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“JITHRATURE. wihe Christians and Moors in Spain,” by Charlotte M. Yonge. ugwedenborg and Channing "= Their Doctrines Com- pared. wThe Races of European Turkey, ; Their Ilistory, Condition, and Prospeefs.” Miss Kirkland’s “Short His~ tory of France"--- Recent Novels, The College Book "---English and Seoteh Ballads—"* Habitual Drunkenness.” The Limitations of the Soxeges= Various Gossip on Sclens tific Subjects. LITERATURE, CPNISTTANS AND MOORS IN BPAIN, Mies Yo has prepared one of the most charming books of the year In her “Story of te Christions aud Moots of Bpain.'’ Some. {hing was owine in these days, when tho fol- lowers of Islan have Leew so gencrally de- feated, ¢espolled, and deapised, to the memory of the time when both fn the Byzantine Empire 4nd in Spaln the Mohammedans see the example of chisalry, industry, ond inteliectual activity. The Moors taught tho Spantards manuers, and would bave taught them cloquence and science, {f they had cared to learu, One Las only to o tack to Irving’s ** Albambra,” or, better still, to Dr. Draver's * Confilct Between Sclence and Relizlon,” to realize the comparative ad- veacemrent of the invading race in Spain. AMiss Yonge describes the clvilization of the Moors clautly i this volume, The reizn of Ald- el-fhaman 1L (013~061) she calls *The Au- gostan Azc of Cordova,? and writes of It thus: In general, the relen was peaccful and noted for great sud Lenutliul works; {n esvecial wne noted he palace of Sledina-at-Zolra, in a beantiiul yal- Jeyon the banks of the Guadnlquiver, five miles froot Cordova. The Greek Emperors sent him marhles and workmen, and there were still Homan remsina to use. Four thousand three hundred col s of preclous marblo adotned it. The pave wents were of marble, und in the principal rovw ere fountalus, In hagi of porphyry. In the Kh ire halt the central fountaln was of jasper, and the water aponted from tho bill of a wolden swan, Yeneath @ canopy, In tho centre of which was a wxonderfal pearl, precented to Abd-el-1thaman by the Ewperos of Constantmople, . , . bad Ueen ausolutely forbidden by the prophe But Naturo had been too strong for Mo- ‘be Arsbe siill sang. an) In_Spmin pudle was greatly cul:ivated, In the Lecortal Library ara sl preserved some remuants of tho very extensive mustcal Hleraturo, o o . Poetry Corrixhied with muric. Everyonowaaa poct, The extraordinary riconess of tho language, which f5.40 full that the dictionary 18 tn sixty volumes, and the n cadences lond themselves to verse, .. . lilstury, genenlogy, grammar, rheloric, ind philosophy Wore rreatly 'cultivated, and many treatives on them wero written, and carriod tha Anabs to conciusiona pever dreamt of by Moham- med. Mathematica wore atudied camiesily, and the substitution of the rino Arabic figurey for the cambrous [toman_metuod enabled the operations w0 be carrled nuch farther than before, ‘Ihe sezes of Cordova carried their caleulations into ttrononty, sud tmproved on the system of Plos . The 'names of most of the Individual sta semath us muntwents of our dobta to theso Arab: frm whom wo Jearnt to talk of the zeaith au nali. so studled. . o 1 and tammed, i inttlon and crope, graftinyg, gandenung ol exiat. Many plante . wora trodiiced by the Khalifs, wbich ° 8pain It und meclected after the discovery of Amoriea, Medicinal plant were grently etudled, and the Arab phyaicians, working on from tha dis cncrien of Celons and Galn, divided - with the Jenanll theze was of heallng wkill or knowledie, and, thoeh anntomical stucics wore imipossiblo to a devout believer, ther surgeons made —somo prozrees In dlecovery. Chemistry and slchem re dertyod frou their wotds al symia nltore from tho Greek, *The terma alembic, alconol, and alcali mark thelr progress du discovory, and tho sune of apotirecarles” weights, only wow failing Inta dlune, ars 8 remnant of the day when the Tecch was cither a Moor or & Jew. We bave made along quoiation with the in- tentlon of giving ao kdea of Miss Yonzu's style. Bue hos packed ber book closcly with facts of this description. The historieal parts also ato full, una comptied with & dyo disrezard of slm- le chronolugical sequence aml penealogical ables. ‘Mhic varrative is carried forward rather by perfods than by relus, Thus tho battles of tGiuagalete, ‘Yours, Novas do Volosa, the slero o Malga, and ‘tho historfes of the in- yioelble A} Maneour, the Cid, Dou Alfonso of Arrazon, and Boabdll are futly treated s whils the reizzns of many uniniportunt monurchs avd Khalies are paesed over {n sflence. But it 18 on the alde of romance that Miss Yonge's book fa stronwest, Blo has quoted profusely from ckhort’s translatiuns of Spanish tallady, and fuch other pottry ug scemed worthy of a place inher collection, "I'he storles of Bernardodel arplo, the Cid, Al Mansour, und Rolund, aro ula In this manaer, the author lu cach iustauce supplementing the ballad narratlve with more satkentie vecords, Miss Yonse fs an ndmirer of the Bpanish character, us well as that of the 3oors, Ehu has attempted to do full justice to hoth sides 1o thts strunwe conflict. Bhe has oven discard. edpurt of Ford's haudbeok, because she be- lievas the nuthor to be “uut of sympathy with thesplrit of the Spaniards, sud moro inclined dwell ou their evil qualities than, thir good oues” It i3 easy Lo exag- eerate tho cruelty, treachery, hrnorance, and superstition of “the early” Spaulards, and 10 make them suffer by comparison with the many virtues of “the Moors; but it should Lo remewmbered that the former was a Munz and tho latrer @ falling race, ‘Tho Bpan- farig hiad at least patriotiam and courace, They didnot get the Moors out of Spaln without and fighiing, 1t ourhit to boa title to slory for them thgt they conquered and expelled o Tece 50 Nustrious, 'Thuy Soaulards might have taken leesons fruin the Moors In clumeney, gen- frosity, and truth; and the Mours might bhove eirued frow the Bpouiards fravaliey, tempe- nince, and perseveraite. Miss Youge has done t:\:l(cu 1o the gpood qualities of both races, Her ok, n8 well for {tc method as for {ts subject, Wil takiy a place wetween history and romanes ¥hich will usract to it readers 0 search ot Loth Kkinds of litcrature. ~ (*The Story of the Chris- Yansaud Moors of Bpalu,” By Charlotte 3. onge, anthor of “fho feir of Redelyife!t don: Macunllan & Co. V'rice, 81.25.) BWEDENBORG AND CHANNING, The vonerable Dr, Barrett, whose fsith in Bwedenborg and his doctrines has been ubund- anlly attested fu the past, has published a re- warkablo little volume, in which bo attempts to establlah g parallel between the teachivgs of Dr. Chinnning aud those of Swedeubore, The at- teaipt fa rather curlous than valuable. 1f ftcould be shown tliat Dr. Channlng consclousty went to Bwedenborg for tuspiration, the tuquiry might be importaut from u literary polut of view, but Dr. Barrett distinctly disayows tho purposs o estublish. Ile has the sutbority ‘of Dr. Chauuings nephew sud son for sayiug that Be 0id uot covaclously derive uny of is belicls frow Swedenbory, snd pever even read him With any jutercst. The supposition that he Sicd Bwedenborg without acknowlcdginent fs tontrudicted by his choracter for louesty, smpltcity, aud perfocs frunkness, Be- sides, “wo nowhero fod la Dr. Chan- ulig's writings 1he slightest veference 1, or bricfest quotstion froin, Swedenborg, Indced," continucs the author, %[ sm not Wwire that he Las ever mentigued his name. Aud thers 18 otbiug {n bis phruseology—not & sentence or w word—to remind "oue uf tue Erm seer, or Lo fudicate avy famfliarity with Ls writingy, i Tue sutiiir cites filty-ivo dlfferent subjects I widely i teaching of, Chauniuz aud Swe- Uenbong wpe substantially | the sawv. ‘Tho re- Lianie 13 ub many poluts vartdculasly ju e Ui lssion of - fheojosical qucstions, re- arkavle. Yoth refected sslvatlon Uy fultly U deided the {osaitabitlty of (he resurreclion lie Ludy; boiu adupted the woral-ivtluca.s