Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1878, Page 9

14,1878—TWIELVE PAGES 9 thisty to fifty days: althouzh occasfonally it rxtends through many months, During this term there are exhilited no snecinl aymptoms of the disease,-~the melancholy and depression of mind often existing being attribatable to the natural dreal of the puscible resuits of the injury received. Ezperlence sanctions the attenpt to prevent the absorption of the polson conveyell by the bite of a rabid anlinal, hy oxcising or cauterizing the wound; but no evidence has been produccd, ju the opinlon of the writer, which warrants the e of internal remedics, There i no knosyn anti- dote to the polson of hydeaphohia. Very few duga supposed 1o berabid are really ro, andouly 4 small proportion of the persona bitten by dogs which are actunlly affected with hydrophohis take the disease from them: hence thusc cases where the malady has yiclded to remedics may TIIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JANUARY Inve n tendeney to induce a mare extended ne- | Ttaly,~e¢mbracing. fnadditionto the contributors (nintane Wit this Inat. bt byno means least, | of the preecnt number, auch nauies as Francis Itortant contribution th’ Shakspearcan ltera: | Walkor. Johin Jav. Theorore 1, Wolées, ¢ ture. Adams,Prof, Hilzard, Prof. Jevana, Dean Stan)e S Tilip Gilhert Iamerton, Dr. W, rpente CIOICE AUTOBIOGIAPIITES, Thomas Hughes, Wiikie Colline, Edward 1. MEMOIRS OF EDWARD GIBBON, E8Q. Wirn | boulage, Prof. Vogel, Prof. De Guliernotls, AN EavaT BY WitLiax D, Howszia. Bosion: | and n'acore of others holling hizh positfons In A1, Ongaod & Co. 10mo., bp. 232, Price, | the vatlons walks of literature. ~One pecul- 81.25. larity of the [nfernational s the cntire absei Tha nutohlography of Gibbon, the hintorlan, [ of ‘the “senastonal,” which {s beroming 1s unsatisfactory for two principal reasona: | Tather too conspicuots s feature in_perlidicale, ¥ No article {s accented on account of the nitme firat, on account of the style, whicli la 8o mag- | o' yyq writer, unless the article ftaclf {8 mert: nificant, and so appropriate to his reat De- | torigua, original, and worthy the attention of cline and Fall of the Roman Empire, but is | men of thought and culture,” Nobody should stnzutarly * cumbrous ' and upsultablo fn a | buy nlvmh llhc‘ cxp{;-flhu‘t:;; o:I{l :mtllmfil c’v'lmg]:{ memoir; and, sccond, becauso the narrative | amused or havin curl ckled, gives no iittle Insighit fnto the dotails of bis | POKC are Intended o fustruct and satiaty, ot fragments of woven fabrics, bone Implements, needles, scrapers, chiscls, awls, cirenlar pers fornted disks for weaving, eharred frnits, nut: and grain, bronze implements, spears, knives, razars, sickles, armiets, nccdics, stone axes set In deer-horn, fragments of pottery radely orna. menteid, and numerous unshaped pieces of hora and bone. Dee. 1, & small ship. manned by & Captaln and four’ men, complutell the voyage from the mouth of the Yenesset to 8t Petersburc, ‘*Never," says Prof. Nordenskjold, *20 wre! ed a hoat dared to enter the waters of the Ar. tie O:ean® The vessel left the Yenessol Aug. 21, accomplishing the trip {o 100 days. A new proceas for the manufacture of ruhles and other preclous stones has been invented in France, by which gems, rivaliag in the perfec- Leen most freoly aln ) not have nothing to do wih polit your Irang thie bread of fndependenre supuort your family witn the rewarils of honest toit: do your duty asn private citlzen Lo yourconnfey,—but et wlitics alone, 1t {8 a fard life, o thankicss Harvey's Reminiscences of e, Sl Tknoow 1t b its combeusations, . [liere are some eresn spots, ocrasional onacs, in Daniel Webster. the e of 4 publlc man? otherwie we could The conviction that the great mass of i dnwelilgent and patriotic citizens of vour country spprove of well-dirceted effurts to sorve then, Is truly consoling, That cotidence on the part of my fellow-citizens, I think I jussess. I have had, in the couras of my official life,— which ts not a aliort one,—my tnll" sharo of In- eratitude! but the unkindeat cut of all, the Ehaft that has sunk deepest in my heart, hns heen the refusal of this Administration to grant raphy, Enzlish or French, practical mechanies, and erpeclally enzineerine. Two rchools for the Blind have heen recently founded, and are In_a progverons conditiom. The: oldest hiad, In 1576, eightv-cight non-res'- dent puptls, who were furnished with ratsed- letter text-books in arithmelle, Arable gram- tn the eccond school, variuus handicrafts were also taught, ¢ Below the three Preparatory Sehools of Cairn and Alexandrin are twenty-three Munlcipal choola, whieh afford fres Instruction in rudi- entary atuiles to the poor,—exa-ting a small e from thase who are able Lo pay for their 'mu;:. Tu 1576, thers were 1,883 puplls ju the: iaols. In 1873, the third wife of the Khicdive, Prin. ‘I'sheshma Halt Khanum, caused sn old in a povulous quarter nf Calro to be LITERATUR Essnys by Prof. Hodge---The System of Shakspearc’s Dramas, et palac my request for an offfes of wmall peeanlasy con- to advestiee poor wares or guil the unibinking. | transformed into s schooliiouse, amd then | be assumed to have been spurious. t f ¢l i fin duced b Nemoirs of Gibhon the Tis- atderatlon for my only aon. - Lo {ally 1ife,into the methods e employed and | 1o B e e o s entitted to 1 | oo 1tr doots_fim. (e admiactom of 2irts of | - When stisnphenin. s boen. devetoped, 1t | Nature, cun ha- buriad oot b commitss pline Nature, can be turned out in countiess numn- bers, Hotne of thess artiticlal stones can bs furnished at 8o low & nrive that they can be used for ordinary decorntive purposes. Acconiing o s recent work on * The Birds of Cnina,'" published by MM. David and Oustalet, in Parly, there are SO07species that fnhabit China, or visit it more_or less regularly. The native spoeles number 249, nbout one-fotieth of which are pecullar to Chinese Thiber. Of the res malnder, 158 are European species, a Iew bue tong to Amertia, and others to Oceanica, Indla, ‘Mulaga, and Siberia. M, Prahevalsky, the Russtan explorer, Is re- rolved upon penetrating fnto the interior of Thibet. Findg It imposaible to enter by way of Lake Lob-Nog, e attempted, at the bezin- ning of Jast Neptember, the route through Guchen anda Haml to Zaldam and the wpper parts of the Blue River. If he succeed It reaching Laesa, as hic hones to do by May o Jung, he will remaln fo Thibet for s year. * DANIEL WEBSTER. It {s from ancdotes like these which we have quoted, tvith which Harvey's hook fa crowd- e, that we et elances fnto the under depths of Mr. Webster's ardent and carncat nacure. cvery clnss and ereed in Egypt, with the promice ot not oulyituition, but food asd clotblug, freaof chare, For three weeks tlus gencrous invita- tlon to the benighted nnd oppressed davihiters of Eerpt to grasp the keys to thelr Hberty, galned not n single response. Then the preju- dices of {znorance and birotry gradually gave way, and within ibree months thera wero 300 cirls, ranging from the sues of 7 to 12, ami of cvery rank and faith, imuroving the opportunltics 8o freely aconled. The course includes five years’ lostructlon in readin; writing, arithmetle, drawing, geography, Turkish, Fru and music, and in needle- worg, cookery, and - other work peeuliariv per- taining to women, Five Jdoys are wiscly devoted to tralning fn the duties attached to domestic work, and the other two to Intel- lectual studics. The Directress and two of her nasstants are Europeaus, and the remaining twelve teachers are natives, A second (Jirla’ Bchool, sustained by the Khedive's first wife, swas opened not long after the first, and hos had 147 pupils under niue instructors. “The Khedive hooes that, by this teafutog of the daughtecs of the fellabeen, they may be enabled to tako thy the hours ho spant In study. When o man, by | support of the best Intellizence of the country. the force of his own geniua and perseverance, pr———— g, 1o use & goodd old phrase, deserved well of BOOKS RECEIVED. g the Commonweaith, thera {a a natural and Jnud- | OBSTETRICS REDUOED TO GUESTIONS AND ANSWENY, Iy Mk, L. 1L Cong, M. Chi able desire to know how his success has been oh- eavo: 1), B Cooke & i2mo., pp. talned. ‘The young man desires the information fll!