Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 9, 1875, Page 3

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: LITERATURE. A COMEDY OF ERMORS, . MienATS oF B, Ezexiet, Prien, Tlhustrated, e 1 05, Chitcaga : B, O, Grigun & Cou i b of thin story in vory skilifully woven, yot. the materials aro extiemcly situple. Tho twin brothers, John and Joseph Smith, are so slike In oxtornal appearance that their most fv- timato friondn are puzzled to dintinguish }Ju' dwoon hom. Joln is & morcy Jad, brim- ful of fun and mischiof; Lut Jomepht jo staid and oustero, with stroug Puritanical proclivilies. Loth Dboys adopt ' soafaciug lifo in carly youth,—the ono that ho may seo aud enjoy A8 much of this wn_rh\ RS NOBe siblo; and tho other, that lio way vigit heathen Jands, and in Indiroct ways advanco tie object for which the self-denying missionary fabors, For thirty yonrs tho brothors follow the son,— never once, duslog tho timoe, falling in with each ather,—and both at last come to the sottled cou- clusion thit tho other must havo perighed i #ome foreign land or in_sotne fll-fated voyage. In the mosutimo thelr paronts hisve pazsod away, and thqy are left without kindred, and aro for¢ gotton by the friends of their south. Finally, tiring of a wandering lifo and the hardsbiips of the mariner, tho Dbrothors, each with a bandsomo fortuna a3 the reault of his Toag years of toil, simultancously sotile in New York City, bat at remote points, aud entor luto divorso puranits, which tend to keep .lem saunder. Tho remarkable outward shmilitude existing 1n thoir youth contintics unimpsired, ay tho similar experiences of their nautical lifo have stamped idontical impreseiona o tho person and mannots of tho two. Josepl marries a homely but pions woman, who, like bimsell, is » strict and sanctimonious obsorver of the laws of thie Orthodox Clurch; but Jobn, still jovial and worldly in spirit, wins a besutiful daugltor of fashion for his bride, At tho opouityg of the story, the real of Jo- woph in bohalf of the Boathion tina Lrought huu to the uotice of ** The Ladica' Ioard of Foreipn Blisuions,” who dispatch thoir active membor, Bir, Lzokiol Pelter, 1o sooure o conferencs ity him, that they mlyflrom by hia lmowtedga of tho work they bave in band. Mr. Pelter vislts Yhe bouso of Jorepl, atd abtsius the protiso of n jmmedinto visit ab tho rooms of the Luard. "h! noxt day Mr. Pelter meota John in the streot, and, taking hint for Jokeph, Ineists pon tho instant sccomplishinent of the prowmiscd Vie- t, dobm, who it something of 8 wag, huniors what 18 to Lim oo anexplicable whum- oy of 8 disordored intollect, and is introduced 10 the presctcs of tho lased, Tlug ls tho be- ginuing of & long scties of bowlildoring nis- talics and misconstructions, growing out of the confaunding of the brothers, and involving them, and their wives, and the Board, 1n no snd of Iudicrous and serioun porplexitics. Tuo plot 18 sustamod with estromo ingotimity, aud tho partics Dlunder from one embarrassinent inty anotlier, uutil they wro lost in & waze of myn- erious, paiuful, and baMing circumatances. . In all the troubla, tho brothers do not cliance ta mect, and it never oceuts to either that the golution of the difficoltics luto whiclt Lo is thrown is the unsuspected misiaking of himsoll for bis twin. Up to tho very last pago the characters are working Llindiyat cross-purposcs, —soms In utter delusion, aud others in total Jespair. In the progresaof events, Mr. Lelter rovenls under the pkin of the lamb soma of the traits of tho wolf, and Josoph and i wifo ar- rivo at the humblo conviction that their piejy has exbaled i professlon rather than it practico, The story i8 8o awusing ihat the ordinary geador will “overlook tho minor faulls in ita exccution, Dut it is tho critic’'s duty to de- mand of & book which evinces such declaed izlout for invenlion a higher degreo of finisk i ?nlh xtyle and strdcture. /Iho work of compoxition basbeen done two Tapidly, and tlero is too much excellobee in the subject-matter to allow of ita buing siizhtod, Clover esis *"The Mis. baps of 3Ir. Ezekiol Pelter,” its authior canld, with careful patnataking, have groatly smproved upon it. Tlio best that ho can dois what wo re- quire of every book-maker, and wo can exouso noono who has faled, {rom Laste or ¢areless- neas, to come up to his Liglcat standard. ENGLISH HISTORY. X A Snont Histony or TiE Exusien Peortr, By J, R. Greex, 3L, A, Examiner in'the Brhool_of Mod: ern Listory, Oifurd, 12mo, pp. 847, Loudon: Macmillau & Co. fae [lovses oF LANOASTER AXD Yonx s Wirs TRE CodquEat aND Lovs o¥ Fnaxce, lly Joszs Uatro- xen, Editor of * The Puston Letters.” tte. i0mo., Ne k: Beriuner, Armetrong & Co, dded to the historical litera- ture of England & work whose usofulness is yeadily discernible. 1t in not a history of Kings or of wars, of the intrigues of the courtier or of the diplomatist, but of the growth and dovelop- ment of the groat body of the English people. In {ts acoount of their progrees, tho work that ‘Wycklit, and Chaucer, aud Caxton, sccomplishod for their elevation, isdwelt upon st gresterlongth than are the barren conquests of HenryV. in Franco, of the ddadly fouds between the Yorkist and Lancastrian. Throughout the narrative, the oatablishment of arts and industrios, the in- crease of learning, asnd the advance of soclal reforms, occupy the chief attention. Itis re- versing the ususl ordor of the historian; but the innovation is to bo applauded, Facts bear- ing on the religious, intalioctual, and lodustrial progress of & nation, have been too geterally * disregardedl in the records of the annalist. and, to obiain them, the student is compolled to rearch long in out-of-thic-way places, he ser- vice which Mr. Green rendera in makiog such in- formatlon nocossible is of no mean valua, The work is prefaced by an extensive rorieh of chronological annals aud geneslogical tables, and i:l})mvidnd with mapaand nnmpfisle indexes. In sddition to thls, each scction of the work is headed by & sbort eritical account of the chief contemporary authonties for the period repro- sontod, as well a8 of tho most nseful modorn wiorks in whl:h ‘n can llhfi :mmen. This ad- vantageons feature will be to many quite worth e cank of the book. " MMy, Greeu ghows himeelf 8o well vorsed in tha events of English history, and has produced so acoaptable a compondium, that it is difoult to account for an error whick chanced to fall undor onr eys in what was pecessarily a cursory exam- ination of the toxt. On page 265, the etatement in mada that Honry VL. **was s bov of 9 years old st bis fathor's death.” Mr. Qroon w of course aware, with everybody olfe, that Ienry VI, was au infant of 9 montha old at hiv father's death, It is strango that so glariug a mistake should escape tho vigilance of all concerned in the makivg-up of the book. Tho publishors desorva to ba found fault with for the narrow- hesa of the innor margin of tha pxgos. Tho stitching encrosches go Iargelv upon the print as to make it a matter of dificulty to read tho juner md.l‘l‘f tlha lives. **The llouses of Lancaster and York™ i the fourth in the excellent aories entitlod ** Epoohy of Hirtory," and edited by Edward J3, Morris. 