THE DAlLi gENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1869. THE MARCH MAUAZINKS. "Tlie Atlantic' ' I'rom Turner Brother & Co., "o. 8M Cbcsnnt street, we bave received tlie Atlantic Monthly foritarch. The nnmb-r opens with four chap ter! of General Uiiinon novel of "Malbrtue." which U followed bj "A Thrush In a Gilded Cage;" "The Small Arab of New Vork;" "Co operative Housekeeping," fifth paper; "Little Captain Irott:" "A New Chitp'.cr of Christian J3videuces;" "Cnf umpthiD lu A-nerlca," third paper; "The Foe In the II vuRehcld,'' three chapter; "Our paln'erV tecond paper; "The Fatal Arrow;" "Popularizing Art," "The New Education, " second paper: ' Howard at At. Wnta;' "The Swabian Alb:'' '.'Our New Presi dent;" "&cdge Jlmls," and Reviews aud Literary Notice?. From the article on "ropularlzlng Ait" wo tako the lollowiijg description of the chromo llthopraphic proccs, a? practised at Prang's (Btiibllfbuient In Uo9ton: "The process by which these chromo Hllio ernpba are produced is simple, but it U lonir, de licaio and expensive. One of the chromo most . uliltr jiibt uo w to the public is that of the boy r tcirrd to above, In the pain tics of which Mr. Fa-uuiau Johuou endeavored to express upou c liuvasi that which Mr. Whitlicr had already iit!tu in vcrte: 1 'lle slDgoon ihoe, Utile man. vwri-tu t boy, with cbeeki of Ian: . v it li thy lurued-up pntaloons, A nil lliy niem-whmled Hinet: with thy red Hp redder eilll Kissed hy eimwberriea ou tb hill; With theiinuBlitiie on thy luce. Tbroiisb tby torn brim's Jaunty grace, Proru my heuri I five thee Joy; m. karafikltl tiftv!' I souoe barefoot boy I "It is a small picture about thirteen inches Ly ten but to reproduce it in cbromo-liUio-"isph lequirea tweuty-Mx fclaba of hte, weighing not lar from two lorT-, and worth fourteen hundred dollar. Tbe time occupied in preparing these btoues for the press is about three mouths; and whoa ouce the stones are ready, an edition of & thousand copies is priutcd iu nve mouths more. A i.cl jet, although the original is worth a thou sand dollars, nud the process of reproduction is kO Ions? and cosily, a copy is sold tor five dollars a copy, too, which, to luuiteeu-tweutieihs of the public, siiys as niuub, and Rives a9 much detieut every time it is looked at, as the original work could. It may be posible, in a lew words, to convey some idea of the manner in which this particular boy, standing bareloot upon a rock in a brook, with trees, a grassy bank, and Dlue sky behind bim, is tiamdc-rred from a thousaDd dollar cauvas to whole stacks of rive-dollar pasteboard. As fur us possible, the ciiroino-lithogrnpher produces his copy by the method which the artut employed in painting the original. One gtcut UiUeriuce between pninting and printing is, that the printer puts on all bis color at once, win I a the painter ap plies color in infinitesimal quantities. Oi.e crush of the printing press blackens the page; but a landscape grows and brightens gradually under the sriisl'ti bami, as the natural scene which he is represemint ripens and colors under the softer touches ol the 6un, the warm winds and gentle showers of April and May. As tur as possible, I s:iy, the ciiromo-lithographer imitates the.-e processes of art and nature by implying color in small quantities and by many operations, He firs! draws upon u stone, with bis pencil of soapaud lampblack, a faint shadow oi the picture the outline ot the boy, the trees, acd the giassy bank. Iu taking impressious from this nisi btoiie an ink Is ueou which differs from printer' ink only iu its color. Printers' ink is composed chiefly ot boiled linseed oil and lampblack; but our cbromo-llibogrnpber, em ploying the same basis of linseed oil, mixes with it whatever coloring matter he requires. Iu taking impiessions from the first btoiie in layine, as it were, the foundation ot the boy, be 'prefers a browned vermilion. TLe proof irom this stone shows us a dim be "iubinaot the boy iu a cloud ot brownish-red and white, in which cnu be discerned a faint outline ot the tiees that arc by-and by to wave over nls Dead, ine tnce nas no lentures. me otilj circumstances clearly revealed tothespec tator aie that the boy has his iacket off, and that his' future trousers will be dark. Color is placed, first of all. where most color will be finally wanted. The boy is begun. He wants more vermilion, and some portions of the tree and bat kgrouud will bear more. On the second stone only those portions of the picture are drawn which at this staee of the picture require more ot that color. Upon this second stone, after the color is applied, the disc impression is tii ken. Iu this pioof, the boy is manifestly advanced. As the deeper color upon his face was not put upon the spots where his eyes are to be, we begin to discern the outline ot those organs. The boy is more distinct, and the general scheme of the picture is slightly mote apparent. As jet, however, but two colors appearhrown-veimilion and white. On the third stone the drawing is made of all the narts of the picture which re' quire a 1 blue coloring both those tbit Will finally appear blue and those which are next to receive a color that will combine with blue. Nearly the whole of the third stone is covered with drawing: for every part of the picture requires some blue, except those small portions which ate finally to remain white. The boy is now printed for the third time, a brignt blue color oeiug spread upon me stone, The change is surprising, and we begin now to see what a pretty picture we are going to have at lust, .The sky is blue behind the bov and the water around the rock upon which he stands is blue; there is blue in his eyes and in the tolas or bis eiuvi; out in tlie Uaiker parts of me picture me orown-vernnnoii noiiis us own, and gains in depth and distinctness from the inieioiixtuie with the lighter nuc. Stone nuoiuer lour explains wuy so mucu blue was used upon number three. A