The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-01 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The King of Prussia has addressed the following
letter to the Duke of Coburg-Gotha :

" The presence of your Highness at the autumn
manoeuvres of the 7th and Bth Corps of the Prus-
sian Army of the Rhine, that have just con-
cluded, :as well as the personal part you took
in the operations on two of the days, by under-
taking the command of one of the corps, have fur-
nished me another proof of the lively interest your
Highness has always displayed in my army. It
gives me great pleasure to add to the verbal re-
cognition of the manner in which you commanded
the troops during the operations, this expression of
my sincerest thanks for the service. With renewed
assurances of my esteem and unalterable friend-
ship, I am your affectionate cousin,

" WILLIAM."

The Hungarian correspondence of the Gazette
d'Augsburg states that the Prince of Schwarzenburg
Rudolstadt will, in November next, abdicate his
Sovereignty, for the purpose of marrying a young
lady from the ranks of the bourgeoise, a Mdle.
Schulz, of Konigsberg, who, with her mother, has
resided for several years at Rudolstadt and other
places of summer resort in Thuringia. His High-
ness is 68 years of age ; the lady 25. The ex-Prince
will be succeeded in the government of his State by
his brother Albert, who was born in 1798.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 1.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Tagus, with the Peninsular mails, arrived off the
Needles at 11 a.m. to-day.

THE NEW FRENCH WAR FRIGATE.—The iron-
cased frigate Gloire returned to Toulon on Sunday after-
noon last from Nice, having on board the maritime Prefect
of Toulon, General Froissard, and Colonel Bichot of the
Engineers, with their staff. During the passage the usual
manoeuvres performed during a naval action were prac-
tised, and her guns, shotted, were fired under steam, her
speed being 12 knots an hour. The second officer in com-
mand of the Gloire was promoted on his arrival at Toulon to
the command of the steam corvette Pei-Ho.

THE EXHIBITION OF 1862.—The Imperial Com-
mission for preparing the French part of the Universal Ex-
hibition at London has just issued another circular, in
which it announces that it cannat attend to any applica-
tions for pero.ission to exhibit which have reached it since
the 15th of this month, except, however, for grave reasons
of general interest, such as a new discovery, or the making
up of a deficiency in any part of the French Exhibition.
The rest of the document is taken up with a description of
the Exhibition Palace now in course of construction in Lon-
don. The Commission states that the total surface pre
sented by the building and its annexes will be 101,203
square metres, of which 82,195 in the building and 15,684
in the annexes are set apart for manufactured productions,
7,210 in the building for fine arts, and 3,114 also in the
building for buffets. At Paris, in 1855, the total surface
was 168,202 square metres—manufactures occupying
56,007 in the Palace and 74,389 in the annexes, fine arts
16,150 in the annexest the rest being set apart k buffeto?

THE MAGAZINES.

Blackwood's Magazine.

