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oharactor which provohim human and forbid hia T'he socoud portion of the porlod trented In thin_volume—the briof emncy—is gonsidered In_two _chapters: Tl prisiug of Thabos, snd Hor Strugglo in solf- Dofongo and The ‘Offensive Wers of- Thobea. In this epoch anothiar groat Sgurs—ono of tho grandest in all Grocian history—stands out in e ‘JEpnmlnon‘x}nu, hfl:o brave o atatoaman, tho taltuful friend, " Prol, Ourtiug an rhotovie, He runaan oxtonded parallel botwoon the illustrions Thebnn and Poricles, of Athens, in whioh Lo doos not permit the formeor, dontly bis favorito, to pale Lis brilliant The friendahip betweon Epaminondas and Yoloj idon 1s & boautiful fact iu thio lifo of the noblo Grocinu that is foolingly delineated. Eriondebin [Dr. Onriius asys) was to the Iellence, and in parlicwlar fo tho Pythagoresns proolous gift of lifo, but als0 virtue wl complato_and_{rno human lifo was I Grecke viow wes mover moro dooply roved than Epsme nts fratornixation 110 Rume sontiments, tho assontinl 13 nat{ve city toa lighor LITERATURE, Greok flistory. OF GREECE, Dy Frof, Dr, Exss? Tetor's Colloge, Caru- 'Péouo' vol, iv. Now York: In this Jateat volumo which Prof, Curting hne complotod of his groat work upon Groece, he oarries her Listory from 404 D. O, to 863 B. O, over a perlod of forly-lwo yonra, Although the glory of Grooco was how on tho wane, and the melancholy spootaolo ot Lior decline and deony 18 over In viow, thoxo aro s fow bright pointa Mu- wminating Intorynls In thoso yoars, where the true Hollonio epirit leaps out inta ruddy and brightons with Romotbing Mko tho splondors of old. The Distorlan gratefully dwella upon thoso sunpy epots, warmiog himsolf in tholr ra- ianoe, and kindling his readers Into onthusiasm ovor thelr inspiring glow. Buch a place {s that whore Athens, by o mighty throo, froes horsolf from tho opprosaive dominion of the Thirly Tyrants, and gaina a poacoful paueo, in which the world has lborty to contemplato tho condi- tlon of her pnilosopby, Mtersturo, art, and drama, 8nd, In an unbrolon retrospect, to anrvoy the lives nnd Iabors of Euripidoes, tho Inst of tho grony trio of Groolan tragio paots; Boorates, that sublima philoropher, * the marvel of all ages and the glory of his own."” Buch snothor placo In that whoro Thebes suddenly woke from the spoll of sloth and stolidity under which she had Iain paralyzed for generations, and, by powerfal and unoxpeoted efforts, over- took ber sistor-States long in advance of lior, them by In her rapid progress, and radely stactling them by assuwming tho loadorstup in xight of hor superior emergy alans to which tho papers tond to bo convidcod of'the ripo soholarehip of tholr authors, and to feol an exoceding Intorest in the multitnde of nirango and suguestivp facts regarding the ovo- Iution of .tho various Yeligious boliefs of man~ kiud, whioh thelr industry and rossarch havo horo brought to the notica of tho rondor. ora of Thobos' au- Borlber, A¥matrong Albany Fonblanque THE LIPE AND LADORS DLANQUE, Edited by 11is Nephew, EpwAnD Iian- niNaToN Dit FONDLANQUE, don: Richaryd Dentley & Bon, Albany Fonblanque bolonged to that' brilliant galaxy of writors whioh mado the early portion of tho prosent contury ana of the most lustrous in tho history of English ltorature, was journslism, which, at tho begloning of his caraor, was but an obseure aronn, offoring littlo promiso, in n litorary or soclal point of view, to {hode who choso to contost for its laurols, Fouoblanquo was not to bo dotorred from tho purauit of o calling congenlal ‘to his tasto snd abilitios by any sort of obstaclo, and, through a long snd honorablo service am & newspapor- writor,'ho not only conquered substantial sue- caes, but poworfully helped to rtae tha profes- slon to its present state of influenca and ro- OF ALUANY FON- 4 the apgle-hearlod man, ! 870, Pp, 60, Lon- thomo for bis iy 2 inondas, who recognizad, in an betweon all holding olapides wara a palr of frionde auch as tho Grook would nevor sow before or ofl Thevolume alosos with the battlo of Mantines, in which Epsminondas foll, and, with bim, th t thot Curtius and Momm- son, the two renownod historians of German; whose volumes nre read by tho world, comman no intoreat in their loctures at the University of Borlin, Porhaps G600 studonts attend upon tho philosophical courao of tho institution, whora tho two acholars have long hold Protossorsbips (Prof. Mommaon has lately romovad to Lelpsic); and yet only from nine to @ dogen pupils aro dally fnduced to listen to ofthor. Prof. is a'mun of grent learning snd hia Jocturos aro profo Yonblarque was descondod from s Fronch Iu- guonot family which- took rofuge in England from the religiousporscontions that followed the revoeption of the Ediot of Nantos, in London In 1703, Iator glory of Thobe 1t 18 a singular fac Ho was intondod for. the Roya! Englnoors, eud was sont to Woolwich, at tho ago of 14, for proparation, A sovero ilinoss Interruptod his atudy for two yoars, and tho mil- {tary caroor was in conssquonoo abandoned. On his recovery, ho bocamo a pupil of Ohitty, tho famaous spoelal plendor, with a view to practics Bt tho bar, Tho vocation, however, was notto his mind, and ho resigned it for journalism, at- through a course of logal study which he nlays valued ss of groat sorvico in Iup subsogtiont oaraor. Bofore he hud attnined bis mnjority, Fon- blanque had distinguishod himself as a writer of pungout politioal editorlals, and his pen was in much request by different journals and perlodi- cals, From 1830 to 1830 ie was omploy ataff of tho Timesand tho Aforning Ohronicls, and contributed to various lording” mngazines, In 1830 Lo beeama tho editor of the Eraminer, whiol was then owned by tho Rov. Dr, Follows, ‘The Examiner bad been established in 1808 by Leigh Huut aud his brother, John Hunt. nder their managomont, ita talont, and honest, outapolten judgments, had attraoted popular at- tho eumity of tho Government, the coursa of four years the paper had incurrad four prosooutions for libel, The first threo wore unsuccesaful; but the last, brought by tho Princo Rogent, rosulted in t| xentencod to pay a fino of £3,000, and to two yoars' {mprizonment. Generous friends offered to cancel tho fing, and tho Orown hiated that the offandara #hould not be hrought to judgmont if they would promise to abatain from comments upon the ' Prince in tho future. Tho brothers declined alike tho aseistauce ot friends aud the overtures of tha Crown, and underwont their full torm of fmprisonment, coutinuing to edlt the Examiner from thacolis in the Horsemonger- Lano Gaol. _As might bo supposed stance ndded largely to the popul Hunts, and to the ciroulation of their paper. But the porsecutions of those whom their frauk statoments offonded wera 60 parsiszont that the slonder fortune of the propriotors waa finally oxhausted, and their connection with tho Eram- 4ner was brought to a close. From 1830 to 1847 the paper was conduoted by Albory Fonblanque, and susta{nad in n high con- dition of prospority. Fonblanque was kuown ag o philosoplnenl Radical. Iis position upon all subjeats waa ono of impartiality and indepond- It mattered not whother nla decision condemnod friend or foe, it was omphatically do- A dolicate senss of opintons, and he conscientiously strove, by oaro- ful examination, to discovor the right baforo ho Onco satisfied, and promiso. Among statesmon, politiclans, and thinkers, Lo becamo a power ; and Lis papar wiolded an extensive influsnce.over the opinions and measures of individunls aud partios. His qualities 08 & writer woro atrongth, foars lesuness, wit, and sagacity, o composod at all times with extrome paing and effort, and, in his oarlier days, frequenily re-wroto an articlo ton timos Letore ho Auffercd it to lenve his hands. It was Lio who onae apologized for tue length of su oditorial on the ground that *‘ho had not time to male it shortor.” wook woro tho wmost ho ever folt capable’ of nchioving, 1le hias loft on racord o taunt at the crudity aud mongrenoss of the daily papors of America; but, if all journalists wers as