Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 9, 1878, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY. NOVEMEER 9, 1878—TWLLVE PAGES. un' and *Jacnues Io Fatallate,"” had great vogue in thelr day, ond the former atill has o conslderabile sale, Nelther shows nuch power of invention, and hoth ars written with a heavy hand, Hicsides, Diderot wrote, for more than twenty years, criticlsms of tho paintings ex- hiblted fn the Salon, This was perfiaps tho most_adinfrably liternry work ho did, and it should not be forgotien in any estimate of his character, Mo was, ahove all” things, n critle, perinitted, “*Are you prejudieed”? ssgs Baron Patriee to hifs_ 4 tor when ndvoeating the marringe. 1 am not. 1 belong to my ventury, and one onght to belunz to hiscentury. A great philosopher, with waom I entertsin agree- able relations which contribute to the hapniness of my life, sakd to me the other day: *Every- where Is to be heard the sound of sabots mil- vaucing and of varnished boots reireating.’ Nothing ean be more true; thess people are ad- As been traced to Burs & Q" Third Berles, vit . 276, T ahoald be obliged If one of your eorrespondenta wonld compsre this tranala- tion of Johnes' with the orizinal text. ——— PERIODICAL, LITERATURE. The North Amsrican lteview for November— December hax the following table of contents: Noun, Mr, Prononn, Mr, Adje:tive, aund the rest have theie little quarrels before Judge Gram- mar, and be adjudicates them all os seems to him most fit. ~ Sergt. Parsing fs the principal advocate In court, Mauy of the rules, and ex- ceptinns, and 1lfostrations are jngcniously put Inthymes, (New York: llenry lols & Co. rice, $1.25.) We have recetved the deacriptive eatalogue of LITERATURE. “piderot and the Encyclo~ pedists,” by John , M p . | Mesars, flougnton, Oegood & Co., contatning | *The Government of the United States.! by Morley. | A8 well when e was wrling Tolnces 0 D | the warhd a3 charnins cincs, v Eraits | L "(:u_mhln!b lits of the two old houses. 1t | Horatio Beymour; “Bystems of Offensc snd on . Eneysiopmatar o thfs fact 1a th | it butone meamn of nrolonutg her existence: | G4 13 pages, | The books facluded touch i | Pefense in Naval Warfaro, by Hobort Pashay be ' atyribmted the port he played | it isto marry new France; tor, as to burying | £Y¢rydeparcment of human knowledge, “The Congress of Berlin and Its Consequen- s doubtful whether any other publistung firm in this country can asaleveler and destroyer at a time when the 3 Leraelf in_her rearcts, it is a viilainous Imrlnl‘ tmiwarks of superstitiun and tvraniy In Franco » s and n tomb ouglit at. least to be comlortable," S0 bYan Did Djslomarsls, < Jenew ggd tue ow & higher standard or & # Jean Toterol’s Idea,” the New Western Pawers,” by Matsuyaina Makatos " Dot needed tohe pulied down. Hut the crit- | T this naesnze wo have nearly the pnllosonhy | WOre varied taste, b i by 3 i Novel by Victor Cher~ T e it ot fhr its bost exorcs- | of M. Chorbuiies imaetl: and, ao fay 18 'edenn | The solectlons used by Mr. A, P. Burbank, of | The Finsucial Resources of New York,” by buli ston in formal Jfterary composition. Jt was In | Teterol’s liea ™ can be sald to have a motive, It | thincity, in his public readings haye heen prini- William 1t Martin; “The Public Health," by Juliez. the wrting of art ariticisms that ho was at | fa hereln expreased. Nobody necds to be told | ed by Dick & Fitzgerald, of New York, {n chean Elisha Harris, M. D.; * Pessimiam In the Nine- teenth Century,!” by Samuel Osgoml: ntip- athy to the Négro,” by James Partons * The Emperor Hadrian and Christisnity,” oy Ernest Henau; Contemporary Literature. Mr. Scy- mour’s article wos written, we cannot help thinking, with one eye to its cflcct on his future political movements, It s, for sll that, a thoughtful and well-considered discusaion uf the -uh{ccl, und its optimist tendency Is decidedly in the right direction atthe present thme. ~Mr, homne, His criticisms conaequently have re- watned at anen the admiration and the despalr of ort-crittes ever alnce. Until Theophile Gau- tler pobody had arisen who coulil be called n competitor with b, **His speclal gift," cays Mr. Morley, * was Lhe tranaformatisn of scien- ifle criticism Into something with the chnrm ot Nterature, o o+ o+ Therears few othercom- pusitiona in European literature which show so well how critisin of srt may ftself becomaa that M, Chierbultez hias told bis story weil: ani, thoueh he has lingered less than we might de- sire aver the love-making, which, so for asit zoes, Is ateractive and pretty, he has offcred eempensation in the simplicity and quickness of thu action, which never flags nor_provokes the reader b;,lmncct’!ury delay, (**Jean Teterol's Idea,” From the French of Victor Cherbulicz. :\'Ylilnmpn'(}ullecllnn of Foretgn Anthors, No. XIV. New York: D, Appleton & Co. Price, 'mnnhlzl. form, They are not (ntended for use in the sckoolroom, but for readings in publfe or privato by professionals and sinateurs, The author claims tor his selection only the merit of public appruval, The pleces he "has collect here are the most ponular in his uwn repertory. “The Shaughraun,” * Rip Van Winkle,” and 4 Mark Twain," are some of the most jmporiagt sources drawn upon. Orations and Addresses of Rufus Choats "—~Qrove's Diction- ary of Music, " : 3 e Srt ey follows Diderst to the 11 g | W cente) LITERARY NOTES. Seymour i# quite rizht [u saving that ¥ poltical ho Use of Pain in Kature~Pollution of | 5N eviur, shere ho ird tho priviiege. of Prot. Muxley will soon tell us what e thinks | partics are in public affairs whiat Jolin Doe and RUFUS CIHOATE'S ORATIONS. ‘The fame of Rufus Choate is not growing. It depended largely upon his persunal Influence ond presence. Wihen these were gune, there Itichurd Roe wred to be in_ legal proceedings,— fictitious names tu concesl the real actors, ~We are too apt to eatisly our consclences and biind ourselves Lo our owa neglect by ralling ot them, As partles embrace the whole povulation, why of llume In tie ** English Men of Letters.” William Winter pablshes * Macbeth ' in his serles of prompt-books of plays as presented by Edwin Bootl, 8t. talking dally with his patron, the famous Catherine, aml slapplog the knecs of her Im- erlut Majeaty, to ber great delighit, preelscly as I she were n man. ‘Thence Diderot returned to Ruoning Streams.-Science Notes and Gossip, Parls, to pass a short time In inefTectual labor | was comparatively little to sustaln it. If con- % not say that the American people hive heen cor- and to dle. It bia Iife-work were sumtied up In | temporary evidence can be trusted, Mr. Mra. Fanny Kemble Butler's forthcomin€ | rupted, or made extravagant, or indifferent to LITERATURE. flfi.’.'{f.‘,';"rfi?."m":":fifi';'..'..".L?.""flcu“.';“fi".fl'h'.l.'“i Clioata's_mali rollance waa his delivery. Ho | book, Reeordn of My Girlhood, " s sunvunced | thelr ubileations as cltizenct Fhat It wint the e i ! e {7 0f uture hifatorfan will sav ol hiis pe )’ {3 PILEROT, rertaa be awarded the hizhest pratse, ¢ | Paid no attention to thearts of composition, | 0§ Bentley, of Londaa, e s oncaer iy ayn i iscassiing the tore Hia written stylels turgid, verbose, and declama- tory. Sometimes it {s even obscure. We can smagine that, In the full sweerfof his zlowior not be said of hin that be used all bis giits Lo the best advantage, or that his victues were inconiparably greater than his vices, But 1t would be remeinbered to hils credic that he 8. C. Uriges & Co. havo just off the press the fortieth thousand of Prof. Mathewa' * Getting Oninthe World,” and the fourtcenth thousand of Diderot had the comprehensive taste of Goethe, withont lifs genfns. There was nothiniz that ho did not affect to do, and comparatively little pedo question: * ¥ will give your readers sonic of my experienee (n them, which, if not Jarge, s perlinpa more than that of most persons.