Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 8, 1876, Page 9

TIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY. JANUARY 8, 187%—TWELVE PAGES. e ———— e e e e e e, {aco than thetr fathiro to find confirmation was noga- LITERATURE. ¢Letters amnd Socinl Alm by Ralph Waldo Eme €erson. ‘Tho pothosof this incidant maven doptha of tho roul that ho * tao deep for toarn.” 1t scoms to na that, i tlie lase hook, stran- gers will beat bogia an acquaintanca with Kmor- son. Lo sbov:a “uimselt hero tn up friendlio:t, most acceenibla numor, with manners roftened and mellonad by ago. Accustomed to him ju thia gonial mood, it will bo rasier to appraciate hia piovious vorks, where ha rests on tho piano of (uro intellecs, and naver deacenls to moos his roader or watend any sid to a comproben: slon of his most august o e gust and {eanscendontal » erster’s Life of Jomathan Bwift: An Atiempted Whitewashiog of the Dean of St Y Patrick’s. DEAN_SWIFT, THE Lars, or Jowatuay Bwirr, Ty Ton Fonstes, }:}‘imfi’{»‘d‘u l'll':l.“ “:lln—l?“. 1:'\!7.. pp. 44 New + Fisrper & Drottiers, Chicaga: 31 . Oiirg & Cor Price, $i ™ O lcbavs Jansen, M- Nr. Feirster bna tover undortaken a moro so- vOro task than 4uis ho has met for himaolt, of revoraf ng tbe verdict of mankind, and creating & fresh 4p? cloan famo for the distiugulstied but unbe’joved ** Doan of Bt. Uatrick's,” A good deal ©of hitherto nnpublished matier. comprising abt xe 150 letters belonging to Bwiit's corra- 8p ondouce, additions to tho fragment of his au- te)bxography, manuscript ploces In prose snd * jerso, note-books, » revision of “Qulliver's Fravels” that nover saw tho light, with other data too abundsnt to coumerate, having come, a8 tho result of much diligent quest, joto tho Lands of Mr. Fors. tor, he has beon enconraped to bo- liove tat, in tho now reading they give of the Dean's beliavior, bls character may bo cleared of the etalnn that bave pitifully swirched it. Tho effort that 3r, Forsler maken is an honest one. i{ Ho ls himselt aconvert to the argument o utoutly advocates, Tho genoral opinion, boldly | uttered by Jeffroy, that Swirt “ was an spostata )| 1o politics, 1nfidol or indilforent in religion, & defawer of humanity, tue slandorer of states mon who had sorvod bim, and destsoyer of tho woman who loved him,” {s empbatically pro- nounced by 3Mr. Forster ** moustrous as well aa ncrediblo;" and, with allhis powors, ho nirives to provebia avaertion. s respect his attempt ; it1s a bravo snd honorable one; but, in thu firat lue atallment of his work, he Liss nat, to our mind, matarially nltered tho face of the ovidonco by sbich a8 n man, Bwift has beeyw coudemued. ‘The moss interesting poition of tho prosent voluine §s that which refors to tho alllsuce be- tweon Bwift aud Lsther Johnsou, whom, a cording ta the current phrase, the great humor- 18t « immurtalized Az Stella." An to Bwift' . upiverslcy carocr, over which much titne is spont an ehowing that ho waa probably not the scape- geaca ko Lus baen ropresouted, it really seomn of ‘no spocinl account though kLo wore, &t this par- ticalar time, sowing with prodigal measura tho wild onta that Jively young woen tu lus day woro arcusiomed freely to scatter, 'Tho modent col- dego pianka can bo lorgiven him who redecma Castelar's Sketohes of Byron and Other Noted Men. & Boston Review of a Ohicago Poom--Theological and Bib- lical Library. ome Very Small Volumes--Miss Brad- don-—A New Edition of Lamb's Works. Electrical Fishcs.--The Torpedo, Gymnotus, Malapterurus, i and Tetrodon. [nsanity from Rellgious Exoitement—Vos- tiges of Pro-Historio Man—Harpy~ * opais Nove Guinm. LITERATURE. %Yfi 8y E;lflEI’ISON.W‘LwF Larraes L Ants, By Raveit EMrn s0%. 1‘:&. &!:. 3l4. Doston: James B, Osgooc & Oo, Price, When & new book comes from Halph Waldo Emoraon, it I8 recoivod reverently vy thoso whe ove him, They will not expoct to fiod much aew trath in it for to them all truth Las been aritien out in the formor volumes of the great oer and thiuker. Lvery socisl and moral topla fhat can be mado tho eubject of inguiry by tho juman mind has been treatod by bim, and in the | warly ersors by 8 noble manbood. Neiw lameat choiceworls, clear and saarp sacrysial, ho | waer will American zoaders be groat- 1ssdsclaced the gheat wisdom coocorning thom, | Ay intercated the roviow of Bwift's iconnection with English politics. ‘I'o understand s varsing poeition tovard tno two contondiug parties in (Lo Stato requires such sorious study The puress mornlity outalde of tho leaves of tha Row ‘Testament in onforced by his dootrine, [t is stomer and more exacting than | .of tho condition of public aifairs in Gieal o teachings of Jeaus, for it gives Dritain at tho pertod, that tho majority of per- ) mon no Telisnce op apy alsy be- ;808 would Yuta the issna of the question not wotth the troublo demanded in sottiing it. But it requ.res no kuowledgo o statecraft, no learning of anv sort,—ouly 8 commou eentimont of oquity,—to judgo rigltly of the conduct of Bwifi towards Stefis, whito ¥0 much celobrity has been given to Lis iclatiwns with her, #o tuch pity hias been accordad the woman whom he suf- fered 10 sacaifico to bis seiishnesy all that hito holds deaiobl, tuat nround this gruve opisode in ns poraunal careor tho futetost ob ofly coutres. ur, Forater t1'es bard to mako it plain that the rond the idtogrity of hilsown sonl It holds Jut to bim no- hope nor promiso save the awoet pesce that follows upon lofloxlblo tectisude. The whoe lays down 14 severa, but ls la inspiring, nd they who strive to adopt it feel a continual tefroshment and iavigoration, like that whioh jomoa from breathing tho pure atmoephots of & sareqe and lofiy eminence. Theratore, by them, a8 wohave said, who have i feeling between tho two riien was sndiéd: Emerson Aud. rersiod himas o, mister, simply dhst ot frindehip; i gt any fresh commuaication from bum will bograte- | 5yje, Stella 10 Licland becauso tuily wolcamod, but with the knowlsdge that it wilido lutle mors than ropeat in reovated phraso some portion of tho old, eternal idons of right and «of wroog doing and thinkiog that he Las enanc: sted before. T'hose will boar perpetusl repetition,. In any guiso they are esticing ooe'y sonobling, and, with sach dilfereat expreesiot 4 Jhey assume & now ompliasis, that carvies decp ar pooviction tor the minda alrendy impressed, a ad wins sdded aonverts to tho 1anks of their re. eolvers. Emercon's books are, indeod, Bible & — yolumes contitiniug diviue truths suited to the salvation of m en's souis,—but they are Jillies for the Jow Aad the Cbristian as ncll aa'tho hesthen. Bide by side mith whie Beriptucos thoy may tlo on the Oriliodox dovk or table aad bo res0 a8 & supploment to tho words of [ rophot sad of ovangeliat. Theso last they will o ot con- tradict, but uphold sud ioterprot their s piritual siguiticance with a volco of penotrating ‘and per- JBAIVO puwer. 