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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 187%6—TWELVE PAGES. A Study of Hawthorne---Spiritual- ism and Norvous De- rangement, A Shakspeare Manual---The Orient and Its People. A Norse Love-Story---Rudolph Virchow -The Climate of India. Dying Iindus and the Ganges-=-Lorym in Ilumnn Intestines. {rregular Vegetable @rowths.-Color-Curo for fu- santty-Resistanes (o Cold, LITERATURE. ITAWTHORNE, A STUDY ar TTAwTIHORN! By tizonor PAUSONA Lattinor. 18mo., pp. 350, Dostan: James R, Orgood &'C0. The remnrk which the sister of Iawthorne once made of him, that “ no man ever needed less 1 blography,” {8 perfectly true. From his works written with a view to thelr publication, and from lils coplous jouruals fssued alter his decense, the appreciative reader gains n knowl- edize of the Intellectunl and moral man that is suflicing. Whoever requires other belp to an understanding of the author's tdiosyncrasies, it mny be safely sald, Is fncapable of a clear and correct perception of them. It is plain why Hawthorne desired that no extended memortal of his life should he written, He was wisely confident that his hooks were his best Interpreters; and, to whom these falled Lo reveal the essence of hils spirit, it was futlle to attempt further explanations. While lving, he carefully shrouded his private history Ina vell of reserve; and he could not bear the thought Wty when dead, this should bo Mfted to giatify rcurious publie. is wish Lis heen respected,— the charming Mttlo sketch which his friend, Mr, Flelds, lovingly dedicated to his memory, and the present very acceptable **Study,” neither of them aspiring to the method aud complete- gees of a regular biography. Mr. Lathrop cltes ns o favoring clreumstance In the task he has undertaken, of throwing new light on the genlus of Hawthorne, the fact that he never saw the anthor. Iiis intuftion, alded by research, has Leen his sole gulde In the analyses of the worka of Ilnwthorne, and of the personality visible Lebind them. And it has adinfrably answered,—true in sight avalling tor more In the conception of character thun sy amount of external detafl, The essuy will e cordlally greeted by all in sympathy with its subject; and from It wil be gained some fresh communleations concerning the life of the novellst, and much genlal and competent eritl- cistn of hia writings. Beparata divislons of the work arc giventoa study of the quaint old city of Salem,—the birthplace of Iawthorne, aud his homne for a considerable portfon of his life; to a study of his boyhood and collego-days, of His experience at Brovk Farm, at the O1d Manse, at Lenox and Conceord, and in England and Ita- Iy, and In thelr proper sequence, of the tales, essays and romances which were produced sue- cessively during Lis literary carcer. ‘The final chapters conslder the personality of Tawthorne, e Hkeness of his mental orgaiization, to that o Poe and of Irving, aud attempt at an mliust- ment of tha balance between the luss and the aln which our literature hus sustained in the levotion of ten of the bcai.‘)'cnrn of Hawthorne's 1fe to oflicind dutics, und fn the lsolution sur- rouriding more than as many years of his carly manhood, ¥ It §8 commonly known that, when Hawthorne finlshed his course at Bowdoin College, he re- turned to s mother’s hume in Salem, und forn protructed term led the 3o of o literary recluse. by, reserved, and penslye, the young author struggled {n solitude with the hopes and fears that beset the asplrant for fumne in the profes- ton of letters ‘“Tho nofreless “weeks dipped by—cach day dlsgulshlpi itself fn the exaet semblunce of “lts fellows— like & flle of nidschicvous maskers. 1lawthorne sat fn his little room under tho caves, rendln;i' sudying, volcelessly communing with Limselt through his own Journal, or—mastered by some wikl suj ;f'cal,llm or mysterious speculition— fecling his way through the twilight of dreamid into ~ the dusky chambers of that houss of thought whose launted Interfor nome but hlmscll cver visited. He bad Mittlo communiention with even the members of his family. Frequently his meals were brought and left at his locked door, and {t ¥as not often that the four tuiates of fhe old lerbert-strect mansion met fu famliy-clrele, He never rend his storles aloud to his “mother and sfsters, asmight be jmaglned from the pleture which Mr, Flelds draws of the young wthor reciting his new productions to his listening family; nmu%u, when they met, ho wictimes rend older literature to” them, It was the custom In thls household for the several mentbers o remabt very much by themselves; the three Indles wero lmrhul)s nearly a3 rigorous recluses a8 imself; and, spenking of the fsolation which relgned umong them, Huwthorne once safd, * We do not even live at our housu!’ But still the presenco of thia near and gentlo femlnlue ele- Inent 18 not to bo underrated a8 forniing o very great compuonsation n the cold and diflicuit worning of Hawthorne's Hfet While Hawthorno was dwelllng In this severe seclusion, ho slowly produced the sketelies now known us “Twlee-Told Tules,"—contributing them_respeetively to the Sulum Ggzelle, the Neo-Eygland Magaxing, the Bomton_Token and Atluntte Souvenir, nnd other perlodieals, The Ylmm nttructed attentlon by their superior qu « Among those who sought to discover Ulentity of the young writer was Miss Elizabeth Peabody, whuse slster Sophls oventually beeans Huwthorne's wife. This Indy was capecially in- terested in the story of *Tho Gentle Boy, " and ¥as o tho point of uddresslng the author by Ietter, and expressing her enjoyment of the theteh, - On being fuformed atterwards of this unfulfilled intention, Hawthorne exelafmed: 1 wish you hud} 1 wonld have been an era fnmy life.h” Although Miss Penbody falled to write the anthor who had 5o Interested her, on lenrn- g that e was the son of the Wilow llaw- thorne, whons she had previously known in Sa- lem, ghio enlled o express {n person her appre- datfon of hiy writings. Hawthorne was too Hmld to respond tolier first advances, aud {twans. notuntila year Iater thut, on theirrelations being Tevived by some correspondence concerulng le- tury mntters, he neceptedan invitation lnr%xlm- seltand siaters to spend an evening with hier, “Eutlrely to her surprise,” wrltes Dr, La- Wrop, * thoy cal Blie hurselt urencd the ry and thery before her, between his slaters, tood u nlrluudhlly-hnmlaulnu youth, tall un Rrang, with no appearance whatever of timid- ity, but, Instead, un almost fleree dotennination tnaking by face stern, This wus his resource for carrying off thy extreme nward tremor Suich b really felt. I8 hostess brought out laximnn's deslgns for Dunte, Just recelved o Prof, Felton, ot Horvard, wud the party Bade un eyening’s entertatmment of them, “Ile news of this triumpl, huparted to o Irend of Miss Pealiody's, led to an fnmediste lltation of Hawthoro 'to dinner at another “usey for the next duy. To accepted this, also, ad, on retugniug himeward, stopped at the Klen Gazetta oftice, full of theexcltcment of his Lew experiences,—atmouncing to Mr. Foote, the itor, that e was gettimg diasipated, He'toll U the gvenlng with Miss' Peabody, whers he Eald be had had a delhtful time, and of the Qumer Just achleved, *and I've had a dedlightfut it thoere, tool' he addud, Mre Foote, per- Ll emergency, at once nsked the youug Bmur o come to hilp own house for un “even ‘o Ilawthorne, thoroughly srouscd, con- sited, When the e enfug cumie, seyeral ladies Yo had been fuvited assembled before the x;:_umr arrived, and, umong them, Miss Peabiody. <t he reuched the place, he stopped short gt by ) d tho phuee, ) ped short ¢ drawing-room threshold, startled by the Besecs of strungers, wd stood perfectly "“fliunleu. but with the look of & sy fir:\uu ou the pofat of tlecluyg s Ly, t38umed bursquerlo na longer availed o ho was stricken with dlsimoy; hls face 1ast yorand tokcona worn paleiicss. Al this Illln g momenty but the dunghter of the house m‘f\cd forward, and ho was drawn within, Lven <ty though he wigwined o calm demesnor, bls IMu.t.hm Wus very great; ho stomd b{ a table, W takling up some sunl object that lay upon e found bls hund trembling 8o thut ho wus fed to put it down sguln.” e Leen years wero spent by Ilawthorne in “luuwm{ labor ut Sulen, ncl then, fn 1833, e ag o 4 houccepted un uppolutineit s u.hcrmn} fiauger [0 the Buston Custom- u‘.