limited in facility and fertility as lio, o ohoap daily pross ted the office of Bta- tlstical Booretary to tha Beard of Trado, and re- tirod from the oditorsbip of tho Examiner, flthough hoe continued for some time fo contrib- uto acossionally to ita columns, red in 1872, nt tho ago of 79; but ro secluded had been his life for ten years pravious, that tho busy world had almost forgoiten his long cavear of prominent activity, A previous yolume of geloctions from tho writings of Fonblanque in tho Xraminer was publishod titlo of ‘England Undor Soven Tha presant collaction embraces topios that wore published in the Examiner during tho yoars botwoon 1837 and 1880, ond of wide oulture und fn_ thought and oraplonous in language. Dut tho bulk of his Lor }s now expended upon s hooks; ho is nd- o hiaa loat much of his actually passing vancing {n yoars, snd earlior vigor'and ammation ; and youngor men, unknown out of Gormany, lecture on Greclan topios to full classes, whilo.be habitually speaks to ** a boggarly account of empty boxos.” The Phallie idca in Aunclent Helig= Thoso forty-two yoars of Hellonlo history aro naturally divided into two poriods: one, inolud- ing tho twenty-fivo yoars daring which Bpnrta is supromo {n tho Kingdom; and the other, em- bracing tho soventodn yearain which Thebes is tho groat power of Grooco. The firab poriod Prof. Curtius troata in five ohaptors, entitlod, reapeotivoly, Athens Undor tho Thirty; Athonn Afior Hor Rostoration; Bparta and Persin ; The Corluthian War, and Tho Consequences of the Toace of Antnlcidas. Tho first.of theso chapters is decidodly heavy,—for the reason, in pnet, that the in lively intorest, and, for tho rest, that tho style is paintully ponder- ous, Tho long, inverted poriods, stuffod full with strange and swolling torms, roll out in todious succession, aftor the truo Johneonian mothod. But, in the second chaptor, the charm of tho thomo has a dircot influonce on the dic- tion, which warms and softens into simplicity and flexibility, snd, retaining the does not again relnpse into rigidity through the whola course of the volumo, Tho author's reviow, at tho closo of the fifth tho thon condition of the Athenisn stato, which inclndes on aunlysis of Euripides, and of Agathon, and ather minor poots, {8 mastorly; While the ac- count of tho life, tho ethics, aud the influonce of tch of lofty eloquence, erdent appraciation of aud genius of Soorates’ doc- n to o noble enthusinam thot is both captivating and tontagious. Tho por- Lrmt of tho man nnd tio spirlt of his philoa are sot out boldly and olearly boforo the rea and fill his oye with a great und glorious vigion, ‘There is truly much grandour in tho character and teaching of Bocrstes, which justl; the admiration of mankind, onorous oatimate should bo made of it, and that wo_should exalt and extol it without re- ‘Wo cannot cultivate too much venoration for what is roally good and noblo ; and yot wo must take care not to be blind in our dovotion. Thero are snd atains on tho esoutcheon of Socrates, which tho historians rosolutoly keop The man was not withont re- proach, as Prof, Qurtius aud popular writers k, although bis philogo, elovated for boyond the principles of b ‘While ho was diligontly encouraging the mon of Athons to the practice of overy civio and sgial virtuoe, aod winning the hoarts of its youth by Jus apparently blameless life and biabits, ho was, for one thing, eriminally noglootful of hig wifo und obildren. At an earlyage, bofore Lo was 20, he revealod that fondness aud facility forargument which at last eugrossod Lim to the evasion of overy other purauit. ho abandoned the pursuit of his trade—that of a nry—in order to dovoto all his timo to dis- putations with tho lojterors on tho streots and in tho market-placos of Athens. until night, day by day, ho was to Le oon in the busiost resorts, with no other calling, no othor object, than to tali, aud, by soma slippory act of gophistry, obtain tho advantage over pkillful opponents, Hia discourse wos rich in wisdom, it 18 true; but, in his totsl disregard of tho saored dutios of & husband and father, bhow grossly his conduct belied thom | Curttus says, in the languago of culogy : *‘ Ho desirod merely to have anou; turbod in the pursuit of his for tho daily nocesstties of lifo ; nud, in ordor to ronch this ond, he was not ashamed to accept from his frionds what they sont into his houge. Buch officos of love wero notably proffered to Jum by tho noble Crito.” Tho shrewd observer Tioro oatch a penstrating glanco into the Socrates’ houeshold. ANOCIENT BYMDOL-WORSHIP: INFLUENOE OF ALLIO IDEA IN THE RELIGIONS OF Dy HavoER 1L, Westuore aud 0, With an_Tntroduction, Addi- Ty ALEXAXDER 8 vo,, pp. 98, Now York; J. W. BIANIDAND WAKE. tlonal Notes, and an Appendix, A couple of papers that wore road boforo the Antliropologieal Bocloty of London; April &, 1870, form tho basis of this volnme. Upon their foundation n harmobplous suporstructure, in the form of Introduation and Appendix, has boon rddod, which gives & degreo of completoness to tho work., The wholo togethor opens up & sub- ject of profound interest, and one which ia juat now ongaxing geueral attontion smong tho lenrned and curious in Europe, Tho first of the essays, by Alr, Westropp, pro- sents an outline of tho syatem of "' Phalllo Wor- ship," the most anclent and universal of tho bo« liefs of tho human race. It hins provailed among 81l known nationns of ancient times, and hiag been handod down, iu both dead and living forms, to tho prosont day. Evidences of its oxistonce occur in Egypt, Syris, Pereln, Asin Minor, Groeca, Ttaly, Spain, Germany, France, Ireland, and Scandinavia ; among the mound-builders of North * Amerien; subjoct s lncking 8 brothors “being acentury, B, 0., of Boorates, risos hoauty, wvurity, tho Tacifio Oceanj while it ia etill n vigor in Indin ond in meny paris of Afrien. Tho Jews did mot escapo ite worship, and Christienity itself hau conttnued tho uso of cortain of its symbols, and, in the boginning, felt the influence of 1ta oustoms, In the infaney of the world, men's minds wore solomnly improssed by the mysterious and tho unknown. Whatevor was incomprehonsiblo was regarded with religious awo. crention were specially imposing, and nono so much gos8 tho miracla of human birih.” All asso- cintiona counocted with the subjoct were held pure and sacred. This reverenco for the origin of lifo led to.tho introduction fnto primitive worghip of symbols of tho gonorating power, which, consecrated by reli loliest and most ennobl tho age'of simplicity, which It 8 woll that a ustics ruled his The wondors of in the shadow. ion, excited only the the ago of child- the life of o nation asit passes [u the Jife of an individual, and cus- {oms which accord with innocence must give placo to such as are suggested by proprioty, or morality is oudangored. 1 phallic worship lost its religious end rovorent character, end was degraded info n groes licen- tiousness, _As Constant remarked in his work on Roman Polytheism: “Indecent ritos may be practiced by a roligious neo) purity of heart. But, whon od & footing among these peoployy thene rites hiecome then thio eaunso and protoxt of the most rovolting corruption.” In tho second essay, which is of conaidorably greater longth than tho firet, tha influonce of tho phallic idas is traced smong the roligions of ontiquity. Tho origin of the ides is coeval, primitive nations, with thot of tbe family, and roata in part upon the npatural von- oration of tho father as iho priest, ond tho ruler. Marrings of its importance from & venoration of the prin- ciples at the foundation of tho puallio woisbip. Tts coremony was_attondod with rites which marked their significanc#, end one of 1its sym- bols, the wadding-ring, is employed st the pres- Ono or two artiolos & n the courup of time, | Would be an im; IKrom marning le with thoe grontost His doath ocour- ncredulity bas gain- in 1837, under the not tobes dis: Administrations.” 