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SWITZERLAND. The Swiss People and Their Country. Ascout of the Rizhi Pilatus, and of Mt Ferney-and Voltaire--Summer-Residence of Baron Rothschild. The Castle of Chillon and Byron's Poom--Agassiz and Longlellow, Spectal Correspondence of The Chieago Tribune, LAUBANNT, Switzetland, Sept, 30, 1873, And hero, in tho heart of Monarchical Buropo, Is Byitzorland, a Ropublio; snd such il bins been, with fow and ehort luterruptions, for four hun- fired yoars ! Why? and how? Isit DECAUSE OF MER MOUNTAINS? | Aro these towering, rocky Alpa the barriors which have defendod theso littlo Cantons, and, slanding as sontinels, havo doclared to surround- Ing racos, to trinmphant armies, and conquering Empires, from haughty Charles tho Bold of Burgundy down, *Thus far, but no farthor” ? It is ovon 80. Groat Emporors, proud and irro- sistiblo on tho plains, havo beon atayed in their 2areer of conquest by theso rocky barriers, and, like waves ngainst tho granite, have beon turned back powerless, =~ Theeo secluded valloys, smong these wild and rugged mountains, have nursed a raco of shep- hords and hunters, who have nover beoen thor- ougnhly conquored. Living in a stato of sim- plicity and frugality, very poor, and_obtaining n scanty eubsistence only by hard labor, depend- Ing largely on their cattle and gonts, driving them to tho mountain-sides for pasturage, pur- suing thelr game among rooks accessiblo only to tho most hardy mountainaors, and among the otornnl snows, tho Biwiss, on their own soil and behind their own rocks, have boen well-nigh in- vincible; and they are froc. This little Rspublio, smaller than many of our acparato Btates, is MORE VIBITED DY TRAVELERS than any other conntry in Europe. Crowds of English, Americans, Germans, and French, dur- Ing overy summer, throng its valloys and high- ways, to enjoy its peculiar and unoqualed Beonory. Not Italy, with its sunny ekies, its troagures of art, its antiquities; wot Eng- loud, with all her Ilandscape-boauty ; not even Pars, with ol its at- tractions,~aro mors frequonted than wild Switzerland. Why? Tho attraction isita grand mountaina; its luxurlant vallos ; its vaat glaclora; its deop, dark gorges ; its most boau- tiful lakes, sot In o framo-work of granito, tow- pring often above the clouds; its mountain tor- rents and innumerable waterfalls,~combining altogether moro of the sublimo and beautiful in patural scenery than any other oqual spaco on tho globe. And evory soncon furnishos ita vie- * tims to tho love of this seonery,—thero sooming » strango fascination in asconding theso stupon- dous heights. Scarcely a soagon passos without Tatal nceidouts to those who nscend theso foarful precipices. But tho Swiss themsolves scom to-day SCARCELY WORTHY of the magnificent homes their country affords. As compared with tho English and tho Amori- cans, they look like a dogouerato race, Crotin- iom, tho goitre, and othor forms. of diseaso, ore vory provalont. Latoly, when convevsing with » very intelligont Swiss Indy, 1 inquired, “Who aro your great tmnta and literary men ?” She replied, “ Wo have nono ; the Linglish Byron aud Coleridge, wad tho Amorican Longfollow, sing tho glory of 0 Alps,” Yot thoye arc bright namen and brilliant pagoes in Helvatian history. A nation that has pro- duced a Willism Toll and & Rudadtph Von Etlock, wwhich has fought the battle of Grandson, so well doscribed by Waltor Scott in * Anno of Geior- slein,” and of Morat, may woll be proud of her tacords. ‘While Waterloo with Canno’s carnage vies, Morat und Marathou twin names shall stand - They were truo glorien, stainloss victorice, Won by the unambitlous heart and hand, Of a prond, brotherly, und clvic band, ~Chtlde Harold, In modern times there have beon fow sots of moro horoic fidelity, oven unto death, than that of the Bwiss Guard of Lonis XVL., fo grandly commemorated by Thorwaldsen's modeling of THE DYING HELVETIAN LION, chiscled in the solid rock of o 8wiss mountain, T kuow of nothing inall sculpture finor than this dosign; and while tho granite hill at Lu- corne, iuto which the dying lion has beon earved, shall stund, so long will this sublime conception toach tho Swiss youth the glory of death whon required by fidelity to duty. On the 22 of August wo ASCENDED TIIE RIGHT by rail, similar to that by which the ascent of Rit. \Vnshiugtuu is made, Tho ascent is very steep,—so steop that it seoms very dangor- ous,—so vory stecp that, in placos, the iden is suggested that tho car might tip over backward, Dutthe view from the eum- mit is maguificont boyond description, furnish- iug o finer panoramn than some of the higher mountoins I bave sinco ascondod. At the basa of the Righi lies the Luke of the Four Cantons,— crhaps tho most besutiful of sll the Swiss akes,—with villages, aud villus, and cottages nestled clear up tothe sides and undor the shadows of the stupoudous granite mountains ; nnd theso mountaing shooting up, ofton almost parpendicularly, into and abovethe clouds 5 and, interspersed botwoen thom, lovely greon valleys, rich in verdure and in folinge, With fruit-troes and vines on the hill-pides, and herds of cattlo and goats, with their aweot-toned bolls, heard from far away; and the mendows and pasturas, covered with tho richost srass, and variogated with lovely flowers,—hare- tu}lu, violats, and crocuses, now in their second Dbloown. Theso sweot snd pastoral viows, con- trasting with wild, and gtern, and rocky rum- part of high mountaivs in _which every valloy is set, mako & ncene of indascribublo bonitty. Later in August, with one of my daughters, I made tho ABCENT OF MT, PILATUS, Mounted on sure-footed hoses, with & gaido ot tho head und the tail of each horse, westarted at1la. m, Aftor passing through three or four miles of pasturo, mendow, and woodland, we camo to the sorious part of the undertaking. Tho nscont becamo steop and rugged, and our mule-path was a zigzag up tha mountain-side, which seomed to mo to axcoed 46 dogroes in in- clination, Sometimes our patl wwound around rocky passes, from which wo could ook own sovoral thousand fect, Aftor tolling on, wo came to & rudo stone shad, built for tho profection of the shopherds and their goats ; and here wo paused, oud were rofreshed by o L of milk, And thon, chimb- ing stcoper and steeper, wo camo to the last muilo, whoro thova who aro made dizzy by great helghts had better wall, As wo_ascondod, the Jungfrau, the Monk, the Bilver-Horn, covered with oternal snow and RIKING INTO THE OLOUDS, stood out bold and clearin view, As iho sun was sluking wo reached the hotel, wesry enough to welcomo it most hoartily. On our arrival wo found we wore tho only gnests ; but, soon aftor, an Bnglieh clorgyman, with two lads preparing for Oxford, mado- thelr nppesranco. ~Aftor tes the clouds gothered bolow, and we looked down on & fowrful thunder-storm; and we went to gest foaring wo ahould bo disappointed in the rout objoct of our visit: wsocoing o sun-rise from the summit. This, tho summit, 1 an almost naked cone, rising sevoral hundred foot above tho hetel, liko a sugar-loaf; and tho point on the top docs not exceod 40 foot in diametor, Wo woro called at 4, and, nprlnglu(l: up, saw that tho air wie cloar; and wo hastoued to tho top in tho dim light of carly duy, soramb- ling up by a_winding path of steps ocut into the rock and'aided by a railing. d not, in tho dim light, discover that we could look down sheer prooipice of 4,000 or 65,000 foct, It wak fourful. But tho bright morning-star was herald- ing tho sun, whose rays wore already tinting the suowy posls of the high mountains” with rose, purple, and gold. Fixing my eyes on thoxe, and holding tight to the flag-stafi plauted in the solid rock, L dored scarcoly look off, And hero we WATCIED TIE SUN RIsE, lighting up peak oiter poak, aud saw the rhadows rarraub Into the valloys, until all was bught light around us, Tho sceue was very grand. On throo nides woro mountafn-ponls, and on tho fourth thio Lake of the Four Canons. Dut, glanoing down, I enw that I could tows my Alpon-stick ovor tho rock, and it seomed to mo it would £all 5,800 foot without touohing n pro- jootion, I way vory glad to foel the ntrong haud of the guido in mine, and thoe support of his other hand under my arm; and I way vory glad indead whon I got nafoly down. 3 FEANEX—-VOLTAIRE. 