Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1875, Page 2

Man cu e Ll B GPGer 10 give it ent ol e aatiiral increass of yaluo to tha whola commuinity in- atead of the praprictors,—~thesn Leing allowed the op- fion of relinquishing the land st {ta preseat money. wainle, Tho ix of the len planks of the Assoclation platform which concern ua sro the following IV, Ta claim, for the benofit of the State, tho inters voption by tsxation of the future unearned increase of thie rent of land, . . reserving to owners the op- tion of relinquishing their property ta the fitata at he yinrkel-value whichi §t miay Base acquired at the tme when this principle may be adopted by the Leglsla= ure, £ promote s palley of encouragemiat to co- operativa agriculture, through the porchasn by fe Niate, from time to time, of entates which are in trarket, and the lettigt of them o ., 1o cresora- e awRochIons. . L o VI, 'To promota the acquisition of Tend fn & s imiticr manner, (0 be et to sl oultivators, . . . VI Tands belongtug to the Crown, ar fo pulbvic Vodtes, or to charitable and ofher endowments, 1+ mado availabio for the name purpores , . o B3 weli b2 for tha improvement of the dweliings of the wark- ing claseen : aoid powch land 1o be Fnffared o . to pars futo private Landa. VLI, Al Isnds now weate . for pationalunen, . . X, To obtadn for the Biate tua power to take alon , . . ofallnatural ohjerin or ariifich rtructiona ettached to the sofl, which are of hi scientific, o artistic nterest,” . ., H It may bo said that theao oxtracts only Rianwe that Mill adbored to the Hocialist faith ou tho one subjoct of 1and; but, in ths first placo, this «embraces evorsthing elss; sod, in the gecond, lie goos boyond this one thema when Lo men- tions, & he doos in the noto on p. 249, that ** It may Lereafter bo thought right to rrquire that Abaso who possess such [ari] trensures should eithor opan their gallerich to pubtic view, or at Jeast levd tno contonts, from time to time. for tho parposo of oxbibition; and should aflow to artfata . . . rogular access to them, for tho purpose of ropreduction or study." The fect weerna to ba that Mill heeame more and more attached to Secialem ps ho grow older, un- ut ho wesa a complete convert, It waos yrobably only tho dislike to all wootarian or factions deaignat:ons, which is eo sirongly ex- p:ossed intho * Autoblagrapby,” that prevented his gpo: of himeelf, betora hin death, an n Booikiel, Lo influenco of thn siswe so bolity oxpressed and so varmly defended in this book canuot but he great, Thore aro many agitatorn .—somo of them woriiug for the right, somo of them for tho wrong—who wilt think, ansthey road of Mill's yreaching the gospel of Hocishin Just boforo his donth, of tho fable thatthe dying swan sings Lis sweotest aong, FINANCE, ConRExar AND BanriNg, Dy BoxAtry Prick, Pp. 176 New York : D, Appivton A Co, 1870, Discovoring o lio on the titic-page of a book doea not incline o reviower to favorable criti- cium ; but Messrs, Appleton & Co. unfortunatoly Liave freaeral cuatom to plesd in oxcnso for this misdste. Bonkis gotton out during the lust two wonths of & yaar aro almoat always dated shead 1o tho noxt yoar, probably with some foolish Wea of deluding purchasors into thinkiog that iho work is just out after it has beon on tho market for sotno months, In the cnso of the monthly magazines, this customn Jeads to their pbearing trom ten days to iwo weeks befors ‘hoy should; spd, fn that of the illustrated wecklics, it has boen carried to such o ludicrous axtent that they ara published fiowm soven to ‘on days in advanco of their dsto. Tn tho futer- ists of common honeats and the foture biblio- ohile, this practico should ba rtopped, I'rice’s * Currency and Iaoking™ is a goed wook to reed in conjunction with Dageliot's * Lombard ftreet,” ‘Tho two, with Samner's w1hslory of American Currency™ and L. G. B)auiding’s bislory of tho logal-tonder izaues, suabt to sufice to mako n mau really that al- o108t mythical creature known as “the intel- iigent voter,” o Tar as financo is concarned, ‘Thin book cnceists of ‘throe chapters, en moetaliie carroucy, yiaper eurrency, and ** What is » bank?" Fhe vezond wection uf ibo second rha;ter—* The Bank Charder Act nf 1843 "—in almoat nocernary reading for an Amerients who denres to fullv uudors ** Lomburd Btreot,” (t ctoarly explaing tho naturo, ofksuizaticn, and woritiogs of (ke Lank of Logand, Wo con Aen=o that explanaiion kore: Tho Bavk of Lugiatd is composed of two artw—the Dank Department and the Iesne oparbiacut, The fatter, *which. ip roslity, is = otlico of the Siate,” isHucs shont £14, 000, 100 1 uoton fo the furnter. and imposes upon it thw obligstions of redecming Lhem iu gold ou do- wand, and of mveatiny them tu intercst-bearing recurities, The Oavk Dopartment has. thero- Tore, pat them into 3 per coutn (consols). The Laok proper car et from the lssus Dopctment, and pay out to thu pubiliv, all the cther uoten it wishes ; but it wast st put o gold soversipu ioto tho vaults of the limue Department for ervery pound-uote given it by the latter. Tho Bank, a8 a whele, {oreture. ulwaya has on heuy enough kala Lo redeem overy oue of its notes, save £16,000,000: and ha« coneolw, walablo at « o lo b retsiney | sny time, na & Heenvity for (his remuznt, Yho woles are ‘legal touder every- where, excepf ut the Bauk itaclf; tha Uank cxnuot pav its debts with bank-uotes 3 1t niuat give gold if tho creditor usks torit., The profit to the Lank from tho £15,020,000 of nules ungecured by rold amounts to abont £809,0¢0 4 year, of whicivit pays £200,000 to the Uovern- ment. Wacan recommeed * Currency and Banking " to any faoirly-intelligeut porson who wishes to kuow a good doal more nbout financae than the werage Congressinan doos, HISTORICAL ATLAS OF JOW/A, AT, ANPRESY TLLUSTRATEY HITOKICAL ATLIA OF 07 8 6ATE oF lowa, Published by the Ludras Atluk Company, Chicago, “Lhis voluma 18 undoubtediy the most thorouga &nd olaborate of the kiud ever inaned in the Uni- tod States, It compriees olegantly-cngraved waps of ovety county in Ioaa, an such large sealo that not onty the townships aud soctions wro dosignated, but the parts of ecvions, owned by iudividuals, are indécatod,sud tho name of the owner of each tract jn each township is given ; wa that, fu whart, the work {n this regard {e not ouly au jndex of the resl-ostate owners of Iowa, bint yos the location of each real-cutate ownor’s londs, In like meuuer, from actunl surveys, the timber-landy and water-courses jn onch section are shown by tho county-wape; aud such s the purticalarity with which the detsils Lave been olaborated, that the site of evacy church, school- louse, mill, blavksmith-shop, aud farm-honse. ineach townahip, is marked. No less in detsil 18 tho topograpby of each towuship indicated,— 1he swamp-iands, blufis, and coal-lands and yuaracs, bewg sccurstely whown, with o wunge, towy, and woction. Tho Atlas containg pluta of svery town and city in the Stato, givivg tho ongiual plate, xud all wubasquent additiony sud subaivisions, with the name of every streat, und tuo numbers of the blocks and lots, Besider theso, tho Atlas containg geological aud elimato- Jogical waps, nud & sories showing the