The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-15

Character OF his mind and what he did for his
own age and the ages which succeeded him
the translation of the entire poem by LOngfel.
low, in which the naked grandeur of the origi-
nal is Reproduced with q severe fidelity, and
for the ease and spirit OF It's rendering.
The alusion in the last stanza of tho lines
here given Will be readily understood to refer
1866. ,0' - w. 'O,'''' ''' '10 ''''
Who, midst the grasses of the field
That spring beneath our careless feet,
First found the shining stems that yield
The grains Of DEMONSTRATING wheat;
Who first upon the furrowed land
Strowed the bright grains to sprout and
grow,
And ripen for the respers hand
We know not, and we cannot know.
But well we know the hand that brought
And scattered, far as sight can reach,
The seeds of free and living thought
On the broad field of modern speech.
Midst the white hills that round us lie
We cherish that Great Sower's fame;
And, as we pile the sheaves on high,
With awe we utter Dante's name.
Six centuries, since the poets birth,
Have come and fitted o'er our sphere;
The richest harvest reaped on earth
Crowns the last century's closing year.
"On Certain Condescension in Foreigners, ="
by James Russell Lowell, is sharp and to the
point. Professor Lowell speaks thus about
"mother-in-law Englsnd:"-
1t will take England great while to get
over her airs of patronage towards US, or even
pas SADLY to conceal them. She caunOt help
confounding the people with the country, and
regarding us as lusty Juveniles She has a
conviction that whatever good there is in us ia
wholly English, when the truth is that we are
worth nothing except so far as we have disin-
fected ourselves of AngliGism. She is especially
condesoendpg just now, and laVishes sugar
plums on us as if we had not Outgrown them,
| am no believer in sudden conversions, espe-
cialy in sudden conversions to a favorable
opinion of people who have just proved you to
be mistaken in judgment, and therefore unwise
in policy. | never blamed her for not wish
ing well to democracy-hOW should she p
but Alabamas are not wishes. Let her not be
too hasty in believing Mr.. Reverdy Johnson's
pleasant words. Though there is no thought
tul man in America who would not consider
war with England the greatest of calamities,
yet the feeling towards her here is very far
from cordial, whatever our Minister may say
in the efIusion that comes after ample dining.
Mr.. ADAMS with his famous "NIy Lord, this
means war;" perfectly represented his o0un-
try. Justly or not, we have feeling that we
+ have been wropged, not merely insulted. The
only sure way of bringing about healthy re-
lation between the two countries is for English
men 10 clear their minds Of the notion that We
are always to be treated as kind of inferior
and depOrted EDglishman whose nature they
perfectly understand, and whose back they
accordingly stroke the wrong way of the fur
with amazing perseverance. Let them learn
to treat us naturally on our merits as human
beings, as they would a German or a French
man, and not as if we were kind Of counterfeit
Briton whose crime appeared in every shade
of difference, and before long there would come
that right feeling which we naturally call a
good understanding. The common blood and,
still more, the common language, are fatal
instruments fmisappreheDsion. Let them give
up trying to understand us, still more think
ing that they do and acting in various absurd
ways as the necessary consequence for
they will never arrive at that devoutly-
to-be-Wished consummation till they
learn TO look at us as we are and not as they
suppose us to he. Dear old long estranged
mother.in-law, it is great many years since
we parted. Since 1861 when you married
again, you have been step-mOther to us.
Put on your spectacles, dear madam. Yes,
we have grown, and changed likewise. You
would not let us darken your doors, if you
could help it. We know that perfectly we'll.
But pray, when we look to be treated as men,
don't shake that rattle in our faces, nor talk
baby TO us any longer.
do, child go to it grandam, child;
Give gIandam Kingdom, and it grandam will
Give 1t plum, a cherry, and ig!"
"Gnadenhutten' is an interesting histori-
cal sketch by W. H. Howells, and "Cinders
from the Ashes" is racy chapter of school re-
miniscences by Oliver Wendell Holmes. MIR.
L. P. Whipple discourses on the "Moral Sig
nifcance of the Republican Triumph" and
the magazine winds up with appreoiative
reviews and literary notices.
G0ur Young Folks,