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g & erly ty W B ? s | oFnEE ez Wl i 5 e oOLUME 20. The Chicano Lkl FINANOIAL: gl [t ' Field, Leiter - & Qo. i3 & 126 Teetlor-st, Clicegy, I STATE & WASHINGTON-SIS,, ;fi&ifi?fi:fi;’:‘JZZ“IJ.’»‘.?&?;} o was Havenow the most com- plete lines of UNDERWEAR! oy oxaentod at (h LOWEST They have ever shown, comprising all kinds of Messrs. “ Cartwright & Warner's” goods, and all ceiebrated Foreign_and American makes. I SECEWEAR! The novelties which they have just received are unusually attract- ive, having been select- ed with great care.; TO-RIGETT BT SALE AT TR fzposition Building = NEW PUDLICATIONS. “juST PUBLISELED! GEMZ OF WeLISH SONG! gy each n brus Gem 2nil endentably Popular, Atong the attraztive titles are s rethy et Angelus, Esmeralda Little dMnid of Arcudec, . Dy the oo Seny Silk Umbrellas, Car- Yngs Ygtiol digan Jackets, Dress [L6EVS OF ENALISH BONG ina book of 232 geidlof full musio nlze, H Shirts, Collars and Cuffs, 8ilk and L. C. 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OF ALL KIND ot tue parciesy, by tho O jupsuy, of seventy o Ofus, teded and ad- wised Lo tho Becrubary, cud be lolh at Yo uitica of the v tou tho wid {nat. wamy Sp oo 0 EIOLIN OLIVER, Secrotary, v PAIRBANKS, MORSBE & 00, | & of fte copital st 111 & 113 Lake St., Chicugo, Bocusefultobuyonly the Geaulag, GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS? CHICAGO, SATURDAY, NOVEY/BER 13, 187? wm tho conmetrur gion of the cathedrals LITERATURE. Religious Novels---The Life of the Ancient Greeks - and Romans, Antiguities of Free-Masonry ‘Whittier’s **Harvest Idyl.” Secular Ohanges of Climate---French . THistory—--Amateur Gar- deniog, Stories for the Children—..The Volume of *“ Liltle Classics.” Last Genlus and Labor-=Suicide--Ly- canthropy---kmbeciles in Englamil. sanllary Progress-«« Aretic Explorations .. Utitizatlon of Wasle Productgees Scasoning of Wool. LITERATURL, RELIGIOUS NOVFLS. Brovent Mok, By Hesnd grnursoy, At hor of “ a'n_ First Prayer,” cle,, cte. Hoitnre 0mo., 421, NowYork: Dodid&'Mead, 13 DERTHAN Yasily, 3y the Aunthor of ¥ Chron- s0f {ho Sclonlorg.Cotta Lamily,” 1210, 1. . New Yorl ; Doid & Sesd, ‘Ihiosa who have reud tha powerful rommice of « Ilenter Morley's Promise,” by Wesba Buutton, wilt ook with lively expeotation for each now book by this nuthor, Ono sgreeablo quality, nt least, is uro to distiuguish every production of hera: it will bo writteu in clear, correct Ln- Rlish ; and thiais iuch At a timo when tho world is looded with books of overy gort by an- thors who do uot vonsider an iguorauce of the Taws of synisx any obstacle in tho way of their litorary embition. ‘iho lato works of IHeaba Strelton have been wiitten with an evident moral purpuse, aud Le- long to tho eategory of roligiona novole. “Lrought Home " ia jutended to illustrate to: ovils of intemperance, and is en effective sor- mon upou tho subject, 1t I8 au artistio creation, awd, therofore, I8 not limited in imterest to nav particular class of readers. The lesson meant to be impreesed iy kept strictly subordinate to tha action of tha story, which is wrought up to an oxciting climax. Tho #kill of tho writer is well displaved in the striking offects she las produc- ed mih slhight materials and tho apparent ex- penditure of very little offort. 1t I8 one of thio rogrotful mysterics whict con- tinually oxcito our wonder, that an suthor who, at the boriuning of Lis or lier carcer, Ling shown u peculior gife for svriting stories that touch the people's Lieatt and cresto a wido and warm en- thumaem, ehould, in the conrse of o fow years, seem to lodo the divino talont beyond rocovery, aud bring forth book aftor book devold of nearly every traco of original power. In tho caso of ano ltka Mre, Chsrles, the author of the papular # Belionberg-Cotta Beries,” the mystery docp- eus, for hero there has boen no diesipation noe dobasement of the futellectual faonitien. Hor montal lifa has been nefther wlarved nor stag- nant, nor do tho evideuces suggost that it hus been ovor-active. From the tenor of this last wotk, s fecbloimi- tation of “The Chronicles of tho Behonborg- Cotta Tamilv,” wa conclude that excess of Cluistion zeal has destroyed tho uuthor's apti- tude a8 & novelist. In her engernces to advocatn the trutha of Clristiapity, uho has forgotion tho tact oxmential to tho success of thu stors-teller, and han 8o clogged pud overlonded with ethical aud devotionul sontimeots ihe annam thay +hould bo chiolly relied upou for atiraction, th at they aro almost buned out of sight, Tho oim ?ucl of tho writer. too strongly insiated upca, has defeated itsolf. ‘Tho unconvorted rew lor will nover wado through the maus of moral ro- flections cuwbvering overy page of tho ** Neota. Book of the Borirsm ily,” for thosake of tue spanty patches of nurrative: while tho ar- dout Cbristino will find she tasks rather dry one. 1t 18 & thourand pities that Mis. Chatles contld not hold herself to the Jine of writiug thas eho first marked out as by inspiration. In hor aa tiior books, the tule thoy yrofussed to untuld was recognized as of paramountimpurtance; ar ithe