™ His v} a , “ s opinlon is that they were - comparntively it ne Qi well, ttin Micrary form was bad. | did ns wich as anv oo uf his age o frce nis | 14 velioment dlsconrac, all dhess defccts would lils *WWonds: Thelr Use s Abure." S alure In the Tate . war, % Eve Tils style was rambling, diffuse, and suverfieial, § colburvuen 0 lenoranice’ and super- | disappear, Emphanis, gesture, amd peuse | Dickens' complete works have been printed In | in the Danabe, falire [after failure ue- Dizreaslons were his favorite' means of reliut | SHUO r ul“ls g vl totaven, i 'm‘llllfl mkm ntllm understanding of his 1;vmrs- this country in twenty-four. different editions, | curred tn the Itusslan torpedo attncks: and iy s he en v 3 esperats ¥ from o trying or il-digested subject. But bo | tha® Jurpassed bls fonducss for otfier and make his mesniug to them ssplain 88 | Bunyan’s “ Pllgrim's Progress ™ In over sixty, | the Black Sea, thouzh many desperat:and care- the noonday sun. But these alds cannot, up- fortunately, be given to the readerof his printed speechess and, wanting them, the attention is paintully tasked to follow lis Jone and Jabortous sentences to the end. ‘The volume of * Ora- tions aud Addresses'? just putuished by Litte, Brown & Co., of Boston, contatns many sen- tences more than & page in Jength, several cx- tend over two pages, and one covers nhearly four, Wo have just spoken ol these aentences a3 *‘laborious.”” They are truly £a In tho scnse tully-organtzed attacks were made, not one “T'urkish vessel was Injured it any way whatever by them, With ahundant eleetric letits and netting, ships at anchior will, Hobart Pasha be- Haoves, tn the future e able to prevent tiost torpedo attacks. fut 8 fs admitted that vessels under weigh, and partfcularly blockuting squad- rans, tmay be dreadlulls harassed by laree num- bers of torpudo vessels, choosing thelr own time and weather, Inge dastes out of the blockaded port. \We are unable, in the lirited 1iad, with all this, some qualitics that made him fizure in Hterature a hundred years ago, und that atill commend nlm to the atteutlon of readers of historv., e had & vigorony, intense, and generous spirit, [1e industry was unbound- ed. Mis seholarship was, If not accurnte for his own day, profound for vurs. Beshles this, Diderot was a leader In an intellectual move- went which left a deep mark in Europe. Tho and De ¥Foe's * Robinson Crusoe™ In over (ifty. Prof. J. R. Beelye's "1afe and Times of Steln” s now ncarly ready In England. It treats of (ferman history between thie death of Frederick the Ureat and the French Revolution of 1830, TheRev.W. M. Baker brings out hia next novel, 4‘The Virginlans (n Texss,” In * Harper's Li- miore entlcinyg pursuits, Ilo had a grand per- severance; only he persevered in utiempting oo mnuch. The Eneyclopmdin, 50 far as it was reaponsible for the Revolution, did a good syork, fumado the way clear for e, peucenble declnra tlon of the Righits of Man, and If the declur: tion, when it came, was not peaccable, the Ei cyclopredia was not blamesorthy for that, Mr. Morley’s “{ifo of Diderot,” which we have hero foflowed, 18 it to rank with his lives of ** Voltalre* and * Ronsseay,” cach of which " 4 brary of American Fictlon. He still adneres, ce at comt) ake further extracts Eucyclopedin took tho shackles off human | Gas nearly perfect in its way.' As the ground | G ey ..hf“fll",méh“mfi,' T or2i B0 | fu'tho loeality of bis novels, to Soutbern Iifc | Pl L U R GO e opinfon 88 no other agency .could have done. mxlm: over s partiaily the same in oll three | picy of the | author. Jile feeundyry | avd sceners. Heview, Tt Is wuiliclent to say that it is n every cases 1t fiest exposed ond then wounded fn a vital part {he evclesinaticnl system of France, It atruck s fatal blow at the principls of orfginal su- thonty In Civll Government, on which the tgranny of the French King and nobles had been tollt up. The Encvelopzdia owed every- thing to Diderot. He conceived the plan and exccuted it. 1e had valuablo ald from D'Alem- pert in tho Drst seven volumes,—ald without which the work might never have begun. But he carried it on when D'Alembert abandoned it, and bo at all times gave it its distinetive choracter. 1t wns ho who glorifled labor in its pazes, who visited the workshops, directed the engravers, nud throurh them preached a etter anaterinllsm thon the world had ever known, It was he, arain, who advocated the Lockian philosophv, and so attacked the basls of saperpaturatism. My, John Morley, in s new Jite ot Diderat {(page 110), thus descrives thie broad features of the speculative revolution of which the Encyclopedia was the outeomao? The tranalilon from Descartes to Newton meant the_deflnite_ substitution of observation for hy- pothesis, 'The exaltation of Bacon meant the . vaiice from aupernatural expianations to cxplana- tions from experienca. Tho accebtance and de- velopment of the Locklan ‘ruychulogy meant the reference of our ldeas to hodlly wonsntion, and led men by whitt they thonght a tolerably divect path to tho identification of mind with the functions of matter, » ‘This is not all, or nearly all, that the Encyelo- pedia did; but, it 1t had” doie nothing mote, It would have an historical value even In these aays, when the practieal knowledgze it sought to teach lies Mke 80 much dead lumber on tho abiclyes of o few great lbrarles, ‘I'hie oug thing that Diderot needed to mako his life ¢qual to his opportunitics was coucen- tratlon. He scottered miuch faster than hie could gather; and he wasted not merely his money, but bis time. Not that .Diderot conid . be called an {dler, The bulk of his collected works forbids such a sayfng. But hio pernitted Lls epmypathics oud tastes to direct in such o degree the work he should do; and be yiclded so readlly to tnpresalons of different or oppo- site kinds, that fio made no grest progress in upy direetion. lle waos not o speclalist, fe Wwas ot even a faster in any departmont of kuowledze. Many of bis articles Ju the Ency- clopmdin were based on the most superticial Information, Others were complliations from one or two well-known sources. Buel work would not bo permitted fu nu{ of the Encyclo- pidias of the present day, Mr. Morley sums s, Lhe author brings tothis work the frults of « futler preparation and mora mature refiection than Yo had tu bestow on cither ol the others. At oue or two points, as ln the quarrel between Rousseau and Diderot, the subjects actunlly touch, hut‘ on the wiole, the clashing fs ver! slight. Mr. Morley biss manazed them with consummate skifl, particularly in marking tho separations between them. 1fls method s to collect nll the matenal that helps to myve Indi- viduality to the man vl whom le writes, snd to lat slip all the rest. Bo lio wives Diderot with all lis thoughts and feelings, and as littlo ns poseible of Diderot’s work that rellected no personality. He endeuvors to uave Diderot, ns far as possible, deacribu hlmsell through his work. ~ llis written words are collvct- ed and arranged, mna put where they tell of the busy man that once uttered them. It would hardly be possibie for Mr. Morley, with his knowledgo of the subject, to write n dul} book about t4 but he has done much more than to cscape this censure. ile has actunlly written a blugraphy of Diderot which ipresscs one as contalning all that can well be zald about hym, which teils his storv fu s lucd and frref- ragable way, and lets_in a whols flood of light on the orizins ot the Revolutivn aud the strug- gle. of Hacerdotallsm _and Utlstarianism in Franco, (** Diderot and the Encyclopdists,’ By John Morley. New Editlon,” New York: Beriboer & Welford. 