THE GARDEN.

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(By lloktus),

Calondar of Operations, Novomuor 24,

[Hortus is willing to answer any queries. Cor respondents must give their full names and addresses, though not for publication.]

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

FANCY Geranium (F.G., Ponsonby.)—Fancy geraniums ought to lie cut. back after flower ins;. Whenever tho Mowers are gono, cut oaoh of this year's shoots back to tha base of the last growth, leaving ono good bud at tho baso. This will start into growth. As soon as it has mado an inch and a half in growth, nip off the point of the shoot. This will in duce several laterals to grow. These, again, should be stopped whon they attain about two inches, continuing thus until about two months before the plant is wanted for flower ing. Of course, a different systom is required by the other classes of geraniums.

Kitchen Garden.

Earth up and stake running beans and peas as noon as possible ; finish planting out cucumbers, melons, tomatoes, etc. Pro tect with a paper covering as already do scribed. Continue thinning out thoso sown last month, leaving tho best of the plants. Finish the transplanting of early-sown onions. Thin out thoso which were later sown. Attend to the .fortnightly sowing of mustard, press, and radishes, for saladings; sow in moist situations. Lettuce : Make a fresh sowing, prick out into a bed those largo enough for trans planting, tie up the leaves of tho larger plants so as to blanch thorn. Wlionovor a favourable occasion occurs, plant out cauli flower and cabbage If tho weather bo dry, transplant in the evening, giving the plants in the seed bed a good watering before lift ing. This will cause tho plants to lift with a good ball of earth to their roots. After planting, give each plant _ a good watering. Continue watering till thoy got established. The abova will apply to the transplanting of a good number of vegetables when the season is dry. Earth up all growing crops which may require it. Snails and slugs are still troublesome. Lime at night so as to kill them. Flower Garden. Finish planting out all annuals as soon as possible, filling up all blanks, both in tho beds and mixed borders. The dry season will soon be upon us, and it is advisable to get everything well established before it hoU in. Bedding plants should now bo making rapid growth. Every attention must be given to tho pegging and pinching, so as to cause tho plants to fill tho space allotted to each in regular man ner. In pinching, try and promote the growth of plenty of shoots. Stako and tio up thoFo which may require it. Roses: Oivo copious waterings with liquid manure, picking-" oil' all blooms which have passed their best: this will send more strength into those that are coming on. Dahlias: Con tinuo planting out, preparing sot holes as al ready doscribod, Keep tho hoo going stir ring tho surfaco-soil and keeping weeds down. Look after slugs. Lawn : Mow and roll constantly The recant wet wea ther would have the oflect of swolling tho soil. Rolling when moist will set it pro perly again. Walks ought now to bo raked over onco a week. This will keep them clear of weeds. Grcoiihouso. There ought now to bo a strong active growth going on. (Jive a liberal supply of water to ail quick-growing plants. Ko-pot such plants as tho colons, etc., which want more pot-room. (Jivo plenty ot' air during tho day, shading when the sun is vory strong.

GARDENERS' HORTICULTURAL SHOW.

The tirst Horticultural Show under tho auspices of tho Gardeners' Society was hold in tho Drill-shed on Friday and Sat unlay (last week). The Committee in connection therewith deserve public thanks an well as a much better patronage for placing such an exhibition before the public. As tho first show of this Society, it proves that they have tho materials within their body of making,a good Horti cultural Society in Auckland. In working up tho details for the last show, tho Com mittee will have learned some usolul lessons; to guide them in future. Tho weather for .1 wuck before the Show was exceptionally wet and boisterous, thereby curtailing the exhibition of cut flowers, many intending exhibitions not being able to raise n collec tion, their flower* all being spoiled by tho wind and rain. Tho collection of vegetables was fully up to tho mark, many line specimens being exhibited. The pot plants wore also well represented, some splendid forns, colons, etc., being placed on the tables. Tho fruit was represented by a few well-preserved apples and pears, with a good number of oranges, lemons, strawberries, gooseberries, ami loquats, forming alto gether a first-class collection. Messrs Morrin ami Co. and Messrs Porter and Co. exhibited splendid collections of garden implements. Mr Boyd, of the ISowton Pottery, displayed a lino collection of garden pottery. One of tho best foatures of the Snow was tho collections of seeds ex hibited by Messrs Wren, Yates, and Stead man. In this department Sir Wren exhibited nearly 250 test samples of seed growing in pot, which wcro duly admired. There wero also a groat number of other s{>ecialtios worthy of ad miration. Tho Committee won great praiso for tliu manner in which tho hall was de corated. The judging of tho different ex hibit-, generally ono of the most onerous duties, was divided into threo classes, and entire satisfaction was expressed at tho different awards. Tho weather during the two days of the exhibition was wet, thereby curtailing the number of visitous, but I hope for better weather and moro visitors for future shows of tho above Society.

