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(For The Sunny South.)
The English Classics.
Kart* Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Flelcber.
Br L U 7.
•IOHX H. SEALS. - Editor and Proprietor. , ' ,
w. b. SEALS. - - Business Manager. Shakspeare was not the only great dramatist
MRS. MARY E. BRYAN (*) Asocial* Editor. ! ? h ° adorned ‘ he a ? e of Q” ee ° Elizabeth, ben
A. L. HAMILTON. D. D., - A,»ocIa.e Editor ! ^ ^On as he IS Called m the
.... ’ . . i fond and not untrue epitaph upon his tomb—
n anager of Agencies. | began bis career in the reign of the Princess,
■ ■ : - though he did not rise to his chief power and
ATLANTA. GA., SATURDAY, APRIL 7,1877. } fame until the time of her successor. Like his
| illustrious rival, play-writing was, with him,
" 1 the result of play-acting. His genius was not
“The Weight of the Human Brain.”—See an j of that high order which would enable him to
excellent contribution on this subject in this i succeed as a tragedian. His two efforts in this
j ggtlei : line, (hialine and Sejanus, were almost complete
\ failures, and are now never brought on the
“The Ghostoi the Malmaisok.”-We begin j • tag «: , Th ° n S h well versed in history, and
... . , . f. I deeply imbued with the spirit of the classics,
.his grand and thrilling Irench story in this . bis knowledge in these particulars did not ena-
issue. j ble him to give a life-like reality to the men and
women whom he brought up from antiquity to
Reeolleolions of South America.—We invite | mingle in his scenes. Indeed, his style labors
special attention to an exceedingly interesting I under the charge of being pedantic of going
nr , A i .. . ,, ° i out of the way for the sake of appearing
and handsomely written article on the next | ] eflrnel j J ri e>
page, irom the pen of the Hon. Wm. L. Scruggs, ! in comedy, he achieved a far greater success;
late United States Minister to Bogota. He served i so much, in tact, that scarcely any critic has
the government four years with distinguished I ventured to assign him any lower place than
ability, and we are pleased to know that he has j second only to Shakspeare. It would seem re
located in this city for the present, and will ’ markable in him, had not the same thing been
probably make Atlanta his permanent home.
Boys and Girls of the South.
We guess all the subscribers to our young
folks’ paper have received the second number
before now, and are delighted with it. We are
sure they are pleased. Everybody who has seen
it iB captivated, and great surprise is manifested
at its not having by this time the requisite 5,000
subscribers. We supposed that number could
be obtained in a short while, but we are far
true of so many literary men, that he did as well
early as he ever did at all. His “Every Man in
his Humor, ” written at the age of twenty-two,
is fully as good as anything he ever wrote, and
by many is considered his best. Later in life,
he exercised more care—re-wrote, remodeled,
pruned and changed—but none of bis later pro
ductions rose above that standard. Whatever
may have been the faults of his later works,
they could not be ascribed to carelessness.
Jonson seems to have been utterly destitute of
pathos, and hence his failure in tragedy, which
owes its great power to that quality. For the
same reason, his best comedies are vastly infe-!
short of it yet. We are anxious to issue it week- i r ^ or lighter and gayer plays of Shak-
, , , . . ! speare—such as “ Midsummer s Night Dream,”
lybnt cannot do so with less than the 5,000 , £ * Muoh Ado About Nothing.’* His comedies
names. It will require more than that many to pay j are really not works of art, the chief design of
the actual expenses of publication. Let all the i which is the creation of beauty. On the con-
voung folks and friends of the paper then bestir j tral 7> ^ey ar °>.?[ e believe, without an exception,
* ' . : ... gotten up to differentiate some leading idea in
themselves m its behalf and let us make it a g js This is set lorth some times with
weekly. It should have of, 000 circulation right | mucb beauty, and always with much wit. His
away.
