Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 13, 1878, Page 9

THIS CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: SATURDAY. APRIL 1%, 1878~ - e ——_—_—— —— e —— LVE PAGES) 9 LITERATURE. Journey “of Two Thousand Five Hundred Miles in a Paper uskin’s “ Arladne Florentina > and *Ethics of ‘the Dust” ---Brazilian Inscets. yeer Dishes in China«s«Literary and Art ltems-==Histore ical Fiction. 1ora Round Abont Chicago: The Oak Family---Snake-Charming— LITERATURE. A LONG CANOE-VOYAGE, AGL OF THE PAPER CANOE: Jounxzy or 2500 MiLrn, 1x Gure or Mxxico, Dunixg THE ler’ Walk Acrosa e McClurg & Co. ‘A ninc montha? voyage in & solltsry canoe is ) enterprire that by its novelty and magnitude scites the livellest Interest. Me, McGregor, in 1s famous *'Rob Roy,’” taught adventurous irits the charm of navieating strange watcrs ya conveyance 8o small and light that It conld handled nlone, allowirg Its ownor a fecling t independence and frcedom in his travels gqualing that of the pedestrian, ssbeen followed by a multitude of canocists “plaring the water-courscs of Europe snd merica, but wo have rolovged & tour as this of Mr. Bishop, from Quebee o to orthwest coast of Florlda,—a alstauce of 2,500 \les, Mr, Bistop developed an aptitude and osndness for travel at a very carly age, having raversed the contlnent of South America on oot at the ago of 17, After thls brave begin- {og we may uot “be surprised ‘at any achieve- jentof his tn the ssme line which requires ournge, akil}, and cndurance for its accomplish- not heard of so 3r. Bishop started on bis boating expedition 1874,—leaving Quebea s largoe wooden canoe, elghteen feet long, nd welghing, with oars, rudder, mast, and sail, 00 pounds. The size of this vessel demanded aassistant in managlug It; consequently tho raveler was nttendod by a sailor for the first (0 miles of s voyage. A weck was consumed athe rough passagze of 140 miles from Quebee oSorel, n town situated at the confluence of 1¢ Richelieu or Sorel River with the 8t, Law- ince. The Richelicu opencd an easy avenus of ighty mites to the head of Lake Champlain, ‘hich Mr. Blshop males out to bo not atove 13miles lonz. Following along the western tork of the lake, the Champlaln Canal was en- ered at Whitchall, and exchanged for tho Erfo ‘anal at Troy. At Albany Mr, Bishop disearded the boat ‘hich bad brought lim thus far for a anoe from the inanufactory of Measrs, Waters of Troy, the luveutors and role vessels made of this materin stiffness, speed, awl nodel, My, Bishop aeclores that tho paper boat awithout o rival; and his slm to bo regarded as an authority in tho mat- e, The minlature craft In which he nuw em- arked was fourtcen feet fn length, onc-clgh tanfoch In thickness, and welghed ity-cight “ When I took on board at Philadel- il writcs the tourist, ** tho canvas deck- orer and the rubber strap which secured it in temorulug of July 4, experience entitles ponge, provisfon-basket, of charts,—I own welght fucluded (130 pounds), srovisfoned for n long crufse, fell considerably bortof the weight uf three Saratorn t. wntalolog 8 very mindest wardrobe for a lady’s our wecks' vigit ut a fashionable watering- ilace? Tt was {mpossibla to cay iitln to the nccessary articles freighting the *Marfa Theresa'; thérefora Mr. B ented hitmself withia pocket-revolverashis only 1earm. The 218t of October witneased his first trial of ke paper canoe, in which he then embarked for Adescent of the Hudson, topureus bis Journey alone, ruwing through the laslight hours when the weather was uot too tewpestuous, and seeking shelter for tho night ! the fun or dwelling nearest when durk- s overtook him, or, these lacking, alecping fobis boat drawn up on Jand, and converted, as et mieht be with its limited accommodatious, ‘Throughout his voyago r. Bistion resgectod the Babbath by resting on thatday, With tho exception of a very few daysapent with friends ac one or two polits on theway, Uis travels were teguarly continued, sithmerely the seventh day's futerval spent “Mv York was left Oct. 27, tho course of the Maria Theresa ” thence runuing through the straits forming the western boundary of Btaten ind, up the Raritau River, along the canal this with the Dolawarc, and so to la, whk-{ll !rnl llcl“hmt by‘ lm?’ i:illllt.. rilon of his route, Mr. 0] Temarke that “ Professional men take more hE \ereal in canoe-Journuys than protesslonal cors- ly all'the canocists of my ae- juaintance are ministers of the Gospel. It 18 in lonocent way of obtalning relasation; sud Oppurtunities this offercd the weary clergyman H Noture in her ever-changing but d“" restful moods, must indecd be gratoful being for months in daily contuch with the flesh, and the devil.” *City of Brotherly Love ™ Mr. Bisbop ipped and provisioned his canoe for the louz 1ze before him, Al was ready by Nov. 9y~ i o Monday, on which” ho sct forth . While passinje along the west shore of Wware Boy at its widest point, the canvelst the only serious accldent that befcll bisentirs Journey, Tho heavy seas run- M ihe time swepl over his diminutive 1 lling it through the opening of the can- Finally a great wuve ssel completely over, snd her car- ug on the canvas duck-cloth, held her Its vwner quickly ron‘men!. -:;;I )nluu o ‘l{]m -'n‘m- n g0 hold on tho slip- ;!kr‘v Sldes of tho boat, which rolled about 8 porpolse, To take his own account *iug testod and proved futilo tho kind sugges- iers on mariue dlsasters, and feellng water, T struck out in almost tion for the shure, ullvxll:l :x; llllu 'llmm:l-u):m 'lfl"“l' - ead sud shoul '8 {n sucl '“5:'::1&11 t:»hl:” .{uund {lculll t got 3 apension hy'lj:‘.l pay whfl' He was thenceforth filon bed-chamber. 2l frum bis enyi, ed my lar , Bostri pressing-down aod buryl a3 Ibey broke upon my head sud ratood” tha reason why 0 wan, re drownca In attempting Lo reac! 8 wreck on a anual, though blm':lng llx!:luvlly, nothing. At such %, 40 5oL atop to make vows us 1o how you bor ju future If ouce safcly t as you mever fought d mo fat ou wy face. imming and crawliag, I & closer resem. ched on the shore) % Vonus, who was borne gracefally of the sky-refectig w kllltnn fosw swaitiug ber. clf up the hard shivgle, the 0 danced about to keep from freez- 8 cunoe neared the shore, when bo e er, end concluded & sovere rlogiug her safe to land. A sult & Ue Up 10 rubber-cloth was the only mnnw“d in ber cargo, sud [n tbis Mr, B wnfiu to fucaschis wet and beaumbed 8, o the fey wind beay mercilessly ®ood old braudy warmed llr“y xLl‘sz.hv. hfm\:u -;lq b, soaked outfit an damages facurred in tho dhuler.. Ienlopen to Norfoll m{f." the 4 A, W the wates u:‘. trumud from the ruu::)::m uarrow, sandy [slands, 8¢ o these interior of the :“Ecnt lgflun to lulets, aud ase wost navigable for vesscls of light draft, Norfolk aiter a three days’ H(errn. was lefv hehind Dec. 4. The rowte down the Alhemacle & Cliesapeake Canal led into the sheltcred waters atill stretching along the coast, behind low bar- ricades of aand. Mr. Bishop had a gencral let- ter from the Sccretary of the Navy,whichopened to bim the lighthouses alopg the shorc, as he had need of their hospitality to protect him from storms and the discomforts of camping out at nlfiht. While describing the generous entertainment aftorded him in these places, Mr. Bishop men- tlons the fact that many wild-fowls are de. stroyed by dashing sgatust the lantesns of the llght-towers st night. At Body Island Beach, the lighthouse-keeper fnformed bim that, “During the Orst winter sfter the new loht- tower was completed, the snow-geese, which winter on the lsland, would frequentiy at night strike the thick glass panes of the chamber, and fall senseless upon the flovr of the wallerv. The sccond season lhe{ did not In a single {nstanco repeat the mistake, but had seemingly becoma educated to the character of thoaan- ger: Thoe cut across Ilatteras