you can give me the address I want-Miss well as listened. His ways were so sweet, Annetta Bartmore's?" The moment had come for the owner of this name, however dizzy and faint with too sudden a draught of joy, to detach herself from the gloom, to prove herself no shadow. "So Mr. Treston does not recognize me?" "Now that you vouchsafe my senses somewhat to fasten upon!" Quiet tones; but palms have met as if in drowning seas. Mr. Baring, who had not undervalued himself as a necessity to Annetta's sense, stands silent, pierced by a sense of superfluity. The egotism of love has been observed, discussed, portrayed, times out of number. Was it Annetta's fault, or Treston's or Cyrus Baring's? the carriage darted away; but one was left, alone. The lawyer had else to smoke besides his inveterate cigar as he trudged through wind and weather, now wildly claiming this suburb for its own, to the street-car. And those others? May not love so long denied sustenance be pardoned when the feast is spread? "Mrs. Shaw having told me a little, I had the whole story from Tony. Had I only been in season! Was there nothing sacrificed to-day which cost you a heart pang?" What was Annetta's answer? "Mr. Treston, you are here." Treston, who had not relinquished her hand, raised it now to lips whence, at her word, some heavy anxiety, some suspense, had exhaled in a deep, tremulous sigh. Reaching Annetta's tiny rooms high up in a lodging-house, and the gas being lit, came forth these tender ejaculations: "I have not seen my darling yet. Now for a soul-satisfying look!" That scrutiny, radiantly begun, proved a dagger in Treston's side. He saw the fragility of the flower he had come three thousand miles to pluck. He hid his sudden anguish from Annetta. She was more than happy when he, insisting she should rest, had made her cosy on a sofa under a thick shawl. She watched him as so satisfying. She knew so well what he would do next; she could divine just at what point he would look at her, and with how shining a search for her sympathy. He sat very near. If, holding her waxen fingers, he wept over them, it was inwardly. He concealed any fear from her with a tenderness fairly maternal. Much, much, was there to talk about. The past-let that be dismissed in few words. Treston spoke delicately of a dread of fratricidal hatred, a conviction that the one who had gone would outlive him. Annetta's lips played tremulously over some thought, or was it an anxiety hovering there awaiting expression? Love for the dead, faithfulness to his memory, had been strong motives through her lonely life. "Annetta, you are keeping something from me." "He-he suffered so. Don't you fancy he sees?" Tears came to eyes and voice. "My little dove"-thus was worded no careless reply"I do humbly believe on the faith of a Christian, that if Tom Bartmore could now look down upon us, his purified soul would rejoice in our joy, would rejoice to see tired wings softly fluttering to fold themselves in a faithful breast." or so When the future (their future would begin to-morrow) came to be discussed, Treston avowed with a charming play of enthu siasm that he had a plan, a plan clearly outlined from his knowledge of Annetta's tastes. "We are to go away immediately, soon as your lawyer and I can come to an understanding concerning your business af fairs; we are to go away into a realm of har mony. Wherever great voices and great or chestras make this world melodious there we will be. All this until my bird longs for nest of her very own." A fair sun shone on Annetta's weddin. morn. The ceremony, witnessed by M Baring and Maggy, was no sooner over ther Treston drove to Dr. Portmeath's office un der the plea of renewing an old acquain tance. Peace reigning at the Doctor's epigastrium, he was good-humored, glad to see a man who had valued him. This, only, in that first interview, was said directly touching Annetta "She refuses my tonics and yet she takes you. Truly, there is no accounting for tastes !" Treston accompanied Annetta down-stairs, put her into the carriage, was about to get in himself, made a discovery, paused, scolded: 'Madam, have you not just been endowed with all my worldly goods? You do not properly appreciate your responsibilities. You have allowed me to lose a new glove, bought for this auspicious day." "You had it in your hand up-stairs, Fran cis." "Ah." EXCURSIONS OF AN EVOLUTIONIST.1 9. THESE delightful excursions in the field of 3. Our Aryan Forefathers. 4. What we thought are undertaken by one who has done Learn from old Aryan Words. 5. Was there much good hard work, and is therefore entitled a primeval Mother-Tongue? 6. Socioloto such recreation. The excursions of such gy and Hero Worship. 7. Heroes of Inmen are the only ones of much value. Those dustry. 8. The Causes of Persecution. who make a business of excursions are sel- The Origin of Protestantism. 