment, and subtlety of criticism. Where are they gone, - those radiant girls who loved knowledge for its own sake, and were enamoured of the romance of "Real Life," were it past or present? Enough of this romance attached to Elizabeth Barrett, who, doomed from girlhood to the seclusion of her chamber, saw her brother and cousin sink "His sentences have articulations of very into the treacherous depths of ocean from her excellent proportions. Abounding in striking invalid's couch, and seemed so sacred to lifting them like statues to pedestals, where images and thoughts, he is remarkable for grief, that the world honestly believed her they may be seen distinctly, and strike with "Portuguese Sonnets" to be translations out enduring though gradual impression. His of that tongue. Enough, also, to Walter smaller poems, for classic grace and tenderSavage Landor, who, cursed from birth by the ness and exquisite care in their polish, may "Mr. Landor went to Paris in the begin- best be compared to the beautiful cameos and boisterous stormy temperament which Dick-ning of the century, where he witnessed the vases of the ancients. Two of Landor's works ens feebly sketched in the character of Boy- ceremony of Napoleon being made consul for are probably known to less than half-a-dozen thorn, lived out of the world because he might life, amidst the acclamations of multitudes. people of the present day. One is entitled, not live in it, and printed his own works at his He subsequently saw the dethroned and de-Poems from the Arabic and Persian.' They serted Emperor pass through Tours, on his are full of ornate fancy, grace, and tenderness, own superb press, when the world declined to way to embark for America. Napoleon was as the originals from which they appeared to recognize his merits. attended by a single servant, and descended be translated, and were accompanied by a at the Prefecture unrecognized by any body number of erudite critical notes, likely to except Landor. The people of Tours were cause much searching among Oriental scholars ; most hostile to Napoleon; and, as a republican and the search of course was to be vain. The politician, Landor had hated him. Had he other brochure was a Satire upon Satirists,' now pointed his finger at him, it would have a scathing piece of heroic verse, a copy of done what all the artillery of twenty years had which Mr. Landor sent to me." failed to accomplish: the people would have let the hero pass." torn him to pieces. He held his breath, and Here was a man with a heart and a head too large for common measure, and withal having blood coursing through his veins at a heat and with a speed that no mortal creature understood. Surely, among the distant suns God will find some sphere, where these will be in equilibrium with social and planetary forces, and so a tardy justice reach this illstarred son of earth. Yet perhaps the splendor of his mental powers, and the keen delight their play must have given him, may long ago have justified his fate to himself. Whatever his English contemporaries may have felt, the children of this generation owe only a debt of gratitude to Savage Landor. What superb scholarship, what an exquisite style, what perfect mastery over situations and subjects, meet us in the three volumes already issued in this edition! It seems almost a pity to read him in any thing but his own delicious print and paper; but the price we used to pay for one of those books, no one pays without grumbling now. "It's pages," said Lowell in those glad times, take you to the theatre where Prometheus' is played, to the house where Socrates and Aristophanes meet, to the Landor. Third Series. Dialogues of Literary Men. "Other causes," continues Miss Barrett, "than the originality of his faculty, prevented Landor's favor with the public. He has the most select audience, perhaps the fittest, the fewest, of any distinguished author of the day; and this of choice. Give me,' he said, 'ten accomplished men for readers, and I am con tent.' "He writes," says our friend, "criticism for critics, poetry for poets; and his drama The above is a condensation of some of the words written by the most remarkable woman of our generation concerning him whom we are inclined to call its most remarkable man. Mrs. Browning has had no intellectual peers, if we except George Eliot and George Sand. She had a warmer heart and keener sympathy than George Eliot, and God was still to her a real presence. She had sufficient sensuous basis to her nature to understand George Sand, that "large-brained woman and large-hearted man,”—and yet to hold herself in complete equilibrium. BEN MILNER'S WOOING.