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LITERATURE. Pocms by Whittier, OAZEL-BLOSSOMS. By Jomx Om TIRN,=10m0,, pp. 133, Bouton: 0o, FAP Wit T, Osgood Lato fu tho fall, when tho trocs in the woods ataud valkod, and thelr lonves lio in russet hoaps at their foot; whon tho nstor, aud tho golden rod, and the blue gontian,—the last flowera to ologe thelr oyes nt tho touch of tho frost,—hnve sunk futo their winter's sloop; whon the wandor- erin tho flolda and grovelands finds tho hazy sunehine, and tho red berries of tho blttorsweot wnd tho Iaurel, the only rolica of tho vanithod summer; thon tho witch-hazel bush hangs out its littlo yollow tnssols on overy nxil. Itis tho only plant in our Iatitudo that blossoma at this soason, Whon everything olao in tho vogotablo world ia bare, and brown, and Reom- Ingly lifoless, it docorates itself with a gauzy robo of lomon, sa if to colobrato the autumn, o are minute: four long, Darrow patlntli, gwl‘;?:s‘ml;d enrlod like fairy shuy~ inge; but they hang so thick a8 to auvelop the whole shrub in a pale-yeltow mist. Thus, though they have no eharm of amnell, and are usoless for botiquets or boutonnieres, every one fk glad to see tho blossoma of tho witch-liazel, nud love them for the sweet graco thoy loud to the fading JCAr. With a dolioats sensa of fitness, our beloved Whittier hes nnmed this -qgllection of his lato—not lagt; may it bo long ere wo can eay l—poems, ** Hazol-Blossoms,” Ho isin the autumn of his years, nnd this wroath bo bna woven to ornamont his brow ig like the garland ‘which tho witch-hazel twines around its branch- o8, to choer tho melancholy days that follow af- tor wummer. In the oponing poem, in which the humble charm of the hazol is sung, the poot Small beauty bath my unsung fower, For Spring to own of Bummer lnil ; But, in the season’a saddeet bonr, o skies that waop ond winda that wall, Ita lad surprisals nover fadl, O duys grown cold 10 lifo grown old | o roe0 of Juno may Lloom agaln ; But, Liko tue hazels twistod jold, Ihrough oarly frost ond lnt rain, Buall hints of Summer-time remaih, And ng, within tho hazel’a bongh, A gift of myatic virtuo dwalls, That points to golden ores below, And in dry, desert placen tel ‘Whiaro low unscen tho conl, eweat walls, Ho, in the wise Diviner's hand, Bo miine the hazel's grateful part, 'Co fool, boneatls » thirsty land, 'Tho living waters thrill nnd start, Tho beating of tho rivulet’s hoart | Sufficeth mo the gift to lght With Iatest bloom tho dark, cold daya § Co call sormo hidden rpring fo sight, ‘That, in theso dry snd duety wuys, 8hall'sing ita pleasant song of praise, 0 Lave | the hiazel-wand may faf), Liut thout canst lend the surer spell, "hat, panslng over acas’ valo, Ltepeats tho old-time miracle, And mukea the desert-land a well, Fonrteon poems may b counted among the Hnzel-Blosoms. Preceding these, and apart by ueell, is the noblo enlogy on Summer, which meneures tho beight of ita theme, and ia stately, dignificd, grand. ~ It moves naif iaspired, and all its praiso is truth, The lighter piecos—which have L.ecn printed before—have 1lio pure, clear ring ct Whittier's verse, nud roveal his lofty gentin:ant, In ‘' A Sea-Dream," does bio not lift onc camer of the curtain that hides hix innor- most eonl? This, with *Comductor Bradiy" and ' Child Bongs,” ato our favorites nmong the Hazel-Blosgoms. . _In addition to the collection by Whittier, thero nre n faw pootical pieces whick his sister. Tliza- botl 1T, Whittler, ** left behind her.” They aro not without merit, and wo read them with deep futerert after the' tonching note by Whittior, in which o tells us how fair, and pure, and sensi~ five napirlt Lind that sster, whom ho tendotly loved, and to whom he consecratod his lifo, Furness? Variornm Ahnicspeare. W VARIORUM EDITION OF SHAKSPRARE, idited by Homacr Howamp Fruskss, Vol I, Rouro AND JULIET. 8v0., pP. 480, Philadelphin : . B, Lippincott & Co, This coloneul worlk, which is graduaily growing by the atudent’s slow and torlsome processes, promisos to be s ‘monument to Shakspearo of which American - scholarship may bo proud. THudson and White have, in former years, held o bniliant toren towards the {llumination of tho ronius of the preat English dramatist ; and now Turness crowns the Inbors of all the commonta- tora that have gono before him, by gathering tho scattered raya of light they have thrown at varioun times upon separato portions of Shaks. peate’s toxt. and, bringing their concentrated force to bear upon every hidden and obscurs word and line, placed tho whole massive structe wre of his dramas in the radianco of this noon- day of critical learning and sagacity. Torty-tlireo years have passed eince Boswoll, the son of Johneon’s ingonious biographer, pub- hsled. in twenty-one octavo volumes, tho third ond last varlorum edition of Bhakspeare. Not- withstanding the defacts and shortcomings which impnired this,—as thoy aro apt to do avery ambitious task of human undertaking,—tho work has been an indispensable rosource to sic- ceeding editors, aud of gratoful servico to the studonta of Shakspeare. But the yoars that have elnpsed ginco 1821 have been fruftful years in tho field of criticism, and in pone moro so than in that portion occupied by the plays of the princo of dramatiats. Scholars of to-day, in overy domain of litorature and acience, havo aut- own the text-books and dictionaries that served e peat goneration, and demand for their con-* vonience new and improved manuals, embody- ing tho results of the latest investigations. A now variorum edition of Shakspeare was called for with tho rest, and lo! in our own land there has nrisen one compotont and rendy to answor tho requirement. Tho scopo of this work is Lroad,—embracing in compact combination all thav is valuablo and original in the notes and commentaries of tho various cditors that have hitherto attompted to illustrate tho toxt of Shakspeare. Tho readings of upwaras of forty different editions have been collected with the toxt printod in extenso. in the commountary havo been insorted the notos ndaopted by modern editors from the Variorum of 1021, and the origival notes of sncceeding English and Gorman editors, togethor with criticisms and comments from nearly fifty othor different sources. Following the Variorum is s reprint of the Quarto of 1697, after 3r. Ashbee's fac-similo of 1806, with foot-notes containing somo of tho results of a thorough collation of Stovong’, Mommsen's, and the Cambridgo editors’ reprints, 1n an Appendix have been included notos that woro of too great length to introduco into tho commentary ; Garrick's version of tho Doath- Bceno, beginning at V., I, 118.; chaptors on the *“Source of the Plot,” *‘Dato of tho Play,” #The Text,” and ' Costume'; extructs from twonty-seven Inglish, Fronch, and German critica ; end a translation of the play by Lope de Vega, founded upon tho samo story which Bhnkspearo used ng the basis of hig tragedy, The care, fidelity, and sagacity, with which . Furnosa has performed the enormous labor of oditing this play will be best appreciatod by schiolars who havo eng agod jn eimilar onerous and erudite tasks, All studonis and lovers of Bhakspears, who examine hLis work, will cor- dially ackuowledge their indobtedness to his learning sud indnstry, Tho publishers havo bronght out tho work in their proverbially yl 17 hws erw ety ly oxcollont style, and hava 8o Architecture. £HE BYORY OF A HOUSE, Translated from tho Ironeh af Viour Lx Duaby Groxax M, TowL, Jsmoa K. Ongood & Qo V0 PP 284, Toston: Paul do Gaudelau, the son of a woslthy tountry-gentloman in Borri, hes retnmod homo trom school for o aix wooks' vacation, Fora fow days o finda suflicont amusomant in rovis- \ting his favorite nooks on his fathor's planta- Mo, in riding about the noighborhood on his pouy, nnd accompanying the Ramekeopor in hunts aftor haros, Theu these amusoments bo- Binto pall, aud he caste about for Bome frosh pursnit, some now interost. His eldest Bister ias recently married, ond ie abaent in foreign lands for o term of two yoars. Accidentally tho Ko 15 suggested that o house be bully and mede ready for her ocoupation on her rotury, The Koo catehos tho fauoy of Paul, und he imme. tely takos poucil in hand and communcos drawing plans for tho proposed manston. After !uu I,;\{ 1.',?3 bs;l?