2 On tho Bth of Hoptomber wo drove from Qonovn to Toruey, onco the residonce of Vol- taho, Itin n’}!luurnnt coniitry-nent in tho midut of luxuriant_folingo of tioes, and vines, aud shrubbery. With a vinoyard of vipening grapon upon the side-lill, whicli slopes away from tho garden whoro Vollaire walked nud composod ; on avenuo of {ino trees, growing naturally, Ienda from thio front of tho housc into the forasi ; an- othor nvonno of old beoch trocs, cut iu tho Tronch stylo, furnishod very plossant promo- hndos ; nnd in tho forost, which was-quito nat- ural, stood a fino olm, plauted by Voltaire Limself. In tho houso woro two or throo portraits of— shall T ca)l him?—tho philosopher, all having tho sncoring, sareastlo oxprossion which charac- torizos all pictuves of him, Thero wag a por- trait of Frodorick tho Great,—n prosont from that horoic and eccontrie King; also, a full- length portralt of the great Catharine of Rusaia, ~—n profont ; and an ongraving of Washiugton, from a pleture in tho posscesion of LaFayotto. The slioren of the Lake of Geneys have been tho home of many lilerary mon, 'They polnt out, in our hotol at Lausanno, the placo _in tho gnrhnn where, in his summer-liouse, Gibbon wroto his hiutory. — Hougea ara shown which woro occuplod by Madamo, de Stuo), Rossonu, Byron, Dickeus, and othera. Lausanno! and Fernoy! Yo havo been tho abodes Of mortals who sought, and found by dangorous roads, A path to porpetuity of famo : Thoy were gigantio minde, BUMMER-RESIDENCE OF BARON ROTHEONTLD, Trom Fernoy we rode to the summor-residence of Baron Rothuchild, the great bankoer,—a placo of oxceoding bonuty, overlooking the Lake of Gongva,and with most magnificont Alpino viewsall sround; & porfeot gom of gardon-sconery,—not to oxcaad in oxtent, I should say, 80 or 40 ncres, in grass, and trees, and flowers, It does not ox- tend quito down to the shoro, An obstinate old citizeu of Geneva rofuscs to sell thastrip of land lying between tho grounds of the Barou und the lako; and I was told he said, in ropli to a most oxtravagant offor of tho banker: * The land i not for gale, and not the wealth of all the Roth- childs can buy it Novertheloss, with ils ‘boautiful villa; with ita varied trensures of troes, shrubbory, rare plants, flowers, fountains, and stat; 1 With its almost unequaled surround- Inge,—I think it ono of the most perfect plo- tures the Iandscape-garduer Las ever achioved. The ground slopes gently from the houso to- wards tho lako. Tho lawn is ndmirably kopt there being a deop-graan, thick volvet turt, avd massive groups of the most luxuriant and vas ried foliago; tho single trees very Iarge, nnd each an absolutely porfect spocimen of its kind, and tho varloty including noarly ol the noblest, both of evergroon and deciduons troos: Cedars of Lobauon ; Deodar codars, from the Himma- layn Mountains ; magnificont epecimons of the Whaslilngtonin Gigantica; firs from Om‘fau % splondid * beoches birohes of all tho finost variotios ; pines from Austris, Scotland, and Amorica ; our own noblo elma and sugar-maplea ; magnolizs ; Portuguoso laurels; and each ono a8 perfoet na you could find in a hundred parks. Theso are rolioved by the most beautiful vines: our own Virgiun crooper, culad horo tio Amori can ivy, and in sutumn moro_boautiful, I think, than the Eoglish ivy; and tho mo+t lavish profusion of tlowers, sct in o framo of the rich- est greon,—mnsscs of toa-roses, of eglantine, or sweet-brior ; plantatious of the most gorgeous colors,—scarlet - gornniuws, phlox, verbenas, fuchsias, potuning, leaf plants; planted in mnggos, in ribbons, In stare, in circlos ; with the finost rock-work I hinve ovor scen, cqualing that ot Obatsworth in execation, though of courso not approaching It in oxtent; with terraces, and fountains, and statnary, sll in tho bost tasto. It is altogother almost “the flnest. picture on a limited canvas that the genius of tho landsgape- artist and Nature combined bavo cronted. 1 was told that tho cost was $2,000,000. 1f go, I should sny that for a Rotbschild it was well oxpondad. : Near the other. end of the Inke in TIHE CASTLI OF CHIILLON, On tha 12th of Soptombor I visited it for the third time. 'This, the upper ond of tho lake, is .oxceodingly wido, You look up at mountning coyered witl' 8now, and tho cliffs immediately bohind tho castlo are steep sud rugged, but covercd with grass, foliage, and vineyards. The castle ilgolf i crowned with soveral of thoso round, pointed towors, colored red or roddish brown, which are so common in all the ancient structures in Switzorland. 1t stande directly on the lnke, ou & pm{ccfin rock, #o that the water surrounds it on three sides, and tho side noxt the land was formerly cut off by a doeep, broad moat, through which -the ‘water of the lako 'ran, and over which wau the denw- bridge. This - 18 now. partly filled, and & bridgo 18 thrown ncross, by which the cnstle is approached. Tho walls havo oponings for mun(x’atry and eannon; aud the towers projoct 50 that missiles and molted load can be thrown upon the hoads_of assailants. Bitunted so low on the lake, and so surrounded by mountnine, the castle looke low, and it is only as you go olose to it, and walk around its walls, thnt you roalizo its 8ize and hoight, A portion of the old, 'ay walls aro covered with :\'E, and wila flowers fi;!rom in tho og_‘mxlugs of tho stones, and tho eman dash up to its very wavos of Lake foundation. Lake Leman lies by Obillon's walls ; A thousand fect in depth below, Tts masgsy wators meet and flow, The old, old castle was built moro than a thou- gand yenrs ago, and within it was coufined, A, D, 830, the Count of Mnla, tho grandson of Charles Martol, ‘Tho prosout castlo was built by Poter, Dulo of Savoy, in 1223, Bub it dorives its chlof intorest from having been tho PRISON OF DONNIVARD, who was conflned in it in 1670. The vaulta and prisons run_under the castle a distance of near 800 feot, In the room farthest from tho on- trance, and lightod only by narrow aperturen in tho walls of many foet in thickneass, Bonnivard was chained. The groat atone column to which ho was chained, theiron ring sot in tho column, o pioce of the chain, and the pathway worn by his steps In tho rock, aro atill to be soen, Obillon, thy prisou is a holy place, And thy gad floor an altar, for it was trod ‘Dntil bis very atopa bavo leféa trace, Worn, aa if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonhivard] My nono these warka eifaco, For they appeal from tyranny to God, Byron's deuurl[fitlnn is really vory acourate, and bis poom of *‘The Prisoner of Chillon™ hus done moro than all else to_give intorest to the {:]uo, In 1816 Byron visited the castle, sud, onring somo imperfect traditions of its history, tho scon and itu history fired bis imagination, and, before leaving the lake, ho wrote this vory colebrated and most graphic poen, There nre soven pillars of Gotbic mould In Chillon's dungeons duep and old ; "Thore are seven columus, massy and gray 3 And in cach piilar thore §6 2 ring, And tu each Ting thoro fs & cladu, . They clininod s each to & column-atono, * Tho lttlo island which Byron makes tho pris- oner seo, with its