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2 reemecerememremersrerporon onon of the mont interesting and instructive over [ by T, I'. 1 oponed Ly any of ita mombore. And. 1f this volumo ahonld reem to bo too somplicated and oxpenatve, & simpler ono, following ita plan and Jusuring ita purpose, could be caslly manufac. tured, HEINE. Fnow HgiwRien Irose Treaslted by 8, L, FLXGSAMAK, 12mo., pp. 402 Thiladeiphia 1 4, T Lippincott & Co, The paraagos from Heine which fill this littlo volume are pxtracted fram The Salon, The Mem- »irs of Herr Von Hchaabetawopski, On the His- tory of Religion and Philosaphy in CGormany, The Romantie School, the Haabian School, Tho Godsin Exile, and Confessions. Thes have beeny Indicionaly called from the great maxs of Ioine's proae writings, and afford a {air examplo of lus genlun in this ficld of composition. Tho reader wins from them a clear appreciation of tho slvura nnd contrasting clements that mingled ln his Bnirit and his sevle: the keen. flashing wit, tho vivid imagination, tho temier pazhos, the earslons mockory, thoe bitter cynicism, the bold anbelief, tho reckiers sensunlity,—all aro faith- fally depicted, and dolight, amaze, and shouk us by turns, yfl‘lmn is much to be learnod from & rtudy of Hcino: much to be imitated and much ta 1. svoided. A moro lrilliaut. impassioned, wi ning, rerciling, and altogether pitiable inke: ponce nover dwelt In tho habit of man, W wonder, we laugh, wa love, we condemn, and, abovo the reat, we mourn, all fu the' eamo Lreath, #8 wo watch his changeful. evancacent moods, 1Iis gifts were gloricus, his rins wers many, and his sufferings wero intenso. If tho svrongs done in tho flosh aro oxpisted in this 1ifo muioly the ataina on Heine's soul ware all wiped vui ero the hour of his deafh. for the ago- nias he endured—nnd with & grand bravery—in hin Just eieht vears wero horribly excrucinting. The Mircellanies are prefaced with a biograph- teal and critical akotch of Heine, which denls with Tim justly avd morcifully. A tearfnl thought is niwava uprermost na ono reflncts upon tho wayward rmt. for tho deop pathoa in 1is lifa throms hadow over his gayest aud most glittering pasenges, TAINE ON ART. Lrcrinss o¥ Ant, By W, Taisr, P Atheties and of the History of Art in (L er of Feolo dvs Tieauz.Atte, Peris. Tramahited by Jony Demasp, Second Sexita. . ppe A0, New York: Uenry Toit & Co, Clicago: dunies, MeGlurg & Co, Trice, §.00, The uniform edftion of tho works of Mr, Taine, published by Mesare. Holt & Co., in com- pleted with the present volnme, The preceding pumber, designatod as rat Series," con- tained Piio Philosophy of Art and Tio Ideal in Artt, while the one undor notics compiises Tho Philorophy of Artin Ttaly, The Philoaophy of Artin the Nethorlands, and Tho Pbilosophy of Art in Groece, Theso fine works were origin- ully dolivared as lectures bofore thoe Paris Feolo den Boaux-Arte, aurd four of thaw bava for somo timo been sccesmiblo to American resders, 'Lho remaining ono—1ho Philosephv of Art i Italv— innow for tho first time givon in na Euglish translation, ‘They nre all of deop {uterest to the student of history as woll sa to the studont of arz The analytical powors of+31. Taine's mind oro fansl- iar to those who have read hms famous work on English Literature, and, when these aro appliod o a resolution of the artintic goniua of n veople, the brililant resnits may be readily anticipated. Tho treatises on the are cf italy, Grecco, and tho Nethorlauds, resnectively, aro amall in campass, ~—esch may almost be read ata sitting.—yot thoy thirow wore light on the cliaracter of the threo nations undor luvostigation, aud on tha causes that gave form and direction to that charactor. than n dozen ordinary bisteries will do. Tho fiaeh of M. Taine's hroad, acuto, coarch- ing intellact on tho life of n peoplo reveals hid- don springs and niotives of action that havo * mevor before been discovered or brought owt jato Buitable prominonce. The edition of his wrilingy. now in haud is to be recommended for ita econ- ‘omy, tastefuloess, and couvenienco, HYMNOLOGY, Tnr Poxricau Wonks or IiAx Parxrn. Completo Edition, Bquare I2mo., pp. 372 New York and Chicago's A. 8, Darnes &'Co. Trice, H. In answer to a continuous roquest for tho ox met toxt of the lyrics which 3Mr. Palmer bas con- tributed to the servica of the Curlaq;m Church, the presens full and scourato cdition lins beon prepared. It includes, togother mth the songs wrilten for nao in privato aud public worship, tho entire collection of the poomsof the author, Tho hymus of Mr, Palmor have s wide popuiari- ty, aud many of thein sre fonud in every late sompilation, The acred song beginong with 3y falth Jooks np to Thee, Thou Tamb of Calvary, Havior divine, ‘bas been translated into many differont lan. gusges, and is sung in oil parts of the world ~hero Christisn voices are lifted up in notes of praver and praise, ‘Che volumo wears a bright hollday aspact, and Is among tLe moat attractive of the sesson. P ICAL SELECTIONS, Oon TozricAn FAvORITEY, BECOND Brafrs, A Szrre- TION rueN TS BEST Mivon PORMA oF THE AL LANGUAQGE, COMPRISING CHIEFIX LONGER Yorun. Hy Ascurn C, Kennatcs, Yrofussor in the Univerity of Nochester, —12mo., pp. 54, New York: Sheldon & Co, Chicugu: Jausem, McClurg & Co, Price, §2, 3 Tha “Tirst Series” of **Our Poetical Favor- itea" mado kuowa tho factthat Prof. Koodrick is qualifled, by u vetinad and skilled judgmont, to nolect from tho groat mass of Enghsh poetry tho clioicest {lowors (or au anthology. 