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[■WRITTEN TOR THE RECORD-ONION. J . . ':.' V■-- - :"■ .' -.:'-■ ■ :• ■■ ■'- ■ '-■ "- .'- The Ventures and Adventures of Charlie Gould; A ROMANCE 02 THE STOCK MARKET. " BY EDWARD F. CAHILL. CHAPTER 111. A KOBKRJI _>A_HXO-HOTjgB . A spacious frame- building, standing on its own ground, many-windowed,. with broad, shady porch, and pillars twined with flashing, white Larmarque roses, and the kingly Marechal Niel,* surrounded by graveled walks ; aud fresh green . turf, which was carefully nursed with sprink ling hose and shaved with lawn-mower. The mathematical grass grew with well bred evenness, and was dotted with bright beds of flowers and things which would be trees, if their feelings had been consulted and the avenging shears been absent., bat now transformed into globes and pyramids of fashionable cvt — for well-brought-up trees mast conform to the usage of society, or bettor hot be trees at all. r Such was the mansion to which Charlie was conducted not un rvilinglly. Mrs. Har lay issued from her office " to welcome Gertie Blake, and, after the usual kissing parade, | was introduced to Charlie, and said Bite would be glad to have him as one of hex inmates. "Come in and have a cap of tea, dear," said the mistress of the house to Gertie ; "and so you had such a pleasant voy age?" And wasn't a bit sea-sick. Was I, Mr. Gould ?" j "Not when I was mud," said Charlie, m. 'lie;, "That probably covers most of the case," said Mrs. Harlay, with a smile. " I only acted under the Captain's com mands," began Charlie. . Oh, you behaved beautifully, sir. Pray don't apologire," interjected Gertie, quickly. "Your mother is lying down, dear," said the hostess. "You will like to see her first, I suppose." " Yes. I will run up stairs and take off my things, and try, to prevail on her to coma down and have a cup of tea with us," and she skipped up the steps, leaving Charlie with his new hostess. A noble-looking woman, of perfect sym metry. The first bloom of womanhood, it is true, had passed away, but had left a ripe, autumnal beauty in its stead. Rich mouth and deep, liquid blue eyes had been untouched by the hand of time, and tho delicate, slightly acquihne nose was as clearly cut as ever. Yet, on looking closer, if one might be so ungallant, there were some hard lines that told of the shrewd vicissitudes of a woman's sore, unaided struggle with an unfeeling world, and perhaps . there was a cer am reckless ness of look, as of one who felt herself equal to either fortune. Unshrinking, she stood in the bright California sunlight, her little-faded complexion tinted with tbe rose-colored shade of a pink-liced parasol, and it may be not unconscious of its ef fective coloring, but using or needing no other artifice to enhance her wondrous beauty. No one knew whether, there was a Mr. H-iri*y or not. Some said she had a husband in Chicago, and some whispered that she had another in Arizona ; but ha was probably dead or scalped, or what not, and as the subject was not mentioned in polite society, so will we too gently pass it over. "We dine at six, Mr. Gould. Perhaps you will like to join Miss Blake end me in a cup of tea ?" "Thanks," said Charlie, "I believe I shall not trouble you so far. I must get my things in shape." And with a bow to signify that the audi ence was at an end, he found hi-r.seli dis missed. In the meantime Gertie Blako. skipped up the stairs to her mother's room, and im petuously burst open the door, saying as she Bank on her knees by the lounge : " Mother, dear ! Here lam back again I Tra so glad to see you ! I hope your poor, dear, old head is better I " kissing her. "There! there I That will do. You great, strong girls never have any feeling for the sick." "My poor, old mammy ! Did I hurt it's poor head? I won't do it again. I have come back 'to be so good," she said, while smoothing her mother's grizzled scanty locks. •* What a long time you have been away. I thought you never would come back. . , I have been 80 lonely without you, and this tiresome head of mine las given me no rest." '• Why, mother, I have only been pone two week* ; but I want yon to come down and have a nice cup of tea with Mrs. Har lay — all to ourselves."' '•No, thank you. I feel too poorly, and Mrs. Harlay 'a spirits and rude health are very trying to my poor nerves ; but I want you to hurry back to me, dear, as quickly as you can— l have such a lot of things to ba done.'' Mrs. Blake 1 ved her daughter dearly ; but she loved herself more dearly, and -she accepted the loving service ot her child as a right which had become a necessity. To a great extent an imaginary invalid, she made use ot her supposed ailments to build up a kind of prescriptive right to unlim ited attendance from all who were sub missive enough to render it, and her daughter she considered her especial prop erty. Gertie hastily completed her toilet, and tripped down stairs joyously, notwith standing the somewhat ungracious recep tion her mother had accorded her. 