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LITERATURE. “SPIRITUAL PHENOMENA, Sprartvat Mepious: Aw Inguinz A CALLED SrintrvaL, By Frarcis Gener Fata- Fina. 1am0, pp. 18, New York: D, Appleton & Co. Io 1864, ft devolved upon Mr. Fatrfleld, on tho fopreaontative of a dally newspaper in Xow York City, to atudy tho phenomone of Spiritualism as Huatrated at Metropolitan, and aftormard at Dod- worth Hall, and at all private seances at which admission was altainable. He entered upon tho yrork in tho spirit of s true aclontiat, with an un- biased mind, with cool vigitanco, anda ateady de- formination to epare no pains to arrivo at an un- deratanding of the cause of the appoarauccs under observation, Ho did not Imit his invos- tigations to the scance, publio or private, but in cluded In thom sstudy of the brain undor the microscope, and of cerobral and norvous Gis- exsox, In every way ho endoavorad to malo Limself competont to rogard from a scloutiflo point of viow tha mysterious demonstrations ox~ Inbited {n Spiritualiam. Tlie firat object was, in exch caso, to dotor- mine that the appearances wore genulne, . He accopted nothing aa fact which had not been teatod by personal observation, orjwas not sip- ported by the testimony of accrodited acientiio witneasos, preferring always that theao Inst ghould be mombors of tho medical profersion. By this caro he propared Limeolf to vorify alt ob- setvations, medical and physiological, which ho dotaila in the courso of his present work. Moreover, he himsoif belonged to tho clasa of porsons from which mediuma aro drawn, and Las, in bis own cage, oxperlevcod soma of tho mest aingalar phonomena connected with dreams, vielons, premonitione, ate, ‘Thus, by nature and acquiroment, ha eccma to have beon pecaifarly adapted to a thorongh and satiafactory foreatigatton of Splritualistic damonetrations, As the roault of Lis ton years’ observation and experiment, he projects the theory that tho tranoes, previsiong, prosentimonts, and the hike, of the clairvoyant; the table-tipping, rappingy, cliftiog of bodies, writing with phantom hands, appyarauco of luminous clouds, and other phe- nomena produced by the ageucy of o medium, are connected with nervous and cerobral disor- dora akin in thoir nature to opilepsy, catalansy, etc. Of the great number of medinins aud clnir- voyants whose casca ho haa studied, bo declares that there {a not cne who has not iuorited cr do- veloped some phaso of corebral or norvous de- rangement, and that the phovomona which the: exhibit in their scances aro conatently converti- Dio with the more ordinary plenomona of epi- fepsy. In the authors words: ‘ Thore is no pa- thologtcal difference betiwoen the trances of mo- diame, “tho induced trancoa of Mesmorism, and tho trances incident to opiloptic and cataleptic attacks, . . . Tho samo and- den pallor and perceptible fading of tho eyo, with alight nervous shock, precede tho supere vention of the fit, and the samo expenont of heat inthe coronal rogion of the cranium is mare or leas doveloped in all eases," Th variona phenomena of Clairvoyaneo, Afes- moriim, and Spiritualism are reforred by Mr, Fairfield to the action of tho nerve-atmosphere surrounding tho operator. Evory body. organic wnd faorganic, gives off au aura, a vapor, or at- mosphere, neculinr to iteclf, In men, this nerye- unrs, though sub-sensiblo, ts material—an im- rondurable nervous ether. To quotengaiti: ‘It 1 thie at once a force and n medium, nuscepti- ‘Lie of control by the will of the oporstor, and sapable of sensory improsefon: au atmosphere telake abape at hiscommaud, and to diisolve the momont tho volition ceases; or, whou tho habit of tha medium's will has become flxed in that direction, to come and pass ip visitlo appa: titiona, without conrcioun sabjective impulse onhis part, Here, then, ia the gsnb-sensibie medium enfolding me like a enint, that may ba caused toretiect the wildest imaginings of my own seul, Aud hero let mo venturo to surgeat, =Int only to suggest, for my observations bavo not boon ‘extonsive enough to confirm it,—that many of the haflucinations of madness, and of epileniic mania in particular, eo tar from being utter.y unreal, ara puantom-forma originated ia thiv perlpheral aura by the morbid impulses of the tit, and analogous to Mr. Homo's apparitions, which, with his thrice acute porcention, the mad- inn soos, thongh they aro juvimble to lesa ox- ciled nerves, Notoiten, perhapy, is thin the caso; * ut] have no donot that this wame subtle atmos- hero la responsible for now and then atale of godlin or of ghost.” Mr. Peirfleld bolieves that the luminous visible at spiritual seances have tho sumo rigv'’a aud character as tho light sometimes seen ft pisy around tho Lead of epileptia pationts. Ho 4.8" bokeves that (he drnamic phenomena ex- hibivad bs mediums ato produced b7 the narve- ulmosvhern of the modium being violently pro- Jeotod ngalust that of tho object operated upon, nad‘ usdisturhing ita equilibrium, and upectiing, deranging, or lifting it, In caso of raps, phan- tom banda, ote. the molecules of the norvo-aura have simply keen concentrated at a certain polut, tnd taken sound, or shape, according to the will of tho opernter. ‘Tt te necessary,” romarks Mr, Yatefield, “in the consideration of thin question, to slistaiag all conventional [deay on the sudject of force, end to appreciate the fact that In thosa phonomena tho investigator is engegod with a Tore that fa, to some extont at lenst, welf-direot- ind salf-directing, but ono nog at all preanm- aug neychio or wpiritual agency external to the tnr dium ; a force that is aot to be regarded ag sonsrato trom other forces illustrated in tho phsnomonn of Nature, but norertholess nolf Accerminativo and enaooptible of corrolation into volition,” In continuance of his hypothesis, Mfr, Fairfleld sronld refer tn a goat’ measure tho involontary, inasphicable antipath{on and attractions which ‘wo fecl on coming {a contact with others, to tho varvous improseiuus reeeived from their nervous sara impinging upon o1 “In the course of s Jvange down Broadway,” says Mr, Fairfleld, ‘I walkthrough tho nervous atmospheres of o thotwaud persons. Thoy impresa mo dimly, ‘Chis one repots, that ovo attrac But it ie impossible to reproduce the oxceod- ingly ingenious yet abstruse theory of the au- thor in the snaco at our commaud, ‘Tt needs all she linia in the chain of evidence and argument which he linw constracted to render it compres Honaible and givo tt duo force, It is extromoly Aoterosting, both for the facis and tho wiggestioun it praventa, All who ero attracted to the subject of Spiritualiem should give it o ‘carefal ‘oxamination, Mr, Pairfiold has unfortunatly encumberod his work with neodlosa techulcalition, which make at lenat two-thirds of it vory bard roading. With bis command of tha subject, it would have boon easy for him to yssent it with porfoct cloarness wecommon parlance, and he should have dono 80 forthe bonefit of tho average public whom hts book ought to reach. ‘fhe great body of Bpivitualists aro unlearned peopts, who will be repelled by work which obliges them tu recur to Wehator’s Unabridged every paragraph or 60; aud yet they aro the verv Peoplo most concorned io tho researches of Mr. Valrflold, Wera tho Boke Himlted tn interest to tho avieutifio and the eter there wonld be no reaton tn complain Of ua podantio language, Init, if its theory havo truth, asite mae Pellerin, 1G ts that id b and understood Uy tho mulutodes who have te cepted the phenomona of Spiriualion aa the material manifestations of disembodied souls, BEAUTIFICATION, Tax Uory.Gmt Parans; on, Onite yon ta Tor a pie ha 23, Now Yorks Murpor & Broth- Thore should be no ugly girls, There Read bo Rove, Tho faatures may bo plain and the form ungainly in the bogloutog ; but cultivate wisely the head and