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FTHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1375.—'[‘WELV PAGES, LITERATURE. SEXUAL STUDIES. £ Brzrs Timovewour Narone, I AxtomverTe % DLACKTELL, Antlint of * Bivdlen in Oetiorsl e et el Yimoq vp. 240, New York: G P, Putu A “Thoro are five cazasa in this volume, all closo- I selatod to tho subjoct &unonncod In tho title, and all showiog uucommon ariginality, braadth, and power of rearoniug, They do not, saya in gomo diroctly pornonal alusions, botray the sex of tho writer, but sro impariial, temperato, Jogleal, and loarmned argnmonts ou the mnch- gooted queation of sox in patnra. Thoy add & yaluablo quota to our underatanding of the wab- Jeck tresting it from a purely eciontifio point of Yiow, and fn accordanco with the oxnct and earching motbiods nsed by thinkers tralned to Jamonstrate facts by rigldly mathematical testa, Thocontral theory of tho difforent papersia the same, but it Ia much moro fully devcliopod in tho frst snd longort essay, which hae tho title of wBexand Evolation,” Tho thoory ansortathat tho gozen in il species of bolngn, from tha loweat to e highest, aro trué squivalonts,—** oquals but nat Klonticals in dovelopment and in relative stoounts of all normal force.” Tho proposition {2 ot based npon tho hypothesis of evolution, Lyt I8 consldered [n the light of it, and is sup- parted in firm and brave opposition to the con- clusions of Mr, Hpencer aud 3r. Darwin, It ia » daring thing thus to entor the lists against two of tho strongest and mont popular loadora of sol- ouee With tho intent to {ight them with their own woapons and upon their own ground, but the skill and the modeety with which the contoat bas teon conductad, exonorato the womenly antego- ulet from overy chargo of prosumption. ‘fue formal statement of the thoory Bire. Blaokwoll secks to build up, is in these words: ¥ fa elebmod that averago malos and females, fn eve ery #pecien, always havo boen approximately equals, oth pliysieally snd suentally, Tt i elatmod that tho extrs sizo, tho grester beauiy af color, and wealth of aprendages, and tho grealor phyxical atrength and ac- tivity in 1nalcn, havo liean b each tpeciea mathemti- wlly oftmat in’ tho femsles by eorrcawonding ed tagea—such n8 more highly differantiated structural develapment ; greater rapldity of orpanke processes 3 Lirg-« relative unduranee, dipendout npon a mors fa- vile sdjustment of functious among thomsolyes, thus 1using B wore prompt recuperation after uvery yes vore tax on the encrgies, It s claimed thut the atouger basaloual furee in tho main finde ita equiva- isnt 1 tia deeper psrental aud conjugal siection of the femalo; and $hat, in Taun, the more agiresslye und consiruetivo Satelloct of thomale s bulauced by & bighe iolallectus] fuaight, comblned with o wreater fadlity i coping with dotaflo aud reducing them to Larnontous sdjustment, in the fomala, 1t 1 alno claimed that in worals—development still modifiod by the currelalive influences uf wex—tnlike pravtical vire ‘tues and Vicea nnd vuried 1aaral perceptions, mnss stlll “bo regarided as scientific equivalunty, To provo tho truth ol this proposition, the fuuclions and thotraits of males und femalos of tho same spocios in the difforent divisious of the aninzl kingdom aro carafully sreighod =nd com- pored. 1t fo imposaiblo in such an Juveshgation 1o fix more than spproximato values upon the various forces possouncd by cither sox, yot with soma depreo of correctnoss oue may ba set ol “againgt auother, and somathiog hic 8 just bal- aoce be struck. As exprossod by tho author: e Jonot welgh Iead and snubeama fu the samo balanou ; yot (be savanis cun ewlitate tboir equivalent Sorcck ) ‘some other bawis than avolnlupots, Ho, i€ 1o avarage foumle aulual s tho natural cquivalint of the averageisalo ef ite own typs In {ho whole xggregte of tholr difforentinted quilities, sclence, by turning conceusratod atteution 1o this protlen, oud apolying the udequate teats, can yot dotsonstrate thiv 1act beyoud contraversy, ! Box Raelf, according to our anthior, origluatcs in the mocosaily for & divicion of fuuctiony in order to socuys the perpetuntiem of tho apecles. Intbe lowest cleases of organivms, whero tho utructure 1 mitnple aud food aud warmth abun~ ,dant, zexless individunks woultiply and continus the spncies, Dat whow, in the process of svelu- tion, orgauiems grow more complex and tho ‘sizuggle for oxistence more sovere, tha nood of itwo parents for the production and nurture of offepring arkues and 1a provided for by tho genoels und co-operstion of tho uoxes. Bot in evory typo of being the sexes are ncoosrarily in ,* atable oquilibrium.” ‘This issocn in the Hower of &plaut, whero stsmnons end stamens and pistils aro equivalents in vize and structare, and ‘uno tho pame amount of forcs, thouzh in diveras directionn, 1n the work of fructification. Bomeo portion of tho olavorata tabular view of equations in organia nature, constructod by Mis, Biackwell, will aid the reader fn gelting s clear ides of hor plan of proving the oqaulity of she “soxes. ‘THE SEXUAL PLANE. 3 PR TLANTH, Masnans and their products| Pistils and thete produsts, Y NaxcTs, 3 Btrucvars, 1 titructure, — Siza, + ize, 1 Golur, |— Color, 1 Activity, — Activity, , = Prodvata, t Froducts, 1 Bexual love, [~ Bexual love, (Wanting). 4 Parontal love, wisuEs. At 1 tizo, |— Color, iy = Acuvlg. Produ $ Nurture, | Nirtire,” 1 Bexunl Jove, — Bexual 1ova, 1 Purantal love, (Wanting), 8. 1 Biructuse, Structare, 1 Blzy, — Sizo, 1 Color, |— Color, 1 Orunnents, — Oruntoents, t Acthity, — Activity, =~ Prodnet + Products, = Nurturs, + Narture * 1 Pugnacily, — Paynacily, 1 Bexuul love, — Hoxusl lowe, —~ rarental love, + Parvatal love, CARNTVOLA. — Btruc + Blructure, |~ Ornaments, 1 Strenguh, — Btrougty, 1 Activity, — Activity, — Products, 1 Products, = Direct nurty 1 Direct nurture, 1 Indirect narturs, — Indirect nurtors, t Puguacity, — Puguacity, + Sexual love, — Bezusl love, —Parental + Darental love, MAN. ~ Biruc! + Structurs, 1 Blze, |— Blzs, 1 Bitrangth, + late of activity, [~ Amount of circhlation, clrculation, — ltate of circulation, 1 Iats of clreulaf — Endnance, Eadurance, - Prodacts, 1 Produots, = Dired nurioes, 4 Direct nurture, ~— lodirect uurture, — Tudizect nurture, t Boxusllove, Hoxuul love, . 3 Parentul love, + Yurental love, 1 Iieceuniog pawers, ~ Reasoning powers, bt of fhets, | ¥ Diroct insight of facts, 6 o wla-{ t B of Telae tions, $ Thought, oy, 3 Feellug, 3 3ol Lower, 3 Moval porers, Theue approximatoequationsare largaly collect- ed fromn Darwiu's °v.