1t 18 a mutterof no momont whethor tun easaya in the present volume are the pioauch « 1 Emer- pon's compaiatively youtbrul sears, »na Lave been 1o some form befoie i 'pnat, or they oro the fruit of his and matorest weditationa. In awy a0 it {8 cerlam tmey were writ- Jon with deliberatlon ; for Einoreon uoes noth- ing with pzofane baste, The procersses in the lnéonloly of his mind aro conduc: ed with so- licitous patience aad cau.iun, sud b o 1esults - ue thence that have not beon tes fod wiln_ex- baustive trisl before reason and juc ;gwen., Tho sssays ditter much from tho st ylo of Emer n's previous works, ‘Lhoy are le'se teiso, lows roncentrated, less oracular, loss woul-stirring. [t 18 a8 if Euierson had stepped off tho pedostal, ophft-d apd remote, fiow whic.y Lio dolivered nf‘. former dissertations with t1o spesch and auth rity of & scge, and conio du ¥n among the eoplo 10 talk with th:m anone o:f themeo.ves, Eh tiaa lald uside the mautlo of t! (o prophet, be has put awsy tho austero sir of L% ;e teacher, sud, with tho ey, athetlo maunor ot a fifend, cou- verzes fam.liarly un miscullanec. ag themes. Thete ara dropped occasioniilly, in the dis- courses, & entences that are like (iourls, encircling in the 2ound of & laconio peilod the entirs treas- ure of wirdom ¢ hes beeu deposited ju the subjoot under conmderation, Wlhen the topic of dress is casually and quic/kly reviewed, tho whole argoment on the quew sjon 1s summed u in the epoech s “ 118 only wlvin mind and char- actes* slumber thal the dress aun be seen.” Duen not any furcbier talkon thip mattor seem tdle, wa wd chautar? i 3 Emerson haa alwaya been avorse to apesking The o8y on Byrou, which occupies a lit:ls on the subjoct of lmwurty lity, sayo, poibwps, | 0¥er balf of the preseut voluwe, may boregardod s fow liilred Boet Lud be Tavosly | esa talt expavses, of flis: sharagjoidlcd: ci [l ¥ wgmnygn. Bat, in bis last @3 nvera otk bin Tolo scbialareblp, sud bus oratory, of him who 14 to- towers, ho has expredsad limaelf plawnly and day Bpalu's moat illustrious son. It hirmomzos withont reserve, 1tisthe vital topia withmost. | ¢learly with the faes giveu of him througn 8ee gacio 18 observers wlio bave known bim in tle poreons, and his confession 8 upou it will be read with avidiby by thuse who look up to him and to | jutimucy of personal futeroaurao, or have watched ins couduct fron sfar. It jepresouts & man of a bigher 1l thun the pesint warm heart, fervid eutbumasm, iwpassioned Sultcleat toto diy (e 8378) aze the duties of o-day, ' warte iife in doubls und.. fears; spoud yoursdlf on the wask befors you, well asaurca that sha right | claquence, gruod iut:llect, and ruodetats culiure ¥ + man of airong, 1meulsive pature, who trastd (o s luntiueis, sud jovey botivr (0 bs guided by performasace of this bour's «jutice wili b tho best B b b wii Saret terele” ™ X e ne! thom thun by the cool dictates of Judg 8y « diment, To alus that kuaw to Ui e, dhosketch ot Byion thiows ujn now light oo tha character of tuo puots bui. by brnginig into rohiof the trials suraging from s puconts ¢, biw temporament, e lutneneds, and Lo Irettiug discord betwoen hnd gening and bis eir- ‘uwistunces, it plesds powerially fur cuority io Viouuuting upon his wayward aud uuhapy Lavonr, ‘Thero aru many pushiges of real oxullu- uvw tlumivativg o dacourze, and also many sunteucuy u,l‘ Honorouyucss that sio ewmpty of mounug, Thou are, too, occasivual mwtisivg errars 1 stateaiont, for (‘ksiular doos nut troable bimtell LU BECUTE. BCCULACY {0 Lo prasentution uf wiuor factd of bistof. and seivncs which o uso:. in tho allnstiation of Lis thome, In this Ly be- Lrays his lack of wido oud exact intormution, ‘The romaluing nkutcues in the yolume treat of Vietor Hugo, Alexandts Dumas, Emlo Uirardin, Dauiel Maniv, suy Adolphe Tuicra, ber proporty could bo iavested tharo at o patter rato of 1ntereat than in Evglaud; and thay, m all his bear.ng tosardd hor, ho was puroly tha toacher. the wentor, the filond, But tha facts cannot be eltncod that Htells left her homo and fumily that she migit sp.nd ber Lifo in the V.- cini'y of Bwilt; that, durivg his absence in Laginnd,sue oceupiad his lodgiugs, discroetly (7) 1emoving theuco to hier 0wn tOLiago on lid rewuru; that be opeuly mouifosted tho doepest regard fur ber; aud that, ju &l chair separativng, no wrote hor dmly—ns the flrat picasute on awakening, and tho last bofure retiting—in twe most caressing mauuer, A woman micht exilo bersslf {rom her coun. try and hor Lomo; soo might nek tho loss of her good nawoe; sbo might assto her hife 1 winistertog upoa o man whom bhe regarded moroly a8 & fuend; buc such costly offarigs aro not commouly conscecsat- ed on tho altar of friend«bip. They aro iather the gitts of that self-renouncing love that wowuy, in bor exaitod entbmefusi, .4 capablo of hostuw.ng without o murmur, whon thoy arae re- qured of her. Lu tho man wiso o uld sccept tho immolation—as Swift ratblessls did io tho cate of Hiella—is ono whom, for the honor of lumanity, the wosld can 1.cver foigiva. Tu the sixth ani concloding book of tho pres- out volume 3i¢ iyob copious biogiaphical no.es from Bwifv's *Lottors to Estber Jobuw.ow" ‘Lhe need no inyzonuity of tho commoutator tu dotme the o unting tbo {wo 1wdividusls con- cerved, Lhuy esplad thomeelvod, sud thoy con- voy a viow ol tho wr.ter, the muuence of which no altar-reasong can athgel, More sicken.ny .waddlo than bims Lver Lost of Wiem Was nover Autirensod by & #a10 Mab to & 6040 NOmIAN, For- getting 1hat their suthor was tno kecnost satir- 1t of b OWn oF any otiler ago; that he was copsumizatoly skitiod in tho use of pure sud ruoy Euglish ; and that tho person ho addiessdd wa# rojuted a clover and senuiblo person—one would say of theso lo.tors that the writer was # or.vehig slmpietun, and tho receiver an infat- usted—cintd. Two moio volumes aro promised by 3Mr, Fomster 1 con-fnnutius of the Livgraphy, acd thera 18 hope Leld vut tuat they will puove ovoen mure lotaresting thau the fist, Tl lattor taties 1eave of Bwift 1w ths voar 1711, when o was, &t tho age of 44, sojournai.s 1 London, making s shift in politics, sud cultivaing sha usstions o Lthor Vauhomeigh, SKETGHES B CABTELAR, Lircor Lo Bv 1snoN: axp Oinxw Surrcnes, By ENILIO CAsthiad, ‘Trsusiied by e, Antaon Awy.Lp, 12mo,, pr. 945, New York: [roer & %Jlrulh:'n. Chicigos Junsen, McClueg & Co, Drice, .50, . ool b L 1 think ali sound minds re st on a certain preliminz. ry couviction, Dawe,y s thid, If It bo Leat tht con- Acious paradma lite soall cor it e, 1t will cun'inue § i ok brst, tles §t Wil nob ¢ @ ad we, If wo saw the while, shouid of course see that {', was betlur Lo, Behier i, * Woat i k0 wiveres Joa doutl, musk by vetc- fne'pround of hopalali s the tafinity of the world, whicl {nfuily reappars i severy paitlele, tho powera of Al soclety tu every indivit tual, ad of all iwind 1n ever mind, I kuow, aguiust s i) sppesrances, that te uni ‘versa can o elve 5o detr imeut; thut thero 1w remed) lor Lvery wiong snd @ istiafuction for etery sou Here da this wouderful U jouglt. But whence came it ¢t 19 the mind 74 16 was not I, 1t Wes not yous : 1o thought ‘and virtue, und, , wo ato (he beams of thix ‘Whou the Maate 4 Of tho universe hus poiuts to + carry In Kiis governmes s, Lo impressea Hlis wil in the stcucturs of minds, Jo the miuat of fihis essay ou Immortality, Emetaon introducee , to iliustrate the intenno de~ TUE GRFAT STONE FACE, aire 1n thougheinl minds for a suto hope ju n T')','; B lie l"!‘!zl:.fifi”.o Tages. lll‘l'a't‘o cows, au av.ocdote which 18 wost japros. fou s Janits K, Usgeod & Co, i B ‘s volume Liolds one of the most exqulslt There 18 a profourid melancholy [+ it begins] at t Hng volima il 4l buss of i of ‘scuive ani O er o il 8112 | tories i tho Engiish lsngusge. It hiss 1o graat suspected. aluuy yeurs agu, thers wors two mes b | roputation. 