'I'he suc. cess of the former volume has induced the gom- pilation of a Becoud Beries, In which are nuited tho favorlte pleces, ranzing among the modor- ately-oxtendud works of Euglish and American poots, Boaring in mind tho scopoe of tha volumo, no fault is to bo found with tho taste exorcteed in tho selections. Tnough each ronder may miss cortain posms he would wish to nce, he must at Tenst acknowledgo i most oason thows presout deserve tha distinction of o place in the boois. DIOGNAPHICAL DISTIONARY OF PAINTERS. Faxoua PARTERS AND PAINTINGE Dy Al Ara, Jusia ‘A Bien, Tiustrated with Helioty pea of Engraye inga frum Works by Raphael, Corregisio, Titiau, cto,, sle, 8o, pp, 32, oston: Jamea It Osgood & Co. Chicago: Jansen, AcClurg & Co, irice, §8. ‘This work may bo properly atyled a biographi- oal dictionary of painters, It gives in the fow- st dirdct words, & sheten of tho life, and an ac- count of the principal works, of nearly 100 of tho foremost painturs of modern times. Tho blagnphlo« are disposed in chronological order, without roferonco to uationality or sohool, end aro acoompanied with copious aud wall-arrangeit Indexer at afford a ready accoss toany and ail of their contents, It Lo msen_ witliout fur- thor description that the work illls a Litherte vacant placo, md i practically userul, A DEVOTIONAL BOOK. Xus Cnoss: BKLEGTIONS FROM VARIOUS AUTHORM, By Mre, i, E. flxxozzson, Folio, ym, 100, Ghicas gar Published and Copyrighted by tho Coruydler, The oxtracts which composa this volumo aro of an exclueively devotiousal character, and have boen taken from tho proso and metrical litera- ture of various natlons. They harmonize with the titla of the work, and with tho most sacred fealings of the devont of avery woct, An orig. insl feature of the book 1 the arrangewent of the toxt, which is inclosod on avory page, 11 tho sce surrounded by & croes drawn in red liues, [ The entire appearance of the book ls chaste and pleasing, wall adapied to win favor as & gltt for Lhuppnmm}n. Lolidays, HAWTHORNE'S * MARBLE FAUN." Tar Minste Faun Besi, By Narwanien ilawrionye. 3 vola., Loston ; Jawnes B, Orgood & Co, Frice, $2.50, Itistobalioped that the publication of his moble work iu ita presont charming form will iu- A mure it thousands of now readers. 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The day is thoan- nivorsary of that dn which Krishos Lillod the greut sorpent Bindeabuul, which was dosolating tho bauks of the Gamuo, honce 1t is chosen oy especially appropriato fur the propitiatory sers- feos of the punple, whe implore, aa they doposit their gifts bofore tho deity, prosorvation (rom tho reptilos that lutk in overy taugle and secret place {u India. Loug processions of women, drapod in thelr flowing rdbos and veily, traveorwe tho slreots chisnting hymns and boaring offeringa of sugar and rico: Groups of palanquina, filled with Brah- min ladies, floating banners, blowing trumpets, and biazing torches, are seen iu every direction. adding to the brilliaucy aud confusion of the apectacla, The f[wportant ceromony of tho day takes place in an opon syuare, whither 2ra brought by werpent-oharmorh hundreds of cobraa to o fed with bulfalo’s milk, of which they are vory fond, Pious ITindyos bring the hquid in bowls, sud thio charmers carry the serpouts in baskets bo- foro thow. Aswsoon us theso ara placed on the ground they plunge their hoads in tho bowls and remain motionless while they driuk tho grateful Nuid. Altor cach hes pagsed the liml¢ of indulgenca it in {aken away to make room fur auother, wnd thus tha fonst goes on throughout the euntirs day. Tho eobe ras are freely haudled by the charmers, who show uo foar at the tuge of tue repthos whea thoy aro mado to loava tho bowl Lofore their appetita is eated. Tho angry creatures strotch up their heads and ewcll out their hoods thelr fury, but the chaimer is proof against their venon), and has no droad of their tempor, On the evouing of tho fustival the housen are illuminated, torchlight proceasions march aloug in lives of light. aud tho din of cymbaly, tow- toras, and hautboys rosudads on every sida, ‘Lhie roptiles which the serpunt-charmers catry about with thom sud use in thetr junumeravle tricks sro barmlesn, baving hatt (ke fangd ex- tracted, yet tho moat vanomous suekow aro han- aled by those men with unmu[‘ fearlessuess doxtonty. M, Rouasolet doucribies iu uis travoly aud in ** Nauve India " a singular porfarmancs ho oncs wituessud, Nob finding o cobra i the col- luction of a couple of clin:mera who visited bis bunizaiow, ho ssked tho reason, ** What would Lo tho use of troubling oursotven,” thev said w teply, * with a serpent which we can get when- Lho very vard of your bungalow wili furnish it,” * My curiodicy was excited,” continnes L. Roussolot, ** aud Idetied them Lo lnd 1m0 & sorpent in the short space of tims they seemod Lo think nec eary, Oue uf the saprralraks (charmors) imeo- diatelv divestad hiteell of tis clothes, sll save tho lungouts ; and. reizivyg bis lomeil, or charme er's flute, Lo iuvited mo 10 fullow i, On reachrug the back of the busgulow, whora the ground way cavored Wilh briuts aud stooes, be placed tho iustrument to hiw monchy, und pro- duced from it BOm® pisrcing wounds, inter- mingled with softor madulations, while, witly Lis body bent forward, ho nurrowly scauned the vogetativn, After » moment he poiuted out » apot to me; snd, on 10oking tuvarda 1t, I saw cpont's head issuing from Leneath a gtone, With the rapidity of a- flash of lghthiug tho charmor droppod bia inetrumient. aud, wazing thie reptile with marvelous skitl, ok 1t inta the sir, sud caughit 1t by tho tatl as it way falliug 1o the ground, On examunag it it twed out to bo only a harmloss addur. The sapwallah cou- tinued low sesrch with impassioved gestures burdering on the comio; sud in loss thau a seeond tne tonuril droppod, the reptile was fuog iuto the air aud descended, when tho fudiau, with tniumphant co.lness, presented 10 we the tal of u trightful cobra aver § feet 1a leugth, ‘Yhe hideous soptile struggled ; but with arapid movemeut tho charmer seized biad by the back of the head, and, opeuivg s jmn‘hnhuwsd wme favgs whiol. il doatli, 5 SATURDAY, ad by Sciibuar, Wel- | Thin thoro rertants that s proved for wan which 1o tho charners earry abont with thom aro alwaya trickers, fanglesa. 