‘llxlnnded com| fni’lcnl of -wocondary woxusl characters, In all of thom, tho force oxpended by tho fomale in bearing aud nurt.unn%m!nr‘\’lux s mado to offset that ex- Laustod iho malo in $he development of brighter colors, of ornamental and superfiunns sppendages, in nctivity, soxual fervor, ete. Tho trats aud functions distinguishing the sexes aro no 1neans fnvatiablo in the apecies of tho differant clasuce, but aro mauy of them intar~ vhangeatla, Yot whon tho femalo puts ou tho secandary charactars of the male, or, vice versa, it iv argued by Mrs. Blaokwoll that the oguilib- vlum ju sustainoed by & cotrespouding agsump- tion of feminine habits aud traita by tho wale, Whon the femaia bird l&fll’(l brgbler plumsge than the tmalo, It s fonad to bo tho ouatom of th Latéer to take the greater saro of the young, to - brood over them in the nest and to prov!ik » largo portion of thelr food. Also when male birdy groatly surpass thoir mates in briltiancy of plunnge, thoy aro Ixcking in parcutal lovo snd Bogl30t the nurture of thair otepriug. " 1 TL8 pescock cas sfford toe tmo and dovelop the “falects’ for displaying Lis Sno plosasge on all ocoue #ions; whils the busy liftle Lousehiokler, who studie bow {0 weave the beat atraw fulo Lis domicils in thy Foul 1nannor possiblo, who sits dutifully upoa the noat Bow and then, er bLriuge the Lreskfest 10 kiv more it mpouss, who rejoicos 33 sho 0ed GVor tha new- 2 citicky, ad doce lids best 1o fesd iew aud to yive bem dying lossous wlion thoy are old enouyh—fiie ‘Wore higbly-developed and bottortulanced prevon- 840 Bas neillier tiine nur encrgy 10 devola 1o the ere o4 of 1. Mo way atoy very little, may bo aearcys larger or brighturccolored than Lis mate, and uot eally moro washike of chivalroas; yet who shall say 34 hla gifte aro not fairly oquivatrnd ta hoso of biz Bore ahowy coualus, the Gallinscin? In mental traits, Arw, Biackwell flods that the Buxeg hava universally diffored as fundamuoially . @i the orgsuisma through which \hought ond {fwling aro evolved, an: tuat spoageutly the Lalance of peychical qualitios has been a4 Girict- 1y waintalned sa in cava of the phyaical qualities, Wowman, tho smstler and more eomplox niruoe -tweis more dolicatoly elaboratod, fcirontation and rospiration aro more rapid, and her mental E;?‘euun aro wore ewiftly oxecuted than in man, abed, thua the equillbriuin of the two is oetabe As th.-nr;‘% sn Nun&&vmfnlot foros Desn 1AL man, 89 thoro khouid be o division of dutles, As on the =v-u:| direat derring for 4 N ! ber o Tt tn btars and ‘s ube S Tepring for Inttor shonld baar tho #olo bitrden of grovidivg for her—luring tho colid-bearlngz ngo, at loast —avory comfoftablo surronnding. Abundaut rest and reereation aro alwoiutcly esnoutial to tho mother, tiat tho intoroats ef her children may not be snarificed by hor over-axtisuation. Y Naturo's higheat law Is evolution,” but mo heraditary evolution {a poanible aniers thore bo perfact squality botweon man and wifo In physi- calnnd payehical enorgy, and In the sctivo and beaithitul play of the whiolo cyclo of mental sod bodily facultfen, **If evolution, an applicd to sex, Loachien any oue fetson plalner than another, it {8 tha lesdon that Lba monogumic marringe is tho basie of all progress. Natare, whn avory- where holds her balance with aven Justice, anka only that overy husband and wife aliall co-opor- nh.a to dovelop her mout diligently-aclected chat- soters.” In these fogenioun atguments, 3Mrs, Blackwall hao Isid the foundation for n new scientifie esti- nato of fominine naturoe from its carllost dawn- ing in tho plant up to developed womautiood in all'lis preacnt complostty. Bho deems it n sub- Ject for dirncl ncientific investigation, and sska that all adequata tosts be appliad to it to demon- strats the trath of hor hypothests boyond a question. Tue remaining papora In_the voluine ars on titlod 5iTho Alleged Autagonism letwesn Growth and Reproduction. Sox and Work, The Building of a Brain, and Tho Trial by Seienco. ISLAMISHM, MopArurD Ann MoRAMMLNIAN ¢ LLCTURRS Dertiv- FRD AT THE HOYAL.JNSTISUTION 0F Gnzat Uotr- AIX 1N FOURUARY AND Maneit, I8I4, By It Jios. .wonTu Hurri, M, A, Asslatant sester in Horrow Bchioo), lata Feilow of Trimty Callegs, Oxfordl, With ~n Appendix containing Emanuel Deutacl nrifele on Tulam” 12mo,, pp. 88, New York: Hurpet & Drathera, The four lectures that composzo thiv velume woroe dolivered bofors the Royal Inslitution of Great Britalu in the spriug of 1874, Their pur- Pogo was to exhiblt in a true light tho real gran- denr of Molammed'a character and tho resl Lieneficence of hia influsuce on the world, The sauthor laid no claim to origiunl Oricvtal rencarch, nt lad preporod hlmaelf to doal intelligently with hig subject by an industrious atudy of thn Koran and of ite best oxpouuders, and of alf tho great worku of Orioutal rcholars thab treat of the religion sud Lhe life of ths founder of Islam. But moro than this, ho brought, an a firat roquisito of tho wudertaking, o mind freo from projudice; a8 open and unbinged and sympathotie s that of o little child, and whero ho found truth and gooduess in Mohammed orin hla doctrine, hie was roady to ackuoiledgo and to louor it. - It wau a part of bis beliof to begin with,—n ‘boliof baaed on a law ovolved by thio science of comparative religion,—that all the groat re- ligions of the svorld havoat tho outset boen moral rathor than theological ; that they liave boon tho outgrawth of a general movoment to- ward o Lizhar lifo, and have coms into oxistence 1o moat wocial and nationsl needs. It waa also lias conviction that in tho severnl religions that finvo Jong hiold sway ovor groat tnasses of man- kind, thoro aro many pointa of contact, many tiutha common to all, much to unite in bonds of sympathy, forbonrance, ond respot, the desont profcsors . of tho faithu apparontly most unliko ia their nature. To quots from hinown declaration s *Tin u- 1hor holioves that thero s & unity above and be- yond that unifil of Christendom which, properly uudorataod, carnest Christians £o much de- wire ; o unity which roste upon tha botief that *the children of ono Fathor gy worship Himun- dor difforent names;’ that thoy may be intin- enced by ons spint, oyen though thoy kuaw it not ; that they may all have onn hope, aven if they have not one faith.,” A study of cheracter or of abstract principle, that is conduoted b thiv i pentlo ppivit of charity, aud with o comprelien. sivo underutandiug, caunot fail of profitablo re- aults, When jndividuals of opponing cracds striva to fiud the lilkiencesos instoad of the differencay botwoen thoir fundamontal dostrines, and desiro to diszovec the hermonyin their opinions inktead of tha opporiunitien for bitter discord aud divis- ion, they aro emulating the apirit and exampls of tho Foundor of the purest aud lottiest of all tho ernm"t'yhm rical roligions, tho roligion of Ohris- tonity. Tho creed of Islam probably numbers ot this day 160,030,800 of eiucera and faithful believera. » It atill has ate grip on three_coutinonts, ox- tending from Morocco to tho Malay_ poninsula, from Zanzibar to the Kirghis hordo, It embracoes within its amplo crcuniforence two uxtonsive ompires, onn Bonuee, the other Sheoal ; tho first of which, thougli it liss ofien bean pronounced slo’s unto duath, or oven dead, is not dead yot, and is even showing nlgus of reviviog vitality, 1t atill grasps the cradles of the Jawish and of the Chnstian falth, aod tho spots moat dear to both, ~Mount Binal and the Cavo of Machpelal, the Chnrch of tho Nativity, and tho Chureh of tho HolyBapaiclire, Africs, which Lind yolded 80 carly to Chriatisnily,—nay, which lisd glyen birth to Latin Chrlstianity itaclf ; tho Afnce of [ Cyprisn and Toetultian, of Antooy aund of Au. -gustine, ylelded still more roadily to Alohame . 1n8a ; and from tha Btraits of Gibraltar to tho Isthotus of Suez mayatill bo heard the ery which with them is no valn rapatition of ** Atlahu-Ak- bar"—God is great; thera is but one God, aud 2Mohammed is 14 prophot.’ . It han extendud ita vonquests princlpnlly amang Oriontal barbarians whom Christianity “Liaa nevor reachod, and it Las lifted themn aut of tho degredation of idolatry aud fotioh worsbip, to a bolfet in puro wonothelnos, Tt Lina imposod upon them hebits of porwonnl cloanhnaes ; it hna taught thom rigid sdhorenca to proyer and o, per- feot wubmission. to tho will of Providence. It has prolibited Xumblln(} and intoxicating liquorn. It haa .not xbolished polygumy or alavery, tvo institutions that Mohamnied found in full forco and finposaible to abolish. but it haw relioved them of some af thel worat features, 1t hoy taught the absoluto equatity of man boforo God; it Las imparted a wenso of tho diynity of buman nature; nud, Iaat of all, it has inspired » nobls cottraga to avow before mon a helief in God, and a prido {n tho posgoosion of that belief as tho one thing beyoud all price. Burely a crood that Las teught eo mnch of the loflicst trath, aud thut has elevated so large s portion of tho raca abova the Pagan croeds that had enulaved them, 8 worth Bludylug‘ worth tolorating, and respecting. *Thera in," 8aye Mr, Buith, ““ia tho livos of averago 2io- hammodauy, from whatovor causos, less of Helf- indulgence, loss of the mad raco for wealth, less of nervility, than fa to be found n the livos of average Chrlutians.” And again: “Igrant to tha full everything that cen be snid by travelors #uch as Burckhsrdt, aud Durton, and Palgruve upon the dogredniion of the wsss of the Be- douins and the 'Iurke, and the waut of all vital religlon, somatimes of thio very slemonts of yo- ligion, among thpm, Dut {u the state of the ol:nmmedan world as a wholo worso in propor- tion to its light than was that of Christendom when the oup of iniquity was full and n Lutker was born? To {ako ® pare tloular inatanco, has roliglon less liold upou the Arabs than it had uran tho Englisi throughont tho last centyry, till the ovangelical revival of Wesloy and Whitofleld avoused it fromn sloap 7 XTas it less Liold even upon the ** Freach- men of tho Last,” ss tha Porsisuy have boen called,—lary, drunkards, profligate (hough they uro,—thau it has at this momont upon the LFronchmon of the West? What account do travelera ln Nuaela give us of the stato of re- ligion smong the musses there? And what Judgment must plous Mohammedaow form of Clristinity, if their knowledge of it la eontined to thu7 averige fives of Liuropesns who pro- fens it2" Mr, Smith does.not establish ths value of Mohummedanism at the nxipunn of Christianite, Tho superior purity and spirituslity of the Istter over nlrum roligions of tho world {a stoadfsatly mawmtaioed, but it is ot tho kame time cleatly showo thay Christianity cannot elaim s monopoly of goodnags or of truth, ond that, whils Mo. Lammedans learn much from Christi: that will better their grecd and | I3 may lesru somotbing from Mobammodans th nuf make them not less but more Cluistian than they wers bofoze. CAMP AND FIELD. ¥ LIrE 1% OaNY AxD Fizrn, Br R Autnor of #The World un Wheels," 13mo,, pp. 370, Chicsgo : B, G, Grigys & Co, When the Aty of tho Gumberland was march- ing through the Bouth in the face of toil sud peril and death that camo in overy grim and trogleal sud appatung form, it happened to Me, ‘Taylor to shars ita fortuned for a time, Tho weapon in his hand was not the aword, but the van, aad his businora was nob to meet and tight thio enewy, but to wmitncss ovory Moody encoun- tar, overy bold advance, and s2d retreat, oyory' touching and every thrilling tuoident of shy campaigu, and socord ita mout arikiog detaila for the beasflt of tho Northiorn roadsse who, far from the scane, were sirainiog eye aud ear for evary bit of nows from tho.sest of war. His lotters ware publizhed st the timeia the Chicage Journal, and nmow are gathecod sogethor for presezvation in & nest volume fram tke press of 1, 0. Grigge & Co, ¥ Wesllk the endlasa variuty, and beanty, and brillscey, of Mr. Tsylor's pes-piotures Ona $allawe anather, In 831 hild weitinys. tu vpid tiroless, conaelenn, aucessnion, and tho Jnat nocma a8 froal aoid apentanecus aa the first, aa though the fancy thnt conceiyod tham renewad its pawor iu tho very offort that taskad it and could neyor grow woary or dull. 'Thn aconsn of the lats War affordod {znumerablo exciting and moving sub- Joctn that of themsclvea intarest tha atltontion an oftenn ss thoy aro hrought boforsit, With their affect Intonnified by tho power of = graphic delineator, n:er stir the foelingo of loyal Ameri- cann as gearcely any othor avents in homan his- tory can, WWitnogs tha triuth of thin in an soeo- doto of the battleof Chicamsugas 1t was near 4 #'losk oy that blaziug afterncon, when o patt of Gen, Jamen 1, Bteadman'a division of the ra. worve corpa owed theit haadn o tha hurtiing storm of lead, a4 I 12 Liad been rain, and Jooked &t each other, d betrayed gus of Lrasiiug, The lize moved like B great fiag 4o breath of wind, They werean splen. i waterial as ovor sbontdered n miuskot, but than wiint could they do 1n mich a hlinding tempest? Gen, Stoatiusn rode up. A yreat, Tiearty mian, hroul-bronate eil, hrosd-shonldered, 'a face written r!l over with #luizdy sanne and stout courae, lia realized tho Sissl f miy boyhoad, wien T used 10 reard of (L mout old Borycan of tha Revolutlan, Well, up rode Sterdinan, 100K the fiax from tha color-bearer, planced slong the waverip front, and, with fliel yoi of hin that canld talk agilost a smnll Tste of musketry, eried out, “Ga hack, bogs, go Duck, it fbe TLAG can't o with yon 17—graspad tho staff, whoeled hirhoree, and rods dawn §nto the harvest of desth, Keed I tell you that the colntn closed up, grew fivm and (rue, ail, teimpered as eak, mecpt dowin o the fos lika a bada in il arclangel’s hand, 2nd nizte n racord thiet eheil live when thiclr graves sreas omgty 20 the csve of Machpelah | ‘Chrilling deeds like thoas chould not be suf- forod to norieh, bat be trensured overy one wnd wiritton out for all men to read cod Lo fnapirod Dy, Hern 1 anothor affair of a guist nature, and quiotly told, but ity strong pathos strikes homo Lo evory hoart: Laaving the gate of tke Capliol fo-night, I met an ofd snan Linvicniint to tlo Dultimora caes, Mo carzied & sword tenderly upon his arm, as §f it Jixd been wn infaut. And_yat ho was no soldfer, and the weapcn wan o oy, 00 wan u father froah from the pure felda of the West, Tho geaibard was Lattered, ani tho hllt waa stulued, Ha hiad piven 8 6o to GOD aud lberty, and wan golu home with tho yword I It wan not tio et tima T hedueen old awer s berne northe ward by Lundn untsed (o wietd them, but ft was tio Bt tinie He full moauiug had eotue homa te e, A volume that embalms such slories of ihe nation's sorest hour ot tiinl cannos lagk for thrilled and tearful resders, ESSAYS, TRARIATLANTIO BERTCHEN, Hoston ¢ A Ly Hrony Jaups, Jr. Jamen it, Ungool & Co. Carvent, Gronum 11, Lee & Blievard, G. A Ldma "I'he * Transatlantle Sbetches" wore written by the author during o prolonged ssjomn in Enropa that elfowed timo for delfiorate ptudy of tho varions places visited. Although Mr. Jamen has tenosferrcd his residence and interesta to Amaries, and is thoroughly loyal to bis adopted country, his nationslity is plainly discovered in hin quiet, moderate stylo of tiaveling au well os fu ecrlialn Inglish tizits in bis writiog., 3o malkea travol u pastime inotead of & liard, hurried businoay, and takes leisure to becomo ntalligeut- ly sequaintod with ono olty or edifies or art-worle beforo rushing on to tho next. Thus he sectires clesr and complote improssions of sach object Ls undertakes to inspect, ond s preparod to sharo some really sabstantial infortantion ve- garding It with his reader, Asba travels, o ho writes, 24 with n conviction that if it fs worth whilo dolog a thing at all, it 1a worth whilo dotag it well; that Is, with caol, atill nervea. nnd a sonso of abundant leisure, His dogcriptions aro carefully drawn, and ontirely filled {n, and have o satiufactory air of finteh about them, They in- clude abova two dozon of tho moss intareeting #oenes found in Bngland aud on tho Continent. 