religloua spiritbthat amuated, but vever lomi. usted, thom was in beantiful Larmony wirk their rimplicity ond realism. Thoy were sougiit and read by huudreda of thousauds, and thar rotlu- ence for good was immenso, Unbappily, ooth- ing similar can be said of Ler Iatest works. ANTIQUE MONUMENTS, Tug Lirr oF THEGRERKS AXD luslans, Dercpinen YROM ANDIQUE Mosusenid, By E, Guut aud W, Koxgu, Transfated frum the Tuird Uern an tlon Uy F. Huzercn, With Fivo Slund red snd Forty-threo Wood-cuty, 8vo,, ppw 0.0, Nosw York: D, Appiston & Co, ' Chleago: W, B. Keon, ‘Covko & T m i, ¥nco, $5. In the publication of this work, an bxmaitant lelp has boeu given to tho clusical stivdont, It utands eomuwhero abont midway belween the dictionarles of Greek and Roman sutiquitios and the manifald volumes of Greek arnd Homan Listory. Like the formor, it describors tho ehar- sctor and aorvice of ail objocts const: ucted and employed by theso bwo great antiqro peoples, from tho tomples 1 which thoy viirsliped to the garmonts thay woro and the implaments thoy nsed fo thoir honsoholds, Likethe liter, it pre- aonts, {ntbo form of a progsossive ¢ tironicle, the details that dolineate the growth and dovelop- mont of the commuuity, Uuliko ¢l o lattor, bow- ever, It porttaya tho every-day ifo of tho com- mon people, beginujug with the crudle and end- ing vath the gravo. 1t depicty thelr cusloms, mannars, andenlturo, durlug tho succossive erus in the exiienco of tho nution, We 800 hiow, nt the varylng poriods of their history, tha masses of every rank and conditfon were ucoustomsed to pr:rfonn tho mul- tiratious uperations of public anc! privatolife, We observo their religious and soclal ceremonials ; thoritea that conseorated marsingo, birth, and turlal ; tho modes in whick tk #y couauated war- fuve, commerce, and politics ;v 1id tho methods by which they cultivatod the aris, literawre, and science. ‘Thoir fortificatious, public buildivge, woik of utility and orvament, aud their private dwolings, are fully preseuled to view. 'Their dreus ; their ornamouts; thiwoir furmituio : thoie Looks, pri-Lisasures, uton gawoes, bathy, cols loges,' armor, military deciratious, miodos of cooling, sgriculture, wire.ouiture ; aud their trades and professious, fare amply described. Notbiug 18 wanting o tio portraiture of the Ureek and lomen at homs and abroad, v hours of pueiness uad of pleasuce, Uhye voluma 18 dresvod tn large, open typo, aud Hlustratod with & protusion of elegaut wood- cutd, ANCIENT FR EE-MASONRY. Tug EsnLy HIv10u¥ ANI> ANTIQUITIES OF FARE-Alie $ONKY, 43 CONNECIED ¥ 158 ANGIENT NOKVE (UILDY, AND Tk OMIEN (AL AND) MEDIEVAL HUILDING Fat Frawizies, By Ueorys F, Fort, 8vo. pp. 400, Thiladel bla : Q. I, #r.iusw, * Obicego: Jansen, Mo- Clurg & Co. ‘Tuo apeuing portion of thia work prescatas aketeh of tha coudition of tho flue arts attho declne of the Roman Lwplre, aud a rapld survoy of the accomplivhwi.ule of arclisecturs through the medieysl agos. According to the withor, the gutld of Froe-AMawons was composed of tro bodios of builders, who, procecdiug originally from Bygautiuw, o (ho vighth contury, worked, L2 univon with tho wi%es of wouasiosies e icad —~TWELVE PAGIS, and churetes th' ongh Eogland and East- ern and M jdi0 Europo. In the eloventh century. | 50 corporation of Freo: runs vas ot 1ty tuted, lize mans other od, nod, Kuildu Of Shat e g 2y, ro riated the degroes of ‘\lyprenflcc. o © L, aid Master, that had oist- in tho mou pactica frum & very eany avo. The hixbory € ¢ s fisteruity 8 tinced in K- gland, Frane s, Gormany, 1te formaler .yneon ns an oneeativa brotherhood, i 1717 4" ae logeudury history and the arclieol: ony of tho eraftare inclosed 1n the #ecoud por- tion of W g volumn, 1110 81" thior b txporded much tabor uson bin wOrE, 8 ud paw tnchudod 1a 1t 8 woss of dutoils of keueral nterast, I has Leen prepared, on e emikn gieaily aaiiouncon, for the benetit of uuin- WInLES 28 well as furmambert of thoe Fraternity. WHITTIER'S " HARVEST 1DYL." AT rr, Mo A dlanvess IpT, 1y Jous Gas 1 W Ky, pp. o S5 With Tluatratious, v 4 1, Orgood & 9. Deur Gad aud Father of u Furgve oue Liith fu crucl Fulgivo the ulin Juess that deujes ! Forglvo Thy creature whea ke t.ket, For thie sil-porfect luvs Thou art, Boue griju creation of s Leart, Gant down our 1dolas overturn i 5 Tho render will remomber thowo passionste, pleading lincs, that viir uns most in the bajad of “olabel. Muctin”; and o will aleo remeinber tho pathetic wory that §s framed like n picture in thin beaniiftl poom, * Maoel Mariin " comes very cear * Miad auller”ia tho charm cf e sweot, rustio luvellness ; and the exquisite man- wer in which it I8 now presentad will go far to- wards maging 16 ah ) “I'be (llusirss fone, by Mesera, Woran aud Waud, and Miss Hatlock, with which the 1dyl s embol- iished, rival tho tost in_ the wirenuth and graco of their conoation. Lhey r:0 vertable gems iu tho artof destiiu nud, 1w almost every iustance, buvo boon adeurably engryval. ‘Lis bool is, 1 ali respocts, atiperbly plauzed, and muat jrove a Bpeciul Lavorite with purciasors for Lo bolidays, CLIMATIC CHANGES. CLINATE AND 1IMK I THEM GLOLOGICAL