Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 1, 1877, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRITUNTI: SATURDAY. DECEMDLR 1, 1877—TWELVEE PAGLES, 9 1y known as an nccompliched Afelzan explorer, Neartily tndorses the work of his friend, whom e decfares hie hasproved,in a Jong and intimate Iriewdalilp, 1o be **a pompanion to look up to, o model on whom to gnze with admiration.” ‘The plan of Dr. Klunzinger’s book ts orignal, Avolding the cnstomary personal narratise of the traveler, hoaddreases the reader as though present with him in the scenca hie would de- scribe, and sssuming the part of aguide ho puints out and explains the least known and most 1nteresting featares. The daily life of the middle and jower classes {s cxhibited In a chapter entitled **Four Days fn & Country ‘Tawn," In the course of which the occupations, thie amusemente, and the manners of thie popu- Ince in-doors and out are passed In view, A chapter on “Traveling by Land and Water» sketches the aspect of the country slong the Nile, the ‘modes of tillage In prace tice, the crops produced, and the charac- teristic plants, and animals occurring under do- mestication and In a wild state. Other chapters treat in the same manner of the working daye, holidays, days of mourning, and rellzious cere- monles of the Mohammedan portion of the pop- ulsce; and of their common beliets, traditions, and superstitions, To the reader addicted to natural history, the rections devoted to the geslogical constitittion, Lhe vegetation and the antinal 1ifc of the deser aud to'the orzanic forms avoundiog fn the Red Sea, will have = peculfar value, In discussing these toples the author lndulges in the enthusi. asm of the erietnal fnvestizator in sclence, and kindles the spirit of his companions with a sim- flar zeal. A number of-well-executed wood cuts llustrate the text, but we miss that esséntial ad- Junct to every buek, a careful lndex. " LITERA' Fhich s used as fucl, and many camels live al- | the house. The door of the structure, as fa the tojetherupoo itejaurel likaleares care froquently, opens outward, and 3 fnstened A by a long Iatchistring. The child, In plasidg CIVILIZATION AND LONGEVITY. * | ahout the door, in fome way got the string The Interesting essay of Mr. Charleton T. | looperd over fts' bead, and, pushing the heavy Lewis on the ““Influence of Civllization on g&‘fl;ongln.tt;u::un; aat aver the high doof. Duration of Life," orlginaily delivered at the AU when. the. Iamily raturned the-llills meeting of the American Pubile Health Ansocts. | "¢ " D2VFIOR bY the latch-atring dead. ——— tion In Boston, 1470, has heen printed In psm- ;lhletlurm, and alsoin the last volume of the THE SAGINAW VALLEY. Reports and Papers of the Association. The F Author considers thatthe {nfluences of civillza- pe rr%:::‘;:(r:; :‘:{f;::,:,‘..‘: :—T,.,l.n."' " tloz are Increasing the longevity of the human Breciat Correanandence of Ths Tridune. Tace, but at s slower rate than Is by many sup- East 8a01naw, Mich., Nov. 26.—A calenls. posed. He cites the,evidenco of Sir Thomas | tion of the value of the products of the Sagl- D. Hordy, who hassearchied the records of the | naw Valley for the season of 1877, based on the Engllsh courts for 400 vears, from the tbirteenth | CagtomeLiouse reports, and estimating for the to'the sixteenthh centurics, and has found in their nuwmberless notices of age not a single n- | JA3t month of the year, shows that our exports stance of & man who had survived his' 80th | will approximate closely to’ 815,090,000. - Thesa i;;{,lmt‘;’l onlu_lg r‘):.ncr Imnd‘, lllhund:':n‘ pronfln, exports cunsist malnly of lumber, forest-pro:l- e age of 70 was regarded as cxtreme, an ucts, and salt, and furnish employmeat to a was seldom reached, Ho uotea the re- mark of Kolb, the caulius Germap | VA8t ey of ~men. The scason hus writer on_comparative statistics, wlosays that | becn 8 moderately prosperous one, $The mencre facts known indicate that the max- | and, generally speaking, the business of imum age of man has remalned nearly the same | the Valiey Is In good shape, and we can look for centuries and even thousands of yc: back over the season just closing with feelinge that the numbcr of persins who seacl of eatisfaction, and note the future with bope, aze, and especially the number who survive in- | In looking over what has been accomplar~® fancy, has very materially fncreased.” this seasun, a compartison with some scars The gain in ke preservation of infant lfc js | past, ns fllustrating the marvelous growih of fllustrated by the mortality rates of London. | the lumber-trade, may not prove uninteresting The popwlation was less than 635,000, a century | to the public. Jn 1353 there were but aixty-ons and threequnrters ago, and the annual deaths | saw-mills in what §s known as the Baginaw Diz of chiftdren were 8,500. In 1510 the population | trict, haviug a manulacturing capacity of about was 1,040,000, ond the deaths of children was | 1 00 feet of Jumber. In thia territory only 5,600,—a reductlon of 62 per cent. there are now over 300 mills, with a manufactur- Chere $ias also beeu a Jarze rain in the preser- | ing capacity of over one billlon feet of lumber vation of the Jives of the sick, aged, and Infirm. | aunually, Sinee the date above mentioned, the Another marked finprovement has been made | product has been: in the suppression of epidemics. Civillzation into the nature of the myaterious furce, and | at fiye. Thcfr mothers and nurses are flliterate have unhesjtatingly employed {6 i eonnection | Chinese women, with rare exceptions, being un- with other instruments ami appliances of the 4 i el Nealioe art, 1t hna been treated with greater ro | AUl L0 read, and thelr fathers are disinclined to ey LU by the task of teaching, preferriiz to leave this A maguctic hospital was establlshe at en- | entirely in the hands of those who practice It as gal,under the suporsision of Dr. Eudale In | & profession. 440, and, aeeorling to the regortof the Sujper- 7 Tntendents undrea o nHoatt sad dansreron | w07 et b o ","",""‘ “"“l’“,”‘i a purely surgical c{mrnuunswcw performed and many | YeKctative exintence, has completed his aeventh sufferfng [uvalids restored Lo health |hmug{| or elghth year, the almanac s consulted for the the use of mesnerinn, A similar instit@tion | chofee of a lucky day, and on this he Is decked :]:::e‘t;lg‘l::ufl: r'é‘.ufifl"fl‘?c |':: ‘I‘Edl : ::‘fl,qf,‘i’ in his festal rohes and dispatched to the villsge beneficent, Hospitals:fyor (he - treatment of | Schvols Iera for term of years ho is confined discara by the same atency were also founded | L0 tho tedlous, dreary process of committing to at Excter, Bristol, and ‘Dublin, under: the | memory the Chineso canonical books, and writ- auspices of men of eminent position and re- | Ing an {uflnita number of diveracly formed spectabllity. characters. The language of the canonical A zood deal of testimony favorable to theuse | books Is as unintelligible to hin as Greek is to of mesmerism Is gathered by the author from | the youngz American, for the vernacular of the the expericnce of practitioners on tho Contls | Chinere i & lotally different tongue from that nent, and [rom the publishied, cases of extrnor- | emyployed in literary composition, Without dinary cures, from that of Harrict Martinean to | understanding one ‘word, of it all, the child othersof less gelebrity hut of equally nstonish- | continues his’ meaningiess inemorization until iny effects, Mr. Parsons does