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THEE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1877—TWELVE PAGES, LITERATURE. sketches of California Life and Character. Classic Tragedy by Grillparzer and Oriental Poems by Goethe. Bambles and Studies in Grecce--- Potato-Bugs---* Madcap Violet.” Narcisse Virgile Diaz, the Painter---Greek Fig- urines. Migrations of Locusts---The Snowy Owl---Color- Blindness. Photographing Musical Sounds==- New Guinea---Dispersion of Plnnts. LITERATURE. CALIFORNTANS, LIFORN: % varren M, Tismon, Chicago: Jansen, McCiurg & Co, Price, §2. The writer of this book acqutred his knowl- edge of *The Californfans ¥ during a four, yeara' residence in San Franciaco, where lic was engaged a8 an nssistant of Mr. Hubert Banerott, fn the preparation of the history of #The N tivo Races of the Pacltle Stats,” and also as one of the editors of tho Oreriand Monthly. 11l sketchies of the people snd the institutions which most interested him in the Jand of his temporary sojourn embrace tho Plonvers, Span- {sh Callfornfans, Chinese, Reprobates, Woman. Men, Politiclans, Writers, and Revivalists, to which last hie applies the German word, Mackers. These subjects are treated in o cautlous, eair- teous, canty manner, with agood deal of digres- slon to remote yet Kindred toples, aml no very profound probingaanywhere beneath the surfac The chanter on the Chinese, without distinetly committing the writer to any decided opinlons, betrrys nsuspielon that Amerles, in admitting the Ie freely to hier domaln, Is opening hier doors to a wolt that will one day turn and send her. Therg are but about 80,000,000 of white men [n tins Unlted States, and hardly less than Al 4000 yellow men In China. It the tide of tmmlferation that has turned toward the Pacitie }rs coutinue to increase, it would be an casy 0 ter, so reasons Mr, Fisher, for Ameriea to befinundated by hordes from the Astatie const ““whose loss would not be felt by the hordes e beldnd. It i not & ehcerful ‘prospect which his al hypothieses suggest. “The cloinds are black ‘over California,” he writes, townrds Hong Koog., The siien muy be auspiciouss buty at leust, It does not su appear to those {mmediately under it Possibly 1t Is & fentfliziog rain: possl- Vly, on the other. haud, 1t i8 the utze, It baw been sald that the immedinte evils counceted with the new Mongollan movement are the same as those caused by the introduc tlon of any metal or wooden libor-saving ma- chine, But there Is a certaln gray matter in every Chiness skull not found fuany power- lvoni or steam-press, No known edgine, or mere wheel and axle, has s habit of dismissing its englncers, runabug alone, nnd pocketing its profits. Between a ducl with the most com- plete of automatic targets, and a duel with a ma, thern always remains th difference thut the turget caniot holdapistol, o . . Tt s certain that the Chinese, if encournzed, will thuroughly deviop the resources of Callfornla. Tt s ulso certaln that nothing quite so anazing- 1y develops the resources ol the hedge-sparruw’s nest a8 a cuckoo.” In ulkeussing thoe “Tollticlans* of Calfornla, Mr. Fisher talks fearlessly of the erlls und frauds that arise from universal sulfenge, and from mechanical rotation inollice. s strlot- ures are not undeacrved, and, 04 he declares at the outset, ho toes not “1n u siugle point speak withuut book.” ‘Tho chapter on ** Writers® discloses the co-uperatinz method by which Baneroft's lils- tory of “The Native Ruves of tho Pacliie Btates ' was composed, In a great room In the 1ifth story of a bloci {n the centre of San Frun- clreo, 8 company of students, including, with othere, a Bpanlard, a German, an Englisbman, and a New-Euglander, worked tozether under the supervision of the historiun, The walls en- elreling them were lined with books and files of Journals fu muny lungooges. The chief ol the stafl, the origindtor of the scheme, whose fa. dustry und persistent resolution had sssembled these trensures of aborfeinal hintur{ about biin, is described as “u tal), sanarely-cut tan, of or 40, us one showld judge, Lat already with the shadow of a student’s stoop In the'shoul- ders, that uu\v pert o quict bead, with thin, re- finesd foce, flf elin, bl nose, Tull, large ray cyer, and Jongink, wavy halr, now slinost frou. gray—u brave, paticnt, hard-reading e, Wholly unseryile. "Flié msuner of proceeding in the constyuetfon of the histary was ux foflows: * A giver (v of n_given sithject coting under consuleration Mr. Baneroft, aud wauio one o two in particular of his ussiatants, st themselves to thoroughly master ull that the library contabied In that ¢on- nectlon, Much of the usslstants' Le being swallowed upin the search for material, Sy, Bancroft was the freee to dispose of that ma- terful as it wus bronght under his notiee, and was thusable to divide bis attentfon Letween Ttwo or more sublecty, and two or mage sels of asslstants, ot the smne thue. He framed (he skeleton of every chapter; the wssistant filled up theoutliness Mr. Hancruft then molded the wiiole, after the Lushion of bis hudanent and his art, into ita tinal and perfected shape, While this Was solng, oy ut least, when the proofs came up from the printer, every one had a worl 1o say. ‘The proofs went from tuble 1o table. That ~ man - was happlest and most bighly wsteemed who [ conld puint out most” flaws i the Work submitted to him, or In_ hls ngehbor's crlticsms of that work. Nopet thedr might very easlly hope to escape exmmnmation, Darke Spanfsh eyes, Citholii to thelr Tast ahad- 0w, were strafuid o detect any sly gestun: or tone thut might ninlwize the Fespeet or credit due to the Ioly Coureh. Stowly shaking the Thilister ott of Lls tong plpe, an ex-Prince of the Burschen hronghit his destructive bear on the matter from tather o diferent paint of view. Wi there, ietsin, too muh enth asmy 100 much of wdental, 4t hatred eynz from - Neo 2 toached ihe paragraph : und there with the poiut of his dry hunor; ft collapsed flke asensitive suail, Nothing was taken for granteds evidence was everywhere fusisted upou, Quict mueceh, few Words,—clapter wid verse of every anthonity cited and shown by every adve replivd to by objections with a merciless amilysis of the con- ditions under which th v ouoted produced the said chapter ady nbatantiute the n trivial We tiked to think this was how history should be written.'? odoubtiul fact, 1OL BAPPHIO. A Traczny 1x Five Acte. 1y Fra Guupanzen, Vranshated by ELLES Friomy uate Ihui., ppe 1650 Besiou: Rode Chivage: Jaw Mctlurg & o, 0 WENTEASTERLY DIV lated, with Introduction sud Nol Wetsw, Square 1o, gp. =04 erts liron. Uhicsgos dabaen, 3 Pelce, $1. A ¥ THE S0 1 Selveted the Editor of **Quict Hyurs.