heory; buth declarad thus * tuo letter killeth ™y hoth nelieved fn the raivation of the heathe Loth thouweht of future rewards and pumshincot ns realding within the spirit, and hefue bot the profoneution of both adniltied the ol rhe wicl ;mmv.n. Indced. that the reader necds to be on i trayed into thinkine that (he two teachers werg of the same school.” But there were bivo funda. mental articlea of belef which 8wedenhore and Channlng aid not share In common, in regard to the Trnity. fngenuity has not ovalled to establish any identity of opinton here. Channine thought of Clirist ns & man with a divine mission, but onc whose bumanity Jiffered only In degree, not in kind, from that of Contucfus, Zaroaster, Marcus Avirelius, Socrates, anl other sazes and seers of antiguity. mitted the divinity of Christ and the sep: existence of the tiuns ns to the a0t blind any ono to the fact that he necented, thouuh it amodific:l form, the doctrine of the Trinu{, Ie repentedly declares that a bellet in three Divin but ho teaches that there Is a trinal distinction n the Divlue natare—not of {xrmu, lowever, bat of_essentind divine prineipl It would writlou spondence with this remarkable theors. Tarrett attempts (page 165) to estabiiah the par- allel, but be fa not entirely successiul, even on his own showing, Bwedenborg and Clunning was that Channing did not bellern In Bwedenborg, There was noth- fuie that Swedenbore belteved {n more thorough. 1y than In himself. been admiteed Into personnl communiention with the angels and saint<, that he hod himself he was in some sense endowed with o speeial prophetfe misslun, lleve this. ‘l){l angels, as Swedentory belfeved tn that doc tine. most Unitarians now regard hing, as a grest and Clunniug bad advanced from the vulear and commun opiniv that Swedenborz was an ime ro:wr; bnt there was still a vost rull hetween i lan. sce that the attempt stantlal correspundence between the teachinge of Swedenbore und those of Channine s Hkely acter wos 60 much n part of his svstem that, without it, the systein falls to the cround. we aro not unwilling 1o see so earnest an at- served ao oxcellent purpuse. ana Channing, Showine the Maoy and Ilo- markable Aurcements In the Bellefa and Teach- inis of These Writers.” adelphia: Price, ¥1.) stud; tiea here are Gibbon's ** Dectine and Fall,” Fin- lay's * Greecs Under the Romuns,! and * IHs- tory of the Byzantine and (reck Emplres,” Neander's *Histor) and Churet” and Christianicy.” fan, In whose lonz reten it Ia truly eald the glory of the Roman Emplrain the East * cul- minated and explred.” of the Roman power Iu the firat years of llera. cllus must bo regrarded as the tranaltion puint between the Koman and Byzantins Empires. riso froms 18 ruins, the richost, most Htate in the worlds but [t wns to rise a (reek and not o and Ezypt were to be flnally scvered from the Empire; Lattn was to ¢five place 0 Greek as the languazo of the Gouvernment and_the law; and the comtnon falth of the Greok Church wus to become the vital teasonubly peoble.t? of tho orlgin of It at once explalns the autaor's Justinlan’s relgn for a beglinnin, other reasons, might have beel back. 1t will, Indeed, beditlicult to give reasons. why a history of tho should start with tbe Byzantine Euipire, though tha.suurce of the Byzantine Kinptre may properly be put fu the first years of the roign of ifera- cllus, Tho_treatmenc of the histury of the Byzautine i aéals rather with opochs than events, tafry, however, one valusble, 1f nov wholly neeurato, chapter explainluz'the catises of the mentul osphyxia which acizad the Eaivlre and held 1t in intellectual bomduge fur nearly o it s timy hesltate before they huposs o aimblar sveten upon their own people. Tho srgument Jeads up to the paradox thut the perfecting ot (lov- ecnment I8 fujurious to the inteilectuul vrowth of 8 natlon; but we must dispute the exceliencs of that form of govermment with those who ad- vocaty {t. 13 the chapter on Albanla, Pusha of Yarunina ure characiers worth country,—th turmer for doyotlon, self- THE CHICAGO TRIBUN: good or evil tendenclesy enthollcity ~and charity foundation af “trus rellclon) ted and dcnounced Cafrinla ot *fapniness ng God's end 73 both oasibility of the final exlitence anl toth declared ihat tho ‘ous would dwell fn blexsad communion, ngraizing and eementing enrthly tes. The resemblan.e is establicicd ot ko many advocated the ard Jest he should be lucautionsly be- One was All of Dr. Jlarrett's Swedenborg, on the other hand, ad- Holy Spirit, s epe exze and the existere necd Lerqons 18 u belie! {n three Ginday es or attribmt diflicuit to find in Dr. Channing's sthing that could be calied n noxil;(-- r. ‘Tne other fundamental difference between Ho thought that he aad witnessed the Lost Qeneral Judgzment, aad that Dr. Channing did not bies tle afd not believe tn the mialatry He probably regarded Swedenborg, as gnod man, laboriog under ao halluciiation. De, i8 position and that of no avowed Swedeubors- Under these circumstunces, we do not to estoblish a_sub- to be successful, Bwedenbore’s prophetic char But tempt to put htin right before the world. ‘Tho resent little buok, while it will ot make many cliove that hie tauzht the snme doctrines os Dr, Ctunuing, will show that he was a bundred years ago fn xome respeets abreast of what i “now called * The advanced thought of theage." If 1t ahall ot the same time tend to remove the prejudices that have been formed through mis- representotion and fgnornce arainst onc of the great moral teachers of tho world, it will have Swedenborg By B. ¥, Burvett. Phile Cluxtun, Remsen & Uatlelifinger. RACES OF EUROI'IAN TURKEY. 1t has becume the custom to look to Mugllsh writers for [nformation about tura;ein Tur- key. An excentlon to this rulo may profitably be made in favor of a new book on **The Naces of European Turkey,” written by an American, Mr. Edson L. Clark, member of the Amerlean Orfental Soclety, and author of a provious work on & kindred subject, “Tho Aradb aud the Turk," of travel through the countrics hie writes about, but bo has been o dilizont student of all the suthoritics. not deseriptive of tho prescont condltion of the pevple. scone, but has been signally unsuccessful In this undertakiog, which haos been better done by other writers, It woula be fmpussible, fu- degd, for any oge who hos not lived in tho countyy to describs {t bLetter than Baker, Free- man, .and Sergeant, Mr. Clark’s hiatorical summary, oo tho other hand, {s excellent, em- bracing in small space the valuable parts of pevera) large. works; the race pecullaritics of the Greeks, Albanluns, and Blays.is extcusive and fnteresting, Mr, Clarlc has not had the advantace His book Is chiefly historical, aud He hos attempted togive it the widor and his examination of Tho first part of the bouk is devoted ton of the Byzanting Emolre. The authorl- ot the Christian Rebiglon tliman's ** iistory of Latin The nuthor begina with Justin- The utter proatration “Tho shattored and prostrate Empire was to and to stand for centirics weriul, and most eivihized Latin power, Italy, Afriea, Syrla, bond ot union to a homogeneous und - harmonions This {8 o sstlafactory seconnt the Byzmting Emptre, European rages in Turkuy Bmpire is of wnecessity briet, and It con- thousand ?'.-nr-. 