Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 25, 1876, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, of fanblon. Although this distinction may not MARCH 25, 1870-TWELVE PAGES. 8 ponding to orlginal turns of thought, was William Phipps, arrived with the C! tor, in Chicago: J: on Liberty,” by Count do Garparin Now York qisrnee, & Drothe! A Jonr. LITERATURE. he Fourth Volumo of Pal- irey’s Eistory of New England. ‘ sl 4 The World was Jable publication,-—| May, the jaiin wore filled with persons arrested | favo ontitl Heo of Dior. | charm'in Dire, Whitnoy’a earher writings; but, | ,.sfeClura ice, $1.50, noy in U, ” ‘by Charles Bl ry readable pu! lon, ite on sunptlon oF wltcheratt and, preliminary os- Hone ee sean orci coomaetion ‘ith, tao | bY ttadne osagmeration, 1 linn bocomo, tn hor | THz Gran, Enmcirin, Bist. A Fines Geman Se ee oe cea Penne; tear” | papers being of livoly charactor, and retteot~ aminations bad been made, ir. Palfroy's vor~ id lator books, » glaring defect. It 1s omuipronent, reducing to a tiresome monotony.tho entire toxt- ureof her compositions. In tbe mouth of a singlo character, or in tho utterauces of the writer horaolf, this odd modo of putting things fa piquant, and spleon the wholo uarratlyo; but, whon the ontire group of pordunagor ongagel io antory talk in the ssme eccontrio wtraw, tt grows an offonsivo an it is unnatural, Mrs. Whitnoy ia disciple of the New Jerusa- uNsH, CONTAINING GRAMMAR, DELECTS, AND EX- gucter-boox, wittt Vocanunantes, om TH PLAN OF Dn. Wittiast Barrie's © PRINCIPIA LATINA,” 12m pp. 15%, ‘New York : Harper & Hrothers, ‘Chioag dannen, MeCinrg & Go, Price, 75 cents, ‘Tne Fnexon Pamoreu, Packt, A Finer Fnexor eanina-Boos : Witt GRAMMATICAL QuRaTIons ann Notes, axn A Cortoun Errwotootcat Dio- ‘Tioxany, on tHe Puan or Da. Wittiawt Surrit's “Pntxctrta Latiaa.” New York: Harper i Brothers, Culcago? Jansen, BicClurg & Co, memoira of Odillon Barrot, bringing mat- tora down to the coup d'etat; and now aditions of the poems of De Musset and Theophile Gantior. ‘The firet volumo of the Momolra of Philarcto Chasles, the noted critic, is alao annovacod for pubdlication, Jules Verne bas begun a now story entitled "Michel Stragoff” in his magazino; and Turgenioff will soon publish a now romauca in tho columns of Le Temps. ing tho spirit of the timos, A auggeative comment upon ite quality is oouveyed in the atatoment that ‘Jn ita columns there was but. ttle Sttontion pald to oither religion or moral- 2 o Of the same atamp wan a rival wee! x Connotareur, ‘which wan cntablishod t eakiys the ap Colman aud Donnel Thornton, Jan. 81, 1764.” he Thoso two writera were both mon of wit, and "4 composed in so similar @ voin that thoy wero notable oventa of lis time Invest him personally with intorest, and make it woll worth while to traco Lis history, for the cakoof the light it throws upon tho nociety and politics of the rolgn of Goorgo ILI. ‘the stain of illegitimate birth Lan rogted on the fame of John Burgoyno,—a sonndal, to which Walpole lont tho woight of his influonce, dociac- ing him to be the natural san of Lord Dipgloy. elon of that dirofal tragady is an {mmonso Im- ovement ovor tho fanciful narrative of Up- pam, its apocal bistorian, and of Bancroft aud other modern writers. who hava takon thoir story from Upham. Sinco the exposure of Une ham's Inacouracies in tho North American Ie- view for April, 1860, no writer of Now- England — history will, vonture to ros eat that tlesvue of exploded fiction. ; Price, $1.25, ——— ble ti ‘od ir, Palfroy, howovor, makoa a mistako in at- | Br. Fonbiauquo labors to remove this roprosch | tem Church, and, in ber onthusinem for tho doc- | Easten Linira: A Coutzcrr rma Co: m able to produce joint articlos of a perfectly Religious Intolerance of the | te eres, omen foriosbnonmal manitena. | {fom Burgoytio vj it, thors weoms to axiot no | triuoe of HweWleuborg, nn crosien cvery possible | gRarizo, Tur Paaren Pratteate Yenoy pe ti FAMILIAR TALK, homogenaous character. It waa their babit, B Puritans---The Witch- craft Mania. tiong in tho ‘afllicted children" simply on tho ground of trickory and decoption on thoir part. ‘Lo believe that tho obildron acted solely and Porsistontiy from this motivo, and that fifty Dorsons confessod themaclvor to ba witches, and swore awoy tha lives of their paronte and best friends, ia a papas demand upon one's crodulity than tho dinbolical theory hold at that time. In the alloged spiritual mauifestatiann of oar timo Wo 660 the whole phenomons of those Bconcs ro- produced, but divested of tho terrora which thon Gurrounded thom. ‘Tho dramatic hypotbesls of Upham, that Cot- ton Mather waa tho instigator aud fomoptor of the witcheraft-dolusion, lina disappoared from Mr. Palfroy's warrative. Thomas Brattle, Troastiror of Harvard — Collogo, wrote an authentic account of those acenes tho yoar they occurred ; ond Gov. ITutch- inson, who had convorsed with porsons living’ st paslitre: knowlodgo of the chiof circumstancoa of is origin. Itsa not ptated whero he was boro, ‘but the whn occurred in the year 1722, ‘His fathor,” says Mr. Fonblanque, ' was tho second: son of tho third Baronet of tho namo, and his mothor tho daughter and hoiroas of a wonlthy London morchant named Burnatone,” Ho was educated at Westminster, and enterod the army at an oatly age. Ho had scarcely attainod bia majority when ho clopod with Lady Charlotte Btsoloy, o daughter of the Earl of Dorby. ‘Tho matets, which, fo point of rouk and fortune, wan @ most wooqual one, proved oxceptionally Now York; A. D, P, Randolph % Co, Nait-Heapy’ On, Heups yon Patan Teacnene, B: Gvonoy. Pantntosr, With an Introduction by J. Dexner Trirn. 18-mo,,pp,03. Chicago: Fairbanke opportunity for expounding thom, Quite onn- third, if notono-balf, of the presont boox isgiven upto an elucidation of tho ideas of the Bwodish philosopher, especially of tho doctrine of cor- roapondences. Something of this may be ioter- esting to thoxe who aro not, like Sirs. Whitnay, bellovers in tho New Diapensation ; but there ts altogether too much of it, in “Sights aud In- sighte, ” for the avorage roader. Lt gives tho work more of tho character of o treatise on thoology than of a novel or a book of travel, and limits its vatue mainly to tho class who havo some faith in the divine mission of Bra- denborg. : indeed, to work together upon the samo 1 and we Le ied thoi word that In the Cont noiaseur ** Almost evary single paper is tho joint production of both.” Cowper furnished ae ploanant easaya for this papor, which was con- tinued tn 140 numbers to tho 0th of Soptember, 4756. The World and Connoisseur having tin- ished their course within s fow mouths of each other, leaving tho flold cloar, Dr. Johnson mado aeecond cesay in this inviting arona of liters. turo. April 15, 1759, ho aent out the firat nume ber of tho Jdler, Tho author lind modified bia atylo somowhat sinco the publication of sthe Rambler. Tt was leas boavy aud Iaborod, and consequently moro pleasing to tho multt- tude, Tho fdler Rprosred once & weok, and ron through 103 numbors,—tho last being issued April 6, 1760, Thomas Warton, Langdon, and Bir Joshna Roynolus contributed, among them, twelve papers to tho Jdler, and,tho romnindor BRITISH PERIODICAL ESSAYS. ‘The periodical easaya which farmed » peculiar and popolar feature of tho literatura of England doring tho first half of tho last contury aro gon- erally regarded as beginning with tho Tatler and Apectator ; but to Dofoe really belongs the honor of originating thie unique and intluontint form of publication. In 1704, Dofoo established the Review, a literary and political journal, which bo continued for pine years, issning a number overy Tuesaday, Thursday, and Saturday. All subjects of current political, popular, and social interoat wore treated bythe anthor, who aimod ot im- proving tho morals and the manners of tho ago, and lashed without mercy the vices that woro oxpoaed in the Church, the Btate, and tho homo, Rover. Paper. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Price, 78 conta, Larcatpe Lintany, No, 38, Tim New Maqparer: Nova. Dy Winx: Couttxs. Chicago: Don- nelley, Loyd & Co. Price, 10 cente, PERIQDICALS RECEIVED. Bertbner'a Monthiy for Aprit (Scribner & Co. New te Yalo College’? (illustrated), by In Thera, a Habtercenoss Outles, Bir Jon Burgoyno: Political and Military Episodes---Mrs, Whit- ney's Last Romance, happy: Tar a timo, howover, the young canple found the problom, Low to live upon a narrow iucomo, ahard one to deciphor; and, four years after thoir marriage, Burgoyno having resigned hie position intho army, they retired to Franco, that havon of refuge for impocunious Inglish- Prontico’s Pocms---Disconrses by Frothing- ham-Lord Shelburnc—Caro of tho Sick~-Fisko’s Essays, PRENTICE’S POEMS, ‘Thr Porn or GxonoE D. Paextice, BAltod, with ‘8 Biographical Bketch, by Joun Jamxs Piatr, 12m0., PP.210, Cincinnati:’ Mobert Clark & Co, ‘Tho works of the journalist seldom survive eds strated), ly Clarenon Cvok: a Critic? (IMustrated), by ~Gamma tho time, and bad tho uso of documents which | mon. Bovon yoara of obscurity wore passed in | him. Thoirinfluonca may havo been immense | by Abbott Fostor; Perky’ Cross," by Heury King ; Incossantly a3 Dofoo omployod hia pon, ho | Moro produced by Dr. Jobneon. Thie work ia British Periodical Essays : The Review, thio timo, and had ie vata in to second vol- | thla country, at tho closo of which Burgoyne was | upon their ago; but thoy wore ronowod evory | “At Bent” Uy, Joba Boyle (tally: ‘Gabriel Cons | * nover wrote for tho mero sako of* writing, or | (ro isk Mic ie rackonod tn tha collections of rostored to tho army. After s shortcampaigao on the French coast, ho roturned to Engtand, and twas promoted to tho command of a corps of dragoons, which waa commonly called ‘* Dur- goyue’a Light Horus.” In this position bo dis- played oxcollont qualities as s commander, botn; active, diligent, ond sagactous in discipline, ans rapldly bringing his force tos bigh state of effl- cloncy, Hig chiof renown in warfaro was gained in tho campaign of 1762 In Portugal, durin, which, by a bold aud dashing feat, ho surprisc oud captured Alcantara, Early in 1763, Burgoyno sasumed his soat in tho Honse of Commons, and for tho onsulng trolvo years took an onorgetic part in the dutios of aSonator. In 1768 ho was appointed to tho governmont of Fort William, ac honorablo and lucrative post; aud, bis wifo succceding about tho same time to a liandsome fortune, he was onabled to indulge tho habita of a_mombor of tho gay and fasbionablo socicty of London. Ho was 4 favorite at Court; and, “with a handsomo Porson, & manner tho charm of which neither inan nor woman could, it was sald, oasily rosiat, sgoulal, kindly vaturo, which drew all hoarts toward him, 8 roady wit, a cultivated mind, and the prostiga dorivead from bis roputation as a soldier, a epoaker, and 8 poot,—many o nian moro highly favored by fortune might have on- viod Burgoyuo bis position.” At tho goueral oloction in 1763, ho was return- od to s seat in Parlinmout by tuo Corporation of Preston, and, voli) his doath, bo continued tho roprosontative of tho borough. His speechos in tho House wero lstonod to with much reapoot ; and his courao with regard to the affairs of tho East India Company acquired him au honorable reputation Among polttic|aus. Marly in 1775, tho Major-Gonerals, Sir William Nowe, Clinton, and Burgoyns, were dispatohod to Amorica with miltary roinforcomonts, and placed undor tho ordors of Gen. Gago, the Com- mandor-in-Uhlof of the British army. Gon. Bar- ffoyne, being tho junior of theso officers, was. given no important position until, in 1777, bo suporsoded Sir Guy Carloton in tho command of that portion of tho English army operating In Gonads. Tho incidents of the campaign of this ‘oar, which torminated with bis surrondor at jaratoga, aro familiar to every raador. Ho re- turned to England in 1778, to fod himuelf hold sololy responsible for the failure of his oxpedi- tion, Io was refused tho privilege of establish- {og the oxact degree of his culpability through tho process of 8 court-martisl; was dovied an audience of tho King; and tho ottompt was made, but unsuccessfully, to take from him hia gest in tho Ifouso of Commons, in order to do- umo of his Hiatory of the Masenchuactts Colony the most accurate narrative of Now-Englaud witcheraft which las boon printed, Nolthor of these writers mantians the namo of Cotton Math- or, The charges against bim which bristle in tho pages of our modern Listorics havo boon tramped up within the lost fifty yoars, and aro pow fortunatoly recolving thoir quietus. ‘Tho two Mathers, fathor sud son, were tho most prominent mon, and the most yoluminoua writors, of thoir day In Now England, De, Pale frey rocogoizea thoir groat abilities, and drawe thoir charactors in a moro favorablo tight than any rocent writor of his school in Now England. Ho has not, howover, fully divested himaolf of that projadice in which he has boon educated, and which has iropaired tho historical value of snok works as Bavago’s odl- tion of Winthrop's Journal, and Quinoy’s History of Maryatd College. Ho says, fox inatanco, that in 1681, "Tbo ministers sont out a paper for propostls for collecting facta concorning witch- craft aud other strange apparitions, This brought out [in 1634] a work from Proaldont [ssrekso} Mathor, entitled * Illustrious Provi~ lencos,’ in which that influontial person relatod pumeraus stories of tho performances of por- sono losguod with the devil, Tho imagination of Lis restless son (Cotton Mather] was stimuint- ed, and circumstances fod the flame.” ‘This statement ho uses to connect Mr. Mathor with a case of witchcraft which ocourred in 1689, two yonra Iator. ‘Choro was no possiblo connection batween the bookand the casonamod, In atating the proposals of the mintators, ho hss omitted the mein topics on which papors were solicited, ui ely: “Divino judgmonte, temposte, floods, varthquakes, thunders sa aro ‘unusual, romarkable judgmouts upon noted sin- bors, eminent deliverancos, and auswern to prayor.” A London coprint of tho book is beforo us, Of ite 266 pages, only 73 aro dovotad to ro- ports of osros of witchcraft, uonrly all of which ad boen went in by ministers from tho othor Ootonies. But for theso roports tho history of Now England witencraft would bo aingularly in- complete, ‘tho work {a roally s volumo of Historical