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. Positivisist, tho Mnlerlalmfimd the Orthodox THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDA 1878-TWELVE PAGE LITERATUR Questions of Belief, Dis= cussed from Various Standpoints. Ruskin's Letters to the Workmen and Laborers of Groat Britain, The Campaign of 1877 in Armenia---Transforma- tions of Insects. Beatrice Cenci=-Dastruction of the Romance of Her Personale ity and Hor Picture. Literarg and Art Qossip--Flora Round Abount Chicago: The Wator- Plantains, LITERATURE. Tho conncetion of Mrs. Bara A, Hubbard with the literary department of ‘Tne TitbUNE—oOn which sho has iabored for many years, sod to which ber labors have contributed so much— closes with to-day's Issuc. QUESTIONS OF DELIEF. CURMENT DISCUSSION: A CoLiEcTioN rRoy Tz Ciiep ENntinti FrgAYA o QURSTIONS OF gnn Tins. Edited by Epwand L, BunRLINGAXE. Vol. II, Qurarions of Brurr, New York: ", Putuam's Sons. Chicago: Jansen, BMce Co. 8vo., pp. 300. Price, & Tu ndthing are tho diversitics between men so great a8 In questions of religious faith, From the man who will believe only what can be detn. onstrated to the five ghenscs, to the onc who can accept any miraculous statement having scarcely n scintilla of evidence, the shades of bellef vary so infl- pitely thét it scems aa though there sere hard- Iy any subject of thought on which two persons coutd not better agree, It has been satd—and no doubt with much truth—that aiffer- cnces on theologleal doctrines lave given rise to moro enmitics and tyars than all the passions of ambitlon, envy, thirst for wealth, or lust for power. Differcnces of religlous bellef, which ought to be treated with all the candor and modoratlon possible, have, instead, ralsed or anuthilated Kkingdoms, and eauscd tho physical a8 well as spirital death of thousands. But it 1s a hopeful indication to sce men abla tomeet and impassionately discuss theso ques- tions. While one will admit that there is a possibility for his antagonist to be rigut, or will argue without feellng It necessary to use the sword ga the final arblter, we may trust there i some lkelihood of honest agreement. Thero I8 a radtcal differcoce between different persons as to the power of comprehensfon of theorios capahlo of only partial demonstration. To one the conception of an all-powerful, omnt- present Delty Is casler than to another is the theory of musieal progression, of light or heat. o do not deny the existence of light, heat, sound, or olcclrlclt(: yet no ons has yni thor oughiy oxplained then and accounted for their contradictory manifestations, But, by similar reasoning, we might deny the existence of a Divino Power, becanse we cabnot comprehend all Hfs attributes, Tho present volume I8 dovoted to a discussion of the theory of futura lifa and of morality, as viewed respéctively from the position of the Christian. _ Mr. Frederic Harrison opens tho discussfon from tho Positivista’ fmlnf. of yiew, and, in an cxccedingly clear styls, deflnes his belicf. Tledenies the exlatence of & soul 88 an entity, but gives to the concensus of all the facuitlon the name soul. Theso facultics of the human organism, aithough ouly animal forces, he surrounds with a sort of bialo, and would hiave us use them for the best ndvantage of our follow-men, becauss our influence lives after us. Wo dlo ns doge, but the way we have lived has {nflucnced onr fellow- creatures, and will [nfluence posterityto theend of time, This is nll he can give men to hope for,—all he can advance aa a spur to urgethem on, aa o check to keep themn from cvil, ns 8 com- fort to help them in sorrow,—tho thought that the influence of their lives lives after them, £A¢ times, Mr. Harrison is a thorough Materislist, denying vigorously the cxistence of any eutlty cxeept tho body andits phveical forces; ut other times, Lo attacks with equal power tho theory of tho BMaterlalist. Like the bat in the fable, Lic alternates froin one side to the other; but, to his credit be It sold 1t 18 not from a destre to b found at the ond of the contest on the winning side. Ilia essay ls hrobably the best short exposition of tho Fos- tivist thieory to be met with, Prof. tluxloy leads the ranks in the dlscus- elon of the subject from the Materfaltstic polut of view; and the Dean of 8t. 'aul's, from that of the Orthodox Churchman. It must becon- fessed thutadvocatesof the Chiristian’s doctring aro unusually unfortunato in thelr treatment of the argument. Justead of denying and afiirming _explicitly, so as to show the polnta of disagreoment shary l‘{. most of them go on to giva an indepondent statoment, or content themselves with replylug to a fow poluta merely, Mr, Intton's ergutnent, however, {svery ‘lucld, and rivals that of Mr, Harrison o brilflancy and cozency. Yot 1t {s very diflicult to discusa’'such o subject eatisfactorily, when ono party will not taka cognizance of all the factors tnthe problem, It 18 an indisputable fact that the theory of & God and a future lifo are Interwoven with the habite of thiought of nearly, If not quite, all tho races of this earth. Wby s this If there be not some round for {41 Isnot tho man who belitties lief os a factor In the discussion, as far wrong sy tho zeaslot who accepts ~supcrnatural phenomena without a doubtt Have we a right wlll(nu{ to discount unything that may help to 8 solutfon of the problem? 'Is tho nebular the- { more than a hypothesls? For every difll- culty it explains, {s there not another which ft caunot account for! Do the undulatory theortes of ligut sud sound sccount fur all the ovserved phenomenal Becausa tho medioval motaphy- siclans were driven tu absurd circumiocution to express in classlcal Latin ideas of whicn Cicero never drsamed, Is the Latin tongue 1lvss @ treasures to us! Lecause we cannot oxpresa the super-fiuite |n terns of the flulte, does that militate azatnst the oxlatouce of the formerl A theory should Le In harmony with all tho facts with'which it fs concerned s sud one which persistently cuts outapartof them sesembles the very slmpla but ruther arbitrary method used by Procrustes tomake ull travelers fit his une bed: the short mm:;:bo stretched out, tha long ones to bo cut off, Lut time and spaco £all for even an outline of theso thought-provoking discussions, The cs- eays upon the iniluence ou wnorality of a decllue In religious bellef are extremely inter- ““"K,” uod here the divines bhave much tho st of the orgument. Finally, the work i3 closed with a !honghuul aud scarching articlo on & tople of moment to Poaitivist, Matertallst, or Christian: “1s Iifo worth Ivingl™ The sclectiors con- talped §n the volume arc all timely, aud many will thank Dr. Buriingame for this pumber of tha serics e Lias so ably lusugurated. \ RUSKIN'S LETTERS TO WORKMEN, FORS CLAVIUERA: Lerrans 70 Tus Wokxxex AxD Lasousis oF (.Jn:u Britarx, Dy Jonsx w _York: Jabn ll n, McClurg & Wiley &3 sous. Chic Co. 12wo., pv. 3L2. A collcetion of tea letters, addressed to tho laboring meu ot England, i the year 1872, forms Part 1f1. of Mz, Ruskin's sertal publication eotitled Fors Clavigera. The papers are al- together a most siugular manifestation of thelr outhor's increasingly erratic dlavosition. They have the alr of belng written quite at randown, 1he occurrences of the moment suggesting thels topics, which in each communlcation are numer- ©ous, ana reckless of relationship or coherence. The freces utterances of Mr. Ruskin's oddest sud wildest notions are poured lnto thew, along with