Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 13, 1877, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUN that all the members of n household are golng through a process of eduration together, and that the oldest as well as the youngest—par- ents, children, and servants—are continually learning lessons of fmportance by themaclves SATURDAY, OCTOBLE 1 1877-TWELVE PAGES, 9 the foliowing comments upon one of Torner's mort_celebrated worka: *The *Slave Ship.' rald Prof, Welr, **Is a wonder{ul plece of paint- Ing. Dut ttlells no story whatever, and was not intended ta doan, It i3 simply an cfect of facta in hin early Nfe, carcntial to an under- atanding of his position and influence in later vears, are communleated in the opening chap- ter, but with less amplitude in deinil than miay e found In the gketches of the eneycloprdias, 1] hl ' Prof, Huxley on Evolntion,' by the Rer. A, LITERATURE. MR e o Erelnaen e John Gibhon, 17, 8. A: ¢*The Relations of tho Chnrch mnd the Comstitation of the \nited Siates,™ hy §. B, A, Harper: ‘¥ Syrise Gram. antly named Jerusalen-Oak, or Featter-Gorani- | average depth of abave 200 fect. So Hmpld ¢hil nm.’ It f# unnecrauary to describe the different | ne water appear that the under-currents were spiccles, They are annual herhs, most of thero | perceptivle, swhile nothing wottld lave Lexn covered with' n white micaliness, and bearing | easfer than to sketch or map the bottom of tha small, sesile, zreentsh flowers, The eeant wna orieinally contribted tn the | mars by the Very Rev, Jsmea &. Coreoran; | color, and of Naht and dark; and sa such it fs | - The Orache, Atrivlex patils, var. hastata, has | "% e m— Sketches of E‘:mpea" Travel | oy af each otlier. ©11 the family plan,” ehe Tepue @ Devz dlonces 8nd with the svowed ol aypdiocleotlcen.t | 6T for Octover a1, o, | M€ very sream ani pootry of puinting. Fiack | sprung p aiing Aml‘{;r avenue. It is ln"wnlu- PARIS remarks, e the AN comprehensive An ject of portraying th e ol A Gl o R~ AERIN b sl e ol ¥ rrav fald o nrner's emerafre’: that | derer froin Europe, and has not extended wides v ---Howells' Comgdy. hich s alonie wartly of Deuple who care about | Kirew How 10 be a great Literal as weliasa | Houghion & Co., Tiorton). i i Jigs pieture could be teanslated into music, it would tr: @ natlonal acthem s and » afinllar remark might be made concerning the ‘Slave Ship.’ ‘Turner, 1 my opinfon, patoted rnm-nr from tha [Inspiration of "the moment, 1y in our vicinity. Bugsced, Corispermum hys- - s copifalium, 19 abundant on the Iake-share, This | President MeMahon's Manifesto=Thn T.on. Is al*o a recent inmigrant from Europe, but fs don " Times'" Chinngs of Feant ftegarding rapldly making its sway westward. These com- American Matters, plete our lift of the Chenopode. downright head of the Government.! The au- thor presuppores on the partof the reader a genernl knowtedge of the politieal “history of Europe during the vears of 1848 to Inil, in education at all,—a plan to do the best that la nossible by eachi other for the Improvement of all.—every member of the family above the yearling iInfant must be A mem- FAMILIAR TALK, THE KING OF BAVARIA. Harriet Martineau on Home- Speclal Correspondence of The Tridune. ber ol the domestic school c. | which, with slight intermissions, Cavour con- laying on his_colors farious) with - Wood méntions a Gooseloot which § 0 Education --- Thomas e wd name reliool of, mutial tnstriic. | B eted the policy of Tealy. i admiration of | A chapter In tha pleasing little hook, «Ono [ JEFAR O T8, Fuors furlonle, with werc | Wondméntions s Gopseloot which fs nsed 428 | ponssy Sept. 22—The cvcat of the week s § Ki 1 for granted that thia idea of houschold-edu- | the astute and hceeantul tiplomatiet 1n enthu- | Year Abroad,¥ fs devoted tn a description of | 1at® aone” enouch fo au gest o thonght, he | Bousaluganitin Baselivides, n climbing plant | the manifesto of President MacMabon, address- tarr ng. catlon is_universnlly nccepted, she proceeds to | Mastic, and is delivered in the rotund perfuds { the young King of Bavaris, whose large dark | would stop, end_then tack on nname tn'the with thick lenves, and many snike-like racemes | ed to the electors of France, No doubt you of fuwers. It is a native of South Awerica, and | published this address the day after it appeared rows to the Lelght of fifteen feet, Paris; ¥ ‘The Salsolas, Snlicornas, aud cther species In- In Fatiss therelos Teball havg st litle tonay. habiting the cea-shore, yield large quantitics of | Of it The language rud the spirit of the ap- write aa though all were children together, and the wiscat and the best {n need of the utmost guwd to be got from nlumumf home influences. As the alm of eduentlon fs fo develop, nnd ex- which the emotional Frenchman ro greatly af- fecta, 'The work is lanted in interest to those who have a taste for observing the condnct of natjons in the mansgement of public aflalrs, tyes and romantic tastes are enough to turn the heads ol all sentimental women. It was in the North Tyrol that the writer enjoyed an op- portanity of making pursonsl obscrvations upon canvas,—any name that his fancy alctated,—or 2 quotation from some pocm like the * Fallacies of “v.]w,' for example,—~a poem which never existed, "In his *Blave 8hip’ the black ieure The Holy Roman El;apire-Oount 4 ercise, and strengthen all the powers given to | To such it presents a comprehensive study of in the foreground has a_leg ten feet long, the | soda. The puwerful authelminuc calied Worm- | beal, if falrly interpreted, are unexceptionable, Gu,vonr——Llfe-Insurauoo every hunan being, Miss Martincan poinits out | the movements by which Jtaly, under the guld- | the appearance of the King and upon bi# habits | fish have cyes as hig as dinncr-plates, ana iron | seed Of1 18 obtained from the Ambrina anthicl- | and altogetiier reassuring to the true friends what these powers are, and how they are tobe | ance of a brilliant lcader, freed fteelf from | of living, At a little inn at Fernstein, by alake | is made to” float on” thé water. He factened n | mintica, a North-American speclen, ‘A few other | of the Republie. But I have dever seen any ~=-Landor, tralned. Scparate chaoters ara devoted to u [ foreixn dominlon and became a consolidated | named Fornsce, the exciting inmilicence was | maticle around that leg, and ealled the plcturo ierubers of the order are emmployed {nthe treat- constderation of the discipline requirite for each | State. the ' Slave 8hip.' Ho didn't know what he in- | ment of various maladies, e political docament sodisersely regarded. There of the clilel. moral ; At ——— uiven, a8 the post-wagon halted and the potthil- | 101404 tn do when he beaan to pamt it After are two opinlons of the Marshal's vlewa and sod aleo for "ff:e’“c..':?“a#"n‘él’.%‘;:‘f‘ :n{i‘ c}'nmfi’y' PHILOSOPIICAL SCIENCES. ‘;'r':' wet his y;lnrd-ex'l :hrfiklflhfl. Nlu i‘:‘nlmy was | syme tlrhlu:ul, yet I;gmru_v. femarks upon Amerl. THE CARPET-BEETLE. " | Intentions, and these are dismetrically opposite. ll".'h“s Prof, Weir on Tfll’l’lfll‘, Gerome, habita. In the illustration of her opinions, AM\:l»(.i\nu,Aln OF THE PHILOSOPIICAL | driving in.the nelghborliond, and there was o | ean painters, the Professor was led to speak of Conslderable apprehension has been excited | The press fs arraved In two hostlle camps,~for during the last two vears by the appearance jn | 274 azalnst the President. In the cye of the various portions of the cotntry of & new specles | Conscrvatives every word Is law and gospel, of Insect which fs destructive {o carpeta. Dr, J. | ¥lile the Radicals find treason to the Repub- Lintner, an entomolagist of Albany, N. Y., has | llc In cvery sentence, eyilable, and punc. contributed some interesting notes upon the in- | toatlon-mark, Tho Figaro, an *‘officlons " sect to the Country Gentleman, It was first ob- | 0F%an of the Government, blasphemes in this served in New York, In a few localitles In the | Wi%¢: *Had the manifesto been dictated by western part of the Btate, and in several dwell- | God the Fathier, and signed by Jesus Christ and Mias Martineau draws largely from the remark- able experiences of her own childhood, as like- wisc from the Interesting stores acquired by ob- servation. 