Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1877, Page 9

1HL CHICGAGU 'fTRIBUNE: GALURDA, DLUBMBOUR o, lode 1 Wabivas LA, K] brave solther of the Cross, and speaks from per- | be honoratde In huainess-reiations,—a most fin- sunal knowledge of the noble work he accomn- | portant obicct: but the lesons fn ¢ Tom ? are plished. hased upon the convictlon that bays should Much of Father Mathesw's siccess,” he tells | firat Jearn to be brotherly in their treatment of 13, * waa owing to Lis prarvelons perronnl Ine | thelr fellows, and then “all other relationships finence,—the almost m#ical efMect of his per- | will be what they should. sonal exhortatlons. . . . He waa not what A collection of pteces from the St. Nicholat, would be called 8 great orator; it was not | written and Hiuatrated for the younwest of the what we know os cloquence that enabled im | household, has been, put un fn a captlvating to hend to his will the maltitudes that thronged | holiday-form. The picturcs In the St Nicho'ar around him, 1 was little more thinn 13 years of | are noted for their artistic beauty, and the 10 age when @ fiest heatd Father Mathew, and I | seattered through this voluma are among the cnn still remember theimpressions then created. | very hest, The sketches which they fllustrato v » + 1was moved not so mich by his words | are” niro extremely inzenlons, and adapted to a9 by some Indescribuble fmflucnes or charm | the comprehenslon of the two-or threc-year- which he scemed Lo exervise over nis_audlence. | olds, 1118 volve was excecdingly sweet amil musical, and cupable of great nflections, [lis features were pleasing nud _lhandsome, snd, when he amiled, aunshine diffused itsell sround. There was an alr of dignity and tendeiness Indescrib- able about him: and the earnestnees with which 1o &poke, the intense fecling he displayed, were {rresistible, When such a man preached amung 2 people so susceptible as the Celtic Irish a catse 80 Just and holy,—preactied it out of .tio fullucas of o heart nbomunnF with love, for them, with compasaton for thelr: sorrows and sollcitude for thelr huppiness,—who can wonder that the whele natfon rose at his words as Christendom auawered to tno call of Peler tho Hermity” ‘This pnssnga scrveans an example of the ardor of Mr. Sullivan’s style, as well na n por- traft of the bero he Inde{nlu((ng, In the papers which deal with the political agitations that for 8 thne flled Ireland with stormy confusion, aud occasioned the extle and executfon of many of her warinest-hearted and most cifted sons, a veln of smothered fire llows through the narra- tive, and excites the feelings of the readerton kindred degres of heat. And still the tone of munly candor 4 so well preserved In the most fervent mrnuurlm that not even an English. f Ject or to any recognizable law of order. The task was undertaken for a purely privatc object, —that of supplying the enmpliler's *need of an encyclopediag and, havirg attained fts present magnitude, 18 now publisted in the hope that it may prove rerylccable to others who have not the ordinary books of reference at command, Tt s a curfous mixture of fragments of knowl- cdge, to which an (ndex lends help In reaching, he moses gracefully {n those fetters, as jo all measures which ho Lries: THE GOLDEN CALENDAR. Count notthe yearstnat hoarding Time Rave by the slarry memorfer in thelr t Not by the vacant moona that wax and Nor all the eearona’ thanging robes unfold: Lonk on the life whore record 18 unrolle Bid thonght, worid action, breathe, burn, strive ' = LITERATU horse’s Iexs so that the pose of the animal |, ufldings are erected, - which shoutdmot. bo disturbed, and tho artist Amsclt | aod s corciortasle s, (e, Bormess oo was buricd behind his easel. pled by their owners. Tho raising of fowls {8 1a- Mcigsonler is a very small man, with crooked :m‘:‘:’;i%{:‘;“’ ‘0{ l’ll‘t“;‘hlnfl'}l"““!h‘&'h‘c'\ Tegs; tiut he assumes the ferocious alr of a mil- roughi In the snting, and tlie g bryo deve! ftary gutocrat. s balr and beard arc gray, .;{1 mrkn;-‘:?-er(}:!r’:{nu ;fl:’»%‘g}u,\‘lc.“' Hosm ok and hls cyes aro soft and mila. “The day I ‘The camel 1s the most important domestic an- 5aw him,. writes Miss Brewster, “he had on | Imalin Egypt; and after this come the donkey, his atelier costame,—a brown velveteen coat, | the mule, and the horse, ‘The ald long-harne: light riding breeches, caval ts, and s | Face of cattle was nearly swept out of existenco Droat-rimened 61t mat. Tt s Jmpossidlo to de- | by the destructive epidemic of 1563 and tha fol- seribe the droll effect of those fannylittle | lowing years. Tmparted cattle become accllma- cronked legs, with the wee lttig cavalry- | tized with diflicuity. The zebu {s used in plow- boots. llow siralzht he stood! almost | Ing and turnine the water-wheel; and the buffa- on_tiptoe! And how Important he looked I'" 1o forms 2 substitute for the ox,—being stronz The portralt of Mcissonier has often been n- | thourh slow at work, and siclding good rich troduced Into th plctures of his brothcr-artists. | Milk, tongh but nourishing flosh, and stout An excellent likeness of him appears in the | leather. ‘The sheep and the goat furnish right-hand corner of Detallle’s painting in the | Most of tho fcsh consnmed by the people. Corcoran nllm:y at Washington, eutitled **Le | Pork Is caten neither by tho Jew nor n‘: Mo- Itegiment qui Pasee.” flo stands with his hat | lammedans yet ite strict prohibition Is based, on, his bands throst in his pockets, and his | in the opinlon of Dr. Klunzinger, ‘moro on n crooked lega meeting at the kmeee, In Fortuny's Fffll“‘"m borrowed from the ancient Egyptians picture of the * Cavatry Officer,” it fs Melason- | than on superlor wisdom, since the Europcans Jer who fizurca as the brave soldiers bnt he 14 | In Cairo and Alexandrla, and the Greeks tn thero rcpresentgd ms much taller than he r Egypt partako of It without bad effects, really fs, and the natives themaclves eat the fattcst ‘The rough wooden bullding which serves tho | mutton, even ig the hot season.” artist as a studio at Polssy is filled with aketches Both the doz and the cat are half-wild, but and haif-finlahed pletures, attesting the Inanstry | the latter Is much hetter treated by the Ialamite of the palnter: yet the greater part of hfs than the former. Tha striped hyena Is the most pleces were, at the time of Mlss Brewster's | formidable of the crnivorous mammalls b- visit, In nls Paris house on the Bonievard | hablting Egypt. It seldom attacks man, antd Maleherbes, One " of — tho most inter- | prefers carrion to any other food. \When this (s estlng worka examined by her waa the atudy [ not tohe had, it often makes a meal of sheil- made of M. Thiers alter his death. Tha wifo af | Ash found on the sca-shore. Tho jackal prowls the statesman sent for Melssonfer on the even- | Around settied neighborhoods; and thic Nile fox ingz of Iis decease, and the result of bis visit Is | baunts the poultry.yard and the aardens, cs- a sketch of ereat voie. ‘The portait fs pafnted | peclallyin the scason of ripo erapes. In tho inasmall panel ; and * the head and face,'” writes | descrt'its placo 1s MLl by the small- Mics Hrewster, “are about the size of a five- | cared fox, or fennce, Other beasts of franc plece, and are painted with » softer, ten. | prev aro the swamplyngn —tho & wild- n. ‘Ihe told, Lectures by Thomas Starr King--~New. Ire~ land. again, O1d altars flamn whoeo ashes acarce are cold, Bid the freed captive clank his goiden chaint Bo will we connt thy years and manths and davs, Poct whose heart-strings thrill uoon thy tyre, Whots kindling spirit lent like Hecia's fire 1ta heat to Freedom's faint aaroral blaze.* Tint warte no worda the loving doal to tire That finds its life in daty, not in j.raisel There 18 in Mr. Stedman's blank verse a re- strained force and Innate melody thut allow E:E &ufly to dispcnse with rhyme, This s his utes HOM {UBIC, IN THE TOUSE. Ty Jome Mneram, . Philadelphia: Porter & Coates. Chicago: en, McClarg & Co. 12mo., pp. 0. 