Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 25, 1875, Page 10

10 . LITERATURE. Dr. llombangh has chnasn wall from tho vast trasury that lay open before him, aud his com- pilation eantainn 8 multitndo of pleasant da- sagos from ancient and modorn suthord who Matthew Arnold®s Last | bave spoken on tho rubject of Liasin. v Tho boat i# drvided inta €ix pacts, treating ra- Work, “God and the epectively ‘Tho Kiss {n History, fn Postrs, in Ribie.” Dromntic Literaturo, in Fiction, n Humorous Slory and Anecdato, and in its Miscetluncous Aspectsaud Relations, Thesy several dopart- ments oro composed atinogg exclusively tions,—the editor coutenting limigalt with tho duly of arranging the reparalo articles undor the appropriate hesdy, and, where uecessary, connceting thew with o slight thread of expiavn- tory comment. In tho lirst soction, thorois o sketchy account of the curtoms concetning kiss- inp thiat bave prevalied among difforent nstiona. That sbicis interests us most 1 tho descrintion of the wsage fhav obtained i Englend at an corly duy, Tuo Groek traveles, Chalondylos, who visted Great Birtaiu in the fourtoenth contury, save: “As for Euglinh fowales aud children, thair cnstoms are liberal i tho ex« treme. For iustance, when o vieitor cally at 2 friend’s houwo, Lia firt nct t to Kive Ing friend’s wile; be ie then a duly-inetalled stuost, Deteons meeting in the strese [uliow the samo curtom, Apd ho oo 6008 auything improper v the ace tion.™ : A contury Inter, annther trave'er'records sime flar obseivations. *The Lugusb,' ho wrilcs “mafost much knplicity nud lack of Jealousy in thelr customa roga.divg fewnaled; for uot only a0 mowoers of the samo fawily sud bousosoid iz them on the hipe, sith complunentary rala- tztious and oufoldig of the anusround tho wales, but oveo etrangors, wheu intioduced, fol- low tho same niode, atid 1t in oua whicu does not appear 1 suy dogreo unbecominy.” A passsgs trow a letter by 10 on the Lavit of promiscuous k Divesting Christianity of All Its Supernatural Elc- ments. Bising--Carlyle-—Hints to Busi- neag-Mon---Answers to Prayer -~-Laurel-Leaves, John Adams and Itis Wife---Tho New- Testament Parables--:Chats with the Littlo Ones. Books and Periodicals Received---¢ The Kow at the Lyceum”-.Feet and Walking. % Com'n’ Thra' the Rya "'---Bibliomania -~Evolution of Mankind---Bcien- smus touchoes ingg that was 1w : vogua ju Elzabeth's relgn. ‘.ditbough, aus- tific Notcs, Lua " wites tho ascetie sbolar, »if you kuew 1be advantaged of Uriwain, truly you wouid Lasten thuther with wings to your feet; aud, il your gout would not petwit, you would wish you LITERATURE, Q0D AND THE BIBLE, @oD A¥D THE NoLE: A Resirw or QRirctios 10 WLarrmaTCRE AND DoaMAS By MaTTitRR AR xoLD, Formerly Profcssor of Poetrs in the Unive ty of Oxtard, sud Felaw of Ofel” College, 1 o388 New York: Macmiilin ‘& Co, ansen, McClurg & Co, Price, $2.51 This book is, as its title acggests, s sapple- ment 10 the Iaat provious work of 5ir, Arnold, rathor than a complote work in itself, and its rendors will noed, for a fall understending of 1t, & knowledgo of tho carlter volumo. Indoed, tho greater part of tho presont book is taken up with discusglons in auswer to tho most forcible and toling of the mans rigorous criticlsma called out by tuo povel propositions lizid down in “Literaturs and Dugma” In the courso of thia dobate, Mr. Arnold do- fipes the doctrines that Lave provoked moust sarions objection, with ne¥ clearuess and viger ; and h:s controveray with tho critics s, thersforo, pot without intorest and profit, till, tho reader of * Literature nud Dogina " will candidly recog- nige that it has more of s spocially-personal in- taraat {or the aathor than it cau hava for any- body else. Iu tho two or threo conclading chap- tass, Mr. Arnold doatw losa willl his reviewers, and mors diractly with lia own idoas,—expound- ing with minutences tho motive and metlod of 110 reaearot that lod Lim to hiu present convie- tions regarding ** God aud tho Bible™; beuco, this last portion of Lis book is more saltafactoly then tho rest. The spirit in whicl{Mr. Arnold wiites is praito- wortby. Ho is always calm, slucere, and impar- tisl. Ho meoks to 1taposs bis opiniova upon no ope, and Lo is reverent in Lun attltude torard iho honest thoological bolicfs of oibers, though they may bo, secording to bis notioue, sodly un- founded. His object In this work, a8 in $ha pre- vivna one, scema to Lo exactly ss ho aunounces it, to show to thoso who hava lost faith in the doctrine of & poreonal God, in ths supeihuman oharactor of Jesus, aud in tho infallibility of the Boriptures, that thore is atill somothing truo sud boneficent in Cliristiamity that they may take hold of aud rely upon, 1t ia to this clans of per- #ona that ho addresdcs himself exclusively, and Dot to those who are still content, or sttiving to be contant, with the recsived thealogy, nor to those who ara inresmbie through frvality or ihrough contirmed ukepticisrm, To use tha su- thor's own words: 1t {a meant for {hoto who, won by tho modern apirit o habits of Inteliocinal Asrjousnesn, cauuot receive whint kets thess Liabits at naugat, ubd wilk not try to force therasaltes i G0 #n; bat wio bive Ataod nosr enough to the Clrldtian religion to foel tho atiraction Shich s thlng o' very grost, wnen wuo stands really vesr to I, ounant but exerciss, and who have st sc- quaintunés with the Uitde, and some proctice in using it That *somecibiog truo and beneficent in Chbristianity " which 3Ir. Arnold finds remaining sfter a critical subjection of the word of the EBiblaand of the lustorical evidences sustaining 1t, to the tesis of moiern sopiyais, bas notmuch Inote aubutancs thun the vegative doeirines af tho Postiviet or of the Batenslikt, 1t cubuist briafly of there saveral provomtiona: First—Qod is not the persounl, loving God poracssed tho winge of Lwaslus, For, Just to (ouch on one thiug out of many liere, thero sie Jayscs with heavenly faves, hind, ouliging and you wonld far profer them to all yoar Musea. I'ioro i Lesiuoy, a practice never to bu saf- Hiciently commeunaed. tf you go to any place, you sr rocoived with o Jiaa by all; if ‘you do- jart on n journcy, you aro dwmissed Wit o kiss ; if you returv, (be kissos aro exchanged, Do they como to visit you, o kisa 18 tho just thing ; do thoy love “you, rYou Lias them all arouud, Do they meet you anywhore, kisses 10 aoundacea, In nhort, wherever you tur, there is nothung bus kisse#. Ah, Faustus! 