1t is » r and couascutive socount of the oriod of the Wara of the loses, begiuniug with .thie nocession of Ricbard 1L, sud concluding with the averthrow of Nichard 11l The style of the writer 1a plain, and Lis information ia satislaoto- rfllu fullugss and authent; 'ue baok, liko the othors with wh’ich it in: ocisted, in to be warmly commonded. It is & cheap, compact, :::udn fonwuiaut hintory ot the apocl under treat- Haine awn Tarsa: Broviss s 'AlLs: B1UDLXs AXD BToBies or PETS, By Omaox Grexnwoon, Bquare ldmo,. m.”fla. New York s 3, B, ¥ord & Co, Tux Mumawioon Besies, 17T Qrzen Omi. By Yinapeus ¥ Towmeexo, Autlior of Only Girla, Grace Groenwood has a native talent for de- soriptive writing, which is not surpassod by that ol sy author In our country. ‘Thero (s nothing forced, affeatoed, or Iabored, 1n Ler narratlve, It da roady, volubte, blithe, and witty, bocauss it cannot help being so. ler thoughts'ean no more refrain from trooping forth in graceful, Pigturesquo, and merty images, than & sportive girl can keep beck the chatter, aud laughtor, ang dimples. Hor apltit has the gift of perennial youth, X Is slways fresh, sud frve, and glad; menslilve to Impresson: ro- flecting thern with the clearncss avd frauke mess of achiid. lsgot thl the oue uuiverssl trait of gonius? ¢ Gontus,” says Coléridge, s the power of carryiog the feslings of cintdhood i5to the power of mankood ;" aud Buvkin adds, *Tho whole difference otween a man of govius sud other mien, It hoe beeu sald s thousand times, and moit truly, I8, thet the frat romsine o great part a child, scelug with the large oves of children, In perpetusl wender, not cousciouy of much kuowledge,—~conscious, rather, of jntiu- ite ignorance, aud yet julinite power," The stories cddiy uamed * Heads and Tails 270 ploaeaut specimons of the grophio powors of the suthor, Bhe writes nothing thot is not live- Yy sud rosdsole, and children havo in years Padt beoa her favorite suditors, Like thew, ahe Lan s strong fondness for petn, and Toves ta tell what woudars of animal sagacity liave coma wider. hor kindly oteorvation, The book is brought out in very —attractive aivie by tho publistiers, Tho liminated fuilinla on the titlo- pogo are Jawels in tho wav of evgiaving. “rhat Queer Girl" fn subject to the pame criticismn that wa parsed, 1“ rernnt noticn, Wpe on anothier of tho stories of Wirginia Tovtend, Itin usheslthy, beeausd it aa unontural. No dwellers In this matter-of-fact world slcep nh bods_of rosss, awd fend on_ ambronia, and drob poarla of pootry, whennver they opsn’ their liyn in wpsech, Uonrin do nat grow up in New En- plaud farm-houkes, and aana people do uet carry on & melorkrama thronglall their ites, Human nattro Jnvanably has’'a prosaic ride. 2nd mirt fnositably at (lmes descond Ly epmmonniaces, Buttaera ls na batrayalof any st ysaibilliien in Mirn Fownsends novels. Her chnasters are exquirits and ethereal to tho laat. They havo nomors uushin with mortal beinga than the fairicn hayn, and tho part they plas in'a buslesqus on rem ifo. - Tha cloving nceno of clono copy of ths finale In *“Ono Womau's Two Lavers.” Tn hoth, tho bereiun plights hor tiath ovor the deathbed of hor solo rolative wl giiar- diau, aud. ronching ot her haia to her lore afier adl is oyer,—{dicaten, be her trasieal g ture, that £ho is Lis only, henceforth and sor- ever, it Qulet (itl " inn FLORAL GUIDE Viox's Promau GUIDE Ton 1970, 1 Jatues Vick, 1t ta ploasant to note enterpriao in the: prose- ention of auy purauit, auch as Mr. Vick displays inlls trado of & florlst. ‘Thoro ia something more than & mora love of monsy-gettity evident inhis efforts to dissemiuato o fonduess for flaweta among tha people. 1le lins sn honet desiro that all should know, as he does, tho sitnple onjoymonts and tho rofiniug intluences {hat como from the culture of plunts in the Louse or tho garden. {ls 1% adding his mito to ihe oducatiot of tuo tnasaes, by seuding out an- nunlly & floral eatalogno that not only coatainy avast amonut of Inettuction in foneuituro, Dt 18 really a work of mit, with s beawsiful let- ter-preas and multituda of fino engrasings. Thers §8 o good doal of hterary And sitisie tasto, aa well an botanical knowledge, bronght fnto requisition in tho getting-up of theso ** Uuiden." ond their ment descrves recognition. M. Vick could advertise tis busineas aa exteunivoly in waya which would not condnes Lo the estlietic cubiuro of his patrous, and we avs gateful that lie chionens v thear tho trauble of dofng tho Iat- ter, whilo hs necomplishes thie former vesontial pustlons, er, Rochonter: RIGITS OF CITIZENS, THE POLITICAL, PERNONAL, AxD Puorenty-RionTs OF A CITZEN ov THE UNITED Bratrs, DY Tic- OPILUS PAnsoNs, Chicogo: C. B, Beach & C. "'his is & work which business mon and othors will #ind very nsaful an n book of referonce, It cottains o fall discussion of the Constitution of tho Unitod States, aud of tna power of tho Fodoral Government 3 of tho Cunetilutions of tho soveral Statos ; chaptera on laboas Corpus, tho right bf porsonal seourity, frondom of spaech and of writing, religious profession, sufrage, the rights and duties growing out of domestic volntlong, ele. Tho third part treats of piop- erty rights end tho law of coutiacts. Thero fs an appendix, contaluiug alt Parliamontary lasw nocessiry to transact bueiness In ordinary de- liborative arsembliss, ‘Tho cliaracter of Ar. Dassond as a writer iu sufliclent guarantes (hat Lis work is well dona. AW OF SALE OF PERSOUNAL PROPERTY. A Turatiie bR Tne Law of Satz or I'EONAL PROPERTY, WITH REFERENCE To THE AMERICAY DECISIONS, AND TO_ THE PAZNor CODE AND CIVIL law, Uy'd, P, Dexsamis, Est. First Amerean Jdition, by J."C. Yenxsyi, New York: Hurd & Jlouyhiton, 1875, ‘Cho first edition of the book, published in 1808, was epoedily exhausied. Lmbodying tho substance of Bir. Justico Llackburn on Sales, aud contalniug references to all the most im- portant deciiona of tho American Courls, tho flmuuut odition of Mr, Benjamin’s work cannot but be found oxcoedingly secviceable #o the practitioner in this couniry. DOOKS REUBIVED, Tar oo or ReasoN, USIYERL Awn ErTaas. by La ¢, 1okocn, D, D, LL.D, 8vo., pp. 192, Leo & Blepard, ‘Tos Fenex Giex Szmms, Kowes oy e o ; o, Tur. Poon Bur's Fontunn, Dy ELUAR Kew 1oun, Author of * Elm Island Btories,” etc, Ilus- trated. 16mo., pp. 262, Bosion: Lro & Shopard, THE EVANOELICAL ALLIANCE VRIZE-ESAAY ON INFI- DELITY, INFIDELITY DISSECTED, Uy the Rer, sas PEABSON, Eyemouth, Scotiand; 12mo,, pp. Chicaga: Goorge MacDonald & Go, Tirz Brantivo, By Nonaw Sactrop, D, D, 12mo,, pp. 302, Now York: Dodd & Mead, Tux BEwILDERED QUERIATS, AND Orurn NoNseiar. Dy FRANGIS BLAKS: CROFT 12wo,, pp. 127, Now York: G, Putiam’s 8 Facta AND FAscirs: A CoLLecsiox or Porsr, Dy Joun Lpavsuaw Kave, 12mo,, pp, 340, Cbicago : George MacDonald &, Co, PERIODICALS RECETVED. National Quarteriy Ieview—Decomher (Ed- ward I. Hears, New York). Contents: * The Architocture of Great Citles;" “Sir Willlam Hamilton;” * Etiology of tho Atmosphera;” Ir. Dancroft’s Bodo of Writing Iistory:"” ‘oncil-Bketchen of Some Coileges snd Univer- sitiea;” ¢ T'ho Planet Yovus;" * Hints and Out~ lines for Paronta and Guardians ;" ¢ The Zsthot- 1ca of Homo,"” North American Review—January (James R. Oufiood & Co., Boston). Conteuts ‘Ihe Great Middle Roglon of the United Staes, and Iia Limited Aren of Arablo Land;” © The Nalive Racea of the Pacifio States;™ ** Risc and Fall of the Blave-Pawor in America;* ** Tho Wago- Fuod Theory;” '*An Episode in Muaicipal Goyornment.” American Dookseller's Guide for January (Amorican News Company, New York). Literary World for Jauuary (8. K, Croéker, Boston). Polter's American Monthly for January (Jobn E. Potter & Co., Vhiladeiphia). “American Natwralist tor Jonusry (Peabody Academy of Brieucy, Salem, Mass.), Took-Buyer for Docember (Scribuer, Arm- strong & Co., Now York), Jobn W. Iiline(s Schoolmaster” for Janusry Chicago Teabhwr for January (John \b, Brown). Cook and Edwin O, Hewett, Normal Il LITERARY ITRMS. “The Last Jouruals of Dr. David Living- stone™ will ba the firat important book of the year atthe Ilarpers. It may be expoctod in a Tow days. 1t is reported that ex-Marshal Dazaine in pre- paring & work which will, it [ said, contaln sumo ntarmnfl Tevalalions of Hacoud LEmpire, o [ which L threatoncd on tho eve of Lis trial to publlsts, Whils Mr. Dancroft, in ona seare, concludad lua hilatory with the tenth volume, in order that in tho event of lils death bis work might not go into literaturo a unfinished one, ho is now at work upon au oloveutt valumne, which at loast Lo Liopea to add to tho provious serics. The Catholio Pubtication Soclety will soon inaue, from advance sheets, two volumes ou the Gladutone cantrovorsy, one by the Very Rev. Johu lenry Newmsn, the other by Arclibishop Manuing. “The title of the latter in ** Tha Vat. lz:ag° ‘Pucrlel iu Thelr Dearings on Civil Allogi- uco. What (s sald to be tha strongest analys Tyvdeita, sohoot of thougns oo e of !)