Collections,” tho first of tho kind in this country ; and it will compare favorably, faq ality nud matter, with similar colloctiona made at that timo in England. Tuo Corporation of Harvard College issucd propoanls to the min- istors of tho Colony, two years after the oxecu- tions at Salon, for parsre on “ spparitiona, posuorstons, aud enchantments,” os if tho mar- ket bad not alroady beon supplicd, Tho imagi- nation of his routlese young sou wos stimulated,” rays Dr. Palfroy, ‘and circumstances fed tho tho British ossayists, It ‘closes what may ba called the socond age of tho English portodical ossayiate, which commences with the Rambler. and extends ovor tho ten yeare from 1760 ta 1760, tho concluding docado of the reign of George If." Attempta were occasionally mado : by aspiring writers to iotroduco anew what liad. ut proved s’ popular modo of writing, but t nono of them attained the result dealred, s Tho csssy wan mado # fentire in tho wv Toum and Country Magazine and other monthly Periodicals; but it was novor again publishod Separately in Lugland with any dogrea of suc. cess. In Scotland two sericea of poriodical ca- ways, entitled reapectively the Alirror and tho Lounger, wero, ato inter dato, sustained for a 3 short period. Tho Mirror, uuder, tho manage- % ment of Henry Mackenzio, was kept up for Abas year, Tho first number speared. Jan. morning, to porish with tha ovening, and pasa into tho forgotfoinesa that awatta all ephomoral things which have accomplished tholr enda and completed their usofalncss. Tho usmes of tho foremost men who havo made tho newaspapor- pross tho instrument of their power may bo re- memborod boyond their own gonoration; but gradually thoy must fado, or be embalmed chiofly in tradition, like tho names of the actor and tho orator, whozo triumpis are for tho hour, and whoso laurols rest upon ving brows, instead of crownlng with posthumous famo their hallowed gravos. For nently forty yoara George D. Prontico was ono of tho most active and prominent mon ip our country. At the head of the Louisvillo Journal, which paper ho founded in the fall of 1890, bo oxertod a sway ovor public affairs, from his seat in tho Southwost, only inferior to that which Horace Groeloy wiolded from the throne of tho Tribune, in the North and tho Knut. Ifis roputation was national; and tho witty, and pungent, and potont paragraphs he tossed from the point of bis pen from day to day, tho wholo year roand, were road, aud repeated, and copied from ono ond of the Isnd to tho other, Thoy oven crossed tho Atlantic, aud wero froquently Tunerted in the journals of England and frsuce. Avolumo of these bright and torse passages, culled from tho columns of the Journal, which for eo long overflowed with thom, waa pablishod in 1859 by the author, uodor the titlo of * Pren- ticeana.” But, like most other editorial work, thelr favor grow stals with age. Thoy wero mate to bo takon fresh at the momout of their production, and it was almost a wrong to expoao thom to tho offects of time, which muat rob thom of thoir finost qualities. Aman possessing tho vorsatilo talent and tho emotional natura of Mr. Preptico would natural- ly bo tomptea to oieny poetry. Ho not only racticod the art himecif, bat bo cucouragod tho abit in othors, aud the Journal was for years favorito medium thrqugh which writers who loved to clothe thoir thoughts in vorse commu- nicated thom to the public, Mr, Prentice de- clined to publish hia poems during his life, but an approciative friond bes now gathered thom together, aud, prefacing thom with a biograph- ical sketch, placed thom In o pormanent form. Among the most plessing pioces in the collection wo may note tho two entitled ‘Come to Me in Droams,” and "To an Absent Wife.” roy V ‘Bret Harte; Revolutionary Letters,” IV by “Solu Vance Cheney" Tho. Atyaterioua Inland " (conelnd Inga,” by Joln Burroughe: tor Family in Now Yor.” by An Old New-York “Tho Legend of tho Htatue," by Anna CG, “Topica of the Tima ;” * ‘Tho Old Cabinet ; and Hoctety;" "Cultura and Progreas! World's Work; " * Bric-a-Braa” (illustrated). unloss when ho really had somothing to stato which he conceived it important that the public shonld know." But bis honesty and nobility of purposo did not oxempt him from tho panisl- ment which reformers aro spt tocall down on their hoads, and for two years, during which tho publication of the Jécvicw was not intermitted, he Isy in Nowgate Prison on acconnt of a acreod ho had projected sgainet the High-Church party, which was voted a libel by the Ilouss of Com- mons. ‘The Review onjoyed a great popularity, and ita light, pleasant papors on miscellanoous topics probably suggested to Stoolo the schomo of a Journal that suould bo composed exclusively of those. Stoclo occupied tue office of Gazetteer, — apouition that gave him early intolligonco of foreign nows, With this advantage, he resolved to unite tho two departments of litoraturo and nows Io a porlodical that should appear, as did tho Review, ov the poat-dayn, Accordingly, on the 12th of April, 1709, ho isaucd tho firet num- ber of the Tatler, It was aamall shect, but st had at its head 5 man of fertile reeources, of on- terpriso, and of agrocable talents as a writer, Steele's professed object in planning the publica- tion was, through ita instrumentality, toexposo the false arta of life, to pull off tho dieguises of cunning, vauity, and affectation, and to recom- mond a general simplicity in our dross, our dis- course, aud onr behavior ;” inehort, tocorrect tho public taste and refine tho habits of society. Tho Tatler had been published six weoks, when Ad- dison, at the time in Ireland, became a contrib- ntor, and, after tho cightieth numbor, he was regularly sseociated with Stcclo in tho support of the poriodicat, Steele was now in bis 89th year, and Addison waa in his 83th. Tho two writers, whose named wero deatined to go down to posterity in an inti- mate followaip, had been friends from chijd- hood. In acknowledging the assistance which Addisun gave him in tho maintonanco of the Tatler, Steclo confounes: "I fared like a dis- trossed Princo who calls in a powerfnl nelghbor to bis aid; I waa wodone by my suxillary; when Thad onco called him io, IT could not enbsist without dependonce on him." The Tatler survived until the second week in January, 1711, whena conjunction of cirenmstances, chiof of which waa the triumph of tho Tones and Stecio's lose of the appointment of Gazetteor, causod it tobe dis- continued. The psper had been affordod'at tho Tatler, Spectator, Guardian, Ram- ~ bler, World, Idler, Ete., Ete. “Tho Gatazy for Aprit (Bheidon & Co., New Yurk). Con- Asiatic Cholora~-Movomonts of Blood- Vessels---Now Species of Door--- Thomo do Gamond and the Channel Tunnel. teuta f "Is Nature Inconsistent?” by Prof, Burt G, Wilder, M.D: War Memolra : From West Point to tho Battletiela,” by Gen, G. A. Custer; " Lavo Confirmed by Reason? AHonnet," by John G, Boxe; “ Madcap Violet,” Chaptera IX., X., XI., anil XL, by Willism Ilack: Provencal Song.” by Thomas Wentworth Iigginnon ; * Fate's Choice,” by C. B, Jewis; "In tho Hhadow,” by Jacob A, Hockntra t “Tho'Inconvenience of Being Named Buith,” by Col, Nicholas sinlth ; Heuben Delo,” Fart 1, Chapters VII, to Ead,'by Mica Annio T, Mowelln; * Homes of the American Aborigines ;" "To My Davghier," from Victur Hugo; “t American Pronun- elation of Eurllah,” by Richard Grant White; " Sr. Beaman's Mintake: An Old-Fashioned Btory,"" by Emma tt, Cobb; “ Souvenirs of a Man of Lettorn, Hecond Article, by J, H. Siddons; "A Spring Even- ing,” by F, W, Bourdilion ; ‘A Final Word un Em- ereon,” by Joun Burroughs ; To Mr, Lalitor,” by HE, T: Manon; *'Tho King of Poland aud Mimo. Geoftrin,” by Henry James, Jr.