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B.-Remittances can be made in Postage Stamps, Greenbacks, Drafts, or P. O. Money Orders, or Posta! Notes, but all P. O. Money Orders or Notes must be made payable at N. Y. City Post Office. SPECIAL OFFER.-For every dollar's worth ordered, we will give FREE a paper of either the above Mignonette cr I ansy. We will also send on trial 50 seeds each of 10 diferent colors of our world renowned Pansies for only 10 cents. 235 240 241 255 in the OVERLAND MONTHLY, is evidently written by some one who has lived within the gates of that 225 curious, fabulously wealthy, self-made and yet haughty group that represents aristocracy in California; and possibly this may be the reason for the anonymousness of a novel which an author might well be glad to be known by. No equally intelligent, shrewd, and graceful novel has ever been printed in California. If the author expresses contempt for many of the "institutions" of our Californian aristocracy, yet he evidently writes not as a satirist, but as a carefully truthful delineator of the life he has studied. The March installment transfers the scene from the palaces of San Francisco to the "Shepherd's" country home among the olives and vineyards of semi-tropic California. 262 263 275 279 283 300 301 I, IV, V, VI, VII. Charles Warren Stoddard 307 316 URSIONS OF AN EVOLUTIONIST. Joseph Le inte.. 329 332 HE OVERLAND MONTHLY, in the three numbers ady issued in 1884, illustrates noticeably its own ds at the beginning of the year, viz. that not e California, or even the Pacific section of the ted States, finds expression most naturally in its A Hawaiian Parting. The departure of the steamer Like-like of old, and of the Kinau of more recent date, on Tuesdays at 4 P. M., is sure to call forth more or less emotion: each usually has a crowded passenger list-with a very large 334 proportion of Hawaiians-and though the inter-island voyage is an affair of hours, not days or weeks, parting is such sweet sorrow that many of us go down to visit the little steamer and to listen to the sobbing of the sympathetic sea. The blue-blooded whites shake hands and wave a light adieu; but the natives, male and female, fall upon one another's necks and weep copiously in their best clothes. This display of emotion is highly dramatic, because it is genuine-brief grief is bound to be genuine as long as it lasts-it doesn't have time to be anything else; it is demonstrative and picturesque, and for the most part utterly unconscious, yet all the while the deck and the dock are crowded with interested spectators who regard it as a pathetic or amusing spectacle, as the case may be. Certainly it is a spectacle, this Tuesday paroxysm; it is brilliant with color, for the emotional victims are led to the sacrifice wreathed with flowers; then there are fruit offerings without stint, and drink offerings on the sly, and smoke offerings in stumpy pipes that pass from mouth to mouth through a constantly increasing circle of acquaintances, and when the Likelike or the Kinau is finally well out in the stream, and the belated last man, who cast himself scornfully into a skiff, is now being mns, but the whole of the Pacific shores, and of Chilean and condition of Chile he thinks greatly derrated by strangers to the country. pulled through a port-hole with considerable It would be best no one should know it but a lack of discretion, we all step townward, for the curtain has been rung down on the emotions and the consoling hour of dinner is at hand. Charles Warren Stoddard in Overland Monthly for March. Song. UPON the whitened wall The shortened shadows fall, And on the violet sky The sharp, clear hill-tops lie In rugged calm; With strange, weird life-sounds blent, The ocean's psalm. But what are all things new Away from you? yourself, and I should imagine six or ent boiled in a quart of water, strained off and put in a bottle, would be a very good way, adding a spoonful to every liquid she takes. They must be fresh done every two or three days, otherwise they grow too thick."-Luy H. M. Soulsby in Overland Monthly for March. A Miracle of Precocity. Hugo Grotius (called in his own language Hugo de Groot) was born at Delft, in Holland, April 10, 1583. He was of an ancient and knightly race, his ancestors having been famous for centuries in the history of Helland, both for deeds of arms in the old feu -E. C. Sanford in Overland Monthly for March. dal wars, and for learning and science in the Medicines of the Last Century. Court suffered from the ague, and Mrs. Delany sent him the following recipe as infallible, viz.: “A spider put into a goosequill, well sealed and secured and hung about the child's neck." There was a pleasing simplicity about the remedies of that time. For a cough, ground ivy tea and asses' milk was held a certain cure; and for general weakness, hartshorn and exercise; of the former 200 or 300 drops a day. To restore the complexion after measles, apple-water was used: "the rottenest apples to be got, put into a cold still, and so distilled without anything else." For toothache, "little trefoil leaves, primrose leaves, and yarrow, pounded, made into a little pellet and put to the tooth, or tied up in muslin and held between the teeth"-a valued recipe of the Duchess of Portland. Some of the remedies were of a seemingly kill and not cure description; such as the bleedings for breathlessness, and this: "A pound of quicksilver boiled in a gallon of water till half the water is consumed away, to be drunk constantly at his meals [poor Bernard's] or whenever he is dry." Mary, the youngest Dewes, was better off, for she was only ordered for her cough "snails boiled in her barley-water, or tea-water, or whatever she drinks-taken in time they have done wonderful cures. She must know nothing of it. They give no taste. more prosperous days of peace. His father and grandfather had both been distinguished for classical scholarship, and had both held high positions at the University of Leyden. Under the influence of these learned surroundings, Hugo was a scho and a poet almost from his cradle. To s in these degenerate days, his precocity sees marvelous. He wrote beautiful Latin verses at the age of seven, and was matriculated <* Leyden at eleven. This university, the surrounded by the storms of the great wat with Spain, was at that time one of the most famous in Europe. A