Trustees. A Chancellor, now the Rt. Rev. W. M. Green, Bishop of Mississippi; a Vice-Chancellor, now General Josiah Gorgas, late Brigadier-General and Chief of the Artillery and Ordnance Departments of the Confederate States army; a Secretary to the Board of Trustees; a Treasurer; an Auditor; a Comptroller; a Commissioner of Buildings and Grounds; a Registrar; a Recorder and Mayor, constitute the administrative officers. The Vice-Chancellor, assisted by the Hebdomadal Board of Professors, are the academic authorities. The following schools are contemplated in the original statutes: 1. Greek Language and Literature; 2. Latin Language and Literature; 3. Mathematics; 4. Physics; 5. Metaphysics; 6. History and Archæology; 7. Natural Sciences, with cabinets and garden of plants; 8. Geology, Mineralogy and Palæontology; 9. Civil Engineering, Construction, Architecture and Drawing; 10. Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry; 11. Chemistry, applied to agriculture and the arts; 12. Theory and Practice of Agriculture, with Farm attached; 13. Moral Science and the Evidences of the Christian Religion; 14. English Language and Literature; 15. French Language and Literature; 16. German Language and Literature; 17. Spanish Language and Literature; 18. Italian Language and Literature; 19. Philosophy of Language; 20. Rhetoric, Criticism, Elocution and Composition; 21. American History and Antiquities; 22. Ethnology and Universal Geography; 23. Astronomy (with Observatory) and Physical Geography; 24. Political Science, Political Economy, Statistics, Law of Nations, General Principles of Government and Constitution of the United States; 25. Commerce and Trade, including the History and Laws of Banking, Exchange, Insurance, Brokerage and Book-keeping; 26. School of Theology; 27. Law; 28. Medicine; 29. Mines and Mining; 30. Fine Arts. Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 23, 25, and 26 are now represented in the present organisation of chairs; certainly a most gratifying exhibit in a term of four years. Those now existing will be enlarged, and those lacking created as soon as the growing resources of the establishment shall warrant, and strictly in accordance with the provisions of the original constitution. The degree of A. B. may be conferred on such as shall have passed the examination necessary for graduation in the schools of Moral Science and Evidences of Christianity, Greek, Latin and English Languages and Literature, Mathematics and Physics. The degree of A. M. is only conferred when in addition to the above the following have been absolved: Metaphysics, French, and any other Modern Language and Literature, Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry, Political Science, Rhetoric, Criticism, Elocution, and Composition. Fellowships are conferred on such Masters of Arts as have excelled in any one of the following schools: Greek, Latin, or English Language and Literature, Physics, Mathematics, Metaphysics, Chemistry, or Natural Sciences. Each Fellow to have $500 per annum, and suite of rooms free of rent for five fellows are to be elected every year.

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The University, while the school of the Church, is not a Church school in a sectarian or limited sense of the term. It was to be, according to the first conception of the great and noble Polk, open

to all Southern boys, of whatever denomination their parents might be. This was expressly proclaimed in Bishop Polk's first appeal; and with a broad and liberal spirit the Boards of Trustees before and since the war have given expression to this declaration at various times; and the practical experience of the writer of these lines has shown him nothing to combat this idea. On the contrary, so well begin the aims of this institution to be appreciated over our country