'The ** Eessys disthetical . do not form the first volutno that Mr. Calvert has givon to the public. Somo two years ago Lo presonted Amer- can readors with an entertaining evasy on “Go- otho: 1lls Lifo Works.” ~ Tho pn- pers in the collection under notico hovo a fow of thomn appearcd in typa bofero, being originally coutributed to cerialn of onr praminont magazines, but the majority are now for the firnt timo published. ‘They ewmbrace ospays ou The Boeauliful; What la Poctey 7 Btyle; Danto and His Latest Tranalatora} Nattwnal Drama: Paiote-Bonve, the Critic; Errata; end Uscfulness in Art. Wo infar from ** A Hheaf of Papers,” by T. G, A, {lint the writar hna =oogbt amnsement rathor than proft from the uso of the pon, Tuey aro tho worlk of & man of taste and cultura fn art and litorature, who bas hind the advantago of s rood deal of foreign travol, and who haw, ap- parently, from tho pure pleasurs of the pursnit writton out at eapricions intocvals reminleconces of o variod past. or thoughts on tho presentand tho futare. Tho_* Papers,” twonty-two in numbor, diecurs n divorntsy of topivs, Yo us the moet interostiug ure * Hours with the Poola," A Leat srom o Jouroal,” *“ A Crulse of the Alice," xad ** Old Boutou,™ THE HEBREW TABERNACLE, TITONT AUD BIUYINICANCE OF TuX Baomen TAFZR- NAGLE o tax Hyunrws, Dy EOWARDE. ATwaTES, 850, P, 49, Now York: Todd & Moad, r. Atwator has boon for roany years a dilig student of tho symbolismof thoHebrow sanctus- riss, and as & part of tho frults of Lls invostiga- tion gives in tho presont work su intorprotution of the meaning at tho Tabornaclo, A dotaifed history of tho atzacture, the ritual, the migra- tions, and the sxpondos of the socred edifloo 0o~ ouples tho fires portion of tho volume, while tha romainder is devoted to tho ovidenco that tho osquipmaenty, the attendaats, sud the servicea of tho Tabernaclo reprosented a systom of spiritual aad oternal trutlh. As it maybe snppoand that tha Israolites, wawdering for many years fothe wifs derness, wers destitute of much Iiterary culture, Mr, Atwator, with otber acholars, surmises that they wore joutrnctad and fuprasved by moans of emblome, Tho Kgyptinns, with whom thoy bad safanruad for soveral centuries, mado Tao of avinholie inetitations ag wollad of sym. Lolie writiug, snd it 18 rensoncd by the author that Mosos, wuu was learned {n the wiedom of tiro Court in whieh 23 uad boen fained, would resort to types in toscianst tho peculizr doctrines of their religion to & peoplo acouitomed to raad this kind of hierogiynbica, ‘e volume isiutended espaclally for minias- torn, yot It mnst_bnve muclh infercat for all Bibleal stndonts, It Is writton i simple, lucid longuage, with s coreful avoidance of teohni- calitios nnd of torms uvknown to roaders not fawlliar with the Hebrew. It is printed in Jargo, opon type, und illustzated with a number of full-page engravingy, UNITED STATES HISTORY. A Pamaonari HisTony oF Tiik Uniszo STates ¥liow TUE DiscoViRy 0¥ 115 CONTINENT 70 Tie Pits. y2e Tiur, Wirw lisier Norta oX CONTENY¥). HAKEOUA Evants, CIIXONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED, Iy EpwaRD ABNOTT, 1dme., ppe 99, toa ¢ oborte Brotherw, Frive 88 conts, Mr. Abbott bas boen inspired by a capital ides in gotting up this book, aud has given 1t admlr- able expression, Wo havo arrivod st & centea- nlal poriod of American history, whon meny of the wmnoat potent evauta inflnancing all cur career o4 & uation uve revised for tho refroshment of memory or for publiv commemoration. Lutit {s #afa to sy that tho great maus of American citl- Zous baye not aven tho chief facls in thoir coun- try’s pest carcer fsstoued in their minds. 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WOox Dlill.;i_ok‘ CENIRAL AFRICA, A Jarch of 700 Milen Acress tho Dese cri—Ai Old Deluvtens Explodeds New York Sun, Caxe or TuE CrxTnAL AFRICAN ExrsniTion, Ve arrived at our wrorant halung placo in Now Dongola (tha Boudsn), 1,650 mites up thio Nilo, & fow daya sgo. We came up tho Nile in dabbiehe, an far oa the second er great catarnet, to Wady-Halfa; then, disembarking our command, wo had a herd and exhausting march acrors the Great Nubian desert on camols ond dromedaries. ‘The distance t4 over 500 miles, and riding the * whips of the desert so far way apythlng but agreeallo. All that has boon writicu about tho patiout and docile eaincl 18 bumbug, No greator draud oxists nmong the Leaats uf hurden, I1s {s usvec satintied with any- thing, and is alwayo® howling and yeiting ltie toad, Mo jovariably gots up befors you ate frurly on him, sud comes down with a “whop" Juot ot the tims and placs not wanted. My firat osporience at Wady-Halfa noarly cost me my nock. the brute got up befere I was [faitly mounted. ond tegeed me weverel {oet over hiw . head. Ifowover, fn & fow days [ loarned their tricks, nud con now got tho Lest of them. We woro deluyed in getting awsy from Cairo through ‘various causes, and oxpected to havs boon far berond here before the Lot wasther set in,shich it has dono with n vengoense. It fu 104deg. inmy tont, which is located under a huge sycamoro. 'Telagraphle dignatchea just recoivod from tho ‘War Olice direct us to remain lore uulil farher ordosy, and evorythiog Indicates that we moy ro ints pormanoit eamp hore and step il Octeber, O the journey Liots we -paeted by the most {oteraating antiguitica of ancient Egypt. Tho teaples ne Bein-Hausan, Xuneh-Ldfoo, Thebes, aatl Lukor ; the ialand of Llephantiue, and Aboo- Rumbel. At tho ruing of the tawplo orocted at Plnlas undur tho cartoucho of Tiborias Ciesar is that of Gen, Desalx, who followed the retieating Mamatukea far buyond tho first catatsct in 1779, after tho battlo of the Pyramids. Utter poverty sud nokeduess wre the characteristics of the inbabitsuts hecoabouts, Tho nativos live In buty conetructed of dried mud and thatehed IHalfa graes, A pirl haro is generslly full developed womsn st 12, The women wear: around thefr waldts o fringod skirt about a foot long mado of luppopctamaua bide. afany are handsomely l"a"‘n“d‘ with beautifully molded busts and imbw, Outside of the military programme of this ex- pedition, which is the conquest of the Kingdon of Darfoor, tha expedition lins raveral seieutifio " obfoctu, such s the thorough explorstion of the Isko Albert Nyanza, undec the equator, aud goologioal sarveyn. —_— SECUND THOUGHTS. Whers the wand-patlis roke fn twaiz, Duubting, Dotly chocked hiee 1eis, T txko thut pall, runeod ebe, 1 rhial raoct Witk Somebody, Koy, but thac would uever 6o’ i not'woo Bo ths other path sho Haylug, ¥ Bocond thoughta are Leat,” Who e thiat with Dolly there? What lins meddo ber ridle ao fair? “iomebody,'! most utrenge to wsy, Rodo tho pelf-aame way touday ; Aud there, among the gresowooda dim, Doliy told hier eholos Lo im, Whinpering what her hoart confert— ++“Truly, scond thoughts were beat,” Weatleriy v Casseiva Hagazine, rddechites bttty A Touching ¥torys Parit Corveapondence New York Graphic, Avery touching wud Loautifal wlory comes from tho Eass coucorning the Priucens Marceline Czur- toryuka who recontly died fn dallicia. Herlittlo andson full it wad bis Ifo was despalred of. “'ho Dowager in o sublime prayer asked God to take hor Jife fu ploca of that of her grandson. By » nort of mirscla the ehild was suved; al- 1moat innnediatoly the Princess was atiacked by o malady of lauguor of which it was wpossible 10 agcribo any naturaf cause, 41t {nadabt Iowe to hoaven," sho smiled, faintly., A fow deys later, upon a radisnt after- noou, #he had Derself roilod out in her osy- chilr on tho luwn, snd gave orders to bave all the doors gud grates of tho [imlm openod ko that evergbedy might enter, Whon tho villagors " -F, “heard of it they at onco loft tueir tasks. Old meh and woinet, young men and maidous and Httlo children, pressed about the dying Piinceve, who lind long beou like & mother to them, for sha hold tho old-faehionod uotion that the peopla aro the fawmily of the sovorsign. 