Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 3, 1877, Page 9

g THL CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 3 1877—TW" LYE PAGES. un to the extent of thelr Ingieal conse- | tv-four works of varivus kinds were the fruit of quances, and the reault was anarchy. hia literary fndustry, Only hia Antoblography Vrot, Van Laun appears to be mostauecess- | Iina rurvived to the present day, nnd this, for fal in his treatinent of the cariler perlod of the | ts historfcal value, is well worth preeersatlon, history of French literature, Here he has | The lifo of Mr, Elwood extended from 1639 to made U wikderness of medieval history and the memory of it s fragrant with to bloon like the tose. The old Chroni- | lovely virtues. clers, the gay Troubadours, and wanderin e — Trouverea pass before us clothed with lifes an STORIFES BY MRS, BURNETT. we wonder that this period was ever called the | SURLY TIM: axp Otnen Sromes. By Frances Dark Ages. [Hs lutriduction, too, Is o master. Hovasox Bunserr, New York:™ Scribo plece fn 1ts way. Though athowing ntumeron§ Armatrong & C Chicago: 1ladley Broe. & and distinct traces of ihe influenceof Henrl | Jtmo., pp. “Taine, the author elr‘.'nmly sums up what the ‘The work which Bret Harle has done In com- Suupe ainl objest of s therary Iistars should Le; | memorating I fiction the atrange, rough lifo nuarticularly tn e e O Crrtins | Of the ploncer settlvrs on the Facific Coast, from the bezinning of the Eiehteenth Century ! Uowrs (hat e secing Toes strong. fle does it | Mre. Burnett ia repeating in belulf of the coal- clearly rasp all the wmoral cawses which wore | inlners and thie coarse, fgnorant, hard-working al_work; mor does he sympathize with the | Jaborcrs of England. There is not much slin- sufferinge of *the bers” oaf, which were . B Tokeiatty atenien,. THiMa sahte Tack of powee: | Narits a4he styleof ihe two sutliors; aud yet {0 comprefend the whole tendency and drift of | Uhe characters with which they prefer to deal, ERATURE. leart has thouchts and feclings like those ex- preseesd [n these columns; they seem nothing snrprising or moving; yet not many have the factity to cxpress, or the Industry to produce collected yolumes; and, when a good heart and pleasaut "fancy offer modestly thelr best erea- tions to others natures, we accept them courteousty, giad that famillar things may be the themes of song, and wishing that more minds might find subject for musing on the so-ralled common events of life. Bome of these verses rive quite above the common- place, I hierotsm_ and Tove of truth and right: anit others are dainty things, true flowers of sentiinent. Iere Is a pretty stanza: TORCIL-LIGNT IN PALI-TINE T Hift this samach -bough with crimson fare, And, tonehed with subtie pangs of Through the dark wod & Lurch 1 o In Autumn's faneral-train. The poems which portray howne nlocss will be read with pleasure, Horse to Market "' 1¢ an smosing lttla satire graved from n ‘hfznr-rrwljne taken when the stalesmnan was between 45 and H), and the other fron & portrait representing him fu carly manhood. The Cau:hnitz collection of Enclish anthors now comprises 1,669 volumes. Of these, 1,507 are by Britlah authors, and the remaining scven- 1y by American suthors, Dr, Schleimann's account of his excavations will have an Introduction by Mr, Gladstone, who, we are told, *‘cousented to become aponsor for the book oniy after careful exam- inattun of Ita contents, and eunsultation with the authorities of the Dritis Muscum.” The book will be publisbied In this country by Scril- ner, Armstrong & Co, 8ir Edmond Bar:y gave an actount of the literary resources of ‘Australla, at the Jute Con- gresd of Lirarfans,—stating, smong othe thinge, that Melbourne has funr hbrarics ce. tabilished in Lthe year 1853. 0t these, the Public ry of Viciorin bas G0.U%0 volumes, the divtled filres of the hemp-parking., Tnterlaced with the spikes e found the following: About three dozen kufves, forks, and spoons, sll the They were from two to two-and-a-half feet in length. tmtcher-kniver, three In number, a targe cayv- Sulcide Is sald to b2 raors prevalent In Den- !'rflliv‘)‘\:'l,rv:.mr:r;."':x;d ulzvlé Ie{\‘;fllll I-rlz: niugsof | mark than In anyother country In Earopes and, Awcod er casing of 4 silver watch was . disposed in one part of the otte, the glass of the ‘L"“fi"‘"’ tuough, the victims of the crime aro same walcls In auother, and the works in_stij] | €biefly unmareied persons and widows. ;\:olnl:er, an fldbp"m' um:lln]lngh lnmcl:i‘lvc{, Dr. Garlick, who has had long experfence In atclics, and tobacce; nearly alt theamall tools | Furai fromn the tool-clasets lmunz’lhem severul large 1;',:;.":‘";"‘: {:"‘"u :‘rnul, Alerau i augere. * Altogether [L was & curlous mixture of | §irei that the yeaclink trout are nevet over ifferent articics, all of which mast have beon | fhre fuches lonz Uniike wny uther specice, transported some distance, as they were orig this llsh grows slowly Jurinug the Hirst two years, innlly stored iu different parfs of the house.” Sir Allan Yount Is contemplating the dispatch 'Flie articles of valus woven Into the structurs | of the P'audors to the Arutie segiung nusin, nest of tina nest were belicved to have Leen atolen | Soring. The vessel will be relitted for the pur- from the men who had broken Into the house | posc, and 118 awner will probably try the Spitz- :ur‘ temporary ll‘m!(zhu.:‘. ”Anu’lhur In{:hlem il- | berren routc, Insteard of Lhat By Mmith's Soaad, ustratinge the thieviog habits of the anlunlis 1. Preparations for Prof. Norlenskjold's vovaze ated by Ure nuthor of the above as 1t wus bl | alung) the aorth vosst of Earope foldia vor: o lum by'a m ¢ latter had at the tiwe ob- v ing" lamuuy AN way ol Bebring's !umal are bLelng rapully van Laun's History of French Literature. The Great Pyramid of Egypt— Autobiography-~Stories by - Mrs, Burnett. flistory of the Ottoman Turkse. Artist-Biographies - Ele- L i e mintagcanp where | gorwgrded, Sit, Dickson, ol Gothenberg, defrays an agre ur a6 epoch 18 seen attimes throngliout | 80d the vivid power they shiow in portraying the |\ LnSp0 § L Biul poel. Livrary of Uarlwment, 40,00 v the | the raen afl alept in the same cubln, *Shortly agimt g Lot H 2 meniary Perspective, {lin whiale work, and countitnteaits chief defcet, | passfons, the jors, snd the sorrows, which con- | " apesul thie youtiftil pus Caiversity Litmary, 16,000 volumes. and the | after his' ntrtval, #nall articies commencet | o™ Kung Gucnre of S conteborms & ot Ne ts content to mve & rapid, cven though it | tend within the breast of the meanest, the must be s superficlul, review; to ignore e | rudest, the most gracelcss and reckless of the of the vital forces at work In molding soclety, It | race of humanity, irresistibly associale the orer to give a veat or epterammatic turn of | writers tozetber, and fustitute likenesses be- expression to & sentence, or to make & more | tween thein. complete and attractive picture. And yot The stories collected In the present yolume the merits of the ~“work are siuch | sre uncommonly vigerous and truthful stories that these defecte will pass with only | of luman nature. 