75 centa, . Dr. Hullali dQiscourses about musls always learncdly and pleasantly, The present essay s 100 short to admit of great elaboration, yet It offers some uscful hints relating to the cultiva- tion of music In the houschold. The soveral chapters treat of unaccompanied vocal music, Instrumantal music, accompaniad vocul muaic, practice and reheareal, snd the muaical ltbrary, Under tho first of theze heads, .Dr. Hullah earnestly fru'omu agalnst the verformance In singing of an cxtreme planissimo,—regarding it, from an eathetic polnt of view, as amon: those excesscs which uniformly sccompany snd wark e deciine of art. He nascrts that “It was unknown to the practice of the Sistine Astronomical Myths and Mar- " yelg-—-Juvenile Boolks--- The Millais Gal- lery. MILLATS. THE MILLAIS CALLERY: ASzmzsor iy Mosr Raxownrn Wonia or Mittais, REPRODECRD ty ietoryer) wirn A Bxrrem or Tue Lire Anp Wonks or Tig Antiar. Loston: James . Osgood & Co, Chicago: liadley Bros. & Co. Follo, Price, $10, ‘A portralt of Millais, after an etching, forms the frontispiece of this volume; and after it fol- low twonty-three of the most popular works of the artist, reproduced in helfotype. In tho list are the famillur victures: *“Tho Hugucnob Laver:* *“The Black Brunawicker;™ ¢ Tho Minuets #Yes or Noi" and **The Proscribed Royalist.” Less well-known, but cqually fine, are tho represeniations of "fl‘\hclu'." *1losn- lind and Cellag” “S8tefiay’? + Vanessa;? “The Parable of the Lost Maneyy” and the beautiful child-portraits named *CAsicep,” “ Awnke ! 4 My First Sermon, ** My Second 8ormon,” “A Pleture of Iealth' and w8l for a Moment.” Millale' plctures, which ara generally sinule fl‘zuru, owe mucl of thelr power to thclr splendor of colorlng, and this Is necessarily lort In a reproductlon by AD TATEM, Whittier! the land that loves thee, she whoee child Thon att, —and whose uplifted handa thoa long Hant stayed with song availing like a prayer, — 8he feels a sudden vang, who gave thee hirth And gave to thee the lineaments '"«f"’"‘" O her own freedom, that she conld not make ‘Thy tiessues all immortal, or, if to change, 'To bloom through years coeval wilh her own} €0 that no touch of ava nor frost of time Rhoa!d wither thee, nar furrow thy dear face, Nor fleck thy hatr with sllver. Aye, she fecld A dounis poD that thee, witi each new year, Glad Yonth may not revisit, Jike the Spring ‘That routs hicr horthern Winter and anew Bcite off the hoar snow from hor puissant hills, 8he could not make thee deathless; no, but thon, Thou sangest her slways in abiding verss, And bast thy fame Immortal—as e say Inimortal in this Exeth that ye must die, And in thie land now faifest and most young Of all fair landa that yet mant perish with it, “Thy worda shall Jast: aibeit thou groweet old, Mcn ray: hut never old the poet’s vonl Becomes: only ita covering takes on A reverend splendor, an [n the minty fall ihat Whittier's Drolhier-Poels Say fo “"Iim on iho Ocasion of His Soventicth Birfhday. Art-Gossip—Meissonnior, the Oolo- brated French Painter---An Irish Romance, Chapel iv fts best daya, and to that of the great epoch of Itallan solo-singing,~the last century, It s 8 modern heresy, which could nnly have sprung up among & people who, whatever thelr achlevements in musical composition and Instr- mental rcrformnncc, have not yet become, and are afill far from belng, singers {n the proper sonsc of the word.”! The Fauna of Egypt---Singing Mice---Earthworms as HBOOKS RECFEIVED, -+ WOSDER-WORLD SRTORIES. Fnpow tar Cmte ) 7 heifotype. 8LIl, abundant eviilence hfs | NRsr, Prexcu, Genwas, lIEnnew, HiNnoosTARER, derer touch than Melssonier usually eives to his | cat, the genet, and the fchneumon Fertilizers. i tro conlil bo Justilbly roused, The D Aot 1 Lo bt of Wit com, | Iumaamtat, st TfaLia, Tarceces. Hu: | Tiine own uroral forerts, ore At fui e L thes o a alljom: Joa sec & lits | belonga to Lower Egynts thio gazella and tin Datlonal fnoge whioh bie o) e B ltiote, In the: harmony of thele dctalls and | MAY. Swesien, wn Tensisn. " Collected and e xple:t of tho wooded dell, U of the neck and throat, the shirt and bed- | steinbok inhabit the desert; ond the haro fs for generations; the sore afilictions whicl oy ' o Teauslated by Mame Panke and Managny y thou with us lang! voactsafe na long ot by o e T 14 that of | common to ILand the Nile, i 8 4 oo Trom. faihine, poverty, lznorance, | In the Carcful fidelity with which they are | {ENESC% Ty ailt', 7. Fotnam'e Sone. Chl- ave aatamnsl presence, are th haes clothes. The expresalon of the faco hat 0 ; e ) by Jctbons au LITERATURE. and fmprovidence,~ara dlncuuell{n sincerity, | Wronght out. enso: dansen, McClurg & 2mo, , pp. 202, ding~cre the quaver of thy voice, most perfect renu&_? and tho likeoess to M. | sand-mice dwell in hurrows run obliquoly into the goll of the desert. The hiedgelog and the shrew are often met with: and, besides tho do- neaticmice and rats, fetd-mice abound In culti- vated erounds, and [n some places arc esteemcd asdaluty articles of food, The preitylittle damaw, or pyrox, s onc of the Inhabitants of the desert very difficuit to catch, The most In- teresting of the bat tribe is the date-catine *vampyre ‘[‘lemnuu Agvpticus), which, de spits its name, ls innocent of blood-sucking. The Nile crocadile has oecomd seatce, but in Upper Egypt still_Immolatcs sanually soine huiman victims. The warning-lizard (Monitor), which rescmbles the crovodiie, ia often scen on the banks of the river and Its canals, and the mountain-waran (Psammosauros) oc- Hlow The twilight of thine eye, move them Lo ank Whete hides the chariai—in what sunset vale, Heyond (hy chosen river, champ the steeds ‘That wait (o bear thee skywnrd? Nince we, tao, Waonld feign thee, in our tenderness, 10 ba Iaviolate, excepted frum thy kind, And that our bard &r.d prophet best-beloved Bhall vaniah like that other; him that atood Undaunted in tbe pleanure-house of Kinge, And unto Kinga and crowned harfots spake God'a trath s judgment, At his sscred feet ¥ar followed ull the lesser men of old Whote lips wete touched with Sre, and csoght from A biographical and critienl arsay of conshil- eratile umiplituda acquainia the reader with the principal events in the sri-life of Millals, and with tha history of the_aeveral pletures with whtvh It Is associated, The **Millals Gallery?® will be a welcome gift to those who would sludy tie works of ono of the foremost Hving painte ers of .the Euglish Bchool, POLEMS, TNE NOOK OF QOLN: Axn Otnen Poxxa, By Aome Towssewn Taownmnars, With 1loetra: New York: Harper & Bros. Chileag MeClurg & Co. 8vo., pp. 81, Price, Thiers is striking. There I8 preat nobllity in the studys it Is death, but death without the paiu and snguish.” ART JOURNALS. The Art Journal closcs the year 1877 with a superb number. ‘The three steel plates are of special interest,—the first reproducing a palnt- fug ot Dare entitled ** Alms-Giving™; tho sec- ona *Cotnleal Dogs"—a humorous composition by Landseer, ropresonting a couple of dogs in the enjoyment of a mild spree; and the third av enyraving from Brock's buat of the sculptor, J. 1L, Foley. This lust exhibits that most ex- bofore sn audicneo composed mostly of the Britleh public. as _In the rrucm:c of gencrons friends, who recognize and vewret the errors of the pass, and desire 1o nyold thom as far ua may bo in the future. ASTRONOMICAL MARVELS. MYTIS AND MARVELS OF ASTHONOMY, Dy Wienanb A, Procror, Astbor of ‘*Other c. New York: . 