heart, ond gradually all physion! Gefocts will bo remediad, Thoro fa no auch Leautifior ax tho mlud, No such magic iles in coomotics and the appliances of tho tollettc aein thesoul within us. But open the avenues of tho Senses and let that out to {lumiuate thofaco and animate tho body, and tho act of transfigoration fe performed ag effectually na it was on tho Mount when the prophety and the Savior ap. peared with counteoances shiolog as tho angets', The sposilos who witnessed the miraculous Scone recordod in Matthow, 17th, did not notice whether Moses and Ellas find thick lipe, beavy ‘brows, and ocarsa noses. Tho lovely light of wisdom, aud goodness, and Pesce, that played pape thale vis es, abeorbed every thought of tho impiiae i Crittenae admiration every nativo 9 iu all ordinary instan; who'a parson, thal slovaten, transtocter ind eerie gee fe Thus is nog mere talk; 418 foct. writer of thee fed an ates Some la from tas co 1m tac nd tori wih, all wel deca? us ot let eid Inaunery wade tl thore ts no word moro sores pee red Dub, as tne wont on, those students who wars ditigent and aspiring took on by Little and little a, ond eg erases ‘The eyes grew brighter, sod when they tlio with Tooting who iuinds Waals olor?” ‘Toe features softened and ren fined, Mghta and shades of omotion chasod each other over them, tho voico decpenod aud molovod, and jesturca aud movemente, fa obedionce to the Intellect, foll tuto harmony with its Increraing casa nnd propricty of xctlor. Finally, when the four yearn’ courso was over, in many an instance @ transfisuration bad tslen place that waa amazing; that wee 2 miracle, only it hatl been accomplished so elowls that tho ob- tuae opnervor hind fated to neo tho wondor of ft, Thoro atill remained tho platy mold of tio foa- turos, tha absence, perbapn, of attractive lines in the eves, tho hater, nnd the complexion, which would forbid the application cf tho term pretty or handsome. But, completely overshadowing tess dofcots, thora were a brillisncy and dignity of oxpression and domennor that ealiod for tho words twinning, splondid, and commanding. Wherover thoro exists uglincra, thcro is lack of culture, ‘Thore inay be talent and much learning, but thero is not a syinmatrical dovelop- mont of the powers of body aud mind. Culture Inchidos phvw:eal ag wolt ae mental trainiug, It. invalves a knowiodge of tho lars of hygieno and @ scrupulous practico of them, and thero- fora iuduces @ itigh moasure of Nealth, | without which thero cannot bo beauty in the’ truest acueo, Jscok about you, dear reader, among all your acquaintances, and see if tho want of porsonal graces i not in every instauco owing to some ignorance, some negioct, noma doparture from tho right, which indicates that a deformity, an angulatity of tho mind, is av the bottont of ‘tho matter, ‘Tho anthor of 'Ugly-Girl Papora” undor- stands tho entire code of plulosophy condensed in the plthy old apothegm, “Laudiomo fs that handsome doer,” although {1s not in ber plan to do moro than refor to it occesionally. With a laudablo abject in viow, to advise girls how to eoliaico their comeliness, Aho has given tham a thousand usefal hints for the preservation of the general health, and the cate of tho hair, skin, teat, ete, ote. Alost women wi!l flud nome val- nablo suggestions in the book, supplying uaedol information, As the author romarie, it fa the duty of every woman to louk ax pretty 28 pos- sible, from youth to oid age, The recipes which Bho given ara aids to superficial loveliness, bul, ng wo have already sad, real and undcing beauty comes from within, nud is the rollction of a beautiful soul. BOOKS FOR THE CHILDREN, Thr Youxa Monck-Hunters: A Lacuwoops Bore’ Bron, By C, A, Brernenn, Anttor of *! Thu Camp. ing-Cut Series.” Thituteated by Manni. 1in., Price, $1.20, Boston? dienry L, Shepard x Un, ' Tor OLD Woman Wi Liyep rm aSwor, Ty Asanpa Ml, Dovatas, Auihor of "In Trust,” ate, Linon, By a Boston: Willlam F, Gill & Co, Price, 1 EO, ‘Who buys althor of thesa books for tho amuee- meut of hiv ebild will not be disappointed in hia bargain, Toy are bork clovor aud wholesomo works polutiug skillfully o ploasing story with useful moral losaons. Mr. Stephens bas carned a considerablo ropn- tation by bis admirable Juveniles included Jn "The Camping-Out Sorics.” Tho prone ent volume is in d¢ho samo voln, vigor- ous and trae to natnro, fis boys aro real boys, full of apirit nud onorcy and enterpriso, but not in tho least priggish, Thoy are genoral- ly engaged in solving that momentous queation, how to got thoir daily bread, ond ot tho same tirao get an oducation, Thoy donot seora any honcet worl that alforde them tho nveded meaua, no mattor bow hard or humblo. This timo, bav- ing reached the ond of their funds, at the close of s full torm ip tho ocademy, they go {nto the backwoods trapping, ond with commondablo pluck enduro avery hardship during a long wine ter uocomplainingly. The reador watches thelr fortunes with tho deepest avmpathy, andisheart- ily rejotcod, whon they finally bring thoir furs to. market, to Iosrn that each boy has closrad enougly to keep him in school for somo months afer, ‘Thero ts 8 good deal of pathos in ‘Tho Story of the Ud Womsu Who Lived ina Shoo,” An old graudmothor struggica to bring up tho or phan childran of ber dead son, and cheerfully toils at the wash-tub and Joom to gain the pittico needed to clotho and foed them. Tho children aro childron, with the faults of heedloseness, forgetfulness, and rash- ness Incident to thar time of life, but their hearts aro couud to the core, and, when thoy coma Hy to manhood and maidenhood, the inti. ence of their awest, simplo, old grandmother hag no told upon them that thoy make cood men oud women. ‘Tho triala through which thoy all have to pasa white inmates of “the old ehan,” tho cramped, crowded cottage of tholr grand- mother, often bring tears to the eres, but theso dry away in giad wiles at last. The beauty of trath and of right-doing ia plainly act fort: to the action of the s:orr. A LECTURE’ BY “ADIRONDACK” MURRAY. Deacons. Hy W, I i. Muneat, Author of * Adron- tures in tho Wilderiess,” ete, Square 12n10., pp. 82 Doston: Henry L, Shepard & Co, Prive $1.50, ‘Tho above lecture ia o good cxamplo of the spirit and atyle of tho omowhat noted pastor of the Park Btreot Church, Boston. It fs the work of nman who holds fast to the essential, univer- sal doctrines of Chrlatianity, but is openly indif- forent toall tho old traditions, evon tho most venerable; of aman who bolloves that itis a Part of truo religion to keop ® healthy body, ns {tisto Nava nclear hoad and a sound mind, and that without tho first it is excesdingly difl- cult, if not impossible, to retain tho Iaat; of a man who-bas no regard for conveutionalitler, ond soya or dove what socms right aud good for him tonway or do, with uot a thought or caro What suporuo sense of propriety it may sur- pulse or annoy, ‘Thus, it isthe work of 2 man who is odd, indepoudent, natural, nua strongly individual, in whom somo soo 4 pretender, a tiickster, und othors aco a simplo, bearty chnrac- ter, honestly oboying ite wholesome tmpulsca. Mr. Murray haa dolivered this -Iooiure on “Deacons,” composed in 1871, before many au- dicnces, and, roading it, one can andorstand in whatcansists bia singuintity, Ho dares (0 bo Limeolf. Io trusts and redpocts in bimself that sole nod wuiyne passe of human nature that constitutes porwoaglity. Io bay robust framo, gn active ning, agreat fund of onorgy, and goos hoart and soul into whatevor ho uudertakes, Ba- ing ® preacher he vitalizes hia uttorances, and they touch the hearts of bis listeners and quick- on thou to aympathotic 1if8 and movement. Hore les hls influcuec. He iy carnest and en. thuajaatic, and physically strong and maguotic, andcommanicates his enthusiauin to othors, Ho bus no gieat