¢_t Tho Bonanza Mines of Nevada,” by Lewrence’ Barrett; “ Drift- Wooit," by Philip Quillbet ; " Belentine Miscellany ;” «Current Literature; Nebule, by the Editor, Potter's American Monthly for Aprit (Jolin C, Putter & Co, fuiladelphia), Contents: “The Ifistoric Buildings of America? XVIL—Tbe Dibloyp Houre, on Staten Intand,"” by Bouson J, lowing: "The Monument to Hannah Dustin sud Mary Corlies Neff; " “Schuyler and Gates, and tho Hurrender of Burgoyne," by Ambrose B, Carlyle; "The Late Henry Wilson,” by Iesac Smuckor; ‘ History and Leminiacences of the Philadelphia Navy-Yard,"" TV. Henry M. Valletto ; “ Bketebos of Colebrated Wom- cen: 1V.—Tho Baroness De Heldesel,” by Mrs, Charles if. Halsey; ** Robert J. Walker?” Henry Taurens ve, Caries Thorson; ” "Lafayette : Tho Naturo of His Relations to Americas," by Esther Heed Vernet; Wooed and Married,” by Toss Nouchette Carey; "The Silent Witness,” by Ed- mund Yelou: * Mies Seward’s Mouody on'tho Death of Bfaj, Andre, and His Dafonse on the ‘Trial,’ b; sharles D. Catliste: ** Edward 1.; The Crus! Prince aud King, the Loving Bon and Husband,” by Nellie Heas Morris; “The Sendhi Tops at Dhopsal, in Central Indias" ‘Notes and Qoertes;" ¢ kal. torial Memorands,” ‘Tho number eontalua twenty- elitht illustratious, CathoHe World for April (Catholio Publication Houss, ‘New York), Contents: Iiow We Are Misrepre- sented Abtoad:” ‘Lines on Leonarda Da Vinci's “Virgin of the Itocks’™ (poetry); * A Poet Among the Poms;” “Are You My Wife?" ‘A Sequel of the Gladstone Controversy ;* “ Primeval Germans; “Sacerdos After Christas" (poetry): “Labor In Burope and America;" Bir Thoraaa store;" * Vago Angoliotto cho Cantanss ¥ try); Italian LITERATURE, PALrREY'S HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND, Sax Wietont or New Exatanp. By Jour Goanaw ‘Patrner, Deaton: Little, Brawn & Co, Four Vol- ‘tunes, 8Y0, Chicago? Jansen, McClurg & Co, Price, , 1779, aud the last May 27, 178. The casa! ublished weekly wero weitten with much dele cacy and vivacity of spirit, After an interval of a fow yeara, the Lounger was organized, with Mackonzio for ita priucipal contributor,’ The | carcer of this paper oxtondod from Fob. 6. 1745,! ° to Jan. 6, 1787. With theese two publications be- gan sud ondod the existeuco of the periodical esany tn Scotland. —_-—_. SPARKS OF SCIENCE, ‘The firss throo volames of this standard Hie- lory of New England, which brought the, osr- rative down to 1690, tho closo of the Stuart + dynasty and tho accoseion of William and Bory to the Throne of England, havo beeu bofore the public for twolva yoars, and havo recoived tho + cordial spprovalof biatorical stadonts. A fourth volomo ia now supplied, which carrica tho nar- rative forward to 1740, the closo of Gov. Dolch. > er’s administration In tho Blassachusctts Prov- face. One mora volume is promined, which will bring the history down to tho oponing of tho Wor of Indopondence. It ts our sincoro wish that tho lifo and hoalth of the vonorablo and ac- complished historian, now in his 80th yoar, may be sparcd to completo tho task he has projected. No onecan know much of the bistory of tho United States who bas not mado bimecif famil- far with tho history of New England, tho hive of tho universal Yaokoo nation, From 1630 to 1¢10,—when tho tide of emigration was atdppod, and more poraons went back to England, to an- gogo in tho olvil contest. botween Charles I, aud the Long Parliament, than camo oror,—22,000 Englleh emigranta Iandod at Boston. They were educated, resolute, and practical mon. Some English writer bas said that England wos win- nowed for good rced with which to plant tho New England Colonies. No poople aver so im- ASIATIC CHOLERA. Ata Inte moeling of the London Betoorolog- ical Hocicty, Col, J. Pucklo read a paper on ** Meteorology in India in Retation to Chotora," : in which attontion was called to cortain facta noted in connection with several sovcre out- bresks of cholera in the Mysore country dur- ing tho last Oftecn yearn. On all those occar sions thero havo prevailed similar abnormal mo- teorological conditions. Failure of the ustial rainfall in tho wot season, and on unnaturally high and moist temperature, havo, o# far os bog been obsorved, bean concurrent with tho attacke in Mysore and Southorn India. Tho recent out breake of tho digeaso in Bangalore and Madrss lusve accorded with the general rule, and beou coincident with protracted drought and abnor- mal heat, But, uotwitbstandiog the study that has boen exponded upon the subject, tho clow to tho mysterious origin of the discase is not yot discovered. Anactive agent in generating the malady iu the ith that 13 allowed to fester abova i ber. Of the 270 | ground. Exscopt in a fow of tho largest cities in plicitly obeyed tho Scripture fnjuuc- | Aamo.” The son was 18 yosrs old whon tho | prive him of tho opportunity of appoaling fron LORD SHELBURNE. Commerce in the Biddle Agen;” A low price of 8 penoy por nom! 9 Rela. (uére noWbere: osite'a ly as did this people. From that stock | appeared. + Palfroy knows nothing of tho } mon. 0 - - . " - | oven in thoso towns where somo provision has Pe Goring erico Of poepesno. ‘by their energy, | elfeet of tho book on thetmagination of tue son. | | ‘ils conductof the Binistry so ontraged tho ee TT ee Vilas Te Ins | Sieh Jointly. OF the nim stony artlejed, Syife furalap TT rhe 8 61, Neeholas for April (Beribuer & Co. New York), ‘Aniong the contributors to thin uumber sre Noalt been mado for sanitary regulations, Tho suw- ago which accumulates in the etrocts sod in all wasto places not ouly poicons tho atmosphoro, Jput is liavlo to find ite way during raiafnlls in- to the open cisterns snd wells which supply the people with water. ‘Cho obscurity which sur- rounds tho origin of Asiatic cholera also bales ed tho largost number. Btecle’s success with tho Tatler stimnlated him to asocond offort of the same character; and, within two months aftor the conclusion of Lis first vonture,—that is, ia Marcb, 1721,—the in- ittal number of the Spectator apper This was published daily until tho Gth of December, ‘The remark is avolved wholly from his own imag- foation. Witch-booke woro a8 common in England and Amorics, at that time, a3 grasshoppers ia Nebraska. ‘Thora was no *fiame" then for *crroumstancos to feed.” Thore wore uo witch tnats, and nobody wos undor accusation. Wh: does Dr. Palfroy write history in this mannor foclings of Burgoyne that bo voluntarily ro- glgned all bla appointments, save that of Lieu- tonant Gonoralin tho army, and wont over to tho ranks of the Opposition. On tho change of tho Adminlatration in 1780, many of hte political {rionda went into power, and ho was appointed a Mombor of tho Privy Council and Commander of 1776. 