‘i fi"{;fll‘z FQHS_'F'XI(; )o’n‘.‘i‘fn”.f’:"-fi';:"; ;\": in order to hielp bimaciCon tho same road, and [ [ATHERS, TRUAEs THE BOLIAR 07, Jub, CON: to_find enceuragement to pereevere in his fndi- WY WE TRADE. AND HOW Wil TRADE. vidunl attemnptss while the older generation de- | By Davin A, Wenis, l'ugyr. THE TARIFY sire to flnd out whether the success has been QUESTION, AND IT8 RELATION TO THE carned hy lonest work, or by some ndventitious TESENT COMMERCIAL CHISIS, By Honack all, (Gibhon rarely gues info partleulars (n this | \ViiTe. Printed from the tafry for October, has, acconding to the best observers, {avariably ferninated fatolly, A cureis sald fn two re- cent cases to huve heen effected by curare, or wootara, a substance used by the Sonth-Amerl- can Indians asa pofson for™ their arrows; but the greatest doubts exist as to the true nature of the discase in both {nstances, The prolonged and terrible anxlety in- duced by a bite s Jlable to. lead to |I¥!‘.\T\"|‘ and fnsanity, and to the imiation of many of the phenomens of hydrophabia, A case b mpurivus hyrirophohia was dately Te- curded In the Laned, as follows: “A gentle. man underwent terrible_anxiety on account of his young son havinz been bitten by a dow which auddenly had Lecome i1l and atrange In its Lehavior. The danger which threatened the boy caused the father to become futensely emotlon- al, and prolongmd sleeplessness ensued. Other worries supcradded themsclves to this one creat gnasing anxiety, and the poor tnan fell il At flest thero appeared. aymptoms which simulated very closely the hydrophuble phe- nomena; but these were succeeded by o genuine ottack of acute mania, which necussitated the patient's removal to an asvlum, where he died torian---Early Mislory of Northern Illinois. TISAY! THE WAYS OF TIIE SPIRIT; Axn Orncn Ese #avA. Dy Fugorne Hesnr Arenor, Anthor of *¢Rteason In Telizion, " ete. Hoston: Jioberts Bros. Chicngo: Jansen, McUlurg & Co. 12mo.4 . . Price, 82, ¥ The depth of scholarshlp, the power'of acute and consistent argument, and the broad, lberal habit of thought, evinced In theso essays, glve them an influcnce and an authority which the reader gratefully recognizes, They discuss the most vital themes,—those which engage the mindof man In hls most rcrious hours,—and, in the discussion, et In preclous gleams of 1Hght upon many an obacure and puzzling point that has been the subject of wnhdless contro- versy. The Way of iistory, of Religion, of Historle Christlanity, of the History of Atonc- ment, the Natural History of Thetam, the Ori- Fducation in Egypt-—The Good Work that Has Been Done by Ismael Pasha, rospct. He shows himsclf aiwnys fn hin gress. | 1877 Now York: G. P, Patnam'a Sons. Chica- coats W arc never javored Ly a chat with lijm | EO3 fanrems dieClucg & Co, Taper. Price, 7 cents, g-kown aud slip- | SKETCIE OF TISE LIFE, GHARACTER, AND l‘\?l\IAICuSERVICES DF DLIVER P, MOIITON. e in bis dibrary, and in his dre Pydrophobia~Tho *“Ameriean RNatural- ist "~Aretic Inseeta~—d Deep Arlesian Well. LITERATURE, DANIEL WERBSTER. REMINISCENCES AND ANECDOTES OF DAN- pera. Yet, with this reservation, we can thank him heariily for Lis kiyluons In elving the worlit s o autoblogeaphy. L] o was so tineventlul, in e the ordinary nse of the word, that, when he t HAND. NON-BUENTINLLIN reviewed it ot the sge of 62, ho found fow N itk JucripEs ELIFENED S S8 cate Mty Bostox, By Jaues PnEeMay striking facts to chronicle, s carcer in Par. | M8 T om e an Asvoeia: Iintent was very monotonous, and b tells us’| jgn, Gt liadicy Dros. & Cor- . hio noou Japscd Mto & sllence whlch was nover | Ly Chicxgos:Hiedies Bovs. d Tk 0N broken. iy A H ) o “ More Anecdotes from I'eter Jlarvey's Rem: ! : Placo. of dumeatic servants 1 the housohiold, | on the seveuth day of his lilness Thers was i, WENSTER, * By Przau Wanver, Motlon: | gin of Thinge, tho God of ellgion or thie Haman coinmiasion of T ats a0 e | oni e ODICALS WECKIVED. e | A0t thin do away with tho services of slaves. | o vidence Luat tie patient bad been bitien br | (- lscencens e G 19ma.y hp. 480, Price, §3." God, and tho Human Soul, sre among_tho ab- | composition of his history wau duc rather to | - Janitary (Frank \W, Roinon, Phlladeiphls), The, llat of Greeniment acliools elusas witl| 8 oxs vety bl » ety Lecn effected, the e | - Sles Welalar gave My, Hlarver the folloding Thia volume of rominiscences of Danlal Web- | 8truso topics which they treat, and with an un- | purpose than neglect. Hiconiy wished to lave | LITEELASS LIVE (5 A E—Cartent numbers (Lt~ | three Industrial sctiouls (ouuded fn 1470 for the y have gune on re one I | account of a quarrel with Willlam Pinckney, inatructton of pupils fromn the primary schools, wha are destined to follow the trades and indus- trin) pursuita, “Th¢ mosque colleges and Arab kohtbabla, or prtary actiools, a10 almost waolly ndependent of the mu.-.—dmwlrg: thelr support from thefr own endowinents and frotn private patronsge. ‘The most inporiant of these institutions {s the Cotlege of El-Azbur, at Calro, which in 187¢ registered 1,095 stidents, All the learoimg whiclt it tmparts is coulined to lectures an the Aravle: grammar, Joglc, rhetorle, Khoranic Jaw and thevlogy, and pre-Coperuican astronomy and inathematics, uition 18 free, und the oteachers ure unsalaried,— sustafning thewmeclyes by work outside of their appointed Yoentlon, ~ The course is similar in tne other principal colleges, or madressehs. The primary gehools, or Aunttable, from which the great mass of the people derive the whols sum of their cducatlon, number avove 5,000,— there being one in nearly every villace. The attendance pon these scnools fs estimated ot sbout 12,000 puplis. The fnstruction {s timited to reading snd memorizing the Koran, with perhaps a llttle wrting and the vericst rudlments ot onthemetle, Be- yond this the teachers are incapable of ruing,~they being as a clags but bilnd lead- crs of the blind, Muny of these schools have small cndowmonts, und others depend upon voluutary coutributions of the puplis. Within the past two or three years, tho Goverument las striven to improve thelr standard by supnly- ing them with a higher order of teachers irom tho classes lu the Normnal Schiool, and also by inducing them to submit toa periodieal exani- fnation., Low as 13 thy grade of education af- forded by the Konttalbe, it 1s salil to be much ohove that which the veasantry of Turkey ob- taln i Lheir primury schools. The annual expenise to Ezypt of its education- ol fnstitutions, exclusive ol the military and naval acadeuies, and_of the Moslem colleges and schuols, fa L4, To this amount the Klicdlve udds yearly £12,500. ‘The Copts of Eiypt are tatimatod to numbe 500,000, They urt’ supposed by ethnolouists to be desccullants of the Pharsunic Egypt- Jans, They profess o form of = Chna- tianity, to which they aro bigotedly attacbed. ‘Fhev malntain” sixteen schools In Cairo and Alexaudria,—one of which is a col- Jeze; nuuuwr.aluuu’lumuul schiovl; o third, a semlnary; two, girla? schools; aud the remaln - der, primary scoouls, At tho collerc, tess than 400 puplls oro taurht Arabie, Contie, Engliali, Freneh, geography, writing, and smurin ‘The dozen or fo students ut the theolozieal school wlich hydrophobia — bad been successfully treated. Curare {s pronounced a very dangerous drug to adininister, and of most doubtful cfiacy, Its effect Is to paralyze all voluttary move- mente, and o doge of sufilcient strenpth to ge- rest theepasmsol hydrophobia will atop reapira- tiun and task the ohiyselan's akill fn maintain- Ing life in the patient. ‘The writer states that, Inone case of hydrophobla coming under bis observation, curars was used without effect. Even granted that it may arrest the spasms, the polson causing the spasms remains o the sys- tem, a fertile gerin of & fatal discase, and carure in powerless to destruy this, A curels yet Lo be discovered for hydropliobia,according to thfs writer: but relfef from the sufferinyg sttendant upun the malady Is aflorded by bromide of po- tasslum, chloral, and Calabar bean, AMERICAN