Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 26, 1878, Page 9

(e 3 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 187€—TWELVEE PAGES, 9 with the Ameriean Misslon School at Calro. e years ago, writes the Doctor, An Indian Prinee, then diving In England. wae on hi« way o Indla, with the body of hiv mother, who had died far trom her country, but, with the rejudtcen of n 1indoo rtron.g in death, wished hor hoily o be taken Tuck to the Tand of her hirth, Whila passing through Calro, he pnid a vieit to the American Mirsjon, and wan rieick with the face of a young pupit in the pirls’ echiool, and, nfter dun Inquiry, proposed to the misstonarles to take her n9 his wife, They pave their conrent, and, on his rotnen, they wers married, and he tuok her with him to Enziand. This wasthe Maharajah Dhnlee Sing, a son of old Runjeet Sing. the Lion of La- hore, who ralned up 8 race of warrlors, that afier hin death fonght England, and whose countey, the Punfnub, the English annexed to their Indian domintone, and here, as In other cases, removed A pretender to tho thrana, Thus the Maharnjah camo tnto the poxsession of a largy teveuus from tha Bntish tiovernment, amonuting, | am told, to rome £40, 000 a year. EHaving been from his chitd- houd nnder English pupliage, he has been ln‘(mfhl ap s a Chrlstian, and tinda it to his tasts to d In England, where he laablo ta livo In rplem! and {g a great favorite at Court, §lin chotce of & wife proved n most happy one, an fhe miodest rlnm{ynml of Calro introduced into hils English lome, with the natural grace of her race, for sho partly uf Arab descent, the eniturg and refine. ment Iéarned in a Misslon 8chool, or does ho forget what he awer to the carc of thoso who watched over her fn her childhoud, hut eends £1,000 every year to the school, 1n geateful ac- knowledgment of the beat possible gt it could wmake o him, —that of o noble Christian wife. all the cd, cither 088 stu- the exhibitors at the ¥alon. Four yearslater | examiners, and greatly esceeled he crented n jereat sensation by bis picture of | Profoesor had ever wit #The Faneral at Ornans,”—n work_which, ac- | Jent or Profesevr. cording to Mr, Rossettt, displayed a forcille. = SPARKY OF SCIENCE, altost. bratal, reallsm, and wis pathetle, 14 commaon 1l 18 pathetic, by (ts very starkness IRILTABILITY OF STIGMA, Tt ina been known to lotanists that, In certain and unemotional crudity. From this thme on, Courbet’s nictures were characterizod by a strik- #prcles of the Scrophttlariaces, the stigma vos- scasen some degree of Irritability, Mr. Charles ing boldness, or audacity of treatment, with which was often mingled a sincere sentiment. Thelr chief defect wwas 8 Iack of beauty atd re- Dreewin has pubtished in Nature & letter from s sclentlfic opserver fn Auckland, who has noted a remnarkable capacity for movement in the stig- fnement, P Courbet jotned the Communists i 1871, and, maof aplant beloneing to this famity, 1 have tecently been much intersted {atatea the r Iiin assietanee fn the overdirow of the Col- mn of the Plnce Vendome, was tried by court- martlal, condemned to six months' finprison- ment, 8 fing of 500 francs, and the costs of res storlug the monument. Heing unabie to tncet | Writer] with the curiona jrritobility displaved by the fines mpored, b fled o Switzerland, where | the stigma of G| ma eiatinoides, one of the lie remained undisturbed. Ifis death occurred | Jerphuiariacer. Tho siyle ie diiated toward its near the cluse of the year 1877, when the flower. expan: ety Gondled nve the four stamens, cuticely conceallng them from view. If the front of the hent partof the aiyle in touched, it at unce sprinz =tamen«, and mores hack to {| Pl corolin, to which it besomes closely anpiied. In this puaition It remalnw for & fesw mfuutes, and then slowly moves back to the stamenv, snd rapves overthem sn at first, [tapjicars to e that thin irritability of the stivma is simply contrivance to Inunre crose-fertilization, foran Inecct crawling into tho fower must inevitably touch the silzma, which would then uncover the stamens. On wwith= of rertain knowledge gathered by the rescarches of reveral vears, wint 1o eketelt, e it here aml there with an uncertaln hand, the dratt of what may be at some Hme a lislog pictu After givine a atatement of the object of a his- tory of relixlon, aud of the manner fn which it “should ke written, the nuthor ocs on 1o treat suecessively of Animfsm, nnd religlon nniler the Chinese ‘Tamb and Seinites, and the Indo-ticrmans, © Ile purposcly avoids a dis. cusxion of what relfgion I8, anid mits bimeelf ta the ancient religions,—thus leaving out, the unfversal religions, ns he calls them, of Bud- dlifs, Chrstianity, and Islamisms, ‘The work nppears gomewhat superficial, but it Is dificult to criticlso it on this acure, when the author toes not clalm to have produced an exhaustive treatiec, At the head of cach cliapter, how- ever, are placed coplous lists of wurke, with thelr authurs’ names, which are pertinent to the subject of the chapter: and the stdent who desfres to pitrsue his rescarches furthier can caslly do so with these hints to gulde b, The volume forins the seventh of the scrles of the Y E£nglish and Foreign Philosophical Library." MEMORY -G MEMORY-GEMS Fuit TIE YDIL\'G'D LITERATURE. provea to bave heen b tot, and stiil, after re- shot, Ita flight was strong until it dropper] deq Another writer states that he vicked ty o grotee e had brouzht dowa 100 vards from where it bad fallen, and it was stitl ative, althoueh a considerable time had heen apent In search for it Seven No. b shot hald rtruek the bird, two passing direetly through the lungs. The Captain of the Danish vessel ' Lutter- fl=1d"* publishes the statemnent that, vn Dec. 10, 156, while on a voyage to Valparaiso, his ship encountered, about 140 mites from Magellan's Btraits, an island where none was down in the charts, It was a conleal rocky mass, too hot to admit of landing, aud slowly sank out of eight, ro that, an hour after 1ts “discovery, his rf:}el safled over the spot which it hag ocu- pled. Dr. F. M. Hildebrandt, shose fallure to reach the snow-clal mountaing of Equatorial Africa was noted 1n these columus recently, has related the circumstances of his expedition before the Herlin Geographleal Boclety. Despite the tals- fortuncs that befell his enterprise, Dr. Hilde. brandt succeeded In gathering farge and valua- ble collectinns In Anthropmlogy and Botany, as L{u;:lmrmllur the two years spent fo Central Atrica, " I'{of Eidwin R. Lewis, of tho Syrian Protestant phacked of its feather. hit with eleven No, 6 ceiving the America and Canada of quantities of beef and carcassen of mutton. The total sum paid for forclzn ptock alive and dead was, 1577, £17,313,- G in 1570 #t amounted to £10,0301455,' For ast year the sum pald was ML{,V"'”" in £31,044,043. Butter cost in 1877 _£0,533,- 305; chiecse, £4,708,050; and egze, £2,472,481, ta be compared respectively with !.0,70-’,1‘:3!, £4,251,423, and £4,610.581. ENGLAND,EGYPT AND FRANCE Why Grert Britain Daes Not Annex Egypt. From the London Times, Jan. 10, It will surprisc no one conversant with tho feelings of French public men and the French nation that their Goveroment shonld show soma rolicitude at the present time with respect ta the rumors of British designs on Egsnt. A re- ply from our own Government repudiating such designs will Lo as gratifying to the nore thought{ul part of our own peoplens ftcan beta our nelghbors. For a long time n very marked uncasineas has prevalled across the Channcl, The purchase of the shares In the Suez Canal aud the imprudent vaunts with which the trans. action was accompanicd arc well known to have caused deep though suppressed irritation In The Career of Gen. Robert E. Lee in the War of the Rebellion. From Egypt to Japan—Two Works of Fiotion—-Elements of Geology. Tho Last Years of Daniel Wehster Spiritual * Trickery-- Gustave Courbot. THE *PORTFOLIO. The fliuatrations in the current number of the Jurifulis embrace: 1, Au engraving by Flameng after the Portraitof a German Lady, which I8 belleved by soma to be a Holbein, and by others fs attributed to an unknown German vainter. It {s an interesting pleture of o digni- fled, sprightly-looking lady, dress=d in a quaint and claborate costume, sct off with any and Literary and Art N otes—Propagation of Egls---A Bird Catching In- sects on tho Wing, 1 Ast Fastinigs, By Cian Nonttexn, A M., Author of **Teachers’ Ase ristaut, " ete. New York: I Appleton & Co. Chieago: Hadley Bros. & Co. 18mu., pp. 62, LITERATURE. . dmwing, the fnsect would n«flm.