1t beaureaucracy can do thls, for the rulers of Western furope to One of tho nost {ntercsting parts of this book Beanderberg and All of any crillce, and hetolem, the latter for turpliude, boldneas, aud avarice, Al lushn contributed more than most historlans have admitted to the hberation of Greece, deflanca was Difectious. His exusmpl ol fudependence and 1t eocouraged the n- surrection, and perbaps (r-nru & tie promlse of succuss which at that partfenlar thus was neces- sary tots existence. “Ihe story of the strugele for Grock independ- encods told over again dn theso pages, though not 30 well a8 in many other places. Nuwvariuo is of too recent date, aml too thoroughly fmbed. ded In amass of current iterature, letlon, and poetry, to be dismibsed fun dry and stmmmary fashion, Bervin wets a hetter showing, Kard Geurge wo know frum wany accounts of his cus seer, but unwhory eleo has ful Justles been douc to his singular weakness ss well as bls sinzular streugth of ctaracter. Milosch Oberno- vitch, the founder of the present Servieu dynas- ty, who was a uniore remarkablo charscter even tuan Kars Georgo, is well treated in these pages. Of frre and modern Seevia Mr, Clark Bays: ** At tho progcnt time the Servian people are exciting o very deep lulerest umuna the older communitfes of the West, Thers {8 in them not slone the weakuess, the fucxjericnce, and the ignorsnce, but also the siwpiicity, tha freshncss, the exaberant ¥l sor, and the bntilaug promise of early youth, ‘Lhey stand n the long courso of their development wheru tho English peaplu stood 40 years ugo. Tucy are a peovla whose varecr 18 vt to bu run, whodo work in thy world 18 yet to be done; and, as we reflect upou the mauv Interesting cng excetlent qualities which thev display, wo canuot doubt that fo the not distaut future they hiave soine groat part to play fn those marnllleent reciung so long Liight- «d by the barbaritn tyvanny ol the Turlk.? Mr. Clark's buok Will prove a belp to those who deslre to get » erueral koowledgo of tho saces of European lurkey, based upon the best uthoritics. and In the smallest possibie com- v I'lie Rucesof European Turkey; Thelr istory, Cunditious, and Prospects,’” 1By Edsun é‘i;:luk. New York: Dudd, Mead & Co. Prive, & A MIORT ITISTORY OF FRRANCE. The French bave always bad 8 great talent for kitling und belng kitled. This is o groud gife when wisely exerelsed s hovor sud glory, power aud dowinloy, are its outgrowibs, Even lify and 1iberty, all ot them that ure worth Lav- Ing, bavo uever beeu posvible sluce e bevan exeent at tbe price of blovd. The truuble with the Frouch has usually been tbat their teudeocy and harinies with heretics was to burn or han them. . No mercy was sliow, 8 about to attack o large city which contajved both bercties and Cathoiles, soue one asked what should be done ahout §t. the savaue answer; own.! ¥ was toward killinz and bteing killed by the wrong neople, accurately wrong sclectfons than those with which French annals abound, pened to be a person whose exislence was n curse (say Catherine ds Meudlcis or Louls XV.), that person and on litte when a chaeacter comes on the scene whose 1ife fv an honor and a hicssing (say Jeanne d'Are or the Adunral Colteny), then very Likely to be token to an notimely grav 11 a auflicient number of the eariler monsters of erueity hat been promotiy slain, the long line of tvranta wonld have “hren impossible. ‘The French contemporarics of Charles Firat of ¥ngland needed & Cromwell, but found none: inure's the uity. ol wounted the throne one after another. ench Lafled with hope, and eac) whon eanited to i fine tomb at 8t. Dents, uniil at lust n really consclenttous man (Louls XVI.) conies to b King, and 1ol lie of all vthers roes tothe bluck, ‘the shrewd English upplicd the ounee of prevention at Runnimede and Marston Moor,—the French bad to take the pound of cura at the Place de la Greve, Itts dificuit to Imazgine more 1t there hap- was llkely to live on untit kiled by vi:e or old aze: ho or she was Tho Vulols and Bourhons dlamissed with joy Ly us take n few extracts from Miss Kirk- land’s * 8hort Iistory of France to_ show how badly some of the great ones nceded killing, Umder the fendal system (p. 65), *Tube a Baron or o nobls was only another namo for enjoying the privilere of living at other people's expense. . Men who preferred lvinz un the fruits of their neighbors’tndustry to carning thelr own Lreat had only 10 stars out atthe headof a body of retainers and take by force the catlle which & pour faborer had been tolling for years to buy, or tho harvest on which ha™ depended for the suppurt of his family," The Albi 3 A Islmple-minded veople fu the South of France. They were tn fact s sort of Protests nd Iunocent 111, ordercd that they shoutd reated like Infidels, giving the charge of the e be t expedition arainst them to Simon de Montfort, Il thonght that the best thing to do When the amm, ‘Kill them all!" wus *the Lord will know Ius ‘The growth of lunacy nmon the nobllity fir. 182): “The frighefii} extravagance of the Court-people, who wero in the bablt of baymz cveeything they wanted aud not paylog for it, vreated dlscontent among tradesinen, and the palaco Its=1f waa erowded witls those who camo to beg that the King and Queen would pay for the fine things they bad ordered, Rovalty cunid 1ot endure an fnsult 1ike this, and tha Cardinal wrole o order, which he caused the Ring 1o aizn, that any one who dared to present a bill shuutd go away or be hauged,” Coluert to Louls XIV, (0. 230): ** At the very time when your Majeaty told mo that the mor- el of bread st be taken frow the people's moutha to provide for the navy, you speut 2)0,- 00 iivres forn trip to Versailies.” The magniticence of the Grande Monarque (p. 239): ** Another fnstance given of the King's venerosty 13, that when the daupbiers of bis Ministers were marricd he gave to each one o postivn ot 200,000 crowns. And atl the Court said, *Ob what n_pencrous Kingl? Aud the Dot wan sald, ‘1esunot plow my tand this enrs [must dig it uo ns well as 1 can with iy a1 ,{or my cattle were all taken tor tho tuxes, ‘Uhe death of Louis XV. (p. 209): " A terrible nolse, ke thunder, was heard {n the palace ns soon as Lons® death was avpounced, It was thucrowd of courtlers buvrying with ull their might to congratulute the new King.” Alter reading the tfstory down to the Terror, one i prone to conclude that the proletarfans did pot more than pay the debt of Lorrors tney owed the upver cinsses by that thines: oaly they ild it 10 otlicrs than the actual credlitors. ‘True, be Churéh had amaseed on extent of untaxed Jands Jarger than all England, and the pobllity held another large quuutity nearly equally freg from tax, Jeaving scarvely a third part (und that the poorest land fn the poorest hands) to bear the frizhitful load of the public charges (p. 297). But tho blovdiest scenes of the Revotutlon touk place after tha Church and the notfles hud niven up thelr privilees, and the Klog wis become the devoted servant of the people. The Gallle ls n Iymphatlz snd mereurial nature, aud Is nothing Ifnot estreme. For a loug thme lovalty Lo King and bigotry for Chureh were the lashion: then snarchy “and the enthronement of the Goddess of Keason; then Imperlal despot- Ism: sudsoon, France is llke &8 good shin, stanch and powerful, but cranl: andgiventoroll- ing, First to starhoord, and theh to larboard, ehe rolls yardarius under; and vet, to do her Justice, o holds her own in the maiter of beadway. Bome other craft are steadicr and more comfortable to crew and passcugers, but nu nation passes Frauce in the race of humay progress, Lhe nuutical slinlie Is a very perfect one fur nations. The 8hip bt State, ke other #hips, Is steadiest when she fs closc-hauled, the wind not benye too fair, France was nover su truly great os sloce her *unsfortunes” To quote tho closiug paragraph of the Short Hi- turys “Yortunately for her citizens, France has been driven awuy from ber bad vminence as the armed arbiter of natlons, Anotlier now corried the hard and heavy fron rauntiet which {3 best fitted to wrasp the sword-hilt. Mers 18 tho un- ploved hand that s Muht, strouy, and free to hold the plow, ur tho pen, or the Land of o friend. ‘Glory,’ 08 the word has been under- stood, she hus turned her back upon, wo hope. That black and sterile hizht to which ane man in o milion may elnb over the crushed hopes of his fellown hns little vlaco in the plan of a freo conntry, The only dominion the French Republic can properly strive for 14 the denlp- fon over tho forves of Nature, that the sum of Duman bappiness mway Lo increased; over fre- noranee, thut error ‘mmy be Jussened; then her houor and rlory will be real, becanse It will llvu |t‘he honur aud glory “*of God aud Hu- wanlty, Goud reading this,—good \-nndhu? for the youth of u Republie, eapectally ous for which ibs wind Is ouly too falr, whose chlel perll wcems how o bo that of belng * cursed with every grauted proyer,” (A Short History of Franco for Young People.” By Miss E. 8, Kirklaud, author of “8ix Littls’ Cooks” und “Dora's Housekeeping,”™ Chicago: Jauscy, McClurg & Co. 1870,) I, COLLEGE. DBOOK. The Colleze Book so long fn preparation has at last been published. Tt §a a beautitul vol- e, well bound, and printed on lLeavy, wide- puper, with many heliotypo (lustrations, Tho cditors are Charlos F. Itlchardson and Henry A. Clark, Tuo authorship ot the scveral chap- ters {4 as follows: “Harvard University,” Prof. James Harr Atnes; “Yale College,” Will- fam L. Ktugaloy; *Collego of New Jorsoy,” Frederick Vinton; * University of Pannsylva- nla Provost O. J. Btile; b Brown Universt " Reuben Ao Guildy **Rutgers College,! 