We give below a handsome notice from that
good old paper the Christian Index :
Boys and Girds op the South, is the name of
a new illustrated publication, published in At-
! wit was of that brilliant kind which excites ad
miration without imparting any pleasure, and
gave to his plays the appearance of being keen
satires. His characters are more like persons
, . , ,.. . T , „ _ , _ . i introduced that they may utter his smart say-
lanta and edited by John H. Seals, Esq., of in gSi than like livi ng men and women. Notone
Ihe Sunny South. The subscription .price is ! of ° them alI ha3 become so fami i iar to our im .
only one dollar per year, and the paper is richly ! inatiolia8 to 8eem like one whom we have
worth three times that sum. It is for the enter
tainment, instruction, and improvement of the
young, and the initial number, now before us,
splendidly fulfills the promise. It is full of at
tractive pictures, short and good stories, poems,
original contributions, appropriate editorials,
puzzles, t conundrums, charades, problems, etc.
known, as is the case with many of Shakspeare's
people.
Though a classic, Jonson is now but little
read, and his plays are rarely brought forward
on the stage. Nor can we, notwithstanding the
many beauties to be found in his pages, regret
that it is so. We cannot pronounce his plays
We discover no taint of sentimentalism in any j sound, healthful reading. Much of his language
of its well-filled pages, of which there are six
teen ; nothing is displayed for the eye or sense
of the prurient curiosity that revels in the vul
gar and vicious through the channel of so many
of the pictorial papers of the North. Because
The Boys and Girls of the South is a pure,
high-toned, interestingjand conscientiously con
ducted paper, worthy of a place in Southern
homes, we commend it to the people as worthy
of the widest patronage, and hope this paper
will soon push aside the trashy, mawkish, wishy-
washy, deleterious'literature with which the
country is afflicted by Northern paper mongers.
Is Woman Inferior I—Whenever a combina
tion of circnmstances has thrown a woman of
good mental capacity outside of the educational
and social groove in which the sex is ordinarily
confined, she has shown what she could have
done had that groove never existed. Mary Som
erville and Caroline Herschel in science; Queen
Elizabeth and Mme. Roland in politics; Char
lotte Bronte and George Eliot in literature; Joan
of Arc in war; Burdett-Coutts in finance—these,
and a score of others who might be named,
prove that there is no inevitable and inexorable
inferiority warring against woman. In propor
tion to the number of women who have entered
the fields of science, politics, literature, war and
finance, there have been fewer failures than
among the men; and if we could search the an
nals of private life, we should find enough in
stances of first class executive ability to con
vince the most incredulous that what woman
wants to achieve success in the strugg’e of life
is not brains, but practical and thorough educa
tion, supplemented by encouragement and a
fair chance.—Ex,
Now Settlers in Florida.
IVe recently published an excellent article on
this “ Italy of America ” from the pen of Col.
G. C. Player, now a resident of that State, and
in this issue will be found another handsome
article, and we learn the following additional Shakespeare" himself,
facts of interest from a distinguished gentleman ’
who has recently returned from there:
Colonel D. Morgan Seals, of Eufaula, Ala., an
eminent lawyer, has recently bought a bearing
orange grove on Lake Eustice, Sumter county,
Fla., in a neighborhood where many of the
prominent citizens of Alabama have settled.
The country around Lakes Eustice, Griffin and
Harris is rapidly settling up from Alabama,
Mississippi and Georgia. Dr. J. Marion Sims,
of New York, has recently been on a visit to
his son-in-law, Rev. Dr. Cottrell, and has taken
a place for an orange grove on Lake Harris,
next to Dr. Cottrell’s homestead. To reach
Lakes Eustice and Harris, Valusia, one hundred
and forty-four miles up the St. Johns river, is
the place of landing. Mr. L. H. Eldridge keeps
an excellent house at that point, and is prompt
and efficient in sending passengers by two-horse
hack across to Fort Mason, a distance of twenty-
five miles, where a steamboat will take them out
into Lake Harris to Leesburg or Yalaha.
Yalnha is a new town, opposite Leesburg, the
bounty seat of Sumter county, Fla. It is a
Tat of trade for a neighborhood rapidly set-
n T .g np with citizens from all parts of the
E uuntry. Within five years, the lake front has
jail been taken up in homesteads, except such as
pwere before entered and planted in orange
/groves. Captain Jack Farres, Dr. Gaston Drake
and Major James Drake, Selma, Ala., formerly
large cotton planters, are permanently settled
there; also Mr. James Padget, of Greenville,
Ala., Mr. Spioer, of Columbus, Miss., and Major
Hecker and. several of the Venables of Virginia.
The family of J. B. Cottrell, D. D., of Owens
boro, Ky., is of the neighborhood, Mr. H. H.