1f you had oneo tusiod the tenderness, the fragiance, of thess kisaes, you wowd wish Lo ntay i Eugland, ot for to 8 only, but for lito." 1In tho division of “Dr. Bombsugh's Loos on- titied Tho Kiss in roefry, the most veautiful wolockion i e Thrae Kises of Farowel,"” takou frow * Ldith Wynno's Lovo-Lotters," by Saxe Holm. No poain we Lave over read vjua's 1tin the power uf iks purity, passion, atd pathow, OUT-DCOR PAPERS-~CARLYLE, WINTEL-SUNaiL 1y JoitN Beraovans, Author of 48y akn LOULID," 16100, pD, 238, New York: dlund & Houghan, Trice, $1.50, ‘Fhis little shoaf of out-door papera ¢omos from onv who has long boen kuown to twe readers of tho Aiantio as s youial aod graco- iul ezsayint. 1o holovgs to that bratherkood of fow but cboico souls nho cling fondly to Matara, and, by ditt of mueh davetion, lonra 1o read ke uwepleat Becrats, OF this rare fellunabip, Laac Wadton, (hibers Wisito, aud Henry Thorean hiave oneen, in times past, conspisuons membera: and to-day Lho guild 13 huncrably ropresented nmong us by Wilson Flapg snd John Durrougba, A balf-dozeu of the papers Lefure us treab of topics that have a 1:cal American flnvor, cs Win- ier-Sunabine, Exhilaratiova of tho Hoad, Tho Snow-Walkers, The Foy, A March Curonicle, and The Apple. ‘Tlo remsinder coptain skotches made duribg a0 Oatober abrosd. Theso last are the most frenls aad original ossaya that hava is- aucd from a {rave'er's note-bosk in some time. I'hey aro unjretendivg, but they aro talen from & new point of vinw,and futroduce stm.le, naiur- al fentures in foreizn landscapes, thsl aro reu- eraity ovoriooked. i Mr. Burtougps pald a visit to Carlyle whilo io Engaud, aud hrought away th.s pleastug piciure ot tho Jeromiah of Evglirh hiterawtra ; 1 cunnot forteat to mentiou tno aweet and genial ood 10 wiich we found nim,—o geutis und uifection. nto grandfather, with Lis detcious Boutclh brogno, wud riah, melodious talk, overfowing wita remiutscences of liin esriler liio, of Scott, unu_ Uosthe, sud _Edmbury, and obuer ou and plicos be hud auown, Learsing 1 wan ppocially [uterexted Ju birds, he diicoursed of tuo Lark, and pightiogule, and wavis, framing Lis remaruy abotit thews 4t 80110 o1l 040 Of hik pornounl experienice, and investing tuetr suzgs withs a dounie courm of L iy Lot and bly advanture, t1 only yooss whio oy plucked there,” aald my compunion, siter we bad feft,~2 uiun Wao had knowru Curiyln iuiliautely for w wha have no veuerkdlos for tug great uan, to cunvert Ilm o chabzo hiv convictluue upun sub- Ject o which Lo bas devoiof u life-tiaw of yrataund thougt aud meditation, Wil such ursons b baa no patiouce,” Cariylo had fust returned from Scolland, whers he had speut the sumnior, Tue Scotch bils atd moun. tuina, e eaid, lisd i atcient, mournful look ke if Ibo weigut of imme.suretlo e hud settled down upon thoar, 'Thetr fuvk wes i Oasi.o—hix apirdt ruo- Hected thelrai and, ns I gazed upon tuo veueralla 1an befure me, sud noted bis horsely and rugued, vet profound snd tolancloly, exjTekaion, 1 kuew tiiat Chicaga wiiom men Linve been taught to bulisvo fn'; bub | theirlook was upun bim siso, and thitn greaes than o 18 gimply **the Eternal Power ouwide uf :;‘:hfi:!:(‘;filulggfd 'fifil ‘-nhn-oo he u;srr-;l{) r“:‘xl;l:wu}:'x: WC iy | saen 51 3 carselven, that makoth tor rightooueness.” = BY | {4 igut of tho tuesocatle couscletce, ay liau Cars ¢ Etorual" i mesnt that which les ondured for past generations, and will contivuo from ove enerstion to anothior, Itsweoso i limited, so ar au mian ia concerned, to earth and timg. Tius Itorual Power ls futthermore **ouwido of oar- welves,” for it is pot,mibin our coutrol, but is withiout and beyond, and oxnrcises control over ws. Floally, 1t * maketh for mghteousness," ‘becausa ity influance ia to keop us in the path of iBLORTILY. Becond—Tho ono immortal truth of the Old Testament, ** ‘The sacret of tue Eteraal,” whick atifl alunea clear, though oveatad with legend and noetry, is, Jligiucousness i saloaliun, ‘Lue one abiding avd saviug truth of tha Now Testa- ment, * the secrst of Jesns,” is eolf-renuncia- tion: o thatwyl save hislifu shail losgil ; he thad will Jose hua life shall sae it. Ltard—Al e miracalous sido of the life of Jenas muat be given over. ‘Tho stary of His Divino birth, of 1is muracles, and of 1lis vesur- soction, ie ta bo dinmiesed as logendary ¢ ond, in resdiog tho payiugs of Jesus ou winch thus fabu- lous stury wes founded, they aro to b takenin & spuritual” and noe i 8 material seuse. Lo quoto from Mr. Awnold : The central altn of Jesus was to transform, fur every religious soul, the populsr Mcvtas-idoal of Eiu tlme, = tae juesl of Lapjitoes and saivetiou of the Jowlsh pwo- yio; to disengage religion, ope way ssy, from the Ataterisiism of the ook of Dautel. . . . To tha mind of Jeaus, His own roauirection aftcr s short so ourn fo tho_ gravo was tha victory of 1ils causo affor 1 doath, sud al tha price of 1tk death, s discts plea matarinlized His resutrcction ; and their version of {he matter falls duy by day 10 ruin. Lut no ruin or coutradiction bofals ihe versiol of Josus Huwsolt, 1o has viaen ; 11is cause has conquered : Lhe coursa of events conltnualty siteats ttia resutroction and vice tory. The weslfest uusoundness of populst Chtistisn- ity inelines’ a presont miany persons o throw doulite ou the truth aud permanonce of Christisnity du gou- oral, Creedu ara discredited ; reilaion I8 proclatined 1o ba ju danger ; 4o juous quako; the world langhe, Nevertneless, A prince o/ this worid 18 judued ; the Tictory of Seaus 16 won, god aure, . . Tua' ime mortaifty propunuded’ Ly Jests juust be looked fnr elsewngie than i the aaterialistic a8pirations of vur populsr religlon, Ms hveain the HKiornad Order, aml the Eternai Uraer never dies, This in aa lucid & couception of Ar, Arnold's theary conoerning the trutt that lastingly in- heres in Christianity, as can be conveyed within the limits of our space. Lavking ey the theory from & moral poiot of view, tho quostion riacd, how much ssving power has 1t ; will 1t auilica to make wankind nghteous thiough (ylure genera- tions? It way snawer with tuose of the pros- ent dav. who. like Mr. Arnold, bavo becn bred under the eo-calted Orikudox influences. Theso are uever eutirely shsken off. A remosut of (Leir effect is felt unto death. But Low willit be with geneatious tralned sud restricted by uo such jwposing influences? ilss wau reachud