‘.m tor et faei? | Collee at m;xm. lnm;;_-!n u‘uummu fil,loull France, ’l;lha u,pcn :drnct-gr lnl!hl;'wnnlry of . . —_— “This little manual fills o mast fmportant niche | €08t Jewels. Tho engraving s o specimen of | with pollen, but it would not by this effcct the fer« | fishes from stratn on Mt, Lebanon, which sur- | an occupation has strengthencd this fecling. TALES. in the young student's llbrary, ul“ ncompila- | elezant workmanship, 2. The ndmtred ctehing tilization of the Nower, fur the «tivmn wonld Le o8, In the number and fine condition of the | Some time aeo M. Waddington was in kn- then clorely applied to the upper lone of the corol. GEN. ROBERT T. LEE. I. entirely out nf ta way, If thy luscct were, ROWASCES OF THE EAST —(NOUVELLES | yion of Lrief passages in proto or verso which | entitied “Bllilngsrate,” by Mr. James MeXNefli T RO oo sy | Bland, and held language which made it ) V] QUES). From the French of Comie nr 9 I & s engraged but two weeks fn exhuming the Ay = FOUT YEAUS WITH GEX. LEE: DEINOA | dohorab ow Yorkt 0 Aupieinn. & . | aro worthy of belug_commiuted to memory, | Whistler, A fuw proofs were printed frum this | Konesess 1o Mol ATl Roter 1 et ecurel in that timo 5,611 slabs. of | BT AFERI% el Wl Be, becains Siuister SVENTS TOUCHING THE CARBER EN, Clfl:‘::t Hadley Bros. & Co. Taper. Prices | Eachione contains somo noble sentiment or noted plate bLefore it was purchased by the Turtfolio, one of which brought £8 15 at an Enghsh sule. The work I8 now in Its third state, which its suthor regards as the best. Mr. Whistler is a native of Baltimore, al- though he has reslded so long in England that he s clalmed as one of the fraternity of British artiate. 8. A facsimile, made by the hellograyure process, of tha etehing by Claude would not he parscd In eilence. Indeed. his acceptance of the just may have been not altogether unconned ed with the desiro that Ue ‘ntereets or sunce Bilitien ol hia country shonid bo respected in- iis matter. It s not surprising that such feclinis should prevail in France: no one acquainted with the relations of that country with Exypt for tha Inat twu penerations conld expeet it th be otber- wise The conuectlon of France with Ezypt has been long nnd eventfnl. Napoleon'a campalyn has enriched her history with one uf stane, W some of which were hundreds of supero spachmens, Many new nrcv:lcs have been broutat to lizht by this * find,'* as well as many perlect speciimens ol specles hitherto known only by fragments, M. Nefedoff, who has been engaged in re- searcbes In Kasimoy Distriet, under the auspiees of the Moscow Suclety of Friends of Natural Sclence, has discovered und excavated ten - teresting koorganes . (ninun ‘The onjects firet entrance, and would doubtless leave len thereon, The inovement of 1he stioma la re- markatly rapid, and iLs apex must pase through an anzle of &t leant 180 deye. [ have been auable to find a record of a mimliar case, oraf ao prononnced n degrec of lmulrllll{ in the stizina of ony piant. Tho movement of the jubes of the stigis. in Mimulus ts much weaker, and la througha wuch less anyle. EV g ¢ T B. LEE 18 Tie Wan Brrwees Tie ;‘SA‘\"EKTTDHKTIIEN WITI AN AUTHOMTATIVE STATENENT OF THE STRENGTI OF TUE AnNY e llx CowMaxpen® ix TuE FiELn. Iy * Warren 3. Tavnow. of 1ils Staff. and Late Adjutant-(ieneral of the Army of Northorn Viee s, Now York: D. Appleton & Co. Chica- ‘Hadley Dros. & Co. 8vo., pp. 109, Price, ) t:cn. W. If, Taylor occupled, during the en- lending truth expressed in sigorous and polnted languaire, and Is, therefore, tu bo treasured o8 o pleasure and a profit, among the stores of tho mind, One or more could bo eastly learned every week by a child, and the infinenca of the exerclse, both upon the memory and tho morals, would be decldedly advantageous. AN AMERICAN GIRL, AND JIER FOUR YEARS IN A BOYS' COLLEGE. DySots. Now ki & Co, Chicaga: lindley Bros. & Co. 16mo., pp. 200, Price, $1.125, Comte de Gobineay, at present the French Minister to tho Court of 8weden, has furmerly held the same position at the Court of the Shah, Hia residencu at tne East was falthfully used as PROPAGATION OF ELLS. VERS DE SOCIETE. 4 < ” 3 . ¢ 5 o which were brougght to lieht comprise eleven | those chapters which fire “tho imagination, tiro perlod of the late Civil War, the position | a means of studying the life of the yeople; and | POINT-LACE AND DIAMONDS, Poems by | Lorrain which fs known as *Le Bouvier.” o But little is known respecting the prapaga- and the © French bave . e 4 s of nl confidential staft-officer with Gen. Lee, | so earuest and penctrating was his olscrvation 5":"1,"':'!‘"'};‘,"I‘";,’f“':\sl;""'~‘.3"l'('}l“lll‘\ .:;fi:::%l;,y “The Iferdsman,” This Is the first of a serles | tion of the eels hence Land und Water pub- f,'.',',',’.':“.,’rka‘fi‘xg:'.kfg ‘ln': Tifi':‘.:-‘é,y :fmu 'rne“(:;.:::':f'. i o X Jolian Govornment: and, by renson of this circumstance, enjoyed tlic most favorable opportunitics for acquaint- ance with the militars plans and operations of the Jender of the Confederate Army of North- eriy Vircinin, and with some facts connected intimate relations with tne Eeyullan Goyornment. Their oflicers hielned to train the troups which mado Mehemet Al more than a match for Sultan Mah- moud, and French administrative skill wne eqnatly servivenple in the Government of thy Depentiency. When they acized Alpcria the sunpicion arore thal they tntended to annex In time tne whule of of all classes that the sceret springs of thelr character were reached, and lie came to know them ns one anly can who has the power of diviung the inanifold aspeets of human nature, and of understanding the motives anud llshics, ms an important contribution to our kuowledze of the subject, the following state- ment made by lMerr L. Griesinger, of Murchardt: On Saturday, of ctehinus by the great masters mentioned in Hamerton's ““*Etchers and Etchings,” which will furm a distingulshing feature of the lort- Jollo during the ensuing sear. *Le Bouvier' s constdered by many Swizes ax the finest etehing which Claude ever produced, and by rnakes, herds of animale, ete. A comparison of the shells and ornaments thus recovered with those tound 1o the Moscow and Merleh mounds, proves that these belong to a quite different beople. 'ugu: Japaen, McClurg & Co. 1Wmo., pp. 134, Mr. Daker's vers de soclete are skillful and amusing. We have all swiled over them ns they appeared, with the accompantnent of grace- Aug. 17 la rome warkmen who b S 6 ] North African coast aa A prevaration’tor the cone . ; ; W | were prepaniz tie foundation for 8 raiiwavs | v« o I AT e i with lis mansgement of the differcnt battles | expressions peculia to cach. Comte de Go- | ful Hinstrations, fu the popular magazines. Yet | Mr Jiapiertun it la placed with Mr. Haden's | priioover the Mure, ob o i NO PONT N o | guest of Leypt fteelf, aml that bellef em. e anpalzns of tho War which were not | Luieau has made his kuowledze of the Orlentals | therelsn bitter sting n thelr sarcasm, andan In- | “3hore “Mill-Poud ot tho licad ‘of ‘all tand- | water ors chamnel, » g merved anwctln et | NO STOD GENERA- | Wi’ e feations ol thin contry s water of a clinnnel, n guarter of 4 tile below the town, The men had hammers with them for mone-hreaking, and, wishing to kil the eel by a hlow on the head, one of them hit it, but only In the middle of the tonly, which was greatiy lacee- ated. Owling, liowever, 10 the totghness of the »kin, the parts Leld toscther, It was nn ordinary then, and have not since been, confided to the public. It was the Intention of Gen. Lectowrite ahistory of the campalgns of the Army of Northern Virginio, but his purposc was never aecomplished. He went ao far with it, however, seape-ciehinge. It is a Leautiul work of nrt. showing the paluter’s rare skill In composition and fn the treatinent of follace. ‘the tost striking object in the plate 18 a mnjestie tree in the centre, on whose thick-sct boughs the sun- ahine breuks in brond masses of snlendor, serva him ju the construction of n reries of tales which are really studies of races under tho gulso of romances. They are as true to the life ns are the novels of Tourgueniefl, and have the same vivid Jocal eoloring. ‘The students of the France for many years. It was etimuliated by Franca ftself _when the Prince de Jolnvili¢ #puke of the Medizerrancan a6 Franch laxe. il wne the culdmg principlo of Lord Falmerston thronzanut the perilons negotlations which led o the bombardment of Acre by the Britiah fleet und finfte pathios in their light mockery. 