\lw, St w salary uf about $1,200 a year. When' ‘&Pmltct of the Brook-Farmy Comnunlty was “Wsed, the ussochutious somethnes held'the'y wmentingn at Miss Penbodg's, In Boston, and now whyo waa the ltterary gentleman® announced na wi oIt the company s and, when told that {t was 14 as if o miracle had hefalien, 11, ‘na he tells me, *the hien! ntly be filled with angels, and acab's Jadder beforo us.? any nearer to haying that than au old lad- I the baen, from dour Lo hayloft, ¢, Hawthorne lnd {wo ends in view connected with Brook Farm: one to find n stitable and econotileal homo after marrfage, the other to suenre s made of life thoroughly Dalanced and healthy, which should success- Tully distribute the sun of bis life's lahor he- tween body and brain, He hoy Tawthorne, hy W But we never personal benet d o secure lelsure ours of dally ser- tnd nearly alxteen necdful, " He Mr. Ripley, Haw- the Fratérnity the enry ond Invested fu the enter- h lio had been abloto save When heleft Brook worked Tka a dragon thorne was connectc better part of a rise 1,000, whi vomn his part carnings. Furm his capital remained hehind, and e had next to nothing to begin house] the Ol Mange, where he took his young brlde in July, 1842, The four tdyllle passed In. this congenial rétread hppiest and most” fraftful of lis Life, and the * Mosses from an Old Manae is onc of the rich cles given to the world by them, r. Luthrop has Incorporsted in Iifs esany Jet- ters from Sumner, G. W. Curtls, Longfellow, Holmes, and othiera, with, (b some cuses, the replies of Ilnwthorne, reping with at card which were were amongg the A warm-hearted note tiss Milford, nclnowledging the recelpt of a copy of “ Blithednle Romance,” does her sneh ercdit that we put it before our readers: SWALLOWFIELD, Aug. 10, 1852 —At the risk of out, dear Mr. lawthorne, I you how much I thank precious valime, enriehed by your handwriting, which, for [t+own snke snd far yours, 1 shall treas- ure curefully so long a9 I llve. “The story has your t,~the flne trapic conetruciion,” the A of jealonky, the exquleito finish of 1 must tell you what one o men Whom § linve ever known, an English bareise ter, the Juvenlle correspondent of Misy Edgemont, eaye of your style: ** Hin English 1s the richest and mokt Intenae cssenca of the language 1 know of,—hiz words conveying not vnly a meaning, but more than they appear to mean, “They point on- y A Ing them with the eyes of imaginnt! fniling, sometimes weepine, wometimen shudder- Ing um 1 we were vietimsof the mesmeric influence hu Is 80 fond of bringing to hear upon his charac- T'hree of the most perfect Englishmen or onr day nre Awcricans,—Irving, Prescott, und this 8o far my friond, forget, dear M, Hawthorne, that the writer of whose works ou remind me, not by imitation, lance, fathe great French novel you know his booke? e is antranelated and an- ranslatable, and it roquires the with Freneli literaturo to rella danbt if he be much known amongst you; have never veen him slluded to in Amer- He bins, of course, the low moral- ity of n Frenchman; but, Lelng what he fs, Mea. Browning and he urod to diacise hin perannages 1lke Hving peaple, nnd regarded his death ns a great personad calanity to both, 1 am expoctiog Mre, Browning hore in & fow drys, not belng well anougli to mect her in Lon- I wish, dear Mr, lawthorne, that yon were here to meet them! Thu day will 00d for your buoks to wrope that knows our on, ~sometimes hut by resem- antost familiarity him thoroughly. ican literature, look at Eurupe, and all of tongue wonld rejoice to look at you, obliged and affectionate friend, M. R. Mirronw. ——— SPTRITUALISM, M AND ALLIED CAUSES AND it NERVOUS DERARNGE. Dy Winniast A, Hawsoxn, M. D. of Digeanes of the Mind und Nervons System, in the Medica) Departinent of the Unl- vorslty'of tle City of New Yo The lttle book entitled * The Physics and Thysiology of Spiritualisn,” published by Dr. IIammond romie years ago, and now out of print, Tias been re-written and expanded by {ts author Into the bulky volume before us, As now pre- sented, the work deals at leugth with the varded manifestations called Bpiritualistic, and with tho mental nnd physical phenomena classed under the terms hysterla, catllepsy, ecstasy, somnam- bullem, miraculous heallng, stigmatization, ete, The author scouts the Idea of a supernatural cause for any of the mysterlous appearances, possessions, ind demonsteations that huve ns« tonished and perplexed mankind at every age of nud refers them unreservedly to n muagination or a deranged nervous IHs modo of nrgument conslsts chicfly it rot- ting forth utleed cases of sy supernutural manifestation, which have sccured faith in thelr genuineness; and, by thelr slde, pincing other instances that huve onca equally aftled ecrutiny, but are now known to liave been wholly fraudulent, or to have had their orlgzin In nintudies of ifud or bod, tion naturally follows, that all plienomona produced by superhwnan agencies ure really to be accounted for by This” conciuslon falls w goo short of o demonstrution, and will, therefore, be accopted only by those who, Hko Dr. Hum- mond, disbeliove i spirits, and understand somethingof the wonderful vagaries of the bu- man mind in health as well a8 In discase, A Jarge amount of reading in the literature of medlcine und of superstition hus been necessry in the construction of the work, no pains havings been spared to cover every point in the subject. — lritual or other which scem Lo he A NORSE LOVE-STORY. TIIE PILOT AND IS WIFE, By JoNas Lit. Transiated by Mra, Oue Dows, S0, 8. C. Urlgs & Co. There fan fresh, wholcsome, fuvigorating at- mosphere pervading the best fictlons n the Norse literature, that affeets the mental and physlcal being like the balswnle odor of plics or the briny smell of the sea. Every senso lsy for the time belng, refined and atimulated us by the action of a purifying and exhilarating tonle. It is contact with uncontaminated nature, fn- terpretiug itsell [nartless and spontancous ex- hresslons, thut creates the sanftary effect; and t 13 grateful wherever and {u whatever forin wo The love-story of “The Pilot and His Wifo " 1s by a writer Dieretofore unknown to the Ene Hsh-speaking public; but e hos the talent of i gifted countrymen, of befug honest and un- mdfected In his [dealizations of human life. stmple, strong, rugeed clements of Norse char- acter are falthfully vorteayed by him, sud, without the exaggrerution of the tertile romancer, they ure strikingly fm personuges, after whom onyy to - the hmmblest ranks of They have neither edueation nor elegan they have true hearts, which alwayk unsophisticated Janguoge; and this varlably a delight ™ und Elizabetl, the pilot's wile, exhibits o roble re, which no evil elrcumstance can warp or Balve, her husband, s an oquully strong mdlviduality, but endowed with Hary, Deadstrong tralts, ” that, untll subdued, work himy, and them who love him, many amnd pajnful sorrows, The story of hWis woolng, and of jho firet_yenrs of hls married Hfe, 1 related with tmuel” stmplicity and natural power, und the reader wil follow 1t with uneliated ntercst to s novel s named, be- rofit to lstn to. INDIA AND CIIINA, THE ORIENT AND IS