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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1877—TWELVE PAGES! of them hase already reen the light In the Home onrral aud the: Gy, cunsin lady, fattic 3. ¢ 1t spirit, and Interpreted acceptably some of ite Inthe ‘two scenes, ne tragedy culminntes, shie ot quite come up to the full demand of These ocenr whe Dimmesdate mect n the fore finntly expires in her arns on U rejthier picture do the attitude of the two tricd and suffering ones correspond of emotion fcident to the olr- ut it would require a poweriul hand adequately to deplet these supreme mo- ments of human anguixh, and, instead of carp- Ing at an almost fucvitable shortcoming, we would prefer to award cordial praise for the fm- preselve tidelity aud grace which the artist has wrought Into the character of the majority of cultivated. There are Royal Arademle Carlsrulie, Dasschlorf, Stutlzart, Dresde Berlin, and a greot. Ing from theae cent Dusseldort, less 18 known of 1 Fchools than of thal Tt the Smpulse of the nge wowaril broader ochievements fnoart is feit here s sensitively as (n other countries, aud jts resulta are Lelling with TERATURE. Contemporary Art gland, France, and Germany. must atriking ja ‘Thelr author is a Wis- cal nf goud work the sftuation. BOOKS NECEIVED, By the Author of ** That nl'h'cn 0: ladley Bros. & Co. nearly tnree years, has e raminence, and mafnty thro prafecworthy exhitition it madeat t avilion at Phitadelphia Jast sumnmer, «lnsa (n Drawing and Patnting, taught by ) W, an, and n clars for Painting under.the direction of Mrs. 8, THAT ll"flifll-‘.\l imilar cinphasts, RELIGION AND SCIENCE. TIE ORIGIN OF TIIE WORL] REVELA' D SCIE Dawsoy, LL.D., F. It and Vice-Chanceilor of Mc ireal: Anthorof ** Acadian {icology," etc. York: 1arper & I The work entitied * Archaia,” which lished by Dr. Dawson In 1860, having been so largely rewritten In order to bring it up to the present standard of the subject as to be essen- tially n new treatise, s now Issucd under the With the remolding of the substance of the origiual book, its scope has ex- perienced no alteration, and the alm of the author Is still to reconclle the doctrines of Re- vealed Religion with the Iatestinterpretationsof ACCURDING TO S REPENTA . cents, THIZABC Newcows, LL.D., Authorof Price, 25 cents, Chicago: Jansen, Mc- Py MER-RAMBLES IN ECROPE, horof **The Gorpel in the The Origin of the World, According to Revelation and Science, B S MONASTERY OF ETCIIMIADZIN, Near the little, dilapidated, ruinous viliag ‘Vagarahabad, thirteen miles west of Erivan, the Copital ot Russian Armenfa, Is situated the famous Monastery of Etchmiadzin, which claims tobe the oldest monastic Institution in exist- According to traditim Tluminator founded the first Christian church in Armenta at Vagurahiatad: and, in the year 420, Etchmiadzin—an Armenfan’ term sigotfv- fng “The only-begotten desccuded M—hecame the ecclesiastical metrapolis of the Armenian A century and a half later, the monas- tery was degraded from its higiv place, but ree covered it agaln fn 1441, and has since been the teat of the Armenian Patriarch, who is the spiritual heaid of all true Armenlans. the Armenian Church severced itsel! from the Orthodox Eaateru Churcl, and has remalned to the present day nn judependent ecclesfastical body, at whose head 13 the Patriarch, intrusted with the administrative clhissen by the Arinentan the purpose from all varts of the world, Etchmiadzin stands in a hot plum, destitute of trees, aud on the banks of o amall stream, which, exhausted by the drain npon 1t for the frrization of the borderin, fever-brecding murshes. unhealthy, but it has 3 glorious view of Ararat, wwhich,? according to M. Bryce,—from whuse £ Etchmuulzin we eafiour acquain- tance with It,—*rlses tull n front o indesertl this elde with York: Jlarper & Iron, & IND LUSTRATED INDIA: Urezn, Cexrhat. #INE GAXSES AXD DOwX TuE I¥3 e N AUTUENTIC ACCOUXT O TiE Vists 7o 1xnia o7 Hia Rovan isixes Jutia A, Stosg, ravings and Maps, Pubiishing Com- Yittorio Mferi~Hawthorne's * Scarlet Lelter "~Tilustrated India— A. I8 PRINCES “AND Wilitpe, . 12ma.. pp. 250, AN Accovst or Tir Pup- TIIUTY, MauxETian, A p 1N §18 AcTiON. MAKING A SprariNe TELLMIONE. n, Author of ‘:l'fllu Ard . Gregury the title given above. ArteSchools in New York Citys=e= dapies It Orguod & Coc The Monastery ot Etch- Co. “18ma., pp. DULLY: A LovkStony, By Fi Bnsern, Author of **That Lars of Lowric's. " Phlisdelphia: Porter & Coater, Uadler Gror. s Co. 3%mo., b, G10.” Price, HE COST 1B Authorof **Wo d Yark: Harper & Bros, Cibicago: Jansen, Mee Price, 40 centa, i RECEIVED, N December (D, New York), Contentas Frontia. (Iijusteation to Poem, **In the Art-Gal- ‘The Iead.Waters {with elght Hurteations): ** 1, * by \Waiter lesant. and lustrations), Chaps The author of tuis volume was n resfdent of India,—of Bingapore, we infer, although not definitely Informed,—while her hushand oceu- pled the position of United States Consul. Prior to hier return Lo Amerlea, she Journeyed to Maulmeln aml Rangoon, in Burmab, and over the great rallroad-route from Caleuttato La- Tore, adown the Indus, and atong the coast to A short sketeh of SIngapore and of the Malavan Archipelago, a few hinisas to the 1ife of the Tropies, a description of the tour through India, padded with extracts from the listory of thie country, comprise the narrative bearing the. pretentious title of *Iilustrated Indla: Its Princes and Peuple.” The writer has a quite skillful command of thie pen, and, had she confined hier accottnts to the places aud events with which she had the most familiar experlence during ler life ln In- dfa, she would no donbt have produced a fresh and valuable coutribution to our knawledee of the lovely Islands grouned around the Pentnsula of Malacca, and vl the babits of the native and forctun races now inhabiting them, he hus but followed the Tootsteps of the assing over the hizhwaya ulky vohime told little or At the commencement of the enunciation of his argument, Dr. Dawson assumes as granted three fundamental propositions: (1) The reali- ty of an unscen universe, spiritual rather than material In its nature; (2) Theexistenccof o Personal God, or of o great Universal Wills and (3) The possibility of communication taking place between God and man, 1o prove these positions, but mercly explalns thelr meaning, and then procecds to build up the structure of his dissertation. ‘The texts for the eeveral sections of his essay are taken from the first chapters of Uencsis, coutalning the Mosalc account of the ercation, and from other portlons of the Serf i upon the same subjeet; and ¢ reasoning consists in an excresis of these texts, and the establishment of concord hetween thelr utterances and the declarations of geoiugy, us- tronuviny, and cognate sciences, awson §s one of the foremost of the scholars who reject the theory of Evolutlon, and ews of