8vo., pp. 377. London; Macmillan & Co, Chicago? Janson, McClurg & Co. Price, $4, Thia volumo carries tho lifo of Lord Shol- barno forward only ten years, yet thoso years woro marked by important events, At tho bo- gianing of tho docado, Obatham formod his seo- character, and ideas, havo largoly controlled tho tior of Northern States from the Atlantic to the Pacific, aud whose influonco hes been felt in + sliparts of the Union. Notwithstanding tho groat immigration from Ireland and from the drooks, Rebecca Harding Davis, 1, U.," Charice L. raco, and Frank R. Stockton,’ There aro betweon thirty'ond forty Wustrations, ‘The number for May ‘will contain the first part of a serial story translated by T. Dailey Aldrich. National Teachers’ Monthly for Apnl (A. 8, Darnes & ‘i 0) i x id Obit le i 5 fuquiry into its treatment. Remedi: that 4 Senile OF europe wile rama ‘he Goodin evo of witcuere carog on in 1088 | the Foreog tn, Irlaad “a Host of dignity and | ond Administration, and appointed Lor! ael- att i Xguonat Hapasie for April. (3. P, Jones, To- Dur th nrapess of tia porideal, Agate ous tiga appear ofiectual, at sotlinr signatly tr ace, ww ostimatec went 8 Oy iat ret ior Wi! “* rottin considorable smolumon'! 6 resign 0 latter % | 10, O.)o SI il. ‘ren ri a samo att . i Pathlrd of the permoos then in the United UENMThis cage. Dre Paifroy does not; out he | position in 1784, dudiog it tmpossible to. rotain burno ona of tha Bocrotarios of Btato, although J lee, 0, ser gor April (D.D, Canfield & | coutribated rather moro esaaye than Stoolo, but | ff uring the samo attack, the romedy tho Inttor was at the timo but 29 yoars of ago. ‘Tho first chapter in tho volamo roviews the his- tory of Sholburne’s management in his trying position, whore ho was loft, during tho mystorl- Ovs illness of Chatham, occurring in 2766, to reprosent a loader with whom ho was deniod all porsonat intorcourse. The remaining chapters In the book portray the condition of Irelaud in 1767-48, tho connection of Shelbnrns and the that has cured ove case will bo valuoless in its spplication to another, although other circum- stances in tho tro instances appear to bo identi- cal. Col. Puckle gavo, in tho course of his pa- por, & Listory of several attacks of cholera that camo under bis porsonal knowledgo, which wero arrested by change of sir aud eurroundings. Ho alyo recounted Instancoa whero ordinary sanitary practice hud provanted a possible outbroak, tho two together produced t four-tifths of the entire work. The paper enjoyed an uncx- amupled ‘prosperity, and accomplished the great end which it bal io view, viz.: tho olovation ofthe tono of literaturoand of socloty, Tho news department, which had constituted an im- portant feature of the Tatler, waa bavlebed from tho Spectator, aud the paper consisted simply of asingts essay, which tho bueinose-mau conld both it and bis soat in Porlismont. ‘Thonceforth his activity in political affairs was conflued mainly to mattors connected with India and with tho army, When, in 1787, Warren Hastings was impesohed for malpracticcs hilo Govornor-Gon- oral of India, Burgoyuo was choson one of the managors of the prosecution. Ho did not liva to #eo the conclusion of tho trial,—tis donth, from tho gout, occurring in tho summer of 1792. omits to states very important fact, that Mr. Mathor had nothtug todo with the caso till it had boen the town’s talk for throo months; and whon, with throe othor ministers, ho was invited by the fathor to moot and pray for tho affictod + childron,* he was ao much @ atranger to tho fathor that thoy bad to bo introduced. ’ Dr, Paltroy brings ‘in Mr. Mathor's name at an carlior stage, and Co. Plladelplita)- ate Monthy for March (August Brentano, New ls “dmerian Dookeeller for March 15 (Ameriean News Company, New York), LITERARY NOTES. “Baddicombe Hall” is s forthcoming now book by Buronnd, the author of ** Happy Thoughts.” Blates Lad in thelr velus that Now England blood which came over from 1680 to 1040, For tho firet century and a half, tho Now Englaud poople doveloped no roving proolivities, but wore isolated, having but little Intercourse with tho othor Colonios or with England. Thoy wore multiplying, working out their own rollsious 2 . | “ diapatch ag ho'dravk his morning crtp of coffeo, = gud goveromontal probloms, and resistin; mprossion that he tas connected with Lurgoyno buried his wifo in 1776, and ho did | Bedford Whigs, the course of the United Oppo- Avolumo entitted ‘Shakapesse, tho Man and 4 MOVEMENTS OF BLOOD-Ves:! F , the “cocronchments of tho Englsh yy bofore the meoting of the miniatora. | nob chatract second marriage. is natural | sition and ofthe Divided Copositian, ‘and the in- | the Book," by Dr. 0, Mf, Ingleby, is announced kod pei pepiatges of sontery a pul Sian ee Dr. Mosso, of Turin, bas Sovised a dolieate aps * Crown upon tholr chartered —_righte. | ‘Thechildron all recovered, and grow uptoborep- | won, tho Into Fiold-Mareal Sir John Fox Bur. | cidenta proceding tho etrnggle of England with | for publication in London. orev cheinto eacigua ton, When, he Spectator para(in-for paosiuriug~ the saovemotita of thd 4 When tho War of the Rovolution came upon | gtable citizons. Ons of thom, who was tho lant to | goyne, Bart., was boro In 1780, the oldest of | hor Amorican Colonics, Some fow passages tn Le bene eat sc lceth umber” 8,000" copies | bi fa zi them, thoy wera tho moxt acuto aud skilled | recover, Mr. Matbor took to bis houso; obsotyod | four children, whois mother was Misa Susan | tho privato life of Lord Bholbarno find tholr way | John Forster waa to have boon Thomas Onr- | Yat rescind te Oh ito. in’ the erht jood-veasole in man. Its operation in briely + Giwommatiags Io the world., During te War of | Secoves NE Miao enomona exhibited in hor | Caulfold, An snnouncement of the deat of | into the narrative, which 1s othervise wholly ta- | Ito's biographer, and, it te eald, had beon fur~) op ita) popute a \ tome numbers j b eight | descrited in Nature, from which wo copy tha ace Tidepoudonco; thoy mado tho sequatutanco of | caso; and, iu 1089, printed ‘bis ranourcript in a | Bosgovoe a Gentleman’ Magazine for Ast- | ou up with political ovents. nnished hy tho lattor with matoriais for the work. | fig P°Pan ag’? copies, The! papers | count. It ‘consists In inclosing a part of the @ othor Colonies, and sinco that time die- | hook cntitied * Moniorablo Providoncea,” which | gust contained the following statomonts: e Frodorick Moy Thomea will make the anthor- | woro reprinted in volumes, and this form had an | body—tho fore-arm,¢.g.—in o glass cylindoe peraion has been ono of their most marked char- 1601, with » com. | rogret of his death will bo oxtondod and lasting. THE SICK-ROOM, sat or ord | s p . 