that we of civilizetivn whore Lo profus to Enu:un good racker than ovil, simply becaase it good, wituout hope of eteraal rewsrd or tear of oterns! panishment ? ‘Lhe sxperiment 1y ul- roudy being stied among & poitioo of overy intol. ligeut commonit d tho next geperniion will douate mith coufidence the otlicacy of a ruligion that excludes tha 1dea of & Dersoual God, o1 esl- :auou ulfl'oflh Chuisk, sud of the fmiortslity of 10 80/ iste, or drawn nuch Sresh Inopiration froth that souzey. Towever we tuay differ frons bim(und aliaost 1o aelf- dofetire wo muat difer frons s man of suck luteuss and overweening personsiity), it st yet bo aduwitied {hat e habitually spenks odt of thas primitive siietun and aubtude in whick ouly the herals saut dwalls, Gee- tawly nol o coutoruporary British Lierature ¥ thera another writer whose bowitriug bas auch & twang, ANSWERS TO PRAYER. PRAYER 4D ITS KENAURAULE Anawbre: Brozo a STATEUENT oF FACTS IN TRI: LIGHT 0r HFAXON AND Havaiation, 1y WiLaat W, Parson, D, b, Lite Faitos-luCulet of tuo Adounce, Autor of Youug 33n," ete,, ele.” 120, ppe 48, 3. B. Goodmin, Dr. Patton conducts 2o nigus! abulity, hie rossons go olearly and forcibly, raunisg hie lines of thonzht airectly an{ coha- rently tram peomices to conelusion, that 1t is an lutellectusl pleasure to follow Lis processoy in tho exerclan of fogic, Ho is & skllled dialecti- cisn, avd, moreover, au Loncst ome. Ho bo- loves wust he professes, witl Loatt sud spirt, aud, in tho enunciation of hiw fuith, gives no un- certain sounds, Huch swuch eincoyity and con- wistency musc &t lesst gomuwand respect, if not uympathy. Kven tha Matorialist will allow that » prayor- ful spirit is the most belpful ono that mau can choriab, Jt juduces bumlht{. roverence, pa- uenge, subnission o movitablo ovils, punty, goutle chanty, ond virtinoua sspirations. Iu eyary conditiv sud circnmuiance of hify, thuse 810 the attributes that Lot enable wey Lo mike sure progreas forwaid sud upward, aud to aid othars along with them, Would all bumsokiud but pray hebituaily, with a devout aud ardeut miod, whether or nut thoy belisved in & Provi- deuco or in AL SUBWOF Lo |ITAYGT, ** the peace that passeth ail uaderstanalog * would eventuaily fill overy heart, aud the Millsunum would ba with Clitosy us. But Dr, Pattou iseatinfled with nosuch medium position as tius. 11e would Lave men pray, be- heving o the sficacy of thuir pelition to pro- oure lom}wul #u well an wpinitusl bleswingn; and the chief ity of his book 1s to furaish au- thentis inatauces of a direct aud wuparnatural suawer (0 inyuosfions of the Buproms Bsing, ils han ootiscted with much industey ® Istge massof facts Wflil'fl ou the case, sud many af tlicws ara very singuler,—es singalsr ss are wowe of tho plisuomens of Asgootsm and Bpintaale fa. Thoy haso boon sbly aud csudidly treated by tho autkior, aud their avidencs will go (ar to elropgtben the faih of the Christiun resder, Billl, no amouut of teatimouy, coulined to cue bide, can be watisfaotory tu tho skeptic, who will ressouably auk: ' Have thero not occurred as mauy tnstsnces of marvelous rahief fu tiuod of extremity to persooa who did not, 88 10 poreous who dig, pray todod fer succor?” The probe fow of the walerial value of prayer is wcaicely suyceptibie of solution, yat what way be dous toward it bas besu capably dus by Dr. Faltcn, MERCANTILE HINTB. Ox vAX Hoap 0 Ricnvs, HiNve vos CLanxs ixp Youna DBuawrasdax ON DOvING anp BEntisa Goons; BustNess CoRBRavoHDEX KISSInNG. Goovs o8 THe Roap; Davasie; ‘Dutive o Tax Lrvzasrows or Kisuu:Qunwes vaox Iie | goanas; muxiens: Tro. By Witiii I Stance, oNY, LORTAY, FICTION, 4nb Aubcoota, iy O, U | 7. ; G D L thes af = Giaat Jags (o | | ulean, 9.1 °¢, 3. B, Eexer & Ua tho Curious, ol 13m0, PP S Ebiladeijbia: J. B, Lippiucott & Co, A book with the ‘above title needs no bhelp ‘rom the oritice to hurry It oo 1o populazity, 1t 1goeyed name will carry it alons to sa immedi- \ta succeed, As a kiss {s one of the most palaia- o thuugs iv bumas experience, 8o the ** Litera: are of Kisatng * should be repleto with delicious norceaux of prose aad poetios] cowposition ; wd fow shere bo who will not look for them in ie volume with ab Jeast & fosling of ourivaity. . 88 a shop-boy, and who, in serving as clerk, bookkeeper, drommar, Janior partoer, and tered all tho Jetals of an exteusive aud ivtricate business, and rotired, winle still a youog msu, with & Landsome competunce. It i3 tho work of practical snd suce cesaful bysinose-man, for the use of young men cutering on & business osrear, " Winle the direo- tions aro plain and adspted to each atep i tho il This fa the work of a :nan who bogan bosivess THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDA basinn-a.advancement of a vounz man, thero in a constant 1l ustration of the pool eifesta of taet, aud what bunpass sen deiizht to em! 1zo aa good comuion wonss, Wo bave th ventuies of the young aan imntout on 1R b inens inteiosts'; b vivid jortr: dittienliios that prosent tbomwelvos, and of tho moang by wlich tuey word overcoms ; ssotching poriraies of tho Gy customera that hiwnnt the “read to pches,” and sngyestions &9 to the best covran of treatment. Formws, blwlke, forontlas, d raztious, lose their proverbial bookishinoss, ad cowe down rauarely to the nork in hand VWhen wo say that the author bas, witbin tho Iast fow yearw, mado o rupatstion as & wniter of stuking ‘short storica nnd praceful sliotehes, it will bo undaratosd that <On the Raad ¢y Rickrs ** 1iAg, 23 to tylo, all 1ha ebarin tat » man of cnl- ture sod Jitersry skid cun Five (o such & work, . A LITERARY MELANGE. LAvnradyiavre. Oricinal Foems, i ries, and Ty Ty Loxerzuiow, Wiy, e BavAXT, 1OWS ki, cic, o, Miiairated, g, svo, Fin 4, Bheton: Willlam F. Gl & Co, Cal:azes Janwea, MeChug & G, Tree, $4 Awong tho Jact of the holiday-books that reach ua, (his is not one of the lesst interosting. Indoed. it 1snin with the moat ateractivo that hityo bean irated thin sennan, Ita contents compriso tblity-eizht papers, by th rty-six con- tomporary poots, caeniats, noveliets, and bu- morists, I the long iist of the intter are many of tho most natod namos in current Amer literature, end o few of wido fams in the I elish world of lotters. Humo of tho papers ahosw that thoy have boon writton to order; vet tho magonty have tho spouia-cous sir of iu- spiration, and do fu'l justica ty their authors. OUnly throo pioces hnve evor Lean i print Lo- fore & therefore tho collectivn may justly clam to be onginal. ‘Lo most uotable contribution 1a the wholo niwmbet iy tbat piving *‘Somo No.y Facts About o igar A. Loe,” b William F, Gl 1tis o gen- ero s, olojuout defanse of tus ill-fated puot, busod npan tho tewtiwouy of trustworthy per- sons who kuew him well. It i convincing i its arzumeat, and lilts fiom tho feme of tho poat gk of thio hosvy shadow han reated u) on it theso many vears. Now that tho fatoful wiu- ence of tem-oramant has Lcon discovored by roudern plulosophy, it is timo that dis-rimivat- 1ug judginent shonkl Propounce upan the orrars aud wesknoeses of morbidly gensitive. phstom- cunlly-imaginative childron of gesizs hko Edgar Alla Poe, JOHN ADAMS AND HIS WIFE, Tauraan LrrTens o Jonn Auaus avp i3 Wrex, AULOATL ADAXE, DUBING TR RRVOLUTION : Winl A Mesors op Mna, Anaxe, Ly COAnurs Fasscis Avaus. 