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IATURE O v ATU i a eevere n cond means which proguced It as M, Talne liaa pro- But the condemnatinn ta not without There were e the Revolutlon which betd up for the fnstriction and numiliation of mankind, And ft Is wel, for the sake of veraclous history, which will come alterwards, telling the worst about the Revolution ehonld he intrusted to so palns- taking o student ;ndklu brilllant o writer ns ork: Taine’s "' French Revolution” ~==lhne's that the task of Praper's Scientifie Memolr: Quackenbos’ ““ Ancient Literature,” FEARL Dr. thne, tha Helnel ten a treatise on Early Rome, which has been inctuded fn the English scrics of * Epochs of Ancient History," published sn this country by Charles Scribner’s Bons, scientific histories of Rome since Nichuhr, re- jects as mythical the traditions embodied In Livy and other Roman historians. cxamines and condemus the fables about sEpcas, Rommnlus, and Remus, the apoeryphal relzns of Numa, Servius, Tarquin, and, in fact, all the seven Kings; and the legends of the Ilorat!l aud Curatll, Lucrece, Huratins Cocles, Vir- inls, Brutus, Cinclnnatus, and Corfolanus, e aves littlo that the average schoolboy knowa about Roman lifstory prior to the destriction of the vity by the Gauls, 550 B, C. At this point, It |s assunied, authentic history bewins, Prol, lune's labors will scewn worse than use- many of the present generation whose ledee of Rloman history is derived chietly "*Lays of Ancient Rome," Prot, Thne las destroved the foundatton of 1t any was ever ussumed to vxi But he lias not fal grave error of depreciating the lc, As romnances, i uot as I a part of the literatu; can ho more be displaced from the affectlous of mankind than the Arablan fairy tnies or the Scandinavian myths, which lle fur back fn the cloudland of our owa bistory. Frof. Ihne fs the first to recognize this fuct and give it duo Ile recites the story In cach thatauce befors he brings it to ihe test of Henri Greville's " Sonia”-—Rolfe's Hemlet-—The Riverside $un-Heat and Earth-Heat as Correlated in Physical Forces. LITERATURE. TOE FRENCIl REVOLUTION, Tue vlan of M. Taine's *Origins of Con temporary France" contemplates five volumes. Tho first of these, devoted to the Anclent Reglme, appeared some time ago. umes will be given to the Revotutlon, and two to France since the Revolution, ume on the Revolution Is now befors us. fn many respects a remarkable work, . First for Its method, which is that of strict arrangement and classification of facts. about principles, as the suthor may have pre- viously determined; but no principle Is sought tu be cstablished without the apparent author- ity of fact. M. Taine probably bad his princl- ples fn pickle before he went out to search for facts, as will appear herealter, that was true to support each positive asser- Whether lie found all the truth, stated It falrly, and left It to make conclusions for him, rematns to be seen, The results of M. Taine's method ars that, ‘being a reactiovary, he has made out the first great unqualificd condemnation of the Revo- lution that has ever appe * e admits that there was much need of reform, bat denles that there was need of revolution. Treetsely here the dificulty of tmost discriaiinat- inz writers on tho Revolution has arlsen. They have been unable to sce haw reform could he sccomplished without revolution, reforins necessary to the regeneration of France werc of tho most radical klud,—rcforms, indeed, euch a8 have never been peaceinlly wrought out Inaug country, The redistribution of the land, limitation ot the nbolition of tho excwptions of the nobles, the overthrow of tho Chirch as a civil authority, were menAurcs necessary to the salvation o Hach of these was strongly Intrenched and supported by powerful and Noge of them would . In propurtion to tuelr powers of resistance was the feroaty of the nttack, Much blood was shed in the opera- tlan; but that was nat the cssence or tha condl- tion of the Revolutlon. There have been revo- lutions without blood, only less fmportaut than rance. ‘The accomplish- ment of the great reforms mentioned, with vy without bloodshed, would have been n revolu. tion, hecauso it would have {nvolved the from Macaulay's ‘The first vol- These are grouped linposaibility of fts truth as history in nowlse detracts from s dignity as romance. Only It {s Important that those who desire to study the institutions and character of the Roman m-nLnIu as they wers should be able te discriminute bee tween history dud romance, The gradual cople toward dewovracy Lie found much Ihne belleves Kings, notably Nuw, had only saccrdotal nu- thority, With Tarquiu, a line of mnllitury chief- It cuded suddenly Lecause the veonle, heing now organized for military pur- poses, choso Lo ap, military Kiugs, It is Whea the Kings were abollshed the patriclans again took uneship was tho price demanded by the com- mon people for their return to the oty. Ace cording to this view, the Tarquins were frichus of the people, and thelr memories have been bisckened beeause thie patrivians controlled the #ources of Roman history, which weregencrally the records of noble familles, pusition Is made on bebulf of Appius Claudiug, whom we now find rehabilitated as & martyr to democratic priodples. ‘The volume closes with Iuvuslon of the Gauls and the exploits of Camillus, which Prof. Ihne ery not trutbfully described by Livy. The narrative of that historlon docs, Imdced, shiow the traces of a patriotic coloring; but we were hardly prepared to hear the cherlahed story Of the geese that saved the capltol called, as it 1s here, “an wtiolorfeal legend.™ York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. wealthy orcanizations. 2o down withont a chapter on the that which redeemed one. The difference between reform and revo- lution i3 unly one of degree: and in this instance demanded wero so inany and so dm- they involved a revolution. Puace- ful acquicscence in the dewmands would have been revolution. AL 'falne has scknowledged this 80 far that, while be has gdmltted tho need ol reform fo the constitution of the orders of the nobiiity and tiio clergy, and in the regula- tion of the kinzly vrerogalives he has not agreed to the redistribution of tho Iauds a8 a rigntful meusure, Theuncqual distribution of the lauds ot rance. more than anything olse, caused the Revolution. The pusscssion of the land by the eleriy aud nobility, and the exemotion of these clagaes from toxation, zround down the culmmou people to such u degree that they lad only tho means of living from hand to wouth, They had no _resources to draw un fo tines IHence, the fumine which precedeit on_was a sccondary, The faming-.would weetrrod If tho lands had not been held fo large vart by erasping ecclesiastical corporations wnd privileged orders, nor even then, if the burden of taxation, nnequally distributed, had Lot vruslied thy lile out of the commnon people, AMr. ‘Taluc’s defense of the titles by which tao lands were held Ia lngeulous, but not complete, The titles were acqutred by violenee and ripened ‘Fhey wete, In tmany instuuces, Thut " which wus BCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS, The lestued Dr. Draper, of Nuw York, has collccted in & volume & number of