=ME NENE GIBBON MOCK FAlibm OLUME XXITIO, 114 E ATEANIED ron arr. TIMBEIL, Mrs. giowe Asigeor," lifewitif it» It ih a thinsiand that Harriet should Lave doiie juSt'wluitsbe bashas. She 10: 1 4 - told 24ltitY, tale, IF9llght q'sra. from EN141241 t he bas udt 4f, well of ;ixißkward with the Rio , Ate'has,,dritped it, mssiduously and ,theatrically,Around the foullms‘e which forms•'fith. diseovery. Miss .Braddon henfelfponi# not hive glOated,inore over the thing. Theseandal is made out with . _ /Gasiceirs Sad story of brother Branwell, ni `tile' Life of 31 -ho VrOarg,win made out ; that story, - er at e , ; .37 . eas ug • I torn • e uxury It bad cuu#ed to ite narratrem, Area diePros;ed, and xs, Gatikell had to wade ; through veey t 9 get fairly. out of it; we hope, for the credit of American lettera, that no ; lituniliatingXeetintation Is Itkid 41 tliefitnte 'for Mu. Stowe; zol ',:„ , _ . thistiTdillOus matron had taken, better advice, or had•been naturally gifted with poor Jo dame** tam native '.'ttense :or ,!'..what's floc)," hoW wOuld alie have droplied ',her:Wi den?, Would she have.melded?:'Would she have gulped t-."' into %, shining„, seAsation article, worth a goOd price to the proprietors of the principst literary magazine? Would the sad secret haVe appeared as the principal eardz o in , the • month's , issue,' ' ; advertised, developed, crowding out one; of the standard - features, of the periodiCal (the Book-llevievr)?, . Would it haVe appeared precursively in this and that Western news paper, frinn advance ..'proofs privately , fur nished ?—(ir, would it have been uttered plain, sad and stark? Would the signatures of our gravest and wisest, men of letters have attested theirassistance,coadintors'hip,examinarionaiid convincement? 'Would every date Iwo been Verified, to take the place of this mass ,of inac curacies Would every proof have been pub lished, instead of this vague Unsupported rmator from the grave? And then - would -the testimony have appeared, in unadorned dece= rum, over the name of the; . witties.s, in some retired but not toilsome place among the'public tiewo;:agetteies? Twcaty lines, over a .migna tare, in the ,Set - th fa more ex clusive organ of the same publishers who are entrusted with the ,affair), or a note to the Ara mintrOaseti, would have told all there, %vas' to„ - mid Harriet's tier:sena] dignity would ~ h ave oretrained unbteathed upon. That is the in Whielt a better': advised or more punctilious newtt-bearer may be supposed ta.basfe acted, The ,public are not going to let their great, mad singer sink undefended into greater-polo y I,l"inieS had' beeit indeed ' fastened wort his charact,er i too ; securely, for popular opinion (always given to a kindly, instinct of deiticatlim) to pass them: over ; ; th‘e had been admitted, and had- entered , Into the popular eonception of the man. lie was not toyed be eanse he was a teacher : "He tatVht us'little ; but °arson) • - Had felt hintriike the thuuder's roll." The pa.ssion, the tragedy, of theßyionle verse, and not its theories, were what kept it alive till now, in the clatnor of hew voices and the perspectivb of distances And even that ener getic influente, based as it was upon the deep est agitation of the heart, was becoming dull, by Byron's own fault,thanks to the obstinately factitious, stilted, fustian character of the ideal he meant to force upon literature—his Manfred, his Harold, 'bis Lara. The last half of the century cannot be called By ronic: 4 ' What boots it now, that Byron bore, With haughty pain that marked the smart, ' From England to the Xtolian shore, pageantet his bleeding heart, That tlisiusands Cortnted every groan — Atid - EurOpt - mule:his woe her - own?" lirkw far was Byron- knitted to the popular afti tin in 18L8,—then P.Byrint, ;dug "e geared" ',The half -amused stnile •-With which that book was greetettifiCs Fy yet expired. The GMcbiolEntslied raw: n. 211 to:the-footlights with a well-preserved intensity.-of.