7 ‘ ¥ | Heteristics,‘Thoy have scattorod themsolves was reprinted, in Lenten wt Dasions Teronds | Ho tina dicd much richer in ostooin then B: | seoarerioxn ronteaSCK ROOM: 0. uea by an | {20d Eopliah trauslationof Gnizot’s posthumous | addiioual ealo of 10,000 copies. fa Juno, 1714, | with a caoutekouc ring, Ailing tho eslindor with through tho leugth and broadth of tho and. 1¢ the primitive Live bad not maintained its pro- lilo qualitics, the native swarm would have diod out under such a depletion. ‘the vitality and forco of the Now-England charactor Lavo grown mainly out of univereal education and aovero religious and political training, Much a8 wo rospect those old Puritan sunts as founders of an Empire, thoy would not be agrecablo peoplo to live with {io our day. Whot is now called religious freedom was then as unknown ag tho stoamboat and the olectric tolograph. It 8 was not supposod that two porsops holding dif- * feront religious views could livoin thovame community and not quarrel. It was anol o 4 quarrel in England, and tho oppression which thoy suffered tn consequence, which sont thom 4 » to America. Dy religious freodom thoy meant 3 e1 3 tho Spectator was rovivod, and eighty numbers ivened, which added an eighth volamo to the publication. Steote was not among tho con- tributors to this eupptement, but twenty-four of tho essays are attributed to Addison, Of tho wholo number of tho Spectators, 635, Addison wrnte 274, and Stoolo 240. ‘Tho 12th of Match, 1713, Stoole organized a third periodical, ontitled the Guardian. It woa published daily, and extended to 175 numbors, which wore united In two volumes, Addison furnisbod but one pspor for the, first yolumo, but for tho second he propared fifty-two, Bo- sides Addison, Stoole bad for sauistante in thie enterprise Popo, Berkely, Budgell, aud others, Budgell was a rolative of Addison, aud thirty woven nombors of the Spectator signed with letter H are ascribod tohim. Jolin Hughes, who had also boen 9 froquont contributor to tho Spectator, was the author of two papora in the Guardian, and Steolo produced: alee tire. Tho Guard{an did not attain the high excellonce of the Spcelator ; but ita contouts wore more divorsi- fied, owing to the groator uumbor of ity con- tributors. After the cossation of thia last poriodical, Stoolo undertook successively sovoral others, ad the Englishman, tho Javer, tho Reader, tho Plebeian, avd tho Thealre; but atl of theve wero short-lived, and brought him no increase of roputation. “The Enghshman was commenced in Octobor, 1715, six days aftor the close of the Guardian, sud Afty-saven numbors ero igsuod, at the rato of throo a week, Ad- digon wrote nothing for this publication, uor did be for either of tho othors which Bloele subsoquently originated, In 4718, Ambrogo Phillps, a poct of some tomporary note, began, with tho aid of his frlonds, the issue of a paper bearing tho do- seriptivo title of Tho Frevthinker; or, Esbaya on Ignorauce, Buperstition, Bigotry, Ku- thusingw, Craft, eto., fotermixed * with soveral pieces of wit and humor, do- signed to restore the deluded part of mau- kind to the uso of reason aud common sense,” ‘The journal croated conaidorable intorost foro time, and was continued until the numbers ilod three volumes, which ran through soveral editions, == In 1746,’ auothor work, attempting to supply ‘(he — place of the popular periodicals of tho carly part of tho contury, was oatabliehed. It camino out undor tho name of the Afuseum, and included among ite contributors Horaco Walpolo, Akeuside, aud the two Wartons, ithads carcer simitar io length aud prosperity tothat of the Frecthinker ; bat nolther this, nor any other of the reproductions of the periodical essay, ropeatod the success or seoured the lasting famo of tho Zaller, Spectator, aud Guardian, uvtil Dr, Johnson founded tho Ltambler, Tho first number of this paper appeared March 20, 1750, and until March 14, 1752, it was pub- Usted twice ® woek without ibterruption, Of tho 208 numbora that comprised the wholo work, Jolingon wrote all but five, Samuel Richardson, the author ofg'*Clarives | Har- lowo," produced one of those fivo, aud tho ro- maining four were contributed by women. It was in this publication that Dr. Johuson laid tho fonudation of iy colobrity as a whiter. Tho ponderous atylo of bie cosays, and thoir grave fod monotonous tone, iuterfored with their popularity, and, though thoy commanded io respect of vorious = minds, thoy wero never favorites with the public, ‘Oniy aboat 500 copios of cach number found o regular vale ; but, when completed and jgsued iu volumes, the work slowly gained in repute tion, and ten editions were called forduriug the author's lifo-time. ‘The Rambler was succesded by tha Adventur er, which made its sppesrauco the 7th of No- yomber, 1752, and claimed tho suffragos of tho ublio uutil larch 9, 1754, The papor was Fesued seai-wookly by Dr, John Hawksworth, « nian of considerable literary ability. Ho called to bis sasistanco Dr, Johnson, Warjou, and others, aud was 60 fortunate ay to conduct his cntorpriso with a good degroe of success. While $ho Adventurer waa io tho midst of itu carcer, tho World, a weokly paper, was started by Ed- ward Moore, who had for his collavoratours Lord Lyttolton, the Earlos of Chouteriield, Bath, and Cork, Horace Walpole, Soao Jouyus, ato,, otc. ‘Tho fires number was printed Janu. 4, 1753, aud the 209th and laat ou the S0shof Decembor, 1766. ‘American Woman, 16mo., pp. 14. New York: Au- son D, F, Randolph & Co, Price, 60 conts, It shoutd bo regarded ag an essential part of tho education of avery woman to lonrn the gentle art of winlatering in tho sick-room. It is ono of the especial privileges of hor birthright to heal the wounds and tho bruises, aud roothe the mala- dicu, that afillct’ humanity, Sho should appro- cinto the dutios ana the responsibilities entailed by this Ligh prorogativo, and not fail to fit her- welf for a ready and efiicient performance of thom whonevor chance may impose them upon tor. Her own inatincts will point the way to many dolicato and bolpful pervices for the sick ; and yet, for tho proper caro of invalids, thero is need of much sagaclons inetruction. ‘The little manual bofore us will, in the absence of diroct training, supply a multitude of fovaluablo hints. It has beon nicely compiled, and, in its compact pagos, tolls what tho atteudant ought not to do, as wall as what sho ought to do, in tho siok- room. Acopy of tho book should bo in overy housohoutd, and should be studied by all women who are not already adopts at nursing, like a book of modern spiritual manifostations. Dr. Patfrey bas not studied this book as he should have done, Ho would find hero tho re- somblanco in tho phenomena named; aud that Mr. Mathor'a method of troating o witch-cass was not by public progocution aud hanging, as tas done in Hatom, but by keoping tho matter quist, supprasding the namesof the eccusod, and pray- ing with and for the sufforers. “I'rayor,” ho ssys in bis book, “was the thing that drove the devils from tho childron, and I am to bear this tosatimony to the world.” Dr. Palfrey quotes , from a fottor which Sir, Mather wrote’ to the Judges at Balem, three days boforo the trials commonced, but does not quote or mention a passage in tho samo lotter, in which Mr, Mathor proteals against thor admitting spectral testimony, or tho evidence of allogod witches, outof which all the exccutions at Salem grow. Judga Sowall’s public confossion was made tn 1697, aud notin 1090, Mr. Parris, tho minister at Salom Villago, was not “driven from Lis place by the irreconcilable indignation of bia parishionors.” Ho