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THE CIHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY. APRIL 20 1878—TWELVE PAG LITERATURE. French Poets and Novelistg-.- A Ride in South Amorica, 1ho Last Novel in the * No-Namo" Series—-Historical Cos- tumes, Jiterary and Art Gossip—Sainte-Deuve- A Mighty Dunter—A Beautiful Wax DBust, Flora Round About Ohicagos--The (@aleworts—-Starlings---The Great Atnk---Yaupon, LITERATURE. FRENCII WRITERS, Jansen, McClurg & Co. 12mo., pp, 40, Price, The dozen esays on tminent French welters of the past hundred years, which onr reading pablic enjoged [n the pages of Ameriean perl- odicals, have heen reproduced by Me. Jnnes fn svolume published in London. It lias been received with applause by the Engllsh crltles, as it well deserved to be, for Its contents posscss suuncommon degreo of merit. They disclose sn (ntimate and [ntellicent understanding of the authors that are dealt with, and are written o 8 elngrularly fellcitous and opulent stylo. The paturally Iiberal bins of the author's mind has peen developed, by cultivation, by knowledge of {tie world, and by close relatfons with forclien FrEscl Jav peoples, nto o broad and kindly catholleity of appreciation and judgment, which enables hlm to rate sagaclously the yitues and fallings of natfonal and iIndl- silual genfus and character, Mo Jouks upon the cult from o point of vicw sufficiently near {osee the Inner workings ot the mind, to per- celse Its Instinctive tendencles, and the effect of the Influences perpetually about It; snd fts yazarics In expausion and cxpressionarediyined and sccounted for with fino ntelligenco and ustice. In cach Instance, the analysis of the in(!llcct and the work which come under his criticlsm 18 felt to be admirnbly keew, candld, reierous. “Sl[:m snacu {s givon to Dalzac than to any other author, ana yet he is not the recipient of undue fasor. Others ara treated with the same Impartiality, though with lcss fullness, and thelr portraits stand out with as clear and true sutllnes. In the sketeh of Bulzac, nttention fs ssrtlculorly drawn to tho stronm distinction mado by Mr. James between the mon and the worker. The man proper, says Mr. James, s1s devold of sclllshiness; but, unfortu. nately for himaelf and his friends, the man, as time went on, was nlmost wholly resolved into the worker, Balzac tolled onormously and #larishly, all his years, tosccure a period of rest which was never attatned, The story Is well xnowtof how he tabored without relaxation, almost without repose, untli he hod reached the az¢ of 50, when, at tho climax of his fumne, and with the prospect of much happinees, he mar- fed the Polish Countess, Mine., Hanskn. He pamed this event “the denouement of that at and beautiful drama of the heart which Iasted thesa sixteen years ™3 and, ahnounc- fozltto s fefend, continued: ¥ Three days ago Imarrled the only woman I have loved, whom Tlove more than cver, and whomn [ shall loye untll death. T belleve that this union fs the recompense that Gud has held In resorve for me, through so many adversities, years of work, Itles suflcred” and surmounted. T had veither 8 hapny vouth nor a flower- log spring; I shall have tho most trilllant summer, tho aweetest of all autumus,” But bis resplte from work, his enjoyment of the teautiful dream that had_allured him so lon; were wretchedly briof, They ended ln death only threo months after his marriage, *lis terrible industry had biasted tho soll'it passed over; he had sacriticed to his work tho very things bo worked for, One cannot do what Dalzac dil and live, Jte was engulfed, exhaust- el broken, . . . ‘The strongest man has but acertaln fixed quantity of life to expond, and wemay expect that, if he works habltually fif- teen ours a day, he will spend it while, arith wetkally speaking, ho {s yet young.” Oneof the many cireuamstances which aaton- Lhusin the wonilerful earcer of Georee Sand fsher extraordinary facllity for writing. Mr, dames relates “that, on her way home from Ejaln, shie was shut up for somoe daysat an lun, where she hud her children “at play In tho samo raom with her. 8he - found that the slcht of their play quickened hee dmagination, and, while they tum- Yol gbaut the floor near her table, the pro- duced *(ibrlel,'—n work which, though aplred brthe presence of infuncy, cutnot bo suid to beaddrested to fufants, Of auotlier story she nlates that she wrote it ot Foutainebleue, wlere sbo spent nll her days wnn.lerln‘; about the forest, ‘muking entoniologleal collections, whihherson, At night sho camo home and fook up the thread of “La Dernlera Alding,? on which she had never bestowed o thought all day, leing ot Vanlce, much depressed, in o ait, dusky room in an old palace that had been tuzed fto an dnn, while the sea-wind roared lbuulln:rulndowu. and brought up tho sound of the Carnival 0s ® kind of melancholy wail, the began & nuvel by stinply looking round her and descrluig tho room and tho whistling of 18 mingled tumult without, Sho Antshed 1t ju sweck, and, hardly reading it over, sent it to arh 1y Lo conl,'—a master, fece,” Uearge Sand Iaborious, life was uxlmmux ihougl writhng was accomplislied with such ‘!M aud rapldity that {t moy be called an act of oprovisation, “‘Bhie possessed remarkable vigor Stconstitution, and could uro her pen foe many v e together without futleuo of mind or I was her constant practice to writo ::lfizhh" says Mr, James, * beginning after ¢rest of the world had gone to sleep. Alexe :nfi:n Dumas the youngzer “described her some- : 1¢, during her'latter years, us on okl lady 80 tanie out into the gurden at midday In a '"M-brlmmcu Lat, aud sat down on a betich,or wdered slowly about. 8o she remained for e lhlookluu about her, musing, contemplat.’ % Bhie was gatherin; Imprcn‘onu, says M, lnmu‘ #bsorbing the unlverse, eteeplug hersel! f n;unfi and at night sho would give all this Logyorasort of emanatlon, Without usis [:mxuuouhcu. Wo gy aceept thls te manatlon,’ as a good account of her manner.! " fll:hn suer on Alfred da Mussot, Mr, Jamos ‘l! With great dulicacy and good senso—as £y .0¢s the many stntlar atfhirs which come to o front 1n the lives he narratca—the poet's o d"wv 1o italy with George Sund. The friends ue Musset have clalined that ‘his dife was wted by the catastrophe which termivaten o *lourn tn Venico and his friendship with his o¥-traveler, But, youny as the poct was at s ate, he was nircady deeply versed in the aof the Parfslan world, and i1, in this rela- % wi cinbe ¥ » nnl]h A meinber of his own soclal and lited fitobger and more eaperionce-hurdened 8 L“;nll ¥asbut the chauce which should have Tour provided for, wopt and MNYLNQ hia df the fashion s suen 8 of the “P:rr;:n:}‘etmn&aumn for hls weeks of wild ,mh" 'nu:] M return from Venlce 18 ridicu- @ Noudertul copiousness aud richness of !,';gx‘:mz whict diatiuguishied th Wrige of you lmw‘( Gautler was a gift from nature, and 'lllt‘lulu b was ¢olarged nod rurl&-uwl by the e lnm’ Isbor of the uuthor, It 1s intercating He cutt) rom the uccount wlven by Mr, James. “xith :lled and polished this necullar talent uedml _ulgenuc that may serve to give the aer 1 ancs of Qinv“{ o bls Mterary char- o 1y ¢ enriched hils plcturesque yocabulary bt ¢ most recondite sources; It bas 8 most 1ag, wq L Prebeusivencan, His ‘fuvorlte read- uy; by oed somewhery sceu, was the diction- Lok, " ID'N worda for theiselves,—for their ‘fllln'uu“ uum-klhclr colof, their funtastic "'Mumlfn" He kept a supply of the cnolcest e «uu' at llmzu, sud introduced themn at o “ouluu. " ‘Tuus ls genius, wheu §t seems o) .m:mdlfll and spontancous, oftentim e Sustalued by cureful sud calculating Bostaeg i f the authore we have meutioned, Mr, Hins discusacs tho traits aud talents of Brospes My G‘i;‘tgfulzgdAmwu-. Ivan Turuucum. Kaowp 1 Euglis)y roud:n?:. Or four otbers less No.Naug sg A NOVEL, RIES, GEMINI. 