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throw the sal) The several speefea of produced thia wonderfully-brilllant encctacle are deseribed by tha author; but from his In- tereating account of the scens and fts causes wo can extract no further, At the singulnr Islcts ealled 8t, Paul’a Rocks, which riso out of the Afrien and South Amert the Equator, the “Challenger” paused for & fow daya of uctlve exploration, The naturalists who made colicetions of tne land fauns found it ' to consist of & minute tmoth, dipterous fuscets, (the *booby’—Sula fusca, Sterna stolida), clagic animals that +« LITERATUR Ceneral Results of the Ex- ploring Voyage of the ** Challenger." en midway between ica, and vearly under two yery amall o tick parasitical on tho bird —and the ‘nodily '— a speeies of Cnellfer, and thres , I his voyage on the I additton, & wood-louse and these are alt the forma of terres- trial Ntethat fnhabit this desolate, barren mnss Not a trace of nland wich as a lichen, octura on the fs! At the penal fsland of Fernand the coast ol Brazll, which the *Cl party were unfortunetely forbidden by the (ov- crour to inspect, Sir (¥ other curlositics, that, am riance of the vegetation, tas often seen covering tho roof of the con- vmtl:' cablos, aud loading them with its largo While steaming along the Brazilian coast to- ward the entranco of Bahia, on the 14th of Sep- tember, it was remaried by Sir Wyville that— little butterdly, of Lthe dolicately- uttering in malit- tides over the ship; and nver the nea, as far the eye could reach, they quivered in the air like “fheir number must have been incaleulablu: looking up intu tie sky where the: wera thickest, they were na close tugetner ne, an: had much {lie nppearance and style of motion of. tho Lirge flakes of snow in a heav! when a thaw is setting in, terfiics are by no meuns uncommon along the coast of Beazil, nor are thoy confined to the Hellconidie, es the country over n consid- 1y dovasintod by some por- The bulterflies, or The Capital of the Turkish Em- pire, as Scen by an Ital- ian Traveler. *Iicagle,"" found, @erman and English-—Col. Inger- i, 2 €0 goll's Leotures---School and no sangn, no clamorous y¥lile noted, among d the tropical luxu- A great pumokin-plaut Literary and Art Gossip«=-Florida as a Sanitariume=+Snake- Fascination. Flora Round Abont Chicago: The Duck- weod Family---Brief Scientific Notes---A Fossil Bird, YATERATURE, TOE VOYAGE OF THE TOE ATLANTIC: A Prrcisixany Accoust or N8 SEVERAL RESULT o withered loaves, Buch showers of but- ablo arca is absolutel eclea of caterpillar, 8 the cnso may be, coma out nearly at one 1 of Insecta are caught hy tho ea, where myrlads NE EXrLoniNg EXOER " Duning TiE YEAR 1870 AKD THE EARLY PaRT or 1470, By Ste C. Wrvitte Tioxrsox, Knt, L, L. etc., eic., Regins Professor of Not'iral 1iist in the University of Edinbure, and Director the Clvilian Scientific Stafl of the ** Chall on, In'Two Volumens, New Yor! Dros. Chicago: Jan v0,, bp. 391—H0. The Intelligent reader hus been acqualnted, from the Inceptfon of the undertaking, with the sclentifie alms governing the vosnge of the “Challenger,” and has been informed, sinca ita close, of the maln features of the work accotn- plished by the expedition, By mecans of the dally press, news as often as received was spread over tha world of tho progress of the ship which, during its four ycars' crulse, extending to May . 24, little bapnd of d land-breezo and wafled ont tu drowned, —a remnant belng, k ugaln by the usual shif At Tristan Island,—the laraest of the threo comprising the Tristan d’Acunna group,—~thres apecies only of lana-birds oceur,. bunting. an a water-hen, thirty species of plants w of wind in the =0 thrush, a Hetween twenty and ers eathered by tho the most iuteresting of which was o This istaud, which is about seven iniles across in any direction, has been lnbabjted by a small colony since the carly part of the anlmals ore raised by as also vegelables in their gardens; but there are no trees on the {sland, and no {ruit of any sort is grown. A small Lraffic s maintained with passing vessels, and thus the A few domestie 8ir Wyville contlnues thess Intercsting way- sl notes throughout the crulse in the waters of the Atlantle. AL the close of tho narrative ho gives o summary of the maln conclusions thus far reached by the scientifle stail of the ‘*Challenger " in the study of the data acquired during the expedition, A greneral knowle tho coutour of thy bed of tho tained by tho deep-sca souuding of the nature of the bottom. between 400 and 2,000 fathomns the bed of the Atlanue wos found to be covered with the now well-known calcarcous deposit, the globlierina coze,—consisting to a mreat extent of the shells, niore or less Groken and decom- ol pelaric foraminifera, greater than 2,000 fathom 18 covered with o clay pros position of felspathic minerals, In the weigh- , the deposit conststa chicfly of the debrls washed down by rivers, duteod by tho disintegrativn of” the rocl ‘The temperature of the water of the Atlantic proves to be, through Its entire length and ureadth, warmest at the surface, Below this 1t rapidly cools for the first handred fathoms or 0, and then cools more slow); 500 or 6U0 fathots is reach luscs heat with extremo slowneas, sud beyona o certaln polot remnins uniforu form, in temperature, down to ‘The most remarkablo biological fact estube lished by the exploratious of tho *Challenger 1stribution of the deep-sen fauna. hiow that animal lifo exists at all depthis,~cven on the floor of the oct P scntatives of all the marinu Invertcbrato classes Is less nbundont at exiremo ind tho various forins 0 of {uferlor size when Yet this Is not the high scas untll the globe had been clreum- savigated with many doublings and turnings, and a distance of 63,600 nautical miles had been Shortly after the voyage of the Challenger was concluded, two distinct narra. tives wers published by naval officers who shared in its oxperience. The onc by W.J. J, Epry, First Engineor, included somne account of the sclentific whrk shich came under his notico; aud the other, by Lord George Campbell, Sub. Lieutenant, was mostly limited to a sprightly rehearsal of the author's personal observations oo sea and land. Bir C. Wyville Thompeon, the dircctor of the scentific corps of the *‘Challenger,” summed up some months ngo a portion of tho resuits of the expedition In a vulume cotitled “Tho Depths of the Sea.”” That work s now fol- lowed by n summary of the Investigations aud discoveries made durlng the first year, and tho early part of the fourth year, of the voysge, at which times tho exploration of tha Atlantic was befng conducted. The greater portion book s occupled with a description of the most Interesting forms of animal )ifo which wero brouzht to light by the deep-sea dredgings; but thero are fnterapersed maoy entertaining pages of a popular character, giving picturca of the islands of the Atlantio, with thelr distioctive featurcs and character- aties. Tho book blends, in o successful man- zer, the carcful studles of tho man of scfence with the lighter notes nad comments of th en- lightencd traveler. It is coplously provided with maps and charts, and with metcorological fables, tables of depths, and of sea-tempeen- I specifle-gravit, which place at the comiman phvsical geography an abstract of the data workers on board the 3 also accompanicd with finc cnerayings, which reproduce tho most cnrfous of the proviously unknown members of the Atlantic fauna, toguther with somc lsland vlews and sccucs ot especfal novelty, Tho first chapter of the book Is devoted to a rebearsal of the causes which led to tho dls- patch of the * Challenger " expedition, and to adescription of the manner in whicl the ves- d for tho nurposes of the