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The nett? of tho witeb, tt te aalde hud wpparentl derwons eat from tho minds of muny weal Fever? ony so cate uasert ing that he shall now abe'uot iwi ee! uve boen a cripple TUS .CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, plewunter than thatof his manufacturing brother: yet. strangely cnough, so rapidly is England passing from an agricultural ton mute ari Beaute that, * Wherens fifty irsago a Ofth of the working people of Fnutond was engaged jn agrleulture, those LETTERS AND SCIENCE, Escott’s “England” — “§un- | nw uectpled in this manner are less’ than a iio nad Btovan tn the. | Wieden tuneate mena 9 eee Paine an anthe “The toll area ot Great Brituin 18 70,300,000 East,” 4, Of which 20,400,000 consist of mount- while 60,000,000 are pasture, and woods and fore: of this Jand is held by about 600 noblemen, One-fonrth is held by rn 1 beriolss Ghat avernahins 18,200 peter . a another fourth Is held by 0,200: persons, at an New Work on Ire nyernge of 3,100 neres; another fourtlt py land. - 40,770, at an average of 380 acres; while the renting fourth ts Weld by 261,30 birsmntie . aban average of 70 ucres, "Phere are 561,000 ‘i tenant farmers in England, 1 rainy TA Ouida’s” Last Novel—Magazines— i nerescach, ‘The population of nehind: in- Books Received—Literary creases wt the rate of about 350,000.10 year” Notes, Problems of Life and Mind °— The Wed of an agricultural laborer ay- ernges Jittle less than 18 shillings a week, or mit $0 "The laborer ts a free man—free fron conseription or compulsory service In thaarmy, He ts the only untaxed nin in the conmmunity (sinee he ean avoid the use of tobacco, spirits, and beer); and hits children hve practieally fi eduention, Tho Missour! Mastodon—Concorning Cyclones “ —A Roman Banquet—Soleniilic Itoms. a Jn “Criminal England’? there are some fa 40,000 thieves and depredators continually at Min Cy anil tn Hints telat we Maye. un inte: esting sketeh ol ne Fagish detectives LITERATURE, ten, with its headquarters at SeoUand Yvan +) England has a system of compulsory ed tion. Ina totat population of 25,000,000 th re 16,187 day-schools, with an enrollment of FScorms ENGLAND. ‘This isthe fourth volume in a sertes, unt form tn style, of whieh Keypt,” Rusali,? sa suit ai tneome of $10,000,000, A. y " " writer. in the Contemporary Revlew, last and "Turkey ” were the other three, ‘Thelt | Xtucust, wdmitted, however, tint Atnerten alm has been to present comprehensive piet- Swttzer and, aud Germany had left Englund far behind dn the matter of national educa. tion, An English Government. report stated that only ning out of every 100 erhuinals were able to rend and write,—so that there are manifest evasions of the taw. ‘The English educational system has nfore defects than Mr, Eseott ly willing to acinit, 3 elinpters on “Culture and Lit- erature” “Phtlosophleal Thought? and “Pouular Amusanents ” furnish pleasant: pletures of the social Hfe fa Endand. The writer next treats of the relation between England and her Colowes, Here he - speaks frankly and justly “As tho relations between Great Britain ond her colonial dependencies are at present constituted, the British Empire is fn stite of potential disorganization, ‘The connee- Hon between England aud India is unig ‘The exigencies of the Britsh Kinpire in. Eu Tepe entail a war in Asia, anid Parliament. fs. wnable definitly to fix the burden of pay- ment on any one quarter. The question of Introducing the foreign troops of ‘the Crown to an Istand in the Mediterranean Is vassed Ina debate that raises the deepest constitutional issues, A-deadiock enstes In the political life of an Australien colony, and, after months of negotiation with the Colontal Ofllce in London, nothing ts set- ed. 3 Especial attention should be directed to this particularly anomalous state of affairs: “England js a untion of Free-Tratders, Yet usaiman’s worst enemies are those: of his own household, so those most bitterly opposed to Free Trade are Engilsh subjects. The British Empire is held together by no Imperin) tarlif, whilst the British dependen- cles Impose protective duties on British ex- ports, so henvy as somethines to be alinost prohibitive.” Mr, Escott takes a particularly urielie view of the question of codperation, regarding it as the compensating principle to untoniso. Summing up his deductions on this tople, he says? eGn the whole, ff fa well that we should estimate co8peration rather by the work it hog netually done than by that which san- guine visionaries consider it may stilt necom- piish, Itis enough to know that {thns ov pantzed and elevated the Hfe uf th tas immensely {uprovisl their social } tion; has implanted in them the germs of 0 new inorality, and a disposition: which ts fruitful of promise In the future relations ‘of capital sud labor. Further, cobperation hax mude the struggle for existence ensier, exist- ences Itself happler and better, for half a illtion of Englishmen, inthe course of twenty-five years, A sum of upwards of 45,000,000 of capital forms the stock of the working-class cudperative societies. . 6. It_is further to be remembered that since 1852—when the first Industrial and Provident Societies act was passed—all this doevelop- ment has been perfectly natural and sponta- neous, las taken place in the open market, subject to the. ful and keen competition 0 other Industrial’ organizations, If the be- Nevers in an ‘agency whieh has done thus mnuch think that more than is Ukely to be witnessed yet remains for ft to do, the delu- slon Is at least pardonable; and, {f these are called fanatles, it must be remembered that it was fanaties with whom codperation had its first beginnings.” Inthe chapter on “The Services,” Cpt. ridge states that the Royal navy consists of 20 vessels of all sorts, and 0,000 imet, of whoin 14,000 are marines, ‘he regular army (exclusive of the Indinn forces, numbering 62,650 nen of all ranks) consists of 7,19) com- uilsstoned ofticers, 17,199 trun-comnilssioned. colticers, trumpeters, and drummers, and 111,- 054 rank and file, or atotal of all ranks of 135,452, ‘The four classes of auxillary forces militia, yeomunry, volunteers, and reserves Mun ber 877,202 in addition, The book Is plenaant rending. It is not an encyclopedia, tt is not a. phltsopliteat