'She was one of those practical : little women with active temperaments, who live rather in the present and the future than in. the past. - She never allowed herself to brood over misfortunes, fancied or reaL . - .^y Entering the private parlor, or office as it was sometimes called, of the hostess, she sat down with a woman's quick grace to the neat tea-service, and did the honors at the request of Mrs. , Harlay, pouring out the steaming beverage into delicate cups of egg-shell china, which j the lady of the house reserved for her own delectation and that of her especial pet*, of whom Gertie was one. ': .'■* " And so you tell me that Mr. Charkup was on the Btaamer," said the lady of , the house. "Yes ; he was there, in all his glory.'" "I hope he was attentive?" inquired Mrs. Harlay, with a slight shade of curi osity in her voice. v Well, scarcely — in that sense. I sup- Dose he considers me an insignificant little chit, and he does not look like a man who cares to fetch and carry." - " I .oppose lie does not care for the re wards accorded for carrying brown paper packages. He is more of a master than a servant." "I guess he never bothers himself about anything more sentimental than money or ! mining shares," said Gertie, with a quiet glance at her hostess. "Talking of shares," said the latter, He dropped me a line about the Old Judge stock before he left." "They are still going up, I see." " Yes, and no one knows when they will stop. I wish I could see him, for I am getting frightened ; they are going so high."v7yyj7.7-:^,77: " Oh, everyone say a they are only begin ning to go up, and that there is no telling when they will stop." 77* "7 "Yea; but consider for a moment. They have gone from 44 to 80 in less than four months, and it seems as if it was more than they could possibly be worth.". " Oh, that is nothing, if the reports of the experts be anything like true." . " Aye, but are they true ? When I con sider that if I were to sell out now, I would be rich, and could leave this drudg ery forever ; it almost drives me mad." "Oh, well, my few shares are not worth selling yet," said Gertie. " With you it may be different, but I should advise you to wait until you see him — that is, if you think he is acting squarely by you." "If I thought he was deceiving me, I believe I could kill him," she hissed with concentrated fire. ' "Oh, Mrs. Harlay I" cried Gertie ; "for shame I But then, of course, you didn't mean it." It may not be. a pleasant picture, but is a true one. There is nothing more unse-xing to womanhood, than the hard contact of dollars and cents, and when to this is su peradded the excitement of gambling, they are ready to go to greater lengths than the other, more phlegmatic Bex. Their more highly-wrought feelings and emotions are more susceptible to the pleasure of success or the pain of failure. I believe that when a woman is given up to the pursuit of gain, she can be harder and keener in the exac tion of her pound of ilesh than any Shy lock of them all. They are rarely able to see more thai) one side of a case (Portia to the contrary notwithstanding), and are un able to perceive that the man who has failed to meet his engagements may have something to offer in his defense after all. So they chatted until dinner time gathered together the various inmates of the house. There was Mrs. Blake and Gertie, with Charlie Gould . in attendance There was Frank Dawlish, " the curb stone broker," and his fair young wife. V A curious, nomadic couple, these last, with scarcely any local habitation and not a very good name, at least, so far as be was concerned. Living altogether from hand to mouth, but always living well, going into the best society, or at least the best imitation of it, and wearing the newest clothes, they presented a most remark able financial puzzle to the eyes of their ad miring friends, who wagged their heads wisely and averred in mysterious phrase that "Frank was a rustler." He had failed in business in the city,, and, having sold off his furniture and everything else which a beneficent law exempted from the clutches of the Sheriff and those . pampered rogues, his creditors, be and his wife took to living at hotels and fashionable boarding-houses, and he went on .".the' street" He was blessed with agreeable manners and a pleasant presence, with an unfailing reser voir of talk, and, in fact, was master of all the weapons needed by those who make their living "on the outside." If his talents were now called into exercise to wheedle a dun and now to entice a possible buyer, out of whom he hoped to earn a fat commission, he was equal to either fortune. There, too, was a young man who was introduced to Charlie as Mr. Holmes (com monly known as Jack Holmes), the editor of the Bassoon, a weekly paper of advanced views which aspired to be apostolic rather than historical in its labors. Of fine, manly appearance, with broad, open brow and clear, unshrinking eyes, he was the very reverse of Dawlish in most things, whose only point of contact with him was a chronic inability to say where the money for the next collection day was to come from. Dawlish stigmatized him (behind his back, of course, for in society we do not " say things " to each other's faces), as " a dirty communist who was doing his utmost to break down the prosperity of San Fran cisco," which, when translated, meant that ! Jack Holmes considered stock gambling the greatest curse of the Pacific Slope, and that he was unceasing in his denunciations of it, and of the political knavery in high places. If asked to characterize Dawiiti-. Jack would probably have called him, edi torially, "a vile jackal who scented carrion for the wolfish monopolies which fatten off the poor." We all know that calling names is more effective than argument; we are ac ! customed to bandy the terms " communist" 1 and "' monopolist," without very clearly understanding or caring to understand the meaning of the words, and we simply use tbem as convenient expressions of com pressed ill-will for every. day const* mptiox*. In fact, it is a difficult matter to deduce from the outgivings of our modern oracles whether it is more sinful to be poor or to be rich. I scarcely know whether Jack Holmes was in truth ajcommunist— that awful bug bear of modern society ; his paper held very advanced opinions, but these were not always consistent with themselves, nor .was he, perhaps, responsible for all of them. v Fortunately the opposing forces, amidst which Charley found himself thrown, were on this occasion plentifully lubricated with the polite unction of feminine 'presence. The conversation opened on the news of the day, and Mr. Charkcp'a return in par ticular, "-"y 7. ' -:7v-7y,--7-' "I saw Charkup on the street to-day, after his' trip to the South," said Dawlhsh. '•He. came just in time. There was a bearing movement in the Old Judge stock, i In ' fact, they said ; he had \ been ' scooped and had skipped ' out when he went away. Phil. Darcy , said ' they'd i seen ", the - last of him in San Francisco." ." V "The* stock has not fallen,' has it?" in quired Mrs. Harlay,' a little anxiously. - -7" Oh, no ! On the contrary,' it has ad vanced a point or two. "He jumped on the movement at once, and the '■; bears had rio chance with him. He says the mine will pay a dividend next month." '" That would be great news," said Mrs. Harlay. v " Yes, indeed," said Frank " and if tbey want to keep .up the present boom in the market, that is the way to do it" "And why should they not ?". inquired the hostess. - "Oh, I don't know, not being on the in side ; but it seems as if the stock was get ting too hot and too heavy for outsiders to handle. -' It is all very well to make a deal in small stocks that a poor man can touch, but it does not seem as ii the Old Judge crowd could gather in much at the present prices. " '■*' ' "But may not the mine be a legitimately paying undertaking ?" suggested Mrs. Har lay. v 7 777- 7.y'y "It 13 possible, I suppose," said Frank, thoughtfully, as if this was a-phase of the subject which had not occurred to him as hitherto ■ worthy of consideration. He only recognized mining in the abstract, and for the crass, earthy accident of digging out gold and silver, which sometimes went with it, he had a hearty contempt. Any fool could own a paying mine, but only a genius could "boost" a worthless one. To be considered "smart" was his dearest wish, and his most cherished affectation was to know more of the secret workings and movements of the great controllers of the stock market than, perhaps, they knew themselves. He knew the reasons for every thing, and, as he universally attributed actions to the lowest motives in sight, he was not often contradicted in our modern pessimist society. Charlie Gould found himseif placed at dinner next to Gertie Blake, on whose other side was seated Mrs. Blake. Charlie was introduced to the latter, and, craning over the i table, made a kind of round the-corner bow, receiving in return a sour response. Mrs. Blake regarded possible candidates * for her daughter's favor with petulant disapprobation, even as a little boy makes faces at a wolf in a cage. The wolf," however, only grinned, and said he would take soup— to the waiter, of course. "I hope you find yourself entirely re covered from the fatigues of the voyage, Miss Blake ?" inquired Charlie after he had recovered from the effects of the introduc tion. t- i-7'. "Oh, yes," she replied "'tired na tare's sweet restorer,' tea, has completely given me back my equilibrium." - ; " I wish I could say as much," he re plied. ..." I feel, at times, as if I expected the pavement to sway gently up and down, and I feel injured when it does not re spond." "Ah, true ! I believe I have seen gen tlemen in that happy state before." "So have I ; but I doubt if water was the cause of their temporary levitation." "Ob, there is no need to excuse your self—to me, at least. I am not your keeper," she laughed. "I am always ready to place my neck under a pretty foot," he explained. " What an amiable man Friday I But I don't like persons of color, so take your neck away, please." . '* You know the song, 'Oh, poor Robinson Crusoe. Why did you do so It is too late to go back now, and I con sider myself duly enrolled under your com mand." "Oh, yon are too ready to be enrolled, and will