RELA- LA CHAN:EN OF TIE 2 OF lter Slajc i, 1200, i, ils Chiiago? Jaiwoni, FARTA'S CLIMATE, By ) ety teoiogic al Harvey of Bzoth Fow Surits D Applewon & G K & Con ‘A conbiderable portion of the subalanco com- prised tu this wori haa beea before given o tho public in the forwm of detached papors pub- lisbed in tho [hlvsupiical Magazine aud otber journaly during the pass ten ur twelve years. I'ho tusory of Becular cuanges of the eurth's climate, projected and ably supported by Mr. Croll, bas challepgod tho attoution of ecinntific wey, and occationed extensive debate. By nome, itiu voldly declared to bio second fn gra deur yud imporiauco ouly to Nowton's expo hou of the laws regulativg tho movements of tho wolar Hystom; by otuorm sgaw, it I8 pro- nounced umsonug 2ud Bntenabl ‘Lo prescut volumo states complotelr and coucisely the facty sud arguments sustattiug i theory ; mecting bjsctions that huve been ad- vanced ; 1eluyInZ, A8 Jar &y possible. the ehght misupprelicnions tuat bave atidon rogarding it; aud ateolutely evading ull ovideaco oF a hypo- thetteal charactor. 1U18 not wnteuded s a topus lar (reatiso, out presupboscs oo the past of the roader womns conmderable kuovlege uf physical science. FRENCH HISTORY, Barve's Osx-Teax Histonr, A Dawer Iistony or Yuaxcs 12160, pp. 209, New York and Chicago: A3, fsenvs o, Price, 5130, This 18 an excollons ittlo work with which to womumence tho history of France, 1t gives an outlino, clearly aud Nirwly drawa, of $he cateor of tho uation fram tho earhiost authentls ao- counta to tho prosent time. No point 18 omitted that ba nocoseary tu i comprehiensive view of che ontiro Ringdom duriwy cach soccoodiug contury. aw o peeslisr talent for condvnml. tion,—making 8 wise suiostion frow the s of detalls apportsinIug 4o uts subjeck and crowdiug oll that are exseatin into & compuct and connectod nanntive. Ly means of nolos, tablos, summa- rics, ete,, o great varicty of inlormation con- nected witls tho main tbeme is supplied, which «could not bo couvauwuzly meroducsd iuto tho text, 'Iho book deBerves 10 bo pupuiar with tuo #chools, PLEASURE-GARDENING. GARDENING POn PLEARURE: A GUIDE TO THE AsA- TEUN 1R T FAULY, VEGETANLE, AND FLOLAL UAll- wislt FULL INRLCTIONS POR THE GHEKN- CoNBEUVATOKT, AND WINDaW-GaRDEN, 1) Autbur of * dardentug for & Tilustrated, 12mo., pp 2 York? Orutige Judd & Ca, Trive, 1137, o puthor of this mavual is au experienced gardener aud a judicious inatructor, e under- Atanda tho needs of tho amatenr who would prastica tho arta of tho tlorist snd borticultarist in tha parlor, groenhoane, and garden; and pro- vidua for them amply, methodically, and diroct Iy, 1o wadtos no words iu oratory or circumio- cution; but, in a torse and poiuted tmanuer, gives sdvico regardi the manitold muiters pertamiug to the operatious of eang, His work will be Tonud an eicicut guido 10 the slu- plust aud eurest modes ot plant-culturo. e, STORIES FOR LITTLE FOLKS. A Srony-ook ros Tk CriLvsiw, Uy Mrs, A, M, Diaz, IMustnted, fGuwwy Phe 96 Bosiont Jutnes R, Orgood & O, All tho cluldren Lnow what charmiug storios Mrs. Inaz writes for them; and theso uro smoug bor very best. ‘Thoy aro for quite littlo fulks, from 6 Lo 8 years old, snd tucrosloutd, them tella akout ** Little Dilly,” who wus 6 years old horself, wnd o porfect representutivo of hor Liud, Avotber tolls * I'ho Story of the Golden Christmas-21en;” avotber, *'Lhe vy of n Doliy ;" und another, **'fhe Adventuros of Lit- to “lastin klover.”" They ura ail vory lively und funny; and aro Hiustratod with pielufos quite us wansing 86 themeelves. ‘That mamma will no. wake a wistake who buys the bouk to put Iu hier child's Christmay stuckiug. LITTLE CLASSICS. Tarrir Crasscs, Edited by ftox-11ii JoftvaoN, Blze teeuth volume, AUTHoud, With o Geusrl 1nd 21, . Losioa: Jswes K. Ougood & Q) Tinto,, pr Price,al. The oditor of the *TLittlo Clnssios™ hay cronned the usofuinoss of bis sorios with the presont voluse, which containg » short biogeaph- ieal pkotch of overy author represented in tho collection, The roader wil tind bore tho maln fucta 10 tho carecr of sove: sl iviug writers, whiciu it would be diticult, if not wjosziblo, to dud olsuwhero, A goursl index concludes the oot aud the complotensss of tho ** Listlo Clasaics.” A TEXT-BOOK OF MORALITY. Ppacsican Eiics, Dy Aaninba Luiicuss, A, K. Haruce & Co, 1878, Thss work Is designed as a text-book of moral- ity, ‘Lho Loliels it tuuches, apart from s Litle uunocessary vehwmenca in r2gard to tobuces sud aleobiol, »v Figit onough in the main, Wo can~ not considoer the arrangement of tho matter by o and ALSWOLS 6 & good one, Tho mat- f would bo tmproved by a mora rigid ad- Loronce to tho rules of grammar, aud to those which govern tho use of capital lettors, The bouk 18 mot vue which no schoul sbould bo without, A HOLIDAY-BOOK. Among tho holiday-baoks snnounced for this scason 15 n translation, from the Freoch of Lawartive, of a romantic apisode v his owy lifo, which will be printed under the titls of » Quazialla: A btory of Itallau Love.” The translation has boeu made byJsames I, Ruunion, ot 'Tug Trpuxe, for Neasts. Janseu, doClurg & Co,, who wil) puulich it i a buudsome red- o edition, ubiform with ¢ Mewories,” trane. iatod from the German by Mr. Upton, and pab- lishied 88 & sioliday-book by the sanie firam lase yoar, The populsrity sttainod by * Momorios will servo 84 & tavorablo introduction for **tisa- ziclis," which will bo out iu o fow daya. " A NEW CHILD'S GAME, Jansen, BlcClure & Co. bavo received an on- tiroly uow cbiid's game, Rut out by MoLaughlin Brotkers, of New Yors, which haa throo vana- tious, sach of them mutructive, aud worked out by pawne. inono the parpess is to enter **ibe Celestial City ™ by lolluwiug (ho route of the culreim's Progoos ™ ¢ the pecond, to asceud wt duscoud she Tower of Babel : and the third is ** tioiug to Sunday-Schoul.” The bourd ussd i Of tho uize 0f au ordwary chogy-buard, aud is ain, aud Italy, unul | Ouo of .| bandsome's illuminated insido and out, to illuc. tiste the threo gumos. A20Ks HECEIVED, i, A No Tty ra, Haxporen, ,ete, 12mo., pp. 410 it & Co, 11.y3% 10t DEVOTIONAL . Pripeipal of no., 1P, 160, \ bifnen & Co, Price, Vol V. Cosrrins AT, AND LANCXTATIONS, By Blsbogs 4 R e York s 3:itiier, Arustooug M WL Hrace CoMAPXTARY, satait, Jrurs Co, Huan ecrow, A Hrokv. Dr Katurnixe Kix, Author of “Gur Dutwv:hent,” ets, baper, & Hiomrations, Now York: ilarger & o Price, 18 crnts, i £EN 0F G, NNAVGNT, AStonr. Paper. New e, T centa, 3 Wi Ol & Co Chicago's Jausan, MiClarg & Co. Yeiie, 35 couts, PERIODIGALS RESEIVED. Harrar's Saauzine fur De ember, (arper & Brotbers, New Coutentas # Up the Asbi Feniaora W.ool Years from Now," ted S atea” Jamen Lt iard Zaxter,"the 1ou, "W, d): e Tnipertal Gueat, Taynt #ofirry Cornanti aul s {ecneluded), James T, Feld: At w st t (L Virgnis W, H r the Goil Avenue,” ve Fird Coatry of the Ru; ublie ¢ 'y cr).~Scdentifde Progress e I Fo A P, Barnard, LL, D ; © Gacth, 8 iliiwtuorno g @ Siury. Qiben of, Buisini Cuernsey ;% The Iatter Dy, AL F Lative Hismors (1IL), the Hon, B ary: Viury Beoard ;7 + Taitorn lenttde Rarord < Distorical Record; ¥ * E o' Drawe Rezater for “Novemlor (D.\B, C fele Ameriran X cud News Company), LONDON BOOK-ANNOUNCEMENTS, Jeotana Currespundance vy the Biok-Buyper, In the bistorical and personal memoirs the promiso ie vers ricki. Liosidos thoso most prom- iuent ones, *Ihe Life aud Lotters of Lord Macaulay, by his nephew, and of * Desn Swift," Ly Johp Yorster, wo may expect ** Memoirs, Cor- respondence, aod Tablo-Talk of B, 1, asdon ™ (thio luntorical palutor), including letters from Keatn, Loigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, and othots, odited by bis gou, P\ W. Iaydoy, tn two vol- uwed octAvs Forty Years' Necolloctions of Life, Literature, and Ait," Ly Dr. Charles fackay, in two volumes octavo; * Willism God- win, Hiy Friends and Conteroporaries,” by C, K. Panl; “Diderot,” by Jobn Morley, tho avle blographier o Vollaire and Rousseau; * The Life, Worke, and Op.tioos of Hownrich Haine,” by William Higand ; **The Private Correspoud- wnce of Barab, Duchess of Marlborough. from Original Pagers iu the Possession of Earl Amer juile for Novemter (Ameri- 1 l Beanchamp; “Life of Earl Meyo" (the mattyred Governor-Gemeral of India), by Dr, Wiihiam Munter ; * Mem- ows of Camille Desmoulius,” from the Frowh, by e, C. W. Hosy; *The Lifo and Tunes of Prince Charles Stuart, Count of Al- Vauy, Commouly Called the Young Pratender,” by A, C. Ewald, fu two volmnes octave; ** Tho Life of Archbishon Laud,” in coutinuation of Hool’s ** Lives of tho Archbishops of Canter- bury," in ono volumo octavo; ** Memoita of Celebrated Etonians," by a well-known writer, J. Heneago Jessu; tho conctuding volume of Siv Ienry Bulwor's * Life of Lord Pulmerston,” completed by the Hon, Lvelyn Ashiey (n son of Lord Bhafieabiiey) ; * Lifo of Dr. Norman Maee leod,” by Lus beother, the Rev. Donald Mac- leod’; ** Momoirs of the Bauson Family " (anven geuerstions of cxecutionora'), trauslited from the French Ly Barrers; o flue liurery edition, fiomn a now transcript, wore complete than any provious one, of * The Diory and Correspond- enzeof Samuel Popyy,” In six volunies ociavo, to be publirhied ot vhort intervaly untilcomplete ; aud many othors of lozs promincut iucerost. No othier dopartmant is 80 tully represented in $hin anuouncenionts, except pertinps that of voy- ages aud travel. Onlya few of the leading ouen can be opumerated. A now book by a uolle ann- thor 17 sure to attract attenrion from the heauty of its jllustrations ; *'Fho Ureat Divide, a Narra- tivo of Travels on the Uppor Yelluwstooo 1 tho fummer of 1874,” by the Eusrl of Dunraven, with fil-page ¥Illvs after drawings ou the epot by Yaleutino V. Dromley ; nud the same couutry is the subjeet of Mr. Hepworth Dixon's new booli, coigmatically_ owtitled, ' White Conjuest: Ameriea in 1895, in two volnmes octave, Tho old polar traveler, James Lamont, will bring out “ Yachting m tho Arctic Sess, An Lxaunnation of Bouter totho North Durivg uges of Hport and Discovery in hood of tho Great Iece-Park,” volumo octuvo; sod Capt, Iichard Bar- ton dotails his tropical oxperiences m * Two ‘I'rips to tho Gorilla Land and the Cararacts of tho Congu," fu two volumes octavo, witi