voy- The succeeding two or threa chapters ro- late how the corps thelr work after’ making varied apparatus, and exhibit the mora im- accrucd during the passage Atlantic was op- the floor of thes:a uced by the deerin- borhood of coasts, y until o depth ot ed, .nfter which it or nearly unl- refers to tho d: ‘The results s thaa at moderate depths, of Iiving belngs scem to dwelling on the lower levels. the case with all groupe. This s ovidence that D 8ca Is contined principally to two belts,—ono at and near the surface, and tho otlicr on and near the bottom; and that be- twoen these there fs a zono in whicl anlinal forms arc almost wholly absent, Years must pass beforo tho materlals gathere edin tho vovage of the “Challenger” can bo thoroughly worked up, and the amount of light which thoy throw on the problems of physial geozeaphy accurately determined, has alroady been accomplished to ren- der the expedition onc of the most vatuable in its influence upon Scicnco that havo ever been the founa of the dee; determinations, of students In galned by the bus: “'Challenger." CON| CONSTANTINOPLE, DBy Epsxoxpo pr Axicis. Translated from the Soventh Italian_Edition by ansen, McClurg 1,75, el was equlpped nal teats of thelr Sigaor do Amlcls {s an ardent enthuslast, who pursuces traveliog with a zeal bordering on frenzy. In his esrly manhood ho visited differ- ont forclen lands, and published his fmpres- slons regarding theimn; but the fondest dream of bis imagination rematned unfultilled. tinople, which his fancy palnted as the one per- fect representation of an cartbly Paradise, was the goal to which he constantly turncd with burnlog, eager desire, sacrifice, Lo was enabled to make tho coveted Journey to the enchanting city of the Bosphorus, and to achieyo the sccoudary aim of transcribing the emotions exclted by theevent, Tho result is presented in tho book beforo us, It begins with an account of the voyage on the Mediter- ranean, during which the feolings of the tourlst waxed hourly more rapturous and vehousut. ‘The last night on board ship was sleopless with rtaut results that Portsmouth to I tod tho West Indles. teached by the “ Challenger ! carl: 1673, and, a8 appendages of the Iirls these fslands are sketched by Sir V! conslderablo minutencss, Tho Bermudas aro bullt up ad consisi_of ive narroy isla tude of islets and detached rocks, included in & space twentv-four imiles long and twelva ‘They stand almost on the lmit region of reef-bulldinz corals, and for ation on which they rest By using n water- crmudas wero on a coral reef, nds, and & multi- After much toll and son the fouud ¢xhibits some peculia; Rlass—''a ggunre bucket with tha Plate-glass, just loweraed so far as to et tld of tbe ripple aud reflections on the surface— when gazing into the sea horo flowlog over tho Mructures of the reef-Luiliiers, the entire ccono- my of the vast community 1s plainly visiblos nd ledges [writes Blr Wyvlllo] aro of and they are separated fron) oue anather annels from o yard (o 8 quartor of o mile in h, floared with White coral sand, the dobrieof cural worn down by tho actlon of tha wai mixed -~ with dead bova the Jovel of tho Hours of thedo pas. the hight of alx to ten feet, 1 18 covered with maesive, branching, and things of very many kinds, I was foverlsh [ho writes], my breath camo in and (ho night scemed eternal, zht of dawn 1 rose, afout; we dressed 1n wild s wero on deck. 1 The horizon was completely vell i ralnaceimed lminlueat: the great Couvientiuopla was loat; vur WE voyage, in one ~uly friend was atready haste, and in thrce Horror of horro of the entrauce to Karnaiy Lo W most ardent hopes word, o falluro! "1 was annihil ‘The tragieal Impetuosity of thoe traveler, and this quick and total dissolution, take our breath away. But, luckily, tha fog litts, ana ho secovera lifs aud spirits, which do not suffer a sintlar ayrupt eclipse during the remainder of bis experience {o the Orient. dizsy excltement at Leing in tho Capltal of the Bultans passes by, Bignor de¢ Amleis becomes o quite ngreeably traveling contidenco fu his capability fmproves, o re- mainseaverand excitable tothe lnst § but bis keen apprecintion of the picturesque, tid poctleal, and theempbaticelcmentsinthe tte and scenesabout him quolify him as au observer and historian, 1lis sketehies ot Constantinoy photographs, and they are taken from curious und fmportant” point of view, tall with whicl they are loaded enables us to comprehiend the detached teatures of the placy with uuusual clearness of vislon; but it has the of fpalring tho oerapective, and rendering obscure our {dea of the unlty and do- #izn of tho city as a whole, arate sections the many striking traits fetrupolls of the Ottoma: with elaborate futluces, minuteness with which the cct are prescoted chapter entitled “Birds "' Coustantinople has o Yar to itaclf, that com ¥irst, wa have tho growing represent the dock- eq, or, ratlier, a mass of beauti- nd carnations, snd dalelcs, und which have been Lhrown over the hedgo i 8 luxuriant garden, and have taken rovg Blost of the Uerwudas Work,—ete, 0N o fowerng. Sorls—guch aw Oculina didy After the first OF Kroubs of sea-anemones, In evory eple, orange, orgreen, Th basa or stock Tt of tho reef; tiuped with Ite In moat casos the hodies 8, with thelr ranges of tent- Aros0 prominent achmezen, L0 amel 10 living vranched companfon, and our o Inesu uca-anemonci, Sciex and thetr high they entively nask the coral unle, the Dryozos, and tha My 1tk tho ethor more prominent weeds o3 abundant sud sa frregularty dise ple are miuute ns ced Lutween tho ~Lrowing in the I the difterent kinds of coral. neath these large thiugs thore ing of an undererowth, constel :‘Wflle- and swaller z0o| laug| tes, but chtedy of. . o . ucurals, take carbonate o sca-water, sud fucorporate it in wrats the whal tie 80l or crust of the Bermudas conslets at ply of coral sand fn varlous stages Owlng to thelr formation, L of springs and tresh-water ds, aud the inhabltauts de- r supply of pure tho abovo speclmens, which are_taken at ran. dui, would till many columes of Tie Trisune, there 3 u total wan wells oo the fslan Peud wpon the ralu water for drinking and cookiug 2 about the pretty blll-and-dale scena- says Sir Wyville], on 1s nat at slugular omission, uutil all ay re is 0ot a drop of —no river, stream, or given ‘lo overy list. The transluting cxers cises are alav inade essy by the careful choles articulars of eacu wequotetheshort lows.” '[ue philulogical notes are numnerous and conciso; but here and there perhapstoo learaed, at lcast forthe average studeut, to whoimn the author addreases himsell in his letgers, from an indnite number kind, for which too "Purks nourisn & warm scotiment of symuvaiby and 98ce 1t bursts up: yroves, old walls, gardens, Bllltrw be sccn auywhere, Shot even & ditch or » duck-pond. in falls upon the porous siud-heap, aud Fough |t as if It wer & steve, After a u for a lttle, collected e beaton road, oF it way rush down & L 140 ruln 18 over; 4 on biu that fhel ng and wwitterin feds; everywhero re fluttering, and feand barmuny nbound. baldly, sud eat vut hauds; swallows urranged reading matter, are to appear ia the later numbers, 0 Wer, 1L inay remai; of tha women's and children nest over Lho cafu-doors, aud un the bazare; pizcons In Inuuwer, talned by legacies frous Sultan: of the five numbers reason why any fntelliges swarms, main. d privato judi- k and white along cuvolas aud around the terraces ulls dart and play over tha turtlo-doves coo amorons); among the cypressesin thocenicterios; crows croz about the Custle of the comw and go fu long 8l and the 2ea of Maruoru; and storks wit upon the cupolas of tho mausolouws. For the Turk, sach 080 of thess birds has o gentle weaning or & benlguaut virtuo; turile-doves