0 - ing by tho_caro Darwinism. WHAT I8 DARWINISMY Princoton, N. J, 13mo,, pp.178, New York: Kcrib- ner, Armstrong & Co, Dr. Hodge baa made splendid praparstion for this contost against the great advocato of Netu- ral Boleotion, Hois an old and expert contro- verajalist, and koows botter than to plungo into an argument without proviously exhausting evory moans to mnke his ground temablo, nnd solecting such good and tiied weapons a8 will ennblo hjm to mako an honorable fight, and at loast worry his antagoniet, if ho do not worst One can but respect a wranglor who hina 8o porfoot = comprehension of the task beforo bim, and 18 willing to put himself under the ge- vorest treining in order to come up fo it in By Craaues Hovar, domostis ecouomy of Whonoo camo the bread for his family, while ho spont all his time in * prattling * with hia fal- lowers, : grandiloquently bossting roforrod poverty to overy kind of success in o " From ocharity: and many & scanty moal must they have snt down tholr_table wore not often entiroly empty. It would do for Bocrates, with hig wiry frame Jnured to hardship and privation, to fast for twanty-four hours together. There wera fro- uent banquets ot the houses of his wanlthy at which o was the most favored guast, ore Lo oould compensato o starving stomach for provious abstinence, Dut the and littlo ones at homo wera biddon to no such fonata, where misery might for tho timo boin be bonished from momory. Tho comparison w! at first scom odious and degrading but is thero after all, 8o great a diffcronce betwoen tho gin ol Bocrates toward his family and that of Mrs, ¥, Whoso infatuation was—not gosslp—hut eathen of Borrioboala-Gla ? _Ths name of the unhappy Xnnthippe has, aver sinoo her timo, sorvod tho world 05 u synonym for tormagant; but sho would be & menn-gj ed woman indead who would tamely eubmit to the neglact by their father of evory claim of her childron upon his attontion, “Momorabilia” thero is related o convorention batwoen Bocrates and his eldest son, Lamprocles, in which Booratcs robukes tha boy for a fit of anger ho bad indulged against hia mother. Tha whole drift of tho philosopher’s remorks tonds to tho praiso of that mothor; but, in the faw 08 which we quote, there is o porfact vindica- ion of hier character Then Bocratea satd, * Dutdo you nof 6, Who 15 80 kind to you, and who takew malble care of you whaen 0alth msy be ra-oatablished, and thut you may want for nothing thut §s ucedful for you ; aid who, moro- ovor, fnvokod all tho blessings of Ildavon upon your ‘and offars up hor prayers for you, 8 & boral e My opinton, indoed, 15, that, if you couuot en- Quro Auch a mother ua this, you tannot endurs any- thing that is good.” But what was Bocratos’ method of treating this kind snd loviog mother ? passago from tha immiortal ** Phwdo * of Ilato, sheroin the iucidauta of tha Jast hours of Boce utes oro recounted Wwith exact fidelity. On that raing tho friends who habitu uud him to enjoy his -digcourse, assembled ‘Tha narrutor soys : ! On cntoring, we found Socrutea just reloated from ‘ohafne, and Xanthippe, whou you kuow, sltting by bii lita child fu her wring, Circumelsion was in ita inception & purcly phatlio ordinance, Although tho Old Togtamont narrative rointes that it was instituted as o coye- nant between Johoval and Abrahom, the rito racticed by tho E“g”{ cians long boforo tho birth of arch. Sorpent symbolism was associated with tho phallic emblems, but that thore was an idon- tity in their signifiention bas not beon clearly os- tablished. The serpent wos used smong moet archigic notlons as o sgymbol of swisdom and hoalth, and yot Its meanibg often included the notion' of life and of au embodiment of the Mr. Walke ironts the Mosale account of the Garden of Eden and the fall of man s » phallic logand, which was botrowad by the compiler ol the Pentatouch from somo foreign source, probu- bly fram the mysteries of Mithra, s doity, The treo of tho knowledge of gaod and ovil ho 1dontifies with tho fig-trea, which way highly veneratod Ly many primitive paoples.. Its lonves, it will be romembored, were gowed into aprons by Adam oud Evealter their tranegress- The kerub which' gusrded tho trce of Ufa i interproted a8 o symbol of the Deity Himsolf, in the form of tho sacred: bul antiquity,—n form _uudar esoribed by Ezelial 10). Tho story of the dolugo 1s aleo xo yih, with decldod ovideucos of o phallic chag- In many of tbe iucidenis interwoyven inta the hiatory of the Hobrows, and in many of thelr religious observauces, Mr. Wake discovers teotimony of the influenco of the phallic super- slition. "Abraliam was a Chaldesu, and by tra- dition declarad to have boen Jearned in astron- omy, and to bave taught tho sclonca to the Plhenleians, * Io bad bighor notions of the of man to the divino than bLis aucestors,” eays tho writer, but thero was no fundamentul = differences religious faith aud that of Lis Byrinn neighvors. The Jewish patrlarchs oroeted pillars and plant- ed groves, both of which woro customs connact- od with phaltic worship, Throu, the Judgos, and especisily aftor t) of the monarel; tinna and Phooni- he Hobraw patri- Dr. Hodga had made up his mind thet Darwin- 18m 18 Athofsm, and that it was his duty to prove Ho thoreforo studied all tho tostimony on tho subject prosented by tho authoritative soientists in England, France, snd Gormany. From the immonso mass of data offered by them hehnsdedaced pretty sirong ovidonce that, inde fining the theory of Natural Selection, or Burvival of tho Fittest, Mr, Darwin hna denied thooxistonce of dosign in the origin of apocies, This ia the grand and fatal objection to the thoory. ho considers tantamount tos denisl of God in Nature, and honce is Atbelsm., Dr. Hodge frankly concedes that Mr, Darwin ropeatedly and explicity declares his fnith in n Croator, aod admita that ho {4 honest in the declaration. It is his theory that is Atheiatical, Creator too far in the background.” Dr. Hodgo desigus to be courtoons, falr, and conslatont ln his statomonts; he woll under- aiauds this is tho only conduct befliting a schiolar aud a Clirlstinn gentlemnin ; but the lLioat of his temper once iu s whilo gots the botter of him, and botreys him into coutradiotions, and too much lika onlumniation, “It is a faoh, 80 nowledgo oxtends, that no to nokuowledge himself, not simply an Evolutionist, but an Evolutionist of the Darwinian sohiool, whois not either a Mate- rialiat by profossion, or n disciple of Horbert Bpencor, or an advocate of the philosopny af ,—uged diveotly else- 1o Xenophon's chaptors 1 and 'you ura ill, xa that your far as our limite: hout the rale of 0 egtablishmont thio 1lobrows wora glyen to de- ho puroer roliglon of thelr nn- tlon to the idolatrous practicoa of thoir neigh- bora, whiob {nvolved worahi and omphalic ambloms in ¢ roligion of Baal, oponly denounced by the liallism, and wagconduet~ nable ceremonics, which or, in plain words, whore,—an Athalat, Atheist s an ugly word, and men who profesa n beliof in tho Creator, and are even church- membors,—ns Dr, Hodge, in one placn, admits many Darwinlsts are,—do not like to have it It instils o doubt of tho Christian charlty of ouo who fools frao to apply such vory hard terms, ment that Dr, Hodge offors when ho oxplains, page 177, aftor tha assertion that Darwinlsm iy elsm 1 **This doos not mean, as beforo sald, that Mr. Darwin himself and all who viows aro Athelsts ;" but the amondo Iato. '"ho opposing statomonts are several times ropeated in tho progrosu of tho argument, yot they fail to noutralize ench othor. sion remaing, that the Dootor is guilty of solt- contradiction, and also of want of equity, Dr, Hodgo quotas hones onr raco bog como, what aro tho limits of our power over Nature nhd of Nature's power over us, to what good nre wo tonding, are tho rosont thomsolvos nnow and wif ntarost to evory mun born iuto the world," Darwin undor- questions,” KEvery earller than usual, of phallio stagues high places.” The Wittt sho Saw U8, ond said, s women will: 4O Bace fiat timo that eltlior you wil converso with you,” Socrates turned to sud salds * Crllo, lék some onu take hor home." Bowe of Crito's peoplo nccordingly led her wway, erylng out aud beatiug borsolf, Aud, when she u¥ Goue, Socrates, aitiing up on tha couch, began