Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 6, 1876, Page 9

ML Feton ) 4 m:a" m.l' snd/others wave hug there every It is not for suy LITERATURE. and Commonwealih: A History of Charles I, and the Great Rebellion, ; emecial bosaties of narrs- *{ tive, or for anysaperior ekill ia rebesraing the maln avouta in the familiar story, bat for ita plenteous dencriptiva paasagoes, like the abovs, that this new-yoraion of the * Xi J‘md Oonm- monweulih " will bo chiefly sstesm SCIENCE AND RELIGION, BrAvLanreza or PivamaL Axp RELIGIOUS Kwown- ¥pom, By Jauzs Tmowpiow BIxsy. 13mo., Ppe %28, New York: D. Appleton & Co, ‘There {8 pressnted, im the work named sbeve, » fresh argunment upon the great toplo of the hour, the bostile attitudeof Religion and Belence with regard to ome other, Uponthe abandone ment of thelr antagonidm, and thelr harmo- nious co-operation, Mr. Bixby bellaves the very exiatenco of the first of the two opponsute doe pends, *For 400 yoars,” he dealsres, * Sofence has driven the Ohurch from poat to post. The spherioity or tbe flatness of the giobe, the six daga’ creation, the 6,000 yoara’ age of the world and of mav, the universal deluge,~theseall havs been battle-fields whors the-aolentist and ecqle- slastic have met in conflic) { and In every en RKagement it haa beon the ecolesisstio that ham been worated, and the molentist that has been victorlous, The result is, that Bolenos to-day holds much a postion ) thes the bellet of the mnoxt ocentury may be said to Jie in Its hands, The frots that ftu -distipguished savans establish to-day, In eix months will be road {n every dewspaper and magazine in the civilized world; in ten yomrs will ba Incorporated In our school-books, and planted in the forming mioda atr our children; 1n thirty years will bo the oresd/of every ednoat~ od man ; and, before a century has psssod, wrill bo the univorsal belief of all classeg” Buat thess facts, which, brought/torward in & spirit of oppositian to the faith af Christendom, and disputed by it in a like_wwod of doflance, work intinito harm_ to Bifence s well as to Teligion, abould have pxu ontirely contra: alleslh strangthenlug allke tho aspirations of Tha 80 and the porooptions rf tho intellect. Thero is no carmatinl {ncompatibility, no necessary conflict, betwoon these two deadly aotagonists, according to Alr. Bixby; but he oaretully distinguial,os, in bis prognumons. the «@ifferance betwoen Heligion and Theoology, By Vhe former torm hvs moans, in s general senss, to algnify (ke erpression of man's spiritual nature awakenirig fo spiritual things, _Of the reached in the unfolding golence and Religion: Bimi.. larities of Physical and Religious Enowl. edge. [he Religlous Rentiment: Its Bource and Aims-—-The Spiders of the United Btates, {ord Houghton's Poems—Charles Dadley Warnerin Egypt---Pootry for Chil- dren-Floating Cofflns, Education In France: The Universily System Founded by the First Napoleon. f£he Flora Round About Chicago s, The Poppy, Fumitory, and Purslane Families. i Disoase-Proof Potatoese--Mound-Build- erse==Candy as a Onuse of Ime paired Sight. Vegotablo lvox;y---}‘reezlng Plant-Jolces «=-Lalic-Dwellers---Native Wild of man's spiritual nature, only thres does Gooseherrles, ho regard a, indiaponsols to rollgion: 1. lloueilln owul n{n aln;‘ 2. %mflr h;] s BOvereign Ver-so ‘withou! BN o - LITERATURE, Hof 1 moossl orposiblo . rolations botween them, And ths practical proser- vation of only those doss ho contend for in the igontrovorny botweon Faotand Faith. Thin will ne,t ba considered as much of a saving by the o jherents of Thoology; yob, to tho mass who stand outstde of the cliurches, and still har oor roligious yearnings in their souls, it ia s 8 aat gain, The main causs of the antagonism of the ‘aclentific and religious worlds Mr. Bixby ascribes to ignorance of themseclves and ench other. The roligious have studied Beriptures,and croeds, and forms of worship, and moral duties; but thoy have falled to comprohend tho fundamental doctrines of Religion, Aud thoy have beon still mara doflciont in an understandiog of the prin- ciploa of Sclence, ‘*Although thoologisns sro continually declaring thnt tho most dangeroua enemy of Roligion 1o-day is Sclonce,’ they seom to havo gained no rosliziog senso of the foct, and what it domsnds of thom. Tha! utill imagiue that the battlo of tfla Tvidences is to bo fought on the fleld uf ecclesinstical history, Bcriptural exogesis, and motaphysioal postulates. ~ Thoy still practico with dictionary sod concordauce, a8 1f the ago of crucible and spectroscopo Liad not come in. ‘The groat need of ourtheologinna to-day, is to racognizo tho mighty turn which modern thooght haa taken, tho now baso of oporations which it domands, and the now weapous it re- quiresy’ In shart, thoy must mako a thorongh snd impartial study of Beienoe, aud acquire & kuowlodgo of its rolations with Roligion. On the othor hnand, men of Belenco have seldem maatered the capabilitios and mothods of sel- ontiflc inveatigation, and less soldom havo they understood the easontial tonots of the Christian faith; and thus fguorance hns boen arrayed against ignorance, to the utter confusion of bo- liofa that never should have beon disturboed. Doth Xoligion and Bcience have institated claims to tho posacasion of exclusive knowledgo and rightful supromnoy, which noither osn law- fully hiold, Religicn, fooling thostrossof thetrutha which Science 1s bringtog up in opposition, is wieoly dropping many of ber dogma#; and Ar. Bixby urges that sho must continuo to muke con- ceasions, until nbo frecly scknowledges that not one of her oracles is infallible, but that all are subject to thn lmitatlons of humanity and the couditions of cartbly knowledgo. Bo Hclonco muat loave off tho habit it bas acquircd of borat- ing that only its truths are capablo of dewmon- stration, aod thereforo tho truost. In tho Your chapters proceding the conclusion of his argument, Mr. Bixby endoavora to_show, by abondant iilastration, that Bcionce pursuey tho same metLods as Iteligion in the domonstra- tion of its theories. * it uses intuition, au- thority, evidonce, aud probablo infofsuce, and fa often dostituto of passible verficution. 8cience, no more than Roligion, can withhold, nor does withhold, its belief from the super- Aensusl, tho inmatorial, or tho inconcoivablo, Inexactuows, uncortainty, and variation in tho resulta of fta labors, aro faults found in Beiouco e well a8 in Religion. Ou tho othor hand, Ro- ligion, as well as Heionce, Lae an oxporimentat boais, It grounds itself on obsorvation ; it pro~ ceads by induction ; and it confiris ita truths by veritleatious and gruvlnlens, In this simi- larity of Scienco and Rehgion, is thors not some- thing that should Liave practical influonce with that daily-incretsing nombar who, while accept- 1og implicitly all tho ostablished truths, and oven the wildest spoculntious, ot Scienco, look upon Religion with suspicion, it not contempt " THE SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. Tate RELIoIoUs SENTIMENT 119 BOUNCE AND A, A CONTNIDULION TO THE SCIENCE AND PrIrosoruy or Rt:Ltuton, By DANIZL (G, DRINTON, A, 3L, M. Member of the American Philosophical Bocloty, Anerican Philological Boclety, ~ Author of 11 Mytha of the Now, Warld," stc. 8 vo,, po. 281, New York : Henry MHolt & o, Chicazo: Janaen, Blo- Clurg & Co, " Price, §2.60, This work is an olaborate attempt to reason God out of the world, although the object {s no- where oxpressod in so many words, The author, starts with the assumption that all religions aro products of thought, commenced aund continued in accordance with tha lawa of tho human miud, and, therefore, comprehienalblo to tha extent to which these laws are known, IHaving, in this KING AND COMMONWEALTH. ¥1xG AND CoMMONWEALTN : A Histoux or CitaNLEs I, AND THE GREAT REBRLLION, Crnoy, snd J, SzeTxrs PurLLizorrs, Hea of Ledford Schiool, formerly Fellow of New College, Uxford, 