\lblllhall fmmediatelv by @, P. Putnam’a Sons, o+ Religion ss Affacted by Bodern Materlals ism,” by tho venerablo James Martinean. The volame is introduced to tho American publla by Dr. Bellows. A book on Bpiritualiem will be published by ¢ is by Mr, T the Applotons early in {he year, Francis Gerey Fairtield, who,” in glving th sults of **Ton Years Among the Bpirilua supporta & theory of the phenomena which seoma ta bo muoh liko that of the persousl mag- netio stmospheza propaunded loug sgo. George Bmith's * Assvrian Laploration au Discovery " will bs ™ublighed onpthll side ng Scribuer, Armstrong % Co., from duplioate plsfes, the middio of the month. ‘This iy the 1lual record of tho importsnt work sccomplished by this emluent scholar of the liritieh Museum 8 & correapondent of the London Telegraph, There has boen Iately discovered, in the War- Ofiice at Blocklolp, & mauusc work ootn. posed by special order of Charlos X11. Lo givean oxact doscription of the military successos of Bwedew upou tho Uontinent. The work isin tweuty voluniow, and has woro than 200 pages filled with drawings repieseuting tho flage takon in tho batiles and stoges up Lo xfim. A very iuterastiug work is oalled *The Durns Calendar,” sudis & manuul of events iu tho poat’s bistory, nanies associatod with bis lifo and writiugs, & coioso bibliography and a record of Burua' rolics. On of tho most curious features of tho work iu & list, ocouppyiug nina full pages, of the difforent 2ditions of Burus, Luglish an, foreign. O the Luoalish (including the Amori- can) oditlons Lhera ure 443 ; of lulg’lancb thr aud of tho Gonasy aigbico Romo futeresting statistics are. given of th Biblioticque Nahiongle. of Pagls, El)urlus the laat five wonths it bas reeeived 81,108 vopis of broks, panors, ef anly 1,200 were ratained, the rest boine sent to the paper mill. If the wond-work of the Lok- shelvos wera placed ond tr end it woutd rosch from Paris ta Naulss. Tha hbrary eontains 2. 075,471 voiumes, 2 11 10 manuseripts, 8,84 maps, and 130,000 pawpialin, Whittios reeantly wrote aa followa eoncarning hin literary worka: *Ihave not felt ablo to placo a very Ligh estimato npon my writings. kuow too well their doficiencien,” But I pave given tha public the bost I had to give, aud the measuro of favor with which it has been ro- oeived bas boen a constant mirpyife to me. This, &t 12ant, | can way traly, that I hava been actnated by & tugher motisa thian literacy muccers, and it ban bren my dewite that whatever influrace mv srriting mav exert should be fonad on the ride of tnorality, freedont, und Chitistian chantr.” The Quarn of and, it in Anid, ham ex- presead jrent dreastistaction atthe publication uf tha Cirevillo Mewoirs, 1 thiclt varous savince am! doingn of lier a s nra jutted down with @ certan frank Innfazen o a ta whono corna are tanned upon, Al with a provoking cloaruesn an nenty of #tyie, Lho cun- Hoquenca han baen o catl fur now editiona. * One of tha_curmy reof thn wor's e that Macuulay toli the liad 3rad Rietride oS *xir Cha * Uiraugh ffteon timon, Trorae volumey sero [alele aollat anction by tienie A, Leavitt & o of thiy o wan Thomas Jelfe:aom's own cony of | ontho Statoof Virginia, London, 1 was aunotated by his own’ hands. and contmncd other wanusenpt additions, Tt brought 4 160, Tlo other was a ealtectinn of Amcrican Stal trin'n: < The pracesdingg of the Genetal Matinl for tha trisl of Mal.-Genw. fee, July L 17793 e, Cinjr, Aug. 25, 1778 ¢ Szhmvier, Oct. 3, 47745 Arnohd, § 3 and rmnrmlm;:x\ of a Board of Genenl Oficers, held by order of Gien. Washington, rerpectiye Maj. Jol "sudrv\, Ariftane.Geniernl of Botiah Avmv, Hafe, 20, 1730, In con volume, {0l v i the nossesrion of Charles Broven-cn, cnrv of Congrees, nod Tos £200.— an Biblivpulist. Originnlly pabliahed at £42,—s0 thal it would cont in_this macket pems £100—tha “ Tarner Gialiery,” 3 hich 4 sixty nuperh ateel en- ravivgs, | aliv " cugiavers, from that masior's most imparisnt works, heelios por- trait, was one of tho finest * pallerios " that liad bocd praduced, 1t hew lstels decided by the Boglish publshers tomake a reisane of 100 copira only of thts siperb work, in whieh, matead of the electrotypo plates, tho origls nal steel platon sslil Lo printed from, and of thia Mr. f, W. Bonton, Now Yo'k, in the Al can publisher. The edition will Lo au i Tolio, on laiga raver, Tnid'n proofse and copiea ara ofmered jin half-potiztied lesant extra al tho priesof $110. Mr. Botiton, e may add, wii be- come with the now year tha Amerscan pulilinhior of tha l'orifulio, dir. lismozton's well-known otehing monthly. It is snnounced that in the conrso of noxt weelk Lha Lieat twvo volumen of Protdion’s Cor- reapondente " will bo published in Parla, This swork, com iled from o fawer taan 2,000 leiters forwarded_to Mdllo. Proudbioa by her father's correapundents, conaists of cight volumea of more thai 40) pages eachi, 1ty publicaticn will, aceordilg ta tho Zeencment, ha s rovelation ovan to thoso who havo known Prowdhon and fed upon hls works, since, an this Journal adda, “the few Iettors of (s emicent writer quoted by Hninte-Deuve, and which have aprearsd In_ dilforeut collections. have until now glven bnt o very feohblo notion of the Joftinesn of view, tho cuersy of exyression, tho Independence of fidgmeut. advl tho dixdaln of eocial couvoutionalitica importod by Proudhion into his familiar intercourss with bia corre- spondents, kuown and unkoown, in which ho gave tho rein to lisangry mooila, and, g0 to spoak, laid barn his widlo thought The Zrenement publishes two lettors to Mdme, U'Agouit (Dsnicl Starn) in which Proudhon fally fonl of (tcorgs Sand and Becearla for their ad- vocacr, the one of fenfalo oufranclhiroment: and tho othi-r of the abolition of capital punishment, In & munner which fully justifics the acconnt given of it by this journal.—Pali-Vall Gazelte. Idonot know whether Misa Florence Mar. ryatt's noveis find thelr way to Now York, If #0. it may interest thoso nho read them to hear that Misu Florenca is carrying on n literary fight with Misa Angusts, bor sistor, in which tho Jat- ter, I regrat to say, has aiready boon terribly punishod. Miss Augueta Marryatt was, porhaps, hot far wrong whon she described Miss Florsnca Marryatt's novela as * senrational ? and ridicu- lous.” It mayovon bo true, as Mirs Augusta Mniryatt has alloged, that Miss ryatt, by bor atyloof writing, family namo ioto contempt, It is certain, at il osonts, thag Dilss Floronea Marryatt having, long since, married Mr. Toss-Church, has legally lost all right to call horself by tho name which Capt. Mayryatt, hi ather, rondered illustrious. Dut she possosses a pon land o public, wherens her indiguant sister has only a pen ; and while Augusta can only protest agaiuat the novel-writing propensities of Flor- odco, Floronce gan introduce Anugusts into & novel. This sho has, in fact, dons. She bas at ibo aswo time palniod hiorsolt us » ouug Iady of great literary ability aud of genoral oxcellonce, Za very much botter person, in short, than Aa- pusts ; for which roason Augusta hates Ler, sud s made to say agalast ber n the novel ths vory words which 8o’ is known to havo msid agaiust fier in actusl lifo.