NATURALIST, The American Naturalist has passed into new hands, and, judging from the number uow be- fore us, its interests will pot suller from the cbange. The editorfal charizo of the magazine lias been intrusted to Dr. A, 3, Packard, Jr., and Lrof. E. D, Cope, two able men of sclence, whose nawes are a guarantee that the work they undertake witl be efiiclently done, ‘The geueral character of the Nuturatiat will remain s herotofore, and {t will continue to fnvite the unlearned render, as well as the sclence-stu- dent und science-teacher, to its lessous on natu- ral history, The prescut number has several leadlng articles of lnterest, from one o which we extract au amusing parazraph exbibiting s curious Labis of THE NIGUTLERON, Ur.Samuel Lockwood, ab expert observer and nteresting narratcr, wus visiting a heronry r Mew Hrunswick, N. J. This was a grove of red-onks covering several neres, 1o which a com. munlty of night-herons (Nyctiarala gardent) had many years anunally resortod ot the neat. se-neasof, They were now feeding their youn, and from fiity or more nests uo dew the parent wirds with slarthng crivs of Qual qual s the intruders ventured under the trees which shel- tered them, Dr, Lockwasod, bemi curious to ace one of the yooug birds, directed a youth to ¢limb a tree and take n specliien from the nest. “ As the youth,” he writes, ** neared the nest, the wild, munutonous ery beenine painiul to e, and I was anxious to shorten the suspense uf the pour irda. Clinging to the tres with buth lewrs and o arm, with the free hahd hoe took o I the finfshed structure seen, not the scaffolding tell & Gay, Bostun). by meana of which it was bulit. He even cone | CATHOLIC FAMILY ALMANAC fur 1878 (Cathio- ceals, under tha gulse of philosophical {udiffer- | o Publication Soclety Company, New York). ence, his aatisfaction ot tho success which at. S mee— tended the publication of his life-work. But FAMILIAR TALK. llllslls :::own(ln (tlmtv.-umekl;lmlll :vla:’ln wh{cl;: he coples the extracts from the llattering opinions EDUCATION IN EGYPT. of others, On the whole, hia fa an interesting Sed memolr, for b gives some Insleht (nto the way | . The census-returns In Egypt cannot as yet he {nwhich Gibbon wrote what,ali thingsconsidered, | relied upon as moro than approximately correct; }n probabiy the greatest nistory In the English | yet, according to tho most \rualworlhi ;:":!Is- anguage. tles hitherto obtalned, the population of ypL mg}t{':é:.::‘l‘l.:lg:;t el donorin facty ol | proper amounts at the present time to about for 1t 13 littlo more, of the autoblograply, is so | 5:600,000. Of this number, the fellahcen, or thorungh that it nlmost ubviates the necessity |/laboring class, compose the Smmense majority of rending Gibbon's nccount of Kimsell; and it | of four-fifths, or, to state it luintegors, of 4,500, is nittle diffleait tosee tho neceasity of rend- | gog, By some suthiorities, the fellaucen are de- ing substantially the samo: thing twice, unless, elared to bo descendants of Arab races; and, by | berlaney tolmpress it moro falthfully on the | (o o0 N0 e thie sepresentatives of tho abortal- 2 nal Egyptlans. Thelr faith s that of their EARLY lllsi;gl:l' 0(”:‘ NORTHERN | Turkish rulers, and they conform fu their dally INO1S, 1ife, with more or jess scrupulous fdelity, to tho “m‘,%,’;‘.?“ 2: .,E“"z“g;’“c,\ T‘,‘;':;l'“’i"cc','i".m: laws fmposed by Mohammed. The Bedoween, Wear, Ty N. MaTnox ‘Aughior of *+ Hoyond the | or nomadic Arabs, Inbobiting the descrts and Atlantic,™ cte. With Full-Pago 1llustrations. | wasto lands of Egypt, are estimated st ahout Cutcagas D, I, Coake & Co, 12w0., phe 200, | gog,000, Liks the fellahieen, thny profess tho The inchlents cunnected with the early his- | L\ 0'0e Tenm, Of Turks, thero are reckoned tory of Northern IHinols, which Mr. Matson has | {4 0. o Abgssinfans, 3,003 and of Nublans collected fn this volume, should have a par- nu'd B:)udnnl.l (mostly slaves), 40,000, These all ticular interest to all citizens of the State. | pominally Mobiammedsns,—making o total There 18 nothing scnaational in the manner in of 4,853,000 of the inhabitants of Etypt who which they are narrated, and, being drawn by ndul;l. tl:o Crescent Instead of tho Cross as the the writer Irom tue stores of his ewn memory, symbol of thelr relictous belfef. or from he recollections of thoss who were, Yiko bint,tho ploncers of civillzation {n the Weat | _ After tho capturs of Eaypt by the army jof they may bu regarded o8 mmwunhr. and stil | Caliph Omar, In 640, letters and the arts wore thelr effect §s 1iko that of fletfon, The story of | enrcfully cherished throughout the country, the scttlemont of the country Iving betweenvur | colleges and Hbrarlos were sustalned In the chfef city and Ualena, and especiaily of the growth of % ¢l Clileagzo, scems searcely less fahitlous that, thy | titiea and primary aud sccondary schiools estab- tales of ‘Aladdin and his wonderful jump, How | lished In nearly every town sud vithwe. But, hara to reallze that, within, the remembrance | when the Mamelukes overturned the Fatimite of liviniz witnesses, Shaubcna, Billy Caldwell, | dynasty, fn tho twelfth century, learntug re- Blackhawky Teeumech, and othernioted Chicls, | coived a fatal blow, and thereafier steadily do- with thelr Indian followers, ronmed over these % Draitics, tho undisputed proprictors, and huutad | €lued: At the timo.of the Freuch Invasion, at and fished in the lonely woods and stresmawith- | the cluso of the clghteenth century, the sole re- out fear, altmost without molestation from the | malns of the splendld system of public educa- ntruding whito man! A realizing sensc of the | tion maintained Ly the Callphs existed in the onwward rushiof the aco la uined, perhapa bet- | Ara sehools attached to the mosques, where By e Tl fanyared. | dittla Was tought boyond the text of tho Koran, and exposed lifu tiat tho carly seitlers of [ and in the El-Azhar at Calro, the once famous Dllinols wers loadiug only forty or litty years | Unlversity which instructed thousands of youths derstonding and insight commensurate with thelr Importauce. Prol. 11cdgo has been aptly ealled n Christian TRationatist. He was carly identifled with the Transcendentallsts of New England; but the fearlcss tests of reason which ho las ever brought to bear upon tho doctrines of Christian- ity have not destroyed—have rather strength- encd—hls belicl In thoso which are cseential. He holds to the entity and immortality of the human soul, yet abandons prufitiess snecala- tlon upon its [uture destiny, leaving all that pertains o its existence beyond the grave trust- ingly and sccurely “with the Infinite Love which cmbraces all our lives, and the Infinite Wisdom which comprohends nll our nceds.” fits faith in the relizion taught by the New ‘Testament is so strong that Lo has no fear of fts peing undermined. ' All relizions,” ho declares, *that devoutly aspire, all rellzlons that diligently labor, all religions that minister to human weal, deserve our sympothy and claln our ru\mut. But Chiristianity is “more than religlon; It 18 history's highway,—~buman- ity's thoroughfarc, ‘Tho paths that diverge from 1t will return to it ajsain, or loso them- selves in nothingness," ‘The acensing athelstic tondency of the age, Prof, Hedee regards, luoking upon §t from an clevated polnt of view, whiloita relations nnd rrupurlhms arg falrly visible, as mierely o scem- ng. The development of Christianity Is, in his opluion, progressive, passing cver to higher and purer practical truth, 8o nauy centuries have zong by in which the name of Christ has been profeased Ly men, and ilis spirit 8o fecbly emu- Inted, wo migit almost despalr of the power ot the Giospel. Yot, says this firm and sago be- Hever, *1t would not be difficalt to traco, through all theso centuries of revolution und misrule, of strifs and oppression, of theological hatred awd pricstly persceution, the sceret windings aud subtlo ramlfications of a sucred artery, a spiritunl sorta, connecting the fieart of Ciirlstianity with its utteymost “flbres, and filled with the blood of Christ, It would not be ditlleult to show that each ten- tury, i turn, lbas eaten of ' tho flesh of the Son of Man, and had. Ilis Iife, howerer latent, nbiding in ft. Aud in this our'dag, smid all the inditference and supinencas, the skeptl- vism and the scorn, the mnduess and the erime, which meet and appall us ou avery hand, it woutld not ho dififeuit to discover unmistakable ster {8 an Interesting contribution to our know!