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ppeetabls rank among tha bost he "Tho novel enhitled ** Janathan,” by C. C. ser-Tytler, ia o charming composition. Itis strictly Eoglian in its charactor, and js, moro- over, raatla in evory featura, ity nor the gontry aro represonted in ita dramal- 18 persona, ot working mon and working women cotnpons oxclusivoly—inloss we oxcopt tha cu- rto—the comnmunity in whoso _fortunes we aro Yot tho humblo tha reetrictod livos of thesa rural folk do mot deprive them of ai- for {ho momentous ovents that LITERATURE. Neithor tha nobil- An Unfinished Historical Ro- mance of the Late Lord Lyftton. invited to find ¢ Life of the Rov. Dr. Efiphalet Nott, isappolntmont, and President of Union College. gorrow work thoir fatal blight, and purity and goodness shod thoir elfalgonce in tho homea of tho poor and obgcure, a4 thoy do iu thowo of eat; and the roal Intent of eaoh of thoso carthly oxperlances may bo e planly road In tho ono case aa in the olher, Wo scldom meet In fiction with n charscter 88 noble in its unsolflshness and fldelity to right aa that of Jouathan, or with one moro winning in [ta grace and simplicity than that of Daphuo two, in the final nages of that their lives, Jiko their Toarts, may blend togethor, tho roadoz rejoices mont heartily in thoir rapture. ELIPHALET NOTT. Mesorra or Etvuater Notr, D, D, LL, D; ron Hiztrtwo Yrans Dy 0. Van Bnlr:rgnrlzh{r‘.‘y'. T o b 50, New York ¢ Alioldon & Cou D Itis ton years, and & litte more, ninco the yaonerablo Preatdent of Union Cotloge parted the veil that falla over tho tomb, snd passod through on tho othor side. 13is pllgrimage on oarth hnd been unusully prolongsd, oxtending moro than two decades beyond the atlotted torm of * throo- scoro yoars ond ten.” And, thronghout fts en- {ire langtls, he hind Locn, as cbild, and youth, and man, and votersn, & striliing character, making » mark on tho lives of thoss about him, and on the ago in which ho dwolt, that will long survive. him. His influanco was groat, and it was good.’ It was tho foreo goneratad by a vigoraus, grasp- ing, far-seoing intalloct, and by o bold, firm, and tenagions will, working in harmony under tho coof purs and sincoro Christian princi- ples, Jt-fa fitting that tho mtoryof hig lifo should be told, bocause it is & part of the history of his country, and bscause it affords {n itsolf an {mprossive moral Iosaon, Eliphalet Nott was born in 1773, into sn ob-' score and impoverishied home In Asbford, Cont., whora tue nurbure sad caro of six little children mado - the struggle for snbsistonco a hard ona for tho parcnts of the numerous flock, 'Bat the blood of resoluts and high-hoarted ancestora flowed in tho veins of tho family, snd the ob- staclos which poverty sots in tho way of agpira- tion conld neither dsunt mor overcomo. heplth of the fatber had beon permaneqtly in- jurod by malaris, and upon tho mother dovolved tho ohiof responsibility of providing for the household. Bhe was aqual to tho demand; for, as ncods incrossed and tasks multiplied, hor powora dovelopad, and met and conquered overy emorgency. ** All that I tiayo beon and am,” Dr.! Motk waa ofton hesrd to eay with grateful en-. thusinsm, ** I owo to the tutelago and counsels of tho best of mothera.” < 7 The boy displayed nucommon facnities when little moro than & babo, aud before ho wns 3 yoara old lio was abla to road, and at 4 ho had so- complished tho foat of reading the Bible from beginning to ond. Whon his mothor was una- blo to go to church, ho was gent with a papor and pencil to noto down ¢tho toxt aud points of tho sermon, and thon was exnocted to fill out’ tho outlines of thie discoursa from his memory, for his motber's benefit. A good desl of exor- clao of this sor po strongthicued Lis memory thiat 1o s00n boeamo ablo to presont not only tho general drift of the aormon, but to repeat m groat part 1ta oxact Jangusge.. In aftor-lifo the bengfit of his training eppenrad in his ability to rehoarso logal and legisiative spoacica to which had fistened, with the falluess aud.accoracy of a stenographic report, aud to memorizo lus own sormond, sometimes atter a dingle reading, %0 that ho could doclaim thom iluently without tho reatriotion of notes. The opportunities of . acquiring book-learning were afforded In scenty measuro to this youug boy, yot such s did coms within his roach wera greedily seizod. At tuoago of 14 ho entorod tho oftico of & physiclsn 24 a student of medi- cine, but, boing called upon to ss:ist in & anrgl- operatlon, he fell awooning to the tloor. b “the patu inflicted ‘bravely borno by the pationt, tho Loy could not witness tho suffcring, and ho immodiatoly gave ti8 filled with similar dis- yor later his mothor sapk undor the too Lioavy burdens lifs hiad imposod, draoping, departed to lLor final ight of my life went out whon my mother diod,” was the touching romark of ler boroaved son. An older brotlior had through groat diflcultios found Nis _way' into the and with him passed uovaeral yoars, studying- under hig direc tion, and, for w portion of the tim country ~soliools, bimsolt for the imigsion to Brown undergoing o oritical oxamination bofore the Faculty, ho wae informed that his attainnmionts wers already guch that he was oatitlod to tho bonors .of tho inslitution, and the dograe of Mastor of Arts wag accordingly conferred upon The Eerl of Dunraven's Travels in the Yellowstons Region, Lynn; and when tho tlio volume, discover Woalleraft-—The Holy Mouso of Loretto~ Heory tho Eighth and Aund Boleyn. Yrestoent or UsroN CoLLEAE, With Contribution Lrwiz, of Union Col- ‘Gino Capponi---Roman Antiquities.— Indian Prayer---An itafian The- atre—-The Althorp Li- White-Mountain Butterflies--A Two-Hoaded Snake---Flght with an Eagle---The Summer Boientific Bchopls=~The Mu- A LITERATURE, PAURANLIN TR SrARTAN ¢ AN UNFINISHED HUITORICAL Ttomaxce, Dy tho late Lord LrrTon, (Editod by JEis; iadolplia: 3. B, of ““Biistress Judith,” cte, 11 New York: Ileur; Co. Fifteen or twonty years befors tha death of Lord Lyttoo, bo begen the construction of a :historical novel having for its hero Paussulas, ‘the Regent’ of Bparts, and tho commander of' ‘the victorlous Greoks' at tho battle of Tlatma. ‘The aubject was s admirablo ono; for cnongh -of romance, af mystory, sud of tragody eucirale the chiarncter and destiny of tho Spartan loador to stimulato tho {magination of tho novellst to *ita bighest action and to givo room for ita freast play. Tho influentjal positign of Pausaniss; dacing doods, suooessivoly the pride and the torror the Hellenic S{ates ; his ambitious deeigns, vast, .though eolfieb ; and his uncommon diplomatic Atoloote, indicato remackabla intellociual abili- Liss united wth groat force and energy of will, -and elothio him with the dignity and the fascmn- ton that should fnvast the chiof personago in &' Moraover, the pathetio Inci- dont of his love for Cleonice, and its fatal ro-, sults, affordsa most felicitons episode around ‘which the romantic interost of the atory may tontro ; whils, finally, tho tragio death of I'au- .sanias, cntombed snd atarved in the temple to which ho had fled for reruge,—the eniranco bo- ing walled 1p by his indignant conntrymen to provent hid cacape, and his mothor laying tho firgt stono in ho barricpdo,—furnishes a fijting finalo for & coreer tbat wag pingularly besch with turilling sifuations, . + The subject commended ilself strongly to {be goniua of Lord Lytton, and much study had Loen given to ft; still the complotion of tho| noyel was for years doforred. . “* A :fow woeks' provious $o. ‘hin ‘death,” writea. his sop,- “I ssked my ‘father which mads bistorieal fiction, by the kmfo was whothor *.ho had ing his romance of * Pausanips.’ Mo roplied, | +0n tha contrary,<I sm.finishing it oow,' and sntorod, with great animation, iato a discusslon of tho subjeat and ts capabilitics.’ Thia reply to my fnquiry surprisod snd impresscd mo ; for, B8 you are aware, my fathor was ihion engogoed bn tho gimultancous composition of two other And vory differont works,—*Konclm Olilliugly’ It was tho Iast timo ho everspoko to me about ‘Yausanias;’ but, from what ho tlion gaid of 1, I derived pu impression thiat tho book was all but comploted, and need- - Ing pnly o fow flulaLing touches to ba ropdy for publication at no distant date,” . 'Mho fmpreasion dorived frow tuls convergation proved to bo .erroncons. On examining tho posthumous papera of Lord Lytton, only an une itnislied fragment of the novel coujd bo found § but this .Laa boen given (o the-publio by Lis . son, :who rightly : sutorast .would ateach. :Alw propontatiou, Eliphalot mnow snd *Tho Parisiens.’ riestliood, ho ap- nivorsity, After fm, Tho year 1700 waa made notable by tho oceur- roncs of three important eventa in his caroer : lus liconsuro to preach ; hia warriage to tho daughter of Dr. Benedict, pastor of tho Congro- gations! Churchof Plaintiold ; and his establish~ mont as the minister of the Presbytarian Chiurch in the young Villags of Chorry Valloy, N. Y, His connoction wath this church lastod only two yearn, it bolog torminated . by a call from the Trosbytorian Sooloty at Albapy, which Le nc- coptad, A tha period of Mr. In ths Capital’ of New York it was wimp thriving villags of abont 8,000 . inhabl bad boon fouudad by tho IHollnndors, who im- parted thoir cuntoms and charactor to tho place, giving it nu air of sobrjety and quaintnesd that 8, ; ashions that liad obtain- od, through the intinence of tho early Dutch a general currency in the community, funeral ritss with a fonat Aftor thio ceromonies udged that sufliciont tho worl to war- : e author takes up tho ‘ptory of Paussnisa_aftor the baitlo of Platmg, when tho Spartan Regent is in command of tho Graok flest stationed in tha Blnck Bes, tho . pumnyt of his prospority. The parrativo is pbiou balt concluded saniag. 8¢ Dygaotinm, fn the midat of his con- #hrgatenod with & rocall to Bpasta fo anewer bofore tho Ephors for his mue. picigus heliawlar, aud sontching momenta of con. alion |n tho poelaty of Cloonipo. The scenos tho Liatory sro arrapged -with much and whether . thay bring us joto .sho counpii:chamber. whero suotle wranglors practios sbojr arlg of Ststecradt upon one suot! into the gpariments ot fho sriless and spiritusllo Jonoganco agd candor sabduo tho haughty aud passionate Liegont to & mood of they impross us strougly, . ‘politician, tho student of history, and the raader of romances, will osch find Lor of pacyliar intorast {n the sta; b sympalbics cafl t i3 but forsshindowod frggment ; yes, from {bo sccount by d ] wo :rggw luzwh ‘th. cdo'.lul:‘y of 0 obapp) muit ho wrogght out, ‘Tho ose l,lntmnk:g n{#‘dunmyud her young lito ia der ecribed with moro dotsll by this:thao by auy of tho Athenlan wrijors, aund wo copy fromm Lum the antire peconnt; . £ elatpd jupt Pansppiae, whon sl Bysaotivm, souglt, witly criminal purpe o ott’s sottiement spiracy with Xerxow clung to it for man, Aweng tho eings waa that of concluding sllisr 40 an Jrish wako. ot tho grave, the proccssion of relstives aud frionds roturnod in golemn order to tlic houso from which death bad borno ita victim, and sat down to & luxurious board ») mon aqntertainmant, **'I'ho elongated visage, and uad, sosions saconts which the presonce of rendered appropriste, speodily vane ishod boforo tho magic of this good "choor. Ordinary toplca wore discusaed, and gayety took tho place of gloom; and s0 attractive Liocamo thip afterplecs that tho company ofton hold to- gothier far into tho night, and uven through tho night,—the houee of mourning bein; pletoly changed into onoe of faasting. nogable hiabit, Indicating the spirit of tho limen us well am of this special locality, waa that of presonting tho prator at Now Year's with o keg of wias, which ay accepted ae it waa given, as & mattor of courso, and s thing innocont of ro- proach. BIr, Nottset Lifi faco’ in_{bo begtnnin; gainst the fashion of fanerpl feasts; an en, Iater, the temperance revival that spread through tho nation wea junugurated, e bocamo ono of ita moat nolive converts, and tho wine- keg was banished from his collar, slong with the ues from his sideboard. ott gained a wido roputation for gennine and captivatiugg oratory during the five or six youra of his Iabors in tho pastorato st Albany, and many of hle ssrmons dolivered on promiusny ocossiond were regarded ss mastorful praoduc- tions, ‘Ihis famo was enduring, for the forvor uence did not dimintsh until old ago had chilled tho ardor of bis miud aud relaxed of hls frame, * Jls voioe had & pe- ournalist of ‘the time, Clennice, Whoao ol - for tho com- fnto ot iflxwpx 0y ucomplely 1ot !avprhuu.c thw loveof 3 young ¥, naty co. * Tho nggenlly, sulluzed Lim o oarry eforo enteriog Lis chiumber, ght mixht Do extinuulshinl, sud, i darkugss and allanco, she approached the couch ansias, who wak sircady aslosp. Lausanta, suddonly ug that ¥owms ene- Gelzod Bis sword, t struck tho malden awoy thelr dawghter, my was about o' biy pds to the ground, - Bhe died of Ler wound; and, from that inoment, Topgas wna baniehiod from tholife of 'A wpectro appearcd fo Ll ove Lis alcop, aud rojeated 10 biw, fa seproac Mils boxameter versa: "Whither I walt thice, march, and recelvs the doom Sooner or later, but aver, to guan eriue bringeth dis- nater, Tlo alllos, scandalized. by this misdesd, concarted mot, and besloged Pausanias In Biyzant odod i cscaping. Continusl) antom, ho ook refugo, it 18 sald, st Heraclea, o Whero the souts Gf tho des: to Cluonics, snd eonjured bior to mil} Lis torment, Sua sppcared 10 bita, and s would stfsin tho eud of Lis suteringe,—{ndicating, sa & would uigmatic wordy, tha deatls which th Thix u & ptory 101d by most of tho istorians, Tho outline of thisversfon of the affair would undoubtedly bave bocn followsd by the uovelist, loonico must, in accordsyoa with bistory, ave perished through 'wome acoident by thu d of Lior lpver ; yob, witha fiue inatinct, Li yiton han pictured the attachment thut bound Yaueanias to the Byzantiue maiden &8 dovoyd of impunty, ¢ Nof his the love of slears, gallant, wanton youth; it was tho lovo of wan in oary, but of man (o whom love “which would Lo d woemad . . & ta partsko ‘of tha idiosyno 1t was tromulous Wwitls ‘soung —a s0re of vital vebiolo of thought. It awakened st once great interost in the hoarer. 1la coutd uit and }aten as to ono of Msethoven's eym- shontes, . » « §10 was full of action, gestioulat- biaste to bis ideas, Inbim tho rhetorician provailed over the logician, 1le wog fond of doseriptivo sermous. agiuation revelgd Beriptare saints, ploture of moral beaut; the defcuse of Evangel g lu & way to glveem| portraltures of tho or in sketching soms Orisn{al o was grost also n lical roligion, snd dealt ows lFlh‘Ilt Ratiouslism sud other fdelity.” ta - In 1804, Mr. Nolt, who biad slready sorvaed for & conaidersblo tims ou the Loard was elacted to the Prosldeucy of Uniou Collego, He accepted the position, uprecedented tine of sixty-two yeara, h +| thia change in itsadministration ocourred, Union Collsgo had been only niuo years 1 operssion, a foeblo inutl- neoding ihe vigiiant care ssgaclons wnd _ sctive on the road to indepondence sud proaperity, Its _financey were in a discouraging conditiou ; the uumber of students in atiendance wau not above forty ; ‘and ita Faouity comprivad ounly one full , Prolsusor sud four tutors. took 3he growin lonely nf hiear} alope can love the uumppy‘w’honphhv uuhm‘xll 5 uman emiotion de: I il And Cleobico, ko wan whi sedently, wublimely Greok,' b as filjed * withh ity lovely perstition, its herolc sud held ¢ for B loved asloys ' eaoh crevico of i b.:uzulml-u ¥ comp 3 WamAY piadiod shat 1t would bave “ffi: '.flllk..