Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 16, 1876, Page 9

THE CHICAG TRIBUN LITERATUR The Races of Men, and Their Geographical Dis= tribution. poetry, Travel, Fiction, and Art---Family-IIistory. The Centennial Exhibition---Nation- al Ode---Memorial of the Cary Sisters, Albertthe Great---Height of Strue- tures--Rejected Manu- seripts. Ag Ancient Fall of Aerolites-- Killed by Telegraph-Wires Wrens with Double Broods, LITERATURE, IIUMAN RACFS. AN, ASD THEIRGEOURATIUCAL DS oo tbagas daten,s McCiung & Cor Inwas in the beginning of the year 1869 that Hure Peschel, Professor of Geography i the University of Leipsie, acceded to the request of @en, A. Von Roon, the then Prussfan Mintster of War, {o prepare a reviscd edition of the work of the Jatter upon “ Ethnology as an Introduc- tion to Political Geography.” The joint pro- duction was to appear in the name of the two suthors who shared In its preparation, When, at the close of nearly five years of labor, tho work was ready for the press, fll-health hod rendered It impossible for Gen: Von Raen to give it the assistance agreed upon, sud hence it was fssued under the ausplces of its solo author, Prof, Peschel. As the boole now stands, it is fntended as o manual of the sclence of Eth- nology, oud presents the pencrally-accepted fats, theories, and method of arrnugement on which the doctriual system is founded, rather than new hypothesesand modes of classification, which may be original with the author or with others, and are yet subject to question. The work isdivided Into five parts or chapters, entitled, respectively, Introductlon: I']l)'!f(‘n] Characters; Linguistic Characters; Industrinl, Foclal, and Rellzious Phases of Developinent; wd The Races of Mankind. Underthe first bead are trented the nooted toples of man's lace ln ereatiow, the unity or plurality of the iuman race, the place of origin of primeval man, and his probable untiquity. “Although the su- thor recounts with fulrness the various prominent theoties advanced upon theseseveral subim:tn, he o«*ufilunnllf betrays the tendencies of hls own opinfons, 1e Is evidently an adherent of the doctrlne of Evolution; but the Darwinlun theory of Natural Sclectlon he regards s unsatisfic- tory, notwithstanding it affurds the best solu- The KACTE OF TRIVUTION. fion of the variabllity of, specles that has yet been offered, With e d to the agitation which religion has suffered on account of this hypnthuufl, he quictly remarks: It {s searcely compreliensi- Ule that pious minds ean be disquicted by this ductrine, for creation gulns In dignity and fm- portunce I it possesses the power of renovation ud of evolviug hlwher perfeetion,” As to the place on the globe where the human race had thelr first home, Mol Peschel ventures fostate that it must have been on a continent, After reviewing the conditions most fuvorable tothe support of primitive mam, presented by the severul great sections of the carth's surfuce, be dectdes that all elreumstances of geology, of tradition,, and of history })olnl to the wub- serged contiuent of Leniurians the probable spot where the highest saecies in the animal scries developed futo the human belng, This tontinent, lylng in the Indian Occan, and naned by the English zoolugist, Sclater, Is re quired Dy anthropology, und s climatically sultable for the nhode vl the pre-Adamitie rave ofmeny, us It lean the zone of the anthro- pomorphious apes. “The setection of this locality,” says the suthor, s, moreover, far nure orthodox than it might at the fivst ghlnee appears for we here find ourselves In the nelghborhood of the four enizinatic rlyers of the Scriptural Eden,—in the viewity of the Nile, the Euplirates, the Tigrls, aud the Indus. By the grauual submergence of Lemurla, the expulslon from Puradiss would alsu be fuexorably accomplished. To this muy be ndded that “eccleslustical wrlters, such s Loctantiue, the veneratle Dede, Hrubamus Maurus, Kosmos Indicoplenctis, awd alsu the anonymous weographer of Rovenna, placed the Scripturat Paradise’ {n Southeastern Aske, nud some usnllum y on a detachied continent; sl hat the Ingenfous maps of the Middle Ages vx- Liblt the first parental pair on n land surrounded by sea, Iying beyond India, This explalns how G Iscavery of South Ameriea, taking it fur auInsulur continent lylng southeast otumbus, ufter 4 aki or outh of the Guuges, wrote hong to Braju, *There nre here preat indleatlons suggest- fugthe proxtmity of the earthly Parudlses Tor not only dous It correspond In mathematical position With the opinfons of the holy und ' learned theo- Toglang, Lut w1 other sfgns “concur to make it Probuble, 1 Prof, Peschiel dirputes the etatement of Slr Johu Lubbouk, I s # Prelistorle Times," that certaln fnbubitants of the ;Pacific Islands have ho ucquaintance with fire, and cites evidenee showiug thut no humusn tamily fienorant of this element hns yet been found, From e neces- £lty of severi) persons takiog purt fn the kabor ol producinge fire by friction, the inf drawn that Tanguee must huvo e useof this valuubie servunt of Question whether, fu uny part of the world, o natlon lias ever been discovered utterly destitute of rellzlous emotlons and {dews, the suthor dves a declded vegutive, * In every stage of s mentas] develovment, nan feels deraving to discover® nn ageney for every plicnomendn sl anauthor for every event. As long s the }N ers of the understanding are swall, o etlsh satlsfles the demand - for causulity ; L, a3 the intclectus) sagueity of no- tlons Increascs, the powers of credehee ure di- minished, and the vonception of Gud aciulres hlllf,mlty, untll it Hually becomes the noblest and Ighest product of the human mine” ‘Fho ltllll)' peaple hitherto known who ure destituts :h“l‘cabc]m In lwmortallty dwell in Equutorial Frof, Pescliel separates mankind fnto seven lmxp- or races, the fest of which includes the Olabitants of” Australfa_aud Tesmaniai the :ficond. the Papuauns of New Guinea and the 8 acent fslands: the third, the Mongolold na- Amu. unmufi Wwhich wre reckoned uut only the ,lhlm of the Contiuent, but also the Maluys, “.j‘lmfilnm, and the avorlgines of Amerlca; : ¢ fourth, the Druvidi of Western Indin, of nmil\r) Loriging the (th, the Hottentots and uun tinens the sixtl, the Negroes: and the Just, i Moilterranean nations, snswering to the u;mxu ans of Blumenbach, About two-fifths o the volume are wiven Lo’ an tereatig stum- " MY 0t the phveloal wod mental characteristics 4 these seven distinct races, ol thelr castoms, tivillzation, i rellgzion, 5 In alludfuer 1o thy changes which have oc- h:l'rm! I the Wistory of the Indo-European wnlly, the wathur concludes Lis work with the 015('n|uu thur Hurupe, Iullowhuf the destiny 5 llle Lountries south of the Mediterranean m“l In Southern Asly, can only for a Lime re- zn"'l' the secno of the' hghest “achlovements of u © luman race. But, b nally obaerves, * [n m:urld to the west of us, fuciui a world that is lmlnxul Erowing older, uind I wreglon situnted Mnuejn wu oceans, o young and infxed natlon "";\]x les nearly the whola of o contiuent whicl o d cag]] ynuplmrt three timea tho populatiun of h o —=tiearly |,000,000,000. Here u new soclety )vkrunmg Up whichiriples lta numbers every ten “u‘rn.'au that it muy perhaps enter upon the (u;.xmn\h ventury with o population of 100, s "l AU sume future tlme, the higher cins of hilstory ure solved upon this stage, lmui'nuluua Of Furops must reslgn thelr {ue uxldm 0 history, As soon s tho sun reaches of ,f'. ¥ILh us, its frst rays brighton the shores el New World, Fhus {t s with human o u“l‘c #lao. Europe 18 now in the meridian e 4 course, and worniug is alreudy * break- "5 Dier them. But the sun moves ong & l‘lnt‘ ot remcin as ut Joshua's conynand ; and; hn. cuulizuration of one-quarter of the world s ! 