this idea," as Bishop Beckwith, of Georgia, has eloquently said, "of establishing a grand University here in the South to educate our own young men and prepare them to develop the resources of the country, to unite religion and science in the training of our future rulers,"— that young men from other denominations and from other lands are already enjoying the healthful mental and bodily training which it. offers. The distinguishing traits, to our mind, of this University will be in the future-and they are so to a great extent already-height and breadth of scholarship, moral and physical strength of its graduates; and we add, not as the least important feature, a healthful and strict, and at the same time just and parental, discipline, such as will in vain be sought in any American institution with which we are acquainted. What our American boys and men lack is not so much opportunity for learning- these are attainable and widespread over our country, good and very good - but to have instilled into them from early youth that veneration of and obedience to authority and exalted work of which we have not the remotest idea, but which above all distinguishes the great Church Universities of England and the great Continental schools. This veneration is the very cornerstone of what we most need for the perpetuation of our political faith and the maintenance of a Southern civilisation conservatism. At a time when political and moral barriers are seen falling on all sides, those who think they bear still in their bosom the slightest care for the future of this Southern country, should bestir themselves to re-establish obedience at home and aid all those who earnestly strive to replant it in our schools and universities. We believe, even were the present and future advantages of this University of the South as low, in point of scholarship, as we know them to be high, that, with its present incomparable system of discipline, it would still achieve one of its chief aims: of sending out into the world hightoned, strong and physically well-trained young gentlemen; young gentlemen not in a mere conventional phrase, persons who have not the first attribute of a young gentleman about them, but really and truly young gentlemen, such as a Washington or a Chief Justice Marshall would have understood by that term. Those who feel an interest in these questions—and what honest parent does not?— we may safely counsel to go and see; since a sojourn of but a few days at the University of the South will amply corroborate whatever in favor we may have said of this youngest, but most promising of all Southern Universities.

F. SCHALLER.

ETIENNE.*

BY EDMOND About.

[Translated for The Southern Magazine.]

THE

HE three following months glided away as swiftly as the last day of vacation. Etienne and his wife might rise never so early, night always came upon them unawares; they had not even had time to breathe. "Another day gone!" Hortense would exclaim. "One day less to live, and life is so beautiful with you!

Advantage had been taken of their long stay in the city to correct the style of certain buildings, and to put the two wings of the château again in harmony with the main building. Terraces were made in the park, winding paths marked out, the water bounded by fresh turfs, and a parterre laid out, swarded, and planted with flowers. There only remained to alter the interior, as in the city, but in an entirely different spirit. Every season has its comforts, and the beauty of a country residence consists in its affording full scope for the special pleasures of summer. There should be little or no tapestry; the walls and ceilings should be painted in oil colors, with pretty floors of larch, which should be scrubbed every day; the furniture strong rather than soft; no carved or silk work or rich colors, but space, air, and light in abundance. Let there be as many rooms as possible, for one may anticipate sudden irruptions, but with the greatest simplicity in each; the guests use them only for sleeping and dressing; the only luxury to offer them here is a superabundance of linen and water. The whole ground-floor should properly be unappropriated territory, being open to all. The parlors, the dining-room, the pantry, which should be an unfailing cupboard, the billiard-room, the library, the hunting-hall, and the kitchen, should all be on the same. floor, so that one can walk about comfortably without having even a door to open. All the rooms should be flagged, except the parlors, where one might take a fancy to dance some evening or other; the kitchen should be spacious enough to admit of ten hunters and their dogs drying themselves under the mantel-shelf at the same time, and clean enough to admit of the fashionable ladies of the château going there to make a plum-pudding or half a hundred pancakes, if such should be their pleasure. In this hospitable spirit Etienne directed the transformation of Bellombre, doing little for show, scarcely anything for his own comfort, immensely much for the comfort of his guests.

For years past Monsieur and Madame Célestin had been in the habit of spending their summers at Bellombre. The colossal woman

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by Turnbull Brothers, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

exercised control over the expenses, the ex-notary kept his eye on the vintage; both, in their leisure time, would play a formidable game of piquet with the curé of Saint Maurice. The good Hortense, mindful of everything, reflected that these worthy people might be somewhat frightened by the elegant and gay amusements of September. She found a way of isolating without excluding them, so that they might not be constrained to amuse themselves any longer than they wished. A summer-house, formerly occupied by the keeper, and lying detached on the edge of the park, some twenty yards from the village and forty from the parsonage, was fitted up for their sole use. Hortense forgot neither the tastes of the old people, nor their habits nor their fancies; they were surrounded with numerous relics speaking to them of Bersac senior; and, to spare the gnome's self-love, Etienne wrote to him with his own hand: "Bellombre belongs to you, my dear brother-in-law; we merely have the occupancy of it, which we shall always be happy to share with you. But we expect a number of guests, who, I fear, will be rather noisy, for they are almost all younger than you or I. Whenever you desire to sleep in quiet, at a distance from the piano of the ladies and the blasts of the gentlemen, remember that you have all to yourself the inclosure and summer-house of Hazelwood. Madame Etienne reserves to herself but a single right in connection with this little property: it is to pay you her respects, and to have carried thither anything which may conduce to your enjoyment. It is needless to add that your apartment remains yours, and that two covers will always be laid for you at the château." Célestin thanked the author with visible emotion. "You treat me," he said, "like a great spoiled child." "Honor to whom honor is due!" replied Hortense; "and we are so entirely happy that our hearts yearn to give others joy."