to waying, us he rubbed ; ** fow jed plednure, and Low curious- tu, which might be ‘thought to be the sito of |t: fOr they never coms ta o tuan forether, urities gller of thew is gonerally Prophets, wasssort ol od with lowd and abom the Jows.too often imitated, According to Mr. Wake, there can be no ques- tion that the basiu of Ohrlstianity is more parely than that of any other roligion. itlon of God a8 fho Universal Father, the Great Parent of Mankind, thora {s n develop- mont of the fundamental idea of phallism, tho position assigned to Mary a8 the Mothor of rumonnt prinoiple of the primitive n predominant. The nimbus, tho the fish, and even the spires mbols retainod fram the old polo fastival is eitcd and, in the beginning, Tatos, this a the our friends, or the) thruat upon thom. i slogular {6 tho thing ca compelled to take Tt ia paln in bia 1 anused by the loosened chains, thnt ovokes bit of Sooratean philoso- phy, and not pity at his heart for that sorrowing wito und mother who has gone wobbing nway {rom his prigon-door with his child clusped to kigs nor a word of tendoruess goothed her at the parling on this fatal day, which was to ses hun driuk the cup of homlock., Aftor witnessing the cruel ecene, thore 18 the plnintive ¢oho of & woman's stifled upon_the flue, enlm tones of Booratos' voice us ho talks, with undisturbed squsalmity throughout the Loura precoding bis exccution, of tho soul's immortality, TPhero are other presages in the life of Socra- tos quite as dotriment to show that his practice was not ure a# his sontimonts ; that, as in the cuse ' moat grast mon, thoro wers fenlts in his aureole, th cros, a8 having a phallic origln, a roforence Lo some event conncotod Wit tha oc- ourrences in the Garden of Ldon, In faot, says in his appendix, *'There s ot a fast or fostival, procession or saoramout, jouy symbol, existing nt the presont has not been taken bodily from phal- uccosuive ayatem of pagan- from Horbort Lior aching bosom, robloms which h undiminighed lium, or from some & TP v Tl Both those essays, of whick wa linve en- deavored to give an Almtrsst, with the supplo- 8, have boon swristen in a diguitiod and candid spl doos not undertake moro than the #irst quoation, * Whonve our raco has come." Dut, farthor on, Dr. Tadge cor- reots himaolf, and saya of Darwin, ‘o ia_sim- naturalist, o careful and laborions obsorver;, ‘his doseriptions, and eingularly oandy fiat s that pitit in which the in- telligont and honorable mind invariably ap- pronches evory subject worthy of ita consldera- on, 1t 18 nob pocersary 40 scoopt the conclus A AvAIULYRY ] 1lls comprehonaive doflnltion of raligion and of tlio dutlos of & Qhristian miniater is not In pring only, but in bis’ practics, snd . makos him the ‘busiost man in Boatob, . d THE TTOPTAN HOOK I alluded to mayalao be rookoned asphilan. thropio, inasmuch an ita purroun In lo promoto tho comfort of invalids, eapoolally consumptives, and to cure thom, if oure ha possible. Insten of sonding thoso off to Floridn whou cold weathe or comes ond ‘4 Gonanmption is horaed on tha North Wind," ss.Thoodore Parker ssid, Mr. Bhove~—in his little book, **Life undor Glans"— proposoa to creata Florida haro In Now England, or In Ohlongo, If consnmption fa such a posti= lonco thoro na bioro. Mo would bulld n cryatal palnco that should covor vasb epaces, and lisve them warmed nnd ventilatod go onrafully that they should furnish whatevor balm the tropics afford for dolicato and shatterod bodios, Inva- lida then noed not go from Loma at all; their home should bo thla fairy-land of light, sud warmtn, and all salubrious Influéncos, “qoop nuox" 18 n German atory which Osgood & Oo. will im- modiatoly ndd to their Library of Novols, It nq- poared originally in Die Garienlaube, tho Lolpal wookly, which has a circulation of more than 800,000 copton. The author's name is given na . \Vnn\or. butthis fa » psondonym. Fomale writers in Gormany are yot undor clond. The mon oontrol tho proas fn’high Blsmarck fashion, and, it any woman shows hor head ag an author, tho eritics of tho superior aox tront hier as if sha were no batter than o Fronchman, Naturally, in thia_stato of affairs, womon hido thomsolvos ba- hind masouline names, or names that may be maseulitio, nud, a8 & maiter of fact, many of tho moat popular atory-writers in Gormany are womon. “L'lie suthor of Good Luck" has writ~ ten at loast two othor popular novels : At the Altar,’ and “A Horo of the Pen. " Good Luck" is a story of lifo in » mining community, —tho hero bewng tho son of the wealthy proprie- tor of the mines; tho heroine a daughtor of a noble but impovorlshed and tarribly-proud house, It Is astory of unquostionable power, vigorous dolinoation and diserimination of ohar- Roter, and in parts ia highly romantio. As a genoral faot, tranalations of Frenoh and Gor- mon storios of tho botter class aro not vory pop= wlar ; but “ Good Luok " a certainly interesting oenough to cacnpe noglect, Perhaps it wonld bo well to eaution those who do not intond rending it not to take it up ; for 1t is altogethor too en- forlalalog to bo 1n'd aside voluntarily whon onco ogun. in doaling with tho diMoulties in the wey of his poouliar dogtrino, *- He sat bofore himsolf & alu- fill problem, namoly: - How ara the fauna and ora of our earth to bo agoountod for?" "Those ara unoxpeotad discropanoics to find_in tho work of an nhle and adrolt rossonor liko Dr. Hodge, and sensibly wonkons tho powor of his argumont, And uufi wo mugk sccord him grost cradit. 1fo hns brought strong forces into tho fleld, and, in the matn, managod them woil. ¥lia eftort will have littlo influonco on those who in- olina to Darwinism, or to tho aide of Bolenco whore Theology ia nrrayed mgainst it. 1f tho cangbryatlve divine had lind exhibilod tho eame Ffi!ulln, Just, and candid spirlt in Dbis writings at the promulgator of tho tho theory of Natu- al Bolootion invariably doos, his blowa would higve told with vastly more offcot, Enrly En ENGLISH OF THE FOURTEENTII CENTURY.—]1. uatzatod by Notes, Gramumstieal and Ihilologleal, on Ohaucor's Projoguo ” and * Kuight's Tale. Do~ signed o sorve nn su_Introduction to the study of ZFaglieh Literaturn, Dy STROMEN I, OARTENTRR, A, M., Profensor of Rhetorio snd English Literaturein the Biato University of Wisconsin, 12 mo., pp, 813, oston: Gion Dros, Thoro Is s healthful tondoncy at tho presont day toward tho study of the English langunge, Scholars aro awakening to a consolousnosa of tho fact that tholr mothor-toriguo lolds o trossury of knowledgo which it ia worth whilo to oxplore. Hithorto tho clasaloa Jiave formod the basla of the English stuadonts’ education, and tho modern forelgn langungos have beon superime posed ns ornamonts; while tho acquisitlon of thoir own vornsoular, boyond & vo- cabulary copious enough for common nsos in spoech and writing, has been fotally neglooted, How many liborally-educatod porsons who, dur~ ing their colloglato courso, irfumphantly wros- tled with Greok and Lotin, and successfully coquotted with Fronoh and Gorman, aro sblo to rend a parsgraph of Anglo-Baxon, or evon o paga of Mandevillo and Ohaucer? Intheso Into yoars, sinco Philology has been elevated {nto {ts proper rank among tho sclonces, the due importanco of s study of Anglo-8axon and of the English .of the Fourteenth Contury, or Middla English, na 1t is comotimes called, is being approciatod, and toxt-books of thoso dislocts for tho uso of achools ave findiug their way into popularity. 