8vo.) Three gold medals wero sllotted to Amoricn at the Parls Expositfon tor excellent printing and bindlng, and tall to Messrs. Appleton & Co., Messrs. Lipnincott & Co., and the Hiver- side Press respectively, M, Bayard Taylor's * Life of Goethe,” which {s opproaching publication, will contain Impor- tant material pitherto quite unknown to En- clish readers. Much has . been gathered from oral testimony at Welmar. The great popularity of agd demand for “8onues of Yosterddy,” by Bcnénmlu F, ‘Taglor, has obliged the publishers, 8. C. Grigga & Co.. to bring wut a new edition of thut work, which will be ready in about two weeks. Miss Blanche Willis Iloward, the autbor of “One Summer," will hereafier live in Stutt- e hos taken the place of the late tu, the poct, as adltor of a fortnigltly ecleeite journal printed in English, which hos ' large circulation on the Coutinent. “Allow me to present you with one of my oeme.? aaid Bwinburue to the Malor. “Thanks, muchi I wever read povtry, but 1 shall give it to my daughter.'’ "**Ah, excuse me. but It I8 hardly "the tuiug to put into the hamds of an funoceut-minded female,” “In taal case,” sald the Major, #1'1l band It to my wilett—London Man o the Worid. The Soringileld Kepublican quotes the follow- Inz dellcious nute from the ** Annotated Edi- tions of Goldswith's *Traveler,)” W which tue subjact 1s brought down to the level of the low- est antelllzence: t Amphibioue o« o means, strictly, sble tive but‘n in water and in sir. The ’Ilu!m, 4‘101 courst, cannol do this, bat " —ric. Harper & Brothers try an_luteresting experi~ ment in tssutng Willfam Black's new novel, v Macleod of Dure” in three editlons, cloth, &LI0, in the uutiorm library edition: paner, () cents, ulso with the (lluatrations of tle distin- (shed-artists who have atded Mr, Black: and n the-Frankiin Square Library, without the 1 lusgrations, at 10 centa. - This will give a dircct teat of the influcuce vf tha cheap llbrares vn volume sults, Anan offsct to the unfavorable apinlav of Mr, Taylor's * Between the Oates,” quoted lnat week from the Safurday Heview, the following extracts from other London papers are worth printing: It is niore true In color and perspective than s photozrsph, and by one of ths greatest word pafuters In tho world. — Zrubner's Americun und oriental Lecord, Lowdon. and fluency aro surprising, They spolled his written style by overburdening it” with words, ‘Ihe_assuctation” of Ideas carried bim forward rapidly from polnt to point, and, as his metwory uf words never falled him, hu plted purases to- Rether in conlusion, The oratlons in this volume which have the most historical valuo are thoss relating to Danlel Wauster. Mr. Choate was the principal suesker to Lhe resolutfons of respect introduced before the Cirenit Courl of the United Statea for the Digtrict of Massachusetts; he also dolly- ered the oratlon in memory of Webster before the alunl of Dartmouth College, and the speech at the Webster diuner Jun, 18, 1859, at the Revere House, Hoston, ‘Thess speeches are interesting_reading, Mr, Choata’ had full knowledge sud sppreciation of the subject. 1his own expaerience, both on the slde of the Bar and publlc life, was more in the line of Mr. Webster's than that of auy other mun. Ile was, morcover, a warm partisan, as one should be to eulogize fn fittinz terms a pun‘y man. ‘That hie overcstimated the services of Webster to his country will not perhaps be sald. The debt of gratitude which 18 owing for the reply to Havne and all Webster's efforts in the same dircetion caunat Hehtly bo paid, Bat we should hove been pleased to think of Mr. Choate as less enthuslustic in defending Webster's course on the tanil question aud s curious term of oftice under_ the spostate Tyler, It should be remembered also that the great efforte of Webster in favor of the Unltedl States Bank and agaluat the United States Bub-Treasur were futures, and deservedly 8o, Posterity will not, whatever contemunorury writers may say, palut his churacter 1o hues of a sinzlu color. ‘fhe vther orations In this volume cover such different subjects as **The Lmportance of Iius- trating New Eogland ilistory,” © The Annexo- tion of Texns,” and *“The Judichal Tenure," Next to the Webster speeches, those on New Euglaud history have themost permanent value. ‘T'he first one, However, O the Need of Illus- trating New England History,” exhibits more werfully than any other the lneflicloncy of Mr. Choate's literary atyle. The political addreases — are miuch © better fn thefr wayi but they wers hastily preparcd, aud the subjects of which they treated had unly arelative fmportunce. ‘The spectal fsvucs which confronted the neople of Buston In 1830 were superceded soon alterwards, and the Wor declne- ed on different grounda; though It fs true that the greneral Issuo remnined the same, the dis- cusslon of v nfter the repeal of the Missourt Compromise must have procecded {n sunother way. On the whole, this collection tempts us to respect worthy to rank with the other numbvers {ssucd by thie new mansgement, The Princeton Rev'ew for November Is more than ever a high-standard pbilosuphical, theo- logical, aud scientific perlodical, as the follow- fug table of contents will show : * Natlonul Mor- alits,” by Edward Freeman, D. €. L.; * The Rights und Dutics of Science,” by Princinul Dawsun, McGill Unlveesity, Montreal: ¢ Phi- Lusouhy aa ScieatiaSclentarun, isiRobert Flint, ). D.3 *The Euryoean Equiliveiuin,” ov ‘Theo- dure 1), Woolsey, D. 1. *Copyrights and Pat- ents,” by Loone Levl, F. 8. A, ete.; “ Man's Place in’ Nature,” by Prof, Joseph Le Conto, University of Cullfornfa; * Dutles of Higher Toward Lower Races,” oy Canon Ucorge ltaw- Hnson; *Eclipses of the Sun,” by Sitnon New comby, LL.D, 3 The Revent Hplar Edlipre,” by Prof. Young: “ A Criticisin of the Crltical Phi tusophy in Reply to Prof. Mahafley,” Ly Presl- dent. MeCoshis " Physiologica) Metaphysics,” by President Yorter, Harper's Mayazine for December will contain Gen, Chetiaine’s long-promised articie, in which the story of the famous Ied River Colony is told, This colony, consisting of 260 persons, was brought over from Bwitzerland Ingsll, un- aer the auspices of Lurd Selkirk, takings what waa then known aa the north route, by way of purason with witleh those of the Vilerim Fathers were light, nnd finally, m 1826, it fefy the Ittver country and caine down the Miesisslonl to othe (inlena lead mines, whers the descendants of the first colonists are Fil living, Gen, JEAN TETEROL'S IDEA. Jean Teterol was a foundling. It was rumaor- ed that he owed bis existouco to a commercial traveler and the mald-servant at an fun. At any rate, he inherited from some quarter strauge notlons of cuterprise, aud lie was a faithful worker. IHe was nsalstant.gurdener for the Baron Baligneux. One day, when Jean Teterol was 18 years of age, he bad aquarrel with hia emplo; The Baron declared that his assist- ant-gardever was cripplivg a pear-tree with his villainous pruning-knife, und order2d Wim to wo and et the shears, Jean Teterol roplied qulet- 1y thar hounderstood his buaincss, and that in some cases tho pruning-knife was better than the shears. ‘The Baron got angry, and bezan to abuse Jean Teterol. The latter anly whistled. The Baron thereupon kicked bim. That kick was _momentous, It set the whole being of Jean Teterol in comwmotlon. 