three groon troes, is atill there. A small groen falo, it seomed no more, Bearce Lroader than my dungeon-foor ; But in f thoro wero throw tul trocs, Andoer it blow tho mountain-brecze, The castle now belongs to the Canton, and {8 modern msenal, The stupid, maltor-of-fact uard stands seniinol over tho placo of the old awbridgo, and novor for o mouiont dreams of tho poat ; and tho pert and protty Swiss maid, who conducts you aver the castle, and repeats liko & parrot ler talo, thinke mora of thoe frauce she engorly seeks than of all tho prisoners swho have ever pined within the dungeons of Chillon, I moant to hove given you, in this leticr, a sketch of my visit to Chamounix and the Mor i“ Qlace; but I must postpone that to anothor otter. Ono word, however, before I closo, about AGAHEIZ, who was born in this Canton, aud of whom the Bwiss aro very proud, A fow evenings sinco, I heard = lady 0f Lousanno repeat, in her brokon English, Longfollow’s most beuutiful poom on tho groat naturalist's 60th birthday ; It was fifty yoars ago, In the pleasant month of May, Iu the beautiful Pays do Vaud, A child in ite crudlo lay, And Nature, the old nurse, took * Tho child upon her knes, Saylng ¥ oro i o story-Dook Thy Fathor hus written for thee, # Come, wandor with me," slo aaid, ¢4 Tutd reglons oa yot uitrad, Aud read what i etill unread Tu (ho manuseript of God, And sho kecps him atill a child, And wil not let him go, Though at tincs bis heart boate wild For tha beautiful Paya do Vaud, Though at times he hears in his dreams Tho Jtans de Vaches of old, And the rush of mountain-streams TFrom tho glaciers cloar and cold, And the mothor at Lome says, * Hark " For his voice I leten and yoarn ; 1t 18 growing Iste nnd dark, Angrlny Loy dves not roturn,” LN A "B CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1873, LITERATURE. Tooticnl Quotntions, TPORETIOAT QUOTATIONS : Fnom CHAUCER T0 TRN- wTRON, With Goploun Indicen, Autliors, 850; Rube Jocta, 435 ¢ Quatations, 13,600, 1y 8, Avariy AnLt Bonx, Philadelphin ¢ J, 1, Lipplucott & Co, Oli- cago? Tuoksellors geuorally, The alnborate * Dictionary of Authors" by Mr. Aliibono hna prepared tho Yterary publio for this comprobionsive work, Tho quotattons nre nocewsarily short, but they aro to the purpono; and ous can find in this work appropriato pag- sages for almost any subjoct on which ho may wish to wrlte. Mho only fuult wo ecan find with the book is, that, in 1nost cases, the nct or poam from which the lines aro talon {s not givon, Roaders may often wish to seo tho con- toxt in which two or thrag pithy lines ocour, in ordor the moro fully to approciate tho sonti- mont, Thousands of quotntions are made from Bhokepearo, wilh no othor notics as to whoro thoy con bo found. It may bo rophiod that overybody ehould bo eo woll rend in the plays of the grent dramatist that the contoxt of any sontimont will at onco accur to him. But, 88 o practical fact, poople are not s0 woll rond; and, bosides, nll aro liable to forget; and lhones tho valuo that such _roforonco would givo the book. As it would not add to its gizo, thoro belng smplo room for the addition between the quotations, 1t is lioped it will Lo mado in the subsoquent edi- tiona, As it is, the book is o very valuable one, and it should have o place in every library., Phrenology. HUMAN GOIENOE: ot PURENOLOY 48 ATPLIZD TO HEAuTH, MEREAL PIULOSOTIY, ISMONTALITY, Tie TxLLICT, %o, By Yrof, O, 8. Fowren, No- tionul Publisiilug Comipuny, Bold by wubscription, e, Whatever strictly sclentific mon may ey or write of Prof. Fowler,—eall him humbug and sl that,—tho world will give him credit for putling in o popular form o vast amount of valuablo knowledge, Tho ronding of It propares the pooplo for n more aceurato and severo stato- ment of tho principles of health, hygiene, diot, lougevity, &o., &e., a8 made known by léamod rofessors in tho differont dopartments of nowlodge of which Fowler treats, “True, em- piries rend his works, and thon imagino them- gelves endowed with all wisdom aud all knowl- odgo ; but even thoy dorive much bonefit from what they read. The bottor-informed classes cau well afford to let thom indulgs thoeir vapor- ings to their hearws' content, Probably the works of no living author Lnve boen read more widoly than thoso of O. 8, Fowler, ¢ The Gospel EXPOSITORY THIOUGHTS ON THE L FAMILY AND 1) T8 UFE, By the ltov, J, O, RyLE, AL A,V Now York : Robert Carter & Brow, This complotes tho notes of tho Rev, Mr, Ryle on the Gospels,—soven volumes in all. The plan of the work gives the writer froa scopo both for an cssny on the subjects contained in Dalf-a-dozen or more verses, and for o concito analysis of tho meaning of oach particular vorse. Tho tono of it is thoroughly ovangelical, commending it strongly to Sabbatherchool toachors and to tho famulles of all our Orthodox churches. Christians will wolcomo it as & most imporlant addition to our Biblical liternture, eminontly ealenlated to do good to all into whoso bands it way fall, Gos : 5T, Joun,’ of Birudbroke, Life and Character. THOUGNTS ON LIFE AND CITARACTER, By 8. D, liznuoN, Philudelphia 3 J. B. Lippincott & Co, Tliin s & collection of nhort paragraphs and essuys, golocted, ns the author tolls us, from o noto-book, . Thoy wero written ot odd times, a8 they happoned to occur to him. Tho stylo is casy aud plensant, and the subjects om- braco a groat varioty of thoughts on historical, olitical, and moral themes. Bomo of them we have vead with inferest and profit. It is just the book to iave on one's tablo, to emnioy a fow leisure momeuts ploasautly and with proiit, Mineral Springs. THE AMINERAL SININGS OF TIHE UNITED BTATES AND OANADA ; WITH ANALYVEIS AND 'nON| Nores or NT'BrAs oF LUNOYE, AND X LisT 0¥ BEA-SIDI s, By Groxaz B, WaL- 3D, Row York: D, Apploton & Co,, kY This is o mout comprelionsive and exhuustive work. 'Tho subject could ot have boen bettor iltustrated. Not only are the chiemical constitu- onts of the minernl springs of this country, Conada, and Europe cavefully given, but thoir ourativo effects on dulfcront discases sve fully described. 'The author seoms to appreeinte tho superior quality of the romediul agents com- ponnded in tho laboratory of Naturo to all oth~ ors ; and Lo speaks of thewm iu u way to encour- ngo their use by the sick and sulfering. ‘Lo this information, all properly clagsified, the sutlior bas added a directory showing the differ- ent srago nud railwey lines by which the springs can Lo reached, & It of ho- tols, and & description of ihe coun~ try surrounding tho springs. In fact, the work is's comploto guide to tho mineral springuof the ontiro country, Tl within the last fow years, Baratoga and the White Sulphur Springs ot Vir~ givia Linve had a sort ol monopoly uf the public aztention ; but it is beginning to be known that valuablo sud curative waters can bo found in most of tho Butes and Territories, Not to spealk of the magnetie springs in Michigan, and tho Waukesha springs in Wisconsin, thoro aro sevoral other valuablo springs in this vicivity. Bulphur springs, useful I cutancous diseascs, aro found balf way betweon Ottawa and LaSallo, at Ottawa, Morris, and some balf-dozen miles west of Lake = Yorest. In the Iaitor littlo city, there is a uprlng plrongkv impreg-~ nated with iron in Olark’s Ruvine, and ono flow- ing out of the bank near tho hotel on the lake shore, Probably tho most valuablo spring near s, improguated with iron and maguekls, s on tho grounas of Mr. Atwater, at Conova, in Kane County. From tho number and valuo of our minoral aprings, Americans noed nover go to Turope to find water boest adapted to curo what- oyer digoaus they may have. A Nautical Yarm. BETSEY LEE: A Fo''s'ty Yan¥, New York: Me- Millan & Co, Chicago: Jausen, McClurg & Co. A