8 gevlugleal point of view, only u translent Looieion, 8u alsa witl its importance fn the ,‘: Ty of cdvillzation be unabla to escape tho foufall perishublo things,” : “)Il.u!!. Pesclil has on unusnully agrecable Hle ur 8 writer upon Sclence. It Is free, M‘h ¢ and trunspasent, forming un udmirable P for thu comwuinication of the fucts he it Sclits, which, for their wwount, runge, sud rly clbafleition, remind uh of the wondes- ful achievements { Darwiu, the e lne by Charles 18, THOMAS BAILEY Al.l)mzl". FLowen axn Tuony., Lavn Porwa, 10mo., pp. 140, Hon- ton: Jumes It Osguod & Cluengo: Janven, McClurg & Co, Price, $1, 20, TIHAT NkW WORI, AND OTHER POEMS. Ity N R, i! r A L M. h Wouan's Foems, ™ efc. ton: Jame I, Ospood & McClorg & Co.” Price, 81,0, As one would touch with daintlest fingers porcelafn vase, so would one apealk of Aldrich’s poems, Thelr elegant mokl, thefr polished grace, thelr perfect unfon .of thought with verse, - mnke them scem ton fue for treatment in com- mon worda. ‘We fecl that only In strains like thelr very own, earoling * with many n teill, and long-tvaivn, flufe-like, honeyed note,” can thele musfe be fitly represented. 1n il their varled, tuncful measures, there Is never a alip, nor a break, nor o discordant note. It is one long, Aweet suceesafon of cadences, dulcet, canorous, “fluent as o rill that wanders, silver-footed, down a hill.» . What can be more felicltons than the mating of the rhythm with the rpirit of the Indian myth in the poem of ** Miantowona''t In the pine-forest, Guarded by shudiws, Lleth Rimeed by the emerald Mozntaing, it llea there ke an notsrniehed Hickler of miver, Dropped In thnt valley 1y thie Ureat Sulrit. The metre moves off with o springing, clastic tread Jike the step of “Miantowona, Hoseof the Hurous.” And, when the desolute, widowed matden piunges boldly fnto the sfl wuters of the lunely lukelet, and her hopelvss wouer, too late secking her on the shure, sees Only o circle Swinily expauding, Fading hefore kin: Bt as he walched §i, Up from the centre, Slowiy, ml[mrl)l{ ¥y Ttuse o Pond-1.4 conld 2n expuisite conception find a more har- monfous expression? Yet this example is not to be aingled out from the full garluml of poet! el tlowers as superlor (o the rest In fragen or lovellness, 1t would be hard to make choje of one, where each hur some espeelul i for winning favor. The * Lerand of Ava-Cieli ' fs quite 08 beautifully recapitulateds and the fu- terlwdes, the quatralns, the rongs, and tho gon- nets, every one lnclose soma falr faney, simooth- cd and refined ln articulation to mcet the last demand of a cultivated taste, ‘The puems by Mrs, Platt urelike jets of sang from u bird’s niclodious throat, or Tike the war- bied bits and soatehies which a woman pours- out over the eradle of her beloved ehild, * Oc- castonally they are rounded and complete, but oftenest tlua' are_Lut hints and tokens of a fucuity which prefers to suggest rather than dewmonstrate {ts capabilitl The motherly in- stinct Is very strong in Mre, Plntt's nature, pnd pinany of ber poems are inspired by iis impulses, With rnaslmmw yearning and puin she maurns the children’shn has lost, or with foud tendernees carcses thosc remaining to her. For themes which Lave a plaintive cast she also shows o preference, und renders thelr fecling very dellcately, One of the inost pleasing nikces fu the colieetion Is of this class, and bears the title of TIE TRADITINN OF CONQUEST. 1l Geace of Marlborough, Jegends suy, Thongh bnll]c-llihlulnyl proved his worth, ‘Was scathed liko others, in his day, By lercer firon at his own leart, Tha patient chicf, thus kaly tried, — Maduain, the Duchess, was 8o falf, — In Dienticiin's honurs felt loss pride Than in tha lady's Jovely hiale. Once (shorn, she Liad cofled It there to wound Her lord whien he should pass, 'tis sald), Shining ncross hls path he found The glory of the woman's hend, Na sudden ward, no rullen look, In a1l hix nfter-days, confessed Tle misecd the churm whose shsence took A'rcar's pale shupo within bis breast, 1 think she longed ta have hilm lame, « And soothe him by mperious tears: A iF her heanty were the same, He prafsed hee throngh his courtcous yeara, But, when the noldler's arm was dust, Afnong the dead inan's treanires, Whera e Inld it ns from moth and rost, They found his wayward wife's sweet halr, TRAVEL, IN THE LEVAN By Cnantes Drniey Wan. NEn, Author of ‘‘My Summnier fuu Garden,' ele., 18mo., pp. 474, Buaton: Jamex R, O gond & Co."" Chicago: Janson, McCl FUOM THE Iu\KEg OF Kl GOLDEN HORN. Hy Nk M, FieLp, D, Lo, pp, i New York: Sorlbner, Amn- strong & Co, Irice, $2. My, Warner concludes *In the Levant ¥ the history of n journey made in the winter and spring of 1875, the'first portion of which was written ont In the pages of “My Winter on the Nile, Among Mummies and Moslems,” The ground traversed fn the present volume Is hackneyed to the flust degree. It hus been traveled ond deseribed until every reader of In- telligencs knows the featurcs of every foot of it and yet Mr. Warner succeeds in Infusing the subject with & new Interest. It Is as Emerson hus rafds o mon sces (n his travels just what e carrles with hiin, I he has a cultured miud, n dlscriminating eye, and a Tnbit of reflectlon, his, -harvest of fuformation glcaned fn_forclen lands will be worth the trouble of guthering and ex- hibiting. Thus 1t has proved In the cuse of Mr, Warners and his book will repuy perusel by those who have read beores of yohimes treating of thesante region, ‘The amthor Is noteworthy for keeplnz a coul head through every experfence.” Ho never woes nto trunsports under sny provocatlons neither 18 he dejected under any dlsappointment. e s ever calin, sharv-slzhted, and u{mrcuml.lvr. The aucnvr?' ainl sites of the Jloly Land are viewed eritically, and ull that they offer fn ontinate and fnsnlnate uature, that “deserves remnric, re- celves uttention, Nothing is done haustily nor caruluuslf. but the manuer of the thorouglh, patnstaking observer I8 everywhery presorved. All points are visited which belone n the Itinerury of the rational traveler, and, after due inapection, thoughtful and instructlye conunents are made upon them, The style of the suthor i3 aulet and fnlshed, like all the rest of bis workmanship, Tho care- tully-wrought senfences ask no indulgencs on neconnt of Juste aud licedlessuess. . My, Warner writes for a'cultivated publie, and pays them the compliuieut of dolng his Gest; and"hls beat prosy hus the wrtlstie beauty of verse, Muny nassagres might be cited to show the clhinracier- lnvlu of hls bl aud of his diction; but we clinose, us w ehort and i representationy the follawiig recallection of Attieas T'here