not attempt to | he has stored In his mind the contents of the teach the use of magnetism in Lls work, but | peincipal classics,—a cheerless task occupying ||mpl{ 1o show its efficiency in curing obstinate | four or five yeara, maladies and restoring vitality to an enfeebied ‘This first staze of his education being suc- conatitution. vessTully aedomplished, the boy Is slowly taught —— the desd tongie [n which are wrilten the ancred HISTORICAT, COSTUMPES, buoks lie has zot by heart with so much hard LR COSTUME_ HISTORIQUE, * Cing Crxrs | tofl, While iearning to transiate the lanzuaze PrAxcnes: Trois Cestazx Covreune, O =7 | of the bouks, he is initlated Into the art of cown- AraENt; DRUX CexTs EN JAvec vea | position. The difllculties which bosctithis art. Notices' Exriicatives, £r Use Brone His- | on sccount of the peculiar construction of the Tonrqrr, Pariat Libralre de Firmin- 5 r Taniage Parla },‘\{’?l;ron:l(:xnl:ml"‘rl(':m '."'1‘3'!3.' Chinese langaage, are immense and laboriously overcome. This second course of iostruction The thind number of this superl work is now | heing, 1ike the precedingg, at last zone through, ready for distribution. It contoins the stipu- | the lad devotes hhnself more exclusively to the Iated number of plates, fifteen of which are in ll““?’ of compasition, and to kome subsidiary colors, and ten In black and whiie. Tho first- | feading of hlewory snd | rhtorieal wnodols. e ¢ en c named are as delicate tn outline, as smooth In | yna'cautrement of knowledze and of mental texture, and as vivid and clearintone, ns though | diseipline s rewarded as @ ininor matter, the each separate touch and stroke were lald on by | chiet afm belug 1o gain a command of*the liter- reau,” by H. A.Page, which was recently Issucd In London. Littel's Living Age (Littell & Gay, Boston), will begin, with the new year, its 136tn volume. The third volume of Theorlore Martin's *Life of the Prince Consort' {a to appear in Decem- ber. Avolume o} blozraphical essagson ¢ Modern Frenefimen* §s soon to be published by Philip Glibert Hamerton, and reprinted in this country by Roberts Brothers, G, P. Putnam’s Bons have nearly ready a new edition of “Godwin's Cyclopedis of Blogra- phy," coosiderably enlargeil and brought down to Auguet, 1877, 1t will form on otavo solume of 1,10 pagcs, and be uniform In style with the “World's Progrees.’” A complete bistory of the late “Kemper County Truznd‘y.“ln .\(lululypl, will soun be ublisied, under the title of *The Chisolm Massacre: A Picture of Home-Rule in Missis sippl," by Jaines M. Wells. The procecds of the ook wilibe devoted to ghe purpose of removing the remaina of Judze Chisolm and his children to a grave in the North, and of erccting a mou- ument to their memory. SPARKS OF SCIENCE. FLORA OF EGYPT. Dr. Klunzinger, s naturalist residing many years i the country bordering on the Nile, atates, In his work on “Upper Egypt,’ that the whole known flora of. Egypt proper includes 1,140 species, 400 of which belong to the atrip of conat on the Mediterranean. Theae figures rep- reseht a scanty flora for @ country of such ex- tént, but wherever the Egyptian soll will sup- port vegetation, there the agriculturist sows The Foundations and Super=~ structure® of Chris= © tianity. z Upper Egypt——Tbe' People and the - Products of the Land of the " Pharaohs, Five Paintings by Raphael----The Faed Gallery--—Fiction and Poetry. Public Education in China= Some Statistics as to Col- lege-Libraries. The Flora of Egypt—Effect of Civili- zation upon Longevity. THE FAED GALLERY: A Sxaizs or TnE Mosr Rexowxed Wonxs or ‘Tnoxas FAep, Reenoe reen in HELIOTYPE; wiTh Fuul DEscrirrions, AND A SKETCH OF THE LIre of THE An7iaT, Boston: James It. Osgood & Co, Fullo, Price, LITERATURE. ; CIRIST AND CIIRISTIANITY. has nlnost wholly destroyed the power of the 1 CRELD OF CURISTENDOM: irs Fouxna- 10, - = % the haud, Costumes of the Breton peasuntry, | 473 lasguage and of o fucut stgls of composi. | and reaps bis barvests, and wild plants have | piague, the cholera, amalf-pox, snd otlier con- ot oty i, B SRS | A SRS, OF SRUDIES, DESIONTR AR B | o the e of Toria, o, it T | U5 sl chanes o th izl Lo extene, A | aied e s e o o s large part of the timber used in the country is tmported, and very little wood 18 burtied for fuel, its place being supplied by the dung of dumestic animals. Only two solls occur in Egypt, the clay-soll 3 Gt RAPHAEL. Wit Hlistonican axp’ CriticaL Notes Cowroszony M. T, B, Eueidic-Davio, Membver of tho Iustitute of France, The Work Dedicated 10 His Majenty Ferainand VIL, King of Spain, by CHEVALIKR F. DONNEMAION, Fainter, American Editlon. Reproduced by troduction. Fith Edluon. In Two Volumes, Jioston: James R, Osgoud & Co, Chicago: [fad- w Bros. & Co. 12mo,, pp. 16A—281, Price, . ‘Tl schools are generally divided Into three of Europs in the ‘sixtcenth century,. of | ciasses: t -mlmnfiy. in which little is done ex- France In the clghteenth, aud of | cept memorizing the sacred books and practic- cortain coniacntal orders In the middle | Ini Imitative chirographys the middle class, in ages, of the peasantryand tradesmen of Poland, | Which the sacred books are expounded: and the and the military dress’ In Eurapa at sevecal dife third class, in which composition is the ‘leading most direful scourges of mankind. A century oo 400,000 deathsa by small-pux occurred in Englaud within a_twelve-month. La Conda- mine, whe divl In 1374, declared that one-tenth ol thic human _raco wore killed, and ss tuny more disligured, by this frightiul discase. The h’vr twenty-seven years this book has been he- fore the English public, and experencing a con- the ileliotype Iroces oston:_ James 1t Ox- d ‘exerase. The sehools and colleges receiva 8le | of the Nile borders and the soll of th cholera slew 40,000,000 of nreple in_the half lauous, steady sale. Among prominent works | good & Co, Chigago: Uadioy Drothors & Co, | forent perlods, are huclued In tho ilustrations. | most uo pocunlacry ssistance frous the Govern: i o bl ’:"m.“,p,,':;f,; century after the wars of Napulvon. Matthew, of a almilar character which have expresscd tho ctavo, @ plates are in all cases coples from paintiugs, {uulll, and are sustalned by Enrnm enterprise or public charity, In the higher as n the Tower institutions of learning nothing is taught and studicd but the Chinese language. Thera Is no system of schools answering to our schema of public schools, and only n minority of the Chinese vouth recelveany instruction whatever. As for Chineso girls, they ore, save fn cxcepe tional lustances, ahaudoned to total ignorance. Of thuse who.can read undculnndln};l{. tho proportion dues not exceed, according {o Dr. Mart, one In twenty of the male population and ouc {1 10,000 of the female, Candidates for the civil service n China aré obtiged to undergo an examination in prose and Varls states that In his time, the thirtcenth century, there were 2,000,000 Iepers in France, o senssse o amd 10,000,000 i Europe. These figures are | The broduct the present seasun mill probably rcrh:psenzgenlcd, yet they show the preva | be fully equal to that of 183, ‘T'wo ur threo ence of 0 plague that has aisappearcid before | miNls have been dostroyed by fire, and seversl clvilization. A widening knowledge of the Jaws | Of sinail capscity haye 'not been fn_operation. of bygleno, and increased attention Lo sanitary | The above mluw? it nust be understocd, are measures i the construction of dwellings, In | for the Saginaw Valley proper, aod do not fu- ventilation, food, clothing, drainage, ete., etc., | clude contiguous territory. Along the lincs of are constantly tending to the protection ‘,} the raliruada centering bere ara numeraus wills, Tealth and the preservatiunof life, The develop- | Which turn out large guantitles of Jumber, ag ment of intellizence strengthens the pussibilities | Well as those on the Lake Huron shore. Jn of longevity, or, as Mr. Luwis puts it, *the | Satioawand Bay Countlies alone we have cighty- lengthening of the averago individual 1ife meas- | *even mlils, with an jovested capital of over ures humat progress.’’ $5,000,000. Hesides the lumber-mile, there are Of the beautiful volumes placed fn Messrs. Osgood’ & Co.’s ' Gallery” of the old and modern masters there is none more interesting than this before us, which reproduces Ly the hellotype process twenty-four of the cfoicest pletures of Thomas Faed. The collection repre- seuts with grest fidelity the work of one of the most distinguishied of the living painters of the English school. Faced fs the historian of the lowly and the Indigent, and his canvascs deplct with vivid detail the simplicity, the poverty, the cheeriness, the .pathus, and the poetry that liecre and there, but they mever form a turf or cover the ground with a carpet of ver- dure, and meadows are consequently unknown. Fiulds ol clover arc cultivated for pasturcs, and scrve in part as s substitute for the mesdows of northern lands. Folluge fo the dry, dusty at- mosphere of Egypt Is not tinted with the rich greens observed clsewhere, and flowers are, in most cases, wanting fo the bright hues which give them eapecial lovelincas. Trces and per- cnnial plants are evergreen, new leaves sprout~ fog immediately upon the fall of mature ones. photographs, flluminated nlssals, fashion-maz- zfues of the period, or other urigingl sources of unquestionable veracity, ‘I'ie plates In plaln hinck and white reproduce costumes of Ureeee aud Rome, implements of war, houschold utensils and furniture, carringes, and a multitude of miscellaucous articles in use ju domestic or publie life amoun dilferent peo- nles tn past thines. The whole tozether lorm Beautiful scrics of drawinzs and paintings, which are interesting both from au artistic und & histaric point of view. Their chief purpuse ta to supply studies of the costumes of variots cras, and ft fs {n this that their great value critical spirit of the age, it was anticipated by Btrauss’ “* Life of Jesus,”" but was itsclf the precursor of Bistfoh Colenso’s * Inquiry Into the Pentateuch,” ' “Ecce IHomo,” IRenou's »yiede Jesus," “The Jesus of Ilistory ™ by 8ir11. D. Hanson, and Mutthew Arnold’s ** Liter- ature and Dogma.” By noue of these examples of bold, scute, and Icarned cxamination of the authority of the Bcriptures a of tho truths of Chrlistianity, has it been surpassed. 1t rango {s wider than that fakon by most of the books mentloiied,—lo- Dlend fn Mes. To contemplate th o poctical composition, in Chinesc history, philus- | Ng orchidaceous flowers occur fu the flora, and . . | ghinte-mills and a large nuinber of ealt-blo ie life of the humble cottager, Tears emplate ohe, Saurles aul | Gy, erlticisin, and’ In various branches o are | oo e ¢ ‘The ahingle product last year was 215.679,750, g, e, e omecny. | stea totlie eyon In contemplatlog mauy of uin | HIEES ok MG SMGN 138 BEFERITRES | dlucoluzy, Tiular degrees are coulorred upun | Mot feron, fungl, sod oter eryplogamots civT. and the proguct this year will excoed the et of ; pletures, yet in them all there are some touches uf beauty, some gleams of sunsbive, showing that In the darkeat hours and fu the saddest lot there s consolation to be found in tho at- tributes and tho surroundings of most human soula, Everybody 1s famlliar by engravinea with Faed's pleture of Evangeline, the herolne of Lougfellow's 1dyl of Acadia, yet not every one has cared to remember who Is its author, It {s ona of the most popular of the artist's smaller works. Yet, replete with fecling aa it s, thero are others in the present collection that far sur- ass IL 1o touching eloquence. ' Home and the otcless, The Mitherleas Balrn, The Lost of the Clan, and Baith Faither and Mitter, appeal with {rresistible forve to the senaibilitivs. ut of the whole number of admirablg reoro- ductions exhibited hcre, none 1s more powerful than the sceue of the tired, hagpard father watehing by his sick child fna dreary garret. The face of the littlc lnvalld is lovely as it rests u sleep on the plllow, and tho eager handa still clutehing the slceve of the beloved watcher tell @ graphic story of restless and anxious pain, while the frame of the father, relaxed nod nerveless in a slumber of utter gue, empha- sizes the truth ot the title, **Worn Out.” The studies taken from five of the famous Imlmlmu of Raphael—The Visitatlon; The toly Famlly, fintshed by Gullio Romano; The Holy family, called “The Pearl;” The Ma- douna of the Fish; sand The Blessing of the Cruss, are united in an exquisite volume, The original works furmed & purt of the royal col- lectlon of Madrid that was conveyed to Parls by the victorious arinfes of Napolcon, and after- wanl reelalmed by the Bpanish nation, Before thelr restoration to their right{ul owners, crayon coples of the palutings were wade and ‘cn- graved, and it fs from », set of these that the reproductions fu this edition have been ob- tained. They are very perfect and very Beau- titul, and a prize for any one to,own. Tho letter-press descriptions bhave been composed with noteworthy abilizy. i plantsare rare. - The palm 18 the characteristic tree of the country, and clumps and groves of the date- palm and the doom-palm add acbarmibg feature to the landecape. And still there is lcss satis- foction derived from these gracelul symbhols of the tropies thau is usually imagined. *To wander under palms,” writes Dr. Klunzinger, ‘‘appearcd to us from pouth up the hizhes pleasure of the tropic w¥rld. We sought for rest; but, fostead of a soft grassy carpet, we fud fu e grove aclayey soll, dted, crackedy aud dusty, or, if watered, muddy, with scrubby, prickly bushes, and dry and thirsty weeds. We wished for shade; but tue shaduw cast by the fofty slender stem of tnc palm-tree is scarcely 80 broad as our body with anins and legs kept close togethier, and whocever lles down o this position is again, in a quarter of an bour, fully txposed to the ravs of the uever-halting suuj the fndividual stems stand too far apart for their shaduws to meet togetuer; the coverluz afforded by the crown of “lcaves wavingat o gizzy helght aboye is of ‘no avall, on accvunt of the distance, and the few loose feathery frouds that form {t let through a thoueand benms of lght. We wished to breathe pure air; 8 palm lias nothing aromatic about it; stem ana Yeaves are dry aud stiff; when we breatbe we canuot avold “Inballng the dust that & suspended in the alr of Egypt, that bLere in tho grove has settled down more thickly on the alo greon leavos and twigs, and now when the cast breath of alr stirs falls down on our hieads and clothes, and even cnters our lungs. How much more poetical, then, than a palm-grove Is a ptne-grove, which In othier respects has some reseimblance to .Y Nelther forest, spring, nor meadow 18 to be met with in Erypt, and the native has no undorstanding of the terms which desfgnate them. Io the gardens of the rural population, which are surrgynded by a wtnud wall aud rrizated by means of the water-wheel, there are frult and follage trees, but a scardcity of floweriog plants, “For flowers,” says Dr. Klunzinger, “tho Egyotlan mnuh?mun hus no fecliniz: hie thinks only of dry utifity.,”) Tha rose is the favorite Hower, and " alter this come the jasmine, rose- wmary, mignonctte, mint, and basil, which Among carnivorous aulmals there is placed A o between the weasels (Mustellde) and hyenas lL”c“""-‘r':x'gL:l‘l’lenl':l'Ir;‘htou (Hyenidie) the family of clvets and gouettes | will close the present week. ‘The lumber-ship- (Viverridm), Tho characteristic featuro of this | ments this season will exceed thuse of 1476 by group which renders it of especial {nterest to w,’%“'wéfiflgfi‘a‘v‘_"& ’g "{""‘f'“ ful‘.y"ln..