13mo,, pp, $09. Fhilsdelphias Jomes L Coates &Co, - Tho two writers who have united in producing this volume Lavo given o lively and interosting account of ooo of tho mont important epochas, in tho history of England. With commendsbla Importiality thoy Liave dealt with the facts which illustrate tho great political avents of the timo aud reveal tho spirit which actus’sd the contending bodios of Royaliats and Rou: sdhoads. All tho conditions and circumstauces ghich en-~ tored into the strife botweon the Ki ag mud the Comrmone, and led to the establisl ment of a Comtaonweaith, are minutely de wribed, Tho growih and forms of the Constl’ ution are ot forth, {n order tuat the quostio na which arose from its violation by the King may ba clonrly undeistood ; and much space is given to & re- view of the soclal aspect of ‘,he varlous classes of the peaplo, ta insure a fu’ 4 knowledgo of the position of England in thet cals of civilization during this period of turbt jlent warfare botwoen different parties in Chure' a and Stato. Tho sketchos of tho soveral contosta fn the fiold in whick Charlos fnuglit vainly to savo hig “crown are carefully d¢ fincatod, and maps of the #cone of each ongage' .nent holp out the graphic toxt. In doplcting, tho battle of Edgohlll, whero tho King f rat tried tho strength of his military forcos Tgainst thosoof tho popular loaders, 8 doscr',ption s given of the oquip- ment of tho ¢ otdiery, which Is of ourious in- terenb 'To npprecial’ the tactics of the time, 1t 18 necessary to retaomber yuo nature of the weapons, The soldiers on elihor sid » were armed aftor tho same faabion. The introrluctio 4 of firo-arms Liad caused the defeustye ar- mor of the, ordinury horss and foot soldiers to be ro- ducotl to & back and breast pleos, and a brosd iron hat, comnt Jly called a pot, calves' lsther boots, reachlug UP 10° e Umoea, and o long buff coat, worn under {hs £7IC £, compisied tueir equipment,’ Ofiicors often Wor 4 open helmets, arm and shouldor ploces, and tas- &c! a, ur skicts, Lo protect the thighs, ' alry wero divided into three classes: the ¢ suncisaters, tha carabineers, ond the dragoons. 'The emirvsaicrs, being almost without exception gentle- mnou, armiug theweclyos at thelr own expense, came o Lattle mugnificently appointed, with silver-ilted ssworde, plumos of feathers waving above open Thohnets, and bulf coats gay with gold aud silver trim- 1mings, Thelr uaual woapons wero the aword and :plstol, Tho carabineers were 8o callod from tho nawe +of thetr curbine, musket. The dragoons wera light- s armod, biaviug only the Luff coat and iron hat, and “were llke mounted riflomen, fighting sa much on foot 800 lorss, but with swords for cavalry-work. The infantry was divided into bodies of pikemen and ‘musketeors,—tha use of musket and Layonet not vt being combined in the same weapon. The piko, smads of aah, wa 16 or 16 foct long, and hesded witl stcel, “f'uo musket, or the matchlock, was not advanced Dboyond tho first atege of inventio. The apark 1o fire thio gunpowder wan sppiied from the outside, fustesd o being produced by the concuasion of flint and icel, ‘Tho match consintod of liitls ropes of tow, Tooflod ~in mpirit; thess, when lighted af +onu ed, smoldersd on until {ho whole was consume. sed, Tho musket was still such a heavy and cumber- ts0ie weapon that it had to be fized oo rest, This -rest was made of ash-wood, headed at onoend with iirou to Aix in the ground, and baving st tho other & bolf-hoop of dron. Tefore thie end -of tho war, the inuaketoer wae relioved of this additionsl burden, Rests wers disused, ewing to the introduction of lighter and mora portable nyuskets, To abelt fastened round the musketoer's shoulder hung s bullet-bag, #oine twists of sparo match, s fiask of touch-powder, and & bandelecr, with twelva Hitle cascs, tnade of Iesther or tin, oich of which contained a separats charge of powder. As loading and were both Tong operstions, only one rauk firad at & timo, and the musliet was Ly 10 means 80 great an advance in the art of deatruction 18 wo migiit sipros pericnco ofthe modern rifle, Fleld: cumbersome, and seem to kave done Jittle oxecution, 3t was when tho ranke had come to push of pike, or “whon the victors mercilonly cut dawn tho fiylng fos with the aword, that tho dead fell thickest, Thers ~ore uo regular uniforms, Different regiments +on eithier sido often wore bufl coats dysd tho color be- lonaiog to the houss of thelr Colonol, Thus Usmp- -dan’s men wore groon coata; Lord Groy's, blus; others, | S0MmAry musaner, disposed of the super 'rmi.{vnrpln,lnd‘nyhsllfl:; umfm(n{hmfi Pnru.i natural eloment in religion, Dr. Brin- iment wore orange scarfs, the eolor of the House o {Eavex.” Bat, 1 the confuslon of the battls, twig of | OB Procoeds to explain tho lawa of thought, and flnd a resting-place from which man can start,—n criterion by which he can decide whon he {u right, Thia stacdpolot is found in uuiversal truths, which, whon discovered, are al- waya known, but Low to find them we aro not fn- - fortned. It is the old Platonio doctrine of ideas revived in a somowhat rofined forw, Tho second chapter tho author devotes ta showivg that tho roligious sentimont bas its origin 1n = wish ; that religion cannot exist without ignorance ; that it follows tinancinl crises, and moulolly found among the female sox, tha inhobitanta of fover-ridden dis- tricts, and tho weak sod sick. But it may rightfully bo asked whother man is ever . anything but ignorant. Is not one of the results and ono of the objects of joarning to toach bim s owno jgnorance 7 s he ever auything but weak and holpless comparod to the hover-cuding, woverchangiog forces of Nature? ‘Tho religions of Buddha, of Mo- hamuwed, and of Christ are in this work placed on a par, ond all equally condotnmed e having lind no special good effeat, eithur on tho morals or the roligious eondibilitios of racos, Tho concoption of number, according to tho author, must Lo abolished in counocotion with tha idea of a Buprome licing, and suprocie intelligenco must bo thaught of only under the rutos of pure thought, "Tho following 1s tho sad conclusion st which tho suthor arrives ; Littlo by litte we learn that tho reslly true s nover true fu tact; that the roally good {8 never good fu act, Qarefully chieriahing this distinctlon taught by matau- matica and sthica, fhie roliglous mind learvs to nizo in that only reality darky sco tirough ¢ of materfsl thingy, that which should Ux su its meditations. = Paining boyond the dommin of physieal law, t occuples itaclf vedth tuat which defines the conditions of Iaw. It contom- plates an ctorual activity, beforo which ils own self- consclousueas soctos o fckering shadow; yet in that contemplation s not lost, but gains au over-groviiug rsonality, Thia is the goal of religious strving, the {dden aliu of thie wars aud sautions, the polem- ica and msriyrdoms, which have so busied and bhsod- fed the world, 'T'hia watlufies Lhe rational postulates of religion, Whis ol that & Godless religion can give. Asido from the faos that thees sentences sre glttanng gonoralitles, thev contain nothing which cuu aitract the Loart of mau. Lovo 1e for ware poworful thau cold reason, The Golden Ltale, 3f obeyed, will do more Lo better the ruce ban suy study‘of the * conditious of law." - 4018 york aseuges t0 be & contribution tothe. 1groen, 8 aprig of broom, or s bit ox' calored riblon, -fasteaed to the hat, with the help of the word of ths ‘day, was the chief guide by wbich to distinguish Criend from foe, It ts pot atten that historians descend to those minor partioulars, which, after all, aro qaite as necessnry o a clear conception of any event or period in n Dation's life a8 are the more salient mcidosts oo which ita destiny may seom to turn, A distinguishlng featurs of the present work is sho attention which 18 paid to detaila shat alford valuable jnformation, sud yet are gencrally al- most, it not altogether, ovorlooked, In the tuno of Charles I, aud of the Com- monwealth, London was a city of 500,000 inbab- itants,—its limits oxtendlug but littla boyond the Towor on the east, and touchiog the City of "Westminstor on the wost, whilo on the north Towly-oponed strests conncoted It with the ham- lot of Bi. Giles. Dut ono roadway united the banks of tho Thames, sud that ran acrosa Old Loodon Bridgo, Tue river itsclt was atili a great thoroughfare, along which passengers and werchandise woro trausported by forrymen, In thecity— The ol houses wors all of timber, with high.gabled s, and storios jutting out one sbove tho oller. 