100" then 308 a pait of small plucers and earefully drew ot cvery favg, thus reudor- ing tha reptils poweiless toharm, Noverthelers, whother by aeeitout or from hravado, ho roeeive ed a vlight puneture, aud the htsod dowed from ono of s fingers ; hut without any emotion be ancked th:o wound ' foceibly, sud applied a amall Llack parous atonn to it which o ropresented to L au anthdote reainst thn bite of the cobra, I bought a piece of rm 3 hut, on analvzine it T found that the ptono was nothing mate than & enteined bone of very fine testure.” 2.1C CATHEDRAL 1IN ZNGLAND, t of bnildivg in Westtminster, En- gland, o atholic Cathedial enaling in dimengions and in = lendor of aichitecture tho slest monsiers of the medinval ages, I rape ne maturite. ‘The plao wos cone cotved by Archbishep Manujug soon after tho doatly, in 1863, of Lls prodecesror, Cardiual Wiroman, with the distinet view of erectivg & memarial to that distinguisheid |relato, as well an to creste a fitting appondage to the Archi- episcopal thrauo in Wostminater, Tho sito for tho editico wan chosen tn Totlill flolds, and the sum of £35,000 has boen pald for a plot of land, which ja in the form ol an obiong paialiologram, During tho ten years siuco tho incojtion of the schemo rubseriptions for the cathedral have been steadily accumulating, aml lave now reachied a figure suliciently large Lo cncourage e hopo that the woik of bullding may soon ba undertakon, A Inte number of the Ruilding News vublisthies fluntrations of tho nian of the eathedral. which in denigned by M. flenry Clutton 1o the atylo of tho faster part of the thirteculh contury, in genoral provortions und in sumo of tho foatures of tho interior, the plan # eald to rasnmble the Cattiedral of Colognag, but in the matter of ax- ternal arcintocture to trausceud in metit the German winster. 'l dincisions of tho cathedral will bo 400 fact in Jermzth by 114 fact 1 sadth, of whicttho nave 1 45 feod and thy double aiales each nide 42 feet mn tho clear. Tho two towers denking tho entranea-end will each Lo & feut square, and will bo pierced with doorways, which, wildt tha ooe s the cemire, will form a grand toole portal. As designoed, tho towets wil Lo abont 200 feet in heiht, but it ia contemplated to surmount thom eventually with pormansnt apiros. Ouly & pot- tion uf the ravo will b eonstructed at present, and this will bo temporanly covored with n flat toel. For the cr=t of this portivi of the struct- urs £30,004 uro allowed, and_ only £15,660 have yet beon promised, 1t 18 expocted that at least a contury will paes befora the eathedral will ha comploied, an esvimato according witls the lime contime:d i Lo constructicn of tho ol catue- i wers built wnen monev for such moro readily provided than at tho Prescut orn. ‘The matesinl ured for tho elifico is Portland slono, of which the vaulting will aleo bo builr, The glars will Lo Dnten phte set o coppor 1 the hght will fall througn stained e tho'onter slaztug liko trans- tnrtand of being sob in the windows T tha sl muaner, i When faushed, tho eathedrnl will be of ihe eame length as Westminster Abbey, tut much wider nud of direrent proportions. ** The style selected,” vays the Duilding New s tho poo- metrical pbasaof tho Earlv Pointed stylo,—ono sbirably ch-.som, not onfy u3tha prrest and most olegant in its gencral marses, as woll as neritating the least expentitirn of moterial tho laigest supporting aroa.™ enofes, Pal ! Wi SUDIDEN DLAMCHING OF HUMAN HAIR, A comminsion appolnted by the Freuch Acad- omy to prosccute injniries rogarding tho sudden blanching of the humau hair, reported that, in snuner to thoir estendad rosearchos, not an authentic case acewrring within 200 years conld be fouud. In responso to o recont roquest for information of any such caso known to its read- ern, Appiclons’ Journal lne raceived o commi- nicatien from Oliver R. Willls, A, 3., Ph. D, Priveipal of tho Alexawder Iratitule, White Plaws, N, Y., contaiving tho following facta: lo the gucst of s gontloman residing in itehsil, N. tha sttention of Dr. Willis was attracted by the remarkablo whitenees of bLiy bair, andt 8 comment concerning it drow forth s interosting siatement: ‘It chanyoed in a few hour anl the genticman, * under the fol. lowiny; circumstances : I had & non largo enough to go from my dwelling tv mv slore alone. Ono afternoon hie loft tho atoro to cowe home about au bour belore I cama to tes, When I reached homo, my wife mot me and said the boy Ll bean found on tho top of a heap of sand, 1 lus face down, quito dead. I camo into thiy where the clild hnd boon brought, and uat down in n aart of stupor produced by tha shock, und remalnsd hers all night. When Ieamo in 1y e was black, io tho morning it was thite, " Tho truth of tnia statomont is, according to Dr. Willi, certiflod by many wit- negves who know of the incident at- tho tline of ita occurrence, when tho apeaker waa slill a young wan, i SPARKS OF SCIENCE. THE DEVIL-FISH, . I'rof, Kolimenn, of Munich, has recontly pub- laled an intercsting accaunt of the habits of tho Octopas, or dovil-tish, which he had tho opportunity of observiug in the aquarinm of Dr. Dohrn, at Naplor, Tures of these hugo ceplinlopods ara confined in tho samo tauk iu the aquariam, and xoem to ba very much st easo in their contlned quasters and in eaen other's society, From tho firat, tusoo lobutors hLave dwelt with thom ou tho most umicablo terms, but thoy suffer no further addltiona to the num- bor of thetr *happy family.” At ono time o largo lobater, of such atzo nod strongth that it Lud been able 1o ciush tls hell of a live turtio nearly 4 feet in length, was jutroducod ioto the tank. Inunedistely the largest dovil-fish set upou tho intrudor witl tho ntmost ferocity, bus tho lobster caught him by the arm and held bim with the grip of a vice, After a timo the dovil- {lvia recovered possomsion of his membor, which, belng of a substanco liks whitleather, is not canily parted or injurod, Tho cuntest betwoen the two pugnacious par- tion buing renewod day after day, the lobater was tinslly withdrawn from the cumpany of the dovil-fisk and placed in an adjoining tank, Dut thls was not thie cud of the matter. Tho dovil- fish, beut vn maseacioing bis enemy, loft the wuter, chimbold over