New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-12-20
TIE "ATLANTTCD FOR JANUARY.

FLORIDA AS DESCRIBED BY ELIZABETH STUART
PHELPS JACQUES JAsMIN- THE MAFIUsi OF
SICILY.
IFRoM A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TR1bUSb'l
BosToN, Dec. 16.-The atlantic Monthly Tor
January brilliant array OF contributors IL opens
with long OF Mr. Howellss fascinating story
private Theatricals" in which there arc some specy
good peces OF character drawing Allan b. Magruder
gives US a bit OF secret history concerning lhcorhs
Plans Of Reconstruction" Under the title OF Going
South Elizabeth Stuart Phelps gossps entertanngV
about Journey TO Florida She gives us some OF Tue
contradictory information which she acquired IN al
vance from various and by which her confidence
in the veacty of the Christian world was grevonsiy
shaken Read and you will not wonder at the difficulty
the party OF travellers had In deciding where to 80 ana
what to carry by way OF mpedlmenta.
There is but one civilized spot in Florida, and that
and that ST. Augustine. There is but one spot OF any
kind in Florida, and that is Enterprise &C., ,oa.
Whaey er else do, must AVOID the river Tor dear
HES sake. Whatever else We do, We must settle Oh the
river Immediately. -
be out ali night II they Ike. l..
We need not carry rubbers, because when 1t rains IN
Florida the sandy soil sOaks the water away We may
leave rubbers at home. because 1t never rams III
Il is hotter or the river than it is by the coast 1t is
Just as hot on the coast as il is ~ the river 80
The thermometer has been known 10 run 70 iU t ut
grees in December The thermometer never rises above
Ice sometmSs forms in Florida about Christmas.
Thee is nothing 10 eat IN Florida. There IS ne much
to eat in Florida there is at home. You don't want
Garry Sour muslin dresses you wish TO avoid imme
date dissolution AT your peril 20 without your iuis
You Will ind difficult 10 slecp hecause OF the barking
OF the dogs in which the South abound Never heard
Yom may be annoyed by the sound OF horses passing
on the hard shell roads OF ST Augustine They never
shoe the horses in ST. Augustine because the roads are
drifting sand.
II taxes four days to Florida II takes two days
to Fi taiiGS ''s''' 70 80 ~ '''' ''1'
There is malaria in Florida in March malaria
in Florida al te year round There Is never an! i"aai
| III Florida at al.
Having read the above one is lost in amazement nj
that heroic resolution and intrepid faith OF the feminine
mind which finally carried the party 10 ST. Augustine,
where, in two hours. they fee AZ home forever
Miss Harriet W. Preston, whose studies and trGnsla-
tons Of Provencal literature always welcome and
valuable, has admirable paper on jacques Jasmn,
the barber of Acan in Gascony, who published LIS first
volume Of dialect poems in 1885, when frederic sira.
was child Of four years Of age This earliest volum
OF Jasmlns-callcd, with mixture Of Say'ty and sim
plicy quite peculiar to himself Papilioos" Curl
Papers"-was followed at intervals Of several years by
two others Miss Prostou's sketch Of tie poet and his
work Is charmng hut the bits OF translation she intro
duces show him 10 have been far from equal to his sue
| cessOrs in the same field.
paper of especial interest Is The Madus % Sicily,
| bv Luici Month The Madus are the organized bands
whom we have been accustomed to regard as bhgands;
but they are something and other than mere
bandits They protect often as they destroy They
have laws Of their OWL which they administer with
rough OF justice Their principal laws are That a
nau must seek redress by hims u iog injuries received
and that no man should testify before Judge even If
he is the injured party In obedience to The laws Of this
code even the respectable among The common peU-
pie would testify il by chance lie had been secia-
tor Of crimes and only that, hat he would consider
il q worthy action and his duty 10 secre'e an assassin
from the pursuit Of Justice FOR. according t. that code
cit ia not Justice but the living that must aFenEc the
dead" and hence the laws Of vendetta. Besides these
there ere Mrs Keubc's Old WOmas Gossip" Charles
Francis adams. ill., on 1.-THE Revere CatastIophc;" and
a pqper Of very gentle criticism. in which Mi liowe-
serves up -Four New Books OF Poetry" namely, GdTs,
.athfops Bayard Iaylors, and Iongelow's. Asior the
poems Of this numbor the best OF en j. one OF Tie beet
! Of Whttier's. entitled "suusct on tho BcaTeaIup'
| Oliver Wendell Holmes has rhymcd satire which he
calls Familiar Letter, 20 several CoTcspcudcnts, on
| the art OF vcrse-making. lie says:
Yes write II You there nothing like trylnS
Who knows what d treasure your caskct may holdf
III show you taGt rhymlnc' - easy rs lying
II you III listen 20 me while tn art unfold
Among the other poems are two graceful soIineis by
T. 49, AIdrch. Altogether, as Is usual at tie beginning OF
new volume the magazine puts Us best foot foiemos;
L. VI.