frequent expressions of the noblest and Ppurest seutiments that can fall from the lips of wan. The result 13 a curlous mixture of folly and philosophy, which could amsaate from o other writer. unless it be Irom the similarlv ab- uormsl Scum:-luucrlux, but one-sided—which roduced *Bartor Resartus® and **The Lattes- a{thnhlcu“ ¥ Mr, Ruskiu does not conceal or spologize for e churlishuess which ke allows to grow upon Lo with tho paasaze of yeass, “1 wus good- natured once,” ho says; ‘‘but 1 b in the most positive terms, that § an now ol tired, and very Hi-natured.” And he hegins I clozing lottor, after tha nddress, * My Friends, by brusquely devlaclng: 1 shall not eall you 80 any more after this Christmaa; first, because thinga hiava chanced to me, of late, which hava madu mo Loo sulky to be friends with anybody; secondly, beeange, 1 the two years during which 1 havo been writing these letters, not one of you tias sent me o friendly woril of anawer; lastly, heeause, even if vou wers my friends, 1t wouid b waste of print to eall you 8o unce a month, Nor shall f sign mysell ‘fafthfully yours' any mare,~being very far from faithiully my own, and having found innst other people auything bat fuithfully mine.’ But nl the rudeness and bitlerness that may crécp with old age [nto the hieart and manuers of John Rusakin will e condially forgiven him by the multitnide who, in yesrs pust, hinve been stimulated and fnspired to better thoughts and better deeds by hia lofly and fervid teschinges, And these letters, which, for the nost part, are written above the heads of the men for whore advancement Ruskin bas latored and sactificed s vast deal during his enrncst aud philanthrople fife, prociaim, amid all thelr va. earica of speech and apinfon, a pure, true (Gos- pel, which the studious aod thouzhtful will recognizo a8 the embodiment of the ductrines of Christ, THFLATE CAMPAIGN IN ARMENIA. ARMRENIA, AND THE CAMPAIGN OF 1877, Ly C. D, Nouxax, l.:leslmchfl Carrespondent of thie [London] 7imes alihe Seat-ofWar, With Bnecially-Propared Maps and Plans. Now York: Cassoll, Velter & “Unlpin, Chlcogo: Jansen, Mctlarg Yvo,, pp. 483 Frice, B4 A scemingly candld ng well as comprehen- sive history of tho late Turkish campalgn in Arnienia is sfforaed In these letters of the Lon- don Times' spectal correspondent at the seat- of-war. They aro stralghtforward, matter-of- fact sccounts of what the writer actually wit- nessed, orof what he learned from tested and trustwortny (nformants. Capt. Norman was much of the tims attached to the train of Sir Arnold Kemnball, an expericnced * British oflicer appointed by bis Government un & speciat mis- slon to study tho inovements of tho camoanign, and thus had peculler facilities for attatuing the knowledge most prized by ancwapaper-reporicr, 11c hiad al=o the advaotags of constont and Iriend- 1y relations with Mr. Zohrab, her Majesty's Cou- sul at Erzeroum, and, from s many years' reals dence In the country, seeurately sequalnted with the condition of its fuhabitants, and with the character and influence of the Turkish rulo over them, Of these” favorable opportunities for forming correct opinfons Capt. Norman amply avaiicd himself, and they give his state- ments substantinl welght, Ile entered upon his work o Arinenta with the natfunal prejudices in favor of the Ottoman, but these were apeedily dissipated by a contact with facts, ‘The barbarous neglect of the Turk- 1sh authorities to provids tho verlest necessities of life for thelr soldiery, the gross incompe- tence and Indiffercnce of thelr military orlicers, the continual and unrebuked porpetration of fuhuman atrocities upon helpleas aud inoffene sive citizens by the savage Kurds and Circas. slans sttached to the Turklsh army, svera noted by bim throughout the campalen, and made the subject of very energetic protest awl condem- nation. Ilia fearless exposura of these heinous wrongs provoked violent eriticism and oppost- tlon among the *Turkophlles* in Enclandj but Capt. Norman resolutcly adliercs to his representations, which, belng fortifled with facts coming repeatedly under his observation, secin to be impregnablo, e pays many s tribute to tha patfence and docllity of the abused Turkish goldlery, and Ilkewlso dofcnds the Russians from many o charge of fnhumunity toward the cnnmfly. dispasslonate peruaal of lus corre. spoudcnee can bnt result inaconviction that the subjects of tho Bultau In Asla will be benclited by ouy change which relioves them from Turk- {sh despotiam. P ] INSECTS. THE TRANSFORMATIONS (OR METAMOR. PIIOSES) OF INSECTS (INSECTA, MYRIO- T0DA ARACHNIDA, AND CHUSTACEA) : Brixg AN ADATTATION, POR EXdrtanr Itranzns, or Bl. EAILD BLANCHARD'S **METANONLDIIONKRS, M uns, ET INSTINCTS Dx8 INSECTS;" AND A CONPILATION Faox_TiE Wonks or Nrwrout, Ciautis Dane win, Braxce Dats, Fritz Muien, Pacitann, LUUNOCK, BTAINTON, AND Orturur, Ly P. Mantin Dexean, ¥ 1L 8., Professor of Geology in King's College, London, 'Third Edition. Now York: Caseell, I'stter & Ualpin. 8vo., pp. 401, Thls admirable work, which has long boen a standard among entomnolocists, Is now in its third editlon, and through the publishers, who fssuo their books sfinuitancously fn London, Parls, and Now York, is accesaible to Amerlean readers, ‘Tho author modcstly announces tuat it is an adaptation of the able treatise of Emtlo Blanchard, expanded by comptlations from the writings of dlstinguished Enplish maturalists. 1t romoins for the critle to say how skilltully ho bas wrought the materials thus wldulv gather. ed into o hnrmonlous composition, \Whatever Tias been borrowed from cithier forelgn or home suthor has been 80 molded over and stainped with tho finpreas of Dr, Duncan's mind, that it apnears like an orlginal product. ‘Thestyle is very charming, conveylug the curlous facts per- 1alning to insect-life in simple, flowing lauguage, quite devoid of troublesume tochulealitis, ‘The ook {8 ons which youthful aud unicarned read- ers will titrn over with a delight only sccond to that which the student of Entomoluzy must ex- ulcmmw in fuveatigating its wenlth of {nforma- tlon, ; DWELLINGS, MODERY DWELLINGS IN TOWN AND COUN- PR, ADAPTED TO AMERIOAN WANTS AND OLIMATE, With o TARATIE ox FunNiTUnR axp Drconatiox. By Il Hunsox Hatty. With 100 Original Desiims, Comprising Cultazos, Vil fas, and Alnualone. New Yurk: Harper & icce. Chicazo: Jansen, McClurg & Co. Bqusre 8vo., PD. 210, Prico, 8. Tho basis of this work conslsts of a series of articles which have appeared tn Harper's Maga- sine, but to the original papers there have been made cousiderablo additions before publication In thelr preseat shape. Thelr author bas evi dently brought extensive learning and exporls quco to bear upon his subject, nnd has trented it {n an impressive and justructive manuer 1l1s style 18 sober aud scholarly, like that of oue who has carucstly and sagaciously studied the question in’ Land aud realizes the {ssues on cvery side, Importauco of fts Ilc is also coasclentiously practical fn Dis statements, taking carc to iive the reasons, whenever practicable, why one form or metbod of construction Is preferablo to another In uny given case,—thus_stimulating and enlightening the tntelligouce of the inquirer looking for belp to maater the puzzles of domestic architecture, All the promiuent points involved fn the build- In{( aud furnishing of dwelllugs are discussed with s fullacss proportioned tu thelr importancy and tothe scope of the book. Interaversed through thechaptera devoted