illuss trationd and map. *Don Carlos and tho Bavques, su Account of the Iiepublicans Who Wero Fighang for Diciue Right," istbo epigram- matie titlo of book of travel and aiveuiures by Nir, MeQGahay, whose eaploity in Kuiva will uat soou e furgotten ; *The Proaty Caucasus,” n narrative of & walk through ths rauge sud an ancent of Mount Eibrnz, i3 by I' €, Grove; an- other work on the same region is ¢ Tiavols ia (ho Caucasus, Perein, and Turkes in Auis, to Nineval and Babylon, aud Acruss the Desort to Pulmyrs,” by Baron Max Von Tineloiagn, sud translated by Charlea Hisnoage. The tstior places remiud oo of antiquarian literaturo, This 8 only inifforeutly reprosouts od amon fortheominz bouks Mr, Uenrge Bmith's + Ausynian _Inseriptions,” deseribiog oyeats recocdod in tho Look of Geuews, aud giving tho Chaldaan vorsions of narratives of tho Creption, the Temptation, the Falt, Deluge, Tower of Duo:l, cie, opeus now sud strilaug views of the origingl ronrce of tho roseived primaial bistory of map, ob- vioiigly most im ortant I mMANY sehdcs. Il{s volume will e prefnsely illustrated from tho amiique. To tho samo ndefatigablo stndout wa 0'v0 tha *Atageisn Egooym Canon, tho Com- farauis Lirouo.ocy of the Assyriou and Jewish i, o8 from the death of Bolomou to Neb- uchadnezzur.” Prof. (ieurge Hawlioson's »oventh G.oat Oriente) Monarchy,” or his. tory of the Sassaviaue, Wil cxwpiote his viow of the anciont world of the Jast : aud the new oudi- tiou of tho swiio antkor's veralon of **Tho His- tory of 1etoJotus,” with copious notes aud div- rortations, will doubtlexs tske ncoount of the great progress made in cansiforio and hieroglyph- [ discovery siuco tho furmer edition was bub- Lstiad, ** The Mist rv uf Anciout Laypt,” by Lrof. Bragsch, of Guttingen, 18 to be trauslate by 1L maws, Esf. ProfgEwald's *Au- tiquities of teruvl * will formn one volume, making a compauion sud completion for hin * Histar of the lcbrow Natow Bishop Thirwail's + Litotury aud ‘Thealogieal Remaue.” adited by Canan Porowa, 1 two volumes ustavo, rocals the momory of ona of tho graat Englush bisto- riany of Uieoce, rocently departed. < AN EQYPTIAN MEDICAL WORK, ‘Tho Astor Library, New York, Las come frto posaession of & work of oxtraordinsry antiquiiy, Ii1s o fac-simile of au Egyptian medical treatise, written io tho sixtoontl coptury B. C., and con- sequeutly more than 3,400 yeara old, Though atrictly a wodical work. it reveals much reisting o anclent Egyptian domestio hife, and 18 ono of tho wost 1uporfaut contributious o tko listory of wedical seienco ever discoverod, The roading ublio 18 iudobted to the Lberality of Mr. Will- Km 1. Astor {or the work, T'hs titio trauslatod is na followa: * Papyrus Eberw. the Hermetio Hook of Medicines of “thu Auciont E(.(ybvlllul, dn Hlerstto Wntiug. Pab~ Runed, witls Byuopa:s of Coutents and luiroduc- tion, by Guorge Ebers, Hioroglyphio- Latin Glossary by Ludwig i, Under the Patronsge of the Royal Buresu of Education in Harony. Lewparg, William Eogelmaon, 1875 2 voly. Folio.’ ‘Tue headings of some of the chapters aro as fallaws : 1, 0f tho preparation of wellines, * 43, Ul saivea for sumoviag the uhun, 47, Catalugue of the various wsss of (be Toquem tree. Wity 44, Modlcloes for slleviating tho sccumulation of i haeuscs of 140 stafuinen, Thio L 03t of (b eyod. Medicamvuts fof prevonting (e bair turniog grsy tud ur 1 treationt of taw batr. U, Mudicliea for forciug t growtu of the bar, ., Bilves ToF wiusgtiening Lue erves aud medl cinen £or Leailtig thy hervea, N, dudicinth 1ot curing iseasss of tho tongus, 9, Aodivines for the removal of lice suddeat, diciues fur eara hard of Duatlug, ‘o Bucrot Jovk of ihe Shydilas, Tho sclance of tha beating of the heart, and th knorlsiz neart a8 taught by the priestly physleian Seime: of the 1, LITERARY NOTES, A voluia on * Pray Adsumes is neariy rendy. Mr. X Iwin Aroold has Just prepared a volume of **Tho ludinn Sung of Bonge,™ from tho hau. skrit of the Gita Govninda of Hayadeva, Tho sndefatigabla aud apporontly inexhas. blo Miws Chintlotte 31, Yonge ha two new baoka in prees, oue on ** Tho Licgiuniug of Church His- tory ;" the viber, *Etories for Childrou in 8 Col- lested Form." 1he Parls correspondent of tha Arcademy ravs that ** Guatave Dore, the freethinker aod Vol- His last novel, *Les Ttauge,' has conservativoand moral | ratenaions, | VIROTous yeus, It alas ! tho talent has disappeared, and mor- tarian, bas done ponauce, ality dora not compensato for it in literature.” 1 fulio of *Suskespearo ' twou 280, Pyl of r anl {ta Remnrkablo An- wwers, " by tho Rov. Dr, Pattou, of the Chicago Mr. J. 