1hey are all the more aifect- oceasfonal notlee, The plctures are colored 20 | fve that they reveal the depths of feeling existe brightly on the eanvas, each individual (s drawn {“ing {1 hearts closed and dumb for the most part s lifellke, that we Iorzet that the perspectivo | fo the world sbove them, fur lack of culture In of the whole picture is faully. Graceful and | the arta of apsevh and of communication, The scholarly at alt times, the author s never dull, | eriel that harruwed the soul of * Surly Tim * —never crowds his subject with_too many de- | when at Inst it breaks over the long, ricorous tails to distract the attention. Tie has the glfL | habit of represston, tonches us with infiuttely of belng ablé to summarize hia criticlsm ov an | greater force frum the surprisc it creutes thut so anthar or @ buok In a few words, | much pain hae been patiently and silently borne, and vyet gmive a clear fles of his | Nothing ls so pathetic as a sorrowy that makes Hupreme Court, 17,000 votumacs. ‘Thero ure 130 otber libeagtes in Victoria, with 174,103 vol- Ulues, Mr. McCoan, the author of * Egypt as It [s," was tecently the editor of the Lecant Herald, 8 Wwv which had a considerable vrculation in estern Kurope. On the outhreak of® the war hetween Russia and Turkey, 1otelligente of the progresa of allairs wus pubiistied | Heraid, ~u proceeding contrary to the es ol the Turklsh War Departinent. The puper wus con- sequently suppressed for «is tounths, aod M McCoan was thus [uckily afforded tue lesure lor prepanng bis valuable ook, HUNSIE, W disaypear; ([ a whole pluz ol tubmenn were left on the_table, 1t wouli bo gonn un | *STable amoat in A of it te inuening. Fiually, 8 bug, conistmuy | Flerr I, L. Zeitteles read a paper on the an- $100 or 1nore In volddust, tyas taken from a | Cestry of the cumnion lsuse<doy, ut & Intemect- stnall table at tire bead of a bunk Inwhich oneaf | 1052 of the Lremlen Naturuliste! Society, The the proprietors ol the claim slept. Suapicton fel] | Suthor has Leen studying Uio subtect for eleven ou the new-comer, and e woutld perhaps have ind coucludes Ut the dug, Cams fumnil- futed hardly,—tor, with these rough nien, pun- ues not descend from cither wolves ur 1atiment s shintt and aharp,—but, pust in time, ut from the jackul and the so-called fu- 0 large ruts’ nest was discovered In the garret of | 4. woll, Cunts patlipes. the cubin, sind {n it was tonod the nissing mon- Nne of the attractions of the Paris Exposition ry, us well as the lobsceo sud vinerarticles sup- | of 1578 willbe 3 Bench-Show, Dugs will be pused to be stolen,” extitated urnier six ewtegorics,—the first com- ——— prisinge antmials used for protecting human belnss COCA. undd guardioe locks, the second, huntings does; ‘The valne of Cornas astimulaut and tonjc | the thid, thuse used to shout vver; thefourtl, Uas heen pretty wall tested during the past year | ET7UUUTds: the it Tance breed umd houre: JUVENILES, HATUPY DAYS FOR BUYS AND GIRIS. One Huondred and Thirt x [luateatio Lontribue tlona by Lovjae ALCOTT, ALICK and Pinznk Canr, C, A, Stzvawe, ete., etc. Philadelphias Torter & toates, Chicago: Janeen, MeClurg, & C'o, #vo.. gmm. tiee, $1.25, DOINGS OF I"T. BONLEY FANILY IN TOWN AND COUNTRY, Iy the Anthor of torien from My Altie ! ete. Wit Seventpseven i1- Susteatio New York: Hurd & Houghton. g anien, McClurg & Co, Hro., pp. Art Journals--=The Authorship of Shakspeare's Plays-«=An Ine stance of Dutch Ob- stinacy. The Wood-Rat—Coca—Flora Round Abont Chicago: The Sandal- Wood and Hornwort The atteactiuns of these handsome Jureniles aresiich a8 Lo make young eyes sparkle with delight, ‘The oue first meutioned . comprises tales, sketches, snd poems, from a number of AR 1 Biarstadt to throwinu stilt another Bocky- due, aml the mxth, miscelluneuus varivtics Familics. Theaning: thanghthis Is evtdently often due to | w moan, thuugh the iife wastes day by day by | LopuI%f Rathors, wmong whom are Loulse Al- | ypo 000y, coena upon bis vivid canvis. ur seaiters of the Toronto Lurosee Club, Au | uot ocluded 1 the uthict csses, ; the fact that he paraphrases the opinfon of the 1 ity Jess gnuwing. There is searcely i aft | oth Murv AL Prescott, C. A. Stevens, Hara nterestine history of the expariment. iy giver e T D a e O ranha | o careles etiawlug, - There 1s murecly 19,311 | Conunt, and oitiers, 'The Doings of the Bod. | The portrait of Gumbett lately asecuted by e lewory arishent s Bl | | Two linudeed and furty.richt soectes of hirds B e Julemants aul oneralizations | onich sives i1s amn 10 1he Coliection tter ey | 1e¥ Family * became famoun lust season, winl | Legros gives the statesaian'’s face o probile, | 45 Dr. K. B, Shuttleworth i the Canaditn | have beew found I Madaziscar sid the ad- LITERATURF. A e lapmaved wide, | T e L ariuicis miler b | will b atie of the prottleet gift-books the com- | 44’y vty ntesize. * | 7harmacnaticat dournal. In the spring of 1570, | jacent tstunds. UL these, 29 Dolone to Muda- R Tt . and vet miutta, The work is the only one of | are stmust cqually alffecting, The swet. | 12 toliayteem. Both volumes are einbelilshed sevesal rentlemen beloneing to the Club began | Eascar, atd 101 are reateicted Lo the islund. Oug with a multitude of pictures, and with orna- An engraving of Mrs Elizateth Thompson meuted covers, Butter's famous work, * The Kol-Call,"” is rap- 1dly approsching cumupleton. the kind In the English lancunge. the emas- | hurter,” “ One Ilayat Arle,” and ** Seth 7 ure eulated translation of Demogeot excepfed: aml | examples that may be cited. Indeed, the col- 1t {s betier than any French literary history yet | Jection s very peculiar in not holdiug a single published. It deserves 2 high rank as an au- | feeble or unintercsting st Laktng Cora for the sake of Its support while | UE these 103, not jees than % o ¢ frecallur geteta. ‘The Lo Iucurriug Lo fatigue of & Rame which ocasiots | yiut forts four spectes of birdss Mauritio violent exerase, “ AL the commencement ol | atwut staty, Boutbon, atwut the sime; an mSTORY_OF FRENCH LITERATURE. Ry Jtexie Vax Laux. - Vol 111 Frow Tne Hirien oF Lovin XIV. TiLL Tue R¥o o THE MAN AND NATURE. Jewn or Louts Pinirrs. New York: Q. P. o ratas s o TOFE EARTI AS MODIFIED BY HUMAN AC. Mr. A. B. Duraut, the venersble painter, | qvery match,” says D Shuttlewortty | Kudeiguez, abuut tweuty five only, A Oy T ey Meare & e e e lofoster it wil be Tons be: THRLAW OF EVIDRNGE THox: A Naw tvmion of Mae axy Narone, | altiough now in s KK reat, sill works bualy | watut & druchin t0 6 dradim ol - e -l-";"c p,es'e'm forms the third and coneluding | 10r® It 18 superseded. A DIGEST OF THE LAW OF EVIDENCE, By | Edition, New York: Beribuer. Armstrong & :»“ m:b:;‘i:lldfikzl{;uegxgbffi:; ,'.:;l::m‘ 8 actt | o hall uf the leaves was served ot Lo cach man, CURRENT CPINION. of Prol. Vun Lsun's work on Sir Janze Fire-Jawes Steenen, Q. U., K. C. Co. Chiesgo: Iadley Bros. & Co. S8vo., pp. Ty " Ihits wus vhewed in ainall partions duting the 'fl’lumfihm ot French Literature, and THE GREAT PYRAMID. 8. 1, From the Third Foghsh Edition, Reviseil, 074, Price, 83, Herr Ferdinand Becker, a_distinguished Ger- the G 4 J gaine,~the saliva belng, of course, swaliowed, | The now party has appeared in the person COn tirst taking Lhe lenves, & senxation of beat | of Umiteld States Senatur Uavig Davis, who 1+ his aud drenens was produced i the throat, ‘Tlits | owncancus And it 18 a very ane, tenpeciable wis rebevid by washing out the mouth or rarg, o, P i - )e Tiig witl - water, after which te_ desire patsy. ~Memphte «Tenn.) Astlancke (Inat. T eater was 'nO greater than ueuat, | We hnve made great apostles of abstinenco Soun slter, a sdenmble uwuginentation | out of gigantic drunkards; snd I am not withuat of musculur force and 2 gencral feels | hope st 1he demons who once sutiuated primary iarged by the Author, With LE T NE; 3 - Corrocted, and E A MIRACLE TN STONE: of. TAE {nxar Prabe | Kotes and Additiona) iustiatians, Chiefy from Partor of the Churcl of the Holy Cominunion, | American Cas ity WiLnek Mav, Aathor Philadeiphin, Pa.; Anthor of **Lost %1 of *The Law o Boston: Lit- etc. Thiladelphia® Forter & Costes. Chicag tle, Brown & Co, Chicago: K. . Myers.” Sin. Tiadley Dros. & Co, LImo., pp. 250, 8v0., pp. lix; and 257, Those who are not already famillar with the ‘The great auld well-descrved succeas which extraordinary theores concerning the origin and | this work has had in Eugland