bis papers on Radiant Energy which bave sppeared during the last forty years In varlous neriodicals, the first as carly as 1834 in tho Krank'in Dustitute Journal, Maay of the memolrs have been reprinted with- in o few years In Larpec's Mugazine, "Thoy are intcresting chiefly a4 records of personal obscr- vation, and for the Introduction o the labora- tory of a sclentilc worker which they afford each reader. Dr. Draper Is not content murcly to stato the results arrived at Ly him, but en- deavors ulso to show the steps Ly which ho reached them. Thua the chapter on *Caplilary Atteaction and Iustertitial Motious, the Cause of the Flow of Bap In Plunts aml the Clrcula- tion of Blood. In Anlmals,”. begina with the author's obicrvations ‘fi 183, and brings hia knowledze down to tue present day. It de- scribes e varlous experinieuts from which the author derived his conclusions. interestiug subjects treated in these memoirs are: *On the Nature of Flane aud o the Con- ditfon of the Suns Surface,’ “ Bpeetrum Analy- Iss uf Flure," * Radiatlous of Hed-Ilot Lodies," “Pootography " (when this was written the *On Buening Giussea snd nat a primary, by prescriotion. older thun the Guveriment, ubtnined br violence, was lost by the same 80, wo might subject wad uew), Mirrors," und * and Chemical Force fa the Spectrum.” were 1o othier el elewent of pro the juatice of tha titles mainly rested. 11d be overthrown only by a procedare oute de of any of the urgaulzed tribuvals, since the Dbasis ol thesa was the system of foudal tenure Whih it was desired to reform. The people to orms uiost reluctantly, undd tortured beyond Druper prefixes to thia volume an autobiograph- feal skotel, trom whiel the text wu infer that part of his object in printing theas temoirs §s to protect his sefen- tifle reputation uwalust the apuroprintion of his Inbors vy othcr workera, ‘This purpuse 1s well worthy of his cunsideration, jor tue reputation of Dr. Deaper, us u woiter and _sclentific man, is secand Lo that of no one now livio in Anierica, Hu s, fudeed, the only scievtifle tmo who bos actained any ticular domun of “Humtory of the Inteilectusl Develonment “ [istory War,”" and “ Llistory of the Conilict Be- tween Scleace aud Reiids curued hin & rej took thelr wpveal They had been axizravated nou-existenve, 1o State has the right to take nee Licasires to prescrve My own existes Las not the ludividual ¢ uone, 1t fs n dellcate question 1u morals and Jurisprudence why ho bas not. At aay rate, the exercide of such rights by Lhe neasants of France Was su Uearly humun oud natural that Lo s a stern Judge who flnds {n thelr conduct nothing We are not speaklug now sEck of the Revolution, which 1o one reads of without o shudder, but of the principles which underlay them, of which NOL Decesaary consequeLces. mus excesees, principl i most admirable chapters Yolume aru those on tus Nobility and the Arlstocratic orders have seldoy bl chaipion, It the tndividu putation us a literary mon of the firat class il bie had not been aimoog thy p the use of the spectroscope, to solve sumo of the problems of arculution, nud to cust llbt on many dark pluces fu_hunan to palilate or pralse. tirst to develo ANCIENT LITERATUR The * lllustruted History of Aucient Litera- ture, Oricntal and Classlcal,” by John D, Quackuubos, A, M., M, D., s a volume of 423 pages. Tho author alms to cover the periud from the earlicst times to the Christiun era. Tuls might have Leen cumparatively an easy task a gencratlon sgo, when the Greok and Roman Micratures were all that learned men knew or cared about, Hut stnce the vast ficld of Bopscrit and the Bemitic languagzes hos been opcoed to Investigation through the elorts of wodern schiolars, 1t Is o difiicult task even to epltomize the results that have been uttalued, ‘Iho Hrat part of this ook is devoted to tho Orlental languages and literatures. Ing chiefly an Max Muller, 3r. Quacken- bos descrives clearly thoe riso and distributlon of the Inio-Kuropean raccs, the foith and ractics of lirabmunism us jucaleated in tue edus, thu rlse of Buddbism sud fts conlice with the estublished faith, the prowth uud decline of Zorossterbsm pud’ the Zend-Avesta, the lutlusuce of Conlucius and the sacred writs fuge of his school, aud, fiually, the cunctiorn tuacriptions of Egypt sud Assyria, subjects, particularly the last, are illustrated 88 {3r a3 possiblo by inuus aud wood-entravings, ‘The chapter ou sytnbol-writng gains wuel in clearnusa by thi she book treats of Greck ana Komun literature, Tue author m foand u more ‘The uuthor has compared with the benellts of such au vnler i Eo- pposed evils arising from the ouein the United Hiates, teved, tho duf of leisure and wealth athiers bave such good right, Do others are able to ty and privilego of meu Tve the Htate; no , he belleves, and vern 8o well, Taine bas forgotten that nalone govern they for the sdvautagy ro aro others wha have a lenlency and conldera- ‘This was the aituafion ¢ learued and wealthy clusses finposed all the Whenlelsured sl wealt] Pt Lo govern too mci «qul elaims upon thy | You of the Btute. rauce, where Ly koveraed 4o el the peoplo patd them, b surorisiog to fnd M. ty exposure of the full uclal Contract, Suppore the Chureh, UL tiines was Just becay along time, and that o ‘lalue, after bis lacy contalped (n contendlng that the State 1wexpressed agreeinent to 0 suy that the oxaction uso it had continued tor 11 the pcuplec\wre uuder kind ol reasoniug we cxpected ¢. His parsgraph on the tithes Is We quote part of i t as bo autbor's stylo Is not charactertstic, mon who weites wi cthod, 'Th th prejudices with itics to “refer to, ol oplnion to perplex b, Of & wockery o attempt to give an idea of Kee chylus by a short extract from a travslation of somothiug leas than four vaves, * Frometheus,” and 10 dispose of descriptiou of the plague at Athens, Uackenbos’ book will have a certuin value In the schoul-roows und tu thuse who have not the lelsure or the iuclluation to consult more au- It 13 true, moreover, as o says fu the preface to tuis volume, that Wwill kuow auything of do not study fte bist of the académic per & Bros, Frice $1.50.) utry which have becu soid and Satales 1 the coul id ver aznin have always pald Withes, Let revenuo of 1] 7 vdded to “the income of tha pro- eequently o weveutn to the capital, 10 hiui of 100 france if bis land d 000 f it Is wortn Lh 700, 000. “I'brough 1:243, 000, 000 tuorltative sources. u of revenge and ory systemutically as u part urek ulum, SBONIA., * Henry Greville * {s the name under which & French laly has recently produced a novels the persous aud scence of which are fn Rusata. Tho writer restded i Kussia a lonz thme, and saw wuch of Russlan life, + Sopla™ s the Litlo of one of thess uovels. The plog fs ous tbat 18 not new, but bas been written threadbare fo magaziue and weekly uswapaver ud in s multitude of cheap movels. Ueu. Goruline is au old suldicr who s married to a woman of *better family " thau himself. and is conscquently hield fu subjectivn aud treaed with coutewmpt by ble wife, Tuo wifefs proud, s amvitious, and the fanily fs poor. They —Lydia, 4 girl of 18, un- wod ‘4 boy youoger. Grebol iy a studsut vary poor, Lot voiing ang ¢ proves toa much, { titbcs was not clas b added lwmensely to 1 cunsequently, that