THE SUPPLEMENT. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 18CC. LITERATURE. I.ABouLATK'a Fairy Door. . By Edonard La bonlaje. Ilfirpor A Urothors. Philadelphia Aeenta: J. 13. Llppincott Sc Co. To write a rcnlly go.nl fairy story Is an under taklnfr which few authors are able to accom plish. There arc but few of all our litterateurs who can pen a book which will be Interesting to children. It requires a peculiar tact to so frame your story and your sentences as to be iible to catch the ear and fix the attention of a child. The many utter failures of those who make the attempt best attest the extreme diffi culty of the task. Yet in Edonard Laboulayo we fiud that peculiar turn of miud required. ;ie writes the best children's btories that we have ever seen. His volume is filled with illus Uatioiis, and U of deep interest. It is just Mich a work as .would be acceptable to a child. We nave read tiie book, and fiud it full pf well printed and a lmirably selected fairy tales. Before us it spread the realm of romance, into which we ctn look from the Plsgab. of manhood, but cannot enter. It is reserved for the full imagination of the child to revel in it9 fields. We cannot picture the fairies, the palaces, the woudertul wand, a ad the ten thousand mys teries which we all could invest with a definite shape. But we can see how our little ones will be able to till all the laud with giants aud dwsris, pnu ves and marvellous masficiaus. Yet the field is there, the country flowing with milk and honey, the country of childhood's fancy; aad we can see it open to the little ones a? they read tiie talcs of L:boulaye. The book is a most accept a ile Christina gift, and is printed inj larue ciear type, which canuot injuro tae ejesof the little reader. Note on Poiiiii aud Reviews. I have now undertaken to write a few words on thin atlair, uot by way of apology or vindica tion, ot answer or appeal. I have none such to otfer. Much of tne criticism I have seen Is as usual, in thj words of Shakespeare's greatest follower, "Aj if a man should spit against the wind; Tbe ultk returns in 'a tuco." Certain pcems of mine, it appears, have been impugned by judges, with or without a name, as indecent or as blasphemous. To mc, as I have intimated, their verdict is a matter of infinite indiiierenee; it is of equally small moment to me w nether in such eyes as theirs I appear moral or immoral, Christian or Pagan. Hut, remembering that science must uot scorn to in vestigate animalcules and infusoria, I am ready lor once to piny the anatomist. Who regard to any opinion implied or ex pressed thi ugbout my book, I desire that one thiuu should heiemembered the bookis drama tic, many luced, multifarious; and no utterance ot enjoymeiit or despair, belief or unbeliet, cun propel ly be assumed aa the assertion of its author's personal leelmg or faith. Were each poem to be accepted as the deliberate outcome aud result M the writer's conviction, not mine alone, but most other men's verses would leave noth'ns behind them but a sense ot cloudy chaos and suicida. contradiction. Byron and Shelley, sneaking in their own pcrsous, and with what suolimc effect we know, openly and insultingly mocked and reviled what the English of their u y held most sacred. 1 have not done this. I lio not nay that, if I chose, I would not do so to ti e best ot my power; I do gay that hitherto I have seen tit to do nothing of the kind. It remains then to inquire what In that book cud be reasouably offensive to the Enelish reader. Iu order to resolve this problem, I will not fish iiu any ot the ephemeral scurrilities born only tti stinir if they can, and sink as they must. I will luue the one artiDle that lies before me; the ork 0 admit) of an enemy, but the work (I ickno n ledge) of a gentleuiau. 