5& Co, 1 THE NSTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. By Mrs. Mantia J. Laus, New York and 1A S, Bammes & Co. Parts15 and 10, Paper. Pilce, 50 cents ench, MONEY AND LEUAL-TENDER IN THE UNITEDSTATES, Ty 1. R, Lixprnxax, Di- rectorof the Mint, New Yark: O. P. Painam's Sons._Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co. 8va., l’rl}f«z. 31,25, WLEDOE OF MARY. Dy the Rev. J. 1110, Aothor of ¢* Catholicity and Pan. New York: Tht Cathollc fablication icl Saciety, 1mo., v, 18, PRETTY POLLY PEMBENRTON. By Mrs. P, Bunsrz, Anthor of ** That Lass o' Towric ete. Thilagelphia: T, B, Peterson & Bros. Chi- engo: Nadicy Bros, & Co. Paper. Price, 60 THNOMAS STARIt KING. SUDSTANCE AND SHOW ; Axn Otnzn Lretimes, Ty Thaxas STARR Kino; ~ Edlted, with an In- trodncifon, by Kpwin P, WiirrLe. = Boston: Jnmes K. Osgood & Co. Chicagn: ladiey Bros. Co. 10mo., np. 434, Price, 82, . Astriking lustratfon of {ho arteinality of Jir. King's mind is gisen In his lecturo on wBooks and Reading," which Is incladed among tho dozen addresses collected In the present vole pme. Thae subjcct bos been worn threadbare, pearly cvery cssnylst who has written much bav- {ng used 1t 08 an opportualty for displaying the Worlds than Oars," ote., T. Putnam’s Sone. Ch Jansen, McClu & Co. Hvo., pp. d ' $4. Mr. Proctor has treated in these papers varlous cngaging toples conpected with the sclence of Astronomy. it bt ustsily happy meu- hin The gift of propheey? and thus from thee, Whitifer, Ilie younger singem—whom thon seest Each emitlous to be thy stadl this doy— We do not remember, (nour lmited acqualnt- b What lesrned they? rightcans aager, burning scorn extent of bis wisdom and culturo, One, there: | ner. :They are all of them, though: dealt reonts, o cursn thedescrt, * Gayly-colured lizards may bo fore, looks for littlo that Is new In nuv'rm'em. Y ! ng | ance with books, to have scen one with an inex- | TITA, Ty Lady Manaaner Masexms, Anthor | 9! theoppresson, love to humaukingd, centlonal individunl, 8 picturesque-looking ar- | foch everywhero l“nnll{Z"hledTel i s Swect fealty to country and Lo huma, . Peace, stahulean parity, high thoughie of Deaven, nd the clear, natural music of thy sonr. Dr. Holland and most of the other poets who send thelr versca write In rhyme, sume of thein quite brietly, Mrs. Lydia Maria CLild says: I thank thee, fricml, for words of cheer, ‘fhat mado the path of duly clear, W hen thou and | were young, and strong T wrestlo with a mighty wrond. And pow, when lengtheninog shadows como, And thie world's work le neatly dons, 1 thank thes for thy grnial ey, That propbestcs & brighter day, . When wa can work with sirength repowed, 1n clearer light, for surer govd. Uad Lless thiee friend, and give thee peace, 1 with pliases of an abstruse sud crudite’ branch of knowledgc, as uearly free from techuicalities as possible, and with attentive reading aro per- fectly fotelligible to the unlearned. The essays on ' Astrology,". " 8wedenborg's Visfons of Other Worlds," *8uns in Flames," **Comets, as Purtents,” *The Origin of the Constelia- ton-Figures,” ote,, will fnvite and instruct ol- niost any reader. The two papers on the Pyramids aro particularly opportune, coming s tliey do #o soon nfter the the recent Awmert- cair treatise on the subject, which revived smong us the theory of I'rol. Bmith, Astrono- I Jlannetto,” New York: Henry Iolt & Co, thicayo: Jansen, McClurg & Co. 16mo., . 200, Price, 81 Tfl&‘. NARRATIVE OF A BLOCKADE-RUNNER. 15y d. WitLiansox, Captain inthe Late Con. federate Statcs Navy. New York: Sheldon & Co. Chicago: ltndley Bros. & Co. 12mo., . 252, Drice, 81,50, 2Rl AnD’ TIILOSOPRY: Discovnszs axn Kasava. ity flesny B, Swiry Kdited, withan Iutroductory N 1. Puextise, D, D., Prof o U Theological Seminary (n the City of New York. New York: Scriber & Armattond, Chicago: iladloy fros. & Co. Byo., pp. 400. Price, META _IIOLDENSIS, By Vicron Quensurisz. X Appleton & Co, cago: Jan- tist. The face of Foley isatceped In thodreamy, puetic light with which we surround the fdeal patnter, and sculptor, and singer, but waich we rarcly tind viaihle in the features of the nctust man of genlus, A Ulozraphical sketeh, with three fliustra- tlons, inakes us acqueinted with the Enclish landscape-painter, Amlrcw MacCallum. The int-testive papers on ¢ Norway' are: continued, with a description of thc ecenery ncar Laugen sud Hellcsylt, sccompanied by four flue cute. . Another presentativn of * New-York Interfors™ exhilita sumplyous rooms fu the mansions of Walter 8. Qurnee and F. N. Btevens, An article on * Anclent Irish Art" makes heavy drafts upon the eugineer's ekil, peusive binding of such exauisite beauty na this which incloses the fatest poctns of Me. Trow- bridge. 1t is not our principle Lo approve books for phelr ' covers, but, {f purchascrs choose the one before us simply to enjoy the rich brouze iuts nud chasts ornamentation of the exterior, they will bo justificd. ‘ot the jewels hid beneath ita 1ids are warthy of the cusket. They are genuing gems of poesy. Mr. Trowbridge has written nothlng—alwnys excepting * The Vn;:-hnnda"—surnnssmx theso In dramutic power, clear conception, and decp feeliug, Thc three stanzas with which le, tn an fmlirect manper, palutes the public, cxpress, perliaps, a8 well as any in the collection, the and, into the lower part of the wall of alinost cvery house, the slippery scine, which was form- erly used in medicine, has penctrated. On the walls of roons glide and squeak the small noc- turnal gechos, the nlllcrlmixlml otherwiso bharm- lesa *futhers of leprosy.’ - Here and there, upon trees, the ,chamclend, 8o celebrated for s chunges of colors, may bo observed; whilo tho ground-agamas and harduns, which are some. times prettily colored, several fect long, and with long, ringed tails, prefer the desert,’ About ll\'cn:{ specics of serpents arc found in Ef\'ul, several of which are polsonous. Tho Alrican cobra and the horned viper are the most venomous, Over elghty fishes have been found In the Nile, most of metbod of treatfng it. But Mr. Kl mives us {be pleasant surprise of developing decidedly dividual fdeas In Its discussion, and of making roggestions that produce an unusial stir among our established convicttons. Ile boldly chiat- knges debate, for fnatance, by -declaring that. in his belicf, a hundred volumes could be selected, * tho mastery of whicly, by ate teutive reading, would make & man betier fur- pished with instruction, and better able tocom- prehend and eujoy the advances of knowledge, under the lend of the oxplorces of this gencra- tlon, than-any scholar or litersry man wo have cr-Royal for Scotland, regarding the orl . + New York: I, g Tl thy fervent epint fude & e {nour country to-day, 8o Imporiant fs wisdom | bud putpuse of the gruulcn.f:x thcse myl(crlg:x?! puwer with which they touch the emotions Lo g & o e o WNTERHE: Al Ty we mee In Worlds afars as does also the sixth article on *'Ihia Use of | which are peculiar. At the anoual overflow of In eclection for its practical benefitsl” Tho | monuments, - Comuunions thal bave made my days so swec, A i DaiacaPal, ROUTER *‘, o aATEL, 3y Noening s 13y Eventur tisd| Apimal Vorian In Oroamenial Art A skolch 1 the rirerethe fls ayim lnlo tho canals 5?.“‘ orar - , a unge! that shed n glury gund wy fou LTS v 4 . 3 enc, th of ring Brown. one of our own ilated land, and. a8 tho water dfics of ausertion fs crophasized by répetitlon, and tho m"ff.'n'z!;fé?,fifi;fii’&?—‘fif':f.': :g;"":r{’:r"“’é}'f“l!: T T Rbbs desert of tho Cluy srocts New York: D, Appleton & Co. Chicazo: Jan .“l};“:",::l‘fl,;'f' the South Curolina poet, sends | T, immenee numbers are left to perish, Frogs and san, McClurg & Co. Papar, ' Price, GU cente. THE BAR-ROUMS AT BRANTLY ; on; Ti% GReat LoTEL-BrECULATION, U{ . B. ARtaus, An- thor of **Ten Nights In a Bar-loom,™ ele. Philadelphia: Portor & Coates. Clilcago: Jan- nen, McClurg & Co. 12mo., pp. §i7. Price, 81,50, OFFICIAL CATALOGUE OF 'THE INTERNA- TIONAL EXUINTION: Maix DUiLDING AKD Ant-GaLieny, CEXTENNIAL Onounps, Fain- Mount Panr, PHILADELYBIA, 1877, Philadel- phfa: J. 1. Lippincoit & Co. Price, 25_centa. PHE NEW TRAVESTY ox ltoxxo axu Jutikr, 8L Louls; G. ). Jones &Co, Chicago: Hndley, Jiros. & Co.. and Janeun, BlcClurg & Co, Faper. Price, 50 cents. = wiiTTIER, Springfield (Mase.) Repdlican. Onthe 13th of December, John Greenleal Whittler will reach the age of three-acore and ten. Ilis birthday will be celebrated o a man- ner azreeable to him in Boston and clsewhere; and already the poctical tributes for that occa- #lon have found thelr way {nto print,—a littlo beforc the time, aa_the American fashion is of iate. 