‘ ut, whien Mr. Nott TIHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MARCII 11, 1876—TWELVE PAGES, ansnmed the chargo of ils lre, thoir sepects waa soon changed. Within tho firat decada tho list of studonta incrensed five-fold, a abla corpa of tonchors, with tho President at thelr Drown & Co, Chicsgn: Janson, McClurg & Co. | nuderstanding nbout tlo succesaful biddor, aud ric ¢ it in nnderatood it goea to Alr, . | Witt, tho vonorablo endeavor to keop s great | price was axcoptionatiyipw. 1 Py The work abresst of tho histarical criticism of the ——— hoad, ralied the staudsrd of instfuction 0 8 | pgo, M, Bancroft has undertaken a thorough FAMILIAR TALK. miffafactory grad. o Collogo n 101 | ovinion of It Much now motorial, that liza wora a littlo leur;.hnn #1,000, and tho income | boon discovored by scholars scarching for more THE HOLY HOUSE OF LORETTO. = he City of Loretto, in }aly, Is coleb: complote and oxact knowlodgo fn this depart. ks 7 in Haly, I colebrated for munI" of litarataro, hias beon Incorporated by him Ita shrino, ono u'l tho most Lallowed in the tra- into tho body of his narrative, correcting and ditions of tho Catuollo Churcly, and the favorits amplifying cortaln doubifnt and imperfoct ntato- | resort of pilgrime for many eenturica. It is ;a;;l:h’llun. The prasont odition In canveniont :npulad to bo the idontical hatitation in which in form, aud will give increasod circulation to Lo Virgin Mary lived at Nazarotn, in which ¢lo o gorls and reputation to ita authior. rocoived the annunciation of the Nativity, and - in which the Child Jesus divelt with His mother BAOKS RECEIVED, snd Josepl, *the hushand of Mary." Tts ro. . By T, ! 5 - Naroueon gxp His Minswais, My J. T HABLER | moval from s origlnal site f8 said to basa baen Embellishod with'Naniorous btesl-F1ste Eogravings, -| performed by sapernstural sgoucy, angals hav- futo Volumes in One., Mimoq b 2. New York: | ing borns tho buildiog from Nazaroth to s place ON Atonet: A Counteor 81x Cinton Lrcromra | near Tersato, in Dalmatis, in the year 1201, and, Datavenep oxronk TAr BocrETy o Ants. Uy | threo yoars later, Lo Rocanatl, on tho Italiau , M. A, Mo D, 3 4 lfif":‘i‘;:“:‘ ’p‘,",‘_’“{o:f""’;‘,, e D ¥e BB | const.” 1t was deatined to romain lo this spot ATn:nperlnm Bod]n:yal; Px'fi"."f“”é’&&"?n'i"‘r‘“iu"’ i only oight montls, when it was again romoved R 2 o Frenchi ol s Oy PR LR, ATitior of *The lomancoof 5 | 1090 paces noarer tlo town; and, fnally, was Toor Yonng Man By Criu 1ooN, 1uma,, pp. | deposited upon the estato of & noblo lady named 248, Philadelplia: * Porter & Coatos, Irice, $1.35, | Tauretta, from whom it tokes its own tille, : on AGATIIA'W Fatxs, H °’£”fi:':.‘.“,.':.‘.’: ‘;.‘:"‘;‘,‘.‘Lm,. Boets “u;'",(" . | Domus Laurclana. The Town of Lorotto liss flm‘\:nspw“uh g;zm:. J'i’rcnv.h ’.r!; grown up about the ranctuary, and now containa 3 Zorler " i aboat 8,000 inhabitants. Although the cit; vonpens or Exoiaviin,’ 1y Gromoe Du- s 2 8! Y T!x-:u‘:rg.” Thustrated with Thirty-four Wood-En- | boaats of soms fino architectural structarcs, the ',.','.'f.’.’i’;‘!‘,. l"l:m(;, 1;:» ;‘-‘3& ”1?“!' York: Heribuer, | chief object of interest within its bordors is the Cantx N en? bLANTATION H0¥us, A8 Buxa wy T | Duly Iouss, tho nuclous from which Sho town Haurrow Srupcwrh, Armanged by Tiowas It | itsolf Lsa spruog. Lenwie, Daper. New York: G.'P. Putuem's | o Chnrchiof the Sania Cass atands in a pl- Wokbs 1x_SRARCN ¥OR THIY I¥Quinru Awp Tk In- | 8220, OF squaro, nenr the heart of tho city. Itis Urny 3xeTiNG, Papor. Pp, 148, New York: Ane | ents & S, Nandoiph & Cou. Prlos, 40 centa, ered by & grand coutral door, swhich fa sur. N1Uwonous Pikess 07 TIE LAW, By Tnviso Drowse. | mouuted by a uplondid btouzo statuo of the Ma- 10mo,, pp, 190, San Praucico: Bumner, Whitney | donna ; and, within. it bas threo superb bronzo & Co, doorn, co:emd u\v‘n\hcl;-rml:fl»d xun‘rulunhng prominent events in Beriptural aud eccleaisatical PERIODICALS RECEIVED, g i Penn Aonthiy for March renn dlonthly” Association, | listors, Tnside tho inolosuro of the church Tulladelphis). Contents: ‘The Moutui” *The stands the Holy House,—a small edifice, built of ‘Academy of Natlonal Sclence,” by Prof, L. D, Cope} brick similar in color and texture Lo varietios W Training of Nuraea for the Bick,” by Dr. Jobn 11, | found in Palestine. itis 82 fest long, 13 foet Packard; * Political Economy and Hoclalism,” by | brosd, and 18 foct bigh, and has a einglo door Emile Do uvflm‘j "Tho North-American Buon | and & singlo window, It is without foundstious, aud Jin Extermination, by 7, A. Allen] Tue Art { and its roof is heavily arched. It was originally 3’»:'5.."*"% melmflflv" by Prof, d, G. I BCEIroy; | rude in matoriakand cooatruction ; but, sines it 5, L Weatern Jotiria! of Edueation for February (John v, | 188 sood in its prosent location, it Lias been eu- from nll sourcen failed to liquidate tust sum. An Incresso of rovenuo was a vital nocossity to tho Institution, nod an appoal wad mado to tho Toginlaturo. The reanit of tho appoal wae an nct authorizing tho Collogo to cetabilab fonr lottorica for the purposo of ralsiug $80,000. This mode of procuring funds for schools, char- 1ties, and churchios oven, was, in tho esrly part of our century, cousldared gcx!nc\ly honorable, and was frequently adopted, It was put In foreo in tho presoot cano, and afforded aubatan- tial ald in relioving Unton College from pecunia- ry embarrasamant. Gradusily, through the pro- tractod and sirenuous efforts, of Mr. Nott, the Collegs was placed upon a sound financial basls. ‘Tho history of Dr. Nott, from the year 1304 un- Ul his doath In 1866, 18 fusoparably connected with the institution of which Lo contiuued fhrough all that uterval the acting Prosidont. His chief work was accomplished ju tho capacity of educator, altbough tho arduous labors of a manifold nature that devolve upon ona nccnn{- fog bis rospoosiblo oflico’ were performied with !