1t was not inclosed in tho © Listle e United Statoa brinate, Loth of whoin e now duad, | opyive und wo do nob kuow LGk it bias over I havo seen thun Loth of il I; S i ucient wahraors | boen placod by o compilor in any collestion of Xumew, Both wera men of distivction, snd ok bi fivlmfilnml{nll\lclel 1l1r day and geugrazion, | cyoice fragments of tiction. Io has the unob- y ware men of inteliect, and Dertod; gate o frichd Liis s oot ha e B | trusivoucss of the lowly rivalet, and tuis has Hahe Ehied tha lenale, Be ln s | probably eaused it merics to Lo passod by, Dut, Lantive enough 1o the reolaS szt st houkly b | among the mastosplecos of Huwiboros, thoro s dally raturaed t1> each other, snd spout much time 1n | ot one of more dolicata besuty, more perfect conversation o the immortality of the soul, and oiber | 1 af ST 5 " tutellectual qua stions, carod forly tinish, thun the {dyl of **The Groat Btone Face. Hrgros s o 1t hea in & bigh dogres the graces of style that my friend i last left Cougross, they paried, his col remainl og thers, and, as thole homes were wids. | 1nuke Hawthoruo's proso chisrming as tho dainti- eat poecry ; buy, muro tuan tbi, it hay a tive 1y distant frous sach otlier, it chanced that ue evur met poel I tbrend of' moutimout runuing thiouch if, usy gleams with tho pure, soft light of & staug of short tie {wenty.fivo yeurs afterwards, the, #a¥ cach olbar, tirough pe Woosk, a b diniatie, 1o » crowded roception st the Presiilonths Lovee fu Wash doglon, Blowly they advanced towsrds sacli othiur, as wwm snrough the brily.nt cowpany, sad at Lt ,—said notutog, but shook hands foug und corially. At Last bls friand said, “Any ligit, Alvert 27 +* Hone," Toplied Albart. “‘Any lght, lewis?' “NoneY re. d s, Thoy looksd in each othar’s oyea allent] ¥e oo more shake sach o the band bie boid, au s yartad for the lust time, Now I should say’ that Lhe fm) ulss which drew these winds 1o bls inqulry, (hIvugd 50 muny yosrs, Waa & beiler amirmative ovi- pearis, 1o talls the slmpls tale of an unworldly mao who had cherlnhed 1tom voyhood shopoful, cous tidiog uwture, that **was slways ready to ve. lieve 1u whatever asemed beautiful aud good.” aud who, xeeping ** bis besrt coutiunally vpe wes sure to catch tbe blessiugs from on igh whenaver thoy descendud. e wasnot a dweller in citios ; Ac was Bob read in books *‘buihe Lad thonght aud felt xo much, he bad given #o wnauy of tho beat Lioura of s lifo to unwordly Lopes, . . . that 1t neomed as thouku he hail been talking with tso anvots, and bioed n gortion of their Wisdom una Thus grostng old 1 tho practico of gentle L cority and bigh simpiicity, Lis face laok ona look of majenty; * bia wordn had paser, beeausa they accordod with lus thougt and i thoughts had reality and deoth, becauno they hstmonized with | tus lifo which bo had always lived.” At tho last, in this saga aud beufgosut 0ld man, who had beon all Lis days bumbly and uncopsciously making tho world better for having llved in it, thoro waa fuliiliod tho anciont prophecy that at some day tno grontost and novlest porsonage of his tiide should boar in his counzenance an exact likoucss to tho grand, swoot visagoe of * Thie Gieat Stouo Face " which looked out (n salemu majesty fiom & groop of Now Engiaud mountains. Tne atructurs of the story in must unpratend. fug 3 Lut thera is a saintilor leeson preazhod [n it thian ouo can Lear iu a hundrod sermons. Sanows s on T, AxD Tntosin 1% SrAnows ; on, TRIAL AXD Thie O T n A, G1ey, Authipe of % Bachelor 15e 19mo,, pp. 317, Cbicago: Jansen, McClurg & Cu, Frice, th5o. Whon ** Bachotor Ben " eamo under our notice, oss tuay & yoar sgo i we romomber riht, we spoke gontly of wio book, fn considaration of tho youth sad fnoxgerienco of tho writor, But, now that & Bocond volume has appoenrod, it is & duty to judgoe it entiroly according to it marits, it any remark whatevor be passed upon {t. Tho book Lias trod too olosoly upou tue hecls of ils predecessor. Only maater minds aro fortilo and vigarona enough to produce at auch an extinuets 1o rato, and It is plain, from tho quality of the ta0 novels of which wo aro tresting, that their auttior has not the dawer of gouius, which can quickly recover from thia 8ot of ereation, and ropeat tho effurt with a fraquency that would brm\lllt without repaic tho ouergies of au ordioary wd. Tho only qualificationa as & noveliat that tizs Giles has thus far displayed are a cortaln Juency iu tho uso of language, and soms htile facalty for obrorvation. ~ Jut she needa to doa good deal of nard woitk fn studylog stroug autliors. in_cultivatiug a gimple and foreiblo style, and original thinkiug, boforo sho exposea to tho caticiam of tho public another picce of literary work. Books like the presont may b overlooked by tho critic, may cuculate among frisuda and carcleas readein; but it would hea groes uue kiuduesa to tha writer to conceal tha fact thal they can win for her no bonoiable place in lit- ersiuto. 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Ittustratea touschod Magazine for January (Lousoe Bold Publi hing Compaty, New Yorky, =z Jeinaa Sehvo.miater 108 Jusdary (Cuole & Mewelt, Nottul, 11 Loteiury Wor.d for Jsnuary (8, R, Cracker, Boaton), Wheaern I‘l.o.’oi'lru.l)uu Newa fur Decewsber (Quariss We Htevens, Chicugu), Lubicli's Laung dye—=Current numbers (Littell & Gay, Bonbow), .{vu:vlan) Journa'—Current numbers (D. Apploton & Co,, Now York). With tho now year tuus weckly comuicnces & uovel, #Toa Wil ol Bi, Hervot," by Mre, Macquold, authior of * Patly;! a novel, * Fallen Yorfunes,” by Jumos Payu, wuthior of * Lost 8l Ma aluglierd ;* s seriss of papers, ** A Journey io the Unkuuwn,” by Julian Hawihorus ; snd a scrlos s datlerings from ub Arust's Porif.lio,” by J mes B, Freomui, s American ortit who Las roslded for tiirty yeurs tn ltomo, Chiwcago Mepazwe ior December (Chicugo Magazine Coimpany), Plirenvioguad Journat for Junuary (8, I, Wells & Co,, Now York). Giava for December (Buftalo). A BOSTON R-VIEW OF 1 CHICAGO POET. Lioston Saturday Erening Gazetts, Tho presout age hiad beeu regardod as too proswic for true drawatio postry, Wo expuct another Bacon, but & now Shakspoare bas tuus far boen regnided a8 Lopeless, At least, such glovmy views were Leld Lofure Dr, Lt unros, of Chicago, was urged *‘by & fow partial frionds ¥ to puolish & volumo of ** Dramas and Muscoliancous Pooms,” which uow les bofors us i sl the majesty of elaborate binding and Ai- tracave sype, Dr, Monwoo hus wvery atiribute of moderu postia gewus oxcept gepius atselt, Ifo id cyuieal, satirie, o10tic, aud las a profound coutempt for every poat except humself, To uiford vur Feaders u Viow of tho vad biaiu call vre of this Wostoru chiruigical Bhuits, oare, we purposo suslyzing one of his diamay, und for }h'm purpose sulect the tyngedy of ** Arge wna rene,” Argy is & poat and an author, sud benco i8 yory poor, sua neplectud by & solutl world, e i madiy m love with liono. ireueis s youug Indy uf rathior iax lrmisciyles, who Joves Argo a fitwe, but money wucn murd. Tuv play vpous with Irone wittiug at & wole. ‘1o hor euterd a negro, Bam, with a Lundia ol lettera. Sam i & wsrar adonrer of **do feunls see,” aithough be 18 % sorvuus, uud ho tolls frone that #loIs per- toction, ‘Lhis compliwtent tcklos Lrouy oxces mvely, caustug bor to look 1 sho giuse, sud to ULLOF L4 10HOWsE EuOVMIUIM 0N LiLT 56X 3 Cumnplitoouts unto » woman's beauty Aro awort t0 this posssesor uf tust veauty; Not can slio whoiry hate tho man who pays tie, Thougn be were scvan tuied blacks Now, u very rich man, s Ma), Msgoon, sia love with krone; snd hor woLIOF ouLers to ab- nounce 4o ver that the Major has retuined tromn his travels aud wil oou visit ber, Ireno aues unot like tbe Alwjor; bus the mather 18 dutor= mived on tho warrisge, for the Major has no bLieirs, aud proposcs to witl Jrous sll s proper- ty before mnmirige. fvoue teably objucts tuat “he s ® usuguty man,” and the *'pstion of hght ;'flmun. Ble further suys : 've wocn tobacco-julce upon b Ho tp;ples aid Lo ausokea “.L.