it must bave brice ot laud, ‘while #t worked oo t from a wealthy end corrupt roduced noto- He shows that b revenues of oration, which the revenue of the laud, wulch cuth of the laud ftself, the teliglous, - Talue coudems, 18 of Lho Frencu Revolution sre ighout the civilized werld, snd where a peaple sccond Lo 1 fudustry, aud Lspploess Yates Lo sull wrenched tus crimiusl weasure bavs two children, b prospenty, Iy usuatly haudsoie, Vi3 wud gl handsome, tutor duriny nn and to teach the girl French, Prince realdes on the adjoinini estate, Borls and Lydia manare to fall fn love, and seon altar the Frince appeers as a visitor. to capture him for the young lady. thouctitiess, weak, but vaingirl, s tothe Nope of seciring the Prince. continue: ber love-making with the tntor. Thelr lotc s discorered, the tutur Is expell=d, but the lovers promise eternal fidelity, Amoniz the rervants In 0 ehlld alont i3 years of age, an orphan serf, who ling been treated as an onteast, and on the ie duy that Boris was airgraced this cinld was driven away from the famlly. Boris finda the destituts orphan, and fn hls xympathy car- ties hier away to bis imother’s homie, where he feaves hicr. "This {s Bonla, Hoon after he ohtains emplovment which_engageshim al a distance for several yenrs, Lydin, under her motlier's direction, becomes & ' hushand-sccker, b abwaya falts, Borls, during hls absence, continues to love her, while siie, without re. nouncitie him, {5 sceking another mateh, Hor eventually returns famous sud prosperous, and sticjust at that moment, thinking she had secired another, discards Trorie. of Boria dying, Letukes Bonfa to Moscow, where, in the capacity of servant, she becomes his falthinl lmulcku?'mr. The Uorelines become very poor, Lyidia sed connected with nnot he too olninly tienry Holt & Co. ROMPE,. berg Professor, has writ- This history, like oil The author dlstionorable relations between Boris and Soni, the result of which Is that the master und sery- ant immedintely met torrricd, and _that Is the ¢nid of the story. ~ The buok Ia clenn, th s very plaln, the characters are commonplute, ord customs of Russia, the story, with a few as well for New Hampshire or Miunesola. (Puiludetpiis: T, B, Peterson & ros.) , o1 which Into the ends them- ncte, they are e of Christendom, ~ They HAMLET. and the ecvlgence the improbability or cxplanation is sufflclent. e Ol NS ohT™8N | price, tho purchasers of Mr. Holfe's edition with * mucnn clearness, | have reason to be grateful to bim, rather than that some of the | otherwise, for passing Leyond the MNmits first buve several times had oceasion this editlon of Shakapeare {5 on and for inany purposes better than any vther, it thelr own rulers, ~ The | At fs remarkable chicly for its coplous notes, umed, wel utron: 4 cro batrane ol troduction treating of the history of the piay, bezan to op- | the sources of the plot, and critital comnents the sccesslon to thie | on the play. Under the latter head are plaved place. The trite | such ubusual authoritics as the chapter from * Witheln Metster " on ** Humlet,” the articles frow Biackwood's nuwmcd to have been written by the pout Campbell, and an_artlcle from the ondon Quarterly ltevew for 1547, The cditor also ncknowledges freely his Indebtcdoess to Furness, wnose variorum eaitlon of ** Hamlet " musat be o mine of wealth to all future editors, “Fhie notes of this cdition are coliected, it should be understood, much on the principle which guided Furness in bis varlurum edition of the text, Every noto which hias respectabie anthor- ity, and scems entitied to a moment’s v ation Is fucluded. (New York: Harper & Uros. Price, 70 cents.) TIE RIVERSIDE SPENSER. The Riverside eaition of the Brittsh Poets has A simtlar sup- 4 (New Frice, 31,) three volumes. to commend the whole editioft more favorably to the reading public. cept Bhakspeare, who i by uwarded a scparats place. ‘Thisedition of Spe ser[soused on theedition printed {n 183 undert superintendenceof Mr. Ucorze Hilllard, 1t w at first fntended to be only afterwards revised and tustrated with notes, whole editlon was publishied os long ago as 1835; changing what was then wrltiten. The bindinz, u"mgruuuy. and paper of the Riverside edition witl inake it an ornatacut 1o any Ybrary in which it may flud a place, —(Boaton :~Houghton, guod & Co. 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Yo bad rather less thon his share in the time of iaphacl, ittan, Michet Angelo, and (ndo; but he I8 too richly en- dowed to-day both In the works of great urte Iats, aud {u the humbler ¢fforts uf current Nlus. trated literature. 11 §i were ouly possivle to eay of the Jitwatrated Christian Weekly tuat it avuided caricature, this would be ligh pratse; but ft docs tar wore. It exemphtvs w hyzh 1deal of Clirlstiun muuhoos. A CONCISE IISTURY OF MUSIC, It speuks well for tho usefulnes excellcace of the “ Mistory of Musi outslds of nls par- physical rescarch. ilfs of the ‘Aucrican L would have York: Hurper & Bros, by emment musical As thy book now new matier suggestel authorittes to Prof, Hunt staids, it Is the most concise and currect histo uf sle that wo have ever scen conpl| text-book, Itls asa munual for the student that twhibe tound principuily valuable, und i care. fully-prepared tables, nhotes, refercices, and lists of questions admirably adapt it for school Dupeud- noisseur or person making any pretension to musical taste, shonld be without this litte work us 0 ready relerence. (New York: Berlbner's Sons.) BRIEF NOTICES, ‘Two books for sturing-schooli—¢ OQuward,” by L. O, Emerson, and * Method for Slugug Ciasses,” by A. N, Johuson—bave been pub- lshed by Ditson & Co. Carlton & Co, print two iew novels,~" Vesta Vane," by “L. Kiug R ($1.50), und % The Hele ot Charlton® (§1.30), by Mary Azues Flem. 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Livrury of " Ameriven Ficgon of the vame pub- llshiers bas been wucressed by * Biush Rosus,” Ly Clara Francts Mores (30 centa), *Oid Shp Warcsouse,” by M A. Denlson (60 cents), und *Liks Unto Like,"” by Sterwoud Bonuer (73 cents). The Popular Secieics Monthly for Octoder has tho following table of concents: ¥ The Geolog- ucluding his hucydides in But Mr. * few general literuture who (New York: Hur- rics of eal Hliatory of New York [siand Hurbor,"” Prof. J. 8. Newverry (illustrated); * Education euce ™ (V. 