1le guzed at the Baron with terrible cyes, from waich ony, and he is perhaps more coinpetent than auy other to write fts history, The narrative prowises to be one of unusual fnterest. In Jounary next the Literary World (E. H. Hawmes & (0., Boston), which bas been publish- ed a8 1 mopthly for mors tuan elght years, wili he changed to & jortnlichtiv, and will thereafter appear under date of every other Haturday, ‘The subscription price will be ralsed from $1.50 to §2 8 vear; bul the price of single_coptes will be reduced frum 15 cents to 10. The general character of the paper will remain unchanged. We alneercly hope it may have an fncreased pat- ronsge and ‘reputation. L is oue of the most try, und now Includes {n’its Net of contributors many of the best nanes fv Auierican literature. The Penn Munth'y for November contains the usgut revlew of the month, s ereat part of which I8 deyoted to foreien topiea: © How the Taron Got Lim & Wile," trunslated from the up bis estimato of Diderot’s character. fn this | Streated vears of ravo; then ho suddeuly ran | WO S8 M B S0 ST SO0 An o pleture of nien and manners. and of won. | Gernian by the Hev. W, Il Furncsa: & The mrulp endid talents, Lt was tho art u’l” pru- | At first be thought of burning tho chateau of | {uuubly wus—I{s affected by the sstae ‘u‘;’:&m"n Tamoue gates 46 els COrEA R ing. ce by Josepls 0. Rlehardson, S o T ent management lio had not learned.” “flu | Balizucux. But ho declded ft would be better | cuuses that make the nctor's fame tomporary; | MEORE0 W0 IO 0. | ‘wases LY Soaepl A ey " Rovert Elils zave frecly ot everything ho posscssed, asking uothing fo return; ond, 88 Is ueually the casy with peraous of his temperament, bio recelved 1o moro thav he nsked for. Those who owed ths most to bin treated him with tho basest ugratitude **In oue casc, writes Mr, Mor- legy * ho nad taken o great deal of troubls for oy of these needy opl unfortuvate clients; hud given khn munéy snd advice, aud haa de- voted much time to “serve lim. At the cud of thetr last Interview Diderot vscorts hts depart- ing friend to the head of the stafrcase, Tne grateful friend then nsks bim whether be knows natural bistory, ¢ Well, not much,’ Diderot replice; ¢ L know an alow from s lettuee, and a piceon from a humming-bird,! * Do you know P'rof.’ Rovert Ellis Commervial Futur o *Gaddings with n ‘Thumpson: o review of Primitive People,™ ete. We laye recelved the American Law Reyister, for Uctober: Viel's Zioutrated Monthiy, for No- vember; the American Anf'quarian (Stephien 1D, Pect, Unfonvlile, O.), for July, August, aud Sep,oitibers the diner'can Naturaiat (257 Dock street. Puiladelphils), for November; the dmere lean Catholic Quarteriy Keview tor Octohers; thy Sanitarian (37 Lafuveste place, New York), fur November; the J%armaest (73 Wabash ave- tite, Chicago), for Uctaber, and how far does the clannish splrit of the Bar give o fictitious value to lawsers’ specchcs. But thie Inquiry wauld carry us bevond reasona- blo bounds. We must rofor tuoss who desire to exatue further tho sources of Mr. Cloate’s fume to thls volume, whiclk, while it gives no couception of his greay cloquence and lepal faculty, will bo, at least for thuse who knew tlny un agreeable reinder of the orator and tho tmait, (* Addreases and Orations of Rufus sctanz)e." oston : Little, Brown & Co. Price, 2,20, GROVIE'S DICTIONARY OF MUSIC: PART IV, te avoid the gensdurmes. Ile resolved to malke woncy, get on an equality with the Baron, and ruvenge himsclf, Ha went to Paris, put his foot literally on tho bottom rune of tie judder, and mounted up. e, was ilrst a hod-cariler, then & inason, next u master, nally o bullder, and, in the course of forly yeurs, a iulillonaire. Me returned to Saligneux in his okl sge with his millions ready for fnyestment. Tho uld Ba- ron was dead, nid hle son had suceerded to the catates. Lhis son was u speudtbrift. o had suld lialf tho cetates in parcels to vatlsly the demands of his inlstrosses. 'The other half was heavily Incumbered. Jean Teterol bouglit up, the Tfirst ball in a few years, sl Edmond About uses 8 sharp pen 1n sketching M. Dupanloup, the late Bishop of ¢)ricans, in the deademsy : **Born In Bavoy, the oftspring of a maid-servant at o villaze loh aud u bird of passagze who did not Lell bis name, this very mediocre rival of Bossuct and Fenelou dies ot the nge of 77, without leaving other thing be- hiud him than the repatation of belng on un- wearled avold. [le talked much, wrote fricht- fully, aud therc will remain of his nol a speech, nor & sermon, tora pumpliet, vo, ot one page, that posterity will be able to read with pleasure and profit.” ‘The foct I8 that Freoch llnu-n.unsi like tha BOOKS RECEIVED. ubout the sormics e f Nol Well, ft | addressed imsclf to the tusk of “getting the The fourth part of Mr. Georgo Grove's * Die- | best French socluty, is less distioctively uation- | Awzs' Coxrexnivx e Paxxaxeuir, New i 0 MU0 fusecr that s \vandc,—lu:\y u‘,. other mlf. Now, Jenn Teterol bud nson, and | tonary of Musie™ has been rebeived, It carries | 8 '“‘lk ""-‘,”":"h maro ""‘“A“,’,,,"l‘““""- than | York: A. J. icknell & Co, Gutriana: 10 eolionsour Yo the gloud | tho now Daron of Salizbcus & daugbter. 1¢ | thowork ou from “Coneort Bpirituei to o Fer- | itk of 0¥ other waton. A Shalispoaro or | pensoxar, Rutvisctsces, By I Tl Forbos. 2 hole ahaped Ik a funnel, it covers the surtuce | occurred to the former thut he would bave Suil rao0' 5o 4t dudes amoog s best contributions | S0 et :;'mn'l,q ity "‘"} Doswa: Little, Brown & Co. Price, nu:n:ll-_vll‘-t Nne saud, it n,urncu uther nsccts, thugfl\lmnu b:’hunI "-m:n ‘:xr!mtls.alh.;;«zt:x‘:‘l “\m a skioteli of (6 Cotiseevatolrs do Musique, by ‘;:Dm!efl‘;rnnnk :l: tll:(-.‘ uen&f'fim':flmmni SltLpnen t:wlnln. “A d";"' fl‘y Martha Tinley. akes thion,, c 2 ) 2 cel Iy New York: , e Ca, Price, says :Ilulll;xl,l '-bl}u Sicky themdryeni the i | i % | M. Chouquet, who, it we wmistake uot, fs the | ed influenco of French Nterature, gowl, bud, New York: 1 vad & Ca. Price, 81 young peaple, He bonght up the mortruzes, and hietd them over the head of the Baron. Il,)y}luml. 1 have the houor to Wisti you guod-la; same nuthor who wrote tha curlous Jig- | 80 indierent, funll clvilized countries. Wy Wonvswosti. A Sludy, By Georgs . Cal- . e {n Frenc o vart, Dostou: Leo & Suopard. Price, $1, 0. Diderovs attucks on religion wers more | ‘Then hu named the oniy condition on Which | yle brochure on music as curative ';‘,',',,"3:,,{,‘::‘{,}‘,‘J:,,‘fl',‘,‘:.,‘:,‘.‘,“".‘.,",‘;fl‘,,‘,‘,’ tmukhy ecreuii . A iy Iy sasn A, (ircen, fudnled shau might by supposed Ly gBgwtio Shey u‘;‘;:"gmbfluavl:&llv%"w& Baron coutonted, ageat I vervous discasen; an diira | tpougls fubumerablo other chanaels, and thus, | New York: G. W, (arieton & Co, Price, $1.50, om uf the y v I h e blography of Craioer by sunreu- ‘ Fruhee, evel 4 S : Ilo bad not | wus wuck less stubborn than dean Teterol bad | (her, the Londou spostle of the musis of the \‘:-:;ug'm ?.filf&}*u'.’i.'::‘hflé'i-f?'