0 lo-Saxon Ig something more than an olomont §n modern English, It not only forms ita foundation, but it enters into ita entire con- struction, furnlshes ita grommar, apd controls its {dioms and infloctions, Out of tho 40,000 independont words included in the English fan- Kunga, 23,000 aro of Anglo-Suxon oxigin. Four- fths of 'tho torms in common uso are from tha samo source, oy essentinl it is, thon, that wo should knoy the goil from which thesa words sprang ; ond should understand tholr original forms, and the modificatlons through which thoy havo pansed, In order to havo them in complote command, Tho most charming wrltors are cor- talnly thoy who havo tho rendiost uso of the Sax- on. Iis uflnrb, dlrect terms oro ohargod with forco nnd picturesquonosa. Buoklo romarke, in his *'History of Civiliza~ tion ju England”: *Thero can” be but little doubt that teo prlnpl‘lml renson why woll-odit~ cated womon write and convorse in g purer stylo than woll-educatod mon is becauso thoy have ot formod thoir_ tasto according to those snclent classical stondards which, admirsblo as the; in thomsclyes, should never be tntraduced Into o state of society unfitted for them, To this may bo added that' Cobbett, the most racy ond idiomatic of all our writers, and Erakine, by far tho groatest of cur foronsio orators, Lnew little or mothing of asny ancient languago; and the same obscrvation applies to Bhakspearo.” Theso words ocour in a proteat sgninat tho corruption of the English by tho in- troduction of amsjority of terms derived from tho Qreok and Latin, and aro porbaps moro applica- bla to the writers of England than of America; and yet thoy afford strong testimony in favor of tho opinion that the *‘richost Buglisn " fa to bs sequired from a study of jta early dinlects, and of tho authors who wroto in thom. Tho bool which los suggested thoso com- ments ia very well described in its title, It con- eats of a bricf skotch of Chancer, the text of “Tho Prologuo " and **The Knight's Tale,” with ebundant notes, and a full glossarial lndex, The notes evince, on the part of thelr author, axton- 81ve resoarch, sud wide and acourate accomplish- ments in grammar angd puilology., The student in and out of &chool will find tho work a valun- Dbl assistant to his acquaintance with the Anglo-~ Baxon component of the Xnghsh- language, and to a thorough rud enjoyable comprehaneion of one of the noblest pocms of tho flrst of En- gland's great poots. GUIDE-BOOKS, Last year Osgood & Co. published a Now En- gland Guide-Book which was greatly liked by thoso who had occasion touseit. Tho suthor did not evolve the facts for it from his own don- sclousnass,'but wont sll over thesa six Statos athoring statistics as carofully and almost as ?ully a8 if he Lad Dbeen taking: the consns; etudying the aconory as if be wera a lnndsospe~ pointor; delving into tho history of Now En- gland a8 though ho wero s commissioned snti~ quarian; and tho rosult of all this painataking woa o guide-book romnrkably full, minute, acou- rato, and—aiogularly enough—intereating. Br. Karl Boadoker, of Leipsio, author of the famona Europoan Guldo-Dooks,~a work for whiok ho soems to have boon oxprossly crastod,—aftor examining Osgood’s ** Now England,” pronouncs ed it g0 oxcollont that ho wished to publish a Loipsio edition. The rosult of the correspond= once growing out of this is, that Boadeker hag hes an edition of * Now Enfilnnd.“ end Osgood & Qo bave an Amorioan -edition of Boodeker's sevoral European Guide-Books and tha Travel- er's Manusal of Converantion in Enfi].lnh, Gor- man, French, and Italian. Any ono who has ovor usod * Boedekor" knows how it compresucs tha groatent amount of serviceabla information with- n the smallest compass, scoming to omit noth- ing, and rigidly excluding overy superfiuons word, The maps are suporbly oxeouted, 80 88 t0 form o dmung- ishing fonturo of this serles, 0Osgood & Co, hava nestly roady a Guide-Book ot the Middie Biates, prepared in tho samo thorough mannor as * New England." Whother it {u to be followed by similar Guide-Books for the other soctions of tho country, I cannot say ; but it is questionable if the work can be better dono by any ono than by the ecareful, con- solontious author of *Now Xngland," who is now completing tho * Middlo States.” Mr. Warner's “ BADDROR AND THAT BORT OF THTNG " ia finlshed in tho Atlantio, and will immedistely nggou in book-form, adding another volumo to the daluty “Sauntorer's " serics, It is ensy to 8ny that " Baddeck™ Is not ‘so bright as “My Summaer in & Garden ;" bub & book might bo & long way behind that, and yet be romatkably woll worth rending. Buch sbundant and oxquis- ite humor ag immortalized the *‘Summer * is not vouchsafed to a commonplaca world very ofton. 1t would bosimply canting pearls baforo—-pagpla who don't appreciate pearls, But *' Baddeck” s manitestly from the samo cuuning band; the #amo typo of humor lights it up, aud aivides it by a rather deop gulf from the travel-sloioles of ordinary Writows, © 0Osgood & Co, have arranged with . GEOROE ELIOT to publish another volumo of poatry, and it will probably appesr_oarly in May. Tt'will eontain “The Logond of Jubal,” which gives ita titla to the book, and which appeared in Every Salurday two or threo yoars ago; *' Armgart,” which was ublighed in tho Atlantic Aonthiy in 1871 ; * How {e& Loved the King " ; and other pooms nevor roprinted in this country. If it were ouly & new atory! But Goorge Eliot is remarkablo even when ehe ¢ drops into poetzy.” * The King's chafl is worth more than other men's coFrn." 'BITZ, THE FARM AND GARDEN ‘The Outlook-Nore About FarmeIar= rows —Plows and Iollers—Going Dnck' Among tho Usoful Things— LawnsGrasscs—An Insoct and & Cus rious Parasito — ybridizing the Pench—A Now Cherry—Treos on thelr Oown Roots vs. Gratting—Niscollns= neouss From Our Agricultural Correspondent, Cuaxraton, Tll, April 30, 1874, It in oonmoling to know that, with tho advent of spring, tho whole tono of the rural popula- tion is changed, We now hear little complaint in regard to monopolics and tho echemes of mid- dlemen, In shorf, without koowing it, wo hove sottled down to tho old routino of business; . buying gfowing-machines of the agents on long time av tho old prices; Alling our wagona Wwith implements made by that obnoxious plow-ring; taking our eggs, chickens, sparo- hams, potatoes, onions, and parsnips to tho grocor, to exokange for goods; and doing 1g wo did yoara ago., There appoars to bo a complacenoy in this, for it came of long labit and oducation. Then, ngrin, corn {8 worth 00 cents, leaving o margin ot profit of mnot loes than 100 por cent on the coat of production. T1uo, the oxcoss of the rajufall Is in tho way of planting; but wo have meadow-land and pasturc-land, moro or loas, that we can pat the toam at turning over; and then it is'favorable for tree planting, and the cold woather keops baok tho fruij-bloosoms, which will all tho moro cor- tainly . guard the frmit-crop against froat, With those pleasant surroundings, why should we not bo ploased? I neod not hint that wo ore to hava all the offices, as that apponra to follow as & matter of courso, for we havo noeded thoso to give us o gort of flnish, cud to bring us up to the world’s_lovel. Don't be surprised it “Tho Farm and Gardon " should some day coma up nisaing when Tre TRIDUNE wout to pross, ond it should turn up s Moembor of Congress. Tn short, what with the prospoot of good crops, and oftice, wo of the country are cautnnted,wr - dustrious, and reanonably Lappy. FARM-ITAIBOWH, . ‘Wrrowa, Ill,, April 16, 1874, Mo, “Ronsn=8in: You bave bLeen disvussing form-harrows, but1do not thiuk the subject is ox- houstod, As a general thing, the farm-larrow {s about tho most important farm-implemont that we bave in uso, though wo may porlmpa oxcept the rollor, In tho firat place, you montion the ‘Thowmus harrow, aud, at the same fhino, make the remark that the Scotch forin of the barrow {8 the very beat form of the harraw, in ‘whicl' you aro no doubt correct, Tho Thomas hur- row, ad first aont out, in some bialf-a-dogen seotious or parls, for the gencral purposo of s farm.harrow, was & fuflure. Of lute it oppesrs. more in the form of n Heotch harsow, and 1s iu three eectlons, But, na you suy, it costa too much, Ilave not tried tho Lollow- tooll hurrow, and don't caro to do ao, 88 tha samo number of caat-atecl Leetl of thio sama leugth will suit mo Just ns woll, and thus may'bs had without a ‘putant-feo boing added, Now, {hore iu tho Geddos harrow,—never patented, T think,—tuat hos stood o long fout, It faa triplo A lilngod harrow, with 1ts six Lars and thirty-twe tosth, It dn sold of sbont §15, ‘Thera havo been modifientions of the Geddes barrow, some of tho sactlons bejug Lolted to the centre-pla and