The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-17
THE JANUARY MAGAZINES.
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"rhe Galaxy"
The novel of "Cypher' is llustrsted with
p fullpsge design, by Mr.. Sol Eytinge, aud
Reaches the seventeenth chapter in the J1uu-
airy number of the GALAXY. In "New York
Journalists" Mr.. Eugene Benson gives
rather efllorescent sketch Of w. II. Hurlbut,
of the New York World. "The Liberal Tri-
umvirate of England" by Justin Mccarthy,
lis comparison Of Gladstone, Bright, and
Mills. Mr. Edmund C. stedman, in GA Belt of
Asteroids" gives some account of "One-poem"
poeis. "The Dream Child" is a twelve
line poem by R. II. Stoddart "The Lanman
Scandal" by Mrs. W. Palmer, is an inte-
resting story. "The Waking of the Cid" is
"a poem by Edna Dean Proctor, and "Elwin
Booth" is an appreoiative sketch of the
tragedisn by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun. Mr..
kIlennessy's portrait of Booth as "Hamlet" is
D worse slander on the subject than was the
3lideous affair which he gave last month rs the
likeness Of Mrs. Kemble. "Anne NJ. Crane"
Contributes a poetical tribute to Edwin Booth.
IWe give an extrsct from William Cullen
bryant'5 translation of the "Flght Of Dio-
ned, " from the eighth book of the "Iliad":-
while yet twas morning, and the holy light
lDf day grew strong, the men Of both the hosts
Were smitten and were slain; but when the
Stood high in middle heaven, the Allfather
took
bills golden scales, and in them laid the fates
(Which bring the sleep OF death-the fate of
those
WHO tanned the steeds of Troy, and those who
waTred
|For Greece in brszen armor. BY the midst
Die held the balance, aud behold, the fate
|Of Greece, in that days fight sank down until
|lt touched the nourishing earth, while that of
Troy
Rose and flew upward toward the spacious
heaven.
with that the godhead thunaered terribly
From Ida's ellis, and sent his hghtniugs
down
among the Achaian army. They beheld
|ln mute amazement, and grew pale with fear.
Then neither dared Idomeneus remain,
Nor Agamemnon, on the ground; nor stayed
|The brothers Ajax, ministers Of Mars.
|Gerenian NestOr, guardian of the Greeks,
|Alone was left behind, and he remained
3Unwillingly. a steed of those W hioh drew
/ His car was sorely wounded by a shaft
wv hich Alexander, fair-haired Helen's spouse,
Sent from his bow. 1t pierced the forehead
where
The name begins, and where wound is death
The arrow pierced him to the brain; he reared
'And whiIled in torture with the wound, and
scared
His fellow coursers. While the aged man
Made haste TO sever with his sword the thongs
That bound him to the car, the rapid ateeds
|Of Hector bore their valiant master on
with the pursuing host. The reverend chief
Had perished there if gallant Diomed
Had not perceived his fight.
/ A. Oakley Hall, Esq, the newly-elected
Mayor of New York, has suggestive article
entitled "Our Crime Land Excursion.''
From Mr.. Richard Grant Whites article on
sfEnglish Grammar" we take the following
reference to the suppositi0usly unimpeachable
lindley Murray
The first punishment / remember having
received was for failure to get lesson in
6English grammar. l recOllect, with half
painful, half amusing distinctness, all the
little incidents of the dreadful scene. How |
Round myself standing in an upper chamber
bf a gloomy brick house, book in haud-it
WAS a thin volume with tea.green paper
cover and red roam back-before an awful
being who put questions to me, which, for all
khat could understand of them, might as
well have been cOuched in Coptic or in Sans
brit. How, when asked about governing, l
answered, 81 don't know" and when about
hgreeing, 81 can't tell, until at last, in de-
par, said nothing, and choked down my
bears, wondering, in a dazed, dumb fashion,
Whether all this was part and parcel OF
that total depravity of the human
heart of which / heard SO much.
How then the being-to whom l apply no
epithet, for, poor creature, he thought he
was doing God serVice--said to me, in ter
ible voice. "You are stupid, idle boy, sir,
knd have neglected your task. | shall punish
You. Hold out your hand" l put it out
half way, like machine with hitch in its
hearing. "Farther, sir.'' | advanced it an
nch or two, when he seized the tips of my
Fingers, bent them back so as to throw the
palm well up, and then, with mahogany
uler, much bevelled on one side, and having
large, malignant ink-spo5 near the end-an
nstrument which seemed to me to weigh about
orty pounds, and to be fit implement for q
bart of that eternal torture to which had been
ed to believe that |, for my inborn depravity
kas doOmed-he proceeded to reduce my lit
lie hand, not yet well in gri5tie, as nearly to 6
elly as was thought, on the whole, to bt
Beneficial to a small boy at that stage of the
Borlds progress.
The carefully filed and still preserved re
keipts OF a method3ally managed household
Enable me to tell the age at which | wa
Aus awakened to the sweet and aliurin(
beauties of English grammar. was just tiv,
Ind half years old when one Alfred Ely
Aay his soul rest in peace was paid at tn
ate of five dollars and fifty cents quarter &
ood price for primary tuition them, sucl
xtras as wood for the season, ink, and quills
Ind books, of course not included, for thu
kently guiding my tottering and reluctan
os into the maths of human learning