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.,p3cooding. peins and.ability, +Vho proséot day. - A’ portion of ‘the work was LITERATURE. 5 The Gincial Perlod, L7 GREATT 1OR AGE,’ ARD Y18 Rni.Ariod’ 70 e ANIQUETY 0 BN, 'y JAMEA GEIX1E, PR B Ew F:0.8., of ‘I, M: Geologlenl Survey of ‘Bcotlands + ¥4t Mups and'Tilautrations, ; 12mo,, pp. 845, Now, Xork1 D, Applston & Co, Intoliigont-Amerioan ronders aro famlliar.with tho théory of glamers; whioh hds had for many yodrs past an mtorostinig and poraunsive ‘oxpo- hénl'In the porson’ of thia Iate’ Prof. Agnssiz: From Lime to tima ho was,in the babit ;of pub- Hshiug'in our - prominont poriodicals popular artibles tipon thy subjuct; which' svere an sficlent monhd of Hissbuiniting among © undolohilfo Mlusisol'a gonoral knoyladge ‘ot :thd fnots apon whioh the glacial hypothosls, 1a basod. Tlis progent work, like the papers of 'Prof. Agassia to Which fo bavo alluded, I8 ’nngnssnd to mons opédialists, and ls writton with w oloarness and fallhdss of ‘dotail which' will ‘orable thom' to 4udgo for thomaolyes of tho ronsonablenoss of the boncluaions which geology bas ‘drawn {rom h6 Rocord of - dvents written on -tho'surface of the dattli durlng tlio glactal cpocki of ber history. " Mo bulk 'of tho voluwo Is occuplod with a study of tha loosoand incohorent matorials, auch »a 8and, gravol, and clay, which overliethe rocka of_tho Northorn’® Heinlapharo, 'snd’ of the avi- dencos which point to thelr drigin' and' mode. of dopoaltion. In tho coursa of this Iuvestigatibn, the Listory of tho glacial' poriod is completelyun- toldéd, and tho prihoiples by. which -glacial pho- ‘noménaardinterproted are tlidroughly osplained, | Particular stees 1 Inid upon, the' pdceessivo ‘oli- mntol changes that obtaluéd 'during’ thio” glicial »poch, and upon the' Fouloglo ngo ‘of 'tk do- afts which "bold ‘thé earliost trados of man. ‘Having traverscd tHIS wide Held of “inquiry "with tha .author, gathors | up, 85 tho routilts of his rosonrch,' the following onclusionsi ' Upivaids s “of 200,000" yodrs' ago,”'in ‘conso- | qudugs of the; ‘sccontriclty of the oarti's orbity tombined With precession of th'' aquinnxee, an | Intgusoly sivore climato provailed jn tho North- ern’ Hemlspliore. , A yast'Boa of 'ice coverod all Nortligri Edrope and’Amiorics, ‘obliterating - tlio .divisions betwoon mountaing and valloys, abd ‘coiitinonts aud islaiids,” Bon'and land aifke pro- gented s desolato econo of Arctlo “storllity.’ In progess of fime, " thls poriod 'of v iugsad away ;. the'sumniors 'grow' more ‘genial, - s wistots lens bt the snow'and ‘ice dréw Dack ta th and ‘plants and avimals ! mount i olothad and.peopled tho- plaind aud ‘valleys. By ‘slow dogrded, Lhe elimato coutihued -to ‘softan, At somethlsy liks porpatual'summor reigned e iben " Then o ippopateras sad the! eloplant wére ‘natives of Lnglish foréats ; and the lon, .tho'tiget, nnd the hyens,' had; their | Ini 61 CRVEs, 2 e ‘conditidna’ were subjoct 1o anothér tho tomperatre agalii slowly lowered, “until ico and Biiow. once mora ovorflowed the: “1and aud quenchod life ‘of (every sott, ITow'of- ton sach alterntions occurred cantot” yat'bo : , nor ia it cortain that man'existed "in.the! glacial periods} butitis hlghlypmh-‘ wiid s * coutomporary of: t) tne bippopotamus, aud. tho ovidonce nal‘d‘urnE dacisive - that ho witnessed at: F“l ue.complota revolution of the cliriiato,"and. Lo chald that partial submorgence : of *‘tho- Britldhi slanids which 'took’pluce prior to'this*lust' cold ‘Vlio'continentsl foe-shipet had rottred for imio, the great 1akes ppoarcd, the’ far- . After tho'last est-grawths aprend oyer the land, and a prolifiy mamnialiah fauta’ flourishod In ‘thoir: shades.' As'ibns paeséd, the' climate ' still' further im-! roved, the seasgus booame eyon ..more’ favora~ glo\tn‘th‘n‘duvblopmnut of ' mit, and, with tho Al “conturies, he emorgdd from o agos of stor brohzo Into thd'ago ‘of iroi and - the period of authentio history.” A ; Now 8 A'HISTORY OF NEW 8) K18 ON TaE RIVER DELAWARE. 2q08, Provostof ‘the Bwedish Clibrchea I America; i Roslor of ' (tio O1d Bwedes’ Church, Witnifngton, Dl Teanaldtell from the Bwedlsh, with swvIntroe diictfon and Notes, by WiLLiase M., zxNorps, D, D., Moinbor of the Historical Society.of . Pennsyivania, eto, - Philadelphin: Publication Fund of the Histore ical Bocioty of Pennaylvania, Au intoresting chaptor in tho enrly,history of the United Statoa hau been recovered by the ro- vl#al'and teanslntion of thisquaint old work. It was originally published in Btookbolm;" in 1750{ but -the wlitiou was' limited, and fow copios, pithor in Bweden or America; have survived to N on, DY TanakL AokE~ tranalatod ng carly as 1799, for tho benefit of tho Rev. Dr. §. Miller, of Princoton, N. J., who was then: engaged in proparing, his 'Church’ His- | expected return to truthandmaturo,” 0" mam-' |’ -1 1ay down the hoolil , | -out of the room to composs herself, asking'hér tory;" but ithas romained for Dri rénddr’ the entire version' aocessib) glisk render. g 1t was in 1638 thet s small colony of, Biredeén) under tho direction of Puter Menswo, ox Menuset, 1auded,on the'shores of tho Delaware, and made purchaso from the'Indisns of a tiact of land extonding fiom Cape Honlopon'to Trenton Falls. The colony was undor the protection of the Swedlsh Govoroment, and was woll supplied with provisions, ammunition, and morchandise suitable for traffio with thie natives. By instritc- tions from tiié Home Govornment; they pro- servod & paocifio policy toward tho Indians, whicl was atrictly ndberod to while- they. remained .in passcesion of their territory. - 'It- was prob- sbly owing to _the kindly = Improssion which _the Swedes hed’ produced upom tho native tribes of Pannsylvania that Wilham DPonn was alterward enabled to establish friendly relations with thew in his purchase of tho soil. In cousequence of the dochne of the mother- country, the Swodial colonists récoived but little pesistance after their arrival . in America, ‘Thair numbgis were rewnlorced in 1643 snd 1647 by sevaral ship-loads of emigranfy, which, after a voyage of bix montha aoross the ocean, debarked in safely at the litilo forts of Nasssu aud Chris- tina, which bud been” thrown up to defend tho- . -sottiors from the sayages of tho wilderness, and . sluo from tho atlacks of the Netherlandey, who . 1765, Potor St . retained their acqui cantested with them tho right’ to” the'shores of the Dolawaro. Y For soyontoon yenrs the eolony was able tb meintain_an . indepondent existence; but, in aunut gnilod down apou it from captured Now Amstordum with 600 or 700 men, tho two forts, which wore ganisoriod by maro than mb Swedes, aud took’ possession . of tlo entire territory of tho colony. The Dutch ion but about ten years, ‘when 1t was wrested from them in turn by tho Enghyh, who clnjmed the couutry by priority af discovery. , In 1698, the Bwedes, who were a of “Tho Tonohiora' Manu whio! lialidd'by to same author advico whiolt it dontalug trith regard to thio train- ing ot childron in'tho vary boat.” Tlie wwritor hne_ ovidontly matared his idoas throngh much study, and long exportonco, It is unfortunste that.-ho liasallowed himsolf to boi hampared' in/the ox- prossion of his thought by the mauoonsms of & sormohibtis etyle, \which'- dutraats soriously.ftom tho direotnéss and' polntddnoas: of \ hia-applica= tion,. Thio tnnumorablelgood and trite things hie' hins enld: would have ten+fold thoir prosont forco and ghdrm’ bad thiey.booncouchod in tho straight- forward and familiar' laiigunge : of :convoraationy 1 ministers and fencliera could but loarn to talk to tho multitude as to one ‘man; withthe: aame. rlnln, positive dircotnoss, their srgumonts swould hit the' mark'a hundred timos: whore, thoy now. soattor and wasto thoir olivacy. ‘was pnb< i © OliurinNn KTrirlowe.” : LEISURI-HOUR SERIES | Ofanasa; on,Tne His: " rony or A Youra. Lavy, Dy BAMUEL RIOHAUD. 80N, Gohdonned by O: If, Jows.:18mo,; pp. 5161 New York : Uenry Holt & Oo - : * Thé' linon " covots * of © the ' “ Lojsure-Mour Sorles™ Lidvo scldom 'inclosed so Intoresting & work as thin rolio of & -past contury. “Clariska Harlowe" was ono:of tho most celabratod novels of its-dsy. None of 'tho ‘storlos of- Soott or Dickdns evor dronted a- groator sonaation on its fidat appoarango thrin did this, xeln 1748 it fssted from tho'pross, {n a,prolonged seriés of 'eight volumes. '+ It6 author s hoon proporly tormed “ tho fathiér of tho English novol,”. s ‘ho was the, frst to .intioduce tho romance.’ of privite and " domestio” lifc* into" Euglish literature. . Befora ho conceived the hapny Iden of *Pamols,” and followed “it up by *.Clariess Tarlowa " and -+ Bir Oharles Grandison,” tho fic- tlons-witli ‘whichi poople amused: their lelsurd weto bf tha, most™ wretehod ‘taort, consisting ‘of foobld imitatione 6t 'thd-Fronch: aud-Ttalian ro« mance, exaggeratod in’ incident ‘and’ stilted, in atylo.: No wondar that, when Richardyon’s tfan- eripts of roalilite’appeared, they wore grested pith acclamations .in overy, quartor. quires » roador,” aays Sir Wilter Scolt, . in somo degres acquainted with the Luge' folios of inanity .over: which- our: ancoators ; yawnsd thomsolvos to sleop, ere he can estimato tho' do- light they muat'have oxporlenced from ‘this un- * Pamels,"! the firat of the famous trilogy of | Richardson,’ immedintoly upon its: publication becamé the raje .of < London, Every one who know hoir to road yvas:in coatasies with tho book. Pope«declared it would do moro good than tweuty vblumos of sermous ;- Dr: Bherlock conld not ro- Arain:from praising it in the sacred desk . while -Dr, Johnsun commended :it. in tho warmost torme.. When -** Clarissa Harlowe" suoceoied | “Pumols,”. the 'onthusinam knew no -bounds. \Whila it was going -through the: prass, Richard- son was béset with. Jettors -from..pusceptiblo Andios,” who, *smotheringz ‘him :with compli= monts," melorufl him not to biing:* Clarissa !’ to'au’'unhappy.ond. - Mise TFielding writos of tho | lovely but ill-fated heroiue:. - Whon, I road of + Lady. Bradahbaigh,- pattaking ;of. the oxtraordi- nary- excitoment, »thus- addresses -Richardson': +T'am as:mnad as tho poor, injured Ciarisss; and amafraid I cannot help batiug you if you.alor: nob your achema,: Whenalous, in agonies would- take it up agal, walkabour the room; lat fall & lood of .tears, wipo m¢ eyes, read again, perhaps not throe; liues, throw, away the book, orying: out, * Exonse mo, ; good -Mr. Richardson, I canuot fion 5 it fa your. fault; you have done more than I can bear, ' " i. Elsewhora s wrotes ** A lndy waa rexdlog to: twoar thieo others tho soveiith volume of ‘Clar- i, while ber ‘maid.‘ourled Eor hairy and the! oor girt ‘lot fall' such’ a shower of ‘tears upon Bur lady's herd thiat shie wis forcad 'to” sond fier hat she oried” for, 8he ‘sald,’ *To 'sce such goodness aud’ ibnocerice in distross’; ' and the Indy followed her out of the room, and;gaye her & crown for thatavswer.” : Lord Macaulay told Thackeray that, whon he: roduced_* Clarisas,”. ond 'hot season, &t the. Elllu in Indis, ‘*‘thewholo station was In' » pagsion of excitement. , . . The Govornor's wife poizod tha book, and the Bacretary waitod for it, and the Chief-Justice could not read it for tears.” « 3 Ihe renders of tho prosent’goneration ywill ex- erienco 1o sucli oxcostive emotions on’ peruss &g the story. of ‘*Clarissa Harlows™ as’ap< poared: to ~convulss tho' entire roading ublic of:the oightsénth contury, Litorary taste Eua undergone an entire changa’ in’ tho centur, aud a quarter since the book was publisbed. an faw-would now, bave tho courage or *fuclination 1o encounter.the prolixity of a novel which, in its original form, 18 spread out over2,400ciouoly~ printed pages, 2 1n coudunsing the work, and brinping it within reayonable . lumits, without injuring its symme- try, the editor. has. duno a'kindly sorvice, for wiich many 'will bo graterul. AHFL!mm‘mo intorest of - the story, which'is still conslderablo for thove even who liave bven brought lm on the euergotic novels of° lattor-day writers, this mas- torpiecs .of Richardeon’s has'a bistoric:value, An acquaintance with the toue of thiought, the customs of . society, and the domestic hubits of our.aucestors-romoved 125 yoart bnck, cannot bo ‘complete whicl doew not include o koowledge of tho most noted examples”of ' thelr litorature, Conspiciious among those * Clatisss Hailowe™ is entitled to tnko rank, from its retation to the long-lina of Euglish niovels that have succeoded it, Irom its ouce oxcessive’ populurity, and from ‘its genulne, morits a8 a work of flotion; Oharles Sumners THE TAFE AND TIMLS OF OHARLES. SUMNER: H1s_Hoysoop, EDUCATION, AND PUBLIC Oaucer. By Evas, Nasox, Author-of * The Life of thie ion, Moury Wilsou,"ele; 120, pp, 50, Doston ' I, B; tusscll; 65 Corubill, Tor p brief' biographiy of Charles Bumner, tho .present work deserves to be commended. It gives as just and comprohensive-an-idea of tho may; the cilizen, tho scholar, andthe statesman, ps'we could expect: to find- compraesed: within tho limits of's duodecimo volume. The author .xisos- fairly to the lovel of his thome, and’ dis- +oussos the careor.ofi Bumner, in its privato and public relations, with bacoming dignity, diserim- ination, aud' eympathy. It is not tho completo and masterful biography, worthy in every ro- spoct of the departed hero; which the world will oxpect eventually to bave’; but. meanwhile it sorves nn excellont purpose-in presonting & faithful ekotch of ono whom every admirer of \tho - highest and sterncst virtuos must regard with roverence. Emeérson uttered 'the noblest aro hand(ul at the timo of thair defeat by the Eulcu, ling increased to about 1,000, | Thoy still etained the simplo, , of thoir ancoators; Lut. rom the incapacity by sge of tlieir only surviving minister, they wore loft with- put _the sorvices of the Church, On making _koown their. epiritnal necds to Obarles XL, King of Bwoden, the ‘‘SBwedish misslon in America” was establishod, which, Trone 1696 to, 1786, guEpliqd tho Siodish churches pn the Pelaware with minitars, with religious ok, aud assistanco in building their churchos. .Duriug the first, forty yoar It mispion was superintended by Bishoj Soodborg, —thia fatbier of the well-kuown Lmanol Swe- donborg,—who seut his own s0n over as & sohool- master, and many of hia rolatives as ministers, $o,tho ex| ntri%lud citizens of Bwedon, It is'es- Mumuted that the mission cannot have cost the Bwedih QGovernmont loss thian $100,000, and that at.a timo whon Bweden was in & deulmmg gondition, end suffoting from inauvial embar- . rassment. Tho Rev. Mr. Israel Acreling was for sovoral ears Commiesury to tho Swedisli churches an {)m«bulnflnm [uzum_iu% home in 1766, Ia skelch of tho 1if6 of the Hwadish oa{uny, and of . luo_progrens of thelr geveral ohurches, js full of inceresting dstail, and adds not a littlo to our kuowladge of the condition of the country and the Labits of tue poupls during the firat contury after the sottiomont of the linds along the Dolawuro, Not the least entoftaining part of is volume {4 that which gives an account of a visiy to the cloiuters of the Dunkars, or Ttinkaers, & dovomination of Beventh-Day Haptists, which took its name from themodoe of baptizin, {tagou- yerts by plunging, The seot was founded in 1742, by Conrad Boixel, a Loimad Burgher, who, aftor following tha lite of a hermit for some yours, es- . tablivhed a community at Ephrata, Lancastor County, P'a. Alibough dolibacy was not obliga- tory.in the socialy, it waa eucouraged, and the l? 1o mon and women dwalt separataly {n cloise {ors,—nesociating frecly, howevor, in all the afalrd of life. At tho timo of Mr. Acrelius' visit o the community, ia 1763, Mr, Bolyol, or Fathor ‘ledvon,as o was stylod I tho socloly, was still ! Ir. Acrelius also mado a_wvisit to tho nt eloiater of the Hermhut Brathorhood, at Bothlohiond ; but, aa tho brothren were botn Incommunicative and inhaipitable, his acoount of Yhoir condition is lows satisfactory than that of I Dunkers, Training of Ohildron, _UHEPARENTS' MANUAL; o, Houy Toauuno, By Ly Ofours A fio Olasn-100k of roso wnd Toelry, 1Y 390, Thiy 1itile work Is designed'ss tho counterpart ., Auttior,of Welo, 1o, oars of ita existouco, tlia | axp Boproot’ oulogy. that could be pronounced upon man when | ho waid-of Bumuer, * His was tho whiteat soul I evorknow | * Tlie enrogy doos orodit to him who spolke it and to him of whom it was spoken, Mr, Nason bas rolated two or throo anccdotes | of Mr, Bumuer, which, having an awr of fresh- | news, we repoat for tho bonefit of our roadors. When . & boy 'of 13, Mr Nason says of him: ¢ IHo is romombered by his achioolfellows at this period asboing kind- liearted, thonghtful, courteous, though exhibit- ing some elight conaciousncas of being to tho manor born, This last trait in big charaotar somotimes drew & smila from the membera of Lis family, Oh his lying in _bed one morning untll after tho houschold had breakfasted, his motber rather abarply said to him, a8 he came down, ‘Why so late this moruing, Charles?’ ! Call mo Mr. Bumner, mothor, if you pleaso,’ enid he, as {f his diguity were offendod ; and &0 tho point of the robuko was broken.” Mr, Bumner himsolf gave tho following nc- count to his friend, My, Redpath, of tho manner of Lis nlroduction to Richard Monckton Milnes, during hls residence In Loudon ; 1 was at Bydney Sith's broakfsai-tabla one morn- {ng, with perlieps » dozen olliers, when lis asked ino how English literary reputationy stvod in Amorica, 1 Wa somotimes Jirosumse,! uald I, ““torejudgs your Sudgments; o refues a repulation whers you give ono, nd to beatow s ueme whore you withhold it © Au sxample! suexainple]” exctatined Mr, 8mith, {n his caraaning siyle, Ifure Iwas, n young Yaukee-Daodle, —to use s phrasa of Mr, Curlyle,—st the fabla of the greatess wit, probably, that Enigland ever saw, aingled . thon, risng slowly and famtod thn gormant {0, e emnaruis Himodi oy roing i 15 And supportiiit himaolf:by “resting Wi :I “m vho bad, %n..u‘. i, Brown sbood ‘a8 avect as pillar, Lolding up tho blood-beamearsd coat, au tently acanning it. . The o)d man m:l nulmml Jipa waro couwiproniod, "aud hif oyo ki fabed nicel, " g Morntonisme, . . ELL 1T ALL:". Tna : BTORE' or. A Liex'd Ixre.. -1 u1NOR 1% ‘MonMONIAN, . AR IAUTODIOORATHY, © Mre, T, 1, 5,/BTNtopan, of Salt Laks City, for Maro! than ‘Twenty. Yoars tho \Vifo of &' Mormon Misslon. ary and Eldor, | With Iatroductory, Piefacs: by s JinniEr DEeouHa Stowe, 8vo, pp. 023 " Hurl- ford: * A, D, Worthlngton & Oo. i Tho abdve-nnmed - volume fs an' expansion ofi} | « smali;work by the samo author.which wad pib-| lisked: two or-three years ago. ;Ila contouts ara! 80 fully dosoribodrin thotitlo as soarcoly to need: -avy ‘ additlondt oxplanation.: 'The-story -which Mre, Stoikionss relatod boars upon‘ita facs every ! ovidotioe of., Lélog ‘s caudid, straightforward atatoment of fact, It malosno pretanse to Mt~ erary finlsh; noithor- dods it strive alter sonde~' tonik offéet, biabi 1s undaubtddly, what it claims, n tr’ufit:fqnhy,‘ux'pou(dm_x' o} Mormon faith arid taciico. | . * l)‘ The taniop of the book is, of ~ conrso; very baad, but' itd 'royolations moroly: conllim' proviaus koowlodge. " Oo has only to'lenmn ?hnt ol yg- amy ' 1e" 4 loading, fodtara of Mbrmonism, to'un-~ doratand fully all' thuinlq‘mty" and” misory, tlio creed covora; the wratcho(noss it entatls “v.pon Yisintsg B mfl. \f at any rospoetable numbor of' and;, that Yuy “'oho grno’ womany could, | Drosmit-onlihtoned ' ago, ‘bo! delided: (Ao’ oupltlng“ tho monstions ;ddcttino, * Mra. ‘B iouno's bhok ta oy g roligion of tho “ Sainta " s brutaliziug efféct upon nran, andl ite uflndnce upon” childron, It 18'aiinply o fho o toh- ok {a only one of 'ipnpffi lu]llg'ns ‘n;h E l.|lm \lling into’ do- cay. . The motal cander it has' cherished’is rap- 'fafy ¥ eatitlg ‘its’ hoars' outs” *Ia™ oxintenco Has beon s digzrage to pur nation, snd a ourse'to'its “yhiNarhbld victirb;® and,'whon ita-ondilinsoomo, 4 como jt will in the eouryo of anothor genera~ tion)'the world: -will bo'/rid ofrono of the most atupendous - sud~ shamoful frauda: that evor. b~ “posicd upou thie orodulity of mankind, . A Theologlenl Work. 4 FOROGIVENESS ‘AND LAV, GnounpEp 1 PrIcrs TLES INTERPRETED By HUMAN ANavogies;' By 1lonac¥ BURRNELLT 12mo,; pp. 206, Now York: + Beribner, Armatrang. & Co. A . Dr, Bushooll is an original;, liberal, and: pro- ‘grosalve theologlan, Ho -has au- unaltorablo fatth in tho contral prinoiples of Ghristianity, but - balioyes. thowm. susoceptible of’morq’ olear, broad, and rational..interpretations; than havo horetofors beon: iput upon: them.. . They are, thorofore, the" gubjoct of constant study with him; afd byor.as ho: discavors’ now argnmants ‘and arrives atnow oplnions, ho,is xendy, to accept iand proalaim’ them in plago of--those-, which ho acceptod and proolaimod’ a_yoar ago, s month ago, or ouly yesterdsy,. This, continual quest afeor frosh light, this willinguess to modify hix viows inaceordanee withe the latest. revejation, {8 evidenao of & sincero-aud candid mind: - The volume-under nobico ia offerod as, & .r.e- vision of Parts-IIL. aud IV. of the author's troat- iso-upon *Tho Vicarious: Baorifice.”- Belioving ‘that.ba has now attained & truer approhoosion ‘of tho swbjoct than was progonted.to him at tha -time of .wyiting tha formeg work, ho- hnstens to make an smondment by substituting tiew matior tfor:the:old’ exposition,” 'he. corroctiona, which Tio proposes.do not-include a raturn to fho stand- ard: thoologic formulas which ho has in timo, past .rejeoted. , -He moraly undortakes to. fill. tho va~ cait placosimade by his denial of thom with bet- tor matoraal. The four.chaplera intojwhich his argnment is divided . are - eutltled, ,mj?mcflvt_sl\v; _Torgivonocas aad Propitiation yithout Expintion ; Law'aud Commandment ; Justification by Faith ; and 'rhl;uufolv.l Dootrine of.,Christ: Condorning Mimsolf, 4 i o) A.Cool 0olke : . TRIED AND TEUE REOIVES: Txe Hoxe Coox- Douk oy.0iitcaco, ,8vo., 'p}!‘. 288 Complled from * Recolpts Conttibuted’ by Ladics of Other Towns, Published for thid Beueft of the Hoine for the' Friendless, Chicago: J, Fred Wog- . ‘goner; . For.aalo'by sll Baokaellers, A oook-book i:as necessary au appendaga:to the’kitohon as s cook-stove; hence. the grtiols ie in.constant. démand. But it is by,no'means reotyned in style. .Thore is sn fmmonuo :variety from which to chooso, onch one bonsting wome'particular advantage, and all'protending to provide for the goneral, weod,. It is opough to punzle the.wits of a. young haneekeopar. to da- ocide which to select among 80.mpny pratentious guides, - The:bost.way:tosettlo the dificalty is to supply onoself with atlenst two orthreoof’ theso’ esaential holps, upon the principle that **In the multitude of counsel thore is wisdom.” In any caso, **I'he Home Cool-Book " should, " without quostion, be the -adoptod uq‘mpnl}ium of every housokesper in Chicago. ™ Its” rocelpts i every ;departmeut of cookery .are amplo ;and Erost- worthy, "Eaoh bas boroe the tast of. uao, .and has_boen contributed to tho hook by some prac- tical liousckeeper of our own or anadjecqnt city, «who certifios.to it excollonce by the guarantes of her name.. -This js a8 good, testimony 2.8 one could hnve.of tho intrinsic valuo.af the work, But an almost equally strong inducemént to its purchase lics in the fact’ that the snle of every copy &dds a moicty to tho support of one of the most doserving charities in .Qhreago, viz.: the “Home of the Friendless," Fortified by such strong recommendations, *‘The Home " Cook-' ook " will riot appeal .in vain to the conaldexa~ tion ‘:r tliose who are in ' position to employ,its #ervicos. 5T . Moolks Recelved. DROONLEY MODR; A Novir, By J, W, L, 13mo., PR W0T.. Now Yerk: D, Appleton& Go, i .LAFAYETTE, IND. Corresvondencaaf The Chicago Tribune, . LAFAYETTE, Ind,, June 29, 1874, This oity is one of the most subatantial in the Btate. Her buildings are of thio hest class, sand many of them will compare favdrably with thoso of any othercily in the West. Hor banking oapital I Jarger than that of any othor- city in’ the Btate, Maoy of her whalosale housss aro not surpassed by any outside of Chicago. "All the principal strects are paved with Nicolson, for magnificent scencry .ond fino rosds. The residences aro of a haudsome atylo of arohitac- ture, mauy being perfect Elluas, among whioch I might montion those of AMr. Fowler, Prosident of tho Nutional Stato Bank; Hr.Eat] Cotigresa= man Orth, Messrs, Taylor, lleyuleu, Bpuars, and others, which havo no -superiors this side of tho palatinl residences - on the' Hudson River._ The aociety is oqual to that of any other city., In fact, Lnfayette is a city of which auny Btate would be proud, Sho Las an Opera-House which would be an ornament to & large city, 'Iha churches are numerouy, and : handsome edi- fices; the hotel-accommodation all that could be \bllsuur‘l ;.nt}n ‘The pxxu hl,‘o reprumlexlml };y‘ tho ispatch - (Demaoctatio: urier’ (Republican, o dornat (Tadapaidsnto sl dsily: ang sl ably edited, ‘'I'here are a-gront many large mane _nfactories in full operation, ‘Cho Purduo Uni-, versity (Btato Agricultural College) is located hore, Tho publio school buildings are handsoma and commodions. ‘The politics of this county is . protty badly mixed, aud veithor party feels very 'positive of the result this fall, ~ The Baxtor Liquor law ap« poara to bo a bone of contontion' between thoe partios. In some countios tho Domooratio nomi- uating; conventions’ bave indoracd it, and in others’ thay have Ignored it and tha Ro- publicans have indorsed it. Both partios ‘ara working hard to got the vote of tho'Grangers and the temperance elemonty© - . 