'The Emotio Educution), as & Be Prof. Alexander Bafy, LL. D. Autbrovalogy,” Prof. T. M. MHuslev; Moners, aud the Problem of Life? (111 The Physleal Phase of the Problew), Edmuud Moutgowery, M. D.: “Elcctricity u Tuunder- Rlarue ! Rilshs Foate: *Cousclousness unduer The Progreas Boris ‘Lhe mother ulls in all her hushand-sceke fum, and the mother und dauchter, visiting Burls to abtaln Lis ald, use language hnputing atyle but, a8 an_filustration of the national mauncrs alterations la ismes, would have auswered Just Rolte's editlon of Buskspeare, which gives cach play in & volume by ftsclf, has reached “Hamlet" fn regular course, The volume de- voted to tlls pliy, while uniform in binding with the others, vontaina rather more matter than any of them, embracing inall 275 pages. The author, in the preface, apologlzes for this excess, e found it diflicult to keep withio his limited apace. The play Is one ot the longest (aboue twice as long as * Macbeth ), and the amount that lins been written about It exceeds that on any other of Shakapearn's works, The As the exiension of the orlginal plan dous not fuclude an tncrease of deetded uoon. It wmust ‘be sald, aleo, as we Lo testily, that many acchunts drawn from all avatlable sources, aud for its tn- ider- now reached Spenser, whose works ate given In Why ho has uot been reached before it would be difficult to say, unless on the supposition that the editor has been keepiug souie of his best volumes for the last in order There are now some forty voluines in all in the Riverside editon, 1t timbraces the works of all the British poots, ox- common cousent 4 reprint, bat was original and selected, by Francls J. Chitd. ‘The Lut thero has since scenied to be o reason for Os- The bound volume for 1677 is now.at band, It coutalos u numberof wood-cuts which for purity Anicrican scenery or 8 well ns recently published by Prof. M. U, Bouavia Hunt, of Curlst Chureh, Oxford, that a sccoud edition has alrendy been found necéssary, The first cdition was notlced in ‘Tun’ Trisuse st the time of fta appcarance, and It s hardly neces- sary to do more on this oceaston than to noto the improvement thut las Leen made in the way of correctlon, and the lucorporation of soure s purposes. No usiclan, and in tact no von- Charles Bous—too lute for uotice this week—* Recollec of ar: Tt will rise in the wes nd set in the Dr. Hanry Mawds! palal uction, excort Bt | east, and will ment and pase the o1 ) ! a8t ane n 2 iter moan, T e\ bl lr’s. rf-“(k;}'-‘-“-'l, Lt agoat by #un-hest OF | wiole hunrly my tinn I!‘:mh' |l.%<-'.n c'nu- n’:’:- or Rentile—Which ! [lenry For! L J tance of th e satellites from the cont M r Reut i ¢ _ Aceording 1o the now gonerally necepted theors, fram the centre of Mars Fianet Volcan.” Peol. Daniel Kirkevond Known ne the Neoofar l1ypofienm of Kant agd | AT for Definos 14,500 miles, and for Shte ifnesie ur_ Viddnteceated Honotolonve.t Paul | 1 cieta lanris momes patuarhonte 87 Kast Al | oo miles, Ehe thnk satellite (s the brighter Friedmann; Nketen of Clatde Bespard (rith portralt): Editor's Table, Yopulsr Miscellany, Notes, of the two, but more diflienit to sce on account of its cloacness to the planet. The size of the satellites is not well known, thongh it s cor- tain they are very gm-u. From comparative measurements of thelr light, Prof. Pickering, of Hacvard, estimated Defmng to be six miles in diamcter, and Phohos seven miles, Other ob- servers, however, liave been led to nlace them ot from ten to fourteen miles. The massof Mars. a4 determined from the motions of the sntellites, I3 the 1-3,003,500 part of that of the sun, We have receivai from the Hllnols State Lab- oratory & pamphlet on *“The Foods of Ilii- nols Fishes,” by 8. A. Forber, The writer DUeing from the well known to the less knowa), our rolac systein was formed fenm n difase nehn: lvue mans, We muat foagino that thin rotating #pheroll masa once extenden to the farthest imita of the suiar sy atein, begond the orbit of Neptune. 1t eadiated heat freelyinto space, and, nider the force of uravitation, nnderwent contracilon, And ae [t conteacted Bt left hehind it rinea of vapor which, hreaking up, formed secondary rofating orofils, themseives contracting, themaelves aving bealed them rinze, forming tertfary sphe- 1de, themaciven passine in their orbie roand the ual niaey, That central wpherotd mass fa the sn: one of the sccondary rotating apherolds in tha earth, the moon heinga tertiary spherond, Th carth-planet thus formed was yaseous time rolled vn, 1t vasaed thronzhy the liguid state, Literary Notices, LITERARY NOTFPS, A new Jiie of Bt. Augustine I tn preparation by Prof. Ralny. of Scotland. A tranalation of Ilaeckel's ** History of the Evolution of Man ™ fs announced In England. Macmillan & Co. snnounce a compicte edi- tion of Matthiew Arnold's poems for the Amer. {ean market, Ifclen Hunt's new atory, ' Nelly's Siiver Mine.”* Is announced for publication by Mesars, lpr:ml:.:nure or Jeas wolul state which It at present !,‘:,":l’ ’l‘a'\:'r nu-l}“"f l;n‘rcllluc?lllflniu-cl:_:]'.urc, Roberts Bros, Snn-tieat In therefore the result af the rond With tha foad of the netlve mhechen Ve e ‘The a | pamphlet gives a st of flty-four flahes with ® primare sphefol nant of that prodaced : earth-fieat the rem. Celia Thaxter and Joaquin Mlller are to [ssue e st shy feme new volumes of poetry through lloughton, o the customary {ood of each 8o far as ascertsined. Orzooi & Con, this fall, i % moaudsey ebalouaspnoraid toue r»l| lllle \:gln_lulu of Lthlc c!:mll‘:‘nl{on&l are 3 i ius stated: **The most important Kinds of ** The Life and Time of Stein: or. Germany SOIENCENOTES. food are insects, crintacea, plants, flshes, and NCE M. raul Soleillet, now in Afriea, reports that the climate of Senczal Is very favorable to whites, on condition that they do not fear to and Prassia i the Napoleonle Ages,” is by the author of “ Eece [lomo." Henrs Ilolt & Co, annonnce for early publica- molluaks, in the order num, Thesc data ap- bly entircly to adult tishces, however: If the young were also taken Inta account, cristacesn - 1ou 1! [g ‘ o tlon Hoscher'a * Political Economy,” translated | f4°¢ the open airand aun, partan i tpire pu faoid inore, ha: by L J. Lulor, in twe volumee. Braun says: “Cold refreshes by stimulating fish’ of the markcta~Percidwe, Labracidie, Oulda’s “*Friondshio® had an extraordinary [ the functions, heat by phissieally factlitating | Centrarchide Esocute) sre chied plsuivor- run ot the Iat: trade-sale in New York, Her | them; and fn this les the important practical | O848, except the Centrarchithe, which are nearly omnivorous, Scarcely any Cyprinida but prefer fnsccts. flaies examined, exvept somnc can be called strietly herbivoroas, 2zard shad (Durosoma) bs chietly lmal foml Laken heunz probably inct- Catilshies are the onlyunes shown to be qurs, The flshermen, howerer, attribite imilar habits to snecpshicad and Buifalo-fal." Dr. Pelermann, whose death has recently heen repurted by eable, was pobably the most cminent geosrapher it the world, He was mucts Internsted m the probrems of Central Afrivan discovery, and was among the lrst 1o annotne: otbier novels went off at low rates. Van Laun's history of France from the great Revolution to theend of the Becond Empire is vromised by Cassell, Petter & Galpin for thls season. : The fourth part of Mr. George Grove's * Dic. tionury of Music aud Musicians® wiil he ready at Macmlllan & Co,’s In a month, Mr. Grove i now lu thls country with Dean Stanley, An {nstance of long suryival In n school-huok I8 fuund fu © Colhtirn’s Intelicetual Arithme- i of which u aingie house fu ISoston hus. pur- dtfference between the cold water and hot water systems,” We have received in pamohlet form Mr. T..J, Nicholl's paper un “Improvement of .Prajrle Roxds," read before the Ctvil Engineers’ Cluty of this city, He advocates the litieral use of stesm-roilers. A new reversing thermometer has been dis- covered, by means of which it 18 possibleto as- certaln the temperature of any glven layer of althougn t| 60, the anin dental i . ediute n . chased 5,00 captes for thelr an - Wwater, making no note of any Intermediste Dis bellef that Livingstone's