bright yellow is used in printing Irom number tour, and this oolor blending with the blue of the previous impression, piasters a yellowy disagree tble green on the trees and grass. The fifth stoue, which applies a great quantity of brown vermilion, collects in some degree this dauby, bad effect of the yellow, deepens the shadows, and restores the spectator's confidence in the future of the boy. lu some mysterious way, this liberal action ol vtrinil'on bring out many deUls of the picture that beloru were scarcely yisible. "The water begins to look like water.the grass like gras, the ky like sky, and the llesh like fiith. The sixth stone adds nothing to the picture but pure bluck; but it corrects aud advances ueaily every part of it. especially tint trunks ot the trees, the dark shade upou the rocks, and portions of the boy's trousers. Stone number seven gives the whole picture, ex ept the tSgureof the boy, a coat of blue; which, liowever, only makes that bluer which was blue before, and leave the other objects of their previous color, although brighter aud clearer. The eighth stone merely pais 'madder lake' upon the boy's lace, haudi and feet, which darkens them a little aud gives them a reddish lintre. He is, however, far from beiLg a pleasing object; lor his eyes, unformed, as jet, axe nothing but dirty blue spots extremely unbecoming. The ninth stoue.wbieh applies a color nearly black, adds a deeper shade to several parts of the picture, but scarcely docs anything lor the boy. The tenth atone wakes amends by putting upon his cheeks, hands, and leet, a bright lingo ot blended lake and vermilion, and giviug to his eyes a some what clearer outline. "To an inexperienced person the picture now appears to b in a very advanced stage, aud many of us would say, Put a little speculation into that boy's eye, and let him go. Trees, recks, grass, water, aud sky look pretty well, look a thousand timet better than the same objects In paintings which auctioneers, praise, and that highly. But we are ouly at the tenth stone. That abild has to go through the press sixteen times more be for o Mr. Pramr will consider htm fit to appear before a fastidious puoiic. Stones number eleven, twelve, thirteen. lourteen, fifteen, and sixteen all apply what seems to ths nninstructsd eye mere black. The colors srj indeed, extremely dark, although T L?J ikl ai th chl' object of these six ,m eiT-t0 P,nl lnt0 Plr'u" those llns sjid shadows whick.Ah eje . Jtut mentioned I raised irom tne scale oi mem wnien mcapni cennure to that which t fiords delight. The last of these thaUIiig nones gives the boy his ey, end from this time he lookt like hlmtcir. The teve nteenth ttons lays upon the trees and grais a peculiar fhadc of gieen that corrects them perceptibly. Number eighteen iust touches the cheeks, the mouth and toes of the boy with mingled lake and vermilion, at which he smiles. The last seven stones continue the i hading, deepening, and enriohtne, of the plo ti.ro by applying to different parts of it the various mltiuations of black. It is thoa passed ibroiiph the press upon a stone which is grained in such a way as to impart to the pic ture the rjughnei-s of canvas; after which it la Mounted uppn thick paste board and varnished. The resemblance to the original is then sucn that it Is doubllul if Mr. Eiistmnn Johnson could pick out bis own boy if he were sur rounded with n number of copies. It Is not every plcluro that admits ot sach successful ticvlment as thl, nor does every chromo llthogiaphcr bestow upon bis pioductions so much puine and expense. A salable picture could be made of this boy in ten impressions; but, as we have seen, he receives twenty-six; and the process might be prolonged until a small quarry of stones had been expended upou him. fcomc landscapes have been executed which required filty-two stones, and such pictures advance to completion by a process extremely tiDiilar to kLt employed by an artist. That is to say, color is applied to them very much iu the name older, iu the same minute quantities, and with nu approach to the same intelligent delicacy of touch. It Is an error to regard theso ir.lcrt sling works as mechanical. Ameie mechanic, it is true, by a certain Chinese ser vility of copying, can produce an extremely close, bard imitation of an oil painting; and much work of this kind Is done In Germany and Knpland. Cut in our Boston establishment vo mechanic puts pencil to one ot the stones employed iu producing fine pictures. The artistic work is executed by artists of repute, who have themselves produced respectable paintings of the kind which they are employed to imitate. Any one who watches Mr. Harring transfer ring to a long series of lithographic Btoues Mr. Hill's painting of the Vosenilte valley will per ceive that ho is laboring in the spirit of an aitist. It would be highly absurd to claim for any copyist equal rank with tho orator of the orip.inal, or to say that any copy cau possess the intrinsic value of nu original. J3ut It is uniUBtto leduceto the rank of artisans the f-killul and puticnt artists who know how to catch the Epirit and preserve the details of a fine work, and reproduce in countless copies all ol both which the public cau discern." 