Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-01-03

The heights by great men reached AID kept
We're not attained by sudden flight,
But they while their companions slept
We're toiling upward in the night.
-LpagtetoV.
ThiH il a sound, wholesome story Of the en-
terprising sort. The Body Guard was a
family Of seven, bereft Of father also. BY
undue speculation, Of their share Of this
worlds goods Scarcely reckoned among
these i'll prosperous days. was "a farm In
Delaware To this out out of-the world re-
treat they would betake themselves. The
mourning over this suicidal project was
touching. Truth TO tel, their colored neigh
bors cleft to desire nothing short Of
their complete absence. Their pickings and
Htealings were hard TO cope with.
Still our noble little State bore up her repu.
tation. Health, comfort and that moral
fibre which comes from difficulties overcome,
gradually enriched the Stanley family, while
abundance OF fruit and poultry made material
things easy
The story Of all this il almost al fasclnat-
ing az Robinson Crusoe. The manner recalls
Misc Alcott. To be sure difficulties yapi-h in
a rather mystc, fsiryland manner, and there
ia no 10. Still the tale is told with many an
apt alluslon and stray bit OF humor. Poverty
being surmounted i'll favor Of an education,
and native refinement and sterling worth
holding their own throughout. The conclu
sion ID triumphant, and al free from morbid
ness introspection and false sentiment ~ is
the whole OF this refreshing story.
HARPERs for January shows no falling off
from the unriYaled standard Of December
The portrait Of Whittier il perfect. Mrs.
| Spofford seiZes upon his pre-eminent nation
atty and gives paper strong in local color
| ing, which each illustration verifes and real
izes. The luxuriant beauty OF cloud peaked
Mentone ia decided contrast. Which
Birth Of a Nation still bears upon the CEN
| tennisl in hand, and gives scope to Mr..
| Pyle's specially. "Old Packet and Clipper
| Service" affords place for a number Of heroic
| men, whose honest loyalty was rewarded in
their day and generation by abundance Of
/ honor and sufhcieency Of lucre. A review of
Curtis Buchanan" occasions full page
\ engraving full of dignity and expression, A
| dash OF ghost story follows
/ William Black opens the novel which re-
/ joices in Shakespeares daughter AZ heroine.
/ So far no special promise Ia revealed. Possibly
/ MIR. Black aims at being too universal. scarcely
Il advisable for genius 30 welded to the
/ yachting experiences of the Hebrides or to
i the yacht pure and simple anywhere under
i any auspices AS he cannot trust Mistress
Judith and her worshipful father to such
modern pleasure jaunting invention, he seemf
| a triile disconsolate and homesick. The
! Easy Chair il fully alive to the sensations oil
the day, Lord Coleridge, Henry Irving and
Patti at the Academy at 81, 900 night.
JoHs BULL AND HIs IsLAsD.-By Mas
O'Rell. The author is not an Irishman, al
his name would imply, but Frenchma1
and vivacious and chatty Frenchman in thu
main, though his little book amacks in a few
places of guide book suggestions. These ar,
not frequent, however, and the chapters il
which they occur were probably written wheI
O'Rell was not in the vein, or thrown in to
introduce some things in which he took nc
special interest, but which he thought essen
tial to the completeness Of the work. Else
where the work is one of com
mingled impressions, sparkling with plea
santry or bristling with satire according t.
the merit of the English system from tn,
authors point Of view. John Bull is proud
brave, calm, tenacious, and consummatt
diplomatist," says O'Rell, and he touches W
all these points of character in rotation, en-
livening special trait here and there by /,
brief aneodote or witty bon mot. In the
main he describes the Englishman as he saw
him in London, under the varying conditions
OF life in that great city, dropping in at tn,
mansion Of the wealthy one moment and il
the next stealing glimpse at the degraded
sAd criminal mob which throngs Hyde PArl