be just as ready to desert, I fear." "I hope you rule your subjects merci fully ?" "Yes, sir; with justice tempered with mercy, with a leaning to the side of jus tice. I refer you to my scholars for a character." "I have a painful recollection of how my father administered domestic justice on me in my uuemancipated days." "lam sure you deserved it. I keep a stout strap hung on the wall behind my desk, and I assure yon it acts as a salutary reminder to my scholars." " Where will you hang my strap ? " "That is a luxury you must dispense with for the present." . With such small jokes and airy nothings did the hour of dinner slip quickly by, and Charlie Gould concluded there was much to be said for boarding-house life, after all. , (To be continued.) VENUS OF THE NEEDLE. """. O, M'.ryar.ne, yon pretty girt,: Intent on silky labor, - Of seamstresses the pink and pearl, Excuse a peeping neighbor I ... :..;.».".';■ Those eyes, forever drooping, give The long brown laaihes rarely ; But violets hi the shadows live — For once unveil them fairly. Bast thou not lent that flounce enough Of lo* ks so long ami earnest ?■ . ■ Lo, here's more -* penetrable stuff," " To which thou never turntst. "Ye graceful fingers deftly sped I " How Blender ami how nimble ! O, mi.-iit I wind their skeins of thread, -' Or but pick up their thimble !,..' 7 How blest the youth whom love shall brin^ *y V; .-■ And happy -stars embolden. To change the dr-me into a ring, The silver into golden I . Who'll steal some morning to her side To take her finger's measure, While Haryanne pretends to chide, - - Ami ashes deep with plcasui -e. . Who'll watch her sew her wedding- gown, Well conscious that it is hers; ' . - Who'll glean a tress without a frown, With those Bo ready scissors! - Who'll taste th os « ripenings nf the South, , ■-,'■• The fragrant and delicious Don't put the pins into your mouth," V ■ O, anno, my precious I . / 1 almost wish it were mi trust 7 777 * ' To teach how shocking 'at is; I wish I had not, as I mast. To quit this tempting lattice. Sure aim takes Cupid, fluttering foe, Across a street so narrow ; . A thread di silk to bend bis bow, . : " A needle for his arrow I ', . * .-■•-. - -.{William Albngham, in N. Y. Tribune. VAn Ancient Charm.— A very interest ing discovery has been made in an excava tion at . Cremco. ;. The '. excavators came upon ' a very : ancient Roman tomb which had already been broken into "at a remete period," apparently, but at a short distance from the tomb.and at about two meters deep was found a very thin sheet of lead eighty seven millimeters long and fifty-five broad. From an inscription cut upon it, it would seem that this band of lead was a charm to defend the wearer from the imprecations of an enemy. .It was folded"; double, and was perforated at | the ; corners with four holes evidently for the purpose of its being continually worn. ' ■ — • • '. Mephistopheles, says a reviewer,: is a dignified devil. ' NEW PUBLICATIONS. The Bot Travelers _ Siab akd Java. By Thomas W. Knox. New York : Harper A Bros. San Fran j" cisco : A." _'■ Bancroft k Co. 8 1 vol. quarto. * Il luminated covers ; cieth , red, orange and gold. I • This is a delightfully-interesting and richly* illustrated volume, lor which yeung America ouaht to give; thanks. 7 Mr. Knox is a well-' kno.vu journalist, and in that capacity has traveled much in foreign parts. .This is the sec md volume he has -riven '. to press for the youth of the land. ' "" His style is graceful; simple, clear, and to the youthful mind he adapts the text with great skill. His habits of observation, highly cultivated," gave him a great advantage in his travels. V; He saw all things— nothing escaped ■ him worth seeing. But he did not tit down to tell what he saw i to his readers in the usual way. He invested his recital with all the charm of the accom plished story-teller's art. He, brightens his pages with scores of anecdotes, rind he carries on his recital through the medium of two youths, who are supposed to be making a tour through Siam and Java. In this vol ume there are no less than MO illustrations, and hot one of them is mediocre. We know of no better way in which to interest boys and girls in geography and history than to induce them to enter upon the reading if such works as this now under notice. /-. Tub laovsas or Pkovencb. A Mmuscript Romance ol the XI Century. - Cloth, gilt, *3 50. Ne* : Tort : Porta, Howard & Uulbert. h&cramento : V.W. A. & U. S. Houghton. An elegaut holiday volume handsomely illustrated. '1 he manuscript version of this work, called "Aucassin 7 and Nieolette," has been famous among the antiquarians and literary men of Paris as one of the very few perfect remaining productions of the days of the Troubadours and Trouveres ; a genuine minstrel song-story, composed to be alter nately chanted and recited, I aud called a chanttfable. "The very existence i of the name," says the learned Gaston Paris, in his preface to the modern French edition ot the book, "implies that . of ' an entire class, of which only this specimen has come down to us." The old story is a pearl reset by modern art in a rich setting, and is, in points of beauty and interest, and in paper, printing aud the quaint binding design with a diaper yround-w ork of harps, in gold and ink, an i a rich, antique lettering ornamented with lutes and roses and other romantic reminders of the days of minstrelsy, altogether a delight fully fresh and unhackneyed form of gift book. , - 7 ■ How I Found it North and South ; Together with Mary's Statement. Bonton : Lee & jhepard. Sacramento: W. A. i- C. S. Houghton. 