Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878., by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Author: Various Release Date: August 12, 2006 [EBook #19032] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Christine D. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: The Table of Contents and the list of illustrations were added by the transcriber. LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. VOLUME XXII. JULY, 1878. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by J.B. LIPPINCOTT & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. TABLE OF CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS HERE AND THERE IN OLD BRISTOL. 9 AN ATELIER DES DAMES. 21 "AUF DEM HEIMWEG." 29 THROUGH WINDING WAYS. CHAPTER I. 30 CHAPTER II. 36 CHAPTER III. 39 THE WASHER AT THE WELL: A BRETON LEGEND. 44 THE REAL PRISONER OF CHILLON: A GENTLEMAN GROSSLY MISREPRESENTED. 46 "FOR PERCIVAL." CHAPTER XXXI. 57 CHAPTER XXXII. 62 CHAPTER XXXIII. 67 CHAPTER XXXIV. 70 A LEVANTINE PICNIC. 73 A BIRD STORY. 82 THE MOCKING-BIRD. 88 POPULAR MARRIAGE CUSTOMS OF SICILY. 89 AUNT EDITH'S FOREIGN LOVER. 96 THE CENSUS OF 1880. 108 CHANG-HOW AND ANARKY. 114 THE IDYL OF THE VAUCLUSE. 118 A "TARTAR FIGHT" AT KAZAN, AND HOW IT WAS STOPPED. 123 OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP. THE COLORED CREOLES OF BALTIMORE. 125 GLIMPSES OF BRUSSELS. 127 AN OFF YEAR. 130 CONJUGAL DISCORDS. 132 A RUSSIAN GENERAL IN CENTRAL ASIA. 133 LITERATURE OF THE DAY. 134 Books received 136 New Music Received 136 FOOTNOTES ILLUSTRATIONS GRAVE OF HANNAH MORE AT WRINGTON, NEAR BRISTOL. CHATTERTON AS DOORKEEPER IN COLSTON'S SCHOOL. CHATTERTON CENOTAPH. STEEP STREET, NOW PULLED DOWN. "TIMES AND MIRROR" PRINTING-OFFICE, NOW PULLED DOWN. MUNIMENT-ROOM, ST. MARY REDCLIFF. ADMIRAL PENN'S MONUMENT IN ST. MARY REDCLIFF. THE CATHEDRAL BARLEY WOOD, HANNAH MORE'S RESIDENCE. WINE STREET, THE BIRTHPLACE OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. SUSPENSION BRIDGE AT CLIFTON. TABLEAU VIVANT. "JE VIEN ME PROPOSER COMME MODÈLE, MESDAMES." "THE BEST CHRIST IN PARIS." AN AMIABLE MADONNA! THE MORNING LESSON. "HE'S GONE, GIRLS!" "H-E-A-VENLY CHEESE FOR A FRANC A POUND?" "JE SUIS À VOUS." SATURDAY EVE. THE CASTLE OF CHILLON. FRANÇOIS BONIVARD, "THE PRISONER OF CHILLON." THE DUNGEON OF BONIVARD. WHY NOT LOTTIE? "DO YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT I HAVE SAID?" HERE AND THERE IN OLD BRISTOL. [Pg 9] GRAVE OF HANNAH MORE AT WRINGTON, NEAR BRISTOL. The streets of Bristol are, in a modern point of view, narrow and uninviting, yet if the visitor have a liking for the picturesque he will find much to interest him. There are plenty of streets crammed with old-time houses, thrusting out their upper stories beyond the lower, and with their many-gabled roofs seeming to heave and rock against the sky. If they lack anything in interest, it is that no local Scott has arisen to throw over them a glamour of romance which might make more tolerable the odors wherein they vie with the Canongate of sweet memory. [Pg 10] CHATTERTON AS DOORKEEPER IN COLSTON'S SCHOOL. Nor is the throng which fills the Bristol streets wholly prosaic in its aspect, for the quaint garb of ancient charities holds its own against the modern tailor. Such troops of charity-children taking their solemn walks! Such long lines of boys in corduroy, such streams of girls in pug bonnets, stuff gowns and white aprons, as pour forth from the schools and almshouses to be found in every quarter of the city! The Colston boys are less frequently seen, because the school has been removed to one of the suburbs, yet now and then one of their odd figures meets the eye. They wear a muffin cap of blue cloth with a yellow band around it and a yellow ball on its apex; a blue cloth coat with a long plaited skirt; a leathern belt, corduroy knee-breeches and yellow worsted stockings. Just such, in outside garb, was Chatterton a century ago, and thus he is represented on his monument near Redcliff church. CHATTERTON CENOTAPH. You are perhaps gazing skyward at some lordly campanile when a sudden rush of feet and hum of voices comes around the corner, and the dark street is all aglow. These are the Red Maids, who walk the earth in scarlet gowns, set off by white aprons: they owe the bright hues of their existence to Alderman Whitson, who died in 1628, leaving funds to the mayor, burgesses and commonalty of the city of Bristol, "to the use and intent that they should therewith provide a fit and convenient dwelling-house for the abode of one grave, painful and modest woman of good life and conversation, and for forty poor women-children (whose parents, being freemen and burgesses of the said city, should be deceased or decayed); that they should therein admit the said woman and forty