PEOPLE. L. Hataci, Seven Yearsa Misslonary in North- 1mo. ppe 335, Milwuukee: I, L. The countrles tucluded by Mrs, ITauser in the term * Orlent” are Indla and Chius, two pore tlons of the Easterntiemisphere whoseinterest {s {nexhuustible, Theyarestill,despitethe modern facilities of travel, so remote thut comparative- 1y few of the most restless wanderers penetrate thelr bpundarics, and reveal to the outside world the novel abservations there pursued, room for many more houks treating of these two oldest existing nations of Asia than have yet been published; and esch new ono that Bives, like this hefore us, fresh Information Hauser devoted seven years to the work of a misslonary In Northern Indin; and in that thme obtatted a famillarity with the country, und with the character of 'its people, which “enubles her to speak of them with the authority uf personal knowledge, Mer eketches of the geography, history, refl- tlons, customs, women, architecture, missions, ot both Indls and Ching, ure replete with curlous fucts, wgreeably narrated, bears on the faceof It vidence that it {s tutendud purtieutarly for those who have at heart the ad- vuncement of the misslonury cause: neverthe- less, ity entertalning style forbids its lmitution tu any exclusive cluss of readers, Bome extracts from the volumne buye been glven s place fu au- uther column, BITAKSIPEARE, ARE MANUAL. 1Ly F. G, Freay, M. 1 L i Uratamar-Schiool, London: Macmillun ausen, McClurg & Co, The student of Bhakepeare will find In thislit- tle munual mess of vuluabloduts bearing upon the carly history of the Bugllsh stage, as well as upon the life und works of the great dramutist who did ost to render the Hteraturo of the Tl fuforuntion s mch of it preavnted in a tabulated form, which is at unce the most compact and convenfent that ean he devited. In this manner (8 ranged the chronology of the enrly thentrical companies, of the theatres from 1670 to 1042, of the dramatic anthora contemporary with Shak- rlxc:lre, of mlscellaueous matters pertaining to the theatre, of the actors of the Ellzabethan plays, wnsd uch other finportant matter. The fmmense Inbor requlred Lo prepars. these tables will b anderstood by thoe Wik Tive I ovcie alon to search atnong multitudinous workas for the Items here brought direetly to the haud. o muthor i desira to inko o dinplay of eriticlam §n his treatire, nud bas, therefore, omitted esthetle yotes from its plan. s pur- pore has been restrlcted to the preparation of a manual contalning & summary of {lm results of the Iatest investigations ru‘mnlnm the life of Blmk!runrc, and the authorl tiy, origin, dnte, ete., of ¢ach of Ids plays, with such wdditlonal fnfor- matlon as s essentinl to the critical atudy of the dramn of Bhakspeare's thine, but {= nnattainable anve by aceess to many aud costly hooks, ealled Wales: A part of the most famnus Yiand uf Brytaing, written in the British language about twy hundredth yeares past tranalgted into English by II. Lhoyd” Gentleman: Corrected, angmented, and coitinued out of Records and hest approved Authurs, by Dauld Pouel Doctor in dluiulty, 185" It was printed (n the old English Llnck letter, and a recent hulletin of the pblle Tibrary stated that the m|lf' mn‘ known to be In Nuw Euglund was In the library of John Carter Brown, of Providence, . I The hook b brought fn” English sules npwacds of elgght pounds sterling, nud it was knocked down by r. Leanard for $16. A copy of Cotton Ma- ther's Mugnolln, printed {n Lonilon In 1502, was solil for €37, and n lurge quantity of the liter- ature of the Methicrs woa sold at’good prices,— Zoston Trauscripl. Avother attempt (says the London Athenaum) Is betng muade to trinslate the Talmud, Dr Sammter, a well-known Rabbl and Taliudist, hns In the press a German translatlon of “fBaba Mesla," with a cmnmumur{ in the same lan- uage, Tt 18 to be published hy Bruzian, of Bertin, In ten to twvelve parta, large follo. The orlgingl text n\x’um‘h\h len the translation. The volutie which has hitherto beeu published in France and Germany Is the first (*Berachotle"), and no more has been tssued il now. There lson private view, at Mr. J. W. Bou- ton's, No. 700 Broudway, o remarkable sollee- tion of Nustrated works, such as ‘turlmm has never before been made by an Amerlean eollect- of. _The work of gathering these plates hos ex- tended over many years, and it Is impossible to state their cost, but it van scarcely be lees than 10,000, The most notahle bouk fs the Boydell editlon of Shakspeare, the copy belng an uneut oniey, In which condition 1t {8 almust unlyue, For this upward of 5,000 plates have heen col- Teeted, which, when arrunged amd bound, will ml\kcMlunfidu!fiyvulmue nyolume oearh play, and, for rome, two volumes, Thisextraordinar collection of [lustrations includes al) the s ard scrieg, for which most of the existing edf- tlons lave heen despolled, many of them in severnl etages. Over ol ot wre proof cuples, and there uro nearly %00 original drawfngs, among which are many by members of the Lon- don Sketeh Club, who used o gather at cach BOOKS RECEIVED. A NARROW ESCAPE. By ANkie THoxas, An- thor of **Playing for Tigh Stakes, " etc. laper. Boston: Willein ¥, GIII & Co. Price, 70 centa. ABOVE SUSPICION, By Mra, J, Author of **A Life's Askizu," et ton: Ketes & Lauriat, Price A MANUAL OF COMPARATIV AS APPLIED TG TUE 1 GREEK AND LATIN INFLECTIONS, Tiy T. L. P oy M. A., Fetlow and Lectnrér of New College, Oxford, 12mo., pp. 243, Oxford: At the Ciarendan Pres Llurg & Co, Pri Chicuga® Janwen, Me- ¢ LEAH MORDECA KENBtick Anno: Baker, Pratt & Co. Price, §1 I Jtnops Vaper. - Hos A Nover. Ty M. Briim 120,y pi. 245, New York: ko Chicago: Jansen, McClurg ce, . ROADSIDE-POEMS FOR SUMMER TRAVEL- i Bidited by Ticey Tauwow. 18m0., bp. 2t Boston 8 R, Orgood & Co. AR YOU MY WIFE? Dy the Author of **Paris B3eforo the War, ' ete, Puper, New York: The Amerlean News Compnny, Price, 73 cents, THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF IMMORTALITY, Dy ANTOINETTE Hiown BLACKWELL, Author of **Studies In Ueneral Sclence, " ete., ete, 12 ' New York: G, b. 1" "' Mhit | other's houses and sketch upon given subjucts, ppiint New Yorks G, L. Putnam'n Sgns, Chi- | Sftan from Slhiakspeare or Milton, - This work hs ABTORY OF THREL SISTELY, Max. | cost by fteell over 318,000, the nla of the n plates " to & unlform _size costing #1,600 nlone, 'he collection 18 offered at §4,000, unhound, The work next of Interest Is the corresponding editlon of Milton, the Life and Works fu three volumes, extended by extra iilustrations to ten or more. The Life alone as expanded mukes two volumes, and the plates, of which there are from 1,200 to 1,600, include all the regular serics of illustrations, in proofs, and also fn two difTer- ent proof states. “The lurge paper edition nf Irving's Washington, of which only nlucty coples were -printed, I8 s presentation copy from arv- ng, and the tlve volumes are extended to twelve by the Insertion of about 1,600 plates. Among thiese aro over 150 portraits of W 'llflhhlfitun, aml thero are besides ns many autograph letters from the fatlicers and the shmers, including half adozen from Washington binscif, one of which, 80 ecarly us 1752, cost the collector $#100. An unent copy of the \\m’crlef‘ novels fn the Ah- botsford “editfon, I extended from twelve to furt, ht volumes, and contalus about 4,50 plates in octavo u(zc, Wwith_muny wutograph ctiers, drawlugs, &e—New York Tribune. FAMILIAR TALK. RUDOLPIT VIRCHOW. The name of Rudolph Virchow Is familiar wherever the progress of Bclence Is watched; yet the politieal history of this distinguishicd scholar §s so llttle known, outelde of is father- land, that it 15 with surprise most remders wil find him ranked by Mr, Tuttle, in W rocent work, nmong the Influential ¢ German Politieal