™ ' 1Nmo., pp. 12 Hoston: Roberts Bros. Chicagos Janseu, 3 Clurg & Co. I'rite, S0 cents. The name of Franz Grillparzer, the German dramutist, 18 now for the first tme heard by most American readers, Not until dose to the thme of bis death In 1872, ut the ageof 31, dil Lis own countrymen appreclate bis merlt aud alguify thelr respect and regard for biw. Then, on a festal duy celebrated cspacially bn his hous or, deputations met in the lurgest hali in Vien- na, the ¢ity of his birth, und presenteid the aged poct with laurcl crowns and gifts of substantisl value, sccompanied with speechcs and verses filled with encomiums. . Wheu, a yearlater, the poct was borne to his grave, all the city pave tokens of wnourning as fur ong of the great ones of tho carth. 4 The fret of Oriliparzes's dramas was pro- duced n 1817, whea Its author had reached tho * azo of 20 It was followed, fa tho succeeding year, by " Sapphio,” and, at Intervals of threo Fears, by alx ofher piays, the st of which ai- Wearid S 1554, Toe prouds sensitive nafure o the wnan it beess wo Juet, by the wortd'a ke that he jave thereafter monoro plays to the publie, nlthough nhe left three In manuseript at Iis denth, Suyeral of the earlicr ones atill hold e stage In Germang, aod *Sappho” 18 amange them. “I'he fatlicr of Griliparzer_lost his property fn the tronblous times of Napoleon's invarlon of Ausira, and bis death entafled upon Franz, a youth of 1, the partial support of his mother and three young prothers. The followlng pas- sage from his memofr by -‘Ih’ns Frothingham Al tel remainder of lix ator il tell e el 8 Nifedong attuchment to Catharina Frohlich: but waut of means, and periaps prodiaritics of disposition on_ ot sides, prevented thelr marrying, Tha lust few Years of hix Dlie he Hved Tieae ierdn modest ooure, which the three ajsters Frohlich fitted T for N, wdjointue their owa, in the fourth atory of a honge dn the Spiegelcsse, Here he en for the st thne, something like the eotpantonship of home. The sisters eared for Dita when the infirmities of uze came o, sl Tont harits was witls hitn ot his death,” it trnszedy of *Sappho™ re-cnacts I a viekd manner the popular teadition of the unhap- ¥ pansion of the sweet singer of Mytilene, hie livat act presazes the soprowful finale, and, through tise remaining four, the wail of o wom- an's angulsh over fove wid trust betrayed sounds continuaily in the ear. The young and gaileless wirl, who zalns ti® heart of Sappho's tarthless Tover, forms a pleasant contrast to lier fmpertous, finpuastoned nistressy but t| toleeation for the weakness aud Aekleness of Ihaon. who so lightly casts off his allegiance to Snpplo at he first sight of o 1oure youthful and Inenuons fae 1t wax in 1515 that Goethe became acquainted throngh n translation, with the Peraiun 1laliz Thespiclt of the Kastery puet so dculrlylumn'u- e him that for a time It amounted “almost to 3 possession, s he gratltivd Ttmaelf with imitatfons and translations of the rungg he so mueh admir At the end of that thue Goothe published a * Divan,” which owel Ao much of 82 iMsptration to the * Divan ™ of the Oriental bard,—which, ndeed, was so fmhued with the atmosnbere canght from the latter worlt,—that be gave it very properly the descrip- ve desienatlon of the **\Westenaterly Divan,'* he Bssue of the buok imparted o strong fn- petus to the study of Ordental llierature in Germany, and seholurs and- poeta have siuce la- bored diligently to transfer s riches to the rus- tody ol their own Ltnguage, The poetus which 1 Goethe's @ Divan® are divided Into twelve boaks, bearing e titles harmonlzing with thelr thems, They are furnished with botes, . vortion of whichy with some additions and al- terations to suit o Jater time aml foreign pub- liey have Iuen geprodueed by the translator. The stencture of the orlgingl” verses has been strictly preserved In the present verson, and the rhyming and rhiythm remain unchanzed. The pleves are, whmost without exception, short. poctical Iragments and trilles we might call them, contuining oftenese an fsolated thought or solitary faney, A gool instance of thelr terse Lrevity vcears in the followlng: « oy What Al\m!‘ tine for me? Activity! What lenethens evers tenso? Indolence! What{flux, in arreatat Vuitine amd fears! Whenge profi< spring short wavering! What hrins desert? Yuursell aynert! The Nttle colleciion of poemns styled Bun- shine fn the Soul” has many gein devo- tional some seattered ”""""‘i" it The hymn, “ How atitul to be abve, by Sutton,” and the seleetions from Holime, are among the muat notable for treshness and fervor. nE RAMDLES AND STUDIES F. Manarry, Author of S IN GREECE. “isoelal Life in Ore 21, Londont dunsen, McClurg n Iitan & Co. Price, €2, Prof, Mubafly had occupled himself for years with a study of thelife of the snclent Greeks before he et fout on the svil which gave them birth, and he was, therctore, well prepared to examine Intellfgently and critfenliy eviry site and relivof the pust glory of the natlon which stil) exiets and cau be kdentifled, The lay of the land, and the hstory of every locality, were so » when his eve firat fetl upon cacly promontory, and plain, and mounty and vale, Lie wea able to recoznlze every feature, and recatl cvery assoclation that hnd made i famous. Hls rambles through Greece veem to have interested b more In the opportunity they offere] of adding ta the knowledee of the Girceks of tho past than of the present day s and his buok s ehfefly devoted to an Inveatiization of the remains of the most fruitful centuries of thelr renown. Prof, Maliafty has not that elevated notlon of the character of the aucient Greeks which s ecuerally popular, A Jome and ecareful sur- vey,” he remarks, “of the extant lterature of ancient Greece has couvineed me that the plet- ures usuady drawn of the ol Gresks ure Kleal- fzed, and that the real people were of ve different—If you please, of wmuch Jower—type, What 8 very renarkable and worth. quoting in confirmation of my judiemient is this, that fitel- Higent people at Athens, who lud read my opinions tornierly hazarded upon the subject, were #0 ktrick With the close resemblance of plitnres of the old Greeks to the present Y my m{rlllll.mln, that they concluded 1 must huve opin- vinlted the country Before writing thes fong, and that T wus, In toct, drawlng th feal people from the hife ofsthe maderns. opinon of Prof, Mahally is fortliied by that of M E. About, as expressed fu bis Crece Con- temporasre. According to these writers. the u acteristivs of the Greeks huve ex chanre to the present generat ‘The beanty of the men, especially of the youny men, fs AL a thing fo be warked, and fs muc superior tothat of the women. A8 i consequence, thes wen are valn of thelr appearanee, and eareful toset it ol to advantage, It i o and not the wirttien, who wear stays, und * may see Hny day at Athens a dandy o piuched at” the walst as taremind one of the Wuap of Ars- tophanes, With thelr vanity 18 Imfmln Intetligence, rreat reu:onsblencss, sl un treme uptiess