to architecture are twenty-threo acsizus and plans for resl- dences, ranging lu cost from §2,200 upwurd; while, through the portions dealing with fu- terfor decoration, Iilustrations of furniture und nrl-nn}ucu ara {recly distributed. The work (s :Jrnug it out in attractive style by the pub. ishers. THE PRINCE OF WALES TIHE PRINCS 01" WAL ks INDIA; witi Houk IN INDIA. OUI: A DIARY IN THE ViaTs op 118 Rovar Hiousi 0 THE COUNTS OF tillkECY, Pontuea, Oy WitLiax AN W L. With IHusteations by Bvn- wey i flase, M. A., Attist In the Sulte of Il 1. M. the Prince of Wales, New York: . Worthingion. Chicago: W.d. lulmes, timo., ph. 852, Prico, # Ou the occaslonof the visit of the Princa of Wales to lodis, In 187576, Mr. W. {1, Russell, the most poted of English newspaper-corre- spondents, was assigued a place {o the Royal suite as private secrotary to the Prince. Thls gave him the privilege of abservingtho incldents connceted with the finportant event fromn the best vantoge-ground. s uade ove of the Jarge party oo board thu Scrapts, whics con- veyed tho Prince aud his personal attendants w Bombay, and bure a part [u sl the ceremouials und_festivitles which commemorated tho affatr in India. His jourual, kept from duy today during the mouttis accupied Ey the expedition, and now reprinted from the Euglish editio, 14 devoted uelu-lvcll to a history of the wove- ments of his Royal Highness, sud of the prin- cipal figyres who circled about htm. It §s nec: easarily o wouotonous description of scenes of pomp and pageantry, bub 18 claracterized throughout by good sense and dignity, Records ot its class bave at 1nust wn upheinerdl lnteret s yet of tha several volumes by newspaper-corre- spondents which detall tho occurreuces of the this best deserves pusting up In book-form, 3RS, STOWE'S LAST NOVEL, POGANUO, PEOPLB: Toxin Loves a¥p L By Haumar Bercusu Svowe, Author cle Tow's Cabln," etc. With Hlusira. Nn-.vrkmk: ¥ords, Howard & Ilulbert. + PP % “The suthor of what was undoubtedly iu its day thie wost success(ul novel ever contrlouted to American Mterature, or, it may be added, to tho world's Mterature, has uot exhausted her mental resourccy, so frecly drawn upon fu the production ot essays aud fction during the woro thau & quarter of u century aluce the pub- g was thrilled and captiveted by the story of Jodian tour of the heir of the English Crown,’ There {a_visthle n.the Nistory of the ** Poganuc People™ much ol the keen insights Into human character, and the trathful delineation of its eecret workings, which, with a toreible and eraphie dictfon, have leen tho mast elfective of Mra, Stowo's pfta an nwriter. ‘There is, however, lces than nsual of her magnetic power, which, in its full strength, Lolls the reader in grateiul honds until her task of entertaining has eome 1o an end. ‘The seeno and tine of this [oet story are fel In the New Enzland of several zenerations aun, whosa simpla Puritan hablta are nccurately por- trayed, It s a wholesome picture of what was rampnrnllnl{ a primitivaand patriarchial age, g cking somewhat fit zeshy §8 praise- to the wanuers and cue- oglund. and, thetgh worthy for ita lldelit; tows of carly New A YACIT=-VOYAGE. LETTERS £1OM 11611 LATITUDRS: Hawe AccotiT Voyans 1y THG Semoonpn-Yacnr P Foan,” o lertaxn Maven, Axp Srirzarnagx, Iy Lord Der. Governor-General of the Nomnlon of Cans Now Yor Worthioyton, Chicago: W, Jlosmen, rice, 81,00, Tuo brilliant fetters of Lord Duflerin, de. scribing a venturous yacht-voyage in Arctic waters, were received with grest applause on thelr first appearance, about ihe year 1350, Since then, - various expeditions, beat on the pursult of sclence or of pleasure, have explored the same regions, and made them much better known to tho reading world. Ncvertheless, the intercat s not yet gone from this epley narra. tive of & Lold seainan’s crutse to the desolate islands lying In the frozen seas washing the nortl coast of Eurape, The popular adiminis- tration of Lord Dufferin as Govornor-General of Cannda_has revived the demand for his Beixa IN THE D, AN a. youthful * Letters,” to meat which tho present® tditton s tasucd. BROVWNING'S NEW POEM. New Fark Kvening Port. Tobert Brownini's new book of pocma, fast published in Loudon, consists of ** Lu Salafaz," 1 noble plece of work, sud * The Tvo Pocts of Croisic,’ a rather cruel satire In which two very small butterfiles ;are broken on a very large wheel. The first poem only will attract special attention. In {t we have Browning's ‘‘In Memoriam,—the poetn belug the frult, as Ten- nysou’s was, of tha poet's lament for n dearly- laved friend, and the outgrowth of his mnusings upon that after-life whiclt the friend bas gove toexplorg. fle writes this preiudas Qood, to forglve; Teat, to foret Living, we fret; Dying, we live, Freticss and free, Soul, clap thy pinjon| Yarth have dominion, Dody, o'er theot Wander at will, Day after day=~ . Wander nvu{. ¥ ‘wandering still— . Sau), thou canat soar} Nlody may sltubory Nody ahall enmber Soul-flight no more. Waft of sonl's wingt . What lios above? Bunahine and Love, Ekyblue and Spring! Dody hidea—whero? Forns of all foathar, Dossoa and beather, ‘Yours be the carol Tifs mood appears In the followlng passages: You snpposed that fow or none had known and lovai you in the worl May bt flowar that's full.-blown tampts the but- 1erfly, and not flower that's furle But moro learncd sense unlocked you, loosod the slieath and let expand DBud to bell and outapread flower-ahapo ot the least warm touch of hand— 3ay bo, throb of hesrt. beneath which—gquicken- ing farthor than it kuew— Treasure oft was disembosomed, scent all strango and unguessed hue. Disemnbosomed, ro-ombosomed —must ono memory l'mrnmx Ko an Alpiue-rose which il boslde named Edelwolas? s 11 meplrit of the place DBroke the sitence, bade me question, promiiscd answer—what disgrace Did Lstipulate, ** Provided answor sult my hooes, not feara! Would 1 shrink to learnmy life-time's limit—days, weoks, months, of yoara? Wonld T ;‘rflm ‘assurance on each point wherest 1 can but guesa-—~ 4 Docs the m':l survive tho body? Ta thore God's golf, no or yes! 11 T know my mood, 't wero constant—como In ‘whatso'er uncouth Bhape It shionld, nay, formidable~so the snswer ‘were but trath.” Witnens, Dear and Trne, how Uitle Twas *waro of —not your worth— That T kdew, my hoart assures me, but of whata alinds on earth Wonld the pasenge from my presence of the tall ‘whita figuro throw O'er tho ways wo wnlked together! Somowhat nar- row, somewhat slow, Used to scem thie ways, the walking: narrow waya ara wll to trea ro's mars honoath tho footstop, honey- snckla overhead: Wnlklmi zlow to beating bosom aurcst solace soon- crt givs. Liberates tho brain o'erloadod—hest of al) reatora. Nay, Su°T" forgat the open vast where soon o late onyerge Waye though. \windingt—world-wide, heaven-bigh s, Wliero RuSIC slept oF surge As the sapel had ascendants and Lgothioven's Titan Taco c Bmote the immensa to storm, Mozart wonld by & anger's liftine chanc? Yes, 1 know—bnt not with kouwledge such sa thirtlle me whilo L view Yonder precinct which henceforward holds and bides the Dear and True. Geant me (onco ognin) ossurance wo shall each ‘meet cach some dny, Walk—but with hnew bold a footstcplon & way— bt what o woy i= Worst wero best,'dofeat wore triamph, ulter loss tmost gain. Can iy lfemngflu&m-tfn-:d will ey + When he falls to thinkiog of theologiea and of tnon's bellefs, ns o mnst fn such a wood, we Tiave the poot in his stroncest strength, us wite wcss this passage suggested by his ineditatious upon Byron's aud Housscau's philosophyof life: In that squalld Dossex, under that obscene rad Liko § flecy Aylug sorpant from Ita cgg, & soul— e ’l\lmll‘huo‘:?:ur:ll it Dlodatl jofos the glimmer of I e ouo weok since—ivy, There i’['llllt\fl.