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' ""V - - wyvT'1 " ,"w,f " . ',.tb- TTAII5 SATURDAY AroreXINO COURIER I v- x:.s& . Ajtf . ' t ; i; r ', tA-M;; ' .?'.&.. -V i'' MTii t y K imawl IIP ' ''" "HP" I ' SOc. " . '' " i . . V" ' iff . - . 1-,. ' A ' i ti RV hi fc- "; , u t i I Li .. t it i . r-v 'Wv, Jomea Russell Lowell in a hitherto 'unpublished essay In tho Docombor Century says: "Thcro Hro certain books which it ia nocessury to read; hut they aro vory tow. Looking at tho matter from an eathotlo point of vlow merely, I should aay that thus far only one man had been ablo to uao typos so universal, and to draw figures so cosmo politan, that thoy aro equally truo in all languages and equally uccoptablo to tho wholo Indo-Europoan branch, at least, of tho human family. Thut man is Homor, and thoro needs, it scorns to mo, no further proof of his individual ex iatenoe than this vory fact of tho solitary unapproachabloneas of the Iliad and the Odyssey. The more wonderful thoy are, the more likely to bo tho work of one person. Nowhore is tho purely natural man presented to us so nobly aud sincerely aa in those poems. Not tar below these I should place the Dlvlna Oommedia of Dante, in which the history of the spiritual man ia sketched with equal command of material and grandeur of outline. Don Quixote atanda upon the samelovel, and receives the same universal apprecia tion. Here we havo tho spiritual and the natural man set before us In humor ous contrast. In tho' knight and his squire Cervantes has typltioU the two opposing poles of our dual naturo tho imagination and the understanding as they appear in contradiction. This is the only comprehensive satire over written, for it is utterly independent of time, placo, and mannors. Faust gives us the natural history of the human intellect, Mephlstophelos being merely the projected Impersona tion of that akepticlsm which is the in variable result of a purely intellectual oulture. These four books are tha ocly ones in which universal facts of human nature and experience aro ideally represented.! They can therefore never be displaced, I have not mentioned Shakespeare because his works come under a dif ferent category. Though thoy mark the very highest level of human geniue, they yet represent no special epoch in the history of the individual mind. The man of Shakespeare Is always the man of actual lite as he is acted upon by the worlds of sense and of spirit under cer tain definite conditions. We all of us nay be in the position of Macbeth or Othello or Hamlet, and we appreciate their sayings and deeds potentially, so to speak, rather than actually, through i III ENGRAVING COURIER' PUB CO. mumiximmm office, '.If ' .1. JjjJlilJ(liirti1ttTiiwijriiTiiiivV.1li ; 'iW'hftriRJitsiirii.l!MibUtAW (iteaWw"aefcjjfetj! :-t:v" rfj'vv??" tho sympathy of our common nuturo mid not of our experience." llluo mid Gray for December opens with u hnmlRomo untl urtiHtic colored frontispiece, showing tho old liberty boll in a ChrlHtmufl wreath of holly. "How Unc' Eph' llought Herself" is an excellent ChrlstmiiH story in choico diuojut, by George I'. Northrop. "Union Jack V serial, "With Farrngut on tho Hartford," Is accompanied this month by four splendid Illustrations, by Xun thus Smith, descriptivo of tho light at Now Orleans. This soriul is growing more interesting euch month, and Mr. Smith's special skill in naval technique gives unusual value to his pictures. General Horatio 0. King continues his "Recollections of War Times;" Mrs. Uruco concludes her "A Uehttcd Honey moon,'' and Mr. L. W. Wulluzz con tributes somo of his conclusions regard ing "Meade at Gettysburg." Tho Patriotic Youth's Department is very strong, giving n biographical sketch of Mr. Goorgo W Childs, und a most cup tlvating illustrated paper on "Tho Old Liberty Bell and its Home," besides a number of shorter articles of a patriotic character. This muguxino has now complotod tho first year of Its existence, and enters its second year well estab lished in the hearts of our patriotic citizens in all sections. (Patriotic American Co., Philadelphia.) A Japaneso pupil of Mr. Lafcudio Hearn has asked him in horror und amuxomont how it is that tho strange subjocts of love und marriugo uro bo freely treated in English novels. This gives Mr. Hearn occusion to toll in his urticlo, "Of tho Eternal Feminine," in the December Atlantic, how different u place women occupy in Japan and in Amorica and Europe. Equally note