'This frec useof anccdote and rem- Iniscence, together with thic sage reflcctiona fol- lowing {n endless procession, rendor her treatise as entertainiug as it {s profitable. Certain of her {deas and expressions are so atriking oud suggestive as to be sermons of themacives, when ahie aecla; “Purified edi- ENCFES (I5cLenixe Titz VOcARCLARY Or Panvosorny, Mex: Monar, ann METAPUTS. 1raL, by Wittio F N, 1. 1., Profersor of Moral Philosonhy in the U'niverslty of lilarzarw, from the EBecand Editian, 1860, and me'rfim!. 1876: Edfted by Hzxny Carnenwoon, LL.D.) By Citantes P Kpavon S, T, D, L1 0., Vice- Provost vt the University of Pennsylvania. New York: Sheldon & Co. l,'lll('l(;n:-lnnlen MeClurg Co.’ “12mo., pp. 1.OK4, Price, 83,50, Fleming's Vocubulary of Phiturophy has for likeliiooa of meeting him. During the mo- ments of waiting at tha Inn, taies like theee ot Louls’ eccentric hehavior regaled the listen- ing ears of the travelers: “Ho usually.travels hy night, for instance, and slecps, tue little that heever sleeps, mornings: He drives fast through the farknese, servants with torchea galloping in advance; stopping here and thers long foreign artists, and passed the following judg- ments uron the two popular French painters Gerome and Mctssonfer: * Gierome has Immense techuical power, he thinks, but lacks refinemnent. of feeling, and iy topl of the theatrical, s {Cleopatra Before Creaar' was adinirable In backeround, but_the frail Queen hersell was miserablytone. The Cireassian Slase® duncing was vular, coarse, badly drawn, and hard and resonant a8 porc ck'it, and it wiil Heissonier, and Wilkie---Ben- " {ham's Skeleton, Flora Round About Chicago: The Birthworts and tho Pokeweeds £ & twis ol noble bouks are moniments of wasted enough for o change of horses, his own | rinc But here ckground was | oy in Schnectady. In 1870 Dr. L the Holy Ghost, the Radicals would have de- ««-Carpet-Beetles— Moun: 1aboF s fur 1t ol s bio with aduilts as Ity with | Lic Past twanty years been the atantard work | orees and servants being in reaaincss for | beautiful, The ' however, l\lficd some of {ng hfl; .ndrre.u!:!lr;rup- unlmwl’cvury word of {t.”" This Is a spccimen {ain-Climbing. chuldren,—thoir pueity should be an all-sullicient | Of Toference for students and echolar in s | iy ™ oy gno different inns along the | WA8 8 very remarkable piece of © execis ¢ ) em ta | DoUneed o puriier.t apccinl department. This latest edition, brought te, Often hl laze dashes up to this | tion, and 8 truthful represeutation of the | maturity. The perfect Insect proved to bea | ©f Franch partisauship, and it requires a strong: =5 * What you wish a ¢hlld to be, be that to the | oul by an American house, combines the En- | [, Often hia carriag DLothisin, | peepg,—the fiure of the woman bewy | small beetle, with pretty markings In black and | A to restrnin the passions of the mob to the LITERATURE. chibl. . " gilsh editton of 1870, cantaining posthumonts ‘Auf der Ferne, at 13 o’clock at night, and then | delightfully managed, &0 that the green vell S g *'A way always lies open before ns forall that white on the outer wing-casca, and arcd ling | Use of worls only, and niot of paving-stones. borderfug the faner toargin. On belni referred | But the crisis of the clection will soon be over, to Dr. Le Conte, the coleunterist of Phladel- | and, whatever may be the result of the votlog, phia, they were declarcd to be the Anthrenus | 1 36 not believe there wiil be sn: el Scrophularle, o species. well known n Eurove, | hrenk, The Goverument must synl')::fitl:z“l‘l.x: Icr'x:‘:. "nlf::' for tho frst thne discoverad 1n this "(L"x‘""""lf".' of u,,‘, mnjqfl‘ty,llml the r.-g,n(;llul.c, 4 #f hio really incans to remain in power until tha Blnce thc_pnhllmllon of these facte,specimens | ond of the Septennate, inust mp:kc lis Cablnet of the inrect have been noted in many places In | conform to the wishes of the nation. This ia New Yurk and other States,and In all'caseathiey | the poliey of England, of the United States, and were observed ft‘fldlhli upon carpets, lovesti- | wiy'not of France and all othér conntries that gations have also resulted in the ddentification | have pdvanced o step beyond despotism? of the species with the A. lepidus of the Pacifle I have something pleasanter to writeabout to- cuast, whiere, i the perfect state, the Inscet has dny than French politics, Our countrymcn on been observed In great numbers lwll"f upon | thisside of the Atlantie have recently been ern Europe during the Spanish occupatfon of e i e b L SR L and noiably In {ts **money articies, In vn that couutry. 1t utears Lo be thoraugly nat- | o Amorieay eredit and priiee e uralized alung the Pactlic siore. - is an undeniablo fact that the financlal editor of Stiould It become ax common In the United | that journal s tno greatest “moncy power™ in Btales as are some otlier troublesome apecles it Europe. A word from “the Thuaderer” troduced from Europe, there Is reason to fear | liakes the thrones and bourses of the world, that carpets may have to be abandoned, The | No acheme that the Times attacks succeeds, nnd ondinary means resorted to for the riddance of | none that it favora falls, at least at once, fiow nsect-pesta—such as applications of catnplior, many “companfes” we liave seen knocked lat peppentatuced, turpentiug, etc.,—linve no eflect | 'Ly a'single word in the Zimies' money column, upun the Carpel-Bectle, The free use of ben | aid how many have floated triumphantly under zine or of Kerosene-oll hasbeen recommended, | jyq ausplcious breath. All the fournals of Lon- —the cracksand crevices of the floors to be | don combined, including the "Daily Tetegraph, flled with cotlon saturated with the lquid, | \cjth three times the clrculation, have absolutely ‘This I8 to be done fn whncrb:lmu 1t Is supposed | ng finauvial fnfluence on the money market in the bectle, or its egps, will be concealed in theso | comparlsun with the Times—iho Enclishman’s setreats. It is the larva, or caterpiilur, of the | Biyle, All the rich old fossils of the United beetle which causes the destruction to carpets, R ¢ ely ol by eating through them along the cracks in the m“mnu,:'nct:" c;,'}“‘:filu‘n:gfl;:;?fd 'IEK, 1t fl{lgré four, uud utterly rulnfug them, thing fn the morning, even belore ORNITHOLOGICAL, N Foants A Thmerte et b forthndare D o " ‘3, Toast, an ines—1{0 e m up for the day, The Nultall Ornithologhia! Club records tho | And so he goes “on *Change™ with foregone discovery of.an egg of the American Cuckoo in “"“lfil‘m.{m}: fl‘r‘lfl nfl-dg!crmhwfl purposcs, from the nest of the Cedar-Binl (Ampelts cedrosum), | ek ol the Kin's oxen' canmot awervo B y years the TTmes has given the It was luferred by the finder that the ege be- | cold shoulder, and not without too much reasot, longed to the Black-Billed Cuckou (Coceyzus | 10 Awerican financial enterprises. The late Mr. erythrophthalmus). The editor remarks, fn | Sampson, for many years s financial cditor, conncetion with the incident, that our Cuickoos | Miwita fow excentions, und fu dolng so fsceurc wmore olten lay thelr eges in the nests of othier :.;:,,.“’_{{;'.‘5“:.;’&\"35uu"??"