Lippincott's Magazine
OF
POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.
SEPTEMBER, 1877.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by J. B.Lippincott & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, atWashington.
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Contents
AMONG THE KABYLES.
A PADUAN HOLIDAY.
A LAW UNTO HERSELF.
A WISH.
MADAME PATTERSON-BONAPARTE.
A SUMMER EVENING'S DREAM.
BRANDYWINE, 1777.
A GREAT DAY.
A VENETIAN OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
HEINE.
THE MARQUIS OF LOSSIE.
OUR BLACKBIRDS.
OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP.
LITERATURE OF THE DAY.
BOOKS RECEIVED.
AMONG THE KABYLES.
TWO PAPERS.—I.
MOSQUE AND DWELLING OF MARABOUTS, KOUKOU.Remains of old nationalities are scattered in odd corners all over theearth. Every land, almost, possesses a relic of the kind markedlydifferent from the specimens preserved elsewhere, and peculiar enough togive color to the old theory of its having sprung from the soil. Thesetorn and battered shreds of humanity are usually found lodged among therocks, the blast of foreign invasion having driven them thither from the[Pg 266]plains. The mountains not only give them shelter, but seem to reinfusenew vigor, and thus in many cases enable them to exert more or less of areflex influence on their conquerors. This influence varies with thecharacter of the country and of the respective races. The invaders, ifactuated by civilizing impulses and not mere military ambition, willmake themselves useful and necessary to the natives, develop whatcapacity they have, and absorb them politically. In the opposite casefusion is not effected, and a degree of antagonism is maintained whichbreaks out on occasion into actual hostilities. Between these twoextreme cases we may trace an infinity of examples, modified by endlesscombinations of circumstances and conditions.
In Great Britain we see the Gael whirled up by successive gusts fromItaly, the Elbe and Normandy into the clefts of the Welsh and Scottishmountains. France has driven her aborigines into the peninsula ofBrittany and the gorges of the Eastern Pyrenees. The Finns find refugeamong the frozen swamps north-east of