.?"flm'.'.’,','_"’,‘..",“.-. A Fuizsp, Anovel Uy Henry (reville. Pnil. expeeted to tud bio, ‘The real troubic orose not with hita, but with the youmws people, whose inctinations had been too little consulied. They wero as likely to have wiuds of their ownus aduiphia: . 0. Petoraon & liro,” Price, 50 cents, Pug Disxen Yran-Book, New York: Charlos Scribuer's Sons, BY TUE WOKKS. future; o skoteh of Czerny, the planist who cuuld pluy every pote of Beethoven by heart anote of his owns also 8 biograph of , by Mr, J. W, Davisou, the rousical crit- don Timer. A. T. writcs to the Now York Foat ae follows: Charles Reade’s conduct toward Mrs. Burnett ed eccleslasticiam, and Wua ad corrubt und tyrannical os the thing it de- leuded, 4 Offjeul relfglon was then n strunge Iiy Marion Narland, Price, §2,25. 'ug Toves By Edward Qar. union of Byzuntive decrepitude with tho ener- | their narents, sud it proved to be the vase, | e of the London Times; and o Jearned article [ ouly ufa plece with his whole lieraty carecr, aw v U FaiT okt Mead & Co, Brice, 81,5, Retie ferocliy of she Holy Otfice. Within five | that thiey would not cousent to bo atsposed on % Day's Theory of Harmony,” by Mr, Hervert, | you can reudily satlafy yourscivos by eXauiustion, Kas ANavoir's Hlwonnts Diaxas. By Yre s ¥ fhe Indirect plen of D'Alembert for tol- | Of in stich a mouner, The houghty helress | purey, The genirsl excellence of this part fa | A wan is always con at with hinwelf, o ""AK‘"R.‘WJE oW Vork: Dlek & Pitzserats, erance and humunisy (Wl articles on Geneva), | of Ballgneux thouzht Jean Teterul's son was | fi1y up to the standand of its predecessors, al. | Souschn ud-hiscoutinaal And pecetstauticey d : Calas was miurdercd by tho orthodoxy of | sordid and vuigsr to consemt tosuch an ur- | tHodgn thera were no articies within Ibe alpha. | 4L VicY and thoft s waly u bllud, ko the rov | o ostos Tt bern e o, Goman & (e Toutinse, Nearly ten yoars Iatef wo i Louis | Faniceinent, and ouly egan to disceru his trus | borical Hinitations. that, required bxUIRstive | bonescr” Tefs quito cortain (as none of bl novels | ooy, Dostous Houglton, Qrgond & Cu,, Price, V., with the wteams of tho Parc aux Cerfs ) churucter when hie repudinted tho baruain, tore | yreatment or upecial scholarship, ln.'n‘fmfilulwll T A AR by U5 cents, : bout Liin, rewarded by the loyal ucclamations | up the written ugrecmcul his father bod ex- i fingion e only & reporter's siory; his **Chestl Livk Bore: or, Charloy and Nasbo fn Texas. of & Parfsian crowd for descending from biscaf- | tortca from the Baron, and weut to I'sris to BRITISI POETR---80UTHEY. Jutiston te taken dodily from & novel publl By Asthue Moreckmp. oston: Lee & shepanl. scck his foreune. ‘Lhore wad, after all, somethlng noble fu the young teuu, Before joug Saligneux’s daughter found hersclf desiring his prescuce as Lrice, 81, TuxOLu llovse ALteuzp, By Gearce C, Mason, Atthitect, 1uateated, New York: G, I’ Yut. tloge ns o privat passed beanng the sacraient, sl Lroatrating hwacit 1 thamud befora 1o 1 the carly part of 1his ccutury, nemod * 0I|m u sacred mywbol.” 1n the ssmo year the youth La 1 Castroz™ Lle ** driftith Gaunt ' you will tind a colluction of wtories by Wilkie Caliin, puvlibied Tho poctical works of Bouthey bave been con- densed In this edition of the British pocts trom Barro was first tortured, thes beheaded, rdent): he hud longed $oF his absence, A i 8 10 Wi Ly tho Haepers under the title of ** A Queen of | nam'e Sons. , ed, then | ardently as she b I r nee. As | ten volumnes to flve. ‘natover may be thought & " Py " d Lurat, Tor somo preaiaed. dierespet fo. tho | Showas n posttive voungs woman, she in the 6ud | yow of thu valite of Bouthiey's poetry, or f the | Lo by At B v onie i v Guesex, By Lowle Sergcant. London, danie holy ssmbol,—then becoue the Lateful | brouklt matters uround to sult herclf. | Dlaco he fa Nkely to occupy In tho Twentlett | Moy, or & Fowale iobineon Crusoe: and tue and New Work: Caawlt, Fovior & Gutin: m!]ll en 0! buman degradation, of fauatical Buch, fu oricl, Is the story of Viccor Cherbu- Cont it will be admisted that the timo | whoto list wight-be gone through with [u a simtlar | Frice. X Y, of rancorous superstition.’’ In these cir- | lez's new novel. A dry and insullicient narra- | Century, ot the time has | ) yp 5, Fux Wanire House or WoorTox. A story, By Diistances, 1t Is *not surprising thut | tive 14 1s, 43 we have told i, but tiob g all | not yet como to drop him out of the | "\ u e writcs to the New York Tribwne | GharlesJ. Voster. Philaduiphia: Porior & Costed. o, U Su; Feclaltaiean wara {40 tn the puges of the uoyshst Lo | st of British poets. It there wero | fyy Loudous ¢ Mr Juwe’ position fu Eu. | Prics. SLEO. © 4 o K 1, e 2 = ¢ ol 1 U ferriug to lhooEuc;!:v’lur;mlh,w u:,“: 0 lm';a Hletlon in rich aud fantaatle garments. Through uothing but his ioflucnce fo his fl‘“"dnl""{. add, 15 uo lunger dependeut on re- Tiux Srvmoe Aurs. A manusl, By Hlizabeth Winthrop Johnson. New York: llenry Holt & Co. own tlines to mark, al the fact that ho was u Preer ol conts. views, e hos @ publle of bis own; a larco and Poct Luurcate wheo thers were pocts In En- the Whoty Suichuere, Yans' g satieo et ong fncereasing pumber of such resdors 8s are moat bad arifcles fn theo) ! colury and wetaphysics, but ueeds to bo French, perbaps, thoroughly to ap- With theolozans tor cénsors, aud u privilewe, [ def; wp, Lo e vhic] # «land to compete for the positiva, hu should be | sensiblo ot that refiuement and restraint of Pogns or Praces, Edited by Heory W. Long. uu.i.'-';'fifi'cf'fl:‘u'i ".‘f;" [-..':y &‘mui wl {llu%urf firfi;‘:.t:f;f‘fi,‘:m‘h{_’rrgs‘x‘m:f:nufimfi'nhz:fl awarded & place In a complote vdition of British | style which ure swomn: tho least counnou | fellaw. Alrics. Hostou: Houghton. Owgood & Ught, und i trem ail 1s rorhireds i wil | Teterol is, of course, the ialn ligure. ‘This mau | POEUY. And, sinco hofs 10 come i to this ex- | yaalities in Enllsh novelists of the day, When | La. Price. §1. eoublo propla Lo dutinu e wiat we hers | of ono kdea bas o time for uny other, He bas | Cellent conpany, it s desirable that he should | be published bis voluwe of ‘French Poets and | Rawpou Asnows. A book of poems. Ly Fa thought” frow what we h‘i’eu.mlu oy This is :: seflceted $0 constautly upon the ki:k that the | be adiitted frecly as an equal, without mutila- | Novelsts ' one of the secrets of hls culture was. Philadelphia: J. B. Lipplncott 9pet avowal of {nsiucerity aud Intcllectusl cows | Baron Sallzneux gove hin that he fus not hud tion or aunvying restrictiol Tue yuublunon disclosed. It becaute clear llu.l. he hsd studred 1,20, andice: but it in much cadler, at this tistunco of | Limo even 10 think of deuth, and b is msulted of the Hlversido FEdi bave Judged ! in Fronch schools, und studied to some vur- DASY THOKNTON AXD JRanE QuauaN. A noval. Ui, 10 cxplain Diderois rotives 1oan 1o con. | and angry when the grim epectre stauds b his [ Wisely, therelore, ' fu giving Bouthey fve [ posc, Even tha dheeun way of thoopintun | ny Mery J. llolmes, New Yorks 4. W, Ussleton Qennh then, Mo ejCh? quotives thaw to cone | B0 cults bink, ile us nevor thougnt ot | 08 their beautiful’ volumsa, even thouth tho ( thap’ M. Juiwes' essuye fu Freuch lteraturo | & Ca. Price, $1.50. space allotted to bim scems somcwhat disproportionate to his merite. 