‘uz‘ vnuzu{as, th:) zfiuth dawns upou 10) ugmcctlum. rant of tho firwt principles of Anpily, at this juncture, & cousln who Las perfeated himself in tho go enco, malking it for many years & study and profession, arrives ot cliatoan to paso u few dayw, Floased to one .anngn Paul's dosize to dabbla [n Louso-build- ln!(; the cousin overlools his ornde doalgns, and, tal lng them for a point of doparture, Paul & course of lessans Lu axchiteoture, ot ader tho cousin'a Inatruction, the plan for n sabstan tinl, bandsome, nud_convenieut dwolling iu aue- cousfully developed, On itm complation, the plan Is aecopted, and forthwith workmen are oy~ gnged to give It roalization in brick, mortar, and #tono, ‘Tlhroughout the process of orocting tha structire, the oporations of building nre dis- oungod by Paul and bis cousin, and ovory pofut iu tho procedure is mado tho occasion of 4 lesson intho fine nrt of architocturo, In this way, ,manv good and practical rules ang suggostionn aro uvolvmnlf which are valuable to thio rondor, uu)’mclnlly It ho bo an nrchitect or have in his m x!fl the purpose of patting up o honse, I charactor of the worl Inintensoly Fronchy, and the translntor has holped u littlo to incronde tho olfect by muking n close, though nmooth, voraion. Lo bool is snporbly prosentod by tho publishors, and, with othar cembollislimonts, lias numorous aud Boautiful (ustrutiots. AR The Fine Arts. EORY OF FINE ART, Dy J Tonne: Late rofuusor of Moral ani Tateloctust Fitosgiy iu the University of Vermont. 16mo., pp. 300, Now York: Serfbner, Armstroug & Co, Tho power of clogo and logical reagoning, and the habit of thorough rescarch, which Prof. Torroy has acquired in his philosophical pur- 8uit, aro very appurent in his treatlss on Art. It is basod on & caroful study of Art-works and Artewrltors, Soversl times Prof. Torroy huns crogoed the Atlautio to loarn at the feok of tho old mastors, while lis consultations with tho wisost critles have boon Intimato aud diligent, It is something of which we may bo proud that, in tho dearth of good painting, seulpture, and architacture, and of Art-achools in our country, thero yet aro among un so many who, conquor- ing the dificultios in tho way, Liave becomo in- telligont uplin tho subject; and, better still, that Vo have such able and sluilful writors on At an Tuckorman, Jonkiug, nnd Tosroy, Thiy inst author has brought o sterling contri- bution to the literature of esthotics, it1s pro- fonnd in its mothod, mending a plummet down to tho Iaws that Lio at the very foundation of tha matter. The lofty principles which the readers of Loesing, Ruskin, Ramerton, and othors, aro ficcustomoad Lo henr enunciated, are ropeated and emplinsized by Prof, Torrey, Not in tho spirit of n gervila imitator, but with tho freshness aud {reedom of an untrammelod inquirer. ‘Tho os- ®ays which mako up the volume woro originally deliverod it the form of - lecturos to the Sonior closses in the Vormaont University, The circum- stancea under which they wero produced con- spired with tho training and taste of the author to ronder them lucid, cohorent, And phitosoph- ical, in style aud spirit. » The Salem Witcheraft, BALEM: A TALE OF THE SEVENTEENTI CENTURY, By . OASILETON, 12mo., pp, 936, New York : Harper & Drothers, Consldored n8 n novel merely, this volumo de~ sorves no more than o mention of its title, Its litorary merit 18 too slight to elevate it above the multitudo of commonpluce stories that lond tho shelves of the booksellers. But, as & his- torical fiction, illustrating one of tho most terri- Dlo episodes in the early lifo of New Eugland, it is entitled to n moment's uotice, The account whicn it gives—nnd 1t {8 meagro—of tho inci- donts of tho Salom Witclieraft is correctso far 88 1t goes. It is meinly notable for the sbgenco of tho name of Cotton AMathor in conmection with the nwful trago- dics related. _Since the spporrance, in 1831, of the Ttov. C, W, Upham's * Lecturos on Salem Witcheraft,” it has boen the custom of historians and writers on tho subject to adopt unquestions ingly the theory which that aulbor invented, that Cotton Matler was respousible for the persocu- tion and murder of the victimsof the Salem sn- perstition. No nssertion could bo moro unjust or unfounded, o4 sny ono sesrchiug into the facis ean readily prove. It s agreenbie to noto that the writor of the presont tele is the frst one in tho past forty-throe years, who has undor- takon to tell inprose tlio atory of the Salem Witcheraft, and s avoided tho error of charg- ing Cotton Mathor with being o promoter of (Lo delusion aud its shooking consoquonces, Mr. Lougfollow, in his puehcnl’vamlon of tho Salom Liorrors, In * The Now-Englaud Tragedies,” waa eareful to keep to the ,u—ulfi in his represontation of the part which tho lentned and pious Doston divine enncted in those distrossing scenon. St. Nicholas, BT, NICHOLAS: BomBNER'S ILLUSTRATED MaGA- e ror Boys aXD Gmny. Conducted by Many Maves Dopas, Vol I, November, 1873, to Novome bor, 1674, Bquarc 8vo., pp. 760, New York: Scrilmer & Co, Thero Las never been publishod in any land 50 beautiful and bigh-toned a magazine for children o8 this. Ingonnity bas oxbaustod it- wolf in devising attractions for its prges. Tho pictures, which are the firat featura of a book to catch a child’s nttention, aro profuse, and of tho firut degree of excellence. Many of them are not simply fresh, but original in design, and convoy charming conceits of the fancy, The literary contents of the work are infinite in va- rioty,—voryiug through all the gradations from grave to gey, from tho edifring and iustructive to tho meroly mirth-provoking. Every tasto and anood of the juvenile rerdor will find hero some- thing adapted to its ontertainment, while overy selection prosented is, fivat of all, fnnocont and wholesome, Music. MUSIOAL TREASURES, 1llustrated. Complefo in ]Twl-u -four Purts. 8, Bratnard’s Sons, Olevo- und, O, The musie in this collection is Judicionsly me- lectod, comprising compositions of favorite Eu~ ropean and American authors, in every variety of style. 1%18 alwo vory cheap, being afforded st tha low prico of 50 cents per {)nrt. encli part con- taining 24 pages of music. The work s embel- lighod with portraits of eminent musieal artists to the number of fortv-cight. When put into tustoful covers, it will bo s uscfal and ornament- al nc‘cnuulou to tho ropertory of tho vocalist and planist. Rooks Received. THE OHICAGO MEDIOAL REGISTEE AND DIREC- TORY, 1874 : CONTAINING A DIROTORY OF TurT, ¢De 1¢AL COLLEGZS, HORPITALS, ISVIRMATILY, AYLUAMS, AND CILAREIAILE INNTITUTIONS, TOURTAER WETH TH MEDIOAL AND OTitki SCIENTIFIO ASSOCIATIONS OF THE ENTINE BTaTE OF ILLmNois, Published - der tho Dircetion and Supervislon_af the Chioago Medico-Historical Bocloty, Editod by A, Lzevis Jacmsay, A, AL, & D, 18mo,, pp. 350, Oicug W. B, Keen, Cooke & Co, 'WUAT OF TIE CHURCHES AND CLERGY? 