has induced Mr. Durinit the three years since this work was first given to the public, it has been treated with algnal favor. In order to keep its data abreast with the sclence of the times, the appearance of s vew edition has been made the upportunity for thoroughly revising the book. Hesides ad- ditons to the body of the work, an appendix of man artist, recently died at Mayence, at the age of 31, The prewnture dove of his promisiu carcer s greatly deplored by all who kuew of his rare talente, Prol. Moritr. Thausing has secured the rough sketeh of Michael Angelo's compebitive desin of *8oldicrs SBurprised Bathiu, osly vow can the reader form a fair and adequate conception of the manner inwhich the task has been performed. The hietory of 3 pation’s literature is one of the gravdest.works an suthor cau undertake; and {t demands correspondingly great puwers. To 15 of undoubted authentiety, ing of vioration were reaized, and continued iugs may yct bocome Apustles of Livil- S » thorough and sccurate knowledge of the | Inteution of the Great Pyramid of Egypt, which | May to prepare an edition of It for American | thirteen pages his been suppiled. The book | Michael Angelo et Written by Limselt sex | Lo be lelt throughout the vame, 'so the fatirue :‘:‘,f,:‘ st rl it o political history of the country whose literature | varlous learned and scientitic men have of lato readers, The suthor says that his object has | has also been reduced in size 30 astobeunifurm | eral times un the shect which cottaina tlis and | wus wholly, or in gieal vart, resisted. Leattempts to review, he must add aminute soquaintance with the principal works of its authors. He must be cathiollc and wenerous in s judgmeut, thoroughly fo sympathy with the with the othier works of Mr. M years brought forwand, will be curlously {nter- been to make such a statement of the Law of ested in thie little monogram on the subject by | Evidence as will enable not only students of Dr. Sciss. 1t presents, in the first chapter,n { Jaw, bot general .readers, to obtain such a aynopais of the history of the monument so far comprehensive and cxact koowledre of the arsh, also two or three other slight sketches. The art of Engraving is making good progress n Austria, the *Socicte de Gravare de Vienne dolng much o advance it. The works of Unier pulse waa obeerved Lo fucreuse du frequency, [ It is pretty cartain that the proposed unti. perspiration was singmented, but no meutal el | Admisletration party ina not vel teen fored, and fect wan noticed, save the exbillaration of spints | ot s probable that the Presistent doea not wutend 10 alwavs attendant 60 the exendse of Well slrudt | ojve any new provocation fur the nganication of 1L.0SS OF CIILDREN. TEARS FOR TILE LITTLE ONES. A CostEcrion oy Porun AXp PArRAGEa INAPIRED DY THE Lo oF © | niuscles aud on the etutement of play, No i i vorth ey oF the people, aud posscascd of a com. | s i i known; of the discoveries of the various | 1w sn would cnable them to fullow in | Crvumes. Eaiied by Hintan Renomicy down. | Loye achicted s Enroneay reputation, it UIL | diowsrceable after-ellects were experiened, e | (50 0 P HIARHNSS et Atiencat blete knowledge of the literary history | oxplorers who have hunted in different ages, | 88 Intelligent manner the proceedings of [ fox, Heston: James it Oéeood & Co, Chicago: leaves were chewal withuut Lie sudition: ol Austrian etchers and _engravers. Jacoby, one of the founders of tur Society, Lns Leen at work eight years on a° large plate from Raphuet's “Bchool of Atheus.” The Gazrlte drs Beauz Arts contains an article by M. Louts Courajud, Ju which the theury 1 advanced that Levustdo da Vinel wua the uul&r tor of the bust ol Beatrice d’Este which stands in the Louvre. The work wus lor maty yoars attributed to Desideno da Settignano,” but Milanest proved thut Bettignano died twelve ears before Prinvess Beatrice was born. nteresting sugpestion tbut Da Vind was the suthar of the beautiful marble (s supported hy logenious arguments, yel, with our preseni knawledge, is fucapsble of demonstration. — THE PORTFOLIO. The Portfulio for November opens with a careful etching by Mongin of Bir Joshua Rey- nolds’ famous ‘“Age of Imnocence.” The original is in the Vernon Collection, having been bought by Mr. Vernon in 1844 for 1,520 guineas, I%1s un canvas, two feet six fuckes by two feet one juch, The schotarly and vatuahle Duerer urticles are here continged In the tenth number, which treats of the two Little Masters, the brothers Seball and Barthel Beham, and §s filustrated by five exquisite little Hadley Bi & Co. Kq. 1Umo., po. 100, The gentle office of this valume is to soothe hearts which are suffering from the bereave- ment of litt'e children, It émhraces a collee- tion of poems and prose passaces which convey in thelr fecling lines the comforts that hope, courage, fortitude, and religion cav afford in days when anguish for the loes of beloved little ones welghs heaviest on the soul. The selec tlon has been Judiclously made, and is presented by the publistiers in ao elegant garb, of the other principal coutemporary patfons. It may Le objected that 1hils [s requiring too much of auy man; but not with fewer quallfications can the task be ade- quately performed. The Nterature of & people contalus and reflects all that fs best in that people’s fnner a8 well as outer life. Hlistory can tleceives different and contradictory conclu. sfons can bo drawn from the same scries of events; but fn o natiun's literature can always truthfully be secn the great moving ideas of the rave, fts mode and degreo of development, and tke part it will play in future human progress. Literary development is not accidental, "There are three prinelpal stages in a nation’s Inteilect- ual growth: firat, the initfative, or formative; sccond, the creative, or Inventive; and third, Ahe eritfeal, or reflective age, Tn the Initiative period, the lanzuage ia crystallizing into forms, and the ouly rrmhlcu of literature are iov.'llr,— either Iyricy like the ballad-poetry of England and Spaln, or semi-historical, like the rhyming chronicles of Rome and Nurthern France, The dictlon {s rude, similes and tnetaphiors few, forms of expression subordinate, and versifica- tion lux and {nhermonious, No outside Influ~ ence has aa yet made ltself felt, but the native kenfus develops o nil its own originality. After this, a scuson of _stagnation, or even re- trogressiun, follows witness the time be- courts of justice. More than this, that (twould and particularly in our own, for the key toits Five any one who has mastered the princioles mystery; and of the startline interpretation | jiere expouniled, a full and aceurate knowledge which hias been put by certain astronomers, | of the leading principles and rules of evidence Fuyptologists, anil_ divines, upon the siugular | which occur in actual practice, and enable even features exhibited in its construction, old practitioners to arquire & more competent The second chapter Is occupted with an arru- | knowledge ol the different parts of the subject, ment supporthig the claim that the pillar was | and their relations, than they could {o any ather erected by Divine Inspiration; counectiug it | way, The ticatment of the subfect is very con- with the ipropbesies and declarations of the | ciss and metbodicals and the “work Bible by means of numcrous texts of mystical | s divided fulo - three oparts, treating signiticance; and afming Lo prove that, fuits lo~ | respectively of the relevancy of evidence, cation, form, measurcments, proportions, and | the mode "of proof, and the production and interfor arrangement. the Yyramid Is n pericct | effect of evidence, Coplous references are symbal of the Universe,—tiustifying In inde- | made to the larger treatises of T'hillins and structible records to the past sacred history of | (ireenleat on the same subjects, for those wha the human race, and foretelling with the same | wisn Lo examine further, and to English and uncrring tidelity that which is to come. American authorities, typographical exe- The third chapter gives an anal of the | ention of the book is excelient, ntnd Messrs. Lit- traditions of the I'yramid which™ have come.