* supposes neither pit nor gallery, nor critics, OF all Holme Lee's long list of interesting books, perhaps the most thoroughly charming is "Ben Milner's Wooing," just issued by Roberts Brothers, as the initial volume of their new series, "Town and Coun nor laws. He is not a publican among poets, * Imaginary Conversations. By Walter Savage learned delicacy, and an appeal to the esoteric try," which is to include all sorts of good His very spelling of English is uncommon and things, both new and old, native and foreign, theoretic. And, as if poetry were not in Eng- and for which we can wish no more than the lish a sufficiently unpopular dead language, he has had recourse to writing poetry in Latin, Boston: Roberts Brothers. Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, addressed to Richard Hengist Horne. Edited by S. R. Townshend Mayer. London: Richard Bentley. Ben Milner's Wooing. Town and Country with dissertations on the Latin tongue, to Series. Boston: Roberts Brothers. $1.00. 153 same success that has attended its older impossible; and the contrary effect of neces-erties in manufacturing; for the river had brother, the No-Name" series. says, 44 sity leaves on the mind something of the disa- chosen to run to the east of the range of hills Nor can it fail of this, if "Ben Milner" be 'The Great Match," or Matches, for we this was universally acknowledged. The vil- sown seed which had been religiously perpetulage papers of Milltown often amused them- ated by several families. Most of the ladies selves about what they termed the blue blood in town sketched, and one "sculpted," as of Dornfield. Whenever a representative to they termed it in Milltown. There was a a literary club. While THE GREAT MATCH.* the general court was to be elected, the two fern society, and THE HE sex of a novelist should be easy of de- towns were brought into active rivalry; for chromos were welcomed in Milltown, and there was but one representative for the two, were fast replacing masterpieces in hair, tection. It is true that, in these later days, and each strove to elect one of their own weeping-willows over tombstones, and oil a school of fiction has arisen which may be said townsmen. The cry of blue-blood and kid- paintings, the work of that man who founded to have no sex; and which mingles and inter- glove aristocracy, raised by the partisan the horse-car school of painting, - Dornfield toward higher art.” fuses the traits of each, and slips from mascu- papers of Milltown, generally decided the had passed chromos, and had made rapid strides day; and the manufacturing population line to feminine with such skill and dexterity elected a Milltownite, although no one wore Freshness is the predominant quality of the as to baffle and confound the most practised kid gloves in Dornfield. The minister in book. It is full of open air, and has stronglyanalysis. The founder and most illustrious Milltown preached for the Universal Church, example of this school is George Eliot, whose marked individual flavor, which we do not remember to have met so distinctly in any story touch, keen, strong, subtle, precise, elusive, since Mr. Edward Eggleston's "Hoosier all at once, needs the shelter of no pseudoSchoolmaster." nym, but is itself its own best disguise. It is a clever thing, this masquerading before all eyes; but an unsatisfactory element mixes with the cleverness. If manliness is in truth the first requisite of a man, and womanliness of a woman, these qualities should so flavor and interpenetrate style as to make mistake * The Great Match, and other Matches. No Name Series. 16mo. $1. Boston: Roberts Bro'hers. and against the sin of exclusiveness; the min Half-a-dozen New England villages of our As a fine example of the tender and pathetic style in which portions of this story are written, we copy the following description of Rose's preparation for a "Martha Washington tea-party": "Dornfield, in its turn, had its virtues. It "Rose accompanied her visitor to her was peopled by many of those whose ances- equipage, and stood under the lilacs, watching tors came over in the Mayflower.' There her as she whirled away. She bitterly conhad never been any temptation to its inhabi- trasted Mi s Milton's surroundings with her On one side was the utmost warmth of tants to invest their comparatively small prop-own. RÜCKERT'S "WISDOM OF THE FRED BRAHMIN." But here, the best is that which in the first is left. Poorest of all are those that linger in the last. None poorer, JEST AND EARNEST. save the man who naught can do but jest. Earnest is weak, that shuns a jest with jealous eyes; And jest is weaker still, in which no