worthy ia Mr. F, U. Sanborn's urticlo on "Thoroau and His English Friend Thomas Oholmondoloy." Tho pupor is made up mainly of lottorsi between a young Englishman of no common char actor and tho naturalist and philosopher whose namo is coming more and mora to bo coupled, like Emerson's and Haw thorne's, with Concord in its best days. Mrs. Wlggln provides tho short story of the number in "Ton o' tho liluob'ry Plains," a pathetic sketch of Now Eng land lite. Mrs. Cavazza's story, "Tho Man from Aidono," has its third, last and most effective part. Charles Egbert Craddock continues "His Vanished Star." Studies. of nature uro nearly alwaya expected in the Atlantic, and from Mr. Bradford Torroy and Mr. Frank Bolles the readors of tho magazine have learned to expect very charming papers. Such, indeed, aro "In tho Flat-Woods," by Mr. Torrey, and "Birds at Yujo-Tide," by Mr Bolles. To these are added the -A. NEfe TVLQPHONO B8t. 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"Tho Blazing Heart," a pooni by Mrs. Alice Williams Urothorton, and tho usual departments fill out this strong conclud ing numbor of tho 'Atlantic's ono hun dred and thirty-fourth volume. Elegant tailor mado garments or those for tho proinonado aro of plain cloth. They aro often beautifully braided or trimmed with a soutacho of another hIi ado. A novel way of using fur is in poriiondiculur banes on tho scams, starting from u fur hoad at about tho height of tho knee. Odd combinations aro encouraged, nnd black and white though not now still continuo in high favor. The mingling of luco em broidery und fur form tho rich fushionsof tho present moment. Tho Eton Juckot and Figaro und Zouave seom likely to re man fushionublo for some timo to coino. A feuturo of this season's fashions is tho richness of tho mutcriuls used in gowns. Tho now dahlia tint, myrtlo and brown uro much seen in woolen goods com bined witli moire silk. Tlieso items of interest give only a fulnt idea of the many instructive points contained in tho McDowell Illustrated Magazines from which thoy havo been selected. Thcso journals uro tho Btundurd authorities in either Paris. London or Americu on everything portuining to fashion. BcsidcB their useful information they givo vuluabio lessons to dressmakers and offer unusual Inducements in tho form patterns und coupons. Tho Docombor numbor of "Tulos From Town Topics" presents, with its usual furrugo of miscellaneous reuding, u complete novel by Charles Stokes Wayne, entitled, "Anthony Kent." It is u tuio of lovo thut is both bud und puro, und its Bconcs uro laid in Venice, Monto Carlo, Paris and New York. Anthony Kent's experience in loving a beautiful udvonturess, und afterwards mooting und losing his heart to the woman's innocent young daughter who has been deserted us a baby by her unnuturnl mother, is such us to hold tho attention of most readors, und tomako tho story udmirublo as a piece of lltoraturo. Tho multiplicity and oxcollenco of othor magazines, far form lessening the usefulness of tho Reviews of Reviews makes this uniquo perodicul moro and iaoi O STREET. more a necessity. Its indoxes, conden sations of leading nrticles, classified lists of new hooks, and general survey of written thingR said, and things done during the month preceding its issuo, would sulllco to keep tho reader in touch with tho current of lifo and thought, even if wo woro able to road nothing else. Tho December issue is full of fieshness us its predecessors have havo regularly been; and to tlioso who know tho Review of Review's this is u BUtllciout commendation. Mitchell' IMiui. Cliurlio Mitchell, tho pugilist, closed hit theatrical season in Philadelphia last week. Ho has go no to Florida to begin training. Ho is abstaining en tirely from ulcholio stimulants of all kinds. Mitchell says ho will certainly bo on hand tho night of tho fight und expects to win. Asked ubout tho oxtru height and reach of Corbott, Mitchell said: "I know ho is four inches or bo fuller than I am und thut I am giving a lot uwuy, but ho is liable to muko u mistake. Tho best of us do. It ho docs I shall nail him. It I mako it he'll nuil mo in ull probability." "Do you think tho fight will come oil in Florida?" "I bco no reason why it should not, do you? Everything bcoiiib Bottled. I'm willing, Corbott's willing. Why shouldn't it?" "Jb it right that you muy truin near Philadelphia?" "Yes, I like this purt of tho country vory well. 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