'iho article on "Our Painters" has the follow ing; about Thomas Sully, the distiugulshed Philadelphia artiot: "TnoMAs EcHT-IIf, too, was English by biith, but, in his character, manners, appear, ance, and fatyle of puintiug. he was ihe very opposite ot .larvis. Wuiitiiig breadth and stieiigth, but being refined, sensitive, courteous, and RPiitlemanly, he threw his own character into all his pictures, aud came to be the Sir Thomas Lawrence of Amoricn. Wanting the robust heartiness, and the rich, unctuous humor ol Jarvis, he had a sense ot beauty, a perception of the graceful and bewitching of that which gives li high-bred woman dnmluiou over man of which Jarvis was wholly destitute. Hence Ihe women of Bully, like the meu of Stuart and J an is, were generally masterpieces. Ot a slkiht frame, a kindly tern.icr, and a pleasant voice, looking, at tho ago of liity, as if he were still a young man. like Leinh Hunt; witn an air ot nign breeding wnicn cjuia not well be counterfeited, Mr. Sully has always been a tuvovite with tne better part ot niau- kind the women ot uis day. His leniale por traitnres are oftentimes not ms. full of grace and tenderness, tune, nexiuie, and emotional; tnetr eyes, too, are liquid enough, and clear cuoinrh to satisfy even a husband or a lover. Nobody over painted more bcautitui eyee not even Gainsborough, nor hir Ttiomas Lawrence, nor West the Kt-ntuckiDan, who, after his return to New York, painted these caini-gornis and crystal wells, just as we see them iu our youug drenm, while yet over charged with poetry, and the blood goes 'a rippling to the finger-ends,' liut Sully's men weie failures; even Mr. Patterson, the lather of Madame Jerome lionnparte, with his fine classi cal head oftheKoruan type, though au excellent likeness of the outward man, was but a shadow in comparison with what Jarvis or Stuart would have made of the subject, while his portaltof Mrs. Kobert Gilinore would be enough to establish his reputation as a devout and earnest woman-worshipper. Sully used to play the flute like a master, and may do so yet, although, when I last beard from bim, h did not happen to say so, while speaking of his pastimes; and he continues, I dare say, what is called a ladies' man by which we are not to understand thct he ever was a coxcomb, or effeminate, or intensely I'ashiiiouxbln but that, by nature, he was made for the companionship ot lovable women, being alwajs gentle, cou aldeiate, and reverential to the sex. He never attempted an historical pic ture but once, and that only to give away. Having been called upon for a full length of Washington by the -corpoiation of a Southern city Charleston, perhaps hs fixed the price, not more than five hundred dollars, I bulieve, and then, the treatment being left wholly to himself, he painted him on borseback, with trimmings or accessories, and gave to the world what he called a portrait, while others, who taw the truth more clearly, called it a remarka bly line historical picture the 'Passage of the Delnwure,' with General Knox, and a corps of artillery men shouting and tugging at the guns. The white horse ou which he had mouuted Washington was so emphatic and spirited, that, when I first saw Vandyck's William of Orange at Warwick Casile, I thought he had borrowed largely from that ; aud so I dropped him a lino on the subject, to which he replied by sending me a sketcn ot his battle charger and tho majestic rider, and showed tbat I was altogether mis taken as to the position, drawing, aud character. Alter a triumphant career of twenty-five or thirty years, Mr. Sully bait realized, as we say Down East, a handsome property, which ho Invented in Pevnsylvaiiia boi:ds, or something oi the sort, and like Bjdney Smith and the Aus tins, lo.-t the whole, or nearly the whole, ot his hie-loug accumulations aud hoarded savincs. Hut, wndisronraged, and lull ot heroic resolu tion, he set to work afresh, aud built himself a large paiut'ius room and begun life anew, for Ihe tecontl or third time, with a large family upon his hands, and hardly a shot in the locker. Atone time, while 1 wu abroad, he wiote me to say tbat he had a plenty oi applications, but uo oi ders; ai:d as he hau been long in the Habit of making btudie.i in black aud white crayous, whenever a subject oilercd, lh good people of Philadelphia, bis psroiH, seemed to think that such view, being only sketches, you kuow, were but a pleasant pn-tlmo for tho artist, and hardly wcrth acknowledgirg. He once made three or lour studies of a charming female lace for the Itiruily and friends, or maymin the husband, to choose from, and chancing to be near th? window, after having waited several days for the ai.swcr, his attention was atti acted by a negro coming round the next comer with a iiamllul oi papers fluttering in the wind. He began to have his misgivings, and alter a few minutes the sketches were left at his door, without a wotd ot explanation or apology ; and that was the lat he hear t of the order. Moved With a just IndignaMon, I slipped a paragraph into the next JJtacktrootl, tilling the story, as I tell it now, 1 suppose, though t am not sure, and have no time to verity the details; and tho effect upon the brotherhood of 'Athe nians,' I have reason to believe, was quite a help to Bully, lor they grew ashamed ot their own henrtlesruess, aud ha was soon overrun with applications, which have continued from that day to this, at handsome price', uotwith rtaudiiig his great age, aud the multiplication of portrait painters and 'damnable face-makers,' not one in fifty ot whom could draw a hand, if his lile depended on It. Mr. Bully is ncapital drauehtsman, and has seldom or never made a lr-istske in lace or figure. One habit he had well worthy of being cimmemorated. Instead of drawing the whole flgura-when he blocked put the face, or determining th attitude, ha D nli-hed the face first, tud then threw forward a shoulder, after the manner ot Yaudyck, wheiebj Le obtained a liftlike, spirited air, ltcnlimes. wholly unexpected." v i . canr-ol understand, wot only enjoys. It it by such minute application! of color that a picture Is , "The Uitlaxj." The March number of the Ga'ay opeus with three chapters of Charlet Readc's new story, entitled "Put Yourxlf in His Place," which the author prefaces with the lollowlng tungcstlve motto: "I will rramo a work a work of fiction upon l otorious fact, so that anybody shall think he can do the same; shall labor and fail such is the power of sequence and rcimirf-n..r n w rltirg." Horace: Art of J'ctnj. The trades union difficulties In Knliind form the subject of tho opening chapters, and the story promitc to be