1 vol., Bvo., muslin. This is a brief but exceedingly interesting and very homely story of the adventures of a New England family in efforts to work farms, first in Massachusetts and last in Florida. The trial* of the amateur farmers were severe' enough, but quite as ludicrous as pitiable. There is not a bit of romance in the story. It is all sober fact, and told in the most dis ingenous manner. The writer saw the de lights of Boston suburbs and the orange groves of Florida through most prosaic eyes, and divested all things of poetry and romance. The little volume is full of bUggestive in formation and warning, and cannot but prove of aid to all who propose to leave city life and enter upon farming. To farmers the book will prove amusing, but not uninterest ing in other respects. From Madge to Margaret. By Carroll Winches, r. Boston : Lee A Shepard. 1 vol.; muslin ; Svo. A very charming and simple story. A young physician, cultured in European schools, marries a simple country girl, whose transfer to fashionable life sets her head in a whirl, and brings on a conflict of judgment and authority between herself and husband, which is full of touching suffering on the part of both, i Incidental to the story is the pa thetic picture of devotion to the wife by her blind sister, and a charming sketch of rural felicity on the old home farm of the two sinters. In all, it i_ one of the pleaaantest of novels, chaste, helpful and moving on an el evated plane of thought and sentiment. Mr. Eoni.Bv Abroad. Boston : Houghton, SI irPin & Co. Sacrament j: VV. A. & C. S. Houghton. Quarto; board covers; illuminated. This is the latest of the " Bodley Books," which are so well known that little need be said now concerning them. In this volume Mr. Bodley goes abroad' and writes back to his family what he sees in Europe. But the volume is not entirely given up to accounts of foreign places and people. Much of the matter relates to the Bodley family at home, and in every chapter there is a lesson in a story. The book is quite as interesting as any of the series and could be read by all little folks with exceeding benefit. It is freely and handsomely illustrated. From A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Fran cisco, we have volume 21 of the "American Decisions," compiled by A. C. Freeman, of the Saciamento bar. The worth of this series we have heretofore enlarged upon. It now ranks as a standard which no lawyer in full practice can well omit from his library Toe cases re-reported in this volume will be found originally reported in the following State reports : Saxton's New Jersey Reports, Vol. 1. 1830 ; Hal=ted_ New Jersey Reports, Vol. 7, 1830 ; Paige's Chancery New York Reports, Vol. 2, 1830; Wendell's New Yoik Reports, Vols. . 4,5.0, 1829-30; Devereux's North Carolina l.aw Reports, Vol. 2, 1830; Penrose & Watts' Pennsylvania .Reports, Vols. 1, 2. 1529 -30 ; Rawle's Pennsylvania Reports, Vol. 2, 1830; Bailey's South Caro lina Law Reports, Vols. 1, 2, 1830 ; Bailey's South Carolina Equity Reports, Vol. 1. 1830 ; Vermont Reports, " Vols. -2, 3, 1829 -SO • Leigh's Virginia Reports. Vol. 2. 1830 ; Stew art's Alabama Reports, Vol. 3, 1831 ; Stew, ait _ Porter's Alabama Reports. Vol. 1; 1831 ; Connecticut Reports, Vols. 8. 9, 1831 ; Blackford's Indiana Reports, Vol. 2, 1831. From Harper Bros., New York, and A. L. Bancroft & Co., . San Francisco, we have three more of the Franklin Square Library volumes. These embrace Disraeli's new novel, " Endymion," and six volumes of Mnrley. Englishmen of letters, to wit : Me moirs of Burns, Goldsmith, Buuyao, John son, Scott and Thackeray. How it is that such standard works can be i.-sued at such marveii'iisly low prices -i ill continue to be a surprise, ai each of the volumes named, pub lished singly, stand at 81 in the book market, but the Franklin Square series gives the six for 30 cents. ! Verily this is the age of low rates in the publishing world. 