, 1880-11-06
LITERATURE ART ---SCIENCE.
Old Paris: It's Courts and Salons
Lifo Of Edgar A, Poe
Club Essays
Lie Of Charles Hodge-Apocrypha Of the
Old Tcstamcnt-Notes on
New Books.
Magazines-Books Received-Art Pub.
Hoations-Literary, Art, and
aoientif|o Notes.
LITERATURE.

RHS5lplIlH& HllliL S1IuEHl1Nt HfEC lEGGt IEuk- |
rlseonccs Of tho Court Of Tho First Umpire, |
% o,,o,s nrins !" s" ~ 1,om,rsar,. ,.'o rraa
aa,"s ,'Iy ,ns.as " 1'vs"s ',,.'1ut;'', n'Se
taInlng work on "Old Paris; Its Courts and |
Literary Salo],s.n Tho story ia of n INST
century. l,rrlnnfup viii, tho r,,rn of IIrnrv
% w. II rcochcs +" ho ,lrai @ ,p nf os WI :. ' III.
more THAI mer1 chronicle Of Court llfc ahll
Court scandal. It Is NJ, abridged history OF
tho French Metropolis itself during nearly
zoo years. Il Is easy to picture the wealth Of
yory richness Of the uno made It's practical
use tho moro difficult, Tile n,,tIor's task ]u,s
t% use na ass' 10 possess measga conps!eas pe H
tho literature Of that historical,
cpistolary, biographical, and nutobio-
I'm nn,ltnsa two.vo,nmr rn,monrca tto sn,,s
n,, .nu .,',,n,' a.. ioI' IT,, LUZ % Sy,,-
nels wnicn esefyooay Maue, hin' the lhlnute~
va Letters thas ~ @
Of cl,nico materials IN the futirst wuv tn
.rori. ,ho ,v,ni. ~ n o~,r I,t, ,,,,, ,,,at,ss
Of W tho m tms tho manners + tho 'm men 1''t md
women, whose slolugs n,a,lc tho time what It
m % - ",so the cs ' of ,~h,s
a n at"a - u.ou .'sa n.Ss Moe' VI "'"'
Think Of the fascinatiors of that formative
period in the history of French literature
mud society. The qunint oil city just merg-
1oftl1lcti castellttil. LILO narrow, tortttous
streets with tlieir lofty oycrtopplng hnnses;
the sonbre piles of stone III which the nobIl-
lty % teastsa aM !. reveied; s, tho gloomy K9yai
Lady jackson inspires nsas VIC read 'er lusrs
with tho qralnt peculiar spirit Of tho time.
contn-r ~. ear tf,o r,,,r,ra,, ,,n,I ,,,,l
I ceht4tS' Ma see tha l"eeea' ooH., oe-
!oyca soialer-hlhG' the s'll'Hht Henry
w., We aro made witncs ses of tho
trttcr kno,vn vs f,ordInoi i,tchoffnu. ,rn ln,,,
os'.Hs a.,ie,, 1. Uaaa' s H. t'esv" W. 'n"A
NJ aetallea !!stNfes ol tlie so'nbfc' ihe'n''-
mad mad royeIs and reckless oxtravaeanees Ut the the
dl4snInte relen nf the f,ra,ntp stonnru1,c.
se''si'c !re wnoal ,, grossess Or W., Sngass
of noblemen, tho inter lives Of tho great
| these nru arrived before lis witl;out cni,crai.
%op5 t' eTfaseTsto g IS 1 rs gt W. a|so wess
tron @ % literarv n VI prctel1lers ikS voit@rc' & Ca.
prcnade, an.t Boisrabert. bit We read also
Vuneejas @ nnt IT, 1I Isajznc: e ~ the au ru nf .,.
lIhros ani ~ thn nrir;n nmi crawl, nf thn
FrcncI acn,]rtmr. Sin,lcr,, ~ 1snris .iotns its
htrfn froin H. l,novmtin,,s af ti,n frst venrs
Of Of " the " So seyel,tecnt, I''7 century, m M ~ T6uso
who recall to mild the ' l,,a,, ind wo,1'.
cn m"' NJ that anIHan '"o ora r,'" arI @ ttn"
the fntrtunns and Sandals ~ the Wn,,rts f' ~
tI1 ti'1ce oufa' % fE. tarnt,,ra ~ @ md rnn,o,tco
If ill., r",t,,rv co ensiiv nmticinatc thn s,n,'.
oroi III Inn ~ III svnris u,d its nninrtoit3inr
nnture. mi re- i'nrtIcninry M intprHs,tn~ nrn ''S tS
s ,otra ~ ~ ~ ,qo ror ,.f ,'is WV
IL m inaI thnt iii, ~ lu rH'i ,viiI, M n"na,Ira a,
@ith nrntit. TN u %n,umn einvrriv III" nHIamm"d' and and
IL INV nrnnsc o9i,mirnhiv c"rria ont nj Il M IL
ts putso ats.n,, Mttpy y H. a,,a Ial' htste ~
mIarratcd h 'istar;o,,s TX H., Ply afiera,, ,.ot"r
IL sa,"r1 ,ns ~ nsti,s % tha ,at ~
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