Inlet—a perllous tidal gateway of the occan—had heen ' preatl drgaded by the canveist, who had even fil-l h(n nlght houts tormented with fears of 1t. But it was made without mishap, [t was a lonely, un- {nhabited place, where no help In case of dis- aster could be counted upon, and, as the trav- cler approached it, nstrong ehb was running out to sea. He writes that, ' Upon catering I thought of the sharks which tha shermen had told ine frequently selzed thelr oars, enapping tho thin bladea in pleces,—assuring me, at the same time, that miue would prove very attractive, beingso whito and glimmering {n the water, and offering the samo glittering fascination aa a sfivers spoon hait does to bluc-fish. ‘Theso cheerful suggestions caused o pecullar creenlng sensa- tion to come over me, but I tried to guict my. acif with the beliel the sharks had foilowed the bluc-fish into deeper water to escape tho cold weather.” Pulling with all his strenath, the oarsman carried his boat safely over the rapld currents and by the threatening shoals, when suddenly the waters around him * scethe and foamed, and the short waves parted and closed, as great creaturvs rose from the decp fnto the alr scversl feet, and then fell heavily into tho seo. My tiny shell rocked and pitched about wildly as these anlmnls appeared and dls- appeared, leaping from the waves all around me, diving under the boat snd reappearing on the opposite side. They tashed the current with thelr stronz talls, and sunorted or blowed most dismally, For an {instant sur- priso and alarm took such posscasion of me that not a muscle of my arms_obeyed my will, and the canoe commenced to drift “{n the driviog stream towards tho open sen. This confusion was only momentary, tor. as soon as I discovered that my companions wera por- poiscs, avd onlyold acqualntatcrs, [ determined to avold them as soon as possible.” These fris- ky fishes, though very fricndly, were dangerous companions, nevertficless, as, in their swift plunges and dashes about and under the frall canoc, one stroke of the tall would have cap- sized it and Its owner. and made n quick ending of both, The canoelst outrode this danger, aa he had done cvery other, and, as shaliow water waa reached, lis aquatic comrades—a crowd of hue fellows, measuring from fve to scven feet, and welghing from 200 10400 pounds each— parted from him with s loud nasal farewell, As Mr. Bishop proceeded along the borders of the Bouthern States, bis Jodgings were even more frequently found in the squalid cabins of the negroes or of the poor whites, Hemet with pencrous treatment everywhere, and, among the more intclligent, news of the progress of the wonderful voyager in the paper canoo traveled far in advancé of him. Llls endeavors to givean equivalent In money for the uc:tnnmodation of a ‘Jel.l oraplace for his blanket by the fire, or for the best fare which the houscholder's larder afforded, were always unsuccesstui, The uni- veranl kinduess and courtesy exhihited to the lonely traveler were perlfectly expressed by the owner of a wretched log cabin jo the wiklerness, 1o whom ho was indebted fora m?m.'n enter- tainment, **8tranger,” slowly artlculated the man, ¢ stronger, I bave known white men to be niggers enough to take a stranzer's moncy for loduings and vittles; but I am not that maa.”! ‘The paper canoo was tho subject of open-cyed wonter and curlous luvuuanuun wherever it camo to land. * Bhe's the dog-gonedest thing 1 aver sced, and jist a8 putty a3 a new coffin!” exclafmed one, a raltsman on a Southern river, » Indeed, shie’s the bandsomest trick 1 ever did blink on,” said another. *‘That fetlor will make hissel! a coflln outof thatyere gimerack of an egg-shell,"” was the remnark of a third; while all fingered tho Mitle craft, to bo sure that it really was of paper: and many dented it with their uails, sud some even stuck their kuile- blades lnto its sides, to make sure there was no decoptlon in tho account given of {ts mauufac- ture. OnSundnys Mr, Blshopsometimesattended the meetings of the the necroes, or *de shoutings* as they oro sopropriately named by the w -hliwu. On ono occasion, bo relates, * A negro girl, decked with vibbons, called across the strect to a young colored delluq{mm: *You no goes to do sloutings, Sam! Why furl You neber hears me shout, honey, &nd dey do say 1 shouts so urcu*. Come 'long wid me now " ‘Che * Maria Theresa” arrived at tho mouth of the Bt. Mary's River, which divides Georzia from Florida, without haviog entered the onen ocean fn all its course, save once, when its owner mistook his wn{ and for n few moments ruds on the breast of the broad sen, Ina few fustances ho made a sliort portage from neccs- sity or for convenlence, but, with these excep- tiona, ho had found easy and clear navigation for bls littlo craft from his first starting-polut, The translt across Florida was made by means of the 8t. Mary's and the Suwance Rivers, and ashort overland connection, While In these waters ho frequently encoun- tered olligators, but all terrur was wholly. on tho side of the saurlans. There was grave renson to fear the deadly water-moceasin (1'rles ono cephalusp!scivorus), however, thousands ol which were et in passtng through the swamps along the Buwanee. ‘This reptilo Is about two feet long and five or six inches round, Tho color {8 a dirty-brown, aud the talt ends fu o horny point ahout a hulf-lnch in leogth, This {s harmiess, despite the popular bellet that, when it strikes cltlicr animal or plant, the blow {s fatal. The bite of the snako is vory polson- ous, oven more 8o than that of tho rattlcanake. ‘Tno Buwanee had overilowed its banks at the thne of Mr, nl-huu‘lanurney.-nu the moccasing had taken to the low Tlinbs of the trees and tho upper parts of the bushes, whers they scemed to b busking ln tho sunlight. As his canos ghded slong the shore, & few foct from the rep- tiles, they would drop sluggishly fnto the water to hide from sight. Yet the moccasin is by no means Umid by nature, and, if wet ‘some dis- taoce from land, will "lrcquenu{ enter the ca. noe for refuge or for reat; and lustances have been known whera the occupant hos been s alarmed as to jump overboard and swim ashore 113 order 4o escapo from the mallzuant reptile.” Un the 20th of March, 1875, ucarly nino months from thedate of his depsrture from Quebee, Mr, Blshop rods out of the Suwancs fnto the Guif of” Moxico. As ho hlmsell ex- pressed t, *'The ¢Maria Theresa® danced in tho sbimmering waters of the great Bouthern Sea, and my heart was light, for my voyage was over.”” ‘The detuils of the lung sud intercsting Journey are vory agrecably related by bim, al ina manger that proves him tohave skili fn natural bistory and in belles-letires, as well as in caunoe-traveling, Tho mops of his route, with which bis book is abundantly supplied, wero drawn and cograved at the United States Coast-Burvey Bureau, and arc, for their size, the nost complete delineations of the United Btates const that have ever been publisbed. TRUSKIN. ARIADNE FLORENTINA: Bix LcTumEs oN WaoD axn Mrrat. EXuBAVING. WITU APrgu- wix, Given Hefore tho University of Oxfued, in Michaelmas Terw, 1872, Hy Joux Hussix, LL. D, Plates. 12mo.." pp. 21, Price, $1. TIE BTHICS OF THE DUST: TN LEcTusEs ro Lirtie Housswives ox Tux ELEXEXTS OF HY aTALLIZATION, By Joun Ruskiw, LL.D. Sucoud Edition, ~With New Freface snd Add Note, New York: Jobn Wiley & Sune, Ch! soen, MeClurg & Co.” 12mo., . 