“fl’ll ability, p o the ago of 73 his health hiad continuod firm, but a sovoro attack of rheumatism occur- ring at thistimonilicted an injury from which ha nover parfeotly recovered. Iffs” gait wan aftor- whrds feobls ‘and unstoady, yet his mind ro-. teined its vigor for s laucxuriud following, sad ita cloarnoan to tho lass, At tho commencement of 1805 bo was uuable to join intho oxercises, as bad for 80 many years boon his wont; but he was supported to tho window of his resi- dence, from which he gazed ont upon tho long filos of students aud citizans who marched bo- foro him with uvcoverad heads In token of reverence. ‘*‘Io ecould not apeak to thom; but, thongh paln wae tamped upon his countensnco, the amile and glow of feeling were still ‘thero, deeply- af- facting tho young, whilodrawlog tears fromn aged oyos {u that remarkable procession.” A slow and stoady decliue brought him to tho peacoful eloro of his life on the morning of Jan. 29, 1860, Dr, Nott had beca marriod thras tmes, aud hig third wife etill surnves bim. * LORD DUNRAVEN'S YELLOWSTONE TRAVELS. s Tar GREAT DividR: TEAVELS 1N Tng UrrEn Brown, Ohleago), riched with ornsmenta of every sort, until it has e v it Thantestions b, By 189 | oo Century for Fobruary (loternationsl Pres-Trade | become 't miarvol of art and costlinesa.” Tho ‘Allfance, New Yark), interior i casod with white marble, exquisitely Amerean Hooksller for March (American News Com- | seulpturod after designs by eminont artiats, tho Pany, New York), i ST alosdi Socity Papsrs for Bebrusey (ich | SHUISEE DOINE - iauen from - dho, bistory Liaeusy World for Mareh (. T Crocker, Bostow), | this, there s 8 wmultitudo " of - bsa- TiNg W, BRONLEY, 8vo., pp. 877, New Yor Scribner, Welfurd & Armsirong. Chicago: Jansen, McClirg'k Uo, Trico, 85, The Earl of Dunravon possossen in o marked degreo that passion for travel aud adventure reliefs, mosaics, frescoes, paintingv, and carv- that seems to bo foheront in the genuine En- LITERARY NOTES. ings in brouge, that bowilder the eyo with their glishman, Tho comforts of a luxnrious home wA History of My Lifo and Timoea,” by George wegnificonce and beauty. The font. which 1s of yleld to tho superior attractions of tho chaso, of | Crujkaliank, may be expocted, it is said. ULronzo, 18 & master-plecoof art. *In a niche, formerly of mosaic gold work enriched with pro- During the Inat two or three years, Bret | cious atonos, but now of silvar-gilt and fllagron Tarte's talos and poems have sppoaraed ja Bussia | Work, Is the ancieut statuo of tue Virgla, mude in two trauslations. of the cedar of Lobanon, and romoved to Lorot- g to simultanoously with the house." During tho Dr. Brinsley Nicholson is to edit the ** Doubt- | occupation of Lorette by tho French in 1706, tho £} Dlaya of Shakapearo, for Massra, George | mauctusry was despoiled of many of its trcas- Boll & Sona, Londau. i\ffl!-' l"l‘ ‘a statue of :‘I‘x: Vif’mx"’ cn{lfluxd to aris, but was restored by leou to the Pope, Another volume of Aunt Joo's Berap-Bag.” | who dornod it aow with procious jowols, ad being o collection of Miss Loulsa M. Alcott's { placod it in its old nicho in'tho Holy House, in shortor stories, is announced. 802, Tho indefatigablo autbor of * Ginx’s Daby” | Conneotod with the sanctuary is an apothe- and Tho Deviba Ghadn ™ has ip Dress & myw,| C373's shop, which was foundod for tho purposa Y atclines and Dilloo™ of sdministoring medicines to tho poor pilgrims Hlocy oRlind H T liziee R DLIY. who vislt the elitlus, This hae alao roceived & A now Eogilsh story called * A Volea from the | sharo of the castly afforings that pious and opu- Sea ; or, Tho Wrock of tho Eglantine,” Is com- | fent Catliolics hava bestowed upon the Holy mended to tho public by Mr., Plimsoll. House during succosvive gouerations, ‘Tho »Intho Vineyard ; A Plea for Clirfatian Work,” | Dukea of Usbino uave vresented tho most val- i]g :lgu namo 1'5' fortlicoming vx]l;lflmu by tho uxe" a"$ m‘fi:g no’ffs'j':é mfigtlulsuhs Tfl' 300 e, T »D.D., or of **Lcco C ! Y el 07 are An H;‘rl:mmmr;mmmm’ " ‘: a 'T:n: Tle- g! exquisito porcelain, delcouten with lmnuymul moentary Phyeical Geography.” by Richard A, {,‘:},‘l‘:;‘,;fi“gc"’b‘;‘fia‘fia‘i‘,;’ :Fufig;lf:el.ll "i;‘;n;x::g Proctor, are to be published by J, B. Lippincott: | 15 is Europoan jourvals, r. George Tickuor & Co. ey o givi'n & riof account of this elegant ware, whicli W. & R. Chsmbers, London and Edinburg, | wo borrow : aro about o publish a third odition, rovised by [ Tho truth of the casois as follows: Even In the Dr. Robert Carruthicrs, of their woll-kuown Cy- ;A‘v;n of tko l(Tmn;, 2 nr%lu:u;y kL!hnd uf‘ et hN;‘e’m-! reelain, wis mado fi tho melghborhood o clopedia ot English Literatuze, Do . atiout A, . 1900, 1t 1 Kriown that It wran In “Thomas Wingford, Curats,” (oorge | stillwnde there, of coarse quality udced, Lut rare Macdonald's now novel, 600n to appoar, an At- | And curious, as geuuine porcelain was not yet known Prof, dolt sud others rogarding God. snd 23500 1t inn o Ll farth riH immortality. e 2t from 1550, 15011t whs At s greaicst A new noyel by Mrr. A, D. T. Waitney, en- ;Je":fl?‘n.hfi&rmmu Tt from, 1 presuing, e titlod ** Bights and Insights,"—s story of Now | compatition neso parcoin Eoglsnd lfo,—will slertly bo yubliicd by 08 | it ukme iphers oo kil semusteess G s good & Co. Tt fs said to bo Mrs. Whitnoy's most | faple tliat Rtaphsel ever wrought on it arcse from two claborato work of fiction. 11 tancea: Firdt, that Guido Baldo 11, cailed ** Why Wo Lavgh,” will ba issucd T+ | sketclies, some of which be hiad used, though with al- calle y Wo Laogh,” will ba issued at ouco | terations, on tho Stanzo, Loggls, ctc.,—snd {heso by Harpor & Drothors, Itis bnsed 0o bis pa- | gkotcues being copied upon the majolies by other ari- pers on legislative homor printed in Larper's | ists, sud yet colaciding witis Raphacis works entirely, AMagazine, aod makes & vohuno of 400 pages. ‘wero naturally supposed o Le his by superticial fo- Tuchard Grant White 1s suggestod £t tho post e e M e of Librarian.of the_Asior . Library., Tho New | name wes easily confounded with that of the most York Evening Postsiys : * Wo cau at this mo- | famous of painters, mont think 6f no ouo whoso sppointment to this | The collection at Loretto i& the beat extant of sl thls usafoloass of’tho Hliaty. Hilstory, ths Oid 5nd New Teataments: the colars aro Fonlmora Cooper's novela are said to be quito | fresh and fair, and the execution so fins that Christina popalar in Nussia. During tho yesrs 1873 aud | of Bweden offered o replaco them with aflver furs of Y874 3,000 copies of * Tho Last of tho Mohicnns® | sausl melght,—aud they sro thick and hesvy,—but was wero printod; of **Wyaudotte” and of **Lionol | Fefused: o : Lincoln,” 2,600 coples; and *The Dravo™ ap- At tho prosent dav, when onlightoned Cath- Pearad in two trapalations,—2,600 coplea of ono, olics rojoct logends like thet which supposes and 1,200 of tto othor, having boau published, © | Miraculous trazsportution of tho Haly Houso "o Southern Kide ™ of tho story of Andor- from Nazarath to Lorotto, tho groater number of visitora to tho shrino aro attractod by the sonville Prison ia to Lo presented in & publica- | worke of art that onrich it, notablo ulx'mng :n:: J{,’,"fl, fl.\‘:r:x:;y Mlx!xrm }:ll:mq "L"}"}},‘{,L‘é which fs the oxqgulllln porcelsin on tho sholves llnlm‘\‘aslilinn wnllmx tlnéxl thero‘. 'bfl.‘h;s) m;{'i lit. ofthe dpothiscaryd ehopy compiled from official documsuts by Dr. . HENRY THE EIGHTH. Htovenson, who was chief susgeou of the prisos. | g laborions but important work of eata- In the now lifo of Willlnm Godswin, just pub- | Joguing the State papers of Hoeory tho Eighth, "l:(lm;ll b"unfi"“’“e.-”;““““' this "‘,‘J'd‘}x""i“‘;’h“l'i mhich aro pruservpmnn Wiho Driti ;Iun“eum: this English novolist was ono of 0 firnl ca nunntlo%z in Bugiand to tho real groatnoss of | ho l’“,‘_’““‘m“d 0aios, &, slaahace st B Cervantes' Don Quixots, which was not woll | glend,” [s being faithfully excouted by Mr. J. translated In our lauguage betweon 1612 and | 8, Brower, ‘‘under tho direction of tho Master 1809, at which latrer dats Godwin wroteabout it. | of rhe Rolls, aud with the sanction of Ier Mra, Cherlos Ringsloy s about to publish n | Majesty's Secretaries of State,” An exsmina- m«lsmx:‘I;nn.l 'lmmla]'-r{. hr::b:m;., ;_’5:‘“‘" w;‘l,h .!:fi“: tion of tho copious decumenta which conie under HOlop sam._ b Ires) DA A0t OF | the compiler's hand, sud which include all ) i ‘;‘_‘,’_‘"b}flkmn“‘::&‘;fim s..“.".&fi:;';fi".