7/ . ■ " The Dental .Tairus," a magazine growing rapidly in favor (Dr. W. 0. Thraiikill, Sac ramento), is at hand for December. The number is a fuil one, .and presents these in tere*ting papers : : ''Operative Dentistry," by Dr. R.W. Henderson; "What Is the Outlook?" by Dr. George A. Mills: "The Cogswell College," by W. J. Craig ; " Dent ists' Took," " by Horace E. Pope; "Local and General ' Anesthesia, by Bromide of Ethyl." by M. Tern Hon ;" "Illinois State Dental Society ;" " lowa State Dental So ciety ;" " Collectanea ;" . " Pacific Dental Society ;" " Editorial Notes." "Rev. Mr. Dashwell ".is the title of a small pamphlet novel from the .press of the American News Company." : It is the story of of a fashionable yourg minister educated to the . pulpit, but , having no religions^ convic tion-, worth speaking of. It tells of his efforts and failures in the sensational line in the pul pit, and presents some uninviting pictures of cold-bloodedness ; and ' calculating V cruelty among Church members. V It has none of the elements of probability, but more of the im probable. It will offend those who revere the Church, and | please the conceit of those who look upon most Christians as hypocrites. ' From the Leonard Scott Publishing Com pany, New 7 York,, we"? have the ."London Quarterly Review " for October." Its leading papers are: - " Recent Travels lin ' Japan," " Cicero."" Art Collections," "Mr. Marie, Diderot." ; " The '■ Camkards," ' "Olympia," "The ; Newspaper *■ Press,"-'.' The Marshal Duke of Saldanha," " Six Months of Liberal Government." 7:7' ' .'"-•,' - From W. A. 4 C. S.". Houghton, Sacra mento, we have one' of Roberta Brothers' (Boston) ? latest y volumes; y V It : is j entitled "Crusoe in New York," by Edward E. Hale. It is a collection ( of short stories, in which the moral of j each |is l very | pointedly . presented. They are piquant,'* caustic, admirably told," and have the ring of probability. A'\._ V " The Art Amateur"? for. December is an especially ";' attractive number.. . Mr. 1 Marks has given us no superior,' either in beauty or variety of -designs or excellence 1 ' of text matter. As a critic, the "Art Amateur" is now a recognized standard. V As a journal of information and instruction in decorative art it occupies the field without a superior. -.-."' •' .; i. From Serilner k Co.*,' New York, we have three handsome : bound * volumes, which are very appropriate '.' to; the holiday ; season namely, '4' St. Nicholas." for 1880, and "Scribner's Monthly" for 1880.? Osring'to its : recent " enlargement " and the , (treat quantity of matter ' seated, ' the pub lishers have been compelled to put the "St. Nicholas" into two books V E»eh of these two make large volumes of quarto size. V The two make ' up as hunts .* me aid ' useful a literary present as can be selected, probably, for either a boy or girl. i " St. Nicholas" has such : frequent and full commendation in these columns that 7 any : further enforcement upon its I merits, or . refer ence to its excellence, is wholly, unneces sary. V " Scribner's Monthly Magazine" for 1880 y makes . up a large Bvo - volume, which may well be - termed a record of the year, . inasmuch as "'. its ; editorial, scientific and "World's Progress" depart ments are quite full reviews of the year's social and literary events of most promi nence. Aside from these, however, the mag azine, in its book form, is a valuable book of fiction, history, poetry and criticism, and its illustrations comprise a real gallery of art and a permanent record of the engraver's skill. The standard magazines of America are of a character that reflect- honor upon our literary circles, and they take high rank throughout the world. None are now m ,re popular thar Scribnei's." DRAMATIC NOTES. Hartley Campbell says that only truth and beauty are required to make a good play. If any work of art have these ele ments it is sure to be good, and if unsuc cessful its fault lies in its critics. 7 Edwin Booth has been well received at the Princess Theater, London. His father was a dangerous rival to Edmund Kean in the zenith of his metropolitan glory, and is not yet entirely forgotten by the London playgoers. . v "7 ; . 777*. '"' When Jenny Lind visited America the famous caricaturist Cham . amused himself by representing an American walking about with bis hand in a glass case. "I do not use it any longer," since Jenny Lind has shook it. We suppose the eight hun dred odd who had the pleasure of shaking the hand . of the great French actress a week ago will take the hint _ It is noticed that Mary Anderson wears blonde hair when playing the character of an Italian girl, and the critics contend that it is not proper. We never have seen a blonde Italian of any kind that we can remember of, but there is " nothing like originality. It is sure to win, while those who follow in the beaten paths, and are afraid to brave popular opinion, generally fail. We should think a red-headed Ital ian girl would draw a full house. In reference to dramatic training. Mrs. Scott-Siddons says : " I was married at sixteen, to a naval officer, and soon after that I appeared on the stage for the first time. I never took a lesson ; never had any dramatic training. I played Portia in the ' Merchant of Venice ' the first time I was ever on the j stage, and that with only a week's notice and but one rehearsal. I never had the least instruction about ges tures ; was never told what to do ; nobody said a word to me about the stage busi ness. I made a success at first, and from that time to tbis have not lacked engage ments. I say this to show you that dra matic training is not necessary to make successful actresses. I have tried always to be myself, and to be entirely natural." Irving is busily engaged in mounting Tennyson's new play at the London