‘.‘.;".‘.‘b',“;‘ and suores 0 lond ‘Tt pyasing strangers beat upon his doors, Lu bursid apprubeasion Yo biurdet Lath sudie vievion on £xo rack, Aud then, with true girlish modasty, she tho fullowiug ur-w(u‘i vlcture 3 Y Shediaws Hu's great of entrails, and s gl i ATe 3 waibe, e You sie wiate ™ Hoo.-wskers, tallosd, baitets, bariass fail To vruu four buudsed pounde of pork Lika thts, The motler roplies that tue Msjoz is rich, and Is Argo, who antera, tho maidinly winh : asks hor, ** Ar roplios : Lus wemor 4 9 1o be for@iven for his unf ortunats excesa of en- trails, asyig, *There {4 ‘aothing, my dear, that ca 1 bring A true bupplnesa but wesith and ao- cial porition.” To thiy {rafound morality Irens hat nothiog to ‘rapls, lI?enr, great of on: aral sgrees to marey tao o naw turn with ‘idmiration to the pont Treiss, on hoving bim, utters Now Gl mo with hyperrisy to tra toes a0d 80 turrr, witha #weat smsle, to Arzo, The puft is Latter, an oot ate wont to be, and Irono axpreeass her foclings fn the fullowing tender comjarieon ¢ owling calf, frcem troming udder torn, 4 teightetied voice, an if it aaw, 1 vacant sbr, ti- gle i 2 hutcher's kife, Vhet thin ond rharp, 10 nbed lia itke Llood, Arpo says, ** My lady wpcaks {n rladlen,” to ;Iuc[:n Ircuo toplies “with tho Blakspesrcan janlo: AL things are riddiea : ali the worl And ali the propie in it wmere (uigm: Then follows & love- ecene, rather Fronchy in riddle, its moral tone, nhich euds by Ireno ack nig Arge ;: Lo sould defend her it tho world epuke Uil of or. Argo rephies, omewlint warmly : 11 any rlandorer come within my gl it Y evime ot 40 hogn sl T e Upon the offal of that nian on sight, Whilo e Jookn on and usls, Aftor which he exf s, allowlog Irone to exclaim, 10 atguikh : And must T fors Lim | A i 11 pla ce munt take a ton of taliow, tieecn of Iar d, & washtan fall of oftl, Wit pipes, Lo baceo, whinty 7 J::ul, alas | 1t seet un alio must, dospite bier objec slonn. 10 a long gsliloory, tn which alio consideratoly informs tho aud:.enco tha: tha Major, **gre at of entraiin," at tha wedding- dinner, 8o tbat I.renn mav have the money, sud thon marry Ara. Ko iy whoily at ease. hows ever, aud 14, 190 reov harpen to lier 1iereafter : Ay, there's the d:rend ; to plunge headlong, aoaked, Dyed, steamod, a nd bifled fu biood to the very Liver; To plitnge, thun Laked, begrien, incaruadingd, Aith thix four-ici indror 1ung like a ton o lead about my neck, 1lowever, money 18 too powerlul; Ireno is mar- nied to the Majtir, and the poor man 1s puisoned by 1he mother. 1be marrago, and wanuers about auliloquizing l‘xkn a Chieago Hamlot of the ninoteeuth cen- ury. Tho mott.er then outers, aud lodu.ges ba 18 golng £3 pois . 8 littlo doubtfal what will cight of bioied carcazs In the wesutime, Argo hears of Act G fs o gloomy wood. *Infor Argo, with & ravolver. o daguer. aud a sial of poison, with which to kil Limgelf,” tion. ho thiokd, To miniater 10.e are f9 hand; rod brrder Tu't not to know who'll Lav elccted, Tueaday ; yot ho must die, for Jirone has proved horselt talse. AAfter rome considora~ drivers, loyfers, Yealtors, chamibormatds, 2 very bootulacks, W Irene wan uitne,— The pesnut-venders, applo-wouien, all, Bat, the, on the contraty, he thinks, 1may not make & dicent-looking corpse, for which reason to will uot kifl huself, Hence- forsard ho will ‘hate women, aud he chirurgieally: claime, TFie, b1, 1 am cured o tho thoracicduct | o eaya: 1 will becoms A misantbrope, with hate so hot that it Buall make iy eyeballs vounit fire, snd fx Upon roy bro'x a scowl to etied the plugue; After tho M.ajoi'smurder, be meota Irene, and o youmy girl ¢ Lo which she rart, lungs, and liver, every atom yours, Argothen declares : 1116l myself to kick the seedy arook Waicl meu call gentus il he sliabs asray. Thou they aro married, aud the drawa ends by Argo and lreno castivg awoers on the grave of the Major, groat of T 8 " 1n tlus necensarily briet analysis we have not dono justico co the genup of the author ; but fruw the seecimeus given, the rende: muv obs tatn somwe idow of the drama.de skill of tue Chi~ cago ductor who pntlikhes bis poema skmply to please a few parual friends. If his soce cess in medicing {5 aw great as hia pawer 1n poctry, tho Chicsgo gravoyaids must perpotuate iu thoveands of eliborate tomb- wones. It ta stravga that acity which tas Lardly recovered frow o disastrous fire shuuld #u suuu ba alll.ctad With suci & paet, But Cui- capo Liny one oupsolation: When tourls!'s ank to #00 tus curiositios of the city, she may point lo uirs, O'Leuty 8 cow and to Dr. Moaroo, and per~ liaps tako comfort fu the fact that her musfor- tunces, i bitter, aro nt feart o A mepmitude of which sbe may justly boast. THEOLOGICAL AMID BIBLICAL LIBRARY. Now York Tribune Ono of the most important enterprises of the new seur will Lo the **‘Lheolomical aud Bunlicat Labrary,” under tho editorrbip of Dra Crouks =od Hurst, announced somo time ago, by Nelson & Lbillipa, Lias beon developing for ten years past, It will alm to furnish m a dozen volomes a comprohon- sive theological lbraty, “Tho plan of the senios Dr. Hurst such py exiats io this compass in no other ahapa. It is expected that four volumos will bo isuned i 4876, Thoso will include tho two introductory volunes, tho “Tueo.opicul Encyelooocis,” in- cluding methodalozy sud bibliograpay, which wild Lo by the Lev, Albert 8. Hluuw, D. D., of I3zooxlyn, and tho ** Introdaction to the Study of the Seriptaies,” by Prof, Henry M. larman, D, D., of Dicianson Collegn, Dr. Hunt's work will o based upon tho German of Hlagenbach, busits bibuozeaphy of Enalish aud Awmorican Drot~ estant thoulogy, which is hkely to cover some 15,000 tisles, avd upon wlhiou to Las bestoaed long and sovore labor, will baa new and most valuabla feature. Dr. Huut bim-olf wriios 1ho + History ot tha Chulstian Chureh,” w twa vol- umes, of which one will bo isy 1od in 876, aud the tirst yolumo of * Byetemaio Thuology, Bishop Fostor, I sl#o prowised. Tne othier por- t.ons of tho series will be on * Dible Herwoned- tice," by Iof. Henty Launistor, D, D., who oc- s the Chair of Excgesis ln tbo Evanston ‘I'he.logical Behool, noar Cbicago. *- Biblical aud Clirtsting Archivology,' by £'rof, Cliarles W, Bounets, D. D., of tho Chair of History and Logio at Syracuse, sud the Ruv. Georye 1, Wihitasy, 0. D, Piesdent of the Contonary _Collegiate — Instituto, Hacketiss town, N. J.; ¢ Kvidonces of Chratiauity,” tho Rev. Dr, IL. B. Ridgsway, of thisecity ; “Chris‘lan Theism and Slodern Sclonce,” by Proi. Alexandor Winehell, LL. D., of Byincusy aud Vandesbilt Umveraitios : aud & ** History of Cbnistiau Doctrine.” in 1wo vulumes, by Dr. Crouks, Altbougo undertsgen by AMethodists, the eorios 8 nou woaut to be in sny nay eece tarsn, except so far as Bishop Foster's work hiaw oupocisl referonce tu Methodiat theology. I3y tho substitution of Dr. Hodyge's simtlar worl for hin, the xerics, it 18 expoctod, will be quite s valuable to tho Prosbyterian