The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-09
LIT E r A r u r. e.

mead ~ Evans.
Although the title of the little work before us
positively asserts that it is the production ofAlr
Gilmour's Edmund Krke) pen, and although ad-
Verisemeuts announce him to be the writer
yet the fact is that he only wrote the jntrotuc-
ton, while the body OF the book was written
by Mr.. Henry L. Estaorooks, late Lieute-
nant I'm the 26th Massachusetts infantry. We are
at a loss to understand why this decepliOn-tor
such it appears to be-is practiscd, unless 10
palm of the work of another, and secure a
large sale under the wellknOwn popularity of
Edmund Kirke. The narrative itself is interest.
ing, yet marked by nothing which would induce
AIS, had we been the author, to lay it before the
public. It's ability, like the adventures de-
picted, is only mediocre; while throughout the
whole work there is nothing to awaken especial
attention. The young man "adrirt' is continu.
ally looking into cornields, stunning white
tellow-beings, returning into swamps, meeting
Colored persons, and being fed bv them. Had
1hc book appeared in 1862, it would have really
answered the reason he now sets forth for lts
publication, being az evidence Of the un-
swerving fidelity Of the blacks, their devotion
10 the Union, and superior intelligence. But
all these fact, have been again and again de-
monstrated; and why add the testimony of
sands of his superiors, and dozens Of literary
men tar aber than he?
But the proprety of publishing the work rests
rather with the author than with us; and since
he has seen fit to give it to the light, we can
only commend its singular cearness of style,
and lament the exceeding tameness of his hun
drcd miles journey. 1t must have proved less
monotonous to him than the perusa of the
upr a fo ho al
and might have been captured or shot at any
moment This gave zest to his sport; but
we encounter no such danger and feel confident
ahat all turning out right at last-other wise, who
would have written the work ?-we drag its
slow length along, and divide our attention be-
tween the contents and tae beauty of the topo.
graphy. Carleton has got 1t up in the best
style, and the binding corresponds with the
excellence of the printing and paper. Messrs.
Ashmead & Evans, No. 72O Chestnut street. have
the work for sale, and have sent us a copy.
The tales Of the old Morse literature have
been revived in Europe, and Barring Gould has
Issued in popular form the first of series. II
is entitled 'The Book of Were Wolves.r and
contains the story of an ogress which is both
bloody and spicy:-
ga Hungarian lady named Elizabeth: she was
as fond OF her personal appearance as some of
her more civilized sisters of TODAY spendinU
hall the day at her toilet On one occasion her
maid saw something amiss in her head.dress and
told her of it, for which she got such a box ON
The ears that the blood gushed from her nose
and spirited in her mistress face. When it was
washed Off the ladys face appeared more beauti-
5u than before, the spots where the blood had
spirited being much whittier than the rest of the
skin. 1t was an insane fancy OF course but the
mad woman, for such she must have been, re-
solved in future to bathe her face and her whole
body in blood-a devihsh plan which she car
Tied out by the help of three accompllces, pair
0i old women and a monster named Fitzko, who
killed her victims while the women caught their
blood, in which she used to bathe at four in the
morning. She is said to have caused the death
OF six hundred and fifty girls, who were en-
trapped INTO her castle under the pretense of
being taken into service; but once there they were
locked up in q cellar where they were tortured
often by Elizabeth herself who had a fancy for
having them beaten and thea cut up with
Tazors BY way of variety, they were OCCASION
ally burnt and then cut up; mostly, however.
they were beaten to death. She grew so cruel
at last that she would stick needles into those
VINO RODE with her in her coach, and when she
was i'll she bit person who came near her bed,
Her castle was finally seized, her accomplces
executed, and she herself imprisoned for life"
STORY ABOUT MUNMIEs.- Buckland's |
'Curiosities OF Natural History" just published
in London, has this story about mummes:-
"A friend of mine in the merchant service |
about two years since, brought back with him |
from Egypt, as speculation, three mummes.
Immediately on their arrival in London he asked |
me to examine them. They were two males and |
"a female, in remarkably good state of preser- |
vaton, the hair, nails, skin, etc., being dry and |
hard like boards, and the features in two of the |
specimens distinctly visible. They did not |
appear even TO have been wrapped in bandages |
but to have been submitted to the process of |
embalming, and then allowed to dry | tancied |
from their appearance that they had been EN- |
balmed by the ancient Egyptian priest-surgeons |
alter the following manner, described by He |
rodotus as one OF the least expensive modes of |
embalming:-They fill all the intestines with &C. |
dar oil, without either cutting into the abdomen |
or removing the viscera; then preventing the |
egress of the injected fluid they salt the body tor
the fixed number OF days. and at the end of that |
time they let out the cedar oil, the power of |
which Is such that it brings out in it both the |
1nlestnes and Vlscera; 1t consumes the hesh, |
and the skin and bones alone remain. This |
being done they return the BODY NV friend |
described to me the various adventures and |
escapes he encountered in bringing over his |
specimens It being very difficult to obtain mum
mics OF any klHd nowadays, in consequence of |
the egyptian Government having forbidden |
them to be taken out of the country Among |
other plans he adopted to pass the authorities |
who came on board, he placed the three mum |
mics IN the berth where the sailors USUALLY !
sleep, and covered them up with rugs etc as |
though they were tired sailors taking n nan.
and, II recollect rightly he told me that !
friend, who was partner in the mummy venture |
lay down with them. When the Officials came |
round, the partner pretended TO wake up ont of |
sleep, and, sitting up yaWned and rubbed his |
eyes as II half awake. The deceit answered |
capltally; the officials, thinking that the three |
muhiAes were three more tired sailors, did not |
examine Nlrther, and so the mummies were
passed"