are favoraoly to luvers; swallows’ keep awusy Hro from the roofs whero they bulld their nests; atorks pilgrimages to Meeca ; halcyons carr, thu fajibful to Parsdise. fecds thew through a wentunent of gratitude sad enliven tho house, tho ev uarter of Stamboul uging (o the city -n;l;_m;unullly towe marshes and narsties covered w. 2 10 a1l of thew, M6 all more of less Iu the muntty of ed at the Cape do Vi tha luxuriant vegelasion tne water is brackish, affectod by the tide. { Auzust the the cornlces of 4 of the minarcts; vos-| water; thousands o by n moderate degree of effort and perscver. erdo lsluods, und, thew, tho sva was for severl t blaze of phosplorescence: e betweon tag ey 9% | matical foruw, to the Luglish, as will suiprie ghts a perteet tho read tbirty-two pages cuch, published 1 scuii-month- ly parts, so tuat it will be completed by the cud Of tlus year. T4 0f the beayeus was 0 8cd. The unbrg ‘Ared piich- black, Tahlcrover: Thets way § fpplo the whole 1 v lng broke into u brzlifant Lie shi ©# predowsnated: but, a il e gillteriug ndges looked uu far as tho eye could! r and to welt fulo oue Wake of the ship was ‘THE GHOSTS; axp Otucs Lxcrvuss. By Rosger be noise of thom, res of country-ifc Fefreabing the soul with & rewinder o Oue of the most sble cuaplers tn the book iy that portraying the manuers and the character It ta both wranbie and subtls fa collection, that, asanact of simple justice to himselt, bo bas published his lectures fn thelr THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MAY I, its deseription of the of the Aslatic steppes They look like phil endants of the Lartar d, In consequence, misjudged by the public, that he now nuts them into print In the exact shape which they wers delivered from the platform, and so aends them forth to chal- fenge the world's candid critlcism. There are #ix discouracs in the velume, entitled, respect- ively, The Ghosts; The Liberty of Man, Worian, aud Child; The Declaration of Inde- endence: About Farming in llinofs; Specchat l'ln:lnnal]: The Past Rises Befure Mo Likea Jream. , Tho rower which Me. Ingersoll has a speaker comes chiefly from his intense esrnestoess. fe enters with the might of & full, warm heart every aubject that interests him, and discud it with such ardent feeling that all trho hear him sre infected with hia ‘enthustasm. Jio ts careless of the conatruction of his rentences, and his paragraphs hane very loosely together, Neither his Joul: nor s rhetoric would bear calin eriticlatn, But, carrfed away by the pas- slon of an orator whose woris fall fast, and have the ring of sincerity and the sharp pofnts of comnon-sense, audiences are ant to be uomind- ful of the lack of mere scholarly graces in lan- guage and arguinent. Mr. Ingersall utters many noble and beautl- tlom): ' Hugh Latimer, * by Charles D, Deshle **'The Retarn of the Native, " by Thomas Hardy Doak Second, Chapters Wi, —VIII:; '*The I y Qen. Jamen S." Drinbin: e Pollncriet Prescott” Spoffazd ; w York Thirty Years Ago," by *Grcts's Hoya," by Henrietts | Our Boys i Fitted for the Belentl by O W. Ileaman; **A Trio, " by Georze Lunt: **Fitz.Greeno Halleck and the Villazo Beiie, " hy the Riav, A, C. Hald- win: * tive (ucensin the Market. " by Mary by’ Charlottn met,” by Simon " by Z, .3 % ) duce_the facade of the Mosque of 8Idi- Ben-Medineh, at Tlemeen; ' the Chinesc and Japanese bulldings, cach bulle by natlve workmen; and, to Ametlcans, the five Enxlish buildinzs: the pavilion of the Princo of Wales, designed In the Elizabethan tl{yle.—a half-timbered houee, dcs':finc«l by Mr. Gilbert Redgrove, with richiy.carved woodswork, —A terra-cotta bullding, furnlshed by Doulton and the Shoolhreds,—a Queen-Anno house, de- signed by Mr. Norman Shaw,—and another bullding, designed by Mr. Colente.” M. Charles Verlat, Peofessor at tho Antwerp Academy, has a laczo palnting nt the Paris Ex- bibition, entitled * The Defender of tne Fluck,' and showlng a combat between allonand a hull, The Academy gives currency to the statement that, *in hia studics for this work. male at the Zuological (lardens of Antwerp, M. Verlat al. ways had before him six studies of the animal he was. nalnunlz. taken in six different positions, which, according as tha creatitre moved aud chaneed fts position, he worked at in turn, so that he might bo sble to oxpress its various at- lllur{e’s', and thus give a true effect uf inove- ment, ———— FLORIDA AS A NSANITARIUM, dawn tiny rootlets from the under aurface, and flowers—the pistillate and staminste scparate— from the margin. Thereare four genera and ahout twenty spectes making up the famniiy, The genus Lemna inhabits stagnant waters in the cooler parts of the world, Pistia is fonnd In warm countrics, and Ambrosinia in the basin ot the Mediterrancan, Lemna nitnor 18 common in_the ditches and nools rodnd about Chieago. The frands of this #pecics aro roundish or ohovate, and two or thre usually adhere together. Each has n single routlet, and the neariy microscuple flow- ers appear near the base of the frond in the sutnpier-months. The plant forms dense patches on the surface of stagnant waters. Lemna volyrhiza Is a less comman species, found g the eame ritnations ns the other, Its Ironds reecinble flaxseeds, but are n little larger. ‘Tloy are of a firm butisuceulent toxte licey and hecome of a purplish Tine, The route lete ate from eight to ten in_number, and the hinasoms nppear (u summer. The popular name, Duekweed. apnlied to the Lemnhda, 13 dertred frum the fact that ducks and otheraquatic birds feed uyon the different specles, sophers [sayn De Amicie) All hent on ono thesls, or somnarahulists walking ahont unconacinus of the placa they aro In or the objects about them. ~They havo s look in their Cyevan it they were contemplating a distant hori- #on; and & vaguo nadnass hovers mand ths mont! 1tko people nccastomed to live mach alon shut up within themeelves. Al bave the name pravity, the same compored manner, the rame Teserve of langaage, the mame louk and gesture, From the Pasha tirthe lnnskeener. zre endowed With A certain dignified and Ariatocratic air, ao that &t firat might, ana withont tho dlstinctions of dren ou would fance there wan no auch thing s & ple- ian in Constantinoplo, Andging from appearan habitauta'of Canstantinop! the most civillzed and polite people in Korope, . , , [n the crowd ouo encaunters no 1nsolent ‘look ‘or wordl, nor even ona of carlosity; laughter in rare, and noixe and disturbance among the people very ra there 18 no public Indecency of anv kind: tho ma ket In hat awivado less dignified than the mosnu everywhere a great sobriety of words and gestires : ofces, nothing to distnrts the quiet passenzer: faces, hands, ond feat ate clean; ragged and dlrty garments are oxceedinily rare; auniversal and rectprocal manifestation of respect amongall clasaes, 'Tut this i only on the ] Recoryg:™ * or's Historie, **Editor's Drawer, APPLETON JOURNAL—June (. Appleton & w York). Contents: Frontirpiece— iustration ta **.Jet: fler Face or Iler Fortuney* . Reinhart: The American st Work: . by William . Hide- Heilca ' (with two iitun. D. Hay: * Jet: Her Mra. Annlo Edwarden, How Come the Flow. * Mrs, talusborough’ only, the Turkish in- olina ey, by Marie Le ll.’lml'll‘: ** Otacga 1.~Rirds Then ana_Now, n The Wolllla Columbinn, an_[hbabltaot of the ::;’:‘:5; llfliu’ufififllmfiflh‘;lfiglliilkgiclonb:l:(oy.'