Nuture presented In the It is his beliel that the tme Is not far distant when Natural Science and Theology will unite in their testimony concerning the origin and antiquity of man, and’the antagonisis now su sharply defined between them be dissipated ina lle reads evidence of this in he overthrow of the throry of spontancous Reneration, In the alscoveries relatine to the correlation and conservation of turces, In the light philojozy bas thrown on the umity of lan- uage, and i many other revelations sitending the later orogress of Science. Ho has the wreat- pposed Lo him In these ty and confldence with which he sustains his views cndow them with nfiucnce, snd tnake hitn o bulwark of defsnse to the tenets of Theology. Art Notes—8inging Mice~—Amerioan Flora ~Birds' Nests—Btridulating ower of a Pope, aml ishops convuked fur LITERATURE, He does not attempt EUROPEAN ART. RT IN EURUPR. B The Tork And the k"W New York: lHarper & Tiros. Chica J:‘nzfin, McClurg & Co. 8vo,, pp. 165, Price, lund, loses tself fu he site bs lonely aml or by Nleht in the Mount French of Vick “*Observation and tion,* oy Henel Browne; **A Trip to lhe Der- W. 'Benjamin: *In the Art- d Jtenaud; ** Moun- The critical essavsqon contemporary art in England, France, and Germany, here presented 1} Mr. Benjamin, are admirably written, and sbound In valuable lufornation, Their author shows an Intimate knowledze of his subject, afale and Qispassionate temper in treating Ity and a happy tact In the commuuication of bis The only regret felt fn reading his -bouk Is, that a cheaper cdition has ot been produced Instead of this, or together with it, in order that the work may have a wide modas, by 8, G, W, able majesty, Gallery " ('oem), by Edwar tatn Ilarry," Iy Erueet Ingersoi; ** A M Cnll on the Inkerman Cave: Polk, " “The Master of Nushen,™ b s Lilian * (Poemn) '+ Ap Artist on Art 1L Woodman: * **Cherr Mathees, Chaps. XXXVIL ugniticent stone-! flati-pond, ur reservolr, formed by the late Patriareh, there ure no treea apywhere near; the landscape 13 bare and oven il the way from the glens of Ala Goz und the brown mountains of the Karabuh, in the cast, to the lills of Kars, far ou the western hori- adhere to the v throng of travelers ot Indla, and fn o nothing that was not knuwn hefore, ‘The rehash of the description of the visit of the Prince of Wales to India s n worthless ap- pendage to the volume, aud the woud-cuts udd maps are of the poorest quallty. IIUMOLOUS AT, CARICATURE, AND 0TI m AND MANT LAN h 2033 lustrations, thoughts and facts, n A Poemy, by Stiney biet ouka of the Day, ILY for Decemnber (Il 0. cum be Excarated ! & * Anticipation:* **Washington o irtugal and Purtugueac, * I8, by **leneath Her Window, r E12 Rolae n Florlda™ ( , ‘e, buildings of the monastery are fuclosed by aloity, battlemented wall, Which hus pelled frequent arsunlts from bauds of maraud- ing Tartars and Persfuns, Ounly twenty orthirty monks beloni to the cetablishiment, but thcir cells, the apartments for the Patrlarch und for ucols, U bazar, n seminary, and many subsid- ary buildiogs, make up ‘quite olittie town within the walle, which urenmtle in circuls, The-monastery has been many tines destroyul or injured by ltivaders who. have in muccesalve hordes swept over the laud, nnd has 08 neny The chuieh, or cathedral, is sald tu vontain portions of wall datinz trom The two refectories are the next oldest awd most Interesting of the rfect harmony, Houghton & Co, COMIC ART: Iy Ty Janzs Pane e York: Har- chltnun:s:]umem McClurg & Co. olge of art through our communities; but, to e snon successful, art-lterature and art-objects must he afforded at the lowest cost possible. Bolong as they aro held as luxurfes for the wealthy, an appreclation of what is artistic sud teautiful, and an cudeavor to eurich and adorn every-day life with it, will bo slow growths In the populur miud, Tucse cesays now form a 1olume de luze, sninptuous and suitadle for fing uses; but let us have them also in o plaln style, s0 that the poorest art-students and art-lovers, who covet the Information thoy contain, and to whom they would serve ns a sort of hand-book o reference, may be able to own them., Mr. Benjatin compresses into the restricted limits of Lis three pavers many Items of fntelli- pence not easily to be procured elsewhere, nod we purposo to borrow a few for tle pleas- The artdirectory of England, ho tells us, contalns the names and residences of nearly 4,000 men and women de- voted to the pursuit of the fine arts In the United Kingdom, and yet the list 18 far from In addition to this number of prac- tivine artists, there are more than 40,000 puplls studyIng In the art-sclicols established fn tho The two leading art-nstitutions are the Royal Academy und South-Kensington Mu- “Fhe Academy was founded {n 1708, and untll car has been composed of forty- vians und twenty-six Assoclates. It 1y increased tho number of Associates to lms its quarters in Burlington —a commoilous bullding on Plecadilly, ereeted o few years ago for it accommodation, ts annual extitbitions begin May1,and continuo The udmission fee is one shil- income derlved trom this Yach R. A, has the right to display in the gallerles elght works ot every exhibition, Anart-tratningschool, the best in the Kingiluin, 18 connected with the Academy, and cach year a pold niedat {s awarded to the tinest work produced by the pupits, Millals, the Jewding portrait-patoter of Engiand, artist of great aud versatile talent, etudent at the Academy at the ago of 11, aud at 13 tovk the wmedal for” historieal painting, now recelyes 22,000 for a portralt, and s at present at work on s commission for which he His income 1 such that he I able to reside In a house costing £30,000, Tuere aro seventy-one art clubs, assoclutions, ind muscums in” Great Brituly, ffty-two of which are In London, ‘I'he prosperouscomdition of the fruternity of ortists {s fndicated by the largo means posscssed by tuty. Oue brane hat They Sala, " by Frank Sewn ptennial Exhible +ihie Sermun, Curlous Inveations at the ¢ tion, " VIIL,, by Edward IL Kl Francisco Vizllanco Committee, Cury; ‘*Asters," by Bdaar Fawceit; Boston Palutera: *Some Rambling Notes of an ; by Mark Twain; * How merlcan Climate, er body of scientists opinfons; but the a The serles of papers outlining the history of carfcature and comle art from its varliest be- grinnines, which were contrituted by Mr, Par- ton to Marper's Magazlne somo two years ago, have been relssued in a permanent form, as they notably deserved to be. They were pro- duced at a hieavy expense to author and pub- lisher,—the materials, both literary and pleto- rinl, suitable for incorporation In the work, be- fnge diflicult of accoss and costly In utllizatfon, They were, morcover, skillfully employed—ns muy be always understood of work dune by Mr, Parton—and brought futo new aspects and fresh relatfons Intercsting facts in the development of the buman fntelleet. it was, of course, neces. sary to make considerable loans of the two princival writers who hud previousiy treated the subject with elaboration, yet an Imitatlon of the tretises of cither Champfleury or ‘Thomas ‘Wright has not resulted. cient Invention ta strike out new paths and de- velop new mines, even in a field so thoroughty worked over us that of grotesque and bhuinor- ous art {n post ages. ‘The volume which ncloses the papers, en- larged aud amended since their oHghial appear- ance, {8 a luxtrious oue. the type gratefully easy to the oye, and the co- fous filustrotions of superlor execution. 