bool for sailors, ns its title implies. Wo commend it to tho attention of those whose lives aro spent on * tha groat waters,” whera its yarng will be readily understood aud appreciated. A Gipsey Story. TIE GIPSEY'S WARNING, By Miss Eriza A, Duruy, Philadelibis : 0, B, Yelersou, "Clucago n, Cooko & Co, The nanio of the publishing house will sug- gest to ronders of * light litoraturo ™ tho char- acter of the work beforo us. Tho gipaoys have for ages past furnished incidouts full of the most Lhrilling events, both in story and in song. Tho plot of this tale is Jaid in Monmouth’s re- bellion, and many of the most Lortibla incldenta in that period of English history are givon in grapliie stylo ; but we aro assured thore is more of love thun war in it, That is a topie that nover wears out ; for whon will tho time como thut hosts of poople will not be in love 7 A Yomantic Narrative. THE OABTAWAYS: A Vovaux Rousn tne Wontd IN BEABOI OF TIE: OABTAWAYS: A Romuutie Nureus tive, Lite,, Lte, By JuLen VERnE, ty Thousand Leagues Under the Bea.” Author of #T'vou. Ifluatrated Dy 170 engraviugs, Philadelpbla: 3, B, Lippincott & Co, Chicago: C.D, Burrows, 189 South Clark sivect, The suthor whoso work is before us has made “ & now depurture™ in literature, In this book Lo atarts with an nccount of a splendid yacht cruising off tho Scottish const, when a gront shark is seon following the ship. It I8 caught and drawn on board, and, on examining the fish's stomach, a glass bottle is found In it, and in tho bottlo aro three ploces of paper, patt- ly defaced, from whioh it flually uppears that the brig Britaonin was lost on the cosst of Patagonis, Juno 7, 1862, and that two enilors and Oapt, Grant had made thoir way to shore, They bog for help to rescno thom from the savagen, uch is tho fiction on which the story ot the book is based, Lord Glenarven, the owner of the yacht, dotermines to roseuo {hewo mon i aud " his youug wifo, aunothor lady, e somo frionds, “join him, and they wail in _ search ‘of " tho castawnys, Storms and all sorts of mishaps bLefall thom on tho ocenn ; their travels in DPatagonin, Australis, and elsowhore, are full of the most thrillin inoldents aud oscopes from wild beauts sn floods. 'Tho wild bouuts and tho natlvos altack thom ; but thoy soom to havo a charmod life, and return to Scotland in triumph, In gll this (ke author attempts to, and wo should suppose Lo does, describo scencry, enie maly, tho natives, with their habits, and a'thon- sand thiugs, precisoly as thoy are; and, in this woy, gives his ronders a vast amount of goographicsl and olhor knowledge In o mout attractive form, The ‘Look I Bpeoinlly ndapted to tho tastos of boys‘ and, with proper quontions from thoir paronts and teachors ns to tho faots in the book, it may bo mado very useful to thom. Wo prodict that evory boy who ronds o dozon pages in it will not stop till {m roads it through, ILvon older and wisor honds ean look it throngh with profit, ‘The illuntrations aro very lhwlfl oxeccutad, and add muoh value nnd fulorost to the toxt, Postal Miatters. THE POSTAT, LAWS AND REGULATIONS, Gov- orninont Printing Oile, Wa- liington, b, 0, Wo havo recoivad from tho Post-Ofiico Dapart- mont a copy of *‘Tlio Poslal Laws and Reguln- tlons,” compiled and propared by William L. Iroland, Chief Clork in tho offico of tho Whird Acelatant Postmastor-Geveral, and J. MeGrow, Chlof Clerlk u tho offico of tho Auditor of the Treasury for tho Post-Ofice Dopurtmont,~both of thom gontlomon qualified by long dopari- ‘montal axperionco for tho worlk they havo uoder- takon. Tho book, whick is printed at the Gov- ernmont Printing-Ofitce, and I8 consoquently typo raphically porfect, contning 434 pagos, in- oluding n full nnd oxhisustiva indox, without which the voluminous contonts would lose half thoir vatue. Tho work Is of valuo, not moraly to Postmaators, but to all business-mon, sluco it givos the fullost Informntion concorning mail- lbfo mattor, raten of postago fu this country and abroad, the rogistration of lottors, tho poatal money-ordor system, olo. A Novel by o Chicago Ladys I8 MARRIAGE VOW, Trom advauco sheota wo havo the story above- named, by Mra, O..F. Corbin, & well-known Ohi- cago writer and worker, published by Leo & Bhopard, Boston. "The simplo atory of A woman who bolieves 1n Jovo,” the suthor calla it but it is very philo- soplileal, withal,—tho mora #o, perlaps, for its sunplicity. The main porsonngo of the story is Chostor Elms, whoso “marringo vow" givos charactor to tho whole, Scarcely secondary, how- evor, is Lucla Deming, tho widow of his friond, Cecil Doming, who returns to the home of hor husbaud's childhood with their ouly child, who, unlnown to the hero, besra his mamo., With auch a bond (tho more of ono since Cheator Elma is childless), acquaintauco soon ripens into friondship, and as speodily, though unconscious- 1y, friondship into a warmer passion. Tho wife of tho hero is a bosutiful, intollectu-~ ally-brifliant woman, but a crippled iuvalid from boforo their marriago, without hope of recovery. His dovotion to hor tirat attracts Lucia Domiog's regard, rivaling, as it sooms, s mothor's touder- nesd and o lover's dullcncg. . A largo part of the book in given to the record of the strugglos of this man and .woman with an unlawful lovo,—bis, short, sharp, and declsive ; hors, lingoriug through yoars, but ended at last under the ministrations’ of Iastor Emanucl, a Gorman Evaugelical, aud ono of the finest chiar- actors in tho book, A sormon of his ia given In full. By reading tho toxt (** God is lovo ") backwards, he shows the divinity of Love. His bolief in its owmnipo- tenca in tho regonoration of tho world is ovi- .dontly sbared by the author, and handled effoc- tively in hor work, His teachinga and influonce fiually overcomo tho morbiduess aud skeplicism which bad takon possossion of Lucin's mind, even reconciling hor Lo tho sudden taking awny of hor child, and bolping her to glory in & lovo for Choater Elma which no longor craved solflsh appropriation. | these struggles bring about tho result the reador Lopes for, and the fnale is orthodox. The invalid wifo, aftor yoars of suffering,— nade, nevertbeless, Lappy by the purity and stoadfastuesy of hor husbund's devotion,—dios, asking only o year and o day for keaping hor mcmurly groon, und unselfishly committing him to tho Jove with which shc bas seon him strug- gling 5o truly, and with whose fiun) and highost canciunmation the story euds. Whatover of doubt mnay occur to seneitive eoula as to tho utility of presenting to a novel- ronding public situations in which & mavried wati 18, novertholoss, the lover of nnothar thau his wife, it is to be romembered that tha Look makes no attempt to portray improbable human nalure or impousiblo virtuo, but rather to uhow how very human people may rigo to divino boights of life and charactorby tho uplifting of the Divino apirit,—tho love which is of God, and which is God, Thero is no gingsrliness in tho Landling of the thome, no laxity In the conelu- sious. Myt MYTHS AND MYTH-MAKERS: OLD TALES AND SU- TERSTITIONS INTERPUETED 1Y COMPATATIVE MYT. oroay, Dy Jonxt Fakr, M, Ay, Librarian and Lec- turer on Philosophy in Hurvard Coliege, Doston : Jawes I, Osgood & Co, Ohicago: Jausen, AlcOlurg Co, 1t is said that, in morals and philosophy, mon often build brondor and bettor than they kuow or oven wuspect. Plato, locturing with profound wisdom to his followors in the groves of Athong, did not dream that ke was uttering principles that should control the minds of scholars fortwo thousand yenrs, and that his influonco upon tho thought of the world would oxtond to iho end of timo. Calvin, at Goneva, poring over his Institutes, did not supposo that ho waa lnying tho foundation fortho