‘fl a1 b nd yet, becauso of that tucked for Dyron Fame hnn(;m:n?w;l“ phosphoric fam Ewuh‘mg‘m:wun;n' solf with brightness athil putrid- ity Tooked flame, AN G as witched; and whereforo? what could lie beneath, allure Ileart of man l'n Jet corraption scrve man's head as cynosure’ Waa (e e n the dictum, **All thave good b one aid past Dad abaores wiill grows tho prosent, aad the worst of all comea last; Which belleve—far [ belie! his gowpel-novwas \While melodiana moaued the other, **Dying doy with dolphiu hueal Storm. for luvoliness and darkness liko a womaun's eyel Yemounts Where ] climb to ‘scapo my fellow, aud thou sca wlcrein he cuunty Not oue tuch of viledominiont What wera your capecial worth Fulled ye to_enforce the 1maxim, *Of sll objects ¢+ jaund on earth Aan is meaneat, mich too honoted when compared wilth—what by vdds n-nu‘:um—fl-n‘; dog; o, let bl gos-bowlingto 18 yods Which bdllve. for I belleve 11" such the comfort B0 Fect clve ainco perforco iamust: for why? the famouns By hovedt BWINBURNE EW BOOK, Sorinafeld (Mass,) Republican. Mr. Swiuburne's uew book, beiug a second scries of ** Poems and Ballads,” 1s sbout to bo published, almuitaneously with its sppearanco in Englaud, by K. Worthiugton, of New York, from whom we recelvs aidvance specimen sbeets from scveral parts of tha volume, which will compriso some 230 pages. Theso poems and ballads will in no way rival the sensation which tho first serios created with their studics of venery, Aost of tho present collection aro q:lmo decorous, and the only real competition thuy aiford to Dolores and tha Leper are in the case of the translations from Villon. Nota few of the verses have been printed in the Athenzum and elsewhero, such as ** The Forsak- en Garden," * A Ballad of Francola Villon, sev- eral of the tranilations, and the lues (n memo- vy of the lute Janes Lorimer Groham, forinerly nited States Cousul at Florence. ** The For- saken Gardeo " was consldered s good work us Mr. Swinburne bas doue or can do; o which he manifests both fervor and depth, and a sus- olned stre xtu heneath a novewncut of siugu- lar irm and sweciueds, As where ho fancles the lovers In the deserted sea-sido plensaunce; Heart bandfast lo heart 8a they etood, **Look biths Dldbs vrlnlll;wll 41 Look forth from the Aowers tothe sca; For the foam-fowers endure when the roso-blos- s0ums wither, And men that Jove lightly m‘i dle—but we" And the same wind sang and tbo sams waves nod, And or sver the garden's last pe! 1n the lips that had whispesed, lightoned, _iann Wis dead. 11" Bo preached one weze shod, cs that Bad Or thoy loved their life through, and then went whither? And wero n'nu to the end—but what end who nowa Love deo) 4 2¢ 2 rase murt wither. Af the ross-red seaweed that mocks the Bhall lh'nhdu;l take thonght for the de: a0 What love wan erer 18 doep s & grave? Thoy are invetean now ag the grass above them, Or the wave, e. to fove All are at ane naw, roecs and lovars, Not known of the cliffs, and the Oelde. and the nen, Nat & breath of the time that has heen navers 1n the afe now aaft with mmer 1o bu, Kot 3 Lrenth ahall thete aweelen t) casons here. Afinr Of the fiowars ar tie lovers that laugh pow er i, When, o= they (hat are free now of wee| A 5 plog sod or, Wa stinll alasp, In truth, while this book does not ndd to Bwinburnc's now settied farna as an artist In verse, nor indicato any point fn advance, it con- tains many purms of marked henuty, and of & higher and more tender range of feeling than srere once bis. An sxquisite example of this s tho Lirth-song fur shie child of his friend Jos- sottf, us where _he questipns if the new hatre might not perchance have brought tidings from her dearll coustu, that rerarkable boy, Ollver Madox Brown:. 12 lighta that chaoge thelr phers in changing meot, Hume ray might his not pive Tothine who want to liva And make thy present with hin pact 1ife sweet? Mr. Swinburne has declalmed miueh in his blustaring and reckleas way during these months past azalust the Russlan, and here s o sonnet to Luuls Kossuth, interjected for no other pur- pose than to sneer at. Men's heads sbrsed bofore the dfuscovita. Besides Kossuth, Victor Ifugo and Barry Corne wall receive Mr. Bwinburne's homn;i'c. the Frenchi voet being accosted as * father.”” The nppreciation hie siows for Procter and his work ~30 altogether fine and chaste, and opjeosite to bis own genfus—Is quite plessing. Mr, Swinburne's Paganism s a confirmed complaivt, and it is to noted that, while he Inbors conscientious!y to assnwie the attltude of an Olymplan devofce justly Indjgnant at Lthe lutrusion of the naw Nazsreue deity within the Pantheon, he has very ecant comfort fn the work, “Tho Last Oracle—A. D. 331," which poseesses larzely Bwinburne's Lesuty of faney and melody ot lauguage, opens his k. and is Indeed *a'vretty plece of Paganism *'; but it e pot even 50 warin ws Schiller's ode, which has at Jeast color, If only from nuroral lights, lts enthusissn 18 of u Kind which does nat decelve, sud. after ull that is said about the “wail ot Galileans” avd “God by UGod” golng oat, **discrowned und dlsanoluted,” we know that Mr. Swinburne cannot for a8 moment favey Itim- sell o bons flde worshiper, notiwithatauding his writing after tuls manter: Yoars hava rlsen and fallen (n darkness or fu twi- ight, Agop waxed and waned tliat knew not thee nor hine, White the world sonabt 1ight by night and sought y iz Since the sad last pilgrim left thy datkc mid shrine, Dark the shrine and dumb the fount of song thence welll ng, snv: I!ur_wmwll morze sad than tears of blood, that Telithe king, on earth has failen the glorious dicell- A ;) And (ne icaters A d'fa al springs that spake are quenched Not acell {a lefi the God, na roof, no cover ! 1n Als hand the prophet-la.crel Aowers no more. And the great king's bigh sud Heart, thy true lsst » lover, - Falt ll:lel-nl answer plorce snd cleave It to the i X c Aud he bowed down his hopoless head 1n the drift of the wild world's tide, Aud dylng, Zhou hast muxuerlll, nesald, Galilean ¢ he saia it, and died, And tho world that was thine end was ours When the Graces took hands with ihe Ioura Qrew cald as 8 winter-wave 1In the wind from & wide-monthed grave, As & goif wide open to awallow The llght that the world hald dear. O father of all of us, Palan, Apoliv, Dostroyer and healer, hear! Inhis own ballad about Villon,—wbo was o low scoundrel, with o ll%fl facility of verse, that lived, robbed, haunted brothiels, and murdered, some hundreds of years ago In France,~and in tue versfons hegives Jof Villon's ball, the oet offers bis worst] affrunts,—some o ‘renchman's sugigostions being so broad that severanl lines are only ropresented by sundry squcamish asterlakis, Mr. Swinburne's ballad in behalf of Vitlon §s {n tact a pleafor himsell, in a measure, since ho has been, {f not a follow- er, then a tellow of Villon, aud his rnrg lag- ¥y guago moy bo turned toward bimself hls apologist: Shame solled thy song, and song assolled thy shame. —— BOOKS RECEIVED. DAY DAWNING; on, Recasoy Axp Rettoton RrcoXcILED, AND T0E WAY or IIATPINEes MAnE Pray DBy WitLian _Ganntson b el Brov. 12ma., G8: A X WIN oveLl, Ny r Philadelphia: J. B, Lippincott & Co, Jausen, McClurg & Co. 