7 m-'x:‘:: Lo., ol o1 B g 2P g “ufr of L aterliog work of fctlon will .;l:l:: uln:“: & scntiment of gratitude, . v houcst, serlous, and yopre- teodiog ba it charghter, Thero Ly Little momPLor duubt that it Is by one of vur most popular and profific authors, who s given us n long serics of bhrilliant and fascinating atorles, that have charmed enually the old an the young. Ier hooks have generally niore gayety ana huoyant. sprightliness than the present one, which keeps to the minor key throughout; hut there nre none nmong then al) that witl be mors univer- sally llked. It sitbwlued, even penalye, tane exer- clren a strong power, stirring and exciting to active sympathy the deeper feclings of our nature. “Tho charactera are chicily those which arc peculiar to a New-England village, where huinanity sects to borrow the grave, enduring, retleent, aud solid qualities thut helong to the tocka and hitls which stami In everlasting still- nesg nnd atrength, ensamplea and {llusieations of Nature's aternest and most ateadfust moods, The figures, curlously enotigh, mostly grmm in pales, aud the * Getnint ? themselves are not crestin or more winning than the n brother nnd slster who serve them with a life-long, disinterested devotlon. Hiram nnhd Semanthy are, In fact, the most vigorously- drawn personages in the houk, and our resp aud regard are in proportion to their rugged in- tegrity and fidelity, OF plot the story may be sahl to have altost none, the incldents heing only such ns may enter Into the humblest ami most uneventful lives. It is fn the evolution of charncter, the development of traits which adorn nnd clevate vur race, that the force of the hook {scentered, [ts literary atyle has ail the ease, and fluency, and vividness that mark Miss Alcott’s wrllln;is, with more care amnd re- finement of fluislh than Is usually apparent in her diction. ———— A SOUTII-AFRICAN RIDE., * THE GREAT THIHST-LAND: A Ting Titnonan NATAL, OnARGE FRER.BTATR, TRARSYAAL, AND Katauant Desent. Iy Pankzn Oussone, Anthor of **Ginn, Rod, and Enddle," ete,, etc. With n Frontispicco. New York: Caescll, Pelter & Unlpin, Chicngor Jnnren, Mcllurg & Co. Hvo,, pin 400, Price, §3.60. The rather far-fetched titls of this volume I8 taken from the parched and barren district fn the Interfor of South Africa which Is known to georraphers as the Kolahurl Desert, 1t lles be- tween the settled countries Lordering the southeastern and southern consts and the ereat hunting-grounds Iving to the north, and must b crossed fn order to reach the latter, uniess the travelor chouscs to penctrate Afriea from the west, and pass throuch a reion infested by the tsctse-fly, which sulfers ueither horscs nor cattle onco entering tho district Lo escapo with thelr llves. The author of the volume fs one of thac jarge vlass ol roving English- men who flnd the chlef amusement of lite in wandering over the face of the carth In search of novelty in scene and ad- venture. Capt. Gillinore has travelel, with his rod and gun, througl nearly ofl the wild, re- Inote, and solitary places In ¢ither hemisphere, that promised t6 reward Rim with abundant ame, ond cqually abundant hardship: and has Bublistiod at the end of cach trlp & livoly ne. caunt of its fncidenta. But the bunting-grounas of Bouth Atrien remalued to be visited untll tivo or threw years ago, when, wilh a sinele companiont of kindred tastes, hie preparcd to exolore thelr resources fur hazardous and ex- clting sport. No maos of the route followed, no dates, and few distances are given to mnke clear the course of the travelers; bul, from the scanty hints afforded, we Infer that the departure from England occurred in October, 1875 The frcn:er pertlon of the costly onuh nceessary or the cxpedition was nrocured before atarting, and the reimainder was ovtatned at Cape Town and Port D'Urban,—the last being the point at which the tourists fiually struck off fnland, The baggage and equinments of tho party Jund- . ed a heavy Cape wagon, drawn by ‘oxen, while dogs and iorses made 8 reapectable-sized cara- van. Progress under tho most favorable vir- enmstances is tedlously slow over the horrible roads leading to the futeriori but mauifola expedients wero devised to obstruct Capt. Glll- more's ndvance by treacherous attendants and Jealous settlers, who recard with extremo sus- Pleion the movements of Englishmen within thy 2olonfes, With Invinclble pluck and encrgy, gvery resfstance was overcomng b{ the stout- hearted Captain, whose Intention to shoot ele- hants on the backs of the Limpopo was not to Ke balked by human machinations, Hils most serious misfortunc was the loss of hls companion, who was compelled by illness to Icave him mldwav on tho overland journey and return to Eungland, ~Efen this catoatrophe failed to shake thie resolution of the Captain,who cantinuced ou bis way alone,with servauts whose langunge was unintelligivle to hhn, and com- municatlon with white men limited to tho cas- ual meceting with travelers, and the atoppuge at. rare futervals at the dwellings of farmers ‘'or misslonarles, Tho transit across tha country wos an exceedingly tollsome and harassin, oie, creating a contlnual wonder that it could bu undertaken aud persisted in for the mere object of pleasure, Dut opened up mnew experiences In o reglon ulmou unknown to thu outer world; it offered n means of getting away with a lurge aniount of tincand mouev; and there Were vast tracts at the end of the route thickly peopled by tho Jargest and fiorcest of tho wilil beasts of Africa, among whom the hunter coulid bope for his Oi of_tho most excltiug enjovinents of tho chuse, In relating his oxperlences, the traveler docs not troublo himself to xive o complete or chro- nologieal narrative, Ho docs not attempt to deserflo the country with fdentify tho strango he nicets, Tle contents Dblmeclf with mentloning the local nomes of these last, and leaves the reader to find out an hest e can the appellations by which Beleneo hos mado them known Lo tho world. Nultbier doca he make any note of the mouths or the scasons as they pass. Ilis stay In thogreat hunting-grounds scems to bave been prolunged to weeks, nud s return 1o the const was ac- complishied within thu round of ayear, Yet, despite the carsivssncss of tho record, it iy deeply Interesting, and, -notwithstaudiog tho frequent vexation at the folbles nud short- comines of the author, e wins our reapect as traveler, His oxtremo good-noture urder the most tantalizing clreumatances, his forbear- ance and kindnere with his medi, his sympathy with his anfmals, and his manliness aud gen- crosity In uvefry situation, Inevitably commund admiration, ‘Then, tender hearts cannot holp belng wnulmdm tha strong man's confession —albult its good tuste Is questlonable—that a woman's betrayal of lifs ffeetions sent him out In his youth n wanderer, thenceforth to seck distraction anywhere, everywlere, afar from howo and native land, IISTORICAL COSTUMPTS, A. RACINET. LE COUTUME HISTORIQUE, Cixng Cxnta PaNclizs; ‘I 4 CexTs EX Couve LEUHY, O €T ANGENT; DEUX CENTS EN CaNe Ay, Aveo pes NaTicks FiPLICATIVES BT Usn Ervux Hintouque. larlas Libeaire do Firmin-Didot ot Cle, New York: J. W, Bouton. 