é ful sentiments in his lecture on the liberty of | . Fenimore Cooper: '+ Old Fogien™ by G { Florida Is annually visited, I the winter-sea- | United States, 13 the smalleat Howering plant 1o sexen; Idieness Js hidden under tranguitlity; | MR, women, and children. One feets stire, in | Cranch: ++ Tneiame foney™s oo sr 1, Matvrobs son, by & multitude of consumptives, who seek | known. It floats on tho water ns littlc specks dignity {8 the mask of prlile: the composed eravity | reading them, that he Is himself & tender and tt Uy Celia's Atnor,” by Walter lceant and n '". solt cimat d b In " here | OT,£ralns. of conntenance, which resembles thoughtfulness, | devoted father and husband. His address to -’l,fltfl Mice (with two Hlaetratlons), Chapter iate nnd balmy ~atmospliere | "N il Btratiates, which occurs In om $onceals the mortal inertiaof the intellect: anathat | the farmers of Thiinols Is full of judiclous coun- | XLVI. (0 conclusion; ** The Wasp's Neat,"! by amelloration or remedy for their delusive mal- ady. A few are benefited by the change from the damp aud cold weather of noriberly Jatl- tuden, but by far the greater part are” dootned to a fatel disappointment of their hopes. A writer (Dr. James Nichols, editor of the Boston Journal of Chemistry) who his wduring the last scaton, tried the ellicacy of the climate for nervous disorders, savs that, for this class of naladics, a sojourn in Florida Is ndmost sure to prove helpful. *“The poor, broken-lown man of business, the nervous wife and mother, wearled amd worn with houschold cares nnd duties, wiil find in this delightful alr & balm well calculated to restore nerve-action to Its healthy conditions. The rest, the tnentul ana vhyaical rest, which comes during even o bnel Soutnern States, iivery troublesome In Jamalca where fterows In the” water-tanks, and, in hot dlrv weather, impreguates the Nquld with fte warticies, and gives rjse to the bloody fux. A FOSSIL BIRD, In the finscct-bearing shales of Plorissant, Col.y Mr, 8. 1. Scudder ascovered, in 1837, a couplo of Interesting specimens of n fossil bird, In tho first of these the greater partof the skeleton I8 prescrved; but, unfortunately, the bill and the auterior portlons of ‘the head ara wanting. The species resembles fn sizé and Droportiona the tedar-bird (Ampelis cedrorum) or the searlet tanager (Pvrangs ribra), and, In , certain points, np{r{mchu the - short-legged pewees. Mr. J, A. Allen states, In a description * of the fossila, contributed 1o tho American o which soeine lemperanco of life Is nothing but an Sathalios Homavee, " by absonce of 1fu 10 118 irne senee. o The Tutk tolerates the Armenian, dosplnes the Jav, hates the Greck, and diatrusta the Frank, 1lo endures them all ‘when necessary, ns n big animal enaures o myriad of flies uvoh his back, ready to make way with them as soon as they hew come unandurable, 1ic looks on while thinga aro changed, ordered, direcled about him; takea from the Euroneau whiat may be neeful to himsclf; ace cepts fnnovations whose materinl advantages o recognizesan iminediate: heara without winkinz tho Teasons of elvilization that are given him: changes laws and ceremonles; ailows himeelf to be im- roved, embellished, and inade to wear n mask; ut within e Is {mmutably, {avinclbly the ssme, It 18 the muititude of vivid word-pictures liko these, dellueating the customs and habits of the Turk in his hours of husinces and lelsure, at home, at the mosque, at the market-place, and at his amusciients, which have alued for Signor sel and helnful sugeestions. Of the character of the discourses In which religlon fs the theme, it is unnccessary to speak. ILisinthem that the dogmatic aind aguresstve traits of the aue thor are most unrestrafned. Thev: 1ail of much of the cifects they arc intended to produce, by reason of thelr excessive vehemeuce and bitter- ness, Chrietian Rewd; Varieties of Verse," by Brander Matthews: oS, The Saalburg nuln-." by Henry W, Itaymond: **French Writers and Art- Inte: “L—Erncst D‘fierflll{." by William Min- A Iteminlacence. i son; ** or's Tables™" ** Bool 7. VAT AFTERNOON —June (Springtield, Mann, ), Contents: **Annt iinldah's Scholars, 't L. by Edward £. Hale: '*The Charities of St Matthews, " by Rebccea Harding Davis; **Btories Tolu by the Stoncs, * K. A. Washbuen; +*By and fy," by Lucreces Terty Cooka; **A Florence Apuntiement," by Sne #an Coulidzes *‘lle and She," by Nora l’erg: ** The ‘Trag {lt Dale Farw by Eilen W, Ol nev; ““Mind In Nature, "' h)! W, C. Gray; **A Pleafor Dumb Things.* by Elizaonth Akors Al- ten: **The Rubin ‘tnonz tie Cherry Blooms," by SCHOOL AND FAMILY. TIE 8CHOOL AND THE FAMILY: Tir Etnics or Scuoot-Retations, By Jony Ke: Nxur, Instructor in Teachers' Institates, New York: Harper & Dros. Chi : _ Jansen, McClurg & Co. 10mo.. pp. 205 Price, 70 conta, The fruit of years of earnest and_enlightencd study {3 concentrated v this treatise upon the relations which unite children and parents X residencs in Florlds, s, I our view, | Journal of Science and Arts, that the features Atalels’ book {ts notable popularity. ?L’}'..‘fif.;"fi?{,z f; ehrl,::;.:el:'::: ;':srmr‘:lgufifi:z‘: Tnn'lkel:: D;m “nr c“thc i mu:z; runm,r’knbl’-:l results presented fndlcato arboreal habits and well-de-! GERMAN AND ENGLISH, ) e Lake | ol () matlc Influcuce.’ e wri- | veloped powcers of Tlight. In the absence of: those who have the young in cBarge in the schoul-room und fn the family, aod erects an cxacting standard by which to measure the prin- ciplea and the practice of the guardians, the Fuides, and the Instructors of the growing gen- cration. Yet its demands azo nonc too severe, Every thoughtful reader will ncilnnwledxe, in the maln, thelr justice aud thelr w! 0. 1n all his statcments, the authdr claims the rhghts of the child to the nost completa prepa- ratton for a tife of usclulness, and of,bappiness; nnd it {s bis cndeavor to reduce to m_system, as nearly s may be, the methods by which parent and teacher inay work in bartnony tosecure this finportant ¢cnd. He Inslats that o parent's duty consists in furthering the child’s development into o healthful, vigorous, and efllcient ma- turity, He is to expect no personal benet from the cducation of his oftspring, but to bestow all pains and care, unselflshiy and for the solo good of the recipient. Abovo'nll, the parent {s not to abusc his privileges by constratning his chiil- dren, while uader Iis” jurisdiction, to earn money for his advantage. They arc to be taught to be good bread-winoers by the time when tuey have to suift for themselves; but it is not their place, while under age, to be the bread-winners of his houschold. In all the argument which he enforces, the author conveys the fdea that, 20 long as children are {n “the condition o minors, the obligation of tha pareut as pro- vider and educator remalus unafmintsned. It {3 an oxaltation of the duties of pareutiood, but not beyond the limits of reason, The oblizations of the teacher arc no loss clearly marked out. The common errors tn tho mungizement of schools are frankly cxposed, and the remodics suggested. As one used to the office of advising or criticiaing, the writer {s plain aud forcible o tho expression of his theo- rvies and oplinfons. Though there may be dis- sent from somc of his conclusions, there Is much in what he says calculated to stimulate tho conscience and the Intellect of those to whom his remarks aro particularly addressed. pic ek RUHETORIC, n THE PRINCIPLES OF RHETURIC, AND THEIR APPLICATION. 