201, This new cditlon of the * Arfadue Florentina® alffcrs from the old one in having sn appendix coutaining a half-dozen short articles, tho most important of which discusecs the prescut state of engraviugin Evgloud. Italso has twelve full-page plates which are oot foundin the cheaper coplos of the firat edition. The work is, on the whole, s very uoble one, clevated o tone, sud full of ethical acd bistor- fcal teaching. I this, as in most of his books, Ruskin lmbues his readers with a lofty fdes of the misslon of Art, and of tho rovercuce, hon- esty, and purity of purpuse that must charac- terize every great and good work. it bolds coustantly befors the mind the doctrine that the most cxalted Idcals aro alone thoso which the artist, 1lks every other earuest and aspiring laborer, should try to zeallze, to represent, to admire, and to imitste. The worth of the buok lies much less tu the information afforded with respect to eograviog—although this s by no meaus slight io amouut aud value—than in the stimulus it gives to the fotellectust sud moral oature, locltiog o 'fm!uundcr love of truth io pr!ncl&e and conduct, a keeucr appreciation of what {s really beautiful fu tho natural and the spinitus! world, sud & warmer saplration to pur- sue right sud bigh alws in life. 1t would sppesr from Ruskio’s later writings that he carcs lcss for the were attractious of style than ho uacd to Jo, aud that ho ls much moare fntent upon the thouzht he has ta finpart than upon the manner of cxpresalng It Yet he saya, In the beginning of the firat lecture: **None of my writings are_cdone fluentiy; the sceond volume of Modern Painters was dll of it written twice—mont of ft, four times—overs and thesa lectures have been written, I don't know how many times. You may think that this was done merely In an author's vanity, and not fn & tutor's case. ‘To the vanity I plead wullty,—no manis fore (ntensely vain than I am; but my vanity I8 sct on having it known of mo tnst I am 8 good mastor not in having it satd of me iba am s smooth sathor, My vanity fs neyer more wounded than {n being called a fino writer,—~meaning that nobody necd mind wha' Isay.’ Agaln he remarka, In a note tothe second lectuie: 1 belicve T am taking too much troublo fn writing these lectures. “This sentencs ... . hascost me, ] suppose, first and last, about as many hours a8 there are lines in 1t: and my choles of these Lwo wurds, fafth and death, a8 representatives of power, will per- haps, after all, only puzzls the yeader.” This scrnpulousness in apench, this unsparing effort toutter with clearness and exactitude what seems to him true, and therefore useful to he known, is 8 significant tralt of tte man, lels in dead enrnest In every nct and word, nnd his ardent sincerity s one of the strongest elements of his powor. ©The Ethics of the Dust *'—a scries of famil- far lecturcs, or talks, toa party of young girls upon the elementary principlesof ervetalltzation —18 reproduced by Ruskin os origina'ly printed 11 1865, save thata new preface and o note ot tha ond haye been added. It i3 the only one of the author's books {n which he hasattempted to use the colloqulal form, and it Is oue on which, nccording to lis own_statement, he has expend- ed his best paine, It s reparded by hiw with particulsr favor, because In certain ‘of ita pas- sages theorls on political cconomy, on inoral power, on varluus theologleal tencts, and other topics of vital fmportance, INSECTS IN BRAZIL. PIONEERING IN SOUTI DRAZIL Yeans or Fonrsr ANn Pratnie Lire 1x i PrioviNce OF PAnAXA, Iy Tiovas B, - wirikn, Associate of ihe Indtituto of Civil En- ineers, ¥. . G. 8. Two vols, London: J, urray. ‘Tho suthor of thia work was ono of 8 party of ‘Engiish and ¥wedish enpincers emploved in surveying a projected line from Curitiba, near the seaport of Paranagua, which fa about 400 miles southwest of Rio de Janelro. rtenarrates some lutercsting exveriences with the inscet- Wo make the fol- lowing extracts from an English review of his Hife of the Brazilian Tropics. ‘book: The gorgeons beanties of a semi-tropical farest, with its sirane birde and uther Jovely crentiees to dalight the eye, would repsy one for a fow - iipe. **Dut, ‘unfortunately.” he says, '*thero wa# an undercareent of great miser. fally appreciated, must have becn fell.” This miecry, in_tho summerat least, and in the furest roglon, {x catired by the tormenting attacks of uev- erai diferent kinds of Insccts, Intimately acquainted with thelr nature and hablts a8 we nrommn{ the suthorin his -(vlvun abode, There are inflnite swarma of mmT“ nes: but it s ncarcely werth while to mention it well-known pest ot (ifa in the wilds, A tiny fly, called **pol. vora® from being ae ntoms of dust, Dass finesl, and beard, and aticke Iis venomona litle pro- Loacls into the skin, v carapalto,” when disturbed on tho leav twizs of the underwood in the catting of o _path, awarme up men's trowser-legs, and their flcah, It has 20 Grm n bita that, If they pluck it off, its head in left hurled deop in thelr flesh, diftuslng a virulent polron of {1s owi. The halr caterpillar, by day or nigzht counlly boantiful, with a luminous phoiphorescence In”the dark, and with o covering of bellliant liiea llke delicately- formed moss, the ends of which branch Into polat- ed antiers, inflicts with every polut of these u very palnfalsting. A cectuln mpecles of red unt has conslderable powers of tormeunting, Hut one of the worst enemies of mankind. as well as of catile and dog, (¢ a biy spotted fly, the **hotuea, "' which comen siong allently and pricks the budy of its victim. It sacks no blood aud Institts no vennmi its minute weapon, instantly witudrawn, leaves nu sorenese or irritation sl iho tove, The man thus slightly punctured docs not rub or weratch Dimeelf, but forgota it 1n snother moment, 1le 1ittle knowa that he han recelved the deposit of o “f which will soon become a wriggllog maggot, half an {nch long after one week's growih. but ca- pable of growing to an Incl d a quarter 1o length und balf "an foch In thicknces, With nve rinea of biack spikes or bristies round its body, it hass orrid trick of revolving on 18 own axis, tearing b anew by each of its hourly revolutions. ‘The author saw as many as 200 of thewe ** bernes extracted from (he body of one wrelched dowy mules and oxen, and the wild deer, suffer likowise from the hideous visitation. Wasps and hornets come ms a matter of conrse. The small black stinglees bee, which crowds every tho exposed parts of tho body vo thickly as to leave no room for the mosquito to silyit there, 1t is therefore rather welcomo ns 8 prulecior, sor it only tickles, lInstead of Dbiting. or stinging, or dibbling a verminous ega: *“out it fu tinpossible to eat lincheon withont devouring haif-a-dozes or more."" On tne other band, it fur. nishes a deliclous condimont for that meal by fts honey, stored In little bags in a bollow tree. The ants, both red and bisck, dod thelr way iato such treed, either for the buncy or the gzubs of tals bev, In Digg-Wither's opinion, the so-called ant. e st quecr beast to b seen at our Zootogicsl Gardens, dsrting s long, glutinous, whip-like tonguo from its toothless hole 0f & muuth~{u real- l{ 8 honoy-sater; apd its mighty forclegs, with their tromendous claws, could "tear open the side of 8 decayed tree, as well as the domed mound of the anw' aubstantially-bullt dwelliog, South Amure ican insacts are not all houtile and hateful: there aro some of wondrous lovelines e nlahtly diae player ‘Bre-fllea alung both banks of the river, orming two walis of flashing briillant sparks, rfeccted in the rln\d water aluny walch the canoe lnfll{ |l-|ulux between them, was au exquisitely-beantiful sight. Now and then, shootlng out from the aark forest and ukln.f ita Migbt scross the Bluminuted rver, with a deep ronring sound asit flew through tho ubper alr, came tho great Aro-beotln, careying 8. paie of bright lamps on its shouldersand a phosphorescent light in Jta tatl, The effect of ite paseage {s con- ured to thot of & corclage with a pair of coscl amps o o countey-lsue on a dark wight. ‘T superb moths, too, and the variety of butterflics, are very attractive, Thero is great interest in the curlous Imitative aoceptions of natural stricture