1, %, 8, Doolntie; “Willlame Col the Rev. Washington dladden; #Unlon Collere, Prof, Wililamy Wells} # Bowdoin College,” the Rev. (1 T, Packurd; » Hamliton Colicze,” Prof. Edwurd Morth; sErinfty Coltee,” Wit Brockivsby s » Wesleyan University,” Prof, €T Winchestes “Lalayetza Cotlewe,” Urol. F. A, Murcl #“Oberlin_ Collewre,” Preshlent James 1. Fair chilily » Univeraity of Michizan" ¢ Charlea £, Adams; * Vassor Colleze,” Prof. ‘Truman J. Backus. ‘Fhio editors 1 repared the chiopters on Wiltinm sud_Mary College, Colututua Collere, Dartmouth Col'ege, the .\illlknr_vA('ndcm{. Am- herat College, tho University of Viraioly, the Naval Avadey, and Cornell University, The work las beendoue, so (ar us we ars anly to judee, exeellently; tu the case of ono college, at “least, the blstory 13 completo and the views Hlehke. Marvant wcts o disbroportionate share af spuce, but that was perhaps to be expected, Yule bas, however, over thirty puges, with views of the ¢ld Brick Row, Batiell Cuapel, tho Quadrangle (woripeast), Divioity Haull, sod North Sieflield, The volume is, a8 already - dicuted, swaptiously poiten ub, and wil werve a frably for ® @ift-beok for the holidays, hu Collego Book,” With Heltotype Nluse trations, LEdited by Chaorles . lchardson sud Heory Al Clark, ton: Houghten, Osguod & Co. Price, §15) HRITISH PORTS-=~HALLADS. Houghtoy, Osgood & Co. have added 1o thelr new edition of Britbsh Pocts the English and Scottish Batlads, edited by Francis Jumus Chitd, cight volumes In four, * Thess volumes,™ Irof. Child says In hia preface, **bave been compiicd from the punierous collections of bal- 1ads priated slnce the beginuing of the last ccu- tury. ‘Ltey coutaln all but two or three of the wnc'ent ballads of £oglund and Scotlsnd, and nearly all thoso ballads wbicb, tu either country, have been gatbered from drul trudition, whethier ancient or uot.” A selection fs slso mads from ths broadsido ballads, tho productions of pro- fesaloua! ballad-wakers, sulliclont to show thelr chuiacter snd peneral scove, VUt DO 50 Many a3 to weary the reader or unprofitubly copsime space. The pepular baltads, the spootanceus products of uature, bave ccn much Jiberally treated, fhey bhave wnot oply been incuded whes found futaci, but buva beun testored as ler a8 bosl- ble whes found fo o wutdated conditon. When w ballad ia extant oo variety of 10ruws, all tue uwet fmpurtant verstons are glven. Tho ement of bulludig bY books 18 based o u logical division of tbesubject. Book 1. vou- toaus Lallads fuvolviug superititions of various SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, IR7P—TWELVE PAGE3, . kinds: Book 1L, tragle Jose baltada: Book Mi. wther Arasic balindsy Lo IV.. jove baleds mot tragle; Book V., bal- lads of Robin Hood. " bis followers, and compeers; Book VL., bailads of other ontiaws: Book VIL, historical ballads; Book V111, mis- cellancous bailuds, especlally humoroas, satiri- al, burlcaque. Jt f4 Impossfble fn the brief space at our comman this weel: to wive auy- thing Hie nn niequate Aotice of there volumes, Their reputation s one of the most complete and fotcilfzent collections of the kind In exist- ence was long apo cstaplished. Prol. Child availed hiineelt of evervtning of imrortance bearing on his work that had appearrd up to 1840, and, astho raze of enthustasm for battad- lare had culminated before that time, he had -ess to nearlyall the authorlties that woulabe usefu) Lo him tow, )t he were to undertahe his work agslu. Thecotiestion of ballad-puttrs made by hitn {s worthy to vecupy the place it does in the Hiverside elitfon, which It the only com- plete nml unifurm cdition of Nritish poetry that can he ohbtained ata reasonable price, or that is likely suon to be offered to the publle. The edition will Include about filty volumes, ond will he nold b an average price of & .ef Yolume. (BRiTisi Porty, Riverstle Editlon, English and Beotch Batlade, ited by Francis James Chitd. Boston: 1ougbton, Oweod & Eight volumnes In feur, Price, 87). JIATITUATL DRUNKENNESS. A controverry sprung up fn London, while the Habitual Drunkards bill was pendine in Parlfa- ment, a8 to whetier dthnkenncss was in all cases 8 disease, Dr. Charles Buckmin, ¥, R 8, malntaiced that, while the appetite for drink in sutne cases was fnherifed, drunkenness was generally a vice, sot a discase, His srguments on this head provoked a humber of sharp critf- cisme, o Parlisment and out, and he replled as shorply. His letters have now been cullected in a thin volume and pubilsied by Macmillan & 0. Dr, Backn!Il's theory i3 fn opposition to that of moat medical men In this countey, The fin- vortant consequence of ft is that patholorical treatment of drunkenness is absurd, and instl- tutions for the cure of drunlkenncss nal best be at once abandoned. Dr. Buckntll does not shrink from azcepting 1his conclusion. He has visited nearly al the so-enbled inebriste as- lums In thia country, and o belloves that with the single exceptlon of 8 Reformatory fo Phile adelphia, which does not pretend o cure drunk- enyear, thuy are all frsuditlent or fucflicaclous, or botl. b most of them, he learned rom pers sonal obscryntton, the patients could and did obtain as much lquor as they dealred. In eome Instunces, patients were detained unjustly to promote the deslizuaof thelr relativesspon thelr prooerty; in others, the reatraint exercised uj,on them was erely nomibal, but in ol the evi- dences of Improvement were wanting. % My own impressions of the luchrate asy- lums of Amusica writes Dr. Buck- aill, *‘arc most uufavorable. 1 behieve tho treatment of . habitual drunkards for the cutu of thelr supposed discase to be uusound from top to bottom snd erervwhere. I " moke no cxeeptiom. o . . Tho State Incbriote Asylum at Medin has been sup- pressed beeaitse it was suld to be afallure. Tue New York Inchriate - Asvlum at Word'a Island nas been ordercd to be suopressed for the same reason. The Governtient at Albany hns consented to give tho Blughamton Asylum a Irial for vne more yesr, witer which thne, unices it redecms its cliaracter, the bullding is te be devoted to otlier purposes.’” Of Iing- bamton Dr. Bueknlll writes: “It has been o s.andal from its fuception. . . . The utter hullowness, or rather the total abaence of any attempt_at discipline and treatment was most obrioun.” Dr. Bucknil] regards babitus! drunkenness ss an incurable vice. It can bo restrained only, he belteves, by punlshm nt. Confinement s often 4 hardshipto a drunlkard’s fumils, but flue and Imprisonment for cvery casy ot drunkicnness would, Pr. Buckmil belleves, be more benetietul to the community us 3 whole ihan ony aystem of pampering fu. public institutions. Where teled this remedy has been known to work re- markoble chatges fn . the habits ol drinkluy 1t {s, tiaweeter, adreary outlook that Dr. Bucknlll presents, Habitual drunknrds, he saye, will and must Kill themsclves; and It wijl be better for them 10 