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10 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBU SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1874, LITERATURE. Box nnd Education, BEX AND EDUCATION: A Reriy 7mo Dmi E. I OLARKE's * BRx 1IN EDUOATION,” Kdited, with an introduction, by Mrs, Junta Wanp Hows, 16 mo,, 3 pp, Toston s Roborts Lros, In thospring of Inst yonr Dr. 1. I1. Olnrke road. by invitation, boforo the Womnn's Glub of Boaton, an cssny on tho rolation of sox to.the odutation of womon, Tho paper cxcited an unoxampled amount of discussion, oliciting various and con- filoting orlticlsms, Encouraged by this unox~ pected oxprosaion of intorost, the Dootor was in- duced to oxpand tho ossny into a little volumo, which was publishod in tho onsuing sutumn, The local sltention which tho cesay swakoned fmmodintoly bocamo gonoral, and tho volnme re- coived from the thoughtful overywhero tho mosl onrnoat consldoration. Tho timo was ripo for it, Teople’s minds, alroady full of agitation on all quostions of refurm, ore propnred to ontar upon o caroful fuvestigation of this, which fs onoof the most vitnl. Tho health of Amorloan women, and the manner in wiich it {8 sffocted by populec methods ol education, I & subject “ thiat touohes most noarly tho interost of every Amoriean oitizon. Naturally tho book passed undor tho most jonrching scrutiny. Tho author's Iangusgo, wogio, aud evidonco wore scouncd aud siftod, ’yurned on overy side, and hold in overy light. Joldom. 18 & work so Tigorously iu- spocted” and Berupulously —messured. This wns Just what the Doclor must lavo antiol- pated and most desirod, To srouso thought, provoke commont, awukon autngonism ovon, \ua to acouro the sucecsy - of his purpose. In tlus progreusivo age, to fusten tho attontion upon auy crymg ovil is to insure ita amolioration as far and 88 lmtbnu calightenod opinion' can ac- complieh the object. % 0Ncyhudy could dony Dr. Clarke's statomonts oxlnbiting a disastrous condition of hoalth anong American women, A linittd cbrorvation suflicos to contirm their tostimony, Somo ex- coptions wore taken to the plainness with which these statoments woro made, nud tho poculiax publicity given them. But whie criticism hud no propor foundation, Dr. Clarke's mannor wws tuvarinbly modest, aud s languago dolicutely chosen, Ho had important iruthe to lell, and hio must convey them in torma that wonld bo un. mistakablo, Dosides, when womau aro prossing inlo soats in schools, nt tho olimv, at the bar, in tho pulpit, in all public places, by tho uido of and 1 compotition with men, thoy mukt cxpact that subjects which aro excluded from the re- fined, roso-seented stmosphore of tho drawing- room will coutinuaily arise for open discussion within their heuring, And thoy bave no nght to complain, It is tho logitimate result of sharing with mon the frult of the trea of knowledge. It womou aro to_aswist mon in making laws, they must froely debate with men sl owls which compol tho necesalty of laws. But lot woman zetain hor purity, and sho can afford to loy aside prudory, Thore are no topics within the rango of humian intelligonce that may not bo appro- priately and protilably discussed by men and womon, under the saleguards of deconcy and decorum, ‘Thoro bas been o univorsal expression of gratitude for Dr. Clarko's voluwe, evan by those ‘who moat warmly dissent from its conclnsions, ‘Women who are aoxlous for tho wolfaro of their sex aro glad to huve publio atfcution called to the gravo fuet thut tho great mujority of Amoerl- can ‘women nre oufonbied by disauses prouliar to 1bo fomil tion, that 80 the causcs of this gonoral jnvalidism may bo discovorad, and, it poseiblo, dono away with, Dr, Clarke, a8 the rosult of his profossional experionce, declares s provalouce of disouso to be chiolly owing: to ibe co-education of tho soxes; that is, to the idontioal education of girls and boya, IHo ad- Vances no argumont ugainet the right or pro- of woman's seouting a8 profonnd and ox- tonsive nu education ns ber brothor; but he arrays all hin foreo ngainst lor proewnng 1t nc- cordiug; to the samo mothods, Horo is tho point against which gonoral hostility Luwa boen loveled. In arguing that women cunnot, with safety to Bnt thore was no rush, no thrift, no growth, in Thorpo Regis, like that which moved tha towns happily located on the now line of businoss and travol. It rostod rnnml\ll and passionlost, Au illustration of English lifo a8 1t provatlod a con= lm{ ngo outside of the grent citios, and ns it wliil oxista in canual and romoto rural distriots. Tho story which the elevor writer of *'Una- wares ' Ling nolocted for recital from the histor; of "'horpo Rogls is aa r‘lulot 88 the villago itsolf, 1t ombracos noarly all tho sooloty.of tho town, which 18 not 8o extenstve or so complicated aa 10 bo diflicult to haudlo. Thoro is the Yquire, and his two motliorloss daughtors, gontle and woll- brod ; the gootl Vioar, with his docite wifo and thoir son and daughtor,—tho farmor with o tin- Elu of the contury's Iifo in his_volns, stinging im to au nctivity that longs for n widor flotd than Thorps Regls for iis oxpondituro; o pair of bachelor brothors, rotired London lawyors, who, by some romoto resomblancas, oall to mind tho famous Choeryble Brothers; s vehemont, dissonting lay-prenchor ; and a numbor of other minor characters, adding essentinl, but not prom- Inent, links to tho chain of incldent., Thero {s not aniong all thosa & single oxalted ohuractor, Tvery iudividual is faulty, mauy- sided, nud not much abuve the common-place. Wo conld find thoir equals; ovor and over agutn, among onr own acquaintavces, ‘Ibia realism is otiv of tho oblof chiarme nf the book, Wo sos in it our neiglibors and ourselvos, nnd discover Auew tho truth, that, if tho prosiest and mont unevontful lives—which, as they lido on about us, aca regarded with slmplo indiTeronco—rara to bo acourately writtou out, thoy would sston- isk us with the wonlth of material in thom for intoroat and instruction. Tho author of Thorpo Rogls is mistrosa of this truth, aud rolios upun 1t oxclusively for tho offact of Ler atory. It is not worth while akotohing in outline that which dopeuds for its beauty 8o eutirely upon minute anl accurate dotail. “Soparato the few londing ovents from the carefully-clabarated accossories nnd embollishments, aud thoy scem widoly mengre and barren. Thorpe Regls isa ro-Raphnelito study, in which tho morit lies loas in tho thomo than in the troatmont. The Yondor will flud, a8 he goes over it, a Lundred dolicato strukes which #uggost moro than thoy declare, and which depond “on hia *own subtle wonse for their ful intorpretation. The uwovol, “Jupiter's Daughtars,” i of an uttorly diiforant cast and color. It also gives o fac-gimilo ' of common human-naturo; but its locale is \n France, and notbing could bo moro oppored in spirit 'and feoling thuh tho two nations divided by tho English Clauucl. Tho titlo of this second book lias a -moat attevunted connection with its subjoct. In the closing sentonco wo aro told that tho aucients satd, “ngxnra avo tho Daughters of . Jupiter;" and then discovor that, ns the heroine is Lhrown upon rayor as the only consolation for a defraudod ifo, thero ig o roi uvnm!fl Dbetwoon tho'old Pagan sontimont snd & Cluistian’s lovocation” of Doity. 3 ’ Tho talo iteolf i an illustiation of the French system of marriage, into which there enturs no quostion of nffectiol, buk motcly of mattora of convenience, Of tho two contraoting parlies, the young girl is oxpected to have a suitablo dowry and a hostt blank ns an unwritton sheat of papor; wlilo the gentloman, with: corrospond- ing pocuniary advantages, has, gouerally, an ex- pericuce of worldly pteasnres which rendors him Ulase long bofore 80, und louves him ne resvnrco for future enjovment, save on & trial of matri- mony. ‘thio novel is hot particularly skitltal, but iy true to its nationality, and affords s good commentary upon tho domestic lifo of the poovle, Btranga as it may scem to Amorican ldunu, this 18 ns often happy aa othorwiso ; and, if tho relation botwoou lusbanda and wives ig uot the most oudearing, that which oxlsts bo- Lweon parents and childron is most fond and Instiug. The sort of remsoning by which the Froucn satinty thomuelvos that the maringe de contenance is boyond all others tho most ad- 'vantageons, ig Indicat2d in the following speoch from the mouth of a shrowd and honest grand’- mere: 3 “I married my husband aftor soelng him twlco, and I did very woll. My sons married the girls I choso for thom, and thoir houscholds aro Lappy oncs. Now, listen to mo, my friond ¢ when folks marry -for love, they begin with o wholo bateh of illusions, which day by day vit- ish, and often the onco-loving puir como cor- dially to hato ono another: I havo soon it. Bub, their hoalth, pursuo their education 1a the man- o astablsiod i axistiug welinoly and collegos, 1t ie felt that a fatal blow 1s nimed at their intel- lectunl progress. 