In the Insects resemblingt Jeaves or twiges thero ls the “ipraying mantls,” (0 lts demuro ude watch- ing to suize & 0 nd many snotber object in- vl&l ontomological study, ~ Thut we msy well suppose that Mr Dlgg-Wither got mors than , emough of personal scquaintancs with the lnsect-life of that reul ‘fhe plague of commun Beas alone, Which b jogs brought into his camp, robbed him of sleep for wmany succes- uive nights. e touk rofuye fn @ solltar for him at a distance ugp the rivor; aliowing nobody slse to noar it, ho used to padd bedtime, undress and leave hls clothes in the canoe, plunga into the water, and thencs walk up naked into his dormitory, Lo bo safo from tho fess. 1t wos uj Jagasr aftes it, crashied ouainat his tral) **rancho" With & teerific uprosr, stariling the Junely sleeper not a Jittle, MOTHER (OOSE. THE LAWRENCE ** MUTHER GO0S| Lionrrun, KVvRNIKO'S ENTRITAINMENT, ExrLieir Paacnicat. INsTaucTions son Cawmre Hm li)‘a'r & Buccssarus Procuanus, Dy K, D, . Price 75 cents, THE ORIGINAL MOTHER-GOOSE MELODIES, WITH BILHOURTTE lLLustsaTions. By J. F. (oopuipuy, Prico, 76 cents, Hoston: Les & ghepard, Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co. A Dz Varlous formis of lght, humorous entertalns mont for the parlor or the public ball have been constructed out of the dramatic materials af- forded by the nursery-rhymes of Mother Goose, The foundstion is very slight indeed, and yet these nonscnsical ditties, that are popular be- yond all others Iu tho literaturo of carly child- hood, have been mads the basis of amusing tab- leaur, charactor-declamativus, pantomimic yep- rescntations, etc, ete, The apectade w Mr, Goodrioggs bas produced with _the (ncidents and situstions pre- scoted in the melodies, ¢n several thues performed with suceess belore large audiences. 1t comblnes u:\nfi with ‘acting, and may be styled an operuit: that Utle bo not too welghty for so small & trifle, The musle, with complete directions for the pre- scutation of the drawatic scenes, b published for the beneflt of au amuscimcut-loving vublic, ‘The serles of slibouctte illustrutiuns of Mather Goose do not display much power of c“vznllnn or of humor on the part of the [ o thor, yet there {s cousiderable lito aud actlon the figu ‘Fiere needs to b u goud deal saded by the artist, (u the way of wit and seatl- ment, to give interest to pletorial reurcecnt: tloas of the ratber barren doggerel which cvy body has lesrued to repeat in his juvenile days, and remembers fn later years with a sort of Tudicrous satlfaction. —— AMERICAN DECISIONS, THE AMERICAN DECISIONS: CouxTAINING ALL 7us Casks OF GENEEAL VALUB AND AUTUOU- 17¢ DEcivEp 1% Tis Counm THE BEYEUAL BTATEs, YUOX TUR EARLIZST [¥8UE O¥ TUR STATE Rsronts ro TuK YEAK 1800, ~ Compiled and Au- notated by Jouy Puorravr, LL. B.. Author of 1A Treatise on Jury-Trisl," etc. Vol. 2. O a0 v 763, Ssn Fraoclsco: A, Lo o g The commendators notices which the first vol- uma of this series obtainod at the hands of the Judiclary and Bar, when it was issucd a few moutls agv, bave naturally bad s favorable [n- fucnce ou the suttor, and, to the preface to the present volume, Lie says that ho has bocn there- by stimulated to do his utmest to reader the laborious work be bas undertaken to perforn :Jr:&y of the cordial reception it hias e0 fur re- v lusus-vaturw who would nob be encouraged, ‘The suthor wust certaiuly bo & very 0 be found the roots of bis pecullar Tunee z which, to bo We nre made rather it and a8 muititadinous as through the meslies of tho mosquita-net, them ~penctrates the halr ‘The loatheomo tick named or fastens nupon hut, bullt le up there ot none of theso nights that a taplr, aud 8 Wit when undertaling sych Jong and often Urcrome task, to receive at the ontent such general commenidation of his labor. This sccand volume 18 fully ap to the standard of the first. About twenty-five vol- umes of reports of eleven different States have been ured, out of which nearly 200 cases have been selected and abrideed for this work, The editor has taken extreme caro ta have his nylla- bus of each caae state exactly the point of the decision ns gven. A coplous indes I added, and a full index and digest ore_promised when the whole serles fs comnleted. It is intended to publish from six to twelve volnmes a year; and 1t 18 to be haped that Mr. Proffatt wiil be to complete his undertaking. —— DIGEST OF ILLINOIS LAW. FULLER'S LAW MANUAL: A Corrxp A¥p Diorat or [LLixo1s Law, DRSIGNED A8 A Gxs- or RxremeNcE ror lLriNots partant collections of foli-music and folk- rongs., the mast Intercsting of which waa brought ont in 1850, In 1870 he published his sutohiog- raphy, and fn 1871 & volume of local Jegends. The Mesars. Longmans have in press t coursc of lectures on * Carthage and the C: thazinfana " recentty delivered by Mr. R. Bos- worth Simith, at the Royal Institutfon, London. An Interesting hook shoulil be that announced by Capt. Kennedy relating his experience in & trp *To the Arctle Regions and Back In Biz Weeks—A Summer-Four to Lapland and Nor- a'ny."wlth Notes on Sport and Natural His- Ty dozen specles. ‘The White Ozk, Q. alba. one of the most valuable of North American timber- trecs, is abundant all about us. The leayes Liave rounded lobes, and are pale beoenth and green above. The Inch-long, edible acorn 18 held in a rough, saucer-ltke cup. The Borr-Oak, Q. macrocarpa. fs likewise & common species. It isn handeome, mididle-aized tree, with deeply- lobed, awn-tiopea leaves, and acorns half- covered with their mosay fringed cupules. The Black Urk, Q. nlgra, Ja met with universslly. Itls a small tree, from cight to twenty-five feet high, = with black = bark, broadl wedge-shaped teaves, rusty-red beneatl and shining abuve, and a_top-shaped cup surrounding an ovold arurn, The Bearlet Oak, q; coceines, has deeply pinnatiftd Iraves, which ol Th near it. The use of this power of movement Is connected with the fertilizstion of the flower, In the warm sinshine the flower upens wide, and the bees are _soon hard at work, and carry pollen from one flower to another, If, now, a cloud hides the sun, the temperature fals, snd the crocus begina to close, and. by tne time the sky has become overcast and the first drops of rain falls, the preclous pollen ts huused eafo be- neath the roof of petals. The crocus Ia warned of the coming danzer by the shadow of the clond, {ust as the fly is warned by the shadow of the approaching hand.”" With regard to the *‘sleep-movements™ of {xhnls‘ which consiat in the folding ot the leaf- nd of the petals, Mr. Darwin says they are not at all connected with resting. In the case of the Bensitive Plant, “although tho leafiets close llr, yet the_main stalk 13 at work all the pight through. Morcover, owing to the closing” up of the accondary stalks of the leaf, tho length of the whole organ 18 Increased, and thereforo the work done by the main stalk Is slso Increased, 8o that, far from resting ac night, the maln stalk Is actually doing more work than by day.' 2 Mr. Darwin suggests tho very fancifut tdes that plants, Ike animals, hava the Rower of dreaming. “I have teen sitting,” he says, wquietly in the hot-louse at night, walting to make an observation at & given hour, when sud- denly the leaf of a scnsitive plant has been seen 1o drop rapidiy to (ts fullest extent. and stowly rise to fts old position, Now, in this action the plant Is behaving exactly as if {t had been touched on 1t sensltive joint; thus some fnter- nal process produces the same Impression on the plant as areal external stimulus, In the same way, & dog dreaming by the fire will yelp and move his leis, as il he wers hunting a'real In the United States there were 8,070 news- papers and periodicals In 1877, and of these 709 were daily. In the United Kingdom there were. In the same year, 1,744 newspapers, of which, 133 were