12mo,, Pp. 120, Springflold, Mass,: D, E, Fisi & Co, Periodticals Recelved. International Review for Noyember-Decomber (A B. Barnes & Co., Now York). Conteuts: Intorvationsl Communication by Languoage," by Philip Gilbert Hamerton; **Tlho Archutects of tho American Capitol,” by James Q, Howard 5 +Tho Iron Resources af tho United Ktates,” by Prof, J, 8, Newben—{' **Btudy of the Groek and Latin Clasaies,” by the Rov. Dr, Charles Llliott: “Divoreo,” by the Hon. N. H. Davis ; +* Tho Domestic Commorce of the United States,” by the Hon, 8, Slollabagor. Gemof te West for Octohor (Chicago). Sanitarian for November (A. N. Boll, New York). November (Honry L. Awmerican Homes for ShIn] ard .!l: Cp.,fi}mmn). X . irenological Jowrnal for Novembor (Samuel K. Wolls, Now Yort). ¢ Literary Notes, An English aud Chinose grammar haa been publisbed on the OllzndoriY method, A mnew Christuiks story from Farjeon s maniund undor tha title of * T'ho King of No- and.” A new child-atory by Miss _Mnlach-Craik will hivo the title of **‘t'he Little Lame Prince." Mre. Roso Lathrop, s daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorno, illustrates Mrs, Ilornce Maun's * Flower Paople,” for Osgood’s now odition. Mr. Jobn Forater's noxt work is likely tobe & hlogm‘)hy of Swift, for which Lo has collected o valuablo mass of wntoerials, including not s few unpubliskied lettors of the fumons Deon, Yen Old Maids (aud Fivoof Them Wore Wise. and Five of Them Wery Foolish)”, s the 0dd titlo of Julie P. Smith's forthcoming novel (Curleton), Proudhon’s letters nwinber more than 1,000, and will 811 at lonst four volumes, A vow novol by the author of * Gay Living» stona” is bulletined abroed. A now atory by Virginin P. Townsond ls an~ nounced by the Lipplucotts, Al iw AL” will be tho title of Philip Bourao Maraton'a now poems. An #lostratod History of the United States, in sorial form, i aunounced by the Cassols in Englaud, 1t isreported in Ireland that an answer will Lo published, on the wuthority of the Romnn Catlhione priesthood, to the argumentsot Tyndall and Haxlev. Is in uow bruited sbont that Mr. Dancrofe will write the history of the Coastitution in a auries of additional volumes to the just-com- plotad history, M, "Pheioss Yolverton, divorcos nud peros grinator, now proposes two additionul volnmes, *Porewina in Amorica” The Rov, 1l R. Haweis now furnishes a ‘‘ercmatiou prelude,” whatever thnt moy be, under thotitlo of ¥ Ashiga for Ashen,” #'ho Idontisy of Primitive Christicnity and Modern Spirltualiem”? s to be I?raved g) by Elgouo Cr .My M. D,y in n book from Carle- n's, A Boston paper #ays thet a Chiengo lnwyor, Joseph IS, Bmith, has writton n frosh novot of New England lifo nt tho lm[;!nnlng of tho centi- }-y lwhlch 18 to bo published by tho Osgoods this all. Iayard Taylor translation of ** Faust " ells In Eungland to tho oxtent of 300 or 400 copios o yoar, and s scoopted thore am the standard ransintion, . Amoug Longinan's forthcoming publications aro ‘' AJourney up tho Nilo," by Miss Amelia B, Edwards (Eng.), and an recount of Innac Casau- hon, by the Ltev. Mark Pattiaon, Rector of Lin- coln Collogo, Oxford. Tho Muanchestor papers roport tho denth of Mr. Charles Swalu, who, was & rather popular writor of verso many years ogo, Mr. Swalu was 12 yoarn of ago. *10ur New Crnando * {8 the titlo of the Rav., I, Ti. Hale's now Chrlstman stovy. Motars, Roborts Brothers will publish the book nenuumgnulnu ‘volumne to thelr Jibrary odition of Mr. Ilnle's #In His Nume,” Tho full titlo of Mr. Ilamorton's boya' book Tioborts Brothors) s ‘Harry Blouat Being asanged n a Boy's Lito on Land and Hea.” ‘“Intellectual Lifo,” bytho sama author, i in its oighth edition, *'A History of Advartising, from the Ear- lieat Timon,'" illustrated by anecdolos, onrious epecimons, blupm{;hlnnl notes, and exumples of Buccessful advortisers, by Lenry Hampson, is Just ready abroad. A now bool I?' “Tho Wilde o London. Mr. Willinm Black wiil shortly publish a vol- uma of short toles, undor tho title of * Tho Muidof Killeenn, and Other Stoties.” The title- story is Hobridean, and doals with the lifo of tho fisher-people. Tho fourth volumo of Ginizot's Franco is in ype, and tho fifth and lnst volume in manuseript in tho hands of the P'aris publishors. This grent worl waa just completed bofore the doath of tho ominent auithor. Tho ‘*Final Reliques of Fathor Pront,” col~ lected and cdited by Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, from M8S. supplied by the family of the Rev. Francia Mahoney, will bo su interesting volumo to all loyora of tho author of ** Bolls of Shandon.” Mrs. Mary J. Holmes' now novel, ** West Lawn,” which Carloton announces, was written during tho author's sojourn in Switzorland tho Ppart summor. A volumo on * Catholio Roform,” by Pero Hyaciutho, translated by Madame Loyson-Hya- cinthe, with & preface by Donn Stanley, promised by the Macmilluns, ought to bo of somo intercat with such a combination, Lawyers will be glad to know that 3fr, Justice Miller, of tho United States Supreme Court, is engaged in editing a digeat of the reports of the Suprome Court from the 18th Howard to the 18th Wallaco, or from 1855, whero Curtle' diwest closes, to tho present dato. The firat yolumo will soan be ready. The Enrl of Bouthesk wiil publish at Edinburg ‘*Saalintchowan and the Rocky Mountaing; s Diory aud Nexzative of Travel, Sport, end Ad- vonture.” Mrs Ross Church Pflsu Florence 3arrytt, the writer of novels), it is sald, is going to give some publie reedings in tho United States, Mr. J., H. Ingrem s preparing in Encland s new edition of tho works of Edgar Allan Poo, It will includo some writings of Pao's that bave oscaped the notice of pravious editors, and no- cupy four volumes, the first of which will bo published in November; the others will follow &t monthly intervals, Among the books nnnounced for early publi- cation is Earl Rusvol's volume, * Racolloctions and Buggestions of Publio Life, 1813-1873." Au- other book in tho press is & narrativa written by Jacob Wainwright iu the form of o diary of tuo Iattar daye of Dr, Livingstono's lifo aud of his own adventures during the journcy to Zanzibar with the travoler's body. G A volumoe of esenys by Prof. W. 0. Wilkinson (the author of tho recent paper on Goorge Eliot in Seribner's Monthly, to which considorablo at- tention was ilvcn by the prass), under the titlo of “A Yree Lanco in tha Fiold of Life and Lot ters,” will Lo published eurly in November by Albert Mason, Now York, re. Abby G. Wooleon is ediuuf & book on Dress-Reform, to be published by Xtoberts Bros., which will contain somo novel dnctrines and propositions, and is expected to effoct a rovolu- tion in fomiumo costumo, It is undorstood that this Aesociutiou will shortly opon n storo ju Bos- ton for tho salo of articles of clothing modg o~ cording to the new idens. The firat volome of tho ** History of Co-oper- ation in Euglang,” by Mr. George Jncob Hol- yoake, 18 now ready for the proes. It will be dedicated to Mr. Wendell Phillips. The first vol- umo includes thio pioneor period, from 1812 to 1848, aud also compriaes tho History of the Lit- orature and Advocates of Co-oparation. Tho second volume, which will follow Ilater, will nlomprlao the Constructive Porlod of Co-opera- tion. f Mary Olommer Ames' navel, “His Two Wives,"” which bas been running in Every Satur- day (Iatoly merged into Littell's Living Age), witl b’ cnmlxlemd shortly in an Every-Saturday Sup- {I’mm‘ ;_aodis announced in book foym by urd & Houghton, Subscriptions to Dr. William Stovens Perry’s republication of Bishop White's ** Memoira of tho Proteatant Episcopal Church in the United Btates,” will bo roceived by B. P. Dutton & Co. The original *‘ Nacrative™ and tho ** Additiounl Statements nnd Romurka™ of Bishop White will bo incorporated togother for the fivst time, and the history will bo continued to tho present dato in o moro chronicle of facts ** without the intru- siou of inferencen or opinions.” Tho first volume of Blanchard Jerrold's “Life of Nopoleon Iif., Derived from Stato Records, from Uapublished Family Correnpond- once, and from Porsonnl Tostimony,” hes just beon published in Londos. ‘The work will bo finisbiod in four volumes, and will be filustratod with family portraita In the poseession of the ¢ Imperial family,” and fac-similes of Jottera nf Napoleon tho Tirat, his ncphew, and othors. ‘This volumo endes with the Btrasburg affair of Jamen Groenwood, entitled Loundon" is suncunced in Tho Routledges’ Knebworth edition of Bul- wor-Lytton is to include beeides the novels and romances, the whole of his miscellaneous writ- ings, collccted and edited by his friond Charles Kent. Fourteon volumes aro to comprive all his ossnys, minor tales, biogimphies, = criticinme, poems, and dramas, some