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Philadeiphia). **The Sloutl *+Ranitary Legisiation in the Light of liletory, by Benjania Leo; **Tho Relation of the Mosalc (.'olmaxan{ to_nclence,™ by C. I, \\'Anlnf; *sPost-Oice Faviuge Lanks,” 1., by Itobert I, ecorauie H.lmlfn-(.‘\l\luu “iLy by taud i Books. LITERARY WORLD-~Juge (E. H. Humes & Co,, Baston), ROBINSON'S EPITUME OF LITERATURE— June W. Robinson & Co., Philadelphis). LITTELL'S LIVING AGE—Curreat numbers (Liste)l & Uay, Boston). - FAMILIAR TALK. BEATRICE CENCI. Almost as fasoiliar as Raphaci's Madonna di San 8iato 18 the ssd, beautiful face of Deatrice Cencl, saldto have been palnted by Guido Reol, who, uccording to one legend, caught a glimpse of the lovely, fll-fatcd girl 33 she was on ber way tothe scaffold, snd immediately traustixed bior lineaments on bis immortal cau- vas; or, agreeable to suother tradition, who was granted sn interview whila Beatrice was con- tined fo prison, aud, as she sut on the edgo of her straw pallet, lfting ber falr, sweet, tear- stained face to his, made & copy of the perfect features for the world's pity and admiration. With s knowledge of the heart-breakiug history of the Cencl, it has been impossible to gaze on this exquisite work of Rent withouta pavg of deep cominiseration for tho wo sud the tdoom of the uuhappy urigioal. Tho haunting charm of the picture, sud the Larrowing story it hints o art-fwl, dolicate touches, aro fervidly described by Mrs. Hawe thoroa in her **Notes w Jtaly.” “Tuls s a masterpiece,” she says, “that bafles words. No copy, engraved or in olls, gives the remotest (eaof it. . . . Iu the origius), the fatinito desolation, the unfathomable grief, are mado evideut through featurcs of perfect bLeautys without ono line of care, or one shadow 1 pericnco,—transiucent sud pure s ioarble. . . . Never from any buman counteusne locked out such ruln of hope, ]o{ and lfe; but there is unconsclousucas stil), as if she did’ not comprehend bow or why shis fy crusbied and lost. Tho white, smooth brow {3 a throns of fu- \ ) antine, angelic purity, without a visibl or u furraw of pain; yet a wild, endless dsspatr fovers vver It. The lovely eyes, with no red nor swollen Hds, scem yet to Lave shed rivers af crystal tears that have left no atain.— 10 mure than x deluga of rain stains tho nda- mantine ereh of heaven, [t Is plain that the Tountains are exhausted, and she can no longer ohtaln auy solace from this outlet of mriof, The delicate, oval chieeks are not tushed nor Jivd, but “marble pale, unalfected by the forrents that have bathed them, as I It were tun harl an agony to be #oftened hy fears. Tne nouth Is unspeakanly aflocting. “The rose-bud lps, swert aned tender, are parted slightly, yet with no cry, uof power to utter a wonl. nie past wor:ls is the misery that has Lanished amiles forever from the blawming flower of tier mouth. Night {s gather- Ing In her eyes, and the rcrlucl face {8 turning 1o rtone with this welght of volesless agony. Bhis 15 & spotless lily of Eden, tralled over by a scrpant, and unable to understand the deseera- tinn, vet atruck with a fatal blight. iler gaze nto the eyesof all human-kind, as she passes to Ler doom, {s pathetic beyond any posstbility of ducrlblntz‘ Oyie must are that Gackward look to have the least idea of 1ts power, ot to know how Guido has been able to express, without hich or lisid cotor, or distorted Jines, or heay: shadows, a surraw that has destroyed hope, and balles the comptetension of ita victim. [t this be & portrait,~and {t surely Is,—then Beatrice Cenel muat have hieen as [ree from crime a8 the blazing angel of Domeniching's picture opposite to ft, who is baskingin the *efllnence increate.'*? ‘This ia a transeript—colored, 1t s true, by the fmpaseioned feeling anu ardent fmagination of a worm, poctic uature—of the universal sentl- ment regarding the portralt and the charactes ot Beatrice Cencl. Sue was achild of but 1} yrars—su the popular verston of her hlnnr{ des tlures—wlicy, on the morniog of Sept. 11. 15, she led to execution for the murder nfan infamous parent, who had crowned a lite of lrlrlll(ul excesres with the forcible subjection of this heiplens, innocent daughter to bis brutal Just. The anuals of the human race contaln no thore teerible record of sufferiug and crime, onding in dezradation and o vloleut death. For more than 300 vears the world hus sighed aver the tragleal story, so preserved and hefiht- ened in fty effect by the wonderful art of the fusplired Guido, But now, {n this lconoctastic sge, which tenra down our best-helovea Idols, dethrones our most-admired heroes, overe tirows our fondest bLellefs, and dissipates our tenderest romances, the cherished piet~ ura nnd personality of Beatrice Cenci receive a dendl‘y blow. A volume has been recentl{ pub- Aished in Italy by jone A. Bertolott!, which pro- fesses to give tho true histury of Francesco Cenef and his family, founded upon authentie documnents treasured in the srchives of Rome. The destruction which it works urnn our pre- coucelved notlous of the besutiful, outraged Beatrice, is utter. Not a shred nors scrap of basis Is left fur the old and touching conception of her extreme youth,loveliness, innocence, snd injurless norcven, alack! in the authenticity of tho portrait which every oue owns In some ac- ceesible form, either of photoztaph, engraviog, chromo, or painting. ‘The bouk of Higuor Bertolotti fs geviewed in the London Academy, and from thilfsource we borrow the particuiars of his accountof the Cen- cf. It sets forth thot the father of Francesco Cenel — was dedicated to the Church, although only in Deacon's orders. After his death o decree of the Pope legitimatized bis son Francesco, then a boy of 18, declaring tuat the cunnexion from which ho sprang should thenceforth be regurded as a reguiar and lawial marrage. The character of the father s abund- nntly revealed in the fact tlat the son was ublized, within o year after his parent's demiac, to restore to the State the sum of 85,000 scud} which the latter had fraudulently obtalned. From first Lo last, Francesco gave up 55,000 scudi of tho vast fortuae he had Inherite retmburse the public treasury for sums lost by Lis fattier's defaleations, When the precociuus son was but 14 years of naT ', his mother hurzied him into & martlage with Erailla S8anta Croce, tu the hope of thereby staving the carecr of orofligacy intu wlich he hod rushed with nlnrmmi; fmpetuosity. He was but 18 years of aze when, in the year 1567, he was arrafgoed for the attempted assassina- tlon of his cousin, Cesare Cencl, and, for this and other crimes, was Imprisoued in his own palace, and afterwards baulshed from the Pontlical States for a prescribed period. The peualty for his return before the explrutlou of tne gcntence of exlle was fixed at 10,000 seudis but the Cardinal Caratla gave bail for him, apd brought him' back within fve onthy. The first wife of Francesco survived thelr union twenty-ons years, and, after ber death, e remained u widower nlue years. This fuct does away witl the accusation of bls baving poltoned s tirst wifo tu order to marry his sccond, Lu. cretin Petronl. ‘[wo years after the decense of hix wifc Ersilla, Francesco made s will fu which be bequeathed various sima to hospitals and other charitable {ustitutions. Inft he men- tioned with affection his several children, with the exception of his eldest son, to whom he assleued only that asiount of property which could not be