Lualuba was the - ”5:" U:I""J ";.’lA“l” "t“‘l"‘“ uales, Inyers between the onc designated and the | Congo,—a theury since Lully contirmed by Star. entl Girevilic’s mea " has boen trans | e The want of sitch instrument was | Jer. 1o was nlmost as deeplv interested in Iated into English by Misy [felen Staniey, who translates all of ber works frum tho original Freuct M3S.. and will be published fn this cout- explorations, und advocated the theory of an open Polar Sea, whi seemed 1oty cou- L by the explorativux of Ur, Kane, af- capable suthorlties now entertum very M2 uDInionS un that subject. From 158 to 1863, Dr. Petermaun was coguyzed [ orautztg seriously felt in the Challenger expedition, Dr. Van der Horek fs about commencime an exloration. the results of which will doubtless be extremely interesting to Amcrican anthro- wologlsts, ~ The object s to deteriming. the rela- try by T, B. Peterson & Brothers simultaucous- 1y with lix appearance in Parls, Charles Scribner's Sons announce. for § et the luhiahitanis of the two | ghe ' p G o diate publication tho serics of articies tonships betweet “the fuhn the Prusaun exoedition to the North Pule Tolitilal Adventures wt- Lurd Hommoongetss | wdes of the Pacite Ocean, and tonvestieate the | Sl rassian exedition with an American Just completed in tho Fortaightiy Lev.ew, These | 19¢3H0N 18 to the coluntzation of eliher conti- | gud w Freuch expedition. In 1554 he nael been nent brom the uther. The work will continue fur several years, A novel feature of the State Fatr at 8t. Paul, Minn., the otherday, was the teutn of elk driven by Mr. A, H. Moo The aniinals were cap- tared about 1o vears ago on Rice River, eleht iles puttth of Fariro, Dak., when four or five davs old, **Dexter " weiehis 612 ponnds, amd SDashier ™ 509 potione, They nre well broken to barness, thoronzhly teained nud gende, Their specd 18 elxteca niles an hour. ‘The oliest specimens of wrought fron known to vthnologiats are gelleved to be certain sickles found by Belzonl uinder the basc of the Sehing at Curnac, in Thebes, Another tragment found n?- Cant, Wike fn the tireat Pyramid, and the plece of o saw duge up by Leyard at Ntinroud, all of which are now {n the Brithi Muscim, proye that fron and the are of forging were known much earlier than has . been suppusent, nud that the seeret of munipulation uppeurs to have been Ield very closely for many years before it came Into general use. Draper, lllustrating n_truth. savs that “not o shadow falls furan lustant upon awall but it Tenves an ineflaceablo atuin,” thus by his shad- ows bringini the power of light futo bohl retief. It uray of light falls, however roftly and but for an instant, upon an object, we may presuine that a chisngre, whetber by chemieal or feal menns, ensues, Flowers and truits, by t Irrecular suriaces, bresk the sunshine into specific lues, thus acting as shadow to them appottted Peofessor of Ueograohy at the Uni- veraity ot Gotlie, sud 1 the following year was e Dactor of Philosonhy bi the Unisersity of Giottinge : at Lthe satie time e was pusing his work in Enilind and directing the great Geo- eraphical [ustitute of Justus Perthen ab Gotly In 1554 he cstablisbed the celebrated i ifthe: tungen, u muxuh:{ reslew, low vast Its forts- fifth volume, und universally revarded as the highest suihonty fn all mazters relative to geozraphy, 1n 157 he visited this country, nnd wus entertained by the New York Geographicsd oclety. ‘The thinl part of Hevued® Anthrupologie for Julv contains “Un- Essal de Classification des ilumaines Actunlies,” tar Paul Tuptnard, ‘The accompanying table furulshes an ides of M. Toplaanl's clussiication: slietchies wers published auonyinously, and va. Tious persous are suspecied us Lhelr author; wuong others, John Morley 16 named, Yale Colleze ordered of 8. C, UGriggs & Co. last week 100 coples ot Dr. D*Ooge's **Demos- thenes un the Crown,” and Harvard: Unfversiiy L0 copfes of Stevens' * Selsct Oratlons of Lysias.”" "The sending of Greelc text-books by Western authors and Weatern publishers to Easteru universities {s ratber reversing the old order of things, % . ‘The Spectalor praiscs very highly Mr. Mori- gon's ** Life of Givbon,” in the series of * En. £ifsh Men of Letters," aud sincerely hooes that MMr. Morison’s snecessors. Wil zo and do no worse thun ho has done,” Mr. Morison's itnme- digte suceessor was 2. IF, Halton, editor of the Spectator, who, duhis * Life of Sir Walter Svott, certanly did not realize Lits own hope. The Saturday Jeview says of Archbishop Treneh's lectures on Medieval Church History, nuticed by us lust week: * People will listen to a lecture, wud alterwards, thelr interest having ouce been uroused, witl go and read up for themselves, who woulds never otherwlse have thought o cniering upon the study of aich or eucli a aubject at ull. But when the spaken lect- ure whicts we hear but utice bas developed into the priuted hook which We cun read us mauy tinics as we like, wo nreupt to bevome consclons of un aliusiveness of styia and a thinness of }exlwuwnlw vrobably did not strike us be- ore. *(paza1a) 10 pasem) GOII9K £20.9 IWPIWII Qs 3w)p *(£9ic0n} 0033398 [SINAILLD WM y8p (1nSTeNy) nopavs 1wnalp qiek et te setves, Animals also pSharies Dudey Wariér makes gnme of the | Th inihuen g uuliton CollezeZalumnl who etected hitn cluss 2 v o - 3 fomitothist 1 kuowy AR L, Vi conRIsTINE of p-uiav. Lomtis Ycvmour, | 8 2 & H £2 e Lo G, iof Celebiets | Mr, Edward M. Smith. and Mr. Robert . Roose | & & 5 g g g3 e S e velt. Mors than 8,000,000 of shad fry were |4 5 = H GOl - 83 dar. Lo prouat tunied “foosa In the Hudson River, 1,901,000 R G o - T ‘;‘d BEWHA AULHO| Sl i youn:z ralmon trout wero disteinuted, and of the SdzaE- s ® o 23 % wwented, iy to v fellow | 300K tout—the species tn respect of which the Faisesa 53 F 2 S8 g slumni for v plulon, 1 could mukie | Juricy'ot ftort s heen exponded and fhe | « 5 2 2 3 & 8 & § 38 i St of wxhibiciun sgioe to plense theun— | s o anceens. 1 bitenine reached—nn g FiSc 5 FFE 5 3R E stund on wy heud, or o parallel bars,—but | gl niber were hate wod placed in - % ¥ 1 am not s poet, uud cable 81 Lic role, It s a5 fie various waters of the State. F E much as L can do to kppy iy prose from rup. | ! & pe ——— a niug wild.” ni“ }scinl‘,flt Ay‘mr an :ny! :!l'm tlin(e :r:-:l [ E; F3 E i 345 Ureant bad undeithcen boforo s death, | Jecle 86,15, oy * 4 Neeientls ket te, | © 53 Fz Toppare, an ediunfdl Shakapeare T con- | SLN proviied with an sumimstie vare o | 5 g Junctlon Wi Mr. Dustinck, wui thi ks s0on | 00 6 eantly illated and vet. hive ai] b fo 5 fo be publisied us a pitliniods work. T6 48 | §8000000¢ of savi utler that the husiie. o 5 s A G R e A b“n", meeessary to Auy dhat Mr, Bryant's share one would not atfect ¢ rest, woull protably 4???;.—1’»’: :" :‘?;."