denomunatious. MISS BRADDON, Fondan wtters Mies Braddon's home at Hichmond s called “ Litohfiold House,” Tnis buildivg was erectod during tho reigo of Queen Elizaveth, aud, after vatiuuy repuira and mauy altorstions and ad- ainions by its presont vccupaut, 13 & grand sud luxutious fatnily mausion, Misa Braddon is an unyrotoutious, practical English watron, who acams perfectly willing to udupt Lorself to her guest, aud capably, too, whotlior ko Le a states- man, llterabonr, a woman of fa.lLivn, 07 & bouses body whusu ehildren cowmpriso ber livtle wodld of thoaght, Househuld daties uceupy her morn- 1ngs untd 13 o'elack, at which thno she closes the dout of hey sauctom und writes us Joug wy the spheit nioved, pecunps autil divnor-tme. A peep futo that sauctum is worth uaviug. Iu s s poud-sized pooms, lookwug out upon & swovsh laswy, and a long, broad puth that leads to the grocuuouass. In ouo coruor there in a0 uprigut many, Iu tbe contre ot the room btanas a largo tallo covered with boouw, pupors, and aunusc.ipt. iandsowo rugw are strawn abuut 0. a rieh catpot, ALd 1o walls aie 1illed wita sholyus of bioss, Miss Biaddon bas diamatdo telest, und joins in amatenr tueatrio s 10 bor own diawing-room. Niuo scres of lawn surround bor houeo, sud shis notea uovelist 1y notea for elogant lawn parsios, Miss Braddon bhas couned a turtutio outof ber brain, aud id now enjoying tho results of her lubors 1o Juxwidod tuat pleaty of muney suppl SOME VERY SMALL VOLUMES. An Engilsls lecturer, starting with tbo ssser- tion of Pliny tuet thie * Ilad ” had beon writsen ou & pieco of parchment that coutd be iuclosed 0 & uuishetl, wout ou to sho. that the fuat was posdible, e wamraiued that on oavh eido of & piece of vollum 10 iuchos long and 8 wide, whioh can easity ba put o tho ebell of & larga waluut, it would be Sounb!e 10 Bquesze 250 linos ench liuo woludiug B0 vereos of the **lliad.! ‘Tuo 15,000 vo:¥es of the poom would thus be accouuted for. A Lucedwmnouvian artist 18 said tu vave wnsten fu lotiers 01 gold a pocsy of two vorses, iuclosed 10 tho nind of & g v of coru. Poter Buled, a colobrated wil.dbg-inasier, wrote a copy of the Divle which conld be placed 1o a waluus ulout tu e of 8 bou's egg. Amoug swa | priotod books an b iuorabio place Is due to *Iuo Bibio n aliutature,” priuted by Newbery, in 4780, L page, which wowures 15§ inoues, contains 21 words, or 105 lutters, A atlli twter volumo 18 & seligioua work wgwall Uaia upon the Youder Hoerb," pntiished by the iteligious lrsct Boste oty. It mnasures only a ebade over 1i¢ inchas, Vet each 1220 tinjda 4 worde, or abont 140 lat. tera. ‘Thiara in, fL appears, & work 1o exisi#ace which {8 nat only sall, but_{a withont printed watter, It ie called * Wordl~ss Bouk.” and is mado up of tan pages, The firsc sad tenth pages form the coverw, the title bring yrintod un thn former ; the scaond ana third sza black, the fourth fiftt rod, the sixth and meventh white, and the eighth and niuth » shining gold." This remarkable volume is eaid tn be * a reliz- l;i‘nul‘ll!uury dovised by aouie euthumastic Evan- g CHARLES LAMB. Londun Athsnaum. My, Chatles Komp, of tho Middle Terple, in preparing 8 new odition of *'Tno Worka af Chintles Lamb.” 3lr, Kent bas in this edition given un, for tho flrat Lime, the truo story of Barbara 8——, and & carious story it 1s. Ho han alno, tn the mumotr prefixed 1o tho bosk, settied tho date of Lamo's birth, DBarry Cornwall pat t a8 the 14 of February, and Mr, John Forater s the 1lth; but both prove to be wionz. 1o bas also khown that the uannl idea that there weiw only thiee of tho family—Jtnhn, Mary, and Chatles—ixa mis. \uke ; there wero mete than mx. For frontis- plece ho lire giveu a hitberto unengraved por- trait of Lamb 1u the poseession of Bir Charies Dilke. for which Lamb sat to Henry Mover, of Hed Lyon equato, romwhore aboat 1827, Nu- merouy fac similes are added. The publishers are Moanry. Routledgo, and the edition will bo syled *'The Popular Centenary Edition," LITERARY NOTES. Dean Howeon is st work apon a new Com- wentary oo the Book of Acts, Mr. Charles Nordlhofl's work on ** The Cotton statés ™ will be publislied soon by D, Apploton & Tho author of ¥ Mrs. Jerningham's Jouroal " bss publicbed a new brochure, **3lies Hitohe cock's Wedding-Dsess," Ar, Bwinburng's new work, * Erechtheus,” is a play oo the Greok wolel, of over 1,700 lines, more regular fu construction than * Atalanis in Calydon, A new worle cn the identifieation_of the ten loat tribes of Israel s announced in Eng'and un- det tho extraordinary titls of **'Tho Avglo-Irrael Poat-Bag: or, Ilow Arthur Camo to Hee It." The ey, Canon Titcomb iy the writer. Quo of tho Clristman books for children sud lovars of nonsanso, zeceuu{ publistied alrosd, ia “Lho [hatory of the Six Wives of Diucbeard, Compiled frotn’Mendacious Curopicles,” by [na- Lelia Novello, iere {a 8 moderd examulo of the deselopment of mrth! The chiromio iliustrations aro by George Cruiksbank, Jr. 8o far aw the book trade have examined their aczounts, they acem to show & rotait busicoss which w2 tho ssmo as, or a littlo Lrtter thav, tnat of Inse year, and a publighing business abous tue same, Of not quite 8s good. Bevetal pub- ligers ruruu that, whila 1ssming fewer boolie, their total ealen havo beon as Isrgo s those of Iast year, which is » commervial gain, and vossi- bly not & literary loss. Among the novels of Inst your, Dr. Holinud's ““Sevenoaks” 1 i its twenty-fifth thonsand, the Rev, E. I. Roa's From Jest to Larucxt " in tha fourteontl, Mrs, Wilson's ** Intelice * in the thuctietl.—aVew York T'ribune. —— SPARKS OF SCIENCE. ELECTRICAL FISHES, Mr. F. W, Clarke bas contriouted to tho Peun Monthly ao interesting paper oo eloctrical tuhics, from which wo maite the fullowing abstract. At the prescut day, at least four, and peesibly aix, geners of flehes possersing electrical poaers arg known fo scieuco. The four of which oxact koowledss hay been gained are the Torpedo, QGymuotus, Majayteruras, sud Tetroson; and tho remaining two, of which tho iuformatios ia atill uncertaln, are tho Trichinua and Rhinabatiy, Tho Torpedo has been familiar from tho earlinst timen. It was dercribed by Aristotlo aud Phiny, while Galen and Dioscorides recommended fts shocks i the treatment of liondache snd gout. Two epccica aro found in tho Mediterranean and on tho eastern borders of iho Atlantle, aud others bave teen takon south of Africa, on our own conste, aod in the Carilbean Sen. Tho upocies coptused near thu Capo of Goud Ilope rarely atisin more thao 8 iuches in lengths those of the Mediter- ranean are, on the uverage, 16 iuches loug by 7 brosd: snd thoso ju English watera 8 etimes weaanra 414 foet in longth, avd weigh betweou 0 and 100 pounds. In shape, the Torpedo is much hko the ekste; it 1s ronnded and flat, with tho tso eves ou tho upper side, and nn ulongated tall, keolod on both borders. In Lug- land it is commonly called ilie cramp-ish, oumb- fish, and electric 1ay. ‘Walsh dotermined theelectricalchinyacterof the ehook of the Torpedo in 1772; iu iy experanenits teanemitting the stroke through wires. Otuer Blfiuflfl have_obtaivud visible epaiks from the fish, and decompossd watar aad magaer. fzod mieel by menns of its galvanic force. Ordinanly the Forpedo docs uot give a shock in respouss tu & mero touch, but 10 some dis- tioet drritation, Shoald o lively fish (say) 16 iuchies loug Lo graspad in tho hands, 1t Wil dis- chiatge st ove stroke as much olectricity ks one persoa caw bear, Ior a timo tho dixcharkes suc- cood each other wih great rapidity and itous ity ; but, wheu tho creature haa noco exhauvied itsolt, a lonz 108t 18 Decessary to which to gener- ato a bow stock ot elect:lcity. In tho s ace of s onouto and a half, Waish obiniuod from & vig- orous Torpedo fhity eh.cks, which weie travd. wmitted, by mea: s of wires, throngh eight per- sous nt once. 