natural urateage-syutem of thoe Htate, ‘Tue mape, which are execoted in the finest eiylo, are accompaniod by elogant lottor-pross, @iving the history and natural resoarcos of each caioty; and the wholy i supplemented by tho wost comprehsnsive aud thorough nistory of tho Stato yot publisheda ‘Tuis © dates from e finl esttiement, iu 1542, and comprives a hintory of tho Black- bawk War, the Blackhawk purchase, tho uevers) indian tresties, Pike's oxpedition, the Hpuush uranty, ete. ; and is brought down lo date, The work 1% enrichod by eleguntiy-eugraved portrnits uf lesding citizens of fowa, from tho Temitorisl organization uutl the prosent time, which aio secowpanied by blographleal skatches. Iu addi- tiou, there are mnps of the United States, guo- wroplically, and ilustrating the agricoltural and vital statistics, donsity of population, fwmigrs- tion. ete. ; which are accompauled by o oareful compilation of eintistics, Tho Atlan fs, iu whort, » complete eyclopedia of the geography, Listory, resources, prowth, and developmeut of Jowa, with a most valuabie biographical diction- ury wided. In mechsuiosl execution, it is the finest and most oxpensive work over published iu the Went. 'I'le ougraving is finar thau in any similar work we lhiave scan; and (e press-work nud bioding ara equal to those of the fiuest fm ported presuntation-books, A PALESTINE JOURNEY WITH BUCKLE. VILGRIN-MINORITS § Ol TAAYREL AND DISOUSSION 15 Thx Biusi Couutnirs oF CUUNTIAMITY WITK TUR Lave lizsuy Toosas Bucspy, By JouN 6. BruaRT-Ouxsviy, M, A, Uurrister-at-Taw, ovo,, pp. 514, Now Yurk: D, Appleton & Co, In the spring of 1862, when Az, Buckle was seaking, by travel in the sunuy Orient, to restora haalth co & weak framia sadly worn by a'long, tolleomo student-life, kLo encountered st Cairo r. Btuart-Glennio, also a tourist in the historio lands of the Esat. Attractod by the cultnre wnd tho strongly philosophical beut of Mr. Btusre~ Glonnte, Mr, Duckle proposed fhat the two bould travel in company during the romainder uf tue fetiy both were to spend nbsoad, Yhe overture was sccopted, and thenoeforth, un- i1} the death of Mr. Buokle, at Damascas, io May, 1864, ths gentlemen, with their attendsnts, formed » singls pasty, From Alezaudria their vouss fay through Petre and over the beaten xround of Palemins, eudlng, 65 we bave aald, TIIE CHICAGO TRi Wil L0 Bailioased Guabe 0 st Blalonsn *tho beautiful esty of the plain. In tbn volumos which wo now have from Mr, Bluart-Glennie, remiciscencen of that tanr, and of tha convorsations held with Mr. Buckle, nro given to tho rendor. Yot thewe occupy only a emall portion of tho book, as the sutlior has made thom mainly a toxt wheroby to expound his own vory poritive and importunate theorice. Mr, Stuart-Glennio {8 called an idosliat, but wo sliould rather say ho fa derporately striving to roach that high lovel, and fails from Iack of vigor and breadth of rearomnp. Ho ia cxtromoly aezrosnive and portinacious,—charactoriation that musl b united with & commandimg intellect to ho tolorabla. This Inat ha cloarly has not, for 1o 1% haflod in the sttompt to render himself in- telligible. His Ianguago is involved and obacure 1o a paintal degrea, and thore ia no auroer sign of cantied and ill-diseipiined thonghts, Throaghout the volume, his arguments aro di- e wath intepse wirnleoce against (Lo atian religion, Lvery sacrad spot visited in Holy Lawl wrought lis feolings to tho heat piteh of aversion for acrond that ho be- o iag dresdfnlly wisled the world, At.e- 1iam bin only reliot was found in leaving tho 3 ety in tho morning, aud remamime w the country without antil evemmne, (hat ha anglit avoid tho pervesivo influences of a twth that he dotested. In ths [t oral axe. most mwon linve loarned to allow perfect freedom of conceionce, and the opinions und projudicos of Mr. Stuart-Glennie aro not so Rin- rular aa to oxcite comment, It is only becauso ho hinsolf caunot bo tolorant, bt wonld force g belie! unon othiers, obiruding 1t at every ap= portunity, that wo regard his theories, or, 1t wera bottor said, bis method, with lostilitr, 1t fa notaworthy that, in the various diecns- sions recorded, Mr. Stusrt-(ilenvie wan dircctly opposed by Mr, Buckle. 'Fho latter was a Daist, and chorished with a pawdionato teuaclty tho hopo of a rocognition aimong friznds in tha here- aftor. Iiw love for his muther hnd been pecu- dinrly deep and tander, Tho ralation botween the ttvo had been more than that of mathor 10 B0n,~—it wan that of fricnds; and the chiof cons solation Jeft the ono at the death of tho other was & 1opo of reunton for etermty, ‘Lhouzh that hopo ware uttorly delusive, it is & satiefaction to learn that tho arcumonis of bis compauion coulld not bereave Mr. Buokle of it. If he need- od wbo comfort, ono must Lo thankful that s wea abie to reain it, A furthor evidoneo of Mr. DBuckie's roligtous yenruiugs is khown iu au esrly canverastion, whore lie confessos Jio had beon so unpreased by tho mauifestations wicnessed ab n private goanco by Mr. Iome, that ho darod not Lie presont at a kocond sitting. Bt thia, ho add- ed, was slien hig miod wasin a vory oxcitable Buate, just alter tho pablicstiun of hisrecond volume. One great objeet which Mr. Stnart-Glennio haa in the publication of this vook s to propare the way for a moro_ambitious work on ‘* Tho Modara Revoiusion.” It i hia bellef that ho has originated & Law of ‘Thouglit thas will prove to be the Itattonal or Ultimate Law of liistory, nad fu the present ivtroductory volume hia “ leads tho roador up to this Law through the consid- aration of those faots " which gutued him to its digcovory. A HOLIDAY BOOK. Mrxonixi: A STORY of GRnMAN LoVE, Trenslated from tho Gormnu Ly Gromes I UrtoX, Pp, 173, Chicago: Jansen, sicClury & Co, 1875, Prico, §2. Bomebody with a tasty for ont-ol-tho-way sta- tirticn ling calenlatod that cnly one nut of avery 8,600 books published roaciies o, second edition, ond that but an infioiteaimally-tiny fraction of theso attatn tho glory of o third. It is an clo- guent tostimonial to the value of a book when itn fisth edition appears. Already 4,000 copiss of Mr. Upton's exquicito Englsh wording of this exquisite bit of Germau have beoo sold; and now the fifch thoussnd is rapidly leaving the publishers' shelves. This in au edition de luze of what mny fairly be called an old favorite,—~ for the ugoe of books is rockoned by readers, not by days, sud, whilo this translation counta but o year of oxistenco fu point of time, It can nwmber {1s veaders by the thousaud in the past,—~and we lopoe in the future, Tuo thread of the story Lins alroady been given in taedo columus, ond we do not desl in twico-told falus, Buliloo 1t to say, that tlus 19 a tala which may ba thrico read with pleasars, and that the traculatac Law vat caly followed tha lettar, but hos caught the spirit, of the German. Hiy work bes just beeo announced by & picatical firm iu Taugland, In tho case of Lwo countries insufll- ciently civitized to have an international copy- right, tocft 1e the sinssrest tiattory. Only good bookg ote stolen, Tho complunent taies the placa of eash, ‘*Memorlea™ s a poem in proee. ‘Tha roatful story, titly put forth on gilt- vdge, red-lined poges, is o thing of bemuty. 