wad & u|ghtlngf:|lu who sang and sabbed all night I the varden beforo the hotel, and only ceused her plalntive reminiscenco of Athewan son, und aorrow with the red dawn, Dut thin is 0 ea world of contrusts. Cilled upon the hulcony ut midnight by her wild notes, [ saw~how can I vver say It—~upon the balcony below, a white flyure ad- vance, sud with a tragic movenient of haste, If not of ruge, draw his gurment of the night over his head und ahiake 1L out over the public squares and 1 kuow—Tfor the kingdom of knowledge comes by experlence as woll as by observation—thut tho Tl en wi sk wakeul o Greseo ma tho might e galo, Iu the volume by Dy, Henry M. Fleld are con- tailued the notes of a tour L‘ilulldhu{ lvom the Amerlean shiores through th8 promivent States of Western and Southern Europe tothe Orlentul clty on the Bosphurus, The traveler went out fram his home with tho slindow of o great alltie- tlon resting on his life, and o sombro tinge sl- most fuevitably colors all objects on which his mind dwelt, [lls meditutions would ardinarily, frum the trafning of old habit, have a serjous cast, for the Doctor §s by rrolcndou hoth a mhi- ister and an editor of a religlous paper, His ob-~ servutions follow the bent of his calling, and are especlully devoted to the political and Igions a8 uf the countrics through which he pusses, “They fimpart the oplnfons of onc who hus often Aojourned In Europe, and hus a famillar ge- qualntance with its chuugeful hlstory, —— NOVELS, JAN OF THE WINDMILL, Praixs, A Brony or Tuy By JuLiana Jlonamia KEwing, Author of *48ix to Slxtoen. ™ 10umi0,, pp. 310, . Boston: oberts Brow. Price, §1,425, A POINT OF HONOR. _ BBy Mrs, ANN1ZE EDWARDY, Author of *'Archle Lovell, " ote, 1m0, pp. a5, New York: Sheidon & Co, Amoeng the huudreds of novels which are placed upon the bovk-table of the reviewer In the course of & year, therg are extremcly few worth the paper and Ink used [ thelr printing, ‘They are brought out with more or less flourish by the publishers, coples aro sent for notles to the newspapers, consiguments are forwarded to all the bookeellers, thefr titles are read in the Msts of the latest publications, and furthicrmore nothing is heard of them. ‘They have no vital- ity, und drop from the press stillborn, They ure the oftspring of muxrununm. cyotisin, und a vain and foollsh gleslve for the namo and notoriety of wuthorship, Deatitute of the Promethean spark which van alonv nsuro life, they ore doomed tuLwrlsh quickly when exposu: to the seurching lght of eviticlsm, The few which, out of the suuual moss of pro- ductlons, are the cieatfon of veritable taleat, are tothe tired reader Jke a cup of cold water to the thiraty traveler. They refresh nnd reinvigorate the mind which eraves, at Intervils in (s <egdune Inbore, the diversfon of clev il e fictfon, Thia needed, 1y be pained fron th ¢ Htles Deadt this notice. 11 o A rare S’ fn thia vast departiment of ites how extraondinnry i the foriy vhich pr us with two at the saine thmet ‘The story of “Jan of the Windmill? s lail chietly tnu minall, retired Fuglish village, and 1ts veinelpal prersotimges are of the lowllest cinss of artlsans and lnborers, Yot the lfo of these humble folk s so vividly depleted, the pathos of its reanty pleasures and its patlent sorrows Is so clearly brought out, that it tixes the attention fireststibly, The author Is n keen ubserver of hman nature, and reproduces varied phises Wwith which she (s futlmately conversant, In tracing the desting of little Jan, the foster- €Wl of. the whidmiller, who develops r zenius for palnting, she evinces auch Ane feeling for Art that one Is Ted to believe her an adept {n the practieal use of brushes and pencils, low- cever that may be, she Is a literary artist of un- usisal_wbility, and Lhls cxample of lier work- manship proves her to he a woman of many tulents carefnlly enltivated, -, ** A Polnt of Honar" 18 one of the mnost suc. cessful novels we have yet had from Mrs, Annfe Edwards, She as displayed her superior skill it tuking average men and women for Ler cen- tral figures, amd creating an nbsorbing interest in them by an exbibitlon of the ruling motives and passtons whiclr are common to limnanity. By the strengthof an exalted and tenaclois jove, Jane Urand fs Jifted ont of the commonplace region. where, by her ree stricted intellectual wud personsl pits mud neeomplishments, she reatly belougs, Into thy Ideal reatut, in which whe hecomes an abject of profound svmpathy and admiration. To ¢ an fotense eifect with orlinary ma- terluls requives n hilzh order of talent, aud this I8 the feat which Mrs, Edwards has aceom- vllshed, Its results are fur wore pleasing nnd more Instructive than i1 instraments had been nude use of which fn themselves were of an impressive aud exciting character, FAMILY-MEMORIAT,. THE FAMILY-MEMOINAL, nkDg FOM UENEALOGICAL, B STATISTICAL NEeowos vr AN AND DEa Yizw or Hunestian, Faony-Pow Rewares ov Bintis, MAKtsGEs, A wiTit Fois asn 1 Eacn DEFARTSEN: husteated withriginn) Desig Noted Paintinge, dto., pp. . New York: Willinm i1, Shepurd. cugo: Moaes Warren, This voluse {nvites attentlon to nu important subject which s almost universally nectected, Rightly constdered, there can be few things of more moment (o an individual than the efreum- stances of his llnesze and his connectiona by consunguinity. Since by leredity we receive so much of our personal endowment thut. It may almost be calied our fate, it is of the deepuest consequence to learn froin whom we ure scended, thnt we may understund to whom we re {ndebted, and also, n muny fustanees, for ut we are indebted, Untll we kbow our au. cestry, ftoften huppens that we do not know vur- selves, our dormant cupuvities, our inlierent pos- sibilities, When we comie to realize how dom- nant talents, und tralts, and tendeucles “run in the blood," we apprevinte the advantage of studying into Lhe possessions which one und an- other of our progenitors have huwl {tfn thelr power to bequeath, With a compreliension of the rood amt evil elements fn the rh)-sh:.u ns well us psychical constitution, which may huve conie down'to us, there will be gained serviee- able. hints as to the means of cherlshiug the first and of suppressing the lust, ‘The book before us s Intended to aid in the clucidation of the family-histary. It s so ur- ranged that cvery consvquential event in the Nfe” of the varlois members tinds u place for methodical and exact record, und thas combines fncompaet form the gencalogy and the hiog- vaphy ot each Individual. The value of suchn Tanily-record will ut oney bé estimated. should be regarded as next In haportance houschold Bible. The volume Is fngeritously designed and handsomely published, nY GEMS OF THE GRAY COLLECTION. A Szmrs or TwESTE-Tott Cilorer. ENunaviNas, Reeno- DECRD 18 HIELIOTYIE FRON THE OBIOINALA 1X TIHE GRAY TION OF ENauAVINGs, JlAnvALD Usivenmiry, Wit Fur, Hiaromtean axp De- semeTive Lirrei-Piess, Follo. Boston: James lé. Osguod & Co. Chilcugo: Jansen, McClurg & 0, GALLERY OF GREAT ARTIS A Stmrs or 0. These numbers of the * Gallery * of funous pletures, [ssulng by Messrs. Osgond & Co., are exceedingly Interesting. The first contuins twenty-four cholee specimens from the large and precious collectfon of