in otuors working on a hinge, o thet tho A wi Ty be thrown furthor out, Tl makea o very good harrow, thongl thoy are geuorally too hpuvy ; Lut tho form 18 u good oue to clear it of trash, The objection £0 tho roal Beatel harrow, 1a this diflisutty of cloayiug, otherwiss it {8 the Lest; and this now' form, “““l{‘ callod the Froedwsu, fs admirably adapied fo this, ‘and, o my way of thinking, du th bost harrow for goneral furm use that 1 havo secn, I rofor to thia hare ow ag made by Pareb & DBradley, of Ohieago, as \oflior—manufucturers may bLavo another form—of tho Bomo barrow, Whon we oridoy a partloulss are row, we onglit to know tlie nania of tho manufacturer, or wo niky 50 got Just what wo want ; as, Zor {nathuce, fu giviug'su ordur for tha Geddos harrow, we may (ot 'H“i,' or atationaey Joint, unioss we kriow the form aod by the PMUOULE BlaWInctuser, Aud this may Proscott’s Xorus ) HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF PERU: Wrrx 4 PRELIMINANY VIEW OF Thi OIVILIZATION OF THE Tnoas, By Witusas H, PRescorr, Now and Ro- vised Edition, with the Author's Latest Correotions and Additions, Edited by Jonx Fosrten Kmx, In Two Volumes, VolI, 12 mo., pp. 510, Philadel- phias J, D, Lipplucott & Co. 1t wonld be superfiuous to sttomptany com- mendation of thie historles of Proscott at this dny, buta fowwords in pralse of tho prosent boantifal edition aro lo place. Wo have soldom soon & more chasts and elegant volumo.than the one before us, which combines evory oxosllonoe in paper, print, and binding, to gratify the eye and coavenienco of the roader. A map of Pern, and a.portrait of Francieco Pizarro, complote the equipments of tho work. ools Itecolvod. I'[gE‘!IE TROST'S . EXPERIENCE! , Dy 3Mrs, ANN . SIEPHENS, Author of “Fashion snd Iamius," Elc, 12mo,, pp. 409, Now York: G.W. Carloton & Co. ) DUOTOR ANTONIO: A Tare oF ItAry, By Rour- Fint, Authior of “Lorenzo Bonous,” B, 13mo,, pp. 430." Now York: Garloton, DEVEREUX: A Tauz. By Sm Epwino Bouyen Lyrrow, Bast, 13mo,, pp, 300, Phlludoiphia: J, B, Lippincoit & Co, LOGIO: DEDTOTIVE AND INDUOTIVE, By ALRXAN- Den BAIN, LL, D., Profossor of Loglo in thp Unic yorsity of Abordoen, New snd Reviscd Ldition, 12in0,, p, 731, New York: D, Appleton & Co, MUDEIN DOUBT AND CURISTIAN BELILF: A BERIES OF ATOLOGETIO LECTURCS ADDRESSED TO FaRNgAT SLEKCUS AFTER Tuutit, By TUloDORE. CitnisrLien, D, D,, Univeraity Preacher and Pro- fossor of Thoology'at Bon, Translated, with the Author's Sonction, Chiefly by the Rev. H. U, Werr- DRgoNT, Ph, Dy, and Edited by the Rov, T. L, KiNos- puny, M, A, Vicar of Easton oyal, and Rural Dean,. 8 v0,, pp. 649, New York: Berlbior, Armalrong & ‘o THE SUPERHUMAN ORIGIN OF THE BIBLE IN- FERRED FROM ITSELF, By Henny Rookns, Au- thor of the # Eclipsa of Faith," 8 vo., pp. 405, 'Now York : SBcribner, Armstroug & o, AODERATE HObEEB FOR MODERATE MEANS : 'ALETTER T0 TUE RV, E. B, HALE, 1Y JOSIAI QUIN- G, Eaper. Boulon : dsmes % Okgood & Co. A DAUGHTER OF BOHEMIA, By Christiun Tald, Anthior of “Valerlo Aylmor,” cte, “With Tlustra- tions, Papor, New York: D, Appleton & do, Literaturo 1n floston. Correspondence of T'he Chicavo Tridune, 3 Boszay, April 24, 1874, Aftor a hnlt of mearly a outh, J. B. Osgood & Co, issue marching ordors oncomoro, Within o weol thoy proposo to send out quite an army of now books. Theso are of groat diversity :. philanthrapic, fctitious, itinorary, utoplan, and . Nova-Scotisn. Tho philanthropy is comprised in & book by tho Rev, Edward Everott Halo on ¢ woRRINGMEN'S yioNES," The mnaiu idenof the book io to show what kiud of homos workingmen, principally in olties, need; how they ean be secured ; and how thoy should be conductod. Tho fouundntion principlo 18 co-operation, agsaclation, clubbing rosources 80 that ench may havo the bonofit of tho com- bined meaus of 'all, It is partly thoorotical, bub tho theory ia not chimerical, or too ambitious for pogaible rosllzation ; whilo a good part of tho book s given to setting forth the results of oxporiments already made in tho line of his tho- ory, Buch exporiments at Quincy, Dodham, and Vineland, aro dosaiibed, that st Dedham boing traced by the Hon. Josiah:Quinoy in a lotter to Mr, Hale. It 48 one of Mr. Quin- oy's chorished fancles, that capitalista should lovest tholr money in good, noat, attrootive, comfortable, low-priced’ housos, nob fur from tho citv, for which thoy cau recoive such ront ns will ot be burdensomo to tonants, yot will give thom a good rato of intorost, and n Burplus whick ehall bo applied in payment for thio houses, 8o, aftor a torm of yoars, tho ten- a8, who havo paid only & rensonable rout, find thomsolves ownors of thoir housos, aud the eap- itaiiet fluds himaclf in possession of all his capl- tal, with ns much intorest ss he can oxpect in any ronl catato investmont not spooulative, It would almost goom ag_if thus ono might sarve QGod eyd Mumnion, But that la not Mr, Quincy's 1doa. Ho balisves In making monoy, but in guch 8 way as to contributo to the well-belug of those through whom he mnkes it. If this idea should over g muol hondway, what I to Linder the Millennium 7 'his book is a porfoeot {llustration of Mr, IIale'a conception of religion, In his “view, it 1 uot n Bunday luxury ora dainty hiouse- laut, or & privato, oxclusivo powsossou ; bub ho Ernpnr mothod wud spirlt of every-dny' life, tho boart of averything worth doing, the rulo and inflnite Joy of sl bumen ofort and oxpes rlonce, Bo fio'counta it just as roliglous to put workingmen in the way of more comfortablo ooy sad & richer domostio life, a4 to groach. bo tti0 caso with tho Erlodman b manufaciuror moy obange the form fanclod yurww.“ and may or may nod give us a8 goo ing or hybridizln was brought up at onr lnt tancos hovo ocanrred Inds was planted, which, whon frulte id not answer {0 nama and kit 1f mixing {8 causc Dy beos carrying tho pollen from othor flowors, it wl polnt of somointorost in hortioultural oxporienco: Wil you do us tho favor o glve us your view ou tbt Froit-buds are in good conditfon hero, Trecs Bhow slgns of recovoring tholr lost vitallly from the ox« tromen of tho past fow yoars and cold weathor, W¢ aromado to aay, it the county roport Btate Iorticultural Noport, that tho orcliard product 18 100,000 bushels, 1t should hayo baen dollars, Very B, WurTaxen, Bscrotary, rosslon that tho pita produce the snmn 'hnt {s only true to a corinin oxtont, Tho ollngstone nench will bo quite likoly to produco 8 olingstono, and a frecstone tho sameo; and yol- low-fleshed ponchas, yellow-flosbed fruit; and late ponchos, late-riponing ones. 'I'liose are gon- oral lawa that appour to of seodling peachos ; au troos are t0 bo planted, this fact should not bo t tho snmo time, wo will find tho 8 vary in sizo, flayor, and timo of ripon- oedling poachos aro ofton destrablo * In tho Beoteh harrow we hinve s genoral form, beln two squaro_or diamond-formed harrows connected, Whilo tho form dues not_mntortally Vary, ‘v;rlallu' o Mu);“"“ll lll'fl‘ ds tho yalue of the oae, {0 & groat extent, doponds tho 'val lement, Thix 1y 5 Phas tho i g caally claarad of rubbish, 'The niumbor of toolh ‘may ba egulated at plosauro, but thooue I Liava hioro Las 8 apread of ning feel, with forty-two teoth, and fa sol on thie the usital tmd hare for § ‘more than tho Goddos, and Ia ot 8o b on the toam, and 1a eatlor cleaned, 1t conld hav aixly {eoth like, th Thomas harraw, nnd would Lhon be thia Dottor harrow for mosk kinds of work, Boma yoara aga Lused oueof thie Jobi Deoro herraws, a largosquare Linrrow, that d1d good work on clean land. X have a small A Lisrrow, with b andles liko a plow,wil int I uso In tho vinoyard sud a1l rulte. The bars aro four Inclicn Aquaro, on rough Isnd it may be lovaled thorough work in such canea, hava a cominon Beolch Larrow, with forty teoth, 1 so ll threo of thess, eclecting i ong beat sdaplad to the purposo, T should hnve stated that, for iwo or A harrow o work the corn, lio middle tooth ; but, of lafe, T bave hiare my corn dust befora'its doming up with tho “Weliave n fov things that are standard, such as {ho Molino plow, tho Fairbanks acales,and tho Brown - No ono pratonda