1f it wore 1o tho pisinest of print and oo the thivnest of paper, it would still inherontly be Joy forever. FLORIDA. Its BorNeny, CLIMATE, AND Hirony, 1 AN ACCOUNT OF CHARLLKTON, HAVANNAIL A CHAraxn von CoNsuMe- -CULTORE; AND MPLETR UANDUGUC AND GUine, By BIDNCT With Numorous Tlustrutions. 12, Philadelphibn: J, L. Lippwcott % Co. Jausen, ScClurg & Co, Drice, §1.75. VProaently tho aplaeh of an oar in & dlstant purt of the spring sent 4 succesnjon of ripples cireling over 14 pool. Insizntly it broke (nto a thoisand-fold orban, Every ripple wus a loug etrso of varivgated sheeu, The fundaumnental hies of the pool when a rest wers dirtnibuled inta inuumerablo kaleldoscoyic forbes and hrililsacics, the multitudes of fsh becamo rauliidadis of unimatst geow, sud the priemstio Itgats eentaeed actialy to waver and play through their trausiucent hodles, until the wisale spring, s grost blaze of wunlighl, mhone liks an euormons tinkd Jewcl, thut, withoni deeresulug, foraves Iapaed away 1 in nucevsvive exhislationn of dissolving sl ceus torug volork, Lo o : The stream, which, i fta Lroadur sirelchiea, redected the sky vo perfectly tuat §owcained » ribond of beaven bounad . lovely, doubifugu glong tho brsast of thio land, now hegeu to parrow; the bluo of heaven dis- sppeared, wid the yreen 'of tho ovor-loaning trecs rannmied 'fta piuce. The lucont current lost all vem- laiee of water, It wos siinply o distillation of muny. ahiadded follages, muootlily sweoping aloig boneath us, It vas greon trecw, Queut, One felt that a subils iganition 863 inutual givo-and-take bod been oifeciud between foo Batures of water and lcaves, A rertain seoss of polinclinesn seemed to breathie coolly out of the woods on_eitlier sido of na s and tho gleny dream of & forest over whilch we suiled appearul to soud up exhalations of bulms, and odurs, and sfuiulunt pungeucice, A writor -who falls luto ecstasien liko the above over a ruuning stroam, & bit of still water, o passuge iu s forost, a wild turkey animming, 8 negio plalotively whistling,—any thing noder keaven that may posiibly be con- sidered romautic,—is not likely to be reckoned s uafo guido through a foreign country. Yet, if oue Lins patiencs enough to bear with his fro- quent tw of frenzied raving, M, Lanler will, tn the cousse of his book, impart n usuful amonut of itelfixence coneerning Morids, s has ye- oovered henlth from a sojowrn in the State, aud, housutly desirous of providing invalids and wote tlers who taru thithorward with helpfal infor- mation, ho hns collacted a Jargo body of valusble fucts, sud renonted thom in & msthodical man- ner, Hia book, notwithstanding the mersiment provolied by ity exsggersted stylo, fu roally what 'lll‘lhTQ':BII!l to be,~-a wervicoabls guida.book to orida, i A2V I AP v kT AN DECMPTIONS o Tuk Note-Lliouk or an Ex- rrouzn, Us Fuasz Kenuxs, Bogioeor, New Edio tou, wiih Mixty-eight Tiustratious an Wood, Bvo, w210, Phlladelpbis s J, 0, Lippincott & Co. ‘The author of this votume is & man of various and solid culluro. A ukilled engineor, sn acuta aud enlightoned observer, a polivhed writer, and o talented artiat, Lis baa bronght to the conatruc- tion of tho Jirerary work boforo us sequisitiony aud socomplishmonts thot ave seldom united in aeiuglo craffaman of any lind, In 1867 he was commigsloned by the Minister of Public Works at R do Junciro to explore the Madelrs River, an to projoot a railroad along ity bauk AL tho points where rapids Interrupt the navigs. tlon. A previous expedition of & almilar nature in tho Proviuce of Psaraun had proved hls capace ity, aud given Lim valuablo experience that yeu- dered the Iater sppointwont peculiarly tisting. In the accomphuliaunt of Liy ofidcial dutlos counectod with the exploration, Mr, Kollercareful- Iy noted thie Inbabitenty, tho vogetation, she re- nources, and the iudustrics, of the lnids berdors iug the Awazon and the Medeira; wud tho ro- sults of Liy intelligent scrutiuy aro thrown into the fortn of a narrative which might bo calted o treatiua ou tho region described, rather than the usual ukotch of travels. Leis prepared aocording 10 1ho atrict syetom that provails i all work per- l-traived laborer in dopars- , and aime moroe £0 kive full and exact information than to present an inviting re- cital of adventures. Tue iutroduction contains & compact review of the situation of Drazi, of I climate. puvelusl features, products, population, govi inont, and religion. Follosiug this aro clapiers deseribing the !‘ourn:dy frow Rio de Jaselro to ) ids of the Made s, and the returu voy- ovinces of pAmnou and huntin, %Gllhmg ross: alion of the virgla lnmi'-l lhnvlm / "DECEMBER 18, 1875.—T¥ LVE PAGE tribes of th:e Madeira Valley: and the Mojos In- | diang of tha formor Jeaut *Misgiona in Bolivia, | A apuondix relaten 3r, Keller's mode of cus ducting s surveys, and tueir hvdropripl 1cal and hyvsomotrieal rosults. The etatistics | esented on all tupics toached tn the work are | conious, and, wa mav believe, trustworthy. No fonturo in & tropieal country powscssns tho fascination of tho virgin forost, and wa read descrivtions of ita eingular chnms, repeated by cloquent travelors, with evor-tenowed avidity. ‘Ihis, from the pages of AMr. Kellar, will give pleanuro io Iteelf, and also as an rxampin of hiy #iylo ot delinoation. Whou one han ponctrated fnto thointerinr of the forost. begins M. Kollar— he In opprossed with the remmation of awo and wonder foh Ly man on entering ono of the vencrable edifices of antfquity. A myaterlous twilight anconpussos 1s, which rerves 10infennify the radiunre nf 1ho necastonsl sunbesim, ow it falln on a gioey palmeleaf, or ot & latga bunch of purple orcbhl-flowers. Splendld trunke, some of thew from 0 o eet in dianteter, 1ia0 Jika o many pillar wupperting the denn green vanit of follage ; and every variely of Eoacetul palme, ayaro atd bushy, and boaring heavy Terlen af Jight yellow and red, struegl to catch 3 wilm) 0 o th~ Jigit, (rons whtch they uto_ ahut out by tie noighboring glznta, of which the fucie (or wilil fig-teee) s uae of the weet striking, {n tha dimenstonn «f lta crowrtt and stem, and in the airange shabo of its Fouits, which hroject Iixe bitgn outsworks, These aeomn togrow in all wrestions, forning props, days, sud cronsbars, whoever tley are wanted, just es If tho whola were & wott, plasilo masy, the sola purpoen of which was (o supply, with & minimum of material, an 1nuch atability an possibie (o the truuk:: whoss wood iw uf cxiremo softness, and whoes roota are not ieep, The pachiuba-paln (Vriartes es- orinru) snd Aomo spocica of - cosrople ex- BbIE ofther cxiravagances du fbeie yoots, They Apposr as if atanding on atills, the Teal trunks anly Legiuning atd or 10 feet above greund, Eut, mora than all, it is the profuston of orclilds and Lromeile tnut excites our admiratisn, Theae briglt chiliren of the Tropica ensolops with dense faliage ss well the fallon and moldering truuks o those yet upstanding i1 full vigor und bigom,—thus forming hanging ger~ deus of astounding magniticence, which reveal leavea und tlowors of tho must icregulsr ehares snd colors, Lveryshere, on the brauches, aud on tho ground, snd oven from out the flasurea of