of which will now for the first timo make their appearunce, and the first volume, to bo issued tn October, will bo his * England end the English,” which bhas been ont of print for forty yeara. ** Thackerayann,” annoutniced abroad ns nearly ready, wilt compriso *notes und aneciotes, illuk= trated by about 600 akerchos by Willinm Make- Ponco Thackeray, dopicting bumorous incidents u his school-life, aud favorite Acenon and ch =otera in the books of his every-day reading.” Willinms & Norgato, Londow. nve ahout to ublish ** Lost and Hostila Gospals,” by the Rov. B, nurlng-unuld. containing an_account of tho Paledoth Jescher, two Hebrew Goepels cir- culating among tha Jewa in the Middie Ages ; with & critical investigation of tho notices of Chriat tn the Talmud. ws well as iu Josophus and Justus of Liboring, 'To this in added an invest watlon into tho extant fragmenta of Gospals cir- culating in the firat throa conturies, wlich tho author beliovea to havo been dinwn up wither under Potrine or I'muline influence, whilst the canonical Gospels uprang from a Johnumto party of concilinion. A great literery curiosity is now for sale at Poltin. It consinle of & copy of & gigantic work, componed of 6,109 volnmos, ontitled, ** Au Impo- riel Collection of Anciont and Moderi Liters tare," Whin huge encyclopedia was commencad during the reign of the Emveror Rang-he (1 1772), and was printed at the Linperigl Printing » complete font of copper Office, vilhero type was cast for the purpose, Its con- tonts aro _arranged under thivty-two divisions, and embraco avery Bubject “dealt with within the range of Chinese litoraturs, Un- fortnnately, tho grester part of the tvpo em- rloycd in printing the work was, after the pub- ieation of tho firat edition, purloined by dishon- ost ofliclals, and the remaining portion was moltod down to be coined into coslt, Tho ro- sult is that very' fow copies ave now in oxistonce, and till fowor over como into tho market, Tho prico aked for the present copy by the Chincss ownar ig about $20,000, Garlbaldi's new work, “I Millo," has appearod at Tarin in tho form of n bandsomevolume, von- lsting of 450 poges leaded, It has long proface, addreesod to the youth of Italy, who are reminded that politics are every maw's' con- cery, since anch ouo has an intorent in’ kijowing whother his bark will bo uteered ngainst racks, or turnod stralght to poit. Appouling to the Romau youth speclally, ho begs that such an ex- wmplo of quiel, diunified cnorgy msy be sot by them that their city wlmlf bo s a pole- star to overy othor ~ Italiau. commwunity, untll Italy sball lLave secured her place uy & tlouriabing and howored land. The wain pumt of tho work, comprising sixty-throo chaptors, ig accupiod with tha nurrative of tho ux{ulanu of the thoveund volunteurs, from which it takes ite namo, It concludes with an addrexs fo tho 4,423 subseribers for tho volume, who are ansured’ that the nuthor feels that \is xetivo #hara in tho political events iy ovor, end that, in giving thew this work au a momonto of Lis pust exorttons for his futhorlund, he is consclous of SPARKS OF SCIENCE. CANDAGES, The calibage belongs to the large and usefu family of plants. T'he Crucifera,whiok includes the valuabte osoulonts: tho turnip, radish, wator-cress, mustard, mpe, and horso-radish : tho common denizeny of tho flowor-gardon : tha wall-flower, etocl, "loresty, and rocket ; and, fiually, that vory curious annual found wild in tho Egyptino deserts, sad_known os tho Rose of Joricho. The botanical name of tho cabbago Is IDrassica oleracea, ond from this singlo spocies aro derivad, through oultivation, the varinties, Inlo or greons, Borocolo, Colewort, Bavoy, Kohl- Ttabi, Caullflowor, aud Brotoll, with sndloss sub- varlotics, multiplying from year to yonr. The wild eabbago, iu ita original state, ls found on tho coast of Groat Britain and along the Medi- torranean, It grown to tho height of 1 or 2 feot; hus large, wavy, irrogulnrly-ahaped loaves ; and sonds up n stalk of pale-vellow flowers, closoly resombling those of the mustard, That thus 18 the uncultivated stato of tho gardon-cabbngo s shown by the fact that thered cabbage in neg- lected gardens on tho soa-acnst will rovert to the same condition jn tho course of a fow genora- tions, T Varleties of tho cabbage Yave boon cnitivated from time immomotial. Tho oldest Greek au- thors mentton thres kinda of Kalo: the ruffed, called Solinau; second, vamed Lea; mod & third, Cornmbo. Pliny writes at length of the vegetable, which was a common articla of food at Romo, nmoug slayos mud froemen, It was algo lghly catoemed by the anclents for ite medicinal virtues, 1'wo Greok phyaicians, Chry- gippus and Drenchus, and tho philosopher Pythagoras, on its propertios; while it is related of th mans, that, aftor oxpelling. their puysicians, thoy mattaned thoir hoalth, for 600 yoars, by using and applying this vogetable for their solo remedy in cases of diseaso,” Both Grecks and lomaus ato tho loaves raw, to clear thoir brains after ox- cegeive indulgenco in wino, Raw cabbage, eaten alone, digeats in two and a hulf hours; eaten with vinogar, in two hours; while boiled cabbaga requires four and a half hours for digeation. 4 is supposed that Kale was .introduced into England by tho Romovs. ‘I'be SaXou name for Labruacy is Sprout-Kalo, ond that is tho month when tho sprouts bogin to be fit for use. Cab~ 0-Ro- bago was for meny yoars imported rmml Holland; and to = 8ir Anthony Mhln{, & contemporary of 8ir Walter Raleigh, 1 referrod “the dietinction of estab- lishing tho cultivation of tho plant in England. At the foot ar the mouument erccted over the rave of this Kuight, at Winborne, St. Giles, Eomemuirn. thore lies a rudaly-sculptured globo, about which therais a protty controversy,—somo ; contesting that it io intended for a. cabbago; und othors, that it is meant to reprosent n can- non-ball. In any ovent, 8ir Anthony has got his nome lastingly associated with cahbago-honds. The second edition of Gerard's Herbal, pub- hished in 1663, says, in allusion to.tho gardon- eabbage : **'This is tho Ezlranl. ordinary cabbage, known evorywhore, and is commonly “eaton a) over tho Kingdom."” In tho lelaud of Jersey, owing to favorable climate and culturs, tho cabbsge has n trec- liko charactor, and tho gardons whore it is grown rmuouz the appearauco of groves of low palms. The plants, -on tho -avor- ago, uro 8 feot in leight.. Darwin mentions a stalk which attaived the boight of 16 feot, and ** had its spring-shoots at the top occur‘md by a magple’s noat.” “Not unfiequently the stems riso to tho height of 10 or 12 feet, ‘Theso atout, waody growths aro used for a varioty of pur- poser, such g cross-spars for tho roofs and thoteh of ymall farm-buildiogs and cottages. If kept- dry, theso-raflors will Inat many years. The emnllorstocks are converted. into walking- sucka (Jorsey canes), which loolk rotty when varnished, and are largely bought Ly summer- tourista, P"I:{ rolatos that, in Italy, cabosges rore cultivated to sn evormous size; aud the @ardener’s Magazine, Vol 1L, mentions one that, springing up by accident in an onion-had, woighad, when cut, 25 pounds, A whito cabbage grown at ¥skenbam, England, lnet your, covered an ores of ground oxcoeding 4 feet in dicmoter, Whon stripped of its outer leaves, and ready for caoking, it woighed 13%¢ pounds, ana messured 871¢ inches in circumferonve. The stalk from whicli it waa out menaured 244 inclies in dinmetor. X Caulitlower, the most delicato of all the vario- ties of the cabibago, it 8nid to havo onginated in Cyprus. Thence 1t moved slowly northward to Lngland, which it roached in the ssventeonth contury. For somo time it was a delicney scen only ‘on tha tables of tho opulent;_but, in tuo roign of Williem IIL, the Dutch gardeners in- troduced into’ the cuuntrg succoeded in pro- ducing the plants ju such sbundanco and luxuri- anca that, up to the timo of the Kronch Nevolu- tion, they wero imported from England into Hol- land, Germany, 