'Tho flsb bisy tho habic of burying iteelf it tha mud ju shallow places, aud bathers uuwittiogly tieadiug Woul 1t sumelimes fecoive the ful power of 1ts batterios, which are, uuder such circumstances, most heavily charged, ‘Tho Gymnozus, or oloctrical col, {s © still more intereetivg fsh thau the Forpedo, It inbabits thie rivers and lazoonu of Tropical Sonth Ameri- ca, and first attracted thoattontion of Luropasns in the latier part of tho aeventecuth century, A tpecumen mewsurivg 43 incles in lougth wat biougbe to I'bludelph.a tn 17755 anotler wan convayed to Loudon, and dissected by Dr. Joau Huuter ; and, iater, Ifunboldt studied tho fiah in thor ustive wa'ers, Munuv bava since heon tho mubject nf exporanent in Luroye,—~ons judividual, 40 foches 1w length, being exhituted in the Adelaide Gatlery, Loudon, fur 800 yeary, and for a tino placed at tno div; 0ral of Furudsy, for pmfineu of observat.ou, Wuh tho rhocss from this the greab electrician wucceeded m chnigng waguets, offect ng chomical decompo- aitious, and producing visivle sparks, Thero are probably several vpecios of Gymuo- tua, varving in averago loneth fiom 31 inches to more than & foct, Aspectes which Humbolat sindied iu tne nusrelies of the Apured wae olives firueu u hue, with Lwo 0¥y of spots extend.ug awu the back. One Bpecimon, 46 tuchos loug, woighied twelve pounds, In capuugiug tue Gym- uotl, the uatives driva hoiwos or mules into the waters whoro tha flsh abound, with & tesult thas vividly deseribed by tiumboldt : Tlie extraordinary nolso caused by tho Liorses’ hoofs mukes the lsn 18eue from tho wmud, aud i thein 10 the sttuck, Tuess yellowish and Livid ev.s, roscuib- lug large aruatio u.rpents, saim on the surfa e ul tha aud crowd under the Loiles of the horves amd m Acoutest itwenns anfiuuls of eo ditfercut an orgauization presents & very s.cing spectacle, Tho Indisns, providsd with burjoous, and long, sleuder reeds, wuitvund the paol closdy; and aomd climb up tho trees, tho urauches of which extond borizontally uver the auiface of tua watr, Ly tudlr wild crice, und the lengths of thelr recdn, U the bonos frou ruuniiy away und reackl of $hie pool, Tl e, wiunued bys thy noiss, dofut thenselves by sopeated discharges of thulf electnia batterfos, ¥ora lung time they seom Hkely to prove viclorious, Beveral horacs siuk benvath the violen.a of tho uvisiblo strok. b they re-eite frou all wides, tu orgaus mowt essentlal to fife; and, stunned by tlie force snd frequency of tue whocke, toy disa- pear under the wuter, Olu:re, pauling, With maue crect, and hIgIRd cyes exproamiug sngith aud dis- muy, raise thomeolves, and eudesvor £+ flee {7 m the atojtn by which they aro overiaken, They aro drtyen back by the Iudiane {uto the midilo of the water: Lut a wmath number succead i eluding the sctivevigthuce of tho fhliortnen. ‘Thesy regiln tao ehorv, siualiiug at evory step, sud atrcich thoweelves ou il s # i, ex- Bauuted with fatiguo, aud tbelr Uuwba beusved by thw eleetrio aho, K8 of the Uymuotl, 1n icvw inn ive minies, two of aur horses wero drowned. Tas ad, bolug 8 fo-t loug, sni prossing Aself agsinnt the Lelllon of tho Lorses, makes u dis- curyo slong tha whole extent of fta ‘oluctrlo orgun, It attacksat puce the hoari, tho iutesiiuse, wud tue caliao fuid of the abwdomival nerves. 1t s watural that thio llect felt by the horave should bo inote powrful than that produiced upou mun by fhe toush of the sawo fsli at ouly ouo of bis extremitlus, The Lurse are prouably not kbied, but ouly stunned, They st drawued from the hnposlbility of rising swid tue [ralouged strugglo beiwoon” Lo otber Loruce sud th solu, Wu bud listle doubt (bat the fishing would kerminate bu by by killlug muccearively all tho sniuisls euga degrere tle faptuonity of this uned riished, and tho woiried tymaotd die ersed. - They Tuilre uInDg Fest uud abutelist Dourlhuiclt ty fe Patetho Raneuto fore Whi b thsy Lwve lost, The Lotiios and. liorses sppesr less friguienid 3 Wit mnen aren longer bristled, and tulr eyea oxpress | Qresd. Ths Uymuoti approsch tizaludly the edye of 1as Imurub, whure they sre takon by means of small hur. Voaus (atened 1o long ourds, “Wheu the cords are Yery dry, the Taglns feel no shock iu raising tha fih 1010 the air, 1nafew muinutos we bad nve large oals, meat of which were bub sbguily wounded, Bowmo e ——ee e oibors wero takea, by the samo mesus, lowacds even- _Faraday calenlated that, st each medinm dis- ciiarge, the Gymuotus emited as much force ag the highe ¢t charge of a Laydon battory of fifteen Jars, exnosing 3,600 square inchies of coated sitr- face. The aaiml omploys its elnctrical powers to Lill vrey, nnd an & means of protectton, It is capablo of being tamod, and thea will allow It~ ull to bo handled without discharging its bat- rien, ‘Twn wpecios of Malanterurus bolonz among the electrical fisbes. The M. Elrctricus is found in the Nilg, Seoseal, and Gambia Itivers ; aud the M. Benivenais In Oid Calavar, Tha first vsriea from 8 to 21 Inctes in length, and in form resomb'es the cat-flsb, It given a feebls shock, 0o weak Lo servo any other purpose than nas dofenso, Tho sccond sp2cies ownn a much moro ‘merml battery, —a specinon 2iuchesin fenzth helng able to give a sbock that wiil extend trom the hisad to tho ehoulder, 1 nogroes utilize thn wotdertnl propersies of the flah in cases of dixoans » and, at Surinam, tho surgeons have - tio luced it uya romodial agant in thelr practice. But nttly is kuown of the Tetradon, which w8 diwcovered, noarly & conture ago, 'fn tha Indian Ucan, The mnglo individual captuted was 7 inches long by 214 vroad, 1t wasdescribed as mottled with varioiy colors, and had a long, projecting mouth, Waen caught {n tho hand, tuo tish administered a sovers whock, and for #amoa tima was enabled to ropeat tha act, though with diminished futensity, INSANITY FROM RELIGIOUS FXCITEMENT. Dr. . 11, Havage, of the Lethleher Hospital or the Insane, Loodsn, ban publixbed paper ou * Religious Tneantiy aud Refiglous Nevivals,” in which be dezlares the opinion that religioua excitemont creates no distinctive species of men- tal discnse. That inesmty sometimss declatos itself fn the form of morbid religious idons, . In hia opinjon, simply an accideut of education, tomperameut, or sex. ‘‘Many persons," he ro- marks, * verging on insanity,—in fact, in tho melancholy stage of the diseass,—neek religious coisolation, and, uotwithstandiog this, go marl; 1hey would probably have gone mad 1 auy cano, and the most Lhat can e said & saiues tho service Is, that it procipitated an attack.” Statisticy show 10 evidence that the religious excitoment croatod in England by the revivals couducted by Moods and Haukey gave any Iu- crease to infanity. Lo compating the lieia of patients ndmitted o too Bethlobem Huspital duriog the fur monthe from April to Aucust, in the veard 1373, 1374, and 1875, it was found that fewer religious cases were admitted 1u tho irat than im either ot the tormer years, ‘The firuros stood sy follywa: In 1813, of 28 nowly- adiitied