- edge of the porsonal tralts and manncrs of one of vur greatest mén. A figuro so conaplcuous fn the drama of American history fizes tho at- tentlon in cvery new attitude and light fn which ftiony be placed, and we cannot tire of fresh studica which afford o deéper fnsight loto the constitution and hablt of & mind which, in any ageand among any people, would nave been distinguished for fts transceadent facultics, The' aspeet In which the character of Webster ts pre- seuted here 18 of the kindllest. It fs that fn which it habitually stood fo the oyes of afriend, who, admitted to the most intimate confldence. gaw bow much tho noble and endearing quall- tles of tho man hie loved overtopped the follles and weaknessea Inherent in all humanity, Apart from it blographical interest, the book haa & valuc as a testimonial to o fond and fatth- ful fricndship whicli logally bore the tests of a Wfetime. It does mot proless to exhibit the method and proportlons of a Life of Daniel Webster, but slnply to record the memorabilla which, fn years of famillar association, thewriter was able to gather from observation, and from tno statements of Webster and his fricnds. Tho reminiscences are well sclected and _arrantred, all of them proving thelr appropriatencss to tho sltuation in which they are placed. In throwinz light upon the private Ufo and the hidden springs of bis action, they strengthen the human bond between our hearts aud his whose genfus lifted i so hizh above the level of mankind." The warmth of affection which was often un- suspected fn Webster's naturo s winningly re- vealed {n an kicldent occurring durlog o visit mado by bini at the house of Willlam Wirt, The two men were Criends, and, a8 they sat {n con- versation, Mr. Wirt was so sltuated as to view fna mirror the sceng behind him. ©Ono of his daughters,” writes Mr. Hurvey,—\‘a little girl of 4 or b years,~without knowing anybody was there, bodt pushed the doar . aped Lo come fnte the hbiary, Shesaw Mr, Wobster’s lurge fiqure, and heeltsted. Mr. Wirt watchied her face, nnd #he had au exnresyiot something lke feara but it was ouly for an Instuirt, He snw her fenturcs relagas Mr, Webster looked at her; and it was not two minutes before Mr, Webster's arne were stretehed out and the child rushed fato which, lic sald, was the ncarcst he ever camo “ua downright row.” After des@dblng Phuck- ney's pusition at the Bar of the Supreme Conrt us one who received the briefs preparca by oth- er lawyers and argued thelr cases for them for the lon's share of the fees, be continued: 1 was alawyer who had my Wving toget, and T felt that, althiongh § should “not aryuc my cancs a: well an lie could, still if my clients’ employed me they should have the best ability 1 had o give thein, and [ should do the work myseif, Idid not propose to practice law n tho Supreme Cunrt uy proxy. 1 ilnk that In some pretiy important cares [Thad Mr. Pinckney rather expecied that ehould fall into the currentof hinadmirers, snd divide my fecs with him. This I utterly rcfused todo. In same {umporiant case (1 have forgotten now what the cara was) M., Pinckaey was employ- vd toaryne iLazainstme. [ was going to arcac It for my client mysclf. 1 had felt that, un several occarlun, his manner was, o roy the least, vory anvoying aud averavating, My {nfercourse witi hitm, »o faraa 1 had any, atways marked by great courtesy and deference. | regmeded himas the leader of the American ar; he bad that cept- tatlon, and Justly, e was a very great lnwyer, On tho occasion towhien | refer, Insomis collojuiai discusslon upon yorious minor points of the case, hetrcated me with contempt. le pooki-pootied, us much an to ény It wad not worth wiile to argue a polnt 1 dldknow anythlag abont; that | wasno law- er. 1hink ie spoke cf the **xentleman from New Hampshire." At auy rate. it wass talng that averyooly In the Court-louse, Including the dudzee, could not fall to obeerve. Marehalt himeell was paincd by 3. hard for me to restrain ny tember and ky H out Idid s0, kaowinz in what presence | stood. | think he construed fuy apparcat humility Info 3 want of what Le would call apiril 1n resentinz, and asarort of acquicscence n his rule. Towever, {ho Inchient pamsed; the eavs was not Shished when the hour foradjournment_came, aud the Court ad- Journed antil tne pext mornime. Mr. Pinciney Rauk his whip and gloves, theew his chuak over bis T went np 1o hity you alone in one Certanly, [ wupe pose that hothought 1 wam goinz to beg s pace d ask s oeststance, Wo paxaed 1t one of oumy of the Capitol. 1 luoked mta ane rand Jury roume, Fatber remore from the maln court-room, Taero was 10 one In 1t, wnid we entered, Anwe did su [ looked tn the door and found there was a key In the lock: and. unobserved by litm, T turnedt e kes and pat it i my pockot. M, Finckney avomed to bo walting with some astonish- ment, | udvanced toward him and said: ** Mr. nekney, you grossly Insuticd tne tafs morninz in 1he court-roons, ud TOT (or e tlret time elthor, In defervnce to your position, and te pect In which I hald the Court. 1 did not 0 s ( was tempted to do un the sout,™ e oegun ta pae- Vi v, ley. 1 continued: ** You knetv you did doa’tadd them, Mr, Wirt sald this Hetle iueldent toucned | sizus of s deeper caruestness and trier devo- | agu. in the highest learning of the day, but woich | gro tralned in divinity, Coptle, Arable, und | young bird out of tue nest, und held it atarm's 8 A t dor t: yon ¢ il as much as anythine that ever ocenrred to | ton, of o otk tharaaeh peuctration and gceu- —— naw liited ita teaching to the Arablelavicunge, | phurhi-chanting, The hundred uf moro wlels in {unmn fromn the tree, that 1 might seethecatlow fi'x'fi"x'.'.‘i o ;:: ;:Tul«]\ f&n‘t;:u:ly_f l}, Jai Kigw Yo M. He sald to ‘Mr, Webster: *This has re- patlon of this ago by the spirit of Christ, than vealed tome atraitof character I did not sup- NORTHERN ITALY. culligrapliy, clementary arithinetic, and geogra- ““Ivzwm thno hus known." NORTI-ITALIAN FOLK, Rkercurs or To phy. the two Coptic schools are taught Arable and iy, iy Lire, Iy Mrs. CoMyns Cann. Very lttle was done to revive cducation fromn thing, which was abonit ns bliz ns o tut «qund, 1 ueediework s uud the 34 pupals fu the pritnary deltherates 1t was vurbosely done; aud i you den, paw 1t,—yes, aud § suw more than { fooked for. Sroes % it, you state an untrath. A went o, L X pose you poseessed. 1 thought you cold; in the arqument of Prof. Hedoe that the AND Col sehaols learn Aruble, Coptic, writing, und ¢f- | The downy 1ittle beas: vomited upon ne the | anyhiere o ray to yois onee for all, that yo lanst see n{-h(hl knows where to thul fi\v‘:‘.r]u‘l‘xénlx‘-l;l.% " doctrltie of ntonament, oF at-one-ment, hebween | Iflustrated by RAsoLRIC CALuecors, London? | the Jow rtata Into which It nd fallen, until Mes | gipentury writhmetle, i ! topmost layer of bis nlsht's feeding, P‘.