The first article is called "Democracy teaching
by Example," and refers to the strange events that
are transpiring in America. It begins by statini:
that a question frequently heard in America is,
" What do they think of us in England ?" and it
goes on to remark, "Do they not know that we
must feel as all men feel in viewing the exposure of
the empty pretensions of a bully, and that we can-
not even pretend to keep our countenance when the
exploits of the Grand Army of the Potomac are fill-
ing all Europe with inextinguishable laughter. If
everybody is amused when ancient Pistol is made
to eat his- leek, why should we be grave when a
whole nation of Ancient Pistols are enacting a
screaming farce, and moreover a farce containing a
moral for all mankind ?" There are some very true
observations regarding this crisis in American
affairs, and most readers will subscribe to their
validity. We find also this passage of our own
country's superiority over other States----" Amid
the crash and chaos of governments and peoples
England still rears her head a landmark for the
wrecks of nations. We still offer to the political
Edipus the grand enigma whose solution
is liberty, while the constitution framed in
the time of our fathers, by the light of all
experience, to be the shame of the past,
the glory of the present, the example of
the future is gone like a bubble on the stream."
" Chronicles of Carlingford" is the beginning of
a well-written tale, that contains some good de-
scriptions of character. "Nettie," the wonderful
colonial maid, is a most successful sketch. In the
*next instalment there will probably be some strik-
ing scenes met with. " Meditations on Dyspepsia"
reaches the second part, and now proclaims The
Cure. It is a sensible article, and contains some
advice that is sure to prove efficacious if followed,
though very many may profess to ignore its value
because it is not palatable. These remarks on the
evil that is wrought by over-working the young
are most true, and especially applicable to the
present day, when so much is done to force chil-
dren forward at the expense of their health and
strength. "Parents and guardians who are ever
anxious to stimulate the laudable ambition of their
youthful charges would de well to remember the
advice of honest Roger Ascharn against over-
straining the bow, and to take care that they
do not injure the bodily health and enfeeble the
intellects of those whose welfare they are desi-
rous to promote by urging them to undertake
tasks beyond their strength and capacity,
and by denying them that wholesome
recreation which is suitable to their years."
After some observations on the folly of the
" cramming system" of the present day, when all
possibility of thought is precluded, so that the
knowledge received is valueless, the writer illus-
trates in this impressive passage the dangers that
ac !rue from over-exertion. " When we behold
around us the number of pale and emaciated beings
who seem to be tottering to their graves ere yet
they have reached the meridian of mankind and
reflect how many more have fallen victims to habits
of unremitting study, we cannot but deplore a sys-
tem that leads to such disastrous results. The youth
ambitious of obtaining a kirk, buries himself in an
attic, and reads from morning till past midnight
without intermission, until disease fastens on his
frame, and then, instead of mounting the pulpit, he is
measured for a grave in the kirkyard. The lawyer
in splendid practice looks forward to the dignity of
the bench, and meanwhile labours to accummulate a
fortune. The work praves too much for him, he
allows himself neither rest, nor exercise, falls into
bad health, disappears from the bar, and 10, in the
obituary a notice that the famous Mr. Pleughell is
no more ! Who is that poor fellow cogitating by
the side of the Lake of Como ? That, sir, is the
celebrated author over whose works you have
laughed and wept alternately. Pressed by the book-
sellers he has wrought himself into a consumption,
and never will again behold the primroses blossom.
ing in the lap of May." " The Book-Hunters Club"
contains some very curious anecdotes, and it will
well repay perusal by all who like to dwell on the
quaint customs of an elder generation. There are
some smart verses entitled " What seems to be
happening just now with the Pope." They are
replete with the witticism which so often dis-
tinguishes the verses in this periodical. " Captain
Clutterbuck's Champagne" is the first part of
a West Indian Reminiscence, it: is rather an
elaborate tale and bids fair to be rather tragic in its
denouement. "Among the Lochs" is a narrative
of some passages in the Archdeacon's holiday. It
is an amusing sketch, and contrasts favourably with
the heavier articles. There is a paper on " Social
Science," which contains some truths, but does not
on the whole do justice to the undertaking that has
recently been so well received, and the general
opinion of the public has been in favour of these
meetings, while the names of those who preside
are of themselves sufficient evidence of the
importance of the undertaking and the ability
of its founders. The more the principles
of science are understood the greater the
benefits conferred, and/the more the inhabitants
of the earth understand the wisdom of their
Great Creator the better for themselves, and the
generations that shall succeed them. The more
they study the glories of Creation in their sublimity
and beauty the fuller they will appreciate them and
the more readily they can join in the song of praise
which the poet has attributed to the shining lights
in the firmament of Heaven.
" In reason's ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious voice,
For ever singing as they shine,
The Hand that made us is divine."

Fraser's ffagazine.

