Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 12, 1874, Page 9

THE CHiCAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER' 12, 1874, LITERATURE. Coolktery and the Woman Quostion, FINST. LESKONR IN TII PRINCIPLES OF COOR- ING. In Threo.Vnrls, By Tady Bankrn, Author ‘of 4 Btorlen Aboui, ete., clc. 1810, pp. Ton- dont Mactatllan & Go. .1t hoa boon amusing, in looking ovér. the Engllah journals of-a month or two back, to noto the gravo attontion withi whicl tha oritics have: trented tis slonder volumo on thio rudtwonts of! |! cooliing. Ewery Loudon papor of sny lftorary protonsions hns accorded It at loast & colimn of* tliat peouliary. solomn, plathorio,:and nondarons | dtsbussion, thiat in tho Euglish journalint's prido, and compared with which ho cannot suficiontly- diedatn tho brisk, norvous, sprigltly atyls of hia Amorican brothron of tho pross, But tho liitla ‘hoolk; when It comes: to. haud, proves doserving ot all the notico {6 has acquired, It i writton by o woman of muk, tAlont; aud oulture, who. hmehnd n wido snd varied sxperionco fu life, and who has overywhore distiuguished herselt’ by bor cloar-sighted obsorsation nud ready adop- thtfon'to ciroumstoncos: Hor: books, of' whioh slioling publishied soveral, ara alwaya ontortain- ing, and, bolog principally pages from lior own history, greatly. propossoss tho roador in hor favor. Tho prosont work, namay bo soon by the titlo, fa without assumption, yob tho English or the Amorican woman has soldom had ono presontod to hor of go. much usefulness in proportion to {tasizo. It-does not furnish recipoes for cooking tbod: Ite: plang Hes bolow that stago in the cu~ linary dopartmont. Itk purpofie is to: proparo tho cook.to. comprohond recipos, and to follow tholr. diroctions intolligently and_judiclously. And this it does with admirable ability. . Tho mattor of cloan, aid wholesome, and eco- nomtical cooking eannot bo ovoroatimated, Upon what thoy ent depends, in & Jarge menauro, tho health and happluess of the' luman race, Itis yostly, moro important that. women, in whoso dontain tha art of cooking lios, sliould maator tho riuciples and practico of t, thiah that sbo should EAVA the suffrago. It mayahock tho womon-ro- formors to have it'sald, but it rnlll]dv is mora cesontinl to the woll-being of thio world that tho fomale sox slionld bo trained in tho most pru- dent and skillful ways of usihg food-materials, than that thoy sbould liavo tho sdyantages of n highor oducation, Lortunately, a knowladgo of tho scionco of domestia oconomy is not incom- Fatiblo with & knowlédgo of nll othor arts and fAcloncos : bat, if ono or tho other must bo miog- odina vomatis odbcation, In- mojority of ¢asos it wonld bo bettor that tho learnfng which i» gained in schools should be seorificed to that Whichis acquired in tho Kitchen, in the nursory, —within tho four walls that surround womnn's espocial kingdom. Just na with tho other sox, it Ys Dotter that a man shonld’ have o command of somo trads, somo {hdustry, some voeation, Dy which lio'ean oarn support £0r himsolf and & family, than that ho shonld havo simply & book- edncation, and bo turned upon socicty unfittea for usoful, profitable labor, & burdon, or, in oth- or words, 4 cursp. ! A In considering woman's condition and needs, to which subjéc pablio attontion i8 nowaduys particularly called, ono is most struck—Iin viow of the demands made for a widening of her sphere, an increaso of hor privileges, an im- proyement in hor cducation—with hor woful uoglect_sud misunderstauding and' donrociation of the duties and'priviloges thnt lio right ubdor lier liand within her distinctive provinca. A man oducates himself fortho position ke koows ho must_ #ill; serves an approuticeship eithior to books or tools, that ho mny moke tho most of Hia circomatonces. A woman, knowing: thot, if sha fulfll hor maunifest deatiny, sho will bo n wifo and 8 mother, makes, sa o rulo, no proparation whatever for it, but allows it to come and find ler ignorant of How to undortake it, to covtrol it, and to oxalt’it, ns it should be, into her glory snd hor crown. Her inefticioncy, sud inability to manage tho nf- fairs sho s born to,and that man oxprossly leaves to ler, i8 a crying ropronch to hor sox. Not but that she means woll, and ofton tries hard snough, but she Los not yot learned thas ns much intolicot and soienco should be put to worl in tho various departmonts of the housshold n ara put into,the wdustrios aud arts purstied by men, and that tho resnlts on the ono hand should Yo no less important, and elovating, and honor- aule, than ou the other. Lady Barkor has gob the right view of tho motter. If sny womnn oould fool juetifled in shirkivg nnd desplsing domestic dutios, sha is ono. But, as eho snys, in substanco, 16 her baok, tho woman on a throno has no excuso for being idlo and inonpablo&t 1t hecomes ovory womau in tho highest, aa well as_the humbiest, station in 1ifo, Whio i ny the hoad of » household, or is ovor likely to be, to undoratand porfectly, not only by thoory, but by practico, every domestio art, and pertioulnrly that of cooking, which affecta so matorially the phyeical comfort of her family. It is ns opsontial that the womnn of wenlth, who somnmands a retinuo of sorvants, should bo ablo to instruct overy ono of them in dutios of whiol thoy may be ignorant, and to #oo to it that they faithfully perform thoso duties nccording to hor Injunotions, oy 3t i that thoe lsborer's wife, who doos_all her work with hor one pairof hands, ehould understand how to sccomplish it with ibo loast wasto of material ana exartion. And it is a8 important that tho lady living in fuxury should oufores in the conductof hor housahold a wiso economy, a8 it i for tlie woman rho must mako every sixpatico go just as far as I will townard feeding her husband and hor chil- iron, Thero ia a psinciplo lying at tho founda~ tion of economy which is in na case to.bo donied; and thore ie, to urgo fidelity to it on the part of tho rich, the influcnco of their esample upon thoir poorer noighbors, If the lady who fools no necossity in point of incomo to watel oxpend- ¥%urea and the consumption of mntorials, inslsts {hat thoro bo no waste in hor houso, and tenolos bor servants to practico liboral thrift, the lad: ~ho doceu focl the uecessity will not consider it benoath ber dignily to tusure tho samo effects, As Lody Barker romarks, ncl peaplo shonld be made to. understand that it is *“abaolutoly a reater good to tho commounwealth if their Enum.‘hold.u aro so mpnnged that litlle or no ma~ terial for humnu fodd oan be wasted in thom, thup if thoy subscribed over 8o ltberally to all the greab charitica.” il Lady Boaxker’s littls book s divided into three rts,—the firut of whioh troats in the plajuest mzaungu of the chemical composition, and the effoot upon tho human body, of the various substances commonly employed a8 food. It shows why one gort of food js bettor than anoth- or, more nutritious, aud therofore chicaper; why mills, aud chieeso, aud beef, and breud are tho moat nourishing articles of diat, and, propared in various caroful ways, yield tho Luman systom tho most suppoxt af tho lightest cost. Tho sce- ond part gives tho best modos of proparing cor- tain ports of food for use, with o eumple ox- plunation of their rospective actions, Ruskin Eays, in bis M Tors Clavigora,” that averv girl should be taught * at a proper nge to cook ali ordinary food exquisitely;” but Lndy Daskor oca a utop furthor, and eays evory Loy should Eo taught also ; not to cook exquisitoly, per- Laps, butso as fomako & fow common diulios palatnble, a8 o proonution for omorgencics. Auothor strong point sho makes in this park is, that good food iy » Aafoguard against dvunken- negw. A woll-fed wan is vory soldom a drukard. . . . In improving cotlage-come forts, we mny porhaps stnke a great blow (with onr frying-pang and soup-lotites) ab the shintug glasses and quart pots of the gin-palaco.” Woruen of the tomperance-crusado, iake