1 canuot accept J a-, accurate; but I readily and gladly allow i. i:U U neither contains nor suggests anything V use or filthy. To him, therefore, rather thau 10 another, I address my reclamation. Two it ..! my poems, it appears, are, m his opinion, .oially horrible." Good. Though the p. -e be somewhat ''inexpressive," I am con-u- ' to meet him on this ground. It is some xli :g nay, His much to find an antagonist vi.i has a sufficient sense of honesty and honor 1 murk out the lists in which he, the challenger, ii desirous to encounter the challenged. The first, it appears, of these especially horri ble poems is "Auactoria." I am informed, and have uot cared to verity the assertion, that this poem has excited, among the chaste and candid critics of the day or hour or minute, a more, vebemeut reprobation, a more virtuous horror, a more passionate appeal, than any other ol my writing. I have never lusted after the praise of re viewers; I have never leared their abuse; but I would fain know why the vultures should gather here of all places; what congenial carrion they smell, who can discern such (it is alleged) in auy roee-bed. Aud after a little relleetiou I do know, cr coniecture, Virtue, as she appears incarnate in British journalism and voluble through that unsavory orgun, is souiethiug of a compound creature "A lump neither alive, nor dead, Dog-hoaded, bosuui-eyed, aud bird-looted;" nor have any dragon's jaws b-jen known to emit on occasion stronger una stranger sounds and odors. But having, not without astonishment aud disgust, inhaled these odors, I fiud myself at last able to analyze their comp inent parts. In this poem 1 have simply expressed, or tried to express, that violeuce of affection between one and another which hardens into rase aud deepens into dopuir. The key-note which I have here touched was struck long since by Sappho. We in England are taught, are com pelled under penalties to learn, to construe, and to repeat, as schoolboys, the imperishable aud incomparable veises of that supreme poet; and I at least am eratelul for the traiulug. I have abstained troni touching on such detail", for lb s reason, that I ielt mysell in. competent to give adequate expression in Eng lish to tho literal aud absolute words of ".Sappho;" and would not debase and degrade them into a viler form. No one can feel more deeply than I do the inadequacy of my work. That is not 'Sappho,' " a friend said once to Die. I could only reply, "It is as near as I can come; and uo man can come close to her." Her remaining verses are the supreme success, the finai achievement, of the poetic art. What is there now of horrible in this? th' ex pressions of fierce loudness, the ardors of pas biouate deepair 1 Are these so uuuatural as to affr ght or disiuid f Where is there au unclean detail? where u obscene allusion? A writer as impure as my critics might of course have written, on this or on any nubiect, an Impure poem; I have not. And if to translate or paraphrase fappho be an offenjo, iudict the heavier offenders who have handled and re handled this matter In their wretched versions of the ode. Is my poem more passiouate in do tail, more unmistakuble in subject? I affirm that it is les; and what I affirm t have proved. Next on the list ot accusation mauds the poem of "Dolores.'' The gist and beurlng of this I should have thought evident enough, viewed by the llebt of others which precede and follow it. I have striven hereto express that transient state or spirit through which a man may be supposed to pass, foiled iu love aud weary of loving, but not yet in fliebt of rem; seeking refuge in those "violent delights" which "have violent ends," in tierce and irauk sensualities which at least profess to be w more tnau they 10 DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH TRIPLE SIIICET. are. This poem, like "Fanstine," is so