ta mal than tho Molino; thera is no better scalo than the Fairbanks, or no botter planter than tho Brown, The et that any ono can do i to moko just aa good, and This ts tho caso with tho w. While all admit that the Scoleh form fa the fa not so woll sotilod as regards tho coupling, nd then each farmor moy rty-two, forly-two, or Alzty tooth, and tho number of fact apread ‘that may pleass him. Thore may ba s etter coupling than that ealled lot us know it, ‘The agricultural - o such disousalon, for fear that somebody's {nyplomont will got a froa Advertiscmont, and thoy'toll ua most about the implemonta that pay I trust that you will take & more farmer-liko viow of thia subject, and tell us, after o thorough trial, what {s the bost, 3 PARM-DITLEMENTS, 'Thora need b vory littls added to the above, a8 {t containg good, Bound doctrine. It is cor- tainly desirablo to have s uniform barrow, havo a uniform mako of plows, The plow s tho gonural form of tho old Iand or Btirring plow. Tho plow was not originated with ut {8 tho rosult of all tho bost tho country, that the Molins opular, Thatis, whon hoy filied the markot n0 as to do Vm'§ esidoa thoso iwo, . Whon seedfing Dench- uot porkaps moro so than grafta {from thoso bardy scedlings lardy than the moro oholce vaui ponch, all of which, lings ; but it is wol mora - desirable frult {s borne on moro tondor troos, nnd henco the loss valuable though more hardy frult is deairable, as it may be produced * ofthor whon tho othors will not fruit, or will bs produced in grentor abundance, I'or thin rosson, all of our pencl-growers tolorato more or lasa of tho goedling fruit In their grounds. Most of thie soadling frait {s also lats in thoe season, which it Thoe Indian or blood pench will yory often produce its like, snd this 8 said to bo truo of the Huath cling, n late, larga: &lzed peach, that is of no other valuo then for cooking, aud which soldom ripeus vorth of 84 oriod, wero seed at the larger and i ! ¢ toscll atn Jess B ordor his barrow with t| tho Fricdman; i€ 1o Journals are averse ofton an objoction, A NEW OUERRY. Trom timo to timo, our Galena frienda have made moution of a now chorry ealled tho Lait In tho Transnctions of tho Iilinoit Hortleultural Socloty for 1871, Mr, Bamuol Ed. wards ropotts o lettor from Prof. J, Wormly, ot Galona, ax follows ¢ Among new fruits which will attract attention 1a th Taisod by Mr, Laib, of Gt tood tlie winter of 1855~6 without being ' Tho fruit is delicious for cating, eltber raw or cooked, ana is atout thros times the size of tlie best th b earneat cons 1t ix Lighly commonded works adopted and made that point was renched, with plows, and lot othors continuo the experi- mont, and now wo have tha Mollng plow mado at a huadred difforent shops, Aud, should fho Fricdman harrow provo tho best form of the Beotch harrow, that, too, will bocome standard, and bomado in othersho; Bradloy, but must be of ricos that will give us_ eatlsfac probably the cheapest firat-class harrow on the After wo have disposed’ of the harrow, wo might tarn our attontion to a good faed-rolier, o standard cast-iron roller. ing somothing now, wo might go baok & for yoars, and 6eo if aome of tho old ideas aro not worth s littlo nttontion, I havo bosn looking at the now hay-carriors enrs, byt have soon momo better than tha old London, that has been in my hay-loft all that timo, without demanding mora than_an occasional new ropo., Then, too, the old Palmer hay-fork, of twonty yonrs, hns not boon matorlally improved. beon sont us for trial, but thess have beon ro- turned, and tho same old fork put to the work. Fiftoon years bave mado no real progrees in a onst-iron, roller, and we may well _considor whethar, In ourattemptod progress, wo linve not, like Jouathan, shotbeyond the mark. Medil), i speaking of the utensils found in Pompeil, makes the remark that nearly nll of our common utonsils for domostic use lay dnpli- cfted in the old city for the pust 1800 Yoars,— tuus showing that no It would bo well £o hol is good, rather than to grasp at a novelty for the purpose of attaching to 1t a patent that shall givo us & monopoly. Our implemont-makers are patont-mnd. Tho owor aeed-sower died in & poor- house, beenuse his patont was worth a milllon of dollars, and he would not_goll bolow ita valo. the menntimo, by improved and pirated, and in the battle he was carried from the Aeld helploss and dying, and now tho world has nlmost forgotton thal such s thing hadexisted. Tho cost of making the Tho farmers would have purchaged by the hundred at 825 for ench ma- chino ; but no, ho muat havo a royalty of 850 on ench, or no’ man should havo ono ; =nd thus, with' the stubbornnoss of a mule, ha allowad himpelt to bo cruched to death, aud other men supplied the farmer nb o reasonablo price. Mollne plow is subjoct to no patont, and is there- oven when mado by *tho Early Richmond, doration of horticulturists, by the hortieulturista of Galena, Undor dato of tho 16th inst., Mr, D. W. Beott, of Qalonn, writea ¢ To-day I 8end yoit a Lab oherrg-tres. T wish you t0'ucs what It 198 co aud £ruts, f you are not toud to try it, The Northorn Horticultural Societ; Inst mooting, would not recommend it for tr! 1 suppuse, that thoy wonld *grind scmebody's 1 commond their being particulsr in recome frults for general culture, but for trial § {hing, 28 it {8 onl; No oue has a stock’ Kitow ; hiengo thore could e but fittie “ grindfng We Lisve given overy one & tres who are willing to try it, and boliova that wa are doin mipsfonary Work in tha hortleuliural vineyare 8 than that of Furat & Tho tree camo to hand ; 15 abont a foot high shall have propor care, and in coming hope to 800 & good thought that it would Lo tho mission of tha Agricultural Calleges to toka all uch new things in tholr keeping, and to post thelr soveral Btates to thoir value, The day may como in time, though it ia elow in coming but it is oura opo on, Liopo ever. TREES ON THEIL OWY BOOTE. Cnpt, . M. Beebo, of Goneva, Ill., has mont ua two trees of tho Miner or Hinckly plum for triol on its own roots, It s possible, as tho rzosts, that it is botter on its own roots than by gratting. The May gborry is_bate ralted “thon on Its.own 1ools; and the 088 poar {8 much largor and botter on tho 1t is well, thorofore, to test thouo things, and hold fast that whioh. is tho QOur old hands have become quito consoryativa on the subject of new fruits and now planis; porhaps a little too much so for the good of the country and tho progrees of horticulturo, 'They hayo in times past grasped so gresdily at now thinga that they bave becomo surfaited. Then tho removing of old plants, such as.the Mism| rry for the mammoth clustor, and othor like things, hes soured the peoplo sgaingb now things, And yot womust koop on trying. our people gave up the chorry, but now we hava & good, relinble cauning and drying cherr: igaleo a paseable table-choity, ‘and that &l encourago ua to look for a now plum aud & now pear; and yet we must not ba 1 too great a hure v, for thoso things must be tostod. Three years ago tho Ben Dayia apple was called iron-olad ; Dt it waa found that, after o heavy crop, fols towed by a long, cold, dry wintor, it had its woak ut people ara not going to give it up on thnt sccount, but will keep on planting. ATBOELLANEOUB, Tho weekly etorm catme on Sundasy, the 20th, but the rain-fall waa.light. tinnes ¢nld nud backward, na I hear of no corne planting ns yet. olato-boetles aro roported abundant in otato-patchos, The firsé crop of thess hat attack the young plants should be hard-picked, and thus a largo amount of ihe after-lnbor, will be eayed in kaoplng them off. Osngo-hodge ‘plants have been In great de- mand this spring, and have boon gold &t abou ants to farmors, in lots of 5,000 ia deto, the apricot 18 tho only frult thas 0 iasuo its blossomn, Ear)y-sown oate will be thin on account of the waet, cold wenthier, but the small grain looks promising, though making a slow growth. ‘Thoro 18 vory littlo buildin this sprlug, thongh hodging un baving mora than usual attontion. focount of it. Bomo netw ones have rogross hra boon fost that which