-Byronic feeling, assuming that her audience stillturned, down its eollars and 'declaimed in private to imaginary eagles among imaginary Alps. The sympathy expected by the Countess, or Mar thiones.s, MILS not forthcoming. Men won dered, as they contemplated her delineation of the irresistible creature, if they had ever in'their lives "gushed" about.Byronasshe was snishingi - And 31m. Stowe', might weillave been content to leave the - Cule.cioli's allusions to Lady Byron unchallenged. A slight, a 1,-eri slight concession made to . the jealousy of the successful woman(and the jealousy of success is keener than the jealousy of disappointment) and' Lady Byron remained in people's thoughts precisely where she had been. She remained the faultles.s, -virtuous, cool, incom ,patible umullied by a , shadow of blame, who had missed, thrOugh" iiattire's'faidt and not her o‘vni;theTgoniefitotts ehande of tracting andreclainaing the *fist iincoinmon man of the time. When , accusations, but not the right stausitions; Wore flyibg thick as hail in English society upon his Lordship's de parture, Lady Byron missed a hundred chances of saying: 'east, is not true":" - The silence historical, admitted equally by Guiecioli and-Mrs. Stowe; the latter has no wa , y-of, e?r-plaining down cantanker -sins z Why did Lady Byron ever speak? Mrs 13towe explains that it‘,was, On aCeount, of a .cheap popular edition of Byron in 1858; under these circumstances some of Lady Byron's ltit"nde at. 0: tineltilOn tvhether she had not a raipmtsibiiity to societV for .the truth; her^meens of ffilfilling,tbis' 'obit lion, then, was surelithenOst extraordinary ever taken -by a-sane-person—She. 1 ts4tha cheap edition;with ^ influences, Speem;i; but she goes and' Whispers,ber: Sedret,,as'it were, to the ieeds, leaving.it to. the' discretion of, circumstances whether for not at some • dla• taut day, the' seeret; 111;4 0409 she 604d;vot. then control ) sbOuld • reaoly the world. That womanly confab, the 4onfidence of the'dreamer ! to the reeds; Was Unacciptnpanied tiyanYthing so vulgar, as proof. • . t . , , , And Mrs. Stowe waits awhile, and .ihen, w b e r t .shoth4dcs she has a chance otreturning to the Guiecioli as good as she g!ves, she tells it all, vituperatively,. Inxuripislyi with all the luxury of a saint gettingilio.efiance to liaste'a good fat sinner. The reNvlntion,not to put ,too fine amoint of ft, ciinirirotnises Byron with half-sistek; the' • .•••- •,' `7,•,• •;- ' ' t _ • E •••, ' • —'t r'ra. ••• .7 • - 4'?' • • ' • _ • " : 7 4.1(1 se • 1. S ails 11 r*' , r • ,rr ;,1 r' • 1111' ;' ' ' • ••. I MP d • , • wife of Col Leigh And all that lktri. , *ewe can Say that, this 'crime -- 4*eovered,':"/2141' Byron was not bound to itnyspeelei of coy iiio- sion, 7 neither to Jive - with, her. lord; iarf, to speak out when people told lies sheet hiin,upr any sort of 'friendlinesS. But this, it I sleiniie US, i 8 Vekildit - tte question,o.3icEl'Xittli34o7ion iiiii choose to live with ; her husbandpaud see .what she could 4o with him ;"she'livect a. Year :with hint—two years; says , the torgetfnl - Mrs. Stowe. She Jived with hini,her eyes 'qien,anti (tiled 40 reclaim' him; his' si.a, declares 'the -4 14 14 5*00'.....ver 6 _ - tar3 l loiet- - I*Wijit'7vite huttiaj./tyrott settles Oat', kind of 'Criticism 'bY'At'e6/4.lng him, as he is, living, trittl-disPDA with ,him the 14a.ss,e ,an •• en envying:., dog that remains basking at his door., The Proldem'is is, the sad, old a little. coin plicebed; u noble, tuneful, uniquely 'glorious nature gone all astray;. religion , essaying; the splendid task of reclaiming it; religion Utterly . ;routed.; "Anybody,' sari Fletcher, the : imlet, "could d'o anything With Any. Lord; except my Lady!' This"hiperfect adaptive power; since She smile heradaptive Power, is What placei Lady 121Yron's itery among thes:West in the painful categer7 . of heatren's taskii, spoiled through the imper fection of the instrument. • The statement, of Hrs. Stowe * , es now ap pears, thanks to the happy memory of the Tribune, is not even new; thinly disguised; it was communicated in Temple \ Bar for last June. in the following comments surrounded by ntuubera of hints about husbands' or wives' duty to incestuous partnen;) upon Lady Byron'f4 excuse -for refusing reConciliation: "The wife could not, without guilt, return to hint. * When. Dr. Lushmgton (Lady B.'s advisery declares reameillation to be impossi ble, and that if attempted he could take no part in the attempt profasionally or otherwise, he must be understood to mean that Vuty both to God and mon' forbade - Lady Byron to , return to' her hus band." • , 3lns. 