uotice | In parg thixd, Lady Darkor oxplalus the prin- ciples of diot, aud prescuts a fow choap and casy recipes, closing her littlo book with o sketeh of the work atiompted by the National Svhool of Cookery ot Bouth Kensiugton. ''ho women of Englond bayo got hold of the right ond of the womau question, in lukizx:.; up the sul {Mi of do- mostic aducation, and giving 1t u practical turn by estublivbing & school where the art nnd svionce of cookiug can bo thoroughly lostnad by Indies and thelr servauts, ay nion loarn thoir trades aud profoasions ln colleges and shops. It i8 tlio most hopefil step that lius yot beon taken | in tho wholo cournie of modern reform, and it ehould be imitated without delsy ln America, Allclul‘ll nl'hnllh: Worsuip. ANOCIENT BEX-WORSHIP. By Hus co, 1! Yo, 5o, elcen 8o Now York s v ones &-an _A considorablo literaturo on the subjoct of nn- olont phallic worehip has been growing up dur- log the past fow yoars. Tho subjeet is obscuro, buried undor the dobris of ngey, and requirey long and paticnt plodding to lot light in upon wy part of it. But, ad tho difloultics in the way only spur the ardent workor to groater ex- sstions, thero are not wanting resolute and por- spvering gcholard to follow to tho end the clue Ja the origin-and meaning of ):{ml.\n)mn, ‘which recont resoarchiea havo unrotled. Imagination is apt to minglo with tho on- Ihueingin of the'exploror, and conjure up visiony beforo him of that ho wishes to seo, ko veal as to deluda bin judgmont und trick bim into fallaoios, Thore s undonisvly a groat denl that ia novel, curious, and suggostive, in tho rovelations ro- warding n study of tho emblems of aocient creeds ; but there is always dup caution to ba ox- erclsed in rendonng intorprotatious, leat thev be misapprohonded, and mado to conyoy more thun zhnyn{.oum. or evon oxnotly oppodite to what thoy should. ‘hus, when Hha Nocoo, who sposks withouy rosorve, tollo wa the old oxogo- tinte hnvo mm{nnr hiddon. from. tho: world: the ovidenoos of phallic. worship they eamo noross in tholr investigations, the susplcion will arise that |tho now oxi:qnunku. who. have an oagor and con- fldont splrit liko 8ha Rocco’s, may somotimen orr 'y fanoying thoy fnd. evideucos whora ‘nono +oxiat, Dut wo do not mosn to throw dlseredit upon :8lia_Roceo's littlo: work. 1t ia briof and very Huoid'y: nlnfmu.nhnptor from tho groat voluma {of mythloal loro: Statesmnu’s YonrsTook, THE BYATESMAN'S YEAI-DOOK: STaTiarioAn AND ISTORICAL AXNUAL OF THE STATES OF, THR Cavitazes WoilLn: HAND-Boox ¥on Yorariciass AND MENONARTS ¥ON THE YPAR 1674, ity Fnirie r.|xunln .\‘t?nr:;ilc'llallc'v!-rnn Auull;l vuhllm’m:l‘,ul,lo- vised aftor Official Roturns, w D - don: Macmillan & Co, o g ‘Lhis work hna beon Bo dong beforo tha public that, boyond the anuouncemont of ite issus, commont.is suporfluous ; cortainly to those wha. |00 acqualntod with it This ono volumo in- closos in a compact nud cconomionl form moro Information with rogard to tho prosont condition of tho elvllizod natlons of the oarth than can bo gloanod from nil the bistorios oxtant. Itis intonded’ for purposes of roferenco, to bring within instant ronch facts indispon- &ablo to the mental worker, It sorves this pur- pose, and ngood deal more. Tho Lhinkor, the - philosophor, searcoly noeds any othor history of curront timea, Givon full and condonsod” no- counts, statomonts properly roduced and di- :geated, and tho trained mind.asks nothing more, It makes its own concluslons and refloctions, and haa tlo ontiro carcer and destiny of a event, an Individual, a pooply, befors it in a flagh, It doos nway with the bungling, mis- loading work of au interprotor,—that middleman utylod higtorisn,—who, oftonor thon_ not, manipulates facle ouly (o obscuro nnd distort em, ‘The Yoar-Book contains n Chronlolo_foritho Year 1878 ; Comparative Tablos of the Croedaof Tourope’; Ttank of tho Priueipal Biates Accord- ing to Population and Torritoris] Extent; Donsi- ty of Population of tho Principal Btates of the World:; Itulways 'of the World ; 'J.'olugmmvhn of tho World ; tho Morcantila Navioa of the World; Progross of Britiah Bh(Fping in & Qouoration ; tho Tmport Markets of tho Unitod Kingdom,— TNank in 1872 and' 1873 ; Publio Dobts of tho Principal States ; and a conspeotus of tho exist- ing_ situation of th varlous Statcs of tho oivil- izod world, i Fronch Literatures HISTORY OF FUENOH TLITERATURE, Adapted {rom tho Frenoh of M, DEMAGEOT: by CIRIsTEANA Duipox, 12mo,, pp. 340. DIhiladoiphia: J. B, Lippincott, ‘This {8 one of & sories of historical handbooks cdited by Oscar Browning, M. A, Follow of Kiny's Oollego and Assistant-Master at Eton Oollege, and takes rank smong the beat sworks of its class, It is concleo, "yt comprohonsive, and skotohesin firm -oailinos the consccutive ovents ond nathors swhich have had an influence upon the growth of bolles-lottres in Franco. It b mot simply ® history of litera- taro, but o history of tho peoplo too; and presents-in a far olearer light tho gradual advance of tho mnsses from tho ignorance and barbarism of the dark ages out into the enlight~ enmont of the later conturios than most works do which protond to mako this thoir only busi- noss, Historios propor aro too often but blogin- phies of Kings nnd rulers, and chronicles of warg, Tor a knowledge of how-the lower olasses 1ived at auy age, of their monns, their mannors, the degreo of their dovelopment nnd civilization, the inquiror must generally look clsewhoro than in the very volumes whigh profoss to delinoate thoe caroor-of anation. Mnch whiok eannot be found In the peges of tho civil historica of TFrauce may bo digcoveraed in the chapters of this condongcd nccount of it literature. Tho narrative is divided into fivo poriods : the first embracing the middlo ages ; tho second, tho ronaiseauco : sho third, tho soveutconth contury ; the fourlh, tho efghteenth contury ; and tho fitth, tho nincteonth century, Tho In- tolloctual fonturcs of each ngo aro olestly sob fosth, in languago that {4 torso, forciblo, and. luminous, It in soldom that the stylo of o mero manual is so clogant, Tho handsome mauner in ‘which tho book 18 publishiod elicits a commont. Hiologys PUTNAM'B ELEMENTARY SOTENOE BERIES, AN INTRODUCTION TO I STUDY OF GEN- LRAL DIOLOGY. DestaNED ¥ol TiE Ust op Bonoous Ap_Ketexcx-Cuasses, By Tuosias G, MACOISLEY, Trincipal Oroach Nattonal School, County Donegal, With 124 Tliustrations, 10ma., pp. 140, Now York : Gu P. Putnam’s Sops. g Putnom's sories of Science-Manuals may be rolicd upon aa coming from authors of high ro- pute, aud deserving the coufidence of the reader and tha studont. Y'ho prosent numbor, boing propared for schools and Beionoo-classes, fole lows tho syllabus of tho elementary conrso in Biology adopted by the Scionca aud Art Dapart- ment ot South Kensington. It oxhibits in a thoraugh manmor the form, functions, and minutastructuro,of tho Torulayoast-piant), Pro- tococcus, Amaba, and Baclerium ; tho structuro and modo of growth of Pencillium, of Chara, and of o fern; the anatomy and physiology of o flowerlng plast, of tha frog, the frosh-water palypa, tha labstor, the frash-wator mussal, and tho sen-anemone. The hoolt is small, almont s primor ; but it in packed with solid mntter, kill- Iully end economically arrangod. Nov A LILY AMONG THORNS, Exxa Manemare, iplits s and Valieys,” otc. 12wo., pp, . Dutton b Cor I MRS: MAINWARING'S JOURNAL. Dy Estara Man- SHALL, 12mo,, pp. 358, 1, ¥, Dulton & Co. A delugo of thin, watory vovels hns been poured out upon tho English mnrket this season; and o couplo of them, entitled as above, lLave drittod ovor bore. How thoy evor managod to got printod fu tho fimst place, In the invarinblo three-volumod English odition, is strango; but why they should 'be reproduced fu this country is * passing strango,” ond stira * our specinl wone dor,” The first is too woak and colarloss to nigr~ it tho lino thnt chronicles $ho atatoment, - The socond, s very simploe rocord of the life