\nd even | osk my pardon, Biid 2o into Cuuct lo-moreaw morn- Mr. Webater was most tenderly attached to | God and the world, will not be completoly | Coatto & Windus, hemet Alf selzed the relps of governmont., and |~ Thg Jows, of whum there are 20,000 In Egy, 10y philosupliy solid e, for, concluding that the | ing and repeat the apoluzy, or elee either you or [ his famlly, and the wifo of his youth waa ever the espevial abfect of hig dovotion, 4 He saw her fleat,” says Mr. larvey, **when ho wasn youug lawyer at Lortsniouth, sud slto was Mlss race Fletchier, <AL one of ‘his visits, b had, prolinbly with a view of utility and enjuyincent, been holding akeins of silk thiead for ber, when ruddenly ho stopped, saylug, ¢ Grace, we have been engaged in untying knots; let us see if wo can tie n knot whivh will uot untie for a life- tine.' 1l¢ then took a piceo of tane, am, efter beginnlug a knotof o pecullar kind, gave it to ber to complete, ‘Fhis was the ceremony and ratbileation of their engagement. And in the little box marked b}' lm with the worda + Preclous Docunieuts, contalning the lettees of his carly courtship, this unlque memorial was- fonnd—the kuot never untled.” The admlration accorded Mr. Wphster's greate et oratorieal efforts was enbaneed by thefr Reemiug spontanconsuess, but thls mistako ree Farding thetr reatly slow orle tio alwaya took H8 L0 (orrecl Whenuver therd was ol oppor- tunity, His celebrated speech In answer to yealized nnttl the sacred and the profane, the tomnporal and the spiritual, business and reliz- fun, have censed to bo distinet, and have be- como mutually interoenetrated and unifled, fle even zoes 80 (ar as to suggust, what {s truly a captivatiug fdea, that thore iy cease to bo a contradiction between mortallty aud yinmortall- ty. 1t moy be,” hourges with cluquence, “‘that the” haman bodv, without the Intervention of death, will ane day be- cotne 80 ctherealized as to bo Impervious to deathe—will becomo denth-proof: ‘that, in this way, mortal will put on immortality, How- ever this may be, I am persuaded that dying 1s not mifcration; that this carth js man's future and eternal abode; and that, In the course ol J:uman developuent, tho tims will come when death shall no longer oceupy the place It now does In the human cconomy; but, if In any aensa 1t contluues to bo, will o practieally, o3 an_ enety, put under, In the final s “cons suminate stoncment, this last antzonisn of wortal and immostat, encth sud teaves, witl be atoned. “Chere will be no talk then of going to Ouo of the moat delighitful books of this sca- bwn!n o }ntlr‘mlngy :l:‘f;ll'lllll \I%A:“ leu;im:xo .;uuulrlh s0n 1 the above-named collection of sketehies of | fHents of tho National Aduintstratiou, He ¢ firat felt the need of cumpeient ofifeers Lo vom- sceties and peonl In Northern Haly, 1t comes | Liek L 0R iGe, and, wwaro tha natiye schools to us holding distilled fn its pages the suniight | could alone be relicd upon efliclently to rml,.m, and color of the land fn which it - was written. :hmfl lllJIr Ih;:lr ;l.ullli'lylh’fl fou‘ud;:dfi hl’ll 20, nl: It I8 not a book of travel or dry description, but | ipstitutlon for the tralulnk of stall-otilcers, o nserles of gravhie word-picturcs, palntod by | 0 head of which was placetls younz Burk, ot who hiaa dwelt f the country which sho d® | gulgols were soun after established for the lincates. It §s uot often that wo get such Brcnnmtlull of young men for the differcnt rYimpses futo the fnterior of tho homces of a for- mrllchcl u‘l |||ll‘l,L{l:y"llclrvlw. r;ndhii!;ch‘crnpnn;l eln peaple, and sco thelr fnmates clad fn rustic | Prolessurs to cunduct them were chiody imports jzurb, and bear thelr homely speeeh, ns' we_are cd from France. “flllo 1:Im wnn[ul ‘khumel ableto do from the reproductions in theso | Al losted, these schools—ayu Alr. McCours, bazes, Ona rlses rotroshed from tho porusal of | Wnon whoss sdinirable work, entitled © Baypt the volunic, s trom tho Inspiratlon of 3 breczo | 88 It Teb e aiuly dupend far Information on blowing dire:t from some nuok on theNorthern | this subject—cducatod by, 000 pupils; but, Moditerraneni, ‘The oucrous wish i born, as | With the refuction of tho Sgyptian anny, their we c{mu lta leaven, that uyer, 'Iw'dy )lnla‘hl. o 1(“, l‘;_r‘arnuv;i{li: ,W:-)l‘llc;‘:hnnfl. under Abbus Pashia, they a holiday-book which tels of o land where holl- Lt Huly closc days are pativo and to 1 munuee born, una | - Baid Pashia, tho succostor of Abbas, pursuing whiose Miiaitants live so near to theasts 'that | 8 more cnlightencd paiey, reopenied suyeral of tliey seem to Bave caurhil sonie of his geucrous | the militury sennarics, aind also aided by gen- will foont of thix room 10 o diferent cundition from tha. in which we entered 18, 1 wadnover riore In earoeat, He looked at me aud saw that my eyes were pretty dark and fem. Mo besan tsay eomething, 1 Wtersuptea diok, **No cxplan tions.” eaid I, **adunt the fact, and take §t back. I du flot want anotier word from you, exceptt near uo explangtiona; notataz but that adudt 1t and recall i He'teembied like un aane fuaf, Heseain uttempted to explaim. said” 13 “+Tiioru e 1o vther course. 1 fuve the key in my pocket, aud Yol nuet apolosze, of take what @ Elve sun, " At hat he humoled down, amd rald to 1 uare right, I am sorry: Ild inwend 19 binft you, b reuret 1, aod oK yoar pardun™ ot 1 uromptly replle Ise before 1 open the dovrs and ¢ 105 MOFF(W MOFNINE Atut I tho Conrt Shut you tn ¢ rald thiugs which have wounded my fes et it Pinekoey replicd plocked the dour, and passed out. Thu next moruing, wher the Court met, Mr, Pinckney at onco ruxo aud stated to the Court that a very i pteasnnt atale had occurred Ly aornt el as might have been obscevert by whele hia triend, Mr. Webater, bad felt gri t, support a free school at Cairo, which in le.ub‘:ul G0 puptls, one-half of whom were girls. Alie other free selivo) at Alexundria was attended by 127 hoys nod 145 girls, A sceomd boys’ achool {u tho sumo clty numbered 55 vuplls. ” The cur- reulum_mn theso schiools embraces Hebrew, Arabie, French, Itallan, writng, and arithmetle, Tha Greeks of Ezypt, composings body of about 20,000, supvort two frev schiouls at Culro, —une instructing 140 boys, and the other 120 girls, In Alexandria, thieir two free schuols cducato 430 boys aud 222 girls, The Armenians, of whom theré are about 10,000 )i the country, malntain only ony free seminury of thirty voys, but thefr children frecly attend the native and foreigu schools. ‘The Cathotlcs were the first to occupy the mise sypt, establishing them- telvea ot Calro 10184, Most of their seboo ore free, and {o thess over $000 pupils of every rave and sect recelvo # thorough secular tram- fog. The Amerieun Board of Miseions opened fts first schoul at Cafro fn 1355 1t now has mseafed wus done, I stoud my ground, but the miscnicl was ouly begun; 0., after an extraor. dinary pause, layer number e, it o more e vaneed stage of digestion, descend which fu u burried inan declined to receive, After another pause, tho tilrd and last instaliment folluwed. We now called 1o thy youns man to anhu unmanuerdy Littls thingbaek {n the nest, ¢ Lud thrown up the romains of six fishes.” ‘Thy nihit-bieruns ure nocturual Hshers, start- Ing oug shortly atter twilizht for the nearvst ponds aud stréams where thelr proyfs to be hud. Being voracious birdh, it 13 an rduous tusk to pupply themselves und their young with oo, As seen from the abuve fnchient, they have o habit of olsgorging the contents of tuelr crop :‘vhrun molested und obliged 1o scok a means ot efeuse. Z fonarg-tleld in M1 CODK'S HOLOGY, Mr, Joseph Cool's treatise on * Biology " {s sharply criticisea In the Naturalfst, Alicr de- scribme the rapid and casy way in which on 4 Hioplast Beacn " thie autlyr apparently gaine [ 3 g of sclence, the entle re. twenty-cizht schoots in actlve operation, with | ed s thing which had dmr]n‘d from l)r H tien,” Hayno was penceally supposed to baye | Jleaven. as in the Gospel there Isno sucliword. | fires to irradiate their lives, crous henefnet! thoe foreizn schools at Culro | gy pupregato of 1,244 pupils, In 1803 | marks: *1 ay be un excellent way to get | zeal fur s client inizht bave led him (h vay some teen dcll{urckl \\'lll\uur.prui‘mm'z'u'm. u‘m fi&;:x Wo da not go to Ueaven, but Heaven comes to i petn i & and Alexandriazs bug ho madenveffort toeles | g “British Misslon Svhool” was | upn course of acusatiownl lectures fur an au- &I-m which rm: -hl::;n:ll:‘l( ;nl:'l:.n_\.