12mo, pp. 44. New York: Hurd & Houghion, ‘Ilizcy-five yesra ago, {wo vulumes, contaiving fhe correspondence hotwoen 3r. and Mes, John Acams during the Revolation snd later, were yivon o thio public, and enjoyad a wida circuls- tion, Tuey bavo long boen oné of print, but now « weloctiun fram tha two booka is put botwaen eingle covers nnd publishod anew. Thoactis A wiso one, for tho loiters ato entortaintng, borh from thelr 0asy and animated stylo. aud from tho sbundanco of historiacal facts Lhoy contain. 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Agool desl uf liecdom has boon teken in dresaini ovar tho old, familiar storios et foll trom tha lips of Jesus as o tallied with THiy disciples during tho parlod of iis minlstry; but 1t s beon tha pu puse of the auttior to clothe therm with 1ho frash significance tbiat is gained from b ciear snowlodxo of tho laud, tho peorls, aud tha time in wuioh they wero opokoeu. Whatever ia lika!y to bu obacura to tho childinh mind 10 tho Biblical narrative, holas endeavorad to make piain by abusdaut oxplenation, aud by transpomsion of thie original text fulo moden and calloquial forms of expretsion. The book will form & useful accession to Bunday-schiool literatura, sod to the housouold Ubrary of re- 11gious WOrke, [ 5 Datraps or Toxe. Lited by Gxonos M, Daxxa, With Forty Fuli-Page Llnetr.tions, £q. 1.0, Hoston: Lea & Bhopsrd, Culosge MeClury & Co. Irive, £4.60, Nruens, My Gop,10 THEL. 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Tho sketches In ontllno lluminating this vol- ume, if wo mistakie uot, are frow the hand of & Ittle girl of 12or 13, Withoat reference to tho ngo of the author, thoy may be prouounced ad- mirable, aud, tsking that into conslderation, {hey aco truly surprising, The figarca aro full of grace and motion, and each onv tells a cnu- ming atory from the Look of child-ite, Tho songe, furnishing s commentary on tho piotures, are s fow of them froel, and tlie romalnder we- locted, They are from Whinler, 1iulmos, Colia ‘I'baxter, Luoy Larcom, Roso Terry, eta,, ste. Mr. E. I Halo s capoble of snch gaud licerary work 1hiat we feal hike taking Lim to task for tho glovonly atyle of bis introdaction. It cousisie of only ilires santences, and noither oue coaveys a cleur utaniog. CHATS WITH THE LITTLE ONES Withia the Isst year, two cheraung little French hooks have appeared in Americs, writton by the distinguishod schotar and teacher, Mr, Sauvour. Each coutalns & sorics of coaverss- tions with obiideou, —tho design of the books be- fug to sesist the young readora o mponk the Froneh langnage with ease and graco, Teachor nud pupil talk with frsedom aud slmplictty; eto- rios are told ; protiy little poemu are lsarned. It cavnoi be woudorad that ths booka have achiovod marked sucoess, ‘An accomplished lady of Bostou hias praparod o froe tiauslation of mavy of thesa * Chbals," which are offared to the pubiic n one volume, Bne hiss by no moeanas given a Litsral iendering of Dr. Bauveur's books, as she dewigued hior work enpocially for tho use of cluldren who are only acjuanted with onr own language. [oro aud thiare may bo found epirited ilusirations, some of tha protilert of which were designed by a giftod dauentor of tho West, whona home is now in Mussachusetta. It is pleasant to know that themo Iadiss are mothers, who give careful at- tantion to tha traming of their o su little ones. Wo must not ort (o add that the book con. tnfne versions of some delightful Prench postry tor ¢hildren, from the Rraceful pen of Miss Har- ;A’:I \lv. Predton, the woll-known trsoslator of relo. BOOKS RECEIVED, Bemuous, l!z tae ilav, Fievewiox Bzooxs, Late Rector of B, I'sul's Churet, Gioveland, 0, 1imo,, i3 9. Boston: Jutass B, Usgood & U, Prios, 33, Graup'TiES BALDWIN'S THANKOIVING | WIIR (Tusn Parriva auD Yoxus, By Hopatio Atuze, Ju, 18ma., Pv.tldfi. Boston ; loring, Culeage; Janses, vy & Ua, Taig HrAUING OLUB axn HANDY BrEaxen, Edited by ‘Gromok M, Baxxs, No,d, 1Bwo., pp, 108, Bostou'; Las & Blopard. 3% Dooks a¥p UUT § OF, VIEWS yOM T OmiMaEy- Cumsst, By ULIVER OrTic, 120, pp. wil, lude Dwn:l 1e0 & Bhspard, i e ALY PHALSE anD Poaxss, 12w, 76, Boston: K etean Ualerian Atsctation, ' Tex Cutiongye Tacivune oF Enos jected sud Arrunged with Note nawC) e Spatiuw of Exstce Golie po30L New Yurk: Macw ven, McCiurg & Co. Frice, Ly Herkw Kenouwica X, Roddy's Homance.” 1:mo., pp, 590, @, P, Putuaw's Hous, Frice, §1.25, Tun Bzomzr or Tux e Toe TeLawp. 1y Jurss Vi Wuzld in Ebght French by W, } critais York s saixaiovs leLawv Days," sic,, Tru . G. Kixoa10Y, 1imo., ork : ", Arwstrons & Co. Felie, §1 Lixxap® Luwkast, No, 38, CuisTMAs GTogiEs, Dy Cuaxies DicuaNa, Chlcago: Dounslley, Loyd & Oo, I'rice, 1 ceuta, PERIODITALS RECEIVED, Sersbner's oitaly for Jaunary (B:ribnar & Co., New York), _Coulunis : ** New York ia ths Revolution (Firal Paper : Lilusirald), by Joun F, Miuea; * Cae At aud Mara: A Bary of tho B.ego of Boiton,” by race E. 