- 3 mankind is the eecretion in the aual ziands of | muhths, e mincaty I, RS i the suceessful competitors, and to qualify for tie examinations years of arduous study are required after the ‘rehool courses have beci fin lehen. But when all s done, and the Chineso student lias' attained the highest rank of schol- aralup, his mind Is poorly disciplined, the mem- ory hus been stimulated at the expensc ol the ‘ressoning faculties, and very littlo knowledge of a progressive character bos been acquired. In'sending 120 Cuinese yuutl to this country to be trwmed in our schools, the - (lovernment. hos taken an finportant step towand the im- &[ruvemv:nt of the national system of cducation. ¢t this must be {ollowedeby a lovg and cons tinuous serles ol reformatory tneasures ere edu- cation in Cuina i mado a” process of genulne enlizhtenment, COLLEGE LIBRARIES, A number of the lesding colleges of tho coun- try have contributed to the Library Journal, in answer toa circular letter of luquiry, a state- ntofthe amount and characterof booksdrawn from their librarica by students snd profeasors. Bawdoln College reports the possesaion of 18,000 volumes In its library, about 1,100 of which are drawn by tha students during tbe college year. The lbrary contalns only a small atmount of the lighter Nterature. Thero fs®very littls demand for fictlon among the students of Colby Univer- sity, the largeat call being for history and vlog- rapty, and tho next largest for essays. In Dartmouth College tho circulation of flction 1s uot over 10 per ceyt. At Harvard flction is the most popular reading of the students futhefirst two years of the course. Eomie ycars four-fifths of the bouks taken by fresbmen, and two-fiiths of thoss taken by sophomores, are of this class. in the last two ygarol thecourse, ouly one-fifth of the books dra¥u are works of fictlon, the re- mainder being: esdsys, blorraphy, history, and postry. Dickens and Thackersy are the most popular novelists at Harvard, ‘and Mucauluy, Carlyle, Addlson, and Emerson, the most popu- lar essayists. Loucfellow and Tennyson arc the most read of the pocts, and Macauluy of the bent the feeliog and the hablu of the races of maukind, is us Instructive as surprising, There I, ubove all, & certaln sutisfaction in learning that the absurdities pacticed n obedience to her dictutes at the present day are not imore ridiculous or frrutional than those to whiclr the world has submitted unceasinely slnee Adam ond Eve first clothed themsclvos fis fig-leaves, “Lo Costuing Historlque™ will be completa in twenty numbers, each of which will eontain twenty-fivo plates, plain and colored. A _LAW-BOOK. A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF SALE OF PER- SONAL PROPERTY: Wiru Hxreursces o TE AXKRICAN DECISIONS, AND TO THE FRENCIC Coux aND Civit Law. _Socond English Edition. Byd, P. Dexsal 49.. Q. C. of Lincoln's Inn, Barristér-at. . Second American Edition, By d. C. Peogixm, LL.D. Now York: Iurd & Houghton, Doston: H. 0," Houghton & Co, Cllcago: "B B. Myers.* Lab shoep, roy. 810., p. 000. » No English edition of the present work has been lssucd since the first American cditiug. so that the presont as well as the first s based on the second English editlon. The great demand for the work, however,—the whole editfon having been exhaustod in ‘less than three yeurs,—has compelled the ablo and well-known Amerlcan editor to prepare the present volume. He has {n it add- ed about. 500 new cases, some of them mnot yet reported; enlarged the index, and brought It down to November of tho proscnt year, Tuls makes It cight yearslater thxn Hilliard oh Sales, slx years later than Ntory on tha same subject, and 1t is ucarly one-balf farger than eithier, and contams twice os nucli matter as the portion of Bchouler's Personal Property devoted to the subject of Bales, Tha treatment of the subject s vory logical and clear, and ths mechanical zet-up—It being rrlnccd at tho Riverside Freas ~I8, of coursc, ail that could bo desirod. gatlon ot sottie poluts of the discusslon must, as & nccessary consequetce, bo cursory, they never 111 of beiug candid and profound. The,conclusion to which the author is led by * bls inquiry futo tho authentlcity of the Heurew Bcriptures 18, that they are buman records, and not Divine revelations; and that they are to be ‘considered and studied llke any other docu- ments “out of which the good, the true, the sound, I8 to bo educed.” The result with re- spect to the New Testament {s about the samo. Nono of the four Gospels are judged to be com- pletely genuine sud falthful, sithough suffl- clently ample to show the cnaracter of Clrist snd tho essence of Uis teaching. The Apostles are regarded as imperfect and {allible expound- 18 of the miud of Jesus, while the truth of Ilts mirscles, as well as of Llis resurrection, Is do- clded to be questionable. Nol.wmutmldln‘: these concluslons, fafth in 1he existence of the Fonnder of Christisnlty is pot undermined. . “ At Is difficult,” Writes Mr. Greg, “without cxhausting superlatives, eveu to unexpreMivo und weansome saticty, to do justice to our Inteuse love, revercnce, and ad- miration for the character and teaching of Jesus, We regard Him not as the perfection of the ntellectual or philosophic mind, but as the perfection ol tho spiritual character,—as sur- ing all mea of all times {n the closeuess and mh of Hils conmuulon with the Father. In v reading Ilis aaylugs, we feel thut we arc holding converse with the wisest, purcat, noblest Being that ever clothed thought in the poor languace of lumanity. Instudying His life, we feel that woars following the lootlsteps of the hizhest Mea yet presented to us upon Earth.” Jesus I8 uot accepted by Mr, Greg as the Son of God, nor His_doctripos ns direet revelations from the Most High, Neitlier doea o belleve ¥that Christiunity contulus. anytuing which o oius like Curist’e, brought up and wours hed a5 His had been, might not have dis- antangled for itsell.’ liv holds the opin- wn, {nstcad, ‘““thar one great mind after another will arise from time to “mr‘:.\‘m snch are tmouths, and the reason considerably better for tho peculiar fatty Substance known as “eivet.” | Jumber-carriers than 1876, ‘The stock of lumber Al tho species of the famlly produce the sccre- | 0n dock at the close is estimated at about 175 tion, yet thecivet of commerce is chiey obtatn- | 090,000 fect, and a zood portion of this 1s sold, ed from the civctcat (viverm civetts) which fn. | 3008 MOTC a8 suon ‘.7,!,{?,{,{,‘;&2,"‘},&?",‘;; b ‘ babits thenorth of Atrica. The aulmal is from | at the close of navigation [n 1870, Lumber is two to three feet lung, and is from ten tw if- | held finn et §525.85, $10410.50, and 33323, teen Inches high, Its fur is long, and of an fron. 4 TUL LOG-BUSINESS. by banded sud spotted with Glack. 