whole host of leamed and renowned professors occupied its char and its standards for matriculation and grace uation were exceedingly high. At the ag of fourteen, Grotius obtained his Bachers degree, after a rigid examination in the clas sics, mathematics, astronomy, jurisprudence. and theology. On returning home he published, though not yet fifteen, his annotated edition of Ca pella, one of the most difficult of Latin as thors, and other valuable and learned works, besides several tragedies. He immediately entered the profession of law, and when was seventeen we find him an advocate in full practice before the highest courts at the Hague. At twenty-three he was Attorne General of Holland. Then followed emba sies, municipal dignities, and public emp ments of the most varied kind, in all of wir e acquitted himself with such dignity and bility as to gain the universal applause of is countrymen. When he was twenty-six, e published his famous "Mare Liberum," at great argument for the liberty of the sea at has since become an authority in the aritime law of all nations.—Arthur Yager Overland Monthly for March. Position of Women among the Alaskan Indians. The Alaskan Indians are in many respects r superior to any other of our Indian tribes. otwithstanding the debasing influence of any of the white traders, there are no Inan women accorded the same advantages. he wife holds the veto power in every famYou can make only a partial trade with e husband. He can neither sell his pelts hire himself or his boat without her conit. He tells you so. After you have exusted your ability in bringing him to terms, introduces Madam on the scene. She ens with calmness to your sophistry, and è chances are, ten to one, that she sees ough you and breaks the bargain. The sequence is that men do not congree by themselves; they are always with ir families. Unlike the Indians of the er coast, the man assumes a fair share of labor; they go on all fishing and hunting. editions en famille. When a bargain is ick, the husband hands the wife the monwhich she ties in the corner of her blan, and they walk off most sociably together. Agnes M. Manning in Overland Monthly March. A Daring Duchess. 'Kitty, beautiful and young," did not apr at this birthday, having been forbid the rt for asking subscriptions for the sequel he Beggars' Opera in the drawing-room. ch a rebuke to one of her rank was never ore heard of, and equally unprecedented the letter she sent back by the Viceimberlain when he brought her the mese: "The Duchess of Queensberry is sured and well pleased that the King hath en her so agreeable a command as to stay n court, where she never came for diver sion but to bestow a civility on the King and Queen; she hopes by such an unprecedented order as this is that the King will see as few as he wishes at his court, particularly such as dare to think or speak truth. I dare not do otherwise, and ought not, nor could have imagined that would not have been the very highest compliment I could possibly pay the King, to endeavor to support truth and innocence in his house, particularly when the King and Queen both told me they had not read Mr. Gay's play. I have certainly done right, then, to stand by my own words, rather than his Grace of Grafton's, who hath neither made use of truth, judgment, nor honor, through this whole affair, either for himself or his friends. C. QUEENSBERRY." Lady Hervey told her: "Now you are banished, the court hath lost its chief ornament." "I am entirely of your mind," replied the Duchess. On another occasion, when aprons were forbidden at court, the Duchess, who usually wore one, appeared in it at the drawingroom; her entrance was opposed by the Lord in Waiting, when she tore it off, threw it in his face, and walked on.—Lucy H. M. Soulsby in Overland Monthly for March. In the Harbor of Esquimault. But neither Esquimault, nor Beacon Hill, nor the Government House, nor any drive in the neighborhood can match the quaint little harbor itself, seen in the glamour of the dying day. In the unruffled waters the far Olym pian mountains are reflected, with all their vast height and subtlety of color. Purple reaches in the level distance, and violet ranges of foothills stretching up into rosetouched peaks covered with endless snows. Over all, a sky of pale amethyst, emerging from bands of orange and crimson at the horizon, and ascending into a blue so deep and far away that to gaze on it long is almost bewildering. The strangely reflective power of the bay gives back every object with distinct outline. Young athletes in flannel. suits, seated in their slender shallops, are repeated again and again as they sweep past. A gray ship lies near ours with a red anchor as immovable as fate, and as austere. over her bow, and every spar and detail of her rigging to be seen below as well as above. A canoe is at the gangway, in which sits stolidly a siwash at the stern, while his clutchman in the bow is driving a bargain with our steward for an immense salmon, every scale of which is a curious glint of color. The woman herself is a study. Bronzed and wrinkled, gray-haired, wild-eyed, with a scarlet blanket wrapped about her, and a yellow handkerchief knotted in her elfish locks, she brought back to me the single time I had seen Charlotte Cushman as Meg Merrilles. She knows how to sell. The steward of fers her a ridiculously low price, but she is she understands his chaff she listens to a with cool scorn. The canoe sways and swings on the violet tide, but there is no metion from the old stoic, who sits, paddle is hand, at the stern. Only when her terms are acceded to does her lord and master condescend to observe the transaction Then he keenly watches the money that s placed in her hand, which she, with the same indifference that has characterized her every motion, passes over to his custody. And then, with a few dexterous strokes of thei paddles, the canoe is lost in the purple shadows of the opposite shore.-Agnes M. Maxning in Overland Monthly for March. CHIAROSCURO. 'Tis twilight falls on the sunset's splendor,- Thro' drawn lips aching to cry aloud. Dim ghosts and vexed of vows oft broken, Of hot words spoken, and kind unsaid, Of wasted time, and the soul's delaying And yet, faint one, though day be faded Beyond the night waits rosy morning, The fair-faced dawning of Love's new day. -Elisabeth C. Atherton in Overland Monthly for March. |