of a wifa and Xxaothor, has vome: strokes of pathos in ite domestic oxporicnces that will touch a tendor wmatosna) broast. Otborwise, it, too, is a feoble aud pexveless production. Sex in Bducution. NO BEX IN EDUCATION ; on, AN EQUiL Ciace ron Bornt GuiLs AND Bovs., elng a Reviow of Dr. E, If. Clarke’ “ Sox in Education,” Iy Mry, . B, Durpsy, suthor of ** What Wamen Should Kuow,” etc,, 120, pp, 130, Philadelplia: J, AL Btoddart & Co. The reading public was ready somo timo ago to cry out, “Hold, enough ! ” to the dobators of tho exciting question raised by Dr. Clarke's littlo treatiso on ' Bex in Bducation,” DBut still au. other warm antagonist mabos Into tho arcum, and, in an cssny of o good deal of abllity, denls o hemty blow at the quintain tho overcontidont Dootor ot up. It wos woman ‘whom ho diroctly ohal- tengad to tho controversy, to dofend privileges overy day bocoming more vital to herj and nobly has shie rosponded o the numinons, It soomod at first, to tho passiva spectator, that the Daotor had bascd his argnment upon fonudations that could not bo carried ; but, ono by one, the shat dischiarged by tho fair enomy ho called into the fiold biava told upon bulwark and battlement, un- til finally thoro doos not oxiet so muoh 8 ono stone upon another, An impartinl witness must doclde that tho Dootor's ithreatening aud ap- 1)m'mxclv-lmnm(mnble fortilloations are cote pletoly demollshod. To woman's credit it is to De bnid that, In tha sovore and fateful contest, sho lig# wou Algual \-tum‘-f. : "It waut one of tho mokt wholesome thlugs that “"“"1 have lmp{wpuu t0 her that she should be aniailod just whero nnd as he was. b provoked hor to shiow to the world what stvong and road weapons ulio hnd atored in hor armory, aud with what daxtority #ho Lnd loarned to use'them, In the varlous roplies that Dr. Clarke has roculved, ripnrlnmxln{; brondoy exparlonce, profounder thionght, and trer Judiment, huvo boon display- o thau ho himsalf exhibited, At ovory pofut lio s boon worsted, Frue, {6 wWat & battld of many aguinat ono ; but it has boon pleasing to nota with what detormination, and unanimity, and irrosistible force, tha womeu cumo up ugainst thoir ainglo but poworful foe. i ‘I'hiu Inst ono in tho'ranka is a sharp shootor, Bhio fiven biskly, but takes good aim, aud hits nonrly every thme, It would not soem that thera was much loft for hor to do; bub thiore wore o or threo places atill romaiving untouched in Dr, Clarke's treatise, whoso woaknoss sho Lo exposad, Most lmportunt of all, sho hay said whbat should havo beon wMd in {ho vory outaot,—that the very mlui the Doctor contends _ for, “Hex iv Lduca- tlon," iny bpen practleod from the bogiuning ot civillzation to the preaont moment ; und that, in the okt strenuous and suscessinl attempty that buyo Deon wmada to abolisly tho distinction, At gnough of It obatinatoly rounius, in obo- dience ta tho tyrapny of old aud veuorutod vus- toms, to wolgh honvily aguinst the womon in evory ustance. _Althiongh she may be allowed to stand oido by sido, iu yehool and colivge olumsos, | with hor brother, thoro haa bann no such thing i yot attalnodas co-oducntion, Tho glrl pitraes hor “studios undor dinadvantagos which tho boy doos ot wuffer. In the first place, whils in the _#amo rank with him, sho is almost inva- irinbly youngor by sovoral yoars; 6 very firen detriment to hor. And noxt, sho ia for- biddon by torrible Mrs, Grundy tho abundant aud essentinl ont-door oxorciue which he enjoys, and by which ho recovers from the dally woar 1 and tonr of mental exertion, Thon the rostriot- 11ng and disabling atylo of tho girl's dross givos | tlie boy an fmmonse gain ovor hor. Thowo and ! other. obvions and “ofton-onumerated ciroum- ' stancon, ontirely nsido from physical dilYoronces, compol us in justico to assert thnt the co-ednca~ | tion.of: tho soxos hns not yot boen practiced i among us. Whon tho day comes that girls have o oxnotly ofqual ' “chance for - their health, “iheir freodom, tholr ecdnaation, iand tholr vocalion, timt Loys havo s | ways Ind, wa may with roason begin to scrutinizo tho offects upon tham, and ‘tho comparative advantages and dhudwmhgu ,ofthoir cmauoipation from tho msny fottora thnt impode, and oppress, and frot thom now. But we had 1o intention of sdding to a disous- sion that haa alrondy becomo tircsomely long .and ropotitious. Tho subjoct, once touched, fs fuviting, and 1t is diffioult to withhola_either tonguo or oen {from toying with it. Mrs, Duffoy hina treated it with tact and addross, and one in- torgsted in the quostion will bo entertained by hor shrowd and spioy style of srgument, II. ook Rccelved. ' HALT-IIOUR RECREATIONS IN NATURAL HIS- TORY, DivisioN Finsz, HALP-UIOURS WITIL INSHOTS, Twolvo Parts, Pnrt 4, INsEcTS OF Tuk Prans-llouss. Iy A, 8, PAOKARD, Jr., author of “Quida to the Stully of Tnaccls,” Papor, 25 cents, Doston & Lairiat. 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Lippincott & Co, Perfodicils itcceiveds ‘ThoLondon Quarlerly for July (the Leonard Scott Publishing Company, New York) hias ar- ticlos a8 follows: * Tho Iste of Wight :" Prim. itivo Man : Tylor and Lubbock ;" *‘The Cou tess of Withsdalo;" * English Vera do Socioto, “otley’s John of Barnoveld aund Bixteonth- *Tho Labor-Movoment . din Tilinots Schoolmaster for_Soptembor (Aaron Gove and Kdyin C. Howett, Norial, 1IL), Chicagoe Medical Journal for Hoptomber (W, B: Koon, Oooke & Co.). American. Builder for Soptember (New York), Ziterary' World for Soptomber (8. R. Crocker, Boston). Anterican Booksellers' Guide for "Septomber (Amaricau News Company, New Yark). Tha Aldine, Vol. vii., No.9 (Now York—from 0. J. Grifiiths, Chicago). Eloven illustrations. ‘American IHistorical Record for Boptombor (Jolm F. Patter & Co., Dhiladolpiua). Voice of Masonry for Scptember (Bailoy & Brown, Chigaga). @real Western Monthly for Soptembor (Phila- delobin). Tho Republic for Saptember (Washington), Curront nuwbers of Litlell's Living Age (Lit- toll & Gay, Boston); Keery Saturday (1L, O. Tloughton & Co., Bostan) ; and Anpletons' Jour- nat (D. Appleton & Co., New York). Announcements, The usw tale which Mr., Wilkie Collins is now writing is ontitled ** Tho Law and the Lady.” Mr. Honry Blackburn has written snother book, cllod *¢ Brittany Picturesque," which will Lo published soon in London, with many illus- travions by prominont artiuts. A book about the Modocs, * The Wigwam and tho War-Path,” has boen written by ono of tho Poace-Commissionery, tho Rov, Mr. Moacham. Tjomstorne, the Scandanayion anthor, Lins written o drnron called **Tho Editor," of which = copy is in tho hands of Prof. Boyesen, of Cor- nell, who will probably trauslate it into English vorse. DBaring-Gould has been compiling‘a worl enti- tled ** Yorkshira Odditics and Strange Iivents.” *Tho Narrative of Georgo Smith™ is the un- protonding titlo of the record of tho important oxplorationamade at Ninevel by Lio agont of tha Dritigh Museun, whose lottors at the time to Lhe Telegraph sibracted such wido attention, Tha book will shortly bo published in London. Mr. 1lowe Lancrolt, of San Prancisco, is bringing out a work. on *Tho Nutivo Rtacos of the Pacitie States of North Amori Tho firat volumo contains the wild tribos, Tho author save that in 1850 ho commenced colleciing ma- torials, Aftor soouring overything within Lis in Americs, Lo iwice visited Buropo, arou:hm,v about two yoars in England and the chief citics of tho Continent, Nob long after- wards, tho * Biblioteea lmporial do Mefico,” of the unfortunato Maxtmiliay, collacted during a poriad of forty yoars by Dou Jose Maria Audrnde, was thrown upon the European inar- Lot, gnd furnished him” with about 3,000 addi- tiona! volumoy. In 1869 hie bogau tho composi- tion of his boolk, “Egypt and leolnnd,” by Bayard Taylor, uol- form With tlo sug of Taylor's works, is sdded by . P, Putnam’s Bons to their ahnounconients of 1all publicutions, They willalso publish ** Soph- iams of Protection,” by X' Dastint, uniform with “ Bastint's Tsanys on Political” Teonomy ™ in the sories of * Populnr danuals,” and ** Inflam- mntion, as Connectod with the Circulation,” by thonotod Ttalian sefentist, Prof. M. Scliff, trans. lated by Dr. M. r. Jacobl. They announco * Winter Yomea for Invalids,” an account of the yariops localitios in Amorica nugd Turopo suitablo for consuptives and othor iuvalids dur- ing the wintor monthe, with spocial reforones to the climatic variations in each placo, aud tholr intinence upon_disenses, by Jolm W. Howe, M, D, suthor of **Emergoncics,” ete, Wo bave (snyn the Publishers' Weekly) seen the proofs of Mr., Honry Kernot's catalogue of *fPhe Dovil in Literaturo,” und spuak with knowledgo in pronounciug it ono of tho most lntoru!t\uinlld notabla contributions to spocial bibliograpby for many years, L has brought a lifotiimo's scquaincance with books and'the storo of a phenomonal memory to tho worl, which, it succesatul, will bo the fororunnor of o sotles of specinlties In biography, Afmost 700 books, from the most gucient times, are catalogyed in chirouological order, niome of the tillos boing ouriously'and valuably aunotated with litorury and biographical informnsion, Thero is a vor: ‘thorougly indox, and tho liead and foot of eac] Sngp benrs & provorh or chort 8aying about the ovil, of themsolves w most nterenting colloo- tion, ‘o ontaloguo will be very hsndsomely printed, and tho l?llmtrnu\l editfon will contaln plates of tho Ligvptian, Iudoo, early Anglo- axan, and_obhor dovils, carienturos by Uruik- nhnllk and Loook, pnt others, Lo the numbor of twolve, llcur{ Holt & Co, anuoumeo for publication durluf o sutumn of 1874 Adumy’ % Domoeraoy and Monarehy in Fraueo,” & now_povel by M, Alexaudor, ¥ Bouwell's Lifo of Johnson,” con~ donsed by C, 1, Jonos, ** Frooman's Ilistorical Coyrse for Sahioolu," Vol, VI, History of Ameri- ea, Vol. VIL History af me:n‘ Vol, VIIIL, i~ tary of Qroece, *Gautior's Taur in Russis,” trapslated by AL M, R,, Thomes Ilardy's **Tar from tho Madding Crawd,” *Maine's (I, 8. Early History of Institutious,” *'Mill's (J, . ‘Ihroe Essays ou Ruligicars” “Tha Utllity of Ro- Liglon, Theium, and Navuro,” a now novel, by tho author of * 3y Littla Ludy,” & soloction from !*Salute-Bouve's Consorios du Tundi,” translated by W. 1% Itao, “Scolt's (W, ) History mnd Trectico of the Fine Arks," 'laino’s” Lour Through the Pyrenoon,” lihutrated by Custavo Dore, & naw improssion for the hotideys, * Vers do Sooieto," cowprising tho best pooms of Frod Togkor, Austin Dobsou, and obhiers, to bo mada in beautiful wtyle for the halidays, ** Righard Wagnor's Autoblogzaphy and Eunyu." tranulatod {rom tho Gorman, FAMILIAR TALK. RUITA, Tho Cily of Khiva is situatod In.a, great. ossls in tho Xnauato of Turkostau, Contral ‘Asin, It in tho Gapltal of tho'Kingdom, tho -resldence of tho Xhan, and tho aont of tho'trado of tho conn- try. The popwlation of Khiva is about 13,000, ond of -the Kbpuato, whioch cnvers:an .aren,of from 2,000 to 4,000 miles, fomewhera noar 200,~ 000, In-1717, Potor-the Grent attomptoed: to con- quor Turkestan, butwas totally dofeatod In tho offort, In 1839, tho Emporor Nichelns renowed tho attompt,-with thoAame :rosulis, .Iosttlitica continuing to*incronto botwoen tho two coun-, tries, in 1873 Khiva was abandoved by tha Klhinn,; Bafd Mohammod, nnd. gurrondered to the victorions Russfan Geuoersl and bia staff, which inoluded tho Grand Duko and the only whito ctvilian who had over seon, tho Capital, At nlittlo distance, tho city is' invivible bobind the thick groon aurtain of troos that.surround it, Inslda this curtnln of troos, w dusty plain utor- venen botwoon them and the high,~ Leavy, mud wolls, with round buttresses sud battiomionts, thatfuclose tho city, Passivg throngh the bngo Nozard-Asp Gato, the Ruusisn Goneral eamo upon a sconoe of dust, dosolation, and dentb-like qmet, The bulldings of tho city consist, with tho excoption of "tho -Sacred Towoer, threo tuosques, & Achool; and acaravansary, of ‘mud- louson.. ,Inlo(mlnfilud with thoso—for the living and thedepd dwell sido ' by sldo in Khiva—ars domed toombs, also-shuilt of mud. A narrow atreat londs from the gateway to tho groat uquaro_baforo tho palaco-of tho Khan, with the boantifil §acred Towor on iho sonthorn side, No soldior stood on guard, no dna[;ac opposed thoir ontrance, and the Genoral, with his suite, pragod uuchallenged fnto tho “palace-nnd the tower, which no European hod evor *boforo ponotratod, The Bacrod Tower.of Khiva isa_plain, ronnd strneture, 125 feotin Loight, and dostitute of podostal, eapitol, or ornamont of any kind, It is covored with burngd tiles, colored blne, groon, purple, nntl'brown, on & whito ground, and ar- rangod with' oxquisito effect, - Veraes of tho Korap are wrilton from top to bottom ; and, from the-summit, -the mollahs call thg faithful {0 prayer. Tho {olaco s bullt of zud, in on r- reguldr form, and with externnl walls 20 foob high, Its throo contres of intoreat aro tho audi~ onco-hall, the'trensarc-chambor, and the hiarem. All the rooms of tho phlace open upon courts, snd all wore fonnd-by ‘the Russian General do- sortod and atrippod of their furpiture. Tho trensuro-chamber, though almost empty of monoy, containod some curlous and beati- ful “objects. Thoro wers splondid ‘imple- menta of war; old-matohlocks inlald with gotd; 0ld-Incrusted, onrved blades from Thoraesen § orglan sclmetars, -fn scabbards sot with omo- ralds and turquoises ; poniards and knives from' Affghanistan, -ricbly mountod, and with Bheaths thiol-aot-with jewols ; bonutiful armor; earpota ; silk-embroidored coverleta: cashmera -shavls | and 500 volames bound iu leathor or parobmont, and written by hand, Among theso last-woro a history of tho world, aud a history of Kbiva “from thio:beginning of timo.” ‘I'hrough tho gotos of tho harem tho Russiang discovered groups of ‘veoping - women aud childron, father, -and Dbewailing thoir wrotchiod fata, Dominant among them atood one calm, bosutiful,’ majeatic Oircasdian woman, abont 18 yoars of age, who was ovidontly.the Queen of the Larem, Sho sootbod tho children, controllod tho women,: nnd apoke with the Russian oflicers sent £o loarn Lor -wishes, with Imperiol dignity and com- posure. The holpless crowd abput hor, and the' strangoe soldiory, the encnios of ber roligion and lier raco, were compolled to regard hor with ro- apcot-and admiration. -Bhe bnfuod that gho and thie othera might bo sllowed to leave tho placo and onter the town ; ‘but her prayor. was rofusod, Tho civilian, bowever, dtormined'to halp her, aud, winding his way, in-the oveving, through.a multitude of roowms, hLo found the - heautiful Uircasaisn, and noxt mornivg the harem .was ompty. Some filne Cashmore shawls, and.alot of renl, 0ld Ohineso china, wore tho chiof ** loot " found in its mgan, mud-walled apartmonts. ‘Ihore aro seveutcon mosques aud twenty-tyo medrosuos—monasterios of tho mollnlis~in Khiva, and a wall-conductod - asylum for :the blind; which.of itself argues that tho Khivans-aro not so wholly barbarous:as thoy have boon rep- rosontad, Tho Mosquo I'alvan-Ata is.n bonuti- ful cdifico, with n_dome 6 foot high, covored with burné tllos -of a-brilliant -greon, and, sur- monntod by a gilded ball. It contaius the tomb of Prlvan, the Khivans"patron-saint, Silk alargo- ly manufactured at Khiva, and tho whole onsis’ is planted with mulberry-troes, The Lnzar in woll suppliod with the producls of - tho East, ond morohnudise from Dussin, Tho Khi- “vana lend ‘simplo, oasy lives, the -shopa boing opon only on Mondays and hursdays, which aro markot-days, Tho women dross in rags whonever they loave.thoir homes, that they may poss unrecognized. ‘The sammor-palnce of tho Kban is eurrounded by s garden of 0:aores, whiol is irrigated by-artificial rivers, sbaded by splondid elma, and fillod with Iuscioua fruite, TEMTLE DAT, On tho Iat day of July, thotvonerable stenot- ure, Towple Bar, London, gave signs of sudden dissolution, and largo crowds gathered in tho vicinity In the expectation of witnessing ite fall. TIn the enrlior part of the day, it was ovidently sinking fast; but, in the'alternoon, it Liad been 80 supported by:props that fts end appeared in- dofinitely dolayod. The Birand, whero Tem- plo Bar is located, was originally a low and marshy tivel on tho brink of the ‘Chamos, and haa been changed into firm, dry Jand by the pddition of about 20 foot of soll, Tho hieavy wolght of Tomplo Darbias at last told npon its-eandy -foundation, aud its tendenoy now i to bury iteclf ont of sight in-the gronud,” Whother tho citizens of Tondon will ondeavor to prolong the lifa of the structure, in reverouce for ‘ita’antiquity, or will -euffor it to suconmb to tho doeeay of :timo, wo bave not learnotls but, fn elther casa, tho occaslon is ap- propriato for tho -rehoaraal of &' fow prominont ovonts in its -hlstory. While London City was still enclosed by the old Roman wall, its division from {10 couniry wae*-marlted by o line of poats. aud rails,-and across tho four maiu:avenues to tho clty, by clain aud o bar. 