thoughls, no uew thoughts, but bo has clear and raduna! oues, and pula ilom ina frosh, bold, and striking issnuer. Contact with his wind lee the effect of a etimulant — Lt airs up tha facaltios, and pute them in train for ac- tion. Would there was moro auch forces ln tho pulpit and out of it, A LAW-BOOK. A Pascrioan Treating on 2ux Powrs 70 Sern Land von tHe Nou-Paystent or Tatsat Em. SRACING THE Decisions ov TuyFepenaL Couurs, AND OF TOF fiurarME JupicrAL Tuinuvals oF Ine Doteewite Bar Palen: Horie ean Be 5 iF on, = ryed, Boston: Little, Drawn fs Co, 1875. Anew cdition of this work has been» fong thme judemand by tho legal profezeion, and, now that it has como, it will bo welcomed, 2¢ tanotn vow book, Its reputation is already establishod, Those familiar with former oditions will be pratifes to learn that, oxcellent an thoy hayo veon, the prosent ono surpasses them,—vot ju tne matter of the text, which remains aubstau tially what Ite author loft it, but in tho votes aud roferences to new cssog, 550 of which have Weon added, Wo notice in the book many rof- erences to tha very latent decisions, ‘ SWISS HISTORY, Tn Usstosy ov Bxrzxrisxn, Hervn: Yacwoee, Teavslatet uy Paancia Grane Nuns Feud, Ms 409, New Yerkes Albert Mason,” Prigs, HG, Zachokko’s Mlatory of Switzerland ts probably tho best popular treatieo on the subject, nod is In uso ay a text-book in most of the Confadorate Cautous. It was brought down to the year 1833 by €otorlch Zscholke, aud thence continued to tho yoar 1643 by bia son, Justin Emil Zachokke, of Aarap, It ins history of the Government of Hwiteorland rather than of the poopie, nud wa Geb from it fow glimpses of thelr condition of any time, Still, 1 is vigorously written in a pic- turesque and cugoging utyle, aud giver the Amencan reader mord compact information re- Farding the brave Atruglow of tho Swias for ng. tlonal eles nb ond berty¢ an bo wul find readliy RELIGIOUS POEMS. i rt oy Pracn; axp Orren Retictous Koray, Selected snd Edtied by the Compiler of ¥. Manuolph & Way Frtco, $1.00. . Thero are many choice poema in this collec Hon, Choice, uot so muck because they are in- spired of poutus, as that thoy are instinct with tho eplrit of dovotion, of pationce and resigan+ tion, They aro suited to hours of wornhip, of solf-communion, of bereayemout, of human sor- row, and divine perco and joy. 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In addition, thera fs given a liet of select plava auted tu amateur performers, with euch alvies 28 noviess will bo glad to got for the arrangement of stage, costuine, filth, make-up, ete. etc. Mustrariana lend yreat holp ton clear un anding uf the bitastion tu many of tho tabloaur. ‘THE REV. EZRA STILES GANNETT, Fizma Az: Gaxnett, Wxitantax, Minister Nn Tawrox, 18—Hi4: A Meson Writes ny Hin fox, Winttaa ©. Gauxniz, Bostont Loberts Brothers, {Communteatad,] “This book hae been writtou chlofly for old friends who loved Dr. Gannett, Ho would hava ontroated that it bo not writton,—that waa bis temper over.” Thus begins the preface to a bio- gsapbical memoir which in ono of the most per- fect of its kind, sud which throughout boars the improes of being only a labor of love, It is the story of a well-known Unitarian ministor,—the eimpte tory of a Christian ministor'’s life,—ibatin told mainly by himself, but not in tho nual Dlograpbical record of dasn and deoda, Tho writer of the momoir begina tho rtory with the bahy-boyhood of hia father, and emphasizes psrantal dispositions aud mothods, that they may show tho influence upon tho chatacter of the man. And then tho memoir is made up for tho most part of faterestingg bits, scraps of letters, ona-lino fournnl-entries, extracta from Ferrons,—all woven happily togethar, nnd bringing ont the Mfe, rotnded and ecom- plete, without tho usunl wearisome per wonal ruc fanily details. ‘Lo yvertest Atrangor till become —intercated, — and reek to form a better acquatntnuco with Dr, Gannett, as he precends through the pagou of (ho momoir, and will learn to love him, even 28 he was loved by muliitudes of friouds, A man in whoni enemed to be no guile, and yet who os- toemed himself, in bin over-sonsitiva connclen- Houauess, both roak and sinful. A man work- ing tothe extent of complota nervous prostre- tlon, yet ever bowsiling hin Inofietency and indolence, A mon who, in tia home, “ ‘was 2 presuuce that stood far perfect truthinInesa; for hourly eelf-denials and active thoneht fulness for others; for frank humility in confessing wrong, or ignorance, or failure, The children saw a» Rrown-up man, tholr fatbor, trying Niko a child swith them to be and do just right. To Ivo with him, and doubt that there wero such things in tho world as supremo sincerity and wnsolfeh- hoss, would have vern to doubt that tho sun Bhono in at the windows.” A man who fn tho eburch waa tho frioud and counselor of both old and voung: who would never consent to accept tbo full amount of compensation proffered Lim, albeit bla charities woro uulimited; who, amidst the uprising and growth of now faiths, still kept ila own intact, reating solidly on ‘base- convictions, staunch in evory cause of right, careful to avoid tho slightest approach to harali- nese foward thoes who strave to demottah bis beloved faith, and drawiny crowds to linten to his eloquent expositions of old-fashioned Uni- tarianiota, Intha church where hoa was conse. erated to tho work he had chosen, he ministered forty-seven yenrs,—the colleaguo and scccessor of Mr. Channing. No detached portionr cf the story of (his de- voted lifo—thia lite co full of toauty and excel Touco—can give any adequate idos of ita wondrous completoncss. One neods to have) known him ju the life, or elzo know him through this tondor, trathful tribute of his son, to learn ite value. Very good it muat haya been to know him; very good it in to know him ovou only through his memoir. To the many friends of his, at home and abroad, thia book mnet come ns a glad memiorial, filled with sweet, aad memorios, To the chancorcader It will proves poculiarly charmingiy-told talo of alifo that, in its almost absolute perfectners, will eatablish mon’s faith in goodness and faith- fulness, . Mr, Wiliam Gnonett has not only given to bis father's friouds and to the world o truthful out. lino of hia fathor's life, but, as this life wos go closely tdentified with thet of his donomination, bo has mado an account of Unitnrianism in Now Sngland tho background of tho story, This igs carofully-written history, and will generally be read with interest, notwithstanding tho author modestly suggosta io prefaco that Chapa. MI. and VIE, and cor! pages {on Chaps, V. id X., can easily bowkipped if not welcome to somo roaders, Tho “Memoir” ia illustrated with doticate tasto, which indead marke the enue yolume, from Its simple wame-title, and briof but touch- ing dledfeatton, to the fow fitting faromell words cvacerning the suddon closing at the sweet and earnest lifo in a raitway-colliston: ‘What mattered It to him? Oh! very Iltilo, He novor would hava been ready to gor onthe oro of a Journey, ha always used to sit up late, perbapa ail night, doing tho Inst of the undone work. Fla nover would baye been roady,—In nis huintlity he always would hava folt Iitmeclf an unfaithful sorvaut, and longed to give more service before ho went, In that one prssible momont of sharp agous, what thoughta mingled with hig pain? As if wo had goen his mlod, wo know; bo thought of his chitdron left with uo good-bye j of hts parish, and tho thotsand things Hot dono for it; of tho Tong and emnty life: and then he waa with God in His hereafter, whither thour ‘works do follow them.'” AAW, BOOKS RECEIVED, bre Geain ADerrae | utd Orie Poems, oa? CAKEeS STEPAcNsoN, Byuare 12 4s Davenport: May, Eqbert é Fdiar, See A Rerby to tute Riout Hox, W. KR. Grapsronr's “PotrticaL ExposTuLation.” By the Rt, Rev, Monsignor Caren, D,D, Paper, ‘New York: D, Appletou & Co, mae lonedas Be rantas A Brates 20°! THe. Mont cana ov Pants,’ ALexanpen Dowas, Papor, Puiladelpbta: T. DB. 