“' Trionde ibong of Atlantic & Ureat birds than has been hitherto supposed, Two | Western Rafiway fame. [By the way, I recret cases bave been revealed In Watertown, Mass, | tosce that Mr, Meflenry has just loat his only In oue, the Yellow-Billed Cuckon (Coceyzus | son, a fine lad ot 17, and tho last of seven chil- Atncricanus) deposited an egg ina Robin's nest; | dren.] 1 once heard o shrewd Ameriean speca- nnd, in the other, the same_specles left an ey, | lotor in London ray that he would pay Sampson in the domiclle of the Wood-Thrush. Tho | £1,000a year, unl{" to.ue seen speaking with him Oulogiat mentlons the Anding of two cyes of tha | onee o week In the nelghborhood of tho Stoclk Cuckoo In tho nest of a Redbird, at Gawbler, O. | Exchange. It I refreshing, therefore, to Ameri- Anuther note In ‘the Nutfall Cinb reports the | can feelings to sce the sudiden chango that has first known occurrence of the American Robln | come over the Zimes, not only In 1ts money- (Turdus mumloriu-x In England, The bird | columu, but fv its leading articles. This favor~ landed at Dover In April or May, 1870, and, ex- | able indication cannot be too highly appreciated hausted by Its lon voyage across the Atlantie, | on your side of tho water. It has alrcady given was captured alivc. At the present thac the | 8 new fmpetus to the American trade,and an tist of American Dirds which bave been borne | upward tendenty ln all classos of Amerlean ont of thelr track by untoward winds, and dls- | sccuritles, especlally rallways. ‘The Times sces covered in England, tneludes 290 speciinens, be- | the trutl, and declares that the tide of bustoess longing tosforty-two diifercnt species. rovival 18 rlsing ncross the Atlantic, where tho this deliclously eccentric being fs rowed acroes the Nttla Fernsco jo o tlny fsland, where he par- takes, by the romantic gleam of torches, of n feast prepared by French covks. Rowed hack to the shore, he star{s agaln with fresh horses, and gaes swiltly on, through tho night, to some other ton, where the folsc of his arrival awakens all the slecpers.” The Interviow for which these extravagant etorles cnriously whetted the expectation oe- curred shortly after thelr recital. *We had left the little iynn by the lake,” writes the chatty traveler, “and were rlding along In an expeet- ant mood, when there came Agreat clatter of hoofs, ana two bluc-and-silver men dashed by, follawed by an open carriasge, where King Louls rat alone.” A kind of fate ordained that the road should be harrow at this point, with a ateep bank on one slde, over which It would not be plensant to bo precipitated; so the Royal coachman, as well as * our. driver, ~ modcrated tho spced of Dis horses, and we therefore had an admirable opportunity to see the (deallach young man—as the Germans call him—distinctly. The ccre- monics _performed were few., Our postillion took off his hat; so did the King. Then it seemed good §n bis sight to deliberately thirow. back bis head, look full Inour amlable, smiling, and interested countenances, and indulze inu lungehty and an unmistakable scowl. He must hiave slept less than usual that tmoming. \ve were not accustomed to have young nien scow) atus, end really felt quite hirt.” 1f be had Tooked grand nod unscelug, had gazed abstract- edly upon the tnountain-tovs, wa would Lase been delighted with hlm.* “T'ne party thus wantonly frowncd upon by tho rude Bavarlan King was o young woman, bo it underetoud, and she resenteil the outrawe sfter the manner of her sex. This 18] the way of ft: “In revenge, 1 hasten to say that, though he cerfaluly has o distinguished 'alr, and a fine hend, anid the great eycs that look so dreamy aml poctical in the phiotographs of Wi at 18 or ), le {3 not nearly so handsoma os those early fctures, Perliaps ho can look dreamy stilly ug of this he granied us nojopportunity to iudire, and he has grown atout, and has lost the dellcate refincment of his youth.™ | Determined to pursua her atddles of Rosalty farther, despite this inauspiclous beginning, the young Iady traveler vieited Behloss Ilolen- achwnngau, the castle where King Louls and bis mother spend somestime every sutmmer, After . passing throngh the many beautiful rotms open for Inspectioh, she decided thot *Tho most striking, and fn the end fasclialing, thing in the castle Is the number of awans you sce, It would be difficult to convey|any Idea of the awan-atmosphicre of this ploce. &Swmu suppore boskets for flowers and vascs. ‘There are swans in chifus, In marble, in alabaster, in gold and sliver, ou the tables, on the mahtois and brack. cts, painted, embrofdered on cushions and foot- EtoO n,—ew.-i'_vwhero you find them. A half- which floats abont her dnea not injitre the test of the enlor. 8till, in general, tidrome's worka have in them more ot work than of pleasure, Wilkie's honest acenes were rich In sentiment and masterly, Metasonler {s all very well; gets cnormous prices for his plctures,—~far beyond their worth, I aunpose he is a0 well known that everybody who has a enllection wants oue of his pletares.” Bat_bhis *Man Smoking a Pipe,'— what is 1t? Wonderfully mwle out; no one eoutld have done it better; a piece of threnuity, like that of & man playing n trick, who dues something you can’t coniprehend simost, fle doean't come out with human feeling, like Wi kie in Lis ‘Gentle Shepherd,’ for examople. Wilkie's work always has in it that ‘one touch of nature '—human naturc—which fatcrosts, brightens, awakens the symoathy. The heart 18 the obicct that a work of art appeals to. The. uppeal to the intellect Is only Inchdental. That," continied the Profescor, * Is why Muissonier is not 50 great an artist as Wilkie. At the rame tune s work of art should elevate, as well as excite the emotlons.” additions by the author and. definjtions by Dr. Callerwood, with a larze amount of new and valusble matter prepared by Dr, Keauth, The contributions which enrich the work in Ita present form com- prise a vocabulary ol the phiysienl eciences, n continuation from 1651 Lo 1877 of the chrono- logical table from Tennemaun, n coptous bibllo- eraphical Index of authors and proper names, anid a synthetival table of the phflosophical scl- eoces, * Besides making these fmportant addi- tlons to the substance of the work, Dr. Krauth las sftnplificd the arrangement of the whole, }lmmhy rendering it more ready and cunvenlent or tiEc. As It now stands, the hook is doubly valuable m‘me student of philosophy and the physical sciences. It is necesnary for us Lo dn, however linpussible and terrible it imay be beforehund,” The custam of taking children abroad for the advantages of travel Is strongly condemned by Mias Martinean, aml her re@ections on the mat- ter are excellently grounded, he practice is aralnet Nuture,'t she wriles, “sna thuse who mln,vl it inust hear the retribution for offcnse mi. ust Nuture's Inwe; Nuature orduius & kind ol vegetulive existenca for children LIl the [rame is complete, and strengthicned in its com- plete The nfmost reeninrity of habits, which by no means plies dullness of life, pro- e Ixtyond all question, the most heulthy frames; and there cannot be agadder mistake than Lo supposeLhat any greater variety than the most ordinary lte afTords {s necesanry to the quickemmgz orenter tatument of s child’s tucultien, « o o L havedevoled a dluse attention to this subject, and I certainly ronclude, from . iny own observation, that the futellectusl and moral value of families who luve lived quietly at honte, with due educatfonal asslstance, very far trauscends that of young people whose aux- lous prents have dragzed them about the world, catehing ab advantares here and advantages therc, unconscious of the sacrifice of tho greal- st m‘v-nlnuc of all,—a natural method of life, witlh the quietui'e which belones to (L. ‘Uhe publication of this particular work of Mixs Murtineau’s 18 opportusie, Her recent Au- toblography has awakenet! a wide interest in her writings, and none of them has » more real and fieucrnl value than the cssay on home-educa- lon, EUROPEAN SRETCHFS--A COMEDY, ONE YEAR ABROAD. Tiy the Author of **One nmmee, " Tatlle Clanele Kdittun. Fp, 217 A COUNTERFEIT PHESENTMENT, G iy W