the partition wepnrating him trom the lubsicr, and renawed his desperato nuaaults, lle goinod tho vioory this time, and, when dizcovered by tho attendant, was found to Loyo slaiu the Jubster axd hiterally teru it iu halves, f'rof, Kollmaun rogoards tho act of the dovii-fish in following ls adversery as Indica~ tive of miore than “instinct, of iutelligonce, Crustaceaus tor the clief food of tho devil- tish, and tho cravings of buuger probably sharp- oned bis seused i Bis puisuit of the lohstor, Other coptinlopods placed in tho tank with thin truculent dovil-tish 1ared no better than the lobster, and, it not destroyed, wete drivan out of the waier on to tha dry rocks alove, ‘Tho femalo octopus, according to the account of Irof, Kolimaun, builds & nest of largo stoncs, wituin which sho doposita hor eyga and sits aver thom witli the devation,of & ke, During the pertod of incubiation whe guardy hier oggs with Kreat courage and resolution, s was proved in tho efforts of the uaturalist to obtain sows for oxomiuation. 'The'egge wero fuclosed Ja a deli- cate horuy ouvelops, but wers noarly fros from the gluuhous secretion that sbiokly covor the ova ol the outtle-lsh and wquid,” ‘Coe Iatter cephalopads do not guard thelr oggs, but fasten them upon sea-woeds, roods, aud” even sucks and faggote, oceurring noar the tand, 'These Inok like clustors of black grapes, sud the tradi- tion ruus tuat the sBqiud colors them after they are eatruded, Mr. lfenry Lee says of tho manuor in which theeygs uf tha cuttic-fish are depoaited : ** Each haa u flexible wiatk, lookiug and foeling like Iudia-rubber, Tho mother tukes & tura with this wtalk round tho stem of the twig or sea- wood to which sho wishes to aitach the egy ; tho Tudia-rubber-liko miaterial is soft aund sticky when fired latd ; and vo, iustead of urhcing tho loop, she brings the ond round to the base of the utalk, closs Lo the egg, aud cetments or welds it thoro into o sobd riug. ‘Thus tho ogus sio *threddled’ (threwded) one by owe, Bome- timos tlio stalk of ono ia fastenad round that of snoter, aud occasionally the process fs repoat- wod nuul the whole mas s 6 up ju this way, without any contral stem, Tho work 1 ne well and ueatly doooe as if skiltod hauds liud been em- oyed oo it but bow the wothier cultle-fish ef- ecig 1t L balleve no one knowe." o ‘The fomale srgonaut—anoiber of tho elght- armed ceplialopods—carries her eggs about with Ler 1n u shell cradle, but the octoous, su we b woon, broods over Lers. And it is vory ueceazary that sho whould watch thew vigilaatly, for tha walo bay a groat hking for the taste of bi own ofapring, and would unscrapulously devous tuom all could be put get at them. Lu iteversion of Prof. Kullmsna's statement re- geuding the varied sudowmouts of tho doyil-fisb, DECEMBER he Athencrum ravs: “Ilohnsatecneyenight and well-doscioped onites ho can eravl by means of hls gackers with mpldity exther on the kaa-bot- tom or on dry lsnd ; bo ‘can enim backwarls or forwardn; ho can Jump four yatds bigh out of tho water’; ho ean uso each of hin mngle arms separately, palling with each in o dierent diree- tion; ho can use the Alamonious enda of these 8amo arms as dolica'e organs of touch, or hy il of the ruckera which thoy bear can omploy them As fleling-tacklo: ho ean changs tiy colur through neariy all shades of tho t1ainbaw, and mako it dari or light, according 10 his placo of concenimmnt, by tho dxpansion and coatrackinn of tho lutle plgment macs which lio fis thonwds Loneath his sk, Tho play of colof thus proe dueed, aud tho sirango featoous into which he cau throw bis arma, indicate from timo to tima tho atates of omotion through wiicts the ponip aseos, and it is easz to toll therefrom when Lo s nugry, pleaned, trighitencid, or sleop: It i to ve added {o this statement that the devil-fish in the Naples squarium recopntze thele keojer and manifest an atiachs ment for "lum. lancy the monater Vie- tor Tlugo deeeribed looking lovo at yort from tho deptbsof its ghastly gracn oyos, and twining [t long, claaping nrms about you in an atlectiounts ombrace! 1 Athenaum declaves it to be bigh tima thot tho devil-tigh shonld have a recoguized Lnglish vamo, and supgesta that tho appropriate form For it s spoitp.” Tho wamo wolhwsk hias beou called “polypus” by tho Grecks, *poulps® Ly the 1, “poips " by the Italinne, ' krake" by rivorians, and * pionvra” by tho Normana 4. Tha torm devil-fith doea not properly distiugnish tho octopuy, as 1t has alicady been appropriated by a specios of shark. ANMONIA AND FLOWERS, An articlo in ths French Journal of Horticul- {ure presonts tho interostng resnity of expari- menta undertaken to tost the offoct of amnmionia upon the colers of towors, Praf, Gobba, tho obgerver, pourcd & small auantity of aqua am- monia into a d-sly, over whih he placed a fune nel. luserting wto the tabo of tlus tho flowers to ba operated upan, lio foiad that tiose tintod blue, violot, and puiple, were clianged to o beau- wful greon ; tuosa tinted with a docp carmino wera changed to bisck ; while flowers of o pure whize woro turned vellow, etz, Thus fuachias, Liaviog white sud red in the ealvx aud coroils, becanie, on exposuro to tho ammonis, yeliow, blue, anid green, By immorsing thewo flowoers in wator at tho conclusion of the experumant, thoy retained thelr new colord for severa! bours, after which they pgradunally resumed their oripinal hues, Prof,” Gobba discovered in the couzso of his experiments that asters, which naturallv have no fragrance, acquired a delightful perfume nwder the Intlucuco of am- movin, 1o rlao found that violet ssters tarned red shion moistened with & dilutad solution of nitrie acid, and that the xamo flowers, when oxe posbed v an opon box to the vapar of hydro- chiloric acid, beeamo afier somoe hours & beauti- ful enrnino red, which they prerarvod if drlwd i tho dark and kopt in o diy, dark place. Vrof. Gobba was 1ed to thede expsriments by abserye ing that violeb flowvers uusume o tint of greey when expaaca to the smoke of a cigar, n rosult oning to