The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-15
The Galaxy.

w nave EcCelY6u the seCOnO uumDof i
of this new fortnightly magazine Elk
ceIlent as was the first, this IS 3 decided
improvement upon it If the conduc-
tors do not flag in their enterprise and |
industry, they win soon attain the
highest success. The following are the
contents Of this numbers:
The Clsverings, continued with two illus
trstions,) By Anthony Tro loPe; In the
Hammock, by Rose Terry The March Of
the Cholera, by W. H. Draper, MD. The
Art Of Dining, 1.-THE first of a series on
Cookery,) by Prof. Pierre Blot; Archie
Lowell (eontinued,) by Mrs. Edwards; I'm
belief, by the author of " Emily Chester )"
The Home of Victor Hugo with two illus
trations,) by General Cluseret; Miss Clark,
by Maria L. Pool; Fallaeies of Memory, by
Frances Power Cobbe; Spoken at Sea, by
Edmund @. steadman; A Story of the Ope-
guam, by John Esten Cooke Nebule: Con-
tanning articles on Shakspeare's Birthday st
the Century Club; The Machinery Of Drama
tic Criticism, Mr.. Stedman's "Anonyma; A
London Strike; The Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Animals, etc. ~
DR.. Diapers remarks on The contag
iousness of cholera deserves general
consideration. He says:
The true statement in regard to the eon-
tagiousness Of cholera, justified by the pre-
sent state Of knowledge, would seem 10 be
this that cholera is contagious, just as ty-
plus, typhoid fever or smallpox are conta-
gious; that is, it depends upon a specific
virus, which is multiplied either ia or out
of the dy in the discharges, and is tral s.
ferable in the ways before mentioned. tits
doubtless less contagious than the diseases
just alluded to, for the reason that its poison
is not exhaled with the breath, nor accumu-
lated on the surface OF the body; it probably
resides wholly in the executions, and hence
| it is more capable OF removal, and with or
| didary hygienic care that the risk of its
/ communication to those about the sick can
be almost surely avoided. From these con-
siderations on the cause OF contagion in
| cholera. it msy be reasonably inferred that
| in a clean, we'll ordered household, a single
/ case of the disease need not excite anxiety
or alarm for the safety of others, and if this
be true of household in which the laws OF
| hygiene are observed, the same might be
made true Of towns and cities.
The following remarks Of the Galaxy
touching a statement made by Richard
Grant White, at the late Shakespeare
dinner at the Century Club, will make
the readers and admirers of the great
Bard put on their studying caps"
Queer that he left on record no kind
compliment to the genie sex-to wo-
NAM
Mr.. White thought that his hearers
/ he Vnrtab inf in ohorfuf-
tn him discovery in re. ard to Shak-
/ speare, than in listening to anything that
could be said by one go unaccustomed to
| thinking while on his feet. In the prepa-
ration of the toasts and the bill of fare, he
| had sOlicitously sought TO avoid any repeti-
/ ton of what appeared at dinner on Shak-
| speare's birthday at the same place five or
| six years ag,. He had been able to accom-
/ plish this except upon one point, and that
| the one as to which he had looked for the
| least trouble. He had thought-and it must
/ be admitted that there are few if any of us
who would not have thought with him
that the seareher for a c mpliment to wo
man in Shakspeares writings would only
have to take his choice of many. Never
theless, the lines quoted on this occasion
were those which appeared on the previous
| bill-the following, from Loves Labor
Lost:"
/ From women's eyes this doctrine derive:
| They sparlIe like the right Promethean FIRE:
| They are the books, the arts, the acadeu es,
That show, cOntsin and nourish all the world"
A marked sensation was produced in the
COMPANY of Mr.. Grant Whites assertion
that these lines which he pronounced "cold
and conceitish," were reproduced only be-
cause, after long search, with al the aid
at his command, not only through the plays
but the sonne.s and poems, this was the
only passage in praise of woman-of the sex
that he could find. Praises of q particu
lar woman, either by a lover in the dramatic
revelation of his passion, or by an uninter-
ested person as a part of his portraiture OF
female parsonage in the drama, were nu'
merous but of Qualification Of the sex, the
entire works of the great poet of humanity
according 10 the latest of his commentators,
furnish only that given above, which, it
must be confe sed, is very chilly and /
satisfactory. Ihe speaker yet more aston
ished his hearers by going on TO say that he
found that this absence of papegyrie was
not the concomitant Of neglect OF the sub
iect it was L OF mere absence of praise, but
shat on the contrary, if the passage required
for the occasion had teen one of censure,
he could have had his choice of many. de
thereupon read few of the many Of this
nature that he had had copied Tor him
very cruelty, as he confessed, by woman.