1f there bea bit of truth to point the satife fn these pic urea of fashionable soclety, how frighttul 18 the condition of heartlessness and proflizacy to which men and women of the gay and luxurious Prof. Tymiall's perinents Explado That Hypothesin, ‘The February number of the J'opular Science the suvmiesion of Mehemet Ali himaelf. 1t cauned Nterature of the Orlent will tuko especlal satls- | class may desecud, “The most important lterary contribution to mu»_ymuncnl, hut unu=ually stont. 1 bow L] Monthly contains a verv intercating paper by | the excluslon of France from the nitiance whiik astosollcit the mnnterinls which might be In | foion fn them, tho tumber fo an_ nstalimient of Hamerton's | 450 -ctabout ekinning 1t In iy kitchen, —an opcr- | Jror Tyndait on Spontaneous Generation, and | Setermined o coerco that great Viceroy, and alf ntion that neceesituted o strong il from head to tull, At thot part of the body that had received the blow a total sepsration took piace, and at the the possesslon of Gen, Taylor, The ofliclal re- turns and recurds of the ariny werg lost or de- stroyed, with the exception of a few which The author of the sccond story natmed above chose # fruitful themae tor treatment in takmye the experience of an Amerlean glrl ab a bogs' VED, DIOLOGY. Iy Dr. Citatiks LETOURNEAC, Teanslate:d by WitLiax Maecs With olghty- *Life of 'Fugner.” This will have a particular value for painters, as it treats of the methods whfeh Turner used in muking sketehes and bt tamde her declare wor againet the conntry. The French, In thele turn, grew cxecolingly Jealous of our growtng inflience I Egypt, disposes of that theory §n the negative so com- pletely that the disputed question mav be con- rame thine there fell vut upon the table an antmnate 9 1 beli 4 that the fo 3 " college, There e n ft solendid opportunitis | three Tinstrations. Phliadelphias J. 1. Lin- | studfea from Nature, A curiots anecdote, fi- | od bag or ball, about the size uf & walnal tidered endedl. We cupy an abstract of the | 00l velleved that the formation uf - ke were prescrved in tho archives of the War De- | VA, LK U 0L o iGN, and of tho ridhh | pincote & Co.. Chicago: Hadley Bros. & Co. | Ulcating the oxperimctiin by waich thin aftine | Which Uhero ‘escaped o aumier of aciive sount | paper, which gives all the polnts of bis cxperic | o That bies wis sreonsthonicd. by e sisoien wartutent of Washington, Priviteges were | ang ability of women to underzo the highe: 200, ANO. rone ” eels, In clrcumference they were of the dimen- cnts? " : O o e S thomulos nud abili y of womeo | . tinderto tin ufin‘!‘fi i I RIDE on. Farmit axp Fumee | 98 Wont to obtaln new conceptions fn colorlug, | S I Glreametonce, taey iere Of the dimeti” | meuts: of convenlent conling_ stations 1y our tereliory. rc " yior by ot e 9 3 3 X : 3 - .\ 2 Is repeated by Mr. Hamerton, who vouch?s tor ite nuthenticity, It oceurred while ‘Turner was staylne at a friend’s house at Knockholt, where there were three children: 11y A Love-Stonr, By St Gronue Tueket \of Virgiin), Thilndeluhias T, 11, Poterson & ! Jadiey iiros. & €o. L., Even after the Camenn' war had mnde the the conutries nliles and friends, Leypt was the the of recarring susnicion and steife. ‘Tha schene fui the aleeine of the Suez Canal filied Lord Fulmer. to men. It )8 but just to say that **Eolu'* has appreciated these upportunitics, but, for lack uf power, has falled to make muchoutof them, ut the National Capital for examining the Con- federate papurs on file at the War Department; and from these, anid from tho recolicetion of I'rol. Tyndall traces the hilstory of experiments fn spontaicons gencration, beginping with those of Francesco Redi in 1063, Thie distingnisied phyaicrun und expesimenter had seen the tia man's fuger. Tuey Wved for an hour. durine which ttme they wriggled abont on thele sides. The parent cel gecns Lo have quitted the mphd water of the Murr for the sthil water of the channel by, 370, Price, 81, It Her story 18 not strong enough to oid substans | oY GiREY A Novrt. Dy the Author i i of putrelving fleeh, Watehing meat i ite progreny | 200 with alarm, senich now seemu stranze cuouzt Mimself and s nsslstante, ho was enabled o | {islly thd catws sho advoenten The. Host 1t e | T hnc Plaker cter o Iiiadelmin: oy | onn e had broughtn drawing with him, of shich | to depositheryouny. Trom fresiiens 15 et arimbly doscrved | When we look at diio lonuaze of the Eocist do s to accomplish the ordlnary alin of light present statements of the strength of the army tiction. ut fmportant periods of the War, which way be aceepted ns at least approxlmnately accurate. #hips that pass through the Isthmne, The Anglo- French allisnce and the Increassd communication between the iwo conntries graduutly woftened these Jealousles, thongh the Naoleonic dynnsty will ilics huzzing about 1t, anid f it He waa led to LIk OF fuese that the magot might be taa half-develuped progeny of these (ics. le theretore covered the Dieal, vlaced b a jar, Lippiucott & Co, * Chicago: Hadiey liros, & Co, 10w, pp. 328, PERIODICALS RECEIVED. thero was Lo matenal for the nearer parts, Une wornini, when abinit 1o proce®d with thin driwog, hie culled in the children o colluborateurs for thy rest, In the followlng manner: Ho rubbed three AN INSECT PHENOMENON. iy ligutio: bu The luscet-fauna of South-Temperate Amer- fea, or of thn Chillan sub-reylon as Wallace A RUEDER. } 4 2 afected o have a family interest In Eevpt, After- Fecling that these data, together with other In- | cpAssICAL ENGLISI READER. Suecti SUNDAY AFTERNOON for February (Spring- | caxtsof water-colur, red, biie, and yellow, in | yames ft, presents ane peculiar feature fn the | foimg'abe® and sfterwards srithy ne wauze. il | arda the French peopie were too much atiecied by formation exclusively in s knowledze, should | “x Stanuany AUTious. Wint Exviasaronr | feld, Mase, ). Contentas '+ The Crow o threa separate snucers, gave ane fo eack child, and - : B ere doveloial i wns the I of theit war with Germany to care forthy usunl objects of a apirited fureign policy. Bt o wouner liad Engiand bought the Rhedive's rharcy in the canal than the old feelings revived. und 0w there can ba no doudt that a profound motion would be ratacd frons end to end of France i€ the Kughsh Government were to send - an aruied force to the vutlet of the Nile, 1n this canntry some pople’ base hegun to con- destruyed the bellef In the spuptaneous generation of matrots in meat, After a time came the discovery and improve- mentof the microscope. 