168 iabe. | The raftio season hus ciosed, and most of its arc wocturnal, and it fecds upon small | the strenms are cutirely cluancd out, and wiil 3 jm]| i it Cal g J y a o . jools and frults. "It cllmbs trees with great | cd”of S15,000.000 foot, which 15 To00,000 in Khynlnh\ and in Asia the ciret {s very | 100r0 than was raitcd inst year. sudn larger commanly kept {n cqufinoment for the sake of | amount than daring any season Inthe past its perfume® This {s removed, says a writer, | €ight yeare. The foliowing tigures will ghow from the Lagz about twice m week by means of n | tht uninuuts rafied oo tho several streams tuls small spatula, and is obtained most abundautly | scason: “from the male.aud especially after Lie bas been frritated. A dram is a large yuantity to oblain at atime. The civets kept for this purpose aro fed on raw flush; the young partly on fanina- ceous food.” One specles of civet is found in Indla snd one {n Jnn; and these furnish a por- tion of the civet which finds its way into tha mu};e\.w tlon fs not d from th Total 00,470,753 hen the secretion fs not removed from the g see . 1470, 75 glands by artiticial neans, it hardens in the sac OPEBATIONS IN TNE WOOD3, ana Nually drops out in picces of the size of an | The preparations a munth ego indicatoa s almond. It {s not known what use the secre- '“'D“'"-;’" 10 put Ina larger stock of logs tion subserves in the ceonomy of the animal, | than before for screral years, but Nature i3 As known to commeree civet 18 a dark, semi- | 90Iog tor the lumber-market next scason what < }iquid substance with & powerful ond offensiye | than in his perversity funored. For the past : o O easeity mualica it costly, henes it | month tne weather has been asuccossion uf is liable to adultcration. The value of | rain-storins, Qiling up the awamp and render- . the article consists in its faculty for | 108 roads well-njzhh imoassadlv, . In many of combining with other perfutncs, fixing those | $h0 cutwps already cstablisiod work les beea which are ethercal in their nature and stopped, us {1 oo wet turkid Joge, treat abili- {ving their distinctive qualitice withuat obt culty hus beeu experienced in yottleg ln sup- i stsown. Its use {s most fmportant fu the plies, and the inen in some vamps have becu production of vertain efferts necessary to the | Pt 0n short ratiuns, formation of varfous perfumes. It i geucrally TYE SUFTLY OF LAROR. .. emploed n the forim ot a tincture made by | 18 fully adequate to the mlulrrm:ms. About ) TOETRY. APPLE-DLOSSOMS, iy H1ATTi8 Trxe QuiswoLp, Chitago: Jansen, McClurg & Co. 12mo., pp. 165, Price, $1.26, STORIES. ¢ e histurians. Jast” Is especially fancled by the people. | maceration in strong alcohol.” 6,000 men find employment in the woods during = :c:t’ls}.'::“%?;olvrnurmx;ndufl‘fhnxx% “l!::lftju:‘l:s THE QUEEN OF SHEBA, By Tiowis Barsr A title. frogrant with sweet assoclations has ‘The collegelibrary proper at Yale compriecs | The cvpress fs ylhe only member of the e i % lhemflfr l}l;;:llhmm:h: ‘:rnrxrxlu‘hms":c:mfln tor 5 gesut men dio truths that aro wanted, and | Ta, Licy, “sostou: Jauies I, 0sgood % Co. | been selected by Mrs, Griswold for her ittle | 80,00 Volam, and the Linouisn and Broters,| piuo tribe that can be made to grow iu the land, PATTERSON, CONOVER & CO. Sk e 1Y Jobn.nee Tehon of Jeaus I valuod by dlr. Ureg us cone | pSiicasa: Madley Bros, & Co. 10i0.. vp. 270, | chaplet of poctical flowers, ‘They aro such as | Mrary 20,000 volumes, Tho furmer aiins es-'| Mt tamurisks sud acaclas flourlsh, tuxuriatly, O e Telin ot Taceh: Shuratlons:aly requies lassy Limug. more, purer, uid bighier truth than has | > Avinor of u"'lly. "h'umm'e'l: In & Garden. eic, | many & wind attuned to thythmical moveuieuts Efif{’m "::,'.25“'1;‘&1 m::’:_ ::3%,:‘1,‘:“:‘? '.;"';fi.'&{; T;‘.‘:xegnm“u '.'Tg’:.'flf'{fi'ec's?f’fxgfik’-{{\fl'i&?fife".fi " Cmicano, Nov. B0.—In times like these, when | fall s fares trado (s carrcu i s tocls, Tius Tar fiz;nuerl:fi:}h;fifxcficfx? ;::.3‘ :fl:fi‘:fifl'«;‘iufi:fl- B Y Chieaar Wadloy Dvos clé' is enticed to conatruct for -the gratification en- | patronfzed by the undergraduates, who drew Joees of this Bone~-ars thoroughly at home. | botn political parties are struggling for su- | Lis season about 1,200 hursca havebecn brought Osgoud & Co, Chicago: ~ Uadloy Liros, uan. Pg. 44, ls:n"rn. 81,50, ’ TUAT WIFE OF MINK." Iy the Author of *¢That Husband of Miue," THoston: Lee & Shepard, 16mu., pp. 228, Price, $1, Mr. Aldrich'’s last story fa:a work of slight dimensions, yet It s marked by the clegance which distioctly characterizesall its autbior's productious. The stylo 1s exquisitely polished, and the descriptive portions arc strikingly pict- uresque. A veln, too, of deliclous humor runs along with the thread of the narrative, gleanlng out ever and anon with tha perpetually pleasant effects of unexpectedness. The story fs alight, nswo have eaid, but js skillfully evolved, aud its artistic beauty cheats usof any disappotnts ing sense of meagreness. ‘The author of the scrios of delightful booxs begibning with * My Summer in a Uarden" could hardly write a dull work of any kiad, and certainly hias done nol.n.lni of the sort i the sbove essay on boy life. 1t is very true to na- ture in ite Uckineations, snd by many & keen stroke hita off the pecular trails by which the pecies of boy-kind brought up on a furm s stinzufshed “from ail others of the genus. The illustrations by * Champ? asre full of spirit and naturalness, *That Wite of Mine " haa much loss fuil yiduahty thau bier partuer fo the uma previo Iy nm-l{ul o the world as * That Husband of Mine.” Possibly this fs an {nevituble consc. quence of the comparative naturs of man and woman, {cl fmpariial writers will ratier ascribe it to the huste with which one book hos been mada to follow the other fn order to improve thc opportunity creuted by an extraordinary e The author ol the two storics has Lappy Jitepary glits, which sbould not be ex- lsusted nor abused by too frequent excrulse. Joyed In mere versification. There s a charm in the flow ol smoouthly-measured language to which inost persons are deeply sensible, ~Liko $be gurgling ofa brook, the murmur of o fount- aio, or of wind awmony the pines, the melody Elv l"phmmn: apart from all alljance with seuti- men! . . The fig-tree produces a fruit of middling quality, tha citron s frult not larger than a wal- nut, aud the orance ouly green and not very awcet orangos. The vide 18 cultivated, but wine Is seldomn manufuctured. The trult trees of tho temperata zouo are olten planted, but to little purpose. Iu the verotable gardens of Upper Egvpt the potato Is not planted. When imported, it is costly and does not kte? well, aud therelore litte use 1s made of it. The mnost common vegetables are n speciea of matlows, iblscus esculentus, the egg-plunt, the Arum_colocasia, whose roota taste like the potato, and the Cor- chorus obitorius, & plant belonging to the Tilia- cew, and baviog the flaver of spinach. Most of ihe vegetables in our own ganlens arc found in those of Egzypt. A pecullar kind of radish {s cultivated for the sakeof the leaves, which are caten instead of tha root. Five kinds of mclous arc grown, with cucuwbers frow dwarl Lo glant size, and gourds of extrav- awraut forms anddimensions, which, with proper couking, form an excellent article ot food. ‘The florn of the Egyptlan deserts comprises about 600 species. As early as January vegeta- tion begius to sprout, and is at {ts tinest fromn February to April. After this the suu burne up the