tha Lara rock, light ferns and rich mova spring up and clothe the Wacaying trunks with freshgrecn, o , . Without the aid of thoe penetl, it {a, indecd, acarcely possible (0 givosn adequute {ies of the migniticonce of this vegetatiou ; capechlly of the mannuer ju which the different forms arogeouped. We may see, ft Ia truc, io our own hwt-houses, wall-trimined palma, Leautiful oribids With their abuurmal bosaonia, snd atofdy sith thetr beluht, sappy, somelimes. roguiacly-perforated leaven s Dut how ddiverout iv tals from the virgin foreat, wheru. in Nature, vudisturbed by tman, hav created hier own prodigies, aud whero 10 narrow pola meparate Ler chllvesn from the maternal roil, and Whers no dim roof of glass futervenes between them and the blue other ! Tho Ulustrations accompanying the toxt of Alr. Kellar's book were drawa by lumself, ana on tho block, to saguro wreatnr aceuracy. They aro notablo for sdmirablo qualities. he ont- linca ara true, and tho flhng-in wonderfully pa- ticot and mioute. The poculiar taxturo of leaf, bark, fur, cloth, eic., iu accurntely rapressnted. such carefal, elaborato work ia not ofton seen in wood-cuts. A fault in some of the piclures is o too violent contrast botween tuo lights and ubades, which prodnces a patehy offect ; yot they will, most of them, bear studying. POETICAL SELECTIONS DY WHITTIER. Soxaw ov Tauer CrxTomits, | Flited by Jou G, Whtrirsu, 1imo,, pp. 852 3 Jamea R, Os- guod & Co. Chleago: Janeen, McClurg & Co. I'rico, £2, ‘I'hero is a largo public who, indifferent wheth- or or not it containy their ospocial favorites, will welcomo this collsction of sougs simply bocause it was compiled by Whittier. 'I'lie mnan is so be- Joved in Amorica for Ins pura, true iifo, a8 it has beeu written out in his gentle, noble lyrics and idyly, that is will bo esteemod o peculiar pleasure to discover somothing mors of bLis individual tastes through bia solectons from the postry of tho past 300 years, Thems seloctions. wo are told by him in the charming wrefatory esesy, in- dicate his preforencos, although, 1n doforerics to the genoral vordit, he has citod some of the famons pincos of tho old vorsitiers, to tho ox- cinsion of later pooma roaily nearor his choico. 1t in interesting to winrk the judgment that ‘Whittier passes upoo tho motricalauthors of thio et and the curront century, m tho colirso of a introduction, ** Thero csn be littlo doubt,” bie remarky, * that the oriical essayint of tho twentieth contury will make a large advauco upon the present estimate, not only of Cowpor and Busns, but ot Wordaworth, Coleridge, Shelloy, Konta, Drowning, ‘Tennyson, sod Emer- sou,” " Bloro than tiwo-thirds of the space in bia volume i given to the poots rangiog from Wordaworth down to tho presont time, and it is evidount that bio la mora‘fond of ths living sing- ors than of most \7ho havo gono before. Tho highost pralso is given to the pootry of to-day. of which Lie gaya : *The pootry of thio lst quar- tor of n contury, with a few exceptioos, hay been notoworthy for purlty of thought snd Innguags, s woll as for enrnestnons and religioua foeltng, The Muso of onr timo 8 a free but rofonndly-revorent inquiter ; it is rarely found !n tlo seat of the scorner. If it does not always spoak in tho preseribod 1sngusge of creed aond formula, its uttorances coftan givae evidance of frosh commuion with that Eteroal 8pirit whore FespoLBOH aro NOver, in apy sga or climo, with. held frow tho devout quesiioner.” The poows lu tha collsction number about 570, and ropresont & little over 300 authors, BRIC-A-BRAC SERIES. PPREONAL REHINICLNCES HY CONNTABLED AND OIL- tod by Licuanp Hesnt 8T0DDABD, Hg. o New York: Soribmer, Armstrong ‘fho pretty Brio-a-Brao volumes will loge their roputation if more numbers s dall ao this Jast uno are issued. Archibald Conatsble was so clever and conspicuons s Scotchman, and was ossociatod, in his capsolty of publisher and hooksaller. with so many distinguistied nien of hid time, that one would loak for a gooat doal of wtayeatiug tucident in bis persounal reminiscens cea. ‘The expectation is disappointed in tbo ox- teacts hore preseuted, ‘They are taken the recent hiography of Constable by hin sop, and. thoogh connected with snch names s ‘Thomad Campboll, Witham Godwin, Jamos Hogg, and Shestdan Knowles, do not make very livoly reading. The recollections of Robort Pearvo Gillics, an obacure anthor contemporary skt Coustable, are somewhat moro sutertaining, As w wembor of the lterary gutld of Edinburg, Mr. Gillics canio in contaot with setors, artists, and men of lettors, and his obuervations upon them were penetrating and approciativo. A littlo more vivacily of wmsuner would havo mada his pon-sketelica popular, snd hirowolf, p.erbaps, 8 cuccesstul author.* x trom HOUSEHOLD-ART.Y HouwenoLn AnCIRY t HUGorsvioNs T Mavs- 0LD AUT AND TAATUrOL HOMPE-DECORATIONN. Dy Mew, 0.8 Joss wud Hiowr T, Wissiawe, Authoe of low-Gardenlug,” eto. 8vo,, e 900, Yors Honry T, MOlladhs, © L Thera avo diroctions fn this voluma for con- structing out of [nespensive materialy a thau- waud tasteful ornsnionts for;the ombellishmont of yooms. Woman's juatinciive love of beauty in- clines ber to the art of what is termed **making pretty thingy ™ : and, when she consecrates this art to the adornment of home, ehe may cansldar it worthy of a rational devotion. Deauty ia uso- ful; it refinos aa well ae delighta the beboldor; and, whon o bit of it has boon smbodiod in some object on whish tho oyea of the household rout, & work of bigh utility has beou soconiplisiy It is sncournging to those of limited mosus to Juarn what graseful aud charming offeets can bo created from the gime plost srucles, such ns dried lesvos, nosscs, and ploces of plue sud pastebosrd, Combioe theso with taste, as Sir Joshua Ileynotds mized his paints with braina, and the rosults may sufios to rondor the Lumblest Lomo sbiractivo,—raoro sttractive often than tho homes of the slch, from whose sumptuons u[mulu:menn it 18 wo bard to bauish the vulger utinosphere of mouey. ART-QEMS. Oms HUMDRED OXMS yALM THx LONDON ART JOURNAL ILLUGTGATIONS OF TS Busr Wouks or Fadovw Painteis, dto, Boston: Low & Hhepard. 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Arerles of lllustrnted urlicles ertilled *Tie Coul fury: Ite Iruita and Ite Fostival,” which sl pre sent & summary of tho progress of elivilization and advancement in thearie zod sclences since the Novu- lutton, together with & complets history aud umfi&. tion of the Csntennial Exbiot tion, fully illustra 2, A weries of illustrsted srticles desoriptive of iife, tfavel, and adventure in the Unifed States, Indss Hweder, Hollind, Spain, Poru, und Japab. 3, A merlos O wways on * Hdueation ju Europe and Anterics,” by Prof, Jaines Morgan Hart, author of “Germon Univessitien.” 