iren- tise, nor Is It Intended ta be a book of refer- enee. It is rather neareful survey of a brant feld bya tale iuiided man, who has taken i ures of the social and political condition of each of the different countries under dis- cussion. Facts and statistics have been cnre- fully comptled and arranged; officiat docn- nents have been freely consulted; and, ag a result, we have nset of valunble treatises, containing an immense amount of Informa tign, accessible in no other form, Publisher and author have done thelr work well. ‘The books are handsomely and appropriately bound; the typography Is ctearandattractive, and tho publication has, in cach instance, been undertaken at atime when publle Inter- est was awakened and curtosity stimulated in the direction of the tople treated... “England, Her People, Polity, and Pur- suits,” is written by 'T. J1.S. scott; and his work has'been subdivided Inte some thirty ehapters. We notice timely chapters on: “Great Landtords and Estate-Management; “Conmercial and Finanefal England; “The Working Classes”; “ Pauperism and Thritt”; “ Cob’peration”; “Criminal En- gland”; “Educational kngland”; “Society and Polliies”; “Crown and Crowd??; “ Re- ligious England ?; “Modern Culture and Lit- erature”; “ Popular Amusements,” ete,, ete. Much that is contained under these dliferent {Itles Is necessarily famitiny; but there fs also much that $s original, and the volume ts one whose value will be permanent. A fow exe tracts will give an idea of the generat scopo of the work, and also of the author's mode of trentinent, And we note, at the outset, that Mr. Escott’s criticisins are freely niade, and that he does not pretend to defend the shortcomings whiel) his own analysis re- yeals, We also notice that some of the ehap- ters have been furnighed by’ other writers: “Commercial England,” hy T, Scot Hender- son; * Criminal England,” by Maj. Grifiths; “ Law Courts,” by W. D. J. Foulkes; “ En- glish Philosophy and Thought,” by W. L. Courtney; The Services,” by Capt. Bridge, RN. As these writers have, however, been especially selected on necountof thelr famili- arity with the subjects on which they have written, sn additional value fs given to the entire book, We believe that it will well re- Pay. tig careful reader for tho time given to Tho Nineteenth Centary has witnessed miany changes both in England political and England Intetlectual, A genuinely popular government has been established; an earnest attempt to Introduce an effective scheme of popular education hag been reasonably sue- cessful; aud tho “ universal dissemination of Apopular literature” lings been fettered by neither political nor religious constraints, Nevertheless, many important questlous arc still unsolved. “We are In process of mak- Ing up ourininds what respect or attention, in fixing the destinies of a great natton, is due to the popular will; whut obeisance to the Sovereign; what confidence to the Sov- orelgn’s advisers. We are in perplexity what course we should steer between the demo- cratle and-the monarehical principles, ‘The respective rights of employer and employed, capital and industry, are an unsolved prob- Jem, Aro the masses to be taught sobriety by act of Parliament? How far are men to be protected against their own vices?” Most of these questions are pertinent, not only to England, but: to the other Europenn natlous. In answerlng them the author In- tends to “annlyze and explain the conatitu- ents of the artificial civilization and of the | the pains to verity his facts, and whose de- minutely elaborated Institutions of the ieHlons op rensonlnges front ten ac gnthtlte times . . We shall pass from tho Snicle wy 3, Eis Yow York: shmpler elements of our ciyilizatton and any aie B rot net hi government as they may be dbeleld | Price, $4.) in rural England ‘to the busler and mora Mighly-organized eustonts and administration of our great centres of trade and industry, dlaving geen in conerete shape the pean! of the English nation nt large,—thelr temper, tustes, toils, and pastlies,—Iit will realy to exainine the social organization of the pallte world, and the institutions and princi es ene tablished nmong us for the administration of the. Empire.” ‘Che book begins with a chapter on the En- lish vitlage—"s miecrocosin not only of the English nation, but of the English Constitu- Hon.” ‘The English parish contains the nine jature pattern of the three estates of the realm, ‘Che representative of the Lords spir- itual Is thoclergyman; of the Lords temporal, the squires, of the Conumons, the tenutit and villager; “while squire and clergyman be tween them, Hke the two Houses of Parlin- nent, practicnily exercise not a few of those functlons whieh in. thelr essouce pertain to the Sovereign only.” Passing from the aime ple village system, we are presented with a view of the’ grent Inndlords and estate-man- agement, If we accept Mr, Escott's dognis, then the British nobleman has been mueh maligned. ‘Thelr life is one ef work and we ending duties, “The higher the personage in the social seale, the more anstous and ne borlous the life... . ‘The great landlords of Englandare really the rulers of principall- tes, ‘They are charged witlt the adininistra- tion of a miniature Empire.’ And, for proof of this; he gives xdetailed account of the eusicral principles of the mrnagement of the Vestinster, Northumberland, Cleveland, and Devonshire estates. ‘The workingmen of Great Britain may be estimated at froin 15,000,000 to 17,000,000, In many respovts thelr condition to-day has been yastly improved; but in some portions of England—the Black Country, for Iustanes —It Is still deplorable. ‘Tho Ten-llour aet, the Factory act, the Workshops-Regulation aetand the ‘Trudes-Unions have done much: for the English workingman, Fifteen years ago, Inthe Pottery districts, 11,000 chiliiren. worked from 5 @ im to 8or Dp, mm, innan atmosphere varying from 120 to 148 degrees, In winter these children were sent on erninds “with the mercury 20 degrees belaw freezing- polnt, without stockings, shoes, or jackets, and with the perspinition streaming from thelr foreheads.” ‘This condition of things Is ndw absolutely non-existent. ‘The law pro. Dibits and penalizes the employment of SUNSITINE AND STORM. Mra, Brassey is a charming writer, Stmple and unpretentious; wasting