'Fomplo Bar was placed sorosu the streot loading from Ludgato to Woatminater, aud took its name from ita-proximity to tho Towmplo, In.timo, the bar gavo wny (o & frame‘houso built across tha atroot, with a gatoway underncath, something, we fancy, .after tho manner of our turnpilie toll- gatoy, A8 it stood on the routs to Westminstor and 8t Paul's, it camo iu tho way of tho most aplondid.pageants and proocssions of Roynity, und, boing capablo of adding much to sconio of* foot by its suscoptibility to adornmont, it:was mado a prominent:point ‘of inlorost on all-such occnsions. When Queen h[nr{ was crowned at Westminater Abboy, Btow rolatos ihat * The ‘Temple-Barre was nowly painted and hangod,” Aftor thio groat firo of 1066, the waouon stric- ture woa laken down, and o now adifice, of Port~ land stone, built in its.place. 16 was dewigned by 8ir Christapher Wron, nnd comploted iu tho year 1671, Tt hos a flattoued arch in the contro for the catringe-way, anda small semi-circular arch on cach sido for foot-passongors, 1t Is ‘udorned with Rllnatum statues, snd goulpturas, ‘sud js of suitloient depih toinclose an apart- mont above the arches. Dut tho associations counneoted with Tomple Bor are not all of a festul oclaracter, 1t las boon tho hubit of the nauthorities of London, until with- in a little moro then a contury, to suspond pormanently tho bodios of malofactors, uftor execution, upon ‘*‘gallows-treos,"” where they #wing in the air, a conspicuousand ghastly spoc~ taclo In tho oyos of men, Or, thair heads wera stuck on pikes, aud orooted iu pomo. elevatod filnca, to romuiu uutil. thoy fell to ploces from leoay. Charles Kulght gnys, in an arlicle oo * Ton- don Lifo of Lust Contury”: “In thoso daye the approach to Loudon on all sides scams to bave faiu through sorriod files af gilhots, graw- ing olouor aud more throngod s the dlstunce from tho city diminlshod, ¢l they and their oc- oupauts arganged themaolves in rows of ghastly and grinnfung sontinels slong both sides of 'the priucipal avenuos, And, by way of a high tompla of ha pallows,—as o doutral point to- wards which all these rangos might bo supposed to converge,—like tho'Femplo of Luxor anid ita avenues of Hphinxes, or, rathor, like the blood- stnined shrine of Moxitll, in tho contro of -the Cupitol of Montozuma—~ntood Lomple Lar, with Hs rango of wrlunlug Bl ~. *. . Talk of the *City of the Plagues!' It is ns nothing in aflilxlll of horror whon compared with the Oity of allows,” Do first of thoso rovolting displays oxhibited on Wouplo Tar was one of the quarters of Bir Thomay Avmutrong, implioated in Ryo- louse Plot, of 168J, ha woxt hoirid oxposition wis componod of the quasters of Sir Willinm Porking and Sir John Friond, ond tho tnd of Porkine, who Iiad couspirod {0 assasil- nato Willlam ITL. ~ T'rom thiu tino on, for noarly 100 yours, ‘Lamplo Bur wan nover without a gory crown mado up of human heads, Aug, 16, 1746, Hornco Walpolo writos: I lave Loon thiy mornfugs_ n the 'fower, and pausod undor tho now heads at Lomplo Bar, whero psople make a trado af lettilg spying-glison wt a hadf=ponny a Jook." Thono o Honds™ had frown of tho uhouldors of “Lowuly aud Flotohot, two robols 3o poriuhod fot Laviug supportod 1o olaims of tho Protender, Princo Oharllo, 'Thoy were tho oyt sot up on Yomplo Bar. Ouo of thom foll degorted by thoir husband. -and |- Mdrolr81,1772, and shortly aftor the othor was " swopb'ddin by tho wind: Tho Inst of : the fron polea or dpfkess tab uphold tho honds woro takon. dovwn After tho bogluulng of tho presont contury.: ' RING LEAR" BROILED DY°A DOG. Touvore, tho I'ronch actor, who'died rocontly, was distinguished for his.oxcellont rondition of tho' Shakspearoan drama: It-{a oven antd that tho atudy of “Jalel induced tho inpanity whioh ontlod in his death. . An iiluairation of the man- ner in which comody somotimos . intorforos with tragedy on - the -singo, and ruins s iv grandost effaots, ocourrcel 4o 'Itouvere in Tyyond,n fow yoars -ago. .Io-was onacting . King Lear one ovening Dbofora. & crowdod hiowso, with fino micoons, whon, at tho momont that the Iing should” burst into tears ovor-tho.body of Cor- delia, ho was obsorved to do nothing of tho sort, Tho hanrtloss sudienco, with n shock of diap: polotmont, sawithe musoles of hio faco quiverin avain stmg]glwwlth morrimont, while: tho cour- tlors.about-Iim {1 concealod « the smiles , playing ovor their countonnneos. - Buddenly Cordelia up~ roso from bor prostrato nopition. and:rusbed off tho stage, convatlsed with laughtor. 'Tho audionco rosontail thia unbosoming bahinvior, and began o Liasy whicluswolled inton tumult of displeasuro, Just thon a Ind ealled from tho .upper - gallery, i dog 1 ™ and tho audionce quickly changod thoir bumor. as thoy -discovored. tho cause of iho actors’ discomfiture, A buteher in the firat . row of Aoats hadl fallon asleon, but first, to makoiall things comfortable, tho night bein Liot, he had rid hia shining poll of -hin wig, an l)lumd it forunfoly on tho houd of his dog, which to had brought along with him, -In this. funny rig, tho dog 1iad tiontod himself .on . Lis . mastor's laioos, - and, resting his forepawa :on - tho orohostra-relling, waa gravaly watcling the por- formauge bslind tho. footlights, The ludierous #poctacla ws too much for tho gravity of Jliny ar-aud- his attondants, na tho audienco gam{! naturodly scknosrledged when they looked tupon it. Tho dog was disposod. of, King Lear ro- oalled, and the.play wout on to its appropriate conalugion. DENSITY OF TOPULATIONS. According to tho conaus of 1870, Ltho popila- tlon por aquare milo in Bulgium was 461 ; in tho Nothorlands, 201; Switzorland, 175; Donmark, 111, Unltod States, 11; Colombia, 7. Tho con-~ sus of 1871 gavo to Eugland.and Wales o popu- Intlon por squaro mifo of 3893 Great Britain and Ircland, 265; Italy, 237; Ciormany, 193; Ira-- laud; 1695 .Scotland,.100; Creoce, 733 Maxico, 9. .In 1872 tno populntion ‘por square milo i Franco, wag :150; Swedon and Norwsy, 21; Droail, 3. RKLIOIONS IN. RUROTE. . At tho latest - onumeration, the number of : Protestanti in Buropo was 05,492,473 ; of Roman Cdtholles, 167,360,651: ' Grevl - Catholloa, * 67, 14,003 ; Jows, 4,570,211: Molnmmedans, 0,410, ©70'; nizd Pagans, 480,520. WITH HER. + With ier T'vo wandored oft, Bieataing tie frageauce soft Whih genty wieals ioft ‘morn, . With bier T'vo nought the shade By gontlé foliago mado Lu sowe vweot falry glade ‘At moon, With'her; In bliss complote, On somo old arhor-set, 1've watchod ho slindows meot Abovo, ., Wittiher T stood and wept Ve from my gazn aho slert, Aud Tk on augol elept At night, * Yith lier fu woetost thought, Thiough uow 1o louger souglt, Tl Huigger aa shio tuughit Foraye, —Tins leya’ Magazme. ——— Slcep. From the Golden Aqe, Porvona-who live: by montal Inbor not only raquire o full supply of slacp, but they also nood Iatting down graduatly totho -Jevel of repose) Houco, tlie louger the