4. A nerlew of artolca de- scriptivoof Lité and meaners, induatrial dcoupation, sconiery, ote., on “ Tiyo Kastern Bhore of Marylaud, by the Rav, Robert Wilson, 6. Mrs, E, L. Linton's #erlal, ¥ Tho Atonement of Loam Dandas, 0, Artle clus on ¢ Irlsl Bodoty, Past vud Present,” by Mes, Eidza Ann Wilion 3 * Life-Baviug Stutlons,” Ly M. Tebecen Harding Davis; * Jtalian Kol Lore,” by Trof, T, ¥, Crae, ete,, #1c, Hurier's Magazine for' January (Harper & Hrothers, Now York), (oot + “Tho Oklawaha,” by Cou- WMance F. Woalaons A Quuker's Chriatrorw Eve,” by Vanoie Tt, Robltson : + Tho Fostiy of Btocples,” by Eaily V, Battey: ** Cambridgo on the Charles,” by Clarlca T, Richanleon; * A Voice In tlio Doserty™ by the Rav, Horatlo N, luwers; *'U'be Wirst Centu 1y of the Ropubiic. T. The Progteas of tho Exact el eneen 1 (Concluded), by ¥, A, P. Dimard—iL & Natnral cienoe, by TBuoidore Ol # Outeide,? by Carl Sponcer; * (lothio Architecture,” by John 3. dlevenwon ; © Naturul Seloction,” by the Itev, Wallan . Bakers ¥ Tho Answer,” by Maonah R, udeou * Garth, A Novol,” by Jullun’ Hawthorne; # A Couytry Chortater,” by’ Mre, Frank McCarthy 4Fhy Qhoztls Entry,” by Jolu J, Platt; * Logials: Iative Humors ¥ (Coriehidoa), by the 1ou, 8, H, Coxt “gon Jnaquiu by O, W, Cille; ©7The Fiotlia Ploncers,” Ly WIII Wallece Harnay ; “ Kditor's Easy Cuutrs ¥ “Editor's Literary Rocord;? Kditors Belentifle Revard ;¥ ¥ ¥ditor's (liatorical Record § " " pAitor's Drawor.” The Mossrs, Haiper aunounce by comuencemont in the February number of & Dow uavel by George Ellot, of the asme scope ax *Middlemarch,” portraying English soclal life of i1 10 the celabrated Usrem aud Chitf Cook to Hor Hexny “Two Papars, e present day, Atianhe Manthiy fo 1. 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Nteholus for January (Scribner & COo., New York), Amoug the wtortea in this uumbor are: Bayazd Taylorn *Jon of Ieoland,” Eidward Eyglesfon’s 4 Housior Fairy Hiory,” Loaisa M, Alcottn * Mar- jorie's Birthday Qlfa® I, T, Trowbridve's lass Cove Bketch," Kussn Coolilige's " Tofnette sod the Kives,” ‘sud Abby dorton Dlud's “detting Up I e World ;¥ the Mt of mu cantatas 1, H.'w * bt, Christaphee,” Cells ‘haxtcr’s ** Plecola,” aud U, ¥, Grancl's # Uow Wilije Coaxted by 3oonthght ;* uiid fhere ure articlea upon *Chriatman in the Arcic Rewdons,” * Caristmas fu Euat” #A Bouthern Chrilmus Evel w blet,” and & 7 Christmss Caral,” The e profuse s besutiful, diiods for January (Louls 4. Goday, HuAtaan A hnanas tor 1818 (Published by the Adver 4y and frioune Oumpany, Detrolt] Charles K, Iackus, Compllor), uéuu'. vt;lp Aps—Current numbers (Littell & Ay, on), Anpl(m'- Jovynal—Cureant numbers (D, Applaton & Co., New Yark), LITERARY NOTES, Are. Fanny Kembla's book, ** An Old Woman's Qosaip,” will soon sppear from Hurd & Hough- tan's pross. Prot, Johp Btuart Bisckie is to wiite *'The Najara! History of Athelsm.” It will sppear in Good Words fas 1876, A new novel, outiled ' Owen Gwynne's Great Work," ls publishsa by Mesars, Macmlilan & Ou., sugnymaously, bas 1 we are iaformed, by % au Englistt wonian, Lady Augunta Nool, daugh- ter of tho Harl o Aluomarle, aud autitor of movar- wl popalar bavin, ‘Tho alariniug aunouncamant In made that the ** Memoira of M, Thiors," on which be is now ongaged, will filt nixtoen volumeu, The next groat Logiish writor to bs lionorod by the publication of & concordancn ta hia worka s Cbawoor. The Chaucer Hoclaty will soon print the work, Minn Yonze's naw book, *“The Yonng Aleidan,” will attemptto modotinze, somenhat after the fashion of Mins Phackeray'n lairy tales, the Iabors of Hercules. Tha socond serial of tha Galary for 1R76 will be by Iliam Diack, Tt in ealled ** Afadean Violet.” ‘T'he scona fs 1aid partly fa london and partly in the Highlands. Within tho frat ten days aftor the pablication of Mary Murdoch Mason'a noval af * Mae Madden,” reviewed in Tz Tutuonr ol the dth inat., 700 copioa were sold. Anew odition of Charles Lover's works will bao {ssued by Messra. llontledge & Co. in Jauu- wry. It wiil range with tho * Knovworth erli- tion™ of Rulwar-Lytton and the ‘' Charlss Dickens adition" of "that novolist, and will ba callad tha * 1lacry Larrequer aditian.” The rl;m of puhll-hinr ths oflicial cataloguo of tho Centennial Exhibition hias beon captirad for £100,000 by John It Naglo & Cu., of Phila- delphia. The catalogne will form four volumes of 300 pagos euch, to bo sold for 25 conta each part, ‘Thoprolits, it ia suppored, will come from the forty-oight pageaof advortiscmonts which tho publislicra have the right to 1osert. Mr, Browning's ** Inn Album " Is eriticised nn- morceifully by aome of the Engliab wecklien. The Academy says *' It has for ils themo a vulgar, rapulsive, and improbable story,” the canclusion of which loaves & * mora imoression of disgnse at wickoduess,"” and upon the whole of which “vulgarity” is etsmved. The Athenwum, on the contrary, conaidora the poem superlor to aaytbing Alr. Browniog liag written of late, e FAMILIAR TALK, BRAZILIAN TURTLES AND TURTLE-RUTTER. Ono of tho most abundant aud usefal anfmals of tropical South Amorica la the turtle, which yielda to {ho nativos & large supply of food in ita flosh and ita epgs. Bo oagorly and toces- santly has the animsl becn huntod for many veara that, great na are its numbors at the pres- oat time, thoy Liava suscoptibly diminished within a quite recout period, aud the day seems mol far diatant whon it may ba allogothor extermi. nated, Aceordiog to Mr. Franz Keller, there aro fiva epecles of curtlea living on the Amazon aod ita afllnonts, the largest and most valuablaof which is called tho tartarnga.” The markat prico of this species hiss doubled duting thie last half. dozen yenrs, ’howing that it ia growing gradu- ally more'scarce, It in hunted at sil measous, aod tho annual slaughter is enarmous. A In tho month of Scptombor the turtles visit ¢he sandy shioals of the rivers to deposmt thoir egge, sud-aro then assomblod in incrodible num- bera. Bo blind are they to all danger whilo en- waged it firuvidlug for ths perpetuation of their spocies, that thoy essily becomo a proy to the Lunter, who has only to turn as many upod their backs as 1o bas & mmd to, sud aftornsrda dis- patch thom st his Jeisure. At s siugle point, Praia de Tamundus, on tho Madeirs River, 3,000 or 4.000 tnrtles are regularly esught in each lay- {ug-sonson, bowides those, amounting to many liandreds, that aro taken by passing canoes for lmmfdinta consumption, or toba keptss livo stock, Tho turtle, with wondarful rapidity, dizs a large bole in the saund, a foot and & half desp, wherain # lays from 100 to 200 oggd. Bo grest is the throng of build- ers fuitont upon the samo work sod eager for sa opportunity, that the nests already made are often brokon up and their contents scattersd about. Yot thio dopredations that tha turtiss unwittingly practice upon emch other aro oa nothiog compared with thoss which they suffor from mankfud. The hovoo mads of their nosts by the ogg-bunters s almoss boyond computa- tion, On the Madeira slone, sbout 4,000,000 egga ars sonunlly sacrificed in tho manufactaroe of buiter, This substance ie chiefly used for lamp-oil, yot in the cursine of the natives it is often employed in cooldnf. It in_» villalnous compouni, being made with a maguificent disrogard of purity and cleanliness. both io tho mstoriala snd in tho process of manufacturo. Tho eggs aro dog out of ths nests, aud thrown—wheth- er ftrovh or addled—into the cance of the huntor. Ths shells are broken by treading upon them, and the fat yolks mingled in a thick, vellow duid. Exposed fo the rays of tho sun, tho oil rises to the