'ryua Colller, who diseorered tho cor- ivo years ves to havo dircovered Milton's copy _Cooper'n Thenauras Lingum Romava et Britanmica.” Ho wava the pages of tho baok aro ciawmed with notes in the handwriting of Jobn NUMBER g9, which, during that {nterval, o porann sav sorvaut was admitied upon any nl'm.n. gl SUICIDE. In an ariicle on *'The Saicklal Act," Dr, Wenter informa us that, in Cogland, the monthy of Marcy, Juae, and July, are the niost profifis of #nicides, Mou are much moro inchned to tike theit awn livos thau women, When, hows ever, tha laster resolve upoa the euleidal act, the umb: ¢ civino the moaths of Sopom. wid Jauuacy, o which faw the deel, Womon rarely throats, prefer.ivg to sook v drowniag, thougl thay mas hava &) go a long distancs o find sater, Uanging ia the mado of wsictle adopled most traquently by e io eariy anl advavsad life. In their moat their farunte method 1o by whootivg, Pawsoung i n go,ular mods of u'\'lcu&-: With youny jersune, teyecully wills fo- malen, A writer fu tho T'upnlcy tha: poisoving nuda of A choson 1 the City w York, Pperkons hiaving aizd by this mean irien Nontidy states ide eftenesy 2 out of 60 Arscuic 1n Sjonaine ho poiron chiedy reworted to, nnd b itn com- 4 " monest form,—'aris-green. In 1571, 14 sufeldee “Anue vn‘!.“ e, 1 wntner & Co, v;lll\sluTrll r"‘llrl took Patie-green and, in 1872, 23 ont of 50 Hinore. by Ste. Jame, Al'f(.;m‘{‘.u.l 0 f:x:::m poisoning cadey took the kame, Htatistics show £0 bo thio firat attormut ever maro fo narrato tho | ShA ineamity causcs tho targeet number of wule earlier atrneglox of tha Jews, Great Britsin bave Lud ty eudure from the tima of the Sazcu IKiugs to the proseut ony. Mr. Jobn Durand s translatnz the nes Toing volunie, Which will b publishied earty +iwultanooudls by Moanrs. Henry Holt Now Yurk, aud Mawirs, Daldy, Isbister & Co, ondon, Nolwuen, like tho general ubjeet is r¢ ravee.” doals with **The Ancieat lezimo lie wecond will probatly cover *Thoe Revolution." Messrs, Henty Holt'& Co. have also nesrly resdy lug brief but suggestive tractate ou *'lhe Philoso- ply of Artin lialy.” Prof. Honry Coppoe, LL. D., President of the Lehigh Unisoruits. bay undortaken the oditing and annotating of the translation of the Count Tauia’ Higtory of the Civil War in Amorlca tho first Yolumo of which is nearly resdy. Copree’s Iargo military West Point military works—tenders Lim peculiarly fitie for tho task. The travsiation is in charge of Mr. L. I, Ta-istro, for many vea:s the trandator for i tate Department ot Washiugtou, Messry, J, 11, Coates & Co., of Phi'adelphin, e fu prces, Ly arrangemeit, - Lecluren Do e poot and Jecturer. tion: Dadicated to Cyrus Field, J, 11, Gray, and all thew valued Awerican feicads who welcomed niy husbaud 10 thelr great country, Aml through whoss gentrous Lt fucsn he wan eaxbied in the lut year of his life to roalize tho dreams of Lis youth, by ties sltit, hot only of tho Eastern States and’ cities, Lut of tuo Far Wout, 1he Ro ky Mountains, aod tho Yosemite Valley, I dedie cute thess lecturea, with deepest rattunds. I pietas oriam. ANNF Lo KINUSLEY, BrrLEer, August, 1675, e FAMILIAR TALK, GENIUS AND LABOR. Genius bas been defincd mnvy timen aa indus- 15, or 8 copincity for bard and protracted labor. | loff order: & endier it 1 sustained | 04 Buicide from & diappointment in love, The correctness of thia dei by tho examile of & large number of eminent authora whoa the world bas by commou conzenf regarded as men of genius, us from = Awift-rennio rroduct of slow und tes us elaboration. tablets writton sions. to cease in thirteon from his Jabors, the unweaving bis fashion: culled to joiu the great majority beyond." Addison, whoso grace(ul, unaffected style ban excited the envy and admiration of cuitivated readers, composed with painful deliberation. The preas was frequently stopped afier uearly o whole edition of the Spectator ind beon etruck off, in order that he might chavge a preposition While kLo held tuo po- sition of Under-Secretary, it feil to him to com- wunicate to Princo Georgo of ilanover intelli- gouce of the death of Queen Anne aod the va- canoy of the Throno, Tho fastidious sutbor way 8o puzzled to make a cholce of exprossicos iu which to couvoy the nowa that flually tho task iven to a clerk, who boasted of baviug dono what Addison found in oge of bis sentences. of wntug the Vrince way fmj ossiblo. Lamb expended immense labor upon his Lu- morous casavs,—tho dedicate, dainty furicics oe- iug fashioned Witk the most critteal uieety. It fu vaid thas plastul letter o & fricud otwni cast him the work of s week. Itisrelsted ol Ton- tiyson_that bo wroto tho wong, **Comio Into i o fall so- conn of tho vicwutaden which tho Jows of . of ‘the wotk upon which M. Lamine s en-~ Egaked 13 notics of indopendent yet coutmuous 1 Honan and Parkmaun. Tho 'ho Geueeis of Contenjuia. The firet volnmo, DoW Anuotneel, Dr. expericuco~haying gorsed fu tho Mexican war ; baving graduatod £rom. snd subsequently beld a Professoisbip at, civg the autharof weil-kuown in America in 1874" by the late Canon Kiugsier. which will shortly appear in Englaud, 'The work ia edited by the widow of tho lamented e tolluwing iy her dedica- At the head of tho list atands Plato, whoeo flowtug lues, that glide pen, were really tho ‘Thera ia an anecdoto thst the opening sentonce of *Tbo Ntepublic” was found on tho author's dilferent ver- ‘When finally summouned by Doath philoso- pher was suting at his desk, as Diovyeiug #oys, “combing, and curling, and woaviog and wiitings, after a varicty of Plato was €1 yoars of sge whon cider, both of men and women, After thig cotues drunkenness: and then, diseave. Suicidal opidetnics Lave oftentimes occurred in the ustory of the world. Hegcesins, nu em- tnont member of the Crrenate achiool, who wat eurnamod by tho ancients * tho orator of death,” enforcod with singular eloquence tho docirino of his sect, that tho cud of life is pleasure. Ade vavclng g 3 this position, he urged that, life Leing e g ”I/,;'-m and ity pleasures so fow snatle. 