8 5w could read, ‘mob ooly evory tavarn, but every Juhop, posseased its siguboard, aud tuo aireets pre- ®wented o succossion of Cross-Koys, Throe Pigeons, \Gnlden Lambe, 8Lips, and Ulack Swans, The prinels fal airoots alodo were paved, aud thioso merely with “Littls, round, jolting stones, ‘Tho dirt was frightf Into thie tuniiel, or apen, gutter-like sewcr, re(tan was tirown out of Louses and aliops, and thoru rotted and goekod nodll it was corriod away by the raln 10 Flect Ditch and tup Thames, Lain, n fact, did yeomsn'y Warvice, thofigh tho pipes on tho haouso-roofs first cone ducted’ thelr coutents to tho heads of passers-by, Klites and ravens wore kopt to act as scavengers, and e pousires lighted ou overy occaslon of rejolciug ¢erved & gnod purposs In occasionally cousuiniug the Tubl Tho strects, Lofore the grest firo, were Father (0 Lo called alloys; in soms, friends’ could ‘aluake bandy soross trom Wie projoclii usper siories 20 Mietore. the breaktog 'Gub of the GIvil War, 8L’ Paube Osthedral had been used as & daily lounging and mecting place by jeople of svery rank aad profesuion, Il usce wera Dethaps less worldly ‘When {t bocams tlis stable of this scctarian horse dur- ihe war, The streels wero always a Dabel of eounds. Alistors or thcir spprentic shopedaors, touting for customers with ries of @'yo lack, alr 7—nhsb @yo pleass 10 lack 77 wives, orange-womoy, broom-men, chimuey-sweeypers, Witli the osiginal costard-applenongers, od up and down, crying their warss of wervices, 'Over this tot y crowd bung the wmun& gullows, occupylug » g el e5eidn, e 4 Riler, on Ly THE CHICAG/O TRIBUNE: BATURDAY, MAY 6, I137¢&~TWELVE PAGES, salenes and philosophy 0’7 Religion, aad the auv. 1ighttul humor which tubbles from Mr. Warner's | IT.~Twm Asawnowasy By Jurvs Veaws. Obi thor whows LIMUsIf (0 b & muan of exieuiva | TAn, a5 doee mok Mave by by PaRsd n by | Domuar, Levi a h Briveidevair Ot [ bove . I e ity A i she dlsssan tonay groabesty g 1 loaroiog. But Lie pr siosen naw thearies, and | hard work from the dsptis of & fegged-ont in — King them sanhmed of tholr povarty a8 if {4 ‘wers | ones rire higher than's o 1o vl Arh 10 Bagitng be must give the pr ors, This fa one fonda- | telisct. Quoting is like tearing gems from thetr PERIODIOALS RECEIVED, acrimo; And at the same tims it takes tlis con- | Improved Hod-Bkin - Flour.Balls v . BOme of the mental defect In !As work. Conclusions st | setling, but we yentars om one oc two ruthlcss Rerien for Moy-June (A.8, Datnet & | eqit ont of rich without noodieesly wor ind- | €483 fséa, or almost fres, fror (73 1N many dran from, Dremaen to which thex'do mot | divorcea of teze from oonbext i the hope thak | - Sey Ko Yorsh Pminte: " Mutorm o Hahee | [y thelr voif.toanecl, | A Franch lyosnca Tanaected to_ b grter U fupdsetin sad h ' alvaran! uctioos 1oade | he who resds may run to get the k, 80d 80 | Bwift,* Ly George Darnett Smith, Loadon: * fome | Public achool to whioh a workingman's son sy | tha® tupe, L T from ¢ peoisl - propositions, Awsertioon | resd more heckn and Balunces fn Gavernment.s by Jutge T, | KO without the aiightess pprehonsion hat Lis | trast faversbly with s gina X 29, @xstables :o:E ot &’ P00 of proofs, aod the readoris | IthoughtIhed eeen bisok fa in Bonth Garo. | M. Cooley, Bujmemie Court of Michigan; * The Gura | parcnis will be iaughed at when they comn to | mental eeries, while others almoy 0!’/ fn the espert. od (0 trust swhist tho suthor says. The be- | iins, but Isaw s boy Jusk now, sfanding in a doorway, | roncy Question i Austein, by Herr Max Wirth, Vi- | eee him, bocauno Sliny are nat * awelis ;' sad yet | hood, Whottier, fndead, s diy 5" &l them in hyedts leving world, Lowaver atwall It may be {o pro- | Who would have besn savisibls bk for his whive | enne; = United Biates Laad-Grants, " by 1L, T & 1ich squirc's 500 may GO there snd gt il tho | Which wo mean s potato proof o guir” PTO0f PoRato, oy to. (o panole 1aas, domands that, If #e | 0L, o come 1o & 1and whore alloue standards | by Dub. O Yreea. Row Rorkt Locica f1of amuintion. Withoat sy Sacrico of | Gultes tnd wadee gl a8 Sortte le clant ginana apened tub of sxfatence, anll- | ryil Snd mn ars hoy axhamed o thote Fig(on T ABonnet, by Chikries Tannyson. Enalend; carte.” ho ol | 222 ach potato il sver e i A7 ;""‘M'W";;g ALAED Lo it be showh, Axc thld for Mt Xnagpors wibad Toe onco (in ae lntesior of the | Chaldsad’ Geeria: v Thrcs OIf 1nd Thive Now Notwittatanding the advantages of tho Ubl- | a potato resiats the dineans 1o 15 fco3, Grabied thay TSE prove Lik g8 T b &3 %, great Pyramid) abeotute nmn ~a foom full of the | Poete:" + Cantsmporary Litersturs, Art, and Boi- | YOrsity syatem, and {ts coutinuous efforts to dis- | antes that [t will maintain ftg§ % Hava ¥okny guap. ks o s o ¢t has not baen dome in | origine) Night,—night bostisd wp for four or ave | _en gominste knowledge among the mssaes, eduoated | season, or two neasona hanco® ,Amunity {he following L oNAY. thousind years,~4ls very night in whieh old Cheops | Fenn Monthly for May (Penn Monthly ation, | Freuohmen are ofton smnazingly igoorant of | tical point, well worthyof co- Jy.0 ., o Another P lirfo s Clgblctioltion. Some scholars | - FbiAdip), Conteutar *'The Month ' sInter- | many subjects that ara deomed of the first con: | e tnenty experimental af ,,‘;‘;‘;‘5';‘&- ', shat, from 3 Bayor ooou abilitions, o Tax Briorss oy TRN Uwireb Braveai A Gorvxo. | oan understand bix feeling ¥ b Croative Forces” by W, #equience amang othier peoples. The nsar and | 77700 13 J8VOR o mm_- wolat for we .,.m;‘“’,'.',: o TION OF TRE ARACHNOLOOICAL WAITINGS Ov | alive. I think he may have g Ambrican. Tsonitionw By the curreut progress of ovants in the countrisa | gociet ¢ adet e notice of thy W Tionords Masoreins Boeen 3, B "B o7 | 6% en aeGoms Servaiizne ‘on ‘Theories of tho Eastiis Physical Eva: | Found about them are quite apt to be entiroly | of food in the fuvey. B &) Blaria with & iAras suppry llz:;::.-x:]n{:::m:fl%lxm -;g numlwvmm:y A Cbicsgosn fesls & E“s of fealous pride Ixuugn;a';‘:{‘?-{:hn."z. mllt&nb:.; Laveleyn and ihe u‘ukfmm‘. a’l‘hl{n:;ln‘]uly tha faglt of Ium lcx. ha:llucn (o sall, and o ol ot lnlll‘.-.uh(nm‘”‘ L. v 4 e 4 Ly d lalaten, b o 3 ) Soh 1 Dosion Boclery of Navaral Nistcrs: ‘Thce sy, | Thon he seads that the ancient'oitv of Fostat | 1 New Boorer > 7 Ells Thompsery gl“’;l:r‘n'l;‘“’u‘:“““’;:z‘:"m‘]‘a the University, | produces thomoskxer \Gngrative crop,» 2t took two montha to burn down, althongh the contiagration raged wil the whils, Chinago f tahed the fob {u two daye. _Bul then we are waya in » hurry, and the EW“‘“ never wore, Desides, Fostat bas walted years to be re. built, while w onlyflnm w0 yoars in that task, * Mammies and Moslems " {s sold enly by * The work whiot Dr. Hentz performed In olaa- sifylog the epiders of the Unitod Htates was sitnilar to that which Andubon executed in de- torminiog the spcoles of our oative birds, Dr, H. wns one of the plonesrs in Americsu ento- ! ro greatl r:t;a 3,’.:”,':;’{{ for Mayj (John W, Brown, Chioage | negleoted, snd, sa & conssquence, * A Freno entleman knows about as much of these sube ‘#fi,{,‘;,{‘;’u, %f{,_,.