The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-20
THE AUGUST MAGAZINES.
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we have received from Turner Brothers & Go.
has the following table of contents:-
Tut Yourself in his Place." by Charles
Reade-chapter x, with an illustration.
'Feathered Life, by John Burroughs: '"The
Rose, the Cloud, and the Oriole," a fable
without q moral, by T. w. Parsons; ''The
Race for Commercial Supremacy in Asia" by
Richard j. Hinton, with map; ''Susan Field
ing, by Mrs. Edwards-chapters xiv, XIV,
and XVI; prince, Napoleon" by Justin
Mccarthy; "Mineral Waters" by John c.
Draper, M, D.; "Climmerly Gap,S by j. T.
Mckay; Matthew Vassar, by John il. Ray
mond; ''How they Keep House at Compiegne," +"
by I. I. T.; ''On Cast of Tennysons Hand /"
byH r. Tuckerman; "The Age of Burlesaue," &"
by Richard Grant Whites ''The Galaxy Mis-
cellany, containing ''Henry j. Raymond and
the Times, by Augustus Maverick, and ga
Williamsburg Dinner Party" ''Drft-wood" 3"
by Philip Quilibet, containing ''Going to
Rome" and "Afability;" Literature and
Art;" "Nebule, by the editor.
A fac-simile of letter from Charles Reade
is given, which is to the following effect
WThe publishers of the Gdldry' nav me n
liberal price for Put Yourself in his Place
"If | were mechanical inventor, instead of
literary inventor, this payment would secure
them the sole legal right.
"In the present iniquitous partial, barbarous,
and brainless state of law, it only secures them
a clear moral right. But hope all respectable
publishers will respect that moral right, will put
themselves i'm their place, and will forbear to
reap where they have not sown.
"CHARLEs READE."
Mr.. Justin Mccarthy gives the following
sketch of Prince Napoleon:-
Born of hair-brained, eccentric, adven-
ture-seeking negligent selfish father, Prince
Napoleon had little of the advantages of a
home education. His boyhood, his youth,
were passed in a vagrant kind of way, ranging
from country to country, from court to court
He started in life with great natural talents a
strong tendency to something not very unlike
rowdyism an immense ambition, an almost
equally vast incidence, deep and genuine
love of arts, letters, and luxury, an eccentric
fitful temper, and predominant pride in that
relationship to the great Emperor which is so
plainly stamped upon his face. Without enter
ing into any questions of current scandal,
everybody must know that Napoleon III has
nothing of the Bonaparte in his face, a fact
on which Prince Napoleon, i'll his earlier and
wilder days, was not always very slow to COM
ment. Incidence, love of luxury, and a ca
PRECIOUS temper have, perhaps, been the chief
enemies which have hitherto prevented the
latter from fulfilling any high ambition 1t
would be affectaton to ignore the fact that
Prince Napoleon flung many years away in
mere dissipation. Stories are told in Paris
which would represent him almost as a
Vitellius or an Egalite in prohigacy-stories
some of which simply transcend belief by
their very monstrosity Even to this day, to
this hour, it is the firm conviction of the
general public that the Emperor's cousin is
stepped to the lips in sensuaity. Now, re-
jecting, of course, a huge mass Of this scan
dal, it is certain that Prince Napoleon was
for long time downright DldU0aiS Sujet;.
1t is by no means certain that he has, even at
his present mature age, discarded all his evil
habits. His temper is much against him.
People habitually contrast the unvarying
courtesy and self-control of the Emperor with
the occasional brusqueness, and even rude
ness, of the Prince. True that Prince Napo-
leon can be frankly and warmly familiar with
his lntlmates, and even that, like Prince Hal,
he sometimes encourages a degree of famili-
arity which hardly tends to mutual respect
But the outer world cannot always rely on
him. He can be automatically rough and
hot, and he has gift of biting Jest which is,
perhaps one of the most dangerous qualities
a statesman cal1 cultivate, Then there is a
personal restlessness about him which even
princes cannot afford safely to indulge. He
has hardly ever had any official position as
signed to him which he did not some time or
other scorntully abandon on the spur of some
sudden impulse. The Madrid embassy in
former days, the Algerian administration the
Crimean command-these and other offices he
only accepted to resign. He has wandered
more widely over the face of the earth than
any other living prince-probablT than any
other prince that ever lived. 1t used to be hui
morously said of him that he was qualifying to
become teacher of geography, in the event
OF fortune once more driving the race of
Bonaparte into exile and obscurity What
port is there that has not sheltered his wan.
dering yacht? He has pleasant dwellings
enough to induce man to stay at hc.5a
His Palais Royal is one Of the mos o,oC,a,,t
and tasteful abQdes bel0ngin;5 10 o Erro5ean
prince. The stranger in Paris who is for
tunate enGugn to obtain admission to it-and.
indeed, admission is easy to procure-must
be sadly wanting in taste if he does not
admire the treasures Of art and U6rtU which
are laid up there, and the easy, graceful man
ner of their arrangement. Nothing of the
air of the show-place is breathed there; no
rules, no conditions, no watchful dogging
lacqueys or sentinels make their visitor un-
comfortable. Once admitted, the stran-
ger goes where he WILL and admires
and examines what he pleases He finds
there curiosites and relics, medals and
statues, bronzes and stones from every land
in which history or romance takes any in
terest; he gazes on the latest artistic sue
cesses-Dore smagnifcentlight and shadows
Gerome's audacious nudities; he observes
autograph collections of value inestimable
he notices that on the tables, here and there
lie the newest triumphs or sensations of litera
ture-the poem that every one is Just talking
of, the play that fills the theatres George
Sands last novel, Remains new volume
Taines freshest criticism: he is impresse
everywhere with the conviction that he is il