no space in fine phrases; seeklng for no rhetorical effects; content lo deseribe what ns been seen us shy has sean ft, and inparting g new Interest to old themes by the freshness of her mode of trenturcnt,—the two volumes she has al- ready published read yery differently from ordinary books of travel. Her “ Voyage Around the World in the Yacht Sunbeam”? attained at once a well-deserved popularity, and we belfuve the same fate to be In store for her Intest venture, “Sunshine and Storm in the East." Weare not umnindtul of the fact that Mrs, Brassey enjoyed exeeptlonal faclities of travel and of observation, With unlimited wealth, and a luxuriously-fited yacht, as Jarge asa fourth-rate man-of-war, for a conveyance; Independent of railroads, thne-tables, steamboats, or hotels; always at case and always at home,—traveling had few terrors or dlycomforts, and it was easy to see things through rose-colored spectacles, ‘The varlous ineldents and exeitements at- tendanton her journeys furnished Interest- ing material for the daily journal, mid the bright side of things was Juvariably uppere ‘Most, In the present volume—which, like its predecessor, 18 admirably iMustrated—the writer tells the story of twa yoyages—one In 1874, the other fn 1878, around the Mediter- ranean and up to Constantinople, Inelden- ally, the writur draws « comparison between the condition of ‘Turkey i 1874 and its eon- dition at the the of her secon yisit in 1878, ‘Then, it was bright, gay, and apparently prosperous; now, shuttered, and shorn of tts beauty and prosperity; “Sunshine and Storm,’ as she has happlly expressed It. Mrs. Brnssey ts the whfe of ‘Thomas Bras- sey, an English Member of Parliament, a weoulthy gentlemen, adevated yachtsman, and whose pleasure it Is to spend his telstire tne crulsing in his yavht, ue sauten nee dren ‘under 10 ‘years of age, Sunbeain Ia adarger yacht than any tlylng anndren as tatetimess ot Teas, tun in the burgee of an Amer! yacht club, with and who cannot read and write, and under | possibly threoexceptlons: the Ambussndress, stand some geography, lilstory, and the keep- alanine to Mr, Astor; the Sliaughraun, ing of plain accounts. There is a better | bullt tor Bouckeatlt, and naw owned by feeling between employer amt employed; | Henri Say, a Frenchman; and the new steam attempts are constantly made to amell: | yacht being built for Mr. Beunetty to whieh orate the hardships of the latter; the | we mny na the America, built for Henry manufacturing laborer and the minor are | Smith, and now owned by the Navy De hetter off to-day than ever before, ‘The con- { putment. Mr. Brassuy’s yacht muy be ditton of the luboring class, as a whole, de- | tecantenlly termed a composit three-masted spite tts many drawbacks and much severe | screw schooner, with rumoyable serew, and rivation, Is visthly and steadily improving, | topsall yards on her forest. Hor length bi writer In tho National Querterty ‘Hevters for tonn Was 157 feet; beam, 27 feet O ves great credit for thls progress to the | inches; displacement of tonnage, S31 ‘rades-Unions, Mr, Escott also ussiansthem | tons; area of omidship —seetlon, 202 some credit, as embodying the principles ofar- | square feet. ‘Tho engines were of “WJ nowinal and 350) Iydicated —horse-power, From the pletures fiven of tho + Oming- Room,” Nurser: “ Sinolsing-ltoom,” * Deck-House,? ur Stite-Roo,” ete, she must bu very handsomely fitted Up an her accommodations diterently planned from thoss of our own larger yachts, ler crew, on this lost trip of 13,000 miles, con- slated of Hventy twa men and officers, with eleven cooks, stewards, and maids, and nine passenuers ineluding @ owner and Japtaln. Starting on a Sunday fn 17d, tne Ditration and coneltintion, ‘These “ friendly so- eleties? Sggreuute in England 1,787,201 mem- bers, and a total capital of £5,000,525, In this connection the statistics of the sinall savings- banks—u safe criterion of the state of English lubor—are somewhat significant. In 1883 the number uf depositors was 3, 4, and the totulamount deposited £27,187,401,—an_aver- age of between 28 und £0 per itan. In 1873 the former figures had risen to 4,003,507, and the Jutter to £09,47L,41%—nn average of £10 per man, ‘The life of the agricultural laborer ig teresting descriptions of Gibraltar, Niee, Athens, Tangiers, efe., are given,—whileh are ait, however, ¢3, ally new. A long stay was nade at Constantinople, and” Mra. Brassey evidently devoted considerable thie nnd attention to a atudy of the manners and customs of the Turks, Of the elevation of Ministers to their office a US'S ‘he last Grand-Vialer was a common Chaoueh, or Sergeant ina Sine regiment. Another Chiouch was presented with 200 and made Cofonel of a regiment, simply be- emixe the servant of a friend of ors ap pened to give hin a. palr of Aylesbury: goslings, whieh in time grew up and dnd a family of their own. Thu Sultan, who ls asslonately fond of all animals, sv and ad them at) the guard-hose, and wished to buy them. ‘the Sergeant re: fused to name a. price, but’ bersed the Sultan to accept them, and accordingly was rewarded by. Prumnation, ‘The command of one of ‘the largest ironctads was given ton canunon sailor beeanse he had a very pretty eat, to which he had taugtit al sorts of tricks. Jle presented it to the Sultan, and was told to name tls own re- ward, «4.4 ‘Tom was very) much relieved to get away without having any proposal or offer nade to hin for the yacht.” The seeond trlp of the yacht—an account of whict ovenpies by far the greater part of Als volume—began on Friday, Sept, 20, 1873, - and some of the same plitcas were visited ns on the previous trip. But Cyprus was now an English colony, aid much more the was devoted tots exploration. “It does net ap pear that Mrs, Brassey, or any of those sti- Uoned ther tit thine, Were purtleniarly enelinted with the new acquisition, Every one on board the Minotaur gives C= count of the climate of Cyprus, and see thoroughly glad to get away frome it. Th crew have always drank path water dur ing thelr stay. Mr. Hepwhrth Dixon was tnong thoseon the flag-siilp, We lind an interesting conversation, in the course of which he gave us 0 areattdeal of valuable iiforination about the stand and the things best worth seelng Init. Hespgeially recom mended ts to beware of the Torses, whieh