-lz=|fufa‘d'z":l pf i work wus fteudali wo be thie extremeiy | 100 S G enlclent & devies o6 e by | £S5 § 23FFIZPRERREERANER RS rosponsibie duty of Jovstiog aver the broows and | o A% & WS R coiaitions Lo bo met are few,— | FE2EE" " EFIIESo2EIRSLRERE bockediz u lavico harssol the profits. Ho did | Sy, tigluueus, vortabliitg, huovanee snd | S - 52 EREERics BoFL E3EEE s too oltew during bisllifetme, 1f his exees cheapiess, 10 thess were Talely well et B 2 13 BacEm g “PATe e ave foyreeurd fab bis reputation. they | §Slei Cley of New Tork waniid Turnish f £ &7 Bazts 3 will, it possiple, etob thils scandalous trafiic i market for thousands every summer. Lo - q 3 gAron it We kiiow thiat the use of his name n suen | arket for shousands cvees sun ample reward BES & uvonuection fa a truudtupon the pubtie: and | RN HCUE LA on th the erstitade of i g the Evening Poat, whichrcluuns to be o partleus lurly rigld ‘moralist, kuows tuis tvo. bLet us have dotic with the' protense, efther with the consent ot Mr. Bryant's tneuds or without it. A communieation, sigued. ** Autl-Critle,” in defense of Mr. Beuddar's book, “ Mwost an Enclishmuan,” wos orinted fu' the Joursal Wedpesdsy, The writer of {t assuined that Tue TrinuNe ewer hud not read the buok i question, Tuls wis un erroncous assump- tion, ‘The reviewer took palis ot to reveal the plot, because he wished o encourswro people to dlscuver It for themsclves; but he had remd the whols baok carefully, found much to adwiro fu it he was not suceessful In expressing this feellng 25 well 18 4 contrury one, L deeply regrets the funlure to do so. ‘Lo best test anybody can put the merlt of * Almost an. Eoglishinian 1o §s to buy it umd read it It 13 a Chicago hook, writ- ten by a inan of high endturo and attuinments, and ug such is well' worthy of individual judg- ment. But fu will be b0 uceept witi res- ervations the opinjons of ** Anti-Critie.” Hacdel's fondoess for Helne, whom he moted frequeutly to his pintual udviver, just belaro s executlon, has drawn fresn atteution to the nuture und fnflucyes o1 that writer's extraond.- nury teachinzs, “Urulved us teive was among free-thinkers who glortlied Voltaire uid Bows- seau, he spcedily fmbited the doctrines of those wen. Butafter ho hod taken u dewree i law b found fL necessary, o onder 10 peactioe, to relinquish hs taith and embrace Chirfitianity, Tus i did, giving s nis reason, *Athelsm become vulgar,® “The Teeqraph (Loudon) takes oceanion Lo say: 11k writhiws, scting upon the Boclalist tendencies of madern el "“"Y' have proved wot the wholesoms barm that leaveus the inass, but the burnte acud thae bltes sud corrunts, which In contuct with the atkalod base of impeefect wnderstunding lus castaed that effervexcence aud cbulitfon of the secthing atomns which take the furm of Bucladst Couse musbint, What result cun there possibly Lo Wl 8 youthtul imuzinition, allured by the seiduetive style aud ecntimental pathos of a writer like Heine, {3 roused 0o svmpsthy with cutire community.” Scientitically speakiug, buzzing fs the faculty of juseets to brocuce two sounds at an octave, M. Joussct de Hellesice, wha has recentiv besn nvestizating the vhenumena connected with buzzing, has arrived at koma conclusions whicl, If estabiished, will upset all the precenceived theories on tuut subject. o usserts that thene arc two simuliaucous suttids, one prodyced by the vibratlon uf the wings sud the other by the thoracie vibration, toe tutter twice us rapid us the former, nad, therelore, an octave, This s why fu Hiynt oalv a sele srave sound I8 heard, Wiien the thurax moves alono a sharp sound f+ produeed, This, M. de Bellustne believes, 1s the outy explanation that can be wiven of the I of production of the two sounds which cousti- tuts buzzing, A correspondent of Les Moudes calls at tlon to the fuct that butehers, thoueh they Lo pale aud thin when they enter on the husi- ners, quickly zain frastmess o colar, stoor ness, aml o Srally L'ullllurl?nlu look, It s u | v ‘ > ez = - = = = i =z I = =1 <> The Bickness and Duath of Oscar M. War- neok, af Chirago—Herolsm of His Devated Wile, Kinen Decense Tirw: TRIBUNE of O contained a apecial dispatehi from New Orleans announdng the death of Mrs. Werneck, widow of Mr. Oscar 1. Werneek, of Chicago, who died only u few days bolore. The following lettee 1o the Cineinnut Giazette gives u sadly futeresting sccount of the deathol Mr, W NEW OnLrass, Rept, 221 have juet buried a near aud dear friend. He was an ola enmrade and ex-Federal soldler by the name of Oscar 1.4 Werncek, He camne from Chicsizo 1o New Orleans but o few wonths since, and settled fn businessos an agent in cherge of u branch bouse of the tiem of Thompeon & Tuylor. Chi- cawo ts noted, and Justly so, tor her enterprisine bouses amed men, Bho lus nent ont few who did her tnoro credit, or better revresented an enter- pristug firm, than did OSUAR JI. WERNECK, He had much with which to contand asa pow cumner in che cstabilishment ol & business, o was nooe Lire Jess gradually obtalviog s footimr Iu bustness clrelea, Ho was, with bis funyy of & wile and two chlidren, wioliv anacclimated. e was advised nv bis friends, one and ul, to close up his business, or leave it in charge of another, andt seek satety fur the summer 1 some Northeru Jocality, He did not feel Ui self warrauted In leaviog his post, and hle wite refused to leave without him. ‘Ioev remained to brava the terrors of the scourge. They had & pleasant little home on Flrét street, near the corter of Mazuzine, It wus at once the centre of gulte s drele of freuds, Tie loe cation Is one ul the most pleasant, as 1t s also ouv of the cleanest In appearance, Jo the vty it 4s unfortunatzly, and stranzely enougn, s it would seens, for ull tisat, in one Of the fnfected diatricta, We were all of us—those of the fame oud i pure fletlon, of cottvee, that they put asdae the best portions ol the mest fod rhemselves, and it Is & known fact that tost of them Jose uppe- tite. “I'ie corruspondent nttribates ther gene eral well-belne o assimilation, through the rusplratory -passages, of nutntive julees of the meat volatilized 1w the ulr—a himl of yutrition Ly uffusion, 11 this be reabiva fact, it i argucd that young people, autlering from detivient or fmpure blood, and esnectaily ehitdren of a w ur lymphstic constitutton, mizht ho subjected with advantage to byelenlc trestwent based upou it. Oue of tho most singular resutts of late fn- vestizations is the establishinent of the fast that il the vist wmaws ol water, oiten npwurd of 2000 tutboms do thickness, below tho nentral baud is woving slowly to the northward, i i tae, the depths of the Atlantic, the Pacll and the Indian Oceans are vecupied by longues of the Autarctie Sed, preserving in the mam its charactess tenteratures, Tho nme- diato explanation of thid yery unexpected phe- nomenou seems simple. For somus case, ps the sufferings of the people, skillfutly depleted | ¥et not fully understood, evagoration i ereatdy | Uy friends that, though somewiat acelfimated, 60 88 to Works upun bis lechingat Forgetful uf | In excvss of pre. J:lmiunny:r the northern vor- | were oshanally from the North—purcivularly practicul consilerations, he reads only of the | tion of the laud hemispaere, while aver the | solicifous for this tamily salety. No, day when the Germans *will drive thel Monarety | Water hemisphere, parg southicen | too, wers all the mmediate neighbors, Taey scemed to fulely vio with cach other iy fouking after the strungecs fn thelr lst, ‘There was not aday In wiich some of us did nut call ut the place of buslaess, or Visit the family houe, "'ln:m Wis But 3 auv, searcely an Thus one gart clreutation of the ocean 1s carried the atmosplicre, tiw waler belug ratsed In yopor in the uorthern