0ok I8 equally valuable from an artistic and au listorical polut of view. 1dle Excursion, " 111, times been restored. 1o Chiange the Nort! AUTOBIOGRAPHY, LIFE OF VITTORIO ALFIERL AT AY WiLLIAX D, Tow 1. Ongood & Co. Little-Classic Style, pp. 4 The third number ) 8. Blaler: ** Wapentako: to Alfred Tenunyson, ™ Longlellow: **Detinuld:’\ Ho- *The Countrihu- the fourth century, WiTit AK Fse ELLE, by W. I, Bishops * Chicago: lllullll'y alror, Rec In Osgood’s Serics of Famous Autoblographies coutalns the lite of the Itallan dramatie poct, Alflerl, Little 1s known of this author among American readers, Leyond his nawe In cone nection with the literature of his country, and the romanco of his attachment to the Countess of Albany, the unfortunote wife of FPrinco Charles Edward, grandson ol James Il., and comnonly styled the Pretender. Alfier! was born at Asti, 1749, of noble and wealthy purents. died when he wus an infant, and at the age of @ be was placed In the Academy of Turin, where, 08 e states {n his memolrs, he did little moro than {ncrease his Iguoranca of all subjects ou which he ought to have been infurmea. tlis defective education was concluded at the end of seven years, after which the youth gratified o rage for traveling, contracted fu his acqualn- forelgners, ULy midst between stone benches, o thrune under a ennopy for the Patrarch, and a sort of pulpit, whence reading goeson during meals,—appears frow ¢ later than the twelith century,” ““The Nbrary contains about 2.0 hooks, ost of whicl are Arinenian, and a store of anclent manuscripts, The treasury bonats ol ngny pric such as the tiead of the spear with which Chirlat was plercedon the eruclil, a fragment of ark, und the mummied hand of” St Gregoty fn- cased In silver, with which each Patnarch s tonehed fn the cerernony of conseerutlon. ‘The reyenucs of the monastery the contributivns of ali the Arm trom lended _property, and froin the sum espe- clally devoted to the “matutenance of the mou- mstery, amount to searly $50.X0 sonually, A portion of this sum s ueed In the support” of u school nt Etchmiadzln tor the educution ehfeflv particular refer- cnve to their ‘eotrance nto the pricsthood. studenta were inoute tendanes at the times of Mr, Bryce's sisit, in ‘The Armeman Archbishop of Tiflls, an ableand necomplished prelate, was Divestor of he fustitution_suffers from a want of competent teachers, The pundls come frumn all parts of the. warld, and are, on theie arrivul, generaily utter; ew Yo liywn on the Nat! by l-‘le\lerhlckl * nla W. Johnsan (with two i Count, Vittorlo Izabotiian and Later Engilsh 13 style to be not by latrlet Prescott Spuiford (with ure of our readers. i § (with tweuty-seven illustrations) tabby's Ruinance, lopt 111 ** (Puem), by Edgae Keramos*' (Poemn), Longfellow (wath fourtecn illustrations) i ** The Munin the Cuge,” by Kebeccs Harding Davie; ** A Yeor of Americun I lo lienton Fremon Pledmont, in Mr. Parton hos suffl- aeerulng from ) aily Advcrtiver,” by 1 )a Capo,** Vart L, by Mise s 1t Love or Diindueast™ by A, mogony of * Paradisy 'lfni.‘c, The sfze is gencrous, of Armenian ftor's Literury ltecord:™ * £ lc Reconds™* ¢ Editor's 1listorls er. ¥ cmber (E, 1. Hawes stun). LIVING AGE —Carreat numbers Littell & Guy, Hoston), ‘AL IEVIEW for November (Benjamin R, ew liodford, Mass, ). About elgnty young JUVENILES, the rehinol, but With Tilustrations. in Turin, and, Laviy of an alinless and hifs mind to astud; oaltion of trugedies, 53 lssolute nobicman, turned of the drama nnd the com- (118 irst effort, the plw Cleopatrys,” winuing some applause, bis ambi- tlon to devote himeelf to a literary carcer waos confirmed, and he diligently set about acquiring s knowledgo of the Latin ¢lassics und of the Tuscan dialect, Iu 1557 he et the Countess of Albany, and, captivated by her beauty and tho chiarms of her character, rematued ever after her faithful ad- mirer and fricnd. When, by the death of Prines Chartes Edward, the Countess was relcased fram the cruel tyranny of o besotted und brutal busband, she united lier destiuy with that of Count Allier], und u private marrfage was con- cluded between them, ‘Fhe remaining years of Alfleri were oceupied In lllerary pursitits, At the age of 41 he composed his” memolrs, in o styleof great simpliclty and eandor, He died at Florenc tu 1804, aud an Euglish_ version of Lifs sutoblography was publistied In 1810, ‘The vdition herewith presented s accompa- nied by an esssy, In whicn Mr. Howells bric reviews the life aud writings. of the poct. few of the plays of Alfierl still hold the stawe, —Nfs * Myrrha " beloge in the repertotre of Ris tord, and fis ** Saul " fu that of Tucker, Editor, FAMILIAR TALK. ART-SCHOOLS IN NEW YORXK, The only regular schools of art In New York City ure those In councetion with the Natlonul Academy of Desten, the Cooper Unfon, the Students® Art League, and the Ladies” Art As- soclation. The Acadetny of Desizn has always lad for vne of its objects the fnstruction of pupils In the varfous branches of art, but, uw- Ing to o lack of mlequate resources, ity efforts i this direction have been greatly hampered, It nebools have experienced mony viclasitudes durlug the wore than o half-ceutury sinee the Academy was founded,—for the geeater part of with the varlous disad- vantages of adversity, ond oceasfonally beinz forced to close thelr doors altozether. teaching they have afforded was, until qulto re- cently, supplied by members of the Academy, and, s o consoquence of the unfortunate pe- cunlary clreumstunces, wus varlable and un- certaf, ‘Thu only revenue upon which the Academy could rely for the support of the schools was the bequest of 85,000 from the artlst Suydam. In 1870, however, a radical change was fnetl- tuted i the classes of the Academy, and the cotire coutrol was glven to Prof. Leonand K. Provision was mude for lectures on Anatomy by Dr. Rlmner. on Perspective by Dr, Brevoort, o Comparative Anatomy by Prof, Waterhouse Hawkins, on /Esthetics by Parke Gudwin, and un Miscellancous Art-Toples by Willium Fage aud others, pupile during this year reached ut times the number of 500, In 1871 a class was formed for Tadies studylog from the nude Heure. Tt begun with only six pupils, but rose to twenty in the threo years which it was continued. {1 an avticle i tho New York Sun: Tlie