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AND THERE AROSE A NEW KING. ‘When ali the wars of Furth had ceased, Abd all its uations werw gt pea: * When Spring bud come with leaf aud flower, And Hulomer with ils Keutie sLower When Autumn, with ita sipeped geai, Thad Aited wan’ garners full of Kel ; When yallow leaves began to full And covered earth xe with a pall, And Summer's birdy lad casged’ to sing,— ‘Then there reve auother King, ‘Tho monarch that had held the away Feom Spring's drat dawn to Winter's day Must alhticare hte peacefa} thro And Itt this uow Ring reign ato: ‘Chla Hug who comns with cruel Honda, ‘With angry luok und slura cowmauda, Dobbluy ta wll ax doth hiin plese, Upon the laud and on the wr35,— Moare no one's plea, regardn 110 coat,— All bis no feolings havlug lost, When through the land lio stslking goes, Tio Olis ils paths with outfting snow, Which, taken up by howliug winds And diiven Aercely, quickly Anda Au entrauco at ench crack or dove About the cottage of the poor, Ae ata around thelr chertless hearth, ‘Tuvle greatest enewy on carth } And ollestows [ye heard it wid, Ho doops beside the du their bod, ‘He takea what we can epare the least, And makes Liintelf @ sumptuous foalt,— Beloctiug what ho likes tho beut, And then like ice ho leaves tha reat, Aud with his ecep.tro pute a seal Upon the carth, that Lara of ateel Aud Leavy sledge, with sturdy blows of Cuuuot break ups ckeply frocen, Ao hovers o'er oor mighty tnko, Aa if it were bis thins tuslke, ‘The wetar woon hia proveuco fects, Aud lof ita Huptd blood compete, Aud, through our city, all i16 velas Aud erotics, even itu ioalne, d Havo ceased to act : it iay Be sald ‘Tue pulse hes ceased, tba city 's dead, Huch ary the actu of thts new Ki And such the rule bo dBigus to U ‘Tho love of sabjects for i Acros woaarcy li Juch sroth i“ SPARKS OF SCIENCE. ‘TOADS IN TIGHT PLACES, In acommunieation to the Elgin Courter, Bir A. BR, Gordon Cumming writes: “In cutting tho Invernese & Perth Rallway through the Lochnayandsi Park on Altyro, wa have une coremoniously trospasned on the privacy and Telirement of a nomeroun colony of ancient toads. Tho cutting ia bere from 2u to 26 feet deep, the lower part being through from 19 to 16 feot of froeatono and red conglomerate. The interesting old residenters aro found in tho rod. freestono about 15 to 20 feet below the surface, whero (noy certalnly must havo seon several ninetesn-voara’ leases out on tho land abovo them. Thoy are sometimes turned out by the heavy handpick or the great iron crowbar; but nblaat of powder, of which « vant amount is Nero expended, reoma to catina the greatest np= eet in the ertabliehment, a5 a stot Is aometimon the means of exposing O8 many asa dozen of tho sleepy old followe. Thay seem none tho worse for their long reporn; but, after giving 8 few winkh a: the now Nebt thos anddenly Jet in npon them, and taking noveral gacrs of tho nnvwonted air, thoy lelaurely and daliteralely proceed to bop and crawl down tho line, along the anall water- conrso, towards tho lower fields, T linve sean them {a _numbera, and some of the mon bave counted forty at ouce." This extract is copled withont commentin a rexpectable eclentific serial, falf-Hour Pevrens tions in Popular Science, and wo must conelude that it is properly certified. Tho Virginia Chronicle contained, & fow months ago, a detalled account of the discovery of a living frog in tha heart of w lsreo sveamora tree. Anection of tho tree wns intented for a butcher's block, and, on boing eewed in to, 9 fisiure wan digcovered In the centre. which more. | ured G inches in length by 2f of an inch in with. In thin narrow erack a greon frog was iminuted, ¢ was poked out with antici. and fol! anparently lifelena on the surface of the block, In a fow Tainutes it bogan to bresthe, the pulvations of the bod could bo plainty seen noder the throat, and the oreaturo slowly revived. Tho back of the frog waa n bright green and tho under portion of the body a pale bine. > It was sbout inches in length, and was pro- nonneed by o:sorvers to be xtron-fror, At the dato of the account it was lively, indicating ite condition during tho night by sundty croaks of « perfectly natural and healthy character, Cases ithe ths forogoing have heen frequently noted, but, wo bolieve. nover yot have come un- der tho immodists observation of a naturalist, Dr. Buckland mado the matter one of considera- Mo experiment, tho reautts of which are narrated in Mr. F, Bnekland’s ‘Curioaitios of Natural History.” Ae Dr. Buckland observes: ‘That toads, frore, and newts occasionally tesco from stones broken in a quarry. or sta diacavercd in sinking wells, and ‘oven taken from coal-strata at tho bottom of a mine, Ia trie enough, but the evidence {a nover perfect to show that thoro amrhibiang were ontlrely incloyed in soli: rock; no examination ig over made until the reptile 18 discavered by the breaking of tho massa in which it was contained, and thon it ia too Inte to agcertain, without carefully roplacing every frarmont (and in no cane that I have seen reported baa thin over been dono), whether or not thoro was any hola or crovice by which the animal may hnve entered tho cavity from which it wae extracted. Without previour exomination it ia stmost impossible to prove that thore was no such cammonieation,” To test tha question of the longevity of the toad in confinoment, Dr, Buckland had 8 series of ciroular cella or cavities cut in a block of coarse oolitic Himestouo, and air-tight covers of gloss adjusted tothom. Similar cells wore also Propared in m block of silicious sandstone. Twonty-four live toads wore then immured in these cella, one in each, tho covoza werd fantenad upon them, and the blocks of stone wore buried 3 foct in the ground. At the end of twelve mantha tha stones wore disinterred, tho colin opened, and tho toads inepectod. All those in tho sandstono were dead, but most of thoso in tho oolite, the calla of which wero largo, wore still Ilving Some had decreased in weizht, whilo others had actually added to their svoidunots, Asa few of tho glass piates wore found crushed, it waa thought povaible that minnte insects might Lavo found their way into tho cells and supplied thoir inmaten with a modicum of food, At the end of arecond twelvomonth the toads were all dead. So long as they romaloed living, they saemod, on examination. to bo always awako, and nevor in a torpid condition, ‘Tho best naturalists are ‘of the opinion that tonde and frogs sro capable of great longovity and of enduring imprisonment for on oxtraor- dinary period when not deprived of sir, and ateo that the skin has the capacity to perform, {no some undetorminod way, the function of the lungs, yet no experiments bitborta tried by sci- entific mon havo shown that the creatures can exiat without sir and moisture for any number of veare, Avwollio surensted tha folloming pos- able explanation of the manner in which frogs originally got into name of tha tight placea in which thoy have been found: In the rocks thoro nro mony chinks, a3 well aa fiasurce, both horizontal and perpendicular, und lp old trees nothing {a more frequent then holos and vacntties of various dimensions, Through these fissuros and vacuities the egce of tonda may ac- eldentally be convorod by water, the penetration of which fav mrbstancen aro capable of rosisting. Aftor the egra aro hatched, the animal may re- ceive molaturo aud amall portions of alr through the crovicon of rocks or tho channels of uged trees, But," he adda, “I mean not to vorauade, tor T cannot eatisty myself," Nor haa tho in- genious suggestion sntinied snybody ola. A French sciontiat