The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-04

honesty and fair play than crafty, sharp
dealing Russia. A few examples are well
worth selecting. Conscientiousness in trade
is recommended by ''Pledge not thy word
rashly, but hold to it when pledged "a
debt is adorned by payment" ''Roguery is
the last of trades, "Sell your goods proftably,
but do not fleece your customers" and many
others of the same hnd-rules, it is to be
feared, honored more frequently in the
breach than in the observance. OF similar
character are "An honest man is worth more
than stone wall, "All things pass, but truth
remains, Him who lives by guile will God
slay," ''Never take the crooked path while
you can see a straight one. "Dig not pit
for others, let thou fall therein thysef.
The proverb attributed to the monk Sylves-
ter, ''Fear not the threats of the great, but
rather the tears of the poor, is a very noble
one, and would have made an appropriate
text for an Grafton of Burke or a sermon
by Latimer There is not a little SLY
humor in "a good name lies in the meadow,
but a bad name runs along the road
maxim which would have sounded well in the
mouth of an ldreprobate of our acquaintance
in one of the Western counties of England, who
walked erect under a load of obloquy that
might have crushed Atlas, and who once OBJ
served to u.s. in allusion to his own evil cele-
brity eye see, zur, bad karacter be a deal
better nor a good karacter; for a good karac-
ter takes power o maintainin'; but bad
karacter, he maintains hissel !"
The satirical proverbs of Russia are very
numerous, and remarkable for their bitter
truthfulness From the mass we may select
almost at venture:-''The dog barks, but
the wind carries it away, as palpable and
cutting sneer at the impotence of popular
ISLANDERS, and might serve as q motto for any
one of the pugnacious native authors who
are at present waging war with public OPT
Mon. "When thunder does not roll the pea
SAINT does not cross himself, conveys, in a new
and more picturesque form, the idea expressed
by the old English rhyme of The devil
was sick, the devil monk would be-"
etc. OF equal truth, and even greater
quaintness, are the following sayings
levelled against gossips and scandal
mongers-"The tongue reaches as far as
Kiev, "Tell a thing to hen "a woman), and
the whole street will know it," Through
needless words the head falls off, "Public
rumor is like a wave of the sea" IA word is
not a sparrow, for when it once flies away you
can never catch it again" The same bitter
from bad birds, "Ask a pig to dinner, and
he will put his feet on the table, "Disease
comes in by hundredweights, and goes out by
ounces" every little frog is great in his
own bog" ''An old friend is worth
two new ones" etc. ''Water runs not
beneath a resting stone" is the exact
converse of our "A rolling stone gathers no
moss" and equally appropriate to the nation
which produced it. 'EBe praised not for your
ancestors, but for your virtues, sounds like
an echo of the surly independence expressed
in the motto formerly assumed by self-made
mill onaire-'ELordsa sare proud of their descent;
I am proud of my ascent" But more quantity
humorous, as well as more thoroughly ma
tionnl than ALL is saying popular among the
peasantry, which shows that they are not
wholly ignorant of their own strength
''When fish are rare, even a crab is fish; and
when men are scarce, even Thomas q. c. the
peasanD is gentleman.
Our notice of these proverbs would be in
complete without some mention of the most
touching and beautiful of all-those relating
to parental and domestic affection, strilSingly
illustrative of the primitive, patriarchal,
almost fatherly character of the ancient
Slavonic rule, traces of which still re-
main in the title popularly given to the Gar
of ''Our father the Emperor" Among the
best of these latter are the following:-''A
fathers blessing cannot be drowned in water,
nor consumed by fire." ''He who honors his
parents shall endure forever" ga mothers
prayer will draw one up from the depths of
the sea-" ga brother is a great treasure,
which thou wilt not speedily exhaust"
Our list of new publications for this month
| is somewhat mea8re one, but 1t contains @
| few works of interest. ''Russia and the
Russians in 1912, by S. M. Liubetski, is cal
culated by its very title to attract attention in
a city which witnessed the catastrophe of the
| great drama which it describes, and among q
people who are never weary of listening to
the story of their famous national sacrifice
and its mighty result. ''The Russian Mis-
sion in the Altai Mountains" gives very in
teresting account of a comparatively unknown
region. National Culture and Education, u
by P U, deals very ably with subject
which is at present exciting universal interest
and which has recently been discussed in a
series of admirable letters by the correspond
ent of one of the leading st. Petersburg
journals. ''Nooks and Corners of Kazan, an
anonymous work, is an adventurous but not
very successful imitation of Mr. Vsevolod
Krestovskis famous romance, '"The Dark
Places of st. Petersburg" Another work of
the Jack Sheppard school, entitled "Outcasts
and Felons, by M. Livanoff, has just ap-
peared, but does not seem likely to attain any
great popularity. Besides these, we may
mention a new edition of Nekrassoffs S works,
a satire entitled Satan in the Park, two OF
three books of Asiatic travel, and translations
of several of the novels of NM. Edmond
About and Ponson du Terrail.
DRAWING INSTRUMENTS, ETC.