Duncan, a son of Mrs. C., with his step-brother,
Mr. C. Jennings Cottrell, having entered a
homestead on Lake Harris three years ago.
Chnrch and school privileges are at hand, and
the community is one of rare promise. Across
the neck ef the Lake from Yalaha, Mr. Homec
Blackman, formerly of Cbnnnennggee Ridge,
1 his sons-in-law and several of his old Ala-
neighbors, make np another community.
must have seemed coarse, even in his day, and
would be now shocking to decent ears. Nor can
we, despite his bitter satires upon vice, say that
the general tendency of his writings is favorable
to virtue. True, his villains are in the end dis
appointed of their purposes and punished; but
we fear most persons would be more fascinated
by the agreeable form of their profligacy than
warned by their final discomfiture. Doubtless,
he did not intend to make vice attractive, but
he has not made it sufficiently hateful. It does
not altogether atone for the fiendish malignity
of Yolpone that in the end he is victimized by
the wretch who had served as his tool in play
ing upon others his horrid practical jokes. It is
well that the alchemist should be eventually dis
comfited, but this does not occur until after he
has shown himself a very cunning and amusing
fellow.
We know that in the world of reality, wicked
ness often flourishes, and the good do not al
ways triumph; but it is incumbent upon him who
would teach mankin 1 to make the one detes
table and to invest the other with all the interest
possible.
As a comedian, Jonson will always rank high.
Indeed, though he has been sharply criticised
and much abused, there are few in this branch
of literature who are entitled to precedence of
him. But it is upon his shorter poems that his
best fame will rest Many of these oontain ex
quisite gems of beauty which may be read by
all. His plays we would trust only into the
hands«of those who have discernment to sift the
wheat from the chaff.
He was in fact a very unequal writer. Some
of his finest utterances are found amid masses
of dullness. To sum him up on the whole,
we join in the verdict that has pronounced
him “ rare Ben Jonson.”
Among the wits of Queen Elizabeth’s reign,
occur the names of Beaumont and Fletcher—
names indissolubly linked together by love and
and genius. So intimate and unselfish was this
friendship that we know not to which of the two
to ascribe any particular work. Their writings
were almost wholly dramatic, mostly comedies,
some of a high order of merit. In some of the
qualities of a dramatic poet, they rank next to
Their works, together
with those of Massinger, who was their contem
porary, though not their equal, are now seldom
read. They have been ranked as classics, and
no one who wishes to be acquainted with the
history of English literature could afford to pass
them by.
“Is it Compulsory A lady writes : “I
agree with you perfectly in your article about
‘low neck’ dresses, but pray tell me, is this style
of so-called ‘full-dress’ really the rule at the
English Court, as you intimate ?”
The low bodice and short sleeves are positively
compulsory at Court. A recent authority tells
us that no lady is admitted without being dressed
in this way unless she is furnished with a spe
cial permission, to obtain which she must get
from her physician a medical certificate, which
must be forwarded to the lord chamberlain’s
office, stating that the lady is unable from the
state of her health to wear a low dress. This
must be submitted to the Queen, who, usually,
not always, gives her gracious permission for
her subject lady to appear with her arms and
shonlders covered. This permission the appli
cant must show, on her arrival at the palace.
But the permission only lasts for one “drawing- 1
room.” If she attends another, she must arm j
herself with a fresh medical certificate, and so
write herself down as a confirmed invalid. Quite
likely this is one cause of the alarming increase
of drus^nneas among well-born English ladies,
of whioh the London Press complains. These
who are unfortunately in the category of Pha
raoh's lean kme drink ale and beer in self-de
fense, not liking to thrust their sharp elbows
and shoulder-blade* into the faces of the festive
public. *
(For The Sunny South.)
The Origin and Progress of the
English Language.
BY KATIE DARLING.
We learn from history that the earliest inhabi
tants of Britain were of the same Celtic stock which
first peopled Gaul and Spain. They were no fur
ther advanced in civilization than the Sandwich
Islanders of the present day. Their language was
correspondingly rude. Very few traces of it are
found in the present English language. It still
forms a great part of the dialect spoken in Ireland,
i the High lands of Scotland, and the mountains of
Wales and Cornwall.