intorval betwecn. the timo of tho nctive uso of the brain and tho hour of rest, tho Dotter the chnuco of -refreshing nud rostfal eleop, L'ho American Journal of Insanify -not long sinco attributed much of the proyalent nervons~ ness and impaired bealth-of ndividusly to the want of .sufliciont and quiot rost, Itsnya: “To provwre this h,iu-imfonnub, in tho first placo, that the mind should not be disturbed for several Liours- beforo: rotiting ‘to rest. Study during the ovouing s impropor. Soma fow porsons, wo know, aro ublo to ynrmnn much montal labor, aud to study Inte at night, and_yeb uleop wall. Somo roquire but littlo slcop, But suck ndivid- uals ore very raro.” Another iedieal authority, the Lancet placos tho minimum of sleop at eix hours for mon, and revon for women, with an-extra bour or iwo to Da taken wheuover praotiosblo, Dr. Ilammond, an suthorityon notvous discnsos, says; “For tho brain thore is 10 108t excopt durivg alueK." Southoy slopt eovon-hours and s Lall ab "lf t, but ke also took siosta during thaday. *Sloe)) agrees with me,” he wrote, “and I have a good substantinl theory to provo that it must; for as man who walls much roquires to sit down and rest himself, so dogs tho brain if it bo tho part mont worked, xoquiro its roposo.” I respoct to sleop, Prosident Grant, E. I, Hale, aud othors havo confessod to requiring niuo out of twouty-four hours. Miiton in wintor ivariably took ‘”fi ht hours repose, and savon in summor. Humboltis roporod to havo slopt but four howrs in the twenty-four, but this wag in Lt old age, whon ho did not noed much sleep, and bosides 1t is vaid that ko was & grent ** lic:n- b:ad. " and spout many hours in this Lalf-wakeful state. CnmJ)hulr slopt over soven honrs—Donglaes Jorrold retired at 10 and rose sbout 7, whilo hoslopt a lictle aftor dinnor, Chiof-JusticoStory nlways slept eight und ofton nine hours. John C. Calhonn, went to bed at 10 and roso at day- break, Dr. Arnold allowed himself about eight Tours’alecp, Dr. Channing wsnnlly took an aftor- dinnor nap, besides taking o full night's rst, Melanchthon usod to take but six hours' reat, but he would not-oven opou & lottar in the ovsuiug, and rotired nt 1 This whole subject may, porhiaps, be summed up in & yontonce, viz : tbat & muu musk propor- tion his sloop to his worl 8o as to givo timo dur- ing tho former for tho brain to rostoro tha waste which bos tnken place during tho lntter. If ho con get along with a small supply-of sleep it shows either that bis nervous cnorgios renuper- ate rupidly, or that the rato of wuste during work 18 glow. Agoiu: In evory oxamplo of su extraordinary amount of work hninf peiformed by any individ- unl, it was nlwnys followed by u long rost, or ra- sultedin injury to the constisution of the person, or donth, a8 in the caso of Horaco Groeloy, who was a lifo-long sulforor front sleoplegsnoss. TLastly: It would apposr from the numbor of oxnmplog of such & practico that taking u mid- dsy nap is n prudent poliey. Awmong those who maleo thid o rulo are” Thiers,and Bocehior, not to mention othors. Cusnies F, WiNeaTE. e g i The First Blovdshked o the Hevolue tion, A correspondent of the Iartford Times, who has rocontly been to ISast Westminator, Vi., fiwen the following historioal’ skotch which ko erived from Mr. Richmoud, s soxton, whom ho mot in the cemotory ot that placo *¢ M, Ttichmond snid that in 1874-'5, the Whign: and Tories woro about equally divided, tho Buglges and juries being appointed by the King. The Dritish’ nuthovities attempted to liold w court in tho Court-ouse, then standing about 40 rods north of the comsetory, ‘Tho colonists woro bound that no court sliould Lo held—so thioy armod thomselvos and attacked aud drove ,iho’ court from tho Court-Houso. In roturn, the British soldiers attnokod tho colonists, and o man newod William Fronch foll dond from tho flro of the noldiers, and Danjsl Ioughton was atally wounded. This was tho firat bloodshen ‘of tho:Hovolution, In 1872 the State of Ver- mont appropriated 600 for o monwment, which now stands about 0 feet from the placo’ whero Fronch was buried, A gontlemau by the name of William O. Lradloy (formerly Congreasmau from Vermont) u fow years ago erceted a tomb almost over the grave of Irouch, honcw tho roasou of the monument not llnu\‘l\'\g over tho grove, A small siab stands within o foot of tho front slda of the tomb to toll tho oxnct spot of 'er giave, and on it s the following ingorip- on: Tumentory of Willlam Kfrench, &on of Nathanjel French, Who was uhot at Westmiinslor, Murch yo 3ith, 1775 by tho hands of Oritol Minsternl tools of Georgo yo i 1n the Conrihonse ak 11 & Olock at Night, 1 tha #ud year of Liv aga, H Bolow this aro the following lines: Horo William Freneh his body low Yor murder hly Bnod for Vengeanco erles Klitg Georgo the tlird lis Tory crow that with n baw) his boart Bhol throw, Tor Liberty und s Gountrys Cloud, 110 ost luy Lify, iy Dearost maml." o 0o abiove 4 an exnot_copy, capitals and all, As n good wauy think that the fvnt blood flowad ut tha battle of Lexington, this may bo inter- ostiug to thom, for it cortuinly was to mo, A building ovected in_ 1770, five yoars boforo the battlo, is still standing, 1t wae eroctad ns COongrogational ohurch, but iy now used ns o town-houso, sud i in good ropair,” SPARKS OF SCIENCE. LOOUSTA. 'The.dastructive iugoots that for sevoral yoars havodovastated the- Wostorn Btatos, botweon {hi0 Roolty-Mountalns and’ the' Miskissippl, aro, necording to Harrls, improperly ‘collod grass- hoppors. Thoy nre {n roality locusts, and should bo sa.dosigunted, Tho trus gravshoppor lends o solltary lifo; nover collebtiug in swarms, or mi- grating from piaco to placo, It hinu four jolnts infts fool, whoreas tho locuat' has threo : ils loap in much leoe powerful, sud its flight is short -aud - unatendy. Ono of its bost-kuown spocion is tho -common lkatydid, which fow probably-ever- thiuk-ol In the™ light of o grase- hoppor. "Tho namoe looust is dorlved from tho Lintin locur and wslus, nnd, signifying n burnt place, 8 exprossivo of 'the dosolntion the nsoct loaves bolind 1t. A epeclos of locust (Caloplenus femurribrum) infosta tho salt-marshos of Now ngland, and ocensionally abounds in such num- hora s to prove n publi calamity, Haxris stales that “In 1740 and 1754 thoy wero vorv nimerous aud voraclous; no vogotablos escapod thoso groedy troops ; thoyoven dovoured tha poiato-topss and {n 1743 and 1766 thoy covored tho wholo country, and thronfoned to devour overy- thing “greon. Indeed, o greab was the nlarm. thoy oceasioned among the peoplo hat days of fasting nndjf-rnynr wero, nppo\'x’.lufl . Lo nrrost tho. ploguo. Lortions of New Hamp- khiro, Vermont, aud Massechusetls have at vari- ous timea hoen ravaged by them. In 1838 tha vicinity of Baltimoro snffored from an invasion of vast hordles, which were o dostructive that the nogroos iero ' employed in whipping them oat of gardens-and gronndn, In 1871 this Jocust occasfonod groat {njary to tho grass-crop in Maino. It has also awarmed in Canndn, Tho locuat which abounds on'tho Weatern Plain is tho' Caloptenus sprelusof Uller. Deserintions of its ravages have filled go mnch space in the Bowspapors, soason aftor season, that no -mon- tion of thom noed bo mado here, Iinrris and Packard, ¢wo eminent nnthorities, amito in m}'lnf that Jocuste can bo-subdued only by the concarted action of farmors, *“‘Iu the soutli of France,” kayn Harrlg, ' the pooplo mako 5 buainoss at cortalu sonsong~of the year (prob- ably tn the autmnn and lato in the spring) of - callecting locusiu aud thete ‘ogre,—the latter boing turned out of ' the -ground in Jittlo massos comonted and covored with a eort of gumin shich they ara enveloped by tho inscets.