‘:a?fi” h:? flul:): known sources of informatfon concernlug the mml' at difforcnt periods, and she will usa thoir | charactor of tho Kingand the incldonts of Lia wards in troating of much on which she ould | publio and privata life, has given Mr. Drower no¢ ppesk jmpartiaily. unexamplad mosns of forming s judgmont upon A sonnot by Sholloy, **'To the Nilo,” will be | them,which Lie scems to havoimprovod with much printed for the firat (it in tho &7, James Maya- | Ajueriminating seuse and impartiality, In tho zine for March, This sonnet is one of 8 number Y of origioal mauscripta by Shelloy in the pos- Introduction to the fourth volume of the * Lot sousion of Mr, Townahond Mayer, who bau | ters sad Papars,” whichis now just published, placed many of them &t the unrvlc{: of Mr, Bux- | snd which Lrings his labors down to tho close of ton Forman in tho. proparation of blw now edi- | Wolney's administration, Mr, Brower represonts tion of Bliellas'a worky, whiol is 4oon to be pub- | sy epitomo of the materials thus far assortod, lished Iu London, ¥ ' | aud interprete thair significance. The Introduc- Tho littlo folke, lnq many g‘mnn_peracnl will | tion ia in itsel & volume of nearly 700 pagos, b e, g e 4 o Y i | o rms o try o Mo e B omirontly accurato bistories, uamoly: * Allco's [ Of that monarch tho authoreays : “ Heury the Adventuros tn Wonderland " end **Through the | Bighth was not tho ‘angol of purity’ it boa now Looking-Gilasa," {g about to publish a new work, | becomo a fashion with some to reprosent him; —a story In yoreo. Thotitleof thopoomisnot | yor was bLe tho monster of lust and sonounced, but wo aro onabled to iuform tho | cryelty deacribsd by othors, at sil evonts many. anxious roaders of "Lowis Carrol's™ | jn™ his earlier yoars, sud under Wol- formor books, that thera will be somo furiher say's admimstration.” Tho caroful and even dapduiih fn \lils now otk B the: 5“{?,",‘.',‘;,5,":5; strict oducation Houry had rocolved from his tulgey wood and burbled eait camo,” aud that fatlior, {1n carea of siato,ha oecupation Sf & war with ¥rance, and tho iufluonce of Wolsey, ‘:‘c“_’l‘i:“g“:‘;gm will also bo reiutroduced to our }ad soted as S whiolcsome. rebraing upon u.{n suporabundaut activity of the younr Kiog, and, Aftar tho book falr, which opens March 20, | until tho close of tho year 1624, nothing soriously and the snceesding romaindor salo, Alosara. | objectiouable could be urged against hun, Dut, Jamop R. Oagood & Co. (says the New York | *lo 1535, the King, then 80 yoars old, was bo- ‘Uyibune) will offer by auction, througl Goorge | gluniug (o pay loes atteution to business. lio A, Loavitt & Qo., tho largest number of steseo- { Liated the drudgory of lookwig over filos of dis- typs plates ever sold at ona timoin tho Amenican | patches, from which the most exciting topio was trade, Thoy Lave desided to concantrato thoir | abuent; withdrew himsslt more and more fram businoes oo thelr Amorican copyright books, | tho metropolis, and epent Lis days in bhunting. standard poets, and the heliotypo procoss, which [ At $hat timo ho was la the very vigor of hismau- Lis grown to a considorablo busiuess of itself. | bood ; thon, aud for some time sitor, tho adimni- More than 400 yolumes are to bo offered,—plates, | ration of *all who behiold him; consplouous for atock, snd_temainders,—inoiuding their sots of | his cloar, ruddy complezion, his strength and Dickeus, Thackoray, Miss Thaokeray, Itead, Do | agility ; towerlng in utaturs abave all those by Quinoy, Beott, Jules Vorne, the Kingslays, Os- | whom be wasd wnrrounded.” After this age, g00d's Library of Navels, aa woll as s few winor | however, his chosen compaulony were dissoluto Amerioan suthors. Their present catalogue is | conrtiors, aud tha morals of the King wore grad- o large, howsver, that this considerable cliange | ually coutamnuated by thelr sxampla. leaves them ovor 500 volumes. Aubno lioleyn bisd returued from the Court of In New York; March 6, a portion of the libra Trauce in 1632, and wad now turniog the hoads of ot Mx Kimon W Griaword was soid at auciion, | 51 tho gay B e uppa e King, ‘Lo chilst excitomont of the ealo contored in the | Her beauty jathusvividly depicted by Mr. Browor: Ftiot Indian Viblo. Tle is & superb copy, which |, TheLioad of the Ornouds tania bas velns, Ysow 8ir. Griawold bad tho good fortuno to pick up | BOF Trieh descent she loLoplied o it eyear somo fourfeen yoars ago ab tho uale of Mies | Ana like tho 1rish Iaolt of tho great poct, Avdro Holeyu Richardson' Currer, of Eshton 1all, Yorkshiro, | was remarkable for tho uxquisite tus of Lo neck aid luah Indly \1::‘ l-: noted ‘|n hibuuur:phi(c;l gfl;ulp E‘u xl:?u l:m:;t. lmfu‘;m a ums, 'xévclyh l:‘l-):fl.l'llfl s bayin 4 mado 1 - Wi w anciual oyed, a) g ] Atz :y‘ Pasin wl'x'\gfl‘h‘uofifl:nd el Wotlis aot: "fi"?&é"m"fil? tie sgfilfifir: llncrl:‘w‘n 98 o bd:‘r;f aho co oly down hier bas ',fw’.f: "Px",::’-c:;’y““all‘"},‘n;“‘&"‘:&‘;‘fi'& 40 89 | nloriaced Wikb fowele, —Tho I’nulyv{fl et vies -y«{ Hon, bolng badly wator-vonkod ; but ar, Giris. | Lale siruck ail beholdees wilke, =gravesccletiatii doh i @ Bittiug m Loz balr wold saw that it waa not permaucntly damsged, orhitier s Ao festuro ob hor Cororstion which and, becomlug the purchiaser, he put it into tho | xeems to havemads the dycpeat ipresiton upoo Arch- hands of Bodford, tho London bluder, who | bishop Crsmmer, *“Ou Hunday uwmmn(xx: suxl-:slm: Lound most of the troasures of this colloction, | ber, 1363), solewnly -Minlbnmw. :l{'ldu{*; &':‘:", u:'v" whonce. it came oue of tho mosy perfoct copiay | thed at Windsar, con i capills asdvely FompiNel S0 o the Eliot Lible in exivtonco. ‘Tho Jice copy, | 520, it tbu' must cosly {iEei 08 Godrau Brat edition, cost $1.25, Thls copy is, however, \\',m (b puct, oue of bier admirecs, duscries hor % socond edition, less often fouud but less | ju'tho’fa hlllcl‘lnzuwo of tho wistecuth coutury, un sought for by collectors. As BMr. Habin sput it | having s besuty not 80 whilely sa clear_aud tresh ap, tie maid that there was only ouo gentloman | wbovenll that wu may cetoans which sppoared wuch w?m coutd read thiy book, and he bad Just Jegy— | muss saselleat Ly Lir fayor pAssing swect sud chour- roferriog to v, Trumbuil. It was' started at s "'};‘&:‘:{“fidhl&twh-:mfl.u:wo:‘ n‘fl A 8 25, 14 Jt wpas knocke: Lt have sech ber, as QALTIITY AT N snvm for Mr.r&emm. but there was :ouu mige }n :n u‘\:nuhu uf yreater grace whon'hard, which, with” o wild, outdoor Mfe, sud of exploration in o strango land, and aro frequontly abaudoned by him for n sesson of oxciting indulgenco fu toving and vagabond proponsities. It fs this roetloss mood, allowea to bave full rein, that oarrics the hardy, daring Briton to the remotost corners of the globe, and makea Lim tho willing, usoful instrument in opening np uoknown and out-of-the-way places to tho Investigatlons of scienco, to tho advance of commerce, aud to tho 1oflueuces of civilization. ! The volume bofore us {s the fruit of one of’ o oxtended Journeys, full of rongh, uncom- fortable, deliclous. and exhilarating exporionces, that afford o man like Dunraven an opporsunity to work off his superabundant cuergies, to enjoy unlimited freedom from tha restruints of society, and porfect abandon to the Lohemian instincts of a mrong, virile nature, It is writton ina dashing, impotuous stylo,—a mlogling of bold snd picturesquo langnage with a rockless disre- gard of reflned expression. The scenos of natu- ral nd wonderful grandour through which the traveler’s route was directed have bosn admira- bly portrayed by American oxplorors, and are familinr to most of our readers, Tho Earl does \| falr justico to hia theme when ho descuibes tho country he travorses, tho oharacter of tho Iudian