7 Flve railroada centre hore, and mors aro belog built, 'The wholesale trade is Increasing ‘vory rapidly, ‘The poople claim .a population’ of 80,000, For a ecity of its size, it can boast pt more fing equipages tlisn any other. The streats sre filled with vebicles, from .the oue-horso phaeton to the four-in-land dmf‘ with footman and coachmay in full diesw,, The-Olucago pa- persare well represented -here, ‘THE TRInUNE preduminatiog, Gen, Biex, —_———— Sit by him to mainiain & yosttion which I'had Ad- £ Tdid not feel juclined to let the raatter L; s I saidutonce: * Carlyle,” 3 wa don't know him Lere, of Uarlyle?" Isald: %1 um not miror of Carlyla ; I find much {h t I Lave always bern impressed by Tia genfus; ' neerua to me 0 write by Rashes of lighthing.” ‘This declaration ssemed to surpriss tho company, with th azception of ana gentlemay, whom T observed to lsten very attentivoly, ~ Whian the con- yorastion was rgsumed, hie rose sud placed his card in my lisnd, faylui, M7, Busor, 1 thank you for what you haye said of Oatlyle. I stn“the oily man Lere Who appreciate him, Thie 18 my card s I ahall ho for yotiry, aud_desive to vitit youd It wua 1 Monekton Alilnos, the post sud Member of Tariiawment, P 1 For an interosting reminiaconce of Mr. Bum- nar in connection with Jahn Brown, we are also indebted to Mr, Rodpath 1 « (vays James Hodpath) visited B uny of Johu Brown, We . licogka, under which Ble. Buiner was aufferlug, Capt, Brawn thon suddenly said, & Hive o still ho cuut 7 ¥ Yea,”. repllad Mr, Bumner, 110" hint clowst, ‘Wouild yos ilue Lo ew IET" 'Vary tuch, indved;" returned the _Caplwin, Mr, Bumner THE EAGLE AND‘THE,SERF'ENT. A nerpent saw an caglo gatn, g O hoaring Wini, & mzl‘nw'lln-tz olght And euvied him, aud crawled with pafn, Towhare he saw the Lird aligt, Bo ficklo fortune oftentimes ' efrionda the cunning aud the base, '.Al:? o‘ll :fla xrulu,:lliltunmlll- climbs 0 tha eaglu's.lc(ly place, —ligans Cuiign Hivgant s 5t Adshotaa for July, okl fs ol e ~A: pooullsr syieide .waa that of s man.who throw himeolf from the. Point de. Soltepus into the Sofue, holdiug in bis haud & bag wherein ho biad placed his oaf, his dog, aud gwo canaries, He wae talien out korrlbly injurod, .though atill {n posssssion of his-seuses, but the poorapi- raals wore all doad, e daclared, on bolpg eqn- veyad to the hospital, that, boing waary,of, hife, he bad rasolved to qult.it, taking \vll.h Lim the ouly orenturey that Lad uot gassed to lovahim whon misory and want beosme his portion. ” FHo dled-In a fow hours afier baing resancd fram Lo Belne,~Faris Letors : t THE CHICAGO, DAILY E'aln(ully' from bl hbd.'dlbfined | but hila | ks pol- | Lyjl - maiie” in an- atmosphére- of“amolio=thic JIRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1874, SF:'ARKS-GF'SGIENCE: TYNOALL/R JIREMAN!S nrsrinaTon. At n'rodons: moeting:of ttlibi Royal 'Tibidon, * Prof; Tyndall’ dxuibited’ luvented firomab's roapifator.. 1t Ja ] .wmask, aud oonsiels of an iron' oyllndar packed :with.colton, wool; . glycerins, and alinrconl; « By tho-use bY.this: Hio woarer will'ba enablod to'ro< B n ha ;:ll|l1|ln":lx\;‘§ng:hoxivzwhp'bm:mul-fbr ulqu‘grtpr m" 3 ] unmy i LIy OFthlA faventiows T o Lo ot L A TREiNS At tho mooting. of, i : .Anthropology, .in Anpril,i1870,.it yad resolved Lo _prepare o prohistoric map for publieation, and “ diligont offorta liavesfuco Yeen™ protepited In Among ' the n_Booloty. of Ppiuth to be indientedon’the map.wrili La the posis tion ot thoimoat:notable probistorio anttlomonts, -fortiticatiops, . lake-dwollings, - cava-dwallings, burinl«grounds; and' othan places of-sepultura. By tha.use. of colors, the vngnus poriads—ptoho; bronze, and. iron-—-wili be noted, Altogother, {ti8 oxpected;thab.thp map.will bo.of gront value | TUF tothe student of archoology and othnology. - | ' *PNOP, ‘GQULD AND: TITR BOUTHENN: IHAVENS, Prof. A, B/ Gépld); Dirogtor 'of 'the” Natioual Obiorvatory,of tha Argenting Ropublio, is, now &t Jiis formor homoy “In: Joslon,. From bis last - snnunl: i roporty ¢ dated :Jan, .'81, 1874, we_ log - that - tho' work of obpétv |- g 8 batwoen 23°deg, and 80 dég. of 8. D, which: 8 candueted’ ot that Obsasvatory, will be:completed.in & fow months,. ' Prof. Gould ling atroady: murin rm‘m1 than 70,000 observations, _and chloulates tHat, whon his “mabs! amaquritiy ftb‘ll‘,'lflo; ar’ ¢l my!dted will ‘écm\q risn % catalomuo'of nbont 65,000 Sonia 'idoa, of * the diliganca of Prof. Gonld and his corps miay bo'gained from'tlic statombnt'that from mrdd to. ix hours are oconptod avery'night with obigrva-" tions; and that evory hour of sich work raqpires ur houra! study; mploting tlio co; ' & congidordble’ nmouit ‘of . ph graplilo work "hias 'also’ hosu * secom; Ilahnid“‘ by Prof. Gould, notwithstanding bo has beon sadly hamperod in this department, Undor tha sapor- intondence of this capable netronomor:‘and by tho liborality. of-the! Argeutine Ropublic, tho Na- ' tional'Obsorvatory-is baing gradually brought to * a-high state of officieney. " e ¥ ' THE §PARS'OF TIE BOREAD NESISPNERE. ' Soveral years pgo,;the German, Astrosiomical Soofoty undertook. the systematio reyision ot the star-catalogues, .embracing the stars of tho | boréal homigphioro, from: the firdt.; to the ninth, magnitudo. The' heavy task was apportioned uchatol (Switzorland), Leyden (Nethor— Iands), * Harvard ‘College’ aud Chicago (U. 8. ‘ Pulkowa, Dorpat; Helsingfors, 'Kazan-(Russin),. and Borli'n, Leipsig, and Bonn (Gormany).:~Tho borenl-hamisphero ‘was dividea into zonen, each qf which was allotted to - two difforent obferva-- ‘tories. -"Pulkowa was instrnctad witli the arg ol “observing the fundamontal atnrs, which humbor: 580, he entire worlt 18 now halt done." It ‘will bo finlshed by the end of 1875, whén evory etar marked by Laladde in his **Historio Colosto." and’by Argander: in: his' * Star-Catalogue,” will_ bave boen revised. '~ - ' T ol B TMTTOVED | LIFE;FRESERYER, An Improved .life-prosorver, . which promises to superseda. all oxisting. appliauces -for saving* swimmors or shipwrecked pordons from denth by drowning, has latoly boen _exhibited in Paris,” Tho trisl waa witnessgd at tho Honry. the Fourth . Baths, and 'was couducted by M.. Gosselin,. the .inventor. ..Tha apparatus consists of a pneu- ‘matic India-rubbor tubo, which " encirclos the body with a'sufolont’ number.of .folds to con-’ tain tho necessary amount of air.” The tubing f Chicago and | The drives through the suburbs are unsurpassed | .M 118 concealed " In u dotible _-enyulo?e, forming & ‘#hirt, which can be'worn under ths clothos,” It oxtAnds’ from tho neck to’ the kuecs, andis fastoned in front with buttons. Tho tubs starts from the chest, crosaes the necls; passing down the back, thence -dividing fa two branchos, and encireling the logs- an. far as the ' knecs, From tho 'contral part of the principal “tube, twolve to fiftosn smaller tubea diyerge to maka the round of the body and'mest. {n front. The tubo terminates at the uprer end ‘by n'mouth- rlccc, which shuts by means of a copper butfon, The operation of theapparatus is oxtromely sim- ple. "It contniua alr enough to supply a'sivim- mor for & whole day, and when tlie volume 1 di- ‘minfshed, it is esay & Sxpiné- 1t sgain; oven in 4m?p water, by the main tubo, WONDERFUL RAIN. ¢ In Acrelius’ ¢ History of New Sweden," Iatoly published by the Historical Bociety of Penusyl- yania, there'ia copled from the church-book be- ‘longing to Olristina Ohuroh, situated noar what is now the City of Wilmington, the following curlous record. Itis daled Oct, 27, 1716, and reads as follows : Col. French ried to me how, in company with somo othor gontlemen from. Now Gaeté, o (e oth foat., hio