'The Boston Literary Wortd publishes, u 1ts December numbor, many of thesa pooms and Jotters,—among which wo find eonnets by Longfellow and by - Holmes, ‘a blank-verse apostrophio by Stodman, and a longer poem in blank verse by William Lloyd Qarrison, who fs closing his carccr, 88 he began It, with the solaco.of thoughtful vorse. Mr. Garrison apoke at the funcral of Mrs. Alcott last wock, d there recalled the incident that, when he first went to Boston, in 1830, to deliver a course of Anti-Slavery lectures, the only thres persous in bis audicuce to welcome him by cxpressions of Intorcel, after the lecture, were Mr. Alcott, Mr. 8, J. May, and Mr. Bumue! E. Sowall; sdd- ing the singular eoincidence that three of the fotir younj men who met that day for the firat thine Were, after forty-scven years had passed, aguin guthercd as mourners in tha sane room. 1t was carller than 1830 that Garrlson and Whitscr first met, and thus the Newburyport Abolition!st now addresacs tho Amesbury poct: THE FOET OF OUL LOVE, Thia fu the tribute that | faln would T him whose {riendatlp 1 bave closely shared, Whaowe genl arked, from y youth till now 1i connts his threo-score years and ten complcte; But wtill crect in form, in mind as bright, e e e Suched by Japoe of lime As ju mid-life, untouc Y, i Whom *‘troops of friends* tuls day unlte to crowns; To proflec gratulationa; to express That blgh respect and admiration strong, Thut deep affection und entwining love, Which modeat worils, and purity of Iife, Aud noblo atms, to sorve the public weal, ‘And scathing tostinonles bravely boruo Galnat pupular wing, at loss of all repute, 5o weil deserve, so widoly have secured, R‘L‘l’ 'h'“rfl"? the pnc‘\ of |Im‘r hgu! rinright Quakcr—ono in spirity 100, Lot ‘catuile boyond 1he bounds of wccl. Not bils tus bigieal rusch of tho subiime, Nor luftiost figlt on fancy's siry wings, Not utrongest power of genlus [0 concelve, Invent. poriruy, with sn coclanter's skill, Noe best attanuient i pootic art, Nor precedenca In ehyihmic wolody s Y, If excelled iu these by famous bards ¥rom llomet dawn10 those of our own times, With nobler claline ha sisnds withoul hla peer Tu nil thatbruc ufectlon can exprus: Or pureat Jave can prompt o gracla 1In {eudercat sympulby for his sutfesl Wherover in the wids world necding aid, All custo and cluss distinctions giving way “To the siroug tics of human brolbernoodi » carrying COMIOF HAL0 INOUTRING bearty Bowed down by sure bereavement, teaching well ‘The lasson of & bigher life boyond, And u divine compassion ovor #ll§ Tu pesfect chisvbity of thouglt and epeech, And uy uplificd mozal power to bie ugtheo (railly !hmugl.: the luner light; lu bmflun‘ **1'gace on earth, good-wili to mon," hat so the sword no longer nisy devous, Aud desolating war forever Cease. Bus, «lguaily. g thiv 4o Akt palm, As furo-bard (o Frevdom's struggiing canve, When uitltions fu our gailty laad were beld 1y cuatte) vervitude, And baught and sold Along with cattle 18 1he market. th cape thelr doom b u.:(t nd carried oy who sought by igbs t bac 3 Toadded amrn- and tortutes; none allowed 'l give thew ek y Fn-- two esamples of the artist's work; aund, with & notice of Anatole Vely's 4 Crossiug the Stream,’—one of the paintinzs gracing Be 18t Saton,-~and a deseription of the W Altar and Throne of 8t. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York,” completes the long lists of fllus- trated articles. HBcealdes thesc, the number con- tains an {nstaliment of Mr. Fitzaerald’s csaa ou *The Art of Dresaing and Being Dressed,” snd notes on current art in Europeand America. An index to the Art Journal for 1577 1s furnish. ¢d fo this number, which, with its rich table of contents, {s ouly a fair specimen of & beautiful and valuable publication. AN IRISIT ROMANCE. Mr. Alexander Sullivan relates, {n hissketches of “New Ireland,” an intercsting romatce con- nected with the marriage of Kevin O'Doberty, oncof the prominent members of the branch of tho Repes! party called * Youns Ircland.” O'Doherty was, at the timeof the ontbreak of 1848, a young medical student {n Dublin. He was an active contributor to the Nation, the or- gan of the Repealers, in which the principles of the party were most openly and carncatly pro- mulgated. Among the woineu who furnished rebel verses for the seditious sheet was o Miss Eva Mary Kelly, the young daughter of o Coun- 1y Galway gentloman, O'Doberty was frat at- tracted by the versea of the young voctess, and soon after was attracted by hersell, The love of the two sped smoothly untl! O*Dolierty was arrested, amung others, ns a conspirator agalust the Britlsh Government. When his case was brought to trial, the jury twice disagreed, and before bis third arrslgument he was offered o virtual smlon—l merely nominal seatence—if he would plead guilty. The young lover sent for his sweetheart to visit him in hie prison, and tnformed her of the proposition. *1t may seem as {f 1 did not feet certainty of losing you, perhaps forever,” ald he; *but I don't like this idea of pleadlng guilty, Say, what shall 1 doi” *Uol" su- swered the noble-hoarted girl: * why, be a man, and faco the worst, I'll'wait for you, however long the gcutence may be’* “XNext day," writes Mr. Bullivan, “fortune degerted Kevin. Tho jury found him guilty. ‘The Judge assign- ed him ten years® transportation. *Eva'wasal lowed to séc him once more fu the ccll to say ndicu. Bhe whispercd in his car, *He you falth- ful, 7' wolt.' And she did. Years fled by, and the young exile was st length sliowed once more to tread lIrish soil. Two davs after ho landed at Kiugetown *Eva' was his bride,” O'Doherty Is to-day s distingulshed member of the Quecosland Leglalature. BPARKS OF SCLENCE. THE FAUNA OF EGYPT, Ta Dr, Klunzinger, from whom wo borrowed the sccount of tho flora of Egypt given last week, wo agela refer for inforiation relating o the fauns of the reglon bordering the Nile, There ars 830 specica of birds, ha tells us, fre- quentiog Ecypt st ditferent scasons of the year; and yot tbe sincing of birdsts alinost unknown ju the Jand. In the hot, dry summer, the birds 1mostly remove to more nurtherly countries, and tho few thal semaly conceal themeslves and are dumb. In winter, large numbers of birds of varlous specics make this thelr homey but, dur- Jog tbe period of thelr sojaurn, or while pass- ine throughi to a tropleal elimoto and again re- turoiog, they are not addicted to song. Birds, ne & rule, give venl to thelr emotions in strafus of melody. ouly st the scason of pairiug and rearing thelr young, sud thelr musical capacity {3 pever exbibited vxcept 1o the latitude whero they bulld their nests. A fow birda of brilliant feather leave their habitat ln the Torrid Zous and micrato futo Unper Egypt In tho ecarly summcr. Awmong these sre the sacred ibls, the tantalus, aud the African honey-sucker. Of the binls of prey, here are scea fn Egypt scveral specics of eagles, vultures, uud falcons, the kite, which is cvery. where coromon, aud several owls. Tbo wood- pockers are abaent; but tho lark-beeled snd tho created cuckoo rupresent the order of scansores, Amang tho clamatores sro several pecullar sdded intimation that five hours out of the twenty-four are to be devoted to thu very serlotis work of readlng the chosen volumes, A Tist mada out by Mr. King of the sclect bundred books which will give one a commanding view of the varjous branches ol knowledge would bo yery Interesting; but thls hao hias not ventured. He does cnumerate certaln facts, however, which he couelders that overy persen shoutd know as well as he knows his age and birth- day. These are: “‘The number of full-grown plancts in the solnr system (of course o ono can keep tho run of that strag- gling litter of asterolts,—the Yup-nrbl of the nily); the mithons of mliles which the earth beatsin a yearj the reach of the sun's pravita. tion § the number of Statcs, Territorics, and tquarc miles {n his country; the salicut fucts and dates of its history; the probable number of ycars that the Misslssippl bas' been runulng, snd the dead cortatntv that he is nzalnst Scevs- tlon g0 long a8 Lho Mnum{ml runs down the ling of our climates fnto the (nlf of Mexlco. + .