D Howe 1633, Thon ago: L El't‘xcnmllmr ot “Une Sumnuer” has anothier Ieaf fo her baya by this bundie of shetches from nbroad. ‘They wre full ol the charm of & fresh nnd rich personatity, The ground they cover—town and country in Ger many and Bwitzerlund—hnas been visited und describet by hundreds of tourists, yet, touched Dy tho transinuting potrer of an origiual wmind, it reappears here with the attractlons of a wew and bitherto unexplored land, Thete 1a no rep. etitlon of the hacknoyed stortes of Kuropean travel, but all {5 novel, and, delineated with o gorightly, amlable grace, ts very winninz, The writer lonks with an artist’s eyo upon everything, and detects whutever of plcturesque Leauty it may possess. She nlso keeuly appre- clates the humor that lurks lu many of the fn- cidents dally occurring fu Jife, and reproduces them with the fine edgo of their drollery faith- fully preserved. With such fuculty of In- sleht and of transcription, s’ cnts but prove a delightful companion in travels by the firside. ‘Wo wouldl exhibit one or two ol hier prettiest pictures, but it 1s hard to chocse nmong the multitude crowding her pages, 1feru is one on that ewer-foscinating theme which everybody loves to studv fn all its possible aspects, It fs taken from a serics of vlews in the Tyrol, and we scver it abruptly from its connections: “And what werc the strangers doing! Staring sttho peopley to Lo sure. We nlways stare, Weare hero for that vhrpose. ¢The villaze whera the girl ptit a flower in her sweetheart's hat,' And how pretty It was! The post-wagon bhad hardly stopped before a gouvd-look- fng youth bad dashed down from its ton, and at 1he same Instant n rosy walter-girl dashed out from the fun, bearing a tall mug of fuaming beer. Bno hiad eyes but for him. * Ile bad eyes but for her—nnd the beer, Entranced they mict ! They stoed a little usmrt. from us, by a garden, and beamed and smiled at each othier, and whis- pered thelr sccrote, and didn't curo a straw whether we stupld *other peoplo? snw thetn or not. They had but a few moments of bliss, for tlic boy had to o on with tho post; but, while he was. drluklui; the very last of that reviving fluld, slic took his hat from his lead, and, stoop- ing to the flowers beside Lier, chioso a great flum- ing carnatlon-pink, which she fastened in his lat-band. e looked pleased, which, of course, mado her look. pleased; butwhat a wise little LIFE-1NSURANCE, TRAPS BAITED WITIL ORPILAN: on, Whar 1s TUE MATTER Wit LIFk-INSURANCRY By Kuizom Whiunt, ex-Tnaurance Commissioncr. “Buston: Jnines }, Omgood & Co. Chicago: liadley Liros. & Co. 16ma., pp. 80, ‘Tha papers forming this litule volume have nearly all been pubtished heretofore ina West- ern newspaper, Mr, Wright says, in his preface, that, liaving been extensively used as a sort of stoul-plzeon in years gone by, when his atten- tion was devoted rather to the value of the bait than to the inconvenfences af the trap, It I8 a enitential Inhor with him now to let the public now what the atter 8 with Ife-insurance, 11's long experlence gives his sugzeations great welght, and many of " them are worthy of con- stderatlon ot the present time, ‘Ther in, how- ever, & tane of personality, or of Injurcd in- nocence, running througfiout Ns discussion, which mnkes the reader Ivel that the fault ne finds Is not altogother the result of impartinl critlcism, ‘The grapes scem rather sour, HBENTHAM'S SKELETON. ‘Tho skeleton of Jeremy Bentham s preserved atnong the curfusities owned by Unlvereity Col- Iege, London. Dr. Southwood Smith relates In Noles and Queriea the manner in which so queer a disporltion of the eccentric philosopher's body came to be made. **Jereiny Bentham,” hesayes, 4 Jeft his body to me for diaecction. I was als to deliver a public lecture over his body to med- feal students aud the public wenerally, The tatter was done at the Well-Street Schaol, Al ter the usual snatomical demonstration was aver, o sikeleton was made of the bones, Ien- deavorel Lo presceve the head untouched, mere- 1y drawinir away the flukds by themg it uniler an atr-pump over sulphuricacid, By thls means the hend was rendered ns bord a8 tho skulls of the New-Zealanders; but all expression was zone, of course. Becine this would not do for exlabition, I had a model made in wax by a dir- tingulshed ] French artist. . . . Ithen had the akeleton stuiled out to fit Beathum's own clothes, and this wax likencss fitted to tha trunk, . . . Tho wholc was then inclosed in n mahogany casc, with folling glasa doors, and I ulimately gave it to University College, where it now 18" SPARKS OF SCIENCE. FLORA ROUND ABOUT CHICAGO,. ‘Tne BInTUWORTS AND THE POKEWEEDS.— The Birthworts, Aristolachace, cotnpose a stnall family of twinlug shrubs or low herbs. Thetr flowers aro destituto of a corolls, but jts pluce fs amply tilled by a large, ehowy calyx of a lurld color, We hiave a single member of the N STARR KING. CORUSTIANITY AND HUMANITY, A Sznins or SERnaNs. n{ Troxay Stann Kixa. Edit- ed. with a Memolr, by Knwis P, Wi x. Dos- ton: James R, Ospood & Co. Chicago: lladley Bros.&'Co. 10mo., pp. 80, It is not necessary to look beyond the por- trait which Is given in the frontisplece of this volume, to read the sccret of 8tarr King'a fn. flucnce over all who saw and beard Mim. 1t is only the sct, specchlicss semblance of the living man, yet it holds tho mazo with an frresistiblo fascination. It is almost Impossible to break from the spell of the wonderfully luminous and Intense face, so radlant with the 1ight of an ardent, flery spirit. The oyes are in truth very floodgates of tho soul, which pours through them llke n tide of midday sunshtne, The own- erof that face, and of the plercing intellcct shining in every part of it, must mevitally have been a potont force In the world. ‘The sermons presented in this collection have been selected from tho mass left by the author, as the best ropreecntatives of his average Sun- day discouracs. It was not aniicipated by Mr. King that shey would ever appear in print. i LANDOR. IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS, By Warten favaox Laxoon. Flith Borles, — Misceitas Xrous Distonres (Conindea). Boston: Hub- cris Bros. Chicage: Jansen, McClurg & Co. 12mo.. pp, 647, Price, §2. Tho neat cdition of Lendor's * Imaginary Conversatlons " {s concluded with the present number, The bost of the learning and the talents of ouc of England's most echolarly and gifted men_of genius Is embalmed in theso volumes. Thelr subjocts rangs over s wide domaln of human kuuwledge, and give oppot- tunity for the full display of Landor’s brillfant powers of imagination, of thought, aud of poll-nmd1 pootieal chech. Tha bouks b-lomg among the Enylish classics, and In that depart- ment will 1l a cholce nook n every library. J. ¥, BIOLIN, BIOGRAPRY OF JOHANN PETER MOLIY, onler, the Wild Ginger. Asarum Canadense, crops were never so great, and for which the be § Vi & v + s | fozen'ot different sizes stand togcthier onnsmall 29 M. 5 market was uever so good. You can handly s o 1 s s ive i L beor st | They woro propared sclely for deivery 1n the | “seuvimont Sen s Deseuigeny or o gtk | {04 0L Gl i i dating as the | which groms, though rarey, i tho woods along ESMARALDAS pulplt, and, after the hablt of the suthor, were dictated to an mnanucnsis, They bave been subjected to no revision by him or his cditor, but appear bere in the oxact form fn which they were nr!glunllf producea. And this fs as it should be. Thereader prefers to stand in tho place occupled hy tho habitual auditors of the preacher, and receive as thoy have done the pre- clse words, without slteration or amendmient, ln which he lwlmx conveyed the thoughits and fm- agzes of his mind., ‘Then, Loo, the literary style ot Mr. King, as 1t naturally moldea itself, would scarcely have buen improved b{ remodeling. It ftted the moud and the fecling