1le fs s0 near to our own times that peovlo still desire to had an exceptional valuo, Aud it s knowu that the most combetent Judie [ Eoglaud, Mr, Matthew Arnold, expressed s slullar ausweriug suct o call, aud from sbeer obstinucy hio docs not. ‘Yhothought of death came to hiu liku a revelation: at band, weak and hmperfec 2 perfect us they were, to secompliah n ptven work and ho dul all that b Maunvise Orr a Davanvsu. A novel. B tho ‘:Ivu thempted, Ills aim was not personal, but b Heney Ureville. Pulladelptia: T. B, Peterson Bro,” Price, $1.25 tional, “Tne g . kuow what bis merfts—aod his demcrite—are. | opinlng. Oue of . Juwes! eurlice uovels has Tug Evuics or Posivivied. A critical study by Aol Tt auecion wat' wheter iy || doan Tetorlcoutddis Totseatiovaganaonss | i Vocklal Wrke of Tiobort Southey. Wit | been teprinted bere, i +Tu Amoriewn? | oS8 PSSR0 TR 1Y rauce, uot whether bu should eatabiiohi tho | biw, He believed uruily that everybody died, of | Memoir. Ten mlu‘mu in Five. Boston: | whether seprinted ur not, seems ditlleult to pro- | gomerby. Price, BUrLY aud strength of his convictlons by logical | Sourses but 3 to biuseifi He iad worked and Houglton, Usgood & Co. Price, §8.75.) cure, sud such coplos 8 hnv? found their way | 0T e iy Oliver Optic. Thind vol- Cemonstration of thea, 11l to bis credit o | Jothed 40 bacd, e e, & ¥ SHGE S ) ¥ NOTIC e e taortug owacra o e | uws of tue Great Weatera series. Loston: Les & Vi cave Lis property Lo othel hors Wol 7 3 e preice, 81, 50. e way that he worked n v insidious » | {580 gandinet Uliers Would handis Ble keye, A BRIEV.NOTIOK: Y shepard. Price, §1.50. ory i he bhad doue otherwise, ho # Prince Blsaiarck's Lutters to s Wife, His Corcespondents of No'e and uer'es give the Yould fiave "accomplished Joss, Ho was, In vreclous keys! Others would uncersmoniously following fu regard to two familfar quotutions: A Woxax's Wouv, a¥p llow Sux Keer Iv, A R o bie drawers, bie druwers wirich belonged to | Stster, aud Others,” s & delightful Hetlo book, f novel. By Virglola P, Townsond. Boston: Lee gt g, Byl | A S5yt i kSl s | o whic o rned o lone st trom s L |10 00T R i e Ay | Ebd, B M T r. Sluricy Zocs o reat Iehgtie i uatifylug | A¥ ibis 1ODEEL e berame indiiuant, furious, No, | GOU PAPET 80mG Lime 330 LL DO COmMERLO U | jyck. - Whak Ia the ¢arlicat uss ul clbur o Luvse W N evant: How Forkt $ho dowestic cuuduct of it wad uob sible, Al L DOu: It scowed Lo biw shat bis | in aw Awerican reprut frowm tho press of Charles death would leave u Vold, u, frighiful void 1n the exprevaluus, the lattor of wilch appe Kastern source ¥ 1 Abp. Brombail’ Diderot. He marred P. Puinaw's sons. Prico, 81, nsulted ta Lim,—a womunof a rellgious, o Scl Bons. Prive, $1. cAX L X t alug cetly, teumped I o i [ Scrinoor's tion of ‘Frus Liberty againat Mr, loobes™ (lbork AMEuIcAK COLLEGKS AN TUB AuzuICAK Pusiic, Do aseetl, teunporimet wnd a gloomy dis | WAt 8 U0 K Ubing st aie o | Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. Luve issued fa | vol, Mo b3 ORLeoA. G Loy Lusd), T 1 G | By Noab Porter, DD, L Ty Now Yorks Cusrice Ustresses, 1“‘.";,1,}}1,':5?{‘0 ‘:3""‘,‘;0 vears tor [~ When be got well Lo said to bis physiian, | their handy voluwo scrica Mr, T. Arnold’s arti- | FOPIssSUtCdassaylutl 0 v 0ot concorntny Serdunsrs Sgu, . Frice, ’"’ by 5 e bla martlage, wud anotlee Lling Lo put with 8 cuunlag 'm‘;“ ik et er sl cle {a to Encyclopadia Britannica on Euglish |'tng good of ad that way follow oo any action is | ek Q0 e e e ot pou bla wife, No doubt he | Youare very mucl e cd, Doctor: only fools | Literature. lu this editivn the srticlo covers £ave her rpea mcetle, Wiy Gieaus, there ctWeen hig New York: Dick & Fitzerald. Moruss Goosz. lustrated with 80ty rull- aketcuss **in white," Uy J, V. Goodridge. ES' tun; Lo & Shepard. Price, S0 ceuts. Fouatcex WEEKs 1% Puxsl By 4. D B D “How Vork Uhlcevo. and New O not properly the whola causs, but the lash of 1t; and yet may be said to produce thu educt necessarily, in such waouer o the last featuer may bu said 1o break 8 Lorvo'e back, wheu there were so :uny aid on before as thare wanled bul thatto ‘bis was written by Hramiall in 1643, in jnnu- allow thewselves Lo iy Jean Teterol bad bis opportunity to talk over the wetter of the pear-tree, forty years ulter it s fli“" the sou of the ‘wau who had "y son euough to be gloomy and b Bls extravagent wavs sud small tnuat alten biave been Httle wargly beome and the cost of liviog, At < s e, 2 : vl s e It sbould be vad to by Gredit, 183 pages. It is provided with unindex. Price, 23 cents. Cassell, Petter & Galpln bave issued the con- cluding numbers of Caunon Farsar's Life of 4 Chicayo. and' Now Or- AUl dowry, and 1 to eive his dauguter 8 suit- | Loeyer had oceasion to be dellghted with your | Chrigt. 1t Las been found necessary 1o expand [ quence of & couversation Letween Hubbo blw- | {equss A. B, Daroos & Co." Price, §1.25. b e WA i A U, i et | faot O, e Lo it Gl | tho orlgiuul plan, sa that he sppendic sud fa- | %l L s o Ak P UL Tecuxscn axw Tus Suawses Puorir By strating agal e Y | frat priveiples. £ stiék to wha Ve sutd, M. [ | lustratio ) 3. {50 1e f New York: o ‘o, Price, s S 30l s Seblences wug st | U0 200 "Wae gmoraut of e St Fudiineits, | re of the' beat descripuvn, snd the work b u Bl Uty Duscrinlug by cagtaro ol 31, Velsuts . 1o 1383, by \ne troops under the command of ioy Biskop vf Nurwich, Frolssart sys that dir Willlam do Melle, who defeaded the place, was permiticd Ly lis captor W return 10 France ss o proncr ou tia malutained that shears werw buttor thau a prunlig-knife 10 e fruti-siuca. It bs (aleo, ab- soluteiy false. Everybody who usderstinds too auvject will toll you that snoszs mavglo the branch Bt Caxata UxDEU TUE ADNINITUATION OF TUE Yane or Lurrsuix. 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THE * USES" OF I’'ATN, ‘The question {s often asked, * What Is the use of patnt 1t is scarcely cuncelvable that the Infiictfon bas no object.” There are obvivusly two napects of this question: fn one Bclence has an {mmediate foterest; with the other it bas a secondary, but not unimportant, coneern. The tirst is csscntially physical. What useful purposs dues pain subscrve 1n the oaimal economy? The answer {8 thrust upon us by dally observation and experfence. There are two sentinels posted, 50 Lo suy, about the orzanlsm to protect it alike from the assaults of encmies without and exact- log tricnds within, The first of thess guardtans is the scnse of futigue, V/hen this speaks, there {8 necd of rest for repair. -If the monitor be unhbeeded, exbaustion may eupervene: or, belore that polutof injuryis reached, the second guard- fan will perbapa interpose for the vital protece tion,—nnmely, pain. ‘Ihe sense of uoty, how- ever, is more directly stunificant of injury to structure, active or threatened. than an excess Ive strain on functlun, althowsh ln the case of the vital organs pain uvceurs whenever the pressure {a @reat, Speaking generuliy, ft may pe ret down as an axiom that, whatever cof- latera) uscs pain may subscrve, it cnfefl and wost wbvious perviee to humamty Is as o deter- rent and warniug eensation to ward ofl danger. It s worthy of note, though suiliciently familiar to medleal”obacrvers, that the absence of this rubjective sytnptom in ol severe lujury Is too often indicative of an injury beyond repair, The oxtinction of paln {8 not’the highest, al- though it may be a gencrous, Impulse. If there \&m 1o guardiay sensibllity of this nu- ture, 1(®¥vould be hnpossivie to 1ive long in the world without self-inflicting the most form uble infurics. That pain, in the second place, has an educstional vaiue, a8 regurds the mind and temper, 1o one cat doudt. Homie forms of pain wouid seemn to be chiefly intended for this purpose; but even in this view paln lins u prac- tical luterest, because the higher development of the mind which controls the b, which the bratu §3 the furmuative orizan, 18 o proress of physico-thental futerest governed by natural luws of which Science 1s perlectly cotn- betent to take cognizanc ‘The subjeet 0s & whole fs one witn which the physiclan and phystologist have mucn concern.