cardinal doctrines of soveral of tho leading and powerful churches of America, & countr§ then inbabited maiuly by the panther, the wolf, and the savagé. So, too, when, in scionce or litorature, an important discovery is mado, or some higtorical fact is setiled, no one suspects thio cousequences 1o which it may lead, ‘Whon Jacob Grimm sav down by the firesides of the common people in Germany, and carefully noted down tho tales and atories that had been told by chroniclers and old crones, and that ‘were current smong peasants, nurses, and houso- gorvants ; whon Frore did tho same thing in Tudin; Castorn, in Siborin; snd Campboll, in Beotlaud,—thoy did not suppose thoy wore fur- nishing the materials for Max Mullor and otliers, subjecting, a4 they did, theso houschold tales to the ecperimentum crucis of philology snd mythology, to traco them back to their origin among the parent Aryan nation, dwelling upon the plains of Asin, onst of the Casplan Soa and north of Porsin. As an . cvidonce that' this parent raco dwolt for n long timo in peace, it is statod thiut tho nnmes of the dnmunfio auimals aro virtually tho- finme among’ all tho families derivad from it. Ihe namo, for instance, of tho cow s tho samo on tha banks of the Ganges and - tha Volgn, tho Dauubo and the Thames; whilo the names of the wild animals met with in the dispersion of the raco are different in mout of their languages, Theeo investigations have ruthlossly desitroyod our credlbfllti in many of. what wero rogarded as among the bost attested facts in history and litorature, Tho story of William Tall, celobrated in musie and in tragedy, is found o contury or two beforo his momorable oxploit with tho tyrant Gossler; and, with nawes and placen changed, it appenrs in _England, Norway, = Finland, Itussia, and Dersin, This fact s’ only explichble on the Friuciplo of attributing the Btory to the Folk- iterature comnjon to all the Aryan family of nations, Scora; perhaps bundrods aud thon- rands, of stories ciroulating awmoug the people ull over Europe and Western Asia, have boon shown to hnva a similar origin, Tho labors, thereforo, of Grimm aud othors, In gathoring to- r'ollwr tho Folk-lore of differont nations, have aid the foundation for uow and maat valuabla deductionn in regard to the origiu of mankind. 1t is amaziug thut many of theso storios shonld have boen bolioved by tho wisost aud most in- telloctunl men within a very few gencrations of our own timo. Among the musses of the less cultivatod paople in Europo aud our own coun- try, thoy atill have & wide influonce, Much of the wild und welrd musio of Waguor {4 o waav- ing of theso old Norsa talos into s magic num- bors, To uuderstand them is easy enough whon one knows tho doings of the fabled fionds and eplrits of oarth snd air on’ which thoy wre fonndod, w Tho work of our author fs valuable in that it pives us, in concisa form, tho prinoiplos on shioh tho groat advance that kina boen mado 1n the history of tha race it founded, 1le defines a myth to Eu *an attompt to explain some natural phenomenon by cndow- ingwith human foelings and capaecition the sonse- loss factors In tho phenomenon.” As an in- stance, nke the comimon nursery song, ** Sing & Bong of Bixponco.” Yaglor hay upln?nml it in this wiso: *"Obviously “the four-and-twonty blackbirdn are tho twenty-four hours, and tho pio that holds thom is the underlylng earth, cov- orod with the ovorrenching sky,—how true s touch of Naturo it s, that whon tho pio is opened, tho Dbirds ‘bogin to sg; the King is cho Bun, and hia counting. aub e monoy i pourlug out tho suuebine, the gold- on shower of Danpe; the Queon s tho Moon, and_her transparont honey tho moon- light Ltho Maid I8 the rosy-flugored Dawn, who rises boforo the Bun, her master, and hangs out tha olauds, his clothas, across the uky ; tho par- tioular blackbird whogo tragically ends the talo by snipping off hor nose fa the hour of sunriso.” Our author romarks that porhaps this story may havo too much symmatry and comploteness; but * that somo points at loast of it aro thua do- rived from sutique interprotations of physioal ovents, {4 in harmony with all that wo know cou- cornlug nursery rhymea," Lo thoso who wieh furthor Information on ¢ Mytha and My(h-Mak- ggfi wo cordinlly commend tho work of Prof, Honolm Chillingly. EINELM OIILLINGLY: 18 ADVENTUREA AND Orivions, By Lord Lyrron (8ir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart), Comploto in one volumo, Philadol- Lia: 3, B, ‘Lippiucott & Co, Chicsgo: W. B, oet, Cooke & Co With roforonce to this book, it i about suf- clent to sy that the printing and papor are both good, and its form, 10mo, mukes it very convenient to the ronder, Tho lov- ora of flolion long sinco camo’ to road ovarylbing from tho pen of this noted Linglish writer, so lntely doceased, hothor tho prosont worlk can add anything to Lis Jong- established roputation as ona of the greatost of English novoliats it is not necesenry o disouss horo, Every person of any litorary protonsions, who han not found thne to” read if, will do'so al ©outo, and form his own opinion of its merita. Tho lRev. Alfred Cookman, THE LIFE OF THE REV, ALFRED COORMAN : Wt Bowr AcooUNT o His Farnen, By the }}:;; H, B, RinoxwaY, D, D, New York: Harpor & ‘Chis is & moat wolcome biography of oot tho trucst Obristiane and most eminent prouch- orsof our day. 1lis doath was n great and irre- parable loss, mot only to his family, and tha Methodist Church, In whose servico his life wan spont, but to the entire Chrlstian public, and to tho nation at large. The sterling oharactor ho oxhibited, and hig marled siuccesu as a pronchor, aro all told by n devoted frioud and fathor in the Oburch, with an enrnoatnoss, ond n boauty of stylojaud langungo, that will commond the recital warmly to all Ohristian renders. Tho memory of such men ng Cookman is blossed, for it llycs to Liess all who come after, and to iliusirato the povor of a well-spent Christinu lifo. The ¥oly Clity. JERUBALEM, ANCIENT AND MODERN: Irn His- TORY, ANTIQUITIES, ETQ,, ETC, By the Rev, Isnazn r ;c\'.mnm, D, D’ Boston : Elilott, Blukealco & Evory DBiblo-student, and, in fact, evory roader of history, will fiud this book, of only 60 pagos, full of moat intoresting information. Even tho scoffor cannot ignoro tho oxistonce of Jorusalem, or tho facts of its most wonderful histories. The Arch of Titus, now standing on the Vis Snera, nosr tho Colisoum at Rome, with its sowlptured records of tho fall @ Jorusalom and the utoneils of tho - temploj tho city itself, standiog right whero it did in tho days of David and Tilun; tho Mount of* Olivos, g0 nsaccinted with the minlstry of tho Bavior; the monntains ¢ that stand round about Jerusalom ;" tho childron of Jacob thnt wo moot overy day in our stroots,—all attest the Listorical pecuracy—may we uot sny the solemn truths ?