Britain was invaded by the Romans about
i 50 B. C. They probably endeavored to introduce
their own language, but it appears never to have
| gained in Britain the supremacy it acquired in
Gaul and Spain. Very few Latin words were in
corporated in the language at this time. The great
j majority of them were imported by learned men in
; after ages.
After the Romans left the island, it was again
; invaded, about the beginning of the fifth century,
| by the Angles, Saxons, and Frisians, all German
; tribes, speaking different dialects of the same lan
guage. The Celts were partly driven out of the
country, and partly incorporated into the Anglo-
Saxons. The Celtic language was suppressed by
the Saxon, which forms the basis of the English,
i Of the forty thousand words found in the full-
j est English dictionaries, about twenty-three thou-
! sand are Saxons. They embrace the commonest
I words; the terms used in ordinary daily life ; the
pronouns, irregular verbs, and most of the short
adjectives and adverbs ; also the termination of
the plural number and possessive case, and the
suffix ly, which enters into the formation of so
| many adverbs.
The Saxon language was spoken in England for
J about six centuries. During this time it remained
] almost entirely pure, with the exception of a few
I Danish words, brought in by the Danish invasion,
i In 1066, England was entered by the DukeofNor-
; mandy, and conquered in the memorable battle of
I Hastings. William seated himself on the English
! throne, and ruled the country as he pleased. He
brought with him his retinue of French nobles,
who, of course, continued to speak their native
tongue. French became the language of chivalry,
of love, and of poetry. It was taught in all the
schools ; laws and deeds were written in this lan
guage, and the pleadings in the courts were requir
ed to be in French. The Saxon was left to the use
of rude and degraded serfs. Even the Saxon gen
tlemen were ashamed of their native tongue, and
tried to speak the language of their conquerors.
This state of affairs continued until the wars be
tween the French and English during the fifteenth
century. These wars completely changed the pop
ular feeling toward France. Hating the country,
the English came very naturally to hate its lan
guage. An edict was made, banishing French
from the courts and tribunals of the land. The
consequence was the mixed language, composed
of Saxon and French, which has gradually improv
ed from that time until it has become the polished,
expressive language which we now speak.
The French words in the English language are
used to express delicate shades of thought and feel
ing, and also generalities and abstractions wtiich
are quite beyond the scope of the rude Saxon.
Many modern French words and phrases have
also been introduced into the English. From
time to time, a taste for French expressions has
prevailed in England, *£kich has led to the impor
tation of such phrases as a la mode, and others
similar to it.
Scholars have also drawn largely from the Lat
in and Greek, especially* for scientific terms. Com
merce lias added many ‘creign terms to our vo
cabulary, such as divan, bazaar, from Persia, and
Arabia has contributed to our quota of scientific
words, as algebra, alkali, alcohol.
The English language has been very much sim
plified, especially in spelling, since the days of our
forefathers. It has been made very expressive from
its variety of synonymes. It has produced some
of the greatest writers in the world. Milton,
Scott, Tennyson, Shakespeare, Dickens, and Bul-
wer present an array of wit, grace, beauty, and
dignity equaled by no other nation on the globe.
If, as at one time seemed probable, the plantag-
enets had conquered France, what a great misfor
tune to English literature it would have been.
These kings always showed a preference for their
French subjects. The capital of the kingdom would
doubtless have been at Paris. The revenue of
England’s greatest estates would have been spent
on the banks of the Seine. French would have
remained the favorite language, and the great
language which Milton Rnd Burke have made glo
rious would have been only the dialect of base, ig
noble slaves.
The Cheerful Face.
Next to the sunlight of heaven, is the sunlight
of a cheerful face. There is no mistaking it,
the bright eye, the unclouded brow, the sunny
smile—all tell of that which dwells within.
Who has not felt its pleasing influence ? One
glance at this face lifts ns at once out of the arms
of despair; out of the mists and shadows, away
from tears and repining, into the beautiful
realms of hope. One cheerful face in a house
hold will keep everything bright and warm
within. Envy, hatred, malioo, selfishness, de
spondency, and a host of evil passions may lurk
around the door, may eves look within, but
they never enter and abide there—the cheerful
face will put them ail to shame and flight.
It may be a very plain face, but there is some
thing in it we feel, that we cannot express, and
its cheerful smile sends the blood dancing
through our veins for very joy. We turn
towards the sun, and its warm, genial influence
refreshes and strengthens our fainting spirits.