(‘n"“"" Publisbing Company, iecl- ns an Etoman of the Iaet generatio; ‘. Phrenologieal” Journal for May (8, B. Walls & Co,, know one who roads Latta nestly ev day, New Yorx). and never opous & newapaper. Frooch Ambase American Ngturalist for May (8, O, Roughton & Co., | eadors koow Latin, but do not know the lan- B e h JAUBE OF IMPAIRED sianT, {n the Doston ., "Ug8esls, fn aq article printed et Journal of Ohematry, that s fre 6. Tmils -0t caudy may bo a partial canss of # eyosight which prevaila to an mology, and was-tho very firat to give extended’| aubscription, The publishers sxpect Te of gueges of tha countries to which they are ac- slaming oiont mong tne bl ;;rl l!llezl:'l:: flfldylo&\‘m ;;;gupol A.;mh;:;ldla-- agg,ooa:gopmmu‘:grz. dgare s rwlm:zroa km.“‘}. :&u‘;«::‘xxfi.‘;fl:‘: :"‘m (P 0RINa R OF, “E‘:.‘;;‘l’&‘manuw vl Usiyseslvy syasom; Slisgs ]’s':'a“ Joueration, e citos tl:i’ :lr:i:;:m':; 8 camo 9 count! n readers An| ' Waruer for a ke or ulfalo), i h . 0. K youra devoted il hia l:lmuaa' ‘::um-n:mayrg froah plessure, ¢ Aty Bummor 1o & Gargen | 4merican leohastier for S0ay 1 (American News Come | 18 & sorios of sobools of spenial metinction | gor 1) & AT that, ot of 1,000 children un- New York), Lredz, el g Ape—current numbers (Littsll & Gsy, which do not ccime within ita jurisdiction. Of | o " 48 880 of 18 attonding & cortal these may be ciied the Polytectiia Kebool, ths | N0™ i e ¥ ¢ York City, 703 wer, Military School f Bt. Cyo, the Behool of Hosds | ™ & o found, ou examiaation finds a fitling couuterpars in this record of & these lusacts, s papers containing desctip- | wintar on the Nile, tlous of the various species observed were, with e nal h tha oplitbialmoscops, to Liave d Appliiona® Journal—current numbers (D, Appleton & d Brid, the School of 3 the Agrical- e, tolavo defective ofs s w POETRY FOR GHILDREN. Co. X and Bridges, the ool of Jines, the Agrical A ] Ahsoxsoption of w fewot tie.dret, published I PoxTar yon HoMm AXD BOHOOL. srlicud and Ar- 2w Zork), tural and Naval 8chools, nud tbs Conservato- | 4204 of vision, This large percontaga was as- the Journal of the Boston Boolety of Natursl riea of Artsand Manufscturss, and of Mume, [ %9med to reprosent the common aversgo of de- FAMILIAR TALK. History. The entire series, delineating upmards Bquars 18mo., pp, 820, New York: G, P, Putnum's Thone are placed under the supervision of sepa: . | fective oyes among youn opls. of 2060 species, are now ocolleated from :’.”5}' Chicago: Jsnsan, MeClurg & Co, Prios, PR S ntnéla -m;’:onub ?:‘thh‘ Uovm':r.h;uni :fld -{:P' 0. ion!:r;;m ”lm 1‘1“ Rap: &upoAm'z(l:lmo: H 3 ] £ teudod Lo complste the course of studies urated solution of - e ":;;‘::ffdv e vt boryoiBl- | Wo do not know in whoss handa wo should | Tne distiaguiahied ari-writer, Haarton, who | in tho aolleges, And scademica. It in be sanon jcted " bauoatt “tho akin ‘of " fiof or Aproface; contalning a blographical aketeh of eaoner roposs the tssk ef complling voluma | has long been & resident of Franoe, sod who i | that France is Listter aupplied with scha yig (g uines-pig, will produce bliuduess in half za Bour, Dr. Cutler proffers the quer: ressonablu to enppose tha i ;aiumn]n: :xyn:!m in undue ouasly affect the evesight. Bugar is wanting In patritive qualities. In tests applisd to dugs, it Lua boen found thet death reaulted in forty days ftom an excluaive dict of sugar, whilo tha eyes of aulmals subjectod tothae sxporimont ulcorated #0d dropped “out. The starch whicl forms so largo oo elemont of whits flour 18 Identical lu ita chemical formula with sugar 3 aod, as this cone atitutea a clifef nrziclv of food in most houso- bolds, Dr. Cutler urges that, in addition, candy or sugar cau hardly bo regurded as an inoocent substance, from the vast collsction of the poetry of the En. glish Ispgusge, than inghose of Anna O. Brack- ott—a woman who is winning & national repute by bier Iargo and philosophical mind, enriched by many years of study and of practical experience in educating other minde. This book, which comes with the guarantossof her signature, bas beon prepared for the usoa’of childron st home and in the achool-room. ‘The selections are such &3 appoal to the youthful inbelligence, and aro caloulnted to inaplre it with & senso of the high qualities that distingulsh she manster-piecos of motrical composition, With the ‘many collea- tions of a simllar character already in existonce, Miss Brackott bas folt tho want of one exactly adapted to tho requiroments of the young atu- denta of literature, and haa therofore ‘attompted {0 supply the neod. No exception can bo takon to sy of the pooms boand up 1u this anthology, and, among the Littls leny thun 200, s multitude of the world's favorites are embraced. HISTORICAL MaP, Apasxs’ MuP 07 HisTORY. by Bubseription, Chicago Agents : J. Atwuter & San. This map presents a grand panoramlic view of the world’s history, from the earliest agea duwn to the present times. It gives, with appropriste iliustration, & general oompend of the rise, progrees, and docline of the nations of antiquity, followivg bath the Biblical and profane bistorics ; and, o like munner, brings the wark down to the present time, The map is so srranged that it prevents at & glance the leading eventa In tho history of all nations con- tomporaneous with cach othor, Ja the order of time, thus farnisbhiog s compreliensive pictorial epitome of univerast history ia ench century, better than could ba done “in many pogos of printed mattor, It iapot designed to take the place of the standard histocios, but rather to supply what bas been Iacking {o those,~a com- ploto view of all histary in cach sge, showing uotthe progress of evonts in ewch country eigned to prep aro puolls for tho pursuit o ond with sockaties for the promotion ;,olr“l,'::'_ ture, science, and the arts, thau anY giher coun- 1ry in Europ e, i SPARES OF SCIESCE, THE FLC/IRA ROUND ABO', ous’ POPPY, FUMITORY, AN J‘P’UI?S"I!EPACEQFISE not only an iotelligent but » singularly candid judgeof the customs and [nstitutions of the country of his adoption, devotes some space, tn his recent work entitled ** Round My House," to n dofenss of the aystem of oducation provided by tuo FronchUnlversity. The term University in Fraace has quite another signification from that which belonga to it eleswhers. During the Diavolution which awept away the Throne amnd tho Church, the oxlsting universities wore broken up and went dowan to destruction along with the reat. Tho colleges were preserved, to- gether with some portion of their endowment:s ; but for a time tha condition of education in t he Btato was lsmentably low, In 1808, Napoleon founded the Imperisl, aftorwards called ¢ he Royal, University, which embracod under tliat comprebicnsiva titlo the entire school-systom of Franco, All oducational lnstitutions, prims iy, nocondary, and inferior, wers combined in t his ono organization, whose governmental cont rol wan contered jn Paris. The scheme which Napoleon ostablished has, in its fundameotal plan, prevailed over elncs, although tho machin- ery by which It was managed has undergone fm- portant altorations, and its provisious bave buen varlously improved aud oxpanded. In the n[dmnr{ souso of the word, there is no Univorsity in France, ‘Chere are {nstituticms correaponding to tho Universities of Oxford 1md Cambridge, aud of Beriln, Hewdsiberg, and e on. But, inatead, thoro fs » vast mystem of achools spread over the eotire Btate, which bu- gins with the pnmary sobools whers children a1 o taught to resd, aod culminatos in the acadew y whoro dogrees in letsers, scionco, law, medicansy, snd thealogy, sre accorded. This aystom of schools, which 18 arbitranly wmade syuouymor.s with tbo term University, Is controlled by o *+ Couneil of I'ublic Instruction,” who act und > tho rulo of tho ** Minister of Public Instruction " Bubordinate to the Council {8 o body of ». spectora-Geuneral, whose bumuoess it is t0 ex- Dr, Hentz, is turnishod by Mr. Edward Burgess, and a number of valuable notes are added by Mr. J. H. Emerton. Thess, with twenty-one plates, illustrating all the spocics desoribed, oconatitute altogether a monograph