\l:s":::' nm}_l{l‘::: remarked, b alluglon 1o it, *that no man who | us. hey whose tuner ove 18 opencd ses MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS vate the character of the primary schools in the us shice | afence ol clerzymun and ot B0 wish 1o be | LW ui . that day, while at the Bur thers was no tian, ' ratd Mr. Wetster, ‘‘who treated me with o much respect and defercncs as Mr Wilitam Pinck- Bey." founded at Caro, and U been conducted by Mlss W |II(CI{‘ the diughter of Archblshiop Wlmh:l{. of Dublin, who has devoted tob only her time, but ner fortune, to the rurtherance of its interests, It las 160 male and 153 female puptls, whe are gratuttously taught Arable, Englist, Freuch, guocrauby, history, writiog: usud the girls, Fevdbwork fn uddition. - The Kbedive bias mado liberal dovations to this, as alsv to the schools of the Amerlean Board, Two Scotel mission schools i Alexandrin, which are free to the yoar, furnis lustruction to nearly 100 boys aud the same number of girls, “Tu complete the llst of native and forcien Feyptian schools, Mr. McCoau mentions two '~'1“rcc. Uratuitous, and Universal Schoole," founded mncuuvu]y in Alexandria in 1503, and InUairo in 1873, by Frinco Mehemet Tewilk, the heir-upparent, Abovo 700 pupils enjoy the ad- yuutaies aiforded by theso schools, in whichthe Was not qusplred could make u good specel Fithaut preparation; that §€ there wers uby of that rort ot veople e bad never mer them,'t The manner tn whivh ho came to be so wondor- tuile provided with arewments to meet Gon, Hayne wos thus explatued by Wtmselfs % The eeparation of my reply to Hnyny was made Upon the ocension of 3lr, Foote's resolution to eell the nublic lands, ~ Boms yenrs bofore that Mr. Mehinley, d Senator from Alabuma, Intro- feed mreaolition nto tho Seuate, proposing ta cede the public dumaina to tho Btates {n which ‘they wero situated, it struck me, at that time, as Dbelug so unfalr und Smproper that 1 fnnediately brepared an pginnent to resist ft, Aly areu- tnenc@mbraced the whole history of the public Dids, and_tho (overnment’s action fu regurd to them, Then, thero was anothor question fn- Yolved i the Hayne debate. 1t wis ns 10 tho Jleaver,, and they who soo it, are in it, aud the air to thew {8 thick with angels, lika the back- ground of Itaphnel’a *Muther in {lory.? Fanelful as {5 this pletarant o possiblocons dition {n the future, it comumnds reapect from the reader who hus foltowed Prof. Hedge in his aeiso and vigorons exercise of reasun unon the diflieult propositions consldered I his voliune., 2 _ & % towns and villages, whoso miserubly substitute WINDEALLS, Uiy Tuoxas (1, Avoiero, Author | for education was ull that was aifunled the great o oA Bhoat ol babers | e ritons Hoberts | Loy of bis Mohummiedun subjccts. i aRgs YR L UMy \\'Il.t;l)‘hlumnll Lastia, tho present Khedlso, B 2 % ascended tho throne, In e found himsell Tha pajicra Lfl!hl‘fl.ll fnto thls volume are of o ut the head of 8 ll-\ll‘llll nhl’l(l'&l destitute of edu- misccllancous ‘character, fnctuding essayé, [ cutfonal facllities, Ho imuedsately addressed sketehes of travel, and fletlop. They betray In | himscll to the tremendous task of reversiug this thelr structure the workmanship of a cultivatud, | deplorablo state of Lhinzs; sud, l" tl:u lnslulll. of thouhtful, dental writer, A Plea for Phre- | I ctuuavges s cacourating shauid has bee noloiey ™ 18 tho wost attructive title In the tablo | 44" roorzanized s and, with *the exception of of contents, Thero are so Iew nowadays to savy ! o a falr word for a creod or o theory discredited [ B “‘,}:;::ucflg’l""l“::::‘a‘;& b ‘\'{é’bfl_‘;s"_"fl‘:fi by Selunce, that it 18 gratifying to read Mro | yjifoedie oflicor in tho' Eeyptian army, nor is Appleton’s quict testhmony Irom his own ex- | go & = e Lo s s oo 1 s ayatey | S50, Corporat provioted rom ths vk it ur Gentuldiy, oA i‘,}’;"{,‘,}g}figfi‘{‘.’,fi:fi"f{’;;‘,_ ¥irst mmomg the educational institutfons sup- ed wholly or in part by the Eeyptiay Gov- Jom of the Commonplace,” “*Amerlcau (ioad- | PO ‘.\’r:u;nrv," and “Ourn Contemporarles,” uro fif'"""""m"'““"“wm‘t ol amuned after thelr Sanduy oty but, until we huve sume evidence thut the uuthor personally made the acquuintanee of the weeds, stals, atd other creatures living ubout this romantic Bio- plast Beach, and spent o number of yuears studylng tueir structure, development, ™ und classitication, we fear that the ook must by sct duwn as & burlesqus on biology, The title, even, Is misleading, The boux should wiory |lm|1crl<' by dubbed Romunce of Natural Theol- ozy, No nuturatist will want 10 waste tine over [ty and the lay us well ns the clerical reader shonld look with no iittle suspieiun upou the distorted scicnce and sensuttodal statcments scattered turuuih its pages, AN BXTIEAONDINANY CULE. Mr. lurvey gives on lnu-u--)llug'\ account of the cireumstances uuder which Mr. webstee mrehased his Murshtield property, Caot. Tnomas, who owned 1, waa to have a houe in Bty house during bis life, The following story 13 tolf BITAKSPEARE, SYBTEM OF SIAKSBPEARL'S DRAMAS. Dy Dexton J, Sripgn. St Louis: G, 1. dones & Co. 'Two Volumes, 8vo., pp. 460—iH. Every special work which mcrely undertakes 1o treat of onc pars or pase of u subject is liable to be undervalued, and criticlsed as partlal or superficlal, In order to avold any inlsappre- henalon -on this score, Dr. Bnider states ex- plicitly, in the introduetion to the prescut work, The tntimacy snd friendship between Capt. Thowas and Mp. Webster wero pecullar, e Captain, though wuck 3ir. Weostur's senior, suon leatued to ook upon him with respect and wimirs- ton: be mads Mr, Webster his Magnus Avollo, and at the saue tlile culertained for him a surt of wiernal atection, Hu deferred to Mr, Webiter I all matters, vxcepting iu sume practical rules ol farming, the'nicer pumits of spurling, aud the Lavite of birds, wild-fowl snd dst—in ail whicy utturs the Captaln was Sie. \Wedeter's tnatrucior, E] = nida, collected durlog the receat English Arctic et amt practiée of petitfon. My, C b G he Polyteehule; thy Bookke atd survey- | 4 s puroly sceular, Nizht-schouls | Expedition, gives a total of dlty-seven specles. | Their ausoclation, always plea srew fnto Wnite Il Iulxu it Gt ittt on Sl chat i haasplyatsompied {0 treat spoval | 6002 ‘other themes treated by the autlor. in; the Law Tfi‘"x Lanigunyens tho Tndustrtal g m’l coutetion i bott. | OF these, shero beluni to Hymenonters, s | & ‘b'{n'c'ifnm anel Cap il e B ol Slavery. In other words, ho clalined that, phase of the Shakapearean drama. He hos . . o ho eal ) harmaceutleal the Midwliery§ | fautly, thero fs an Itallan vollego at Alexan- " + Lepldobte = 5 cbater's s i, subsceibed for the Seon- Lo metiton was 10r sowe abjeet Wil the et | owmittod all discusslon of the philolocy, history, A JUVENILE LUTTERATEUIL, B0 Fhre Droparstory Schools. ANl of thses | aatt e e o et uortans foreik scuol | Coleonter ouo; Lepldoviers, threa; Diterin | 3 " Cofuiin” tontinere’ watched with- th 8te had no ruchs to wrant, then there was no Heht of petition. If the Ecnats had no such riht, then the petitioners had no right to come there, Calhoup’s doctring scemed to be ac- cevted, und I mude preparation to atawer his bruposition. It 6o hanpened that the debate Uil not take place, becuuss the mutter was Bever breesed. 1 hal iy notes tucked away tua ptzeon-loles and, when Huvno made that Altack upou e and upon New England, I was Iready posted, und ouly had to take dowva iny Uotes wid refresh my mMEmury, Inother words,* Aid Mr. Webster, Tt b had tried to make o ::n‘urh to fit my uvotes, hie could not bave bit it lter, Noman i tosplred by the oceasion; I ever waa,' At unutlier thine, belng questioned by o young ‘¥t ubuut bils specehes which " were do- ¢d upon the spur of the mument, ster opened his large eyes, With surprisc, and exclaimed; ¢ Youug man, therois Do such thing na extemporancous acqulsition The word * avquisition,” remarks Mr. Hurvoy, (i Was exceedingly well chosen, Mr, Webater oW that there was eXtempurancous speaking Every day, What he evidently futended to vons Yex was, that kuowledige could not be uwequired Miout study§ thai 1t did not come by ibapira- How or by wecldent.” Mr, Webster ouce said to h;l Iricud, #Why, yott kuew wmore gbout wy Speechies than [ do. 1 uever read them, [ onco undertook to read iny eulogy on Adams and eiergun; but 1 choked up, and could not o 0};; 1, YOu are mors familiar with thew than § Mr. Webster had the ambition that uaturally Baompanica commuanding talents, and he did E‘f‘ attempt to couceal the deep disappolutinent L sulfercd wt the fallury of the people to ace vord fmin the pasition of Chiel, Maglstrate, ¥l he conaldered o bad amply earued wg fus tted to administer, Ly & touversation eIl with Mr. {larvey, shortly aiter tho fu- Ukuration of President ‘Vuylur, (o auswer an EXpreasion of revereuce for bis pame und char- r{rr, He tupned toward me," sava bts inter- Yocuton, *nfs burniug eyes wtill sullused with cats, aud, layingg bid hand upon my arm, b talls Vlladls very stroug lasguaee A vast : ftmust be uttributed o your partiality and nann Iricudship, ~ 8till,’ ba added, 1 ai not “uuwm.