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Contentws *'Tin Prosidont's Speoch ot Des HMofuoa ' * Boutels (n Bemory of Late Bir Aubrey do Yere, Dart.; +4 Mewag e Jrotestaut Brwopsl Oburch Congress ule Rafe:® % Ohriitmas Chimes @ (fuetry) 4 Auglicauw, Ol Uatholica, and o Conferonca Boun;? didnight-Mana in & Convent s H8, Lanis' Poel From Cafro to Jorustlem ;" # A il; " 4 Tho Apoatolia Misajon to Chill;» " (Poetry); * Nolliew Dream on Curisi- i Alirgris Misercra:' “To Diy 8 mow| Yestetday ? (Poetry): Tho Year of Our Lord 187 44 Now Publicationa, Her's American Alonthly for Japusry (Jotn B, Poiter & 00 Philadeiphi ), Contents : * Turkish Prisons on Loud and Water,"” by Deuson J, Taring § i illatory snd Beminlscentes of the Philalelphin Navy-Yard," by enry M. Vallatto Gen, Bioplien Moyian, iy Morven Tenjamin Thatnpwon, Gonnt R imford,” by tha Ror, William ILal1; * Lobort Morrls, tho Finandar of tho Tievolution,” iy 8ir Rom daCamden; */ Joaeph Mo~ o7iv snd s Hndiwork! by Rodnwn J. Ulnetrr; « Mru, Cal 8:buyler, Wile of Gen. Yhillp Bchuyler,” rs, Clavles 1, Halioy; # Tevolutions Fiags,* a Tappy Life,” by Sir Hanry Wntton Marriad " by Tlos Nouehsito G re rin Mordon; ** Notea and Q Fxroeitlon Memocanda s " #Current Memoranila; * Literary and Arb Mamorandn; ® “Seientifia Mem- orands,”” The number coutains twenty-three ilius. tration Awmerrean Law Qenster for Docamber (D, B. Canfiold & Cn,, Philadolchia). Nut ana: snaay-Sehool 1 sitor, and L:tlla Foiks, for Junuars (Adnmx, Blackmer & Lyon Publiaaing Gom- viny, Now York), Westrrnt Jornad of Educstion for December (Joha . Brown, Chis*o). Nat emas Teachera® Sfonthly for January (A. 8, Darnes Co,, Now York and Chicage). Ban.turian for January (MeDivitt, Cempoall & Co., New York), ——— FAMILIAR TALK, “THC ROW AT THE LYCEUM.” For two brief seavons, begiuning in the fall of 1760 and cloafng in the apring of 1852, John 1touzbam was manager of tho theatro tn Now York which lioro 1he name of **Brougham's Ly- ceum,” 'Tha ccmpeny included & number of Mr. Brougham Ljmeelf, Mr. W. J. Florsoee, Mr. Qeorgs Jordan, Mr. Couwsy, Mary E.Taylor, Mra, Vernon, and Mra. Brougham. A ocontious! succeesion of fresh, bright plays followed each other upon the Lycoum stage, and manager and actors exorted all thelr powers to ronder thess attractive totho pubho; yet thin housss mnd an cmpty treasory were, as & rule, the barren re- turos for so much lavish oxpenditurs. Many wero tho ingenious aud amusing novoltiss which tho fortlle mapager produced from his adjunct within rosources. The tho scopes of theatrical most daring #polled by the very efforta raada to plessn thota, and capriciously demuauded some new thing on littio house on Droadwsy. At length, to eatisfy tola requirement f¢ perpotual change of bill, Mr, Lrougbam nouaced, for the evenlag of the %2d of April, 1851, an origioal aud anique comedsy atvled ! Lhe Iow nt the Lyceum.” Ar.Hut ou hassslccted, in his gousipy volume of ™ Plays and Playors,” the particuiars of this entertainmont, sud irom him wo reproduce them. ‘L' hints afforded by thie caut on tho bitl of the eveoing in question welo Lo ba litorary unveiled befurethe public, and that 1 the discunsion of & new atl * excasdiogly blank verae tragedy by Carivie, calidd * Harror ways of sotors bohind the ecenca would be truthfully represoated. ‘The bait took. The promise that the prylug onrioaity which loves to poeep behind ourtaina, and is eatiafaction 1n the new drama at tho Lyceum, brought out o large audience, and the curtsin rose upon crowded Loachina, 'I'ho oponing scane exhubited varlour members of the company, in thoir ordinsry street attire, assemhlod ju the green-room at & moruing re- hearsal. The great atfar of the hour was the reawng Of the new tragudy by Carlyle. the distribution of parts, with other business proper 1o the ion. Evervihing was perfectly natuial ; il ors and actrosses wers far ouce themselves, atsipped of paint and tlusel, and appoaring in their own characters, under their tiuo names. The scens was im- mousoly diverting, and wo quote Mr. Huttou vorbatim : Tus audinnos was thoronghly futereated sud amusod at tho re4iftm of the perforinance, when, * Eator Are, B,¥ the weans chunyos and 'wIug’ Kow at the Lyjcenn” begius, \Whllo she greets her frionds, iooky Ovur her part, oojects 10 hur “business,” and laze hor rlaim to sorathing *more in her lins,” a atout, mid- dle-aged gentioman, weatod in the mildle of the pil, clolbed in 2 Quaker{sh garb, who hed hitherto quietly Iistened and laughed with tho rort, rios suddenly (o hiu place, with nmbrells clssped Armly fn otn bands, and hola'up on » line withs_Lis nose, sad, ta the aston- ishunent of the bouse. calmly and axdately addresses the stago aud the house, in wWoria to thia eflack: HThiat womau ook, for alt tinal Mer volco la vory N And then, with emph Atibe he rus! wildly sud loudly, **Cowo of that siags, thou mis- ersblo woman £ “Tio Lousn was $hrown into {mmediate confusion thia uoiont, and rrloa (rom all sides of *hamo stianie 17 *'Bitdawn [ % Dut bim oub I ¢ Police (" were 1ained down upos 4o Quaker ynanias, who per. siutently held Lis way taward Sesnwhilie, up lu the tuird galiory, & * Fu BFomau rabla husoll’ conspicaous by situriug anl- matedly ioto tha sceus. Ia & loud voloeTe called down 1 tho axcited goutlonian pusting after the phantom of # bawildersd raiD, that, 1f the © youuy ‘oman ' o the stage were touchod by s profano land, o would “Hinn "ihe wwan who dured to da Ik Morcover, ho would ot wait 18 soa the brutal deod porformed,'but would thrash the misarable Quaker boforo hie bad timo {0 gt out of the pit. Aud down {nto the bady of the Bousa io pluagd s bat Liate, (0 catry bls threst fnto cutlon. uproar was now 80 wild thst alt pracoedings on ve wore utopped, The ladiey in the acenis wers ulous with alarm | thy geshisawen triod ons alter anathier o silf tha Hoise by f16queot sppeals Lo the Dousa: while Mru, IL, In the uimodt sgitation walched (he frantid catecs of the fatruder who lal Clalm to her. Ad (his Istter extraordinary personage was_uilmbing over the vrohcsira, with the truouicat Bresau cloas at bis hsala, a couple of policomen delcod Lot judividuats and Belped fhera with rapid move- mogt o 1 ths slige. Theu, wilh & elmultuisous Smpulas, 4w company falt into the couventionsl semis circle fronting tho footlights, and colmly delivcrod {hs splicus of * Tue How st the Lycoum” Tue astontshed andieuce, by thia tine, woks to the fanny fack (hat tho sctive policemes wers supes be- Iougiog to the thratre ; that the Ted-shirted fremun, with Lo ruwdy sir Of tbe Howery, wak Mr. W, d. Fiorsuce, & meutber of tbe cotapany ; ik the "Quakel roilends whio bad provoked ull theuorria tuse wts r, Brouglam bLimmelf; snd that *Tow b the Lyoeum ¥ wan 8. prowediteted g mugaiSseat aall” "This uneapected depouement was din (he Bappises manuer, with great luguter and sppheuse, ‘e jpisce fin for sarme dme very suscessfuwily, Thoss who b4 ones bwou Dboazed tamuslves wenf aguit 2 enJoy e offtat of tha Loax upou oihers: and tiius, Ly ‘s very cunnlug ruze, John Nroughun: for & fow weeln ravived ths low forlunes of his bouse, FEET. To those unbappy American women who, when {hey visit theic shosmaker, ara atliged tocal, thongh fn fsint, moztified tones, for Gu or 64, Y, DECEMBER 25, fottor €, Mr, Durrauzhe, author ot ¢ Wintee. Bunshine," alminiatorn generous comfort, Ho enys, in commonting upon anr nationsl vane ity o+ anll, trim foat, wotl hootod or gaiter- ed," that " A truly large and royal nature is navor stuntod in tho uxtromition: a littls foot never yot mupported a great character.” 