doso, and Jeave their pinces and possessions to vthers mors worthy of them. Drunkenness, aghin, Is a direct cause of sterility, and so iy n_(mw and awful exaniple of A Co. the Burvival of thy Flut For ol this, ncknill does mot helleva that spirite Mquors sre mever uscful. Thev = dd¢.in some jnstances “knit up tho ratsled slceve of care! Alevhol s, in ‘some tonditions of thie body, n food, e hos lnmself uo doubt that o moder- auto use of fermented grlnk is useful In thetreat- ment of mental diseades” ** Asuleohol, by causing parttal varulysis of nervoua mechankim,will somotimes obtend this shoek of physicat fnjury which woild otherwiss bo futsl, it wihl deaden the nlow of mental pain, which would otherwise destroy the reason, Mt he would not be mis- represented as recommending strong drink us o remedy fur gricf sud) curo when they threaten sanity. Though it fsmich o remedy, ft Is & most uusafe one. Though there are possible occa- aluns of Its use, it 1aore commonly chters as an evil spirit {oto a berd of human spirite scak- Ing their owu destraetton,” (* Hubitual Driok. urds and Insaue Druskards,” Ly Charles Buek- nill, M. 1., Lond,, Iy it 8, Fellow of the Roynl Cotlewe of 'ivsictans, faie Lord Chancllor's Visitor of Luuatics. London: Maculllan & Co. L'rice 81.) 1. RECENT NOVELS, Henry Holt & Co, have added to thelr Lefsure TMour Serles another mustzal novel. ‘fhe sceno is lald n Germany, where only fn these days can o suf®lect musleal atmosphere for such a purpose be found, but the beroine and many other personuges of the story are Engltsh. Tho plot s complicated and perplexiue, not to say disappoluting, There are three slsters, daugt- ters of an Euglish Rector, An Enchish Baronct vesters the youngest of them with hls atten- tlons, She refuses bim, An eccentric old wotnan adopts her and takes her 1o Qcrmnany. There she studics usle and cultivates her vulce. By mecident she makes the scquaintance of a handsomo and wysterious man who fs frst violin In a provinclal orchestrs, but ovi- dently out of his position, 8ho alls pas- sionately In love. ~ Scandal Is busy with his name. TNle 18 charwed " with torzery, and will not deny it. §ho stlll belivves {u him. They are eugaged to be marrled. Then 1t coues out that he belongs to o noble family, and that, for reasons which need not hers be explained, he pernutted Lhmself to be falsely seeused. While this Is iotug forward, one of the slsters of the herofne, left at honie, has married the Naronet, e brinss her over to Germany, I1is treatmout ol hier {s studiously cruel. Bhe {s detven Lo alf in Jove with amosie. al director, The congcquences ars sad o all concerned and §b canios bu sald that, In thid lustance, sin Iy wede atiractive, or the publvli- wient of {b too bt The novel, on the whule, 18 o stight conugeh affals, It exnihits wo great jower; but [t muy pass an hour or 1wo away {n an ngreeasie and “fnnocent Ieshiton, (0 Frat Viohu'! By Jessle Fothergilh, New Yo leary Holt & Co,) Euitle Zolu 13 8 Fronch uoyellst at the othor extreme from Fandeat, whose ** Madeifuo 1 wus unotleed last week, ‘Lhe former depruds upon the worklngs o gufity | assion fog bls mo- 11ves the Jatter usk no. aputhy for impuriey. Zolw's ** Helene ™ haa bieen trandlated by Mary Neal Sherwond, aad piblished by T, B Peter- son & Bros, 1t Is deseribed in the sut-title as saloye eplsode,” mud N the prospectus us “ a taly of love, passlon, snd remorse’ 18 by ons of tha viiest thinzs-that a vila French writer has ever produced. Eved wheu it dues not play with aditltery it {3 unwholesue und nauseating, It minutely deseribes the convul- sjona of a chil, 8 child's fealousy’of tier muth. er's lover, and a funcral. Au Euglah critiz sukl of * L'Assumnioir,”” Eandeau's vrevious work, which in tho orizinal coutaincd manv anza strect-words, that 1t should be read with u dictlonary i une hand and s fockut- handkerchie! in the other! “lleicne” should by read, 46 at ally by o Llazmz grate-ire, so that sy reader who way feel incilued o yicld to Letter smpulses muy toas it o, ENCYCLOP.EDIA OF PORTRY. Porter & Cuates, uf Philudelpbia, have pub- olished *“I'hu Fireside Bucyclopedia of Pogtry," comprising tho best paems ol the iost famous writers, Euzliab aud Amerlcan, compiled and edited by Henry T. Coal fho uuthor vx- platus 0 & preface that the work was beguu nine years aro, gnd has Leon a labur of love ever stuce. [lia Buu has been ta make au onc clupadia of the poctsy of the Bugl angua;; that would b W e, He as cousulted the beat critics wud pevicsers, snd lus uot besttuted o waeps thewr llmb;un»ut when it seemed to Lo gulted. The plan ot the work Ls suutlar (0 that ot 3lr. Charles A, Duna’s * 1ioussavtd Yook of Puetry," belng based un o elsasilication by subjocts. Sr. Contos? work:, so Tur ua e have been able £0 exumive i, b biea well doue; und thu beok cught to lud a place, Jike others of Lle sume Kiug, lu wany buusse olds, (Philadclpbia: Porter & Contea. Prwe, L) . THE PORTYOLIO. ‘The Perlfuiiv fur Novewber has for its frontis- ploze Edward yobu Gregory's 8t Grorge,” vtchied by P..Bajou. bir, Gregory 4 o young painter, having been borp at 8authanpton carly 101550, Iuloi3be wes clected a mewtes of the Institate of Painters n water<olors, ot in 1535 he made hls first venture at the jtoyal Acadeiny with a portralt, elnce which time he has been princirally engazed as a portrait- palnter. Tils not, however, his intention to confine himself tn portralt-painting. The *'St. Georze ' fs thi degrriben] fn the text: #The manl? ana soldterlv face, not beautiful, but strong for the contest with the dragon, the lizhted eyes . with Inward carncatnees and zeal, tae powerfur hand ready to geasp the hilt of his preat weapoo, 18 plain and nowerful, and, o the original, Ane- Iy eolored." Thrre I8 another atticle on Edin- hurg, with a beautifn] etching of an_old street, ‘The fchools of Modern Art fn Germnany are agalo written of by Mr. Atkmson, thls paper be- Ingz devoted to Vienns and the Austrian Fme rim Tlie typleal plate is after Lersinge's nolut- i of * Eeceling fn Prison after the Battie of Cassano.” Mr. Homerton's papers on Turner ara eantinued. This one containe a careful erit- felsm of the * Sfave-Shin.'* fn which 1t is said that Tuener fel} Into erudity in his enloring, but hin waye-forms and sky are highly adosired, (New York: J. W. Bouton, 706 broadway.) BRIEF NOTICES, = * Just ffow: A Key to the Conk-Books,"” by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, I8 intcnded to show be- ginners In the kitehen precisely how to go to wori, and to eave them the hewilderment of an unnecessary taultiniicatton of formulm and di- reetions they cannot understaud. Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Co. Price, §1. Marpor & Bros. have printed In thelr Handy- Volume serles the articlo on Rufus Cioate written by Edwin P, Whipple for the ninzazine, The articln 18 really 8 valusble contribution to the tiszraphy of the subject. Mr. Winople knew and admired Chocte, and hae every guall- fizatlon for writing of him well. The price of the Hitle volume in paper covers 1s 13 cents, Touzhton, Oszond & Co. have rut fortha new editlon of *Mother Goose,” with flinstia- tions In color by Alfied Kappes, The tyje fs large and plaln. and the iuetiations luve a Nigh order of ortistle merlt. The hook i« dedi- cafedto.fohn Fleet Eliot, the Grent-(ireat Gruud- son of Mother tioose, and the vreface Is ut once o blozraphy of the true Mother tivvse and a Justification of the dedication, Thix s a new edition of 1he Mother Goose printed by Hunl & Houghton {n 1569, but Iimproved by the colored {’.