recently iinbadded throe frogs in doop clay, and buried them four fect un- dor ground. At tho end of reven monthe only ono remained alive, and at tho end of thirteon months tho Jaxt ono perished. Theso oxperi- Toonts do not absolutely prove that frogs may Not aurvive many yeara without food, but they show that stch inatancos azo rathor improbable, and to he balevod must bo attested by aciontifio witnesaos. ‘THE KANGAROO. The Dutek naturalist Lo Brun introduced tho Kangaroo to the knowlodgeof Europeans, In 1711, wheo on a visit to tho Governor-General of Batayla, hogaw in tho gardens of bis host goveral specimens of a small kangaroo, called Filander. Thin bo described and tigured in Lis “Vosagze by Way of Russia into Porsla and to the Eaat Indies,” and thus gaye the first pub- Iishod account of akangaroo, In 1720, F, Valen. tin recorded the fact that tho animal was an in- habitant of tho Aru group, and in 1778 it recoived the specific numo Bruuil, after its discoverer, and, ag {twas a truo kangaroo, wes refarrod to the gonus Macros, Jn 1770, tho great kangaroo (A, giganteus) wan dixcoverod, tn Cook's first voyago. It ig a native of Anstralla and its immodlate surroundings, av are nll the trus Kangaroos axcopt the Af, Brunii. Thore aro spy different species, varying in si: (rom the Wooly kangaroo, that sometimes ut- tring a wolght of 160 pounds, to tha Potorouy, that aro not largor than w raubit, The ann gh tho kengaroo are produced Inan immature stsfo, and aro sarriod iu a marsupiuoi, orpouch situated on tho abdomen of the fomale, for several monthy after their birth, A youny Kangaroo of one of tho largest species, Within éveive houry after being placed in the pouch, te shua described by Prof, Owens ‘It reuombled au carthworm in tho color aud somt-trausparency of its integuinont, ddbored flrmly to the point of the ni] Hee Dreathed wtrong!y but slowly, and moved Ite foro loge when disturbed, ‘The body was bent upon the abdomen, ite ebort tall tuck in betweon the hind logs, which were one-thitd abortor than the fore legs. ‘Tho whole length, from tho nova to tue end of the tall, when utretohed out, did not exceod 1 incl and 3 tnes.'* the pouch tha little kanyarocy may Le wean pok- tog thorr heads out ond nibbling the horbage ax the mother pasies throngl it. ‘Tho tail of the kangaroo {s vory long, thick, aud strong, aud ty ngod in balancing the animal 4n 34 leaps, aud dn susialulug itin & wittlug poss ture, Tho tallof the great kangaroo in fully 6 foot in cireamforence at tho hese, aud a rather snore than 3 feot in Jongth, whily tho rmoapure- ment of the animal, frum the top of the node to tho tip of the tail, in about 74 feet, This kangaroo will outatrip a grevhound ii ita leaps. All tho spe- cloa ara timid: They are purely herbivorous, living some of them in opeu plains, some in fore eutu, and some on tho Huony summit of tho Lighest Australian nsountaing, ‘hoy are easily tained, aud some speclen have bred in roological solloctions, In Now Cainus there ara two species of tree-Langaroos,—pesullar from baving tho foro-lmbe long and adapted to climbing,—aud also two upecica of whet may be callod ground tree-kangwrou. There era several wpocles of tho Potoroo, or kangaroo-rat, noue of them larger theo a rabbit, All aro harmjess, and natives of | Australia, 1 BEE-PROOQUOTS, Dr. do Plauts Reichenav, of Munich, is oon- ducting a serio of experiwnouty with » view to ascertainiug whether Louvy and the other in dustrial products of bess are obtained directiy Lualabs. , explored the Iukuga for 2 distance of 4 miles, erowded for room, through life kicking, and utriklug, aud throwirz, { soo ouw will got More, Let your mind dwell on theve things, my atong after homo now, andif your father over buys you & hatchet, and you cut bis cherry treo, don’t Ins out of it standing timbes.” from the food of the insects or are anbatences olaborated by the organiem. Tho {nrestiga:ion {a wtill incompieto, but the prerence of nitsogen in honey, a fect which has been questioned, is now ostablishod, aJtLough in the minute propor- tion of 0.0781 percent. Thia nitrogen occurs in three distinct forms: ae an sluuininoon sub- atanco coagulapio by host, andjaa two other nt- trogenous bodies, one soluble and the other in- soluble in alcobol, Tho latter substances are found in nectar, bot the coagulable albumen, not oceurring in the Juice of tho flowers, in re- ferrod by tho author toa secration of tha beo, which bacomes mized with tho wectar. Honey is, therefore, strictly @ nitrogenons body, and not simply o carbo-hydrate., In purified bees was. nitrogen wau found to tho oxtent of 0.697 per cent, LAKE TANGANYIZA, é Tient, Camaron, who ix engaged in explora- tlonain Equatorial Aftica, haa went home a map of Lako Tanganyika from Ujijl to the aouth ond, which representa geographical worl: of great im- portance. Tho oxplorationy of Burton, Speke, and Livingstone, along the phoron of this lake, were confined to tho portion north of Ujiit. Lieut. Cameron bar, howover, traversed tho routhern coast and carofully dolineated ite out- lines, with all. their indentations, and the points where rivers pour in their volute of water. He haa solved au hnportant goograpbical prob!em by tho discovory of the outlet of the lake, the River Lukuga, which flows out of the lao a abort dice tnuca south of the Karenye Island. The Luku- & according to the natives who fnhabit Ita unks, Howe from Lake Tanganyika to tho River On tho 4th of May, Lieut. Cameron and found it to be from threo to five fathoma deep, and five to lx hundred verde wide, 1t was much choked with gross, but {hero wan distinct current floning ont. Crin- cron’s map of Lake ‘Tanganyika will soon be published by tho Royal Geographical Society. EXHIBITION OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS. Arrangementa nro being madoin London for s Joan celicetion of acioutitic inatramente, to ba put on exbibition at the South Kengington Mn- foum at the commencement of June. ‘fhe firat moeting held for the consideration of the mat- ter, Fob. 13, was largoly attendad by inflnential men in sclenco and politics. The main objects of tho exhibition, aa diecussed at this meeting, will bo “to vhow modern apnaratus for teaching and for research: the applications of science to jndustry; and euch apparatus as is historically intarosting from the occasions in which, or the pereuns by whom, it bad beev omploved.” An effort will bo made to oxemplify the history of tho progress of various sciences by an asdem- Diage of the instraments that have beou in use for many years, In the department of Optics, a collection of apparatus that would oxhibit the progress fromm Newton to Cornu and Fitzean would be highly interesting aud inatructive, and vo in the departmonts of Heat, Electricity, atc. Te is expected there will he no diMculty in pro- saving tha Joan of instruments for the exhibi- jon. JUTE, The Jute of commerce, which han of Jate years been larrely used in tho manufecturo of carpets, matting, bagging, ete, ia chiefly obtained from two epecios of Corchorus: C, capsularis and C. olitorious, The plants belong to the order Tiliaces, of which tho Linden or Button-wood tree 18 a reprosentative ia our latitude. Thoy are natives of India, and aro extcnalvely culti- vatod in Bengal. The C. capsularts, that is tho more vajuablo of the two, yields a fibro (the inner bark) sometimes 12 feet in length, which ie strong and durablo. Ita liabYity to injury by moisture unfits it for the manufacture of cord. ago, and the difienity with which it ia bleached rondere it uneultable for making paper except of 8 coarse quality. But its valuo ss a material for carpoting aud such heavy fabsics haa cauncd a ‘vast trado to ppring up. Nearly every producing country imports either jute, or puuny-bage made from ft. Jute bags sro used for the cottona of India and