Ah, there is a world of magic in the plain,
cheerful face ! It charms us with a spell of eter
nity, and we would not exchange it for all the
soulless beauty that ever graced the fairest form
on earth.
It may be a very little one that we nestle upon
our bosom or sing to sleep in our arms with a
low, sweet lullaby; but it is such a bright, cheer
ful face! The scintillations of joyous spirits
are flashing from every feature. And what a
power it has over the household, binding ail
hearts together in tenderness and love and sym
pathy? Shadows may darken around us, but
somehow this face ever shines between, and the
shining is so bright that the shadows cannot re
main, and silently they creep away into the
dark corners when the cheerful face is seen.
It may be a wrinkled faoe, but is all the dearer
for that,and none the less bright. We linger near
it, and gaze tenderly upon it and say, “ God
bless the happy face I” We must keep it with
ns as long as we can, for home will lose much of
its brightness when the sweet Sace is gone.
And after it is gone, how the remembrance of
it purifies and softens our wayward nature!
When care and sorrow would snap our heart
strings asunder, this wrinkled faoe looks down
upon us, and the painful tension grows lighter,
the way leas heavy. As is the spirit, mind, dis
position, so are the features. —Ez.
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| The Philosophy ot‘ Sleep—Who
Should and Should not
Sleep Together.
DY a. M. o.
In this day of scientific investigation and re-
j search with works on biology and physiology,
important and interesting facts are being discov-
| ered and developed, and what to the mind in
days past was perplexing and unaccountable, is
now being made plain, and elucidated upon
rational and sound principles. It is a known
fact that in a state of sleep the system becomes
thoroughly relaxed and its absorbing power
great. Hence, diseases are more readily con
tracted in sleep than at any other time, and more
especially, those of a miasmatic kind; and
hence, the importance of
SLEEPING HIGH
above the ground; as mephitic air rises about
fifteen feet as an average, and the importance is
manifest of sleeping above that height in all
humid climates, and especially, in those sub
ject to malarial or miasmatic influences. Thus
it is observed, that when an epidemic breaks
' out in a city, that those who live and sleep in
eellars or on the first floors are more liable to i
take the disease. The reason is plain: for in
sleep the body absorbs the floating disease that
is in the air through the lungs and relaxed system.
Hence, in high and dry latitudes epidemics are
seldom, and are never feared. Thirty feet above
the ground is a safe height, but forty is still bet
ter, and the higher one gets tko purer the at
mosphere. Also the importance and necessity
of keeping out of the night atmosphere in the
fall season.
electrical influences.
It is well known that the human system is full
of electricity, and it has much to do with our
physical comfort. The same principle holds
good relative to human as to other bodies sur
charged with electricity. Different persons are
differently charged with electricity, according to
their temperaments and perhaps habits. Some
are decidedly emissive in nervous force, while
others again, are absorbent in nervous force.
No two such persons should sleep together, for
it is life to one and death to the other in time.
EMITTER AND ABSORBER.
There is nothing that will so soon derange
the nervous system of a person who emits nerv
ous force during sleep, as to sleep with another
who is an absorbant. The absorber will go to
sleep and rest quietly all night, and get up in
the morning feeling bright and refreshed; while
the emitter will be tossing, restless, nervous
and excitable, and will get up fretful, peevish,
feeling out of sorts and unrefreshed by sleep.
Yet not one out of ten thousand, will know the
real oause of their feelings; they only know that
they did not sleep well. No two persons, do
matter who they are, should habitually sleep to
gether. One will thrive, grow strong, healthy,
and resist disease; while the other will grow
by degrees weak, nervous, peevish, and sink un
resistingly under disease. It is astonishing that
physicians have not given the subject more
thought.
OLD AND YOUNG.
Nature never intended that the old and young
should sleep together; that is to say, those
whose waste is greater than their repair. After
fifty, as a general rule, the waste of the human
body begins and the repair deolines. But in
children and those in the forenoon of life, the
repair is far greater than the waste. Hence, the
old would become an absorber, and take from
the young some of its force. Grand parents
should never sleep with their grand children
under any circumstances; for the wasting body
of the old would keep warm and absorb the heat
and force of the child at the expense and health
of the child.