10. The true dom worth following. In plain language, Lessons of Protestantism. II. Evolution popular writings on philosophic subjects are and Religion. 12. The Meaning of Infan of little profit, unless produced by true work- cy. 13. A Universe of Mind-stuff. 14. In ers. Mr. Fiske is one of these; for in his Memoriam: Charles Darwin. We will nowork entitled "Cosmic Philosophy" he has tice briefly some of these. nade a really important contribution to the philosophy of evolution. The first two essays give an admirable and, on the whole, a reliable resumé of the history of primeval man in Europe. Some of the statements are indeed a little more positive than the facts warrant, but perhaps the essays are all the more readable on that ac The work before us, as its title indicates, s a collection of disconnected essays on a reat variety of subjects, but all treated from he standpoint of evolution. It is truly a eries of gems strung on this thread. The count. The popular mind seems to demand, ook is certainly one of the most fascinat- before all else, clearness and definiteness of ig imaginable. A mere naming of the statement. tles of the essays is sufficient to arrest the tention of the intelligent reader and ensure s perusal. 1. Europe, before the Arrival of lan. 2. The Arrival of Man in Europe. Excursions of an Evolutionist. By John Fiske. oughton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. For sale by Billings, arbourne & Co. The next three essays are closely connected and of great interest. We were especially interested in the question: Was there a primeval mother tongue? The author decides this question in the negative. But it seems to us that this depends on what we mean by the question. Granting the deriv ative origin of man, if the question be: Did man become man and learn to speak before differentiating into the various races which we now find? then we think it must be answered in the affirmative; for the connection of humanity with language is so close and necessary that it becomes a question of the unity or diversity of origin of man. If man, like other species, originated at one time and place, there must have been a primeval mother-tongue. But if the question be: Can all languages be traced to a common stem in the same way (though less perfectly) as all Aryan languages can be so traced? then the answer must be in the negative. The question of the unity of origin of languages is precisely like that of unity of origin of animal forms. We suppose all evolutionists believe that animal forms diverged from a common stem; and, therefore, that there have been connecting links between even the great departments, such as vertebrate and articulate; but it is admitted that such links are no longer discernible with any certainty. The divergence took place so long ago, and has become so extreme, and especially the connecting links have been so completely obliterated, that these two departments seem now to have had wholly independent origins. The origin of all vertebrates from a primeval vertebrate, and all articulates from a primeval articulate, is clear enough; but we can not now make ont any connection or homology between the two types. So also is it with language. We may admit that all languages had a common origin, and yet fail to find any philological connection between extreme types. As the existence of distinct types of animal structure does not destroy the probability of a common origin for all animals, so the existence of distinct types of language-structure does not destroy the probability that all languages have had a common origin. Passing over the sixth and seventh essays, our attention is arrested by the eighth, ninth, and tenth, which are again closely connected. The most important thought embodied in these is, that persecution is the necessary result of the idea of corporate responsibility for individual beliefs or states of mind. This idea is inherited from an early military or ganization of society, and very necessary at that time for the corporate unity of society; but it has long since outlived its usefulness and now become, in the highest degree, hurtful to the individualism which is the fundamental idea of an industrially organized society. Protestantism is a revolt against the idea of corporate responsibility, and assertion of individual responsibility for individual beliefs and for individual development. According to our essayist, the idea of corporate responsibility is yet far from dead-the revolution is yet far from complete. Protestantism has yet much to learn from the study of the true spirit of Protestantism. We will here only interject a query: Is it desirable that the idea should wholly die? Is not that which is true and good in one condition of society always in some sense true and good? Does not an old form of truth and of good only become subordinated to nobler truth and higher good? Ought not modern society to incorporate the principles of all earlier stages and subordinate them to