America, and for the spices, fruits, and miscellaneous produco of other countries. POLAR EXPLORATION, On the 10th of Fobruary, Admiral Richards read bofave the Royal Geographical Society a paper on the proposed route to the Pole of the English Arctio expodition. Tho two veasels fa- tend, he anid, to loave Portemouth noar tho tart of May, and, taking the usnalronte to Dafin’s Bay, endeavor to pass up Bmith’a Sound. In 819 or 82° north latitude they wili_probably separato, and whilo ono will remain aud explora the northorn coaat of Greeninod tho other will push on northwards. Everything has bean done to securo the gucccus of the expedition, From the violent current which sweeps south- wards from Smith's Sound and through Hudson's Strait, ntong the coast of Labrador the Admiral concludes that thera is no great continout north of Smith's Sound, THE GERMAN AFRICAN SOCIETY. Herr E, Bebn contributes to tho January part of Petermaun's iittheilungen w aketch of the origin and progress of ‘the Gorman’ African So- clety. Tho moving spirit of tho institution is Ur. Bastian, au oxteusive travaler, who has visited neurly avery region of the globe, Tho Socioty haa atready begun the work of oxplora- tlon on the west coast of Atrica, and in 8 man- uer which protises sigual achiovements for the advance of science, MEDICINE IN JAPAN. ‘Tho Japancae are making commondable efforis to nacgoiro the modern acionco of medicine and surgery. Twenty young men aro purauing » courso of study in the hospitel at Huxaodadi, which includes dally lectures, and bedside and clinical domonstrations, with s curriculumn aimi- lar to that of most European medical echoola. Au illugtrated medical journal in the Japanese guage ia published avory two months. eine ae THE LOVES OF A POET. Love. © Love! thon child of heavenly light, O Lore! the Port's choicest theme, Thou at a gift coleattal-Dright,— Of Paradine » trauslent gloam, * BEATTY. ‘Oft hea my soul been tiled and rateed, Py, thee, O Hoauty! to extremes Of bliss; and 1 have Joved aud prised Tuy power, e’ou in my feeting earns, USIC, And Mosic, reptnrous, thou alone Can’st thrill my soul until I soe POETRY. Swoot Postry tT, thy lover trne, To great und gloriouy hetzhte sapine ; Oh? grant mo iuspiration duo,— Aopark of thy immortal fre, ‘Thon shall J tell, in glowing tin Of Nature's beauties all urouud 5 Mor her alone i wong cuufive,— Ite flaw the Ualverse eioutd bound, From lowest atom in the sca ‘To highest since the rise of Time, From stare that in our suntight palo ‘To auns that light the Turono Bablime ¢ Thua wide the Post's fane Hor Aighis unwestled where And joy, and love, und gladuicen brings, ‘Fo cancel doreowing wortaly’ tite wings 0 Willa, 8, Moaxusom, ig siqw-Butling Farmers. Detroit Pree Breas, “Rnow-balling farmers," gald Bijab, as ho Tuo young Langaroo remains sispeadud fram | handed out a small hoy. , tho “nipple, tuvolumeaiily absorbing milk, for |," Huh," sald the Coutt, aftor slong look over about two months, after which it sucka wnonta- {| the dosk, **nuppove you had killed an honeat, neously for soto months Exe they flusfly dosort. ath working farmer by hittlog hisa with a snow- “I won't noverdo It again 1” sobbed the boy, “*Buppose, my son, you hed Killed him, aud hla body had heon tukeu ta the morgue, and word of the terrible affliction sant to his farnily, agiae, bub, the terrible grief of his gray-haired BT aorneal the toars and soba of hin children? Tm- ‘cture the scons to yourself, It ia dork; ahap: y Fanilty has gathered around a cheerful earth. stove Woey ave waitiog for busband and father toarrivo with @ pouutls of brown sugar, baif s pound of salarutuy, molanses caudy, and three crash towels, Adlolgh dnyes up, They rush to tho windows and doore, ri ing: *Patber has come!" but u etrauge volco 5 couts, worth of iW beard, ‘tho door ié opened, thu manaskuif Mr, Milter hyes there, und thon in a wad voice gous onto say that Mr. Aulter ta noimore, a Detroit boy named Patuoy Horn having murdered blu with a snow-ball! Gaze on the picture, my sony imsge ine tho sorrow, and woe, aud desolation |" “Oh! boa-hoo-woal" wulled the boy, ¢ “You see, my sou, thin work) is becoming and if cach one of ux ous you can't get boy, aud ace if ‘You way rea ita without troublo. whota ho aske who's been backing af hia FAMILIAR TALK, BRITISH MAGAZINES, ‘The Gentleman's Magazine war the frat epect- Ten o&that popular apecies of periodical litera. tare which haa done #0 much to disseminate in- telligence, It wns establishod by Edward Cave, one of tho old booksellers of London, and the ‘iret number waa ineued In 1791. Samuel John- won wea one of tho chief contributors to its pages dnring ite carly yoars, A room was eot apart for hin tn the small printing-honse of Mr, Cavo at St, Jobo's Gate, and he manufactured copy for the magazine aa fast as ho could drive hia pen along the page, In 1706, Cavo began publiabing tho reports of Parliamentary debates in tho magazine. Ho, and so employs or tro, would lurk about the lobby aud gallery, and, trusting much to memory fora reproduction of the argumont, would take ely notes hero and there, a4 they found opportanity, snd then, ro- tiring to a ucighboring tavern, compare notes, and place tho renulting material inthe hands of ‘an exporienced wilter, ho would preparo it for the pages of tho roagaziue. Mach of the work of rewriting those debates wan intrusted to Johnson, wlo performed ns part no wall that great praise waa often accord the orators for speeches which Johuson hod drawn up outiroly from rough notes and bints supplied by the messengers. Mr. Cavo'a atten. tion tothe magazine waa eo unremitting that Johnson oucy remarked of bim, “ flo scarcely ever looked ont of the window butfor its im- Provormenst.” The period duriog which Johneon Wad in the emplosmont of Cave was tho moat mieerablo and obscure in his cstoer. His cloth- ing was no dirty and ragcod that ho could not appear at tha table of l:i# publieher, and be often dined foncellar on sizpeunyworth of meat ond a@pennrworth of bread, One day goon after tha publication of Johnaon's © Life of Savayo,” in iit, a Mr. Harte dined with Cave, and whilo at table spoke fn high terma of the book, which was writton avonymously. Meeting his guest some days following, Mr. Cave rawarked : “Harte, you made a man very happy. tho other di it niv bouso by sour praises of Bavage's Life.” "How eo? “None were present but you and." Cuvyo replied, *You might. observe i sent & plate of victuals behind the ecreon ; there Jurked oue whose dreas was too sbubby for bim to appear; your praise pleased bim much.” ‘The succeaa of the Gentleman's Magazine ine duced wererat rivals to enter the tield, the ablest of which wasthe Londoh Mavazine, which, howover, ceased to exist in 1745, Bovoral journals professing to ¥o purely literary in character had appeared betwoen the years 1683 and 1749, Lut at the latter dato tho firnt popular revicw was founded by Itslph Griftithe. It wes atylod the Monthly Review, aud wose great im- Provemoutupon tue beat of its pretlecossors. Among tho early contributors of note to this periodical was Goldamith, who was induced to take up his rendonco in the house of Griftitha, and for a small salary devote him- selfto the secietw. We aro told’ by an aothor who was acquainted with the fortunes of tho Monthly Review for {itty years, that in ita days of greatest prosgority only 4 guineas o sheet was paid to the mont emineut writers, As Isto 48 1783, when it waa reported that Dr, Shebboare received G guincos a shoot, Jolinson roplicd, “Sir, he might got G guineas for a particular sheet, but not comenunitis shectibua” Amoug the ephemeral publications of the elvhteenth century was the Edinburg Review, which was established in 1755 and wurvived but a twelvemonth, Porty-vight yoars Inter o magazine inheriting its title waa sent out hy the Scotch publisker, Constable, and instantly achioved abrilifaut reputation. Thero was room for is, for aiuco tho deceaae of the old Edinburg Heview no reguiar journal of the sort had existed in Scatland. The origin of the mazazing {a obscured in doubt aud mystery. Sydney Smith claimed the credit of originat- ing the echamo, and gives tho following version of ite history: “Ono day Broughsm, Jeffrey, and myself happened to moct in the eighth or niuth story of a flat in Bucclench Winco, the ele- vated residenco of the then Mr. Jeffroy. 