THE SICK AND WEAK
should sleep to themselves, no matter whether
children, young folks or old folks. Consump
tives should ever have a bed to themselves, for
consumption is contagious, whether so declared
by medical authority or not It is not as rapid
in its workings as that of small pox, measles,
mumps, etc. A weak, sickly, feeble child should
never sleep with one that is just the opposite,
unless the object is to keep alive the feeble at
the expense of the strong. What is true of
children is equally applicable to those who are
older and in all the stages and conditions of
life.
Does the South Head ?
BY SALLIE KOLA EEXEAU.
A Southern editor says: “Our ladies do not
read;” while Northern editors and publishers
make the broader assertion that Southerners in
general do not read. Figures are better authority
and more convincing than random assertions, and
1 am convinced by statistics that the men, women
and children of the South do read—that they read
Northern periodicals, at least, to the neglect of the
publications of their own section, which, it would
seem, they are in honor and duty bound to read
and encourage materially ; nevertheless, they read.
I will take, for instance, the village in which I
reside, as an average example of the country com
munities of the South, while our cities are propor
tionately far in the excess of it, in the reading of
literary periodicals and newspapers. We have
here a reading population, within the village and
its vicinity, of four hundred men, women and
children, to whom the regular delivery of mail
through the post-office everages each, one news,
political, agricultural, religious, literary, or scien
tific paper, daily or weekly, besides a fair propor
tion of monthly periodicals. Taking in connection
with this, the number of papers and other period
icals irregularly purchased in the city, or of news
agents on the daily trains, and the custom of neigh
bors to exchange compliments in reading each oth
ers papers, it is 3afe to calculate the reading of at
least, two papers each, while some read many
more. This estimate will, I think, average the
rural district throughout the South, which, with
the higher average of the cities, is sufficient to show
“ that our ladie3,” and Southerners generally,
are equal in reading to any other readers of period
ical publications. That they read books, is estab
lished by the sale of books in the South. That
they read Northern periodicals, is established by
the extensive circulation in the South of Northern
weeklies and monthlies. Where are “ the dark
corners of the South ” that have not been penetra
ted by Godey’s Lady’s Book, Peterson’s Lady’s
book, Demorest’s Fashion Magazine, The New York
Ledger, and Weekly, the Fire side Companion and
Fireside Friend ! How many thousands of dollars
have been spent by good church members on the
Christian Union (New York), while their own
church papers suffer for their patronage ? How
many thousands have the “Ignorant and barbarous
eopleofthe 8outh” paid Harper's Weekly, and
rank Leslie’s Popular Monthly to insult them with
falsehood and slander, and indifferently executed
oaricatures of Southern life, which Northerners
are utterly incompetent to represent! What ten
Southern daily papers have a oombined circulation
in the South equal to the circulation of the New
York Herald, in the same section f The Tribune
and ether New York, also several Cincinnati and
Chicago dailies or weeklies, have each a larger cir
culation in the South than any Southern paper
can claim. Whose fault is it? It is inpart the ftuCt
of Southern publishers and agents. A lack of the
“ do or die” capital defeats success in their busi
ness. The publishers of Northern periodical lit
erature, ugly pictures and vilifications are a push
ing set. They push their pushing agents, with
that pushing trap, the cheap print, mis-called
chromo, through the length and breadth of the
South, and push their papers, full of insults, into
the hands of Southern readers. What is the sum
annually collected from the South by these tax-
gathering publishers, who pander to the prejudiced
North, while Southern readers, assessed by push
ing agents and so called chromos, pay for it ?
Surely, they read at their cost, and at the sacri
fice of their self-respect! Southern men, women
and children do read, and they will read. Who of
them is not thoroughly read in the latest Northern
sensational scandal, etc., while the rising genera
tion would lose the names of Lee, Davis, Jackson,
Beaureguard and Johnston, unless they found
them in Northern print? If Southern reading
matter is not pushed upon them, they will continue
to read the Northern publications with which they
are crowded. Let the Southern publishers and
agents, and even chromos, arise in their strength
and push with all their might, until they crowd
Northern periodicals out of the South, or crowd
tlieir own into the hands of Southern readers—
Happy Home.
EDITORIAL MENTION.
From all we have heard during the past num
ber of years concerning Bradfield’s Female
Regulator, we are prepared to give it our hearty
endorsement, and think it should be brought
to the attention of all the women of the country.