« o A manoughtto knowall the fncts J bave alluded to with asdccisive and ntenee a convic- tion as If he expected to be cxamined fn them evcry year before tho Schiool Board," Mr. King suparates books into threo classoss is of Jact, books ot life, and books of art,— in the last divislou ranging those whose subjects are fictitious and ideal, or in which the form and melding are intcwial clements ‘of their salue, He regards the richest regfon {n the wide literatuye of e astho department of blozraphy, aud reinarkss It I were to beain Jife now, and Jay the foundatious of n lbracy, it shoul be controlilucly & biogruphical cvue,—literary portraits, memuoirs, and correspondence. Thero is no way {n which history s tauglt so vividly, lll“:'l Ly which we et so closo to tho springs of ¢ And-think of t,” ha continues, *cach weck may jutroduco you Lo sume man or womuu of gentus,—monarel, Gencral, pricst, statosman, philanthiroptst, sciontdst, traveler, inventor, dis- cuverer, poet,urtlst, Youmay sce his whalo Jifu—the dawts of his genius, his strugules and sorrowa, his wrongs and triumphs—{in the pomp of hiaintellectual strongth, and in his dressing- {umn and sllppers, You may teke o lool hrough him at his ccnturs; you may sce how he treats his wile and clifldren; you may kuow what he had for dinner, and thy beat thilugs hg lndhlszucslugnnlpcd about; you wmay rum- wmagzo even hia privato lutters, Lavesdropping and keyholeelistening aro contemptible, unless wodoft at theremove of & grencration, Then it is bography. The Quocn s vnr{ stricy with the recoption-invitations aud ctlquette. Bt, Jumes strect Is wary and scrupulous os to cards to diuners and” solrces, Walt a Jittlo whilo, and the walls are thrown down aud the rabblo logk on. MMistorles ure the largo land- scapes, Dlozrueldu are Lhe stercoscople futerl- orsof tho past.” Altor blography, Mr, King belloves that * No reading ean be muda mero protitable, {f tho sub- structure of cducation han been attended to, thau novels, Of course, they must be read for soumething beyond & tious,—as producta of art and thought.” ‘Then hints aro given for a study of uovels by which thelr . merit. may bg lested and thelr (nmost lessons lcarned, It all wovel-readers wero compelied,' ha says, * when they chose & buok, to write out the “miain doc- trius or proposition which fa the axis of the in- cldents and l)!ot. it would ba better for thelr nioral cducation than It they eould listen once a week 1o tho best lecture ou ethics that s delive ered by tho foremost professor ju clvihzation.” In treating of tho subleties of grace wnd meaniong in stylcs literary, 81r. Kiug remarka of two great authors of the day: *llow often I bave beard peonle class Mr. Emereop and Car- Iilu together, and say that ous borrowed from the other,—ien whoso phitusopby of lite buar .88 much rescimblanco as a Tropic thunder-atorm iand an Arctic ulght, and whoso styles aro as Jmuch alike us the light of a pltchi-plue kuot blaziug sud smoking (s a wild mountain-pass, sud an fcicle hanging with sthi, cloar, pitlless Lriillanca {n a winter-noon. . Tha fecture, 8 1batunce and Bhow," which &ives pame to thiscollectiou, was oucul the most Ba far of the serivs dellvered by Mr, Kiug, \bers scarcely aucond to itin publls estimation, which follow In the table ol coutents, ara cn- titlcd, respectively: ‘The Luws of Disorder; Bocrates; Bizht anid nsight: Hildebrand; Mu- sle: Existence and Lite; The Earth and the toads, which have bred in tho stagnant watcrs remalning after the river recedes, mect withthe same fate,—ainong the millions that have been spawned, only a few surviving In peculiarly molst places to preserve tho race. Butterflies arc remuarkably scarce, but small moths are more nbundaot. Beetles ara not numerous. The best known fs the ball-rolling beetle (Atenchus sacer), the Scarabeus ol the anclents. In tlie descrt & black beetle (Adesmia cothurnata) is mora noticeuble than any othicrs, and, from ita guict nssociation with scorpions, is called by the nativestha * scorplon’s scroent.”! In these arid recions spiders also are very abundant, onc of which fs o pretty large bird- splder. *'Oneof the most common Inaccts of the desert,” saya Dr. Klunzioger, **is tho camel's tick (Ixodes dromedarli); ot overy scu- son of tho year it runs about upon the ground, especially under bushes, and attaches ltseit to tho arma of the camels as they lic ot rest; hero It sucks ltseif full of blood, and then has the appearance of o sced of the eastor-oll plant. Numcrous large scorplions live uuder stoucs anit bushes in the desert, as also ln dwellings; and In limestone reefs, especlully on the coast, the small hook-scarplons.' The Hymenoptera are well ropresented. Ants swarm everywhere, and, effccting an entrance Into all the houses, devour every article ol foxl that {s not carcfully protected ” from thele as- saults. Locusts are s great plaguo in the land, and cockroaches are excesalvely troublesome. Beautifu! dragon-fice abound ‘alung the Nilo sod Its canala. Beveral hundred species of the Dlrlem are koown, The house-fly and the mos- uito are prevalent even In the heart of the descrt, nnd coustitute o perpetual torront, The larvee of the mosquito infest all pools of stag- nant water, aml even swarm in the drinking- water, which has tu b straincd before use,— #ihe commaon people managlug this by placing thelr coat-alecve betwecn thelr lips and the plteber, Morc than enough of other vermin also exiat In the land of palms,~such _ns fllcs, bugs, avit live, In all kuows forms. To thess must be added, also, scorplons, tarantulas, and zr,nl)rudn. and thoss scourges of tho cittle, adilics und ticks," ‘The monotonnus character of the scenery In Egypt extends to the fuuna and Hora, which'ex- bibit a remarkable scarcity of speclea in nearly all classcs. religion of the Ureat Pyramid are called,—and, after pointiug out the weak and indcfensible laces fu thelr creed, bie proceeds to put ao lu- erpreiation of his own wpon the meaniog of thia group of mizhty cditces. This sssumcs, in o word, that Choobs was Induced to build the Qreat. Pyramid by shepherd-astronomers from Chaldon, who were uot ouly masters of Lhe sclonve of tho atars as far as it had been devel- oped by “‘the wiss men of the East," but wera also skilled o nstrology. The object of the work was to perpecunte the nativity of the King, nnd to predict bis future,~this having reference to his birth and lfe rather than to his death, although, after this latter event, it night ho ured us tho recoplacle of his body. - To this theory, Mr, Proctor squdres many of the curlous fucts observed In the con- struction of the l’cvrnuml. and«et admits that, when all {3 eaid, fle strongest cvideoce in its favor lies fn the untenublencss of all other theorles. The Pyramid of Clicops related .ouly to the ])ouonnl fortunes of the bullder; and ench King siiecceding him, aud adopting bis belief, required a separate nativity Pyramid, and henco the gloantie structures aross ong after puother on Lhe Ylnhl went of the fertilo Nile. 