genuino atock. inventor of the imploment vas §16, fora not s monopoly, plow-ring," and yot ‘Wo might mention many othor o yaluo, snch as ¥ Tickling the soil and making it Taugh with a harvest,"as opposed to the old saw, ggarde slesp,” which we might do and allow tho sluggards to sleop after tho orlsk stirring of the surface. should not forge! that there are somo good thinga that we havoe loft behind. y we must tako back as woll na forward ow deop whila olu The weathar con- 1, It is pretty late for tho mowing of lawn- grasaos; but, whore tho land can be harrowed or xskod and rolled, it may do; providing that tho westher that follows is moderately moist, ood Btand. A correspondont ag alob in the suburbs, has Lad the turf brokon last fall, and is ambitious of a_grassy lawn, that shall bo oven, soft, and silky, when the Juno roses nre ready for tho bougquet; But ho had -better devots hi yard to potatoos thia season, or plant to enoum- borg, and give it & Lenvy top-dregaing of manuro; and next fall he may plow, and harrow, and roll, and put it into any shape that may pleage him, ond gow his grass-sced tho following Marcl when e may bopo -for n nicoly-scodod lawn: The scodaman will glve him a fonrful mixtura of lawn-grasg-seed, that ho would do just as well to let thom koop, and to seloct his own' sood, the bage of which should be blua grass, with a sorinkling of whito clover, orchard grass, and thore mny ha a $1.50 pur 1,000 at Chicago, who oo, 0P T'o find the Idden source of lako or atreams Men tireless journey; in husolc bands Oross fey monntatuy,'and hot desert sands; Bt all that thoy can Aind will bo the gloam OF bighor lnkos, ramotor eprings, Thoy deera, Theso eouracs, and rojoice. Tha secrut utandd As eafo o8 ever from profaning hands, The highost Iake, Tomotest spring, no droamy Shall fnd, AN INBEOT AND IT8 PARASITE. A fow days since, Mr. Wilson sont me an in- sack Jarva that bad beon killed by o parnaite, but which Mr, V. had supposed to that the ingoct had graspad in bis mouth, warded the samo to Prof, Burrill, who writes me in-yogard toit, Xam {nohned to the opinion thiat tho inscct may provo to bo 8 root as well a8 ut of this we noed furthor co. ‘Tho Univorsity is very properly in- trodueing the study of antowology fu its classos, and it i to be hiopod that tho sons of farmors hool will Lo bonefited by in- Thus far the princi- 6 o grasg-root 80, {n Lovo's land of forvent heat, Each heart (o flnd tho sourco all vainly triea Of Lova's deop atronma—mysterious streaw snd flect 3 Bweot streams | Ah, Love! ‘thoy would not boso swogly | Perliaps, If thou revealodat to our o Tho soorot whon, and whero, and W] ' M, IL" in the Chrigtian Union. —_—— Flogging Judas iscarlote From the London Telegruph, . tho sailors ou bonrd h Amorican vessels I Loudon dogks commomurntod custom of flogring Judas Isoeriot, tho false o leaf eating ineoct, i i i ] i who attond this sc] vostigations of thls kind. ol aim has boen to make ¢olleations of bLutter~ lics for ornamentsl purposos; but the rosl. utility lies boyond {bis, Inscets that proy upon vegetation, and their parnsites, must havo at- tontion]; and thia class of studies Our farmors have attention to the study of insocts injurious to vegetatlon, While these students may not be- como ekillful entomologists, yot they have laid the foundation for caroful inveatigations in this useful dopartment of ferm-sconomy. * ILLiNow INDUSTHIAL UNIVERGITY, DEPABTAENT 0P HOBTIOULTURE) Cuaxralan, Iil,, April 21, 1874, Stn: Tho tnecct from Mr. Joln L. Wilson, of Colfux, Ill,, cama to hiund and proves to bo & very iuterosting d by Mr, Wilson to e & grans-root, and which 1o suys ho broko off in taking 15 n parosiiio fungus, From ppoas the larva was deud ot, thia parasio would scon Jiavo put su end to ita existenco, I find the fungus {eaup from the mouth ust at the baso of sud -botween nd projoots, without Lranchos, nearly an whero it aviduntly Loa beon brokeu off, 1t {8 ratbor thickos than the common stout black linen r agwing coarse garments, To Lo suro of its charactor, I aubmilted b fragment to the micro~ found ft to conalst, colla_and fbros of gra: the charucteristic ilnments (niycelitimn) But, without the ¥ fruit,” I cannot corlainly delormine ‘whot particular fungus 1t la. A specles of Cordicens ory closoly agsocited with the epurred ryo fungus), roquently attacks tho latge white grub (Luchncaterng , 61,y 40 & similar way§ but Iaim not aware that ved in siich o Jarva a8 this one, in, Lowevor, I am unablo to positively idontify ecics from the apecimen, Bavo it sizo, the larva orresponds perfectly with that of the common d aquush-peotls (Diabratica vfttala), ind doubt- 1o 8 an alijed apocies, It certaind; {ho loaf-eating 'bectles (Chrysomol tonths of au §nch loug, with tiires pairs of slender legs under the fors part of tho body, and a singlo lost - mequent, Just abovo ort datk-colorod hooks turncd upward. Along_tho back there fa n dopressed wtraight, not curved o fa the i white grub,” All thes things lesd mo to conclude bor what about the rolations of thotwar Evi. tho ngect hins awullowed ‘h_bas gorminatod, thrown rown at the oxpenss of cateing deatly, This moy sorm donce that such things do happen, sud have ofton Doeu tho rusult of direct that this spocimen is fgucse and Soul Thero was a large exowd, principally componed; of oamon from tho noighboring ships, sud tho! coremony may bo dosoribed na follows : At day~ broak a block of woad, roughly earved to imitato tho botrayer, and clothed in au ordinary eailorsn guit, with o rod worsted cap on the lead, wa® hoistod by a rope round the naok into tho fore- rigging. The crows of tho various vessola thon! ‘wont tochapel. On their return, about 11 a, m, amidat tho shouts of the sailors, aud with greal and derision, the figuro was lowerod from tha rigging and cast into the dock, and ducked threo times, It was then hioisted aboard, | and aftor’ being licked roun 1nshod to tho oapatan, Tho crof, who by this time had worked thems solves iuto'o 8tato of excltomont thamsolves with knottod ropes an Ll tho ofilgy at firat as & body, au oft in pohg, koptup the flogging until every vostigo of clothing had beon cut to tattord, Duriog this process the ship-boll kept up an ine d the Captains of tho ships, sorvod oub goos of grog ‘hoso not ongaged in the ilogging kopt up a sort of rude chant, intor- wijngled with oxplotives, This proceoding was carried on nntil 1 o'clook, wlhon the dummy was unlashod uud convey with much coremony to tho_galley, situated amidships, whora it was burned amid'the choors of tho sailors and tha orowd, boen intendod to havo combined tho wholo of tho crows of tho various ships in one body, and to have carried the figure in solomn procession civouit of the dools, but onan inttmution belug convoyed to the difforent Caplaing by tho suthoiitios that such s procesuin gourags the formation of a rougl probubly lead to scenos of violence, thoy wisol counsoled the crows to abandon the projeot whicls waa accordingly douo, —_— 4 i i 1 i tho layn from tho 8o tho _appoaranco when found, or, d tho deck, was \ i " to tho exceutionors, Is bad originally {8 from ona of da), It in nine I torminating biehin i o e i B Muo, The body in lifa The discussion of the cromation question i Englund hus lod to another pruposuflm Tor g A-writor in ono of the Mane choster papers suggosts *aquation,” ns he calls it, or tho buryiug'of tho dead far out at sea, He *"Thore is uo vivlonce hero, Tae ldon I8 maritime, and we aro & maritime people. T cost weuld be litle, the modae revorent, tho effect ganitary, tho condstion | natural, Boripture would be philosophiers vontentod, Of word about the fishaiongors and thel although some might ahiell tish than usual, coph to tho mo apora of the funguse, W fiaibres Inty tho- ficeh, s {ho host, wltimotel: poaal of the duad, conoludes thus : carofully preservod. fi a0, J, Bui NYBRIDIZNG OF THE FEACKH, At tho last meoting of the Wareaw Hortioul. the abova subjoct cama up far con- thont being conoluded, and thoBea. gntisflod, and the rumblo abont cating lean wauld be nahg AL, #BoRsL “—S5ms Ths ul dioal profesalons R R il