too poor to get it. This National Bank with chagrin and despair if told at the currency must be secured by a deposit of hotel that they were to have rooms on the United States Bonds, and this is a consider-eighth story. What a change has taken able investment of capital. The South has place! The comfortable, nay, luxurious not been able to pay down enough to obtain elevator has reversed all these things. Old a due share in its circulation. A secured ideas are no longer current. A new order circulation necessarily is a heavy burden on of things has come about. Now the top a very poor country, though a very light story is the most desirable. The view from burden on a rich country. The amount of the windows, the pure air of heaven, the National currency distance from noise and confusion — these and many other attractions render these elevated regions the choicest of all. Last year, on 9th October, was -showing no real increase. 299,578,000 This is no puff for elevator men - neither for hotels. We shall mention the name of none in the business. We are led to The case then is one of the most remark- moralize and philosophize by the wondrous able in economical history. Owing to the change that has come over our tastes as enormous increase in the amount of Ameri- regards altitudes. Once New York city can business an increase probably un- was not expected to grow in any other wise precedented when we consider both the than longitudinally towards Harlem River, area of business and the quantity of busi- the waters of the bay and the Hudson and ness - the same amount of paper currency East Rivers having combined to prevent is not as efficient as it was once; and its any lateral expansion. But now old resivalue is approaching to that of gold now dents are taken literally off their feet by that the South is rapidly improving, and the tendency of the city to grow upwards. that its improvement aids all who sell to it We are now fully prepared to see next a and deal with it. The principle of this phe-downward growth begun into the bowels of nomenon is old and European, but its size the earth. is new and altogether American. From The N. Y. Evening Post. THE NEW WAY OF GETTING UP STAIRS. It is the steam elevator which has done all this. The hotels are beginning to be modern Babels. One on Broadway has lately been adding ten or a dozen stories to its already dizzy height. We confidently look for the day when the city shall be built up so high that vertical city railroads will be run up and down by corrupt corporations. WHAT Would our ancestors have thought, in the days of George Washington, if they Some twenty years ago or more, hoisting had heard people talk of going up stairs by apparatus began to be introduced somesteam! In those good old times it was the thing after the fashion of modern elevators, elegant thing for a gentleman to have his but with none of the improvements. Then drawing-room, library, dining-hall, cham- merchants and manufacturers began to bers and kitchen all on one floor and to make use of more convenient machines for dispense entirely with stairs of any kind the hoisting of merchandize, and steam was excepting as a means of getting into the soon introduced as a power. As years cockloft or garret. But in these advanced passed on, and men of genius devised new times our wealthy citizens think nothing of modes of applying the theory, the hotels occupying a suite of elegant and expensive ventured to try the experiment of coaxing apartments in the seventh story of the otherwise unwilling guests into the upper Grand Hotel, and are probably not over-stories. The plan proved a success, and particular whether there are stairs or not in the building, as all they have to do to get to their delightful home in the skies is to walk into a small but handsomely furnished room on the ground floor, wink at the young man who ever sits just inside the door, and away they go up to the clouds like one of the happy fellows we read of in the Arabian Night's Entertainments. It is not so many years since weary travellers just arrived jaded and dusty from the night train would have well-nigh fainted now a hotel without a steam elevator is like a gun without a barrel. Even younger readers can remember the time when such a thing as going up-stairs in a dry-goods store was rare indeed. But now, not only are we invited up-stairs in such palaces as those of A. T. Stewart & Co., and Arnold, Constable & Co., and H. B. Claflin & Co., but we are hurled up through the air, past story after story of their magnificent buildings, and brought into their fourth and fifth floors in a shorter time than we should have taken to ascend | easily and speedily accessible than those one flight of stairs in the olden time. who now pay high rents for second-story Even the down town office-renters have accommodations in second-class houses in snuffed the advantages of the elevating sys- Nassau and Wall streets and Broadway tem from afar. Space is valuable about to say nothing of the advantage of the fireWall street and in Broadway up to Liberty proof structure. street. It is pretty difficult to find a plot of ground as large as 100x50 feet. And yet the Equitable Life Insurance Company has not only found a plot of ground at the corner of Čedar street and Broadway, of dimensions about 100x150 feet, but has built a fire-proof house on it, the domes of which pierce the sky and the upper portion of which is filled with offices for lawyers and architects, and men of all vocations. These people have made a new application of the aspiring tendency of the times, and the thing has already proved a success. A hundred offices, in a completely