—/dancel. DOES RUNNING WATER PURIF ITSELF ¢ Tt Is not Impossible to point out suthoritles on sanftary matters 80 wedded to pet theorles that they unhiesitatingly deny that the touver- slon of a pure runaing stream, or even a lurge river, luto a condult for the sewagzo-fiith of a ereat city will have any deleterious effect on the potable quality of the water taken a few milec below thue flth-entering polut, 1t hus been demonstrated that this |4 not ouly falsc fn theory but atso fu fact. [t was Dr. Letheby, of the Enylish * Royal Commission on the Water- Supply of Londan,” it is belleved, who was the firat to annonuce what has since been proveda fallucy. vl hat “{{sewnge bemixed with twen- ty thines Its volume of river-water, theorzanle wattur which it cantalus will be oxidized and cam- pletely disappear while the rivee 1s flowine o dozen niles or 303" and further, that *{t {8 sufo ta drink sewage-contsminnted water after il tion,” ‘Lhe **Ruy: Potlution Comuniss| of 1363, unwliling that this xpression of oplulon should remain untested, submitted it 1o carcful und fogenlous experimental uvestization, The resuit Is thus announced: *“It 1a thus evideut that 30 fur from sewage mixed with twenty times Its volume of water befug oxidized dur- ingg a flow of ten or twelve miles, searcely Lwo- thirds of it would e so destroved inu fow of 08 miles, ut the rate of ope mile ver hour, or after the Japse of 4 week.” And. ufter men- tionlg vertain detalls n subport of this, the Commissioners conclude with the remark that it will be sate Lo Infer, however, from the above result, that there s no river {y the Uuited Kindom tong ennuett to elfect the de- struction of sewage by oxidation.” Dr, Frank- land, an emnent Buglish suthority, before the Roval Comumntasion on Water-Supply, gives some sirong testitmony in suppors of the statetent that it is Lmpossible Lo retove the sewnge- coutamination from Water by any Kiown vro. evss, patural or urtiticml, 80 us to render it harmless, except by bodie for alons thne, or by dintillation and, us these two proce are tcablo on u Jarge seale, thew, e saye, fu ton, * water bt hus oucebeen cantam)- wagge ought not utterwasd (o be usea for duniestic purposess aud, nasmuch s it 1s peucraily belicved that the noxlous matrer of rewngo cxists there in the lorm of minute germx, which are probably smaller thut blol- slutmifes, T do not belleve that. even Hiltrutlon tbrouzh o atratum of culk couhl be rellvd upon o trea the water perfectly from such gorns,'— wdeots in Lopular Stience Mauthly for pber. aud of TIE BALM OF GILEAD. Dr., De Hass gives the following pacslculons as to this tar-Tamed specifle for all dseases: Tha nate of Gllead was somethnes spplied to sl traug-Jordanic Valestine; prooerly, however, fo fucluded vnly the couutry east of the Jordan from tho hewl of thu Dead Bea to the fot of the take Genesareth, of which Mizpeh Gilead wus the crowning polut. 1t was here, along the Jundan and about Jericho, the bulsam or halm once so highly prized was procured from an aromatic tree, supposead stlll to be found in this roglon, and known as ua (hriatiy vr e from which thy Savior's crown of thorn was woven. This moat preclous gum was obtatued Ly makfue , wo uclslon in the bark of the trea; It ulio ouzed from the Icaves, aud sometimes huug o drops fike hooey frow the brauches, The tree, which originally was fouud in Palestiue, was trunshlanted to Euweypt by Cleobatra, to Whoin the groves uear Jericho were presented by Murk Autony. Thy shrub was afterwards faken to blu und grown fn the nchchborbood of Mevad, whencs the bslsam {3 oow exported to Europe and Awerics, pot 48 balis from Gllead, but bulsam of Meech, Tue gardens around Hetopolis uud the * Fountaiu of tho Sun,” ju Egypt, uo longer produce this rure plant, and 1t bas long rivce ceased to bo oo srticle of export trom tug auclons Gilead — BCIENTIFIC NOTES. Bincs 1840 the Atlavtic steamprs have - creased their sversge speed from 8.8 kuots to 15.6 koots, or uearly double, while the cousump- tion of fuel per borse-power bas been dimin- ished about 60 per cent. 3. Puul Qalfarct has prepared s new edition of Autre Therct's, tho Fraudscan Friar's, “8in- zulanites do la France Awarclique," a work Hrut publisbed ab Parw fu 1556, with Blustretions by Jean Cousfi. The lcarned cditor defends tho worthy frir agaust the sucers of his cou- temporaries, and satlsfactorily proves that It was he who first Introduced tobacco Into France, | and not Jean Nicot do Villemaln, the French Ambassador i Portugal. Capt. Templar hasdiscovered a new and clieap method of manufactaring hydrogen for balioon purposes, and hopes soon to be able to Invent n way of compressing the gas and corrying it in frun eylindera ao that it can be made available In the field at n inoment’s notice. There {a an Important memoir by Prof, Joln Christopher Draper, on the presence of dark lines In the rolar spectruny, n the Amercan Journal of Scicnce aml Arts for Octobet. The Investirations of the author have lorced upon bim the bellef that oxyzen, as well as other non-metallie grascous elcnents, s representerl [ the eolar spectrum by dark linea In the same manner as metallfc substances. Writine on the yellow Teverin La Lancet Dege, r. oJ. C. Le [lardy considers that tha fact 15 es« tablished bevond dispute that fu the defections of the patients, and in the atmosphere of & yel- low-fever reglon, there exist minute fungoid piants noy previously described. 1fe maintaina that it 8 to theee piants, which, require a teme perature of 20.6 de. for thetr growth, that the propagntion ot the disease s due. ‘The opinion_advanced by geologlsts, on theo- retical grounds, tint an cnorimous deposlt of #alt reaches from tue Luncburger Helide to thy coast of the Baltic, has heen estanlished hy act- ual tests, Horinzs hava shown that one branch of the depositiextends from Luneburg, underthe FIb, and ncross the Grand Duchy of Meckleu- hurg, and snother in the direetlod of the Duchy of 1tolstein, by way of Legebery to Elmshorn, ];I’n)l(lu pluce the salt ls more then 1K) metres thick. s Prof. Clark Maxwell looks for the day when Elmlchnn i [andon will exnmine their patiente ¥ atsenltation. in any varg of the Kingdoin ; amt when the Entmmologieal Soclety, puted n microphone In a nest of scorplona under the tropies, will be able tucompare thelr musie, In soutns of the Soclety, with that of the nichtin. wala or that of the vat, and thus increass the fn- terest which haw been awokened by Wood Ma- son’s dlscuvery of & musical apparatus in those venomous Inscets, 1t (s stoted by Dr. Kedzie that a pecullse kind of ti-plate, the conthie of which isJargely made up of