22 Ablo essays in opposition to this opinion have originated from many sowrces. To givo thotm the strengthund iniluenco of combimtion, a numberof the best—thirteon—hevabeon unitad in $hio volumo whoso titlo honds this notice, ‘Mioy are from such skillful writors as Mrs, Horace Mann, Carotive H, Dall, Elizaboth Stuart Phelps, Thomas Weuntworth Higginson, ete,, ote. Thetone when paronts malke tho choice, thoy do 8o with all their reanon ; they look ont for good healch, good antecedonts,—a groat denl in antecodonts ; good conduct runa in the blood, #o does bad. 1f o womnn behaves well, and malies a house com- fortablo, the man comes to value her, nnd, ns #oon us hie does that, sho loves him, Womon nlm made #o ; they give a gront doal for very lit- How * Thoro I8 tinoturo of trath in the argumont, notwichstanding its unpalatablences. But tho man who is oducatad to porsons), roligions, and of most of thewm is tempotato, fair, and eandid. Every point in the wholo length of Dr. Clarke's argument is_chullonged ; overy woak and un- sound placo s oxhibited ; aud, when all is dono, there is uo denying that it is protty thoroughly domolisued. If Dr. Clarko bo ‘the honest fiiend of women, which every pago in his book doclares ho is, hio will not bo chargined over his dofoat. o will bosatistied with having stimulated an erdont controvorsy, and instigatod sagacious ob- gorvers like himself Lo unite in tracing to their right source ovils which a!l muet deplore and bo auxious to eradioate. Dr. Clarke's argumont sgainat theco-education of tho soxes rests upon two premises, viz : LThat Amorican girls pursuo their studies 1 the samo maoner as bogs; and that, in s groat mojority of cases, their ‘health-fails Lofore, or soon aftor, their schiool-conrso is ended. Inrefutg tho doduction from_theso propositions, his oppo- nents havo failed to show with sufliclent clear- moss tho utter faluity of the firstof them, Amori- can girls do nol pursue their studios in the somo mnuner a8 boys. They may attend tho same schools, and go through the aame eurriculum ; but their habits of dress, of living, and of study aro radically. different; and hero is whoro tho wholo troublo lics. Tn the first place, girts compross their waists and constrict thoir Tuugs wills corsets, suspond Teavy skirts from thoir hips, burdon their heads and heat thoir braims with a mass of curls and bralds, tilk their bodies forward at su unnatural sngle with high-heoled ghoes, and, in manifold othier ingenious ways devised by Foshlon, tram- mol and hindor tho dovelopment and actlvity of their limbs and physical organs. In the second place, the greator proportion of them, at least in our towna and cities, at an early age, not much romoved from infancy, enter into society, and onguge In its festivitlos and dinsipations. ' And, lustly, thoy uttempt, by o procoss of crowding and cramming, to finish o colleginto education Dy tho timo thoy ave 18 or 20, 18 this acquiring um education by tlis boys' mothod? No doubt 1t i1 njurious, if not ruinons, to body and brain ; but fot us call it as it is, dintinctivoly, tho Amor- jcan gitl's mothod of obtnining v education. and i 1o way, oxcept in the mnountof lessons learned, tho sumo a3 that practiced by her broth- or, Ho woars from babyhood a loose, ensy-fitting dress, constructed upon hygienio principles ; sponds o groat desl of ' bis daily loisuro out-of- oors aud In vigorous exorcise; abstuing, as zulo, from the seductions of socioty ; and is not worried if his student-career is prolongod to his 25th poa 1t i not from any ndvantage in sox that Le is enabled to gain a sound education and retain hiy vigor. It 4 wolely from his whole- some und gensible way of Nying. If Amorican girls conld bo induced to fellow snbstantinlly Cluts boy's eanitary wodes of lite and of study, thero would bo no_oceasion for books Iike Dr. Clarke's * Sox in Educution,” sud this of * Sex rud Xdueation™ in roplyto it. Novolss THORPEREGIS, By the Author of * The Roso Gar- den™ and Unuwarcs," 12 1no,, 432 pp, Boston : Robe ertw Drow, JUPITER'S DAUGHTERS, By Mns, O, JENKIN, Author of “Who Brexka—Days,? A Phycho of To-day," ote. 13 mo,, 284 pp, New York : Henry Holt & Co, ‘Whoaaver loyes the quiot and reposo, the alow and sloopy tranquillity, of & secluded rural town, will oujoy the stovy of Thorpe Nogis, It is & pugo takou vight out of pastorsl naturo,—out of tho luzy and sluggish monotony of rotired villago- lite, ‘horo it tho samo languid air resting on it that lios indolently broading over a solitary Eng- Jivh hamlet, quicting tho stic and dendening tho Lustlo of overy sort of Jifo within its procints, "Thio book is steoped in this drowsy lauguor, and tho reador giadually yields to its sommolout influonce, slackoning the pulses, soothing tho norves, and lulling the mind into gentlo quies- cence. + Thorpe Rogls Is n litile villago which, in tho days of tho lumbering stage-couoh, lay upon tha greut highwsy to London, and was Lwico a week rousod to a few moments of foverish uotlvity by tho arrival and departure of tho protentious vehiole which conveyed tho travoliug publio and tho British mail to and from the great Metropo. tig. Dut, whon tho 1silrond cut an iron arfery through the hoart of Eugland, it passed full five miles ono sido of Thorpe Rogly, and lefi the vil- Inge stranded aud stagnant, liko s torpld shell- flsh high and dry on the gea-sands, There wore wtill left the redident famitios of tho country- ontry and the Chutch-Viear, constituting s Fxmu circle of -refived socloty ; and thore wore the village-folk and tho rustics, ocoupyiug tho lane bolow, and porforming the simplo, homely Otlog of tensuts, soryants, aud lhup-hupnru. political frecdom, would prefer to run all the rigks of unhappiness in o marriage founded upon love, instoad of upon interest. Maory Cowden Clarke. THE TRUST, AND THE_REMITTANCE: Two Love-8tonies IN METRED PRose, By Many Cow- Dex Cranie, 16 mo,, 135 pp.” Boston: Roberla ros. Thoro is a whole long, sweet love-poem in tho threo short linos of profatory sddross conseorant- Iug this volume, “To the lover-husband of 85, theso love-storios are dedicated by the lover-wifo of 63.” Itdoesnot toll us liow many years love Les united the vonorable pair, but that it still prosorves ita freshness and forvor in the evening of thoir lives. Twouty-two years' disparity in their agos, but nouo in their foelings, The octogenarian, with snow in his hair and tremulousncss in Lis stop, pays the sumo lover-liko attentiona to the wrinkled and faded wifo that ho lavished ou the young and bloom- ing bride. 'Tho gifted and cultured woman, whose life has been siogularly blessed and use- ful, resumes the pon_in her advancing age, and declnres to tho world #he has taught to respect hor that the trensures of her heatt romain ne bright aa tho Lreasnres of hor mind. Mary Cow- den Clnrke spent sixteon roars over the Concord- ance of Bhakspeare, which is so valuablo and completo n work that it must bereafter be con- sidered n necossary adjunct: to tho plays of tho great dramatist; and sbo Las written sevoral volumos of skotchea and tales of much beauty and ecleganco; bat did sho ever indite a moro gratoful sontenco than this wo have quoted, which testifles to tho possiblo power and poraist- onco of conjugal love ? "Tho two love-stories which comprise the vol- ume will not add lurgely to Mrs. Clarke's litor- ary reputation, They read mmoothly and sgroe- ably; aro aptly molded In the poetio form which sults well tho romance of their subject ; but they do not stir any oxciting emotious of pleas- ure or admirntion, - At tho most, thoy will be kindly rogarded as the late productions of n cul- tivated aund versatilo mind. Mr. Alcotts School. RECORD OF MR, ALCOTT'S BCHOOL; Exmmrir- FYING THE PHINCIPLES AND DMETHODS OF MonAL Ourrung, Third Ldilion, Rovised. 