fireproof building, made of nothing but iron and stone, is rather a nice piece of property to hold, without saying more. Add to this the most central location for lawyers, brokers, bankers, insurance companies, and managers of estates, and your property is greatly enhanced in value. This is what the Equitable has. But they have not been satisfied with this. They have heated all the offices with steam, ventilated them after the most scientific modern system, finished them in handsome style, arranged them in suites applicable to all branches of business, and put into the building, not one, but two steam elevators, both of which will be constantly running during the business hours of the day. These elevators are of the most improved and perfect description ever made in this country, and move not only with absolute safety but with great rapidity; so that a person having business with a lawyer on the fifth floor will reach his counsel's office sooner and with less exertion than in ascending stairs to the second floor. The effect of this bold but brilliant move has already been felt. Leading law firms, capitalists and managers of estates have taken offices on the fifth and sixth floors of the building, and others are after the rooms. The officers of the company now regret that the building was not made twelve instead of seven stories high. It is hard to realize- but on the 1st of May next this building will be filled with a swarm of lawyers and others six layers deep, and the upper ones will be more If you call on a lawyer - instead (as now) of throwing away time, rupturing blood vessels, and losing your wind by clambering up dark staircases you walk directly from the street into one of the handsome vertical steam cars (which will always be in readiness, one ascending while the other descends), and, taking a seat on the comfortably-cushioned seats, will be almost instantaneously lifted to the sixth floor, where, apart from the world, and undisturbed by the noises of the street, you can consult your advisers in seclusion and repose. Who will not revel in such a luxury as this? The tendency of this movement will be to collect a great number of the legal profession together in this spacious building, and we doubt not a nucleus will thus be formed for a general settlement of lawyers in that neighborhood. Now is the opportunity for some enterprising New Englander to buy a lot twenty by fifty and put up a building on it as high as Trinity Church steeple, with a line of steam elevators running every five minutes. Thirty floors, with two rooms on each floor, will be about the available office room of the structure; and the proprietor might rent out the roof either for an astronomical observatory, a shot tower, or a light house, as best accorded with his fancy. One single manufacturer of steam elevators has erected over one thousand of them. They are now being introduced in almost every branch of business. People are forgetting the old prejudices against the upper stories of the house, and the time is not distant when the question will be how high up can you let me an office ?" instead of how low down?" Anything in this crowded, badly-cleaned. city, to get Heaven's pure air and to escape the noxious smell of the street. Anything for quiet and repose. Anything for ventilation and light. 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For 5 new subscribers ($40.), a sixth copy; or a set of HORNE'S INTRODUCTION TO the Bible, unabridged, in 4 large volumes, cloth, price $10; or any 5 of the back volumes of the LIVING AGE, in numbers, price $10. CORRESPONDENCE. THE opening article of this number will be read with the more interest, because we have been guilty of injustice to Denmark; - an injustice which has brought about some changes in her government, and which, perhaps, makes some action on our part necessary. Chatterton brings back our youthful days. Fifty-five years ago we read the great quarto volume of " Rowley's Poems "in the Philadelphia Library, and have examined every other work on the subject which we could find, then or since. Carlino comes to an end in this number, and Spotted Dog in the next. The Churchman, an Episcopalian paper published at Hartford, is much dissatisfied with us for reprinting an article from L'Osservatore Romano, and cannot imagine why we should have done it "without one word of correction or comment." Now this article makes a page and a half, and we should have thought that any Protestant reader who wished to know what the Romanists were doing and saying, would be glad, to that extent, to read a paper which shows their present tactics. We have had fifty times as much space on the other side. As for our printing it without note or comment, we did not doubt that every intelligent reader would understand our course. We desire to let in light from every quarter. Some months ago we printed from the Spectator, which always writes in a religious and reverent spirit, an article giving an account of some of the late critical commentaries upon the Bible, which it thought would cause some modifications in some of the doctrines of the Church of England; to which the Spectator itself belongs. We could hardly have given to our readers more tenderly the story of some of the speculations of the age we live in. A correspondent of this same Churchman deplored, in a sadness for which we had great sympathy, the indications of coming change. And he proceeded to say that the only comfort to the devout believer must be in trust in the Second Coming of our Lord. Sickness at that time prevented our writing him a private letter, to say how heartily we united with him in this