Fruit-Grpwlng—(continued).

In the colonies, evory year wo hoar a great deal nboutyoung, nowly-plantedtrees fruiting tho first year of their growth. Cer tainly the temptation to sco fruit tho lir.st year, if it will eomo, is very groat to most amateurs. After planting trees, how anxiously tho plants are watched for a result; and if fruit shows, all the neigh bours must bo informed; and what an amount of credit is takon !Of course, tho production is the rosultof tho care and skill of the owner. Tho above attractions, lam aware, are very tempting. But theso con siderations must bo thrown asido, as they can only he gratified at tho expense of the futurs prospects of tho tree. A young trco fruiting too early is a sign of weaknoss, which should bo guarded against by pluck in;; off the. flowers before they set or the fruit forms. A young tree must acquire sufficient roots, and what I may term body, in tho wood boforo it should bo allowed to fruit. Tho fruit of a tree is the means by which it propagates itself; and if a tree is allowed to exert itself in the production of fruit while too young, it can only bo at the exponso of tho future. No tree,_ in_ my estimation, should be allowed to fruit till it is at least two yeai-s planted out from tho nursery—that is, tho third season of its growth from tho graft, — and then very sparingly. The first two seasons the cultivator's energies ought to bo expended in trying to induco tho tree to form a nice, handsome habit, and spurs from which fruit buds will eventually come. Whatever

habit is wanting must be formed the first few years of the tree's growth, as it can never properly be done again. If such a course were pursued, in moat eases we would not hear so much about the early fruiting capabilities of some trees; and these trees we seldom hear much about afterwards. In fact, in some eases the stamina seems to have been taken out of them the first year. Of course, lam not referring to what are called "advance" trees, which are grown in some of the nurseries so as to give purchasers the opportunity to purchase trees which will fruit the first season. Trees of this class, if they hove been properly grown, have all the necessary elements in their constitution for fruiting, and if they are properly lifted and transplanted, it will help their fruiting capabilities. In Bri tain the nurserymen always grow a large number of this class, and if they are properly trained in all the different shapes required, I believe they are tho most pro fitably trees to purchase—that is, for small orchards—as you have a tree with its habit properly formed, and the first or second season ought to produce almost as much fruit as will recoup tho first cost of tree, even at what might be called a very ad vanced cost. Extracts. Tho air of a forest is more moist than that of the fields, the difference being greatest in summet. Evergreen trees have more action in this respect than such as are deciduous. The Thirsty Eucalyptus.—Whore there is surplus moisture to dispose of—as, for example, a cesspool to keep dry—a large eucalyptus will accomplish not a little, and a group of them will dispose of a vast amount of house sewage. _ But if you have water which you do not wish to oxhaust, as ill a good well, it would be wiso to put tho eucalyptus very far away. Daniel Swctt, of Bay 1 slandfarm,Alameda county,recontly found a curious root formation of tho eucalyptus in the bottom of his well, about sixteen feet below the .surface. Tho tree to which tho roots belonged stands fifty feet from tho well. Two shoot* pierced through the brick wall of the well, and, sending out millions of fibres, formed a dense mat that completely covered tho bottom of tho well. Most of these fibres are no larger than thread, and are so woven and intertwisted as to form a mat as impenetrable and strong as though regularly woven in a loom. Tho mat when first taken out ot tho well was water-soaked and covered with mad, and nearly all a man could lift, but when dry it was nearly as soft to touch as wool, and woighed only a few ounces. This is a good illustration of how the eucalyptus absorbs moisture, its roots going so far to find water, pushing themselves through a brick wall and then developing enormously after tho water is reached. Ml Swett thinks one of the causes of the drying up of wells is the insatiablo thirst of these vegetable monsters. —"Pacific Rural Press," Soptember 2(1. There are no known natural laws through the aid of which florists can produce at will doublo flowers. But as all double Mowers are unnatural monstrosities, tho florists seek to produce through unnatural sources —that is, by cultivation— stimulating, forc ing tho growth to unnatural proportions, and perhaps in .somo instances dwarfing and checking certain parts, while others are permitted to grow unchecked. The larger proportion of double flowers are the result of stimulation, the plants being given extra care, and then their seeds saved, and tho young plants forced to make rapid and vigorous growth. Sometimes severalgonc rations of those forced unnatural plants will bo produced before a "break" can be se cured, but OS noon as it cloo.-< occur, further changes are ([tiito certain. Tho needs from a pemi-doublo rose are far more likely to produce varieties with full double flowere than those from a single one. Occasionally double flowers are produced on a branch or •stem of a plant, that has never before shown any but single flowers. In such cases the new departure is called Q "sport," a freak of Nature, out of the usual course. These sports, when removed from the parent and propagated, often retain their peculiar characters, and becomo permanent or fixed varieties. Florists are constantly on tho lookout for sports and other variations from original forms, and for this reason are more likely to discover new varieties than tho.se who are not so familiar with plants.