'The gucstion of the ‘origin and vbject of From this far realm of PineaT waft thee now A Brother's areeting, Poet. tried and true} 80 thick tha laurcle oo thy reverend brow We oates eanaes the white Jocks glimmenng ugh, 3 That Alled the morning with a fresher daw, And tubed the ralubow in x fovellor hues Landlog tae beavens u tooro colewtial blue, And & mora awful splendor to the aoa: (o forth, yo winged witnesvoe, and ba To other men whal yo bave beon 1o me! %To other men'® they may be one of the emall, sweet sources of joy, and pathos, aud wisdom; yet to none can they bring all the glad fusplration they bave been to thelr suthor, 0, pure of thought! Earuest in heatt sn pen, ‘he leata of time bave Jeft tice nndeflled: And o'er the snows of three-score years and ten bhitics the unanllied aureole of A cllid. James Frocmao Ciarke thue stludes to the religion of Georgo Fox and his alscples, of whom Whittier is one: He has enlarged hla sect, noble ghough small— Yor all who stood, with Bim, The nlave to freo; ‘Whe love, with him, the Mother-land; and all 'Who stare biafaith It Giod aod Libe Who kindle witn the music of his song: Trust in that Heavon of Love which'round him bends; Al theso o hls broad buman church belong, A make ate Brotheruood of Whittier's Erlends. Dr. Holland sends this pleasiug arithmotical taucy: TEN TIMES SEVEN. Tan gentle-hearted boys of seven, Too young and swee! (0 stray from Heaven, Will—counting up the lit/le men— Amonnt to thres-scors years and ten, VOLTAIRE. POREIGN CLASSICS ORI ENGLIAN READERS, Laited by Mrs, Ouinast. VOLTAIRE. By Col. Uantry. Phildeiphia: 3. 10 ngmcun &Co. Cnicago: Hadley liros. & Co. im, 8vo, The prosent forms tha sccond of the scrica of Forciun Clausics for English Readers,—the sot baving appropriately heen Introduced by an article on Dante, from the pon of the cditor liersolf. it s natural for a Liographer to over- calimate the importance of his sublect, and Col, Hamley fluds excuse for nearly all of Voltaire's taultsor the limitationsof his menlus. The sketch of his life Is, however, very yleasantly written, barring this defect. e franalations” from his worlks are excellently randered, and the book will zive a ool Jdes of the character of o man whaowas In Wis timo the litcrary autocrat of Fragee, and upan whom must reat the charge of hoving heiped to make way for tho cxcesscs of the Fronch - Revolutian.. The introductory pages, on the state of France at tho close of ‘the refgn of Louts X1V., and tho cxterual causes which made Voltaire an Athelst, aro specially Iuterestivg. - TOEM IY BRYANT, TAE PLOOD OF YEARS, Dy Wittiaw Curiex York: Q. T, Tutnam's Sans, the Pyrainids feazcs the curlosity after the manner of vast and Inecrutable mysteries; but, when man has finally exhausted bis ln;::.-uuur {n attempting to gecount for them, thuy will blo sccrets Two gracious men of thirty-five, With wita slight and hearis alive, Will il complete the roundad kpheres Of seventy sirong and manly yesrs, Nay, Whittler, thon art not old: Thy register & lle hath told, Yor lives devoto ta love and tenth Do oniy multiply thelr youth, Thou art fen gentle boys of sevan, With souln too sweet to stray from Heaven; Thau art two men of thirty-five, With wits alight, and hearts allvet Bayard Taylor, W. 8, Bhurtlefl, Cella Thax- ter, Jiins £ B. l‘hel;:'l George P. Latlrop. aud othiers sond versce; While tha old poets, It. I1. Daua, now 90 years old, and Bryant, who [s 8Y, send letters; and Georgo Bancrott, Mrs. Btowe, Col, Higgiuson, Fravcls Parkman, and others, dothe same. Mrs. Stowe says: M1t hos been Whittier's chlnl’glo?’. not that he could speak inspired woras, but thut he spoke thom for the dcspised, the belpless, aud tle dumb: for those too Jirnorsut to honor, too poor to roward him. (irace wus given him to know his Lord in the Towest disguisa, even that of the poor, bunted stavg, and to follow him in heart " into prison aud unto death, He had words of pity for all —wards of scverity for none but the cruel ane hard-bearted.! Altogether, the offering is a remarksble ona, and {ct most richly deserved. Lonz tnay tho Quaker poet live to reccive such greotinge from Lis friends, young snd old! ' PAMILIAR TALK. ART GOSSIP, An anoexo to the Parls Exposition of 1878 (s 10 bedevoted to n series of palntings by Felix Negamy, Mustrating bis recent tour around the world. Trof. Legroa® etched portralt of Gambetla s a bust about ano-third tha sian of life. Al- though some criticlsma aro passed upon it, the Atheuzum pronounves it- a noble pleco of Uruughtmianship. Tha expreasion is resolute, and the head oue of athazing power. Willlam_ [Tart {a completing a ,pastoral scena on the llousatoule: and Frost Johuston has nearly finlshul a pleco entitled **Love's Iu- quiry,” in which & young luly ls trylng the oft-repeated test brought Inio fashion by Margaret, by pulling ofl the petals of a dalsy. An_nunouncement s made of the death of Mr. Alexauder Macieau, a ydling aud promising Eugllsh paloter, His pleture of * Covent- Gurden ot, 1670, sttracted much atten- ton at tha Hoval-Academy Exhibition of 1874, sud was followed each successive year by cred- jtable pictures. A collection of Dutch engravings, etchings, sud siinllar works, comprising 2.5 sxamples, gsthered by M. Van dor Kellen, will be sold in Alnstordam earty tn January. Among the most valuablo specimiens aro sixty proofs of Rem- brandt's fluest productions, twenty-iwo !lrlv Vau lfiyan‘:‘! aeveral by Bol, \’hn‘.her. Faul Potter, ete,, ete, probubly remain as now, tha inviolul of a doad past. IMISTORY OF ART. OUTLINES OF TIIE HISTORY D, WiLnruy Lunxe, Professo d at the Art-Scho d by CLankxcs Cook. In Two Fully Nustrated, Vol. 1. New York: Acad & Co. Chlrago: ladley Dros, & Ca. Bvo,, pp. 571, Frice, $7. Dr, Lubke published his * Outlines of tho Tlistory of Ark? 1n 1860, when holding the post- tlon of Professor of Art-1listory in Zurich. It was futended as 8 haudbook for students, and @8 such its mucrits have beon widely acknowl- edged. An enrly translation was prepared for English readors, meeting with a favorable ro- ception while in German the work has passcd through seven editions. 1t waa at first the pur- poso of the American publishers to renroduce tho old English version, Incorporating with it tho corrections and additions with which the nuthor amended the latest cdition; but, on cxamniuation, the original translation proved s0 faulty that an entlrely new ono ‘was deter- mined upon, which has heen accordingly exe- cuted under the supervision of Mr, Edward L, Burllngame. In this transaction the enterpriso of Mesars. Dodd, Mead & Co. 13 very gratifying, and wijl doubtlcss mect with appropriste com- pensation, ¢ “The work of Dr. Lubke begins with an intro- ductory notice of the wukeniog of the art-lm- ulsc amone primitive races of mankind, as it observed in the still existing remains of the stone monuments of the Uelts, the dotmens of the Drufds, the cycloplc architecturs of the Peruviaus, and other aucient Jmuplc: ol Amerl- ca, and in the. ornaments and implemonts that have been preserved frow the ages of stono, aud tron, aud bronze, ‘Tbe authur then passce tou closer study of tho ancient art of the Fast,~of Egypt. Babylon and Nineveh, Peraia and Media, o the Phaniclans, lebrews, and other races_of \Veatern Aela, and of India, Cashmere, Chifoa, and Japan, The classlc art of Greeee, Etruria, aud ltome 18 next discussed dlter whicn the ln?ulry dwells upon m:dlevni art aa it appeared fu eatly Chrlstlan nrchitccts ure, pulutive, and sculpture, jn the structures of the Mobammedans, nud in the works created durlpg the dominance of the Romauesque style. "With the closo of the Romanesque period tho first yolume of the blstory {3 coucluded. A vast area tn tho ticld of art hus been traversed iu this portion of Dr, Lubke’s work, yet no pare of the cfirugnu hus boen neglocted o earalessly scauned. The survey basbeon comprehensive,but the lmpresstonathnt havebeen galued, and the judgments expressed, Lave been clear and cown- petent. The autboe fras enricned his text with notes and references, and these haye been en- Jarged sgain by the Amcrican editor, Tho Volum Dodd, Irant. New Y Chleago: "Jansep, McClurg & Co. Hq. 12mo. Price, $3. i In all its mechanical accessorles this gift-book natisfied tho