4th Liveatson, Price, 12 fr. Tho fourth number of this exqulisite work pre- acnts the subscribers with flfteen plates In col ors, and ten {n black and white, Thoso in col- ors repreacnt costumes of France in the Seven- teenth and Elgntecuth Centurless of Eurove in tho Middle Ages; of India, Algerla, Egvpt, and Japun. Oncof tho most nteresting plctufes exhibits a grand hall In the Chateau de Plerro- fouds, which was built by Louls a'Orleans, bruther of Charles VI, The building wus at once o fortress and a restdonve, furnishod with all the equipnents nccessary to the ostoblishe ment of 8 great lord, Thy plate 18 pub- lished from o plan of an spart- ment restored by M. Vivllet-le-Duc, Another bighly Intercating plate is that portrayiog cose tuines of the Freuch nobllity n the Beventeenth Century. Tho gentlemen are all heavily cam. bered with loug curlluz wizs and feathered chapeaus, and are gorgcously attired in pare wments covered with sliver and gold. In these, {0 all tho volored plutes, the different tints ars lald ou with the delivacy aud exuctovss of u palntlvg on Ivory, Thoy are beauti{ul samples of the perfection to which the art of chromo. Illhnznrnr has been brought in Paris. The p i n black and white iliustrate the modes of dre d the styles of furniture and dowestic utensils in use by the Greeks and Romans. As sll the picturea given In the work sro carefully copled from suclont pututings, tapestrics, silluminated manuscripts, drawlogs, aud relivs that have been preserved from the past, thelr historic value is very great. They mu{mmlled upon as authentlc in point ot fuct, while, In the matter of exccution, they ore veritable works of art. . —— BINLE FOR LEARNERS, THE DIDLE FORR LEARNERS, By Dr. II, Oosr, Professor of Oriental Lsanguages. clo., &t Aui- alerdam, and Dr. L TloukYaass, Pastor at Rot. terdam; with the assistance of Dr, A. Kusxay, Frofeusor of Theology at Leiden. Vol 1.—[x- TRODUCT Tuz GExxasTions Berons Mosus; Fuox Mosxs 1o Daviv. Prefscad by Dr. 1. Ofifl'mf"'&r"d Tr,ln lllon.“ ‘g]o“l n;fl:g- by . cago: Jamsen, o, 12wo., pp. 54, Price, l:f g ‘Fhe autbors of tbis work belong to the school of critical writers In the Old and New Testa- menf, of whose learning snd acumen, we bave bad examples in the claborate cssay on “ The Religlon of lsrael," by Prof. Kueneu, and iu the recent smaller work on the same subject by Dr, Koappert. 1o both these carlier books the llng of expouition was warked out which s followed fu *The Bible for Learners.” Though truatiog the Blble us & sacred book, contalnlug ecasential truths for tae “lustruction and guidaucy articularity, nor to plants or anlmals , it fs sublected to the aameo methods of searching eriticlsin which are v‘lurloycvl to dlscover e orfein, the history, the aeratracy of works withont its claln fo flenary inspiration and infallibitity. Much of the historkeal portion of the Beriptures Is by Lhiese searching tests declared to be Jegendary and fmazinative, while the basia of fact on which it rests 18 carefully siffed out, cleared from obscurity, and _aceredited at it proper value. The task §s fearicasly, althoueh revers ehtly, done, and the result |3 n versian ol Lhe Wistory of [srael without contradictions, recon- cllable with sclence, with reason, and with brobability, but ahfering. widely ' from the litern] text, andg feoin the accepted commenta- tles ol thealoyians, Althoueh the conclusions to which Dr. Oort and his collnborators arriye mav be rejected by the masny, tha gentle,, devout, and honeat spirit in which they condérce their mquirles will bo recognized by oll. The manner in which thelr translation “of the story recorded in the firat books of the Old Testament is given, is by repeating it in a simplified form ns it 1s Hterally presented, and then, with tul) explanations, substituting what Is believed to be the more authentic and substantial ‘rendering of the suc- cessive incldents {n the lile of the early Jews, I thisway the history of 1sracl, of thetr peonle, and of thelr. reliicion, Is_grantally cluciiated down to the tine of King Davld. “The present mhuun forms but the lirst tnstadlment of the work. — HISTORY OF FURNITUILK. A NISTORY OF FURNITURE, Translated from he French of ALnERT JACQUENANT. Kuiled by ssen, With Namerons [liustra. Ecribner, Welford & Arm- Jnnren, McClurg & Co. Price, $10. ‘The learncd works of M. Jacquemart on ce- rainies, and on artlatie objects used in the eni- belllshment and equipment of Interlore, have taken the first place among exhaustive and authoritative treatises on these subjects, His **1listory of Ceramica’ appearcd fn English In 1873, and Is now followed by the * History of Fugniture,"~a volume of no | ortance and magnitude. Both books have been Lruns. lated and edited by Mrs, Bury Palisser, The present work Is divided into four parts,— the first treating of historicul abd other furnl- ture, of varfous periods and countries; the ace- ond, of hahgloes of different sorts,—tanestries, cmbirolderies, tissues, stufls, puinted leathers, ntd papers; the third, of objects of art derived frowt stutuary,—including those of warble, stoue, alabasier, bronze, ivery, wood, siitceo, wax, and terracotta; and, lastly, objects of or- namental ort,—as jewcelry, ~ genis, ename els, uwlass oand cerumilea, worke leuth- er, et ete. The author of these chapters was an extensiye and utenligent collector of art-ubjects, and devoted ek of nis life to n study of their history. 1lis taste and scholarship §n matlers pertaining to the application of art Lo the Industries were uuhllnlz reconized, and he was appofntwl one of the Commission for fmproving the manulae- ture of Bevres, and alto one of the Comimnission having in charge the Departinent ol Art st the Exposition of 1807, e was a frequent con- tributor to the Mierature of Art, aud a list of his reporate publications eoumcrates as many as forty. Tne Uistory of Furniture Is Nustrated with many beautiful eugravings, and s in every way & valunble gilt tu the lever aud collector of bric-a-brat, ENGLAND. OLD ENGLAND: Its EckNEny, Ant, Axp Peo- ree. Iy Janes M. Horrin, Professor in Yale Collegu. Fifth Kdition. 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T'h.D, 1 4 Heliglous Communities: The Preacat Pollcy of the Haly Ses, Particafarly Iteearding Mellzlony Communitien Maving hn* Snnple Yowe. "y the fev, 8. 