™ It is atnted that an active hoy can colloct from 13 to 15 pounds of oggs per day. *Tho Incusts aro takon ‘by meaus of A ploco of stout cloth, carriod by fowr pordons, two of wham draw 1t rapidly along, so that tho odgo iy aweop over (ho surface of the gall; and the 7o otliers hold up tho oloth ot an anglo-of 45 dogres, 'hia coutrivauco ssoms to oporato ‘Bomowhnt liko a horso-rake, in' gathering the in-- seels into winrows or noaps, from which thoy ‘aro speedily transferred to_largo sacks.” It is stated in tho New Zngland Farmer (vol, :3) that, in July, 1820, o farmor iu Lpaom, N. IL,, ‘colleclod in o ningle ovening, botwcon tho hours iof 8and12, five bushols nd threo pecka of }loounts from his ovn aud nelghbore’ fields, * 1y imodo of ‘catching thom was by attaohing two ‘shoots togethor, wnd fastoning thom to o polo, which wag used as tbe front partof thedrag, The ipole extended boyond tho width of the sheots,so s to admit porgons at both sides to draw it for- ward, At tho sido of tho drag braces oxtended ‘from the pole to raigo the back part considerably “from the ground, 80 that the grasshoppers (lo- icusts) should not escapo. Aflor runmng the drag “about s dozen rods with rapidity, tho :braces woro taken out and the shects doubled ‘over; the grasshonpers wero thion swept from reach ‘ond townrds tho contro of the shest, where was Idft an opening to the mouth of a bag which held about & bushel. When doposited and tied up, tho drag was sagain oponed and ready to proceed. When this bag was filled ‘#o a8 to becomo burdensomo, (their woight {s about thnt of the ssme measurd of corn), the Dbng wag oponad Iuto largor ono, and tho grags- lioppora rogeived {nto o now deposit. ‘Uhe drag can ho used only in the ovoning, when the grase- hoppors are pereliod upon the top of the grain. IIin manner of destroylnr them was by dipping the Inrge bags into A kettlo of boiling water, ‘Whon boiled, thoy had a reddish nppearuuce, and made o tine foast for the farmors’ hoge.” Among tho natural means appointed to koop locusty in cheok oy violent winds and storme, which. somotimes_sweop thom nway, or drown them in large numbers. They nro aido subjeot to certain parnsites, ag tho hair-worm, which wo ligve desoribad inapraviousnrticle,tirao or fourat which sonietimes trke up their nbode in a singla locust aud faed on its juicos. A little red mito alno infosts tho Jocust. Ten ora dozen may often be Tonnd fastencd to its bady, nnd sucking 1ty life-btoad like vampivos. Tho insect soon falls oxhausted by this drain on its systom. Dameatic fawls, espocially turkoys, food with avidity upon locuets. It night bo ndvinable for farmors in locust-ridden districts to turn thoir attontion to raising poultry for sonson or two, nud let loosa upon their fiolds flocks lacge enough to consumo all' tho locusts that mny bo hatehed in tho whole country round ebont. THE WAX-INBECT. 1In the family of seale-insacts (Coceidac) with which evory ‘Indy who koepa houre-plunts hns some acquaintanos, thore is n most interesting speoica called tho wax-insect, which is cultivated oxtonsively in China ou account of tho wax which it vecrotes. 'Lhls wax s doscribed by Trof. Silliman o8 resombling spermaceti in ap- poarance, with n dazzling whitonoss and . orys- talline structure. In the Province of Szchuan, Chins, whore the insect is raised, ils product is o groat sourco of wealth, and Eccond in importanco only to silk. The oggy of tho. insect amro sonually jmported from Hocbkin ro Hoking, and Why-li-tzo, in Yuu- nan, where their.culture forme s speoial ocenpn- tlou, and where thiey aro kold by morebants who “donl oxclusively in pa-le-tan, or “white wax oggs.” Tho egg-clustors are about tho size of " pen, and ero traneported in baskets, carefully packed among lenves of the pa-la-shu, '+ whito wax tree,"—which resombles n privet-shrub,— sud arrive in Szehuan in March. By this timo the pa-la-shu trees, on which the iuseet I8 to feed, have bogun to unfold thelr leaves, and tho clustors of cpgs—inelosed in balls of the young Toaver—aro susponded from thoir now and ton= dor #hootd. By the oudof Mareh the tarvio loave the eggs, aud soon attain the sizo of » wingless Louse-fly. ‘Chey ure euveloped in o whito down, aud buve & plume-like appeudago curving from the tail ovor the back. ~ They avo so abundaug ou the treos that tho latter now appenr as though covered with foathory snow, In July tho larvio undergo the trausfotmation into the chrywalis state, and bury themsolvoy, for tho purposs, in o weeration of Wax, just ns the eillworm wrag it~ solf in n cocoon.. The branchos of the treas are thon complotely conted with' wax an {nch thiok, In tho beginning of Alllefi these brauches aro MY\“M off, out into small X\mr;u\, tied In buudles and trausforred to tho boiling- hauses, whare they ava-thrawn iuta cauldrong of Lot water, As the wax risos to tho surfacs fn tho process of boiling, it is skimmed off and ruu into molds. i is then roady for exportation and_uso, Tho Chincse manufacture it with candles, and also use it ns a medicino, Tho wax-growors do nob soserve insccts for propagation, but find it more profitablo to in- port tho eggs annuatly from Yuonuu, M. O, C. Coopoer, from whoso intoresting book, * 'Cravely of & Lioncor of Commorco in lig-Tails and Dotticonty,” London, 1871, these particulars uro “taken, remarks that, as Lolh frast'and snow are oxperloncad in Yunnan, it would not be difiieult to rear tho inscct i iurope, * and, considering ity proliflo nnture, thie production of white wax might ropny tho troublo of scolimntizing this curious inscot,” TUE TATTICE-PLANT, One of the ciirlony inbnbitants of tho vegata- ‘blo kingdom s the * Lattico, or Window " plant (Qupirandra fencsiralis), which grows in Mudoguscar. Itis an aquatie plunt, bLelongivg to tho samo familyastho Pofaniogelone, which al- ways livo in wator up to theiv ehinw, Theleat of the Lattice-plant has no flesh onita bones, It is » natoral skeloton, ‘T'ho framework of intor- Inced and inosouinting veins is perfect, but olothed with no greon, pulpy moattor Yn\mu- obymia), and, therofore, looks likolace or lntticon work, ~ Samo twouty veurs ago, apacitens of the naut woro introducod into England by tho eolo- Dratod minsionacy, tho Rov. Str. Kils, and nye now in cultivation in Liot-honea aquarin, The -flowers nro of wpale-pink color, coming np to the surfaca af the water on long, slondar stems, and adding much to tho interest of the plant. PIRATICAL PLANTS, In tho course of his oxperiments with tho fiesb-onting plants, the Digseras, tho Dionwas, and the Laracenias, Dr. Davwin has rocantly lscovored that the Pinguioula vulgaris hos the samo peculinr proponsity for eapturing insects and eating thom, Tho Pinguicula, commonly callod buttorwort, lua smoll, poronuial plant, frowing fu wot plaves, in all parts of the world, It hos brond, entlre leavos, clustering at tho voot; and in July sonds up ono-flowored sonpos, beariug a violot-calored, tubutar-shapad blossom b the summit, ‘Iho upper surface of tho loavoy 16 dotted with glands, which socroto a groonist, viicous fuid” Dr, Darwln has obsorvod that, whon an insact slights on tho len: Pinquicula, tho Inttor dD’l’lblmy nvm! nl:tlr Ilcl'l‘.m"ll!'.n ond tho intrudor, whilo tls glands form forth thoir secrotlon and complotoly onvelop it. Thix #oorotion f Jown aclil thinn that of tho Drosern, bt 1t ety N tho patrio fien (o thi Inman 7 ssolving tho Y nbi;?r:md ]hy lhgfiph‘:lt. nkeet, which fu thon a8 long boon known- that the Pingui las tho Droporty - of Bolldifsing mil, gt oo Yenting Il neporating into clther whoy or eroamn, Liunnweus m{h tho Laplundors render railk solid by pouring It warm from. tho cow over-n stralnor on whidh frosh leaven of Pingnicula have boeu Iald. 