—of tho Bible, "Dr. Warren has dono a most valuable servica to the publio in giving us n concigo and accurato history of Jorusalom in ita glory; of tho city in its docay, and of the ox- cavations snd discoverics that have beon made in and around tho * City of David.” The plates are gaod, and the nxglnuntlnuu aro ensily under- stood. Taken togothor, wo do not soe how Dr. ‘Warron could havo condenaed moro valuable in- formntion in o narrower space, aud at a less coat. Men, Women QUTLINES OF ME; By Sany Orest and Things. WOMEN, AND TIINGS. Axzs, New York: Ifurd & Houghton. Chlesgo: W, I, Keen, Cooke & Co. Mrs. Ames is n protego of the Bpringficld (Mass.) Republican, and does honor to the judgmont of the sharp-sighted editor and pro- prictor of that papor. Iler lotters ssa corro- spondent from Washington and ecleowhero have given hor o powition smong the very first of Amoerican femalo writors. Tha book {8 & collec- tion of papors dosariptiva_ of men,— Onarlos_ Sumucr, tho Grand-Duke Aloxis, 1loraco Groeloy, Edwin Forreat, &e.; of women, — Mnrgarot Fuller Oseoli, Fanny Forn, Lol Mon- toz, &c.; of things,—Arlington in May, Newport in Septembor, Our Kitchong, Caate in Sox, &o., &o.,—all witht the spicy wit' end ecuto porcep- tions of a keen, shrowd wowan. Itisa good bool for & lsisure hour. Punshon, LECTURES AND SERMONS, By tho Rev, WinLus Mowity PuNsiioN, LI, D, Doston: Estos & Len- riat. Chicago: W,'T. Keage, This s & work which thinkers and echolars will at oneo procure; whilo the stylo of it is ko plamn, and its {houghts are so vivid and practical, that all may read it with pleasure and profit. Those who have henrd tho lecturos—and many Chicngo readers hava heard some of them—will ba gled to have them in this pormanent form. The subjects aro: Dauiol in Babylon, Macaulay, John Bun- yan, Wosley and Ifis Times, Floronca and tho Florentines, and the Ifugucnots. Ono of tho flrgt divinos and scholars of tho age, as Mr. Punshon confesuedly is, the public will bo suro of a rich treat in thoso loctures. The author is 80 woll known to our readers thnt we doom n critical analysis of the book unnecossary., Tho sermong will commond themsolvos strongly to the Christizn public, ‘e Centre of the Earth. A JOURNLY TO THYE CENTRE OF THE FARTH, From the Freuch, Wit 62 Tllustrations, By Jurrs Vense, New York: Scribuer, Armstrong & Co, Chicago: Hadley Bros, This Fronch author secms to be excaedingly prolific. All his books are of the samo genoral character, and ail of them are written in an at- tractivo style. Btarting with some fiction, goner- ally & voyage, ho groups togethor s groat varfety of topographical and other facts, especially adapted to attract tho attention of youthful roadors. Tn tho book before us, Prot. Hardwigg gots hold of an Icolaudio volume, in which, on & stray leaf, ho finds & Runic memorandum of tho descent of an Iee- landic philosopher into the crater of Alt: Steflols, aud thenco tothe ceutroof tho earth, The Joarned Hardwigg at onco embarks for Icoland, taking Lis uephow, the writer, with him. Tho Journcy and voyage afford opportunity to do- seribe some of the customns of tho Germans and Danes, and the Icelanders come in for o larga sharo of attention. 'The top of the mountain is at length reached, and down, down they go, and at longth gail on'the mpa attho contre of tha earth. This affords an opportunity to deseribe as in life tho gigantic vegotation of the coal and otber ~poriods, and the mon- sters whoso fossil remalns are imbedded in tho rocks. Aftor a thonsand escapes, thoy ra- turn to Hamburg, the writer marrics his protty cousin, and Prof. lardwigg becomos o corro- sponding membor of all tho learaed societics upon the globe. Wa commond the book to our youthful resd- ora for its facts, They will veadily loarn to ro- gard its flotious as the cord on which the facts are strung. A Revised Eible, THE YIOLY DIBLE: Wrrit A¥ LXPLANATORY AND CurTican CouMENTARY, With o Rovision of the Trunslation (A, D, 1611) by the Blshops aud Other Oleryy of the Anglicon Church. Edited by ¥. 0, Coox, Cano of lixeler, Vol, 83 SrcoNp Kixus— st Now Youk: Seribuer, Avmstrong & Co. Had oy Biros, A wore meution of this work 18 about all we deom necessary for church-going readera, As to whether any alterations have beon made In the text, and whother for the bottor or tho worse, and what re its difforont renderings, it any, from the ordinary version, we have no time to mquire, On all these quoestions, the clorgy and Christian echolars will form their own opiu- {ons, and doubtloss givo them to the public, Elorso-Shocing, L RATIONAL JONSE-SHOEING, By Wikpam, New York : Wynkoop & Ialleubock, Prosented by Drage ton, Xiug & Co,, Chicago, ‘Thiy littlo book is published to advoento the ugo of the Goodonough horse-shoe. In rogard to any controversy botwoen that and any other shoo, Tur Tnmoxx will maintain tho strictost mnoutrality, But that the ownors of lorses should insist on moro knowledgo of thoir busiuess among thoso who ahoo their horses, thoro canunot bo & por- tiolo of doubt. On tho porfect heslth of the horse's foot dopends Lis valuo to his owner, aud that can Lo maintained only by haviug him prop- orly shod, e book bofore s contalns a’ con~ dongod account of the wonderful mechaniclsm of n horsos foot ; and, for this renson, we cor- dially commend ltto tho owners, aswell as tho shoors, of horses, ‘T'he Oty of Brothorly Love. PHILADELPAIA AND ITS ENVIRONS, Philadels phia: J. B, Lippincott & Co. Chicago: W, D, von, Cooks & Co, ‘Thia iu an olaborate history of the principal churchos, manufactories, public buillings, and othor objeots of interost in the staid old City ot Brotherly Lovo, 1t ls elaborately aud benuti- fully lustratod, and will bo Just tho thing for tho hnmdrads of thousands of peoplo who will lvxln{ts .}.10\“ elty during tho Centonnisl aunivorsary n 1676, The Orgun. OLARRE'S DOLLARINSTRUCTON FOR TIIE REED ORGAN, Doston nnd Now York: Ditaon & Co, Clifeago t W. B, Koon, Cooke & Co, Just tho book for thosoe who want Instruction on tho organ, Lot all such tako notice, and act necordingly. o R B oston Eire, STORY TIE GREAT FIRE IN BOS NUV. 9 AND 10, 1872, By Col, He fl.“c(fiflfiffi’f; Toston s 10, 1, Ruuscit, A tho Olicago fire furnished the subjoct for sovoral books, Bo that of Toston seoms {o have beon equally prolific. Thoy sorye tho valuable purpose of giving to postority a full account of thoso, and will bo mnch moro valuablo to tho coming agos than to this, Cortainly, all corract rccords of thom should bo carafully prascrved (n all flmbliu 28 woll aa in privato librarlos, The work bofora us seoms to ombrace all needed iu- ;?xznnuun‘ and {8 woll illustrated Ly maps and otures, - Funting in Mnaine. LYNX-HUNTING., From Noles by tho Author ef amping.0ut? JEM“dB; by G, A Brevexs, Lilus- . Yoston: Jamer ", 3 f W. B, Koen, Gooke & Go. Loahtet cn.h’,m. A book that will interest and pleaso sporta- mon, It ju not only curious ns showing lito in tho wooda - of Maino in swintor, but the writer §lvon much aciontific information in regard to ho wild pnimale that still live thoro, It thus containg more than a more rocord of the doinga of four or flve huntors,—somo of thom nxclflnfi S, iedinely swsting s 1 il sont valus, cspecially to the pooplo of Malno, ludwnuun'\luxg.;wry’whuo. Rk $ii g.,';,"}""“" Recelved. fes' 1 Magazine for A Bland & Ov., Ohicago, Oatoberpilt: O Afedical Invesligator for Octobor; 0. 8. Mal~ "o G dep: \ ew Church Independent for October ; o &1&!«:(0(}]{1’, 001:1‘“ v n October ; Wollor ur: AMonthly for October; Alfred . Mnsan rownson’s Quarterly Review for Ootober 3 F, T 20 et iy . iner and Dressmaker for Octobor; T, R. Collonder & Co., Philadolphis ; Adolpho ‘Gous baud & o, London and Paris, - To° The Pharmacist for October ; Chicago Collego of I'humncx. Gem of the West for Octobor; O, Augustua Haviland, Chicago. Liltell's Living Age,~current numbers ; Littoll & Gay, Boaton, Voice of Masenry for Ootober; John Q. W. lelnly. Chicago, Milwaukeo Lilerary Messenger for October; Ziterary Messenger Company, Milwaukoe, American Naturalist for Octobor; Peabody Academy of Scicnce, Snlom, Mass, Nortl American Review,—Octobor ; Jamas R. 0Os, Wl? & CUL.,GBOBE::. Ba uthern Law Review,~—October; Frank T, Boid & Co, Nashvillo, Toun, s E alurday,—curront numbera; Jamen R, Osgood & Co,, Boston, U Appletons® Journal,—~ourrent numbora; D. Ap~ ploton & Co., New York. World of Fashion fof October; Loula Dovoro & Co,, Loudon, Builetin of the National Association of Wool- Manufacturers,—July—Hoptomber ; edited by Johu L. Hayoes, Boston. The Galaxy for Novembor; Sheldon & Co., Now York, Demorest’s Monthly M(;{az{na for November; 'W. Jounings Domoreat, Now