1y Abawa 8, IhiLr, Dovlston Professor of Ithetoric and Oratory in llarvard College, WiTit AN APPENDIX, COMPRISING (4KN~ EnAL RULES ron PuxcruaTiox, New York: Tlarper Biros, Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co, Hvo., pp. Price, 81,17, EMENTS OF RUHETORIC, By Jaxea Dr A. New York: Harper it Chi- ea P McClurg & Co. 8vo,, pp, Go4. Price, $1.40, v It {s amuslog to compare two works, like thosa beforo us, which are written on the samo subject and for the same claas of persons, and tonote the marked diversity in the authors' opinions, and the radical difference lu avery re- spect. Both these 'books are manuals for begluners, and both are, couscquently, olementary. Prof. Hill fs careless in his style, fond of the Anglo-Saxon forms of speach, and has a strong Inclination to hold very lightly tho oltarts of Trench, Moon, White, and others to prescryo purity or regularity {n the develop- ment of tho louguage, © Whateyer fs, {s right,” 1s spparently his motto. e is fond of quoting authorltlcs,—cven law-roports being lnld uuder contributlon to furnish citations. On the other hand, Mr. Do Mille's work fs calm, judicial, and iu style far more viassical. The author shuws u 1tking for the words aud terms derived from tho Latin, thongh by no meaus to such an extent as to runder bis scuteuces heavy or fnflated. The treatment of hils subjcct is far more aattsfactory than that of Prof, I1lll, and bis work contatns nearly twice as much matier, Altoguther, it will ba found tho more preferable treatise on this mportant subject, —— A LAW-ROOX, FEDERAL CITATIONS: AN ALPRARETICAL Tas BLE OF EXuLinll AXD AXEMICAN Caszs CITED IN T8 OPiNioNs or Tiua Counvs or THE UNiTeED Bratea; Stamine TuE PoiNte as 1O Witicik TuBY ARE CITED, AND BHOWING TUR Errsct or. Such CITATION BY LETTEH® AND UlARACTERS, Hy Romkir Drevy, Author of ' Federal Pro. *Callfornia Chiations," “etc, San c umuer, Whitney & Co. Chicago: E. I Myera, 8vo,, law slicep, pp. 810, A glance at this work will soon convinco every lawycer that it 18 as indlspensable a Lelp to him ns tho Digest of his uwn State, The wonder is, that so useful a work has not boen gotton up before. Tho book embiraces all the Knglish and American cascs cited {n the Federal Courts dur- ter ts carcful tu, add, however, that those who suffer frant orzanic leslons of the brain, or from nervous disorders which bave advanced so far as to requlre watchfuluuss and restraint, are not iucluded In the class to whom his retnurks the bill, ft {s impossiblo to refer the bird to any particalar family; tut it gives the impression ot Fringilhioo afinities. . Tho* most remarkable feuture. of the more nerfect apecimen fs sald by Mr. Allenzo be * the definlteuess of the feather fmpressions. Both the shafts and the barbs aro shown with great. distinctnese In the retrices, and the tips of the primarics of one wing are also sharply dellned, overlying the edge of the partly-expnnded tail, The tip of the ovposite wing can also be scen beneath the tall. " The feet aro so beautifully n‘ru!u,rywd that even tho clawsare perfectly dis- tinet,! Birds of the Passcrino group, to which this probably belongs, have been discovered in the tertfary depoxits’ of Eurooe; butthia is the first epccics found ln America. The lower tertlary of Wyoming Territory afforded o #pecimen of a Plearian bird whict was described by Prof. O. 8, Marsh in 1872, and was the highest extingt type hitberto known from Atnerica. DEUTSCH'S LETTERS; A PaacTicAL AXb Graye MATICAL Couner ron Easy axn Trionovatt Sevr. INATHUCTION IN TilB (JERMAN LaNovaar, Diz. TARED WITI SPECIAL REOARD TO THE ULor Ar- FINITY Exiaming BETweeN tin KXolisn Axp UERMAN Laxouaars, By BotojgoN Drersch, . M, P'h, uthor of ** A Practicable Hebrew Grammar," etc. Publisied In semi-monthly arts of one_lesson cach. (Martford, Conn,, B78, Nos. 1-5.) An cxamination of the numbers ns‘far s far aa {ssued satisfics us that, when the gram. mar is comoleted on tho plan hers puraued, it will be by far tho best work of the kind cver published. It makes the study of Gurinan o pleasant recreatlon, instead of an irksome, dry, hard task. The German is oue of the great Innguages of the world, and certainly ranks third, §f not sccond, in Importance. But it {s considered o difflcult tongue for English-spenk- ‘g peovle to acquive from books,” and adults capmot often epare the timo to livo In German familles and communlties to learn it by ear, Dr. Deutsch hos undoubtedly overcome much of this difiiculty by bis apa- I5tical method. o beglus by showlnz the remarkable similarity that oxists between n multitude of English and German words, [lis classifled tables contain nearly 1,500 worils in coostant use which are substantinlly fden. tieal in speig and mesnlnz fn the two luvguages. Comparing them together, ono cau_sca at & glanco thelr common origin, Tuis stock of words s a great nid to the lsarner, as ho finds that he already knows 1,800 Gernan words without effort to acquire or memorizo. Eversbody kpows that onc-half or two-thirds of thé Eugiish words in common uso are of (erman urigin, though everybody does not know that tho grammatical 6taucturo of our language s also of Germian orfgln: but Dr. Deutsch demonstrates this fact very clearly, - Tho intimate relationship of the two langusges has to a great extent hecomo obscured in their gradusl develop- ment, Tno original Anglo-Saxon was Low-German,—that {s, the veruacular of tho people around the mouths of the Eibe and the Weser, or of the countries called Holland, Molstein, b:nmnrk. and Hanover, whoso [n- babitants fnvaded, mn‘?ucnu and peopled England and the Lowlanda of Scotland, The lnnfunto spoken by the other (ermans, called ** Iligh-German,"—by the people ouupflng the up-river countrics to the southeas| —uradually varied from tho Low-Gennan dialects, In the course of centurius, by the process kuown os voiel-coloring, aasimilation, double forma. tlons, contractions, tranepositions, and permutation of ‘consonants, In addi- tion to thess changes, the ‘meanings of related words have In many cases undergone material changes, so that the Engilsh word and the corresponding Gernian ouo ara no longer identieal in eiquification, This change Dr, Deutsch lllustrates by {nstancing - the word Knlghty—on attendant on a noble, or mil tary tollower,—and Knecht (the Uerman forin of {t),—a eervant, or workman, or bondman, Bo & hound {8 a kind of dog used for lnnmn?: but a Zfund is merely & dog, In German, ‘To write is toInscriboj hut to rifzen mesns to serateh, in German, Tho Auglo-Sazon of the Englisk people has wandercd oif or varied in one direction siuco tho Norman'conquest, elght centurles ago, and the High-Germnu fu another, And, not beine beld togather by a literaturo of printed books, or hooks ol any kind, It ia not surprising that they scem so diverzent now in print or sound, But ono partol Dr. Dentsch's task 13 to show tho strong aflinity and resem- blagce that exist Letween them; that they are more ke eocond-cousing; that they are half- brothors; that it Is hizh time they bocame botter acquuinted and reaumed fraternal relations, Uy tho new plan hore Introduced, the study of Uerman s mudo comparatively casy by strletly methodical progresalon, by typographi- {eal helps to tho eye, and chletly by the aid of Bnglish parallels. " Thus, in the readiuz exer- cines, tustead of words picked out at randont, we find vnly such as are cognate to the corre- aponding words o Engilsh—(ur Instance; Lier, beer; wid, wild; Winler, wiater; hiudern, to hindors Glebel, gable; knle, knoos' mitd, mild; binden, tobind} Sinden, to find; biind, biind} spinnen, to spiny Liie, lllfi; atrvemen, to strcam; Joelle, hell turthers Koenlg, Kiog; roeste achiveren, 10 SWCAL; wadrmy, Warm hang; lang, loug; fusten, to I Academy—A Uentennial,* by C, F, Thwing; **The Adventures of an Organ-Grind- er,” by Annle A, Preston; Negror" by E. I, Faireoild; ** Verees,™ by Su- 1l 0. Jewett; ‘*Editor's Table **Litera- ture. " LIBRARY JOURNAL—Vol, I, No, 2 (F, Ley- poldt, New York). LITLELL'S LIVING AGE—Carrent numbers (Lit- toll & Uay, Joston). FAMILIAR TALE. LITERARY ITEMS, The fourth Orlental Congress will be held at Florenco, from the 12th to the 18th of Beptem- ber. It 1s gaid that o single Edinburg house took 500 coples of Mr. Blsliop's * Voyage of the Paper Canoc.” Mr. Patker Gllimore's new work, “The Great Thirst-Lang,” has reachied the sccond edition in England, D, Apploton & Co. have nearly ready a new