henisphers is barrted by upper wind enrreots to th xone of Jow baroiicLrie pressure tu the soutl, wh vitated fu the furm of snow or ralu,—& Wywiite Thomson at uhlin, The Loudon Times of 4 recent dato sa der the hoadlng of Vesuvius: At lase the 16 a prospect of the ralivay up Mount V tuthe pluce of exeeuslon und right Joyully be- | portion, ti bead bl SPARKS OF SCIENCE, . SUN-HEAT AND EAUTH-HEAT, The October number of tho American Nat- wralist (McCulla & Btaveley, 27 Dock strect, Philadelpbia) reprints from the Gesogicat ttay- azine n yaluuble articlo on * I‘llyilugruph; " by. hour, even, i which some _of the uershburs— sirauRers, o8ve In that God-tven feeling of ¥ympathy, that in times of desolation brings us sltogether—wero not makmz their (tiendly valls, or auxious, sollcitous Inquiriea at thy door, The thrcatening clond gradually grow thlcker aud darker. “Our fnends frow the C. Lloyd Morgan, ‘The article 13 too loug for vius beconuns a reality within a not verv North, fn commun \7ith othiers, wero dally more future. Tho plona submitted have been | Vot fnc Al use fu this vlace, but it puts some Important upuroved by the Dejuriment of Public W urks, SYRICKEN AND DYING ON EVENY HAND. Wo became, us it were, o 1itle baid, standing by aud siding and wssiativg cach other, Wo vared mostly for our oxu vk, aud burled our own dead. Qur fricad grave dally of bis mite with the rest. JUis w wistaken idva that nong but thuse wiu are stricken auwn are affected by the disease. Thu polsubons zerms srs i tha Yelus ol ull} all ure woru or less atfected there- by, Tue wife—a braver, truer hitle wowan conclusiuny In such u way that the force of theus way be readily pereeived. Summning up one branch of s lnjuiry, the writer says: Lot un paive_hiere for a muinent to see what wo bave leurut. Wu bave seen 1iat the waves waieh veat ugt our shores, anu denudo our coast-lugs, are dus the winde: thnt (he rivers which cul duwn trencace Into the earth are due t rai, wiick rouchi (o as vapur of wuaier hy the and the necessary *concession® has been made by the Profecture ot Nuples. It f# handly Becesaury Lo say that the carruires on this rall- way wil be drawn, not by a locomotive engine, Lut by & wire rope, The lue will ba double, ‘the rulls will be luld on on won frume- vurk auprurlcd by pillary, abo of fron. Tuy wilturs will be slx metres (@ hittle over six ond one-ball yards) avart, Aceording to the report Ja it winde: and we buve seeb thut both the forniation ¢ 2 ‘ ¢ o does not hvo—showed “the fret aud un- ut water-vupor,ud tho exteicuco of tho wiunde are | 1BV BBk bt wopeurd what the dewetls of | LT G PYESIUOLL e, TR, U e 10 suL- heal e, therviure, the that thy wealier shoulil be the strouger—ot 10 vards). The station ucur the suin 11 be 420 wetres (uearly 400 yarde) big tuau ut tho tuot of tus motntatn, which wives the veay steew gradicnts of oo o two, o aptiears to Lo little doubt that 1 s few montps the whole undertakibing will be cownleted; wid luture Visltors to Nunles will be uble to climb Vesuvius jo a leas fucdguiug muuner than w4t Prescnt ueceasary,' d My, Hall Las thatly 100s the Bames s Eton, Eugland. uaiiel thy weokly organization that seems 10 bost withstaud and throw off the eifects 0f thu pois- on, Blo was resohite withal, uud battled, so 1o wut ft, with right zood witl. It was the busbsug aud futber, bowever, that was ti brove the vie thw. Ho beean 1o complain of lusvitude and bieadache. e was, hko most of those unae quainted with the discase, wholly Jucredulous us tu 1ts approaces. He would adunt biumselt us sutlering only from the elliets of acold. Ho thought the cold would Is due tine wear Jtechi out. We could not persumds Ibw to take any of edd b the cualn of 0 tucide nd clay at the top of the Il wers buil up of mud uid suud grabue, carried down mechat s acally by rivers 1o the 3 und Liat the chalk bhay boew reuarated by livity craturce srom Uie wca: Water 1o winen the e bat carried down 1 olution by Fivers, Tao yuestion—tiow came this life upou’ the carth —now anecs, 1t will not, bowever, by dlscussed ber woush ta state 1hut 1t 1s alost universally believed by tuose come putenut to 2ive wn opinion. that all hife forus have cume nto Lo by o process of evoluting (rou adopted fur the two by Mr. Matan, of Lelmus for the vuter ¥ priuntive argauic germe. 1t wiay b poticed. now- tellite, und Plobos fur the unee satellite. | the ordiuary precautionyry remedics, much loes TO803 pussii only oy soinr o V8 aabuale be | Fedur uis oxtinuative Fovisw of. thu. suitous. b | bose eyt oy pocy Feliicdles, iy for we servaLions ol these miuute bodics with the great Waustunzton retravtor, bo alse deduves the elo- ments of thiely orbits, und vompages thent with those obtutued by other observers, Delinoa re- volves wtuuud Mavs in 12429 wean solar days, atd Puobos fu B934 of 8 day. Buth of taci inove very uearly ju tho plaue ol the equator of Mare. Tue bourly wotlon of Phouas, 33 scens frum the surlaco of Murs, 1s 479,045, aud on ac- count of its revid uugular wevenent, oud My nearness to thy blunct, this satellite wil present o slugular wdpearsuse to w0y lucubitauts vral days waut we terni o walklug cuse.” | saw Lim last at his place of bustiess on Friduy sbout novn. 1 persuaded liig, with vome duticuity, tu U to & Letehboriog drug etore and takv s buttly of maunesfa. The uext day, ou nakiug my daily call, 1 found thgt wy fricud was duwn with the fever. Alis cunc developed us one vl 1bo most desperate f have ever seen. Ho was givenu ghe custotuary fout-butl, with wus. tord, und put to bed with u fair atart, o the way of 8 berspiration. We souxat tu kesp up tad fluw theough tho hideral uss of fced l:*‘.:n- pend un plaute, directly or udireetly, both for the uod they €3t und (or Lie alr tiey Lreathe. b the ubatnce of sunligits plants would by unsvle 10 de- cowpust Lhe Vst quauliny of carbonle aeid which uniu breatho fortl; nud thus Hiea: source of care bou and wuF suures vl uxygen would ba cut ull. Whilo san-Acut cuables ram, rivers, aud the to douude the land and tu cuwolne In the formue 1oL uf Bew COntineule, suriiheal culte:s a frest -upul( of ;304 W b ruleed 8bOVE thy Wulers, o o+ 1leds Is tlowing vutwards through thy ceust Iito *pace; the covling of the earth 1s sccompauied by Cualzuclivi Of Lhy waas of tie war X unequdd { | adee, There tvas an early and nnnsual dispau- tion to nansea that prevented. early and desperately threatone DLACK vOMIT. We could nold it in check only by keeplnz a gz of ice about the neck. Justly fearfal of congestion of the bratn. must needs resort to cupping and leeching, and succeeded in warding It off. to 105. The flaw of nerspiration could not bey Wa resorted to the expedient of rubhing the person with lemons. and used in thin way probanly ten et rid of the black vomit, cosstant- My fricnd was The fever ran up to a large dose of Twenty grains were aaministered for th: cuplons operations of purs Wo beqan to iope @ reckoned without fend was falrly filled with poison, lack vomit were t that we were well rid of tt, Wi our host; vur frl We got rid of ¢ in all something liki Y b was lett, withal, cumparatively strong. y that was simply wonderful. ol the fever; we were rid, e wo boped, of the black vomat: ‘'our feiend had stlil 8 goud deal of strength, malntaineld through all the possession of his right mind, hope that all would yet be weil. however, still lingered s P tion; the man began 1o gradually siuk. The devoated little wife could not be induced to leave The doctor, the nurs strave in vain Lo persuade her so to do. not matry that nian to leave bim when he waa dying."