surfaco, is skimmed off inso jars, end is thon roady for use. **Tho decomposition of manifold lmpuritics,” says Mr. Ioller, *and the circumutance that often soms of tho oggs have beon already half-hatched by tho sun, ¢ivo it an abomioable flayor, recalling to mind Russis-leather and tanneries.” The tariarugs and other turtles ars hunted with tho bow snd arrow, out of the hylnq fea- 20n. A loog, fine sirip of pinexppie fibre is at- tached to tho arrow-hesd aud wound about the shatt, ‘[his norolis ay tho stricken animat divas, snd tho loosened shaft, floating on the wat ehowa the position of the victim, Tho fish man has then put to baul in his prey, aud, as woon a8 {t reaches the sucface, floish b with o heavy blow. RARE MAHNUSCRIPTS, 1t bu ntated that tho Portuguese Governmont has purchased a raro sud valusble collection of maungoripts bolongling to the houso of the late Count of Ban Louronco, The British Musoum bid for the collection ; but the owner, tho Mar- quis de §abagoss, preferrad to keop tho manu- eoripts at home, and therofore sold them fora much lesa price (£7,000) thsn had besu offorsd out of the country. Tha collection embraces 897 documonts, many of which throw valuabla light upon coutemporary Portugueso history. Cortaln of them relato to ths Cortes of Torres Novas, which nssombled after tho death of King Dom Duarts, in 1438, in ordor to provide for the Governmaont of Dortugal. It {s expectod that theso M8S, will cloar up momo doubt- ful passoges in tho history of {he Cortes. Reports from Dr. Buhler, who has beon for same time examining tho manuscript collections in Kasbmir, announca that Lo has purchased aboat 250 docurante, soma twenty of whaich ara written on Bhurga loaves. From a aiundy of tuese ‘M8, Dr. Bubler has discovered the koy ta the irean era, which is found to date from the year 3076 B. 0. 'Tuln discovery Dr. Bubler bo- lioves will establish the dates of tho Kings from Avantlvarmsa downwarde with perfsct certain- ty. In tho prosacution of his search for hintori- cal mannseripta De. Buliler will go from Bring- gar to Jummo, whors thie Maharajs te said to hava a library of 8,000 volnmes, and thence to Dalhi, whers a large collgction of Digambara Jaina MSS, and several Brahmivical Ubrariea oxist. Aftor thia he will visit Jeypur, Ajmere, alairta, Ufjaln, aod Dhara. In Ceylon, Mr, L. Do Zoyes, s native Ohris- tinu convert and the clief translator to the Ceylou Govorument, s {nspocting tho old mauu- sortpts preserved lu thetomplo libraries. 1o bas made four ofticial tours within threo years, dar- 1o whicl ha Uny taken liats of tha vatioua cols loctions exawined, and obtained s hundred 1oanuseripts of varo works in order to take copiss for the Govornment library in Colombo, Aupug theso works one of tho ‘moat intorest~ fuy u the * [lstory of tho Hair-rellc ot Buddls, ™ which s alluded to in the socoud part of tho ** Maharanaa,” hut was supposed to bs Irrecov- orably lost. The manascriot was found iu s monastory of Jfarmese monks, and wag probably carded from Burmsh 0 Coylon with uthor impertant hiatorical worky, Comcu of theda MSE, radovered by Az, De Zoysa, it 14 holiaved, will forii s valaable accession lo the Oriontal ocollaction at Calombo. In cam- menting upon theae inluroating discoverles (he Athenceuns mildly suggests thut copies bo tuken vt the more preclous 1nsnuscripts and depositad by the colonia! suthorities in some English li- brary for tho benatlt of Eurapean scholars. ' It must be couressed,” ways that {ournal, *‘that vary littla has hitherto beon done by us in (Ll sowpect, while it 18 woll known that & Jiassian wcholor got vut eojne eighieen wwuths sgoon s throa or four years' tour through our IZastorn dapoudonvies With carte dlanche from his Gove eroment for buying up Oriontal manussripts, Tut then Russia can bonut of & well-eudowod Orlental lustisute, whilo our Indis Ofiioo was last f aerioualy disoussing the queation whether t had uot better dispoas of its museum, slmoss ontirely coualsting of doustions|” “ALLIGATOR-HUNTING Alligator-ateak being & cholco delloacy in the lean larder of the Bouth Amorican Indian, the bLidoous saurisn {9 buntod with sest for the plaasuro of thoaport and tho food i will bring. The commoa motbod of vapturiog the manster on the Madeira and the Amazon, as desoribed by Mr. Keller, i with & simple pols and sling. A stroog loop of raw bide festened to the sad ot » lovg rod furolabes the Indisn with his sols weapos, and, selzing bits, be srsepd through dse nhallow watar near the shore and alowly noars Ins iutandad proy. The logy mlligator rogarda tho appzonching otemy witl wpathy, making ne movement fuilicatiss of lifo raving an occhrional Inzy flap of tho (wil, It holds the apparition of tho redskin steadily (u ita eyo, but with a dull, anAiEpicIons curiosity, nearer pud nioro h slavo, an If undor fa on, until wuddenly the 110080 iR over its hosd aud slippod tight with a doxterous jerk, Now, tha ludisns Litheito walting on ths Rhiore rush to the help of thelr compsnion, and, #eizing the polo, drag tie uglv mopater to the land. Tho struggles of the bruto are furious, and 1t Inshes the sand with its powerful tail sn shows tho ]Iffled rows af its cruel toeth; but, when eafely landed, o fow vizorous strokes of the ax o tho slut] and tho tall prove an offect- nai gquistug, **11," saya Mr, Roller, from whom wo horrow theso Incidents, ** tho slligator ware only to rush forward boldly to thn attack of the Indians, thoy wonld, of & certajuty, leayn pota and wling audran for their livea: but this bright idoa nover weems to oceur to the uncouth sn- wal, aud the strifs always ends {n death.” The first movement made with tho huntes® kuife is to cut out the four musk-gisnds that llo in pairy, one under the jaw of the alligator, and one o the undersido of the body near tha begio- ning of ¢ho tail, These glands aro aboutan inchi and a nalf long sad as thick ss a finger, sud aro fillod with & greasy, brown liquid of a ponotrating odor. L.eft in the body but & few momonts #®ter death, they ruin tho flesh by diffusing through it their offensive taint. LONGEVITY OF BRAIN-WORKERS, Dr. Georgo M, Beard presontod a recent papor beforo the American Public Health Asanciation in which nio succeasfally refutod the assertion of Thomas Hughes, 3, P., |5 the * Life of Alfred the Grent,” that *“The wotld's hardeat workera and nobleat benofactors have raroly beon long- lived.” Dr. Board based his confutation upon facts gaived from trustwortby rogistration ro- porte and from tho yearly necrologics! rocords, and ooon theso he waa abls to build up an in- vincible demonstration that brain-workoers are, 20 a role, longor lived than muscle-tyorkers, and that tho greatost and hardest braiu-workors of listory have lived longer on an averago than brain-workers of ordinary industry aud ability, Commling alist of 60O of the most emineot mon of alt timo, and including in the catalogno with rigid impartislity tho namos of many like Byron, Raphaol, Pascal, Mozart, and Koats, who diod young, it was fouud thal the sverage lon- govity of the wholo list was 64 1-5 yoars. 