Leuders,” Dr. Virchuw Is not only the brilliant Professor of Pathology n the University of Borlin, the author of novel theories in celiular pathology, and a voluminous writer on medleal toples; he {8 also a prominent member of the ouse of Deputles In the Prussiun Landtag, o member of the Munleipat Chamber of Berling a leeturer before the “Berlln Mechanies’ Unfon," n Director of the *Unlon for Domesthe aud Fopulur Instruction,” aud an actlve assocfute of various sclentifie, benevolent, and other So- clotics. He isnot only u famous savant and teacher, but he fsulso u politican, a radleal feader of the Oppusition, a public-splrited citfzen, and » warnbiearted philanthroptst, Rudolph Virchow was born In 1821, at Schle- velheln, In Pomerantn, He passed throngh the gymnaseum at Coslen, graduated at the Unl- versity of Berlin, beecame the pupil of the great physlologlst, Johanues Muller, and completed all by taking Lis degree fn medicine In 1843, nt the uge of 2. The same year he was appointed Asslstant Phyafcian In the Hospital Charite n Berln, over which Schonlein, “the celebruted surgeon, presided. In 1847, Virchow was pro- moted to the positlon of Prosector in the same hospital, and, I conjunction. with Reluhardt, established the Archives fur Dathologival Auat- omy and I’hysiology,—n medieal journal that at- tained o wide clrculution, Ib was in this year, tou, that e was commlssfoned by the Govern- inent to study the cuuses and_praper treatment of the territic plague, ealled Hunger-Typhus that was devastating Silesin. In the year pre- vious he hiad delivered a course of lectures In the Universtty of Berling which attracted so much attentlon that he wos now recularly fu- stalled fn the Chalr of Pathologieal Anatomy, Avyear later, Virchow, with many another pro- fessfona) schoolman, took purt in the revoln- tlonury movement that agitated the Kingdom. e founded o 1xuunml named the edis cal Neformer, and also n Duemocratic Club, and, Iy his energetic o{mu.«lllun drew upon Mlnlluletlm serfous displeasure of the Govern- ment, His Journal was suppressed, nnd he was dfsmtsaed (rom bis post (n the University. e retired to Wurtzburg, having been elected to the same Professorship In its University which Do had oceupled fu Berllu. tlere WS reputation a8 8 leeturer grew 8o rapldly that the Minlster of Education was constrafuetd to recall him to his old place (i the Ulll\'urfilli‘ of Burlln, which could 1-nfford to lose from its Faculty so pro- found o physieist, Ile returned fn 1850 to the Chafy from’ which he hal been expelled seven yenrs before, and still retatus the seat, tugetlier With the position of Dircetor of Mieroscuple Ex- periments In the elinles nt the Charite, The carcer_ of Virchow s a Deputy began with that of Blsmarck as a Minister, in the year 150123 and the two men ¢ been since in con- tinuons opposition, Virchow {8 a perststent mud fearless erftic of the course of lllsmuruk;lyct it fs us ¥ o personal untagronlst,” says Mr. Tuttle, “and uot us un anbitions politifin? that his eritfclsmg are feared by his powerful opponent. 11 1805, Rlsmarck was so frritated by the oppo- sltton which hls meastires met fn the Honse, un- der the leadership of Vieehow, that, after an exchange of bitter words on the floor, he sent hls antugonist a challenge. By the advice of olitieal friends, Virchow decliied to resort to e arbitration of the ducl—n declslon that wus unfversally approved by his countrymen, Dr. Virchow Is descriied by Mr. Tuttle ns “a man elightly under the medium lelght, bt of zood proportions. He has o clear, strong volee; sllhi gestures and elocution are good; and hiy style 14, throughout, forcible uned impressive.” Tflc sume writer states that Dr, Virchow exhib- its “two grave fault: which injure his fntlu- ence us u speaker, He Is fmperlous In manner, uned, on provocation, fntemperate {o language; und he xpeaks too rn-t‘uenlly, and often with too lttie apechal fnvestization Into the subject under debate. These weaknesses expose hint to cenaure, und deteact from his forensle reputa- tlon. lillll, adds Mr. Tutele, “Te is a brillfant debater on problems to which his trained intel- Ject hos been fairly apphed; and, on special occasions, he 13 a felleltous and papular orator. « o« Although he 13 nominally & member ot the Purty of Progress, he fs redlly an {mie- pendent meinber, who speaks and votes from conviction, and not for or with any party. TITE CLIMATE OF INDIA, The alternations of the four scasons, which give auch diversity to the aspeet of Nature fn Temperate cllmate, are unknewn In Torrld Zones, where, instead of the trunsition from winter to spring, and summer, und sutwmn, and to winter agaln, there bs shyply a change from the dry season to the wet. In Iudls, thero are three distinet phases of climate,—the first, or hot term, beginaing in March and continuing to June; the seeand, or raluy period, nsthng from June to deptember; wnd the third, or cold sea- son, prevailing through the rest of the twelve monthe, The clinate 18 dellghtful in the moun- talns during tho heated term, and on the plalus durfug the coul months of the year; but, n those weeks when the Hoodgates of heaven are open and the ruins descend, 1t is disagree able everywhere, In the mountaius, the rafu- fall {3 frequently 800 Iuches, or 25 feet, u the brief period of four months. The waterdoes not come down from the burdencd clouds fu drops, or bplashes, or fets, butin cataracts, that swiftly eanvert quict ‘streams into roariug torrents, und dr\'(‘nuds nto & BpONKY Moruss. Inthebot scason, tho mercury in the ther- mometer soars aloft amongs umnxhuili' high fgures,—aften reaching the althude of 160 de- grees. Mea. Jluuser, for s 1 years 03 restdent of Indta, remarks that It s not uncommon for ft to be HOat mlnlcl‘.\i' und 1 bave known It o be 110 1n the bouse at 0 odock at n([{ht." Puting s pertod, the brazen aky s clomdivss, S, D, L ) WELL, 10mo., pp. 202, New y\'nx’k: Henry Holt & Co. Chicugo: Janaen, McClurg & Cu, MENT OF LEAM DUNDAS. Ty ListoN, Anthor of **Patricla Kem- Tilustrated, + bp- 244, Philadel- Chicago: Janeen, 'y 50, A Jovnvey Turovan riur Lowen v YEAR 1070, Tly W, W, Fisk, . B, Lippiucott £ Co, Papor. Sl PERIODICALS RECEIVED. Infernutional Jteylew for July-August (A, 8, Barnes & Co,, New York), Contonta: *¢Ex- traditlon:® **Mr. George Ticknor,™ hy Edwin . Whipplo ho Amcrican Kepubilie," by Gon, Sigel; +Tho Newspupor Fress and flie Lutv of Libe),” by David Dudley Field: **Quedn Augasta’ and the, Rted Cross, by Dr. Truen- reussi *Tho “Rarly Listory of the Tunian vante, ' by Prof, Ernat Curthua: **Mr. Francis Tarkman's Historlex," by Juitus 1. Ward; #+Croll's Climate snd Time, ' by Prof, A, Win- chell; *‘Contempurary Literature, Atf, and Sclence, ™ Jtarper's Mugasine for July (Harper & Sons, Now Yorky. “Contenta: **Phe Ballad of Arabolla.* By . T, Trowbridges **Block Ialand, " by Charlex Lanmunj - Clemence A Bt " by Carroll Owen; **The Fath Iievolution," by ENlin Gray **Polly Pharaoh: A Story,™ by Ilzzio 3. 