enzravings be- queathed by Mr. Willlam Uray to Harvard University, In thellatare included coples of Murillo’s “ Immaculate Conveption,” Rubens “Deseent from tho Cross,” Ruphael’s % Trons- figuration,” Da Vinel's * LastSupper.” Guido’s Aurorg,” and Michael Anzelo's Fates” In making these selections, i has heen the afm to give examples of the best engravings of repre- scotatlve works of the great masters, The socond number contulns twenty-four Yur— traits of the most famous pafnters of_muodern times, In_ this collection “we note Da Vined, Raphiel, Michuel Angelo, Correzio, Titian, Durar, Rubens, Rembraudt, Reynol:ds, Landseer, and Stuart. The faces ave rtudies souarcely lesa enguglng and Instructive than are. the grand- cst compositions of thelr owners, he mujesty and strength that mark the works of Michael Anzelo are statuned on lis physiognomy, and the beauty and gice of the pletires of Riphael throw their fuclfable charm over his counte- nance. And g0 with all the vest, 'Tie attributes that distingulsh thelr puintiies are written on thelr features; tho soul that has wrought thronzh thelr hands has seulptured their fuces and {llumined their eyer. « THY CENTENNIAT XIIRITION, & 1TS FREITS AND ITS FESTI- a A MisTony DESCPTION 0F THE CENTERNTAL KXMUMTIONS Wit A PrRt- NaARY OUTLINE 0F MobkuN Proouess, 1y Fo- wanp C, Buver, with Numerous Dastrations, fvo. phe 2o, Uhlisdelphias J. 1, Lippin- cott & Ui, A beautlful volume contalng Mr, Druce's sketeh of the nchlevements of the Jast hundred yenrs, and of the World's Fuir with which the Centennlal Annlversary of our Itepublic was grandly celebrated. The engravings with which 1t 18 embellished are, with the exceptionof those in Part X., of a hligh order of excellence; and tho other aevessorles of the book are in keepe fugr. Lesa'satisfuctory In its exeentlon {8 Mr. Bruce's part of tho work, s plan Is too am- bitlous fur the opportunity afforded him, In attempting Lo crowd tho hMstory of u most eventiuleentury, und of w vast Internationanl Ex- position, into the Hinits of asingle volume, ho untered upon a scheme too ditifewlt for him, The century 18 disposed of fu twenty-elriit pages, and the remainder of the gpace i8”devot- ed to the Centennfnl, Even here, Mr, Bruce s heen 50 unwise as to taks up much of the roomt with fine writing, so that the actunl amount of precise and solfd information_ he fin- parts fs reduced to: the minimn, Homely revity 13 the fuexorablo requireinent In u work of this charact; Rhetorle and rmnbling re- ficctions ure alike out of place, AN AGRICULTURAL BTORY. TIIE FARM-YARD CLUDL OF JOTHAM: AN ACCOURT OF THE FANILIEN AND FAuns oF TiaT .. Fasovs Town, By Gronak 11, Lo, 1llus- trated, 8vo., np. . Boston: Lockwood, Thiooks & co.” Theoy 1, $ Mr, Lorlug has hit upon o capital plan for se- curlng enjoyment toall sorts of people, tn his stiscussion of agricultural toples. Ife has glven them the, sples of varioty by sandwiching them in between tho passuges of an ugrecable ro- mance, The cesays upon the seyeral branches of farim-work are replote with Instruction, unlting the Jearniog (o be gatued from books with thy wisduni to be acquired ouly from experlence, The pructical and the amatedar farmer will both derive profiv from thems whily many s reader, haviug no personal concern i euttlé-ratsing or husbandry, will be couxed into Muer\hlg the - formation they convey, by the entlelue history of the Juthumites, which feads up, at regularly- recurping perloas, to thelr meetings at the Fai- Yard Club, The buok §s & vuluuble ono for cir- culation wmong the households of o Tarming community; und lu{uuch wo would suggest its fitness for the hollday-demand. 1t 13 neatly ])Hulc , und plentitully Hustrated with excel- eut woodcuts, —— CENTENNIAL POLM, THE NATIONAL ODE, Tuk Minoniat Faee. vox Porw, B( Bavann Tavion. PP 74, Boston: Willlam I, Gl X Co, Prl 4. The Centeunfal pori dellvercd by Dayard Taylor at the formal openiug of the Philadel- phis Exposition, ou the Fousth of July, 1874, is vecelving wnusuul distinetiona. It hus been ulready transiated Into severul different lan. guaged, aud i our own country It l‘nju?‘l the honur of belng published fu divers hawdsoue forns by ditferent houses. In the style in which it" 13 now otfered by Messes, Wittlum ¥, Ul & Co., it Is very attractive. A nwaber of our most skilled artlets have lent to fts plet- uredque text the charm of thelr original tutec- i 16, 1876—TW SATURDAY, DECEMBER LIV PAGILS, b = e — pretation, while printer and bookbinder have cxercised thelr laest art In presenting the let- teg-press fna becoming manner. The hook §s an approprivte ronventr of the grreat Centennfal il thie aneal annfyversartes of 14 T1535 CAILY BISTERS, THEPOETICAL WOILKS OFF ALICE ANDPHEDE CARY. Witi A Mesoman o Toei Lives, By Manv Cigwwnr, Bvo.. pp, 445 Now York: Hurd & llonghton. 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FAMILIAR TALK, ALBERT TE One of the most famous worthles of the Mid- dle Ages wus Albert, Count of Bollstadt, or, as he I8 most commonly called, Albertus Maguus, He was born {n Luulngen, in Swabia, in 1103, aud was educated. fn the Univesity of Paduoa, At the age of 30 he entered the Onder of Do- minfeans, yet It was slx years later that tic began the career of prodiglous lubar by which he bullt up a lusting reputation. He scems, from the necounts wo hinve of himy, to have been one of the s wifted with versatile talents, lnrgo capaclties, great ambition, and indefatlizable in- dustry, rather thaw one of Lhe few wlo possess the ciearly orfsinal, ereative power entitied genfug, 1ls acquireinents were immense, uny lils activity absolutely untirine; hence, ju what- ever direction he turned his efforts, ho accom- plished results so emineut as to earn for him without reserve the numne of * Gireat." He fur- nished a signal example of what work, suetalned by aresolute will, an honorable purpose, and staunch aud weli-traiued faculties, cati effect. His talents, we have said, were versatile, for he won distinction us & theolozlan, n phitoso- pher, an gstronomer, a mathematieian, natural- Ist, mechunlefun, aud srehiteet, In 1229 he be- cume Professor of by Nutural ond Bacred Belences ot Cologne—a position which he re- tained for several years. e then founded schivols of theatogyat Hildeshcim, Ratlsbon, and Btrasbourgs alter which o again returnedto his teaching at Cologne, Thenve he repalred to Purls, where ho oceupiea the "Theological Chaly in the Unlversity, which the ope had been i dueed to glve over to the chagzs of the Dominl- cans. In 1243 he was sent back to Cologno to cstublish the pubdic schioo), which eventually became- oue of the most re- nowned universities in Europe. Five years later be was made Trovinelal of " his Order, and soon after was dispatched to Polund I the capacity of Papal lezate, to extlypaty cers tain Pagun customs which bad” been introduced Into that country hy fntercourse with Mongols, Awmong these reprehienaible usages was that of oxpostug weukly and malformed {nfants, und also of putting the gged und inlivin out of the way. L{n his veturn from this misslon, Alhert re- ceived from Pope Alexander V., the Bishopric of Ratfsbon, e held this Seo but two years, lowever, resigatuz It in order that he