are often estremely skittish{—n fact of whieh he hhuself had iad palnfull experience, hav- lng broken lls collar-bone By a fali front one of them.” A description pf the Island of Cyprus and its different forg oceupies sever- ri chapters, ond conveys mich useful infor- ination, ‘The contrast between Constantinople in 1878 and asshe had seen it folir years before, 1s most marker lepression, nb vd fat dts dinanchd sence of ponip and ceremopy, greater, frec- dom of the women, the Intrhduetion of Eure- pean dressy, ete, “The tan yplio now possesses the most. influence in Turkdy is, we are told, the Cafidje, or maker and hinder of the Im- peril cups of coffee. ‘The Sultan trusts and believes In hin more than fin anybody else, «oe. Thepresent Sultan appears to be much Nked by all who come in pergonal contact with hin, and to have an eargest. desire to do what Isrlght, though be isfeastly Influenced by others, sir Henry and Lady) Layard are never thred of praising bin, and) Hobart Pasha, Slr Collingwood Dickson, and many others who have oceasto to see him cone tually, seem to. be equal! fascinated. » aAmnong other faneles, the Sultan has nequired a sudden taste for farming, wow wants to find a Pall who will go. partner with him ina egrtain number of aeres; he will not hear of paying hin asa servant,” Mrs, Brassey gives an inferesting descrip- tlon of nsortof Ioblnson{Crusoe Hying on ats Dal rugged promontbry culled Cape Malen: A “It is almost Inaccessiblg from the sea, ex- cepton one tittle spot, where a hermit has built himself a house, My ts deseribed asa very oll man, with a long Bray beard reach ing down to his waist. @he little plot of Jand that is not absulutely preciplous near his house is beautifully cultivated in terraces, and he has esinall herd gf gots aid a few ply steamers and yachts imke of eatling here, ta clenve him a few isewits and a little oil. ‘They blow the whistle and tower a boat, and the of hermit comes to the shore and brings whatever produce he hins to spare’ (exbbages, milk, ‘owl, exes), leaves It on the beaeh, und re- tires ta a cave close by, ‘The boat's crew land and take the tilings, leaving in their pluce whatever thoy have brought. As soon us they have rowed a ttle way off the hermlt comes nnd takes possesstotoef his part of the exchange. Hud trasts entirely to the honor of his lato: The story goes that the hermit was originally a shipowner of Athens, and always commanded one of his own ships. ‘Three thmes did he rin pashore on this racky poling, on euch occasion Jositig lis ship and “imaly of his crew. At Jnst, In despair, he vowed never to speak to any one uguin, and to spend the remainder of dis lie he doing penance for his misfortunes on this solitury expe, with which there Is no communication e: pt by sen.” Jan. 5 the fainily were ones more fn their Engl 1 home, and the voynge was ended. 1t7 Jind less of tythan the voyage round tho world, itd been a very pleasant five months’ ertlse, and they left the Sunbeam with regret, We hive only been able to give a very gen- eral Iden of this fiteresting book. ks of travel often only suceced In accumulating a mass of statistical Information, detailing geographicnl features, recapttulating history, and heaping Pelion apon Ossu in the way of facts and. the hnpress lions of others, shing and Storm? is free from these peeul- farlties, and ix, therefore, all the more pleus- antrending, Itts nota book of re 3 not nn authoritative trentise on the counter visited. 1tis the well-told story” of a pieis- ant trip, Hled with Ineidents and anecdotes that serve to brighten up its pages, It ought to wford profitable entertainment for many an evening to those interested In. travels anit adventure, We inay add that the publisher's work has been well’ done, the book hand- somely bound, and great care shown both in presswork and composition, (“Sunshine and Stormin the Enst. By Mrs. Brassey, New York: Honry Holt & Co. Lvol, Cloth. Price, $3.60.) PROBLEMS OF LIFE AND MIND, George Henry Lowes, who died not long sinee, left manuscripts of the continuation of, his “Problems of Life and Mind,?” whiteh, though not revised by himself as he had ine tended, are now published wider the edito- Halsupervision of a particular friend, ated by Dr. Michuel Foster and Mr. James Sully, The first volumeol this work was published in En- gland and republished In this country in 1874, An that volume tho first: Problemevas cousld- ered, which portalned to the “ Limitations of Knowledge.” In the present volume three more Problems are dbscussed,—one pertains ing to’ Mind tia Function of the Organtsm,” another to “The Sphere of Sense and Logic of Reeling,” and the Inst to Tho Sphere of Intellect and Logie of Signs.” It will be seen at once from the first of these titles that Max, Lawes regards mind as only a function of the nervous organism, and not ns tho master of the bodily organs, Ho rejects tho theory of Nilgell, that all) matter is endowed with life and sensibility, Bat ho holla that) plants as y as animals have. sensibility ‘along with fe, Of course he defines “Sentience” very wliely, and he Td » us to overluok the bnportaut dlstinetion. between nervous conditions in antunls and their cor responding states in plants, aud sensthility, He does not, of course, admit that sensations are inautnd and not in the aaterhd organ- lam, which is the common doctrine of spire fiual philosophers. Ue maintains that cons sclousness and perception ave only forms of “Sentionee”? and the same of thought and reasoning. Accordligly he discusses “the logigot feaing.? But ie aelnowledges that he uses ie word “logte” In an unusual sense,—nttempting, however, to Sustity it by comparing his usu with the coninon expres- ston, “the logic of events,” which 1s not the Tapa unige af philosophy. Mr, Lewes, white denting Inrgely In defini- tlons, does not seem to us to clear his terns. ofwmbiguity; and he builds his eutire sya- tem on ussiuptlons wileh require peal, and rejects mental facts whieh, in the, Judgiment of all spiritual piflosavhers, ard of fundae Mental Linportance, | At the same fing he differs on fray questions with both Herbert Spencer and Mill, sd To thoss readers who are {nellned to adopt the materiatistic plilloxoply, the volume bes fore us will bo welcome; while it will wholly wsutistactory to those