! “That was the end of It us far a3 s was concerned. Shie sat by the bed: upan the side of ft: atded M every offort, and adiminlse everything with her own hands. devotlon, such so utter disrerard of selt, ‘The last night in that slek room It was the night of yeloped a Kllnl(t here was no recuy wun never be foreotten, Wednesday following the taking dowa on the mght of the previous Friday. A PATAL sioN, 1 returned from my supper st 8 o'clock. patient, though percentibly faiing, i He avas betng fed with snemas af stimulunts, He was troubled with biccough. It ta one of the worst sliens followine vessatlon of the fever,: It arises from thy tullure of the secretive organs to take up and carry off the urine. The suppression of tho s one of the final and necessarily facul nta of the dleas must pour down the champagne, the good work ws a sort of lorlorn hope. The wite still remalned at her post; she watched our evers move witn jealous care. Onee, only, wus ghe [n anvwise doceived, w up s small msss of bluek vomit. a nelehibor, a veritable ininfatering augel In her way, that stood by the ed of the stranier to Lue last, caught it fu her hand and suatehed fo she did It that the wife might not sre.thut shestill might hope to the uuticeessary prevation. vutiiit, thut terrible, disgusting, liviog corrup- tivn, impossible to deacribe, was thrown up, und once, horrible to see. upon the verv bosum of Brave little woman. she boru up throuzh alt, and #till clung to lioe, toctoe had told her that f her’ hushand passe tae intduiihit hour, and mors particuluely if he Mugered unul 3 o'clock,there wight be x chaace, e stnply hoped to uvercome the auppressivn of the urine before that time, tched the banda of the hittle clock Twelve o'clock came; she waited until taere came the curroborating tunes from the bell of a nelghborlug chure £aw her heave a sigi of of hope frradtating the face. thme, however, hnd not brought about the It was the same Oar friend th the devoted wife, upon the manteltree. , aud naw the lizht The lapss uf hoped for result. the cloch muve the hour of 2. Doctor’s woras, and to the fond belief that thers was zood gronnd T ud ot the Lieart to undeceive her. ‘Tuo suots, nlas, she came to seu and ferd ths stern reallty,—her husband and our friend was dving, He ltugered and grudually sunk uway i As the clock was but Just done atriking. I carrled the wife und wilow Tatniing from the roum aud delivered her to the neichboring lad in thue tu sce the MUSE APPALLIXG S1GHT Over the fuce of the dead pussing the shades of transtiguration., *Bronze Johp,” that dread phantow spectre of the Sunth, was painting bty ae: ece the shisdes, one after the other, ns from the 1u but a little more than it tudes to tell It, the face, the shoulders, and arme were as though molded in polishied bronze. ‘Titere followed In suy tiventy minutes more o #feht tar more appalilug still, From the wouth, the nuse, the cars, and even tho eyes, oozed vut . Qur fricud. white living even, lad been but as o mass of At noon, but five hours from the Umie of his breathiux lils Juat, the Lody was found #0 horribly decompused that it was with - pt [ slinve wiille beine placed ! course neither wifs nor chitd could be perantied to see 1t niore, . The collln was ut Of A udeessity, bermetieally sealed. w'elek Iu the evening we deposited v In the {fur the thine waa done. The s in walting, 1 have ever tehold, artlat’s Lrush. ¥ault, aud vur wo, nonsy i3 helug sinfected cleaned, The widow and anwhile, are under tho care of Muv God puard aud protect them, and aullcnce which Lus cken down the hustand und (ather. =, BUTLER AS A SANITARIAN. To the Luvtor af The Tribune. Ticumonny, Ind. Oct. L. reeently miven to the pupers through his inter- slewer hils theory of the vause of yellow fever, aud what he did at New Orleavs aud Norfolk 1o Twus counizant of certain fucts during the War toat leals me to tellese that his theory as an unprofesslonal e entitled to ureat consideration. In Séptember, 1333, yvel- low fever appeared in Newberne, N, C., brought there, [ 1s eand, by fufocted clothing, u schemo of the celebrated Dr, Blackburn for decimating our reguuents. Orders were issued linmediately Butler, I sunpuse, as he was ut that time I conunand of our depurtwen: requirlng every camp to be thurougnly ol every vuult ursink tw bu covered, and new ones Disinfectunts weru to be uved The greatest carv wus undered in ree et two littie eblldren, tien. Butler has gunl to the food and cleanlingss "ot the soldler, lhe beddinz and blavkets were to be tho 1v aired overy day, done to Kiep i In fact, evervthing , N ns swest au was that, thouch we liad nearly us diers at_ Newberne s th TN —~out ol citizeus to oue soldier had he face of the fuct that we were unaeclimate ed und away from home aul comtorts. sceitis Lo e Lthat Lhat expeniones s ous polat in favor of cleanlineas. 01 Sccoud Aruliery Mase, Vol » 4t Newoeroe, Nuw Yorx, Scot. 25— Editor os the Journal of I visited Beach Haven, Ocean Coun. . . lost week, sud put up al the Parry House, kent by Darnell & Busboy. ts five miles from the main land, and roached by the good oid steamer Harkley, ou the shore | tound a dead turtlo. feet suven fnches lony, und weizhed 550 pounds, News rapidly spread, and all the town peopld rusbed down to sce tho monster. borics was sent for, avd @ strong rope tastened around it, but it could only be moved up on shore us the Leavy swell lifted it up & few feet, At lenzth the rovs parted, and the job was A Lutchier was seut for and tbe shell tuken ol the back, The shell will be prooerly vreacrved wnd wept for shilitaeers bext summer. Shortly atier unuther turtls coms on shore with {18 back badly danaged by sume vassiow steam- e, AU uld sult says they camo from Hondursy and flyated uos on the” Guif Streaw, avd no doubt Losy wero tates. ties ot all apecles, bus these are the largess I eyer beield fu suy part of the world, While walking bave seeu many tur. To & correspondent who osks why exploriog cxpeditions ure uut sent to the South Poiv, tns Scantifc American auswers thuas o Polo 14 more usceessivle thuu the North Pule. 16 fv uow 1 th glacil stage, [t e Souator Jones. . Senator Jones, of Nevada, wus worth $3,000.- 000 whicn he wenk (o Wbl peuditure ud © it a1 poor uiat, gion, but frve vz~ kuge ' bud wlmogt wado the *sferra Nevada silver winng stock bouuced up irow 5 1o 2, U Lo §s uzain sand 10 bo s anilhonaire, e et ——— Nlzbt before lust a fanbly wau oy West 'Hilt veepad vut of the bali-ds s{tting u by wovnlight talklug w ol eldest dauzuter. The old wan made a rusn; twe youug man drifted out 1uto the surabbury, and. | a8 die weut over, thy pater made suut and kicked. Taen no carrled tue bouse on vuv fuot, ul 4 und called tor witch-hazel aud wruie, uud yulls ed * Emcine! What gocs tuat vouu, biwmscll wr? Aud Eweling saud, ** And shic and Ferdinaud luugied about it the - uext wgut uuell the meul Weot dowh—- Lurdatte, « W 4 youin ! 1 | at dowa wind went,