New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-01-31

oas The kew Of the Tai Mahal with Edna with
iniuncions never to open the door Inns y ilne anu
| ReaTd Meantime Edna is consigned 70 ule lulIl9n
of an AGED clergyman whose sands OF lie haq nearly
run out 9ras Mis- Eyanhs more
five years of wrestling and cOnquests upon Ihe 4utI
autina' of life had set the seal OF holiness lie DVe9
! by telling her the meaning OF blue stocking, anu
! teaches her Latin Greek French, Sanscrlt Hebrew,
| Chaldee Cutie and COptc. He didn't teach hef MS
! tory not he &" In impressing upon her memory Wy
chronOogc sequence of events he grouped INTO great
| epOchs the principal dramas over winch emo nous
! august critical tribunal" He couldn't nave taught
mention that before he went abroad st, Eimo gave
elegant dinners and peitS SOBp6s that MOula not
| have disraced Tusculum, or made Lueuilus blush
when Pompey and Caesar sought TO surprise INN IN
| the 'ApoOW Edna passed her time while he was
| gone "in the great Pythian games OF speculation
lpoker ~ where the lOrdy inteecs OF the nineteenth
century gather to test their ratlOclnatve Skill ana
bear off the of bay on the point OF syloglsn
! OF the wings of an audaeiOus hypothesis" Meantime
she has lover who begins his wooing by nvestgat-
! ing the Basdian tenetsD and when he wants 10
help her off stump says, Allow ME to assist you
in dismounting from your temporary rostrnm whence
| You p One would suppose this youth 70
! be sweetheart after Ednas own heart,
but being engaged ~ work on a. eInloic Xxx
the fore-ordaned and eternal subsection OF the red
and black to the white, she has no time Tor rosy
fOes. ST. Elmo returns and makes speeches OF the
| purple algeo order, and sweaIs when he thinks
! she has opened the Tai MRhal, and swears when he
finds she hasn't and tells hlS griets and btteFssseS
to anybody who will listen, after the manner of pro-
! foundly wretched people-On the stage; and, OF
course falls wildly in love with Edna as is PLAIN to
everybody but her, but she has thoughts for any
thing but ethnology and her prayers " to which the
muezZn bell called the household" She talks TO ST.
! Elmo in this fashion, which would we should think
discourage the most ardent swain. 'Naturalists as
ser that the SOlanum apple OF S0dom contains III It's
normal state neither dust nor ashes; unless tits pune
tured' by an insect (the Tenthredo which converts
the whole of the inside into dust leaving nothing
but the rind entire, without any loss Of color. HUI
man life is as fair and tempting as the frnt OF AN
Jidy till stung aud poisoned by the tenthredo OF
SIM After which all conceivable sadUiteT IN HodO
characterized his mocIng Sountenance as nc ~
clined his naughty head" We cannot help thinking
that little fOTiiter IN re- which should have locked
her up and kept her bread and water till the non
sense was taken out Of her. would have been
Then he said something about le cahier rert," to
which she replies in two quotations and an lnyoca-
ton to the Nile Then he g. en- gSyde and r eoRg pa
ride ef Ie R6Htp which, convinced that il is good
thing TO say, he repeats line or two further on Then
she, SobriqHe" then he dRdthend pdrdnathdi" then
she, "dTgDReHium Gd hOtaiRem" then he saD,mUm boz
num-" then she, entire ROHsD then he, 'Hed cutpdD
then she "fdas 4chates;" then be- "mddame ma
mere" then She sic itar adj dstrd;" then he CONNIE
IL JdRt;o then she hic jdcet0 then he, mesuzOthD
"Bithus contra BdccbiH" (which made his companion
shudder, though why it was any worse than CONNIE T.
fart we are at loss TO see) and Chqcun son qom"
which left her nothing we can think of but = pLH
Jibus anan, sine qad HOR, with which she probably
closed the conversation, though he muttered again |
ium,D
Having no more Latin left, she resolves to take |
situation as goyerness in New-YOrk where the only |
requirements are Greek and character. Having an
abundance of both, she does not fail to give satac
ton, and orations to anybody who viii hear her.