1), Smith, D, 1.} **The Mental t'apacity of the American Tndian 1 n Sneech. ™ by the liev., Edwarit ertodical Litetatnre of the Day, 3 h and Ita Tende, n clre,™ by the Ttev, Jonepl V. OConot; Prot.” 8t Geargo Mivart, P.ILR. .y Sec. L. I'nve Alexander \ d 11 orieinal Traune. ot ® by . J. Tarry, BoDh, ** Plus the Niuth, and 111+ Pontiieate, tA . hy the Very Hev. Jamen .1, Coreoran, D, D. : *¢ Book-Ndticrs, ™ BUNDAY ' AFTERNOON—May (Spingfield, ). Amantthe articles In this nnm) re: Leriwinkie,”" hy FEdward Esgleston Donkey's Miracloi® ** In_the Church-To nelalliments of ** Tom's Jeathen ™ and Crewof the Sam Weller;” ** Colleze Marale, h{ C. ¥, Thwingg '*The Constitution of llenry- olent Socielies," 'Ly the Rev. Leanart Woolsey Jiacon lic Alczandrinn Rchooln, ™' by George A. Jnckront V¢ fteminlecences of Washingtan Allstons™ *Dir, Franklin's Investment,™ ) Hlorare F. Kcudders A and Mean **One Rummer's Wotk 'y pographileal Crime, g by ltossller Johnsons and ** A Russian Village®Ten-Parly, LITTELL'S LIVING (Litteil & Gay, liomon) FAMILIAR TALK. TITERARY ITEMS. Mrs, 1T, B, Stowe's new story, about ¢ Paga. noe People,” will soon be circulating 1o bouk. form, Prof, William Mathews {s preparing a net work for publication, 'on “Oratora and Ura- tory." The late 8ir W, 8tirlinz-Maxwell's * Antwerp Delivered * will e publisbed fu May, by David Douglag, of Edinbure. Miss Braddon is engaged upon a new novel, called " The Vixen," which {s to be publishea u AUl the Year Jtound. “Btorles from .Homer," by !the TMev, A.J. Churcl, are to be followed by *Storles from Virgil," by the snme author, A new cdition of Knleht's “Pictorial [istory of Eneland ' will be fssued by It Worthington, in elght volumes, at the low price of $10, ‘The architcctural paners contributed to Jar. r's Magasine by i1 1L Holly are to he col- fe'cmx fnto o volume entitied ™ Modern Dywell- g Messes, D. Appleton_& Co. have in presaa work by Mr. George P. Prescott, on * The Speaking Telephone, and Other Elcetrival Noy- elties," Max Muoller's great work on the *Bacred Books of the World » is prozressing so rapidly that the first (ustallment will soon be given to tito publle, ' Marmorne," of the " No-Name Serics," has reactied a second edittun fn Eugland, Tho work haa been recoguized thero as the production of Lamerton, Mias Hogarth and Miss Dickens, the datighter and the sister-in-law ol the great novelist, are complliniz a collection of the letters of Charles Dickens for publication. 8. W. Tilton & Co., Boston. announce a treatiso on ** Art-Embroldery'* and tho revival ol decorative work,—the jolnt production of M, 8. Lockwood aud E. (Mulster, ‘Tho new cdition of # White's Natural.Tlistory of Seltorne” contains the correspondence of the author, with many facts concerning his life, and o wass of fresh botes and (lustrative ap- pendoges. The Royal Geographical Boclety of Great Brit- ainnreabout tolssuca new edition ofthelr HIiinta to Travelers," revised by Mr, Francls Galton, F. R.8, 1he work was ‘originally published in 1854, and revised editions were brought out fn 1865 and 1571, ¢ Le Nabob," by Alphonse Daudet, has reach- ed tho thirty-seventh cditton, Tt has met with o Inrger sale thon **Sidonie,” The author is busy at work ona third novel, which promises, nce cordlug to his friends, to surpass’ citber of its predecessors fn futerest, A posthumous work by Dr. Doran, entitled # Memories of Our Great Towns,” is soun to bo publisbed in. London. The work {s enlivened by remintscences aud ancedotes of the worthies who have figured most promiuently ln the his- tory of the places described. Au cularged edition of Keller's ** Lake-Dwell- Ingzaof Bwitzerland and Other Parts of Europs 1s sent out by Longnnns, London. 1t s in two yolumes, with £00 ptates, and comprises u sum- mary of sll that Is known at the present date concernlug Ircustrine habitations, *A Trip Up the Volra tothe Fairof Nijnl Noviorod ™ Is the promising titlo of a book by Il A, Munroe Butler~otinstone, which Messrs, Porter & Contes have on_their spring list of I\uhllca\tlunl. It is by an English traveler, and s sald to furnish fuforinatton regarding the trade, resources, mingled races, cte., of the Rus- slon Emplre. ‘That purt of 8ir C. Wyville Thompron's ro- ort of the Challeneer Expedition which relates 0 the Atlunticwill soon aupeur In twu volunie having the imoriut of Hurper & Bros, They wlfi be accompanied with ample plutes und cuts, aud ho suld for $12. A third volume,from the saime house, will contain that portion of the report reluting to the Pacltics and a Zourth, that treat fugg of the Baudwich Islands, 'AflB—Cnnenl nhimbers ART-GOSSIP. Several hithertv closed rovms In tha Muscum of Versallles, contalning as many as 1,000 his- torlc portraits, will boopened to the public from Muy 1. The death of Mr, Georgo C. Stanfleld. eldest son of Clarkson Stanficid, the famous English Painter, hus lately taken place. The son fu- herited bis father's tasto aud vocatiou, but not u larize sharo of his talont, A zroup In commemoration of five of Queen Victorfa’s grandchildren Is belug executed by M, Dalou, It represents three ot tho infants, who wero still-horn, Iylug in thelap of an angel, and the other Lwo standing on clther slide of his kuee. When completed, the group will occupy aniche In the private chapel at Windsor, ‘Tho Baroness ‘Adolphe do Kothschild has re. contly puld 370,000 for two splendid groups In bronzo discovered in an old Veuetlun palace, and attributed to Michael Angolo, In each a grace- fut frure of & satyr or faun stands leaning upon a pauther. ‘The groups witl be shown at the Parls Exposition, in ordor that artists may haya au opportunity of judging of their autburship, Wa learn from the Amerfeun Architect that Mr. Ruskin has sent a score of the orleinal etch. Ings of Turn * Liber Studiorum? 1o Prof. Norton, of Harvard College, who will have heltotypo coples taken of them, together with others in Mr. Noiton's possession, making thirty or thirty-five In all. “They will be tsucd In June, and only lu sutlicient uumber 1o sup. ply subscribers. Tho collectlog at the Corcoran (lallery of Art In Washington " haa been onlarged auring the ruu eur by the acquisition of twelve ofi-paint-* ugs. Tho sale of photographis of ob{u s io t Gallery has been greatly extunded. Within two years and 8 half, 80O phalluu’zlu of Muller's ¥ Charlotte Cordsy fn Prison' have heen dis- posed of. The whole vumber of palutings in the Gallery Js now 143. 