'Lhen bogan mast touchlng coremony. ‘Tho childron came firet. Drawing the younygost ove {nto her avms, she ombruood it, faying, * Lot this luss fall agala upou you il iy duar frienda.” Then shie Ruve to each child A modulifon, bearing the ovaypolical sords, *Lova one anothor.” After tha children extao tho youuf #irls and womsn. 'T'o ench of thoin kLo gave a litto case containing implemonts for nevdlework and a chaplet and an twoge of tho Blessed Mary, o the mon sho gave un obouy ocoss, and for each gift and vo- cipient sho Lbad appropnate words, \When sbe hud oxtouded her last protent sba was 8D 6x- Lausted thag ber son and dnoghtorfu-law, who stood by bor, wished to Lisve Lor whorlod hack 1 tho bouso, bt sbs said o, She theu beggod thn peoplo tu reciteu a loud volcs the Domiurcal onsou, ‘Then ob 8 wiga from hor haud thoy ull knolt, and thoir voicea in fervont tones broke out ia the rocital of the Lord's Proyer, As the awey kil echoed ia the alr sho folt death in- vadiug hiar heart, and, whisperiug ** Marcsk™ the uawne of bor grandson, the olnid wes brouglt, and 20 Lo was beluy cartied to Loz lipd her lead drooped upon hior breast, and withaut a #lzh ebe rendered her soul to Bo much for & scono that soema taken from & posm—an ideal state of socioty tuat one oan bardly reconcile with the prosent. FEDERI Portrait of iacahontas, ‘Tho Richwond Jowrnal sags that Dr, James Bealo biaa doposited ju tha Hixte Libeary of Vir- gioia a portray of the Indion Princes Pocabons tas, to whom rany ot tho leading Virginia fami- lies trace their origin, The paper soys shis pors trait makes Pocalioutas a very rnxty woman of about £V years of ege, avd clo! in the uppers crnug wry nrovalood {u the uatiou of her fother, Klug Powhatan. Tha portrait depovited by Dr, Daale iy an exach sopy by tho older Suily, wade in 3838, of an origindl portiait of I'oca- Loutas, printed batweon the years 1610 sud 1017, aunng hor vieit 4o Kugland, ineompray with hor husbead, Jubu Ralte, ‘Ths romuius of the origiual portsuit wero in 1843 fn posaceeion of Or. Roblnaow, in Potoreburg. ‘Thomas Lolfo, & son of Pooshontas, wzs born st Plymouth, Eug., in 1610, eosn afier his brothar arnvod there, aud Lis mothor died at Gravesoud {n 1617, Iorsou, afto) arzjval at man's estate, retarned to Vir- Rinia and marrisd, snd diod loaving an enly ohtlg, Jobn HolHi Fe r, whose daugliter, Jaue, Tied Hichard lhbfibfhph, of Curles, la the County of Tlonriod, htata of Yirginis. ltyland liave dolph, son of ths latter, prooured trom Buglaud tha origins) posiraits of Jobn Rolfs sud Poca- boutas and Emod them whece they hung fur wany yrare fo bby muaoelon at ‘Purkey Iuland. Alr, Randolph disd b 1781, wben both pictures possed iuto the possswsion of Thomea og, of Cowbe, ta Chosterfleld Couuty, These pw'{- ;'-tunmmu\mnunnnl:unot 158 wtste B e b e e SPARKS OF SCIENCE. QUEEM FISHZS. One of the most interosting inmates of the aquarium ia tho atickleback, a littfe finh that fu- babits botu fresh and salt waters, It s a dimin- utive areature, seldom or never exceoding 2)¢ or 8 lochen In lengtl, but it taakes up in bosuty and vivacity what it Jacks fo dimonsious. Ita pretty colors are remarkably changoful, fading and brightening s tho fish plays in snd out among the depths and shallows, or ehifting through a1l the varying noades of huo an its puises throb with excitement when ongaged in sport or in combat, 1L is an excoedivgly tealy and cholano little fellow, sud ia perpatnally in & fight with ono of ita spoci Tho larger in- dividusla feed upon the emallse ones and mako torrible hiavoo of the yorng fry, hence thern in an endloss ferinerit in their communities, with incovaant ravage, devasintion, anddesth, In all thin commnotion, involsing tha action af tho mont desperats pazoions, the hitls elicklebarks dioplay their flectnece, graze, and mobile color~ ing to the best advaninge. lut their monst curious manenvering 8 ex- hibited st tho Lreeding soason, wion the tunny little finniea actually takio to nest-building, ‘Then aro thoy animated with a fine ardor in cole lacting bitw of straw or wlick with which to lay the fonndations of thair dumicile in among the stems and branches of water-ptante. Tho fight bullding materials accnmulated are cemonted together by o viacous esudstion frum their ewn bndieg, which, spun ont in tha form of a thread, in woveu in nnd_ around the strawy and eticks 1n iun, Tio thread ia hight ky (0 quatity. After the bottom of the nest iw ol laid, the wides arn Tiuilt about it, and when all i dona it is no bigger than goemall hazel-nut. Vet this pigmy dwel- ling Is commodicus enonigli to hold a nallitude of eie not larger than roppr-yrardy, The melo stickle 12 mosel busband ¢ and not oy builids tho eradie for ais offpring entirely unalZcd, puz. after his spouso huw posited heceses in it, hie watchoen over thn with the uituost solicitude, And it s ne Ty far biw Lo stend on guard witkout iutermiseon, {or uo morael w all tne viorld of walers is quite 20 templing to 3 stickiebuck ue the ova that somo other etickleback fa vizilantly gnarding, The three-spined wticklehack “(Gaslerostens aculeriux) is very plentiful in tho rivaze, ponde, anl brackieh waters of Eutope. It in o abup- dani tn eome E:nu of Englaud £9 to ba nsed for manure. Althongh good eating. thy fish 10 pot made tny grest acconnt of ks food, bnt its oul ie womatimes wxpressad for comeercial purpoves. When Prof. Agansis: was on his Isrt expodition ta Kouth America, ha discovered in tha Southern weas o apecies of fieh belonging to the family Antennaring, thet bad the edd hobit of nest- bullding. 1ta st¥is of architecture was very quaiot, consistivg simpiy of anhieres sbout the siza Of & cocownut, ond made up of small braochen and leaves of reaweed, bound together by inucons cardv, resembling cotton threads. Within .and upon this ball were thonsands wpan thonsucds of eyse, like murtard-seeds, Prof. Agaeuii removed sumo of the enga {rom thenest, placing them jn freak gen-water. Tho following momiiig; dozen or taoru ot littlo flslies were swimming around in the bowl in the full tide of lite, A colored drawing wis made of them, but tho sounglioga unfortanately poishad befors thie Professor conld determine the species with certalnty. PINE-SEEDS FOR FOOD. 