the nressnce of ammonis i the smoko, Tho t.atura of thoso exporimenta is so simplo that they may oasily bo réneated, and any ama- trur may procure tho plensuro of perfuming thent SI3ER A, It is believed that, by the explorations of the recent Swedish Arctie expedition, a new and practicable ronte has boon discovered whereby communication and commerce may be enstainod betwoen Northern Europe and Siborin. ‘I'he ex- pedition reached Siberia from Norwar by way of Pet Straita (Jugorsky Shor) zud the Bea of Kara, Oun its relurn, Prof. Nordenskiold, commandor of tho oxpedition, with szveral companions, was lefs at tho Yonesol to meko his way back to Sweden overland. Hin course was up the Yenc- sei in a Nordlnnd boat to Geneserisk, and thence scrosa tho cauntry, Lrnm Ekterinberg, on tho caatorn alope of the Ural Mouutnins, nuws has heen receivod by tho travelars who roached that lumt in safedy. Tho Lrofessor pays of ho cxpeditfon, in o lotter writton at the Yonescl: *The attainmeat c¢f tho goal whtich wo bad reached had m vain been attemptod by tho great Goafaring nue tions for hundroda of years, I am positive- Iy convinced that s new eommercial road is now opencd. ths imporiance of which will readily e conceived by marking onton the map of Asia tho larga oxtent of rivar-waoters smbraced by the Irtish, and Yemesei, with thelr tribu- ato mocting of Lo Dusalan Socioty for the Encouragoment of Comuierco and Industry one of tho membera daciared tho jouruoy of Prot, Nordenskiold **was ono to be ranked in importanco with thg discovery of a new world, aait would in all probability loid to tho ostab- ment of & regular line of communication bo. tween Northorn Europe and Eiborla, and the vast resources of tho latter caunty would thua at lust find na outlet alopg hor great tluyfatile walers,” DECRFASE OF WATER, The Vienna Academy of Science has sddressed to tho sciontiflc sociotiza of Enropo a circular, nccompauted with au instructive report, lovit- Ing them to unito in obsarvations having for their objeot a dotormination of the causos of the decreaso of water in springs, rivors, and water-couracs, Attention f4 called to the fact that, for m cortain pumber of yoars, the waters of the Danube and othor large rivers hove bacn diminfshiog. Tho Austrisa Engineers' and Architeots’ Union hiave takeu up the same ques- tion, aud havo appointod a Mydrostatia Come mission to collect factn and prepare a report. ‘'wo members will obsorve tho Daoube, the Eibe, aud tho Rhing, and two othera will study tho metoorology of the subjoct and tho influsuce that the Alpins glaciers ond torrents may bear upon it. Tha Commiasion regard the devastation of tha forcsts as tho primoe caure of the disase troun decreass of Luropoan wutors, aud urgs an lmrlnldnm adoption of mossures to femedy the evil, TRNITHOLOGIOAL. ‘We find the announcement in Nalure that two members of the Bntish Ornithologists' Unlon liave recontly roturned from a very succesaful expedition into Northern Siboria. Among the mosl important acquivitions galued in the expoe- d:ition are above 1,000 8 tho younp in down and tho oggs of tho littlo stint and tho gray plover; the exge (for the first time coflectarl) of owick's mwan, the eyus of Sylvia middendorsii nud 8. borealis, the egga of Molacilla citreola, tho ogge of tho smow, ani n uew upocies of (pit. ‘The collectors 1ol England sarly in tho spring, and, travoling overlaud from Archangel, reached Unt Zylos, on the Petschorn River, in the mid- dio of April. At the branking up of tha ico in Junao they left this point, and, taking a boat to Alexievakn, wade this their headquarters for somo tme, —_— DYIN When I am lying cold aud dead, suleeleas, and still, and walte,—~ Rotied in thio shrouding clothiea of Death,~ Ehadowed from life and Ugut,. Wranned faa chi All poweric ale— Qb1 will Lo comio, snd, bouding low, Wit trembitag sorrow take ‘The last kisa from my frozen lips, , 04 for & moment rost 1tis Liead, with tendor, yoarning pain, Upon my foy broast? Methinks tha touch would tbrili ta lifs Ay heart, aud soul, and brain; Back from thio shadow-realiuu of Death My apirit would coino agatn,— Dack on {te fyiog Duck to my durliug | my owu {— Bark 10 Ls clauped for & momient, and then— Lest sgaln, waybe, aloao | Euna, e s A Soa-Serpent in Comflict Wihale, 4 Livernool Courier, The Zanzibar correspondent of tis Western BMorning News, writtug noder date Oot. 20, sags: **Tho bark Pauline has arrived st Zanaibar, with coals for §iur Majesty'a ships. Wheu off Capo B, Roque, South America, a sight was pro- souted that made the crew sghast—nothing iesa thaa the groat ses-gerpent sugaged in & contliot with a whale. It had wound ithalf twice round the whale, sud wus twirhng it with tremendous velocity, Iashng cho water ioto foatn. ‘The nouss could be diatiuctly bhesrd on board, and aftow battting for sowe time hoth diappeared, Tho nerpent's lougth can be hoagined. It had w0 coila spound u fuil-sizod sperm whale, wmth S0 fost clear at sach eud. Its dismetor was from S to 4 feol. ‘Lhey waw it twice aftar- waitd, Once it came very close 10 the vessel, d rawsed itself about 80 faes out of the water, a8 if about to attack them. toned meo and oficers, tryiug to fod out say screpaucy botween thoit statewents, but ama coayert to the Lalief that 18 wan sees.” Anolber naval ofticer writes (o the Ieslern Mowrning News toduu:uly the same effoct ; and the offi- cors of Hor Majuuty’s ubips on the statien are sud L0 bo conwnced of tho truth of the stary. wingy of love,~ wih a 4 1877 'PROF. PROCTOR. —EWELYVE PAG TReligion and Astronomy=--Conflicts Ba. tween Science aud the Bible- Record, How the Laiter Has Been Inlorpreted to Colnefde with the Formere-= Difficulties Yet Ree waining, Harsh Features of Mozaio Laws, and Their Likeneas to Bup E£ervanees, 1 Tho Valus of o Beliof in Universa Law. @Cerrespon ‘eac New York Tribune, Bosroy, Nor, 25,—Frem tho title of his fects ure, the audiencs convened to liear Lrof, Proc- tor expeeted a more estondedd reviow of the con- flict bstweon sciencs and religlon