sensitivetaste. ‘The poem, too, full of subllme fmaginings, {8 appropriate to the scttiug given it, But the myriad pictures with which tho llues are crowded are nost of them beyond materlal represcntation, They aro too vasi and phantasmal fo be transported out of the realm of the fancy. The poet renders them vivid, and clear, oml fmposing, to the [ntedlvci- ual eye; but their shapes elude the grasp of the senecs, Tt [s a siznal fllustration of the superl- ority of Yan\r over painting in plcturesque ower. Mr. Linton has conlcssed the artist's hability to translate the poct's vislons, by the vagucneas aud obscurity shrouding tho greater part of bis desigus, Ilo has attcmpted tho fin- possible,—-at least to any but w bighly-inepired geuius,—sad fecble results were fnevitable, —— BINGING MICE. Tho subject of singini mica i recclving con siderablo attentfou among the subscribers to Nature, and letters deseribing the musical hab- {ts of thesc interesting little creatures are cou- tributed by various observers, Oune, writlog tromn Manton, Frauce, says: ‘* Laat winter we occupled the rooms we powdo at Menton. Early in February we heard, as we thought, the song of a canary, and fancied it was ousside outr balcony; however, wo suon discovered that the zer was in our salon, and that the songster wasamouse, At that time the weather was ratlicr cold, aud wo had a litle fire, and thy mouso spent most of the day under the fender, where we kept it supplicd with bits of biscult, Ina few days it becare quito tame, and would come on the hearth in i cvenlug und sing for soveral lours, Sometimes it would climb up the chiffonicr and ascend @ vase of flowers (o drink at the water, and thenslt and eslug ou tho edge of tho tablc, and alloy us to Sn quite near to it without ceasur itswhrblo. One of its favorite hauntswas the wood-busket, and it would often sit and sing on the edgeof it. Oa Feb, 12, the Jast night of the carnival, we had a number of friends in our salon,.and the lttlo mousy sanz most vigurously, much to their dellznt und astonishment, oud was not in the leaat disturved by thelr talking, In the eveulng thc niouse would ofteu run about the room "Lfl under the door, and juto the corridor und adjoining rooms, and then return to its own hearth, Alter amus- iz us for nearly s month, 1t disappedred, awd we suspect that it wus caught in trap sct 1o ona of the rooms beyond, The mouse was siall, and had vory larite cars, which it moved about much whilst singi ni:. song was not unlike that of fhe canary io many of lts trilts, and it aung quite ua besutifully ns uny canury; but L had more variety, and sumu of its notes wero Biuch lower, lfke thosa of the bullfinch, Oug great peculiarity wus a sort of doubla souy, which ‘we had now and them—an alr witl an accompaniment ; the ofr was Joud and full, the notes belng Jow, and the accompanlmeut quue subduad.” 7 LiLies, TNE GATHERING OV TilE LILIES. Tluatrated by the Author, L, Ctanksod, Aullior of **Vio. 1ot with Eyes of Uluw,* Colored Plates and Tathographic Etching, Phliadelphla; J, L. ibole & Co, Chicago; Jauson, deClurg § Co, 410, Prico, $4. Tne (llustrations of Miss Clarkson's hand- somo bock arc ita loyeliest feature, They com- bino flowers of the felds and “flowers of the flesh” In exquisitely. graceful fgures. Tho touquets forming the background for tho fni- tial letters nre arrangod with a skill amounting tofino art; and the crayon drawings represont- lmyhu fairy spirits of the lllics affur great do- 11zht to thie eye. Thorolored plates aro less pleaslog than the enfnrlnfc.—lhu cliromo proc- css being more ditfeult (o bring up to a bigh state of tnlsh thau simplowork in black aud whito, Aa n wholc, the book Is ana of the most attractivo produced this acason, (ts unique char- actor botug greatly (u its favor, d AJlTLfiT-JBlDGIch:,PUIE:. \ RER: Losion: I egood & Co. Chi. D:lg&? iladley Br 'mb'l.‘n. 'Mflln-l?l alc Styls, pp. 18, Pelco, b0<ents. We hazard the prediction that there will not bo a more valuable sumber fu the whole serles of * Artist-Blographles” than this which suts beforc us the qualnt fizure and the earucst work of the great master and founder ot Ger- man art. Tha Incidents forming tha history of Durer ure little known. Indeed, an obsgurity 3 Waere tracked by bluodBouads, uod or shclter, at the r! \uprisoninent, or baing lyuchoa; Mechauic Arta; Danicl Wobster, etc, ete, fllustrutions aro profuse aud clegant, and tho | has rested upon wuch of the lite of this early Rous, whih Church G Its somblaed Among the contributors to the Exhibition of L-suckers and swifts, the boopoe, s king- — Dok v aue thiat art-lovers way well covat minter, which bas ouly lately veen dispelled vt Ihelt clialn “‘ the Drawings of Old Muters, to he held ut | §oabAUCHY ; g 5 PEE- A8 3. !lml). ) — 4 J| by the researchies af de\'uledylmll ‘patustuking :‘.‘,};‘:.‘.“,,L“.‘lLE{'.:}“-‘.;‘,‘.‘,“,;".‘:.::;‘." Grosvenor ugslluy. London, arg the Quecn; tho .l“}""l';;;gfl fl:‘,;";:‘:;': Bél;pw:u ",:’l",'m"u‘_ EARTH-WOR AS FERTILIZERS Ju commenting upon theoflice of earth-worwa fo enrichivg solls, 8 writer in Nature speaks of the Intiuence of this small anlmal upon the ger- wioationof secds, u drawing decayiog leavea and fragmenty of vegetation into tleir hules, the worms often include seeds, which, thuas lu- closed in the earth, sre placed in just the proper conditions to facilitate their sprouting. Another writer siates thut, while cutting a ditch fn 1557, be observed that & narrow liue of coal-ashes au small voul, extouding for about sixty (u\ll.wu mixed with the fina loau of tho soll. Onin- uiry, be learned that, a pumber of years bo- ?uru. theso ashes had been spread upou the surs face. They were wow about scven luches by- low,—the dejtt to which the carth-worm usually burfows. Jt s supposed that the chauge In thelr position, and thelr incorporation with the soll, were the wurk ul wormg, which deslvg wuch of thelr subsisteace from the organleinate ter in the esrth, In passlog through thelr Yodics, the esrth undergoes changes which - prove its fertllity. In this way a great altoras tion in the quallty of solls i 10 time etfected. East of Warwick; Mr. Joio Malcolm, who lends shout 100 clolce drawings of Itslian masters; Ar. Wililam_Russcll, who londs & scrive of drawioes by Rembrandi; etc, ote. Drawings by Caraletto, Watteau, Greuze, Pruduon, Mil- lct, and others of the French School, have been secured, with many interesting examples of the earlicst masters of the Eoglish 8chool. ‘The portrait of **Biss Penelopa Bouthby,” by Reynolds, is tu the possession of Earl Dudley. 11 Fepresonts the danghter of 8ir Brooke Booth- bg and f» considered the fnsat of all Revoolds® «f 'Id» riraits. Mr. B. Couslus hes just com- picted s mczzotint plate after Hogartn's por- trat of Miss Itich, the god-daughter of tho arust. * Notbjug," seys a critle, speaking of the original work, ‘‘wore abso uluI{ aweely wotbing freshier aud purer, 8 known (o us fo portraiture than tnle gem.” ‘Tas priut of it produced by Mr, Coustos s sald to be charming, svguly not quite perfect.” It ls calted & itiug campanion to the gem fo ths Reyoolds col- lectivu,—the two outranking all otlers of thuir claas, Mr. 8. Cousins bas alsv lately executed a mez2zotict blate after a bust of & boy with & writers, Mr Bweetzer has uvailed blmself of tho best lzhts that have beeu throwa upen the history ol Durer, and has produced a clear yet candensed account of the distingulshed artlat, which much reveive generous appreciation. SWITZERLAND. SWITZERLAND AND TIIE §WISS: Sxxroues oF Tuk CoyNtuy ANo Ivs Pasous Men. Ly the Authos of **The Kuights of tho Frozen Bea," etc. 