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Liftel's Liring Age—current numbers (Littell & Gy, Tostan), Appletons® Journal—current numbers (D, Apple- ton & Co,y New York). € fe W LITERARY NOTES, Dlsraell 8 snid to be writing another novel, o continuatlon of “ Lothalr.”” Prof. Hermann Grimm, of Berlin, has written a life of Gocthe, which {s i press. Jumes Russell Lowell has been asked to fur- nish a poen for the Fourth of July celebration at Taunton, Muss, Michelet's posthumous worke, which are to be edited by his widow, are understood to be In some purt reviews of Comptist philosophy. Anew Hfeof Edgar A, Poe, by Eugene 8. Didiery—claiiming to be the most complete, cor« rect, and authentle biography of the pooet yet writteny—will be published carly fu the fall'by W. J. Widdleton. In the series of * Condensed Classics,” to he fssucd by Ilenry Holt & Co., cacl condensed authior {8 to sppear (n a alstinetive color of cloth. Beott, who witl uppear with an abridged edition of * Ivantoe,” fna few days, will wear a darlk erlmson suit. A number of relfcsof the poet Schiller are nlmrtlly to bo exhiblted at [Hamburg. Among them Is the petition which he nddressed to the Duke of Wurtemberg, praying for ®a gracjous permission whicli would aflow him to cuntiuue publishing his lterary productions.” The German historlan, Ferdinand Gregoro- viuy, whose ¥ Hiatory of Rome {n the Middle Ages™ occupled him ubout twenty years in s preparation, and ranks with Gibbon's preat work ou the “ Decline ond Full of the Roman Emplre,” has recently recelved the honor of cltizenship from the authoritics of Rome. A volume of the seloct poems of Robert Burns {3 ubout to be published (n London, edited by Mr. Alken, of Bristol, grandzon of the # revered und honored mmv.h»ruacuml frivnd to whom Burus addressed * Tho Cotter's Satur- dny Night.”! Inamemvlr of the poet pretiged to® the pooms, Mr. Allken wlil present several purtlculars hitherto unpublistied. The “Noctes Ambrosluue,’ through w Chirdstopher North " (Joln Wilson), the trivk Bhepherd ™ (James Hogg), and other con- temporary Beottlsh luminurles shed their genlal light nearly balf a century ngo, nre to be repub- lisMed fn w condensed formy I Eng!mm‘ by Blackwood & Sons, under the title ot *'lio Comedy of * Noctes Ambrostanie,’ by Christo- pher North." Tho new Eu;zmh editlon of the works of Per- cy Bysahe Blielley, edited by Buxton Formun, will "be printed, wherever possible, from the origiual manuscripts, or front the cditions pub- lished during the poet’s lifethne. Much new materfal hns, (6 s understood, been discovered among the Lelgh Hunt and other munuseripts, This wew edition will contaln & poemn written by Mrs. Bhelley on ber husband's death, and a por- tralt of sndluy Wluselt, never beford engruved, The autoblography of Willlam I1. Seward, which Appleton & Co. have tn press, will be ?uhuslwq durlug the sumer. 1L comes down o the year 1834, und will Lo supplemented with a1aemofr of Becretary Seward's later life, n{ lilw son, Frededek W. Beward.: The work will be Mustrated with portraits on steel of Mr, Mrs, Bewnrd, John Quiney Adims, Gerrit #imith, Horace Greeley, E. M. Stanton, Charles Sumner, and other eminent persons with whom Seere- tary Sceward was associuted. At the sule of M, Puul Foucher's mlwrnl:m n Parfs, recently, letters, ete,, by the fullowing \unum n \?, ¢ e prices pnnexed: Alred de Musset, 150 franes; Dejazet (September, 1539), 110 franes; a letter of Theophile Gautler, con- tainlig an unpublished poug (November, 1834) 00 Trdes; wopublllied poctry by tho suine, 500 fraves; unother letter by Alfved do Musset, with poetey, WY francs; o )clwr&l;{ Grorga Band yaiust the bfl‘crlul regime (1854), 100 francs; and Talma (1531), 100 francs, At the auction sule of the library of the late Buwued (4, Dreake, at Leonard’s neiv rooms, on Beacon street, the past week, seversl rare curfous volumnes have been sold ut low pri In the suls of yesterday was a rare old Welsh chrontele which “contains tho cele- bruted voyuge of Mudoe to sume purt of Nova Hispunts® or Florida before the dlscover- fes of Columbus or Americus Veepuctus, Its £l tithe was S Tho Wistorle of Cambsty, now “and one day Is a4 1ike another aa It possibly can bu. The sun rises like a bl globe of fire, and goes down in n blaze, | The ground ls bare, flled with crevieca, and Ia hardencd ke stone, H0il that in the raine Is ns soft as a sand-heap, during the dry weather can scarcely be dug up, =fire flying at every stroke of the hoe., Bometimes,” continues Mrs. Hauser, ‘It ecems imposalble for Furopeans to furvive the intenae heat, Thelr houses are neceasarily very hlrgc and bullt of brick,—the waila belng 136 103 feot thick, the ceflings from 20 to 24 Tect high, and the rooms 2) by 80 or 30 by 40 fect In slze, There are: generally a sitting-room, dining. roomn, and bed-rooma,—the latter belng as large 88 nny room fu the house, bed-roum haa & bath-room attached to It, ss 8 bath twoor three times a day, and as many entire changes of elothing, are necessary In order to go through the day with any comfort. * The roofs of these liouses are flat, and are made of strong beams a foot syuare, placed sbout 4 feet apart, On these are joista 1 foot upart, on which I8 Tafd a floor of brick. On this floor & layer of refuse lime, gravel, and pounded brick, s placed, A gang of kulis— one for about every 4 aquare fect—slt on thelr heels and pat the surface with little woorden mallets for a day or two, while plenty of water I8 thrown wupon it. A second luyer of finer brick and lime, of several Inches In thicknesn, i8 put on, beaten and watered in the same way ns the first, Then another luyer of still finer moterial, well besten; and, lastly, a fine cuating of cement, in which |8 mixed ared cojor, thut gives the surfove 8 utiful mppear- ance. It requires twelve kulls, two musons, and & water-carrier about four days to finish 12 feet square of such o roof. When finlbed, it endures the hiottest aun snd the severeat ralns without Injury. . . . The floorsof the houses are madc [n the sume way as tho roofs, though rest- ng upon the carth, “The windows are usually in'the doors. A veranda, 10 or 13 feet In width, surrounds the house, except where It is valled In to make hath-rooms,' The Furopeans keep their houses cloged from mornlng until evening, jn the hot scason, In order to exclude the sunlight and the barnlng atmosphere; while the punka s in continual motlon to create an artificll breeze. All night long, this huge fan, depending from the cefling, sways Dbuck” und forth abuve ench slecp- er, “Yexeept when tho punkawalla him- sclt taken a uap. Then horrld dreams and night- wmare wake the persplring victim, nnd he goes for the fellow outside, bestowing upon him some carcssing and encouraging ronarks,” Another device for coollng the interior of the bouaes in India is the tottie, whicl consists of a framne of hamboo thinly thatehed with theroots of a frarrant grass, gud fitted (uto the outside doore, The tattle ‘s ke['v\, constantly wet, aind e wingd, blowlng through 1t, 18 roubed of It heat, und unde dellghtfully fresh, DYING IIINDUS AND TITE GANGES, It her interesting eketches of “The Orient and 1ts People,” Mre, ITnuser describes the mode of disposing of thelr dead, which is prac. ticed by the Hindos, The Ganges is consfdered asucred river, and its waters aro believed to possess the power of heallng the sick, sanctify- ing the pouls of the dylng, and cleansing the budies and souls of the well from all hnpurities, It t8 the longing of every falthful Hindu, when ls final summons ghatl come, 1o pass from the carth to the land of the spirits with his fect submerged in the blessed wuter of this river, and with its mud filllag his mouth, cars, and nostrils. Thousands of the sick aml dying are annually borne to its shoresin thelr Inst mo- ments, that they may have the nssurance of immortality through adeath in its embrace. Alter life haa departed, the bolles of the Hindus are burned on the banks of the Ganges, and the ashes are thrown Intothe stream, or they are placed on a raft, having a lighted lamp ut each corner, and are pushed out Into the current, while the relatives watch the float- Ingcoflin with cager cyes, until it sinks be- neath the water, or the crocodlles make u nouthful of it. S Durjug the dry season,” says Mra. Hauser, “ hutnnn skelctons, nleely clenied and bleacied, are scen seattered on the sand. There Is no telilng how many Hindus a vorsclous tsh-eater devours during a dife-time in Indio, . . . Oneof the strange sights thut met us, as we entered the Tugly River from the ocean, wns the dend hodies oating by us, with birds stand- m;i upon themn. Walle “at Caleutta, several Iadles of our comnpany wished to go to the rail- way~depot on _the other shile of tho river, and, Yefore we could gret the boat near enourh to the ghore for them to enter it, we had to push away with our vars severnl dead bodles of men anid women thut had fluatea down the stream and Todied there, o . o 1 have often seen slek and dying men and women_hurried wver the dusty rowl to the river, Bumetimes they were carrfed on o Hht bedstend, on men's shoulders, with only a plece of eloth thrown over them to protect them from the fearful ruys of the sun. Sumethues llw{' awrrfed 16 earts, withont sprives, in which ould not le down, though too wesk to sit u They were often attended only driver, who hurried on the o regardices of the rxdn nl grouns of the dylng oney lest they might not. reach the river cre e was gonc. The eldest son usunlly accompunies his mother on this Inst awful Journcy., When the river Is renchiod, she {8 placed partly In the water. 