hind agen on the Rings way loading to Marys Iand, sbout 12 miloa from tina place, & tree’ upon which it had rained for a fortnight, whilst the sky was clear and ;withut any sign of rain elsowhero, This tres s a young black-oak, ,abput 10 inciws sround at (o otlom, qver whish so much rain falls, both, b{ duy and by night, that overy one’ who stands undor 1t becomes wet, as did also the Colonel himaolf, snd yet thore waé no'sign of molsture on the ground bolaw It. For greater certainty es, to whother the raln fell from the.branches nad leaves, or: frpm.tha atmor- here ,also, 8 young man climbod o tho top of the ee, and ~ found . that the rain dcscended, quite abupdantly from tho sky. . Furthermore, tho'dialin- guishied Gotonel related that the remarkablo caro wan , Orst noticed on the 3d of October, and continned'nn- ) the'17iL day of the same mouth, when a thonghtioss servant, in his drink, cut the tree down, and 8o tho Tain cosnyd to come from it. A sccond rocord of & similar ‘naturo is dated two years after: B b © Oct, 17, 1717, the pastor was callad over the Brandy- wina to John Tossswas', there to administer the Lord's ‘Supper to Henry Stedham'n sick wife, Whilat ou .tho way thither, Heury Sledham showed ' the pastor two white-oaks, sbont two guu-shols apart, both close by thie King's highway, on its left sido as one gocs to Fhiladelphis,—one {roo in front of 'tho ofher, on & stony ridge, opposite the land of Hans Peterson, who : Lives near Bkylpot.Creck, It scémed to rain nader thioss trees, but nowhara plae, whilst {hesky wasovery- where clear, and,the sun shining, without the lenst cloud that conld produce ratn. ,On the day before, belu, thé 104h of Ogtober, Henry Stédhiam, hiw mother, sn chT' Meyer, had firet noticed the rain; and now, on the 17th of October, when the pastor’ came'to those treen at mid-day, the day being clear and the sun shin- ing, be saw. with astonlshment. how. the rain camo , dropping down {n amal} drops undor the firat tree, but not Ap (hfckly as under tho sacand ; and this raln was “poclear to the oy , thiat ono conld see overy drap upon loaf, batn, ‘and clothes:’ which, although they soon dried, yot we eould both observa and'trste tha mofs- tare, though this taste was not differont from that of othik rain-water, . Towards evening, on my return, + o o When the sun,wss something mora than an otir high, Xsaw atill more diatjnctly. this rain oppo-. sito* to tho ‘wun, whilat it waa {a L aean yowhera'lan around, although wo looked for it quitécarefully in , various places in the forcet, From which we can aafoly dacide that this wes & pecuilar phonomenonl, not unlike some two years nince on the King's highway, ther sidg of Now Castle, ~ " v oaoTr, The netural ordor of plants ealled Cactacem includes gome of the mogt strangeand whimsionl forma of vegotation known tp tho botanist. They belong sxclusively to the Western Homisphere, '—the ' various ‘spaoies which scom, from thoir abundsncs and luxuriant . growth, to be natives of Spain, Biclly,aud Bouthern Europo, having all bepn tranalated at an oarly day from their original homein the Amoricas, ' Tlio specics, which are estimated at 600 to 800; nro confined chiofly to the roglons fnor adjagent totho Tropics, mithough a fow ara found ao far morth au the 42d pavallel... In tho vicinity of .Chicago, ‘the Opuntia Missonriensis (Prickly Pear) grows sbundantly in. sandy ‘soil. It is & genorous bloawer, and ‘In June aud "July is ornamonted | with a’ profusion’ of hgautiful, large, 'yallow.| floyers, {x’q.vlug muoh'the sspoct.of & singlo rose. .The Oprn!lgs ate gommonp to hoth gontinents .ot aur hemispliare. , It ig the .Opuntia Cochinil- lifera’ that nowrlahes thoe cochineal-inncct, 0 much prized for;the fino scarlot dye it yields, | Thiw,plant was cultivated. in Mexico, for. the ‘sake of the'valuabla ingect which feods upoh it, long ;.m(oro,(hucqruuy.nu discovered, by the Turoposna. ,’iho_t%ug is 4o gmall that, ig tho aut, 70, diled stats, al 0 go to, tho pound, Tho gathering of the cachineal is,p todious Lysiness, accomplished by brushing the. hranches of, tho lant with the tail of a equitrol or othor animnl, Mo fusncta are killed by heating in ovens, ex- Wnum to'the sun, or inmersion in boiling water. “Whep killed and t‘rlu , Ihoy mpy bo pregorved a , long tjmg withoub injury. A ‘The fivet of | povaral spacles of the Opunfia is plo , Yarambliug the gurrant in its propor-’ tiow. ,'Fhat of fhe O Tuna hing the hue of ' the richost oarmino, and &{Tprda & valuable pigment. This .apddios “hap 'long Loon qnmrn!(zu(hn the aouth of Burape, whero it s oyltivated for, hedges, pnd "ita frult, to eamp. extent, used g’ fo0d by the paunutay. Darwlip, in his * Natur- plisty’ Vovage Iound the World," montiony the " Opuntia Darpingj, which he found iy Py [a, ',r{..‘)\ownrln rnmn'rklfinlh for tlu‘ i At éxlnu:!nxilu, irgit p:z m«,zn;. which :vfll ;ehonn ,urpumi ' usarted amaug them. ‘Lo Is bave | Haime faoulty in o lops m-rkbfimg’e;" bl '7‘",; «'Lho gonus Oergvs embraces about 100 eilflflp-\ any objeot hacrvatories, viz.:. Cambridgo- £ whiloh are’ found somo of tho ruost- romarkable spacimens gof .the order, ‘Blioraritl!plaink. of tho.Woata reitories; of, Californin, and of Moxleo, are dotted with tho Cereus Giganteus, - which' la the King of tho Caotl, It often roachos an altitude of 60 feet, - gplifiog nléat, futod colamn to.tho helght of foot, and thon sonding off Lranches, which grow ol firat at' right h\nr o8 'fo tho trunk, and' then bend upward, parallel to it, and riso to the enme halght. Not o leaf Is borne on the entira tplaht,s which, whbn fully!grown; looks liKe n! ont’ n’[\wlmi,'m'-nong1 :giaut candelabrum, and I oalle he native tho ‘Cpq‘(rlne’rrnnf“..'flm 8l s ’d’ 08 ‘of, the, [ fluted Ateind are armod with othl-glronlar thorna.,; ' liiflor framowotk obtisidts of atont flbros liko |- "reddh,—polos; ono writor calls 'thom,~which' | .sarve many. usoful .purposes in that wood- JJoss_ region. When tho. plant dies, tho flosh | gradunlly. falls awoy; but tho strong fibroa will ‘romnin’ for ‘fihru’;mnd!ng upright, bleacliing fn thia Bitn, = ‘baro, dry bones 'of s vogotablo maatodo! Gen.. Rusling, in his ‘late- work, “Across Amerlca," enya that, on the Mprinops Dosert, thin cactua .grows (rom 80" to 40 feot kn%h. and’ from™ 2 to 8 foot: in diamator. " Tholr elustoring [zro\_lfls- and viryingheights, whon seon' ‘from’ afar, have'nll tho offact of"n al comotary; only horo tho-ehin{ta: are om- orald-gtean, instead of . marbls .* In fights Jrith.the Indlpnk, thoy ofien prove of valio ns n mbuch'akin to”whtér, that ‘bas saved tho lifo” ot .many s thirsty'traveler, when lost amid .theso arid;wnatont . o S0 1In, tha manths.of ay,and Juno, the.branchen of. thy G, Qigaptens pro wionthed along thoir tippor onda with large’ white' (wets, which are bucceddd, in' thi tivo following months, by cluse totw of pear-shdped " fruits, witlya.groen rind, o erimaon. pulp, aod s taste. Jike that of a frosh g, but muck Joay. jnicy. ‘Lhe Iudians mako a kind of sirip, or mofngscy, from tbens ipplos, a8 thoy are called,’ "Tio kpotids o Night-Bloomlig Ocros ard groat ‘favorites huroog” floriatd, *The singular! clrdamstance of thdir.dxpanding: thoir -oxquisite.flowars: for : but. fow translont Loura J.fn:n sloglo night, contres ‘upon ,thom s peauliar .curionily.” A’ fow evenings ago, an'alegant apoc- imeh was- on“oxhibition fn the conseryatory'of :‘;: '| ‘Adolph Blumonschoin, which wnfolded two splen- "did bloksoms i $he samie bour. -L'he plant itself looked liko a small groon rope, wouud in lrrogn- Inr "convolutioris, about’ a woodon framéwork, Bide'by side, out of this ugly, incoyth stem, sliot s tWin' Liveoms; like two ‘groat whito stars, or +| a pnir of-stainless wWater Jilios, - How could auch *[+» riraclo of besuty. be born of . such utter Lome- :liness - Wuo could bave. lroamed that this un- sightly stow. bad:Lidden in-its heurt the germs of such’ exquisite .Jpvelinesa] - Tuch flower mons- ured 9 inchen in diamtor. fheir petaly, of nn indefinite pumber, ware of the purcst white, and disposed in.s sbyele whorl, -Incloglug, theso.,as with an Elizabethgn tufl, wne an upeven row, of long, . narcow, yellowiah-greon : gopals. | In tho of tho flower, & closo circle of thresd- .