1 pro- poeed that we should get up a roview. ‘This wan acceded to with acclamations. I was aupototed editor, and remained long enough in Edinburg tu cdit the firat number of the Edinburg See view. The motto I proposed was : *Touu muvata medilamur orena,’ ‘We cultivute Uterature upon a Httle oas-mesl,t But thiawastoo noar tho truth to be adinit- tod, and eo we took our present graye motto fram Publius Lyrus, of whom nono of us had. I am anre, read a single line; andao began what lias sluce turned ont to bo a very important and able journal, When I foft Edinburg it fell into the stronger hands of Lord Jeffrey and Lord Brougham, and reached the higheat point of Popul jarity and anccess.” ‘ord Brougham tlatly contradicts thia seconnt in tho firat volume of his eutobiographr. “Nothing,” he enye, “can bo more imaginary than nearly tho Wholo of it.” Stil, popular opinion inclines to the vory lively and pleaysot atory of the origio of the Keele which was saeitton, by Sydney Smith not long aftor its foun- tion. It was intended to bring out the Grut numbor of tho Jieview in June, 1402, but yarions dolays put it back notil tho following Novembor, Ac- cording to Bydnoy Smith's account, tho contrib- utora used to niect in a tittle room off the oflice of Countable’s father-in-law, Willison, for tho purpose of consulting over their work, criticising cach other's prodsetions, aud correcting the proof-sheots, [uch man stole to the place of rendozvous alone, and by the lesat suspicious route, Tho tirst number waa edited by Sydooy Bmith. and after that tho mauagement of tho mugazine rested in the hands of Joffrey, From the commencsmont of his labors, Joffray re- coived £300rerspnim, This aum wae afterward Taiscd to £809, Every contribator was com- pelied to revolve a minimum bonus of £10 per sheet, which was evontually rained lo £18. To tho first four nuinbors of tho Rerlew Brougham contributed twenty-one articles, bo- aides portions of four others, Smith contributed eightoen, Jeffrey sixteen, and Horner woven, ‘To the first twenty numbors Brougham contrib- utod eighty-eovon papers, Joffroy sovonty-flvo, Smith tweoty-thres; and Horner fourtoon. Whon the /eclew liad reached thix point its for- tune was secure, aud the services of Playfair, Thomas Trown, Scott, Hallam, Mnrray, und others, wore obtained, Whon Conatable's pub- hwhing-hougo fell in the commercial crash of 1826, tho Edinburg Remetw appeared under tho joint promictorship of Lougmau, of London, and Adsm Biazk, of Edinburg. Syducy Smith ceased to write for tho Reviews in 1927, Two years beforg, papeaaley: then aged 25, contributed is tint csnay to the magazine, taking Milton for bis sabjout. For nearly ¢weu- ty yeans thia writer continued to furnivh articles for the Kerlew, hia last boing coutributed in 1844, Theuo evnays, numbering in all twenty. soven, wore firat published in a collective edition in Amorice, and within tive years 60,000 coplos of the volume had been sold, It iswaid to have beon the moat remuuerative collection of evvays oyor publistod In this or in any other country. In 1829, Joffrey retired from the oditorlal chow, and Macuoy Naplor was appoluted to the Vacant eeat. At tho death of Napisr, Mr. Empvon, the ean- in-law of Joffroy, enececacd him in the edttor- ship. Sir Ceorge Cornewall Lewis followed Alr, Enupcon, and ufter him camo Mr. H, Reeve, who tilt holds tho posision of manager of thu Levicin. Fatty in 1808, Joffrey publiaued In tho Reeieto fw elaxhing criticism of * Marmion,” although Constable, the publisher of tho Leviete, wat aluo the publisher of tho poem in «quostion, Joffrey coolly inclosed bis sever criticism ina note to Scott, eaying ho would dine with the port the fole lowing ‘Tuesday, Bott strove to hide the wound the Lecicew bad giveu bim, and treated his Rueat with politences, but his lady found it in nossible to be so magnanimous, Au Jofroy was Iitiug loave, sho rowarkod in her broken Ine elisb: “ Woll, guid wight, Mr, Jeffrey; doy tel! me you have abused Boott fu the Lyvlew, and I tnopo Mr, Constablo bas paid you woll for writlpg in” Ont of thia incident a coldnzss arose botween Scott and Jumroy, aud the tormor lout bimboll wilhugly to a schon of Jolin Sturray for estab Ushing “x rival Jéecleo in Loudon. aura, vicited Scott at Ashostiel, and urranged wil! blu tho pisu for the now magazine. ‘I'b0 editor~ uulp was given to Gifford, editor of the mie Anti-Jacobin, aud Feb, 3, 1809, the arnt number of the Quarteriy IJtecicwo was fesned. Seott had throe articlos fn tbix number, wuile tose, young Disraeli, Hookbsa, Frero, and Rob- ort Southey wororeprosonted init, According: to tradition thera were bivh jiuke at Sturray's bop in Float street when thu firat numbore ar- rived froin tho binders; 4 triauphal column of tho books was ralaod sloftia svlumn joy inthe counting-house, the bust wine in the collar waa uncorked, aud, glsessin aod, Jobn Murray sud aenistantw dauced fubllant around tho pile." Hott had gone upto London to ba preseut at tho jvaua of the work, end was uo doubt present, on this jovial occasion, Gifford 1osiznod big pout aa aditor of the ertenly fo 1324, aud wea succeeded by Jolin luloriige. Ith talents, thomgh considerable, ‘were not filequate to the plave, and be waa au pereeded by Lockoart, who was engagedtat — Bx! ary of £1,200, which wus to be raved to £1,605 bai case he wrote a prescribed number of articles, On the death of Lochhart iu 1854. the Rev, Whit- well Elwin wae uolgcted to All hiv place on sho terly, oN Westmvinelar Revions wan atarted by Jeremy Bentham, in 1624, Sir Joha Browning and Gen. Perronet Thompson aucceedad Bentham ag joint propristors andeditoraaf the magazine, They mado way in turo tor Bir William Molesworth, the accompilebed statesman and editor of Hohbos. Toliim euccoeded John Stnart MIL, . most of whose philosophical fed | appeared In the pages of the Rertew. Grote and Carlsle wore contributors to the magazine during the editor abip of Stil. For tha last twanty yeara or moro, the Revicw has boon in the bands of Dr. Chap. man, the first English pntillshor of Emerson. It was under Dr. Chapman's administration that the Jmpartent featura of tho WWeelminster, tho. Quarterly Hummary of Contemporary Litere- turo, was Introduced. A BEREAVED FAMILY. Six Children Outoflacamily of Kighe Die of Diphtherin Within Thirty Days New York Tinea, Nareh 6, A mort aMlicting caso of family borcavement haa recontly ocourred in thineity, Only ® fow weolss azo, the family of Mr, Charles Cornoll, of No. 203 Esst Thirty-fifth atreot, consinted of himeolf and wife aud elght children. ‘To-day hin wito is lying ill, and bat two of tho children aro alivo, all the rest having dled of diphtheria hotween Feb. 1 andthe 2d inst. A Timer ro- rter calledon Dr. Edwin D, Mamedoll, tho family pliysiciun. yosterday, to nacortain the particulard. De. Ramadell was much averse ta ving ADY publicity given to tho matter, but in view of the exeltoinent that it had already caused in the neighboriiood, he coneladed to give @ correct statonient to the prees st once. The affair, he eaid, bed cauead him mucl grief, aa ha had kuown Mr. Cornell for many years, and had rendered him professional aar- vices a6 family physician ever since his marriage, and had been present at tho birth of all the childrsn who had 0 recently