'Tho milleis nfterword allowod to stand 8 dny or two,until it bogius to sonr, It throwa up 110 eroam, but hecomos compact nnd dollclous in tngto. A pmall portion of this wolld milic will neb tpon frosls mille in ¢he mantor of yoast, OLEANAING GILT, Glit metallio nrticlos mny bo cloanod by rub-. bing thom vory tontly with o goft s[ionga or brush dipped in n solution.of helf an ounco of potash, or ono ounco of noda, or, still botter, of lialf an outico of borax fn-a pound of ‘water ; thou rineing thom in puro water and drving with & goft linon rag, Thoir lustro may bo improved Ty spealal casen by warming thom' atinhtly, nnd thon rubbing thom vory goutly. Gilt' frames, ote, uhold oniy bo waihod Wi, pifa wator, rubbing vory gontly with s soft epougo or brush, SELLTONS OF §)ALL ANDNALS, A writer: in Hardiwicke's Science-Gossip -roo- ommenda tho following modo for obtaling th slolotons of small auimals: * Remove the skin and as much of tho viscorn an possiblo, togothor with such portions of the flosh ne are easily out away. Thon Placa tho animal at a littlo distancs [rom o wasps’ nest ; end, in tho courso of a dny or two, tho wasps will havo clanrod away all tho ;fiflm?h)fi; portions o&’ fllcsl_l. lm tfint,'\rlm o vory o furthior caro and tronble bo rondy to st up," e Shslon WAGONE. Dxporiments recently mado in England indi- enta thnt wagong aro moro easily drawn,.on all’ kinds of roads, when tho foro:and hind wheols aro of the samo sizo, snd whon tbo pola les lower than the axlo, 8- e WOMEN SPORTING IN THE WAVES, s Kato Tonnete and Eor Pupiis-~ Breasting Breakers tirat Trouble #la Swimmors, From the New York Sun, Seot, 6. Thuraday sftornoou a brisk brocze was blow- ing infrom tho son \l\mn Tort Iamiltou, aud tho beach botween tho fort nud bath. The waters of tho buy woro omewhnt agitated. by the breezo, aud tho snow-topped waves rosdod In upou the sands, ereating o surf almout equal to tuab of Nowport and Y.ong Dranch, It swas n timo when noue but” oxperionced swimmers would have outored the wator, and ovou thoy ron no slight risk from the forco of tho wuves and the atrongth of the mcoming tido. Upon.tho piatform in frou of' & umiall, whito- washod” buliding, on tha beach, tood fourtoen Indios and one gontloman, Tho ladics wera all from -New York, nud the pupils of Miss Kato Donnott, of tho Elovonth-stroct bath, The gau- tlomnn was & Sun roporter, and tho only ono who hind been Lonorzd with an invitation to wit- noss tho foats of the ladics in the wator. Tha patty wero discussing the practicability of in- dulging in their amphlbious pastimes when Miss Bennott made her apnearance, Bho sa * Ladoy, I will golve the problom for you in a ‘practical way." Thon sho dissppeared in tho little bullding. Dlisg Kate Donnott is o bruuctto of medlum 'nolght. She 1 the Suporintendont of tue Llov- outh-sbroct bath in this city, and teachor of swimming, Sho s vory enthusinstic, nud will arguo all day upon the necossity of a knowledge of Awimuming to womnu, ‘Within fivo minutes AMles Bonnott roappoared upon thoe. platformm. A watorptoof clonk waa thyown around hor, 8ho paused for an watant, then uldpéwd lightly down tho beach. At tha watar's odge sbe throw off hor waterproof, gave o light bound fdrward,” and wag battling with tho wavos, Now sho yoso upou their swelling croaty, and now sho. was lost to sight in the depths, Whoncver'sho appeared the spoctators coulil witucus the casy, gracoful motion with which shio swam, ~ On, on, sho pusbod, until she had swam af lenst & quarter of u milo from the shoro, Then sho turued a somerssult in tha walor, coming up on her back. 1or a few sec- onds ‘she floated lightly on the waves, borng Inudward by tho iucomiug tide, Then sho swam & fow atralght strolios, All at onco she plunged, und for what scomod a long time to thoso whe woro watching her, romainod undor water. Std- donly she reappeatod upon tho surfaco, several yard# nearer the whoro. A cheer nroso from hey anxious pupils on tho beach. Mixs Bonnett again turned a somersanlt in acknowledgnient of thit #alute, 'Theu tnrning wpon her side, she swam o fow yordg in that position, As sbo noared the beach” sho made anothor dive, and whon b aguin rose’to the surlnco sho wns within a fox toot of tho slioro, Sho camo up dripping Jike & mermaid. Ier waterproof was thrown over hai again, nud she said: * Now, girls, I huvo golved your Probla:n. Yor can seo how much dangor thoro is.” 'ho irls at ouso went to thoir dressing-room, eud Miss Dounctt st down to hayo & fow wordi with tho Sun roportor, Roeporter—How mauy girls bave you taught t wwim, Miss Bonnatt ? Mivs Bennott—I haven't the fabutestiden. ) know Ihavo taught soveral hundreds. Soms A0 very young, and somo _aro vory old, I have ouo_pupil who'is 60 years old, and can swim like a fioh, “But hora tliey come. You mnat exoust wmo. I'm going to join in their fun to-day. Trom tho buth-houscs filed tho ladies dronsed In bathing costume, 'Wbeir dregses woro of the samo maorel as thozo naed by the bathers at Lon, Branoh aud Nowport, light a2d oasy, giving £ opporinnity for the {;Iny of tho limbs, ~Ihe girls rushed down to tho water with shouts and laughter, doshed reckicesly into tho waves, Aucked themselves procisoly a8 a man wonld d¢ under similar circamatances, aud wore soon pal- dling about in all kiuds of positions. Ther wore young girls and middle-agod Indics . Joan glelg aud plump i, Moy wvam singly aud in pairs 3 threo linked together and fouy linkod togetltor, ~Thoy dovo aud thoy awan under wator. Thoy flonted on their backs, nnc wnde littlo whirlpools in which they swung around tho circlo, For halt an hour tho wator. witches sported upon tho wavos, and thon with 1moro shouts and more laughtor thoy rushed ng ho honeh, tho wator drivping from thom like liquid pearls, dressod thomsolves in diroot altiro, and started tor Now Yorle. —— TWO SOMNETS. = Woula 1, If wo b fools of chance, fudced, and tend No whithor, then tho Llinder faole fi this : "hnt, loving good, wo live, in acorn of Lilns, s wagelesa servants to the ovil end, 1f, ot {ho last, man's thirst for bigher things o queneli' fu dust, the giver of s lify, Why press with growlug zeal a hopoleas strife,— Why—born for crocpiug—should Lo dresm of winget O Mofber Dust | thou host one law so mild, We call it sacred—all thy creutures owi ft— “Tho e which binds the parent and the ohild,— Why L wan's loving Loart alono outgrowds 1t 2 Wiy tins thou teavaild o to b dented, 8o frampled by 8 would-bo tuatrielde? i, ‘Ripe frult of sclenco—ilemonstratod faot— Wo granp ot they In trembling uxpectalion, Vo litmbly wiit on (hes for sxplintion ¢ “Words of the Universe, sushrin'd in act | Words, prognant words, but only parta of spesch A3 yet, ourt utterouce auch ss clfidren ns, With meaninga struggling throngh but to confuss, And hinted sigus whicl soar beyond our reacl, Worlt an n patience, ohlldren of tho timo Who lend your fatlerlug modos to Natura's volco,—~ Pl your broaunt tusk ; gouo prizg sulilmo Yo Wot not ot, your heirls moy stil rejolce,— Bomo atrain of music shapo tho wild turaoll, A conuecrato the patscs of your toll. —Ehuily Pfeigfer tn the London Spectatar, gokitodts See e Iereditary Mantn for Sticide, In his remackable wouk, * Mind and Body, " Dr. Maudsloy gives Bikuy ourloug ingtances of horad- itary manin oxhibiling Hm;;/‘n variony ways, but wa do not romombor such £ case of loredit- ary manls far suleido as that Jtoly montioned by tho Puris Keenement, A fav/ wooks ago somo Lontmen on tha Seino dlscovgred in tho wator tho liody of & man, whayo pookets woro full of pob- blo, and who appeared to hisve baen in tho ivatar sovoral days, 11a proved o bo » M. Juion Dol ma, who was rogurdod nayory happy in his do- “mestis and other volationy. A fow evonings loe foro, ho and bis wifo had’gone out ul\a{\pnlg on tha Boulovard Batiguoller, andt woro o thioir way howme, whon, s it stmcls by nnddon thought, ‘Tolimas eaid, * Ob, look hate, T have somowliorg Lo g, mud it & Tolig way, vo thoro Iy o gaad i vouir coming with m 1 can g0 homo:* and Jofu hor, 1t grow lato, still ha did wot return, and ghe bacatio oxtremoly anxious, ‘Fhe follow= ing morning » note nrrived from him, Shouelzod it aud road: * Forgive mo, my poor Margaret, T ‘i going Lo catiso you ona moro voxatian, but at all uvonfin it wiil bo tholast. Igo to rojoin- my fother and mother, The father was lalled by thrawing himsol? from an omunibus; tho mother by throwig horsolf from a window; thoe sistor suffoouted heraolf, e