Lyceum. The scene of the laureate's latest drama is laid in Asia Minor, and the main incidents turn upon the love of a priestess for a King, her betrayal by him, and his subsequent poisoning by the priests of the temple. Mr. Irving himself will, of course, take the part of the King, -and Miss Ellen Terry that of the Priestess. The last scene, the action of which takes place in a temple, is a very powerful one, and all the appliances of the modern stage will be brought to bear upon it. Very large sums are being expended on the scenery and decorations. The pagan rites will be re produced in all their splendor and mi pressivencßs, and the monarch will die in regal magnificence at the altar of the tem ple itself. The London World thus hints at a cur rent romance of real life : Is it absolutely necessary to engage two policemen a per pctuite when a handsome singer makes a tour, in order to protect her and her off spring from a repenting and admiring hus band *? The case happened not many hun dred years — perhaps not many hundred hours — and a regular chase, with all pos sible cunning, had to be met with equal persistence and forethought. That in a race of shrewdness and determination the weaker sex poor weaker sex ! — never gets the worst was brilliantly demonstrated in the case alluded to, when at last the de spairing consort prayed could he only see her ; and the inflexible reply was, " Never, never, never I" 777 - y-;^ Mr. and Mrs. Offutt drove twenty miles to Paris, Ky., to see a performance by the Wallace Comedy Company. Mrs. Offutt who was young and pretty, was charmed by the acting of E. Guy , Spangler, the handsome hero of the play. The Offntts went to the same hotel where the come dians stayed. Offutt declares that, both from the stage and at the dinner table, Spangler flirted with his wife. After the meal Offutt invited Spangler into a third story room, ostensibly for the purpose of introducing the actor to his wife. ' . He locked the door, and gave him the choice between jumping out of the window and being shot. Spangler jumped. Offutt is the same gentleman who, some years ago, told Deacon Holstein' that the hotel they were stopping at was not big enough to bold both of them. The tone of the di minutive Offutt convinced the stalwart Holstein that it wouldn't be the little man who would go, so he adopted Spangler's idea, and left. Paul urede has written a five-act tragedy called "The Moabite," and the French are divided into two camps as to whether it should or should not be played. It was accepted by the Francais, and was just going to be put into rehearsal, when it was suddenly adjourned to the Greek Ka lends. : The Government had not ordered the adjournment. ': ' Oh, no ! the Govern ment i* not afraid of poets ; only M. Per rin,tbe administrator of the Franca:?, after a private conference _ with the Minister, undertook to postpone it on his own re sponsibility. It is splendidly written ; but, alas, it ia not only poetical but political. "The Moabite" is a wicked woman, whose witching beauty wins Mizael, son of the High Priest of . Israel, 7 from the path of Hebrew orthodoxy. 'V y There is •no excuse - for . him, for a ' gentle " Hebrew maiden, j Miriam, . whom 7 anybody - might love, adores hint ; but he , persists in ! pre ferring the society of the idolatress: » He carries his neglect :of Miriam to the ex treme j length :of j killing j her father," and then, entering the Tabernacle before the horrified * people, dares to penetrate into the Holy cf Holies to prove that the popu lar idea of its mystic ' terrors is a supersti tion like the rest. " What will he see :in tho | Tabernacle ?"^ask : < the j j awe-struck crowd. They have not long to wait for an answer. His own father," the High Priest, appears from .'■ behind the curtains with a reeking .- poinard 'in ; his hand: ..*.?. He ; has seen' God J"*?-. That is the end of , the piece. The play was read before a highly select audience of dramatists and critics at Mme. Edmond Adam's, by way of protest against the Ministerial : double shuffle j which - has kept it from tbe boards. It may wait till Sara Bernhardt comes i back ; there ;is no other woman who could ! play j the heroine,' though ' some . infatuated - people _ talk fof Croizette. *-.■.-' £_7/.v _■'•*- _.•"*: ".*_:l plirs-'Sf, - , Hakmsb'h "Gly oeboli •' of Tab ! has been before the pnblic for I the past six years, and its constantly increasing demand is the best testimonial of its success. ■■ . : - « . .— . a^^^l*SH ' Hi kx__ Qijciaou or Tar, i.i t.