The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-06


with The sunshine Of To- morrow, whether as a
realization or as an assuring prediction. Never
feited with teschers, that their present needs
are material only, not spiritual, and that yous
Volume of the woPdS STeae choral g Ie bsfmones:
for Il you have something TO say, and do really
say It, never doubt that It will find or make It's
preciate and enjoy it.
"But the real perplexity, the one great source
premises, is this--of the legions who aspire to
teach and sing, only very small proportion do
the work, while the great multitude seek pri-
msrily and mainly their own glory or aggran-
They aspire TO be teachers. not because the
world needs to be taught. butbecause they must
Who oiS would BE- tort toTtured By his nvocstions @ Il
ey oroychets let's Treatise S on n Hydrauios ' and pyns
mics was impelled by the vacuum in his own
deficiency or error in popular conceptions Of
natural science. Van Roamer's Travels were
constrained by the stern alternative OF quitting
his native soil cultivsting it, he is enabled to
tell us how the Camanches grow corn, or the
cible repugnance to assisting In either process
at home, And thus the domain of letters is
continually infested, is wellnigh overrun, by
swarm of adventures who are only Intellectual
in their pursuits and tendencies because they
dread being, and so have not fitted themselves
TO be, material-as TsIleyrand accounted all
men military who were not civil. Hence the
patient earth groans beneath the weight of
ever sent a truant whimperipg to school, and
the moon and stars are prosecuted with fiatu-
bards whose main Indictment to thus torment
ing the night is q constitutional adherence of
getting up and swinging an axe In the
''It is high time that the current cant affirm
ing the mfsfortunes of authorship, 'calamities
of genius the miserable recompense of intel
lectual effort, ETC.. were secuted from the earth.
relations Of things Intellectual to things physi.
cal, OF Mind TO Matter, Time to Eternity. Mil
pounds satS its ssS SSens sG pubisher Mr. smmons
nSs Begging 1gy your pardSOn gentlemen he did mo no
would have henceforth been Simmons Para
disc Lost not Miltons. No such poem was
eve ever " written @ for pounds, few or many, nor ever
wherein his right of property in his work was
toms, and SO must remain while time shall
endure. Trade and Law are mighty In their
to vest the proper ownership OF Paradise Lost
in anybody else than John Milton"
The volume before us is very handsomely
gotten up, the Typography is excellent, and it
is illustrated with fine steel portrait Of Mrs.
Greeley, a fac Simile of a letter written by
him to the publishers, which gives an excel
lent idea of his peculiarly unintelligible Chi
Biography, number of wood-cuts of Mr.. Gree
ley's various homes, and portrait of Marga-
ret Fuller.
From G. w. Pitcher, No. sos Chestnut
street, we have received "Smoking and Drink
ing" by James Parton. Published by
Ticknor & Fields. The three essays, entitled
"Does it pay to smoke;" "Will the coming
man drink wine S'' and 'Inebriate Asylums,
and a visit to one," originally appeared in the
atlantic Monthly during the past year, and
they have been extensively copied, either in
whole or in part, in most of the newspapers
of the country. 1t is the great fault with
most reformers, and particularly with
most moral reformers, that they
allow their enthusiasm to run away with their
judgment; they make no allowances for the
weaknesses and infrmities of human nature,
and the consequence is that they repel rather
than attract those whom they desire to convert.
Mr.. Parton is reformer gifted with common
sense, and his papers on the subjects OF
smoking and drinking will be read with
respect and attention even If they make no
converts. We have no hesitation in saying
that the essay entitled ''Will the coming man
drink wine 2" and "Inebriate Asylums, and
visit to one," are the best temperance tracts
we have ever seen; and as such we recommend
them to those who are particularly interested
in rescuing drunkards and in persuading the
young men of their acquaintance to shun the
vice of intemperance.
james S. Claxton, No. 1914 Chestnut
street, sends us "The Experiences of Tom and
Sarah Neal" and Chow to Conquer" two
nicely illustrated and attractive juvenile
stories. The books for young people published
by Mr.. Claxton are always characterized by a
healthy religious and moral tone, which rem
ders them eminently suitable for the libraries
of Sunday Schools as well as for family
reading. ...-