8he st die now. - To return liome, to be repulsed by tha JToly Mother Ganges, would be s greater cilamity than widowhood, Tuoo often the son hastens her death, lest she should recover, The Inst sigh has scarce eseaped, when her lu»d{h thrist out inte the stream, to become foorl for alllgators and vultures.” When {nvallds have once been placed in the Ganges, fn expectation_of thelr decease, they are seldom provided with either food or ar, na matter how long life muy be protracted. Should the fresh air aud the change in their sit- uatfon produce u change for the hetter in thelr disvase, a» 18 sometimes the cuse, the dreum- stance s regarded as very unfortynute,—befng fnterpreted ns un avowal that thelr souls are re- Jeeted by the Gunges. Mrs, Hauscr repeats the fevonnt” of *un nwged Iindu mother, whu was thus cxposed by thu river-bunk fur thirteen duys, 1‘ only with a little milk, part of the thne without shelter from the ralns, and purt of the time sereened frog mlternite drenche fug showers, or fleree’ heat of the sun, by a slight canopy of mats, For w'eonsideration of 25 rupees, the Dralining ul- fowed the old woman to return home, and her family to retain thelreaste, notwithstanding the reproch cast upon them by the refusal of the Ganzes L reclvt onc of e umber. While the [nvalid survives, the fricnds usually continue with bim or her thiongh the day, but at evenlng the duty of watchiug (s given over to aservant, and the relatives retire to the com- fort of thelr dwelllngs, When death 1s - nent, mud s stutfed” futo tho cars and nostrils of the morfbund, and Ganges water Is poured iluwnl(hu throat, and thus life ts hastened In ts exit. SPARKS OF SCIENCE. LARVZE IN HUMAN INTESTINES, A casc s mentfoned fn tho American Natural- ot of the oceurence of thu Jarvw of a fly (4n- thomyia scaluris) In the human lutestlnes. A boy ageld sbout 14, Hving in Magaville, Ky., was selzed with vloleut spusms; to remedy which o purgative was adminstered; “whereupon the lud pussed, at one stool, about Afty littls in- sects, or bugs as he called them.” Theso belig pronounced byan expert the larva of the iy .named above, they were put in molst earth, umber a glass, and, fu the courso uf ten or twelve days, came out In the adult form of the Iusect, 8imilar fnstauces havo been many times brought to the observation of sclentists} and n summary of what is known on the subject was given by the lute Dr. Walsh in the second vol- ume of “The American Entomologist,” to which we are [ndebted for the following items: The insects belenging to the group dntho- myia are popularly named Flower-fiies, from their hublt of settling upon flowers. The larvy of this group foud I;\}mn leni; vu;ictnblu mutter, A eectlon of the Anthomnyi hus been separated nto u distinet genus (Homalamyia), becanso of Ahe differvies fi the habite of the ta These Just subsiat upon molst, deeaying vegetablo snd ammal substances, und are, therefore, furnfshed with gllls, that<tlicy wnay exteucs afe from G flulds by which they are surrounded. The per- fect Inseet 18 called the Flat-fly, It deposits its cgees commonly upon decaylig fruit und vege- tables, snd the laryie feed Wpon thess even whien the tasues are reduced to s seni-fluld state, Fralt infested by Jarvie {8 ordisarily called Gwnrmy,—tho hume *worm * belug applied {ndiscriininately to the caterpillar, tho Jurva or maggot, und tie trits Worts. lv.xis probably In the cgg-state that the larvue are most commonly introduced {nto the stomach, If the person chuncing to swulow them be na healthy condldon, the eiggs would probubly be digestod, sither belore or Jmmedi- utely after hutching, by the actlon of the gastric iulu.. but, if the budy bs diseased, so that the esnperature of the stomuch {3 below the normal hoint, or Fus cunu&u&mf oxygen {5 penersted lhrr\a or the gastrie Julve s insuffivient, it may lappen that the larvid grow and reach maturity ntheir unustural priscn, When this {s the case, it fs not probable that the preseace of the creatures van effeet mors, hurm than g teapo- rury derangement of the 'system, It {8 not pua- wiblo that they should 1o ng survive after attuln- {mr e pertvit state,on (hat they should b able to propagate in the stomach; and the porfol of Jatvae existance I8 concluded In two or hree weeks, or possibly A month, In Eurape, the occurrence fn tho human ine testines of the larve of the I'np[x{ Flat-y (I canicularia), the Ladder-fly (/7. scalaria), and the true House-fly (Murea domestica), has heen sevs eral tines noted. Dr. Packard quotes the case of n physician who was attacked with the aymp- toms ot cholera-morbus; and the {rritating catisc was found to be the larvm of some Flow- er-fly (Anthomyia). In the winter of 18639, some larvm nf the common Houac-fly were vold- el by a child, and from oue of them a perfect Inecct was obtalned. Dr. Walsh ubscrvea that it 1a only once ina hundred casea that the presence of larvie In the human body will be detected,~ths functional disturbance which they vreate befng attributed to cholera-morbus or some other similar discuse of the bowels, * Taking everything into cone sldcration," he says, ** we doubt whether, out of 10,000 vases whero the larve of two-winged flies have existed [n consfderahle numbers fn the human Intestines, more than one singlc cane Las been recorded fn print, for the edification of the world, by competent entomological authority. And, if this bi:'a correct estimate, we may sce at once.how fearfully common such larvre must be in the bowels of that most patient of 2l mfil- lar?' heroes,—(eneral Public, ¥ MORAL.—Avold eating deenyed fruft, cspec- lnll[y If you are In poor health; aud, from frult which Is only partislly decayed, pare away carcfully the unsound parts before you intro- duce the sounder fiaru into your' stomach, ery entomologist knows what u pleasing pur- tis to Lreed fuscets through all their zes; but to breed them in one's own body s tou ek of & good thing.” — MREGULAR GROWTITS, The Museatine Journal describes th enon of acrab-tree in its vicinity, which, when In blogsumn this spring, bore two “perfect roses.” The event is by no meana peculiur, and is casily explained by the botanist. The cral- apple belongs to the Rose Famlly (fotacer), and its flowers are constructed on the same plan as the rose; that Js, they have five sepals, five petals, Innumerable stamens seated on the rim of the calyx-cup, and a cluster of plstils in the centre. In the same way that a single rose 18 transformed into a double rose, a single crab-npple bloggom s, by what {s called a freak of Nature, sometfines transformed [nto a double blossomn, which the casual obscrver would be apt to pronounce a rose, from its lke- ness to that tlower. A part or all of the row of stamens cxpands futo petals, and