'The death of 8lr G, Gtibert Hcott, the English arehitect, occurred on the 27th of March. e was tho gracdson of the Rev. Thomas Scott, the suthor of u popular * Commmentary on the Blole,” and wasborn in 1811, He designed the Martyr's Memorlal at Oxford, the Church of Bt. Nicholas at Hamburg, the Cathedra! at Bt, Jolin's, Newfouudiand, 8t. Pancreas® Station in Londuo, and many other buportant buildings, reatorutious of cathedrals, ete., ete. Perbape Lis must couspicuous work Is the Albert Me- morial at Kenstugtou, which procured bim the bonor of Kuighthood by the Queen. The forty-niuth annual exbibitfon of the Acadeny of tho Fine Arts at Philadelobis will open the 22d of April, aud contiuue uutil the 15t of June. ‘The Acadewy bas lately recelved a gift of thirtecn oll-palutings from Mrs, Surah Hureison, Awmony them are works of Bongue- reau, Vandertyn, Wittkaup, West, Kembraudt, Peale, ete. Beven of the picturcs dre to be held by the Audewa ju trust for the city,~the donor dcsiring that they might form the nucleus of a Free Gatlery of Art, Durlug tho guarter cud- = Ini Nov. 39, 1377, 151 students stere n attend- ance at the Academy Schoots. Of these stu- dents, Ofty-une were women, SAINTE-BEUVE, Bome recollcetlons of Salnte-Bewre have heen contributed to the Atheneum by Mr. Charles Neate, who was a schoolfellow 6f the essaylst st Boulugne, and afterwanl at Paris, During the years that they continued under the same masters, the hoys were on terms of affectionate Intimavy, and the relation was sustained by in- terviews and carrespondence uutil both had goue far on tn life. Of the conduct of Bainte- Beuve {n youth, Mr. Neate states: *{can trnly say that I never kiow hoy who swas more triated and respected, bath by his masters and achuolfelfows, or who more deserved to be so, and the world ha« rarely aech a more cxemntary one” OF the abllity displayed by the future cssayist in his carly years, Mr. Neate says: He was cortainly a ciever—indeed,n very clever— boy: but he was not what fa ralled A boy of gediue,—that Ie, he had not the power of epon- taneuns and sclf-romplacent production which has ofien marced the mental growth of those 1 whom it has beea given, but he bad, instead, what de- #erven Lo e cailed, [n the fanguage af Tossuct, an ** immenae destre ** of learming, and he had, by natare and study, in a singular degree, - the vower of turning that learning to_ account, o way of mind what farme; call us=ful or very useful, —tbal is, he find & mind ng_ with intcrost all that was put into it, 1 have hefare sald to & Frenchman, who ansented to the remark, he made himeell. genius **a force tle travai n speaking of lani o o fiterar man, thore who know only the hahita of Englinl authore and Enfllm atudenta wodld hardly guess, and perhaps will with difiicalty believe. In the spring anyd rammer, at least, Bainte-Benve's dqr wan tuun divided and employed: ‘Work from 0 till 8: then a cnp of coffee; then work sgain till 115 then the very mnderate breakfant: «then a walk to the public library, whete he atayed till 43 then o walk back nzatn to the frugal dinner: then work again till 113 no visitors sdmitted, On Saturday evenin: he allowed himeelf to £0 out, and un Sua- fll'y # friend who called would be sumitied, L wus by work of Ahis eort. aseisted by the niccet taste, and controlled by the soverest critls ciem, that he ferbillzed hix mind, and accumulat- eth, whilu be sifted nnd refined at the rame thne, thut marvcious knowledge of nen snd things which inthe dayr of his maturity, and from thence neats 1s eund. flowed frombim In o sireawm, ~pee- uu pure. A WAX BUST, ‘There exlsts In the Museum at Lille, In Frauce, 8 bedutiful wax bust, which {s regarded us unc ol the masterpieces of Art, It was donated to he muscum by Wicar, who obtalued it in Italy; but no namo was attached to i, and nothine ‘was positively khown of its history, Foratime 1t was supposed to be an antique; and then it was referred to Raphac), atd also to Leouardo da Vincel. It Is now sceepted, however, ns of Florentine workmanship, and probably the product of Orsink, the most skillful of the cero- plastic artists of the fifteenth century, Many of the noted sculoturs and palnters octasionally worked in wax: thus Michacl Angelo modeled o Descent from tho Croes |u this material, and Leone Leoul composed the beautiful bust- vortralt of the great sculptor fu the sawe man- ner. mT:w Atheneum enys of the bust at Lille, at— It Ie one of the,most m;-lmnnl. and, ai tne eame time, ono of tho profonndest, ereatlons of geniux in the whole ranga of Art. 1t Ja so atranve, 80 tnbke sught elec fn aculpture, we stand literally spell-bound &t the fret migut of this wonarous ethercal vislon of loveliness,—a faco of & porfect type of beauly, yet retslning a distinct fndivid- nnmx. Ut up by o sweet, sud mmile, snd which, from the nature of the material, mded by faint, " partly-eflazed coloring, has aimost the scmblance of life. Return to it me often as we may, that fieat {mpreseion can nevee be eradicated, Those famlliar with Italian art st once recognize tho impress of Florentine genjus ar it was devel- oped towards the end of the fifteenth century; hut seek to analyze the type, to study the prin- ciplo of its conception. the method of it cxecutlon, ond \nseinlbly one finds oneself cn- deavoring to solve th cret of the Jifo hid. den in the falr forn nd to which one feeln rome clew may be obtalned in the indescrivable tendernces of the downward glance, and the delle cate curves ond seemingly-flitiing shadows which play ahout the parted lips, From every point of view the modeling §s thiat ‘of a consummate mna- ter, the form i thorougnly felt, and the rendeting of surface lea marvel of delicate manipulation yet beyond and above this there remains the fancl- natlon of an {ndivulual conception of beauty, of rare and subtle cesence, that 1 the prerogative of the few aupreme achlevoments of art, such o8 the ona Lisa and the Venus of Milo, A MIGU'TY IIUNTENR. Capt. Gllimore velates. in his Iate record of travel in’ South Africs, a romarkable story of the prowess of a hunter, who, Jess known than Gordon Cuntning, rivaled him in courngo and skill. Mr. Finnety, the bero of the tale, was one day traveling over the uncultivated plains near Bamauwatl, riding one horsc and leading another. 1o had watered his animals at a pool, or slty as it s there called, and, passing on o littly way woyoud, *“Two lloms sprang from tho~ bush on cither slde of the road osch selzing & horse, ‘The mount that Lie was onfell in a moment, and shot him over its head : but the hunter was on hls feet inatrivet, With the right barrel he Kitled the nseaflant of the horso ho was riding, with the left the brute. that attacked the jo horse, So quickly was the whols douu that nefther of the uags was fnjured.”” . Auvother explolt, told of the same hunter, is less brilllant, yot attests Lis singular coolness aud accursey of nim, As night closed In, he shot a luree white rhinoceros, and Jeft the game to be attended to In the morming: At break of day ho started alono to find bis rllunrry. and, after golng n milo or so, fonnd it ead, with threo Nons aroand It, Mr. Fiunety strulled up within a ahort distanco of them and kilted tho tro, —cach requiring only a sloglo bul- lo Foon afterwards, baving discovered an ele- p i, o followed it up, and after noon overtook tho herd and buwled over & couple of “tuskora, l(ulvltlnfi his sieps to regain hie hiad Lo pass by the desd rhinoceros, doing so, Tound two more lous beslde Thesa hio also kiiled, In the morning Mr. Pinne went out with his people to securs the ivory of the elephiauts slaln the day before. On lne{l route they passed a pool in a8 dry river-bud, and by it wero twu lions. ilo