than ha hal Intherto provided, aud they wara not disappoint- ed. T'ho historien] portion of thin ravios: brougbt forward a class of facts with which most of his audience wore, however, familiar, Littlo inthis was slarthng, excaps tho prophecy that theolo- glans might some day bo found not on'y reconcil- ing Genesis with Darwinian theorios, but show- ing that tho biological discoveries of the prosent day are fresh evidoncas of the inspiration of tho Seriptures. Tho latior part of tho lecturo was moro remarkadlo. The arguments desigued to suow that Mosalo lawa and observances oilgian- tod in natrological superstitions sorved to utihizo somo of tho ioformatiun on the Iatter subjoct conveyed in his provious lectitre. Mis thoory nn to certain Old Testament mivacles that involved tho moticn or rovolution of tho earth, aud his sovere criticism upon somo of the puacticed taught by Mosos, grated upon the cars of many hearera. THE LECTURE, Antronomy holds a somiewhat oxcoptional po- eition in rolation to roligion, Oa tho ona hand, it is held to bo tha acience which of nll otbera most direetly loads tho miud * from Naturo up to Naturo's God” “The undevout nstron- omer," says Yonog, *is mad,” aod he. procceds to toll nus why tho study of sstronowmy should maka men devont. “True, all things speak of God, bt §n the smali’ 3len weck out 1Hm, du great ilo selzes man, As tha researchen of the astronomor ranga over all the partion of the wuniverso into winch evon the mightlext tolescope vau ponotrate, while Ins thoughts pass beyond that portion to inufinity of space ituell, ho of all tmen should ha most mightily wfluenced by his concoptions of the Betug in whom nad thranzh whom all things **live, move, and havo their boing.” Bat, on tho other hand, botweon astronomy and dog- matic religion thora Las been s long-standiag faud. Artronomy, first of alt tho sctonccs, introduced doubts respecting the moaning &t least, i mov tho truth, of poritonn of the Diblo record, Thosc doubts wero not meb by reasouing or oxpostulation, bat Ly a resort to forco and cruolty, Galileu was tortured for opporing the dactrine of a contral carth, Giordans Bruoo, venturing further to azsart that othier worlds bew!dos our earth exis:, was for that and similar batesies burned at tho stake. I'ho contest over thosa thist donbts was decided, not quickly, ndeed, tut conclusively in favor of acience, and for moye than entury no woll-ln- formed man, whether theologian or layman, hag insisted ucon the Jiteral interprotation of those pasasges of Seripturs which scem to imply that the earth i tho central and most im] estant budy in the universo. lut eoon aftor mecuring the first wnccese, sclence sised now und more troublesomio issues. Again astronomy was tha offending ncienco, Herxchel, searchiny thiough tbo atar-depths, bad found yast tracts of nobu- Tous light, and Lad been led to cunnect thoso ro- glons of lwinous mist with tho iixed stars by o eotios of links suggostiog u process of gradual evolatlon from diffused nebulosity though lirregular nebulic, planctary nobulw, and nobulous atar, till the atar.or sun itsclt (or elue & kclioma of suns) was formed, Lauplace, study- ing the movomouts of tha solar system, and dis tinguishing botweon tho characteristics which are explained by tho law of gravitation aud thoso left unaccounted for, found clenrest ovidonca that the solarayatem must have roached ita pres- ent condition by a process of evolution, and, though ho namittod that the nature of the pro- cess might bo doubtfu), ho nuhesitatingly as- scried that some process of devalopment there must have beey, uuloss sil tho laws of probabil- ity have to ba abandoned and an ugeciontilio method 1a to bo adopted in dealing with this oa- sontially sciontiftc queation, ‘Lhin attack, as it was considered, on the Biblo narrative, though Hercely opposed by tho fow among theologinus who uinderstood Its aignifi- canco, caused by no weans 8o widespread au ex- citement s the firat altompt to introduca tho systom of Copernicus, 1t was not Ul goology ‘bogan to presout tho evidonco of tho caril's crust, Indicating s history far otbor than the Bi- ble account, ae horotofora underatood, that theo: Jogians begain to bo again notsbly disquioted. [ ueed not rennnd you of the flereo coutest which thereunon ensued. Tho doubts raikod by geolo- ¥luts woro at first deridod. ‘Thon o8 tha welght of avidenca givon by ualoantolugists, microscop- fsts, chemiats, and others (praduslly slio by biologists), began to be felt, tiie amazing theory was advanced that all the features of the aaith's crust woroe created in tho beginaing, as they now oxist, purposely to delnde inquisitivo sod unbo- lieving raeu; In point of fact, to give Satan a fair chanco 1o hiw game for huwan sould with their Croator. Thin hypoiliosis gave way, bowover, as not meoting tie viows oven of those—the very Ignorant—tor swhono bouefit it had beon fnvented. It was discovered quickly that thoe Biblo nccount was right, aftor all, but Tiad simply beon misunderstood tiil uow. Nay, it waa found that the postical skotoh of creation in tho beginuing of tho Book of ticnosia accors #0 Temarkably with theee modern scion. tific discoverios that now evidones 18 thes sup- plied in praof of the inspiration of 3osrs, at that time suppescd (o bo the writer of the Pone tateuch, Tu oxplavation of the meauing of tho Bibla account of creation is etill in voxue among theologians, tumo of whom considor that tho matter is reduced by thia explanation to the aimple dilemma: Eitier Moscy (or whaoover wioto tho Book of Genssis) was inapired to write a8 he did, or clsa he must bhave been u pérfect mastor of scionce a3 now taught, and the laster alternative no less than tho former implica that big recoived miracutous aexlstance. You will remomber, therefore, that if I now procoed to sbow how inadequnately the acconnt of creation 1o Genosis, as formorly nuderstood, sce cards with reccived sciontitio ideas, L nesd by no 1eans be rogardod as oppoaing® the Lible record, Un the contrary, according to the rocaived tco. logical intorprelation, I am leadiy; you up to tho fact that scioucd has iu this matter proved Lereolf the bandmaiden of religion by finding out for us the truo moaniug cf & parsof tho Bibla (only somehiow it »e chauces thac theologians aro not 8o grateful to scioace for this seryice ay ono might bave expectod), The Bible sccount, then, as thus mimuterproted (for a rather long period), bewing by stating that i the beginuing Gud wade tho earth and tha sky, tho earth forin- 1eas, thoskvilm ki, Then light appenred, aud nudor the uamoof Day was sopatated from the darkness called Nigne. An tho sun hadl not you been mado, thiy light was notl sunhight, nor were day and night causad by tho rotation of the ecarth. lndw;(. ths aocount (ulways as misinterpreted) @ave the idea of & 1ilat, circulir osrth, not of & rotating globe. 