that are per staded that the orguis of sense uve only Ine struments which the mind usesand on whieh it is dependent in its present state of exist ence, Wo subjojn an interesting statement which fe find under thy head of “ Double Sensa- tlon??: : : “The Foltowitig ensa 1s of Intonga psycho- logical interest. “it reports what the nacrator observes In himself, and in his brothers and the maln frets haye been controlled and yerl- fled by Prof, Brihl, so fur as objective veri- Heation ta posaibie in such a case, “Here Nussbauimer and his brother from childhood upwards have always hud sensi tions of color slinultancously exelted by sen- ations of sound. It ly not sliuply that sonore ous vibrations excite colors accompanying the sounds, but dellult sounds exelto corre- sponding definit colors, One of the brotha: fas te grent facillly in listingulsidne the ove tones whleh accompany the geotnd tone; yet very often, whet these overtones wre delicate and breathltke, his pereep. tion of them ty somewhat dixturhed hy the tecompanytuy voters, Both brothers have bern necustomed to tesignate partheu- lar tones by thelr attendant lors. “The shrill womanly tones of some men’s voices they eall yellow; the rasping volees of somo others they eall grayish-brown. When they were elitdren it often occurred that sone particularly agreeable tone ade then ex. clain, * What a lovely color it has! —whieh naturally excited the Iatghter of bystanders, In Jater years, Nussbatiner, learning that palnters spoke of the tones of color, and must elnns of the color of tones (dlany-farben), finaclned that they also had the double sens sition which he iotleed in himself. But he Jearned on Inquiry that this was not so; their terms inelaphorient, “To fa the question whether this don- ble tion was ‘ners fantasy,’ or ‘associa tlon of Idens, Prof, Brohil tested: Nussbau er, and ascertained, first, that each purtleu- lar note had constantly its corresponding color; and, secondly, that. both brothers agreed in having the double sensation, but hot preeisely the same eolors correspondiny, fo the same notes —there was na jenerni nereement, but with this some differences, The brothers had been separated for six years, during whieh pertod no comnunten- Hon on this’ sitbject passed between then, The one tn Vienna, at the tnstigation of Prof. Brill, wrote down a score of ques tlons, which the brother In Vicenza was re- guested to answer, these answers were handed In a sealed packet to the Professor, in whose ands were the questions and an- swers of the Viewnese brother, In the article from whieh I draw the ae. count, both questions and answers are ‘They show that the phenomena are stant fie t brothers, in spite of the minor variations, Thus the tone g has orange for one brother, and orange. low passing toward bi for the other, ‘The tone e has dark-blue for one brother, and leathery-yellow pas: aver Into corn fower-blue for the oth D has a mingling of dark-blue and brownlsh-violet for one, at chestnut-brown with bright streaks for the other, When a chord Is struck, one brother haga blending of colors passing from turk to bright, and from bright to dari e other has a vividly changing mixture, with sudden flashes of partleular colors, “It fy specially noticeable that red, green, pure white, amt pure: black are never exelted in either of them by any tones or combinations ot tones. Blue, yellow, brown, and violet nre the most fre quent, The brother at Vieenza writes: 1 don't know why you put the questions, nor what interest the answers cnn have for any one but ourselves, Lonly know that, 1-1 were a punter and a musician, Eeoutil make colors ent every tone, and tones represent very color, discords ineluded." ? (Problems of Life and Mind. By George Henry “Lewes, 'T Serles—continued, VT Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Co. Price, $3.30.) psa Neth eos 3 IRELAND. A most timely publication, now that the politlenl and soviat condition of Ireland ts attracting so nich attention the world over, is a handsome 12mo. volume of 353 pages, published In this elty by the veteran book- man, P, ‘T. Sherlock, The book contains everything which fy needed fora thorough understanding of the whole Irish question, It Ilterally states the case of Ireland, and so compactly that no one ean find any diflculty in understanding {te ‘The book properly elves a description of the country; its coasts and harbors; its Islands, rivers, and lakes; Its geolugy, coal, tron, copper, and lead de- posits; its ellmate, botany, and zoBlogy, It explains how the territory Is divided politte- ally, and the governmental organization in all its details; a statement of all the lnnded property In Lreland, and the number of neres Jn ench county; the populition and number of Inhabited houses, with various other de- tuils, 'Thg book gives n sketch of the history of Trelaud in her days of peace and prosperity, nad also of the 220 years’ struzele with the Danes; of the Anglo-Norman invasion, be- iin about 11003 and the spoliation of the land during the relen of the Plantagenets, the Stuarts, and the British rulers. down to the Intest day. ; : The ancient Iand Inw of Ireland bs ex- pinined- and: stated; the conttscatlons during the various reigns, from Henry LL to Crom- well, are detailed, The politieal, religions, and sockal history of the country during [ts 700 years’ stragele with Enghind is graph- Jeally stated, with also xome statistics of the Tunis of Comme down to the present tline, there is given the personal lis tory of Parnell and his ass e neitators for: the reform of the land laws of Ireland; and then itzives in extenso the whole statement. of what Ireland complains af, and what Treland asks of the British Parlament.. ‘To the Amerlenn reader this chapter of the boak will furnish a fall anderstanding of the present controversy and of Parnell’s mission, attached to the volume is a complete mazetteer of Lrelund, arranged by countles, neluding every detail of every county, city, horough, parish, and tawn in all, Treland, ‘The book ty neatly published, and meets a publle want. Ld 1s published in cloth, gilt, at St per volume, and may be had from all booksellers, MOTHS, Some writer has satd of * Oulda,” that she “begun with placing in the setting of a fem- Inlne imagination the inaterinis of pletures drawn by