1t **orought to view a world of 1ife formed of Individuale =0 minute—ro closg ae it eeried to the ultimate particles of mat- ter—as tu sugsent On easy haseage from stotis (o orzantem, Aninai ond vegetable Infusions exposed to the alr were found clouded and crowded withs 101 the chitdren 1o dabble 1n the saucers, and then play together with thele colored ngers o bls pas per. Theso directlons were gleefully obe o render moy well - fmagine, Turne ec watched the work of the thirty ittlo fingers with scrlou”attention, and, after the ne on for suine time, suddenly call- 1o then took the draving into dscape-furms, i oceurrence of Northera forms which do not ap- puar elsewhere In America south of Mexico, nor in the Southern Hemlsphers of the Old World. ‘The family of butterflics Is represented fu this reglon by nbout twenty-nine wenera and elghty specles, most of which are foand in Chill. Among these genern are two, Arg/nnis and Saw'Weller, " 1L by John Habberton of Snving tho Children," y Charles L. Tirac S AIL lound tho Year,' by Elafne (oodal Ty the Llect Lady, by Iloward Crosbyd “+Nicholas tlarbour's Work,"" by llebecea Hard” inie Davis: **Cook' Bloluuy, by Horden K. Townes **Tom's Heat iv.,"v., VI, by doeepiine 1, Da roblema of 'Poor fe- ilet, & by &, o o Nat and Jion, " by Annlo k. AND CriTicaL Foor-) :l_,l‘l_usnx. Boston: Ul The Rev, Henry Hudson, the wellknown writer upon Bhakspeare, has compiled a Reader for the use of schovls from the classlcal htern- ture of tho English language. Very fow picees Hev, HeNny y : Iy the be the property of the public, Gen. Taylor has "“)nm. o ooy prepared a suecluct account of thevonnection of ien, Leo with the Army of Northern Virglnia from its organization to Its flnal surrender. The spleit which anfinntes his recital merits respect for its sobriety aud candor. The mem- n . 5 N o - Te tend that Ezypt shonll bo annexed 1o Englas oy of Leots chershed witty profound venera- | by living: authurs huve been admitted Into tho | - Presion?, ™23y Neighbor 3 Hermit. by | sugyiated by Vs acchiental olopiut, and thg work | Clas, whicl wro considered s NortlTemperate D periccity, viblo o an sv¢ aufeniivied by the | Placet unue? hoe” protectorate, - Fhaw a2y’ tat i ;‘:""h:""!“‘ B m““q"c et ;‘;;’m}o‘: collection, and theeo uro mainly chosen from | Horacu K. Sowddors FtMortwgin, | by, Ehosen | 00 o Himaele in arranging oime many-cojur | f0rme, yet, of the flrst, ecven species oceur n | miceoscon Lecawennock estinated th pop- | 1o utlier way wuard the tnd to il now the writings ot Amerleaus, Bryaut, Whittler, ulation uf a single drop of stagnant water at HU0, - aud Longfctlow, In the opinion of Mr. 1ludson, 1hat the Otioutan Empire in Europe sectns abo 000,090 probatify the popuistion of u drop of a 4 b} “lemlunnz!i\bnu‘l the lynll of Wight,*" by undergn another fundamental chan 8, | ed sugur-plums on o dessert-piutes, and, Q. W, Henjumin; **Manthorpe's Icecord,' by when d turbed Inthe overation by o yuestion, Chill. Of the Collas, probably a-single species oceurs fn Pery, and several are found in Chlll from the Northern States 18 regarded os justl- it 4 U tarbid nfiston of hay would be this many fimes | 8F¢ made to the patrlotisn of Englishien in wurds flable; yet these views, are never offenslvely ob- | gre equaled by none of the 8 nol o John Esten Cook e Hishop of Tlipuo, ™ by qaestloner, *'There! you' have made nie luse i Among oth ener, there 18 a Jorge North- tiplied. The ubvious dificully of nesiming o | Which would have more welZhir they could La truied. The high starid which tho writer olds | England, and, althongh o o o | Eawaei &, tfand < Mitor-Siwiet.» by K. | utncaal Wt peation b sosar;pluiela | Tomporato cleo equnling or”suroassiug the | gl otz cSetcio ma atmute (afoiat: | glsconnected feom tho wiervate of the Egvpiian o his_discussion fs exhibited fn the following y Fward O Etitors Tabies o o Literas Tropfeat element; while the same tiing Is noted | ed tho precise condition neccesury 1o give new 3 L e Inlght hiave Leon afterwards invenied fo the same coivrearrangeinent, LUTERARY ITEMS, Thoe Russian Unlversity at Charhow has an attendance of 443 students. The new novel by Oulda, portraying modern Enclish society, will be published fn Marel. The names of twenty-six Aimcerieans are on the lust eataloguc of Heldelbergg University, Over £500,000 have been granted by the Prussian Government for the new edifices con- nected with Strassburg University, A youuy lady hos endowed a Iligh School for Women at 8t. Petersburg, The spectal object of the institution will Le the preparation of taachers for women's colleges. The Royal Library at Berlin, the largest in Germany, contains over 700,000 volumes. An effort Is heing made, headed by Prots, Mommsen and Vireliow, to seeurs the erection of o new buildine to accommodate it. The second volume of M. Talue's work on the Hegiinlnes of Contemporury Francs™ 1s i v and will. be entitled *The Revolution,” .\l. Talne's bealth I8 so finproved as to ollow of hils resuming his lterary pursuits and the dutles cent a datotobie fairly rated s clarsical, fourteen snectmens of thetr authorship bave been selects ‘ed to represent the standard Amerfean poetry. Tenuyson nlone of the living Britlsh poots Is allowed a place, in which two of his poems ap- pear. The living prose authors whose nawes oceur in the table of contents are Cuglyle, Glad- stone, Froude, Shafrp, K. H. Dana, Johin tenry Nowman, aud Dr. Audrew ¥, Peabudy. In makhing up this Reader, no pleco: has been aceepted for its author’s sake, hut in every caso tha {ntrinsle merlt of tho sclection has tormed the grround for its admission. Tlic old and sub- stantial writers, whose works lave as much vitality to-dsy as fn the ame when they wera wproduced, are Jargely lald under contribution. Bavon, Burrow, Berietoy, Fuller, Pitt, Cobbett, Herbert, Hoofer, Johmson, uhd utber such worthles, {lll the greater part of the volumeo with chofee extracts, ur completo compositions. The writings of these tathers and founders of Buellsh hitcrature ure not apt to full under the eye of the schovlchildren of the present gener- atlon, and it is well that a manunl which'is to provide their dofly lessons In studious reading should be chiely deawn from theso masters of thought and of lterary style. Edlfll‘!d Abbott; ture, CATIIOLIC WORLD for Folruary (Catholle Pub- lcatlon _ Huclely, New York), _ Content ++Ceadion the Cowherd, Engiand's Firet Pact SeConfesslon I the ‘Church of Enzland s+ 3ichuel the Bombre;™ +*A Fiual Phiivsophy SA Great Bighoni 1 The OWL Klone Jug i +lirother und Shuiers” **Corletiunity as on Lis- torfcal Religton:” **Thero Wun No Hoom for T 10 the Tuns* *The Tlome-Rulo Candi- dales" S\ Child-Hegeurs™ *Tho Inles uf Rivtreats” **Proacticrs 0n the Mampugo" ** A Little Sermon:" *+New Publicas 1 AMERICAN LAW REGISTER for December (D. 1, Canfield & Co., Phitadelphla). PHARMACIST for’ Junuary (Chicago College of Plintnincy). LITVELLS LIVING AGE—Carrent numbers (Lit- tell & Goy, Tosion), AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THEMEDICAL 8CT- NCES - danuary_(Tlenry C. Lea, Fuladeiph Drs. 1ooac Hnys aud 'L, Mins B mamtaining the ntesrity and the Independence of the GOttoman Empirs aro often mned With schemies for the annexation of Eegpt, and thus for an act which wunkd give the signal for the partition of Turkey. The authors uf posals linve quietly assumed that th France woald bo needless, Tl test they adumdt, but th % would not, wid ‘could nof, do anyth ous. ‘Fhoy think that whe o too weak and too atead of “Gernauy to move. 1t may ho so, wi- ugh the countey’ has regained 14 Jost natitary Uth witn ® speea 1o which there {3 o paraliel, | It may bo that tho would display comvummate pra- dence under any provocation 8o long as the glean tic German army 18 marsed at thelr doors. liut, ut sl eyents, an Enclish occupation or protector- ntoof Egypt would destroy the friendsiny between the two countrles, and revive much of the unhap- py feeling which was tho herit of the lonz war. the wlliance of the Western Powers, whichh lus Teen, and may be agatn, of Uio bighest [mportancy nch woult remarks upon the treatment accorded i by the ufllclats ut Washlugton when consulting the Confederate records: 1take pleasure In auanring my former comrados. in-nemix of the evident purposs of the (Javernment outhorities chatged ~with the custody of thero records to "discard all eectional blas in tho prosecution of thelr labiors, and to preserve Biaithtully aud dmpartially il documents which are nuw in their custody, or which n be Lerentter committed to their care, in order lint, xo farus it ls in thelr power, the truth, and nothing but the truyn, shall bo preserved. Let un udulgé the hope that tne duy tu not far