its own higher characteristic principles? Are not we moderns "the heirs of all the ages"? The eleventh essay, on Evolution and Religion, is very timely. The author takes the only rational and tenable ground on this subject. Evolution must not be confounded with materialism. The two, in fact, have no real affinity. Evolution is not antagonistic to a rational theism nor a true Christianity, though it may be to much that is called orthodoxy. It cannot in any way affect the fundamental doctrines of religious belief. We have no patience with that shallow philosophy which imagines that at last a pure materialism is demonstrated by evolution. The spirit of this essay is altogether admirable. The twelfth essay is a restatement in popular form of a thought originally brought out in the author's "Cosmic Philosophy," viz : that a long period of infancy is a necessary condition of the emergency of humanity out of animality. It is so because it involves a long period of mental growth, and especially of mammals must be sought still lower down necessitates the establishing of the family, in the Permian. Now it may indeed be that which in its turn forms the foundation of mammals originated in the Permian, but it our moral nature, and therefore of society. is not true that any mammals have ever been According to our author, man becomes found far down in the Trias, and still less man by the establishment of the family, that any have been found there by Marsh. while the family was the necessary result of The facts are these: Two or three small mara long period of helplessness in offspring. supials have been found in the uppermost The thought is undoubtedly an important Trias-one in North Carolina and perhaps two in Europe. These are the earliest known. In the middle Jurassic of Europe, seventeen or eighteen species have been found. Marsh has found about seventeen species in strata of Wyoming; but these are on a still higher horizon, viz, the wealden, which is uppermost Furassic if not lowest cretaceous. one. We have, thus far, found no fault. The book certainly deserves all the commendation we have given or can give it. It is admirable in its spirit and in its style. Yet some slight blemishes are detectable. These we note, in the hope that they will be removed from future editions, which are sure to be called for. Some scientific statements are made with more positiveness than are warranted by the facts, and some supposed facts are too easily accepted when they fit in with cherished views. We think the evidences of Tertiary man in Europe, and especially of Pliocene man in California (p. 36), are in this category. The implements associated with the so-called Pliocene skull are Neolithic. Now the existence of Neolithic man in Pliocene times would overthrow all the recognized principles of anthropology-principles recognized by Mr. Fiske himself. Again, on pp. 38 and 57, he speaks of Croll's theory of the cause of glacial climate, with its seven or eight extreme changes of temperature, as proved. Now, Mr. Croll's theory, especially as modified by Mr. Wallace, undoubtedly deserves serious attenion-but it cannot be accepted as proved. One glaring inaccuracy in scientific stateOn page 12 it is stated that Marsh has found so many mammals of low ypes far down in the Trias, that the origin nent we note. There is one statement so extraordinary that we cannot pass it over without notice. On page 230, speaking of the increasing refinement of modern times and the instinctive shrinking from infliction of pain and death, so different from the recklessness characteristic of earlier times, he says: “It has thus come to pass that in such communities as England and our own northern States the majority of individuals may live all their lives without being called upon to take part in putting a fellow-creature to death." Is it possible that the author can believe that in other countries and in other parts of our own country the majority of individuals do take part in killing their fellow-men? Or may we not hope that the word "fellow-creature" is here used in a wider sense; and that in the highly refined communities mentioned above, fleas and bedbugs and mosquitos enjoy an immunity from pain and violent death? But, in spite of the slight blemishes pointed out, the book is most heartily commended as in the highest degree interesting and stimulating. Foseph Le Conte. ETC. THERE are indications of a reaction in feeling among the farmers, and especially the vine and fruit growers of the State, toward Chinese labor. This is very natural, and has no doubt been long foreseen by all who gave thought to the subject. For the employers of agricultural labor have never suffered any disadvantage from the presence of Chinese, and joined the general request for their exclusion purely because they acquiesced in the reasoning of those who urged upon them the disadvantages to the community at large of an unrestricted Chinese