Frazer for this month is unusually good.
It opens with a paper from the pen of one whose
writings can never fail to secure attention and
respect. When Mr. Stuart Mill gives us an essay
on Utilitarianism, we are certain, whatever may
be our opinion of the theory itself, that it will be set
forward in the strongest possible light, and advo-
cated in the clearest and most powerful manner.
Into the question itself we have not space to
enter, as it involves a discussion of the principles of
morality and the laws which should regulate human
actions. We can only say, what is perhaps super-
fluous, that the article displays deep thought and
ingenious reasoning, and will amply repay perusal.
Another paper which will at once attract the reader,
is by the popular essayist A. K. H.B. We are the more
ready to commend this contribution as of late he has
somewhat flagged in his energies. Whether suc-
cess had rendered him careless of style and sub-
ject, or whether, as is more probable, it had
tempted him to too frequent and too continuous
effort, is uncertain, but we are glad in the essay
before us to recognise the old vigour of tone, and
genial common sense which has so often delighted
the readers of Fraser's _Magazine. His discourse is
" Concerning people of whom more might have
been made." The reader acquainted with his style
may readily imagine how he treats such a subject
in all its varying aspects, and shows us how much
more might have been made of all of us physically,
morally, intellectually, socially; and how the little
mistakes, the wrong turn taken at one special point
has served, like the diverging lines at a railway
junction, to bear us far away from our previous des-
tination. " Was there not a time," he asks, "in a
certain great man's life, at which the lines of rail
diverged, and at which the question was settled,
should he be a minister of the Scotch Kirk, or
should be Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain ?
I can imagine a stage in the history of a lad in a
counting-house, at which the little angle of rail may
be pushed back, that shall send the train to
one of two places five hundred miles asun-
der; it may depend upon whether he shall
take or not take that half crown, whether 30 years
after he shall be taking the chair a rubicund baronet
at a missionary society meeting, and receive the
commendations of philanthropic peers and earnest
bishops, or be labouring in chains at. Norfolk
Island, or a brutalized, cursing, hardened, scourge-
scarred, despairing wretch, without a hope for this
life or the other." In another place he says—

"Even in the best, we see no more than the rudiments
of good qualities which might have been developed into a
great deal more ; and in very many human beings proper
management might have brought out qualities essentially
different from those which they now possess. It is not
merely that they aro rough diamonds, which might have
been polished into blazing ones; not merely that they are
thorough-bred colts drawing coal-carts which, with fair
training, might have been new Eclipses; it is that they. aro
vinegar which might have been wine, poison which might
have been food, wild-cats which might have been harmless
lambs, soured miserable wretches who might have been
happy and useful, almost devils, who might have been but
a liitle lower than the angels. Oh I the unutterable sad-
ness that is in the thought of what might have been."

Truly does our author call the missed chances and
misapplied energies of life melancholy themes for
reflection. He expresses the only real consolation
when he says—" If a man acted for the best accord-
ing to the light he had, and if he truly believes
that God puts all in their places in life, he may look
back without bitterness upon what may appear the
most grievous mistake." The moral of the essay is
contained in one sentence, when it says—" The
graceful vase that stands in the drawingroom under
a glass shade, and never goes to the well, has no
great right to despise the rough pitcher that goes
often and is broken at last." And without calling
to mind the three great instances which our
author cites of men who, as it were, stumbled upon
their destiny, Shakspeare, Napoleon, and Wel-
lington, or "the many Folletts who never held a
brief ; many Deans who never acted but in barns ;
many Vandykes who never earned more than six-
pence a day ; many Ooldmithfi who noTor were

better than penny-a-liners ; many Michaels who
never built their St. Peter's," we may truly agree
with him, when he arrives at the conclusion that
in one sense or another his essay includes, in the
words of the famous old psalm, "All people that
on earth do dwell 1" " Barren Honour," by the author
of" Guy Livingstone" is continued in that author's
brilliant, but occasionally strained and somewhat
fitful style. We fear trouble awaits the lovers.
" Good for Nothing, ' by the clever writer of "lligby
Gsand," proceeds with interest, though the part,
before us is not very eventful. There is an excel-
lent article on " The Sunday Question," treating it
as it seldom is treated, with calmness and sense and
moderation—the writer disclaiming alike any wish
to assimilate our national Sunday to the conti-
nental holiday or the Puritan Sabbath. He gives
a succinct account of the various edicts on this
subject. Coming to the Blue Laws of Connecticut,
established by the Puritan emigrants, he says, justly
enough, that it is difficult to believe that men
who had said and done so much in behalf of
religious liberty should have shown such utter dis-
regard of the principle for which they had been
contending. This remarkable antagonism between
precept and practice appears pretty strongly in their
descendants of the present day. There is much
sound sense in this article which we commend to
the attention of Scotch Puritans and English Pha-
risees, ‘is ho would do well to consider the alterna-
tive, which the writer puts strongly before them in
the following sentence :—" If you condemn harm
less amusement on a Sunday as Sabbath-breaking,
and denounce Sabbath-breaking as a deadly sin,
you are almost sure to end, either in making people
hypocrites, or else in making them reckless of all
restraint on that day or any other." There are
many other articles of interest, the most important
being a paper on Austria and Hungary, which
takes a review of the disjointed and disaffected pro-
vinces which compose that effete empire, and re-
joices that its days are numbered.