art-volumne entitled “Studlo, Ficld, and Gal- lery," by Horace J. Rollin. Walearn that the publication of Mr. M. M, Btanley’s oew work Ly the Harpers will prob- ably bo delayed uutl July, A new edition of Wendell Phillips’ *Specches and Lectures” will be among the carllest en- sulug publications of Lee & Shepard, The ** Half-flour Scrivs " aro to be presented by the Harpers In cloth biudings,—their value creating a demand for theas In permancut form, A scrics of art-manuals, cdited by Mrs, Rob- ert Carter, and {ssucd by G. I Putimin’s Sons, will soan he opened withi a treatlse on * Bketens 1og from Nature.” d. B, Lipplucott & Co. are about to publish a volume of *Recollectlons of ‘I'vo Dis- tinguished Persons,” vie: tho Marquis de Boissy and the Count de Waldeek. An essay on "lnunlt’{ln Aonclont aud Modern Life," by Dr. D. Hack Tuke, o leading English authority ou the subject of morbid ;mu,\'cnlw . isamong the nunoducements ot Maocmtllan & Co. apply. fn cases of true phihisls, espectally whore the disease Lias passed tho first stage, Dr, Nichols thiuke, coutrary to the gencral bellef, that Fior- {da {3 nut a favorable resort. * We dare not may," Is his emplatlc language, * that no case ol uenulne fnherited tuberculosis was ever cured Ly a visit to ora residencs in Florida; but we do dare say that, it there bave been such cases, ther nro extremely rare.” Before the ful development of tulwercle, or before the staga of suppuration {s reached, he regards it ns sale to !r:nmpnrlrnucnlu ta Florida. The chidren of tonsumptive parents, in whom indications of the disease are beginnlng to bo manifest, he slso thinks may have their lite prolonged by dwelllug for a protracted time within the fn- flucuce of its mild and toothing elfinate. Bronctfal and catarrhal aflections are reme- dled by o sojourn in Florlia, and, If patients have sufliclent means to secure the attentlon aud the comfurts which they require, it fs wise tosend them to this popular sanitarium; but consumptives In whom softening or disintegra. tion of the Junis hins occurred, and invallds of all classes whose expenses must be restricted, sbould, without exception, be kept at home. “This trausporting of exhausted invalids in chalrs and _on couclies to Florida (s all wroug, says the writer, ** aud too strong a protest can- wot bo cntered agalustit. . . . Itisa fear- ful thing to die snone strangers, awa, Lome, from fricods, and early nssociations; and yet scores die every year o Florida wlio ought never to bave left their Northern homes." SNAKE-TASCINATION. We borrowed from Forest and Stream, not lonz ago, a very lntereating account of the movements of the black snako {n excrelsing the singular charm over its victims that subjects them frresistibly to fts fatal power. 1In the case related, the fascination was excrted upou & human. observer, who had streneth to break the spell before it was completed, The paper which published the Incldent now brings forward another, of no less intercst, In which bind had fallen within the baleful fufluence of tuecharmer. Thestory s recounted by & witness of the scene, who, on passing through the woods, one June sfternoon, was arouscd by hearing sbrill, alscordant notes, s of 4 bird whose nest Is cndangered, Pausing to Investizate the cause, hio discovered, about twenty feet from him, & cat-bird sitting on a horizoutal branch of a low tree, and pourinz out the tones that bad arrested bls attentlon: 1t scemed i great distress [tates the mareator], 88, fultorinz its wings and swinginz its body 10 and fro, it repeated tho plaintive crics which first drow my atteation toit. In all its sceming agony it moved not from the limb, but clung to it as §f it wero (ts only protectlon, In wonder I cazed, but uot loa. A rustling in the leaves below drew my eyea from the bird. Stoopiug, 1 crawled nearer end nearer. Ilooked azain, and on the ground, beneath the branch on which the bird was perched, was a biack enake from two anda ball to thres feet in length, with body In close coll, bead eroct, And moving with an undulating, pendulons mo- tion, tongun fusking. snd eyes riveted on its vic. tim, only three fest abave him. Agaln he rastled the leaven with his* tall; and, quickly withdrawing A1, left but a amall portlon—perhiaps three or four inches—out of the coll, which part ho caused to Yibrate with dazzling rapidity, The motion of jta head Increaved, I fancied{in eyes galnea brilllancy in lts cagernces. Al this time the poor bird cone tinued its cries and Muttering but, as I watched, its strugzles grow weaker, its fluiterings lesa, 1t would eft for a thme with droopiug head d closed oyes, o8 thungh asicep, aurd then, ns it Uenly awakened, would feebly rafuc its Wings d utter a low, nd cry. At last these ceascd, d the poor bird, after valnly struggling 1o retain its hold wpon the lmb, fell Af iifeless to the ground. lwmedlately the snake uncollod himself und stretctied out his head to yrasp tho bird, At that moment I killed bim. 1 gentiy rawsed the bird from the ground, and, placing it'in the palm o my hand, [ couta fecl the viulent palsagions of 1te hieart, as, witn closed eyonand tightly-clenched feet, it Iay Inanimate. "1 carrled it quite a dis- tance beforu the frst signs of conscluuences l{h peal ‘I'hen 4 fuet unclasped 18 oycs opaued, 4 feet, it stood tottering. Then, as if enducd with new 1ife and strenath, it spread ite winge and swittly tew to fts native woods, BRIEF NOTES. The run of mackerel this year promises to ba cxceptlonally large, & Mr. I1, M. Btanley will rend a geographical naper before the Royat Geographical Boctety, at one of its Juno meetings. . In the dense forests in the northwestern por- tion of Tasmania, spesimens of the Euealyptus are sald to occur which are more than 800 feet in hight, 3 A Summer 8chool of Natural History will be held at ¥ The illinofs State Museum of Natural IHistory." st Norinal. The classes wlll open June 20, and coutinge to July 24, under the charge of Mr. 8, A, Forbes. g W. H. Leepett, of New York, has fssued s “Botanical Directory,” giviog the name and address of all tho “botanista in the United States, 2o far as they are kuown, with [nforma- :lon riznrv.lluz tho exchanges they would liks 0 make, A catalogue of the flowering plants and higher cryptogams prowiog without cultivation within tulrty miles ot Yale College, Includes 1,606 species, The list s published by the Berzellus Eoclety, New Haven, under tho ausplees of Prol. Eatou. A writer in the London Lancet states ‘that thero are abundant and melanctioly. proufs of the peril of contracting hydrophobla from the bite or scratch of o caf,—tho daoger belng scarcely less than that attending an Injury in- fNlicted by u dow, The Jonlteur Unlversd, imitating the examplo of the New York Herald and _the London Veirs, has dispatched un explorer, M, I, Soletilot, tor Equatorfal Africa. The Investigation of open- Iugs for French commoerco is to be a promivent. object of the enterprise. Licut, Cambier bas succceded the Jate Capt. Creapel In the cominand of tho. Belgian East- African Expedition. Tho party purpose se'ting out from Zanzibar for the Tanzantiks, toward the close of May. The plan of taking ox- wagons has been abandoned, on account of the bad couditlon of the roads, Dr, Asa Gray will soon publish tho first part of the “Synoptical ¥lora of North Amierica,” ‘8, contmuation of Torrey & Gray's Flora of North Amcrica, which onded with tho order Composite. The present volumo of the work lucludes all the Grinopotalm after Composite, and fiils over 400 8vo. pages. It will bo brought x‘;,ut Il:'y Iyeson, Blakewan, Taylor & Co., New ork. Rallway-travelers are recommended to carry & few flaxseeds in the pocket, for use when cin- ders Iall {n the eye. "One or two gralus, belug laced In the eye, speedily