population. It is true that if instead of the 75,000 Chinamen in our State there were 75,000 Americans, Irish, or Germans, there would be about that many more purchasers of fresh fruit and grapes, and certainly of breadstuffs; but no producer is likely to feel personally aggrieved at the presence of the Chinaman on this account, when by canning his fruit and making his grapes into raisins or wine he has the world for his market. Not merely was the farmer without an economic grievance against the Chinaman; the objectionable characteristics developed by the race when massed in cities are usually not apparent at all in the small groups of them that scatter through the country. Naturally, therefore, opposition to Chinese immigration did not originate among the farmers. They joined in it, how ever, if not unanimously, still very generally and heartily, when it became a definite movement. There was a certain amount of "pooling issues" in this: they were feeling the pressure of hard times, a good deal mortgaged, and very willing to help the laboring classes against Asiatic competition in return for help against the railroads and the creditor class. Moreover, their class sympathy was strongly with the American or European laborer as against the Asiatic; and they came, in time, to share the general dread of the latter as a demoralizing element in the population. But considerations of sympathy, of the general good, of one's own ultimate good as a member of the community, stagger a little when they come in conflict with an immediate pecuniary need; and with the fact forcing itself upon them that no attainable labor is so satisfactory for vineyard and orchard as Chinese -in fact, that without more Chinese labor vineyard and orchard bid fair to be crippled-it is no wonder that misgivings as to the wisdom of the exclusion act begin to be abundantly spoken and scantily printed among them. In all candor, we believe, according to the best of our information and observation, that the wine and fruit growers have suffered a serious economic disadvantage and are likely to be much incom moded for a long time by the loss of a free supply of Chinese labor. There has been too much uncandor already in the discussion of the Chinese question, too much inclination to re-enforce the sound reasons for restriction with unsound ones, in order to meet all tastes; and it is quite time to admit the several things that are to be said for the immediate economic advantages of Chinese labor here. It is not upon the ground of strictly economic objections to Chinese labor, but upon that of social objections to a Chinese population, that the most thoughtful and judicious men of the community take their stand. WE find this position met by some of the most influential Eastern authorities with the reminder--somewhat sarcastically and contemptuously put―of the logical consequences of excluding any race because we do not think them desirable members of society, and the question whether we mean to exclude everybody whose views of the family or whose habits in the matter of clean shirts we do not like. It is probable that the laboring classes who clamored for protection from Asiatic competition, and who supplied the voting power by which the thing was accomplished, troubled themselves not in the least with logical sequences of any kind; if the question were of the logic, or even of the honesty of motive of Kearney and his followers, we could give points to our Eastern critics. But educated and judicious men do not lose their logic when they take up their abode on the Pacific Coast; they know, of course, that when they advocate the right and duty of the State to exclude one class of immigration, they give up the dogma of Columbia's sacred office as a refuge and protector of the poor and wretched of the whole earth; they understand that the precedent made by the passage of the exclusion act means that by showing sufficient cause and convincing a sufficient number of votes, any class of immigration may be checked; that from their point of view, the question to be discussed when demonstration is made against any class is not whether anything can justify exclusion, but whether the reasons in that particular case are strong enough to justify it, whether it is practicable, and the like. At present, the very general idea among those who have given up faith in our country's duty to be a universal refuge is that there are no objections to any race of Aryan blood sufficiently strong to justify exclusion, while there are very few races outside of the Aryan family whom they would wish to see added to the negroes, Indians, and Chinese already upon our hands. have not found, however, any Aryophile who would advocate drawing any hard and fast line by race affing ities, or who would deny that, having once admitte 1 the case against the Chinese, the Government might not perfectly well draw such lines as to exclude all of Wel |