The New Monthly Magazine.
The most prominent feature in this number is the
commencement of a new story by the clever and
original author of " East Lynne." It will be a satis-
faction to those readers who have been accustomed
to follow with interest the troubled fortunes of Lady
Isabel Vane and Richard Hare, to find the blank
left by their absence so quickly supplied by the
same indefatigable pen. " The Shadow of Ashly-
dyat" is the title of the new tale, and it has some-
thing of the supernatural blended with it, in order
to indulge that taste for the startling and horrible
to which this able and vigorous writer is a little
too prone. The Shadow of Asblydyat is a mysteri-
ous shade which darkens over an open plain when
sorrow or disaster await the goodly house of Godol-
phin—owners of Ashlydyat. It reminds us of the
traditionary light which Scott tells us still blazes—

" When fate is nigh,
The lordly line of high St. Clair."
More human interests, however, are concerned
in the story, and we have already a somewhat
inconstant hero and two fair rivals, a stalwart
old knight grown feeble, and his mischief-making,
wilful wife, besides many other characters. Sir
Nathaniel devotes the forty-fourth number of his
" Notes on Noteworthies," to " Rienzi, the Last of
the Tribunes." As usual, there is little original
matter in the sketch, but many quotations from
varying authorities. The singular career of Cag-
liostro is the subject of a brief paper, giving the
outline of a life which which would be termed pre-
posterous if described in the pages of fiction.
" Granville de Vigne " is continued in its accus-
tomed strain, recounting at full length the moral-
ising speeches of selfish men of the world who wish
to be considered Timons, but who continue to mix
in all the amusements of the day nevertheless; and
the flippant conversation of a young lady of eighteen,
whose favourite reading is De Montespan's Me-
moirs, varied by Buckle's and Mills's writings. She
complains, moreover; of having read so much as a
child that she has exhausted the English, French,
and Italian literatures, and it is therefore not sur-
prising that her head is turned by such an achieve-
ment. An interesting account of " The Americans
at Home" will repay the reader. It is justly re-
marked that " the arrogance which has gradually
taken possession of the masses and filled them
with the confidence -and the notion that any man
could manage matters as well as another, has ended
by checking the energy of really gifted men." The
great men whose names the nation has to boast of,
were chiefly men of the last century. The descrip-
tion of American cookery, which we cannot help
thinking some w hat overdrawn,is ludicrouslypathetic
and quite enough to frighten any epicure from
crossing the Atlantic. There are other papers of
varying merit and two poems which are likely to
attract attention. One of them is entitled " Sunrise
or. Snowdon," by the graceful and cultivated author
of " Ruins of Many lands," and the other being the
continuation of W. C. Kent's interesting series of
photographs of the poets, showing us Goldsmith at
Edgware.

The Unitrd Eervice Magazine,
This number opens with a paper on Sandhurst
College and Military Education, in which the pre-
sent system of education carried on there is consi
dered. Under the head of " Idle Soldiery," the use-
ful employment of soldiers when in barracks is
strongly advocated, both as a means of maintaining
their health and keeping them from the public -
houses. Under the head of " The Future of the
British Navy," the never-ending subject of iron-
plated ships is discussed. The writer reminds us
that as yet all is theory, and that practice may tell
a different tale. He observes, that if iron-plated
vessels take the ground, it will be next to impos-
sible to get them off again. As regards the wooden
wall, he thus remarks:—
As regards wooden ships, however, we feel satisfied that
their day is not over. Sir John Hay, a captain of the navy,
stated recently at Manchester, when discoursing learnedly
upon the iron ship question, that the days of wooden ships
were, in his opinion, numbered. Captain Hay ought to be
an authority, for be is a member of the Iron Plate Com-
mittee, and has seen the effects of shot upon the strongest
plates hitherto forged ; but he has seen that the most mas-
sive plate is not indestructible by heavy shot. And if he
has observed that no iron has yet been able to withstand
the impact of heavy shot or bolts, how can he predict the
universal adoption of the iron plate theory? We contend
that hitherto all is theory. A few guns have been dis-
charged, at intervals of several minutes, from gunboats or
improvised batteries, but such isolated firing does not repre-
sent the.prodigious effect of the simultaneous discharge of
20 or 30 heavy pieces of ordnance at a range of 50 yards.
The days of wooden ships may be numbered, but we doubt
if Sir John Dalrymple Hay, though he is not an old man,
will live to see the last of them. Wood, wholly unprotected,
may possibly be of not much longer continuance; and if it
is proved that one•inch or two-inch plates will suffice to
break the shells, we shall have got as far towards protection
as we can reasonably expect to go, having reference always
to what must be considered the essential condition of a ship.
One of the perils to which these enormous iron ships will
be particularly liable, will be that of taking the ground.
It will be a miracle, or next to a miracle, if an iron plated
ship which grounds ever floats again. The Black Prince
grounded on her way down the Clyde to Greenock, but she
was without an iron plate upon her sides. Had the acci-
dent happened to that ship after she was loaded with 1,000
tons of plates, it is not difficult to pronounce upon the con-
sequences. . _