'The seeds of the East North Auerican opacies of pino are never thonult of as on article of diet cxcept far the squirrels ami bivds that feed upon {iem in winter. But in somo foroin eountries and on the Facific coast they grow to such size s0d are of such pleawant dlavor that they are mmuels eateomed by the common people for thair nutriont. la Italy, aod fu otbor lende along the Mediterranoan, the Stone Tino (Pinus Finea), a broad, ombrelln-shoped trec. bears immense cones containing eceds that nre four yoors in coming to maturity, When ripe, thoss soeda are large, abonnd in a fixed of), and have s fresls, sweet tasto like almonds. Thoy are used for the dexsort, like nutsof avy rort, and are aleo employed in making varions kinds of con- fectionery, ond i o varioty of disbes for the table. As thoy very scon Lecomo rancid, their convumption is uimost whelly confloed to the countries where they are producod. In Lisbon they are strung on throads like beads, and worn 8 girdle about the waist, ‘Thestately Hibeman Stono Piue ( Cembra Pinus) that grows o Switzerlaud sud thacenitral partsof ZEurope, and in the Houth of $iberis, viclds edi- bl seeds that 1o used in sowa placea as food aud {n others uy an article of lusury. ‘Ile shelt of theso eoeds i# very hasd, oud extractiug the Kernel la a fest of ronre diftientty, 1t 14 sald to furnieh an amusemont for long winter ovaningy rimilar to that found in oracking hickory-nuts. An Biberia the fruit is o much prized shist noble ft1ees are otton cot down ju order to sovitro it. Tho. ecods of tha imbrcated-leuved piue of Chili (Arancoria inbricata) form on importunt * grtielo of food among tho Indicus, Thoy are not unlike the chestunt, and urs enten rav, boiled, or roaeted, Jor winter uue thoy sra buried in pitn, whora thov keep a loug titne, A single cono oftha drancaria somiotimes containg from 200 to 840 scedy, and n mngle tres will Lear at ogco from twenty Lo thirty of the grect coner. A spit= ituous Uquoz i8 frequontly distilled from tl fruit, which s impurtsd from the Cordillorss to the meat onthern districts of Chili. A wpocies of Australing pine, cmled bunye-buoys, bears froit that is largoly euton by tho natives. Its couo growa to tha lengil of from 9 to 1d inches, with » Fl’\wnfl.loul!u dlamotor. Tha eeads ara 41 inches loug by an fuch broad, rud when per- feetly ripo bave the flavor of rosated chestnuts. The seods of the J’inus moaopiulius, of the P. Lawmberlicna, ond of the P, Jlerilis, of the Rocky Mountaiun, and of the P, Labiniana, of Califoroia,—zll meguificont apocies,—ars ueed ag food by hunters and Indiaus, and are either rossted or poundad Into cosrre cakes. In Chiua and Japan the ends of Salisburia adianfifolia, called gingko-nuts, ars universally eaten. HABITS OF GOATSUCKERS, A diatipguishing foature of tun Caprimulgi- na, or poxtsuclora, is the comb-liko appoudage to the widdle clew, The feot of these birds aro 0 short as to forbid perchingin the uenal way,— that is, witli the toes clasping tho brinch, and the body uitting sbovo it crosswise. The whip- poorwill, nizbt-bawk, aud other goatsuckers, will always boseen sitting lengiliwiso on o buugh, or erouched on the ground, Dut the middie tve of their feot lu finely-divided on the innor side, afier the maunor of a comb, and what purpese this unique atlachmont was meant to wervo, it Lns always puzried the ornithologiuta to decide. Wilson, one of the earlicst obeervurs of this family of birds, gravely suggoata that it is prob- ably prt to the usen of & fine-tooth eomb, vi. : 10 rla the head of yormin ! fnots of down aio often found wadhoviug to the pectnated claw, snd what more natoral wnp- {mnmon than that the bird pulled em out of its taogled poll as little boys and gitls tear tho eparla out of their divhaveled hends, But the goatanckers have nover Leon couglit fn tho sct of drewsing their Joeks in the atylo poculinr to civilizod man, znd therefors we niay fufer that their eomba are dovoted 10 soms other object, Cerlnin naturelists contend that the append. ago i nsed to clean tha bustlos at tha buse of the bill from the framnonts of wingy of insocta that may adbora tather. Yol the bristica are courso apd uonie ditance apart, whorcas tho tecth of the ciaw are tlne and very olose. Othiers thiuk the elxw may be pootinated 10 owder to zsatet tho Lird in Lolding on to itd porch, Otbers, ngain, suzgest that it 18 usod to ey 8 ine socts with a vafer cloteh, bat thie birds almost invanably cateh tholr proy with uee wouth, rad _thum tbiv supposition falls tv thoe grotnd. One Writsr sdvatcss the liea that tho claw may bo used for dll_nnnl&lhl{ tho hiooked feet of beetles from tho bill, This view of tha snrvice of thy comivliko claw 1 favored by Qitbeit White, who etotes, iu his Natural Hiwtory of Selborne, tost hn hew die. tinctly seen tha whippoorwill valse itw fool in the mouite whlo hawking for tusectd ou lhe wing. ‘Thugoatsuckorafaad upon motua, beatles, atul otbor noctnrual insocts, which they oapturs whils flylng, the capacions woath, widely dis- tondod, provieR am excollont insect fiap, ~ Tha uRmo goatsucker was giveu to the birds froo the popuiar tradition that thoy suck the wmilk uf ,Im-m suspetding themsolves from tho udder, 'be suporatition took ite riee from tho habls of birds to haunt p 68 and the plsoces where oattle aze kept sad nésots ase tobes met with in abundaaca, LONGEVITY OF BHAILS, An Yoglish paper, giviog sotns evidence ro- garding the tenacity wida whicti the soail bolds on to life, relates tuat n lady, having collectod some with prethilyveaaried shelle, wizhad to pre- serve them. Bhe thereforo subjocted thew 10 o oouple of belling.water baths, asd left them on # i in s summer-houss $0 dry. The paxt 1o hac purprise snd dlsmay, sds found Vos annils srawing shatrh fhe blace, snd bome of the hungrier ones feading npon tho paste meant 1o bn used in cementing the wholls topotber, ‘Lo tender-hoarted tndy was so distrorasd at her unwitting ernelts that ulo sat duwn and hul a *goad cry,t miding with the resolva nover to attemnt snail-bolling again. Iu 1774 on Irlsh collector stated bofore the Roysi Socioty tant certafn whito anails, that Lad been confined in Lin cebinot for at lesst fittoun yoars, pokeil thelr Loardn ont of their sholly aud roputned thelr usnal habits on being fmmenad in warm water. Tha members of tho Kocioty wers foth to holiave tha teatimony of the Irigb- man : but, in 1600, an Lrxptian desert anail that had been in o atsto of lotbargy for fonr yoars at the Dritiah Museun sudduniy toused up and became a8 lively in aprpoaranco o over it had been on ita native sanda, It fed heartily upon lottuce-lerves, nod continned active for a couple of yoars. ‘Fiis circuinstance proved that the story of the Irish collector might wall be true. TRUTIH WILL OUT. Jnkey, Fiis Mo, and the Sunday-%chool ‘Cracher. Jakey ceopt uY and sat down by his molher's #ide aa kho was looking eut of thy window ves. terday morning. After a few minules of silence, L broke aut vith— * Ma. ain't Pa's neme Jacoh 2 “Yos, Jakes," ‘I L was called yenng Jocob, he'd ba ealled old Jacob, wonyin't ho ¢! “Ves, iy deir: what makes you ask such s tion au that 2" 7 othing, ooly I heard something about him Iast night.'” Mrs. Walts soddenly bocame Interestod. #\Vhat wae lt, iy son ** Oh. nothing mt; day-sichool tencher waid. “You oughtn't tu lhavs anything your motber_don's know, Jaker,” cosxingly plosd Mra, Watta, *Well, it yon mual 2o poklug into evorything, I'll tell you. Tho nzw toacher seystio e, “What's your nowe, 1y little man# aud whes T uaid Jacob, ho asiod 1ae 1f T ever heaxl of old Jacob, aud I thoueht that was pa's nsme, sol told bim £ guess I ld, Lot I'd like to hear what ho lisd to ey sbout bits, Ho asic old Jucob naed to bo & little hoy ohvu just ke ins, and had bLean-stwoters eud wtilts, - and used to play l"’[i“" and gop Meked, 3 ueed lo tend cattin—"" 8, I bellove he safd hix fodher uyed to keep & cow,” fnterrapted v, Watis, '+ dod ke Logged his brotber out of somotling or othier, and he got strusk with s young woman named tachel {Mra. Watts becatno still more ometbing the new Sun- interceted], aud wes goiug to marry hor, bmt her old mun focled him auq “made lim marey hia other deuybters hut ba wuld ha graessed hy wasn't nobody's fool, aud married