distinctly symbolic and fanciful that it cannot Imtly be amenable to judgment as a study in the school ot realism. The spirit, bowed and du '.olon-d by siillering and by passion (which are ludeed the same thing aad tne same word), pi iys for awhile with its pleasures and its pains, mixes and distorts them with a sense half humorous and half raournlul, exults in bitter and doubtful emotions "Moods of fantastio sadneM, nothing worth." It f ports with sorrow, and jests against itself; cries out for freedom and con losses the chain; decorates with the came of goddess, crowns anew aa the mystical Cotytto, fonie woman, roal or ideal, in whom the pride ot Hie with In com panion lusts is incarndte. In her lover's half ?hut eyes, her fierce unchaste beauty is trans figured, her cruol sensual eyea have a meaning and a message; there are memories and seciets in the kisses of her lips. She is the daiker Venus, fed with, burn -ottering and blood-sacrifice; the veilea image of that pleasure which men impelled by satiety and perverted by power have sought through ways aa stranpo as Nero's before and since bis time; the daughter of lii't and death, and holding ol both her parents; Our Lady of Tain, antagonist alike of trivial sins and'virtucp; no Virgin, and unblessed of men; uo mother of the Gods or God; no Cyhelc, served by sexless priosts or monk", adored of Origrn or of Atys; no likeness ot her in Diudy in us or Loieto. The next act in this lyrical monodrame of passion represents a new stage and scene. The worship ot desire has ceased; the mud commo tion ol penFO has stormed itself out! the spirit, cloar of the old regret that drove it upon such violent ways for a respito, healed of the fever that wasted it in the search for relief among tierce tnnciesand tempestuous pleasures, dreams now of truth discovered and repose attained. Mot the martyr's ardor of selfless love, an un profitable Hume that burnt out and did no ser iee not tberapid race of pleasure that seemed lor a little to move the flesh diviue, to clothe the nuked senses with the fiery raiment of faith; but a stiugless love, on innocuous desire. "lies pei in," the tenuerest typeot woman or of dream, born in the westward "islands of tho blest," where the shadows ot all happy and holy things live beyond the sunset a sacred and a sleepless lilt', dawns upon his eyes a western dawn, risen as the fiery day of passion goes down, and rises where it sank. Here, between moonrise and sunset, lives ths love that is gentle and faithful, neither giving too much nor ackmg a, bride rather than a mistress, a sitter lather thau a bride. But not at once,. or not lorever, can the past be killed aud buried; hither alo the huntress follows ber lining prey, wounded and weakened, tiK fresh Horn the tangs of passion; the cruel Hands, the amorous eyes, still glitter and a.luro. Qui a bu boira: the feet are drawn back towards tne ancient ways. Only by lite-long flight, side by side with the goddess that reieemj, shall her slave oi old escape from the goddess that con sumes; if even thus one may be saved, even thus distance the bloodhounds. It would seem indeed as though to publish a bonk were equivalent to thrusting it with vio lence into the hands of every moiner and nurse in the kingdom as fit and necessary food fur female infancy. Happily there is no fear that the Bup.lyof milk tor babes will fall short of the demand for some time ye'. There are moral milkmen enough, in all couscience, cryiug their ware about the sheets and b.v-wajs; Iresh or stale, sour or sweet, the requisite fluid runs from a sufficiently copious issue. In due time, perhaps, the critical doctors may prescribe a stronger diet for their hypochondriac patient, the reading world; or that gigantic malade imaginaire called the public, may rebel against the weekly araueht or the daily drug of Mil. Pureau aud Diaioirus. We. meanwhile, who proless to deal neither iu poison nor in pap, may not uuwilliimiy stand aside. These poems thus dispo.