dally, Mr. J. W, Bouton has a copy of the Bulmer Shakspeare, orlginally In nine volumes, folio, but extended to forty” volumes by the insertion of drawings, etchings, inezzotints, and line-en- gravings, It cost the compiler $15,000 to com- plete the work. The' only, surviving afster of Keats, Mme. Llanos, has exoreascd a atrong dirapproval of the vublication of her hrother's love-lctters, Mme. Llanos has been for many years & resilent of Madrid, and fa now, at an advanrced age, re- duced to poverty by sudden reverses, The **Memoirs of Joln Brown," by Mr. F. B. Banborn, were_originally written to supply & chapter in the Rev, Samuel Orcutt’s * History of Torrington, Conn.” About 2X) coples have been atruck off to answer the demand for s sketeh of John Brown by one who thoroughly knew the character and plans of the hero of ange their green for deep-red in the autnmn. e bark is gray, and the scaly cup extends half-way or more over the acorn. The Red Osk, C. rubra, lias a shallow cup that leaves the long acorn well exposed, pinnatifid leaves turning red after frost, and dark gray bark. The Bwamp Bosnish or Pin Oak, Q. palusirls, is a spacies much Jess common In our flora than the others mentioned. Itisatres of middie size, g;nwla dln low grounds, with follage deenly ‘pinna 3 ‘Lhe oak fs from 120 to 400 years attaining its full size, and lives to the age of 600 or even 1,000 years. Tha bark abounds in_tannin, and 80 in & bitter principle called Quercine, which Is used in febrifuzes, tonics, etc. Tho acorns are nourishing food for swine, and have been often resorted to, In times of scarcity, by human beinga. Tt [s said that the bitter flavor {8 extracted by burying them in the ground awhfle. ‘The Hallotc Oak, Q. Ballota, In the north of Africa, produces acoros that are requ- ns s Atiorney for Tlouue County, cagn: B, A. Reynolds & Co. Law-sheep, 8vo., pp. 720, Price, §6, - This uresent work, the author atates, has heen prepared to supply & want long felt, not only by lawyers and Justices of the Peace, hut by business-men who desire some accurate knowledge of the laws of [ilinols as they now exist, and the manner of procceding in the maost ordinary cases arising In everyday transac- tiona. It (s wisely deslzncd only for the State ot Iingls, and the suthur Is thus able to give far more available and satisfactory information, even though bis readers must necessarily be larly marketed in Algeria and 8pain. The oaks | nstead of an imagl i lrl:m::d a’é&e:fifi yle‘:ld'z;:: :( nl;:f»mlumffl ll:,p:rl;::‘ler‘r!- & Arisaiivdi B o ekl 3: n:'I. . !":u?tlllvy hn‘vement‘l,r&;uvcl.o"l;hun(l}‘ n‘i:henmmhis‘t:zfifir f;}’:}fill’m Mr. Darwin i play of jra "arl nalis, & ¢ of e e, T o m! ] the truth 1) all “the lows of tho Biate which | pycaition will includ Websicrs and Worces: | aiz or elght fect igh, and, with siender, tou | e e e ot ooy, il will be Mkely to he wanted by busfucss-men, and nlso to furm a complete guide to Justices in the nerformance ot thetr dutfes. A large num- have abserved plants closely and loviagly will concar: “Until & man begins to work at plants; be fs apt to grant to them the word ‘alive’ In rather a meagre scuse. But, the ter's Dictionarleas Aliboue's Dictlanary ol Authors; Lippincott's Gazetteer and Blograph- fral Dictionary: translations from Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Goethe; tbe uniform edition branches, makes so cxcclient hedge-plant, Nurserrmen have perpetuated many ornsmental varietiés of osk, among which Is & Weeping Oak, with pouderous branches, and a variet: 2 more ha works, the more vivid dons the senso aro slded; also, numerous referwces to Hinols | of Tafnes ¢ Furncss Siakspoare; the elduca- | with boughs growing close to the stem, ke the | of thelr vitality become.” Indeed, ong can wl- by running hiead Jines, sub-leads, and & coplous | ors boy! ‘.1‘::.‘:‘.“ e !!::fi&::'}‘r‘.‘:fia"é'&‘;‘;:? m1"'fi2"é'3r¥°(fif' Q. suber, yiclds the cork of mm“fi;fl"fi‘:"fl"?‘ e e tolls A L d t -Oak, Q. Y ao 3 fudex. Like evory other book of the kind | Ntiley Bevant, Longleilaw, Lowell, Whitter, | commerce. It Is & native of the south of Attiss tme winu ey 50 eve Ao which attempts to'teach the science of law in & volume, it {8 oven to the charge of helng super- flclal: but, ac u law-manual and general com- pend of Nlinols Taw, It covers the ground well, and hos evidently been carefolly prepared. BOOKS RECEIVED, A Nover. Dy Mrs, Founesten, Anthor uf *‘Dolores," ete. “Philadglphia: o, I. Lip- (ncott & Co. Chlcago: Janeen, McCiurg & o, 12mn.. pp. 3. Price, $1.50. THE CADEL-BUTTON: A NOVEL oF ANERICAN An re. Uy FREDERICK WHITTAKEIL Author ifo of Gen, George A, Cunter, " efc, New Sheldon & Co, Chicago: Janm & Co. 12mo.. Fhi 168, " Frice, $ D STORY OF BLIZABETH: A No Mise TiacKERAT, Phliadelphia: 7T, B. Peter- Chicago: Jlansen, McClurg & Co. o Bp: 224 Price, 81, 8UP) TIION IN ALL AUES. Ty Jonx MEsiign, 8 lloman-Cathollc Priest, Translated from the French Umd‘l!al by ! Axxa Kxoor, New York: Puolished by 3Mies Anna Lnoop. J. a0, 'rlt!.il.IrO. TIIE SECOND DEATIH, AND TUE RESTITU- TION OF ALL TUINGS: Witn Soux Puriine 12 NATURE AND TX8PHA- INARY RENARKS O TioN oF oLy Beiprung LerTen 1o A Sixth Editlon. Friexn, By ANDREW JURES, 12mo., pp. Holwnes, Eincrson, Thoreau, and tawthorne; Serimer’s Monthly, Harper's Magasine, St Nicholas, the Atlantic, and other cxamples of American periodical liteenture. Europe and north of Africa, and s a thickly- branched tree, from twenty to forty feet high. Its cvergreen leaves are entlre, with cerrated cdges, and the frult resembles the chestnut In taste. The outer, dewd layers of the vark have the spongy, ccliular tlssue with which every one ia famillar, 1f not removed, they crack and flake off in larze pleces. The cork gathered for use is atripped off a year or two before it would naturally fall away, and this process is repeated every six or cight years. A trec will yietd erops of vork for nearly 150 years. From the Gall-Oak, Q. lufectoris, » scrubby bush inhabiting Asia Minor, the largzest oak- galls are obtained. They are profuced by the sting of the gall-insect, Cynlus fnsana, aud arc the size of a plum, and highly colored. These are the Dead-Sca avoles or apples of Sodum, atteactive to the eve, but filled with a eritty, bitter substance that I8 like ashes on the tongtie. Several other spectes of oak yleld galls that are used, like these, In ayeing. Tue {nsect called "Kerwes, which has been much employed as a dycstufl, fs found on the leaves of thé Kermes-Ast, Q. cocellera. a low shrub, with evergreen, sviny leaves, llke the Holly. It grows In Southeastern Europe, where many persons make a livelinood by col- lecting the Kermes, Coccus flicls, from iis leaves. ‘The female Insect attaches ltaelf to the vaung follage, and remains immovable, grow- BRIEF NOTES. An International Congréss of Botany and Hortlculture will beheld in Parls in August, the seaslons bezioning on the J0th, M. Tisserand, the Director of the Tonlouss Observatory, has been nofninated successor to M. Leverrier In the French Academy of Bel- cnces. The chlef discovery made by the African ex- pedition under the late Capt. Elton was that of an extended range of mountalns cslled the Kondl Mountains, from 12,000 to 14,000 fect high, 1t1s situsted north of Lake Nyassa, and inay prove to Le continuous with the Livinz- stone chaln discovered b{(.