George Lawrence and Whyte Mel- yille, She hns since then eyma powerfully under the agency of that pagun estheticisin whieh has an fmportant clement in modern culture; and to this she has added that ex- periencoof foreln countries and oxteyled trayel which ts seen {1 many other offthe novellsts of the period.” Toa which we may add that, having at Igast studicd the immer- alities of forelgn IIfe, she has devoted her unquestioned talent to making a knowledge of them as widespread as possible. “Moths isnobetterthan “Strathmore” or“ Pasenrel.” Attreatyof the adventures of a mother, herself, affecting all they fashionable viees of the perlod, who compels her daughter to: marry a brute of priucely rank. ‘The daugliter, Vera, is the une good character in the book,—purity in. the mist of corruptlon,— and her husband Insults her by openly disres garding the seventh commandment and Dringlig his mistresses into his own home, The glimpses of life and the vharacters skotehed are those from whieh decency ree colls disgusted. ‘Tho purposes and the object of the bonk are vicious, No-conseientions erltic could say n single word except In cane demnation of the plot, the pine, the pri ciples advoeatud, or the sons tinicht, ‘there fs no apen fudecency, no pluliaty- revealed Immoyallty staring you in the fi as you turn over pages. Dut the hidden Ming, the dextrous twist of harmless words, the lnniendo, and the instiuation convey the author’s intentions Inno equivoent numer, . Tt was seld that “Moths ” would deal with prominent characters In the soclal warld, and the disguise was to bo so thin that the masker would be revealed without effort, We thankfully record our conyictlon of the abandonment of any such purpose, if It was aver formed,—of Its total fatlure it Attempt ed to be carried tuto practlee. Prince Zai- rog, and Ledy Dall Ife the Duchegs of Son- nazemny actually Hye and move, and have an existenco; but we do not betleve their best drivads would recognize. them in “Moths.” Women who are not satisfied with a husband's affections, but must have their lovers, and “attinities,” and admiring Joseph Surfaces, are not so rare but that we qu find thelr prototypes in reat ite, Dut nowhere do we belleve that the lack of ior. ality deseribed in Ouldis latest work would be Yoloruted In so open, tagrant, and wie plans a form fa real ity al least, me ullty in’ the higher ninks gous her yelled, and it is not the barking dog that Be : All this being sald, and belng true, will not probably prevent the sale of o single copy of the Boi kK ‘Yo heye sald Jess would have been « perversion of «duty; to. say more would uceomplish oe good, We bellove such works os © Moths "xo cloverly written, so full of evidence of tho talent aid gentus of the writer, the story se interesting and so graphically told, the scenery so. skilifully palited,—we believe tho effeet of such works nd thelr publication a mat- Yet Wwe cammot deny thelr power, “ Moths’? 1s not Inferlor te * Guida's other works, nithau the story is toa Jong drawn out, ‘Tho descriptions dre well done, the elhuaxes effective, and the ending satise fnetory, ‘Those who unloy tls sort of literature will feel crepafd for reading “Moths; whleb comment ix, after all, very much like Artenus Ward's comments an hiy famous cure-all pills: “For them wot lHkes these pills, these are just the pllls wot they o be per telous,, ter of rexret. 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES ike Motha, By “Ouida.” Philadel- phd: ty a Upbineot, & Co 1 vole. cloth. A NEW MAGAZINE. ‘ With the new year there was issued froma St. Louts house a handsomely-printed and well-edited periodical, under tho title of Tlackstag’s Monthty, “devoted to the gratic arts, the book and paper trades,” Ostensibly published for the benefit of printers and thelr colaborers, {t contalned but a small propor tion of matter deyoted especially to the craft; but, as a magazine of “genera Hterature,” it was eertalnly a success, ‘The second wine her has reached us, and presents many desir- able improvements upon [ts predecessor, A serial story by Harriet Prescott Spofford will ald to give the new venture a national rept tatlon, ‘The other original stortes are of » Nigh order, as are all the contents. ‘The articles of especial interest to the printing eraft—and to the general reader ay well—are those upon ts ewspaper-Libels,"__“ Copy- right,” " Proot-loading,? 'Trade-Unions,” e he cditor, while declining, for the present. to enter Into the spelling-reformn movement, gives a few paragraphs which alford of the: es stroug arguments in favor of the re The new venture cer- talus deserve stieces, and we sincerely hope Kor dishen go 'uftingr ae at Ory Mhers, Singer Building, St. Lov Price, $2.50 per annain, : Bit K ra MAGAZINES, ‘The Penn Mouthty for February contains articles ons “Spiritualisin in Germany,” by Prof. Robert E. Thompsons “'Twe English Crazes, by W.D. Rawllis; “The Land Ques* tion in the Scottish Highlands’? by Jolin Murdoch; “The Duties of Visitors of the Poor, Aside from Abnsylying,” by Mr, Les- Joy; and “What ly Money?" by Timothy Wright, The Nattonal Quarterly Revtew for Jan- tary contulns urticles on: “ Rise and Fall of the Bonupartes,” “The Management of the Indians,” ig English Ctassles,' Hyale f Wathr,”? The Working Ch: of Europe? “'The Nebular_[Hypatliesls, “Inter-State Extradition,” “ The New Eust- ern Question’; and A Southerners “Esti- inate of the Life and Services of Stephen A, ouglas,”? fppleton’ Journal for Mareh contains: “Phe Return of the Princess,” Part Virst; “Flyst Impressions of the New World? (eon= shied), by the Duke of Areytl; “ Russian Nihiitisin’! by I, Cuntife Owens poem, by Frangols Coppeey “'Théaphile | Guuther ?*s “The Seay Side" by Walter Besant ane 7) A Turkish Eifend! on Chris: Color’? © Life Blulkie; and Mm ¢ Jrunes Rice tendom and Ista? © Floste at High Pressure.” by W,. “The Restoration of the Jews.” The Chicago Medical Journal and Er- aniner for Pebrinry contains, among its Original communications: “Select Toples of Modern Surgery”; “The Clachona Cure for Intemperanee "5 Sxpert Testimony In the Hayden Trial”; The Mechanteal Adapta- tion of the Obstetric Forceps”; “ Gynweolory in the Seventeenth Century.” There ure also reports of clinteat Jectures, and. clinical re- ports, with the usual correspondence, selec- uions, and editorial articles, The Prortnightiy Review for February has the following table: of contents: “Turkish Faets and British, Fathiel 3 .