2od Frouce. The Brocoli ia » sub-vaxiety of the Cauliflower, and botanically is searcely distinguished from it, On tho Tuland of Dosolation,—a barren, vol- tho_faults whick it exhibity, regrots that Lie wos unablo 1o produve woything moro worthy of lha)!ar redoptanco, and Asdures them of his Byine pathy. canle rock situated in the Southorn Oconn,— thore grows a varioty of Brassica, in great abundanca uear the ses. Its stooks aro from 8 to4 feet long, and lie closs to the ground,— boaring at their extremities large heads of loaves, somotimes 18 inches aoross, and forming a denso whito Leart, like the garden-cabbago, Tho plaut is coarso and tough in texture, and biag tho touto of cress and mustard: but it is hailed with dn]lfiht by the crews of ships which touch at tho shores of this dewolato spot, es it affords a bappy sddition to thow rations of Lard Junk oud sea-biscuit. THE NOBTHERN CULESTIAL HEMISPHERX. A now survoy of the Northern Colostial Hoemlfe sphorois in process of oxcoution by ekiliful astronomers of the day. Tho firat performancs of this great work was accomplished by Lalande, in 1785-'98., The second wos mado by the Sicilion Pigzzi. In 1821, Bossel commouced the ravision of Lalande's ertaloyue of stars, finish~ ing tho work in 1833. In 1868, Argolandor, aided by Behocnfold and Kruegor, complated the ob- sorvation of all the stars, not below the -tenth magnitudo, that were visiblo st Bonn. His list comprised 342, 122 stars lying botween tho North Pole ana the second degreo of soutn latitude. But theso surveys-need to bo ropested at inter- vals, to correct the mistakes that may have oc- curred, to supply the possible omissions, sud also to determiuc it certoin stars, supposed to be tixed, may not prove to bo planetary in some other solar system than ours. ‘This Jant rovision hes been instituted under tho direction of the Gorman Astronomical So- cloty. iieon obsorvatorics have the work in haud, viz. : Pulkown, Dorpat, Kazan, Helsings fors, Bonn, Leyden, Cambndge (Englund), . g, Nenfebutol, Manaleim, Berlin, Chris- tinum, Chicago, Cambridge (United Statés), snd Lelormo. ‘Chat of Pulkown, Russia, has under- taken tho ockervetion of the 529 fundamen:al stars consldered” necessary for the pracision of tho now catalopue. At Dorpat, Russin, M. Sehwartz hos assumwed the survey of the zone lying betweon tho 70t and 75th dogroes north cclivation, contaiuing 6,777 stars. At Helsing- fors, Ruesta, M. Kruoger, Fabritius, and Levocuuen, 'are revising tho Zzone 55-06 dogrees uorth deciinstion: nat Boun, MM, Thiele and Solioenfeld are rovising tho zoue botwoon tho 40-50 degrees; at Loyden, 31, Kulvor revises the 30-35 dogroen ; at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mr. G. Winlock han chosen thio 60-55 ; tho Observatory of Trin- ity, Cumbridge, England, inkos the 80-45; at Lelpzig, al, Brohne surveys tho 1015 ; at Nouf- chatel, M, Hirsch observes the 20-40; at Dorlin, M. Aurvers aweeps the 15-25 zone ; 8t Christic nug, Norwny, Mr, C. Fearnloy assumes tho ssma task 88 B Schwartz at Dorpat ; at Kazan, M, Kowolsky rovises tho 75-80. The work at the following obseryatories 13 lows advanced: at Maunheim, 31, Schoonfeld, tho 4-10 zone ; Pa- lermo, M, Caccintore, that Iyiug betweon 4 de- greed notthern declination and 9 degrees south doclinstion ; lul](, Ar, T, H. Safford, Chicago, biud observed 9,300 sturs of tho 35-40 zone north+ ern declination, when tho torriblo fire of 1871 pat a stopto his labors, and is {s” doubtful whon they can bo resuned, QGOSHAMER HPIDERS, Who has nos noticed with curions interest, in the mild, sunuy days of eutumnn, the sudden ap- pearance of myrisds of the finest, flmiost cob- weby floating in the air aud spread over the whole surface of tho ground? They are so tonuous ag to be scarcoly visible excopt in a strong light,—thoso driven by the wind somo- times striling the faco and makiog themselves palpable to the touch when thoy sro almost im- percoptiblo to tho eye; and thoso on the grouud, or stretehing from loaf to lenf and twig to tuwlg, rovealing tholr presence ratuer by the dinmonds of dew thoy have caught in thelr ineshes than by the thrards whick enter into their toxture. The crigin of thowo gossamer webs has beeu s good deal of & puzzle to uaturalists, aud various theo- rlow secounting for them have beon projected, In tho sevonicenth contury, it waa demonstratod h‘y Dr. Lulk and Dr. Listor that thesa dellcate tiksied Were consiructed by cextain spocies of sptdoraj but tho obsarvations of thess nafurale THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 187 sre sald to have cuch writton a book. ists did not for n long time meot with duo crodlt, 1t is not now declsivaly Jknown whethor tho g8~ samera floating in tho ntmosphoro aud thoso fixed to the earth aro producod by the samo or difforont spocios, Dr. G. Lincecum, of Texas, lias Intoly oom- munieated to tho Bmithaonian Instituta ome i torosting diecoverles rogarding tho flonting gos- samers, which aro’ printed, b{ - connont of Dr. Toury, in the Octohor Naturalist, ~ According to him, the nrchitect of theeoshadowy balloons Is o ! grayish-pen-greon " apidor, with rather lon legs and a wolght of about 2 grafne, It is quluE in its movemonts and timid iIn fts uature, dronping ite work and darting out of eight nt the approsch of & stran. gor. Dr, Lincocun lns enjoyad the op- orlunity of watching the work of tho splders n building theso ballcons, and doscriben it with caveful partioulurity, From his obsorvations, he demonatiated that” the gossmoer {8 spun with the intontion of ealling through tho air, and conveying its weaver and her progeny to dis- tancog which could not otherwige bo accomplish- od. 1t is like tho enchunted carpet of the Arabian Nights,—tho apider, with hor haif- dozon young onew, sitting down upon it, cutting ité fastonings, soaring aloft, and guldig i passago to the polnt desired by means of skill- fully-manaved rudders and satls. Dr. Lincecnm has notod that, in Toxas, these Lalloons begin to aucond i about 1 o'olool, and, for tho succeoding threo hours, are to bo seon 8% various nltitudos, saillne in ' the direction of tho wind. Each batoon I8 fumished with two long lives at the forward end, which probably ald in keeping the cratt in an equable position. On hoard ench norial bark I8 o mother-spider and o half-dozen or mora littlo onos, _Anout 4 o'clock tho balloons bogin to aescend, whirling slowly downwards until they lodge in some sL:n weed or tult of graes, when tho prssongers instantly lonp out, and swing thomselvos, by mosns of o thread, to the ground. Bomeotimes these balloons sail at o xapid rato on tho wind, at an altitudo of 1,000 or 2,000 feat. One cannot toll of them, nuy moro than of the wind, whenco thov como or whither thoy go; but it is conjectured that they may travol 150 or 200 miles. . Dy, Lincocum once watched a zossamor-apider building ita balloon on_the uppor corner of an outsido door-sbuttor. Whilo she waa at work, aho was carryiug about with her—not in her arms, but clinging to’ her thorax—n oluster of littlo, baby spiders, Loving. faithful littlo mother, did Bho for] as tired and worn whon her task waa aone, and sho bad cast her bark afloat, va many & human mother does when tho dav's task is over, and her troop of Jads aud lassies are st Inst tucked up under the coverlid ? SPLITTING WOOD BY LIGRTHING. The theory that the splitting of the trunks of trocy by lightoiug 18 tho result of tho suddoun evaporation of the liquids contained in thom, bas received suphort from & weries of oxperl~ monta conducted by Osborn Roynolde. By poas- ing tho elaciric epark through them, he succaed- ed in eplitting small sticka of wood aftor thoy bad boen impregnalad with water, Ho rl3o burst small gloes tubos which wers filled with water. ‘When the tubes were empty, tho electric spark passed through them without injuring them. His most striking exporiment was upon a tubo three-eighths of an inch exterior and one-cighth interior diametor. Tho tubo