distant whenthe American people, without distinction, sl Bnd picanure in the contemplation of all that was ianly, «il that was virtuous, all that wns woble. all ‘thut waw prasowarthy, In the recent iruzilc Lotween ths mections, Whether develaped Jon the alde of the Nortn or that of the Kouth; und that the wext geunorstion will chiorish, with ' par. ldonable pride, the remembrunce of tho deeds of alor, wacrilice, nnd noble dariug, with which the Uvtary of the War so nichly abottids, whether tho licrued thereot wore the blue or the gray, Gen. Taylor dovs not_fudulie fn eritieal com- ments upon Lhe miflitury earcer of Gen, Lee, but frontines his task to a'conclse presuntation of the more prominent events n which ho took art as the Confederats leader, and to a cont- arative statement of strengith of the BRI U nion and Confederate arnies, A eaw elreum- gletances are casually ancntioned which turow play to tie nottons of hieterogenests or spuntaneous generation. ™ We hiave not the epace to give thedetalls of the experiments that bevan wath the theorics of Huffon anit Needham and the work of Spallunzenl, Now wne alde was sncad, then the other, The experi- fciits of opponents wers wubjected 1o testa of n very exucting und apparcitly crucial conracter. Tty cxtended over tho apace of years, They were mnde on the Mer de Giaco and In the caves’ under the Olwervatory of Parie, We pany thoin all by, to como at onct to the experimenty of Prof, Tyn- hitself, Whici are descrived In this articly 1th rre suuplicity, candor, und vividnees. Those that want to see 8 full account of these, as well o9 tho Intermediate uncs, must refer to the are ticlo iteelf, T'rof. Tyndall had been making In the decado cuding {1 1600 some researched tnto raglant tieat fu relation to tho rFascous form of mutter. lie puollshed the reaults of fis investigations |n the London ?Vies, and o our readers have beea lold on several former uccasions he wa at once attaci- ed by Dr, llastlan, ** For five years, " vy Prof, ‘Tyndall, ** he piuwed the feld” without tmpedis ment from me.” What wise waiting, what a candid rxamination, what pajustaking expertments doew nut this remark provey If only this discreot caun- tion, thix prudent resceve, this waiting until there 13 numething ceettin to be wuld, were the gencral role, how many uscless contentions might by avolded. Ho then proceeds todetall the experiments ho sabjected tuemp water to. He touk thin turup elices barely red with distilled wuter among bheetles, cnmclnll¥ in the famuly Carn- b, Wallacy aceounts for the phienomenon by supposing that there have been not very remote migrations of Northern fornis along the wreat mountaln-range to South-Temperate Americn, whero the conditions were favorable to their ex- fstence. There is u perplexing tactor in the guestion presented by the ubseacs of thuee furms on the porthern portlons of the Audes of South Americu. ON THE WING Aprovos to s note in Hurper's Magazine con- cerning the bablt occasfonally exhibited by the read-hicaded woodpecker, of eatching lusects on the wing, n writer in Forest aud Strenn contrib- uites an Interesting observatlon. A pur of red. heads were rearlpg thelr brood In o hole exva- vated In the stem of an old China tree, that stood In the yand of a dwelling uear Selma, Als. There wers no other trees fua decaying condition within a radius of a quarter of a mlle, and the wiiter supjoses there was a luck of the aceustomed . food of the woodbeckers, to ac- count for the sluguler methiod resorted to fur thelr subststen “The Lind asslznea to duty ax caterer,” he fnforms us, * 100k 8 posit the twisted llelitulngrod. of the how e Editors). 10 Europe, would be no more. The not fureet what tliey would call n n £1ish perndy, We should lose JFriend in Kurope. W Iv permlvsibic tu ‘whetiier the aheolite fsotation of tiils co wwould be a briillant trumph for **Untish 1 e." Tt in satd that if we were tu fortify vuth ends the Suez Canal the road (o Indin would Lo s vure a4 1o banish ol causes of alarin, “There vould 10t be o grester delusiont a tiew mourco «f rites picion and ularm would be vpened, Tunlon would then seen more daugerous than Constaniinople FAMILIAR TALK. MEPIRITUAL? TRICKERY, A review, in the Academy, of the Engllsh cdition of o treatlss on conjurtng and magle by the skillful necromancer, Robert Houdin, con- talus an ancedote giving some fusight into the GQLOLOG EME A Trxr-Dook ron CoLLEuEa AND FOI THE (KXERAL Xtmu‘nn. 1y from this point of vautage darted with une i " Vi o e, iteelf would appear If 3t were & Husslun city, Bzt upou the private charactor of Lec, and ol | Sorsen T Coner adn ot ) modes by whichs tricky Spiritual mediums may | of Lis Profossorship. it wpon s winged prey, taking tiem ulways | 818 emperaturvor 10 de, Fane, Micr stands | pelf would npeear If, 1 weero, i [uglat wity, et up Lee, & ) : Sl he ligaf 3 \ Gys With the Tesult of construliing our ad. | Setence, - etces and Drafvaeor of O Tpone o the witmenses of thels scances. 5L | - ‘The fest mtmber of the London Athengurn | W T8iF siter the mamer of allfiy-catchers.™ | e fohe b 152 Louim it QUL BUIGUGRAH! | waval Fower in tho wolld, ani e, richest” o Jotiution. 1w alone, of all the prominent men Benzaied upon the Confederate side, seoms to orercen from the first that the etruggle n the North sud the Houth would be rolotiged amd destructive. It was his wish hat the Confederate trooys should be mustered P tur the War, fnstead of for terms of thirty ur Ry days, or of twelve months even; for, with slugulnr wisdont, he divined that the cons Jlict in which they entered would s one of % ?‘mn. s not of menths or days, ns the mujor- iy ol people foollshly flatteced themaclves, B8 l'araide and ceremony were allko distasteful to the Contederate commander, and throughout lie War e was distingulshed for the simplicity, i even poverty, of his surroundiugs. Ho vae, t the beginning of the War, sceonipanted by o tall of two persond, and, after the denth of M, ut one Aldu<le- amp, and by melther rt, body- aurler, nor glde: i Yodyqtusrd o solitary tent constitutod hie . amp; (iin rarved for the Genoral n.:zfx'dl;‘-'-“%fdr:: undd, when visllors wero entertained, eicren, tho General whared his biankoty, Wik wiy Altered, and o clear infuston was then odtalued. Iute sixty swall clean empty necks, projecting sldeways, ernutely heating und coalin, . thas were plunged nto n trough filled with oll, and the conlents niado ta boil. Fiually the neck of the sk s closed by heating 1! lasn, nint the task ** v hfted from thy oil-bath perfectly sealed nermetically. ™ ‘The Hanks are then taken to the Alpy, 7,000 feet nbove thesea. There six of them aro found to he broken, and the infaston within is found 1o bo muddy, Alr has eutered through the broxen necks, amd there 14 nuddiness, mined with n mtcravcope and the Infumion b full of organien, *rome wobbling vlowly, others shooting rapidly nera (he microscople dehd, They durt hi d thith ke @ rain of minute projectile pirauctte nid wpin so guickly round that the reten- 11un of the retihal lnipresston furon the hitle v rod futo a twirhng whee These ure tho Daciertn, *las tais - multindinons ife been spontancousty generated tn thes slxgiflasker” Praf. ‘Tyndail asks, *‘of fv 18 tho p ftvinz germinal nir carried tnto the tluske by tho cering aler™ 3f the former be trie, how does it Tappen that the Afty -four uninfused flavke are ges- Natural 1 Y, New York: D, ,\|;PI|:|n|| & Co, " Chle: ley Bros, & Co. tvo., pp. B8, Drice, It 13 not necessary to test the value of this manual fn the class-room or by the examinstion of un exvert, It 18 felt by the unlearned read- er, who finds himself absorbed {n its luteresting data, which are as cleurly and . invitigly set forth as ara the incldents of o historieal or ro- mantie dramy, - Aud yet the work s not, fo the ordinary scnse, a popular treutise. It isa sound, nicthodlenl cxposition of the sclence of ticology, almivg, for one of its objects, to il the place of a textbook. But the attractive plan according to which the subject Ia arranzed, tho mass of Instructive fy. formation it presents, and