died, Tho first case occntred on Feb. 1, 8 little girl named Eliza, aged 7, beiug token sick. On the third day the malady assumed a gnogronons form. snd invaded tho larynx, the ebild dying on the th of the month, On Fob. 14 the baby, azed 6 monthe, was taken with tho samo disoaae, but it was not of malignant charac- ter and yielded to treatment; thie child in now sell.” On the 16th, Mory, aged 3, and Thabo Rebecca, aged 0. were attacked, the dis- ane assuming ovon a more malignant type thar in tho fitat case, Phabe died on tho 20th, tour days ufter the attack, and Mary on tho 25d. The throats of these children wero very much ewal- len, tho tonsils and uvulm being covered with Rangrenous diplitheric mombrane extending ta the roof of the mouth. Samuel, the eldest child, aged 14, waa tbe noxt victim, Ho was a bright, aco school-boy, and had slwasa en- joyed good health. At one time it was hopad that ho would be spared, as the gangrene anit diphtheric membrane bad disappoured. It again formed on the tonsils aud uyula, howsver, sud he dicd on the 2d inst,, a clot furming iu tua beurt in conrequence of debility from his not be ing ablo to taka nourishinoat to keep up the vital forces. On the Itt the most malignant caro of all occurred. Geargo, aged 11, was sffectod, aud extensive gangreng est in on tho second day, sud tho patient died on tho 22d, only four days after boing taken sick, having beon porfectlr well np ta that tine, On the 25th, Thomas, aged 5, David, aged 2, and Airs. Cornell, ther mother, wero alltaken ill, Thomaa died ou tha 28th from suffocation, the membrane having in- vaded tha larynx, complotely closing it. David is now thought to beoutof danger, as the mem- brane bas disspposrod from his throat, 3Lra. Cornoill, though woak, is duing well, ay tho at- tack in her esse was mild. 3ir. Coraell ix the. only member of the family who hag not boen attacked. * At tho first apnearnnce of the disesse Dr. Tanedell sdvised that the children ehould all ba sent away, but Mrs. Cornell said she had no. where to send thom, a8 ube did not desire te carry tho infection Iuto other families. In thla manner the fear of bringing misfortune upou her frends induced ber to keop her children as home. Tho next bevt thing, which was to care fally oxeludo them from the sick room, wasdone, but this precaution proved of no avail. . As soon sa tho first case exhibited alarmin tome, Dr. Ramudell called in Dr. T. We 0, of 180 Vast Thirlieth atrect, to con. sult with him, and he remained in attendance with Dr. Ramsdell untit about tho 22d, when Prof. W. 1, Thempnon, M. D., of tho New Tork: University Meaieat Colleze, was called in consul- tation, who hay continued cwica a dav over niuco. All the romedies desieed sud adopted by modern tuedical soience wero called into requisition by there goutlemon, but the diecasa was of so malignant typo that it wae impgeslble to get it under control. : In roply to an inquiry "as to whetbor thero might not be surae local cause to which tho o% treme sovority of tho diseaso might bo attribat- od, Dr. Ramsdelt said that s little over a year ago, after sovernl cago of remittent fover bat ocenrret in the family, be had discovered that « drain which ran from the kitchen, which iy underground, to the main aewor was obstructed, aud that accumulations of sowayo had frequently collested immediately undex the floor, The hak been rem diod at tho time, and when ho was first called in to tho diphtherin casea bu had made o careful examination of tho drain at once, and had found it in porfect orlor. Day be- foro yesteriay, howover, bo hed been told thar there was soother drain running immodintciy under the house, whiob passed through tho front collar, Throngh this drain all tho waste water, icc., from the large bakery on tho corner of Third avenue aud Thirty-tifth stroct, was carried into tho main sower, Upon further inquiry ho loartned that this drain also frequently bocame clogged, and had to be cleaned out by meaua of atrap in the middle of tho cellar floor, Tho parlor wall on thu wout side of the house he had also ditoovercd to bo damp and covered with mold. This wag attributed, Dr, Ramsdell said, tom water-cloaot in tho adjoluing houses. but bo coult not way whethor that was the real catse or not, on he had uot yet made a thorough oxnmination of tho promises, In the opinion of Dr. Namadoll the gaseous emanations from tho aowor may bave jucreasod the malignancy of tho disease, but hie Is not ip- vlived to way that it was vausod by them. Tivo other families reside in the wame houso in the third and fourth stories, no mombor of other of which bas beon affected. A Woman's Pot. ‘Thero is nothing very extraordinary in folks foud of auimal pots desiring to inmure their fa- vorites being well trostedafter thelr death, bus there is sumothing extraordinary iu bequoathing ® parrot au annuily of mure than £200, That 1 what a wealthy London widow did do for “her faithful companion of twenty-four years.” Polit was pretty sure of being well looked aftor, since: tho 200 guineas a year wore to be paid to whou- woover touk churgo of bor aud proved hor identity twice every year, all payments to cease upon the non-production of the bird, Eccontrio aa the boqueut apnoar, Mrs, Huntorwas passing shrewd sud businesHeliko In herarraugemant for ber pot's comfort, Bho-named a widow of bor acquaint- auca na tho recipient of her bind and ite legaoy, giving hur power fo bequeath beth to whoowoever the pleased, provided tho person was neither a servant vor o tnan, aud did not live out of En~ gland, Sho farthermors lof; 2) guineas to buy. uw very large osge, aud directed her executors, iu the evout of bor frloud declining totako thocharge to noo the parrot placed in respectable hands; then, with an eye perhaps to some rolative raisiuy difdenltios, theold lady put this clause iu her laut testament; I will aud desirothat whoever attempts to duipute this, 4 Jast willund testa-_ ment, or hy any meana neglects or tries ta avoid paving my purrot's annuity, sal forfelt what- over I may have loft then; and if aujouo that L have left logecivs to attempts bringing in any bills or charges againgé mv, It 16 gy will and Genire that thoy #hall forfeit whatever Jepacy T may havo Itt thom for so dolng, o8 I owe nothing to any one: many owome gratitude and monoy, but nono have pald mo cither.” —- Dostitate Chtldron, Mr, William BP, Lotchworth, of the State Gourd of Charitiow of Now York, has snbmitted a roport on Pauner and dastituto children of the Stato, iu which bo etrongly protests against keop- tug thominpoor-housus, “He saya thatthe minis of obiidren, from 3 to 16 yoars vld, aro plastic. and may be eaully shaped to good resolves, and that all oliildren over 9 years old, excoptiug nnteachable idiots sud othors unfitted for family care, abould bo put in private families or in wuitable suyiuins, In the latter they osu be sup~ ported at no groater oxspeuse than fy poor-houses, nil iu the fofmer the couuty iv fotloved of ail oxponse, Tho most dosirabalo homes fur shildren aro those of farmers, mechanics, aud ehopkecpors, as the industrious divposition augralty lacking in the dependent clasues wilh i best inculcated Io wuva familea both by Precept and example, ‘this system, Lowoyer, Fequires caroful and pormanent vigilance, for i+ is fiwble to grave abuses, Tho plan which Btas~ sacbusolts purses, of requiring each year @ re~ port of the physical and moral eonditions and surroundings of each “ ward uf the State” until it has attuingd of losst the ago of 19 year, id a ood uno fur sucunug proper treatment of chil- dreu edopted into private fauutiow, It ina mutter of oconowy for tho Statew to inako its panper oulldren self-supporting at ao early age, thet they may not prove a burden for life, and may nob beget nother geosration of idle and tusisilees, VON BREAST,