See the advertisement of that very prince of
landlords, Jno. G. Trammell, of the Piedmont
House at Gainesville. This is one of the finest
summering points in the South, and Mr. Tram
mell is one of the Very best hotel-keepers in
America.
Prof. Willoughby lleade.—A large and intel
ligent audience was entirely captivated by this
distinguished reader, at the Opera House in this
city on Tuesday evening last. His conception
of the spirit and meaning of the various selec
tions rendered were in the main very fine, and
his manner most admirable. We differ much
with him, however, as to the proper rendition
of Poe’s “Raven,” and think he falls into the
same error which characterizes the attempts of
all elocutionists to present this weird poem.
La.-y Thursday was opening day at Mrs.
McCormick’s Millinery and Fancy Goods Store
on Whitehall street, and the ladies hovered about
the beautiful things displayed, like butterflies
over a flower-bed. There were hats in the new
est spring styles, new and unique jewelry, silk
and lace ties, flowers, feathers and ribbons in
all the beautiful fashionable firms and tints.
See the lady’s advertisement in this paper. She
has with her Mrs. Durand, so well known for
her fine taste and long experience in millinery.
Frosi Phillips & Grew we have Lippincott’s
Magazine for April, with a continuation of
MacDonald’s deeply interesting serial "Marquis
of Lossie," and of Auerbach’s novel, “Young
Aloys; or the Gawk from America,” a story that
fastens on the attention in a magical way, like
all the works of this gifted German. The shorter
stories are, as usual, from the boat writers, and
one of them is especially good. The “ Monthly
Gossip ” is full of bright, suggestive comments
on current events, and the literary reviews
are racy and discriminating. The illustrated
sketches of foreign scenery and customs are an
attractive feature of this magazine, which is
among the brightest of the many monthlies
blossoming on the counter of Phillips & Crew.
Another old favorite is Godey. The April
number shows that the pioneer lady's book is
still the “Old Reliable,” in the matter of the
latest and prettiest fashions, and the many
charming artistic industries for home adorn
ment. The stories are also entertaining. *
The Daguerrean art seems at last to have reach
ed its highest perfection in the exquisite photo
enamel miniature, which transforms the colorless
photograph into the semblance of breathing life.
Mrs. Gregory of this city does this work in the
best style. Her photo-enamel miniatures are gems
in delicacy of coloring and carefulness of finish :
the flesh tints are admirable, and the pictures
closely resemble the finest ivory types. Any pho
tograph carried orjsent to her will be returned in
a few days transformed into a photo-enamel min
iature in elegant gilt, and velvet case and at a very
moderate price. She can be addressed at 1-54,
Collins street, or orders can be left for her at Phil
lips and Crew’s, Marietta street. *
Editor Sonny South,—
In reply to “ Dell Dare’s” letter in your last pa
per, we have this to say:—
That the anouneement ef the award of the prize,
was sent to you in December last, with a batch ef
the “ Papers,” but was never published.
That the notice printed two weeks since, was
sent to you in January.
That we notified every contributor privately as
to the result of the contest.
That what contributions we have on hand, are
held subject to the orders of the writers.
That the “Absent minded man” appeared in
The Sunny South, December, 16, 1876.
We trust this is sufficient.
T. H. Robertson.
The North Eastern R. R. of Georgia.—The
completion of this Road has almost entirely chang
ed the appearance of the whole country through
which it passes. Small towns and villages have
sprung up, and thrift and trade have developed on
all sides. The energy and business tact displayed
by its able and energetic superintendent, Maj.
Edwards, seems to have been infused into every
busines man on, or near the Road. We find large
stocks of goods in all the stores, the merchants
busy selling to cash customers, and the farmers oc
cupied in plowing and preparing to plant large
crops of corn and plenty of cotton.
Traveler
Mr. Beecher is good for fifteen or twenty thou
sand dollars every time he takes the lecture
field. He is a bonanza unto himself, and the
lower he is worked the higher the yield. His
new oountry house is pronounced by an ex
change to be “a thing of beauty and elegance
and comfort, a glorified cottage of two fnS ato-
rien, a high basement, and high rooms under
the roof, with doable piaz^m, and would seem
to promise abundant satisfaction to Mr. Beech
er's comfort-loving and luxurious tastes.” I