the plessant manner In which this is disposcd for comprebension vest the book with what zeems u peculisr clurm in a manual of Belence. ‘Two fmportant features of the work aro fts embodinients of the !atest outhentle theories A CIIEAY TELEPIIONE, Directlons for manufacturing @ cheap tele- phone were given fn & recent lecturo by Prof, Barrott, of Londons “Fake a wooden mulhoro\vllct hox, and makea hole sbout the mze of a half-crown in the hd and the bottom. Take a disc of Vnned fron. suchas cun o had from o preserved meat tln, und place it on the outside of the bottum of the box, and fix thu cover o the other sidy of it Then ke o small bar-magriet; place v one end & small cotton aesilk reel, and round the secl wind wome lron wire, leaving the ende Jouse, Flx one end o Tizghet neav, as near as passible withont to 10 the discy akd then one part of tie 1 complete, A wilnilar artanement Won the other end, The 1w are conneeie wire, nad withs thie Prof. Burrett suys b hus Ieen auluto converso ot s distunce ul GLoUt 1D Yards. BRIEEF NO The oxploring party sent out by the African Assoclation of Belgium have safely reached tion after ourown, Shu could eastly bulld and wan twice ns lurge o tect as Kieala, wnd from her barbora In the Meuiterrancan she could dircct it against the line of vur communications witn the East, Our elvil and amilitary officlals in Eypt would keep us tu a fover by (heir seports of French Intrigues at Aexamdria and Caira, ko Syri: and on the Arican coust, ’I‘he{ would even bo more voclferous than those Auglu-indluns wha -Pn-nd wild storles nbout the detenmiuutios Hueuia to aunex moro and wora territory i Asls until he cun annex India (tself, Nut ashin coalit bu bulit at Toulon without stierinz T war, and not o squadron could e ralsing u pane, in tho tsgination of alurmiste as Constal does to-day, ood the Lugbear of Husta wouli g reptaced by the much wore formdable wpeclre uf France, ‘Lhe retatlera uf panic would begin to remember how near Cherbourg e to Engliny, bow wunly Toulun conmaudé the foad o thy Eial, ami how much wore dungeros ds an untilendly France than a hostile Huwetn, Nor would Italy pornie by 10 cujuy tho poss quiet, She also ‘wonld bo described as huviug o ileet, o muritimy_ people, naval stations ou tho way to the Suez Canal, great ambitiou, and a cou- Huudin places great stress, b bis directions to the aicight-of-hund performer, upon the necessi- ty of adroltness in making ** feluts " and femps. By “feint " s slinply mceant the prelension to do what Is really not done. Almost evervthing the canfuror does 18 & *feint.? A tempia® isn movement made to distract the attention of the beholder whilesomething is beinig actually done which It fs essentlal to the succoss of the ver- forinance to have unnotleed, It [s stated bythe reviewer that Splritualist mediums do not usu- ully possess much power of slelgbit-ol-hand, but rely for the ageutpllshinent of thelr feats prin- clpally upon the art of making *femps,"* As proot of thls asscrtion, it fs related that o cestain simutenr conjuroratiended the seauce of u well-known medium ot Cambridge, Eng. The mystie circlo of clasped hands wue kept unbroken,—thy medivm’s handa being held, lika all the rest, sinuly In the grusp of his was iseuedd tho 2d of January, fifty {un nggo, si1k Buckivgham was editor of tho new 4 andy with Mr. Colburn, 8 juint proprictor, AL the unfl of the tirst year, it Was clatmed by D that the Atheweuni was “the laruest ‘week- Iy Hterary Jouenal ever {ssued from the Engllsh press.” H 18R, My, Dilke beeame the cditor and chlel provrictor of the paper, matntaining thejposition until 184, Mr. 1. Alfred Spalding, a member of the New Stulsueare Socicty ut London, divides the Rrat graup of Shakspeare's Sonnets luto threo parte s L., from Fanilllarity to Friendstip, 1-25; 1., Clouds (the fricndahip belne wradually ob- seured and the fricnds separuted), 20-th; 11, Reconcillation, 97-120. Mr. Spaldinz belleves the lirst group of Bonnets wery sll uddressed to one fricnds but rejects thu fdea that itier Lord Southampton or Tembroke was this triemd, Tu ins opiulon, stud Sonnets thensolve wolvable question, Inopls Liould Le devoted to the y rather thau to this in. TN p for Ts it uald that the atr 2 % f STREET-CLEANING, Zanzlbar, Jioue Ut all fonng of ) sldurably stako f Egypt iteclf. Austrin would Alde, turnt thowe of tho latter to his . | ond discoverien in Geology, aml its i ox. | neighbors,—while meantinie beavy furniture " rist i Jtuelf 14 the one thing needed 1o make up the dor- & feetion Disin oo~ naltoe feuge, | elsive o of Auierican Shbjects in fix Hiustia: | Wwas beimie tmoved wvout tho roons, snd other | Whls the people of Chiio aro plodding | o arehts Habenarla rotundifolta bas Leen | wgnt infusiont, AR RO e o | e e, Lo s o Sl s i bowele, srerythlog of tin—and o ly | tions, It hus been too muc’s the custom heres privlug * manifestations* “wers takiug | hopeleasly through the sloughs of mud and enty: lutely referred vack to the genus Orcils, where it was placed in Prush's tiue. Tn 1636,M, Dumas dellvored aserics of “Lect- ures on Chemical Philosopby " ut the Calleze de France. They have lately been republished, and, strango to kay, are so fresn and correct 1 statement that they would serve o8 o text-book tuday for students in igh schiools. An exploping expedition, under the conduct of Prof. A, E, Middendorfl, will svou leave Bt. Petersburg for work fn Uentral Asta. The \d. to the annoyauc I the subordinates, who sighed for p M couid not or would not be lost; tndeed, lieli ot occaslonal wdditions, thle in’ f us continaed (0 do servlee for veveral campaiene, and it wus ouly in the last yeur of the War, while the ey waw uround Peteraburg, that awet of ching W as sureeptitionsly lutroguced into the bagyago of Qe headquarters of the army, — This displuced for o time (he chaste and eluborate but, un roe Puting ** hight murching order, *‘at the tinio of tho ciacnalion of " Itichwond: and Pelersburg, tho cuina, which had beeh burrowed by the stalf, was turiied; the L wera sgain produced, and did rvice until the surrender of the nm!r. when they make her will folt, In sbort, tho vccupution of the Khedive's dominious would be the creation of & vuloerablo point it the Empire, and as & conse- quenco the pugnacity und the trepldstion of the country would unite {u insisting that we should keep ourseives In a stato of reagiess o SZht the Lalf of Europe. Evon that wonld not bethe endof the embarrass- went. Wo should put be allowed (o atop the work uf suncxation st the fsthmus of Suex. Whena great clvilizea Power sulzvs uny lerritory from s Tinlf-baroatic or lmperfectly foruted comuwuntty, it st proceed to taku tore and more. Frestan- nexations would be recommended to quell dis- turbances on the border or to protect thy cun- The amateur at vo detected thu ut " und the **femps” which the medium was employing: Thinking it might be edifying [aays the reviowor} tafwiato the necromancer's perfornance, ho bo- £an (o seu **llite, " and **eliudder,” and **fall under the {nfiuence,” “These wero hls **felni, ' Preaantly ho begun to make violent starte, and begged of the gentlemen on elther side of him to Liold it hauds tehtly, which they promtsed to do, 3 wounr was tho pramisg- glves Uan by anothcr violent eifort hie wienched his own bands away, Juined thesrs, and sat down with s profound -le. ‘Afler watting some ten ntnutes, ho osked In a Toft, und with a pair of steel pllers their realed endy arv anlpied Cif, At once, of coarss, thero Is anan-rushof alr. Then twenty-sevon ary taken 1o a ledgo overlooking the Aletsch ylacier, sbout 200 feet ubuve thy bayeloft, from whicis ledge the smoantain fails ol tausly 1o the tiorili- cast fur abuut 3 (housand 5 "The description That fullows 15 %0 typical uf _tho eareful proces cannot foroear quottag it in fulls 1uward us from tha northes: L4 AUd BLOW-licids of th 4 are, therefore, Lathed by sir Whieh s fur & gowd wiitie'vul of practical Cact withh citner aiiiuiel or vegetable lifo. d Uy to lecward uf (o flaxks, fo ront 1itth that stretch from end to end of every trav- eled streot, (¢ may be refreshing to reud thut tho inhubitants of some othier great cities enjoy the delizins of walking on clean, dry pave- ments, which are maintalued in a wholesomes and pussablu condition by energetic authoritics laving u solvent exehequer to draw from, In London, with 1,410%5 miles of pavement, evary princinal vtrect i swept ouce n tweuty-four ccondory sircels threu Unewa week, all Jeast” twico. In Liverpoul, with £33 }mvenwlu. ke regulations are enforced, lester, with D00 miles of pavement, the tofore to l-h-(uru Turelien fussils fu our geologles, thus deprlving the student of necded asaistancy fu the identitication of the crganie foring found n vur native rovks, Moxsrs, Appluton & Co. have produced the book tu exccllont style,—the woudeuts belug cspecially deserving of commendation, DANIEL WEBSTEI. TIE LAST YEARS OF DANIEL WEBST) %\lf‘:u‘u‘l‘l:; D. Jl‘v 1‘]¢zn'2~:“ ‘TIckAOn CURTIv, e : ppleton & Co, L uds Ty ttean, & 0o, Paper, o0 Ehicacor Laid of aucl " capecisl objeet of the expedition will be an quests siready made, W have found {bat stern Into the hands 0f Inalviduald, who now | 'The zrave charge that has rested agafnst tho | 181t volcs If Hivy bad stil boid of hi: they re- o . v | vepecul bjee gk ta oy censlly 1 ludia, where, in spita of good inten- Lflhll\"rul|:l|.l‘;::lg::;:lzm\{l':z‘m, o tho greateat com- | fntegrity of Dantel Webster siuco ila speceh of phed, ** Yosi™ and that. wos Lis ** /e ‘Qete | principal sireets, roads, and thorouglfures, to- | {nyestication of the agricuitural conditions of o, necessity s Lu ting up, he procevdud to walk about the rovm, cariing the furnlture with hit, swl in fact repeating tho **experiencea™ of Lis professional confreres. In the midst of (ho gencral anwzee ment, he returned o his position between tha two noimvere of the clrcly who had at first held oud asked If they had ed by the darke a, the * d the **lempa,” unbesits- reolled, ** Vo, " whens ho strick u lighe geihor with the markets, are cleansed. overy 'doy, kvcandary strects thrice's week, all uthers Wwice. Tu kivaton, wit sesenty miles of vaveiaent and 200 miles of MagAdsny, the principa) strevts aro swept cvery morndng Lefors ¥ w'clock, a1l others twicu 8 wouk, the i, witters Hushed and ci 0 wilew of pave ary clesuved slx ti & Week, secs throo tines o weck, thy wholo Turkestan. M. Polyakoff has ndded four new species of flabes, taken in the 3 Kul and Bulk- hiwh, 1o th seven specles breviously known fiy the Ceutral-Asiag tauna, Une of tiaa fresh diss coverics 18 o hab the llval und caviars of Wi ure polsonous. It 18 nunounced e the Loudon 7hnes that tiony, Wy have been tho greatest conquercrs in Marehi 7, 1830, that, for the suke of winning the nomination for the Presidency, ho then. made o sacrlilce of his principles on the subject of Bluvery, hus called out from his friend and bog- ruphier an carnvst, manly, and abls monograph in mw acfense. The charge las been lutely given renewed currency by repetition n popu- the world, ‘The anacxzutin of the Transvaal reveals tho working of the sawe law Ju South Afs rica, The usetany bave equally iltustrated 1t in Ceniral Asia, aud wa should” be “the siuves of ite tyranuy if wo were to py any past of Egypl. \(‘o »bould b urged 10 take tie rest of the country to protect ourselves from disturbancescaused past- Iy by & weak Government snd partly by forelen fn- trgues, Thus would begin an indefnite carcer of I 1t be nossible to chargo faults to a milita leuder who, 1 the eyes nfi‘ s assoclates, h-rfl Gl il sliort of the standand of perfection Taylur belfeves it will be solely that Les wos too wislderate of the teelmgs and the reputation ;lhmln(;u:m'nunn‘ziel fmxmnmmm' nll‘d that hy b deferential to hls superiors fu civil ai thonity. © Althougn Gen, "tay au Lk bulug upeney I cleaitag oF the piiers by the ) way we eharce our Cweltyseven asks VIV IZ Wountain air, Now note the tesult. In theoe days every one of ho bwentythree iy opened In tae hay-1ofs wero fnvaded by orgaulsais, but any one can seo Where ray of sunh,iht vroake through u cbiuk, 1 full uf ylor's fudgments 10 evlde hly cleated W Tu N ¢ th it of | Grganieme. Afict theee weeks' esposara o prechsos | {Gkcay] conqueat , st an cnormous costand wiih i e s lor n 3 ; " | Lo evidence”of tho rompany to ble n | ouzbly cleatied once u n New | Col. Mason, one of the officers o the staft of § S9N S SN 0eY 2 conuue X st Al ko 10 i Mot of the Jaae WV wert o e T sty ik e Gt o | Spures s sbtaued wader 4 ey Soni w8 wlhce uf yuveitent, thesthorivies | Gl oo Fadian Guvernor-ienskal of tho. | Ldiotinct fthefrie ar bt o se Scar an i | Sl ezt BE SRR gL U Nt s }lllr of Hurriet Martineau; and Mr, Curtis hus Kheaiva's domivions iu Central come_wider schenics, byrla wouldthave tu be acd for the genral fulruvss of its ovidence | Je1t It s duty to the generation that hue | tho medlum in the previous part of the onew u week, Afeia, lad ance, and setzed, et It should foll futo the hande of sowo the duy It was brought trom Loudun. W ; Y e ve " Mbert N . cone ? 1¢ not the inferenco ot 1t SHURLL Tripty oo (e L houurabl oo of his feeltng, arlsen sinco the death of Webster, who can | the sune musuifestations had Lixei blaco; only s In which Sow York ncte up s satd by | Sircumuavipsiad tho thert et ol e e e ah of i part e, | il Puwees thea wouliaulu bo tembied un by the & know it ouly by tho Teourt f s tontem. | i cuse f tho whiatonr; s cumpany oot | s e e et gk i fon Chy, | Sheauners abid it it o las bocts suld, & “lund- 1 fpataios e e MOLUREE Gl dudt vt | Kuprates vl and tha Lejehouuncsof Sy TAL TRAVEL, poraries, to efora thew In o true light i 9 ¢ 14 be found very e St ot ar ) y‘ ich it gives fur the fo- nota very comfurtiug vaza! she docs nob even clain to have cleaned hor sty winter, Abcutvelves how thoy hud been mido the vickius of un ordluary conjurlug devico, ‘The medium oue served thui ** e liad not cowa thers 10 b made & be. II‘{ remarked that **tuey rather ud ho weul bacs to London by d probably souzht the ndvice of & hatter, fur bis bat foliowed bius downestsirs with cousidarable rapldit b .‘lul‘m:.r‘:vhm{. beiug propelicd by tho foot i general atnos phere, —bit suweting that iy withio Tio uir that hae prinduced the obaerved elfects “Tuis bs 1n the very buet style of the scientific hod, It 4e cartedian fu that 1L dosbts every« anid Aportolle 1 that 1t proves all things. evults aro slated 1u 3 modet, vimple, aud wdnutable manner, Phere 1 1o Mrrogance suy- whiere lu the urticie, 181 entirely fres from dug- watiem. It fo clear, atralghtforward, und thor- ougkly boneat. Thcrs te noair of persunsi il Wl $ A5 no crowing uver & discoudted vppo- peut. vhusulways vhuuld the scarch for truth Lo conducted. the political condition of tho country at tha thng of Webster's much-debated speeeh, of the motives wbich nspired thu statesinun (o 1ts dee livery, and of the objects hie nluied to accom- plis by it. 1418 not ducessuey 1o assuro thoss who are acquainted with Mr. Curths® eminent abilities as & Jogician and a writer, thot fn this casay lio presents @ calm, cowprebensive, und ’udlcl.nl urgument, Whatever opinlons helt )y the reader concerning tuls sigual act In the political carcer of Webster, are based upon un- certan o false knovledize of the Jucts fuvolved, will be pretty certaluly overturned by {8, an re-catubitshied upou sounder touudations, —— OUTLIES b T JUSTO O e N P T STORY UF RE| N PO TIE SPREAD OF THE Uh'l\'Ellliskll?ll?M- LIGIONS. By v. P. Tuikrg, Dr, Theol., Pro- fessor of the llistory of Rellizoua fu th Cnlver- sity of Lelden. Teunslated frowm the Duich by cuunt uf the upportunity il of Jussts, That proepect. 