| tle, Brown & Co, adveitisc that they are pre- down from the earlicst times, and also of the | paring a series of elemeutary treatlscs on ditfer- opinions which have been beld by modern schol- | ent branchies of law, of which the preseot vol- ars with regard tu the purpose for which it was | uwme is Lhe tirat. built. In summing up the ovidence s bie hay = interpreted §t, Dr. Bciss . govs begond TIE OTTOMAN TURKS, - the suggestions of TProf, lazz! Smith, | HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN TURKS, FROM who ascribes the bullding of the Pyra- | “'FHE BEGINNING OF TIHEIR EMPIRE TO mid to Melchizedek, Tho present author be- THE PRESENT TIME. Ty Kir Enwakn 8, fero et theurchlice: wa Job he Sconer | grxaser Wk GuteLPeciastenof Cosent, rince, whose home was in the Land of Uz, an 3 e u * yet. thinka it probnble that Job and Melchizedek | College, London; Author of sTue Fifteen Hme or uthier aikalive nisiter.” If the colored peopls of North Carolina Altee using Cova In this manner forasear | wantto et ulong well, they maet guit pulitics, antl u ball, alf the mecuibers of the Cluby fuve | The teen tuey shall havr 1n Ui foture toilo witn two arthiren o whotn 1t scemied 10 have 10 | 1oitiea and potbictaos. tho beter for them in o seneible elfect, wete enthustastic in [ts bra Ll 1, ang materal point of vi “Tlue meriLs of the drug were signally exhilited | Dentab mural, nd materal p Lt LY the Clitb in a pasticutur instance; which 15 | Foloyh (8. €y Neda 1 be u:lul. l’l‘llc unvk‘vras le]{’o::"dhmly‘_ hr;t. ::w If the Republican pmrty ever expecicto thermometer umrking ree Fo I the 0d up e Ry s, T antaeoniats of e Club weere | o1 SN UL L LS L men of sturdy builld, of 0ol physlytie, | Smiier a stess mrcen of e e nies et b well tralned ino the game. sl qote | porgly i for snpputt whitd men of nected with the mechanfval trades or | sianding end influence. = Fickabiury (Stne. § Herold wlu.ln 1;||£-duur lv‘nfltlunn. In duu: Iatter t;zrm- (wem ) ulwr they were I strong and apoarently un » - Tavorutis contrast with: the ptayers of the | . The Hou. Jefferson Davis Lins o letter in \ the November nambor of the Southern Uistortcal Toruuto Club, whose oc:ubations were all of 8 1 Jayer ty reference to certain stateincuts made b sedentary cluructer. However, ot the close of | ({000, ST Sunier (h reanrd 1o the. Feach the day, dunne a sbort futerval of rest between | Commisaion tn 1865, 3ir. Davis 1s evudently anll the gumes, | rematked Uhet the men of the rival | a suderer from dyencpala, and writes in n bail tem - Club were vo thoronghly exbausted thut it was | per. We think {t would huve oeen better For him with the ntinost diliculty thev coulld be ruusedd | to bave remalned silent sl **left it to time sud by their Field-Capluin to_take purt n the con- | vthet persons ™ to d2fend htin frons aay uhjurt s cluding gane, while the Covuchewers were s l;"'.g‘t*‘lv“;lgva(t",g:;’;l; it ooy atme—LiicAmond claatic, and apparently as free tron fatigus, us 3 » at the cominenceiuent of piay.” It is alrendy evident that the present Con- 1t {5 the opinivn of Dr. Sbkutticworth that the | preas is far my:'!r(nr it pogat af nbl!lll,v and lemisin. use of Coca fu excess for u great lenggth of time | tive exberience to any of fte predecesnors aince the will resuit I complete imbeflity or fhioey e Wflrr.:' l:';'t}'n'nwf é'l"’é.;.".'é'.'.’.'afi‘:fli's.’fl"'.;c‘éu“.‘&‘fi:"’ § a u e, {;;f,“;,;"',‘,‘.;"{f:‘,:‘,,‘;‘:);;’g:: topthse of teautid | 8 o tiere are noue left of that homis of Camy-Tol- -3 VEST-FOCKET SERIES, SMAKSPRARE'S SONGS. Nléstrated by Jons Grunent. Fp. 14, PAVOKITE GOES AND POEMS. By CoLtins, Darpex, snd Manveit, Ilustrated. Pp. 05 FAVORITE POEMS, lustrated. Tp. 1 These three volumes make up a full hundred of the dainty little ** Vest-Pockets." The whole constitute a charming library, Wliputian In dimensions, yet containing a goodly amount of thie cliofcest reading, Could anything be more chaste and appropriate for a hol{day-gift than & complete copy of the edition? BOOKS RECEIVED. DESSIE'S SIX LOVENS: A Suwuxn Inve. Phila. delphia: T, o Ty Friicu ilxmans, T It World," el 4§ Peterson & Bros. Chicaga: Kad. | steel engravings and three on wowl. A photo- x % Towers whe went South as th: azents of tho Ireed- tween Homer and’ Ierodotus, Plantus snd | 7ore one snd the same. It is his theory that, in H;fl:’g“l'g&:{f;no{rn::wm‘\g::w fl:vf:edrflr;: ley lros. & Lo, Paper, Frice, 5O ceut gravure after U, Bonghton's + Disided At ?:l!i:'l'lfil!:“;«tn;:: k-é::‘dfil;‘\.ulr: 'i\".::m!"or:k WMo ureat apt esisl Hhielo potten we Jiejicos Virall, Chioucer and Shakspeare, or Dante and | 0¢ reizn of Cheops, Job was abiding in Egypt, lish Editlon. New York: Henry Holt & Co, | ALCOIOL AND TIE STATE: A Dincesston or | tention represents very well the pleasiug nistives from Congrermonn] Divtricts utwut which % Prontes or LAw A ArFLIED 7O THE Liquon-Tuareie. By RonxnyC. Presan, LI.D., Assoclate Judge of the Buperior Conrt of and, having obtalned Influence over the King, *hi ] . McClurg & Co. 12wo., pp. nrev;nllcduzmn bim to build a pillar to J=hovah nbé‘.lwgnce‘.n;‘inm I e R which should last through all time, and roveal The nubluhz.r; l:mvn performed » grateful the etnquecentiatl, Then succewds tho age of literary creation, when the masterpieces of literature are pro- e sbout #20 puund. they knew little and caeed beas— ** Lurleuh 8™ forest-scene, but fails in ‘good reproduction ot p Leer te Buaton Journar \Nep.s. FLORA ROUND AROUT CIIICAGO. the flgurvs, It ls accompanied by a blograuhy of the srtist. v If tho Rtepmblicans da not earry Mussachu. : to the men of the lust evil'ago the truths which 2 Maseachaeeits. New York: National Temper- | Cqli Nunt oc of Mr. Wyld's Sketchies fn Jtaly, | T8 SAXDAL-Woun Fauiy AND Tus HORN- |\ oiiy nury week. it will not be on accutat of A ::':fd }1’:{‘;";’1‘:". l::h}'l‘r'n.l?y. fl’:‘.‘»?.‘"z%"fiéf;\!‘"fi? wero there scaled In stone, service for the Ameriean public Ly reprinting anes s;g;ll:elx and Publieation Ofice. 1200, BP: | 4o omuanied by the cmlyllmlt:d Art-llistory of | wONT Fasiey In May or dune, tu dry grounds | Qiesensions, (iov, Itice has the supputt ot i Y The argument of Dr. Sciss {s Intcresting, as 1t | this important work from the suthor's new re- affords nfind:nud statement of the lnypnt\wsu vised edition. 1t has from its first publicztion of Furopean scholars whose books are uot gene | been the standard Euglish Iistory of the Otto- ""luy ““'""“"" to “t’“ 'A_,"."""‘I"“"_'I'-'f:‘“" "|“ i8 | man Empire, but hos for some years been al- & vigoraus and expert writer; but his roasunin, = Sapoctatly n the Jast halt of i book, Ia that of | lowed to remalu cut of print. The present war & man who cxamince n sublect with catablished between Rusala and Turkey revived the call for couvictions, and reads testimony in accordance | the book, and ft has agaln sppeared, with With tbe blas of his judgment, amecndments nnd @ supplement bringing the metaphor turns 1o carieature. The attempt of talent to surpass genius resuits only in strained vomparirony, petty couceits, and falss brilliancy. It1s mot a chanco” that the school of Marini In Italy, of tiongora tn 8pain, of Ronsard and the Pietade o France, of Hofmannswaldan and Lobienstein o Germany, and of Lilly and the Euphulsts in England, succeeded the times of the bighest literury development in those couns . 