York, Literary Xtems, Misa Anoa E. Dickinson bas written a novel which it fa #nid tho Messrs, Osgood Lope to got oul tha present season, —aA new poom, by tho author of that somowhat succossful philosophical novel in vorso, * Olrig Grange," is promised. —Mliss Braddon’s next novel will bo published early in October, and will bo entitled * Lucius Duvoren ; or, Publicana and Sinners.” The new work will uppenr simultaneously in ¥rance, Ger- mnn}y\'i Amorica, and England. —Nrs. Stowe will soon issue, through J. B. Fora & Co., alargo volumo entitled **Women in Bacred History ; n Serics of Sketches Drawn from Seriptural, Iistorical, and Legendary Sourcos,” fully 'illustrated by chromg-lithos graphs, aftor paintingy by Rapbael and othor groat artists, —George Macdonald hias writton a *sacred poom,” of which tho following stauza is a fair specimon : No longer fly Thy kite, Lord : draw mo home, Thullil p;‘x,u'lt the string through all the distance o ook, Lord, T em nearing Thee; O Lord! T come; Thy pulls grow stronger and tho wind grows weak. —Still another now Englieh edition of Dickeus is anuounced, an * Tustratod Library Edition,” in sumptuous stylo, with “ all tho miuor writings . it was Mr, Dickous' wish to preserve,” A fresh American edition is aouounced by Hurd & Hougliton, & “Now Houschold Edition,” iu fifty-six volumes, and with 550 illustrations. —Victor Hugo, during big long and oventful life, has made with his pen several fortunes, and lost thom. Ho is, perhaps, not as rich as Thiers, but ho owas, bosides his valusblo prop- erty in Germany, fivo or six largo liouses in Paris, and is tha principal stockhiolder in the vory luerative Rappel nowapaper, besides tho lioavy copyrighta which ho auill rocoives on mev- eral of hiw oldor works. —T'ho London Athencum did not admirs Ar. Hargrave Jennings' new book—*'Oue_ of the Thirty"—and Mr, Jenniugs wrote » letter to that journa), in which be says: * Litoraturo, a vory clover man hes declarad, ‘has now become agame; in whichs the bookscllors are the Kings; tho critics, the knaves; the publisher, the pack; and tho poor uthor, the mere table' or thing played upon.’” And in his despondency Mr. Jonulugs adds, "A targot for all! with his *new- noss' turned against him.” Tho dthencune adde, “Toor Alr. Jonningal™ —The momorial of the Evangelical Alliance in to bo issued under the editorship of Dr, Philip Schaff, Contalning =&l the addrossos and specches that bave Leon delivered at tho numer- ous meetings, it will make an octavo of over 1,000 pages. Tho publishers will be tho Harpors. —In Herbert Spencer’s last scicutifio articlo ho attompta to. write down the art of writing. Hero aro somo specimons : I'his foith in Jesson-books and readlngs is one of the superatitions of thoage, Even s applisucea fo ntel- lectunl culturc, books are groatly overestimated. Something gatliered from printed pages {a supposed to enter into n courwy of education ; but, if gathored by obuervation of Hfa azdnature,a suppased not thus to one ter, Rtending §8 swolug by proxy—is learning fudiroctly through another wan’s facuities, instead of dlrncllr through oue's own {aculties ; and such is tho preyaile ing Lids that the fndirect leatning s thought prefera- bla to the dirget learning, and usurps the nune of cul- tivation] —Dr. T. Thorell, Professor of Zoology in the Univorsity of Upsala, who, though n nativo of Bweden, lins latoly published & work in English {* Remarkn ou Synonyms of Europonn Spldum‘R Tolds the opinion that the Euglish Iauguago will eventually become the commion seleutific lan- guago of tho world, mot only bocauso English * is fur moro widoly diffused over overy part of the eartn than any othor culture-language, and that alroady two of the greatout nutions publish in it tho resnlts of thelr eoiontifio labors, but becauso English, on account of its simplo gram- mar, and ag combining in nearly the same degreo Toutonic and Roman clements, is, by most Eu- peans, more easily acquired than any other lun- Enngu." A1, de Candolle, it will be romembored, g givon exprossion to the same opinion, —I, &, King & Co., London, annouuco thst tho following ia the order In which tho volumes of their ** Internal Scientifio Sorios " will be pub- lished during the coming season: “dind aud Hody, the Thioorios of Thelr Rolations," by A. Bain, LL, D.; “The Study of Soolology,” by Horbovt Bpoucor; *Animal Moohauies; or, Wallang, Swimming, and Flyiog,” by Dr. J. Ball Polligrow, M. D.; ** l’a‘lllclP]eB of Hont{l! Physi- ology, with Their’ Applications to tho Lraining sund Digelplin of tss Sind, and tho Study of Ita Morbld Conditions,” by W. B, Carpontor, LL. D,; % 0n tho Congorvation of Enorgy," by Prof, Daltonr Btewart; *The Animal Machivo: or, ‘Aorinl and Terrostrial Locomotion,” by O, J. Marey. ~Dr, Menry Sehliomann, whoso remarkable discovorios at 1Hon and his proposed book about thom wo have slrendy montloned, {8 uow en- gngod in publishing the book. It I8 a narrative ol his threo ynnm'fi‘nunr. to be accompaniod with a quarto atlas, containing 218 photographs, rop- rosenting moro than 8,600 of tho moro thun 100,000 alleged Trojan _relics sccured by him § contnining alto six plans constructed” by on- ginears, which will, wo aupfinsu‘ indicato the oxtent and Iaying out of tho threo citios rovoalod by his digging on tho samo sito, Tho exploror is noxt to dig up buried Mycouw and Olympia in Qreoco, hin discoyorics to romaln his own dur- ing Lin' lifo, sud thon to make a Behliemaun Mu- soum somewhoro in tho Mugoa Grwela, probably Palormo or Napoli, —Wilkio Collina' visit to this country is to bo ocolobrated by his American publishors, tho Har- pors, by the fssue of a new odition of his works, n lbrary 12mo. A flue stecl porirait, by Ial- plu, will' formn a frontispicos to the st volume, T'he house wrote to Mr, Colliug some mouths bo« fore iy vn‘yn;éo, aaking that he should have tho most satisfaotory photograph ho ould get taken for this purpose, and that ho should himeolt place thin in tho hands of tho Engllsh portralt angjnvor ‘whoso work would best auit him. Mr. Colline returned s photograph with anawor that ho lmow of no English engravers who waro now dolug satisfactory work of this sort, and that he frul‘ormd that tho ongraving should bo mado by ho ongraver of the admirablo portrait of Mr, Jumes Larpor, ono of Ialpin's beat wotks, Thin i n plonsing practical complimont to American engravors, —Iu tho 8t Paul's magazino Mr, Richard A, Proctor oxporos the protentious ** selonce™ which Obarles Rtoado introducod, for tho iu-unlur glorl- tication of his hero, in Ioul I'lay," “Artor potntiag out tho error of his mothod of com- fiuuug Tnngitudo, and tomnling that **it would nvo boen oqually to tho purposo to have caleu- Iuted how muny ‘cows' tails would resch tho moon,” 1o wnys: *‘Itisn plty thata novelist sbould attompt to skotch sciont!fio mothods with which ho is not famillar, No discredit can at- tach Lo any poreon, uot an astronomer, who doca not understand tho natronomical procosscs for duturmflnlnq Intitude and longitude, DBut when an attempt is mado by a writer of flctton to give an oxact doscription of any technical mattor, it in as woll to seoure corroctness by uubmnlinz tho desoription to soms friend scquainted with the principlos of the subjeot.” —Tho following, although from the Danbury Netws, is boliovod not to_bo & joke: Ono da; Mrs. Lunt, the author, dinod with Thomas Bai- loy Aldrioh, in Cambridge, and during tha meal the party foll to conversiug on that remarkablo Incident whero & lycmug mun_becamo infatuatod With tho author of certain J'DE‘]]“ artioles signed Zoe, and st last tondered the supposod lady & mnggmuant bracolot, It then trauspired that the beautiful woman of his imagination was a boardless boy. Mrs, Lunt