—London Correspondsiice of the New York Times. Boveral of the jobbing honses in town state that their aales for somdo of tho fall montha of 1474 were doublo those of the respective months of 1873, The great flres and the panio, In puc- censlve years, had made every one cautions and reduced stocks, so that booksellers wero com- nelled to buy, sod enpecially on the twoor three days bofore Christmas orders chased ench ather by telegraph with romark- able rapidity. The tondency of the year has beon to eplarro tho sales of the more taking books and to let the poorer onsa alovo, Dr, Iolland’s ** Miutress of tho Manso," reachied its_tweuty-fourth thousand in one fall soason, and on & single day, about holiday time, tho ordars for it equaled ‘those for sll” Bcribne: other books together, Tho * Dric-a-Brac™ books, from the sane house, have averagod & sale of about 5,000 each, At the Applatons’ the revised * Cyclopedis ™ has sold at the start two or threo times as many copies as the original work, saccessful as that was, and the costly * Picturasquo Amorica” sold ' ln_numbots, by subscription, bLas nveraged probably bo- tween 40,000 and 50,009 copies per pum- bor, Tbrougb ihe rogular trade, the *In- taroational Scientiflo Berion " bias wold admirably, Dr. Draper's book nrowising to reach tha high- est point of any of the volumes. ‘Che success of the Itev, E. I'. Roa's latest navel, *The Open- ing of a Chestbut Burr,” bas bosu another filua- tration—she ninil thousand was selling at tho close of tha year. At Dold & Mead's, tho Rev, J, B. C, Abbott’s * Pioneers Patriots" serien hove averagsd mt loasd 4,000 to the volume. Longfellow's ** Hanging of the Crane” Las had what is probsbly the widost ssle of any Ameri- can volumo of its kind: 5,000 copies were dis- posed of almost at once, and hy Christmas tiue, it iu stated, ono jobling liouse in the East was buyiug up all the individual covios it could lay hande ou.—New York Tribune. WHAT SURVIVES ? Tlietr namos who famous were of old Aroantiquated ; long ago alllus, Orasr, Belyiio, Wero with forgiten men enralled: Auguatas, fadrian, Aulonine— Thero ls an end to all the lue, Vhero la e Liaud tat yraapid (be sword ? “Thu Lirow that wore tho ladem? Lot the grave anawer, if it can; Bpeak, opork, thou daat that once was man | "Fiis hotlow grave retnrms 1o word— Qbitvion long haw burind them. This fata fa theire, oud this alone, Who i 8 woudraua way Lave shons, Tor all the rest, who gu to duath, Av s00m aa they ieattie out (i breath, Thoy are gouo—pursuit of then lx vain, And'no niun apeaks of thea ayain ! Btuco all 1g dust, theu, what r Tat suould emplog our seious (uiva? Just though, ae If the s were Ly Guna deeds and words waich nevor {is A disposition that vecelven— Arceyts what happiens, snd belleves r1ug from which it fows, by a to which it gocs, Thougl by o mortal understuud, 8 1s nocessary, wise, sud £ d. reat nanies have perislied ; this survives, Aud shapes the uee of our Ji —It. I, Stoddurd in the Independent - A New Niampshure Vilinges + Bouth Seabrook (s a New IHampslure village oneo known as Perditionvil'o, in consoquence of its bad reputation. ‘I'lie inliabitauts wera uucowm- manly dapraved,tiie publin schiool wax absudoned, amd there was ho religlous organization of any kind, Ho ent off from the surroundiug places Ly thelrimmorslity wers thess uoopls, ummanyul.u a pucntlsr dialect. Haveral years ago, the Rev, Wiilisny Itavg, an Ep opalisy, was ssut thoro 2 & miuslonary, avd thronkh hiv esynest efforta Houth Soabrools Las gradually lost itebad charac- teristicn b a groat degroe. Ar. land wes ro- ceutly marnied in bis church, and, as denoting tho yet unoorseoted habits of (ho people, it was uoticod that & plaosrd near the pulpit reas, + Goutlemen will not syils on tho iloor or smoko {u this room," Tho malo wpeciators sat with thetr Liuts on, and frightencd the bride by giving thrae | rousiug chieors st thie close of the ceromony. lorence Mar- s briuging the 8 TR ALBATROSY. The Giaat Wandeting Albatroen (Dionedea erntang) aboundi n the Bouthern roaw, ospeciatly iu tha vicinity of Capa of Good Hope. Itis the largest of the web-fuoted birls, meanuring 30 t0 12 fect from tip to tip of wing, and weigh- ing from 18 tn 20 pounds. Tt in olften mat with long distances front land, snd somatimes alighta to reat on the rgzing of ahipe, It wes tho alooting of this birl tuat brought Coleridge's “ Ancient 3 aner? quto troubis—iy Leing re- gorded not culs st friendiiness, bug with uperatitionn reveronce, by raila. wiio ars caro- ful to proteet it ficin haria when etcountered at nea. Tn Decambar laut, tha Challenzer expedition, thn Punes Edward Islands, which lie abaat 1,10) miies ta the sontawest of the cuntinuny pum- o eliatri9a vawting on tho fiat, 7 Tauda of Aarion aland. ons of the o 13 wan tho Lemnning ol the dreeding 10 nusta of (ho binls wore Trophly biiis of 1uits of prass aud moxs, to the Tiseht ot 4 foel. & nolitars ogia tio deporit of 1hn regdon, and thie ia whiln, with a clastorof #pota at ths lsger end, aud measuies about 4 e, and tha o wuppls. Thoy fo 1 obbing tho Lostn was to ek the mothersbird— lich, on being discarhind, wonll tate uz ot o Lus o a wtick pr s o tople ove; and chuney Initw movements, 7 ol rerzaly 1ta feet, tha ege Was eaptie ‘Tin Hight of tho nibalrows s exceedinels gracerul, 3he motion of its wings b i that it #rchis to flnat 1 the ar mthont the effo:d ol provulsion. s lacomation on land, Low- ever, 15 in ihe last degreo awkeard. Tt «hi's with dilizuliy, the momentwn of it continuing fte 1t fret have ¢ ehed the ground, aud gonding It jiterally hea'l over-henia on to ity Laek, from which ridiculous posivon 1t recovera after a good deal of equicming and flonndering. 1t walks with extendad neek and ths mde to-sids wadsle of a goose muunt nto the air, it is comprllad toran with xpand- of winpy for pomc 200 varda hefors it cttaine ruflic!&:)t impetus to raie2 its welzht from the sronnd. Tho alhatross faeds upon fish and moliaaca, but 18 not averre to carrion of any k° 1tin voraclons In habit, and will gorge itsell Lke the vulture when food jsabundant, It then sils motionless upon the water until the work of digsrtion I8 over. When alarmed in this con- ditton, is-will disgorge the food i ita crop, and, thus lightened, roar off i fhght. Home spocies will, when frritated, oject an ofly fluid from the manth oryontritv, Rometimer fathpechmens of the albintrosn are used for lamps by simpls rauning, & wick through the bady. There are eight aracies of the genuo, thres of which are found ou the- Pacillc coant. Tha wandering nlbatrass has, ac- according to Cones, nevor boen observod near our ghores. POTSONS. Wo nioticed, & faw weoks awo, the actlon taken by the Amerivan Acadamy ot Bcience, at e last meeting, upon tho Injutious results lkely to is- suo fromthe free use of Paris green and cther poisons fo the exlermination of insects. Tho idea was advauced by Prof. Lo Couto, and in- dorsed by the Academy, that the continual and extepsive use of mineral poisons, suchas at ptesont prevails in the great fight with the pota- to-beetlo, might endin ro vitiating the soil an ta rander it Larren, or the poinon might even in- foct (ho vozetation and make it baleful. In sup. port of thin argament, & cate was cited where he fumos of & eopper-works in Massachuariig )mllmjurud the surrounding forests aud grass- lanls. The discnzninn has f8d to the recital of a simi- Jar investigation in_ Europs, which was puranad come yoass aga. Prof. Fiovtaz, of Doun, was b ous tima cmployed to study the effoct upon vegetation of the frmos from two of tho larzest coppor-works in Turope, situated in the pame town, In his report, the Professor contendarl that thoe ground conld not be injared by the amoke from the woris, although thls contained copper. sulphur, lead, zinc, arsenic. antimony, and other metals. 