-eJ of are 1 1 am told) those which have given most offense and scandal to the venal virtue of journalism, As I have not to review mv reviewers, I need not be at paind to refute at length every wilful error or unconscious lie which a woikmau that way in clined might drag into light. To me, as to all others who may read what I write, tho wuole matter must continue to seem too pitiablo and trivial to waste a word or thought on it which we can help wasting. But having begun this task, I will ado yet a word or two of annotation. I have heard that even the little poem of "Faus tine" ha been to some readers a thing to make the scalp creep and the blood freeze. It was i.-sued with no such intent. The chance which suggested to me this poem was one which may happen any day to any man the sudden sight ot a living lace which re called the well-known likeness of another dead lor centuries; in this instance, the noble and faultless type of the older Faustina, as seen in coin aud bust. Out of that casual glimpse and sudden recollection these verse& sprang and gre w. Ihcse poems do not seem to me con lem lia ble, unless it be on the ground of bad verses; and to any charge of that kind I should of course be as unable as reluctant to reply. But I certainly was even less prepared to hear the batteries ot virtue open tire in another quarter. Sculpture I knew was a dead art; buried centu ries deep out of sight; with no angel keeping watch over the sepulchre; its very erave-clothes divided by wraEgliug aud impoteut sectaries, aud no ckance anywhere visible of a resur rection. I have now gone over the poems which, as I hear, have incurred most blame; whether de servedly or not, 1 have shown. For the terms iu vthich certain clitics have clothed their sen timents I bear them no ill-will: they are wel come for me to write unmolested, so long as they keep to simple ribaldry. I hope it gives them amusement; I presume it brines thorn profit: I know it does not affect mc. Absolute falsehood may, it it be worth while, draw down contradiction aud disproof; but the mere calling of bad names is a child's nick, for which the small try of the press should have a child's cor leciion at the hands of able editors, standing, as these gentlemen ought to do, In a parental or pedacoEic relation to their tender charges. They have, by all I see and hear, been suffi ciently scurrilous one or two in particular. "However, from one crime tboy aro exempt; They do not strike a brother, striking me." I will only throw them one crumb of advice in return: I tear the alms will be of no avail. but it shall not be withheld: Why grudge them lotus-loaf and laurel, Or toothless mouth or swinlsu maw, Who never srudye you bells aud coral, Who never grudged you troughs and straw? Lie stilt In kennel, sleek in (table, Good creatures ot tlio stall or sty ; Shove snouts lor crumbs below the table; Lio still; and rise not up to ho. Literature, to be worthy of men, must be large, liberal, sincere; and cannot be chaste if it be prudish. Purity and prudery cannot keep house together. Where tree speech anl fair play aro interdicted, foul hints aud evil sugges tions are hatched into fetid life. And if litera ture indeed is not to deal with the full life of man aud the whole nature of thing, let it be cast aside with the rods and rattles ol child hood. Whether It affect to teach or to amuse, it is equally trivial and contemptible to us; only less so than the charge of immorality. Against Low few really great names has not this small aud dirt-encrusted pebble been thrown I A reputation seems Imperfect without tbii tribute also: one jewel is wanting to the crown. It is pood to be praised by tlio'o