81,10, TIE BOOK OF JOB, WITI! NOTES, CRITICAL, EXPLANATORY, AND PRACTICAL: Desiayen ron Botu Pastons axp PRorcr. Witn a Nxw THRANSLATION APPERDED, DL the Ttev, Jisxny Cowves, 1). ew York: D. Appleton & Cn. Chicagu: Tladley Iiros. & Co. '.'mo.,sv o1 DICK'S RECITATIONS AND READINGS, No, . Edited by Wittian B. Dick. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Cbicago: Hadley Bros & Co. 10 the urtist, withrevicws ol new Art-bouks, make up the number. SIIAKSPEARE AND BACON. Mr, Furnivall rezurds the theory of Bacon’s suthorship of snhakapeare with very slight re- speet. It [s distnissed from consideration In the followling few and jrreverent sentences: * The at Glencoe, Riserslde, and Hyde Park, the Bas- | tlons. and can be defrated o huge vole, 1w fmuk indor tand Foou-Firx, Comundra umbellats, 1o 1 blus- | Jeiis Contue hus won o hi sulipurt e’ Adaimn sum, It {s & stnall, obscure plany, reaching only hthn{n‘d\\ hlrl: (;m-l urdln “nllznl. bat wl‘uzh v | weuntly does ite best 1o aid” the Demuciatic tcket, eight or tev fuchics abure giround, atul be"l'h"‘ Fitin 12 000 5 barea eletnint, bt 1L 1o tuprarLand 10 greenlstewhite fluwern in teriminal o¢ axlllary | cigpe fight, and it seein lo'bo supputting 34 lice clusters. The luch-loug, witernste, oblong | with ouusual quicenty.= New York Iriuae Jeaves are very thick-set: und the rether woody | 4540 1y by the stay-ste ment of thy Feewe mo,, po. 180, roots buve a habit of toruing purasite steach. | ‘Fhe Domoeratio papera of the Houth are ™ % c e record down to the current date, 3 2 fdea of Lord Bacou's having wntten Shak- sorcing becatise the color line, to which tiey so Tl aszeptaaT ikt a Ta T natlonal, NOVEL DY MIS, CORBIN. Tho work is muinly founded. on Von Ham. | & 30NG AND £ SION. By Hose Fanenw, & Inents to the routs uf tiees. regorcim y arc's ploys can be entertained ouly by folk tenaciously held, 1 bruken, Why Ballimore Gu. [y tho third period, reasan Is pre-eminent. | REDECCA; on, Tux WoMax's Szcher. mer's voluminous *History of the Ottoman Sheare 4 iy y by Fire," etc. 19ma., pp. 1 Price, SL. o Caow othing whatover of elther writor, or | | This f4 tur pluut throuzh which we, fn this | erte sracy that this 1 & Inct, because tue ieatoes ) o | Emplre, whic! s the 5 . B . : - | n whomw the Kepublicaus counted vuted fur the The Influence of ciassic literature predomivates; h:‘é‘,’;;;fffégf‘ f;';f“;;,"_‘;&f"{f,‘lg et h’:fl,".;_rx}f‘;l'lffl‘bfi‘mfi,;;‘f;‘é':',’,',’,"n‘]’.l n;"'{,’;z aMew Yorik Anson i Tuadolgh &.Co. € arc crackt, or who enjoy the paradox or joke, | Vicloity, sre niade acquuinted with the Santa- | gf U 1y tes'tn tho - rocent erections in therc s o tendency to work lccnnlll:}: to fix rules, aud to condemn any unfettered flights of enius, So much the history of dreecs aud lome teaches, The critical age In them was followed by decay. But England, France, Ger- wany, and” Italy, after the classical period of theSeventeentl nud Elghteenth Centurles, have burst out in o uew and wider, a fuller and richer growth. How preat that will be; now lone it WL Tasts what will be it effect on suceced- ing times: what even its relative Jmpor- taucs to the preceding eras, we canuot tell, We o dive n it, aud are too much blinded by its brilliancy to judge it Justly, Bome contend that the présent century lacks orizinality: that its Jiterature Is wide, ot deep, Others clafin that we all live on the mountain- 1ups, und ouly deny great intellectual suprem- fcy to any, becuuse the standard fe 8o high that the relutlye distanca between genius and the general development of the buman mind fs greatly chunged Iroms what it was in the Slx- teenthy or Buventeenth Century. Tho literary historian must Inquire into the canses of this'peculiar progress; e must show what the comparative valucof m literature is; ®liat 1t lias contributed to the amelioration of the human roce; what 1ts nfuence hus been on other uatlons, 'The French bave no philosoph- leal iterary history of thejr ‘They have a hoat of writers who have given brief sketches of their llterature, graphic and clear portrajts of {udlyidual writers; but none who have embraced the whole I ous philosophle review, Nisard, Gerusez, and Ampere all attempled it; but they lived before the pillosophy of history’ had been expounded. The history of the Benedictine authors only professes to be a serles of annals. It 15 20 be repretted that Villemaim was content with wmln% the lNterary history of the Four lc.:nth aud Eirhteenth Centunes only. Demo- it FLantelen, S o S . ure, J 8 L:lt.m Lias, lrnduex‘xltll‘y made uuz. puehleli¥n ayiug astde thla general subdivision rom. mou to all uations,” the literary history of Frauce way be dinided fnto five periods, “The lirst cubravces the tine from thy origin ol the lauguige up to the clase of the Filtsenth Cen- tury, and imcludes the vames of Villenardouin, Froissurt, Commines, Rabolais, and Marot. Tle sccond covers the Sixteenth Century, and embruces Amyot, PHopital, Rousard, Stone talgue, Maiberbe, Voiture, and Regnicr, The “N:Ll\!.h"m' R laceie, or Sandul-Woud Fatuily. The only shecles | giucity, 1 the solor lina—for the abulitou of of the Order found fn Nurthy America or fu b which the Jiepnhlicin party bas been strving ever rope are insiunificant weeds, but, fs New 11 since the emancipatiun and the Dansditn ot the Fif- Tanl, the East Indies, und the Llsuds of the | teenth Amentmont—ta nuw really wiped oul, we Sonth Seus, lur; e u-T Lhe dicutty ot llm‘tlu Te omnlulmleh "‘.‘:‘:‘.“?.‘L’.’. (‘.‘;‘ucliuln;ad its o Al trees. The eutire tnbe | conteuiporaries, i public arty can ;I:lrl:“:rswnol umnyumnm than a hundred, | aclieve tie W‘““Cl;“li"-"l)‘llf-l.\llu,L;tk;ul Buman The tost itnportant ure comprived in the genug | Dol ab the Juss of & laigs portiug of the vute, or Sanitafun, aud aiford the well-known Saudal- | 1€ 88 the teinnrary liss of oitical supremers aned wall by gardud itry. Wuad, su thuch prized for its ine gruln and aro- :'_‘7,,']',';,‘,.'":’&'.‘,‘ LA iy et e, matle fragrance. The odor of this wWood 18 uw= - " x Ing: to an exsentiul oll secreted by the ylant. A | _ ‘Ilio grievaucs of Cougreamion is, that the snndl, much-branched tree, growing i the | Prendont will noLadtvy lu suvance lo !:'c bo:nd by mountalus in Nouthern Tndia and t the ludian | thelr meotiendativgs, Jait & omondar that ke Archlpeluco, yielix the white Saudal Woo, 8. ity houud aut e b il b boshonld ber We tuke it thst the album, which T the muost common kiud in | §revstice 1 he sholid bt o e dlscaver. the "o ol has use. The truok ol - the tree seldom | eligues and cinne which exist in nently evary Stata measures Mure than 8 foot o diath- | iy (he Gnion,—rings that are willing fu make cai- cler, The yellow Sandal-Wooa is produced by | mon barter of the positiune that are at his disposal. ottier specles Indigesous to the Indiai Archi- | We take tt thut he (s not no grecu 86 10 make unnt pelairo and the Sandwich Istauds. The Chinese En(s sriatlinegh indorsed by avery le- nuke tmuch use of this woud in their rellgious h LUnLIones B.';““Zf ":::Il.'l:l:nufi‘:!:; cerumonles,—buriiug 1t on the altars crectud to ity e Tt aistaar the thew gods, in their temples aud private uuses. coniias B, fresl fraw the people, The woud (or this purpose ts rudiced to suw- 4 dow (heie wishes, and are sap- dust, and then mized with poste before burting. | josed to know the fitness uf applicanta for posi. In New Hollund, the Fusanus scumidatis | tious. f methers uf Uonzress would huye thelr produces w fruit called the Quandang Nut, | recowmendstions tory potential, they sbuald which is as sweet and ux lel’fl’}clblu “‘Ec Al- ;-::5:\2:‘:‘-; -‘u;;‘rlu; \‘\nrlhyum‘ tebiubie, = Indignapo- wond, A shrub growing i Tasinaniz, Lepto- 4l o) e wmerta Billaldlert, gmcmhlmz the Europesau The Fast ud the North together have re- Hrovin in it hublt of growth, is scid fu slinust | cepved from the General Government, In round evers part, and, when chewed, allays thint. | numbers. 