mals patients, 4, or 14,2 por cont, wera Aautferiug from religious iusanity; of 23 tomalu patiente, 8, or 23,4 por ceut, were siffo: g trom tbe same. In 1571, of S0 male patents, G, or 16.6 per ceat, were religious cases; of 17 femalo patients, 10. or B3 per cent, were the sawme. In 1873, of 42 male patients, 9, or 21,1 per cent, wero religious cases; aud, of 55 fomale patients, 8, or 14.5 per cout, wero thy same. VESTIGIS OF PRE-HISTORIC Man, Tha interglacial coal-beds at Wetzikon, on the easteru abore of Lako Zurich, Saitzerland, «bound in remaius of plaots and svimals, Awong the moet 1nterestiug of the Animal ves- uges are thoso of the Elephas antiuas sod ZRthinoceros merkii, Dut, in rearchiug for these, Dr. Hcheuermann, of Daale, dizcoverod, ou one oceasion, & number of pointed rode Iving sido by sidc in & block of coal. The specimen wus laced for examination in the hands of Prol. tutimeyer, tao emineat zoologist of Basle, who bas publibed by conclius.ous rapariiug i o tho last uumber of the Archit fur Anthropoloyic. From Lis deseription, 1t eeemn that tho rods were artiticially pointed, aud that they Lad been used 1 300 raugh basket or wattls work., ©‘They are four in uuwber,"—we quate {ram tho account {0 Nature,—*aud are closcly imbedded in tue coal, which they precisely rescinble iu color, whilo the texture 18 thal o the ordinary wood found in thene coal-bede. 310rcovor, a8 1 ustal 10 such canes, tho stem L hoou comuressod. #o that the section i8 not circular, but oval, According to Frof. Behwendener, thio wood in that uf Abics ezcelea. Thoe pownta bear evideot traces of cutting, while at one part of the rods aro wark< as if a strng wound round and round them.” The beds of coni frown whicli theno re- mninn wero tecovered lte under and npoa swell- marged glacinl dejoriie ; hence, quoting again frotm tho 7epoIt, **\wo appear (0 14vo cloar ani- deuce of the sxistenca of man duting ous of 1he wasta futorvals of the glicial epockts.” COLOSSAL BIRD. We Intely gave notes regardiog Yhe dlecovery of & colosanl Lird in tho nd of New Gu: In tho ** Aunals of thy Civic Muroum of Nuzural History ot Geuos,” a now rapacions Litd, intro- ducud to science by the natusalis: D'Albaitis, is describep bs Count Salvatori, of the Royal Mn- seum of Turin, under the proposed name of Targyopeis Novie Geine. It 18 suposed that the Lo birds sre one, and that the esaggerated 1o vrt alladed Lo abovo giew in paré vut of the exctted imaginativy of an untrained observer, TRICH'NE IN A WILD BOAR. Tho muscalar tissue of s wila boar recently thet 1 the furcsts of Eaxony revealed, uuder the wicroscope, the presenco of wyriads of trichivw, It 13 the first iostance n which tho parusto hus been found in tuw wird bonr, but thore sectus to Le no reasun wiy tho patasite suould not iufost wild ms well a8 domenticatud unie. A VOLGANO IN ERUPTION. Tho Aucklaud (Now Zealwd) Southern Cross atates that the voleauio monutsin Tonganro is iu b utato of great nctivity, throaing wioues for a distauce of 8 mules from tho erator. All tho . g oud go.Hors b the veighboroood ute full pisy, sud somo wonderful wiguts 1Ry Le seel 11 tLis oxusLrdinary roLou. ————— FAMILIAR TALK, JAPANESE LACQUER-PAINTING, str. Robertson, tho Brtisb Cousnl st Yoko- hawmsa, 1w b report to tho Foreign Officy bas cowmuuicated some unfawillar wforwation cou- corsing the preparation of lacquer-wars iu Ja- pau. From she speciwcns of ths work that are ordivarily d.spersed by comweccs, hittle idea 18 dorived of thu exceoding bimaty of the beat examploa thut ate wiougut at thue proseut day, or of tho perfro.ion that (wo centuries ugo commouly characterized this meihol vf docora- tin, itisdoclired by some Jepuncso authonties tliat thu art of lscquoriug bad i urigw fn 738, Dbut othors 1t tao date at 330 0r Y0, As early as 200 1t had at:ained s cousideralile degree of oxceliones, snd thy usuie of s seuial patwr of Abat 1o 13 bouoied Wil the teme of paviog toundud a partioular sebool it ts vrancnof art. As basus for the lsodquet-cruw;, Ivoiy, paper, metals, puicelsivy, aud other subsiavcos are used, a3 woil &8 wool, The clear, pure varuich wlieh tormy 80 inpurtans w material i tho wors is outsined largely [from the varuisu-suwacu (dthuz vernicifera), s butive of Japay aud Ne- panl. Tue j Hoaug frow tus tree whou wuunded, becomos thies aud biacs 1y 0X, usure, yoo couLBuLE Bo trousparont that tho Lucst tuacery is visibie througa it, lu bogwaing & ducoration 1 lacquer, Mr. Ruborison ways, « Lo first thug is Lo traco out v tho thiuuest of paoer the ogquied pation or de- sign, sud the tiscng 18 then gouo ovwer Wit & & compowtion of laoyuer-varuia and vormilion, atterwards Jad on whatever it 18 proposad tu [ art the design to, any well rubbed over with & Luuboo Bpas tuls,” ‘The outhine thus lufL ** 13 now yuie vvor Wil & purticalar kind of soft fagiuer vaitieh, Waen tins tudustry 14 purdned in bot weathor, e varash speodily delvo; sud, coussquoutly, whero tho pattern 13 & good dsal avolved, o oo & sall pction oulv {s executed at 0uo Limo ; aud the gold powder, wuwh enters largely inta most of the lacjuec-wars tor tus foreign war- Ket, 18 applied Lo oscls pait su it 8 belg uxo- cutdd, ¥or this, a large avd vory soft brush i used, and, Ly is uig, the god pawaer 18 woil unoed in with lie.quer or varnish, ‘Phe work is thow Jeft to dry for sbuut twouty-four bours; afier which the pattoin 18 hghty rabuved over o from & partoular hind of Wy, —ihH JFocurB BECURIDY evubBoss of Tho WOrk 18 uest ruobed with powder, aud afirwarls carofwily Wiy 8 [Lis outlioing belug doue, ** thery suil remsiua & good deal of thmsbing work, such a4 tue tractug af loaves ou tiues, tho poials of Howerd, the wings of birds, ate. . . . luto all this, goid powder largely eunters, tho workiug s of which roquires a it hand, o e Al this bus well dried, reiculsr kind of lsoquer- varnish, known as yoshima urushe, in wall ruvuod i, sud the whola shen polished with boru-dust. T'uu polishing procees i3 doue with thu fingor, -m:‘l': coutiuued until the gold-ghittor shows out well, e dosizne tracad 0o the slucet Inciuer cabi- ncte and cased aro usually tukou from tho nas tlousl hastories, romsnces, sul mythe, and are pated upon paveld, wiich are atter- wards set intw tue frame of tho objuct. Mr. Jarves, wono hss uade a wpocial siudy of Japauces art, "‘1"' n his Temarks upon the marits of the bust lecquor-work, * Bumetimes the figusey, ona ta Rroazo or $he Precious mek, =} als, aro of microscopla smalinens, bal Toclly modoled aisd. carestod a¢ 1f dons by & B liot. Objects of patural history, flat or in ree lief, aro executod with equal spirit and tenth, Dut the attractivaneas of tho Leat soquet-wurk doon uot end with the figure-compoaition. The budy-tones of zold, in which formes of patuta or curious [nvontion, in undor or higher tonca of light snd graduated tins, come and o, 28 tha aye bappeun to catel thei, like objecta elowly dls- suiviag or Tolurming {n a solt, gentle baze, mive a pleasuro witnont alloy, hecanso thoro s no dircet imitation or roalism. and yoi an in- tnite, dream-like nauggeation of “ths purest and best nbits of Natute in her mos pocticat moods. When are added to this wathouic eatislaction sn equal com- ploteness ad reganis tho mochanical finish of tho articla, its puzfoct Listro. smaothacss, Join- iug, and whatovor elue is welndad fu the tosle part ot the fabrication, theu there is & doable Flu.lslua. which rarely is to Lo had eisowhero fn ike degree, Aud tuis plessara has a grester fullbess from the absotce of any mgns of fn- paticugs, mannal toil, or dofsct” in hundicrafs. ‘Tnoughit and labor aro disguissed in an sppareat- 1y spoucaneuud uction oc parfection, 6ch as o fige Naturo nupgests fn her beat fuspired moods. « o o The Arvay races havo accomplishod great thiugs i other formaof art, but in thts Teapect they can wiill go to szhool with proft o the * heathon Japsnese,’ possioly the * Chinese.'