New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-23

....,uo tam MAYER was seem A brow broad, yet not
nossessine Websterian massiveness, swartny conpA
ion well harmoniZing with earnest, ueoP Di'o
eves his face almost grim In It's sternne's' ~"
daencut with the burrows OF care, thought-poS''D'
With the ipdescrlbable anxiees OF ambition; aoe P
claiming earnestness and profound feeling "Do'o
other traits Of middle hight the upper part OF tine pouy
thin gray hair and whiskers the large brah
discovered through the meager locks; fxednes OF
tnres which, as he sits there silent, seems unosturpa
Vat I'm the high midnight storm OF forensic Datie' "
snno nv the sparkling. codbooded thrust of Disraeh
irony that stern face becomes the visible DeraSer
Grand and deep, and fastchangng emotion the iea
tures are umined by burning expression OF spirit anu
mental greatness. The stonelike grmness has gwen
Mace TO a frelike. infectious animation. Nature mas
endowed Gladstone with voice, In b"eo'i0o'
strangth and hexibity far surprising that OF I'll,
living Engllshman; and be wields IL iho :"
giant oyerpowerng with its moving and passloha'o
NOR the more phlegmatc smoothness and keenne "
rival HIS readiness and huency make 1t not diihcu 70
,nvest the dryest subjects with certain charm lbs 10
rensic powers whole isl Oh
tho various arts which to make up the modei oao
He ia never at loss for Words he debates on
raised issue with much uency he delyersa
speech: with more, for In an extempore hahnsuo
he ia far more duse and elaborate than In his iabored
addresses His aptness and exuberance OF sine anu IL
lustratonderved alike from the experience OF every
day the homcy topics OF the street. and from the choces'
descriptions and epgrams Of classical lore-ama1o you
az he passes from ono branch Of his subject 10 ahoc
now staying to indulge in choice flight OF rhetoric no"
hurrying impetuously his climax. The inexhaus'pio
wealth OF his language equally notabe the vast storo
OF his information scarcely less so His elocutioh u
matched IN England; his delivery rs OF 80 genuine
earnest, natural O ring as TO tenfold enhance
the power which is won by his other quahuo ;.
"A Plea for the OF Smell" by O. r. Cranch. STANDS
I'D manuly for the rights Of tho Nose that misunder
stood and much ridiculed organ, and the wonders OF
the Deep" fully brought 10 light IN one OF Mr. schee
do Veres striking popular summaries OF natural science
AT Home in Paris" by Miss Olive Logan gives sngu-
larry faithful account OF the interior family life OF Paris
which has 30 often been made the theme OF ersggeraon
and carcature Her lively ofrhand touches produce
far moro accurate picture OF the reality than most OF o
labored delneatons OF ambitious Tourists. Mr. V. H.
Denslow expounds his favorIte theory OF Ihe fiah
10 specie," recommending the conversion OF exlsuns
dets into their value gold at the market price OF cur
rency in which case 1t will be easy for debtors TO pay
specie in full for they as 1t now Is to use cur
rency worth only three-fours much as specie Inc
poem by Bayard Taylor entitled Napoleon at Gothh,
relates In stately the tradition OF the narrow es
cape OF the Emperor from assassination after the battle
OF Jena