of excooding intarest and servico to the student of Arachnol- ogy. Itmaybessid to bo unique, as no work approaching it in complotenees sud importance Lins boen published upon the spiders of North Amertes, The work is in great part technical, and adapb. ed particularly to the uses of tha speciallst; yot, amoug tho obasrvations rocorded of the habits of tho spiders, there is much that would angage the attention of the goneral reader, For in- stanoe, In troating of tha genna Lycosa, which contaios the large burrowing spidors, Dr. etz relates that It is in this gonus aino thas ooe may witness astomshing instances of matornal tondornoss and courage; and that, too, inthe most ecruol roce of snimals,—e race in which ferocity rendern ovon the approach of tho soxes u perilous nol, and con- domns svery individual to perpetual molitude and approboneions of its kwd. When the mothor 18 found with tho cocoon containing its progeny, if this Lo foroibly torn from her, she turns ruund snd grasps tt with hor mandibule, All ber limbs, one by ono, may then Lo torn irom hor body withont foreing her to sbandon her hold. Dut if, without maugling tho mother, tho gocoon be skillfully romoved from her, an suddenly thrown otit of 8ight, she inatantaneously losea il her nctivity, seoms paratyzed, and coils her tremulous Hmbs s if mortally wounded ; 1f the bag bo returned, her ferocity and strength aro rostored the moment ahe has any percontion of ils prosonce, aud she rualios to hor tressure, to dofend il to tho laut.” Maternsl affoction is & prominent charscter- {atia of the ontirofamlly of spiders,—the fomalo leueunu and defendiug the young with aston- ahing vigllanoe and fldelity. A touching 1llus. tration of this is givan in the observatlons upon tho Dolomedes albineus, a mousc-colored spidor, froquently measuriog nonrly 4 inches from the ex- gar taken (nto the usntitles mav fnju- Ono of the prottiest, as woll as the earliost, of the wild flowera taat dora our wmxunnzlull‘s the Bloadroot (Bamguinarea Canadensis). 1t is the only represcatative of its family—which [s emall—that grows in onr viciity. In the ravines at Glooede, sud on tiroe east baok of the Dose plainca at Riverside, it may bo found in the firat mild days of spring, openlug ita petals at the warm touch of the munshige. It 18 s luvoly flower, with & citclo of narrow, snowy potals in- closing & mawa of goldon stamens. ‘The Lwo green sopais drop sa soon aa the blosaowm ox- paode, and tho petals themsalves hava a trying bLabit of Lriling at an early stage, often crolly disappolr.ting the collocior who rejoices in tho beaaty of bis prize. Tho pure, atainless blos- som Uy far nicer to have than to hold, however, for tho orauge-rod julco of the broken stem roarm a freo tido over the fingers, It is from this sanguinsry discharga that the plant derives It popular and eciontific names. The Dlood- root has a round, lobed leaf, which, like the flower, apringa directly from the 100t. There ia & resemblance to the Poppy In vari- ous foatures of the Bloodroot, which betrays oliances, The Enchoscholtzias, and the differ- ent epocies of Poppies cultivated in our gardens, aro its own cousina. Tuete aro about 130 spo. cios in the whols fxmily of tha Papaveraces, and tho greater part of those ere natives of Europe, Eight specles ars enumoratod by Gray in bis MOUND-BUILDERS, Bavoral papars, detailing explorations in the mounds in and around New Madrid, havo boen road at late meotings of the Acadomy of Bclencos at BL. Louis. Prof. Conant, who fiag tecontly made & vielt to a locality some miles from Now Madrid, aod thero examined several mounds, related that fn ono justance, In nddle tion to tho eknlls of tho true mound-bullders which wero found in the contro of the structure, two crania wera discovered .1 tho edgo of the motind which belonged to a widely-different race. *“Iho oxceedingly-low, retreating fore. bead ludicated & inuch” luwer grads of organ. ism; yet the remuins bLad boen buriod aftor tho mound-builder fashion, with a jux on ench aido of tho head.” Tne Profesdor also mava an account of an oxsmination of a burial- monud av New Madrid, whish was situatod in & #paco of about GU acres, inolosed with earthen walle, Something like 1,000 skelotons have already been oxtumed iu this mnclosure; and, in nost cases, thin pieces of pottery hava been found burioa with each mkeloton, "Amoang the srticles of pottery recoversd wore vessels a foot 1n diamoter, and with walis 80 thin that tho! could not be safoly moved whon filled \mf’: water. Ho greas o difforonco was observed 1o the preservation of the skelotons thnt Frof. Cunaut wau tuducea to boliove the mound had be B troiblty of the Jirat. pair ‘of iegs to taat of the | Soparately, snd o detal, but in sl simul- | AR SRRy "oVCr Sucational lost u. | F1o%% 8nd alz ot of tho cigat baso beca furo- | b40% 12 eo for & long poriod o3 & burlal-placo. fourth pair, Tho apocios is & natise of Als. | taucously, from u &?;n;:x‘o't“roenm;l: theot | tion 1 fne Bislo, sud roport wom d“fl%;‘;‘m f°'°‘l'fl lande, VEGETABLE IVORY, bams, and goperally Inbabits the trunks of | |/ J0ORL ot WU b RS OF BIEAL AN 48 %1 {in coudition to the Council. By ihs important spocles In the arder 18 tho | The domand for the ivory-nut hss so Incroasod trooa. A femals, whose captor bad transfixed tho cepbalothorax with & pin, was brought to Dr. Hentz, who, finding sho wos full of oggs, dealred to see if abe would survive the wound. v I placed her in aglass jar," ho snys, “ and, according to my expectations, Nature made an offort, that she might live for the protection of ber progeny. The wound, which, in othor cases, would havs proved immediatoly mortal, hoslod roadily; and, aftor romatning ionotive about three days, she mado a cocoon of & light-brown color, nnd orbicular, in which hor eggs were placed. Blie held it constantly grasped in bor choliceres, and goomed intont on watching it to tho Isst; bat, tho offort being made, her ntrength fallecl, the wound opened again, aud, the fluide running out, she very graduslly lost all hor muscular power; but, faithtul to ber du- tios, tho lass thing which sho hold was the bail cootsining her futuro family. Can maternal tonderncss bua moro strikingly exhibited 2" LORD HOUGHTON'S POEMS, Taz Poxricat Yonxa or (Riomanp MoxoxToN Jiro Loo Hotoirzox. Gollectsd Edition, Tn ‘Two Volumes, With a Portrait, 18mo. pp. 310— $2), ostoni: NMoberts Urothers, Chicago: Jan- aen, McOlutg & Co, Prioe, §3, In 1834, wi tho conclusion of a tour in the East which supplemonted tho studlea of hia col- logiate counse, Lord Houghton, then Alr, Ailnos, published two volumes cootaining pootical records of his foreign travel. They bore tuo titten * Poems, Legendary and Historical,” and Opium Poppy, or White Poppy (2, somniferum), whoso otiginal home 18 now unkuown. It s largoly cultivated in Europe for tho sake of the oul vielded by fts seeds, which is as awest snd wholesomo as olive-oil. Indeod, it is extensivoly used to adulterate olivo-oil, and in Frauce is ewployed quita as much ma au artcle of . food, ~ Tha uarootic proportiea belonglug to tho milky juices of the plant are not present in the 802ds, wod henoo do not effect tho o1l expressed from thom. A varioty of the Whito Poppy whicu Las dull-red flawors is chiolly cultivated for oil, but not ta tho exclusion of the original spocios. Dutfarent vacieties of the £. somniferum oro fl""‘:’&‘l“m‘:li for ml“l opium they y':em. The Ited of the communal collegos dopond Iariely upon o ¢ . fenamlly grown i the mountainous ths. food of studonisfor thelr mulatonmuco. partsof Tndia, and ihe White Poppy 1n_tha Each of tho dopartments into which tho State ta | PI8!'ae of Bongal, whero the groat Hsidw, whoa divided s compalted to _sustain o normal school [ ), bloseom, rosemblo, according to Dr. Hooker, for tho trainiug of toachers. Midwsy betwoeu | ;. 