lead, 18 coming Juto geavral use for root- Ing, eaves-tronghs, and conductors: awd I 1s sugrested that much of ting Jead will eventually he disxolved and find ite wuy fnto household clsterna. Suseeptible persons may be potsoned by washing in the lead-charged water, ana ail Who drink it, even nfter, it is litercd. sre in danger of chronle lead polsoning, Tlicre 13 also. risk in the use of glazed carthen vessels, If, o 1{; u:luu the case, the glazing contalns oxide of cadl. Dr. Nettleship hns just called the attention of medical students to what may vrotitably noted by students znuenu‘)\': *The earller u man becomes w specinlist the greater the risk that lie will Jose fn brexdtt of knowledge and Judement what ho gatns by concentratlon.' Heldun has an nld truth been more hanpily stated than by Dr, Farqunarson, when he said, the other duy, that the first requisite for fuc- cuss In 1ife 1s 8 goud enimal trafnings that u too cxelusive devotion to meutn! Lralmng will moke ene narrow-cliested=1f ppssibly broad-minded— and dyspeptie, unable to take one's proper place in the race of lite for lack of phvalal po.er, and frow a sheer early breaking-down of an Bl-de- veloped and {ll-exerclsed mackinery. As_Is well known to eatomologists, the late Mr. Doubleday’s collection of lepidopteru ts recogmzed as” o type vollection, and s syste- mati lsta form s’ classiiieatlon very commonly used, The Science and Art Departinent accept~ ed the charge of the uollection, and found pace for It at the Hethanl-Green Muscum. A catafozue of the contents was made for the deparlment by the fate My, Andrew Murray, F. il the rur: referring to the tirst 108 wers, contalninye British s s, viua pnnted by order of the Commitiee of Councit on Edu- catlon. ‘That the colicetion fs n.--llz' used Is shown by the foet that lust yoar there wers 1,492 npplieations for pernidssion” toexamine it The report states that fresh spechinens of no less than 239 species are requirad for the collees tlon In order to replace those destroyed by mites,—London Times. An interesting faet in the life of tho late Mr, Tnowmas Belt is the allezed diecovery of which a short account was given by n eorrespotdent of the Tines in_a ictter entitled * Colorado: Its Beenery and Botl,” which appeared on tho 25¢n of last month. - It 1s there soid that Mr. Belt had taken a human skull, In_good prese vatjon, out of o eutiinie on the Colormlu Cen- tral Radlway, in o formation belonging tu the glackal ers” It was Mr. Delt’s mention to submit this relic 10 the trained smd eritieat aceuting of Prof. Marsh in the United States, ond of Prof, Huxley in this country. We fuar that his untfinely death wrevented him from futling his purpose. Wo hope, however, that the skull s pow {u safe ctstody, owd that tig friends will take care to subuit it 1or examina- tion, atong with the particulurs of fts discovery, 1o those persons who are competent to pass un opinlon upoen s scientific value.—Athaucum. A numlsimatist in Londou has revently added to hia collection two wold coing of All fon Joset, third King of the Alnorayidie, oue of the Mus- sulman dynasty in Spalu, who retzned at Cor- dova i the twelfth century, The Inscription In Cufic charcters on each aide niay bz ren- dered, * Noy est Deus, nisl Deus; Muhammed (est) Apostolus Del; Princens (Auieer) Musel- morum,. All ibn Josef.,” O the revepie 13 Slmam (Coallf) Abdallab, Prince (Amovr) of the Fulthiul" Round the edgea of each runs the hegend, *“lu the name of God: this denar was atrien at Almeria in the year 23" (datinz from the Hegtra). The creatent on theae culns i% very clearly marked; and s curlous as pruy- fugr that the crescent hud been assumed us the Mugsulman's symbol long before tha capture of Constautinople by the Turks, ‘These culis were offered ns Chilnese, ol bought as possibly Parslan: and It wis ontv when cleancd and de- ciphered that thelr full vatue was discovered, ‘The late Dr, Wilson thius speaks of the future of sanitary scince, und thouwgh At secmy at llest reading ke u wmiilennial Fruu ey, s reullzae tion bs Indlsputably possible wuen men really make up thelr minds to bring It about: ¥ When iy shall be brought to ucknowledde (as truth must fually vonstrain hlim to acknowicdze) that it Is by bifs bwa hand, through his peciect of u few obviots ritles, thint the seeds of dineass uro wost javishly sown within bls frame sl dil- fused ayer pommunites; when e shall buve required of medical sclence to ve Itsult with the prevention of msladies ratber than thup curey When govermments shall - be in- duced to culshder the preservation Cof A nutlon’s heditn _an vbject us hmportant a8 the promotion of commerce or walntenunce uf §ts cotiquests, Wo iy hope then 1o sen thu wppruseh af those thaes when, atter a life speat without siekness, we ahall close Lhe term of un unlursssed tenice by o peaceful suthanssie” ~Juurnal of Chemistry, THE FINE ARTS, DECORATIVE ARL EXHIBITION, The Canleago Society of Decoratlve Art s abuut 1o open Ja Novembor o Luan Exhivition of avery object of futerest the wembera can procure that vowmes within the extended pur- pose uf their orwanxation. Ulctures, statues, laudsome furntture, curious und artstic vut tery, hangingd, well-wrought noedlework,--all thut wheeltaueous elass of thiues which the Frenen call *objets @' are,” will fod a pluce i the charmng medley, 1L sy by thought thay Chicazo be pather & youug city to vs able to tur- wiati many trevsures of Wi 89FT, PRL, youuy és It is, thie wealth aud taste of thu eltizens have already sceusulated an wionlshing vumber of pare, vostly, and Leautiful objects. When broteht togethier, we will b atl surprised at what we have 1n our midst, It s the esten of this Loan Kslubition to briug together as much ua possible ox this comblued urt sud grave, su thist It may bo scen By thousauls who vauaot LW penvirate the .Frhwy of the hoics . whicr only the owners snd thetr fricods cun enjoy it ‘Ll poseesavrs of these beautilul things, gen- erully peuplu of tuste sid culture, ure unly too tuppy to ant the wewbens of the Socluty in thele Wisii Lo vlevate aud to culivaie the public taste. Noditliculty hus been found I vbtalulng the luau uf ereat quantitics of most interesting snd wrtiytic ubjecte ul sl Kiide, und tie Sgaety can sufely proimse & rich wnd varicd treat. [6s ob- Jevt Is uot vuly the asdlug thuse wause natural wifts tos arwork heed Tostestne care, but the creutlug o public taste, the develsaite 3 2ens eral lutercet in haronious ubd artbetie decort- tous of vur houscs und public bulldinue, grace- 1ul aud wselul stupes of furniture, rict aud sud- stuntial stutls, und uil the svcessories ol by tuble gervice, Allthis has until within u tew veurs, sud for o long the, been very bahd and meagre, Tuis Soclety sud 13 Kindred Sogiotics wre faburing to reader it julier and wore ele- vutingr, ‘Tley bope fur sn extended patrupae, aud for many sud uoble esults. As tue day so- sroacises, Nuv, 21, notives will be louud s the h:;uy press of thue and place, aud, slibough this 1 au experient, those divecthie (8 buve b0 fearof fatluce, They sro sure thut o wil bo lu- teresting, watsuchive, aud begutiful, i e tt———— Drumidl ‘. Brumsdi, the Italisn aortlst, who' fiss been mauy years evpaged tu frescoing the Capltol ut Wasnlugton, will tuke two years to Huel tie sresco work fu the Tutuuds upon wiidh be b now cugared, Mels wory then W yeurs uld, sud be bas paibicd wore theu s acre o8 apae 10 the Caritol butkding, -