140, 0O, (6 » of Jaud annd §100,000, - The frt of the OH-Nut, Pyrulunia olelfers, of | 000 fu bonds or muney W be used |u works of hu- the Southern Stutes, which Is pear-shaped aud | ternsl pnprovement, white the West proper andtha abott oue lnch Toug, yields uu scrid uil that is of {‘fi:‘."‘. :n::: :'rluln‘v:::ll l:’.’. (:I-g _;n&:’ u‘v‘wu‘-‘. .'l:', I:v:)'ob-r sonie ipportauce. ney. - The dieparily aud 1ijuelice of wucli treat- e oot Family, ceratantiybanes, e L T e e A ) - | Tynas, — Which mrone we thy Tlepubiicas Tum demetsum, This ls un wquatic plaut, com- farmy ‘hermitted Lhe Eatiruad K inge uf the Fastsnd mon ulmh s -Iuw, llrrxul :' hc‘:' Huely- “unn t'u- ‘u;u;. 1‘(';9":::-?1 lp;"a: :lll -':;rfn- n-’ul dissect euves ars whorled, the fuwers are | Democraty i X aallary, and the whole plsut is Ususlly sub- l? penmitung Lhe \West wid South (D Rallruad merged, Nelthior this aur uuy ul the vereties llnu.ll. ;r“:::x’m"l"'u:‘ m::ll‘l.-l:";ll;l;l :-: “v‘ur -:l‘;;'l:‘: similar oleal, he: of:the piant:bave:auy Knowi ie: Who vates ditectly or mdirvetly fur the plunacr bad VEQETABLE HAIA. hcuuzropue 1w enufgraic, —Springfeld (i) Lege - . Gater (Den.). : The Jowrnal of Microsupy contalus & deseri- |y, vigorons fiht tint Gen Walker has tlon, with #lustrstions, of & kiud of vegetable | pegn makiiz upon thie repudiation elewment o Vir- liaire revealed by the micruscope i the tesue of | giniis has bad & telitug eifecl. At one tune thiv ditferent species of waterlilies. They were Grat, | slrwrent sremed su furimidable ol feary were ea- ‘a. AL E. Iy Mra. Hexny Woap. Com. plete and Unabadged. New York: Dick & Fita- gerald. * Chicago: Hadley Drov, & Co. 12mo., D, BOR. L{L **FAIR, FAIR, WITII GOLDRN HAIR ": ok, Kivcomax Ry the ilon. Mre. Frraen aroNatan Pldiadeiphta: J. B, Lippincont & Co. Chicago: Hadley Bros. & Co. 1Umo., pp. 2R, Price, S1. COLLECTINN OF FORBIGN AUTIIORS NO. 1V. TOWEIN OF PERCEMONT, By finonex Sast New York: . Appleton & Co. Chicago! 1l ley Dros. &Cn. P'aper, Price, B0 cants PEGASUS RESADDLED. Dy i CroLsoNneLey PERNELL, Anthor of ** Puck on Pegsene ' With Ten 1llustrations Ly Dn Mausizn. Philadelphiat J. It Lippioeott & ¢'a. ~ Chicazo: & Co. Byq. 8vo., pp. 120, Price, DIANA. { A novel with a moral—obylous and searching, "fllr)fl‘lh ru;a.ndvlz,)rl: ll}t‘m;'llrl\ulr'l.uolulf I;lulnfvur ] ! heen transiat hto kEnrilsh, and, in fact, is so {l‘fl n‘z“n‘;fllql“.";‘ l!c lhk:lln.Whlltt:l m‘;elmf." m"ln buiky that few could find th leisure to peruso ShCCRtolng e Lor SUBZESLA | 44 (e Edward Creasey has rendergd a transla- rightly that it deals with questions dircctly af- | tion unnecessary, by drawing from the vast feeting women. In truth, the chief toples of | mnes of materials accumulated by the German tho hour in which tho welfare of wives and | stithor, and Incorporating his selections with mothers?{s concerned, are here freely, and other and original stores, In a volume whosc dimenslons are adapted to the goneral inquirer, calmaly, ‘and_sensibly’ discussed. They do not | Yig'a'a elear and anfimated narrator, aud hua o subordinate the intereat of the story, but min- | skill to reproduce historical facts In au attructive Rle with its current naturally, soldom hindering | fastton. its progress or obscuring its lucidity, Bearluyg evidence In thelr apirit and expresslon that they are the product of n thoughtful woman's deep expericnces and reflections, they stimulato Price, #0 cen thought o them, challenging ‘scrious cone sideration. It ia in this that they have power Thopopulacfalefoit tn At recentiy awaketed 1o do good. Being mildly und reasonably | {8 America bas created u demand for Art- put, lhe‘; o not rouse antagonism where evc# literature, which {s belng promptly met by dif- they must encounter dissent; they ulmrly sct | ferent publishers, Among the many works pro- thenint g the consclence at work, und éumu: | ylded Lo auswer the growlng requiremet,none imes, perchance, with plascs of duty which | gey gore happily planned than the scries of ’;';:,‘;: pukiisforotoen prescll bpor (b iy ‘s Artist-Blographles,” to be isstied by Messrs, It Is not well to criticlac sharply the novelist’s | Osguod & Co, The first number, containlug art in a flction of this sort. 1f the characters | the bioxraphy of Titlan, now ready for distribu. ave & sulficient appearatice of veristmilitude | yion, exhibits the scheme and mode of exccu- to pass without censure, and tlieir actions are consistent and lead on to approprate fssues, | toB of tho series. The style of publication Is the necessary eods of the lluruy e worved. 1¢ | the same as tbat of the favorite “Little 18 the moralist whose role is to be most care- | Classic” cdition, of the beauty aud convenience fully scanned, and it fs {n this dircction that | of which it Is superfiuous to speak. The books Mre. Corbin fis especiully strong. Sho shows | will be published at the rateof oneor two & with touchlng force the ‘saducss that shadows | month, snd, offered at the low price of 50 cents many women's lives from the fgnorant, rarcless | each, ure placed within reach of the mule neglect of thelr apiritual comfort by husbands | titude, who meay no wrong, but in the enerosiment of |~ “The waterials for the Inftial volume have been busivess forget that companfonship aud sym- | carofully vomplled from the different larger ™ re tho dally due of tnose wlio by uature | biugraphics ue ‘Fitian, chict of which is the late and by relation must depend upon thew for | exhaustive workot Crowe and Cuvaleaseile, By solace and streogth in hours of trial aud weak {udlduul compression, all the kuown facts of ness, mportance connected with the life of the great ‘The discusstons aro introduced in a colloquial | muster have been brought within the limits of form, allowlug different sides of the argument | the httle book, snd arranged in & skilliu) man- 1o have & representation. Thelr ranew {s wiile, | yer. The valuable list of Titisn's paintings now and In its cireuit points are touched on which | jp existenve, with thelr date and present loca- the most couservative womasa's hieart has not | gjon, which v sppeuded to the ‘blugraphical escaped wouuding. sketeh, completes a stock of fuformation re- thor's credit that she sedulously lnculvates the | ganding the patuter which fs full coough to doctrine that woman's truc province 1s within | spufaly the wants of the great majority of ibe domestic sphere, that here lier noblest work | readers. Poor Miss Dells Bacon, who started the notivs, was no doubt then mad, as she was afterwurds proved to be whe shut ur In an asyluni. Lo Palmerston, with nls Irish humor, baturslly took 10 the theory, sa e would have done to the surgestion that Benjamin Disrselt wrute. the Gospel of Bt John. If Judge Holines! book {s not meant as a practical jokv, like Arch- bishop Whatelv’s * Hisloric Doubts,” or pruol that Napateon never lived, then he mast be set down as characteristic-blind, ke suine men ure color-hlind, ] doubit whether auy fo ldivtic suggzestion as this authorship of Suskspeate’s works by Bucon had ever been made before, or will ever he e ngzaln, with resurd to efther Nacon or Shakspeare. Tue tomfoolery of 1t Is intiuite,” ARTIST-BIOGRAPIIIES, TITIAN, DBoston: James It Oagood & Co, Chi- cagu! “lhlt{' Uros. & Co. Smo., pp. 100, v N Wauxen, Autbor of **Wide, etc. New York: Q. P. Putoam's 0t Jaosen, McClurg & Co. 12mo.. ‘v. 460, V'rice, 81. 