was 14 inches In le"!m" aud was bent at a right angle, It could reaist o pressure of at least 200 atmospheres to the gquave iuchi, A large elactric flushh boing sent roush it, it was split by tho firat dis- ehargo, aud tho pioces thrown geveral feot, com- pletoly pulvenzed, #s though it had beoy struck by a hawmrer. Mr. Reynolds estitautes that the Ppressure must have been more than 1,000 atmos. pheres, ARTIVICIAL FUEL, A Belgian workingman has recently invented s cheap fuol, which is composed as follows: 93/ pounds of coal-dust, 63¢ pounds of vegetable- earth, and G} ouncos of salts of snds,—tho whole well mixed with 1 pound of water. A shovolful of this composition, thrown upon an ardent fire, causes it to burn with great Erillisncy aud emit a strong degreo of hoat, The fire thus fed bas tho advantage of burning slowly as well a8 brilliantly, 1t appears that 2 similar mixiure hay been usod by the Chinose from time imme- morial. The Rov. 8, J, Edel, in a lnto_commu- nication to the Fronch Acadomy of Boiences, #ass of thig Chinose compound: **Our caoks, overy Suturday, make a mixture of small, brokon conl nnd vegotablo-earth, containing propor pro- portions of salts of sods and wator, ThI8 mix- ture, when drled, is out 1n the form of bricks, Lflfl?"l. burn slowly, emitting a stroag degroe of ANTAGONISTIO VENOMS, M. J. Fitzki has lately communicated to the Medical Society of Wilun the resuits of his ex- poriments in using the virus of sorpents asa remedy for hydrophobis. Ifo inoculated six mad dogs with tho virus, and in each caso tho cure was perfect. The crowning proof of tho officacy of the romedy waa furnished by tho oxperienco of & woman who had first been bitteu by & sanke and afterward by & mad dog, and suffored no evil consequences_save tho pain arising from the wounds. 1M, Fitzki concludos thos thero s tho Bamo a.utngonium botween tho vemom of tho seipent and tho poison of mad dogs s thero 18 betweon varlolio venom and vaccine matter. THE WEDDING-VAIL. Dear Anna, whon I bought her vail, Ifor whito vatl, on her weddiug-uight, Turew o'er my (i, Lrown hai ite foldd, Aud, Inughing, tirned mo to tho Hght, #See, Beasle, pen! yon wear at lant The bridal-val, forsworn for years | Bbe saw my fuce,—her Inugl win huehed, Her Lnppy oyes were filled with taars, ‘With kindly haste nud trombling Uand, Sho drew uway the guuzy mist ; * Yarpive, dear heart ! ™ hor aweat volco salds Hor loving lips my forehiead kissad, Wo passed from out the searching light; ‘Tho sunmer pight wne cai and fairy T dld not seo Ler pitylug oyes, T folt Lior soft band emaoth Iy hatr, ‘Her tonder love unlocked my hiart s ’Mld falling tours, at Just { said ; “Forsworn, indeed, to mo that vail, Tecaso 1 only love the dead | ™ Sho stood one moment atatne-atitl, And, musing, pako in underlotss T Yiving love may volder grow, . The dend 14 fo with God atono —Elizabeth H. Whittier. A New Sonnoct Ascribod to Shalkspeare. From the Springileld (Mass) Republican. An ussiduons, but rather tao fanciful studont of tho Elizabothan IY otry, who writes for the London Examiner, M Minto, has discovered, ns Lo thinks, o sonact written by Shakspeare undor the nemo of * Phaeton,"” aud addrorsed to John Florio, who, liko himself, was a protoge of Will. iom_Horbort, the Farl of Southampton, It np- peared nmong the commendatory verses pro~ fixed to Florio's “Second Fruits," published in 1591, two veors bafore Shokepenrs printed Lis lirst book, * Venus and Adonis," and clght years bofore auy of his sonuets sre known to'huve beon printed, thongh many of them wero doubt~ less writton s early au 1690. I'lorio's book wag a collection of Italiny aud English disloguos and aphorisms, printed in parallel columus, and ik was publisbed in tho spring of tho year by a writer whoso name suggeats the pun on flawars ’whloh appoars In the sonnot, a8 we give it bo~ ow ¢ PILARTON 7O NI FRIEND PLOIIO, Sweet friend, whose namo agrees with thy increase, How i avsival art thow Of tho Bprig | For whien each brauch hath left his Aguur!lhmu, And green-locked Summer's ahady vieaires cease, Hhe makies tho wintor's atornus ropouo In Jouce, Aud wpreads her franchixe ou oach Bviug thing, Tho daistcs sprout, the ifttlo binda do siug; Horbs, guma and plants do vaunt of taetr releass, 8o when that all our Euglish wita lay deud, {Excopt the Lanrel that Is ever greon,) Thou with thy fruits our hurranuess v'erspread, And sot thy foirery pleasineo to be seen, Huch Auits duck fiowerets of morality, Waro Eo'er bufors brought out of Ituly, ‘Tho ** Laurel that is over groen " was Spensor, of courec, who in the proceding winter had beew ponsioned by the Quoen, and who nad alvendy complimouted Shakepoare in his * Tears of tho Muses," a4 be did aftorward in * Colin Clout.” It would uppear from Bpensor's poem, printed in this Bume yeur (mmg, ihat thora was, for nome cuuse, A doarth of good poertry in Eugland, and there is a stranga similanity botwoou tho phraso usod by Bpensor concorning Shakoapesve ; “Qur pleasant Willy, al | 11 dead of late,"— Aud theso lines of ** Phooton's " 150 when that all our Eiigllsh wits lay dead, Excet the Laurel that iu over green,’ TPosulbly the yonuger poet thns rephed to the clder oue, who iind spolion of him us dosd. This is adimitting the guess of Mr. Minto as corveot, which we certainly mav, wnless somobody else claima the sounet. It is not written in tho qua~ trainy, with alternato tlyaios, that Shukspoare goverally uned in his sonncts,but in what ia com- monly considored the more logitimate form of thesounot, as Milton wroto it, ar s olosor approach this fonn than Sponcor nsed, Thore wre certain lins In i¢ which have the Bhakspearing sound, a4 that which wo bave Stalicized, for oxam. plo. But nobody can ovor say with' certainty, nie anpposs, whose pan wrots It FAMILIAR TALK. N ug!-).crl?lm. il i Ros,—Noy, (liolr andoavor keops in the wontad puca ; bt thore n.f"m ah ety of chitdren, tile eynues, that ory out on {hio fop of queation, nnd uro moit ty- rannically clapp'd for't: tlicae are now tho fanhion s and o herattlo thie common alages (s0 they call them) {liat mony woaring rapiora aro afrald of gooso-quills, and dara searca come (hither, Jzza—~Whiat, uro thoy clifldren? Who maintalns ‘om? How ara thoy oacoted 2 WIll they puratie thn quality 1o longor than tioy can sing? Wil thoy not 88y aftorwards, I thiey should grow thetnaslvos to comn- mon players (s it i most ko, if {helr meana nro no hotter), fheir writora do them wrong, to make thom ex- clalin agatuet their own succonsion 7 Jlos,~Fnith thera ne heen much to do on hoth and thio untfon halds it na aln 1o tone themt to ersy : thero wan, far a while, no monoy Uid for argumont, unicwa the poct and the player wout (o cufly in the queation, Hawm—18't possthlo? Guil,—0, thero hag been much throwing about of Iiani.