-To sum up our argument, therefore, we are of
opinion that three-decked ships will exist no longer; that
two-deckers may be continued for flag-ships and home or
Mediterranean service ; but that 50-gun frigates, 20-gun
corvettes, and the effective small screw-ships now in com-
mission, will hold their own for many a long year; while
Warriors, and other monsters of her class, will, after due
experiment, be found nrst useful as substitutes for the
block-ships now doing duty as coast-guard ships.
When speaking of the future of the British navy, how-
ever, we must recur to one of the points previously glanced
at—it is the rig of our ships. The one solitary idea which
seems to pervade the Admiralty mind is, that three masts
must be put into the Plover of 450 tons, and no more into
the Warrior of 6,500. Three masts, like the bed of Pro-
crustes, must be made to accommodate the longest and the
shortest. The ship 120 feet in length must be rigged with
three masts, and so must the one of 400 feet. If the Lords
of the Admiralty, accompanied by that talented admiral,
the Controller of the Navy, would but for a moment lay
aside their official pens, and embark on board the Green-
wich steamer, they would be able to note as they passed
through the Pool a number of fine models of coasting
steamers, rigged upon the principle of common sense. They
are ships which make rapid passages, carry few hands, con-
tend with heavy gales, and rarely fail in keeping their time.
They are masted according to their length—some with
four, others with three, and some with two masts. They
sail well, and, if their engines break down, manage to make
their port under canvas. Or let them go to Southampton,
and see the ocean steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental,
or West India Mail Company ; or visit the disabled Great
Eastern, paying particular attention to the rig of that ship
—the most sensible part of the whole concern.

In a chapter on the expenses of our ships of war,
some extraordinary statistics of the cost of repairs
in certain ships as compared with others are fur-
nished. These returns seem to be got up with a
view of leaving everybody in the dark about the
goings on in our dockyards; and it concludes with
an expression of the conviction that every year the
public will expect the returns to be more explanatory
and that the reformation which is slowly taking
place would be much expedited if another Joseph
Hume would spring up in the House of Commons,
and challenge all unaccountable expenses in the
dockyards, and call to account every ease of mis-
management and jobbing in the Admiralty. In a
treatise on angular targets, it is shown that, al thong h
by inclining on 41 plate at an angle of fifty degrees,
it will present a depth of metal of 5 inches four-
fifths to resist the impost of a shot fired horizontally,
yet that the extra surface required to obtain the
necessary vertical elevation would entail a weight
of metal equal to that contained in vertical plat
6 inches in thickness. Cavalry tactics and the new
armament is again the subject of an article. The
British and French cavalry are Compared and the
question generally considered. We have a second
article on soldiering in the United States; it is
anything but favourable to the Americans • it
commences with the remark The Americana
have never been considered a military people, and
the late events which Kaye ocniraci in that 1

country servo to strengthen that opinion, and
however brave they may be as individuals, yet cer-
tainly as a body but little can be said of their
prowess as an army." It is further maintained
that in the War of Independence last century their
success was in a great measure attributable to the
restriction put upon the English generals by the
authorities at home, and that in 1812 and 1814 they
were repulsed by far inferior forces on the Canadian
frontier, and after going through the extraordinary
transactions which have lately Wren place on the
other side of the Atlantic, the writer rather lelng-to
the side of the Southerners, whose discipline he
considers to be superior to that of the Federals, and
he thus concludes :