suggeatod that 8 very prolty story could bo made of tho incidont, and Mr.” Aldrich sald he would writo it. But tho lnd’! said sho wonld write it. Mr, Aldrich ndmitted that tho euggestion wag bors but, claimed tho story for humsolf; and much gg:fl-nnhued banter followed. Somo tima after, Mr. Lunt wrote Mr, Aldrich that his wifa Liad comploted hor story. Mr, Aldrich wrote back that ko hnd writion his, ‘But my wife's story is in typo,’ tfllogn!lghed Mr. Luut. ‘Bo fa mine,’ answored Mr. Aldrich. And that was tho end of tho discussion, In_tho coming month, ! Madamoigolle Olympo Zabriski® appeared in tho Al(lai;tltch trom t} 9 pon of M. fidnch, and an pplo of the Doad Soa' appeared in the Gale from tho pen of Mru, Lun t’,H i —_— A SUNDAY LESSON. One Sabbath morn, my footateps lod me whora Thio Heavon-aapiring sicoplo phercad tho blie § The bock'ning bell, witl swent, Jersunsivovoléo, Bade me to onter, and partako the feast OF hoarauly viands which tho godly man Bhould with freo band dispense, I stopped within, ‘The pealing organ snd concardsnt cloir Waked with & symphony the vaulted space, And thrilled my very soul with love for Him Who was the themo of puch melodious tonoa j For Lo well-timed rocurrenco of a sizess, And periodls cadoncy and swell Of sounds harmonious,—which are, alone, Entitled to tho nsme of musio purej— Act on the finer acnaes of tho miud, ‘Aud olevato tho soul inoffably, 3ty heart was fully opon to receivo The tidings glad which Ho of Nazaroth Did bring—when, lo1 the le¥n\o of tha Lord, Howling lis acreod, with awift, percussive sty Bmota on tho rounded velvet of his desk, And sald that man was totally depraved ; And, furthermore, ho never did nor could Do nuulflxl to pleass tho Lord ; ho could not help Himuolt ; and, if bo called not on his God 1o wuch peculfar woy 89 ploased Him woll, He could obtain no favor from On High. And thus he mado the road to Heaven abova 8o ditieult to tread that even ho ‘Who fu than fool more wise, must err theroln, Such singular confusion of tho Word Reudered repulrive all the preacher said, And cast wurrow where a oy hnd eon For ¢ Mieuven will Lelp tho oves wio' help thome lves! Ts sweeteat muslc fo the fainting soul, 1 pagsod from out tho portals of that church, Feeling it wss ho temple of the Lord, And thint 1iis Word was wrosted o conform To uarrow viows of narrow-minded men. 1L, H, NEWIALL, —_— HUIIOR. Motto for tho Intornationalists—The labor wo delight in physics Spnin, B —The gcientific conundrum of tho day is: ‘What did To dic of ? Iodide of potassium. —*Haye you heard my last song ?" asked a music-writerof & gruff critic. ‘I hope #o," was the roply. —*"Ihero! " said Jones, as he wrathfully pushod away the pie which Lis landlady had just eorved him, ** that stuff fun't fit for o pig to oat, and I ain't going to eat it I " —Of aud'on, Tha man who_gots off muy got offer, but Lo can't hopo to reach the suporlativo; whilo tho man who gots on, we are told, may got. honor, and, by possibility, honest, —An Towa oditor wroto: * During the past weok wo bave been visiting tho Solons of tho counlry;"” and his constant subscribors think that ig's funny way to spell “ saloons,” —A _dry-goods morchant of Inrtford waa askod how lie spent his oyonings. His roply was, & At mght I storo my mind, aud during tlie day Imind mfl storo.” Tlowas nfive at lust accounts. —At a hiotel-tablo one bonrder romarked to hia neighbor, *‘This must be & healthy place for chickops.” * Why?” asked tho othor, * Ba« causo I nover geo any dead ones horcabouts,” —Husband, who hns been out West on busie ness, aud left his wifo somo blank chacks— * Mary, I find you havo coneiderably overdrawn st tho bank.” Mary—* Nonscnse, John, hiow cau that bo? 1'vo two of thoo blank checlss Teft you" —A country editor, writing to a dolingquant subacribor roquesting him to pay up his buck dues, concluded with, ‘*If you pay up, you will oblige me; it you wou't, I'll obligo you.” —aA man_in’ blouse—scono Pariy, of courao— presents a bottlo of perfume to his Leloved, saye ing: “When you smoll this yon will regrot thet your Creator did not make you all nose. —Though Shakapeare positively doth afirm it, And to dispute 1t 1may uot e dikerect, Yet I cannot beliovo that which we call ltour By any other nane would smell as whent, —Catehing a littlo Tartar—* So you don't cars about donkey-riding, Miss. Aod why?" * Oh, I've got a pouy, and ono doosn’t earo abont dons koya aftor thut, you kuow " “Has a pony got moro legs than & doukey, then " Miusy (wia don't like to bo chafled)—**Yes ; oxnctly fwice as many ay some donkoya that T Lnow of,” —1'he Pioclie Lecord says: * Wo have many beautiful meteors these autumn nights, One ovoning a tondor swain said to his *sweotness s ‘Some of theso falling stars keem to loave Lo« hind them o bright path, as if thoy woro ccles: tial mosscngors flying earthward, tho dust of heavon falling from their feet, and making @ track of Jight bohind,! To which tho maid re pliod: ¢Thoy allers makes me think about tba circus man that swallowed fire."™ ~—Not much danger ay yot!—Squire’s lady : And hoy has your brother Jack Lecn bebaving lately, Sally ?" hauk'eo, my lady, co haint bin 1 wuss; ea aroread tho good bouk as you sont 'im, aud bin twice to Sunday-school, aud it don't ssom to have dono him no particular ‘arm &l prosont.”—London Fun. —Jonos dropped in at o closed bar the othor day and purehnsed & gluea of bis favorito bver- age. As ho munched the customary clove, ho absorved that tyo bor-tendor had retirned him short chango. *Woll,” said the goutlomun of the shirt front and diamond pin, * we'll owo it to you,” **But what kind of security can yon give mo 7" nskod the wary Joues, * Supposing you tako a lean on (o bar." ws the roply. —A Waodward avonue business-man found a countortelt 50-cont serip among his curroncy, tho othor dag, and ho put it in his vest, and that a- tornoon gava it to a littlo girl begging on tho siroats, When ho camo back from ten, ho found thio suma picco of nerip in {ho drevor again, and, quostioning his clorl, ho lourned that littlo girl Lind browght it in) Lought & atick of gum, and one nway with 49 conta good money. ‘That E:mk hin suspeuded on enrroncy payments to Loggars,.—Delroit Iree Press, —Lho British sciontists, lately in somsion at Bradford, appoar to Linve mads light of Mosaia chronology. Mr, engolly, who i3 tho oflicial eologist of the CQovernment for exploring Cont's Cavern and other boue-cavos of Doyon- shire, brought forward his annuat orop of ex- tinet animul and human remains, showing tho vast sutiquity of man un the planet, and in tho coursie of [t rolated that some lndios had visited Iont's Cavorn undor his guidanco, Oune of thom nuivaly asked if tho romaing did not prove that man muat havo lived on the earth u very long timo—six thousand yoms, at loast, “A preat deal longer than that," voplied_tho geologlst. “ALI" enid tho lnd]y. " bug the' Biblo says man was croated six thoussnd {nnra ago, aud it's wickod to add any moro,” * \ieked, no doubt,” roplied Pongofly; **but you mny add_ a grent many ciphers to that six thousand, sud still it will not bo naughty enough," —A man ig 80 much more politain church, Mo 1n on dross-parade, a8 it woro, Nobody was sure prised to soo that young man last Sunday dive suddenly into the bottom of tho pew Lo pick up hor parasol, Whilo ho waaat the bottom bo paw the ombroidored edgo of her pockot-haudkerchiof stioking from undor tho edgo of hor dress, Ho commoneod mfighuf at {t, whon thoro waxu florca scuflie, and a littlo hand darted down, 110 came up without it. Thore wera two rod faces in_the sanctuary, to which the calm of tho blossed Sab- Dbath soeinod to bring no rolief, Hut Lo was & young man that meant well.—Staunton (Va) Vindicalor =