legally withheld frow Lim. Dur- ing his entlrs widowhooa, Francesco indulzed biinself in unbridlal debauchery,~flnally com- mitting a naneless erime, yet not uncommon in the Rumme of his age, the punistment for which madllmpriscnmv:ub and the payment of 100,000 scudl. While he was undemlnpf’ this sentence, the sons of Francesco proved by their deeds their inheritauce of bls vices, The jucotses which be atlowed thein proving too scanty to support thelr prodigality, they not only contructed dcbts 1o their father’s natne, but actunlly scized upon his poasesslour by violeuce. Fiis son Roceo, who exceeded the others in viclonsness, was tried, in compnnv with Monsignor (iuerrs, the lover of Beatrlco, for o nocturnal robbery in the ancestral palace. Botl Beatrice and her slster Antonina bore witness aguinst the ac: cused. It {s not stated bow the trial came outy but, &t a later date, Monsiznor Guerra was pub- lely whipped, and exiled to Padus, for & night- attuck on some fisheriuen whoin he fancled injured or fusulted bun, his hopeful lover of Beatrice, who has heen Hoerally endowed by romaucers with youth, beauty, aod herofo qualitics, was, in truth, of middie age, with the pursy fizure and tlorld countenance often’ associated with that erfod of Mle, Ilo wus fu Deacon's or- ors, but st )Iheni" to throw off bis Y'rlrlflv obligations when his marrlage with eatrice should be determived, 1o was sus. pected of complicity io the murder of Fran- ceaco, and consequently tled from Rome, to which ho was not.permitied to return for mauy ‘yimrl" He oveutually cawme to his death in @ uel, Qnly three sons survived Francesco: Glaco. mo, the eldvst; Bernarding, szea 183 and Faolo, aged 17, The last died soon afier the parricld Beatrics was herself, ot this thine, 21 years old. The circumstauce of her haviog remoiued un- married so long, uithough posscssed of s large dowry, 8lznor Bertolotti regands as presuniptive prool thut she bad not the churins of versonal beauty which bave been aseriled to ber, Bea- trice sud her brother (ilacomo, who was exe. cutd aw ber aecomplice, made thelr wills white fnprisun. A portion of that of Giacomo s miven by Slguor Bertolottl, aud the whole of that of Beatrice, The latter left & lewacy to cach of her three stop-aisters, varlous sums to heneyo- lont Institutions, numerous dowrles to pour orphan-irls, sud an apprapristion for cndless tassea Lo bo said tor the reposo of her soul. A codicil to the will of Beatrice, sealed by ft- self {n a packet, aud unmentioned fn the maln fnstrument, remalned unoponed until she had eon fn ber grave thirty-ive years, Itwas then found to apportion the interest of 1K) seudi between Marcherita Sarvechi Biraga and Cate- rina da Bantls,—iwo women upon whom eu obtigation wes imposed with the legacy, of car- ug for » ¢hild whoee naue is ot jpiven, but who is stated Lo be known to the lewstecs. +With tiem, says the endicll, * Reatrice Ceuc has conferred on Che subject by word of mouth.” &hould the child survive both woinen, tho cod- Ll provided thatitwas to loberit the 1,000 sendi unconditionally, “fhe Inferenca to be drawp from this codiell, ity myysterions proviston, and his curetul conceul- mient, noed not be detlued. LU was uo sge of much licanse, aud Beatrice was $ho daughiter of » profligate liouse.” e plua that Beatrice was Impelled to the murder of ber [ather by a natural revolt against the bornible crime of ficest fote which he Lad foreesd her,‘rests, secording to Siguor Bertolottd, solely ou_the ssscrtion of her wivocato Farl- wacelo. Yet, earer ¢ Lo was to save his noble clieat. he bad litle to urge Ia ber favor, The lea of finbectlity by which be succeeded io say- [y Bernardino Cenct from shiariug the doow of Lits sloter, was proved by after-circurustaoces to be unfuunded. Deruaralno was condemped to wituess ta execution of Lis siater, brother, sud step-mothers yet, a few days aiter the appall- {ug spectacle, "hie was uctlve fo plotting for bis temporal jutorests, exhibiting a shrewdness aud intelligeuce cowpatible only with a stroug sd keenintellect, 1f the plea’in lits case was facti- tious, bow much trust Is to ve sccorded to that by which ¥uariaccio sttuve to prescrve the life u{l!nlrlcal Slguor Bertolotti shows from the account of their dafly expenses that the treaument of the Ceucts while they were contiued lu prison was not barsh and rigorous, ss has bLeen pescrted. They bad sutiicleut attendauce and atplo farc. Cakes, [rult, Ush, salad, chierelo (wloe and water), and suow, are swong tho urticles provid- «cd for tuelr tuble, aud fudicato that the allow- suce for their comfort was liveral. Theirestates were contlscated alter thelr death; Lut this way dooe in accordauve with tho ususl custow, sud the law was simply euforced a3 fo similar cases As to the suppuied portralt of Beatrice, Sig- wor Bertulotth bolots out that the carlicat ace couuts giving ovideuce of Guido's prescuce lo oud | Rome are dated 15 the exe. cutlon of the Cencl. The pieture ts in Lhe col- lectfon of the Barberini 'alace; yat an myantory of these treasures, taken fn 1004, makes no mention of uny porirait of Beatrice Cenel, although the nama is appended In most, cases to the portraits ziven in the catalogue, and that of eo Intcresting a personage trould scarcaly he omitted had her likeness teen nmong_ thuse preseni. No work by . Guido has a place fn the list. But there Is ono as- crived to Paolo de Verons, and eatitled a “Madonna fn Egyptian Deess,' which Siznor Bertolottl suggesta mav be the pletura so long known as the portrait ol the Cencl. Ha remarka upnn ft: ' Porn by remorse and lacerated by torture, Beatrice conld hardly have had the gitlish and serene countenance which we ad. mire In tho picture; vor, afsuch a mournfnl moment, was she likely to Iifve arrayed herssit as an odatieyue, Rathér would feminloe vanity have Induced hee to extibit her abundant tresses’” After reading this story of the Cenci, found. ed upon documnentary evidente, une can npover agaln look ut the lovely face about which 4o uch syonderful romance hns hovered, without 8 sinlle at the delusiveurss of huigau bellefe, LITERARY 1TEMS. Mr. Browniug's uew voluine of poems 18 In the baoda of English eritics and readets, Mr. Rossiter Julmson has complled s{book of “Playday Puewms, for the * Lelsure-our Series.” 1. Worthiogton, of New York, wiil tsmuo au American edition of Swinburae's vew volume of * Poems and Ballads,” An exhibition of books, periodicals, maps. and musie, representing modern Boheiniaw litera- ture, was opeued at Prague, May 16, Hensy Molt & Co. have nearly ready Mrs, Drasscy’s history of 8 leldurely aud luxurious crulse ** Around the World fu the Yacut 8un- beam," A second volume of the Daily News watr- correspondence, comprising ' the letters of Archibald ¥orbes, McUahan, snd others, will soun be Issued by Macmiilan & Co. On May 20 salc was tnade in Londan of the “ilaley Papers,”” which comprised, smong others, thirty-four letters from tue poet Blake, five from Lady llamilton, and & large number frum the poet Cowper. The lecture Ly Prof. Max Mueller * On the Perception of the Infinite,!” the first of the Hibbert course, has besn published in German aud Itallan periodicals aince its appearanca in the Contemporary Meview. The original M8S. of Schiller’s and Goetba's correspondcence was lnlel{ purchased by the publishiug frm of Colta, In Stuttgart. It wus offered to the librarics of Berliu and Munich for 40,000 thalers, and refused. The volume of ** West-Point Tle-Tacs ** which Tomer Lee & Co. have in prees will coutaln 1l largest noem yel produced by Bret Harte. It relates the love-life of ** Cadet Grey,” and v eoliveued by three stirring bugle-sougs. A work entitled * The Dramatic List,”” by Mr, C. E. Pascoe, Is belng prepared for publication in London. It will give biographical sketches of prominent living actors and actresses, with critical comments on thelr talent, ecxtracted from the current pre A volume entitled * Characteristics of Lelgh Hunt" has been brought out in London by an anonymous author, who in nrl{ youth wi a correspondent of the essayist. 