3t de o prospett of vast espeadliure, «caually vaxt responsivility, und the pessibility of Wirs with woru forwidable foes thun Asiatle or African _potentates. . Nor would tuo ane uexation of Egypt be Invitiug even it we could remuve oll these dangers aud cuutdne our efurly urely to that conntry, ‘The people bear a crusa- KJ;’ weight of sxation, Were wa rusponsidle for thele welfure, wa shuuld have (o consider Ll very acrivusly. ‘Thuse who are now uersonslly inter- eoted i Egypt could bardly vavect the lisitiel Guvernuient tu be their tax-yatlierer and to wuin- tain_futolerable esturtion by lrrcalstiblo furce. What, after II“ is Lo be galned by the oce cupation? Nothlig fu the worid ibat we du Hot posdees Bb present aud - cannot pre- werve us long us Egypt de mantuiucd as ! ground by our owi streugth asnd that of b, Wb i Chia watter aill abways be our ally. 1t 1 eury to s up ailke the duty sud the inturest ot Euglend. W shall not suucx Egypt o vccupy 11, but nostber slall wo peruiit suy otuer Power 1o A new species of Chhmmra—a genus of car- titaginous tahes—has futely been dlscovered Iy Awerican Waters, A spoctaien was sent to tio Nmithsontan Inatitute, which bl been cauht off the La Hare bunk, 10 It 43 deg. J0min. north, and ut @ depth of 8% futhoins. “The spe- clos uns been nomed Chtinwers plumbea. A ripe strawberry was gathered 1 Coruwall, Euglund, Dec, 2h—tho thermometer fadicating ut the thns 20 deg. in the shade, Nunycomiaon 1 flowers were stil) In Livou, 8 anunk, On southern hillade cru New Yors, the dandelions @ talt spread thelr golden sheen over the verdare fn lfl ne twonth of winter, Col, Gurdon hus contracted with FIOM xlt\sz IYPT TO JAPAN. 1t b Pt sc,.n..er.ll..'éfi’filf.‘.',‘fz“é-'.': L._miu.;iu. Meclurg & Co. 12mo., pp. The preseut volume, althouzh completo fn tell, (s continnation of Dr, Flela's bistory of Lis juuruey around the world,—the frat part of Uil was published @ year azo, with tha title :’l E’r,uu’x the Lakes of Killarney to the Uolden UrL™ The aecount s resumed fu this secoud m wi.lh the vovage across the Mediterranean s M Coustautinople to Alexandria, aud follows ,:. bruvelers ulonz the Nile, acroxs the desert to ‘:t theucs by suip to Bombay, and through b o 'n of fourneying {u Iudla sud Burmah, sue M‘;lul. by u visit to Java, a call at Houg Koug 3 Wl Cantun, snd tuully a brief sojourn fn within the memory of the preseat RE=-GOSSIP, Tho demand made upon the French Govern. ment for the support of the Fine Arts durlog the coming year amounts to 7,516,100 frands, Au opplication for 7420500 franes, or nearly the whole mnuunt, will be mude to the Chamber. 1t has beeu decided, by apyeal to the Clvil Tribunal i France, that sketches, dea vings, and studies wade by an artist prelmiuary to bis production of u portrall, cangot b exinbited or sold withious the permbsslon of the sty Trieuds actiuig for the sitter, The cose fn whica this verdict was lately pendered wasone in which the hews of Iugres wers sued for ofletingata public sals & portrut-sketeh of the besutitul wite of i, Moitessier, whose portrale was < GUSTAVE URBET. Mr. William 31, Rosselti closes an obltuary no- tiee of Courbet, the French artist, which he contributes o the Loudon dcademy, with the following parugraph: Courbet Was o portralt-pajnte Sdcalisu, bt 1ul1 ot Getive facaltys oo rejecd theories tu the cxtent, one mizhtsay, of becoming iheorfst, Mo Wus Undoubiedly o leader, whoas fniluence has had 0 uo In producing, turougn various phases of wudidcation, the prcss et *Hlwpressiontst " school of art, wu vative In France and viscwhiere, Avw & younz man he wus s s FROST-WORK. Lu?! on wy Window- panessuch work divine, Y sutibe fRIEY AribLan e uieot, it opetismoutned, 1 stuid i wote delight, And deink e teauty ot vac rare desdzi frunds aud featiora cryutalling, manel of exquisite izht, e uue 3 dvart of pleavare to tie vight, ilish dratt, whidh are thie Albert Nvanza and the ‘Pl steaters will be packed for thar 7 : ; 4 ol by Inzre L ihvo yeateae " sortable plecosvt about 2K pottds cuch 1 of a Loving (isd s ploriuus slgn. " e 1o Vucice. eltiur eud ul tlo N, . fleld 1s an easy and fluent narrator, and 9 Baxun Gairwxany, M. A Doston: Jamea | rowarkably baudsuuie. bul advancng yeare bioaied | painited by Ingres twentyive yearesgo, snd wus' | Hitin purtablu B e ot Feihing the | 4Thow, i yonder graud, slornal viics. done. Au GHULLL 10 et Eayptian terrltory. bscrvations fu forelygn ) v him iuto ubshavchucss. Manly. gewlu), wingle- | cousidered ouc of bis List Works. [} Who didiet uls tutiigs u perfect love, 1 cha” Mtrength of this thuse who hayg m‘:‘ :Jf.fH"‘.'f..“"' ""‘"‘"‘3 ‘e Litlg of this work wili condemun it fu the | wiuded, full of kiudiluers aud Jleasantey, he wus waters which ure 1o be savigated. Rena sttt Siucees Lumase of y beart, would bu reaisted with all the utred 2 el 0 SAII0 Zrouu the darting of hie iricude, aud oven hie autago- ruauy o bisty cuuld bardly Oud in' 1holr Leatts by fatcor it B, V1o Prench uation will one day—ung 1 40 diatant day—lecl 8 too-late cowpunetion ot fhu euserily with which the last years uf this son of :mlh\nu blighted, sud Ly carcer slunted and svorled. couutry. It will bo tiwe to think of cougueit ieh Yoo Indupencence of the Viceroyaity is (hrcutencd by sulie otier Power. ————ne AT EVENTIDE, nluds of some, perhaps, as at frst glance it ap- pears to be a beavy theological essay; but nuth- ingcould be further from the truth than to Judge 1t as such. Tho Louk Ls & Mght aud ruptd sketch of the history of religious, and & synop- Where'er L turn, w e ] eanst my eyve— On thinge of eartn, OrF10 (he Beavens ibove— 1 sev and read Low wondrous kind ‘Thoa art, “rhovs" Buvsasss. Guexwoon, 3., Jau. 2 MENTAL CAPACITY OF WOMEN, A valuable testiouial to the mental capacity of women bas been given by Prof, Terkbunot!, of the Bt. Petersburg Medical Academy, Hav- ini assisted ot the cxamnation of thirtyesix M. Polyakoll, the Russtan_explorer, who hos returned from a Journey to Westeru Biberis, thy Altal, aud Alut i Mouutuing, Feperts Lo the 8t Puterabure Boclety of Naturulists that, srou boulders, boulder-cluss, uud worait-aepos, wet with 40 his journey, s well s from the all l::i"“‘“h previous travelerd, The chlef Feui ound with his sketches is the too llnli,.‘;L Introduction of bis personal opinlons i “‘) eetlons, expresed with great tulluess | sntidence, but, being the result of rupld kG A 5 g Fuad Ieom Kbeasd, From out the azure devths of blue, supertel G sis of the differcut anclent religlons which buve Courbet was born st Ornans, In 1519, and was | ladies at the High School of Medielng ut St. | charavier of the fuuua aiad flors of the country, g Listan Toisen: ¢ aepth L5 rJJ{.u‘JmTé’;‘J,‘.‘.,“?E;{’:T of scanty value. | ruled patlous, Tho auttor savs modeatly that | educated at the Hoyad Colleze of Besamoon. He | Pet: wbure, bo reports that their answors, | ho concludes that Ceuteal Aala was complotely’ | Lage year tho winount pald t fureien nations A biuy fosu uppeared ! I 8 W hici Very futeg what he bas sttempted §s su outlive only—a asarily g pencil-sketch—of Lis subject, us, {0 the present state uf the world's knowledge, this ulone can Le undertakea, What he bas proposed (o do, aud what Le Las doue, Le 105U Gpthe wwoyut cxposed to kluviul sction during the dust fo- periud. ‘Pl rufled erouse iy uot an casy bird o kill, and when hit Is a pard bird to brog to buie, A correspondent of - Forcal and Streuns atates thit Levive sevared o specuavn, which, v Luug Athing of beauty undetued, Picasing, vet braly weled. A 1oy froid out ib' Elerusl Throne Shot througl it teecy fuld; With fizlib caiw Life, 102 102 apueared A sigel-forw ul gold. Jvisa Panuas was destiued or the bar, but, un golug o Paris n 1833, hu put uside all opportunitivs for vrace tive I the legal profession, sud devoted uhm- self toart. Hijy studies u painting were so as- aiduousiy pursucd that fu 1334 Le was swous detlulte, clear, wnd oftea vivid, eviuced a deep aud very securate kuowledice of Austomy sud Iistolozy, ‘The averuirs unswers weie cqiial ty thuse of tale studeuts; * bui she wnswers of three of four ladies, by thelr completences and brillizuey, produved adeey fwpresaton v the for cord, cattle, oud ueat way AWIIIT, to coutisst whih A87,120.30 0 Toib. Fur live wtoeh the s disbursed wiss, fu 1577, 24,015,- G, ws usaiisl LiBABM Iu the Dreceding car. Tue rums for e eat were minch Cuiseudtnl Upes the swpweub v L Lu_nt creon {3 fawiliar, also unuge Lawrauiple of s BEe Lo L Ve of D Fleldis atyle, s well as for it b Jutereat, we Lakie from Lis volutn a vident which related (o cobucetion las