¢Sir Wilh Roxall, 1. A." by Lord Colerit “The Be lng of Greek Sculpture,” . A, ors Needs and Trish Reinedies,? LM. Ha “Pliny the Younger,” y FE. Pelham; “The Cost of Elections,” hy Sydney C. Buxton; “Henry Thomas Huckle,” by G. A. Shinecoxy “The Irish Yranehise,” by Charles Dawson; * Empire and Humanity,” by Frederle Harrison, The most important article In Maemtilana DKainiatne for Febraury Is “ Cetywaye's Story of the Zulu Nation and the War,” as told by hin to Capt. J. Poole, 8 A, Other sub treated are: “Se That Will Not When Minty,” Chapters XTEL—XV.: * Poultry ping asm Natlonal Industry, ’y aie, . Su ing of Lith” by Prof, George Ra Niiht-Wateh "sand “Tho Haleyon’s by Robert Caird. LITERARY NOTES. ° The Rev. Sheldon Jackson—n Presbyterian iisstonary fh Alaska—will soon publish a book on that country, Hlustrated by over a hundred woud-cuts, In answer to the question, Who wrote “Vestiges of the Natural History of Crea-* ton?” it is now generally admitted to have poutt written by the late Dr. Robert Cium- ers, ‘The Mareli number of the North American Review will contaln wv reply to dines Aun thony Fronde’s recent essay on * Komanisn, and the Lrish Rave In the United States,’ by Bishop Spalding, of the Ruman Catholic Church, fy Richard II, Dana is sald to be engage Upon a new treatise on International Li: and Jimmes Schouler, of Boston, ts writin sequelto Baneroft’s Iuistory, entit! da Ese POE OE thy United States “under the Const uutlon, The Harvard Reglater for February con- tains a very good Hlustration of the new Sever Hiall, with a full deseriptlon of this Intest addition te the Cambridice building: There ave also many othor articles of inte! est to Marvard alumni, A now weekly porlodleal, the Troubadour, has appeared in London. It proposes to unite with Information about all that von- verns art, In the widest meanlng of the ‘dy literary artleles, tales, poems, wid other more or less original contributions. . ‘The new volume by the Inte Bayard Tay- Jor, which will be Issned In Mareh, will have for its title, “Critical. Essays and Literary: Notes,” and will comprise, besides * Days fit Welnar,” articles on Thackeray, Tennyson, TLilleck, Hu Mowylls, George Eliot, an Henry James, dy, The Toulén Times ‘gaplatnn the large [ices oblulicd nt the sale of Dr. Laing’s brary as belug Inca great measare due to the demand from America for rere and enrl- ous books, wid tirst works, ete, It ds extimnted that the proceeds of the snle are tive Uines greater tin the total sum pitld for the books by Dr. Laing. An odd certificate of merit, says the Pub- Ushers’ Weekly, cones wp from an unex: veeted quarter to that already famous novel of Ite in the South, A Fool's Errand, by: One of the Fools.” ‘The Raleth (N, C.) 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Dr, A.M, Govlet, contirming Dr, Limntiton’s views, reports cases of tratumatic eryslpelus, Incernted mid contused wounds in general, but especially those of the sealp,. compound, fractures, gunshot wounds, and traunatio. gangrens, Sie wann-water application mn, be maulo: (1) By a water bath, when the limb is submerged in water kept constantly at the sume temperature (Kenerally about 100 deg, 1)), disinfected whenso desired, and changed us often as neeessary (about twiee a day will generally sufice), (2) By means uf hot fo- jentutlons, which conslst of a layer of cotton- batting, or two thicknesses of sheet lint, snt- urated with hot water (previously dishifects tons of standard . 9 gilit desired) applied closely and evenly to tho part, an kept at an even lamperatiré bi ncovering of oiled allk. Inthis cascit will - be necessary to wet the dressing about every . two hours, and chango it twiee a‘ day, or - oftener whore there {5 profuse suppuritlon. In erysipelns the dressing must extend a lite tle beyond the Hmit of Inflammation. Dr. Goolet gives a number of cases In which ona or the other of these plans of treatment waa employed with grent success, A NOMAN BANQUET. Arecent nitmber of Notes and Querica gives - ‘An entertaining accdunt of a Roman banquet whieh touk place about 7% B.C. ‘This supper (ceena), which corresponded more nearly with the dinner.of; modern times, was given by Lentulus to ‘célebrate fils Inauguration ag. Flamen Martlalis, an officer who ranked among the Ffamints second only to the Flamen Dialls, >The company comprised seven of the Pontitices, Q. Catulus, M. #Enilins Lepidus, D, Syllanus, P. Seavala Sextus, Q. Cornottds, P. Volumnius, P..Al- binovanns; the Rex Bacrorum, C. Cresar; and, L, Jullus Cesar, tha Augur, The party, how- ever, was not Imited to men, There wero present four of the Vestals,—Popilia, Per- penia, Licinin, and Arynela (the remaining two of thelr colleagued were probably obliged. toremaln at the Temple to attend’ to the sacred tires); the wife of Lentulus, Publicta the Flamiuiea, and his mother-in-Inw Sem- pron, [This tlle of Flaminicn find some privileges, and also some restrictions, Among. the latter was one which prohibited her frou mounting a stalrease of aore than thred 3, to prevent her mnklea being scen.} The nee of the Vestals may. oceagion soma ' but thelr position was in many he honors paid to them were very remarkable. ‘They were attended hy a lictor when they went*out, and even Consuls and Governors nude way for them. Like tho Peers of England, they. gave thelr: evidence without taking an oath, The du- tles of thelr office were reaufred to. be very strietly performed, and the most terrible’ punishments awalted any violation of their vows. They enjoyed a falr amount of iberty, and were allowed to walk about the city, fo attend theutres and glidlatorial ex- hibttions, where the — be: places, were reserved for them, and they were, ag \wo su sonetlines present at social entertatnme ‘They were even able, after tulrty years? serv: ive as Vestals, to unconsecruta ‘thenselves and to marry, The company nat Lentulus? Danquet was arranged in three triclinin, with Ivory couches, The Pontitices vecupied two of the trictinia, and the. third was -glven ‘to the Jadles, Front the reemnbent poaltton of the guests, who were suld to le in the. bosoms of ench other (‘alleujus in sinu eubare™), it