70, LE BURE-IMOUR nKERIRS PANLINR, By 1. R, Warronn, Anthor of **Jr. Smith," "New Henry Holt & Co, Chicago: cu, rg & Co. 16mo., pp. 331, Price, $1. PERIODICALS RECEIVED. BANITARIAN fur November (A. N. Hell, New York) BARNPS' EDUCATIONAL MONTHLY for No- vember (A, 8. Barnes & Co,, New York aad Chi- cago). LITTELL'S LIVING AGE~Current oumbers (Littell & Gay, Boston), FAMILIAR TALK. APPLETONS' ART JOURNAL. Appletons’ Art Journal for November appears |, with its usual elevance of paper and type, Ita throe steel engravings are interesting and fn- structive. The first, “On the Hillside," after Hotwsn Hunt, {s & pastoral English scene, in which the great rocky billsidu, partly bare and partly clothed with verdure, ls subondinated to the flock of sbeep which are feediog upon it. The glimpso of tho distant aea, the fur and near masses of rock and vegetation, the fine-wooled sheep, and tho briars and flowers of the fore- ground, are treated with the careful imitation of Nature which shows the vre-Raphashte, but DITTCI OBSTINACY, M. Narjous reiates, in bis work lately pub- liahed on the architecturs of Northwestern Europe, the followlug anecdote lustrating the unrelenting obstinacy of the Duten: “Oue cvening, at Amsterdum, in the Dam Bquare, ao ombpibus cuntaned une passenger tou muny. They were golog to s kind of prowenade-cun- cert which closed at 10 o'clock. IL was already H3 the conductor refused to sturt, the passenger to get out. The conveyance drave unce, twlie, thres times round the squure, uid then returned 10 the startivg-point. A crowd guthered round; there were no shouts, DO snETy wWords; they dlscussnl serivusly the rights of passetsers and the dutv of the comductor, At l0o'clock the coschiman took out Lis hurses and went huine: they bud lost their evening's entertsiument, but they bad not yichled the disputed potnt, 1t ts worthy of notice thut the police had po ve casion to uterfere, and that nooue even thought of them.” =i THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH,. A Iate book of travel in Australia gives a brief description of the Austrulian buab,—n forest-growth which diffcrs frum that of every other country. The writer remarks: * You wil} tind nothlng Jike it in onr Britiab woods, iu the backwoods uf Canwlu, ur the furcsts of New Zeahaud, The Australian bush Is unique? 3 lon - | fta general features are fsmencas and ¥ame- : fubon's Laly, Nyinphes fava tertained of 18 siciess througl m:dco operation cra—| Vi 1 b 1ts right perl there can- with duc attention to the massing of light sud . . » thinly- | observed in Avdubon'’s Lidy, Rying uva, | or the colored vole. Nuw cverv days warks & Hustas o of Prasesltecsoeart—ly the Au- Bt e BEOWERY L0p Lot walive PEILRENES, OF PERSPECTIVE. Shade, The tecond stec) cugraving fu *Tho | Hees L sotelate of stelec e, giauess S | Lutely discovered by ra. Sary Treat 1 ¥lorida. | funbet veciine of lis powee. Ung of Lo iode- its greatest names, ‘Then comes the )"&‘;I\:)dlz' tou broad sud profouud a culture. ELEMENTARY PERSFECTIVE EXPLAINED | Dog and the 8hadow," from au early palnting | ani thero 1s not the slighteal undergrowth, o | Lu this plaut they were uabedded 1 the eeliutar | Beudeat candiduten fon Gorernar b b LIRS Slouary period, extending to tbe close of the i AND APPLIED T FAMILIAK OLIECTS: Fou | by Edwin Landseer, la which a picturesie | tat & voach and four can idrivo throuiets sny | walls uf the tates, thelr_sturabaped rays ex- | Dot %, ghiteenth Century. The dfth period eibraces AUTOBIOGRAPITY, fus Uss or Sl OINNRUS 12 landscape I8 carefully treated, while the dog, I . . o Thers crefore, . tewding farout wuto the vessels. 1o the White 1 0 pet micetiug with G ey N¥inpha wiarsta, 50d the Vellow | o immond Pondd 1aly, Nupha advens, they were found in | tive candidat every vasnlar }wk—[n-mnule, petivle, sepals, | the repudistionlsta sad suti-wu une wid the votus of the leal, Those lu the latier | candidates wlnmnud,“vw' qu«l:)r-\-‘lialjr:':' sunt were iich louger atd codrser thau in the | theit back, did sot pol ‘;!T 1 I.. :' ;wm Vhite Water-Lily. ‘e haim proved to be hoi- | 1ent iue may be slectcd jo the islatu hackwoods districts, but it 1o very low, wud rouglicned v thoucls soriuleled with | S8 855,00 Wl gt tha vigh of wuy b the covatutn. 181 vugeated by e discoveree it | g ouing cantent, —Phuladsikia Tunes tnd). the object of dliese stelinta hairs way be % o . atrengzthen the long stems uf the pisut, o thut | __"Iho cowposition of the e {‘fl’f'g:lm ':' thoy wuy ba possibly sbsorbent glunds. They | Wa -u-l‘Mmu “‘"’.“‘“.L“.'.‘;fl'u iy ala i cun e veen thirough an objevtive o1 seventy or | mediste edort Lo vevies T ceol trea trodee 100 dlaiueters, and are very beautiful subjects | bectioniet Speaker selectan provalinte al) subsequent and up to the present day, ‘The bistory ol Frenct Hierature s peculfar 1o muny respects. Uniike that of any other race, it bud a kind of elder wmister.—the Pro. Yeucal,~which tourished like a bothouse exotic lur two centuries, and theo died. Its jufiucuce, Loweyer, lived, aud did mnuch to wold the gea- lus of Frencn poetry. France also sarly enjoy- e tue advantage of Itabian culture, and thus ot Myugiutance with classieal hiteruture. This en- abled her, as Prof. Vau Lsun aptly says, to pass Irom childhood to adulvscenice without a period ofboyhood. The Sixtecuth Cevtury saw her N v, Aprt or Drawizu. By M. J. Keeizw, School “Xy?é %‘adfifl’ ;‘,‘,}‘\{9“,‘5},‘," :\"l,',k“fir,'ffl“:; aof Desigo, Unversity of Cincinpail. - Cloclo. Wiisax D. Howsiid I¥mo.. biv W0, Due- BAU Mabery’ I & OO\ US04 159, "X ton: Ja Osgood & C icago: Mad! J 1icos, & Co. l'rlu‘.m;l.'.‘.’x. i el This little volume 18 the result of practical Lord Herbert of Cherbury, whose sutoblogra- | labor {n the Art-Schools of Cinclouati, and is vhy stands Bret tn this volume, was & person of | simple and clear without belug diffuse. It treats much distinction in bis time as & statesman and | ouly of Lineal Perspective, sud llustrates its so author. e was born 1n 1531, o an old and | three divisioos of Purallel, Angular, and Oblique Lonorable family; waa matried, at the age of 13, | Perapective with seventecn piates. By study of toau heiresaof bis own lincage. who was six | the manual, sny Art-student can ground him- years his senlor; and was educated at Univer- | seld 10 this deparunent of kis pursuit. part of . very little shade fu the bush. Everything Tears to be burnl up. The carth ts bard and dry.* hotding e plece of meat fu ols monuth, and ub- surbed fn looklug ot his own reflection fn the water, gives life to the picture. The third e of Metasonicr’s * Student,” aud bas the usunl charm of this srrist’s works: the uaturalatti- tude, expressive tace, and tulsh of detail. The pretty liead-ploces on the Hrst page of the ro- vent Art Journais, especially tho conventional- {zed tlorsl srrangzemcnts, sre charming spevi. mens ot decorative art, The fully-(llustrated articles on * Norway,"” ou * Anclent lrish Art,” aud on * Use of Auinal Formns in Orpa- meatal Art,” arecarefully written. “* Bome New- S i SPARKS OF SCIENCE. THE WOON-RAT. ‘Fhe Wood-Rat (Neutoma) of the Pacific Coast is 8 most uncousfortabls nelghbor, bemng pose sessed of fnyeterate tufevive propensitics. To settlers who live in log-cablng it f5 su especial e How, Ferusudo Wood fur the Chulrman. i . 5 # Parspective s absolutel Tk ) 0 '“ | nuisance, 82 it domesticutes luselt under the | ot 0P E: B bike Lbe o the. aducds ibe ?fi:",,',"‘,:':f,d :,"3,":;,“.‘;: I(a}:: '3',!,:";‘."“ wity College, Loudou, When he had become u n:fi-n‘n‘:;‘{fflg efle'udr: ;:;n:-uw or Judmen‘{ },zf,& glm;m:::' fm:‘;:;‘ Iu‘imm‘f:fim“l‘;flfi:‘ sod covering the rool, whente [Luallies forth on ——— :{,'3,,‘;'3_:“,'.2.'.‘;“.3‘:".‘é‘.?,.:fii’éb‘&...i:; Uizt 8 perivd Irum scholastie plilosophy, the revival of Nirhe | msture gentleman of 26, be left bis wife and | of Pafuting aud Architecture. 