powerful and exiting. Ku;',eue liaison, under the bead of "New York Journalists," gives a short tketch of GeorgejWil liam Cuitit. ltichard Graut White contributes a chapter ou words and their uses, entitled "li Being Pone," Chapters tight, nine, and ten of Miss Edwards' novel of "8usan Fielding" are given, with an Illustration by Mr. Sol. Eytlnge. Miss Julia Ward Howe, iu the form cf an answer to a letter from au inquirer, gives her views ou "Women as Voters.'' We quote as follows: "All that I advance In justification of univer sal suffrage I consider as tully applicable to the woman us to the man side of the question. And iu this point of view I still hold to the logicnl sequence by which the woman's right, wherever it may ideally occur, should, in political operation, wait upon that of the negro. I hold to this, in tho first place, because the admission of tho negro to the polls Rives us a platform upon which woman can stand the platform ot universal and ideal justice. I hold to it in the second place on account of the ntcetsity and opportuniiy of the. moment. The necessity, because to him the possession of the franchise is a question of lifts and death; the opportunity, because public opinion Is well liiph ready to recognize his claims, while it yet needs an uncertain length ol instruction before it will sanction the woman's participation iu the lights ot suffiage. The door is opened to admit one. lie comes with tho knife of the assassin behind him. Tho woman will enter with the more honor, war.mg'for him. It is not likely that, after she has held the door widest open for him, he will aid others to shut It In her face. The negro Is a man, but Jiot enough of a mau for that. Your letter, in common with the opinions of many who discuss this subject, assumes that the pri vilege ot voting will bo most strenuously exer cised by women of the lowest class and most miserable character. The-,e women, in your view, will be miners to multiply the corrupt votes of the corresponding class ot men. To avoid the tedium ot endless recapitul-uion, let me group these two questions together, treating both very briefly. Tne women of character and culture, according to you. will go to the pslls only f lone asvo'iug continues a novelty. The first rain storm wi 1 frighten them away, while, the low and ignorant of the sex, 'with dripping umbrella?,' will tak! advantage of their absence, addins a simple leduplication to the already existing cliao. Let uie u-k,what are character aud culture good tor.il' they can be sup posed to lender thPjr possessor more indolent and fastidious thau tnoe who are without tlicaii' Delicate women, not more than invalid meu, may bu deterred from gown abroad by stress of weatrier. But, It the mot thoughtful aud con scientious women, having oi.ee placed the act ot voting on the list ot their high and constant duties, will be moro easily deterred from Us fulhlment thau will women of little or no thought and conic'ence, why then we have mistaken the significance ot thee terms, and must anoint ourselves anew iu language. Closely akin to this cousidei ntion is tho other, vix.: That the ignoinut and vicious among woiLen will only double the vole of the same class of men. I may here observe that most of those who strenuously oppose woman suffrage are compelled to tail back upou the futility of suffrage altogether. The im possibility ot finding a tesi which shall be at ouce ideally just aud practically possible allows these retiogradists no paine until they come bock to the starring point of no voting. and in its place the running tor luck aud hope- tut expectation tnat tue altogether best minds will lule, iu some heaveii-appoiutcd way. Aud here we take up the subject, startiugauew with them. Poes the extension of male suffrage prove only a numerical enlargement ? Does the admission of one glass after another to this pre rogative bring lu no new elements, develop no new energies? Iustead of 'many men with many minds,' is humanity only a stereotyped edition, issuing many copies of one or two minds? History will show the contrary. Arrayed upon a fair and candid basis, every class, every Individual added in number to the irancutse, may also add to it something ot weight andot wisdom. In periods of passion, thought does not get tho upper rule. The violence of mobs is usually the violence of one class. Terror or weak compliance paralyzes the action of the others. But perlect freedom and equality before the law render the expression of thought and will as safe as it is lucumbent. Under these circumstances, we may hope to find in the people not a crowd of identical In dividuals, but tnat sublime individual of which each one of us represents one feature and con dition. I may here remark that the trammels of legal training detain from us tome friends who, liberal and generous in all else fear to offend against the sacred formulas ot tradi tional science. Of the arguments likely tabs advanced by such as these I will instance only the lollowing: 'The family, not the individual, is the foundation of society. Now, the family should constitute a legal and political unit. Should it express two contending forms ot will, it would bring itself to naught. (Should it give twofold expression to one form, it utters a use less tautoioe y.' This reasoning runs into depths tbat qucsttou the whole constitution of the tociety ot to day. Its fault is a too narrow and liteial interpretation of things that are. It points to an earlier staga of thought and rea soning in which the instiactot the active party, in whatever sort, sought to paralyze its opposite by un appeal to force, rather than to reconcilo It by an appeal to reasou. The growth of modern ideas tends more and more to this process of conciliation, which is not effected without mucti elaboration and consideration of com patibilities. Parents reason nowadiyt with their children; husbands convince their wives; Presidents (all