that inspired it, and they were alwavs so strong, aud deep, and fervent, as to absorb the attentlon, . They reduced tho art of ’H:eturic ton 'lw}tll'l ecrions are chiolco bmu:ht befors us. They justly oxbibit the churacter of Mr. King as a’'man and a Christlan, They show lis zealous faith u_the Father and the Bon, in the Divine Providence, and in the fmmortulity of the soul. When these great tenets of the Christian relizlon aro so strongly upheld, It scems an affair of little moment to auestion {f_in other polnts the eager. teacher harmonized with' the Orthodox schools, Ile waus in most hearty accord with overy vital prin- clple of truth, and all his powers wore given to unccasiung work for the extenslon of Enru Te- Tiglon, aud for the enlightenment and tho sanc- titieatfon of the human mind. I father, o minlster before him, died at the ago of 42, and the son died at tho aga of 39, worn out with tho Iucessant tolt of ur?nz. from the pulpit aud the platform, the duty and neccssity of man's fealty to God, to his conaclence, oud his coun- try. X %ha Iabors of Btarr King were not less effect~ ive In preserving thu Btate of his adoption with- fn the ranks of the Unlon, durini the critical tineof the late Rebolllon, thanthey were forthe conversion of his people to a higher stago of ra- ligious living; and for thia he descrvos to be gratefully remembered by every loyal citizen of the Unitcd States, As broadly cathollc, as ho was ardent and tender, in his féelings. he worked untirfugly In every cause that necded tho serv- Dr.’Th. Woll, the State Geologlst of tho Re. | Imauine what a tonic theso hopeful words havo » glven to Euglish Investors fn Amerlean securd- public of Ecusdor, lias communicated to the | fies. Confidence returns, ch crlulness pre A X Boun 8oviety of Naturalists a rcport on thu | on the bourse, pursc-atrings are untied, geology of Esmaraldus, the northernmost prov- | really good sccuritics no longer go begeing, J, {nce of the State, The surfaze of tho provinee | 8. avorp for the Auglo-Ameriean Bank of 13 nearly flat,—on portion only belng traversod | Kondoth, fins dust lont, the fisllingrs & Oba by low mountains, ‘The soll ls extremely rich, | o™ few millions to put through his Southern and teems with important vegetable produe- | Pacitic Ruad, now s the time to nRuly for u‘;} and tions, ‘The entire Interior is covered with a vast Jlldxfi O'Sullivan can have his $50,000,000 for learugua Canal by plodging the tolls to his throat was dustv and thirsty? It issucha plty some women always peraist in offering thelr flowers and gracos tdo soun,—forgetting the naturo of tho creature they adore.™ And hero s & more sober, but perliaps not more inatructive paseage, written after a con. templation of the Fallsof the Rhine: *But, friends, o word of advica that comes from tho - depths of sad expericuce, Bas Niagara beforo you como here, At least, read up Niogara, Be ,t{uully able to answer all questions as to fagara’s height, breadth, and volume, and the character of the emotions created in an appre- clative soul by sceing Ningara, 1f you cannot, you will suffer. Somebody will ask you & Niug- ™ zfueaunn nudacnl{ at a dlnner-party, and you will elther reply with shamo that you do not know, or with the courago of despair you will make au utterly wild gucss, and soy souething ihat cannot possibly bo true, ‘Thers ura a great many people in Uermany—extremely intelll- rent, and to whorn It Is n delight to listen—who are wondera of Information and appreclation When tney talk about German litcrature aud German art; oro nlso on vasy terms with the suclent Greeks, and possibly with Banserit; but, when they approach Awmerica, it s as if that be- loved land wore an' undiscovered country,— an *unsuspected falo fn the far-of scas.' The one thing leu{ positively know I3, that it hoa & Niagara. Thorefore arm yourselves with for- midable statistics, and pass unscathed and vie- tortous through tha incvitable volley of ques- tlons, Personnlly I fecl that I owe™ Nlagars s never-dyng grudgo; for, since the harrowing cxamiuutions of school-committcesin my youth- ful days, neverhave I been subjected io cute- clilsma 50 pertinacious aud cmbarrassing ua this pride of our land has caused v, Ihave succoed- ed at last in flxing tho maln figures in my mom- ory, but am nlnu{u morao or less neryous . when the examination threatens to embracs the adjn- cent country. If1t advances like heavy battal- fons, I cau ealmly incet it. But, when it camen like Il‘:ht cavalry, ia brilliant and Inclined to skirmlsh, I trenible.” A vontazion of play-writing has spread broad- cast over the land, and all our authors scom to bo afllicted with §t. A popular drama fs s lucra- Live production, bringing agreeable returns of the Desplaines, ot Riverside. It is a siemless plant, with nromatic croeping root-stocks, scnd- ing up kldney-shaped leaves fn pairs, and o brown-purple, bell-shaped flower between them. ‘The blossoms appearin spring, and often under a thick coverlid of old forest-leaves, which com- pletely hides them from view. low they con- trive to develop the rich color that dyes thelr checks, and to fulfill the endsof their vxistonce, in such deep, dark obscurity, Is one of the mysterles of Nature. ‘The Birthworts include about 130 specles, which chiefly abound'In Bouth America. They occur sparingly In North America, Europe, 1Indla, and Biberla. Beven species aro found In the United Btates. A bitter-tonle and stimula- ting property characterizes the fomily, Thisis strongly manifest in tho Virginia Bnake-Root, Aristolochia scrpentaria, & plant which has long enfoyea’s high esteem as o remedy in certain fevers, italsobasarcputens an antidote for the bite of serpents,~hence {ts namne. Scveral other speclea share this alleged power, as the A. guaco of Colomnbas, and the A, angufelda. It 1s said that the juice of these plants introduced into the mouth of nsnake so stupefies it that it may bo handled for a long time after with im- punity, and that a fow drops swallowed by the reptile will induce [atal couvulalous. 1t is sup- poscd that the Egyptlan éumzlorl stupefly tho snukes thoy perforin with by the use of these aud other plants of the order. Tle A. grandl- flora, a fetil specics native to Jamalca, las tho name of being polaonous to swine,” Many of the Tropical Birthworts aro remark- able for the beauty or the curlous form of thelr flowers, and some of them are among the most valued ornaments of the greenbouse, The Dutchman's lpe, A. sipho, {8 frcauently cule tivated in American und European gardens. 1t is found wild in Penusylvauls, Kentucky, and southward, aud f8 n vigorous climber, at- talning a leight of from thirty to forty feet. Its large Jeaves are round-reniforin in shape: I'm‘l the tube of the IImreMh an fuch and a third toy swan a child aalls on his glass preserve-dish fora pund, There s n swanfountaiu in the garden; a great swan ou tho stove in a recep- tlop-room.*? Among the extravagant baubles runcsacr.