1t 1 truv that | peauiiful homes of several wealthy- Ainericans. | frequent raids, purloluing every artlcle it can CURIOUR PLACE FOR A NEST, s asrived when the proteciionists musk expect to veudence, the coutest between the Church and children in Eagland, after parting with the | many great artists have violuted ita 1aws,—bot | -xome New Philadelphia Chiurches” shows ruo sway with. {n wild regions, tbe Wood-Hat builds its domiclie on the ground or o the tower branches of treew, furming *‘a dome- shupeu struciure. often ten or twelve fect high sud six or elght fect in diameter, Opentugs in the miass lead 1o tho centre. where is found the pest, consisting of the fnely-divided Joner bark of trees, dried gruss, e Bome tine sgo we wave & few Interestiug | make cuncessioos towards ‘.&L!L‘L‘;:fi.‘..‘(!‘.‘:‘:‘.‘:‘.“;‘i 1be Reformatiap, and lust, but not leust, the inveution ot printing,—alltbese were factors at Wwork at the sawe time 1 her Miersture. What Wouder, then, that ber lterary products were crude and fll-digested. ~Matter, rather than Orm of expressiou, was regarded: but, in toe Succeeling yieriod, this was reversed. The Re. teuy betweeu the releus of Louts XIV. and Louss XV. saw the renests of still another epoch. four careful representatiovsof handsowe stru ured, sccompavied by architectural descriptions. Other articles aud flfustrations In varicty, wilh very interesting art-lotes frow Paris, Antwerp, and various Awerican citles, sre contalned ln tlus excellent bumber. Students of the Art Juurnat 8re wuch foconvenicuced by the lack of properdates ubon the cover. In arrangmy or examiuing thew, It is always vecessary Lo foruer in the qualntest fasbion, and set oul to | often %u n:lwuntoo! u‘ul;nm‘uu‘hhrl rl:;m:r bfi; sce sometbing of life on t| v 2 cause they chose to sacriice truth to etfect, served Klugz.hmum twongm‘::::::n:o ‘l‘]‘: these daysit {s o disgrace toan artist nol to French Court, the second oue uof which | Kuow thesimple rules of Perspective, though, was o Degotiate the warriage of Charles kuowinyg tuewm, be may sometimes Gud it Lest I, with Princess Henrfetta ® Mara, took | % fguure them, just s the person of most part lor & tme 0 the war In the Lgw | SieBut tuanuers m; fiod it bulAn llmnA\o Cougtrics, aud traveled widely over thy Stalfes dely the rules of riv ‘euqqeu«fi ‘uurdu“ T ot Eurape, His wntiugs embrace the debtical | 648 BS founded ou strictlaws, those fuundations notes regandiog the vurious pluves in whick birds 3!“"‘::"& “ll:";";',':_.‘f e D ety with Abicl have been known to bund their vests. The | the protectioniate are schuowlcdging this uecesity Londou Z¥nus surpssses adl storics of tue kind :-wmwnnumu-ulm Judging frow the sywp- g blzb-tarild organs e well fn the following uccount written from Kast ;,g“:f:;}'f,:g‘;;:;‘,‘;m,“ ,,3\',,*“.,, e Cusbam, Hants. it way be interestiug to | past tarllt pohicy. tbe protectionists are sluoe mfiul’your n'lllerl”—m!l’llm the paragraph | 82 nmfl{.ug '-T“n;s lml;v‘l'-;g:nm. r °luwr d:l —+to be luformud that, lu 3 small plece vf ;:n'_: e Ltever may have been the tauses & tramework underuesth s third-clais smok- wlucing this softentng of atlitude suoux tho Thea wer ¢l 8, (0 " should be carefully faid, thoueh wvolviug much { jury s page to sscertain the year snd month, A gentlemun writhg from one of tho Btates e Loodun & South. | producini thie o en K Raialy uiues tend 10 fu- Tipeved In:o“l‘l?e 'fl:vo‘l;‘l‘ll:u"lil\e: :}:‘:‘Ji :’nfl:xk :’fxl:,:u?;.:: u::;—‘y 'n.‘i"a'n‘én"'(‘fl“'.‘.fif&"}; dryand laboriouv study,—not 1o coutine the | aud uch valuabie Ume is 1bus wasted. " | west of the Kocky Mountalus 10 1o duerican | \WEearriage Iway, ‘"':.",_“.um, has bullt ffl;‘r“: e eration f the present bigh ratca luaed o reeard that sxeat as oue of the direst | 4t Kiog Jaes commund, & voluwe o -Oivae | Eeblus thut creates, bu Lo Elve It soueting Journal qf Sclenre, describes 3 eat of the Woad- | e peat, atd reared & youns sud tbriving fanie | &f uty. The wililogaess of ibe rotechiunies lo ics in history, suddeu and unhberalded; sloual Verses:" and the Autobiograph sure to stand o, Bere revived. 1o this last work. the ‘nhl:t‘h;: which to sowr. whmu of h{nl.!:ll'llb‘ z[:eu {raukness, sud iy POEMS, B ove “bech ook Torgorin it OIUSF | WESTERN WINDOWS: axp Oruza Porss, By LITERARY NOTES, Rurd & Houghton will lesue, early tbls month, ,a poem eotitled ** Augels,” Ly the author waing the nom ¢ plums of * Stuart Hut that was found ju o deserted awelling in which hud been stored kezs of epikes, curpen- ter's tools, cngine-puwking, @ cookivg-stuve, pularly from | mskea urlun:‘ dfilu‘u( "-'r“.f‘“‘fi?:‘:m“% :':,'J: " i vaul tive times & day, lu afl about | acontewplated Largsio, ey, { :Zl‘:-:‘;wn:n‘l‘:ni.l ‘-nd tho Btativu-Master infurws | reslly desws to I;mn the “;’.‘.::;,"‘.’,?.‘:fi.‘i{-“ :r? ute Xhat, durivg the sbeence of the traiu, the | clase of guods Ibey respo tly of four. ‘The tr FUnRs o bul, 1 reasity, 1t buid been preparing for nearly ::¥hly years. The diyorce between the nobility o the peasantry kept ;‘ruwmg wider, the A4 wore ympassable, The wrougs of the | tcrials duly freo: Fo tablefurniture, ete. The bouse waw uvinbabt- | 18 P Yooy siloue (o the spot, waltig with | Theyy bokorer, RS 180 DUG iy fo vield Litter bad ‘wiiwont reached the verge of cudar. | ehicfly foteresting a3 & picture of tho awelu | Jouk Jaxes Fuvs, - Author of ike Lot | Sternet wu for two years, save 4 trais bl ocuion; | maolieat futerest aud anziety the seturu of bis and In ordur 1o.cet tial, they are o1 e ls ople. Eyoruues of Valtaire droused e | which be lived, ‘The brother of Lord Chierbury, | - iy Loyt ¥anuy axb Bruxa baxks. Dy Jouy | Tus Orss complote English verslon of the won- Ay e Lo e et G, the witer | tamily from thelr periodical tours. Tmptiedl the'cdaapeof il asscied b1 e ' e calm Sady A AWS Ul ¢ s3n e0rye erbert, ouga living s 'y Wi Wi bd el > AR R hidr g 7 A e ean | Gtiets retined lfe, 10 imarked contrast to Rkl | S AT, AUOL ol e aea It Ov. | 064 Of Michae| Augelo has becn madsby Mr. | yyy 3 huge rats! nest on the emply stove. ds reform; NOTES. course, Lo some degree of belp towar + soutaved © fuel for the fire; ol : sic. 17mo., pp. 114, the goldier und courtles, bas achicved a more 20od & Co. 'tgrulu: Hadiey Bros. & Co. . v ] ¢l ! whal the ud J. A. Symonds from the sutogreph editod by | 0n examiping this urat,” besuys, which was | 0d of inferfor quallty fn | but itia ot lobe laken a2 wessare of Whl tbe works of Holbac clvetius, > au An nore Cesars fiuasti. about Bve fect in belght, und vavupled the whole | "Oysters are scarce & country needs, uor vf what ls pow stta ) Set e 1 b onatn s Tt | P e St whods sutoblogsamn by ke oog American pocts, Mr. Platy cortaluly E'fm e etters of Unarles Bume | top ol the stova (u ture. muinee), 1 found the | Eocluud thu season, wersas on thls sido of the | * o et mstantos, Conkress sBoald % by holds a place of his own. This place, which he L covel bat of Lurd Edwa h . ?fl:‘&ér.? ':‘:“:wfiu::‘:fe:. 3 dxufi{m ul'fifl'-l fills, 18y not be the highest or the broadest; ward Burrough, wnd a frleud of Willlaaw Peun. | but inta it only noble aad lofty spirits are ad- He was hkewlas addicted to the nen and twan- | wittad. Perhsns meny s tanddr snd maniy Which were lozially subversive of moral r A 0% :;flml aud of all goveruwent, ;nd which were [“tun-uuuy believed 1o Eugland, but ignored Bractice, when Introduged wuto' France wers outside to be composud eutirely of spikes, all M& wn? tyzmnuslll")‘, n‘u n-.l wll:":;:u:e |.llc: ts of the wails outward, LT £7'00k wass wastha nast. composcd of faelv Mcuity i percehving that ope of the water they are unusustly abundaut. have dsl ‘thst ous of (he Bret things ibe Courtry demua! H.chn o The bod-constrictor u tho New York AQua- | zevision 0f the wasil.—Aew York riam letely gave birth to ity young oues | marciad)s ner," 1o be lasued varly iu November by Roberts Bros., will occupy two volumes. Two portrsits of Mr, Bumner will saamsesy tham.—ons ane