but Mr. Johnson) explain them selves in their messages: soercUns apologize to 1 heir Commons; the preacher justifies himself to hi congregation, the lepresentative to his coi stitueuts. And out oi an mis actiou grows a new society, ndmittias o' a firguest of co operation and a variety ol instruction never diesmed ot before In the world's history. Wneu the pyramids of Kgypt Wir built tac soveroigu commanding ihe work was one unit, the slaves obeying were another. Despotism can atforJ but two units, one living and one dead. Bat, by the modern practice of60clety. which Its theory does not yet over- take, the unit ol initial energy does uot paralyze, but energizes its opposite. Civilization, lu its nro'rii.H earned un thu trolol I woik of ener gizing the individual units ot which society i composed and of aecuriag their sympathetic and voluntary co-operallou to unities mat couiiun allv enlarge their snber without deteriorating their integrity. In thU progress no nnit must be romidoicd us final. It is this assumed vitality which bars development and makeB revolution necebsaty. The complement to the thfoloL'Ical doctrine of final causes Is found in th political doctriua of final institutions. The asiuiuii.g of the absolute incompatibility of lacts V seeniluir e jntiadlctiou is n feature of earl., aud narrow culture which Utor experience ana tneury tend ever to remove.'! 'To My Guardian Angel" is a pcetu by Mary E. Atkinson. From Mr, Jutln McCarthy's article on "The FnglUh PosltivUlts," we make tho following extracts ; "I mean, then, only the group of men, most of whom are young, most of whom are highly cultured, many of whom are endowed with re markable ability, who ar to bo lound In a lite rary and political phalanstery with Mr. Con greve.hndof whom the majoiity are understool to bs actual votaries of the ralliclon of Corote. Of ooure I bave nothing to do here with their iMith or their practtcet. If they adopt the wor klp of woman, I think they do a, better, ttilnj; after all than the incrraoins: and pom.lar class of .writers whose principal business in life Is to persuade us that our wives and sister are nil Messnllnns lu heart and nearly alt Messattnas In practice. II, when they pray, tbey touch cer tain frontal bumps at certain passages of the prayer, I do not see that they institute anything worse than tlie genuflexions of the Kituallsts or the breast-beating of the Itoman Catholics. If, finally, one is sometimet a Utile puzzled when he i err ivts. a letter Irom a PosltivUt friend. and finds it dated Tith M.ircui Aurelins,' or '12th Anguste Comtc,' instead of July or December, as the case m-iy be, one must re member that there never yet was a young sect which did not delight in puzzling outsiders by a new and peculiar nomenclature. I never lienrd anything woise chareed against the Positlvists than that they worship woman, touch their lureheads when they pray, and arrange tne calendar according to a plan of their own Invention; except,, ol course, the f'eneial clisrgo of atheism; but as that Is made n Kniilsnd against Buy body whom all bis iieiohborH do not quite understand, I hardly think it worth discus-inc in this paiticular in stance. We are all atheists iu Kngland In the estimation of our neighbors, whose political opinions are dillerent from our own." "if I were to set up a typical Po?itivlst, in order to make my Amei ican reader more readily ai d completely familiar with the picture watch the word calls up In the minds of Londoners, I should do it in the following way: I should exhibit my mtdel Positivist as a man still young for anything like prominence iu English public life, but not actually young in years say thirty-eight or forty. He has had a training at one ol the gieat historical Uu1versitiee, or at all events ot the modern and popular University ot London. He is a barrister, but does not practise much, and has probably a modest competence ou which he can live without working for the sake of living, and can indulze his own tastes Id literature and politics. Ho has immense earnestness and great self conceit. He has an utter contempt lor dull men aud timid or haif moasure men, and he scorns Whigs even more than lories. He devotes much of his time generously and patiently to the political and other Instruction of working men. Uo writes in the Fortnightly J?erieir, and sometimes iu HucifliUan, and sometimes in the WtsUnhwcr Htxicuc. He plunees into enllant and tearless controversy with the J'all Malt Gazette, and he is not easily worsted, lor his pen is sharp and his ink very acrid. Nevertheless, is any great question stirring, with a serious principle or a deep human interest at the heart of it, he is sure to be tound on the right side. Where the controversy is of a smaller kind and ntlmits of ciotclitt, iben he is pretty sine to bring out a crotchet ot some Kiud. He is perpetually giving the Saturday llevicw an opportunity to ridicule bim and abuse him, and he does' not care. He writes pamphlets and goes to im mense trouble to git up the facts, and expense to give them to the woiltl, aud he never grudges trouble or n:oiiey, where auy cau-e or even any crotchet is to bo served. He is ready to staud up alone, nuniu-t all tho world If needs be, for his opinions or his friends. Benevolent schemes which are of the natuie ot mere charily he never concerns iiiin.-ilf about. 1 never heard of him on a platform with the Etnl of Shaftesbury, and I fancy he has a con tempt tor all patronage of the poor or projects of an elecmosyuary character. He is for giving men incir political nan s and educating tuem if upcessarv compelling them to be educated: aud he h.i6 little faith iu auy other way ot doing gi oc. ue na, oi course, a nigu admiration lor and 'aith in Mr. Mill. His nature is not quite reverential in general ue is lamer inclined to tit in the chair ot the gcorner; but if he reve renced any living mau it would be Mill. He admires the manly, noble character ot Bright, and his calm, ttroni eloquence. I do not think he cords mucii ubout Gladstone I rather fancy our Positivi.