Year: 1873

head of tributary of the Zambezi, and if
Burton's report of the altitude of that lake
above the sea is not great mistake this
opinion must be correct But our corre-
spondents report from Khartoum, by au-
thority of Sir Samuel Baker, is emphatic
and positive-it is the statement as of q fact
established-that the Albert Nyanza and
Tanganyika are one lake, and that o ship
launched in the Nile, above Murchison' Falls,
may sail up this lake to Ujiji If so. then We
have only here to repeat that this is one of the
most interesting and important geographical
discoveries since the first rounding of Cape
Horn. And we have great faith in the white
pacha, because of his great achievements and
his great name as an African explorer, and
because of his indomitable courage, perse-
verance and endurance in his Nile expedi-
tions At an expense Of two millions of dollars
the expedition from which he is just returning
has been accomplished and as in undertaking
it the object most at heart with this heroic
leader was doubtless the determination of the
metes and bounds Of the Albert Nyanza, we
can hardly doubt the truth of his reported
discovery, given as it is upon his authority
And so we await further intelligence upon the
subject. with the hope of confirmation of
this startling and surprising report.


Twain and Yates Telling Their Twin


Story or tho Shah In Johnbulland.


1t is question for psychologists to deter
mine whether the self-consciousness of the
American or that of the Englishman is the
more to be admired. American modesty and
British difddence are also studies in their
way; but they prevail respectively in such
abundance that people are apt to
forget their points of contrast. The
dual description, in another part of
the HERALD, of the Shah of Persia's
visit to his would-be bosom friends, the
English, will be found to bring strongly
forward the types of bashfulness which
America and England are proud to call their
own. In Mark Twain's pithy account Of
what he saw the peculiar shrinking nature of
the representative American will be observed
as plainly as the perfect blotting out of
self in the idyls of the King by Edmund
Yates, representative Englishman Enter
tanning as are the stories in themselves, much
profit may be reaped in comparison between
the two stories. The pure, childlike simplicity
Of Mr.. Twain in his correction of some mis-
taken notions prevalent here about the customs
Of royalty is one of those treats that in this
sophisticated age we miss SO much. One
al k1,ok - II
Of paragraph he was about to take
up his little hatchet and go out chop
ping cherry trees, with q determination
not to lie about it any more than the Father
of his Country. The guileless innocence of
Mr.. Twain, indeed, reminds one of the por-
trait of Hawker Jim or Scar-faced Charley
which leading Quaker member of an Indian
peace commission would draw. The same
trusting, credulous nature, the same untutored
honesty, the same affectionate regard for
human life start out at every line of
Marks story, just as they shine upon
the brow Of o Kickapoo on the warpath, seen
through Mr. Delanos spectacles He went to
ball given by the fair, round Corporation of
London, with good capon lined, to Shah Nasr
Din of Persia. He also came literally next
door to going to the opera with the Shah, and
with his young Georgia candor tell us what he
observed. It is curious that at least one of
his observations has escaped Edmund Yates
namely, the school medals which that good boy
Prince Arthur wore on his coat front. Mr..
Yates probably thought we knew all about it.
In the latter gentleman, that retiring and un-
obtrusive nature which notes all that passes
with keen and educated eye will be appre-
ciated. 1t is indeed curious to find q man
unconsciously painting his own beauty of
character while delineating the nobility of
everything in his vicinity. His touch is subtle.
When he praises, the couIe,r de rose is laid on
as unpretentiously as an apprentice
would paint a shutter, but at the
same time the brush is handled with
all the delicacy, grace and skill of Apelles
putting the last touches to the cheek of
Venus Anadyoneme. It would be invidious to
institute q comparison between two such
earnest literary workers but if the dear pub
lie will read the two descriptions of the scene
in the Floral Hall (the glass house, Mr.. Twain
ingenuously calls it,, it will be seen how
beautifully and wonderfully distinct are the
pictures that result, although the figures are
the same. How it has been accomplished we
leave our readers to guess.


PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.