inight wrain engage in promulguting theology in tho schioul of Cologne, Ile had now attalned the ave of 69, und thereafter until he was 85 ho per- severed fn the lubors of an fustructor, While Al at this work, being suddenty reminded of the decny of Lils facultles, hu bade adicu to his hupild und retlred to bis convent. The story of ':la abrupt withdrawal from publle duty runs as follows: Ilo was in the midst of ol of his Jeetures before o laree aud distinguished wudi- enee, ond Nis tdeas were flowlng with their usual llwhll!,d- and_coherence, when he preeipl- tately paused. Without warnlug, his memory, Litherto, Gitifully rotuntiv of il e hud read amd heard, relaxed its hold, and the thoughts and words he hud consigued to It for fimmdiate uso were lost, 1o stood for u few muments in nmazed and embarvassed sflen then, qulcetly recovering himsell, he turne to his hearers, and related that just flfty years before, in answer to o prayer for old” {iy his studies, Mary, the Queen of Heaven, had en- couragad hitn to persevere, prowmising thut ears of feaftlul labor should be his reward. Sut, ut tho sumu time, sho warned him that the Divine powers then Lestowed upon him should 1n an unexp moment be withdrawn, leav- fage himy nt as o little child, My frlends,” he concluded, “whut wos then fovetolid 13 now to bo accomplishied. 1 recognlze that my time {3 spent, and oy cod s at hand” Ifu Bow ed his head, and, descending from his place, tools an affectionate Jeive of uls puuils, an, fur the rewainfug three years of his life, waa the lu- wate of a Domtnfean’s cell Durlugr these fhity years of incessant tofl, Albertus found timg to willo twenty-one follo volumes. The firal six comprise a commentary on the * Nentences? of Peter Lombard, and & complete paraphrice of Arlstotle, Prior to the procfuction of titis last work. only s portion of the writhigs of Arnstotle were weevssible to students, the, remainler exfsting vnly in the (reck,—n languuge then abnost wnktown In Furopean universltive, By the which Al- bert executed of renderfug the entire writings of the tireek phitosopher futo a famlliar tongue, he conferred an luestitmable boou upun hia ace, As an filustration of his inechanleal Ingenuity, it 1s recorded that he constructed aiy autonaton which distinctly enunciated xeveral words. It chanced oneday that ondof his pupils, lenorant 0t its existence, came upon the inage, and hear- ing itutter thewrceting, * Saivel salve] salve!” e wwas so alarincd at what lie took to b an ap- parition of the Evil One, that, with the abjara- tion, ** Becone, Hatan1' - he fell upon the fizure und belabored §t with his cane untfl It lay In pleces betore hit, and the work of thirty years was deatroved, Another tradition etatesthat, ot the oceaslun of w thanquet which Albertus gave to Willinm of Holland, King of the Homans,* atthe Dominfean convent, inmidwinter,the scenc was, by his magic skill, suddenly transformed Into a “summer-spectncle of verdure and bloum, ‘The story probably rests. upun the shnple foundation of a conservatory, fn which’ the naturalist wns easily able 1o render the season of flowers perpetual, IIEIGIIT OF STRUCTURIES, 1f any one would like to test the difficully of obtalning accurate information regarding altout- of-the-way toples, the experiment can e very favorably tricd with the question as to the aiti- tuge of the loftiest structuresin the world. Bayard Taylor caznally alludes, In his record of travel In Russla, to tho Jddme of 8t. Isaac's Catbedral at St. Petersburg, which, he obeerves, islifted up ¢ 300 or 400 feet in the air” 'The statement raises a doabt fu a ekeptical mind as to its accuracy, and forthwith all avallable sources of knowledge upon the subject of lofty domes and steeples are ditigently searched, Jut at the moment there hopuens under the cye a slip from the Baltimore Sun to this effect: The altitude of the dume of the Capllol makes, that building the highest In America, it being 287! fect fram the floor of tha basement atory fo flie crent of the statue. There nre only four edifices n the OId World which tower higher toward the clouda: 8t, Peter's, at Rome, which §s 458 feet from the pavement to the top of the crose outside; St. Paul's, ot London, which is 404 Teet; the Ca~ thedml of St. Inunc, at'St, Petersburg, 'which fs 304 feet: and the Hotel des Invalides. of Parls, in which Is the tomb of the great Napoleon, which fa 3:24 feet high. u the United Gtates, the steeple of Trinity Church, New York, Is next in height te the dome; Bunker 1111} Monument, second: and the Washing- ton Monument in Baltimore, thi The paragraph has been copied withont com- ment by the American Builder, which of course counts ftsell authority upon all matters con- neeted with architecture. But the Boston Juur- nal of Chemistry cspies the orticle, and the errora it {nclores with Instant recoenition and reproof, Nevertheless, in correcting the mistakes of the Sun, and subjoining o eatalogme of its own of the hichts of towering editices, theJournal remurks upon the trouble of getting ut the right tigtres, on nceount of the diifer- ences oceurring amane the different authori- ties, “The Gireat Pyramid of Esypt,"” says the Journal, “*is usually eatled the hizhest [bullding Inthe world), being about475 feet higrh 3 but. thie urly modern cast-tron pire of the Cathedral ut Rouen, In France, Is sald 1o be 452 feet high,’ Chicago umends the statements of Boston with modest hesitutlon; but the actual altitude of the Pyramid of Chicops fe, uccording to the most trustworthy writers, 485 feet, and the splee of Rouen Cathedral Is less by ut least tifteen feet. Avolding further eriticlsm of thie HNsts present- od by the two pavers mentioned, we rive the hizht of a few of the great buildings of Europe, 04 they have been proved by comparison with varlous nuthorities: Feet iigh. Spire of Cathedral at Vienna alave. .. L4050 Epire of Cathedral of Strasbours Spire of Church of Notre Dame, Briges. Splre of Church of 8. Peter’ Spire of Church of Amfens Spire of Church of Sullsbu Spire of Church of Chartres Spire of Church of Froibury Spire of Church of St. I Spire of Latin Basilic: Spire of Chitrch of 51, Letersburz,.... . Spire of Litchfield Cathedra Domie of Hotel des Invalldes, Parin. Victora Tower of Houre of Paliament. Cleck-Towgr of ouse of Parlismen Spire of Snlulnoy Mounastery, It Spire of Cathedral at Norwich, En; "Power of Cathedral of Zarngoss,. Lome of Cathedral of ou) REJECTED MANUSCRIT Au Instructive essay on the discourszements which beset the carly path of most smbitions Inhorers, and which are ta be overcomie only through stern persistence and patient fortitude, mightbebased upon theslmplesubjoct of rejected manuseripts, Examples enotugh to [uminate the thee could be furnished in cvery news- paper oflice, where obacured but aspiring genfus makes myriad daily appleations for epportunity tobeseen and kunown, and goes thyougn the bltter experience of being denled. But more exalted instances readily be obtained trom the history of successful writers, who, in the be- ginning, bad the sorrow of sulug muuy times in valu for a publisher for works which, onee put futo print, viudieated the hope ‘and faith of thelr suthors, To begin the list with a