hours were from 1 103 the_week, every modol belig weeks, allowing twolve hours o wdols were eutirely uude, oud the No converaation Wi deetltute of learnlug, tor, e In Anmenian published ot Etelunfadzin, and o mngazing entitled Ararat hos reccutly been R T Coiomex's tho Author of **Li rouree 18 enormons, o Leyees, " With Baker, Pratt & Co. Jansen, McClurg Ju former thnes, Etchmladzln was resorted to by fmuoense numbers of vilerling; but, like other once popular shrines, it hus Jost its pres- tire, aud I8 seldum visited suve by those who lave some affair of business calling” them with- I {ts walls, or by the eurfous tourist who pauses at the sanetunry on hls route through Araena, arshabud, which 1s sald to ‘There fa an cudless storeof amusement for young folka in cither of these volumes, The first Is tiled with chiolee seleetions of poetry for chilidren in the nursery, and for girls and boys of ali nges from 7 years upward. Many of the finest noctns fu our language are mingled with the multitude thus esscmbled together, while are plent!fully scattered The Villoge of Wil be pald £15,000. have coutalned S feasing plctures Dlace, with but s single mass of brick buildings “f'hie second volume contalns o miscellancous giving evidence of its former pretenslons, collection of storfes, sketehes, boeis, and songs sct to musle, with the essentiul secompaniment of pletures fllustratior o great diversity of sub- Jeets. ‘The book origitated fn London, und fs a sample of the juvenile publications popular with our Engllsh coust ART NOTES, An exhibltion embracing most of the works of the laty esteemed Norweglun painter, Adolf Tidemand, has been held 1n the University at Clrlstioula during the summer, Messrs, Cassell, Petter & (inlpin have fssued thelr unnual * Catalogue of Ilustrated Books," comprised of specimen pazes from thelr (lnest publications, as the Dore Bible, the Dore Dante, the Leopold Shukspeare, ete, The work clearly exhibits the high order of merit which the are of wood-engraviug has atta'ned ot the present day, 1t may be bought of Hadluy Bros. & Co. A note is made, in the report of the ¢ United States' Centennlal Commission, International Exhibition, (troup IL," upon the sudden and remarkable development of the potter’s art In the United States, aud upon the abundant de- pusits of superfor materials that exist within Coarie pottery Las lone been manufactured {u tho couutry, but table-ware of hard poreclaln of a good guality was l‘h&l_,luddphlu about the the Artists’ Fund So- of this Institution, the Ar- Vets® Annuity Fund, which provides for i1l and d{eabled neinber: otber brauch, the the time strugglin riigts’ Benevolent Fund, de- soted to the relief of the widows and orphans of decensed members, hasa fund of L33 Tho plan and scope of the Keusington Muscum wre po penerally understood that we pass them bere without mentlon, ‘The art-establishinents of London are chictly conerepated nronnd Plec Bond street, Pall Mall, and King strect, al- though many ure found on other prominent thoroughlures, At the great art auctlon-rooms ol Christie & Manson, the sales are often im- nenre. Twelve palutings w tuere, In ous afternoon, for £3,500 {tl:l’l' aga three-wcors jardinieres were sold for W ABTORY BY MIuts, LAPSED, BUT NO' s el Dodd, Mead & 0., pp. 27 3 The scene of this story by Mrs. Charles, the author of tha widely-read Berles,” fs luld fn wnd near Carthage, in tho early days of the Chrlstian Cnurch, Its theme fs the nobile enduranco, by devout converts to tho new falth, of the perseeutlons to which they were subject from the Pazan world, In the evo- lution of tho story, the history of the peitod s truthfully rendered, and severnl characters of exquisite beauty are delineated, seems to have lost hy some measuro the vilt to reproduce Hfe-like, glowing pletures of dilfer- ent eras of relirdoun cuthuslaam, which consti- tuted the chiet charm of her carller works; yet the bouk under notice possesses more of the g gracy thau any slo bas lately the Author of POEMS BIY STEDMAN. 3 AND OTHER 'I'«zu:. By EnxvNo en, MeClurg & Co, Mr. Stedmuy, a5 the author of, * Victorian Poots " and “The Blameless Prince,' has al- ready won his uamo end statfon. These last- Rutherod poems, written at different times and on varled themes, have nelther great streneth of passion nor the utmost perfection of melody; but they are ofteu vivid, well If not utterly fln? ished, aud scholarly, cheerful, and healthful. ‘They aru acceptable from one who has given us good things In the past, and from whom we ex- pect still better In the future, tlo volume sugirests a bouguet of varled flowers, culled under different skies,—~some in sheltered garden-bowers, aud some on bleak, sca-washed Hers ero immortelles for the poet aud els for the brave heroes of elds s n passlon-vine from au Old-World clolster, and o Muyllower from the New-Lugland spring soms of infancy aud of honberg-Cotta dilly, in Old and New CLQA"I‘IKKUI BTRDNAN, ulo,, pp. 134 fah rrtists frequontly realiza at private gales cnormous sums for” singl famous * Derby Day," b} a Frith, brouzht £16,000, including thie subs ptlons for the en- W, W. Ouluss, u former pupll of Mhlal‘u, and now not over 26 years old, com- our boundaries. The attendauce of ‘This modest 1it- first produced n]n old captlvating Acndemy gove her sudden and groat ce- oty £50 or £100 for a rou; . This lady was a puj Kensington, and painted for a num! before exbibitiug her work, Within the two years since lier first representation at the Acad- ¥, hie hua recelved 45,000 for & pleture, Her Mr, K. Lelghton, one of the foremicst painters in the country, recelved £2,000 lur his group {n marble, * An Zline with a Serpent,” which adorned the last extubition of the Academy, It 3 an accepted opinlon {n the art-world that the Freach school s deterlorating, There 1s uo decliuo in technleal excellence, in the study of the fecling tor colur and for form which Is the superb distinction of Freneh urt, nor in the couscientious labor dovuted to the verfection of urt-works: but there is & moral degeneracy which I8 conspleuous and paluful. e Frencl artiats of tho p deplet phvsiceal beauty alonc, leaving untouched and unresealed the soul. w sud sublimate it, wure wus established at Trenton, N, J, cessful huttarlon of nw' !En;zmn wares of this 8T NICIIOLAS, sort was i time accompl BT ILLUATAATED MAdAe Conducted by Many Vol IV, ~November, 1576, to New York: Scribner & Co, Bvo., pp. 832 The St Nicholas, by far the best child's peri- odical in the world, has concluded apother year <l its prosperous cxlstence, bo sald that ft bnproves as it g rows older,—the {dcal of a publication of its kind was realized in tho first number,—but it keeps up to the standard set for itself fu the original plan, with- ‘The miost talented autbo: designers, und cogravers In our couutry are en- 1t fts pages with entlcing Torws of iterature und duinty llustrations, aud their elfures