earnest lies. CONTENTMENT. What use of a great house? None, be it full or bare; Who keeps a great house, needs a host of servants there. A host of servants naught but heavy pay can hold; If there a constant crowd, and here content abide. affection and devotion; and, on the other, extreme coldness and selfishness. Could she blame Ned Black if he was repelled by her surroundings, and attracted by the happy home and the wealth of her rival? The tears `REDERICK RÜCKERT, one of the most came to her eyes, as they are so apt to do in gifted and accomplished poets of the fits of self-abasement. She stole up stairs to Fatherland, is probably (in proportion to his her room, and scrutinized herself in the glass. genius and wealth of wisdom) the least known She certainly had a better figure than Miss Milton. But was her face as good-looking? or appreciated amongst us of all the sons and The man who cannot jest is a poor wight at best; she could not tell. In the attic, among her fathers of German song. He was first introdear mother's old things, she remembered that duced to the American public, in any there was a very rich silk, with large figures of worthy manner, a generation ago, by the flowers, of a quaint fashion. It had been the "Strung dress in which she had gone to the ball given reproduction of a portion of his in honor of Lafayette. It would be just the Pearls" at the skilful and tasteful hands of dress for this party; Ned Black should see Dr. Frothingham; since which time, only her at her best and she sprang up the attic scattered gems of his mines have now and stairs. How tender were the emotions awakHis great then appeared in English setting. ened in the young girl's breast, as she opened the old oaken chest, and looked over her work, of which the title forms the heading mother's things! This was not the first time of this article, has been translated into our that she had done so: her tears had often language by Rev. C. T. Brooks, to whom spotted some delicate vesture, as she bent over the contents of the chest, longing for the affec- We are already indebted for superior translation which a mother might have bestowed tions of Goethe, Jean Paul Richter, Leopold upon her; which, alas! it had never been her Schefer, Auerbach, and other German augood fortune to know, for her mother had thors, - and waits only for the "convenient died when she was a mere child. There were season to try its fortunes with American and rich, brocaded silk gowns; old-fashioned, large bonnets that brought a smile to Rose's English readers. lips even when her eyes trembled with tears. There were delicate little slippers in great numbers; for Mrs. Snevel evidently had a beautiful foot, and liked to indulge her womanly vanity. Rose frequently sat down which the author (who was for some time Proupon the hard attic floor, and tried on these fessor of Oriental Literature) had been for slippers; they were a trifle too large for her. years storing up in his large heart, and Then she would kiss them, and replace them evolving out of his creative soul, enriched tenderly. In the chest was laid away the wedding gown. It seemed so small to Rose, and quickened by sympathetic study of the in its flattened state, with the highly embroid- poesy and philosophy of the Morning-land." ered sleeves folded over the front of the bodice, But the result is neither translation nor with a sad suggestion of a human form. . . transfusion nor imitation, but a new creation; While Rose bent over the chest, communing with the past, the day outside was exactly like as if a native singer and seer of the East, rethe one on which her mother had been mar- born under a Western sky, should prophesy ried, a half a century ago. The shadows of the soft, fleecy clouds pulsated on the green banks; the songs of the bobolinks came up from the clover-fields; the cheery call of the ploughman to his oxen resounded from the upland; the swallows twittered in the eaves; and the soft breeze whispered, in the same tone, to DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND. Among the precious stones, that is the choicest one "The Brahmin " is a poem of vast range, expressing in epigrammatic form, in twelve- Far sooner bear all wounds itself, than wound a syllable iambic rhymes, the world-wisdom and pours In a series of what may be called "dis- ranging from the homely sense of a "Poor Richard" up to the highest sentiment of divine philosophy. the old elm in front of the house. The mother * Rückert's "Wisdom of the Brahimin." Trans- points of English Grammar. Of this latter lated by Charles T. Brooks, of Newport. gentleman, Americans, generally, are but |