for all futellectusl processes, Llielr Inwtinetive Tove of Hberty aud equality fins never been subidued, i, even white under the Ish domlnation, the indomitable feeling fuund pergetunl expression, The Mainates, for exatnple, would not perinlt a Turkish nagls trate to dweld amoni themn, lut *handed to a trembling tav-collector & little pugee of gold- lm- 4y hung on the end of a nakedSword," It s from the Ureek Jealousy of any pretension tn superiority umope themselves that they subtnit Lo the ritle of u furcign monarch, One of their own ried would never be suffered to occupy u pluce of sueh clevation shove the rest. A arecord of travel, Prof, Maliatfy's book 1s ratherdry, 1t fs wanting fu'the animation of meldent, und oo grah tion which brings _the 1esder's Vislon,© The suthor's « the art of the Grecks are valuable both extensive knowh re aud reflec mitanee, i epeaking of the Dby Asayrian style upon the archale s Girece, e bagn: bW, Tilke 1l tlier pe mid AN EOuR to borrow from others. Lk olten repeated, because it {s usually fenored, :.Jlulfl._lllunmst original gt to Know how to rrow 3 il that those mt']v who feel wanthz In wrlzinatity ure anxious tonssert ft. Thus the Rumaus, whio borrowed without nsshnllatimg, fonul char- ricneed Hitle ¢ power of deserip. seene clearly within the Iptures of “We know that the Grecks, ple of genius, were ever ready It showid nre ulwavs mwsgrting heir orlsiality e ulwiay 2 their orlsinality; the Greckt, Wi borsiwedimore aud hettery Beeatine made what they borrowed th Vi na ed thelr own, SVErCarea e o 50 One of the most futerest- [u::l("ll.ix\lt‘l': in the book s the closing vue, which treals of CGreek musfe and paliting, A number of rood engraying. i seuiptures fllustiate e feg, O tbies sl POTATO-BUGS, A lLLUsTRATED Ace phatAbn PoTavo-BiETLE ANn i 08 0P TUL PoTaTa 1N NonTit AT SUuanaTioNy roi Tikin He- VhLantaN, AN METUDUN PoR THEI DEstitis 7w,y Cuanies V. Kiey, 3 P, 1, tate Entomolozist of Missourl) W Yorki Uranze Judd & Co.® (Nieag Metlarg & o, Frice, 50 conta, b ‘The itle of thls work poluts ous its value to he great class of Amerlcan agriculturists, 1t L written by one of tho ablest entomologists g onr coutitry, who hus for yeurs made a particd- Lar study of the foseci-foes of our vegetation, wnd s here gathered all the Informatinn con, «erufng the habits of the potato-beetls which is known to himself and others who have mado ohservations in the umu'dlrm;llon. 1t s possi- Ule for the ravages of the potatobeetle to bo stuyed, but only by the intelligent aud combinea efforts of the farmers throughout the Jand, This lttle pamphlct shows bow the work nay b uecomplishied In the quickest and most effect- fve marner. 1ts cost Is tritdug, but the worth of its advice {5 (uestimable. It has taken the potato-beetle just fifteen years to travel from Its native Ylaw in the fu- terlor plains to the Atlantic coast, Yu 1859, Dy, Rliey tadls us. i POTATO-PRE LOUNT 0F Ti6: Cotog [N ES Avpnies, wes observed ut s yalat 100 west of Omana, Two years late wiled Towncand {nthree o “tene $o st 10 the Canfern bontelari o uf that State, In GG T grogeed the Misti sipot, wnd enter- e Nlinota o8 varions polnts alongn steerel of 200 miles. Tn 1597 1t rea-hed Indinnas in 1304 1t mnde e way fnto Ohlo: fn 1871 it was found the horders of New York and Pennavivaniag and two years therenfter hnd prahed to the east- 0t limits of thes former State, In 1974 itan- I A on the Atlantic seaboard, and wasrrport. sl fn Connectient, New Jersey, Detaware, Marg- Tnod, and Virginin, Four yeats earlier, it il en- tered Canndn, and very acon overran the entire provinee. Therouthern line of the vast ariny moyv- ed more Mowly, ns the greater heat and the dejer poll offerer fnpediments 10 114 progrese, Tty rate of advance eastward has been about eighty- elght mies snnually, but this haa been by no means unlforsn, I the Larva state the Insect s alugglah, 1 never leaves the on which 1t was hatehied, unlase for foud € [t hus performed 1ts journeyings fn the perfect or Deetle state either by “flight, or by elnge trans- ported by anan agencey, 18 capahle of trav- eling long ditances by water, floating on the surfice, borte on#hips, chips, boanls, or any other ohjcct ekimming over the waves. In this way it has crossed the browl rivers and lakes in ey &mnx. and spr third of the ares of the United St 1ow to deal with an eneiay th tablishe:d Staell within our borders the entome ogist who has posscssed himaelf of =1l the facts up 1o this thme dizcovered in it history plainly and (;xu]h:l(ly teaches fa this exhaustive mono- graph. LAMARTIL MOTIIER, MY MOTHER'S MANUSCII” Brixe A Trrr PTUnE uP Tk PavaTe Lire oF A Farsc FAWILY Duming MaNY or Titk: Moar Evexrrot, Pruons ur Titr NiNeTEENTH CRSTURY. With Annotatlons, 1Y and ALrisssr DE LAMARTINE, French by Mawia Loviar Tinneen, 12m0 270, Philadelphia: J. incott & C cagat Jansen, Mcllnrg & Ce Price, $1 At his death in 156 Lamartine left the manuseript of the above-named volume in the hands of his publisher, who had purchased it suine years previously, with the understanding that It was not to appeur during thy 1ifetime of the poet, It was printed In France in 1871, and was soon after transiated Into Spaulsh, and later fnto English by Lady Herbert. The present verslon, which hae heen carcefully made, renders thie work accessible this sids of the Atlantic, ‘The buok presents the diary of Mra. Alico de Lamartiue, edited and revised by her sun Al- phouse. The portrait which 1t gives Is that of a heautlful, retined, saintly womnan, whose life was wholly cousecrated to her family and her veligion. ller mother was an under- governess of the children of the Duke of Orlcans, and she was burn In the palaco of 8t. Cloud, and_grew to the age of 16 in the hourehold wnd compantonshipof King Louis Phllippe, whose lessons aml pasth Bhe ta- miltarly shared, She L on the of the Revolutlon, ta the Chevalier de Lamar- tine, @ man nearly twenty years her senfor. Her husvand was a Captain ol cavalry, sndone of the defenders of the Tuilerics avafnet the midojzht assnult of the mmoh who sought to murder Louis XV aud Marie Autlonette {n their sleep. as inprisoned, with bis gged pureats, twa brothers, utel two sisters who were nuns, on ac- wunt of his loyulty to the King, and for clzhtcen months endured captivity with the }h“l]'y expectutlon of its termination vo the guil- otine, is young wife, with her Infant son Alphonse, was left wlone during this weary perbod, (o the family mansion, which was closely grunnled by senthicls, Her dwelling was situnted just acroes the street from the prison contining ler hua. and, aud from the window {n tlie upper storics the unhappy couple coutd s nnd comn with ench_other. Certalu hours of every day were spent I teansmitting messazes by sign- languuue, or by letters attached 1o anarrow, which Madame Lomartitie shot through the