achleve a great success, BT, NICHOLAS: xne rou Bovs Baras Dopar, ed, and many other e been set upin dif- 000 to 15,600 artfsans liese manufactories. @ wranite which they produce resem- e Enwlish ware, {3 remarkably fres from fmpuritics, with a full anu transparent waze, having lttle tendency to eraze, borrowed trom the English and French wares, In the Dorle temple, supposed to de the Herxutu, which was discovered at Olympia last winter, there was exhiumed iu lay'n colussal wmarblo statue of n nude youth, that is pro- d by a correspomident of the Athenarum the most valuable contribution vet made by the cxeavations at this polut to Belence sad Art, ‘Flip savans fn charge of the excavations helicve the atutuc to bu the Hermoes of Praxitelvs, which Pausonlus speaks of as aniongs the gitts to the 1 this b so, we have now Lhe fiuest orldual work of that great artist, ‘The deserip- tion of the stutus 1s a3 follows: Tho lower portion of the legs and the right fore. With the left elbow ho leaned upun the stem of & tree, sapporting ou his arm o pure, unlortunately, ly the lower part remaius, and iho finy huse that ho kad Jald confidingl: Over tho tree- that aupports the boy is andwou offording o the aru s soft resting-place, and gracelully hiding tho support of the trec-stom, which in this position was “The body of 1he youtl rests with an casy negli- genco on the Jeit leg, so that tha solt flesh of the rlght hip showe, In manlfold displacements, the ay of the wiuscles of the b head 1s marked by tho @ youthful beauty, and somewhit sembles the bicade wo sce on “the Vatican Meleaz of the Belvedere. figures, only it Ls sleuderer, ance, we ure efruck for the sage, and lu Vadley Bros. & Co. for oach drawing, here ure struy bloss uve, ke violets and rig ot heather from the land of in loney from Hymettus, ty of Mr. Stedinaw’s mind is tha truly poctic one of fusight luto churacter, Of Hawthorue hie suys: But none save he, in ot 1lis summons on man’ Whether tho Jight the Thus on kis cauvas 4. ‘Flie thuughts of mysteey In deep bearts by this mortal gulse enshrouded— Wild ‘hfi.\m that like tho church-buile ning end o ) f e b b male unly shhily drapod, aliowvd {n-lwwn the models and the p thus this brauch of studylng wus praciical tnuation us Urawlng {rom sutlque ntalue noro diilicuit on account of tio evi vments of Jimb and wusclo which the best. tramned mudels never entiroly overcome. lie fuvoriles wis 4 you tifully-proporiloue Atnlete Btrug- The torins are Perbaps ¢ cannot owu time, s0 lald pirlt; nont but b, [ were clear o clouded, thu humal soul— ng Lndlan bsif-breed, whosy Ludy st aelicately- formed Minbs were thuse of un Apollo Belvederv. Ho hnd u strength of muxclo thal could, sven inu standing posv, Keop b during tbo twenty minutes which they have o stand before the regulur rest of fen minutes, lud of 15 years was alsua favorite in the ladies’ The female models wero. more particular (le uconvenlcaces, such a4 the temp ich was generally svout GO degrecs,—than (e men, and were morw lmpatieut arreeted I they did not striko the pot Ouv of thom, bussessing 8 beautiful igure, exquisito i colur, always wure a imask, ‘[iia cluss was discontinued I 1874, and the classes for gentlemen in the 1Mo school wers ulvn closed fast winter, ‘The Academny was unable through lack of fuuds to re-coage the servics o ichee the more advanced vupils tv calied the Art Students Une hundred members were combined in tho Assoclation at the start, for membership wis put ut 83 and a similar winount was to be pald per mouth for instrues tlon incach department of art. Classea wers fored o October, 1575, aud Prof, Wilmarth his services gratuitously. decepted, but very svon tho Leags ditlon to reward them sultably. the Mfoclssses furuules sreopen six hours dally, aud for ladics thres hours cach day. t clusses are open aix bours during three und u sketeh class fs Beld m, M. Walter Pajuting, Drawing, out ever tueging, y atmost motinnlees ot Grs:dey Mr, Btedinan says; Not his tho foverish will to live hat the Eternal he boon In rommon {0 bis race. Eartl, *twas by heaven ho loved, and best Thy precions ullapringe, wan und woman; And labor for them secmod but rest T'o bim, whosa nature wus so human, Ot Phil Kearuey at Seveu Plucs: How he stroda hle brownsiecd! llow we saw his In Ih:.nne' kand still left—and the reins lo his a boy when the holl lauce sbot from bie visor beneath, wacrves 10 the meleo dnfernal, o g0 in—through the cicarlng or Vine! "o 'é'a’n:: el Forward! *Tis all the sawe, You'll 8nd lovely ighting along the whole loe." HAWTIIORNE'S SCARLET LETTER. By NaTuaxicL Haw- Boston: James I, Ose g liadioy” braa. & ¢ The masterpiece of the greatest of Amerlcan novellsts bus at last been published In a style befitting its surpassing werit. The decorations 0 lavishedupon the cdition before us are the result of @ wpecitic purpose to adapt it to the especial requirements of the holiday- seayou, vct they are merely what the lovers of Hawthorne will regard as appropriate to the book fu its every-day services. Whea we yead & work ol the subtie, sustalued power, the depth of passion and uf pathos, and the perfect finish and retinement of this, it 1 cssential to the consummation uf our sense of cujoyteut {u it, that it be preseoted lu ou outward foru jo keeping with its jutriusle excellence. Thers 15 & fresh delight in perusiug the marvelous o tion in this vew aud beautitul setting, suwptuous page aud the symovatbetlc iftustra- tiuns belp to a fresh appreciation ot Its wavk foid benuties of coucepiion and execution. The arcisb who bus Mumnated the test with beaws from ber peucil bas cutered deeply lnte b b should animate Yet Parls st remains the tentre of modern art, and the masterpi which are tl:ere created, although characterize by a Jower inoral tone than in the daysof tho ¥irst Emplre, are perfect of their kind, Tie nuimber of artists intreat Britain seemed largo when the list_ contatnlug 4,000 names was meutfoned, but in Paris ulone there dwell 8,000, and the sale of palntingsin this city avorages 40,000,000 fruncs per apuum, ctierous patrou of the rlation mode for thelr support in 1878 was H000,000 francs, For 1877 Of Lhis amount, 330, spart for the purchase of works exhitited at the alon, to be ‘used for the decoration of civic bulldings and gallerics: and 254,000 francs for :Ee succor of Indigentartists orthelr widowsand phiane, . Tho first institution under the careof tho Goverment i3 the Academle des Beaux Arts, Wwhich comprises forty members. ‘The institus tiun uext in Juiportauce is the Ecola des Beaux Auts, fu which the_ different branches of art are tded to the puplls is the Graud Pri me, which fuenlshes the reciplent a support, y, during four years' redi- and fuur years olter Lis returu, aunual cxbibition of the Salon Is held % May and June, ot the Palals d'Industrie. ut to this exhibition vepted. is are held at the Hotel troiob—an eotablishment owned and rolled by the Govermment. There sro four luba In_the city, numed respectively the u Artistique, the Boclcte des Arts do Puris, the Cercle Artstique et Litteraire, and tho Boclets de uiou nlbu Artlstes. 