consolation. WAITING. WILL it be over to-day or to-morrow? Will it last for a week, or a month, or a year; This trance that is neither a joy nor a sorrow, This waiting that is not a hope nor a fear? While I am waiting the end draws near, It will come before I am dead some day; Is it only that watching has made me weary, But in dreams the world is not so dreary, And indeed I am not tired yet, I have strength to wait what is yet to see, Is it the end that has made me strong, Then why are my thoughts bound up to this Yet the end will come, and the end will go, SHETLAND. ADIEU! the cliffs that front the wave, Rolled from the icebergs' sullen home; Adieu! the rapid firths that rave, The rugged skerries, plumed with foam. Adieu! the gloom, the grandeur hoar, The majesty of surge and storm; My heart shall keep for evermore, Wild shore, thy wonder and thy charm. No woodland wreathes thy brow austere; From leafy perch at eve or morn. Nor yet of joyous life bereft, Thy waters roll, thy mountains soar, For myriad wings from crag and cleft Swarm forth to whiten sea and shore: In endless rings the sea-mew flits; The gannet like an arrow falls; And swart and grim the cormorant sits On jagged reefs and rocky walls. Stern in the storm, that hurls on thee Their everlasting strength oppose. From Temple Bar. THE DANISH NATIONAL CHARACTER. BY A DANE. awoke to a new life. The war with the whole of Germany on one side, and the free constitution given us by Frederick VII., You wish to know something about the called forth a new life, and the Danish peopeople who live in Copenhagen and Den- ple won again its old name for bravery and mark. Have you really considered what independence. From this period a strong you ask for? Don't you see the great diffi- national feeling has penetrated the whole culty of the task? It is rather easy to de- Danish people: we are proud of being scribe a town, with its streets and houses; Danes. We do not go so far as to think you can also tell a little about the rooms you Denmark the only country in the world live in every day. But it is not so easy to worth seeing or living in, or that we should describe human beings, when you want to think the independence of our country the know not only their outward appearancecondition of the existence of Europe; but whether they are dark or fair, tall or short, we Danes tenderly love our little native with or without large whiskers — but also, country, think it beautiful, wonderfully and expressly, want to know their general blessed by God, and are ready to defend it character, their sentiments and feelings, to the last man- for we could not thrive their opinions and ways of acting and judg- under a foreign yoke. We have been coming. It is very difficult to look through pelled by violence to give up a part of our the dress and the skin into the heart of a own flesh and blood, but we shall never single man, and still more of a whole na- rest until the wound has been healed again, tion; and the difficulty is not less when it and don't mind any expense to be prepared is one's own nation we desire to describe. to meet our antagonists - Prussia or GerI dare not praise too much the good quali- many. ties, that I may not be considered a conYou will therefore find a very strong ceited fool by foreigners who read it; nor feeling of dislike or hatred to everything dare I talk too much of our national faults German, and I will, from experience, give and deficiencies, that my countrymen shall you this friendly advice: Don't try to make not fall upon me as if I were going to ex-yourself agreeable here in the German lanpose them. A middle way must therefore guage, as you may risk being treated a litbe found, and I will for your sake try to tle roughly if anybody thought you considfind it, as you seem so very anxious to hear ered us Germans. Everybody will nowaa little about us before you come to see us. days do his best to understand your EngAs our home is a home of politics, I will lish, and will try to answer you in English; begin with our political views, and think I but we dislike to hear and to speak the Geram right in saying that there is a strong na-man language. In this respect a great tional and liberal feeling prevalent in the change has taken place in the last twenty Danish nation. I will not say that this feel-years: before that time the German laning is so very old- not more than thirty guage was highly esteemed here. Our to forty years; but it is now quite general, Court was always fond of German men and and has regenerated the whole people. manners, and in the beginning of this cenFrom 1830 liberal ideas began to spread tury our army was still commanded by Geramongst us. Until then our King had been mans. Goethe and Schiller were known by a good father, and we his obedient children: all educated people, while our own poets but then the children began to feel their and authors were neglected. The German own power, and wanted their father at least language was taught at all colleges and to consult them before he decided on his schools for boys and girls, and everybody plans for their welfare. A time of struggle tried to learn to speak it, as we were told and discontent began: libera! papers sprang that we could get on anywhere in the world up, and were often again suppressed; but by that language. We exported our cattle the seed grew quietly, and was only wait- and butter to foreign countries through ing for a shower to develope itself and Hamburg, and bought our foreign articles yield a rich fruit. This happened in 1848, there. Our university, our colleges and and suddenly and unexpectedly the people | schools, were organized according to the |