—Do tho boys carry It nway 2 Ay, that they do, my lord s Ttereules and s Hamtet, et I1., Se. i, Iu the abovo pnssago from Hamlot, Shakepenre ailudes to tho childron of St Paul's and of the Tavels, whoso dramatio performances were vory | popular with the. public in the time of Quaen Elizabetly, and oxcited tha jonlousy of profes- sional actors. The practice of Linving theatrical ontertalnmonts in the schonts and amversiticn of England had provailed for o couple of centuries. Tho plays wero written by the teach- ers, ar somotimes by tho boys themselves, and woro for along timo composad exclusivoly in Latin, Erasmus says that Sir Thomas Moro skill- fully filled the part of both suthor and actor in bis schoolboy dnys. Wo are alo told that, while ho was n pago in the houschold of Archbishop Mareton, as tho plays wero golng on in the palace during tho Christmas hofidays, ho would ofton step on the atege and petform somo part of iis own creation, to the oxtreme watisraction of tho speclators. These school-plays wero the favorite amuge- mont of the etudonts on all feniva occusions, espocinlly on tho feast of St. Nicholas, who way tho patron-saint of echools, and at the Enstor and Christmas Lolidays. In his comedy of ** Tho Staplo of Nowes,” Jouson alindes sutirically to the foct, in thospeech of Censure, who kays: *For my part, I bolieve it, and there wers no wiker than I, I would Lave no'er n cunuing schoolo- master n Bugland: T mesn & cunning-man a schoolo-master ; that is, aconjurour, or a poet, or thot had suy sequaintance with o poot, Tuev make all their schollers Play-buyes! I8t not n .fine sight to soo all our chiluten made Enter- Indors ? Doa wo pay our money for this? Woo send taem 10 learu theit gramnar and their Tor- ronco, aud they leurne theic play-hookes, Well, thoy talk wo shall hiavo no more parhaments, god bless us! Bat an wea have, IThopo Zecle of the Land of Buzzy, und my posyip Jiablry Trouble- truth, will"stmt up, and see we have painfull good minwstora to keepo schoolo, eatechino our youth; aud not teach om to upe}:o Playos, and nct fables of fulde uowes," eto, Nevertheloss, the custom of netiug plays In sohools wes of great sorvice to tho drawn, and conduced largely to its improvement and pupu- larity., It mustnot be forgottan that it was for tho youthful performers ar Eton School that Niciiolas Udal, the accomplished inasler, wrote the earlicst Boglish comedy, Ralp Royster Doys- ter. His boys must havo beon practiced nctors, for he %nvo thom opportunity enough, with the many plays ho wroto in Latin and in the vornac- utar, and which thoy porformed before publio audiences with all the accessorles of geenery and stage-decoration in vogue at the time. Asat Eton, 8o it was at 8t, Paul's Behoo), in London ; at the colleges at Oxford, Cambridge, Westmin- | ster ; and at othor seats of lenrning in England, —tho dramatic spectacle flourished under tho asgiduous cultivation of the acholars and the frigndly patrousge of the publio. Royalty not soldom lont its stately presence to thoso juvenilo entortainments. Cardinal Woulsey, 'who wos & greator potentale than his master, wag once & apectator of the Latin tragedy of * Dido,” from Virgil, which was represented by the sobiolars of 8¢, Paul's School, and was written by John Brightwise, tho master. Quoen Elizabet wasg often entertained by the oxhibition of pinys 04 her vigits to the universitics. [u 1666, in ona of her grand progrouses, she witvessod several dramatic porformances in tho magntticont hall of the Colloge of Chirist Church, Oxford. So do- lighted was 8o with thio rendition of au English comedy founded on Chaucet’s *“ Palnnon and Arcite,” that sho summoned the author Lo her prosencoe and londod him with compliments, The young boy, 14 yoars of age, the son of tho Dasn of Chriat Chureh, who took the only fomalo part in tho play, so eaptivated Hor Majosty with bis personation that sho gave him a present of 8 uinoas, 3 As the students in schools achieved such dis- tinguishod succoss in the dramaltic rote, it was but natural that the snging Loys in the catho- drals should desire - to tost thoir lbfli&y in tho- strical reprogentations, Thus wo find that tho choir-boys of Hyde Abbey and Bt. Swithiu's Priory, at Winchester, performed a Morality bo- fore King Henry VIIL. at Winchester Cantle, on o Banday, in 1487, Tho boys of Maxtoke Priory, nonr Coventry, wero in the habic of acting plays evory year iu the hall of the neighboring castle of Lord Clifton, Tho bogs of St. Paul'a Catho- dral early attained celebrity in the histrionic art, In 1378, * thoy petitioned Kichard II. to prohibit cortain tgnorant sud inexporienced porsons from reting *“The History of the Old Teetament,” to the injury of their roputation and their rewards, Those young nctors lLept progress with the dramn, aud, when it bad outgrown the crude Alysteriea aud Miracle-plays, and developed into regular tragedy and comedy, they had scquired such skill 1u the oraft that thoy were reckoned tho best comediaus in London, A Gradually they beeame tho favorites of the Court, and were often cstled upon to play i the vatious Royal palaces. When, in 1544, Queen Mury visited Elizaboth, then s Princess under the chargo of Bir Thomas Popo, nt Hattiold, they werd eutertained one morniug with ou ox- lubition of bear-baiting, which thoy groatly rel- ished, and in the evening, nfter supper, with & pluy presentod by the chiidrou of Punl's. Strype wtates that, smong tho smusements provided for Queon Elizabeth by Lord Arundel, during hor stay at the palaco of Nonesuch, at Burrey, in 1669, wns & play by theso samo enildren and their musio-master, Bobastian, The chovistora of Westminstor Abbey, and of the Chapol llo{nl, were also famous actors, Tho children of the Chapel Roynl wers formed into a comvany by order of Quoen Elizabeth, and put under the direc- tion of Richard Edwards, Ler Mastor of Revels, All Lilly's plays, oud many of Shnkspoure’s and Jopson's, wore acted by theso boys with great applause. Jonson's comedy entitled * Cynthin's Rovols ™ was first acted in 1605 * by tho ohildren of Her Majestie’s Chapel, with tho ellowance of the Master of the Rovels.,” One of this voung fraternity, named Salvadore Pavvy, was celobrat- ed for hia ivimitable porsonation of the charac. tor of an old man, Wodicd at the early age of 18, and the ovent was commemorated by Jonson in the following epigram : AN EPITAPH ON &, P,y A CHILD OF QUEEN ELIZADETU 7 cnAvILL, B Woep with me all you that read This Jittlo slory | And know, for whon & tear you shied Deallia solf is sorry, was u child, that ko did thrive In graco rad featuro, As Hoaven snd Nature seor’d to strive Whick owned tho creature, Yearow be aumbered vearce thirteeno, When Fates turn'd crutell ¢ Yot thres Gl zodincks hnd Lio beene Tho Stagu's fewell ; And did note, what now wo moane, 1d wen ko ducly s 48, saoth, tho Parca thought him ono, o plald 5o truely, . 8o, by errour, 1o his fato They ali consented ; X ‘But viewliig Ll since, als! too late, They liave Topented ; And have vought, €0 give new birthe, Tu buthey $o steep jm § But, befug much too good for cartha, Heayen vows to koep lim, The boya of 8t. Punl’a and the Chuvel Royal often played in coujunction. Some of them uf- terwards bueame dustinguistied on the ntage st thie Biuck-Frird, Fomulo purts wore always ncted by boys until the Roatoration, This may accouut, in & measure, for tho coarseness which marked the oarly dramw, The first character age suwed by & woman on the Eughsh Htugo was that of Lesdemiona, It was played by s mombor of Kilhgrow's company, at the Iing's House, in 1661 ;" but the name of the Iady who played 1t hse not come down to us, Tho wot noted buy-aciresses m London wero Ed- wird Kynaston and James Nokes, Of the fivat, Popys snys thut Lo made * the loveliest Ingy "— for a boy—that hoever say, Loug aftor tho vo. eation of boy-actredres wna gone, he remained ujion tho stage, and wau ane of it brightort or- udnents, Heo ‘retulued most of hip youthful Dbeuuty unto tho last, and at G0,his toeth wore as sound und white us ballo's of 40, s mawner wad singlarly diguitiod and gracoful, aud his ©eye keen und plorcing, excolled in comady, and was ¢ . sontative of nbnu’p’ forty olmx‘:gn;rn'.mnfl e THE WITCHCRAPT-MANIA, In his Lifs of Molammed, Dr, compules the number of persons who Liava heon Bpringor oxocitod an witches, during the Christian opoch, 8t nine milliona ! Durlug tho sixteeuth and Hiovonteenth centurios, it 5 estimated that, n Europe, 400,000 slleged witchos woro exocnted, chilofly by bmnlug, Ono-hslf of this number wora immolated in Gormany, Tho aroall Bish- opric of Bamborg furnistiod 000 viotima n the Bpace of about four yoars; and Wurzhurg, which {8 not much larger, furnished 000, In the 1ttlo dintrict of Lindhielm, ono-twentioth of the populrtion were sacrificed in tho #mmno lenglh of time. In Eugland, Biizaboth firat made witohie oraft s crime of the first magnitnda In a atatute onsoted in 1662; and hor muccessor, James L, amonyg tho initial acts of s roign, deflued tho erimo minutoly, aud declnred f¢ punisbable by death. A fow yenrs thoreaftor, tho witch-mania reachod its helght, and, befora ft had aubsided, 