1lo aiso addn: *Tuis smd that Englishnen, when tuey flist ¢vmo to thie country, aro fur eome time under the ftupreasion that American women all have daformad foo:, they a10 sa any of thom, aud s0 studioualy eareful to keap them nid,” Again, while dicoussing. in tha same vouned- tion, on the pleasnres end bouetita of walking, e, Burrougha vemarks 1 When you 800 au English conniry church withdrawn, peeluded ot of thn sevel of wheets, standing uid Kratay gravos, aud muecounded bynobls frece, ap- Fronened by patba and suadod lanee, Jou appreciste faare then evor tifa beautiful bubit of the ople, Uinty & race that kuows liow to uno ita fect, ok s foot.patha eacred, could put Fuch a charm of privacy st Lmbity inw auch o struciure, T ihik Istould Vo tempted fo go to_church myself it 1 eaw all my nelghibors starting off scross tla fisida vr along | atbe 414E lod tn snch chinened apits, and wea snte 1 woilld not bo Joatied or run nver by the rival charints of the woraulpers nt tho iempd-doors, 1 tllud tulals what sils our reltglon; Lumuillty and devcieducss of Learl Teavo one when big Lays off isia walking shoen and walk- 108 clattes, aud sols out for chusels drawn by some- g, Indead, § think it would bs lantamount ta an aston- 1shing reviyal of religionf the peapio would all_walk {ouiireh on Bunday; sud waik Lome syain, Think how the stoncs wonld prosoli to them by the wayside: how their bumbled minds would warin ap beneait tho friction of tho gravel ; Low (elr vain eud foolleh thoughts. thale deaponding thonuhts, thelr beneiting denions of oue kiud snd another, would drop betlLd them, unable 45 koep up or to endure tha fresh alr, Tuey'would walk away from tireic ennnl, thelr worldiy carun, tucie unchamitiblonesn, their rride of dr Thrsa doviiy niways wint o ride, While the lmpie vir- tuen nte nover no huppy 8% whot on fool, Lk us walk Ly all mesns; bat, if wo will ride, get xn ans, *COMIN' THRO' THE RYE" Every ona has Lieard tho pretty Scotcli ballsd bearing the sbove Litle, wiuch waa for many yoara o favorite with pingers in tho parlor and tho contert-room. And nearly every ouslian tho Idoa—very naturally takon from the hnes— 1€ & Laddio meet a larale, Comiw’ (bro' tho £58; and— A’ t1s Iads they smile on me When comiu’ thre’ Lhe rye—~ thot the lads and lassios of Lo soug Wers accus- tomed to traves through tho flelds of standing rie, as over & commun highway, ‘I'bin popu- Iac miscooception s ourrected by br. Bombaogh, in 8 toot-nuta printed in tho ‘Literautro of Kieawp." Ho thero states that nose Ayr, Scotlaud, thare s o amall, eballow stream called the Rye, which, having uoither Lridgs nor ferry, waa forded by the rustica on tholr way toand from the marast. 1t naed to be tho onatom of tha country, wben a led moat a lass midway mn tho Kye, to steal a Kles from hor; and itis that customn which 18 com- memorated in tho ballad. ‘This explanstion iy coulirnied by tho stan: Jonny fa o wat, prim bodie ; Jenuy's seldom dry 3 Blie drag'lt »' hor pel.coatin, Cumi? thro' tho £yo, BIBLIOMANIA. Al slato sale, in Londoy, of s portion of tho library of John Dunn Gardner, Esq., tho snmy vonlized for raro books dewonsirated . that bibliomauis is cxtondiog its contagion wod growing more aggravatod in ita cbullitions. Sinco tho salo, iu 1834, of a precious lot of books from Mr. Oardoor’s library, thero lLas been o great riso io prices, s Loo following facts will ehow: Ia 1834, a covy of Covardale's New Tostament, priutsd at Pacls w1833, brought £¥3. The identical copy, in tne lata salo, was knocked down at’ £1G0, Tna tirst edition of Asop's Fables, printed at Milan sbout 1480, Drought, tweuty yena ago, L14 ; it roalized, ok tho late sale, 438, Par- wot's Epigrams, ia like manoer, ced from £6 to £13, and V'atleu's xpedicion Irom £21 ta 110, Among other cavious old booin dispersad at tho tocent auction woro : Neno Teatamant in Latine and Epglvsbo, by Myles Coverdale,— Nicowon's firat editton af 1534, suporcsasd on acoount af typographical errorn Dy thu twaue- lator,—£71 ; Nose Testsmeut, printed in 15 aud supposed to be from the pren of Vaster- man at Antwerp, £53: Bible trausiatod by Mylen Coverdale, with Haater's 1350 title-pavo, £63 ; Deble, printed by Daye an‘l Boros, in 1549, £55 ; Prynoe's Records threo volumes, £G4, st el : BPARNS OF SCIENCE. EVOLUTION OF MANKIND. Dr. Georg Gerland, s pupll and disciple of ths eminent anihrorologist, Prot. Theodor Waitz, hns Iatoly published & volume (reviowod in tho Academy), In which ho works ingentously at the problems of the svolulivn aud civilization of mankiod, Ho assumes tho position that man was devoloped frow a lowor animal form; and, usiog this as a startivg point, he eodeavors to determina the circumstances which led tho Yuman belng up through tho It atagoes of bruto lifo. Although grantiog that necds mey bave oxiated that were an locentivo to exertlon, 1o believes that tho esaential conditionsof the progroesive developument of man wWers pros- pority and loisure. Thia stato of wall-belog de- pended upon an ample, continual, and accessible supply of food; which supply, Dr. Qerland argues, was derived from the vegotablo rathoer thau the animal world, Ho considera that treo-fruit, such ag cocoa- nits aud dates, with roots, such as potatoes and yams, wero not suficiemly abandant or aute. tious to furmsh tho nocessary dict. Neithor dusa he rogand the mixed fare of oxisting wild tribes, conmsting of bersies, roots, insacts, opgs, and sn irregulsr provision of flsh and game, ny cuough for the requiremont, e helioves that nothiug loss than grafo naficed to olovate tho progresuive auianal to man's estato. Ho there- fore suyposss that insome warm regiob, whore wild ozroal grasse o perpasusl, Ltha primitive tribe of croatures destinod to rise to humanicy had their abode, Eere, munabing at tho sars, tuey gradnaily cama to a stage of intelligonoo in swhicl they throshod tho grain by knocking