-t looks upon Gladstone as somewhat weak and unsteady and with him to be weak is indeed to bo miserable. Disraeli is to him au object of entiie scora ana detestation, tor ne can endure no one who has not deeoly-rooted principles of some Kind, lie has a crotchet abotit Uussta, a theory about China; begets quite beside him self in his aimer over the anonymous leading articles ol the London press. He is not au English type of man at all, m the present and conventional rense. He cares not a rusn about tradition, and mocks at the wisdom of our ancestors. The bare fact that some custom. or institution, or way ot thinking has been sanctioned and hallowed by long generations of usage, is in his eyes rather a prima facie reason for despisiua it than otherwise. He is pitilessly intolerant of all superstition? save his own that is to say, he is intolerant in words and logic and lidlcule. for the wildest superstition would find him it defender, if it once came to be piactically oppressed or even threatened. He Is 'ever a fighter,' like one ot Browning's heroes; he is the knight errant, the Quixote of modern Eng lish politics. He admires George Eliot in lltera- ture, and, I should say, ho regards Charles Dickens as a tort of person who does very well to amuse idlers and ignorant people. I do not hear of his going ruuca to the theatre, and it is a doubt to ine if he ha9 yet heard of the Orandt Duchesse. Life with him is a - very earnest business, and, although be has a pretty gift of satcasm. which he uses as a weapon ot offense aaamst his enemies, I cannot, with any effort of imagination, picture him to myself as lu the act of making a joke. A small drawing-room would assuredly hold all the Loudon Positivists who make themselves effective in English poll tics. Yet I do not hesitate to say that they are becoming that they have already become a power which uo one, calculating on the chances of any coming struggle, can allord to leave out of his consideration. Their public influence thus for has been wholly for good: and they set up no propaganda that I have ever seen or heard of, as regards either philosophy or reli gion." Edward Crapeey, UDder the title of "Will Murder Out?" refers to the mysterious Rogers u urder recntly In New York, aud gives seve ral curious lu.atk.nces where murders have come out alter long years. The following item is worthy of notice: Homicidal acts in the metropolis bave always been uuartiatic and hot blooded, as is conclusively shon by the weapous used. These appear upon the rtcord to bave beeu firearms, knives, razors, sword cunes swords, cords, bludgeons, bayonets, c;rtrioUgs, tum blers, bricks, hie tongs, smoothing irons, axes, maileis, hammers, paving stones, glue pots, boot heels, and ouce the point of nn umbrella. It is remarkable that only tight times in these thirteen years has muroer Ueen ariiiicallv done by poison, aud moru singuUr still, that iu five of these ca-es the criminals were detected, nota itl standing the popular belief that this m ai est and slealthiest mode of lelo niously taking life is also the tafest. These fuc's make it apparent that while the 'average ol homicide iu New Voik has. been a fraction over oue per week for i hli teen yeais, there bavj been comparatively lew wil ul and malicious murdeis It is true that within the period examined tbirty-three wivt were sla'u by l;eir husband?, but even iu neiuli; all ol these cafes, ihe 'malice prepne. which if the esential ingredient of murder nnd the t-hiu of 'the wicked ami depraved heart rt quired by the law was wauling. The killings bv persons unknown were more irequeutly wil fiil lhaii in the other cHss. but even here tin teMimony taken by the coroners shows that the purpose to take life often was not meutally formed beiore the died had ben ph.viclly ur-r urn Diished. Deducting the sixty oue infantf- clues where the culprit-'werc undiscovtred, and it is apparent that mnety-iwo atium nave, in thliteen years,' met violent deaths, and 'the assailants have escaped detection." "Carlotta" is a characteristic bit of biography bv John B. C. Abbott. "lea and its Adultera tions" are discussed in a manner to excite at tentlon by Dr. Jobu C. Draper. Charles Wyllys Elliott, under the title of "Our Great Purmers,'' tells about the horse grower of Orauge couuty, New York. "The Telegram'' Is pathetic joem by aran E. Hentbsw. Under the head ot "The Galaxy Miscellany.'' wc have a sketch and portrait of O on nod Ihe composer; The fcoirowi of Childhood," , by Mowlaud; and tChr .CttrOBonic.al Alniaoa" for' March t bf, Pierre Blot, rrofoie-or Blot gives the following account of an expensive break fasti ' "There sterr.s to be a diversity of opinion about one of Cleopatra's break lasts. It was tbo met costly bn nktast that has ever been served to a single human belug. I will therefore tell v lint 1 know about it. Alter having partaken f Cleopatra's necklace, Mark Antony deter mined to devise the costliest breakfast cvrr given. Alter several days of gastronomlcal meditations, not naving loura wnoi nc was looking tor. he summoned his cook to his presence, and told bun thai, if he could get op a dainty breakfast for a lady, which should be compoerd of a1- few and as small dishes as possible, and at the same, be most coitly, he would reward him accoidlngly. Several weeks afterwards, the cook entered Mark Antony's study, and told bim that he was ready to serve the dainty breakfast ar.lcd of bim, and that it was composed of one olive only. At the appointed hour the cook entered the dlhtng room, loiiowea oy one nuuarca men c.'irnincr the olive (in Us arituciat euvciope) on their shoulders. They deposited it on a tabic made lor the occasion, mid Glty carvers were set lo work ou it. Afur severnl hours of hnrd work, the triumphant cook placed the olivo before the Egyptian