\ hy this luxurlous soverelzn, Is o gold bath-tub, which asn speclal favor was exhibited by th guide to this fortunate traveler. But a sull more cnticiug vrovision for Royal ablutions was hewn out of the aolld rock, **\Ye entered it from the garden,” continues tho narrator, % From without Its walls look MNke dark, thick class, through which one sccs absolutely noth- ing. From within the effect 1s cnchanting. You sce the Ligheat tower of the eastle on ono side rising directly abave you, the lovely gar- den with Tts cholce flowers and superb trecs, tho grand monntatus hevond,—and all bathed fn a deep, rosy liht from thy huc of the glass, It {s an enchantedgrotio, and very Arabiau-Nihts- fsh. A marbls uymph stands on each eide of thc bath, which s cut in tho centro of the stonc floor, and onc of them turns on o plvot, disclosing a couccaled niche, futo which you step and slowly swing round until you are In a subterrancan passage, from which a m)'ner'('nul stalrway leads to the drossig-room bave. g The King's study, up in tho tower of Hohen- schwanguu, ** was a simiply-furnished room, with an_onltvary writing-tavle, upon which papera and writing-materfals were strewn about, and importaut-looking envelopes direcied to the King. And it commanded a lovely view of mountains, broad plains, and four lnkes,—the Al[l:::c. Schwacsco, Hofensoo, and Banowald- fee. Not far from Bchloss Hohenschwangau, in the mountains of the Tyrol, a new Roval real- dence, Behiluss Schwanatein, Is being bultt. It i still far from belng completed, yet King Loufs Is fond of staylng ot the piace. % 'The room tem‘mmfllv octupled by the King is vu:{ sinall and simple,—has & xl-ln ok bed- stesd and dressing-tpble, Across the bed were thrown blunkels, ou which were blue swaus and blue llons; and in tho dining-room, adjolning, tho carpet was blug, with golden Ba- varian llons, and the all-pervading swans. » A charming road, through the wools TAIN AND DALTE-BPANXATNE, TIEPREAEXTED DY Etautr AccourANYING Priotoanavnn, Compiled, Transiated, and Pablished Ly Q. A, AL LitJex- cnaxre, Clileago, This 18 a Dbrief sketch of tho life of Molin, tho eminent 8wedish sculptor, who died n lttle over four years ago; and also & description of two of his principal productions,—~the fountaln which was cxhibited ot the Beandinavian Industrial Exhibition n 1860, and the Balte-Spaunarne, or Belt-Bucklers, which Is considered hts masterplecce. The de- scriptions are llustrated by & serics of elght ac- companying photographs. LITERARY NOTES. Mtes Yonge's new book, addresaed to * Wo- maukind,” {s prescnted to the public by Mac- millan & Co. Tho third and concluding volume of Van Lauw's History of French Literaturo” fancar- Iy ready for presentation by G. P, Putnam's Bons. Among tho aunouncements for October b: Caasell, Petler & Galpin, tho most [mpurtant fs the publication of ** Great P'alnters of Christen- dom,” by J. Furbes Robluson, with 270 1tustra- tions. The book is brought out with especlal referenco to tho holidays, Hobert Clarke & Co. bave on thelr lat, for Immiediate tssue, * China Palnting: A Prac- tical Manual for the Uso of Amateurs in the Dccoration of Hard Porcelain,” by Miss Lauch- 1in; atso, * Elcmentary Persnective, Explained and Applied to Familiar Objects,” by Miss Keller, Teacher of Perspective [n the Bcliool of Design, University of Cincinnatl, Tho Contemporary Reviewfor October contains, % The Divine Guidance of the Church,” by Dr, Moberly, Bishop of Sallsbury: **Ncutrality— Keal or Pretended,’ by E. Al Freeman; “The Gospel of John and Modern Criticism, by Prof. Boyschlag, of Berling “Lexislation for the In- sane,” by Dr. Tuke; *“The Roman Trial of Jesus Christ,” by Alcxander Taylor Innes; *“The Discovery of Oxygen In the Bun,” by R, primeval forcst, abounding fn fine timber, | th¢ N, ay the intercat. ‘These giand eoterpriscs Cuoutehoue ts the qnly artlelo of commerce that | Ketid"bivo employment to hall a iliion ot is anortod‘ but cnormotis quantitics of this [ men, relieve thio Inbor market, develop the re have been odtained within ten years. Its prod- | sources of the country, aud enrich tha world, uce Is decreasing, however, as the trees hove | As EVIDENCE THAT TRE * TIMES !' 18 OPEN TO been ruthlesaly cut dowsn, instead of belng CONVICTION merel uBred to procure thelr preclous julces. | jn belalf of American rallways, { published a The fnhabitants of the provinco number only | jong articls a fow dava ago in its money column 10,000, nnd are mostly confined to the vonst. An | from the pen of Col. W. interesting tribe of wild Indians, the Cayapas, | ¢ Mann Ieating-Car Compauy,” advocating fn- dwell on the Cayapas River, They are entirely | vestment in_American ratlw: curitics. Col. fsolated, living” in the forests, subststiug by | Munn's articlo contatns a great deal of truth, huntiug and_fishing, and golug nearly naked. | and ta producing considerable effect. I will They aro o harinlesstribe, and number about | quote a parazraph from his lutcrestiug commu- 2,000, nication? = Many of ths American rajlways herctolore bnity MOUNTAIN-CLIMIING, HaVe Coute {01 OXISONCo anduF tro raulCal facita, The greatest altitudo which has been reached | the ouo in the financing, the other in tho con. by mountaloclimbers was attafned lu Casle struction, —the lsttor tna natural reanlt of the former, Often but little cspital has been roatly mere by Mr. Johnson, who sume yearsago | rajued on aliaros, yot a considerablo leste has ticen mounted to a spot 22,300 feet above the sea. | made, and, with the bonded dobl, 4 nomtnal cani- ¢ tal has boen shown snmticient for a fair or oveu Acrousuts have ssecnded 30,000 feet, and re- | L0, JL* conairuction of the road. In truth, the turned with safety. 1t s supposed by monn- | avuilsble capitai bias been that only denved ‘from taincers that 25,000 or 26,000 feet is tho utmost | the bonds, which. iasucd at the rate gencrally of belght thiat will evhe bs tral by lisman stoos. !;‘fia""h'.t‘:.?u‘.‘.’;.“‘:‘l,h“.'.’:rn".‘:L‘a.“:;:fi?‘.‘.’:‘fi.:‘.“. H That life can’ bo supported at this altitude kas | {iat Ffraquentiy not 812,000 cash por mile has Kous een proved by tho adventurers who have dared | to the actual construction. the dn‘:‘uperl uly the upper alr in a balloon, Dur- | Col. Mann here hits the nall on the head, and ing the tnst summer Mons. Welner ascended | this loose raflway bullding—we may call it M. Iliimant, ono of the loftiest poaks of the | swindling—las had its day, In the future it Bolivian Andes. Tho helzht of this mountain | Wil bo necessary to conviues tho forchim capls has been variousty estimatod, Mr. Pentland giy- | talist that u road is wanted, that tho population {ne It an altitude of 24,200 feet; Mr, Minenin | and trafiic will justify ita construction, and that ‘seting it at 21,224 feet: and Mr, Welner him- | its alfairs will be honestly cunductcd, and the sclt makivg 1t to bo ouly 0,113 fect, Few as- [ money to bulld it wilt boreadily forthuoming. cents to the helzht of 21,000 fect havo been | - Amurican travclers are agaln returting to Mann, of tho corded. Hunters on the Tlimalayas often chuse | Parls from oll parts of Lurope, most of whom H fco of noble, generous, and self-sacrifclog men. N (L SR ngth, f8 inflated ot the base, and bent fn | frour, % £ rel i - | are preparing to o home for the winter, if wo b oy e o1 ATt u.TnE‘:JSf&fi'fl;%‘;‘n"é'?.’:‘f:nt." e worth o the 3(‘1?."&‘:’; Soutd r""‘c«{lvr:rl:x‘:ger:!:r‘»:( O Tenh. | B e NeELh ks dorp Abo tomewkiat rescmbling tho bowl of 8 | s oy .':-nr“"’.\{'é'f»h:'nfa(rfx':fi‘;” eat Teiern may .fi"l%.’ffi Ly thocrowdof :;t‘\,-:::-nc‘u\hbe":;ln,rnd'- o E . ntly v 200 eribe. el . Tiare {chzllirn:u ll’\nl:] :“tflh;r‘- fl‘:f&:?fi?"fi’:.'grfi“.'fi ominent preactier, ana_loved him us Kindr glr:‘l,rlu".ll\ll:ngg'r‘l 'b,yogn:%m:‘lliuggl'.m‘ll;llml;x&mlxu and calm, and lles loyingly nestled among tha frequently climb to the summit, above 20, ar tha Unlon Btock-Yards and at Harlem occasional specimens of the Pokeweed. Phyto- lacca decandra, have been found, It §s thoonly representative of the order Phytoluccaceis which_oceurs in the Northern Uuited States eaat of the Mississippl, Most persons are famil- {ar with |I|urm. brauching weed, and in their childh have mwade red Ink of tho uice of Its long stems of purple percies, Ita Howers ars produced In July and Soptember, ‘Chio plant has a rank, un- pleasant odor, and its root is polsonous. A tincture of the berries Is used In mediclne, They contaln a noxious principle, and a_spirit distill- ed from thew produces death, The leaves are extremely uerld, yel the young shoots, loslng tho qualily by bolling, may bu caten like Aspar- 18, w‘i‘he Phytolaccaceie number less than 100 spe- cles, all of which aro herbs or under-shrubs. ‘They bave altcrnate, entire