tribes with whom he came in contact and tho incidonts that bofell himaelf and party. Iis book will porform & sorvice in hia own country I;? imparting information, quita carcfully prepared, na to tho unique attractions to the tourist of the Yellowsatona conntry, and of tho most feasible routos by which It may be roached. The strongest improsaion produced by tho wark npon the fastidious ronder on this side of tho wator will- Tikoly be that the author was unnccessarily frank In his acknowledgments of tho itberal uso of whisky, and of omphatic pjaculations that aro aporopriately banishod from polite literatura, Tho voluma is accompanied with a couple of flucly-sxecuted msps, and with & numbor of wood-cuts, i WOODGRAFT. NATURAL Imrony ov WiLD ANIMALS, AnD GUipE ¥ou HUNTERY, TRAPFERS, AXD tlponTsuny, Dy DAvID W, CARTWHIGHZ, (Second Editlon,) Writ- ton by Mamy ¥, Laer, A, M, 12mo., pp. 200, Toled) Dlade Priniing and Paper Gompany, Chicn- go: Jonsen, McClurg & Co. Prico, §1.50, Tho originator of {his volume, Mr. David W. Cartwright, Loa for nearly farty yoars follawod tho life of o trappor sud of & guldein the for- esta of the West, Inthe pursuit of his craft, which ho haa carried on with ' signal success, ho s naturally sccumulated o large fund of curlous lore concorning the habite and nature of tho apimals it was nocoseary to study in order to capturo, This knowledgo, confirmed by long and astuts obsorvation, would bo ropleto witl Instruction to the zoologist, sad to tho sports- mau sud trapper, were it properly writton out in the homoly, diroct spocch of ths baok- woodsman, without any attompt to supple- ment or embollish hin communications, Tho importsng facts embodiod In such a parrative would atono for ite litorary blomishos, whils tho force of truth and flmrhmty would oftan aigoily it with an untutorod oloquonco thiat hins & pocu- liar charm. 3 i8 b pity that, in tho preaont ease, tho trap- per has intrustod Lo s second porson the rolation of a history .that ho would hava told himselt with much greater though rudor offect. The writer who took tho pon in hand in his stoad was nob sufliciently imbued with his spirit to act 88 his intorprater; henco tho {ncidonta that should Lisve syarmed us with a glow of sympathy are ropeatsd in an arsificial manuor, and with sn omission of many dotails thai aro casentisl o their completancss. Nevertheloas, tho lover of woodoraft will bo intorestod in the volumo, and feel recompensed for ite peruxal by the fresh notea contributed to natural history that are seattered along its pagoea. B HAWTHORNE. PAASAGRS FNOM TRE AMEutcaN NoTe-BooRs OF Nir TUANIEL HaWwTHOaNE, Twovolumes, 1tmo. DBose ton 7 James I, Pagopd & Co. ‘The oxtracts from tbo lottera and journsls of Hawthorne, which compose those volumes, give much insight into tho character as woll as the litoof the author, snd therofore posscsa & doop Intercat. Thoy begla in the yosr 1835, when Ilawlborno, at th~ ago of 81, waa ncting a8 Woeighor and Gaugor nt the Boston Cuastome flonse, and oonclude {n 1853, the year in which ho was appolnted Copsul at Liverpool ‘Fho- most attractive portion of tho malos 18 that which recounts Hawthorne's experiencs at Brook Farm. Thelabors of tho agrioultur- ist ware most opposed to tho tastcs and habits of the roflectivo, sedentary man of loltors ; yob ho brandished tho pitehfork and tho hoe, coaxed tho suowy tribute from thie uddors of. tho cows, ond trausported calyos and plys to and from $ho marked, with the pationce aud bheroism of & mertyr. Thoro waa probably pevor a bettor iostauce of that unfortuuate situstion, *‘the Tight mau in the wroug placo,” than was ox- Livited whou Hawthorne was valorously, vat rpholliusly laboring, with ecqually refined, courpgoouy, aud deludod epirits, .to: gathor urofiable Lisrvesta frons tha barron eoll of Brock Farm.. 4lo turued this opisade in Lls life {o gond account, howevor, for out of it came, amony athor yaluphla reeults, that fascinating Loak, *'The Blthedals Bomavee." We dincaver, in many of the notes recarded during tbe six monthy be dwelt with tho gommunity, the germa of the drama that is unfolded i the romance sbove mentioned, . CHICAGO MEDICAL JOURNAL, Oarcato Mol JOURNAL AND EXAMIN lished-under the Auspices of tho Chicsy Feoww Ausociation. Clleagos W, B. Keas, Cooko & “Tho curropt 1sug of this magazius contalog a1 arpiclo which will bo of lutereat to tho gener- al reader, It iu p retroapect of * Early Medica) Chiesgo," by Jymes Novins liyde, A, M., 3L, D, which, Mfiiuutu with the subjoct when Chilcaga was » wiljlery oubpost in » ‘wildornoss, hrjngs tho bietory of Its modical men end practice down to the present time. A fino steel porirait of Dr. Dauial Braloard adorns the number. . OF T STQRY OF BANGROFT'S HISTORY OF THE UNITER mlw-; ar Tux Umivkn S‘r’:m or “'fl“?i rRoM THE DIGOVEAY OF TUK DOMTINENT. Box «" BANCHOIT. §ix }'ol s, Vol I ’&Bruu'h Ravised Eaino. flm@.? PP, 858 Bonlon? u'hl; Lhe tip of one of ber fingers, might be, and was ally Ly har bidden, without any losat blomlsh to Mr, Browor altributes Ilonry’s scruples with regard to Lhe validity of his marrisge with Catherine solely to his infatuation with Anne. otintions a'trace of foun- at tho Bishop of Tatbes itimacy of tho of ‘Virginla, When the fco retraced’ita‘staps in consoquence of a change in the climate, a8 tho rotroat of an army with alf it baggage and oquipments, and in perfect order, « Ydar iy yoar it called upon ita pi nts, its botterfiles, it animals, nnd ‘they foll: a4 4n iia regal traing * y wero to go back with the ice, nos sedacod by the lakes and atroams ita rotrom ecorae _comiphuiohsTto thi mammoth. And it succoodod, for tbo most park untll it reached the Whita Mountusitis," a colony of tho CSnete wore temptea to romai by the shallow ico-rivers that then filled the ravioes of the mountain, -and they stayed sa long that return to tho home of the glaciors wa menul;fla‘.h As tho t.‘:l“‘ nhs!ern molted st fllil 150 Ol 0 .mountain, aud cropt copstant! highier and higher, tho hnlurfllmalmud. l’D’l warm woather was uncongenial to them lsat they wero landed-on tho mouontal which {snow bars of maow lnthe brief sum- mer, « {lere thoy haye mansged to survivh to the present day; but, romarks dMr. Groto, i+ thoy aro ontrapped, and must die out by natur- al causos, unless cortain entomologiats soonct oxtirpato thom by tions of inscets, Wit time, fn Ravine, Ieeo theill-advisod collector, -het in and, swooping.dawn on tula davoted colony ol ‘ancient finsago and more than-Paritan.afilis. tion, I wondor if, befora it ia too lalo, thore will assed to protect tho from the capldity of their parsuera. Tn tho-same -magazino from whioch the :above notes aro -takon, Dr. W, Woo cle on the Gosliawk, that ho Lisn obaorved in bls experiones that the number and eizo of the egga depasited by birds, particularly of tho rapacions rpicies, often - vary with Thuas tho goshawk has boen known in diffszent localities, to Iay one, two, thres, four, and fiva ‘Wood belioves that the old birds lay but two oggs, whilo the young birds lay & larger number, aad thoso of & smaller aizs. Thiero i not in thio i dation for the story raised an objection to the I Princeas Mary, or that Wolaoy - land, the King's confessor, Lo instill into Hevsy's mind doubts of the sanctity of Lia union with Lis brather'a widow, udvelled, -ind 80 by GINO_CAPPONI, The namo of the Marquis Gino Capponl, who died in Lis nativa city, Florance, Italy, on the 8d of Februaey, ia to be added to the long list of thono whio have accomplished (mportans tasks nnder sovere disabilitios, The Marquis