Oueen, who looked at it with amazement, still with perfect dcllht. Tbo olive bad been piepared in the following; way: Alter having been stoned, it was stuffed with a rich custard, then put inside of a bonodcansry, which was used to stuff an ortolan. Tho later was placad inside of a boned oriole, which was used to stuff a thrush, winch thrush stuffed a boned lark. A bi ued snipe was stuffed with the lark, end placed inside of a robin, which was nsod to" stuff a plover, and which latter bird tilled a quail, which was then placed inside of a pigeont;he pigeon filled a woodcock, tho wooocock a partridge, the latter a grouse, tho t?roue a pheasant, the pheasant a chicken, the chicken a guinea fowl, which was placed malic of a goose; the goose filled a turkey, the turkey a swan, the latter an ostrich, which was used to siuff a sheep, the sheep a calf, the calf nn antelope, the latter a pig, the pig a deer, tho deer a bear, the bear a hciter, the latter an elk, the elk au ox, the ox a hippopotamus, tha latttr an elephant. The olive was then roasted iu its envelope, which envelope was thiown away, aod the olive only was scr7ed." A. W. Bellaw contributes a graceful litllo ptem entitled "Fair," and the "Drift Wood," "Ntbitln;," "L'.terature and Art" contain a number of interesting and amusing items. A si.vteen-pnerc supplement gives five chapters of Miss Austin's novel of "Cipher." This ntory will be con pleted iu the next number. "rutnnm's." P. Ashmead and Turner Bros. & Co. fend us Putnam's Magazine for March. The contents are as follows: ' The Stranded Ship" (part Srnt), a rcmanee by L. Clarke Davis; "Tho First Editor," by Arthur Gllmurj; "A Violin Stop," concluded, by Elizabeth Stoddard; Vr. U. Gladstone," by G. M. Towle; "To-diy," a romance (chapters sixth, seventh and eighth), by It. B. Kimball; "Snpoleon at Qofia," by Bayard Taylor; "A Plea for tho fcenso of Smell," by C. P. Cranch ; "A Ryal Wedding Fcavt in Cashmere," by Captain J. F. Eltcu; "Pcr petch'cl;" "Iuter-Occnutc Canal Eonte," "by Lachworne; "Wonders of the Deep," by Schclo de Vtre; "Home Life iu Paris," by Olive Logan; "An Imaginary Conversation;" "Tho Plain Truth of Scieuce,' by V. B. Deuslow; "Litora tare, Art. and Science-Abroad," by Bayard Tay lor; "Literature at Home,'" by E. C. Stcduaan; "l ine Arts," by S. S. Conaut; "Table Te.ls," by Clarence Cook; "Monthly Uullc -tin of New Pub lications." From Arthur Oilman's article on "The I'ixat Editor," we take the following: Jloger L'Estrauge hns the credit of hiving bceu tlie first to publish a newspaper, naving bteii editor and propiittor of the I'ublio In'.eUi at int r and the London Uazitie,in both which ! he arranged news in such a form as would please his royal mas'.er and keep tne people in the dart au art, by the way, which editors arc able to exercise upon occasion eveu in the p9 seut year of grace. The First Editor defined news to be something not heard before; and it proved to be frequently something that never was neara ot until printed, as ia stilt sometimes the case. When Roger L'Estrange played with his boyish mates on tho paternal acres at Hunstnnten Hall, in fenny Norfolk, the 'most men ana uignty rriuco James' ruled. When he was old enough to begin his education, the unfortunate Charles the Firet was on the throne, and a few years later little Roger had grown to Le a courtier; and when he wa3 twenty-three he had passed through tho uni versity, and was prepared to accompany tho king when he went down to (Scotland, to force the Liturgy upon those who bad signed and sworn to the Covenant. They were "grown a most obstinate rebellions people ;" so the king thought, and so Sir Roger, as in duty bound, thought too. Then followed the days of Laud and the Civil War, of Ship-money aud tho Star Chamber. Thioutih it all the censor was true to the Cavaliers, aud was finally captured, im prisoned In London, and condemned to a traltoi's dcuth. Meantime his master's head fell oil under the axe ot tho executioner, at White hall, and Roger ran away to the Continent until the Long Parliament was dissolved; after which he relumed, and begged hard fisted Oliver Cromwell 'Red nosed Noll' they callod Lira lor fardon. The favor was granted, and the impertinent ones reported that Roger, with his heavy wig, had been fiddler to the great Roundhead once. So the nickname, 'i 'liver's Fiddler,' was fastened upon Roger L'Estrange, translator from the Latin and Greek authors, and editor ot two newspaper:1. Bat the Commonwealth did not last long. The "Merry Monarch" came ovtr from France aud tuok the place that had cost the "Koyal Martyr" his head ; and then it was that the editor became al.-o the censor. Who should better know what ought and what ought not to be printed thau he who, under a royal censorship, had himself manufactured new? to ordei? For years h"! held the oflice, and for years be filled his empty pock, ets in it. lu 1G78 occurred tuegreatexcitemcnt of the Popish plot; tho Papists were treated wirh gnat indiutiity, and the rouductof the C-own needed apology. The First Editor bant ered to the rescue with his new paper, the OOfirvator, in which he attempted to vindicate the action of the kinw; for a trouble was grow ing greater and treater between the people and tt v r ruler. How tar hit aJcaptarulvm argu meuis ai d vblger entrgy were successful, wo do nut ki.ow. The Last Man's Son, as CUaxIcs the Second wus culled, died at last, and ibe First Editor was e'estined to live under o.herkiif s still. In 1(185 James the Second beeau his four yeais' xeign, and Uoer was knighted, ai d took a seat in Parliament as ir Roger. On the llth of December, 1GB8, this Mut, concluding that discretion was the better part ot valor, stole out of Whitehall by a secret passaee, crossed the To antes in a Wherry, threw tue great teal imo the muddy river, and, bslore I oudou was awake, was far on the road to the sea, fleeing Irom an exasperated poople. He had failed