them both,” “Tha wretel 1" eja d Mru, Watts, aoks ing her fiaL at Mr, Watts [ ** 1Ie haid old Jacob had & dren pnd—--" “Did I marry bim foc thia 2" azclaimed Mra. dezon or two enlle 8, eohbing and thraning herself on the sofs, wnakan al} o wprioga bura like & st of taiog- orks. Jakicy said be didn't know what sbe married bim for, but she wouldi't catel ki telling her anylhing very pooa axum if ebe was going to Lick up auch & ros L it, nud went out of the room fealing highly oant. When 2r, Watis cowe home ho mat Mre, Watts in the bail vith ©very red face, who poluted hor farger ut him aud jorked out the word * villsin!" and suked bim if bo could Jook hisinnocent wifs acd iniuos sonin tha 1zco, Mr, Wattw shiowed that be conld by stariug; vory hacd aiteruotely at Jul:ey and Xrm. Wasks, “Ikuow wlhetoyou s, mr. wben you riay away froca bome," continned M, Watts; “I'vy beurd the ®ory of yanr perfidy, Cau'c yon tell e how Rachel and that ocher womsn bs to-dar ¢ sho neled wilh forced colmuess. Mr, Wattn coufcased lus funhility to culiphton har on the bealth of tho ladies nbout whom sha woe so solicitous. M. Walls suid that whe alwaye knew that zmet}flnf, like this would ovcur, and ondod with auother hyeterival interrogation xeter tho childrou's hoaitw, but noi recewving sny satiefocsery atawer, fho threw herwi on tho sofn ag: il vabbed ami 2uked hemself a few times why she had ever left. her motber's houve, and thenelio called Jakey to borand told him thiat thoy would have tolive alonein a littla honse, sud bo very poor, aud mayba nok iave ensugh to eai, which moda that.bhopotul utter s | #eries of mosdt dotefnl howls rorl liaston down to | the kitclea (o esamine the lardar. Liater i the day “Mra. Lewis heppened inanc | 3w, Warrs corllided to her $lie mory of lroc hus- Of courro My, Looid.way tovy, ehockoed, nird trind to impress upon Xira.! band’s vitlainy, wemrB; ‘Wetls tho useensity of by plimsophical, snd e hatl nover yat neen o 1oan with a mole on his nose who did not, aooucr oc Iater, prova to be & rascal. Wowards ovening Jdnkey was sitting on tho stopy, having recovered from bis grief of (Lo morning, when ke Runday-rehiosl teachiorchancad to prods by, awl Jakey Lailod him with s gy, HMiator, I'told wmy mother whnt you tokl me about. okl Jxcob, last 1ght, wad there has been tha old rerateh to pay eversinien, Ma ealled pa a villain | o aud s bioody thisf, and tried io bresk her back on the rofs, and eald that thero wouldn't Lo any- thing to ead, and theve ain't Lson wuch a timoe since pa offered fo Lkisa Aunt Juno good-bye. Maybo you had beticr drop inand wea the old Iady, Mister; she ain't so bod us rho wes." Yho teacher, nitor some pressing, accompa- nied Jakey into tho house, and was presented to Blrw, Watts in tho yarior. 4 e, Watfs began to thank him for disclosing he: bingbaud'a portidy, but he dbclzimed haviag done xuything of tuo kind, and n! leogth, after coosiderablo talking, it wos di-covered that Jkey lud misapplied the story of tho patriareh Jacob. Mra, Watts®storted rizht out to hunt up Jacob, and when ebs found Juni, astonished him agala by being as loving as plie had Leen distant. Jakey i+ contented {n the fact that there is na immcdista prospect of o lack of supplies in tho family, aud Mrs, Watts would ba perfectly happy it shs could ouly ehut Jr: wis' montl, PEYCHE. . Whea trembling Peycie softly creph Wheso bor unkuowo, 1ysterious love Cancealed in alirondipis darkness slopt, eld hov lamyp the eouch above, Eager 1o prove wliat hidden wpelt € Leauty held her charmied Leart, Lo teach kier eves ita pwer s wel, How wweelness o her life fmpatty : And potat with 1ral deligit the keennces of Levs's dart, Har dazils, Bewrath the tremn That wlorious shiape liko vus Heliel, with suddeu glad surpiise, Tuen, startled Ly the laiapeliyit's glow, Pinshed inio liers thoss wngey eyes, And Love hiod led for a3e back 10 ks nalive skien. 1. Al desreat ! trying lised te plerce, Wil wilstul, quentioning bine exes, T sucres of the Luiverse, ¥t Ovopest f all mywtaries, "The nature of snotber's sl ‘A what it hath akis to (hins, A& yraion of th unknown whiolo S'oln what thou knowest to diviae, Asd by w‘"&’i:@"‘“ light Lo read Wia haart of | part of the Profousors, Forbear, dear love, to miido ses ALl 103t 1ny fnanost wpivit holds, Wor stilf o volling mystery Tho goilke form of Lovo jufelds; And whilo oz pulees Leut as one, Aud all my befig bends o thine As turan \is tiower to tho any, 8t0] leavn nig heart vus bidden sheine, Where, sacred and unssen, rpossth Tore divie, —diate Hullard in Haeper's Hagazine, phoshhnilanshe: Sho 2iad a Pian. Drteait Fres Peess, A gaunt woman jumped foto the Contral Btatiou yesterday, bennet sekew and eyes Llaz- ing, aud as sho rosched the Bergean! shs excinuned : E + I'n1 the Widow Cuon 1" “Ah 1" romarked tha #orgesnt, +And I waut to know if 1y lacdlced uan salso the rent on rs #”* khewont oo, ! 1 gueas so—lhndlords can do mosd any- ot I'm & widow." a you suy," *++And fan't there a law e protect & widow from having the reut ruised »Nevor beard of auo,” “And [ havon't any wmore rights them & mar riod wopish P +Not one. 4 YVery well,” wbo said, shutting Lier teoth to- gether aud striking the dosk ; **ifa widow hasn't auy rights I'll many s me'nm‘y afore sundown,— ’“tha"" e giow ! who kicied over a chalr sad walked —————e ANignior Leathor. A Sonthern paper ktatus that thewmanufaoture of allixator lestiiar has now bavowio an Imim.- taut brauch of industry, ‘The skins cowe chiotly from Ilorida ond Loatalaus, end the hounlfug and shinning of the aubuaiy for tholr hudes s estousively purenod. About 20,000 skini ere taoued every yoar. They ave mauufactured fu varlous parts of the United Btates, snd & num- bor is osporiod to Baglsod and Erance, ‘dle Freavh, owi% to theit plgariot tieibods ut fane nine, ive fAsble oompetitons, out. suse Laven Jeana Chriat oz Lord, Am FAMILIAR TALK. THE GRESHAM LECTURES. Bir Thomas Gresuam, tho great fivancier and Plufanthropist of Elizabeth's roign, made nobla uad of Lo vast woalth lie Inhoritod and asquired, Ilis father was & morchant prince and ana of the finonclal ngents of Menry VIIL In 1537 he fillod thd ofiice ot Lord Mayor of London. Tho non was sont ta Antwerp in 1552-—-being then aged Ui—to act as tho King's factor, and for aiz~ toon years ruccossfistly condueted important and diffieuit snoney tranwactionsbotwaen the Governe monts of Lngland and tho Nethotlands, He waa knighted by Llizaboth in 155). On the denth of his only ran, in 1664, his resolvod to ox- pond tio main portion of hin woalth on various benefleent institutiona, s firat graud project weay blte ercction of 8 houres or excliango for the benoiit of the merchanis of London, who wero in the habit of mesting intho opon nir. The huilding was formally opanod in 1370 by Queon Llizabeth, whe namod il the Royal Exchango. Bir Thomas built A sumpinous mansion at Osterly Park, nerr Braitford, where ho frequont~ Iy ontertatned peraons of tho higheat distinctlon, aven {ho (uoen horsoll delgning to it at his hospitable board. Ilis town-rotidonca was wituated in Bishopsgataatreat. Dy the directions of his will,the benovolont nobloman pravided for tho crection and eupport of eight alms- houees, aund for tho oudowment of n collego, His town.nsnsion waa glven up to the use of the Iattar, its apartinents boing converlod tnta zeaidenca and lectura-rooms for aaven Profossors, whoee ssleries wera pald out of the Noyal Ex- changoe ravennes. Tnn subfecta of leotura ap- poiuted by tho founder worn