\lr.E D. Yoong. On the northern side of the Kondl ranze there is an cievated platfurm 7,000 feet above the which descends abruptly to the valley of Rufigi River. The attempt to cultivate the Cinchona of- flcinalis In fndin hos proved a faflure, but the C. succlruba ¢hrives well on the Sikkim planta- tlons, From the bark of this tree the *Cin- choua febrifuge” 1s prepared,—s substance which I8 considered by many medical practition= ers In India to possess 8o nearly the nroperties of nulaine that, in ordinary cases of fever-and+ HISTORICAL FICTION. . There are some valuable hivts with regard to the uses of instorical novels and dramas, put forth by Mr. Justin Winsor, of Harvard Uni- versity, in an article In the last Zibrary Journal, The aim of Mr, Winsor's paper {s to show how » college-library s to bo utlllzed by college- classes lu_history, lterature, cte.: but the sug- gestions he presented go fur beyond thelr fn- tended spplication. Readers aud students out ot school will flod their interest in a work of flction introducing historical personsand events greatly enhsnced by supplementing Its perusal with an fuvestization of the nctual facts which have been seized by the novelist as the basis of lls romance, As Mr, Winsor remarks, the *al- lurements of research” are vcr{ rarely under- stood by student or readers butaslight ex- perience reveals the extent and charm of this very profitable amusetent, Mr. Winsor supposes a Professor addressing his pupils {n history fn the following manuer: ¥ Gentlemen, we will take upin March the erlod of the Norman Conguest of Engziaud. L] London: Longmans, Green & Co. 14, Fl#.\( GROUND: Tuovents ox Lire i zaTi, DBy GEonok McKxient, Sterling, N. Y.: Published by the Author, 12mo., bo, 131. fug to the slze of o pes. The Kermes are | agne, it may be substitutea for the latter. The PER'S GREEK AND LATIN ' TEXTS, 1'? "fl"ilfl,fl. you r}luct b prepared on Bulwer's | oraped off the trees with the finger-natl, aud Siuituge is belng made in Indla at the rate of ATONIS: Distoor VI, Ex Recenslona C, | + Harol b paniase Ehe, vventes and compare | (peoien into vinezar, after_which they are dried | 4,000 bounds per year. it appears in the form lznuag cc:x‘f?x [Fparact: Apud ll;nrx::;:a ‘):“’_;':_v""‘um‘; "““l‘e{““ M’:fmsl'":&:’f“’;fi"'i’i‘{(‘; in the sun or in an oven. Theyare then used to | of s fine white powder, which turs bufl with T & Co. “1Bmo.. po. 4a7. Price, 60 | Kingaley's * Hereward,' and critfcié his cstl- dyz 8 bload-red color. e, s soluble in weak ncils, and may be ngree- B e t ocbie dioens | o Tveleaves af the Manaa-Oulc Q. maunifers; § aliyedministored u lemonfulre, enin. BEED-TIMFE - AND HARVEST: A Novei. found in the mouutains of Kurdistan, secrete i i 52 menel:s from Tustorte teath. Mr. A o cl b Dr. Carpenter mentfons, in his ‘* Mental ;m;’.;"}fd Jeau the oLt Mine 8tromtid ™ of | yammond,” [ leave for vou Napier's ‘}:’l"t‘tf fi‘:,?fi:h:z;::!u:{:fig,fi’%fl:: o :,:::ff; Physiology,"” the care of & bov whoso brain had Philadelpala: J. 8. Lippin- ‘hicago: dan: MecClurg & Co. &vo., pp. 202, Price, . MARGARET CIETWYN A Noven, By Svaan MonLey, Author of *‘Thrasticthwaite, ** ete. novel of *Wiliam the Condueror®; may treat the book - in an {llustiative of the tlme. you Way you piease, as Mr, Snortman, I want you to compare Tennyson's ‘larold’ and received some injury which deprived him of the faculty of specch” and of recopnizing other minds, yet left him with an extraordinary sense oforder and regularity. Thus, oue dsy, his esteemed, The Live Oak, Q. vircus, on ever- grecn speces aboundiug In the Bouthern States, furnisties timber that ls. for Its harduess and h durabllity, of great value in shipbulldiug. Philadeipbia: J, B. Lippincott & Co. Chicago: | Leighiton's *Sons of Godwin® ny plots, whure 1 halr belug cat at ten minutes past 11, he' pre- Jonseny McClurg & Co. 12mo,, pp, 450. [ the movement I8 more or less rezulated by his- ,.fi',',‘,"&‘{’fie"ifi;‘cflf"fimr'e'r'rf.},fii.‘r” :'?o:‘: sented_ himeelf at exactly the ssme moment Price, $1.60. torleal recorids, dnd give us a plcture of Saxon | proseful, flexucus branches are orored on the | cvery day after, with comb, towel, and shears, England at that time as you read it in these re- spective dramar, The rest of you, gentiemen, 1 refer for study to the authorities.”” Mr, Win- son goes on Iarther in layiug out work for the class, but enongh has been quoted to indicate the manuer in which historical tition nay be made the means of dellzhttul wstruction, and would not be pacified uatll & fock of his Dbalr bad been suipoed. This minute punctuality was accumplished witbout any kuowledge of clocks or watches. . i, THE COUNTRY-PREACHER'S PHILOSOPHY. [Exztract from a lenger Tvem entisled ** The Mori- gage.") upper, alde wich a tine spray of short, upright brauchlets, The rounded, Dillowy masses of folfage. swaylne nr and down In the breeze with a gentle, undulating motion, give this tree o pecultarly drenm(‘ and poetic charm. The fluwers appesr with tbe leaves in the spring, and the sweet-tasting fruit every one ki #peches 1s rare hicreabouts, but occurs ran City. We biave one specles of the pretty Hazel-nut, Corylus Americatia, growing {u sbundance in our thickets. It isa shrub Sowering esrly fn sprinz, and bearing sfterward thin, double- toothed leaves. Toe nuts are edible, but fn- ferlor to the fruit of the Asiatic apevics, C. Avellana, which is known in the market under the name of Filbert. The Hop-Hornbean, Ostrya Virginica, s not common, yet s fouud near Winnetka. Itlea slender tree, with foliage resembling tho Birch, aud fruit, full-grown in August, attracting the attention from its curious slmilarity to the frult of the llnr. The woad of the Hornbean is s0 bard that it is often called Iron-wood. Che same popular names distinguishing the above are also given to the species Carplous Amerlcang, which is occasionally mingled with e forest-trees along the Deaplalnes River at Riverside. This last {s a tall shrub or tres, ten to trenty feet hich, and with the charucterlstic appesrance. in follage and {nflorescence, of the Fateus and omxa. The bark is smooth and gray in hue, sod the woud, white and hard, '[,ne Chestnut, Castanes, s o member of the Cuperlifers, but the genus {s not represented in our flora. PERIODICALS RECTIVED, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TIIE MEDICAL RCl- ENCES—-April_(ilenty €. Lea, 1'blladelpbla. Edited by Dre. Tsaac linys and 1. Minis Hays. ) FAMILIAR TALK. CITINESE DISHIIES, Some of the queer dishes with which the Chi- neso supply their tables were described fn these columus Iaat week, but therc are others wmen- tioned by Dr. Gray in his very valuable work on China, which arc quite as strange and asworthiy of nutice. A boverago termed snake-wino is s0ld by Chisese drugiriets, and held in estcem as o remedy for various bodily llls. It cogsists of water and wine io whizh «uakes bave been bolled to a pulp, ¢ The flesl of the snake,” says Dr, Gray, *'is nlso eatca by fuvallds; the head is cut off by the well-aharpened edge of a plece of poreelain, and the body, skinned by some implenient, s fried or bolled, The flesh ia then cut {oto small pieces, which are caten well mixed with the minced fiesh of a fowl." Several curious preparations are manufac- tured from beans, which are & favorite vegeta- ble with the Celestials. Ono of these dishes 1s called bean-curds. It is mado by reducing the beans to flour, which s sifted through (o cloth, and then bolled for an hour over a slow ART GOSSIP. Work on the new wing of the Bostod Mu- seumn of Fine Ares wlll begin ln May, The plan provides for o large plcture-zallery, an # Allston Reom.” apartments fur cabinet-plet- ures, casts, etc., etc. Mr. Toiman Hunt, who has been serionaly {il at Jerusalem, {8 now recovering, and {s expected to return to Encland ot Easter, e will oring with hlm an {mportant picturc which is very nearly completed. o Qeorge Crulkshank left a considerable collec- tion of his works, couststing of bouks, priuts, and water-color drawings, which he was reluctant to part with during his life-time, but which will now be offered at public sale. It Is sald that the original desigus of the Mustrations Lo * Oliver Twist,” and & serles of desigus for thie Falatall illustrations, are cmbraced in the collection, The Connecticut Museum of Industrial Art, establishied in New Ifaven fn 1870, alins to work, on a reduced scale, after the plan of the Insti- tutfon at South Kensington. 