swell and cover the ball with o glutinous substance, enveloping also any forelgn object lodged between it and the i, ‘This prevents frritation of tho uellcato urgans, und may bo soon washed out, taking with it tho original source of aunoyance, Tho Central Socloty of Apviculture of France {8 the oldest Institutfon of {ts kind In Furope, 1t was establisied durlug the reign of Louls XV, and bas never been suppressed or Inter- rupted during {ts wore than a century of vxist- cnee, March 14 the Soclety took poisession of a splendid edifics crected ~for ita use and pre- sonted to {t by M, Behague, one of Ita activo mombers, A liarmless and offectivo agent for coloring confections and vegetables Is obtained by dls- ‘Thesecond volume of ** Current Discussions,! frou thu house ol G. I Putnmin's Sons, il foclude_papers treating of %Questions of He- et Tuc essay, “Is Life Worth Liviog 1 from the Nineteeath Century, Wil be smong them, Forde, Howard & Hulbert will publish Mea, Stowe's new novel of ** Poganue People™ with- in the prgsent month, New editions of * Al Wife aud®1" and * Woand Our Nelghtiors e of which 15,000 and: 40,000 copies respectively have beon sold~—will appear at the same time, D, Lothrop & Co.have tu press three volumnes by Adamn Btevens which aii 1o teach young boys the fmportance of observlog keenly nud truly what s golug on around themn. The title ot tho series will be “ Eyes Right"'; and, judg- iny frow the plan, thero is much promise 1n the books. A work contafuing the “Primeval Legends of the'I'aradlse, the Deluge, of the Landof the Plelndey, and Their Counection with & Divino Benetactor and the Pre-Christlan Cross,” 18 fu preparation by Mr. R, G. Hahburton, It will contain tho results of wide rescarch foto the woralip of tho Plelades, Miss Stebbins® “Life of Charlotte Cushman® will appear fn asingle crown-octavo volume, and will cuntalu s portralt of Miss Cushman from a plotograph, a Lellotyps of Mlss Steb- bing' bust of her, and a plcture of her Newport villa. ‘The book 18 on the avs of publication by Houglton, Osgood & Co, Measrs, Low havo ready ““The English Cata- logus of Bouks for 1677: Containluz u Complete Luet of All the Books Published in Uroat Britain and Iroland Iu the Yeur 1877, with their Sizes, Prices, oud Fublishers' Names; also, of the frincipal Books Published in the \)nlwi Slates of America; with the Additlon of an Index to Bubjects.” . Scribaer, Wolford & Armstrong have fimported s work In four voluuics on **Tue History of Cominerce,” by John Yeats. The volumes are pamed, severaily, “The Natural [fstory of tho Raw Matcrisls of Commerces” * Tha Techuleal Ilistory of Comimerve; * ¢ The backen, to o " ! " ris| p/ 3 | lug the fivet hundred years of tho country’s ex- | (irowth and Viclssitudes of Countnercs from B, | CHINESE (;OPLBGE ATNEW ITAVEN | solving the chlorouhyll of parsiey and similar i"fl}:z‘: nm"' by H :cy;.:‘r,,r acre ‘ll"l"t‘h":"k)‘ll;;‘ m‘cnce. and glves l.h)u valuc of vach under tho c,n{wu to A, D, 103" and A Manual of Re- JHarper's Weekly has chosen su lutercsing | plunts i o solution of mut{c soda. The following heads: *Approved, Clted, Dented, Explained, Followea, Harmonized, Limited, Moditled, Overruled, Reversed, Questioned or Doubted, Criticised, Distingulshed.’ ‘To save space, the frst lutlers of the words ouly are used, with the exception of the last two terms, for which speclal signs are resorved. A mo- nient’s rofrence tu thls work, thercefore, will show the exact value of o declslun, About 27,000 cases are referred to, many of them flty to elghty times; and each onu s, to a certain cxtont, o koy to the other decisfona on the same int, It wiust have cost much timo to compile ho book, and It is no small credit to 8an Fran- clsco that u memberof her Bar hius accomplished the laborious tusk. LOOKS NECEIVED, THE MAN IN BLACK: A Novmr, ByG. P, R, Jaues. Pliladelphias P B, Potersun & liros, Chicago: Juusen, McClurg & Co. Faper, Price, 75 conts. DECEIVERS EVER: A Novet. Dy Mus, ' N, Lovetr CansroN, Author of *‘Juliet's Guar. disn." Paper, Price, flllculgu. u':‘su BLAUK THAN WE'RE PAINTED: A V) chloraphyil is precipitated by the addition of aluw, aud the precipitate, after washing, s dis- solved fn a solution of sodium-phosphate. Iy usiug this ifquor fn the preparation of confece tivus and vezetables, the chloruphyll s absorbe cd, and Impacts » natural green volor, Mr. Robert Cotlett has been studying the glacial and post-glacial tislics of Norway, which aro fuuud perfeetly pruserved in Tunips of chalk oceurrivg in clay-deposits at a level of #10 (eot above the sea. Tho fishes all belong to the ex- isting fauou, and diaplay thelr Arcticand North- Atlantie orfgin. . Thy ‘most common of the spectes described 18 the Mullotus villoaus, which is found everywhiere, The Clupea sprattus s uotable for belng now a native of wore southern waters, Hxperlments have been made o the Jardin @'Acclimatation, with the vicw of testing the adaptatlon of the etz—onuof the most valued of Chjucse tish—to Europcau waters. A three- {cuu’ trial proves shat the fish thrives In tho urovean climate, and it 1s boped that it may be exteustvely introduced turough the countey, ‘The lish belungs to the carp famlly, feeds on aquatle Ylnnu. multiplies rapidly, aud fu a vomparatively brief period attalus a welght of forty pounds. ‘The British Goveroment has made official ac- kuowledgment of the service rendered by our ewnUovernment in the transinission to Austraifa and New_ Zealand of eggs uf the Calitornin uon. The United Btates Fish-Commbiston iputcted nearly 1,000,000 ¢grs 1o these colonies, free of vost except that fncurred bn packing und’ shippiug, Niuoty-five per cent of the sxus have Latched und beeu planted in the waters of the subject for {llustration fu the Chinese Collego at New Haven, Conn. This {ustitution owes its foundation to the wisdom uad cnergy of Mandarin Yuug Wing, a Chinese official who was brought to the Unlted States fu bis boy- bood fn order to recelvo an education fn Awmcr- lean schools,, He had previously attended tho wisafon-schoot at Hong Kong, and, attracting tho favorable uttention of his teachers, provi- sion was made for his sojourn u Amerlea, o arrived In this country fu 1947, and In 1854 grad- uated with covsidersble howor at Yale College, Instead of becoming a Christian min- fater, as was doubtless cxpected of him fn re- turn for is vaucatlon, YunE Winz devoted him- scifto tho object which Lie had ut lmlr(‘ of establishivg a school fn America whers the Chi- nese youth could by properly educated for po- sltions of trust fu civil, comierclal, and milf- tury ife, For twenty years Yune Wing labored to accumplish bis high uim, but without success. 1t was not until after thu beginnlng of the resent decade that lis schieme” was approved ¥ tue Chiuese authoritivs, and s sum of £1,500,000 appropriated for 1ts accomplistunent, Yung Wing was uppoluted Cblef Counulssioner of the mission, with liberty to locate the school wherever Lie chose. ‘Ilis City of Hartford waa sclected as au appropriate place for the fustitu- tion, and {n the years 176 and 1877 an editice cosiing $35,000 was crected for Its accommoda- tlon. Thus—to quots frowm the journal whose name we have mentioned— We have now o thy I:Iulbllllt City ot Hartford a Chinese Coliege, thy beadquarters of an Educa- J 0y Hespect, respect; “Ende, earthiy Jallen, to (a5 lehnen, 10 learn: ' Keler, cellars Jehlen, Lo taily mehr, more; schen, to sce; Jherk, cent and Existing Commerce, from 1750 to pE A ART GOSSIP, The eigantle statue of Charlemagne, which was cast by Thicbault, and welzhs obout six. teen tons, has beun erected at the entrance to the Paris Exposition, Mans Makart has contributed to the Vienna Expusition a now pleturo representiog * ‘Lne Eutry of Charles V. Into Autwarp," which fs attractiug much uttention. About 120 plctures ars hung in the portion of the Fiue-Art Dupartment at ths Parls Expoal- tion accorded to Awericans. Two-thirds of these pictures wora solected by the jury in New York, and the remalnder were contributed by Auwmerican urtists fu Europe. 