'fhe tirstnamed swbraccs like that of England, Is te woral sentiments with l dexterity, Schools of art flourish lu clief citiea of the Ewpire, but the most taut ure ut Muvich aud Berlin. 0rliste are wssewbled in the forwer city, v art Lo for a loug period been dilighutly FOR THE RICK AND SUFFERING, Urusa rou TuE Sk aND the Editor of **Quiet aut, Meiurg & Lo, ture of thy rooum, —whi aru arc wanting. Selections from the devo and other languages, which are suited to lift up and comfort the soul in Lours of puin and tribu- lation, tnake up the contents of thiy little vol- ume. They are rauged under scparate heads, ctively: Out of the Deptha; As- foruing and Evenings ‘Prust sud Bubmisslon and Sorrow; Bleknesss und Couslderation for the convens feuce of luvalids, for minfstry to whoie spirit- uad needs the book s principally intended, has cd the size and shapeol the voluwe, masiug fe light aud casy for haudling. yries of our own n the shonlders of Lis ou whicn tho arm falls the draper, erfully-worked fol The Government 4, and the nppro- organized o 8 cchnieally necessary, ¢ was ubout the Feretonbion echnically niccersary, e was il aeon- wory vivaclous, by tho carcless execution of t atta that were usually unseen by the o only stightly Iudicated, ia ale0 leas thorvuglily wrough SPARKS OF SCIENCE. SINGING-MICY, “Two obacrvations upon siuging-mle have been lately noted In France, sud reported in Nature. ‘The firit was recorded ln La Nolure; and the sccoud was preseuted to the Freneh Soclete d’Acclimatation, by M. Bricrre, who tes- titied to bioviug beand mice sing in 1851-1553, The sluglug proceeded from wn old cupbosrd, and gencrally began at suvset. The juiuts and woud of the cunbuard were woaped su that it could be vpeued suddealy, und, this being done ong cvenlvg, 8 mouse was surprised in the midst of ita roundelay. For abuut the space of a tnluute the mwouso was uuder nolk d moveuients of its throat plaluly vis! its nose up fu the air hike a dog fo Lowllne, and the song it emittod wes liko ¢ mansa wea salzud, it contrived Lo eszane. ATLAS ESSAYS, No. d.—Lasom. New York, Coicago, and New Urleans. . Darned & Co.” 8 This tuird collection of essays seprinted from the pages of the Julernatinal Levicw dls- cuss toples connceted with the great ques- tions of Labor and of the Hepublican Forn A fuw of thelr titles, run as follows: Working Classes ju Europe, by Thomus Hughes, Labor {u Eugland, by Thomas Brassey s Iudian Cltizcusiup, by Geo. Fraves A, Walker; uestion, by Dr, E, D, Manatleld, iflculties of Republicavis ‘3 duys 1o the week, day from + unthh 5 Shirlaw is engaged to teach and Composltiun duriug the comie scasony wud lectures on Auastoury, Composition will be g Perspective, aud wven by differeut persous [ Hourlahiug condition, aud Is suta by the York Susn—tlie authorit statementa—to afford n art to be obtalued fu this country. Since the beginniug Desigzu bus puid ot deuce in Rowe, of Goverumcnt, Iver 8,000 works werd 576, und 2,095 were ac Y the art-sales in Par relied upou for these ¢ best course of study of 157, the Academy of s debt of $30,000, but wtill hus ouly the Suydam fund andthe proceeds of its us fur the walutenance of its schouls. The wutlyue school nuw has about thirty mui- bers. 'The eveulng Dfe-cluss, for wen, 18 open six bours a weck, and fustructioufn il the de- partweunts ts frec. Tudustrisl art alone fa taught in the Cooper- L e evenlug clusses are atteod- ed priceipslly by wen, For membership u the cluases for Womiey there were over 500 applics- R, Swuin Gldordsup ryises ass i Pawting from Sull Life; Wyatt Miss B Itsturdasss thatin Nast Do v 3 Amls des Beaux The l’;;mulee ot Order and Republican eroment in the States, by Judge T, M. Cooley. pa i e IN PRESS. Jansen & McCluse aunounce the near publi- cation of & vulume cotitled “Dors's House- keepiog,” writteu by thesuthor of * Cooks,’" and 1u the swme wioviug wavuer, They aleo biave in preas s volume of pocws bearfug the pretty vams of * Apple-Blosapus ¥ Enme ‘Thie ort of Germany, pure, and ahius to ui Uuion schoolr. tlous this wewsou. u: Heus0l Lol uween, Thu singing was reanmed the same night and on atlers following, A vorent mimber of Fored @t Strram also contang an_ observation upon theae interesting cal quadrupede. The consersatory na lemnan's resid near New Yok Cit ened with folding<oors into the library. and suspended from its ceiling were several cages of cansries, which were secured by cords run- ning through pulleya and fastened near one of the piant-shelves. One cvenink, n few years ago, the gentleman of the house was sitt: alone fn the lineary, whe? bis attentivn was st tracted to A low warbiing, like taat of a young canary, which proceeded from the conacrvatory, He presently saw that the notes were emitted by a mouse running about at the bottom of une of the caces, while the bird was on its pereh above astecp, Subsequently he meveral times saw two or three of the litile four-footed war- bieraata thae, in the plant-shelves or fn the cages, Once hie crent under 1 cage into which ohe bad run, and, showing himech, placed his Land on the cord nver whish it must pass to es cape, Muu-eY seemed bewildered by the mave- ment, stopoed, warbled, and hedd to his retreat It the eage. ‘These singing mice: were very fear- less, yet would not allow themsclves 1o be caught. The observer suppuses they learned their sung, which was alow, sweet warble, of the canarics: but M. Brierte states exoressly that no canaries had ever teen kept by the ownie +18 of the old cupboard 1o which he sbserved the singing mlce. . AMERICAN FLORA. Sir Joseph Hooker, having returned to En- gland fromn his Lotanlcal tour, In company withs Dr. Asa Gray, throughi tle western portion of the Unlted States, has contributed a succtnet skelch of the results of his observations to the columns of Mafure. 1t was found “that Lhe veg- ctation of the middle latitudes of the continent resolves itself fnto three principal merldianal floras, fncomparably more diverse than those presented by any shinilar meridians in the Okl World,—being, in tact, as fur as the trees, ehrubs, and many geaers of herbaceous plants are cotcerned, absolutely distinet, These sre the o hataid, und the dry wntermnediate, re- Hons. Euch of these regions was found to be aealn divisible nto three: 1. The Atlantie Slope. wind Misaisstppi region is divisible futo an Atlantie, u Missiasipt Valley, und sn foterposed mounte at-regiun with a temperate and sub-Alpine fiora, . 2 The Pucitic Slope Iy divisivle Into n o very humbly, cool forestlal cuast- range; the | Culifornian valtey Iving along the San Juas awd Sacrainento Riverszaud the Sterra Nevadn flors, temperate, sub-Afpie and Alpine, 3. 