would not linve “been decorous for the Indies and gentlemen: to oceupy the | sane couch, snd it) was, Indeed, only in the. Iater days of Rome that the Indies adopted the custom of reclining at table. The repast commenced. with the antecena, for which tt was ugmtl to - serve hors d'reuvres for the purpose of stim- ating the appetite, but on this ocension the ment of the antecann or gustatlo contained - some dishes which were tolerably soll. Raw oysters a diserétion (“ostrens erndas quan- + tin vellent’’), several kinds of shell-fish (*echind, peloride: bone stl, glycomarides, Nees purpune, latarf alot et ulgri, urd”), thrushes, asparagus, fatted fowls, oyster palties, ortolans, lntinches of a gont and witd boar, and rich meat made Into - sticy. For the cana there were pork, wild , fish pattles, pork ples, dueks, teal soup, hares, rleh meat reasted, whenten enkes, and rolls, ‘The conversation 13 not recorded, but It fy to he hoped that the company: (fallowlny the ad) elven In tha“ Atuew Noctes” ai Ault itis) avolded painful and involved subjects, and limited their discourse to the conmion topies of every-day life, TIIE MISSOURL MASTODON, Several years ago, a Dr. Koch placed on exhibition the bones of a large antinal: he found In Gasconade County, Missowl He had arranged the bones with but ttle fdea of thelr proper relationstip, turned tho head upside down, and represented it na having canine teeth wlapted ton carntvore,—thiy tusks, In reality,—alleging that the aninol fed Dimself with hfs fore feet. J. D. Dani,’ . the geologist, and Q, C. Marsh, the. paleons tologist, went {nto an examination of, the relles, eifectually sealping the Doctor, and, while erediting bim with being an assiduous collector of bones, dubbed him an ass and a: falsiler, ‘Che Doctor clalmed-he lind ‘found * arrow-heads with the hones, whieh would make It appear that man was contempo- rancons with these miminals on toils Contl- However willing scientists might have been to necept any proofs of such a statement, Dr. Koci’s unsupported claim of the arrow-headl iin was to niuch for them to swallow fn the absence of Indleations in The othor part of tho coun- try that niin previous tothe ast enh of the tertlary formation or Just before tha riiary. Mursh suys there 1s considera ble evidence of man’s extsting on this Cantl : nent during our pliovene, and Dr. Kola * arrows would Inve added to the evidence had not the falsehoods in whieh he was de- teeter discredited all he might say beyond the mere undisputed bonealiscovery. Koch deseribed the several layers through which he dug to exhume the mmmoth’s remains, stopping only short of the old red sandstone; when the fucts were proven that the main: moth wits found ina peat-box, tha bones be- lng pulled up from the muck by reaching down poles and arms, We thought these matters were settled long ago; but. to our surprise, here appears Bryant's Ulstory of tho United States, with the capture of the Missouri mastodon depict+ ed on page I, Bryant does not tell us the. vanes of the saviges exnetly, but he repre’ sents them surrounding the dying nonde. seript,—all of them, like the Cuplds in Bids, dy’s valentine, with more bows and arrowa than breeches, striving to till his hide with palvolithic memorials of thelr existence, avi dently fully canscious that millions of years. afterward Dr. Koch was to beguile Bryant into recording tholy arrowheads along with Washington's hateliet and, the nickel-plated spade with which Grant planted the tree ay South Park, as among tho utensils worthy o! bel embalmed In’ the American recollec. , on, " Th literature pretending to exactness, ne, greater dsservico enn be rendered truth: svekers than committing Just such blunders, Partisanship muy be usefiul in these flelds, by enabling the judge to diserininate between ssertlon und cotnter-assertion, Histories tiltus to be exuctshoutd live such matter ofully sifted before Introducing it to reads ers ox fet, BS CONCERNING CYCLONES. Every ono should know what a eyelone fs, but the general jdens on- the subject. are rather vague, ‘Taken small butter-pot, aud set It downon your largest map of the worl at about 20 degrees North Latitude, anys where in the Atluntle between two contl nents, say east of the West Indica, Then, witha plece of whalebone twiee as long as, from the butter-pot to. the North Pole, bent Inton parabola, with one end at the Pole, the other at the butter-pot, mark out thus the path of the cyclone, The apex of the bent Whalebons will bo somewhoro in tho West.» ern United States. Tagine your butterpot’ to be revolving on Its own centre In the’ di- tection of the liunds of n watch, at the rate’ of a hundred milles an hour, Its northweste ern edge will bo the dangerous storm-rin, blowing a hurrleaue, flushing the seas, and precipitating the raln; the other edges will ba breezy, but not su stormy, ag thoy contalu less molst alr, ‘The ventre will be. th Jow barometer and calm prea, beewuae here | the air-has less weight, and ts Howlog up ward. Now, huuveyutte Ob slowly along the papihals, still supposing lt to be turning, By he tng you reach thu centre of the United States, oxehauge the pot for » saucer, with tho sitme supposed conditions, guly by this thne, if wintry, a snow-storin will ‘take the place of tho raln, NH it moving elreularly, and northwards also along the parabola, an about Eludson'a Bay ohare to a break fast-° nlite, and tn Greenland toa diiner-plite, and about the 80th degree North, before the storm reaches the size ofa buggy-wheel, It breaks up. ‘Thi you see the space over which the storm travels enlarges as 16 passes North, the winds blow around ity rim, and the calin centre moves with i, Mariners now carry what’ {s called a horu-card, a transparent piece of tat cowal-horn, with a ¢irels on it, tusile which atu several smaller elreies, ,with arrows bolntins as Watch's hands ‘travel. Whenever. the barometer. changes, and clouds seud by, this horn-card is placed on the churt at the sh Pe oaltion, Knowing the whid's direction and tha welght of the alr, the hora-card tolls whereabouts ly the cyclone the ship is, und from’ this ly - reasoned how to sail to aveid the cyclone; or, if unavolduble, how to munagu Init; or, if possible, how to profit by It. Not many devades ago, ships were drlyen thousands @. - neut. y ‘