-Amhoru....wnnli from tho bngo of the patnls, ' and, dropping thoir heavy. heads in a olystor, norved a8, a.dainty pillow for the pistil to rost its tho flowpys prereryed thow marvelous’ boaut; .but, when the morning dawnea, thoir brightness . wanpd, . Their.substauco is too ethereal to bear tha daylight. , They shiriuk,and witlier as though taluted,and dofiled In. the prosonco of tho, suu, Yeritable Quaans of a night, flxuy‘muu}!g their throne and Lold their court for the’ brief:poriod brifliant roigu is done foraver, siorilo’ Teglond ,in ,which , they ~abound, | their stemy, holding & At Juices, - are, springs, " ticg Are a0 planued a8 to_ofpon the least .possi- ble suiface - for evaporation. = As sphoros, or cylindors, or ppn. ‘molded Ip.tho most.compact shape possible, and, ; .covorod with a thick, opidormis, retain, duri long. months of drought, , which aro their salvation, : Thon, whon the rain _neagon comos, they speedily birst into renplend- ent hloom, and, boboldl * the desart rejoices and blosaoms like & roso.” ) 28 to. ,man anmd’ bonst, salcomo .measured & Cactus of &' sphorical Bgure, which, including the spires, was § foot and 4 juchos, in ciroumforenca. A fountain fike this would vield" the traveler gallons of precious liquid. to | siake Dis.thiret. Op the plaine’ of Moxico, the cuttle food on the floshy stems, of the Cacii; and, in the Gallapagos Jslands, Darwin . found that a sustongnoe, . ——— " UIN. ARIZONA. .Tow broken plunged the steop descent 1 "How barran | Deaolate aud rent By earthquake-ahack, the land lay dead, iko.aome proud King in old tine alain, ‘A ugly akeleton, it glesmed In burniog sands, , 'Tha fiery raln Of fierce volcanoes here had sown Its nshes, Burnt, and black, And scamed $ With thundor-atrok ‘With cindora, That Tlda&v‘nnn S l‘(’l ;llll X . Op seelng this, with gathored L e como on o confines of death ot Lera lay, And In Yy Beaide this dead and . ip Bea— Thiw yide, while desert-sea af eand, Thin Jand that seamed to krow no Jand, * While great.ronnd whoels ground mournfully— Acity older than that gray * And grass-grown tower builded when Confusion oursed-the tongues.of men. And gronn{ng Wheels plawed hiero and there, + Tlowed deep in earlb, and braks atiow 014 broken 1dols, and Jaid baro 01 bits of veasols thnt hind grown An'countless ages cycled through, . Imbodded $nto common stons, The whila we.move down to_the ae, ‘IThe'atill; white, shining res of sand, B0 grond with 1l ta.grandenr gone, « Same ona wouldsioop, eye curiously, , Pick from the ground, turn quick {n' band, Thin bils of pictured pottary— Toes {hesa aside, and 80 pass on. We wound bolow a sndden -binft “That Mifted fram its sea-yolcod bare A wall, with cheracters out rongl ‘And.ddop by Rome long-porisheil race: And hora ftrauge boasts, unnamed, nnknown, Stood dimly lmned agalust the stone, ~ Tolow, batore aud far away, There teachied the white arm.of & by— A broad.bay, turned to sand pud atolre Where,thips had rqito and breakers rolled When Nineveh was yet unnamed, * And ‘Nimrod's hunilng-fielda unknown, * Benedth, a silenteltylay * * " That In jta majesty had shamed The wolf-nurscd conquerar of old, fome nerpenta alfd from out tho grass That grew in tufis by shattered stono, “Then fild below some broken mass Qf ruins alder than the Bant, That Time had,eaten, na & bono . Xa calen by some savage benst, Graat, dull-oyell matissnaker ey Iny All lotbsome, yallaw-skinnoil, aud slopt Colled tight a8 pine-kniots {n the.aun, -, With flat heads through the centra run; “Then struck out sharp, then raltling aropt ', Flgt-bollled dow tho dusty way, . Twn pluk-eyed hawks, wwide-winged and gray, I+ Beredmad snvagely, hem cleclod Ligh, - And, screaming abll in mad dlsmag, * @row dim and died againat the sky. “Thio grassos fatlod, and then & ma; . Of.dry, red. cactus ruled the Innd . Tho a1tu ro4o right nbove, and foll As falllag moltan from tho akics, - And no winged thing was sean (o] pase, .+ Theu stunted sage aet Ioose in.sand, ’ ight loud with odora ; then somo.tress, . Law-huilt and Wlack saxhapos of ol Whiera white awls at with bent bill Toneatl tholr wings, swailiug nlig "Then grent triped ifzarde; with eyes bright A Jot, shot throngh tho bfown, {hin grass, - lade gruy with dust of alkall, ' - “Lhen stopped, then tooked, then 1ifted high Ou crookodl legs, and Jpokad and looked,’ —Jaagquin Muller th.the July Overland, ooked . A Naftled Surbers From ihe Uttca (N, Y,) Observer, « Aitraveling friend- of tho:Observer was at Rachonter the other.day, and he dropped into # barbar-shop near the” Osburn. House:to gal shaved. After.lio Lad been daprived of tho use- Joss Llnirs upon .his faco, anda porton of his akin, by & garculous -and. clumsy kuight of the razor, tho tanaorial artist tossed the.ends of his bair lightly, aud the following dialogua onsued : “ Hpve s ent?" . Viotim—*'No, it .wua out :lost weak, and 'm in s hurry. . Artiat (looking at the alook)—% You have plonty of time bofora the train goow last[™ Victim—#I'm not going Fast!" Darber—“Ob, then you’ are in no hurry? “Had your dlonor?" “Vigtim'.(rathor grufl, Yeu [" Hurbor (utill toyiug with our Arlend's waving looks)—-+4\Which way ate you go- ing?" Vietim—* Weat, it I evor gat out of fifls shop!" Barbor—* How far?”. Vietim—* Buf- falo?" . Barber—*'Oh kol Buffalo, ah? You chnit got,. your kair ont..decantly in Buffalo, Thore is only ona good barber there, and he's runk lalf.tuo time | ,-Bhall Tout it 71 Thp train don't loava hare for half mn . bour[" Viethn + (thoranghly auraged)—* Look here, you wooden~ handod nywmbskull, sud listen, I dan't want my lair outl dou'k _want a shampoo | I don't want toniol I don’t want bay rum! I don't want auny more of your tongus, information, or impu- dencel,, I do want you to finishithis job, and if yau don't.ologe your -infernal tathar-biox and lot .ino out ‘of this obair, I'Il gaw -your thick head off with oue of your dull, nuimog-groting razors! Do you undorstand thacp", .'.l."la ‘awtonishod nui- auge compreliondsd, ) : ofonst ; 'and_ tholl hugd “trunks secroto & fluld ’-lflm tamons; tipped ,with golden, tremulous | -gtar-crowned brow upon,” 'Throughout the night |, . bstwaen dayeot and daybroak, .and ihen thoir _'I'he, Cacti are. an ineatimable .hoon to lhe_‘ thru of wholesomo | In s tlxaty Jand. Al thoirmyrind vario- | pad bladon, tholr atems are | On tho lower mountalns.of Chill, Darwin once species.of the land-tortoisy xascriod to thom for: “FAMILIAR: TALK. {TJI® FIRBT. ¥OLIQ KDITION OF SUARSPEARE, .Absolutely,. perfoot coploa , of nnuvnm\miul edition. of- Bhakupeard “aro oxtromoly raro, but, Gopios whicki’ aro moro or-loss imporfoot; ' or .mado up' by fao-Aitnlles, ard tiot uhcommon. It fal . #ald shope are abous. twonty of . theso last In thie! -Unitod Statos, Thoisucoonsive prices whioh tho' - firat follo Lins: brought withimithe coutury aro, nym’:onted in the following. list ¢ ! i e T c & ad tovens' copy (Utle feo-similo) v 22 0.0, eed', N smil 1808, Priced in Booknoiiors" feot alightly.., | 1809, Priced In hooksellers " 1 fact -all ltly. ... o 1610, Bousbry s sk 5 0.0 +1837, Boughi:hy Halliwel 10 0 -0 1 1805,, Farl of. Charlemon 4350 0 Porkius’ sl 535 0 0 6 0.0 (R A, .Inicqonegtion)with the proposit momarial to "Dr., Livingatono at Dlantyre, noar Qlasgow, tho place - of - hia - birth, the following littlo incidont {8 rovivod .by.his friend, Mr. John Rankin, of Glnsgow ¢ 3 + Livingntone and I, when bhoys, wrought s in the Biantyre Mills, he.belog a-hittls- oldor ‘than T,— Lia we. tho big plocer,and T was.tho wou ont,—tio blg plegers alwaya' linving donblo tlie wmfu of the" weo ones,! The proptietors of: themille did ' not atlow any of thelr,employen to walk.on, {ho banks of the Olyds fn . the yicinity of thoir eotfon-works, Poor D: a8 it a ‘soltlary atroll-on” the oneaftornaon eatight takin th,.with his book of, travels: procors forbiddon . hlcb won dia Wonk to dov: Tro. had mo. ! =ardochited with no bosa of hid owh ngo; dnly oud thét Lo at that" time ook’ a atroll with, and Ahat+ was hut poldom, for. it was his hobby. o walk “alons on' tjie ban! the’ Qlyde snd ‘ofher minor “streama and glenw, an: ll times with *sonis Dok in b hand 5 -aud; for having disoboyed hiaiem-~ ployers’ ordern, by hiyving walked.on the bonnle banks of Clyda, dithongli tho property’ wus in'nowiso theirs, D' got bis ehofcs of - submatiting to w fine of £2 dr ledv- ug the,work, Tt s needicas o auy bo loft, for ho.lind o Gl spirtt in his'youth, whicls *he