whom all men should praise; it is better to be reviled by those whom all meu should scorn. When England has again such fl ncliool of poetry, so headed and so followed, a J Khe has had at least twice before, or at France bas now; when all higher forms of the various art are in eluded w ithin the larger limits of a stronger race; then, it such a day should ever rise or re turn upon us, it will be once more remembered that the office of adult art is neither puerile nor feminine, but virile; that its purity is not that of the cloister or the harem; that all thing J are good in its eight, out of which good work may beproduced. Then the press will be as import ant as the pulpit to dictate the laws and remove the landmarks of art; and those will be laughed at who demand from one thing the qualities of another who seek for sermons in sonnets and morality la music. Then all accepted work will be noble aud chaste in the wider masculine sense, not trunrBtcd and cnitailed, but out ppt.ken and lull-drown; art will be puro by in tiiirl and fruulul by nature no clipped and torced eiowth ol unbealthv bent and iinna'uril Bir: ail bawnes and all triviality will fill off from it, and be forgotten; BI1( j10 on0 w,n .i,en need to amcit, in de enre of work done tor the work'f rake, the pimple laws of his art wmou no one Ttlll then l o permuted to impuun. ATSwiNrrBNE. SPECIAL NOTICES! ITT5 DK. ItOLl'II LEE HAS APMINIS V: . 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Also, an elegant stock ot Imported Paper Patterns tor Ladies' and Children's Lress. l'ailsian Dress and cloak Making In all Its vatletles. Ladles turnlshlna tlielr rich and costly Daterlaia may rely on being artistically fitted, and heir work tlulsbcd In the most prompt and elll elent manner, at the lowest possible prices, at twenty -lour hours' notice. Cutting and basting. Patterns la sets, or by Ihe single piece, lor merchants and dreaa makera. now ready. 9 20 6m t CLOTHING. EXCELSIOR CLOTHING HALL, EXCELSIOR CLOTHING HA L.L, EXCELSIOR CLOTHING HALL, S.E. Cor. SECOND andMARKET, (PHILADELPHIA. CLOTHING F0K B1EN AND BOYS, CLOTHS, CASSIULEKES, AND VESTINQ3.1 Dcparlmcnt for Custom Work. Agents for Oiled Clotliins:. EDWARDS & LAWRENCE. 10 23 lulhttoip J O N E S' OLD ESTABLISHED ONE PR I C E FINE Heady-Made Clothing .House, No. G04 MARKET ST., ABOVE SIXTH. Our Cutters are unexcelled. We combine style with neatness oi fit, and moderate prices with the best workrr anship. 11 23 lm5p g W A A U ' S STATES UNION CLOTHING II ALL, No. COG MARKET STREET. No. COG A most complete stock of MEM'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING AT YEHY MODEKATE PKICBS. WE HAVE SMALL EXPENSES, AND CAN AFFORD TO SELL WITH SMALL PEOflTS. Fine Fskimo Beaver Overcoat!, only 26;flne Beaver Overcoats, any deeimhle color. Si?; trusted beaver UvercoatH 76: verv line Chinchilla Overonata, only 121; irosted Beaver Sului, containing coat, pants, and vest, S0; tine short Heaver Hacks, iro.n SIV to tH dark grey llama Cassltncre fruits, coat, pants, and vest, diilo silk mixed, only24: blai k Sack Coats, from fill to 2U ; Business t'oati. from 7 to I4; I'anU and Vtsis to match, lrom 7 to tU; Bojs' Coats, troia o to f 14 ; 1'ams. Irotu 1 li to 9. 'ome anil convince vcurse'ves. 11 14 3m 8p CRICC, VAN CUNTEN & CO. ORIUO, VAN OUNTEN CO. UKIGG, Ai GUNTEN & CO. ORIGG, VAN GU.STEN A CO. ARE SELLING ARE SELLING ARK HELLING ARE BELLING ARK BELLING ARE 8ELMKO TBEIR ENURE STOCK OF CLOTHING I11EIR ENTIREISTOCK OF CLOTHING TEEIR ENURE STOCK OK CLOTHING AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, AT UREA1LY REDUCED TRICES, AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, NO. VJi MARKET STREET, 0. 