The New York herald., 1876-11-09

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temperate habits In breath and cry In tho next
"Do you mean TO say as you're tceioiais"
| '.Yes. do, mother; I'm iectota now.
Mrs osdcn's taco assumed an expression OF extreme
astonshment and dspeasure. "Wcl," shc sad,
Isaac ogden, you're the rst teetota has been In
our fami;yl" ami she looked at him In scorn Then
meeting That teetota ciergynan--ior it's him that's
done It'd have prevented II II could. Turned tee
total turned teeto,al Well, Isaac; ! never could
have believed this OF any son OF mnel"
There many admirable chapters in tho book.
that which depicts Mr. Isaac Ogdens peculiar Of
studying Macaulay being OF the best. There are
somo passages in ''wendorhome" which recall Hamer-
ton at his best essoyst instance the fol-
| iowing:-
Children never 1.-Two long, When they are not carried
away In little cotins and laid forever the silent
grave, they become transformed so rapidly that we
lose them another The athletic young soldier
or oxon'an, the graceful heroine OF the ballroom,
may make proud the parental heart but can
loss Of tho little beings who plagued
and cnvencd the early years OF marriage? A fatner
may sometimes feel a legitimate aud reasonable
melancholy as he contempIates the most promising OF
little daur htcrs full OF vvacity and health How long
viii the dear child him She viii be altered
IN six months in years she will be succeeded by
totally different creatue-a creature new in tesh and
blood and hone thinking other the ughts and speaking
another language There IL sadness even In that
change which is ncrease and progression for the glory
of MONDAY has destroyed the sweet dslicacy Of the
dcwy Aurora and the wealth OF summer has oberated
| the freshness OF the spring
| TESSysox's NEW POEM.
/ There is one important poeiical announcement but
II is dclicously vague. Mr. Tennyson has written to
| Osgood Co. that no has a new poem, and they will
publish II simultaneously with its appearance IN Eng
land Whether It long short, gay grave severe
or lively, they know not.
THEOLOGY
| Tho Rev. NJ. J. savagcs book tho "Religion Of
Evolution" which appeared Wednesday, Is causing
much remark from IT'S holiness and freedom, and ono
paragraph has created no small excitement in tho
orthodox camp, which is full OF orthodox spirit
since tho advent OF the Rev. Joseph Cook tho
man who to annihatc Professor Huxley
Says Mr.. Savago:-"If must 60 TO hell with tho nobo
livers and great thinkers n tho world then would
choose rather than the place Of court iavorto in tho
presence of Ono who makes OWL and and
lasting prison houses for His own glory" This Is no
more than Mil said In his commentary Ham.
iton, but Mil was not a Christian minister
However Mr.. Sayagos society tran
| quill, and his holiness really ono
elsc Theodore Parker long ago demonstrated tho
mpocncy OF a Unitarian conference 10 check one of
It's members from speaking his mind Roberts
Brothers published their companion pocket volumes OF
selections from the Thoughts Marcus Aurelius An
tonius." and Thomas d Kempis' "lmtation OF
Christ" Saturday. They arc an admirably matched
| pair, the manly morality OF tho book admirably
tnc cnullkc Ialtn OF tne otner and tnc
brief introductions characterized by serespsct-
fui modesty that Is rather French in spirit.
cHILpRKSs BOOKS
Miss Ella Farmnn. the cditor OF Wide Ascake has
only been established in Boston for tow weoks hav-
| ing previously managed to carry the magazine by
letters from her Western home. Already the traces
OF hor presence apparent in the conduct OF tho
periodical the increased promptness Of appear
ance She Is OF those energetic women
who iovo even tho drudgery Of their profess
sion, and q visitor Is likely to 1nd her
In her composing as In her ONCE. Next month
her magazine will contain story OF Nora Pcrrys,
entitled .'Saily's Clam Bake" Both Mss Farman and
Miss Perry have stories in tho 1.-TWO Fortune Seek
crs."a volume issued BY d. Lothrop h Co., contain
ing stories by Rossor Johnson MISS Phelps, Mrs Moul-
ton Margaret EytinGe and othor woli known magazine
writer's ..Jcnnys Lark" Miss Perrys story, rcates
the doings of young knswomnn OF hers who attended
General McCook's wedding without an invitation BY
the wny Henry Bacon the artist has selected her poem
s.Afcr tho Bal tho subject for OF the pictures
upon which no will busy himself he returns
to Paris Tho all tho chdrcn's books, faciie
pyimceps is H. HIS "Bts OF Talk for Young Folks, y
which Roberts Brothers will publish In few days Ita
bits alternate by prose and poetry do not appear to be
arranged In any order but Just they camc, "a
the girls say The blended sincerity and earnestnesa
volume than in ts predecessor, 'Biss OF Talk About
Homo Matters" because when writing for
children, sho instinctvcly softons her manner but
sho is SO direct and In spirit that her lessons
rarely fail be eneetually taught Among tho Bs''
in this volume arc 'Colorndo Snow-birds "a Christ
mas Troc for Cats" 'sThe Palace Of Gondoforus y
| .Checry Pcopo," .Runna RTl' and 'Morning Glory y
| all Of which arc familiar to tho magazine reading
youth. Ono OF the Christmas stories In press is
.rorn and Mcndsd," by W. N. F. Round Of tho inde-
pendent. !. will bc published by D. Lothrop h Co.
| ESSAYS
| James r. Ossood l. Co publish "Sea Shore and
Pra,ric little volume Of sketches and essays BY
Mary p Thatcher, Longfellows niece. Tee Rev. John
Weiss "wit, Humor and Shakespeare" was issued BY
| Roberts Brothers, Saturday, and a revelation TO
| those Bostonions who thought that they knew tho
book because they had heard the author dolver lee
lures with tho titles ns these essays Mr.. Weiss.
TO tell the truth is OF those men who may delight
postery but who the OF their printers and
air OF their publishers SO long . manuscript
g within reach oi his pen, SO long az no
| can retain his proofs. hc will correct and
intcrlinc and remodel, and much that is this book
has the light before. The volume abounds
in touches that are almost effective isolated
! from tho text when they form part OF It. "wc
only think" he says, show delightfully."- bewildcrcd
Poonius will bc II his ghost gets OF the body.
escaping n polite convocnton Of worms, IN time TO
help receive other ghost and understand thon II
any wit Is loft him. that his king murdered
and Hamlet is harping something beside hts daugh-
ter" Hc wonders that animals not struck with
tho salient differences between them, but supposss
that .curiosity and aversion exhaust the speculative
possibilities OF animals the direction OF inventing
amuscment. II is true" he goes on, "that
sonally hear OF happy families like that Of tho prairie
bousck they do with zest for they havc
established taste for tho young OF tho prairie dog,
and thoy hiro his tenement only with cye busi-
ness." IL presume" he says, "tLat xantppe felt
justified IN making tho homo OF Socrates
pleasant that no preferred the market, tho forum
ana tho leather drcsscrs shop. because she
thought no neglected her for all theso places and