1t may be the liht was auroral {a picturo of tho aurorn was shown), sud its specirum that as now shown, or it mnay bo the Jight was of tho nature of thet faint lununosity which we see in tho gaseous ncbulw, sad had the spectral character nexs iudcated, 13s this as it niay. a firmament or _cloar upuce wae next forin. ed, and the waters divided {ute two portions, ouo under the firmamont or heaveu, the otbur forming » water supply sbove tho firmament (vhence rain was snpposed to come, especially when necdod iu great quautities as for tho flood). The waters under the frumuwanent or wky wero then gathered into oue place sv that dry laud appeared; and ou this dry laud grass, seod, Lerbs, and fruit-lreay wers formed by specisl creative acta, Aud gow the time hLad como When Lho colestisl bodics which foxm tho subject of astrouomics! study were o ba crested, for sigus (astrological), for seagons, aud for daye snd years. Tho sun, with bis mighy glcbe, cxcoeding the cartb's 1,250, UU0 times, and the eceno of processes o stnpon- dous that the whols frame of thu earth would be deatroyed if sub milivonth 'pazt of their action, was set up in the ky for usto ieasuro our days by; t poxt, to rule the night; and then the sl were sdded, plansté—orbe of liko nature with our earlh bt muuy far larger—aod fxed vtars, cuns Like our own, but some 80 vash sy to dwarf even bis bulk jofo jusignificance, snd to wake Lis mighty enargy seem Like weakness. ’ ** And God ses theso in tho ‘firmament of ‘the e 158, Thoro wan at onco, necoraing to that old and erroneons but very natural ints rprotation, an_nnaivar to ali our doubts atiout the purpicso ur whiol all thean Lieavon to givollght mpou tho earih.” crda wero made, *Furely not to 11'nminato onr Raxa bir J. Tlerschel, ' not to aparkio as ant void of meauing and roality, and hes T UK mmoni vain o conjecturon, ~ o munt A plndied astrovomy to hittle purpose who can supposo man 1o bo the only vhject of lun Cromtur's care,” Ilut for nn olher purpore the Bibie necount, a4 mieinterpreted, assorty @ ! God sof thom in the firmament of the hansen o grnva light upom the vaith, and {o mlo over thn day and over tha night. and to divide tho light from the darknces,” 1 pasa ovor the re- nuiuing portion of tho nceaunt of ereation, nh ot telating to astronomy, Dol in passing 1 must note thut § aiink they err who conelifor that the ptruggle respeedivg evolution st 1aze chiofly aroun:t the queation of biological dovel- opment. Just now it [3 thero that tho eltugzle in warmest, but tho time may be at hand when mon will find s philolngical and cthoological queetions, orin tho efudy of corebral fhetinmo- g, the meet vitalle intatesting waiters for it qurv. Norig it at all nnpossible that astrotio- wy, already twico in the fojefinut of tho conlest, may agan be fonud fn that position, beeanse of tho boariug of facts yot to bo necortained ro- #pecting unbjecte now Torming tho great my2- teries of astronomy, ag cometie phienomena, tho trie cotion of gravitation, lans of ropulsive action, ete., bosides the manilest heating of astronomical rosearch on that vitaliy-important subject, tho conservation of energy. Nur maust I paes from thin part of my subject with- out noting tho apparont discravancies between tho accounta glven In the first and pocond chan- tors of Genesin. In the first we oro told that pinnte wera mado after the waters had been Aop- arated; then followed the creation of the aun and moon, the stnes also, sca-creatures and birde, Iand-croatures gonorally, and wan in pat- ticular, in the imago of God, after tiia likonose, **malo and fomalo created 1o them.” In tho second, aftor plants wero created, a mist went upand watored tho whola fago of the warth, then man was formed, (bo Garden of Edon tauted by the Lord God: aud whea man had con pul thero, **1bo Loid God formed ont of tho greund evory heast of the fleld and overy fowlof tho nir, and broxght thom to Adam, to nes what o would calt them, nfter which task Adam fell asteop, and a rib talien from his nido was madeinto n woman as a helpmeot for him. An both aceonuts, howavar, ara now interproted quito differontly thian of yoro, thoso discropan~ cies bave beon mado to diappesr. 1 noad not iz ou 1o deseribe how the ciroum etances in which Adam and Lve had beow | laced lod to troublo and death, bow theronftor wicked- news increaged, untl God saw tnat overy imadi- nelion of mau's hoart wes only svil continually, B0 that it toponted tho Lord that Jlo Iind madu mau on tho caith, and it griovad Im at Ilis beart,” so that no courso scemed good to Him but to dewtroy both mau and beaat, and creoning thing, aud the fowln of tho nir, rot by His more will that as thoy had boeu oreated so they should norish, Lut by the complox device of o univereal delugo, during which certain persons sud aulmais were safoly fonted about i the Ark. Retwning to the account of orea- it appenrs that the rcal oxplana- ion asconds perfectly wilh eatronomical aud gaological researghes, 7T'lie enormous time, iu- tervald roquired h‘; geology, are found in the six days, when theso aro undaratood to bo perioda oflndefinite longth. ‘Lo ovoluton theory of asttonomy 18 boautifully