7S4 MARKET STREET, 11 IT wg2m One Don: below Eighth. FOR SALE. AVEKY SUCCESSFUL MANUFACTURING . Bl'KINEnS, capable of larne extension, having lutelv been lorined Into a Joiut-stouk couipanj, a 'linitvd poition of the stock is ollered lor sale to desira ble parties at such rates aa will cash e purchasers to realize a handsome Interest on their Investment. Appiv lo J G. WATMOUGU & CO., ii b. XUIbD Street, up-stalri. 12 13 10t Philadelphia. FOB BALE STATE AND COUNTY RIGHTS of Caoewt-U A Go 's Patent Wind Guard and Air Beater for Coal Oil Lamps i It prevents th Culuinevi from breaking. This e will warrant. Also save one. third the oil. Call and ee tbim tbey cost bor ten otnts. So. 201 KAC15 Btieet, Philadelphia. Sample sent to and part ol the Unites' Statct.on reolyt of 21 cants. ID I RICH LACE CURTAINS. Ihe Subscribers bare now In Stock, and arc re ceiving from the lute AUCTION BALES IN NEW TORS, Nottingham Lace Curtains, From Ordinary to Rich Style. French Lace Curtains, From the Lowest to the Highest Quality, some o them the EICHE3T MADE. ALSO, Vestibule Lace, Embroidered Muslin Curtains, Jacquard Muslin Curtains, and Curtain Muslins in great variety SKEPPARD.VAN HARLINGEN&ARRISON 9 14 wfmCmrpJ Ko. 1008 CUESNUT Street. I, E. WALRAVEN, (MASONIC UAIsL.,) No. 719 CHESNUT STREET, A Freak Importation of CHOICE LACE CURTAINS, TAPESTRY BORDERED TERRYS, SATINS AND SATIN DAMASK. In RoEe, CriniBon, Blue, Green and Gold, of all the newest designs for Curtains and Furniture Coverings. WINDOW SHADES OF ALL COLORS AND STILES. Clv20tuths pICII LACE CURTAINS FOR A HOLIDAY GIFT. '"3SS Large Purchases at Auction Eiiuble us to offer Durgatuu lu LACE CURTAINS. ClllWEN ST0DDAUT & BU0TUEK, Ncs. 450, 452, aud 454 N. S ECO SB St., 12 18 3t ABOVH WILLOW. REDUCED PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES KELTY, CARRIKGTOX & CO., Ko. 723 CHESNUT Street, H ave constantly in Stock, for retail city and;couutiy trade, their CELEBHATED WINDOW SHADES MAJiCFAClCBLU BY TUEM OSLV.j They are aleo Sole AgenU lor the SEI F-ADJCSTING SrnO F1X1U11ES lor Shades. The best futures In tho world. Also, CUKTAIN MA1EPIALS and FCOiilTCBE COVER1NOS, in great variety. Late, Mugiin, and Noitlngbam Curt aim. Piano and Table Covers, tbe largest and finest atock in the city. Lace Curtains cleaned and mended. White llollund ISbades calendered. 10 10tuths3m 3f J. WILLIAMS, No. 16 North SIXTH Street, MANL'FACTUKEB OF VENETIAN BLINDS AND WINDOW SHADES. a he largest and flavest assortment in the city at the lowest pilces. CIO 262m bXOKK SHADES MADE AND LETTERED. CARPETINGS. QAErETINGS ! CARPETINGS ! Reduced to Preseut Gold Prices. J. T. D E L A C II O I X, No 37 S. SECOND Street, ABOVE CHESNUT, Has received per late arrivals, 200 PIECES J. CROSSLEY & SONS' BRUSSELS CARPETINGS, EW AND ELEGANT PATTERNS. Also, a large line of TUKEE-PLY EXTRA SUPER AMI UM. Of-AIN CAKl'tlS. DAMASK AND VL.NE11AM ST A lit AND UaLL CARPtllNGS.COT- Tauk ami Rah carpets, oil cloths, biiAOi;, Etc., which Will be ioiu low in consequence of the tall IntiOld. J. T. Di-LAC'ltOlX, No. S7 8. HJEl-OND Street, 10 27stuth2m Between Cbesnut and Market. REEVE L. KNIGHT & SON No. 807 CHESNUT Street, BAVE HOW OPKN A WELL.ASSOKTED STOCK OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH CAEPETINGS, OIL CLOTHS, COCOA MATTINGS, DEUGGETS, BUGS, ETC 10 3wfni8m6p MEDICAL. A Lh PERSONS WHO DO NOT ENJOY tha blt-ss'na of good health, can obtain relief by ....oaiilt ma lr. KlNKf Ll.. Herman Dlivalclan. Dr Klukelln treata all diseases, prepaies and administers lila own medicines. Ibeyare pure, sale, and reliable lie Invites all persona aiifleilna Uom disease to oall on liiin. ( cDBUltatKin free durluu the day, and otlloes open till 0 o'clock in the evenln?. N W. corner ot 1'lllRD and CMION Streets, between Spruce and pint treels. ,8 1 io OTTON AND FLAX, BAIL DUCK AND CANVAS Of all numbi'ra and brand. PTent. Awning Trunlr.and NVagon cover Duck. Aiso, Paper aianuiactarera' Drier Felts, from oue to sevsu leei wldet Paulina, He'tinu, Sail Twine eto. JOHN W. KVERMAN & CO., S6S Ho. 103 JONES' Alley. CURTAINS, SHADES, ETC. FURNITURE, BEDDING, ETC. 