1t ia Intended to promote the prosperity and artistic improve- 8ti rode the old man on s anclent gray, ‘To his appointments scrapulous, #s he went smdyl:r bis most jmmediate text;and whether chl The wintry sky hong o'er him, or the fanking wood 00ds Exhaled thelr summer-wealth of scent and song, Tiis thought was busy In sdvisement with his neact,. What things to sav: for be it borne 1n mind s place-assuciated common-senss had made him uite GUIltanAR. Tl favorite symbols were the tools Wherewitn his hearces caut tlelr way to worldly rest— ' The patient ax, that cbi the forests down; The g:e-klng-xlow. thnf m Earth's rooty warp Beam.deep; the singing sickle, and the scythe— Ieneficent destroyers, belted ta the will Of forettiought; snd that painted Juggernaut, The *'thrash-machine,” that yearly went Ies founds, With ;m&unlu: Judgment severing wheat from cha To him, hisever-tressured Blble was & providence, Unstrict in intellectual statement, yet of dod the same— A cosmical accretion, apirit-shaped throogh man, ‘And holding nourisnment for variant motives bors Of kindly differcoces, Decessary to the st " ment of the {ndustries of Conuecticut, by ex £ Sanddent batngs, plased apon Lo bonnd . . Gray, © t 4 "Twist dark and light, to chooss thelr :‘::‘ (ol:?filcfij:l:::‘::'h,':vl:lelzl?'nr‘:“;:cpl::: hibiting in_the Muscum spectinena of the best SNARE-CIHARMING. ‘And find thelr triampo 1a the proper cholco. manufaetures of the State, with various exam- ples of fndustrial and uxlrllufl art, and glso by wnalntatning schools in 81l branches of art, un- der the ausplees of the institution. A palntug representing *The Trlumph of Bacehus,” and suld to be a” genulue Rubens, Is un exbibition at the Musoum of Fine Arts in Bostou. it was purchased by the Hon. 8. O'Sul- livan fn Lisbou, whije he wis United States Minister to Portuial, some thirty vears ago, It was sold to hin by a uoble family who wera re- dueed to the necesaity of parting with treasurcs of art and heirloums in thelr possession, It was sent to the Rubens Festival Antwerp last vear, and was thers pronounced the work of WNuveas and his puplis, the sirokes of the mas- ter belng distintetly recognizable, TIE “ ART JOURNAL.' ‘The Art Journa! presents its readers this month with o Qo engraving after Mr. Daniel Huntineton's rather recent palnting’entftied “ Philosophy and Christiag Art.” The orlzinal work was exliblted at the Natlonal Academy of Deslgn In 1560, and at the Centennial two years ago, und has been much admired for ts rich coloring and the Ous sentlment pervading it during the night, to be resdy for the inorning mual. No socner has the sun arlsen thon men uy be seen in almost every street of the large cities aud towns of Kwanztung, sclling the mueh-relished preparation, Itrescmbles blane- mango so much that, for mauy months after wy arrival at Canton, I quits ghouglit that it was sometning of that kind Another popu- 1ar tnethod of cooklug beans is to place them in jars tillea with very clear sprinc-water, The water §s changed every four hours for & perlod of seven duys, ut the end of which each besn will be found tohave sent forth a tender shoot. 1u thils condition the vegetable 1s suld in tho markets us o great dalnty, ‘Uhe liat of frults ruised bytho Chincso in thelr gordens snd orchards fs very lonw, aml tcomprites the peact, apricot, cuatard-upple, rose-upple, pine-apple, pear, plum, waluut, date, vocoa, plalntaju, banung, persfinmon, vite ron, oratge, lewon, '}l‘""“" guava, olive, pome- ratiate, and vine, T ey nlao bave o frait called I-chi, **which {s of thy size of a strawberry,~ the stone being fuclosed 1a woft, succulent pulp ot yery delicious flavor; the Jung-ugunm, or dragon's eyes the wampee, whose fruit, sbout the size of a pigeon's ege, s much estecmed; and the carambaolo.” Orchards devated ta the culture of the carambolo are very numerous, ‘A Earth came not from the Creator's hand A caitared sphere, but full of anpruned stre In conquening which, snd leading to swout use, The ¢rcature mlght dad feld within the wil QF Gud to assert bis own, and feel The glory of achievement as a crown self-won; Ho eame tha Spiritual Word unpraned from God— Not sootho and perfect, a4 & revelation closed, Buy r:hniked with imperfections, records doubt- able; Tracts for dissent as well as faith to grows Wild myths, requiring cultivation for thelr trath; Caverns of question; battie-fields of argument And hiatorles whose dim voices prayed for Christ Until e came; aud, over all thia maze, Biar-points of wisdum in & sky of thought, Farever untratiaccudabls by finite speech, Leaving & realm for falth above the loftlest sap: ence. +¢Chide not the gnorant error of the P e said, **1t le vur intellectanl provi Nor scorn the motive that thy neighbor owns For caliiug on the name of God moat hig For different ure the tralts that serye as vl ringe In different natures to Redenntivn's touch. As prisoned germs must quicken iu the dark, Amf»c impelled at st by earthly force Toward thie physical fajth and glory of the light: So, in the vory subsoil of our Aeshiiness, Motives inuat work that are the kin of dark, crude and unreined, ou} toward the liberty of Falth!" ning® he clussed his panshes, and A very interesting description of the manner 1n which the suake exerciscs Its power of charin- ing Is furnished by & correspondent lu Forest and Stream. That the snake has any peculiar taculty of fascination, {s disputed by mauy writers on sclence; but the evidence presented in the incldent to wbich we have alluded, and proceed to quote, atronely tends to prove tho aflirmative of the question. The observer who relates the story was, at the time or lts occur- rence, & boy of 18, living fn the Town of Lynn, Cunn. While passing, une sorning in April, throuih o rocky and bushy placein some timber- land, his attention was arrested by a rattling of the dry leaves at thie distance of a rod or two. Pausing to dlscern the cause, ho saw a black snake, five or six feet long, moviug two or threc {nches of tho end of its 2all in rapld or quivers {uiz vibrations among the leaves. As be bad often noted the same performance by striped snakes, be (et no surprise, but stood watching 1t unconscions of danger, +In & few tnoments,” says the narrator, *the vibration was 8o rapld that I could only see it without any form. It was ke a splint or straw {n a stroug wind, fastened at one end, 0 rapld nnd in the autumn, when the fruit'ls ripe, they | A second engraving rcpresents Landscer's | was its motlon. Boon aiter looking st it, the prescned & Ware fu n state of ‘perpotusl clangor from the | * Walting for the Countoss,” which was paint- | vibrating portion began to stiow sil the ‘pris- | According tothe necd bo saw. To thote beating of gongs by boys hired for the purposc, | ed fn 185 for the Countess of Blessington. ¢ | matic colors, with suclh beauty of combination il:‘l'l'g:’g":la = :fii‘uh ’.flmf of lov and without whom the birds would ‘consume woro than half the frult,'* Cinnanien 18 amoug the products of the Prov- inces of Kwang-si and Yunnan. ‘Tne cinnanions a membar of the Laurel family, often at- in {ta wila stste & hight of forty feet or wote, an lameter of a foot aud a half, But, under culiivation, the main stem s cut, as the best cassia ls obtained from shoots springing from the roots, which are not allow: Erow over niue or ten fect high, ' Tho shrubs thus formed,” relates Dr. Gray, *‘gencrally consist of five or six shoots, and are covered with foli- e, and mske 1§ clasy All mystery in A ro ! trath. To those disorderly and boisterous, he Vislons of judgmens and & QOpposed by tearful ghim Praying upon shs Cross {8 the portralt of a graceful bloodhound, & favorite