1o affirmed, also, that plants could not _tako up these poisons, and showed : that healthy cattle were raised in tho immediate vicinits of tha worke, The injury whick vegetation might receivo trom the poison- ona fumes, in his opinfon, would como from the condoneation of the latter by ralu. dew, eic., and tho deposition of the acid liquor upon feliaze, eeting and dostroyivg its tissuen. Solid particles might also bo depositod upon the plants, choking their porsa, and, in_so- lution with rain, corroding their substance. Animals eating such fodder would fail to obtain nourishment, and, if solld poisous _remained on tho leaves, would be poisoned, Thess vievs. which aro cntitlad to consideration, are in direct antagonism to the theorios of T'rof. I.e Cente and othar mombers of the American Academy. Tlis dejeterions effeet of polsons in coloring matter is_exciting poneral atteution, At tho Glasgow Philosophical Bociety s _paper wan re- cqutiy read by Mr. Jomes McFarland, detailivg experiments made by him to ascortaln the na- ture of the coloring material in wax-tapers, The results of lus teats aroas follows: White tapers were found to be harmlesa: Litle ash. Yellow tapera were also proved harmless, being colored with chromate of lead; ash, metalll Blne tapors, harmless: colared with ultramarine, Ited tanern proved highly polsonous, contatning 1.43 per cent of vormilion; slightash, Greentapers also praved poisonons; color dnie to armcnic: motailic ash; quantity of arsenic, about1 per cent, SPONTANROUS COMBUSTION, The quastion of epontaneous combustion bas attracted moro or less attention from ecientists since 1092, Varlons French eavants have re- farded the phevomenon as possiblo; but the Germans, s Casper and others, have refused to accept any argument in its support, M. de Chassaignol has conducted » rovision of all the cases on record, and finds that no medical man nor trustworthy observer has ever witnessod the phenomenon, o obtsined evidance of it acenr- renco at first hand, Numerous authars have de- claved that Mia human body hurns with a blue flame and the production of empyreumatic odor ; and 1t has baen deemod plausible that the alconol with which the tissues of drunksrds are satwiated might take fire. Tut, after death, the firsh of drnoksrds does nat eppear to be moro inflammable than that of temperate porsons. Even when it hss been wosked in alcotiol tor sovaral days, it burns with difficulty. Aftor injecting tho vemna of dogs snd other uitaln with aicoliol, 1t has becn found imposat- bla to affect this combustion. It has been sug- gosted that inilsmmable gases might be genorat- ed; but no case of the kind has boon proved, On tho whole, M, do Chassaignol arrives at the conclusion that the spontancous combustion of » liviug animal caunol suko place. THE SIONAL SERVICE, Thoro ara 125 Signal Borvica Siations fn the United Btates, 5§ iu the Iudson Bay Territory, 6 in the Weat Indics, and 9 in the Canadian Prov- inces. Therenaroalso 20 river-stations in tho Misalsglppi Valley, for tho purposs of recording tha varying helght of the wator. The traioing school for the Bignal Bervice Corpaof (ho United Ftates Is at Fort Whipple, whero the studantsaro thoroughly instructed In their duties, includin) tho use of moleorologieal iustrusaenty and mil- itary tolographing and wignaling. Tho average cost of maintalnivg esch station is $516.50, ex- clusive of 1he cost of telegraphing reports. The total force connoctod with the service compriscs 217 Sergeanss, Corporals, sod privates, AL Bt Panl Isisud, Alssks, which 18 tho interesting lo- eatlan of one of tho atations, tho coldeat temper- atuco noted during the past yesr was 8 dntz. Fabhr- ouhait, occurring in Januaty, The warment was 53 deg., which oceurred in May, Thogroatest raiu- 1all was in Decomber, and was 5.00 iuchas. DIMINUTION OF FISIL At ibie Doston meeting of the Massschuaetis Anglers' Association, Nov. 3, Nr, loujamin P. Waro preseuted a comnaunicstion discussing tbe causes of the gradual and steady diminution of fi~hien and Jobuters on tho coast of New Euglind. ‘Che writer reforred tho docruaso of the former to the practice of liue trolliug forcod sud had- dock, which deatroys greal numbers of flsh without utilizing thom as food. ‘The shipment of linddock-spawn Lg Frauce, to bo used as sar- dine-bait, has onconragod the caviuro of theso flsh boyoud the r::}mrem-nz for fuod, dutlng the spawning sesson of April and May. “The taking of wackerel by seines, nstond of lues, is also considersd by Mr. Ware an likely to deplete their numbers in & very shiort time. MILK. Dr. Iacabi, of Now York City, hasbeen parauing aseriauat importautexperlmants testing the qual- ity of wilk furnishiod to city-consumers. Tho pub- lio will beave & sigh of relief ou hearing that the oonclusion 4o whick' the Dootor hias been brooght SATURDAY. JANUARY 9, 1875.~TWELVE PAGES, ons I8 mach moro favorable than could have boen hoped. In tho frequent teatn mads to discover Lhe prosance of Atarch, hms, gum Arabic, and otber foreign substances. milk, riot ona of them has evor been found, Dilu- tion with water may be common, but the Doctor in of tito opinion thst what is calied * swiii-fed * milk in 8 Jons deloterions food than it ise beon represonted. 16 nlau beliovon thiat ' Tho cansen of the Iarge nnmber of deaths atenbutod 1o rwilk nutlk, Lefore, duting. auwi after the awill-milk agitntion in New York, years sgo, are iv e sougiss for elvowhere. BIVALVES. Tt in telated in & foveicu ncientific Journal that & fresh-water clam was, daring s voyage from Australia to Eoglsnd, kentina perfecily dry 11as for 231 days. On being thrown into water at the expiration of that tiwe, it zave avideuca of being hoalthy sud hivelr. Arrived at Sontli- amplon, 403 dave after leaving its native waters, the mallnke was 1estored to the liquid element, when it immediste's opened s valves and 1o- sutged (ta nanal habtis, Recant experimonts havo shown thet other nivaives hava an tnnus- pestad power of relaimng life. A Hamon, of Nan ey, ones had oceasion to 1aave & basket of ovgtera untonched for keventeen consecutive # in the hotteal term of summer, When es- amined afterwards. thev wero found to he unin- Jared, thongh (hey tad not besn freated to & drop of water in ali that time. On being placed 0 brad a4 Cavcote, theustne ogaters thiove his- unantly. AN AWFUL DEATH, Aatonishing Brava —-Dying Speech B ST Diwatelfo the tlo on the Scaffold from a Doowmed n Francivn Chroni-le, Canvoy, Dec, 20.—A% 2 o'eloci to-day Joho Mutnhy expiated on tha gallows the murder of John . McCalium, Murphs's crime was cotn- mitted on the 12th of Iast May iu a public strect of Carson o w0 At 7 o'lock yesterday toorniug I visited him again, a¢ s owi request. o Lnd just riscu, aud, calhing for a Loitla of wive, invited mo to driwk a toast with mm, Tdid so, and the sou- fiment given was: * Ilorc's to & Lappicr meet- Ing." The room was very cold. and to warm Ing feet ho danced a livety Jiz on the iron floor. Just befora leaving, ho sad: ** Dou't foraet. 1 am not » Toms Pane man; | believe in God and Spirituatism. Herc 1s & emall pioco of my max- useript: yout may keepit.” It consisted mainty of esiracts from works by Bpirjtuahstic authiors, of which the followiug are samples : De patiznt in all your sctions and lberal in all your yiews, Lova man for what he 18 to be not for what he is. Folow the promutings of vour own soul. Care not for tho sneota aud rid- icnla of the world The time haviug arrived for visitors Lo retire, I bade Murphy pond-by, aw! was on tho point of retiring, when the doomed man took my hand, aud, Liojding 12, thauked mo for ealling to see to-morrow, and would like to sav a few words. I am nat guiity of murder. killed McCallum in self-defense, and lave com- smittod no crime azaiust the lawa of man, but againat the laws of God. Inob sentenced to Lo Lianged becaues I killed a man, but because 1 am & poor man withoul influential friends. Buot lct that go. I julgo no man, and by ho may will Us judged. “With tne one Gud of heavon and carilt 1leave wy case. When e forgivee. man should not coudernn. Tho diving influenco of Splritualism bears mo up snd austaivs mo through all my trials."”, 'I'his morning at 8 o'clock Murphy aroee zod asked for lus Ureakfast. Aa uaual. it consisted of flsh, eggs. shorry wioe, etc. I