itustrated by tha ac- count {n (lenesls, whon we tako the narrntive nu recording o series of Visious preaeuting tho Rradusl devolopmout of the earth asit wouid hinve appeared o & bewg ou Lhs wurface of the planot from tho earliest ags of its liatory., Ho could percoivo light and darinesy alterusting long Leforo tho maas of clouda coveriug tho wholo sky had beou dirsolved away fo ay to show the aun and moon and stars, ‘Lho porlod when vegetatiou was formed wad really tho carbonifer- oub otn 5 whils she suceession of animods cors rosponds to tho wocceasion indicated by tho vae rlous geological utrata., Very probably we shall bofore long tind tust even the Darwinian theory is indicat*d by tho way in wiuch tho crea- tion of man is ueluded with that of auimals in tho work of the sixth day, ‘{hig doas the prog- reas of sclenco throw light on the mctuiug of the rovealed warsative of creation, amd wu verceivo—xay theolozinui~how the Bible writor vas fuspired Lo say what was ebrietly truoin avery word and in overy eyliable, though far soe dnscrtablo parpoce tt way ao arraneed that tho truo meaniug o the nariativo should not bu recoguizod uutit mon had found out the truth in anather way, After tho oix days or oras of work, came tho Boveuth day or era, whon ** Gud rested and was rotrosbed ;™ uud 0 tioblessed tho euvonth dny, and the wook of soven doys (not oras!) wam au- powted. I svoke in mviast lacturs of what Aoemy to have beon the truo origin of the weel, aven accordiag to Joscplins, who as & Jew might bave beon expected to mamiamm tho ongin de- scribed In the sille of his uation, It has been pomtod sut toms that DHloses must havo had more than tho putpose of morely sunctioning au LEgyptian festival, sccing that Lo cansed tho mun wio gatherod sticks on the Sabbath to bo stoned to death, saying this wan wpocially commanded by tho Lovd,” (Nuwbors xv.) I nocd nut express any opinion about thus ack, But I may sircugthen the position I assumed on this poiut by noung that all the specinl sacrifices mado by the Jowas according to_the Moenio lax indicata an astrological arlu?n. Theso wore oer- e at suurias and sunset, Numbers xxviii., : tho offernugs on Batwn's dav, the Babbath, Numbors xavill, 93 the offerfugs 10 tho now moou (the dav of new moon beiug soarcoly less holy in Jowlsh eyos thau the Habbuthe), Nurw- bors xxvhi, 113 wnd tho eacritices on tho great luni-golar feslival belougini to the lirss month pf ha suu's annual cirovit of the xodiacal conatel- latloun, Tho very iden of sacrifico wan muuifes - ly borrowed from wztions baving debased aud material concoptions of the Daity; from inen who 1magived s Gad afterboir owa likeness, aud gavo bim all tho attributes of the beint mos: poworful fu their oyos—iho Orienial despot, crucl and relentlass 1t offouded, and ready to take ofenso nt the least (oven accédental) fault of omission or of commission, ‘The cruoltjes of thu King of Dahomey scarcely nurpass those commitied by Mones, cluiming divine authorisy for bis couduct (Numbers, xxx1.), ‘Cpo most de- basing suporstitions deacrived by Affican truve elors are not more ghastly than the method of divisation by a medicino test appoinsed in tho Nith chinpter of Numbers, Pasuing to matters more strictdy witlin the ronge of his uubject, the lecturer diccursed tha standing «hill of” tuo sun aud moou, a miracle dencribed in terus manifestly icdicating a bel.of inn central dut earth with oertain rolatively small bodles moving for wigus upon the convava of tho sky." In pasaing, e eaid, this correspond~ od with thoaccount of that exceotding Lighmoune tam whenco all tho Lingdoms of tho earth were sova, The miracle of the going back of tha shadow on the dial, and its askociation with tho leugthoning of Hezekiah's lifo in responss to prayer, were thon comsiderad, wih specisl roference to tho queetion of tho officacy of prayer. ‘Lhis part of the locture was illustratod y vigws of eclipses, The lucturor compared tho way in whichi natlons fgnorant of the trus natirs of oclipyos pray for the restoration of sunlight, or othierwise ‘manifest thete souso of awe sud wonder, sith the contldence of tho stu. dent of scionce, This confidenco s uimply tha result of ceitain knowledso of whal la tukin rlace. As scionce remaves natusal processes lufl pheoomuna from the domain uf the unknown to thas of the kuown, 8o pari passu the shonght that prayer way cause tho progress of euch pro- cosees aud phouomoens o bu moditied must of necosslty disappear, It is only wiile we are uncertain that proyer, 88 ordinarily underatoad, is possmble, and the studeut of scicuce learns %mmnuy to extend to processes bovond hix ravge of rowoarch the ronsone iug ho Ladapplied to those withinit; to bo- huve in the hame manuer iu presence ol proe ceason whouo Iaw ho Lias not graspoed as in prass suco of procossos whoso courss ho can certeinly snticipate. ‘L'his simply beosusa bo knowe cer. trinly that tho former, like the latter, aro under ha domioious of law, sud cannot be affected— never aro afccted, ot least, 80 far as vxporience shows—by clrcumstances nob npeuunf directly upon their physical cause or cauyes. ftor dis- cussivg tho siar sald to havo lad the wise men from the Last, tho locturor brought Lis dis- course to a close by dwelliug on the impurtancoa of recognizing the dominion of uniform law througlout she noivetse. This groat dootrine, when once thoroughly understood, cannot but Fave foguard agalost oxcessea such as have been and continue to bo committed in the name of religion, uard mzaivst the existenos of the ruperatilivus to which such orcesses aro aua, 1o beliof in universal law, regardad by wauy iu theso days as a rock alioad, will be ono* day recoguizod an » bLroakwater agsinst esas which Lave Leen hoavy sud may bs Leavy yot sgain, SUMMER HAS FLED. Cold o'er tho pebLles the bright waters flow, And tiereely tno Nortl-wiud s beginniug to blow, Hurling before §6 tle leaves sere sud dead,~ Tur Bumer, tho Leautifnl Bumnier, Las dod! 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