The Russian Czarina.

The visit of the Czar and Czarina to Copen hagen brings about an interesting family reunion, tlio Czarina being a daughter of the King of Denmark and a groat favourite with the Danish people. She grew up with her sister Alexandra, now the Princess of Wales, at tho Danish court, with very modest sur roundings. The Queen was an excellent mother and nought to develop in her daugh ters the woman in preference to the princess. It used to bo said at tho capital that tho Princesses were mado to help in making their own drosses and that tho furniture in their common bedroom was covered with inexpensive calico. A story of tho naive admiration expressed by Princess Dagmar, as she used to bo called, on being shown tho wedding trousseau of one of tho noblo ladies at Court, and her longing wonder whether she would ever herself own "such tilings," was told with a touch of symiiathotic pride by tho pooplo of Copenhagen, with whom the two Princesses wore great favourites.

Sho was originally betrothed to tho Into Czarowitz Nicholas, at whoso bedsido she stood whon ho breathed his last. When ho died thoro seemed to bo no prospect of tho daughter of King Christian ever recovering tho clianco which had slipped from her of one day wearing tho crown matrimonials of Russia. However, Prince Gortschakoff and her father managed to hand her to tho Czarowitz Alexander, to whom sho was married in her nineteenth year.

Her marriage did not givo promise of do mestic felicity. Tho Czarowitz had formed an attachment for a maid of honour to tho Empress, nee Motehcrski, and daughter of a noblo poet. Tho Princess was highly gifted with beauty, intellect and delicate sonsibilitios. Ho proposed to marry tho beauty and* told his parents he would never marry any ono elso for a wife. Thoy sent him from St. Potcrsbu rg with his regiment. When ho was absent she was obliged to accept an offer which I'rinco Paul DomidofF had been instructed to mako her. Hor Highness oboyed. She, believing tho Czarewiteh had forsaken her, went with a breaking heart to tho altar, and directly the coremony was ovor, sho waa taken abroad. Within a year she died at Vienna, leavine an infant son behind her.

When Princess Paul Demidofl' was no more, Alexander yielded to la raison d'etat and became reconciled to the Princess Dag mar. He soon forgot his groat disappoint ment. At his wife's entreaty ho consented to study and took lessons, always with her at his side, from professors of history, mathematics and political economy. Ho and sho becamo insoperable companions, and, indeed, comrades. She went with him in his hunting excursions. When the state of her health admitted she rode out with him, mounted on a fleet and powerful horse. Ho, on his side, always accompanies her on her annual visits to Denmark, where thoy cast state asido and livo a natural, bur geois life.