\,-_ . i -uJ colds, Toil THE QUIET HOUR . THE " TANGIER'S " PARADISE OF CBA KADfiS.ENII.MAS, ITC. , [Contributions to this department should be ail . dressed "yuiet Hour," Bsoo_D-I_ los. _• Writ* , - upnu but one side of the sheet. Accompany all contributions with the answers," the true name, I and poetoffice address. Contributors will reueive advice and assistance, and are privileged to engage I in I courteous criticism ot the productions pub lished.) . " . ... Another Prize. . We announce herewith a prize which we expect will bring out the best efforts of. all our tanglers. ,;' It is given independently of those offered recently and j now pending. The conditions must be strictly complied with. ; Two elegant volumes, handsomely bound, of the poems of Edgar A. Poe for the best metrical ] charade, will constitute the prize. * In according , the prize three judges will be chosen, one in Marysviile, one in . Stockton and one |in Sacramento, who will act independently of each | other and without the knowledge of each other, and the three ' shall be of well known lit erary ability. They shall judge, first, of the merit of the charade as such ; second, of the literary j merit, and the greatest merit in both lines in one production shall win. ; * Competitors ' must be ' regular con tributors to the Record-Union Quiet Hour of at least three mouths standing next before the publication of the compet itive charades. . Each charade submitted shal^ be sent in without signature or mark to designate its authorship, but must bear a new norn de plume, and plainly marked for "The Poe Competitive Charade." Simultaneously with mailing the charade the writer must inclose in toother • sealed envelope and place it within that . bearing the charade, the true name and postoffice address of the writer, and the old or usual norn de plume. These latter envelopes will remain un opened until after the award is made. They will be opened by a committee, and the prize forwarded to the . winner." Per sonal identity will be respected, but the winners and contributors will be announced by the old norn de* plumes also, that our friends , may enjoy agreeable surprises. There is to be no limit as to the length of the charades, but five or six, fouror six line stan zas ought to be long enough. The charade must not be absolutely obscure, but give the key sufficient to incite and yet puzzle inquiry. With these details faithfully ad hered to, there can no dissatisfaction pos sibly result, and the old friendly disputes, such as involved Polly, cannot be renewed. ; The competitors must mail at their post offices MS. by the 10th day of January, ISSI. The second best charade writer will be awarded a bound copy of the latest work of choice fiction issued in the new year. Answers to November 27_i. : 876. Antenna.'. 877. Quiet Hour Record-Union.' 878. Hyperion. 879. (1) C (2) J OR E V 77 IAN ■ Clt ORE ' ' JASEY CRY NEW E V 880. Thanatopsis. 861. L N E P LEWIS IE 7 S ' 882. Carouse, arouse, rouse, ouse, net , se, c. Mew Tangles. ' - .- 889." (A.) Square word, for Hattie Heath, by Amethyst : 1, ranks ; •>, a ruler; 3, means °, 4, contradiction ; 5, to inclose; ti, what all worn like to see. (B.) Square word, for Ora and Carrie, by Amethyst : 1, a tribe of caya _, a; 2, at ick nf speech ; 3, a kind at volume ; 4, what guides us all ; 6, to call upou ; tl, mineral sub. times. (C.) Square word, for Trinity, by Ame thyst: ~^A,yyy 1, a plant; 2, an animal; 3, a race of people; 4, a plant ; 6, an animal ; ii, a race of people. 890. Numerical enigma, by Hermit : On 1, 2, 3 we often ride, And swiftly glide : Ah I 4, 5, (i, we will one day : Die and decay. Total, growing in the ground h surely found. . 891. Beheadings for Ora and Carrie, from Rose : 7 .7: Behead to depait anil leave a man's name. Behead a tag and leave a man's name. ' ,J. 7 - Behead a particle and leave a boy's nickname. . Behead a quantity and leave a boy's nickname. . Behead a scheme and leave a man's name. Behead favors and leave a man's name. 892. Easy puzzles, by Hattie Heath : (l.) 500 8: (2) + ; (3.) N (4,)D5;(5.) II _■; ■ :,'+;-; O 1,000 l 100. 893. Square word for Gospel Swamp, by Trinity : People ; consequently ; imaginary monster ; an agent. 894. Enigma for Mollie Magee, by Trinity : - My 1, 2, 3, 4 is a kind of shoe. M., 5, 6, 7 is congenial. My 8, 9, 10 ia the old Roman Catholic service book. My whole Is a Thanksgiving d-iinty. Answers to Correspondents and Correct Solutions. P Trinity says : " Regarding my ' I think you are unjust. I much prefer the judgment of all the tangltrs." Trinity will remember that majorities j are nat always right. But we recognize his right to ci 3 opinion fully and respect him for his pluck. F. M.S.— BS2, 873, 870, 871, 877, 878, 879, SSO, 874. Trinity— B7o (nearly), 877 (nearly), 579, SSI, SS2. ■ 7"* - . Amethyst— BC7, 808, SG9, 872, 574, 875J nearly). 7 Hattie Heath — 876 (nearly), 877 (yes, it is correct), SS3, 884, SB6, 877, 878. '" Capi tal ! * Three cheers for our Dr.," thus hurrahs Hattie Heath. She adds : •' Thanks to ' Hermit' for his ' restful charade, and please tell ' F. M. S. that ' H. H. was sure ' that she had his name' before — now she is assured of it ; and as he has ' killed his norn de plume' let me suggest that he adopt 'T. T. I).' v I leave him Ito guess what that may mean. If he had have been a daughter of Eve, as he -claimed to be not long since (and by the way his 'Feme' name solves that mystery) . he would have found an old friend in ' H. II ,' instead of one that was making 'war' on his initials. Utah— MS. received. 872 (in part),;S.4, 875 (in part), 877. : F. M. B.— BBl, BS3, SS4, 885, 886. F. M. 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