poor women-children, and cause them to be there kept and maintained, and also taught to read English and to sew and do some other laudable work toward their maintenance; ... and should cause every one of the said children to go and be apparelled in red cloth, and to give their attendance on the said woman, to attend and wait before the mayor and aldermen, their wives and others their associates, to hear sermons on the Sabbath and festival days, and other solemn meetings of the said mayor and aldermen and their wives," etc. etc. These maids are admitted between the ages of eight and ten, and at eighteen are placed at service. Other aspects of Bristol are brought out in Pope's description of it in a letter to Mrs. Martha Blount.[1] After describing his drive from Bath and his crossing the [Pg 11] bridge into Bristol, he continues: "From thence you come to a key along the old wall, with houses on both sides, and in the middle of the street, as far as you can see, hundreds of ships, their masts as thick as they can stand by one another, which is the oddest and most surprising sight imaginable. This street is fuller of them than the Thames from London Bridge to Deptford, and at certain times only the water rises to carry them out; so that at other times a long street full of ships in the middle and houses on both sides looks like a dream." ... "The city of Bristol is very unpleasant, and no civilized company in it; only, the collector of the customs would have brought me acquainted with merchants of whom I hear no great character. The streets are as crowded as London, but the best image I can give you of it is, 'tis as if Wapping and Southwark were ten times as big, or all their people ran into London. Nothing is fine in it but the square, which is larger than Grosvenor Square, and well builded, with a very fine brass statue in the middle of King William on horseback; and the key, which is full of ships, and goes round half the square. The College Green is pretty and (like the square) set with trees. There is a cathedral, very neat, and nineteen parish churches." It is quite as curious to note what Pope omits as what he mentions. He is much taken with a commonplace square, and with the mingling of ships and houses (which is truly effective), but the modern traveller would find the chief beauty of the city in its Gothic architecture, to which Pope gives one line—"a cathedral, very neat, and nineteen parish churches." Let the visitor ascend any one of the hills which overhang Bristol, and a beautiful scene at once bursts upon his view: this is due to the pre-eminent beauty of the church-towers, the great stone lilies of the fifteenth century soaring above the dingy town; each, STEEP STREET, NOW PULLED DOWN. For holy service built, with high disdain Surveys this lower stage of earthly gain; and a hard struggle they have to hold their own against the menacing chimneystacks of manufacturing England. All the poetry and aspiration of the past seems contending, shoulder to shoulder, in thick air with the material interests of the present. Strolling about through the grimy streets, one's eye is caught by the sign "Quakers' Friars," and following up the narrow court to seek the meaning of this odd combination of opposing ideas, one comes to the Friends' school, occupying the remnant of a former priory of Black Friars. It is a spot intimately associated with recollections of the early Friends. In 1690 the father of Judge Logan of Pennsylvania was master of this school. Adjoining the school is the [Pg 12] Friends' meeting-house, built in 1669 on what was then an open space near the priory, where George Fox often preached; and within the walls of the meeting-house this Quaker father took upon himself the state of matrimony. A local bard is inspired to sing: Many years ago, six hundred or so, The Dominican monks had a praying and eating house Just on the spot where a little square dot On the Bristol map marks the old Quakers' meeting-house. A different scene it was once, I ween: No monk is now heard his prayers repeating; And the singers and chaunters and black gallivanters Had never a thought of "a silent meeting." The streets near by, called Callowhill, Philadelphia and Penn streets, recall the residence here of William Penn in 1697, after his marriage with Hannah, daughter of Thomas Callowhill and granddaughter of Dennis Hollister, prominent merchants of Bristol. These streets are believed to have been laid out and named by Penn on land belonging to Hollister. Another Friend was Richard Champion, the inventor of Bristol china and the friend of Burke. Champion's manufactory was not commercially a success, but his ware is now "TIMES AND MIRROR" PRINTING-OFFICE, NOW highly prized, and some few PULLED DOWN. remaining pieces of a teaservice,