iu his attempt to fasten his unwcl c ine rrliulou notions upon bis na ion; a roo lution hnd arisen, and. at the people's call, William, Prince of Orange, with M.try his wife, came ovtr from Holland to occupy the tbrono of Kuglaod. And old Rover was uot dead jet. He had been a subject of James the First, and of Charles the Ftnit his son; and when they were both dead, ho bad s cn Oliver and Richard Cromwell stand at the head of tho Government. He was ouo to weU come Iho Merry Monarch home trom France, aid had seen htm dissipate the nation, and dio iitirahite dicivh natural deatb. Ho bad towed his supple knees to WUImm and Mary; und now good Queen Anna was to receive his homage. Two vear laUr, with a body weakened ami a mind itrpaired, be tecame himself a prey to the grrat reaper, who, tuoutin he wait long, tisulo to come at lai. lu 17u4 the eventful, changeful, active life ol Koeer L' Entrance ended. He tad written li- latt political pamphlet; his coarse, yulear, violent tditorlaU had cca cd to fippesr, ai d archer than he must license books for the queen, His great Gaining was toert i - . k , no wore Influence ha was gone. Ln us trip a tear for his vices, at we let bim rest in the crave. Probably roost readers will dispute my claim for Hir Roger at the Pint Honor, and poltt to Ibe English Mrrciiri'. dated l&HS, giving an account ol the Hpanlah Arraada, to prove thsthetrode in other men's steps, acd that I rteal other and worthier men's laorcls ts desk his brow. I think, however, tbat close investi gation will prove tbat when, in the third year of the RttlorHtioa of the Stuarts. Roger L'Estrance beean to print his rub'ii Intelliyenctr, be was really the first who established a newspaper at a vehicle of general It formation. Besides the ilercurie which has been proved au Invention of a later date there bad bnen, be'ore the Comn Ohweallh, JJutrna s and hiteVigevcern, and GfrmptainM. and Qaitltt so called; but thy were all to unworthy the name of newspaper, tbat we srelorced to give tbo bonornble place ol First Eoitor to the vulgar Wiseman ot the court ol the Stuarts. By his learning he was fitted for the post. His intimacy with his sovereigns added to hit advantages. His captivity and runaway travels augmented his qualifications, and bis vulgarity enaoien mm ra sioop to tae dirty work his lord demandod ot the ttper ho snouia ocugni to uooor. At Lave. sat hero this rainy day. I havincr Imagined tho First Editor before me. attending to the doties of bis office. I can see his tbin face, overshadowed by the luxuriant curls of his great powdered wig, and from each aide of his susrp Roman nose bis brilliant eyes look down upon a piece of proof, such as tho attendant devil would be supposed to havt brought from the pressroom, when the compo sitor lacked the experience two centuries hava riven hlra since. His sword dangles with tho laced edges of his p&udy coat over thn arms of the editorial chair. Tho end of bis geDcrous white cravat reach down upon the proof, and bit shoes, with their huge buckles of silver, and his black silk stockings, cover the editorial understandings, which are stretched under the editorial table. The apartment is in one of those ancient build ings which generations of sraoko nave rendered alroott black externally, and which the sooty London mist makes dank sua dtngy within. I imagine it Is a slip trom the Obaervator he Is correcting, and .that the type Is trying to tell how good and lovely is Old Rowley, and how the wicked Papists ought to delight to have hltu ruin their families and kill them off, or, upon mere suspicion, confine them weary years in far eifl prisons. Or wss it an exhortation to the obstl na'e, rebellious Covenanters, to give up their opposition to the Liturgy, and worship God otter the dictates of their licentious sovereign? It may not have been either, but a chapter from the Sermon on the Mount; lor editors la those days cften printed extracts from tho Bibbi when news was scarce. Whatever It was, wo may bo suro it was not calculated to make the. 'multitude too familiar with the acts and counsels of their superiors;' for Sir Roger thought it his duty as lournali.it to give them no 'color of license to be meddliug with the povernment;' and he thought that a newspaper, 'prudently" msnaged, might contribute to thisj end in a very high degree. When the Ditch worsted the king's navy in a four days' fight in the Downs, it was bis duty to be very "prudent," and not let the people know it to make them believe the court was very joyful. Pepjs wrote the truth in his diary; but even there he lelt it safest to put it in cipher when he 6aid, 'The court is very melancholy under the thoughts of the last overthrow; tor so it is,' he adds, 'instead of a victory, so much aud po unreasonably expected.' But at I look out of the library window now, the faca of the lrtodscade Is changed. All nature smiles; for the black clouds acd thick-falling l sin-drops arc gone. The sun again shines forthwith genial warmth, and our rainy day retrospect must end. The First Editor was, singularly enough, the first witter who sold hit cervices in defense of any measure, good or bad : and Goldsmith says he fought through right and wrong for upwards of lorty literary cam palens. Let us hope the good be fought for was more thau the bad. From the birthday of the First Editor's first paper uutil now, the labor of the editor has grown ln importance, delicacy, and, we may eafeiy say, in honor. Who can say when it will cease to crowf There are venal editors now, who take Sir Rocer as their type; but far greater is the number of those who Imitate bi3 better traits, aud who, uuseen of the world, are putting forth an Influ ence npon men which the community cau never fully appreciate." "The Elrerside Magazine" for March opens with one of Hans Andersen's delightful little sketches, entitled "Which Was tha Happiest?" 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