bars of her busbawd's prison. "Fhe (il of ‘Thermidor et all eaptives treeSand the rennited famlly of Lamnartine retired to the ltile estate of Milly, near Macot, %0 miles from Paris, where the ereater part of the rematnder of thelr days were spent. s Chevaller de Lamartiie was a younger son, and but a small portion of the handsome prop- erty left by his parents desvended directly to him. It was theretore in o atraltened eircain- stances that Iis wife uud six children were for many years compelled to dve. Madame De Lumartine, who had been bred in Juxury, con- tormed to e necesitles of lier sltuation with excmplary sweotniess, Jler uniou with lier hus- tand was a singularly happy one, aud her devo- ton to her ehitdeen was enroseigg, An nrdent, unselllsh, and senthneotal nagure Tound express sfon in o continual flow of intense affectton tuward the members of her famity, und dn the serupalous performance of the dutfes prescritied by her religion, 1t was from this mother that the poet Lamartine received the ruonance, the enthusdasoy, the ation, which made him o poet and unfitted ot feak nifades, ‘The tdlary of Madam amartine is inter- cating us un exposition of tie custy o g lu the cultivated hotses of Fravee, and like. wike for the lght which it throws upon the claracter of her distinrulshed sotn s confes- slons are unrestrained, and fully reveal the unnfetlvs, the solaces, the joys, and the carvs whicl nuitate the mother n o country where e more domestie responaihility sed to de- valye upou her than in our own. Lpilogner. Iy Translated from the BLACK'S ¢ MADCAP VIOL MADCAP VIOLET, A Novit, Hy HiAck, Author of **A Prin of Thu 17mo., pp. 42U, New York: larper Chicago: donaen, MeClurg & Co. Friee The first half of this novel is quite engaging. ‘The berawne, whose predominating tendencles are suggested by the title given her, captivates us by her plqoant frankness and Independence, and wo forgive her wayward freaks and pranks for the sako of her real nobilicy of disposition. Her adventures, which contlnually play atiout the perilows verze of fatal fmpropricty, skill- tully excape rulnous dieaster, though disquict- fnig the mind with constant tremors of alarm. There s a deligntiul unworldiiness, too, in her owa alins und netlons, as in thoee of hor chlerly friend und mentor—deitined to be - her lover,— which diffuses an clevating intluence round about the ramance, TLtd {s one of the churms of Mr, Blaek's beet characterizations, — Investing them with o sincere and - sleads fuat unscliishness, whose lofty beauty makes it- self felt by the most nacrow-minded tune servere ativating erace of Shel “The Princess of ‘Thule,” and, with less con. cuons expression, I8 the loveliest tralt of Madeyp Violet, 1n thie evalution of a plot Mr. Black las not the power e dsplays in portraiture, and his ‘weskness in that respect [s Tunentably munifest {u the present work, ‘The reauer, who s been azrevably hured un to the puint where Violet nid Mr, Druinmond declore thelr matual regard, s thenceforth frrituted with the Ussue of linprob- and distressing cirenmstances in which thie % are entangivd, Toere §s an friesistible deslre to dlspose, with & eull on the ears, of the meddlesome, mole-eyed Mrs. Warrener, who nmost gratuitously creates thie misnnderstanding which #t once deatroys the happinessof the chlef persunuges and the guceess ol the book s whilen reaction’ of feeling seta in against Violet, who secures the death of Mr. Drummond anl her own Insanity by attempling to carey out u plan that wus absurily unreasonable and inhunun. It way .l’rllllnl and unnatural departure from Violet's habit of driving direct to the heart of an fasue and solving Its mystenes, tor her to hide herself from tier fricnds, leaving theu to mourn bier ws dead. A woman with the reao- lution to berstst in such a purpose should have tho wisdom not to undertake it, and it shocks our_preconcelved ophilon of ber to find that Violet lias 60 imuch of the one admirable quality uud so Jittle of the other. PLUT L1} PLUTARCI'S LIVES OF ILL] Corrected frou the Gr and Hevlsed by AL AL Crovun, Somettme Fetlow and Tater “of Uricl College, Oxtord, and Late Professor of the K #lieh Langnage and Literature at Vnive nhl ! ittle, VES, STRIOUS MEN. leve, Lond Evo., pp. 87, Buston hown & Co, Chicagus Junsen, McClurg & Co, 'rice, §4. The texs of “Plutarch’s Lives,” which was publisbed by Little, Brown & Co. in tive vol- wmes, elghteen years sgo, §s herewlth presented fn a singie vctwvo, In this compact sud less costly form, the charming blographies of the humble citlzen of anclent Charones, which bave made his fame a4 fmumortal as that of the muost lustrions Athenfan, will buve a senewed cicu- latlon. Hls §s one of the few books whiclh should furws the foundation of cvery lurary. BOOKS RECEIVED » i TIE LAND AND THE LIFE: Skercuxs awn Auksiink, Ly Atsens Zususxie tor of **St. Philip's Church in tho fquaro 12mo. Jorks Apean D. K. Mtsadoluh ansen, McClurg & rice, §1.50. AREINS LABUR-SAVING SVSTEM OF AC- co Witit CoMPLETS INsTHUCTIONS IN BookkEeviNg, PLESENTEL 30 PLAISLY TUAT Brepexta Mav, BY Turik Owx Evronts, Us- cOME COMPLETE MA®TAUS OF TUk BCIENCE. Ly W, C. M. Banew. Byo., pp. 100, Columbus, U, ELEMENTS OF PHYSICS; ok, Nattust P Losos By Nsit AwNorr, ¥. D., LL. 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The ensulng record of a negro plot occurs o the accounte of the City of New York: Catty of New York to ity Cash, hr, May Sth. 1711 . £46.10 Fora W that summe to Fraurlsy Harrison, Hy borers, Firewood und other 3 for the executlon of the ves for urthier by them com itted tn The Tribune dimanac and Politieal Reqister for 1877 has made it spoearance, The Almanac, winong uther features, contains & complets rec ont of the Electoral and popular vote jor Presi- dent from the beginning of the Government up 1o und el ¢ 1530, with notes of the uctlon of the two Houses ou L oceaston of the declars otlon of the vote. ‘There will ulea e found n It the varfous votes cast n the disputed States of Florkda, Loulslana, and South Carolina, se- cording to the % face of the returus,” to the wetion of the Returning Boards, und to reconnta where lade afteeward utider order of courts. The Almanac was edited by the Hon Edward MePherson, the old Clerk of “the House of Rep- Tra . It contalng 144 pages, and its price 13 25 cents, FAMILIAR TALK, DIAZ, TILE PAINTER, Narclsso Virgile Dlaz, the news of whoso death sped around the world Jast November, was born at Hordeaux,®Aug. 20, 1807, [lls pa- reuts were exiles from Spain, and dicd while he was still very younz, A Protestant clergymun living near Parls took charge of the orplian and apprenticed him to s puinter on poreelain, Mo had no opportunities for cducation, ond his early lfo was spent In poverty and toll, Ills history as an artist repeats the usual experience of strugieles with duticaltics