1vol,, 16mo., 07 pp. Boston : Koberts Dros, : Thera may bo somo that will put the Inquiry : ‘Who is Mr. Alcott ? To such we would auswer, hho is Mr. A, Bronson Alcott, of Concord, Mass,, the author of ** Concord Days," tho father of Mius Louisa M. Alcott, and the owner of perhaps the most purely-philosophical mind that was evor born upon our Continent, Tho best worl of Mr. Alcott's’ lifo has been accomplighed in tho school-room, Iore his peculiar and remarkablo talent, hisloarning, and his wisdom found tho most fitting aronu for their freo and ful! manifestation, Horo ho could de- velop snd complote his individusl and original idons without constraint, through tho spokon word, the avonuo most congouful to them. The study of the spirit and tha thought, which to him ‘was all-abgorbing aud important, could be most satlofactorily pursued while he was engagod in drawiug out, disciplining, aud cultivating tho minds of littlo children, His own miud received tho atrongest stimulant in quickoning theirs, and enjoyed its most favorable and fruitful em- ployment. Mr. Alcott could novergive adequate uttorance to himself in writing. The pon oramped his thought, But, in touching and in conversation, his fine and raro faoulties casily came out, ond took shapo for the apprehonsion and enjoyment of othors, Noarly forty yonrs have passed since the term of sobiool was held in Boston, of which this volume proservos & record, And yot thoro was #0 much vital wizdom fu the plan of Instruction which Mr. Alcott pursuod, that, with all tho change aud advance In educational systoms meantime, his own bLas nelthor grown old nor offete, Ic might bo takon as o product of tho genlus aud exporiouce of (o-day, thote is no much newness and beauty in it prolifle sug- gostlons, ‘Thera were about thirty ohildren In Blr, Al- cott's rohool at tha time of this record, ‘Their nges ranged from Y o 12 yoars, but tho groater nuber wore about B years old, The schvol-roam was spaclous, and ornamouted with pictures and statuary, Busts of Clirist, Plato, Sooratos, Shak- spearo, Milton, and Hcott, ocoupied prominont lacos, M. Alcott dirootod iy frst attontion 10" tiwining ths oyo of the ahild, abd' through that his mind and band, Tho ohlol oxorolsos, of tho echool consintdd of journal- writhig, roading, spelling, and convorsation, subordinato to which wero lossons in goography, arithmotic, and Latin Gront stress was Inid upon tho study of Lnglish, which waa pursued by menns of writing “and’ spolling words, and traciug them through their various litoral and flt;urm. vo dofimtions” Mr, Alcott rond muoh imaolf to tho children, from worke of gonlus, in ordor to make thom ncquainted with grent minds, and to form thelr tnste upon tho highost modol During thoso roadings he closely nold tholr af tontion, and quostioned them continually, to nsoortain tholr improsalons rogarding evory atriking and suggostive word and thought of tho author, It waa his nim to insuro in tho mind of tho child vind aod oxact concoptions of ovory idoa presonted to iL, It was asslstod to got at the inward and apiritual “monning, na woll an tho outwnrd and matorial form. Tho fayorito Looka of tenchorand pupil wore tho Biblo, Krummncher's l’nrnbloul - Pilgrim's_Trogrosy," “The Tairy Queon,” “Tho Btory Without sn End,” and Miss Edgowood's tales; but oxtracts from tho bost authors, from Plato down, wore sgalected na thio occasion mado them applicablo, In all tho discipline and instruction of Dir, Al- colt’s soliool, thoro wau a constant appoal to the moral senss of tho childron, Every opportunity way improved to convines thom of tho bosuty and nge of goodnans; snd thoy woro gradually brought to adopt Liabits of solf-gacrifice and solf- control,and to practico the klndl{vlflnuu. from an intelligont undorstanding of their value. The advantagos of this modo of teaching wore da- monstrated in the romarkablo intolloctual activie ty and tho high moral principlo of the pupils, Thoy studied fower lessons than children in other schools, but those they had wore thorough- lry comprehonded, ~ Thoy wont through with fowor boaks, but they loarned to appreclate tho bost that wns in a book, and to approciato it for thelr own montal culturo. Tho poouliarities of Mr, Alcott's system of eduoation oxciled o gront dool of curiosity. To satisfy this a8 far ns practioable, Miss Elizaboth P. Panbody, who was at the tino acting ao tho aesistant of Mr, Aleott, mado n dally record of the exorctsos of tho school during soveral weels of tho wintor scssion of 1835, This was pub- lighed, with several additional chaptors in furthor oxpluuation of Alr. Aleott's plan and principles of instructian, Fho book hins boon & long time out of circulation, but is now rovived in anawer to a considorablo domand for it, Tho groat fo- torast inepired by Miss Alcott’s *Littlo Mon" has couduced to this inquiry, Many scones in that work, doscribing tho bchaol at Plumflold, wero suggosted by tho “Record of School," and Miss Aloott Lorsolt was desirous of the ro- publication of a boolt to which her own owed so much. Inagracoful note addrossed to Mius Pon~ body, sho says: Tho mothod of education 6o successtully tried in tho Tomplo long affo aro 8o kindly welcomod now,— even tho very impotfect hints in the story,—that I can- not consont to recelve the thouks sud commendatious due to another. £ Not only ia it a duty and s pleanuro, but thero fs & cortain fitness in makiug tho childish ‘flotion of the daughter play tho graloful part of herald to the wisa and beautiful truthe of tho futhier,—truthu which, for thirty yoars, have been silontly, holptully llving in’ tha heatia and momorics of tho pupils, who nover have forgolten tho {nfinences of that timo and teacher, “ Tho Record of n 8chool” gives & trueridea of Mr, Alcott's gonius and charncter than any of hik writings ovor can. For this ronson tho hook will have an Interest for many renders. Dut, boyoud tnat, it will nve for thio parent and me structor an espacial valuo ns an exposition of what, i4 many respects, is the truo philosophy of teaching, 2 The Trinitys THE TRINITY. iy the Rav, ¥\, IT, Bunnis, A, M., Momber of tiio Sowth Kunsas Aethodist Episcopit Coufeccnco, Wit Inteadic Hu by rof. dosken Uavin, D, Dy, L, D,, sachor of * Moital Phtles - Phy, ' Mol Piilosophv,” ete, 1 vol,, 13mo,, 316 i, Chizng): 8. O, Griggs & Co, Tho nuthor of this Iatest oxpoeition of tho Trinity has evidently beon inspired to the work by a sincoro dosire to eluoidate tha truth, sad hos oxecutod it with ability and candor, 1o has pagsod undor n thorough reviow tho tostimony of Clrist, of Paul, of John, and of tho Old-Tonta- ment Soriptures ; aud, from what he conslders their united and harmonious evidonce, dorivos tho following inferencos : First—That thore is but ono God, the Father of us alk. Second—That Christ waa God incarnato, con- celved by the Holy Ghoat, aud born of the Vir- gtn Mary. Third—That the Holy Ghost is God's Spirit, and I8 uo more & person ‘distinct from Him thau i8 tho spirit of mau a porson distinct from the man himaelf, Fourth-—That the Divino Trinity in not a trini- ty of porsona, but the threo essentisls of our God in Christ,—tho Father being Doity; the Son the bumanity of Christ; and_tho Holy Ghost, God wouking inus through His Son, Finally, that this Trinity did not exist until God became in- carnato 1 tho person of Joaus, . Theso opinious are mearly rolated to tho Monarchinns, and alto of Swadonborg. The volumo is introduced by Prof. Josepl Hevon, with o briof sketch of tho chief historical doctrines which heve arison, from time to time, in tho Chuintian Church, concorning the Divinity of Christ, aud His relation to tho Iather. In all extornals tho book is neat nnd atiractivo, ro- flecting credit upon its publishers. Itooks Received. A COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS, Dy Jaxizs O, MorraT, D, D, Part IT,: Laten Sonire TURES, PoGnEWS, AND REVOLUTIONS OF FAITH, 1 412 pp. Boston : Dodd & Mead, j INGS OF THE AGES: I Two Pants, By A, C. Tuaveten, 1 vol. squnro 12mo,, 300 pp. Ban Francineo: A, L Daneroft & Co, THE STRUCTURE OF ANIMAL LITE: Srx Leo- TURES DELIVERED AT TiE BROOKLYN ACADENY OF MUBIG IN JANUARY AND Fxmnoany, 1813, Dy Louts Auassiz. 1vol,, Bvo,, 128 pp, ' New York: Boriuner, Armstrong & Go, Periodicals Kecelvod, The Excelsior Magazine for March mingles in- struction with entortainmont in nige proportious. Among tho more thoughtful papots of (ho first sort are two latoly read bofore the Philosophical Socioty of Chicago; tho ono by Prof. D, J. Bni- ber, on **The Thought of the American Stato Systom; and the other, by Mrs, Kato N, Dog- gott on “‘Tho Painter Rapahol” Of a lightor cnst aro a couplo of agrosabla sketches of Men~ delssohn, and South Americs,—the Jatter accom= panied by a full-page engraving. Tho “ Talos from the Onorna™ aro continued with the tragio story of Norma, In addition to theso, thore aro stories by Mrs, I3, A, Bryant and March Wilber- tan, and poems by Horntio N. Powers and H, IT. Nowhall,” The dopartments of Fashion and Eti- quetto arp presided over with judgmont aud good tast8, In fact, the ontire appoarnnce and conduct of the magnzine indiento that it is intho Liands of one who is notive and competont, Tho Aliantic Monthly for Apil (I1. O. Tough- ton & Co., Boston) contains, among othor ar- ticles, the continuation of Prudence Palfrev," by T.'B, Aldrich; another chaptor of Obarles Dudloy Warren's “ taddook;" A Modorn Fi- nancisl Utopis,” by David A, Wells; and posma by Edmund C. Stedman, O, P, Cranch, and Eliz- abnth Btunrt Phelps. Tho leading articles in Lippincoll's Magazine for April (. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia) are tho continuations of *‘fho New Iyparion,” by Edward Strahan, and “ Malcolm,"” by Genrge Macdannld ; “ Some Rocollactions of Walter Sav- oge Landor,” by T. Anthonv Trollopes and ooms by Chiarlotto F. Batos, Margarot J, Pros- on, and Mary I, Dodgo, In tho Qalaxy for April (Sheldon & Co., Now York), ** Linley Rockford,” by Justin MeCarthy, in continuod ; T{almar Hjorth Bnyosen doscribos “* A Visit to Touignenoff;" Richard Grant Whita devotos & * Linguistio™ paper to_Charles Astor Tristod ; and there are noems by William Winter, Bavard Taylor, and T, W. Parsons, The curront number of tho London Quarterly (Loonnrd Bcott T'ublishing Companv, Now Yorlk) has articlenon ¢ Mary Somorville,” Lom- bard Btool,” *John Stunrt Mill's Autoblography,” “ Proaper Merimeo," &o, Aidland” Monfhly for March, W. D. Dratt, Monmouth, I, Millenarian, 11, V, Reod, Chieago. Western Agriculturist, T, Buttervorth, Quinoy, Eiterature in Noston-=Frothinghamds Lite of ‘Thoemloro Paricer. Correspondence of T'ke Chicago Tribune, Boston, March 15, 1874, It is an interasting if not striking cofncidenco, that, almoat Almulianeous with the death of Presldont Fillmore, Parton’s Lifo of Presidont Jofferson should appear; and, with the death of Charlos Sumuer, Frothingham's Lifo of Theo- doro Parker, . ONE OF BUMNER'S BEST FRIENDS, should appoar. Would that Parker were hore to-day! With what costly olntment would ho ombalm Sumuer for his burial! With what pro- found recoguition of all he has dono and suffor- ad for Freodom; with what sublime appreolation of his adamantine intogrity and staluloss puri- ty; with what tendor reallzation of the deop sympathles and rich afioctions that glowed at tho hoart of his wholo naturo! Thoodore Parker was preachiog at Wesb Roxe bury, in 1845, whon Oharlos Sumuor dolivored, DLofora tho oity-nuthoritios of Doston, his tamous Tourth-of-July oration on tho *'Truo Grandeur of Nations,” whioh broughit him much reputa- tlon with tho roformors, but® oursos loud and doep from tho Boaton rospootability of that day. Parkor was slightly acquainted with Bumnor, but ho at onco wroto him: "X hopo you will excuse ono g0 noatly a stranger to you ss myself for ad- drossing ydu thia nots, But I oannot forboar writing, Ihave just road your oration on tho ‘Truo Grandour of Natlona' for tho &ocond time, and write to oxpross to youmy senso of tho great valuo of that work, and my gratitude toyou for delivoring it on such an oceasion.” From that timo until Parker's death, tho friond- ehip and rospect of tho two for each othor doop- oned atoadily, Whon, aftor o long contest, Bumner was electod Konator, Parker entered in his journal: * Apriz 24 (1861) ,—To-dny Oharles Bumner was ohosen to the United Btates Bonato for alx yenrs, This ia tho groat triumph of tho sooson, Donr old Massachusotts | Monoy has not quite caton tho heart out of theo, only ont of Boston and its vassal-towns!” Ho tollowod Bumnor's Congrossional oarcer with intonse fu- tereat and sympathy, not failing to spur lim to prompt and vory plaln speech agalnat Slavery, aud sonding hia hearty “ Woll dotio” ovory time Sumuor spoke. It would bo worth years of or- dinary life if Parkor wero aliva and In Musig IIall to-day, to hoar the funeral oration ho would suroly prononnce over Sumnor's Lierolo careor and coloseal charaotor. Frothiugham'a Lifo of Parker is A WOTK OF REMARKALLE INTEREST for thoso who will value it at nil. If ono {a clear in his own mind that Parkor was an Atholst and n dangorous man, this book hss no significanco for him, unless ho hias oandor enough to liold his proposscasions 10 cheok, and accapt tho incon- trovartiblo testimony of the volumo,~in which cago ho will find Parler no Atheist, but a pro- found believer in God, and religious as fow mon aro, Mr. Frothingham doos not assume tho role of apulogist or champion of . Parker ; ho is not studious to make him almost Orthodox for the sake of Eamhlg popular favor for Lim ; nor doos ho dolight in empliasizing the poluts of antagon- ism botwoon Parkor and his opposers ; but ovi- dontly scoks to tell trathfully and frankly tho story of Parkor's lifo, that . wo, and thoss who shall como aftor us, may know oxactly what kind of man ho wae. Unfortunately for the complotonoss of his worlt, it docs not contalu many of tho lottora in- oluded in the Rev, John Woiss’ Lifo of Parker; snd thesoaro lntflnuicall{ vory interesting and al- most oreentlal o a full comprohension of the nature and rango of his_activitics, Hia lottora to Soward, Chao, Halo, Samnor, Wilson, Banks, and others prominent iu political life, aro full of intorost oven now, though nearly all. tho ques- tlons thoy discussed bavo boon Bottled by logls- Iation or by war. Tho sagacity, tho “almost prophetio sense of the tearing whioh tho casting out of thn ovil spirit of Slavery would cange, and tho ongornesa for justico and frocdom whioh thoso lotters evinco, are quite roaatkable. But, though theso ara omitied, the voluma includes n Iarzo numbor of lsttors not confained in Mr. Wolsn' work, and of a more intimato eharactor, roveallug moro fully THE INMOST SPRI:NGE of his intelloctunl and moral lite, His jonrnals bavo been copiously drawn from, but tho whole is_not yot communicated. Tho author snys: ! Tho privato journal, to which he commisted lis most socrot thoughts, contrining mnay things of deop significance o8 illustrations of his {u rlor lifo, which could not with tho loast propr ty bo published, ovon whou their metning ia clonr, and which ofton neod interprotation. Nono of thom oxhibit qualitics inconsistont with o vory noble charactor; but somo of them point to secrot recensos of feoling which cannot beun- coyvered.” v 1t is not the object of thiu lottoer to giva naum- mary of Mr. Frothiugbam's book, or an outline of Parker's life, though tho temptation is strong to do both; but to pivo romo iden of the alo- ments of intorest in this volnme, somo bhint of the strong and the winning fonturos of PARRER'S CITARACTER § When he was o Hitle boy, an incidnt ocourred that made o dosp impresalon on Lim, Ho wis on bis way to schosl, trudging nlone across (ho flckls, Suddenly ho was accompanled by nn old mon with ‘long white benrd-and n patriarchal anpeot, who talked with hin on tho way, told bim whut o bright boy might do and bo, making bis hoart burn with strong emation, and tlicn disappearea o nnaceountably na ho exmo, Theo- doro ofton alluded to this ndvonturo in_after-fo fn & oianner that hetrayad o Lalf-suparatitious beliaf n the visitation, Who tho poraon was, hie' could not guoss s 0o Inbabitant of the nelglborkodd; ho know thom sll. No stranger bad beon secn {n the q ufet vilinge, Do Lic Who Lis might be, tho meoting fell in with tiie boy's early consclonAnoss that ho had a destiny, Was it the conaciousness that mado the meoting eignificant ? Patkor used to roceive many lettors asking for the socrot of his gront actainmonts in scholar- ship, and counsol for the conduct of lifo. 8o far a8 tha secrot can bo communicated, it is mostly contained in SOME RULES ho drow up for his own guidance. Firat—Physical—1, Avold excess in meat and drink, 2. Tako exerciss in the alr at least threo hours a day. 3, Alwaye got six houre’ sloop, (To this s added In peucil, an an_aftarthought, * boro s botter; roven Lours cortainly ; clrht hours vory often, and ‘always would ba mora suitable sud proper,”) Second—Intclicctual—1, Explore n subject whon enrlosty s awake, notimes this fa impossible, Noto th rubject 10 a book, and oxamine a4 soon as Jomiblo fn this mennor: 1. By Sndiug out what T roal- ly know upon the subject, 2, Oblainiug cloar and dix- tinct notions in gomo way, 3, By stating in words tho result of my study, snd repeating Lill it hos . madon deop Impression, " 'Sometimics writs thom in thls baok. 4, I Listorical, scttle tho timo; writers who related it ; their choracter. 