1t object s to present to readers uniamiliar with Leigh Hunt some examples of his writing which best reveal bis distinctive traits, Viek's Jttustrated Monthly presented the double bollyliock in its colored plate, tnis month, As ususl, o mass of varied and useful tnformation for the flower-lover is gathercd into the num- ber. There is not s more skillfully-cdited or bandsomely-printed periodical in the whole st of American magazines. Miss Anna L. Ward, of Bloomfleld, New Jersey, announces that she has in her posscasion the largest lst of Pacudonyms ever collocted. 1t {s her purpose to publish them, and, in order thet the list may b complete, she Invites authors who wish thelr pon-uames lucluded, to send them to er address. A history of painting, edited by Dr. Alfred Woltmanu, the blographer of Holbein, is among the forthcuming literary productions of Ger- many. 'The bistory of Egyotian and clusaical painting will be written by Dr. Kart Woltmunn, ana that of the Middle'Azes and of modern timncs will bs prepared by tho editor. THE * ART JOURNAL.' ‘The chief pictorial attractiont {o the Arf Jour. nal for June are the steel plates entitled * Slu. sic Hath Charms," from a valating by G. A, Btorey; Aurora,”” from the very popuolar pagtivg Ly J. L. Hamon; and ¢ Lion-tunt- ing o Arabia: Toe Rescue," after a paintiog by C. A. Coessin de Ia Fosse. [n the third paner on * Ihe lomes of America,' the historic rest- dences of Emersun and Aleott, at Coneord, Mass,, aro figured, with severnl manaions plct- uresquely situated ot Nabwue and Berealy Farms. The blogruphy of * Amcrican Paint. ers ' contiutes with a aketeh of Thomas Ilicks of New York, presenting_cngravinzs of two of the artist's best worlkts. The notes of travel in 4 Norway" still interest with their beautiful deltueations of wild, ruceed ecenery. ‘The fl- lustrated catalogue of the l'aris Exhibition o cuples a goodly portlon of the numiber; and tha remainder is filled with tho rezular winor arti- cles and art-notes. i ART-GOHSIP, A monument Is to be erected to Corvantes in Ceutral Purk, New York. Toe design Includes n bronxo status of thu fanous author, snd a bronzo group of Doen Quixots seated on his steed Rosinaute, with Baocho Pavza by bis side, A bus-relief will slso be. added, representing the battle of Lepanto, in which Cervantes, was wounded. The elune composing the monument will bo brought from the birthpluce of Cervan- tes, and othor localities In Gransdu. ‘The Borlin Muslum has lately purchased stx valusble works of ort from the Strozzl Pal- ave, ut a cost of 160,000 lirw, They fucude a ortralt of Guillano da Medicl, by Ssudro Yluumlll‘, portruit of & young dsuglter of Roberto 8trozzi, byTitla 8 portrait of Shnaoue Martelli; thu bust ol Murietta Btrozsl, by Settlgano; & bust of Nicolo Btrozz, sup- Lmed tobe by Mino da Tissvla; und o smail ropze statue of St. John tho Daptist, sald to ba by Douutello. | SPARKS OF SCIENCE. FLOIA ROUND ABOUT CRICAGO, Tun Warsn-PLantains.~The suall groupof plants collected foto tho order Allswacew ara ali aquatic in their habits,~krowlng ig swampy and wet lands, or altogether in the water, Thelr flowers ars arranged (0 umbels, racemes, or panlcles, or scape-like ms, sud of both sepals and petals there aro three. The plauts Liave usually m cresping root-stock, aud thelr leaves are aiways puralicl-voined. They are chietly denizens of the Northern Ilamisphere; but u few stray juto the ‘Troples, aml even lula the latitudes south of the Eyustor. In masny of the avecies tha Heshy rhizome, or root-etock, is edible. The Sagittaria sinousis is cultlvated fu China fur foud, Its largs rhizomes shoundiog i nourishinent; but the follsge of the plant te acrid. The rhilzomes of the Aliswa plantazo ara eaten by the Kulnucks, The juiceof certaln spectes of flqfll.lurln foupd iu Biazil 1s used in lfi: preparation of 1ok byt, beyond this, the group Is of no knuwn servico to mankiud, Of the seventy species comprisiug the family, there are four, Logether with scveral varietics, which [nhabit the_ rezion sbout C 0. At Hyde Y'ark, Pine Statiou, and Miller’s, the rush- ik plaut dalled Avrowiruss, Trl lochin tunwin, is comnion. It is & bos with uarrow, flesby leaves, and Nowers {u u splked rucewe. Tho Water-Fiainotalu, Aliswa plantago, is like- 1y to be ubserved iu all marshy places, It Las much ot the sspect uf the common Plaintain, notwithstauding its flowers aru cxpanded o a sumewhat showy paulcle, fur the leaves sro ribbed sud shaped very like those of the plant wmeutionel TL Alisina i3 one of the twost nutable sud hundsowe of the vegetabl cles found lu aud aruund pools and ditches, sud 1s fu bluasom lo Juue andJuIr With the arruw-shaped Ieaves and scapes of white flowers produced by tho Sagittarius, everybody Is famiilar, 'Tbey rise up in a thick: set jusss wlung the borders of wll stlll bodies of water. The specles vary widely, renderiug 16 difleult to clissify thew with certainty. The Sagittaris vartabllis exbibits extrewe diversity Ju size aud foliage, althouuh the latter Ls cener- ally srrow-shuped. The species ls comwon [ out waters. us also the varictics obtusa, bhastata, sugustifolts, wud gracily,—oach sbowlog o dls- tiuctive forim of leaf: A stalk with “double Bowers bas been ooted at Hinsdale. i) THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM,T= The Lancst takes frum ¢ Belzian journal of florticulture soie statlstics showing the rapid growth in modern times of the world's koowl- cdze of thy vegetable kivgdom. The igurcs arv =5 as follows phrastus, § hut at 124 closs Baubin described 6,000, efort, fn 1631, recognized 10,145 apecles; Gut Linnmus, in the next ventury, worklog more conttousliy, deilned only 7,291 In the begin. vinz of this century, In 1805, Persoon descritied 25,000 spectes, —comprising, however, namernus In 1919 Da Cawdotle setimated miunte fungl. the known apccies at 00,000 aave 31,780 anecles; and in 1816 Prof. Lindlay enumersied 66,45 dicotyledona aud 18,957 mon- 80,337; but In 1335 thesn acotyledons,—in all had Increased to #2420, and in 1367 B thinated the knowa species at GRENADILLAS. 