und dlscournge- mette, nid a resolute persistence In battllng with them until victory had been won, The power of Diaz lay in his wari, true fecl- ing for color, and be was une of the most brill- fant of that school of Freuch patunters who excel in tint rather than in form, Correzgio aud Pradion were his favoritu tnasters, snd he studicd them until he had caucht tie seeret of their successes, and oftentiues was pble to Interpret the mystery on his own canvaecs.t His early sketches, palot- ed fn the ardor of youtl, give magniticent exawples of color, and are now estecined by cullectors as the most precious of hls works. “Later on," says a critle In the dcademny, “after a jowrney in the East,—which dld not teach him much, for be had an essential aptl- tude for collecting withiu him all tho elements of his work,—he bezan to bestow luss palnsonthe tlesh, and more on the silk dresses, His brush and alette might have been compared fn thoss days 0 u fufry waud, which trausforms stoues fnio cieralds, rubics, aud sapphires. Spangles that stine like the wlugs of Brazilian butterilies ghit- ter on the yeots und petticoats of 1le gypsics who are reading tho ladics’ furtunes fu the palms of thelr hands, of the Turkish cblidren at play with tortolses, of the Odalisquce telling cach picture e of his are (ol He Yl e triors poazion it bz o Lt el the it B tine senins pf Dias bad not been thorinns - 15 achooled, and fie was Tucking in_ the ssaential knowledge of drawing. The eritles would st vardon thie shorfeoming, iowever great war his superiority fn other dircetfons, and, stune by thelr assertion that be could not plnt o large fzure, he unwiscly venturdl upon that whi-h wan jndead impossitde to him, T 1995 he ex- hibited an fnmense canvasentitled Lex Jer Larmes, and his frionds had the morti witneseing hile fallure. The pleture re want. of elcmentary trafning in drawlng: for, in truth, -‘any stugil pupil of the sehool of Rotoe, without gentus and without ortzinality, kuew more in that respect than he did.” Asalandseape-quinter Diazdeservadly rankea bizh, “Thonel his efforts in that direction,” rayr the eritic to whem we are fnidebted miterinle of this sketeh, *<how neither oy of & Thendore Boig-rait nor the tended # Cort, Lie hing stamped the sites le sel th u singnlar individunlk He was, partlen- Jarly, the patnter of the Forestof Fontu'nehleau. He Tiss represented 6 silent and eoquettish, rs was to {ts Jovers, e has represented, anfneredible Intensily of e and light, the efte t of the sun whinting thronsh the green, stefhmge on the silver trunk of a birchs or streaming Across the heather-gldes, e dittle studies upou panel, which Lie sold 25 franes aplees, are wasterpicees, and the firmmeas and Lrilifuney of : y are celebirated i our etudine, and are only 1o be found i the possession of onr artists” Diaz hought many of these wketelies tmek aiain, alter he bad acquired fame, amd was then able to seli them for K0 or 1.00) franes cach In his Jatter yrars his smallest pictures hrouzht very high prices. At his desth he left a congiderable number of drawinge, pastels, water and budy color and afl-sketelics, and thuse are to be sold dusing the present winter. Diaz had the dark complexion and the molile countenance fndicative of his natbonality, His taassive, curling hair was of that tint. of black which has a slade of blue fu certaln lightsi nis beard was of the game dark hue: and his farg ashing, black eves wero now gantle, ne severe, in thelr expression, When a bo; loat his right leg through inflammatic the bi uf somné noxivus fusects but this did not intesfere with his activity, ur prevent his danclogz, shouting, or riding on horseback, Y e loved Mfe, tlne stufls, horsns, pleasunt campany, the country, rare furniture, and ks family too, very much, e Jost, ten years urzo, noson he worshiped, who was n painter smd wrobe pretty verseso ile cannat be sl to have got over” this loxs, and the Jeast allusion to {t woved him to tears, He Teaves another ron.a falented musicisn nnd composer OF Lt Coune du Lof de Thule, an opera which has bevn represented on the stage,” lie also left a youne und charining bride, to whom hie Baat been married but tyo weeks, s death accurred at Mentone, whither he had gone to enjoy the honeymuun, GREEK ¥ "RINES, Very intereating examples of ancient Greek art have been found in the cemeteries at Cyrene, Megara, Cindus, and Tanagra,—tnavy of which are now preseeved in the museums of Europe. ‘These consist of miniature Azures in terra-cotta. often skillfully modeled and richly colored. Prof, MabafTy tells us that ¢ these fixurines are onlinarily from sleht to twelve tuches higi, and tepresent ladies both sitting and standing in graceful attitudes, young tnen o pastoral fite, und other such subjects, . o . I saw severnl collcetions of there figures on cuploards and in cabinets lo private houses at Athens, and was preatly struck with the marvelons modernness of thelr appeatance. The gracetul deapery of the ladies especlally very like modern dresa, and they had often on thelr heads flat round huts quite stmilar in design to the gypsy hats much worn minongg us of late years, But, ahove all, the halr was drawn back from the forehead, nat at all in what is conaidered (ireck style, hut rather a la Eugeaie, a8 we used to gay when we were yoiie, Many hold i their hands la funs, like those which we muke ol peaco feathers," It {s suppored that these images were nsed :lu: belonz, but the tays by children, and perhaps as ornament<, 1s ot Tnown to what azze th tombs i which they have p found are not Iater thian the second century hefore Chrlst, v Weseenm, ' gavs Prof. Mahally, * necessurily thrown back Bito classical daya for the orlgin of these Higures, which i ot euluring— pink and biueinthe dresses,often glided frinces: the ludr olways fair, so faras 1 could see are, indeed, line witat we know of ald Greek but fu other respects arc,as I have sand, surprsingly moder. 