carried with bi round the world; ‘evotr unto-de; i now rost 1 poace with his God, I , lx old fallow-worker at Dluntyre, .. BOYAL, NEEDLEWOMEN, . The Empross Egoulo is enid to. b ] plidhed artisto. in noedlowork ,and embrdidory, Durlug tha lnst yoar sho hos boguiled tho hours of, tholr tellum . by, Woikiug a. sk ot ‘vos monta " for tha liftle ohapol whora sho worabips, .aud,alao & stool and qushion’ for, tho uso of tho t. “Bo Jealous waa the fair'devote of ‘shor- {the pious inqk wlth” another, that. sho would of allow a atitch to bo Bot by any, hand but Lor Jown.' /Tho gantlo oraft. of noodleworl 'has beon -practiced by many. Royal ladios bofora the time .of, Etigqnio. Matilda, ot Flanders, tho spouso of N onquoror, was partionlarly famed skill In; ombroidery ; "and the Bayeux 'y, atill prosorved 1n tho Bayoux Cathe- drpl, attonts hor ingenuity and industry with the | noedlo, l:igo » ploco.of canivas 19 fnclies wide and 67 yards i longthi, tho Royal lady, with tho .assistance of het taaies, stitched thohitstory'of ithe conquest of England by her martinl cousort, commonoing with the visit iof Harold :to the Norman , Court, :and, . ending . with - his doath., at the battlo . of . Iastings, “*The .lending ' transactions of " those ' qveniful t g | yoars, the death of Edward the" Confessor, and the rosorvoira of liguid | the coronation,of . Harold in the chamber of ‘tho ‘| Royal gead, are ropresented in the ‘cloarest and most regular order in this pieca’ of noedlowotk, which containg many’ handred - figures of mén, horaes, birds, boastd, ‘troes, lousos, cantles, and churchas,—all oxceuted in their' ‘proper eolors, With names’and inseriptions over' them to eluci- .date the atory."” ¢ S ~ We may hofa the benutiful biat, haploss Mary 'Quaon of Bcots was'able' to cheat tha hours, dur- ing.hor. long and weary {mprisaumont, of 8 part of their misary, by lier close application to tho réedle, " Bho wrought saveral curious and elab- urate works ‘la’ embroidery, trhile a captive in .Der haughty cousin's 'toily, which aro moted in history. . To a lottor to his friend, "' rare Bon *|' Jonson, . Bir' William Drummond’, describos a | ‘| bed of state whicsd Quecn Mary covered. with em- -bloma stid devicoa embroidered in gold and sill. '8he was,considerod 'to nossces grent talent for composing.theuss pictorial allegatios. :, Thirty xo- e and puupmf devicos, besides much horaldio blazonry, wore stitched into 'this bed of 'stato. ' ¥The workmanabip,” concludes Sir' William. *is. curiously done, and truly it may be snid of it, . the, oxceition syrpasned the material,” ‘W read : alno that Mary. spent many monihs embrolder- lng o tichscaff for ber only son, whom'ého parted from ‘when bie was sn infant, and longed “|. hopolesaly. .to sce ' again during her' eighteon yoars 'of imprisoument, . How many snd thoughts nud bitter. tears mnat have beon sowad iuto that garment by the unhappy. ‘mother wha mournod, . with .much “elo, 'tho Joss of her, liborty, hor crowy, and ber child. THE TODLETAX, LIBRATY. * The Library ofithe Univorsity of Oxford was named Bodleian, or :Bodleyan, in-houor of ‘Sir 'Thomag Bodley, a léarned scholar .and . diplo- | matist, who devoted the yesrs' botween' 1507 and 1612—the last of his lifa—to its restoration andenlargemont. . 11a: exponded large sums in colleoting-rare and valuable -books from varions party of Europe, and also bequenthod an astato . for aalarios to officers, repair of ‘the library, and | purcbase of books. Ile began tho genorous benofaction by presenting .to. the hibrary ‘booke to -the - smouot of - £10,000, In 1602 tho library mumbgred but '8,000 volumes, but it was rapidly enriched thoraafter .by' .munificent contributions. The: Earl of Pom- broke presented it With 260 volumos of valnsblo Groek MSS. ; and’>Archbishop Land donated 1,300 MSS,, in mord. than " twenty difforent lan- uagos. . On the doath of John Bolden, thé: il- Futcions Eugliah séholar and lswyor, fn 1051, *4,000 volumes 'went from hin. library to fill the shelves of the Bodleian, i .In the present century the Jibrary has boon;in- oraased by tho collections of * Richard Gough on British Topography and Saxon and Northern Lit- erature; of Ldmund Malore, the editor of Shaks- pearo; Francls Donce, and by the sun of 8200, 000 from the Rev, Robort Mason, the interest of whicli is to bo expouded on books. * By purchase tha library has'acquirad somd magnificent callee-. tions of | Oriontal,’ Groek, Luti, and “Iebrew .haoks and mauuscripta. "1t ia .especially rich in iplical codices, Rabbinlcalliteraturg, aud mate- als for British historv, It ooutains at the prosent date about 300,000 volumes, and is_only socond in rank to the vast collections of the British Musenm .arid tho Nitional Libracy of Patls. /By tho Copyright act it {a ontitledtoa capy of overy baok published in the United Kiuqdom, and,. through this and other means, reccirea 'sn addition of about 5,000 volumas an nually. . Just now thanttention of tho auutboritiesis called to the risk’.of destruction to_which the valuable coutents of ‘the'Bodleinn Library are: axponcd, from, their not being socurcd in fire- '{-proot buildings. .There is also muoh complaint of a laak of room to accommodate tha increasing swanta of the library, and'of, the urgont need of repairs in. the whole structure which is devoted to'it. "Tho loss of tho contonts of. thia ahoico. angd valuable collection would bo irreparable, not only’ to ‘England, ‘but to tho world. 'Printed books oan’;bo eaeily duplicated. "They aro the most fmpetikhablo of human creations, but ' the laborlous manuscripta of the ancient and medie- val world onu scarcely, by any procoss of'sclenco, bo entiraly roproduced. “Their value ia inestima- bie, and they shiould bse :proserved at any ocout from every danger of disastor, SUMMER-TAAVEL 1N NORWAT. A writer in Old and New anewors the ques- tion, **Where .Bhnll Wo Go?" which risos up from thousands on the snnual return of sum- mer, by dosoribing & obarming four-weeks' tour in Norway, which oxtendod from Ohrlatiania to Eide, on thg Hardenger-flord.. Lhe advantagos which & trip in this country presents are, oasy oarriage trayel, comfortable tomperature, froo- dom from dust, sbeonco of all tho snnoysuces which besot .touristsa on fashionablo routes, slmple food, interesting scenorv, und contaot with a civilized, but uneophistioated, houest, neat, and kiadly people, ’ Tho best ecason for - Northorn travol Is botwoen the middle of June and the middle of August, Although thoro.aro scarcaly 100 miles of rallread in sl Norway, thoro Iy uo yashnoss in oven a delioate porson's andor- taking to journey.through ft, A systom of post- ing hios beon devoloped, under the ‘control of Goaverntout, wlhioraby tho travoler can paus, by gy atugoy and iu perfoot comtort, avor the on- tiva countyy 7 Qn svory vonta, gtations are pros yidead wtiniervals s from 8 1o’ 14 wilon, whero pulatablo. wanle, ngrasable lodgings, and fresh reluys of horsvy cun’ alwaya Lo sommandod, ‘I'he trayoler has buk tu Liko bi the dity whero Lo sota i 5 ;| ekally to- 'be hud;-and out s oarriage of the stylo-and: enpaoity multing Lis nood, atow his baggage and hlmnultyhll.n d‘ aud,burn s foco_toward tha point: bo would roach, and, with ordlnnr‘y)gnud- ortune, his joura noy thoro and baek will bo full of placld eijoy. mount. Tho cost of thia modo of travol averages abont'60 conts b Norwoginn mile, whick Iy .equal toseven af our milos, "A Inodorato ‘day's - jour. ney is from 40,10 G0 miles. + For an outfit, the travelor will nood little ba. sldes & suit of moderately thin clothing, with plenty of shawle and wrapa. ‘T'oprovide ngaiuah & posslble gearcity of provisions nt somo remots stations, a pdckngo bt ton and ‘i tn'cneo of En. glish bigouits will b -suMMcient. Along all the rontes, good coffes,, oxcellony croam, doliclons |, wild . strawbdrries, gorved In soup-plntos, and ) yollow maphurfips. ‘are almost invariably tobs | obtnined ; ‘while’oggs; saludon, or trout; are gen. ! ‘ofton ohiokens, or- wil( irds, . Potatoos are scargo,-aud. thoro aro ng othor yogotables, .The national brend is alwaya sout, but in time one comes to tolorats it 3 aud “na o gibsl {luto,” thora 'dra’ thin, waferelike® bis. ‘ouits; "made’ of ‘barloy, rye,’ or bhb-meuk‘nml “bikod.insheeta four ¢ five faek:aquare, At tha ~mostiremoto stations, ms faro.may.belimited to -ont-meal . porsidga .and milk, ,but’ It is a poor Arayeler who canuot ‘got” along couténtedlv with n gonoral abiindnute of such food as wo have ine (dicktad; nestly yrepared and sorved. -+ Iyavel in Norway- has gratdually inoroased in tho: last twonty years. .In.ono .of tho mosk pluhqui(}\lu regions it has ndvanced from seven . yis\tora, If 1848, and ninoty-soven in 1868;to 243 101870, ' ‘Thore séems a'danger'of its-ultimaloly hocoming fashionable ;-but at »prosont -thore mo risk!ofiencountering orowds, and .thoro is & loasnnt freodom from conventlonality in the ntorchinnge of courtorles betweon ' those who do chancb to moot a8 follow-travelers, ' This firat &ecullnrlty' toat! atrikes : tho. aummer-tdurist. in orway Ia the longth of the days, . [t is 8o light at 11 clook at night that Iadies. walk tho stroots of Chrisdanis alono, and tlic liitlo childron may be ‘scen 'at’ 9"o'olack playing ot in the broad daFliglit. ' 'All people+ot” ouitnra sponk Eiglish, and - many ' #peak . German,: .ond: & :-fow Froncl,.! prnvmung. fenturo . in - Norwegian Bceuery, is, wator, . -Now . it- {4 ‘s broad fiord openiug out.into the'séa; now s peacofully:glid- ing rivor ; now a splashing brook i-thon s lovely Inkos ahd again arushing torront tnmbling down the rocks 1o & succossion.of cascades. It nons of:. thauo, - thoro s+ suro fo bo In aight .a | shosmaker, Who alsois n 'barber; and'on o sign’ watorfall pouting -from tho °glaclors .in’ ‘tha hoights above. Noxt o thé Water iu ita influence ‘on the landseapo, i6 the. presence of- the' snow- erownod ' mountalns, - whioh . lift* up thoir calm, {mpasgivo brows high over all the land, - Lastly, tho enrth -is -richly. sown with wild flowers, of sveory ahapo-and tint..” They .light'uy the scons with continually changlng aud oppasing colors of tho deonost dyo. - They, withi the siushine, clve to tho fleoting smmmor of thesa Northorn latl- -tudes » warmth of tone which is in britliant con trast with tho cold gray rocks and'’tho’ sombra bue of tho pines, 3 *4 TIE: DOOR-TEAT." Bome whimslcal,™oynical: old fellow haa con- fosged, In the' columns of the Christian'Union, that, for tho last ten' yonrs, Lio bas Hoen gralify- ing o singulartasto for 0ddity by secretly apply. ing 'what he cnlla ‘“tho' door-test™ to-the ap plicants for work who Lave visited higoffice. Ts . carry out bis' fantastls” idea, ho'has actually i} noted, in a ort of doomsday bool, his obsorvas tions in .1,000 cases.. On summing up the ovie * dences offored by this. prolonged . espionago, he * gives tho rosulte a8' follows: -Qut:of tho 1,000 * peraong notod,: 385 oponed and ‘shut the door | carefully on’pasaing! thmn;{‘h i 220 oponed it hur~ ! riedly; and,'making a‘quick, caroloss attompt at closing’ it, merely-puiled it fos 303 made no At~ : tempt to shut it 96 lo(t'it open on entering, but, whon rominded of the fact, made -ample apology and closed it on retiring; 102 irashed in bastily, slammad'tho door violontly, and loft It ‘opon on thioir oxit; 20 'came in with **How do you do?" or Gooil day; sir 1" and wiped -thelr feat, then Ioft the door apen whon thoy.departed. * Haying | emplayed men from all the abova classes; watch- ing thom ‘stondfastly meanwhilo; our eynlo'closes ! +hia’‘sccount with: a::teatimoninl in favor of tha ! first gort. Thoy know ‘their. trade, e anys, and performed thelr: work 'in-a quist,* mnlfiodlul mannor; they wore punctual ; wasted no timein all,-loft notliing. undone they were roquired ta do, did:not -complain ahout " trifics, and in all ‘respacts -were trastworthy, kind, and obliging. No comment ‘is! mada upon the othor clusses, but we ave'loft to infer that they were ineflicient and'fanlty : Thora s raally more fuetica In “tno doore ot than appesry at the firat glanco ¢ Little “things-go to make’ up tho chavacter,” ns ‘out tevered schoolma'am used regularly to say-ab . tl\:: beginning of -hor dininal lecture, and slight * N ) SaH150" Al (st Uble indicos. Lho. jnstinct lossly lonving it ajar, will oot a8 Pha THOLVS 6 ; & painstaking or a beddlesd performanco of.life's first dutiey, -The ‘man:iin-whose nature fa in. gralned o delicate conslderation’ for the rights, tho huppiness; of othors, and for the just do- mandsof duty, 'will; on tho application of tha ' Lost, usunlly bo tho ona to close the door, Lika other:hnbits, tuis will, in many instances, provo to bo hereditary. : We havoa case inmind, where o' child, -ita’ father- and grandfatliory invariably omit-to close tho'door behind them,—the other | membote of the family as Labitually' shutting it. | “Mny not ‘this be-considered an- example- of he-; relity ? An-oad circumstanco,” ofton noted im ! connection with tho babit of-leaving. doors open, : | iu the fact that persons addicted to it will-almost ' invarinbly alose nidaor behind them' whicly' thoy ! Diave found standing open. Thoy:will' gonerally ' | neéd as much running after in summer to open I tho doors iboy: havo -hoodless!y. cinsed,. a8 in 'wln{.er to'abut thoso. they havo: hoedlessly: lofb gaping. ¢ ¥ G i ey JOHN BUNYAN'S: HOUSE. " To the Fiditor of Thé Chicago Tribune: Bix: Notiging your paragraph about ' the! monument lately erected by tha Duke of Bod.| ford, porhinps your ronders nro not-aware tha| | " Johin Bunyan's houso is etill‘standing at Eleton | & a fittle villuge 2'miloa from Bedford, and, whot; last soen by mo, it was occupiod by a boot aud, ‘over hir door is tho follosving : 1Ters lives a man who don't refuse To mend and make both boots aud shoos. 1ils work 1n ueat, Jiiu profits small B.—haveand cul Yours, Hin price in just, and cannot trust, Liair, A, Brriokraxp, M, D, — e COUNTERPARTS. .. A Yoyor'a Concelts T aend, aweet, my yosrniug ! - Half-kisses to thee'; s Ols, seud yonr returulng ~Haltsidases 10 mo, What marvels have birth | Al fale things and swegt, love,— Now heaens now oart | =, J, Pwtt m the Atluntic for July. g 3 Deception, You mey romemberthat I lectured Iately fo the youug gentlemenof the Clayonian Society ‘Durling the aftornoon of that day, I was tulkin with oue of the "young gentlemon réferred tci and he aaid he had au uucle ‘ho, from eom! cauge - or othor, seemed to have grown poriny noutly bereft of , all emotion, aud, with tears if,} “his oyed, this young man said ¢ *“Un, if I coull: ouly wao him lmugh once morol Ob, if I could onlysee him weop 1" I was touched. could nover withutand d?ntreu, Is *Brin him ‘to my lectare. L'l ‘start him for yoi 40h, if'you coutd but doit! If you could bu, do it, our family would bless you forevermore, fc hais very dear to us, Oh, my benofnctor, can ya, make him laugh ? Can "you briug soothin’] tears to thoso parched orbs?" i I was profoundly ‘moved. Igaid: * My oy, brin‘f the old party around. I havegobsom ood jokos ‘in my leature that will make bir jaugly, If there's any laugh in him; and, it uxe; misu'fire, 1 hiavo got some others that will mek © Bim ory or kill'him, oue or the other.” v ‘Then the young man weptou my neck, ar : l ] When our half-kissea meet, loye, | i } i i :prescutly sprend both bLandson my nook a:‘} ooked up toward beaven, mumbling somethiy | rovorently, and'thon “wont after his uncle, ptaced him n full view, in the second row il .j onches, thas night, and [ beganonhim, Ttric him on mild jokos, thon with aovero "ones;' ij dosod him with bad_jokes, and ridiculed hi:' is With good ones; T lirad oldstalo Joken into hiy: [ sud peppered him fore and aft with red-bot ne 7 ones, f‘wnrmud up tomy work and assanite! |2 ‘Lim on thio right and lott, fn front and bahinci * I'fumed ‘and, charged and ranted till 1 wil hoarse and siok and frantio and furious; but | ;. never movadl “him onco-~I never atarted a smit'i; nor‘toar! Noveraghoat of'a smile, and never : | suspicion of moisture! I way nstonlsbed, 't :4 closod the ‘locbure’at Inat with ouo-despairit: shriok—with ono wild burst of humor—ue | | hurled o “joko of supsrnatural atroeity full . him! Thewlsat down bowildered sud oxhauste The "Vresident of tho soclety eame up iy bathed my head with cold water, and s Wi mudo you earey on sa toward the last 7 I anld, "I was brylig to mako thas confound: old idiot taurh, in tha necond row.” Pl And ho said, ¥ Woll, you weré wasting vo ', timo; becawso ho iy donf and tdumb, and as bl * a8 o badgor," i ¥ Nim' m\u that any way for that old man nophow to impose'on a straugor, aud an orphs | ko wer—Mark Duain, e s § i