talked with Lim durng the momivg sgain. He seid he had paseed n quiet nignt, but had beon. as usual, visited by epints. He was gloomy, inorose, aud in bad humor slt {ho morotug, complaining of debility ausd stomach-sche. 1e dressed immediately after breakfast for the scaf- fold in the same cluthes 8 on the previous duy appointed for Lis execution. e said he was ready and wiiling to die, but violently denounced ing bim and the Board of Pardous for not commuting his sentence. Afterward he jusisted thet bo srould coma back to aarth and biaunt thetn, and that they, though upmercifal. will yet lve toree tho day when they will want mercy. Theie wero but fot peo. pla” in town, sud little excitement pravailed. Thirty or forty were assemblad around the jail dvor, and & gevelal Toeling of wbhuvrrence and Dity seermed to provail. ho artaugewests for the execulion were mxde under the direction of Shentf Bwift. Tho vcevs and implemsuts of deatls wers the fame 16 on the provious_oceasion whon urphy wan 1ol to e3ecution, Bheri@s 8haw, of Lyon, Javd 20an, of Douglas, with several officers from Vir- gina City, wero pressnt. AL12:80 the deomed may waa fed out of his cell and placed in & _car- Tiage, which conveyed lum to the scatfold, Dur- 10g the ride e retaised Lis composura and non- cliatance, and from his conduct it 18 evident that 16 did not fully reatize the awlul wature af his imponding tate. He talked to the Sheriff and Doyuties in a free and easy mauncr. As the carriaze passed tho raiiroad track he turned to Bwift and said: ** I wonder where Bridges s ¢ refernug to the woman who ran along the track upon tho occasion of his former ride in that direction. 'Lho officors wera deoply im- pressed with a seuss of the im\m\ duty they ‘Were about to perform. Murphy was by far tho least melancholy of the paity, ~Arniving at the seatlold Murphy Tmountod the stand, snd seating himaelf, with his logs crossed, waited calmly. The Sherilf resd the lengihy death-warrant, tho condemned man smilingly the whilo, 8ad at the utterauce of the words, *‘Doad, dead, dead!” gave oxpression to a hollow laugh. During tho reading of the warrant Murphy walked scross the seaffold for a drink of water, and, the oflicer pausiog, he sald: * Go on, Sberiff, I hear you." Murpby bad arked for an hour to speak, aud by his preparation it wes evident tbas be intendod to oceupy all tho time allotted bim, Striking » dramatio attituds, bo begwn ; “To the President of the Btate of Nevada, scals Ieaven sud carth to witness this §rult injustics which is about to Le perpetrated! Dy all the gquds 1 am not guilty of murdor. If I cau but Conviuce thesa poople of wy inhovence 1 cire not for the veidict of all your juries, I novor thonght betore that I nae worth nanging. Bet- ior wen than I havo been Lung aud will be ogain, Gen. Washington wou'd bava been Lung it he had not suceceded, in that evens be would have been a traitor: now ha is & patri- ut and a hero, 1am but a simple mso doomed to bo hauged for committiug & crimo which you call murder. 1 deny the charge. Tue firat yer appotnted us miy defouso took my teati- mony aud my witnosses put them in bis pockes aud walked away with them. Gou. Clarke was then appoluted my couusel. Il bas dono all in i much as if 1 vuira rich, but of you_walking tho streats aud whi @il I Lofe Bebiud Me." Bhotiff Switt aud hin daputles Lave baon very kind tamo, I Lavo no cause of complaint, Thay hava done all in thor pumer fo make my T8t days oudurable, 1 awm not & Clristisp. 1 dony tho charge. I don't oven beliove in your Bible, ba !l !la! Tama soldier, a sailor, aud & wontleman, au not afraid to die.” Aurphythen entered uoon a long protest ogainst capital punishwent, sud endiug, ** Lhero 14 another puor unfortunste man sentencod to be Lauged it your State day after to-morraw. For God's sake, 8avo his hfe,” You can do it 1f vou try. 1t ia worse than murder to hang bim." "Aftor roading oxtracts from tho works of Judge Edwouds, lio sskod for & chew of to- buceo, and rapoated s poeat of great length fu Beotcly dialect, said to ava beon dictatad by the wpirit of Robert Burna to Lizzle Dalau, Bpiritus istio lecturer, Murphy walked uneasily to aud fro upon the seafold during tha delivery of tha speech, and powtiug o the motley crowd of mion, women, hoodlums, [udians, and Chinamen congregated on the Wnllsido to witnoss the exocu- tlon, taid, * Wall, thoy have come to oo ino off.” Kuoeliug, ho read & praver from his book, aud, rising, said to the Bheriff, 1 am ready.” Ho stood up under tho fatal noose, and hold up Lis clonchod flut as if 1n dotiauco, Tho Sher- h¥ approacled aud pinioned hin nnmi‘dll):rn:g ike 10 the oporation Murply remarked: ivo tiose Judges & littlo rub, by Boeing & riend in tho crowd, Le sang out, *Ilello, Bweeny! " aud then bis eye caught that of ro- porter, and kio sait, * You're & reporter 2" “ Murphy,”'anawared tha refortor, ol just toll thom that you'vo secu mein A tight place,” ‘Che Sheriff was then adjusting the fatal noose. Those wore the last words of Jobn Murphy, ‘The black cap was then drawn over his Lead. Bherif Snut and Deputy Sheir Condon shook bhands with him, the bolts of the drop were drawy, sud Jobn Murphy way launched into etornity, Ho dropped at’ 2:05, aud at 2:25 waa cut down dead, No physicisns were prasont, slthough invited by the Bheriff. ‘The black cap wad rajoved snd the o found torolain its perfect natural appearacce, Tuo body was placed in a plain cofiin aud taken to the burying-ground by the Corouer. Bheriff Bwift mounted the scaffold and uttered sowo wevere stricturea upou the physicians of Carson, which were spplsudad by tho crowd, after which the crowd dispersed., Murphy bad no rolatives lying, oxcopt two slsters, one.of whom 14 in Loudon, sud the othior in soma village fu Scotland. 1t was his ul{mulpq\lnt that they should uot be advised of lus fate. FAMILIAR TALK BENEDICT AND THE RENEDICTIN 8t. Benediet, tha fonnder of mon: m in Wentern Europe, was born st Nursis, Italy, in 440. At an eariv nga he wan placed undar the tuitica of the most learned doctors, that he might gain the education and sccomplishmanta befitting the heir of a rich and honorable family. Whilo yet a bog, tne inclpient monk exhibited a horror of the prevailing dissolute- nossof the times, and, in solitary prayoe and fasting. eought s refuge from en-rounding tamplations, And elrangth to appose tha powera ofevil. At1h as it is Aaid, tio left 1t toannd the care of his purse, Csrilia, and ratiesd to n derert placo now known as Subiaco, whore hio remained thieo veare, devotad to those ascetic practices calealated to mablas tho flesh ana harmuoniza the apint with tha will of God. Il Loly zsal soquired him ereat fame, and multi- tudes of the curions and the religiona resorted to hitn. 8o many of tho wealthy youth of Tomn were tiaed under bis suporvision. t trained in ghostly affairs, that L was enald a:taklish twelvo monastaries, Theso wer mora thian relieion colleses, hittln havinz for theie prims purpons the development of the Rpiritud 16 vear 520, Bt. Donedict established monaatery at Monto Cassine, near Naules, ahici becamo ote of the mont wealthe and famonn tn Traly. and wan the firat of tho lienadictine Orler. l” Tounder was not a learnel ma:. b ! Te had voted Lis 1ifo ton exclusivelv tu roligiona mat- 13 to acqwre the acenmplishmonta of a bl ¥et hin anrociated the value of education. aud inndn 1t a part of the dixcinline of his order it ity members ehonld employ their Jersure in the ins:rustion of santh, in eopring manuscripts for the librasy, and in otl.or occupati ducive Lo the extenson of knowledgze. in obedfience tn rtion of their dircipling that the lenedictinos heeamo the most learnad of &l the wonhastic orlera. After tho ecighth canlurr ther wero the chiel asents in the din- acmination of Clristianity, civilization, philos- ophy. and litersture, in Wenteru Lurops, A branch af tos Quder of St. Denedict was founded Ly Cluguy. early in the tenth century 3 zuother. nnder t| name of tha Carthusians, took its name in 1044 : a thirl, tlo Cistercians, in 1104 3 the congregation of Monte Cansing was established iy 1403 :"that of St Vaune, in 1609 ; aud that of i Maura on the Luire, i 1627, Thia last congregation bas renderod immaunn mervices to literature. It has numberel many of tue most celebrated ncholara of Franen in its ranks, and bas contributed & largn number of profonn treatises to the various de- partments of knosledze. At one imeitia said that tha Order of_St. Benedict, withits branches, Dad as mauy as 37,000 mounsteries, In England, most of the great sbbav, aud aill the cathedral priories_excapt Carliale, Lelonved to it, The famous Melrose ALLey, of Beotland, wae a house of this Order. An ides of the fufluence and power of tha Tonedictines may be gained from the ststement that **Popa John XXII, who died in 1434, afior u(. :‘:nc quiry, found that, since tho firat rise of the Ocder, tliere bad been of it 21 Papes, near 250 Curdiualn, 7000 Archbishops. 