thus g double fluwer I8 developed out of what should, in the natural procers of growth, have been a single one, Buch flowers are ealled by the botanista monatronities, Lelunging to the rsame category of unnatural productions o8 the ve-legged calf, la’n;l the twelve-toed or twelve-lingered human cinge, h‘l‘! by a mode of artificlal culture, which has {nduced the transition of stamens {nto petals, that the dahlia, peony, camellin, aud rose have been produced, Iu thelr wild state, these flowers were single; but the art of the florlst has chauged their nature, aud rendered the transformation of stunens into petals a fixed habt. It is the theory of the botanist, that the several organs of a tlower are but nitered leaves, und their tendency I8 1o revert to the nrl;gluu\ form. Thus, in the double huttercup, the inner petals are green leaves to the early stages of thelr growth. ‘The plstils of the double cherry often change directly into green leaves, Bome- times o whole blossotn will resolve itself into n cluster of green leaves, as in the * green roscs” which are occasfonally seen in gardens, The rose favery liableto producemonstrositivs,orirrecular growths, Thesepuls of this flower frequently develop Into leaves: and sometimes the blos- fams send up from thelr centre a fecond perfect flower, The flowering whnond hes two green Jeaves In the centre, in the place of pistils, In wet and warn springs, flower-buds of the npple and the pea are occasfonally ro forced fn thelr growth that they develop fto branches Instend of blossams, A fluwer of the white clover has heen notlewd fin which the plstil bore a circle of Jittle leaves on dts edee, Al the orisans of o strawberry-bloksotn have been known to revert 1o green” Jeaves, For a number of years, o couple of apple-trecs In Ashburnham, Maas,, anuually bore flowers in which the petals reverted to green leaves, and the pistils took the place of the stamens inserted n the throat of thuealyx, These examples of retrograde metamorphosis show that the double flowers on the Musentine crab-tree were neither giogular nor fnexplicable. COLOR-CURE FOR INSANIT ‘The theory that colors have an fnfluence upon Alscases of the braln 1a being practically sested In Ttaly, aud with results that are stated to be aa encournging as they are extrnordinary, In a recent ecattnunieation to the Medio-Physlologi- eal Sodety of Parfs, Dr, Ponza deseribes the practice pursued fn an Asylum for the Insane at Alessundria, Italy, where the trial of the colorure has been highly sue- cersful. The following instances were cited s Hlustrations of the treatment and its effucts: A tacitorn and melancholy lunatic, who rarely ate of bis own necord, was tude to He down iu o room with red-glass windows, amd the walls paluted red. In threo hours hewas llvely and , nnd nskied for foud. Auathier patient was uccustomed to pass the day with his hands con- tracted over his mouth, to keep out polsoned air. He luy down for & thne In the same red room. The following day he oto heartlly, and from that time forth was cured. A violent manfae, for whom a stralt-jacket Wits ievessary, Was kept Inoa room with blue glass and wallsy In an hour he was nuch calmer. Another mad person was cured by be- Itz kept In o violet room, Dr. Ponza considers that the treatiment mizht be apphied In various cases of nerve-diseuses, such as choren, hysteria, epllepsy, cte. s and he thinks the violet color adapted to pive the best results, 1t 43 known to lisve a very marked influence an animals and plants: the former futten rapldly in violet light ; il plants, under a cover of violet glass, grow with an unwonted rigor. Following P. chis' advice, Dr. Vonza constructs his colored chambers s eastern or south- crnexposure,” These reports seem Ineredible, yetthere s probobly e foundation for them n the soothing intluence on the brafn and nervous gystem of subducd colors und softencd Hghts. NESISTANCE TO COLD. M. Colasanti hus pursued n series of experi- ments, roported i the English Mechanic, which gu to show that gerns of organisns wil resist o wuch greater degree of cold than the perfected organisms are capable of sustuining. A nwin- her of cggs were (ncased fn s juixture ‘of fee and salt for from one to two bours, during which the temperature of the mass went down to 20 deg. Falir, {n the course of thirty to forty minutes,—rlsing nfi'\ln to 24 dey. at ilw end of the seeond hour, Scveral of the emiss thus treated ceackied tielr sholls, and thielr tontents froxe solid. Thy ot were taken out, hed and dried, anit placed fn the hatehn: 1, whose temperature ranged he- 33 and 40 deg. At the end of ten days the eggs were exuinined, and fneach one the embryo il developed normally, o no runPw( ditfering from the development of the embryo In cggs thut were put bito the hatching-box withuut previous subjuction to cold. BRIEF NOTES. A rolling-mill st Warrington, England, has turned out fron sheets 15 of an inch thick, which are almost as fexible as puper, snd yet so tough that they cannot betorn without difiiculty. A Madrid paper gives sawe statlstics alowlng the relutive healthfulness of varlous great cltica, The annual mortality for cach 1,000 fuhubjtants in Madrid 15 05,0; in Vienua, 82.7; iu Derlln, 80.04 I Rome, 29.3; New York, 87.9; Turln, 24.8; Brussels, 24.8; Parls, 23.3; London, 232} Philudelphin, 208, Three yeara go, s plantation of the Fuealyp tus globulus (Australian gum-tree) wus begun ut iyeres, fn the south of Frunce. Two thousand sccallngy a fow fuches high were planted in une hovtare (24711 Bnglish acres). ‘They have now resched a helght of 30 feet, and the ‘stens have 8 dlsmeter of 14 Inches 3 feet from the ground. Pluntutions of the tres sre Lecoming common in Bouthern Frauce. The wood s lurizely used fu Algerin fu the bullding of car- Flaged. Tho Boston Journal of Chembatry asserts that strychula §s never used by * distiilors or whisky- mnnl'mlumu in thelr tompoundings or mnlx- fugs.” A few grains of the pofson would ren- «der u barrel of the Hquor o bitter that 1t could not be drunk, 1t 1s possiblo that strychinla muy e used I analt liguors; still, the required bit- can be obtuined from less dangerous sub- aat o small custi and the Journal has v knowt, through analysis or the testhimony | chemists, that strychuols hus been cuployed 1 thuso beversges. In un allusion to Dr. Martin, Fellow and Lect- wrer of Chelst’s College, Cambeldire, who has uceepted the Professorship of Nuturid History {13 thu University of Balthuore, Nature remurks: “hr, Martin bds attutned the highest bonors, both wt London und st Cambridgy, inu wide runie of 5uh{uul$ He has been .nfiul{ [errs clated with bluloglead Instruction ut Unlversity Cullege, London, nnd at Houth Keusiugtou; awhile Wls contetlon with Ty, Michacl Foater 1 nment of Blology at Cambridge ha De Mastin has nl.‘? en,?; fo his * Course of Prac- mentary Biology." e MAXIMS AND REFLECTIONS. From the flerman of Goethe. Mnsic, In the best scuse, docs not raquire novelty; nay, the older It Is, and the more we are acenstomed to it, the greater ita effect. The dignity of art perhaps chiefly manifests itself in muslc, 23 1t contalns no adventitiont clements. Conslsting chiefly in form and feel Ing, It leightons and refines whatever It ex- assisted Prof, Huxl Ueal Instruction |: Musie I8 cither sacred or profane.” The sacred character I8 theroughly sulted to Its dignity, and through this it exercises the most patent fne fluence on 1ife,~an Infitlence continuing the same at all timea and epochs. ought to he permeated by cheerfulness, ‘That #pecles of musle which mixcs up the soe cred and profane character Is godless; while ch loves to expresh able feclings, becomes for it s not grave enough for sacred- nees, and lacks the leading characteristics of ite posite,—~gayety. [he sncred character of church music, the gayety andeportivencss of popular melodies, are the two hinges on which l?