* LOVE FOR FLOWERS, There {8 2 littlo incidont relstod of the griwm, silent, rphynx-lice Nanoleon I, that roveais an unexpeciod tenderness fu the man, and perhaps discloses mora of hls inoer nature thao any of tho pnblic aud atriking scones in which be was au actor. He was inieneely fond of violets,.—tho moeiiost, sweetest lower that blows,—aod fresh bouguets of thom wero constantly preserved i L privats apartmonts. What ministry was it those huinble flowers served up to Lim, that ne fels the porjetual need of thoir presonce in the moments in which ba throw off tho mask woru befora the world, and dared to o hia real self # Was tuere not oo potency in their svigue sin- cerity, Ju tucr mute fragrance, that calmed and cominted bim after tho wuary schemiog aud pre- tending thas tilled bis days? * . 14 nos hard to believo th .t even e could fondly say to them, in the woids of oud of the Eogllea poeta: Yo mutin worahipers, who, bendlag lowly Doiore 110 yrie Bitis, —God's, lidlons oye,— Tarow from sonr cha.d va a nweel and holy Inicese vn bigh t, with ataried b 'n teple ternclite, ¥e bright moeate, 1k Tl toor af ‘What numereis e nl Your foris create ! Your volceless life, O tlowers, ara living preachers, Eich (s s pulpit, every leaf o book, Bugplying to iny fancy ninerous tesciess Fiom loncliest ok, Thero i avo.her of tie world's great mep, mouarca in ths realns of thought, whose Btoimy, cyuical, tmperiona nature bas found co #solatiou 1 s duvout worsbip of the tlowers. So reverootly did be love them that, thouglh Le would tend uver them, ns they w iu Lis grouud-, with somathing liko the adoration of the iliudoo for bia iduls, Ls rarely toucned or pluckeld one, Iu verses which all wiil recognize a8 Laador's, ho ciea gave voiea o the oxquisite veporation with whicl iie regarded tue thuige he losed so well ; And 'lis, sud over w. T Lt wfl flowers Jive fresty nud ol die scne'er i {r genius bide their soul depart, Among their kiudro 1 in their nitive place, T uever plurx tho ros; tha violeta hewl 1ath whaken wity my breath upon its Lavk, At 0. Feproacaed me; tho e fersucevd cup Of the paro Hy Lk, btiween my bands, Felt safe, nuwoled, ur lost one grain of golt, 1 was in ilustration of thid pecular feeling, aud albo of bis ungovernavle totuper, that tho story becamo current iu Plorencs. that ove day, wm wrath over an ill-peevsied dinner, Landor tosged tiso cook vat of the window, aud the, 16 gurdlens of tho conuit ou,of the tnau, whose leg us broken 1o the full, he crind vut in distiess: *Good Gud, I furgot tue violets!" . my wisls a0 way CATHOLIC VS. PROTESTANT, Tu n speech bofora tuu meeting of the Congro gatiounl Union m Lonilon, tbe Ltev. Dr. Josoph P, Thomyprou gavethe folioxivg tablo of statistics to stiow that tue foars entertaed by some that tho Romau Catholica will in time overpowor the Evangelical churches fu the Unltod States, ate groundless : 1 14 the Noman Catholics numbered as org . ulzed par sHCR vueen 21 vilier curcbes nimbered. T 1870 the Koman Cathoiic Organizatous namuered Al atber Fa 1850 tue All ot ul, .o Tu 1530 tho Catholies Tad siiting Aurothers bad... irctivs Dibered Lodes ad MG 1In 185+ the Cathiolies had property. All vtliens Badiseisvasasansne In 1370 1he Catholica liad property. Allotuers had, i+ 1ere 1y & gain, but the percentago ruus high- er nhiers tuo tigures ato low, And, a8 to prop= erty, theiis ies mamly in groat cities, ann haa rigan rapudly io value. Wo still hava on otur aido 65,432 churches, 19,674,618 cburch-sittings, and 293,493,015 ot ohwich-proporty.” NIGHT-SCENE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, From ' The Mutd a e Mietistippi,* The full, round ravon, in eilver sheen, In mitrored on the darkling w Above the Wanderion S, Historic tide 1 whose Auine bo gave Ere lnwered at miduight frow thelr barque-~ Av over biw elosed e waters dark—- Ty sorrowitg cyuirades, luet the foe His death aud burial-plsce tiould know, Tl waveworn walls hear back the rost Of tonudiug surge, whioss darbing lavcs "Tiic alizny mOUthe of yawniug caves, Dark Iu the dim receding shore, Tue river, rulliug far ahd wide, Geliivy {n majesty unil pride, Jears graudly vu Ler potent Hdag A, sllveced by the mooulit glow, Jrout yondet ehaduwy doiile Tuo slngiish tributary's fow wesum sowly rodnd ils ueigy lals Through fagg 4 urius of shoul, whero lay Hujro Hzardy 1x'd 10 aeizo thelr prey ¢ Aud Loarely, turotipls 1Be 1 rah & yellow, Jiceousds the reptiles dvial beliow, Those mytiad fozka, ke drifts of snow, Litstung th : sauds ut eventng’s glow, Ot taluing thore u v ravul 2 b1l sud GBUY brood,— “Thng atier-(o4] have sougut tue fen,— Didapper, caot, and pollcan, Upon the river's bunom dark ‘Tl Wtars thro ¥ dowu tacir glowlng apark, Aud uright tae star it waters gleaas Wika wbcets of plosyliures. cut Qume, Wuosa briitiant wparkies brigutly dancs Aloug the river's broad exixnse, Liko vl lects from Fatry:land, . e ver the wave—a biithesuiie band, Amut wid, rosky slious beyond, Ite'gns Natars 1 tho desp {rufound. Dim, shisdocd arus «ra atretchod on high, Aud pasa fn yloomy wtiliness by, ks Iioqufavmatra progony's And, Lalf-s1bduad, the surge's roar Floatn ‘platning (rom L caveru'd shors, Lok glant monster, form'd to ride Alui the dackiug, turbid tidoe, Hpening, 'nesth vaporcloud, the spray, Her daming oyea v elther uldo, ‘T steamer plows ber lonaly wey Hound trsartirous ensg and Liungry bar, 500 wunk fu gaturiug gloom afat, Linmining the loaely woods, Hevealing dreary siitnd. Aud canting weled, fautastiv glow On waters wildly whirl'd below, Itoll on § whowe uuscen mlth creates , Forests aud plafus of fruitful Glates Wigeo valieys lately ecioad, rife Aud red, wih fratricidal sirife, Wen Gurunga plied thy shores with elaughtar, Whon snous ‘eath weathivl roariugs ssat From de=ad otliina’ armimeat, Tt blaced alouy thy crinison walet, 3uteors the yal of Hvaven veut, Aud Jioarsely brayed th deo-motithed mortar ¥ Buamerged torpedo’s thuud rhalt— A» thiu leviatbau of tho desp Yur burls on bigh, witl one foll sweep, Tie dariug whaler's sleuder Picrces the mull-clad ram, and lo ‘Chou'rt solliug o'er the wruck below! Tl U3kt canoas have o'er theo flown T where the Northeru waters, 1000, Lock arms with wild Sisk.tchowsn. Vearii2 awiong thy o ustoring lalus Their paddles gleatutug kiss toy amites ; Aud uow the tarqne thit cleaves thy crest, A nabion’s wealth beara o'ex thiy brodst, Ages have passed 1 the wigwam stood Wiere citl.u, toweriog o'er the Hood, Paur thoir vast treasura toward th ik goal Whero, waru, 1he Moxio watura roll, ‘Turoooss F, Paics, s rolitical Economy on tho Ntros! Boaton Irvics, Disappoiuted Creditors ¢ Thisis the fourth tine, vir, you havo promised mo tuat little Liti youowe me. I can' take prowises, air. ‘franguil Dobtor s, ¢ (£ L psy you the green- backs you wouldu's have wnytoig bus prowises —United Btatos promise: Noa-plussed Creditor; * Yew; but they will b paid suwenme.” Trauquu Debtor: * Py you same dsy, ny-‘ by, Abr, B Sl