'MKllIlY CII1USTMAS ANP A HAPPY NEW YEAR. COULD & CO., UNION FUIiNITUUB DEPOT, CORNER NINTH AND MARKET STREETS. AND Nos. 37 aud 33 North SECOND Street, (Opposite Christ Church,) ln ite all their old customers, and as many new ones as will come, to see their elegant and larre assortment of Fl'RMTl'RE, suitable for presents or otherwise. 210 6p TO HOUSEKEEPERS I have a large stock of every variety of FIJIINITUKE Which I will sell at redncea prices, eonalsting ot-m PLAIN AND WARHI.K TOP COTfAO bClTS VALNUT CHAHlitK SUITS. PARLOR hi' ITS IN VKLVitT PLVSB PAKI.OR SI'lTS iS HAIR CLOTH. PARLOR HITS IN KKP8. Sideboard, Kxtension Tables, Wardrobes, Bookcase llattresbes, Loune, etc eto. 1. P. GUSTINHf 6 1$ N. R. comer SECOND and RACK Streets. ESTABLISHED 1795. A. S. ROBINSON, French Plate Looking-Glasaos, ENGRAVINGS PAINTINGS DRAWINGS ETC. Manufacturer of all kinds of LOOKING-GLASS, PORTRAIT, AND PICTURE FRAMES TO ORDER. No. 01 0 CUESNUT STKEETJ TI11BD DOOR ABOiE TIIE CONTINENTAL, PHILADELPHIA. t 11$ WHISKY, BRANDY, WINE, ETC. J-t & A. C. VAN B E I L. OLD RYE WHISKY, FOR FAMILIES AND THE TRADE. Ko. 1310 CHESNUT Street. H, & A. C. VAN BEIL FINE OLD SHERRY WINES, For Families and the Trade. Ko. 1310 C HKSNUT Street. J-J & A. C. VAN BEIL, VERY SUPERIOR BRANDY, For Medicinal and other uses. Mo. 1310 CHESNUT Street. J-L & A. C. VAN BEIL, CHAJV1PACNES OF ALL FAVORITE BRANDS. No. 1310 CHESNUT Street. Ji, & A. C. VAN BEIL, WINE MERCHANTS, 11 19 tmvfCmrp No. 1310 CHESNUT St. Q. II EAT REVOLUTION IN TUB VINE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES Pure California Champagne, Made and prepared as if done in France, from p0re California Wine, and tatlta the place of Imported, Champagne. The undersigned would call the attention of Wine Dealers and Hotel Keepers to the following letter, 'which may S've a correct idea of tbe quality of their Wiue- "C'ONTINENTAL HOTEL, FnilADELPUIA, Oct. 25, 1865. " 11 EbSKB. liOUCHEH & Co. I 'tientlenicn: bavlng mven your California Cbam pngnp a thoioueh test we take uleasnre inaaylng tha we think it tbe best American Wine we bave ever used We sbtll at once place it on our bill of fare, a. "Yours truly, J. E. K1N08LET CO." CALL and TliY OUB CALIKOltNIA CHAMPAGNE BOUCHER & CO., II 20 tuth.-3m No. 86 DtY Street, New York. A. MAYER, Agent 710SAN8OM 8u, Philadelphia. NATHANS A SONS I M P OUTERS OF BHANDIES, WINES, GINS, Etc Eto. No. 19 North FRONT Street, PUjl.A DFU'llTA, MOBEB KATBAIia, BOHACK A. hATHAKS, OIILANDO D. MATHAEf e9. 10 2 ADULTKKATKD 1 1 Q V O R 8 oNLV KICHAHli PENlSTAN'e) BTOKE ANI VAKLTs, No. 489 CIIEMNUT HTKEET Nearly OpneslW the 1'ont Office PH1LAOEL1-HIA. Fnmll les lupplicd Orders "oui the Oosetry promptly temied to TOKDAN'S CELEBRATED TONIC ALE. rj This truly healtbtul and nutritious beverage, now in Due by thousands Invalids and others has estab lished a iharacter lor quality ot material and purity of nianmactuie wblch stands unrivalled. It ia recom mended by physicians ot this and other placea as a supe rior tonic, and requires but a trial to convince the moat skeptical ol Ha great merit To ie had, wbo'esa'e and retail, ot P. J.JOKDAK.N . PEAK Street. flUt SADDLES AND HARNESS. J3UFFALO BOBES, LAP BUGS, HORSE COVERS. A large assortment, WHOLESALE OB KETAIL, a low rices, together with our nscai'issortmentof SADDLERY, ETC. WILLIAM S. HANSELL & SONS, 2 Ko. 11 MARKET Street. LANDSCAPE DRAWING CARDS, A BUD. tirul seilesot riewn, fifteen In uumbar, ",lae4 lor the lnatruetion ol Juvenile artiBtn. Price, Is entaa paekage. WltH the XVENIMO TELEOitU, KW VOUK CL1PPEB e., will be toond on aale at tbe 7 211 NEWS STAN D, 1 It. W. earner SEVENTH tad CU-kVlNUT Htrew '
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