'oou Iakes atudded with whito wator-lites.” the primary schoois and the ‘colleges stand the [ ;A0 Utientsl L'oppy (/. Orientale), whous publio echools, which afford oppurtumitics for | BTES rod blossomy blaze like wpiasbes of tlame tho bourgooisie, who do not chose go through u | 11 our flowor-beds, grows wild in Armeoia and classical courso, to procure a respectablo educa- | the Caucssus. In Eoglaud, the common ltod tion. The salaries uf profoasors and teacher 4 | LOPPY (P rheas) infesta the corn-fields and in oll tho institutions are very small, b, | cultivated grounds, and s a troublesoms wesd. iog fixed in tho begibning at ratos ve.ry- Everybody who kunows suything of our gar- ing from €200 to 8800, Most of the highor | d0u-lowers is scquaiuted with the beauttul schiools of laaring and scionce ere locatad iy | Diclytra Speclabilis, whose long, drooping ra- Paris, and the motropolitan facultios of losr ang | SOmes of pink, heart-suaved, bap-liko flowers modicino have & world-wide colebrity. form so pleasing an accompanimwnt to the spring Mr. Hamerton statos that thore are 76,000 un- bouquets of Flour-do-Lis, Poony, sud Buow- dorgraduates in the French University, and con- Ball, Yet very fow kuow that iu the woods we tonds that au institution whick in tisus fuform. | LA¥8 two species of wild flowers very closoly ro- ing o multitude is a groater bonufit than oue method of government, the schools are sub- Joct to constant sopervision, snd are kept oy to the average standard of thoir grade, This coursa of etudy, and their discipline nud methods of nstruction, being the same, boys can romovo from one school to snother, whon neod roquires it, withous suffering any break in thelr education, ‘Che academios in 1870 numbered twensy- soven. Tho governiug body of each suporin- tonas all the schools of interior rank within its district. Each academy is intended o have n full faculty, yot somo of thew are not furnished with & complote corps of teachers. Tho colloges aro chiotly snpported bv Government, yet somo use in the schools. NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS, A TaraTmE OX THA Law OF NEGOTIADLX Dtstau- Mrxza, ByJonN W, DANISL 3 Vola, 8vo,, pp. 3,505, New York: Baker, Voorhis k Co, 1478, This {8 the most elaborate treatise that has yot appeared in this country upon tho law of nogotlablo lostruments, and bears internal evi- donce that it is the rosult of elaborata research ovor the entirafleld of sdjudicatsd casos, of which about 6,000 ars cited inthonotes, Discardlug the precodent ast by Jnatice Btory, of preserving a sharp line of demarkation betweon the law of prominsory notes and that of bills of exchaoge, the autlior, adoptiog a broader analysis, treats of all negotiablo instrnments—bills, hotes, cor- tiflcates of dopoait, coupons bonds, lotters of credit, ato.,—together, thua grouping the ontire body of the law upon the whole suojoot. The work i3 ono that will commend itselt to tha practiolng lawyer. DIGEST OF ILLINOIS REPORTS, A D1axsT or TaE ILLINGIA REPORTS, YROM THE B5TIL ToTOE 88TH YeLUME, INOCLUsIYR. By CmAnvxa I, Woap and Josxrst D, Loxa, 8vo., pp. 630, Chi- esgo: K. B, Myera, 1876, This, the third volume of the Illinois Digost, feotclioa that work down to tho lateat published Raport of the Buprems Court. It is a carofully. propared index to, and analysis of, the dooisions reported in tho Iast 4fteon volumes of the INi- in the Gorman market that its prico Lias nearly doubled within n abort time, The nut fs the fruft of ono of tho mout bosntiful of all the palms, The tros (Phylelephas Macrocarpa) i & pative of Bouth Americs, particularly of the Andean plaios of Poru, and of tho shores of tho River Magdalens. Tho stom of tho treo is short, aud lies prostrato on the ground ; but from ite crawn priges o tnft of light-greev, pinnated lenves, of magniticont size aud beauty, Thboy aro descnbed aa resembling inuenso ostiich- plumes, rising to the stately Leight of 80 or 40 fvec. 'The truit, which is s large as a cocon- Dut, consists of an aggrogstion of lesthety drupes, esch containing four triangular nuts, neaily as largo as o hou's egg. Tho kernels of these unuts, when ripe, so complotely simulato tvory In color and conswtency that'they have beon adapted to many uses formerly mougje olized by the animal product, Mauy articles manufactured from tho ivory-nat wo resomble ;usuu wado of truo lvory as to decoivo the best udgos. FREEZING PLANT-JUICES. Tho apparsot phenomonon of plunts survin ing aftor their juices Lave been frozon bas ox- cited much rescarch for na explanstion among botanists, Tho problom has not yot been astis- factorily solved, but soma interesting testimony iu the cane Lins been elicited througk the experi- Isted to this handsome oxotic, aud, though | ments of Mr. Tiffard, which are published in an **Momorials of Many Scones.” In 1810 thoy | nojs Tleports, and will bs found inyaluable to | Wich polishos tho miuds of a limited number, | WoFe diminutive sud unprotending, quito | ppeih oxchango, Somo juice of o cabby 4 H o | s exquisite. Alroady the; b & HOt JHOIDImes- DE RroADDAE e ‘:“I::cl:os“:t“;fan;yY:l r:l.:'l'rd“dvol‘l:xmleé‘:ng;!m: tho practicivg lawyer. The arrangemont. fs | oMOst Of thouseful work in tho world."hogoeu | &2, SKvisiler | Mrohly ihoy, wasy B | joyr minglod witl water, was placed in a bottlo o to say, *is done in places and by paoplo who do not come up to tho artistis or lnmlecnml idoul. Nobody protondn that ths French Uni- veraity ia an ornamontal ioatitation; it was es- tablished for siwplo utility; and it la maiu- tained, though not illiborally, at the lowest cost wiuch in compatible withi the work it bas to do. Thero are oo magniflcent incomen, 1o princoly residences for ite magnates, and the poorer workers in it labor for little wages. Their incomea wore fized at & tune whon living wau chosper than it fs now, and it would be simple justico to Increase thom, With regard to the butldings, somo of the oldoer ones, though Iarge, ato detective I thelr arravgementa ; tie now ones sre much botter, aud sowa of the vary nowest aca admirable models of claver consiruc- tlon for their ewpecisl porpose. The French University makes no pretousion to wealth,—its pride is to do the mwaximum of work st ¢ho nun~ 1muwm of coat ; still, if the sums oxpended in all tho calleges and lycoums wero addod togother thoy would mako a vory formidabla total, A new lycoum costs from £30,000 to £80,000, which large sutn to find for s small provincial tows, There is plenty of space in theno buildings for the convenionce of teaching. Bvery class has sud subjected to o low temporaturs, alonw with a second bottlo containing pure water, Tho Iat- ter fluid froze, Lut tho wixtura of cabbage-Juice and wator resistod congelation. TLis result goed to show that tho fuicod of plants do nat freeze in tomporoturvs which congeal waior, theit chemical constituents giving thom n power te rouist tho ordiuary offcats of cold, Whoro the frost does dostrov vegotablo lifo, the proooss in iu sccordanco with tho commou lsw by which frozon liquids expand aud disrupt tue surrounds tog tissues, cousing disintogration and death, clear and logical, and the gist of the docisicn in each caso is stated with admirable precision and Lo table of cascs is complote aud nd the table of cases overruled and while comprossed into the atnallest practicablo compass, is & valuable addition to tho work. + “FLOATING COFFINS," Tue Coew or TRE DOLPUIN, Dy HEessa STRETTON. 