'Thia oxceedn by 14 1-5 yoars the average age of thoso of all classes who live ovor twonty yorrs, A recond liat of 100 mon fomous in tho folds of active thought gave an aversge longavity of 70 yours, that is, of 20 yeara above tho averago of all clasaea takon Indiscriminately. As to tho causes of this greator longevity among brain-workers, Dr. Beard remarked that *‘Brain-workers have less flnrr{ and moro com- fort aud happiuesa than muscle-workers,” thoy find pleasure in thelr work, and can adapt It ** to their moods, end hours, and periods of greatest capacity for labor," and, generally, they rospect the laws of hygione. Iu reforring to the causes of eaceptional longevity of great brain-workers, Dr. Beard pronounced them quite complox, yot classed them all under the four followlng gen- eral heads: 1, *“Great moa usnally come from bealthy, long-lived snceators. 2. A good con- stitution usually accompanles a good brain, 8. Great men who are permanantly succossful have correapondingly groater willa thian common mon, and forco of will ia a potent eloment in dotor- mining longevity, 4. Great men work more oasily thau ordinary mo BOOKS FOR THE INDIAN PRINCES, The books which the Prince of Wales took with him so dintribute with othor gifts among tho nstivo Princes of Indis wore supplied by Mesars. Henry Bothern & Co., London, and were, for some days beforo the Prince's de- parture, oxposed for exhibition in Piccadilly. ‘The list comprised Doyle's * Chroniclo of En- gland;" Nash's “Wiodsor Castls;” Nash’s “Mausjona of England;” Htrutt's **Drose snd labits_of tho Eoglish ;" *The Albert Momo- rl;" Viawa of tho Great Exhibition of 18613 “*The Royal Gallery of Ar Lacrolx's * Art of tho Middle Agos ;" Lacroix’s * Coatumes, Man- nors, and Customs of ths Middle Agea;” Dore's * Loudon ;" Roussslot's * India af tho Rajaha ;" Tltuntratod Travels, Atlages, Selontific Disgrams, Albums of Photographs, eto., ete, Theso wore all numgmomly bound in_ ecariet morocco and gold, asd stampad on ono side with tho monograms of the badgea of the Gartersnd Etar of India. The illustrations embellishing tho worke wero for the most part colared,—in this, 88 In evory other feature, no paina being ;IDH“d to render tho books olegant and astraci- e, ‘THE CLERGY. The following statistics respscting the propor- tion in difforont countries of the priesthood to tha peopla are not without interest. In England sud Walos thare is ona olargyman to 718 of the population. In the United Staten there is one to each 879, In Russla thoro {s & priest to each 823 of the population ; in France thero is one priest, monk, or minister to 235 laymoeu ; in Italy thero {3 0no to 143 of the peopls ; and, in Bpain, ono to 64. Tho whols numbor of men included in the clerical profession in England and Wales is 81032 : {n the Unitod States it in 43,862; in Ros- #ia, 983,081 in France, 163,620 ; in Italy, 190, U0 ; and, io Bpain, 815,777, > ———— SPARKS OF SCIENCE. CHARACTER IN CALIGRAPHY. At & recont meeting of tho Psychological So- claty ot London, the Vico-Prosident, Mr. G. Har- ris, road a paper on ¥ Caligraphy aa & Tost of Charscter.” After commenting on the varions modos by which eharsctor s exhibited, and upon tho infinito diveraities of handwriting, the su. thor proceeded to point out the poouliaritics of the Iatter which dispisy the distinotive qualities of the writer. His thoory was illustrated by the exhibitioo of & number of original autographs, iocludlug those of Napoleon L, Wellington, Nel- son, Brougham, Horn Tooke, Southey, Cowper, Bheridan, Oobbott, Balwer Lytton, and Charies Dickons, the contaast between the writing of the Iast two boing espeoially dwels upon, A livoly disousston, we sre told, followed the read- ing of the paper. Thero is no gainesying the fack that charnctor may bo read from handwriting, but pob by any means from all bundwriting. In the first place, there must be character in the writer, and among the millions of mankind who use the pen thoro are Jamonlably few marked and distinotive judividuslitics, The multitude of people have no_aim but to bo coples of each othor, to do and to bo in every eveut of life just like their follows. It iw lmposaible to expoct from thess bandwriting that will show avyshing save an absence of character, Hence it ia thay the id univeraally prevails that mere caligraphy mean| nothing, Nevertheless 1t doos convasy a groat deal of meaning. The aold saw that ** Btraws show whioh way the wind blows,” flnds s just spplicstion in this as in many other thinge, and masterful traita sssert themelvea in the Ennilrokn- a8 in every otbor act of a human BIIR. \Vfion you see a notably praminent, vigorous, rockless srylo of caligraply, you may be pretty wure that the wriler ia & person of & bold, dash- ing, iodependont diaposition, that overrides all barriers and thrusts aside all impodiments. A ponmanship full of Sousisheu indioates s charac- tor fond of oroament and sddicted to vanity. Orsmped writing aod orowded lnea proolatin that economy, parkiaps parsimony, i & ltrol:.;{ nitribute of ihe writer. A distiuguished Amer- can sciontist whose paasion is wtudy with She microucope forma uucg minuto letters whon writ- ing that thoro Ls almoat & neoessity for usiog magnifying-glase mdul]{hfirlhnm. s there noth- iug move than a fanciful aignigcance in the con- Fnuu‘nn I‘::‘two:n this man's wsitiug sad his dom- uant pasaiou Tt equiren traloing to_Inkerpret Dandwriting, and vory usldom {s any sttention whatever given ta the wabjeot. Yet, wheu onca the mind has bean led to it, thore ls openod up an intorestiug and prolitio sourco of entestainment, Notblog is more delightfal, snd it mighit bo sddod mare novel, than to meet With & conuistent, complete, snd barmonious character that exprosses in all ita operations the symaetry and wholencss of jte uaturs. ‘The chifography of such & character will ba & olear, cortaln commentary, telling ita story as plainly a8 & perfecs pleturc ora plece of soulpture. OXFORD BOTANIG GARDEN. The proposal fo sbandon the old Bolsnls Garden st Oxford, and creats a now cos in the modern suburb and in the vicinity of the new Museum, bas provoked s good deal of oppoai- tlon among {ntasested parties In England, which, of coures, flud free expression in the newspa~ pora. In rehearsing the arguments aguinst tue schome of removal, Nature collatos some fscts from the history of the old place from which it appears that many tuteresting sssociations elus« Wrproundit, The Gardes waa Al 2dogb w0 dnd & Mulf sentunies ago, Sonntes tions of the great mailery designed Dy Inigy Jonea belng Iaid on St. James' Day, 1652, ‘tie cost of thisatructure, with tho high walls inrl g, ing tha gardon sud protecting it from tho wi wan £25,000, A muniticant suni for thoia da; provided by the generosity of Lotd Danby. Whan Evelyn visitad the (Tarden in 1651 *qhy nonsitive plant wan sliown aa 8 Rreat wondar* ‘Twenty yeara later (1670) Bir Thomas Millng. ton, tho Hayilisn Profossor, discovered through reposrchias liore tho fact of sexunl roproduction in Nowering plsuts. In 1041 Bobart, ** ovorsser of the physick gardans,” exporimentally dem. onstrated the function of pollen. In 1716 Mor. tinon solved the problom regarding tho means ot roproduotion existiog in the ferns. Provious to this discovory tha werld shared the opinion of Columos, that, though