The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-03
LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.

THE RESULT OF THE GENEVA arbitration has given
impulse to the promoters OF code of public inter-
national law. The London Peace Society has i'm
proved the opportunity by circulating tract, CIV
ing an anthology OF the utterances OF statesmen
and crowned heads in behalf of arbitration instead
OF war, as mode Of settling international differ
ences.
The London Catholic Times complains that "thc
wave OF continental ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS alias
Godessness-has already reached our Shores and
threatens to carry all before 1t. 1t adds
In educational matters Just claims for reli-
gtous equality are spurned In social life, the
cursed n1delity OF the time increasingly attacks
Our poor are threatened with peril, both moral
and physical. by being driven under the hoops OF
that bigoted Bumbedom which sees in every
Catholic another Guy Faux, and in every lrshman
a rebel.
The Spectator pronounces Mrs. Edwards new
novelette, "a vagabond Heroine" to be "humor-
ous vivid, vapd, lavish, and yet brief" 1t is re-
freshment in every sense, as a novelette, ought to
be,
AN ENTERPRIsING Edinburgh tradesman thus
POLITICALLY advertised his wares:-
Scots wha hae wi Wallace bled
Scots whom Bruce has often led,
Gang to Box the halter !"
SPEAKING OF TIE LATE BANQUET Of the Golden
Club, the London Times remarks:-
MANY minds have been puzzled to understand
the simplest OF men by the consumption OF one Of
the most sumptuouS OF dinners"
SENIOR CASTELAR,, in his new book on Italy, in
weighs against the unrestrained luxury Of Rome.
He tells Of the strangely dressed courtiers and
pages clad In gold; Of cardinals alfred IN
purple and ermine; Of bishops with Oriental mi
tres; of Swiss who resemble hariequins; OF noble
body guards, who throw black velvet NANTES on
their shoulders and wear silver SWORDS by their
,,tc Il in aIlf ba af fha I'm
bow; of lackeys whose fnery challenges the
painted parrots OF the tropics, and OF soldiers with
uniforms like that OF General Boum in the "Grande
Duchesse de Geroldsten."
THE Gardeners Magazine, In an article denuncia-
tory OF the English gamekeeper says that he is the
curse OF the country and goes on to administer this
rather Tree rap the knuckles to Albert Edward
the heir apparent OF England
Some one has described the Prince OF Wales as
royal poulterer, and SO long as be has pheas-
servants to load and hand guns to him, he may
shoot them at the rate OF 40 an hour, and take
care to have the deed recorded In the newspapers
SO long as the Prince OF Wales does this he must
endure to be designated as " the royal poulterern
and be really ought to take out license Us a
dealer in game.
In HIS NEW NOVEL, "Our Forefathers," Gustave
Freytag has given brilliant picture OF the man.
ners and customs OF the Thuringians. His object
is to relate the fates of an individual race IN
series Of pure fctions
NJ CBEvALTER a French naval offcer, has written
a book in defence Of the Navy of France, entitled
ia Marine FRANCHISE ct Ia Marine Aiemande
Pendant Ia Guerre de 1S70-71." He proves that
the current reproach Of the war vessels OF France,
with their admitted superiority, having effected
nothing during the war, Is unfounded Germany
withdrew all her vessels early In the war, into the
shelter OF the Baltic ports, leaving nothing that
the French navy could do, save 10 make diver
sion IN favor Of the army on the German coast.
This could only have been done with the support OF
a body Of troops, ana these were never forthcom-
Ing " Nv aid