OUR LONDON FLANEUR.

Social, Theatrical, and Literary Gossip.

In Town Again—The Talk auout Caret's Assassin : Is He as Bad as Painted ? — O'Donnell's Demeanor at Bow-street— Oscar Wilde Back Again—A Good Story —Another Yankee Yarn—Where were THE CLKUOY ?—" TItUTII" AND THE SALVA TION Abmy—Affairs Theatrical—About Books —Miss Braddon's "Phantom For tune"—A Glimpse at the Plot of the Story—Julian Hunthorne's "Fortune's Fool" —Forthcoming Works of Travel axd Fiction—Cheap Editions—The New Magazine—A Good Sixpenny Worth.

London, October 4. A thokougii break-up in the weather has brought people back to town in shoals, and long before my next letter comes to be written middle-class London will have re sumed its normal appearance.

Tho talk at present seems mostly about Carey's assassin, O'Donnoll, whom the news papers are rapidly elevating into quite a hero. That, under orders from the Ameri can Invincibles, this worthy followed Carey with tho deliberate intontion of murdoring him is now certain. Tho fellow's courage, however, must have oozed away during the voyage, for, according to a well-informed Nationalist organ, lie should have carried out tho sentence soon after leaving Dart mouth. The theory of O'Donnell's defen ders—and he has plenty at present—is that ho designedly "chummed" with Carey in order to ascertain whether the informer had one spark of good feeling in his nature. Ho liked Mrs Carey and tho children, and would gladly have spared Carey if he could. Tho latter, however, soon showed up in utterly despicable colours. O'Donnell says Carey, in private, calumniated the limn cibles most basely to him, and it was this vilo act and the drink he had taken that led him to carry out a crime lie had well nigh resolved to abandon. O'Donnell doesn't believe ho will be hanged. I saw tho mau at Bow-street the other day, and was much struck by his demeanour. He was cool, <]uiot, and self-confident, addressed the magistrate respectfully, but in a tone of perfect equality, and altogether looked exceedingly less like a murderer than many of tho detectives standing round about the dock.

Oscar Wilde has returned from Yankee land breathing fire and slaughter amongst tho critics who damned "Vora." Ho says tho "New York Herald" reviewer rather liked tho play, and told him so between the first and second acts, but between the third and fourth Mr Critic received a cable despatch from James Gordon Bennett, " Damn Wilde's piece, whatever it is " — and he did.

I wont to hoar Oscar's lecture at Hammer smith concerning his American tour ono evening last week. Ho told a rather good story aoout a dancing saloon at Denver, in which he declares he saw tho following notice posted up above tho solitary piano forte playor's head, " Please don't shoot at tho orchestra—he does his best."

Another good Yankee yarn (not one of Wilde's) I hoard recently tells of a certain Sabbath day nt Quaker City, when the in habitants, on turning out for morning ser vice, found the church doors locked and the parsons gone—no ono knew whither. The mystery was not solved till Monday morn ing. A woll-known practical joker thon admitted sending the following anonymous note to each of tho clergymen : " All is discovered—lly I"—and thoy fled. "Truth" is making a dead set at the Salvation Army, and I should like to wager that within a year it will be a thing of the past. "Genera! " Booth's personal integrity and reputed unselfishness of purpose has hitherto kept tho mouths of many writers closed, but once let these virtues bo offec tunlly shown to have no existence, and the collapse of the Army will be complete. Affairs theatrical are tolorably brisk. Last night Farnie's new version of Offen bach's " La Vie Parisionne " (now ronamed simply "La Vie") was successfully pro duced at the Avenue, and to-night (Thurs day, Oct. 4) tho long-promised drama by G. K. Simms and Henry Pettit, called " In tho Hanks," succeeds "Tho Streets of Lon don "at tho Adelphi. "La Vie "is more of a r.iuderillo than an opera, several of Offenbach's other works besides " La Vio Parisienno " being laid under contribution. The plot deals with the adventures of sundry Germans in London, who are taken about by a Hussar captain disguised as a footman, and shown all sorts of remarkable sights. I shall bo able to tell you more about this pieco in my next. Despite tho lavish outlay on "Freedom," the drama has not proved a hit at Drury Lane, and on Monday next " Hope and Love," a romantic play by Augustus Harris and Robert Buchanan, will bo put on there. Tho samo night tho premiere of Burnand's "Ariel," at the Gaiety, is an rouncod, and a few days later " Esmer alda " takes tho place of " Impulse " at the St. James's.