-—u. would be affectution in me to deny “—ll.n I lsve a public reputation to leave to iy "llr(-}y; butit has been carned with difliculty, rceiere 1o live y lifo vver sgun, with u .»lxtiunt ¢xperiences, 1 would, under po consid- hons, utlow mysell to vater public life. Tho v ‘;rlh.- are usigrateful, o man whoserves th L st aitbiully reccives no adequate £ A 1,.“ mg own listory, those acts which Mu"‘ ¢en, belore God, ‘most distuterested Syels least atafued by elfish conslucrativus, ® beau preciscly thosy for which I Lave filteen; Hemiptern, onej Mulluphaga, seven; Collembols, threo; Aranelda, six; anmd of Acarlo, eix. These were taken from localitics between 78 deig. and 83 deg. No Lat, aud yet swony them were thirty-five specluiens of ol ored butterilies, und two species of bhumbje- e "Plie searcity ot beetles,—only one spus belug found,—~In tomparison with the abul danco of butlertiles, i3 a striking feature of the colleetion, 'The author of tie revort Is inctived to the vpinlon that the species vbtalned repre- aent a local faung, and that both bectles and buttertics ura but Ungering rewiuants of & once ustensive circumpolar fuuua, STORIES AND BRETCHES. ué Cranzxcs 1% | except ouo Preparatory Schoo), at Aluxandria, Duzssgn, Litchileld, Mich.: K, 1. Dresser. | pren Calro, Tho histruction glven In thy Yupor, I'rice, So. Preparatury Schoolsoxtonds thruugh a eourse uf An cxample of commendable cnterprise 8 | four years, and Includes rudimentary mathes afforded *In the publication of this tiny pam- | matlcs, geography, bistory, druwivg, Arable, phlct. 1ts author, a lad of 13 years, has not only | sud hum‘mnn cubligrapby, dnd the Arable, Turk- 4 fab, Laigiiuh, Frotdh, of Germun fawgisa originutad thie cuntents of thy work, but has | i T SRy S attendunco of ver witti his own hunds put them mtgprint. Al- Y . tionih the warld 18 "ot in eapecial uced ot | %0 puplle, Tho two lu Culry Liuvoach 8 stail literutura o this sort, its manufacturs scrves | 21 UIERVET HESC MAERER BRI B0 o) the excellent purpose of keeplug o youth lnno- | S0l wad the BAPERY e e T s contly engaged In'lowsurs hours. ~Such employ- | 55000 l!:wh “m’, oo B S e d mient has fts uscs, oo, for It stimulutea n. | BALVOTUReRuEs Wut OUG, CUTORSSS TR oy duetry, usplratton,” and uther worthy activities el R e ety M of the human patie, amd proviles s wholesume | pass to thohizhor institations, bt bl toeeltly form of mental discipline, Master Dresscr fo a | pave boou aliowed Lo choose HERRen tnc, contributor to *auasteur joursals,” awd; it ho | Shersors, she school defnitels il theim for Temalns tiue to bla varly Labit of work, will jn [ it ‘Those woo cater tho Polytechinic undertake the future, no doubt, Tend sifuctiva aid to Lho - :; """l‘n‘;‘l‘,n‘fifir‘é’h‘l{fn:“\“";"‘.l‘:tf":)“1.‘)’,"‘{‘:""&,' progress of mankiug. iy, mechianics,” Arable,” Engleh o Fronudy 2 g eography, history, and drawloe. The eulty THE INTERNATIONAL nuview, | ETii el eon, wid the oatruc ‘The Japuary-February ummber of the Juter | tion eiveh is of o high order. The pupils {a this natlonal Kevlew preseuts the best Mst of articles fiboul. 1n 1878, Ifi"" ‘:‘mlll ux;lv‘%firlfiulul:‘r‘\::. ‘”f\lfil ent Amerlea hu satio year, the puplls in oKLY sail of twelve professurs. cu Fieutn wbotter, 31r. David A, Wells ana Prof. Sum- | DG tucludes account-hoeping, L sEveyiug, nior furuish articles on veonomic questious; D, | Arable, French or English, writlug, und drawing, Curclus, of Berllo, tho biatoriun of G Thirty-five students were in the Law and ‘urtius, of Berlln, o orlan of Ureece, -live ki i contribiites ono on recent excavations at Olyut- | Lanjuaices School in 16707 aud their curo of pia; and Edward A. Frecman, of Oxford, wrltes | poqy and eompurative European luw, history, an fustructive articlo on Lis Urst lupressious of | tne Arabie, Turkish, Persian, Frenct and Itullan Athicus. Prof. Von HoltzendordT, lanzusges, and Arable und Romun writing, enligutens us on the vatire of the Thelr fuculty comprioes ¢leden protessord, The tutiun of the Gennan Einplre, aud the p Sledical School, fuunded I 1337 h{' Mchemet wade fn coduying the civil und erlminal law, All, at Kasr-ol-Alo, wiss attended 1 1370 by 195 a subject of great interest, wod hittle uud upile, tuught by & statl ol clchiteen professors. stosd even In Geninany, exvept smon luwyers | 1la courss extenda over five years, the st who Luve been spuiatly coucersed fn tho [ two of which are occupied in carry- work, Otler articies of dovided ' ntercst | g forward the stydi and werjs are on the Count of the Elect- | Preparutory 8chools, d “the Jast thres oral Vute, by Alexauder H. Steohens, aud on | exclusively wish medicul studles. The Mohaw- Modern Love, by Dr. Samuel Osgoud. Maj | medan projudics wpaipat disecction su longer Den Perley Yoore’s article on » Bumuer's Plucs | prevaals, und well-tralned aud atalled physicians in thstory " Lasa wrong tithe. Thoarucle v | aunuadly coneludo their connection with - this pleasaut aketed, founded upon Plerve's blogru- | fustitation. A large aml well-insiaged hog. Dphy of Swwner; but It does not attempt ta de~ glmu Ia mttached to the school. The Belioot of tiny Bumuer's plues o istory, aud scarcely al- Idwiiery, slso attuched to it, supports a class Judes toat. ‘Tha reviews of cuntemporary fiter- | of thirty Rative wowen, Who are laught read. ature—Ameri.an, Euglish, Uennun, sud ltalian | oz, writing, arithmetic, the eloments of medi- ~—arc concise aud wellcousidered. The vumber | cal sefence, and obutet ‘At the conclusion of begius with a souuct by Whittler ou the Deatls | a threc-years® course, the studenia recetve cor- ot ‘Thiers, - titlcates, aud are scut t0 Lhe provinees, where ‘Fho Julernationad 18 vow in its 8th year, and | they wonunlster their profussion smong thoe has wou for ftacll @ Wrst-rate position in cou- | Aohawwedun population. 2 tuwporary perfodieal Wepature, 1t has sebieved ‘Tho Industrial Schovl, eatablished ot Boulak, fis alw of combluing in ons bublication emie | the river-port of Calruy 1 1807, bad In W0 a neut writers of the five countries most distin- | cliss of forty-four puplls snd u stall of uiue flaiuhcdlurlclmlnunlpmdll crury culture,~tho | tvachers. Its course lasts tive years, and ¢m- nited States, Euglaud, Yrauce, Gertwany, sud | braces wathomatics, chemistry, draalus, tupog- and purely Ilterury clements of Bhakspeare's ploys, and confined himself to a stuily of the system on or aceordiug to whicn Shakspeare probably worked. To borrow hls ‘words, his aim has been * to show each drama as a whole, in lis thousht, orgunization, and charace ters; then to proup cognate dramas into a higher whole by thelr common fundamental priucipleg at last, to behold all the dramas of the pout s & wholo,—In o, to sum up Biaks speare,” Buch o plan, it successful, will untold thy system of tho Shokepearcan drama. lut, white hie devotes himself to this apecial subjoct, Dr, Balder acdinits, what many special eritivs of Bhakspeare ton frequently deny thele advers aurles, that his svatem, und €ha discussion of that part of the subje.t he has chosen, must not ba overvalued. It formns one part of the study of the poet, and a necessary gnn, but it should not ba allowed to supersedo the studyof Bhak- sjeare as o poct. Auother objection which 1s ‘sometimes urged azainst such au cxamluation of tho plays,— that Shakspeare did not um-uluunlz Uss wny definfte system, or, ot Jeust, that thero i no eyldence” that ho did,—ls dellly parrled, Woether ho did or not, 8 systen) can discoverst; snd b {8 the Mgreat apiritugl Vocation of our aze to discuver Nuture's law. Gentus n and, as Carlyle says, must, be as a wholo a sceret to ftself; but it works sccording to a plap, It can bo {mitated by pursevering tulent, and it is, therefore, un “\mfisuw study to discuver {1a methads of ae on. Having thua cleared his way, defined and murked