10 thelr an be strctly demonstrated, it wilt another case o the versatility of the in atl things relating to art: how, with tne slmpleat mutersal, and at a fong trom the great art centees, they produ ufexceeding grace and el ¥ o to their great old models, vary tudve—every polnt of gpyle—{rom ordinary tireek seulpture, and antielpdtiog nineh of the nodern ideals of leanty and elezance.” “The Government of Grecee has forblidden the sale of thene thzures by the workmen who i them in making excavutions; heonee their price I risen enormonsly. They cannot be pur- chused at Athens tor less than trom £20 10 £400 each. At Tunagra,n plave ditlicult for travelers Lo reach, they may probubly be secre Iy procured for mneh” smaller s, from p sous who have concealed them for private sale. LAMARTINE, In the notes nccompanyinz his mother's dlary, Lanartine cltes the foltowing Incklent in (lustration of the strenzth of conjuial and parental love: “1 remember having ous day seen abranch of s willow separated from fts trank by the storm, snd floating down the curs rent of the Laone. A female uightingale, gov- srued by motherly fnstinets sud devotlon, xat yet on the swimming nest, adrift In th foam of the river, whils the male, ying excitedly and affectionately, followed s tuve on the wreck,” In the samo work from which the above pasrage §8 taken, Lausurtine comments upon the sorruwful circumstances that surrounded his in- faucy, hintlg that the wclancholy which throueh life tinged his disposition was u nufural result of the ssddening influences of the Rev- otutfon that threw their durk shadow upon his crudle. % Con any one wonder,’ he remuarks, s that the men whose lves date from those ain- fster days have brought with then tato the world a predi=position tu sadness: or thut this ielancholy liself hus, of late, come to he Tarzely fntermingled with Freuct wentus Virsil, Cleerd, Tibultus, and Horawe slso, who - pressed upou Rowan genlis tha ' distinetive ynalities of jufelivity and solemunty, were they not burn during tie great eivil wars of Ko, and witiln xound of the shocking proscriptions of Marfus, of Sylla, wnd of Casart Let us think for a moment, and without prudery, of the {mpresslons of terror and of plity that con- vubsed the fraties of the war-oppressed Roman mothers whilst they bors those tuch, o8 cm- bryos, fu ther womb vy vt us think also, huwever vaguely or dre: of the nnik, nlttered with tears, which, s an fnfant, 1 self took frowm tny mother, whilst the whole family were fna captivity which promised retief ouly o deatly whilst, fndeed, the loving and lon-hearted husband, whom she adored, was upon the very steps of the scatlold, and ohe herself a captive ma lonely house, guarded by maliclous solillers, who, counting ber tears as s0 any crlines srainst themselves and theie masters, scrupled ot 10 insull her great griet." ANTIQUE ITEMS, From the interesting department of ¢ Notes and Quurlen* in the Magazine of Jmerican His- tery we borrow the following ltems: The Amcriean Weekly Mercury, Philadelphia, April 1, 17 #On Monday Jast two Whales, suppos'd to be a Cow and u Calf, were seen to spaut amd play before this clty, severnl Boata went after them but could not hinder theie eacuping.” The first book published in North Caroling was o yolume of laws printed by Jumes Davis, of Newbern, with the followiuge titl “A ] Colleetfon Lot | Al the Public | Acts of A sembly, § of | the Province of | North Caroline: ) now in Forew and Uses | Together with the Titles of ull such Luws a8 ure Obsulete, Ex | pird, or_Repeaf'd. 1 And also, an exact Table of the Titles of the Acts fn Force. | Bevised by Commdsstoners appointed Ly an Act of the Genersl As §aembly of the said Provinee, for that. Purpose: and Examined with the | Ko ords, and contirned o Full Assembly, | New- bern: Priuted by Juimes Davies, M, DCC. LLY SPARKS OF SCIENCR. LOCUST-)MIGRATIONS, The American Nolurclst coutains some lm- portant remarks upon the migrations of the locust, which are founded ot a report upon this aud other destructive fnseets fucluded in May- den’s Aunuat Report of the Unlted States Geo- Togical and Geographlcal Survey of the Territorics for 1875. From theobservationsalready collected, naturalists bave adopted the theory that the im- mediate causoof themigratloas of the lucust from lace (s the unusual abon pecier durlng eertain years, The other nevers, ine 3 ex- ha, ol when, dance of the Bauet. lke mest cessivels Indey el narm for twaor anmie vears fn s Fona ocenr, the conditions moat favorable for ita development are seeured, The secondary eause of it4 migrationa 1s the neesealts for fond, which, by reason of a suprrabundance of the specica in the plares of ita origin, Is quickly exhausted. After ouce taking to the wing, the insect Isut the mures of the winds, and is borne In whatever direction they are blewing, The gen- eral course of the winds in the Western States ami Terrftorics 18 from the west and northwest Auring July swl Augnst, and arcords with the eastward course of the swarms of locusts in thuse months, Asto the question whether meteornlonists enn predict the irrence of prasons of umlue heat sud drought, aud consequently of the ln- erenscd nueibers aud migratlons of “the locust, {t is helleved that, fn the lapse of ¥ bee possilile, A8 the result of ¢ vations, it i« alxo thought that the des*Ination atud the time of areival of the migratory hortes of lovuetemay be foretold, and the direction of thelr return filzhit in the ensulng year, The suppoeltion I8 now venturid that” the June ins from the castern Himlts of the locust- zrea will be towsrid thse northwest, and the July, Anigzuisty and early Sn-‘plrmbrr inigrations froin the Rocky-Mountain platesu wiil be in o general custerly and sontherly direetlon. JIn sinning-up the losses sustatned in the Cnited dMates from the ravages of fnsccts, it (s wulid that **The anuual sgricultural products of this country, by the lasteensus, amounted in value to £2,500,000,000. Of this stnount we in sll prababllity annealiy lose over 200,000.000 from the attacke of Injurious fosects slone. Dr. Riles avers that the losses during 1974 o Mis- sour trom tocusta—anl it will be rememhbered onle the western thinl was invaded—exceeded 15,000,000, This_woulil nake the losses In uther parts of the West at least twice aa much more, or §45,600,000 tn all. The extimated money losy aceasfoned by the chinehebue {n Tilis n 1 1954 was over FT50KA0: i1 Missourd In 1374, it Is estimated by Dr. Riley to have heen S10,0.000. The annual losses from the chinche hug are greater, Mr. Riley suys, than from any other fnsect. The averuge anoua) Juss to the cotton-crop from the atlacks of the cot- ton army-worny alone I estimuted at 850, oL T Adding to these the Jusses sustained by tue attacks of about a thoweand other spocies of fusects which nifect our cereals, for- age awl tiehl crops, fruit-trees and shrubs, gar- n-vezetables, alede and ornamental teee well as our hard und pine forests, and stored fruite, and it will not be thoucht an exazeera- tan o put onr anntal Josses at $200,000,000, 11 the peope of this countey waould only look at this antiual depletion, this sbrolute waste,which drags her buchward in the race with the coun- trics of t M World, they might see the ne- cessity of taking effectual measnres in restraine Ing the ravages of insecte. With care and fore- thought, based on the observance of facts by schentifiv men, we believe that from: £50,000,060 Lo SN0, or from one-quarter to oue-ball of this sunual waste, conld be saved to the country, And the practienl, most eflivient way is for the States ta co-operate . with the General Giosernment In the employment of ralaricd rn- totmalozists, and of a Ciited StatesCommission of entomologiste, who should comblne the