'fhe Rozky-Mowntaln region by divisible into a Emlviu Ll 8 desert o raline Horg, und 2 Rocky-Mountain proper tlora, e perate, subeAlplng and Aipine, The ditference between the floras of fhe Ate Tantfe Slope nod Mississippl remon, and the Fu- cltie Slope. s Iy, wind 10 4 groat ex- tent, wenerleally, abaolutes not a plue or oak, muple, elm, vlane, or birch of Eastern Americ extends to Western,and penern of thirty to ity apectes ure contined to each? The Rocky- Mountain region, though yuite distinct troin buth the othere. bas u few cleinents ol the Eastern repriou suid still nore of the Western, 1n Califurnia o xpeclal study was made of the conifers, which obtam thele maxinutn develop- ment, in number of spedles amd 1y stature, un the Macific Coast. Much curious inturmation was also collected coucermug the origtn sl e troduction of Amerdean ptants, amd of the fntro- duction of varfous types futo the three differ- ent regions. THE PRICKLY-PEAT. A letter from Texas to the Boston: Journal of Chemstry states that the prickly-pear (Opuntia) fsused fn scasous of drouzht usan article of food foreattle. *We cut down the leaves of the prickly-pear,” says the writer, **bulld a bush-heap, set that on fire, and roust and scorch off the many swall thorns, When our oxen sre very hungry, 1 have scenthem huok out the leaves from the smouldering embers and cat them greedily. The roasting. perhaps, adds to the tlavor, and extracts the sweet, starehy, aud succulent matter. Acam, our frontiersmeu, atter roasting the large leal, peet it aud apply it us an eflicient pouitice, a8 you would spyly n)llrpery—elm." ‘The Writer also states that in Mexico he bas seen the prickly-pear growlng to a helzht of from tive to elght feet i perfectly ddry rewions, where it {s often used an an fmpenetrable fence. * I sowe parts of Mexien,” he adds, *the prickly-pear {8 sold In the snarkets, and o vin- ousdrink is prepared from i, resembling in color claret-wine: whilo liere in Texas, nithough the pear-shaped fruit Juuks cxactly lke that in Mexteo, and though 1t I8 appurently ripe, the eattng of it Is supposed to eause chills and fever.? The fruit of the prickly-pear Is really u plensant, wholesome food, and s extensively used in movy coutrles, BINDS* NESTS, Bome notes on the remarkable positions in which birds' nests have been found are glven in Land and Wuter, Several years ago s red- breast bullt its nest fn n human skull that had been left exposed in a burylug-rround in the Parlsh of Dyeart, in Fifeshire. Another eetab- 1ished its reatdeuce in an fron tankard that had been thrown away anong the wesds, A third bird of the same specles vrected fts domivlie and reared u famlly within a few feet of o cireutar saw Indaily motlon, at Bailbiruie Saw-Mill, in the Parlsh 0! Markineh, S unother bullt its home i uh nzalw-bush ipn o ereen-house at Batthlrnly Gardens, Again, mays the writer, #1Ve have seen one constructed within the sleave of a workman's coat _that had been left hangioe onatree. ‘The workman, on making the luter- esting dlseovery, nhowed his coat to remaln on the Lough, und the red-breasts, labors’ proved fraittul, We have seen n spavrow’s nest insido the cavity of nn frou buller of a raflway wateon, and an bxeve’s nest ina broken beer-bottle; while, not long ogo, the nest of o thrush was pointed out to us fuside the spout of u pump, but the frequent demand for water caused e thrush's efforts {n neat-bullding fn sucha pluce 10 be abundoned. STRIDULATING SCORIPIONS, Mr. J. Wood-Mason announced, ot a late mecting of the Londun Entomological S8oclety, the discovery of stridulating organs in scorpl- ous, 1lu had beon led to suspect the existenee of u sound-producing appartus while studving the snatomy of a specles allled to S. alfer; aud Iis conjecture was coufirmed by experiments with living specimens at Dombay, Ho there procured of a conjurer two large scorplons of o specles of the same type, which, befu fixed on a metal table and goaded 1o (ury, brat the alr with thoir palpe, sid emitted sounds distinctly sudible abose the volse created fu their strus. gles to et free. The sounds were alinilar to those produved by drawlng the finger over the ends of the teeth of u very fue vomb, The upe paratus tsed I emittng the sound was situ- ated on both sides of the body,—the seraper o the flat outer face of the haaal olut of the palp. tlugers, and the rasp on the it funer surfuce of the correspoling Jolnt of the st paty of lezs, Except In S, aifer ana jts allics, Mr. Wood-Ma- soi has nor been able to detect these orgun but hias arrived st the conclusion that ti certal otlier genera there vxists & modlticution of the UG SPPArELUg. e BRIEY NOTES, The University of Cambridize purposes to cou- fer the degreo of LL.D, upon Mr, Cbarles Dar- win. Bome live ants, sald to o stinglcss, uave been fmported from Australis and presented to Bir Juhn Lubvock, e The large collection of binle* skins aud egue made by Mr, Beebolum tu Nortbern Russia last suminer, and supposed to have been lost In Lhe wreck of the Thames, has rosched Euglaud In salety. One of the ciraffes [n tho New York Aqua- rium died o few days ago, and, a laif-hour after, the other ono hurt tscll so budly In a spasm of f1izht over the hippopotamus that it wits uot expected to five, Tho young naturulist, Erucst Morris, sailed for Brazit trow New York, Nuv. 2, {n company with Mr, E, %, Raud, a botsuist from Hoston, St I the intention ol the parties to make an ex- tended exploration of the Amazvn und its southeru brauctivs. Dr. Wiliiam H. Carpenter, fn continuance of the controveray with Mr. Wallace on_ the sub- Jeet of Spiritualbsm, publishes in Nature tho veceut statement ol Prof Hoilinan, of that the Odvledoctrine of Haron Kell 1o lunirer tnds support amons slentie Uermauy,—uut one of those of bis acquaiats unce regardiug it worthy of atiention. Twelve falls of nseteorites have been eollected In the United States In the laat clzhteen vean, and eleht of theee buye Ladlen In the regiou of the Western prab Of the twenty falls o meteorites ubserved 1o the United States fu tue past alxty years, ten bave occurred w the kune region, sud from these teu falls twenty s wwore nueral substance bas becw collevied thau frow the tey bappeniug fu otber districte, Tu the orunger, ther Palae of Versailles there 43 0 wugnl t vrange-iree, called <The Uraud Constavle,” whigh is usore than ) years ald. 1L surani Lrows the seed of 8 Litter vFango which Eleanore of Castile, the wife of Chaties 111, of Navarre. planted in n pot, at the begin- ninz of the fiftcenth century, It was trans- ferred from Pampeluna to Versailles in 1684, Lnd as yet shows no aigns of the Infirmities uf According to Forest and Stream, n red-headed woudpecker was obeersed, near Indianapolls, last May, inthe act of sucking the cezs of a Six eges had heen sucked betore tho depredation wus dlscovered, kupt watch of the turkey while she was on the neel, and, immediately” upon