18ma,, pp. 332, New York : Dodd, Mead.k Ca, Aftar reading * Hoster Morley's Becrst,” one ia suro to examine with interost ovory new book by Hesvs Btrotton. The ons before us is of modest protousions, yot it showa the power of tho writer. Witnout any apparent.intent, it por- trayn in a vivid manaer the awful wrong from which English marinera suffor in being sent to sea inuurafe vausels, which in many cases provs, and are meant by their owneis to prove, * floate ing cofins * for the crews which man them. The stary, slight as it is, will sorve as a usoful ally to Mr. Phimeoll, who hiss so bravely and euccessful- ly atood up in the Brtleh Parlisment in dofsnse of the seamen that bave for years been mordez- uud nlong the Desplaines luver, the Dicentra Cucullaria, or Duteuman's Breeches za 1t is cowwonly catlod, ts sboudant; end, in sinular localities at Lockpors aund Joliet, the D, Can- adensis way be foucd. ‘Yhe fuliage of the two Planuts iy about the same, boiug fiuely divided, sud very graceful and feathery ; sod tuo flowers do not ditfer greatly. In tho first-pawed, the upurs of tue corolla diverge widely, aud the crost ia tiuged with yollaw; iu the Isst-named, the flowers are simply heart-shapod, ure of & pearly hue, and have o delicious {ragrance. " Another kindrod epecios, the Climbing Fumi- tory (Adlumia cirhosa) prows uear Lincoln Parlk; but this is probably not native to tho woil, only a stranger that has beon brought from othor purts, aud hsd taken kindly to ita new surroundiogs, It iy & dolicate, elogaut climber, with finc-cut foliage, aad paniclos of mnall white or ‘\mplu-l.lnuod tiowers, The Fumitery fannly (#tnariacea), 1s not Inrge, emurscing ooly 11U species, Nor doow it dispisy nuy rowarkable charactoristics. Bigub Bpecies occur within the Biates iucluded in ray's Flora. In the groves and woods round about, the fourth, etyled *Palm-Leaves.” Theso, with additiond, nnd soms owissions suggosted by the matured tasto of the writer, are now united in a completa edltion, which ia put forth in two neat volunes, sccompanind with a portrait, The poeiry of Lord Houghton {s marked by the grace and elogauco of a refined and calti- vatod mind, which haa tho faculty of expressin: itself in facilo ana polished vorsos. It nover rises to tho bicipit of passion, nor moves ona with the strong swoep of linpotuous emotion ; bat otcasionsl ploces, especially amoog the poama af sontimmnt which wore produced in the oarly lifo of the writer, indicato dopth and dali- eney of fealing, Closing tha poom ** Parted and Met,” which is pervaded with some coosiderable ordor, there ia8 a stanza which anticigatos the | tonso Livos by Tennynon ¢ *Tis bedter o bavo loved and lost ‘Thass nover to have loved at all, Lord Howzhton's version roads ; Ho, viho for Lave ias undergons Tl worst than can befall, LAKE-DWELLERS, In the courso of house-buildiug excavations made in the vicinity of two lake-dwellings bo- tween Anvermior and Colowbien, Switzerland, thero was opened to view a chamber whoss con- tents proved it to bo a burial-ptace of tho Iako- dwellers, Within the chamber, which was sup- portod by upright sionos, thore wero found ten or fifteen humuy skelotons,—the skulis colleatod in ouo coruer, nnd tho other remsius in tha coutre, With thom thero wore sntombed & boear's tooth, & woll's tooth. a small, smooth s lnppler thousand-fold than one usly sacrifioed to tho avarico of ship-ownars, Spring Beauty (Claylonia Virginiea) is nowat ita | boue dish, two hatchets of eerpontiuo stone, a "W ho nover laved st all; ously Pt T, l.l:dfla: ar::u:.‘ ‘fimc‘x:l‘l’ymfilw A‘?;lu \\;:ll hggl;‘d- bgnt. gm! uuyng happily daunrqllzu lgu flowor, for | bronzo nosdle, n smail copper riug, and four e e VILLIAW SWINTON AGAIN. ol room. ivarydoue i Flvsss, ani § | U0 of e fafon st drop (rom tho tan | el broue iaclee, ke dicovety ot i T}iank God for ol that I have galned Te the Bditor of Tho Chicage Tribuna Dolieve also ovory collogo, hias & room for juc | Of SPTnR 88 sho ecatters hor bouutics ovor the | Kravo—ihich iy supposed to ba a family tomb of *By that high suffering | and was publishod prior tothe appearance of the couplet from ** In Momorian.” The plawlnyi lyric, **The Broak-Slde,” which ‘hae baeva sung In nearly every hausehold {o Amer- 1ea, was written during s moonlight drive to visit Miss Edgoworth, when the author was a atu. dont at Cambridge and a youth of 31, It was not rogardod by him or his friends as worthv of publication, yetit hss provod the most widely popular of sll bia productions, Tho oponing stanza will recall to memory tho entire poem: a dato betweon tho Stono aud the Branze Agea— is particularly iuteresting as affording needed light upou the question of how tho lake-divolls ey disposed of thoir doad, New Yonx, May 2.—I deaire to express my thanks to your Ann-Arbor correspondent, ** In. yestigator," for bia $imaly exposure of William Bwinton's plagiarism. 1t is to be rogretted that Prof. C. B, Adams, of the Univermty of Mlichi- gan, lent hia indorsoment to wuch a fraud. Nothiog can be more reprehonaible than thal Let Prof. Adams explain if he can. By the way, I wish " Investigator* would ax- amine Swinton's **Rambles Among Worda." 1t oarth, It may readily be recopmzed, with its two long, succuleut, varrow loaves, botween which tho smooth, sbiniog stom of pink-veived tlowers upriess. It is & peculiarly daiuty plant, woll loved by pvery botanist with a hoart apon to the 1nfluences of raro and perfoct grace. The €, Caroliniana, & species with broader leaves, 18 somotimes observed i1u our viclnity. Amoug the ssuds av Miller’s Station, along from Juue to August, the Taltnum leretifolium grows quite sbundaotly. It w a tioy plant, with floshy, necdto-liko loavey, sud s cyme of pink blossoms, atruotivn iu the slements of physical ecience, with tho nocossary apparutus, which in many casoa hus booa liberally added ta of lato years.™ As for the quality of tho education imparred by the Univorsity system, 2Ir, Hamerton deckares that + It is incomparably superior to Erglish middle-class education, unlesa the lat'er has been wonderfully smended durivg™ the last fow years. Its systematic, ~ charao ter, and tho nteadiness of the train- tog which it gives, with tho oblirzatory Bache- lor's degree at the end for all who gnter the lib- NATIVE WILD GOOSEBERRIES. In tho last number of the Naturalist,—whioh, by tho way, has bocomo, under its new adminis- tration, eo enterprisiug nnd useful s publication that evory ntudent of Natural Science sbould so- curo it,— Dr. Asa Gray appoald to tho botanists 3 f the Unitod Stutes for specimons of our nae Twandered by the brookside, fs an excellent flold for exploration. Bois that | oral professions, {usare the o/,vautages of a | Jeld up ouly from 8 to G inches | o i hhi & 1 wandered by tho mill ; book, of which bo ia the roputod autlior, *The | known method and a settled pr'.rposo, A Fronch | B00¥® the gromud. —In waste — places tL";.‘f,L‘.‘é B 'f{:‘;":,];fl’: n:.‘.',"fi'[‘,i_ I could not hear the brook flaw, Thare was 5o burr of frassdo o 3 N thirh of way by Twer, Dut tho boating of my awn heard ‘Was all the sound I heard, “Tha Men of OLL" *Tho Long Ago,” and +The Worth of Hours,” may bs noted ss pos- sossing o qulet, wcditative” boauty that com- mends thom to moods when othical Josaous con- voysd In melodious language aroe peculiarly ao- coptablo, CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER IN EGYPT, Munmres aNp Mostexs, Dy Onantrs DupLEY Wan- N, Pp,4iT, Uartford, Conn.: American Publisn- iug Coupany. 1876, This is & book written for the peopls, It will ploase them It {8 & rocord of a winter in Egypt, the land of Memnon and myatery, of the Pyramids and tho lotus, of lauguld plossure, of sand that bas drifted over history, aud so em- baimed for this restloss sgo tho story of the spton of reat. And, for a eaunter through Lgypt, what botter guide could thers be than the author of *Bauutorings,"—tbat book of wan. derloge, without a rival and sltogether lovoly ? Mr. Warnor, who Las skatchod for us before tha **children of the wun' ny he found thom iu midsummer, tho FPorfulacea oleracea will bo soeu quite comwmonly, Its popular vuamo, Purslsue, bas beon perverted iuto Pursloy, sud thus the weed is kuowo to many pureons. It 18 nlmost the only plant ju the order that sorves auy use, aud that is the humblo onv of a pot- herb. In Biveris, the tuberous roots of the Claylonia tuberosa aro cmployed as an article of food; ‘o shuwy towers of the Porfulacea grandylora are aniong the gayest ornaments of our bordors, yet their beautios are too iusting to give puro satisfaction. 