The 7th (Ohio) regiment, under Colonel Tyler, has
lately given us a specimen of American military know-
ledge. It appears that this corps was on the march in the
immediate vicinity of the enemy, but wanted their break-
fast, and halted to take it. All were so anxious about it,
that they never posted sentries, or took any common pre-
caution. The enemy soon discovered them, and spoiled
their breakfast by killing 15 men and wounding 40, whilea,
great many are missing.
Martial law has been proclaimed in many parts. The
State of Missouri seems to suffer greatly, as the property of
those who do not join the rebels is immediately destroyed.
In a short time all will be ruined. No crops will be got in
throughout this State, and the people must starve during
the next winter. The same may be said of the State of
Virginia, as there has been a large force there for some
time ; it being the principal seat of warfare, must suffer
like every other place similarly situated.
In short, only two things can happen—either the South
will be successful, and become the assailant, and perhaps
the conqueror ; or, if the North be successful, it will be at
the cost of a discipline to which no free people ever sub-
mitted before. In the first case the States will become the
prey of an oligarchy founded on slavery, and in the other
case it will be a constitutional freedom, directed and re-
strained by bayonets. But it can hardly be imagined that
the States can ever again remain as a body. They have
now discovered that their habits, customs, and above all,
their interests, are so widely different, that most probably
they will divide into small states, and be no longer con-
tinued under one great head; for as dissension has become)
so widely spread throughout, it will be next to impossible
they can ever amalgamate or become united again ; and
perhaps it would be better for them if a division could be
agreed upon which would be more suitable to the different
classes of citizens which compose the different lections of
that unhappy country.
" Anglo-Indian Society," by Syllouk, part 3, con-
tains amusing incidents of social life in India. "A
Narrative of Adventures on the West Coast of
Africa" is concluded, but although the topogra-
phical details show the author's knowledge of the-
localities which he describes, the second part does
not maintain the interest which the first created.
" Sanitary Reform," " The Ottoman Empire," and
" The History of the Juangas or Puttoas, and some
other Forest Races," complete the number.

The Cornhill Magazine.
" The Adventures of Philip on his way through
the World," which occupies the first pilule does
not improve as it advances. The story in fact
becomes heavy and unnatural, and few in reading
it would imagine that it was written by the
author of Vanity Fair and the Newcomes. There
are many passages which are cleverly and smartly
written, but as a whole one tires of it. The Paris
correspondent of a London journal does not walk
about with holes in his boots and a threadbare coat,
nor can a man without the manners of a gentleman
(which Philip Firman certainly does not possess)
mix in that society in which it is indispensible that
a correspondent must to fulfil his duties with
anything like efficiency. The second chapter is
on the subject of force. What the writer's exact
object is we are somewhat at a loss to comprehend.
He takes us back to the days of Neptune and Pro-
tens (whenever that epoch may have been) to ex-
plain one condition of force, and enumerates many
well-known facts to explain what is patent to all.
However, if novelty has a charm, this paper is
certainly beautiful. The story of "Bob Lambert"'
is amusing, and is followed by an interesting paper
on the "Herring Harvest in Scotland." A long
account of the modus operandi is given in a very
graphic manner, and show that the writer is'
thoroughly conversant with his subject. " Tho.
Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson" is con-
tinued, and although there is nothing remarkably
clever in it, yet the quaint way in which
Robinson describes his own discomfiture and
the success of his large and pugnacious rival,
the butcher; the quarrels of the sisters and the use-
less endeavours of poor old Mr. Brown to keep all
on friendly terms, are full of interest. Plate
No. VII. of " Bird's-eye Views of Society" is a
sketch of a picture-sale, and the various expressions
of countenence are, like its predecessors, very
cleverly executed. In a paper on " Physiognomy'
it is stated that physiognomy as a science has not
advanced a step beyond the point at which Lavater
left it fourscore years ago, and the reasons why
and wherefore are discussed. We have also an
account of " The First German Shooting-match,"
and a continuation of Mrs. Beecher Stowe's roman-
tic tale of " Agnes of Sorrento.' '