‘““”g'{““' of Mr. Keppes aud otlier addltlons, rice, §3. Little, Brown & Co.. of Hoston, have printed in a pretty lttle volume in creen and cold the Minor Pocms of Percy Bisshe Eleliey, The texiis Shelley’s own—as Mr. 11, Buzion Formun las vrescrved it in his edition of 1337, The vol- ume_includes eversthing of Shelley's exeeyt his half-dozen lonz poems—'*Quecn Mab,” “Tha Resolt of Islam," * Tue Pomstheus,' “The Cenel,” cte. It will proLably be the opinion of most admirers of Shelley that this volute contulns the parls of his wurk which, f a cholet had Lo be made, are beat worth presery- g Price, $1.75. Lce & 8hicpard, of Doston, send us, too late for potice this week, advance sheeir of a new tiook of pooms by Mrs. Guatafson, whosz con- tributions to the mogazines amd bewspapers have brought her sowmw reputation. In the satno concetion it {s announced thae Mrs, Gus- tufson s enmaged in editiog for publication by the same firm the complete works of ** Maria del Occidente? (Mrs. Maria Brooks, nee Gowan, of Meudford, Muss.), sn Amcrivan ctess, who dled In Cuba in When Mrs. Brooks’ Zophiel 1 madeits anpearance, Robert Southey, Curles Lamb, and other celebrated English- men of letters, rend it with sstonishment nnd sdmiration, and Southey clalmed for 1t the first place among works of feminiue genius. ‘The National Temperance Society sud Publi- cation House, No, 53 Reade street, New York, hos publishcd a *Juvenile Temperance Mau- ual,’” by Julia Colman, author of Cateshisiy on Alcohol, ete. It 18 Intended to be used in teache ing the young, by precest und 1Bustration, Lue evils of Jutemnperance, It gives a number of ag- dresses apprupriste for such ocvasiops, If children can be induced to go to temperance schools, thiere 14 probably no place where they will in the spme time derive more benefit. But fs there not somo danzer of overdoing the thing! If all kLinds of drinks arc upheld zs coually pernictous, and a child should in the course of time learn that some arc not sy, s there not Jikelthood that thicy will discredit the teaching of temperance rehools altorether? For the same reason, It scems unwlie to {uclude attacks upon tobseco with those on aleohol. By attemptine too much it s posatblo to ae- coupllsh too litdle, LITERARY NOTES. Loulse Chiandler Moulton is writing letters about Ameriean books forthe London Athen- wums 4 Justin McCarthy's “Histor; of Our Own Times, From the Accession of Queen Vietorin to the Berlin Congress,” is announced for pub- Meation by Measrs, Chatte & Winders, of Lon- don. The Natin of Nov. 21 has o caustic paragraph on Mr. J. W, Forney's unew paper, 'rogress it even speaks of his editorial parsgraphs as 4 Hunsby {sus." The Ictters which Mr. Willism Winter wrote for the Naw York Tribune under the thie, “A Trip to England," have been collected inasmall volume, which 8 now in press at Leo & Shep- ard's, Boston, ‘Tue Eastern papers contain many notlees of the wondesful Goodate chitdren, the fint el tlon of whoss hook of poents, published by th Putuamny, was alimol Inntantly exiasted, sistesy ara 13 und 13 years of ‘age respectively, oud thelr pocms are much more mature than ihietr res would Indivate, Theie promise is :lam-thhm more thaw that of precocious ehll- ren. * Mesars, itarper Bros. have withdrawn the sult for injunction aud damages bezun a couple of weeks ago agatust Robert Clarke & Co. for sell- Ing the Cunadian editfon ot Stanley’s Loog on Alrlea. Explanations kave shown that there waa o misuvprebension of facts in the case on thoe part ot tnu Harper Bros. and su xoun ns thoy were properly understoud the snlt was withdrawn, The new volume of snoovnivus pocms, pub- ished vy Mugsre, Roberts Bros, fu their No- Nume Series, Is exelting il the mnterest that wns expected of it 3t la reported that James Ruos- rell Lowell Is one of the comiributors Lo ir, Jean lngelow, Bayard Taylor, bwinburoe, Brownlng, aud Tenuyson sre otler uames met slosed i the same connection: but it will well 10 ke the greatest of these with some reacrvations. ‘e followlug, from Robert Browalnz, bas Deen du2 up for uso i & reccut controversy Luudon: There's 8 great test in Galations, ucs yut Leip on it entaila ‘Twouly-uine gistinet tone, an be, d hioh Nying Bpin hin round and Ol 19 Hell, a Manichee? poul carnings,’ and dusires (0 Know what the wrigin of 1t v, Excusnge in N uatural traust rou, which, fu tuls cuuntry, as fn Frauc surt of betling exchiwuge, Lee & Shepard bave sent us the prompt hooks of plays presented by Edwin Boota and pdited by Willum® Wincer, ary © flulet,! - (ubeilo,” We fuar it cae trom the dioeic ew York, and nrose thers from a of the Juneusge of um;.zn- a ‘The valunies alrewly wut ** Richard 15, * Michelivu,™ * Kathaiiue and Petructio,) “Ruy Blus," io Fout'a Revengo,” *Riug Loar," - alacbeth,' * Richard 111, and *Ligtus." ‘Fhose lu press ure *tdulius Casary') lhe Merchant oi Venlee? < Much Auo Ahou Nothi- miv‘." Sthou Cuwsar do Bazan," uud Henry st gl prices Weit r ted biddivg for Puulious? Artle Epitomata.,” “la hts “Hiblotheps dpen- ceraug,” Dr, Ihbdin ettempted te pipve that the editlon of this book priuted v 11%H was the drst, and that the cdition saud to lave been printed threo years ecarller was ja The copy «old’ was a genuliiy ofto pr cepa, prinied by Erbrd utdolt, Veulee, 1457, contafulig sixty-scvenleaves, thirry- the page, with the zrotesrue letty and {t was ¢y times its weiznt larget ey fetchied Haliweli’s Shakspe v fur whbich o Luyer gi fno ot Bt. Juhn Il 851U, Cnis editon of (Shuksprare was inited to 150 copiew, vach uf whi by the cditoramd the printe Yhe copy i wuestlon s putmber tifteen. Yhe 1,63 editivn ot W worke of Jubiy 'l'J\‘lw‘l;i/ water-poct, buund v e hinvs 10 s und wood- 81U, ~twu kold. Thy 4 cooy of cen voluines, sld fur, cuts, 1y ur b ) wer sighed by Rlviure, Lrought $i2 aa'e cffocis the dlspesatun of part ol u Horerf that slr. Odeil hus tue, Alany cust g, & seds ol the woli been wore thal twenly yoal of thy buuks sold fur wore largyr number for les: sely uwwouuted to thousand dollars. Taree or four bldde yhe uvon osders fur vrivate collectors or public bre.es, 00K & nus A correspondent who hias not read ts * Han- fet " inquired of Notes aud Queries whebhy “Neat but not gaudy ' I o quutstion fru auy uudrhu ow aid it unset” Another cor- respondent fs wuch exercised by the phrase ¢ Lo 9- Jority of the lota sulll, and (hieir active competi: tion mwle an vuflagene market, at hizh pricee throuzhoot the flve dava’ sale, The sccoud vulume of the catalogue {8 in { ress, and the re- mainder of thisextraordinary iibrary will be sold dunng the wintee, Mr. Bavurd Tsylor's new noem, Frince ten- kaiton, {s about ready for publeation. 1t recalis.’ saya onn critie, **the spirit of the Pro- methens; naturaily so, howeve-, for that herofe Tian s one of ‘tho characters of the new drama.’”" The Boston Adrertiser says of {t: **The roem Is one of preat strengeh and beanty, et (¢t Is ane for study aud slow reading, It s it of the vague acnse of mystery which i3 the inheritance of “the human kind. The fireek fNczossity ' secms fmpending over all. An frresiatible sapmiething hehind, unseen, over- rles the majestic Titans and controls qreenly Urania, ANl the chicl pcraonages feel and ae- knowledge thie, and this Is the key $0 pages which otherwise would be ohacare. ‘Thers is no weaknesa in the characters. For rood or for evll, they are powerful. Faw prasages are of & character to gepsrate and beeowe current as familizr quotations. Yet some there are. such 08 ' Time {8 the billow, Destiny the shore.’ *Prince Deukalion,’ altogetler, 16 a profound work, o wastes-pacm, aud will appeal to the dm-L\ experience of all who hinve attempted the dark aliyes which surrounds tnan sod baflies his thoughi.) Mr. 8malley writea to the New York Tribune under date of Nov. 1: M, Tnrzencfl, who Las been paying visitat an Enaiieh couniry Luine, paseq thiongh London on Nem think he must Jave sumie American admlrers who wiil be giad to henr ti:at he I8 tn ex- cellent bealth, M, Turgenefl In In lie 1t yeur, and one of Use younsest men 1 hzee fatcly tnet. Ills crawn of snow-irhite hair, with liiasnovzeswhite beurd anl muntaches, seent 30 b rather n freak_of natire than the proper ornan of uld age, Hlx face Is fiurld with youtbfuluess; Lis slioullers are unbent; hivatep bsfiom s his whule weariug full of robuet ‘vigor. Thers muat be sozathing {n u Niny blood Whict Iskes it neconnt of advage years, 2. Turgenofl e tlor © rather tan g tyge s I full of acaie observa Ineled ovith » ahmpiies ity and an nbsence of conecioi<nesa which few Europesns of the Wesl preserve nafter early sauth, 1ic Is not one of thase wnters whou yon admite ln (el boodn only. and whn disappomt you when you nect thepr, 8s if they had not enuigh to rocnd, but nust hushand their genioa fur print, and so sterve the convereation in which they profeas tn take past. 1 heard him ponr out anccdutes for hourn, Targenes talk ran on books, nen of Jetteea, on Lunting, and on the Hife of Lueland, swhich, Raerian ar he is, he had lullnl].c)lalmlllv.’;mulhlr As charninue A his hont tound nhin, _ He myuired uaw? for ist, —Mr, Honry Jdames, Je. off to find him, PERIODICALS RECLEIVED, The summary of the students at the Dilnols Industrial Univeraity at Clamoulgn shows a toial of 404, classificd ss follows: Resident graduates, 10: Senlors, 405 Juunlors, 48; Sopho- wmures, 003 Fresbmen, 103; Preparatory, 118; epeciul. 10, Ludies, 90; gentlemen, 808, ‘The San'tarian for December bas the follow- ing leadivg srtlcles: * flot-Afr. Electrie, and Loman Baths:" ¢ Sanitary Coudition of Parts;" “Typhus Fever {n 8t. Petersbarg:" ¢ Public Parks: ‘Their Moral In| " The Apothe- earyy” “dutcdde Not Eridencn of Tnsantt ene. A. N, Belly No. 47 Latayette place. ‘The catalnzue of Oberlin Uollege for the com- fniz vear gives the following summary of stu- deuts: Department of ‘Thealogy, H; Departe ment of Phitosophy and the Arts, 816; Depart~ ment of Preparatory Instruction, 493; Conserva- tory o Musiey 2. Total, deducting for ¥1 reckoned twiee, 1,015, Whole number of gen- tlemen, 553 whole number of ladtes, 457, In the ordinary classical and sclentitie course, cor- responding with the ordioare collece course, there are 123 ventlemen and 33 Jadics. The Journa! of Speew’ative PPhllosophy for Oce tober has the followma tobie of contents: !+ Chrlstianity and the Clesring-Up, " bz Fraocls Seh aller's Ethical Stodies,” by Josiut, Rovee; * Jacobl, aud the Phllosophy of Fulthy" Hobert 1L Worthinetons & Hesel un Romaatle Art?” (Fr.), Willlam M. Dryant: “atatement and Reductfon of Syllogism," George_lruce Holstead; Notes ond Diacul slons; Book Notices. 'Ilic magazine Is theouly one of the kind pul d In this country, and s stunding siong scholars Is very hign, St Louls: G. 1. Jones & Ca. ‘The Amaerican Law Kegluter for November hos a leading articlo on the subject, **ls the Bar Unpopmlar?”? The writer arrues that the un- vopuluriti of the American Bay §s mnure apparent. than real, and shows thut Jawsiers were tever taore influential In Cobpress and 1 public lite than they are to-dav. 1t s to be regretied, it tbis bo true, thut they have not made Coneress and pubiie e more worthy the approbation of moralists and censors. ‘The remainder of the dteqister 1a taken un us usuil with reports and abstracts of recent gecisions. *hitadelphia: D, B. Cunfleld & Co., No. 229 Bouth Sixth street. BOOKS 1 Tux Nonwass m It (Epache of Nlatary Serien.) Dy o ftev. It. 11 dohnwon, M. A Inte Fellowof ANl Soul's Colleve, Usford, W mne. o Now Sork: Clartea” Seribuard fon 'rice, RNexsaxix Du Prax. Gentleman of Alots, Deputy deneral of the Reformed Canrclies of Francy from 172510 1564, By 1. Buunefon. Imported and for esle by Serfvier & Weiford, Sew York, Frce, §2. T Leiax or Gon Nor **Tix RRiaxX or Law." By Tuomas eott Bacon. (An orthadot view of tho contict between selicion sud sctence.) 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TRE LIMITATIONS OF 11 STXES, We flnd, therefure, that throuhout the class Manunahia the respective tusks of the two sexes are precisely such as we fnd o our own speci the 1nale §s the uefender aml nrovider, wherever such defense and provision are necessary; the fomale o the nurse, The man who brings bome to his wifu bis weekly enrnlnzs, his pro- fesslounl fees, or his sbare of the profits of a business, merely repeats on a higher scale the aslon of the Hon who carrlea a dver oran rrialope to bis den, Eushsex fullills tho tusks fur whichs it 13 especially adapted by Nature, and anything lke * subjuzation ' (& uttterly out of the quesiton. Wero the duties of the two suxes confuunted together, or, still wore, wern they tuversed,—the female, for tustavee, golug forth to face danger or to hunt for prey, winle the male wad left to burse the young.—the posi- tlun of the species In the great and coustunt siruiele tor existence would e very decldedly oitered for thy werse. We wust concidg, therelore, that the attempt to atter the presont relations of the sexcs {a not & rebotlion ugainet some arbitray faw_fostituted by o despot or o majority,—tiot un nleux)u 1o break the yoke of ® anere conventions it Is o struggle ugainst Nuture; o war undertaken o reverse the vy conditions uader which not man alone, but ath waininahan specles have reached thelr pres- et developnient. Seminueuty) gpearers sud wnters have commented oo the well Kuown fact that even o Very youue boy with to s utmost ubility, defend bis sister ur tamale playmate, and have excressed o hope that this banit—the resuls of rarly tralnipg— would wear out, the femate no lunger pecding il the msle no luiger olfering protee Alas! s the very w3 habit in the upe,thn Lan, or the bizun, e reault ol a sistahen tiaiumg or of an Oll-World conventlow, to be laid ashic 0 these entizotencd dayat What would be she posttion ol o fauly of youu lons il buth thele parents weut fortn to'buot! set very shinilar will_be that of ehildren if their mother, u3 weil ay thielr futtier, goes out Lo the daily toils of u profuarton, leaving them perhaps Lo ihomselves —periups to the cave of fgnoraut and uupris- clpled hirclhges.—2'opular Scisice Monthly, b THE TOP OF THE WHEEL. Tu the Editor of The Tribune, Cnicaae, Nov. 21.—The Sceutifle Ameriean arigues that the top of u wheel in motion woves fastes than thu bottom (or that puitiou vn the grousd). This same statemeut Lias been wode wony tmes, 1 bave made muny experitcnts cr to ascertaly tho exact time reéguired to ch? o wheel when nmodon, Buall - stunsneony photographing the result s o nuted by the Seent jic dmer.can. Bub wero you tu take W ine view, you will vhserve thal tke ton of the wheel wilt apoear wiaer than the oltomn. This 13 accounted tor wu this way; tho top of the wheel witrates or treinbles more than the bot- tow; besluvy, Lhe Tavs of lizbt ore differvat us sou appreach the surface or gronnd. Bat the wheel docs not turn fagter at the toy. PrOTOGRAPHRR. BCIENCE NOTES. . ‘The largest dlamong bitherto found at the Cape (s the * Spalding diamond, fonnd in the river diggings some_years since, which welgned 233)¢ carats. At Duloltspan ficld ane other largs diamond has becn recently found, welrhing 244 carats, which 19 sald to be free trom fiaw, and will cut well. A now exploralion of the vast districts be- ‘ween the Guli of Carpentaris and the Indisa Ocean, In the so-called Northern Territory of Bouth Australls, is about being undertaken by Mr. Ernest Giles, the well-known and snccessful traveler. ‘The ubject (s Lo carry some 20,000 to 30,000 sheep and 10,000 cattle “scross the cunti- nentto tho vast tracts of grass lands along or Iving near the Indian Occon in the Northern Terrlory, Tliese animals witl bedivided amop, scveral partles, each under its proper head, nu5 all controlled by Mr. (ities. The tme occipied on the journey will be at least acven onths. The expectation of finding eoll {n paging quantitier in New Uninea appears to Le nne founded, the party which satled from Sraney In the Colonist in Avrfl last havioz met with ‘but little success, Many hardshipa awl a greas amount 9 sickncss iere exoerienced, and the gold was in quantity scarcely gresiec than Is to be found in alinost any part of Austeatia, It Is thouwhit, however, that the yvaluable forest treen, such gs sandal-wood and ebony, and the possibility of establishing spice planiations, as aleo the ntnndanes o cinnamon, nutmeg, 2480, ond cozeanuts, wili provably fnduce an enigras tion to that country. YVesuvius hesitates to take any declded step, Asat the ful} moon, so at the vew moon thera wan a flare-up; and those not o its sccrets, as our {riend J'rof, Palmicrt s, conildently exp ¢ a preat eruotfon, For une or two nights be- forg and after the mew moon there was a brill- fant sp cle, 80 1ar as the dense cloude on tho summit would allow us to e . Bus tals hos il eeaseds Seill, fn thet brief period the Java surgled over and reached the vdge of the uld crater, over which it threatened tu pass and roll down Lhe shiles of the mountain towards Som- m t Is caleulated that apwards of 100,000 cuble metres of lava have accutmulated within 1he old crater. For smne time yet people raust dread the caprices of Veauvlus wt tho chuuged of the mvon.