70,000 [nnocont viotima had beon oxecuted, During the sitting of the Loux Parliament, 3,000 porsony perishied under the acouration of witcheraft, In Sootland, from fikst to tast, nbout 4,000 perrons wera encrificed to the dalusion, "Tho earlieat oxacation for wilcheraft in Now England, of which an account Las beon pro- served, waa Lhat of Margaret Jonos, of Charlon town, in Tune, 1648, Tho rsport of the casn fn found in tho jonrnal of Gov, Winthrop, who promdod at thotrial and sigaod thoe death-war- rant. In Hartford, Mary Joknann was oxeonted for the samo ctime in’ tho memo voar (1648) 3 two perons wero tried fn 1651; throa witohea woro condomned Jy, 20, 1663: n woman named_Gieonsmitly nag huog in 1603 ; snd Eilizaboth Legur suffeted s liko fate in 1065, In 1663, Goodwifo Knwp wa hung as a witch st Tairfield, Conn. In 1656, Mra Ann Hibhin. the wi1ow of an ominent Boxton Naranant and mage Intrate, way hnng for the 8MDfrangon, In 1669, Katharino Harrison waa condemned at Woth. crufield. Wi.lo thiese persons vieq coudemned and executad, others wera acencedyd triod for tho crime in diferont plages. MarYors ona was tried n 1661, and again Iy 1674; he hueband was trlod in 1852, From 1645 o 1647, hg woter. teat, by which Matthow Hapking Chlyed the doath of 100 porwons in Encland, was in opnlsr use in Conuecticut. The method wan lo ia the thumb of the right hand aud the grest ta of the laft foot togsther, and thon drag Lheaccruod through tho watar, It they flosted, which tny generally did for o tims. thoy were pronouncey Rulltys if they sank, they wora apt fo puey be yond the fnrisdiction uf carthly udgn andjury, From 1652 to 1642, tho vear of ‘tho wront ont. Lreak i Salom, tho courts of Eaanx Countywore continually investigating allered witch-augs, In 1059, John Godrey, of Andavor, wan anciser, In 1667, Goody Furt, a femalo phesician, way churged with sorcery by Philiy Reod, 3 reqiar praciiioner, In 1674, the family of Willam Morse, of Nawiury, was disturbed in o strae manner, and many oxaminatioug for witohenft ware the rosult. Thus, for fortv veara, the.Cdo- nies of New Englsod waro in & constant fermmt over cager of sunposed witcheraft, before he manin _culminated in the “Snlom troged.” Hore, twenty persons, in the course of n fir monthe, met a felon’s doom on the charge of callusion with the Devil ia the practico of super nawral arts, And, shocking a8 rhle rocord ronds and unparollelod 88 snens the otrocity of tho instruments of theo nrders, more victims than suffered at Salen were hurried to tio gallows yenr after year, b a single county in_Englaud, durivg tha sever. toeuth contury, The Puritaus of New Englanl bronght tho seods of tha Lorrible superstition with them from their mother-country, ana thi fawnl gorms woro nourished into their subse quent horrid ‘growth by the prosecutions and summary deaths that raged with frightfnl prav. alonco” thronghout Enclnnd. In 16, Chief- Juatices North and Holt opposcd their good Bongo and conraga to the monstroun delnsion, and rucesedod in subdning its doyaatating power ; but the catalogue of murders in England was not elosed until 1710, when n Mrs. Hioks and her littlo daughtor, agod 9, wern hanged at Hun- tingdon, for melling their souls to the Devil, and prnuuein¥ disbolical arta to the injury of the community. e gt o . THE SCIENTIST AND HIS CHILD, (IFratten by the author while on @ ded of languishing.) “ Father, thou ort a wclentiat, Therefore dost all things know,” 443y child, if you'vo n d You goand bet #Father, In there an ether Through which the worlda ll whixgn “ Opfuion vary, good iy child; I think porhaps therd is,” ¢ And, fathor, aro there folks who dwall 1In yon brigh-ttwinkling star 2 “Practor thinka a0, my dearest boy, And—well, porhisps thero aro.! 4 And, father, that thero comet thers— You know what ‘tis, I hopa 77 X guess "tls carbon, boy; s0 aays Your daddy’s spectroscope,” # And, father, whilo T think of it, How do you know you know 7% * Rnawledgo s rolative, my child— Tonly think *tis 80, “*You think you know you know you Pray how can snch things bo 7" #431y chilld, thia cortainty you Aind Acrogs your parent's knoo.” —New York Graphic. —_— Bret Harte on Confucins, #rom Nast's Almanar. for 1876, GONFUCIUS AND THE CHINESE CLASSICS, TRANSLATED BY KI-PD TAL Chinese Cosinogony—In the boginningof the world, thoe world was Ktse Kiang, who died. His blood beeame rivers, his bonos granite, his bair tress, &o., and, finally, thoinsects which infosted his body became peonlo., Confucius—His Habils—Tn walking, the Mns- tor usnally put one foot bofare the othier; when he rosted, it wes genarnl!y on both logs.. If, in waikiog, he came upon a atoue, ho wonld Iick it out of his way; if it were too hoavy, he would step over or around it. Happening once to lick a large stone, he changed countennnca, ‘[he Superior Person woro his clothes in the ordinary manner, never pnllin?' his shoes npon his head, nor his cap upon his feot. Ha always kept tho skirte of his robe before and behind evenly adjusted. Ilo parmitted not tho unseemiy exposure of his under-garments of linen atany time, When he mot his visitors he rushed $owards them with his arms opened like winga. - Hig Poetry~Tho following was written in the 65th year, on lesving Loo: 01, T fain would utill look towsrd Loo; But this Kwel bill cuts of my view— Witk an uze will I hew This thicket all through ‘That nbscures the clour prospect of Loo, In Iater vears tho following was composed by think; Jamen Nokes, tho eontemporary of Xynaston, was fanioun, while playing )nmnle party, tor hid Imporsonution of tho Nusme fu Otway's ** Caiu Mariug,” and Nevil Payne's drama, * Fatod Jeal- ousv." When obliged to sssume tho charactars bolouging to hin pex, e sustnived his carly ur- utation, and acquired a considerable fortuna, ke his disciple, Shun: Thero onco wad a sage called Confu-~ Gius, whoso romarlis wero 1ot fave ; He rald, “I will hew “This blssted bill throngh,* Whtlo bis friends zemarked quiotly, * Do,# His Ethics—The Nfaster said, **One virtus * oes o greas way. In a Jar of chow-chow, prop- orly tlavored with ginger, oven o dead mouse is palatable.” On Wau askivg him if it wero proper to put dend nilce in chow-chow, he roplied, *Itis the custom.” When lie hoard that Chang Lad beheaded an entire proviuce, ho vomarked, * Tms is carrying things to an oxcess,” On being nuked his opinion of impaloment ho repliad that * the end did not fustity the means."” op liee nsked him how to toll tho wsuporior wmay, Tho Master replied, * How, indeed {" The Duke Ehm;i arked him one day, * What conatitutes the Stato ?" Conlucius roplied, **Tha question {s aginine,” His Jokes—One duv, baing handed a two-foot rulo, Contucius opened it tho wrong wey, where- upon it broke. The Maater eaid, xfuletly. that it was o poor rule that wouldn's work both ways," Olgorving that Wau Sing was much addleted to opium, the Master waid, * Filial regant b ale ways beautiful,” ¢ Why 7" asked hie disciplos, ¥ f‘l’: lovos Lis poppy," reptied the Master, chang- ing countonar.ce, *Is that Nankeen 2" aaked tuo great Menclus, a8 116 carelensly examniued tha robe that onfold the bosom of tho falr Yau Sing, *No,"” replied the Maeter, calmly, * that’s Pokin,” Abolitton of Caplinl Cunlvhment in Switzerland, Capital punishment has boen totally abollshed in Switgerland, The new peusl code of that Re- , pablio may bo briofly shmwarised: Howicide, cummlllgh voluntanly, is to be quatitied sy mur- dor, and puniehod with from ten to Lwanty years of eolitary confinenient, Premoditatod mindor (** with malico prepeuse’) fs o ba classod s - snesiation, punishablo “with solitary confine- ment for fifu, Aurder by poisoniug, aluo with the sawo pumshment, whothor dewth i ocos- sioued at onee or by a slow polson, If doath docs not result from the administration of poj- son, skie punishuiont 18 to be from ten to twent, yn:u 'huo u:r{ ooxmnemlnth For intautiolde, the unishoiont is solitary conlinemons £ th three nor more {Lu fiva yours, %5 Bet g