tho ferns boro no flowers, thoy must prodice soed, bocause, among nther reasons, ' The Book of Genesls eaid nmmng about plants being dostitute of them, In 1736 Linnmus spont aome weeks at the Gar. den, and hed many lively disousafonn among thy liviog plauta with tha direotor, Dilloniua, whaom ho tried to convort to his nowly-publishod soxus] lgnlem. Laetly, in 1836, Daubiony, at work in the Oxford Garden, antlcipated Draper in dew. ounatrating that the light bolonging to the req ond of the speetrurm 14 moat effcctual fu promot. log tha ovolution of oxygen by plauta. ARCTIC EXPLORATION. Notes on tha rsturn voyago of tha ghip Provon, of tho Bwedisn Arctlo Ezpedition, re. Inte that Dickeon ITsrbor twas cleared by the vesdel on the 17th of August. On tho 27th eho touchod at Caps Middendorf, on tho northeast conet of Nova Zombla, aud waa thoro bocalmed for wix da During this timo a good doa! of drodgiug was dono with fmportant results, Thy sea-bottom alounded with animal life, and ag immensa uumbac of the forms peouliar to the lower lovels wore brought up at every lift of thy dredge; aftor lying for a fow momouta on bottom, ** ses-stars by hundreds, with the mos( beautifal nusncea of red, unmerous and coloy #3l bneh-like alectss, crustaces, and molluges stuck fast fn its strands.” At Udo Day waring vogotation was found to be very prolific; but the Innd wea slmost destitute of plant life. A fow stunted willows dottod the lsndacape, bat the fell-poppy was the only tlowor visiblo, aud tue aosson of this was noarly passed. ** The whals of Naturo produced thio improasion of indescril» sble desolation," Aftor experioncing much tompostuous wasther, the Proveit ontered tlia harbor of Tromao on th 4d of Octabar, ** We have."” aaya a roport of thy vovage, ' durlogthis summoer salled over knows and unknown seas yaoro that 6,000 (Euglish} milea; wo bave visiced regione whither expedi. tiona for moro thao 300 years{lnve attempted fo vain to como ; we havo made rich collections jo all departments of natural scienco. What mor¢ csn man dosive from such s jourooy?" Prof, Nordenskjold, who commandad the exvedition snd lofs it at tho Yenoaol for tlie return trif overland, reached St. Peteraburg Oct. 17. THE RAINFALL OF 1875, ‘Tha rainfall of 1875 througkout tho Northern Hemisphere was prostly in excess of any othor yoar on rocord. In North Amorica and in Europo the flooda wero frequent and disastrous, whils from Asis tidings hava from time to time brought joformation of a fresh and unprecedont. downpour. Nafure gives the statistics of o ralos 1all that occurred in Chins botweon Aug. 31 snd Baopt. 1 that surpassos noarly every oxporisuce of tho sort hitherto observed. Tho details were derived from tho bullotin of the Metoorologics! Obaorvatory of tho Fathers of the Socioty of Jasus at Sikawol, and are said to be perfeetly trustwortlry, Botween 4 and 7 o'clook 1o the wmorning of 8ept, 1, the menn rainfall por hour was 3.7 milimeters, or 1,287 juch for oach of thess throo hours. tho observor: * think thare are faw examples of such a fieurs, ez capt 10 the case of watorspouts.” The total uantity of rain tliat fell in the garden of the eauit Obwervatory during tho twonty-four bours between 4 o'clock p. m. of Ang. 81 snd 4 o'clock p. m. Sept. 1 waa 218 milimoters, or 8.59 {uches, At Baibriggan, noar Dublin, Ireland, ths raine fall during oge single day of tho past season wag 2 inches, and this was considered a remarkabla quantity. In compariaon with the fall at Sike. wol it aoemna quita {neignificant, EXPLORATIONS IN NEW QUINEA. Mr, Bmithurst, the engineor of the steama. that recently navigated the Baxter River In New Guines, Liss publiahed some account in the Lou- doa Daily News of the region then for tha first time explored. The river is describod as » mag- nificent stream shat could essily be rendered navigable to » loog distance Inland. It Is bor- dered mainly by msogrove swamps, but bigh clsy banka coversd with the blue gum fires (Eucalyptus globulus) were reached near the end of the jonrney. Yory few natives were ssen, although signs of their vicinity were frequently apparent. A romorksble bird wes discoverod and ahiot at by Mr, Smithurst, who =ays ““Ths nolee esused by the fapplug of the winge re- sembled the sound of a locomotivo pullinga long train very slowly. It (the bird) sp- veared o be abeut 16 or 18" fest across the wings as it flow, the body dark brown, the bres whito, neck long, and besk long and atraight. Thae uatives .atatod that this colosral bird conld fly swar witha dugong, & Langaroo, or s largs turtla, Mr Smithurst slao otates that fu the stiff clay of the rivar bank he saw the footprints of a largd auls mal which he * took to ba a buffalo or wild ox.* A fair colleation of rouks, stones, birds, insects, and plants was mado by the exploring party, sud ‘Illl submitted to » naturalist for clasaifics- tion. SEEDS GERMINATING IN ICE. Highly-interesting results beariog upon thi germination of aeeds have recently been devels oped by certain exporiments conducted by L Uloth, Grooves were cut in s cskeof lcs, inte which seeds of varlous species were placed and then covered over by plates of ice. The wholt was thon removed ta a cool ocellar snd wllowed to remaln from January until the May following, At this timo It was found on examination thst many of the scods had gproutod and peuetrated tho fce with their roots. Itlsthe opinlon of 3. Uloth that tho hest nusedcd for the procost of growth was gevorated by the seoda thems solyes in the progress of iheir devolopment, and tha this host was sufficlout to melt the lce abont the roots, and permit them to extend thelr axea. Tho subject has giveu rise 0 muck controveray and apposing theoried. LOCAL MAPS FOR RAILWAYS. The French Goographical Bocioty, st s lstt altting, inaugurated s movement, not oripiua with them, but of eaoh praotical value that U would seem sure of suocoss, nos only in Franoy but In every other sountry provided with relb ways. Tha scliame of the Boectaty was to induot the sevoral French railway companies w’nlln:( tation oo their routes s map ol 3 :gcul:fvg.. with Indicstions of the most notabl Ietarical or ecopomical facta conmected with th dlutrict. It s _esid that this ocommondabli practice i already in_force aa tho varlous linet of railway in Brazil. It reflects pleasantly upon the entarprire of this youvg oconpiry thatold civilizations may go to ber for a losson in gens erous utility. THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIO, We loarn from Nature that Dr. Burmelster, Dircotor of the National Mussum of Bueaot Ayres, has 10 preparation a camplete scientifie descriptiun of the Argentine Hepublie, The fleat yoluoie, contalolng the Listory and geogra~ phy, ia already in prees, and the sscond, 00U~ tainlug the meteorology, physical g.um&h{'. and blology, 18 in preparation, The wark Germau; but_the Argentine Goveromaal has und u{ n a French translstion, —— NEARTS® PHASES. Chaerily, hesrts, P . Over the erisp, whits snow Ring out your notes, & 4 Marrlly, oyfully as ys got whu p‘c’:‘:l fl lf:&:u:l:hrr 2 , young, ArTs, Lovs, sud ils glad awak'ningh, Bh:fl" ud yo mn. all of bz Weartly, besrts, life's duil refrain, your sobs v