ILLUSTRATIONS.—A complimentary Address to Old Hickory: Interior of Ben Bean's (“ Bar- ton") House.-Arrival of the Coach at an old Stage Station.—An old Government Toll-Gate, ILLUSTRATIONS.-Family of Bishop Berkeley.-"Death on the Pale Horse."-Portrait of a Lady.-"Children in the Wood."- Death of Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec.”—Gen- eral Knox.-" Beggar's Opera."-Fanny Kemble." The Hours."-" Jeremiah."—" Dying UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES.--A POEM.. A LEGEND OF ALL-HALLOW EVE.-A STORY ILLUSTRATIONS.-"It turned, and the stony black Eyes looked steadily at me."-" My beauti- ful one! my Marjorie !"—"The Hands stretched forth appealingly.” ILLUSTRATIONS.- Characters."-"A tall dark Man, with Arm upraised holding a small Lamp."-"I saw my ILLUSTRATIONS.—Jack Frost as a Landscape Painter.-Mimetic Orchids.-Dancing Orchids. -Epiphites.-Phyllium Scythe.-Stick, Moss, and Leaf: Mimicry of Insects.-Mimetic Butter- fly.-Clear-winged Moth.-Spiniger Luteicornis.-Resemblance between Plants of different Families.-Moth and Humming-Bird.-Resemblances between Crustaceans and Insects.-Plant- Animals: Crustaceans, Hydroids, and Crinoids.-Duck-billed Mole and Porcupine Ant-Eater. THE CATTLE RANCHES OF COLORADO.... ILLUSTRATIONS.-The Burros.-" An' when the Feller jumped up.". Pueblo.-La Maquina de San Carlos.-Uncle Pete's House.-Old Antonio.-" A Spanish Air.” CHAPTER XII. The Old School and the New. ILLUSTRATION."Not daring to stir Hand or Foot lest he should disturb her." Letters that would bewilder Mr. Warrington.-Another Traveller's Impressions of America. -Autobiography.-Mr. Alcott's Summer School of Philosophy.-The Fun of the Pinafore.— Von Holst's Constitutional and Political History of the United States.-Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster.-Martin's Life of the Prince Consort, Vol. IV.-Hawker's The Vicar of Morwenstow.-Morley's Burke.-Borel's Count de Gasparin.-Life of Charles J. Mathews.-Life of Charles Lever.-Spencer's The Data of Ethics.-Buck's Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health.-The Silk Goods of America.-A Man's a Man for a' That.-Haworth's.- James's The Gypsy.-Moy O'Brien.-The Afghan's Knife.-Trollope's Framley Parsonage.— The wicked Deacon.-Anecdote of McKean Buchanan.-Leaving Tracts.-" Desp'rately overflowed."-Sabbath-school Cards, and others.--A Marriage Notice.-A logical Widow.-A NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. No. CCCLIV. NOVEMBER, 1879.-VOL. LIX. T A COMPLIMENTARY ADDRESS TO OLD HICKORY.-INTERIOR OF BEN BEAN'S ("BARTON") HOUSE. THE OLD NATIONAL PIKE. THE national turnpike that led over the Alleghanies from the East to the West is a glory departed, and the traffic that once belonged to it now courses through other channels; but it is not simply because it is past that the few old men living who have reminiscences of it glow with excitement and exalt it in recalling them. Aroused out of the dreamy silence of their ebbing days by a suggestion of it, the octogenarians who participated in the traffic will tell an inquirer that never before were there such landlords, such taverns, such dinners, such whiskey, such bustle, or such endless cavalcades of coaches and wagons as could be seen or had between Wheeling and Frederick in the palmy days of the old national "pike;" and it is certain that when coaching days were palmy, no other post-road in the country did the same business as this fine old highway, which opened the West and Southwest to the East. The wagons were so numerous that the leaders of one team had their noses in the trough at the end of the next wagon ahead; and the coaches, drawn by four or six horses, dashed along at a speed of which a modern limited express might not feel ashamed. sides the coaches and wagons, there were gentlemen travelling singly in the saddle. with all the accoutrements of the journey stuffed into their saddle-bags; and there were enormous droves of sheep and herds of cattle, which raised the dust like a cloud along their path. Once in a while Mr. Clay or General Jackson made an appearance, and answered with stately cordial Be Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by Harper and Brothers, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. VOL. LIX.