left llé people, and, unsup- ported, walked upto them and killed them right and left, ‘Thus seven lions fell bofors hix yun in littlo over twentysfour ho THE STORTFOLIO,” In the chapter from Hamerton's biography of Turner which appears In the last Portfuilo, very enthuslastic pralse Is bestowed on the vignettes with which the srtfst fllustruted the poems of Rozers. Noone can speak of Turner with the subiime fervor that fnsplres Ruskin wheu he dlscourses upon the great paloter, yet Hamerton |+ I8 quite satlsfactory fu the feeting he shows with regard to thu masterly illustrations that have made Rogers’ poems dmmortal. %Ot all artlsts who ever lived,” says Hamerton, “1 think it s Turner who treated the vignette most exquisitelys . . . they never seem to be shaped or put on the gnpur at all, hut we fecl as If & portion of the benuttful white surface bad in sowe way begun Lo glow with the light of genfus.” In words too many to ba confed here, Me, Hamers ton comments upon the wonderful sense of space, of tho shadowy vastness of lofty ranzes of mountains, and of the subllinity of ‘sea and eky, which Turner would vontinue to convey in these minute pictures. An article only second In_iuterest to this by Hamerton s dpon the Bchuols of Modern Art in Rouie, and by that consclentious und able critie, T, Bevelugton Atkinson, ‘Two minor engravings of tne work- manship accompany the paner, ‘The artlstic features of the number are an etching by Lowcenstam aftey a very interestlng picture of Curl Schlosser’s named ™ The Repri- mund s a reproduction of_the famous etehing brandt, which Mr, Sevinour Hsdon calia autiful Omval, the most perf landscaues ' and an cugraving after a panting b FLII,IdIbulI.\, entitled # At tho Vilfa Bor ghes —— BOOK«CATALOGUF, Measrs, Janson, McClure & Co. have just fssucd 8 new cataloguo of standard works lu all classcs Of literature, which surpriecs one by its richness and extent, Not put of New York, it in the Metropolls ftself, 13 such u list of sumptuous works, okl and rare editlons, and Looks unlting lterary with art attractions, to be found on sale by auy single fArm. It shows incuntestably that Chicago Lgs becomo a great centre of thy buok-trade, and that the deiand of her own citlzcns, aud of the readiug public of the Northwest, warrants an enormous ss- semblage of elewant und costly volunies, whose numbers ate kopt full by coutinual fresh tme portations. SPARKS OF SCIENCE. FLORA ROUND ABOUT CHICAGO. Tuz (laLxwoRrTs.—It is an extremely small family, tbe Myricace®, that comea now under our consideration. Thu entlro group cunslsts of ouly three genera and fwenty spe- cles, which are found In the temperate parts of North Awerles, In ludia snd South Africs, Oue species alone, Myrws QGale, Inhabits the bogs und swamps of Europe. The Galeworta aro sromatic trees or shrubs, covered with resinous glandsand dots. The leaves wrv slwple 1is had in { and alternate, flawers moneclous or diaclous, and the fruit like a drupe, and often coated with & waxy depusit. The sole 8pecles In_our flora, named Sweet- Fern, Comptonta naplenifolis, from the plearant. aromna and fern-like aspect of its follae, grows abundant fn the wooda south of Calumet, It In a leaty shiruby, two or three feet high,—lhe flawers appearing early In the spring, sumewhat In advance of the folirge. In the eastern portion of our continent, from Nova Beolla to Florlda. and west Lo Lake Erle, the intereating eperies, Myrica rnrltcu—cnllcxl Candleberry, Wag Myrtle, Tallow Tree, or Bay- berry—1a fiund. [t generally appears as a low- spreading shent, but enmetimes attalns a hight of etgliteen feet, [ta hrauches are thick-sct anid its evervreen leaves are aprinkled with resinaus Mots. The driines, or berrles, are atwut the size of pepnercorns, and, when Iatire, arc covered with a greentsh-white waz, which is used for varlous purpuses. It 18 eollected by bolline the berrics, and «kimmivi off the tallow, or wax, us It rises to the surface. This Is nfter- ward melted and refined. A bushiel of berries will yield three or four poundsof wax., Candles mads of this substance hurn slowi, with little stnoke, emmlngu balsamit odor meanwhile, yet ot giving o bright light. Thewazg s ll!l!rlri,llll‘\;' e M, factured Into a fine scented roap, Cordifoliay found st the Cane of tisol ope, tikewise fin.m; trax which ts made fnto candles, The M, Gale, which s commmon to Europe and America, Is nrized for i1s dellcious fregrance. 1t also affards an ethorenl ofl, of a retlow colur, faint_oduor, and - mild favor. “the frult of M, Danida, a uative of Nepaul, is about fhe size of & vherry, and (s pleasantly acid agd wholesome, TUE TIHEE VIEWS OF THE ORIGIN Or ECIES. Bois it, gentlemen, with many vexed ques. tlous; so Is it with the question of origin of apecies. There are three possible views in re- fard to the orfzin of species. The first nsserts Divine areticy by sniraculons creatlot, and there- fure denles any process; the secund asserts eo- tntlyn-process, but denfes Divine ageney; the Lhiird nsserts Jinine ayency by evolution-process. Bu, nlso, arc there three corresponding views In regard to the orlgin of the tndivldual,—ot you, of me, and of each of us. The first is that of the Tittle innocent,who thinks that Giod made hi os be(thelitticinnocent)makesdirt-ples ; the second s timt of the little hoodium, Wwho ravs, * [ wasn's inade at all, [ prowed ;" the thind Is the usuat aduit belief,—that we are made by a pro- tess of evolulion. Do voi not ubserve, they, that, in the matier of the oriziu of species, many good theologians and pletists are in the posifion of the little fnnocent! They think that species were made wit/ont naturl process. On the othier hand, most ecolutionists are in the position of the Httle hoodlum, for they think that specivs, becanse they “growed,” wern't made at all. But there is 8 higher oud more rattonal phloruphy than elther, which Lolds that the ldeas of making and of yrowing are not Inconststent with each wibier; that ovolutlon does not and cannot destroy the conceptlon of, or the beliet In, an_inteltizent Creator and Author of the Cosmos. This view combines and recontlles the two preceding antagonistic views, and s, therefore, more comprehensive, inore rationul, and_ tore true. But let us nut fall to do justice,~iet Us ot overlook the fact thot the most mportant and nobiest trutha sre overluoked onls by the hoodlum and materisl- Ist.