it ous agsiust a stone. By observing how the seed fell and eprouted, ond, growiug into » now plans, bore a frosh bar- wvust of grain, tuey learuod to asslst Nature by powing the gran themesolves. At about thig point 1n their mental development, they acquired* ths art of producing and usiug firo; and thus withs sbandant food, whichi ncaured comfort and reat, and developod mudcle and brain, the triba of men wag shio to surpasa all ether rasos of an- imala 10 the struegle for existenas, and in the advance upward. ‘Tho hiypothosis that the agricnltural stago waa tho earkiest in tho history of mau's civilization la opposed to that moss geserally accepted Ly Au- tbropologists, viz.: that mog lived on the food now subsisting wild tribes, bofora thov attained 1ho ars of agriculture, whish led to s settled fife. But, {a expounding this thoory, Dr, Gerland nan pie forward many facts and idoas that mill ba surgoative and stimulsting $o others ongaged in tiio same line of resescch, In part.cular, he Lias done good sorvico in giving promisence to the viow that wan's ongin and develupmsnt dopeud- od upon tho supply of au especial kind of food 1n prohistoric periods. * By this modo of nuurish- ment,"” ramarka Dr. Gerland, * wo distinguisy, ln the first placo, botweon plants and auimals, Let- tor, moie-highiy-organized food facilitated the develupment of mora-highly-organized bringa; and tno striviug alter pardicalsr kiuds of nour- ishment, 10 roany rospects, ituelt polnted aug the way to dovelopment, Even the brain stauds iu the moat exact rolation to the function of uour- ishment, ‘The souses, eyes, tacilo orgaue, and aftorwards emell, group themrolves iu the im- mediate_proximity of the woutn, 80 &» to bo at ouce finders of food sud cara-takors of the or f:nlam iu it solection. 'Thereby thie nocve-cols ar forms [tself, and from this, by tho continued excitation of mora Lively aud aclive seuaaitons, e evolved the brain, This formation can ooly b carried gub by inoressed ploaty and ss- ocurity in the supply of food ; and, Yice verss, thie wora tue firet progreados, the more it pro motew tne progrous of this tecoud. As pow tue braig becoiaes distinutly the contra of perve- Rife, it briogs hewnug slwo juta 1ts ueigubor- Lood ; aud thus tho boauty of ihshumnen counte nsice (s ulsimately based 0n the animsi funo- tiou of foeding. It waw s wouich called luto existencs the difforeut characteristics of sui- it wea tbis wl.ch, vsuslug essler sud or assitnilacion of werviceable moleoules, relsed mun abave tue beas Dr. Gerland does nat conclude hls srgument without desting at length tbe question of tue onginsl bome of nan. He carstully roviows tha clsims of sbe diifeceut partd of the world Lo the distluction of haviug given birth 1o the bumau race, aud rejects bhowe Instituted for Amesics Africs,Australasis,and the bvpothatical sontineut of ** Lemuri ‘'hen, in consonsnce with bk toeory that man was daveloped by feeding o Ry#ID, ho locates the earhaet site of huwsoiy o Houihwostern Asia, whers tbe cereal plauts were prowably (it developed frow wild grassss. PALYBTINE EXPLORATION. A lottor in tlis Atheaziun from s member of tbe Palestiue Exploration gives an inteseating scoount of s reconnalsaance survey ofthe Hauran, The reglon e3ploved lisa on tho east aide of tho 1875.—TEN PAGES. | Jordan, and {8 afmost tnknown to travelers, It in populacty supposcd to bea dresert waste, bt i, fu reality, & mort fortilo diatrict, abonnding in curlona and mnking ring of towers, temuples, sl bonns, Tho surveying parly feft Aheih the 24 of Boptomber, sud, after sttiking the Byrian derort, pursuod & southe:n cowse, terminating finnlly at Jeruaalom at tho end af some weoks, Anong thio seaultn of tho survoy is a collection of abave 100 photograpus of temples, ehurchoa, theatres, towers, cns.les, and othier ruina, thal, for the mont part, haye nover bufore heen viut: ed by o photoprapher, * Qroat trouble 18 experienced In securing pood photographs in tho Syrian denort, onpecially n enminer, Al vegotation 14 buenod up by the ficrv heat, the air is fuil of fluo dust, tha sun 8 scorahing, and tho ditficy Ly of obtsining water 18 extremo. ‘Thin laat often has to ba tinns- ported fur the photugravher's uso from 8 ta 10, and evon 16 miles, ? ddition to theso trisls, both tnatrumaits and chemicaln are peculiarly liable to injury sod desiriction. Neverlheless, in thle as i other objects, tho jonrusy was con- mdered snccesaful. ~ The ontire country waa mappod ontj importans beaingd and o .s0r1va- tlons taken by the ongiotors; sud & valuablo collection made of cupten of 8-rit- tare, and of mosswements of mucient builaings avd intercsting ininm. The repoit cancludas with tha atatoment tuat ** The geolog- jost, botanical, reorapblcal, and arohmolog:oal fosturon of this Kasl-Jordan iasd meof the highest intercat. Tha fertility of thla rogion, which wo commonly call a *deneri,’ cannot be ox- agrorated. Its papnlonautss snd |rsspolity in suciont times will always remain ono of the ma.- veoln of hirtory; and an {ndustrions and eug'r- prining people, nnder & good Government, eand 2gain wake theao broa:l flelds, now so desolate, aa productive nu Egypt in hier pulmiedt deyn,” VITALITY OF SEEDS, Bomo littls timo ago, we gave a summary of the evidonco in the posseasion of tolaoiges, rol- ative to the vitality of moads, Iiccently, A sliglt contributton to the subject has beon added by Dr. i1. Hoftinann, who publishes in the Hofan- fache Zeituny thm 103ulis of cortain experimonts with soll from tno diluvisl beds of the Hnve. While railway oxcavations wero in Drogress at Moansim, near Worms. Dr. Hoffmnan took abont 76 poundsof tbe Lora 0.l fromadepihof 1. f:00 bolow the s fsca, It was obtained trom & fiadb out, sad Lho imploments used in socuring 1k wore pravicualy waahed v wel-water, No precau- tion was omitted to pravent tio intrusion of foc- owgn «saada ar wpores. Deapite of the patns taken, varions apccies of maados and forua, snd o fow flowering olauts, aprang from Lhae earth, which waa depusitad in pots acd covered with bell glsares. All thoso spucion wero common atter w the grecnhouss or ita imme hato viein- ity, ond not 1n tho locakity whoues the soil was procared. A shntlar oxperiment wag trisd with whito tertiary sand, apd with similar vonults. On a1opetition of tho trial with tue Losa soil, the aniy plans developiug from s sand that conld buve bson proservad iu the exporimoutal earth was