" Tho (ilass of Fashion " doos not soeni to bo drawing largo houses to tho Globo, and I fear Mrs Lingard will bo at liberty again ero long. The society papers have resented Mr Grundy's sneers at thorn by slating tho nioco with dangerous thorough ness. Had there been really anything in it, this would not have mattored, but as things are, tho comedy seems doomed. " Confusion;" at tho Vaudeville, on the contrary, stills runs merrily, and the little American, Minnie l'ahncr, is attracting crowds to tho Orand Theatre, at Islington. "Tho Millionaire," a comedy in four acts, by G. W. Godfrey (founded on Edmund Yates'e novel, " Kissing tho Hod "), was produced at tho Court Theatro on Thurs day last, with complete success, and pro mises to bo one of tho big hits of tho winter season. Somo of the critics pretend to comparo this play unfavourably with tho samo author's "Parvenu," but I consider it infinitely the best piecoof work ho has done so far, and tho applauso with which tho audience marked tho close of each act was most cordial. Tho story of " Kissing the Hod " (obtainable at any bookseller's in the two-shilling form) will bo familiar to novel readers, and Mr Godfrey has adhored pretty closely to it. The millionaire who gives the name to tho piece is Robert Straight-ley, a wealthy bill-broker, and he wants of a tattered old rake named Guyon (grandly played by Arthur Cecil) payment of a sum due. Kate Guyon, his daughter, getting hold of a notice to the ©fleet that the bill must be met at once in her father's absence, trots down to the city and inter views Streightley, who falls incontinently in love with her. She treats him with cool insolence, evidently under tho impreßsian that he is only a superior sort of tradesman, and even winding up by tolling him laughingly to call on tho morrow and "bring his bill" with him. Streightley jumps at the opportunity of sooing the lovely girl again, and by lending old Guyon money, soon shows which way the wind blows. Guyon is delighted at tho idea of.

Rflcurine tho millionaire for a son-in-law. but unfortunately, there is an obstacle in the shape of a penniless young scapegrace named 6ordon Frere, v/ho loves Kate, and whom, it is much to be feared, Kate also loves. Old Guyon, however, is not to be baulked by faifleg. He gets Gonto to propose by letter, and the n tolls him Kate is engaged to Streightley This leads to Frere leaving England ma hurry, and by suppressing his letter to Kate(whichGuyon)forhisownpurpo3es,caro fully endorses, " Shown to Streightley ), it becomes easy to persuade the young lady that she has boen merely played with by a heartless rascal. Streightley then pro- P°ln S'the third act we find Kate has been married to the "millionaire " a year, and is beginning to appreciate his sterling quali tief and love him dearly. Streightley, however, has not prospered. Affairs in the city are going very wrong, and his con science is troubled day and night with the remembrance of having won hia wife by the suppression of Frere's letter ; in fact, by a fraud. This letter old Guyon uses as a means of extracting money from his son-in law, but, unfortunately for them both, he leaves it about one fine day. The epistle is found by Streightley's first sweetheart, and Kate's bitterest enemy, a certain Hester Gould, and this young lady hands it with a Judas kiss to the " millionaire's " wife ; On finding she has been deceived all, Kate s love for Streightley vanishes, and after a terrible scene, in which she taunts him furiously with his falsehood, the injured woman leares her home for evor. The final act winds up the play rather abruptly. Streightloy ruined and ill is in lodging 3 in London, and all trace of Kate has been lost. A friend of the family, however, finds her* hidden in a foreign convent, and when she learns of Robert's poverty and illness her heart softens, and she returns to him full of love and forgiveness. The curtain falls on a pathetic scene of reunion between husband and wife.