tenderer plangs ous by oue until ouly the trecs aud shrubs remain, “The most abun- daut plant is the desert-thorn, & small sbyub with tuwers like those of a radish. feed upon it with great avidity, b other animals even the thistle-eatls fratus from sttacking its tborny twl Lroom-like murch (flevtadania pyrotechnla) 18 lm&uml{’ et with, and” " the cawel readlly browses on its long, geuerall leatless, twigs. The Beancapers (Zygophul- luma) are very common, but, belng excessively salt, ure caten only by the hungriest Bedouin camels. * Though growiug In thé driest years and fn tho driest spots, strange to say, these proved nor surpassed, As for the docirino of the soul's Immortality, grantiug that it 18 not to be proved, Mr, Urég discourses thus wisely upon it “f{rurythluu tends to prove that this liie ks, uot perhaps, nut probably, our oaly sbhere, but still an duteyrat one, and (Ae one in which we are meaut to be concerned. ‘Lhie present is our scenc of action; the futurs (8 for speculation, sud for trust, We frmly beliove that man was sent upon the carth to live n it, to cnjoy it, to study it, to love it, to cbellish ft,—to make the most of it, I short, It s his country, on which hic shall lavish bis affections aud his éiforts, . It should be to him a louse, uot a tent,—a liutue, not ooly s school, If, when tals liouse and this home are taken from him, Providence, In lts wisdom gud fts bounty, provides him with vother, lec him be deeply gratetul for the glft; Aet him trunsfer to that future, wien i Aas bde- sonu his present, Wis exertions, his rcscarchos, ‘and hls Tove, Hut let him rest assurcd that he 1 sent into this” world, not to be constautly bankering after, dreaming of, preparing for,— Aother which inay, or way bot, be in store for him,~but to deg Ine dut{ and fulfill hls destiny ou earti,—to o all that lics in his power to hn- prove i, to render it a scens of eleyated happi- Dess to hiwnself, to thuee around him, to those whoaro to vowe after iin; . . . 80 will he best prepare for that future which we bupe tor,— H1t comes so will he best havo occupled the mmm, iI'the preseut be his all. ‘To demand 8t we shall Jove licaven wore than Earth,— tat the Unscen sbhall hold a higter place fu vur affections that the Been and the Famillar, =1s to usk that which cannot be obtained with- out subduing Nuture apnd Induciug s morbld econdition of the Soul. ‘The very luw of our being 15 love of lic, and, all its interests and aornments.” Coutrary 1o the oplulon exprested by Strauss, Ir, Greg' belicves that thu true essence of from it 80,000 volumes during the past year. ‘The number of bound volumes in Cornell College s less thau 40,000, The average clreu- Iation winong the profcssors s 800 volumes, and amuni the students 250 volumes, daily. ' Tho Wesleynn University has a library of 26,737 vol- umes, About 20 per cent ol the circulation 1s fiction; 25 per cent poutry, eriticlsm, ete.s and Wyper cent history and Dlography, Columibia Cotlege Lus uo departnent of fiction, In the Culloize of the City of New York, the vumber of novels drawn by the studeats during the last Ye-r was 1,043, to 157 of scicnee, 153 of poetry, 30 of history, cte., ete. The University of Virginia coutains no English novels. “Mr. Jeflerson, tho founder of this university, se- lected tho books which formed the body of the livrary when the Inetitution went 1mto opera- tiou, ‘and, in explanation of his viewson the subject, remarked that ‘*Nothing of mere amusement shonid lumber a public library." The Mbrary of the University of Wisconsin numberd about B,000 volumes, [Fhe Scan- dinavian bouoks In the cotlection Incide about 1,000, more than oue-balf of which huve been contributed by Ole Bull, This is sald to be the ;-i"'i“" collection of its kind in the Unlted tutcs, . ” his city from Cunada und Obio, and sols to premacy in the United Btates Sepate, it becomes | }0 Hhis ity fro 3 the right aud duty of the pcople to cxpress an }‘,‘3,‘,?2_»’}5',‘;, fi%‘pflw IORBOUL toma' raping oplnloa. The Scnate undoubtedly has a right TIE SALT-TRADE. to closely fuspect tho quaildcations of ts mem- The salt Fl’lll(n:t this year will be conslderably bers-alect, for the Constitution eays: * Each | I excessof last vear, Thereare about 1le[\'- . t, five firins ¢ngaged fn the manufscturs of sal House shiall ba tha judge of the eloctiovs, ro- Bity-tureo of which are members of the Mich- turns, and qualifications of its own membord 5 | jgau Salt Association, which baudics the prod- and further ou, in the same section: ‘“Each | uct. The fullowing fgures show the product Houss may determina the rules of its proceed- | during the vast-seven years, estiwating for the . tugy, punlsh ita members for dleorderly Le- | CUTrent month: Sisetic . bavior, snd, with thie concurrence of two-thirds, | 1870 81,842 expel & member.” The Arst article wusevi- 728,175 dently fntended by the framers of our Constl- ok, AuL tution to cover such men as Kellog and But~ ler, and the last to expel such ncu as Conover and Patterson. The mural abligation of Mesars. 3 Cunover aud Petterson is exactly as bindinz as 1,617,000 the moral obligation of a Presidential Elcctur, p s 1t have rgo of late, -~ and it bebooves both parties to think | —tha objuet beiug tu stock the Inke-ports belore > long and well beforo ‘they retaln or | navigation closcs, thereby effecting a material exin & majority by thelr help. | saving in freigies. The totat shipmeots duriog ’ But still the Republican party, witn the example | the scuson aguregate about 1,110, barrels by of these gentlemen beforo it, struins every | water, of which 1,029,600 are credited to the i effort to seat W, Pitt Kellogg, acarpet-bagger | Aicbigan Associution up to the 234 fost. The of imore ambitiops desigus, and a man who | shipments the paat week have aggregated over would sacrific every party duty forspersoval | 50.000 barrels, most of which went Lo Chicazo 5 ends; and the Democrats, with censure of the | and Milwaukee, The system of through 3 peuple, as tu ita meke up mg its supporters, | cloarances, which permits vessels to clear i ringing in its cars, strives, with the help of this | frum ~Buffalo to Chicugo: or Aflwau- carpet-bacging fraternity, to seat Butler, over |-kee light, aud, etopping in the Baginaw i whose head is hanging the charge of the | River, taks ou cargoes ol lumber or salt, cou- bntclm] of twenty luuocent negroes. All the | tinujug thelr voysge without repnmng( at qur rant sud talk about a sovercign State beiog en- |- Custow-liouscs, aunually robs tho lley of titled to representatiou is simply wind, " The | the credit of lanze quantiies of lumber aud sals Hght of the country at large s paramount to | to which i is justly eutitied. E C. - even the lfilllt of a'sovereign State. The Bena- —————— tors should romewnber what Boloiuon sald with SALONICA SPEAKS, tdmiw: to unclean lhlng'll. 3 “lll u‘ur. u{ ""7 To the Editor of The Tribune. ¢ of them came no good.! 6 exainples ol bistory should mot ontirely fade Trom . their | CHIcA00, Nov. 30.~In your paper this morn- { A TABLE-BOOL, y GOLDEN S0NGS U} GREAT POLTS, Ilustrated by Daniey, Monax, _ilanr, REDERICKS, BauiLrir, aud McEstee, Now York: Sarah A, Lepgott. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg® & Co. §q. Bvo. Prico, $5. - A handsome table-book 18 this, which com- prises & half-dozen new poems by Holines, Bry- ant, Loogfellow, Whittier, Lowel), and Taylor, ‘The sougs are Lllustrated by a half-dozen of vur best deslzners, whoso aketches embellish every F- e. The mechanical execution of the book flue; the fair tvpe resta upon rich, heavy paper, and the bindiug is of atusteful pnhurn. BOOKS RECEIVED, PUBLIC-HEALTIL REPORTS AND PAPKRS, Voluma lll, Pz AT THE NG OF . THE AMEBICAN PUBLIC-LIEALTUL AMSOCIATION IN TuE YEans 1870-1870. Wite Aw NTRACT OF Taw REconn or Procxxvixas, 1876, New York: Burd & loughton, ch(nso: Hadley Tros. & Co. 8vo,, bp. 241, Price, $1. TUE FINAL PHILUSOFIIY; on, STuTxu or I'ER. PECTINLE KNOWLRDUN haUixo raex i Han- MOXT 0F SCIRNCK AND HELIGION, By CHanxs ‘Wooprury SuixLos, D. ., Professor in P'riuces ton College, Mewber of the Amarican 1"iilo- phical Soclety. New York: dcribner, Arm- stroug & Co. "Ubleago: ltsdloy Bros, & Co. 850, D HINTS 482,720 ART GOXSIP, Albert Blerstadt is completing & Rocky Afountaln scene, which i to 4l an order given Ly the Eart of Dunraven, Mr., Whittredgo has been skotching during the “past’ summer near Newport and {u the vicinity cf Baltlmore, Mr, F. II Do Haas has just flu- Ished w wmoonlight scencon the Long Islaud cosst, and {s now at work on a pleturc ol the ravlds above Ningara Falls. Willlam IT. Beand has severdl characteristic pictures of animal life b, UOY. Price, tL ON BIBLE-READINGS: Wity a Cot- LECTION OF REAUINUS yuON VARIOUS Bovncs: n( the Rev. Junx C. 1L, Pastor Vresbyter: Clurch, Adrian, Mich, |New York: Anson D. lhndoluh&l,‘o. 1duio., Price, $1, TUE CROSS ABOY po. 146, - = . K THE CHEECENT: under way, The New York Tribune says of | ceding) culent; yet dew mind, sod they would do well to recall the | Ing you speak of (he plous youug wman who, in Christlanity will wot be renounced or_outgrown HOUSEKEEPING, Huxaxcs or Coxsraxtinortz. liythe IRl Rev. | them: “Onofs ‘A Rebearsal by the Wayaldo,’ gn.\'l::n:{rfl u“xn d‘;gw L‘I'zut‘::‘l: “x:’x;u{fienmu:nlf.l: sullerings of {he French Republic under tlie | consequencs of the loug sermon be listened to by Lo progressive intelligence of menkiud; but | pona's NODSEKERFING: By the Auther of | loasmio Sevriaise, . D worierly iitahon | ropresentiug n {ravelivg stowman who lus | gew seldomn Talls in the desert. tnanagenent of corrupt law-glvers—remember- | vegterday, was too late for his Thankigiving - ,fidfi:’fiflfil&;}:flx{!n\:g:fl_mvfm:'; “4ix Littly Cooks.” Chicagos Jansen, M At Comsuntiuople. Phlladelphla; Jc tiglapoin- | siopped 1o rest with W trained miensgerio of | *Ona of tho stracest pIaAt forms is sssumed | ing (it Atuericans, lige the Frouch are only g s i 0: Jausen, Mellurg & Co. 12mo, vp. 450, Price, $L.50. HARRY HOLBROKK OF HULBROKE WALL. By 8ir Ranvat 11, Hosxurs, Hart. Boston: Lock- Urooks & Cu, Chicago: Juusen, McClurg & Ca. “‘"’“‘"’,?,}‘ 215, Price, $1. = THE LIFE OF UST ¢ BRixu &4 NAURATIVE OF Tus Lond's DEALINGS WiTu Uxonus MoLLEn, Clurg & Co, 8q. 16wo., pp. 75 Price, § . The admirable msnual named **Bix- Little Cooks,"” which we had occasion to commend & few wonths ago, is supplemented by a work of s siwllur character from the samne author, The Hrst volume contained elementary lessons in by the cleotie, 8 representative of the caper family, which grows In tho shape of ahemis- phere, and §s as smooth aud round a4 though clipped with the shears. It has a strong aro- matlc smell, and is repulsive to tho natives and to sl domestic auimala. In raiuy years there s the iuspirution and the guide of life, and the ob- fectof revcrence and ot Taith " UPI'ER EGYPT, W'P_ZR EGYPT: ITS PEOPLE AND ITS PROD- UCT3. A DEsCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE MAN- bear, mookuy, and do? on the country road, and is puttiog thesmaller members of the group through the perforinances of thelr coming exhibl- tions fn town. Another picture is *The Hunt- er's Tomb.! It was suggested by au fncident {in an Eastern cemetery, not longago, The tomb of a gentlewman whose lelsure time o 1ife bad INDEFRND dinuer, and In revenge wished that the wminfs- huwan, Very truly yours, INDEFNDENT. © | ¢ opg urkey mizhit be burnt, T alio was tus NORINE. late for wuy dinner yesterday through the failure Uk . of the rallroad company. 1 had an engage- 3 ment beyond Riverside fu the morniog, and Tn- 1 ar to the ball, Ma Bells? ° ns . :hl.}l-l- lo the DA tended to return on the 1 p. . teaid, But » . “guburban passenger’ was balfl an V. Vi an sbundance of furage-plants, of differeat ‘tongu tell— alssl the ‘sul Passeng 2 KR caToMe, BUPERSTITIONS, AND Uccuras | Wnitte Mimself, With sn Introduction by ¢ ¢ Ry nger, B A0EES £AN bour bebind Mme, Aud then the lung stop- Rk o i T T VLR, i | S bt D ey | Fa diagis, e i Bt | et o sy coneeel”h e :&wm.u,.':;".‘;‘,:‘,'u?'-,,b’,‘;wmu;";".{.; Sue s 8 Soarl-aion s, thun Srai 'y AND THE HEp-SEA COAsT; . wiTi 3 0 . i . . . BEErelica 7 g Nueaias, liszons sMdeota: | aad of the tastructor. This second book con- | fo Americt, New Yorks Seldon &'Go. "uica | Lol U S Mator I thepicture Whch | of irous avipnitt 1hS tavelor skabt scusms ot | " Heve Xo) simens s Norioe Dabicice, "Aud the 43tict af that traln afer we oroiinn Ganfiary Fayaicran ot & Formerls | taioe the course of teschior nuder somewbat | §9¢adleY i * | isurowing under Mr, Beant's brush a Hock of | the year tn the grayest and most logely wilder- | Vo (o bd star of (he night, and queen, paszed Canal atreet wero the wonler of won- Eed etc, With s Pretatory ce Ly Dr. | different conditions, extendingit 60 far ‘as to | TiiE BAR-ROOMS AT BRANTLY; om, Tus | partridges and a number of wild rabbits are dls- | uess; and whero tho soif ta saturated with mols- Whataver you chooss 1o wear, ers. It woul csitate aud bal', go 8 httla Orozy Seuwhinrunrir, Author of - The Neart | cobrace the many detalis iuvolved in the man- | ~ Gumar Horsu-Srzoutation. . 5. Aurnus, | pluyed swarming about the towb of the man | turc by purling streamlets, that last all the year ways, back down, sud tiually switched off on an of Aftica." NewYorki Beribner, Arinstrone & | sgenieot of domestic sfairs. In sddition to { Author of **'Ten Nighta-in s far'itoom," et. | who had made things uncomfortablo for them | round; or Jezunes of sca-water, the eye s glad- | B 1 most be £ iF Sean axen, i Balle, unknown track. Some of the remarks of tuo ';g;j Chicego: Hadley Bros & Co. o,y BB | recipes for cookiug it gives directions fpr the | Ghicaga: Hadiey Bros. & Co., 1vmo,, pp. 497, | fu previous days, and reading his epitavl. | deued by spreading meadows of green rushes.!? ,n"";:" l:"‘“ I :'"L 8 of ov muenf:n were sumewhat forvible, and every- p s ohrice, 83, . Rlctst wnl readitat perforivance of 1o hafndred 05 W 3 I Avotlir_yalutiig, Just complatod, 8 & serious | Among wedluiual plunts, the colocysth, wiil o et S e Bt % . | body looked newildered. Fiually we crosséd 101563, Dr. Klunzinger left Furope for the | aud pus dutics appertaluing to the superinteud- o Aile of ihe Gods,™ il pidkurs of & preity child playlg yith rabbits | jts cucumber-liko stems, creeps everywhere . the river, and when we ed Btate street fu Speddal purpose of studying the formation of the | euco uf & Louscbinld. * it adviscs how to wash | oiphia:'y. B. Lippiacott & Co. Chicago: liad. | 10 the yard.? along the borders of the valleys, aud bears uum- | Hei It bse ever besn tAsy, Norine. was Jollock! We wera about two hours com- Bedfca Mo cstablishied lumsolf st Kesln, a | dishes, cleau ailver, act tables, and sccowplish o, & Co. 15 ) é fug tilteen wiles! How 1s thut for subusb L ley Bros, & Co. 12w, 0 pp. 342, Price, berless suptl, round frusts ike spples, wuich What! you who tread . arts, . . numberless other matters which scein cas) —— JULYA KAVANAUGH, t ilow when ripe. These 50 bit- | And laugh st thelr pain, and call lova vain— travell Canuot our rellroad companies do by e e et e e ath | SoCUEN 10 o properly witliout I‘Tn‘lflxlll::“l:’i PERIODICALS RECEIVED Intetligenco Las beew recelved of the death, at ‘?:" d'.:; L“;’, :3‘:"? t&‘:in madl::s u'fix banda Baer, | ou oot af i/ sty {6 than thiaf Wearily yours, - BALONICA. N structlon, but which way be greatly b § ~ | Whenthe Bedouln s in need of a Laxattye, he Ollg o " e T the duties of a sanitary or quarautine physiciau | by suggestious trom practiced aud skilled work- BY}:;‘;,“,% w;‘c.