LITERARY NOTES. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2045, 15 August 1885, Page 3

LITERARY NOTES. [ FR OM OUR OW N CORRESPONDENT.

Puui, June 2( . M. Monmhi draws attention t<> the Hawaiian Wands -a group descubed as the " Flower of the Hummer Sea," tho Paraduso of the Pacific. Honolulu is not a capital, but a piincely park ; each house is a villa, embosomed in a bouquet of flowers— a floral delugo, an amalgam of tints. The natives adoro horse-riding, and the women display a masculine energy from tlieir high, Mexican baddies. The elegantes wear a riding-habit of scarlet and orange, the Hkirts floating over the hips of tho horse, hko expanded ivings. The fair sex are not pretty ; from twelve yeaiy old they have tho giace and agility of young cats; the hair is black, but not glossy, and the mouth rather large. After twelve years of age they become rapidly stout. Some of tho ladies w eigh sixteen stone. The popular rejoicings wore immoral till religion toned them down to decency. If the native "cancan " be danced outsulo a stipulated locality, the performer is fined 200 francs, a penalty more severe than for an erring Pansienne. A Spaniard's hospitality is to offer to his guest all his goods and chattels — in the Pickwickian sen«c. In Hawaii the offei is literally true ; the guest receives tho newest mat to sleep upon, and the finest fish to eat; he will, if fatigued, be shampooed into a seventh heaven; and when he leaves ho will be told his vi>it lias been a feto for the family. Camping out and pienicing in commun aie general, and if the passer-by be a friend m a iclativo ho must join in the for tune of the pot. This i-> a relic of Sparta pel haps. The soldieis .110 dre->sed like Pomaraniiin grenadiers, and their heads disappeai 111 the stock and high collarthat is all the king imported from his tiawl- in Kurope. The royal palace recall-, the residence of a sleeping beauty in the w i>')d— no peiMin is inside it. The monarch believes it to bo haunted, because it i-< built of wood, and not .stone, so never sleeps 10 it ; it is meiely his ©ffico. The king is mild, intelligent, yonng, simple, and noble-looking. He speaks English like a cockney. Molokai, or the " Island of \llsely," is tho lofuge for all the leprous, numbering about 1000. The disease came originally from China. The person afflicted with the milady, irrespective of sex or age, is "exported" to a part of the island, and there left to live or die. No communication is possible with the outside woild. Once a month a ship arrives, throws sonic fresli provisions on the beach, with letters and presents from families and friends, then departs. The living actually drop to pieces, decompose. Every lepar cvi thus sco his doom in detail Strange, only the biain lemains unattacked— living. Tho nurses of to-day will bo the patients of to-morrow. There are no doctors ; the officials aie all diseased, and the ruler is "Death." The diseased are hunted down to be exiled. A cousin of Queen Emma's was even sprit to the melancholy valley Kalawao. M. Monnier is of opinion that th« leprosy will make its way into Europe. M. Leon Dehchamps, after an exhaustive cxaiiiin ition of tlio colonial spirit in Frince, in the sixteenth century in cornpan -.on with that of the present day, concludes that Fienchmen differ very little from their ancestors; they aio at pre-ont w hat they were yesterday ; they have the same unceitainty as to the advantages of colonies ; the same political and philosophical aigumentu against them; tho name idlervsH to extract profit from them, unless the part of the mother countries be tho most preponderating. The Government urges citi/.ein to rely on themselves — and heaven will aid them — for succors in colonization efforts. Pmt as Montaigne remnik", " Fiance embraces all new takes, but clasps only the wind." < M. Pagnier in treating of the question of Herat and the Afghan frontier, states, it was Nadu -Chan, the conqueror of Persia, and who icigned 1737-47, who first drew at tcution to the role which Herat ought to plciy in all the great struggles that Central Asia would bo the theatre. Khorassan was the swoid blade of Persia, but Herat was the Hword-handln, and whoever held the lattei, could dominate Iran and Touran, the routes at once to tho Caspian and India. M. P.isquicr agrees with Sir Henry Itowlinson, that "Herat and Candahai, are the mameloii veit and Malakoif tour, of tho British position in the East." Russia, compelled by tho check inflicted on her by England <it the Buihn Conga ss to ab<uid m her Balkin designs, has set to woik to obtnin scientific f ion tiers too, in Ccnti.il Asia. M. Emilc Lovasseur, in an aiticle on Australia, obicives th.it the cluriite of Brisbane, recalls, that of Madciia, and the number of rainy days ye.uly is 120. Sydney resembles the climate of Naples, and hasl.">2 wet days : Adelaide appio.ichos in point of climate, to Sicily, and may be compared to an English humid autumn it ha.s about : 110 wet dnya. Melbourne moan temperature, is not unlike that of Maiseilles ; its coldest month is July, and the. number of its rainy daj s, is about 135. Peith has only two season-! — extreme heat and excessive humidity. ITho general character of tho Australian climate is diyness ; yot this does not deter tho establishing of grazing f.uim ; nor even of cultivation. Tho valleys of the Dai ling and tho Fiuke, commence to bo colom/cd, although rain there Kometimes keeps away for eight months. M Do Vasili has added Homo notes to Ins new edition on Austrian life. Tho old Viennese, it appears, noyor change their habits and oust nus for modern ones. A stieet pavior can bo seen at his humble woik, kneeling in the middlo of a laige avenue. Ho disdains, although the sun be broiling, a straw hat with abroad biim, ho prefers his yellow hat, with a little border. His hair is carefully flattened and pomadod, divided in tho middle, "as would bo a. masherV ho has a ringlet falling over o.^ch temple, callod a " cork-sciew," hislinon is relatively very white, well starched, and ironed. A laundry maid is of niedium size, 1 with gazelle eyes, her cap is apiece of silk, in folds and bows, the ends pleasingly streaming dwwn her back, a. blatk valvai coraage shows off her well-formed waist 5 her dress is just short enough to display the shape of her boots and the colour of her rtockings ; on a pole slung across her shoulder aro several iioncd jupons. The market women, like all Mesdainos Angot, aie famous for their drinking habits, and aio called the " go&sip sisteis." Tho Vienna cab men are so clean and well dressed that they appear to bo proprietors of tho vehicles and not the drivers. Cabby is a fop, and conducts his two hoiaosj with us much gracefulness 111

