The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-26

markets the food necessary to those minds Tor which,
by l advanced system OF education, 1t has already
created the appetite "
When we iced the advice OF Messrs. Cassell &
Co., we will let them know, until which time no
one will impute IT to selfishness If they keep
theirviews and their publications to themselves.
Here is a personal description of Thomas
Carlyle at the Edinburgh University, at three
score and ten, worth extracting from the Lon
don Tetegrdph:--
"Mr. Carlyle rose at once, shook himself out OF
his gold-lact rectOral gown, lett IL his chair
alI bopyp irame into postiop Of straiSht NE nen
dlcuarlty not possible TO one man in five hundred
at seventy years Of age he began to speak quietly
flush on his face but he bore himself with compO-
sure and dignity and IN the course OF half an hour
he obviously beginning to feel at his far
nc least as to have adequate command over the cur
rent of his thought. He spoke on quite freely and
easily hardly ever repeated word, never looked at
note, and only once returned to finish up topic
| from which he had deviaed. lie apologlzed for
not having come with written DISCOURSE: II was
usual, and 'it would have been comfortable
for me just at present. bat had iIIed II and could
not satisfy himselt and 'as the spoken word comes
from the hear he had resolved to try that method.
| What be said IL words will be learned otherwise
do not think heard any address that should
| be so unwilling to blot from my me mory Not that
there was much in II that cannot be found in his
writings or inferred from them; but the manner of
the man was kew to the writings, and for natural
ness ana quiet power 1 have never seen anything
| He talked-it was continuous strong quiet talk
like a patriarch about to leave the world to the
young lads who had chosen him and were Just
entering the world. HIS voice is q soft, downv
Toce-not tone IN It IS OF the shrill fierce kind
that one would expect it TO be In reading the lat
ter-day pamphlets There was not trace of effort
or OF afectation, or even of extravagance."
The first number of the new Southern maga-
zine announced by us some time since, The
Crescent Monthly, has Just made its appearance
bearing the imprint of william Evelyn, New
Orleans. It is creditable specimen of typo
graphy, considering the limited resources of
the region in which it is published, and its
literary character is as high as we could eX-
pect. If it be hard thing to make good
first number of magazine or newspaper here,
where we have all facilities and most of the
talent of the country to choose from, what
must it be at the South, which was never cele-
brated for its writer's, whose numbers for the
most part exceeded their genius? The South,
indeed, in past times depended upon the North
and upon England for its literature ior it was
generally content to devote its time and talents
to other things-as the law and politics, which
we take to have been at once the excellence and
the defect OF the Southern mind. However this
may be- we hope that the war, which has
changed so many other things, has changed
this one Also and has given, or will soon
give, an impetus to letters among the Southern
people.
The London correspondent of the Round Ia
| Die writes as follows:-
"a poor book extremely interesting subject
is The Line OF Father Ignatlus of st Paul. Passion
| ISL 1.-THE Hon. and Rev. George SpencerI. Computed
chiefly from his autobiography, Journal and letters,
| by the Rev Father Plus Sp. Sancro, PassiOnist'
once saw this refined, thln.taced ght-eyed man, in
his monklsh garb, Darefooted, tOnsured and,
| remembering the thousands who would sell thelr
souls to be the Of Lord Spencer, could not but
feel moved with some admiration for one who for his
| souls sake $50 he tnouRht-and as man believeth
in his heart so Is he) had made himself of no world
ly reputation, had yielded luxury, and wealth,
| and fashion. Had there been any afectaton
about him would have felt differently, but his eye
was pure as ,. the SKY ooro OF all d that; o He He
drew check on the bank he would rarely reach home
| with any OF the money about him. lhis nobleman
| ls found at the bidding OF his 'superiors washing
an old flight of stairs. there good story of him
winch reminds OF Thoreau:-A nch Roman
father at the railway station, The father before
crowd steps out of a thirdcIa carnage, My dear
why 40 You Iravel by thlrd-classP WELL because
there IS not fourth The closing part OF Father
fu ali over the world to pray for the conversion of
En- lanO. He was somewhat staggered when he
found an old Irlshwoman VINO, to OBTAIN the indul-
| gences promised by the Pope, said three dues for
| Engand's conversion daily, but made up or 1t by
cursng England three hundred times per day, lest
any good might come TO her by her prayersl He died
of heA rt disease, denly, whilst waking towards
friends house. 'He was coming writes Father
Plus, without perceiving the suggestiyeness of the
incident STRAIGHT TO Ithe grand entrance, when he
| turned off on by-paCh. He perceived that he had
lost his way, and asked child which the right
| One.'" ....
Lord William Lennox, in his recently pub
lished volume of "reminiscences, Drafts on
NV Memory" relates number OF amusing anec-
dotes of several notabilities with whom he came
in contact at one time and another; among
others Theodore Hook, with whom he was on
terms of close intimacy. At dinner given by
himself, the turtle soup, by some mistake was
spoiled by the cook. ~rh
"'Neyer mnd-mistakes will happen in the best
regulated families That's the soup-get that ready
put back the turbot and all will be We'll" Happily
ali was well, the turtle after short pause appeared,
the cook sent a most humble apology, he ped my
hungry guests, gave Cannon an extra aldermanc
allowance of green lat to cOnciate him, filled tum-
bier OF punch for Hook, which inspired HIM with the
first pun OF the evening. Never mind, said he, as
was deplOrlDg the ruInOus effect that the absence
| of turtle would produce on the least we do not
Judge OF the dinner by the test-u.do (test you dop"
The second number OF the 'Bookworm'
contains an amusing anecdote Of how the Rev.
Mr.. Brand, wellknown collector in his time,
spent Sunday in buying "Caxtons," "Wynkyn
de Wordes,n "Pynsons," and Lawrence An
drews," of an '"Ebrew jew" forgetting, in the
| enthusiasm of the amateur and collector, his
duties as parish priest, and leaving his congre-
cation to be dismissed by the beadle, the day
having slipped away without his knowing it, he
was SO wrapt in the study of signatures, colo
| phons and other mysteries of the bibliographi
cal craft. Such bookworm nowadays would
soon have ''call" elsewhere, at least in this
country, where we have no fancy for learnsd