15,003 1 shops, 16,03 Abots of renown, and above 4,000 Saiutr, There Lase Lecn hikewise, of this Order, 40 Emperora and 10 Luipresses, 47 Rings sud above 50 Queens, 2) pon« of Emperore, and 33 2008 of Kinga ; about 101 Princrasns, danahtors of Kings and Emperors ; ekides Uikes, Marauises, Tarls, Countoanen, ote., innumerabis The Or- der has produced & vast number of authors and other Joarned men. Their Rabanus Aet un the school of Germany. Thetr Alcuin foundi tho Uviversity of Pans. Tacir Dionyaius 1. perfected ecelesiantival computati Guido iwvented tho realo of masic: their S vonter, the oigan. They boast to have nroduced Auralm, Tllefon=ua. and tho vouarablo Bade.” In tho ffteenth century tho Bonodietines had 15,107 monasteries ; But, after the Reformation. there wero left only 5,000, At proscnt there aro said to bo not above 800, As tho timo of the French Revolution, the anlondid conventual buildings at Bt, Maur wera destrayed ; bit thoy bavo since Goen rovived. ‘Tho Denedictincs formerly bora the nama of * Black Manke from {heir dresn, which consits of & long biack gonu, with & cowl or hood, and & ecapulary. THE VOYAGES OF THR ZFX0S. o 1569 there was publisked in Venice, by the booksellor Marcolina, a romarkablo acconnt of the voyagesinthe North Atlantic, toward the closs of tho fifteenth century, of tho brothers Nicolo and Artonio Zeno, It claimed to be written by & descendant of tho Zenos, into whose posses- sion Liad fallsn the correspondence of the tso navigators with a third brother, Carlo, a man of wealth and high position in Venice. From these lettors, which contained e dotailed acconnt of the adventures of the Zenos, toxether with a rude map {llustrating their voyages, the published hiatory professed to bo compiled. Thero was much of sbeolute fable in tho narrative, but thero was also sirong evidence tuat important portions of it wero authentic. The paper hay proved a very applo of discord amopg men of Selence, and much sble and searching diecussion bat bLeen espended to provo that it was both falee and true, Its story wan accepted by the distioguishod geogravher Molte Brun; Von Ifumbolde, while acknowledg- ing the doubts that obstracted it, obaerved that 1t is straightforward, and contains detatied descriptious of objects of which nothing in Eu- Topo could havo given the idea:" and whole volumes wero writton in its cupport by scholars of Jesa renown. In 1833, Capt. Zahrtmann, of the Danish navy, subjected thn document to & most sovers examination, by which ho arrived at the conclu- slon that it wan a forgerr, His trlal of tho work was conductod in 80 masterly s mannor that tho decision to which it leil was gonerally accoptod 18 & complrte_dispostion of "the matter. But again » fresh ehamplon of tho Zenom hbas started_up, and the controveray is open- od with renewed activity, Mr, R H Mnljnr, Socretary_of the Itoyal Gieograph- fcal Bocloty of * London, haa tecontly (1571) published the resultsof a minute investigation of tho etory of tho Venstian brothers, winch tond strongly toward the restoration of ia lost credit. The question is one which muat praba- bly remain for all time unsettled ; but, 8o long as 1t fs cousidored worth the repeaied and pro- lnn‘:e-l study of acientists, it will bo rogarded with Interest by the public, « The point which gives tho subject itn chisl Importauc is the efaim srt up for the Zenon, that they were among the earliest diecoverers vt Americs. The history of their voyages ix, iu brief, as follora: In 1140 Nicalo Zeno, & Vene- tian of rank, fitted out a ahip and ontored on s tour to Eneland and Flanders, 1le mot with tempestuoun weather, and was wrecked on tho Island of Fristand,—suprosed to bo, by late commentators, ane of the Faroo lslands, Ho was roveued by & powerful chieflain named Zichmmw, into whoso service ha entered. At tho closs of & yoar he wrota hame to bis brother Antonio 1o jomn him, Nicolo survived the arrival of bis brather foyr years, at the end of which time ho died i Frishand, Aatonio romained ten years Jonger in the sorvice of Zichuini.—wh i pre- sumed 10 bo tho first Eari of tho Orknora, Caith- noss, and ths Shotland Inlsnds, invested with ands and title in 1370 by Hoken. King of Nor- way,.—and then returnod to Venice, whoro he disil abont 1405 or 1443, Whilo the brothers wero in the sarvice of Ziohmni, they accompaniv] him in_ovoral naval expoditions, during which thov visited feetand and various islanda of the Shatiand snd Orkuey gronps, and Nieolo made by lumsolt s vorage of discovery to Grecaland, = Aftor the death of Nicolo, Autoulo was sont by Zichmnl on an ox- podition having for ity nh}cct the verifieation of thio stary of & crow of fishermen, who reported that they had bean drivon by adverse wiuds far across the seas to a strange and unknown coun- try. In the course of this voyage by Antonio, it is maintalued by Mr, Major and otler advocates of the Zenor, that he landed at Newfoundisnd, and thue auticipated the discovery of America Ly Columbus, RELICS OF ANTIQUITY. Among the most interaating relica of antiquity that have been brought to light in omo, o the ocourse of the buildiug aud restoration that have bean carried on of late yesra in the old citv. are anumber of writivg ikblots, or pugillares. These writing tablets were much in use in tho times ot the Cwsars, aud consfuted of two leaves of fvory hinged togsther book-wise. The fuyer surface af tbe leaves was slightly bollowed to admis of & thin Jayor of waz, snd the outer surface was often adorned with elegant cacving. The writ- ing was exeouted with a atylus having one end paiutoa for the purpaus, aud tho other blunt for making erssures, Thouv tablets, called pugillares because $hey were wmall coough 40 be borno in the band, ordiptycha, bocauso thoy were double- leaved, were tied, sosled, sud sent from friond to friond 88 ¢okens of re- gard, They wero especially used by Cou- wuly, who presouted thew to_their friends on their elovation to oftice. Juvenal moutions thei use by lovers in trausmittiog tender wes- ages. The minsives conveyod in them fre. quentr hal the portrait of the writer at the commencement. Ona of the tablets recently found in Rome still bore tho inscription of i owner, Licinins, s favorita of Julias Crsar, and creatsil by bun Governnr of Ganl. ‘Ths tusorip: tion gives ovidence that Licinius was & mau of graas wealth. A quantity of silver forks hars aleo boen re- cently unoarthed in flome, They ate of silyar, wwo-pronged, and with handles of very elegan: design, It hias heon hithorto supposed that tho ~ talie-fork _was s modern [nvention, and that the Nomand, as ko ks and other nations, ato with their b Bueh, inlend, waa ‘the preeailing onsiom amon o'l peopies down 4o the fourteenth or fifteont! conturs, Moat was gonerally’ stawed, or, if romsted, it was cut into small