6, Tho causo, 0, The effect. ‘I, Keep the mind obedient to the will, so s to be inde- pondent of external affuira, ‘This cannot bo complote- Iy offeod, but may b, na grent meamuro, by tho uro rialn interniedia, Viz: words of pocts, ote, Prosecve dovoutness by—1, Gone tomplution of Naturo; 2, O the attributes of God; 3. Of my own dependenco; 4, Iy prayerat night and morn, and_at all times when dovout feelings coma ovor 'me, II, Presorve gratitudo by reflection on God's morclea to me—1, In glving blesaings unasked ; 8, Auswering prayer, III Iestrain licentiousnes of imagination, which comprebouds many particulars that must uot be commilted to paper, lest the paper Dlush, “Thiat Inst touch,” says Mr, Frothingham, shown o siucerity of thoman, But for that whisried in the confeasional, it would nover hava boon auspocted that tainted fancles ovor aurprisod him, ao utterly biame- Iess waa his lifo, 80 atrange o his 1ips wns tho sound of sn impure word, 50 alien from hin frank bluo oyes ‘waa thio most flocting look suggeativo of indelicany, 1tis moral fenlings woro atrict to sustority, Evon his roliglous sentimeats had a tinge of Purltanem fn om, ‘Whon neor the closs of his lifo, a frlend asked Parkor whom ho wished to have writo his biog~ raphy. e roplicd : “If any ouo writes my life, T think it will bo Goorga Riploy ; ho, Lotter than any ono, undorstands my philosophy, nnd what I meant to do,” Some years beforo this, In a Iotter to Mr. mmo{l, who was proparing an ox- tended roviow of . his works for tho New York Tribune, ho showed his utter froodom from Ynlty aonceit by Ho tays: © It is too much to oxpect in private, but I 'should road with great interost s oritique whieh told mo of my faults of nature, culturo, motive, conduct, aim, and mauner.” Then he added g AN AUTORIOGRAPIICAL PARAGRAPE whioh s of special intorcat : . Whon & boy, T bad an {neano parsion for beanty in every form, I knew all the raro flowsrs, wild or cul- tivated, When a littlo hoy in petticosts, T useq to fin all tho forenoons in June, ond watel tho great cloude, und seo th fnceassnt pluy of form and color, ‘Thors wan s pond & milo off, whiher I used {o go a-fieblug: but T only caught (he landscupe, I never fished much, but Tooked down into tho water, sud saw the sliadows un the other #nla creop over tha water, and hetenod lo thy sonnds from the distant farme, When T wne 6 or 7 ears od, thero camon perfectly bosutifnl young girl to our littie district-chool; sho wan 7 fo H, Blio fusclunfed my eyes from my book, snd T wus ehiii for not gotting my lersous, It never Lappened beforo ; never ater tio liitla witell went away, Sho only stald awoek : and I cried bitterly when she went off, Sho was 60 handaonio thiat I did uot duro kpeuk to hor, bub lovod to keep muear her s & butterfly fo s thistlo-blossons, lier mamo wos Narelsna. Bhe fell over into the food of time, and yamshed Lofote T wea 7 yearsold, I loved onuly of form be- fore beauty of color, T wonder if thisfs wsunl, know beauty of soutd (nct nrtificial, of m mo with ravishment, Tho winda in the leaves, o sushing brodks,ers o delibt fram Ulio ci Lovliood till now. Fina liltle pioces of literary art T culled out in childbood, sud committed them (o mem- ory, It wanno effort ; It did itacif, Especlally poetry was my deligit, My slstevs bad s litlo bagful of clipplogs from tho newspayors which helped nurse my little woul, ‘Thoy alao ensouraged me in my trnnsoen- dental tustos for the beautsful, But hard work pud tlio Tea ariguatoe domn left but s poor soll for such n Larvest, Yol it s bard to tosz tha tlred body fiom tha hand- wome_monnlight or the evening star, ~Morniugy, £rom befors dylight to suurise, when forced fo bo abroud, gave ai acquantance with {he Loauty of Nnturo'at that hour, whioh was worth mora {6 o than all my pigitlabors brought to my father, Tt was postry to me, evon If only’ o dull horae or heavy oxen wero my ouly companions, The pletures of old thmes live now iu my memorye o novorfailing delight in my hours when I s too tired to do any kind of wark o to sloop, 'Thlu Lung fuggnrden 1y alyaya overms ; anul{ rojoieo therein s ug Robuclindnozzar, 1 foar, over did, ) laye children and. Leds: all socla of men; anid hive tho oddest set of fnllmates you will find an; scholarly man (0 be acquatnted with, ° But 1 am mie Iews of o practical mon Hhan men think, - Allmy idoals of lifoare of philosuphical and lterary mm?{ with a fow frionds about me, Naturo snd »children; Goodsby | At the spssion of the New England Anti- Bivwery Boolety aftor his duath, touching trib L.es to Parkey's memory wera paid by Wondoll Rhellipy, Gasziaon, gRd $he Kev, Jamos Fsooman asking for thorangh eriticism,’ Olatko. From tho spoook of the last I oull the following . TDEAUTIFUL DIOTTIRE OF PATKER'S TAFE! 1 do not know liow to describo—with what fignre borrawed from Nature, or Art, or Hislory, to describo ~how Parkor averns to'mo fn all this varled snd aoe cumulated groatnass of mind, of heart, and of hand, Detter than by telling you the incidenta'of ono., duy of my life, Whion I was posaing out of Italy onco by tho Bt, Gothard route, wo wora In Italy in tho morning, o tho Ttalian alde of tho mountalnn, muirrounded by talian volces and by tho muslo of Tialinn nightingales, nd within slght of tho opening vineyards, - Thon wo Degan tho asrent of (ho mountaln ; and, na wo an= coudod, wo passed through tue vallsy ot pinos, uniil At Iast, on the 15th day of Mny, we camn to tho Anow, Thon 'wo took tho liitlo. #leds, ond went on npon tho snow, Ligher and highor, until wo wera surrounded with growt fieldn of mnow, daze 2ling whito In tho sun'; and on ono sido wo mvw thn fall of o forcfblo avalanche, with 1ia roar of thunder, 8o wo pasrod on untll wa reachied tho gumait of the mountain ; and then, desconding on tha oflier aldo, wa onmo at Iast, to wlicro Agnin thio anoty coanod 3 ond, thera taking tho diligence, we went on our way downt tho slde of the mountalu, tirongh garges, and ravines, and glaclors, cven, tlo couutry uround grawing more and moro green, ehanglng from wpring (o summer, until at Iast, whan wa camo down toward fho Lake of Lutcarnc, wa pasacd thraugh orchurds full of apple blorsoms, and. finaliy ~ cromsed tho beautifnl Inko to' tho town of Tucerno,. thero o ro. celva 8 wholo bundlo of ieifera from homo—trom fathor, mo hor, brothior, elster, nnd child—to end o diy. Wied T thinkt of that day's ournsy,.— beglnning {u Ttaly and ending n Germany; beginning under an Inlian sun, at mid-day urrounied by anows feldn and glaclors, and at 18 closs amid tho apple. bloasoms of Gormany,—it soems to mo (hnt ihiat varied and wonderful day is sort of typo of tho lifo of aur felond Theodore Parkers its youlh Italin, all fresh and guniing with ton thonsagd epring) of ‘darly, Loy- inh lifo, and hopo and animatlon, and with all the va- riod sfudy sud ntivity of tho child and youth; fta ently morntog passod {n the stern work of climbing up tno mountnin-side: its mid-dny with God'a everlnaiin sunover bis head, and (ho groat, hroad fiolds ol aronnd, over, which' his 6o looked ; and, all through ite attefnoon-ours, passiig on into an crer-incrent ing nfMuonco of apring and summer, nnd cnding ot Iant i tho swoot boscin of afciion, gratitude, snd ovo, - From tho concluding chnrtur of tha bock ara taken the following éstimntes of Parlar's clinr- acteristion by Mr. YFrothingham himself JII9 RELIGIOUS BENTIMENT. With him the roliglons sontiment was supreme, It had muifl)'n his belng wholly distinet from its mental ar reualblo forma of expressfon,—completoly Qls~ tingoished from theology, which clulmed (o glve an account of it in worda ;' anid from ceromonies, which clalmed {0 smbody it in rites and symbols, Never ovaporating in myatical drofms, nor entanclod In the, ‘meshes of cunning pecutation, it preserved its freeh nead, nnd hloom, and fragrance In overy pnseage of hla life. His sonno of the reality of Divino things was 18 strong os was ovar feit by a man of such clear intel- ligence, Hia fecling for Divine things never lost its glow : novor was damped by mirglving, dlmmed by doubt, or clouded by Horrow. The intonsity of I falth In Providence, end of hia assurance of personal immortality, seems alnost fanoiieal to modern men who sympathi{zo in gencral with his philosophy, 1118 GENIUS FOR AFFECTION, Tho strongth of Parker's affections helpod to confirm Bia falll fu consclonco, and glva futeuity fo his morsl instinct, 1o wns o mighty lover, His friends. woro all glorified by his feoling, tiil thoy bardly know theme. zelvos, 1o lavished on them ferma of endcarmont ; Jind pet mumoa {oF thiom all: kopi, ol eniversarics loved to have momoriala of them about him, But hin Afectionutencss by 1o means confined {tself to his friends, IHls hoart was human; its humanity wes as femarkable an {ts tondorness, Lovo gave him insight, knowledgo, prophetic vision'; taught him toseo the aoul of Truth in things erroneous, the soul of Good in things evil, That he never forgot a kindness, nover falled {0 reciprocote an act of friendlincss, nover neglorted an apportunity of rendoing aorvirs, s not allt his readimesn to forgive those who hated him was a8 remarkablo a8 his devotion to thoro wha loved him, Beanty otiracted him; grace charmed him; gift wnined his admiration’; but humon qualities cos manied his heart, Handsome or ofhorwiso, graceful, ac.. plished, witty, loarned, or othorwise, His love of quulities waa tho samo, knowlng no distinction of por- sous, Yet'no man or woman ever breathed a whisper of suspicion agninst his constansy, No srder of feol Ing softensd Lo weskness tho textiiro of hia truth, FALTIL IN HUMANITY, Falth in humoniiy—this was his sccret; love for hnnunity—this was his Inepiration ; sympathy with humnnfty—{hia was his consoler, This faith was his Xy to Literature, Art, !’hllr»mrhy. Socloty. Had ho 1ived to ho en olil man, he wonld have fliustratod bin principlo moremuply § ho could fot havo maro forel- ly demonstrated it.’ M8 INFLUENOE, The Influenco of his thought hins been very groat, ot more in tho roalm of apinion than in the realin. of cliaracter; and It fn dostined to bo still grenter. A gentleman of intelligence, who, in the days of tho Uni- Tarinn controvoray, ind left bis' church and ministor loeatng o bad exchanged with Theadoro Parlor, ro- sumed hin old connection somo timo during tho War, It occurrod onoday to his minster to ask pleasantly tho reason of his return. To replied, “I went nway becaure I conld not baar the amallest_aceming of cn- couragement (o Theodore Parkter ; but, wlhon I swy tho influonce of Lfx mind on our oldlers, T war forced fo mako a differant estimate of thoman,” Tho youth of Amorics needs (ho Inflioncoof that ‘mind to-day, and will necd 1t yot for many days to come, Thoe grolden graing here given will sorve to in- dicate tho wealth of the houk, which is a worthy momorinl of tho romarkable man whosacareer it illustratos with rare candor aud ability, Hadxrsmnr., —_— THE FARM AND GARDEN, A Cure for n Felo More About Roring Wolls-=Earm=Iarrows-=The Miner Plum; How ¢ X8 Propagated, and Uts Virtucs=-Plashing the Osages Iledge=-Sheurs for Pruninge-Ori rass-=Clover and ‘Fimothy-- for 'Lrens at the 'Time ok F'rom Our Agricultural Correspondent, Citaxtratan, T, March 17, 1874, A OURE FOR A FEL 3z, “RunaL"—Su: You bave been kind encugh to glve s a valunble lesson in_calcimining, nnd X trust thut sou wil el mo out, of a dificulty’hy gising mg acure for o felon, ny that is my present trouble, I have sufTered for tho pnst threo days, with o prospect of two or three montlis more of the samo kind, Fol- ousought to bo treated us domestio matters, My slster sufered with ono last yoar, and the doctors fafled to rollove or. It appears to o there ought to bo somo #imple remedy, In similac cnees I lave found o bread-and-milk poultice to bo useful, but in this caso it in a fallure, Our doctor saya (hnt b must run its courao, which $a not ot oll encourngiug. Mus, I, A, Tolons nro vory troublesomo and diffientt to manage, if it is indeed possible to manago them atall timos. Wheon a folon beglns, its first sen- sation is, that the polut of a thorn or brier has boen driven doeply into tho fingor or thumb ; and vou fancy that, if that could bo taken out, tho difficulty would be at an ond. You prick it open, butno thora is found, snd it gots worso and worso, and nc lngt is pronounced » folon, In all woll-rogulatod houscholds thero are nlways somo remodics’ that aro o cure for almost alt ovils, For instance, to stop paiu in a sore, out, or bruise of the hand, to hold the offending part ovor the fumos of burning sugar in resorted to, and generally with success. With oLhers, salt plays an importait part, especially in complaints of the throat. Bloan's Ointment, Pain-Killer, Vinogur Ditters,Chorry Peotoral, ete., all have tholr advocates, who recoive, or fancy they receive, bonofits from their uee, A felonor oarbuncle, however, is & pretty tough customer to grapplo with ; but Mra. * Rural” has a rom- cdy for both of thom. It is simplo, and, in all coses that Thave scon it tried, has proved offectunal ; but it is nob prcbable that it will proye o in all cnses, This 1emody is. THE TINCTURE OF LONELIA, that may bo had of any druggist for a fow conts nn onnce. A cotton-rag is eaturated with tho fluid, and applied to tho offending felon, orboil, of carbuncle, and renowed ag often as it bu- comes dry, which, in the fovor staga of the com- plaing, may bo onco an hour, But you must bo patient, for the soro will only slowly abato, t;mugh groat velief will follow the first applica- tion. . ‘I'ho profession deteribo four kinds of folons, and lsuoing to the bone, avnd an spplication of broad-and-milk poultica sprinkled with laudanum or morphine, is thé general romody, I have rreat confidenco in the lobelin remedy, & case of whose uso_occurred tho prosont wintor, Mra. “ Rural " does not recolloct how sho camo by the recipo, but it ‘was somo yonrs since, and she has applied it with success on two oceasions in Lhier own familv, In tho firet stage of some_folons, an applicn- tlon of ot lyo, mndo of wood-ashes, 1 eaid o arrest it but, an tho doctors all fall baok on the lancing mmndy, it in Yrubnbls that, fu very so- vora cades, that should be ealled 1u to uid the lobolln, T'he farmer's wifo with a folon is to be pitied ; nnd, If thoro is a romedy, the profession ought to seck it out., Iam snrprised that some quaok has not advertisod & romedy for this com- mon and - apparently wourable “dispase, that tarusty itzelf on the hands of labor. WELL-BORING, Ancova, Il., March 4, 1874, Mn, “ Ronat."—8im: T like yohr idon of boritia n well & foot or more in dimmeter, and tublig 5t with Howur- tila that will allow the waler {0 come in bolween the Joiuty, and yot Lo olfectual in excluding ssud, But, in our drift-acll, with 8o much quicksand, I fear it it will cave I bfore tho tlle cun be ftted du, Tut I did not coudemu it until thoroughly tosted, ‘Tueroaro soveral bored wills in thia county, but they aro of lit- tlo value, Thoy il up with saud, or in sowne way fail. . e LaxroN, Til,, March 9, 1874, N, “Ruran "—B1n: The well ut thix pluce fs down 340 feet, anil tho tuals ara fust i tho biuo cla clay liaying closod n on Lie bulo for tiking mud, There upposrs ta bo o good supply of water in tha soyerat layers of quickeaud, but the diticulty p- pesta to o Lo keep out Ui lattor and allow tho Waler flter through, In' all theao slrata of quickasnd, and, In our care, of gravel, thera s considerable caving in; and thoss placos have beon tubed with sheet-iron, Wo have nome {hings to loarn before wo fully auccood illy the baring of faemewolin; and it iay o a ques~ tlon A€ 14 {8 ot betker fo fuvst 1n n well, by of 0 foek in ainmter, down' {hrougiy & stratur of quickasnd, nd brisk vty o' aro prtly coriats Lo obsin waiof !{1[.‘1:!::’;]“‘!‘ “:.l foot, and oltan‘n hl‘lf Ihl(‘ Ill[fllnllea; -quostion, ss you say, 14 an important one the farmor, * YO oG i B, Ouarrarax Counry, 1ll, March 10, 1874, Mn, “RUNAL"—8m: Theeo aifferent well-atigne mon iavo beon Jobbiug In this connty during tho past throo: yonra, atid, 80 fr ns Ican Jenrn, only Lwo or thrgo of the wolls'nro entiafactory, hey appest to 1l up bolow the (abing, which Is of cypross strips, cut to At tho hore of tho well, It s ovidont that tho ‘scloncs of woll-lioring It our drift-clay in not well undoratood, or that tho natural obétaclos cennot bo ovorcomo, Nono of thi6 augurs usod will ponotrato the hard-pan Bometimes lhw makaonly n foot in a day, and my well o abandoriod at 60 feet and no watcr. W sink deep yvells with tlio 8pado, pick, ropo, biucket, snd windiss, in thio old Way, unlcss aomo improvoment is mado i tho ayatem of boriug, It apponrs to me that woshould o an - spyaratus ltko {uoso used fn 'tho oli- regions, thnt will penctrate hard-pan and granito- bowlders, for Hicss ofien coma in tho way, On oo farm _tliteo hioles wero horod about 60 foot,~ And abane doned_on sccount of hard-pan snd boulders, Thoss aro somo of ko dificultios in tho way of well-boring. o1 FARM-TTARROWS, MaxTaNo, Til,, March 0, 1874, Mg, “RunAL"—BiR: Which is (h beat, (o hollow- tooth or the Thomus smoothing-harrow? Loth are highly recommonded, and cost $23 cach, I am told that both are patented, T supposo that you havo used botliof then, aud canadvise mo in regard to tholr Tolative value, By The Thomas harrow is not properly a farm or flold hinrrow, but in used for vory nico clesn land, aoh as for sooding down or sowing to tur- nipa, As a barraw for corn, I hava not beon ablo to appreoiato it, thougha few peraona think highly of it, = ‘Tno patent consiuts in slanting tho toeth backwards, which s nothing oither now or patentable: and I haveno doubt that an; farmor may mako aud uso n_harrow with teet pointing In any dircotion, withont boing liable. This hmrow, which is of the Scotch-harrow form, with numorous small teoth, is only {utond- od for very nico work, and I do not think it is olaimod as of any