—Acaderny. A simple method by swhich the purity of water may be tested is thelollowinz: A puit of water 16 10 o Llaced in 6 clear bottle perfectly clean, and a Jumnp about the slze of a pea of Liie puress. and whitest loal-suzar {8 te be dropped fnto it The bottle is then Lo be lald on n siicet of paper, and exposed Lo the suw ot o shell ur w the room, aud allow=d to remaln cizghtor teu days, 1fafter g tima the water becomes turhid, it shows that 1t contalas foreign vrganic matter, protably resulting frum sewerage luflitration, Acconding to Prol. Frauklin, who suggests tha experiment, the colorativn of the woter results Irom the fungold growtbs which are develoned by the suar, and from traces ot phosphoric acid derived from the organte matter, (iaugain has recorded the curfous fact thats . bar of “steel magnetized ut 4Q) degrees or 560 deyrees C. not only losos its Mognetisim wr - ually g it Iy cooled” untll It bocon rero, uut thut thon magnetism of vontrary 4 AU 0Cars, and fnereazes until the bar reazhes th ture of the alr, never becomiy tenso us the orfpmal mug [ heating it the satny effects are produces in thy Joverie order, and they may be reprosduced agzaln many times without rémaguctizing. ‘lo ne- couut for this the author proposed the bypoth- csis that the bars which vresented $he phenom. ena couststed of two lavers of magnetist of contrary name, which wire diftercntly moditied Ly the varfutions Iu the temperature of the bars, Vulpian draws attention to two facts which ndicate that the activily of the sudoriparous glands s In no way correlated with the activity of the circulation through the skin (Comptes Mendus, 80 Boptembre, 1878). First, the in- creased recretion of sweat ubserved on the toes of the tund-limb when tbe peripheral end of thie sciotic nerve is furadlsed coluchies with inarked #paan of the cutancous arterioles and dimin- {shed blood-supply. Secondly, swhen the heart's action Is nbout to ceaso just before death, and the integument s pale and bloudless, small drops of perspirmtion may be scen vozink fram tho urllico of the sweat-ducts on the toes, 1€ one sciutie nerve bas been previously cut, the corresponding paw reinsins dry, showlng that thie sthinulus to secretion is central, E A correspondent of the Washlazton Podt, wiiting from Cincionati, says that a Siss Mce Laughlin, of that city, has discovered the Lim- oges pglaze, and s to-day producine syeclne of {aience which, in beauty of coustruction and ducoration, are second to none. There sre two methods ot palnting on ching, koown s under- y'aze ond oterg'aze worlk. The forwer i3 the most rare and diflleult process knowi n pot- tery, und it wus (or a louz tine o lost art to wmodern coramles. A process for doing it suc- ceastully was discovered in France ln 1670, An entervristng American, Iaviland, obtalned it, and went foto the manufactura of * Limoyxes,” or what Is better known as tbe “Haviland fafence,” De who applies tuls method to Perstun falence, and [laviland are the ovly two manufacturers of this uadergluzs work in the workl, ond thelr methods of work sre Kept strletly sceret. In a recent number of the Ninetcenth Century, by Mr. Lockyer, the writer very strongly yues- » {luus Dr. Henry Draper's discovery of ox) in the sun. Mr, Lockyer says he has vone ca fully over the whole: groun, and tinds (1) that the photograph an which Dr. Draver bases tho discovery 18 not one competent tosetile such an fmportant question; (2) that he does uot lind the comeldences between brizit solur lines and oxyeen lines in the part of the spectrum with which he Ia maost fumiliur; and (3) that, compar- tug Dr. Draper's photocraph with the fiue ‘mmm.'uph of the suectrums obtafned by Mr, tntherford, he 4 fails to find any trae blue line In the sun whatever coluetdent with any iine of oxvzen whatever.” Recent observations ot Greenwich, by Mr. Christie, and by Dr. Jotin C. Druper, of the City of New York, bave led toa similur vonclus'on, und the wiole subject, so [ar as the oplnlons of scientltle men are concerned, mny be said {o be In an unsettied state, The tenth annual report of the United States (evlogieal aud Geographical Burvey of the ‘I vitorles, In charge of Prof. Hayden, wil be ready for distrilution In u few weeks. The re- t has been in tyoe nearly u year, but hoe been aelayed on account of the engravine ot the plates. ‘These are now campleted, and the renort will be fssued at once, It contains 510 with clzhity plates, f the plates hins. ers (0 Houthiern Colorado ond Nortern New Mexivo, | This 1y e last unnual report pertatntng to Colorsdo, fns u very intervsting serics of chap- & reology of that remarkuble country, On the whole,” thiv report will prove ane of grene popular dnterest, and ourht to have been puttished In irest numbers, anly 4,60 coples have ua vet been ordered, Athut 24 pages of the cloventh ananual repory of the tleld-work for 1677 arcintyne at tha Pub. He Printing Otlise. This will contain a detailed deserintion of the ceologiat and geographicul features of Southern Wynaing uud 1daho. repurts of Sle Juseph” D, Hooker und Dr. A Gray wil give this volume u bieh character, o well us grcat pupulur (atercst. Ten thausand cavles have been ordered by Cougress. 1hel will bo very estended gevloieal reports Ly Messra, Etllich, White, Bt. dol, and Peadd and geographical revorta by 3l :‘flnmmuuml pections, mavs, c1e. Fifty trate the romnrhadlo chil-d4 tera op Wilsua, and spucial reports by Leidy, etc. +9; S5 n—— e NIGHT. As s0me dusk mother shivlds from all alarma The tired chlld whe £3thess 1o her Lreast, Tue branette Night dath fold mu b hee arms, At hushe t peacy and rest, 3 e, and § hear . Her volce of wiLds [ow croonine i my ear, 1 Nigbt, 0 Nizht, how beautifal thoi a Cata, fuld ine closcr to thy pulaing bes The day fa fuli of pladness. and the 1izat £a beauli8:s the commion ouler things, 1only see with ty ¢xternal sivht, And Unly hearthe great word's vuice Bat sitently from cayli. The sweei Nignt draws e —whlype 2 with: And lookn, Tece what ‘The Nignt aays, ‘' Listen!™ and upon my sar Nevealcd, s 7o the vaslons to oy mrit, Tae volcés known as ** Beanbiful * conio near ud wiiiaper of tue vasty Lafinite, Great, Wlue-oyed Teuths her aivter Puelty. Fheir Lrother Tlonos And Liss wy bro, O lioly threa! how The Nizht says, **Child, slecp that thou masst BT ; Strong for to-morrow's atroggle.* And 1 fecl Tgr whaduwy 0Sers Prossing ou iy eyes: Like tilstiedows 1 1'0at Lo the Ideal—~ ; f'ua blumberland, made beautitul aud brght A duath, by dryamyof loved vics eone (1om sigbt, “l xwil lurdr‘i}l:im\;fi:lgnamn rl};;ufi,lmgnl. jow beaul ouzs of Xizht! " ! < Eurs Wussirs. St comt— ke Masculine Fashlous. oil City Darrick, * Uentlemen whu \would bo conatdercd au Jait in watters of dress will not roll up their pints ut tho heel ws formerds, but ali sround. “Tho roll shuuld not extend apove e bew, cxoept scvere cases of mud, when wo rulls Loe widtly ot tue bewg 16 adnbiible. - 1t rioge. 1u (LT 3 ong wukened from s dream, 1o jouger what doth seew. cunverse with we, ay, **ibo prave of beart!™ fa) thow arkt ¢+