out Lis coursw, the autbior goes on to conskicr tirst the sourte of dramatic actlun— & conflict of ethical princlples; then the strue- tural clements of & drumnm,—a thread of dramatls moyement culmiuating, fn every caso, fn sumo congllintion of the cuntémdfug ethical Brlul’lplu Io tragedy, thut reault Is aitained v the death of the bero, who represents oue of the princhy les; aug, lu comedy, the samne el Is reaehed by some more buppy mediation, ‘The authoe vides the Jdrutmas Hrst fute legendary aud historleal; then subdi- vides tlhem finto tragedy snd comedy, or mediated drama; sud ooce again futo real and ideul tragedy, and rel and (oat comedy. The wreater part of tha two voluwies is, of course, devoted o 8 consbieration of fndividuad plays und to showing low the principles lald down {i the system sscribed to Bhakspeary are developed iuthew. With sy fafr-minded wo autbor, oue 0 “u;l m his esthnation of the relative value of bls work, the resder can safoly aud couil- deatly walk. Tho present short abstract of the plau of the work Is sulliclent {o give a notlon of the generul outlive, and, U is to by Loped, wiil in Ezypt. ‘Tte majurity of its pupils are Jows, and about twenty are Mohamumedans, Tue population of Euypt, as has been stated, 5,500,000, and fn all 1ts schools the re turna of 1810 give an attendance of 340,077 The standand of cducation in Egypt high, ns has beon shown in the nbove statistlcs, and yet It ls pectable 8% cutie ared with Europe, To quote from Mr, Me '(‘,‘onn, wWhile Pruesia and switzerland register 15, France 18, England 12, Austria 9, Ircland sl Ureeco B, Portugal 23¢, and Russia 2 per cent o their populations ss revelving Lrimary justruc- tion, Egypt shows 23¢ per cont of lier motley mililons” ss under recutar school-teaching ol some kiud; ory fu fact, wors than 4 per ceintof her ‘wholo male populatiun, sceing how few of ber “""3‘,“’""“ puplls us yet belong to tbe other X most iteses intereat Mr. Webater's courso th tie Senato as reported i that jourpal, fo 1820-30 tho good Captain read Jayne's et wpeech. Is ol In confldenco for 8 trumphant reply. M canie and hu was cntirely satlsi “Thy {aithful Teatiact, howeyer, saon braught kim ayue's sec- oud speceh, 1o read it whth exireie sud patuful sutervat, (L exclted ju hio the greatest apprebicn- sions fur the jdol of hls vld oy, He w whchned with geicf. (s horo, hle zreat belaved, almont worahiped, Trend o in debato by his Sourbern' ubtagont ald gentleman's pride was Lumble desparr,—his heart almost broket, ¢ the bapers, bo rose and retired slowly (o bis dirveting sotie one to come and take lils boutsdway, aebeshould never want thom uzaln. His tawtly tred fu vuib to cousole bl Afe Tefascd to bu cous Lake one of old ho was ready (o exclann : have (ken away my Gods, und what have [ morey” For threo daya he kept uis bed, moaritug over the fall of his triend, aud refuslug all coniola- ton, 1his eldest son tried to persuade bim that Alr, Websicr was able (o defend the cagke of New England, snd would yub bave bis trumph. jhs ouly repl) 1tcou't Lo wuewered, Houry, It cuu’s be answored. 't A DEEP ARTESIAN WELL. The arteslan woll ut T'arls, which descends 1,704 teet, bas hltherto been the deepeat fu the world; but one now in orocess of excavation at Peath has already attained a depth of 8,120 fuct, aud, whea completed, will have twico the depth of that ut Paris. The bortng progresaes st the rate ol tifty fect per month, and fs carrled on partsy at the expense of ths city, and partly at tho wepense of the cogineers, Messrs, Z mondy. Fhie well now scads Jorth 175,000 lous of water daily, which bas u temperature of 101 duiz, Fabresbeit, Iv 88 teuded to pursue the work until the temperature of the water reaches 173 deg. ‘This vast fountaln, risiue to the helebt of uxt{ fect above the surface, will supply Pecth with an unifmited amouut uf ot water, sysitabls for public and privste use, o odooski BRILF NOTES, The caso of a robin bullding its nest on the ground §s cited in the Naturaiist, 1t was noted near Viveland, N. J., fu May, 1875, It is sald that, by pleking off & part:of the Truit-buds from spple-trees o bekriog years, they will yleld & harvest the followlug season. Prof, Simou Newvomb, of Washington, bas been elected one of the Foreten Members of the Royal Society st London. The liouor was secorded Bl fa considerution o his fmportant coutributiuus to wathewatical scicuce. The Soviety bas ity Forelgn Meombers ou its list, but Prof. Asa Gray bas hitherto been the ouly Auwerlean amoug them. ‘The Museuw and Schodl of Iudustrial Art ot Phitadelphia tus recurcd o collection of relica srom thee lasustriue villages of Switzerland They uro derived trom dliferent Jocalitics fu the faie-region, from the vitlage of Kubeubausen, pear Lake Plutiloly, in the Canton 8L Zurich, aud from the dwellings of adatee perlod w Laky Noutehatel. Phe voflection abraves ¢aarrel e SPARKS OF SCIENCE. HYDROIIIOBIA. Au Interestivg and oxtended essay on that moat terrible of dlscases, bydrophiobla, Is pub- 1ishod in the columns of Nalure. The suthor stutes that tho malady uever occurs spontanc- ously fu man, belug fuvarisbly communicated 1o hitu by tho bite of souic animal affected with 1t,—commouly the dog, occasionally the cat, and rarely the fox, and the woll, e considers that it way reasonably be asautucd that it never occurs spontancously {n auy anlwal, but fs always due, us with other dlscases of tho zymotic clags, tu the faoculation of. polion from a dis- eased {uto a healthy onzanism. After the bite couveylug the fearful volsou has been fnflicted, there lutesvenes u period of latency, or, as it is techpically tenmed, of **fn- cuvation,” befors the developmeut of any sympows of tho fatsl mulady, In the dog the diseaso bocomes inanifest botween the twens tleth aud fiftieth day after the noculation of the powon, Tho Lile of u rabid auuwal docs not, Buwever, always communicate th discase. ‘Tuus, out of 188 dows inoculated with the virus et saliva of rabld dogs, unly sixty-thies fell victhus. In some of theso fustances jho salive was probably inactive; fu others, 167 did pot reach the wound, buing retained by the har and cuticle; and, fu otbers, it is probable tkat tbe vondition of the Lealtby unlwal was such a8 to restat oF peutralize the activn of the poison. Oue casu s meutloned o which & pointer-dog was subjocted seventeen separato thnes to the bito of rsuld dogs, xnd cecaped fnoculation with the discase. v wan tho period of $ncubation varies frum Weekly Centlnel came again in duo Thu fanily wero gather- appreheusion. Fhe old st fiahinud, —they vven 9 n 3Ll kept hls byd, and appeared to huve deterntined to liold to bis vow and never (o riao from i, ATl their eiforts t rousy bl bad shua far proved foclectual, 0o wpenin tho paper 1t wav found to cantam Mr, Webster! wecond feply to Col. Hayne, ‘Flu faudly resolves atunce thut leary sbould ssenme the task of carry 101 I tu bl futherand try the ellect of tuks mediciin 10" mintater 16 & sund discascd. " Heury sutcres tha Futlec's ruom with thy paperaod a candle. The old gn Rroaued 80a asked whit he wanted. ileury rephed: v Faiher, 1 have brought you tde Centine t yoii might like toluok at it " No, Henry, 1 don't want to seu 8. ru cunltmlnln secoadepuech of Mr, Webater In ronly to Col. Hayne. (et i the 0ld geatleawn, **1tisof uo ;ln: 1kcan’t bu apswered; 1 on't waut to woit.” Heury lingered, sud scemed greatly distrcased at bifs fathee's refusal, At lust Cupt. Thowids con- sented to have e papur aud coudie lett, und :aid that perbaps bo would look at 1. Eleury weutduwn wiatrs gud ceported thie apparcutly unsicceastul re- waltof his wissious und he Jittle IIIDXI{ drew Cloeely asound thels winter tire mars elooully thay befo sonie twe had thus elapapd, when they werw all suaduly siarticd by a treutendous slut from tacir fatber's fuom. They ait tusbied up- wtaire toether 1o aco whit bappened. The Cap- talu was aligug v the euu of the bod. With the paper It ong band avd tae candle io the other, \s Heury entered tno Captaln roared out: vyt e my boots, loury! briog me my o3 Cupt. Thomas' recovery Was s0 conplute thst o pever aguin sullencd o rilbuas ol Gt Wcklal Guils plalae o