her leaving, flew tothe spot and perforated the egp, extracting about two-thirds of the yolk, and then fivlug The red-head Fourteen specimens of the girantic aquids, or denl-fish, helonging to the hase heen captured during ¢ thirteen npun the Atlantic const, and one upon the Pacific. The specimen lately taken on the shore_of Newfoundland, and nuw preserved i uurium, is the Architenting princens, whizh had been previousty described by Prof.'Verril) from a pair of jaws found fothe stomach of u sperm-whale. The memoirs of Tlans Hendrik have been written 1n Greenlandish, and will be trunslated awd edited by Dr. Rink. that Hans Hendrik and his wile and three chil- dren were nmongr the ing to Capt, Hall's enus Architenthis, © last few years,— It will he remembered persuns helangs retie Expedition who driit- ed on a tnke of jee down to Newloundland, and were subsequently brought to. the United State, He bias been engaved fn all tue princlna exveditions through Smith’s Sound. i was assoctated with Kane in the cxpedition from Fiskernses; fn 1560 he accompamed 11 4 and in 1975 serve Nares in the English Arctie Expedition. The followlne 13 the plan for Prof. Nordensk- apcdition in 1878, as given in tho Geographuche Liiatier of tho Bremen Geograpl- 1571, Capt. Hall, He intendn tn eafl tor the Siberlan Ecas In the bevining of July. 1 steamer, with o crew ol one superior uflicer and eirhicon voluntecrs of the Koyal Swedil Navs, Fonr aclenniic men. ne doctor. and four Not- stuts will nlst forni part of the ship's e voyaze will be directed, firvt of ach the mowh of the 'Y ki, the extrem 0 torth pasut of the maim- Ant ul in duntiling the Initer Notdenskjold Gupes to be able tu pasw custe unz the Crawt bBetween the new Siberian ohd Kellet (Wrunzell) « Strait to Hehelnz St and the Pacific, Shault the expedition find inasrmountable difi- at CGape Chelyuskin, it will winter in Cme ht, 0 the mouth of tho Piaslaw, orin (be Land. through b m——t THE WANTS OF CROWN POINT. Ta the Editor of The Tritune. Cnows Puint, fnd., Nov. 12.—Crown Polnt may e called a suburb of Clicaga, and, 1ike all suburbs of your great ¢ily, it has nany wants to satisty. Nuw, the most palpable want is s hlgh-graded school or colley classfes mav be taught, vantages of a splendid common-school system, but that does not meet the demand for a higher rade of leartidng and education, Inthis rezard 1 think there fs n grave fauft i our le; Our Comnmon-School 1"und 1s s larg stantly Increasing frum various sostces, that a ht be judicfously applie ) to the diszemination of a hizher order of learning, ond not interfere with the support or scops I which tha v lave all the ade ‘The publle interest iz o more extended and re- fined educntion than the common schools afford ts aesumtine adetinite form, and an energeti: and thoroush teacher with some means to take Tiold and bulld up u frst-class educationnl nsti- eive Trout our citlieos ding und sustain- ‘Thls public b pear more foreible to the ou the present condition of our srowing town, situ- utlon, wealtl, and resvurces of our county sre 1s about twelve miles from Chi- eve that South Cnicago has t upon rote of its terrdtors. , s sald to be ubout thirty-i £00 square miles, t 325,000 aeres of land, worth on an average $40 per acre,—fu all, worth about Theeo lands nre mostly well i farma ns may b se In addition toth enortiota wmount ot ¥ Qur county has an area of aml vuntains alx wraved, and sliow as fing woul Inerease the we to RIGN000, There are now twenty-tive vil- Jues and towns in the county, ull doluie 2 good ete, it is sald, has 3,500 {ubabitantsy and Is o prosperous business place. Thers 13 not o hizh gruded schoul fu the connty. Allure comtmon scuools, in which the comton English studics are taniht, his wealth and {mprovement, am I right when ¢ eay that s college {nstitution Is demamwled at our county-seat! Ju the i of the facts, am I right In_sagine that such Institution can be supported ! our people will asalst, inall proper ways, any substantial i and thoroug] cume here With somo means, and with o wil to cstablish u hizh educatioual fustitution. y of friends, nid, and sympatiy. schiolar that ma e will tind plew such 8 landable enterpris tabllsh n protitatle and vonfer o great favor upon his patrons and youth of our county, he can 0 nd with the Hon, David Turoer, Frank 8. dell, doln Brown, it W. Price, Dr. Itacry tibone, W, A, Clatk, the Hon. Martin Wood, s W, Cheshire, Witliam Kimbill, Ed Zeral ¥, Suminers. J. M J. 5, flotten, Jubn H, Prior, Johu U, Hotl- du well to corre- Superintendent, . Any of these ten wil und duluu llu l"‘f“. among our people a lively lu- 5 O ek Je Woub. ——— THE BRIDAL EVE. . 1 stand In the blaze of the raslizut's rays, While my werry aidens threo Arrange vich tress, and loop wy dress, And render e faie o see. But O fur tle eves that never agaln Will smile liko tho stard on me? the intormatiol terest fu sucha Tawcep duwn the stalr, o beide most falr, Sowebody takes my Tumw twnb und cold, 1 yuille, uud oy lued Jo Uland, Dui U for a sizht of my rover wili, Who wanders abroa s Lut the Hle 13 told; Tam queen of tho ball and tho festal hallg 1 Lave beauty, il youth, and Alcn buw al the shrin of tkis lond of mine— Lord of bis sums autold, Bt O to bu ot Ia tho wilds to-nicht, With wy luver so brave and bold, while the castzh 110 the duncers werelly gl Neatls the Evenlne Star { am speeding fars U s ool ateed do 1 rid At my heart be Fur iy jove ts at iy side. Tdream a dres rides te hiyn with luve and choar, We ride and slng, and the cchivns ring With vur volus Uhithe uud free, We have uo wealth but our love aad bealth, And gur col on irie.l Bat L luve wy luve with a wishty love, Aud ] know that be luves e, We ride away iu the dylog day— We ridu Ll wo reacl pol Whero alt alone, 1u the wildé u We tud our luwly cuty Aud | bave nuta wish in the wide, wida world, Aud | huow st my love Las not. w‘:\m adying moean ke viols eroan, 0 N{‘ll o paler tian yunt wreith. ase pale reath.* [} uml u‘fiml! 1w m{ual in the Dight, Jtudtag with Lovo—-or Death 1 EiLa WurELEs, The sun foil down iu a ol Aud buthed the world b 8 urean of bi 1t warmed sud glowed like 108 huart of & fower, Ur Lho cheek of 3 p1el "ueutli a lover's hiss. A purpte haze lay over the meadows, Aud uver the bills sud sivers T glsu Earih threw ulf Le: Aud lay with tho sunshing aboot ber feet. A brook i the wood was blithely calling, A bird saug wild on 3 beuding spray : were beld by 10ve eutbratling, Aw | wandeged with JoU 13t pestect day, Dowa through tho meadows, awo lane that was yreco and Auil tug wild birde caruled, vver sad over, otes 0f 4 weddiug-bywn, 2 shaucaand shadows, AL? Life bgld notblug of care and sorrow, vs swiled dowu ueep inlo wige; - akshit come 0n the WOrFOw, To-day 1 lusd tasted of Lluss tiving. Love, 10 twy heart | sball hold forever Tho tetmory sweet of that Auturu-day, When Lue sun fell down like s goidey river, Aud youe brown