'Stowe's gift to literary, history is destined to a terrible scrutiny from .ByrOn's countrymen when they know of it; in ;vhich season; with little.sympathy from her own countrymen to support her, we shall riot envy Mrs Stowe. Her manifest *ant of the critical spirit, her inattention to easy facts—the New York papers have been mercilessly expesing her inaccUrachth-Lhave the effect of under mining even the popular '4.rier in her Story.; hoivw ill it stand,: when, it has to take up the isidignant.challenge of a proud and powerful farrilly, interested by every motive in clearing its• skirts irk= shame'? If truth is true, it ought ,to look seemly -and strong, and not show a surface eaten into holes hy all sorts of minor but irritating falsities. • The Byron scandal lies like a cuckoo in the magazine,, and it is hard to see anything else. But the mnriVer shows variety- and powerful editorship; Mr. Parton is up again 'with his W4pshington exposures;there is'a rather pretty Pastoral novelette talipd Jacob jour ney, a sort of taoon-hoax,"• not. very de ceptive, called " Was. Reichentiach Bight?" and an able criticism of Confucius. The best poem is a delicate chirp from Mr. 'W. D. Howells in answer to the cricket, which, after the. dirt through. which Madame Sto;ire has dragged us; we shall treat ourselves by repeat : THE FIRST cnzorET , Ab me! is it then true that the year has waxed unto waning, ..., lind An that so noon mtin remain nothing, but lame and decay— . • , Earliest cricket, that out of the midsummer complaining, . ---- All the -faint-summer-in- me,takest -with subtle , Allsurtay? Though thou blingest no dream,of frost to the flowers that slumber, Though no tree for its leaves, doomed or thy voice, maketh moan; - IVitli the nueonsc.ions earth's boded evil-MY - - !;acid theta dust ctunber, y And itt tlie 1. -- ar's lostyouth inakst .me still lose my own. - . iswerest,ithowtha.twhen nights of Decem ber are blackest and bleakest,-- --And when tho fervid grate-feignsme a-May - in nay room, - A - n - d - b - y - iilyheriithSfonegay, as now sad in pay garden, thou creak — esi,— Thou wilt again give me all,—dew and fragrance and bloom ? Nay, little poet! full many a cricket I have that itOwilling, If 1 but take him down out of his place on niY shelf, - Mc blither lays to sing than the blithest known to thy Full of the rapture of life, 319 morn, hope, and—himself: , Leaving me only tilt. sadder;' for never one of my singers Lures back the bee to his feast, calls' back the bird to his tree. Hast thou no, art can make , me believe, while the surthuer yet ling,ers, , Better than bloom that has been red leaf and sere that must be? Berne additional magazine -notices will he found on the second page of this paper. THAT BOAT BALE. " English Abuse ocAmericins. The London correspondent of the Boston Post writes.; ' ' Our papers continue their reports and criti cisms of„the doings of your Harvard men to the extent of from a ‘; quarter to half a column or more daily. • I can add xery little to their, details, so minutely is everything chronicled; except that there is an old impression abroad that they are''playing: possum'? in their nrac lice—by no means doing their best, and allow ing it to be supposed that they will be beaten easily,-.and, intend : to astonish us bye-aud bye. All kinds of 'faulta are alleged against,. them, know not with what truth; and A menli;jealims letter' r two; about. their order ing an English' boat for the race haS or have appeared in the newspapers.' They, have, it seems,. altered-Aheir 'style of , rowing from Tyne ,:to .:Thataes - fashion. ,‘Their new 'boat , ;very handsome and • shapeable , craft, 44 - ;:',.feer,„6 `inches , long, or - just .4. feet. 6 inchek:lesa_ltlien. their own ' , canoe -like; American built Cedar, and ;,2 ' feet'; loner there 'the/ London boat, 'in wbich; , during the" week they have 'practising. Ap;' pareetlyrshe is a lighter and handier boat than either of the two they. have been using onlhe Thames' but ; they,have another building; . by, Elliott ,the American, -who ,carrie over i with them, it is nePieStion ae 'Yet which they will Ultimately adopt." The Oxford men 'intend coming down the riVer towards the end nf neat week; ()rifle beginning oftlae week after. Then' • we shall probably get the day fixed; at pres ent it is conjectured ;for' the '26th tor. ;earlier Boueicault has availed himself