remained with them for five years after tho oxcoution, and aa long as ho wishod to. Ho al- ways had o majority in tho church and eoclety that gustainod his course. Tho immediate enuse of bin loaving was a quarrel about hin wood and tho feo of tho parsonage. Npoaking of tho Judgos, Dr. Palfroy anys: ‘Saltonstall was disgusted with the procoodings from tho ontset, and rofused to sit.” This atatomont noods bistorical confirmation. Thoro is a lotter in Judgo Sowall’s Diary (which has nevor been priate), under tho date of March 3, 1692-'3, from which it might be inferred that snothor and 4 leas creditable reason, counectad with his peraonol habity, provonted bie sitting at tho witch-triala. At tho reorganization of the Court, in Decembor, 1692, Salstonstall was not ro- elected, Tho controversies with regard to witchcraft, and some other coutrovortod topics in Now-Liu- gland history, have beon so edrnest aud tho oo- ension of fo much poraonal feeling, among tho Listorical writers of Mossachusetts, that it ts probable we shall novor havo, In this goneration, aatrictly accurato aud impartial history of Now England, Dr, Palfroy's {6 the best one wo havo or are likely to have ; and lot ns be thankful for thossme. It is ably aud consclentiousty writton, thoroughly honest, and his copiouw foot-notes and references to authoritios aro invaluable, monoy; in the aaving or socuring of that ho had no talont. Of oil the gay, tho witty, and the fashfonable, who oagorly sought hia nc- aaintanos, and whose minds wore improssed by ‘tuo elogauco of Lis convorsation aud tho varioty of his talontu, very few wore prosont to drop tho tear ovor doparted genius, Ono coach only tondod, with four goutlemen; a lady was liko- wide prosent, whose convulsive agitation showed her to havo that within which passoth slow.” Burgoyne was buried iu tho north cloister of Woatminstar; but the spot, bolog unmarked by a name, cannot bo identified, ‘Tho claim of Burgoyno to the ttle of drama- tist rests principally upon tho comaiy of *'Tho Heirons,” which waa writtoo In 1765, and por- formod at Drury Lano the onauing yoar. It waa highly soccessful in London, waa translated into four languages, and was produced upon the Fropeh ood German stago. Sovoral minor comedies aud operatic plocea written by Dur- goyne enjoyed o tomporary popularity, “+ Popalar History of England.” Roborts Brothore will publish in this country tho English edition, limited, of Lora Houghton’s pootical works. Dore'a illustrations to Coleridge's ‘* Ancient Marinor,” which aro awakening much intorcst in England, will be reproduced in heliotype by James 1t. Osgood & Co, in syolume uniform with tho Touch! and like works. ‘Two translations of Pindar into English vorse havo appeared in London recently, ono of ympinn aud Pythian odes ulone, by the Nev. PF, D. Morice; the othor of nearly all Pin- dar’s oden oud fragmouts, by Thomas Daring, a morber of Parliamont. Under a recent decree of the Mikado, all jonr- palista in Japan bavo something like the frauk- ing privilego, being permitted to send any sort of communication they please from one placo to another in the Empire, froe, Tho author of ‘Alice in Wonderland” and “Phrough the Looking-Glags” {s about to pub- lish a story iu yorae which will contain tidings of the juljub bird, tho banderanatch, and tho history of tho Jabborwock antecedent to that feabjons day when tho vorpal bisdo wont enick- erenack, Most of tho publishers propooo Centennial guide-books, uo peculiarity of which is that thoy are zonerally either tho * official guide," or “tho only guide to be wold on the grounds.” Il. 0. Houghton &.Co. aro to priut » varios of fivo guides to the Esstoru cities in sovoral Ian- guogee. ‘hoy will covor Boston, Now York, Philadolphis, Washington, sud Baltimore, ‘Two important books on Hebraic ltoraturo pre soon to bo published in London,—a transla- tion by Rugsell Martinoan, of the’ British Mu- scum, of Prof, Qoldzther’s (of Buda-Pesth) sroat work, ‘Mythology Among tho Hovrows: ‘te Histories! Devolopmout. Researchos Bearing ‘on the Sclence of Mythology sud tho History of Religion ;" and "Notes on tho Earilor Hebrew Beriptures,” by Sir G. B. Alry, Astronomer Hoyal. og Tho Atlantic for May will contaia a skotch of sojourn in Nome, by T. B. Aldrich ; a stuay of tho lifo and writings of Buddb, by Prof, Adlor, of Cornell; the conclusion of Mr. Howells’ story, Private Thoatricals;" Mrs. Kembte's “Gousip;" an acconnt of Tho Khedive and Mis Court,” by Charles Halo; and other papers. The work on ‘ Norse Bstholowy by Prof. Andorson, of tho Untvergity of Wiecousin, has boen so conuidcrablo 8 wuccoss thnt ho bo» besn encovragod to continuo the cultivation of this field. He Jo juoparing throo now beoks,—a col- lection of ** Viking ‘Talea of tho North from tho Teolaudic Saga,” & translation of tho Elder Edda, and a third on tho Younger Edda, ‘Chose will bo publishod by 8.C, Griggs & Co., Chi- cago, who aluo announce 4 trausiation, by the wife of Olo Bull, of * Tho Pilot and iis Wife,” ono of the Jove-stories of Jonas Lio, the leading Nortogian povoliet. In tho current Academy, Thomas Tughes re- viowa (in the main favorably) Doyle's School Ilistory of Amorica, suggosting that “Mr. Doyle hag doe very scant justico to our cousing in his curt notico of their literature. While admitting that Prescott and Motloy rank with tho first Enropean historians, bo bolds that, tu other branches of litcrature, Amorica hiss produced * little that ts oithor valuable or distinctive ;’ on roading which judgmont the names of Story and his brother-juriats, of Emoreon, Lowell, Holmes, Tlawthorve, Longfeltow, and others, will at once ocour to must of us, though thelr omlssion is ecarcoly wo startling aa that of Prof. Agausiz and all the mou of #olence.” A lotter from Paris, Feb. 16, to the Now York Evening Fost, waye ¢ Among the now books of tho weok aro "Tho Wouon of Lous XY.'s Court,” by Armaud do Baiut-Imbert ; 3 socond yolamo of Laforrioro’s Momoi: “The Tower of Percomont.” by George Baud; “Epic Rus- aio,” by Rambaud, boing » curoful atudy of tho heroic pootry of the Huesiany 5 *' Critical Studios on Literature,” by Edmond Schoror,” a volume in erery ceepock worthy of translation ; “Thoughts tepid water, and measuring, by a special appars« tus, the quantity of water which flows out of in through a tubo connected with tho cylinder, ns tho sir expands cr contracts. An opoving ia the cylinder is counected by a piece of caout- chouc tubing with a glasa tube oponing down- warde Into a tost-tubo suspended from a double pulloy with counterpoiso, to which tho recording levor is attachod, in o vessel contaluing s mixture ofatcohol and wator. Won the vossels of the ara dilato, water pasuca from tho cylinder into tha teat-tubo, which is thoreby immersod further, uo that tho errattorpotne risos; in the opposite CREO, wator flows back from tho test-tube into the eylindor, tho tost-tubo rises, and tho counter- poiso dosconds." Dr, Moeso omploys tha plethysmograph, as tho: nppacatahe csliod, among other ends, in studying the effect of thought apd motion upon tho circulation, Tho instrument roveols tho alightost emotions by the changoy thoy produce in the blood-vessels, Thuy thé entranco into the room, during the oxperiment, of o person in whom tho subject is interested, diminishes tho yolumo of the foro-arm 4 to 13 centimotres. ‘The work of tho brain during the solution of an arithmetical or other problem, or tho reading of a passage dificult to underetand, is always accompaniod by contraction of tho ves- gels proportional to tho effort of thought.” NEW SPECIES OF DEER. A living oxamplo of « now specica of deor (Lophotragus Michianus), discovered in tho’ mountaing near Ningpo, China, haa boon lately , rocoived at tho Zoological Gardens, London. It! beara o resemblance to tho Water Deor (2ydro- poles) of Shaoguai, which is of small sizo, doa.