8ince the work of excavatiug on the estato of tho Spiueltl family, which occuples thusite of the suclent uecropolls of Buessola, was resucd thls spriug, alarge uwiber of fnportant brouzes bave been brought tolight, Tho tombs which sre opeued appear to beloox to three differcut de-ll- 11 the portion of tho exercises which serves to clucidate Urbinm's law of the perinutation of consunants aud shallar changes in the Uermanle 1dloms, the tierman panl the Euciish bare thus contrasteds Lolster, bolster; Stoppel, stubble; Lippe, riby Krippe, eriby plappern, 1o blab, ete, } the Gerwen sch and Engllsh s thus: Schmfed, amith; Schnauze, suoul; achlitzen, to shit} h; schigfen, to sleep, Rujoce tion in English ts itlustrated by Trommet, drum ; stamp; esc:, nus; ale, nsi soleh, such; which ; Wiald,wood} ruspel, Fasp; sehippen, toslup, Then wo bave such changes as thess: Slob, sleves Gell, yellow; zu, t05 es, it Zunge, tonizua; Zwley, twlic; Zuwolf, twelvo; Zehe, tou; Kulze, cat; sltzen, 10slt; ll/u, wit; Hitze, heat} trupsen, to drop; wit, wides; breit, broad; Braut, bud; scheiten, 1o scold; kichern, togiggles Kinn, thing Kase, chieese; machen, tomake; lucken, to 1y ftehien, to izht sehluchlen, Lo slaughtor; Vicht, welghi Rew ; arschiug, Fracht {relghit} mag, way; slog, ew § Jlug, plow,—cte, Uil ltst vt Germaa words which ro- seuible Euglish words to the saie degreo of Cuicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co. Paper. Price, i3 cont, STUI‘I‘I“IEB IN VERSE. Dy Cuinixs Quixr. Philadelphia: J. Il. Lippincots & Co, Cblcaga? Jansen, McClurg & Co.~ 16mu,, pp. 60. Pnice, FRANCATELLI'S MODERN COOK-DOOK: A Puactical GUIDE TO TUR LULINANY ARBT 1% ALL Ire BRaxcuze. Hy Cuanizs KLu® FRaxcaTsL. L1, Pupll to the Celubrated Lurewmo, ete. From thoe Ninth London Editior With Bixty-twa [l lustrations. Pbiladeipbia: T, B Chicago: Jauses, McClurg & Co. Bvo., ‘The pronunciation of the tierman wonls is ‘The Soclety of Decorative Art, in New Yori, has removed to more commodious rovms, es- tablsblug ftsolf ut No, $4 East Nincteenth street, In s new howe it Is proviled with & larwo sales-room, oud with woll-figbted apart. meats for the use of classes in chiva-pajutiog aud cuwibrofery. cogudte words, as far ay completeness mle B. Petorson & tlousl Cowmwlatlon under the charge of which s, ard th 1 dul Proverbs are futroduced In the excreises; and A gerles of sutigue bronzes were dlscovered Py froet e Ly w bl ghy | Lo countrics, sed tho people are duly appre- v 2y as 00, Frico, §3. at Cazlh fu tho Froviuce of Pesaro, early o | Youug Chinuuen ate bolog propared by 8 fhorough | o o il 260 f::‘::;“lllfuu%:hnnu‘fin"ilcl.vx:xlxltllnbolru‘:‘:gmmvl:luy.- Tfir‘ AL O DsASGUS:, Ax Jroutear. | Yorii. Ono of tho fluest of tho colluction la s | COUFsd o sludy (o tako Ui place xe Wiky. and ha: ovEL, By Coanies Weils Hussxii, Bose tolligent rulyrs wmoug the Government otlicials uf A curlvus phenomenon bas oceurred In the thelr country, No trivial curtlculum la tho one veighborbood of the Villags of Draguignan, i Franee, An elliptical trace of ground, iucluding atiurea of over 10,000 syuare” feet, wradually sauk onw day to the depth of 100 fect sud wore, The subslidence was accompanied with Joud nolses, aud, when concluded, & body of water at wouwan's head, a littlo under Lfe-size. A statu- etto ot Hercules snows ou the feet traces of the | girougn which they sl pass, fOF the tera bl Chlr prucess of foundivg. It has been conjectured ¥ yesldence here is Bfteon yesta. Ouly a portion of that the placs whers Lronzes were fouud was | their tlme fs spent . thelr own institufion, —the formerly the sito of an Unbrian foundry, desizn belog to give thom toat Miberal education 1 hich L nsturally co: troms clation with Tho pedestal of the statue of Cornelia, the | Xiicricans 1 hes o cotlcses kot oot rste ton: ieo & Bhepard. 12wa., e, BT, UARPER'S ~ HALF.HOUK ERIES. TUHE YOUTIH'S HEALTH-BOOK, By the Author of tho Dazar-Books of < [leal cie. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co. _Pric THE COQUETTE; ou, Tux Lirg axp LarTens or ELiza Wusnrox: A Noviu Vouxosn oN When thas qami Is_tinistied, on the plan ready fssucd, we see no igent Ferwu uu( uot ac- quire a goud knowledgo of this great lunguage schools, o 3 Fi L Wi daughter or Scipio Africanus, aud mother of Tha y he Chl he bottom of the pit covered thu submerged s et e i ey | MibEca Frtice, sat Aol o o Aihar: o racy s icovered Knel 1 witl o | coleed S Shout TS yeum o s, o she ey | 1and from, view," 3 sl phedotiuien o ve auci 2 A S, hia: T. B, Pe o viclulty of the sncient cl rree s sane uelzlhborliood & ventury the German, aud 18 closu resemblance fu gram- | HANS Made bbla T | aueech In toe, iclully e hy oeuieus | about 2 A portion uf thy students witl, ax 5 & Bros, Chicago: Jausen, McClurg & Co. 12wo., PP 302, Price, 81, PERIODICALS IIEOE‘IVEI:;B HARPER'S MAGAZINE—Juno (Harpee & Droth- ors, Now York), Contenws: *'Aloug the South Bbore, by 5. @, W. Beajamia (whh lustrations): ' * Butch Faleuco," t Bikes (with thirty lilustrations): * Tho Dattle of Monmouth Coust-House," by Deason J. Loasing (with fliteon {llustrations); **Telema- aud both cases ure relerred to the action of sube terranean atreaws, . Vurt L of & * Bibliographilcal Index of North- Awerfcan Botaoy," b{ Sercno Watson, bas been lately published by the Buithsonian loe stitution. * The work i3to be complete in two parta, aud will coutain a f(ull catalogue of the ?Innu growtug within the region extending rom Qreculand snd the Arciic Ocea, on the north, to the burders of Mexico, on the soutb, and from the Atluntie to the Paclie, Toc pars already Issucd forws a volume of 450 pages, aud coverd thy ground of the lirat volume (laaued thirty-tive years agv) of Terrey & Uray's Flora ot North Awerl: 4 of the Polypctalous Dicotyledons, 1t is a wodt valuable contribue tion 0 thy botanical lterature of Awerica, QOctavle, {n Roue, was being dug up for the s Wi parpes ot making wuower, "o marblo barg | (FCISE L e Toport, of Fuoe Wing, g0 AL i (ORNELIA AFRICANT F | gyiqothers will take th scldatills bratches pros GRACCLORVAL" Tho status stundiug upon | viied'tor tn the curriculuw, i i i Pro s\t deslied by a0 uown to Yo rewslne 0 3 q Lowtr ‘Elopiro, "in the duys. of “tha Foattens SPARKS OF SCIENCE. Urbls. QUT CHICAGO, Tho Amarican ArcAllect aud Buiding News | FLORA ROUND ABOUT : aa8 that those who visit the Parls Expositiog | Ti® DUCKWEED FaMiLY.—Tho onler Lem- £hus vereus g [ Dt tiaste for architoctural purposes will wobnhlyb ux}]nd Dacem comprisca & small group T plnnuiw:lcn V. amilton (with thres Hluatration norg to Intercat thom iu the uuwecrous buitd- | arc the shuplest In structure, and soms of them inge typical of thelr several countries than in i b tude of the Pl of tho Tracadero O fa- tho Mala | thOIeast b szc, oZ the whulo yast wultituto o o W t species that bear fowers. They arce chblefly :’l:’;hi‘l%‘c:uhAm&E. 'E:mn:m‘ ";'lf:‘ ‘Allzrid‘;: squatic plauts, sud conaist merely of & wminute exhibition, the river-front of which will ropro- | froud or leat floatiug oun the water, seuding er, and tewpt bl to go decper fnto the myateries of the parent vernsculur, ‘The bouk {s not to exceed twenty-Gvs numbers, of —— COL. INGERSOLL'S LECTURES. Q. Ixexnsorr. Peorla: C. P. Farrell, 12mo., pp. 232 Mr. Ingersoll explalos, in the preface to this by Marion Mitchall (with elght **Macloud of Dare.™ by Williaw Black, Chapters XVL—XIX, (withond Lllustea- bresent form. They bave been 8o unlversally