re- o the State afficlals, and Issau weekly, or, ~ary, dadly bulleting, perhaps in combi- s witi the "Weather-Signal - Bureau, as to conditfons ¢f the [nsect-warld, forewarnlg furmers aml eardeners from week 1o week as ty what enemles should e puarded agalnat, und what preventive aud remedial meusures should Le: used. THE SNOWY OWL. Tho unusual atundance of the Snowy Owl (Nyctea Scvndiaca) in various parts of New-En- elaud and southward during the present winter ix thie subject of comment In the Bulletin of the Nmtadl Ornithological €:lub. The bird s not unvommanty seen in these regions, but usually confines (tself chietly to the coast. About the 16t of November numbers of them were ob- gerved ln the lalands oft Rockport.on the Massa. chusetts coast. Fifteen were scen at one time on a smoll tsland, Shortly after, epechmers were captured in various parts of the State, aml everal were shot fn the heart ot the City of where they perched on steeples and 5. The sutne prevalence of the bird 18 from Mame. About 150have been shot vicluity of Portland, sid a flockof tive llew about the eity for a week unmolested. One taxidermist In Phsladelphiu had forty speeimens #ent bim for mounting, in_October o em- e, Onewns taken” I Baltlwore, and one or more In Washinzton, In all, fome B0 svedinens. have been provured in the bastern States. Many were b poor condition, aud in very dark plani- wge. Uhe canse of the appearanes so far south of such utusual numbers of the Snowy Owl s an open questlon. Searcity of food or severe weatlier fu their more porchern haunts mny uce connt tor it yet, at their first comlne, few of the Jess hardy species hud passed southiard, 1t i3 remarlied that, about ten years ago, there was n shsllar mizration of these birds futo Ne - gland, but at a later season sud In less numbers thun i the presunt instunce, COLON-RLINDNESS, Prof. Ogden N. R8ud records, in the Journal af Neience and Arts, some observations upon the effect on the nervestibrils in the retlua of nerv- ous shocks orgprolonged excitation. Prof, Tait hay sugzested thit, fn such cases, the green and vlolet perves reswne thelr functions later than the red, and Prof, Rood contiring the theory by testlmony from his own experience, Ou res Faining conselowsuess after inkaling chloroform, white ob) were fora tew seconds colored a Uright purplish-red hue. Durfug convalescence from typhiold fever, white objects appeared to Le orsuge-yellow, while the effect npon tle Landscape wis like that produced by the vellow tavs of the settlug sun. Prolonged ex- postire bright white Ught out of diors, it has been obreoved, often produces shuntar n-~|u||s. hite ohjects appearing a purplishe Tl dull greeus ussuming o zray hue, snd sirone greens beimg reduced vinteusity, Om entering a darkenvd roow afterleaving the ont u greenish haze se fur g few o the atmosplier y Prof, Guden, > polnt out that an apparatis for Thes recoption of waves of light “of nedium Tengsth fs more Hable to beoverstrilned by nerv. ous ahocks or by prolonged excitation, than s thie eneee with thore destizned fur the receptlon of waves af greater o lessee Jength, derangemnent und profonged exvitation are the ecausen which nay produce teniporary green color Ulindness,” PHOTOGRAPHING MUSICALSOUNDS Loyyendorfi®s Annallen contuins an acconnt of an upparatus by which Dr. Stein has succeed- il (o photegraphing all ondinary musical tones. “One varlety of Dis method conslsts in fixing o tunfuge-fork horzontally, with its branchies In yertical planes; there 3 a hole bored thyough the upper brawch, and a horjzontsl bteam of light, of somcewhat larger sces tion than the lole, fa directed an this from a helivstat. 'art of the beam passes throngh to u sensltized plate in a case, which plate is made to move rapldly in a horizoutal di- rectlan by means of u spring, or the like, Thus the lnminous eirele (on the plate), which, when the fork is vibrated and the plate at reat, rives o vertionl Hoe, gives & horlzontal sinuous ine when the plate s put in motion. The rate of motlon of the plate being fxed, there will e a ditferent number of uudulations in a given space for cach fork of different piteh. The curve has some futeresting features; thus, it is much brighter at the bends than ut the inter- mediate parts, the motlon having been slower ut ghe points of turning. Tne grudual tiob and_seceleration are clearly shuwn method fs u]»lpllmi o stringzs ulaso,~emall square dises of blackencd mica, with a hole for the ud- mixelon_ of light, belig fastened upon them with ight supports. Beveral chords & row may have their periods photographied together on the same plate, the mica discs rlslng ong abuve another, AUSTRALIAN WINEN, From sn extended sunalysty of the wines of Australle, it s shown thul they resemble the wines of Califoruls in futoxicating power, and in u certain taste of the soil. Grapes grew with extraordinary luxuriauee in Australia, but the Juice expressed from them I8 wanting in the qualitics of bouguet aud flavor which distin- wulsh the best products of European vintages, One of the unalysts says in Lis reports *'Fhe natural grape-juices this colony sre capable of producibe very strong wines, which are more likely to exceed 2 '] r eent ol proof-splrit than othurwise; and the fruit contains all the vie- meuts (o set up and complete fermentation to the full conversion of the sugar into alvohol without acetitication.” “The amount of glucoss W the mature grapes of Australia ranges from 25 1o 80 pereent, and produces in the wine an alcoliolie strength of from 28 10 40 per cent of proof-spirit. NEW GUINEA. Sigoor L. M. D'Albertls has writicn & brief statement of the results of his expeditionup the Fly River, Now Guinea, and it bas becn pub- ion, sueh sens | lished In 8ydney. In it e announces that he bareollected four epecies of the bird of Pars- talt specimen of a casrawary, sod e also saw k4 nut bithertn Inclnded n the avifauna oW tininca, a3 the jabiru and the pigmy cles of fishess & very fow reptiles, nmongs whicli ts a new water-snake; and somp coleoptera, form a part of his treasures, rruerved ‘In hirty living " ar «*her friernating specles, dize, grose. Pine, large #| Of plauts hie bas about 500 specles a dried rtate, and from twenty to speciee, Among these are varfezated ml-;‘hm]l anid plants with colored foli: ethnolo arrows polnfed with bone, cte. Iventhusiastic over the ruccess of his trip, diligent activity, DISPERSION OF PLANTS. leml-; ieal collectfon {8 very extensive, em- braclng stone fmplementa of cvery desoription, ornatents worn on_various occasons, dresses of dlvers patterns, petticoats woven of hale and of grass, aml bath of the natural colorand dyed, patuted and carved skulls, atuffed humsan heads, ete. The Blgnn; 0 seems to have made the most of the oceasion by fuvestizating every branch of Science with From statlstics rezarding