\\lr:h! turns. 4 always produced by efth kind,~devotlon or daniin;:‘. ’i‘ln- ‘men'dlng 2; these two elements fs confusfug, the dilutton when wiusic endeays Profana music that of a hybrid kind, tfable, and mi fallible effect i turns vapld; sccommnndate or ddeseriptive poetry, it becomes cold, Plastic art produces an effoct upon us st only On varlous accuunts we may be finpressed by medioera works, but, on the whale, they perplex muore than delight us, Seulpture, therefure, should on a subsidinry Interest (n the subject, sich s 18 found in the likenesees of remarkable men. Tut fn these, atso a high degren of excellencg must be attalued. In order to combine the attri- butes of teuth and dignity, Pafutine 1s the most facile and accommodat. The most facile because, cven in tases where 1t §s more a cralt than an nrt, we tolerato and take pleasure fn much of it on account of the subject-matter; parth 1ts higghest stage. strive to lay bold ing of all 1l arts. that {t I8 gencrally acceptabl artfally to the Jevel of art. n surfaces, aud In the relation of visible objects to one another, i in jtself pleasing; and as the eye, moreover, I3 accustomed to see eversthing, elther in reality or in coun- 0 enajve Lo it as o discord Is to We tolerate the sorriest copy, because we habitually see yet sorrier objects. bainter, therefore, [8 but in some degree an art- st, he will tind more publle appreciation than a musiclan of the same ratk; the minor vainter, always act Ly himself, whereas the muslclan of llke stauding must co-operate with otliers, in erder to produce some effect by means of combined performances. The question a8 to whetlier or 10 we ought to institute comparisons in criticlsing works of art, might be answered as follows: onght to compare, for he has formed a concep- tion, an {dea of what ean and ought to be pro- duced. The wnateur, on the road to culture, howeyer, finds most furthernnce in sbstuining from eomparisons, and viewing ench merit sopa- y: by this means fecling and pereeption for the more general clements are gradually devel- oped, The comparisons of the uninitlated are, 1n fact, n specles of fndolence fain to escupe the trouble of judgment. Love of truth ahows Iteelf in discovering and appreciating whiat fs good wherever it may exist. y tempered human feellng, we hich 1s g0 regulated that, in estimating contemporary merits and capacitics, the past I8 ulso taken fuin account. ‘The bat results to be derlved from history Is the enthusiusm it kindlcs, Originulity chollenges origluality, We must remember that there ire many peo- ple who, althongh lacking origloality, yet wish to ray something striking, ad this the most whimyieal things of all sorts are produced. Peaple of n profound and serlous turn of mind pluced i a dificult position a8 regurds the i it rises but ath In_coloriug, a'miashapen objec terfeit, 8 not us of The connoisseur Let Wim who would have me for o listener of the problematle 1 have enough within myself. Superstition s 8o [unate in man that If we try to expelt it retreats to the oddest nooka snd corners, reappearing unexpectedly when It may haope for any seenarity, Ve shoulid know many things better did we not wish to know thei too minately; for un object first_assumas just proportiuns for us at an angle of forty-five degrees. The microscope and telescope have a tenden- cy to confuse our proper human understanding, erce coneerning many things, ss fetlow-men, amil am coutent to see than rejoleing ot what irritates erything i3 pernlelous that emas intellect withuut at thesame time stron onr sclf-control, It I3 the What rathier thau the How which ustially Interests people in a work of art; for while uble to grasp the former In Its parts they cannot apprebiend the latter us o whole. comes the love of extructing pussages—in the Tiowever, we are eareful ob- Ave tuat the total effect fa auain yeproduced, only, fn this cuse, uncou- aclounly to everybudy. The question 88 to whenee the poct has de- rved his work concerus his subject. alone; of the How one never learns anythlug, Imagination is only regulated by urt, more capectally by poetry, There [s nothing more frightful thun luagination devold of tuste. produced by missinig tho (deal— bjective fdeal; It rurely, there- course of which, SCIVETH, WO whall 17y in fuct, 0 su fore, I8 wanting in ingenulty, ‘The phllologist depends “on the congruity of written tradition. anuseript formiug the object uf research fs often full of phiy, and other object 1y producing correspondivg aps [n the sense. Perhaps o second, perhapa o third, copy,la discovered, and by instituting com- purisons Letween them the possibility increuses and reason from the manu- ogrist mukes still another 5 own efforts, unaliled faults of orthugzry qunlitics, necessurl of ellelthng sen Nity, the phifol stey, and trusts thut b hlm not only to understand the matter in hand, but to reconstruct It afresh ns a couslstent whole. But special tact and absorption u the departed author befng required for this, as well as u certaly degree of inventive not blame the plilelogist if he ul right of judgment in matters of taste, in which, lowever, he Is not alwuys equally successful, poct’s functlon consists inrepresentation, "This renclies fta climux when It rivals reality, or, 1 other words, when [ta descriptions are vivitled nius Lo such u degree that thoy Poctry, at ita culi s Lhe Impression of soinething abav- utely externul, nid us soon us it ussuines an in- ward churacter its dedlne begins, whith only represeuts the lnaer without oidying It In somie external form, or without making us feel the exterfor by meuna of the in- ner world, Is in vither case the lust stages wheneq it retrogrmdes into common 1We. tory cnjuys all the rights and privileges ot buses them I order to oh- 1, moral and fmmornd ous {u common llfe. so-called Volkalial con- directly Inspired by va- But the poet of culture” could enjoy the pame wivantage if he knew how to avall himsclf power, we must 0 urrogate the poetry; ft uses und al momentarily sdvant Tho real merit of A sists (u Its subject belng of it. Asa really educated man, however, he will fack that pithiness of phrase always Jess ut the commund of shnply naturul pern Qnly he van judge of histo history of bis own. Thls ¢qually applics Lo na tlons,” The Germana huye vuly” becoue judger of literature since they Lave pusscssed a liturae tuge themselves, W aro vuly really alive whon we eajoy the good will of Others. Plcty {4 not au e, the highest degree ol who has iade ¢ but a means of attalnlug culture by perfect pesco Henee It [s to be obscrved that these ety un end and alw in itself for the cumo hypocrltes, “QOuno wmust do Lore when one {3 old than liliment of duty leaves a sense of being fndebted, beeauso we are never thoroughe sutlsficd with oursclves. It {3 ouly the loveless who desery defects In H creelve these, therefory, ¢ss, but not wore thu is al ¥ . sreatest good fortune fs that which nmcnds"our tmperfctions snd bal Wu only acknowledge him who ln of use to us, We ackuowledge the movarch crnment rendors our pret that ho will alfor because hils gove sccure. We ' ex- us prol uuuo‘nh ngl'll‘ml une reumstances at hotne or abroa au {8 the willer's fricnd s well ug servaut, and rushes gladly over the whoel: what goud n'creepiug list Huwho contents blself wit rlence, and ucts accondingl, cient amount of truth, be called wise [n this senso. "The only use of theorics 18 that they make us beleve in the counection of phenomena. Every bstract truth, if practically upplied, broughit huwe to bumun understaiidiing by sve tlon und obscrvatlon, wnd so the hutusn . anding I led on to abstrsct reasoulas. sluple expe- posscssea s sufll- owing child may