—1'raf, Jou Le Conte an 'opular Sclence Monthiy for May. STARLINGS. It Is well knowa to bird-fanciers that the European ,Starling, Sturnus vulgaris, a mem- ber of the Crow tribe, can be taught, when In captivity, to Imitste the songs of uther birds, to exccute artificial melodies, and alsu to enuncl- ate words and sentency This capacity it cn- Joys in common with severat othier specles of the same tribe. Occasfonally cases have come under notice fn which the Starliug hns displayed great pawers of mimiery walle iu its wild state, Thus, Mr. II. O, Forbes contributes the follow- iug instance to Nature: In the crounds of a friend in the nelghborbood of Londan, s colony of Ntarlings had for many yenr Duilitheir neata In the trecs. In hoxes placcd ere and there for their accommodation. w The children of the house, —all quite young then, a fow years ago,—at 'whode prestnco the birde showed not the elightest alarm, wete constantly playing abont close to the nests, and, of courre, constantly cummiuzh other by name. There was only one girl in the family, called Maggie, und, an rho wan o great pet. perhaps her name was oftener mentioned then those of the otbers. Do that anit may, her {ather wan one day preatly astonislied by hedring his davpehtee's name pronounced In exact finhation of the voice of une of her brothers, whom he kuiew could not be nenr. For 8 moment hio way puzzled, but eloee at hand, 1n the bonzh of an ncacla_tree, he detected the mocking-bird—a common Starling—in the nct of deception, whlch ha continued to practice often afterwards, e IIOLDING THE Bl TIf UNDER WA- TER, It 1s probablo that the entrance of water Into the Jungs hus a great deal 1o do with tha paln- lessness of drowning, It Is certain that uncon- sclousness comes on wore quickly when the person is deprived of ale becauso the jungs are filled with water, than when the air-passugesnte closed, while the lungs remain intact. Most persous can hold thelr breath for a minute, very many for 8 minute and o half, some for two minutes. In onv of the varlety theatres of New York appeared recently *The Brilllant Pearl of the Enchanted Grotto, christened Un- dine, who verforins, while under water, Incased in A mammoth crystal lilue minated glass tank, feals ol aston- {shiny suppleness - and almost unbe- levable enduranca,”” Tils chmntr can prob- ably remasin under water, holiing her breath voluntarily, two minutes, und perhapa more. [ liave myectf, wateh In hand, scen Johnson, the celebrated oceun-swimmer, remaln under water, in u tank before an uudiciee, for the nstonish- shing apace of three minutes and twenty sece onds, and, befora hie rose, the Involuntary cone tractions of his respitutory inuscles were uncos fortablo to witness. In sich cases, althouh e treme distress may be felt, there 18 no wodproach to unconsciousne Tut, I a person’s head utider water, and ho dovs not hold his breath, uticonsclotsness will usunlly come on fn one or two mlnutes at the farthest—Ur, K. 8, Lracy n Lostur-Sclence Mouthly for May. —_— LIMITATION OF OUR MINDS, Now, it inay bo asked, “Docs this llno of rea- soning prove there Is no Godt” Not atall, It slinply proves that the finite mind {8 utterly fm- potent to apprebend God. It proves that we do not and cannot comprebend primary causation that our preceptive faculties are so limited by the very naturc of their constitution that they cannot appreliend the primary usture of the sluplest natural law; and, If we cannot com- prebiend tho nature of the joree called gravity, or heat us 8 modo of motion, except as physic- al Jaels, how can we have any ratlonal conception of any of those matchless quulitics of mind that produced thess laws( 1f the rude savage, after examining for the frat thue o comvlieuted pleco of umchlue&y. can form no Just conception of the forces Lmpel ity or even of the purpose It serves, how much luss can he understand the pecullar quabities of mind that Invented and produced itf 1f, by dint of decpest rescarch, we cannot suslyze the subtile law that connects the molecular move- ment of the bhrafn with thought, how cau we analyze the thoughts of an lutinite mind of which this law was but a thought! It isnut rmn that, fn attempting this, wu altempt the mpossiblod—A, J, Gales in Lopular-cience Monthly gor May, THE GREAT AUK, A century azo, the Greut Auk, Alea impenuls, waos & plentiful fnbabitant of the American coast from Massachusells northward. It was also found on the shures of Greenland, feclaud, and tho northwest coast of Furope. Belng o stupld, unwary bird, it was easily captured by marluery, who coveted it as an appetisiog dafn- ty, varying thelr monotonous bill of fare. The destruction of the bind has been so unsparing thut appresent the species {s considered ex- et The lust spechnen found was ploked up dead at 8t. Augustine, Labrador, in November, 180, _ Althouch fu poor condition, (4 wus suld for £200, aud sont, to Europe. Four spectinens ol the bird are nrgwn-ud n Amerlcan inussums, viz.: o the Smitbsonian Institution, thy Phila- delphia Acadeiny; the Cambridge Museun, aud Vassar Cotlege.” Yhe two drst-named collec- tloue contali escifan epk of the Great Auk, fu the myscums of Burope there are vearty sjxty spechwcns of the Plrd, and vesrly as wavy of iLs cuus. Mr. Bishop states that the pressot valuo of a skin of the Ureat Auk is $13 in gold. g YAUPON, The poorer classes Jiving slong the coast of Virginia und North Carolina wake use of a spes vies of bolly, Ilex casscoc, as a substitute for tueteaof Chiloa. Mr. Bishop describes the plaut as “g bandsome shrub, growiuga few feet fu bight, with alternate, percuntal, shining leaves, and bearing small scsrlet borrics. It is found o the vikabity of salt water, in_the light sotls of Virginia aud the Carolinas. Tbe leaves aud twigi ar¢ dricd by the women, and, when ready Ior tuarket, are sold et §1 per busbel. Jo is not 1o be compared ln éxeelleuce with the tes of Chiug, uor ducs it approach iy taste or good qualitics the well-kuowa Yerbawate, snotber #necles of holly. which is fonhd in Paramuay, and is the common drink of the people of South Americ.”” The flex cassene 4 known as tha “Yaupon” in the disuict where it grows, A bererage called “biack driuk ™ was formerly made from tho leaves by tha North-Uarulina Indians. —— NESTS IN ODD PLACES: Of all the strange places chosen by the binis for rearing thelr young, one of the quecrest s mentloned in Hardeicke's Sctence-Gossip. In tho railway-atation at Coventry, the spartows hato agreat fancy for buildidg thelr nests Indlde a siznal-beil that 8 runz manv times in the day, and often In the night,—~three or fuur blows heing struck cach time, The bell Is asucer- ehaped, and about ten inches In diametér. The apparatns vonnected with the bell 18 rather compllcated, 40 that, when 1L fa steuck, ** thery Is, bieshica the toud rincine, a grest ratule and nolse of levers, and o heayy thump catised by he falling counterweizht.) Desplte this loud and frequent din In thelr ears, and the agita- tion it must canae thelr diellings, the aparrows neraist in building In this bell, and their_nests are frequently removed by Lhe rallway-ufficials, Btill the birds have succeeded In hatching sud rearing their young la the curious place, BIRDS BINGING AT MIDNIGHT. ‘Two olservers al different places in England note In Mardwicke's Yelence-Uossip the singine of Dirds In the midnight-hoursof Feh, 13 and of the three following nights. - Blackbirds, thrushcs, and many of the smaller birds joined in the chorus performed at this very unusual season, The weather was calm and tnlld at the tine, and a brillfant moun was shining, “Between the hours ot 11 and 12 o’lock," writes one, ** [ was considerably surprised to hear & thrush singing away merrliy. Presently the songster wds Joined by otlicrs, ana fu- s short tine a regular coticert began, taken part in by at least & dozen thrushea and blackhirdss whilst the robiu, wren, and other smail birds were singing and chirrup- ing in the hedecrows, just na you hear them in the carly morulug In sumimer, “On the follow- ing night, aboul the same hout, the voncert sgaln commenced, and was even inore lively than on the precediug -night, and costinued until morping.” THE EASIEST WAY TO DROWN. 