Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-11
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saint, with the dress reprinted and tall candles
burning on each side, and the smoke of incense
rising before it. Each of the tiny hamlets
on the rivers bank has its own peculiar inter-
est AT st. Nizier where one man was mayor,
! sole inn-keepcr and sole shop-keeper; where
there was neither a tiled roof nor priest, there
was a free library, large enough to be of great
value to poor student.
Still another of these little villages has been
unchanged, except for the simplest repairs of
the cottages for four hundred years, and the
people know nothing of modern habits Of life or
thought Yet even in one of these hamlcts Bos-
ton had been heard of, and the knowledge came
through a charming story of love, and self-sae-
rifce and the capacity of woman. Mr.. Hamer-
ton has crowded his ffty-eight pages flor that
is the whole book with delicate descriptions,
curious history, village customs, and valuable
information about etching, besides awakening
in the reader a warm personal interest in him,
his dog, and his friend, the Doctor, who brings
to mind the Spanish proverb, "If you see your
house in flames, approach and warm yourself
at it,"
AT Toulon our author found an inn-keeper
whose cookery was so famous, that people wrote
from distance to order dinner, and Travelled
to Toulon to titan inn-keeper with so fine
an appreciation Of his art p that he inscribed
over the door Of the dining room, "Rien ne dot
deraager phonnete homne qui dine"
This voyage of discovery is illustrated by thirty
six or more etchings made from nature, all of
them interesting and some of them very beauti-
fu1 Tho old ri of atfbino- hos iyyaJ
during the last few years, and Mr.. Hamerton's
book is of value to all interested in this art;
apart from its other charming qualities. We
cannot leave it without word for Tom, the
faithful dog, whose virtues make his master ex-
claim 81 humbly thank divine providence for
having invented dogs and | regard that man
with wondering pity who can lead Il dogless
life"
"Aspendale' is a good book. The convcrsa-
tons are animated and thoughtful the criticism
careful and unparalleled; while the descriptions
of New England life, and delineation of char
acters common in small New England towns
give variety to the book which is neither story,
essay nor lecture, buta pleasant combination of
all three.
The New York edition of ReynaTd, the Fox, is
as handsome in every respect as the German one
OF 1886; it was printed in Leipzig, has all Kaul-
bach illustrations; all the droll and significant
head and tail pieces; and the advantages of En-
glish text and moderate price The price
ranges from sixteen to twenty dollars, accord
inc to the friendship existing between the buyer
and the seller.
Miss Mary Darliug's Battles at Home"
stands in the front rank of this years Juveniles
1t is written to teach and help as well as to
amuse young people, and succeeds in being
cheerful interesting and truly religious.
A book, called "The Increase of Crime" is
just published by Mrs. Anna B. Boone, whom
you may remember as the mother of the Boone
children, and of Daniel, the infant orator, who
visited Worcester some years ago. Mrs. Boone
enumerates the causes of the increase of crime
love Of dress, unkindness of women to each
other, false feeling of independence and con-
tempt for domestic service, neglect of
physical education, dislike of children, and
unwillngness to receive them as boarders,
or tenants-and processes to ask a great many
solid and searching questions. With her qucs-
tons and her social science are mingled a great
deal of family and personal history a host of
anecdotes showing the meanest side of human
nature, and full account of the family suffo-
cation by gas, which recently made New York
sensation. The style of the book is interjection-
al and the ordinary monotony of printed pages
is avoided by profusion of italics and capitals.
Mrs. Boone promises an early publication of her
own life, in addition to the details already given.
The Sunday afternoon course of lectures at
Horticultural hall, was opened by Rev o. B.
rockingham, OF New York. His subject was,
"The Faiths Of the Infdel" He began by
speaking of the false reports, made years ago,
of the sterility and horrors of the great desert
lying between the Mississippi river and the
Rocky Mountains and believed until modern
explorations and surveys and the building of
the Pacific railroad, had proved them false. So
the accounts Of intellectual and moral deserts,
Of great spaces Of territory or of time given up
to disbelief and awful with the dark tapping Of
demonac wings, reproved false by the finer iu-
struments and more perfect method of modern
scholarship. We know now that even the
Roman empire, previous to the coming of
Christ was prepared to receive the best
Christianity had to give Mr.. f. said that the
purpose of his lecture was to throw a beam Or
two of light into the dreaded shadow land of
so-called infidelity, by bringing into view
the faiths Of the infidel, and be-
liefs of the unbelievers. He spoke of
Chubb, Toland, Tndal, Herbert, Shaftesbury,
and Bolinbroke, Voltaire, Rousseau and Dide-
rot-men who after their fashion were great be-
levers; whose doubts and denials were all in
the interest OF faith and whose nay was only
baCk-handed method OF pronouncing "yea." He
outlined rapidly the difference between the En-
glish infdels who were philosophers by privilege
and the French who were revolutonists by neces-
siy. lie quoted from the long list of hated
names, chiefly, perhaps, from Thomas Paine,
and showed that these great skeptics were also
great believers; that they magn6ceutIy
affirmed as well as audaciously de-
ned devoutly trusted as well as sturdi-
ly protested. IN point of character, too,
these men compared favorably with the so-caled
believers of their age. Yet it would not have
been strange if they had betrayed more than
the ordinary amount of human infrmity, for
the role Of innoYator in religion is dangerous
to the temper. There were few passages of
great eoquence in the lecture; a few fine tig-
ures like that of "Newton's torch flinging its
beams to the confines of creation;" but as
whole the lecture was calm, grave statement of
facts in regard to men, made immortal by their
so-caled infdelity; it was one more attempt to
reverse the unjust judgments given by ignor-
ance and bigotry.
The Washburn viii Case.
The platform Of the American Bible society,
at the meeting of its managers yesterday after
noon, was the scene of an animated discussion,
beginning with the presentation, by the Rev
Henry T. Cheeyer, of the following memorial:
To the Board Of Managers Of the american
Bible Society, from Trustees Of The Home fol,
1ged and I0digent Females, Worcester, Mss:
Whereas, arespectful memorial was addressed
by the trustees of this home TO the managers of
the American Bible society on the 9Th of Iulv