125,000." ‘The varjous species of Passton-flower which arnaeenfo our gardens and greenhouses ara cultivated for the beauty of theic Auwers; but after In thetr native wilds 6 Troplcal countries, the blnsanms have ars hiung with large and handsome (ruir: which {s extensivel Amerien and Lie siza aof a inan'a head. grance, achd, is cut luto al and tarts, where it has the flavor of apples. au ornmnent, as weil abundant fruits. adilla {P. laurifolin), Is the size of & hen's egg, nmllhu awhitish, juley, and delightfully-favore:! pulp. of the specles, P. fucaruata, growin| sotls, which b hen's egg, au Maypop. AN ICE-STORM. Tbe devastation omong trees thas may be wrought by an fce-storm is graphfcally de- scribed by Mr. Arthur J, Evans {n his recent book of travel, entitled *“Illydan Letters," “The hut I was In was {n the middie of a forest, and, ss tho sleet continued during the night, ons Lranch gave way under the selght of (ce, and then an- ufck succession that It sounded like s ronr ol ar- futerrupted. as tho lesser ave way, with sharp, snapplog, ex- plosive noiscs, like plstol-shots at close quar- The spectacle next morning waa stupea- dous! The whole forest was wrecked! Tg‘g;: round was covered walst-high with plles orest-quecns had been stripped till they were nicre naked Fragile trees bad been crushed,~Tarpela-lixe, but with & girdling weight of crystal. Tender saplings and trees of more elastic growth bad been simply !Ixal:lell alender aprays poured down towards Mother Easth in taper {cicies, till every tree looked lke a frozen ‘The passage runs as follow: other, till crash followed crash o such tulery around, branchies ters, 1s no other word that will describo it. whole of fallen branches, Spreading trunks,—mutliated torsos. down, llks weeping-willows,—thelr fountain,” — BRIEF NOTES. A chipping-sparrows’ nest, with three nawlye hutched birds, was found {n Port Huroo, Mich., March 21, Prot. C. V. Rilev, Chief of the United States’ Entomological Commlsslon, has beeu appoiut- cd Entomologist to the Departmend of Agrl culture. The Tombigbes River, io Misstasippl. lns beon stocked by tho United Btates Commirsiou with May 13, 00,00 were de- ream ot Aberdcen, 80,000 at 210,000 young shad. posited lu the Fulton, and 60,000 at Dewopulls. Dr. Rudolph Falb, a Vienucse naturalist, who 1s exploriog the earthquake-region of Sauth and Central America, was, at last aceounts, pre- paring to uscend the Voleano of Mistl, neur Aretsulnl.-—u mountuiu supposed to be 17.500 feet high. A law has recently been passed by Cougress, authorizing the purchase of alcohol free of tax, for sclentific purposecs, by any university or col- lewo created as such {n any State or Terrdtory, aithough uot incorporated or chartesod a8 ro- quircd by the Orst cnactmout. Dr. W. G. Farlow, offCambndge; Prof. D. C. L. Anderson, of intly publishing a work vn the ug of the J}qull themaclyes, properly put up amd labeled. Faton, of Yale; and Dr. C. Culilorula, are Jo Alzawe of Norilh Awerica, cons bie second fascieulus bas (ately appeared. Capt. Burtin ta so coatldent that the region of Mtdian tu Egypt ts rich enouglh ln mincral wealth to repay cap(talists for juvestigatiug and work. ing the dessrted miues, that it1s bis jutentivn Khedivo to form a com: to sollcit lcave of the pany in England to take the matter fu band. e have recetved the first number of the American Autlquarian, & quarterly journal deli voted to early American history,Ethnology, s Archieology.” Tt [s & neat fllustzated papers. 'The work Schinkel & Co., Cleveland, O, The Smithsontan lustitution s prepariny ored Irow uature, in order that the surics may Imcom}:l:lu, It solicits contributions of specl- turtles and terrapins, of serpents, with the exception of the puisunaus kiuds, of salu- weus ol mauders, water-lizards, or ground-pupples, and of the varfous specles of rg} The largest procurable reprosentatives of each apecies are desired. Mr. E. J. Wiiliamson, Jr., states, in s letter 'on. that’ the whip- scorploa (Thelyphonus mnntcn:) of Mexico its tafl, Thespeci: men observed was found under stones, vear Chbihushua. Ho wos captured after considera~ to the Bmithsonlan Institut emits an offensive odur frotn ble difiicalty, writes Mr. Wilkinson, ‘*but nol bowever, unt!l I had rocelved soveral doses his powerful eflluyia, which obliged me each time to retreat and catch a fresh breath.” Dr. Asa Uray states that, upon the best ovi- dencs, it Is now belloved that the wecplog- willow "is u native of China or .thn; and t across the country to Persia and Assyris, in compars- tively modurn times, it Was not therc in the days tewunl overturns the popular idea that tho leraelites bune thelr Oru‘z adds sl ble Pasln and which tho uninspired truusiators have called were probably poplars (Populus that, although it 1nay bave bosn brou! of the Captivity."! Tnis Dbarus on this species of willow, Dr. ¢ *The trecs referred to fn the willows, Euphratica).” four years ulter, added. May 13, 187 tortolsc was sgain traveled a nlle o jts westward jouruey. the query, you reach the Pucttie?” A LEAF. Somebody sald, in the at ove, That you ware married, or soun Lo be. 1 have not thoughit vf you, I bellev d. Lol me Since last wo part e Five long Bumuiar sloce the Each bas been ples b in its own w And you are but vne of & Who biave pluyed the suitor 8 Sumuwer-day. Bul, neverthcless, when | heard your name, Couplod with sume one's, Dot iny LW, ‘There burned Ia wy bosom s '} ws ug under your 100k-= ‘The unwmistakabls lovk of Love, Agln joor breath, likoe a Sonth wind, fanned clieok, whare tho blushes camo and wenl; And the tender clasp of your strany, warm Sudden thrills through my . Agafu you were wine by Le: own right— ius foraver by Love's decrea: 8o for a twowcot It secimed last nighl, When Somvbody wentiosed your same to me Just for the mowent T thought you mine— Loving wio, woolux ine, us of old, Thio talo remewbered sevtuod ball divine— Though 1 beld It lizutly wuough, when told. The past secmed fairer thun whico It was ear, As"VBleasluga righten whei takiag Ligu '™ And Just for 1hio 1noimcst | beld you dear— Whien Sumeudy weutived yous usue 1ast night. Eiud Wunsisa © “ In tho Bible about 100 plants are sliuded to: Hippocrates mentioned 234; Theo 4 and Pliny, 800. From this time thern waa tittle sdditlon to our knowledge until the Ranaissance. In tha begloniog of the Four- tzenth Century Gesnercould only enumerate 809, Tourn- Lanidon 1n (870 entley es- which ars uot only temnpting 4 the aye, but refreahing totha palate. The fruil is & feshy, eag-shaped body, with its many sceds Invested u a pulpy covering that forms the edibie part. The com: mon Passlon-flower (Passifiors quadrangularls), diftused over Tropical West Indies, beara a frult called the Greoaditla, which often sttalns tha It has a pleasant Ira- a slightly-acld pulp of the cuoling na~ ture of the mefon; and = rind that, beiog also lces and used in making ples he plant Ia o tuxuriant climber, and ia cultivated as 83 for {ts dellcious and ‘The Apple-fruited Grenadilla (P, maliformis), n species inhabiting the wouds of Jainaics, hasa {rult about two inches o diameter, with a gela- tiuous pulp, and a rind 8o hard that ft is often employed in the mspufacture of snufl-boxes sl toys. The frult of the Laurel-teaved Gren- 1u our own Bouthern Btates thcre is ons on dry fruit the size and shape of & nown Ly the funpy nsme of duodecimo, With & well-Giiled table of contents, in which aro several Is edited by the Tev. Btephen 1. Pect, und published by Brooks, for exhibitlon in the Natioual Musoum s surles of plaster casts of American reptilcs, carofullycol- The Hartford Times states that Mr.D. H. Wiltard, Newington, found on his farm a lorge and handsoio Dox-tortoise, un the undar shell of which be Inscribed the date of its discorery, 15738, and s own (oitials. 10 1803, or twouty- Le met with the sauie tortotse balf & nile weal, of the apot where it was tirst sucountered. ‘Lhe animal had in the interval crossed two bridges, or forded tho streams, and three rallrosd truzks. The tirst tnscription wes still distiuct on its shell, und & sccoud was or sixtcen years later, tha ound, aud “this time hud lawas marked with the third date, aud diswlssed with At this ratu of travel, when will iehepls ke e AN Dt P TN R IRY K] ‘ s o el AN,