Its outline necessarily gives but a poor idea of what is really a very clever play. The main interest, indeed, centres in some of the subordinate characters, rather than in Streightley and Kate. The tattered old rake, Guyon (a novel sort of Beau Farintosh), is a wonderful piece of characterisation, and so is the talkative Lady Flenmarch, a fast woman of fashion, past her premiere jeu nes.ie, though (as she says herself) "very chic." Then we have a Jew money-lender named Thacker (admirably acted by Sir Macintosh), and last, but not least, the re vengeful heiress, Hester Gould. This out of-the-way role was played with rare skill by Mrs Beerborn-Treo. Her quiet catlike movements and suppressed bitterness quite made the audience shudder, and the scene where, amidst kisses and good wishes, she hands to Kate the letter that will ruin her life, was realised with consummate art.

Of course, in plays like "The Million aire," everything depends on the acting, and I should not care to prophesy much of a run for it out in your part of the world. At the Court Theatre, every character, from the most important to the least, is intrusted to a " star" in his or her particular line, and tl.o amount of rehearsing a 3-act comedy undergoes nowadays would sur prise old actors, who used to consider fire or six "calls " ample preparation for a 5-act drama. Why, "In the Ranks," which will be played for the first time at the Adelphi to-night, has been rehearsed daily for six weeks. I have said nothing about the mounting of " The Millionaire," because there are no special novelties in the shape of scenic effects. The various interiors are, however, luxurious and comfortable, as usual. Miss Braddon's novel, "Phantom For tune," which has been running through a number of provincial and colonial weeklies this last few months, came out in 3-rolume form on the 23rd ult., and is in great de mand at all the libraries, Mudie having ordered 1,000 copies for his Oxford-street branch alone. I read the story the other evening, and don't think much of it. Like nil Miss Braddon's tales, " Phantom For tune" is passable; but take up "Henry Dunbar," or "Lady Audley's Secret," or "Only a Clod" after closing it, and you will see how entirely the enthralling style which 1 mado tho author's »arlier works so popular j , has disappeared. The opening chapters of i " Phantom Fortune" introduce us to Lady Manlevrier, an ambitious well-born beauty, who, after sacrificing her girlish lore to marry the wealthy Lord Manlevrier, dis corors that worthy to bo a cowardly, sen suous scoundrel. His Worship is Governor- General of Madras, where he has betrayed his trust by trafficking in British interests with the native princes, &c, and at the commencement of the story ho ii being called home to answer before the bar cf tho House of Lordi for his misdeeds. Lady ManloTrier has learnt that this inquiry can have but one end, viz., Manlevrier's eternal disgrace, the dishonour of the family name, and tho confiscation of his property. She determines to save herself and her son from ruin, and so, when Manlevrier arrives from India broken in health and half imbecile, she carries him off to Fellside, an old house in the depths of the Westmoreland hills, whore His Lordship soon dies, and the proceedings against him are quashed. Of course, Manlevrier is not really dead, but simply buried alive in luxurious com fort within the hidden recesses of Fellside. Lady Manlevrier hides him there success fully for moro than 40 years, when the death of the confidential servant on whose aid she relied and her own illness suddenly reveals the fact of the old miscreant's existence to his grandchildren. There is also a sub plot, descriptive of the love affairs of Ronald Holli6ton, Earl of Hartfield, who, in order to be certain that he is loved for himself alone, visits FelUido as plain Jack Hammond, a penniless barrister, and is haughtily rejected by Lady Manlovrier's favourite grandchild, Losbia. Eventually he falls in Tovo far inoro seriously with the Cinderella of tho family, Lady Mary, and this damsel deties the iron-willed grand mother for her love's sake. Of course Jack announces himself as Lord Hai'tfield on the wedding day, and Lady Manlevrier is covered with confusion.