55 ~tlotof man wasdeath. A | Tois gloomy . 20, . | with such altraction. iy, era hastened to tako rotus. /7 ;' troubles in fuicile. Tie contucion w /S2 no rapidly that finally Ptolemy baowsbed the philosophor frum Alexandria, At oue time, 4 strango mama for suicido pro- vatled among the guls of iletus; and, erns turien larer, n rimilng epidemic raged among the women of Jaisulies aud Lrons. In the fonrth ceutury, a sect called whe Cireumcotlionos, imag- ining that woicide was & gort of martyrdom that would secure ealvavion, killed themselves in great uumbers. Aseembhoe jo bundreds snd 1 | thoneands, **thay lesped. with paroxysms of frantic_joy from tho brows of overhangin chffs, tili tho rocks bolow wero reddesed wiil their bloou,"” Fromw the end of the Liftcenth to tho ond o3 tho suventeenth centur, 8 siranko mavia ragod in the Neapolitan districte, which was attributed to the Lito of the farautnla, The patients throngzed to (he ren, nud multitudes of thom, » frenzicd fiymn of raptura st night of thie waved, planged into thow and wersdrowned. At Versalics, in’ 179J, a madoeea for suicide euddanly touk possession of tho peoplo; aad, In tho courne of tha vear, 1,300 persons, out of & thon small population, destrovod their lives, A fow years ago_ou extraordinary outbrosk of , | suicide occurred at tho Hotal des Invalidos. An 1nvalid hung himsclf one vight on a cross-bar; and, within a fortumght, five other invalida suc- ceoded In hanging themsclves from the asme piece of wou. The epidomic way stopped by shutsing off tho passago wuero the {atal bar Lald out ita tempting aim. A rage for welf-destruction once ecized N poloou’s grenadiers, an:l the subtlo comaander arrested 1t movement by publisbing the follaws ing ordrr: +The grenadter Grobiu hat commmit- Ha her vespocts & worthy wan. This is ovent of tho kind that bas habpened # wich i mouth. The First Cousul directs thiat it shall Lo notifiod in tho orderot the day of the Cuard, that s roldier onght to kuow tow to overcomo srrief and melanchaly vf his passions 5 that there is as much true coursge in boaring nicatal afiztion mantully ae in re- maining uomoved uuder the tiro of n battory. To nbanton oueself to grief witl:ont resisting, #nd 10 il onesell in order to cscapa from i, i3 tlie sbandouing the teld of Lattio belore being conquered.” “sntrived to invest * bl linton. " t | thin cor LYCANTHROPY, 1t i not ah uncormon thin g for lunatica to be nosserned of the idea that they bave beon changed into xomo animal, au the dog or tho wolf. Qutof this izeaue notion thero was do- voloped, io the early and widdle ages, » popular supersiition that meu wero often transformed inta wolves, and, like them, roamed the forest jmpelfed by the fiercest wstincts, In the four- tecuth and fifteentt centurics, this hallucination Decame epidemic, sud largo numbers of persons in France and Germany were affected by it, Tho suflerers erept o all fours liho ynadrupeds, and barkod, leaped, and howled, after the wanper of wolves, ‘Ihey hierded together in the mountain districts, ond were o9 destruct{se a5 the brutes thoy simulated. Lhey were colicd were-wolves, sod, wniting tho cunping of men with the forocity of wild reasts, wero greatly to be dreaded. ‘Tho chlef atrocity of which they were gullty wau tho murder of ittt clildron, on whowo Hesh thoy feartol. In 158, threa of theao were. wolves werc tried at Liesancon, sud confossed that thoy ha eoll thomselves to the Devil. Ono . of the admitted that ho Lind kiied » boy wish o " 3 0. | bis teeth uud claws, but was deterzed from oat- e e, oy Umee over et | g bim b fear of it countev-peopla. Another w2 honta " Gty for oonrly aix sweck | acknomledged that e iad lallod » young il a4 together, it duced in tvo davs; but tho exquisito perfaction of tho fuirhed work was tho resull of this ononnous drudgery. altoring and polisting biy moad for writing was most felicitous, Kinz- 1ako wroto * Lothen ™ five or mix times over fore it was giveu into the hands of the publinhi. er. Duou was fitey years completing hiw **Studies ut Nature," sud torled tho outire work aightosn timos ero it was. fioally dispatchiod to tho prmter. * o composed i & singuiar meu- nor,—wribng on larga-sized paper, fu whict, us s w lodger, tive distinct columus were ruled, 1o tho (st column ho wrote down tho fikl tilughty ; fu tho sccomt, s conected, en- Iarzed, avd proned it ; aud so ou, until Lo had roached the Itk colutun, withiu which bo nuaily Wroie tho resnit of bie labor. But, evon afier this, ho would recowpose a rentenco twonty titues ; and ouco devoted fonrtoen bourd {o fiud- ing tho proper woid with which to rouzd off & sontence.” La Ruchefocauld spent fifteen veand in pre- paring his little Doss uf ** Jlazime,” aitoring o0°0f thom nuarly