New-York tribune., 1873-12-10

had come among them a young man fresh from ON the
thusssm of his youth and the wisdom of his mature
manhood, and he would God willing continue to labor
prayer that when the Spirit OF the Lord TO
take him away It might I nn nm preaching His word
1t was hard work for tho dcacons TO make him under
stand they absolutely wanted to be rid Of him, and
10 settle a minister; and, when they had
succeeded, 1t wonder that be shut himself
alone his little inner chamber, to let the
down upon his misery. Why did the full-throated
robins sing merrly that day, and the winds blow
such watts Of fragrance in at the windowsf 1t was
Summer and the DAYS were long, and 1t seemed as II
the sun would never set and the friendly dark come
down, TO hide the old mans With the sunset
ters Prudence Pafrey upon the scene. The curtain
rises, behold the heroine.
1t girl of 10 20. but looking younger with her
hair blown about her brows by the fresh Nav wind
She held hand chpstraw hat which had slipped
its place and with the other pushing back an
face little flushed al the cheeks with walking II was
face which. passing it heedlessly in the street. you
The wide gray eyes, capable of great tenderness ana
great haughtiness. would come back TO you Nlvldy
be- years afterwards. The girl was not beauty IN
the ordinary but she had what some one has de
scribed as "A haunting face
pleasant picture Of girl, whom. as the months 90
on we shall like know. Here's better acquain
| ance, good Mistress Palfrey!
FoxHunting in England" is vlvacious sketch by
George E. Waring Of Newport, who understands tbe
perfect horse" better even than any Congregaohalst
clergyman 'Lida ANN is an Adirondack Sketch
by F. Dennng, which is unusually good. "Baddeck ana
that sort Of hing' is the begionng of Charles Dudley
Warmers sketches of home travel which were prom
sed this year If they all this sort Of thing, We
shall indeed, enjoy them. Not Of the humorsts by
profession is wisely witty and witty wise as TINS
gentle essayist In these home travels, he promises
to describe nothing that he did not see
| or might not have seen. For instance
there would be no moral delinquency IN describing
coast town, an island passed while conscientously
performing ones morning toilet in ones stae-room
The traveller owes duty his readers and he Is now
and then weary Indifferent TO go out from the
cabin survey prosperous village where landing u
made he has right TO cause the reader 10 sucr Dy
his Incidence. lie should describe the village You
wonder where Baddeck is. odd Mr. Warner. He found
by dgent study of fascinating prospectuses OF travel
| that the most direct route TO it was by the boats
of the International Steamship Company The agent at
the wharf said not necessary to buy through ek
cts Baddeck-it conspicuous name on the cards
| OF the Company-One could go right on from ST. John
without difficulty. The easy familiarity of this official
with Baddeck of course made traveller ashamed 10
exhibit any anxiety about its situation or the means of
approach IT. but subsequent experience led him to
believe that the only in the world, out of BaddecR,
who knew anything ABOUT it lives in Boston, and sells
tickets to it, rather toward it, Mr. Warner gets as far
| toward it as st. John in this number
NJ.
Evans" and introduces among pleasant variety
| OF other characters, Agnes Throop-a woman with an
unaccounable fascination OF manner full OF that name
less something which, for want of better term we are
wont to call magnetism. David A. Wells, whose pecu
liar mission to be the enlightenment OF the world
on questions of political economy. has paper The
Theory and Practice OF Local Taxation in the United
States" The fiscal history Of the Old World Mr. Wells
afirms is repeating itself in most curious manner IN
the United States and the many lessons which the older
nations have learned by long experience gradu
| ally but surely learning in our turn
| "The Last Of the Vaerh" is charming story, by
Henry James IT, the story OF Roman Count who mar
ried rich American girl He loved her. very comfort
| ably we'll; and she loved him than that. She
loved also his old estaes and she spent good deal OF
American money in excavating the grounds about
villa OF his, where she of the old mar
gods and glores Of the past must he en.ombed She
thought she rewarded, when at last she exhumed
a marble Juno, creation glorious that women
might wonder and worship at the shrine
| of her beauty for ages. The Count fel III
| love with her, wildly, insanely He SAID MS
prayers to her. He built altar before her. He hid
away like love token, one little marble hand, which in
the process excavation mad been broken from her
feet arm. He became blind TO everything else. He
grew indifferent TO all the OF the world Even his
wife TO him as though she were not. Her proud,
tender gentle heart almost broke but at last her uncle
who himself painter, and understood an ideallsts
With American promptness, she at once had the
statue buried, and thus she back her husband.
For, strangely enough, the Count was glad to
have his idol remanded into obscurity, though
while her beauty remained above the earth he must
have worshped at shrine forever; but now that
her white glory dazzed his no longer he was again
all his we's. II could only try this remedy
human rival question whether six feet Of earth he
tween any man and his would the maddest
passion.
W. L. Fawcette gives The History Of the Two Pill
lars-pillars in the dollarmark. pillars OF Hercules
pillars of which the Free Masons make an emblem, p
lars which figure many legends OF many nations
and times Prof Agassiz his series Of papers
Oh Evolution" At the close of this one he says:
The more look at the great complex OF the animal
world, tho more sure 90 Ieei .na' M we nave hot We.
reached is hidden meaning aud the more 90 regret
that the young and ardent spirits OF our day give
themselves speculation rather than TO close and ac-
hope in future articles TO show first that however
broken the geological record may be, there Is complete
sequence ia many parts ii, from which the character
Of The succession may be ascertaned; secondly tnat
as embryonic phases OF growth or the most pershaDe
nature been preserved from very early deposits
we have no right TO infer the disappearance OF types
because their absence cisproves some fayore theory
and lastly that there Is no evidence OF dect descent
earlier species in the geological succession
Of animals
As for the poetry Of this number. il is rich in great
names but does quite fulf the promise OF the title
page. will copy whittiers poem, because it is Whit
tiers but II Is one OF those poems Of occasion written
for friends golden weddng) graceful tributes at the
time for which they designed, but that only the
thrift OF NewEngiand, which gathers up
the fragments that nothing be lost transfers the
pages of magazine
THE GOLDEN WEDDING OF LoSGwooD.
With fifty years between you and your wellkept we'd
ding vow,
The Golden Age old friends Of mine, is not fable now
And sweet as has lfe's vintage been through all your
pleasant past -, -,
st as at Canas marriagefeast the best wine is the
lastl