"Fortune's Fame," by Yulian Haw thorno, is another novel in great demand just now. As a romance, the story scarcely equals either "Sebastian Strome" or "Bressant," but is superior to "Dust." One character especially—that of a man whose superb physique and magnificent animalism makes him absolutely in dif ferent to moral'considerations—will attract a good deal of attention. I don't think such a personage has ever been quite so well drawn before.

A number of most interesting new books are announced for tho coming season. Chatto and Windus's proraiso, " Beyond the Gates," an allegory by Eliz Stuart Phelps, of "Gates Ajar" fame, which will somewhat resemble Mrs Oliphant's " Little Pilgrim;" also an abridged version of Justin McCarthy's popular "History of Our Own Times" in one volume at six shilling. Miss Gordon dimming is writing a book descriptive of her experiences in tne New Hebrides. Mr Clark Russell lias in hand a series of nau tical sketches to be called "Round the Galley Firo," and Mr Phil Robinson follows his clever " Poets' Birds " with a companion volume ontitled " The Poets' Beasts.

Forthcoming novels announced by Chatto and \Yindus include "The LandLeaguora,"

by the late Anthony Trollope • ""iT? 15 ■ Garden Fair," by Walter Besant. i«iiaß of Athens," by Justin McCarthy' Foreigners," by E. C. Price, 'on 11 ' Free," by Charles Gibbon • « tJ. »rall«y Lynn Linton ; "The Way of ti^."^ I** by David Christie Murray. Z>A^» rld" " Canon's Ward," by James Pavn £?V 3s Gd editions are also to bei« i e*P'i notable novels published this v "& list is too long to give here but T ?"» Trollope's " Like Slips UponthA > Ml» already be had in the Pii& '»** Macmillan's " English IllusffiL '" ■ 7.ine"madeits.appearance ontheKtft*' and the first edition of 70,000 5^ sold out in three days. The st**f *** '' ings certainly form a wonderful .w^ worth, and are quite up to the « u^"* or "Century" level; but the letS?*" does not by any means equal exnS1 "*1 William Black's short tale i little piece of padding, clearly VamL^ for the occasion, and Miss Yonno' ?? st? ry'."^e Armourer's "PrentidB 6- 11!!? rmses indifferently. The berf^'i P™" those by Comyns Carr, on "SS^."* Professor Huxley, on " Ovete^» 'Md unfortunately, they fly rather' over the ft ' of most readers. ne "Ma !

Love Matches That Do Not End Well.

