The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-23
THE JULY MAGAZINES.
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Steamer, Jacob Abbott, with eleven illustra-
trations "Through the Wheat" Florence
Percy; Frederick the Great t-VIT[, The
Conquest of Silesia Achieved, with five illus
trations me and My Son." Mrs. r. II.
Stoddard; ''About Walking sticks and Fans, -
N. S. Dodge; "Jane Austen" with four illus
trations; "a Dream of the Fairies, s. S, Co
nant; "The Old Love Again, Annie Thomas,
with two illustrations; ''The Running Turf
in America" Second paper), Hamilton Bus
bey professor Heron's Mistake" Mary N.
Prescott; "Recollections of William Make
peace Thackeray," George Holder; ''Did She
Dream 1t ?" j astin McCarthy "Anteros," by
the author of "Guy Livingstone" etc.; Fir
tation with the Modern Conveniences," Mrs.
Louise E. Furniss; ''The Happy Valley"
Constance f. Woolson ga Flower Piece"
Harriet Prescott Spofford; 'Rupert's Land
and Its People" Randolph B. Marcy, u S.
A; "James Fenimore Cooper" Thomas G.
Latto; editors Easy Chair Editors Lite
rary Record;" Editors Scientific Record
''Editor's Historical Record; editors
Drawer"
From the paper on "The Vaudois," by
Eugene Lawrence, we take the following de
Scription of the Vaudols Valleys
The territory of the Vaudois embraces
scarcely sixteen square miles. The three
valleys can never have contained popua-
ton of more than twenty thousand. In
every age the manners of the people have
been the same. They are tall, graceful,
vigorous; q mountain race, accustomed to
labor or to hunt the chamois in his native
crags. The women are fair and spotless;
their rude but tplaintive hymns are often heard
resounding from the chestnut groves; their
native refinement softens the apparent harsh
ness of their frugal lives. Over the whole
population of the Yaudois valleys has ever
rested the charm of a spotless purity. Their
fair and tranquil countenances speak only
frankness and simplicity; their lives are
passed in deeds of charity, in honest labors, and
in unvarying self-respect. The vices and the
follies, the luxury and the crime that have
swept over Europe never invaded the happy
valleys, unless carried thither by the papal
troops. No pride no avarice, no fierce resent
ment disturbs the peaceful Vaudois; no pro-
family, no crime is heard of in this singular
community. To wait upon the sick, to aid
the stranger are eagerly contended for as
privilege; compassion, even for their enemies,
is the crowning excellence of the generous
race. When their prosecutor, Victor Amadeus
II, was driven from Turin by the French, he
took refuge in the valleys he had desolated,
in the cottage of Vaudois peasant. Here
he lived in perfect security. The peasant
might have filled his house with gold by
betraying his guest; he refused; the duke
escaped, and rewarded his preserver with
characteristic parsimony. In the French wars
of the last century, when Suwarrow was vic
torious among the Alps, three hundred
wounded Frenchmen took shelter in the vii
lage Of Bobbio The Vaudois cared for their
form prosecutors as long as their scanty
meal allowed and then, taking the wounded
soldiers on their shoulders, carried them over
the steep Alpine passes and brought them
safely to their native France.
We may accept, for we cannot refute, the
narrative of their early history given by the
Vaudois themselves. Soon after the dawn of
Christianity, they assert, their ancestors en-
braced the faith of St Paul, and practised the
simple rites and usages described by Justin
or Tertullian. The Scriptures became their
only guide; the same belief, the same sacra
ments they maintain to-day, they held in the
age of Constantine and Sylvester. They
relate that as the Romish Church grew in
power and pride, their ancestors repelled its
assumptions and refused to submit to its au-
thority that when, in the ninth century, the
use of images was enforced by superstitious
popees, they at least, never consented
to become idolaters; that they never
worshipped the Virgin, nor bowed at
an idolatrous mass. When in the ele-
venth century Rome asserted its supremacy
over kings and princes, the Vaudois were its
bitterest foes. The three valleys formed the
theological school of Europe. The Vaudois
missionaries travelled into Hungary and Bo-
hemia, France, England, even Scotland, and
aroused The people to a sense of the fearful
corruption of the Church. They pointed to
Rome as the Antichrist, the centre of every
abomination. They taught, in the place of
the Romish innovations, the pure faith of the
Apostolic age. Lollard, who led the way to
the reforms of Wycliffe, was preacher from
the Valleys the Albigenses of Provence, fin the
twelfth century, were the fruits of the Vau-
dois missions; Germany and Bohemia were
reformed by the teachers of Piedmont; Huss
and Jerome did little more than proclaim the
Vaudois faith; and Luther and Calvin were
only the necessary offspring of the Apostolic
churches of the Alps.
From Hamilton Busbey's paper on ''The
Running Turf in America" we quote the
following reference to the late John Minor
Botts:-
Hon John Minor Bolts was one of the most
distinguished of Virginia turfmen and breed
ers. He gave much study to the horse bred
on large scale, and forgot questions of state
to participate in the excitements of the race
course. Though courteous, he was positive
in speech, and did not like to be contradicted
or corrected He was wrapped up in the
horses bred by himself, fondiy believing they
had no superiors. Colonel McDaniels. also a
prominent Virginia turfman was warm per-
sonal friend of Mr.. Bolts. But the friend.
ship existing between them did not prevent
them from saying sharp things to each other
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