manuseript' bearing a most appropriate title, the * Rejected Address- es" of Jumes and Homce Smith might te chosen, This proved fu the end *one of the luckiest hita fn Mterature®: but at first there seemed a strong Hkelthood of its never appear- fng before the public, although the suthors asked nothing for the copyright. Mrv. Murmy refused {t, without uecording it o much as a rlunee, it 18 said, It wus tinally brought out byouu.lulmlllllcr, who promised to give the authors half the profits. when the book bud heen tlirough sixe teen editfons, Mr. Murray wus Lo purchuse the copyright for S6A5, This was_ aunounced in “the advertisement to twenty-second _edition. * Bothen, ranks to-day with the three or four nurr: travel that, for thele distinguished merlt, are called clussival, was rejected by o number of houses,—twenty, wo huve seen L stated, Inlis preface, Mr, Kinglaku confesses to havig writ- ten much of the buuk over three times before iL attited hint, Who will sy he did not earn the futne {4 broughs him | “Surtor Hesartus,” the masterpieee of Car- Iyle, went beging for u thre s tho ‘mh- Ishirs, and 1o one would venture to purd the book, Finally ft was foreed to sec light in_the puges of 2lraser's Magasi “Vanity Falr,” the lirst great work of Ui ray, but written after he had produced many brithiant sketehes i various perioicals, was re- fused by Colburna Magazine. ad wis theu pub- lished by the muthor fn serial numbers, Long befure the work was concluded, 6 had galied Thackeray a foremost place amone Biglish uov- eltsta und satirlsts, Dr, Samuel Warren's pop- ular fletion entitled % Passages from the Diary ‘of o Late Physleian ' was printed in Hlack- wood's Mugazine, beeause the bookacllers fulled lnlrufl;gulw {ts value and assume the rlsk of fs- sulng it TIFe poems of Shelley not only were rejected during his lifetime, but he was oblized to pub- Hsh them ald ot his own cost. The returns they Brought hm were large fn scorn and obloquy. The **Odo on the Death of 8ir Jolin Moore® was written by the Rev, Charles Wolfo while 8 student at’ thu University of Dublin, It was refected so scurnfully by w lewding perlodieal that the © author 'c:n'u it o ou ohseure Irish Y“M'" n which it wus published uuunl)‘moully n 1817, It was quietly adnlred, and its origin wus ascrlbed to varioua povts. After the death of Wolfe, who was carried off by consumption at tho early nge of 33, un atteinpt wias nude by a terary adventurer ta claim the plece; but the friends of the deccased author were uble to prove by indispntable evidence s right to the vepute {t had obtalued, ‘Fhie llst mizht be fu- detinitely extended, bt it {8 already suflicient to polnt thy woral with which we began. et nod TIE RIG-VEDA, Tho Rig-Vedn, the Bible of the Braluuans, hus, until the present time, buen considered, by thase who fullow e teachings, too sacred & book. 1o bo deflled by the pressyand ne printed edi- tion has ever appeared In Tndin, It bas been preserved exclusively in M8S., and lu the oral traditlon of tho schouls. But, sloce the uppear- ance of translationa in the European languages, au fnterest fu the critiea) study of the Veda has been awakened awong scholarly Bralimuns, aud they have not only begun to take an active part in the examatlon of the text, but have fur- nlshie@ gomolmportant atdsto its interpretation, through theireriticlsms upon the work of forelgn Orlentelists, The movement has fiually ad- vanced 80 far that o uative edition of the Vedy Is belng produced, accompanled by 1ts comment- ary, a translution in Marathi sna Eglish, and uotes in the former languace, ‘Uwenty-one hymus have atready been publistied, sud it will vrobably require ten years to complete thy work, By the spread Of u pure text of the Veda among the people, it Is belleved that many of the supesstitious und erroncous notlons Petershury, erund St B Beven years later, Elad t H which ives of entertained regarding it will gradually be over- come and Lanished, A BUDDINST 1ISLAND. The Island of Pooto, off the Ching Coaat, is entircly fnhabited by Buddhists, As it is o law of Buddiism that animal 1ife shall In no case be destroyed, neither fesh nor fish s consumed upon the island, nor are they suffered to he lauded on fts shores. Everywhers within fte precinets temples occupy the most beantiful eites, and shrines arc bullt by tho wayside, while finages of Buddha are cut upon the face of therocks, A traveler who has recently vis- ited the spot states that few graves are to seen, and that the dead are - probably sublected to cremation. Near the lurgeet temple was & firnace, consiats Ingofa small room in the hill-shle, arched above, and with an excavation I the rocky Hoor r the fucl, or to create adraught, The pro- of cremation was thus described by a pries Three days aftes death, the body, seated cross- legized, and Incloséll in o’ box, {8 taken to the furnace. Fuel 18 placed areund i, nud, alter a sultable rellylous ceremony, thetorch is applied, and the whole szllu 1s soon wrapped in flames, 4 requires éeveral hours and 400 pounds ot woud to complete the process.’” . CONSTANTINOI'LE. We copy from an exchange Lhe statement that Constantinople has seventy-tivo oewspapers, sixtecn of which are printed in Turklsh, onc in Arabic, one in Persian, twenty in Freuch, one fn Germau, one In English, twelve in Greek, tweive in Armentan, four In Bulgarian, two fn Spanish, and one in Itallan. There are nineteen official Jonnals In the provinces, and as mang ofllcial calendars and “almanacs. Constantinople, fn- cludin its suburbs, has n population estimated at 1,075,000, About onc-hall of these are Mo- bhammedans, 220,000 are Grecks, 230,000 Ortho- dux Armenians, 30,000 United Armenlans, and 53,000 Jews. SPARKS OF SCIENCE. AEROLITES, 'The earliest recorded fall of meteorites In the British Islands occurred in the scventcenth century; the first, in Devonshlre, Jan. 10,1622; and the second, in Berkehire, April 0, 1633, A printed account of the later phenomenon s pre- served In the Biritlsh Museum, and a gentloman who has lately examined the rare old tract con. taining it contributes an Interesting description 10 the Athencm. The pamphlet Is o quarto of nineteen pages, entitled * Looke Vp und Seo Wonders: a Miracvlons Apparition fn the Ayre, lutely scen fu Barke-shire, al Bawlkin Greene, neere Huriford, April 0th, 1628 Of coursc the author reganls the occurrence as o portent of evil, and he begins his treatise with the soleturr admonition: 8o Benummed wee are In our Sences, that albeit God himself Holla in our Eares, wee by our wifls arc Ioath to heare him, His dreadtul Pursuluants of Zhunder and Lightuing tervefie va so long as they have va fu thelr tnzers, but becing off, wev duncs and stng in the midst of our Follles." Tassing thence to the direct subject of iis- cusefon, he spaks of *the foure great quarter- masters of the world (the Foure Elements),” reémarking thut =The Atre is the shop of Thander and Lightninz. In that hath of late bin held a mnster of terrihie ctiemies aud threatness of veugeance. which the great Genem) of the Feld, who conducts snd commands all such Aruy (Gad Almighty. | tneane) avert from oir Kingdome, and shoot the urtaws of hix Indiguution sume oifcr way. vpom the bosomes of thase that would con! pell. o . . Itis not for mun todisy « .