'With Tweaty-four lllustrations. New Veébn E. P. Duiton & Co, Cbicago! lindley Bros, & Co., sud Janseo, (McClurg & Cot omoss pp. 201" Frice, $1.15, The modest title of this book scarcely meas- ures 1ts scope, which really embraces the history of Switzerland from the era of the lake- dwellers to tue present time, It ls, bowever, & tistory in outline,~no0 pretenss being mgde to !l the frame-work with minute detatis. The Jeading events 1o the Jife of the natlon, and the career of 11§ nost eminent men, are sketched with comparative fulluess, and convey a faitly- comprebensive idea of «horacter and prog- ress of the people. Tho author bas a pleasing i JUVE‘\IIIBS.G i AUNT JO" P-BAG, My Gmus, B el Actovr: Autior of *+ 116 Waunon, & etc, Kustont Roberts iros. Cniuqo: Jal 1ymo,, vp. 330, Price, § Srouy, 1y GEowus L. Cianzy, Grspt & Co,," efc.. Boston: hicagor Junsen, MeClueg & Co _ 18mo., vx< 279, Price, §1.25. BADY:DAYB: "A GXL8cTION 07 SaNus, BToKHIZs axg Ficsunye, rou Vny Liriis Folns, With an Introduction by the Ballor of St NicAolae. Taree MHundred Ilostrations New York: Scoboer & Co. Chicago: Hadley Bros, & Co. $q vo.. pp. 189 g The storics by Loulsa Alcott are ipimitable. Charms of oue sort or enother render many of the juveniles of the day so sitractive that it scems needlcss or inpossible to {mprove them; and yet thero s a certain crisp, sparkling, ex- bilsrating stmosphers pervading the fictions of this sythar which Is never felt so keenly in the works of others. They possess a powerful magnetic quality that entlces frrestatibly. This fourth volume of “Aunt Jo's Berap-Bag" is, t10n as {heis rightful due, ully stood forth, #ith dauntless front, Zeslous \a thelr behall ;T thrilling versa Tiebearsed the dreadtul etory of (b Bummoned With trumpei-lones the Taraliy (W the rescue, well-uquippe With sutritusl wespons {ol ine 8ght And with uswavertog faltb io Iiia whose srm 1s sizong (o smite, ounipotent to save, Yea! be has lived to soe (sich yecqmpens The sutlering bondamen from thelr chal To heas thell E"“m -nnnlo beaven With merry cuimloge of 1he Jubiled What wronge they suller uow are doay L0 men And citiztns, and 5ol to siaver: and these Aluet be sedrensed, and all their rigbie secured, Tom youth Lo ;nanhood, manhood 10 0id sge— 18 covnted old— i ut 8ud eatal, % ol fim 16 1ak¢ COOIpICY0US 1aa) Annnlnfiu bepelaciors of waukind, And Witk the'thoicest poets of ali Ume. Longfellow's éonnet is s follaws: TUK TUKES BILENCES. 5 Three Bilences \bere ate; e fial of gpeech, The sccond of thrd of thougisti gale,tho stone-chat, the spsriew, crosted lusk, ote.y etr, 5 3 The isod-grousc dwells'in the Nile Valley, and more commonly fu the desert; and tha quall oceurs as & bird of psssace. Thocur Jew 1b & native bird: and the cattle-Ibis (Bubul- cua Ibis), which slways marches alter herds of cuttla at Jmmw. the Lwo egrots, tha lapwing, the Eg) plover, the warsbout, tus Nile E.onu. and_several gulls and ses-swallows fo- bit tho Nile Velley or the ~nast. 1o enumerating the birds of the desert, Dr. Klunziuger says that the small vulture occu- pleen the desert-town ucarly the same place that the stork docs in ports of tbe European coutinent, **No one thinks of fnjurlug this hyrmlcas and useful sanitary azent, who keeps stiore and wountaly clear of putrefaction. [is faxoriie post fn tLe town Is tha biguest point of tho minarets, towhich, liks the weathercock in achurtb-stecvle, bo gives & picturesque Lermi- natiou. He is by no mweaus sby, but” does not veature foto tbe slrects of the town, . . . Tha vird that forms s feure in every desert-plct- ure, Lowever, fu the ‘Nosl's isven,’ which NEW JRELAND. By A, M. Scinivax, Member of Parliaraent for Louth. Philadelpbia: J. B, Lippincoly & Cb, _Chicago: Janwcn, McClurg & € 12wo,, pp. B Price, §3.50. 10 the scries of aketches which 611 this yolume, Mr. Bullivan has portrayed with a cahin, skillful touch many of tho important scepes and events in the Listory of the Irish within $he Jast ball- century, In not s few of these he was elther s intereated apectator oy an sctive participaot, With feelings excited to the point whenfinprison- Rent, exile, aud death are Dot counted 88 re- stralnts upon the execution of measures deew- ¢d expedient for tho freedom of a vation or sn Individual from outrage and oppression, Nover- thiecleas, fn looklng back upon the most exciting of these events {n their retreat intotho past, the tmotions of the pazrator are subdued, and they e regarded with tho cool after-thought that usues upon redoction sud the removal or witl- &stlon of the causes of greatest irritation, Ous of the most entertainiuig of ths essays fo o Wl rave & THis 18 1bo b h wonk, ditraught bal) by Greuse, named the * Youog Dauphin.” | Noah sent vut of the ark. [Lis 8 linte, deep- = that d Jike thoss which bave preceaed it, brimful cf | Jiterary style.—~it eing efmple, easy, and apt. L s % O Ciiar 1o the. reuruoty raven, But BRIEF NQTES, } elioeating the character aud wotk of the . & g mplc, eaty, oo oy | Wb aren ) o chd drat Lo tesen. black ravos. siar to e common roves, byt | g DD NOTES pecart bava spirited stories that pever for a mement fag (o {Betr action and foterest. *“The Yttle bock named *F. Grant & Co.," ‘which csine'out two years 8go, was a dashing, eprigbtly tale, blending useful moral Jessona with its smusing narrative. The second work by the same sutbor, * Toms A uomwémlrly." {s quite ay pleasing aé the Oret, snd, like it, aims 49 ccovey derlous jwpressions while appatently occupled with, Abe oiorc 10 Drove agreeable. #F. (irant & (0. strova o tearh hoss bow ta Thease silen b will 3 Made up i )mh:l Bilence, that e sougbt Aud prayed for, and whereln o1 times be caugti uuurm:- socnds from from resjins beyoud our real O thou, whose daily Jife anticip The lite to come, and in wbose taonght and word The spiritual world prepongerates, Hermit of Amenbury | 1hou too bast heard Voices and melodles from beyvud the gates And speakest ouly when thy soul fs atirred! _ Dr. Holmes writes also in the form 10 upsc- énatowed ta b vage—Lhg fialisn sonnet; bub ng JMEISSONIER, Melssonter bas been bard st work the past ummer, at bis coustry-residence at Polsey, on a large pictore of & cavalry-charge. Miss Auna Brewster pait & viait to the busy artist while thus engsged, and gathered materials for a gos- slpy leiter to tho Philadcipbla Bulletin, 8be found Melssonler in his garden makiog s sketch of & mounted trooper fn full uuiform. Two men werg occupled in koeplng the fics ot the Eveat Apostle of Temperauce, known the world tround by bis Reverend title of ‘¢ Father atlew.” Tt {s Jmpossible Lo withhold ad- sulration from the herolo spectacls of tbe *duresouled and ereat-bearted Capuchin,” b sione~single-hauded—baltled for years Must the passion for drink that was degrud- the morale snd the minds o bis countrye wen, aud who Hually sank uuder the ezcriions 6d auxicties “fucident to the terriblo combat. *. Bullivan wed familiar with the narvar af this Tbe 1pograpby commin Roods= 1 the Nile Valley it shows ftself but scldow. 1t 15 not to Le shot with {mpuoity, for it isthe suncle ' of the black Budanse, sud these demand for thelr slaugbtered relative the lndiepensable blood-money. . . . A oo blrd’s noteis not 10 be beard [n the desert,—ouly the twitterof the stone-chats, the peop of the lurks, the croak of she reven, thy screwn of the birds of prey, and at night tho eerie Loot uf the vwls.! Iwinense pumbers of pigcous sod fowls are reared by tho people, Fortho forwer special started on 8 voysge eround the world, dur- fog . which thex will collect mammals, biras, aud insccts for the museums of 1taly,~particu- larly for that o8 Genoa. A 8 M, Kelsel, s Russian paturalist collecting for the Moscow Anthropological Exbibition of 1870, has pasegd tbo last summer W tho +Arctiv couptrics borderiog ths White and Polar 8eaqy Oa'the Murmantan cowst bu wmade sescerchon —— * A BOOK OF REFERENCE. (WHO AND WHAT"1 A Courzxoivu or GEx- xual Exowizves, Compiled hLunu Dx Puy Nitaw “uiladeionin: 5 B. oylucois & Ca, Chicsgo: Hadley Bros. & Co, }2mo.. pp. 470, Under the divisions, Wuo, Where, When, oWhich, How, sod Wlas, tbe compiter of thiy work has rsuged a mess of misccllansous in- formation. without recard to connestion of eub-