wairty tnes. Jubn Foster arten pondored hours over the constriction of a singlo sentouco ; and Hogeos worked 8 fortnight over u uute to hiz ** [taly,” that vinvraved o very fow lines. Whon Baizad had compicted the pian of ouo of Lits novels, wwl, by latorioud tesearcl, gatnod all tho materisls e wishod to put into it, 1 wan bis custom to shul hausell up o the privacy of biw darkeied rooms, Bud Ly sriibicinl bt work da wisht at the business of camposition, 4 fannful wervents mitendsd uwon nm, supplyiug lus wantd, and saving hin all thought with_ 1egstd 10 g physical neods, Whon at last Balzae emetgea from bis secluston, with his romance completed, his sspoct was that of adond mmn, But, the toil over, bis manu. ueript was tiot then onded. It wag altsred wud amendod whilo n tuo printer's bands, uutd prnter snd publisher wore reduced to duspuir, (hbbou #ave of the wavuer in which he Iaoorwd over the *Decliue und Fallof tha Lomen Empire™: any nxperimonta were minde boforo 1 ocould hit thomiddle tuna Lo~ tweon & dull touo aud a rhetoriesl deciamution ; turoe timoa did I compave the tiret chapter, sud twice tho sacond aud third, befors I way tolora- bly wstistied with thoir efloce.” Whon Bulwor bogan bis career au s novolist, it s waud that seveuteen lines & any wes sil Lo could at thet ucoowplish. ‘By practice b gradually acquired faocility, until he way at laut sble to write sav- oral pages daily. Albauy Foublaoquo, tho ed- iter "of the Eraminer, of whom Leigh Hunt uuco ramaiked that Le twus the successur **Of the Saitts aud Addlsons themselios,—profusu of wit eveu beyoud thews, sud sgoerior 1 ’))o- htical knowledge,"~wrote u-r{ wlowly. ‘thy utinost Lo was ever udle to proluce was ino or throe oditorials & weel, kil thess Wers siny tines revised. It was not s Siugulur occuirence for bim to rewrit an aditorial ten tiwes, Butnte-Bouvo, tho brilusnt Frenck critie, rog- ularly xave about four toilsowe daya 1o vach of bis weekly sriiclos. A pordou of lus tiwe was wpeut in thu seclusion of kiv sparimends, to » Locksley ‘The fimt” dinfs of thy poom was pro- Mvote sccompheliod but soventy lincs of ** Lala Bookh ™ in u weuk, when slie wae gatheriug peas in a gerden; and tua thurd, tkiat ho had kilied and eaten four difforent cluldren. Tho wrotched wmaniaca were punishod for their crimos by bnining at the stake. In 1610, great numbors of these wors.wolvos infested tha Juea, and, by theie depredations, mado themdelves a publio scourgo, Bix hundred wete executo | on their own coufewsion of chuld- murder ; aud vot tho most ternble puulshment vizited upon the Iveanthropos wearcely suflicod to brivg the vpidemic under control, sir, Latonebe, » late writer ou Lortugal, men. tions that, among tho passantry of that country, tiro muperstition of tho ware-wolf still prevaily almont uuiversally. Wheu sittiug at tho eside of the wmall land-nwners iu sursi districes, he wad aftou rogeled with stories of the craft withy which these chuldren of the Evil Oue jugratiated shemselyes into the contldonca of wmple, trust. ful folk, only 10 betsay them at last by stealing infauts from the cradlo aud dovouriug them in dosert-placos, IMBECILES IN ENGLAND. Dr, Wynter stafos thut there aro upwards of 15,000 imbeciies at the presont time 11 England, Tt s o etugulir fack that far tho greater numboy of theso aro malus ; and that all the worst cases of 1divey and lmbecility aro mon and toys. Ooly abaut i3 per cont of the wholo nuwber of imbe. cile+ aro eapnble of any culturo. In many ioe staunces, tho dim incollocta of tho aficted oues muy bo 0 doveloped aud strevgthiened by skiliful traimng that their owuerd can in time biolp them- selved, Dut two institations fu England—Earls. wood Asylum sud Eesex ilall—are as yoi em. ployed in educatiog unbecilos. At the formar nuuse, ouly thoso patieuta are adimitted who are capuble uf receiving iustruction. Asa rule, the now-comer sro holpioss as childres, no matter whas their age, sud bavo to be taught how to porform the simpless operations, Fiogar lessons are tho first to be given, aud classes of guls sud bove are exerciscd in the siwmple srisof but- tonlog snd unbuttoniag thels clothes, in pinuing and In tylag i shocs, T auged ; for, i with cluldron, tho stteution of thedo feoblo~ n.\m]dcd toik quickly tlags whon coutiued to ona suoject, Que iad ju the Earlswood Asylua displays mewmory of such wonderful tunacity that, bad he beon porsessd of & gouud brsi 4 be revkoned & prodigy. He gous throuka ibe his- tory of Eugland with estrsordiuary duenoy uod acquracy, yot the procens ls o puroly tectiauical oue. 11 Gue lwuk w thu chain of fucts is dropyed by chauce, the memory i complotely be viltersd, and, until the lost i in_tecovered, 1s uuable to proceed with ils work, Aunotbor [ad in the same Asyluw bas o gvat fonduess for cousboioting minature chivs, Ho wakes his own deswings— which aro often highly cowplicatod—~iu a work- wnnlike wsoner, aud builds bis vesdals afser shom correct{ully aud tastcfully. Btill, in geu~ eial Boquirumontd, thy boy is below the sversge of mauy of tho uther jumstes. He speaks wilh grost dificulty, aud very juporfechly, sud triate