value in ordinary farm-har TOWing. . ITE HOLLOW-TOOTH NARROW - I8 of tho Scotch patiern alug, though having 12 Instond of 8, tho uaual numbor of “bars, and 73 Instend of 40 tooth, It s tho beat form of tho Beotch barrow, and probably by far the bost har row on tho markets. It is adapted to all kinds of work., The patent consiste in making the tooth of fron-pipe, and insorting & stool-point, which i8 wolded in. It mnkes s etrong nnd officiont tooth ; but A cast-ataol bar, 8¢ or 8¢ inch square, would answor qui.c as good a pui poso, aud make a much chonpor harrow-toot! and (ot ins uo patont attachod to it Whon tho tecth are used up as hatrow-teoth, tho stoel 18 valuable, what remaina of it, for other purposcs, ‘Pwenty-five dollars 4 0o groat a prico to pay for a harrow; and yot, after we count in tho patent, and tho ad- vortising, nnd commissions, there is no great - profit loft 10 tho manufacturer. An imple- mont so simple should bo made st our local shops, and sold at o much losa cost. We have a groat many poor liarrows; somo of them, and perhaps the most, have too henyy bura, For our prairio land, o bac of 33¢ inches square, of good onk it lurgo anough ; and then the tootl 8¢ inch square, if of caut-stecl, Tho cross- ploco should bo'bolted on, sud all of the onila olted or rivated, They should bo made at a shop, o8 the holes can bo boted aliko, and the work doue cheaper and botter, Any blnck- smith can mako the teoth, and tha carringo-bolty mug be bad ot tho store for a fow cents cach, Wo havo most oxcollont plows, oultivators, spados, ehovels, hoes, ote.; but tho form linre cows, a8 put in tho sloros for sale, aro not na good a8 wo had forty yonrs aro, whan the farmer wmado and used the old Scotch harrow, with its 8 I.ors and 40 tooth. 'Tho hollow-tooth harrow has boen on the marliot for somo yohre, though fow of them have beon, put to uso,'so far as I can Jiear ; but chat form of tho barrow is the best, ‘whilo othor tooth can be put in it. . % TIHE MINER PLUM. Jool Barbor, of Lancastor, Wis,, who has had cbnsidorablo oxporionce with this plum, writes mo that tho farmers produco tho sprouts from bonring troes, and profer them to grafts on the scodlings, o5, whon tho groft dock not happon to grow, the stook makos n troe that is ofton sold for tho gonuino, o atatos that it is quita com- mon for peopls Lo send cut all sorts of ' plum- treos for this-variotv. Wo know this to bo the history of tho wild-goose plum, which is & seedling plum, from ‘Tenncssco. He Bays of ~the Mmer plum, that it is perfoctly hordy; free from disonse; fruits young, ‘producing annual crops; keops for a long timo; boars transportatios 8 excellont for presorving , is never injured by tho carculio; and ripons in_ \Visconsin tho Inst of Scptembor, being a Jato plum,” This i its Wisconsin ropu- tation, What it will do as far south as this noint Is_vet to bo proved, Copt. Beobs, of Genova, 111, assures mo that it does well at his placo: but, If I recollect right, aaid it was not quite curculio-proof thare, but nearly so, Iam unablo to sy who s tho troos for ealo, or the prices. Thoy ebould be propsgated in tho uurgories, PLASWING THE OBAGE-NEDGE. Onitox, Iil,, March 8, 1874, Mn, RORAL—Sm: To Piae TIBUNE of Feb, 28, Taotico you_ say you' are now plashing " a hedgs planted 1'foot avart : and that this will no doubt mnke # betler feuco than It planted closer, Will you pleasa sayat whatage you porform tho plashing; and slso pleaso particularly doscribe the process, as' I am not positive as to how 1t should Lo done, I intend satting some hedge, nnd would be gind to_lesrn the beat dis- tance apart for setting tho plants, Yours truly, M. B. Luoyn, Tho ago of tho hedgo Tas loss to do with its slzo than its culture. Tho hedge that I am plashing this arriug varies in size; some parts of it have tho largest plunts 1 inch in dinmoter, and other parts 2 inches, In that partof the smaller size, one man can do tho'work. With the loft band he grasps the troosand, with a “boys ax" in tho right, Lo cuts the troo two- thirds off, and tho plant ia bont down on the last treo cut, and it is pressed down with » heayy boot, 8o that the tree will lio as close to the ground as possiblo. On the larger hoilgo, tho sido-shoots are first out off out of the way ou-ono side of the hedge, so that it can be approached. One man, with o long- liandled fork, pushes over tho troe, whilo the second man doca tho ontting, and thoy Yoth press it down by gotting on to tho hedyo. Two mon will plagh from forty to eighty rods a day, Alter two yonrs the hedgoe will noed o wincor— not & !“mmoz‘—dpmnhn:. In pruniug, the hedge must bo left wido at tho base, Bomething in lfio form of tho letter V inverted. The plants ahould bo as nenr a foot avart as possiblo, The making of sn Osago-hadgo is & very simple thing, ~though n grent doal of gonius has beoir Iavishod on the subject 1n order to make it com- plex; butall of thut has proved s fatlure, I want no summer-pruning on my hadges, aud 1 think it {8 & vory diflionlt and expensive of “work to maka & good farm-hodge without plashing, Some goud hedges that stand in the shade of troos havo boon efther killed or soriously iujured by sumtnot-praning. Tu low, maraby lund, unloss well dvsined, it is of little uso to plant the veage for a hadge ; aud, in suol - locations, tho willow or honey-locust should bo ueed, BUEARS FOR PRUNING TREES, Fanva, IUl,, March 8, 1874, M, “Runat”—8m : T buve two orchards to prunc, —on0 set eiglit aud oue sixteen yesrs, What kind o shicurs shnll I need for tho work 7 R, A common hand-pruning-shoars will do for the youngoer orchard, asyon cancut s limb au iuoh or moro in diamoter with it. Take bold of tho branch with the loft hand, and the skoars with tho right, and, na you out, press tho lLimb from you, 8o that'the blade of thio shoars will ot pross on tho wood. In this manuor larga limbs may be cut very rapidly. For tho lurger orehard-trocs, a boy's ax, or & 8g-pound com- mon ax, will bo tho best thiug, provided the por- 8ou pruniug is accustomod to its udo; if null got “a’ common prunivg-saw. L lave yol to goo the fist pair of lnige wood-handled pruning-shears that will staud in tho hands of an ordinary farm-hand, and your $4-tool is soon laid acido. ~ Of course, the same baud will donblo-up a saw; but thut ean bo ham- tmorad straight, and the teoth roset aud filed. X spouk of common [form-hands; but thero are farmors who are oqually oxpert at troe-butcher- ing. 1havo used quito s varloty of tho two- hand pruning-shears, and most of them will stand in the hands of an export ; and pono but a careful person should be aliowad to uso thom. A morohant can show -low thoy will cut off o utter of an ineh from tho ond of a stick; but the cutting of a limb from a tree is quite anather thing, ONCIATD ORASS, Jitherto the muss of Awerican farmers have been coutont to sow but o very fow specles of grusaos with tlio commou red cloyer, whether thoir object was to asturo or {0 mow, _In fact, timothy xud clovor have oug been tho chiiet- forago-plants In this country. For o fow yesru paat Nenlucky Liue-grass (Poa pri- tonsis) hoa attracted tho altention of dairy-farmers, and {¥ taking tho lead in those loculitics wiisro daizy" iny {4 tho loading uterest, no o posture-grass, At tho prosent tinuc, orcard-gruay (Disiylly glome- trats) is looming up 3u the publio view, and mauy, be sldos our correspoudont, aro seoking Information in regurd fo it Muny wxpdriouced dairymon rogrd it st ono of our moat vuluablo grassos, espacially for pastur- ivy und wolliug, alko for hay, §f out carly, Ita merits iy bo oxprosead s ¢ e slarty Vory oaily i spring making nu carly pasturo, It growa vory rapidly, and muy bomowed by the ast of May, and sluria vo quick- Iy after mowing {hat another crop'can be cut i a fow ieoka—thus waking n valuiablo soling crop. As & pas Suro it n improved by Lok cropped sbort | s conaid- ored nutzitious ud’ pulstable j aud agords » lirge amonnt of pasturags through the sesson, Now for our quorists questions Whien to sow? Tt may bosown very early In apring, Justas eatly ua tho grouud can bo got fnto suitabla condition, elthor alons, or with grasses or clover, In thils cllmate, probably the apriug in the best time, althiongt, Ike timotily, It Tay’ be sown In eatiy sutumn, on land not subjacted to Leaving in winter. Az thio secd s vory Iighit ({rom 11 to 14 pounds lo the bushel), it sliould bo covered with a hurrow or brush, 1t sown alons, on good soll, ently in spring, It may be cut onco or twico tho first neason, It ma; sown in spring on winter wliost, and covered with a common hurrow, or, poriinps botfer, with tho Thomas smootiie ing Dinfrow, but it will bo likoly o nttain too targn growth for