[LAUI- WILDE IS "LONDOX QnjtEy "j

Even love marriage., have no sure founds tion in the intellectual firmament. T oß eo love and wed in a moment is ecstatic j bat to live and not love for the whole after-hjnn of human existence is a fearful reality tin often experienced, in all its dull depression, ' when unrelated seuls are boundtogethetby the irref ragible marriage chain. A young writer of promise and risin ß fame sees a pretty shop girl, 8 jj^JJ daughter, and is fascinated at once. She was so gentle and insinuating, so charm; ■"' ing with her little curled head and her little white hahds, daintily fingering the glittering trinkets, and her placid anile' ; that always beamed a "welcome. He fancies that under her rule the dis order of his bachelor home ; will he changed to a paradise of comfort, and they are married. But the sunshine came not • only a gray, watery atmosphere of fJ eeemed to envelop his life. When Us clever friends came as usual and thought fUsKsa as at a symposium, the WsatW and smiled.her placid smile and uttered M small platitudes of mediocre natures, the set colloquial phraßes of commerce with the most exasperating unconsciousness thai she was a bore and a weariness to them all. On the contrary, she fancied she was quite an addition to the circle—so nice, lady-like, and weU-tred. Then the "■-■ horror of a dreadful truth fell npon the husbands heart. He became corona that ho would have to git opposite to this woman and look at her,vapid smile and listen to her flimsy talk for perhaps half a ' century. There wasno help for him. No release. Sometimes the tumult of his feel ings raged in open war, and then she wept and lamented that she had not married one or other of the young Bhppmen wh6 were dying about her and were now so well oE But after a time matters grew woree. She ' began to assume airs as the wife of, ar a author, to give her opinion and interrupt * the conversation with her affected gush of praise. The husband could see the sup pressed laughter on thelipsofthePlatohisb' and their contempt for the little fool he hag made his wife. Th is finished his agony (he gave up his friends; he gave up writing; fell into a state of morbid melancholy) and ! finally died, leaving all his precious manii- ' scripts confused and. incomplete. The ■uidow crammed them all into the fire, : smiled aa before, and eventually married '"f one or perhaps both of the,admiring shop-,, men. And she still utters her little plati tudes of commerce and refers as a martyr dora to her first marriage to a poor scrib- ! bier, who never could earn enough by any-1,, thing he wrote to keep her in proper style.. ■• But if the small common-place mind is. exasperating, perhaps the untamed freedom, of the Ir.lf savage, the fearless, passions of &i;.» J daughterofthepeople,wouldsmttherequire- I ments of. tho exceptional soul of genius. I So thought a young French artist as he j looked on the massive figure, the tawy j coils of black hair, the grand limbs of a 1 superb Transtavcrine, as Ehe stood in ths I mud in the shallows fishing for eels. H«T, j splendid she was in the flashingl sunlight^ j with her great eyes, her scarletbodice, her I white chemisette tucked up hig^i over the ' I great sculptural arms ; and then her mad, I merry, laughter, that stirred the air lite i j rush of the breeze through the pine woods. j He made a picture of her at once, which j excited immense admiration at theespfc I sition. A glorious study and air, and {ilia j full, rich life of youth, in a flash colour and: ~ j a glow of light.' At last he had found an ■ I ideal to take into his life. He hated tho I false, affected woman of society, but here j was a beautiful savage, a child of the butt 1 and tho storms and the flowers ; ehe would I give his artist life eternal youth—» he mar- I ried her. She had no possession save a big j red cat, and lie carried her and tile cat to I But when she put on the' Paris dressjjko I other people, what a mpunu^il transform* I .tion of the daughter oi the sun.. 1 great, I splendid animal in a little. Paris bonnet, I always tilting to ono side over the heavy 1 masses of hair, was a failure; and the great I Koman feet, made for splashing. in w I reeds and tho rushes, limped sadly in the I little Paris boots ; and the effect,of a Pans 1 mantle on the great, broad shoulders, ym, 1 altogether deplorable, Even her tea* 1 seemed to have disappeared with the loss of ■ I her native picturesque surroundings. Then I her coarse langnage, her large gertuWVjiw I bad French, all these things agoniswiim I at every moment. A savage veneered'u w-1 I artistic mistake. He saw it all and ag&w^. I and withdrew from the world, where m I could never bring a wife who talked eslwo I in society as if she was hailing a boat acrow • I the Tiber, and whose laugh shook tie room I like an earthquake. However,, they toro ■ got over ten yoars of married life. '«<>, I heavy chin, the broad shoulders, the vulgr - j mouth have become accentuated jßtfctw I eyes are splendid and the Brbst,hu*jW I has learned to endure a good deal. o» £ | so good-hearted and kind, though when W j claps him on the back and pressies WB »■ I eat some dish she has spent all the mormßg I preparing, ho shudders and a silent aspml • I tion rises to his lips that he had left.h« <* , I her own soil 'midst the reeds and tM «».; I with her cat and the eels and the fifhermea : ■ of the Tiber. I

It never dies-o mother's holylovo . Strengthen witli ovory ill tJhat.may.ww In every phase of lifo its waters mo\ 0, aft With current strong, and fa]* Ol"i e *J?SSpS From the heart's altar other names.iMJ^^.-. : And whilo they soom as warm r «».»■_. "« and high, ■ - c yi-- ( ;:- The taoonse of one lives to reach wjgp?^ A moUior'a tender lovo can nevor me. ;

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, NOVEMBER 24, 1883