11 death by drowning be Inevitable, as o a shipwreck, the casicst way to die would beto suck water Into the lungs by a powerful insple ration, as 80on s one went beoeath the surface. A person who had the courage to do this would probably occonie almost Immediately uncon- ecfous, and never rise to the surface, “An ston a8 the fluld Nlled his lungs, a1l feelines of chilll- ucss snd pain would cease, the Indescribable remi-deliflum that accompanics anesthesla would come on, with ringing tn the cars and de- Nghtful vislons' of color aund light, while he would sectn to himsell to be gently sinking to rest on the goftest of beds and with the must delightful of dreatns.—Dr. K. 8. Tracy tn Pup~ wiar Science MontAly for May. F e BRIEF NOTES. Fleld-mice or rats arc devastating the felds in Smyrna, digiring up aud devourlug the sced- corn that has been planted, The crystals occurring In the sap of the Scotch fir aro recomncuded to microscoplsts aa boau- tiful objects for examination, Mr, Btanley will visit Paris [n June, before his refurn to Americn, (n order to receive the medal accorded him by the Geographical Soclety, A tame sca-guil on the Tale of Wight has reached the age of 80, and is atiil active ns ever, and o perfect health, - Its reqular dict {s meat aud fish, but it has » great fondness for clicoss, A slow-worm Las been in the possession of an English gentleman slnce 1850, until {ts death by a reeent aceldent, It was several years old when cauebt, and remalved in good health dur 1oy its twenty-clght yeurs of captivity, Notlce hus been made fo Eoglish papers of a robin's nest gwith five s, on which the bird was sitting the last doy of 1877; and also of & thrush's ncst with fout egge that werd beihg hatched the first week ot the prescnt year. ‘The fungl collected during the Arctic Expedi- tion of 1876-'70, have heen worked up Dy the Itev. M. J, Berkeey, who has obtafner Irotn them twentv-six apecies, all determined but two, Seren are new, and seventcen are well- kuown and widely-distributed forme. The lunds in the South Scas have been suffer- Ing from o severe and protracted drouth. Do- mestle ana wild animals are dylug py thousands in Australla and Cape Coluny, Many sottlers in the last-named region, who were formerly well-to-do, have been cous 1y ruined by thy loss of thelr crops sud herds. The body of a parricile was token/from the eulllotive at Evroux, France, on tho 15th of March, finmenlately after exceution. When the corpse was laid 1o tho colliy, it was sntated by ‘auch powerful spasms that twlce it neurly Jumped out of the care, aud forco was nevea- sary to control the violent motions, touching cazeis tuentloned In an Boglish exchange, of a fox, fullowed by hounds, eeck- ing eafety in the midst of u flock of sheen puss- fniz atongz the road. It measured its pace with the animuls whose protection §t had sought in its extremity, nud traveled with them some distance, but was tinafly diiven out from them, 1u order that the hunters ou its track might not be deprived of the sport of ruuning it down. It 18 related by Mr. Ganse, in **A Year by the Shore,”? that certaln sea-anemones so closely rescmble flowers that even the bees are suma- . Au Instunee i3 quoted 1o which Touklug at u tine spocluen wirich was expanded 5o close to the surfucs that vuly a thin i of water covervd the disc and teat- acle, saw a roving bee alleht on the temyting syrface, ovidently nistaking the anemons for a veritable blossom. It 1s stated n Nature that the rare phenome- non of 8t. Eltno's fire was observed at several places In the lartz Mouutalns durlng the ith of Fehruary, At Blakeubury, alter & series of storius, the alr was 5o laden with electriclty that cancs hield aloft emitted from thelr potiits tyshe- blue flames five luchies long and thies Inches whie. At Dobbitz, the phenonienon wan ube served fu the midat of a storns of show and ruin, when the endsul the branches i an eutiru grove were surmounted by Hames from four o tive tachies lu leugth. The Soclety of Missfonaries of Alceria have been commissloned by Pope Leo X111, to found two large uitssion stations o Uenteul Africa,— one to haye its centre ou Lake ‘Tanganyiky, nud the other on the Victorts or Aluet Lake, Twelve misslonarics have slready left fur Zanzi- bar, and will probably start for the fntertor during the present montl. A almilar misston 15 10 bo seut to the Cupltal of the Muats Yanro. ‘Lhe misslonaries have been trained to the use of scientitie instruments, and Sclence aa well 84 Catholictaia may bope to by beneliied by ther services. Mr. I1. C, Cotterlll has read belore the Roval Qeogranhical Boctoly & report of the fonrney Iaut, which resulted tn the discovery of the alungz tho west coust of the Nyussa, (u Auust Kondd range of mountains. -~ The expedition cowprised about Hity ey, under thedirsctivn ¢ Capt. Eiton, The country around the Chombaka River wus found to be covered with groves of bananas. On crossing this stream and striking northward, a great plain was cutered, with the Koudl Mountaius towerlng high tu the distance. The ascent from Nyusss bad been coustant, uue til at Muzotes & lelzht of 8,000 feet sbuve the sva was attained. From here, Capt. Eltou, Mr., Cotterill, and one other started for Mereris Tawn, Crossing the Konul range, they discavercd o splendid grazing country, 7,000 feot high, sud lentifully watered, This broad plateau, calleg Uwanjl, was divided hy the Makesumbl River from an undutatiog country covered with thivk bush, Hlere Capt. Eftou begau to Isll, aud ha tlually dicd e Bouth Ushekbie, — e—————— KATIE'S CHOICE, L yo ki Me pockels are lmm{n:l.dl:m:l: Katewe Mo prospicts | wail Sate 41s unt your Putrick 'd ducave yees-- Deciption I always dlspive. Nor own | 8 shmali pstch o' groand, Kate— Vve usught wad moesllf recommind; But I've hiltt, aud a sthrong will 10 work, Kate— Jist give we yersilf tu detind. ¥'ve nothinz to ofet yee: Iiut & beart tha 18 tinde Ican’t drcss yo ‘n folne sitkse, dear, r wake & gradg lady vy you Qur lot won't be alsy at first, Kate— \\'-‘llfimlfl!(u 8 fur :'zlm bio'd, Kate, ut, wid work and clear g combin'd, Ba 1'm abure before loog to **etzike lle.™ ight wall & year, Kate, a1l cabin so folnes " wuri 80 tauch sbould we wasls suy tiue? distrisein’ we most, Katy, Tis tbrue that And bulld But wid yee wha Tim Daly's bia castin® lh‘lx'l He’a stale vne so timptin' and swate, No whoader be covits the prize. . . Ocbl sure. an' ls that all your reason Fur tazin' mo 80 to vaito? Yu'd give onu Do chance to sefuse yoes, . Whiie Tim Is s0 grand snd perlite, An' thin be has ricles, has Tim dear— Iu sutius cach day I'd be dress’d; But yours te the heart I will Lrust to— o turtuue Llave all the zeaky M. C.W,