pieces’ by ‘tha carver, 50 a8 ta ho earily managed by the fingers. At sumptuons tablea tha guests were faratsiod “1th bastus of water sod towels, for tho cons yenienca of waalitng thair handn st tho closs of the repast, It us vaid that tho use of forka st table tirst arose in Icaly. In tha reign of Edwart L. forka wero very rara i Lngland. A hsif- dozen or 4 wera rackoned in the King's treasurea atlus death 1n 1307, For ilreo conturics later the convement imylaments wero employad only by the lugher classes. Heonce tho interest of the cont “Tind " i Lown, It corroboratea tha ol raw tust there 19 nothing new undsr the san. THE BRITISH EMPIRE, The Dritish Empiro excecds in #fzo any that has existed withi historic times. It covers an aven of 7,769, 119 nquare miles, or forty times tha aren of France. It includes forty-sight colonies, and ocenpied 199 degrees of fongitude, or more than half the circumferouce of tha globe. Graat Dritaiv itself Las au oxtent of 119,000 square miles. Its poswessions in Furops add 2,730 sauare miles. In Amorics its colonies have an extent of 3,446,034 miles: in Africa, 236,860 milea; in Asia, 964,103 ; in Oceanica, 2,960,722, Tbe population of tho British Empiro was reckaned by tho census of 1871 at 234,762,593, Great Dritain and Ireland have a population of B1.815,370 ¢ tho rest of tho Empire has a populs- tion of 176.213; the colonles in North Amores bave 3,789,630; in Central America, 1,063,865 n Soutn Amenca, 200,000; in Dritish India, 191,307,090, distributed among 487,061 it Iages:' in Aunstralia, 2,000,000, @ Fiftoon cittes of Lritisu India have a popuiation of 100,~ QU) wach. Now Zealand, tirat wettled by tha whites in 1433, hag 250,000 fnbabitants. Ans- tralia, first settlod in 1749, Las 1,600,000 iolabi- tants. Chius has & larger pooulation than the Uritish Lmptre, bat fs 1ar_inferior in civilization and material poser. Tito population of the Uuited Kivgdow bas doubled 1u seventy vear. In Lngland. where tho domand for labor 18 groat- @at, it haa nearly tiebled, In Scotland it ha doubled, but in [roland it 1s atationsry. In 1801, Iroland 'had w population of 6,218,531, and, in 1830, of 5,412,377, In'the dass of Elizabeth, there were in En- gland only 83 ohs to the square mile ; ix 140 % 5 and, in 1874, 890, Inthe ca of marriago for 1871, thero waro notad 77 cases in which the womsn was 40 years otder than her husband, and 33 o cases in wieh she was 60 gyoars older, 'The canes fn which women ™ had marred men very much older than themselves wero much wore uumerous, Letween 1361 and 1871, 18 buchiolors, 2 wpinsters, 357 widowers, nud 4% wilows, entered wto matrimouy at the age of 75, Seven bacholors, 2 spinsters, 120 widowers, and 9 widows, married at the age of B0, Thote were moro marriages at %) than at any other ago; 8,678 men and 5,158 women wers married s socond time at . April 2, 1871, tbero weres 3,672,091 1em Living together, and 276,514 couples nv- part, 164 of thexs belng cases whiere the au1ds were du the army or navy. co PARISIAN PERIODICALS, The onmber of periodicals publistied in Parit is st down at 71, Of thceso, 113 aro devoted te politics. 99 to science, 78 to religion, 53 to fash- fon, 42 to law, 4) to tinance, 14 to military af- fairs, 9 to naval matters, and 8 to architecturo ‘The remainder are occujied with amuscmen: and trade matters, most branches of commerct baving their especial organa. Tho Rerne de: Drnr. Mondes—the most famous of the Yarisian publicationa—was eatublished in 1523, The compeneation received by itk writers fs, as & yulo 20 francs for tho rheet of 16 pages. M. Actor Feuillet has the exceptional stipend of 5 fraue per shoet, The fievur Las 18,000 sascribary, ai 40 fraues each, affording an iucomo of 40,000 francy anpually, Lia expenses do uot. reach 490, 000 francs yearly. ‘The properts is hiekd in khara of 1,00) francs eazih Tu the Jast vears of tly Empire, the diyidend resehiad thio exizad: slgute of 2,000,00_t1zucs. FIFTEENTH-CENTURY BuKY. Tt is estimatod by Santander that thatotal nume ‘bor of books in exintence printed in the ifteontt century amounts to above 15,000, Burnet com putes thom at fram 19,000 to 20,000, Ina peti tion to Popo Sixtus IV., in 1472, Stroyuham an Pannortz state that they had printed of the clas sienl nuthors genorally 75 cpieas of Virgil ant tho philosophieal works of Cicern, twico tha number; and of theological works, &30, The 1‘!‘;’%’; number af copies printol by them war APOLOGY FOR HAYING LOVED BEFCRE. ‘They that nerer bl the me the grape's surprising julce "To the firat deliclous cu,‘f % Al their rezeon revder up; Neitler do, nor aure ta, knw, Wiether it b beat of no, 80 that they are fo love incHined,: Sway'd by chance, nor cholcs O ark, To the firat that's fair or Kiud, Make s preeent of their heart; “Tis not atio that Arat we love, But whom dyiug we approve, Ta man thst was In th’ evening made Stard guvo the firet deiight s Admiriug in the gloomy shade Thoss little drops of light. Then, at Aurors, whoeo fulr hand Removed them from the nhisa, Tte gaclug toward the ot did stand, Bha entrtained bis eyea, Dut when the Lrisht ann did appear, Ali thene Lio 'Raul hespise 3 Jtin woudor was duteruin'd there, ‘And could no Ligher riae. 1o neither might nor wished tokmow A mors refulgent ligut ; For that (s mine your besuties now) Employed bis utmost siglt, —~MWalter, : Mugruder’s Gont, Mrw. Magrader's bavy, esys Mat Adeler, it earried out by the nurso now, since tho accident to it carriage. Magruder thought it would be » goad ilen to have a tsme goat to pull at the couch, nud he bought oue for the purpose; but one day tho goat met suother goat that differed from bim in politics or roligiou, or samething, and each undertook to convince the other, by jammiug him iu the skull. Every time Magru- Gor's goat would roar up proparatory to makiog » lungo forward, AMagruder’ )y would lurch over backward, and when Magruder's goat struck the otuer poat the concussion would shake the milis in the baby's stomacks into butter. And romotimes the othor goat would aim at Magru- dor's guat, which would dodge, aud then the othee goat woild plinge foromoat iuto the couch. and smish the baby up i1n the most frightful mavnor, Aud ju the midst of the con~ tost & couplo of dogs joined {n, aud lllfnldu'l goat backed off and tilced the coach luto the Enttor, aud the dogs, biting around kind of geu~ orally, would snap at the goat and canse it to whirl the baby around just in time for the bits, until st ‘last the goat got dishwartened and sprang through the fence, leaving the coach on tho other sido, and ik struggled fran- tically to escape, while the other goak crowded up_againet tho baby in oider to avoid the doge, and tiually knockod the baby out, aud butted the cosch to splinters. 'They ssy the way Mrs. Magrudor eved Magruder that alternvou, whea thoy brought the baby homo mutilated sud di- shoveled, was simply awful to InhnldLhu! she dulu't speak to him for & week, aud ho Lad 10 soften her down by buying her an ostrich fuather for ber winter hat. ‘Tho goat in atill ut large. Angbody who wants him can bave bim free of charge. Magrudir doesn't recornize him whea e meots the snimal upon the sizeat. pesase St e St A Good 'Limey From the Virania (New) cuterprise, Down at Gold Hill, eveuing vefora last, 8 man who folt like sn]o:mfi hunself took » few drinks of sheep-horder’s delight, thon uusheathed his revolvar aud started out 10 e the * boys." 1lle met a Mr. Kohlor, anda took him over the ove nith tho butt of Lis platol for old acqualni- aupe sake; theu he found the waichmau of the Yellow Jacket mine, aud proposed to shoot & fow locks of bair out of bis besd su keepsakes, bub tiually took avotber uotion Into’bia hoad aud went iuto 8 saloou with his cocked revulver, whiore ho had great fuu st making everybody daucq to biv wusio til Constable Hardia came slong sud took both mau aud pistol to the sia tion-house,