couvonionco befors wheat liarvost, How much'acd? Wien sown alono, from 2 to 8 ‘buahels of soed alion'd La uned, but it'1s poor polioy Lo sowany ono spocios of grass-nood nlono. It soams to bo a natural Jaw govorning'tho best apocies of grasnon, Lt tho Individusl plauta of tho sumo specios will uot grow close Lo each othor for any longth of time, a8 vacant spaces will soon occur, Lut, waon & varioty of dlfterent apociea aro mixod’ togothor, tusy wrow olose, form a.deuso Lattom, ond coutinua por. mnnont, Bo, probably, the better courss woulil Lo to sow with the orcnurd-grass, red clover, Kentucky blue-gruan, and perhaps timothy, red-top, or some otber kind,—Americun Rural Home, In tho spring of 1840 I sowed a peok of orchard-grass-sood ; but it grow 80 rauk aud coarso that I concluded it was of no value, and gavo it up as loss valusblo than timothy, Tmas spring I am ropoating tho oxpoclmont, on the plagsot forth in tho oxtract abovo, aud I have no doubt .of success, We havo boon outting timothy earlior evory yoar, uutil some farmeis bogiu Lo eut and sow a8 tho Leads appear; aud 10 doubt to an advantago, for the grass s thon in frosh vigor of growth, sad, if out at that time, stacts up & new growth at onco; whon, i loft fo ripon up tho crop, tho aftor-growth would coma on slowly, and untoward weusther wowd noarly destroy tho roots, as iu ofton tho cage. As wo inorense our dairios, wo must, inoronse our soillug; and this geass promises to bo valu. ablo for thut purposo, Tho New England Farmor publishes a largo numbor of loltors from farmors over a wide ox- tout of country, all of whom tako the same viow of thia grass: that it shontd bo out carly for hay; aud that for pasturage it produces more food than timothy. Thero1s an ovidont disa- greomont in tho quantitty of sood por soco, Whioh 18 from 144 to 8 buskiols por acro, ‘Ihe xae is lurize; aud it s provavle thiat on well-prepared Inud 2 buslels of seed Iy amople. Wue soed s bo cheaply grown,—&1 a busbiel masing sn outmdo price; at prosont, it is sold at two or threo times that sam. It would bo desitsble to kaep it puro at first, for iha purposs of growing seou; or,if tlus is not dosiraolo, to mix i g little timothy it for bay, and bluc-gras if for pasiure, {4‘1 is only s fow yoars sinco the inquiry way made, WILL TIMOTHY AND OLOVER GROW OX TIm PRAILE ¥ The timotby was coaiss, and the clover died ont at tha end ol the second yoar. Fow of our farmors aro aware that zod clover Is & bisunial, lusting ouly two_ yeurs ; but such is thecaso, * 'lint is uot vo, for L have a mondow that hag not boen woeded for saven years, sud there is mora clover now than the first or sccond year.” Housnld a farmor to mo the other duy. Ho forgot that the sosund orop, or aftergroweh coutuined soed envugh to resoed the land annus ally, Of redelover that s pastured so clusoly lor two youts that noue of it goes to sced, the stand will be cortamly dostroyed; aod 1t musk oo resown If olover la desired. Forago-plauta und water aro tho two groat fontures in the dairy and fur beef, aud wo st stady how to havo thex In bLo grontost prolusio MANURING TUELS. Mok, ik, Mareh 9, 1874, M, “ RUTAL"—BI:: Tunt golay (0 pluut 160 wpplee troea this apriug, Lo mach uldy Woli-rortu wisnira sbull I put di cuch uvis as tho Hmo* of settiug tho trees? I wuut them to grow right along, ‘Tuis bs my firut attempt at furiniug, buviug alweys residod in 1o +ty, Tum told thut rauburb needs a groat desl of manuro, sd L iiave put & bushol-vaskot fall fn wilh saca smult plant that I have planted, Wil thatdog Our city-friond will have to loarn that farmin 8 ntradoto be loaruod, snd that troos an plants canuot take up their food in & crude con- dition, Bome farmers who hLuve not learuod thoir trado have no more correat ides of the use of meuure than our vity-frieud, and mix it with the oarth in filling in about the roots of treos, Sowo wenty yoars ago, I sold s tavera-keopor 80mo 60 plants Of the Myutt Victoria rimbarb,— tho best varioty of this plant that hos s yob been produced, ‘Lwo years late:, the gentleman callod ot my place, and, in louking in the garden, Ioalled bin nttoution to-my rhubarb, thouinlls of which wero more than a yard in length, Ho was astonislied. * Why did you not sond me* thoso kiud of plants 2" was his query. *Mme do not begin to grow half as largo, and it wust bo a dwarf gind ; and I do not like this kiud of doal- ing.” Nothing that I could sny would convinoa Litin that his plants wero the samo, and ho lofc in a passion, aud, a8 he promised, I heard from bim in rogard'to what he called a precious swindle, Of courso, that would not do, and I visited his hospitaole homo, sud saw at a glauco that his rhuvurb was 1ot vigorous, but looked sickly, At firss I was at o loss to account for its poor appearance. ‘Taking up a hoein order to examine tho root, I saw that tho plauts Lad veen seb in a bed of horso-stablo manure, This was onough, and I #aid to Mr, B, tuat he hod ruined tbo plants with the manure, ‘* Everybody says that togrow rhubarb we must apply tio manure, and I sup- posed thas I had dono my duty to theso planis, for I dug a doop teench, fillad'it. nunfl{‘ full, lmd‘ in setting the plants, mixed more with tho soil." directed him to take ug the plaots the fol« lowing spring, rosot thom In & good garden-soll, and mulch thom heavily with menure, aud, dur- ing tho summor, to work this mto tho_soil with the ald of a ghovel-plow, This was done, sud tho reputation of that rhubarb was fully ro- stored, and, during that season, hoshowed sioma 3 feot in holght ; and that country-town had np Inck of rhubarb-pios. No manure shouid bo directly applied to tha roots of treos aud planty at the time of setting, but applied to tho sutfaco. Aftor tho plant- food has beon leachad ont of it, the rotton dabris may bo incorporated in the eoll, for it is then humus, and has a further mechanical action, and changes the condition of tho soil; but is no longer plant-food, but a plant-food-holdor, If you hiavo any doubkof this, take an old hogshead and fill it with frosh stable manure, pack it fim« Iy, and then pour an wator until it runs through and with this maure-lyo sprinklo tho ground aronnd vour tree and plants, and sco its magic influonce. Plants havo no-way of ox- tracting food from manure, but it must bo d solved by alr, heat, aud water, and In that condi- tion bo presentod to tho plunt. ‘he carbon of plants i probaoly taken up in tio form of car- bonio acid. Be. vour treo in the natural soil, und top-dross with manuso, 'Thorhuburb plants ulumlu{1 ba taken up and rosct. Rosap. TWO RGBBERS. When deaths from somo falr face s steallng lifo away, All woep, eave she, tio grace TThat Eartl sholl loso te-day, , When Time from somo falr face Sieals beauly year by yoar, For heralow fading grace ‘Who sheds, suve slie, a toar? And Death not ofton dares 8o wake the World's distress ; Whilo Time, tha cunning, mars Burcly all Toveliness, Tet though by breath and breaths Fudes ull our Lolrest primo, Men shrink from erncl Death, But honor crafty Time, ~Tondon Spectator, ———— THE OLD SEXTON. Bent anil whito was tho suston,* Vit tho snows of many a yines And I thouglt, in may early childuiood, "That he could not fong bo hero, - Ab, Tittlo T kmow of the future} O, uot for tho aged doad, AL rest from i Weary labor, ‘At tho silont tears T shedt TThe sexton old grows oldor; And to-lay 1 the autumn mild, Wrinklod, and whito as tho winter, 1o burded my beautitul chfld. =4, L, Carteton 1 the Atluntic for Aprik _— Statuos of Venus. Tt is moro than fifty yonrs sinco the Venus of Milo was onthironed in the Louvre, & mudel for ail timo of boauty In ber sublimest’ aspact.’ Bho has now been joined by a sister goddess who rather coplos than rivala hor ohnyms~the Vonus of Falorono, Thia statuo, of Farlan marblo, was found in 1890, In the' town of Fulorono, umong tho ruine of au anclont theatre, The at= titude, the movoment, and evon the drapery of the now comer closely rosomblo those of “tho YVonus of Milo. It is coujoctured that those two atatues, a8 woll a8 the Venus de Ia Pigna iu the Yatloan, aro alike in intontion, and itlustrate the same myth, and it s furthor surmised by con. noisgours, notably by M. Ravaigson, thoourator of the Antiques of tho Louvro, that osch of theso beautiful crentlons was not originally ar Igolnted figure, but belonged to a group com: pleted by a_statuc of Mars, such a8 the gwq oups of Venus and Mars, to be soen in thy lusoum degli Utlizi at Florenco, Somo oolor of {-mbnbllhy 15 givon to this conjeoturo by tha faof hiat the loft eide of tho Vonusof Milo, whick would, in & group, be coucealed by the form of ?{‘1‘2{1 lclr({"lll" olilscled thnu the resh of 0 Biatus, TR S g 4 3 I j ,, 3 ;