divinity, physic, astronemny, geometry, law, rheloric, and musie. The number of locturos prescribed by tha will wes yauch mlucoc[ within " little mura hen o cantiry ofter the denth of the Knight in 1570, The ationtion of Cromwell wian callod duriug the P’rotectarato to the mis- maosgement of tho Collego, ‘The following lotter, presorved in tho City Libsary ot Guildhall, showg that tho prost F'atitan aseamed, ou ony oceaslon at lecst, tho control of an elestion. The miszive was addreesed to the (jresbem Coutmis- tee of the Cityof ndon, und datel frota Whita~ Lall, uths May, 1 * Gentlemow,"—it reads,-~ ““Wea undarstanding that Son have appointed an elaction this uilernoon of s geoetry pro- fessor 1 Greshsm Collidge, woo dewito yon to suzpond the swoe for some tyme till wo slall have an opportumitie to apeak with you in order to thnt busincee. Your louving friend, Oliver 27 At tho timo of tho Reatoration, Gresham Collegn was stimulated to unusual activity by tho Rogal e Y. in 1061 Isaao Barrow oc- cupled " tha Chair of Geometry, sod wos succoedod by Dr. Robert Hooker fa 166, Durlng tho four years botween' 1657 snd 6L tho Chair of Astronomy wns held by »that miraclo of a youth,” *ihat raro snd eatly prodigy of universa! scicnes,” ncoord- inz to Lvelyn,—3ir Chnstopher Wren. In 1706, o raemorial was Inid hefore tho London suthori- tiew, in which compleint was mado that the Qreshiam lactures, which, in compltanco with the foundst's will, shonld be'read * ecery day in the tceels, for the Tuxtruction of Youth aud othora of this city in useful koowledge,” wera roally de- Itvored only in Term Time. Morcover, the memorial assertod that, sithough the Profsssors, for the most part, appoarad ** {o bs Gentlomen of Civility, Inzonwity and Candor,” they yot noomod very unwitling to perforia the services for which they drow their salaries, nod excusod themsolvea frotu lecturiug on tho mest frivolons pretexts. Tho Greshan Committce—which consists of tour Aldermen and eight Comtionars of the City of Londop, and twalyo Commoners for tha com- yuoy of Zlorcors—asoms not to have mendod matiera at that tima, nor, indeod, since, aa things bizsa gono on from Lad to worso, uatil at proseut the Colleze has fallen into tho Joweat condition of docay. haviog be- 11 1767 the old Gresham mzasion, come redly dilapuiated, was poiled éuwu aud the fizciwe oltice buidt on ity eito, while a room lu tlra Hoyal Lxchange was wet apart for the lece turas, tho Professor belug aliowed 5230 a year in lion of apartmonts. Tlua sum, added to the original salxry, gava eseh incumbont 2500 for readiug his conrso of loctures, Krom 1800 to 1820 tho averago number of persons attendin, t1s0 lactaros was but ton por Laglish lecturo ln& thirteon at all tho Latn lectures for the wholo, 1 yoar. In 1841 tho prosent coll .l‘ uractod ab tho cornor of Pasingball strest and 0 building wau Greatinin atrask 8t & costof £35,000. Xt wau epened o I5¢4, bat it s sakd that at most not mare than twelvo Latin and twolve ¥nglish Jec- Liios are read by tho Professors during the year. ‘Thin conurno doltvered lnst yonr in Hilary Term furuished two in succession on certsin days of tho weok, between the hoars of G and 8 iu_the ovoning. Tho author of *Ncjentitic London™ gives a huworons mcconnt of his rosoluta offort $0 lioar a conple of theso Ieciuros and judge for himself of thoir valno rod tho extent of their in- In answor to all his inquirics, he was nable *io noearth soy buman being who had ever hoard n Gresbum lecture,” hunce bis sosrch for information was conducted without gaidance sud with tho feeliug one Lias when groping in the dark. Prosontivg himself at Greshem Col- Tege, at Ove mioulea before 6, his experlonco wan a8 follows: Foenlbly all nuen ook mosn woen in search of In formation ; atuny rute, T have no doubt £ did ; for o miuking into the Ball-wiy L roceived from « remarka- iy une apecimen of the Britt<h Woadis & glanve where- in astoniabuent and contumpt wero deliciounly bland- ed. Eacapiog o3 quickly as possibla fron the awfal pres- uice of hiamaguate, Ifoutd mycelf the solitary lnans o€ & keturerodoy weruiaiod wish pasticulatiy hard ang uncomdariutle souts of that poculir which 18 Aunposed 1o conduce to the preervation of B Vigle Lint attitude, Purvontiy hoping that two move vietime wonld tumn b befars tho clovk atruck 6, 1 sat down ou 0no of tho beuches, bard ax ihs nethur milistone, 2ud glanced azownd mo in tranquil wretchodaess, The lecturo theatro prenented o dresry sspoct, A din religious iight revesld the dixmal acenn, A poculiar ainmpherc—sugsealive of loug-aluco dopariod lece furers ot of alidlenees Gone agsseeinod 46 THUIF Potios pervadod the ball of duspalr. Unless those porsons prensnt themeolves in tha lecture-room betare the olock strikes 6, tho doors ure closed and tho lacture is omitted. On this ocvawion thore was an sudienco of savou auseabled in timo to fnsure » locture. Two of these coutlousdy remadn uear the dooy, as it Bucertaiu o Lo the dusstion of ibar wiouru, ‘while the reimiining fve—adventuronn sptrita these—boldly ovcupy the budy of the theatre, 'Tho Lelure was ex- ccuted §n Latin, ’init chimdantly sesuoned witly Jengihy Ureek quotztivay cuscelly steauy togother like pearls no roiten fwine, 'I'ha audionce is rednced to four loug bisfon tho couelusion of the bour, bat the socier atier iufornation, whoso esperienca wo borrow from, wat the loctura through with feellngn * alternat- Inyg betwean calis sucurauco, uervous frritability, ravage fury, and wiolid divpair.” At the Englisl lectaro tnat fotlowed 437 o'vlock, the ottendance vas comparatively greut, nearly forty persons bewg present. ‘Ihe subjert wes trigonometry, b the hour was lost in avaln atcompt by the lecturer _to eonsoy a knowladgo of thu uelence dbunssed, to an rudlence eutlrel ignorsut of Bucld, From this account it will ba wncu that the generous intoutions of the founder of tiresham Colloge are quito frustrated throngh bad wanagoment on the part of the Comuitics, nod noglect of thelr trust an the A LAUNCHING-SERVICE. ‘The lounching of ker 3{ajoaty’s ships s hers. afler to ba wolemnized with rehgious ceremonialy. Au Admiralty circular bas lately beon lenued to the dociyards, giving a form of servico prepared by tle Archbishop of Canterbury for use *‘at the launcting of any slbip or veasel whbich may Do adied to the navy,” The corvice commences with the 103:h Psalm, bogiouing with tho 23 vaiso: “They tbat o down to tho ses in ships." Te $viwato's speciul prayer is asfol- fows 1 0 ‘Tl 1t Atteth nbove o walar-floods and still= et the ragiay of the 8oz, accopt, Wo hesoorh Thew, tho supplicstivn of 'fliy_ asrvunts for all who u this shin, now aud Rereafter, sliall compib their lves unto the porila of 1uo doop, Al (hiole wava enable them troly &ud godly tv ecrve Thee, and by thelr Chiristien Lives to st forth Tuy glory throughout the eartls, Watch over thes dn thele gowig forth and i thelr coming i, that o ovil befall then, nor pisubief eomo nigh to bure thielr souls, end 50 througl il tha chengos and chance of thls wurtal ife briug them of Tuy meroy to ibe China ue:fil.nm Ripgdons, {brough The osremuony cosoludes with the Lord's Prayer. —— RAYER’S GRACE, Liound Lisly Rabli' susfering bad Tha wixs wien gathicred, yazing guv-l!. # Daughter of God " 1l youugtur said, # Endurv \by Fatber's chistening bavely ¢ They who have steeped tholy "u‘!. 1a prager Can'any angulsd esbialy Lor, Abo anawered not, and turnod eaide, Taoagh not l;:y“n:;a?nfully not sadly, Thou spake he outt “ Your words T ometle tratts oo dow