the distributionof ~ ' the flora of Europe, the curious concluston is reached that those plants having secds or fruit with apectal sppendages to aid in thelr disper- Mon, are generally less widely scattered than thoee destitute of such helps, Thesingle excep- tlun [5 in the case of sceds provided with s tuft f hair,—technlcally termed comnn,—which have Vi The sceilds of the willows are fitrnlshed with a coma, and ro sre the milk- -y road_ran weeds, Dr. Gray states that these last planta, which are “the most comose-seeded of tho ligher orders,” have not a wide range tn North 4 It Is alvo found, from a stidy of tha European flora. that plants whose flowers bear but a singls eced are more hrondly distributed - than thode hearing two or more sceds in each Plants with aibuminous sccds somewhat, surpase [u range the ex-albuminous,—n singular fact, conalderime thut ex-albuminous sceds have the Iongest known vitality, aud best bear exe Large genera have a Amerlca. el pustire to Kea-water, Elightly greater diepersion than amall ones, and -~ varuhie specica than those nat especially £o. A TRANSPORTABLE STATION, The Netherlands Zoologieal Aseociation es- tabilehed In 1996 a transportable station on the Duteh coast, where anatomiesl, nucroscopleal, Ieal, chenileal, and meteorological studies may be carrled on. A wouden house was con-, stritcted s s to be readily set up and agajn’ This wus furnished with every ntific work, with the exveption Early in was transported to Helder, the on the: ton of the great dyke which there protects the Low Countrics from the sea. For eight weeks work was carried on at the station, the memliers of the Assoclation improving the op- portupities atTorded for studying the marine w0 at that” polnt, and mak- The station et down el earried back to Ley- den. It 13 decided to loeate it for the ensuiig i taken to plece applianie for o mleruseapes aud steel inatruments, Juiy the hou norihern geaport of Holland, and sltuated Launa of the inir mangy was thetl ta arth S st observations, summer In the nefghborhond of Flushing. NEW ROUTE T0O KIIIVA. Russla I= engaged In the conatruction of amilt- tary and eacuvan road from Krasnovoedsk, on the Casplan Sea, to the City ot Khiva, A sericsof wells wlil be provhied along the ronte,—old ones being excavated. Uzun Rui and Debche, will have o depthiof from 120 to 180 fcet. Enthankments are to be built un the Ushot, the ol bed of tho Oxus, and near the flnrj‘-k:m;lbh nto The unnexation of Khiva by weems fuevitable, ns the Khan is unable to Yrulrrl hie dominfons trom the “Turkomans, ts are Jooklng to the belug repalred, and uew one Sowe of the or, heiween Luke, after which tie Amnu will be divert l.l‘)\ ancient bed. i1se and uimny of s xub) Rurelans as their only det ulerd, BRI NOTES. A apeclal goclety for eending a sclentific and commerelal expedition to the unexplored porta of Asla Is about to be forined at. §t. Petersburg. At Baku, a Ruasian Aslatie city on the west- ern shorea of the Casplan Sea, there exist springs of uaphtha which fznite spontancously. Tae puplitha iy now belgg used as fuel fo rup- perinment ers of the vesuels are being altered to adunt them to the . The initial nl that the bol lxl) the Russian fdutll s proved so aucces consumption of the mineral ulf. The Freneh Government sustains achools at, Athens and at ltome, to which puplls aro yearly fent to pLudy ¢ amt {tatian archeolog: These refools ure highly successfal; and . 12+ now determined L estabilieh a 10r the he contrlbutions luw s of Uhe schouls and of other French Waadinzto perudical called Anna'e of Avehaology speeial purpose of publlang ol the I archaot iets, The Bulletin of the Nutta Ornithologleal Club urrence of the Barnucle (oose Tho hird A specimen t House, on ITudson's Bay, b, which was believed to ba the first North-American apecimen brought to Tu 1570 ous was ob- tained {n Cugrituck Sound, North Carolina. ‘These are the ouly anthentle cases on record of the appearuice of the Barvacle Gooso on our notes the (Bernicta Lencopeis) on Long Ialand, i a rure visitor in North Awerdea. was shot near Rui in the winter of 15 the notice of naturalists, contluent. —e—— LET THEM DREAM, Down by (hie felds of golden grain, Up throwgh the zlesiiing nicadows, Living thelr dreamiaof 10ve aguin, Straying fn twilizht-shadowa; Sipping the deve of lotur-blooms. lounyed, and freh, and Hecting, Life, it ite clond of after-glopwms, sarely aud awlfily mreting. Twa fond hearts on tho tde of Youth Gally. merrhy floating; to them, s a thing of trath,— L1ty & Rumner-day's boating. 0 for faith ke theso ehlldren free! Fulth In height to-moerow For al! theee’s nothing left to me ” But fricndabib steeped (n sorrow, There's nothing real in marriago-vows, Leligion, wealth, or fushiony The mitre crowna aich hollow brows, And love iv auly paselow, Which changen ofien and again—~ 11 hulds ne Justsage token Tt lnendrmr. wove fur me one chajn, Through all these years unbroken, Let lavers dreatn while yet they may, lown on the river lloatd Before they part, soue teartul day, Wuen life In sturiuy buating, Never a dream mare rea) and falr, The hldden futuro lghting Never s doutt, till geity dedpsie Fulls like the Winter's blighting. 3lzpona Cranx, Januury, 1675 ‘' TIME AND TIDE. Drlfting tidewnrd on Life's ses, Waiting immortalliy, Onward, backwand, ebb and flow, Hhiftng fancies an we go— Eob and tlow. Neaeno, W Mark the mystic shore unseen; ‘e immensity between Lice before us. Lie and Death, ed in one commun breath— Lite aud Death. Tough It may be, cheerlems night, Angry billows ris in might, Thiuih the weary, ** tinpest-toss* Number up the counted loast— Tempeat-tom. Lost to earth, but—bappy thonght— Nayed to that' celestial park, Sufd tho Master, ** Peace—be still 1" And the waves obeyed lls whl— **TP'ence, bewtill, Drifting thieward on LUe’ Waltlng immortality, Ever cesseleas, tine and tide, Dafting to thetimeleas side— Thjm lui.\ Kll-la7.1 NoLEWOOD, Jau. 1, 1677, B k ¥ Faaxx B, Wispox. e, THE FIELD, THE WOOD, AND THE GRAVE, (From tAe Germdn.} Thia Is the feld, the very une Where we once wandered, haod In band, d, In the light of Bumwer's sun, B Eraen-blides gulden-fvoded stand. You (wisted corn-iowers 1b your bair, ‘The lark u\nJ in the heather. This is the feld so sweetly fulr, Where we vucs watked logethor. ‘This ls the woud, lhnlhelhmdxh 0, Whete we eat uiuny tiues, snd dresmed, While through tho rouf-trea of leaf-laco * The vilsr moouLeatns shimmering gleamed. licre heath-weed grow and wild-fern there; Porget it, 1 can never. This {> the woud, so wildly falr, Where wo were pledged foruser, Still near the village lice the spot Whete we, wiith tcars and ing, Kead words that tepder bande had glaced Op graves where (helr dead wers lylng. 1waudercd there alone to-day, Where you aze caluly sleeplog: . Tho simple words on that oew grave .- 4 evul&m Tead fur weey!