The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-20
THE MAY MAGAZINES.

Anthony Trollope's new story, 'Sir Harry
Hotspur of Humblethwaite, Part 1; "May'
poem, by George N. Sears; "The Echo of
Appomattox Across the Atlantic, by Justin
Mccarthy; "The Virginia Tourist" Gllus-
trated), by Edward A. Pollard; Nathaniel
Hawthorne" by Henry T. Tuckerman; ''How
1 Found my Fate, by Mrs. w. A. Thompson;
1.-The Cross in Legend, Poetry, and Art, by
Mrs. Mary A. Lloyd; "Eccentricity as a Pur-
suit" by Walter E. McCann; ''The Coming
Woman" by Miss Mary p. Wells; "The
Vicar of Bullhampton," concluded Ollus-
trated), by Anthony Trollope; "Guesses and
Queries" Part I, by N. S Dodge; ''Ethra-
monia, tale, by Louise S. Dorr; ''Mary,"
poem, by Rose Terry "Widow Bedott in
Philadelphia" "Our Monthly Gossip "Lite-
rature of the Day."
From Justin McCarthy's article entitled
''The Echo of Appomattox Across the Allan
tic" we take the following
Statesmen are men who learn by expert
ence. A pTiOri politicians are quacks. The
difference between q Bismark and q Meter
mich is that the former studies results, and
the latter maintains theories. II ever any
man started in the business of craftsmanship
with q disbelief in the fundamental theory of
popular governments, DlSInaIh ulu: ne utterly
distrusted and despised it. But when he
began to see that it had results worth study
ing, he studied them and it; and he
was as willing to be convinced by evil
dence as q Judge or q naturalist is. The
American war impressed Bismark profoundly
He studied it as savant might study the
working of some new combination in chemis-
try. Count Cavour on his deathbed several
times impatiently groaned out, ''How wish
fnl MI yyha 10
American civil war will bring FORTH" The
great, true statesman longed to learn the
lesson which he well foresaw must come of
such a struggle. He died too soon. Bis
mark, the only living statesman on the Euro
pean continent worthy to be named in COM
parison with Cavour, had the advantage of
learning the lesson. When the American war
began he was believer in the oligarchic
principle of government and legislation: when
it ended he was believer in universal suf-
frage. On the principle of universal suffrage
he founded the North German Confederation,
throwing over contemptuously the compli-
Gated, cumbrous system which prevailed in
Prussia-a system which perhaps may be
roughly described as one which applies
to the choice of every parliamentary re-
preventative something like the political
mechanism by which the President of the
United States is elected. Bismark himself
publicly declared his conviction that popular
representation as exemplifed in the United
States was the only sure and permanent
foundation on which the governing system of
great people could rest. 1t was a remark
able and significant thing that Bismark, who
had so long been regarded by Englishmen as
living symbol of the most dogged and un-
compromising toryism, should come to re-
ceive, as he did, the public and cordial thanks
of the English Reform League (then the most
radical organization in England, composed of
men who regaid John Bright as slow and
conservative for his practical and complete
recognition of the fundamental principle of
free government l presume we may take
Bismark s own word for it that he has learned
his great lesson in the art of government from
the teachings of the American war. The echo
of Appomattox rolled along the Rhine, the
Elbe, the Spree, and the Danube.
We quote these paragraphs from Mr.. Tuck
erman's paper on Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is one remarkable passage in these
note books which tells the whole story of
Hawthornes authorship, and tells it from his
inmost heart: there is great lesson to be
thence learned, and a singular pathos and
power involved therein. On one of his
visits to the home of his childhood, Just as
prosperity began family to dawn upon his
long and sequestered hfe-work, local asso-
Citations, always strong in their appeal
to his nature, seem to have inspired him
to unwonted self-revelation; and he thus
recorded his bafied zeal and self-reliant
LOYALTY, SO unconscously indicative of rare
natural gifts and an intensely reflective char
acter:-'.SaIena, Oct 4, 1870 Union Street
Family Mansion. If ever ! should have a
biographer, he ought to mention this chamber
in my memoirs. Here L sit i'll my old accus-
toned chair, where / used to sit in days gone
by. Here 1 have written many tales-many
that have been burned to ashes, many
that doubtless deserved the same fate.
This claims to be a haunted chamber,
for thousands upon thousands Of visions
have appeared to me in it; and some
few of them haYe become visible to the world
because SO much of my lonely youth was
wasted here, and here my mind and charac.
ter were formed; and here have been glad
and hopeful, and here have been despond
ent and here l sat a long, long time wait.
ing for the world to know me, and some
times wondering why it did not know me
sooner, or whether it would ever know me al
all-at least till l was in my grave
And sometimes it seemed as if l were
already in the grave, with only life
enough to be chilled and be numbed. Blu
often was happy-at least as happy as theI
knew how to be or was aware of the posi-
bilty of being. By and by the world founc
me out in my lonely chamber, and called nj
forth-not, indeed, with a roar Of acclama
ton, but rather with still, small voice-an'
forth went, and found nothing in the worl
/ thought preferable to my old solitude til
now. And now begin to understand why
was imprisoned so many years in this lionel
chamber, and why l could never brea