o dolicato spacimen of chie £eslnca pratensis (Pesure Loss), nnd this was oapuosed probable tu bave mprung from a emall, light gorm con- voyed by tha aie, ‘Lhiean resul 8 wore nogative ; ibut the author placed thom on record uaevldanco of the difficulty of obtainivg powitivo proofs in oxporimouts of tha sort. THE AUTICULA. Prof. Kerner has iegited a pampblet entitled Die Geschiehte der Aurikel, in which he traces the history of the dincovery and coitivation of the Auricul,~the only Alpina plang, it ia eald, that haa bLoon geoerally reared in Eurapean gardeas. According to Prof. Kerner, Olueiua first transplantsd the true Anricula (Primula Auricuta) nnil tha hybrid P. Pubescens, in 1682, from the Tyrolasa Alps to Bolgium. The former spocios roon dieappearsd from cultivasion, but tbo attor e tho parcnt of the bost of varieties — 1,210 wra quumeratad Ly soms writers—now Xnovn to florists. Tho hvbrid P, Pubescens, wiich had heen loat to the German and Aug'rien Alpa fur neatly three centurics, was discovered by I'rof. Kerner in 1467, in & single locality in tho Tyrol. 3 Tho 2" Auricula is » pative of the Cancasus, and of the mountaina of Byria. &e well a3 of the Europrau Alps. The wild plavt bears on s siuglo 5copo olx or soven smali yellov flomars, which exhale tho sams delicious fragrance thit has mads the pliat #0 great s favorite in gar- dons, Under cullivation, tho Anricula bas bosn wonderfully trausformod, Laviog cast off 1ts rus- ti3 garmonts, aud pub on the richet robes of gay nnd varied huos. Homelimes it weara s dresn of a sincle color,—a T1od, pink, ovimsen, purplo, or mulbarcy; yet often 1t apposrs in gatinn sud veiveta of diveruo tiots, delicately wbaded, or aven variegatod, The plant belonge to the famiy of prmro«y, snd Llosaoma in Apeil or May, aud #owelimes agua in the auuwn, REMARKABLE RAINFALLS, Mr. J, Pucklo writea to Nature that Le once registered at Bangalors, in tha Yyiore Province, in India, a0 inch snd a quarter of ramn that fell in twenty minutes. Ho a'a) statos that 7 and 8, and even more inohes, hiave been gaiped in that diafrict In & rain of twenty-four bours, About the year 1850, whon particularly disaatrous floods oscuirred in Tudia, Mr. Puckle declarea that, at Madras, more than 93 inoiies of rain fell in mnlrinur houra ! and that more than 7 inohes fell within six Loura, Tiia was eauged at the Madras Qheervata and registoied every hour. ‘A coffes-planter on tho Wastern (Ghiauts of dyaaro,” continues Ar. Packle, **tola mo that, at Ifoolikul, he had gauged. in Aapust, 1874, 133 inchen in oue day, snd 103 tho next. Ta dosceibed it as & sulien, iotermitlont, con- tinuons downponr, the monotony of which was vory depresming. At Mshableshwar, on Lhe same line of Ghants, the averaze fall is 240 inches, chiefly in tho four or fivo months from Mny to Haptember inclusive; while, at the Cherraporr]i Hills, not very far from Calontta, the average fanl l.u" over G600 luches, or (wsy) 17 yrdaof rain! ARTIFICIAL LEATHER, s A sabstitnso for loather, of Eoglish mannfac- ture, was displayed at tbs rocept Maritime Ex- bibition in Paris, and recolved w.th much favor, 1t was composed of a layer of gork batwaen two Iavers of toxtile fabrio, the whals baing gummod with Indis-rubber, and welded together. The process by which it s manufactared s sa fol- lowe : Thin sheots of cork ara painted upon ove aido with two succensive costs of a solutlon of Indis-rubber. Japsnuad aloth-canvas is treated in tho same msnuor, and, swion dry, jta gnmioel surface iv appliod to that of tha cork.aheets, The clean #lda of the cork s pow treated with two costs of tus Tadia-rubbor; sud & liven or ooiton fabric, after sabjeotion to the same pro- cond. is Iaid upon it, the coatod sur(aces coming ufinmun The compound sheot is then submit- ted to heavy prossura betwoen rollers, or undor & wtampor or proas, until it is, in sffact, & simple substatce, baving streugth, durability, snd flexi- bilicy. Itis sdapted to neatly evory usa to whioh lenthor hiaa heen applied, s to ths mspu- facturs of bags, harnoss, booty, cle, Moreover, being thoroughly water-proot, It msy be en- ployed as a matarial for bickets and othar ves. asla for holding water, INSECTIVOICUS PLANTS. Au axount of a seriog of experiments by MM, Will and Heeus, on certils {asestivorons plante, chief of which wauths Drossra, or Sua- dow, i publishod In ths Botanische Zeitunj. The rasulta conllrm tho concluslons of Mr. Dar- win, thas the tentsoles on the leaves have the power of abadrbing and diinung nitrogeaous substances, An soslyals being mado of tho “fermeut ® contalned in the acld sscretion from the glanda, it was found to copsia of & misture of volatilo, fatty meids, among Wwhich Tormln acid readily detecied. The presence of proprionio and butyrlo soids erss slso inferrod from the small. Attemots to dotermino whathi- or tho glandular haira of other pisuis, 18 Prim ula Chinensiz (Primiono) aod Hyoscyaniiz Niger, Lad soy power of shaorption, g8ve, as with Afr. Darwio, ouly nogative resuits. ATANLEY'S AFRICAN EXOLORATIONS, Tho wmectiug of the Roval Geogruphicst So- cloty, Loodon, Nov. 49, was givoo up to s lively apl sutertainiug divodedon of Mr. Htan- toy'a work on the Yivlaris Niysngs, Col. Grant, tho old compsaion of Hpeke, bestowed the & oD our couniryman, prosounelng his discove'ivs of great “goographioal fmn- rtance. Il6 alaa declsred that thess discov- ertes socamoa foconfirm thoso of Kpake. Bif Hsmuol Baker concuriod wish the opluloa of Cob. Grant, 38 to boib Htanley end Broko; and ao, sleo, did Oapt. Barton. It waa spoounced at this meetiog that the Obursh Aflsgionary Bo- cetv would take sdvantage of King Mtess's in- vitation to snd out misaivuaricy to laboc among bLis peoplo. BIG TIMBER, Calitornia wilt seud a wection "of omoe of the *tGroat Troes” to the Centennial Exh hitlon ; and o mill-owner fu Ozegon Projowca Lo reproe- sont the wsjoado forest-urowing of Lus Siatu by a fir-plank, 33 fest wide and 100 feet long ; & pruce-plank, 8 feed wido ¢ & oedar, 7 foot; & larch, 7 ceot ; and homlook, & feoke fi RADWAY'S REMEDIES, ™ . Radway's Ready Relie! 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Purely Vik- aisils, sontalalng 80 werorz, misraln uF delstpnoit WEEE b seres tao folluwing ituDioms rosuling from Disorda.s of Lip Livg LVIgapt " .0 0f Ihe P A Ty Yk Pl rmat oo oot s ) s e a3t -‘m-&;: £ b S ‘of Vi o Tapiioss, P iy P‘r‘.'m e B ha. Rend * False and True,” nd |, e W b AT L