loaves, and race- moso flowers, and aro natives of America, Afri- ca, and India, lubabitiog both Torrid and Tem- rato regious, ‘The specivsare generally acrid, beautiful woods that surround it and that rise bigh above it, as if toconceal ita lovcliness from prufane eyes. 4 \Wo suw forty of the Royal horses,—preity creatures they wero, too,—~each with 1he name puluted over the atall, Ve were reading them aloud, they were 80 odd and fanciful, when, as one of us sald Fenetls thellttichorse that claimed that name turned her pretty head and tried to come to us. However gently we would call her, sho alwavs heard and looked at us. *Ills Majcsty's carriages werc also shown to us, and recelved our approval, . . A nar- row_llttle phacton, low, and large enough to buld but ons person, we were told was a [avorite of the King. 1o it, with s man at each skle of the horse's head, leading him, and bearinza torch, the King amuscs himaelf by ascending dangerous mountain-roads at night, They say It is astonishing whore he will o in this ‘man- ner, Fancy meeting thut u‘o‘llnfi but {utercst- {ug youug wman, hlflorchu sud s funay little vehiclo, on » Jouely peak st midnight ! nor's {n the Rue du ia Palx. But what a dilfer- enmdn lho‘sdmlb:n? cl‘lmmlh:‘lglnn ;‘:‘w‘l‘"llr: re- DRIEF NOTES, spective wandrobes appy the man who bas s 2 wife aud daughters to dress with o bank ac- e ot ey i | s et i e femec T s i 4 3 unaty for the beirs of Brighain Young that he mineral s found In gquantitics in the Valley of | never brought his harem to Parls, Aosta, In the Alps, MCUBICAL AND DHAMATIC. ‘Tho greatest velocity of wind ever reglstored | “f.:‘é:":f.""'"’{’\’v‘:fi:.:{mm mo, Sew was prubably during the great storm of Doc. 18, | operas ot the Theatro Lyrlauo,—tbe “Clo 1576, on !It.‘\\l’;n)hh:umnu. slvllum the wind blew d‘olz" '-lllll‘l "G:u:;(ull-."GMLh urimlxlpunnm. at the rate of miles an bour, tritles, s most fnteresting event has pere 5 haps boen tho revival of Alfred de Musset's ‘Tho English Mechanie oxtols the seagull as | UL Sollor ap tho Theatro Francats, Thecaste e Tor fhs ety o 0 | 18 wonderfuf. Febora playa tho thunkices rola lfltnlu.n\"l‘Iw vditor's grounds, Whero 1t 'pmvcd of 0‘“',""“’“{ C“,‘l:,‘;“z.h"""f":",g’* ‘;’i"# ety oung laureato ol ic Conservatolre, . Yolny, of great servico o, ispoalag of slugs nad | FOE SO0 gare GF friundor Moot o el dogs have becn recelved from | Schuiin Cot o moie i b o Sioeai wa en recelvy rom | Coyucl ‘adet, wlile the honest old avocal China at the Acclimatization Garden in Parls. .Imlnm Andre has & capital representative ia ‘They have heads ke pugs, are very small, aud | Thiron, ‘The plot of **Le Chandelter " Is ubt a fat and short-lceged, " They are usuaily couked | peasant one by any mcaus, nor oue whick we uls luve each other, His eulogy on the dead :‘D w'num with feollog, and with delicate and critical appreciation. ——— THE NOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, Dy Jawxs Burcr, D.C. L., Fellow of Orisl College, and e Profesaor of Civil Law fn the University of O ford, Boventh Kdition, New York; Macmillan & Co. Chicago; Jansen, McOlurg & Co. 8va., VP 470, Yrice, §2. b Although tho seventh cdition of this excel- lent work bas now been lssued, 1t s not as well kuown on this side of the Atlanticas It shounld be, It presupposes an jotimate knowledge of Rtoman and German biatory, and, with this uo- derstandiug, furpishes an fnteresting survey of the period more particularly between the fall of Rome and the begiunlug of the prescnt ceutury, A supplementary chapter brings the raview down to tho present day. The book treats of feet, to guther sulpbur from tho crater, luys adapted for representation fluvu uutil sceently beea scarco csmmudnlu but there is un indlcation that our stage will saim 'fz s Il:r"‘r"lle‘«'luwh}: k‘l{m‘n)!-burn comedics, and . Wo ahial “‘i‘l"""‘ "fi'“i 2 6 able to boast of a ‘The right of dramatio presen comedy by W, D. na\ull-,?‘ A C;:;[&I;]gi 1’}1:;‘3 sentinént,'—frst fuhlhhml In tho Atlunfic, aud now fssucd Iy book-form,—has been purchased by Mr, Lawrence Barretl, and the play will be vroduced by him during the autunun and winter season, Until ic 1s presented with the adyant. age of sclence and dramativ effects, the value of , tho work as an acting. play cannot be prop- erly judged, Asalitetary cownoaltion, it hus the pleualn'( charucteristics of the author's manuer, The plot is liskt, yet not unatural, The hero Is a vicoruns peraonation, and the herofue quite his opposite. How they will emeryo from the hands of skillful actors ‘nvlnx the power ta recreate Lhein, (s at this moment n ustter of mers conjecture, Chicago, by the Western News Cownpany, dur- Ing the Tatter part of next week, BOOKS RECEIVED. EQYPT A8 IT IS, H‘ J. G, McCoa¥. With a Map Taken from tho Most Recent Surve! New York: llenry flolt X Co. Chlcago: MeClurg & Ca. Bva., pp, 417, Prico, THE TWO CIRCUITS: "A Stony or Liex. Byd. L. CRaxe. Chicaga: Jansen, L’ln?&t,n. 12mo. , b 502, Price, $1,75, THE SCIENCE OF RUETORIC: Ax INTKOLUO- TION TO TUE LAWS or Errctivx Discounss. By Davio J. Hiul, Professor in the Unlversity at Lewleburg, New York: Sheldon & Ca. Chi- Cago: dansen, McClurg & Co. 12mo., pp, 304, Price, 83 couts, e ESBAYS ON FREE-THINKING AND PLAIN. BPEAKING, By Lxstix 81 Now York{ @, I', Putnam's Sons. Chica, Clurg & Cs DE. 362, Price, $2.60. A BLUE STOCKING. [y Mrd. ANXIE EDwakDS, Authorof **Ought We to Visit lor?" ctc. New York: Sheldon & Co, Chicago: Jausen, M- Janson, Ace 0. Price, 81. vsotp s e | ) el e ¢ . ZpUCA e o e mnion o | S SRR L it S avtoNores, o | sl of e e MUTEALIONS of | B el ona sk s % | B SAetes wace ot rekas e HoUs I‘OMB.'EQU‘::AT“’N. fi:npe‘r:) ;" u:]d ok ‘MI;( u’;:lnmp:‘l;:: :: E:»’t' . Anihor of 3 nr‘;:‘d:‘l".?l';.“‘hl ‘The pafating by Constable lately given to the | “oys"Clionopods or Goosofoots, Chenopod- | A writer in Morest and Streamrelatesacurlous | Jandy wo socept it for fts dalnty nu:nnaokt?l'h?r)glc Q?il!(l,;l‘emulll“‘#fic." ‘l'x:,: the mtx:d tll;'nt m';;':?u Gescendants of the D“‘}dt Me: = o C{_',.‘l‘:gwl"blg"r Hros, Louvre waa presented by Mr. Lionel Constable, | facex, ars a large famlly of howely, hopelessly- | observation upon he. Rufled CGrouse. Some | foru, — tuesso, aud erace of dislogue. tont James i, Ovgood & Co. Chicazo: Jansen 1318, i & neag relative of the palnter, Tho English collection of tablets, cylinder- seals, and other autiquities recelved from the rulus of Akhadion cities, has lately been in- uncoutl weeds. ‘There fs not enough grave or refinement In the whole urder to redeem it from vulearity. . The cosrse, uglv nauie of Pigweed, (ooasfoat, Bugsued, -Wornseed, and Lamb's- Quarters,” with which the best-known Roman Imperial dynasty, The origin of the clalin is found In the coronation of Charlewange b; 111, A, D. 800, or rather fu the request mado b{ Gregory 11, about A, D. 780, for_aid from Chsrles Martel againat Lo § zauting Em- )y ot o o years ago, while walkiug in a pasture_adjolulyg | There is nothing sttractive in any of tho ¢ cClurg & Co. Little Classie Edition. B, Price, $1.50, ten TEpy " ® | scters: and the plot, robbed of s superticial .‘n‘.'n‘é"‘ g‘rl;fi'.!":‘:f,? her ';«:::k::.‘e"l"o’fig'&‘oxl' qualities, 18 u story of the luw, trescherous ment, the old bird flew off with her youuglin amours of a 'llll:.’&N%ury s wile :“;‘z: Captaln HanKlu to her feathiers by thelr bitls, The 1. | from the garrisou of the place, nd of thg crent- ‘0. 16mo. . 3 3 LLY GOOD TIMUS. By b Tioxxw. Hoston: toberts Dros. Chlcago: Jansen, McClurg & Co. 14 . I'riev, 50 iy, AR GnT 0¥ TIE RINETEENTH C [t J0! 1 Miss Martineau says, at tho outsct of the “treatise; ¢ Houschold-education is a subject as By tho Rov. E. P. Kar, Author of % ecle (l him to hi " A ased by large and valuable accesslons. fes are christened, rteveal the low ctric ol | val transmission of bher favors from him to her important In its bearings on svety one's happl- g,:"'n"é" Ul Thathsoryon wh w’:n‘h:mil%& roed Ava L AN Dol Mesd & Lo, ufng m"m.?:- of the British Ar:Deunmenl 1%l on which the tribe siands i the popular ::3::?'