‘ tituto of horns, and with long cauine toeth present only {nthe males. Doth animals woro. first described by Mr. KR. Swinhoo,—tho Inst- named in 1870, and tho rocont species in 1874. In his account of the Jophotragus, Mr, Swinkoo writes: “It is a dark iron-gray or pepper-and-salt color, fiko some Scotch ter= riorn, With white tipa tu its oars, square-bulle (that fs, straight back and polpted hip), with yory poiuted tail. Ou its forabiead in a thick black mosue, like the bristles of aboar, , . . « It has tho lachrymal einus, but not go large as tho muntjac; in sizo, tho beast about equals the muntjac.” Inthe specimen at the Zoological Cardone, thoro ia a palr of hair-covered subcros- Itics on tho frontal regions, at the poutoro-lateral augles of tho buiry bead-tuft; but, os in tha Giraffe, those have no borne upon them, ee froodom for themsclvos, ani for nobody elso, on their etamping ground. Thoy wanted poaco, aud hence they drove off Epiacopalinns, Autino- mians, Baptists, and Quakers. who susalled the validity of thoir civil governmout as woll as «. their ecclesiastical systom. ‘Ihoy could havo had peace im those dayaon uo othor torms. 2 Bome of tue Quakers roturued ofter thoy had 1 heen banished, defied tho autuoritles and their Govornmont, ond donounced tho ministers ag “hirolings, Baals, sud scod of the serpent.” “- ‘tho Quakers of that time wero not the mild, Inoffensive poople wo kuow, but wore insane fanatics, and woutd not bo tolerated to-day in the streots of Chicago. ‘hoy wero oolsy etreot-rautors, and disgracod publica do- toncy. Somo of tho womon wore owns of sack- clot, and smeared their facon with grozao and lampblack. One went naked through the streots of Salem, ‘for a sign,” 08 sho said ; aod auoth- or rushed, in this nude condition, toto the midat of a worshiping assombly at Nowbnry. They could have saved thoir Itves at apy timo by loay- {ng tho Colony; but thoy courted martyrdom, aud challougod ike magistrates todo their worst, Mary Dyor was sent out of the Colouy twico,and, returning, challenged thom to hang bor, Stand- ing upon’ tho gallows, with the rope around her peck, she wa told sho’ could go if sho would nover roturn to Massachusotts, Hor von was preaeat and begged her to roturn home with him to Hhode Ieiand, Sho departed and saved hor life; but she soon retutued more postilont than ever, and the magistrates Lad the courago to show the disturbers of their posco that thoy bad a Goveroment, and know how to administer it—and they hung hor. Mr. Palfrey fools it becessary to apologize for thia and some other acts of the Colonial authorities whicb, In our day, scom barsh and crusl. Buch apologies are necdlevs, ‘Tho Col- ouiats themselves would Lave scorned such axcugos ag the historian offors in their bobalt. These acta wero characteristic of tho ago, the peoplo, aud the ocoasion, ‘Thoy need ouly bo Rated, and thoy c thelr own lcsson with them. Paint mo ae 1am," was the commaud of tho great English Purites: aud bo was a rep- sceontative of tho Now England Puritans. Those acts, though biamoworthy in our oyvs, wore dono under an impelling sonse of duty, au in obedience to tho law of welf-presorvation. ‘The fourth volumo, which will bo new to our readers, opens upon a gloomy period in tho bis- tory of the Manuachuaetts Colony, Its cherished Charter of 1623 from the British Crown, under which it bad managed its own affairs, aud chosen its own Governora and Mogiatrates for moro than fifty yoars, iad boon vacated or ropealed by S writ of quo-warranto outored against it in tho Hagin Courta; and for five years the Colony ad gufferod nodor the arbitrary rule of Dadlo; €ad Andros, who were appointed by the Daitiss Crown, Tho Revolution of 1088 had ooourredin England, James I. and the Stuars dynasty bad been dethroned, and William of Orange, with Mary, bad come to tho Thrones, ‘ne Cole any was waglog war with tho Indians, was oppressod with dobt, and was car- tying on ite Government without # Charter, All was uncertainty ss to the future. Tho new Obartor, which arrived in May, 1692, was the oo- taaion of much discontent. The King would hot restore to them tho privilegos of the old Charter, Mo retained in his own bands the ap- polotment of the Governor and Secretary. At this time, also, the witchcraft terror burst pon the Colopy. {ban the now Govornes, Sls, AND BIBLICAL 3 RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE; STORES. Beier ov me UNpELEvEns; axp Otnxn Di- covnars, By Octavius Buooks snorninaiay, Putnum's Sous, Price, $1, ESSAYS, ‘Tne Unsere Wonup; an Otiten Essaxe, Dy Joun Yiexe, Mf, A., LL. 1, Ansistant Librarian, and For- merly Lecturer on Tallosophy, at Harvard Univer. Bity, dino, Fp. 349. Hortons James It Oegood & Oe Imo, New York: G. v’. Broutes or ru Patntancus, Dy O, B, Froriixa- am, Author of "Storivs from the ‘Lips of the ‘Teacher, Motold by 2 Maciple." 12mo,, pp. 233, New York! 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The story draga uudger a too heavy load of moral rotfections and wayside do- scriptions, and tho roader ie irritated with its tedious and impeded prograss, Mra. Whitnoy is the guthor of severat un- commonly entertaining aud wholosome oovels. ‘Shey hava wade hor an espocial favorite, aud caused cach now book of Lora to bo looked for with pleagant anticipations, But hor last two or threo works bave shown a lamentable doterio- ration In atyle, which, If it remaius unimproved, must cost the author her popularity, A touch of, quaintacss in the phraseology, aptly cor ‘Lho papers contained in this volumo are main- ly reviows of notablo works that havo como from the press during tho Jast nine years. 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Ou the vary day of Lis deceayo, the Con:missionors took tho final stops for tho completion of the work, M. de Gamond was born in 1798, in Paria, and was educated in the Netherlands, where ho do- voted much of bis study to bydrograpby, FROG-EGQS, According to Prof. Peters, sspecios of troo- frog (Jolypedates) found in ‘Tropical Africa makes tho following curious disposition of its egga: Thoso are oxtrudod in a masa of albumln- ous Jelly, ad tv usual amoug batrachians, aud aro thon attached to the loaves of treos overbanging tho walor. ‘Tho albumen quickly bardous, in- cloalog tha unimproguated oxgy iu a etrong eu. yolope. At tho raiby soason this iy softencd, aud tho eggs are washed jute’ the water, where the male frog, finding thom, ocoupica humeait { with thelr impregnation. - 5, ‘Gen. 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