She has leaped into the blaze of fame by two maya
zine articles one entitled The vision Of ST. Martin
under the pines of Gutli,p the other Who smote
the Marble Gods of Greece"-both subjects vital to
the thought of the 18th century, and taaT TO poor
whites OF eighteen years. She goes TO dinner parties
where she stands with one dazzling hand on the back
OF chair her cleaning eyes fixed on the face OF her
enraptured hostess while she recites pages of Rogers
(she saws il is Rogers but IL sounds like Mrs. Bar
bauld to prove that though woman may learn the
alphabet her best her sweetest empire is TO please.
Tie company is composed of English barOnets 1--WE |
besys eleven meQ-ig buclTaml who fab IN love
with her on the spot, and when she refuses mem,
hang themselves on the trees the side of Fifth
avenue, opposite her house; all but one Sir Roger
Pcrciyal, who takes his disappointment to England
nurses it, and when 1t grows stronger brings It back
lays II a her feet together with ms ancestral towers
and begs her Ia accept them But she loves ST. Elmo
ibid tell that she had refused him because of his
bad habit OF swearing, and that he then said ." d-n
Gertrude though why, we cannot imagine, and inn
the aged qrss6afber OF me pure hearted Tennessee
chhdf'j and resolves TO live blasted being rather
than become barOnetess. Her only comfort during
this trying season ethnology. To know that the
negro inferior 10 the white upbears her IN heIdark
est hours When her crushed spirit aints she learns
few more foreign phrases from the table IN the dc
tionary, and writes sparkling article on the age of
the water-snal<e that hit PhilOctetes. She publishes
two books which enchant the World more men tell
her that she the idol Of their exstences but she
remains qnmQyef through tour IN Europe, DIS;
ease OF tue heart and attack OF the critics until
she JeSrns that 81. Elmo has become clergyman or
nc Protestant Episcopal Church lSoaihA when she
marries him. On their way out OF church ne pausess
"ol akiss-ong as my exile,
Sweet "a my revenge"
After which lac repeats the whole of the Princess to
her, except the song Ask me no more which she
had previously recited to him. And then they go
homo and receive the congratulations of their fendS
III Edna has q possession more SHINING than hsT
archaistc tastes aud classical requirements we should
saw it was her pety. Her lover mpores her TO save
his soul alive by her counsel and help. " NO, thank
you" she says, mine is safe, and am not gong 70
fmperl IT, Yours will probably go to hell, but capnot
help that" OF course she says it in Latin and Greek
and with ausons TO Bahr-sheitan, Diodorus and the
Zendayesta but that is what she means. 1t is only
when his battle Is fought that she consents 10 trust
Or help him. II this be purity, II bears an ugly IKE
pess to accused things called seshness and bigotry,
Ind wOnanlineSs
killed i'm duel, in moment of rage. false friend
who had insulted betrayed, and dishonOTed hun; IL
Mr. Murrays biography Is correct, we should thhK
that quite the best possible use Of the offender was
TO shoot him. and the only pity seems to be that the
aim of the deceased gentlemen had not been equally
good aud done the same kindly Office for ~. Emo
There would have been two b0res the less instead or
one Miss Eyanss style Is not less perfect than her
plot, the naturamess olher men and women ana ther
entire humanity. "1he kind, and gentlemaAly con-
ducorp 80 dreary desolati0n, thy name - country
graveyard " His quick footsteps echoed d'eG,tty IN
the corridor Mrs. Andrews threw down the dla- |
mond cluster with which she was fastening her
bonnet ribbonsp 10 horrible, horrible, most honible
"Let mo see eJpect In Gree will best suit your
SSa aeaa 70 Finn IN w RS Sn y %RS
calls eur first circles ladies presented to gen.
tlemeni The editors granite mouth" "A slight
tremOr crossed his lips the granite Ones the peried
hawthorn was quivoring into lifep God grant that
when next We see each others faces they may DO
Oyerhad9wed by the shining white PuMS Sr OF our our
wicked cease from troubling, and the weary