'Tho gonuy Catendicny furnistos us with wome Liglly-csteomed au- uuals, Tuospecies of tha Purelano fawmily, or Porbi- lacacew, of which thers aro about 181, are most- ly found 1u hos and dry places, whers ilioy are able Lo endnre the drought Ly rosson of their tloshy leavos, that ato resorvuirs of molsturo from which the plants cau draw sustonauce for s long timo. nly flve specios sro named in Ursy's Flors, four of which, described above, aro inbabitants of our vicuty, DISEASE-PROOF POTATOES. We gave an account at tho tino of the experi- provincial lawyor or surgec.y, - having worked steadily up through all the glanses to hiy Uach- olor's degree, and taken ‘it, |u s bottor traincd man thau the English provincinl attorusy or suryeon wha lias boen f 5 3 grumnar-schiool, and passed theaeo to the ¢ ica or surgery with what- ever the local gram’ yar-school might give him."” Tho University * cainw its puplta caretully in the accarato uss, of tho French lsnguage, en- deavoring 8130 (o mako them acquainted with tho morita of / he best French suthors, 1t lise- wiso toacho’, Latin and goomotry in a most thorough wanner; but, with ‘thoso three branches of Luowledge, its complate effcioucy coucludy », « tirook tu imporfoctly loarued, and wmodery. [anguagea more imperfectly siill. In Listor, groography, and the physicsl solouces, all thab can be douo i o glve u\:rmgzmsum, which 816 gccurato ss fares thoy go.” ‘The defoct with b o University system, a8 with most othor fichemes of oducution, 19, that it attempts too many subjects. Maturs men would find 1§ im- Bonmhln to msstor thow all; and boyws csh at BOOKS RECEIVED. oL mieraly gain & souatioring of them, Tex GOSPEL AXD ErisTLes or Joun: Wirm Notvs, Childreu of all roligious denominatlons aro 9}.'5.',‘3.‘;‘7.,}‘:?&‘.’421"."1;"‘;50 x;:;mnw—,‘}::-;lm. mn}““\“l“} the nch't'xolu.lund tho toachors are 3 s . Vs | exclusively lavinon. T'his lutter fact runders thoe };'X;;;:fi:f&n' Dr *1amon 1p 74, Now Yorks Chwreh of ioms juimical to the University, AvrLkTONe ILLUSTRATED HAND-DoOX or Amex. | Although tho Catholics iave a paramount inilu- 104N Ornxy; COMPRISING TuR DPRINC(PAL Crrixg | ONCe fu ita religious toaching, there boing a Ilistory of the Soventh Regiment ™ (N, Y, 8, ML), Ity autbor is Pond, not Bwinton, Alr, Pond al- #o wrote six out of the *“Twolve De~ ctulve Dattles,” of which William Bwinton {8 the acceptod author. I doubt whether VWilliam Bwinton evor produced anytbing atoue. 1lis * History of the Army of the Potomse™ was wade up frow private accounts given to bim by the army officors. Iis ** Progrossivo Grammar,"” ns ho calls it, discards the Articlo as » goparsty patt of spoech, which was firat dono by Noah Waebator fu his * Philosophical Gram- mar.” Willlam 8wintou, however, slways uneors at Webstor, whom he calls **a Yankoo lexicogra- pher” (seo “Rambles Among Words,” Scribuer's odition, 1859). Bwinton’s ** Word-Analysis " is mado np from Chambora’, Al of. Willlam Bwin- ton's prodactious are of “enmm!mnq preten- sions sud medlocre porformance.”—ANew York Tyibune, 1t lss disgraco to tha natlon tiat wuch aman is allowed to make books for children, Bhow him up, QuaNaes Kuax, ing theso plunls bas, not beon proporly worked up. xud Dr, Gray aska for assistanco from those Laving opportunition of cbservation of living speetod fu pusting it into a right condition. Ile aves & desaription of tho various specios, 80 far na this bus yet been cowploted, 1n order that the {.eu:.!lu.' may judge for himsolf what romains to o douo, BRIEF NOTES. 1t is eald that one-thirtioth of all the land une der cultivation in Bpala is dovotod to the growth of oilves. Daron Von Nolken, of Rigs, Rusais, has gone on a socond expeaition to Bogata, for the pure pose of making entomological colleotions In that rogion. «Thoe now metal, gallium, hns beon chiined in a E“m utate by Al. Locoq, and is found to have a brliianoy betweon that of plutinum and thas of silver. 'Tho number of visitors to- the Dritish Muss- um, during 1874, avoragod 11,574 weckly, Tha numboer of visitors to the Amsrican Musouw of ments which woro [nstituted last year by tho | Natural History, iu Now York City, uvaragos Toyal Agricultural Socicty for tho purpose of | weukly 18,677, ‘The New Yurk Lugislature hay acquiring Information with rogard to the potato- | appropriutud $200,000 for furnishiug tbe now dumenso, At bwouty difforont tations fn Lug. | Museutn-buildiug on Maubattuy uquaro. IN TuE UNITMD STATXS AND Ca¥aba, Wizi Out- | chispol sud chapiain connocted with every lycos i i ub Bortonto, oow paints with tho s dudity | - 43,3 "0r "unouar Hotire, AND Iiwav-Adke, | wn o colloge, uill Loy ase ot watisiod! Nor | lnod, Scotiand, aud Irolsud, varlstien of tho JThe Lenlalaturs of Wiscanainfis approprist vigor tlele older brathren, thochildrouof thesun | _Papar, New York: D, ApplatoaaGo. " ™ | will they bo 4o long as horotics aro ot excludad, | tuber wero plantod undor diyotse couditions, | A 325000 for printing o geolagleal roport along the Nile, We pass with bum through the | Sxconn Bemixs or “Tarrinen.Tou Booxs." Saw's | and the teachors are not members of tho clorgy. Baca oy ooy and the results carefully noted. Tha roport of the oxperiment has now been published, and the Londou Agricultural (fasette presents the Onaxce, awp How HE Ixenoven It, Yy MousTIo ALax®, Jr., Author of * Ragged-Dick Bories," etc. 1smo,, pp. 371, Bostou: Loring. Chiengo: Jansen, alcClury & Co, Price, §1,25, # Hwsiony o Tus UmTEb BTATES OF AMXNIOA, FROM THE 1)eCOVERY OF TuR CONTINEXT, By Gromax Daxcuorr. In8ix Volumes, Vol U1, Thoroughlye which will bo cowpleted by Prof. Chamberlain, It has also spproprated $10,000 for the purchasa of Dr, Lapham' library and scicusiio colteo« tions, for the Wiscousin Unlversity, The Royal Astronomical Bociety of London has couforrod the kold medal spoun Le Verrior, u con« whirl of the Caira bazaars; wo swing lazily up the Nile; wo stroll through tomplea; wa catoh tho stony, swoet amile of the Bphlux; we ahoot tho foaming cataracta; we hiave stray glimpsos of Lgvpilsn life in the barem and tho tiold; we ‘Tho University {s purely dewocrutio in s priuciplos, its doars betng open to the son of tho peasant s well as to tho Leir of tho Prince. “Oneof my young friende in acollego at Faris," | following comuionts : writey Mr. Hamilton, * told me_that in Lis class | The primary ides, ludsed, namely, that of discovess thete wete boys of every rank. iucluding evou | ing o *dlsoase-prool'” potato, was not realized; al- nterview the Khodive; wo are giadually and Rovirad Editlon, i2mo., pp. 83, Loston: Iiule, | royuity, for twa of his class-follows bulongod to | though the experiuicuts sbowed cluarly that some | gidaration of Lis discussion of the the theories of plossantly watursted—not watiated—mwiths facts 1‘»‘:1':‘5'":-510“} Shlcagas Jausod, McOlurg & Co. f " prijicely reiguing tawily, othurs bulunged to Turictica Bre frver (rou ihe attacks of abe Jaeise | tho fous mafor plaucte, with tables, 1t is aot tha worth Luowing: aud vwe ot tuonow Exypt | " iy Buuvke Suisss, Author of * Gbaracter, | BOble families, and uthors t0_quito poor aud ob- | 1543 SiASEe:, | Whe Feaciibiassom, foc.cxuibiis 8 10 | tirat timo the sawe honor hias Leoa bostowed which—us in avary opoch Lofaro—18 growing tu- | "W Emlf el ote, 14mon, PR 307, Torualos Bel. | wire oued . . . ‘The form of democzacy | ghive, from tubers recelved in 1obd from Now York, | Upou astronomor,—bis work upon Macy o life above e ruins af the old. ANl through | fond Brotuers, which the Ubiversily produces in that of | was pecullarly froo from discsss. Awong the tweaty | and the inferior planets haviog tocelvad m dumn ;ha ook thoro are toushies of that quaint, do- | Laszavs Livaiss, No. &% Tee Mrmuavs Isaxb; | Jules. Simon. and ‘Lhiwrs. 1t .gives paor | siations st which this polate was taisg, cily aix. sut- | Hlax xeoogaibion