smet>. The inli.ibit.uit-, of Vienni join to tin 1 \i\ieit\ <>t tin 1 Ltih.ui, the pl.iciditv of tin- Oi ii ntal, .aid tho sensualism of the Sl.i\. K\ei\ nidmduil with spicticles is .idobtoi. Tlii' moli tt r>' llm is bi ut il, and nftrn lnnltirats defenceless women : not so in \ leiiii i A Liti/i'ii in \ lonn iis not an .mti-Seinitic, but wlulu ho would not at tick tin) -JoMh, lie would not listen a quaitei of .in hoin to the b^'st anti-.Towish seiinon by >Stockoi. The favourite diink with the working classes is in the Au4n.ui cipital, new wine. Tlio most temble lepioach would be to rill a ( iti/en a niMM. \ cup of cofiL'o and milk between two and three in the morning .it .1 c ife", i- the favounto dunk after a thcitio People like less wh.it is lepiesented on the stigo th m to lie.v wlut goes on in the peon loom. The women of Vn mi \ po^fss a little of the chuicteisof tin n mtion.il wnlt/o-, which commeiiLC by melancholy htianis, to finish in the fullest gaiety. Tips flomish in Vienna .is be.iutifully as in Palis; all give, nil accept as a light. Vienna, is the city whoie people dance the most; they d.mcc c\ery d.iy and .it once. The moie the middle classes lise in the world, the higher the old aristocracy ascend Aiar.vt, to escape fiom the inunda tion. In no other capital of Europe, saxc Vienna-, do women offer so many typos of beauty ; all the traits of European ladies aro united in a Vienuose dame. The education of middle class girls is seiious and solid; inoio so than in _ any other Kuiopcan ic.ilm, because higher .schools exist since a long ture. Accustomed to society, the young prills aie neither timid nor awkwaul. They do not walk in the stioet with down cist eyes, but with the hea<l high, as suits an age full of happiness and hope. Theie is no bigotry in Viennese society ; it is too educated to be led by fanatics. The churches most fteqnented, are those wheie the be-«t music and singing is heard, the gentlemen come to meet the ladies, and peih.ips wee \eisi. In any case where theie is no music, there aie few woi shippers. M. H de Lamotho has testified his joy at the progress of French descendants in the noit'i-west of the Canadian dominion. " Esto perpetnn." Their taste, however, it seems for sedentary life, is insufficient, and that their want of foresight and instability of character, pre\ent them fiom piotiting by all the great agncultuial riches off their country M. Hector Fabrc on the other hand, do s not hold out strong hopes that Canala is destined to become again French. He h ays the French and English touch elbows in the dominion without any confu»ion ; th y agree without immolating one another. Before IS4O, under the ancien regime, while l'apincau denounced Englnh rule in the tribune, the Government House was ie ceiving the descendants of the French nobility. Under the new regime, the executive and the Parliament liave made peace, and both dance to strains from the same orchestra. Captain Bovinaia continues his interesting information on the Kingdom of Annam. The lainy season commences in October, and is pieceded by terrible storms. In 10 days 4i( inches of rain falls. Often the storms destroy a whole harvest. The soil being soaked, exhales, miasm, the peiM t ence of the humid season is painful for European", but at the same time lefreshmg after the epocli of great heat. The dim ite of Annam, observes M. Bouillevaux, is generally unhealthy, above all in the lowlands ; the highlandsaro more sahibi ions, but the wooded mountains being occupied by savages are uninhabitable both for Annamites as well as for Europeans. The deathrate of French s >ldiei«, of whom one-tenth are natives, H over ni.io per cent. Of 100 deaths, 31 were caused by dysonteiy, and IS by pernicious fever. It h lccoinmended that tho soldiers should wear cloth uniforms in the lainy, and white linen in tho warm season. The piesent mler of Annun is reduced to the condition of Sigebcrt 11., or of Childeiie 111. In case of a public disaster, his Majesty consideis himself to bo peiMm.illy lesponsible before heaven. Happily tho Fiench aro at hand to give him absolution Tn Annam the king ib allowed a plurality of wives ; ho selects his brides in the families of the Mandarins, and so nssuios the latter's loyalty and support. Females are excluded from tho throno, but they c m exctciso the functions of logonfc. If .i subject ha,s cause of complaint aguin-.t .i Mandarin, ho has only to boat a tain tain at the pilaco gate-, when he is admitted, and Ins gnefs examined by a special tribunal. All citizens aro equal befoie the king, as are all Mu'toulimns before the Sultan. Fuither, when a son attains a high office his family receives the honorific title of Mandarinat. The Government clerks wear a small ivory plate round the neck, which indicates their rank and duties. Their salary varies from 18 to 400 francs ayear, with U> to 300 measures of rice. Military commanders receive 100 francs per month salary, and rations ; a private soldier has one franc per month and one meal daily. , r • , < - la CJuinet's second volume of "Exile Letters " he says of Franco .—Our unhappy history, will it ever be an Ixion'.s wheel? In tho sixteenth century, St. Butholomew ; in the seventeenth, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes ; m the eighteenth, the 18 Bruirairc ; in the l!)th, tho second of December, gurnet was like- Hugo, free to re-ent( r France without conditions ; both kept their wold not to do so till Napoleon 111. h id been overthrown.