‘,":af,_zmu for December | Nice, of Julls Kuragauz, the novellst and blox- | J3%3 110F 0.0 applo with wilk and drinksitthe | Husht Bushi T Bave found my king, ¥a Belte; TO DESPONDING ONES. Mooiuted by the Egybtian G ment. | e T P Py oy o Ao (A N. Bell; N rapher, Bliss Kavanaugh was bora at Thurles, | 1l 0wt s’ morulng. Senns, and artemisla (s 1 am readiog the story old. Sebillind From 183 to 1503 sad oreruett | “The ook ts neatly putilished. and slone, or, | *Yoiks: o - @ | Ircland, fu 184, She was the only child of 8 | gpecite of' wormwood) are found i the fors, | O 33K 8 $o fulr ttia) Ble Tios mest aw Fotolinais salwerir Wha hove b3 banliiabon . v o 16T ho m“mdlfl‘.z tis h“fr ".u“'ufigem" with’ ‘l‘ u’l;bo:nglx L“fhi Bglt‘.’: ) .E&Ucfi'rlo\}mkmr&\;'m&\' (A. | geutlewan of some lterary repute, and her early | us aldd the calotropis, & I.f“.'mlflum l‘l.'tl :ll:r: s A YR Yo weo aud ye women w'h:l atrive hard for bread, 5 Cook! Ll make ratel 3 rues Co.. ew §U). i g i v ecluded atation, with the cxception of fn- | Chontinas £t o any. youss il & Lvely | LUFTELLS . LIVING AGE-Curreat numbers | o mas ouch of 1t passed to France. A% the b ik phcrimme sommetties trarel | Mway yhs rade tershe sl oY Tewhe ate canpondent bud boned; dony Hraas: : Yervals sneut {n tho nelgbboriug portion of the | slory furms tho substructire of Bott voluaics, | p (Litia & Gay, lostoa)., mauy duys to fud and rub their limbs with. Of a1l tBo waldens tho stars bad sqen, Tave coussge aud falat aot—you'll eurely be fed. : Nils V' T PUCK—Current unmbers (Puck Publishiug Com- | ycars later published her first buok,—a story for n 550 She was the fairest of all X lo Valley in the prosecution of private and | alfording the reader abundant eutestainwent Now York), aild bitled %Thros Patbe This Of edible fruits the desert offers the product darl Bublicallaire, 1t was n part of the plan of Dr. and jnsurlog an uterest in the more practical | P8J: New York). Tollowed. b““hndelalnc"r’l‘-l:"::? Auurzn‘zn'e of the Bulauites wgyptica, & date-liko fruit, xud . g =T $ . . . Tue “dm"":’ be dark, aud the clonds may: be i Klunztuger 10 make bimaclt acqualuted with PR ; . FAMILIAR TALK, 0 154 * Womea ia France Duriui tho Bughn- | OF, & Bi-4res (Mous patuducastea) which erowein | - griut bome from the ball 40 soos, Norias, he blackueds of midathe your apiti may pal; o characler aiid customs of thy peopla while VITAL MAGNETISM, s, ccats Cetury,” in 1850; sud *iNuthale, (o (5L | {IESOPR 00 SOl ihah “hours - fruits tha | aAPdBele ssibe robe zou wesc) y | Bonhs alaood coprane, 19rHetw{l ek ear Wudyiug the lifo of the. Jower suimals, aud i | VITAL BAGNETISM:* ITS FOWER OVER DIS- EDUCATION IN CIIINA, After o prolosed visit I Friuce, Bultzertand, | onliue” swootneas with the taste of wus: A o e TRk you ettt 9U5Y | g 58 bat withoot Tz 5o spasrow caa fall. Butsuance of this ain bo ucquired s mastery of | - EASK. A STATLMENT o TUE Fagta DEvaLorsp | | A paper Lreating of tha system of public edu- | jug _mmY-- AT &;k:\'lk. lg“mmr and Winter | tards ‘Tha sraveler fu the dasert fuds the sgree- By Mex Wao IHave Exrioxsld Ty Acksr JUapki Vanious NauEs, 43 ANLxAL Maonstivn, ‘Musysnisy, Mxrsotua, Ere. BY Firpkmck *. . YaRaoN, !qnulwl’hy-ldfin‘h,‘so' York: able scldity of tho sorrel very refreshing, aa al- 8o tho berries of the thoruy Lyclum, of the trulllug Ovtradenus, and of the Nitrarls, the '@ Arabic laugugge and lived auong the Atlves a5 ono of themselves, U officc of plyslcian geve him entrance cation i Chilug, lately published by the Bureau of Education, contains an futeresting account of the metbods by which intelligence s fostered Hash! bush! Jle was there with his bride, | A ‘What thnuih 98 8re poor, was the Savlor nog o J He wss Chere with bis bride st the ball; Who S from Itis Pather our burdeat to share? Wo et in the growd, and he siniled and bowed, | Then be nos falni-Nearted, bacare: look spward— sl fu_the "l?wu Blcllles ™" (1853), ** Adels 7 (1853), “French Wowen of ‘Letters™ (1583), uu “Euglishwomeu of Letters” and * Queen 3 iy &y B D 1 N latter & coast-scrub; the longlug palate also b 140 the bomes of tho ExypUans, snd evea luto ‘;’éfi,“f."rfi“m%uu st Brot A G | iy andeot and couservative Eaupise. T8 | Mule; i 1oL Hor, most popular bouis WiLh | docs mot desplss tie Showing of tuo bads of th [ Aadsiale thay o thers ol e'ep will forsake tuaus B0 rush i His care, W i hacein, and afforded him uwcxawpled op- | This litlio treatise aling W present to the | paper is written by the Rev. William A. P. Mar- | “Naihalle, wnd * Gruce Leo.” The writings | fiX '&;wfl_ug:fi{ wflelr-v-vitd m-fih&‘;mfi. AN God 18 great, and Hae relgus, Norina, Tho world may be scoraful, “snd treat with con- 3 Xflualtes for learuing the peculisriies of | publiceoue of th evidences raioed in tho prac- | tiu, LLD., President of the fuerlal Collogo, | of Miss Kavanaush wero claracterlied by graco e et A o e vy vl (R LI ST G LT SRS N s Weie B Al AT ‘ 3elt domestie habits, From the knowledge | tice of intelligent and trustwortby cxperts, of | Pekin, and, coming from oue fawillar by loug | of siyle aud poetls feelig. ma, both plants belonglug to the family of the | Go ow to your troubled sléep. Then battle on bravely lu work sod well-dofg—= 48 sopuirel Dr. Klunzinger has been atle to | the lwportanss of vital magostlin as s therd- | experience with the subject, ita statemeuts we 4 - Asclepladacee, which produces wauny otber | —2rom o Mauriag" by Klia Whadler, Your pay s sasurcd at tho ¢xd of Life's day. 5 b X4 oy to the muny already exiating books | peutical ageut. A prejudics sguiust Us uss In | 10 bo regarded as trustworthy. Iu traciog the A MITERARY LIEMA, Poisons besidea.” i ‘The blograpby of Abdul Kader s belogwritten by Lls son. J. R. Ouzood & Co. will prescat to the Amer- fean publle the blogruphical study of *Tho- the treatisent of discyso bas been created in this country by its havlug fulleu slmost exclu- sively lnto the hands of charlutans, but in Ku- rope, where many sclentific wmen buve studled ““":Enpl,wmu\nmwt Tegpects eutlsely ,““4 aul couveys fuformation of a b4 at i hitherto been ol ML toushed, Do Scbwelafurth, wide Then, hard-handed toller, whoae lif is & struggls, A oy pasn ThoRn vtin cas dow, Feoy toe Wablhaellla | Tha family of \vulm'hcfim&m. lving on | Ite ketper. tho Savior. bay ever a welcome - East Fork, 10 this wuufi. weat 0 & neigboor's, | For ali who 1ely un lie vromlsca truse, { leavivg noonoouta child 3 or 4 yearsoldat | Cuavaco, Novewber, 1877, W.M Q. Oane of thy most remarkable plants fn the coast Bura 13 the Bhora (dricennls oflcinalla) of the family of verbenus. Thils grows in denso grovesiin tho sea, which wre laid bare ouly st very Jow tide. **Ships arc ladea with its wood, course of education 1y Chius, Mr. Martin says that children receise no uiestsl lustruction st bome, and st the wze of teu exhibit no moro faacity for thought than Europeaa chlldren 4o