was con- nectad with one of tho oldeat houses of Flor- ence, and was tho holr of woslth na wall as no- bility, Ife was born Bopt. 14, 1792, By a caro-+ ful edneation, by extended travels, and by intor- courso with the most inteliectunt and cultivated men of the day, Lio acquired & fondness for lit- erary purguits, aud s desire to olovate and en- lighten his country, which grow with his ncress- | Ilis house was tho controof tho brifliant soclety of Florence, and to its hoapitali- tiewall ‘wero welcoms who cherished noble aspi- rallons, without question as to their rank or for« The humbie etudont and the obecara man of lettern wara as eura of a cordial recogni- tion au wers thowe already crownod with tho world's honora. In the prime of hialifo tho oye-sight of tho 3Marquis began to fail, and in 1941 ho becamno to- tally blind. = Ho bad been previoualy accnmalat- ing matarials for a histary of Florence, and tho appalling calamity that foll upon him wasnot sutfered to sisy his work, Uytho ald of sn amanuensis ho continued his labors npremitting- 1y, and thoe Storia detla Heputlica di Firenze was franed from the press a year sgo,—its sutbor Dbeing at the time 82 yearn old. tho oxtraordinary conrage, enorgy, and mental octivity displayed” in the production of this book under the circumstances, s writar romarks : “Tho whole story of 'Florence was so entiroly fomiliar to his thoughts that it formed itaell naturally a ho dictated. from tho fullness of Lis knowleago. spacial meanjog in almost ovory word ; for the Look was uot compiled pago by page from tho authorities, but is rather tho’ transcript of a mental picturo, which remained after long famil- farity with all tho dotails of tho authoritiea.”” In 1848 Cappont was Prosident of the Con-; atitntional Ministry in Tuscany. tablishment of the Lingdom, ho was mado: Bonator, and received the collar of the Order of He wns also Prosident of tho Academia dells Crusca, With him au tllustrions Liouse dies out, as ha left no male isauo, inning them pj d states, in an artl- the ago of -tho birds., oggain a nest.” Dr. A SNAKE AND AN EAGLE. Mr, Davil W, Cartwright, s trapper weh known in tho West, and o man whoso word may ba lmplicitly trustod, states, in Lis late work on **Westorn Wild Animals,” that ho onco dis coverod A two-hieaded enako in $he vicinity of The creatura was diminutive In elzo, messuring cnly 16 inchoa in longth, and was **at ono ond about hixe & lead poncil, the other and boing largor.” Tho heada terminatod Aho two oxtremitics,—that at tho tail beiog soaller than tho ono at the opposito end. Thoy ‘wero both porfoctly developed, and secmed to ‘| shore the leudership botwoen them, for the snnko waa abla to crawl eq one foremost. In speaking of His book proceedod Humboldt River. woll with aither ad been fatslly wounded by pacty in advauco af him, just bo- foro Mr. Cartwright found it,—thore not much opportunity to exporiment with it ; yet hio statas that, '*if o stick wera put in front of oither Lioad, it (tho suake) would back away the Annunziata. ROMAN ANTIQUITIES, In Novembor last, axeavations wero begun in Rome on the npot where, in the previous year, seven atatucs and o large colloction of fragments of sculpture were rocovered. Tno chief pur- poso af the renowed investigations was to ancer- taln the name and history of the building which had boen ornsmentod with so many beantiful objocts of art. The offort has rosulted In tho “ discovery of & portico 230 foot lons, orpa- mented with a single row of flated columns of gialio antico, resting on pedeatals of gilt plastor. The floor was inlaid with mnarbles in the most in which tho raroat specimons ‘This pavemont 3r. Cartwright also deecribes, in tho sama bLook, & curious erncoluter with While bunting, in the winter of '74-" Yollow River, uoar Chippewa, Wis, Lis conm- pauion wont out ona day to bring iu tho carcass of o deer that bad bgen hung on w treo for eafo- keoping. Tho man hiad borne the deer about 40 Tods from thao tree, whon an caglo swoopod dowin in tho path, about 12 foot in front of him, turniog about, ** planted itself upon tho groun in a docidodly combativa attitudo. upon one foot, with tho othor uplified sa 1f ready for o fight ; s lcnd was erect, ita sharp eyes abarply tixed upon tho mau carrying off the duer, upon which it was probably about to feed ; tho feathers wore all turnod £ on end, and tho wiogs woro partially sprosd.” Tho mau droppod the deer, and, seizivg o stick, struck tho englo so violont u blow that tha Tho bird rotreated sbou 6 foot ; thon, whitling around ogain, pssumoé tho samo deflant attitndo 08 before. aster wero Bot." Liag been removed into tho new cabinet of medala in the Capitol. At tho end of thio portico opposite that whore tha statucs wero found, several bath- rooms wers brought to view, and rara specimens of precious marbles found awong tho debris. Iu tho tirst of these rooms a Jead water-pipo, runaiug aloug ite threo sides, boro tho inscri tion, sovoral times repeatad, Stationis pro p privale D N Aleaandri AVS. This gives tho ‘ddsired clow to tho hiatory'of the bunding. nupposed that tho placo, which was owned by succesyive Roman Emparors, finally fell futo tho bauds of Aloxandor Soverus, who rostored and oruamented it ib the luxurigus atyle of tho third Iu auother of the rooma the pavement way composed of slabs of occhio di patone, the valuo of which is estimated ot £750,000. statuo of & fawn, bearlug a basket of flowers ou tho left shonlder, waa Iying on the tloor, and also a torra~cotta lamp, ehaped liko n gladiator's bolmot, with bau-reliefs exhibiting the gamea of the amphitheatre. AN INDIANS PRAYER. The prayor, which we copy bolow, that an In- dian of tho Crow tribo onco addrossed to the Great Spirit with davout simplicity, clearly Uiue- trates tha distorted idens of right and wrong that govern the conduct of our savago brother of .| the American wilderness. opinion stoutly maintained by rost intelligent travelors among wild tribes in all coantrics, that tho races who to-doy remain in o condition of Larbarism ars of inferior mental organization, incapable of being elovated to tollectual place occupisd by civilizod and enlightened peoples : Tam poor; tlat is bad (murmura the Crow Indlan Mske me a clief; givo me pleaty of Taak for good epottad Glvo'mon large tent; give me s grest many barses ; let me sieal ive horses; graot it to tne, Give me guns by chesting: givoms & Lesutiful woman; Lring the buffalo close by, No deep snow; 8 Mitls snow is g Give me Black-Feat to kil or to weapon was broken. which menaciogly udvanced until tho two were only 4 feol apark Z'be blow now dealt the bird injured it so that il could not tly, and it endeayored to run away. gnin it turned with a pluoky purpose to fight tho battle out ; Lut tho superior powars of tho man secured tho victory, and the bird was * It was a goldan osglo, and mossurad 2 toet and 10 fuchos from tho bill to the tip of tho tuil, aud 734 foot naross tho wings.” The third volume of tho Transactions of thy Acadowmy ‘of Beionco of Bt, Louis, Mo, containt a paper by Dr. Englomann oatitled * Notos or Agave.” Itappoars from tho monograph thal included in tbo gewus Agave, * Americau Alos,” uumber about 100. The greac er part of them are found in Moxico, yot not 1 fow extend within tho lmits of the Uvited Btates, and one rosches 23 far north as Virginia, Thoe penus is divided into throa groups: 1 Singuliflore, with flowers in a ainglo spiko, a eingla one toeach bract ; 2, Geminylora, with a donsor #piko, aud & pair af fowers to each 8, Paniculate, with paniculato