« . but, with fear aund trembliy tins our exesup to lleanen, let ve now behnld liim, bending ik Fixt onely, as Intely he did tothe terronre and aflrightment of all the fnhabitants dweltime within a Towne in the Countyof Burkshire. . . . Ithe. ganne thus: Flrst, for an onwet, went off onegreat cannon 8y 1t were of thunder ulone, ke n warning plece to the renpAhat were to fullow. Then a Tittle whilo after wad ticard u second; 2nd so by degreen a third, wntlll the number of 20 were dis: charged (or thereabonis) in very good grier, thougth I very grent terrar. In wormo it dis: tance of time after thia wae audibly heard the round of & Drum beatiuga Retreate. ~Amongst all iliess angry penles shot off from IHeauen, this bemmt' o wonderfnl admiration, that At the end of tho repart of uvery crac or cannon-thundering, o hizzing Noyss made way Ahrough'the Ayre, not vnlike tite fiying of Jullels from the mouihs of tho great Ordnance: and by the Juagment of all the tesror-atricken witnesses they rere TAunder-bolta, Forone of them wns seone l’:]nmny neople to fall a a pince ealled Barclkin reene, heing & mile and u half from Martford, . . o Itininthe countrey credibly reported that €ome otber Thunder-stones placen, As for the couse of this phenomenou, the chronlcler frowns upon any nquiry lookiug towind itz Let ve not be #o daring as to pry nto the cloret of God's delerminations,” he {mplores, **/ils VWorkes cre full of Wonders, aud not 1o be examined, Let va not Le o foolish an turne Almanacke-nink- ere, and to DProguurticate, Prophesie, Fore-oome, or ‘Fore-lefl what sliil hapyeu. faice weather of foule, to oar own hingdame or any others scarcity or plenty, Warre or Peare: for such glddy-hrayn'il Meddlets ehoote thelr urrowen beyond the Muou, Anathier version of the same oceurreure wis communicateed by an eye-withess In a letter toa friemd. A copy of his q[unlm cpistle {s pre. served amoys the MSS, of the Dritish Museuwn, and reads as foll Mx. Dawxone—The canse of my writen to you atthie thoe is by resun uf an aceident that the Lord rent awong ve, Elhiave hard of tho Lord by the hering of (i care, e the epeaketh, hut now mine eyes hath sene m: you will marnill that T wright thun for uo man katti sene God at any time, yeb in his works wo see hiin dily, Bat now after a more speciall maner, Bt 1o come to the matter it wis this? on Wedensday beforo Easter, teinge the rdinth of April, about sixe of the clocke fnthe afternoune there swas such a novee in the alre, and nfter such a strang manuer un the oaldest wnn allve never hard the ke, Aud It begune ay follueth Fleat uw it waro one *pece of ordinancy went of alone, Theu ufter that a litell distayes tow more, And then they wenl as thike ns ever 1 liard a valic of shote, tu ull 1wy Life, aud affer thatay i( 1t wero the aotnd of a drone, (o the Amasment of nwe, your Mother unda bundred more hesides yet this was not nll, but ua jt s 1e- ‘mrx-:d There fell dluersstoucs, but tow s asrtaine uonr knowledze, The one fell ut Chalows, huif anlleof, and the other at Hukine, 6 mile wf, Your motlier wax ut the place whore one of tham fell knee decpe t] L came to the very rocke, wud when I cawe at the hard rocke it brake, und belng wnfcd all the pracenes togetner, they wased six aml twenty pound; the other thul was takeu up In the other place wayed bulf atod 14 pound. Now letthe Athles {Albeiet] (Conslder thin, that oll thingg come by nutury) sland awased at this wurke uf the Lord, BIRDS AND TELEGRAPH-WIRES Dr. Flliott Cones calls atteution, n the Naturalist, to the fact, thus far scarcely noted hy ornitholoilsts, ot the iinmense destruction of birds by telegrapb-wires. During & recent lorsehack juurney of 110 wiles friin Denver Cheyenne, nlong the routs folluwed by the tele. graph, he discovered the havoe wiich the lines ure working by thrusting au unsuspected bin- pedimunt {n the way of birds sweeping i heud- long tilzht through the wir, His puth lay over astreteh of rolllng prulrle, un which horned lurks (Eremophila) wud Muccawn's buntiog (lectrophanes Maceownti) were most abundunt. Flocks of the firat species were wltiost cunitine ually inaight, Almost lmmedlately [Ue relates) npon riding by the teleuraph-wlire, 1 noticed & dead lack; and, as I passed severs! mdra tn quick succeasion, my atteution vwas sronsed. - The pusition of the dead birds enabled we 1o trace causs and eifect, before 1 actually whiucssed a caww of the ve Lin'found in other lling, The bodles luy, o every instunco, I{ or directly béneath the wire. crippled bird wus " occasionslly seen Hutteriug ony the road. Becomung ntorested in the wat- began to count. aud deslstzd only after ue. tually counting a Aundred tu the coune of oue lion's tereure rrl-llny,—r:prcuullm‘. perhapm, & distanco of threw tmllev, Nor was It long before | saw birls strike the wire, sud fall stunned lo the fruunu: hren such cases were witneused duriug the hour, Onu bird had it wing broku: nuther woe [nckt:d up dylug iv couvalalons from the furce of hu blow, The eycballs of several dead onew § ex- amlned were started from thelr sockets, and the feathers of the forehead were turn off, ludicatinga violent bluw bpon the head; but, fu st casvs, thers was left no outward mark of the futsl futer- nal lnjury. Alungsome particular streiches of wire, where, for whatever resson, binds bad cungregated, the dend ones averaged at least ono o every interval between Lho pules; suwctimed two or three luy to: gether, showlug where o tlock hud pwased by, ol een dochnated. Tho great majority of the birda deuronml consisted of lurks: 1 nottved, pere hapy, balfa dozen Luntiugy, oue neadow-starling CSINATI SAdysismentechs e sk e wrsea: whed teal (Jreryueduls Cardlinenats). Thu proportlon of larks wad proliably due, in the nislu, stmply to thelr preater sbundauee; but 1 presume that their alugularly wayward, impulsive dight wmay tmwve fns creaned thy viek of striking the wires, ‘Chvy wero the unly Lirds [ ssw knocked down; and | nuticed, or fancied | noticed, sume hesitution anl cunfusion in thute tight when tee Nockd crossed the Hlno of ‘the wire, . ‘The rute of destruction which Dy, Cunes ob- served wus probably much fu excess of that ne curriug du other seasons aud fu other parts of the country ; and yat, from hlsaceount; one ma esthuate how yust a nutuber of birds ure aunual- Iy killed by flying wzalost the telegraph-wires, Dr, Cones sets thy vumber at “yuiny hundred thousand,” Thers seeins o remedy for tubs ——— must continue to cxist, and birda, we feur, will not grow wice enouzh t-esvold them, Future generatlons mav learn, huwever, from ('x‘mrlelm: Increased ov péredity, s lly above the wires, and &0 leep uut of thale. way: meantime, nefther trap bor gun wil probe ably work thetn more harm than the net-work of wirca stretehed In inid-air over the fand, loss, as telegraph-lines WREXS AND THEIZ BROODS, P It 1¢ & well-known habit of the male of the houte-wren (Troglodytes Axlon) to build what are called * cock-nests * while the femnle is en- gaged in the process of incubation, He gener- allyselects open and unguarded situations for the sito of his structures, and labors uver thete erectlon with a good desl of fuss