&:::;{.{::’&& mmetially o0 ,‘;,',‘;'3 husband's clerk. Cistaroche s w gross, sensual uess, and as {uoxbauativlo fn itsclf, that 1do | evilablo clasn with the Pontileal power, are Clorg e Co. " Tmo.. ip: o $1-50. st he Facs Bapeaition v s u speqat et | eatimation.” Thu blghcst nses, with scarco ex- | becurroncs was sl ohscrved by the wrier, i | £2ublst matiug lovo ke a iowrtrooper, and uok sce how any porson whatever can undertake | carcfully shown, and tho causes of [ts decling | MSTOUY OF THE fi"."' NO.,‘:,‘-E‘!A,I {ffl;w:'i{ to have an adcquate display of the worka of the “{""‘;'::;.‘“’.}fi':; D s g‘t“;'h:;: .-:-: nearly the same place, during tHe past seasou, f:;""h,'f"f:;uf:‘fl,,:‘g( his mistress. Jacqueline, :.‘“":r“:; upn llt l:;b"m“""ldl- bl }f " maag Sleany polited out. Loas fullinliséiretmaten: || (405, Baraca &Co.” Farta 13=14." Prlce, 60 lplr!g ¥rederick Walker, & youug artistjof great Elible kindom, and are condemned to occuny | The Curumber hus tho woilerful power of | to hiepolae (Hleavon save us {rom such Lero® mpletely kuown ond entirely -sef 3 cach. . . the waste places of the ewsth. It s hsrd to speak fu such severe terma of any order bearing tho form of a plaut aud the semblance of a How- er, but what {s to be said in favor of the Goose- b takiog jtsown photoxraph. The Uuston Joursal | fnesl), decelves o kind and indulgent husband. af Chaniatry says: * 1€ you gather o Cucumber | Fortunlo, the youthful lover of Jacquellue, tho that has been exposed tu the strong sunliglt, | & chandelierof the title, I8 & vaporing boy, take it into a dark mum{ wrap It [u “paper thab | with notions of morality inore romautie than has been prepared for photography, aud shield | respectable, You tway wonder what a chande- it tn'all possible wuys from external llzht, the | lier bas to do with ull this, Well, & chandvlier, delicato yibrutiona which bave becn absorbed | gy regimental parlance, was s word sigulfyiog a ccots OUT OF THE DEPTHS. T Wouan's Lirx, Vbiladelphl . B. Peterson & Bros. Chicsgo: lladley b &Co. 1imo,, . 370 Price, 81, THE MOTHER-IN-LAW; on, Manwixo i Hasts. By Mre. Exxa D. E. N, Sovruwosrit, Philadel: fia: T B Poierson & Bros, Chicag lisdiey |2 5. tractivo ln the narrative than Hallam's * Middle* Agey," it Is o complement to both works, cov- ering ground occtipled wholly by neither of thew, It will bo found very satisfactory as mu!:r:! analysls of the growth of the Qerman lmJ)erl power. Tho charming style, tluent aud persplcuous, adds no‘: a lttla to tho sitract. Tt scums to me that all we cau do is to reflect, and say what we thiok, and learn of one an- other.” This modest begluning of what ls teally s very able and practlcal essay on tho nomentous toples of home-teaching and fnflu- 3 SroRr or a Mr. Holmano Hunt's famous picture, ** Tha Light of the World," has becn prescuted by Mrs, Coombe, widow of Mr. Thomas Coombe, o the Clarcndon Press, Oxford, to the lbrary of Keble College. The yvmoval to England of the Cleopatra 0018 '['rue, Sploach, Bplnacea olearacea, s very rel- tshable'inthe -nr‘:ux. when delicately e?aked ence puts tho et tely in the most s ros. 12mo., pp. 407, Price, : and served: and s0 are English Mercury, Bli- | will aguin be given forth, lmpriuting & distinet | & cusidier serand,V'—a man slways ready to 'flmfls‘ ruhllnn‘e:llu: Jfl“.‘.‘.‘if.ni’ Mirteal e | TR ol o DL s FLULTATI 'ff,,',‘,‘fig‘,{fi".‘.r"*“"‘;. e %&L‘&?.‘R:‘fi.‘fi.&"‘d&%"&.‘ffifl“.& ths tiss | tum Honus'Henricus, and “"Fuflflnch?km- Imago vf tha Cucumber 0a lts saualiive wesp- | et and carry ut bis mustress lightest word, ote luvited to @ conferenco where bis part will CAVOUR. Tiror. L Hadioy Bros. & Cor' Puper. | of epliemeral wriling callod forthy several s plox harteusl, st Chand let, sl cxcetiont | por 573, plstonts Tover, as Clasarvehe puls It Wi :‘;“‘ waaiat u tbo discusston, aud where ques- | THE LIVE OF COUNT CAVOUR. Prom the | Wric mBerntt, oo on cunin: A soxar yfiflf‘::fiumffi:zfi?m og prepared | KEee o irizel ase SAAUIS Footk ToF the (064 | The Miottom of the Son from @ Ballooa, | fover. urtuio ts a caoital chandslies ® for s and objections will be geuerally vxpocted G P m'.m"‘é""' Ds Mazaok, New York: Heavsn rou Graxuan-Scuoors. By W & of wan and beast; and the Samphire, Salicor- Chambers Journal, sue time, but, fn the long ruu, e outwits d considered, . Ciary & Car 80y, a5 A5E,Tpsen, Me- 5 3. | yThe well- kuowu engravivg after Leonarda da The most cutbusiasiic advocates of bulloou- | Clavaroche, his rival, who made uso'of biw s a : G I'% Boston: Diton & Co. Svo.. po. 02 UORUS-CHOLR _ INSTRUCTIU! By A. N, Joussox. Bosion: Oliver Dion & Co. Pp. 334, — PERIODICALS RECEIVED. AMERICAN CATHOLIC QUARTERLY REVIEW —October (lisndy & Mahonmy, Fbiladelptis). nf3, wakes a talerably good Rluklu‘. but can the” virtues of these go fur tuward elovating In our opinion the 500 or wore worthless Chonopads ;.hu do nul.d)w%d elul ?lt:ll or & blossow to chal- ouge our admiration |(.)s} tho genus Cheuopodium, five -species be- lovg toour florn. Pigweed, C, album, tho Oak- Leaved Gouscfoot, C, Glancum, and the Maple- Vinci's ** La Jocoude is considered by art- critics as & second-rate work, lackiug Iu subtlety and power. It has been lately proposed to the cuisent engraver, Al Galiland, to undertake a reproduction of tha celcbrated portralt, bat it s sald that-he hesitates to accept the com- wission. Yet there'is littlo" accasion for doubt or dls- 0t {n anythiug that is sald by Miss Martineau 1 the progress of her discourse. Al is so wise, *0 cauticus, and bas besn so well welgbed sud long deliberatod, that it commends lisell as :.‘wnlnx quite as near tho truth on every point {ng would have hesitated to declarethatsubmar- | conveulens object to dlrect Mailre Audre's sus- ing surveys wero within the proviuce of the uer- | pllons to, and so secure bis owa amours lrom ouaut. Buch, bowerer, is the vase, stuce AL | discovery. Tho play Is altoguther exceadingly Duruof aud bis mmpun&uu, kol up lun | offenslve, and It takes alf the magnificent actlug & balloon om the 25t of last Au- | of the Franculs troupeito make ussit It out. gust, at Cherbourg, and being at an altitude of | Falking of the ‘Theatre Fragculs, the magnid- 5,000 feot, were amazed to sce beueath thetn, | cent avenue lcadiug from it to the Opera bas The prowmlse held out. ta tae title of this vol- ume {s not strictly fulfilled in (ts contents. The book 13 not @ blography, as wo we led to ex- poct, and the cvents forming tho personal hiv- tory of the distinguished Itallan statcamman wil} be vainly sought fn it. It ls, fnstead, & roview o Coutfnts: **Tho "Nuncio snd the Two Vicars ¥ . ybridum, arc common | with stasthing distinctucss, every rock, fssure, | been forinsily opened. 1t Is & sy street, iebated, as human observation and reasoning | of the political career of Cavour, snd concerns Juoutalie: Ad yourn, Aod Qidard, " by KOA"‘ fim‘:fi:“ mlg R:"fifi.:}".’n‘flf %fil‘i“m‘i‘?fi?\ffl"’m“fiu weiloctod coraers..C. | and denrwh‘)‘n at the bottom of thesea. Aud | ousof the fucst tu the city, and a crown: \an generully reach, . Bug Itaclf almost exclusively with his course in Par basez her alssertation upon the principle “Positivisw and Byolution- 0 > g . ‘Catholic Poet of the | tervicw with the venerable Prof. Welr, who lls urbleums and C. Botrys are less abundant. Thbe lament sud fn the Minstry, A fow loading | Beantvecth Costern by Lo 4. “Casseriy | the Chalr of Fing Asts st Weat, Folnk drcw out | Lattor rows loug thio lake-shorv, sud Iy plsase ‘e ¢t the sva upposite Cape Levy, where the serial | tug beuusy to the wost beautiful capital fo Ku. JoTugan Obtabied this bird'eyo viow, bak & | supe. : CoAMoroLITAN,