-No. 354-51 stone's lines must have found a confirmatory echo in many minds as the coach whirled up before one of them. The white façade was checkered by the leaves of a sheltering chestnut or elm, and the fragrance of the locust mingled with the air. The glittering and gilded sign swung out from one of the branches, and a mossgrown trough overflowed and trickled melodiously before the porch, at one end of which an archway led into the stableyard. The interior was substantially furnished, without filigree or veneer. The floors were sanded, and the beams in the ceiling were uncovered. An hour before the coach was due the landlord was to be found in a little alcove of the tap-room, transferring his liquors from demijohns to bottles, setting his glasses in single file, and bidding his servants make haste with the supper, of which there were already premonitory odors of the most appetizing kind. As the minutes to spare were reduced, the servants increased their activity, and the odors became more distinct. The villagers appeared at their doors; for the arrival of the coach, although a very familiar event, acquired a fresh interest from day to day, and as they glanced toward the curve at the foot of the hill, their anticipations were soon fulfilled. Here IT came, ahead of time, swaying and pitching perilously, the horses at full gallop, and the driver swinging his whip with a pistol-like snap over their heads. No sooner did mine host at the tavern hear it than, with a parting admonition to the kitchen, he hastened to the porch, and stood there with a smiling face, the picture of welcome, as the coach rounded up under the elms and chestnuts, and the driver threw his reins to the waiting hos ity the familiar greetings of the other passers-by. Homespun Davy Crockett sometimes stood in relief against the busy scene, and all the statesmen of the West and South-Harrison, Houston, Taylor, Polk, and Allen among others-came along the road to Washington. The compactness of the traffic secured it from marauders to some extent, but the traveller by coach had his expedition spiced by the occasional assaults of highwaymen, who sprang out of the cloistral pines that in some places made perpetual night of the most brazen day. Nearly every mile had its tavern, and every tavern its pretty maid or jovial host. "The eating was the cream of the earth, Sir," said an old traveller to me. "I dined at Delmonico's last week, and my dinner was nothing to the venison cutlets and the ham and eggs and johnny-cakes of the pike;" which the reader may answer by saying that tastes are variable and unaccountable. Nevertheless, the cookery was excellent; and after the exhilaration of a gallop down a mountain without brakes, and the tonic air of the pines, what appetite would not be set on edge, what refinement of palate displeased, by venison cutlets, or even ham and eggs? There were rival lines of coaches, and the competition led to overdriving and many accidents. The passengers became partisans of the line by which they travelled, and execrated the opposition and its patrons. Sometimes two coaches of different lines would travel together, and as one passed the other the passengers in the vehicle left behind would threaten and gesticulate against the victors. The verbal menace was often emphasized by an exhibition of bowie-knives and pistols, which more than once led to the verge of | tlers. a battle; but among themselves the pas- Most of the travellers were the farmers, sengers in each coach were fraternally in-stock-raisers, and “merchandisers" of the timate, and the driver was usually an old hand, who could tell stories by the hour to beguile his companions on the box seat. The rival lines brought rival taverns into existence, and as the two opposition coaches drove into a town for supper, they pulled up before separate houses. But despite the animosities and competition of the time, the survivors of the old days are united in giving credit for the uniform excellence of all the taverns. They were clean, spacious, generously conducted, and in some instances so durably built that they are still in good condition. Shen West, dressed in homespun cloth and buckskin; but a few indicated a familiarity with the usages of polite society by their costumes, and in the case of the statesmen bound to Washington it was the custom to blend urbanity of speech with loftiness of manner in such discreetly measured proportions that the combination preserved the dignity of the representative and satisfied the self-esteem of the constituent with a degree of success that might excite the emulation of politicians in our own time. The reader need not be told how the landlord's smile expanded if among |