and bluster. It has not been heretoforo supposed that thess habltitions scrved any other purpose than to give agreeable employment 1o thelr constrice tlon ta the surplus encreies of A very coerpetic and stirring litle bird, and perhaps, [ so dolng, to direct attentlon from the domieile In whicl Madamao Wren may be at the same tine browt= ing over her complemont of small, speckled eggs. Master Ween, with what scems like an affectation of carcless and happy activity, slnzs over his work as though he would hurat his throat, pouring out a torreut of exultant votus after the deposit of each fresh twiz added to the wall of lils tencment.. It s uoted that his mate mrely joins in this pretentious expenditure of effurt, 1ior fs whic liable to besecn (n the vi- cinity,” 1t I to he Picsumed that she has i soul sbove shams, and, ke other genuine workers, conflues liersell to business that has some pramise in jt. A writer In the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornith- ological Club turnishes some observations on the work of 4 male wren of the varlcty Park- manni, which indicates that possibly there may he more meaning In the purpuse of * cock- nesta’ than the wrens have received eredit for, The writer states that in April, 1878, a pair of birds bullt their first neston th top of ‘s post twelve fect high, As soon as this was nnllm, the male rroncerlod to rear another i a box in the vicnity, The femulo rarely alded him, llmufi-h she wis occaslonally seen nhout the premises, Soon after Lthe second nest was came pleted. the young in the first one were hatched, and demanded assiduous attentfon. Notwith- standing this, the purent birds continued to frequent their second residence, which presently roved to have n party of tenants, Mr, and Mrs. Wren had actually been so diligent and thrifty that vlm%' had w second brood u(g‘gung ones fn nest No. 2, requiriug to be fed before the older unes were ready to be weaned, There were no ather wrens withiln a cirentt of a quarter of a mile, and there scems t Lo no doubt that these were the lawful owners of the two broods. Both purents muet hiave taken part in the dut or 1lnmlmuun, us they did in feeding their ol{- spring. After the first brood of rix took to the wing, they returued wt evening with the mother to thelr neat, to spend the wight there. Mean- while the male watched over the second broomd wloue, proving bis Identity by the uolfin he de- livered un every visit to the west, The second day the matuy Ueparted In chargo of the first brood, and the female thenceforth devoted her self alone to the rearing of the younger party. There were el duys’ difference in tho fedg- Ingof the two bromds,—oue Jesving the nedt Juse 5, and the other June 16, Dr. Brewer relates that he one tine succeeded in dnducing o wren to Iny mem‘;-nvee na pingle season, by withdrawing el gmeen o suc- cession, and leaving acven to bo hatehed, This case is cited us evidence that wrens may be able to support two bruods nt the suie e, BRIEF NOTES. It tsannounced In the Japsnese papere that iron lus been discovered fn the sacred mountain of Koma-aun. Its existenve has beon suspected for many years, but superstition forcbude the natives minimz 1. Operations for working the ore will nuw be Inunediately comnienced, Tha cxplorine party conducted by Messrs, D'Albertis and Ilflrgmve have successfully con- cluded their cxpedition up the Fly River, to New Gutnea. Tlhey ascended 850 miles beyord the polnt reachicd fast year, but were unable to communicate with the'natives alony the river, who were numerous aul hostile. Mr. Hewry Melogs, the extenslve rallroud- contractor and cngincer, whose operations in Peru have beeu notieed {n_these columns, his L‘:cnernuil‘ furnished the French ethuologla:, M. Bur, fucllitfes for exploring the region of Tlalianuco, v Boltvia,which abounds in obje:ts of archcologleal Interest. Mr. Meigex hus ur- ranged to present a full reries of these objucis to the Smithsonian Iustitute. Slgnor Plazzia, who has been quletly pursu researclies ju Central Afelea tor many has mude several Important journeys beyony Khortoum, from which he hus bronght bavk large and varfed collectios In one exped he visited the country of the Ninm-Ninms, where he remafned above two vears; In others, he penetrated the Bugas territory, on the horders of Abyssluniz, and the districts of Mrovll aml Mtesa,—{n oll which be hus nuade careful and minute explorativns. M. Chevreul, the oldest member of the French Academy of Sclences, lately cclebrated the tiftleth anniversary of s union witn the Bo- clety. He is 90 yours of age, and fn vigorohs mental and physical health, M. Matllea, s nmmfiq-lmrlnu. who died in 1875, hnd beld a membership “fn the Academy for flfty-elght years. Othier notuble instances of acadewival ungetity are furnlslied by M. Biot, who “pre- | Aerved his mental powers to the close of his 92 years; and M. Fontauelle, who died in 1743, o Hitle leds 1han 100 years old. ) i THE BUCKWHEAT-CAKE. [Air— Americu,”) My fap-jack, "t of thee, Tlion (hut ngroest with we, Or thee 1eing: Thon that with pork urt frird, ‘Then bottered on une side, With mnnlessfengs thick applied— Thou lusclons thiug$ 0 savory moraci mine! . What taste {8 like to thine, Well-bnttered vne? 1 love to watch thee fry, ‘Ta see Cook tuss they high, And stick thes with a fork to try 1f thou art dune & Hefore the hreak of dawn, Thu Cook, With many a yuws, The batter maken 0 ‘Then, at the breakfaat-bell, Down rush the boys Yell-melL And oll dellghted yell, **0 Buckwlieat-Cakest™ 0 red-faced Cook, to thes Shull loud encomiuma be Forover mory; bl Hown, When our stomacha feel Oppressed by such o meal ' We promisn you that we'l Eul sotnewhnt slowes, And, when onr upirits ries Todwell in Paradise, Our hope is this: A ¥° eons throne our seat, Valr Houris at onr foet, Eternal Buckwheut-Cakes to sy « What greatur blise? Urpx Pank, Dec, TYEMIS e ——— WAIL OF THE SAILOR'S WIFE. Coma back, O my lover! ‘ome butk from the dead; I nlght brimuieth over With vistonu of dreait Yrom st sud gloom, From ruin and rack, Fruwm darkness und doan Uany lover! coule buck Com hack, O my fover| Come back froim e maing 'I'he weird shadows hoye, ‘I'he muons wax and wa: V'he duys druy o yeurs of puin bluck; Tldes ebbund Leurs o O my tover! come bacl Come back, O my lovert Cutnu back § vathi—aiac 'l'l\)llkll’! dully | dles Uy lover! come back, Comn hiack, O my lovart LCuing back froim the cave, Where green seaweeds cover ‘Chy futin, ‘veath the wave; . Vrom wet abeet Lhat folds thee Iu foul temponts’ tiuck, Trou whito death that holds thee, U tuy luver! cumno buck ! MarcoLn Tavres. i THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, 10 the Fditor of Tha Tribune, Cuicauo, Dev. 15.~Thaok you for your asticla of Thursduy, headed “A Word tu the Hot. Heads.” 1ts truths aro trulsws, wod yes thoy have been so overslaughed fu the flood of parths sansbip us to scem quite novel, ss you state then. ‘Those of us who are Republicans bote with pride, aud with rencwid sllegianees to our party.—the party ot Uniot, now a3 ever,—that only Ju the leawling Republican newipapers can welouk for such purcly patriotic uttersticos. Ve would vuther givs up our ehilldl tham have (8 cud [ VETEMAN VOLUNTESK.