A Chang k o Pakts. — Times arc changed sine i usnectable old gentlemen disinheiited tlieii sons for mairjing ae-trcs>-os. Tlic hoot is on the other Irq now . " Little " Toole, w ho is on* 1 of tlie nchest men connector! \\ ith the tlie.ittital piofession m England, is leprcsented to be excee liiigly angiy witli his Paughtci Floiente, foi li.r ing engaged hci-jdf to Mr Justin M 'Caithy, junior, tli.it gentle men being only a member of the house of Commons, who has written a successful play, and has begun to make his n-atk as the historian of the Four C4eorges. Let us Inpc the stein patent will lelent. Gd'io ad\kk—An offender was brought befoic a country Magistrate and asked foi an adjournment of his case tli.it lie might obtain leg.il advice. Young Witless, of Temple Com t, was piesent, and the kindly Magistiatc gave the offender pei mission to letne tothe eleik's oftiee with that legal huninaiy, enjoining the litter to give to his client the best advice lie could under the ciicumstancps, and get the ease he.ud as soon as possible. The next t.ise was a long one, and at its end the L\ M. asked Wingless where his client was. " (lone !" said Wingless, coolly. " Clone !"' echoed the niagisti.ite, the cloiU, .md the two policemen who adoin the lning township of Jonlunsv ill*-. " Yes," icplied young Wingless. " You told me to give him the; best arl\ ice I could invlef the ciicumstancct, and I told him that, as he w.u decidedly guilty, the best thing ho could do was to bolt. So he opened the window and went, and I think ho must bo tluee miles oil by this time." A Si'iFK-NKt'KKD Bourgeois. —Society eiicles in Koine are agitating over a sc.ind.il in high life. Princj Torlonia, the Mayoi of Home, was bethrothed to tlie Princess Lcti/"ia, (Liugliter of Piinee Jerome Napoleon Buouap.ute (Plon-Plon). Of coui^e, a marriage between such high contracting p«u ties could not be solem nised without the consent of, the Ciown, But King Humboit resolutely lefused to sanction the match. The ground ot the King's lcfusal was that the prospective bridegroom, although now an Italian princeling, is really Lourgcois, his niesent dignity having been acquiicd by the pin chase of certain vineyards and other Kinds, which cairied with them the princely title. The Prince was fuiiously enraged and went to Florence, man led a woman of the people, biought lici to Homo, and installed her as the head of his household in the palaz/o of the municipality.

A Great BusinessThe Uuited States of America i-s the homo of some very lar^c cntcrpiiscs, but none perhaps greater than the business conducted by Mr'G. G. Green, of Woodbury, New Jersey, U. S. A. He is the proprietor of the well-known Boscheo's German Syrup, which was unequalled as a lemedy for Pulmonary ami Bronohinl affections. He manufactures also Gieen's August Fowor for Dyßpcpsia and all disorders of the Liver. These picparations me used throughout the civilised wot Id, and thousauds testify to their valuable curative properties. Both these ptepar.itions have reached an immense sate solely on their met its. Sample bottles of each are sod at 6d, or full, sized bottles at '.it 01. All druggists keep them.