pet of the lady for whom the work was done. ‘The third plate shows us a work of the Gierman school,—* The ‘Tollette,” by Auguste Ludwiz, In ths, scene wo have ibe pretly spectucle of 8 young mother giving the dally bath to her beloved infant, which lies on the pillow Tbeforo her, & picture of sweet funocence. The llterary contents of the number embrace an articlo on British artists, describing nlrt.lcul-rlyfl the works of Thomas Jones Barker; the first of & scrics portraylog ghe **Homes of Amerlea™; au ac that no language van describe it. Beemingty, they went through a million of combinations an mungling of colors, chauges, sad recombinations with every tint of shade, justantly, 1 stood en- chanted at the mnost besutiful sixht [ ever be- held, uncousclous of danger! Did I ssy en- chantod {—clormed, fascinated. “Tnere 1 stood, lost In cestesy, without mo- tion,—bow long T do mot know, My evesat first sccaed a littlo blurred or dimmed. There was a pleasabt, dizzy scnsation in my forehead. The first I koew I felt myeelf falllng to the ground. The vpartial talling frightened we, of the rist, or staful Mao, Borsu H. Cayrasti ——————— THE SUNNY DAYS, (70 NR2. MAY BADWAT. | vr;y )lsn.l lh-‘ .nn‘:y days are bere, ‘The Springtime iy Upun us; Your nimevske month of ail the yess uge, which, from rmldmwcllow in the first {n- | bount of @ Medieval Hookbinding ; ‘another | and, In saving the fall, it turned my oyes from Wil soon be shining on us. stance, eventually become grecn. They | chapter of travels In * Norway!; a sketch of thosnake, I felt dizzy,—eycs blurred,—mus- are in | bloom In the month of Jan- \\'nrlzm Morris flunt; and 8 Ih-l{nemon of the | cles aud uorves unstesdy. In my tright at my Ana, thongh darg trials crowd yorr wa, uary, ond the flowers, which are fa clusters, | artof the ballad-mongers, . Besldes thesa papers, condition, 1 went for that snake.' Though Sorrow's chsing hsve bound you, w! Your heart must feel the golden rays T'hat fal} to-dsy arvund you. ug‘w well I mln:ll{u‘nr )rg::u wmirth. v el 0 e YO blussaime had their birth, athers, are white. A supply of plants ain- talned {n sowmo {ustances by seed, and in uthers by trausplauting sapliugs, ‘The lutier areplauts ed three or four fect apart, sud aro pruned at stated (ntervals, so that they nover reach tuelr natural hight, In two years they yleld bark, after which they are barked twlee a year, st the close of the former aud of the latter rains, Tho hicavy Tains with wiich tropleal lands are visit- od sre sald to ropder thls broces which knives speclally made for strioping the bark are used—au casy oue. When removed, the oark is expoted ta the sun for a couple of davs, so that it way {n sume measure ferment, ‘The epider- s {8 then stripped off, after wuich the bark gradually dries auu sssumcs & tubular form." ‘The suake stood #ts ground, rising up two feet or more, and meeting its antagzunist with forked tongue protruded aud s manner of de- flant_courage; but it was finolly dispatched by the determived youth. Duriog tho season i which this incldent oceurred, the same youth had a6 opportunity of testing tue fascinating powers of four other black snakes, all of which were from four to five fect fn longth. But in thess succeeding cases he wes caretul 1o avert his eyes from the vibruting tol! as suou us the prismatic colors began to exerclse their charm. On the last occasion be called his two brothers, who were near, Lo assist Inthe experiment. “Wo louked at the soake altervately,” bhe , *and then would turn each other away. e we all looked swav, he stupped. Lot m‘ which sre coplously Hustrated, thero are sev- eral minor articles, With letters from abroad, art-notes, ete., ete. CITE % USEFUL, The January aud February npumbers of the Usefud contalu cach six vlates, folio size, filled with drawings of intcriors, wall-dccorations, furniture, sud objects ot art and jndustry, It 18 the objeet of the periudical to furvish bints und designs that shall be serviceable to archi- 1ects, decorators, fresco-pajutery, cabinet-make- nd all persons who wro futerested tu the y or practice of ornameutal sud decorativo Taeem to hesr your langh of glee— You thought not of the morrow; It waa such joy 10 live, and bo, You nad uo time for sorrow. But Sorrow followed on apace er black rubes cluag aboat harg And now tue well you know hor face— You nover sub without ber. Yet atill the aun rides on his track, d tell LITERARY ITEMS, SPARKS OF SCIEXNCE, of us move, he rattled the leaves; 1f wo looke Yy Biden atoty: he two uew pocms by Robert Brownlog bear at bim, ho beqan to charwu il wo looked off. Aiud sti)) tho sunoy days come back, lh:t:lu B e ad wThe Two bucts of | FLOTA TROUND ABOUT CUICAGO, | He kuew ’"“;;';“;xmfiglzg‘ turned oar eyes Witk sl thelt gobden glory. e Fearany iy of e s sheube bl | B T o | B g & . ” ic | suakes’ wers Lo [asc and eir modr. R ke, i 3. g mew wark entitled & orRe o | kablt both ibe Now and O1d World. 'Tuey con- | bavo B e iea of e facias | Wkt Suimmae-Bids shall il 4od i, . % 2 Iean. But no description cau be given so that, 1 golden bees bs humwiog. ete., will shortly appe: stitute a large part of the forests of the Tem- P Lt 2 o 'y sppeas. Zones in E - | unscen, it can bo comprebended. ¢ Jor Irit of the Past, perate Zones in Europe, Asla, and North Amer: ‘fhat joyous epl The House of Harper & Bros, hed publishcd, h nd of the mountainous regl of the S, That cheer{ul beart God gere you, up to Junuary, 1578, a list ot 8,391 scparate [ & D! aps. of tbe, PLANT-LIFE. Must reach 1ts native pisne at lasi— Tropics. They are rase fu Babary and Chill, and the southern parts of Bouth -America, and sro wanting altogeter at the southera extrem- ity of Africa. They have simple, alternate Same very {oterusting ecientific facts are stated by Mr. Francis Darwin In bis recent lect- ure on “Tho Analogics between ¥lsut aud Auimal Life.,” For instance, the garden-crocus warks, in over 4,000 volumes. Mr. Ashiton W. Ditke is translating Tourgue- nief’s last novel, * Nov; or, Virgin 8oil," tor BO may o keepand savayou, o A Latter to Gresley, publication by Mscmillan & Co. Teaves, furnished with very declduous stipules, [ 15 cited as afording perhiaps the best example le‘fl:’:‘:l t'?r‘ Ilafl":;'mfi‘:&::%li:’ ‘finxu%ns Tho number of journals published fn Inda fn | and monwcious fSowers. The sterile blossoms | o the effect of changes iu light and heat upon ,,!, ‘the followlvg: 1877 wus 700, sbout two-thinds of which were in | are jo catkins or capitate clusters, sud tho fer- | tpe genultive corolla. **1f alight fndex,” says | Wissom, Mercer Co.. 1L, July 28, 1872~ Mr. Hindostan and ooe-thizd fn various European | tile are solitary, clustered or spiked. Thofrult | Ay, Darwin,”" §s fastened into ona of the | Grels I sm aultect Pmfl:ua:;\d -Mro:tr-kx} langusgee. ins onoscedod. nut, {ocloscd siugly, or w0 or | petal or divislons of the Sower, vety amall | EoosieoTli'eiiiie Ho0 s nad it woukd ast mieat A peasant named Anders Elyindson Vang bas | three together, In s busk or cap (cupule)l. The | ingyements are made visible, sud lu this way llnm: and I whl try to do mutch for the Lord and Iately died o Nnrnvkluhh&kl) Although | order ewbraces elght genors 88Q sbout 205 | f hus beon shown that the crocus actuale | You faisfall by rae iing threw lowa, Il‘und Y never aspiriuz above bis humble station, he was endowed with & rewarkable fonduess for terary study, and bad wade valushle contributivos to cowparative mvthalozy. He nublished several wbhe. 1o Cl eclaandogood. YourslaChnat sa W, if the Urdfilul me favor 1o yoursight expiess 10 the above Dirsctivns. species. ‘The Oaks aroassemblad in the genus Quercus, and of these wo enuwerato (n our tors s balf Iy sppreciates s differcucs-of temperature of one degree Fahrgubielt. I bavescen’ a crocus dlatinctly open wuea 8 hot cval was brouglt