Autumn was one continual fête. Hunting, the vintage, excursions, improvised balls, games of every description, a marriage projected during a boating trip, excellent fishing in a neighboring pond, and a hundred other diversions which I do not remember, kept the company merry to the middle of November. Guests departed, returned, forgot themselves in the whirl of pleasure, tore themselves away, went back to their occupations, and one fine morning were at the park-gate again, their arrival wholly unexpected. It was a perpetual going to and fro between the city and the château; the servants spent half their time carrying hither and thither new toilets and head-gears, for the ladies vied with each other in elegance, whilst each gentleman strove to excel in good-humor and stout appetite.

It was found, upon calculation, that the whole fashionable world of the city had, during the season, filed by under the plane-trees of Bellombre. Now, unalloyed pleasures leave you gay for some time. after; to the splendor of brilliant days succeeds a pleasing twilight. A single ball or promenade sometimes suffices to put the province in good spirits. What with fun, laughter, and closer acquaintanceship, a feeling of universal kindliness spreads from one soul to the other, like a honey or milk spot; the desire to continue the fête, or to get up another, fills every mind and quickens generous impulses; the question is who shall return his neighbors the kind welcome he has

received. There are no longer any misers or cross-grained persons; corks fly spontaneously; tightly-locked strong-boxes open of themselves in the middle of the night, and the crowns dance in a circle around the room. These periods of pleasure are prolonged by the force of things, in consequence of the first impetus and the acquired gaiety. Ask the old inhabitants of the province; there is not one in a thousand but will tell you: "We had a splendid time in such and such a year, and also the year after."

The small capital where the Count de Giboyeux bore sway was a scene of merriment for three months, thanks to the inauguration of Bellombre. The following winter was one series of balls and dinner parties; the theatre was so well patronised that the manager, to his great astonishment, did not fail. They lengthened out the winter, hastening the amusements of autumn as much as possible. There was no dull season for the votaries of pleasure.

Bellombre again saw within its walls all the guests of the past year, and several others besides. The fame of the château had spread to a distance; it was tested and admitted within the circumference of more than fifty miles that the most generous lord, the happiest husband, the gayest talker, the freest drinker, the most accomplished horseman, the most successful hunter, and the best fellow in the world was M. Etienne, the converted man of letters. His beauty and his obstinate dandyism scared away neither prudes nor jealous mensomething incredible. They knew him, they saw him enamored of his wife, and too happy to desire or regret the least thing.

If once in a while the reading of a letter or newspaper, the criticism of some new work, the announcement of a five-act comedy, the praise of an unknown young author, would make him melancholy for a quarter of an hour, Hortense was the only one who saw it, and the gentle creature unbosomed herself to no one, not even to him. She did marvel at times that a great writer like Etienne should not have written aught for more than two years. The fact is he did not even answer the letters of his friends; and but for this memorandum-book, into which he threw a few lines now and then, one would have supposed that he was afraid of writing-paper. She made all possible excuses for him. "He is resting," she thought. "After the exhausting work which preceded our marriage, two years of recreation are not too much perhaps. And then he loves me so fondly! I occupy his whole mind as well as his heart; could another thought find room there without partially dislodging me? All is well as it is."

The fashionable people who frequented his house did not even ask themselves why he was no longer a man of letters. It seemed quite natural to them for a man to stop writing plays or novels as soon as he had wherewithal to live and cut a figure. Now-a-days literature is regarded as a business, like everything else. Who is to blame? I know not; perhaps the literary and dramatic societies who fill the newspapers with their commodities. Why then should a person amenable to the tribunal of commerce, a dealer in written paper at so much per line, continue his business after having acquired wealth? Distinguished tailors retire when they have made a fortune, and so do stock-brokers. Some exceptional individuals, who write without being forced to do so, are a source of astonishment to the province.