intlores cence. Under this Inet group sro rauged the typicsl Agaves, or Coutury-plants, 1 all tho species obsarved by Dr. Englomann, the anthers wschargo their contents aliout forty: eight bours boforo tho stylo matures aod thi stigma s ready for the recoption of tho pollen. I inica, tha cavity in tuo apox of the ad with a viscid liquid, the purpose ol whicl is not dafinitely ascorfained. In conclud- ing Lis paper, Dr. Englemann urges all who have tho opportunity to obaerve spocies of the aqave in flower to nots the hour wheu the nne thiars bopin to shod thoir pollen, when they bo: coma withored, the condition of tho stylo al theso two periods, aud the timo sod nature of In tho specios which have thus far been observed, ths lowers of tho agave open in tha evening, or during tho night. SUMMER SCIENTIFIC SCHOOLS. Bummer-schools for the study of branches of solence that luvolve flald-work, are bocoming 80 popular that the chiof educational institu- tious in tho country sre gonerally establishing them, Cornoll University will opou two schoolt the comlng s0agon, boginning scon after July 7, and conttouing for six weeks. In one, instruc- tion in zoology, through leotures and laboratory- work, will be givonby Prot, W. 8, Barnard, Lr. J. 11. Comstock, Prof. B. L. Wilder, aud Dr, Eliott Conea. lutho othor, goology will bo taught, of specimons, and . B, Comatock, It adds woight to the and consaquent! the moral and ve me fne clothing. i, die; close by, all to- Stop the prople from dylax s 1t12 good. Givo lustruments for amusementa; tlankets too, aud plenty to eat, QGive the peupls altogether plonty of fine buffalo, and plenty to eat, AT AN ITALIAN THEATRE, Tn alotter from BMilsn, dated October, 1856, Mr. Georgo Ticknor gives o pleasing skotch of sn evening’s eutortalnmont at the thoatro. * Qne svening I wont to tho theatre,” he wroto, ¢ attracted by tho nonunciation.of s comody of Hposa Bagace,'-Tho Discroct Dride. . o . Tho prico of tho best seat {n tho houso was abont 27 conts ; but tho stage and all tho sccessories wero very good, the actiug sd- mirsble, and the audience decont snd well-bo- haved, Faw paid so dear as I did for & place, nono more ; aud the great body of tho sudionco —which about balf-illod thothestro—wont in their work-day clothes, and secmed to considor {t o very domestic way of spondiug the evouning. .. 1 noticed a man sud hia wife, who looked like modest shopkeapers, or, perhaps, re- ad a little #on bo- that, not bowg sble to bovn permitied to bring » 1t was eapitaly the viscid socretion. through lectures, fleld-cxcursions, by Prof. 1n Salom, Mass., a school of goology, com- monciog July 7 and contluuing 8ix wooks, will useum of tho Poabody Acad- Espocind attontion will bo given to Marino Botany and Zoology, 24 the ad- vantsges for drodging and shoro-collocting aro excollont. Iostraction will bo given by A. 8. Tackard, Jr., tho Ttov, E. Morso, Mr. John Robiasan, and other A SWEDISH NATURALIST, Dr. Thoroll, of Upsala, Swoeden, la ono of thy ablost of Europoan baturalists, pursuiug origi- nal investigations, aud accowplshing oxteusive and thorough work in the advance of science, Ilis labors are cousidered as oqualing if not sur~ pasaing, in accuracy nud valio, thoso of a simi- Iar naturo which aro oxecuted in Germany. And vot Dr. Thoroll is & coufirmed fnvalld, sufferin, ro1u & painful disoase which confines hiia to i Hore, surrouuded by his books and appar- atus, he prosocutos the wtudies mnd tho oxpori- mants which at onco divert his mind and con- tributo important facts to thie world's treasury of Ono of suo Iate rosuita of his pa- n tho olassifivation on which tha anttior be opened in the M emy of Sclenco, tweon thom,—so you! enjoy the play, he hi bis cat to smuso b gennine Vopetian charactors, ot forth in_she wareat sod simplost Italian verso, and, 83 I sald Leforo, all adiairably parformed.” C. Balles, Prof. I, 8 THF ALTHQRP LIBRARY, ) The library at Althorp, ling., the conntry- roat of the Bpencer family, {8 ouo of the finest private collections in Europe. The serics of volumes illustrating tho listory of prioting, from tho fovention of tho art to tho firat book bearivg & date,—the Paalter of 1457,—iv emd tobe the most completo oxtant. works s tue famoua Valdorfor Boccaccio, of 1471, which was sold in 1812, at tho Roxburgh auction, for £2,200, and in 1819, at tho eale of tho Duke of Marlborough's—Lord Blandfard's White Kuights—~library, stated that Lord Blandford gave ordera to his L as £6,000 {f noed bo to tha timo ho was ustorly d was obliged to leave the s of an nuctioncor a yesr before tiont resoarch is & paper uj of the scorplons,—a subjsc id the first authority. He sdopts the clessifica- tion of Potors, with some modilicatious, dividing 1lio group_ioto familles, sub-familioa, and naw gonera, The numbar of epecics inoludod in the group amounts to about ninoty. A SCIENTIFIC LAWSUIT, ‘While Dr. Welwilwitsch wos puniuing lis ex. plorations in Africa, bo was fu thie pay of tho Portuguess Qoveromant, In afterwards identi- fying the planta which he had collectod, ho was greatly sided by tha English herbariums, and in gratitude ho presented to the Dritivh Museum the best eet of his specimeny, giving it in the pame of the Portugusse Governmont, King of Portagal wsy not_content with thig sr- rangoment, and inutituted a eait for tho re- His olaim has been sabs and’ the British ageut to go 88 higl secure tho worls, yof withont money, ‘book in the handi ho conld redeem 1t, e —— SPARKS OF SCIENCE. TAIN BUTTERFLY. tha Awcrican Nalural- ts tho probablo THE WHITE:MOUN Tu & ploasant papor iu isl, Mr. Aug, B. Grote sugges! oayisoa which inducod the (solated community of White-Mountsin buttortlies to {ake up thelr abode an the rocky summit of that lofty emis noneo. Tho mountain is G393 feot bLigh, snd the buttarlies nover dcscond below an elovation of about 5,600 feot. Ilero thoy ‘*disport during tho month of July of every yoar,” thriving upon (o seanty daposits of honoy fouud in tho flow~ ors of the faw specios of bardy plauts shat grow in the crevices of thia rocks ut this great altitude, aud upon other svailablo liquid substances. The ingsect moasures, from tip to t'p of the axpandsd fore wings, sbout 1 8-10 inchew, It is colored in sliades of bromn, with various bands sod mar- blingu diversifying the surface of tho wiage. “'he butterily ia known to paturalista as tho (Enels semjdea, and wan firs; described in 1833, An allied species occura on Long's F'eak and other slevated heights in Colo- rado; aud auother ls found mv Eopedal b dor; but they ate confinen tu judes Wilslydwie sarated localitiea. M1, Groto surmises that the' Whito-3ountain buttexfly was brought down from its original bomo1n the North by tbo glaclers, whick, ad vanging st the rato of Joas years, carvied thom a4 far wo covory of tho plauts. stant{ated by tho courts, Afyweum baa boen obliged to resign the firstin lien of tho second ket belanging to Dr. Wel- wilwltsch's collectlon. MUSEUM IN CENTRAL PARK. Tho Americen Museum in Central Yark, Noy York, {a sitracting great numbars of visltons, sometimes @¥ many a4 10,000 lu w day, Its col- lections wro rapidly incresaing, and have already attalusd & high selentific valuo, -'Its store of founily, embracing the gollection of Frof, IHall, ianow o large that, with th randos’ Holisisn upactes, which arg jmmedi- 8ggpass, In “tho depart- \eoptalory overy other by ‘Phomas Hay. wuite of Dars atoly oxpected, it will meat of Falsozpie museum in the couotrys 1 are lso vory extel il uth as tho latiiude, tions from thoge of* - Varmeagx, of Yaris *